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Last night I received a called from my cousin and this is what happened:
Me: Hello!
Her: Hey! Can you keep it down, I'm on the phone here!!! (Screaming on the back) Is your mother home?
Me: Hum… yes but she is at the shower.
Her: Hey I said no fighting!!!! And Edwin no more chocolate!!! Can you hold on a second?
Me: Sure.
(Lots of screaming, loud noises, crying, something seems to be have broke and then the call got disconnected.)
Right, babies. They are so cute and funny and annoying all at the same time. I would love to have one of my own but the truth is that I can't bear with the fact that I might not be a good mother. My father is a very bad parent, as in selfish and only thinks about how he could benefit from everything he does. What if I get that bad parent gene? Unlike me, my sister is the most motherly person I know and she is 4 years younger than me! She always knows why my little cousins are crying, knows how to pick them up and feed them. She is a natural. I'm not. I'm a mess when it comes to babies. I get all frustrated and even cried once because I couldn't find out why was he crying. I don't even know how to play with them. I get all awkward and uncomfortable. Needless is to say that nobody leaves me alone with their babies. Some people tell me that I just need to have one of my own and the instinct will come all by it self but, what if not?
I'm a bit selfish when it comes to my space. I like my quite daily reads, the time I send in my computer and watching my TV shows. I like not cooking on a routine and sleeping all night. A baby will mean to change and adapt my complete lifestyle since I will be putting the baby's needs first. I think some of the reasons to have a baby are almost as selfish as the ones to not have one. I mean, for what do you want a baby? To leave have an heir, to someone to keep you company, to teach your life secrets, to have someone to love, to have someone love you or simply because you want to experience the motherly love. I'm not saying they're wrong; I'm just saying they are pretty selfish. In my case, besides the selfish reasons of my quite space, I have a completely non-selfish reason of not wanting to break the child's heart because I'm a bad mother. I don't want him or her to suffer. I'm not saying I don't want ever to have a child but I have my concerns. Mostly it comes from having a very irresponsible, selfish, cold dad. I will definitely need therapy once I fully decide to have a baby, to help me take care of my fears.
I think a child is the most beautiful blessing God made and that the love that you might experience is beyond scientific understanding but what comes with it scares me. On my sophomore year at college I had an English professor that was obsessed with feminist literature. He had us reading it every day to hand in responses. It completely changed my perception of being a mother and a wife. Many of them just wanted their freedom back, something they will never get back. I once heard that a child is like getting a tattoo on your forehead, you have to be a hundred percent sure because it will be with you for the rest of your life. Yes they loved their children but they made clear that they were suffocated by their life. If you haven't read any feminist's work is something like the character Lynnette from the TV show "Desperate Housewives". She loves her kids but has a constant struggle between choosing them over her career and life it self. She has breakdowns and barley keeps it together sometimes. I'm not sure I want to live my life like that but i don't want to end up at my 50s regretting not having one either.
Some women think is wrong or maybe even forbidden to discuss such real issues. Take for example, Charlotte's character in the movie Sex and the City 2. She is always trying to be a perfect mother and wife. She doesn't even what to admit to her friends that her life is sometimes miserable. I think she doesn't want to even say it out laud because it will mean that she is admitting it to her self too. Most people do this; they only talk about the wonders of being a mother. But that is so wrong with being real and letting everybody knows that you are not perfect and that having a kid sucks sometimes? Lately I've read a lot of good, real and raw mother's blogs and it make me happy that there are women that are letting us know what we are getting into, the highs and the lows. Thank you!
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Mother Mary has given us so much in our lives, and comfort, guidance and much more through our stuggles as widows and widowers.
What a perfect gift to give Her today, Sept., 8th, Her birthday, (celebrated)
.......to commit to consider the candiate in Nov., who will act to end abortion,,,,,,,,,,,,,,even if many of his political issues we disagree with
Mary our heavenly Mother cries eveyday for thousands of innocent children murdered,,,,,,we can do this and She will answer our needs
and share with others this issue of life
we pray
amen happy birthday Mary!
Thank you for that thought, and the reimnder of our Mother's birthday. Lately I have struggled in the grief process, after 13 months of being a "good widow". The new feelings of aloneness is amplified by the anniversaries of my parent's deaths (both in September) But loooking through our Lady's eyes, my troubles are like dew drops which will quickly evaporate.

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Why is the image height 21.64mm ?
Is it because those are APS-C lenses, or because that's half the radius required to cover an FF sensor ?
I'd assume it's the radius of the image circle (not half the radius, since the radius is already half the diameter). EF lenses have a 43.2 mm diameter image circle, and 2 x 21.64 mm = 43.3 mm.


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The directions are meant for the congee to be made using a rice cooker but it could easily be cooked in a slow cooker or on your stove top with modification.
Prep Time: 25 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Soak ingredients overnight: 8 hours
Total Time: 9 hours, 5 minutes
Yield: 6 to 8 portions
- 1/3 cup red rice
- 3-4 thin strips (broken into smaller bits) dried mountain yam (Dioscorea Opposita Thunb)
- 25-30 lotus seeds (Nelumbo nucifera)
- Handful of dry black beans
- Handful of dry mung beans
- 1/4 cup dried fox nuts (Euryale ferox Salisb)
- 1/2 cup white rice
- 10 dried and pitted red Chinese dates (Ziziphus Jujuba Mill)
- 1/4 cup dried lychee (Boxthorn fruit)
- 8-9 cups of water
In the morning rinse the lychee, then soak in water for five minutes. Drain.
Rinse white rice in small bowl or rice strainer until water clears. Drain.
Put soaked ingredients (including water), rinsed white rice, dates, and drained lychee altogether your rice cooker. You may add a pinch of salt if you prefer.
Add additional 1-2 cups of water
Cook on porridge setting of your rice cooker.
Recipe yields 6-8 breakfast portions. You can store your cooked congee in the refrigerator for up to ten days. If you are making this for one person it can easily be divided it into seven portions. Breakfast prepared for the week all at once is a terrific time saver. It can be eaten heated or cold.
This is a bland tasting porridge that is gentle on your stomach and easily digested. Chopped walnuts, dried pineapple, and/or pumpkins seeds can be added as toppings prior to eating for a special treat.
If you like you could add dried barley to the list of ingredients for overnight soaking. Without the barley this congee recipe is gluten-free. However, if gluten is not a concern in your diet adding barley is a heart-healthy option.


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"My paintings are about women. In depicting woman, I strive to explore, visually, the richness of her roles, the variety of her stories.
I have painted women applying makeup, shopping for clothes, engaged in conversations in the athletic club locker room, mourning for a dead friend, enjoying a ladies' lunch. These women are old and young, black, white and Hispanic.
Telling their stories visually enables me to discover the archetypal sister, mother, daughter, wife--the roles women play in their daily life, regardless of when they live."


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There wasn't room for two first basemen in Cincinnati; Joey Votto, the incumbent, is a past MVP winner and thus wasn't about to be pushed off the position by power-hitting prospect Yonder Alonso.
The Reds tried Alonso in left field, but he was awful there:
And thus, the best thing they could do with him was offer him up in a trade, and today that happened:
At first glance, this seems a lot to give up for Latos, who turned 24 just a week ago and has had two solid seasons for the Padres, and who isn't free-agent eligible until 2016 (arb eligible in 2013).
Alonso hit .330/.398/.545 with five home runs in just 88 at-bats for the Reds after being called up late in the year. Volquez would seem to be the key to the deal, but he's spent much of the last three years injured. If he returns to his 2008 form, when he made the NL All-Star team and finished fourth in Rookie of the Year voting, while going 17-6 with a 3.21 ERA and a 1.327 WHIP, the Padres will have a steal; Boxberger and Grandal appear to be throw-ins.
On the other hand, the Reds had an extra asset that they had no place for and turned him into a No. 2 or No. 3 starting pitcher -- that's not easy to do, especially since he's under team control for at least four more seasons.
The other issue for the Padres is Petco Park, which in the past has been death on lefthanded power hitters like Alonso. He'll need to overcome that perceived issue to make this deal worth it for San Diego.


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Patrick Cannon served nearly 20 years on the Charlotte City Council before being elected mayor in November. The 47-year-old appeared to have a bright political career ahead of him as the top elected official in North Carolinas largest city.
Instead, hell face federal charges related to an FBI sting operation. The U.S. attorney says the theft and bribery charges could result in 50 years in prison and a seven-figure fine. Cannon is innocent until proven guilty, of course. It will be interesting to see how his defense unfolds. He has resigned as mayor.
Authorities say he took bribes five times from FBI agents posing as developers or business people interested in having the skids greased to benefit their interests in Charlotte. Cannon, they said, was willing to help. Benefits included cash and at one point, authorities say, a trip to Las Vegas.
These same authorities say the last payment to Cannon was $20,000 in cash on Feb. 21 in the mayors office.
An affidavit filed in the case says Cannon boasted to the undercover agents of his connections and influence in the city. The implication in some of the conversations was that Cannon could help with zoning issues when it came to developments, particularly around transit sites.
The charges have shocked Charlotte, a city that prides itself on clean government. One former Charlotte mayor, Pat McCrory, now sits in the governors office. Cannons predecessor, Anthony Foxx, is the U.S. secretary of transportation.
There are hard days ahead for Cannon. This episode, regardless of its outcome, underlines the trust, responsibility and power the public puts in local elected officials. Anyone in a mayors office or on a city council needs to remember that public service, not self-advancement, is the one and only point of elective office at the municipal level.


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Signs along West Congress Street west of I-10 downtown show how developers are banking on demand for more living and working space there with the arrival of the modern streetcar.
They told Menlo Park and Barrio Hollywood residents as much Thursday night as they gave details on what they have built and their plans for the future. But neighbors said that the city and developers still have a way to go, just like the streetcar.
About 100 people packed into a west-side conference room to hear about what has been done on the land west of I-10, and what is planned.
The area along the I-10 frontage roads was not so much the discussion, even though Area 1 of the Downtown Gateway Development section stretches from West St. Mary's Road to West Silverlake Road. The big talk was along Congress.
Developers such as members of the Gadsden Company pointed out how they have built restaurants, shopping and residential areas and that they plan to construct more.
But neighbors said that they want to see more done directly for them and not just catch the benefit of what happens, if it happens.
"(The city) find(s) out where they can get grants, federal funding, whatever, and figure out how to get it, figure out how to spend it, and then figure out how to go get some more," complained Mitch McTee, a Menlo Park resident.
Ward One councilwoman Regina Romero said, "We are already seeing it, but it can't happen in one day, and I know it's taken some time, but I've always said the role of government is to create and build public infrastructure that will help leverage private investment."
The councilwoman told the crowd that millions have already been spent on landfill reclamation and land preparation for development, and pointed to those costs as part of the $230 million spent by the Rio Nuevo District.
While Thursday's meeting covered the past and a general picture of the future, a more detailed meeting is expected for February.
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Barbara Walters returning to 'The View' on Monday
NEW YORK (AP) - Barbara Walters says she's returning to "The View" on Monday.
She's been sidelined for several weeks. But now she's "had enough rest and it's time to come back," Walters reported by phone during Tuesday's edition of the ABC talk show.
Walters was hospitalized on Jan. 19 after fainting and cutting her head at a party in Washington. The 83-year-old said she had chickenpox and a fever at the time but didn't realize it. She suffered a concussion and got six stitches. She was released 10 days later and since then, has been resting in her New York home.
"No more chickenpox," she told her fellow panelists in the studio during her phone call.
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Sutton Massive 1. PhoneShop does Grime
That's it. PhoneShop3 is over. Six episodes gone in the blink of an eye. If you missed any (forgivable) or all (unforgivable) then they are all available here on Channel 4′s player.
The high point of the last show was the spoof Grime promo. You can watch the whole thing here. Filmed on a bitterly cold Good Friday on some of the, er, rougher estates of South London, the main cast and crew were joined by some of the locals who made up SM1 – the Sutton Massive 1.
Anyone who's worked on a film production in those circumstances knows that this is the point where things can get a bit feisty – but such is the affection for the show amongst the target that the whole thing ran smoothly and without any hitches. And every last piece of equipment was accounted for….not something you can always say in similar locations!
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A day after signing WR Vincent Jackson to boost their offense, the Buccaneers added to their defense, signing CB Eric Wright to a five-year deal.
After starting his career with the Browns, Wright played for the Lions last season, starting all 16 games for the team. He made 74 tackles and recorded four interceptions for Detroit.
The 27-year old ranked No. 45 on PFW's list of the top 100 free agents. He may be replacing veteran Bucs CB Ronde Barber, who is a free agent and is near the end of his career.


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Android AppInventor: First Impressions
When Google's AppInventor was announced last month, I signed up straight away, and have been really looking forward to seeing what it can do. This weekend, I was granted access to the site (thanks Google!), so I thought I'd share my experiences with you.
On introduction, you're encouraged to read the manual, which has all the usual stuff you need to start development, with setup instructions and tutorials. But if you don't have an Android phone, you don't need to setup anything on your machine. In order to connect App Inventor to your phone, follow these setup instructions.
Skipping through the setup instructions, the My Projects area presents you wish a dashboard of all your AppInventor projects, allowing you to create and edit these projects.
Once the project is created, you get a nice web based viewer with a fairly comprehensive palette:
Each of the palette items provides further information on how to use it in your app:
To use any of the items, just drag them onto the screen. Any non-visible components, or services, get placed underneath the phone screen. As you select on any of the items, properties are displayed.
The logic and flow of your screen is defined using the Android Block Editor, launched as a Java Web Start application.
One of the really nice functions is the "checkpoint" feature, which is effectively the same as doing a "Save As" in a native IDE. You can assign your own name a checkpoint (the default being <projectname>_checkpoint<n>).
There are options to download and upload source, but this is just a backup and sharing mechanism - you don't get the actual Java source. While that's a bit disappointing, it's understandable. It's early stages yet, and maybe this will be possible in the future. Another limitation is the inability to publish your application to the Android Market: but Google "are actively evaluating the best way to integrate with the Market".
So that's a really quick overview of AppInventor. Over the next few articles in this series, I'll be bringing you through the construction of a full application using AppInventor.
Fabrizio Giudici replied on Thu, 2010/08/26 - 6:05am
Thanks for the review, James, but there's still a point that I can't understand, and you can't help me. In fact you're a professional, experienced and talented developer, while the Inventor is - AFAIU - targeted to less experienced people, and possibly even non technical people. Thus I'd rather to have feedback from that kind of people.
My biggest doubts are related to the fact that to have quality apps you need testing. This is not only a tooling problem (does Inventor have any support for testing?), but a cultural problem. Testing is underestimated even by professionals, figure out about non-professionals.
My point is not about the fear of a wave of low-quality applications that could strike us, as some think. Indeed, there are probably already tons of low-quality apps around, and customers make the selection. My point is that Inventor will indeed add tons of low-quality applications that will just sit in the dust of <50 downloads stuff. So no harm for us, but what's supposed to be the added value of those things? I only see the increase of the number of apps in the Market, a number that is good for marketing people at Google, but it's not beef.
Making a real effort to be positive and thinking of my own experience and app ecosystem, I could image some of my more advanced users to develop a very simple extension of my app, for very specific needs. It could take advantage of the powerful Activity/Intent integration facility of Android - but, hell, how many apps are really supporting this kind of integration? How many are documenting it in a way that is understandable by non technical people?


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Tiffany Thomas, 33, of the 2100 block of Dickey Ave. in North Chicago, also is accused of stopping vehicles on Route 41's southbound ramp at Washington Street late Thursday afternoon in an attempt to carjack two vehicles. According to police, she went from one car to another, before hopping into the third car on the ramp, which was driven by a Wheeling woman.
The woman was pushed out of her blue 2009 Toyota at Route 41 and Route 120 and sustained some injuries, police said, as did another driver Thomas allegedly targeted, the Lake County News-Sun is reporting.
Thomas is charged with two counts of attempted vehicular hijacking, unlawful possession of a stolen vehicle, two counts of aggravated battery, felony theft, reckless driving, six counts of leaving the scene of an accident, driving on a suspended driver's license and no proof of insurance.
She was ordered held on $100,000 bond at a hearing Friday.
"It started at 2:45 p.m. (Thursday) when we received a call of a hit and run at Grand Avenue and Juniper Street near Six Flags Great America," Gurnee Cmdr. William Meyer said.
The hit and run complaints continued to come in one after another, he added.
"Over the next couple of minutes there were five additional hit and runs reported in the general vicinity," said Meyer, adding that police don't know what prompted the series of alleged crimes.
Police were looking for a gold GMC SUV involved in all of the cases. It was found crashed into a guardrail under the overpass of Washington Street on Route 41.
"When officers arrived the driver's door was open and the radio was blaring full blast," Meyer said.
Witnesses approached officers to relay what they saw: a woman who jumped into the roadway on the southbound ramp of Route 41 in attempt to stop passing cars, police said. She attempted to get the first driver out by opening the door and scratching her, but was unsuccessful, according to police. She also was unsuccessful trying to pull a man out of the next vehicle, police said.
"She had jumped in front of them to get them to stop," Meyer said.
To gain control of the third vehicle, police said Thomas jumped into the passenger seat and ordered the driver to take off onto southbound Route 41. A short time later, Park City police notified Gurnee officers that they had a Wheeling woman who was pushed out of her vehicle at Routes 41 and 120.
"There were no life threatening injuries," Meyer said.
By this time, the GMC was found to be registered to Thomas, police said. North Chicago officers went to her residence and found the Wheeling woman's Toyota parked outside, police said. Police eventually tracked Thomas to the Vista West Medical Center in Waukegan, where she was arrested.
"The motive is still unclear," Meyer said.
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A growing season in a patio garden. The size is about 30 ft. by 8 ft. A lot of work went into it this year. Three very large shrubs and surrounding trees ensured a micro-climate.
There were container gardens, succulent rock gardens and vegetable container gardens. In the ground were xeric plants and a small area of grass.


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LA's MoCA Seems To Be Turning Itself Around Under New Director
"After five years of financial and managerial turmoil, the museum finally is poised on the brink of a bright new era, and community anticipation and goodwill are high."
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Why Isn't Portland's Diversity Reflected In Its Theatres?
"A movement to create theater that reflects the changing demographics of Portland has been picking up steam for years now, and by some measure appears to be working. So is Portland theater in good shape? Does it have a ways to go? Where are culturally specific theater groups in the mix?"
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Ominous: More Top Management At Chicago Symphony Jump Ship
"Whenever the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association finds a successor to former president Deborah F. Rutter, about to take leadership of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., that person will start with a clean slate in senior artistic management."
Chicago Sun-Times Published:08.28.14
MPAA's Movie Ratings Are Capricious And Odd (The Latest Example)
"MPAA ratings administrators have always resisted strict rules and regulations when determining what instances and degrees of rough language, nudity and violence can lead to a PG, or PG-13, or R, or the supremely rare NC-17. Narrowing this to the language question, these variances nonetheless are chaotic at best."
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Did Peter Gelb Exaggerate The Met's Budget Issues?
"Either Mr. Gelb exaggerated the company's plight as a negotiating tactic, or the unions ate his lunch. If he was exaggerating, then he's made a fatal mistake."
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Stolen Matisse Returned To Venezuelan Museum
"The Venezuelan museum, which had bought the Henri Matisse painting for about $500,000 from a New York gallery in 1981, reported that it had been stolen in December 2002 — apparently swapped for a forgery after it was lent to an exhibit in Spain. But a Miami FBI agent who has led the investigation to recover the work confirmed Wednesday that it was actually stolen sometime before September 2000, and spotted in Paris a year later."
Miami Herald Published:08.28.14
New Opera Cancelled In Russia After Venues Refuse To Host It, Composer Gets Beaten Up, And Death Threats Are Made
Ilya Demutsky's New Jerusalem is about a vigilante who tracks down and kills pedophiles. Once a video trailer for the premiere was made and word got around, all hell started breaking loose.
The St. Petersburg Times (Russia) Published:08.27.14
Did Someone Just Try To Start A Classical Music Critics' War In Dallas?
In a 1,274-word online column titled "Classical Music Criticism in Dallas: It's Time for a Makeover", D Magazine's Catherine Womack goes after The Dallas Morning News's Scott Cantrell for a 55-word blog post – a quick little kvetch about the word maestro – that Womack calls "insulting and condescending towards both enthusiastic audience members and The Dallas Opera's newly appointed principal guest conductor, Nicole Paiement, who happens to be a woman."
D Magazine (Dallas) Published:08.28.14
Six Steps To Restore People's Faith In The (Divvied-Up) Corcoran Gallery
"There's no rescuing the institution known as the Corcoran from this final crisis. And neither the National Gallery nor George Washington is obligated to try, truthfully. But under the new dispensation, leaders at the college and gallery can restore and even improve upon the things that the old Corc got right. Here are six suggestions for ways that the National Gallery and GW can build stronger institutions for the District."
Washington City Paper Published:08.27.14
What People Cured Of Blindness See
A 17th-century thought experiment asks "about a person, blind from birth, who could tell apart a cube and a sphere by touch: If his vision were restored and he was presented with the same cube and sphere, would he be able to tell which was which by sight alone?" Dr. Pawan Sinha, who has organized sight-restoring surgery for hundreds of blind children in India, has an answer.
The New Yorker Published:08.28.14
Syrian Refugee Take On "The Trojan Women" Scuttled As U.S. Denies Performers Visas
"It had the potential to be one of the most galvanizing cultural events of the season: a dozen Syrian women, refugees from that besieged country, performing in Washington a version of a 2,500-year-old Greek tragedy revised to include their own harrowing stories. But now the … State Department rejected the women's applications for entertainers' visas for the performances … because it is not convinced that the women would leave."
The Washington Post Published:08.28.14
What We Really Get From Learning History
Adam Gopnik: "The best argument for reading history is not that it will show us the right thing to do in one case or the other, but rather that it will show us why even doing the right thing rarely works out. … What history generally 'teaches' is how hard it is for anyone to control it, including the people who think they're making it."
The New Yorker Published:08.28.14
"The Procrastination Doom Loop" – Can Science Help Us Break It?
"When scientists have studied procrastination, they've typically focused on how people are miserable at weighing costs and benefits across time. … In the last few years, however, scientists have begun to think that procrastination might have less to do with time than emotion." As one researcher says, "To tell the chronic procrastinator to just do it would be like saying to a clinically depressed person, cheer up."
The Atlantic Published:08.26.14
The Man Who Made Off With John Updike's Trash
"[Paul] Moran has kept thousands of pieces of Updike's garbage – a trove that he says includes photographs, discarded drafts of stories, canceled checks, White House invitations, Christmas cards, love letters, floppy disks, a Mickey Mouse flip book, and a pair of brown tasseled loafers. It is a collection he calls 'the other John Updike archive,' … and it raises fundamental questions about celebrity, privacy, and who ultimately determines the value and scope of an artist's legacy."
The Atlantic Published:08.28.14
California To Raise Film And TV Production Tax Credits To $330 Million
"In a last-minute compromise reached Wednesday, Gov. Jerry Brown said he would approve legislation that would more than triple the annual tax credits available for movies and TV shows produced in California. The bill is aimed at reversing the loss of location shoots to other states that offer rich incentives to studios and producers."
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Ellen Burstyn, Aged 80, To Direct Her First Feature Film
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3/4 cup
apricot nectar
1/3 cup
hot water
2 cups
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6 tablespoons
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Good recipe, easy and delicious. I didn't have Apricot Nectar, took a can of Apricots put in blender to make the nectar, also chopped some of the apricots and added to batter. Made it in a 9x13 pan, baked for 35 minutes.
This cake enters the "disaster" recipes category. Way too sweet even without the icing. The icing quantity was adequate for probably 5 or 6 cakes. The cake ended up a soggy mess, with icing pouring over the plate. I had to lift this soggy mess out of the plate and, of course, it fell apart in the process. Will definitely not make it again.
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Easy and Tasty. No-stick spray worked fine. I used canola oil and reduced it to 1/2 cup since it's thinner than vegetable oil. It's my Dad's favorite, so I made him one for father's day. Everyone gave it a thumbs up.
This was a VERY moist cake, to the point that I had some trouble with it sticking to my bundt pan (which never happens to me). The flavor was gentle apricot and yummy. **I substituted apricot gelatin for the lemon which may have diluted the "punch" the flavor could have had.
Delicious! Especially good served while warm. May substitute orange juice for lemon juice in glaze.
I love apricots a lot. I found this recipe while searching the site for apricot recipes. All the measurements are perfect, and I did substitute lemon for orange in the glaze as to create a contrast of flavors. Plus, I poured the glaze on each individual piece. Yum!
I like this cake using lemon cake mix instead of yellow cake mix, and I omit the glaze. A light dusting of powdered sugar is enough.
this cake is to die for!! Very tasty and elegant at the same time.
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Ambassadors of the Group of 77 and China gathered in New York today for their last formal meeting at the United Nations in 2013. The meeting of the ambassadors of the 133 member states of the world's developing countries was attended by the President of the General Assembly, Ambassador John Ashe, and the UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson.
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- baths 2½
- sleeps 9
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- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
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- community Sea Pines Village
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Sea Pines townhouse in Bethany Beach one block from protected
beach in Bethany. Unit has masterbedroom with full bath and sun
porch. Second bedroom on second floor has two twin beds and a bunk
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sliding door leads to a shaded patio and storage closet for beach
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Kitchen is complete with dishwasher. Second floor has laundry
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conditioning. HD television/cable and wireless internet. TV in master bedroom.
Sun porch has lounge chairs and small table with chairs for your early morning coffee.
Outside patio has a picnic able and small grill for evening dinner. Parking
is available with two reserved spaces. Full size pool priviledge with unit rental.
Convenient walking location to all of Bethany Beach and easy driving
to outlets of Rehoboth Beach and amusements of Ocean City.
activities and attractions in Bethany Beach Delaware
Bethany Beach 4th of July parade, boardwalk shops, Garfield
Parkway attractions, beautiful protected beach, BB playground are
some of the activities available locally. Bethany has the reputation
of a small family oriented resort. Rehoboth Beach and Ocean City are
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Weekly Rates for Townhouse for 2014
Jan 1 - May 17- $625
May 17 - May 31 - $725
May 31 - June 7 - $975
June 7- June 14 - $1175
June 14 - June 21 - $1375
June 21 - August 16 - $1575
August 16 - August 23- $1375
August 23 - August 30 - $1175
August 30 - Sept 13 - $975
Sept 13 - Dec. 31 - $625
$300 Security Deposit required with final payment.
We rent weekly Sat. to Sat. only from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
Off season weekends are $175 per night with 3 night minimum .
No Smoking and positively NO PETS.
Unit limit 9 people.
Thomas J. Mahler 302-945-4880
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San Francisco Wednesday News Roundup
SFMTA, Transit Workers Union Reach Tentative Agreement
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has reached a tentative agreement with its transit operators' union, an SFMTA spokesman said Tuesday.
The agreement comes after three months of bargaining between the SFMTA and Transport Workers Union Local 250-A, and would save the agency a minimum of $21.3 million over the course of the three-year contract, SFMTA spokesman Charlie Goodyear said.
The proposal still needs to be approved by the members of the union, which represents the roughly 2,200 operators of Muni's buses and light-rail vehicles, as well as by the SFMTA board. Officials with the union were not immediately available Tuesday afternoon to comment on the agreement.
Among the provisions in the proposal are a pay freeze for the operators, the ability for the agency to hire about 200 part-time workers, and several changes to work rules, including overtime and discipline procedures, Goodyear said.
The two sides have been meeting since March, but "in the last six weeks the tempo had accelerated," with several bargaining meetings a week, he said.
The talks were not without their contentious moments. In April, the union voted to authorize a strike in case the negotiations broke down, and is also seeking to overturn Proposition G, which was approved by the city's voters last November.
The proposition changed parts of the city charter that ensured that Muni drivers would have the second-highest operator salaries in the country, and it requires that contracts be negotiated through collective bargaining and binding arbitration, similar to other city employees.
But Goodyear said the tentative agreement reached by the two sides is "a very positive development, and one that could potentially pave the way to wider resolution of outstanding issues."
Members of TWU Local 250-A are expected to begin voting on the proposal next week.
Oakland Teen Convicted of Murder at Metreon
A teen was convicted of second-degree murder Tuesday afternoon for the 2007 fatal shooting of another teen at San Francisco's Metreon complex.
Christopher Canon was 15 when he shot 18-year-old Michael Price Jr., of Oakland, at the Metreon at Fourth and Mission streets on Nov. 11, 2007. He was arrested nearby after the shooting, and was charged as an adult.
Canon, a San Francisco resident who is now 19, was upset that Price wasn't moving quickly enough down an escalator outside a video arcade at the complex, prosecutors said.
Canon's attorney, David Simerly, said Price was the attacker, and that Canon shot him in self-defense.
A mistrial was declared in the case last November when a San Francisco Superior Court jury deadlocked on whether Canon should be convicted of first- or second-degree murder.
Prosecutors retried the case with a new jury, and after two days of deliberations, the jury declined to convict Canon of first-degree murder, but found him guilty of second-degree murder with an enhancement for the use of a firearm.
The foreman of the jury, who did not want to be named, said outside of court, "We did feel for sure that they had the right person," but "we had a problem with whether or not it fully met the standard of first-degree murder."
Canon faces a sentence of 40 years to life in state prison for the charges.
Simerly called the result of the case "appalling."
He said security footage from the building shows that Price was the aggressor and that Canon was backing up when he fired four shots at him.
Simerly also criticized the stiff sentence for someone who was so young at the time of the shooting.
"It's nauseating that we have a country that subjects a 15-year-old to that," he said. "They do not perceive situations the way adults do."
Canon will return to court to be sentenced on July 8.
2 Children Fall From Window in Bayview
A boy and a girl fell from the second-story window of a home in San Francisco's Bayview District Tuesday afternoon, a San Francisco fire dispatcher said.
A 5-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl fell from the window in the 2600 block of Newhall Street just before 3:30 p.m., the dispatcher said.
The children were taken to San Francisco General Hospital, according to the dispatcher.
They were said to be awake and alert when firefighters arrived, the dispatcher said.
The dispatcher did not have details on how the children fell or their conditions.
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"This should be the model for all modern libraries."
-- Arthur Frommer (after a tour of the Darien Library)*
Yesterday afternoon, we continued our Grand Opening Author Series with a visit from travel expert Arthur Frommer. The standing-room-only crowd came prepared with pencils and paper, eager for the best in travel information and they were not disappointed! Mr. Frommer talked up-to-the-minute travel deals and anticipated future bargains, the benefits of using travel aggregates, and had advice for travelers of all ages! His talk was peppered with lots of amusing anecdotes and a couple of hilarious stories.
We had a reception and book signing after his presentation and many, many people remained to have books signed and to talk with the author. Surprisingly, this turned out to be a family event for many, and if anyone thought that children might be bored listening to this genuinely charming speaker, they'd have been wrong. Note the family above, right...before they left the signing table, the little girl rushed over and gave Mr. Frommer a big hug!!! Arthur Frommer is a hit in Darien. We thank him so much for coming to Darien Library and we can't wait to have him back!
*Mr. Frommer gave us permission to quote him!


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The conservative website, Illinois Review, is reporting Republican Senator Darin LaHood, State Senator may be looking at a run for State Treasurer.
Lahood, son of the former Congressman and current Transportation Secretary, is two years into a four year term in the Illinois Senate.
LaHood was involved in Republican Dan Rutherford's campaign when he successfully ran for Treasurer. Now that Rutherford is running for Governor, and the Treasurer's seat will be up for grabs.
We were unable to reach LaHood for comment Thursday.
There are already two Republicans --Bob Schillerstrom and Bob Grogan, both from DuPage County-- who have announced interest as Treasurer candidates.


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It seems that way with Google's release of Video Adsense. Straight from the horse's mouth .
I sold half my Google position in celebration of the euphoria…at $617.
Lot's of nerd takes over at TechMeme. I like reading Ashkan on days like today who has an entrrpreneurial, ground floor media view on the announcement .
I respectfully disagree with his view on Content being the next big wave of VC investment , just not enough leverage, but if he's right, great.
Matthew Ingram says it could be genius or desperation . I don't think it's either, just business. The desperation thing makes for good headlines, but come on Matthew, Google paid squat (inflated paper) for this business and I have said from day one that the deal was cheap. The stock market money agreed. This is no Skype.
What is amazing is how huge a lead Google now has in Video. It's like every other player has backed off, stood still and switched away from being in the market with YouTube. That is never a good thing for the market. Great for Google's stock though…hence the $600 plus price tag today.


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Having Hair Trouble? Rashida Jones and Dove Want to Help
October 10, 2011 at 1:36 pm , by Nykia Spradley
For many of us, bad hair days are far more common than the good ones. Yes, a sad sad truth. In an attempt to make light of the situation and to help with our hair woes, Actress Rashida Jones has teamed up with Dove as a part of their "Make Friends With Your Hair" campaign. If you're in serious need of a hair transformation log onto DoveHair.com/Friends before October 19th and submit a 90 second video about your unpredictable hair. Three finalists will win a VIP trip to NYC and a hair transformation by celeb stylist Mark Townsend. America will then have the opportunity to vote for their favorite finalist to star in a Dove Hair TV ad!
If you're in need of a little inspiration for your video check out Rashida's hilarious outtakes from her Dove commercial.
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Recruitment of Unclassified Staff
The job posting is an online process. Only those individuals trained to use the PeopleAdmin Online Employment System may create a job posting. Contact the Wright State University Human Resources (937-775-2120 or email@example.com) for training information.
When recruiting unclassified staff, follow the guidelines in these steps:
- Request to Recruit Staff Position
- Search Committee
- Advertisement
- Interviews
- Request for Contract/Request to Offer Position
- Background Check
- Letter of Offer
- Candidate Response to Offer
- Completion of Recruitment
Request to Recruit Staff Position
If the position is funded by general funds (namely fund 190002), the department must complete the Strategic Hire Request Form and submit it to the Office of Fiscal Affairs for approval. The approved form will be forwarded to the provost's office (the department will be copied on the forwarding email). After the provost's office returns the form (PDF version) to the department, the form should be attached to the PeopleAdmin position posting.
Search Committee
The department creates a search committee, which may consist of faculty, staff, students, and residents.
The search committee must be identified and receive compliance training prior to the department submitting the PeopleAdmin posting. After the search committee completes the compliance training, the approved training certificate should be attached to the posting. The originator should also document the training in the comments section.
Note: Read the "Setting Up the Search" and "Search Committee Composition" sections of the WSU Recruitment Handbook found on the Affirmative Action Programs website.
The department will
create the advertisement for the position
- The advertisement must state that all applicants must apply online at "http://jobs.wright.edu."
- The advertisement should have a first considered date of at least 30 days from the posting date.
- The advertisement should state "open until filled" if the department wants to keep the posting open for an extended search period.
- The advertisement must state that "Wright State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer."
attach the advertisement at the Document tab under "Document," "Ad Copy"
wait for Affirmative Action Programs to assign an Affirmative Action Position number
- Affirmative Action will send the Precis Part I to the department.
submit the approved advertisement to the appropriate journals after receiving acknowledgement that the job posting is approved on PeopleAdmin
advertise in all appropriate publications and keep a listing of all agencies and institutions contacted about the position
- A search for staff may be national in scope.
- The "Recruitment Resources" section of the WSU Recruitment Handbook found on the Affirmative Action Programs Web site provides resources for recruiting women or minorities.
- The department should keep photo copies of the advertisements as they appear in journals.
Reviewing Applications
The search committee's duties are to
- accept applications until the deadline
- screen the applications in compliance with Affirmative Action policies
- select the candidates for interview. First visits are normally limited to three candidates.
Screening Applications
The department must
list each applicant on the screening chart (provided by Affirmative Action Programs) and complete information for each.
update PeopleAdmin record for each applicant by selecting the appropriate workflow action in the "Take Action On Job Application" box.
Requesting Interview (Affirmative Action Precis Part I)
The department must
complete the Recruitment and Selection Precis, Part I (model forms may be viewed at http://www.wright.edu/admin/affirm/forms.html)
submit the Precis Part I to the Affirmative Action Programs office (coordinate with the office for preference of fax or PDF file). Include the following items:
- screening chart
- photo copies of the advertisement as it appears in journals
- mailing lists of departments and medical schools that were sent notices of the open position
- curriculum vitae of candidates who are selected for interview
- notification if a visa will be required for a candidate
wait for the approval letter from the Affirmative Action Programs Office and a Precis Part II form
- The committee should not interview any applicants until Affirmative Action Programs office has approved Part I.
update workflow actions in PeopleAdmin for applicants being interviewed.
Conducting Interviews
The search committee will
invite the candidates approved in Precis Part I for interview
- The committee should be consistent with all candidates by using the same basic itinerary for each candidate and using the same general questions.
interview the candidates
make a recommendation to the chair
Request for Contract/Request to Offer Position
The department must
complete Precis Part II (a model form may be viewed at http://www.wright.edu/admin/affirm/forms.html)
send (fax of PDF file) Precis Part II to the Office of Fiscal Affairs
- The committee must document the criteria and rationale used for selecting the recommended candidate(s).
- The appropriate associate dean will approve and return the Precis Part II to the hiring department and will forward a copy to the Office of Fiscal Affairs.
- The hiring department will send the signed Precis Part II to the Affirmative Affairs Program office.
Background Check
After receiving approval for Precis Part II, the department must
make a verbal and conditional offer contingent upon a successful background check
Upon acceptance of the verbal offer, the department must
notify the candidate that HireRight (background check vendor) will send an e-mail with login instructions to access the screening application
send the candidate's name to Meltem Kokaly, firstname.lastname@example.com, and Phil Parrill, email@example.com, to initiate the background check
Human Resources will notify the hiring manager of the results. Note: Background checks take one to three business days.
The department may proceed with the letter of offer after receiving the results.
Letter of Offer
The department must
wait for the approval letter for Precis Part II from Affirmative Action and a Status of Position Offered form
- A model of the Status of Position Offered form may be viewed at http://www.wright.edu/admin/affirm/forms.html.
An offer for a staff position CAN NOT be made to candidates prior to
- the closing date contained in the specific position advertisements
- Affirmative Action approval
prepare a letter of offer
send the offer letter to the appointee
Candidate Response to Offer
If the offer is accepted, the department sends the following to the Office of Fiscal Affairs:
- original offer letter
- completed Status of Position Offered form
- current CV
- Personnel Action Form (PAF available on-line)
If the offer is declined, the department completes the Status of Position Offered form and submits it to the Affirmative Action Programs office.
The department may proceed with an offer to a second candidate only after completing a new Precis Part II and following the procedures listed above (beginning with "Interviews"). If no other offers will be made, the department should inform the Affirmative Action Programs office of its plans, whether it plans not to fill the position, reopen the search, etc.
Note: Once the position is filled or the department has decided not to fill the position, the department should keep documentation of the search for three years.
Completion of Recruitment
The department must complete the recruiting process by updating the workflow actions for all applicants.
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Francois E. LaHay was born to Marie Aubuchon and Toussaint LaHay about 1829 in St. Genevieve, Missouri. By 1855 Toussaint and his children moved to Douglas County, Kansas, to do their part in seeing that Kansas became a Pro Slavery state1
Nancy Maryland Corel married "Frank" LaHay on December 19, 1856 in Douglas County, Kansas2. In 1858 the couple had their first child, Oliver "Ollie". A couple of years later in 1861 their daughter Ella was born.
The happiness of this young family was not meant to be. On April 17, 1862 the Lawrence Republican newspaper ran a notice that Francois LaHay of Clinton Township, Douglas County, Kansas died on the 9th of April in Missouri from lung fever.
Two years later, in the Thursday, February 11, 1864 edition of the Kansas Weekly Tribune, a notice was printed that Ella LaHay had died at the age of 2 years, 5 months, 9 days. Three weeks later on March 3, the Kansas Weekly Tribune reported that Olla LaHay, son of Nancy LaHay, died on March 1, aged 6 years, 1 month.
The three LaHay's were laid to rest on the family plot on the land of Toussaint LaHay. In 1972 the family was moved to the Clinton Cemetery to make way for the Clinton Dam and Resevoir3.
- Kansas State Historical Society. Reminiscences of Henry Hiatt of Twin Mound. Feb 6, 1897. Transcribed by Bobby Dobbins Title. ↩
- US Pension Office. Civil War Widow's Pension File #597571 Claimant's Affidavit, Sep 24, 1904. Transcribed by Bobby Dobbins Title. ↩
- Lawrence Daily Journal World. "Cemetery Shift Done by Dec. 1." Aug 4, 1972. ↩


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Most Cab Drivers Don't Do Drugs
That, or they're really sneaky about it.
Skip to content, or skip to search.
Skip to content, or skip to search.
That, or they're really sneaky about it.
The proposed change would cost passengers 30 cents per ride.
And the benefits of splitting a fare.
On any given ride, it's about 0.00044%.
He was arrested at the scene.
Look for it outside your local mosque.
The NYPD is investigating, but, so far, just a small fine.
A tourist lost a leg.
Reminiscent of Austin Powers.
He rigged a tube to carry the air to the backseat.
And it's coming to a cab near you.
A judge said it was okay.
With electricity, that is.
City Council doesn't find that authentic stench charming.
Transportation apps Uber and Square are both pulling up short.
If you're lucky enough to hail a cab using the new rates.
We can do better.
There's an app for that.
A bit more, every fifth of a mile.
Directly in opposition to Bill de Blasio.


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Comment: Diversity doesn't work (Score 1) 223
It spreads distrust and destroys social standards in common.
Thus, paranoia is an inevitable reaction.
It spreads distrust and destroys social standards in common.
Thus, paranoia is an inevitable reaction.
The problem with the internet is that if you add commerce and a clueless general population, you get behavior that is only appropriate in dive bars.
Make the same internet, put an IQ test on the door, and let in 120s and up and you'll have someplace worth attending.
Don't expect support-contract-like behaviour from a list - remember they're volunteers, there's no "SLA" and they don't work for you.
Ah, the old "bad behavior exists, therefore your example must be of the bad behavior"!
I've (repeatedly) seen people go on to these lists, ask a polite question, and receive STFU NEWB or analogue response very quickly.
Generally, the more difficult the question the more likely it is to receive this response.
Ever wonder why Stack Overflow is so popular? Volunteers there get imaginary internet karma points and so have incentive to answer questions.
You usually get a better answer at Stack Overflow than from the official lists.
But few businesses want to rely on a software plan that begins "And if there's a problem, we know this INTERNET FORUM..."
Investors will panic and flee the room, with good reason.
You only need one 9/10 to organize the project and avoid pitfalls.
Everyone else can write the bog-standard code that doesn't improve between someone with a 5/10 and a 10/10, or at least not by any metric measurable for business logic.
So they offer the 7/10s half what the 9/10 makes, and hire on a 5:1 ratio.
"No support contract."
Thus what they see is the possibility of problems that take days or weeks to resolve, while getting told STFU NEWB on some mailing list.
That's the experience many clients have had with FreeBSD, for example.
These tendencies are general bureaucratic tendencies and can also be observed in private industry, but generally only when the inbound money is so huge that bloat is an affordable luxury.
Some government offices work better than others.
Others... yeah.
First, there's all the rules that make sure rules first go to minority- or female-owned companies, or to companies in at risk zones.
Next there's all the regulation.
Next there's government slowness. It's not market responsive.
The result is that people who are interested in running a business go away, UNLESS their business model is making money off government by charging it extra for all of its special demands.
It's no wonder the DC area is growing faster than anywhere else and salaries are higher there.
Like many political ideas - most noteworthy being communism - they sound good when you think about them on a local scale, where everyone knows everyone else personally, but once you start adding in layers of detachment the rules break down very quickly; the "best and the brightest" aren't likely to win very often when fighting sociopaths.
Maybe we need to localize then. Divide up into units of 150 people and make those part of a pyramid all the way up to someone at top.
If only there was some system of government in history that had done this...
There's a difference between "good enough" and "elegant" when it comes to design.
Our society is a chaotic blast of all sorts of noise, from physical sound waves, to electromagnetics, to sheer ugliness.
It doesn't reflect a consistent design philosophy.
The high number of electromagnetic wave emitters inevitably creates other problems as well. But we're so focused on "good enough" that we ignore this.
Step 1:
Get rid of all regulation.
Free market, yo.
Step 2:
A young girl is murdered and rape in a cab in a horrific fashion.
The democracy demands solutions!
Step 3:
Regulate. When that doesn't work, regulate some more.
Step 4:
Prices are high and a de facto exclusive license exists. People notice this is bad and want deregulation.
Before people get in and start "social engineering" and applying "universal morality" in order to make a perfect world to fit their neurotic needs.
If we're lucky, these cosmic Dark Ages will rub off on earth.
that racist group
US police are woefully underfunded. They might get a bunch of SWAT stuff from the government, but actual basic policing, substations, and other items needed to process all but murders and attempted murders are not funded. Most cities are far more interested in making sure the professional sport league has the latest and greatest stadium so they won't move to a city that would. So, blame the city councils that deny adequate funding to city services, not the people who have to decide between catching the perps from a drive-by shooting versus some guy who lost his cellphone.
The unpopular truth is that "We The People" don't want to vote for the actual funding required for police departments, because that would require us to admit how much crime runs among us and take a more seriously look at certain egalitarian illusions.
Instead, we've made police dependent on and drunken with money from traffic tickets and drug forfeitures, which is a dishonest way of doing things.
Given the choice between a complex truth and an easy lie, voters (as a group) always pick the lie.
Don't blame cops for what the voters did.
What this country needs is a good five dollar plasma weapon.