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Are you voting for Romney or Obama?
I'm a independent and due to Obama's recent weakness in dealing with countries that don't like us soo much...and Obama's false dream of us one day singing and holding hands. at this point I'd pick the republican candidate, BUT of all possible candidates MITT ROMNEY is a possible mistake waiting to happen. So I don't know exactly oh and I must say that i'm not for ron paul either
good bye
Just got my absentee ballot...there are other options for president on the ballot you know. Not likely to win of course, but voting for the lesser of 2 evils is still voting for evil!
We need to change our electoral system. With as many people that we have in this country we should be able to choose from more than 2, legitimate, people.
Manga Finder and Manga Storm have consumed my free time lately.....
I'm not voting for either. Neither will be good presidents in my eyes.
My only hope was for Ron Paul to win the Republican nomination but since there was a minuscule chance and it didn't end up happening, I've ceased to have any fucks left.
Winter Is Coming.
As usual, another disenfranchised voter (Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain) by both parties voting for the lesser of the 2 evils since 1972.....2012 hint: it's not the man currently holding the Presidential office or the old fool masquerading as V-P.
I've got posts over in Extended Discussions re where I stood in the past and which extant parties I chose instead of DNC or RNC since 1976. No point in repeating that here.
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Obama. Because i support same-sex marriage.
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Who cares
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I hate both parties... and if you haven't figured out by now neither one gives a shit about the rest of the people in the world. They only care about us when it comes to election year and still really only care about the people that donate money to their cause in some way or another. Corporations, celebs, etc. the people that are able to advertise for them... I'm so sick of all the news channels being caught contradicting themselves as well as the both candidates saying shit that is opposite what they were saying just months prior. They are treating us like idiots because they know that no matter what they say we have to pick one of them, and therefor they stay in power. i could go all day with this crap but the guy above said it "who cares". I tell you what would cause a huge media craze that would be if everyone who feels so discouraged when it comes to this time of year they would vote for the independent candidate. don't be scared they wouldn't allow him to win because our vote doesn't matter the electoral vote is what matters and they are all made up of dems and reps, but would be our chance to voice how we feel about both parties and their lies.
opps saw the "guy" is actually a female sorry didn't look at that till after i sent it.
Obama, mostly because of the plans he supports for the country. Watching PolitcsNation on CNN(?) discuss that recording of Romney made me further prove not to trust him.
IS THIS FORUM FOR REAL everybody says no too both. Comeon OBAMA is giving free health care to people who cant afford it. and hes raising taxes on those rich idiots with to much money and he killed that idiot that was going to bomb usa,osama . I mean really people hes one of us he a father protecting his children and mitt is only protecting the child with the more talent and gifts. Im surprised he gets votes anywere besides beverly hills. go obamA
Im back. How was studyville you ask? Judging by that question, you should visit.
Pointless to vote.
Viva la revolution
Wow, so a handful of you all posting are going to vote for an independent that has no chance of winning - you evidently don't like Obama, but you aren't willing to vote for the one candidate that can get him out of office? So in essence, you are voting for Obama.
I will vote for Romney.
I strongly agree with trying to make our country more energy independent and not importing oil from other countries - we need to use and drill our own oil for this country. I agree with supporting small and large businesses alike - we need more jobs, and raising taxes on anyone is not going to help this.
We need to get rid of Obamacare - the only people who would be getting free healthcare are those our tax dollars are already supporting with food stamps, wic checks, and unemployment. The middle class that can not currently afford healthcare and are going to be made to get it are the ones that will suffer - there are over 6 million middle class families right now without healthcare that will not qualify for free healthcare under Obamacare; they will have to pay a $2000 uninsured tax by 2014 if they do not go out and buy healthcare. If they can't afford the healthcare to begin with, how is this helping?
Making money, or having money is NOT a crime. I don't know why people seem opposed to Romney just because he was a good businessman and made his money. That is what all Americans dream of, and we are one of the only countries where you can pursue that dream.
We need to overhaul Medicare. I don't know why people are afraid of this subject. We have to do it - the longer we wait, the worse it will be (sort of like pulling a band-aid off slowly). The country can't handle the increasing fiscal burden - people are living longer which is fantastic, but also leads to more people on medicare as they retire. I don't know if vouchers are the answer to this problem, but I would at least vote for someone who wants to try and tackle it head-on than to sweep the problem under the rug and let someone else deal with it.
Okay getting off of my soapbox.
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(FOX 11) "I'm not a sitting duck," says Carla. She prefers to keep her last name private. Carla is a Cheviot Hills homeowner who scared away burglars when she grabbed her shotgun and fired.
Carla told us her dog woke her up when he started barking. She looked outside and saw a man in her backyard, another waiting by a car.
Carla wasted no time. Wearing her nightgown, she went outside and fired once toward the ground. Carla says, it was just to scare them off. It worked. The two suspects ran back to a white sedan and drove off.
Carla says she heard one of them screaming, "Crazy b**ch has a gun!!"
This all happened around three this morning. Detectives say two male hispanics broke into a home on the 10500 block of Blythe Ave. in Cheviot Hills. The burglars got inside the home through the garage. They were able to steal several items while the homeowners slept through it all.
The men hit a second home about 40 yards away on the 2400 block of Patricia Ave. That's when their luck ran out. As they tried to gain access to the home, 59-year-old Carla came out with her shotgun.
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How is your company going to get to the promised land of big data insight? Technology vendors, as always, stand ready to be your guide, but who can really take you where you want to go?
On the one hand there are the incumbents, companies like Teradata and SAS that have been solving your large-scale data problems and most advanced analytics challenges for decades. Then there are the big data startups and visionaries, including the likes of Pivotal and Platfora, that are "all in on Hadoop" and insist that big data opportunities and new platforms demand new tools. Then there's the wild west of purely open source options.
So which option is the best route to tapping into new data sources, like clickstreams, mobile, social and sensor data, to form a more complete view of customers, products or supply chains? This week brought a fresh round of announcements from the vendors, each one offering its own view of the best path to big data opportunity. Here's a rundown on the themes and promises behind all the similar-sounding big data buzzwords.
Teradata Wants To Do It All
Teradata offers a Hadoop software distribution (from partner Hortonworks) and a Hadoop appliance as part of a broad, all-encompassing Unified Data Architecture, but the message from this stalwart data warehousing leader of late is that the Hadoop platform and ecosystem are too green, too disparate, too hard and too unfamiliar for most enterprises to handle anything but high-scale, low-cost storage.
Where multistructured data like clickstreams, social, mobile and sensor data are concerned, Hadoop can store it at low cost, alright, Teradata acknowledges, but it touts its Map/Reduce-capable Teradata Aster Discovery Platform as a better option than Hadoop for exploratory big data analytics. Teradata extended this role earlier this month by adding SQL-GR, a graph analysis engine, to Teradata Aster. Teradata says SQL-GR provides a more scalable alternative to NoSQL graph databases such as Neo4j and others.
[ Want more on big data platform and application options? Read Hadoop 2.0 Goes GA: New Workloads Await. ]
This week Teradata announced another response to demand stirred up by the NoSQL camp by adding Java Script Object Notation (JSON) data-handling capabilities to its flagship Teradata 14 database. JSON is frequently the data format used for data from servers, sensors and other high-volume, multistructured Web, mobile and remote data sources. But Teradata isn't a transactional database and can't offer an alternative to MongoDB, the leading NoSQL database, which is typically used for rapid development of Web and mobile transactional applications.
Teradata's JSON use case (as with all other data) is high-scale analytics, and the claim is that Teradata warehouses can now be "the analytic hub to monetize the Internet of Things." Teradata would certainly love to gobble up the high volumes of data generated by sensors and machines, but whether customers will want to pay Teradata prices to analyze such high-scale, variable data is another question.
Another place where one might question the economics of high scale is the cloud, but Teradata can't sit back while companies like Amazon, with its RedShift service, and 1010data and Kognitio, with their analytic mart capabilities, put data warehousing in the cloud.
The Teradata Cloud introduced this week gives companies a rapidly deployable, elastic option from Teradata. Capacity in the Teradata Cloud will be total-cost-of-ownership-neutral with on-premises deployments over the first three years, according to the company. You're freed from all the infrastructure, deployment and administrative burdens, though the suggestion is that if you have a fixed, long-term capacity need, it's cheaper to run it yourself. For now the Teradata Cloud is available in the U.S. only, but next year it will extend to other countries and it will add a Teradata Aster cloud option.
If you didn't pick up on the theme with Teradata, it's that it wants to enable you to do it all on its platform. Hadoop is part of that world, but the company has added options for Map/Reduce, graph and JSON so you can do everything on its databases. Will that really crack the big data opportunity? More on that in our Platfora analysis.
Platfora Says New Tools Are Needed
In Platfora's book, the capabilities of conventional business intelligence and SQL are fine for the old questions, but big data pioneers are building on Hadoop and want to go "far beyond that," says Ben Werther, the company's CEO and a former executive of Greenplum (the database management system now owned by ECM's Pivotal unit).
"In the old world you'd look at sales by store and so on, but in the new world you want to look at things like clickstream behavior and how it translates and relates to physical store activity," Werther explains. "Big data practitioners want to do A:B testing across their products to optimize for downstream revenue, not just clicks. They are connecting the dots across the old traditional data sources with this new world of digital clicks, ads and social big data."


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DOT chief details highway funding worries; Senate president opposes gas tax hikeBy GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
December 03. 2013 10:48PM
CONCORD — Facing a yearly $20 million deficit in the state highway fund, Department of Transportation Commissioner Christopher Clement told a House panel Tuesday the DOT faces 700 layoffs in fiscal year 2016.
He said without additional revenue, 20 of the 89 highway sheds will close, along with one of the six district offices in the state.
The state's highway fund receives about $120 million a year from the gas tax and about $105 million to $110 million from vehicle registrations.
A proposal to increase the gas tax by 12 cents over three years passed the House last session, but was killed in the Senate.
Senate President Chuck Morse, R-Salem, said Tuesday night the DOT cannot keep asking for more money.
"We're going to have to look at reducing spending ... rather than increase taxes or tolls," Morse said. "We produce the budget and (Clement) needs to live within his means."
A bill sponsored by Sen. Jim Rausch, R-Derry, Senate Transportation Committee chairman, will be introduced in the 2014 session to raise the gas tax 4.5 cents, which would raise $32 million a year for highways.
Morse said he would not support Rausch's bill.
"I continue to oppose a gas tax increase," he said. "It hurts the people who can least afford it."
Clement told the House Public Works and Highways Committee in fiscal year 2016, the state's 13 bridge maintenance crews, which repair the majority of the state's red-listed bridges, would have to be reduced to seven.
The current winter maintenance policy of having the roads "black and wet in two-and-a-half hours" won't hold, he said, noting it will take longer.
Patrick McKenna, the department's Director of Finance, said the 300-member engineering staff, which designs and inspects federal projects, will be cut in half.
"We may come up with the $250 million to finish the (Interstate 93 expansion project between Salem and Manchester), but not have the engineers to do it," said Patrick McKenna, the department's Director of Finance.
DOT officials said the problems stem from the loss of one-time money, leaving the department with a projected deficit of $48 million for the 2016 fiscal year, and $105 million deficit for 2017.
Over the past few years, the state's highway fund has been boosted from the "sale" of the I-95 high level bridge between Portsmouth and Kittery, Maine to the Turnpike system, which has about $30 million a year.
The state also bonded operating expenses for the department, but that avenue is maxed out, according to Clement.
He said ideally the state should be paving 500 miles of roads a year so that all the state's roads will be repaved every 10 years, but instead about 300 miles of roads are repaved a year, making it a 15-year cycle.
Although about 10 to 15 red-listed bridges are repaired and moved off the list every year, more bridges than that are added each year, he said.
"We've been doing less with less," Clement said.
Although he assumes the federal highway department will provide the $150 million a year it currently provides, Clement said, that is uncertain. In the past, the authorization would be for multiple years so the state could depend on the money, but now the federal budget is funded on continuing resolutions on a year-to-year basis.
Clement told the committee the state's turnpike fund paid for by tolls is in better shape due to two toll increases in the last six years, but the I-93 expansion from Salem to Manchester will come to a halt in October 2016, unless $250 million is found to complete the project from exit three to Manchester.
The last construction contract paid through authorized funding will be before the Executive Council today. After that contract, no others will be awarded without additional revenue from a new source, Clement said.
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I recently saw a story on the news that a blood test can detect lung cancer early. Can you tell me more about this test?
Anil Vachani, MD, Pulmonologist at Penn Medicine, responds:
Unlike other blood tests typically used to detect cancer, this test does not look for substances produced by cancer cells as they grow (such as PSA for prostate cancer). Instead, the test you are referring to looks for the genetic signature of immune-system cells that are activated by encounters with tiny lung tumors. So, it cannot detect !0pre-cancer,!1 but it detects changes in white blood cells that have encountered lung cancer cells in the body. The goal of the test is to detect lung cancer early enough to improve outcomes for people. The diagnostic test, which uses peripheral blood mononuclear cells, is still in early development and will require several additional studies to be performed prior to any potential clinical use. If the test continues to show good rates of detection, it would still be several years away from prime time clinical use.
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2011-12: Placed 30th in the 50-yard freestyle (20.65), 30th in the 100-yard freestyle (45.43) and 24th in the 200-yard freestyle (1:38.69) at the Pac-12 Championships…Recorded a time of 51.07 in the 100 backstroke at the UT Invite, fourth best by a Gaucho during the 2011-2012 season.
2010-11: Placed 24th at the Pac-10 Championships in the 100 backstroke (52.49) and swam a season-best time in the prelims (52.34)…Placed 32nd in the 50 freestyle (21.07) and 40th in the 100 free (46.83).
Attended La Canada High School where he swam for coach Art Lopez...Set a CIF Division II record in the 400 freestyle relay...Earned All-American honors his sophomore through senior years...Helped lead the Spartans to three consecutive CIF Division II team titles (2007-09)...Served as the team captain...Also competed on the water polo team...Swam club with Rose Bowl Aquatics under coach Jeff Julian...Earned Academic All-American honors in 2009.
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This saturday, Stephen F. Austin HS is hosting the first ever Smackdown BOTB Winter Edition in the Austin HS Boys Gym. Bands attending are:
Stephen F. Austin- host
Tickets are $10 and 100% of presale proceeds go directly to the band programs from where they are purchased. Last time a Smackdown was held at Austin, Worthing and Austin went at it for 2 hrs face to face on the floor. This one will be even crazier with the Ridge coming in to regain their glory
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man the memories! hope worthing is still holding up to the expectations set... that battle was classic that night keavon! i have the dvd's... man if the buses would have just let us stay longer it would have gone until midnight!!! lolllll ... those were some good times. i bet you don't remember how the rivalry started between worthing and austin? i want to say it started that year at pv homecoming parade when we battled for a while i believe that was 08'... lol... good times... if you host a spring semester smackdown keep me in mind, i would like to bring down my group doc... but can't do anything until after our concert UIL... trying to shock folks out here in austin!!! we are of course the under-dogs but you know that won't last for long with a little passion, discipline, hard work, and dedication!
lol that game was epic, plus you guys were getting ready to go to california that same year lol... but like i said once we finish up with uil concert band in march we will begin getting ready for the fall because i'll have more kids returning and have to get the 6th graders ready...
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Lol @ that battle. I got it on dvd. That was Austins first battle EVER. The Austin-Worthing rivalry was epic though. I remember our last football game for playoffs in 2010 both bands showed up at 6o'clock and the dam game was scheduled for 730
Yeah maybe ill host a middleweight Smackdown for y'all.
SOOOO.....what happened at this event??? Was it canceled???
No. It was great lol. All the bands did really good, and the competiton exceeded its original end time, because of Worthing and Austin's battle of course. Willowridge is regaining their title. Westbury did their thing as usual.
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SOOOO.....what happened at this event??? Was it canceled???
willowridge is no joke talk about sound! big ups to worthing too westbury has a clean sound although you wonder if the students are having fun in the band they never seem to excited.
willowridge is no joke talk about sound! big ups to worthing too westbury has a clean sound although you wonder if the students are having fun in the band they never seem to excited.
Special thanks to the bands that came out to this event. I know the holiday round was a different twist but it was fun.
Willowridge- You guys did an awesome job. Good sound, nice intensity. I knew you guys were coming but it didnt really hit us until we heard the cadence outside of our bandhall and opened the door to the practice lot and there you were. lol Oh yeah shout out to the trombone player who checked me for tryna go through her rank. :-)
Westbury- definately the cleanest and most disciplined group there. Great sound. That majorette was killing everybody. Shes like a One Woman Gang.
Worthing- came in there with an attitude and a lot to prove. You guys really brought it. Auxilaries were really tryna bring it to Austin.
Austin- good job as usual. I know this is one of those transitional years for us but we gotta keep it going. LOL when the band scattered and half turned to Worthing, other half turned to Willowridge and started blowing. Even I was confused.
I also have to reocgnize Milby Marching Thunder. They had a good reason to not participate but still came and supported a rival school. Thank you guys.
Representatives from TSU and PV were there to meet, greet and recruit. Overall a fun night.
You know, I wondered that myself, but honestly that's what I like about Westbury!!! They don't get caught up in all the hoopla!!! I like that and the fact that they ALWAYS play REAL music!!!! Something that is lost with most high school bands, and college bands nowadays!!! I think they just have a different mentality and it seems to work for them. I think they have fun being different from everybody else...JMO
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willowridge is no joke talk about sound! big ups to worthing too westbury has a clean sound although you wonder if the students are having fun in the band they never seem to excited.


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College Hockey: Wildcats fall in bid for Hockey East crownBy ALLEN LESSELS
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 08. 2013 11:18PM
DURHAM - Bottom line, it was a major opportunity lost.
The University of New Hampshire roared back with a couple of extra attacker goals in the last minute and a half, but came up short and fell, 4-3, to Maine on Friday night in front of 6,501 at the Whittemore Center.
The Wildcats squandered a chance to win the Hockey East title outright and put at risk their chances of getting home ice for the start of the league playoffs next week.
"Very, very disappointing," said UNH coach Dick Umile. "We just blew that opportunity to win the regular season championship. The cards were laid out for us to do it."
Providence opened the door to first place by beating UMass Lowell 3-0 on Friday night.
But the Wildcats could not take advantage of their opportunity.
Instead, they fell into a tie for third place with Boston College.
Lowell and Providence are tied for first place with 32 points each. UNH and BC are a point back with 31 heading into the final games of the regular season this afternoon and tonight.
UNH and Maine meet again at 4 p.m. at the Whittemore Center.
"We've got to win to get home ice," Umile said. "That's where we're at."
Boston University is a point behind UNH in fifth place and Merrimack is another point back in sixth. Either, or both, can knock the Wildcats out of a top-four spot and send them on the road for the quarterfinals.
UNH, the No. 4 team in the country, fell to 18-9-6 overall and 13-8-5 in the league.
Maine accomplished its goal for the weekend.
Several minutes after the UNH-Maine game ended, loud cheering came from the Maine locker room when word came that Merrimack had knocked off Massachusetts in overtime. Maine's win, coupled with the Massachusetts loss, guaranteed the Black Bears a spot in the playoffs.
Maine freshman Steven Swavely started the scoring at the 8:45 mark of the first period with a shorthanded goal, the second given up by UNH this year and first since the opening game of the season.
Freshman Devin Shore set up Swavely, who trailed the play and beat Casey DeSmith, a sophomore from Rochester, with a blast to the stick side.
Shore had a big-time bid from straight-on to make it 2-0 with just over six minutes left in the second period and DeSmith came up with a huge glove save. The goalie and UNH caught a break a minute later when Will Merchant hit the post.
Senior forward Austin Block had a pair of good chances for UNH in the period, but goalie Martin Ouellette (31 saves) stopped both of them.
Still down a goal, the Wildcats pressured Ouellette and Maine on a power play early in the third period but could still not get one past him.
Then Kyle Beattie crashed the net and knocked in the rebound of a Jon Swavely and it was 2-0 with 10:42 to play.
The Wildcats finally got on the scoreboard with 6:31 left in the period when a Eric Knodel shot deflected off forward Dalton Speelman and past Ouellette.
The Black Bears wasted little time in answering that one and quickly put the game away with a pair of goals.
Defenseman Mike Cornell scored the first off a faceoff, 23 seconds after the Speelman goal. Nineteen seconds later Beattie circled the UNH net and tucked the puck behind DeSmith (20 saves) and just like that it was 4-1 with 5:54 to go.
Then things got wild. UNH defenseman Eric Knodel scored a power-play goal with DeSmith also pulled for an extra attacker and it was 4-2 with 1:13 left.
Then Austin Block scored another extra attacker goal with 23.2 seconds left.
The Wildcats pressured again in the closing seconds but could not tie it.
"Pretty crazy," said Maine coach Tim Whitehead.


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Monday was Earth Day, a day created to show support for environmental protection. So, we asked our Facebook fans what they do to "go green." Here are the responses we've received.
Monday was Earth Day, a day created to show support for environmental protection. So, we asked our Facebook fans what they do to "go green." Here are the responses we've received.
Dawn Thompson Kazar: "Lots of recycling."
Gretchen Torrez: "Buy less processed food, which comes in a ton of packaging...which in turn is better for the earth and for yourself..."
Melinda Amaro Romesburg: "We recycle and teach our daycare kids to do it too, and the importance of recycling. And we encourage them to do it at their homes as well."
Want to make your home, community and life more green, but not sure how to get started? Here are 10 easy ways to help the environment, according to an article published in Better Homes and Garden.
• Change a light bulb. Installing a compact fluorescent bulb (CFL) is a quick and easy was to save energy. They consume about 75 percent less electricity and last up to 10 times longer.
• Unplug things that glow. Things that are left plugged in continue to draw power even when not in use. Unplug them, and you could save up to $200 a year.
• Recycle your electronics. Five-and-a-half billion pounds of electronics were thrown in the trash in 2005, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. That results is millions of pounds of chemicals and heavy metals end up in the ground. Instead of tossing an old phone in the trash, visit mygreenelectronics.org, and find an electronic recycling resource in the area.
• Audit your energy. It's easier to save energy when you know exactly how much and where you're using it. On average, an energy audit shows how to save up to 30 percent on utility bills.
• Support local farmers. Buying from local farmers not only means the freshest food possible, but you're also saving energy. Typical grocery store produce travels 1,500 miles before ending up on a plate.
• Fix that drip. The average person uses about 100 gallons of water a day. Fixing a leaky faucet can save up to 74 gallons a day, a running toilet can save up to 200 gallons a day.
• Let your grass grow. Spend less time tending your lawn, and you'll be green in every sense of the word. Most grass fares best when kept at 2.5 inches or more, it allows more surface area to absorb sunlight, and creates thicker turf and deeper roots, which can mean less watering.
• Look for the label. When it's time to replace a household appliance, choose a product with an Energy Star label. This means it's an energy efficient product. A household with Energy Star products uses about 30 percent less energy, which adds up to a savings of about $570 a year.
• Do full loads. The average family of four does about 540 loads of laundry, and 150 loads of dishes, consuming 22,500 gallons of water. Wash just two fewer loads of cloths and one fewer load of dishes a week and save 4,500 gallons of water a year.
• Work the critters. Several backyard animals are also great for your garden because they eat harmful insects, meaning less pesticides on food and flowers. To find out which backyard animals are beneficial, visit garden.org.


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Jerry Silver received a PhD from Case Western Reserve University in 1974, the university to which he returned after post-doctoral work at Harvard including the Neuropathology Department in Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Neurosciences at The Children's Hospital. Currently he is professor of Neuroscience at his alma mater, and adjunct professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the nearby Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Dr. Silver has additionally served in the National Institutes of Health since 1982. He also received the 2003 Ameritec Prize and the Christopher Reeve-Joan Irvine Medal for his accomplishments in his work in paralysis and spinal cord injury. A prolific writer, Dr. Silver reviews articles for over 35 journals and also reviews grants from 18 both national and international groups. He has also taken part in authoring over 150 publications.
Over the past several years, Dr. Silver has concentrated his labs efforts learning whether molecules that glia produce to generate normal axon boundaries in the embryo are re-expressed by reactive glia in the scar that develops after injury. One of the most interesting families of extracellular matrix molecules, the proteoglycans, were first discovered by his lab to be major players in creating developmental as well as regenerative glial boundaries. He developed in vitro assays using gradients of proteoglycans that, like the in vivo glial scar, create dystrophic endings on regenerating adult axons. This breakthrough enabled him, for the first time, to begin to dissect the molecular and cellular machinery of this unusual axonal ending and learn why axons in a dystrophic state undergo long distance retraction from the lesion epicenter, how they interact with other types of cells, such as stem cells, inflammatory cells or CNS macroglia and how axons in the dystrophic state can be re-energized into a growth state. His ultimate goal is to develop strategies to overcome inhibitory molecules and axonal dieback after injury in order to promote functional regeneration. An exciting development is his recent demonstration that combining (1) a long segment of autologous peripheral nerve as a "bridge" to bypass a hemisection lesion of the adult rat spinal cord with (2) inhibitory matrix modification via chondroitinase at the PNS/CNS interface allows regenerating axons to exit the bridge, form functional synapses, and restore useful movement to the once paralyzed limb or diaphragm. This new strategy shows clearly, for the first time, that robust long distance regeneration, with appropriate re-formation of functional connections, can be achieved in the adult after spinal cord injury.


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Sony Optiarc, a subsidiary of Sony Group, has released a new high-end DVD burner. The AD-7240S is one of the few t DVD burner to achieve a 24x burning rate.
According to Optiarc, this speed 'miracle' is reliable thanks to Auto Strategy Technology, which was first seen in the predecessor series AD-7200. When you burn a DVD, the drive always reads a section of the media in advance so that the writing head can be optimally adjusted. Adaptive Self Tuning also delivers high performance because the drive automatically adapts to the disc and the hardware environment in every burning process to compensate quality fluctuation.
Sony Optiarc's new flagship product comes with a serial ATA interface. It burns DVDs in +/-R format at up to 24x speed and CDs at up to 48x speed. In DVD-RAM and DVD+R9 format, and on double layer DVD-R media, the Sony Optiarc AD-7240S writes at up to 12x speed. DVD+RW discs are written at up to 8x speed and DVD-RWs at up to 6x speed. The AD-7240S achieves up to 16x reading speed with DVDs and 48x reading speed with CDs. Other features of the new drive include buffer under run protection as well as an automatically controlled speed of DVD / VCD / CD-DA reading during
data extraction for smooth reading.
The drive is currently sold in Europe and the United States for about €22 / (bulk version). Optiarc is also offering a Lightscribe version of the drive (AD-7241S).
We received the drive without any accessories or software in the package.
The rear panel is typical and has a power and SATA interfaces.
Let's take a look at the drive's internal board. It is recommended not to open the case of your drive since that would void the warranty.
You can click on each picture for a larger view:
The drive is based on the NEC MC-10045 system LSI (SCOMBO 8).
The SoC supports:
Its basic functions include:
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The drive was installed on our test PC and was recognized under Windows XP as "Optiarc DVD RW AD-7240S":


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Shangri La to show corpse flower in bloom
Shangri La has announced the blooming of a rare and spectacular plant, the corpse flower (Amorphophallus Titanum), which has been lovingly named Lenore.
This plant hails from the Indonesian island of Sumatra and has not only one of the largest blooms in the world, but also a bloom with a pungent odor that mimics the stench of rotting meat in order to attract flies and beetles as pollinators. As of June 20, the bud was 51 inches tall and could possibly reach 6-8 feet in height.
The bloom began opening Saturday, June 22, at 8:50 p.m., and will only last 24-48 hours before it wilts, according to Shangri La's Director of Horticulture, Joseph Johnson. What makes this bloom such a unique event is that a corpse flower in cultivation such as Lenore will typically will not bloom again for 6-10 years.
In celebration of this one-of-a-kind event, Shangri La will have special, expanded hours of operation for members and other visitors to view this wonder of nature. Lenore the Corpse Flower is currently on display in Shangri La's Exhibition Greenhouse and visitors of all ages can enjoy stopping by Shangri La on Monday, June 24, 2013, from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., a day when Shangri La is typically closed. Regardless of attendance date, entry during Lenore's blooming phases will include a self-guided tour of the garden pathways before or after viewing the flower.
Members of Stark Cultural Venues are invited to attend an exclusive member-only evening event to see Lenore, enjoy light refreshments and hear a reading of Edgar Allen Poe's poem "Lenore," which will take place Monday, June 24, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Attendees of the event will receive a complimentary, commemorative button to mark this special happening, and one lucky member will receive a promotional Lenore poster signed by cast members of "The Addams Family" performance that was recently on-stage at Lutcher Theater. An entry ticket is not required for members to attend the exclusive, member-only event, which is a complimentary benefit of membership. Members are encouraged to see the flower as often as possible to track its growth and progress of the bloom.
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It's tree pruning time
Now that the leaves have fallen, it's time to think about pruning trees.
"The best time to prune is during the dormant season, from the time of leaf fall in the autumn until they leaf out in the spring," said Hank Stelzer, University of Missouri Extension forestry specialist. "You can do some pruning in the summertime, but there you want to do it very lightly and only for corrective purposes after a storm or something of that nature."
Reasons to prune trees include maintaining their health, controlling size or directing growth with corrective pruning and cleaning up after a wind or ice storm.
Stelzer recommends thinking carefully before pruning branches more than two inches in diameter. It may be best not to prune such a branch unless it presents a hazard by overhanging a driveway or sidewalk or if it is an obstruction. Pruning large, heavy branches can be dangerous and harm the tree.
"When you make the cut you are wounding the tree," Stelzer said. "The smaller the cut, the faster that tree can heal itself. Avoiding cutting that branch provides safety for you and also prevents possible injury to the tree."
Stelzer, who is also an associate professor of forestry at MU's College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, notes that the tree will heal faster if individuals don't cut flush with the trunk. Instead, cut a few inches out, leaving the donut-shaped opening where the branch joins the trunk.
"It's called a branch collar," Stelzer said. "You want to leave that in place. There is a natural zone in there where the tree will wall off any decay that could come in. That way we take advantage of the tree's ability to heal itself."
When sawing off larger branches, Stelzer recommends a three-cut method for pruning. Rather than just cutting through the branch, begin with an undercut on the underside of the branch about an inch out from the branch collar.
"If you went from the top down, the weight of the branch could peel the bark, making a large wound," Stelzer said. "So we make that undercut first, then the second cut is from the top just out from that first cut, working all the way through. That way, if the weight does start to peel that bark, you have that undercut to prevent the damage."
The third cut, after the branch has been pruned, is a cleanup cut to remove the stump of the branch, called the stob. Cut close to the branch collar but not on it.
"The benefit of pruning a tree properly is that you allow that tree to heal itself naturally and fairly fast," Stelzer said. "Most of the time when we make that cut of an inch diameter, that wound will be healed over in as little as two years, sometimes even in the first year."
For more information, see the MU Extension guide "Pruning and Care of Shade Trees" (G6866), available for free download at extension.missouri.edu/G6866.


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A band, in the experience of many, is a carefully and deliberately selected group of people (often not close friends) bent on acheiving a pre-existing sound, look, attitude. Many bands only exist in the practise room and on the stage and are keen to delegate the other things that come along with playing to roadies, agents, managers etc. Moneytree however is nearer to a nerdy club than most peoples conception of a band. This is a club which evolved naturally, a club which deals with all of it's responsibilities itself, a club whose members come together to trade music from myriad styles and eras, but most of all to celebrate friendship.
In the nine years that this band have known each other it's different members have found themselves in such varying walks of life as a student at cambridge, a door to door salesman, a community youth worker and other ventures which shall not be mentioned;
They have been seperated by living in different towns, by the anglo-welsh border and even the atlantic ocean but have still endeavoured to come together to do little more than to listen to Fugazi and Stevie Wonder, to Deftones and Herbie Hancock, to Owls and Prince, to Queen and Ernest Ranglin, to Gang of Four, Jurassic 5, Take Six, Zero Seven, to merseybeat and breakbeat, to geek rock and cool jazz, to stoner rock and straight edge.
These boys allow anything that remains true to itself and a love of music to influence their own music and to those who would argue this makes their music unfocussed or non-commital, the band would like to extend their humblest apologies, for they do not look like stopping any time soon.
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey's state-run news agency says authorities have agreed "in principle" for Istanbul to return to the Formula One calendar in 2013.
The Anadolu Agency reported on Thursday that Vural Ak, chief of the Istanbul Park circuit, said an agreement has been reached with Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone, though a final decision rests with Turkey's government.
Turkey joined the F1 calendar in 2005, but was dropped in 2012 following a disagreement with Ecclestone over the fee to stage the race.
Turkish media say Istanbul is likely to fill the July 21 spot that was left vacant on the calendar after the removal of the Grand Prix of America.
The Istanbul Park's testing circuit was popular with many of the drivers.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal criminal complaint says a passenger on a flight this week from London to Los Angeles threatened to kill flight attendants and blow up the plane.
The FBI says 20-year-old Kevin Lee Mosele of Kihei, Hawaii, was charged Tuesday with interfering with a flight crew. He could get 20 years in federal prison if convicted.
According to the complaint, Mosele told investigator's he'd had several drinks in London before boarding the plane.
It says he became agitated on the plane, spitting water on the crew and saying he'd kill them, then saying he was "going to set off a bomb."
The FBI says he had to be restrained and was arrested when the plane landed Monday for a layover in Los Angeles. It had been headed to Hawaii.
Mosele is free on a $10,000 bond. It's unclear whether he's obtained a lawyer.
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Just look at that nicotine - addled expression. Those were the days.
I originally had something else planned for today's Inspiration but a shipment of old mid-50's Colliers magazines arrived yesterday morning and this Santa was on the back cover of one of them. Well, what could be better than a smokin' Santa?
Only a boozin' Santa, of course, and as soon as I come across one of them you can bet you'll see it here first!
Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, December 09, 2005
Smokin' Santa!
Just look at that nicotine - addled expression. Those were the days.
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I remember seeing this version of Santa from my childhood...why I don't know, because I was born in 1970. I guess my parents had decorations and other motif from that period. Regardless, I think that's why I identify with a lot of older illustration as part of my childhood. Great stuff...right up there with Sundblom's Santa work.ReplyDelete


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An action track, made in uncanonical way – no huge orchestra and epic drums. Still, the melody is rather catchy and rocking. String section has the main theme, supported by other sections of orchestra, bass and drums. In the middle there is a calm piano solo, which can be perfectly used for backgrounding someones memories etc.
P.S. The track is called in a such way, because I'm always imaging a drifting sportcar, driving a mountain snowy road. Maybe you'll imagine something different?:)


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Apple misses Wall Street 4Q expectations
NEW YORK -- Apple missed Wall Street earnings expectations for the second straight quarter, as iPad sales fell short of analyst forecasts.
The slowdown in the growth of iPad sales was not unexpected, as the rumor mill correctly predicted that Apple Inc. would launch a smaller, cheaper iPad. It announced that device, the iPad Mini, on Tuesday.
Sales were also hurt by slowing growth in China. Apple's sales in China more than doubled in fiscal 2010 and in 2011. Growth in the July- September quarter was also slow in economically troubled Europe.
Net income in the fiscal fourth quarter was $8.2 billion, or $8.67 per share. That was up 24 percent from $6.6 billion, or $7.05 per share, a year ago.
Analysts polled by FactSet were expecting earnings of $8.84 per share.
Revenue was $36 billion, up 27 percent from a year ago. Analysts were expecting $35.8 billion.
The Cupertino, Calif., company sold 26.9 million iPhones in the quarter, at the high end of expectations, and 14 million iPads.
Apple shares fell $6.33, or 1 percent, to $603.47, extending a downward trend for the stock, which hit an all-time high of $705.07 a month ago, on the day the iPhone 5 went on sale in the U.S. and eight countries.
Apple said it expects earnings of $11.75 per share and sales of $52 billion in the current quarter, usually the year's strongest. The sales forecast is in line with analyst expectations of $56 billion, considering that Apple routinely lowballs its forecasts. However, the earnings forecast is so far below analyst expectations at $15.59 that it "makes no sense," according to Brian White at Topeka Capital Markets.


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Sport Clips Announces $500,000 in Scholarships for Veterans
Sport Clips Haircuts' mission to provide active-duty military and veterans support for their post-military career goals was accomplished today when the franchise announced 43 scholarships for the spring semester. Sport Clips locations across the nation raised funds totaling $500,000 through its annual "Help A Hero" campaign, benefiting the Veterans of Foreign Wars-administered "Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship" program. Through this contribution, Sport Clips and the VFW expect to provide more than 60 additional scholarships for the fall 2014 semester for which service members can now apply through April 30 at VFW.org/scholarship.
Since 2007, the Sport Clips Help A Hero campaign has supported the VFW's Operation Uplink™ "Free Call Days," making more than 2 million calls home possible for deployed and hospitalized U.S. service members. In this, its seventh year, the campaign expanded its focus to offer scholarships of up to $5,000 to active-duty military and veterans who are pursuing an education at post-secondary institutions, including trade schools.
Donations to Help A Hero were collected in stores and at local fundraising events in the fall of 2013 with efforts culminating November 11, Veterans Day, on Sport Clips' "Biggest Haircut Day of the Year." Stores donated a dollar from every haircut service to the scholarship program, and sponsors John Paul Mitchell Systems and Nioxin each contributed $10,000 to the effort.
"Reading just one of our Help A Hero scholarship recipients' thank you notes is all it takes to recognize the need for this support as well as the generosity of our Sport Clips clients, team members, and supporters," says Sport Clips Founder and CEO Gordon Logan, a U.S. Air Force veteran and lifetime member of the VFW. "Sport Clips continues to be a proud supporter of phone calls home through the VFW's Operation Uplink, but we're excited to be able to expand our focus to include scholarships, which will support our nation's heroes and their families in the next chapter of their lives."
"Student veterans can only stretch GI Bill benefits so far," says VFW Commander-in-Chief Bill Thien. "We've heard from several active-duty service members and veterans that their financial needs aren't being met to start or return to school for traditional, technical and advanced degrees. And, we're learning that the scholarships we're giving will allow them to pursue their education, when it otherwise would have been a financial struggle."
Sport Clips is the Official Haircutter of the VFW, and its Help A Hero campaign is just one of the many ways it supports active-duty military and veterans. To find out more, visit your local Sport Clips or SportClips.com.


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2008 (Cross Country): Took to the course three times for Valpo as a junior ... started season at Crusader Open, covering 6K course in 21:59 ... posted season-best 8K time of 28:23.59 at Evansville Invitational ... also represented Crusaders at Horizon League Championships.
2008 (Track and Field): Did not run during indoor season for the Crusaders ... posted Valpo's third-fastest time of outdoor campaign in 10,000m run (36:45.62, HL Championships) ... also competed outdoors in the 1,500m run (4:40.87, Miami Invitational) and 5,000m run (16:53.47, Butler Twilight).
2007 (Cross Country): Competed five times for Crusaders as a sophomore ... lowered career-best 8K time at Boston College Open, completing race in 28:55 ... slashed another 40 seconds off of 8K time at Evansville Invitational, crossing the line in 28:14.52 ... ran for Valpo at the Horizon League Championships.
2007 (Track and Field): Ran at eight meets for the Crusaders ... ran season-best times of 9:44.66 in the 3,000m run and 17:00.22 in the 5,000m run indoors ... posted third-fastest 10,000m outdoors run by a Crusader in 2007 at the Hillsdale Gina Relays, finishing race in 34:44.17 ... ran a 16:47.66 in the 5,000m run at the Mike Poehlein Invitational.
2006 (Cross Country): Took part in four races for Valpo during his freshman campaign ... opened career at Sunset Hills Farm with a time of 21:50 in the Crusader Invitational ... ran sub-30 minutes twice in three races over eight kilometers, including a season-best time of 29:14.24 at the Evansville Invitational ... received Mid-Con All-Academic Team honors.
Prep: Earned two letters in both cross country and track and field for the Warriors ... led cross country team to 2005 Central Suburban League North Championship and berths in Regionals and Sectionals ... earned All-Conference and All-County honors as a senior ... also named to Academic All-Conference team ... holds school record in three mile run (16:42) ... helped track and field squad to 2006 Central Suburban League indoor championship ... member of All-County 4x800m relay team.
Personal: Matt is the son of Rick and Dianne Cervarich ... major is meteorology ... born August 21, 1987.
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Jim Prentice's former position as a director for a company that oversees a private medical clinic in Calgary is raising questions about the PC leadership candidate's commitment to public medical care.
The advocacy group Friends of Medicare raised a red flag Friday over Prentice's recent stint as a board member of Coril Holdings, a private company whose assets include Inliv Full Circle Health.
The boutique health clinic in Calgary charges $4,495 for "Total Health Management" services and $1,495 for "Executive Medical Assessment."
Friends of Medicare executive director Sandra Azocar said such clinics take away resources from the public system and raise serious issues about access to health care.
"It shows to me he's basically OK with that," Azocar said.
"That's why we need to get a straight answer from him about where exactly he stands."
Prentice, a former federal Conservative cabinet minister who is the front-runner in the race to become Alberta's next premier, was not made available to comment.
But campaign spokesman Bill Anderson said Prentice resigned his position with Coril at the time of his campaign launch last month.
"Jim and his family are users of public health care and Jim is very supportive of public health care," he said.
Anderson said that as far as he knew, Prentice has never been a client of Inliv.
A number of private clinics operate in Alberta, with clients receiving primary health-care services covered under medicare, as well as uninsured services, which are paid for by a fee.
Critics are concerned that amounts to a user charge for quicker access to insured medical services.
Last year, a provincial inquiry into Alberta Health Services and queue-jumping determined patients from the private Helios Wellness Centre had been pushed to the head of the line for colon-cancer screening tests at a publicly funded facility.
Anderson declined to clarify Prentice's position on these boutique clinics, but said the former Calgary MP will address the issue when he reveals his health-care policy in the coming days.
A spokesperson for Inliv did not return a message seeking comment.
Coril Holdings is owned by Calgary's Mannix family and has a number of subsidiaries in areas such as railroad maintenance, real estate development, and personal health and wellness activities.
The debate over public health care was a major issue in the 2011 Progressive Conservative leadership race, when Alison Redford upset Gary Mar, in part because of his musings on increased private delivery of health care.
Leadership candidate Thomas Lukaszuk said Friday he wants to focus on improving public health-care delivery within the province, and he doesn't favour private clinics that let people use their credit cards to pay for medical care.
"Boutiques do allow those who pay (to obtain) faster access to care within the province and that is controversial — and I can understand why it would be controversial. So I am definitely a proponent of the public system," he said.
If the government addresses pressure points within the health-care system, there would be no need for privately delivered care paid for by patients, Lukaszuk said.
"This discussion would not be taking place at all and Mr. Prentice's clinics would not be in existence, wouldn't be viable, if Albertans were satisfied with their access to health care," he added.
Leadership candidate Ric McIver declined to comment on the issue Friday.
Mount Royal University political scientist Duane Bratt said he doesn't think private health care will play a significant role in the 2014 PC race, noting it's unlikely the Wildrose or McIver would attack Prentice over musing about different delivery models for care.
While Prentice served on the board of a company with connections to a private clinic, he wasn't the CEO and hasn't been advocating for more private care, Bratt added.
But NDP MLA Dave Eggen said the connection should be a concern among the public.
"A leader of the PC party and potential premier should stay a mile away from anything like this if he is truly committed to public health care and public delivery of health care," said Eggen.
With files from The Canadian Press


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STOCKTON - After days of trying to come to grips with the shooting that claimed the life of Aaron Kelly Jr., his family was finally able Thursday to celebrate the life of the 13-year-old boy they called "Bubba."
STOCKTON - After days of trying to come to grips with the shooting that claimed the life of Aaron Kelly Jr., his family was finally able Thursday to celebrate the life of the 13-year-old boy they called "Bubba."
Hundreds of family members, friends and members of the community gathered at New Harvest Christian Church to remember Aaron, a boy who loved to laugh, play board games and go fishing with his father.
"God gave, I should say lent, Aaron to me for 13 wonderful years," said his mother, Renee Garcia. "Aaron was full of love and joy. We know today that he is in heaven."
Kelly died last Friday when he was shot as his family was leaving Louis Park after a picnic, a violent act that has shaken the Stockton community.
"Of all the funerals we've had here at this church, none have had the impact of this one here today," Pastor Art Valenzuela said.
A nearly 10-minute DVD of photos compiled by Kelly's classmates at Hoover Elementary School - most of whom were in attendance - provided a view of the teen's life in the way family photos often do - they chronicled the good times.
Nearly every photo displayed the youngster's memorable smile.
"Aaron would tell a joke, and then you could see his big teeth smile at you," said one of his sisters, 10-year-old Marissa Kelly, who placed a Pokemon toy in her brother's open casket. "I know Aaron is above us now, looking down on you, trying to still make you smile."
With two men supporting him to keep him from collapsing from the weight of his emotions, Aaron Kelly Sr. stood before the casket holding his son, painfully recalling weekend fishing trips with his son.
"Aaron, I'm going to miss you. I couldn't ask for a better son," he said. "I did everything I could to be a good father."
One of the underlying themes of Aaron's funeral was a vision by his family and the church community not to let the 13-year-old's death be in vain.
Valenzuela said church officials are planning public outreach to the community around Louis Park, where Aaron was killed.
"We are going to go door to door in Louis Park and Kentfield and reach out to people," Valenzuela said. "We are going to go back in to Louis Park and extinguish that fear."
Later that evening, a few dozen people did exactly that, returning to Louis Park for a candlelight vigil. While Aaron's family and friends prayed, four Stockton police cars quietly parked nearby. Yes, they were there in a show of force and support, Sgt. Chuck Flesher said.
"We learned of this and thought it would be a good time to make our sweep," Flesher said.
Staff writer Christian Burkin contributed to this report.
Contact reporter Keith Reid at (209) 367-7428 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Episode 5 resumes with Tamra wanting to kick almost everyone out of her party. Even Lydia agrees that Alexis isn't getting bullied and doesn't have a problem with not feeding into her pity party. Gretchen and Heather play voice of reason and explain why Alexis was wrong for showing up to Tamra's party. Alexis is extremely upset that she attended as Vicki's guest and that Vicki didn't come to her rescue when she was kicked out.
Tamra goes out to confront Alexis (with a glass of wine in her hand) and overhears Alexis admitting that she has taken medication to help her cope with depression caused by the group of ladies. After a heart to heart in the limo, Tamra leaves Alexis to go back to her party.
Tamra reveals to the rest of the group that Vicki and Alexis were talking smack and that Lydia was actually standing up for them. When questioned by Tamra, Vicki claims that she is neither Team Alexis nor Team Tamra but is proud to be for Team Vicki. After choosing their side, Vicki and Lydia depart the dinner to join Alexis. A tipsy Tamra flips Vicki and Lydia off as they make a grand exit. In the limo, the three party-rejects go over an extensive list of everyone Tamra has humiliated.
The psychic comes back to bless the studio to clear all the negative energy from the building. Tamra wishes herself "much success and a really hard body." I don't think the Christian Crew would have enjoyed the supernatural rituals performed by the psychic, so maybe it was a good thing they left when they did.
Briana and Vicki go through old photo albums and reminisce about how shortness of life. Vicki realizes all the stupid arguments between herself and Briana and with all her friends are pointless.
Slade calls from New York and tells Gretchen that things with his son were not good. The sickness of the child also puts life into perspective with Gretchen and all the harsh words she had with Vicki the other night at the party. She has a friend lined up to watch her dog and is on her way to New York to support Slade through this difficult time.
Tamra fills Eddie in on the drama-filled evening over late night Mexican food. Eddie is tired of hearing about all the bad news and wants to talk about something a little happier … like their marriage. Questions are raised for Tamra when she realizes that she and Eddie have different views on the engagement and marriage process.
Vicki's relatives arrive to her house for an out of town reunion to visit baby Troy. As they sip on cocktails, the family catches up and share family anecdotes. Don's name is brought up several times by multiple family members but it is when Brooks' name is mentioned that hits a bad nerve with Ryan. Ryan expresses interest in wanting what is best for Vicki and makes it clear that Brooks is NOT what she needs in her life. Vicki's brother privately tells her that Ryan should not be in control of what Vicki does and firmly states that Ryan has no say in her decisions just because he pays a monthly rent.
Lydia goes over to Alexis' house and they replay the downward spiral of events from Tamra's event the night before. After biblical quotes and motherly constructive criticism, Lydia talks some common sense into Alexis about where she made mistakes and what she has to do to resolve her issues with the group.
Next week: We meet Lydia's hippie mom, Vicki and Ryan have a heart to heart, Terri and Heather argue in front of the kids and Vicki wants to throw a benefit at Tamra's gym.


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Leoni is dark and downbeat. Read full review
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Metascore®Generally favorable reviewsbased on a weighted average of allcritic review scores.
Inert dud of a hitmen-are-people-too comedy.
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Its razor-sharp script by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and the hilariously deadpan comic performances by Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni make it a consistent pleasure.
Surely there aren't many emotionally fragile mobster stories left in the Hollywood arsenal. But at least Kill is a pretty good shot with the laughs.
Leoni is one of the truly distinctive comic actresses we have in the movies today, a tough broad with murderously effective timing and phrasing.
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Iffy for 15+
Dark hit man comedy mixes violence and humor.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that this dark comedy about a hit man features jokes about death, murder, and extreme violence. The main character's work entails shooting, throttling, and knifing victims, and a "war" between two gangster families leads to shoot-outs with loud weapons. The protagonist, who's an alcoholic, spends time in AA meetings, where discussions range from absurd to tragic to comic. Characters also smoke, drink, and use plenty of foul language. Luke Wilson co-stars, but this isn't a lighthearted movie.
Messages: An alcoholic mafia hit man works to stay sober so he can "go back to work."
Violence: Lots of it, ranging from bloody to comic and back. Shooting with handguns and shotguns repeatedly produces bloody corpses (some multi-gun shootouts, some one-on-one battles); Frank's job at a funeral home has him working on corpses daily; ironic "romantic montage" has Frank teach Laurel how to assassinate with a knife (they practice on a watermelon); minor but loud car crash by drunk driver.
Sex: Flirting between Laurel and Frank; a woman appears briefly in a bikini; several discussions of Tom's homosexuality and someone's AIDS test; some mild kissing; Frank appears in his underwear.
Language: Multiple uses of "f--k," plus other colorful hitman/gangster language, including "bitch," "s--t," "damn," "a--hole," "douchebag," "dick," "bastard," "c--k," and "c--ksucker."
Consumerism: Mention of Sony.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: The protagonist is an alcoholic, so drinking and dealing with it are thematic: He appears dead-drunk at the start, attends AA meetings (which include discussions of other disorders, including eating), relapses (elaborate drinking with a stereotypical group of Irish family members), then recovers. Scenes set in bars. Frequent cigarette smoking.
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With the new changes to abilities druids can use prowl, stampede, etc, and it will shift you to the respective form. Most of these abilities aren't on the GCD so you can use them if you are stuck in a global to avoid the poly. However these are all on long cooldowns or require you to be out of combat and you really don't want to use them to avoid getting polyed.
However, Growl shifts you straight into bear form, is off the GCD, and has an 8 second CD.
/cast Growl
Never get polyed because of GCD again!
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Appeal a Parking Citation/Ticket
Parking citations/tickets are not criminal offenses. They are civil penalties that are the joint liabilities of both the owner and operator of the vehicle. Once a citation is issued, it is up to the driver or owner to respond to the facts presented on the citation. There are three (3) levels of appeal/review. Each step in the appeal/review process must be taken in order and initiated within strict timeframes. No step can be skipped in favor of jumping to another step.
- Three Levels of Appeal/Review
- Administrative Review Results and Guidelines
Step 1 - Administrative Review
The first step is an Administrative Review to determine if the citation was validly issued. This allows the agency to dismiss the citation if there are facts, events or circumstances that were unknown to the issuing officer that may affect the validity of the citation. The issuing agency may also feel that extenuating circumstances make dismissal of the citation appropriate in the interest of justice. Pursuant to State law, requests for Administrative Review must be received (postmarked) within 21 days from the date the citation was issued, or within 14 days of the mailing of the Notice of Illegal Parking.
To submit online
To submit your Administrative Review online answer the following:
- Is the information on the citation accurate?
- Did the driver comply with the relevant parking regulation?
- Were there mitigating circumstances that prevented the driver from complying with the relevant parking regulation and, if so, did the driver take reasonable and timely steps to cure the violation?
If the answers to the second two of these questions are "no," there is little choice but to uphold the citation at this level of appeal/review.
(See Administrative Review Results and Guidelines)
Common reasons that DO NOT support dismissing a citation are:
- I was only in violation for a minute;
- I did not know that I could not park there;
- I think the fine is too high;
- I did not see the sign or curb markings;
- I cannot afford to pay the fine;
- I have never had a ticket before;
- I will never do it again.
The owner and driver of the vehicle are both responsible for the parking citation and bear the burden of proof when contesting the citation. Notice of the decision will be mailed to you regardless of the outcome and further instructions given if necessary.
Persons appealing their citations may present anything they wish to support their position that the citation should be dismissed. This may include statements, charts, diagrams, photographs, drawings, maps or receipts just to name a few. It is also important that the citation number, vehicle license plate number and state be included with the request. A clear copy of the citation attached to the appeal is beneficial and may expedite processing. We suggest you retain copies for your records.
Submit by Mail
To submit your Administrative Review by Mail, send your written request and supporting documentation to:
PO Box 129038, San Diego, CA 92112-9038
Although no particular forms are necessary, please be as brief and concise as possible. It is important that the citation number, vehicle license plate number and state be included with the request. A clear copy of the citation attached to the appeal is beneficial and may expedite processing. We suggest you retain copies for your records.
No payment is required at this time.
Step 2 - Administrative Hearing
If your appeal is denied at the first stage, you can present your appeal to an Administrative hearing officer. This is the second step of the appeal process. State Law requires that the fees due on the citation be deposited at the time the hearing request is made. The City will present a copy of the citation and any additional statements, photos or other documentation provided by the officer in support of the citation. We encourage your attendance at the hearing in case the hearing officer has any questions. However, if you are unable to attend, the hearing officer will review all the information presented and make a decision.
When Parking Administration is notified of the hearing officer's decision, we will mail a decision notice. Should the citation be dismissed, Parking Administration will refund your fee deposit. If the decision of the hearing officer is not to your satisfaction, the decision can be appealed to Superior Court.
Step 3 - Superior Court Appeal
The Administrative hearing officer's decision can be appealed to the Superior Court. When doing so, a $25 Civil Court Filing Fee must be paid. The Court takes a fresh look at the facts surrounding the issuance of the citation, and the materials presented in support of having the citation dismissed. Once a decision has been given by the Court, there is no further appeal. The Court's decision is final. If the citation is upheld, the Court keeps the $25 Civil Court Filing Fee and Parking Administration keeps the citation fees previously deposited to satisfy the citation. However, if the citation is dismissed, Parking Administration refunds the $25 Civil Court Filing Fee and the fees deposited on the citation.
For questions or concerns, see the Frequently Asked Questions, call 866-470-1308 (Toll-free) or email email@example.com.


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The Archos 604 comes with 30 GBs of storage and a 4.3" 480x272 32bit screen. On the box we found some earbud headphones, a rechargeable Li-ion battery, a dedicated USB 2.0 charging cable, a DVR Station adapter (DVR Station sold separately), a nice carry case and a Quick Start Guide. There are no software CDs coming with Archos, as it connects as an external USB drive to the computer, and then the user can just drag n drop files to the appropriate folders already found there. Our device came with the latest firmware version in it.
On the top of the device you will find the power button and the TV/LCD switch button that also couples as a button lock. There is a mono speaker on the front of the device and a kickstand on the back of it. On the left side there are 4 indicator LEDs, and on the right side, there's the 3.5mm A/V jack, while on the bottom you will find the DVR port, and the charging and data port. The charging/data port on the 604 is not a standard USB port. Speaking about charging, the USB cable is the only way to charge the device, and in fact, if you decide to buy the wall charger, you are forced to buy the DVR Station too with it. I was thinking of getting the Archos with me on our vacations soon, but the lack of a wall charger is prohibiting. Even if I was to get a laptop with me to charge the Archos, it takes a good 5 hours to charge via USB. Regarding battery life, I could not get the claimed 5 hours of video playback. Instead, I got a good 3 hours -- although this might be unit-specific.
All the user interface usage is done via the button panel on the right side of the device. All 5 buttons are "rocker" buttons, so depending if you are pressing them towards their left or their right side, they will carry out a different action (so in reality, they are 10 buttons). Depending in which application you are each time, the buttons will do a different thing, and this was a bit confusing. For example, you press "menu" to open the menu while playing back a video, and you can press "X" to discard that menu. If you press the "reload" button next to the "menu" button, a full screen status screen will open. But if you press "X" on that screen, you are thrown out of the video playback, instead of just taking away that screen. I personally find the interface experience much more inferior to the iPod's, or the Zune's, although it's better than on some cheap Asian PMPs that are sold in the market today. The OS loads in about 10 seconds and it is pretty snappy.
Where Archos shines compared to any similar product out there today is video codec support. This is the first PMP that I have reviewed that was able to playback any DivX/XDiV file, and without a hitch. The Archos people also sent us the h.264 and mpeg/mpeg2 plugins for the purpose of this review (sold separately as addons, $20 each), and with these plugins Archos played back all such files we threw at it. Archos also played back normal mpeg-4 files, like the ones cellphones usually record. WMV9/ASF worked too, although it was not able to fast forward on these kinds files (or set "bookmarks"). The only files we tried but the device was not able to playback was WMV8, 3GP and the old kind of .mov files that Apple used to encode with Quicktime back in 2002. The point is though, as long as the resolution of the file is up to 720x576, the Archos 604 is able to playback without dropping frames 95% of the user-oriented formats out there, and that's quite an accomplishment.
The device has a number of menu options during playback, like back/fast forward, 30-second fast/back forward, information screens, speed of playback, save screenshot from frozen frame, save bookmark (on supported file formats only), bass boost, audio balance, screen brightness, audio output choice, volume and more. My favorite setting is the screen playback mode: original size, maximized (the picture zooms in to fill up the 16:9 screen), and fullscreen, which both zooms in and crops. The "fullscreen" mode is a very interesting one because it's the most "fair" way of viewing a 4:3 footage on a 16:9 screen without distorting too much or throwing too much of the corners away. SHARP is the only TV manufacturer that has this feature as far as I know, they call it "smart stretch" and it's their default mode for non-HD TV channels.
Now, regarding audio (wma, aac, mp3, ac3, wav) and pictures (jpg, bmp, png), there are the usual features to be found there, nothing special: shuffle, repeat, slideshows, etc. The Archos is able to use album art too, but I haven't found a way to do just that. The picture viewing application is basic but impressive, but the audio one doesn't hold a candle compared to the iPod. Other applications that are included with the device is a (very slow) PDF viewer, a file browser which I still haven't figure out how to use it properly (it's the most cumbersome application in the whole device), a TV scheduler which is useless without the DVR Station that's sold extra, and some system settings: language, display (supports component, s-video, RGB and composite via the DVR Station addon), color themes, a clock setting application, battery and power off settings, and a TV control application that recognizes many TV tuners (again, I think this also requires the DVR Station as I haven't noticed any infrared port on the Archos 604 itself).
In conclusion, I find the amazing video compatibility of the 604 its biggest feature, and the lack of a wall charger its biggest problem. But as long as you are willing to pay the extra $40 for the h.264/mpeg/mpeg2 codecs and you don't mind the lack of a wall charger, this is a very worthy video device. Screen quality is good, and screen size is bigger than any other as-portable device out there and this makes the Archos 604 a good buy at $175. You may also consider the 80 GB version, or the 4:3 3.5" screen version. There is also a WiFi version available, that uses the Opera web browser.
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What essential tools does a graphic designer take with them wherever they go? A two-word profile will be generated based on the player's chosen objects in new game My Analog Cloud. Impulsive guru? Modernist dreamer? Or might you be a prophetic utopian…find out what the objects you select say about you.
Launching at the London Graphic Centre 18-19th September, My Analog Cloud invites graphic designers and creative types to construct a toolkit out of three objects: the things we use on a daily basis that make up our analog clouds, physical things accessible wherever we are.
Large hard cover notebook, plain paper. Reporter bag. Green coloured case. You can also choose from a variety of other items that you feel define you: perhaps music, a film camera or running shoes. Place your choices on the sensors and wait as the machine generates your personal profile.
Will you be branded a flaneur, non conformist, traveller, or a hermit? Your profile will be printed out so that you can use it as a bookmark for your notebook. If you can't make it to London to take part this week, My Analog Cloud will also be coming to El Corte Ingles on Paseo Castellana in Madrid next month and further locations around the world.
My Analog Cloud | 18-19 September
London Graphic Centre
16-18 Shelton Street | Covent Garden


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Jay Lovestone is not only one of the oddest characters in the history of the American left but easily its most slippery. From the middle twenties, when as factional leader of the American Communist movement he gained a reputation for both ruthlessness and extraordinary powers of seduction, Lovestone focused his Rasputin-like skills for a half-century upon the manipulation of institutions and personalities. In the end, decades after he had enlisted as the labor movement's chief CIA liaison, he had arguably outwitted himself. Had he lived ten more years, Lovestone would have seen his protégés forcibly retired from a reformed AFL-CIO and his Machiavellian global policies replaced by the beginnings of cross-border organizing and genuinely democratic internationalism. Perhaps he has been spinning in his grave.
A different version of the Lovestone tale might have treated constant intrigue as the manifestation of a troubled personality; A Covert Life reads too much like the hagiographical treatments of that blustering bureaucrat and fellow Vietnam hawk, George Meany. Even this badly flawed book, however, offers insights into the dark side of the Old Left and into the massive intelligence operations conducted out of the sight of ordinary union members.
Like so many other stories, from showbiz to cerebral politics, this one starts in Jewish New York after the turn of the century. Jacob Liebstein, an immigrant radical who entered the City College of New York in 1915, made himself president of the campus Intercollegiate Socialist Society (a distant ancestor of Students for a Democratic Society) and simultaneously fell hard for the new Russian Revolution. A renamed Jay Lovestone was one of the "City College Boys" who aspired in 1919 to lead the American Bolsheviks to victory.
It was an impossible job, with the nation entering an era of relative prosperity and Moscow calling the shots, often very badly, on the most minor matters. Lovestone himself clearly learned the wrong lessons from the Vanguard Party. (The Wobbly aphorism of later decades put it all too accurately: "The trouble with Leninists is that they all want to be Lenin.") He never seemed to get a grasp of the alien territory west of the Hudson, and perhaps for that reason he devoted less of his energy to fighting capitalism than to fighting factional opponents.
Morgan seeks to portray his subject as struggling heroically against Russian domination, as if the rising leader had not urgently sought Comintern support for his own side. Lovestone and former college classmate Bertram Wolfe nevertheless had a good idea in "American Exceptionalism," the theory that capitalism had achieved here a certain stability, and consequently, Communists had to abandon their near-insurrectionary mentality for a nuanced program of tactical alliances. Indeed, the party would do so in the Popular Front era ahead. The trouble was, Stalin shifted toward an ultrarevolutionary strategy in the later twenties while consolidating his power against Trotsky, and old-fashioned Marxist predictions of a final capitalist collapse gained a renewed credibility with the stock-market crash.
Lovestone, who had commanded the party from its own Star Chamber, gravely erred in thinking he could influence either the Comintern or the membership in New York, Chicago or Los Angeles. Rank-and-file Communists, for their part, innocently admired anyone leading the Soviet Union, while they privately regarded their US leaders, Lovestone included, as puffed-up bumblers. Moreover, his eagerness to expel the "left" opposition (American followers of Trotsky) before Stalin's supporters fell upon him had demonstrated that Lovestone was none too keen on the democratic procedures that he later, accurately, complained had been systematically violated.


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Sk8Strong needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 29 designs submitted by 5 freelance designers.
Sk8Strong Inc., a company dedicated to off-ice training exercise for figure skaters, is creating 4 DVDs for skaters. We need the same design for the cover of each, with the only difference being the title and text on back. Need both the DVD label and cover (front and back) designed.
Sk8Strong Inc.
We would like our logo on the front and back of the cover (see website, http://www.sk8strong.com), a picture of a pair of skates and a cool graphic of a young person exercising, and some modern, eye catching graphics. Logo is a bluish purple. **Feel free to suggest a better logo. Under logo, it should say "Off-Ice Training for Figure Skaters". 4 DVD names are as follows 1)The Ultimate Dynamic Warmup 2) Adult Training 3) The Competitive Skater 4) Developing the Youth Skater. On the back we will have a description of the DVD content and an intro to the Sk8strong professionals. The DVD label should just be the logo, "Off-Ice Training for Figure Skaters," the DVD title, and design. http://www.sk8strong.com on bottom
- *Added template specs: Go to links:
- http://www.dub-it.com/templates/images/D6010.pdf and
- http://www.dub-it.com/templates/images/D0005.pdf
- Item 1.Logo (see website http://www.sk8strong.com ) Feel free to suggest a better one
- 2. "Off-Ice Training for Figure Skaters"
- 3. 4 different titles (see description)
- 4. Bluish/purple to match logo
- 5. Modern design
- 6. Italic script
- 7. *CHANGED*. After talking to some designers, we decided that we would like a pair of ice skates and a picture of a young female exercising. It better follows the concept we're conveying. Even better a picture of a young female and male exercising.I like silouhette-like images, or ones that fade a bit
- 8. Area for text on back
- 9. http://www.sk8strong.com on bottom of DVD label
- Item 1: cartoonish type picture
- Fancy calligraphy like script
- Tons of different colors