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In this file photo, Chevy trucks line the lot of a dealer in Murrysville, Pa. Chrysler says its October U.S. sales rose 11 percent from a year ago, a sign that the auto industry recovered from a slow September. All automakers reported October sales on Friday.DETROIT — The government shutdown dampened — but didn't stall — Americans' demand for new cars and trucks.
The 16-day shutdown slowed U.S. auto sales in the first two weeks of October, but they picked up speed in the last two weeks. Sales rose 11 percent to 1.2 million.
General Motors, Ford, Nissan and Chrysler all recorded double-digit sales gains, while Toyota, Honda and Hyundai saw smaller increases. Of major automakers, only Volkswagen's sales fell.
Stable fuel prices, low interest rates and the increased availability of credit pushed people to buy regardless of the political wrangling, said Kurt McNeil, GM's vice president of U.S. sales.
"All those things that have been driving the economy? They're still there," he said.
Pickup trucks sold well as business improved for contractors and other workers. Sales of the Chevrolet Silverado, GM's top selling vehicle, jumped 10 percent to nearly 43,000, and Chrysler's Ram truck was up 18 percent. Sales of Ford's F-Series pickups rose 13 percent and topped 60,000 for the sixth month in a row.
SUV sales were also strong. Sales of Nissan's Pathfinder, which was recently redesigned, nearly doubled from last October. Sales of the Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban large SUVs both jumped more than 50 percent.
The weak spot was small cars and hybrids, which have been struggling to win buyers as gas prices fall. Gas prices averaged $3.27 per gallon at the end of October, the lowest level of the year. The national average has dropped 31 cents since Labor Day, according to AAA.
Toyota Prius hybrid sales fell 7 percent while the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid was down 32 percent. The tiny Fiat 500 fell 36 percent.
Sales of Ford's Focus small car were down 17 percent, while its C-Max small hybrid fell 20 percent. Ford recently announced plans to idle the Michigan factory where those vehicles are made for two weeks this fall because of weak demand.
U.S. consumers have started to gradually shift from smaller, more fuel-efficient cars to larger vehicles, said Jesse Toprak, an analyst with the TrueCar.com auto pricing web site.
Stable gas prices aren't the only reason, he said. Cheap financing and sweet lease deals have made larger vehicles more affordable, cutting the monthly payments so people can afford them even if gas prices go up.
"History has shown us that consumers in the U.S. would rather buy a larger vehicle given the choice," Toprak said.
Here are the October results announced Friday:
n Detroit: GM's sales rose 16 percent, with increases in all of its brands. GM's revamped Chevrolet Malibu midsize car was up 64 percent, while sales of the Cadillac ATS small car more than doubled. Ford's sales increased 14 percent. Sales of the Ford Fusion midsize sedan jumped 71 percent over last October after Ford added a factory shift to handle strong demand. Chrysler's sales rose 11 percent, led by its two most profitable vehicles, the Ram pickup and Jeep Grand Cherokee SUV, which was up 20 percent.
n Japan: Nissan's sales rose 14 percent to more than 91,000, an October record for the company. Toyota sales rose 9 percent, while Honda sales were up 7 percent. All three companies redesigned their small cars, so sales rose. Sales of Nissan's Sentra jumped 50 percent, Honda Civic sales improved by 32 percent and Toyota Corolla sales gained 13 percent. Also for Toyota, sales of the recently revamped Avalon sedan more than tripled. Honda's sales were up 7 percent, helped by strong sales of the new Acura RLX sedan and MDX SUV. Subaru sales jumped 32 percent as sales of the new Forester SUV more than doubled.
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Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz's planned visit to Kuwait, which has been postponed twice amid a sea border dispute, will now take place in early July, an MP said Saturday.
Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah told parliament's foreign affairs committee Prince Abdullah will be in Kuwait in the week starting July 1, committee spokesman MP Abdolmohsen Jamal told reporters.
The visit is expected to tackle a dispute between the two Gulf Arab neighbors on demarcating their sea border, a question officials in both countries have said needs a political decision.
The trip, originally due to start June 12, was postponed twice, the second time due to the death of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
Sheikh Sabah expressed hope Saturday that the issue of the continental shelf and its Dorrah gas field would be "settled soon".
Jamal, who praised the Saudi-Yemeni border deal, hoped the issue between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia would be resolved with "the same brotherly spirit" as shown by Riyadh and Sanaa.
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, who demarcated their land borders two years ago, ended maritime border talks in Riyadh earlier this month without agreement.
According to press reports in Kuwait, Crown Prince Abdullah could sign a deal on the maritime border straddling an area with huge gas deposits when he visits Kuwait.
The two Arab countries formed a technical committee in 1995 to draw up the sea border but negotiations were repeatedly put off until Tehran started drilling a few months ago.
A Saudi-Kuwaiti deal is deemed essential to open talks with Iran on how to share the waters of the northern Gulf shelf.
Following protests from both Riyadh and Kuwait City, Tehran announced May 13 it had stopped all drilling at the gas field and hoped the dispute would soon be resolved -- KUWAIT CITY (AFP)
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LeBron James walked into Jim Fenton's Kendall office, sat on a chair, and Fenton proceeded to smack the Heat star in the face as hard as he could with the palm of his hand. Fenton was not arrested, or jumped by bodyguards.
In fact, James appreciated Fenton's strike, shook his hand afterward, and left with a smile.
Fenton is an orthotist and prosthetist, and the man behind the mask that James wore recently to protect the broken nose he suffered while going up for a dunk against Oklahoma City in late February. James took a heavy blow to the face, sat out the next game against Chicago, and thanks to Fenton, was back on the floor against the Knicks a few days later wearing a much-publicized black mask.
"Once the mask is ready and strapped on, I tell the patient, 'I am going to hit you until I get a negative response,' " Fenton said. "I start by tapping lightly with my fingertips, go harder and harder, and if they still feel nothing, I get the heel of my hand and pop them really hard. I don't take pleasure in hitting NBA players in the face, but it's the only way I can test the mask."
Fenton had a feeling, when he heard James broke his nose, that he'd probably be getting a phone call from Heat trainer Jay Sabol.
The first call from the Heat came from former trainer Ron Culp in 1991 when Bimbo Coles broke his nose. Over the past 23 years, in a small nondescript medical office just west of Baptist Hospital, Fenton has constructed prosthetic masks for 25 to 30 pro athletes, including Heat players Kevin Edwards, Alonzo Mourning, Mark Strickland, Juwan Howard, Shawn Marion, Joel Anthony and, most recently, James and center Justin Hamilton.
He also made chest protectors for Michael Beasley and Ronny Turiaf, and a protective belt for Dan Majerle, who underwent hernia surgery.
"It's huge for us to have Jim Fenton in town," Sabol said. "Whatever we need, Jim drops everything and he will work around the clock and get our players what they need. He is very meticulous and the masks come out perfect. LeBron's mask is the most famous, but Jim has made many for us over the years, and he takes such great care.
"When a guy goes into a game with a mask over a broken nose or fractured face, [Fenton] watches like a worried mother. He wants to make sure they are as safe as possible."
Marlins second baseman Derek Dietrich's nose was broken during spring training last month when a ground ball took a bad hop and struck him squarely in the face. The Marlins trainer called the Heat and asked who they use for masks.
Within a day, Fenton had fitted Dietrich with a mask. He wore it only when he was on the field and when he was on the base paths — not when he was hitting because the raised plastic over the nose slightly obstructed his vision. He said he wore it for about 10 days.
"It's a pretty thick piece of material, and everyone wanted to hit me in the face," Dietrich said. "And I was like, 'Go ahead. Go ahead.' You don't feel it. Even the gentleman who made it, he showed me right away — this was the day after breaking it — he hit me and he said, 'You don't feel anything,' and I said, 'No, I don't.' He did a great job. He made it pretty much overnight, and he was teasing me, he made it faster for me than he did LeBron's."
Dietrich said the mask was surprisingly comfortable.
"It wasn't that bad," he said. "Once we got the eyes widened enough so that my peripheral vision wasn't affected, it was fine. It was just trying to fit it on with the helmet once I was on the bases, because it was kind of tough. But with the hat, going up a hat size, it fit right on. Of course, anytime you add something like that on your face, you're going to notice it. But the way it was made and designed, it definitely protects with as minimal amount of effect and weight or anything."
Fenton, 73, has been tinkering with orthotics and prosthetics since high school. His father, Harry, made his first leg brace with scrap aluminum in the 1920s for his sister, who had polio. The Fentons lived in St. Petersburg, and in 1952, Harry Fenton moved his orthotics business to Miami. Young Jim spent his evenings and weekends helping out.
"My dad introduced me to the working end of a broom in 1947," Fenton said. "He paid me a quarter a week, and that quarter was predestined to be taken to the post office to buy a stamp to be placed in a Series E bond savings book. Those Series E bonds are what financed my way to UCLA. That and some newspaper delivery money I made along the way, delivering the Miami News and the Herald."
Fenton graduated from Miami High in 1958, and went to UCLA to study orthotics and prosthetics. He joined his father in the family business after graduation. Now his son, also named James, practices the same trade in Port St. Lucie and Stuart.
Most of Fenton's work is focused on braces and prosthetic limbs, but the athlete masks have been an interesting offshoot. He said plastic masks were first introduced in the 1980s, and they were used mostly for people who had suffered facial burns. They began to pop up on athletes shortly thereafter. Detroit Pistons Bad Boy Bill Laimbeer was known for his, and that tradition carried on with Richard "Rip" Hamilton, who wore a mask for much of his Pistons career.
When Fenton created his first masks for Coles and Edwards, he made the mold using Alginate, an oatmeal-like seaweed-based product dentists use to make gum impressions. "We'd mix it real thick and put it all over their face, stick a tube in their mouth so they could breathe, stuff their nostrils with cotton so we didn't asphyxiate them with this stuff, cover their eyes, eyebrows and hairline with Vaseline," he said. "It was kind of barbaric, but nobody died from it."
Now, he uses hand casting with plaster, which allows for more precise contouring. His goal is to reduce pressure over nontolerant areas such as the fracture, and increase pressure on tolerant areas. He puts a stocking over the client's head, and lays wet strips of plaster over his face for about 45 minutes until he has an impression of the face.
That mold is used to make a mask with PETG, short for Polyethylene terephthalate, a plastic resin used to make food and liquid containers. Fenton then cuts out eyeholes to allow for peripheral vision, and trims the chin area so it doesn't constrict the mouth.
A typical mask for a customer off the street runs $1,200 to $2,000, but Fenton said the Heat and Marlins pay "much more" because he works overtime to deliver them in less than 24 hours and because they have such specialized requests.
When James showed up with personal trainer Mike Mancias at Fenton's office, they asked whether he could make three masks — one black, one white and one clear. He wanted different looks and suggested carbon fiber for the black one because he thought it would look sleek. Fenton told them a carbon fiber mask would take too long to make, so he made a clear one, and they covered it in carbon fiber vinyl wrap, like the kind used to wrap automobiles for a matte finish.
"I had to chuckle when I watched the game on TNT and the announcer was saying, with authority, that LeBron was wearing a carbon fiber mask," Fenton said. "It was just clear plastic with carbon fiber-looking tape over it."
The NBA nixed the dark mask — saying opponents had to be able to see James' eyes and face — so he peeled the tape off and wore it clear for a game against the Orlando Magic.
"That mask got more publicity than just about anything LeBron has done this season," Fenton said, laughing.
Protecting James' nose was especially important because he is vulnerable when he plays around the basket.
"He's taking the ball in the paint, you've got five guys surrounding him most of the time, and there's a lot of contact," Dietrich said. "For me, think about how many ground balls I've taken in my life and I've never had that happen but that one time. So the chances are slim for me. But you still want to be careful and protect anytime you have a fracture. And I wanted to get back on the field as quickly as possible."
Fenton said most of the athletes he has dealt with "are exceptionally polite and gracious, but, in all honesty, they would prefer not to ever see me again."
His latest custom request came from singer-producer Pharrell Williams. He ordered a pink mask for an upcoming project called "Pink Slime." How did he hear about Fenton? "He called the Heat," Fenton said, smiling.
Miami Herald staff writer Clark Spencer contributed to this report.


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Remixer JAXX and I came together to cover one of the themes from Wild Arms. I supplied all but the guitar.
Link: "Not Alone in the World"
Release Date: Feburary 13, 2003
Original Name: "Alone in the World"
Game: Wild Arms, PlayStation, 1997
Composer: Michiko Narkuke
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Equipment Used: Cakewalk
Notes: JAXX and I wanted to cover a Wild Arms song, and this was a perfect candidate. Even now this arrangement still stands as one of my favorite collaborations.


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From Carrier Pigeons to Twitter: Timely News Still the Goal
In 1832, French journalist Charles Havas started Agence Havas, a news service in Paris that sold translations of foreign news to the city's newspapers. Agence Havas was the first major private news agency in the world.
Getting the news to readers in a speedy manner was crucial to the agency's success, so as early as 1835, Havas used carrier pigeons to transport stock prices.
Fast forward to 2009, when Iranian protesters are using Twitter — an online social-networking site that uses a bird as its unofficial icon — to send messages about the protests and police crackdowns to the rest of the world through their cell phones and the Internet. The Iranian government has restricted foreign journalists from reporting the events in Tehran.
The tweets, or "microblogs," as the messages are called, have been so vital to behind-the-scenes information in Tehran that the U.S. State Department asked Twitter to delay scheduled maintenance to allow the messages to continue. This request has users cooing over the technology and is considered a milestone in the rapidly evolving world of instant communication.
Twitter, which was founded in 2007, grew from its founder's simple idea of wanting to know what his friends were doing. Two years and more than a billion tweets later, subscribers are doing just that — and more — in 140 characters or less.
In May 2008, one of the first reports about the earthquake in China's Sichuan province was a Twitter message, which beat a Bloomberg News wire flash by 23 seconds. Six months later in November, eyewitnesses posted thousands of Twitter updates about the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India.
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Should probably find a way to leave a comment to the creators for why their stuff was tagged. Kinda lame for moders to say the site wasn't designed to do so.....fix it. It's kinda what all this is about.
When it comes to porno pictures for the Sims........it is kinda lame. Every time I look at Sims 3 downloads it was full of freak'n nude "homo erotic paintings", which is fine and all, but how many of those things do you really need? If your going to do it then add an interaction or something. While your in Simpe, edit the pie menu and change the text from 'view' to 'get horny' or something. Then increase the amount of fun you gain. Something like that.
I think the problem is that the objects should be completed. It's SOOOOOO easy to go ahead and alter the pie menu or adjust the benefits or lack there of, in using the object. Also, you're not even using photos or art that is yours...... .....You have to do something to make it YOURS. I bet just adding 'get erection' could save you from tagging.
Don't just give up though. Review your stuff and fix it, make it better.
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i tried SimPE so many times,followed many of the tuts. but STILL have no idea how to use it or how it works..which i know im stupid blah blah but if it wasnt for those makeing these things for me,well my sims wouldnt have anything..and i agree,if your going to remove a few of these things remove them all..or else it shows you play favs..just wanted to stat my feelings thanks
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It's not about playing favourites - it's about quality standards. No sense in removing the really good stuff just because we're removing some of it. And actually, nothing has really been -removed-. Just hidden temporarily until the creator comes back and fixes it. There's plenty of resources on how to make custom content - and do it well - and if someone is confused about why their stuff was tagged they are welcome to ask and we'll explain.
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But as this thread is well over two years old, tbh, I don't see the point in leaving this thread open. Therefore... locking.
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"Probably Iowa States' biggest tradition was Hilton Magic and that's a direct correlation to Johnny Orr. He was the founder of that and you know he's given Iowa State the best tradition we have to date. Iowa State fans are fiercely proud of that tradition and it relates back to him," said Craft.
Craft was the student body president in 2000 and is on the Iowa State Alumni Board. He says he was lucky enough to have had many run-in's with Coach Orr, but one of his more memorable qualities, was his big personality.
"Hawk fans liked him, Panther fans liked him, his biggest rivals liked him. You just could not dislike a guy that had that much enthusiasm and had that much fun," said Craft.
Head UNI men's basketball coach Ben Jacobson says he would always look forward to events where Coach Orr was there. He says he always admired the impression he left on people.
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TORONTO - Matt Serra knows a thing or two about upsets and the former welterweight champion believes Canadian Patrick (The Predator) Cote can topple middleweight champion Anderson Silva at UFC 90 on Saturday in Chicago.
Not everyone sees the mixed martial arts bout at the Allstate Arena that way.
Silva, viewed by most as the top pound-for-pound MMA fighter on the planet, is a 7-1 favourite, according to some bookmakers. The Brazilian (22-4) is 7-0 in the UFC, a run that includes two dominant wins over former 185-pound champion Rich Franklin. Only three of those fights have made it past the first round.
Most recently he moved up to light-heavyweight and annihilated James (The Sandman) Irvin.
At 6-2, Silva is a deadly striker with a combine-harvester attack of knees, elbows and fists. He also has a black belt in jiu-jitsu. UFC commentator Joe Rogan summed up the 33-year-old Brazilian perfectly, calling his fight game a "ballet of violence."
"He's got a tough night on his hands," English middleweight Michael Bisping said of Cote.
"He's definitely got the punching power, if he lands that shot, who knows, he could drop him. But certainly if I was a gambling man, I'd be putting my money on Anderson Silva to take him out. I wish all the best to Patrick Cote but I think Anderson's definitely going to take it - without too much difficulty to be honest."
Still Serra, who delivered on his promise to shock the world by dethroning 9-1 favourite Georges St. Pierre at UFC 69 in April 2007, sees a chance for Cote.
"First of all nobody's unbeatable in this game," Serra told the Canadian Press. "And I think Cote has a way bigger shot than people are giving him credit him for. . . . Styles makes fights and Patrick's proved to have a solid chin, heavy hands and he's very technical in there with the striking.
"In other words, he's going to come in there with some strategy and I definitely can see him making the upset there."
Cote, who makes his home in Montreal, also dismisses the bookmakers.
"I don't care about the odds," he said. "It's just more interesting for my friends and everybody who puts money on me, they will be a lot richer after this fight."
Serra got to know Cote when they both competed on Season 4 of "The Ultimate Fighter." Serra won the welterweight portion of the reality TV show, earning the title shot against Montreal's St. Pierre. Cote was submitted by Travis Lutter in the middleweight final.
"I lived with him for six weeks (during taping of the show) and mentally you're not going to find a tougher guy than Patrick Cote," said Serra, who lost his title to St. Pierre at UFC 83 in April.
Cote (14-4) himself has used the Serra analogy, saying of Silva "I will Matt Serra him."
The 28-year-old former corporal with the Canadian Armed Forces made his UFC debut in October 2004, when he was suddenly elevated to the UFC 50 main event against Tito (The Huntington Beach Bad Boy) Ortiz. It wasn't even Cote's weight class.
Still he took the fight.
An Ortiz fan at the time, he even had the former UFC light-heavyweight champion on his computer screensaver. Cote lost a unanimous decision but lasted 15 minutes with Ortiz and even managed to rock him early on (a photo of which he subsequently used to replace his old Ortiz screensaver).
Cote went on to lose his next three fights in the UFC, although each one had a story. He was leading Winnipeg's Joe Doerksen at UFC 52 in April 2005 when he made a mistake and was submitted. Four months later, he lost a split decision to Chris (The Crippler) Leben in a fight that Cote still thinks he won.
Then there was the November 2006 Lutter loss which cost Cote a shot at Silva's title. Lutter, who took Cote down and used his jiu-jitsu skills to submit him with ease, subsequently lost to Silva in a fight deemed a non-title bout after Lutter failed to make weight.
The Canadian started splitting training between Montreal and Boston, where he began to work with Mark DellaGrotte. The move paid immediate dividends.
Cote, who also trains with Fabio Holanda in Montreal, faced a must-win fight against Scott Smith at UFC 67 in February 2007 and scored a unanimous decision in a workmanlike effort that drew boos from the Las Vegas crowd. "That fight sucked," UFC president Dana White said.
Still, Cote was on the board.
And he turned things around further with back-to-back knockouts of Kendall Grove in August 2007 and Drew McFedries last January.
He earned the title shot by winning a decision over jiu-jitsu ace Ricardo Almeida at UFC 86 in July.
Cote says he is confident against all-comers now.
"I knocked strikers out and I beat a grappler," he said during a publicity stop in Toronto on Tuesday.
Silva was supposed to meet Yushin Okami first but the Japanese fighter broke his hand and the Cote fight was moved up.
While the bookies may see a mismatch, White says Silva saw the possibility of a good contest.
"The night Cote was fighting Almeida, Anderson Silva was there and he was going `God I hope Cote wins this fight. God I hope Cote wins this fight,"' White recalled. "He wants to fight Cote because he says `This kid is not going to shoot, he's not going to try to take me down. He's going to stand and go toe to toe with me.'
"Cote's got a good chin and he's got knockout power," White added. "It's an interesting fight."
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Some of you might remember that in like… 2006 and 2007, I discovered a collection of primary sources on 19th century French republicanism entitled "Les Révolutions du XIXe siècle" and embarked on a mad quest to hunt it down. It ended in me schlepping out an hour's drive to the University of Maryland, plonking my nervous teenage self down in their library with the sense that I was trespassing, and proceeding to type up absolutely insane amounts of it by hand. This still makes up about 3/4 of what's on the History page of my website, even if it barely scratched the surface of what was in the collection.
Gallica has PDFs of the whole series up for free.
I repeat, THIS IS NOT A DRILL, Gallica has the entirety of Les Révolutions du XIXe siècle available for free.
I still sometimes get the urge to cry with joy over how much the digitization and online availability of public-domain documents has revolutionized the amateur study of history. I want to go back and give my 18-year-old self a hug and whisper beautiful things about the future in her ear, because the fact is that in summer 2006, I didn't even give a second thought to sitting there in the UMD library with a pair of reading glasses I never should have needed, hunched over a copy of "La presse républicaine devant les tribunaux 1831-1834" and touch-typing as fast as my fingers could manage the French. It didn't even occur to me to be sad that there was no other way to share these sources with anyone (or even have them myself for later reference, because I'm not a UMD student and can't check out books there). At that point Google Books was barely a thing and they didn't even have any partnerships to digitize university libraries yet. Digitization? Of obscure stuff like this, rather than the classic literature up on Project Gutenberg? What did I want, the world handed to me on a silver platter?
Well, whether I thought to want it or not, that's what I got. And a pony. All wrapped up in a bright red bow.
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More of the same in the Wilmington area: Shootings; lay-offs
Well, I was gone just a few days and I see the main narrative for the Wilmington area didn't change very much:
Multiple shootings in the city; and with regard to jobs, whack-a-mole for the Markell Administration: Even as it trumpets the retention or creation of jobs, hundreds of jobs lost as Evraz announces a suspension of operations at its Claymont steel plant. One more blow for Delaware's manufacturing sector. Apart from the foreign competition, one more factor is worker productivity: Fewer workers needed. Just north of the state line, the Sunoco refinery in Marcus Hook pulled the plug on ordinary refining a couple of years ago; a fraction of the previous work force deals with natural gas liquids.
The steel mill's shutdown will have a multiplier effect, as Claymont businesses lose regular customers.
Meanwhile, on the national stage - with regard to the partial government shutdown and looming debt-ceiling deadline - looks like we're poised (again) for kicking the can down the road. But even if Democratic and Republican leaders in the Senate can manage a deal, it remains to be seen if any such deal will clear the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Tue, Oct 15, 2013 8:42am
The House will support the Senate agreement. The TEA party will crow, rent their clothes and gnash their teeth, but House Republicans have the votes to pass it.
Republicans not in Tea Party Districts desperately need this issue to go away. They prefer to risk a primary challenger they can point to as being absolutely crazy, maniacal, and stupid, than be pointed by their constituents as being the ones who were crazy, maniacal, and stupid...
Boehner has the votes.
Tue, Oct 15, 2013 8:44am
Best line read so far this morning... is Mitch gets Christmas in October.
Because Boehner actually makes McConnell look reasonable...
Tue, Oct 15, 2013 8:51am
Just a hat's off to yesterday's noon reporting by Peter McArthur...
Getting the expert on the U.S. Steel industry was brilliant. It pretty much squelched political bickering by sucking all the air out from blaming Governor Markell for Evraz's problems. I know it did for me.
Instead, it gave us a fascinating report on the U.S. Steel industry, making it pretty obvious to all why it's closing. Even Markell - who didn't hear the piece - seemed to have ideas a little misplaced because the audience had far more facts than he did. That was excellent reporting.
I was impressed. That's saying something right there.
Tue, Oct 15, 2013 9:06am
As for the shootings. There comes a time when it becomes obvious what you are doing isn't working.
This weekend's shootings represent that moment.
There is a line in one of America's greatest films. A classic made in the middle of WWII...
"Round up the usual suspects...."
It is time this major means to disrupt all those potential shooters be enacted. Simply round up people and hold them. Process them; allow them to get out, only if they give you information... "Do you know anyone who has an illegal gun? Tell us and we will let you go." "Do you know anyone who has shot anyone? Tell us and we will let you go." Do you know anyone who is selling heroin? Tell us and we will let you go... "
Armed with that information, go out and round up the usual suspects. Even if 99% are innocent, you've disrupted the 1% who would have killed someone that night....
The ACLU will jump on it as the ACLU should .. Because it is illegal, according to the 4th Amendment, to follow this policy, and it must, as with all illegal things, come to a trial.
But that takes at least 5 years, and by that time, no drug dealer will dare loiter on any street corner for fear of being picked up... Streets will be safe for children to play on and again; the old folks can sit on their porches and kid each other about the Eagles, Phillies, or Seventy-Sixers.... versus their rivals...
When it comes to the trial in 5 years, all the good it caused to the City of Wilmington, will result in a polite slap on the wrist....
The legal defense team of the city, can call upon "the kavips principle" which states: A society has the right to make itself well, by any measures it, itself, deems necessary.
Tue, Oct 15, 2013 9:04pm
Groundhog day!
Tue, Oct 15, 2013 9:09pm
Hey Kavips: The crows at the TEA party (aka "we the people") are going to defeat your president and all his nazis and communists in the so-called Democratic party in 2014 and 2016.
Hey Billsmith: Wanna weigh in on THAT comment?
Tue, Oct 15, 2013 10:21pm
Oh, I just remembered. I need to be fair to the Democrats. We also plan to defeat the nazis and communists in the Republican establishment as well, and believe me, they are legion.
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Grantsmanship (Including Mock Study Session)Presenters:Denise Dougherty, Ph.D. Senior Advisor, Child Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and QualityIrene Fraser, Ph.D. Director, Center for Organization and Delivery Studies, Agency for Healthcare Research and QualityJames Perrin, M.D. Director, Mass General Hospital Center for Child and Health PolicyJill Joseph, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Center for Health Services and Clinical Research, Children's National Medical Center ContentsIntroduction The Grantmaking Process Lessons Additional Tips for the Grantmaking Process Provided During the Question-and-Answer Session IntroductionThis session provided an overview of how the grantmaking process works at AHRQ , and included tips for submitting a fundable application, and a hands-on mock peer review session in which panelists critiqued and scored an actual (anonymous) application.Return to Contents The Grantmaking ProcessAddressing the grantmaking process at AHRQ, Denise Dougherty, Ph.D. noted that the Agency is very interested in improving health care, and includes a focus on personal health care services. Some of the other major AHRQ research issues are: worker safety/health, informatics, and quality in clinical preventive methods.One important piece of advice to those seeking grants is to call program officials on staff before applying for funding. A concept letter can be submitted to an AHRQ Center officer to determine if it is a fundable idea:E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com for the Center for Primary Care Research.E-mail email@example.com for the Center for Quality Measurement and Improvement or the child health coordinator.If positive feedback is provided, then the researcher should pursue the proposal application. 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Small grants can fund more unique research ideas and work as "venture capital" that may eventually turn into larger research projects.Proposal weakness will stick out because of the large number of proposals and lack of dollars to fund all of the research.Dr. Fraser also pointed out which weaknesses tend to stand out during the application process. These include:An overambitious study.Weak methodology.A weak proposed research team (make sure to include senior researchers).Directions for completing the application were not followedThe proposal topic is not an AHRQ research priority.Return to Contents LessonsJames Perrin, M.D. and Jill Joseph, M.D., Ph.D. performed a mock grant review of a proposal. 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Too much money?Build on prior research work because it helps with reliability.Describe research measures thoroughly.Document why the research is important.Make sure the suggested variables match hypotheses.Discuss bias and selection of the research population (you need to make it known that you have thought about it).Because the health services research field is not rich in conceptual models, model development for the study must be tight.If the study includes qualitative research, be rigorous in developing study design.Return to Contents Additional Tips for the Grantmaking Process Provided During the Question-and- Answer SessionWhat is the best way to get funded?Start with something that you love to research and that will create a better proposal.Be focused with the research design.Start with small grants so AHRQ can get to know you, and hopefully the Agency will be willing to fund larger projects later.How do you write a grant?The grant needs to explain the who? what? why? and how? of the research.The grant should demonstrate that the researcher is a careful, thorough person, who can get the job done.Make sure that all information gets into the grant. 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