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Losing Battles but Winning Wars
Tennessee Department of Revenue
This article is a discussion of cases in which the Tennessee Department of Revenue has been the losing party in tax litigation, but has been successful in having the Tennessee General Assembly change Tennessee statutes, so that the Department's losing position in tax litigation becomes the correct position for future cases that involve the same issue. These statutory amendments were prospective only; each of them changed the law only for periods of time subsequent to the amendment.
Computer Software Cases
The first example of cases in which the Department of Revenue has lost in litigation, but has succeeded in having Tennessee tax law changed, involved sales and use taxes. (Tennessee's sales and use tax statutes initially were enacted in 1947. Then, as now, the primary impact of sales and use taxes is to tax retail sales and uses of tangible personal property in Tennessee. The sales and use tax statutes also apply to the furnishing of specified types of items and services. The list of taxable items and services has expanded greatly over the years. It has included such diverse things as hotel rooms, laundry and dry cleaning services, admissions to sports and recreation clubs, and the bathing and grooming of animals. The rate of this tax is 7 percent at the state level and 2 ¼ percent to 2 ¾ percent at the local level.)1
The first pair of cases involved the imposition of sales and use taxes to computer software programs. One of these cases was decided in the 1970s, and the other was decided in 2009. When the Tennessee Supreme Court decided Commerce Union Bank v. Tidwell2 in 1976, Tennessee's sales and use tax statutes did not include any specific reference to computer software. Instead, the imposition of sales taxes on computer software depended on the application of the general provision imposing taxes on persons who "engage in the business of selling tangible personal property at retail in this state."3 Tangible personal property was statutorily defined as "personal property, which may be seen, weighed, measured, felt or touched, or is in any other manner perceptible to the senses."4 The taxpayer involved in Commerce Union Bank v. Tidwell purchased specialized computer software programs that were introduced into the taxpayer's computers by means of punch cards, magnetic tapes or discs. The issue before the court was whether the use of these items caused a purchase of computer software to be regarded as a purchase of tangible personal property for Tennessee sales tax purposes. The court described the parties' respective arguments as follows:
[The taxpayer] argues that while the intellectual processes may be embodied in tangible and physical material ... the logic or intelligence of the program is an intangible property right; and it is this intangible property right which is acquired when computer software is purchased or leased.
[In contrast, the Department of Revenue] views the purchase of [this] software as analogous to the purchase of a phonograph record or the purchase or lease of a motion picture film.
In deciding the issue against the Department of Revenue, the Supreme Court stated:
What is created and sold here is information, and the magnetic tapes which contain this information are only a method of transmitting these intellectual creations from the originator to the user. It is merely incidental that these intangibles are transmitted by way of a tangible reel of tape that is not even retained by the user. ... Magnetic tapes and cards are not a crucial element of software.
Unhappy with the court's decision in Commerce Union Bank v. Tidwell, the Department of Revenue convinced the General Assembly in 1977 to amend to Tennessee's sales and use tax statutes to treat sales of computer software as sales of tangible personal property.5 Thus, even though the Department of Revenue lost the litigation in Commerce Union Bank v. Tidwell, following the enactment of the specific computer software provision in 1977, it would not lose subsequent cases involving the same issue.
In Teksystems Inc. v. Farr,6 the Tennessee Court of Appeals dealt with a later version of Tennessee's sales and use tax statutes as they related to computer software. The taxpayer involved was a company that specialized in providing, on a temporary basis, information technology professionals who worked in the information technology departments of its clients, providing computer programming services as directed by the clients. The sales and use tax provided an "in-house exception" for "the fabrication of computer software by a person for such person's own use or consumption."7 The issue was whether that exception applied in a case in which the employees of a staff augmentation company fabricated computer software for the staff augmentation company's client. The exception would apply only if the workers who performed the fabrication services were, with respect to the client, employees (and not independent contractors). The contract between the staff augmentation company and the client provided that "no agency or employment relationship is intended nor shall be construed to exist between the client and the staff augmentation company or between the client and any employee of the staff augmentation company who performs services under this agreement." The court concluded that the contract did not control the issue, stating:
It is undisputed that on a day-to-day basis, the staff augmentation company's employees worked under the direct supervision and control of the client company's managers. ... The contracts between the staff augmentation company and its clients notwithstanding, the undisputed facts in this case demonstrate that the client exercised complete control over the staff augmentation company's employees. ... The principal distinction in the law between one who functions as an independent contractor with that of one who functions as an [employee] of its principal is based on the extent of control exercised over the [employee] or independent contractor.
Dissatisfied with the litigation result in Teksystems Inc. v. Farr, the Department of Revenue was successful in getting the General Assembly to enact an amendment to the statute providing an in-house exception for the fabrication of computer software. As amended effective July 1, 2009, the in-house exception in Tenn. Code Ann. § 67-6-387 now applies only to fabrication work performed by a "direct employee," which is defined as "an employee to whom the person is obligated to issue a federal form W-2 ... and with respect to whom the person has responsibility for withholding [federal income taxes and social security taxes]."
Business Earnings Cases
An area in which the Department of Revenue has lost a series of cases is the characterization of a corporation's income, for Tennessee excise tax purposes, as business earnings or non-business earnings. (The Tennessee excise tax is a tax of 6.5 percent on a corporation's "net earnings."8 This tax also applies to other specified limited liability entities, such as limited partnerships and limited liability companies. For purposes of Tennessee's excise tax, the term "net earnings" is defined as federal taxable income, with specified modifications.)9
If a corporation or other entity subject to the Tennessee excise tax does business wholly within Tennessee, all of its net earnings are subject to the Tennessee excise tax. If it does business both in Tennessee and outside the state, then only the portion of net earnings that are attributable in some way to Tennessee are subject to this state's excise tax. The manner in which net earnings are attributable to Tennessee or another state depends on whether the net earnings constitute business earnings or nonbusiness earnings.
To the extent that net earnings constitute business earnings, they are apportioned to Tennessee or elsewhere, pursuant to an apportionment formula that includes a "property factor," a "payroll factor," and a "receipts factor."10 To the extent that a company's earnings constitute nonbusiness earnings, they are allocated to Tennessee or elsewhere. In general, rents from real property and tangible personal property that constitute nonbusiness income are allocated to Tennessee if the property is in this state or if the company's commercial domicile is in Tennessee. The same general allocation formula applies with respect to capital gains and losses from sales of real property and tangible personal property. Interest, dividends, and capital gains from sales of intangible personal property, to the extent that they constitute nonbusiness earnings, generally are allocated to the state in which the company has its commercial domicile.11
Holiday Day Inns Inc. v. Olsen12 was an early case that involved classifying a corporation's earnings as business earnings or nonbusiness earnings. When that case was decided in 1985, the term "business earnings" was defined as "earnings arising from transactions and activity in the regular course of the taxpayer's trade or business and includes earnings from tangible and intangible property if the acquisition, management, and disposition of the property constitute integral parts of the taxpayer's regular trade or business operations." The term "nonbusiness earnings" was defined in a residual manner as "all earnings other than business earnings."13
The taxpayer in Holiday Inns Inc. v. Olsen was a Tennessee corporation that also had its commercial domicile in Tennessee. The type of income being characterized was interest earned on its working capital. The Department of Revenue (contrary to its usual position) took the position that the taxpayer's interest on working capital was nonbusiness income because this characterization would cause all of this interest income to be allocated to Tennessee.
The Supreme Court in Holiday Inns Inc. v. Olsen concluded, "During the years at issue, the plaintiff's working capital was managed by its Corporate Cashier Department which had a full-time staff of from six to eight employees. ...The principal and interest of these funds were expended in operating the plaintiff's hospitality business." The court thus determined that the taxpayer's interest from working capital should be classified as business earnings (and thus apportioned to several states rather than allocated entirely to Tennessee).
In General Care Corporation v. Olsen14 the Department of Revenue took its more usual position that the income involved should be classified as business earnings; under the facts of that case, more of the income involved would be apportioned to Tennessee if classified as business earnings than would be allocated to Tennessee if classified as nonbusiness earnings. The parent corporation of the taxpayer corporation sold all of the stock in the taxpayer corporation to a third corporation. This transaction was characterized under Tennessee's excise tax statutes as a sale of assets by the taxpayer corporation.15 Applying what it called a "transactional test," rather than a "functional test," the Supreme Court concluded:
Under the functional test, the income from the sale of an asset will be considered business income if the asset produced business income while it was owned by the taxpayer. ... We [find that] the Commissioner's position that the "disposition" of property need not be within the scope of the taxpayer's regular business operations in order to give rise to business income contrary to the plain language of the statute.Our position in this regard is reinforced by the decisions of our sister states which have held that the disposition of assets as a part of a corporate liquidation is not within the taxpayer's regular business activities, and therefore produces nonbusiness income.
The same statutory definitions of business earnings and nonbusiness earnings continued to apply in 1992, when the Supreme Court decided Federated Stores Realty Inc. v. Huddleston.16 The taxpayer, which had its commercial domicile in Ohio, was engaged in the business of developing and managing 13 retail shopping centers, only one of which was located in Tennessee. The taxpayer decided to discontinue that line of business, and it sold all 13 shopping centers. The court rejected the Department of Revenue's position and concluded that the income earned upon the sale of the shopping centers was nonbusiness earnings, finding that:
The gain realized by Federated upon its sale of regional shopping centers did not constitute "business earnings" under the transactional test adopted by Court in General Care Corporation v. Olsen, unless the dispositions of such property were "transactions and activity in the regular course of the taxpayer's trade or business." ... Under the facts and circumstances of this case, the taxpayer's trade or business during the assessment period can fairly and accurately be described as developing, leasing, and managing regional shopping centers. The sales of those centers ... was not in the regular course of business. It follows that the gains from such sales were, for excise tax purposes, nonbusiness earnings.
Another case in which the Department of Revenue was on the losing side of the business earnings/ nonbusiness earnings issue was Union Carbide Corporation v. Huddleston.17 The corporate taxpayer had its commercial domicile in Connecticut. Union Carbide Corporation became financially strapped, and it was forced in 1986 to raise money by selling seven of its lines of business. Throughout its history, the taxpayer had engaged in many transactions in which it had acquired or sold business assets. The Supreme Court, however, determined that the 1986 divestiture was so unusual that it was not part of "the taxpayer's regular trade or business operations." The court's analysis included the following:
The 1986 disposition of assets was different from previous divestitures in that the proceeds of the 1986 sales were distributed to Union Carbide's shareholders. In all prior divestitures of business assets, the proceeds were reinvested in Union Carbide's ongoing business operations. ...Finally, the 1986 dispositions ... were of a magnitude vastly larger than all prior divestitures combined. From 1973 to 1988, excluding 1986, Union Carbide had combined divestitures totaling $875.2 million. In 1986, Union Carbide had divestitures totaling $3.652 billion.
Associated Partnership I Inc. v. Huddleston18 was a case in which the Department of Revenue was again on the losing side of the business earnings/nonbusiness earnings issue. The taxpayer involved did not have its domicile in Tennessee. Applying the same definitions and the transactional test described above, the Supreme Court concluded that the disposition by the taxpayer of a partnership interest did not produce business earnings "because we conclude that the capital gain did not arise from a transaction in the regular course of the taxpayer's business."
Having concluded (probably correctly) that business entities that do business both in Tennessee and in other states collectively would pay more Tennessee excise taxes if a greater share of their income is classified as business earnings, the Department of Revenue was successful in obtaining a change in the statutory definition. The current definition is stacked heavily in favor of a finding of business earnings; that definition is:
"Business earnings" mean earnings arising from transactions and activity in the regular course of the taxpayer's trade or business or earnings from tangible and intangible property, if the acquisition, use, management or disposition of the property constitutes an integral part of the taxpayer's regular trade or business operations. In essence, earnings that arise from the conduct of the trade or trades of business operations of a taxpayer are "business earnings," and the taxpayer must show by clear and cogent evidence that particular earnings are classifiable as non-business earnings. ... This [statute] expresses the legislative intent to implement and clarify distinctions between business and non-business earnings, as found in the Uniform Division of Income for Tax Purposes Act, as [statute] interpreted by states adopting the Act.19
Another area in which the Department of Revenue was unsuccessful in litigation, but successful in getting the applicable statute changed, involved the calculation of a net operating loss for Tennessee excise tax purposes. The taxpayer in Southern Railway Co. v. Taylor,20 received dividends from corporations in which it held 100 percent of the stock in 1984 and several prior years; it included the dividends in gross income, but it was allowed to deduct such dividends in computing its net earnings in each of those years.21 In the years prior to 1984 the taxpayer had experienced operating losses. In computing its 1984 net earnings, it was allowed (in addition to the deduction for such dividends) a net operating loss deduction, based on Tenn. Code Ann. § 67-4-805(b)(2)(C), which allowed a deduction for:
Any net operating loss incurred [in a prior year], which is defined as the excess of allowable deductions over total income allocable to this state for the year of the loss, and which may be carried over and allowed in succeeding tax years until fully utilized in the next succeeding taxable year or years in which the taxpayer has net income.
The Department's position in Southern Railway Co. v. Taylor was that, while the taxpayer was allowed a dividends received deduction for 1984, in computing the amount of its net operating loss in prior years it was not entitled to such a deduction. This position was based on a Department of Revenue regulation that provided:
The term "net operating loss" is defined ... as the excess of allowable deductions over the total income allocable to this state for the [prior] year of the loss. ... There shall be added to the net [operating] loss as determined for excise tax purposes all ... dividends [that were] excluded from net earnings [in the prior year].22
The Supreme Court found that the Department's regulation was invalid, deciding:
A 100 percent deduction for dividends received from subsidiaries [in which the taxpayer corporation owns 80 percent or more of the stock] offsets the inclusion of such dividends in gross income. Such an offsetting deduction is justifiable from a tax policy standpoint because, to the extent that two corporations are under common ownership, the payment of a dividend from one corporation to the other does not represent real economic income, but merely the transfer from one commonly owned corporate pocket to another.
There is nothing in the language or legislative history of Tenn. Code Ann. § 67-4-805 that suggests that the "allowable deductions" referred to ... for purposes of computing a net operating loss, are any different than the deductions that are allowable for purposes computing "net earnings."
...The court holds that the deduction for dividends received from 80 percent subsidiaries, which is an allowable deduction in computing "net earnings" for Tennessee corporate excise tax purposes, is also an allowable deduction in computing a "net operating loss" ... The provision in Rule 1320-6-1-.21(2)(a) calling for such dividends to be added to a net loss as determined for excise tax purposes has the effect of disallowing the deduction for such dividends for purposes of [computing a net operating loss deduction] and is inconsistent with the statute; accordingly, such rule is void.
Once again the Department of Revenue succeeded in getting the law changed. The statute dealing with deductions for net operating losses from prior years now provides, "There shall be added to the net loss [from prior years] as determined for excise tax purposes, all ... dividends ... excluded from net earning pursuant to this Section."23
Industrial Machinery Exemption Case
Another example of cases in which the Department of Revenue has lost, and then caused the statutory law to be changed, also involved sales taxes. No Tennessee sales or use taxes are due with respect to property that constitutes "industrial machinery."24 The statutory definition of industrial machinery is:
Machinery, apparatus and equipment with all associated part, appurtenances and accessories ... necessary to and primarily for, the fabrication or processing of tangible personal property for resale and consumption ... where the use of such machinery [or] equipment ... is by one who engages in such fabrication or processing as one's principal business. (emphasis added)25
For the industrial machinery exemption to apply, the items fabricated or processed by such machinery must constitute "tangible personal property." In 2002, when the Court of Appeals decided Freedom Broadcasting of Tennessee Inc. v. Tennessee Department of Revenue,26 tangible personal property was defined as "personal property, which may be seen, weighed, measured, felt, or touched or is in any other manner perceptible to the senses."27 The issue in that case was whether television and radio broadcast signals produced by towers owned by the taxpayer constituted tangible personal property, and thus whether the towers were industrial machinery. In deciding the case against the Department of Revenue, the court stated:
In the present case, the administrative law judge found that characteristics of taxpayers' signals can be measured. These characteristics included the frequency, transmitter output, and amplitude of the broadcast signals. Further, the administrative law judge found that the programming carried on the broadcast signals can be viewed and heard by the general public, providing one has the appropriate device. Therefore, the broadcast signals are "in any manner perceptible to the senses." Because the signals are capable of measurement and perceptible to the sense, the broadcast signals, like electricity, meet the definition of tangible personal property.
In what can be seen as part of a pattern of behavior, the Department of Revenue succeeded in getting the definition of tangible personal property changed. That definition now includes the phrase, "Tangible personal property does not include signals broadcast over the airways."28 This statutory amendment had the effect of narrowing the definition of tax exempt industrial machinery.
Based on its track record in losing litigation but then convincing the General Assembly to amend tax statutes to be in accord with the Department of Revenue's (previously erroneous) interpretation, the Department should be expected to continue this practice. Therefore, Tennessee taxpayers, when reviewing court decisions in which the Department loses, should keep watch for subsequent statutory amendments.
- Tenn. Code Ann. § § 67-6-202 and 67-6-702.
- Commerce Union Bank v. Tidwell, 538 S.W. 2d 405 (Tenn. 1976).
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 67-2-202(a).
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 67-6-102(92)(A).
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 67-6-231(a).
- Teksystems Inc. v. Farr, 2009 WL 1312835 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2009).
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 67-6-387.
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 67-4-2007(a).
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 67-4-2006.
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 67-4-2012.
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 67-4-2011.
- Holiday Day Inns Inc. v. Olsen, 692 S.W.2d 850 (Tenn. 1985).
- In 1985, Tenn. Code Ann. § 67-4-804.
- General Care Corporation v. Olsen, 705 S.W.2d 642 (Tenn. 1986).
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 67-4-2006.
- Federated Stores Realty Inc. v. Huddleston, 852 S.W.2d 206 (Tenn. 1992).
- Union Carbide Corporation v. Huddleston, 854 S.W.2d 87 (Tenn. 1993).
- Associated Partnership I Inc. v. Huddleston, 889 S.W.2d 190 (Tenn. 1994).
- Then Tenn. Code Ann.. § 2004(4).
- Southern Railway Co. v. Taylor, 812 S.W.2d 577 (Tenn. 1991).
- Under then Tenn. Code Ann. § 67-4-805(b)(2)(A).
- Rule 1320-6-1-.21(2)(a).
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 67-4-2006(c)(5).
- Tenn. Code Ann.. § 67-6-206(a).
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 67-6-102(47).
- Freedom Broadcasting of Tennessee Inc. v. Tennessee Department of Revenue, 83 S.W.3d 776 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2002)
- Tenn. Code Ann.. § 67-6-102(92)(A).
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 67-6-102(92)(B).
JAMES D. ANDERSON is counsel with Frost Brown Todd LLC in Nashville and was previously with Bass, Berry & Sims. For 18 years he served as the sole tax attorney for the Supreme Court of Tennessee, assisting the court on every state and local tax case that came before it. In this role he enabled the court to establish a logical and clear framework for Tennessee state and local tax law. He received law degrees from Vanderbilt in 1977 and New York University (LL.M. in taxation) in 1979.| TBA Law Blog


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Tigers hitting also contributing to second half surge
If you've been paying attention to baseball over the last month, you know the Detroit Tigers are currently on an 11-game winning streak and have gradually emerged as the American League's most dangerous team going into the postseason.
A lot of that has to do with the improvement of its pitching staff. Its 4.27 ERA before the All-Star break was ranked 25th in the major leagues. Since the Midsummer Classic, the team ERA has improved to 3.73, good for eighth best in baseball. The acquisition of Doug Fister certainly has a lot to do with that.
However, the improvement of the team's offense in several statistical categories has made that half-run-per-game progression look even more dangerous and imposing.
Detroit Tigers (MLB Rank) Record Slash Line Runs Strikeouts Before All-Star Break 49-43 .264 (5)/.332 (5)/.415 (8) 413 (8) 667 (21) Since All-Star Break 37-19 .294 (1)/.349 (3)/.450 (4) 298 (4) 370 (8)
The better slash line is obviously important for the Tigers, but the team's dramatic decrease in strikeouts has been a huge factor for the offense. If Detroit can continue to cut down on the whiffs in the playoffs against opposing staffs, Jim Leyland's club has a realistic chance to represent the Junior Circuit in the World Series.
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The Tigers also replaced pitching coach Fritz Knapp with Jeff Jones right around July 3rd or so. Not sure if that's played into the improved pitching or not.

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Billy Porter, Laverne Cox and More Will Join Sting and Patti LuPone for UPRISING OF LOVE Benefit Concert at Gershwin Theatre
Executive Producers Stephen Schwartz have announced additional performers and presenters for Uprising of Love: A Benefit Concert for Global Equality on Monday, September 15th at Broadway's Gershwin Theatre (222 West 51st Street).
In addition to previously announced 16-time Grammy Award-winner Sting and two-time Tony Award and two-time Grammy Award-winner Patti LuPone, there will be appearances and performances by Emmy Award nominee Laverne Cox (Orange is the New Black), Tony Award winner Billy Porter (Kinky Boots), country superstar Chely Wright, Olympic Gold Medalist Greg Louganis, Bollywood starand UN Equality Champion Celina Jaitly, and Matt Gould, Griffin Matthews, and the cast of WITNESS UGANDA.
More performers and presenters will be announced at a later date.
In strategic partnership with the United Nations Foundation, Uprising of Love: A Benefit Concert for Global Equality strives to support the efforts of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the UN's Free & Equal campaign in calling for equal rights globally for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex individuals, and to raise significant funding for grassroots organizations and activists working toward that goal around the world.
The net proceeds of this event will go directly to Fueling the Frontlines, a three-year, $20 million campaign for global LGBTI rights led by the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Astraea is the only philanthropic organization in the United States solely dedicated to advancing LGBTI rights globally.
Tickets range from $50 - $250 and are currently on sale at www.uprisingoflove.org/benefitconcert. The event begins at 8pm.
The event will be entertaining and inspiring, weaving together stories and performances by activists and artists from around the world, with a script by Academy Award-winner and Uprising of Love co-founder Dustin Lance Black (Milk). The concert will be directed by Schele Williams and produced by Jayson Raitt, with musical direction by Alex Lacamoire. Additional performers and speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.
Uprising of Love is a global movement to support the safety and dignity of LGBTI people around the world. Co-founded by Melissa Etheridge, Dustin Lance Black, Bruce Cohen, and dozens of prominent individuals in entertainment, sports, business, and politics, the campaign was initially launched leading up to the Sochi Winter Olympics to shine a light on Russia's anti-gay laws. Uprising of Love is now focused on raising awareness and funds for activists making a difference on the ground in every part of the globe where LGBTI safety and dignity is compromised.


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My new biggest pet peeve are people that talk about the military as though they know all there is to know about it.
News Flash.......if are not a military brat/spouse or have never served, you don't have a clue as to what the military is like or is about.
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Nebraska Opponent Defensive Scouting Report
Team: Idaho Vandals
Location: Moscow, Idaho
Colors: Silver and Vandal Gold
Enrollment: 11,730
Conference: Western Athletic (WAC)
Head Coach: Robb Akey (Weber State, 1988): 12-26 in fourth season as head coach (all at Idaho)
Defensive Coordinator: Mark Criner
2010 Record: 1-0
National Ranking: Unranked
Series Record vs. Nebraska: First Meeting
Game Time: Saturday, Sept. 11, 11:30 a.m.
Stadium: Tom Osborne Field - Memorial Stadium (81,067)
TV: FSN Pay Per View
Radio: Husker Sports Network
Up Front: The Vandals return three starters from last year's defensive line including end Aaron Lavarias (6-3, 255), tackle Michael Cosgrove (6-4, 289) and nose tackle Jonah Sataraka (6-2, 294). Benson Mayowa (6-3, 239) will also step in at end after serving as a reserve last year. Lavarias led the team with 4.0 sacks, eight TFLs and five quarterback hurries last season while finishing fifth in total tackles (54). In the season opener, Lavarias added two hurries and a PBU as the defensive line helped Idaho force eight hurries and a pair of interceptions.
In the Middle: The linebacking corps may be Idaho's strongest defensive unit as it returned starters JoJo Dickson (6-2, 235) and Robert Siavii (6-2, 216) while adding junior college transfer Homer Mauga (6-0, 215). Dickson and Siavii combined for 137 tackles, eight TFLs and five PBUs last season. Last week against UND, Mauga had five tackles including the team's only sack while Siavii had two tackles, both for losses. With the game out of hand early, Tre'Shawn Robinson (5-11, 240), a JC transfer, saw extensive action behind Dickson and led the team with nine tackles, including two for loss.
The Back End: Senior strong safety Shiloh Keo (5-11, 216) is on the 2010 Thorpe Award watch list after leading the Vandals with 113 tackles (72 solo) in 2009 while adding five pass breakups, three interceptions and four TFLs. He is one of three returning starters in the secondary along with Isaac Butts (6-0, 185) and Kenneth Patten (5-9, 188) while Gary Walker (6-0, 187) jumps into the rotation at free safety after serving as a backup last year. In the season opener, Keo posted eight tackles including seven solos while forcing one fumble and recovering another and added a 44-yard interception return.
They Said It: "I like the fact that we have more depth. I like the fact I see us performing better on defense. I like the fact we're talking about some weapons we can get the football to a number of guys that have already made plays for us. Those things are very positive." - Head coach Robb Akey on the overall roster depth in 2010.
Quick Hits
***Safety Shiloh Keo is 11th on the Idaho all-time tackles list with 301 entering this weekend's contest at Nebraska.
***The 45-0 shutout last week against North Dakota was the first for Idaho's defense since 1997.
***Idaho's turnaround of plus-six wins (from two wins in 2008 to eight in 2009) was second in the nation last season only behind SMU, which went from 1-11 in 2008 to 8-5 last year.
***Saturday's game at No. 8 Nebraska will mark the third time in four seasons under coach Robb Akey that the Vandals have played a top-10 squad on the road. In Akey's career debut as a head coach, Idaho traveled to Los Angeles to face No. 1 USC on Sept. 1, 2007, losing 38-10. The Vandals also faced No. 6 Boise State last year in Boise, where they lost 63-25.
Idaho Vandals 2010 Schedule
Sept. 4 North Dakota, W, 45-0
Sept. 11 at Nebraska, 11:30 a.m.
Sept. 18 UNLV, 9:30 p.m.
Sept. 25 at Colorado State, 3 p.m.
Oct. 2 at Western Michigan, 1 p.m.
Oct. 16 at Louisiana Tech, 3 p.m.
Oct. 23 New Mexico State, 4 p.m.
Oct. 30 at Hawai'I, 10:30 p.m.
Nov. 6 Nevada, 4 p.m.
Nov. 12 Boise State, 8 p.m.
Nov. 19 at Utah State, 2 p.m.
Nov. 26 at Fresno State, 9 p.m.
Dec. 4 San Jose State, 4 p.m.


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Reg Rogers to Star in South Coast Rep 'Injured Party'
Obie winner and Tony Award nominee Reg Rogers will star in The Injured Party, a new comedy by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg. Commissioned by SCR and directed by Trip Cullman, The Injured Party will receive its World Premiere at South Coast Repertory during the 11th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival. The show will run from April 20 through May 11, 2008 on the Julianne Argyros Stage. Low-priced previews are available from April 20 through April 24. Opening night is April 25. Press night is Saturday, April 26 at 7:45 p.m. Tickets to The Injured Party may be purchased online at www.scr.org, by phone at (714) 708-5555 or in person at the SCR box office.
Reg Rogers has previously appeared in the New York productions of Greenberg's Hurrah at Last and The Dazzle (OBIE and Lucille Lortel Awards). On Broadway, Rogers appeared in Proposals, Holiday (Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations) and The Moliere Comedies. Recent stage credits include Richard III at California Shakespeare Theater and Uncle Vanya at Lake Lucille.
"The Injured Party is set in a specific New York City moment 2005, when the art installation Cristo's The Gates captured the imagination of city dwellers with its 23 miles of billowing fabric in Central Park. One of the viewers was Maxine, 94 years old and enormously rich. Her grandson Seth, who studiously avoided The Gates, is not so rich, hopelessly stalledand determined that 'redistribution must commence.' A bevy of inimitable New Yorkers aid and/or hinder Seth in this ingenious new comedy about family, love, art, money and ambition," press notes state.
The cast of The Injured Party also includes:
T. Scott Cunningham (Lawrence) previously appeared at SCR in Dinner with Friends. On Broadway he appeared in Love! Valour! Compassion! and Tartuffe. Off-Broadway credits include As Bees in Honey Drown, Fit to Be Tied, New England, Pterodactyls, The Stand In, It Changes Every Year, Wally's Ghost and Don Juan in Chicago. His regional theater credits include Love! Valour! Compassion at Geffen Playhouse; Mr. Melancholy and Coq Au Vin at New York Stage & Film; A Fair Country, Six Characters in Search of an Author and The Miser at Seattle Repertory Theatre; and Angels in America at ALLIANCE THEATRE.
Cynthia Harris (Maxene) is the Co-Artistic Director and a Founding Member of The Actors Company Theatre and has appeared in over 30 productions with the company, most recently Watch on the Rhine, Dear Liar and Home. She has appeared on Broadway in Bad Habits, Company and Any Wednesday.
Marin Ireland (Becca) has appeared in Cyclone at Studio Dante,for which she won an OBIE Award. Her other credits include The Ruby Sunrise at The Public Theater, Far Away and Nocturne at the New York Theatre Workshop and American Repertory Theatre; The Glass Menagerie at Foothills Theatre Company; Jambulu at InterAct Theatre Company; Lysistrata at TheatEclipse and A Midsummer Night's Dream at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.
Caroline Lagerfelt (Bettina) has appeared on Broadway in Small Family Business, Lend Me a Tenor, The Real Thing, Betrayal, Otherwise Engaged, The Jockey Club Stakes, Four on a Garden and The Philanthropist. Off-Broadway appearances include The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at The New Group, Hamlet at Classic Stage Company, Guantanamo at Culture Club, Moonlight at Roundabout Theatre Company and Cloud 9 at Lucille Lortel Theatre.
Lorenzo Pisoni (Hans) has appeared in Henry IV at Lincoln Center Theatre; Last Dance at Manhattan Theatre Club; As You Like It at The Public Theater; Election Day at Second Stage Theatre; A Midsummer Night's Dream at New York Philharmonic; Tuesdays With Morrie, The Great Gatsby and Clown, Clown, Clown at Seattle Repertory Theatre; The Great Gatsby at The Guthrie; The Gamester at American Conservatory Theater; Pagliacci at San Francisco Opera and Shakespeare in the Park's Much Ado About Nothing at the Delacorte Theater.
The creative team for The Injured Party consists of David Korins (set design), Candice Cain (costume design), Ben Stanton (lighting design), John Gromada (sound design), John Glore (dramaturg) and Kathryn Davies (stage manager).
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Richard Greenberg received the Tony Award for his play Take Me Out. South Coast Repertory commissioned and presented the World Premieres of Greenberg's A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, The Violet Hour, Everett Beekin, Hurrah at Last, Night and Her Stars, The Extra Man and Three Days of Rain, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and was recently revived on Broadway. SCR has also produced his play The Dazzle. Greenberg's other plays include Eastern Standard, Jenny Keeps Talking, The American Plan and The Maderati. A staged reading of the SCR-commissioned Our Mother's Brief Affair was presented at the 2007 Pacific Playwrights Festival.
Director Trip Cullman's credits include Some Men (Second Stage), Dark Matters (Rattlestick Theater), Dog Sees God (Century Center), The Wooden Breeks (MCC), Manic Flight Reaction (Playwrights Horizons), Swimming in the Shallows (Second Stage Uptown), Roulette (John Houseman Theater), The Last Sunday in June (Century Center & Rattlestick Theater), Of a White Christmas (Clubbed Thumb), Sweetness and Sam and Lucy (Summer Play Festival '04), and The Wau Wau Sisters (Ars Nova). For The Play Company, Cullman directed Robert Farquhar's Bad Jazz, Roland Schimmelpfennig's Arabian Night and Brooke Berman's Smashing.
The Injured Party is one of two World Premieres to be presented on SCR's main stages during the nationally renowned Pacific Playwrights Festival which will take place May 2 through May 4, 2008. The World Premiere of Kate Robin's What They Have will be presented on the Segerstrom Stage from April 4 through May 4. In addition to the two fully produced plays, the weekend festival showcases five new plays commissioned by South Coast Repertory in readings and workshops and attracts audiences and theater professionals from across the country. This year's Festival features a workshop production of Sunlight by Sharr White and staged readings of By The Way, Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage, Emilie The Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life at the Petit Théâtre at Cirey, Tonight by Lauren Gunderson, Goldfish by John Kovenbach and You, Nero by Amy Freed.
Tickets to The Injured Party can be purchased online at www.scr.org, by phone at (714) 708-5555 or by visiting the box office at 655 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa. Performances begin on April 20 and continue through May 11. Ticket prices range from $20 to $62. Low-priced preview performances are available from April 20-24. Performance times: Previews: Sunday, April 20 at 2:00 p.m.; Tuesday, April 22, Wednesday, April 23 and Thursday, April 24 at 7:45 p.m. Regular Performances: Tuesday through Sunday evenings at 7:45 p.m., Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m. Discounts are available for full-time students, patrons 25 years of age and under, educators, seniors and groups of 15 or more. There will be a "Pay-What-You-Will" performance on Saturday, April 26 at 2:00 p.m. (Suggested Price: $10; $7 minimum) and an ASL-interpreted performance on Saturday, May 10 at 2:00 p.m.
Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory, under the artistic direction of David Emmes and Martin Benson, is widely recognized as one of the leading professional theaters in the United States. Founded in 1964, SCR is committed to theater that illuminates the compelling personal and social issues of our time, not only on its stages but through its education and outreach programs. While its productions represent a balance of classic and modern theater, SCR is renowned for its extensive new play development program, including the Pacific Playwrights Festival. Of SCR's more than 400 productions, 107 have been World Premieres with subsequent stagings achieving enormous success across America and around the world. SCR-developed works have garnered eight Pulitzer Prize nominations with Margaret Edson's Wit winning the prize in 1999 and David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole in 2007. Located in Costa Mesa, California, in 2002 SCR opened the Folino Theater Center, an expanded three-theater complex that includes the 507-seat Segerstrom Stage, the 336-seat Julianne Argyros Stage and the 94-seat Nicholas Studio.
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Estée Lauder Launches New Sensuous Fragrance
This month, Estée Lauder introduces Sensuous, a new woody, full-bodied, amber fragrance. Along with the fragrance, Estée has also posed a question to woman everywhere, asking them what sensuous means to them? Because every woman is sensuous in her own way, and because the fragrance is slightly different on each woman that wear it, Estée launched SensuousIs.com where women can anonymously express what the concept of sensuality means to them.
The Beauty Bug took some time to read through the variety of responses, which range from "rose petals" to "eating Oreos with ur mouth open." Here are some of Her favorite definitions of sensuous:
- "A hot jungle safari."
- "Girls in roller skates."
- "My golden retriever."
- "To own a cat."
- "Ripened fruit."
- "Family and food."
- "The first cup of morning coffee."
- "Sand between your toes."
- "Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep."
- "White snow."
- "Writing notes."
- "Goosebumps."
- "A candle with an average dinner."
- "Singing in the shower."
- "Driving with the top down."
- "Paris."
- "Beauty on a boat."
Notes include amber, molten woods, ghost lily accord, magnolia, jasmine petals, sandalwood, black pepper, juicy mandarin pulp and honey. It's a warm, mysterious fragrance that is rather spicy at first, then drys down to expose it's floral base.
Sensuous is available now at SensuousIs.com and Bloomingdales.com.


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Tornadoes - May 2013
NCEI added Alaska climate divisions to its nClimDiv dataset on Friday, March 6, 2015, coincident with the release of the February 2015 monthly monitoring report. For more information on this data, please visit the Alaska Climate Divisions FAQ.
May 2013 Tornado Occurrences
Source: SPC
According to data from the Storm Prediction Center, during May there were 242 preliminary tornado reports. This is slightly below the 1991-2010 average of 276 May tornadoes. May is climatologically the most active tornado month of the year. Despite the below-average number of tornadoes, May 2013 marked the most tornadoes of any month since May 2011, and the first month since May 2011 with two EF-5 strength tornadoes. The number of tornado-related fatalities and the damage caused by the tornadoes during May were substantial. There were an estimated 41 tornado-related fatalities, the most since March 2012. The high number of fatalities was partially due to strong tornadoes hitting densely populated areas. Oklahoma City, and surrounding areas, bore the brunt of the devastation. The tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City, on May 20th likely caused damages totaling in the billions of U.S. dollars (assessments will take several months to complete) and will be remembered as one of the most destructive tornadoes in American history.
The below-average number of tornadoes during May, combined with below-average counts during March and April, contributed to a below-average tornado count for the year-to-date period. For January-May, 131 tornadoes have been confirmed with 325 preliminary tornado reports still pending for an estimated year-to-date total of 456. This is below the 1991-2010 average of 576 tornadoes for January-May.
Significant Events
Details of 15 May Texas EF-3 and EF-4 torndoes
Source:National Weather Service
On May 15th, at least 18 preliminary tornadoes were reported across northern Texas, and one in central Oklahoma, as a cold front moved through the region. The tornado that hit Granby, Texas was rated an EF-4 with winds between 166 and 200 miles per hour and killed 6 people and left over 100 injured. Over 200 homes were destroyed in the town. Nearby in the town of Cleburne, an EF-3 tornado, that was nearly a mile wide, destroyed numerous homes and left 7 people injured. Damage from this tornado was so extensive, a state of emergency was declared. The deadly tornado outbreak came on the heels of a relatively quiet tornado period over the last 12 months in the United States. The last time 6 or more fatalities were reported during a tornado was in April 2012. The Granby tornado was the deadliest tornado for the state of Texas since April 2007.
A massive, deadly, and historic tornado outbreak impacted the Central and Southern Plains between May 18th–20th. The severe weather was associated with a cut-off low pressure system and strong cold front that moved from the Colorado Front Range into the Great Plains. Ahead of the front, warm, moist, and unstable conditions filtered into the region. The front provided the necessary wind shear in the lower atmosphere for the storms that did spawn to begin rotating, with several of these super cell thunderstorms producing devastating tornadoes. On the 18th, there were 16 preliminary tornado reports across Kansas and Nebraska. The most significant tornado on the 18th hit near Rozel, Kansas and was rated an EF-4. The half-mile wide tornado was on the ground for seven miles, but caused only minor structural damage because it occurred in a mostly rural area. On the 19th, there were 29 preliminary tornado reports in six states from Oklahoma to Illinois. An EF-2 tornado hit Harper County, Kansas, to the southwest of Wichita. At least 6 tornadoes were confirmed in central Oklahoma, where an EF-4 hit near Shawnee, an EF-3 hit near Luther,and an EF-2 hit near Prague. The EF-4 tornado caused at least two fatalities in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma.
Track of 20 May Moore, Oklahoma EF-5 Tornado
Source:National Weather Service
On the 20th, there were 32 preliminary tornado reports, mostly in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri. The most devastating tornado of the three-day outbreak hit Moore, Oklahoma on the 20th. The EF-5 tornado tracked 17 miles through the towns of Newcastle and Moore, and had a maximum width of 1.3 miles. Maximum winds were estimated at over 200 miles per hour. The tornado resulted in at least 23 fatalities. Thousands of homes, as well as businesses, hospitals, and schools were completely destroyed. Loss of life might have been much higher, but the 15-minute-plus lead time of the tornado warnings issued by the National Weather Service allowed people to attempt to prepare for the storm. This was the first observed EF-5 tornado in the U.S. since May 24, 2011, and only the 59th confirmed EF-5 (or F-5 prior to 2007) tornado in the 1950-present record. Damage from the storm is estimated to be in the billions of U.S. dollars and will rival the costliest tornado in U.S. history which hit Joplin, Missouri in May 2011. Moore was devastated by a tornado 14 years ago, when an F-5 tornado hit the town in May 1999 killing 36 people. The 1999 tornado caused over 1.1 billion U.S. dollars in damage. Additional information on the Moore, Oklahoma tornado is available in our supplemental information page, including 3-D animations of the storm, and through the National Weather Service.
Track of 31 May, El Reno, Oklahoma EF-5 Tornado
Source:National Weather Service
On May 31st, a cold front moving through the Central and Southern Plains spawned severe weather from Oklahoma to Indiana. There were 30 preliminary reports of tornadoes in eight states. The hardest hit areas included the Oklahoma City Metro area, the St. Louis metro area, and locations north of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the Oklahoma City area, three tornadoes were confirmed, including an EF-0 and EF-1 which hit part of Moore, Oklahoma. The deadliest tornado of the outbreak hit just west of Oklahoma City, in the town of El Reno. The EF-5 tornado had estimated winds well over 200 miles per hour (estimated from Doppler radar), was on the ground for 16.2 miles and had an estimated path width of 2.6 miles. The 2.6 miles width surpasses the Hallam, Nebraska tornado of May 2004 as the widest tornado on record for the United States and subsequently the world. The Hallam EF-4 tornado was 2.5 miles wide. It was also the 60th confirmed EF-5 (or F-5 prior to 2007) tornado in the U.S. in the 1950-present record. Parts of El Reno were also hit by an EF-5 tornado in May 2011, and prior to the Moore EF-5 was the last EF-5 confirmed in the nation. Highways in the area had severe traffic congestion due to the rush hour commute, creating a very dangerous scenario. The tornado resulted in at least nine fatalities, seven of which were in automobiles. The fatality count might have been higher, but the tornado hit a relatively sparsely populated area on the south side of El Reno. The storms in Oklahoma were also accompanied by heavy rainfall that led to flash flooding. Numerous people had to be rescued from the flood waters, and an estimated 100,000 homes and businesses lost power during the event. An additional nine people were killed due to severe winds and the flash flooding. More information on this tornado is available from the National Weather Service.


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The Badger volleyball team will be looking to rebound this weekend after a disheartening five-game loss to Minnesota last weekend and a move down to third place in the Big Ten standings.
"We have (changed), but unfortunately some of the tendencies are still there," head coach Pete Waite said. "At times we can be that strong team that comes through … but then on occasion there are times when things break down and we come away with the loss."
The Badgers (18-7, 9-5) will have the opportunity to pick up two wins this weekend as they play matches against two of the three worst teams in the conference. Friday night the Badgers play ninth-place Illinois (11-12, 5-9) and then Saturday they host last place Purdue (11-16, 1-13).
Illinois will come into the Fieldhouse after sweeping Purdue last weekend before being swept themselves by Penn State. The Illini have had a back-and-forth season that is currently in jeopardy with the day-to-day prognosis of middle blocker Lisa Aragabright. The 6-foot-2 junior has missed the last four matches with mononucleosis. Aragabright has watched Illinois go 2-2 without her team-leading 3.91 kills and 2.85 digs per game. The Illini defense is led by senior outside hitter Sue Webber, who leads the team with 2.83 digs per game, and libero Lauren Harkshas, who adds 2.76 digs per game.
"Illinois is the kind of team that can be both up and down," Waite said. "They are one of the only teams to have beaten Minnesota this year, and it was at Minnesota."
The Badgers' other opponent this weekend are the lowly Boilermakers of Purdue. The Boilermakers benefit from the leadership of junior Joanna Lowry, who fronts the team with 3.91 kills and adds 2.85 digs per game. Sophomores Kim McConaha and Daren Poe round out the Purdue attack with 3.57 kills and 3.48 digs per game respectively.
"Purdue has been struggling; there is no doubt," Waite said. "They've got a young team, and they have had trouble getting the wins."
The Badger attack will be led by senior outside hitter Erin Byrd, who leads the team with 4.15 kills per game and also contributes almost three digs per game. Senior Lori Rittenhouse has taken over the team lead with a .328 hitting percentage while averaging 3.04 kills per game. Sophomore outside hitter Jill Odenthal adds three kills per game to the Badger attack and is fourth on the team in hitting percentage. Junior Morgan Shields leads the team with 13.76 assists per game, which currently ranks third in the nation.
The Badger line-up is still solidifying itself this late into the season, however the play of Lauren Ford, Korie Gardner, Jill Maier and Aubrey Meierotto off the bench have provided the Badgers with the most depth in the Big Ten.
"I think we've got people in the right positions," Waite said. "We may see a little more of Aubrey Meierotto, she has done a nice job getting in there."
Although the Badgers needed to beat Minnesota in order to seriously contend for the Big Ten title, the team has moved up to the No. 2 seed in the Midwest region and has dropped only one spot nationally to No. 14.
"Right now we focus on the match with Illinois," Waite said. "We went down to Illinois and took a loss at their place. I don't think we'll have any trouble getting motivated for [this] one."


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Yep, great combatives site, came across it many times on different searches (smatchets, bronco kick, etc.) What are some good training DVD's for this stuff/ I have some MMA/Fighting/SBG Street Boxing stuff and Ruttens Lethal Street Fighting, but would like something more in tune with Applegate's style, simplistic stuff, no flash just H2H. I'd appreciate any reccomendations on Combatives and Krav Maga (with disarms, and integrated weapon/empty hand techniques) DVD's.
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Herman Cain, who was celebrating a strong showing in a Des Moines Register poll of GOP candidates in Iowa, is now defending himself against allegations that two women accused him of inappropriate behavior in the 1990s.
Cain's campaign called the story "Inside the Beltway attacks."
Cain is also leading Texas Gov. Rick Perry in a poll of likely Republican voters in Texas.
CNN reports that Mitt Romney remains the top target of his GOP rivals and the White House.
(More presidential politics below)
Under the Dome
Corrections Commissioner Tom Roy has agreed to appear at a hearing over the parole of two convicted cop killers. GOP legislative leaders made the request in a letter to Gov. Dayton.
The Pi Press says clean water may be the murkiest Legacy fund goal.
The Star Tribune says an Adult Care agency within DHS gets a new chief.
Fishing license sales are down $1.6 million.
GOP Rep. Steve Gottwalt says more improvements are needed in the health care system regardless of the health care overhaul.
DFL Sen. Larry Pogemiller said he's going to miss the Minnesota Senate. Gov. Dayton appointed Pogemiller to be director of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education.
Minneapolis gets $750k to repair the northern part of the city damaged by tornados.
The Star Tribune says the biggest battle at this year's election will be over school referenda.
Gov. Dayton will greet trick or treaters at the Governor's residence.
The Pi Press takes a look at job growth by city.
The PoliGraph says GOP Sen. Geoff Michel's jobs claim is incorrect.
Union groups are joining Occupy MN.
Vikings Stadium
Gov. Dayton said on TPT's Almanac that electronic pull-tabs are an option to finance the Vikings stadium.
Dayton said there was no "breakthrough moment" on his stadium talks with legislative leadership.
The leading backer of the Arden Hills site expects the federal government to finalize the sales of the land to Ramsey County by today.
Politics in Minnesota has a story on why it's unlikely the Vikings will leave Minnesota.
The Pi Press says look at Cleveland if you don't think the Vikings will move.
The Star Tribune says Los Angeles is working hard to bring an NFL franchise to that city.
President Obama will issue an executive order today that says the FDA should help reduce drug shortages.
MPR reports that Minnesota's Congressional delegation is skeptical of the Super Committee designed to come up with budget cuts.
A prominent global warming skeptic now says global warming is real.
Hiring an attorney will fetch a better deal in negotiations in the way of the Central Corridor line.
Teen pop idol Justin Bieber said DFL Sen. Amy Klobuchar should be "locked up" for sponsoring a bill that would make it a felony to profit from streaming unlicensed online content.
The Star Tribune says Klobuchar dives into the partisan fight over the Jobs bill.
Klobuchar is also continuing a tour that features products that are "Made in America."
DFL Sen. Al Franken visited Waseca.
U.S. northern border checks have been scaled back.
GOP Reps. John Kline, Michele Bachmann and Chip Cravaack sign on to a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court asking the court to declare the Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional.
Democrats lose their enthusiasm for the health law.
DFL Rep. Betty McCollum is leading the charge to block an Obama Administration cut to imaging reimbursement.
Crop insurance supplants subsidies in the Farm Bill proposal. DFL Rep. Collin Peterson is mentioned.
Groups are lobbying the Deficit Super Committee to include the Dairy Market Stabilization program.
Reuters talks to Tim Pawlenty about Tunisia's elections.
Race for Legislature
Gov. Dayton called a special election for Senate District 59, which is being vacated by DFL Sen. Larry Pogemiller.
Two Democrats, Peter Wagenius and Jacob Frey, are lining up to replace Pogemiller.
Race for Congress
DFL state Rep. Tom Anzelc is backing Rick Nolan's bid for Congress.
Race for President
Bloomberg has an interesting story that says the Republican plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act aren't as simple as the candidates are suggesting.
Herman Cain says he's going to scale back the number of public appearances.
GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann said on ABC's This Week that the campaign can be revived.
Bachmann says she would not do anything for the children of illegal immigrants.
Bachmann blames Rick Perry for the bashing by a Tea Party group.
AP says Bachmann is exaggerating a directive from federal officials to evaluate procedures for religious and cultural sensitivity.
Bachmann is planning an early November campaign stop in South Carolina.
Bachmann is courting a South Carolina consultant.
GOP Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch and GOP House Majority Leader Matt Dean are backing Bachmann's campaign.
CNN says Ron Paul has no plans for a third party bid, yet.
There will be lots of ghosts and goblins walking the streets tonight for Halloween. Drive safely.


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Groene at the Legislature: Teacher absences, substitutes
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A new app from NUBeef takes the user inside the carcasses of beef cattle.
The app functions as a digital beef anatomy textbook, said Steven Jones, professor of animal science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, who developed the media with EdMedia's instructional multimedia designer Vishal Singh.
"It is helpful for students to understand where each muscle is located in the beef carcass, its composition and eating quality," Jones said.
The information offered in the app could be used by animal science and veterinary students, 4-H and FFA members, meat processors, chefs, consumers and others.
As a user views each cross-section, they can view a picture of a selected muscle and learn about the anatomical and physical features of each muscle.
Anatomical information for each muscle includes action, origin, insertion, blood supply and innervation. Meat related information about the muscle includes composition and the eating qualities of tenderness, aroma, flavor and juiciness.
"This makes the app relevant to chefs and consumers as they determine proper methods of preparation," Jones said.
The NUBeef-Anatomy app is available in the Apple iTunes app store for iPhone and iPad for $4.99.
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Kyle Busch on the podium in Toyota Owners 400 race
Kyle Busch (above) was the first Toyota Camry driver to the finish line in Saturday night's Toyota Owners 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Richmond International Raceway.
Here's what he had to say after the race:
KYLE BUSCH, No. 18 M&M's Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing:
How was the race?
"It was crazy. Really battling this M&M's Camry -- that's for sure. We didn't have our best underneath it tonight, but I have no idea the last 10 laps, I have absolutely no clue. I started 16th and finished third -- that's about all I know. Pretty crazy with everything going on. I was shaking in my seat just because of how fast I was passing guys. I was like, 'Whoa, something is going to happen -- something is going to screw up.' I was just trying to make sure I didn't end up in it. Those guys were racing hard up front and it was really cool to watch from my seat. Glad I got by and then it kind of got settled out and got too calm and let Joey (Logano) and Jeff (Gordon) just kind of stabilize and I could just run with them and that was all I had. Great finish for the way our day was. Can't say enough about the gutsy call by Dave (Rogers, crew chief) -- and the bad ass driving by me."
What were the closing laps like after you pitted for four tires?
Just tires were so stellar right there, it was unbelievable the way it looked and the way it felt. Going from 16th to 10th in one corner literally, that was just insane and I was kind of going by him so fast that I was just wondering if I was going to end up in the may lay of everybody just racing each other so hard and getting into one another. I got clear and got up there and tried racing Jeff (Gordon) and Joey (Logano) down, but by the time I got there those guys were singled out and running their own pace. We didn't have a good enough car much of the day to be able to contend for that win anyway. To come home third like we did -- that's just an effort. That was a closing effort today for sure. Dave (Rogers, crew chief) made a very gutsy call there to come in and put four tires on it and restart 16th and I just was a bad ass and drove the hell out of it."
How were you able to pass so many cars on the final restart?
"Our finish right there was just insane. Somehow I found a fourth lane out there and got around everybody. I had enough tire grip to make that all happen. I think they had eight laps on their tires and we came in and put tires on and we looked like heroes. It looked like they had 80 laps on their tires. Crazy, but it worked out for us. Really, really happy to come home third -- we did not deserve a third today. That just helps us in the points and keeps us up front. We're going to use our win to get in the Chase, but if somehow for some reason you need two wins then maybe we can fall back on points."
How far off was the car earlier in the race?
A lot, we're way, way behind. Matt (Kenseth) looked really, really good. I don't know how Matt drove to the front and took the lead -- that was pretty stellar for how far off I feel like our stuff is. My car tonight -- I drove up and I got up to fourth and I'm like okay, I've got a chance and can hang with them and one more adjustment I'll be good and that one more adjustment took us all the way to 14th. That's just the razor blade edge we're working on."
MATT KENSETH, No. 20 Home Depot/Husky Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing, finished fifth:
What happened between you and Brad Keselowski?
"With me and Brad (Keselowski) specifically, I don't know he was mad because I ran into him a little bit getting into (turn) three, but we're going for the win. I ran him up to the third groove or so, but I've witnessed him racing that way a lot like I think he did to Jimmie (Johnson) at Texas a few years ago. I thought once we got to the straightaway I left him enough room unless I wasn't clear, I need to re-watch it. I guess he's upset about that and we were all going for the win, that's what we're supposed to be doing."
How did the team continue to adjust on the car to make it better during the race?
"I'm disappointed I didn't get them the win. I did everything I could do. We were good on the first restart and I thought we were going to have it and the second restart we were good and I thought we were going to have it again, and on the third cycle on the tires I just couldn't go. Being in clean air I just couldn't get the nose to cut and I couldn't get the back to hook up and couldn't go anywhere."
How were the tires in the race?
"I can't really comment too much on it because I never really have any of that. I don't really know. We watched the race last night so I guess we knew it was coming."
What happened at the end of the race?
"We were racing for the win and I thought the track was wide enough with how high people were running all the time. I had to drive in there and try to give him (Brad Keselowski) the slide job, absolutely. I was trying to watch both lanes and I was trying to win the race. I think that's what all five of us were trying to do up there. It's really disappointing we had to tear up all our cars afterwards -- by wrecking my car he wrecked the 88 (Dale Earnhardt Jr.) and a couple other ones. I never think that's very cool. Obviously, I could have gave him a little more room, but he had a lane all the way to the straightaway there and just racing hard. I feel bad for my Home Depot guys and Dollar General guys, they did a great job with our Camry tonight and at the end of the day I just didn't get it done for them. I couldn't hold them off."
BRIAN VICKERS, No. 55 Aaron's Dream Machine Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing, finished 12th:
How did your car handle during the race?
"We had a really, really good long run car there once we got it right. We were just on the splitter way too hard at the beginning of the race. Once we got that up and got the car freed up we were really, really good and maybe the best car on the second to last run for sure. Billy (Scott, crew chief) and all the guys did a great job from where we started this race from being one of the worst cars to being one of the best. We just went too far with some of the adjustments there at the end and got back on the splitter and got too loose off and then we lost three spots on the pit stop. Track position really hurt us and it was hard to come back from that at the end of the race. Then it was just mayhem, but the Aaron's Dream Machine Camry was really strong tonight at moments and really proud of that. Thought we had a chance to run down the leaders and get the win, but just wasn't our night."
CLINT BOWYER, No. 15 AAA Insurance Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing, finished last:
"It was on fire. What a bad night. I hate this for AAA. This is our first race with them and was really proud to have them on board with us tonight. It was just one thing after another and not a very good night."
What happened with Kyle Larson at the start of the race?
"I really hate that happened. I really like Kyle (Larson) and I'm a big fan of his. Him and the 2 (Brad Keselowski) kind of spun the tires and I just got such a big run him when he moved up. Then I was like, 'Okay, I guess I'm going to go to the bottom if you're going to give me the bottom.' Then at the last minute he arched it in and I just wasn't ready for him. I tried to get on the brakes and just got into him. I'm so glad he didn't hit the wall. I was afraid he hit the wall and ended his night. It certainly didn't help it at all."
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Objective: To evaluate the Advanced Illness Coordinated Care Program (AICCP), delivered by allied health personnel to improve care for patients coping with advanced illness and in need of preparation for end-of-life (EOL) care.
Study Design: Clinical trial involving 275 patients and 143 surrogates in 6 settings who were randomly assigned to the AICCP or usual care (UC).
Methods: The AICCP participants met with a care coordinator for assistance with provider communication, care coordination, and support. The AICCP was evaluated for effects on satisfaction with care, advance planning, consistency of care with patient preferences, and healthcare costs.
Results: The AICCP increased patient satisfaction with care and communication (P = .03), and AICCP surrogates reported fewer problems with provider support (P = .03). More AICCP than UC participants completed an advance directive (AD) (69.4% vs 48.4%; P = .006), and the AICCP group completed more ADs per participant (P = .01). Median time to AD documentation was 46 days for AICCP and 238 days for UC (P = .02). There was no difference in survival (AICCP 43% vs UC 42%). Six-month costs were lower with AICCP than with UC ($12 123 vs $16 295); however, the difference did not reach statistical significance.
Conclusions: The AICCP improved satisfaction with care and helped patients develop and revise more ADs, sooner, without affecting mortality. This program may be delivered in a range of managed care, fee-for-service, and group-model settings.
(Am J Manag Care. 2006;12:93-100)
The need to improve the care of patients coping with advanced illness and preparing for end-of-life (EOL) care is well documented. Shortcomings in the medical, psychological, spiritual, and practical domains of care have been described by experts1 and researchers.2 Many Americans are dying subsequent to unwanted care, in unrelieved pain, and with their preferences for treatment inadequately discussed, documented, and followed.1,3,4 Care at the EOL often is fragmented because it is delivered by different providers in different settings.
For these reasons, the quality of life of many people with serious illness is compromised. These shortcomings will eventually affect more Americans: more than 73% of deaths occur after age 65 years, and this age group is projected to increase as the baby-boom cohort enters old age.5 Because of importance of delivering improved care, the Institute of Medicine recommends conducting research on the utility of new care strategies.1
The demands of the aging baby-boom generation for more input and better treatment during advanced illness are mobilizing efforts to improve EOL care.6 Recent efforts to improve care include the development of Palliative Care Leadership Centers,7 hospice consultation teams,8 hospital-based palliative care teams,9 and prehospice and care management programs.10 In addition, greater attention is being paid to EOL care in medical training and practice,10 and to development of models for facilitating structured EOL discussions, including interventions that focus on advance planning.11-15
The Advanced Illness Coordinated Care Program (AICCP) was developed to improve the care of people with serious illness.16 It is a care coordination and support program delivered by allied health providers (eg, nurses, social workers) as a part of physician-directed care plans. The AICCP is designed to promote communication and understanding between patients and providers about advanced illness and EOL issues to promote health literacy, to achieve coordination of care, to provide emotional and social support, and to reduce barriers to the use of palliative care and hospice services. AICCP can be delivered in acute-care, primary care, or long-term care settings and as a component of disease management or case management services. It is delivered concurrently while patients are receiving life-prolonging treatments and before referral to specialty palliative services.
The development of AICCP was guided by clinical experience,17 previous outcome studies,2 and recommendations for improving care coordination and support from the health literature and the managed care industry.17-19 AICCP is designed to address reported barriers to quality care,20 like readiness to prepare for EOL care.21 AICCP uses proactive strategies explicitly designed to promote readiness.
To test the effectiveness of AICCP for helping people cope with advanced illness and EOL decisions and to ascertain the program utility from quality and cost perspectives, we conducted a randomized, controlled trial comparing AICCP patients and surrogates with patients and surrogates receiving usual care (UC). We describe the impact of the AICCP on patient and surrogate satisfaction with healthcare and provider communication, formulation and development of advance directives (ADs), whether the received medical care was consistent with the patient's AD, and healthcare costs.
Participants were recruited from 3 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers (VAMCs), a home care organization, and 2 managed care organizations. Patients had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic heart failure (CHF), or cancer diagnoses including those of the esophagus, trachea, colon, liver, pancreas, lung, or uterus; cancers of the prostate or breast with metastasis; and melanoma, leukemia, lymphosarcoma, Hodgkin's disease, or multiple myeloma. Patients with COPD or CHF were eligible if they had experienced 1 or more admissions to an intensive-care unit or 2 or more acute-care admissions in the last 6 months.
Table 1 shows demographic information on patients. Table 2 shows demographic information on surrogates.
Study Protocol
The study protocol was approved by institutional review boards at each site. Recruiters blinded to group assignment enrolled 275 patients. We used Research Randomizer version 322 to randomize participants in blocks of 10 into AICCP (n = 133) or UC (n = 142). Approximately 60% of the patients identified a surrogate, of which 168 (76 in the AICCP group and 92 in the UC group) agreed to participate.
One hundred eighty-six patients (AICCP = 86, UC = 100) and 143 surrogates (AICCP = 67, UC = 76) completed the study and a follow-up assessment at approximately 3 months postenrollment. The AICCP was gradually implemented as part of UC in some VAMC inpatient units before study closure. Therefore, as specified in the institutional review board approval, patients were free to cross over to the alternative treatment arm in spite of their randomization status because administrators wanted to make AICCP available on units where AICCP was introduced into UC and participants requested AICCP. Eighteen UC participants crossed over to AICCP, and 2 AICCP participants crossed into UC. Intention-to-treat analyses were performed with participants in their originally assigned groups.23
The AICCP delivers care coordination and support through 6 functions. The first is physician support, which consists of helping patients develop well-organized questions to make economical use of provider time and ensuring that physicians have complete information about patients. The second is health literacy, which is the capacity to understand basic health information.24 The AICCP addresses literacy concerns in each session (eg, by helping patients comprehend specialized medical terminology, which both increases their understanding and reduces their embarrassment). The third function is care coordination, which is locating and arranging linkages to medical services. The fourth is prevention, which refers to a focus on those aspects of EOL planning that often are avoided and emotionally charged. In this study, prevention referred to efforts to reduce or eliminate common psychosocial concerns related to advanced illness such as (1) coping with the loss of ability to perform valued activities; (2) identifying and addressing family conflict around difficult advanced illness and EOL decisions (eg, patient relocation, financial burdens of illness); (3) avoiding caregiver burnout (eg, by dividing care among family members); (4) anticipating emotional reactions (eg, anticipatory grief, fear of death); (5) enhancing self-management skills by preparing patients and families to cope with health system delivery shortfalls (eg, fragmentation of care delivery, gaps in care); and (6) promoting advance planning, because timely planning may avert decision making in crisis situations.11
Care coordinators help clarify patient preferences for care under different health scenarios, using worksheets designed for this purpose.14 If patients engage in advance planning, care coordinators assist them in formulating and documenting ADs and discussing them with providers. Family misunderstandings about care issues frequently can be resolved during meetings with care coordinators, reducing physician time spent mediating between family members. Care coordinators also provide emotional and social support. Emotional support consists of attending to affective components of illness, identifying specific emotions, helping patients cope with suffering, and providing referrals for ongoing counseling. Social support includes guidance and information, as well as tangible support. In the AICCP, structured guidance support helps patients and caregivers complete tasks needed to maintain health and function.25 The AICCP provides information support in the form of guiding patients through the immense amount of medical information available to sources that are (1) adjusted for health literacy, (2) endorsed by their physicians, and (3) relevant to their situations. It provides tangible support by locating and arranging social support services. These functions are performed by nurses, nurse practitioners, or social workers.


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Doubts on penalty for Caulfield Cup winner
Everything continues to fall into place for Caulfield Cup winner Admire Rakti, with doubts that the stayer will receive a significant penalty after his brave win on Saturday.
Admire Rakti carried 58 kilograms to win the Caulfield Cup and if Racing Victoria handicapper Greg Carpenter was to re-handicap Admire Rakti one kilogram, the Japanese stayer would have to be the first horse since Rain Lover in 1969 to carry 59 kilograms and win a Melbourne Cup.
And if Carpenter chose to just give the horse a half-kilogram, he would carry the same weight as Think Big in 1975.
No decision on a re-handicap will be announced before Monday.
Admire Rakti's extraordinary Caulfield Cup win will now see the Japanese stayer start a short-priced favourite for the $6.2 million Melbourne Cup. Owned in Osaka, Japan, Admire Rakti let down over the final 300metres so emphatically that bookmakers couldn't wait to make him favourite for the Melbourne Cup.
Just 48 hours ago it was feared the Japanese invasion on this year's major cups had stalled when its first selection in the $3.15 Caulfield Cup, Bande, had to be scratched with tendon issues.
Despite some pre-race difficulties, Admire Rakti gave Zac Purton his first Caulfield Cup at only his second attempt.
"That's why we ride in these big races – to win them and mix it with the very best riders of the time," Purton said.
Purton, based in Hong Kong, said that he hoped Admire Rakti would be able to cope with the extra 800 metres of the Melbourne Cup. "What I have on my side is that this horse [Admire Rakti] has won over 3400 metres," he said.
New Zealand trainer Donna Logan went within a long neck of a fairytale result when her staying mare Rising Romance finished second.
"I thought to myself with 50yards to go, 'shit I'm going to win a Caulfield Cup'. But all of a sudden the imported horse just grabbed me on the line," she said.
Rising Romance is not entered in the Melbourne Cup and she is now more than likely to head home to New Zealand for a spell before returning in the autumn.
The Peter Moody pair of Brambles and Lidari, who finished just behind the winner, may progress to the Melbourne Cup. But Lidari is yet to qualify for Australia's greatest race.
Melbourne Cup winner Green Moon compounded to finish ninth, while Sea Moon, who led in the early stages, struggled when the pressure went on and weakened to finish last.
Leading Sydney trainer Gai Waterhouse said she would wait to see hows things settled before making any decision on her one-time Melbourne Cup favourite, The Offer, who finished 11th after making up some late ground. "Let's let the dust settle and have a good hard look at things on Sunday and we can make our minds up then."
Race favourite Lucia Valentina had no luck in the running and faced a huge task to win from an awkward position coming to the turn. But her chances were marred by mid-race interference.
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Meanwhile…. late news… I cam across this brilliant publication called the Gull
its for seagull enthusiasts
For those who want to hold on to their 2-stroke OBs, navigate over to the duckworks.com web site and peruse Rob Rhode-Szudy's article on mods to reduce oil emission. There's also one on ethanol and some info about using biodegradable oils such as those produced by Amsoil. Pricey but perhaps soothing to the conscience.


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Get Moving
The summer is in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere and things look like they are slowing down. But they don't need to slow down, in fact now more than ever is a time to leap ahead with wild abandon and take your practice up to a whole other level.
Jow for example is already on this wavelength. The more people who get in to this – the faster we'll all advance. That advice in particular is for Mr. Black. I know that you're going through a slow phase at the moment – but I'm confident that you'll pull out of it soon and come out all guns blazing.
The blogosphere is not an egregore in my opinion, it's too fragmented. But we do bounce off each other enough to move forwards, backwards or sideways in to unexpected new avenues on our individual paths.
Anyway, I got a bit side-tracked at the start of this blog post… on to the main subject matter.
There is a scene in the 1984 film Dune in which there is water dripping ever so slowly in to an underground reservoir. Watching that scene gave me an immense feeling of stillness that I have not managed to recapture since… until I went to a talk by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki at Treadwells bookshop. Sitting in the room with her gave me that same sense of stillness.
Fast forward a couple of weeks and I've put out a psychic call to Rabbi Abraham Abulafia to get in touch, or to at least get someone alive today to get in touch in order to help me along my path. I follow this up with a few emails and sure enough I get a response.
The advice that I get from this living teacher is to spend more time in stillness post-meditation.
It seems silly looking back how I did not realise the importance of that before… The Rabbi's teach that when the patriarch Abraham and matriarch Sarah heard the instruction to leave their place of residence in Haran and move to the land of Canaan – that advice was not for them in particular.
It was the small still voice as heard in Elijah's prophetic experience that all of humanity is able to tune in to if they cultivate a sufficient level of emptiness and stillness. To leave one's place of comfort, old ways behind and strive to connect Divine without as a society settling on the worship of intermediaries as was common at that time.
Anyway... Unfortunately I have not been able to focus on meditation due to a recent illness, but that is a blog post for another time.
Be well… Be still.


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What are the Charges Payable for Opening and Maintaining a Demat Account?
If you are looking to buy and sell shares you cannot do so through the stock exchanges, unless you maintain a demat account with one of the depository participants in India.
The correct term used is a beneficiary account or BO with a Depository Participant (DPs). DPs act like banks and facilitate the opening and closing of demat accounts.
To open a new demat account there are a few things that you need to comply with.
Costs for opening a demat account
There are various costs that are levied on opening and maintaining demat accounts.
However, SEBI has tried to intervene and ensure that the costs are reasonable and also rationalised.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has ensured that:
There are no account opening charges, transaction charges (for credit or buy transactions of securities), custody charges and account closing charges. Custody charges are now paid by the issuer companies.
The following charges are applicable though:
1) Demat and Remat of shares
When you convert physically held shares to electronic form, it is called dematerialization or demat and when you do vice versa it is called rematerialization. There are charges levied when you undertake both the above mentioned.
2) There is also an annual Demat Account maintenance charges that are levied by the Depository Participants. The Depository Participants are allowed to revise the charges subject to a notice period of 30 days. According to The Securities and Exchange Board of India it has advised DPs to submit to their Depository their tariff/charge structure every year latest by 30th April and changes made therein, along with the date of effect to enable the investors to have a comparative analysis of the tariff/charge structure of various DP's.
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Effectiveness of Association Mometasone Furoate 0.1% and Salicylic Acid 5% Compared With Mometasone Furoate (Psoriasis)
This study has suspended participant recruitment.
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Crafting Time:
- 1-2 Hours
Skill Level:
- Intermediate
Project Courtesy of: Inkadinkado
Additional Information
- Three assorted-size pumpkins
- Inkadinkado® Clear Stamp Set: Coffee House Alphabet
- Inkadinkado® Clear Stamp Set: Ornate Flourishes
- Inkadinkado® Clear Stamp Block
- Acrylic craft paint: assorted colors
- Foam brush
- Paper plate
- Black solvent ink
- Brown dye ink (optional)
- 1/2" circle punch
- Cardstock - ivory, black, orange
- Double-sided tape or craft glue
- Jute twine
- Scissors
- 1/4" paper punch
- Distress tool or emery board
- Place a small amount of desired paint color on a paper plate.
- Use a stippling motion to add paint to the stamp.
- Stamp desired design on pumpkin. Repeat, adding additional paint to the stamp as needed.
- Use the black solvent ink to stamp the text onto a piece of ivory cardstock. Stamp a bracket design above and below the text. Trim to size. Use the circle punch to notch all four corners. Optional: Use brown dye ink to distress the edges of the cardstock.
- Attach to a slightly larger black cardstock panel. Notch corners.
- Attach to a slightly larger orange cardstock panel. Notch corners. Use a distress tool or emery board to distress the outer edges.
- Punch a small hole in upper corners or center of panel. Lace a piece of jute twine through holes and knot on the front side of the panel.
- Loop twine over the pumpkin stem.
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Unofficial Guide to Ranking the Survivor: One World Final Five
As we get ready for Sunday's Survivor: One World finale, here are a few notes on the final five, what they've done to deserve to win, and their spoiler-free odds of winning. This is not a boot list and there are no future spoilers here, and odds are based on winning in the final 3, not making it to the final 3.
Kim probably has the best chance to win. She has retained roughly the same level of likability as Sabrina while playing the game harder and earning more respect. Chelsea could potentially give her a run for her money. Unofficial Survivor Guide No Spoiler Odds: 3 to 1.
Chelsea's unwillingness or inability to take out the only real thread to her winning this game – Kim – is her biggest weakness. She played respectably, but little things like her choice in recent reward partners won't win her any votes with the likes of Kat (and, by extension, Troyzan and Tarzan). Her mental game is lacking compared to Kim, and that's why she won't vote her out and why that will prevent her from winning. She looks like a lock for the final 3, but more than a couple votes might be a stretch. Unofficial Survivor Guide No Spoiler Odds: 10 to 1.
Sabrina is the key to Kim's success. Taking her to the final 3 demonstrates her loyalty and she's more likely to split jury votes with Chelsea than with Kim. Kim hasn't upset anyone enough to cause Sabrina to get a meaningful number of revenge votes, and she's basically just a stepping stool for Kim. Any hint of a plan or any sign of real gamesmanship might have helped her pitch to win to the jury, but she demonstrated nothing of the sort. Unofficial Survivor Guide No Spoiler Odds: 100 to 1
Alicia is Christina, except only minutely more likable. Whereas Christina barely played the game or made her presence felt Alicia did so in excess to the point where she was annoying. Any self respecting human would hate themselves for throwing a vote her way when there are 3 much more deserving, but she seemed to have some sort of relationship with several people on the jury at some point, no matter how small. She is least likely to make the final 3 out of the remaining 5 barring an unbelievable string of Immunity Challenge victories, but if she did she would have a better shot of winning than Christina – which is still slim to none. Unofficial Survivor Guide No Spoiler Odds: 500 to 1
Christina basically has no shot to win, no matter who she's up against at Final Tribal Council. Her biggest problem this game has been her inability to stick up for herself and go on the offensive. There have been plenty of unlikable people to play this game, even this season, but none have been able to procure the disdain that Christina has. She's a punching bag who doesn't stick up for herself and commands zero respect, and therefore makes a perfect final 3 opponent. She has little to no chance of receiving a single vote. Unofficial Survivor Guide No Spoiler Odds: 100,000 to 1.
Which Survivor: One World castaway do you think will win? Who do you hope will win? Share your thoughts in the comments below.


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New social-media elements, such as rich user profiles, page ratings and people searches, provide much-desired social features beneficial for companies of all sizes. In addition, SamePage version 4.1 is available to customers through the new and evolutionary deployment option, multi-tenancy for on-premise enterprise customers, which is especially useful for large enterprises, umbrella organizations and academic institutions.
Weve responded to customer requests to take strides in increasing the social-media aspects of SamePage with this new release, said Aniruddha Gadre, CEO of eTouch Systems. Allowing wiki users to personalize their wiki experience and profile can help build excitement among employees about using the wiki and help to foster better relationships among colleagues.
The key social-media features of SamePage version 4.1 include:
An integrated social directory with rich user profiles and people search that facilitates people-centric collaboration.
User-created profiles to provide a well-rounded view to other users and become a source for a collaborative social directory.
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So the Mourner says "The player may add any amount to his starting Grief that he sees fit, up to a maximum of exponent 9."
The elf is already at Grief B9 without this. Could I spend 5 points to Gray the Attribute and add enough points to bring it to G9? Is a player allowed to use Mourner to Gray his grief regardless?
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Funeral arranger at Seven Kings firm one step closer to becoming a priest after being ordained as a deacon
PUBLISHED: 12:33 05 August 2014 | UPDATED: 12:33 05 August 2014
A funeral arranger has been ordained as a deacon after deciding to pursue the vocation seven years ago.
Marion Williams, who works at Gilderson and Sons, in High Road, Seven Kings, was ordained by Rt Rev Stephen Cottrell at Chelmsford Cathedral.
She is now able to officiate funerals and baptisms and will continue training to become a priest.
Marion said: "Being a priest was not something I'd ever thought about until I had a calling to go forth with this vocation.
"There are many doors to go through to become a priest and somehow I kept falling through the right doors."
Marion trained part time at St Mellitus College, where she received a foundation degree in contextual theology.
She is continuing to study for her Bachelor of Arts degree.
The deacon will continue her current job and also serve at St Agnes Church, in Romford, on weekends and evenings.
She said: "The Church of England encourage their ministers to continue their work in order for them to be in touch with the real world.
"It will be a challenge juggling the two jobs but I am sure I will love it."
Marion is set to be ordained as a priest next year.


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Red Crucible Review
Game Description: Once again the thunder of combat echoes through European lands. Devastation and destruction reign supreme. The unthinkable has happened, the Cold War has exploded into an all out warfare. You must choose for whom you will fight. There is no surrender. There is no giving ground. You