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Governor Andrew Cuomo is lowering expectations for the end of the legislative session this week, as it seems two of his major initiatives — a women's equality agenda and an anti-corruption act — could be headed for failure. NY1's Zack Fink filed the following report.
Governor Andrew Cuomo is now prepared to let his 10-point Women's Equality Act fail, if Republicans try and take out the controversial 10th point, which deals with abortion.
"We have 850 women's groups who put this all together and they are in solidarity that if we don't get the choice vote, they don't want the nine. And I am standing with them," Cuomo said on an interview with WCNY-AM.
Sources close to Cuomo have said that this is not his ideal route, with the governor preferring to pass the best bill he can get. But once abortion became a political football, both sides dug in their heels, dooming the bill.
Women's groups are blaming the state Senate's Independent Democratic Conference and its leader, Jeff Klein, who controls the senate in coalition with Republicans.
"If Jeff Klein fails to do this, he is an anti-choice politician who is aiding and abetting the most extreme members of the Legislature," said Andrea Miller of NARAL Pro-Choice.
But not all Democrats support the abortion provision.
"We are all about getting votes. The magic number in the senate is 32. If we had 32 votes, we wouldn't be having this conversation, we would have passed the bill six months ago," Klein said.
The governor is also ready to give up hope on an anti-corruption package, which included publicly financed campaigns. He is threatening to use an investigative Moreland commission to force change.
"I'm not going to do a half-baked bill. The Moreland is the strongest thing I can do. And we've talked about it before, and we have come up with alternatives. I don't think we are going to come up with an alternative, and that's fine by me," Cuomo said on WCNY-AM.
"Well, I think that's premature. We are in the last days and we have tremendous opportunity," said Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins. Both campaign finance reform and the women's equality agenda were two of the major initiatives outlined by Cuomo in his agenda-setting State Of The State speech in January. On Monday, he conceded that neither will get done.


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I started a new project today, and Premiere Pro crashed when I tried to save. Relaunching got a "do you want to recover" message, but just gotr more crashes. Now I can't save any project, or even close a project wihtout a crash.
I tried editing an older project in Premiere 5 (not 5.5.1) with the same sort of crash.
I tried deleting autosave files, any caches I could find, and my prefs.
I restarted, remove 5.5, re-installed, and still no dice. Closing a project, trying to quit, whatever, I get: "Sorry, a serious error has occured that requires Adobe Premiere Pro to shut down..."
When the app starts it says:
"It appears that Adobe Premiere Pro closed unexpectedly....do you want to open the prvious project?" whether I choose Yes or No the crashes continue!
Any ideas?
Hi, I really feel for you both. Please read this thread - it may help you understand why CS5.5 can't be run 'properly' on a Mac! If it's all too much information to take in, skip down to my posts closer to the end of the page.
I made the mistake of buying CS5.5. I'm a Mac user. Basically, if you want to use CS5.5 where it works 'properly' you'll need to buy a new, very expensive computer, extra drives & graphics card (or an equipped PC). I am a victim of Adobe's unfair advertising to Mac users. I hope your situation is not the same as mine. I guess this is why you haven't received any answers yet.
Good luck
Jac, you are being rather silly. I have a Mac and it runs quite well . It just doesnt run on your under powered machine, thats all. Get a grip
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My point is and remains - I have to buy a new computer. I can't add extra drives, the right graphic cards etc. to it and that goes for most Mac systems. My machine is well powered but not well powered enough for CS5.5 so the point is I have to buy a new machine. What's silly about that? I think a lot of Mac users will find this information very important. Perhaps if your computer was the same as my computer, you would suddenly discover empathy and you wouldn't be calling the point silly.
Jac, heres the comment . It was a wasted attempt to relate to your situation and explain the nature of the business. Time to move on.
Tom - "Jac, what you have learned is not a surprise to most professionals working in the field. But to newcomers it can be a bit of a shock. Spending $25,000 for a fully outfitted edit bay for someone like me is a deal. Some of the bays I worked in the past cost from $150,000 to $1 million. Good professional grade equipment costs money. You want a reliable car, its gonna cost you. Same with edit suites. Its hard to understand when just the software has gotten so cheap recently but thats just the tip of the iceburg. You are not alone in feeling sticker shock and annoyance. But from my perspective the cost of getting a versatile edit system is mighty cheap."
Thanks Jon - I've been working on my three year old iMac professionally for three years now using FCP, Adobe photoshop and Corel Draw. It has been fabulous for professional work. Thankfully your point re-highlights my point - that Mac users need to be wary when buying CS5.5 (i.e. read forums and heed warnings if you're not sure about minimum system requirements and understand that the minimum system requirements are misleading i.e. when you read 2GB ram needed, Adobe will later tell you that you actually need not 4, not 8, but 12 for it to run relatively smoothly and 24 to run properly with no problems. There's a great Help video I discovered on the matter made by Adobe.
Hence, it is very likely that if you buy CS5.5, you'll need to buy a new computer.
Lasvideo, there's a big difference between sympathy and empathy. You were sympathizing at first, then empathizing with yourself in the second and then sympathizing again in the third. I do totally agree with you however - that it's time to move on.


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attempting to write my story now (12/4/12)
01/04/13 at
yesterday i was microwaving my coffee and while i was waiting for it, i got distracted by my thoughts and didnt notice that the coffee had bubbled to the top of the cup and spilled all over the inside. i mopped it up before anyone in the student center could smell the mess i made but ive been making those kinds of messes ever since being back from nyc. i dont mean to be melodramatic when i say that im still trying to process everything, but thats what it is and im having difficulty processing much else. every time i go to quote shakespeare, i hear cities in my head.
it wasnt until the bus started rolling through harlem when it hit me that i hopped a bus to new york city and thats where i was and holy shit i was in new york city. i had a few hours to kill before the show so i walked around chelsea. i kept thinking about all the worthwhile things i could be missing that were under my nose somewhere if i stopped looking up at the sky trying to swallow everyone that was already stuck between the citys teeth.
(we erect shiny buildings only to stick to them like plaque)
so i just looked at people instead and took streets aimlessly and sat on a few stoops and looked at street art and i stopped letting my thoughts be saturated with expectations of what i should be looking for because it was getting in the way of what i could just find. this was no cambridge but it was kind of like cambridge and thats what i do in cambridge, i just walk.
i went to get pizza because apparently in new york thats what you have to do: pizza and bagels and fuck the boston red sox and etc. but it tasted like regular pizza and it smelled like my uncle does when i hug him long enough (he is a pizza man, he makes pizza) and it was just pizza but it went down easier than what did between the two men sitting a few tables away from me.
Youre a creep! Youve never done anything for me! YOURE MY BROTHER. YOU NEVER WROTE ME THAT LETTER.
chairs fell down and one brother ran after the other, leaving behind nothing but a sorry left hanging in the air for everyone in the room and i sat there staring at the crumbs littering my lap, unable to look up because the voice sliced the air so hard, i half-expected to see a miniature abyss poking out of the torn atmosphere over where they were sitting, dust particles falling out onto where their laps would have been. but it was fine. the chair was picked up and its like they were never there. the woman behind the counter seemed unfazed and i almost wondered if they even were there.
it was colder when i stepped out and there were a lot more people. its like all our body heat was dissipating into the air but its not like anyone was going to go out of their way to warm anyone else anyway.
new york is different than boston but not so much in that way.
it got warmer when i found the show, though. i was standing toward the front on the right, leaning against some part of the stage. i was near a group with wrist bands - years older than me. Its weird to think that Ill join them in a year, ill wear a wristband in a year but ill still have ink getting under my skin.
They were talking about the Miracle of 86 days and how they hoped Kevin would play a few of those songs. They called him the best songwriter of our generation and that made me smile. They called him the nicest dude ever and recalled memories of conversations with him and then they lamented this day and age when electro-pop-funk-dubstep-heavy metal-polka-what the-fuck-ever music could dominate airwaves but Kevin Fucking Devine couldnt sell a thousand tickets. What was wrong with people, they wondered. They had a point, but looking around the room at all the people that traveled from all over the country to celebrate something so special, I couldnt deny these fans any credit that the group I was eavesdropping on could. Then they started making fun of some kids that didnt appreciate Thursday.
(I decided that the scene was still alive in the disgruntled Thursday fans.)
I was hoping to find my friend before the middle of the show when I looked over to see him groovin the hell out but I realized that being alone during the show was important for me in the same way that coming to nyc alone was important: being a satellite and having a satellite can be two different things but they both leave you feeling too comfortable to work on what needs to be worked on. I was too unsettled to focus on anything but the music contained in this small room but stretching for miles within all the people around me that were singing along or staring in awe. It was so nice to see KD so happy, and as much as he wanted to make it about everyone else in the room, it was his night and he deserved it.
(And the Goddamn Band, of course.)
Heres to ten more years.
It feels really nice to have been a part of something as special as that.
I walked around the city after with that friend I couldnt find before the show, and his friend whom I didnt really know - and maybe I still dont know them as well as Id like to, but I walked away from them at 4:30 in the morning with these feelings for them that Im not sure how to articulate without inducing any cavities - I just really appreciate their existences and I want to keep knowing them. Im not sure I would have known what to do or how to feel if they hadnt invited me along. They asked me what my plans were and all I saw was the yellow wallpapered room in the hostel and I didnt have to recall the mirroring piece of literature to the forefront of my mind to know that it was a bad idea for me to head back there.
we walked through brooklyn and over bridges and down wall street and into manhattan and i dont remember the names of anywhere else because of the conversation but our final destination was the staten island ferry and at some points i wondered if wed turn back and at others i wondered why they kept trudging on if they were so tired. mostly i felt that even though we were walking together, i was out of step with them and a lot of what i said was met with what i feared was cordial enthusiasm, because sometimes i just dont know how to talk to people.
and then it wasnt, and then we were on the ferry and something changed and thats when my heart swelled even more for these people and god, im going to be embarrassed if they ever find this because i dont think they know how okay they made me feel for the first time in a while.
i got back to my room around five-thirty and i just stared at the yellow on the wall and it looked duller than the nauseating shade it had been in the daylight. it was a small relief. my heart was was still running from the image stuck in my head of the creep on the train that made me feel scared and self conscious and the creeps following me down the street and i couldnt shake the existential loneliness i felt at 4 am in the subway by myself.
Youre up pretty early, eh?
I suppose so I was walking with some friends.
Well. Be safe. Remember, take the 1 to 18th. Good luck.
It was like one of those dreams youd have as a kid, where youve lost your mom and you cant find her and someone is after you and they have her. only, this time i had words and images and insight into what that monster is
and even though Im back in cambridge now, feeling like im hugging it back for the first time in a long time,
I cant shake the feeling that its somewhere around here because its that feeling you get at night when everyone is quiet and sleeping but youre not and youre thinking about the Someday when nights like these are going to extend into the day and then into weeks and then into always, as you move away from everyone you love - first with distance, and then with age and then with death
that feeling that manifests itself in subway stations in the city that never sleeps so you know that everything is just lurking.
that was the kind of night embedded with words I havent found yet and for the first time since turning 18, 19, 20, i feel like i actually did something i needed to do.
this kind of wordplay gets you ostracized, but i feel more alone without it.
kevin devine
write your story now
new york city
webster music hall
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12/30/12 at
one of the best feelings to get happens after going in to hug someone only to feel them squeeze you so much tighter than you thought they would
which is to say, tight at all
like hey i want you here the way you want me here and we cant be here at the same time anymore but we can for a few more moments so come here
this brief elimination of space almost makes up for the empty space to follow
(but that has to be close enough.)
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bright eyes gives me a strange sense of nostalgia
01/09/12 at
for feelings that arent even mine
can you be nostalgic for memories that arent yours? because this is certainly more than what it is to connect to a song
this is like im walking down the street at 2:35 am and conor oberst is walking next to me, but both of our hands are in our pockets as the fog from our breaths mingle together in the space between us on the sidewalk
and hes quietly singing under his breath and to him its like im not even there, even though hes singing the awakened thoughts that are trying to squeeze out of the furrow of my brow in a frenzy because ive finally realized that they are there
and they settle down as they are comforted by the fact that he is singing to me, helping me understand the muffled humming in my head and the blurred colors when i close my eyes
helping me understand that there is a way to face them, and that is by letting them take me, and starting again.
this is a nostalgia of the loneliness of another sleepless night.
so tonight ill close my eyes and let my thoughts mingle in the space between now and tomorrow
and tomorrow i will start over.
bright eyes
conor oberst
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a stranger's smile.
08/19/11 at
One time, I met this guy on an airplane who had a really friendly smile. The kind of smile that isnt big enough to be creepy and isnt small enough to be fake. It made his cheeks reach his eyes and indented his face in all the right places. As we spoke, he laughed with me, at me, for me, and sheepishly when I tried to return the favor. And when the smile disappeared, I knew I wouldnt be anxious over whether or not it would return it would. It did.
And I dont know how else to explain it. But it was a secure, cared for sort of feeling when I saw his smile. And I know it was most likely all in my mind at the time because I was tired, alone, overwhelmed, wrinkled and nervous so I probably unconsciously looked for what I needed in the only stranger that stepped out of the blur of stoic faces moving past me in whichever directions the pressure in their lives willed them to go, and smiled at me. But. When the cynic living in the back of my head isnt listening, I like to think that maybe it was genuine, the smile.
I dont know why its so hard to believe anymore. When did we start questioning sincerity? When did we start questioning kindness? Are we that scarred and self centered to believe that everyone is pulling something over on us? That theres always a catch?
When did I begin switching tenses to bring all of us down with me when I am no better?
Sometimes I like to close my eyes and call his smile back to float among the popping lights and colors behind my eyelids that come from squeezing my eyes tight enough to keep the rest of the world from seeping in through the cracks like the flirtatious rays of the sun waking me up from a good dream that I can never finish even if I try closing my eyes again.
If seeing is believing, then maybe I can unsee what I want to unbelieve. I wouldnt need to sit here succumbing to the cynical voice in my head that snickers at me when I look around and around and around and feel too much and want to feel a little less.
And I wouldnt need to close my eyes and call back a friendly smile.
I think Id do it because I wanted to, and because I cared more for the person it belonged to that I do for what their smile gives to me.
But I would never really want to feel a little less. Its just one of those things I over-dramatize in my head.
Kind of like a strangers smile.
Ive noticed that on the better days when I let the rays of sun coax my eyelids open, I find myself thinking about the friend behind the smile. And not because I need to.
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Ah, the first muse.
08/04/11 at
His name was Andrew and we were soulmates and we were going to get married and adopt a puppy-sized elephant named Albert and live in a purple house with a sunny-yellow wishing well in our front yard and a Sunflower field in the backyard and we would drive our ice cream truck to Hogwarts everyday.
He just never realized that. Such is the woe of a first crush like the oreos he packed into his Pokemon lunch box for snack-time everyday, I suppose that is how the cookie crumbles! But, who can blame a girl? At seven years old, he was what every girl liked to call a major catch, what ever that meant. I thought he was pretty neat.
Everyday he sat next to me after recess and Id watch him draw monkeys on the math worksheet instead of minding his addition tables, telling me to go away or paying attention to Mrs. Johnson Oh, the fates! Perhaps the root of my mathematical struggles could be found in the margins of his worksheet or the dimple in his cheek when he laughed at me or Heck, I never did grasp roots anyway. On Halloween he gave me his Pokemon crayons. I drew him pictures of Pikachu with them.
And thus began my career as a tortured artist.
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i don't like synth
08/02/11 at
I hate when a band seems like they're going to be interesting
and then you go to stream their album
and it sounds like the bastard child of a lusty affair gone wrong in an abandoned, echoey cave off the coast of This and Sucks,
between a synthesizer on steroids and a coked out hipster with tangled vocal chords.
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the future freaks me out
06/12/11 at
Graduated the other day. It feels really weird to be finished. Our valedictorian said something about how weve all never really been scared because we could always envision what was going to happen tomorrow because it was the same as all our yesterdays, and now weve got a whole bunch of tomorrows to figure out because theyre going to be different than all the yesterdays weve had.
Yeah, pretty much. I always knew that I wouldnt see a bunch of people after graduation or this summer and I thought Id be okay with that. I showed up to graduation at five and if the sun could have a personality, it wouldve been beaming like it does in cartoons, or on the teletubbies or whatever. We all looked goofy in our robes, but not one person wasnt smiling. It didnt occur to me as I was calling my mom to bring me the tassles Id forgotten at home. It didnt occur to me as I goofed off with the classmates Id know for the four years that felt like much longer. It didnt occur to me as our queue was entering the stadium to sit down. But it kind of dawned on me as they started calling our names to get our diplomas. And then we got our diplomas and we threw our caps in the air as we recorded yet another milestone to record on our facebooks.
I walked and I talked and I took pictures with my family and some of my friends, but it was impossible to see all of them. And I walked away from some of them that Ive even sat next to in kindergarten, with a lighthearted goodbye that probably should have been more because things arent really going to be the same. It wasnt until the stadium started really clearing out that it hit me: I was probably not going to see a lot of these people ever again after this summer. And I mean, well have those awkward encounters at the supermarket, the gas station, the mall, and probably during holiday breaks. But its not the same as walking side by side in the hallways and having anything in the world to talk about, if we wanted to.
I felt really stupid for not realizing all that as we filed out of the stadium. Maybe it was an unconscious defense mechanism to keep my eyes from peeing all over my face because last time I did that in front of people, no one let me forget it. But despite how melodramatic I appear to be, Im okay with how bittersweet it all was. Because what happened at graduation is a microcosm of what continues to happen in life so youre prepared for when happens again, and again. And maybe again: Youre not going to realize that people are gone until they actually are.
Its been a pretty good four years, and I know Im ready to go out and do what I want to do, if only because when I think about even one more week in high school, my soul gets all achey and tired because Im already so prepared to go out and do what I want, instead of being held back for more preparation.
You ever have those nights when you cant sleep so you stare a hole through the ceiling while all you can think about is how colossally and unfathomably huge our universe is and how were merely specks within a speck within a speck within a speck within a speck in the grand scheme of things? And then you think about how everything that mankind has ever striven for could merely be a distraction from that omniscient buzz from the unknown that is only just below the absolute threshold in the unconscious and just on par with it during the nights when we cant sleep.
well, on a smaller scale: if I keep living how I want to live and striving for what I want out of life and how I can pay that back in the future, maybe Ill be able to overcome that overwhelming but not all-knowing buzz from the present that cant fathom how Ill make things happen for myself. Because if I let it, it will cripple me.
Ill try to keep that in mind on the first night at college when Im curled in the fetal position under my blankets in a new dorm room with a complete stranger across the room while Im missing mum and daddy and high school and the figuratively kinesthetic pleasure of knowing exactly where I was because I didnt have to think about moving on.
Why would I want to stay in one place forever? Oh, right. I dont. Suck it up and go to sleep.
high school
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tired and uninspired
06/06/11 at
just kidding, i am inspired. i just don't know how to use all that inspiration right now.
I feel like that pen you have at the bottom of your bag underneath all the books and junk. The pen that cracks and breaks one day so that all the ink has formed a sticky pool and the pen's just wallowing there. In that sticky mess. Unable to create anything that would Bring Mountains To The Hills Out There.
I feel the inspiration everywhere. In all the emotions I'm feeling. But there's so much of it that I'm kind of just wallowing in it, unsure of how I'm going to channel it all so as to create anything, because something in me has cracked.
So, I guess I'll wait until I clean the detritus out of my way before trying to swim through the ink.
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England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Giles Clarke has confirmed that Kevin Pietersen has agreed a new England central contract.
The ECB hope Pietersen can return to the England team on completion of a "reintegration process".
Clarke, speaking at a joint press conference with Pietersen in Colombo, said: "Kevin will be engaged in a reintegration process which has already started today (Wednesday) with a lengthy discussion with me."
The reintegration programme will be overseen by England team director Andy Flower, beginning during the remainder of this month, and he will report back to the ECB hierarchy on when he thinks Pietersen is ready to return to the England team.
Clarke added: "Kevin has signed a contract with the ECB today. The central contract is for a period of time and, on conclusion of the programme, will be extended until the 30th of September this coming year (2013)."
Pietersen read out a statement in which he apologised for recent events and committed himself to playing for England in all formats until at least the 2015 World Cup.
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The web-based graphical interface, called the Live View Dashboard, shows programmed scenes and various rooms, which you can click on to control individual devices in each room such as lights, shades and thermostats. You can also make changes to scenes, add devices and create schedules. The new iPad app shows an identical user interface, while the iPhone app is a scaled down, more menu-based version, sans the dashboard's sleeker graphics.
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I have a really wide appreciation for woodworking of all types. And one of the wonderful benefits of my job is that I have gotten to dabble in many techniques and niches of the craft. Marquetry, carving, scroll sawing, fine furniture, rustic furniture, cabinetmaking, stringed instrument making -- I have attempted them all. But a curious thing happened to me about five years ago: I started to do woodturning for fun. In most of my other woodworking sojourns, I have worked hard to achieve mastery. As much as it surprises friends and family, I am something of a perfectionist in this one aspect of my life.
Not so with woodturning. I go to the lathe to have fun and make a nice bowl, or whatever. Not that I don't try my best, but I have decided that this will be my release from the rigorous demands of expert woodworking, not an additional bullet point on my resume. The result of all this is that I find myself at the lathe more and more. See some examples of my non-expert woodturning projects on the Woodworker's Journal Blog.
Whether you're already familiar with woodturning fun, or (so far) an admirer of others' works, you'll find plenty on the topic in this issue of the eZine: it's our first themed issue, dedicated to the theme of -- you guessed it -- woodturning. I hope you enjoy it!
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One of the best conversations I've had about art wasn't with an artist. It wasn't with an art historian, curator, or gallery owner, either. It was with a mechanical engineer. We went from discussing his latest design project to the artfulness of historical blueprints to Leonardo's notebooks—and I think we may have even touched on Umberto Boccioni and Futurism.
Palette knife painting sounds a little edgy and dangerous, but it's really all about texture—the thick impasto swipes and flat sweeps of color that make up the surface of a painting. I've never created an entire painting with just a palette knife before, and I wanted to see what the appeal was for Melinda Matyas, a Hungarian-born artist who works in Romania. I found her work in the Member Gallery at Artist Daily just a few days ago.
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[Note: logic still painfully valid. These are 2002 numbers...all of this is even more extreme now. In 2013 the AAA estimates that the average driver will spend more than $9000 on thier car.]
What does it cost for you to drive your most common round trip? If your answer is close to the cost of gas, you're being taken for a ride. When I carpool the 20 mile round trip from our house to town, people are stunned when I offer them the ten bucks I saved by not driving my own car. Most people think the cost of driving is the cost of gas. What a boon to the auto industry...people think their product costs them 85% less to use than it does! (gas = 7.7¢ a mile, driving costs 52.3¢ per mile, or $5500-$7000 per year according to the AAA).
Do you think people would drive less if they knew what it really cost them? We certainly do.
Between my wife and I, by driving less than half as much as the average American, use of carpooling, public transport, and bicycles, and not owning cars until later in life we saved approximately $180,000 by 2002.
This is almost exactly what it cost to pay off our house in Santa Barbara ($140,000 in 1992 plus ten years interest). If we'd both got expensive cars instead of average (not unusual in this town) we'd have spent a quarter of a million dollars between us in our combined 48 driving years.
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The external environmental and societal costs of driving in the United States include:
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Average American's car costs | |
$5,500 | per year |
21 | Years I could've owned a car (I refused my parent's offer of a gift of their Pinto station wagon at sixteen) |
$115,500 | What the average American would've spent in my shoes. |
My car costs | |
$2,000 | My actual annual costs (approximate) |
13 | Years I've owned a car (I've owned one car, a 1978 Toyota pickup which I bought for $2000 when I was 24) |
$26,000 | |
$89,500 | Savings |
Note: my 1978 truck was "totaled" by my wife-to-be twelve years ago. The insurance company gave me $1500 for it. The darn thing still is in great mechanical condition and I've had multiple offers to buy it out from underneath me for $500. Thus, In 13 years of car ownership, I've spent ZERO on depreciation. Following consumer reports recommendations to average buying behavior, I would've lost almost $60,000 in depreciation.
Lynn's car costs | |
$148,500 | If she spent the average amount per year |
$54,000 | What she did spend |
$94,500 | What she saved |
$184,000 | Total household savings thus far |
$256,000 | Savings compared to moderately expensive cars ($7000 instead of $5500 a year) |
Average costs taken from American Automobile Association and Victoria Transport Policy Institute, our costs extrapolated from what records we have.
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In a Congressional hearing room, in a capital far, far away, the saga of puny, little Hollywood vs. the Evil Box-Office Stock Exchanges took another surprising twist today. According to The Wrap, mini-Studio/overlooked Canadian pen pal Lionsgate went to the Dark Side and came out in support of Hollywood Stock exchanges. It was a crucial crack in the unified Rebel Alliance of the M.P.A.A., D.G.A., and I.A.T.S.E. just as their battle seemed won—Senator, Blanche Lincoln, Chairman of the Senate Agricultural Committee (which oversees futures contracts) had proposed language in the upcoming "Bite Me Wall Street" financial reform bill making it illegal to bet on Hollywood box-office results. With opposition to the two Hollywood Stock Exchanges being about the only bipartisan sentiment in Washington these days, the prospect of widespread drunken speculation on the over/under for Transformers 3's opening weekend seemed lost. Does Lionsgate's voice in the argument change things? Hard to say, but at the very least, the saga continues…
The exhanges still face bipartisan opposition, Chairman Lincoln's proposed ban, and the skepticism of at least three of the C.F.T.C.'s commissioners who seemed to be approving both the Cantor Exchange and Veridian's MDEX for technical reasons. But Lionsgate's support is at least interesting because it gives some credence to the heretofore unproven argument that an open, public exchange would actually encourage more investors to pour money into Hollywood (and provide new streams of financing for the kinds of movies that don't get made these days, i.e. anything not in 3-D and based on a comic book.) In addition, it shows that Veridiana C.E.O. Robert Swagger wasn't just blowing fat-cat cigar smoke rings when he claimed on a conference call with reporters last week that the MDEX had the support of significant players in the entertainment industry. However, the banner cry of "manipulation" still holds sway with the Senators, and given the vague and intangible nature of the hype necessary to market movies, it may not be entirely off the mark. To play devil's advocate, however, Robin Hanson at Overcoming Bias argues that all marketing done to hype movies is manipulation, and that the real reason the entire motion-picture industry is opposed to the exchanges is because it threatens to take that fundamental function out of their hands. Of course, the increased incentive for piracy still seems like a valid concern, and given the well-earned and universal hatred for anything Wall Street these days, one can't imagine the M.P.A.A.'s pleas will be falling on many deaf ears. The C.E.O.s of Verdiana and Cantor haven't sufficiently explained how their markets and contracts would work in a such a way that Hollywood, whose existence these days relies on exploiting known things and shunning the unknown, can comprehend. Until they show that these two exchanges aren't time bombs meant to detonate the industry for the sake of underemployed traders who want an excuse to expense their Entertainment Weekly subscriptions, the studios and everyone they employ will do everything they can to fight yet another existential threat to the industry.


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Day II Aflac All American Game
Over the past five years the day before game day the players participate in a scrimmage. Once in awhile something out of the ordinary happens during these scrimmages. Last year, Aflac East 3B Ethan Martin was sent to the mound. We had seen Ethan pitch before and knew that he had some serious arm strength. Well, he pitched in that scrimmage, but he was extremely wild. He did throw up to 94, but really looked much more like the position prospect/hitter that he was at that time. What was most interesting was when we later found out that Ethan was pitching with a broken thumb on his throwing hand. When we asked Ethan why he agreed to pitch, he simply said, "you asked me to pitch so I did". Those few words spoke volumes about Ethan Martin and this June he became the Dodgers first round pick… as a pitcher!
This year's scrimmage was dominated early on by the pitching. Here are some of the highlights from that game.
West Team
Scott Griggs (CA) threw in the low 90s and breazed through his inning, showing a good 3 pitch mix.
Brooks Pounders (CA) gave up a leadoff walk and then retired the next three hitters, throwing 91 mph.
Matt Davidson 3B prospect (CA), pitched 1.2 innings in the upper 80s.
Jiovanni Mier SS prospect (CA) threw two effective innings mixing an 89 mph fastball and excellent changeup.
The West hitters were either hitless or got one infield hit, by Max Stassi (CA) depending on whose score sheet you went by.
Several of the top pitching prospects in the country are on the west roster, but most did not throw in the scrimmage. That includes, Matt Purke (TX), Jacob Turner (MO) and Tyler Matzek (CA). All had thrown recently and were rested for Saturdays game.
East Team
We mentioned it might have been a no hitter by the seven East Pitchers.
Michael Heller (FL) retired the West in order with a low 90s fastball and a good breaking ball.
Chris Jenkins (NJ) walked the leadoff hitter and then retired the next three. He was up to 93 and consistently threw in the 90s.
Ethan Carter (VA) didn't show his best velocity, but struckout one while retiring the East in order.
Daniel Tuttle (NC) walked one and struckout two in his inning. He was up to 91 and showed a very sharp breaking ball.
Keyvius Sampson (FL) didn't reach his best velocity but still threw 90-91 with an outstanding changeup and good breaking ball, striking out two in a perfect inning.
Michael Givens (FL) showed a 92-94 fastball with life in his inning of work.
Austin Maddox (FL) threw 90 in the last inning.
All these guys figure to throw harder on Saturday's nationally televised game.
The East won the scrimmage 7-1 by scoring all seven runs in the third inning.
Jason Thompson (TN), Givens, Brian Goodwin (NC), Richie Shaffer (NC), Maddox and Donavan Tate (GA) all had one hit each for the East team.
Note: Hometown Aflac All American Beau Wright a very talented LHP was hit in the head with a line drive the day before Aflac players reported. He spent a day in the hospital and was told not to play for a couple weeks. After being released from the hospital, Beau headed right to Aflac practice and then went with the teams to visit the Children's Hospital in LA. One day a patient, the next day spending time to visit some very ill kids and trying to brighten their day. Beau can't play in the game, but he is a true Aflac All American in every way!
The Aflac players went to visit Universal Studios after practice today, while we watched some of the countries best underclassmen perform at the PG Aflac Showcase in the afternoon. More on that group later on.
Tomorrow includes working out and the first round of the Home Run Derby. Then tomorrow evening the Aflac Awards banquet takes place. The banquet only falls behind the game in interest and in some cases it is even more important than the game itself. The Jackie Robinson Award representing the top high school baseball player in America is presented at the banquet.
After tomorrow's HR Derby there will be a scouts and college coaches reception and lunch at USC. Wonder what is in the gift bags this year? We usually get our hands on one, some how.
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The paralysis that struck President-to-be Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1921 probably wasn't caused by poliomyelitis, as physicians and historians have long assumed, according to UTMB researchers. Their study, which ran last November in the Journal of Medical Biography, published by Royal Society of Medicine Press, said the likeliest cause was Guillain-Barré syndrome, an autoimmune disease that damages sensory and motor nerves. Stories about the controversial analysis appeared in every major newspaper in the United States and in a feature report on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.
Roosevelt's vigorous exercise preceding his illness, initial fever, and permanent paralysis all were consistent with poliomyelitis, said lead author Armond S. Goldman, but many other aspects weren't. Features the study said were typical of Guillain-Barré syndrome included FDR's age when he got the disease (thirty-nine), the near symmetry and ascending nature of his paralysis, his early facial paralysis, how long the paralysis progressed, the numbness, extreme prolonged pain, bladder and bowel dysfunction, and the descending pattern of recovery from his paralysis. While patients with mild to moderate Guillain-Barré syndrome usually recover entirely, those with severe disease who aren't treated using modern methods often experience permanent paralysis, the authors noted.
The diagnosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome was supported by a statistical analysis that considered the frequency of paralytic poliomyelitis and Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults of Roosevelt's age in 1921 and the likelihood of his symptoms occurring in either of the two diseases. Six of eight probabilities ranked in the analysis favored Guillain-Barré syndrome, while only two (fever and permanent paralysis) favored poliomyelitis.
Although the study found Guillain-Barré syndrome the probable diagnosis, Goldman acknowledged: "No one can be absolutely sure because relevant laboratory diagnostic studies weren't performed or weren't available at the time of his illness." If Guillain-Barré syndrome had been diagnosed in 1921, Goldman said Roosevelt's outcome would have been the same because effective treatment for that disease was not discovered until the latter part of the twentieth century.


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Nominated for: BEST Gourmet Grocery
Our take-out menu and specials change weekly. We offer full-service catering for private and corporate parties. Wednesday, Thursday & Friday nights we feature full service dining in our garden. Call for this weeks menu!
Stop in and sample our wide selection of entrees, tea sandwiches, soups, sides, sandwiches and our desserts (that features 2006 Philadelphia Magazine BEST OF PHILLY winner for our Bread Pudding).
The food at Drake's is always fresh and the people are always looking to go above and beyond - they cater as well as prepare their own menu that varies daily for those who come into the shop.
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discovered this place when the chef was on TV making thai soup! I have been back weekly and the food is always great!
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- U.S. National Team: WNT
- Position: Defender
- Date Of Birth: June 24, 1975
- Height: 5-6
- Hometown: Point Pleasant, N.J.
- Club: Sky Blue FC
The U.S. captain is still one of her country's fastest, strongest and most tenacious players. The central defender became the first U.S. player to compete for four Olympic teams during the 2012 London Olympics. She also is the most-capped U.S. WNT Olympian, earning her record 17th cap during a 4-2 victory against France on July 25. The only mother on the team, she has two daughters and has rebounded strong from both pregnancies to seal her place as one of the most legendary players in U.S. history.
A high-scoring forward in college, she converted to defender for the USA when she made her debut in 1997 ... Named captain of the U.S. Women's National Team in 2008 … Is one of two players from a small soccer school ever to make an impact on the National Team ... Formerly Christie Pearce, she switched the back of her jersey to her married name in 2004 … After the retirement of Kristine Lilly in 2010, she became the most capped player on the U.S. team and the only active player remaining from the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup championship team … Currently the most capped active player in the world … 2012: One of three U.S. players to play in all 32 matches, starting 31 … Has two assists during the year, upping her career total to 11 … Served her fifth year as captain and led the USA to its third consecutive Olympic gold medal … Played in her fourth Olympics, most of any U.S. player … One of three U.S. players to play every minute of all six games at the Olympics … Also played every minute of all five games at the CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying tournament as the USA won the regional title in Vancouver, Canada … During 2012, she passed Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm to become the second most-capped player in U.S. and world history with a remarkable 276 games played and currently sits behind only Kristine Lilly (352) … 2011: Once again anchored the U.S. back line from her center back position, starting all 18 games she played while finishing third on the team in minutes played with 1,590 … Played in her fourth Women's World Cup, joining just four other U.S. players to have accomplished that feat … She was the most capped player in the Women's World Cup and ended the year with 244 games played, good for fourth all-time in U.S. history … Started all six games in Germany and was one of four players to play every minute … 2010: Gave birth to her second child, Reece, on March 6 and played her first club match exactly three months later on June 6 … Made her return to the U.S. lineup July 17, coming off the bench against Sweden in East Hartford, Conn., and slotted back into the starting lineup after that … Played 10 total games for the USA, starting nine, including all five at the CONCACAF Women's World Cup Qualifying tournament, where she played every minute … Also played every minute of both legs of the Women's World Cup playoff against Italy ….2009: Played every minute of all five matches she started before taking a break at the end of the summer due to her pregnancy … 2008: Earned her 200th cap against New Zealand in the final first-round match at the 2008 Olympics, becoming the sixth U.S. player to hit the 200-cap mark … Had a stellar year at centerback captaining the National Team, starting all 35 matches in which she played and setting a U.S. record for minutes played in a calendar year at 3,066 … She was the first player ever to play more than 3,000 minutes in a year … Missed some training time after recovering from surgery to remove her gall bladder in May but did not miss any game action … Started all six games at the 2008 Olympics, playing every minute … The Beijing Olympics was her sixth world championship for the USA … 2007: Started all 20 games in which she played, playing all but 59 minutes of those games … Was the most-capped defender and second most-capped player on the 2007 Women's World Cup team … Started all six games of the Women's World Cup, her third WWC tournament, but the first time she had played in every match of the competition … 2006: Made her return to the National Team and played against Norway at the Four Nations Tournament in China just 112 days after having a baby … Played in 20 games, starting 17 … 2005: Took the year off to have her first child, Rylie Rampone, who was born Sept. 29 … 2004: Had a stellar year for the USA, starting 26 of the 28 matches she played, including every minute of the five matches in which she appeared at the 2004 Olympics ... Became the fifth most-capped defender in U.S. history during the year … 2003: Continued her steady play after making a complete comeback from ACL surgery, starting 15 of the 17 games in which she played … Started all four Women's World Cup matches in which she played, playing every minute of those games … Became the 15th U.S. player to earn 100 caps when she played against Brazil on July 13 in New Orleans … She captained the USA for the first time in that match … 2002: Called into two training camps but did not play for the USA while recovering from ACL surgery … 2001: Played in four matches for the USA during a limited schedule, starting two … Missed the 2001 Nike U.S. Women's Cup after tearing her right ACL while playing for the New York Power … 2000: Was one of the USA's most consistent players, earning the starting spot at right back … In a breakout year, she started 30 of the 33 matches in which she played, including all five games at the Olympics and played 2,540 minutes … Scored two of her four career goals, both against Iceland on April 5, in Davidson, N.C. … 1999: A member of the 1999 Women's World Cup championship team, she played in one match against Korea DPR ... The versatile defender played in 18 matches for the USA in 1999, starting eight ... 1998: Solidified her position as a solid starter in the defense, starting 14 of her 19 matches ... Started both matches as the USA took the gold medal at the 1998 Goodwill Games ... 1997: Started 16 of 18 games for the USA in 1997, her first year with the National Team, finishing third on the team in minutes played ... First trained with the USA at training camp in San Diego in January ... Traveled with the USA to Australia in February of 1997, making her debut against the Matildas on Feb. 28 in Melbourne ... Played the second half in Melbourne, then all 180 minutes of matches in Bathurst and Canberra, and her international career was off and running ... Played right midfield in all three games at Nike U.S. Cup 1997, scoring the 100th U.S. Women's Cup goal against Australia in Ambler, Pa. ... First Appearance: Feb. 28, 1997, vs. Australia ... First Goal: May 2, 1997, vs. Korea Rep.
2013: Allocated to her home state Sky Blue FC for the inaugural NWSL season … 2011: Signed with magicJack for the 2011 WPS season and played every minute of all 11 games she played in helping the club to a playoff berth … Had one assist … 2010: Played in 16 matches for Sky Blue, starting 14 … Named as a WPS All-Star Game reserve … 2009: Allocated to Sky Blue in her home state of New Jersey for the inaugural WPS season in 2009 … She helped lead underdog Sky Blue to the inaugural WPS championship, taking over as head coach with two games left during what was a tumultuous regular season and leading the team to one regular season win, the final playoff berth and three dramatic road wins in the playoffs to claim the title … Missed a few games early in the WPS season due to injury but ended up starting 14 games and was a WPS All-Star, starting in the All-Star Game … Named the WPS Sportswoman of the Year … Played a key role in shutting out a powerful Los Angeles Sol attack in the 1-0 WPS title game victory, all while almost three months pregnant … 2003: With the New York Power of the WUSA, started and played every minute of 18 matches, recording one assist … 2002: Recovered from ACL surgery at the end of the 2001 season to play 1,699 minutes over 19 matches, all of which she started … 2001: Was a founding player in the WUSA for the New York Power … Helped lead the Power to the WUSA playoffs before tearing her ACL just two minutes into the third to last match of the regular season … Started 18 matches for the Power and played every minute until her injury … 1998: Played several matches for the New Jersey Stallions of the W-League during the summer of 1998 … Youth: Played youth club with the Twin County Saints.
Was a two-sport star at Monmouth University in New Jersey … Is the school's all-time leading scorer in soccer … Was the starting point guard on the basketball team, but opted to miss numerous games during her senior season while training and traveling with the National Team ... Started all 80 games in her soccer career, scoring 79 career goals with 54 assists for 212 career points ... Was a First-Team All-Mid-Atlantic Region selection and 1995 and 1996 Northeast Conference Player of the Year in soccer ... Led Monmouth to a 51-11 mark over her last three seasons, including a 17-5 record as a senior ... Ranked third nationally in scoring as a senior with 75 points, fourth in goals with 29, seventh in assists with 17 and second in game-winning goals with nine ... Monmouth's record holder for goals, assists and points in a season, she posted 10 multiple-goal games as a senior ... Finished eighth in the nation in 1995 with 19 goals and 15 assists for 53 points ... Co-captained the basketball team as a senior and was considered the quickest player on the team, a tenacious one-on-one defender and an excellent passer ... Played both the point guard and shooting guard positions for Monmouth ... Had a career-high 22 points vs. Rider during the 1995-96 season, picked up a career-high 13 assists vs. Marist that same season, and had a career-best 10 steals vs. Fairleigh Dickinson the year before ... Holds the school record for steals in a season (79) as well as in a game and a career ... Also played in two lacrosse games for Monmouth as a senior ... High School: Heralded as the finest athlete Ocean County has ever produced, earning all-league honors in basketball, soccer and field hockey ... As a senior at Point Pleasant Boro High School, she became the first person to lead the Shore Conference in scoring in soccer, basketball and field hockey ... Scored 2,190 career points in high school basketball ... Was named New Jersey Female Athlete of the Year by the New Jersey Nets as a senior.
Full name is Christie Patricia Rampone (née Pearce) … Married Chris Rampone on Nov. 9, 2001, in Jersey City, N.J. … Graduated from Monmouth with a degree in special education and has her teaching credential ... Received an Honorary Doctorate from Monmouth in Public Services in May of 2005 … Also volunteered as a soccer coach and basketball coach at the middle school where she was student teaching ... Worked in classroom situations with communication-handicapped children ... A lifetime New Jersey resident, she moved to California for two years to train for the 2007 WWC and the 2008 Olympics but now is back home for good … Has a black Labrador named Tiger, who serves as her alarm clock and running buddy and a yellow lab named Murphy, who likes to escape from the backyard … Owns a self-storage facility in Manchester, N.J., called Airship Self Storage (call if you need a unit) … Is sometimes known as Captain America and the Ultimate Soccer Mom … Has a website at www.christierampone.com


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The reduced weight is noticeable when you pick it up. The new battery is slimmer. Old PSP batteries can be used to "double playing time," but the battery cover won't fit over top of it. Instead, Sony will offer a high-capacity power kit with a fitted cover. The control layout is essentially the same, but GameSpot editors felt the d-pad and buttons … Read more


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Frank Herbert (1920-1986)
Born in Tacoma, Washington, Frank Herbert was a very precocious child and knew early in life that he wanted to be an author. He began his career as a journalist, but during World War II served in the U.S. Navy as a Photographer. After an honorable discharge in 1943, he worked as a copy editor for the Oregon Journal in Portland, Oregon.
In 1941 Herbert married Flora Parkinson, but they divorced in 1945. He met Beverly Stuart at a University of Washington creative writing class in 1946 and they married soon after. They had two children, Brian, born in 1947, and Bruce, born in 1951. Frank also had a daughter, Penny, born in 1942 from his first marriage.
Because he refused to tailor his writing to a particular market and wrote only what he felt like writing, he had a hard time making a steady living. Herbert began researching Dune in 1959. Beverly gave up her own creative writing to support his. Herbert discussed every aspect of his stories with her, and she edited his work. After six years of research and writing, Dune was completed in 1965. Twenty-three publishers rejected it before it was finally accepted. Because Dune was much longer than contemporary science fiction novels, it was serialized as Dune World and first published in Analog (December 1963-February 1964). Before the work appeared in book form, Herbert rewrote much of his text. While the book won both a Hugo and a Nebula, it was not an instant best seller.
His wife, Beverly passed away in 1984, the same year David Lynchs film version of Dune was released. Later that same year, he married Theresa Shackelford. On February 11, 1986, at the age of 65, Frank Herbert died of pancreatic cancer in Madison, Wisconsin.
Dune was perhaps the first literary science fiction novel. Herbert went beyond his contemporaries in terms of characterizations and plot, raising philosophical and ecological questions. None of the novels in the series could be considered light reading. He wrote over twenty novels after Dune, but many critics dont believe them to be good. There are six novels set in the Dune universe: Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune.


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- Robust automatic nuclei detector
- Integrates with popular ImageJ software
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- ITCN Plugin ver. 1.6 (19K, jar include source code)
- ImageJ: ImageJ download page
ITCN is an ImageJ plugin for counting the number cells within an image. The inputs are: (1) an estimation of the diameter of a cell, (2) an estimation of the minimum distance between cells, and (3) either a region of interest (ROI) selected with ImageJ's selection tools or a black and white mask image that is white in regions that are to be counted.
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Open ImageJ.Enter threshold into textfield or use adjacent slider bar. The threshold determines the quality of detected cells, i.e. a higher threshold will detect more obvious cells.
Figure 21: The result windows for an entire image.SELECT A REGION OF INTEREST
Figure 22: The result windows for a region of interest selection.SELECT A MASK FROM THE MENU
Figure 23: The result windows for an pre-opened mask image.OPEN A NEW MASK IMAGE
Figure 24: The result windows for an opened mask image.
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- Use of magnification information to initially estimate width and minimum distance.
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Email bugs not listed to thekuo[at]ece.ucsb.edu.
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How many people carry a firearm in their rv? Been telling the wife lots of people have a gun on board just in case a problem comes up and before people start going off I know as a last resort but sometimes people or animals leave you no choice.
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I think if you do the research you will find the percentage of people in rvs with firearms will be about the same as those with firearms in their homes/cars. IMO, there would be no additional reason to have a firearm in an rv than in your stick and brick. It is also prudent to remember, IMO, that anything posted here stays on the internet forever (just google your forum user name). A clever person could match your answer with a person and have the information you just published. Whether I carry weapons or not is not really something I would wish to broadcast - your mileage may vary.