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Matt Rhymer named new football coach at South Laurel
SOUTH LAUREL — Harlan native Matt Rhymer was introduced as the sixth head coach of the South Laurel football program Tuesday.
Corbin looks to be hitting stride at the right time
CORBIN — Four players scored in double figures during the Corbin Redhounds' impressive 68-51 win over 13th Region foe Middlesboro Tuesday.
North Laurel loses in first round of WYMT Classic
PERRY CENTRAL — North Laurel's inconsistent ways continued during first round action of the WYMT Mountain Classic Tuesday.
Mills scores 24 during Knox Central's 50-49 win
HARLAN — With his Lady Panthers trailing by five points midway through the fourth quarter on Tuesday at Harlan, Knox Central coach Darren Mills wasted no time getting to the point during a timeout.
South Laurel's perimeter defense key in 57-47 win over Williamsburg
SOUTH LAUREL — South Laurel coach Jeff Davis knew Williamsburg's strength is its perimeter shooting, so he stressed defense the entire time to his players leading up to Tuesday's matchup with the Yellow Jackets.
Devon Mills hits buzzer-beater to give Tigers win over Knox Central
For the second time in as many games the Knox Central Panthers dropped a district game, this time at the hands of their cross-town rival the Barbourville Tigers in a 44-42 overtime thriller.
Pick up a copy of today's Times-Tribune in newsstands across the Tri-County. Today's webpage will be updated with complete stories throughout the day.


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A Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals judge has denied the Milford-Miami Advertiser's request to appeal a 2012 ruling that charged the Gannett-owned suburban weekly with defamation and ordered the paper to pay the defamed plaintiff $100,000 in damages.
In an article published in the Advertiser on May 27, 2010 titled "Cop's suspension called best move for city," the paper implicated Miami Township police officer James Young, who years before had been mired in legal trouble for accusations of sexual assault that were eventually disproven, in its article discussing another sex scandal in the area.
According to court documents, in 1997, Young was initially fired from his job after a woman named Marcie Phillips accused Young of forcing her to perform oral sex on him while Young was on duty. An internal investigation revealed that the two had actually been engaged in a relationship prior and that Young had spent time at Phillips' house while on duty. The allegations, however, were entangled in questions about Phillips' character and concern that she could have been lying about the rape because the relationship between the two had recently ended on rocky terms.
When DNA testing on semen found on a rug in the woman's home proved that the DNA didn't match Young's, he was exonerated and reinstated to his position.
The Advertiser article explained that Young had been terminated for sexual harassment, immoral behavior, gross misconduct and neglect in the line of duty and also stated that "Young had sex with a woman while on the job," which formed the basis for Young's defamation suit.
The 2010 article dealt with similar accusations lodged against Milford Police Officer Russell Kenney, who pleaded guilty to charges that he'd been having sex with Milford Mayor Amy Brewer while he was on duty on multiple occasions.
Kenney was suspended from his position for 15 days, but was later reinstated even though Milford's police chief planned to recommend his termination to avoid having to use an arbitrator to dissect the case.
Although the article is attributed to writer Kellie Giest, the lawsuit revealed that the paper's editor at the time, Theresa Herron, inserted the section of the article that went to trial. According to court documents, Herron added the paragraphs about Young to Giest's story because she felt the article needed more context about why the city wanted to avoid arbitration.
According to court documents from the suit Young filed against the Gannett Satellite Information Network, Gannett responded the to initial complaint by acknowledging that the statement was a defamation of character, but that the statement was made without actual malice on the part of Herron. There is a high legal threshold for plaintiffs to establish a defamation claim, which require the plaintiff to prove several elements beyond a reasonable doubt; for public officials, the threshold is even higher because they most prove that the offender acted with actual malice — in this case, knowing the claim about Young was false and printing it anyway — to win a lawsuit.
In its appeal, Gannett argued that Young, as a police officer, did not meet the threshold of a public official required to successfully establish a defamation claim and that Herron's inclusions were based on rational interpretations of documents on the case — even though Young denied having sex with plaintiff Marcie Phillips, he admitted the two had kissed and the arbitrator's report documented one instance in which Young was at Phillips' house while on duty.
In the court's opinion denying Gannett's appeal, Judge John Rogers writes that Herron admitted she had read the arbitrator's report from Young's case, which provided no evidence that Young and Phillips ever actually had sex at all.
"There was sufficient evidence for the jury to conclude that Herron was well aware that the statement she added to the article was probably false," it reads. "Herron was also reckless in failing to conduct any investigation beyond the records of the original case. She did not seek out Young for comment, nor did she talk to anyone involved in his case."
Subpoenas will be issued to more than 2,200 poll workers and others to solicit testimony about advice they gave to voters in Hamilton County precincts being investigated in a contested judicial race.
Local Democratic Party leaders said the issuance of subpoenas is "a ridiculously expensive and time-consuming proposition" that could be done more quickly and cheaply through other methods, but that process is being blocked by their Republican counterparts.
In a letter to the city solicitor, a conservative organization is threatening more legal action to stop the city's plans to lease its parking meters, lots and garages to the Greater Cincinnati Port Authority. The Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST) claims the city manager exceeded his authority when he made two "significant and material" changes to the lease agreement after City Council approved the deal in March. If the city solicitor doesn't take up the legal challenge, COAST could sue the city by itself. Supporters of the parking lease argue it's necessary to fund development projects in the city and modernize the city's parking services, but opponents say it gives up too much control over the city's parking meters, lots and garages and will hurt businesses downtown.
The Business Courier reports that a critical parking memo was supposed to provide a "strike point" for negotiations between the Port Authority and Xerox, which will manage the city's parking meters under a lease agreement. But the city administration didn't begin sharing the June 20 memo with anyone else, including the Port Authority, until July 12, after council members and media outlets began asking the city administration about it. The memo suggested the city is getting a bad deal from the parking lease agreement and overpaying Xerox. Port and city officials argue the memo relied on outdated information and made technical errors.
Mayor Mark Mallory will today join fellow streetcar supporters at Rhinegeist Brewery to discuss the streetcar project's latest news and future. The city on July 15 set an opening date of Sept. 15, 2016 after finalizing a construction contract with Messer Construction, Prus Construction and Delta Railroad, which was made possible after City Council closed a $17.4 million budget gap in June. CityBeat recently debunked some of the misrepresentations surrounding the streetcar project here.
Commentary: "Zimmerman Reactions Overlook Broader Racial Issues in America."
Public access media organization Media Bridges is shutting down following city and state funding cuts. The organization's demise is a great loss to producers like Rufus Johnson, who used its resources for years. The city picked up Media Bridges' funding after the state eliminated a fund that was provided by Time Warner Cable, but even the local funding was fully cut in the budget passed in May. City officials have justified the cuts by pointing to citizen surveys that ranked Media Bridges poorly in terms of budgetary importance, but a CityBeat analysis found the surveys were skewed against the low-income Cincinnatians that benefit the most from public access programs like Media Bridges.
State Rep. Peter Beck, a Republican from Mason, is facing multiple felony charges related to securities fraud. A lawsuit filed in Hamilton County by investors alleges that money invested at the request of Beck and others was used for personal gain — specifically, Beck's campaign — instead of a business investment as originally intended. Beck has been in power since 2009, and his current term is set to expire in 2014.
A former poll worker was sentenced to five years for voter fraud after she voted twice for herself and three times for her sister, who's been in a coma since 2003.
The driver who last August accidentally hit and killed a local cyclist is awaiting his sentence. Local bike advocacy groups are asking courts to give the maximum penalty to the driver, who's facing at most six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
The local housing market is rapidly recovering in a continuing good sign for the economy, with single-family home permits up 48 percent in June compared to the year before, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Cincinnati.
Cincinnati Reds games are No. 3 for local TV ratings in all of Major League Baseball, behind only the Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Cardinals.
Xavier University is laying off 31 employees and cutting 20 currently vacant positions.
A Miami University student is getting an astronaut scholarship, making him one of 28 students nationwide to receive the honor.
Entrepreneur says Cincinnati is an "unexpected hub for tech startups."
A new self-aiming rifle would outshoot human snipers.
Popular Science has a guide for arguing against anti-vaccine crazies here.
A state lawmaker from Cincinnati is asking U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to send federal election monitors here to ensure all provisional ballots cast in the November election are counted.
State Rep. Alicia Reece (D-Bond Hill) sent the letter this week. She stated that concerns about how provisional ballots were treated in the 2010 race for Hamilton County Juvenile Court judge prompted the letter, adding no significant progress has been made in dealing with the issue since that time.
Former Gov. John Gilligan, a Cincinnati Democrat best known for winning the creation of the state income tax, died at 92 yesterday. Gilligan's most lasting accomplishment was also what doomed his career; the state income tax was unpopular when it passed, even though it allowed Gilligan to boost funding for education, mental health and law enforcement programs. Gilligan's political career began in Cincinnati Council. From there, he rose to U.S. representative and then governor.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio yesterday asked Attorney General Mike DeWine to shut down a facial recognition program
used by law enforcement until state officials verify and develop safety
protocols that protect Ohioans' rights to privacy. DeWine formally
unveiled the program in a press conference yesterday. It allows police
officers and civilian employees to use a photo to search databases for
names and contact information. Previously, law enforcement officials
needed a name or address to search such databases. The program has been
live for more than two months and so far used for 2,677 searches, but until now it was kept hidden from the public and hasn't
been checked by outside groups for proper safety protocols.
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters stepped down as Hamilton County Juvenile Court Judge Tracie Hunter's attorney and called her handling of the court a "judicial circus." Hunter has been mired in controversy ever since she took the bench: She was found in contempt by a higher court, and she's been sued multiple times by media, including four times by The Cincinnati Enquirer. Deters, who under state law had to legally represent Hunter, said the legal troubles were too much, but his stepping down also complies with Hunter's wishes to find her own hand-picked attorney.
The University of Cincinnati is one of the top colleges where students can get the most out of their money, according to PolicyMic. UC performs better than average in the graduation rate, debt at time of graduation, percentage of undergraduate students receiving Pell grants and starting salary after graduation, yet the school manages to stay only slightly above the national average for tuition and board and room costs.
Mayor Mark Mallory previously approved eliminating city parking requirements, which should allow residential development projects to greatly reduce or completely toss out parking space mandates downtown. "The goal of the ordinance is to encourage development in the urban core by permitting developers to determine their own parking needs for downtown developments," said Councilwoman Yvette Simpson. "I firmly believe that the market will work to meet parking demands better than government minimum parking requirements."
The tax changes passed in the state budget earlier this year, including an income tax cut and sales tax hike, will go into effect on Sept. 1. The changes have been criticized for favoring the wealthiest Ohioans, as CityBeat covered in further detail here.
Gov. John Kasich approved tax credits that are expected to create more than 591 jobs statewide, with at least 40 of the jobs being created at the Benjamin Steel Company in Cincinnati.
Nearly one in five workers at Ohio casinos has quit or been fired. High turnover isn't unusual in the casino business, but the numbers give a clearer glimpse at the volatility.
Piloting a military drone can apparently take quite the psychological toll.
A federal court in Cincinnati could get another chance to advance LGBT rights if it takes up a lawsuit filed Monday that calls on Ohio to recognize the names of married same-sex parents on their adopted children's birth certificates.
Civil rights attorney Alphonse Gerhardstein filed the lawsuit on behalf of four same-sex couples who married outside the state and an adoption agency that helped one of the couples adopt a child in Ohio.
"Birth certificates are the primary identity document in our society," Gerhardstein's firm explained in a statement. "Birth certificates tell the child, 'these adults are your parents,' and tell the community that these adults and children are a family. Medical care, access to schools, travel and release of information are all easily accomplished with birth certificates and are constantly burdened without accurate birth certificates. Forcing families to accept incorrect birth certificates imposes life-long harms and is a direct attack on family dignity."
Although opponents of LGBT rights contend that allowing same-sex couples to adopt could hurt children, the research suggests otherwise.
A Boston University meta-analysis released in March found "children's well-being is affected much more by their relationships with their parents, their parents' sense of competence and security, and the presence of social and economic support for the family than by the gender or the sexual orientation of their parents." Possibly harmful factors found in the study instead include widespread discrimination and the parents' limited rights, neither of which can be blamed on same-sex couples.
The complaint filed Monday comes on the heels of recent rulings that advanced same-sex rights in Ohio and across the country.
U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Black on Dec. 23 cited constitutional grounds to force state officials to recognize same-sex marriages on death certificates. That case came about after a same-sex couple in Cincinnati filed for recognition. The Republican-controlled state government, defended by Attorney General Mike DeWine, is appealing the ruling.
That ruling followed a June 26 decision from the U.S. Supreme Court that effectively struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act and requires the federal government to recognize some same-sex marriages.
In enforcing the ruling, President Barack Obama's administration on Monday plans to grant sweeping equal protections to married same-sex couples around the country, even those who reside in states where same-sex marriage remains illegal. The Justice Department's decision applies to courthouse proceedings, prison visits and the compensation of public safety officers' surviving spouses, among other areas.
At the state level, FreedomOhio is working to get same-sex marriage on the ballot this year. The campaign is facing some resistance from other LGBT groups, but FreedomOhio says it already has the petition signatures required to put the issue to a vote in November.
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In a letter to the city solicitor, a conservative organization is threatening more legal action to stop the city's plans to lease its parking meters, lots and garages to the Greater Cincinnati Port Authority.
The Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST) claims the city manager made "significant and material" changes to the lease agreement after City Council approved the deal in March. That, the letter states, exceeds the city manager's authority.
The two changes in question: First, the city changed the original June 30 deadline for issuing bonds that will finance the deal to a less specific 90-day period that will kick in once the agreement is in full effect. Second, the city added sections that allow the Port to review and potentially terminate the lease within 75 days.
The changes were made after another legal challenge delayed the lease's implementation.
The letter asks City Solicitor John Curp to review the allegations and sue the city. If he doesn't, COAST would gain the legal standing necessary under Ohio law to sue the city by itself.
"The law requires that before a lawyer can sue the city and ask taxpayers to pay his fees he must send a letter of this type," Curp explained in an email.
"Today's letter is an attempt to comply with part of the legal process that would allow the authors to claim attorneys fees from taxpayers," he wrote. "The Law Department will review the issues raised, attempt to engage the authors constructively and respond appropriately. The policy of the Law Department is to defend aggressively against claims from lawyers that seek taxpayers dollars to fund their litigation against the City of Cincinnati."
COAST is pursuing the legal challenge as a longtime critic of the parking lease. The organization supported the previous lawsuit against the lease, which an appeals court struck down.
The letter comes in the middle of another controversy over a June 20 memo that the city administration kept from the public, Port Authority and City Council for three-plus weeks, until council members and media outlets enquired about it. The memo suggested the city is getting a bad deal from the lease agreement. Port and city officials argue the memo made technical errors and used outdated information.
Under the parking lease, the city will receive a $92 million lump sum and at least $3 million in annual payments, according to city estimates.
Supporters of the parking lease argue it's needed to raise funds for development projects and modernize the city's parking services.
Opponents say the lease gives up too much control over the city's parking meters, lots and garages and will hurt businesses downtown by causing meter rates and operation hours to go up.
But the presidential race raced back to gaffes over trade policy when Mother Jones posted amazingly candid footage of Romney speaking to millionaires at a fundraiser. In the videos, Romney straightforwardly outlines campaign strategy. In one video, Romney said he doesn't care about getting the vote of the 47 percent of Americans that don't pay taxes because he doesn't believe he can convince them to "take personal responsibility and care for their lives." The Obama team retaliated in a statement: "It's shocking that a candidate for president of the United States would go behind closed doors and declare to a group of wealthy donors that half the American people view themselves as 'victims,' entitled to handouts, and are unwilling to take 'personal responsibility' for their lives. It's hard to serve as president for all Americans when you've disdainfully written off half the nation."
Ohioans love their local schools, a new survey shows. The survey also found Ohioans trust their local school boards of education with education-related decisions, but they really don't trust the state superintendent, governor or legislature.Hamilton County courts want to go paperless. The move would save money and space and make the system more efficient.
County budget meetings are still chugging along. Different department directors are still pleading for no cuts, but the commissioners insist cuts have to be made somewhere.
Cincinnati police announced a new Taser policy. The new policy disallows the use of frontal shots except in situations involving self-defense and the defense of others, reinforces the fact officers need to make sure such force is necessary and points out people have been injured due to Taser use. The new policy was brought about due to findings Taser use can kill in rare situations.
Cincinnati launched a national design competition for the decks over Fort Washington Way that will connect the Banks and Central Business District.
A new Hamilton County initiative to improve neighborhoods will tear down 700 dilapidated homes.
The streetcar's yearlong delay got an explanation yesterday. A few issues are to blame, including the city's ongoing conflict with Duke Energy over who has to pay for moving utility lines to accommodate for the streetcar.
The amount of people on Ohio's death row is shrinking. After Donald Palmer's execution, Ohio will drop to its lowest death row population since July 1995.
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted launched a mailing campaign to clean up voter rolls. Using data from U.S. Postal Service National Change of Address Registry, Husted mailed 70,000 former Ohioans encouraging them to cancel their voter registration. The action is a lot tamer than Republican-led efforts to purge voter rolls in other states, which states like Florida, Iowa and Colorado have backed out of — at least for now.
Duke Energy unveiled its new logo.
A new meta-analysis found fish oil may not live up to its health hype.
NASA is now saying faster-than-light travel may be possible and feasible. The technology would allow spaceships to travel to Mars in minutes. Still, the theory does have some problems.
The Ohio Supreme Court today rejected an appeal for a legal challenge that threatened Cincinnati's parking plan and the city's emergency powers.
The lawsuit, which was backed by the conservative Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST), claimed the city could not bypass a referendum on its plans to lease its parking meters, lots and garages to the Greater Cincinnati Port Authority by invoking an emergency clause.
City Council regularly uses emergency clauses on passed legislation to bypass a 30-day waiting period for implementing laws. The clauses also make legislation immune to a referendum.
COAST, which opposes the city's parking lease, argued the City Charter doesn't clearly define emergency clauses to deny a referendum.
Hamilton County Judge Robert Winkler sided with COAST in the first round, but the ruling was appealed and the Hamilton County Court of Appeals ultimately ruled in favor of the city.
With the Supreme Court's refusal to hear an appeal, the appeal court's ruling stands.
City Solicitor John Curp applauded the decision in an email to various media outlets.
"I believe that politics belong in the legislative branch of government and not in our courts. This decision reaffirms that politics should stay on the Council floor and short-term political interests not be dragged through the judiciary where the consequences can have a long-standing impact on the public safety and economic interests of the City," Curp wrote. "Consistency in interpreting long-standing legal rules is important in promoting a vibrant business climate in the City. The Courts have reaffirmed that the City of Cincinnati is free to operate at the speed of business."
COAST is now trying another legal challenge against the city's parking lease. This time, the conservative group is claiming that the city manager made "significant and material" changes to the lease without City Council approval.
Curp declined to take up the second legal challenge after concluding that the changes made to the lease were ministerial and a result of delays caused by COAST's first legal challenge. But by having its proposed challenge denied, COAST gained the legal rights to sue the city over the issue.
Supporters of the parking lease argue the plan is necessary to leverage the city's parking meters, lots and garages to finance development projects that will grow the city's tax base.
Opponents claim the lease gives up too much control over the city's parking assets and will hurt businesses by causing parking rates and enforcement hours to rise.
CityBeat covered the controversy surrounding the parking lease in further detail here.
A new report from the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio (ACLU) found Ohio's poor are regularly victimized by illegal practices in courts that jail the state's poor for failing to pay fines they can't afford. The problem particularly afflicts the state's rural counties, which sometimes openly admit to jailing people even when they can't afford to pay fines. The ACLU says courts need to be more transparent in communicating defendants' rights, provide retroactive credits to those wrongfully incarcerated based on circumstances of poverty and consistently hold hearings to assess defendants' financial viability and willfulness to pay fines.
The streetcar is being threatened by a $22.7 million budget gap, and Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, a Democrat who is running for mayor and has long supported the streetcar, is calling a meeting to get all the details on how the project got here and whether it's still economically viable. Qualls says it's too soon to jump to conclusions about the project's fate, and she says she would like to see the options and details laid out by City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. at the hearing. But Democratic mayoral candidate John Cranley, a longtime opponent of the streetcar, is already using the news to call for the project's demise. The streetcar is one of few issues dividing the Democratic candidates in the mayoral race, which the latest poll has Qualls leading by 14 points.
The Ohio House is expected to vote on a budget today that would defund Planned Parenthood, ban comprehensive sex education and fund crisis pregnancy centers that promote abstinence-only, anti-abortion education. This week, the budget has been regularly mocked by Democrats for potentially opening teachers to lawsuits if they explain condoms, other forms of birth control and other basic sex facts to students in a way that could lead to "gateway sexual activity."
The Ohio House budget bill also fails to expand Medicaid — a failing that Moody's is warning could put hospitals at risk for budgetary shortfalls. The report points out that hospitals were supposed to get more patients through a Medicaid expansion, which would be funded almost entirely by the federal government through Obamacare, to make up for a reduction of federal reimbursements for uncompensated care. The Medicaid expansion would have insured 456,000 Ohioans and saved the state money, according to a report from the Health Policy Institute of Ohio. CityBeat covered the Medicaid expansion in greater detail here.
For student voters, the Ohio House budget bill would also make it more difficult to vote by forcing public universities to withhold essential documents that can be used as voter identification. The rule would make it so universities have to declare students in-state for tuition purposes when issuing them a letter or utility bill to vote, effectively costing universities extra revenue from out-of-state students if they choose to issue the documents. Democratic State Rep. Kathleen Clyde says the move will likely make it so universities never hand over the documents.
This week's CityBeat commentary: "Bad Budget Ideas Confound Public Discourse."
As the city wrestles with laying off cops and firefighters to balance the budget, Cincinnati Police Chief James Craig is considering a potential job offer in Detroit "very carefully." Craig interviewed for the top cop position in Detroit last week. "I'm humbled they would consider me a top candidate," Craig told The Cincinnati Enquirer.
A new poll found Republican Gov. John Kasich in "reasonably good shape" for re-election, beating potential challenger Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald 46-37.
Disbarred attorney Stan Chesley resigned from the University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees after being asked to by fellow board members.
Metro announced new direct, crosstown routes yesterday. The routes will make it easier to travel from the east to west side and vice versa.
The Business Courier has a look at the top 10 worst-paying Cincinnati jobs.
Five to 15 were killed and more than 150 were injured in a Texas fertilizer plant explosion yesterday.
Even though a majority of 54 voted in favor and only 46 voted against it, the background checks bill for gun buyers failed in the U.S. Senate yesterday, failing to overcome what was essentially a filibuster. Ohio's senators were split on the issue, with Sen. Rob Portman voting against the bill and Sen. Sherrod Brown voting in favor. Universal background checks are supported by more than 90 percent of Americans, according to a poll from The New York Times and CBS.
Scientists have found magnetic brain stimulation could remove cravings for cigarettes.

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Every once in a while a guest at our inn shares a recipe with me that is for sure a keeper. When she presented this jewel to me she stated it was a perfect companion for a hot cup of tea...Asheville Bed and Breakfast Inn-Perfect Chocolate Crispie was born. She did not lead me astray! So, the next time this old world is getting you down and you need a cup equilibrium in the form of a great cup of tea. Put one of these gems on the side of your plate and I assure you things will be looking up nearly immediately.
Chocolate-Pecan Crispies: Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
1 1/3 cups all purpose flour
3 T. unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda/1/2 salt
10 T. unsalted butter, melted and then cooled
1/3 cup light brown sugar
1/3 cup of sugar
2 T plus 2 tsp. light corn syrup
2 T. whole milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 T. of strong coffee
1 cup chopped pecans/walnuts
1/2 cup semi sweet morsels (for drizzle on top of cookies)
Whisk flour,cocoa, soda and salt in medium bowl. Stir butter and the next 5 ingredients in bowl until smooth in consistency. Stir in flour mixture and nuts stirring about 50 X . Do not overbeat. Cover and chill until firm enough to scoop....(will take at least 4 hours.)
Can be made a day ahead.
Using 2 T. of dough per cookie roll in your hands into a ball. Using fingers make ball into a disk. Repeat with all dough.
Place on sheet 5" apart. Bake 10 mins. reversing sheets 1/2 way through bake.The cookies become crispy as they cool. Drizzle melted chocolate over cooled cookies and allow to sit about 30 mins. before serving.
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Asheville Bed and Breakfast Inn-Perfect Chocolate Crispie
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For Golden Triangle job seekers, walking into a room with approximately 50 potential employers is valuable. Knowing exactly what those employers need from an employee is priceless.
The Golden Triangle Regional Development Link will add that perspective to The East Mississippi Job Fair by leading three informative sessions, free and open to the public, to address what skills and credentials local employers, both current and prospective, need from the local workforce.
The East Mississippi Job Fair will kick off at East Mississippi Community College's Golden Triangle Campus in Mayhew Wednesday, May 1 at 9:30 a.m. and run through 2:30 p.m. Employers and educational institutions will have representatives on hand to accept resumes and answer questions.
The Link and EMCC representatives will lead sessions in the seminar room in EMCC's Center for Manufacturing Technology Excellence at 9 a.m., 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Linda Gates, EMCC's district director for Work Based Learning and Job Placement, says the Link is dealing with a significant uptick in economic development and will continue to partner with EMCC's instructional and Workforce Services division, as it has for years, to provide the training industries need. But the Job Fair sessions will explain those necessary skills and credentials to unacquainted job seekers.
"We have a new megasite in West Point. Starkville has a lot of leads with its university research and development capabilities. Lowndes has its industrial park up and going. There are jobs posted right now –good paying jobs with benefits—that need a trained workforce. And these sessions will explain how we've aligned our programs to meet those needs," said Gates.
All of the usual services associated with the East Mississippi Job Fair will be available, as well. EMCC counselors will be on hand to speak with interested individuals about educational opportunities in the areas of academics, career-technical programs and Workforce Services, as well as available financial aid.
Gates encourages all visitors to arrive dressed as though they were attending a job interview, to bring updated resumes, to make childcare arrangements as needed and to visit www.eastms.edu and click on the community link to get to the Job Fair link and the Job Fair Survival Guide, listed websites and job openings of registered employers, directions to the Job Fair and more.


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Images of the rumored BlackBerry Javelin, a non-3G version of the BlackBerry Bold, start popping up on the Web.
Scammers are increasingly gaining access to people's personal information through data breaches and malicious software attacks.
Shoppers spent $5 billion while using tablets over the past 12 months, a trend that's going to keep growing, says Javelin Strategy and Research.
The Audiophiliac visits the Masterdisk studio to watch engineer Alex DeTurk at the record cutting lathe.
New doodle features a one-man hurdles race that tests users' ability to make their athlete run fast with one hand while controlling their leap with the other.
Microblogging site could use the geolocation startup to power its local targeted ads effort, TechCrunch reports.
In another keyboard event from the Web giant, a virtual athlete lets would-be Dream Teamers try to shoot as many free throws as possible in 24 seconds.
Web giant's latest interactive doodle highlighting events at the London Games gives users a kayak, paddle, and water course to complete.
The games have kicked off, and Google will post a different doodle every day showing a different sport.
Identity fraud rate rises 22 percent in 2008 from the year before, with stolen and lost wallets and credit cards being the biggest method of theft.


text: Wednesday 5 August - Thursday 6 August 2009In 2009 the Museum Shops Association of Australia's National Conference will take place at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne. Conference topics across the two days include art publishing, membership programs, catering contracts, retail marketing, visual merchandising, partnerships with private companies, craft markets within arts institutions, entrepreneurial leadership studies plus case studies hot off the press from the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.On Thursday 6 August, the one-day Cultural Business Forum will provide optional sessions within the 2009 MSAA national conference. It complements and extends the retail sphere by addressing issues and case studies relevant to a wide variety of commercial enterprises within arts institutions. The MSAA conference will also offer a retail supplier's market, a conference dinner, and a behind-the-scenes tour of ACMI's spectacular screen exhibition due to open in September.To register for the conference or the one-day Cultural Business Forum, please download and print the conference schedule [PDF 215KB], complete the registration form on the last page and return to the designated address with your payment.


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How to Save $30 a Month on Cable
A simple call or E-mail can reduce your bill.
My co-worker Russell Heimlich accomplished something amazing: He shaved $30 a month off of his Comcast cable bill. I asked him to explain how he did it.
He wrote a simple email to Comcast customer service: "My monthly bill has creeped up to over $200 including digital cable, high-speed internet, and Comcast digital voice. I never use the digital voice service so can I cancel that and then lower my bill?" He included his account number and added a postscript asking why he got charged $19.95 every month for "bundled service," instead of receiving a discount.
Within a couple days, a Comcast representative called him and reduced his bill to $170.69 plus a $17 credit. That rate is good for a year. So basically, Heimlich just saved himself $377 for the year just by sending an E-mail.
Do you have a success story of your own? E-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I've been a resident of Harlem for quite a while - and am thrilled to be included in it's newest professional music project - the brass choir of the Harlem Sound Project. May 5 is the brass' debut concert -- with some heavy programming. Henri Tomasi's Fanfare Liturgiques (a tour-de-force!) and a new work by Sung Jin Hong called Harlem Fanfare. They are also doing Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat... a heavy brass show!Check it on Facebook
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This week is packed with some interesting brass music... tonight I got to play an exceptionally eclectic program with the Orchestra of the SEM Ensemble. It was nice to play with them again. I got to do some antiphonal Gabrieli as well as John Cage's Atlas Elipticalis.
Brass players all know to revere every second they get to play Gabrieli's antiphonal brass music (especially in a great space for it!) and Atlas Elipticalis is a work I've known about for some time, but had not, until now, had the chance to perform.
Also, the Paula Cooper Gallery in Chelsea is a great place to perform! It's big but-only-enough echoic space was perfect for both of these works.
Also through the week is some typical holiday brass quintetting. Always a decent time!
And then...tomorrow night I get my ass kicked! I get the pleasure of playing a NY premiere of a work for brass quintet, jazz tenor sax, and drumset, composed by NYC-Toronto sax player Quinsin Nachoff; his 'Pyramid Brass Project.' What a brass quintet to be a part of!! (I'll be shedding this one up until the last second before the gig!) I get to share the stage with brassers Ralph Alessi, Shane Endsley, John Clark, Ryan Keberle, drummer Dan Weiss, and tenorist/composer Qunisin. It's going to be brutal!
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The fall is always a marathon, and I now finally have a couple of days to catch my breath. This fall has been a time of constant motion... Have tuba will travel!
Starting in September, New York's notorious Ja Ja Jas kicked off our Oktoberfest tear with shows in New York at our home base of Zum Schneider. It was madness as always; a line down the street to get in (and we heard that someone actually slept in their car to get a good space in line!)
(Zum Schneider photos by Richard Greene)
Right after rehearsing in NYC, the Ja Ja Jas immediately hit the road for the south, first down to North Carolina, then up through Virginia, back to NYC for a few shows, then back down to Virginia again.
(here I am with Herbie Abernathy of Valient Thorr -- was at our show!)
Big festival crowds and new friends and great food and... beer. Those shows are a lot of work, but are worth it for the vibe and the crowd!
I took a break from the Ja Ja Jas' constant string of Blaßmusik rocking, to head overseas again with the mighty Gato Loco for our third European trip in just over a year. We brought our "Psycho-Mambo" brand of jazz-rock to headline the Salzburg "Jazz and The City" festival in gorgeous Salzburg, Austria. (original home of W.A. Mozart, who I share a birthday with) Gato Loco all converged in Munich, from what seemed to be a million different flights. We finally all made it in and got a great afternoon of rehearsal in a gorgeous art loft transformed out of an old post office in Munich's West End. Here I'll mention that this was the maiden air flight for the famed Accord tuba case. This is the hi-tech carbon flight case which weights only slightly more than a soft gigbag. It worked great - I had to take 2 different airlines to get to Munich and they obviously put the case to the test (scratched the crap out of the outside of it, and beat the bumpers) but the ultralight case held it's own - no tuba damage! It came right out of baggage claim, right up the conveyor with the normal-sized suitcases, and I was able put the horn right on my back and walk right out of the airport and hop on a train. Tuba players will understand what a HUGE deal this is!
After rehearsing we hit the town
We visited this retro place called a CD store and look what we found displayed prominently!
and of course, we hit some bier halls!
The next morning, we got up early and hurriedly headed up the Alps toward Salzburg.
Once in this very pretty town, we got to the hotel and the band quickly befriended the dirndl-laden hotel staff and everyone got a quick nap to chill in our nice digs before soundcheck. The venue was great - a large ballroom type of venue. The band and house staff got quickly to work putting together our sizable setup of two separate drum setups, two separate bass setups, guitar plus seven different horns.
During our soundcheck, a representative came to our venue in Salzburg from the Accord Case company in Croatia to modify my case for me! (Rockstar treatment! yeah!!) He set me up well!Between soundcheck we had the pleasure of heading up the mountain to one of the most notorious restaurants in Salzburg which overlooks the entire town. Amazing! There we dined on Deer and got a chance to catch up with our festival-mates Bobby Previte and Steve Swallow, who had just finished their set. We didn't linger long tho... Gato Loco was on the clock and had a job to do!
We started our usual off-stage entrance and quickly surprised the crowd.
The band threw down for the entire extended-length set. The kind Austrian crowd ate it up, got out of their seats and danced the night away. It was a great show.
After the show, per Gato Loco tradition, we joined some of the locals for some reveling on the town.
The next day we traipsed back to Munich, then headed back to NYC.
Upon my return to the Big Apple, there was no time to rest! First, immediately, the De Bajo portion of Gato Loco played at our favorite home base of Barbes in Brooklyn, and New Beard was in rehearsal. I then headed with the Red Hook Ramblers for a quick jaunt to Boston, then rushing back for a show at Lincoln Center in NYC. Right from LC I ran to a CMJ spot with New Beard at Union Hall in Brooklyn. The next morning it was back to the studio with NB and then break and run to play an orchestral gig at Carnegie Hall, all of this within about 3 days time. Whew!
(the Accord case, backstage at Carnegie Hall)
Fortunately this week I have a few days to recover and then in a week it's back to the studio with New Beard, Halloween with Gato Loco de Bajo, then back to Germany for a few more shows with the full Gato Loco. Lots of things to come... some great media from both New Beard and Gato Loco to be released soon and more shows shows shows with all sorts of bands. Tuba Life is never boring in NYC!
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One of the recently released CD's I am on is is a recording of new works for brass ensemble. The "Tilt" Creative Brass Band is actually a standard-sized full brass ensemble made up of more than just great players, every member is a creative artist all in their own. I was honored to be a part of this group and to play this amalgomation of works by NYC "Downtown" composers. It was an inspirational group of folks to play amongst!
The group is led by trombonist Chris McIntyre and the CD was prodced by the legendary Anthony Coleman. We recorded it at Oktaven Studios in Yonkers, NY.
Here's some tuba-centric excerpts:
Link to the CD Link to the Ensemble
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Welcome to The Not-So Private Parts where technology & privacy collide
The reaction to Greenpeace's hilarious hijacking of Shell Oil's online identity has been mixed this week. Greenpeace and Yes Lab created a parody "Arctic Ready" website that closely mirrored Shell's own site talking about drilling in the Arctic. They then created a "ShellisPrepared" Twitter account, purporting to be Shell's bumbling social media team trying to contain the negative ads being generated by a social media tool on the site. Many of the people who saw the website and Twitter account assumed they were actually created by Shell, and broadcast them on social media as examples of corporate social media gone horribly wrong. Instead they were an example of activist social media sabotage gone viral.
Some people thought it was brilliant. Some people thought it was awful. Some people who fell for the hoax felt snookered. One of my regular readers here called it "juvenile," the work of "thugs and bullies." Martin Robbins in The New Statesman was especially critical:
The real villain here is Greenpeace. This is an NGO that thinks it is acceptable to lie to the public, to lie to bloggers and journalists, and to then intimidate writers with threatening emails warning of legal action. This absolutely is not okay. I don't care if you're saving the Arctic, rescuing kittens from YouTube's vicious pet-celebrity training camps, or training pandas to pull famine-ridden children out of earthquake debris; to behave in this deceitful way demonstrates an astonishing amount of contempt for the public – not least for environmentalist supporters who spread their message in good faith only to find themselves forced into embarrassing retractions.
via New Statesman – Epic Shell PR fail? No, the real villains here are Greenpeace.
I talked to Travis Nichols, 33, of the Greenpeace media team, about the success of the campaign and what the organization thinks of the strong reaction. Greenpeace and the Yes Lab launched the "Arctic Ready" website on June 7th to coincide with the release of a staged video of a fake Shell event in the Seattle Space Needle where a fountain display suffered an 'oil spill' — which also fooled a ton of people. (Basically be skeptical of any news involving Shell at this point.) The site has been getting a steady stream of visitors since its creation, but suddenly spiked last week, and then officially went viral this week — thanks to the push from the fake Shell social media team Twitter account — garnering over two million page views so far this week. This is a condensed version of our conversation:
Kash: Why do you think people fell for the hoax website again this month — despite the fact that Greenpeace took credit for it last month — allowing it to again go viral?
Nichols: I wish I could take credit for it and say it was by design. I think it has to do with Shell's actions in the last few days, notably letting a rig go adrift. I wish I had a great reason. I wish I could say we knew the perfect way to make things go viral a second time.
Kash: I think the @ShellisPrepared Twitter account helped a lot. People thought it was really Shell's social media team.
Nichols: It's not surprising that a company like Shell would be inept at social media. Most people thought it was credible.
Kash: Twitter has not shut the account down yet. When I reached out to them, they just sent a link to their trademark policy.
Nichols: It must have passed the smell test at Twitter for being parody.
Kash: Why do you think so many visitors to the "Arctic Ready" site think it's real despite the fact that there's a photo of a polar bear with another polar bear's severed head in its jaw on the homepage?
Nichols: "Angry Bergs" as a game on the kids site didn't seem super plausible to us. It takes just a little pushing and you realize it's supposed to be funny. Visitors to the site want to believe it's real. There's some element in all of this where they realize it's not real but they want it to be real.
Kash: It's that willful suspension of belief. This is why hoaxes often work. We know it's too good to be true, but we still want it to be true.
Thanks for posting this interview, Ms. Hill- it gives a good amount of insight.
The thing is, I don't hate Greenpeace. I'm in favor of environmental responsibility (though I'm sure my line for it is somewhere inbetween where Shell draws that line, and where Greenpeace does) I think making the fake ads is hillarious, as is a parody website. I think putting the "You can't run your SUV on cute" billboard in Houston is especially hillarious (though I do hate the cheapie billboards where you have the plastic sheet draped over the board, and it gets wrinkled up. I understand old-fashioned billboard painting is probably cost-prohibitive, but can't you at least do the thing where you put up solid panels?).
The big problem I have is when you do something in a way to intentionally deceive people as to the source of the message. If I saw that billboard, my first response would be to laugh, and then I'd think Shell grew a serious pair of balls, and was thinking something along the lines of "Screw this crap about pretending like we care about the environment- we don't care about the environment, and we're not going to be afraid to own up to it."
And only later would I realize that no large corporation has balls like that, and it must be a hoax. Why not just put a little greenpeace logo on the ad so that we know its really a Greenpeace effort? That way I know to think, "ah, touche, Greenpeace" and give them credit for a clever attack?
Consider another example- those billboards you see with messages from God. Obviously, God didn't really put up those billboards; but most of the ones I've seen have been fairly orthodox in their messages. But what if one didn't? What if some atheist group put one up that said:
"No really, I don't want priests to get married, but I'm fine with them going after the altar boys. After all, I did say, 'let the little children come unto me.' " ?
Now, that would be blasphemous and supremely offensive, right? But the big difference is that God has his own judicial remedies. He can deal with the slander on his own. As we've pointed out, Shell really can't. All they can do is sit their and take it and pretend to smile and act like they don't care.
Great follow-up story, Kash!
This will be a great case study for my next crisis management class at the University of Utah law school. There are countless unanswered questions and interesting issues to wrestle with. Just a few include the following:
1. Is this protected parody or unlawful trademark infringment?
2. Are there any ethical constraints or concerns when creating a fake social networking site?
3. Should congress or state legislatures intervene like some states have and make it a crime to impersonate another person or entity on a website for an improper purpose or should the marketplace of ideas provide any needed check and balance?
4. Should web site owners require a disclaimer or clear designation that the site/account is a parody and not an official site/account of the subject, so even the most gullible know the site is fake?
5. Was the parody aspect of the fake Shell site obvious (or should have been to anyone, but the most gullible) or was the parody so skillfully disguised by Greenpeace that it constitutes affirmative deceit and calculated misrepresentation?
6. Is this a clever and funny stunt or a malicious and intentional effort to harm? Has Greenpeace's standing and reputation been enhanced or tarnished by the incident?
7. Has Shell's strategy of apparently ignoring the controversy been the best approach?
Fake social networking accounts are nothing new. University presidents, high school teachers and coaches, celebrities and ex-spouses are common subjects of fake Facebook and Twitter accounts. The fake twitter account @BPGlobalPR had more followers during the height of the BP oil spill crisis than the official BP account. Even presidential campaigns are creating fake Twitter accounts in the names of their opponents. Last month Fox News compiled a list of "20 Must-Follow Fake Twitter Accounts." A Google search of the phrase "fake twitter accounts" yields 27,4000,000 results. Imposter social media sites are a new weapon in the activists arsenal.
What makes this incident so unique is the combination of the fake web site and the subsequent fake Shell Twitter account supposedly in response to the fake web site. Communications directors at major corporations will, of necessity, have to develop appropriate strategies in how best to respond when a similar situation occurs, and it eventually will.
The response, both legally and otherwise has been mixed. Twitter has a policy against impersonation, but baseball coach Tony Larusso had to sue Twitter before Twitter would take down a fake account where "Tony" was tweeting rascist and derogatory tweets. The Bp site was labeled a paraody site after Bp complained to Twitter, but there has been no uniform treatment. Some companies respond with their own response sites and some chose to put their heads in the sand and hope the fake site will go away (it usually doesn't).
We live in a new world where the web has empowered individuals, critics and supporters alike, and I can't wait to read the next chapter in this saga.
Tactics like this by ecomentalist groups such as Greenpeace actually drive my business to the targeted businesses. I'm not anti-environment by any means; but hypocrisy of any type results in your message falling on deaf ears. What if the roles had been reversed?
Speaking of which, I did buy gas at a Shell station this morning…quite incidentally. Gasbuddy.com told me it was the cheapest station nearby, and that was really the only determining factor.
I can run my Civic on a lot less than Houstonians run their SUVs, but I still can't run it on cute.


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The Evolution of the Book and Its Many Forms
The desire to leave one's thoughts behind in solid form has existed since the earliest times. Early forms of writing have been discovered on silk, wood and bamboo.
The Chinese invented paper in the first century, but it took several centuries for the rest of the world to discover it. Books could be long scrolls of up to 40 metres and many cultures employed scribes to copy important texts for preservation. The Jewish Torah is the only remaining example of a scrolled book that is regularly in use today.
The book has been in use since sometime between the second and fourth centuries. The form changed from being a scroll to being a codex or collection of individual sheets pasted together. The codex could be rested on a table and contained tables of contents and indices. The books were still mainly intended for scholars. The form did not change for centuries.
The Bible
Once only accessible to scholars because it was translated from the Hebrew to Latin, the break from Rome by Henry VIII enabled ordinary people to read and understand the Bible as it was translated into English. The introduction of the printing press during Medieval times enabled new ideas and new thinking to be freely distributed. All families had a Bible because by law they had to attend church.
Hardback Books
These luxury items are expensive to produce but beautiful to read. Produced using glossy expensive paper and including beautiful photographs, hardback books are bought as gifts for adults or people with an interest in the subject.
Paperback books
Quickly and easily produced, paperback books are produced on cheap paper but they can be read by anyone from children to adults. Some novels can cross over the age gap and be read by all.
Comic books/Graphic Novels
Once considered childish, graphic novels and comics are now a form of art in their own right. They are usually beautifully produced and drawn and are read by a variety of people in all walks of life.
Non-Fiction Books
Non-fiction books are available on almost any subject. They offer a great depth of knowledge on a single subject and can be read by anyone wishing to know more on a subject.
Autobiographies are always popular particularly politicians, celebrities and sports personalities. Adults with an interest in life histories will enjoy these books.
Once essential for every home, now encyclopaedias are considered old-fashioned. There is still a place for specialised encyclopaedias that contain detailed information on their topics, some of which are linked to websites to ensure the information stays up-to-date. Children can still find these books useful for homework.
Audio Books
There is a steady market in audio books especially when it is a well-loved author read by a household name actor. Audio books not only offer entertainment for blind and partially sighted people, but they can provide great entertainment during a long journey for families.
The next big revolution of the book is here. For centuries books have consisted of pages bound together between a cover, but now they are being converted to digital information. The success of e-readers is that they can store hundreds of books on a single device and sometimes be bought more cheaply. The popularity of e-readers ensures that anyone can use a digital book, they can now be borrowed from libraries and many different subjects and novels have been released as digital books.
The next evolution of the book also shakes up the publishers. The emergence of self-publishing companies has enabled authors to take control. The companies print a book as it is ordered, or 'on demand'. Not all books that are published this way are best sellers, but sometimes such books can catch the imagination of the public and they are catapulted to the top of the best seller lists.
Anyone can choose to buy a book as 'print on demand': more likely to try the medium will be those who have previously read an author's work.
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No shortage of cramming in the remaining summer fun this weekend - whether it's Flicks on the bricks showing (a local news favorite) Anchorman
Or the vert-street spectaculars of the Dew Tour at the Rose Quarter.
Still another week until summer's unofficial goodbye last blast at the adult soapbox derby, we hope to have pix this year.
Woodstock memories: Joan Baez plays the Oregon Zoo Friday night - this on the 40th anniversary of the hippy mudfest known as Woodstock. I always liked her version 'the night the drove old Dixie down.'
So anyhooo - you MWesterners may yearn for a better dog among the relaxing pops and waves of summer's ball game, Wayne's is here to save the day.
The 'Chi-town throwdown' on Sunday will have Cubs fun, discount Chicago red hots and Old Style in a can.
It's at 3901 NE MLK starting at 11:20 a.m.


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Friday Pearls
Statins and Diabetes
Friday, January 13, 2012
The Archives of Internal Medicine published a new study on thousands of women that suggests statin use can double the risk of developing diabetes in post-menopausal women.
Proteins, Inflammation & Exercise
Friday, December 09, 2011
Proteomic science is changing the way many gerontologists think about inflammation, the aging process and degenerative diseases. The term proteomics was coined as an analogy to genomics, the study of genes.
Fish Oil Sales Flat
Friday, December 02, 2011
This is good news since there are only so many fish in the sea! The choices we make today will determine the fate of tomorrow's ocean wildlife." Seafood WATCH - The Monterey Bay Aquarium
11 Years Out and Still Thankful
Friday, November 25, 2011
On the Friday after Thanksgiving it seems appropriate to discuss how thankful I continue to be for the amazing science that allowed me to safely replace my contacts and reading glasses with multifocal intraocular lenses.
Supplement Sales Holding
Friday, November 18, 2011
November 2011 supplement industry reports suggest that nutritional supplement users are sticking to their commitment to avoid illness and slow disease progression if possible. Biosyntrx product users fall into this category. If they do get sick many turn to appropriate supplements, including natural immune system modulators as a lower cost alternative to Rx drugs.Key Demogra...
Stress & Eye Health
Friday, November 11, 2011
A number of our customers have asked us why we include an immune system modulator in our eye-health-management product line. Our answer: an improperly nourished immune system eventually affects ocular health and vision.
Biosyntrx Testimonials
Friday, November 04, 2011
We are frequently asked why we have no product testimonials on our web site. They were removed from our site a few years ago to protect our company from possible FDA or FTC shutdown.Enter Ron PaulRon Paul, a strong health freedom advocate, has introduced an important bill called the Testimonial Free Speech Act, HR 2908. The bill protects your First Amendment rig...
Why you should keep taking your vitamins.
Friday, October 28, 2011
The press has covered a number of responses about the vitamin mortality study published in a recent Archives of Internal Medicine. My favorite response article was written by Mark Hyman, MD, a well-published author and a pioneer in the use of functional medicine.Dr. Hyman's three simple questions were: 1, Do vitamins kill people? 2. How many people have di...
GM Food Science?
Friday, October 14, 2011
An article published in The Scientist journal suggests that one billion people in the world are starving to death. That's one in every six people on this planet. With the global population continuing to explode and resources being stripped at an increasing rate, the outlook is not good.
Vitamin E Tocotrienols: 'Insanely Great'
Friday, October 07, 2011
Vitamin E saturated analogue tocopherols have been extensively investigated (particularly alpha tocopherol), but little has been known about the unsaturated vitamin E analogues called tocotrienols.


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In the women's race, 59-year-old Carol Hassell of West Palm Beach won the overall title in 54:36, Amy Bobotis-Carr of Hollywood was second in 55:32, and Palm City's Randi Roker finished third in 56:47. Stuart's Karen Gilmore, 48, won the masters title in 1:03:25.
The Three Amigos relay team, consisting of Heidi Erwig, Courtney Ryberg and Peter Erwig, won the Team title in 55:12, the only team to break the one-hour mark. A record total of 83 individuals and 11 teams completed the race, which was held for the benefit of the Sunshine Kids' Foundation.
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In the heart of the historic village of Marseillan in Hérault, between the sea and the lagoon of Thau you will find this lovely accommodation ´s located within 500 metres of the harbour and 5 km from the beach. This offer is for a private room in a charming restored former wine making residence. We look forward to welcoming you to our home with its shady and calm terrace.
Close by are the Étang de Thau (Lagoon of Thau) and amazing Mediterranean beaches which together offer you an excellent variety of water-sports and activities.
Bicycles are a great way to discover the charms of Marseillan Ville. You can also ask us to arrange a sailing trip on the lagoon (around €10 to €20).
The harbour and the Canal du Midi are a few minutes walk away and there you will find a great choice of both traditional and modern bars, cafes and restaurants. Not forgetting, of course, the wine-cellars - including that of the famous aperitif 'Noilly Prat' which is open to visitors.
For yet even more relaxation, we have a visiting masseur with whom you can book a massage. (Prices are between 35 and 50€ depending on the duration.)
Your visit can be tailored to your tastes and requirements so you can be sure of a very pleasurable stay. If you have any questions, please dont be shy and contact me! I am very happy to be helpful, and do everything I can to make sure have a amazing stay.
The very cozy room is located on the 1st floor of our home.
We have rooms "Mauve" "Taupe" "Perle"and "Blue" The room has a private bathroom and toilet inside or outside of the room.
Leave the A9 for Sète, and head towards Mèze, Bouzigues, Marseillan. When you arrive at Marseillan, go through the village and cross three roundabouts (direction Agde) then a set of traffic lights. Just after the lights is a sharp bend to the left and at the next right after the bend you have arrived at Rue du Capitaine Bages (Le Glacier restaurant is on the corner). We will be waiting at cosy Number 16 to welcome you.
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Excellent hospitality and accommodation.
Lovely hosts.
Such a great place to stay! Vincent and Christel were great; delicious breakfast and Christel was a special help printing up our boarding passes for our upcoming flight. Hope to be back soon :-)
Christel and Vincent were great at communicating, were warm guests and it felt like old friends just hanging out for the summer and spending time together! And the amazing thing is that we had met once in NY last Christmas! Such a small world.
Love the mix of the antiques and modern furniture as well as the "antique patine" look, the modern shower with . Great deco!
And delicious French breakfast with croissant, homemade jam, baguette... Yumm!
Will definitely stay there and will call them no matter if only passing through.
Merci Christel et Vincent: tres sympa de rester chez vous et de se sentir comme des vieux amis qui se retrouvaient. On a adore les fruits de mer et le concert! J'adore votre maison (deco et les murs). Merci pour les conseils aussi pour l'Abbaye de Valmagne...
A bientot!
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Much ink has been spilled on how unlikely an All American Russ is.
I just noticed something that totally blew my mind- the list of other Cardinal All Americans since Darrell Griffith in 1979:
1979-Darrell Griffith
1980- Darrell Griffith
1984-Lancaster Gordon
1989- Pervis Ellison
1994- Clifford Rozier
1997- Dejuan Wheat
2003- Reece Gaines
2005- Francisco Garcia
2009- Terrence Williams
2013- Russ Smith
I don't even know what to say about that. Does this mean Russ Smith is one of the best
seven nine Cardinals since our first championship in 1980? Would our opinions be different it he had 3 more stars by his name and 3 more inches on his frame?
If Russ decides to go to the NBA, I wish him the best of luck- and I truly believe he'll make a roster in the end. But, if he comes back, he could potentially go down as one of the greatest Louisville basketball players ever. That is absolutely insane.


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The Sculpture faculty members enjoy teaching and have studios in the facility. Students have excellent access to the faculty for technical assistance and individual critiques of their work. The faculty actively bring in visiting artists and organize special events within the Sculpture Area and the School. They are committed to maintaining a high energy program that acknowledges the traditions of sculpture while incorporating the developments of the contemporary art world.
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Malcolm McClay
Associate Professor
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MA New Mexico State University
MFA Ohio State University
Born in Derry, Northern Ireland and raised in Donegal, Ireland, Malcolm studied at the University of Ulster in Belfast where he received his BA honors degree in Three-Dimensional Design. Growing up close to the border with Northern Ireland and attending university in Belfast at the height of "The Troubles," Malcolm became interested in political forces and how they affect people's lives. This theme recurs throughout his work. He came to the US in 1986 where he received his MA in Sculpture from New Mexico State University, returning to Ireland after he graduated.
He came back to the US after a year and a half in Australia and Asia to attend the graduate program at The Ohio State University where he earned his MFA in Sculpture and Performance. There he co-founded Crisus, a performance company. For the next ten years, Crisus wrote, produced and toured large-scale multimedia performances coast to coast throughout the US and abroad.
In 1999, Malcolm moved away from performance to concentrate on site-specific installation and kinetic sculpture. In his most recent work, the viewer becomes the performer as he or she moves through the space triggering kinetic elements of the installation. Malcolm moved from San Francisco to Louisiana in 2002 and began teaching at LSU in the fall of 2003.
Loren Schwerd
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MFA Syracuse University
Loren Schwerd received her BFA in Studio Art from Tulane University and her MFA in Sculpture in from Syracuse University. She spent several years as a Visiting Assistant professor at the College of Charleston, SC before returning to Louisiana in 2005 to join the LSU School of Art faculty. Recent exhibitions include: Prospect 1.5 New Orleans Biennial, the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, VA, The Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, NC, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, MI, Dana Women Artist Series, Douglas Library Series, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Loren has participated in numerous artist residencies, such as the Djerassi Resident Artist Program and The Art Omi International Artist Residency.


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On Molecular Gastronomy and Trying New Things (Win a Dinner for Two at Portland's Racion!)
Portland Dining Month began to really blossom my first year in Stumptown. I remember scrolling through that original list of restaurants on my computer screen, only recognizing one or two from long line of participants. Everything was a new experience back then, yet I still frequent many of the restaurants I tried that year. Portland Dining Month was one of my first windows into the city's expansive dining scene, actually offering a roadmap of where to eat, with their offer of three-course meals for $29. It was a great way to get to know a restaurant's personality without breaking the bank.
When the list was released for this year's dining month, I was excited to hit a few of my favorites— namely Accanto, Riffle NW, and Firehouse — but was also intrigued to try new places – and restaurants that I can't usually afford. And in the light of trying new things, comes the subject of Ración, a relatively new, Spanish tapas spot utilizing molecular gastronomy techniques. The restaurant has a focused area of chef's counter seating, so you are up close and personal with both chef Anthony Cafiero and his brilliant sous chef, Roscoe Roberson. Every small plate – the "ración", or portion – is meticulously prepared using sous vide techniques (think of it as an intensely scientific version of poaching) and a flat top. The plates are at once shockingly beautiful and strange; eggs are no longer in just one form, foams are aplenty, and sauces are vibrant and artistic.
This style of cooking, made famous by chefs like Ferran Adrià, José Andrés, and Heston Blumenthal, always seems to drum up wildly strong opinions on both sides: some are fascinated by it, loving the meticulous, scientific quality of the dishes, while others prefer their food "without gimmicks". What's your take on the whole molecular gastronomy scene? Are you dying to try it – or done with the hype?
Here's your chance to voice your opinion – and win yourself dinner for two at Portland's Ración (a $60 value), thanks to the folks at Portland Dining Month. Why not start your summer with a little culinary exploration?
Leave a comment below – or send us a tweet – on why you think molecular gastronomy should stay or go! A winner will be picked this Friday, June 28!
**UPDATE (6/28): And the winner is…. Nico Galoppo! Thanks to all who commented/tweeted!**
~Kat Vetrano
*Photo credit: Racion
Category: food, wine, spirits
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I think variety is the spice of life especially in the culinary field and MG is just a part of the wonderful spectrum of choices.
I'm all for it if it offers up new flavors and textures to enhance my meal.
I think MG should definitely be supported as any other medium or form of art. The ability to look at the same things in a completely different way and transform it using unconventional methods and tools, as well as introducing science (which is commonly linked to technology or medicine) into food shows how big a part science influences our culture and society. The best part is you get to eat it!
I think anything that allows people to be more creative with food is great! I love the science, art and experience of molecular gastronomy, and I'd urge more people to give it a chance.
Molecular gastronomy should not be a goal in itself – but if it can be used to showcase the ingredients of the meal and let you discover known products in a different way, then it is totally acceptable and recommended. This is in fact the approach the people at Racion are trying to take, I think.
Molecules are for fools.
Gastronomy for ghouls.
Just cook me good food,
none of that swampy gruel.
The tricks are just tools
for breaking the rules.
I wonder if Escoffier would
have dreamt foam would be cool?
I love when two of my favorite things are combined, in this case art and food. I think the creativity and textural experience that MG brings to the diner is reason enough for it to stay.


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Former Governor Spitzer: Too Many 2012 Republican Contenders at Fox
On Tuesday's Parker-Spitzer on CNN, ex-Governor Eliot Spitzer ironically worried that too many of his fellow former politicians, who are also contenders for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, are on Fox News: "Never before in our history...has one media outlet with one coherent ideology had almost a monopoly on...half of the presidential nominees and controlled one political party this way."
The disgraced former politician of Client Number Nine infamy raised the apparent problem during the first part of an interview of former MSNBC personality and Mediaite founder Dan Abrams. After noting that "Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum and John Bolton...[are] all running for president and, perhaps more important, they all work for Fox News," Spitzer highlighted a quote from Dick Morris, who stated the 2012 race for the Republican presidential nomination "will come to resemble American Idol, where we watch the candidates perform and vote on who we like best."
Conservative writer Will Cain, filling in for pseudo-conservative host Kathleen Parker, first asked Abrams, "So what? What's the big deal that the Republican primaries are going to take place on Fox News?" Abrams pointed out that "these people are commentators. These are not hosts of shows. If these people were hosting prime-time shows, then I might say- you know what? This is going to be a real vehicle for them to get their positions out there- to advocate. But as commentators, they are answering questions."
Spitzer wasn't having any of this: "Wait- Dan, I don't think the commentator/host distinction is that meaningful." He continued with his "monopoly" concern about Fox News, but Abrams interjected, "But how many of these people are serious candidates, right?...Do you think John Bolton is really going to be a serious candidate?"
Later in the segment, the Mediaite founder hinted at the irony of a former politician expressing so much concern about other politicians contributing to a rival news network: "Sarah Palin is an occasional commentator on Fox News. I mean, so what? Look, I'm just saying to you, I wouldn't be surprised if Eliot Spitzer, at some point, ran for office again."
The former governor acknowledged moments later that he might be hyping up the situation with the five Republicans: "Maybe you're right. Maybe this is a tempest in a teapot, but it is a fascinating fact that they've all converged at Fox."
One can't help but notice that during a past appearance during the same time slot on July 23, 2010, Abrams criticized former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez for making a big deal about Fox News's coverage of the Shirley Sherrod controversy and accused him of "doing an opinion-based program," which the liberal anchor denied (Sanchez once claimed he "plays it down the middle").
The transcript of the relevant portion of the segment from Tuesday's Parker Spitzer, which began 24 minutes into the 8 pm Eastern hour:
SPITZER: What do the following five people have in common? Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum and John Bolton- they're all running for president and, perhaps more important, they all work for Fox News. In a blog post yesterday, Republican political analyst Dick Morris even said the 2012 Republican presidential nominating process- and I quote, 'will come to resemble American Idol, where we watch the candidates perform and vote on who we like best,' end quote. Only this version of American Idol will be held on Fox News, not as entertainment. Perhaps, it is entertainment. Who knows?
Joining us for the 'Culture of Politics,' Dan Abrams. Dan is a media analyst- founder of Mediaite.com. Dan, welcome.
ABRAMS: Good to be with you.
SPITZER: Thank you.
CAIN: Dan, I got the first question for you- it's complicated. So what? What's the big deal that the Republican primaries are going to take place on Fox News?
ABRAMS: Look, I don't know that they're going to take place at Fox News because remember, these people are commentators. These are not hosts of shows. If these people were hosting prime-time shows, then I might say- you know what? This is going to be a real vehicle for them to get their positions out there- to advocate. But as commentators, they are answering questions, and sure, that means they get publicity, but they're also not the only ones in the country- these five- who have considered political- or have political aspirations and are commentators on TV.
SPITZER: Wait- Dan, I don't think the commentator/host distinction is that meaningful.
ABRAMS: Why?
SPITZER: I think what- well, because I think everybody is going to be articulating views, and that's fine. I have no problem with-
ABRAMS: You have much more autonomy as the host of this show-
SPITZER: Sure.
ABRAMS: Than you ever did as a guest- fair?
SPITZER: Not necessarily.
CAIN: Like me (Abrams laughs).
SPITZER: But here's what I think does matter- never before, that I can think of- I'm not sure I disagree with your underlying conclusion- but never before in our history, that I can think of, has one media outlet with one coherent ideology had almost a monopoly on- or at least, access to half of the presidential nominees and controlled one political party this way.
ABRAMS: But how many of these people are serious candidates, right? I mean-
SPITZER: Sarah Palin? Mike Huckabee?
ABRAMS: Sarah Palin- yes. Sarah Palin might be a candidate-
SPITZER: John Bolton-
ABRAMS: Do you think John Bolton is really going to be a serious candidate?
SPITZER: I think he will emerge as one. Certainly, Sarah Palin is.
ABRAMS: Sarah Palin- that's right- Sarah Palin-
SPITZER: And then, so I think you're looking-
ABRAMS: But Sarah Palin is an occasional commentator on Fox News-
SPITZER: Well-
ABRAMS: I mean, so what? Look, I'm just saying to you, I wouldn't be surprised if Eliot Spitzer, at some point, ran for office again.
CAIN: Really? Really?
SPITZER: I don't know who you're talking to (laughs), but let's switch back to Fox News for a minute, which is clearly not going to be my home. But-
CAIN: Let me- I want to support his argument. Not only- this is a good thing. You can argue this is a good thing. The majority of the Republican electorate is watching Fox News, and to have presidential hopefuls on night after night espousing their views essentially leads to a more informed electorate.
ABRAMS: Well, but look, what we're seeing now is media figures become leading political figures- right? I think we can all agree that there's not a senator or governor in the country who could probably get 200,000-plus people to a rally in Washington- right? But Glenn Beck or Jon Stewart can get that. That shows us- and look, it's part of the reason that Mediaite has been successful, is that because people are really interested in what media figures have to say about politics, and here we're seeing this kind of blend of political figure-slash-media figure.
CAIN: This is the potential bad thing, Dan. There are many presidential hopefuls on the Republican side-
ABRAMS: Right.
CAIN: Who aren't on the Fox roster. Some of my favorites- Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie. Aren't they at an automatic disadvantage?
ABRAMS: Maybe a little bit, but it sounds like we're having a discussion over the fact that there are some famous people-
SPITZER: Right.
ABRAMS: Who are going to be running for office.
SPITZER: But which (unintelligible)-
ABRAMS: And we're sort of like acting as if we're like- horror- can you imagine these people are kind of famous? They're on TV, and they're running for political office!
SPITZER: All right. Let's move. Maybe you're right. (Cain laughs) Maybe this is a tempest in a teapot, but it is a fascinating fact that they've all converged at Fox.
ABRAMS: Absolutely.
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Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 5:17pm.
All running for president? All those people he named? When they themselves have not announced any such intention?
Boy, is this guy on top of things or what? Uh....maybe that was a bad choice of words?
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Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 6:00pm.
And the GOP will have only one nominee for President. That person will not be officially designated until the Republican National Convention, though the primaries will probably identify future nominee prior to that convention.
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Yeah, and your show sux.
Submitted by johnsonl on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 5:42pm.
Yeah, and your show sux.
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Too many sex offenders at CNN
Submitted by Guttermouth's Return on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 5:48pm.
Too many sex offenders at CNN too.
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Did you say sex offenders at CNN
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 5:57pm.
And let's not forget Richard (Dickie) Quest, busted in Central Park with Chrystal Meth and a chain attached to his genitals.
Yes, he still works for CNN, but in their overseas affiliate. I wonder why they never hired Larry Sinclair.
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Come on, since when is it a
Submitted by Guttermouth's Return on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 6:02pm.
Come on, since when is it a sex offense to attach a chain to one's genitals?
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Serious SARCASM alert:
Submitted by Slyrr on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 6:00pm.
Oh, yeah Spitzy.
Cuz, ya know, it would be, like a TOTAL conflict of interest, if, say someone from the libeal news media jumped ship and joined the Obama administration!
Of course, you Dems would NEVER do anything like that! Why, it would be 'bad optics' now, wouldn't it?
PS - dozens of Liberal 'journalists' have quit their jobs, only to be mysteriously given jobs in the Obama administration. And vice-versa. You, yourself, Mr. Spitzy-boy, joined a liberal news network (CNN)! So the cozy little incestous relationship between Liberal Democrats and Liberal news organizations seems to swing both ways!
Guess you're only upset over this kind of thing when someone is doing it who's not YOU, huh?
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Demonizing Fox News is just
Submitted by Ashrak on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 6:00pm.
Demonizing Fox News is just working out so well at the election booth they figure two more years of the same trash will.....wait....2010 happened.....
Spitz must have thought it was just a bad dream.
Let me clue you in Spitz, people have grown weary of the obvious double standards. That is why your ratings SUCK.
Example: Karl Rove was excoriated over being on stange and rhyming. Rememver that? But I just saw Wolf Blitzer doing much the same thing and he was being hailed and it was al in good fun. Folks haven't gone to FOX because it is some sort of perfection - it is just that Broadcasts and CNN and MSNBC suck so bad in that they are all so forward and obvious in their double standards.
When CNN has someone actually arguing for indivdidual Liberty and personal responsibility, let me know. I will watch CNN again. Until then, about 5 minutes of Anderson Cooper is all I can stand.
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Client #9, like all liberal
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 6:07pm.
Client #9, like all liberal media types, are just jealous of Fox.
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More viewers?
Submitted by exLib on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 6:23pm.
There are more Republican on Fox than people that watch your show Spitzer, that's why you are mad.
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Give it a Rest with Fox Bashing
Submitted by gruyere cheese on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 6:28pm.
To the Fox haters; maybe there is a reason why their ratings are better than the so called rival networks.
It is exhausting to hear the same crap day, after day, after day.....from the pinheads at MessNBC. I thought they were LEANING FORWARD, not living in their repetitive surreal world.
The Liberal talking heads are frustrated because they are second guessing who will be the GOP nominee for 2012; thus they cannot start digging in their garbage cans to get some juice news -breaking story on the candidate and give them material for their hourly psycho talk shows.
One would think that after Spitzer's public scandal he would stay away from being on the spotlight, or doing a brainless TV job....kind of like doing penance after insulting your family by chasing a lady of the evening...
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I don't know of anyone who
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 6:40pm.
I don't know of anyone who has announced they are running yet; be it Dem, Ind or GOP. I guess the problem is that MSNBC doesn't want to hire real conservatives and the other nets don't either and that leaves FNC. Another thing is that FNC hires people that we want to hear from.
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had almost a monopoly on...half
Submitted by Vonu on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 7:48pm.
What is this, wormspeak?
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half monopoly
Submitted by Agnostic on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 9:56pm.
is where the government creates an atmosphere that destroys competition and a company has a monopoly but then has to give half there money back to the government in order to maintain the monopoly.
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Submitted by GregE on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 9:53pm.
Fox this, Fox that........People end up coming over to Fox to see what all the fuss is about, and they find out they like it.
oops, that strategy ain't workin'.
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Just how bad is it when Dan
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 11:51pm.
Just how bad is it when Dan Abrams is the voice of reason on a show? Sheesh...
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Client Number 9 talking about
Submitted by Cowboy on Thu, 12/02/2010 - 1:18am.
Client Number 9 talking about 'performance' ?? Now that's entertainment...
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spitser is another libtard idiot
Submitted by igor1136 on Thu, 12/02/2010 - 1:47am.
the whiny left just cant stand foxs fair and balanced format. they dont want anyone to think for themselves. they all been teaching each other so now we see its just like inbreeding you get idiots like spitser and the rest of the left wing nutjobs.
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Geez, if Fox still thinks
Submitted by wiwf on Thu, 12/02/2010 - 11:01am.Geez, if Fox still thinks Sarah and Bolton are serious contenders then the RNC is going to be screwed come 2012.
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LOL, last I heard FNC doesnt
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Thu, 12/02/2010 - 11:49am.
LOL, last I heard FNC doesnt pick the GOP canditate.
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