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City concern over retail is all talk, no action
Original post made by Marc Fleischmann, Midtown, on Jun 30, 2006
Since we moved here in 1991, all we've ever seen is retail business leave Palo Alto. All the talk by the City Council and city management has been a waste of time.
All the coffee shops, all the restaurants and all the frou-frou French patio stores don't bring in the tax revenue that one big box retailer or car dealer does.
Here's my prediction for the next five years:
Magnussen's Toyota moves to Mountain View. Whole Food's sales drop 40 percent once the Mountain View super store opens. Magnolia HiFi closes due to the Best Buys in East Palo Alto and Mountain View.
Fry's moves to Menlo Park, just north of Palo Alto on the site of the closed auto dealers — plenty of room for a huge building and parking.
What will the City Council say then? That it's time to form another Blue Ribbon committee to develop a plan to save retail.
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a resident of Evergreen Park
on Jul 4, 2006 at 8:08 pm
The retail crisis has been coming for quite some time.
To your points, I don't see Fry's moving, but I do see Fry's being able to extract major concessions from s city that is going to be desperate to keep Fry's where it is.
Whole Foods is going to do just fine; in fact, Whole Foods Homer St. location is sizzling with new business from downtown housing development. It will only get better as a just-completed nearby housing complex - and others - fill up.
Magnolia Hi-Fi mat well go down. I don't see the payback in a retail environment that has almost no barrier to entry on the electronics side.
Regarding big box retail, Palo Alto IS badly outflanked by it's municipal neighbors. Big box stores that generate sales taxes for their respective municipalities will soon surround our city, leaving little remaining opportunity for large-scale retail to be built here.
So where does that leave Palo Alto? It leaves us with taking the "high-end" retail boutique and restaurant sector, and running with that. The sea change that took over University Avenue will soon overtake other commercial strips in Palo Alto. California Avenue is next on the list of commercial strips that will be beautified and prettied up. Property owners and developers have already begin to see the potential. Rents are climbing, and will continue to do so until a marginal maximum is achieved. That means chain stores, high end boutiques, high-volume and/or exclusive restaurants.
None of this can be called a bad thing; it's just the way our economy will have to unfold, given the failure ofo our city (in the past) to think ahead, and realize that Palo Alto's glory days wouldn't last forever.
In short, the days of the humble, hard-working shopkeeper are numbered. Small, quaint, affordable deli's, ice-cream shops, etc. - i.e., the kind of variated retail that most baby-boomers grew up with - is fast disappearing.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Aug 10, 2006 at 9:24 pm
It would be interesting to see a map of Palo Alto and surrounding cities showing the prime locations where sales tax revenues are generated/collected. What I think you'll find is that each city that sits on our border has cleverly attracted businesses and located them on our border (convenient for the people in that city plus convenient for Palo Altans to get to as well).
Right now we are surrounded by stores like Best Buy, Bed, Bath and Beyond, COSTCO, Home Depot, etc. All big money generators and probably frequented by many from PA. How convenient that a new Four Seasons Hotel is built right on our door step in EPA just as Hyatt Rickeys gives up and leaves town. We need to take a lesson from these other city councils they appear to be doing a good job (maybe elect a few of them to come and help us out. We just need to give them a house and we've done that before . . .).
Sadly some of this is our own fault. As residents of Palo Alto we have been a bit silly and down right snobish in constantly opposing some of the proposed developments. Recently we've let local supermarkets close down or move away by not letting them expand or not finding them a suitable place to grow. People will say there is a new super market coming to town - BUT it is a high priced supermarket so guess what . . . many people will go to the less expensive supermarkets that are sitting on our borders and spend their money there.
There is a lot of NIMBY as well. It's understandable to have a gut reaction to oppose something but we should try and look beyond that and really ask "is it such a big deal? Why am I really opposing this? Will it really affect me?
For some reason we were also happy to let some of these businesses be replaced with housing??? How bizarre is that when we have full schools, we have no money to fix roads, we have no money or place to build a new Police station, etc. etc. So we decide to add more housing that will add more burden to our city including increased levels of congestion and smog from all of the extra vehicles the new housing will bring. extra garbage that we'll have to pay to betaken out of PA because we don't want a public dump in our city.
Is there a plan to expand schools, firm up our basic infrastructure to be able to cope with the influx of people? I can't imagine what El Camino is going to be like once the housing is built on the Hyatt Rickeys space. I guess the new residents will be able to go play soccer on the lovely soccer fields sitting on prime business land just up the road on Pagemill & El Camino. . .
Property taxes!! people will say. Well based on the reports I hear, we don't have enough income from property taxes today so it's likely that any additional taxes from the new homes will probably only keep up with the cost of living increases and additional infrastructure we are facing and it's gets more expensive each year to pave roads, maintain buildings and infrastructure. Then there is still the question about new schools, new police station, etc.
As a city we (the residents)need to wake up and smell the coffee (Ah that should be easy because we have lots of coffee shops, we even approve new coffee shops to be opened close to existing coffee shops so that one of them is going to have to close and move away).
We really do need to think hard about our city's future. It's getting serious. We need to ensure that our city council is capable and able to attract new business to the city and also help existing businesses grow, etc. We need to make this city a busines friendly city not one that businesses would like to move to but can't afford to go through multiple planning and replanning loops then be held responsible for paying for numerous studies studies. Sigh . . it's so easy to go the the city next door and have them welcome you with open arms. Let's not forget in many places it is the local businesses who provide employment, taxes and those additional lifts to the community projects via donations or active support for community projects. They can also attract federal funding to help supplement local funding.
The future is in our hands. It's easy to bash the council (not that they don't deserve it sometimes) but we should each look in the mirror when we bitch and moan about something and ask ourseleves is this good for the long term of our residency in this great city?
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Acknowledging "investing in agency mortgage REITs clearly involves a delicate interplay between book value preservation and dividend yields (the two components of economic returns)," Nomura lowered some price targets. From Nomura's report:
- American Capital Agency (AGNC) shares at a slight premium (a 0.9x multiple), given the company's long-established track record of effective active management and minimal pay-up risk. For AGNC, we're lowering our price target to $22 (0.9x multiple on 4Q13E book value per share of $24.33) from $32.
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At the age of 22, Ben Davis weighed over 360 pounds. Depressed, addicted to food and morbidly obese, he eventually decided to take control of his life and get healthier. In his new book, "Do Life," Ben tells the story of how he went from 360 pounds to 120 and how you too can transform your life.
I'm asked quite often what keeps me going. What keeps me running, what makes me want to eat healthy foods, what makes me want to run five, ten, sometimes twenty miles? Why would I want to put myself through that, for lack of a better word, agony? The simple answer is that it's worth it. I made a decision four years ago to get a grip on my life. To take control. I called it "doing life." But what did that mean?
I certainly didn't always know the answer. For the vast majority of my life, I suffered from a crippling food addiction that led me into a downward spiral of depression, overeating, self-hatred, and eventually morbid obesity. It left me feeling lonely, empty, and sad, and I slowly began to isolate myself so that nobody would see what I had become. My relationships suffered. My girlfriend left me. I hid from and lied to the few friends I had left. Bust mostly, I lied to myself. It hurt too much to face the truth, and I settled into a sense of despair as my entire life disintegrated along with my health.
I was lucky. There were still people who loved me enough to shake me out of my stubborn denial and insistence that everything was "fine." When forced to face the hard truth, I decided to try a different way of life, something new and tentative and scary. Little by little, I realized that life didn't have to be this way, and that it certainly wasn't meant to be. I reached out to others and gradually reconnected. I stumbled at first, kept working at it, found my stride, and then I ran with it. And I ran as far as I could.
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In less than two years, I went from weighing over 350 pounds and living a depressed, lonely, and completely sedentary lifestyle to officially becoming an Ironman, and I did it with my brother and father beside me. Now I am 130 pounds lighter and happier than I've ever been in my life. In those two years, I took action, jumped into a new lifestyle, and as a result I broke out of the depressed cycles of thoughts and actions that had been holding me back for years.
At first, Doing Life meant going public, allowing others in, and sharing my journey with the people who loved me. I never imagined how public that journey would ultimately become. Now Doing Life means living it to the fullest — getting off the couch and out of your head, finding something that inspires you, something that makes you smile, and something that helps you share that smile with the rest of the world.
Today, I spend my time traveling around the country, running with people I've never met before, hearing their stories, and speaking to groups about how I made such a big change in my life. Since deciding to Do Life, I've gone from barely going through the motions in solitude to living a full life out in the open — a life that I never could have imagined. I never knew that a life like this was out there waiting for me all along. And it's right there waiting for you, too.
This book is about running, sure, but it's also about life. It's the story of how I learned to do life when I fell in love with running. I hope it inspires you to run, whether it's just for fun, to lose weight, or to completely change your life. The chapters represent steps in a journey —mine, and possibly yours, too — out of the darkness and into the light, from barely slogging by to pushing yourself to the limits in all aspects of life. I found that light by running, and maybe you will, too. But running is a metaphor for life itself, and the lessons in this book will broadly apply. Maybe you're already running, and you want to run farther, or better. I'll teach you how to do that, too. There is no mystery, no secret ingredient that will take you from where you are today to the life you most want to live. All you need is a little bit of inspiration and the belief that it's possible. I hope that is exactly what I can give you.
I'll start at the beginning, in my darkest moments before deciding to turn my life around, and lead you through each step of the way, from facing the truth to jumping in, taking the occasional step backward, and pushing myself to the limit. This is my story, and yours may be completely different. Some of you will relate to the highs and the lows, and others of you have never been nearly that low. Either way, I'll do my best to help you write your own story as I tell you mine.
The Do Life movement is characterized by openness, accountability, and community. In that spirit, each chapter includes inspiring stories from my readers, as well as my answers to some of my most common reader questions. I'm also including tips, terms, and running guides for each type of race that I've covered, as well as a Running Glossary at the end of the book.
You now have everything that you need to take this moment, grab life, and get going. So, what are you waiting for? The rest of your life starts now. Let's do it.
For more information on Ben Davis' Do Life movement, click here.
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The herbal tea made from rooibos (pronounced Roy-Boss) has been a popular drink in Southern Africa for generations. The plant, Aspalathus linearis, is grown only in a small area in the Western Cape province of South Africa, but during recent years rooibos has become popular in other parts of the world as well.
There are two varieties of rooibos tea. One is referred to as red rooibos and the other is green rooibos. Typically, rooibos leaves are oxidized before they are used to make red rooibos tea. This process, gives them the familiar reddish-brown color and the slightly sweet taste. An alternative treatment of the leaves and twigs does not include the fermentation or oxidation step and produces what is referred to as green rooibos. The tea made from unfermented rooibos has a yellow tan color. The green rooibos tea possesses a milder taste.
Rooibos tea is a concentrated source of antioxidants and flavonoids. In fact, Rooibos tea has been found to have as much as 50 times more Superoxide Dismutase (SOD) than Green Tea. It also has other antioxidants not found in other teas like aspalathin and nothofagin. It is naturally mineral rich, caffeine free and has low tannin levels compared to black and green teas.
Drinking organic red rooibos tea has number of health benefits. Traditional medicinal uses of rooibos in South Africa include alleviating nervous tension, infantile colic, allergies, asthma and digestive problems. When applied externally rooibos can be helpful for a number of skin irritations like itchy skin, eczema, dermatitis, sunburns, diaper rash, acne and rosacea. The alpha hydroxy acid and zinc contained in Red Rooibos Tea promotes healthy, smooth skin.
Studies suggest rooibos has potent antioxidant, immune-modulating and chemopreventive effects. In addition, red rooibos tea has not been found to have any adverse effects. In another study normal healthy rats given rooibos tea instead of water had significantly higher serum superoxide dismutase (SOD) levels than the control rats. They also had less DNA damage and accumulate significantly less aging damage in the brain than rats given water. In fact, the 24-month old rats given rooibos tea for most of their lives had brains similar to young 5-week-old rats. Futhermore, when the rats were given dextran sodium sulfate to induce colitis, the rooibos group had higher SOD levels, and the drop in hemoglobin levels seen in the control group was prevented. Thus, rooibos tea seems to be anti-inflammatory and have the potential to prevent DNA damage.
Due to the effects of rooibos on vasodilation and vasoconstriction, angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and nitric oxide (NO) it has been used to treat conditions such as high blood pressure and heart failure. In one study, the effect of green tea, black tea and rooibos tea on ACE and NO was compared in healthy human volunteers. None of the three had a marked effect on NO concentration, but both green tea and rooibos tea inhibited ACE activity, suggesting that they have cardiovascular benefits.
Rooibos tea may help with diabetes as well. In a study on mice with type 2 diabetes, aslapathin suppresses the increase in fasting blood glucose levels. It also improves glucose tolerance, apparently through stimulating glucose uptake in muscle tissues and insulin secretion from the pancreas. So drinking rooibos tea during a meal may not be a bad idea.
Rooibos tea also has therapeutic potential for respiratory ailments. According to a study on rats, in addition to lowering blood pressure, rooibos tea is both a bronchodilator and an antispasmodic. This helps explain why rooibos tea is commonly used for gastrointestinal and respiratory problems. The flavonoid chrysoeriol seems to be mainly responsible for the bronchodilator and antispasmodic effect.
Unoxidised green rooibos tea contains more than twice the flavonoids as the oxidized red rooibos tea and 10 times the aspalathin and nothofagin. In the studies that have directly compared the two, the unoxidised green rooibos seems to generally come out on top. For example, unoxidised green rooibos tea seems to protect rats from liver cancer more effectively than the oxidized red rooibos tea.
Some possible benefits of our Organic Green Rooibos Tea may include:
● Eases irritability, headaches, nervous tension & insomnia
● Aiding in liver tissue regeneration after prolonged intoxication
● Alleviating allergies, asthma & hay fever
● Containing no oxalic acid, making it a great choice for kidney stone sufferers
● Inhibiting lipid peroxidation
● Reducing digestive & gastrointestinal problems
● Containing a variety of vitamins and minerals, as well as other phytonutrients
● Suppressing fasting glucose levels
● Acts as an antispasmodic agent, to relieve stomach cramps & colic in infants
● Anti-aging properties
● Acting as an anti-inflammatory
● Containing polyphenols shown to have antimutagenic, & anti-viral properties
● Improving glucose tolerance
● Acting as a bronchodilator & antispasmodic
● Containing alpha hydroxyl acid & zinc content, & may be applied topically to ease acne, eczema, sunburn, etc.
● Protecting cell proteins, cell fats, & DNA
● Supporting healthy cholesterol & blood pressure levels
● Acting as as vasodilator improving circulation
● Normalizing blood pressure
● Inhibiting rotavirus infection
● Strengthening bones and teeth
● Boosting the immune system
● Low in tannins which allows easier assimilation of its minerals
● Promoting healthy smooth skin
● High levels of antioxidants: Superoxide Dismutase (SOD), aspalathin & nothofagin
● Improving glucose uptake & insulin secretion after a meals
● Cardiovascular protection through ACE inhibition
● Combating brain aging
● Reducing eczema, sunburns, diaper rash, dermatitis, acne & rosacea when used externally
This is a naturally caffeine free organic loose tea.
Suggested Use: Steep 1 1/2 teaspoons of loose tea per cup in boiling water for 7 - 10 minutes. Rooibos does not become bitter if steeped for a long time.
Botanical Name: Asplathus Linearis
Other Names: red bush, red tea, rooibos tea, bush tea, redbush tea, South African red tea, red tea, rooibosch
Ingredients: Organic Red Rooibos Tea.
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Z Natural Foods strives to offer the highest quality organically grown, raw, vegan, gluten free, non-GMO products available and exclusively uses low temperature drying techniques to preserve all the vital enzymes and nutrients. Our Red Rooibos Tea is certified organic and passes our strict quality assurance which includes testing for botanical identity, heavy metals, chemicals and microbiological contaminants. ZNaturalFoods.com offers Organic Red Rooibos Tea packaged in airtight stand-up, resealable foil pouches for optimum freshness. Once opened, just push the air out of the pouch before resealing it in order to preserve maximum potency. Keep your Organic Rooibos Red Tea in a cool, dark, dry place.
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East Pond and MLK Vents to Kamoamoa
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East Kamoamoa plume and PKK skylight
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The glowing cone and to quench a sample
Map of flows from Pu`u `O`o: 16 May 2005
Map shows lava flows erupted during 1983-present activity of Pu`u `O`o and Kupaianaha (see large map).
Yellow, brown, and red colors indicate lava flows erupted from October 2003 to mid May 2005. Yellow shade indicates currently active Kuhio (PKK) flow, active most of the time from March 20, 2004 through present (May 2005). Its large eastern arm feeds the Ka`ili`ili ocean entry. Its western arm once supplied lava to Lae`apuki, but now the west branch of that arm carries lava to the West Highcastle entry. The middle arm of the PKK flow has not amounted to much and hangs high on Pulama pali between the western and eastern arms.
Brown shade denotes MLK flows, which first erupted in January 2004, and, in brief spurts, subsequently.
Red indicates the Mother's Day/Banana flow, which is no longer active. Short flows from the crater, West Gap, and Puka Nui vents are also shown in red. Only the Puka Nui vent is currently producing infrequent, small flows.
New vents opened at the southern base of Pu`u `O`o on January 19, 2004 and fed Martin Luther King (MLK) flows, which remained active until March 5, 2004. Since then, several more vents have formed in the MLK area and continue to erupt intermittently. On March 20, 2004 the Kuhio (PKK) flow originated from two vents, about 250 m south of base of Pu`u `O`o. This flow has been continuously active since July 26, 2004.
The Banana flow developed from breakouts from the Mother's Day lava tube, centered near the former Banana Tree kipuka. The breakouts become prominent in the middle of April and lava started down Pulama pali shortly thereafter. The Banana flow fed an ocean entry from the end of May through the beginning of August. This flow stagnated early in September 2004, and Mother's Day tube died late in 2004.
Map of Pu`u `O`o and vicinity: 24 August 2004
Map shows vents, lava flows, and other features near Pu`u `O`o frequently referred to in updates (see large map). These features change often, but this map should help those viewers lost in the terminology. The cones in West Gap are just outside the boundary of the crater--the oval-shaped depression containing the seven numbered vents (now down to 6, as Humble Vent has been buried by a mound of lava flows erupted from Dave's Pit/Vent in March. Red color denotes flows--the Mother's Day flows--erupted since May 12, 2002. Light orange color indicates episode-55 flows erupted between March 1997 and August 2002 (exclusive of Mother's Day flows). Darker orange represents MLK flows; yellow, PKK flow; purple, Puka Nui flow. Vents for these sets of flows shown by indicated symbols. Gray shows flows of earlier episodes.
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A malfunction in a generator caused a small fire in the roof of Lewis Thomas Laboratory Tuesday afternoon. The building was temporarily evacuated, and no one was injured.Fire departments from the Princeton area responded shortly after 3 p.m. and quickly extinguished the fire, which was confined to small area of the roof. Firefighters cut through part of the roof to put out the fire and to confirm it had not spread.
The fire appeared to have been caused by an overheated exhaust pipe for a backup electrical generator that was being tested, said Garth Walters, the University's director of environmental health and safety.
The building was re-opened by about 5 p.m.
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La Crosse County works on development options for downtown parking lot
LA CROSSE, WI - If you drive through downtown La Crosse, you can't miss the large parking lot that stretches out in front of the La Crosse County Courthouse.
After years of discussion about what to do with the space, county officials say they could be getting closer to forming some concrete plans.
County planners recently hired a consultant to do a market study to figure out what the needs are in downtown La Crosse.22764038
It gave them some ideas of what private developers might want to build if given the chance.
The parking lot across from the La Crosse County Courthouse gets a lot of use. But it's also prime downtown real estate.
"I think everyone recognizes having just a vacant surface lot like that in our downtown, is an underutilized space and we really need to have development there," said La Crosse Mayor Tim Kabat.
The lot is an option for a new County Administrative Center, but even if officials did decide to build on that lot, they'd still have room for neighbors.
"We would still have space to offer up for private development which would make sense to offer up to build tax base," said County community development specialist Brian Fukuda.
Fukuda said a market study shows private developers are interested in the lot.
"The uses that were mentioned in that market assessment were primarily a hotel, there is significant demand for a hotel to add the downtown market and market rate housing, affordable housing. Those were some uses talked about," said Fukuda.
Fukuda said as plans take shape, it will be important to work with the city.
"It's their tax base. It's the land within their boundaries and we really want to be a partner in that way," said Fukuda.
"The potential benefits are huge because right now it's an entire city block that's a tax exempt," said Kabat.
But if something is built on the parking lot, the county will need to find a way to compensate for the lost parking spaces.
"We have about 280 parking stalls in that lot and in any given day the majority of them are used," said Fukuda.
Which adds another piece to the complicated puzzle of how to best use that space.
"It's a complex project and something the county isn't often faced with," said Fukuda.
Fukuda says there are other options for parking other than building a ramp on that lot.
The county could possibly work with Western Technical College on an agreement to use some of its new parking ramp, or work with the post office to get some extra space as well.
Fukuda said the market analysis will be presented to the County Board on Monday.
That's also when they'll be looking over the cost estimates for options on what to do with the county's aging administrative center.
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Went to the Shrine Auditorium's comic book convention (saw darkagent there). Man, that show gets worse every time. There was hardly any attendance. This has become an "only dealers" show, since it's only dealers buying from other dealers, LOL!! Eric Roberts was there signing autographs and I bet he wasn't happy to be invited to an almost empty show.
Good thing was I found 3 new and sealed Lego sets on sale for my son:
1.- Agents Mobile Command Center (for his Christmas list to Santa)
2.- Indiana Jones Race for the Stolen treasure
3.- SW Hoth Rebel Base
All three cost me a total of $85.00 !!! (these retail for a total of $190 plus tax!!
These, along with the Fisher Price Imaginext Joker, a couple of other things and I'm almost done with my son's Christmas list.


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Maybe we evolve along the path of supposedly what's going on in Massachusetts ... where the mandatory insurance legislation of a few years back led to cost overruns ... and now the politicians are supposedly working to cut/cap services.
My understanding during the Presidential campaign was that Obama was going w/a "pay or play" system ... wherein the employer, if a certain size or bigger, was gonna have to provide insurance to employees OR pay a fee/tax to the Feds. The fee/tax would be used by the Feds to pay (partially) for insuring the aggregate group of workers of employers that didn't choose to insure them ... those that chose to pay the fee/tax.
Stop right there and it doesn't necessarily sound like a lot of change. BUT what if the fee/tax isn't very costly? That means the employers would cut their employees loose so to speak ... pay the fee/tax and let the gov't take over the insurance. So price set by the gov't on the fee/tax would determine what type of system we end up with. Set the fee/tax low ... get more gov't insured ... set the fee/tax low ... you probably get cost overruns (deficit in the program). You get cost overruns ... you get in the position of having the politicians call for cuts/caps on services. Some would call that socialized medicine. I probably would assuming it happens along this path.
Mass is our current example. See how it plays out this year.


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Cute, but if you didnt want to debate morality with me then why did you bring up moral relativism in response to my thread? Youre like the guy who jumps in the bear pen at the zoo, slaps the bear across the nose and then claims he didnt come there to wrestle a bear when he starts tossing him around. People can see right through you.
She brings up a provocative question.
It quite an arbitrary point to define a certain stage of a pregnancy as the point that the fetus actually becomes a human therefore unacceptable to abort.
We simply do not know.
Though I believe that viability(point at which a fetus "could" survive) is a reasonable choice.
Many pro-choice folks likely rationalize the decision by dehumanizing the fetus in their mind.
Also I find it quite ironic that the party who, as a platform, is pro life is also generally for the elimination/significant reduction of Medicaid(bare bones government insurance that provides prenatal care to poor mothers and then covers their children).
Well theres no way around defining it has a human from the point of conception on because thats the point at which complete and distinct human DNA is present. I believe the question you are referring to is when person-hood begins; which you are right, there is no way to define person-hood along the developmental spectrum without being completely arbitrary. The only way to be consistent in this matter is to define all humans as being people which would make the baby a person from the moment of conception on.
Though I believe that viability(point at which a fetus "could" survive) is a reasonable choice.Many pro-choice folks likely rationalize the decision by dehumanizing the fetus in their mind.
You pointed out above, and correctly so I might add, that defining humanship at any point along the spectrum is completely arbitrary, but now you say that your choice is somehow reasonable? That implies that your definition is in fact not arbitrary but you are using some sort of standard by which you measure reasonability of definitions by. What is that standard?
I think this is a bit of a non-sequitur, a person can consistently be pro-life and also believe it is not the proper role of the federal Government to financially support low income citizens and their families.
How do you measure the importance of a life? If we deemed your life unimportant are we justified in killing you?


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Rebelscum did a video review of the figure:
The review is pretty thorough, the reviewer speaks with a deliberately slow cadence - it is the sort of thing that drives me crazy, but I understand why she's doing it.
I don't like this packaging at all, the box graphics don't look premium, and having the figure sit under a standard plastic cover in a styrofoam tray is absolutely unacceptable - this is a high-end item, it should be in premium velvet-lined cardboard or high quality plastic, not cheap and breakable styrofoam.
I didn't realize this was intended to be specifically ANH C-3PO, the metal is too matte for that look I think.
Rebelscum claims the figure is in perfect scale to the Sideshow and Hot Toys lines, yet they show 3PO standing taller than Sideshow's Boba Fett, there's also a Hot Toys Luke Bespin which is about the same height as 3PO, and they show Sideshow's ANH Obi-Wan and Captain Antilles with 3PO and both are taller, then they show 3PO next to Sideshow's Tusken Raider and the Tusken is the same height as 3PO as well -- I guess the new prometheus and armored bodies are significantly underscaled compared to the original buck body and the body Hot Toys is using. So Sideshow is at fault for the scale issues and Tamashi Nations got it right for the older Sideshow body and the Hot Toys body, that's so frustrating, I hadn't realized it was so bad.
I'd like to hear how strong the arm pistons feel, if they'll hold up over time under a clumsy-handed collector.
I'm curious why none of the review images show the arms closer to the body, perhaps the figure can't get them as close as they were in the movie, or perhaps the reviewer simply doesn't prefer that pose.
The commlink is unpainted silver plastic, what an odd thing for Tamashi Nations to mess up after so much other goodness.
The removable limbs is an excellent addition to this figure, I'm surprised they didn't highlight this on the convention circuit.
Overall, I'm still not seeing $400 I can part with, but I'm glad it's not $250-$300 or I'd be trying to make it work.


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O'Caml, round 2
Grabbed Objective Caml 3.06, and it's great -- a lot of fixes for Mac OS X support, and a few handy new library functions I'm dying to try out. I had originally figured on writing my own programming language, but when it comes right down to it, I'd sooner use camlp4 to define a new syntax for O'Caml.
Absolutely nothing on the job front, unfortunately. I'll be moving in a month or so, and have no idea where to. Check my website for updates.


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La Crosse scores in ninth to win, 6-5
LA CROSSE - La Crosse's Michael Katz hit a run-scoring double in the bottom of the ninth as the Loggers defeated the Madison Mallards, 6-5 Tuesday night.
A win would have given the Mallards the first half championship of the South Division of the Northwoods League.
Madison got a couple of big offensive nights from John LaPrise and Luke Meeter. LaPrise went five for five while Meeteer continued his hot hitting over the last week going two for four with an RBI.
The game was tied 5-5 going into the bottom of the ninth when Mallards closer Hunter May walked the Loggers' Kevin Zak. Katz then hit an 0-2 pitch for the game winning hit.
The Mallards and Loggers close out the first half of the season Wednesday night in LaCrosse - a Mallards win clinches the title.


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Beacon Hill
One of the best known hill forts in England and the site of the most famous beacon in Hampshire, though in fact the Beacon at Burghclere was called the Berkshire Beacon. The firing of beacons kept on prominent hill tops was for many years an integral part of the defence system of this country and the last chain of beacons were lit on 2 June 1977 to commemorate the Queen's Silver Jubilee.
The hill fort which forms the entrance on the top of the hill has never been systematically excavated, but the land and ditch are sharply defined and well preserved. The entrance, at the south-east, is carefully defended by in-curving banks and guard houses outside. Inside the bank there are a number of hut sites and storage pits, scattered about the enclosure. Within the fortifications, is the grave of the fifth Earl of Carnarvon who played a prominent part in the expedition to the Nile Valley of the Kings which led to the discovery of Tutankhamen's Tomb in 1922.
An historic event of a different era is recalled by a memorial stone situated in the Seven Barrows field to the south of Beacon Hill. The inscription on the stone recalls that it was here that Sir Geoffrey de Haviland (1882-1965), pioneer aviator, aeroplane designer, and founder of the aircraft company which bore his name, made his first successful flight on 10 September 1910.
The site is valued as a chalk grassland habitat. Such habitats have declined in modern times, being turned over to arable farming due to the fertile nature of the soils. Chalk grassland such as at Beacon Hill would have covered the large areas of chalk Downland in Southern England, making good grazing for sheep. The mark of centuries of sheep grazing are the slopes the stepped appearance formed by a mixture of soil creep and the lateral movement of sheep over the centuries. Such erosion is clearly visible on the slopes of Beacon Hill.
Grazing is an important part of managing chalk grassland, scrub being inhibited from invasion by the constant feeding of the animals. The number of animals allowed to graze an area is however an important consideration as having to many animals will cause the floral community to suffer, equally too few animals will allow scrub to encroach due to lack of grazing.
Now only remnants of these ancient unimproved grasslands remain, most having been improved for more intense grazing or more often have been ploughed and used for arable crops. Pockets of original chalk grassland remain where such changes have been unsuitable such as on steep hill slopes.
Chalk grassland is important for the many wild flowers which are to be found in such habitats, in-turn this array of flora supports a mixture of associated invertebrates. Many birds are also found on chalk grassland.
Beacon Hill boasts a range of such flora including Rock Rose, Wild Thyme, Kidney Vetch and Clustered Bellflower, these flowers in turn provide for rare invertebrates such as Osmia bicolor a scarce solitary bee that resembles a small red tailed bumble bee, it feeds on Bird-foot-trefoil and nests in disused snail shells.
Taken at Beacon Hill (right). Although not identified to species level, the lack of pollen sacks on its rear legs give it away as a cuckoo bee. Like their avian namesakes that lay their eggs in the nests of other bird species, so cuckoo bees lay their eggs in the nests of other bee species.
Such behaviour negates the need to produce honey to feed larva, hence the lack of pollen sacks with which to carry pollen back to its nest. The bee is not the only invertebrate to appear in the two photographs, behind the head of the bee are a group of mites, in the left hand picture an individual can be seen climbing up the leg of the bee towards the location of the other mites
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The site can be reached by car along the main Winchester-Newbury road (A34).
Access to the top of the hill is on foot by a steep climb from the car park. A step way runs up the middle of a hawthorn/blackthorn corridor providing some protection from the elements in the winter and a break from the sun in the summer.
It is recommended after or during wet weather that good walking boots are worn to cope with the conditions.