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Limited-Time Balance Transfer OfferSome of the important small print:
You'll get a 0% fixed intro APR on balance transfers for 12 months! After that, your rate is variable, ranging between 7.99% APR and 18% APR.
And you save even more because we don't charge a balance transfer fee.
Offer valid for balances transferred from other card-issuer accounts. Maximum total transfer amount is limited to your approved credit line and cannot exceed $30,000. Balance transfers using convenience checks will be subject to the cash advance rate.Credit for the find goes to this SD thread.


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Life After OPT!
The Office of Intercultural Affairs is hosting a "Life After OPT" session on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 3:00pm in Jefferson 218.
Immigration Attorney, Liz Goss, will come to discuss H-1B and other post-OPT immigration issues. This is a great opportunity for you to get your questions answered and to learn more about your options!

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National Grid is asking customers to be alert for a utility scam.
The scam states that utility bills will be paid by the federal government or President Obama after sending a social security number and bank routing information.
The scam has had an impact on utility customers in Florida, New Jersey, North Carolina and other parts of the country along with New England, and should not be confused with legitimate low-income utility assistance programs.
According to accounts from utility companies nationwide, the scammers may contact you through phone calls, online methods and even at your door.
If someone shows up at your door, ask to see the National Grid ID badges of anyone who acts suspiciously while claiming to represent the utility company.
National Grid customers in New England can call 1-800-322-3223 if they believe they are victims of the scam.


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The city Planning Commission's refusal to let a merchant sell liquor at his store, rebuilt after the 1992 riots, appears to mark the end of a permit process that drew criticism from residents and store owners alike.
At the center of what some say is the last case of its kind is Yoon Kap Lee, owner of the Ball Park Liquor Store at 4228 S. Avalon Blvd. Lee said he has simply tried to reconstruct the store he lost.


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It has been a rough year for Demi Moore. Between the very public cheating scandal that led to a divorce from Ashton Kutcher, checking into and out of rehab for health issues, and now reportedly being abandoned by her own daughters, Demi could use a little good news.
Well, this week may actually provide Demi Moore with the good news she is looking for. Moore is reportedly back to work on a brand new movie, working alongside the likes of Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen, and Richard Dreyfuss. That's right; Demi has started work on a new flick called 'Very Good Girls.'
So, while some go in search of therapy to help cheer themselves up, perhaps surrounding herself with other actors in a professional environment is exactly what the doctor ordered for Demi Moore. This could actually be a great situation for her, as she is playing the mother of Elizabeth Olsen's character, and is in a way playing a supporting role. All eyes won't be on Demi or her performance, letting her ease back into the safe environment of work.


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Gutai: Splendid Playground20/12/2012
From February 15 to May 8, 2013, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present Gutai: Splendid Playground, a retrospective of the Gutai Art Association (1954–72), the radically inventive and influential Japanese artistic collective whose innovative and playful approaches to installation and performance yielded one of the most important international avant-garde movements to emerge after World War II.
Based on fifteen years of research, Gutai: Splendid Playground provides a critical examination of both iconic and lesser-known examples of the collective's dynamic output over its two decade history and explores the full spectrum of Gutai's creative production: painting, performance, installation art, sound art, experimental film, kinetic art, light art, and environment art. Gutai: Splendid Playground is the first North American museum exhibition devoted to the Gutai group and offers a comprehensive interpretation of the convention-defying movement. Don't miss!
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Taxi Limousine Advisory Committee
Terms of Reference:
To provide advice and recommendations to Council to ensure high quality taxi and limousine services and to create and maintain a sustainable industry as specified in Bylaw 6M2007. The objective is to ensure public safety, service quality and consumer protection for customers and service providers. The TLAC will follow the direction of Council by responding to Council requests and making recommendations to City Council.
The Chair of TLAC shall be appointed by Council from the five representatives of the General Public
1 Representative of the Limousine Livery Independent Motor Operators Society (LIMOS)
1 Representative of the Calgary Hotel Association
1 Representative (non-voting) from the Calgary Police Service
1 Representative (non-voting) from Transportation Planning
1 Representative (non-voting) from Livery Transportation Services
1 Representative of Calgary Livery Association (CLA) (nominated to Council by the CLA)
2 Representatives of drivers (Taxi Drivers Assoc. Alberta, Calgary Cab Drivers Society, Calgary Cab Drivers Assoc., Calgary Limousine Industry, United Taxi Drivers of Calgary & Regions, Calgary Livery Association)
1 Representative of Calgary Airport Authority
1 Representative of Tourism Calgary
5 Representatives of the general public, selected by Council from respondents to a public notice
1 Representative of the Advisory Committee on Accessibility
Voting Members appointed by resolution of Council shall:
- Represent 1 of the categories identified by Council
- Be at least 18 yrs of age
- Be a resident of The City of Calgary
- Not be a member of the Licence Appeal Board or the City of Calgary Administration
- Abide by pecuniary interest requirements
Non-Voting Members:
- Represent 1 of the categories identified by Council,
- Be at least 18 yrs of age
- Not vote on motions before TLAC,
- Not be a member of the Licence Appeal Board,
- Abide by pecuniary interest requirements
Any of the following skills & experience would be an asset for advisory committee members:
- 3 to 5 yrs experience as a board member
- Conflict resolution training or experience
- Policy & public administration knowledge
- Budget planning & financial management experience
- Research & analysis experience
- Good verbal & written communication skills
Each member is appointed for a 2 year term, effective the date of the annual Organizational Meeting of Council, with a maximum of 2 consecutive terms. To ensure business continuity, appointments will be staggered by appointing up to eight members annually. A member may resign at any time upon written notice to City Council, and Council may, by resolution, remove any member.
Term Expiry Month:
Day ..
3rd Friday
Time ..
1:00 p.m.
Location ..
Refer to Current Month Agenda.
Eligibility Information:
Member Recruitment Profile
Resource Staff:
Andreychuk, Ms.Marcia (403-648-6314)
Administrative Contact:
Reports To:
SPC on Community and Protective Services
Quorum is defined as five (5) members who appropriately represent the Committee make up, as follows:
- two (2) members representing the public;
- two (2) members representing Special Interest Groups: the Advisory Committee on Accessibility, Calgary Airport Authority or the Calgary Tourism and Convention Bureau OR the Calgary Hotel Association; and
- one (1) member representing the taxi and limousine industry.
Vice Chair
First Appt
Expiry Year
Phone Number
Mailing Address
Mr. Alfred Bellingham
Non-Binding Nomination from Calgary Livery Assoc.
Ms. Linda Ciurysek
Representative of the general public
Mr. Ron Esch
Representative of the general public
Mr. Stewart W. Lang
Representative of the general public
Mr. F. Gordon Lowe
Representative of the general public
Ms. Judy McBride
Non-Binding Nomination from LIMOS
Mr. Jaspal Sekhon
Non-Binding Nomination from Calgary Cab Drivers Society
Mr. Gurdev Singh Sekhon
Non-Binding Nomination from Calgary Cab Drivers Society
Mr. Jack Smart
Non-Binding Nomination from Advisory Committee on Accessibility
Shawnah Whittaker
Non-Binding Nomination from Calgary Airport Authority
Mr. Tongjie Zhang
Representative of the general public
Naveed Butt
Representative, Transportation Planning (non-voting)
Staff Sergeant Michael Watterston
Representative, Calgary Police Service (non-voting)
Non-Binding Nomination from Tourism Calgary
Non-Binding Nomination from Hotel Association
Representative, Livery Transportation Services (non-voting)
1972 May 29, Clause 17
Authority and Control Over Taxis': Directs that the Province be requested to provide the necessary legislation empowering The City to control the taxi business.
1973 August 22, The Municipal Government Act
Section 224 was amended by Bill 30 Clause 22 to allow for the establishment of a Taxi Commission.
1973 October 29, Commissioners Report dated October 25, 1973 and Bylaw 8857
The Taxi Commission Bylaw was amended and read 3 times.
1973 December 03, Bylaw 8897
To Amend Bylaw 8857: Respecting the composition of the Taxi Commission.
1974 March 25, Bylaw 8891
To amend the Taxi Commission Bylaw 8857: Amends the composition to allow the appointment of an alternate for the Calgary Police Service appointee.
1975 March 24, Bylaw 8/75.
Rescinds and replaces Bylaw 8857.
1977 April 11, Bylaw 91/77.
Mostly housekeeping changes to Bylaw 8/75 to remove obsolete/redundant clauses and to ensure conformity with other relevant Acts and Bylaws. The amendment does give the Commission the authority to suspend a license. Later amended by Bylaws: 41M79, 1M80, 21M80, 61M81, 1M83, 10M83, 32M83, 33M86, 58M87, 64M87, 22M89, 13M91, 8M92, 28M92, 68M92, 23M93, 52M93, 3M94, 30M95, 73M95, 41M96, 16M98, 52M99, 1M2000, 37M2001, 27M2002, 38M2003
1979 December 04, memo from Secretary of the CTC to Commissioners and Administration
Board of Commissioners recommends that the Taxi Commission now report to the Transportation Department.
1980 December 15, 16 and 17, Clause L80-43.
Adopted a recommendation to file. Proposed review of the Taxi Commission Bylaw and wages/fares.
1983 July 25 and 26, L83-25.
Composition change to the Taxi Commission
1986 May 05, NM86-31.
Deletes Aldermanic representation and substitutes a citizen-at-large.
1986 July 28, Bylaw 33M86
To amend bylaw 91/77 to alter the membership of the Taxi Commission as per the Motion above.
1987 November 02, meeting of the SPC on Legislation, L87-52
Decided to courier a copy of the Report (Taxi Task Force Report Re: Phase 1 - Control of Taxi Licenses) to all members of the Commission prior to the next Regular meeting of Council.
1987 November 02, Bylaw 58M87 with reports L87-51& L87-52.
Bylaw 58M87 to amend Bylaw 91/77: Composition of the Commission; and changes to reflect the Phase I recommendations below. Phase I of Taxi Task Force recommendations approving a major reoganization of the Taxi Commission. Also includes a re-definition of limousine class taxis, and enforcement/procedures for regulation at the Calgary International Airport.
1987 November 24, 30, N87-63.
Appointments to the Taxi Commission for one, two and three year terms.
1989 May 04, Bylaw 22M89 with report C89-47.
To formalize the proper appeal procedure for taxi license appeals of decisions made by the Commission. Bylaw 22M89 amends the License Appeal Board Bylaw and the Taxi Business Bylaw to be more in line with the MGA, Section 234(7) and sets out guidelines for how an appellant takes their appeal request to Council.
1990 July 23, Final Report of the Commitee on Committees.
Boards which draw on mill rate-supported funds,and do not have Aldermanic representation must report to the appropriate SPC twice a year, including an annual budget presentation. Therefore, the Taxi Commission will be required to report to the SPC on Transportation, Transit & Parking.
1991 February 25, Bylaw 13M91 with report AC91-08.
Taxi-commission to be a self-funding body. Membership changed to include 4 appointees from City Administration and/or Council. Bylaw 13M91 to amend the Taxi Bylaw to reflect these changes.
1992 December 08, Bylaw 68M92 with report N92-38.
Amendment to Taxi Bylaw to change member composition. Make the Calgary Police Service Representative a Resource person only (non-voting) and increase the resident electors-at-large by one member.
1994 March 07, TTP94-08.
To license, regulate and control the limousine industry as part of the livery industry. Bylaw 3M94 was given 2 readings only.
1994 March 21, Bylaw 3M94.
Bylaw 3M94: given third reading. Implements the new regulations on the limousine industry.
1994 October 12, AC94-50. Audit Committee meeting.
Recommendations were filed. Requested Board of Commissions to prepare a report outlining their recommendations for a Taxi Commission reorganization and an implementation plan.
1995 March 21, N95-07.
Membership - Calgary Taxi Commission.
1995 April 03, Bylaw 30M95.
To amend the Membership on the Taxi Commission of the City of Calgary
1995 December 04, Bylaw 73M95 with report TTP95-66.
Structural Changes to the Taxi Commission (consideration to be given to appointing a representative from either the hotel industry, the tourist industry, and/or the Airport Authority) and, to amend the Taxi Business Bylaw and to repeal the Taxi Commission Appeal Board Bylaw
1997 January 06, TTP96-71.
Recommends the current composition of the Commission is working well and that it remain as is: The membership includes 3 City Representatives (the Manager of Traffic Operations; the Chief License Inspector; a Senior Police Officer).
2000 January 24, C2000-05.
Implementation of Level I Corporate Restructuring. Recommends that the position of Manager of Traffic Operations be replaced with a Traffic Engineer.
2002 June 17 and 18, AC2002-23.
Approval of recommendations to continue the Task Force; and for The City to have a more direct Administrative role in the Commission; and to fill the remaining vacancies on the Taxi Commission, and to bring forward an implementation plan for all the changes.
2002 July 22, Bylaw 27M2002 with report AC2002-28.
Bylaw 27M2002: to Amend Bylaw 91/77 the Taxi Business Bylaw (membership amendments). New appointees approved, implementation plan for the Audit recommendations was approved.
2002 December 02, Executive Report C2002-91, Taxi Commission Decision Process
Taxi Commission decision process.
2004 September 8, Special Meeting- AGS2003-43
Recommended Action; Taxi Commission Calgary, Assign liaison responsibility to Administration
2005 January 17, Bylaw 16M2005 and report C2005-06. Ad Hoc Taxi Commission Interview Committee Report to Council.
Appointment of 7 Taxi Commission Members until: -Council appoints new members to replace after consideration of this report, or -Council's 2006 Organizational Meeting, whichever occurs first.
2005 February 14, Bylaw 22M2005.
- Repeals Bylaw 16M2005. - To further amend Bylaw 91/77 The Taxi Business Bylaw. - Amends the composition of Commission members. - With this Bylaw, Council reconsidered the appointments made January 17.
2006 October 23, Organizational Meeting
Members appointed
2007 January 22 Bylaw 6M2007
2007 January 22 the Taxi Commission officially became the Livery Transport Board under Bylaw 6M2007. On July 23, Council adopted a new Terms of Reference for TLAC deleting the "Board" section from Bylaw 6M2007.
2007 February 21, Bylaw 6M2007
Changed the name of the Taxi Commission to Livery Transport Board. Bylaw 6M2007 addresses vehicles, licenses, inspections, rates and fees, and enforcement.
2007 July 23
Name changed to the Taxi Limousine Advisory Committee.
2007 September 10, Council Meeting Report N2007-19, C2007-68, LPT2007-53,LPT2007-54
Livery Transport Services moves to DBA 2008 January 01; Amendments to Bylaw 6M2007 (42M2007) to delete Livery Transport Board from Bylaw; Amendments to License Appeal Bylaw 43M87 (44M2007) to move certain appeals to LAB concerning taxi issues.
2007 December 10 FCS2007-40
TLAC Budget Request and honorarium approval for member
2008 June 23, N2008-05
Member resignation and appointment.
2008 October 20, Organizational Meeting and report C2008-70
Amended the membership to add one member at large. Members appointed.
2009 February 09, Report N2009-05 Calgary Airport Representative
Member appointed for completion 2009.
2009 October 19, Organizational Meeting
Members appointed
2009 November 30/December 01, Combined Council
LPT2009-81 Membership composition increased from 8 to 9 by adding one disabled representative from the Advisory Committee on Accessibility.
2009 November 16, N2009-20
Member appointed to complete a 2 year term to expire 2010.
2010 February 22, N2010-07
Member appointed for a 2 year term. Reference report LPT2009-81.
2010 March 22, N2010-09
Member appointed to complete a two year term to expire 2010.
2011 November 07, Combined Public Hearing Council Meeting. Report LPT2011-90.
Revised Terms of Reference.
2011 December 19, Regular Meeting of Council
N2011-24 & C2011-97 Members appointed
2012 May 07, Combined Public Hearing Council Meeting, TT2012-15.
New TLAC Policy and Procedure Manual adopted. Revisions to Terms of Reference adopted.
2012 December 03, PFC2012-0800
Council appointed a Chairman for TLAC, as well as two outstanding member appointments.
2014 February 10, PFC2014-0093
Appointment of the Representative of the Calgary Tourism and Convention Bureau for the completion of a 2 year term to expire 2015 Organizational Meeting


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By Jim Fryar
Globe Sports Writer
The Stampede returns to Joplin today.
Nearly 2,000 runners are expected to compete in the First to the Finish Missouri Southern Stampede, a cross country race with both high school and college divisions.
Organizers hope only the active participants return. The weather from last year? Unwanted.
A violent storm, with persistent lightning and heavy rain, forced cancellation of the Stampede a year ago. Today's forecast, with a 100 percent chance of rain now reduced to 40 percent, has been closely by approximately 100 high schools, junior colleges and universities with runners in today's meet.
The first race, the small college-juco women's competition, begins at 8 a.m. in the field north of Fred G. Hughes Stadium. A university-open women's race follows, then two men's races.
The first of four high school races, the girls varsity competition, begins at 10:30, followed by the boys and two junior varsity races.
Somewhere in the midst of this organizational nightmare, the Missouri Southern coaches will find time to guide their own promising teams.
"I'm excited to see what they can do at the 5,000-meter distance," said Patty Vavra, the Southern women's coach. "We have two more weeks of training since the Arkansas (dual) meet, which was extremely early this year. "
Senior All-American Marlee Tegen-kamp, juniors Rachel Schrader and Kaitlyn Belisle and freshman Emily Harris are established as the top four runners. Developing a top seven remains a goal, with four of the team's 11 members not expected to compete today.
Belisle led the Lions in their opening meet, with Tegenkamp still slowed from a heel injury. Schrader missed the meet due to academic commitments.
Southern men's coach Tom Rutledge was not pleased with the opening performance of his Lions.
"We're still young, but we are a year older than we were last year," he said. "We have good competition, so we will be able to gauge ourselves.
"We've made some improvements and I think they (runners) understand we need to continue to improve if they're going to make a run for it (MIAA and district honors).
"We've had some good practices. It's their course and they know it. We're going to be a lot more aggressive this time than we were at Arkansas."
Sophomores Eric Schott and Adrian Todd were the top Southern runners against the Razorbacks.
Weather? Organizers hope for the best.
"Last year was torture," Rutledge said. "The meet has grown so large, when you cancel something like that, it really hurts. We depend on that meet to help finance our program."
There was a recent time when meet officials hoped for rain. The course, which runs north and east of Hughes Stadium, was dry, the grass brittle and burned off from a long hot summer.
"The course is probably the worst it's ever been," Rutledge said. "The (recent) rains have helped, but we have some dry spots where the grass has died. We're spoiled (with a dedicated course, normally green for the mid-September race). But this summer was bad, and was very hard on the course."
The Lions are preparing for two more big home meets later this season. They will host both the North Central Regional and later, the NCAA Division II national championships.


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December 12, 2009
After reading over the nominees for Spike TV's Video Game Awards 2009 (Spike, 8 PM), I realized that I know hardly anything about gaming, except for Mario and Princess Peach. Oh, and that game with guns and hookers. Kids like that stuff, right?
The buffest werewolf this side of anywhere, Taylor Lautner, is hosting Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:30 PM) this weekend. Bon Jovi will perform as well.
December 13, 2009
I've never wanted Dexter to kill anyone more than I want him to kill Trinity. The season finale of Dexter (Showtime, 9 PM) promises huge twists and a major showdown between Trinity and Dexter. Deb also learns more about Dexter's identity.
I'm not sure if I'll watch The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty (A&E, 10 PM). It just seems so intrusive. And wrong. Okay, I'm sold.
Keeping Up with The Kardashians (E!, 10 PM) only managed to stay away from TV for a few short weeks since the wedding special. What great things will the Kardashian sisters contribute to culture this season?
The People Speak (History, 8 PM) is a documentary stemming from Howard Zinn's book A People's History of the United States. Matt Damon produced, and countless other actors and artists will appear in the documentary.
December 14, 2009
Christmas is coming up, just in case you haven't seen the gazillion Christmas-themed ads on TV. In the special Jennifer Hudson: I'll Be Home for Christmas (ABC, 8 PM), the singer performs around Chicago. Michael Buble will be there, too.
The twist in the new singing competition show, Sing-Off (NBC, 8 PM), is that everything is completely a capella. This show is completely necessary.
The second season finale of Lie to Me (FOX, 9 PM) airs tonight.
December 15, 2009
I couldn't believe how calm Gordon Ramsay appeared in the preview for the Fox special Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live (FOX, 9 PM). I'm still afraid that he'll yell at me through the TV for not properly oiling a pan.
Paranormal State (A&E, 10 PM) premieres for a fourth season.
I doubt that too many of the commercials featured on TBS Special: Funniest Commericals of the Year (TBS, 10 PM) will be that funny. Yet somehow people still laugh at the Geico caveman commercials.
December 16, 2009
The sixth season finale of So You Think You Can Dance (FOX, 8 PM) is tonight. Both members of the married couple are still in the running. Adorable!
In case you missed it, Mike Voltaggio is Top Chef, and he came in second to none other than his brother Bryan. The Top Chef: Watch What Happens Reunion (Bravo, 9 PM) is hosted by my imaginary BFF, Andy Cohen.
I still watch Nip/Tuck (FX, 10 PM). Does that make me lame? If it does, so be it. Find out where Christian and Sean leave off in the sixth season finale.
Tune in to The Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Reunion Show (MTV, 10PM). Now that $300,000 has been distributed amongst several challenge cast members, that income will only last until the next challenge. And all the same people will be there again.
December 17, 2009
The documentary BBC America: The Truth About Online Anorexia (BBCA, 8 PM) explores pro-ana websites. Kind of cringeworthy, but also intriguing.
I had thought Gilly was a funny character at first, but I'm starting to see through her cold exterior. Kristen Wiig stars in a two-hour Saturday Night Live: A Very Gilly Christmas (NBC, 8 PM) special. Sorry.
If you're not easily offended and you like political cartoons, SuperNews (Current TV, 11 PM) airs every Thursday night and just might be for you.
December 18, 2009
Crash (Starz, 10 PM) wraps up a second season tonight.
December 19, 2009
The first of three final specials follows the Doctor to Mars, where he has to save the human race from a spreading infection, in Doctor Who: Waters of Mars (BBCA, 9 PM).
Modern-day renaissance man James Franco is hosting Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:30 PM) this week. Muse is the musical guest, but I only know who they are because they had a song on the American Eagle Outfitters soundtrack when I worked there.
December 20, 2009
The preview for the season finale of Survivor (CBS, 8 PM) calls eternally-shirtless Russell the "most evil player ever." I would agree, due to him thinking that he's a king simply because someone dropped some grapes in his mouth.
I'm not sure why, but George Lopez is hosting the special Christmas in Washington (TNT, 8 PM), which features Rob Thomas, Neil Diamond, Mary J. Blige, and Usher.
Kendra: Here Comes Baby (E!, 9 PM) documents the birth of Kendra and Hank's son. Will Hef show up to the delivery room in person?
December 21, 2009
Gone so soon! The Sing-Off (NBC, 8 PM) season finale features a Boyz II Men reunion. Quick, someone find Nick Lachey some work!
The 5th season finale of The Closer (TNT, 9 PM) airs tonight.
December 22, 2009
My personal favorite Christmas-themed movie, Christmas Vacation (AMC, 8 PM) may be a good choice for your more cynical family members.
Tonight's episode of Scrubs (ABC, 8:30PM) features what the preview calls "an interracial Hardy Boys parody." Um, should I be offended?
An alternative to the drama of MTV's Teen Mom is I'm Pregnant...And 55 Years Old (Health, 9:30 PM). I can safely say that this mother's biggest problem is probably not finishing high school.
I generally like to stay away from the shows that my sister enjoys, but this season of The Bad Girls Club (Oxygen, 10 PM) is enjoyable due to the presence of a certain bad girl. Look for Natalie to declare that she "runs LA" about every 4.3 seconds, whatever that means.
December 23, 2009
CBS Special: A Home for the Holidays (CBS, 8 PM) features performances by Faith Hill, Reba McEntire, and the apparently very Christmas-friendly Mary J. Blige. She must have an album coming out.
Of course there's more to see on Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Sh*t They Should Have Shown (MTV, 10 PM). There's always another former Real Worlder looking to extend their 15minutes.
December 24, 2009
It's A Wonderful Life (NBC, 8 PM) may be the greatest Christmas story ever told. When I was a kid I always thought it would be cool to have a wicker wheelchair just like Lionel Barrymore's when I get old. They probably don't make them like they used to.
The series finale of Raising the Bar (TNT, 10 PM) airs tonight, following two previously unaired episodes. A sad day, indeed, for Zach Morris.
December 25, 2009
Even though you'll probably wish you shot both of your eyes out with BB gun after 24 hours of A Christmas Story (TNT, 8 PM 12/24 to 8PM 12/25), it's hard to avoid this holiday classic.
$300,000 is a sum of money that very few earn in a lifetime, at least not all in one lump. So what better than to offer it as a prize to a bunch of reality non-stars who were once on MTV? That's right, The Real World/Road Rules Challenge is back, this time with "The Duel 2" as its dramatic after-colon descriptor. Also, it's going to be in New Zealand, which means that they'll finally have something other than Lord of the Rings and Flight of the Conchords to brag about, I guess. I'd try to list some of the more prominent cast members, but to be honest they've all been on so many different versions of these shows that I can't keep anything straight anymore. It looks like there are six people from RW Hollywood and Sydney, so that's something. And apparently some of these competitors haven't been on TV since The Gauntlet 2 in 2006 -- tell me, does anyone really still care?
I know that I shouldn't be so excited for a new season of The Challenge (now missing the Real World/Road Rules in the title), especially since I stopped watching Real World years ago, but I can't help myself. It's like somehow this is what all-star editions of Survivor should be like, but aren't. I wrote a whole rant about the fact that other challenge-based reality shows should take a lesson from this stupid little MTV show. Anyway, there's something about this nutty series that fills a void in my life and maybe that's why I can't stop watching. Also, I like watching grown men just pound the hell out of each other for thirty five dollars and a cheap iPod knock-off.


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Two Takes: The U.S. Needs to End Its Energy Dependence
This dependence is economically unsustainable and dangerous for our children.
Joseph Romm is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he runs the blog ClimateProgress.org.
America must become energy independent in the next four decades. And with the right political leadership, we will.
Americans will spend more on oil this year than on the Pentagon, homeland security, and Iraq, sending more than half a trillion dollars abroad, much of it to undemocratic countries. This figure could rise 50 percent if, as cbic World Markets predicts, gas prices climb to nearly $7 a gallon by 2010.
This dependence is economically unsustainable and ruinous for our children. Emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide have us on track to raise global temperatures 10 degrees above preindustrial levels by century's end. Such warming would melt the world's ice, raising sea levels and destroying inland glaciers that provide water to a billion people. It could turn one third of the planet into desert and make the U.S. Southwest a dust bowl. It would wipe out most species and leave oceans hot, acidified, and largely lifeless.
Avoiding this grim fate means rich countries must cut carbon dioxide emissions 80 percent by 2050 to keep the increase in global temperatures under 4 degrees. The deepest reductions will come from curtailing the use of oil and coal, which burn inefficiently and produce a lot of carbon.
Domestic drilling isn't part of a serious national energy plan because it won't reduce our oil dependence or help achieve climate targets. The Energy Information Administration says that offshore drilling would have little impact on production or prices even in 2030 and that drilling in Alaska would cut gas prices only 2 cents by 2025.
In the mid-1990s, I helped run a federal program that worked with businesses to create low-carbon alternatives to coal and oil like renewable power and hybrid cars. Low oil prices and inadequate technology slowed change. Now soaring oil prices are driving a shift to fuel-efficient cars. But federal law requires new cars in 2020 to get only 35 miles per gallon—less than cars in Europe or China today. We should aim for all new cars to get more than 100 miles per gallon by 2040, which requires low-carbon alternatives.
One option, hydrogen fuel cell cars, requires technology breakthroughs. As for biofuels, using crops to make energy is unwise and will not greatly reduce greenhouse gases. As energy and food prices rise, global population grows, and climate change reduces arable land and water supplies, biofuels will be scaled back.
Next-generation, low-carbon cellulosic biofuels are being developed, and early bio-refineries are being built. But they will probably not get enough market share to lower oil prices.
Cheap spark. Energy independence requires protecting Americans from rising oil prices. Only electricity is a much cheaper fuel than gasoline. It has a per-mile cost about one fifth that of gasoline, even when made from low-carbon sources. Israel and Denmark are already shifting to all-electric cars.
The U.S. transition will begin with plug-in hybrids that can go 20 to 40 miles on electricity. Since most people drive under 30 miles a day, such hybrids can save a lot of gas. No breakthroughs are required, and ongoing private spending will lower battery costs through technological improvements and economies of scale. Toyota, gm, and Volkswagen plan to introduce plug-ins in the United States in 2010.
At first, the cars will cost several thousand dollars more to make. But with a consumer tax credit program, plug-ins will become affordable, especially since energy and car companies will likely lease the batteries to drivers. Such cars will pay for themselves in fuel savings. Cellulosic biofuels can then be used for longer-distance travel.
All we would then need for climate-friendly energy independence is an electric grid by 2050 that produces few carbon emissions. No breakthroughs are required. We need regulatory reform to foster efficiency, a carbon price to reflect global warming's harm, and investment in a smart grid. Efficiency and alternative fuel sources can then meet demand.


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Cash-strapped consumers that turn to payday loans to solve their short-term financial needs frequently have little realistic chance of paying them off on time, according to a new study.
A report issued Wednesday by the nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts found that just 14 percent of borrowers nationwide can afford to pay off the average payday loan when it comes due. Consequently, most borrowers end up renewing their loans or, alternatively, paying them off and then quickly taking out a new one.
Payday loans are unaffordable, Nick Bourke, director of Pews Safe Small-Dollar Loans Research Project, told reporters on a conference call Wednesday. Renewing a payday loan is affordable and paying it back is not.
Payday loans are in effect cash advances for workers in between paychecks. North Carolina outlawed payday loans more than a decade ago, but the industry hopes to make a comeback.
A bill to revive payday lending in the state, recently introduced in the Senate, has attracted a powerful co-sponsor, Senate Rules Committee chairman Tom Apodaca, and is being pushed by heavyweight lobbyists representing the industry.
The primary sponsor of the bill, Sen. Jerry Tillman, a Republican from Archdale, argues that the bill has safeguards that would eliminate abusive loans. But advocacy groups and Attorney General Roy Cooper say it would enable lenders to lure cash-poor working people into a cycle of debt in which many borrowers pay more in interest than they ever borrowed.
The new Pew report surveyed 703 borrowers of payday loans nationwide, supplemented by eight focus group sessions conducted with borrowers in four cities. Its a follow-up to a report the group issued last year that found, among other things, that 69 percent of first-time borrowers use payday loans for everyday bills rather than unexpected expenses.
Bourke said that the average loan is for $375 and carries an average fee of $55. So paying back the average loan in full would require $430 when the borrower receives their next paycheck, typically two weeks later.
But the average borrower can afford to pay just $50 in two weeks, which is barely enough to pay the fee, the survey found. And only 14 percent can afford to pay more than $400.
Nonetheless, consumers are driven to payday loans by unrealistic expectations and by desperation, the report states.
A payday industry trade group, the Community Financial Services Association of America, issued a statement that dismissed the report.
Pews research in this area continues to lack vital context about the broader marketplace and the lack of available credit options, the importance of consumer choice, and why 19 million Americans use payday loans each year, the association said.
Short-term credit products are an important financial tool for individuals who need funds to pay for an unexpected expense or manage a shortfall between paychecks, the association continued.
Borrowers who choose to use payday loans may do so to avoid bouncing checks, paying overdraft protection fees, incurring late payment penalties, or turning to other credit options that can actually be more expensive than CFSA-member loans. The typical fee charged by CFSA members is $15 per $100 borrowed.
They make such broad conclusions based on a relatively small sample size, said Jamie Fulmer, a spokesman for Advance America, one of the nations largest payday lenders. Overwhelmingly, the customers who use our product, they use the product responsibly and to their satisfaction.
Other findings in the Pew report:
• Borrowers favor more regulation of payday loans by a nearly 3-1 margin.
• Four in five borrowers take out three or more payday loans per year. The average payday borrower owes money on a payday loan for five months during the year.
The industry is counting on that, Bourke said.
Without frequent and repeat usage, payday lenders cannot be profitable, he said.
• Many borrowers who choose a payday loan over alternatives such as selling or pawning their possessions or borrowing money from family members or friends end up ultimately taking such steps anyway in order to pay off the loans. Forty-one percent of payday loan borrowers have tapped such alternative sources of cash, including tax refunds, to pay off their loan at least once.
• Although the industry promotes payday loans as a way of avoiding an overdraft on their checking accounts, 27 percent of borrowers reported that their checking account was overdrawn because a payday lender made a withdrawal from their account.
• Borrowers are conflicted about payday loans. A majority say the loans take advantage of them, yet a majority also say they would use payday loans again.
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Dear Graduates, Families, and Friends of the Class of 2011: Welcome, to the members of the graduating class of 2011. Today you join more than 19,000 Pitt-Johnstown alumni who are making a difference in our communities and around the world.
It was just four short years ago that you and I began our careers at Pitt-Johnstown. One of my first official duties as President of our fine institution was to welcome you to campus. On that day in August 2007, I made a promise to you:
By the time you graduate, you will have participated in a distinctive learning experience that blends traditional arts and sciences education with rigorous professional programs and options; you will have enhanced your classroom experience with enriching co-curricular out-of-class activities. If you avail yourself of the rich in-class and out-of-class learning opportunities at Pitt-Johnstown and if you apply yourself diligently and purposefully, you will graduate with the knowledge, skills, dispositions, and attributes of an educated person in an emerging global society; you will be Ready for the Real World!
Congratulations! You have done it! You have availed yourself of our high-quality educational programs, and, with the help of talented faculty, you have expanded your ability to think critically, reason soundly, engage in inquiry, communicate effectively, solve complex problems, and link theory-to-practice with an eye toward real-world implications. In addition to a high-quality education in the classroom, you also took advantage of a wealth of experiences outside of the classroom. You took an active role in shaping your career and professional development, were engaged on campus, participated in our communities, and developed an ethos of service. In the process, you gave your time and talents to those in need, refined your leadership skills, and focused your mind and passion on the issues that challenge our communities in a rapidly changing world. You have learned to appreciate the importance of a healthy balance between the mind, body, and spirit. You are a Pitt-Johnstown graduate, ready for the real world.
One way to think of Pitt-Johnstown is as one large social network. Remember this network also contains dozens of faculty and staff who were instrumental to your success here, as well as your many friends who helped you achieve this milestone. I hope these friendships will help to keep you connected to your alma mater through the many memories that you share, and that they will sustain you as you navigate the road ahead with all the challenges and opportunities that life will surely bring. And I hope, for your part, that you continue to update your network of 19,000 alumni. I hope you continue to reconnect with your friends and family at Pitt-Johnstown. Pitt-Johnstown will always be home to you. You are always welcome here.
I would be remiss to not to take a moment to acknowledge the family, friends, and support from those who gave so much in innumerable ways to make this day count. To them we owe an enormous debt of gratitude.
It is always bittersweet to say good bye. But, in some respects, even though it is bittersweet, we are happy to be a part of this celebration and watershed event and happy to help you set sail to a world of possibilities. We are grateful that you chose Pitt-Johnstown for this phase of your life's journey. We wish you well as you move on, even as we ask you to come back, and come back anytime. Godspeed as you pursue your dreams and make a difference in the world.
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CUMBERLAND — The Western Correctional Institution welcomed some rather unusual guests on Monday as part of a national program designed to assist wounded and disabled veterans.
Through a partnership with America's VetDogs, incarcerated veterans and other inmates at WCI will train three puppies to serve as service dogs for disabled veterans.
Similar programs will also be launched at the Maryland Correctional Institution in Hagerstown and the Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover.
WCI is the first maximum-security prison in the nation to implement this program.
The yellow Labrador Retriever puppies, named Yardley, Dill and Vero, will live in the cells with the inmates during the training in special metal cages lined with bedding made by inmates from the Hagerstown facility.
A large outdoor recreational area has been created by inmates, behind the housing unit for the service dogs in-training.
Training will last for one year before the service dogs "graduate" to more specific training and then eventually be placed with a disabled veteran suffering from brain injuries, post-traumatic stress disorder, amputations and other physical and psychological disorders. Additional dogs will join the WCI program as they become available.
Mark Vernarelli, director of public information for the Maryland Department Of Public Safety and Correctional Services, said the inmates selected to participate in the program were chosen based on their "infraction-free history and their overall good attitudes and work ethic in prison."
"Many are incarcerated veterans, making the restorative justice element incredibly strong. You can't do better than having incarcerated veterans helping wounded American veterans," Vernarelli said. "We are very excited about this program. The inmates and staff have done a fantastic job."
According to Sheila O'Brien, a representative from America's VetDogs, more than 46,000 wounded veterans have returned from Afghanistan and Iraq. Through this program, many of these veterans will have the support they need to lead independent lives.
During the kickoff event, DPSCS Secretary Gary Maynard explained the benefits of the partnership, saying, "It's hard for me to imagine anything more significant than what we're doing here today, having incarcerated veterans paying society back this way is just meaningful beyond words."
Marine Master Sgt. Mark Gwathmey, a veteran wounded in Iraq, was also present for the ceremony, along with his own service dog, Larry. Gwathmey suffers from a seizure disorder caused by explosions during his third tour of duty. Larry, a yellow Labrador Retriever, is a seizure-alert service dog and is credited with saving his master's life on three different occasions.
America's VetDogs is a nonprofit organization founded by the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind to serve the needs of disabled veterans and individuals who are visually impaired.
In response to the growing number of veterans returning with disabilities, America's VetDogs was founded in 2003. America's VetDogs works with the military and the Department of Veterans Affairs, setting the the standard by which the military measures assistance dog schools.
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Tom Lester provides the following guest post:
Several months ago I predicted Romney would win the presidential race with 55% of the popular vote. I anticipated that people who had voted for Obama in 2008 would come to their senses and analyze Obama's lack of a record and intransigent ideology and correct their previous error in judgment. But obviously people find it difficult to acknowledge mistakes, always looking to deflect blame elsewhere. Had the farm been on the block it would be under new ownership – and may even be in jeopardy during the next four years.
One needs only to look at the Office of Management and Budget's numbers to see the foreboding catastrophe. Means-tested entitlement spending was about $10 billion in 1970, growing over nine-fold to $95.7 billion in 1990, and another almost six-fold for 2011 as it rose to $569.4 billion. While the true problem is this spending, the Republican pundits will now attempt to discern what went wrong, what should have been done differently and how to appeal in the future to the masses of unconcerned, uninformed citizenry. It's a pessimistically futile effort because the America that made this country great has little or no chance of recovery with Obama at the helm.
I'm greatly in favor of giving people second chances to make amends and correct their mistakes. In favor, except with the Presidency. The highest office in the land can, with one flourish of the pen, create massive problems in this country that will never be corrected, and, at best, only yield mild attempts at correction hobbled-together with unwarranted and further ludicrous legislation and regulation.
The murder of four Americans in Benghazi still greatly troubles me. The attempts at misdirection by the Administration and State Department seem clearly to have been a stall tactic to postpone answering accurately the unanswered questions surrounding the attack until after the election. The media played its role never pressing the questions, apparently wanting the situation to cool to the last page of news that might jeopardize the president's re-election. Let's hope the Congress will not be so kind and considerate.
A further prognostication on my part, possibly unwarranted owing to my poor score on the election. Congress will vigorously pursue Benghazi and we'll see some of the same tactics employed by Nixon during the Watergate fiasco. The strategy will be to again stall testimony to avoid it being labeled, like Watergate, a presidential cover up, awaiting another crisis to present itself and capture the headlines. Invariably some heads may roll to absolve the president of any guilt or collusion. But quickly the crisis will take center stage and the crisis may be real, like the national debt and sequestration, or manufactured for some unexpected and unanticipated event.
The headlines in my newspaper, the liberal Arizona Republic, proclaimed OBAMA REACHES OUT TO DIVIDED NATION. Obama in his re-election victory speech talked about reaching across the aisle to solve problems and of the need for finding common ground. The words ring hollow in light of the Obama campaign attempts with its negative ads to label Romney as a murderer, woman hater, rich uncaring capitalist and incompetent Governor. I expect Obama will make some mild attempts to appear to find mutual agreement but quickly abandon the charade and revert to his blame game of Republican intransigence. He wants higher taxes and any resistance by Republicans will fill the airwaves of supportive media with his speeches and complaints of those bad guys and their inability to compromise.
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, writing in his 1995 memoir, In Retrospect, about he and Lyndon Johnson's management of the Vietnam War, said, "We were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why." It was an apology that few government leaders seldom make. In Fog of War, an Oscar-winning 2003 documentary, he said, "I'm very sorry that in the process of accomplishing things, I've made errors." Although a formal apology was never issued for his role in the quagmire, he made clear his blunders cost the lives of thousands of U.S. troops. Will Obama eventually feel the heavy burden of his role for the havoc he wrought on this country or what now appears to be complicity in the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi?
I am likely at the age where Obama's grand scheme of America will have little impact on me personally but I am saddened by its effect on our grandchildren and future American generations. One day they will perhaps be puzzled why we allowed such a departure from principles expressed by the Founding Fathers and embodied in the Constitution. I suppose we must forgive McNamara as well as the people for not only their 2008 ill-guided choice but as well this one on November 6. Will our grandchildren be so forgiving of our own complicity? I am reminded of another lamentation of long ago: "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."
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Constitutional Rights
Government can be freedom's best friend when it protects citizens' constitutional rights. Here's how the Goldwater Institute is ensuring your rights are protected.
In the summer of 2007, a group of college kids from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University got together to talk about how to improve the work of liberty-minded student groups. That discussion sparked the planning of a successful conference, which in turn built the foundation for a permanent organization to help college groups advocate for policies that support freedom.
Students For Liberty was born on February 24, 2008.
In its October 2010 issue, American Spectator asks, "Is It Time for a Convention?" The Goldwater Institute's answer is a resounding "Yes!"
Even with a historic election upon us next week, realists have to recognize that Washington, D.C., won't reform itself. No matter who controls Congress or the White House, politicians vote over and over again for runaway spending. To secure real reform, the states must trigger an amendments convention under Article V of the U.S. Constitution.
Want to make a difference in the fight for liberty? Consider law school. Here is my second set of tips for maximizing your chances for a law career that will position you to change the world:
Want to make a difference in the fight for liberty? Consider law school.
In no other arena can an individual have a greater impact for freedom. After all, the courts were intended to safeguard individual rights by holding the other two branches of government to their constitutional boundaries. And unlike politics, law tends to be black or white—you win or you lose—rather than shades of compromise. Look how dramatically cases like Brown v. Board of Education have changed the world.
Judges receive lots of criticism, which is deserved when they stray beyond their constitutional boundaries. But at the same time, the protection of our rights depends on principled and aggressive judicial action.
A recent decision by the Arizona Court of Appeals illustrates this important role, in the context of some of the most vulnerable members of society: Individuals unable to handle their own affairs who often become prey to unscrupulous guardians and lawyers.
Sometimes politicians don't recognize a tsunami even when it hits them.
Voters in four states—Arizona, Utah, South Dakota, and South Carolina—voted in the last election to amend their constitutions to protect the right to secret ballots in union organizing elections. The results were resounding, with approval rates ranging from 60 to 86 percent.
By Ralph Benko
Welcome to the Wild West, 2012 style. The Feds to Tombstone: "If you want to fix your water line, better lawyer up and talk to President Obama."
As they do every four years, liberal columnists and pundits are fretting that a Republican presidential victory will mean a right-wing U.S. Supreme Court that will undo decades of (mostly liberal) precedents.
Funny thing, we've had a working conservative majority on the Court for over a quarter-century, and the hysterical predictions haven't come true. The Court has restored greater protection for property rights and limits on government power, but the Court has overturned few precedents. The changes have been evolutionary, not revolutionary.
The Arizona Republic recently reported that developer abandonment threatens bankruptcy for "as many as 200 of the more than 10,000" Arizona homeowner's association communities. If there is an HOA bubble that is about to burst, it was created by government mandates and subsidies, so the best reform option is to stop those policies, not throttle contractually-created communities with more regulation.
Only six months ago, the U.S. Supreme Court made it clear in Heller that the Second Amendment protects the individual right to keep and bear arms. Now the fight is shifting from guns to ammunition by gun prohibitionists who would render the right to keep and bear arms meaningless by limiting and taxing bullets.


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Have stayed here before. For the money, the location is brilliant but little things do disappoint: there were no towels in the room or shower gel when we arrived. Went back downstairs to reception because no-one was answering the phone. Very pleasant gentleman on reception gave me double portions of shampoo and shower gel, and said housekeeping would supply towels. Went out for a walk. On return towels had appeared but housekeeping had decided our supplies of soap/shampoo were too generous and had removed half! The following morning went to shower - 8:45am on a Sunday morning. Hot water was tepid at best, but by the time I had washed my hair was stone cold. Breakfast is good quality and big choice, but the queue! Would say standards are slipping since my last visit
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As Bankside House offers single, twin, triple and quad rooms, you can stay here whether you're travelling alone, with friends, or with family. You will find that most of the bedrooms here have ensuite shower rooms. However if money is tight you can opt for a single room which shares the bathroom with just one other room. Whatever room you choose, you will find a bed, desk and wardrobe inside, as well as really useful amenities like tea and coffee making equipment.
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Bankside House is just behind the Tate Modern in Bankside, so this is the first place you should visit. You should also take the spectacular Thames-side South Bank walk, or stroll to attractions like Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Clink Prison Museum, Southwark Cathedral and the London Eye. Take a walk across one of the River Thames bridges and you'll be able to explore places like the Tower of London and St Paul's Cathedral. There's plenty of trendy waterside restaurants and pubs nearby too.
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Really enjoyed my stay at Bankside House as staff friendly and welcoming. Rooms clean and comfortable and ideally located by the Thames (fab value for money) Quality breakfast with plenty of choice!! Looking forward to another stay hopefully next year
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Jean Harlow was the first platinum blonde that brought sexuality to the Hollywood scene. Her short career was highlighted by her starring roles in Red Dust with Clark Gable and Libeled Lady with Spencer Tracy. Harlow's untimely death at only 26 years old caused her to miss out on what could have been her biggest role, that which was filled by Fay Wray in King Kong.
This drink named after her is a simple sweet rum martini, supposedly a favorite of the actress.
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- 2 ounces light rum
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Spagnuolo preaches patience with Saints' young corners
The Saints were thin at cornerback in their loss to the 49ers, and youngsters like Johnny Patrick are being relied on more and more.
NFC South Spin cycle: Falcons keep hanging on
It will not quiet the skeptics, but the Falcons did ensure this would be their third consecutive double-digit win season on Sunday.
49ers harass Brees, defeat Saints
Ahmad Brooks and Donte Whitner returned interceptions for touchdowns, and the 49ers ended the Saints' three-game winning streak, 31-21 on Sunday.
NFC South Spin cycle: Stage set for Falcons-Bucs battle
The Panthers hit a new low, but the rest of the NFC South was victorious Sunday, including the Falcons and Bucs, who will meet next week.
Rivera, Mularkey, Shurmur don't come through in clutch
Embattled head coaches have something in common: They all make late-game situational mistakes that cost their teams.
NFC South Spin cycle: Saints, Bucs keeping playoff hopes alive
The talk of an undefeated season is over for the Falcons, but the playoff hopes for the Saints and Buccaneers are still alive coming off Week 10 wins.
Falcons, Lions can't channel slights properly
How a team motivates itself can go a long way in determining whether it will achieve success or suffer failure in today's NFL, Eric Edholm writes.
Saints hand Falcons their first loss
Jimmy Graham caught seven passes for 146 yards and two TDs to help the Saints hand the Falcons their first loss, 31-27, on Sunday.
Saints' situation with Payton mystifies
One team insider says the Saints' still-unsettled contract situation for suspended head coach Sean Payton is best described as a mess.
Key matchup: Falcons QB Matt Ryan vs. Saints pass defense
In today's Key Matchup, we take a look at the challenge awaiting the Saints' pass defense in Week 10.
NFC South Spin cycle: Saints defense still needs to tighten up
It's all smiles in the NFC South after the Saints, Falcons, Panthers and Buccaneers each earned a victory in Week Nine.
Brees, Robinson spark Saints to victory
Drew Brees threw two TD passes, one to TE Jimmy Graham, to lead the Saints to a 28-13 win over the reeling Eagles on Monday night.
Report: League voided Saints' contract with Payton
The NFL voided the contract extension Saints head coach Sean Payton received in September 2011, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Saints RB Sproles (hand) out for Monday night
Saints RB Darren Sproles needed surgery on a broken hand and will not play in Monday night's game against the Eagles.
Saints using scalpel rather than sledgehammer on defense
The Saints are on pace to shatter the record for most yards allowed in a season, but Joe Vitt has shot down the idea of making dramatic changes.
Saints general manager Mickey Loomis says New Orleans and unrestricted free agents, defensive end Kenyon Coleman and McCown, have agreed to terms on one-year contracts.||||||| McCown, 6-4, 217-pounds, is a former fourth-round selection of the Cleveland Browns who went to training camp with the Saints last season. McCown, a former Louisiana Tech standout, has played in 22 NFL games with nine starts in stints with Cleveland, Tampa Bay, Jacksonville and Atlanta. He has completed 184 of 316 passes for 2,035 yards with nine touchdowns and 14 interceptions.
The Atlanta Falcons have released backup quarterback Chris Redman and signed McCown.||||||| McCown spent the past three seasons with the Jacksonville Jaguars, making two starts among his eight appearances. He worked with Dirk Koetter, who is now the Falcons' offensive coordinator, which undoubtedly contributed to the decision to bring in a new No. 2 behind starter Matt Ryan on Tuesday.
Jags coach Jack Del Rio will turn the starting job over to Luke McCown, who outplayed David Garrard and rookie Blaine Gabbert in the preseason.||||||| McCown completed 12 of 18 passes for 133 yards, with two touchdowns, no interceptions and no sacks. Fantasy players should not trust the journeyman with rookie Blaine Gabbert waiting in the wings.
The Jacksonville Jaguars have lost McCown for the season because of a knee injury.||||||| McCown tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee at San Diego on Sunday. McCown replaced benched starter David Garrard in the fourth quarter and injured his knee on a 4-yard scramble with less than a minute remaining. Garrard came back in and threw a touchdown pass to Mike Sims-Walker that made it 38-13.
McCown has passed his physical with the Jacksonville Jaguars, prompting the team to cut veteran backup Todd Bouman. The moved was announced on Sunday.||||||| Jacksonville traded an undisclosed draft pick in 2010 to Tampa Bay on Saturday night in exchange for McCown. He is 1-6 as a starter, has completed 59.7 percent of his passes, and has nine touchdown passes and 10 interceptions.


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A dinner party set for a serial killer, designed by Amy Lau, for Showtime's design house, this being the "Dexter" dining room, natch. Here, $2500 blood spatter embroidered chairs, gore coated plates, fingerprinted glassware. Also: video. Where
17 Responses to "Your Bloody Dinner"
i_prefer_yeti says:
I'm with you #7
Is bloodsplatter the new steampunk on bb?
annehammel says:
For more showtime design stuff check out http://www.pointclickhome.com/showtime
Daneman says:
I would like to point this out.
I am a comic artist and, once upon a time, I needed a blood spatter.
So, I googled "blood spatter".
I used this one http://blog.wired.com/cars/images/2008/03/24/blood_2.jpg
…and so did Amy Lau.
Beanolini says:
Read the book instead and it may come clearer.
Though there is the possibility that it won't… it has been widely misunderstood.
Bret Easton Ellis himself said:
It's not really about Patrick Bateman [the narrator] killing anybody [It's] basically almost a feminist tract.
Oh, and I'm another for whom the incorrect 'wherefore' is a pet peeve.
mr_josh says:
@ #13:
Wow, good find! That seems a trifle unoriginal!
Antinous says:
Now the chair just needs to make the Wilhelm scream when you sit on it.
Lauren O says:
That chair looks a bit…menstrual to me. The stain is just on the wrong part of the chair. Actually selling pre-stained chairs might be a nice way to avoid embarrassment should you actually bleed through while entertaining company.
EH says:
Wolfiesma: Read the book instead and it may come clearer. It's a parody (to me).
Also: read up on Mary Harron, you might find that she knows exactly what she's doing and that you don't get it. I'm not trying to be combative, just terse. ;)
Habits says:
Isn't a big part of Dexter's style that he is always super neat?
Peaceflag2007 says:
if you are considering buying this: GIVE YOUR MONEY TO CHARITY
karenlyn says:
I wonder what it says about me that I kind of want one of those chairs…
alisong76 says:
Tsk. Dexter would never leave blood behind like that.
highlyverbal says:
"Wherefore are thou, Patrick Bateman?"
What does his name have to do with it?
wolfiesma says:
I recently watched American Psycho for the first time, yes, after the children had gone to bed, and I found the overall aesthetic breathtaking. All that clean crisp white on white. Visually stunning. But the plot? Not even a post-feminist could defend that.
Teller says:
I sense a theme.
jackie31337 says:
"Wherefore art thou, Patrick Bateman?"
This is one of my language pet peeves. The counterpart to "wherefore" is "therefore".
Wherefore: for what reason or purpose? Why?
Therefore: for this reason. Because.
The famous "Wherefore art thou Romeo?" line is not asking where Romeo is, it's asking why he has to have the name he does (specifically his last name, which makes him an enemy of Juliet's family).
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And argh… it lost my fake /OCD tag at the end of the message!


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blind salamander belonging to the family Proteidae (order Caudata). It lives in the subterranean streams in karst areas of the Adriatic coast from northeastern Italy southward into Montenegro. As an aquatic cave dweller, the olm has lost its skin pigmentation, and its vestigial but light-sensitive eyes are covered with skin. It retains numerous larval traits, such as well-developed gills, a lateral line system, and tiny limbs. The olm grows to about 30 cm (12 inches) long and has a normally white (unpigmented) body, red gill plumes, a narrow head, and a blunt snout
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Middletown American Legion Post 594 suffered a rough two weeks on the baseball field, losing three of four games to drop from second place to sixth in the Dauphin County American Legion League.
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"Roach Coach" board games and ant free dog bowls? These are just two of the many creative
products brought to you by an inventor's fertile mind. While you may not aspire to invent the
next best gizmo, chances are you could use a creativity jolt now and then. If it is true, as
Linus Pauling claims, that "the best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas," what
better place to begin than the Web? There you'll find inspiration, techniques, brainteasers,
games, bibliographies, and gurus galore waiting to help unfetter your mind and get the good
ideas flowing.
For real inspiration, begin at MIT's Invention Dimension and browse the "Inventor of the Week" archives to read about figures such as James Wright, of
Silly Putty fame. More obscure inventions, many likely to remain so, are gathered at the Patently Weird archives of ABC News. Serious patent exploration is available through the United States Patent and Trademark Office site, which offers a searchable database of
all US patents issued since 1790, including one for a "tethered aerial top"--better known as
the yo-yo.
If looking at the inventions of others doesn't do it for you, there are many sites designed to
help you start from scratch. To measure your own creativity, see the Mental Athletics Programme Web Site. This
graphically mapped resource offers "extensive interactivity, practical theory, and fun,"
including modules for self-assessment, a gym for developing creative muscles, tactics to
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How the Web Changed Politics This Week
Two events this week highlighted technology's increasing effect on the political process and proved that this impact is not all for the better. In the first, the creator of a widely viewed attack ad portraying Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as a Big Brother (er, Sister?) figure stepped forward to claim credit for the ad.
The ad, which parodies a 1984 Apple computer commercial, was seen by millions online and threw the Clinton campaign into a momentary quandary on how, if at all, to respond. The ad ends with a reference to Sen. Barack Obama's website although the senator's campaign had nothing to do with the ad.
The blogosphere went bonkers over the dawn of the "citizen ad" era. Now anyone with a laptop and an inexpensive video-editing program can "run" an ad on the Internet. While citizen access is great in principle, this first round at least indicates that "citizen" involvement offers little by way of public enlightenment. Read some of the online "debates" this "ad" has sparked, and it's clear that the uninspired, uneducated responses of online denizens do little to boost public knowledge about the candidates or to spur serious discussion on the issues.
The second event was technopolitics website politico.com's posting of erroneous information about the John Edwards campaign. In the "rush to be first" mentality, the website posted a blog entry quoting a source close to the Edwards campaign as saying former Sen. Edwards was pulling out of the presidential race or putting his campaign on hold because of his wife's battle with cancer. In a mea culpa, the blogger wrote, "And with less than an hour before Edwards was to announce, I unwisely wrote the item without getting a second source."
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WHILE some people try to lose a few festive pounds by joining the gym in January, one determined cyclist is taking his fitness regime to the next level.
Nick Court, of Todenham Road, in Moreton, has challenged himself to cycle a minimum of 4,545 miles during 2014 - the equivalent of cycling to Dallas, in Texas, or up and down the coast of Australia.
The father-of-three, who works as a computer games producer, is hoping to raise as much money as possible for Cancer Research UK as well as getting fit in the process.
In order to complete his mammoth challenge by the end of the year, the 46-year-old needs to cycle just over 100 miles a week.
"It's going to be tough," he said. "I've started cycling last year purely so I can get fit. I've set this goal to force myself to go out and do something and hopefully raise some money at the same time.
"I wasn't a fit person, I got on the scales last January and was 16 stone. I think the challenge I've set myself is going to be one that really pushes me to go for it rather than something that's easily achievable."
Over the next year, Mr Court is planning on going for four or five rides a week around the Cotswolds.
Cotswold Cycles, in Moreton, is supporting him by providing free bicycle servicing.
He has already lost a stone-and-a-half in the last year and hopes to lose even more weight as his challenge progresses.
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Corbie Craig had 13 points and six rebounds to lead the Wildcats. Chris Whitt had nine points and four steals, and Duncan Parker tallied 13 rebounds and four blocked shots.
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Madonna Nash - Self-Titled
It appears at times it is the man who rules the country music genre, but 2010 has been an incredible year for female artists: Taylor Swift continues to be unstoppable, Miranda Lambert released one of the best albums of the year, and Reba is still pumping out the hits in her mid-50s. Now, a North Carolina girl wants to get in on the action, and she's got a pretty good shot. Her name is Madonna Nash.
Nash released her self-titled debut album in early November. The Wilmington native was recently named 2010 Female Country Artist of the Year at the Carolina Music Awards. The blond-haired beauty is bound to continue to gaining traction with Madonna Nash.
Madonna Nash is not pure country by any means, but who is? So many of the genre's artists are considered "cross-over" these days, it is hard to define country. Like other new country artists, Nash's sound incorporates rock, pop and other influences. It appears to be the best route to go, attracting broader audiences.
"As a child, I used to do shows in my backyard for all the neighborhood kids," said the self-professed born entertainer.
Nash started writing her own songs as a teenager. Of the songs on Madonna Nash, she wrote half of the lyrics on her own and shares a co-writing credit on the rest.
On Madonna Nash, she immediately captures her audience with the sultry opener, "Dirty Little Secret." Nash commands her songs without hesitation. She uses the same sex appeal in "Out of Town," her singing so enticing, the words are almost negligible.
When she's not seducing the guys, she's telling them to get lost. "Drive" is about getting away from on old lover. In "Out of Sight, Out of Mind," she proudly states, "Closed the door on Mr. Past, tossed him away like old broken glass." The theme reappears in "Swinging Door," too, telling her cheating man to "get gone."
There's no shortage of women that will be able to relate to Nash's songs. They will surely enjoy singing along with her songs of empowerment.
Madonna Nash does have a few missteps, but that opinion wholly depends on the listener. Besides, country music, more often than not, isn't to be taken too seriously.
Nash enters cheesy territory her lyrics at times. "Firefly" is the prime suspect, with lines like "Your kiss is as juicy as a bite from a Georgia peach." The "bonus" track, "Watch My Purse," is a completely unnecessary addition to the album.
And, of course, there has to be a song with an alcoholic drink in the title. She commits the country music cliche crime with "Whiskey Whispers." It's fun and honky-tonkin', but do we really need another one of these?
Nash's album and career are not a solo effort: Her husband, Charles Fulp, is the driving force behind her. Fulp co-produced the album and helped Nash write several of the songs. His financial backing and music industry experience gives Nash an advantage over other emerging artists. His investment in Nash should prove to be worthwhile.
Madonna Nash is a sassy performer that could fit easily in a line-up of country music's biggest performers. She has the look, the voice and the confidence necessary to make it big in the industry. Madonna Nash is a well-produced and polished album. It is a great kick start to Nash's career.
Madonna Nash is online at MadonnaNash.com.


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East Tower to house at least 200 contractors
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Attention downtown condo developers: you might want to check out this story from Andrew Eder.
It appears that up to 300 contractors will soon be working in the TVA's East Tower, as the agency gears up to finish Unit 2 at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. Construction on the project is expected to last five years, and all those nuclear workers will need a place to live ...