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Cyber attacks: Don't learn the hard way
By Chad Fleming, OD, AOAExcelTM Business & Career Coach
Who carries the burden? Unfortunately, the answer is you.
You know the joy of the start of a vacation, with a whole week ahead of relaxing and enjoying the benefits of hard work. For my practice partner, the road to vacation started with this feeling. But it also included one stop he wishes could have ended differently.
On the road, he and his family decided on a restaurant that served traditional Chicago-style pizza. Turning to technology, he found the location on his phone's GPS and listened to Siri direct him. As they arrived, he went through his mental checklist: where should he park, should he drop the kids off at the door or make them walk, and should he be concerned about the safety of all the family's stuff in the vehicle?
As he was turning the SUV off, he had one final, all-important decision to make: should he leave his iPad in the vehicle or take it with him? He decided to take it with him. There was way too much important information on it to risk a smash-and-grab theft.
The restaurant was great. The pizza was hot. The toppings were fresh, and the diet drinks seemed colder and more refreshing than normal. My partner paid the bill, and the family made their way out of the restaurant.
During the walk, the joy of seeing his family so happy turned to panic. He turned to his wife with that look you never want to see on your spouse's face. "What's wrong?" the family asked. He explained that he had taken his iPad into the restaurant to keep it safe and secure. Unfortunately, he was on the sidewalk two blocks away--and the iPad was still at the restaurant. He turned 180 degrees and sprinted back.
A stomach-churning lesson--and counter measures
At the restaurant there was no evidence of the iPad. No employee could attest to knowing anything about it. After talking to the manager and exchanging information, he left with his head down and his stomach churning with disgust. Shortly after this, he called me on the phone and asked what we should do as this was also the iPad he used for all patient care.
Fortunately, I told him, we remotely access a terminal server. This means all data he viewed on the iPad at the office was only a screen; no data was actually transferred. Even better, the "find my iPhone" feature would allow us to disable the device remotely, and we could disconnect all shared files through Dropbox and Evernote. Although still discouraged that his iPad was stolen, he was relieved that he did not have to carry the burden of breached security and patient data exposure.
So who carries the burden and liability of losing an iPad, computer or other device with patient data? Or who is responsible after a cyber attack?
Unfortunately, the answer is you.
Many ODs assume that because patient data is housed on a server or in the cloud, there is no footprint on the computer. This is not necessarily true. All optometrists who use computers in the practice and off-site for patient care are liable for cyber attacks. In addition, there are rules about how to encrypt the data on these devices.
The only way to protect yourself is to stop using computers and the Internet or purchase cyber liability insurance. Since the former is highly unlikely and not very practical, the latter is your best bet for protection.


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COLLEGE STATION, Texas A team of entrepreneurs at Texas A&M University's Startup Aggieland were given some major cash to help finance their latest idea.
The three-man team goes by the name of Gazoo, and they said their idea is going to change an industry.
"We are a disruptive cloud technology that is going to change the way people buy and sell software," said Chris McDonald with Gazoo.
The team said because of pending patents, they can't disclose what that disruptive cloud technology is all about just yet, but it should be ready for release by the end of summer 2014.
After the team was accepted into the program, they entered into a Startup Aggieland pitch contest, and had about one minute to pitch their idea to a panel of judges. The team didn't win, but they did catch the attention of DJ Monteilh and Bryan Bulte with Seed Sumo, a seed accelerator company in Bryan that gives money and intensive training to startups like Gazoo.
Seed Sumo usually invests around $20K to 50K to seed new business ideas, but in Gazoo's case, the company funded $500,000.
"This was absolutely worth putting in the extra money," said Monteilh.
The Gazoo team said they wouldn't be where they are now without Startup Aggieland.
Startup Aggieland is a university and donor based incubator, accelerator for students at Texas A&M University. The program accepts around 30 students per semester with ideas ranging from coffee shops to encryption platforms. The program offers them office space, seed funding, access to attorneys and just about everything else they'll need to give their idea wings to fly.
"We're looking for students who have good ideas, who are willing to work hard and have discipline," said Don Lewis with Startup Aggieland. "And who are really wanting to make something of their idea."
Lewis said he hopes the program will help keep a valuable commodity in town.
"Most of my life has been spent here in Bryan, College Station," said Lewis. "So I have a real affinity for making sure we don't export our greatest resource, which is often times, our students,"
For more information on Startup Aggieland or Seed Sumo, click on the links added to this story.

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You have waited long enough. So let's get it over with right now: the new Corvette is a truly stout automobile. It is all that the fevered acolytes so desperately wanted their fiberglass fossil to be — a true-born, world-class sports car loaded with technical sophistication.
Lest such a claim be dismissed as more hyperbolic reverie about the blowzy old doyenne of the boulevards, consider the following:
Item: The roadholding on this new machine is so advanced that we recorded the highest skidpad lateral acceleration — 0.90 g — ever observed with a conventional automobile by this staff. That figure practically trivializes the previous high-water marks, in the 0.82-g range, generated by such exotics as the Porsche 928 and assorted Ferraris.
Item: It is hands-down the fastest American automobile, capable of 140-mph top speeds, 0-to-60 times under seven seconds, and 15.2-second quarter-mile forays at 90 mph. In fact, these figures qualify the Corvette as one of the half-dozen fastest production automobiles in the entire world!
Item: Its braking, thanks to an advanced Girlock four-wheel-disc system, makes the car stop as if it had been dropped into a sand bank. Our 70-to-0-mph brake test produced a stop in a mere 173 feet — seven feet shorter than the best 1982 distance of 180 feet, recorded by a Porsche 928, and not far off the all-time record of 165 feet, set by a Porsche 930 Turbo!
"I'll take all comers. You bring what you want," is the way Fred Schaafsma puts it, and he ought to know. He is part of the tiny cadre of Chevrolet engineers who, while huddled in a temporary patchwork of trailer offices at GM's proving grounds in Milford, Michigan, brought the new car into being. A native of the Netherlands, Schaafsma (real first name: Freerk) is fiercely loyal to the car he helped develop and is proud of its unique combination of qualities: its traditionally lusty big-inch V-8, its fully independent, forged-aluminum suspension with plastic leaf springs, its optional four-speed manual transmission with automatic overdrive in the top three gears, its plastic-over-steel-frame construction. "I was born and raised in Europe, and I know that a car doesn't necessarily have to be like a European machine in order to be good," he says. He and his cohorts openly admit, however, that the Porsche 928 was the "data point" on which a great deal of the Corvette development centered. "When we compared our car against the Porsche, I can tell you there were a lot of good feelings at Chevrolet."
For those who expected the 1984 Corvette (yes, '84 — it will be marketed as such for eighteen months) to be a cross between a Lamborghini Countach and an F-16, there will be disappointment. The shape is clean and forthright, devoid of the phallic silliness that distinguished its predecessor during its protracted career. It comes in a single body style, that of a classic two-seat sports car with a removable, one-piece roof panel and a hatchback. It is 8.5 inches shorter overall than the old car, and its wheelbase, at 96 inches, is two inches shorter. But the new car is beamier by an equivalent amount, which translates into additional interior space, including 6.5 inches extra shoulder room.
A first encounter tends to leave one faintly unfulfilled, as if the long-awaited confrontation should have been more dramatic. But that notion fades as the honesty of the effort becomes evident. This is a dead-serious sports car. It defers to the bizarre only with its video-game instrument panel, which features all manner of multicolored, liquid-crystal bar graphs and digital displays in metric and English. "We were having a little fun with the instrument panel," admits Dave McLellan, the widely respected chief engineer on the Corvette project. "There are a lot of things about the car that go beyond basic needs, and in this sense the Corvette competes with things like fast powerboats and ultralight airplanes. Like them, the Corvette goes beyond serious transportation. This is a sports car, and we wanted it for one simple mission — to go fast."
That it does. Tucked into the optional, high-bolstered sport seat with its power backrest, lumbar, and bolster adjustments (the power activation is as light as and even simpler than a manual counterpart), one is poised for a ride on the outer limits of earth-based travel. Both visibility and control ergonomics are improved, and if one was pressed for a complaint, it would center on the rather clunky linkage of the four-speed manual transmission (all initial models will be four-speed automatics).


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[Note: There seems to be various spellings for ChiangMai and ChiangRai - Chiang Mai/ChiengMai/Chieng Mai/Chiang Rai and possibly other variants.]
UFOINFO E-mail Report
Hello, I just searched for our hot news about alien sighting in northern part of my country
(Thailand), just got your web from search pages. It's very interesting :) I don't know if you
already know this, but yesterday (or before yesterday; 8th - 9th Sep) there were a crowd of people
in a village (The name is "Ban...(something)". It's in ChiangRai province, northern part of
Thailand.. Interestingly I've just known that there was UFO sighting in ChiangMai province in 2001
too.. Actually these provinces are close.) The alien was there for an hour and most of people
there saw it! Then, the alien guy floated up and disappeared in the air. I don't know much about
the detail but just see the news in TV. Hope this could be a help... ^^;
From UFO UpDates:
Posted by Terry Groff, September 9th
Thai TV, today, reported on an entity seen in NW Thailand near
Chieng Mai. The entity was seen near a rice farm by four or five
people. It had a large head and a yellow body. The phantasm then
stretched into the sky and disappeared. The news anchor called
this a "jahn binh" or flying saucer.
I searched The Bangkok Post and Googled but no joy.
From Alber Rosales:
Location. Huay Nam Rak, Chieng Mai Province, Thailand
Date: September 8-9 2005 Time: unknown
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The 2018 Racing Season is under way.
Follow our Facebook Page for the most update to date results from Arabian Racing.
August 25, 2018 – Ferndale
Ferndale 25 August 2018 and Dream Pearl confirms her winning status for 2018 – 6 starts(3-2-0)! Winning under Francisco Monroy at Ferndale with Raineing Sand second under Jake Samuels and stablemate and often rival Sand Victor in 3rd. Dream Pearl is trained by Terri Eaton and owned by Dorothy Burt, Evelyn Call, Cory Soltau, and Terri Eaton; a successful racing club!! 4. True Grit SA, 5. Southerland, 6. Cody's Surprise. Win time: 1:37:76 for 7 Furlongs. Dream Pearl makes another run from the rear to win by +++lengths in California Stakes. Video Replay:
August 24, 2018 – Ferndale
Did you see the race today, 24 August 2018, in Ferndale, California?
Congratulations to RU Mystified (Status Symboll x On Wings of Fire) ridden by Jesus Valesquez, owned and trained by Helen Shelley that won the 5 Furlongs in the time of 1:11:01. Shelley got a double with the win of number 2, WMA Atlantic. 3. My Werners Equinox owned by Hendrik Smeding.
4. Skeedaddle, 5. WMA Rexella, 6. Kelli O Fadz. Breeders of 1, 2, and 3 received the Arabian Racing Cup Breeder's Incentive of $500 each. Bravo all!
Dream Pearl Revives Rivalry with Sand Victor to Up the Stakes at Santa Rosa
12 August 2018, Santa Rosa, California ~
On Saturday, 11 August 2018, at the Sonoma County Fair in Santa Rosa, California, Dream Pearl held off stablemate and rival Sand Victor to win by almost two lengths in the second leg of the Emirates Breeders Gold Rush Handicap II.
True Grit set the early pace as Pedro Terrero struggled with Dream Pearl when she broke ready to run. Terrero checked the mare with difficulty, but then they were running last. Around the bend Terrero went 5 wide and gave the mare the okay to go. And go she did, catching leader, Sand Victor, in a driving run to finish two lengths ahead at the post. Third to finish was Raineing Sand under Shawn Spikes. Fourth was True Grit SA, and RB Hot Risk came in fifth. Win time was 1:52:21 for the mile race.
The first three to finish were a virtual repeat of the mile race at Santa Rosa last year (2017).
Dream Pearl (Burning Sand x Triumph's Pearl) is owned by Dorothy Burt, Evelyn Call, Cory Soltau, Terri Eaton, and was bred by Joseph A and Betty J Gillis. Dream Pearl and Sand Victor are trained by Terri Eaton.
The Emirates Breeders Gold Rush Handicap awards top points for a bonus after the third race. Points – Winner 4 points, Second 3 points, Third 2 points. All starters will receive 1 point.
Total points earned after race II Dream Pearl (8) Sand Victor ((6) RB Hot Risk ((3) True Grit SA (2) Raineing Sand (2)
Article by Horsereporter
August 5, 2018
Sonoma County Fair
5 August 2018, Santa Rosa, California ~ Wine Country Racing held at the Sonoma County Fair has a fair vibe with a sophisticated wine country atmosphere. On 5 August 2018, Fair racegoers were treated to the five Furlong Arabian race which began the day's card.
MY Conns Kougar (Johnny B Goode x Here Kitty Kitty by Tiki Tessar) under Hugo Herrera set the pace and was only challenged in the early strides. Stablemate MY Werners Equinox under Jesus Valezquez made a good effort for second. Both horses are from the Snell Valley Ranch and owned by Lettie Smeding and Hendrick Smeding and trained by Ron White.
Helen Shelley's RU Mystified finished third. Winning time was 1:06:58.
WMA Atlantic
Mata Haree
Article by Pamela Burton – www.horsereporter.com
July 29, 2018
Sacramento Racing
Congratulations Sand Victor (Burning Sand) under Hugo Herrera, winner of the 29 July 2018, Sacramento, California, Arabian Stakes 6 Furlongs $8,000 Prize money. Dream Pearl arrived 2nd under Pedro Terrero, 3rd, True Grit SA, ridden by Jesus Valazquez. Both 1 and 2 trained by Terri Eaton. Win time:1:19:21
July 21, 2018
Sacramento, CA
Sacramento 21 July Arabian race 3yrs+ Southerland (5)holds the win in Sacramento on 21 July, for the 6 Furlong Arabian race. Madjestic (7) just behind at the finish, with Cody's Surprise third. READ MORE BY HORSEREPORTER
6 Furlongs – Prize money: $6,500
Quick Results for 7 horse field:
1. Southerland ridden by Pedro Flores
2. Madjestic ridden by Francisco Monroy
3. Cody's Surprise ridden by Pedro Terrero
July 13, 2018
Congratulations to winner Madjestic under Francisco Monroy by over a length in Sacramento 13 July 2018 in the Maiden Special Weight in a field of seven. Total purse $7,800. $1,500 added Arabian Racing Association of California (ARAC).
Winning Trainer, Terri Eaton, owners James Schleimer and Nicola Forbes,Robinson,
1. Madjestic (Madjani x Reign Supreme )
2. My Conns Kougar under Shawn Spikes
3. RU Mystified jockey Pedro Flores
Win Time: 01:07:82 Five furlongs
Also ran:
Desert Dew
WMA Atlantic
SVR Spitfire
WMA Rexella
July 7, 2018
Emirates Breeders California Gold Rush Stakes at Pleasanton, California
Congratulations to winner Dream Pearl under Pedro Terrero. 2. Sand Victor, 3. RB Hot Risk.
6 furlongs, Prize Money $12,000.
Photos thank you Vassar photography. Dream Pearl (Burning Sand x Triumphs Pearl), trained by Terri Eaton, owned by Burt, Call Eaton, Soltau Partnership
June 17, 2018
Oak Tree at Pleasanton –
As Arabians once again take center stage in California racing, Sand Victor showed his talent by winning the first Arabian race of the season at Oak Tree at Pleasanton, California on Sunday, 17 June, 2018.
In a race for 3 yr-olds and up of five furlongs, Sand Victor (Burning Sand x Vague de Gemme) came from sixth under Hugo Herrera and stalked the pace breaking five wide around the turn to drive home battling Dream Pearl on the rail for the win. Sand Victor is owned by Joseph A and Betty J Gillis.


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Alex Vance
Bad Dog Books and FurRag[edit]erotic furry fiction anthology FANG, and later that year, with the aid of a friend, set up a furry fiction archive intended as a more general-purpose counterpart to Yiffstar. Yiffstar's admin Toumal provided some coding assistance. Since then he has been involved in Yiffstar's transition to SoFurry, most recently designing the new interface for SoFurry 2.0 dubbed "Espresso".
In early 2006, he began suffering from repetitive strain injury, causing him pain in his fingers which required him to substantially moderate his typing. He announced his intention to put FANG on indefinite hiatus in order to let his fingers heal. With the help of Ben Goodridge, he founded Bad Dog Books in July 2006 and resumed development of FANG, which also made its publishing services available to third-party authors interested in bringing their works to print.
Until the deterioration of his fingers, Alex was an avid writer. Between 2004 and 2005, he wrote nineteen chapters of a serial story called Maranatha, totalling nearly two hundred thousand words. Besides occasionally contributing stories of his own to FANG, his fiction has appeared in FurNation Magazine issues 9 & 10 and Heat volume 4 from Sofawolf Press. His new graphic novel Heathen City, illustrated by Ayato, Distasty, Krahnos, Charha and Fel, was released on June 26 2008, with the subsequent issues released annually thereafter.
Alex attended Further Confusion 2008, where he gave a series of four writing panels, continuing the Bad Dog Boot Camp panel started by Ben Goodridge at Anthrocon 2007. He also appeared at Eurofurence 18 in 2012, where he presented the talk "How to Trick Your Audience into Thinking your Story is Good", and Rusfurrence 2013, where he was the guest of honor.
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Hurley tweets mammogram
British actress and model Elizabeth Hurley has never shied away from showing off her assets but this time it's for a good cause.
Hurley, Shane Warne's ex-fiancee, has posted on Twitter a picture of herself after undergoing a mammogram and has urged her fans to have their breasts checked by doctors.
The picture shows Hurley in a clinic, dressed in a robe and surrounded by medical equipment.
"After 40, you should have an annual mammogram. Had mine this morning. It's always nerve wracking (sic) but remember . . . Breast cancer is 95 per cent curable if detected early," Hurley tweeted.
The star is currently in New York City to attend a fundraising event for research into the disease.
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Fremont, California In what Fremont firefighters called an "extraordinary" survival, a 22-year-old construction worker was listed in fair condition after coming too close to a transmission line. The electrical jolt that hit Adolfo Diaz of San Leandro was so powerful that it ripped a four-foot-wide hole in the asphalt under Read More
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Construction Worker Crushed By Crane
Tampa, Florida The accident happened Tuesday at 6 p.m. at 5801 Commerce St. (Tuesday August 21, 2001) Kenneth Douglas Oliver, 47, of 4803 Ingraham St. was working on the ground near a large crane when the crane pinned him against a concrete beam, police said. Oliver, who worked for Standard Read More
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Augusta, Georgia An 18-year-old construction worker was killed Wednesday in an accident near the UCB Chemical Corp. on Revco Road in North Augusta. Damion Ashley Heard, an ironworker from Decatur, Ala., died about 2:45 p.m. while working to secure a crane for travel on a boom truck, said UCB Vice Read More


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Buster Guru's
If you're a cow, your eyes light up at the sight of other cows.
If you're a grouse, your eyes light up at the sight of other grouses.
But here's the deal: I'll bet you're not a cow, or a grouse.
I'm guessing you're a person.
Did I get that right?
If so – and even if your hobby is cows or grouses, and your eyes light up somewhat for them -- what your eyes light up most for is other people.
We're social animals, so this is especially true for us humans.
Visually what we're drawn to most is other people, and particularly the eyes of other people (bangin' booties and ta-tas notwithstanding.)
So if you're really lazy and you're not going to read any further in this article than this, there's your general answer: the single best type of picture you could use on your
webpage, blog, print brochure, or any type of marketing is typically a picture of a human being, including their eyes (hence their face, since as you'll recall our eyes on our faces).
Because people are drawn to other people's eyes like nothing else out there, typically. Which means you'll make them look.
Now important note, even for the lazy who were about to leave: they'll be even more attracted if those eyes are inviting or somehow compelling, such as smiling eyes, or suggestive eyes, or afraid, sad, bitterasamotheruck eyes etcetera.
Because eyes like those are revealing a potentially good story, and on an emotional level (the most important marketing level) we just GOTTA know what that story is. So we'll read your headline, and if that maintains or better yet increases the emotional draw, we'll dive deeper in.
I'm Scared, Bitches!
Of course you're smart, so you already know you've got to match the context – if you're marketing a home security system, for example, and your headline and copy are primarily provoking fear and the consequential need for home motion detectors that shoot poison darts, don't use a picture of a hot woman with touch-me-down-there-now eyes.
Sure, she'll grab people initially, but the moment they start to read your fear copy that has nada to do with the horny mood you just put them in, CLICK -- they'll disconnect. They're out of emotional mode and in logical what-the-hell-just-happened mode, and likely gone.
So match the emotion of the person in the picture you use to the emotion of your copy. Home security system with fear-based copy? Use picture of woman whose eyes say, "I'm scared, bitches!"
If you're really good, you can instead match the emotion of the pictured person to the emotional outcome – the key benefit – of the product you're marketing.
Home security system with fear-based copy that promises a deep sense of security if you buy said home security system? Use picture of woman whose eyes say, "Because of this home security system, bitches, I have achieved inner-peace."
But you have to really good to pull this off if you're only using that one picture.
Now, if you are a lazy skim-reader and you've already left this article, you miss this important tidbit (good for the rest of you!):
If it's a choice between a man and a woman picture, use a woman picture. Typically.
This has been tested ad nauseating-um, and it's true whether your primary market is men OR women.
Because the vast majority of men are more drawn to a woman, especially if the pictured woman pictured is attractive and younger. No more explanation likely needed.
And more surprisingly for some, because the vast majority of women are also more drawn to a woman, particularly if that pictured woman is about ten years younger.
That's because the vast majority of women are bisexual, even if they aren't aware of it.
No, that's not why, or at least not officially why.
The official reason I've seen given is a somewhat complicated mix of women emotionally bonding with / sizing themselves up against other women, and seeing/wishing themselves ten years younger on average.
Whatever the reason, time and again I've seen it is true: women pics, especially of women ten years younger than your average market, beat the Dockers off men pics.
"But I Have an Exception!" Someone Will Whine…
Of course there are exceptions to this all.
If your website, blog, brochure, or whatever is marketing The Grouse Lovers Association of Denver (GLAD), I imagine a picture of a happy grouse could work really well. (Though try a picture of a woman hugging a happy grouse with adulation in her eyes and I bet it does better.)
If you're marketing anything that's really visual -- such as fine art, or arsonist supplies, or the color pink – you betcha that it might be wise to lead with a picture of that very thing. (Though try a picture of woman showing the right emotion accompanying that really visual thing you are marketing and see how it tests out anyway, thank me.)
Yes, pictures of babies and kittens and puppies run a close second to the women pics, and may even beat it – to some markets.
And yes, if your primary market is people in their teens or twenties the pictures of women still typically applies... but the part about women around ten years younger likely does not.
And finally yes, if you too are writing an article called, "The Single Best Type of Picture to Use in Your Marketing," lead with a picture of a cow.
There are exceptions to everything.
That's why I wrote "typically" so much in the preceding paragraphs.
But in general, when in doubt, and as a little song I wrote goes:
Go with a picture of a woman /
Showing the right emotion in her eyes /
Even better if she's ten years younger /
Than your market's average girls and guys.
And if that doesn't work, here's a handy-dandy-raggedy-and-and-andy infographic to remind you of the Top 12 Types of Pictures that REALLY Grab Attention for Your Marketing.
Share it with friends, spouses, lovers, ex-lovers, ex-spouses and foes alike:
And FINALLY, what are your thoughts, hmmm?
Do you think ol' Buster's full of crap, or you've seen similar results and tend to agree?
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To protect the health and safety of our community and staff, many Sutter County offices will be closed to the public starting March 20, 2020 until further notice.
For Immediate Release:
Sheriff's Deputies with the assistance of underage Sheriff's Cadets conducted both shoulder tap and decoy operations at several Sutter County off-sale liquor establishments. A total of twelve businesses were approached, with ten of those businesses refusing to sell alcohol to the minor(s). The following two arrests were made as a result of the alcohol investigations:
A clerk at Munger's Market, 7803 South Butte Road, Sutter was arrested and charged with sale/furnishing alcohol to a minor. The clerk was identified as Cooper, Margaret May 43, of Sutter.
A shoulder tap investigation at the Quick Stop Market, 1620 Lincoln Road, Yuba City resulted in the arrest of Sanderson, Carroll Marc 37, of Yuba City, on a charge of sales/furnishing alcohol to a minor(s). Sanderson was approached in front of the store by an underage Sheriff's Cadet and agreed to provide them with alcohol.
The Sutter County Sheriff's Department attempted similar investigations at the following businesses but were refused service by the clerks and/or patrons at the store. Those businesses were identified as:
1) Neighborhood Store, 4313 South George Washington Blvd, Yuba City
2) Robbins Mercantile, 4895 Del Monte Avenue, Robbins
3) Global Market, 11277 Highway 99, Live Oak
4) Dhami's Mini Mart, 1281 O'Banion Road, Yuba City
5) Quick Stop, 1285 Lincoln Road, Yuba City
6) Tim's Market, 1619 Lincoln Road, Yuba City
7) Mike's Mini Market, 1591 Franklin Road, Yuba City
8) Bill's Market and Deli, 1443 Franklin Road, Yuba City
9) Oswald Market, 1144 Oswald Road, Yuba City
10) Lincoln Market, 1197 Lincoln Road, Yuba City
Contact Person:
Bill Grove, Undersheriff, (530) 822-7307


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This princess inspired apron will have your little girl's dreams coming true. Whether she is in the kitchen whipping up cupcakes fit for a queen, having a tea party in the backyard, or just lounging around her castle, this easy-on, easy-off dress-up alternative will let her imagination fly.
This gown-style apron features a sweetheart-inspired neckline with gold ricrac and white lace trimming and a purple accent jewel.
The apron uses standard apron strings at the neck and waist for an easy, adjustable, tear-free experience and an adorable retro fit. Machine washable, aprons fit children ages 3-8.


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As a chess player, I read with extra interest the article "What is Garry Kasparov's Next Move? The great chess champion brings his knowledge to the games of Sochi, global politics and computer intelligence" by Ron Rosenbaum, Smithsonian Magazine, March 2014.
Kasparov, as you may recall, was world chess champion from 1985 to 2000, became active in Russian politics, and ran (till he was eliminated on a technicality) against Vladimir Putin in 2007.
The Smithsonian article summarize–probably reflecting Kasparov's view–the transition from communism to democracy to oligarchy as follows:
After a coterie of Harvard-based economic advisers helped engineer the privatizing of Russian state assets in the 1990s to the profit of corrupt oligarchs, the consequent immiseration of the Russian people led to Putin's rise to power. And that led to Putin's ongoing attempt to recoup what had been lost—seeking to recapture the states that had separated themselves from the Soviet empire, and to crush democracy within Russia.
The dates are easy to remember: after the Soviet Union collapsed, Boris Yeltsin became the Russian leader in 1990 and Putin in 2000.
Yeltsin's guiding principle was to turn a communist country into a capitalist one as fast as possible. As is usually the case with sudden social change imposed from above and outside (that's for Yeltsin's Western advisers), disaster ensued. As described in the Wikipedia article on Boris Yeltsin:
In early 1992, prices skyrocketed throughout Russia, and a deep credit crunch shut down many industries and brought about a protracted depression. The reforms devastated the living standards of much of the population, especially the groups dependent on Soviet-era state subsidies and welfare entitlement programs. Through the 1990s, Russia's GDP fell by 50 percent, vast sectors of the economy were wiped out, inequality and unemployment grew dramatically, while incomes fell. Hyperinflation, caused by the Central Bank of Russia's loose monetary policy, wiped out a lot of personal savings, and tens of millions of Russians were plunged into poverty.
Might there be some lessons there for the rest of us, concerning "austerity," the abolition of social programs, and the privatization of public resources (think: gas drilling in public parks, charterization and voucherization of public schools, and outsourcing of government functions–as in the Obamacare websites)?
What happened in Russia? See Wikipedia, "Privatization in Russia." In summary, from the "Privatization and the rise of 'the oligarchs'" section of the Wikipedia article on Boris Yeltsin:
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Yeltsin promoted privatization as a way of spreading ownership of shares in former state enterprises as widely as possible to create political support for his economic reforms. In the West, privatization was viewed as the key to the transition from Communism in Eastern Europe, ensuring a quick dismantling of the Soviet-era command economy to make way for 'free market reforms.' In the early 1990s, Anatoly Chubais, Yeltsin's deputy for economic policy, emerged as a leading advocate of privatization in Russia.
In late 1992, Yeltsin launched a program of free vouchers as a way to give mass privatization a jump-start. Under the program, all Russian citizens were issued vouchers, each with a nominal value of around 10,000 rubles, for purchase of shares of select state enterprises. Although each citizen initially received a voucher of equal face value, within months most of them converged in the hands of intermediaries who were ready to buy them for cash right away.
In 1995, as Yeltsin struggled to finance Russia's growing foreign debt and gain support from the Russian business elite for his bid in the early-1996 presidential elections, the Russian president prepared for a new wave of privatization offering stock shares in some of Russia's most valuable state enterprises in exchange for bank loans. The program was promoted as a way of simultaneously speeding up privatization and ensuring the government a much-needed infusion of cash for its operating needs.
However, the deals were effectively giveaways of valuable state assets to a small group of tycoons in finance, industry, energy, telecommunications, and the media who came to be known as "oligarchs" in the mid-1990s. This was due to the fact that ordinary people sold their vouchers for cash. The vouchers were bought out by a small group of investors. By mid-1996, substantial ownership shares over major firms were acquired at very low prices by a handful of people.
In the absence of strong supervision and controls, that's the tendency of capitalism: concentration of resources. We've seen it before in this country in the late-19th-century Robber Barons, and we're seeing it again in their early-21st-century descendants.
And the next step? No, it doesn't seem to be, despite Karl Marx, increasing class consciousness, international solidarity, the revolution of the people, the dictatorship of the proletariat, and an eventual workers' utopia.
Let Putin and the Russian oligarchs be a warning to us! When whole groups of people are left out, social unrest ensues. See "Yeltsin's economic legacy" by Alexander Koliandre, BBC News, Moscow, 24 April 2007:
Those who were unable to adapt quickly suffered. In particular, those employed by the state – including teachers, doctors, professors and policemen – learned to hate the "new Russians" who were flocking to the newly-opened restaurants, night clubs and casinos.
And how about that "coterie of Harvard-based economic advisers" whose advice brought about the collapse of the Russian economy and the consequent rise of Putin? You guessed it, that would be the work of Lawrence Summers, when he worked at the US Treasury Department (he didn't become Secretary of the Treasury until 1999). Per Wikipedia:
Summers set up a project through which the Harvard Institute for International Development provided advice to the Russian government between 1992 and 1997. Later there was a scandal when it emerged that some of the Harvard project members had invested in Russia, and were therefore not impartial advisors. Summers encouraged then-Russian leader Boris Yeltsin to use the same "three-'ations'" of policy he advocated in the Clinton Administration– "privatization, stabilization, and liberalization."
Well, at least we can be thankful that Summers did not get another chance to implement his philosophy in our country, since he had to give up his bid to become Federal Reserve chairman in 2013.


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'Hongdae Zombie' is a hot video that has been…(ahem)…unearthed by Korean netizens over the past month and has since been…(coughs)…spreading like a virus (seriously though, how could I avoid making the 'viral' pun on this one?).
Set in Seoul's famed Hongdae district, netizens circulating the video are eagerly wondering if/when the next video will come out.
I assume the makers are wise enough not to do their next video in Itaewon, because I think they are hoping to stand out. Nevertheless, we'll keep our eyes open for any follow-up zombie videos from these guys.
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An Open Letter to Wagner College Staff, Faculty, and Students:
The Wagner College Republicans is an organization that promotes free speech as we cherish the freedom to have differing opinions from our classmates and professors. Although we do not agree with many of the points made by the collection of faculty, we respect their First Amendment right to freedom of speech and expression. One of the great characteristics of the United States is that everyone can express their own opinion without fear of consequence. Despite this, on college campuses today, the First Amendment right of Conservatives is inhibited. Whether it is at University of California at Berkeley, or right here in New York City at NYU, there are violent riots occurring from the Left that call into question whether Conservatives are able to freely voice their opinions. We believe wholeheartedly in the right to protest and petition, but when cars are being burned, people are being assaulted, and violent chaos is occurring, that crosses the line. At that point it is no longer a protest, but a riot.
Since the November elections, members of Wagner Republicans have experienced animosity from individuals on campus, including students and professors. There has been cyberbullying and mistreatment by certain individuals to those who are in Wagner Republicans. Fortunately, we have not experienced any sort of violence and the acts of cyberbullying and mistreatment have been isolated. We want to make it clear that us Conservatives, us Republicans, appreciate the support we have gotten from everyone at Wagner, even if we do not agree with you politically. In conversations we have all had, the overwhelming majority of Wagner College has supported us with their encouragement for us to be free thinkers that express our opinions - regardless of how much we are in the minority on this campus.
We would also like to indicate that we are grateful to the many professors, several who even contributed to the letter, that have gone out of their way to ensure that politics is a multi-sided conversation. In the emerging era of safe spaces, us Wagner Republicans support the exchange of opposing ideas and we look forward to the continuation of our education here at this institution. The real world does not have "safe spaces" and it is important for us to be able to state and defend our beliefs. Through learning more about the world and listening to conversations and lectures, we are able to undergo a development of the mind. As we become more educated, we evolve on some political issues while on others we become more instilled in our beliefs. This process is treasured by Wagner Republicans and we yearn to cultivate our analytical and personal minds while we attend Wagner College. Thank you for the support.
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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's first press briefing was a case study example of how not to work with the media. Here are five things a professional communicator wouldn't have done, especially on the first day in the role.
1) Making friends: build bridges not walls
Spicer spent around 80% of his first briefing rebuking the media, accusing them of 'false reporting' about the number of people in attendance at President Trump's inauguration. Bearing in mind how divisive Trump's campaign has been to date and the fact his personal popularity rating is as low as 32%, any professional communicator would instead have used the platform to begin to build relations with the media, not alienate them.
2) Lies, and damned lies
Spicer's position was made even weaker by the fact media could easily corroborate their reporting with images, facts and figures. No decent public relations person would ever go public with data they couldn't substantiate. Membership of a professional body means adherence to a code of conduct and therefore no lies or deception. If the government can't be trusted to tell the truth about something that is so obviously in plain sight, how can it be trusted on critical policy issues?
3) Waste time on trivial matters
A good public relations practitioner would not have wanted to draw attention to the fact Trump drew small crowds to his inauguration, particularly in comparison with his predecessor. The opportunity to show decisive leadership on key policy matters was completely wasted and he actually drew more attention to the issue, rather than move the conversation on.
4) Not take questions
A critical media is an important part of a functioning democracy. Spicer refused to take questions from journalists signalling that the new administration will make used of owned and social media to communicate directly with the public. That's all well and good but those in power need to be held to account. It's propaganda not public relations.
5) Vision and purpose
Spicer missed the opportunity to set out the vision and purpose of the Trump administration and communicate a plan with key milestones. This should have been a fundamental part of the briefing. It'll be interesting to see how the media respond next.
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I've had some recent posts about mistakes I've committed while hiking/cycling. My hope is that, in posting these, y'all will learn from my lessons learned.
The last century ride I did was about 11 years ago. I ended up getting pretty severe heat exhaustion, but, even with that, I can remember thorougly enjoying that 110 mile ride from Orland Park, IL to Valparaiso, IN. Today, I set out to get in 100 miles by taking the Coast Route from Carpinteria to Ventura and then the Ojai Valley trail up to Ojai… and then back. I'll save you the suspense and let you know that it didn't happen.
I set out at 1045 a.m. The conditions were nice – 64 and sunny with a light breeze – and the ride to Ventura was pretty uneventful yet scenic. This leg of the Coast Route goes along the 101 and a bunch of beautiful little beaches. Finally, after reaching and passing through Emma State Beach, I reached my turnoff for the Ojai Valley Trail, which is at the intersection of 33 and Main Street. I passed through an industrial corridor but, again, it was pretty enjoyable riding. Just as I was thinking about how easy and smooth the ride was – at about 1/3 of the way to Oak View – I got that dreaded feeling that cyclists hate. I felt an increasingly crunchy sensation coming from my back wheel.
Stupid flat tires. But this is why I carry a seat bag with 3 Co2 cartridges, a C02 gun, and a spare tube. I found a piece of glass wedged into the tread of my Gatorskin tire and yanked that out. I changed my tube within a couple minutes and attempted to inflate the new tube. Pinch flat. Dangit. And I'd just given away my patch kit recently…so I had nothing left to fix this darned tire. Fortunately, I met my new friend, Cliff.
Cliff was a fellow rider who was riding solo on his road bike. He stopped and offered help. We tried to use a spare tube he'd brought with but alas, we ended up using my remaining Co2's to find out that his tube also had a puncture. Fortunately, Cliff also had a patch kit. He helped me patch my tube and we pumped it up as much as we could with his low pressure pump. It probably got up to 60-70 psi (110-120 is optimal for my tires and would help with the risk of getting another flat)… but beggars can't be choosers. Cliff took his pump back and continued heading towards Ojai. I, on the other hand, decided to wave the white flag towards my century ride aspirations for the day and to ride the 10 miles back to Ventura to a bike shop I'd passed at the trail head to get a new tube. After a mile of riding, I, again, had a flat. Seriously. The valve on this tube was kind of bent and I think the air was leaking out. I walked my bike for a mile and a half until my friend Cliff caught up with me on his return leg. He gave me his pump again, I pumped up the tube, and I rode as quick as I could back, knowing my tube had limited air.
Literally, 200 feet from the bike shop, I once again was riding on my rim. Good timing. I got a couple tubes, made some small talk, fixed up my tire, and headed on my way. For what its worth, Jim and Celeste at the bike store on Olive and Main Street in Ventura are awesome and they have a cool little shop. Check em out sometime.
I began the trek home, only to find that the temps had risen to close to 100 degrees and the winds had kicked up to 30 mile an hour headwinds. If you do the math, that equates to about 45 mph winds when I'm riding 15 mph. GRR. At the same time, it's hard to be angry riding in this kind of beautiful area. I pushed past Emma State Beach, Fairia Beach, Solano, and to the RV campground. Here, I really needed a psychological break, so I took a second and chilled out on the beach. I treated myself to a Honey Stinger Waffle here. MMMM.
And then it was time to fight those headwinds again. Boy I was tired here. I pushed on and on and on, striving to maintain 15mph. Its weird how mental fatigue can affect one's physical state. At about 4 miles left, I was riding along the 101 and came upon another rider who was in the same situation I was in. I was his Cliff and helped him to get back up and running. It's funny how things like that work out. I trudged on and got home to find 6 dry ice-packed Chicago Style Pizzas from Chicago. Thanks mom!
Next week I'll give this ride again. And I'll bring a patch kit. And a tube. Or three. And a pump. 🙂
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Have you heard of the library's Technical Services Department?
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In a nutshell, Tech Services is comprised of the Acquisitions and the Cataloging Departments. What does that mean? And, how does this department benefit students?
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Swine Flu -Its a Rerun but It's Profitable
I sometimes believe the media is so swine flu happy just so they can help sell this damn healthcare overhaul. (For the record its the wrong type of reform that Congress is pushing currently. ) The current President and much of Congress has been given a free pass by the media in my opinion. I am saying that the media seems to have been complicit in much of the governments actions lately. Creating a healthcare panic might be good to push through a very unpopular bill. Government profiting from healthcare... this could be interesting. I don't mean profit as in money but profit as bigger government more power. Government loves to expand and suck money.


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Leaving a relationship is hard to do, especially when the relationship at hand is unhealthy. There are many types of relationships, but ultimately the relationship is damaging when you are no longer happy with your partner.
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When leaving an unhealthy relationship, it is important that you tell your partner why you are leaving in a matter-of-factly manner. Do not get emotional and do not blame yourself or your partner for faults within the relationship. Be firm and don't give your partner room to apologize and try to win you back. Show your partner that this decision is yours and that it has already been made.
If you have living arrangements with your partner, have a plan in action beforehand. Have boxes available to pack your belongings in, choose what items you are going to take with, and have a place to stay when you move out.
One of the most difficult parts of leaving an unhealthy relationship is to end it completely. Many times, ex-couples struggle to remain friends, because they are scared to cut each other out from their lives entirely. However, your relationship is unhealthy for a reason and giving your partner the opportunity to stay in contact with you can form other kinds of unhealthy relationships. Instead, close the lines of communication, at least for the present. You can always try for a friendship down the line.
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Brown acts on fuel and pensions
Chancellor Gordon Brown has unveiled the government's pre-election bid to placate fuel protesters and pensioners with a £4bn package of measures containing a boost to pensions and a freeze on fuel duty.
Delivering his long-awaited "mini-budget" setting out the framework on which the spending plans on which the government hopes to win a second term, Mr Brown announced changes to excise duties equivalent to a 4p-a-litre cut in fuel duty for motorists - or 8p per litre off diesel for hauliers.
The annual winter fuel allowance for pensioners, to be sent out next week, rises from £150 to £200.
Bid to appease fuel lobby
In his pre-Budget statement to the Commons, Mr Brown told MPs: "I recognise and I understand the very genuine concerns of motorists and hauliers."
As well as fuel duty being frozen to 2002, he announced a cut of 3p per litre in "green" ultra low sulphur petrol (ULSP) and diesel, to be available in every garage next year.
The government's hope is that Mr Brown will have conceded enough to head off a repeat of September's fuel blockades which paralysed fuel supplies.
The chancellor said that in total, his changes on fuel and excise duty for cars and lorries would cost £1bn.
Sweetener for pensioners
As had been anticipated, pensioners emerged key winners from Mr Brown's statement.
He rejected campaigners' central demand for a restoration of the link between earnings and the state pension.
But as well as the rises in the state pension, he announced that the minimum income guarantee would rise to £100 a week for single pensioners and to £154 for couples in 2003.
It is this minimum income guarantee, however, which has to be applied for by pensioners and is means-tested, leading to frustration and resentment for many.
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Pensioners' leaders gave the measures affecting them a broad welcome, though they renewed their demands for a higher basic pension instead of means-tested support.
But leaders of the fuel protests which brought the UK to a near-standstill angrily accused the chancellor of failing to do enough.
Protest organisers complained Mr Brown had not gone far enough to meet their demands. They threatened to go ahead with a planned protest in London next Tuesday.
Brynle Williams, the Welsh farmer who led the last fuel protest, described Mr Brown's concessions as "an insult" to industry and the public.
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Mr Brown opened his statement by telling MPs the present healthy state of the economy gave the country an opportunity it could either "seize or squander".
The chancellor predicted solid economic growth and pledged to give families the lowest direct tax burden for 30 years through targeted tax cuts "when it is affordable to do so".
Addressing a packed House of Commons, Mr Brown said: "We have steered a course of stability but we are not satisfied.
"We want to see all citizens sharing in rising prosperity."
Responding for the Conservatives, shadow chancellor Michael Portillo said it was plain from Mr Brown's statement that he was in retreat, adding: "This was indeed a statement the chancellor told us he would never be able to make."
He reminded MPs that in the run-up to Mr Brown's statement, ministers had repeatedly claimed that giving concessions to pensioners and fuel protesters would mean closing hospitals and schools.
He challenged Mr Brown to say how many would now shut.
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Director: John Slattery; Screenwriter Alex Metcalf, John Slattery; Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks, Richard Jenkins, Caleb Landry Jones, Jack O'Connell; Running time: 88 mins; Certificate: 15
Given how fresh the pain of Philip Seymour Hoffman's passing still feels, it's perhaps a relief that gloomy tragicomedy God's Pocket – which marks one of his final roles – never engages seriously with the reality of death. The sight of Hoffman's downtrodden Mickey lugging his stepson's corpse from the morgue, making an ill-fated attempt to prop it upright along the way, embodies both the film's notion of morbid black humour and its somewhat lacking execution.
Making his feature directing debut after cutting his teeth on several episodes of Mad Men, John Slattery smartly casts his co-star Christina Hendricks as grieving mother Jeanie, whose arc becomes the emotional touchstone in the otherwise dispassionate proceedings. She's the only one in her tight-knit blue-collar community shedding a tear for the dearly departed Leon (Caleb Landry Jones), a nasty piece of work who dies in what his colleagues all testify was a "workplace accident".
Mickey, a sturdily capable meat truck driver who married into the tight-knit God's Pocket neighborhood through Jeanie, fits in seamlessly although the locals never allow him to forget he's an outsider. Too proud to admit that he can't afford his stepson's funeral, his mounting debt lands him in an increasingly farcical series of scrapes, including the aforementioned corpse-schlepping and a few run-ins with the mob.
It's a stoical and stolid performance from Hoffman, while Richard Jenkins feels miscast as the town's seedy newspaper columnist, too naturally warm and likeable a presence to fit the role. But Slattery does have a canny handle on small-town dynamics, most notably the dingy local drinking hole and its aging, disillusioned regulars.
Hendricks's startling appearance here with signature red hair dyed dark brown feels talismanic of the film's drained demeanour, and she's emotionally compelling as Jeanie desperately searches for the truth about her son's death. But by making Leon such a wholly unlikeable caricature, Slattery and Alex Metcalf rob their screenplay of any real sense of loss, holding death at wry arm's length.
Similarly, the lack of intimacy between any of the key players – Mickey and Jeanine, Mickey and his best friend (John Turturro), Jeanine and Jenkins's Richard – makes for an oddly detached narrative, which meanders along pleasantly enough with no particular resolution or catharsis in sight.
Too often mistaking leadenness for gravitas, God's Pocket is neither quite funny enough nor tragic enough to succeed as anything beyond a curiosity, running at a more or less monotonous level of muted cynicism.


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AMARU PUMAC KUNTUR are a force of Nature. Based in the Andean capital of Cusco and coined "ROCK OF THE GODS" by Peruvian newspaper La Republica, APK are self-proclaimed 'messengers of the mountains' and have been constantly packing out dance floors in Peru since they began in 2004. The band recently welcomed Australian medicine woman and sound healer Fire Mane to the band recognizing her as 'the voice of Pachamama.' Delivering a solid sound that fuses Andean folk music, tribal percussion and rock, APK are a super-tight, high-energy outfit, complete with theatrics of high ceremony. This is dance music at its finest: pure, celebratory, breathtaking. Soaring pan flutes and zamponas, powerful djembe, sweetest charango and convicted, chanting voices from the high Andes make APK an unforgettable act.
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Reba McEntire is the closest modern country will ever get to the artistic heights of its pioneering female vocalists. Sure Tanya Tucker had her run but the booze, powders and Glen Campbell took their toll. Shania Twain was just a Nashville/Pat Benatar Frankenstein project. And all the others were B-teamers shoving out their shingle on Music Row in hopes of at least landing a spot a county fair or a gig shilling corn chips. When it comes to heavy-hitting mamas like Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette, McEntire is right smack in the middle. Since releasing her self-titled debut in 1977, she has been exposing the hidden and yearning elements of the feminine psyche better than even her counterparts in mainstream rock and R&B could. It's the reality in McEntire's songs that bring folks back every year to the Rodeo to see her. Tuesday night, in front of mostly female crowd at Reliant, she came out looking every bit the "Queen of Country" that she is. And nearing 54 years of age, the redhead seems to only be getting more wily and purring. Compared to girls less than half her age, she shows infinitely more swagger and grace than four Swifts and an Underwood slapped together. It's those hips and that condescending stare she gives in her songs that will always win out over youthful crossovers. She came out to 1999's "So Good Together" with her voice even richer and huskier more than 30 years removed from her debut. Over the years it's evolved from cowgirl howl to a full-on mama growl. We spent the first half of Wednesday night's set in the press box, and her voice had zero defects in it. Here is a lady who doesn't need Nashville's popular live crutch, the Auto-tuner, to correct her vocals. Take that...um, most everyone on KILT and 93Q right now. What gets McEntire over so well with the female demographic isn't her looks or her sass. It's always been her storytelling. The desperate party girl in "Heart is a Lonely Hunter" or the silent longing of a woman who made choices early on, that still leave her wanting more, in "Is There Life Out There?" The teenage prostitute in "Fancy" goes through hell to get to heaven and comes out snarling and victorious on the other side. Her characters are direct and open, sparing vagaries for decisive dialog. All of her songs chronicle experiences in women's lives, and McEntire can inhabit each one of those characters in a way that isn't pandering but completely empathetic, strong yet still vulnerable. Her cover of Kelly Clarkson's "Because Of You" makes one realize that behind the former American Idol's radio hit, lurks an even deeper emotion that Clarkson could never mine. That deep sadness and inner strength will always be McEntire's indelible stamp on country music and pop in general. And yes, she did mention 1990's cult cinematic triumph Tremors, where she obliterated an underground "graboid" with an elephant gun. McEntire even sang one of her songs "Why Not Tonight?" from the film's soundtrack for the hordes of us in the audience whose only agenda last night was to she if she would in fact talk about the Kevin Bacon vehicle.
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Thread: Kegels causing wet dreams?
- 12-18-2012 #1
Greetings everyone! Long time lurker, first time poster. I've been having an interesting problem since I started kegels, and I've only found one thread on the subject, but it seems to be attributed to causes that do not apply to my situation. I started a kegel routine with 20 reps of 2 seconds each, three times a day, at least an hour apart. I do this every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Every day I do the routine over again, I add two seconds to the entire day's workout (so my first increase became 20 reps of 2 seconds once a day, and 19 reps of 2 seconds plus 1 rep of 3 seconds twice a day). Tomorrow I will reach 50 reps of 2 seconds each three times a day. About two months into it, I added reverse kegels into the mix, but four months later took them back out after noticing the kegels were becoming less effective.
Just under two weeks after taking reverse kegels out of the mix, I had a wet dream. I woke up to pulsations in my penis, much too late to do anything about it. I never had a wet dream prior to that in my entire life, and I'm 22. I was not dreaming at all prior to the pulsations. I'm positive the timing was no coincidence, and the "usual" explanation that I've found is that I simply haven't let loose in a while and I was emptying my reserves. The problem is, I never go more than three days without ejaculating (I haven't broken pattern for years with two exceptions), and I had ejaculated a day or two before. I chalked it up to a random, one-time incident. I was at 35 reps of 2 seconds each the day before. Two months passed, and then I had another one, at 43 reps of 2 seconds each. This prompted me to change my PE routine the same day, but I left kegels alone. One month later, today, I had my third one, and tomorrow I will reach 50 reps of 2 seconds each.
Should I be changing up my kegel routine? I still get morning wood about a third of the time (that I've recorded anyways), the latest one being two days ago, and I am able to have DO's (haven't in a while though; it's getting harder and harder to stop the stimulation just before PONR!), but I worry that by doing two-second bursts, I'm training my kegel muscles to convulse at night, and it occasionally leads to a wet dream in the process. My EQ is a little better than before kegeling as I remember it, but not as perfect as when I first started kegeling ten months ago. When I first started kegeling, it didn't take much to get to the point where it was as stiff as a rock, and squeezing it as hard as I could couldn't even indent the shaft. Now it's not until I start edging that I get close to that point, but it's not as stiff as it once was even then. The problem is that the kegels are working, but I've advanced so far in this routine that I do not know what routine could properly replace it without losing the strength that this kegel routine has brought. A month ago tomorrow I changed my PE routine, and have had astounding results after over a year of no gains. Maybe now is the time to change my kegel routine as well.
Anyone have any insight? I'm not sure where to go from here.
- 12-19-2012 #2
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I think your issue is related to no rk.
There is lots of skill training to do, especially if you wish to mmo.
You could talk to guys like Minuteman and Imac re routine.
How is your sex stamina?
- 12-19-2012 #3
I've never had a wet dream before either.
I agree with Peg that the issue is related to rk.
It sounds like you are having spasms in your sleep similar to REM. Perhaps these are RKM(rapid kegel movements)
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- 12-19-2012 #4
When I started out the kegels, everything was perfect, my PC/BC muscle was the strongest it ever was, so I increased the intensity to keep it that way. The PC/BC muscle was in the beginning stages of being overworked when I added in reverse kegels, but because it was so early, I didn't notice it. Once I did add in reverse kegels, I started at a the same place where I started normal kegels, which meant the reverse kegels were going better than normal kegels. As I increased the intensity more and more, both sides got overworked, but the reverse kegels were less overworked than the kegels due to lower intensity. Once I took the reverse kegels out, there was nothing holding back the overworked kegels, and that's when I had the first problem. As I increased the intensity more and more, the problem got worse, and my stamina suffered as well.
Thanks everyone for the replies! That provided the last piece of the puzzle for this mystery. I'm thinking my solution is to go back to 20 reps three times a day for the kegels starting today, and once my PC/BC muscle is strong again, add in reverse kegels also at 20 reps three times a day. The difference this time is to keep it there, without increasing the intensity one bit. I'll report back how this solution works in a few weeks when I get things squared away. Hopefully everything works out!
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As the legislative session in Illinois nears its conclusion on May 31, several issues, including gay marriage, remain unresolved in the state. Now, Governor Pat Quinn is directly calling on the Legislature to solve the issue.
A same-sex marriage bill passed the Illinois Senate in February and went to the House. Although Democrats hold a majority in the House as well, the bill has stalled. Supporters believe that they do not yet have the votes needed for passage.
"We're a little closer. But we're not yet there. But we're closer," said Speaker of the House Michael Madigan, a Chicago Democrat.
The bill's sponsor, Rep. Greg Harris, another Chicago Democrat, has been quiet about the number of votes he has secured. Sixty are needed for passage.
The gay marriage debate has provided a look into the uniqueness, or perhaps the dysfunction, of the state's politics. Although a predominantly Democratic state, gaining passage of gay marriage has been difficult. Last week, citizens in the downstate East St. Louis area began receiving "robo-calls" from a prominent African-American minister from Chicago. Rev. James Meeks said on the call:
"In my view, same-sex marriage should not be the law of the state of Illinois. . . . Call your representative, Eddie Lee Jackson, and share your view with him."
Governor Pat Quinn has publicly stated his support for gay marriage in the past and made it a point in his State of the State address this year. At the end of the week, Quinn made known his frustration about the House's inability to pass the bill when he said, "It's time to vote:"
"Illinois passing marriage equality into law, I think, sends a great signal to the people of our state and the people of America. So it's important to Illinois (that) the House of Representatives get going."
As the Chicago Tribune points out, Quinn's comments come a day after Delaware Governor Jack Markell signed gay marriage into law and the Minnesota House passed its own gay marriage bill. Quinn's comments also come after a poll showing the Democratic governor's approval ratings hovering below thirty percent. Quinn's term as governor is up after 2014 and he could face a primary challenge from Attorney General Lisa Madigan, a popular figure among Illinois liberals.
With only about three weeks left in the legislative session, the General Assembly will likely be rushed to beat the deadline on a number of issues. In addition to the Illinois gay marriage bill, public pension reform is still on the table as well as what type of concealed carry legislation to pass.


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PIEDMONT, Ala. — Roy S. Moore, a former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, seems to keep score on everything.
On campaign fund-raising, he can tell you how often he is outspent. He rattles off the courts whose views, he argues, support his unwavering opposition to same-sex marriage. And as he recently recounted at a breakfast with pastors here in northeast Alabama, he knows just how many presidents of the United States have had to reckon with him, a lawyer from rural Gallant.
"Did you know the last three presidents, and contenders, have all addressed me?" said Mr. Moore, whose career has included being effectively removed from the state Supreme Court twice — an outright ouster the first time, and then, nearly 13 years later, a suspension until the end of the new term he won after his removal.
Now, after defeating Luther Strange, the incumbent who had President Trump's vocal backing, in the Republican Senate primary on Tuesday, Mr. Moore is most likely going to Washington.
That prospect has stunned and alarmed many people beyond Alabama, including some of the nation's top Republicans. Here in his home state, though, few people seem surprised. Mr. Moore's resurgence is widely seen as the latest act in a decades-long career that has endured mostly because the 70-year-old former judge does not seem to change on much of anything.
"He walks the walk, O.K.?" said David Mowery, a consultant in Montgomery, the state capital, who helped run a Democratic campaign against Mr. Moore in 2012, less than a decade after Mr. Moore defied a federal judge's order to remove a 2.6-ton Ten Commandments monument from the Supreme Court building.
"He doesn't just say he's going to do this," Mr. Mowery said. "He gets thrown out of office over it. And then he gets re-elected."
In order to fill the Senate seat that Attorney General Jeff Sessions held for 20 years, Mr. Moore must pass one more test: a special election in December against the Democratic candidate, Doug Jones, a former federal prosecutor who is a formidable rival, especially by the diminished standards of Alabama Democrats.
Although Mr. Trump said on Friday that Mr. Moore "has a very good chance of not winning" in December, strategists in both parties expect the state's voters to choose Mr. Moore, who was one of the public figures who stirred doubts about the birthplace of Barack Obama.
If he is elected to the Senate, Mr. Moore will have gotten there as a rare retail politician with a penchant for reciting Blackstone's Commentaries on common law. At the same time, and to greater political benefit, Mr. Moore, a former professional kickboxer, exhibits traits that many Alabamians see in themselves and seek in their elected officials: He is outwardly pious and prone to political pugilism, self-assured and satisfied with standing alone.
"Roy Moore is Huey Long with religion," said Jim Zeigler, a Republican who is the state auditor. "Huey Long would tell it like it is. He ran against the establishment, he defeated the establishment, he would not compromise with the establishment. Roy Moore does all those things, but he has a biblical worldview."
Yet Mr. Moore, who twice ran unsuccessfully for governor, is far from universally beloved in this state. For many people in Alabama, he remains part novelty, part demagogue and part embarrassment, his reputation marred not by bribes or sex scandals but by his brand of stubborn populism. More than once, Mr. Moore has found himself rebuffing comparisons to George C. Wallace, the governor who said in 1963 that he wanted "segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever."
Mr. Moore is "a one-issue man, and all of the other things fall to the side," said Joel Sogol, a lawyer from Tuscaloosa who has tangled with Mr. Moore. "Either you accept those issues from his position or you don't, and there's a lot of folks here who accept them."
Mr. Moore's fame stems almost entirely from years of pitched legal battles over Ten Commandments displays on public property and over the authority of the federal courts to recognize same-sex marriages. Cast aside, even by some in his own party, as a bigot and a hatemonger, Mr. Moore has turned high-decibel clashes with his critics — he blamed "atheists, homosexuals and transgender individuals" for one conflagration — into opportunities.
In Alabama politics, Mr. Sogol said: "He's an outsider who has a flag to hold on to. His flag is Christianity, the Bible. There are a lot of people in this area who think that is the No. 1 thing in the world."
During his periodic exiles from public office, Mr. Moore helped to steer public debate using a nonprofit organization called the Foundation for Moral Law, which says it "exists to restore the knowledge of God in law and government and to acknowledge and defend the truth that man is endowed with rights, not by our fellow man, but by God!"
The organization, which Mr. Moore's wife now leads, was the subject of a complaint filed to the Internal Revenue Service last week, accusing the group of "repeatedly and expressly" advocating Mr. Moore's election to the Senate, in conflict with its tax-exempt status. Mr. Moore says the criticism of the organization is politically motivated.
Though he has done little to excise himself from the clamor of evangelical politics, Mr. Moore sometimes complains about being regarded solely as a culture warrior.
"They put me in a religious thing because I acknowledge God," he said in an interview. "I regret voters don't hear me talk about laws and all the things I do otherwise in government. When I was on the court, I dealt with everything."
Service in the Senate presents similarly sweeping challenges, and the Capitol Hill establishment is not likely to roll out a welcome mat for Mr. Moore. He said throughout the campaign that he would be a gadfly, not an obedient follower of the party line laid down by Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, whose allies spent heavily in Alabama trying to help Mr. Strange keep his seat.
"McConnell and all of those people in Washington know I'm not to be controlled," said Mr. Moore, whose campaign won the support of Stephen K. Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News and Mr. Trump's onetime chief strategist. "I'm not going to be managed, I've never been," Mr. Moore said.
Though he is dismissive of his party's leadership, he is no one's idea of a centrist, and would probably vote the same way as Mr. McConnell on most issues. Like nearly every Southern Republican running for a statewide office this year, he has campaigned on repealing the Affordable Care Act, protecting gun rights, increasing military spending and toughening immigration enforcement.
Yet longtime observers of the man whom many know simply as Judge Moore sometimes struggle for a neat, overarching description of his approach to public policy, beyond simple populism. In his years on the bench, he stayed at something of a remove from the pro-business orthodoxy of the Republicans who have won near-absolute power in Alabama in recent years, and for an array of reasons, business leaders have chronically kept their distance from him.
"He'd probably be considered conservative by some standards, less so by others," said Jere Beasley, a trial lawyer who once served as a Democratic lieutenant governor and who donated to Mr. Moore's campaign.
Mr. Beasley praised Mr. Moore for a ruling he handed down on arbitration, but other decisions give his judicial record a texture that surprises both supporters and critics. In occasional dissents, for instance, Mr. Moore voiced support for overhauling sentencing laws that some say are too harsh and too rigid. Writing in a robbery case last year, Mr. Moore said, "There is a difference between justice and overkill." In another case, he argued that a life sentence for a nonviolent drug crime had shown "grave flaws in our statutory sentencing scheme."
"He is a populist," Mr. Zeigler said of Mr. Moore, whose campaign had a fraction of the financial support that Mr. Strange attracted. "I don't think he intends to be. He just is."
It is a model that has long proved politically effective. And on Tuesday, at least, it overcame more than $10 million in advertising spending by Mr. Strange's allies.
"It's almost the same appeal that Trump has, but it comes from a totally different place," Mr. Mowery said. "The state's motto is, 'We dare defend our rights.' It kind of starts right there: A lot of people feel Roy Moore is the guy who's done that."


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