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God has allowed me to stay on earth; relative to suicide! I cant say it any better! Im still the guy that would have killed himself long ago! Im on planet earth, only because of my conversations with God; noting else! I chose to stay, I chose to leave! GoD made it clear that If i stayed he would make sure I had a chance of it; and he is! its not easy! It would have been a lot better to leave! but I didnt! I had my chance; now Im to strong for that! The inner me is stronger! I get what I prayed for!
Im attempting to change my thoughts as I get what I prayed for! Sometimes I forget; I have remember that Im given what I think about! When I start thinking about deprivation and poverty; thats what I get!
Truly, the followers our masses are the only ones on this planet who stay! decent people dont live on on this planet; they check out!
Life is strange! Im all alone; simply because Im connected to God! I have my general purpose; contact God; get his instructions! That is my journey! And Im working toward it! I gave up long ago on anything else!
I gave up long ago on the things society was suppose to promise me! However, these things can be brought about going through God first; once created in my imagination, God will take my desires and allow the universe to bring them about; if I believe! The universe will not work with someone who is not serious! The universe is like the bank! They dont like lending money to those who are not serious about paying them back!
I live in a land of lies!
God is not a lie! God is the only truth! the rest of this place and the people in it; filth or sheep or followers!
I pray for the weak and hopeless and hurt and innocent! God already knows how I feel bout them! I am to save myself! Nice world! This simple concept that Im not even allowed to save the poor is enough to check out! I have nothing to save them with! So, I turn to God and begin the journey to creating real things on planet earth! real things do not come reality, they do not come from " what is"; they come from dreams supported by the universe! My imagination is the most powerful thing on earth; the rest of this place is a lie!
Im on the right path; Im handing things that used to cause me to collapse into breakage and suicide! Today, nothing has changed; Im stronger; Im now the repair guy who goes in with the human welding torch and repairs those areas untouched through neglect! Neglect has caused its own course brutal levels of damage! a kind of cold burning damage! One is burned alive but by cold and not heat! one is burned alive by the lack of elements to stay alive; like a giant suction that pulls everything out of the atmosphere and leaves you to become paralyzed and die from it!
Ive learned a few things! the state of union is corrupt! I cannot expect anything from them! The goal is to call it what it is; the truth is good enough! the goal is to focus on what I want; not what is! and keep that focus! and work with God to keep that focus! Use my God given guidance system I was born with and my focuser and focus on what makes me feel good and what makes me happy and look at each day at my favorite day! focus on that; and watch new thoughts show up to match it! and their it is!
Thoughts because things!
I can only survive on this planet if Im happy; no other way! its not worth anything; this place!
Ive found that around the right women id be fine; the rest are a waist of time! complete manipulation! waist of time! I have no problem telling a women what I want from the start! I dont care what she wants! I care what I want! if she is not inline with it; I find another women that is! I work though God when it comes to women; their is an endless supply! They continue to show up and show up and show up! The problem is of the asking; Im asking for good but also the bad; and thats what Im receiving! Im starting to walk away quickly from situations like this! If she is not inline now; no go! not interested; I walk!
This is not easy when dealing with women; Inside me is an innocent boy; and the adult in me has to walk past these women; they are not worthy of me! I must move on past them until I find women that are! God brings them to me! It hurts! the child in me wants a mother and wants to be loved! Where their is no love; Ill move on!
Lots of women want things; want someone to take care of their children! wont be me! They must turn to God for a soulmate; I aint it! I must move on! and on and on and on and on and on! The only women i want to attract are the right ones!
Im shocked and more then disappointed concerning the women in my community! Im not at the same wavelength! Its like we are from 2 different cultures! Im not talking about the idea of the old book; : men are from mars, women are from Venus"; This is completely different! In the old book; men and women are even; they are from the same world, the same culture; Not the ones I deal with; its like they are from a different country! They are a complete waist of time! No reason to bother looking in their direction; never has been!
Ive done OK with women of other races! no problems! They seem normal!
God brings me women; this is the big lesson! I have to imagine and wait! The better I am at imagining, the better I am at knowing what I want and feeling it; the better chance the universe will deliver it!
Getting rid of anger!
Getting rid of hurt and anger is the goal, because I desire to send a positive message to the universe of what I want! Its important to like myself or love myself to send out a strong positive message of what I want! I want to send out a confident messaged to the universe! if I send out negatives; I get negatives in return!


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February 26th, 2013
'DWTS' reveals new cast as Maks confirms he's out
"Dancing with the Stars" took a bit of a stumble last fall with its "All-Stars" season. Ratings for the November finale fell 27 percent from the fall 2011 season closer, and ABC even admitted that the gimmick may have driven viewers away.
For its 16th season, the show is going back to its roots. Eleven new contestants, whose names were revealed Tuesday on "Good Morning America," will take to the dance floor when the new round of "DWTS" premieres March 18.
So who will be hoofing it up next month?
Wynonna Judd: The country music star said on "GMA" that "DWTS" has tried to recruit her for the last six years.
D.L. Hughley: The comic and former CNN host is a member of "The Original Kings of Comedy."
Jacoby Jones: You might recall that the Baltimore Ravens receiver returned the opening kickoff of the second half of Super Bowl 47 for a 108-yard touchdown, tying an NFL record that he set last October.
Lisa Vanderpump: The London-born restaurateur is already a reality star thanks to Bravo's "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" and the spinoff, "Vanderpump Rules."
Andy Dick: The comedian and actor is looking to bounce back.
Victor Ortiz: Considered one of the top welterweight boxers in the world, Ortiz is a former WBC welterweight champion. He lost that title to former "DWTS" contestant Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2012.
Zendaya Coleman: The 16-year-old star of Disney Channel's "Shake It Up" looks to follow in the footsteps of co-star Roshon Fegan, who finished sixth in the 14th season of "DWTS."
Aly Raisman: The gold-medal gymnast looks to match the success of Shawn Johnson, who won the eighth season of "DWTS" and finished second in "All-Stars."
Ingo Rademacher: The German-born actor has played Jasper "Jax" Jacks on ABC's "General Hospital" since 1996.
Kellie Pickler: The former roller-skating waitress is the first "American Idol" contestant to compete on "DWTS." The country crooner finished sixth on the fifth season of "Idol."
Dorothy Hamill: The figure skating legend won Olympic gold in 1976 and continues to be a mentor to younger skaters.
The show also revealed some changes to its dance pro lineup, as popular pros Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Anna Trebunskaya and Chelsie Hightower won't be competing this season. Among the new pros unveiled was former "So You Think You Can Dance" contestant Lindsay Arnold.
Maks hinted that he wasn't going to return to "DWTS" last fall, and he issued a statement on Tuesday confirming his departure and thanking the show and his fans.
"I just want to set the record straight to all of my amazing fans that I will unfortunately not be returning for this season of 'Dancing with the Stars,'" he said. "I've been a Pro dancer on the show for about seven years now and am eager to explore other opportunities ... I'm going to take this time to dive into producing and acting, while fulfilling my sponsorship obligations."
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* Update of VW's compact crossover * Price from £21,000-£27,500 (est) * MPG 32.8-53.3 CO2 139-199g/km...
What is it?
Volkswagen's compact crossover, the Tiguan, gets a mid-term update.
What's new?
The Tiguan has three new petrol engines a 158bhp turbo- and supercharged 1.4 and 2.0-litre turbos delivering 178bhp or 207bhp and a 109bhp 2.0-litre diesel. Even the two existing engines, 2.0-litre 138 and 168bhp diesels, deliver improved economy with lower emissions.
The front and rear have been restyled to ensure the Tiguan looks like it's part of the latest VW range and to bring it into line with the company's big 4x4, the Touareg. New comfort and safety options include variable suspension control (DCC), self-parking, road sign recognition, automatic headlight beam adjustment, prevention of unintended lane changes and a monitor to detect tired drivers and warn them to take a break.
What's the line-up?
As before, all models are five-door five-seaters, and there's a choice of front- or four-wheel-drive, but not with every engine. Front-wheel-drive versions are designated Bluemotion Technology and have engine stop-start and a brake energy recovery system, while those with four-wheel-drive look a bit sturdier and have more off-roading aids, including greater ground clearance beneath the front bumper. There will be four trim choices.
Is it any good?
Very. The Tiguan has always been one of the better compact crossovers, and this mid-life update should keep it that way until it's time for a replacement. It gives you as much space as a mid-sized five-seat MPV, but with the option of being more adventurous in all-wheel-drive guise.
Refinement and ride comfort (especially with DCC) are outstanding for the class, and the driving position is less up-in-the-air than in many similar cars, although some buyers might not find that a good thing.
What are the downsides?
It's not as adventurously styled as a Ford Kuga or Kia Sportage, or the forthcoming Audi Q3 and Range Rover Evoque.
The 138bhp diesel, which will be far and away the best-seller, is disappointingly short of mid-range torque especially noticeable when trying to find an overtaking spot and even the 168bhp version needs a most un-diesel-like dose of revs before you have the confidence to pull out to pass. It's all down to changes in the gearing to bring about the improvement in economy.
The lane-change prevention system fuzzes the messages coming through the steering (although you can switch it off), while the top-line touch-screen sat-nav dishes out instructions way before you need to turn, which gets confusing in town.
Should I consider one?
If you're in the market for this sort of car, you'd be a fool not to. It makes the switch from more routine compact family car to crossover a seamless process.
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Q: I've decided to be more mindful about my meat and fish consumption. Can you recommend butchers and fishmongers in Chicago or the close-in suburbs that sell responsibly produced meat and fish? I am looking for more information than the animal welfare scale that one local grocer uses.
—Claudia Perry, Evanston
A: I found two resources online that should prove helpful, the Shedd Aquarium's Right Bite program and Red Meat Market, a cyber/social resource for local, sustainable meat and those who love to eat it.
Red Meat Market, which is not an actual meat market, offers a list of Chicago butchers (redmeatmarket.com) based on specific set of criteria. Founder Mark Wilhelms said the butchers are ranked based on various sustainability factors, including how close to Chicago the animals were pastured, where the animals raised without antibiotics or hormones and if the animals grass fed.
Shedd's Right Bite program (sheddaquarium.org) seeks to steer consumers toward sustainable seafood. The program lists area retailers, restaurants, caterers and culinary schools as Right Bite partners.
"Right Bite partners receive staff training on seafood issues provided by Shedd experts," the aquarium's Web site reads. "They also pledge to offer at least two sustainable seafood options at all times and, if applicable, to permanently remove at least one unsustainable choice from their menus or product inventories."
I can think of a few other options you can pursue whether you live in the Chicago area or wherever:
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2. Patronize your local farmers market. You'll likely find purveyors of sustainable, local meat there or if not, some tips to help you in your search.
3. Make it a habit to ask questions about the meat, seafood, vegetables and fruit you buy at whatever market you patronize. Where is it from? How was it grown or raised? What's been added to it (or not) in processing or shipping? Now, be reasonable about this. Don't expect to get much of an answer during, say, the evening rush before a major holiday. But if you're in the store during off-hours, you should be able to find someone in the store who can answer your questions.
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Rangers still covet right-handed bat, Garza
ARLINGTON -- The Rangers are among the teams that continue to have active trade discussions with the Cubs for starting pitcher Matt Garza. The Rangers have placed Ross Wolf in the rotation but they are still hoping to land Garza, whether it's in the next few days or by the July 31 Trade Deadline.
The Rangers are looking for both a starting pitcher and a right-handed bat.
"We could go both ways," general manager Jon Daniels said. "We're having active conversations on both fronts. We'd like to improve the club."
Garza, 29, is 6-1 with a 3.17 ERA in 11 starts for the Cubs and is being pursued by just about every team in need of starting pitching. The Rangers are considered a strong candidate because of their deep farm system.
The Rangers will open the second half with Derek Holland, Wolf and Martin Perez pitching during the three-game series with the Orioles that starts on Friday. Yu Darvish, who threw a bullpen session on Thursday, is expected to come off the disabled list on Monday and there is a strong possibility Alexi Ogando could do the same on Tuesday.
Justin Grimm, who is 2-4 with a 9.91 ERA in his past eight starts, would pitch Tuesday if Ogando is not ready. Otherwise Grimm could end up in the bullpen. Nick Tepesch, on the disabled list with inflammation in his right elbow, has started playing catch again but is not close to being activated. Colby Lewis, who pitched 2 2/3 innings on medical rehabilitation assignment Tuesday at Double-A Frisco, is unlikely to be an option before the Trade Deadline.
"We're getting ready to activate two starting pitchers and that will go a long way to getting us back to where we want to be," Daniels said. "But our goal is more than just being in a good position. We have high goals and expectations, and we'd like to reward and help these guys."


text: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on Golden Globes Drinking Games, Live Musicals and 'SNL' (Q&A) 8:00 AM PST 1/7/2014 by Marisa Guthrie FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Getty Images Tina Fey Amy Poehler Golden Globes Monolog 2 - H 2013 In an interview with THR ahead of Sunday's awards ceremony, Poehler jokes that she's "rooting for 'Avatar.' " Hosting an awards show is always risky. Just ask Seth "We Saw Your Boobs" MacFarlane. But Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hit the sweet spot at last year's Golden Globe Awards, skewering everyone from James Cameron to Anne Hathaway with just the right combination of snark and self-deprecation. The result: great reviews and a 17 percent uptick in the ratings with 20?million total viewers. How are they feeling about this year's return engagement on Jan. 12? The Hollywood Reporter chatted with the duo (separately; their answers are combined) to find out if hosting the Globes is as wonderful the second time around. VIDEO: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's Best Awards Show Moments Does the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) tell you not to be mean? Amy Poehler: But we're not mean. That's not really our thing. When you host a show you have to hopefully be funny at the top and set the tone for a really fun evening. When we did do it, it felt like it was pretty organic and there wasn't a lot of stress from the HFPA about what we were going to do. Tina Fey: If it seems like it's not too harsh, you hope it's right. But you don't know until it comes out of your mouth. Last year, we tried to err on the side of hardly saying anything and just going backstage. That was our strategy; don't be out there. Do they tell you anything or anyone is off limits? Fey and Poehler: No. What is the worst pitch you've ever been given for an awards show joke? Poehler: You think I'm going to tell you a bad idea for a joke? You're f---ing crazy. No! Honestly you're just trying to figure out a fresh take on something. We like to leave a little space and air and sometimes that means having to think up a lot of different versions of the same joke or topic. Fey: There are no jokes that you're like, "Oh, that's terrible" because it's either, "Oh, we can use that" or it just falls on the scrap pile. The ones that don't work, you just don't remember them. I think we read about 1,000 jokes. NBC is now the Sound of Music network. Are you getting any pressure to do the whole show as a live musical number? Poehler: OK, I see what you're doing, you're going to set up jokes. I'm not falling for that. I didn't say any of that. I've worked at NBC for 12 years so I'm happy they had a successful night of TV. Fey: We're going to do most of Sweeney Todd but we're going to fit it in so it seems like a natural part of the show. It's exciting because we're going to kill a bunch of movie stars. That doesn't sound right at all. Poehler: You never know. We may just break into spontaneous song. Yeah, I'm going to play Todd. VIDEO: Golden Globes: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler Promise to Go 'Grand' in Promos A challenge: $1,000 if both of you wear Amy Adams' plunging blouse thing from American Hustle. Fey: First of all, if you think my going rate for anything is $1,000 you are looking at an old catalog. I get at least $12,000 to dress up in sexual costumes for people. I would wear that for free. You would not have to pay me to wear that. Poehler: Oh eww, I don't want to even answer this question. Pass. Next. Which of the Globes parties is the best? Poehler: We ended up having our own [last year], which was really cool because we raised money for Worldwide Orphan Foundation, which is an organization I work with. And that was really great to feel like you're not just being totally gross but doing something for other people that night. It was a fun afterparty. I don't remember the other ones. So they were all great. Fey: My only regret about that party -- and this is not even a joke -- I was very mad at myself that I did not think to invite the cast of Smash because I was a huge Smash viewer. And they were there and I blew it. When will they ever be assembled as a group again? Virtually all the best actress drama nominees are over 40 -- Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock, Judi Dench, Emma Thompson -- and Kate Winslet is almost 40. She's 38. Fey: Oh my God, Kate Winslet is still not 40! That is just rude. So does this signify some sort of shift in power in Hollywood? Should younger actresses start complaining about ageism in Hollywood? Fey: That's a good idea. We'll write some jokes about that for the thing. I think you're going to see a lot of gowns with sleeves -- cap sleeves, ballerina sleeves. Poehler: If anything I think it's proof of the longevity and versatility of women. Isn't 40 the new 30 and 80 is the new 20? I think a lesson is: If you've got it when you're young, you'll keep it when you're older. But it's a good area to make jokes about, so thank you for that idea. Oprah Winfrey was snubbed for The Butler. Will her career recover? Fey: You know, as far as her acting career goes, she's young. She's got to get out there, do some summer stock. She will have her shot eventually. Poehler: You know, being snubbed is not always a bad thing at these awards shows because you end up getting a lot of people coming up to you and telling you how great you are. I can't speak for Oprah, I only want Oprah to speak for me. I'd like it if you could track her down and ask her how I think she feels about it. And whatever she says, I agree with. Have you seen all of the nominated movies? Anything you're rooting for? Poehler: I think it would be funny if I came out in an August: Osage County sweatshirt. It would be funny to just be really rooting for one movie. But I haven't seen them all. Right now, I'm rooting for Avatar. I know it's crazy, but I think Avatar could really pull it out this year. So I'm putting my money on Avatar. There was some carping about Seth MacFarlane's Oscar hosting performance last year. What did you think of the "boobs" song? Fey: If Seth MacFarlane answered a question about how he thought my bit was, I'd be furious. So I would never weigh in on somebody else's bit. It's not my burden to defend it or attack it. It's not my problem. Poehler: It's so hard to host. I don't want to comment on anybody else's performance. Why would you think that we would say anything about anybody's performance if we're getting ready to do our own? It's a hard to job to host anything. Period. After a lot of public criticism, SNL is adding an African-American women to the cast. Do you think that criticism was warranted? Fey: I think Kerry Washington did such a great job on the [Nov. 2] show [in a sketch that addressed the controversy]. And you saw how great it was for Jay Pharoah to have someone playing Michelle Obama opposite [his President Obama]. So I feel like they registered that really quickly and they've acted on it really quickly. Poehler: Ugh, I don't want to talk about this. Pass. [Editor's note: This interview was conducted in December.] Seth Meyers has said that you two helped explode the myth of SNL as an insular old boys club. Thoughts? Fey: I was there for nine years, I think, and the whole span of that time the women in the cast were very strong, from Cheri [Oteri] and Molly [Shannon] and Ana [Gasteyer] through to Maya [Rudolph] and Amy and Kristen [Wiig]. It was a long period of female stars dominating in a lot of ways. The women in the cast were really strong. We had a female director. We had more female writers. And once the numbers change in the room then the taste of what gets on changes organically. You saw that in the Kerry Washington-hosted show; having Kerry there changed the makeup of the room. And it goosed the show in a good way. Poehler: I landed at SNL at a ripe time for women. Tina was at the helm and surrounded by such talented people; Rachel Dratch and Maya Rudolph and Ana Gasteyer and Molly Shannon and Wiig. For the past almost 15 years now, I feel like the women have been really strong. That boys club mentality wasn't really around when I was there, so I can't really speak to it. I just don't answer those kinds of questions because they're old news. But I'll say that working with Seth is and was a dream because he's such a highly evolved male. He's not intimidated by really strong women who occasionally sexually harass him during the day. Just light harassment. He can take it and frankly sometimes, I think he asks for it. Why do you think there seems to be such a temptation to draw a gender line with comedy? I assume you want to be known as a comedian period, not a female comedian? Fey: I just want to be able to work with my friends. And the people who are funny when you're in the trenches, those are the people you want around you -- Amy Poehler, Tracey Wigfield, Robert Carlock. And the only disadvantage women have is have to keep fucking answering the question of, "Is it hard and are women funny?" The men don't have to answer that question. That's the only impairment. Tina, are you going to be one of the first guests on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show when it premieres Feb. 24? Fey: Oh I hope so. I'm hoping that the first Tonight Show will open with me singing the national anthem. I haven't pitched that to anyone. Maybe the French national anthem? I could be the musical guest. And Amy, you are booked for Meyers' first Late Night show, yes? Poehler: That's the plan. Either way I'm going to watch it -- whether it's from his couch in his studio or from my couch. With Fallon taking over Tonight and Meyers inheriting Late Night, NBC's entire late-night lineup will be dominated by SNL alums. Poehler: We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals? Lorne Michaels? Poehler: Oh, that would be perfect. What did you learn from last year that you'd put into practice this time around? Poehler: I'm going to try to keep an open mind and an open wallet and just pay people all night to laugh. Last year you invented a Golden Globes drinking game for us. Are there any new categories this year? Fey: Any time you see a gown with sleeves, you're going to drink. Any time they cut to Tom Hanks for a reaction shot, do five push-ups and you will be ripped by the end of the ceremony. Poehler: So now I'm just writing a joke for you that I might want to use for the show. How about this for a drinking game? Every time I drink, everybody at home should drink. And if Bryan Cranston speaks, everybody has to do a little bit of meth. Just a touch, because that's all you need, just a touch. Who was the drunkest last year in the audience? Poehler: The best fake drunk was Glenn Close. I guess it would probably be somebody's plus-one, like a disgruntled plus-one. But most people seemed to be in tip-top shape and on their beta blockers. Who are you wearing this year? Fey: I bet I'm not supposed to say yet. But they're really nice and I love them. Do they have sleeves? Fey: It's just sleeves and then my torso is naked. Awesome. This is going to be the highest-rated Golden Globes show ever. Fey: For like 30 seconds. And then the camera is going to pan in a little bit and it's going to be a zero. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Marisa Guthrie firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


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IMF Survey Vol.34, No.7 April 2005
- What's On
- At a glance: IMF financial data
- In the news: overview Ministers urge vigilance to safeguard global economic pickup
- All nations urged to tackle global imbalances
- IMF must adapt to meet strategic challenges
- Research: Global growth in 2005 likely to remain robust, despite risks
- Research: Oil market to remain volatile on rising demand, sluggish supply
- Policy: Ministers seek to step up poverty reduction efforts
- Policy: MDGs pose daunting challenges, require urgent action
- Regional focus: More open markets, greater aid needed for Africa
- Africa's prospects improve, but MDGs remain out of reach
- Country focus: Brazil—Achieving its vast potential
- Reforms and debt relief set stage for accelerated poverty reduction in Honduras
- IMF lending: Stand-By, EFF, and PRGF arrangements as of March 31
- Research: Some hope from latest data on world poverty
IMF lending: Stand-By, EFF, and PRGF arrangements as of March 31
- International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
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A stage 1 RB26 ready to be fitted. You can by a complete engine straight from Mine's. You can choose between a stage 1 (480hp) or a stage 2 engine (580hp). All engines are hand build by Mine's chief engineer Nakayama San. A complete stage 2 engine without the ancillaries will cost you 3.000,000 yen. I could import a nice car for that LOL.
I noticed we didn't had a lot of Toyota Supra's on Speedhunters. It's not that we don't like the car, but its hard to find a really nice example. I think I have found one. The car has some nice features like the Top Secret carbon diffuser and the red color coded rims. Not sure on the make of the wheels but I'm sure you guys can help me out.
A final shot of their Nissan R35 GT-R. The car is rocking a new ESTA suspension system specifically designed for the road. The OEM rotors are replaced by Mine's items and the pads are upgraded by Pagid ones. Mine's claims that when you purchase their Titan exhaust system, VX filter replacement and their VX-Rom you will have power increase of 50 to 60hp.
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The Columbia County Housing Authority is an agency that helps "extremely low income" and "very low income" families with a rent assistance program. The Housing Authority is currently helping approximately 408 families, in privately owned rental units throughout Columbia County. The Authority also assists 50 elderly/disabled households in Evan Owen Memorial Apartments located in Berwick; and 20 three and four bedroom families in Town Park Village townhouses in Bloomsburg.
There is currently a waiting list for both programs, (for the Housing Authority's buildings, and for assistance in rentals owned privately). The current wait for Section 8 rental assistance is approximately one year long, or perhaps even longer. Prospective tenants, interested in privately owned rental units (Section 8 assistance), must apply at the main office, 700 Sawmill Road, Suite 101, Bloomsburg, Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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Giba7 wrote:just love the chili peppers!
(I guess it's a Dylan remake)
Of course it is a cover..why did I not make the connection. I remember seeing the video for the Dylan song on Muchmusic back when I was a teenager..my dad had pimped the video cuz he was a huge Dylan fan. At the same time I owned the Uplift Mofo Party Plan RECORD!!:oops:


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Lavender & Honey Cupcakes
1 cup (2 sticks) sweet butter, softened
1 cup superfine sugar
2 cups self-rising flour
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup cream cheese, softened (for frosting)
1.5 cups confectioner's sugar, sifted (for frosting)
1/3 cup honey (for frosting)
Blue food coloring (for frosting)
2 tbsp dried lavender flowers (for frosting)
Preheat the oven to 400° F (200° C). Place 18 paper baking cups in muffin pans. Combine all the cupcake ingredients in a medium bowl and beat with an electric beater until smooth and pale, about 2 to 3 minutes. Spoon the batter into the cups. Bake for 20 minutes. Remove pans from the oven and cool for 5 minutes. Then remove the cupcakes and cool on a rack.
For the frosting, beat the cream cheese and confectioners' sugar in a medium bowl with an electric mixer, until light and creamy. Beat in the honey and a few drops of the food coloring. Stir in half the lavender flowers.
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Word from Electronic Arts today is that Maxis, the studio behind The Sims and Spore, suffered layoffs today. No word on how many people were affected. EA described the cuts as an attempt to "focus" the studio.
"Often in the video game industry, the size of a studio fluctuates in response to business conditions," an EA spokesperson wrote in an e-mailed statement. "In this case, EA has taken action to reduce the workforce at Maxis as we focus the business and focus Maxis. EA remains fully committed to Spore and other IP within Maxis, with games planned for launch in the next few months, including Spore Hero, coming to the Wii for the first time, and Spore Hero Arena on the DS. All eligible employees will receive severance and outplacement assistance."
The layoffs were in the Emeryville studio, which is Maxis headquarters and the base of operations for Spore development. The Sims franchise, which was born at Maxis, is built out of EA's Redwood Shores offices, where The Sims 3 was created by the Sims Studio team.
Layoffs at Activision's Raven Software were also confirmed today.
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I'm working on a custom board, based on the sama5D36.
I'm trying to get SPI0 working, after the kernel has booted, using spidev, but looking at the analyzer, the clock is garbage (and maybe MOSI as well).
at91bootstrap and u-boot-at91 work with SPI0 (they load the u-boot and Linux from the SPI flash) - SPI looks perfect on analyzer.
I followed the instructions of "Usage of SPI 0 and SPI 1": discussions/viewtopic.php/f,33/t,25273.html, but when insmod-ing spidev.ko I get the following panic:
I'm not sure if it's all due to the 'compatible' issue, and if so - if it's related to my problem.
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root@SparkGate:~# insmod spidev.ko
spidev spi32766.0: buggy DT: spidev listed directly in DT
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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 877 at drivers/spi/spidev.c:730 spidev_probe+0x16c/0x1a8 [spidev]()
Modules linked in: spidev(+)
CPU: 0 PID: 877 Comm: insmod Not tainted 4.1.0-linux4sam_5.2-ShiraTech-00.02-SparkGate-svn9836 #52
Hardware name: Atmel SAMA5
[<c0013754>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0011740>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[<c0011740>] (show_stack) from [<c001c9bc>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x74/0xac)
[<c001c9bc>] (warn_slowpath_common) from [<c001ca10>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x1c/0x24)
[<c001ca10>] (warn_slowpath_null) from [<bf000288>] (spidev_probe+0x16c/0x1a8 [spidev])
[<bf000288>] (spidev_probe [spidev]) from [<c02b090c>] (spi_drv_probe+0x5c/0x74)
[<c02b090c>] (spi_drv_probe) from [<c0259210>] (driver_probe_device+0x1c0/0x264)
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New Start
Last night, I tried to revamp this blog. I was attempting to place a different header up top, but I received a message that said I had no more room for photos. WHAT?! I had never heard of this before.
Well...the photos that you find on this blog are linked from Picasa web albums, and I guess I have too many. In order to keep going on blogger, I have to eliminate some of those photos which will then, in turn, remove them from my blog posts. I'm not sure that I'm willing to do that yet.
I tried to create a new blog, but duh! It still links to the same account and therefore draws from the same Picasa account. That just wasn't going to work.
So, for now, I am working on creating a WordPress account. So far I don't love it. You can't do all the cute things you can with Blogger, so I'm trying to work through all the ins and outs of that. It will definitely be a learning process, and it's also certain to take quite a bit of time that I don't really have right now with school going on. I hope you'll be patient with me.
Here is the address to the new blog: http://hessesmadhouse.wordpress.com/. If you have any advice or comments for me, I'd love to hear them. Thanks for being patient in this.
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Yale-trained psychiatrist working to strengthen Newtown mental health resources
In the wake of the mass shooting that took place on Dec. 14 and left 20 children and six adults dead, Newtown, Conn., has hired a respected, Yale-trained expert in trauma, Dr. Jill L. Barron to serve as a trauma mental health adviser.
Barron, who, among other things, treated New York firefighters after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, has been working with the Newtown Health District officially since mid-February, although, she said, "I have been sort of involved since the beginning."
She is working directly with Newtown Health Director Donna Culbert to strengthen the town's existing mental health support, infrastructure and leadership and assess the community's needs as it continues to recover -- and as those needs continue to change.
"We've been working with a lot of mental health providers. But I really needed expertise to help me work through that process," said Culbert, discussing Barron's role after First Selectwoman Patricia Llodra introduced her at a recent Board of Selectmen meeting.
"We've experienced something that no one else has," Culbert said. "Dr. Baron has worked with most of the providers in town. ... I'm relieved that I have someone that's so very capable working with me."
Barron sees her role as "just making sure that the community is getting what they need."
What she does "is about the community," she said. "It's about responding to the needs of the community. It's about really just looking at responding to them when and if they ask for help."
"It's about knowledge and communication, but simultaneously about sharing with the community what's available ... in terms of the local resources," she said. "Not just mental health, but all the resources."
For the short term, "there's a lot of great work that's getting done. But if you look at intermediate and long-term needs, you have to build the capacity," she said.
The town brought in Barron as it moves beyond the initial phases of response to the tragedy, which saw a slew of resources poured into the Sandy Hook and Newtown communities from all over, but not always in perfectly coordinated fashion.
"The need for a mental health consultant with expertise in trauma is of paramount importance to us, and we are confident that Dr. Barron will serve us well in this regard," Llodra said in a statement announcing Barron's hiring. "Every member of our community and beyond has been impacted in some way by this horrendous event, and we believe it's important to provide those closest to the tragedy the opportunity for professional assistance."
Barron is beginning her role -- which is being paid for, at least initially, by a $50,000 grant from a foundation associated with Praxair Inc., headquartered in Danbury -- by conducting a formal needs assessment, said Culbert.
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November 17, 2002
Newark Puts Its Fiery Riot Behind It
By BRENT STAPLES
The riots that burned through this country in the late 1960's ravaged more than 125 cities and reached into 28 states. Most Americans would find it difficult to name even a dozen of those cities. But the conflagration that ripped through Newark in 1967 remains especially fresh in public memory, perhaps because most people had never heard of the city until they watched it burning on the evening news. Try as it might to escape, Newark has lived in the shadow of its riot for 35 years.
The riots sent businesses and middle-class families streaming into the suburbs. But one of the lesser known legacies of all that fiery violence is what urbanologists call "the architecture of fear" which includes gated communities and those ubiquitous fortress-style office towers that project windowless stone walls to the sidewalk where stores and shops should be. The architecture of fear has killed the possibility of street life in downtown Los Angeles and hurt the revitalization of Detroit as well. Visit Newark at rush hour on a weekday evening and you will see the same symptoms on display. The train station at rush hour is bustling with commuters sipping coffee and reading, many waiting to be picked up and whisked off to the suburbs. But a short walk from the station, into the heart of the city, you encounter the eerily vacant thoroughfare of Raymond Boulevard, lined with buildings that feature blank facades instead of stores or coffee shops. The Hilton Gateway Hotel has a drab cement-colored face that looks like some kind of bunker at the street level.
Covered elevated walkways allow workers to move from the train station to any one of several office towers without ever touching the street. There is little to see anyway, since the designers omitted shops and retail spaces that would have attracted people. At 6 in the evening, I walked several blocks into this city of 274,000 people and encountered fewer than a half-dozen pedestrians.
Planners and community groups in Newark have become vividly aware of this problem. The architecture of fear downtown seems to have met its match, in the approachable, human-scale architecture of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. This graceful, low-rise, red brick structure, awash in light, is a visual oasis in Newark and more engaging by far than its unglamorous acronym, NJPAC, suggests. The building has become a magnet for foot traffic in a previously vacant corner of downtown.
The first time I visited the area around the center at night, I passed through empty streets and suddenly encountered throngs of people filing in to see the British pop star Elvis Costello. "If someone had told you 10 years ago that there would be 3,000 people in downtown Newark at night, you would have called them crazy," said Lawrence Goldman, NJPAC's president and chief executive.
The main performance hall, done in warm woods and copper trim, has the intimate feel of a nicely appointed living room. The foyers and lobbies have a similarly warm, even homey feel. The building is popular with foundations and businesses staging parties and retreats. During the summer, the front plaza becomes the stage for weekly free outdoor concerts that attract as many as 2,500 people a night. Once stark and fearsomely vacant, the area is now a thriving singles scene. Restaurants and parking lots have sprouted nearby.
Mr. Goldman was seen as crazy when he first argued that the city should build a world-class cultural institution in its desolate downtown. One set of skeptics told him that white suburbanites who had been scared away by the riots would never come back at night. Another set of skeptics predicted that white suburbanites would come but that black people would stay away in droves.
The doubters have proved to be spectacularly wrong. Celebrating its fifth birthday this fall, NJPAC has become what surveys describe as one of the most well-attended performing arts centers of its kind in the country, outstripping its peers by a significant margin. One in four tickets is bought by minority patrons a proportion that puts performing arts centers in most other cities to shame.
With its intimate feel, the center has little in common with stolid, formal institutions like the Kennedy Center in Washington or Lincoln Center in New York. Mr. Goldman's architects were pushed to create what he describes as a "welcoming building" that "makes people feel hugged when they come in" and makes them want to linger.
Mr. Goldman is campaigning to ensure that other parts of downtown Newark are rebuilt with the same goal in mind. His influence is apparent in the new 12-story F.B.I. building that is going up just a stone's throw from NJPAC. What could easily have been a cold, stone obelisk has turned out to be an illuminated, window-filled building that will have restaurants and retail space. Though not perfect, the building harmonizes with the waterfront in a way that a traditional fortress structure would not.
In the old days, Newark would have been pleased to have any building it could get, fortress or not. But the tempering of the look of the F.B.I. building reflects a new awareness that good architecture will help the city's renaissance and that bad architecture can hurt it. When the history of the Newark comeback is written, it will likely begin at the start of the 21st century, when NJPAC solidified its position as the living, breathing town square that had been missing in downtown Newark for 40 years.
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While Newark won't be a 24 hour city anytime in the forseeable future, if indeed the Nets and Devils arena makes it to downtown Newark, it should reenforce what this article is saying...
I have actually seen a show at NJPAC - it is a spectacular performance venue.
November 30, 2003
Developers Plan to Repopulate the Downtown Area
By JOHN HOLUSHA
The Hahne & Company department store and the Griffith Building behind it are to hold 223 apartments.
FOR more than 17 years, the old Hahne & Company department store has sat vacant on two blocks of prime real estate on Broad Street in downtown Newark, defying multiple attempts to convert it to another use. But lately, a new owner, the Cogswell Realty Group, has cleaned up the exterior and installed new windows, planning to convert it and the adjacent Griffith Building into 223 rental apartment units.
Other developers also plan residential projects in the downtown area, including converting office buildings, building new mixed-use towers along the Passaic River shoreline and adding residential structures at the city's colleges and a new "urban village" of midrise and high-rise housing in an area that might or might not become the home of a new sports stadium.
In all, these projects could add more than 6,000 housing units in Newark's downtown, giving it the first sizable resident population in generations, said Arthur R. Stern, the president of Cogswell, which is based in New York.
The hope is that if people live in the city, rather than fleeing to the suburbs after work or school, it will encourage the development of restaurants and other retail services that are largely lacking now.
"Newark has been a ghost town after 5 p.m.," said Sharpe James, the city's mayor. "To have a viable city, you need to have a viable downtown and we are trying to make downtown into a neighborhood." He said that while corporations had moved offices into downtown or expanded their presence in recent years, there had been no parallel growth in a full-time residents.
A big part of the reason, Mr. Stern said, is that there was no housing suitable for the people working in the area. "There is zero supply," he said. He said Cogswell was planning to spend $180 million to convert the Hahne-Griffith complex and a nearby office building at 1180 Raymond Boulevard to residences.
Demand for housing is coming not just from office workers. Educational officials say students at what were largely commuter colleges in the city are increasingly demanding to live on campus and in the process producing a more livable city.
"With our housing and the projects on Broad Street, we could convert this into a 24-hour-a-day community," said Steven J. Diner, provost and chief operating officer of Rutgers University's Newark campus. He said it could be argued that Newark, although its roots were industrial, is now the most college-oriented town in the nation, with more than 40,000 undergraduate and graduate students in a city of 275,000.
IN addition to Rutgers-Newark, the cluster of educational institutions in what is known as the University Heights part of the city includes the New Jersey Institute of Technology, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Essex County College. State plans to merge Rutgers University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Medicine and Dentistry would produce a university offering a full range of undergraduate and graduate studies.
Rutgers-Newark is planning a new undergraduate dormitory that would house 600 students construction is expected to begin this summer and it is considering apartmentlike graduate housing that would fill a full block.
"We want retail all around on the first floor," Dr. Diner said of the graduate housing. "There is no reason why we could not have a Barnes & Noble or Borders bookstore there with a coffee bar."
For nonstudents, the new developments could offer housing prices and rentals at less than half the cost in Manhattan and less than in parts of Jersey City and Hoboken.
And with the restoration of the PATH line to Lower Manhattan, Newark residents would be a station stop or two away from locations on the Hudson River. The main northeast line of Amtrak also runs through Newark and is about a 15-minute ride into Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan.
"Newark has a wonderful transportation infrastructure left over from the 19th and early 20th centuries," Dr. Diner said. "And we have the Art Deco buildings that were not torn down and replaced because of Newark's condition."
Newark's condition is a polite way of describing a city whose industrial base dwindled or moved away, whose population declined from more than 400,000 in the 1960's to its current level and that was battered by bloody riots in 1967. Indeed, some of the educational institutions drawing all those students today were expanded or moved into the city after 1967 to provide an economic base.
This is a good strategy for economic development in a postindustrial era, said Peter Smirniotopoulos, an urban planner and faculty member at Johns Hopkins University.
"In a knowledge-based economy, colleges and universities will be the factories of the 21st century," he wrote in the November issue of Urban Land magazine. Rather than stay confined to their own campuses, he said, "colleges and universities should be better integrated into the cities and towns where they are located."
RUTGERS-NEWARK is a few blocks north of Broad Street but is separated from the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and a growing arts area to the south by a dead zone two blocks deep and six blocks wide that includes the Hahne and Griffith Buildings, a surface parking lot and old retail buildings that will probably be demolished.
If they are successfully turned into residences, it would join the two areas into a community, real estate officials said.
The fact that people were willing to go to work in the rehabilitated office buildings on Broad Street in the city's core suggested there was a pent-up demand for housing, said Larry Regan of Regan Development. His company is converting an office building that was completed in 1906 at 9 Clinton Street, just south of Broad Street, into 63 one- and two-bedroom apartment units that will rent for $1,000 to $1,600 a month.
"There has been no new housing or rehabilitation in 15 to 20 years, and we are convinced that there are a lot of people who want to live near where their jobs are," Mr. Regan said.
"The cultural amenities of the city could produce a live-work neighborhood, and that could lead to more restaurants and retail amenities on the commercial side."
Matrix Development, which had largely been an industrial developer in the state's midsection, is planning a mixed-use development, including 400 to 500 housing units, stores, a hotel and possibly an office building along the Passaic River.
Richard F. X. Johnson, the company's senior vice president for development, said the residential and retailing components would be built first, with the units becoming available in the fall of 2005.
He said communities upstream were working to clean up the contaminated Passaic River, which was the area's main transportation link before the 19th century. A riverfront park is being built north of the Matrix development and water events like rowing competitions are planned in the area.
Mr. Johnson said the developers of the individual projects were working together to create an attractive community that would benefit them all.
"It is not enough for us to be successful," he said. "Arthur has to be successful and the others as well if this is going to work."
Not everything is rosy, of course. For one thing, the public schools are widely seen as struggling to provide an adequate education for the city's children. That situation will probably have a lot to do with the types of people who might be interested in living downtown, said James W. Hughes, dean of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers.
"The market will be for people in the pre- and post-children phases," he said. "The maturing baby boomers are 57 this year and that means lots of empty nesters. And the echo boomers are 20-somethings interested in an urban lifestyle."
In addition, he said, the efforts to prevent the sprawl of housing over the countryside in the state are beginning to work, redirecting development back into cities. "There is a basic shift on housing," he said. "This may be part of that."
Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company
Living in the former store looks like it could be awesome. Gigantic windows.
Phase I of the Newark light rail is now under construction. Phase I is the tunnel segment that connects the Newark City Subway to street level near the NJ Performing Arts Center.
Wonderful news! Is there a site detailing the entire proposed system?
All I've found so far is this transit map of the metro area:
It's a biiiiig file, but it includes the subway, MetroNorth, LIRR, Amtrak, NJ Transit, both AirTrains, PATH, Newark City Subway, Hudson-Bergen, lines that are under construction, and major ferry routes. Very informative, and it is updated regularly.
This is really what Newark needs. Cities tend to do better with good rail transit transportation.
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The Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart is a huge, Gothic Cathedral seen from Branch Brook Park, another park by Olmstead and Vaux. Branch Brook Park boasts more cherry blossoms than the Tidal Basin in Washington D.C.
This is actually more of an extension of the Newark subway (same system, same cars) and is the key link between Broad St (Lackawana) station and Penn Station. Its basically the same as the Jersey City/Bayonne light rail, and eventually all will be connected...Originally Posted by NYatKNIGHT
Work has steadily been progressing on the Newark waterfront promenade...
Installation of concrete formwork in preparation of concrete pour
Dewatered cofferdam area and concrete curing with burlap cover
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Several fast food chains, including Wendy's and McDonald's, are exploring new ways to boost sales and drive foot traffic.
Wendy's has recently introduced new menu items and tweaked existing favorites. Meanwhile, McDonald's has announced that it will undergo an image facelift.
And Chick-fil-A wants in on the expansion action. The popular Atlanta-based restaurant is also testing new menu offerings -- and they look pretty awesome.
"Only a few select locations around the country are offering these test items," writes Isai Rocha for Foodbeast.
"Chick-fil-A Upland store owner Ed Hawkins said all the stores in the Inland Empire will be offering the new breakfast options and will push the items within the next three months," Rocha adds.
Hawkins said the company would keep track of how well the new products perform.
"We'll report that information to Chick-fil-A [Corporate], Chick-fil-A will evaluate it and let us know whether or not it's going to move forward," he said.
Foodbeast's Peter Pham and Rocha tested -- and critiqued -- the new menu items. Here's what they had to say:
Chick-fil-A Maple Waffle:
The first thing we had our eyes on was the waffle. When you grow up in Calif., Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles is a pretty big deal. I remember the day I found out that chicken and waffles could be found not only in the same building, but on the very same plate. It absolutely blew my mind!
This was Pete's personal favorite item of the bunch and he said it was as if a "waffle and a donut had a baby."
It's hard finding a good waffle without having to check into a sit-down restaurant, so the fact that they came individually wrapped was a plus. The small portion size, however, was a little disappointing.
Chick-fil-A Cinnamon Biscuit Roll
The cinnamon roll is looking to replace the current cinnamon cluster on the menu. I've only had the cluster once, but other than general aesthetics, didn't notice any significant difference in flavor between the roll and the cluster.
Bacon Egg and Cheese Bagel
I've always hated the Chick-fil-A multi-grain bagel and everything it stands for, so trying out the sandwich with a regular bagel was a pleasant change. Although it might not be as healthy as the multi-grain bagel, it definitely tasted a lot better.
Click here to see what else Foodbeast had to say about the new Chick-fil-A menu items.
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dxProf 1.0.8 is released What's new:- Fixes crash when minimizing target application- Added merging of sequential events with identical callstack DxProf is a realtime DirectX profiling tool for easy identification of performance bottlecks on the GPU. DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and DirectX 11 are supported.


text: Bluefields, the social network that links sports players together for easier communication between teams and leagues, announced Friday it had raised a $1 million seed round. Contributors include Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's VegasTechFund, Facebook Europe executive Christian Hernandez, Elliot Loh (formerly of Yammer), and a number of other angels and seed fund contributors. The startup also exited its private beta on Friday, opening itself up to more potential users.