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She was all ruby lips, high cheekbones and flowing dark hair. There was a pair of 5-inch heels on her feet and a peacock blue satin sheath on her curvaceous canela-colored body. It looked like she was dressed for a fiesta, but I got the feeling those lovely legs of hers had never seen the insides of a pair of jeans. I could smell her Maja perfume, she was standing so close.
She smiled with a kind of defiant confidence as if to say, ándale [go ahead], stare at me all you want, see if I care. All the while, her large eyes examined mine.
"Buenas tardes, Señora Clementina, that is your name, isn't it? There is something I would like to show you."
Dangling in front of my face was a piece of paper. In large flowery writing was the recipe no panadero in town was willing to part with—pan dulce. A sort of sly conspiratorial grin came over her face.
"I would like you to have it, gratis."
I smiled back, but my middle-aged bones knew this muchacha's motives were far from altruistic.
"¿Quién eres?--Who are you?" I asked.
"Una amiga."
"So you won't tell me your name. Well, a-mi-ga, why are you doing this? Are you in some trouble?"
Almost immediately, her face darkened and the haughty smiling María Felix mask fell off, revealing a shiny-eyed almost tearful wistfulness. But it lasted just for a moment. By a powerful but subtle force of will, the confident cool veneer came back to her face.
"I have my reasons. You can't expect me to tell you everything, que no? There are secrets every woman should keep to herself."
"Ay, si. I know what you mean." I smiled. "We all have our secrets, but I know yours—it's a man. Hasta lo puedo oler—I can even smell him."
"Look," I said as gently as I could. "No me andes con misterios—don't get all mysterious on me, okay? You want me to put this recipe on my blog, right?"
"Sí, quiero que lo mire todo el mundo—I want the whole world to see it."
"Including el panadero you stole it from?"
"Especially el panadero I stole it from. I want to see him suffer when he sees that his precious secret recipe isn't so secret anymore."
"Oooooo, qué castigadora—you're a tough little torta, Señorita." I laughed. Only a panadero of all people would consider this the ultimate act of betrayal.
"Tell you what. Go back and make up with that panadero of yours—ó mándalo a la porra—or tell him to get lost. Forget you even knew him. It's just not worth it."
"I see." Her ruby lips dropped a couple of inches. "Pues ya me voy—I'm leaving now." Then she stopped and looked at me with the furious eyes of a tigresa [tigress]. "You know, Doña Clemen, I thought you were different. I thought you of all people would understand me, but I see you are just like every other vieja celosa—jealous old hag."
And with that she stalked off, her 5-inch heels making tacón-tacón-tacón sounds as she headed to the curb.
"Espera—wait!" I cried after her, but it was too late. I ran up just in time to see her shiny black '59 Chevy Impala roaring past me. Its back lights grew ever smaller as I stood silently watching them before they disappeared onto Whittier Boulevard.
And that was the last I saw of her.
Who was that mujer misteriosa who walked out of the shadows that evening? I cannot say. All I know was that she was beautiful, her voice was as sultry as a hot city street after sunst—and she was out for the sweetest recipe of them all—revenge. Whoever that hombre is, whatever he did to wrong the heart of a woman like that, I have only one thing to say to you, Señor Panadero. You had it coming.
(As much as I wish there was a mystery woman standing by my gate with a secret recipe, this story is pure fiction.)
4 cups bread flour (or, all-purpose flour if you prefer a denser pan dulce)
2 ½ teaspoons dry active yeast
½ cup warm water
1 cup warm milk
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg, room temperature
1/3 cup butter, melted
½ - 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
For Chocolate and Vanilla-Cinnamon Toppings:
2/3 cup sugar
¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ cup butter, softened
1 cup all purpose flour
1 tablespoon powdered cocoa
In a medium bowl, stir together yeast and warm water. Add milk, ½ cup sugar, 1/3 cup melted butter, salt and eggs and mix well.
Knead the dough for 7 or 8 minutes until it is smooth and elastic. The dough should be moist and "bouncy". Do not add too much extra flour.
Place the dough in a large greased bowl. Turn the dough to coat, then cover with a loose towel. Place the dough in a warm place (the top of a warm oven or dryer is ideal) and wait until it rises and doubles in size, about 1 hour.
Make the chocolate and vanilla-cinnamon topping: In a medium bowl, beat 2/3 cup sugar, cinnamon and ½ cup butter until fluffy. Stir in the flour and mix until it resembles a thick paste. Take half of it and set it aside. Take the other half and mix it with the powdered cocoa until well blended. Wrap the toppings in plastic and put them in the refrigerator to firm up.
Remove dough from the oven. Cut and shape the dough into 12 - 24 balls, depending on the size you want. Line a cookie sheet with lightly greased parchment paper. Place balls on the cookie sheet and gently flatten each ball with the palm of your hand. Space balls 2 ½ - 3 inches apart.
Preheat oven to 370° F. Let the balls rise for another 30 to 40 minutes. Bake for about 20 minutes or until golden brown. When they have cooled off, you can give them a light dusting of granulated sugar (optional).


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Cuomo Goes After Student Lending Criteria, Is So Not Bored Of This Investigation Yet
What criteria do student loan companies use when determining which students to give loans to and how much to give? Don't know? Neither does New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, but we're pretty sure he's going to find out. From the NYT:
"What criteria are they using in the underwriting of these loans?" Mr. Cuomo asked. "Parental income? Student income? Student creditworthiness? How about the school you attend? How is that weighted?"
While lenders have the right to consider a borrower's credit record, he said, "there are also civil rights and legal ramifications to what criteria they use, and that's what we're looking at."
He suggested that students at historically black institutions were sometimes charged higher interest rates and fees than other students.
Go get 'em, Andy! —MEGHANN MARCO
Cuomo Plans to Broaden Student-Lending Inquiry [NYT]
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Official Installation Guide (Polski)
zh-CN:Installation Guide zh-TW:Installation Guide In Install media 2012.07.15, AIF (the Arch Installation Framework) is no longer included but instead Arch Install Scripts are provided to aid in the installation process. This article summarizes the install process using these scripts. See the Beginners' Guide instead for a walkthrough aimed at new users.
Download the new Arch Linux ISO from the Arch Linux download page.
- Instead of six different images we only provide a single one which can be booted into an i686 and x86_64 live system to install Arch Linux over the network. Media containing the [core] repository are no longer provided.
- Install images are signed and it is highly recommend to verify their signature before use. On Arch Linux, this can be done by using
pacman-key -v <iso-file>.sig
- The image can be burned to a CD, mounted as an ISO file, or directly written to a USB stick using a utility like
dd. It is intended for new installations only; an existing Arch Linux system can always be updated with
pacman -Syu.
Keyboard layout
For many countries and keyboard types appropriate keymaps are available already, and a command like
loadkeys uk might do what you want. More available keymap files can be found in
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/ (you can omit the keymap path and file extension when using loadkeys).
Partition disks
See partitioning for details.
Remember to create any stacked block devices like LVM, LUKS, or RAID.
Format partitions
See here for details.
If you are using (U)EFI you will most probably need another partition to host the UEFI System partition. Read this article.
Mount the partitions
We now must mount the root partition on
/mnt. You should also create directories for and mount any other partitions (
/mnt/home, ...) if you want them to be detected by
Connect to the internet
Assuming a wired connection, running
dhclient or
dhcpcd is sufficient to get a lease. For more info visit configuring network.
If on a wireless connection, see Wireless Setup and Netcfg for details on establishing a connection to your access point.
Install the base system
Before installing, you may want to edit
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist such that your preferred mirror is first. This copy of the mirrorlist will be installed on your new system by
pacstrap as well, so it's worth getting it right.
Using the pacstrap script we install the base system. The base-devel package group should also be installed if you plan on compiling software from the AUR or using ABS.
# pacstrap /mnt base base-devel
Other packages can be installed by appending their names to the above command (space seperated), including the bootloader if you want.
Install a bootloader
- For BIOS:
# pacstrap /mnt grub-bios
- For EFI (in rare cases you will need
# pacstrap /mnt grub-efi-x86_64
- Install GRUB after chrooting (refer to Configure system section).
# pacstrap /mnt syslinux
Configure system
Generate an fstab with the following command (if you prefer to use UUIDs or labels, add the
-U or
-L option, respectively):
# genfstab -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
Next we chroot into our newly installed system:
# arch-chroot /mnt
- Write your hostname to
- Symlink
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Zone/SubZone. Replace
Subzoneto your liking. For example:
# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Athens /etc/localtime
- Set locale preferences in
- Uncomment the selected locale in
/etc/locale.genand generate it with
- Configure
/etc/mkinitcpio.confas needed (see mkinitcpio) and create an initial RAM disk with:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
- Configure the bootloader: refer back to the appropriate article from the bootloader installation section.
- Set a root password with
Unmount leftovers
If you are still in the chroot environment type
exit or press Template:Keypress in order to exit.
Earlier we mounted the partitions under
/mnt. In this step we will unmount them:
# umount /mnt/{boot,home,}
Finally reboot and configure your system as explained in Beginners' Guide/Post-Installation.


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Texas on the Potomac regularly shares with you the work of some of Hearst Newspapers' best columnists. Today, we are pleased to share with you this commentary by San Antonio Express-News columnist Jonathan Gurwitz.
So the election isn't quite over. Before Wednesday night's presidential debate in Denver, the conventional wisdom was that public opinion polls showed an electoral map with an Obama victory written in stone. But the polls, in addition to being imperfect, are also impermanent.
Polls are numerical snapshots. Elections are moving pictures with plot lines written by human agents. Here's what Mitt Romney needs to do to author a Republican victory on Nov. 6.
First, Romney must make President Obama own his economic record, something that the president's team seems embarrassingly willing to do. Last week in North Carolina, Vice President Joe Biden wailed about "the middle class that has been buried the last four years." Who exactly does he think has been shoveling dirt on them?
David Axelrod, President Obama's senior campaign strategist, made the same point a few months ago on Fox News Sunday. "The choice in this election is between an economy that produces a growing middle class … and an economy that continues down the road we're on." Which president does he think is at the wheel?
Here are the facts. The Obama administration presided over the longest period of unemployment above 8 percent since the Great Depression. An Associated Press analysis of 10 U.S. recessions since World War II and the recoveries that followed them found that "by just about any measure, the one that began in June 2009 is the weakest." Median incomes have fallen 7.3 percent since President Obama took office, or $4,000 per family. Under his watch, Standard & Poor's for the first time downgraded U.S. government debt.
The recession ended more than three years ago. This is an economy that President Obama built. Nobody else made that happen.
Second, Romney must make the election a referendum on the size and scope of government. Rather than being a one-time "boost" to the economy, the president's $787 billion so-called stimulus set a new baseline for federal spending that has created four consecutive years of trillion-dollar-plus deficits.
FactCheck.org notes that as a percentage of GDP, federal spending under President Obama "reached the highest level since World War II in fiscal 2009, and has declined only slightly since." Federal debt held by the public is also at post-war highs. And all this is before the most expensive aspects of Obamacare take effect.
The solution proposed by the Obama economic team is —seriously — more of the same: more government, more spending, more debt, more quantitative easing and more cheap money, in addition to more taxes. In 2010, the president's own debt commission warned, "Our nation is on an unsustainable fiscal path." After two more years of Obamanomics, trickle-down government still doesn't work.
Third, Romney must offer a positive vision for the future. The most damning aspect of the "47 percent" video is not that his argument about who pays taxes and who receives government benefits was wrong or that he seemed so willing to dismiss such a large portion of the electorate. It is, instead, that his endorsement of economic determinism betrayed an obliviousness to the conservative goal of empowering individuals.
Can anyone imagine Ronald Reagan telling any gathering under any circumstances anything even remotely close to what Romney said? Of course not. Reagan would have talked about the desire of all people to be in control of their lives, to support themselves and their families and to determine their own destinies rather than being dependent on the beneficence of the state. And rather than writing people off, he would have laid out a framework for economic empowerment that appeals across all social, ethnic and racial boundaries. Romney should do the same.
Time is short. The sliver of the electorate that is undecided or swayable is growing smaller. President Obama is unlikely to perform as miserably at the remaining two debates as he did Wednesday night. But Romney finally has some momentum. The question now, with one month to go until the election, is whether he can sustain it.


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When Congress returns from its spring break the week after next, it will dive back into the debate over federal entitlement spending – most of which pays for benefits for retirees. House Republicans and Senate Democrats have already unveiled their largely incompatible budget outlines, so Washington will be watching President Barack Obama's budget, due to be released April 10, for any proposals that could represent a middle ground. And this week, several news outlets are reporting that the president's budget will offer spending restraints on Medicare and Social Security that go beyond what most congressional Democrats currently support.
One idea that the president has reportedly floated with Republican leaders: Changing the structure of Medicare in a way that would increase many retirees' out of pocket costs. Currently, deductibles for Medicare Part A, which covers hospital care, are much higher than those for Part B, which covers doctor and outpatient visits. (For this year, the Part A deductible is just under $1,200; for Part B, it's $147.) Some critics have argued that this disparity, and the low Part B deductible in particular, drives up the program's overall costs by encouraging unneeded treatment. And Jackie Calmes and Robert Pear of the New York Times report this week that Obama recently told GOP leaders he'd be open to restructuring Parts A and B in a way that could create a single, higher deductible.
Analysts see this proposal as significant because some key Republican leaders, including House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, have previously backed it (although it's far less sweeping than the restructuring outlined in the current House budget proposal). Health-care economists say that an approach that combined Parts A and B would raise costs for any Medicare recipient who isn't hospitalized in a given year; to partially offset that increase, Obama reportedly is seeking changes that would cap retirees' out-of-pocket costs in any given year, reducing or eliminating the need to buy so-called Medigap insurance.
Separately, the Wall Street Journal's Damian Palletta reports that Obama's budget will likely back the use of a "chained" consumer price index in calculating future Social Security benefits. Backers of a chained CPI argue that the government's current inflation measures overstate the impact of price increases; its opponents argue that the current measures already fail to keep up with real changes in retired people's costs of living, including health-care costs.
Should they indeed materialize in his budget, neither of Obama's proposals will be new: He floated the Medicare reform in budget talks in 2011, and backed the chained CPI in negotiations last year. The bigger potential stumbling block, of course, is that the president has repeatedly argued that any entitlement cuts should be paired with additional tax increases, something Republicans have largely ruled out.


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CIOs address the impact the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act had on state IT.
It's been nearly three years since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was signed into law. Even before it received the president's signature, ARRA ignited controversy. Some said ARRA was an overwrought federal invasion of the private sector while others argued that the act wouldn't do nearly enough. Everyone seemed to have a different idea of what ARRA was going to do and what it has actually done. To find out what impact ARRA had on state IT, Government Technology asked Maryland CIO Elliot Schlanger, Illinois CIO Sean Vinck, Massachusetts CIO John Letchford and Massachusetts Recovery & Reinvestment Office Director Jeffrey Simon to talk about what they thought ARRA did — or didn't do.
What is your assessment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act? Did it achieve what it was intended to?
SV: ARRA provided much needed fiscal stimulus to the American economy at a time of great instability. Without the investments in infrastructure, education, economic development and health care that ARRA provided, the economic crisis of the last several years would have been worse in the United States. Like all ambitious projects, we will no doubt find ways that we could have done some things better. On the other hand, the government adopted new standards of transparency and accountability that were historically unprecedented. That is a great step.
ES: No doubt the ARRA was an urgent and expedient bipartisan response to an economic crisis that a new president was challenged with upon entering office. In simple terms, the act was designed to achieve three rather simple goals: create and/or retain jobs; spur economic activity and invest in long-term growth; and demonstrate the highest levels of accountability and transparency while executing the act. Are we achieving the goals? While not perfect, every state can show much progress against each goal. I suppose, another question that could be asked is this: If the ARRA was not enacted, what might be our economic condition today?
JS: In Massachusetts, just over 91,000 people have received an ARRA-funded paycheck since the program began. The state's unemployment rate tracked the national rate from about 2003 to its dramatic climb in 2008-2009. While the national rate continued to climb sharply throughout 2009, Massachusetts' rate peaked in October 2009 at 8.8 percent. The rate then began to steadily decline and is now at 7.3 percent. The ARRA program has been an important part of this decline and of Gov. [Deval] Patrick's recovery plan. The program had two main goals: First, to stabilize the economy and help the people who were struggling to cope with the most serious downturn since the Great Depression and second, to stimulate economic activity that would employ people on worthwhile programs and projects. In Massachusetts, both of these objectives had very positive effects.
Has your agency seen any direct benefits? If so, what were they?
JL: While the commonwealth's Information Technology Division did not directly benefit from ARRA funding, I can highlight two positive outcomes for our agency, thanks to ARRA. One is that this program required an evolutionary increase in transparency for residents, which enabled us to implement appropriate technologies to meet that and similar needs. The second is that ARRA's focus on health IT has increased the level of support for something that is very high up on our agency's — and the governor's — list of priorities, which is great.
ES: Specifically concerning the state of Maryland Department of Information Technology, under the leadership of Gov. [Martin] O'Malley, a team of federal, state and local elected officials, and voluminous support from a plethora of vested parties, the state secured a major grant under the ARRA Broadband Technology Opportunities Program. The $115 million grant, supplemented by a $43 million match from the state and local jurisdictions, is allowing the construction of approximately 1,300 miles of fiber-optic cabling that will span all Maryland's 23 counties and Baltimore City, covering 9,800 square miles inclusive of urban, suburban and rural communities. More than 1,000 community anchors will be directly connected including schools, police and emergency centers, government and community support centers, libraries, community colleges and universities. The ARRA-supported project fosters economic development, improves public safety interoperability and interconnects local and state government networks. Also, to support commercial provider "last mile" build-out to homes and businesses, the network passes near approximately 2.2 million households, 5.6 million residents and 96,000 businesses. Finally, the project itself will create more than 800 jobs.
SV: The state of Illinois benefited enormously in transportation, economic development, health care and education. Implementing ARRA required many agencies to upgrade their reporting and accountability systems. One benefit was some improvement to technology in some agencies.
What do you think ARRA's shortcomings are?
ES: The ARRA was like a shot of adrenalin intended to stimulate a rapidly weakening economy at the time. The ARRA was never envisioned to be a long-term cure. Therefore, much of the funding was disbursed into defined projects, with a specific scope to be executed within a specific time period. That said, the act does not provide for the wherewithal to sustain our creations over the long haul. I suppose that the bet was that the economic recovery would have been further along at this time. The reality is that we might have created fiscal obligations resulting from our ARRA projects that will be a challenge to maintain.
SV: ARRA could have done more to encourage and empower state governments to improve their operational infrastructure, including technology. ARRA funds were distributed through existing structures without a real analysis of how efficient those mechanisms were. The federal and state governments should invest in creating structures for program management that are more uniform, technologically advanced and more reflective of best practices to ensure that future stimulus dollars are spent in the most economically efficacious manner.
JS: There is not enough vertical construction. Vertical construction employs many different trades and involves everyone from architects and engineers to steelworkers and laborers. I would have liked to see more investment in areas like infrastructure and municipal facilities.
What were its strengths?
JS: Every agency in Massachusetts knows that stimulus is a top priority of Gov. Patrick. They also know that the money has time limits. This forced our departments and agencies to be very creative and efficient in the execution of ARRA programs and projects. If we continued to do business the "way it has always been done," we never would have met the time constraints. Many important lessons were learned in this process, and these are lessons that we are in the process of applying to all of state government even as the ARRA program winds down. In the areas of transparency, civic engagement and efficiency, tremendous gains in particular have been made in the ARRA program. The experience of designing metrics that are used to compare dissimilar government programs and of designing the technology to allow the collection and analysis of that information to be done with literally millions of bits of information will have long-lasting positive effects.
What would you have done differently if you were disbursing stimulus funds?
SV: I would have required all governments and entities receiving or distributing ARRA funds to be able to account for those funds in accordance with generally accepted accounting practices through an enterprise resource planning system or the equivalent thereof. Further, I would have tried to get consensus judgment from top economists on how to evaluate the stimulative effect of different investments. There should have been an estimate of the multiplier of effect of given investments, and subsequent accountability measures to determine whether the projected economic activity occurred.
JS: I would have given governors much more discretion to direct funds in the areas that were priorities of each state. The expenditure of funds was fairly narrowly proscribed by Congress with only a portion of the State Fiscal Stabilization fund able to be applied to any legitimate government function. What is a priority for Nebraska may not be a priority for Massachusetts, which would be different again from New York and Nevada. I'd put more faith in our governors.
In your state, do you think ARRA funds were spent correctly or do you think they could have been better used elsewhere?
ES: In the state of Maryland, ARRA opportunities were distributed between numerous agencies, programs and disciplines including education, public safety, health and human services, transportation, environment, housing, technology and others. Tens of thousands of Maryland jobs will be created or have been saved, while millions of citizens have or will have received some direct or indirect benefit from programs or projects spawned by the ARRA. Was the act the only and most perfect tool in the shed for fixing the most severe economic crisis experienced in decades? Obviously it was not perfect and not the only, but definitely necessary and darn good.
SV: We are comfortable that our state did a good job of managing our ARRA funds in the best achievable way, in accordance with the law.
Some ARRA opponents contend that the funds should have been given to individuals and families rather than agencies and companies. What do you think?
SV: I think that this criticism is nonsensical. ARRA funds did go to families and individuals, directly and indirectly. For example, ARRA enhanced energy assistance funds, the beneficiaries of which are homeowners — individuals and families. ARRA provided for tax incentives many beneficiaries of which were individuals and families. The fact that agencies in the public and private sphere were employed as means to distribute the funds does not mean that the benefit did not flow directly to individuals and families.
ES: I would point out that ARRA funds were distributed under the general categories of tax benefits, entitlements, and contracts, grants and loans. So, in essence, a considerable portion of the funding directly benefited individuals and families. As for the funds that were disbursed to agencies and companies, I believe the resulting economic development, or sustainment in many cases, together with the associated job creation and retention, brought corresponding benefits to many individuals and families.
JS: If you divide the amount of ARRA funds that went through state agencies by the number of Massachusetts residents, the result is about $600 per person per year for two years. If you include the funds that went directly to recipients with the funds that went through the state, the number becomes about $850. It is difficult to speculate what would have happened had we distributed those funds to the people of Massachusetts. However, it is not hard to imagine that those funds would have either been spent on consumables or put in the bank. The funds would not have been spent on teachers, police officers, roads, sewage treatment plants, medical research, advanced battery technology or the many other projects and programs that ARRA funded. The choice is to spend the money immediately on consumables and saving, or to prime the economic pump through investment in longer term, worthwhile projects combined with shorter term economic stabilization. I come down on the side of the more future-oriented approach that not only puts people to work today, but also leaves us with a legacy of good works.


text: Chris Brown signed to Jive at 15 and released his debut, which contained hits "Run It" and "Gimme That" and earned Brown two Grammy nominations, a year later. In 2007, he released Exclusive, took on acting projects (Stomp The Yard, The O.C.) and performed with Rihanna at the VMAs. After a year of dating, the power pair were embroiled in a domestic violence drama that resulted in Brown being charged with two felonies. He waited almost 5 months to publicly apologize and after he did, there was major backlash including from retailers who he accused of "blackballing" his other CDs. But it might be Chris who will get the last laugh as he wowed with performances at the 2012 Grammys, took home the award for best R&B album and for a while was taken back by RiRi.


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Fog 519
This fine art photograph was hand selected by the PurePhoto curation team for placement in private collections and interiors by the world's leading art & design professionals.
Lev Gorn digitally transfigures layers of overlapping photographic images and scans of every-day objects, manipulating identifiable points of reference with color, form and context.
His intention is to shift the focus from a subject's likeness to its fundamental substance by penetrating directly into the collective subconscious and altering our experience of time and space as we move deeper into each work.
Lev is a fine artist, portrait photographer, filmmaker, and actor. He originated the role of Eton on HBO's "The Wire", and currently plays Arkady on the FX television series "The Americans".


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NEWBERRY, S.C. --- The Lees-McRae softball team fell victim to a big inning in each game of its doubleheader while falling 11-1 and 10-2 to Newberry Saturday afternoon at Smith Road Complex in Newberry, S.C.
The Wolves (2-0) pitching staff struck out 11 batters in the first game before exploding for 12 hits in the second. The Bobcats (0-2) committed three errors in each contest.
In game one, LMC drew first blood when Lori Fulmer (Prosperity, S.C.) reached on an error and advanced to third following two wild illegal pitches. Fulmer would score on a wild pitch when Sadie Lagle (Harmony, N.C.) drew a walk.
Newberry wasted no time when it responded with a seven-spot in the bottom of the opening frame. The first two runners reached via a single and hit by pitch before Gabby Bedard grounded out to short while Ashlyn Ayres scored the equalizer.
Hailey Drawe knocked in a pair of runs to extend the lead to 3-1 before a Madison Tepfanhart double plated another run. The Wolves would strike for three more runs to hold a 7-1 advantage after an inning.
Newberry's Paige Brugh collected a RBI via sacrifice fly in the bottom of third.
Darrian Jamison delivered a three-run blast in the bottom of the fourth to push the lead to 11-1.
The Bobcat offense was unable to muster a rally and fell in five innings.
Lagle and Kendall Fowler (Buford, Ga.) registered a hit each while Charlie Dutton (0-1) (Monroe, Ga.) took the loss after giving up eight earned runs in three innings of work.
In the second game, Bedard cranked an RBI triple to give the home squad an early 1-0 advantage after an inning.
Newberry plated five runs in the bottom of the third thanks to three homers, including back-to-back shots from Jamison and Drawe.
LMC's Alison Armstrong (Bellingham, Mass.) and Lagle collected a RBI in the fourth and fifth, respectively, to cut the deficit to four, 6-2.
However, another Drawe homer started a four-run fifth for the Wolves while they claimed a 10-2 victory.
Freshman Celeste Sheppard (0-1) (East Julian, N.C.) earned the loss after allowing six runs in three innings of work.
Stallings and Fulmer paced the team offensively with a pair of hits apiece.
LMC returns to action Sunday afternoon when it travels to face Anderson (S.C.) in a doubleheader starting at 1 p.m.


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Sarcastic wrote:Season will start on time. FTW.
Sarcastic wrote:Season will start on time. FTW.
Eismann wrote:I voted no hockey this season. Honestly, it's not even on my radar at this point. Apathy like this is the league's real fan enemy.
no name wrote:It might go longer than a year. Fehr is really hard headed and make no bones about it, he has full control over these negotiations. He doesn't care if the players sit, he just cares about winning the negotiations in a egotistical kind of way.
Noise wrote:Unless the owners are willing to give something up I don't see when it's going to end.
The players are willing to give up money, but the owners want them to give up more.
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21 Christina Guerland
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Guerland, the 2007 team captain, has started every game (144) since she arrived in New Haven and has earned honorable mention All-Ivy recognition in each of the last two years. As a junior, she was second on the team in batting average (.293), third in runs scored (26) and fourth in hits (41). She also belted a career-high two home runs. In 14 Ivy League games, she batted .333 (12-for-36) and scored a team-best 10 runs, and in Yale's last eight games, she batted .524 (11-for-21). In a 9-5 victory over Providence, she was 2-for-3 with a home run, three runs scored and three RBI. She had three-hit games against St. John's and Fairleigh Dickinson. At the team's post-season banquet, she was named Yale's Most Improved Player. As a sophomore she led the team in at bats (137) and was second in hits (35) and runs scored (19). In a doubleheader with Manhattan, she went 4-for-6 with an RBI and a run scored. Her first career home run came against Robert Morris. Guerland enjoyed a strong rookie season for the Bulldogs as well. She was one of only two players to start all 52 games and finished third on the team in runs (23) and fourth in hits (39). In Yale's doubleheader sweep of Manhattan, she went 5-for-8 with three runs. In all, she had seven multi-hit games. At Bear River High School Guerland captained both the softball and basketball squads. She played shortstop all four years and was named first team all-league as a junior and a senior, and was also named team MVP. She was recognized as the best female athlete in her high school in 2003 and received the Anthony J. Puglia All-City Award for the best Division 3 softball player. At Yale, Christina majors in political science and resides in Pierson College. She is the daughter of David and Nancy Guerland.
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A Kiwi with an obsession for the Devil's number is selling his satanic number plate. The price? $66,666 obviously.
But it doesn't stop there.
Wellington's David Blackmore has been amassing things sporting the numbers "666" for 30 years, is now selling the whole collection.
A phone number, website name and a PO Box number, all featuring the number of the beast, are also up for grabs.
The satanic number plate is sure to raise eyebrows
"I've even looked under the cupboard the stairs, he wasn't under there either," Blackmore quipped.
The multimillionaire property developer is leaving New Zealand for good, in favour of Australia's sunny Gold Coast.
"I'm going to spend the rest of my life sitting back and enjoying it rather than participating in the rat-race any longer – I'll leave that to the rats."
Blackmore says number plates are a waste of space if they don't mean something to someone.
"Numbers are just numbers, in China, triple six is actually a very lucky number, second only to 888 of course."
He said it all started when he couldn't get his favourite race number in a car race he was entering.
"Believe it or not, my favourite number is 13. I was borne on the 13th, and turned 13 years old on Friday the 13th."
"They said 13 was taken 'but that's an unlucky number, the next unlucky number we have is 666', so I took it – and that's how Team Satan racing came to be."
And from there, collecting assets bearing the satanic brand became something of a sport.
He got the number plate 66666 in 1988, when personalised plates first came out, and is now asking $66,000 for it.
That year he brought 1000 personalised number plates for under $300 each – and has been selling them off ever since.
The highest price fetched for a plate was $75,000 for "WW".
He got the phone number 021 666 666 about 20 years ago, off a woman who wanted $10,000 for it: "So naturally I paid $6666for it."
He got the website domain name 666.co.nz about 10 years ago, for less than $100 per year for the registration.
A friend gave him the 666 Auckland postal box address, to complement his collection, about 10 years ago.
"I've also got the original New Zealand number plate 666, from back when number plates were just numerals, this was before the time when number plates had letters on them."
"You can't use it – it's just a bit of tin now, but I'll never part with that. I paid him $666 for it."
And to complete the collection, his email is email@example.com.
Blackmore hopes to get $66,666 for the combo but is open to selling them separately.
The self-professed collector of weird and wonderful things first started in number plates, then moved on to antiques, boats and even taxidermy.
He also has green a purple Lamborghini with the number plate JOKER and the Rolls-Royce had the number plate BROKE on it.
Blackmore admits the inauspicious number did bring him bad luck once, when the Bentley turbo he was racing in the late 90s crashed – causing more than $40,000 damage.
"But it was all about having a bit of fun, were weren't trying to win," he said.
"We were the forerunners of drifting in New Zealand.
"Our objective was to go around as many corners as possible, sideways and in a cloud of smoke."
Needless to say, Blackmore hasn't raced the Bentley since.
666 has become one of the most widely recognised symbols for the Devil in modern popular culture.
It is called the "number of the beast" in the Bible's New Testament, Book of Revelation.
Some people take the Satanic associations of 666 so seriously that they actively avoid things related to 666. This is known as hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.
Aside from religious meanings, the number is also interesting mathematically.
666 is the sum of squares of the first seven prime numbers.
It's also the sum of the first 36 numbers, i.e. 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 34 + 35 + 36 = 666.
And therefore it is the sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel – 0 through 36.
By 1932, the available numbers within this scheme were running out, and an extended scheme was introduced. This scheme consisted of three letters and up to three digits, taken from the series AAA 1 to YYY 999. The letters I, Q, and Z were never used, as they were considered too easy to mistake for other letters or numbers or were reserved for special use, such as the use of I and Z for Irish registrations and Q for temporary imports. (After independence, the Republic of Ireland continued to use this scheme until 1986, and Northern Ireland still uses it.)
T'S happened again – and set a record: Someone paid $745,000 for the numerical NSW plate '29', eclipsing the previous auction record of $689,000 paid for NSW '2' back in 2003.
It also set an Australian auction record for a double-digit number plate, topping the $530,000 paid for the Victorian plate '21' at Shannons Melbourne Winter Auction last July.
Other strong number plate sales were $82,000 paid for NSW '9191' and $35,000 for NSW '85758', taking total sales on the night for the six heritage plates on offer to $956,000.
Classic motorcycles were also hot property, topped by $37,000 paid for an 'as new' 1975 Norton Commando Mk3 850cc with just 29km delivery on its odometer, and a 1950s Austin J40 pedal car sold for $9300.
Other impressive results from the auction included a restored 1964 Porsche 356C Coupe which went for $137,000, a restored 1949 48-215 'FX' Holden which commanded $46,000, a 1962 MGA 1600 sports car fetched $52,000 and a stately and exceptionally low mileage Mercedes-Benz 300B 'Adenauer' limousine first owned by the Victa lawnmower family sold for $50,000.
As well, a superbly-restored 1970 Ford XY Falcon GT sedan sold for $180,000.
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A shortage of vehicle number plates has hit the Kenyan market, causing a backlog in the clearance of cars at Mombasa port.
The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) attributed the shortage that started two weeks ago to increased registration of cars that has outpaced supply of number plates.
"Demand is far much higher than supply. There are just too many vehicles being imported into the country, especially second-hand cars," NTSA director of registration and licensing.
She added that the supply issue will ease after Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, where the number plates are manually made, increases supply.
The law mandates the prisons department to make the plates.
Official data shows that Kenyans bought 15,858 used vehicles in the first quarter of the year, compared to 14,346 units in a similar period of last year, representing a 10.5 per cent growth.
It is mandatory for imported second hand vehicles to be fitted with number plates before leaving the port.
The country imports about 6,000 second hand cars monthly, according to dealers.
Dealers said that the shortage had hit them hard as they were forced to incur storage charges at the port amid cash flow hiccups due to delays as some had taken loans.
"We are incurring heavy storage charges as the cars are detained at the port despite having paid duty and customs clearance cash in advance," said Charles Munyori, the secretary-general of Kenya Auto Bazaar Association, a lobby for second hand car dealers.
The storage charges are based on the volume of vehicles and the number of days they take at the Mombasa port or at container freight stations.
Industry insiders, however, said the number plate problem normally occurs every time a new registration number comes up as importers delay registration to take advantage of the newest numbers.
It should be noted that the date denoted by a registration plate is the date a vehicle was first imported into the United Kingdom and registered with that registration system. For instance a vehicle manufactured in say 1991 and registered in Northern Ireland might have been given a 1993 registration letter when it was registered on the Swansea system. This also applies to vehicles imported from other countries. This is apparent by examining the registration document which will show a date of manufacture different from the date of first registration. The date of manufacture is notional, though, as vehicles may be manufactured and stored unused, for many years in some cases, and then registered as new when first registered into the system. This allows manufacturers to sell cars as new allowing for shipping, storing at dockyards etc.
Recently, Rishi Kapoor bought himself a new set of wheels - a shiny new luxury SUV - and took it out for a spin yesterday. Mumbai Mirror couldn't help but notice the common thing between Kapoor's cars, old and new - the number plate digits of all cars in this Kapoor household total up to '8'.
A source close to the family told the tabloid that the Kapoor trio - Rishi, Neetu and Ranbir - have always considered the number '8' very lucky for the family. When Ranbir purchased his first jeep back in the late 2000s, the number plate was a one digit, '8'. Later, two cars that followed, one a fiery red sports car and another sedan, too featured a single digit plate.
On the other hand, Neetu, whose driven a blue SUV for the last couple of years, also has a number plate that adds up to 8. "It's also because it coincides with Neetu's birthday, July 8, and everyone in the family makes sure that the registration number totals up to it," the source added pointing out that even Ranbir's football jerseys always have the same number.
The Kapoor clan's affinity for numerology comes as no surprise, since it's always been about digits with Bollywood stars. Amitabh Bachchan, whose birthday falls on October 11, considers his lucky number to be 2 and many of his dozen cars feature the single digit on their plate, three of which have been photographed at multiple events.
Similar for Shah Rukh Khan, who has a triple five (555) on all his number plates. Shahid Kapoor also makes sure to flaunt his lucky number 700 on his plates and even added a custom plate to his Harley Davidson, with the three digit figure on it. Saif Ali Khan sticks to the number 7, since his birthday falls on August 16 and Sanjay Dutt always has a 4545 plate.
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HALIFAX—A Nova Scotia man fighting to have his last name — Grabher — reinstated on a licence plate says police have now forced him to remove an inactive Alberta plate from the front of his car.
Lorne Grabher said he received a call from police Monday after a complaint was lodged against the personalized Alberta licence plate he had on the front of his car.
Nova Scotia requires only one valid plate, at the rear, and drivers in the province often place inactive or novelty plates on the front of their vehicles.
Grabher says police told him he would face a stiff penalty for driving with a fraudulent plate if he did not remove the Alberta plate, which had his last name on it in capitalized letters.
The 69-year-old man said he feels he's being unfairly targeted.
"I've been red-flagged," he said from his Dartmouth home, noting the large number of vehicles in the province that have inactive out-of-province plates on the front.
In 1963, numbers were running out once again, and an attempt was made to create a national scheme to alleviate the problem. The three letter, up to three number system was kept, but a letter suffix was added, which changed every year. In this scheme, numbers were drawn from the range AAA 1A to YYY 999A for the first year, then AAA 1B to YYY 999B for the second year, and so on. Some areas did not adopt the year letter for the first two years, sticking to their own schemes, but in 1965 adding the year letter was made compulsory. As well as yielding many more available numbers, it was a handy way for vehicle buyers to know the age of the vehicle immediately. At first the year letter changed on 1 January every year, but car retailers started to notice that buyers would tend to wait until the New Year for the new letter to be issued, so that they could get a newer" car. This led to major peaks and troughs in sales over the year, and to help flatten this out somewhat the industry lobbied
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On Hiatus Mary Alice Brandon is only six years old. She is happily waiting for her seventh birthday -which will be in a week- she discovers she can see into the future, how will young Alice cope with her power when she thinks of her self as a demon?And when she is sent to the asylum and turned into a vampire, how will she -with her innocence of the vampire world , and her world- survive? {[Angst, romance, humor(mild), death]}
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1. First Vision
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Year? 1907
Her mother had told her to go upstairs and clean her room as soon as she came home from the market with her papa. She obliged, skipping happily up the steps to her room. She passed quickly into her little sister's room and kissed her cheek as she slept soundly in her small bed.
She giggled and ran to her room and shut the door, she grimaced when she saw the mess she had made, she could blame the evil elves, once again, but her mother would not believe her. So she started cleaning up her room, picking up some dresses that she had forgotten where she had last left them. She sighed satisfied when her room was sparkling with cleanliness.
She looked up to the ceiling and then turned to her side, looking at the calendar her mother had bought her, she smiled happily as she saw the date that was upcoming, her birthday, little Mary Alice Brandon would be seven. She giggled again, knowing that her family and friends would celebrate with pastries her mother would make.
Mary Alice got up when her mother called her down for dinner. She went down to the kitchen and washed her hands and her face. Mary Alice skipped to the table, where her mother had already placed the food and crossed her hands on the table, waiting patiently for her parents to sit down and pray for the food god had given them, once again. Today was the day Mary Alice would recite her prayer.
Her mother placed the water in front of little Mary Alice, sat down and waited for her husband. Once her husband sat down they bowed their heads forward and Alice began to pray.
"Dear, god, thank you for this wonderful food that you have given us, and bless my momma for making it, and my papa for buying it. We know many people have little food and I ask you to spare some bread for them too, thank you. Amen." Mary Alice picked up her head waited for her father to take the first bite for her to begin eating also.
When he did she filled her mouth with the baked potatoes her mother had made and blushed deeply as she burped slightly, "Pardon me." She said. Her parents nodded.
She waited; as soon as her father was done eating she would escape up to her room and play with her dollies and get out her jewelry box and watch the ballerina dance inside of it, playing a lullaby.
Her father took the last bite of food and Mary Alice was up, thanked her mother and father once more, and escaped up to her room like every evening.
She got out her favorite porcelain doll, "Lucy" she called her and her wooden golden jewelery box.
Mary Alice accidentally dropped her doll to the floor and the nose of Lucy had chipped off. Mary Alice gasped and called her mother. Her mother came up the steps with a confused face, "Momma, it broke, Lucy broke."
Her mother smiled and picked up the doll and the chipped nose, "I can get you a new one, Mary."
Mary Alice giggled and nodded, "Thank you, mother."
"Now, you are a little girl who needs her rest, goodnight."
Mary Alice crawled to her bed and fell soundly asleep.
In her dreams she was seeing her neighbors fight, scream at each other and Brian, the neighbors son, curled up in he corner of the room, looking at his feuding parents. Mr. Thompson, the male neighbor, got his wife by the throat and smashed her on the wall, little Brian cried out loud. Mrs. Thompson grabbed a vase and smashed it on her husbands head. Mr. Thompson fell to the floor dead. Mrs. Thompson fell to the floor sobbing hysterically, clutching her throat, and screaming in shock.
Mary Alice woke up startled, getting up quickly, and looked outside the window to where her neighbors lived, she saw Mrs.Thompson give a kiss as Mr. Thompson left for work. It was just a dream, she told herself.
She cleaned her face and went down to her mother, her mother smiled as little Mary came into the living room, "Hello, dear." Mary Alice's mother said.
"Hello, mother." Mary Alice sat on her mother's lap and her mother immediately began braiding Mary Alice's hair. Mary Alice debated with herself, whether she should tell her mother about her dream or not, but then she shrugged it off, knowing that that dream could never have any possible meaning.
Later that night, Mary Alice was in her room, when the whole street heard Mrs. Thompson screaming at Mr. Thompson. Mary Alice's heart sank, she remembered her dream, the screams and shouts sounded so much alike from the dream to what was happening at that second. Mary Alice shivered knowing that it might be a coincidence, she couldn't possibly predict the future. She was just a little girl, she was a symbol of innocence -like her mother told her- not evil and satanic.
They heard little Brian scream and cry as his parents continued yelling at each other. A few minutes later and Mr. Thompson fell quiet, Mrs. Thompson continued crying with Brian, her sobs louder and more horrifying than before. It made Mary Alice's skin prickle.
The police got there a few minutes later, Mary Alice ran to her window and saw the doctors pulling Mr. Thompson's body out, Mary Alice gasped and ran down to the porch where her mother and father were gaping out into the murder scene.
The police grabbed Mrs. Thompson and put her in the car, her body was shaking frantically, her eyes wild and vicious, she didn't look too upset, it was like she was happy to have murdered her husband. Little Brain was to be adopted by a more responsible mother and father, as Mary Alice heard, his mother would be in jail for life.
Mary Alice gaped, knowing that everything that had happened was in her dream, she couldn't believe it, she thought of herself as evil now, possessed by some evil demon as they talked about in church. She wasn't innocent any longer, she was a monster in the face of the Earth.
She yelped and ran her way up to her room where she would be locked up for most hours of the day, having her horrible visions, for the rest of her life.
Year? 1920
Mary Alice sat curled up into a ball, her body shivered with the coldness of the dark room. Her pitch black hair covering her face. She knew she was a monster and was different, but she didn't understand why her parent would go to such desperate measures -sending her to an asylum.
Mary Alice groaned again as her monstrous vision came back to haunt her, she tried to ignore them, to prove to herself she was normal, to go back to her mother and father. But she knew it was too late, too late to make up for the eleven years of tormenting her mother, father, and sister.
Mary Alice put her head in her hands and began to cry, she would cry herself to sleep -just like every night- until someone yelled for her and woke her up.
She was about to fall into her sad slumber when she heard a soft chuckled from the doorway. She jerked her head up, terrified.
Her jaw dropped as she saw the man standing in front of her, she had seen him, yes, but never met him. She tried to speak but he lifted her so fast he was a blur and ran with her into the dark forest.
She screamed once and the man told her to be quiet or else he could hear, she had no idea who he was but obliged to the man.
He whispered "I'm sorry."
Mary Alice was confused, what would he be sorry about, but before she could ask her bent down and bit her, Mary Alice screamed once before she felt fire in each inch of her body, and then was lurched into the fiery pits of darkness, she knew she was dead and had gone to hell.
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After the huge success of 1999's American Pie, the kids in the film were instant stars. Over the course of the next few years, their careers and personal lives all had very different trajectories—some were relegated to appearing in the various American Pie sequels while their former costars went on to star in Academy Award-winning films and their own TV shows. Well, after the highs of stardom and the lows of plastic surgery nightmares and crack addiction, they're all sadly back on equal ground. No one was too good to appear in American Reunion, or on the red carpet at the premiere.
Remember the last time Tara Reid brought out the twins on the red carpet?
A very pregnant Alyson Hannigan was definitely the cutest, but if I were her, I'd be wary of the inevitable MILF jokes.
Jennifer Coolidge looks about as comfortable in that strapless, pink lace thing as she looked good. One of the brighter moments was seeing Natasha Lyonne looking healthy and present after seeing her, in person, high as a kite and sickly. Cobie Smulders was one of the more put-together actresses at the premiere.
Mena Suvari's crystal-studded heels could've looked really cool if she hadn't paired them with such a Zsa-Zsa dress. She looks like she writes steamy romance novels.
What's weird is that while Shannon Elizabeth is totally mall right here, there's still this scary, haunted old lady thing going on above her shoulders that's really reminiscent of the grandmother from Flowers in the Attic.
I can only assume that Robert Hayes did this as a joke.


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People who undergo hemodialysis need a way to access their blood so it can be removed from the body to be filtered, and then put back into the body. Health care professionals and kidney disease advocates believe the optimal hemodialysis access is the arteriovenous (AV) fistula. DaVita recently asked patients, "Got Access? How Long?" to find out if the AV fistula would come out on top. It did. Many people are curious as to how long an AV fistula can last — for four DaVita patients, the answer is 35 years.
An AV fistula is surgically created by connecting an artery and vein. When these two vessels are connected, the vein grows larger and is able to handle more blood volume. Usually an AV fistula is made in the arm or leg so it is easily accessible for dialysis treatment. After several weeks or months, the fistula matures making it ready to use for hemodialysis.
In March 2005 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) along with other leaders in the kidney care community launched the Fistula First initiative. This initiative was started to support better health for Medicare patients on dialysis and lower costs for the Medicare program by increasing the number of hemodialysis patients using fistulas as their hemodialysis access.
The AV fistula is considered the "gold standard" access because:
Some people may not be able to have an AV fistula. Many people find out they need dialysis immediately and do not have time for a fistula to be placed and mature. In these cases, a central venous catheter may be placed to begin dialysis. Ideally, the person will then have an AV fistula created and will remove the catheter once the fistula has matured and can be used for hemodialysis.
Some patients may not be able to have an AV fistula because their arteries and veins are not strong enough. In these cases an AV graft may be chosen, as it uses a synthetic tube to connect the patient's artery and vein. This creates an enlarged area for blood to flow through.
In some situations the AV fistula is placed but needs additional procedures to help it mature. Some studies indicate that people with diabetes, elderly patients and women may not be ideal candidates for a fistula. However, more recent studies show this is not the case. Each patient should talk with his or her doctor, and ask for "vessel mapping" to see if they are a candidate for a fistula.
DaVita patients Anthony Logan, Barbara Raymond, John Horath and John Hart each had an AV fistula placed in 1972. And, each one of them is on dialysis now and using their 35-year-old fistula.
Anthony Logan got his fistula in his lower left arm when he was eight-years old. Doctors knew his kidneys would fail due to a congenital kidney disease. Anthony was able to stay off dialysis for about 10 years, but started hemodialysis when he was 18. During those 10 years before dialysis, Anthony's fistula was maturing along with his body and was ready for treatment when his kidneys failed. Anthony says he has a "great vascular system." He has no vascular disease, is not diabetic and his fistula has never clotted.
About three years after starting dialysis, Anthony received a kidney transplant. "When I got the kidney I enjoyed it," states Anthony. He said there were people who asked him why he wanted to keep the fistula, if he had a working kidney. "You never know what could happen down the road," Anthony would answer, adding, "I know what works for me."
A few years ago Anthony had to go back on dialysis and was able to use his same AV fistula. Anthony is meticulous about his fistula. "I keep it clean and I check it," he reports. "I've never had any trouble with it at all."
As far as dialysis, Anthony says, "It doesn't stop me from what I'm doing. It's something I got to do, so I keep on doing it. If that [dialysis] machine wasn't here, I wouldn't be here. If you see one of my tests you won't believe it. I cut grass and work on cars. I am the most going-out person you know."
"I'm trying to help other people. I even go [to the dialysis clinic] on days off and see everyone. I get my inspiration off of people. I like to talk to them. Let people know life isn't as bad as it seems. We all have ups and downs and have pains. As long as you can get up in the morning and thank the Lord you see another day; it's good."
When a 14-year-old Barbara Raymond was diagnosed with kidney disease in 1972, she immediately had her AV fistula placed in her lower left arm. She began dialysis and after a month received a donated kidney from her father who was a perfect match. Barbara stayed on dialysis a couple of months after the transplant until the kidney began functioning fully. Once her new kidney was working, she was able to keep her transplanted kidney for 25 years.
About four years ago she started dialysis again using her same AV fistula that was placed in 1972 and she's still using it today. Barbara found out about the "Got Access? How Long?" contest from her DaVita center's social worker. "It's a good thing," Barbara says about being one of the four to have a fistula for 35 years.
This isn't the first time John Horath has been recognized in print. He was written up in the local newspaper when his DaVita center celebrated John's 35 years on dialysis with a visit from his Congressman. In addition to being on dialysis for 35 years, John has also used his same AV fistula for all that time. According to John his fistula was placed in his lower right arm on March 1, 1972. A few weeks later he started dialyzing 6 to 7 hours per treatment. "That's how long they did it back then. In 1977 I started running 4 hours, and then about a year ago went down to 3.45 hours per treatment. I asked the doc to go to 3.5 hours, but he said we could split the difference."
When he first got his AV fistula, John says, "I felt a buzz and went to the doctor; he said that's what it's supposed to be — but it was weird."
Back in the day, it took time for John to get the right diagnosis. "I got crazy sick. I didn't know what I was doing and went flying around the room I had so much poison in me.One doctor thought I had yellow jaundice but the medicine he gave me made me sicker. Then another doctor said, 'Son, you have kidney disease.'"
John learned he had a bladder deformity causing damage to his kidneys and then kidney failure. Because of the bladder problem, John decided against a kidney transplant, "The only way I could have a kidney transplant was to have a bag for urine on the side and I was afraid I would get it infected working in the field."
There's a saying that hard work never hurt anyone, and actually John thinks that's what helped him. According to John, "I think all the work I did like splitting down trees and strong, hard work, climbing barn roofs, cutting grass, stacking feed, working on elevators — I was raised on a farm...tough and rough — all that helped to build my fistula. It was a lot stronger before. Now I'm in the nursing home. I still do extra exercise with my hands because they get stiff from arthritis. Sometimes during dialysis I exercise clay putty and make the [dialysis] machines go off beeping from moving around so much."
For 23 years and 8 months John's fistula was never touched, and then he had to have it cleaned out twice for clots, and nothing done since.
John wonders, "How many sticks have I had in 35 years?" Then he answers, "Not counting the misses probably about 11,000 times, but at least 12,000 with misses. I even stuck myself for a period of time."
"You know," says John, "the doctor who put in my fistula was in St. Louis, and I never did know his name, but he knew what he was doing."
John Hart from Pittsburgh is a recognized artist in his DaVita center and was featured in an article in the Pittsburgh Courier. "I painted some of the panels on the ceiling at my dialysis center. I would take them home and do six at a time. Now patients can stare at my paintings during dialysis." Colorful paintings of picturesque landscapes, portraits of people and whimsical cartoons have replaced the once plain white ceiling tiles bringing enjoyment to patients, staff and visitors.
John always had a talent for artwork and says it helped him get through his dialysis sessions when his fingers weren't too swollen to draw. John recalls, "I did so much artwork just to keep myself going." When his kidneys failed in 1969, John began peritoneal dialysis (PD) because there wasn't a hemodialysis machine available near his home in New York City's Harlem.
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| For an overview of Mister Handy model in the Fallout series of games, see Mister Handy.
For the combat variant of the robot, see Mister Gutsy.
The Mister Handy is a robot found in the Capital Wasteland in 2277.
The Mister Handy series of robots, named so because of the robot's large number of hands,[1] was first brought to market in 2037 as a general construction and maintenance unit by General Atomics International. Primarily used in the United States and Mexico (where it was the leader in sales after the Mexico City earthquake of 2042), the Mister Handy was a reliable robot. An early bug that caused interference in the operation of the multiple arms was fixed with a hardware update in 2039, with no major problems since then. A key selling feature is the nuclear power unit (a model 238B, licensed from Calpower) and self-maintenance modes. Multiple Mister Handies are capable of keeping themselves in working condition (Self Diagnostics) and are also fully programmed to perform nuclear fuel replacements. Secondary programming handles radiation cleansing after refueling.
Mister Handy robots are service and maintenance robots with spherical chassis, with three optical sensors fitted on top. They can move around using a jet-powered propulsion system, which enables them to hover a few feet above the ground. They have three primary appendages for manual labor, two of which are fitted with a buzz saw and a rudimentary flame thrower. Each unit is equipped with an artificial intelligence system, acting as an interface and operating system. A series of limiters placed on its pathways prevents the units from developing their own independent consciousness, and from performing actions that are not part of its programming.
Gameplay attributesEdit
Although not designed for combat, the Mister Handy robots are rather robust by due to their intended purpose of executing maintenance tasks in potentially hazardous environments, and can pose a threat to lower level player characters. Their buzz saw and flamethrower can prove deadly in close quarters.
Mister HandyEdit
Relatively uncommon, with a few notable named versions such as Andy, Godfrey and Wadsworth. Before the Great War, they served mainly as a household helper and 200 years later they still serve that role.
|Name (Base ID)
|Mister Handy
McClellan Mister HandyEdit
The McClellan Mister Handy can be found in the townhome of the McClellan family in Georgetown. Before the Great War, this particular Mister Handy unit served as the personal assistant for the McClellan family, and will still perform various day-to-day chores for them, such as walking the dog and going grocery shopping if the player chooses to activate him via a nearby terminal.
|Name (Base ID)
|McClellan Mister Handy
Henderson Mister HandyEdit
Mabel Henderson's Mister Handy is one of the inhabitants of Vault 112 and part of the Tranquility Lane virtual reality simulation in 2277. It's a household maintenance robot who cooks, cleans and irons so that Mabel doesn't have to. In Tranquility Lane its safety mode can be disabled, leading it to kill Mabel. It will also attack the player unless it is destroyed or the safety mode is reactivated using the nearby terminal. It is the only Mister Handy in Tranquility Lane.
|Name (Base ID)
|Henderson Mister Handy
Mister MulberryEdit
|The following is based on Fallout 3 cut content and has not been confirmed by canon sources.
Mister Mulberry is a cut Mister Handy which was set to appear in Megaton. He is a non-hostile character, but he only has two generic dialog lines. Mister Mulberry can be found in Fallout 3's game files, with his reference id being 1d770.
|Name (Base ID)
|Mister Mulberry
|End of information based on Fallout 3 cut content.
- The McClellan Mister Handy is important and unique in that it can be controlled by a terminal in the house. Upon using the terminal, there will be five options, each allowing some form of activity with the McClellan Mister Handy:
- "Deactivate Unit" - recalls the Mister Handy to its base.
- "Walk Muffy"- instructs the Mister Handy to walk the McClellan's dog, Muffy. Mister Handy will travel outside, find the dog's body, and then attack you. It will refer to you as the dog when it does this, apparently as a means of reconciling its shattered reality.
- "Pick up Grocery Order" - directs the Mister Handy to the nearby grocery shop. However, it will just stop at the door and come back home (if it isn't destroyed en route by super mutants or other enemies).
- "Read Children Bedtime Poem" - instructs the Mister Handy to go to the children's room and begin reciting a poem. Curiously, despite its rather violent reaction to the dog being dead, it does not seem to care that the children are clearly deceased; after telling the bedtime poem, he continuously repeats "Of course, of course. Don't let me keep you," until you decide to recall him.
- "Home Security Mode" - sets the unit to patrol mode, searching out any enemies.
- A collectible model of the Fallout 3 Mr. Handy can be found in Fallout 4.
Notable Mister HandiesEdit
Notable quotesEdit
- "What is it now, sir?"
- "The Henderson estate is in tip-top shape, young miss. Have a wonderful day!"
- "For Queen and country!"
- "Protect Nuka-Cola personnel at all costs!"
- "I... I think you just made it worse. Should I do this myself?"
- "How may I serve you master/mistress? Not that I really want to..."


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E3 marks the third time we've been able to get behind the wheel of Wheelman in recent weeks, so we won't repeat the details we talked about in our preview from April or our closer look at the gamefrom last month. Instead we wanted to really dig into the nuts and bolts of the combat driving, easily one of the game's strongest points.
Wheelman is an intensely cinematic game, as you'd expect given Vin Diesel's involvement. During the first mission we played, the game built up tension as we waited for a nearby heist to go down. The camera panned across the hood of the car, then lingered on our hero's eyes before flicking to his view of the mirrors as he scanned the nearby city streets. When our "client" burst through the rear door and gunfire erupted from all sides, shattering glass, the game cut to a shot of our hero's foot hitting the gas and tires peeling out before the mission began in earnest. Midway is definitely aiming for a very "Hollywood" experience.
Another interesting spin on the gameplay is the vehicular brutality. The Mortal Kombat team seems to have had a hand in the game's physics, and the developers tell us that they're aiming for car-on-car action to feel a little bit like a fighting game. Hence, tapping the right thumbstick as you drive does an aggressive slam to the right or left. Police creeping up beside you? A flick of the stick will slam your car into theirs, sending sparks flying. It's also handy for quickly dodging obstacles.
Whenever you accomplish something profoundly destructive, the game takes control of the camera to revel in glorious slow-motion decimation. Pre-programmed cameras also highlight individual jumps. Again, the presentation is very Hollywood: You feel like you're driving your way through a blockbuster.
Carrying along the fighting-game theme, you can also build up a special attack meter. In this case, you'll charge up your attack by driving fast, smashing other cars, or executing impressive vehicular stunts. Once you're full up, you can pull off a special stunt. In our earlier preview we talked about one of these moves, the cyclone: You'll whip a 180-degree spin in slow motion, pull out a sidearm, and unload on the car that was on your tail. A well-placed shot will take out the gas tank in a spectacular explosion. Afterwards, you'll continue your spin until your car is once again facing forward.
We also checked out a new move so ridiculous even Hollywood would hesitate to put it on film. "Air Jacking" allows you to switch cars without slowing down. With the engine roaring, you'll climb out the driver's side window, leap onto the roof of another car, slide into the passenger seat and fling the driver out of the car. Not only do you have a new vehicle -- still moving at freeway speeds -- but your old ride becomes a driverless missile. Sweet, glorious devastation!
We briefly explored the map and learned that, aside from the main story missions, there are 105 different events to try your hand at, including races, rampages, dynamic taxi missions, and theft missions where you've got to find and steal a specific vehicle. You can compare your event performance against other players on an online leaderboard. Developers are hinting that downloadable content will be available, but no online multiplayer.
There's no shortage of racing games on the market, but Wheelman's cinematic feel and crazy car combat gives the title a vibe of its own. You'll be able to take the wheel yourself later this year.


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Monday, March 17, 2008
The Craic and the Porter Black
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
You didn't think we'd let the day pass without comment did you?
We've got a busy day ahead of us, the pub(s) await our presence, so let's get right to the point.
Below please be pleased to find a keen and green Barstool Mountain St. Patrick's Day mix for your celebratory enjoyment. We've got Top 100 Drinking Song tunes, more than a little Shane MacGowan(with no apologies), American punks who want to be Shane (slight apologies), traditional pub fare, songs of the Nation, whiskey songs, drinking songs, drinking songs, and more drinking songs. We've even got a couple of shout-outs to our Celtic brothers and sisters in Scotland.
Raise a glass, then, to the non-Irish gentleman who chased the Pagans from the Isle.
This post is dedicated to the memory of Brendan Behan. Raconteur, rebel, author, and consumer of many a fine beverage.
Link to Mp3 follows the track listing.
The Craic and the Porter Black Mix (83:42)
1. Amhran Na Bhfiann (Band of An Garda Siochana)
2. All For Me Grog (Dublin City Ramblers)
3. Streams of Whiskey (The Pogues)
4. Whiskey You're The Devil (The Clancy Brothers)
5. The Humours of Whiskey (Andy M. Stewart)
6. Nancy Whiskey (Irish Rovers)
7. Drink It Up Men (The Dubliners)
8. A Nation Once Again (Paddy Reilly)
9. The Wild Rover (Dropkick Murphys w/Shane)
10. Rocky Road To Dublin (The Young Dubliners)
11. Finnigan's Wake (The Clancy Brothers)
12. Sally MacLannane (The Pogues)
13. The Pub With No Beer (The Dubliners)
14. Scotland The Brave (The Pipes and Drums of the Royal Tank Regiment)
15. The Rare Oul' Times (Flogging Molly)
16. Good Rats (Dropkick Murphys w/Shane)
17. The Real Old Mountain Dew (Patrick Clancy)
18. Carrickfergus (Van Morrison w/The Chieftans)
19. Seven Drunken Nights (The Tossers)
20. Alternative Ulster (Stiff Little Fingers)
21. The Craic and the Porter Black (Dublin City Ramblers)
22. Whiskey In the Jar (The Dubliners)
23. The Leaving of Liverpool (The Clancy Brothers)
24. St. John of Gods (Shane MacGowan and the Popes)
25. The Holy Ground (The Dubliners)
26. The Parting Glass (Liam Clancy)
27. Danny Boy (Shane MacGowan and the Popes)
The Craic and the Porter Black Mix (mp3)
Does anyone actually use the word "blarney" un-ironically? Didn't think so. Have a good day.
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Thanks for another wonderful mix! This'll go great with Guinness..
- March 17, 2008 at 10:20 AM
- Mark P said...
...and a dram of Michael Collins.
- March 17, 2008 at 3:49 PM
- Reverend Frost said...
Slainte !
- March 17, 2008 at 5:04 PM
No one comes even close to the Pogues. Good stuff!
- June 28, 2008 at 6:15 PM
- Mother Peanut said...
repost? please?
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- Mr. Burns said...
Can you upload this again, please?
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Unbuilt San Francisco: The View from Futures Past is one of four simultaneous exhibitions across the Bay Area examining never-realized concepts for our built environment. The exhibition, organized by CHS and SPUR, provides evidence of the complicated civic discourse and powerful forces that led ultimately to the demise, or significant reshaping, of diverse proposed projects.
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Anthea Hartig, Executive Director
California Historical Society
Gabriel Metcalf, Executive Director
In the galleries of the California Historical Society, and abbreviated in this slideshow, we survey three ambitious efforts to reimagine the city of San Francisco and the Bay Area as a metropolitan region—Marincello, Yerba Buena Center, and the Ferry Building and plaza—reaching beyond plans and models to depict the political, social, and economic challenges to each and giving voice to advocates and detractors.
Cydney M. Payton, Co-curator
Conceived in the early 1960s by the developer Thomas Frouge with the financial backing of Gulf Oil Corporation, Marincello was planned as a bedroom community for 30,000 residents in the picturesque interior landscape of the Marin Headlands. Intended to represent "open-space" architecture, built structures were clustered in the landscape with minimal roadway access.
Obstacles to construction began almost immediately following the plan's 1965 approval. Trespassing allegations, organized opposition from environmentalists, a ballooning budget, legal actions, and sale of the lands to the Nature Conservancy in 1972 all led to Marincello's demise. By 1976, the would-be community's entry gates, the only remaining architectural evidence of the failed project, were demolished.
After years of protests, Gulf Oil Corporation sold the Marincello property to the Nature Conservancy for $6.5 million. Here, a broadcaster calls attention to crowds celebrating the sale at the Marincello gates on December 3, 1972. The conservancy later transferred title to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA), thereby safeguarding the land on both sides of the Golden Gate Bridge through its establishment as a national park.
This image by the renowned landscape photographer Mark Klett is a quiet reminder of what was at stake when Thomas Frouge first proposed the Marincello project in the early 1960s. It was made when the Marin Headlands was under the GGNRA's stewardship and was still being discovered by local visitors and tourists. A fitting legacy emerged from resistance to Frouge's idea of erasing the Marin landscape: the unbuilt Marincello's inscription in the history of the headlands' preservation.
Probably no other built site in San Francisco has reflected the daily civics of the city more than the Ferry Building. As a terminus to the central thoroughfare Market Street, it has framed San Francisco's history and heritage since 1898, persevering as a landmark even after the erection of the Bay and Golden Gate Bridges made crossing the bay by ferry less necessary and a double-decker freeway choked off its access to the rest of the city. It had to be reimagined and transformed lest it become obsolete.
This elaborate 1897 drawing of an unbuilt Beaux Arts temple with a peristyle colonnade is an early example of the concept of creating a "front porch" for the city—an idea that appears over and over in the Ferry Building's architectural imaginings. Here we see the architect William Polk's vision of the building as the city's principal gateway. Polk's plan failed to find its political grounding within the community, perhaps laying the groundwork for future unbuilt propositions for the site.
In 1943, the architectural firm of William G. Merchant initiated plans for a World Trade Center at the Ferry Building site. This aerial view—recalling the waterfront's long history of commerce and trade—illustrates Merchant's vision for the complex. Like many unbuilt proposals, we struggle to determine the roots of opposition. What changed to make these projects untenable? Were the visions too expensive, or was there something in the political environment that led to their defeat?
The architects John S. Bolles and Ernest Born proposed their Embarcadero Crescent development of the San Francisco waterfront in the mid-1950s. This aerial view looking north from the Ferry Building (foreground) and culminating at Aquatic Park and Fisherman's Wharf encompasses a tree-lined esplanade and trade, business, cultural, sports, fashion, and convention centers.
The Seattle sculptor Buster Simpson's Embark, an 18-foot-tall monument depicted in this scale model, was intended as a public artwork along the Embarcadero near the Ferry Building. Simpson's idea originated from his discovery of the footings that had supported the columns of the dismantled Embarcadero freeway. The proposed striated stainless-steel work subsequently was defeated by the Board of Supervisors following public debate of its merits.
Buster Simpson's Embark aroused public outcry when it was selected by the San Francisco Art Commission in 1997 and approved two years later. Although some described it as "whimsical," as the San Francisco Chronicle reported, others complained that it was "inelegant, ostentatious and at odds with the feel of the waterfront." This photograph depicts an array of media coverage of the controversy on a wall in Simpson's studio.
The Yerba Buena Center in the South of Market district was envisioned in the 1950s, when the urban renewal tidal wave swept into the city to redevelop so-called blighted areas. We examine this site as a history of unbuilding viewed within the context of resistance and shifting values. Under what terms do we consider preservation important, and how do those standards apply under the flux and strain of economics and demographic change?
In the 1970s, the photographer Ira Nowinski—compelled by a San Francisco Chronicle headline, "Ninety-six Citizens Thrown Out of Hotel"—documented the dismantling of the South of Market neighborhood and the displacement of its working class and elderly citizens, mostly men, who lived in safe, low-rent housing. This image is part of his series No Vacancy: Urban Renewal and the Elderly, published in 1979.
The influential Bay Area landscape architect Lawrence Halprin's vision for Yerba Buena Center incorporated many of his concepts for public spaces, including his theories of open and closed spaces. By addressing intimacy in scale and performative layers of sequencing for the spaces, he created an open area within the site. In his concept, terraces blend architecture and garden—building and landscape—creating a "cacophony of three-dimensional spaces."
Beginning in the 1950s with architectural plans for schools, the San Francisco-born architect and urban planner Mario J. Ciampi conceptualized—and reconceptualized—a rebuilt San Francisco through his architectural practice. Rooted in the International Style, Ciampi's architecture is characterized by bold geometric forms, curves, arches, angles, and color. A visionary materiality distinguishes his Bay Area residences, public spaces, and commercial and public buildings.
In search of a temporary home in the mid-1990s, the San Francisco Ballet engaged the women-owned Simon Martin-Vegue Winkelstein Moris (SMWM) to create an interim space. SMWM designed the San Francisco Ballet Pavilion to "create an atmosphere of celebration and theatricality," including clear and translucent glass and shaped fabric panels. However, with costs escalating and without a commercial partner, the Ballet canceled the project.
In 1995, the Mexican Museum hired the famed Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta to design new quarters at Mission and Third Streets. Legorreta proposed that his bold, six-story terraced structure clad in rough red stone would "represent Mexico at its highest levels of art, culture and human exchange." Despite a ceremonial groundbreaking in 2001, development of the $34-million, 63,000-square-foot facility was abandoned following an unsuccessful and lengthy fifteen-year capital campaign.
In 1994, the Contemporary Jewish Museum hired Daniel Libeskind as the "starchitect" for its new building at the site of the historic Jessie Street Pacific Gas & Electric Power Substation. Libeskind's ambitious 60,000-square-foot structure would have dramatically altered the surrounding architecture through its assertive scale. The building that was ultimately realized is a scaled-back version, smaller in size and more refined in its geometry.


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By Staff Writer | April 18, 2014
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DART Aerospace received a European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for its EC145 skidtubes. The company also recently received FAA approval for its BK117 Heli-Utility-Basket.
With DART skidtubes, the central I-beam web absorbs most of the impact on landing so the tube maintains its integrity. Even with the addition of this central web, the weight is comparable to that of conventional skidtubes. The DART Heli-Utility-Basket is constructed of corrosion-resistant stainless steel, coated with a high-gloss, scratch-resistant white finish and a self-locking handle to keep cargo secure during flight.


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Contact: Kyle Patterson, (970) 586-1363
On Tuesday evening, July 15, 2014, Rocky Mountain National Park staff met with the commercial guided climbing community and interested stakeholders at the American Mountaineering Center in Golden, CO. The park is currently undergoing a review and analysis of contracting practices and policies regarding commercial guided climbing at the park. This summer, an updated commercial services strategy for guided climbing is being developed and this meeting was part of an effort to incorporate stakeholder input.
The meeting helped staff better understand the demand for commercial guided climbing services at the park and find opportunities to meet the needs of visitors and the guided climbing community.
Those who were unable to attend the meeting but would like to provide input for the future of commercial guided climbing services in Rocky Mountain National Park, please use our online public comment form at: https://www.nps.gov/romo/parkmgmt/planning.htm The form will be open for comments until Monday, July 28, 2014 at 11:59 PM MDT.
For further information please contact the park's Information Office at (970) 586-1206.
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