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Electric? Hybrid? Compressed natural gas? Diesel?
We've hurtled from a few alternate fuel options at the Chicago Auto Show in years past to a green car explosion in 2013 that can be bewildering for consumers looking to save money on gas and save the planet at the same time.
Still a ways to go for hybridsSure, everyone's talking green cars, but how much of the actual market do they comprise? Sales of hybrid electric vehicles in the U.S. have surged from 17 in 1999 to a high of 352,274 in 2007. The majority of those cars -- 181,221 -- were Toyota Priuses, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. In 2011, 268,755 hybrid electrics were sold. In comparison, 12.37 million light vehicles (cars, SUVs, vans, and pickups) were bought in 2011.
Thankfully, I've got Chicago Area Clean Cities Vice Chair John Walton to offer some analysis.
"I remember when the hybrid was a concept vehicle and people were thinking, 'This is nuts -- who's going to buy one of those?'" said Walton, an agent for Trillium CNG and former DuPage County Forest Preserve District fleet manager.
Now, "automakers offer the public choices from the lower-cost, minimalist models to luxury sedans, SUVs and even pickup trucks."
So let's break down the environmentally friendly options at the auto show, which runs until Feb. 18 at McCormick Place in Chicago.
If you're on the fence about alternative vehicles, you might want to check out the "mild hybrids," including the Chevrolet and Buick eAssist. Cars like the Buick Regal and Chevrolet Malibu can increase fuel efficiency by 25 percent.
"These shut the engine off when the car stops and also have a small electric assist motor. I think that there will be a lot more of these 'mild' hybrids in the future as automakers work to meet future CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) standards," said Walton, referring to federally mandated levels of 35.5 mpg in 2016 and 54.5 mpg in 2025 for most cars and SUVs.
Then, there are the electric vehicles ranging from electric plug-ins with phenomenal gas mileage but limited range to plug-in electrics with gas generators that extends the range.
Electrics with gas-engine technology include the Chevrolet Volt, Cadillac 2014 ELR and the Fisker Karma, said Walton, a Wheaton resident. But "none of these are inexpensive -- the Volt starts at about $39,000; the Karma starts at over $100,000; the ELR price has not been announced but will be somewhere between the other two."
However, the federal government offers up to $7,500 in tax credits for such cars and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency offers $4,000 cash back, Walton noted.
Another option is cars with diesel engines. Some well-known models are Volkswagen's Passat and Jetta. Chevrolet broke ground at the show Thursday unveiling a diesel-powered Cruze that reaches 42 mph on the highway. Its official name is the 2014 Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel, as Chevrolet tries to dispel memories of notorious diesel Oldsmobiles in the 1970s.
The new diesel engines "have proved to be quiet, clean and offer more torque and fuel economy than their gasoline counterparts," Walton said. "I believe that there will be more small, fuel-efficient diesel-engine cars for sale in the USA as time goes on, the general public learns the advantages, and old thoughts of noisy and dirty diesel cars fade away."
What else?
Turbocharge is a buzz word at the show. "In the days gone by, turbo chargers were looked at as a means to get more power out of an engine. The new smaller turbocharged engines from Ford and Chevrolet offer smaller engines that are efficient and add horsepower on demand using a turbo charger," Walton said. "They can squeeze out over 40 mpg on the highway and nearly 30 mpg around town in a midsize sedan."
As for conventional cars with decent mileage? Using combined city/highway scores, the Dodge Dart gets 27 mpg and the Chevrolet Spark gets 34 mpg.
What was Walton's favorite green car? He gave the Ford and Toyota exhibits high marks, noting that Toyota is continually innovating with its Prius lineup and Ford has multiple plug-in and electric choices.
But if Walton had to name one ... (drum roll) ... it's the Cadillac ELR.
One more thing
What would have made the auto show even better? Displaying GMC, Chevrolet or Dodge compressed natural gas trucks or vans at the show, Walton said.
Another missed opportunity was the lack of concept hydrogen vehicles, he added. "GM has said there will be a hydrogen vehicle produced for sale in 2015 -- probably not in Illinois till some time later."
Buying a car in 2013? Visiting the auto show? Send me your thoughts at Your voice
Roy Fonda of Winfield had some questions and comments after I wrote about the exodus of toll collectors from the Illinois tollway as it hires more engineering staff for a major road building program.
"Will they truly be engineers?" Fonda asked. "Will they have degrees from an accredited college or university? How many are or will be registered professional engineers? I and many other engineers are very protective of the title engineer, as opposed to possibly a less restrictive title such as technician. How and why does an agency with, I believe, less than 300 centerline miles of tollway require and justify an engineering department of a projected 605? That is probably larger than IDOT's District One with its much larger operational responsibility."
And Brian Buchanan of Mount Prospect would have voted for Metra nonunion staff raises.
"Give them their raises," he wrote. "I'll bet all the dissidents complaining about the raises wouldn't stand for not having a raise since 2009 if it was them. Now is the time to do it when Metra has the extra revenue coming in.
"One perception needs to be corrected. You commented (in a recent column) 'but more than one-quarter of the employees getting raises have jobs not specifically linked to railroading ... aren't these sorts of jobs easy to fill in today's market?' True to a point. But for instance, railroad accounting is not like regular accounting ... it is its own world."
Don't think sleet. Think cycling. And you can get your bike on 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 9 at the Active Transportation Alliance's Chicago Bike Swap at the University of Illinois at Chicago campus. Swap bikes or purchase new models, buy gear and parts, pick up maps and watch a bike dance troupe (no kidding). The event is at the Chicago Physical Education Building at UIC, 901 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago. For info, go to chicagobikeswap.org.
Gridlock alert
LaGrange Road/Route 45 in Orland Park will be closed Sunday through Thursday nights until Feb. 21 for bridge repairs.


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Well, 2012 is in the books and it was a bit of a strange year for the sport of Kickboxing. We saw K-1 move into the hands of new owners who have had a bit of a struggle pulling it all together and we saw Golden Glory team up with Total Sports Asia and Pierre Andurand to form GLORY Sports International to rival K-1 and arguably become the biggest Kickboxing organization in the world overnight. Join Dave Walsh (@liverkickdotcom) as well as Rian Scalia (@rianscalia) as we discuss GLORY's big Heavyweight tournament to round out 2012. This includes what they nailed, what they faltered on and what we want to see in the future.
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The first leg(s) of the Via Campesina caravans are over – the three delegations arrived from Guadalajara, San Luis Potosi and Acapulco. Two thousand, five hundred join the International March For Life and Social and Environmental Justice and march through Mexico City.
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MassiveBlack II is the smaller cousin of MassiveBlack, a cosmological simulation ran at NISC Kraken by Researchers at McWilliam Cosmology Center at Carnegie Mellon University.
In MassiveBlack II, 5.3 billion gas particles and 5.3 billion dark matter particles represents the baryon and dark matter in a cubic patch of the the universe 100 Mpc/h on one edge. WMAP7 cosmology is used.
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This year marks the big comeback of the Evo to the Starboard range. Evolved into a convertible twinzer - single fin, the new Evo IQ also comes with plugs that allow you to close unused boxes. It's also the board with the widest tail in this group and the only one featuring a swallowtail.
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The Evo IQ is the only single-fin board of the group this time around, but it can be converted into a twinzer. Regardless of its fin configuration, it will plane easily. It has great upwind capacity and she also lies a little higher in the water than the other multiple-fin boards in the group. If those characteristics allow it to be more comfortable in a straight line than the others of the group, it's a trade-off with choppy turns, as the fins being further away from the edge make it a little less tolerant. In the surf, bottom turns are great, and if you put in enough back foot, the exits are especially rewarding. Put it in twin mode, and you'll be able to slash pretty hard for its volume. Some will people love this, and others won't. Appreciated by everyone is its automatic speed, even in soft, sloppy chop. Its compact form makes it tolerant, which is why you can push its tail so hard on a turn. Last point, with a single fin this board is the board most at ease with many jumps.
The Evo offers versatility and accessibility for the masses. Because of its rails that will guide you through those long bottom turns, we recommend if for side on-shore and on-shore conditions with little waves. Single or twin? It depends on you and your style. Old-school or skatey, they both work.
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does the club have training days or get togethers? I am asking becaulse I have a 14 week pup that I have been training using the Water Dog book, he is doing prety good (I think)he sits every time with voice or wistle, except during feeding time then hes to excited. It's kind of hard with the book becaulse I cant see excatly what he should be doing and how well he should be doing it. yesterday I started working on stay a little.
thanks for all the info and help. Ken
After reading this I understand where your at and need guidance with getting started doing the right things with your puppy. These club training days if and when they happen will not be enough and you will learn too little too late. They are however a great place to meet people and find out who's who in the area.
First best to find a mentor near by who is experienced and you can hang out with them often for training.
Right now I would go to ybsmedia.com and purchase the puppy DVD Sound Beginnings by Jackie Mertens. This will help you Right Now and for several months. If you were more experienced Bill Hillmans puppy training videos would be good as well. You would still benefit for them but for a newbe I would get puppy going and you started with Sound Beginnings, find a mentor or good private training group then absorb Mr Hillman.
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With a baby puppy you want them to Go! Stay can wait a little while.
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FBI files link Slade Wilson to the assassination of various offshore dictators and businesspeople. Less is known about his domestic activities. Additional skills include: Weapons expert. Demolitions expert. Close quarters combat. Ambush techniques.
The fugitive known as Bane is currently on the run and wanted by the sovereign government of Santa Prisca following a prison break from Pena Duro penitentiary. Bane is believed to be traveling with a large group of mercenaries who refer to themselves only as Followers.
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Hi all, getting ready for winter as many of us are.
I recently purchased some of the vented inner covers from Honey Run Apiaries.
Last winter I used a shim on top of my hives so that I could add sugar during the winter if need be. The ones I made are like 3" deep...so maybe half of a shallow super.
Does anyone see any reason why I couldnt set-up the vented inner cover (in 'winter' mode) over the top of the 3" shim?


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Tonight I've updated the pc98 machine that I have runnnig to the latest 4.9-stable.
Time to jump back into the water.
Tonight I've updated the pc98 machine that I have runnnig to the latest 4.9-stable.
Just returned from my trip to Japan.
I found a new PC98 machine as well as a new PC98 laptop.
In addition, I found several new cardbus wireless cards that I'll be trying out over the next several weeks.
Searched for a connector for my pc98 (japanese) laptop. The PC9821Nr15 laptop takes a 14 pin 'half pitch centronics' connector. I've found this item from Hirose DX30AM-14P (plug) and DX20M-14-CV(10) for the shroud. In Q1 units, this will run me $14.00 for one from DALCO. Plus I need to find some half pitch ribbon cable, but the hardware guys here say that it is trivial.
This will allow me to get work on the FreeBSD(98) serial driver more easily, as well as debugging some boot issues with 5.0 on this laptop.
worked more on devd. After putting it into 5.0-release I'm getting some good feedback.
devd is nearing completion. The kernel part is done. the userland part needs to be finished yet. I have it parsing the config files. It should not take too much more effort to get devd working well. I still need to write the matching engine and the entry processing engine.
Got power control working for wi driver. I'm able to turn off the automatic level adjustments, and set the level to use. This has made one of my flaky links much happier. I don't know for sure why, but am quite happy about it. There's about a 6dB difference in signal strenth.
Cardbus is now completely loadable. There's a few issues still to work out. I hope to get devd done enough for 5.0 and then try to mop up the last issues.
Woo Hoo!!!!
The hostap stuff seems to be useful enough for people to diluge me with requests.
Time for NEWCARD again! Yea!
I spent last night integrating the WIP I have in my tree on my laptop to the p4 repo. When it jells more, I'll commit to -current.
I've also been putting the final touches on OLDCARD. I keep wanting to kick it into long term, low level maint mode, but issues keep coming up :-).
It looks like once the IRQ issues are settle wrt ACPI, we'll have other issues with PCI resource allocation. Already many PCI cards behind bridges do not work completely right if the BIOS doesn't assign an address. And assigning an address to them is problematical because of bridge issues. I need to think about the right way to deal soon.
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'Lego Movie' built upon solid laughsFebruary 6, 2014 9:17 PM
You may recall that this concept of everyday toys coming to life has been attempted in the past.
All in all, it went pretty well. So it's hard to go into something as commercially driven-sounding and unimaginatively titled as "The Lego Movie" without some apprehension.
Could it possibly rise to "Toy Story" level?
Well, yes.
"The Lego Movie," directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller ("Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," "21 Jump Street"), is a hilarious thrill ride, relentlessly funny and clever, from the minute we meet our hero -- Emmet.
Starring Voices of: Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, Will Arnett, Morgan Freeman, Nick Offerman..
Rating: PG for mild action and rude humor..
There's nothing heroic about Emmet (Chris Pratt), a Lego construction worker who lives and works strictly by the (instruction) book. That's how President Business (Will Ferrell) wants it, and he keeps the citizens of Bricksburg pacified with a steady diet of inane TV shows ("Where Are My Pants"?), inane pop songs ("Everything Is Awesome") and Taco Tuesdays. He's trumped up by the mega-corporation Octan, which controls everything, including the voting machines.
Emmet's manual goes out the window when he stumbles upon a beautiful rebel, Master Builder Wildstyle (Elizabeth Banks), and becomes attached (literally) to a prophesied Piece of Resistance that is the only hope for Bricksburg. President Business is actually Lord Business and along with Bad Cop/Good Cop (Liam Neeson) he plans to reign terror upon Lego city with the chemical weapon Kragle.
Emmet is dragged unwillingly into an underground revolutionary movement led by bearded mystic Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman) and peopled with such historical giants as Abraham Lincoln, William Shakespeare, Wonder Woman, the Ninja Turtles, Dumbledore and the 2002 NBA All-Stars.
Meanwhile, Emmet's slim hope of winning the affections of Wildstyle hit a snag when he learns that she already has a boyfriend -- Batman! And he's a pompous egomaniac played by Will Arnett. Somehow they must penetrate Lord Business' skyscraper headquarters guarded by lasers, sharks, laser sharks and "an overbearing assistant."
Along the way, they plunder into alternate Lego universes, including the Old West (a bar fight, of course), Middle Zealand, Star Wars and the new Cloud Cuckoo Land, home of Unikitty, who keeps a firm unicorn-feline paw on all negativity.
When the action heats up, Emmet tumbles into a Lego realm you never see coming, and that's where the movie's message of throwing out the instruction book is clearly driven home.
Lego fans will be delighted to know that nearly the whole movie is constructed with the little bricks, right down to the clouds and water. Building goes on within the movie as well, as master builder Wildstyle is constantly whipping up contraptions to get them out of jams. More than 3.8 million unique Lego bricks are represented and -- in an in-joke that amused the adult Lego group at the screening -- at times you see the number of the Lego piece flash on the screen.
The creators didn't attract such A-list talent as Mr. Freeman, Mr. Neeson and Mr. Ferrell without a good script. This one generates laughs all the way through, and while it's only the first week of February, it's not out of the question that "The Lego Movie" could hold up as one of the better comedies of the year, animated or otherwise. Not only that, it has heart to match.
One warning for parents and kids alike is that it does have the desired side effect of making you want to buy Legos. Like right away. And you might want to dream up something crazy to make with them.
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In "Decision Time," Editor Brian Lovett will share a scenario from his 20-plus years hunting turkeys. Each hinges on a critical decision. Post what choice you would have made, and then see how things actually turned out.
Little Dreamer and the Doomsday Machine
The gobbler lived in a small chunk of woods bordering a dense Alabama swamp. Everyone knew about him, yet no one wanted to hunt him. The bird was evil.
But my friend and I were on the final day of our Alabama trip, so we had nothing to lose. We'd each killed birds earlier that week, so a last stab at the bad turkey seemed like a fun idea. And if we killed the gobbler, we'd be camp heroes.
The longbeard gobbled sparingly on the roost but really lit it up after he was on the ground. In fact, the turkey gobbled more than 100 times, honoring our yelps and clucks like a 2-year-old that had never heard a call. However, he didn't budge.
"I'm going to yelp at him one more time and then shut up," my friend said.
And he did. The turkey gobbled, and then my buddy put his diaphragm call in his shirt pocket and fell asleep. The ploy seemed to work, however, as the longbeard continued gobbling for about five minutes. Then, the bird went quiet.
"He's going to slip in for a look or disappear forever," I thought.
Sure enough, a half-hour later, I caught movement to my right. The gobbler eased quietly through the pines, stepped onto a logging road and searched intently for the source of the calling. My shotgun sights were directly on his wattles.
But that was the problem. The bird was in the open with his neck stretched high. However, he was at the very edge of range or perhaps beyond it, and I was using an unfamiliar shotgun from the gun company that had sponsored our hunt.
I had roughly one second to decide whether to fire and hope for the best or let the evil gobbler slip away forever.
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Consisting of 400 tables of toys, comics, cards, TV/movie memorabilia & more Adventure Con is one of the largest toy shows & Celebrity events in the Southeast. Celebrity guests scheduled to appear include;
Warwick Davis (Wicket from ROTJ, Willow Ufgood from Willow, Wald from Episode I, Leprechaun from Leprechaun I-VI & Professor Flitwick from both of the Harry Potter movies.)
Ben Chapman (the Gill-Man from Creature from the Black Lagoon)
Gil Gerard (Buck Rogers from both the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century movie & TV series)
James Macarthur (Danno from Hawaii 5-0, also appeared in Swiss Family Robinson & more)
Felix Silla (Twiki from the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century movie & TV series, Cousin Itt from the Addams Family TV series, Lucifer from BattleStar Galactica, Hang glider Ewok from ROTJ.)
Linda Harrison (Nova from the original Planet of the Apes)
Erin Gray (Wilma Deering from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century movie & TV series)
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18 to 20 million - Gallons of converted water it takes to make enough snow to open Steamboat Ski Area
250 - Hours of snowmaking operations required to make that snow
10 - Hours of snowmaking operations at the ski area so far this season, due to unseasonably warm weather
15 - Optimal temperature, in Fahrenheit degrees, for snowmaking
25 - Marginal temperature for snowmaking
$500,000 - Annual electric bill from snowmaking-related operations for Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp.
130,000 - Cubic yards of earth moved in re-grading of Headwall trail leading to ski base
Steamboat Springs In his office, Doug Allen keeps a photo that shows Mount Werner covered in several feet of powder after a weekend-long dumping of snow. The picture was taken the Monday after Thanksgiving in 2001 - the only other time in Allen's 21 years with Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. that Steamboat Ski Area missed its opening day.
"History says when winter arrives, it arrives in earnest," said Allen, Ski Corp.'s vice president of mountain operations. "The one year when we missed our opening, it was some of the best early-season skiing we've ever had."
Snowmaking equipment was first installed at the ski area in 1981 to give the resort a good shot at opening by Thanksgiving. Despite that insurance, 2007 will serve as proof that no amount of snowmaking technology can overcome Mother Nature. Manmade or not, snow is snow, and it melts when it's warm.
Citing warm and dry weather conditions, Ski Corp. announced Thursday that it will delay it's opening nine days, from Nov. 21 to Nov. 30. Speaking at Ski Corp. offices Friday, Allen said he knew as early as Tuesday that the Thanksgiving opening wasn't going to happen.
That day, Allen did some calculations. It takes about 18 to 20 million gallons of converted water to make enough snow for an opening. That volume requires about 250 system hours of snowmaking. As of Tuesday, there had been about 10 hours.
Even under perfect conditions, there just weren't enough hours between Tuesday and the scheduled opening to make enough snow.
Allen said 15 degrees is ideal and 25 degrees is "marginal" for snowmaking. An unseasonably warm fall has made those temperatures hard to come by.
"We've really only had one good night of snowmaking," Allen said.
Firing snow guns
Snowmaking is a complicated process that involves complex machinery and jargon. Boiled down simply, it requires only three necessary ingredients: low temperatures, water and compressed air, which atomizes water as it comes out of a snow gun and rapidly drops its temperature.
Allen said Ski Corp.'s annual electric bill for snowmaking is $500,000.
Low temperature has been the missing ingredient, Allen said. Contrary to popular perception, he added, the Yampa Valley's geography is such that at night and other times when the air is still, temperatures are actually warmer on the mountain because denser cold air settles near the valley floor. Allen called the phenomenon a "stratification of temperature layers."
"A lot of people don't understand that, because they get in their car in the morning and it says 18 degrees," Allen said. "It isn't 18 degrees up here. : We're in a unique situation because of the size of this valley."
Ski Corp. spokesman Mike Lane called Allen the company's "resident weatherman," and stressed that crews are ready to make snow as soon as the weather permits.
"Our snowmaking guys and gals are ready to go as soon as the temperatures drop," Lane said.
In the meantime, Allen exudes a calm optimism about the upcoming ski season, noting that the La Nina phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean has provided plentiful powder for Steamboat in the past.
"Some of our heaviest snow seasons on record have been in La Nina years, but they typically start late," Allen said.
While the weather has frustrated opening day ambitions, Allen said it has "absolutely" been a blessing to the record $16 million in on-mountain projects undertaken this year. Crews were still busy Friday working on Headwall - where a total re-grading project necessitated the moving of 130,000 cubic yards of earth - but Allen reiterated that the work has nothing to do with the delayed opening.
"We're not delaying the opening for lift construction or anything else," Allen said. "It's snow and warm weather."
While they now have nine extra days to work, Lane said work will still be completed before the originally scheduled opening.
Allen said even if the work were behind schedule, the opening is not contingent on projects such as the re-grading. If winter had hit early, rather than late, Allen said Ski Corp. would have just smoothed over Headwall as best they could and finished the project next year.
"With the way the weather has been, we'll have a chance to complete it," Allen said.
The muddy Headwall has been seeded, but there will be no grass under the snow base there this season. Allen said that will mean a loss of a "little bit of insulation factor," but shouldn't make a big difference.
Those who purchased a Steamboat-only ski pass this year won't be able to offset the resort's late opening by upgrading to the Rocky Mountain Ultimate Pass that includes unlimited access to Copper Mountain and Winter Park, which are both open. While those passes still cost just $50 more than a Steamboat-only pass, Lane said there is no ability for those who already own a pass to upgrade.
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All health professionals are included in this category: various physicians, psychiatrists, dentists, chiropractors, pharmacists, nurses, nutritionists and anyone else providing health care services-as well as their professional associations. (Chiropractors, dentists and nurses are subsets of this industry and are profiled in greater detail within this section.)
Only four other industries, along with retirees, spent more than health professionals on political campaigns during the 2012 election cycle. The industry contributed nearly $152.3 million in the last election, much more than the nearly $102 million it gave during the 2008 election cycle.
Over one-quarter of health professionals' campaign contributions during the last cycle, or almost $42 million, came from the Adelson Drug Clinic. According to the organization's website, the drug clinic was founded by Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson, who own Las Vegas Sands, a casino and resort company. The Adelsons were the top overall individual contributors in the 2012 election cycle, contributing to only conservative causes as well as pro-Israel groups.
Other key 2012 election contributors within the industry included the Cooperative of American Physicians, the American Dental Association, and the American Medical Association. The top recipient of health professional contributions was GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who received nearly $13 million, followed by President Barack Obama, who received nearly $11 million. The industry favored Republicans over Democrats in contributions as it has in the past -- 57 percent of contributions went to Republicans whereas 43 percent went to Democrats.
In 2012, the American Medical Association spent more than $16.5 million on lobbying, the most of any health professionals' group that year. The American College of Radiology was second, at more than $3.5 million, and the American College of Emergency Room Physicians spent more than $2.9 million on lobbying in 2012.
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In celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month, on April 5 the GRAMMY Museum welcomed the Preservation Hall Jazz Band to the intimate Clive Davis Theater for an installment of the Museum's An Evening With series. The band discussed the origins of New Orleans jazz and the music's spiritual ties and performed a brief set, including "Bourbon Street Parade" and "Short Dressed Gal."
"There's a mix of many races in New Orleans that we call it a melting pot," said Charlie Gabriel, vocalist and clarinet player for the band. "In this melting pot we're able to create this music and give it back to the universe. It's the only art form that [America has] given to the universe. Everything else we have comes from abroad, but this is American music."Founded in 1961 by Allan and Sandra Jaffe, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band derives its name from Preservation Hall, the historic music venue founded that same year in New Orleans' French Quarter by art dealer Larry Borenstein. Under the leadership of Creative Director Ben Jaffe, the son of co-founders Allan and Sandra, the current band lineup includes Mark Braud (trumpet/vocals), Gabriel, Joseph Lastie Jr. (drums), Freddie Lonzo (trombone), Clint Maedgen (tenor saxophone/vocals), and Rickie Monie (piano). Members of the earlier installments of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band included musicians such as clarinetists Albert Burbank and Willie Humphrey, trumpeters Punch Miller and De De Pierce, and pianists Sweet Emma Barrett and Billie Pierece, among others. Since their founding, the band has traveled worldwide with the mission to nurture and perpetuate the art form of New Orleans jazz. The band charted on the Billboard 200 in 2010 with the release of Preservation: An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program, which featured guests Ani DiFranco, Steve Earle and Merle Haggard, among others. They are currently on tour throughout the United States and performed at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 10 in Manchester, Tenn.
For more information on the GRAMMY Museum, visit www.grammymuseum.org.
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For Immediate Release: Contact: Kelly Huff August 5, 1998 Ron Harris Sharon Snyder Ian Stirton
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission has made public its final action on 23 matters previously under review (MURs). This release contains only summary information. Closed files should be thoroughly read for details, including the FECs legal analysis of the case. (Please see footnote at the end of this release.) Closed MUR files are available in the Public Records Office.
1. Pre-MUR 360
RESPONDENTS: First National Bank of Wheaton (IL)
COMPLAINANTS: Referral by Robert B. Serino, Deputy Chief Counsel, Comptroller of the Currency, Administrator of National Banks (DC)
SUBJECT: National bank contributions
DISPOSITION: Took no action*
2. Pre-MUR 361
RESPONDENTS: (a) Teresa Isaac (KY)
(b) Teresa Isaac for Congress, Marc A. Mathews, treasurer (KY)
COMPLAINANTS: Referral by Margaret H. Kannensohn, Fayette County Attorney (KY)
SUBJECT: Failure to register and report; use of state office for federal campaign; personal use of campaign funds
DISPOSITION: (a-b) Took no action*
RESPONDENTS: National Medical Political Action Committee, Henry W. Williams, treasurer (DC)
COMPLAINANT: FEC Initiated (RAD)
SUBJECT: Failure to file disclosure reports timely
DISPOSITION: Probable cause to believe, litigation initiated 9/97*
Stipulation and Final Order and Judgment: May 29, 1998.
$ 10,000 civil penalty*
RESPONDENTS: (a) Honorable Tom Davis (VA)
(b) Tom Davis for Congress, Mary Jane Sargeant, treasurer (VA)
(c) Peter Sirh, Legislative Assistant to Congressman Tom Davis (VA)
(d) Sallie Mae Student Loan Marketing Association (DC)
(e) Scott Miller, Director of Government Relations, Sallie Mae
Student Loan MarketingAssociation (DC)
COMPLAINANTS: Fairfax County Democratic Committee, Mark D. Sickles, Chairman (VA)
SUBJECT: Corporate contribution; use of Congressional office for federal campaign
DISPOSITION: (a-e) Took no action*
RESPONDENTS: (a) Friends of Maurice Hinchey, Charles Laudi, (former) treasurer (NY)
(b) Besicorp Group (NY)
(c) Michael Zinn, President, Besicorp Group (NY)
(d) Valerie Zinn (NY)
(e) Eric Zinn (NY)
(f) Andrea Zinn (NY)
(g) Anne Zinn (NY)
(h) Louanne Pauley (NY)
(i) Stephen Eisenberg (NY)
(j) Cheryl Levine (MA)
(k) Steven Levine (MA)
(l) Guy De Pietro (NY)
(m) Joyce De Pietro (NY)
(n) Michael Daley (NY)
(o) Nathan Enowitz (NY)
(p) Shirley Enowitz (NY)
(q) Martin E. Enowitz (NY)
(r) Deborah F. Enowitz (NY)
COMPLAINANT: Christian Josi (NY)
SUBJECT: Corporate contributions; contributions in the names of others
DISPOSITION: (a-r) Took no action*
RESPONDENTS: (a) Alan Keyes for President 96 Inc., Mary Parker Lewis, treasurer (MN)
(b) David G. Racer, Jr. (MN)
COMPLAINANT: Kristin R. Kazyak (VA)
SUBJECT: Failure to report debt; excessive contributions
DISPOSITION: (a-b) Took no action*
RESPONDENTS: (a) Clinton/Gore 96 General Committee, Joan Pollitt, treasurer (AR)
(b) Clinton/Gore 92 Committee, J. L. "Skip" Rutherford, treasurer
(c) Honorable Ruben Hinojosa (TX)
(d) Ruben Hinojosa for Congress, Ray Jaquez, treasurer (TX)
(e) H & H Foods (TX)
(f) Mr. Rene Hinojosa (TX)
(g) Liborio Hinojosa (TX)
(h) Brooks County Democratic Party and its treasurer (TX)
(i) Emma Jane Johnson (TX)
(j) Brooks County Independent School District and Noe Sauceda
Superintendent (TX)
(k) La Joya Independent School District (TX)
(l) Kika de la Garza for Congress, Siglinde Franz, treasurer (TX)
COMPLAINANT: Tom Haughey, Tom Haughey for Congress (TX)
SUBJECT: Excessive contributions; corporate contributions; Hatch Act violations
DISPOSITION: (a-l) Took no action*
RESPONDENTS: (a) AFL-CIO (DC)
(b) American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (DC)
(c) New Mexicans Accions del Pueblo Citizens Action and
Velia Silva , Executive Director (NM)
(d) Citizens Action and Nicole King (DC)
(e) Friends of Eric Serna for Congress, John Pound, treasurer (NM)
COMPLAINANTS: Republican Party of New Mexico, John Dendahl, Chairman (NM)
SUBJECT: Issue ads
DISPOSITION: (a-e) Took no action*
RESPONDENTS: (a) Ciro D. Rodriguez for Congress, Thomas F. Adkisson, treasurer (TX)
(b) Play-Mor Hall, Fred Vega, President (TX)
(c) John Puder (TX)
(d) Dora E. Rico (TX)
(e) George W. Durazzo (TX)
COMPLAINANT: Oscar H. Flores (TX)
SUBJECT: Contribution in the name of another; failure to accurately report contributions; use of non-federal (state) funds for federal campaign; improper use of petty cash
DISPOSITION: (a-e) Took no action*
RESPONDENTS: The Conservative Trust, S. Dennis Hoffman, treasurer (MD)
COMPLAINANT: FEC Initiated (RAD)
SUBJECT: Failure to file disclosure reports timely
DISPOSITION: Conciliation Agreement: $ 4,000 civil penalty*
RESPONDENTS: (a) Friends for Jim McDermott, Bill Dubay, treasurer (WA)
(b) Friends of Jim McDermott, Charles M. Williams, treasurer (WA)
COMPLAINANTS: National Republican Congressional Committee, Ted Maness, Executive Director (DC)
SUBJECT: Failure to file disclosure reports timely
DISPOSITION: (a) Conciliation Agreement: $ 4,500 civil penalty*
(b) Took no action*
RESPONDENTS: (a) Louis Bencardino (AK)
(b) Linda Murphy (AK)
COMPLAINANT: Wesley J. Jones (AK)
SUBJECT: Use of city equipment and personnel in connection with federal election
DISPOSITION: (a-b) Took no action*
RESPONDENTS: (a) Warren County Democratic Committee and its treasurer (NY)
(b) Saratoga County Democratic Committee and its treasurer (NY)
(c) Essex County Democratic Committee and it s treasurer (NY)
COMPLAINANTS: Lawrence A. Dudley (NY)
Margaret Farrell (NY)
Paul Kemnitzer (NY)
Richard E. and Patricia S. Dudley (NY)
David F. Cooney (NY)
SUBJECT: Excessive contributions/use of unregistered state committees
DISPOSITION: (a-c) Took no action*
RESPONDENTS: (a) Honorable Jon D. Fox (PA)
(b) Fox for Congress Committee, Frank W. Jenkins, treasurer (PA)
(c) Bruce Toll (PA)
COMPLAINANTS: National Legal and Policy Center, Kenneth Boehm, Chairman (VA)
SUBJECT: Excessive contribution; failure to report loan
DISPOSITION: (a-c) Took no action*
RESPONDENTS: (a) American Financial Corporation (OH)
(b) American Premier Underwriters, Inc. (OH)
(c) Chiquita Brand International, Inc. (OH)
(d) United Dairy Farmers, Inc. (OH)
(e) Great American Insurance Company (OH)
(f) Thriftway (OH)
(g) Carl H. Lindner (OH)
(h) Edith B. Lindner (OH)
(i) S. Craig Lindner (OH)
(j) Keith E. Lindner (OH)
(k) Carl H. Lindner, III (OH)
(l) Martha S. Lindner (OH)
(m) Frances R. Lindner (OH)
(n) Richard E. Lindner (OH)
(o) Robert D. Lindner, Sr. (OH)
(p) Alan B. Lindner (OH)
(q) Betty Lindner (OH)
(r) David Lindner (OH)
COMPLAINANTS: Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Larry Birns, Director (DC)
SUBJECT: Excessive contributions; exceeding the annual $ 25,000 contribution limit (1996)
DISPOSITION: (a-r) Took no action*
RESPONDENTS: (a) Honorable Jon D. Fox (PA)
(b) Fox for Congress Committee, Frank W. Jenkins, treasurer (PA)
(c) Richard P. McBride (PA)
COMPLAINANTS: National Legal Policy Center, Kenneth Boehm, Chairman (VA)
SUBJECT: Excessive contribution; failure to report loan
DISPOSITION: (a-c) Took no action*
RESPONDENTS:(a) Honorable Mary Jane Garcia (NM)
(b) Mary Jane Garcia for Congress Campaign, Marge Garza, treasurer (NM)
(c) Mary Gail Gwaltney (NM)
COMPLAINANT: Robert Adams (NM)
SUBJECT: Failure to register and report timely; improperly accepting contributions
DISPOSITION: (a-c) Took no action*
RESPONDENTS: (a) National Association of Broadcasters (DC)
(b) WTSN-LP 63 (IN)
(c) WEHT-TV (IN)
(d) Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation (WFIE-TV) (IN)
COMPLAINANT: Harriet B. Kimmel (IN)
SUBJECT: Corporate contributions
DISPOSITION: (a-d) Took no action*
RESPONDENTS: (a) Oxley for Congress, Jody OBrien, treasurer (OH)
(b) Investment Management Political Action Committee (IMPAC), Lawrence R. Maffia, treasurer (DC)
COMPLAINANT: Wayne W. Barnett (OH)
SUBJECT: Excessive contribution
DISPOSITION: (a-b) Took no action*
RESPONDENT: Oscar H. Flores (TX)
COMPLAINANT: Jason Stanford (TX)
SUBJECT: Confidentiality provision
DISPOSITION: Took no action*
RESPONDENTS: (a) Dr. Howard L. Feinberg (KY)
(b) Committee to Elect Howard Feinberg to Congress, Dr. Gail D. Feinberg, treasurer (KY)
COMPLAINANT: Sam McIntosh, Managing Partner, M C Squared Consulting (KY)
SUBJECT: Failure to accurately report debts; failure to report expenses
DISPOSITION: (a-b) Took no action*
RESPONDENTS: (a) Madison Magazine, Elizabeth Murphy Burns, President (WI)
(b) Joseph S. Wineke (WI)
(c) Wineke for Congress, George L. Ketterer, treasurer (WI)
(d) Richard J. Phelps (WI)
(e) Phelps for Congress, Jeneene M. Olson, treasurer (WI)
(f) Tammy Baldwin (WI)
(g) Tammy Baldwin for Congress, Kevin C. Myren, treasurer (WI)
COMPLAINANT: Patrick OBrien (WI)
SUBJECT: Corporate contribution
DISPOSITION: (a-g) Took no action*
RESPONDENTS: (a) OBrien-Kreitzberg, Inc. (CA)
(b) P. Clay Baldwin, Executive Vice President - Eastern Division,
OBrien-Kreitzberg, Inc. (CA)
(c) Fred C. Kreitzberg, Chief Executive Officer, OBrien-Kreitzberg,
Inc. (CA)
(d) Pat Courtney, Controller, OBrien-Kreitzberg, Inc. (CA)
(e) Burton L. Bruggeman, Esq. (CA)
COMPLAINANTS: Referral by Russell J. Richards, Assistant Director of Operations, Defense Contract Audit Agency (VA)
SUBJECT: Corporate contribution; contribution by federal contractor; contribution in the name of another
DISPOSITION: (a) Reason to believe, but took no further action*
[re: corporate contribution; contribution by federal contractor; contribution in the name of another]
(b-c) Reason to believe, but took no further action*
[re: corporate contribution; contribution in the name of another]
(d-e) Reason to believe, but took no further action*
[re: contribution in the name of another]
(a-e) Sent admonishment letters.
*There are four administrative stages to the FEC enforcement process:
1. Receipt of proper complaint - 3. "Probable cause" stage
2. "Reason to believe" stage - 4. Conciliation stage
It requires the votes of at least four of the six Commissioners to take any action. The FEC can close a case at any point after reviewing a complaint. If a violation is found and conciliation cannot be reached, then the FEC can institute a civil court action against a respondent.


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Paris Jackson in Glamour: Not Your Typical Teenagerby Free Britney at . Comments
Paris Jackson, 14, is in many ways just a typical teenager.
In other ways, Michael Jackson's little girl is anything but.
The daughter of the biggest entertainer in world history spends most of her time as her peers do, navigating high school cliques, listening to music, tweeting at 3:00 a.m., etc.
But the famous offspring is ready to step into the spotlight.
Her desire to become an actress - one of the decisions that may have led to the public Jackson squabbling in July - has been met with mixed reviews in her family.
"A lot of people don't want me to do [Janet Jackson in particular does not, openly discouraging the idea, but Aunt La Toya believes in me," Paris told Glamour.
"She heard me play a little guitar and sing, and she started clapping, 'Oh my God, oh my God.' She really does encourage me; it's just awesome of her."
As for Paris Jackson defining herself while living in Michael's shadow?
"I love my dad, and I'm proud to be his daughter. I just don't think the title 'M.J.'s daughter' fits me. A lot of people think he's the only reason I'm making it ... but I want to show I do have talent and that I can make it if I try."
"I want to be my own person. The clique in my class, they don't like me or my friend because we're outside of the box. Because we're not copycats."
"Prince calls me goth, but I'm more rock 'n' roll. I listen to older music like AC/DC; Phil Collins is the ish. A ton of kids at school have made fun of me."
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Yahoo's had this feature for years - You choose a separate prefix (not your actual email) and can configure '-suffix' addresses to create 'firstname.lastname@example.com' temporary addresses.
These are managed from your main email account and you can configure as many as you want, I have more than 100 of them.
You can even configure to send from the address if you like and it shows up in your From dropdown when you create a new message.
Having a prefix separate from your actual email address provides some security.
Also, having to configure them vs creating them on the fly means that if you get a spam that someone truly gave/sold your email address away.
I do wish it were easier to create addresses, like a toolbar widget or a task tray app to quickly create one in when I'm on a website that needs an email.
Better would be no prefix at all and a simple app to generate random addresses and copy to clipboard with one click... Or right-click an input field and have an option to drop an email address.


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mathieu: In answer to your question about FTP over routers which perform NAT. Firstly, as you're probably aware, there are two modes of FTP - Active and Passive. Passive FTP works over almost all routers, whereas active FTP rarely works over NAT unless the router is clever enough to know how to specifically interpret FTP traffic. Most FTP done via web browsers and the like is passive, since it works in more scenarios, but on Linux the command-line ftp client defaults to active FTP.
Passive FTP is easy. All connections are made from the client to the server, so the router can just route these as with any other connection (like HTTP and the rest).
Active FTP, however, requires the server to open a connection to the client. In the case of a router that does NAT, the router must know which machine on the local network to send this incoming connection to. In the case of a Linux router, that's the job of the FTP Conntrack module (I think), which basically keeps track of the FTP connection. If your router supports Active FTP, it probably has a similar piece of software running.
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Blood in the semen, called hematospermia, is blood that is either too small to be seen (microscopic) or visible in the ejaculation fluid.
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I've got no complaints about either version, and I must have both!!!
I've got no complaints about either version, and I must have both!!!
was never a big fan of the sarge. so won't bother me if i don't pick up either version.
Here's a few:
Any chance of getting some of the classic ARAH vehicles from the 80's and 90's like the G.I. Joe Skystriker, Dreadnok Thunder Machine, LCV Recon Sled into the Pursuit of Cobra Line. How about more of the smaller battle stations like the Cobra Bunker or Checkpoint Alpha or perhaps the G.I. Joe PAC-RATS like the Machine Gun or the Missile Launcher ?
Any Chance of seeing the rest of the Oktober Guard members in the Pursuit of Cobra Line...memebers like Horrorshow, Schrage, Daina, Stormavik, Lt. Gorky, and Volga ? maybe a battlepack with a new sculpt of Colonel Brekhov ?
Since we are finally getting Sgt. Slaughter (Thanks very much, he loks awesome !) is it possible to see the Renegades perhaps in a battlepack with the Sgt's main mode of transport the Triple T ?
How about some large bases for our Joe and Cobra forces...aka the Vintage Joe Headquarters or the Terror Dome ?
Looking for CW 2010 Sidious and TX-20...if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. thanks
I've got a couple questions:
What are our chances of seeing some of the Sigma 6 characters represented in this 3 3/4" line? Specifically, Long Range, Hi-Tech, Lt. Stone, Inferno, and any of the various versions of the BAT?
Is there any possibilty of seeing a new version of the Skystriker similar to the style and scale of the Rise of Cobra Night Raven?
We might be over quota, but what about:
"In the various IDW series, many well-known characters have looks that are quite distinct from any previous incarnation. What are the chances of getting some of these characters in action figure form? Though, obviously, the new looks for characters like Cobra Commander or Destro would clash with what's been established, some updated characters, like the Crimson Guard and Crystal Ball, have not appeared in any form in the Rise of Cobra/Pursuit of Cobra line, and could potentially be worked into that line."
That's my jacket!
Hasbro has implemented new rules that they will not address questions like "Will we see...". So, any other questions?
I feel a great disturbance in the Force.
This question may be a long shot but here goes....
The G.I. Joe label has been around quite some with many formats being used to capture the spirit and fun of G.I. Joe... we have seen toys ranging from 3.75" figures to detail 12" figures down to small ventures like Micro Machines and McDonalds Happy Meal toys....What are the chances that Hasbro may do a joint venture with Lego to create a new venue for the G.I. Joe where larger sets like playsets and perhaps a USS Flagg might see the light of day ?
Looking for CW 2010 Sidious and TX-20...if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. thanks
If we ask that, should we mention the failure of the Built-To-Rule line? Might not be too terribly out there, since both SW and Spider-Man have (or had) Lego sets.
I have to say, I'd give my left arm for Lego Transformers and GIJoe if it meant Lego Transformers and Lego GIJoe video games. :mabs:
That's my jacket!
LEGO wouldn't do it, Mega Bloks would but they already have their own military line, I think.
Hasbro is about to release another building block toy line (it looks terrible) so I can't imagine them doing this.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Looking for CW 2010 Sidious and TX-20...if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. thanks


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Spent a minor fortune taking my three dachshunds to the vet for maintenance. Took the company car back to work and picked up my personal car since I'm on vacation this week. Solved a problem on a project a colleague was working on while I was there. Cooked dinner for everyone (my famous gabacho tacos) and then vegged in front of the TV for the rest of the night.
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
Stayed out way too late with friends (from Fri night), ran 10 miles, ate, slept and worked.
Tried to enjoy the a/c indoors (read, watched carp on TV), went to a simple dinner out, saw a local theater play (Peter Pan, with characters on wires to fly! ).
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
Scored an entire wave of TVC plus a Cloud car and Snowspeeder then went to watch the SJ Earthquakes play a friendly against the Tottenham Hotspurs. Then spent the evening in the hot tub with the wife and some brews. Doesn't get much better.
Have: CW Yularen, CW Clone, everything from CW Slave I set except Slave I, TFU Shadow Stormtrooper x2, Evo Trooper, Saga AT-AT Driver, K-Mart Jodo Kast || Want: Vintage Fordo
Thanks to TheDarthVader, Phantom-like Menace, TheRealDubya, Jediguy, Dark Marble, Umbra, Qui-Long Gone, CrunchyNug, GH_fan and jedikiss.
Our friends, Penny and Bob, moved back to Ohio from Las Vegas. They live in Columbus, but all their friends live up in the Cleveland area. They came up for a visit and we had a party at ours. It was fun!!!!
Oh... and that's where the newest picture of me was taken!
In anticipation of my third son's upcoming birth next month, my wife and I traded in our 2004 X-terra (and my soul) for a minivan on Saturday.
We got a brand-spankin' new Honday Odessey. I guess the transformation is complete.
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If both are in their prime and at the top of their game, who wins this dream matchup?
Might be the toughest individual call in the history of ever.
Pete's serve at Wimbledon was almost impossible to return.
Who you got?
If both are in their prime and at the top of their game, who wins this dream matchup?
Might be the toughest individual call in the history of ever.
Pete's serve at Wimbledon was almost impossible to return.
Who you got?
I'd go with Sampras in a close 5 set match.
tennis...i just lost some respect for jcane...
Depends on which Wimbledon we're talking about. Today's grass courts are much slower than they were 20 years ago, with a different grass blend that's treated in such a way as to give a truer bounce (basically, the ball slides less than it used to).
Sampras was essentially unbeatable on that kind of a fast surface and would win there at his peak, probably against anyone who ever lived. The Wimbledon of today, which is routinely referred to by the players as "green clay"? Hard to say. He'd do better than Federer would on the old grass with it's utterly errant bounces. But the slower the surface the worse Sampras fared, as evidenced by the fact that he never made it passed the quarterfinals of the French Open, which is the slowest surface of any of the major tournaments.
The homogenization of tennis is really quite a shame. It's really not unlike football, where the fans' appreciation of the passing game has slowly warped the sport into a video game. With tennis, the move has been to slower courts and heavier tennis balls to facilitate longer and longer rallies, with aggressive plays and players unfortunately pushed to the wayside in favor of boring backboards like Nadal, Murray and Djokovic.
It really depends on the situation. If I had to win ONE match, at Wimbledon . . . . I'd probably lean Samprass. The man's serve was as clutch as anything we have ever seen at Wimbledon. However, I think Federer had the all around "better game" for Wimbledon. Dude has all the shots and a pretty solid serve as well. It would no doubt be a classic.
Sampras. Andre Agassi would run in and hit Federer with a folding chair.
Boom Boom Boris Becker was a lethal serve and volleyer at Roland Garros. Would have been tough to beat in his prime as well.


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Thread: Pacifiers
3rd March 2012 10:24 AM #1
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I have a 4-month old baby, whenever she cries, I know immediately that she is hungry. So, I feed her. I noticed sometimes that she is starting to suck on her fingers, I find it adorable watching her doing that. My sister suggested to give her a pacifier. I'm wondering, is okay with her age? What is the appropriate age range? Also, I'm doubting to give her one since it might have an effect on her gums. Will there be?
4th March 2012 09:44 AM #2
For me, personally, I would prefer that my baby simply suck on their fingers or thumb. Also, are you saying that she does this and then you feed her? I ask, because chewing on fingers is an early sign of hunger. Since I assume she is not on solids yet at only four months, you may not want to interfere with on demand feeding at this point.
However, if you want to give her a pacifier, considering that she is four months old, I think it would be fine. There are some studies to suggest that pacifiers may decrease the odds of SIDS. If you are breastfeeding, you are likely past the point where a pacifier would greatly effect your supply or cause nipple confusion. Do keep in mind that studies have shown, breastfed children who uses pacifiers tend to wean earlier. Also, long term use can affect her orthodontic structure, though most children give up their pacifiers long before they get to that point, which I believe is well past a year.
There are pros and cons of pacifier usage. If you are managing without a pacifier and she has found her fingers to be an appropriate substitute, you may just want to stick with that.
4th March 2012 04:53 PM #3
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Thanks mom2many.
Well, my baby sucks on her fingers even if she is not hungry. I mean, she does it all the time. Does that mean anything? I tried to give her a pacifier and it seems that she does not like it at all. She prefers her fingers.
5th March 2012 02:53 AM #4
She probably just has a high need to suck, as many babies do. It is perfectly normal. My children always preferred their fingers to the pacifier as well. I think fingers may be easier to give up so you could be saving yourself a bit of a headache in the long run by skipping the pacifier.
Good Luck!
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Thanks mom2many!
Yes, my baby really enjoys her fingers than her pacifier. So I just let her do her thing and I removed the pacifier from her. I also have read some articles that it is better to let you babies talk and let her vocalize her "words" rather than giving her pacifiers to exercise her skills in talking even though at a very young age.
11th March 2012 05:39 PM #6
My baby doesn't like dummies. Every time I attempt to let her suck one, she would spit it out. Is there any advantage for my daughter for not depending on any dummy?"Those who don't believe in love at first sight have not given birth." ♥ Hidden Content
12th March 2012 03:44 AM #7
Hi Kaydetbride,
My babies didn't like dummies either. Sometime I could get them to use it for a very short time, but that was before they were 5 months of age, and they never got "attached". They just wanted me :-)
Is there a benefit to your baby not wanting a dummy? Absolutely!
Are you still breastfeeding? Does she take a bottle? I noticed that you asked a question about your period not returning yet, and fully breastfeeding a baby (without using a dummy) can contribute to this. So I am curious as to whether your baby takes a bottle or a cup or if she is fully breast feeding.
12th March 2012 05:28 AM #8
Baby's that have a dummy receive less breastmilk than those who do not have a dummy. Just a fact I thought I'd share.
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Well said aussiemidwife! I do believe in that. Aside from the breastmilk that your baby receives, there is also an advantage of not using dummies since your baby will be more attached to you and you can have that bond that mothers and babies usually have.
18th March 2012 02:22 AM #10
I agree charibelle_925. Breastfeeding does not just provide for a baby's nutritional needs it also gives them comfort and helps them to develop self-confidence (particularly if you breastfeed on demand, I believe).
I love this quote by Paula Yount who is a well-known breastfeeding specialist:
"You are not a pacifier; you are a Mum. You are the sun, the moon, the earth, you are liquid love, you are warmth, you are security, you are comfort in the very deepest aspect of the meaning of comfort.... but you are not a pacifier!"
How great is that?! When my son was just one day old in hospital an unhelpful midwife who was meant to be assisting me with breastfeeding kept saying 'stop using your mummy as a dummy' to my newborn baby. Honestly! My son was one day old and we were both trying to learn the new skill of breastfeeding. I wish I had known more about breastfeeding back then and told her what I think now!
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FInished compiling Yoper-rc3, found more little tweaks and after having spent a day with Alan working on client work and getting the default skeleton nice and slick, I am waiting for my last ISO to burn and after some quality control the upload will start. Had 3.500 single visitors on www.yoper.com today and over 1000 votes on distrowatch. At this rate mathematically Yoper would be going #1 end of next week. Well. Woulnd't that be nice. Quite astonishing really. Never thought this to be possible in my wildest dreams.
Now it is up to our marketing department and to the sales force to sell this :) .. hope they will do as good as a job as I have done. Never know with Sales, eh ... hehehe
I don;t think any other OS has translucent mouse pointers. At least I have not seen any.
By Sunday I should be able to announce it. I might wait to Monday though, to catch the Monday workers trying out their new YOS.
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The Quest For Mastery School is founded / directed by Ronna Herman. Ronna is internationally known as a messenger for Archangel Michael. His messages of hope and inspiration through Ronna have been featured in hundreds of New Age and spiritual publications around the world, and translated in most major languages. Ronna has brought forth from AA Michael a plethora of information and transformational techniques since 1992.
The Quest For Mastery School aims to provide tools and support for those treading the pathway of ascension and en-light-enment. As well as providing seminars and courses containing AA Michael's teachings and techniques, those who have a desire to teach can become QFM Certified Facilitators.
We hope you enjoy your visit to the QFM website! If you have any questions or would like to sponsor an event in your area, please contact Randy Monk, Executive Facilitator – email@example.com in the first instance.


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Updated on 27 June 2013
Report on Next generation sequencing – Market was dominated by Illumina in 2012, which accounted for more than 50 percent market share
Singapore: Market research firm MarketsandMarkets has highlighted that the global next generation sequencing (NGS) market, which was valued at $1.3 billion in 2012, will reach $2.7 billion by 2017 at a compound annual growth rate of 16.30 percent.
The report titled, 'Next generation sequencing (NGS) market-global forecast to 2017', analyzes and studies the major market drivers, restraints, and opportunities in North America, Europe, Asia and rest of world. The growth of the overall NGS market is driven by continuous innovations and developments in the market aimed at higher throughput, increased accuracy, and affordable costs. The opportunities for the growth of this market include developments in pre-sequencing, cloud computing, and NGS bioinformatics solutions.
However, factors such as high reliability on grants and funding from the government and decrease in capital expenditure from academic institutions are hindering the growth of the market. In addition, the interpretation of big data generated by sequencers and the subsequent storage and management of analyzed data is still a challenge. Owing to the complexity of NGS technologies and data, standardization of the overall NGS workflow is still an unmet need.
The NGS data analysis market includes the market by product (software and services) and by applications such as whole genome sequencing, targeted re-sequencing, de novo sequencing, RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq and Methyl-Seq. Some of the major applications of NGS include diagnostics, drug discovery, biomarker discovery, personalized medicine, and agriculture and animals research. Each market is comprehensively analyzed at a granular level by geography (North America, Europe, Asia, and Rest of the World) to provide in-depth information on the global scenario.
North America accounted for the largest market share of the NGS market, followed by Europe, in 2012. However, Asia presents significant opportunities for investors as the developed markets get saturated. The NGS platforms market is a consolidated one and was dominated by Illumina in 2012, which accounted for the largest market share of more than 50 percent.
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