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The name Artis Gilmore has become synonymous with Jacksonville University basketball no matter where you go.
The silent giant put a small private school on the men's basketball national scene during the early 1970's, just as quickly as Jed Clampett moved his family to Beverly Hills with a single shot of his rifle.
Several decades later, the lore and legend attributed to Gilmore so long ago has been reborn within the historic walls of Swisher Gymnasium in 2008. The difference now is that the legend has transcended to another gender on a program without a storied past.
Enter Ashley Williams. A lanky post player from Jacksonville, Fla., Williams wouldn't be the first person chosen for a pick-up game in the school yard due to her less than imposing 5-foot-11 stature (although she'll say she's more like 5-foot-9, if you ask her). You can fill in the cliché of your choice as you continue but, truth be told, the numbers don't lie.
In just two and a half seasons, Williams has claimed so many "firsts" in the brief history of the JU women's basketball program (which began play in 1999) that it practically reads like a scroll: Two-time first team all-Atlantic Sun Conference, A-Sun preseason all-conference and A-Sun Preseason "Player of the Year"; JU single-season records - points in a season (509), field goals made (197) and field-goal percentage (.562); JU career records - points (1,275) and blocks (109) with field-goal percentage, steals and free throws made well within reach.
"I never pay attention to where I'm at in the record books," Williams said. "I knew I was close to breaking 1,000 points but I didn't know I was about to break the school record until my family mentioned it to me. I don't calculate my stats so I never know what kind of records I break unless someone says something to me or I read it on the internet."
Along with her individual achievements, the team success enjoyed by the Dolphins this season has drawn comparisons to the greatest men's team in JU history, 1969-70, which was led by Gilmore. Both squads have rewrote the history books, enjoyed national recognition and viewed as the "foundation" that future generations reflect upon.
JU currently sits atop the conference standings with a 14-3 overall record and a 4-0 mark in A-Sun play (each program records). The Dolphins own the second-longest home winning streak in the nation (17 games) and is in the midst of an eight-game winning streak which garnered the program its first vote in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Top 25 Poll on Jan. 8.
Williams says the team set lofty goals prior to the start of the season, based upon the continued success of the program each year, but the results to this point are far beyond their imagination.
"We thought we had a good chance to run the table in conference play but we never expected to receive votes in the national polls," Williams said. "We are just trying to take one step at a time with the goals we've set for the year and if we attain them, we will be in the NCAA Tournament at the end of the season. It's something every player wants and we have a good chance to make that happen this year."
But through all of the awards, stats, records and ceremonies, Williams is the most reluctant star you will find. Instead of sitting down for an interview to talk about herself, she prefers to have her "humble pie," shrug her shoulders and stare at the floor with a shy smile.
"I just don't like to talk about myself like that," Williams said as she shifts in her chair and pulls the hood back on her sweater. "I prefer to go out on the court and just play."
Those playing days began for Williams on AAU teams when she was 11 years old. Several people thought she should stop playing softball because of her height and she was eventually signed up. Reluctant at first, Williams started to enjoy the traveling and interacting with her teammates as her skills began to develop. In her early years at Wolfson High School, she began to realize that basketball could be something that could continue in college.
After completing her senior season at Arlington Country Day High School, Williams was recruited by Florida A&M, North Florida, JU and Charlotte but eventually ended up at North Florida Community College in the end.
"I thought I was going to end up at Florida A&M but nothing came from it and junior college was the only option I had left," said Williams. "I had spoken to JU initially, but Coach (Jill) Dunn was just entering her first season as the new coach so we never made the connection."
It didn't take long for the Dolphins to notice what was growing in their back yard as Williams led all Florida jucos in scoring and earned team MVP honors with an average of 22 points and 10 rebounds per contest. The fact that she wanted to stay close to home also bode well for JU as well.
"We were very fortunate to get Ashley," Dunn said. "She was eligible to come out of North Florida after her freshmen year and we were one of the few schools who knew that. Also, I think a lot of other coaches backed off of Ashley because of her size. People are looking for much bigger post players, but obviously her size hasn't slowed her down at all.
"I knew Ashley had potential when we were recruiting her, but I also knew she was no where near the player she could become if she would continue to work on her game. She had all the tools and we just needed to fine tune them and sharpen them up."
So how does an undersized, skinny post player become such a dominating force? In simple terms, Williams possesses an abundance of athleticism mixed with natural instincts. Like a gazelle on the open plains, she can outrun other posts on the break and beat her defenders to the blocks. Once she gathers the pass in the post with her soft, sturdy hands, she naturally turns her elbows into her defender to create enough separation to shoot over her opponent. With her quickness and leaping ability (three feet off the floor when she shoots), she is able to fade up and away or slither past the defense to take advantage of her soft shooting touch. By adding an up-and-under move and 3-point range in college with her excellent free throw shooting, she is a difficult player for opponents to focus on defensively.
"Ashley knows how to score," said Dunn. "Some players just have a knack for scoring and she is one of them. She has a lot of different ways to beat you, but she understands the game very well and is extremely smart on the court. She doesn't force bad shots if she is doubled and tripled team and will find her open teammate."
Defensively, Williams is just as terrorizing for opposing head coaches because of her quickness and smarts. An unorthodox shot blocker, she prefers to trail her assignment in the paint in order to rip the ball away from behind as the player attempts to shoot at the basket. Her instinct in the passing lanes, fast reflexes, and her ability to maneuver quickly in the post creates many opportunities for steals.
"I've never really had anyone coach me until I got to JU," Williams said when asked where she picked up her post moves. "I always played against bigger players when I was younger so I got used to finding ways to score. My teammates always tell me that I hit them with my elbows when I make a move but I really don't know that I'm doing it. On defense, I just think it's easier to block a shot from behind than being in front."
Now that the raw ability is developed, there have been discussions among friends, family members and fans about how far her career can go. An opportunity to make it in the WNBA or continuing her career overseas could be options but Williams will take the same approach she has always made when dealing with the sport.
"If an opportunity presents itself for me to continue my career, then I'll pursue it, but it's not something I worry about," said Williams. "If the opportunity isn't there, then I'll be done with basketball and find a career. I enjoy the competition during games and being around my teammates but basketball is not something that I need to do."
Whatever she decides, the records, accolades and team achievements will finalize as her career comes to an end in March. But the mystique surrounding her accomplishments and the impact she has had on the program will continue to linger long after she hangs up her shoes.
"The two words that I would use to describe Ashley's three years at JU are consistency and dominance," said Dunn. "She will leave JU with her name in almost every record book in just three years of play. She has been a huge part of our program since she stepped on campus her sophomore year, but years from now she will be a name many will not forget when they talk about JU women's basketball. That is the impact she has had on this program and a huge reason why we have been successful as a team."


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The embargo for Tomb Raider reviews allowed publications to discuss the game as early as last Monday, but the game itself isn't released until the 5th of March. This odd situation has led many to ask… what the hell is going on? We've talked about this subject a bit in the past, so I thought I'd go ahead and give some thoughts on why Tomb Raider enjoyed such an early embargo.
Square Enix likely knew the game would be good
"I think that early embargoes are all about convincing anyone who's still on the fence about a title; you want those people to finally take the plunge on a pre-order. If your review embargo is a week from release, a boost in pre-orders may not actually have a noticeable impact on your initial sales," Tom Ohle, a PR veteran, told the Report in an earlier interview. "However, if there's enough time between the embargo and launch, a slew of positive reviews may be just what you need to get a retailer to increase their order. Either way, a bunch of positive reviews in the weeks leading up to launch will just boost hype and set the stage for a successful launch," he continued. That's not to say a late embargo means a game is bad; as this could simply indicate that review code wasn't available to send out early, or the publisher wanted to save the maximum amount of buzz for when the game was actually available. I was able to see a little bit of this strategy during the first day of the Tomb Raider review's availability; I received e-mails from gamers who thought the game was out, tried to purchase it, and found that it was actually a week away. Will they still be willing to get out the wallet by the time the game is actually available?
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Arizona Sports' Kyndra de St. Aubin tweeted out the news:
Whiz says Skelton will start Sunday— Kyndra de St. Aubin (@Kyndra620) December 5, 2012
Skelton hasn't played since being replaced by Lindley in the first half of a loss at Atlanta November 18. The Fordham product, who won the starting job in training camp, has started five games this season, completing 98-of-179 passes for 1,058 yards with two touchdown passes and five interceptions.
"There's a number of reasons that go into it, but John is going to start for us this week up in Seattle, and we'll go from there," Whisenhunt said.
The head coach was vague about the reasons why he's switching back to Skelton.
"Some of it has to do with Seattle -- playing up there, having played against them once already this year," he said. "There are a lot of factors, but I'm not going into each one of them."
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Hash Brown Egg Breakfast Recipe
- 1 package (32 ounces) frozen cubed hash brown potatoes, thawed
- 2 cups cubed fully cooked ham
- 1-1/2 cups (6 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 large green pepper, chopped
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 12 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 cup 2% milk
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- Layer a third of the potatoes, ham, cheese, green pepper and onion in a greased 6-qt. slow cooker. Repeat layers twice.
- In a large bowl, whisk the eggs, milk, salt and pepper; pour over top. Cover and cook on high for 30 minutes. Reduce heat to low; cook for 2-1/2 to 3-1/2 hours or until a thermometer reads 160°. Yield: 12 servings (1-1/3 cups each).
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Great for a brunch because it takes no room in the oven and I typically entertain 35 on St. Patrick's Day. I just add veggies to taste [green for St. Patrick's Day or red at Christmas.
This is a good recipe. The amount of green pepper (sweet or bell pepper) and onion are up to your tastes to increase it or decrease it to your liking.This is not an exact measurement like baking is...so dtracy9999 put in as much as you like , large & medium size are not exact amounts!!
Why don't people tell you what KIND of green pepper to use? Bell? Habanero? I also agree with the post about the size of pper and onion. Please be specific!
Here's a link ( http://www.culinarylore.com/measurements:onion-sizes-and-amounts-chopped ) to tell you about onion sizes and their amounts. Bell peppers are about the same.
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Strong Hands
When I started writing this blog, my Major Article List was a big thing to me. I wrote some pretty good things at RealMoney.com, and I wanted to have a record of the best of that. I only wish I had done the same thing for my Columnist Conversation comments, because many of them were [...]
When I started writing this blog, my Major Article List was a big thing to me. I wrote some pretty good things at RealMoney.com, and I wanted to have a record of the best of that. I only wish I had done the same thing for my Columnist Conversation comments, because many of them were far better than most articles at RealMoney. Give TST credit, they would frequently take my best comments, and turn them into posts, and pay me for them. They did not have to do that.
But, I would love to republish many of my best timeless posts here. I offer a deal to RealMoney: In exchange for being able to republish old posts and comments of mine here, I will offer you new posts of mine, or the best of my old posts at my blog, so long as they are timeless.
Regardless, when I was at RealMoney, I wrote a series that dealt with the motives of various investors as it stemmed from their balance sheets. For those that have access to RealMoney, here are the articles (note: I wrote different titles than what was used):
Managing Liability Affects Stocks, Pt. 1
The main idea is this: There are a wide variety of investors, and they have differing abilities to hold assets. Why should investors have differing abilities to hold assets? And why should that matter?
When will you need the cash? That should be a central question for every investment adviser, dictating asset allocation. This is basic asset-liability management. This gets neglected in investing more often than most imagine.
With respect to institutional investors, my experience is the more of the investment is done internally, the more patient the capital tends to be. Perhaps that's the illusion of control, but I tend to think that investors have more trust in their own reasoning than in the reasoning of external managers.
The longer the time that you can invest and wait for returns, on average, the more aggressive you can be in investing. The investor that can "Buy-and-hold" can take on the most difficult situations if there is a sufficient discount in the price to make the wait worthwhile, and avenues that allow for change to be encouraged.
So, when I think of how my investment is affected by those that invest alongside me, I divide them up this way:
When I go through 13F filings, I note the quirkiness of the assets held, and often held for a long time. Almost all of the 13Fs that I track I would classify as strong hands. They don't care about the next quarter; they are thinking about the next 3-5 years. They care about the growing underlying value of the businesses; they wouldn't care if stock market was only open one day per month. Some, like Seth Klarman, do little on the long side when opportunities are not compelling. Like underwriters at well-run insurers, when an insurance market is nuts, you stop writing business, and spend time improving your skills.
So for my own investing this past period after I finished my 13F analysis, I took the companies that had:
and put them in as competitors in my ranking system, against my current portfolio. Because of redundancy, it was about 320 companies in all. I think it was a good exercise, because it made me think about a bunch of companies that I would otherwise never consider. Anyway, the process is complete, and the equity portfolios have some promising new names with good prospects, and fellow shareholders that are for the most part "strong hands."
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A demolition worker who had drunk eight pints beat up his partner so badly he left her severely brain damaged, Bradford Crown Court heard.
School secretary Stephanie Bedford was discovered unconscious with a life-threatening head injury at the house in Deanside Terrace, Wibsey, Bradford, she shared with Damian Terry.
Terry, who had called an ambulance, told the police Miss Bedford fell down the steps.
Prosecutor Patrick Palmer said the couple had been together for about a year before the assault at about midnight on December 21, 2012.
Terry, 41, was jailed for three years yesterday for causing Miss Bedford grievous bodily harm.
Her relatives wept as Judge Peter Benson said: "The family might see that as a wholly inadequate sentence but my hands are tied by the statutory maximum."
Terry was originally charged with wounding with intent but his guilty plea to the less serious offence was accepted because the Crown concluded he did not intend to cause such serious injuries.
Mr Palmer said neighbours heard a woman crying and shouting: "Help me please."
Terry, who told the police he had drunk eight pints that night, said the back steps were "a bit slippy."
Miss Bedford was treated in Bradford Royal Infirmary for skull fractures, bleeding and bruising on the brain and a fractured spine.
There was old and new bruising on her body, thumbprint marks to her neck and defensive injuries on her arms.
"Her injuries were severe and life-threatening," Mr Palmer said.
There were at least three impacts to her head, gripping injuries to her neck and arms and bruising consistent with being struck by a stick or bat.
The court heard that Miss Bedford was left grieving for the person she used to be.
She was still unsteady on her feet, completely deaf in her right ear and had lost her sense of smell.
She was significantly brain damaged and would not be able to work full-time again. Terry's barrister, Stephen Wood, said he was genuinely remorseful.
He was re-arrested recently for breaching his bail by messaging Miss Bedford on Facebook. He was held in custody but released by magistrates.
Judge Benson said: "It must have been a very distressing experience for Miss Bedford, seeing him popping up on Facebook to wish her a Happy New Year."
He said Miss Bedford was found "in a dreadful state" with injuries consistent with being punched with force and her throat gripped.
"Her life has been shattered by your violent conduct to her that night," he said, adding: "You did not intend to cause her serious injury but you must bear full responsibility for what occurred to her."


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This material is excerpted from Section 7 of the Vajradhatu Practice Manual.
In general, the guidelines, shrine setup, and personnel are the same for Shambhala Meditation Centers and for smaller groups. However, centers which are not Shambhala Meditation Centers do not use the Milarepa sadhana, Glorious Flame of Wisdom, to begin and end the day.
The following guidelines should be announced in advance.
1. It is appropriate for participants to come for the entire day, approximately 9:00 am to 9:00 pm. Of course, there are exceptions to this. For example, parents with young children may be able to come for only part of the day.
2. Nice casual clothes which are comfortable for sitting are appropriate dress.
3. Once the practice has begun, a mandala is established in the shrine hall. Participants should enter or leave the hall only at break periods, not during chanting. It is best if participants are able to open the Glorious Flame of Wisdom mandala in the morning, and close it in the evening by chanting the Milarepa sadhana during the group practice. If this is not possible, it is acceptable for participants to enter and leave the shrine hall (during breaks) without having opened or closed the mandala.
4. When getting up to leave and when re-entering the shrine hall, practitioners should recite the Vajrasattva mantra to themselves. Those who do not know the hundred syllable mantra can recite the short form, OM VAJRASATTVA HUM. This procedure applies until the end of the day.
5. Breaks are scheduled about every 11/2 hours. During breaks, one can leave the shrine hall to use the bathroom and get a cup of tea; tea can be brought into the shrine hall. During breaks, functional silence is observed. Alternatively, the break could be eliminated and tea served in the shrine hall.
1. A mandala plate with five piles of rice is placed at the center of the shrine. This represents the mandala of the three jewels and the three roots.
2. The seven outer Vajrayogini offerings are arranged at the front of the shrine. Just as in Vajrayogini practice, the order from shrine right to shrine left is: saffron water, flower, incense fence, votive candle, saffron water, naivedya torma, musical instrument. A piece of fruit or a cookie can be used in place of a naivedya torma. No other tormas are necessary on the shrine. If you like, the usual offering bowls of pure water can remain on the shrine. In that case, they should be placed behind the more elaborate offerings described above.
3. A thangka, a photograph, or a rupa of Milarepa should be placed on the shrine, if available.
4. Arrange practice tables and cushions in front of the shrine, facing participants, for the reader and the umdze. Place a clock and a small bowl of rice for the mandala offering on the table. It would also be thoughtful to provide a glass of water at each seat.
5. If your center is large, microphones should be set up for both the reader and umdze.
6. Set out copies of Glorious Flame of Wisdom, copies of the short mandala offering verse, and a bowl of white rice near the entrance of the shrine hall.
The chanting is led by two people: the reader and the umdze. Different pairs of people should be scheduled for these positions during the day.
1. Reader. The reader reads the prose sections of The Rain of Wisdom. A senior vajrayana student should be the reader in the morning, in order to give an explanation of the ceremony (see "Opening Remarks," below.)
2. Umdze. The umdze leads the chanting of the Glorious Flame of Wisdom and of the songs. Only the umdze needs a mala.
3. Gatekeeper. The gatekeeper prevents people entering or leaving during the reading.
4. Tea servers. People should be scheduled to prepare and set out tea in the reception area for breaks during the morning and afternoon sessions. If someone knows the recipe, it is nice toprepare chai, spiced black tea with milk. At some centers, it may be convenient to serve tea in the shrine hall itself.
This day celebrates the enlightenment and life example of Milarepa. The celebration is an all day guru yoga practice, which includes chanting the Milarepa sadhana and reading the songs of the lineage fathers in The Rain of Wisdom (Tib: Kagyü Gurtso).
The actual title of The Rain of Wisdom is The Essence of the Ocean of True Meaning; the subtitle is Bringing the Rain of Wisdom, the Spontaneous Self-Liberation, the Blazing Great Bliss, the Quick Path to Realization of the Supreme Siddhi, the Vajra Songs of the Kagyü Gurus. These songs are the direct personal voices of the lineage holders, sharing their experiences of the path, practice, and realization. In chanting them, we attune our minds to theirs, invoking the inspiration of their sanity and devotion. This collection was first compiled by Mikyö Dorje, the eighth Karmapa.
Sadhakas should perform the visualizations that are described in the Milarepa sadhana. Ngöndro practitioners should visualize the lineage tree in front, with Milarepa in the center. Other practitioners should not try to visualize at all, but should connect as much as possible with a sense of openness and devotion to the lineage as a whole and to Milarepa in particular.
1. Opening remarks by the reader.
2. Chant the Supplication to the Takpo Kagyü and the Heart Sutra.
3. Sit for 20 minutes.
4. Chant The Glorious Flame of Wisdom.
5. Chant The Rain of Wisdom
NEW (Rain of Wisdom errata from the Nalanda Translation Committee)
The reader reads the titles and the prose sections alone. If verses occur within prose sections, these also are read only by the reader; the group does not read them aloud. Examples are the verses at the bottom of pages 6 and 7, on page 8, and at the top of page 62, and page 102.
The umdze leads the chanting of the songs themselves. The community follows the umdze, not the reader.
6. Return to the Glorious Flame of Wisdom on page 20, beginning with "May Jetsün Repa . . ." Omit
the feast offering, from the middle of page 17 to the middle of page 20.
7. To end, chant the longevity and rebirth supplications, and all the aspiration chants.
8. Protector
chants– Chant the protector chants during the last 15 minutes of the afternoon session. At
whatever point you are in the reading, insert the chants and offer the tea.
9:00-9:30am Instructions and morning chants
9:30-9:50 Sitting
9:50-11:00 Chant Glorious Flame of Wisdom, from page 1 to middle of page 17. Then begin reading The Rain
of Wisdom.
11:00-11:15 Silent tea break
11:15-1:00 Continue The Rain of Wisdom
1:00-2:30 Lunch break
2:30-4:30 Continue The Rain of Wisdom
4:30-4:45 Silent tea break
4:45-5:50 Continue The Rain of Wisdom
5:50-6:00 Protector chants
6:00-7:30 Dinner break
7:30 - Finish reading The Rain of Wisdom and The Glorious Flame of Wisdom. End by chanting the longevity
and rebirth supplications, and Fulfilling the Aspirations
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JACKSONVILLE — At least 5,000 bikers are expected to take part in this weekend's Carolina Bike Rally at Cabin Creek Campground in Jacksonville.
Its guest of honor and grand marshal, Zachary Fincannon, is expected to arrive from Stony Point on his custom-made "chopper trike," to participate in his first rally, and also mark the 4-year anniversary of the day he was seriously wounded in Fallujah.
Fincannon, a retired lance corporal and machine gunner assigned to the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Division out of Camp Lejeune, was wounded April 26, losing his left arm at the elbow. His father, a motorcycle enthusiast, was determined to make his son's dream of owning a bike come true, said his mother, Linda Fincannon.
"He went into Marine Corps straight out of high school and always wanted to have [a motorcycle], and planned on getting one when he got home so he could ride with his dad -- then he was wounded and didn't think he would ever be able to ride one," she said.
Zach's father, Danny, and a good friend built him a three-wheeled bike. That was the day the "chopper trike" was born, said Linda.
"They put their heads together and figured out a way to put the clutch where it could be used by a foot which they called a "suicide shifter," she said.
"This will be the second summer he will be riding and the first bike rally he's ridden in, and what better one to be in."
Proceeds from the rally will benefit Hope for the Warriors, a non-profit organization that provides support to wounded service members and their families.
Linda said she and Zach's wife Terri drove in from Stony Point to watch Zach and his father and friends pull into the campground.
"He was just so excited when he was invited - one of his friends he was in boot camp with came from Knoxville, and six or seven of them and his dad are all riding in together," she said.
Terri is excited about seeing her husband's arrival.
"I want to videotape it," she said. "I'm very proud of him; he's come a long way. I was terrified when he got the bike, but I knew he could do it - he's stubborn and headstrong and when he puts his mind to do something, he's going to do it. I am nervous every time he gets on it, but I want and am hoping I will get to see him ride in."
She said she noticed a big change in him after he received the bike.
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Wednesday Practice Report
The first day of two-a-days with the early session starting at 8:30 a.m. and the evening session at 6:30 p.m.
The Big Picture: As promised, the coaching staff is increasing the tempo of the practices as camp nears the midway point. Practice intensity hasn't waned and the excitement level for the first game at The Citadel is taking off as a bit of chatter of that game could be heard in the morning session. The team's first scrimmage is set for 1 p.m. Saturday at Fleming Island High School.
The Highlights: DL Charles Dowdy and DB Andre Addison each blocked FG attempts early. Addison said he had a clean shot and the ball caught him on his inner forearm … QBs and receivers continue to click including a spectacular one-handed catch by TE Quintin Davis from Josh McGregor in the morning session … an inadvertent collision between RB Hank Farmer and LB Blythe Weaver in the shoulder pad and helmet morning session brought roars from teammates. … in the evening session, P Garrett Mohr continued to show good leg strength … the offense scored in its first two attempts in goal line work … Dowdy continued his big plays as he knocked down a pass at the line of scrimmage to record the defense's first stop.
From The Players: C Kevin Halverson on the life of an offensive lineman the first time two-a-days come around: "Of course it's going to be taxing on the body. You get banged up and you be bumps and bruises and all that. As long as we get in there and eat and get rehydrated, I've always been a firm believer in what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. So, we can get out here, get another good practice in, it will just make us a lot better in the future and for when we start our games.'' On the heat in two-a-days: "We probably sweat out gallons of water every practice, but you've just got to get through it. Halverson is listed at 275 pounds.
From The Coaches: Offensive line coach Andy McLeod on where his unit is: "We've got an experienced group coming back and the experienced guys are really showing they understand the tempo and physicality we are looking for. With our young group right now, we have no sophomores on our unit, so I've got nine guys who are in their third or fourth camp and nine guys that are in their first camp. It's a matter of getting the young guys to follow the lead of the older guys and pick up the system. We have so much experience we put it in very fast for these young guys so where it's taken the older guys two or three years to pick up everything that we've got in and built to this point, we're asking those young guys to get to that point in what is now six days.'' On the gap between veterans and new players: "There certainly is a considerable gap between the two, but most of that is knowledge based. This young group has a lot of skills and probably is the most talented group I've ever had as freshmen. The thing about freshmen are they're freshmen. They've got to get into to it, they've got to see reps so they can start playing the game instead of thinking about the game.''


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Quote of the Day: "You Can Buy Style" (Nicola Formichetti)
You can't buy style? That's what you think!
Nicola Formichetti, Creative Director of French fashion label MUGLER says, you can.
In an interview with Another-Mag the Italian, who has become world-famous as Lady Gaga's stylist, says:
"Style is something you can buy now. Style has replaced elegance. Before, I believed that style is something a person embodied. But now it's so easy to buy good style if you have the money. In five to ten years, art and fashion will be mental. Style is not just something you have, you can research it, and make it your own."
Where exactly you can buy style, Formichetti doesn't reveal unfortunately. Maybe at MUGLER. Maybe not, though.
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Cathy Horyn >>> Hedi Slimane – a Conciliation?
Cathy Horn has been the critical voice of the New York Times for a long time. Her, unusual for the industry, critics have not always brought her friends. With the designer of Saint Laurent, Hedi Slimane, she still is in a clinch.
After a critical article by Horyn, Hedi Slima published a tweet, in which he complains, that her critic is unprofessional, that she has always preferred Raf Simons (oh dear, oh dear) and that she is never going to be invited to another Saint Laurent fashion show.
Back then, in her sum-up about the Parisian fashion shows of the season, in which she was not allowed to take a seat for the New York Times at SAINT LAURENT, Horyn wrote the following sentence about Slimane's work at SL:
'With the decision, to remove the 'Yves' out of 'Yves Saint Laurent', Slimane cut the connection to the founder of the brand, and everything he stood for, good taste and female power'
The sharp-tongued Horyn is writing in a current article, that she wrote for the T magazine, in comparison, in a conciliable way about Slimane.
In 'The Signs of Time' she is describing the upcoming commercialisation of high-fashion labels. What used to be a 'No-Go', is becoming place. Wearable, not necessarily innovative, fashion.
Slimane and his fashion for Saint Laurent, have been named as the example for the changes in the article:
"It's as though he refuses to strive for the standard goals of a luxury designer — to make modern, conceptual or intellectually resonating clothes. Instead, he makes straightforward commercial fashion that a woman can instantly relate to. I'm no fan of Slimane's, but he's clever. In two years as creative chief, he has barely broken a sweat as he fetches another pussy bow from the '60s time capsule. Last year, Saint Laurent led Kering's three biggest luxury brands in revenue growth with an 18 percent rise, beating Gucci and Bottega Veneta. He has also defeated his critics, who no doubt sensed the futility of continuing to point out that he doesn't seem to be trying very hard to be inventive."
Fashion is an effigy of our times. And, that must be acknowledged by Horyn, Slimane is in tune with the times with his work for Saint Laurent. With his simplification for fashion, his triumphal branding.
Slimane is more of a marketing-genius than a designer. Maybe that is the future. Is the genius designer, who is craving after innovation, always searching after something 'new' a discontinued model? Is it going to be the marketing-experts, who are ruling the future of fashion. Currently it seems like it.
You can read the complete article by Horyn here.
Lana Dumitru, the designer of this hot collection, earned worldwide fame through her Facebook dress. Who does not know the Facebook dress, please follow here.
For her current collection C://LANA/DESKTOP, the native Romanian used symbolics of the virtual world again. She printed the trash-symbol, which you should also have on your desktop somewhere, as symbols for the loud-speakers and loupe on neoprene-sweaters with USB-cables.
Above the trash-print a daily question appears: Are you sure you want to permanently erase the Items in the Trash? (You can't undo this action)? In this context, printed on a sweater, worn by a human, this question nearly becomes philosophical.
You can view all collections by our favourite CYBERGIRL from Transylvania, here.
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Dandy of the Week: Mike the Ruler
"Mike the Ruler" is the Lord of Tumblr, King of Instagram and, since today, for this week, also 'Dandy of the Week'. He is the youngest man (maybe more so the first kid), whom we provide this honour.
About one year ago the fame of 'Mike the Ruler' started. The 14-year old upper-east kid was hanging around at events by VFiles and at raves by the A$AP mob, and presented himself on Instagram in Rick Owens total-looks.
The Instagram hype about 'Mike the Ruler' started. In an interview, which VFiles arranged with him, Mike showed his, unusual for his age, impressive knowledge about fashion. He talked about Rick Owens fashion shows in 2007 (!) and told that he just wrote his homework about the topic 'Helmut Lang vs. Calvin Klein'.
His favourite brands are, next to Rick Owens, the New York-based street-wear avant-garde brands - #BEENTRILL, HBA, TELFAR and Eckhaus Latta, a brand, which fashion is described by the young expert as 'conceptual'. The pocket-money for those high-fashion labels is probably provided by his mom. She works as a lawyer.
Mike found his passion for fashion in 2011. His dad took him to an Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition. Mike Hope then became the fashion-lover 'Mike the Ruler'.
Whenever Mike goes to an event, then he always takes a second outfit with him in his backpack, which he puts on, when he is bored. He simply owns the selfie-game (Mike is posing with the A$AP Mob like he never did something else). And 'the Ruler' probably happens to know more about fashion then most German fashion-journalists.
Without questioning: 'Mike the Ruler' has more then earned, to be our youngest "Dandy of Week"!
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For people with almost any type of heart disease, disorders of the thyroid gland can worsen old cardiac symptoms or cause new ones, and can accelerate the underlying heart disorder. Thyroid disease can even cause cardiac problems in people with healthy hearts.
Disorders of the thyroid gland generally cause one of two types of problems: They either cause the thyroid to produce too little thyroid hormone (hypothyroidism), or to produce too much thyroid hormone (hyperthyroidism). Both types of thyroid disorders are common, and both can have a significant effect on the heart.
Hypothyroidism and the HeartThyroid hormone is very important for normal cardiovascular function, so when there is not enough thyroid hormone, neither the heart nor the blood vessels can function normally.
In hypothyroidism the heart muscle becomes weakened, and can no longer pump as vigorously as it should. In addition, the heart muscle cannot fully relax in between heart beats. This failure to relax can produce diastolic dysfunction, a condition that can lead to heart failure. Hypothyroidism also causes blood vessels to stiffen, which can produce hypertension.
Cardiac symptoms of hypothyroidism
Cardiac symptoms can occur in anybody with hypothyroidism, but they are especially likely in people who already have underlying heart disease. Common cardiac symptoms associated with hypothyroidism include:
- Shortness of breath on exertion and poor exercise tolerance. Shortness of breath (also called dyspnea ) in hypothyroidism is usually due to weakness in the skeletal muscles; but in people who also have heart disease dyspnea may be due to worsening heart failure.
- Slow heart rate (bradycardia.) The heart rate is modulated by thyroid hormone, so with hypothyroidism the heart rate is typically 10 - 20 beats per minute slower than normal. Especially in patients who also have heart disease, however, hypothyroidism may worsen the tendency for premature beats (such as PVCs), and may cause atrial fibrillation.
- Diastolic hypertension . One might think that, because a lack of thyroid hormone slows down the metabolism, people with hypothyroidism might suffer from low blood pressure. Usually the opposite is true - the arteries are stiffer in hypothyroidism, which causes the diastolic blood pressure to rise.
- Worsening of heart failure, or the new onset of heart failure. Hypothyroidism can make well-controlled heart failure worsen, and can produce heart failure for the first time in patients with relatively mild underlying heart disease.
- Edema (swelling). Edema can occur as a result of worsening heart failure. In addition, hypothyroidism itself can produce a type of edema called myxedema, caused by an accumulation of abnormal proteins and other molecules in the interstitial fluid (fluid external to the body's cells.)
- Worsening of coronary artery disease (CAD). While the reduction in thyroid hormone can actually make angina (chest discomfort associated with CAD) less frequent in patients who have angina, the increase in LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol) and in C-reactive protein seen with hypothyroidism can accelerate any underlying CAD.
Hypothyroidism is often an extremely subtle condition. It typically has a very gradual onset, so its symptoms can "sneak up" on you. Furthermore, especially in older people, hypothyroidism often occurs without the typical constellation of "textbook" symptoms that doctors usually expect. Hypothyroidism is also more frequent than many doctors realize. So if you have any of these symptoms and your doctor does not have a ready or convincing explanation for them, especially if you already have heart disease of any type, you should ask your doctor to measure thyroid hormone levels.
Treatment of hypothyroidism
Hypothyroidism is treated with thyroid hormone medication. The adequate treatment of hypothyroidism is a bit tricky, and even controversial. You can read about its treatment here.
There is a similar and less well-known thyroid condition, called subclinical hypythyroidism, that may also affect the heart. You can read about subclinical hypothyroidism here.
Hyperthyroidism and the HeartHyperthyroidism is caused by the overproduction of thyroid hormone. When there is too much thyroid hormone, the heart muscle is "whipped" like a horse, and for a person with heart disease it's like whipping a tired horse. Excess thyroid hormone increases the force of contraction of the heart muscle, and increases the amount of oxygen demanded by the heart. It also increases the heart rate. As a result, the work of the heart is greatly increased in hyperthyroidism.
Cardiac symptoms of hyperthyroidism
Cardiac symptoms can occur in anybody with hyperthyroidism, but can be particularly dangerous in people with underlying heart disease. Common symptoms include:
- Fast heart rate (tachycardia) and palpitations. Occult (that is, unapparent) hyperthyroidism is a common cause of an increased heart rate at rest and with mild exertion. Hyperthyroidism should always be ruled out with blood tests before making the diagnosis of Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia. Especially in patients with underlying heart disease, hyperthyroidism can also produce a host of other arrhythmias such as PVCs, ventricular tachycardia, and especially atrial fibrillation. Indeed, it is important to rule out hyperthyroidism in anybody who has atrial fibrillation for no clear underlying cause.
- Systolic hypertension. The forceful cardiac contraction increases the systolic blood pressure (the pressure within blood vessels during cardiac contraction).
- Dyspnea with mild exertion. This can be due to the skeletal muscle weakness cause by hyperthyroidism, or to a worsening in heart failure.
- Heart failure. Hyperthyroidism itself can produce heart failure, but only relatively rarely. On the other hand, if pre-existing heart disease is present, worsening of heart failure with hyperthyroidism is common, and can be extremely difficult to treat.
- Worsening angina. Patients with CAD often experience a marked worsening in symptoms with hyperthyroidism. These can include an increase in chest pain (angina) or even a heart attack.
As with hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism can be present - and often is - without the classic, textbook symptoms. So anyone who has any of these cardiac symptoms that cannot otherwise be readily explained should have their thyroid function measured.
Treating hyperthyroidism
The "best" way to treat hyperthyroidism is controversial. In the U.S., most doctors immediately opt for ablating the overactive thyroid gland with radioactive iodine, then giving the patient thyroid hormone pills since the thyroid gland is no longer functional. Using drugs to partially suppress the thyroid gland - in the U. S., Tapazole or PTU - creates somewhat more of a long-term management issue for doctors, but (some say) may lead to ultimately happier patients. Read more about the treatment of hyperthyroidism.
Klein I, Ojamaa K. Thyroid hormone and the cardiovascular system. N Engl J Med 2001 Feb 15;344(7):501-9.


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Seahawks LB Hill 'out for a while'
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Deadline passes for Chargers WR Jackson to be traded
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Seahawks' road woes continue
There are a ton of things different about the Seahawks this season under new head coach Pete Carroll, but one thing remains the same: Seattle still stinks on the road.
Orton's throws for over 300 yards as Broncos beat Seahawks
Kyle Orton threw for 307 yards and two TD passes and top draft pick Demaryius Thomas caught eight passes for 97 yards and a touchdown in the Denver Broncos' 31-14 rout of the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.
Seahawks could ill-afford Unger's injury
Already missing first-round OLT Russell Okung (out with a high ankle sprain), the Seahawks suffered another blow when previously rock-solid second-year ORG Max Unger suffered a season-ending toe injury in Week One.
Seahawks place starting ORG Unger on I.R.
The Seahawks received bad news after their big season-opening victory over the 49ers. Starting ORG Max Unger was placed on injured reserve Tuesday after suffering an injury to the big toe on his left foot Sunday.
Seahawks shoot out of gate like Seattle Slew
Don't look now, but Pete Carroll's new-look Seahawks earned immediate respect leaguewide after one-upping the division-rival 49ers in a 31-6 thumping that few league observers can honestly say they saw coming.
Hasselbeck leads Seahawks to opening-day rout
Matt Hasselbeck threw for two touchdowns and ran for another as the Seattle Seahawks gave new coach Pete Carroll a winning start with a 31-6 victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.
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We asked five NFL players for the recipes they like the most, and they served up some delicious-sounding fare.
Locklear takes pay cut to stay with Seahawks
Veteran ORT Sean Locklear has agreed to give up $2.2 million in salary to stay with the Seahawks.
Seahawks OLT Okung's status uncertain for Week Two
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Burnout apparently got to Gibbs in Seattle
While nobody knows for sure what actually triggered offensive line coach Alex Gibbs' decision to retire only eight days before Seattle's season opener, wear and tear appears to have been a contributing factor.
Reports: Seahawks to re-sign S Babineaux
Reports indicate the Seahawks plan to re-sign veteran S Jordan Babineaux, just a few days after releasing him.
Seahawks add Brock, Robinson, Siavii
Following the team's cutdown to 53 players, the Seahawks on Monday signed DE Raheem Brock, RB Michael Robinson and DT Junior Siavii. To make room for the three players, the team released S Jordan Babineaux, DT Kevin Vickerson and ...
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A report on ESPNDallas.com says ex-Cowboys DT Junior Siavii will sign with the Seahawks.
The Seahawks have locked up center Max Unger beyond the 2012 season after signing the anchor of Seattle's offensive line to a multi-year extension. Seattle announced the signing on Wednesday afternoon, just days before the start of training camp.||||||| Unger, who was a second-round pick out of Oregon in 2009, was entering the final year of his initial rookie contract and was due to become a free agent after the 2012 season. Terms of Unger's deal were not released. Unger has started all 32 games he's played in his NFL career. Unger started his entire rookie season in 2009, but missed most of the 2010 season with a toe injury. Last year, he started 15 games at center.
Unger is done for the season after being placed on injured reserve with a left toe injury.||||||| Seattle made the move on Tuesday, re-signing guard Mansfield Wrotto, who was released by the team at the end of training camp. Unger was injured early in Sunday's 31-6 win over San Francisco but played the entire game. Coach Pete Carroll disclosed Unger's injury on Monday and Unger was wearing a protective boot on his left foot.
The Seahawks have signed second-round draft choice Max Unger to a four-year contract that guarantees $1.95 million, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press.||||||| The person spoke on the condition of anonymity Wednesday night because the team had yet to announce the deal and has a policy of not releasing terms. The contract, first reported by The Seattle Times, could be worth more than $3 million.


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The Glenbrook Apaches go into this Friday's game against the Riverdale Rebels looking for their first win.
The Apaches should draw some inspiration from the home crowd, as the Apaches will play their first game of the year in the friendly confines of Apache Stadium.
It will be the first home game for new Apache head coach Chris Norton.]]>
The Glenbrook Apaches hit the road on Friday night to take part in the University Academy Jamboree in Alexandria.
Glenbrook's opponent was host, University Christian Academy (formerly CENLA Academy). Both teams came out swinging in the two quarter scrimmage, but unfortunately it would be UCA who would get the better of this contest.]]>
The Minden High Crimson Tide wrapped up their first week of practice in the grueling heat. The Tide has been working hard on the field, as well as the weight room, to try and make the 2014 season a successful one.
Now with less than three weeks until the Tide takes on Haynesville in their jamboree, Minden High put on the pads today for the first time this season.]]>
The Lady Apaches topped Riverfield 5-4 at home, to get off to a hot start in district play and avenge an early season loss.]]>
One is tall and lean, the other short and stout, but the two women share a love of the gym and the clients they train.
Dustin Divelbiss became a personal trainer out of a growing love for fitness and clean eating, while Katie Cappello knew in the sixth grade she wanted a career in the gym.]]>
With football season fast approaching, the Minden Crimson Tide have wrapped up their offseason training. Next up for head coach Spencer Heard and the Tide is fall camp, which begins August 4.
Coach Heard believes that the hard work his players have put in this summer will pay off in the upcoming season.]]>
During last month's St. Jude softball tournament, many people around the ball park were in agreement that it was time for Minden to form its own league. It looks like those hopes have been heard.
Now, the speculation is that Minden could have an adult league as soon as March. That's something that Minden resident, Eric Savage, would be pleased to see.]]>
Two-man golf teams will be teeing it up at Pine Hills Country Club for the second annual Pine Hills Memorial Classic Golf Tournament scheduled August 16 and 17, an event which will honor a Minden icon.
This year's honoree will be businessman Ben Hunter, whose family has owned and operated the Coca-Cola Bottling Company since its birth as North Louisiana Bottling Works in 1901. The franchise to bottle Coca-Cola was acquired in 1905.]]>
The Lady Apaches will take part in the annual Riverfield Tournament in Rayville.]]>
The rain may have put a damper on the LSU Alumni Golf Tournament on Thursday, but it didn't affect the scores.
Here is a look at the offical results:
First Flight]]>


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A grassroots effort to feed those who might not otherwise get a Thanksgiving meal has grown into a pretty big deal down in Olive Branch.
In fact, the little Bar-B-Que-Pit restaurant is planning to feed 800.
You never know when idle conversation will lead to something. Case in point: a conversation between FOX13 News and Tom Lochamy, owner of the Bar-B-Que-Pit.
"Honestly, Tom Dees, me and him were talking about it last May," he said. "We were talking about feeding the veterans on the Fourth of July. It snuck up on us then we talked about doing Thanksgiving, and here it is."
Forty smoked turkeys are being prepared for the big Thanksgiving Day dinner to be given away to 800 who will be eating instead of wanting to eat on Thanksgiving because a couple of people started talking, and then the talk spread.
"I got with Rodney McGuin with Italia East that just opened where the Catfish Place used to be," Lochamy said. "They are baking the rolls and all that. We just decided to get together and got with bunch of people and out and raised three-quarters of all the money we needed."
The folks at the Bar-B-Que-Pit put in the rest and smoked all the turkeys. The owners daughters and a couple of their friends got up early and helped pull smoked turkey; just a lot of regular folks doing something good for some other regular folks who could sure use a Thanksgiving meal.
"We're having turkey and dressing, candy yams, green beans, turnip greens, homemade rolls that's going to fill them up," Lochamy said.
There is a shortage in the desert department, though. If you make any kind of desert like chocolate chip cookies or banana pudding, contact The Bar-B-Que-Pit if you can help out.
"The Food Pantry picks up 200 plates tomorrow morning at 10 a.m., will hand-deliver them to the people," Lochamy said. "The Christian Coalition picks up 150. Horn Lake Fire Department picks up 50. Several churches around here are taking them out plus it's for people. When I arrived here 20 years ago. I was by myself. If you're alone Thanksgiving, come eat."
Simple as that. If you're alone on Thanksgiving, come eat. Come eat some great food that came from the kind of people that make you proud to call neighbor.
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This year, Fairfield High School's spring play will be something completely different.
Students will be flying high — sort of — in the school's production of "Peter Pan."
Director Jen Chupp wanted something to appeal to elementary students and their families, unlike last year's "Pride and Prejudice." Settling on the show was easy compared to the daunting task of making Peter Pan and Wendy "fly."
"A lot of kids were very excited and curious how we were going to fly Peter Pan," Chupp said. "Our first thought was cable and trapeze, but that was something that was just out of our budget."
Instead, she enlisted the help of her son, who is a videographer, to do movie shoots in front of green screens. Right before the characters need to fly in the show, the music will change, a glitter machine will shoot "fairy dust" and the movie will begin playing on a screen onstage.
The students shot two other scenes that will play as movies, once with Captain Hook and another when Wendy was little, so the flying scenes don't stand out, Chupp said.
The students were skeptical at first, but after the first few shoots with the green screen, they were as excited to see the final product as Chupp. That group included senior Preston Reddell, who is playing Peter Pan.
"Naturally I was disappointed because I wanted to be able to fly," Reddell said of Chupp's movie idea. "I was really curious how we would do it. I think it's going to be really cool. It's something different and that's really good."
Reddell has been involved with every production since his freshman year, and had some tough competition to land the lead role.
"I can be myself with this role," he said. "I don't have to act that much. It's a lot of fun to be someone who wants to be a kid and fight pirates."
The biggest challenge for him is keeping his voice high enough, like that of a 13-year-old boy.
"When I'm on stage you can't tell, but I think when I talk to people later they'll be surprised," he said.
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The following op-ed by first-year FIU Law student Frandley Julien, The high cost of staying out of politics in Haiti, originally appeared in The Miami Herald on November 2, 2012. Frandley Julien was coordinator of the Initiative Citoyenne, a civic group in Cap-Haitien, Haiti in 2001-04.
Haiti has never been a better illustration than now of Edmund Burke's quote that "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing." Traditionally, a huge portion of the country's population has always prided itself in belonging to the "silent majority," leaving the political scene to vagabonds and the bravest of serious souls. An understandable — albeit, not excusable — reason is the fact that Haiti's successive dictatorial regimes, particularly the Duvaliers, have raised the killing of political opponents to the level of a national sport. Being in the silent majority was a manifestation of our survival instinct at its best.
However, well-educated citizens of good will should have known that their choice to generally refrain from participating in the political process would lead the country exactly where it is now, with successive incompetent governments and the exponential deterioration of the population's living conditions. Moreover, the premise that abstention from politics would guarantee longevity could not be farther from the truth today. Quiet, law-abiding citizens are killed, kidnapped, raped on a daily basis in today's Port-au-Prince; everybody is at the mercy of the all-powerful gangs.
During the past couple of months, there have been more and more protests against President Martelly's stewardship of the country. Instead of listening to the population's grievances expressed through numerous street demonstrations, the president, upon returning from the United Nations, countered with a march of his own, leading a crowd of his partisans and state employees through the nine miles separating the international airport from the National Palace.


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At least Prop. 30 is passing
I suspected that when all the votes were in, Prop. 30 might squeak through, and right now it looks like it wll. That's really good news, because I don't know what we'd be doing tomorrow if the results were different. Statewide it's not all bad -- Prop. 32 is toast, Prop. 39 has won and I think ol' Jerry B pulled it out on Prop. 30, which is now ahewad 52-48.
Yes, this is good news.
The Millionaire-Munger Family had its food fight. It (and shill Nathan Ballard) almost turned over the apple cart, but the people made the right choice.
California ranks 47th in education spending (per pupil), between Mississippi (48) and Arkansas (46). We have to stop acting like a southern-fried cracker state and start funding public education. This is a good step.
agreed, Troll the XIV.
The structural deficit problem hasn't been solved, only covered up. We can't raise sales tax every year and the pensions timebomb is killing us. If 30 loses, Brown would have to make the tough but necessary decisions that can only be deferred, not solved, through ever higher taxes on working people.
You got be kidding. Increasing taxes good? This will send more rich folks out of the state Only the parasites will remain. The best solution was to just pay the government employees less.
increase my online purchases, and my big ticket items on my regular visits to Oregon.
While anyone self-employed will incorporate in Nevada which several people I know already do.
Google "Laffer Curve".
You drive to Oregon to buy a washer and dryer?
Or computers, jewellery, etc.
Or just order online of course.
Because bringing a car into CA within a year of purchase means you pay sales tax on that purchase - and OR reports sales of out-of-state buyers too.
I think you're full of shit. Or just stupid. Driving to Oregon to save $100 on the purchase of a new MacBook is ridiculous - the gas to get there and back costs at least $150 alone.
And if you drive up to Oregon regularly anyway, as I do, it makes sense to do major shops at the malls in Medford, Oregon, and save 10% or so.
Or shop online. Amazon caved on the sales tax but many online vendors still charge no sales tax.
Many ways to skin a cat.
The lower you cut tax rates, the higher tax revenues become.
So let's lower tax rates to 0%, then tax revenues will skyrocket.
Then we can all climb on our unicorns, fly off into the sunset, and live happily ever after.
Raise taxes beyond that and, bingo, receipts decline because people practice more tax evasion and avoidance, or simply work less hard, or move to Nevada etc etc
Taxes are not created equal. Some taxes are far better to adminsiter than others because they are much easier to collect and harder to evade. Some taxes are much fairer than others since they tax the wealthy more than the poor.
Something has happened to this website with a bunch of people following the simplistic claptrap of Ronald Reagan and spewing nonsense pablam here and calling it analysis.
We can easily REDUCE taxes on working people by repealing regressive payroll taxes and regressive sales taxes, while increasing taxes by an equal amount on the wealthiest bondholders, and wealthy landlords, and the small group of people who collect the majority of the world's dividends and capital gain payments.
If the current CA legislature ends up with 2/3 Dems in both Assembly and Senate they can change the tax system to REDUCE taxes on working people, while increasing taxes on landlords and the wealthy owners of dividend, interest, and capital gain income. But good luck getting the Democrats to make any significant changes. The Democrats are owned by the big landlords and big tech businesses located in SF and Silicon Valley who ship jobs out of the state while helping to reduce business taxes at the same time. And the public unions could care less about tax policy either, as witnessed by their strong support to increase the regressive sales tax again under Prop 30.
If liberals and progressives were ever looking for an accomodating legislature to finally get a bunch of positive legislation considered and passed, they've going to get their wish come January. But I suspect chatboards like this will continue to attract the same whiners and losers who would rather spew nonsense than organize with their neighbors to formulate positive alternatives that can be enacted by the CA legislature.
It will take significant degrees of organizing to make a difference with the legislators in Sacramento.
The Democrat Party has an array of operations whose charge is to insulate the Democrat Party from such demands for change.
I am not sure that we can get there from here.
You can't balance the deficit or the budget by taking only a few people highly. That's been known for decades.
So sales tax and payroll taxes are effective and efficient, because everyone pays something, and so nobody pays too much.
The Democrats won't do what you suggest because they know they would lose in the next election if they did. The GOP message on that would be compelling.
The very ignorant Guest is probably paying way more tax than needed based on their terribly misinformed statements. Guest better set aside a bunch of money for penalties and interest if they're cheating the tax authorities out of money. Both the US gov (IRS) and state Gov (FTB) are brutal on tax cheats.
For anyone interested in more accurate information about business incorporation (and saving yourself potential tax penalties): Where a company incorporates (eg, Delaware, Panama, Nevada, CA) has NO IMPACT on the amount of US or state tax it owes. What's important is, WHERE DOES A COMPANY OPERATE, not where it's incorporated. If they conduct business in CA or the US or any other state, in almost every situation, they will be liable for state taxes there.
Re sales tax savings: Driving from the Bay Area to Medford is about 375 miles, 750 round trip. If a car gets 25 mpg, total gas cost is $120 (30 gallons X $4). If you buy $1,000 worth of TAXABLE stuff, the sales tax savings is about $85. But since most retail prices tend to be higher in Oregon than the Bay Area because there is a lot less store competition up there, it's doubtful you'll get the full $85 savings. Oh, and the motel bill and food and TIME, etc.
More simply, Guest has no idea what they're talking about and is giving terrible financial advice to people. And even more egregious, they're despoiling the good names of Guests everywhere.
That's a myth called the Millionaire Migration Myth - recent Stanford study indicates that taxes (increase or decrease) are not the reason for living in or leaving a state. Especially in California cuz it's so darn nice here.
I know several people who set up their business in Reno or Vegas, and then arrange to get paid there.
There's always a way.
"That's a myth called the Millionaire Migration Myth"
LOL. Affluent people have, in fact, been leaving the state for years, while less affluent people move in to replace them. This trend is now only going to accelerate.
Why do you think California has a third of the country's welfare recipients?
First, I'm not sure where you got the one-third figure, but California has more welfare recipients because California has more people than any other state.
And California pays in way, way, way more in federal taxes than we get back in federal spending which means that we as coastal liberal progressive elites subsidize the "self sufficient" "up by their bootstraps" southern fried libertarians and Republicans, the real tax takers in this system.
The only "Red state" that pays in more than it gets back is Texas, and that only $1.05:$1.
Why do you think that the titans of the 21st century economy: Apple, Google, PayPal, eBay, Genentech, Twitter, Intel, Cisco and Facebook are located here in California?
Could it be the terrible business climate, the high tax structure or the "parasites" leeching off of the government?
because their income is given as deferred capital gains or as options. Or they are paid thru companies outside CA or via interest-free loans. Lots of ways of skinning that cat.
Compared to the relatively large salaries paid to tens of thousands of California employees at Apple, Facebook, Google, Intel, and hundreds of other CA technology companies, the deferred comp and options paid to a few top executives is relatively small. Anyone can research the state tax numbers - the vast majority of state (and federal) income tax is paid by very high income knnowledge workers who are mostly at the high-technology companies, and the professional lawyers and accountants who service these companies. None of their compensation is deferred or involves "interest-free loans."
Even the thousands of employees who get stock options and make a nice bundle when a company goes public almost always do "same-day sales" when the options are exercised, resulting in immediate taxation at ORDINARY income tax rates, not capital gain tax rates. This is partly good investment planning - diversifying assets, especially when employees work at the same place where the stock is issued - but also because most employees can't afford the tax hit when options are exercised so they need to sell the stock to pay the tax bill.
Between people who deliberately disseminate false inforamtion on this chatboard to make the progressive community look stupid, and the few incessent, angry posters who call themselves progressives but obviously hate the progressive movement or they would control their anger and bitterness better when posting here, it may be a good thing the city has changed so much over the past 15 years that the D5 seat is history and the pro-landlord, pro-development policies of the mayor, port and real estate interests are firmly in control of the city. Counting to 6 is likely to become increasingly difficult for the "progressive community." And counting to 8 is likely near impossible.
San Franciso was an interesting place to live post urban flight after the 1960's when housing prices and rents plummented, but current extremely high rents and high real estate prices have taken the bloom off the rose. Even with Prop C passing and its emphasis on non-profit landlord housing, I don't see the demographics changing much at all. The city is now like Paris or Manhattan or London or Tokyo - only the uber rich need apply to live there, along with a few percentage of very low income folks who can score a subsidized affordable apartment.
If the SFBG wants to be a place where organizing and sharing ideas is possible, then mandatory chatboard registration is needed. One, it will mostly end the false posts like the one I'm responding to now - fools, idiots and liers would be quickly identified and shamed from posting in the future - and two, it should allow us to block people like lilli and marcos and troll II and dnative and matlock who add nothing but a lot of snark, misinformation and nonsense because they are profoundly lonely and bitter.
A chatboard that attracts well-meaning posters like Greg and Danielle and others will attract other balanced and informed posters, and some progress on thoughts and ideas might be possible. Otherwise this chatboard is mainly a cesspool of bad information and a bunch of angry, bitter posters.
That false post was in response to my substantive post against the idea that high tax (CA is not high tax) states are bad for business, from work where my firefox on debian resists holding cookies so I'm guest often.
If you are who I think you are, you're one of the bitterest loneliest people in Sacramento. You bolted when you were evicted, but we managed to hang on and now we've got to live here with this gaggle of fools getting paid while the ship goes down and the City I moved to is evaporating before my eyes
They had their chance, its been a decade now, how much longer would we need to wait for them to make it finally work doing it their way?
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