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A judge in California has ruled that major details surrounding the Apple-HTC settlement will be publicly available. The pricing and royalty rates will remain confidential, but the patents that were part of the settlement will be open to the public. Previously, Samsung's lawyers were given access to the list of patents in this settlement as part of their preparations for a hearing that will determine the final details of Apple's legal victory over Samsung in August. Apple had sought to keep the list of patents confidential, but Judge Lucy Koh saw no compelling reason to keep these details from the public. CNET reports:
In an ruling tonight, U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh said that while details of pricing and royalty rates for patents from both companies should be kept under wraps from public view, the same does not hold true for the rest of the agreement.
Some of the patents in question include methods and behaviors of scrolling and zooming, which Apple may license, while others are so-called "untouchables", unique user experience patents, which Apple rarely shares with other companies. Samsung may hope that if Apple did indeed reach an agreement with HTC on these untouchable patents in particular, that they can avoid an injunction. Apple and Samsung's hearing is scheduled for this Thursday, December 6.
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WASHINGTON — The two members of Colorado's congressional delegation representing the most competitive seats voted Wednesday to repeal President Obama's health-care law.
Republican representatives Mike Coffman of Lone Tree and Scott Tipton of Cortez both voted "yea" on the House floor yesterday afternoon in support H.R. 6079, a bill to repeal ObamaCare.
While the repeal bill passed 244 to 185, Coffman and Tipton each said that overturning the president's signature domestic achievement is not enough.
"The objective is not simply to repeal but also to replace the law. I look forward to discussing all aspects of the bill," Coffman said in an interview Wednesday.
"We hear comments that this is the Affordable Care Act. There is nothing affordable about it. It is a $2 trillion tax increase on the backs of struggling Americans. This is something if we are going to stand up for true health care, we need to make sure we repeal this bill, repeal it now, and replace it with common sense," Tipton said in a speech on the House floor Tuesday.
Coffman's and Tipton's votes had not been in doubt. Each voted in Janaury 2011 to overturn and replace the Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act and all 239 House Republicans present yesterday voted to repeal the law.
Yet both face difficult re-election fights, squaring off against experienced Democratic opponent in their swing districts this fall. Their responses Wednesday suggested each sought to stay on message. Tipton did not speak to reporters after his vote, while Coffman's comment about the need to repeal and replace the law came in response to an unrelated question about a Democratic criticism of the bill.
Their Democratic opponents did not criticize their votes. State representative Sal Pace's office did not return a phone call about Tipton's vote, while state representative Joe Miklosi's office did not respond to a call about Coffman's.
Underscoring the political difficulty the issue presents for Democratic candidates in some swing districts, Pace responded "I don't know" when asked by The Denver Post whether or not he would have voted to enact the controversial ObamaCare bill back in 2010.
The other members of the Colorado delegation voted as they did a year ago. Democratic representatives Diana DeGette of Denver, Jared Polis of Boulder, and Ed Perlmutter of Lakewood opposed H.R. 6079. Republican representatives Cory Gardner of Fort Collins and Doug Lamborn of Colorado Springs supported it.
Polis criticized the vote Wednesday as "an ideological vote that will go nowhere," a point few observers dispute given that the Democrat-controlled Senate is unlikely to follow the lead of the Republican-led House.
Republicans hoped that voting again on repealing the health-care law might generate more momentum for their cause. Five House Democrats voted for repeal — two more than last year, but short of the eight to 10 Democrats that one Colorado House Republican expected.
Republicans' hopes of overtuning the law rest with defeating President Obama this fall and capturing control of the Senate. Polls suggest that opposing the law is advantageous. Both a USA Today/Gallup poll and a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll have found that a bare majority of Americans favor repealing parts or all of the law.
Yet some components of the health-care law, which the Supreme Court upheld on June 28, remain popular.
Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo) said he "proudly voted" for the health care law, according to the left-wing political blog ColoradoPols.com. He said in his recent travels around the state, citizens have told him they support the law's provisions that make adults as old as 26 eligible for Medicare and preventing health insurers from denying patients with pre-existing conditions.
"Those problems will be gone under the Affordable Care Act. In addition, families like my own with young adults in them will benefit from the feature that ensures people ages 22-26 will still be able to join their parent's health insurance plans while getting their careers off the ground."

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Summer in the Okanagan is expected to be hot but this Summers heat has been accentuated with higher then normal humidity and a lot of 35C+ days. When the temperature gets up that high (never mind feeling like we are still in Vancouver with the humidity), my daydreams go to those of Pumpkin Spice Latte's and cool Fall mornings on my favourite cafe's patios. This is especially heightened this year with the upgrades along Bernard Avenue in Kelowna to widen sidewalks and increase the size of patios.
Health and Wellness
My Summer has unfortunately been one that has left me unmotivated, sad and really needing down and alone time. I have always been a thinker and have had my ongoing battles with depression and anxiety over the years. While I feel as though the bulk of my anxiety was released from my chest last Summer, it was a real eye opener for me to feel what I did, the intensity and the duration of it with the passing of my beloved companion.
Feeling as much as I did may very well be from the amount of healing I have done on and off over the years. I am currently in the 17 year anniversary of the weekend from hell when I literally went numb for well over a decade and as evident in my holistic healing sessions, I am still healing from. The numbness had me feeling very cold around death because I never felt anything while people around me wept. When my cat died, it was as if every tear I had not shed since that weekend was released from a major break of the damn.
Shedding of Emotional and Physical Weight
During my time of grieving, I took a step from my desire to lose weight. I had been so focused on losing weight for so long that I felt I needed to come at it from a different angle. I took Systems Analysis type courses through college and realize that we often presented with the symptoms of problems but not heart of the problem itself.
I know the fat around my middle is a security blanket but until my healing sessions leading up to and over this Summer, had no idea I had been holding onto something so tightly which I finally started letting go of. It is something the death of my cat seemed to really stir up and although his death really broke my heart, I am thankful for the catalyst of changes that have occurred since.
The last session I had was probably the most bizarre session I have had to date. By mid-July, I was finally starting to move on and life started to normalize after a horrible start to my Summer. Then I burned the crap out of my mouth, over and over and over with the pan friend potatoes of the Smoked Salmon and Avocado Eggs Benny I had made for dinner one night. After burning myself several times, I wondered if the heat would ever come out of those damn potatoes!
For about two weeks I was in excruciating pain where the site of a tooth extraction from four years ago became very swollen and infected. While this was going on, my sinuses were flaring up and as the pain and swelling in my mouth was going down, my ear started to ache. We are going on five weeks now of clearing this up which in turn is also clearing a lot of old emotional junk out of the closet. I feel like a changed man from that one session and very curious to see how I feel once this infection completely clears up.
I admit that I did not have much of an appetite after my kitty died and it was hard to eat solid food from the flare up in my mouth. Since my cat has died, I have lost just shy of 20 pounds. Shortly before life started to blow up in May, I set a goal of: Weight to 215 lbs by August 19th, 2013. I am currently down to 217 and although I only missed my goal by two pounds, I have mixed feelings about declaring it a failure or a success. I will take it for what it is and set my next weight loss goal.
There was an evening over the Summer that I happened to sit down at my desk and started re-arranging the cut outs for my Dreamboard on the old busted white board I had fixed up for it. This was not something I consciously sat down to do and was just in the office to put something away. About two hours into doing this, I decided I might as well start taping them onto the board since I knew the pieces kept moving from wind and/or my (other) cat jumping up onto my desk. Not until I was done did I even realize what I was doing!
I have only taped about half of the pieces I placed that day and currently what I have in total only covers just over half the board. I know there are several pieces I am need to find and will have to go on a search for them.
Holistic Healthcare Practitioner:
The downside of the ups and downs and the healing I have undertaken since May is that it has unfortunately put my becoming a Holistic Healthcare Practitioner on hold. While it is disappointing that four months have passed during this detour in my life, I am very happy and thankful to be where I am today. When I have not felt healthy myself (emotionally or physically), I feel as though it is hypocritical of me to become a Holistic Healthcare Practitioner.
I will be pushing myself out of my comfort zone starting in September to start making money as a Practitioner. I need to be balanced for it to allow myself the space to make mistakes, be slow at first, know that I won't know everything and that learning is a lifelong process. When I was at work on Friday, I sent off the information for my business cards to the graphic designer, donated four sessions for door prizes to two events and contemplating also handing out half prize session coupons as door prizes.
I am thankful my Father will be paying for another two SIPS courses coming up at the end of September that I am really looking forward to. I wish I could somehow swing N.O.T. 2&3 in November but short of a miracle, they will have to wait until next year.
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Moving forward
My apologies for my absence and this scattered post.
Life is settling down, the temperatures are cooling off and we are heading into my favourite season of the year – Fall. I will start re-working my goals over the next couple of weeks which will include my getting back into blogging and taking photos on a regular basis.
I write this post as a completely different person from the post I wrote in May. I am calmer, more at ease and lighter both emotionally and physically. For the first time in over a decade, I have future life goals which become clearer by the day.
I want to live a healthy, holistic and minimalist life.
Having worked in corporations, been a corporate Vancouver Starbux junkie (2+ times/day) and wanting at one point to acquire an MBA, I never thought I would get to a place in life where I want to be a hippie, living off the land and as anti-corporation as I have become.
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- n. Any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding, usually passed from mother to son.
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- n. congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son
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Two other people who died from other causes were found to have vCJD infection; one is thought to have had a transfusion of contaminated blood during an operation, and the other, a person with haemophilia, to have received contaminated blood products.
The rest comes from growth hormone, hormone-replacement therapy and a product called Novo 7, which was designed to help the blood clot and prevent fatal bleeding in certain haemophilia patients.
Helping to raise the money for the research into the rare and devastating disease -- which, while carried in the female genes only, manifested itself in physical symptoms in the male sex, like haemophilia and other similar disorders-had been one thing.
I know how you look down on our small size, our allergies and haemophilia and all the other weaknesses that have been bred back and preserved by the race.
Heyer did not have haemophilia, but looked as though he should have it He was a withered aristocrat, with a long, thin neck, pate, bulging eyes and a manner of frightened sweetness toward everyone.
Morgan believes that the heredity of haemophilia (the constitutional defect which prevents the spontaneous cessation of bleeding) follows the same scheme, and also at least some forms of stationary night-blindness -- that is, the inability to see in twilight.
In an episode of the hospital drama screened on Tuesday medics used Factor VIIa, a haemophilia drug, to control the bleeding of a young female soldier who had been shot in combat.
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The drug is licensed for haemophilia treatment, but trials determined that using it to control bleeding in patients who do not suffer from the disease was unsafe and one test even linked it to higher death rates.
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Doctors have accused the BBC of "drug company propaganda" after a Holby City storyline in which a patient's life was saved by experimental use of a haemophilia drug.
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Mike Rulis, corporate vice president of Novo Nordisk, the manufacturer of the drug, said: "We have not had any involvement in the production of this programme and we certainly do not approve any use of Factor VIIa outside its intended application for certain haemophilia patients."
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Texas church shooting: Who is gunman Devin Patrick Kelley?
Jake Baker · November 06, 2017 · Prophecy, Christianity, Featured, U.S. News, Crime and justice, Culture
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The gunman suspected of opening fire at a church in Texas on Sunday has been identified to Fox News as 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley.
Kelley, according to officials, killed at least 26 people and wounded approximately 20 after he unleashed a hail of bullets in the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, in the deadliest church shooting in modern U.S. history.
The gunman previously served in the U.S. Air Force, an Air Force spokesperson confirmed to Fox News. Kelley served at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico from 2010 until his discharge in 2014.
He was court-martialed in 2012 for assaulting his wife and his child. Kelley received a bad conduct discharge from the Air Force, in addition to confinement for 12 months and was reduced in rank.
Kelley worked as a security guard for a Texas waterpark this past summer, according to a resume under his name that appears online.
Investigators said Kelley didn't appear to be connected to any organized terrorist groups.
The suspect, who is believed to be from New Braunfels, a suburb outside San Antonio, was found dead in his car after he sped away from the scene of the shooting. Officials said it remained unclear whether he was shot dead by police or an armed nearby resident, or if he died from a self-inflicted wound.
A law enforcement official told the San Antonio Express-News Kelley wasn't believed to be a member of First Baptist Church, but had ties to the church through family members.
Police didn't name Kelley during a press conference, but only described him as a white male in his 20s.
Kelley was dressed in black tactical gear and wearing a ballistic vest when he arrived at a Valero gas station near the First Baptist Church around 11:20 a.m., investigators said.
Speaking at a news conference Sunday night, officials said he crossed the street to the church, left his vehicle and began firing a Ruger AR assault-type rifle at the place of worship. Kelley was then suspected of entering the church and firing at the crowds of people.
Investigators are looking into recent Facebook posts made by Kelley - one in particular that showed what appeared to be a semiautomatic weapon.
Kelley was married, according to The Daily Beast. His mother-in-law's P.O. Box was listed as a mailing address in Sutherland Springs.
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Bring in a fresh pair of eyes, such as a sales operations person, who works directly at the intersection of marketing and sales, Boudinet says. This person should work directly with each team to direct where content marketing assets are kept and how they're organized, keep CRM systems aligned and organized, and help marketing and sales leaders create effective analytics tools, he adds.
2. Create "pushy" content. Content marketing's role, as it concerns sales, is to push potential customers further down the sales funnel before a salesperson even contacts them. Since customers today research purchases in the early stages of the buying cycle, content marketing takes on the education role once held by sales professionals, Boudinet says. "Marketing teams can create great case studies, testimonials and vertical-based marketing e-mails to help potential customers get further along the sales funnel," he says.
When creating those assets, think about how content can help answer customers' questions and concerns along each step in the customer journey. "Some marketers think of content as falling at the inbound level, but content needs to be distributed throughout the funnel," Boudinet says. "Let sales direct the content you come out with, and then you'll be able to help at every level of the sales funnel."
According to Glynn, it's important for marketing to provide a variety of content for each customer vertical. "Since [your] brand is the composite of everything people know about you, sales people need a way to manage all of those stories and ideas across their organization," he says. "The last part of the sales cycle … relies every bit as much on a salesperson's ability to leverage [their] brand—all the solution sheets, the white papers, the knowledge in the engineering and product marketing group, knowledge across field marketers—so that sales reps are armed to tell the really good stories to their prospects and move an opportunity along."
3. Rethink lead gen. Lead generation suffers when sales and marketing aren't aligned, often resulting in a "spray and pray" strategy that wastes everyone's time, experts say. "There's a whole process that needs to be in place where prospects come in from marketing, marketing attracts them to the product or service, and then hands them off to sales," Boudinet says. "Sales is then able to effectively understand the person's needs and interests and how they can close the deal."
With marketing and sales working together, there's a higher focus on the quality of leads, according to Boudinet. At his own company, for example, leads that come from online marketing materials close about 25% of the time, and leads that come in from sales—without the help of marketing—close at a rate of 1.5%.
Glynn agrees: "For many companies, it's a pure volume game where if you can just stuff more and more leads into that funnel, just by sheer luck you're going to get some diamonds in the rough," he says. "But at the executive level of a company, our CEO would always be asking about closing business deals and where they came from. … What a CEO cares about are the qualified opportunities that came out of that marketing investment, and how they play into the goals of the business."
4. Tie ROI to marketing. With a properly aligned marketing and sales alliance, marketing gets a huge help in one area that's long been a challenge: reporting ROI. "Marketers' budgets are increasing every single year, but it's very difficult for most CMOs to really tell what their contribution to revenue is because most of us marketing leaders are still thinking about the number of leads and not showing what we contributed to revenue," Glynn says. "When we think about sales and marketing alignment, and how those two need to operate as one, anything that a marketer does should be to increase revenue." To track ROI, he says, look at KPIs such as "deals influenced" or "deals sourced" to connect specific marketing materials straight to bottom-line results.
Glynn adds: "Marketing really has not been looked at through a lens of revenue generation, and that's what's changing. Once your marketing leader accepts that they're responsible for revenue generation and they look at their programs and campaigns through that, that will be the step forward in us being able to stand up and say, 'Sales and marketing are aligned.' "
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My Father, My Don: A Son's Journey from Organized Crime to Sobriety
Tony "Tony Nap"
Tony's autobiography is a bold recounting of the confidential world that he and his father inhabited. In candid, no-holds-barred language, Tony describes his life as boxer, army soldier, enforcer, casino boss, fugitive, hustler, and offspring to one of the most powerful mobsters of the century.
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Interview with Tony Napoli
You're family history is unique with involvement in organized crime, but at home your family was close. What was it like in your home as a boy, and what do you think modern day families miss from their separation from the extended family?
My family is unique in the sense that through my Father's connections, politically and celebrity wise, I grew up in an atmosphere of influential people. Mostly organized crime people. When the old-timers got pinched (arrested) for association with organized crime people, they would say "my life is so disorganized, I consider that a compliment." What made my family even closer with friends more so than others was the fact that I was taught by my Father, to call all close friends, Uncle or Aunt. Even though they weren't blood related. As a young man I was taught to help my Mother wash and dry the dishes every night before I did my homework or go out for a couple of hours to hang out. Dinner in my house was always at , except on Sunday. That's when I had to sit at the dinner table with a clean white shirt at after my Father fished reading every word in the Sunday newspaper.
During the week, after school was out I had to take the bus to the Trinity Club and meet my trainer, who taught me about the art of boxing. My father wanted me to know how to defend myself. In fact it was mandatory in my household. He allowed me to enter amateur boxing events, and I was able to spar in the gym with the professional fighters, he promoted. I did all that until I was 20 years old. In October, 1955 my father encouraged me to join the Military to help defend this great country of ours. I decided to join the US Air Force, Strategic Air Command (SAC) under General Curtis La May. I feel that in today's world, we lack family tradition, discipline and accepting Mommy and Daddy as the true heads of our families.
What inspired you to write My Father, My Don?
It was on my 26th birthday when I decided to start writing my book. So, those of you who will read my book, chapter 2 will explain about the time my father came into my bedroom and caught me in the act of writing. He glanced threw my notes and destroyed them, because I mentioned names. He disapproved. Later that day, it was my mother who saw the tears in my eyes, and encouraged me to pen my autobiography as I got older. She said, "You will have a lot more to say." She died of cancer on
How did you go about writing your story? Was it all from memory, or did you have letters or other documents to work from?
I started working on my story again in 2002 after my wife, Laura, showed me her scrap book of newspaper articles she had saved. Most of the articles are about my father, when he was making headlines. Some are of me being arrested for loan sharking and for illegal gambling. I decided to hire a writer, and with my help put together a thousand pages of excerpts. In those excerpts is a trail of documented material about my grandparents, my father, my mother and names of business associate's who did business with my father and me. I accumulated a lot of information about my family tree from relatives and close family friends. Other information came from books where my father was mentioned. I found that paying three writers a fee in the past five years, was the most protective way for me to go along with the support of my immediate family and my estate. Most of my excerpts were put into story form by me and my memory.
Tell us a little about Charles Messina.
When it comes to Charles Messina, I met him through a mutual friend who actually thought Charles wasn't the writer to do the book with me. I found Charles to be dedicated and unknown. He showed me his desire to work long hours, and worked with me for two of the last five years I put into my story. He's a graduate of NYU and is known for writing screenplays and directing off Broadway shows. He's a very passionate and private person who doesn't party. He has a wife and a six-year-old, who he dedicates his whole life to.
How long did it take you to write your book? Did you ever struggle with writer's block? And did you use any tricks to prevent you from straying from finishing the book?
It took me and three other writers a total of five years to write and complete my book. There were times that I got confused when putting excerpts into story form. Such as, putting together years, dates and places in the right places. So, that nothing would stand in the way of completing my book, I would be on the computer late at night when it was quiet in the house, e-mailing my writers. We would go back and forth e-mailing each other, till the wee hours of the morning for years and months at a time.
How do you family and friends feel about My Father, My Don?
When I mentioned to my family and friends about my doing an Autobiography, most of my friends said to me, "Well, it's about time." My family, being very disciplined in following tradition in the household agreed. Their answer: "You're in control, Dad, whatever you think is best for us, go to it." It was a close friend of the family's that picked out the title for me, My Father, My Don. That's because he was involved with me in some of my escapades.
If you had it to do over again, would you do anything differently?
I financed my book as a self publisher in connection with a licensed publisher. With the experience I gained in book publishing, I might want to search around more thoroughly for both writers and publishers, before I made a deal. And, I would make sure that all errors, whether typo's or proof reading is correct, before the final edition goes to print.
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I'm not used up, not yet
A couple of posts ago I mentioned that over the past 12 months I've struggled to find music that has truly astonished me. But then, looking back, that's been the case for a few years now. Maybe I'm just getting weary; hopefully it's merely a lull.
Nonetheless, I'd be mistaken if I thought that the past 12 months have largely been forgettable. There has still been much to love, whether soaring post-rock from Motherwell, revived, perky 90s pop from Brighton, or vegan-fuelled indie from just down the road in County Durham.
But it's from further afield that this track comes from. Phoenix, Arizona, has quite a musical heritage that boasts Alice Cooper, Glen Campbell, Steve Nicks and Zola Jesus.
And Diners. In 2014 they released their second LP, Always Room, a sun and surf-drenched swathe of guitar pop. It's available on Spotify and Apple Music, but wouldn't you rather give your money directly to the people who brought you this and get to keep it forever?
Diners // Citrus
Tourist is the first solo LP from Jeen O'Brien, a Canadian who's previously focussed on songwriting for a miscellany of other artists.
This record suggests that those talents would better have been kept to herslef, as it exhibits the Canadian's wealth of eclectic writing, beautifully delivered, not least on the opening track, Buena Vista.
In a batting line-up, the best batsman traditionally bats at number four. On this LP the best track is number four. Other than that, I don't think there any other cricketing connections, which, given the awfulness of that Duckworth Lewis Method outfit, is a good thing.
Jeen // Tourist
Pet Friends released their third EP in 2014, thereby retaining their title as for the best band from Hertfordshire. While never scaling the heights of their frankly brilliant debut I Don't Want Pet Friends, it only increases our longing for a long playing offering. Soon, please.
Pet Friends // Come to your Senses
Regular readers may remember that the French Defence's Sketches of the September Leaf won the inaugural and final 2014 Socks award for Best British LP.
Last year the Leeds-based balladeer put out three LPs of out-takes, demos and "assorted detritus". This track comes from the first, Ten Years of of Bad Ideas — Volume One (can you guess what the other two were called?).
The French Defence // Melt
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Congressional budget committees use the reconciliation process to ensure tax laws and mandatory spending programs are revised according to the budget resolution's revenue and spending targets. The reconciliation process is a way to fast-track revenue and spending legislation into becoming law.
Reconciliation legislation is passed through an expedited process. First, Congress passes a budget resolution containing "reconciliation instructions" telling congressional committees how much they need to change their revenue and spending to conform to a new budget resolution. The committees' responses are then bundled by the House and Senate budget committees into a single reconciliation bill for consideration in each chamber.
Reconciliation bills are subject to special rules in the Senate. Debate on reconciliation bills is limited to 20 hours. If the law is free of points of order, it can be passed in the Senate by a simple majority; the 60 votes necessary to shut off a filibuster are not required. Any member, however, can raise a point of order against a reconciliation bill if it violates the spending and revenue targets in the budget resolution or other budget rules and laws. Sixty votes are needed to overcome a point of order. The House can set procedural rules on any legislation, including reconciliation bills, by adopting a special "rule" determined by the House Rules Committee. Debate is limited in the House to whatever time the Rules Committee allows.
The George W. Bush tax cuts were passed using reconciliation procedures. During the short time that they controlled both houses of congress, Democrats reacted by passing new rules that prevented reconciliation from being used to increase the deficit. After Republicans again took over, they repealed those rules, so that reconciliation can now be used to reduce revenues, but not to increase entitlement spending. The content of reconciliation laws is limited in the Senate by the Byrd rule, which generally disallows items that do not affect outlays or revenue. The Byrd rule also prohibits initiatives that would increase the deficit beyond the fiscal years covered by the budget resolution.
Policymakers have passed 20 budget reconciliation bills since they first used the procedure in 1980. In 2001, for example, the Senate could not muster the 60-vote super-majority necessary to pass the Bush tax cuts so it passed the legislation instead as a reconciliation bill with 58 yea votes. However, to avoid abrogating the Byrd rule, which disallows bills that increase the deficit beyond the budget resolution's window, the tax cuts were scheduled to expire after ten years.
More recently, the Congress used reconciliation to pass the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. This bill was responsible for various student loan reforms and changes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law 7 days earlier.
Collender, Stanley E. 1999. The Guide to the Federal Budget, Fiscal 2000. Washington, DC: The Century Foundation.
Schick, Allen. 1995. The Federal Budget: Politics, Policy, Process. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
Lynch, Megan S. 2013. "The Budget Reconciliation Process: Timing of Legislative Action." Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service.
Keith, Robert. 2010. "The Budget Reconciliation Process: The Senate's Byrd Rule." Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service.
Keith, Robert and Bill Heniff Jr. 2005. "The Budget Reconciliation Process: House and Senate Procedures." Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service.
Reich, David and Richard Kogan. 2015. "Introduction to Budget Reconciliation." Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.


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- An island country of the west-central Pacific Ocean near the equator. It includes the former Gilbert Islands, Banaba (Ocean Island), and the Phoenix and Line islands. Settled by Austronesian peoples before the 1st century A.D., the islands, together with the Ellice Islands, became a British protectorate (1892-1916) and subsequently a crown colony under the name the Gilbert and Ellice Island Colony. The Ellice Islands gained independence (1978) as Tuvalu and the remaining islands (1979) as Kiribati. Tarawa is the capital. Population: 108,000.
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- proper n. Country in Oceania. Official name in English: Republic of Kiribati.
- proper n. The Micronesian language spoken in Kiribati, also known as Gilbertese.
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- n. an island republic in the west central Pacific just to the south of the equator
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No drive-thrus back in Kiribati, where fish and the Pacific mean everything.
USATODAY.com - Small step at Olympics is giant leap for tiny island nation
To find any place in Kiribati, just go to the corner of the equator and international dateline, and ask directions.
USATODAY.com - Small step at Olympics is giant leap for tiny island nation
I did not even know the name Kiribati before she told me this and now I'm trying to scheme a way to visit her.
He describes one dish, called Kiribati Sashimi, this way:
Brendan Smith: Calling All Artists: The Climate Movement Needs You
KURTZ: Bill Weir, the co-anchor of ABC's "Good Morning America Weekend", has been logging a lot of frequent flier miles to places like Zambia and the Pacific Islands called Kiribati, places where network correspondents don't usually turn up.
Some of the world's poorest, most vulnerable and least able to adapt are being worst affected, with small island states such as Kiribati and the Maldives and low-lying developing countries like Bangladesh already on the 'frontlines'.
Current projections of sea-level rise coupled with a likely increase in the frequency and severity of storms may make many small island states, such as Kiribati and Tuvalu, uninhabitable [9].
It is a different story in other societies I have visited, such as Kiribati in the Pacific ocean, where sexuality among ageing people is not just respected, but an open subject for discussion.
Between 1964 and 2001, food imports to the least developed Pacific nations, such as Kiribati, which comprises 33 islands clustered around the equator, increased six-fold, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, a United Nations agency established to fight world hunger.
For island nations such as Kiribati, the Pacific Ocean, their enemy, is also their friend.


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MOSCOW (AP) Although Russia is a team with plenty of veterans, only one of them has seen World Cup action.
Alexander Kerzhakov came on as a substitute the last time Russia qualified for the World Cup in 2002, and he'll be in Brazil this year looking for more.
With Kerzhakov up front, Roman Shirokov will likely be the one to control the tempo of the game. And behind them they have Igor Akinfeev, a goalkeeper who has been a mainstay in the team for a decade.
Here are five players to watch:
CSKA Moscow goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev made his debut for Russia when he was only 18 years old - the youngest newcomer to the national squad. He has been Russia's top goalkeeper since 2005.
Akinfeev's father brought him to the CSKA football school when he was 4 and he has never switched to another club after making his professional debut in 2003.
A stalwart of the Russia and CSKA Moscow defense, Sergei Ignashevich made his national team debut in 2002 against Sweden.
Ignashevich missed the 2004 European Championship because of injury but played in four of the five matches at Euro 2008, when Russia made the semifinals.
He played in all 10 qualifying matches for the World Cup in Brazil.
Vasiliy Berezutskiy joined CKSA Moscow from Torpedo-ZIL in 2002 and made his debut for Russia in 2003. His twin brother Alexei is also a CSKA Moscow and Russia defender.
Fabio Capello's key playmaker, Roman Shirokov was called up by former Russia coach Guus Hiddink in 2008 but then dropped during qualifying for the 2010 World Cup.
Shirokov was back in the national team under Dick Advocaat and played in all 10 World Cup qualifying match under Capello, scoring three goals.
Alexander Kerzhakov is the only player on the current national team who played at the World Cup in 2002, coming on as a late substitute for Valery Karpin.
After joining Zenit St. Petersburg in 2001, Kerzhakov signed with Spanish club Sevilla in 2006 and won the Copa del Rey and UEFA Cup. But he was back in Russia in 2008 with Dynamo Moscow and then with Zenit in January 2010.
Kerzakov scored six goals in qualifying for Euro 2008, but former coach Guus Hiddink dropped him from the final squad because of poor form.


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New Alvarion Gear
Surf's Up in the Rocky Mountains
Wi-Fi to Overtake MMDS in the U.S.
New Alvarion Gear
Alvarion Ltd. recently launched two products of interest to wireless Internet service providers (WISPs), the 5.8GHz BreezeNET DS.5800 bridging system and the Cell Extender (CX) for the BreezeACCESS product line.
With the DS.5800 bridge, Alvarion is targeting enterprises and operators looking for cost-competitive, point-to-point and point-to-multipoint solutions. The product enables wireless Internet backhauls for WISPs and campus bridging for enterprises, while avoiding exposure to interference from more common 2.4GHz systems, such as Wi-Fi networks.
"The BreezeNET DS.5800 is the first of multiple product releases in 5GHz for Alvarion this year," said Rudy Leser, Vice President Marketing, Alvarion Ltd. "It marks the initial step toward our mixed spectrum model, which will give operators and enterprises maximum flexibility and choice."
Alvarion claims the system offers extensive cost savings. It is significantly less expensive than competing systems. And the highly integrated outdoor form factor of the DS.5800 is designed to keep installation costs low. The product is available with built-in antennas, for example, and it features integrated power over Ethernet (PoE) and lightning protection - precluding the need for additional hardware. The integrated indoor/outdoor architecture reduces skill level and time required to install a connection.
According to Alvarion, the DS.5800 bridge unit's integrated high power provides for ranges of up to 30 miles at data rates of up to 11 Mbps. It is compatible with any standard Ethernet switch and router and features a light emitting diode (LED) display that includes a 10-LED received signal strength indication (RSSI) bar for easy antenna alignment and fade margin analysis.
The DS.5800 also includes local or remote simple network management protocol (SNMP) systems, making the bridge unit readily deployable, scalable as the network environment changes, and easy to monitor. The product's firmware offers advanced capabilities such as local or remote batch configuration and upgradeability, making the addition of new users and system management a breeze.
Pricing for the DS.5800 was not immediately available, but the BreezeACCESS Cell Extender lists at $2,995. The CX unit is designed to receive and redistribute broadband coverage from a primary wireless base station. That way, subscribers that were beyond the range of the primary cell or who were previously unreachable from the primary station due to obstructions such as foliage or hills, can connect to an access point.
This eliminates the need to deploy new backhauls and base stations to connect pockets of otherwise inaccessible customers, significantly improving the economics for wireless broadband deployments, Alvarion says. In addition, the CX can serve concurrently as an active subscriber node since each unit includes a standard Ethernet connection. Operators can deploy the CX at customer premises, avoiding the need for a site lease.
Alvarion says this characteristic, plus the combined ability to generate revenue -- both as an active node and as a cell extender -- to access additional customers, make the CX a compelling addition to the business case.
The CX uses a two-piece architecture with both components designed to be installed outdoors. The components are connected using an intermediate frequency (IF) that carries both power and data. This design permits a high degree of installation flexibility and eliminates the need for expensive runs of specialized land mobile radio or heliax cables.
Surf's Up in the Rocky Mountains
Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based fixed wireless equipment and service provider USURF America is starting to make waves.
In the last two months, the company has picked up new funding, new management, new strategies and reached a breakthrough agreement to provide high-speed wireless service to customers of SunWest Communications, a Colorado Springs, Colo. competitive local exchange carrier. (CLEC).
In April, USURF, developer of Quick-Cell, a broadband Wi-Fi fixed wireless Internet access system, announced new equity financing of $250,000. The funding was led by Evergreen Venture Partners LLC, an Israeli-based private wireless communications investment company. Evergreen purchased equity securities of the company.
At the same time, Douglas McKinnon, a 28-year veteran of the communications industry and an affiliate of Evergreen, became the company's president and chief executive officer, also joining its board of directors.
Then later in the month, USURF announced it was expanding its marketing strategy.
"Our initial market focus of under served and rural markets provides an obvious market need," McKinnon said, "but we are now expanding our scope toward specific applications and vertical markets that will create differentiated shareholder value."
Examples of new verticals markets include the hospitality, education, aviation, multiple dwelling units (MDU), planned community developments (PCD), independent local exchange companies, utilities, municipalities and special situation markets.
"Our value proposition to these new verticals will be, 'Let USURF design, deploy and own the network so you can concentrate on what you do best -- run your business,'" McKinnon said.
USURF said it intended to develop partnerships with companies that need to create or extend broadband connectivity for their customers, employees and partners. "This way we can scale USURF and deliver a stronger and more compelling financial performance," McKinnon said.
In May USURF announced it had entered into just such an agreement with one of its new target customers. Under the agreement, USURF and SunWest will share Quick-Cell revenues generated from sales of wireless broadband Internet access services to SunWest's customers.
They will also market Quick-Cell service throughout the greater Colorado Springs area. SunWest is to provide all wireline communications infrastructure -- including the broadband backhaul connectivity -- necessary for the implementation of USURF's Quick-Cell, as well as Quick-Cell marketing, installation, customer-care and billing activities.
USURF will provide the Wi-Fi standard Quick-Cell infrastructure, including the necessary fixed-wireless tower equipment and all customer premises equipment.
Under the three year exclusive agreement, USURF will provide availability to its Quick-Cell broadband wireless Internet access services to all 6,000 of SunWest's telephone customers in its service area.
"This clearly is a win/win situation for SunWest's existing voice communications customers and USURF," said McKinnon. "SunWest's customers now will be able to surf the web at speeds up to 50 times faster than dial-up service, with one number to call for any service issues and one bill."
Wi-Fi to Overtake MMDS in the U.S.
High-tech market research firm In-Stat/MDR says that the recent migration of 802.11 as an operating standard into the license-exempt fixed wireless broadband market in the U.S. will result in a much needed, and unexpected, growth spurt for the stagnant broadband fixed wireless market.
In-Stat expects that, as WISPs continue to flood the licensed-exempt band, fixed wireless will eventually become a significant player in the broadband access technology space.
In 2002 alone, the licensed-exempt service for fixed wireless in the U.S. will grow three-fold, and by 2006 over two-thirds of all wireless broadband subscriptions will be on a licensed-exempt system, In-Stat predicts.
"Until very recently, the fixed wireless industry, especially in the U.S., had taken a real beating," says Ernie Bergstrom, a senior analyst with In-Stat/MDR. "Multi-point Multi-channel Distribution Service (MMDS) is on hold for Sprint, as the company waits for a more economical solution to be brought forth by the wireless manufacturing industry, and WorldCom, while also doing some watchful waiting, is still offering service, but only in established markets.
"The Local Multi-point Distribution Service (LMDS) has faced growth challenges, as well, stemming from the high cost of providing the service to the business community."
With the extension of 802.11 from internal Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) to outside the building, the license-exempt service is enabling service providers to deliver reliable service that can be deployed quickly and is priced competitively with digital subscriber line (DSL) access and cable modem services, without having to buy expensive licenses.
The report, The Momentum of 802.11 Accelerates the Fixed Wireless Market, also found that:
Licensed-exempt will overtake MMDS in the U.S. However, MMDS will make a comeback in late 2003, as second-generation equipment comes on the market.
Residential subscriptions to fixed wireless broadband in the U.S. will grow from approximately 338,000 in the end of 2001 to 3.1 million by the end of 2006. Over this time period, licensed-exempt services will have the greatest growth with residential subscribers--from 123,000 in 2001 to almost 2.5 million by 2006.
The international market is doing very well with LMDS, with its backhaul offerings to cellular service providers and access service to the business community for high-speed Internet service. LMDS service will continue to pick up steam. MMDS is projected to grow well in Latin American and other undeveloped countries.
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Are you drooling yet?
I mean, I know the title is what drew you here in the first place...Amaretto...Amaretto...AMARETTO!!!
So let me assure you that this cake IS as delicious as it sounds.
The first time I tried it, I ate half of the cake...BY MYSELF. It was embarrassing, yes. And then I went for a run to 'justify' it....which probably only burned about 2% of the calories I had ingested...but I felt better about it, at least.
If you are looking for a low-fat, low-calorie cake recipe, then you are in the wrong place. But if you are looking for a DELICIOUS cake recipe? Well then, read on...
The original recipe is called "Wine Cake" because the recipe calls for sherry wine...but I like to mix it up a bit in the kitchen (and my girlfriend who shared this recipe was out of sherry and made it with amaretto the time that I ingested half the cake, so I kind of had a little bit of a bias towards amaretto over sherry anyways). You can make it however YOU want to...be bold like that!
Wine Cake
(shared by Natalie...who is not in the blogging or even **gasp** Facebook World!!)
1 box yellow cake mix (she recommends Duncan Hines Golden Butter Cake)
1 small box instant vanilla pudding (I used sugar free instant pudding cuz that's how I roll)
3/4 c. oil
3/4 c. Crm Sherry Wine (I used amaretto here instead....3/4 cup might be a bit much if you aren't big on a 'liquory' tasting cake...which we are FINE with in this house)
4 eggs
Beat all ingredients together for 5 mins
Bake at 325F for 40-45 mins. I baked mine in a bundt cake pan that was sprayed with FLOURED baking spray (which I just learned about recently and SWEAR by now).
After baking it, I decided that this cake needed a glaze to it, so I decided to make an almond glaze to top it with. I think it added a nice touch, but you can go without it if you so desire.
Almond Glaze
1 cup sifted powdered sugar
2 TBSP milk
1/2 tsp almond extract
Mix powdered sugar, almond extract and 1 TBSP milk. Stir in milk 1 tsp at a time (I just went ahead and added the 2nd TBSP of milk and it was a perfect consistency), until of drizzling consistency. Makes 1/2 cup or enough to drizzle over one 10-inch tube cake (or bundt cake in my case). Let cake stand 2 hours before slicing.
Garnish with strawberries or other berries if desired.
And ENJOY! (Just maybe not HALF the cake, m'kay?)


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I hadn't done this lesson since my older children were in second grade (and they're high school juniors, so it's been a while). I ordered two buckets of foam letters (actually, letters + numbers) and used up all the burlap I had, then went to the many, many yards of felt that I got when a local clothing maker went out of buisness. It's their first fibers project, and they do really well after they figure out how to cut felt with scissors.
|Brown burlap on brown table= not the best photo.
|This student did a great job overlapping her felt
to add interest.
We started by planning out our wall hanging in our skechbooks--I told them not to worry about drawing their letters perfectly, but just to get the general idea down. I wanted them to have their name and things made out of felt that they enjoy doing or just like. I was very happy with the results, and so were the students!
|The red spider-looking thing is fireworks!
|The ones above the water are dolphins.
|On this one, I left the paper underneath for the photo.
We used the paper to keep them from getting glued to
the tables, and it made them easier to put in the
drying rack.
|Bunny and bird cuteness.
I thought about adding other things for the students to glue on (lace, yarn, etc) but in the end I just really liked the layering and the look and feel of the felt.
|Astroids and lava! I find it so interesting
that even with the formed letters being given to them,
some students still put them on backwards.
|He and I had many discussions about layering:
would the yellow look better over the windows?
Could there be yellow over the black "stars"?
|This student was initially upset over my lack of brown felt,
but she came up with her own solution for her ice cream cone.
|This student is an "outside the box" thinker, and her work
is usually the envy of the class.
|Close up of Angelina's cat.
Students are taking these home this week. When my older two were in second grade, they were so very proud to hang them on their bedroom doors at home, and couldn't wait to show Dad when he got home. I'm hoping for that reaction for my students (I usually hear about it all later).


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Plus NARWHALS!
Plus NARWHALS!
I was looking through some documents I keep on my computer (I forget what I was looking for in particular) and I came across this little list. I have NO IDEA why I would have kept this list, but apparently I've had it since 2001. Enjoy:
The IT team felt that it would be good to provide you with this guide to help us do our jobs better:
1. When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals, dried flowers, bowling trophies and children's art. We don't have a life, and we find it deeply moving to catch a fleeting glimpse of yours.
2. Don't write anything down. Ever. We can play back the error messages from here.
3. When an IT person says he's coming right over, go for coffee. That way you won't be there when we need your password. It's nothing for us to remember 300 screensaver passwords.
4. When you call the help desk, state what you want, not what's keeping you from getting it. We don't need to know that you can't get into your mail because your computer won't power on at all.
5. When IT Support sends you an email with high importance, delete it at once. We're just testing.
6. When an IT person is eating lunch at his desk, walk right in and spill your guts right out. We exist only to serve.
7. Send urgent email all in uppercase. The mail server picks it up and flags it as a rush delivery.
8. When the photocopier doesn't work, call computer support. There's electronics in it.
9. When you're getting a NO DIAL TONE message at home, call computer support. We can fix your telephone line from here.
10. When you have a dozen old computer screens to get rid of, call computer support. We're collectors.
11. When something's wrong with your home PC, dump it on an IT person's chair with no name, no phone number and no description of the problem. We love a puzzle.
12. When an IT person tells you that computer screens don't have cartridges in them, argue. We love a good argument.
13. When an IT person tells you that he'll be there shortly, reply in a scathing tone of voice: "And just how many weeks do you mean by shortly?" That motivates us.
14. When the printer won't print, re-send the job at least 20 times. Print jobs frequently get sucked into black holes.
15. When the printer still won't print after 20 tries, send the job to all 68 printers in the company. One of them is bound to work.
16. Don't learn the proper name for anything technical. We know exactly what you mean by "my thingy blew up".
17. Don't use online help. Online help is for wimps.
18. If the mouse cable keeps knocking down the framed picture of your dog, lift the computer and stuff the cable under it. Mouse cables were designed to have 20 kg of computer sitting on top of them.
19. If the space bar on your keyboard doesn't work, blame it on the mail upgrade. Keyboards are actually very happy with half a pound of muffin crumbs and nail clippings in them.
20. When you get a message saying "Are you sure?" click on that Yes button as fast as you can. Hell, if you weren't sure, you wouldn't be doing it, would you?
21. When you find an IT person on the phone with his bank, sit uninvited on the corner of his desk and stare at him until he hangs up. We don't have any money to speak of anyway.
22. Feel perfectly free to say things like "I don't know nothing about that computer rubbish." We don't mind at all hearing our area of professional expertise referred to as rubbish.
23. When you need to change the toner cartridge in a printer, call IT support. Changing a toner cartridge is an extremely complex task, and Hewlett-Packard recommends that it be performed only by a professional engineer with a Master's Degree in nuclear physics.
24. When you can't find someone in the government directory, call IT support.
25. When you have a lock to pick on an old file cabinet, call IT Support. We love to hack.
26. When something's the matter with your computer, ask your secretary to call the help desk. We enjoy the challenge of having to deal with a third party who doesn't know anything about the problem.
27. When you receive a 30mb (huge) movie file, send it to everyone as a mail attachment. We've got lots of disk space on that mail server.
28. Don't even think of breaking large print jobs down into smaller chunks. Somebody else might get a chance to squeeze a memo into the queue.
29. When an IT person gets on the elevator pushing $600,000 worth of computer equipment on a cart, ask in a very loud voice: "Good grief, you take the elevator to go DOWN one floor?!?" That's another one that cracks us up no end.
30. When you lose your car keys, send an email to the entire company. People out in Podunk like to keep abreast of what's going on.
31. When you bump into an IT person at the grocery store on a Saturday, ask a computer question. We do weekends.
32. When you bring your own personal home PC for repair at the office, leave the documentation at home. We'll find all the settings and drivers somewhere….
Thanks, IT Support
So the hail back in March finally killed my car. Actually the car was fine except for the body damage. The cost to repair the body was more than 70% of the value of my '05 Accord, so the insurance company decided to total it. I had the choice to keep the car minus the 'salvage value' and have my title changed to a 'salvage/hail damage' title or to let the insurance company take the car. I got a very good price for the car so I let them take it.
Gotta say it was a VERY sad day watching that car get towed away. NOTHING WRONG WITH IT! Someone, somewhere, is going to get a VERY good deal at auction so long as they don't care about 'dents'. Miss it already.
Anyway, the title is now being transferred between me and the insurance company so for a couple of days I have no car and no payment. So I CANNOT go get anything until the cash is in my account. Should be good to go around Tuesday-Wednesday.
That's the setup, and here's the funny. The long suffering wife, who's been shuffling me around the last couple of days, has an out of town doctor's appointment that's been scheduled for months. She won't be around and she'll be taking her car. So I called my Dad down to let me borrow his car for a day or two. He agreed, and was due down at my casa tomorrow. Turns out his car engine light just came on. HE'S without a car for a couple of days!
For some reason that made me laugh. Anyway, it'll work out. I'll drive the wife to her folks place and then drive her car back home. She'll use her folk's car for a day or two around Columbus, then I'll drive back up and get her. Not having a car REALLY sucks. Hope the replacement car I end up getting is as dependable as my old Honda. That thing was awesome in the dependability department.
First time I ever heard the term 'Derp' was in a South Park episode. They introduced a new character to replace Chef. Who knew then that a new word would enter the lexicon?
Apparently it's popular enough that even the New York Times knows about it.
BigJim found that the earliest know 'Derp' was still Matt and Trey but it was in 'Basketball'. Great catch!
of 'Axis of Awesome'.
Have definitely felt some of this 'rage' when books become movies/TV shows. This one seems especially apt:
Also check out their '4 Chord song'.
I remember growing up reading Gary Larson's 'The Far Side' and Berkeley Breathed's "Bloom County". Even today when I go back and read these guys work I'm amazed by how damn funny and SMART it was. Where is the funny; where is the smart, today?
I read quite a few web-comics, and while I like them, I really don't think they live up to the funny AND smart standard of Larson or Breathed. XKCD is probably the closest current running comic that comes close. I don't score him quite as highly simply because he only works with stickmen, but the funny and the smart is certainly there.
What am I missing? Point me to your favorites!


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Wessex FM News
Weymouth Beach In UK's Top 10
6:52am 18th March 2014
Travellers using TripAdvisor have voted Weymouth beach as one of the top 10 in the country.
It's moved up from number 9 to number 7 in the rankings of the UK's best beaches.
Dorset actually features three times in the table with Hengistbury Head in 4th place and Sandbanks making 9th place in the table.
Weymouth Beach - Weymouth & Portland Borough Council Tourism and Culture brief holder Cllr Ian Bruce, said, "It is fantastic news that Weymouth Beach has once again been recognised as one of the top beaches in the country.
"The beach is enjoyed all year round by residents and holidaymakers alike and is often regarded as one of the jewels in the borough's crown.
"I would like to thank those who continue to provide rave reviews for the beach and strongly encourage any holidaymakers looking for a great UK destination to come down to Weymouth and Portland and experience all the area has to offer."
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text: I don't get how one minute Cassie's son was told she is dead yet he signed a paper in the last year saying he didn't want any contact from her and then he gets a call from her at work and says again he thought she was dead. Doesn't make sesne to me at all. If he thought she was dead what reason would he have to sign a paper saying he didn't want someone he thought was dead to contact him?!


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Expected Release: 12/28/12
You thought you could take him from me, but you lost. Now, that he's mine I'll do anything to keep him. Do you doubt me? I have everything that was supposed to be yours. In case you were wondering; he doesn't ever think about you anymore. I won't let him go....ever.
Dirty Red
Why are we excited???
Have you read The Opportunist ???? Go right now and read it. So AMAZING!!! Cannot wait for Dirty Red, the 2nd in the Love Me With Lies Series!!!!


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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Plural form of cazique an alternative spelling of cacique.
Sorry, no etymologies found.
He would trust the caziques, for men of rank in whatever country are faithful to their word, and do not pretend friendship when they mean hostility.
The Tabascans, cowed by the dreadful thunder weapons, and by the astounding armed creatures that had fallen upon them, had no wish for further fighting, and the principal caziques soon came in with offerings to propitiate the Spaniards.
The sack continued for some hours, and then Cortez, at the entreaties of some Cholulan caziques who had been spared at the massacre, and of the Mexican ambassadors, consented to call off his troops; and two of the nobles were allowed to go into the town, and to assure the surviving inhabitants that no further harm would be done to them, if they would return to their homes.
As many of the Spaniards had already married the daughters of great caziques, this appeared to her natural; and she had congratulated him upon the prospect of an alliance which would bring him wealth and land, but had said that, for the present, it would not do to think of marriage, as it would be unsafe for him to leave the capital.
Montezuma himself; and as most of them were very rich and powerful caziques, they might offer bribes which might well shake the fidelity of any private soldier.
In the month of May was the great festival of the war god, which was held in his great temple; and the caziques asked permission of
"Some of the Tlascalan princes and caziques gave their daughters as wives to the Spaniards, did they not?"
Soon after the arrangements were completed the caziques arrived, having with them a body of men even larger than they had agreed to bring.
Malinche went out and soon returned, saying that she had spoken to one of the Tezcucan caziques in alliance with the Spaniards.
Cortez here learned that the native sovereign, who was called Montezuma, reigned over an extensive empire, and that thirty vassals, called caziques, obeyed him; that his riches were immense, and his power absolute.


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Tilla Durieux painting (1914) by Pierre Auguste Renoir at Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY.
Photo by Jim Steinhart © 2012, all rights reserved. (Ref: NYMDRN41)
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Has Lil Wayne Been Cloned
This is a legit question that I'm not sure I can answer, but perhaps people who are fans of Lil Wayne can.
Lil Wayne in 1999:
Lil Wayne Now:
Is Lil Wayne a Clone?
I made a video which is connected to my Youtube Channel Illuminati Secrets Revealed where I suggest it's possible that Lil Wayne maybe dead. To find out view the video:
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