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After almost a month away from tournament competition, the Stetson University women's golf team will return to action to complete fall tournament play in the Holiday Inn Express/Hatter Classic.
The event will get started on Monday morning at 7:15 am when the nine-team, 45-player field opens a 36-hole day of competition. The Hatters, who have won their home event each of the last five years, will play the first two rounds on Monday with Daytona State College and Florida Atlantic.
"It has been a while since we have played, but our practices have been pretty good," Hatters coach Floyd Kerr said. "We have been able to work on a lot of things and we'll see how they pan out in the tournament. I think the girls are learning and we have some girls who are hitting the ball pretty well."
With five juniors on the Stetson squad, they don't have to be reminded of the success the Hatters have had in this event, as well as on their home course at Victoria Hills in recent years.
"I try not to put too much pressure on that fact, but I have mentioned that," Kerr said. "We have won two conference titles here on this course and we have won this event the last five years and I think, if we play well, we'll have a chance again."
The advantage the Hatters have over other teams in the tournament is they know the course at Victoria Hills inside and out.
"All courses have something of a home course advantage and this one may have a little bit more than others," Kerr said. "This is not a flat course and there are a lot of big bunkers on this course. The more you play it, the more you learn to stay away from those."
Kerr said the course itself is in as good a condition as he has seen it in years.
"This is the most playable this course has been in terms of overall condition in the last five years," Kerr said. "The fairways have really firmed up and the greens have firmed up. The fact that the greens have changed so much in the last week, due to the cooler temperatures, really doesn't give us much of an advantage."
The Hatters have won the tournament the last five years by posting team scores from as low as 893 (2010) to as high as 904 (2009). Stetson won last fall with a score of 897, 27 shots better than Daytona State in second place. The record individual low score for the tournament was set by Mitsuki Katahira of Daytona State with a 207 in 2010.
With no Alexandria Buelow, a two-time winner of this event, on the team, Kerr said any of his five players could step up to lead the team.
"With this group, you never know who is going to play the best on any given day," Kerr said. "Sammi Smith (Louisville, Ky.) has improved her game a lot. Her ball striking and putting have both improved. I think that Claudia Redinger (Durban, South Africa) is playing pretty good and has started to have a little confidence in herself. I think that she will really play well if she gets that confidence that she needs.
"Ryan Ashburn (Largo, Fla.) and Jenna Hoecker (Rochester, NY) are both also hitting the ball pretty well."
Mallory Viera (Howie-in-the-Hills, Fla.), who is third on the team in stroke average this fall, will be the fifth member of the Stetson team.
The race for top team honors in the tournament could be wide open. Kerr said he has seen several teams with a chance to win the event.
"McNeese State played really well over at the LPGA when we were paired with them the last day," Kerr said. "Bethune-Cookman has some international players in this year and they are pretty good. North Florida has beaten us a couple of times this year, but I think they have some injuries they are dealing with."
The other teams in the field for the women's tournament, which will be played simultaneously with the men's Stetson/CFSC Invitational, are Lipscomb, Florida Atlantic Webber International and USC Upstate. The women's teams will open play on the back nine and the men will begin play on the front nine on both days of play.
Players will continue play from the first round in the morning right into the second round for the afternoon. The third, and final round will be played on Tuesday morning with play starting at 7:15 a.m.


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In early June an extensive review of the status of the project timeline was completed to determine if implementation of the system by the planned go-live date of September 3, 2013 would result in a quality product. Based on the results, the UTShare Project Management Team adjusted the go-live date to May 1, 2014. The Project Management Team felt that extending the time would ensure that all campuses and the required infrastructure would be ready to provide the expected level of services.
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In the area, backyard chickens keep coming up. I keep hearing the various city councils' reasons for denying them: they will bring predators, they smell, people can buy eggs, etc. I just wanted to address a few issues.
Predators: I have seen fox, hawks, eagles, opossum, skunks and raccoons in my neighborhood. I can hear the coyotes at night. What predators are they going to attract that aren't already here?
Smell: If you have a dog kennel, do you smell it? Do you clean it out? If you don't, a code enforcement officer is at your door, because a neighbor complained. Why can't it be the same for chickens? Large factory farms smell. We are talking about four to five chickens who, yearly, produce the same amount of waste as one medium dog.
Buy organic eggs at $4-$6 per dozen? Organic means they are fed organic food. Are they healthy and humanely raised? I want my children to know where food comes from and how we can efficiently and humanely supply our own food.
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On the road to a major life change, there are always obstacles. And for Sarah Swingle, the biggest hurdle standing in her way was made of cheese.
"Cheese was my main food group," recalls Sarah Swingle, a 29-year old graduate student who took two years to purge all animal products from her diet, a process she completed in 2009.
In her pre-vegan days, Swingle blitzed her pasta with parmesan, and listed cheese pizza, grilled cheese and macaroni and cheese as her very favorite foods. "I absolutely had it in mind to go vegan, but cheese kept me from doing it," she says.
Swingle habitually catches up on podcasts while working out with muted exercise videos, and she remembers listening to a particular anti-cheese screed that ended up strengthening her neck muscles.
As "Life After Cheese" played, she vigorously shook her head.
"I was saying 'no, no, no'," says Swingle, who back then snacked on spoonfuls of cream cheese straight from the tub. "But now when I think of the reasons why I don't eat cheese, that's motivation enough."
There wasn't a last cheese supper for Swingle. In accordance with her views on animal rights, she gradually ate less and less meat, eggs, honey and dairy, until her "cheese" consumption was restricted to slices of soy protein, vegetable oil and nutritional yeast (it tastes better than it sounds.) But the pace of the transition didn't prevent Swingle's co-workers from expressing shock at her choices.
"When I came back from lunch, my co-workers would be like 'how was your celery?' " says Swingle, who worked for the Charleston Jewish Federation before enrolling in Humane Society University's online master's degree program in animal policy and advocacy. "I realized they had no clue what vegans can eat."
In response to their befuddlement, Swingle employed a social media cliche: She started posting pictures of her lunches to a Facebook album. Friends were fascinated by the plates, which looked far more filling and delicious than they'd imagined, and urged her to build a blog around her photo project.
In 2012, she launched What I Vegan, which has become a rallying point and source of support for local vegans.
"I think Charleston is definitely very vegan-friendly," Swingle says. "The South kind of has a bad reputation, but almost every restaurant has something vegan."
Still, she adds, "I was looking for a community."
The notion of abstaining from animal flesh wasn't completely foreign to Swingle's family: Her mother, a nursing school adviser at East Tennessee State University, swore off meat a decade ago. Vegetarianism is often an outgrowth of spiritual, ethical or health concerns, but Swingle says her mother made the decision on a visceral level. "(Meat) kind of grossed her out," Swingle says.
So Swingle knew her way around a veggie patty when she enrolled at the University of Alabama, but she still made frequent trips to Chick-fil-A. As she recounts it, she didn't yet understand how factory farms treated the animals they processed.
"I knew cows died, but I didn't know the technicalities of everything, or how out of line it was with my values," she said.
A longtime cat owner and professed animal lover, Swingle first encountered the phrase "factory farm" online: While trying to donate money she'd received for her 24th birthday to the Humane Society, she discovered a video about agricultural practices that the organization had posted to its website. She was horrified by the abuses it reported.
"The goal for me is to reduce animal suffering," says Swingle, who hopes to eventually work for a national or international animal welfare group. "Animals shouldn't be treated as poorly as they are."
After Swingle became a full-fledged vegan, which, as Swingle defines the term, also keeps her from wearing wool and taking horse-drawn carriage rides, her younger sisters followed suit.
Swingle says her grandmother, who lives in Asheville, was initially nervous about assembling a Thanksgiving dinner for three 20-something vegans: "My poor grandmother went out and ordered different sides," including portabella mushrooms from a natural foods grocery store.
Now Swingle's husband is vegan too. "He used to eat bacon and eggs for breakfast, chicken salad for lunch and steak for dinner," she says. "He's come a long way."
Even Swingle's father has started observing "meatless Mondays."
According to Swingle, her relatives shifted their diets without any prodding. Contrary to popular belief, Swingle says, vegans aren't militant proselytizers.
"I kind of had that impression, too," she says. "I was thinking of vegans as loud, in-your-face activists, and I think I got that impression from one vegan I knew at college. Like any stereotype, there's a little truth in there, but not every vegan is like that."
Having given up her cheese crutch, Swingle says her meals are far more nutritious: She's traded grilled cheese for a daily green vegetable shake.
Recent meals pictured on her blog include a falafel salad, black bean burrito with tomato-cucumber pico de gallo, wild mushroom ratatouille with basil pesto and smoked tomato polenta.
Swingle also runs guest posts from fellow vegans who've successfully dined at upscale Charleston restaurants that pride themselves on their fish and charcuterie, such as FIG and Cypress.
When eating out, Swingle often calls restaurants in advance to make sure their kitchens can accommodate a vegan.
She recently contacted Blossom, which offered her a range of dishes, including a wood-fired pizza without cheese. But the former pizza fiend politely declined: She ordered the tomato salad and Brussels sprouts instead.
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MARTINSBURG - As far as offense goes, Martinsburg coach Dave Rogers felt the first half of his team's game against Middleburg Academy Monday was as good as it has been for his Class AAA?No. 1 Bulldogs.
That strong first half gave the Bulldogs a 41-19 lead going into halftime, but Middleburg began to hit shots to rally back, cutting the deficit to as little as 11 points.
The Bulldogs were able to ward off the Dragons' rally before having the advantage cut to single digits, taking the 74-61 victory on senior night for six of Martinsburg's 13 players.
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Martinsburg's Eugene German rises above Middleburg Academy's Stephen Shepherd for an offensive rebound which he put back in for a basket in the Bulldogs' 74-61 win Monday night. (Journal photo by Ron Agnir)
Martinsburg's Brian Hairston (35) drives on Middleburg's Delonte Jones (1) during 3rd quarter action Monday night in the Martinsburg Fieldhouse. (Journal Photo by Ron Agnir)
"I thought the first half was the best half we played all year," Rogers said. "We did everything we were supposed to do from shooting the ball well to playing defense.
"But then we got lackadaisical when we were up by 25, and we can't do that against a good basketball team like Middleburg."
"We got off to a great start," senior guard Jalen Lewis said. "We have a great team, and we were just playing tough like we were supposed to."
The Bulldogs got off to a quick start in the opening eight minutes, outscoring the Dragons 25-10.
Lewis scored nine of his game-high 28 points in the first quarter to give the Bulldogs an early outside presence.
"Jalen always plays well and is a smart basketball player," Rogers said. "He is a great passer and scorer, and when he can get you the ball, you better have your hands ready."
The Bulldogs also used their size to their advantage as Donte' "Buddha" Grantham snagged 14 rebounds along with scoring 13 points for a double-double, Brian Hairston scored 14 points and snatched five rebounds, and Eugene German scored eight points inside.
"We had the advantage in the post, and we try to use it as much as we can," Hairston said. "When we are dominant, there's not many teams in the area that can compete with it."
After outscoring Middleburg 16-9 in the second quarter to take a 22-point lead into the halftime break, the Bulldogs outscored the Dragons 15-13 in the third quarter to make the score 56-32.
When it had seemed like the Dragons were slain, they fired back.
"As we let off the throttle, thinking they weren't going to come back, they put it to us in the fourth quarter," Rogers said. "Middleburg shot the ball well in the fourth quarter, and did a great job as a team."
Middleburg outscored the Bulldogs (18-2) 29-18 in the final frame before the final buzzer sounded.
Eric Shaw led the Dragons (13-10) with 16 points. Drew Henry and Delante Jones each added 12 points, and Marcus Hayes finished the night with eight points for Middleburg.


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The Cornell Dairy Executive Program is now accepting applications for its latest class, to begin in December 2012. This unique educational opportunity, organized by the PRO‐DAIRY Program at Cornell University, is a professional educational program in leadership and management principles for progressive dairy executives and agriservice personnel, focused on increasing their ability to run a successful dairy business and to enhance their understanding of the fast‐changing dairy industry. By coming to this program, participants will continue to develop the necessary leadership and business management skills to lead their dairy business into the future.
Timely topics in dairy business management are presented by a team of national experts from within and outside of the field of agriculture through three multi‐day sessions over a 12‐month period. Participants attending the program can expect to develop 1‐ and 5‐year strategic business plans through a comprehensive self‐evaluation of their business, while building a network of dairy executives and business relationships. All sessions take place at The Statler Hotel on the Cornell University campus, where a typical day includes presentations, individual study, small group discussions and roundtable discussions with faculty.
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PRO‐DAIRY positively impacts New York's dairy industry. Through its research, discussion groups, educational programs, financial analysis, websites, publications and personal contacts, the Cornell University based program reaches thousands of dairy professionals annually. PRO‐DAIRY specialists have made a positive impact on the technical knowledge, management skills and economic strength of the New York State's dairy industry since 1988.


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Perhaps you have an idea in your head about Steve Kurtz.
In 2004, when the University at Buffalo professor and artist was brought up on federal mail fraud charges – ultimately dismissed – by prosecutors who suspected him of conspiring to commit bioterorrism, Kurtz's picture was all over the local and international press.
Those images depicted a hazmat team assembled outside Kurtz's home in Allentown in a scene reminiscent of "E.T.," and a grainy shot of the long-haired artist in a black shirt that seemed to fit some people's ideas about what an experimental bioterrorist might look like. The Steve Kurtz most of us think we know remains in some ways the one his overzealous prosecutors continually tried to show us: a strange dude with stranger ideas whose work and life falls too far outside the norm.
Anyone who's ever actually met him knows better.
On Tuesday night, Kurtz – now chairman of UB's department of visual studies – gave a captivating presentation about what he's been up to during the last couple of years with his internationally lauded collaborators. What the sold-out crowd in the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center cinema saw that night was not a bizarre, inaccessible artist prattling on about some esoteric project involving biochemical samples.
Instead, we saw a magnetic and humorous man giving what Hallwalls curator John Massier described as a set worthy of a stand-up comedian. Across an hour-and-a-half or so, Kurtz walked us through the projects he's been working on over the past two years.
The first was an installation he and his fellow Critical Art Ensemble members did for the exclusive European invitational art event Documenta, about the growing disparity between the rich and the poor. The project involved an enormous banner representing the world's population and its income, the top of which could only be reached by a hugely disruptive helicopter – and only by those who could afford it.
Another project, also for Documenta, critiqued the wide practice of asking artists to perform or make work for free by inviting 100 or so artists to do just that over the course of the event.
Another project, typical of the sort of clever and provocative work the CAE performs, involved transplanting legally protected plant species onto abandoned land to prevent its purchase and development.
The evening was a bravura demonstration of Kurtz's gifted mind and those of his collaborators in the CAE. But it was also, true to form, a great big middle finger extended in the direction of the federal government and its local representatives, who put Kurtz through four years of prosecutorial hell and ultimately failed in their attempt to make an example out of the weird artist on College Street.
The truth about Kurtz is that his work is threatening to the way we live. But not remotely in the way his accusers argued in court. Kurtz and his colleagues have dedicated their lives to railing against the attempts of governments and corporations to exploit society's weakest members and to unmasking the growing and cyclical disparity between powerful and weak, rich and poor.
Their work, as collected in their remarkable recent book "Disturbances," is all about throwing wrenches into the gears of a system that otherwise might grind on in perpetuity.
He and his CAE colleagues deserve great credit for their attempts to shock us out of our apathy. That work, far from being stifled by the turn Kurtz's life took in 2004, has only grown more ambitious, and more dangerous, since then.
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MUNCIE, Ind. - Ray Leonard and Dalton Albertin of the Ball State men's tennis team have earned All-Mid-American Conference accolades, the announcement was made by the league office this morning in Cleveland.
Leonard, a true freshman for the Cardinals was named First Team All-MAC. He led the team with an overall mark of 26-14, a 19-9 dual record and went 3-2 in MAC action. Leonard recently earned a 2-0 record at No. 1 singles at the MAC Tournament beating Toledo and Buffalo. He started the season off playing at No. 2 singles and ended the year at position one. Leonard also played at No. 1 doubles and earned MAC Player of the Week honors twice this season.
Albertin received All-MAC Second Team honors for the first time in his career. He was named to the 2011 All-MAC First Team and the 2010 All-MAC Tournament team. Albertin played the majority of the season at No. 1 singles and paired up with Leonard at No. 1 doubles earning a 4-0 mark in MAC action. He was a MAC Player of the Week recipient for the second time in his career this season.
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It's easy to jump into the car and head to the movies if you want something to do this weekend, but it's mighty expensive when tickets are $9-$10 and gas is $4 a gallon. However, it costs far less if you visit your local library and borrow a movie and watch it at home. It costs far less if you borrow a book or volunteer or do any of the ten hobbies I've listed below.
So, this weekend, instead of going for the easier, more expensive, option, try one of these.
Reading is my wife's favorite hobby and, best of all, it can be one that cost very very little if you have a library nearby (if you prefer to buy books, reading is a very expensive hobby). We were lucky to find a home that is actually right next to the library, a mere three minute walk, so we essentially have a bookshelf of thousands of books, movies, magazines, and newspapers at our disposal. Even if you don't have one within walking distance, you can easily pick up a month's worth of books in one trip and then renew them online if your library offers it. Reading is perhaps one of the most frugal hobbies you could have (if you borrow the books!).
Community Center Classes
Our local community center shares the same building as the library and so we often check the schedule for any interesting classes. The courses are often quite reasonably priced but the downside is that many of them occur during the workday (it doubles as a senior center too). For a few dollars a class ($5-20), you can learn all sorts of cool hobbies.
When I was younger, I volunteered at the children's center of the local hospital. The children's center was a large room filled with toys and our responsibility was to play games with the children who had been admitted. My friend Raymond and I had a great time playing board games with the kids and learning all about them and their conditions. It was amazing how resilient and fearless they were given their medical conditions, but it was a great way to spend a few hours on the weekend (plus they gave us lunch vouchers!). Consider volunteering to a local organization such as a hospital, soup kitchen, or something of that nature – they will greatly appreciate it (and you can deduct the driving).
Bird Watching
Heading over to your local park is a great way to spend a leisurely afternoon enjoying the sights and sounds of the wilderness without spending a lot of cash. If you have some spare change, you could always pick up a pair of cheap binoculars from your local sporting goods store or a thrift shop. If not, you certainly don't need one to enjoy the birds. Visit the local Department of Natural Resources (DNR), or their website, for your county and see if they have any recommendations.
While you're at the local DNR, look for a pamphlet or brochure on good hiking trails in your area. You can often hike regular trails with little more than a pair of sneakers and you might want to spring a little extra for sunscreen and bug spray, depending on where you live.
Think of geocaching like hiking, except the purpose isn't necessarily to reach a summit or a great view, but to find a little hidden package in the ground. It's like a walk in the park but with a defined purpose. This is probably one of the more expensive of the hobbies on this list because you'll need a GPS unit (~$100) but I wanted to bring it up because it sounded so interesting. There are hundreds in my zip code alone… now I just need a GPS unit. 🙂
Disc Golf
Golf is expensive. Disc golf… practically free (you'll need a frisbee though). Disc golf is like golf except you throw a frisbee-like disc and try to get it into a basket or hit a post of some kind. Another huge difference is that you don't have to spend thousands on clubs and hundreds on green's fees because discs are inexpensive and the "courses" are often on public parks (PDGA's course search tool). Enjoy the outdoors and consider this burgeoning sport! (they have a tour and championships!)
Card Games
All it takes is a pack of cards, some friends, and you have yourself a card game. Learn classics like Gin, Rummy, Bridge, Hearts, Spades, or even Go Fish. Avoid games like poker, as they can expensive if you're bad. 🙂
A pair of sneakers and a $20 basketball (and at least one friend, preferably in even numbers) is all you need for a game of pickup basketball. You can usually find a court outside near your local high school and it's a great workout.
How could I not list blogging as a frugal hobby? It's like scrapbooking but for all the Internets to see and you can do it absolutely free. There are plenty of services like Google's Blogger and WordPress.com where you can start one up for free. And who knows, maybe you can learn to become a problogger and earn a little money off it!
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LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man pleaded guilty Friday to selling cocaine, but took his lawyer's advice not to request admission to the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment.
Attorney James J. Faso Jr. said he didn't think James Puckett, 50, of Welch Avenue, could make it through the program, with the possible penalty of nine years in prison if he stumbled.
Puckett therefore accepted a prosecution offer to plead guilty to a lesser charge, fifth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, with a maximum 2½-year sentence. Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas will make the call May 3.
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Orchard Park school officials may be amenable to working with other public officials to help senior citizens obtain the school district's Baker Road administrative building and convert it into a new community center – but the building will not be given away for free.
"We have to make sure we get fair market value," School Superintendent Matthew P. McGarrity said Tuesday after more than a dozen senior citizens in red shirts urged the School Board to part with the building.
This summer, the district will move administrative and transportation offices out of the 5,000-square-foot Baker Road facility to a site on Southwestern Boulevard near Angle Road.
The Baker Road building would be ideal for the Orchard Park Senior Council, said Jacqueline Briggs, a South Buffalo Street resident who is president of the group. The Senior Council outgrew its current facility on Linwood Avenue nearly 10 years ago, she said.
"This would save the taxpayers a great deal of money, since the taxpayers have already paid for this building," Briggs told the School Board during its regular business meeting. "We're asking the Orchard Park School Board to find a way to allow the senior population ... to have it as the new, larger Orchard Park senior center."
McGarrity said the district's plans to relocate were always contingent on selling or leasing the Baker Road building.
"When we had the voters vote on the facility, it was based on the sale or lease of this building. So, there was discussion tonight about transferring ownership or giving it away. That can't happen. We've reiterated that to the town on several occasions," McGarrity said. "But," he added, "that doesn't mean we don't want to work with the town toward a resolution."
Seniors already have appealed to the Town Board for assistance in swaying the School Board. They got a lift from Assemblyman Michael P. Kearns, D-Buffalo, who attended the meeting and made an appeal on the seniors' behalf. "As an Assembly member, my focus is to address the health, economic and quality-of-life concerns of members of the district who are 50 years and older, and their families. Keeping the best interests of these citizens in mind, I support the move from the Orchard Park Senior Center to the Baker Road facility," Kearns said.
A spokesman for State Sen. Mark J. Grisanti, R-Buffalo, also took up their cause. "In our opinion, this is a common-sense approach to ensure low taxes and happy seniors," said Joel Feroleto, Grisanti's deputy chief of staff.
Alfred Szymanski, of Bielak Road, said more than just seniors would benefit. "The size of this building will enable the town to accommodate our seniors and the community's future needs," Szymanski said.
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People often do not consider heart disease a woman's disease.Yet cardiovascular disease is the leading killer of women over age 25. It kills nearly twice as many women in the United States as all types of cancer.
Men have a greater risk for heart disease earlier in life than women. Women's risk increases after menopause.
Women may have warning signs that go unnoticed for weeks or even years a heart attack occurs.
Recognizing and treating a heart attack right away improves your chance for survival. On average, a person having a heart attack will wait for 2 hours before calling for help.
Know the warning signs and always call 911 within 5 minutes of when symptoms begin. By acting quickly, you can limit damage to your heart.
A risk factor is something that increases your chance of getting a disease or having a certain health condition. You can change some risk factors for heart disease. Other risk factors you cannot change.
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Good nutrition is important to your heart health, and it will help control some of your heart disease risk factors.
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Obama hits the road for Obamacare
July 27, 2013
President Barack Obama is oftentimes a national embarrassment, and last Wednesday was one of those times....
Couldn't he just hit the road?
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Just hit the road Jack and don't you come back....no more.......no more.......no more.........no more.
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Headlines would have been much more happier had it just stated Obama hits the road.
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Nellie is too funny. Ranting liberals.....bwahahaha.....
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Ah, yes, TruthSeeker, troll on over to an old thread where you can post your foolish comments. You are too lazy to post RW talking points. Oh, right, you are too lazy to even try to remember them. You might as well be posting on a forum devoted to the latest soap opera gossip.
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BWHAHAHAHA.....Obama's on the road again......failing miserably to get folks on board with his FAILED ridiculously HIGH TAXING Obamacare. LOLOLOL......only ones dumb enough to jump onto that failed entitlement taxing crap are ones just as stupid as he is. Right What?? Nellie???? BWHAHAHA....so funny.
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First, TruthSeeker, I am not a guy. Perhaps you need to develop better reading comprehension skills?
Starting in 2014, the penalty for not purchasing health care insurance is $95.00/year.
The mandate is a republican principle developed by the Heritage Foundation in response to the health care reforms presented during the Clinton presidency. The mandate is the cornerstone of the state-wide Massachusetts health care insurance law which was signed by republican governor, Mitt Romney.
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Solutions.....Nelliebly is typical leftie. Only believes what he wants to believe; the heck with facts! They get in their way. Let him stay ignorant. His real lesson will be when he gets FINED for not purchasing health insurance. WHich most WV folks won't be able to afford. Most WV drivers are driving without insurance because they cannot keep payments up on it. Now health insurance??? Yeah right. They think in WV they'll get it FREE? WV is a POOR state. POOR folks can't afford to pay for this. Taxes won't get paid if you don't have the money to pay it. Idiots in this state....democrats think they can just keep taxing the poor? At what point do they think the PEOPLE will revolt? Next upcoming election and they KNOW IT> They dems are in damage control now....one democrat from Cabell county, Mr. Kelly I believe is already leaving democrat party and PRETENDING to be a Republican because he KNOWS we are booting this IGNORANT party of tax raisers OUT!
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Right you are WMW. There are no unemployed republicans or republicans who need government assistance...there are no republican farmers who demand farm subsidies or republican businesses which use every tax loop hole invented. The problem with republican voters is that their "news" and "information" comes to them through the RW Media Machine which filters everything and produces lies and misinformation. Republican politicians lie and distort and cannot even create legislation which isn't cleared through lobbyists and ALEC.
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Read for comprehension, solutions...from the same Baltimore Sun article 7/29/13: In fact, the amount you pay out of pocket for your health care costs may well be lower under Obamacare, even if your premiums go up. That's because the insurance policies allowed in the health care exchange all must meet certain minimum qualifications in terms of their benefits and covered services. Most preventive care under the Affordable Care Act will be included in the price of insurance premiums, without deductibles or co-pays. People who previously bought low-rate, high deductible, low-benefit plans may find that they will now not only get a more comprehensive set of services but also pay less in the end, even if their premiums go up.
And that's not counting the fact that most — state officials estimate three-fourths — of the people buying coverage on the exchange will be eligible for federal subsidies.
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HuffPo excerpt - 7/26: Health coverage sold on Obamacare's health insurance exchange in Maryland will be among the cheapest in the country, state officials said Friday.
A 21-year-old nonsmoker will be able to buy health insurance that costs as little as $93 a month on the Maryland Health Connection, the state's health insurance exchange, starting Oct. 1 for coverage that takes effect Jan 1, the Maryland Insurance Division revealed in a press release.
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My point is relevant, solutions. IRS employees have government sponsored health care insurance. There is no reason for them to be covered by ACA. That is the point their union was attempting to make to the congressman who was wasting more time in trying to distort and confuse the issue. The House has voted to repeal ACA over thirty times...this was just more nonsense. You people are so easily fooled.
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FYI...there are 535 members of Congress. In addition to their salaries and many benefits, the American taxpayers are subsidizing their health care insurance coverage by an average of $700/person/month. This includes coverage of their dependents and staff.
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Again, solutions, this is about an amendment proposed by a REPUBLICAN congressman meant to distort and confuse. Government employees have health care insurance. ACA is for those who do not.
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You are not reading beyond the headlines nor are you hearing beyond FoxNoise. Rep. Camp is a republican who is grandstanding.
excerpt/link not permitted: However, a bill (HR 1780) introduced in April by Rep. David Camp (R–Mich.) would extend that requirement to all federal employees, an idea that does not sit well with the union.
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solutions, this is an excerpt from fact check dot org (no links permitted): House and Senate members are allowed to purchase private health insurance offered through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, which covers more than 8 million other federal employees, retirees and their families.
It's not a "single-payer" system where the government acts as the one and only health insurance company. As President Bush's chief of personnel Kay Coles James said in 2003, while lecturing at the conservative Heritage Foundation, "the FEHB program is not centralized, government-run health care." It has drawn praise both from conservatives and liberals, including President Obama, who held it up as a model for his own health care proposals.
According to the Congressional Research Service, the FEHBP offers about 300 different private health care plans, including five government-wide, fee-for-service plans and many regional health maintenance organization (HMO) plans, continued...
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Puremagix, you are accurately describing the classic republican Southern Strategy. You and all right wing extremists have perfected the art of projection. quote: "Obama and the Democrats are masters at pitting one class of people against the other."
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The IRS employees were asked to oppose an amendment by...a republican congressman. The propaganda you respond to is, as always, just that...propaganda and lies.
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Three grown children of iconic American Top 40 host Casey Kasem are seeking a court's help to get access to their ailing father, whom they haven't been allowed to see in three months, they say.
In papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, his daughter Julie Kasem, 38, is requesting a conservatorship over her 81-year-old father's healthcare.
The children from Kasem's first marriage, Julie; Kerri, 41; and Mike, 40; allege that their stepmom, Jean Kasem, 59, who's been married to their father for more than 30 years, has abruptly blocked all access to their dad.
"When he was healthy, our dad used to talk to us all the time. We're his joy," Kerri Kasem previously told PEOPLE. "Now we've been cut off from him. The same goes for many of his friends. We just want to know that our dad is okay."
Multiple attempts to reach Jean Kasem and her lawyer for comment were unsuccessful.
The kids, in addition to more than a dozen longtime friends of Kasem, staged a protest outside his L.A. mansion on Oct. 1, demanding access to Kasem, to no avail.
Kasem, who has advanced Parkinson's disease, cannot walk unassisted and began having trouble speaking about three years ago, his kids say, who add that relations with their stepmom have been estranged their whole lives.
They insist the feud has nothing to do with money because they're all "self-sufficient and are not listed in his will anyway," Kerri previously said.
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The 2006-07 season was a very successful one for Germany's 2007 European Pair Skating Champions Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy. It was their best season so far, but it was also their toughest season.
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The 2006-07 season was a very successful one for Germany's 2007 European Pair Skating Champions Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy. It was their best season so far, but it was also their toughest season.
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I love this team, but think Steuer is a creep. In that regard, I agree with an article I translated some time ago on him (scroll down to the part "A cowardly informer hid behind skaters"). I do, though, wish Alyona and Robin all the best.
Thanks for the interview - I too love this team and absolutely can't wait to see their new program to Asoka!!!
I love them. I can't wait for them to get the world title that they deserve.
Thanks for the article! I'll admit that I was not a fan at first but they are slowly winning me over. Their new short program sounds very interesting.
I hardly can imagine skating them to such music, but I´m sure they will do a great job, like they always do
And Steuer is not a creep, the people who caused all this senseless trouble about his past are creeps! He did that 20 years ago, so what´s the use of punishing him(and his couple) now, for things which aren´t important anymore? I´m happy they made so much progress to allow him being their coach, it seems like the end of all this trouble is near, hopefully!
I disagree with the "Steuer wasn't a creep" theory -- apparently, there were a lot of athletes who managed the same situation with the Stasi without taking a lot of their money, and, without turning in other athletes. At the very least, he could have admitted what he had done immediately, instead of lying about it. I agree with Ptichka!!!
Of course it wasn´t right what he did, but he regrets it and he didn´t cause any damage. Also the situation was difficult for him, like for all the others who were involved in STASI affairs. What had happened to him if he had denied working for the STASI? He would have been the one who would have being observed.
The German Skating Union had almost forbidden him going to Torino with Aljona and Robin-and what for? He is a great coach, so why don´t they led him do his job and lead Aljona and Robin to the top?
See my point?
anyway, I wish Aljona and Robin the best of luck for the upcoming season.
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Hi Patty, thanks for posting. Welcome to the forum. Post often, post long.
About the view that people should let by-gones be by-gones, forgive and forget -- it doesn't seem to work that way. The Armenians haven't forgiven the Turks, and the Shi'ites and Sunni's are still at each others' throats after 1200 years.
The more we try to brush old injuries and greivances under the rug, the more they pop up in unexpected places.
Their new short program costumes. Candidates for next years' worst(best) costume? LOL. Definitely original though.
You can download the soundtrack of 'Asoka' from the following link. Does not sound very Indian though.
Furthermore, I think his behavior since the scandal broke has been despicable. At no point did he say he regretted anything (correct me if I am wrong here, I could very well be). In fact, he spent much time actually denying his involvement in the first place. I might have had sympathy for him had he come out right after the news broke and said - yes, I did it, it was a different time, please forgive me, etc. That is not what he chose to do.
Finally - it's not like Germany is trying to arrest Steuer or anything. All they are saying is that they don't want a former active Stasi spy representing the country; and they consider being a part of the national team to be representing the country.
I couldn't copy the link, but according to one report that I read, Steuer actually reported to the Stasi that one athlete was considering defecting. I also understand that, at the time, such a report would effectively kill the athlete's career -- if the athlete was lucky. Other people forced to co-operate with the Stasi managed to do so without doing such harm.
Personally I was not a fan of Stuer when he was skating and I am not a fan of Aliona and Robis! (I know someone will bash me for this.)
As for what Steur did and didn't do...we don't know the whole story. Besides East Germany was a communist society not a democratic society. They could pretty much do whatever they wanted to people and do it however they wanted (well not really but I think you get my point.) Remember this was the same country that has all these secret files on Katarina Witt.


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After the Fall
By Victoria Roberts
185 pages, $25
By Charity Vogel
Alan is leading the typical life of a well-to-do New York City kid – going to class at an exclusive school; minding his sister; socializing with the help – when his inventor father gives him the bad news: the family has just lost everything.
Precarious to begin with (which tends to happen when you have an unpredictable genius for a father and a temperamental Buenos Aires beauty for a mom), the lives of Alan and his little sister are suddenly upended.
Temporarily. For, after learning the worst has happened, Alan wakes up not in his familiar penthouse apartment – but in Central Park. The family's possessions are distributed here and there throughout the park; whole rooms are re-created, minus the doors and windows.
Such is the premise of "After the Fall," a light, witty book by illustrator and writer Victoria Roberts that is billed as a novel but that really is more of a long story paired with illustrations. The book is about fifty-fifty, half words, half pictures.
The delight of this story – which will please New Yorkers or those who wish to live there, as well as stylish aunties and best friends everywhere – lies in the resourcefulness of a family that, on first blush, would seem helpless when thrust into the real world.
Think an upper-crust Manhattan clan would be lost without their espresso maker, housekeeper and private parking?
Think again, reader. Alan and his sister, Sis, cope, and so well you'd swear they had done it all before: him by pretending to go to school each day, to save face, her by staging dramas in the park with casts of woodland animals. (Four squirrels as the cast of "Little Women"? An animal adaptation of Beckett's "Happy Days"? Yes, please.) "Animals will do anything for food, if you ask them nicely," Sis reports.
Meanwhile, Pops is working contentedly in his bathrobe and needle-pointed slippers on a few new inventions, and the book's best character, Mother – excepting a brief fling – is wearing Valentino and sunglasses, chain-smoking, and cracking her usual sarcastic remarks. "Because Pops had time on his hands," we read, "he spent more time with Mother. Mother said they finally had one thing in common – displacement."
As Pops tells the family, his goal "was to become 'in-suff-pen-dent,' as he put it, a combination of self-sufficient and independent." (In 2012, isn't that a lovely word, and ambition, to ponder?)
This family finds its way back to happiness, no doubt about it.
The penthouse, too. How they do it is worth reading for yourself, in Roberts' shimmery soufflé of drawing and storytelling.
This book makes a nice counterpoint to some of the more depressing reads on offer this holiday season.
Isn't attitude everything? In "After the Fall," the answer, happily, is yes.
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on February 12, 2013 - 12:01 AM
By Michael Bartlett
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo recently submitted a provision in his executive budget to "reform" industrial development agencies. The proposal would dramatically restrict the ability of local IDAs to exempt the state's portion of the sales tax in any incentive package. The practical consequences of this provision will set back economic development in every village, town and city in New York.
The provision states that only projects that meet the criteria of the state's Excelsior Program would qualify for sales tax abatement. There are just seven categories of this program, including manufacturing, agriculture, financial services, scientific R&D, software development, back office and distribution centers. In addition to restricting the benefit to these categories, the proposal also requires the creation of "net new jobs," which can be as high as 150.
For New York City, this proposal would have minimal impact. But in upstate New York and especially in Western New York, this "reform" amounts to a job killer. Here's why.
Economic development projects in rural areas are not likely to meet the job creation numbers. In addition, many economic development projects in rural areas revolve around tourism activities – a sector not even eligible under this proposal. Small business and small technology business, which make up a large share of economic development in Western New York, are ineligible under this proposal. Commercial development, adaptive reuse and mixed-use development, so critical to city and suburbs alike, would be ineligible for this valuable incentive. Some of Buffalo's most dynamic renewal projects, like the Hotel @ the Lafayette, might never have happened if this policy were in place.
The proposal sets up bureaucratic delays that could be both lengthy and fatal to a project. Qualifying projects would not receive sales tax abatement as a "front end" benefit but would receive it as a future tax rebate. As an up-front benefit, sales tax abatement can be used as developer equity in arranging private financing. As a future rebate, it cannot.
Lastly, the proposal flies in the face of one of the governor's own initiatives. Cuomo established Regional Development Councils to custom design economic development plans for their regions. Most of those plans have identified sectors and projects that would be excluded from using the sales tax incentive as a tool. The plan for our region identified tourism, binational logistics and redevelopment of urban and suburban main streets and commercial districts as top priorities, all of which would not qualify for incentives.
So, now we're faced with a policy that on one hand encourages a customized regional approach to economic development and on the other offers a restrictive "one size fits all" tool box to implement those plans. A bit disjointed, I would say.
Michael Bartlett is executive director of the Hamburg Industrial Development Agency.


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Happy Myeloma Awareness Month!!! Thanks to our Advocate of the Month many people across the country are officially celebrating March as Myeloma Awareness Month. Cindy Ralston, Myeloma Action Team member and Kansas City Support Group Leader, successfully passed a proclamation in her town declaring MAM. She then drafted an email for the folks in her support group that could be customized to each person's city or town, which was used as template for everyone requesting a proclamation be passed. Cindy also made herself available as a resource to those who had questions about the process.
Overall Cindy and her support group got six towns in the area to declare March as Myeloma Awareness Month. The group has also done amazing work collecting postcards. I asked her to speak about her involvement with advocacy and her support group.
Adlai E. Stevenson once said, "Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same." This is true of myeloma and what it brought into my life. Since being involved in a support group since 1996, I have come to realize the many physical and mental challenges that myeloma brings to each one of our members and their supporters. Through this association, it has brought us closer together. I refer to my group as my "Myeloma Family." We share our joys and sorrows, all while supporting each other as we travel the myeloma pathway. From our support group members to the IMF Staff and other support group leaders across the country who share and help each other to support, educate, and enhance the lives of the myeloma community. They are truly the strength behind the battle to fight myeloma until there is a cure.
Throughout the years, our members have inspired me with their courage and determination to fight the disease. Once you are aware of myeloma and how it touches the lives of the patients, how could I not get involved? There isn't a lot I can do to ease the disease, but through advocacy, I can improve awareness and hopefully make a difference in the lives of myeloma patients in the future.
Myeloma Awareness Month (MAM) seemed like a great way to do just that. I first reached out to the Mayor of my town to request a proclamation. He lives in my neighborhood, therefore, he immediately approved MAM the day he received my letter. My quick response from the City of Shawnee, Kansas, gave me confidence that I was on the right track for gaining approval for MAM; and inspired me to get my whole support group involved.
What I have found over the years as a support group leader is to not be hesitant to ask for help; sometimes it comes when you least expect it. Not everyone is able to get involved due to the stage of their illness, however, when you listen and watch you can find those who are able and want to make a contribution. I found a way to make it as easy as possible for my support group members to get involved. I created a template for them to apply to their cities for MAM. I composed a general informational letter about myeloma and why it is important for people to gain awareness. I sent this to my members and then asked them if they knew someone on the city council to email them the request. I found that having a contact or connection really increases your chances of success. Several of the cities we targeted did not respond due to the lack of having a contact. To date we have received proclamations from: Shawnee, KS; Kansas City, KS; Lenexa, KS; Sugar Creek, MO; Independence, MO; and Kansas City, MO.
Cindy's initiative to get more group members involved played an intricate role in the IMF's Myeloma Awareness efforts and we cannot thank her enough for her leadership. Click here read about all the ways you can be involved with Myeloma Awareness Month


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Faster Memory Allocation Using vmtasks
By Steve Sistare-Oracle on Nov 08, 2012
You may have noticed a new system process called "vmtasks" on Solaris 11 systems:
% pgrep vmtasks 8 % prstat -p 8 PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP 8 root 0K 0K sleep 99 -20 9:10:59 0.0% vmtasks/32
What is vmtasks, and why should you care? In a nutshell, vmtasks accelerates creation, locking, and destruction of pages in shared memory segments. This is particularly helpful for locked memory, as creating a page of physical memory is much more expensive than creating a page of virtual memory. For example, an ISM segment (shmflag & SHM_SHARE_MMU) is locked in memory on the first shmat() call, and a DISM segment (shmflg & SHM_PAGEABLE) is locked using mlock() or memcntl(). Segment operations such as creation and locking are typically single threaded, performed by the thread making the system call. In many applications, the size of a shared memory segment is a large fraction of total physical memory, and the single-threaded initialization is a scalability bottleneck which increases application startup time.
To break the bottleneck, we apply parallel processing, harnessing the power of the additional CPUs that are always present on modern platforms. For sufficiently large segments, as many of 16 threads of vmtasks are employed to assist an application thread during creation, locking, and destruction operations. The segment is implicitly divided at page boundaries, and each thread is given a chunk of pages to process. The per-page processing time can vary, so for dynamic load balancing, the number of chunks is greater than the number of threads, and threads grab chunks dynamically as they finish their work. Because the threads modify a single application address space in compressed time interval, contention on locks protecting VM data structures locks was a problem, and we had to re-scale a number of VM locks to get good parallel efficiency. The vmtasks process has 1 thread per CPU and may accelerate multiple segment operations simultaneously, but each operation gets at most 16 helper threads to avoid monopolizing CPU resources. We may reconsider this limit in the future.
Acceleration using vmtasks is enabled out of the box, with no tuning required, and works for all Solaris platform architectures (SPARC sun4u, SPARC sun4v, x86).
The following tables show the time to create + lock + destroy a large segment, normalized as milliseconds per gigabyte, before and after the introduction of vmtasks:
ISM system ncpu before after speedup ------ ---- ------ ----- ------- x4600 32 1386 245 6X X7560 64 1016 153 7X M9000 512 1196 206 6X T5240 128 2506 234 11X T4-2 128 1197 107 11x DISM system ncpu before after speedup ------ ---- ------ ----- ------- x4600 32 1582 265 6X X7560 64 1116 158 7X M9000 512 1165 152 8X T5240 128 2796 198 14X
(I am missing the data for T4 DISM, for no good reason; it works fine).
The following table separates the creation and destruction times:
ISM, T4-2 before after ------ ----- create 702 64 destroy 495 43
To put this in perspective, consider creating a 512 GB ISM segment on T4-2. Creating the segment would take 6 minutes with the old code, and only 33 seconds with the new. If this is your Oracle SGA, you save over 5 minutes when starting the database, and you also save when shutting it down prior to a restart. Those minutes go directly to your bottom line for service availability.


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quote: "Although I know that the iPhone 4 is made at sweat shop factories in China, I still think that this is the only choice, because Apple is actually one of the best. Actually before I made a decision, I compared Apple with other cell phone companies, such as Nokia," he said through a translator. "And the conditions in those factories are worse than the ones of Apple."
quote: "Dell and Hewlett Packard are not doing as good as Apple is doing right now," Li Said. "But when we talk about publicity and public relations, it's another story."
quote: The iPad 3 launch may be exactly what Apple needs after a tough start to 2012. Last month, The New York Times released its second installment to its iEconomy series, which focused on the poor treatment of workers at Apple's suppliers in China. The report, which cited issues like working long hours with extended overtime, poor working conditions that have led to explosions, and crowded living spaces, drew plenty of attention from both Apple and the public.Apple CEO Tim Cook blasted the report, saying that Apple cares about each and every worker employed by its overseas suppliers. However, his speech didn't seem to sway the public. Just yesterday, social activist groups Change.org and SumOfUs.org organized demonstrations in front of key Apple stores around the globe to protest Apple's lack of empathy for the workers in factories like Foxconn.
quote: HP and Dell are worse than Apple, just have better PR
quote: HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!Funniest quote EVER!
quote: Tell the one about how HP and Dell have better PR departments than Apple. That's funny. I don't think that one will ever get old.


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When a hat is applied for a short period of time, to cure unruly or unliked poofy hair.
Jack's hair was turning into a major jew-fro and wouldn't lay down even when combed, so he gave it the hat treatment. Soon, his hair was smooth and rockin'.
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on November 11, 2012 - 6:25 PM
LOCKPORT – Mayor Michael W. Tucker, never a big fan of the Niagara Tourism and Convention Corp., wants Lockport to stop sending money to the county's official tourism promotion agency.
The 2013 city budget will contain no money for the NTCC, Tucker said last week.
He intends to shift the roughly $90,000 sent to the agency into another account to pay for the city's proposed marketing and communications director and his efforts.
But John Percy, head of the NTCC, said the state law that allowed Lockport to begin charging a 4 percent "bed tax" on hotel and motel bills also requires Lockport to send 75 percent of the proceeds to his agency.
Tucker said, "I haven't heard anything from John Percy. I never hear anything from John Percy. That's part of the problem."
The agency's primary funding source is the bed tax charged in Niagara Falls hotels, but Lockport and Niagara County have the same 4 percent levy. The county's tax applies only at lodgings outside the boundaries of the three cities.
Percy said, "We can appreciate Lockport's intention to minimize any tax burdens or budget deficits by finding new revenues. However, the distribution of the bed tax funds is mandated by state legislation."
"We have some work to do. I understand that," Tucker said. "I never had a Plan B before. I think our city has grown to the point where we need a marketing director."
Corporation Counsel John J. Ottaviano said the state law doesn't refer specifically to the NTCC, merely to a nonprofit corporation under contract with Niagara County to promote tourism.
County Legislature Chairman William L. Ross, C-Wheatfield, said the county has no plans for another tourism agency.
The NTCC resulted from a merger of the county's tourism office and the old Niagara Falls Convention and Visitors Bureau.
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on January 31, 2013 - 1:00 AM
Hockey is back in Buffalo. The lockout that seemed like it would cancel the entire season ended and left hockey-thirsty fans with a short but intense 48-game schedule.
While the lockout dragged on, the sports talk radio waves were full of disgruntled fans screaming how they were done with hockey and would never set foot in the First Niagara Center again. It seems, however, that they've changed their tune.
The Sabres season is now under way, and it appears the arena is going to be quite full for all the games on the Sabres home schedule. Many people thought that the lockout would affect ticket sales for the Sabres, but the loyal fans of Buffalo were quick to support their team once the labor dispute ended. Many home games have already sold out, and there are only a few tickets left for the remaining games. The Sabres organization rolled out the welcome mat for returning fans, offering hockey buffs 50 percent off all merchandise. The arena store quickly sold more than 50,000 pieces of blue-and-gold memorabilia – a franchise record.
The abbreviated season means most teams are playing games at least every other day in the condensed schedule, if they aren't playing games back-to-back. Many fans love the schedule, and how hockey can be seen almost every day.
While fans may like that the hockey drought is over, it might be a somewhat different story for players. The players have to travel more with less downtime which increases the wear and tear their bodies take and decreases their ability to recover. As seen from the NBA lockout last year, with an increase of games in a shorter period of time, injuries are bound to occur much more. The increase of injuries also comes from players not conditioning and the lack of training camp. Coach Lindy Ruff shared his concern over player readiness in a recent news conference.
With the start of the new season comes new hopes and players for the Sabres. During the offseason the Sabres dealt Derek Roy to the Dallas Stars, in return for Steve Ott and John Scott. This move was to help the Sabres extend their physical presence on the ice, and relieve themselves of another "finesse" player from their overstock. Ott brings a tough attitude with his ability to finish checks.
The Sabres started their season with two good wins against Philadelphia and Toronto, but then lost four straight. Their on-ice performance isn't meeting up to the hype. While it's clear that Buffalo fans are ready for hockey, are the Sabres?
Wesley Watson is a sophomore at Lancaster High School.
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1) (noun) a lovable yet slightly annoying character from the Thundercats show, who often uses his own name in his sentences
2) (adj.) sexy and/or stylish
Dude, did you see Rebecca the other night?
Hell yeah man, she was lookin' snarf!
Hell yeah man, she was lookin' snarf!
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dood i was eating my lunch at school and this chick said somethign hilarious and i totally snarfed sandwich all over the place
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To eat something quickly, very quickly.
Man, did I ever snarf that piece of pie down!
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to pilfer, to take something that one perceives as off-limits, especially as related to food or beverage consumption.
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Snarf was Lion-O's "nursemaid" on Thundera, and he has a hard time dealing with the fact that Lion-O is no longer in need of his "protection". Although he's somewhat cowardly, Snarf does manage to gather his wits and help when needed.
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Clive Davis may have made headlines by revealing his bisexuality in his new memoir, but Kelly Clarkson is more concerned about what he's written in regards to her career.
"I refuse to be bullied and I just have to clear up his memory lapses and misinformation," the recent Grammy winner wrote Tuesday on WhoSay. "It feels like a violation."
In his newly released memoir The Soundtrack of My Life, Davis recalls a meeting with Clarkson that was "a very tough conversation, and it didn't get any easier when Kelly burst in to hysterical sobbing," while discussing the inclusion of "Since U Been Gone" on her second album, Breakaway.
"Not true at all," Clarkson says. "His stories and songs are mixed up. I couldn't be more proud of that song. I resent him dampening that song in any way."
Clarkson goes on to state that she did cry in the meeting – but not about "Since U Been Gone."
"I cried after I played him a song I had written about my life called 'Because of You,' " she says. "He hated it and told me verbatim that I was a 's–––ty writer who should be grateful for the gifts that he bestows upon me.' "
Davis recalls a completely different version of the "Because of You" conflict in his book, released Tuesday.
"In subsequent interviews Kelly said that she had to fight to get 'Because of You' on the album, but that simply wasn't the case," Davis writes. "I have no idea where she heard that."
His rep later released a statement. It reads: "As anyone who has read The Soundtrack of My Life knows, I think Kelly Clarkson is a tremendous vocal talent and performer. In the book, I provide an in-depth look at our years together during which we shared major multi-platinum success, as well as a few creative differences. I am truly very sorry that she has decided to take issue with what I know to be an accurate depiction of our time together.
"Before the book was published, I had every fact checked with five independent individuals who were present on a daily basis throughout it all. The chapter as it is written was thoroughly verified by each and every one of them. I stand by the chapter as written in my book. At the same time I wish, and will always wish, Kelly's talent and her career to soar to ever new heights. – Clive Davis."
Despite the difference in memories, Clarkson, who is engaged to be married, remained positive in her blog.
"I love my job. I love my music. I love my fans," she says. "Growing up is awesome because you learn you don't have to cower to anyone – even Clive Davis."
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Cali slang for Atascadero. The most badass town on the Central coast. Where the real gangsters kick it.
Gangsta1: Let's go party in Paso Robles.
Gangsta2: Fuck Paso Robles. It all goes down in a-town!
Gangsta2: Fuck Paso Robles. It all goes down in a-town!
بواسطة jay13 فبراير/شباط 17, 2008
A-Town is a small thugged out high crime ridden area located in Ashburn, Virginia. It is home to over 12 gangs including the Salvadorian and Bosnian Mafia. Local hang out's like Treviso's Restaurant are often prowled by greedy gang bangers who roam the streets. Ashburn is probably, the only ghetto area of the state of Virginia. Not even Richmond, Alexandria, Newport News compare to the crime of Ashburn. It is the toughest town in V.A. period.
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guy 2: "Nah nigga, last time I went to dat hell hole I got anally raped "
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Allentown, Pennsylvania; 3rd largest city in Pa. with a population of about 150,000 (white, hispanic, african-american & asian)
Yo, lez hop in dah ride and cruise up to ATown to check out dem hot street walking bitches on Linden Street!
بواسطة ATown Social Experiment مايو/أيار 22, 2008
a town in massachusetts where the popos drive by and say "parks closed" instead of taking your beer and writing you up. where menots, hills, "the hop," towers, and res are a part of your vocabulary. where after a drunken night, it is always essential to go to bill and bobs to find other fellow a-towners. a place where it is forbidden to leave the AHS campus, but everyone does it anyways. and, if your lucky enough to play hockey, you get away with everything. most likely the only place in the world where the mascot is named after a pond (like WTF!) GO SPY PONDERS!!!!
that guy lives in a-town, he must thrive off of beat nights!
a-town is dope city!
a-town is dope city!
بواسطة missing a-town يوليو/تمُّوز 19, 2006
Contrary to popular belief, A-town refers not to Atlanta, but to Almaden Valley in San Jose, California. It's basically a club for the homies.
I'm off to college. Peace out, A-town.
بواسطة Cheah فبراير/شباط 28, 2007
Popular nickname for the cities of Atlanta, GA and Austin, TX. Both cities are the capital city of their state.
"I'm from A-Town!"
"A-Town is puttin' it down!"
"A-Town is puttin' it down!"
بواسطة HomeBase مايو/أيار 20, 2006
Ahlington, MA ... did someone say va, va, vagina. Nope, Mass is where it's at
Peace up A-Town down
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