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Carnival Fantasy is the oldest and smallest ship that they have to offer so I heard while I was on the ship. I went on this cruise with my cousins,aunts, and uncles. My two eldest cousins are 18, another pair of cousins were 16 and the rest were between 7-11 years old. The ship has lots of things to offer for ADULTS! Of course my cousins and I would like to hang out together just like our parents like to hang out together. However,my two 16 year old cousins and I were allowed to go in a teen club called "club o2", now my two 18 year old cousins wanted to hang out with us as we always do but they couldn't do that because the club is only from 15-17. Obviously, my 16 year old cousins and I can't go into the adult club so we were stuck in middle. Basically we were walking around the ship with nothing to do. The director of club o2 had a nasty attitude and we explained to her that our parents would like us to stay together and if they could just sit with us of course she refused. It makes sense because those are the rules however my cousins aren't 25 they're only 18. So for us to stay together and have fun was difficult.
So our next option to do something at night was go in the pool. But of course the pool closes at 11, that's late i agree, but there are no lifeguards so why not close it at 12? That one hour certainly makes a difference. Now being that my cousins and I always know how to have fun together we did and made new friends all so it wasn't that bad. While we went to dinner the staff was really nice and the variety in the menu was great.
My cousins and I didn't stay in the same room, we each had a room with our parents. So while our parents were out partying at night we would just be in the one persons room hanging out. Now we knew we couldn't sleep together because those aren't the rules. We'd all go back to our rooms at about 4 am and then go back to the one persons room at about 10 am. Now we had a house keeping guy who would CONSTANTLY ask us how many people are in the room and what not. But we just like getting ready together that's basically it but he just wouldn't stop asking us. One of those five days he asked about the luggage in the room asking us who is on the upper floor, which means he was basically going through our luggage to find out who's in what room. As i previously stated WE JUST LIKED GETTING READY TOGETHER.
The Bahamas was beautiful and that was the best part of the whole trip and I'd go on that boat again just to go to the Bahamas.
I rate this trip overall a 6.5. if you're not 21 and over, and don't have money don't bother coming on this boat. From what I've seen the club is always packed and looks really fun, maybe in another year I'll be able to enjoy it.
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Apple will hold its much-anticipated event on March 2, where the tech giant seems poised to unveil a new version of its hugely successful iPad. ... Analysts expect the iPad 2 to be thinner than its predecessor and feature an improved display, as well as front-facing camera and Facetime. ... Some reports suggest it will be powered by one of Qualcomms multimode chips and will run on both GSM and CDMA-based networks.
Its not clear when Apple will begin sending out its famous invites for the gathering, but I am guessing soon, in order to get the Apple faithful to the proper level of froth. ... Let the media frenzy begin!
Apple Inc.s shipments of a new version of its iPad tablet computer may be delayed to June from April because of production bottlenecks at manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. ... according to a report by Vincent Chen and Alison Chen, analysts at ... Yuanta Securities Co.
iPhone 5 may not launch until September, FBR Capital Markets analyst Craig Berger says in a note today. ... "A July launch is unlikely, with various casing ... and touch suppliers still ramping up, ... some chip vendors not having yet received firm ... orders, and ... the image sensor ... still in flux".
The fact is, neither rumor is true. ... both products are on schedule and will ship when they are supposed to. Only Apple knows exactly when that will be, but the products are not delayed.
It seems amazing that rumors of Apple missing product deadlines are running rampant when Apple hasnt even announced the product. ... The only deadlines that have been set are by the media, not Apple.
Sources close to Apple this morning tell me theres nothing to the rumor ... that Apples iPad 2 has been delayed. ... Apple itself has had nothing to say on the matter, declining, as usual, to comment on rumor and speculation.
This morning Apple watchers ... reeled as we considered news that the iPhone 5 may not launch until September ... [and] the iPad 2.0 ... until June. ... I'd warn against taking analyst claims as gospel truth -- though they certainly provide food for thought.
Apple ... has moved to deny reports.
It is interesting that both of these late reports were from investment bankers ahead of the opening of trading who could potentially benefit from market manipulation. Something smells fishy.
AAPL started significantly down over 10 points this morning but has recovered somewhat.
More so than any other company, people obsess over little tidbits of information which may be true, may be half true, may be half false, or may be totally made up. ... Speculation is fun, and can even be thought-provoking. But today things got taken to a whole new level.
As anyone who has covered Apple news for any extended period of time will know: you never trust an analyst when it comes to Apple information. Never. ... Their checks and reports are usually nothing more than complete and utter crap.
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Editor's Note: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our modelAll three major indices are trading up today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) trading up 10 points (0.1%) at 14,085 as of Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013, 12:04 PM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,607 issues advancing vs. 1,243 declining with 160 unchanged.The Health Services industry currently sits up 0.3% versus the S&P 500, which is up 0.2%. A company within the industry that fell today was Fresenius Medical Care Corporation (FMS), up 0.8%. A company within the industry that increased today was DaVita HealthCare Partners (DVA), up 1.4%.TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 4 stocks pushing the industry lower today:4. Cigna (CI) is one of the companies pushing the Health Services industry lower today. As of noon trading, Cigna is down $0.26 (-0.4%) to $58.72 on light volume Thus far, 601,373 shares of Cigna exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.9 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $58.18-$59.03 after having opened the day at $58.92 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $58.98. CIGNA Corporation, a health services organization, provides insurance and related products and services in the United States and internationally. Cigna has a market cap of $16.5 billion and is part of the health care sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 9.7, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 10.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 10 analysts that rate Cigna a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 5 rate it a hold.TheStreet Ratings rates Cigna as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, notable return on equity, attractive valuation levels, solid stock price performance and impressive record of earnings per share growth. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook. Get the full Cigna Ratings Report now.It's Official: Action Alerts PLUS beats the S&P 500 with Dividends Reinvested! Cramer and Link were up 16.72% in 2012. Were you? See what they are trading for 14-days FREE
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Fitts resigns as Director of CAPstone
The director of Scotts Bluff County's CAPstone program has resigned.
CAPstone Board Chair Brian Wasson confirmed to KNEB News that Debi Fitts submitted her resignation last week. Wasson says the board is very appreciative of what Fitts did in a little less than two years, noting she assisted in reorganizing staff responsibilities and was instrumental in hiring a much needed full-time interviewer.
Fitts says with twelve grandchildren, she wants to spend more time focusing on family.
Fitts will stay on as the Executive Director of the child advocacy center through the end of this month. Wasson says the board will meet next week and begin the search to replace Fitts as soon as possible. He admits it is "pretty involved" and could easily take two months to find the best candidate for the position.
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Russell Wasendorf, Sr. formally entered a plea agreement, admitting guilt to one charge of mail fraud, one count of embezzlement of customer funds, and two counts of making false statements.
Last month a grand jury indicted the 64-year-old on 31 counts of making false statements.
Under the plea agreement those charges will be dismissed.
Last week Federal Judge Jon Scoles ruled that Wasendorf could be temporarily released to the home of two high school friends after today's hearing.
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Re: Sweet Gum
Any good brush killer should work on the sprouts and eventually kill the roots. You may have to mix some and pour it directly on the stump to finish them off completely (follow manufactures directions!) I had good success with Ortho brush killer.
I have peeled back the bark and used a little diesel. make axe cuts in the bark such that it leaves a little pocket into which you put weed and brush killer before you cut them down works too. You can do the same around the stump too if it not at ground level.
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I use Round-up and Ortho Brush Killer on the sprouts. Spray them good. Wait two weeks then cut them back to ground level. It may take two years of killing the sprouts to kill the roots.
I put a steel fence post next to each stump - so I can find the stump when the grass is up. Helps when spraying and mowing.
Previously I had been cutting the tree off at ground level. Son convinced me to cut the tree off leaving a 4' tall stump. Helps greatly locating the stump and provides leverage after the roots rot off a bit.
I have an excuse. CRS.
Also, I've heard that "Reward" is a good option, too. It's normally sold to comercial busniesses. just be careful, it tends to kill anything it touches.
Make sure it's legal in your state.
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wow - sounds like some nasty stuff lol I've also seen good results with the axe and diesel/ other fuels like beaconlight said.
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"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche
'49 Cub.....(Mr. Cub)
Great Grampa had a small apple orchard. He used to say that from August to March, the tree feeds the roots and from March to August, the roots feed the tree. So, if you cut down the tree on the first of August, there is nothing to feed the roots for the winter, and the roots will die. Likewise, if you want to eliminate lots of growth from a tree without killing it, cut it on the first of March, and the roots will feed it and it will stay alive.
I am not entirely sure how accurate that is, but I can tell you we have a pearapple tree he grew, and every year we get pears and apples from it. Anyone who can figure out how to do that must be purdy smart.
1953!! Farmall F-Cub, bought "new" on this farm in July 1955, in service from 1955-76 and sat 'til '93 when I did a total mech. resto on it & a quick coat of Rust-Oleum "Safety Red" paint. A full metal and paint restoration will be done.
When I was younger, we cleaned a lot of brush off neglected fields on the farm we bought in the 60s. We had one person cutting the brush with a circular saw on wheels, and another coming behind him with full strength brush killer in a can he applied to the stumps with a brush. We did find that if the brush killer was applied within the first minute we got about a 95% or better kill rate, if it went as late as 5 minutes before being applied it dropped to around 60%.
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sweet gum trees ? I have one in my yard and they are a pretty tree, I love the fall colors as they change.
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Chewing Gum ? how do you make it ?
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Good morning John,
When we were kids, we would take a knife and cut a V-groove in either sweet gum or black gum trees, black gum is actually the best, and let the sap run out which would be real gummy. Every day or so we would go by and collect our chewing gum. Roll it into a ball and chew it. It doesn't hold together like regular chewing gum for long, but it had a wonderful flavor. I suppose that tradition stopped years ago, because of pollution etc. But back then we didn't worry about stuff like that and we also made snow ice cream, which I'm sure no one would do now because we have polluted Mother Earth so much. These were the GOOD OLD DAYS!! Pete
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I have tried sweet gum in the past. Found out not to try to chew it when it first bleeds out. It will stick to your teeth, and a dozen biscuts won't wear it off!! Mother said that when she was a kid, they put streach berries in it and you could blow a tiny bubble. She could never really describe to me what exactly a streach berry was or looked like. Said it grew on a bush and was about the size of a buckshot. I never found any.
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It could have been, George. I just don't know. I mentioned huckleberry to her, but she said she knew what huckleberries were and that wasn't it.
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Northern Virginia will see snow for the second time in less than a week Saturday morning as a storm system moves through the area.
An inch or two of snow may accumulate Saturday, particularly north and west of DC.
On Friday night, temperatures will drop to near freezing with precipitation starting after midnight to the north and west, but beginning closer to dawn south and east of DC.
Temperatures Saturday will struggle to reach 40 degrees as snow turns to a wintry mix during the day. In some areas, the snow may turn to rain.
The storm system is expected to move out of the area by mid-afternoon Saturday, leaving sunny skies and cold weather in its place.
Temperatures Saturday night will drop into the upper 20s. Sunday will be sunny and windy with temperatures struggling to reach 40 again. Football fans will want to bundle up for the Redskins game Sunday night, as temperatures drop back into the 20s under clear skies.
Looking ahead: Monday will be mostly cloudy with a high of 42 degrees. We'll ring in the New Year on Monday night under cloudy skies and temperatures in the mid-30s. New Year's Day will be cloudy with a high of 42 degrees.
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$150-200 cleaning payable at departure
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The bomb disposal squad were called after a family discoverd three hand grenades at the beach.
Amanda Lockey almost trod on the seventy year old No. 36 Mills Bomb as she was walking across the mud with her husband Bob at Dovercourt as the tide went out.
After hearing her shout, her family ran over and discovered two more of the hand grenades, which date back to the Second World War.
The 37-year-old of Milton Road, Corringham, said: "It was just unbelievable, I am still in shock."
Captain Nick Mathieson, of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, said: "Blowing the grenades up in situ was the safest thing to do as old ammunition can be quite unstable.
"They were in very good condition and looked like they had been placed on the beach rather than washed up from the sea.
"I would encourage people to call 999 if they have concerns about any suspect items they find and not touch them. It is better to be safe than sorry."
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Since accidents are the leading cause of death for children, it is not surprising that pediatricians often focus so much on educating parents about childproofing, the proper use of car seats, and encouraging kids to use helmets.
Many parents are unaware, however, of less common dangers that don't get as much publicity as drownings, car accidents, or house fires.
Learning about these other hazards can help you take simple steps to keep your kids safe.
EscalatorsMost parents let their kids ride escalators without giving it a second thought. Unfortunately, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) reports that there were about 11,000 injuries on escalators in 2007, mostly from falls. In addition, there have been at least 77 reports of entrapment -- when hands, feet, or shoes (mostly clogs and slide sandals) get trapped in the escalator -- since 2006.
Your kids can still ride the escalator, but be sure they do it safely. They should:
- tie their shoelaces before getting on the escalator
- stand in the center of the escalator, face forward, hold the handrail, and step off at the end
- refrain from sitting or playing on the escalator -- it should not be treated as an amusement park ride
Perhaps most importantly, learn where the emergency shutoff button is so that you can turn off the escalator if someone gets entrapped while riding.
Shopping CartsShopping carts shouldn't necessarily be considered a hidden hazard anymore, as injuries from shopping carts have been well publicized in recent years. There are even warnings about shopping cart injuries printed on most shopping carts these days.
Still, if you go to a grocery store or large department store, you will invariably see kids riding in and on shopping carts, putting them at risk for falls and head injuries. In fact, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, "falls from shopping carts are among the leading causes of head injuries to young children."
In addition to learning about shopping cart safety, keep in mind that the American Academy of Pediatrics states that "parents are strongly encouraged to seek alternatives to transporting their child in a shopping cart until an effective revised performance standard for shopping cart safety is implemented in the United States."
TV and Furniture Tip-overs
Young children like to climb. Unfortunately, when they climb on a large piece of furniture, such as a bookcase, television stand, or dresser, it can tip over on top of them. In addition to the danger of the heavy piece of furniture falling on them, children can also be injured when large items on top of the furniture tip over, especially large television sets.
According to the CPSC, there were at least 36 television tip-over deaths and 65 furniture tip over deaths between 2000 and 2005; many more injuries were treated in emergency rooms.
To avoid this hazard, be sure to secure large appliances and pieces of furniture to the wall with an anchor or strap; one may be provided to you when you make your purchase, or you can pick one up at a furniture or home improvement store. Also be sure to place your television on a sturdy stand and secure it in place so that it can't tip over.
Bounce HousesThe CPSC reports that 4,900 injuries related to inflatable slides and bounce houses were treated in emergency rooms in 2004. This was an increase from 1,300 injuries in 1997 and likely reflects the increased availability and lower cost of bounce houses these days; you often seen them rented for backyard birthday parties, block parties, and festivals.
In addition, there has been about one death a year due to inflatable bounce houses, inflatable obstacle course slides, and inflatable climbing walls. These deaths have been almost exclusively in older teens and young adults and involve falls and head injuries. One child did die in a bounce house in 2007 though - a three-year-old at an indoor playground when two adults fell on him in a bounce house and crushed his skull.
Bounce houses can be fun, but children should be well supervised when bouncing and matched with children of a similar age and weight. Also be sure that the bounce house is secured to the ground and that you can quickly get the kids out if the bounce house starts to deflate.
Parents? How could parents be a hidden hazard to their child's safety?
One way is that they often know the safe way to do things, but stop doing it too early because they think there child is too old to get injured. For example, they wouldn't think of letting their three- or four-year-old ride in the car without a car seat, but they let their five-year-old graduate from his booster seat. Or, they let their eight-year-old ride in the front seat of the car or ride his bike without a helmet.
To keep kids safe:
- Keep your home well-childproofed until your child is old enough to understand the hazards you are trying to protect him from. That means keeping locks on drawers and cabinets, gates on stairs, and covers on electrical outlets, etc.
- Avoid glass-topped tables, especially if they aren't made with tempered glass, because they pose a risk if kids climb or fall on top and break through the glass.
- Remember to keep your hotel childproofed when traveling, including using a travel crib and other baby products properly.
- Move kids to a booster seat when they have outgrown their forward-facing car seat with harness straps, and keep them there until they are ready for regular seatbelts when they are about 4'9" tall.
- Keep kids in the back seat of the car until they are 13 years old.
Childproof your pool, if you have one, by enclosing it in a fence with a self-closing and self-latching gate.
- Supervise kids around water, even if they know how to swim.
- Encourage kids to wear a helmet whenever they ride a bike, scooter, skateboard, or use Heelys.
- Remember not to leave your child home alone until he or she is really ready.
- Take kids to a public fireworks display, instead of letting them play with fireworks, including sparklers, which can reach over 1000 degrees and cause half of the fireworks-related injuries to children under age five (10% of fireworks-related injuries overall).


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Ethics case: Debro reveals probe's motives, Waters fights back with the facts
by Joseph Debro
Porter Goss, co-chair of the Office of Congressional Ethics, chaired the Intelligence Committee when he was a member of Congress. As chair, he blocked Ms. Water's attempt to investigate suspected money laundering at Citibank and other major lending institutions. He also blocked her attempt to prevent the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act.
He is now co-chair of the agency that is trying to convict the congresswoman of an ethics violation. His status as a non-member of Congress is in question. Constitutional scholars question whether a non-member may stand in judgment of members.
This agency, which may be unconstitutional, was embarrassed by its investigation of eight members of the Congressional Black Caucus, while it investigated one White member. For now it has deferred all but two such investigations. One of the two remaining Star Chamber actions is the investigation of Maxine Waters.
Congresswoman Waters is a woman who has spent her whole political life trying to advance the cause of economic justice in the Black and Brown communities in this country. Methinks they have picked on the wrong Marine.
Maxine Waters and her husband, Sidney Williams, live the life of Spartans. They live in a two-bedroom house in Watts, California. It is the smallest house I have been in since I visited Japan. It is smaller than 600 square feet.
Congresswoman Waters is a woman who has spent her whole political life trying to advance the cause of economic justice in the Black and Brown communities in this country.
They bought real estate in California during the early '70s. As prices spiraled in the late '90s, they sold most of it. The real estate they now own is free and clear. Their children and grandchildren are well-educated adults. Maxine's pension benefits from the California State Assembly and her Congressional pension are more than enough for their needs. Why would they try to enrich themselves in a public process?
The racially insensitive White people who surround the president do not serve him well. Mr. Obama has little experience in the Black world in which the Black Caucus and their constituents live. His background has been one of privilege. He has never drunk from a Whites-only fountain nor ridden in the back of the bus. Because he was an exceptional student, he was treated as the exceptional Black. He was the one Black that allowed White people to validate their lack of prejudice by including him.
His advisers have an agenda different from that of economic justice for all. They do not understand those who are not driven by greed. This is a teachable moment. Without talking about race or greed, Maxine may be able to teach the country about justice and fairness for all of its citizens. Greed is not good.
The Congressional Black Caucus has an opportunity to send the president and the country a message. That message is that some Black people are motivated by greed, just as some White people are. Some Black politicians are motivated by greed, just as some White politicians are. Most Black politicians are motivated by a deep and unyielding push for economic justice for all.
The Congressional Black Caucus should invite Maxine Waters to give the keynote speech at its annual gala this September. She would attract more press than the president.
White people need to understand that there are no boundaries for Black representatives. Maxine, like other Congressional Black Caucus members, does not just represent her district. She represents all Black people in this country. Her demand for economic justice is not just for the voters in her district. It is for all of the poor people in this country – Black, Brown, Yellow, Red and White.
Joseph Debro is president of Bay Area Black Builders, co-founder of the National Association of Minority Contractors, a general engineering contractor and a bio-chemical engineer. He can be reached at email@example.com.
Congresswoman Waters responds to pending ethics matter
by Congresswoman Maxine Waters
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., addressed the media on the morning of Aug. 13 during a press conference regarding the ethics matter pending before the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. Congresswoman Waters delivered an opening speech, her chief of staff presented some key facts and concerns, and she took questions from the media. The Congresswoman's opening remarks as prepared for delivery are below:
Good morning. Thank you all for being here today, especially on a Friday during recess.
The press and the public have now had an opportunity to read the Statement of Alleged Violation and have shown a lot of interest in the ethics matter that is now pending before the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.
I am indeed eager to be able to have an opportunity to present my case, and that is why I have requested that the Standards Committee schedule a hearing as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the committee has not yet specified a date for a hearing on this matter and, given the congressional schedule, it is possible that no hearing would be held for months, even after the November elections.
Such a delay is unacceptable, considering that the investigation has dragged out for almost one year. It does not provide due process, it prevents my constituents and the American public from getting answers, and it delays me from being able to respond to charges spelled out in the SAV.
I am pleased that the committee released the SAV and related documents earlier this week, as I had insisted after waving my right to have the SAV remain private until the adjudicatory hearing.
I have arranged this press conference to present my facts in the case and clear up ambiguities and misinformation. I recognize the transparency that I am providing may not eliminate an adjudicatory hearing. To reiterate, I am in fact anxious to share these facts with you and the public because I have not violated any House rules.
I fully disclosed all my financial information as required by House rules – and in fact went above and beyond what was required by repeatedly disclosing my and my husband's financial interests during Financial Services Committee hearings.
Neither my staff nor I engaged in any improper behavior; we did not influence anyone, and we did not gain any benefit.
We are here today because I believe my actions and the allegations against me are not easily understood.
Today I want to be absolutely clear about one thing: This case is not just about me. This case is also about access. It's about access for those who are not heard by decision makers, whether it's having their questions answered or their concerns addressed.
In fact, my advocacy and assistance in providing access for the National Bankers Association is why we're here today. The National Bankers Association consists of 103 minority banks, and I have worked with this association and the concerns of their banks for many years:
• I have spoken at their conventions on many occasions;
• I have participated in hearings about their issues; and
• I have worked with our federal agencies on their behalf, including the Treasury Department, FDIC, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
My telephone call to then-Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson during the worst economic crisis this nation faced in 80 years was to provide access to the National Bankers Association, which was concerned about the fact that Treasury had placed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship. It was represented to me that many minority banks had over-leveraged their capital in Fannie and Freddie, and the association wished to know whether or not their members' capital was lost or if the government was responsible for protecting the capital that they had invested in preferred stock.
They had attempted to get a meeting with the Treasury Department but had received no response. And so they sought me out to assist them in setting up a meeting.
The question, at this point, should not be why I called Secretary Paulson, but why I had to. The question, at this point, should be why a trade association representing over 100 minority banks could not get a meeting at the height of the crisis.
When I contacted the treasury secretary:
• I did not suggest any solution to the problem of the National Bankers Association;
• I did not ask for any favors for the National Bankers Association;
• I did not ask for a meeting for any individual bank, including OneUnited Bank;
• I did not suggest who would be participants in that meeting;
• I did not attend that meeting; and
• There was no such thing as the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) at that time.
There has been a great deal of confusion over a conversation I had with Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank. The conversation I had with Chairman Frank was a conversation several weeks after this meeting had taken place and after the TARP program had been announced.
OneUnited Bank was now raising questions about assistance from TARP. Because my office's assistance to the National Bankers Association was strictly to provide access for a discussion about the impact of the financial crisis on small and minority banks broadly, and because there was no TARP program at the time of the meeting, I did not wish to get involved with OneUnited Bank about any individual assistance or about the new TARP program.
Because my husband had once served on the board of OneUnited Bank and still held investments there, I felt they should seek assistance from Chairman Frank, a representative from the state where the bank was headquartered and someone with a record of commitment to the health of minority banks.
It's also important to note that no government agency or their representatives have said that I requested any special assistance or compensation for anyone or any institution or that I influenced the TARP process in any way.
There has also been a question about whether or not I instructed my staff not to get involved with OneUnited Bank and their interest in accessing TARP funds. My staff had only been involved in understanding the impact of the financial crisis on small and minority banks broadly and assisting in setting up the meeting with the Treasury Department for, again, the National Bankers Association. I told my chief of staff that:
• I had informed Chairman Frank about OneUnited Bank's interest;
• We were only concerned about small and minority banks broadly;
• Chairman Frank would evaluate OneUnited's issue and make a decision on how to proceed; and
• Given the emails that the committee has offered as evidence, we communicated with each other clearly.
So it's not just about us. It's about all those who lack access.
And over the past year, I and the nine other Congressional Black Caucus members of the Financial Services Committee have been meeting with the National Bankers Association, the National Newspaper Publishers Association, the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters, the National Association of Minority Auto Dealers, the National Association of Securities Professionals and the National Bar Association, among others, discussing the plight of minority businesses, their lack of access to capital, and the lack of support from their government in banking, advertising and consulting contracts.
Access is key to understanding the scope of this case.
This case is not just about them. This case is also about fairness.
The fact that the investigative subcommittee ignored or disregarded key pieces of exculpatory evidence crucial to my case is extremely troubling. A truly robust investigatory process would have taken all the available evidence into consideration. I believe that if that had been done, we would not be here today.
Fairness is also key to understanding the scope of this case. This case is not just about that. This case is also about my constituents and the American people.
I have truly been touched by the outpouring of support from my constituents in Los Angeles and from friends in places like Louisiana, Texas, Missouri, New York, Illinois, Florida – even abroad.
I know the way that the American people view Congress. They hear the talk of partisanship, of power, of money, of influence. For congressional critics, it's easy to see a report of an ethics case and completely wash your hands of it all.
But my constituents and supporters have seen the many inaccurate, accusatory portrayals of my work, and they know me better than that. And they've encouraged me to fight.
I admit there are some who do not believe in my philosophy or my methods. But no one should question my devotion to public service.
Therefore, I am asking us all to pause for a moment, set aside our cynicism and consider two things:
• the facts of the case; and
• my life's work in trying to provide access to those who have been denied.
These two things will provide context for my constituents' and your judgment. My constituents demand that I stand up for the values they elected me to represent.
In sum: No benefit, no improper action, no failure to disclose, no one influenced: no case.
I thank you again for coming today. Now my chief of staff, Mikael Moore, will present to you some of the key facts in the case and address some of our concerns with the SAV.
After the presentation, I will be happy to take your questions on the SAV and answer them to the best of my ability.
I will ask you to keep your questions to the SAV and my experiences with the ethics investigation and process. I will not be entertaining questions about the supposed issue of race in this matter or recent media reports that have nothing to do with my case pending before the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.
Thank you.
Contact Congresswoman Maxine Waters at 2344 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC 20515, phone (202) 225-2201, fax (202) 225-7854, website www.house.gov/waters. To see her chief of staff's 50-page power point presentation of key facts and concerns, go to http://waters.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Waters_Presentation.pdf.
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Brian Crowell
I have knowledge and proof of the Obama administration attacking the Congressional Black Caucus. Obama had had a noose over their heads since the Fall of 2008. Why does the San Francisco Bay View, The NNPA, and the Congressional Black Caucus tolerate Obama? Black Unemployment is at an all time high. Living standards for the American People continue to decline. Obama with the direction of his Wall St. masters aided a 23.7 Trillion dollar bailout to the financial industry. (TARP Inspector General Report; Barofsky). From any measure of success, Obama has been a total failure. Now it seems he can attack Black lawmakers and get away with it. What a tragedy of leadership.↓
Mike B.
Senator Feinstein Husband benefitted from the Military Base clean up.She helped friends and supporters own water rights paid by the goverment. It will always be a double standard when it comes to Blacks trying to empower their supporters.The asians are passing the Blacks and Whites when it comes to Economic development,From the corner stores to china owning america.IT is a sad day in america when main street cant get help.↓
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But I do.
A french tasse. A little plastic tumbler. A vintage inspired drinking vessel.
A cup.
From Target.
And it is the most perfect shade of blue I've ever seen.
I count them every night to make sure one isn't lost in the black hole of my daughter's room.
I wash them by hand, careful not to leave any spots.
I adore them.
It is ridiculous to love tumblers this much. They were a steal at $1.99 each. Way less expensive than the glass Pottery Barn tumblers I wrote about months ago.
($36 for 4 from Pottery Barn vs. $16 for 8 from Target = very happy blogger)
I've looked for them online to share with all of you…but they are no where to be found. Maybe ransack your local Target…take one of my pictures and beg someone to find them for you.
I promise, drinking ice cold water out of one of these cups will change your life.
Feel free to send me to therapy for writing about tumblers. Its the triple digit heat that's making me crazy.
Cheers, friends!


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Notes on the Fever Series--*SPOILERS*
I've been getting a lot of questions via email, MB, FB, blogs so I thought I'd dust off some of my notes and do a long post.
I've already shared parts of this in a recent chat and told parts of it at recent events but people have been asking me to put it all in one place. I sometimes forget there's a world beyond the readers that I feel like I've known forever, because we've been interacting so much at my MB forums for the past five years. I recently realized that readers who are new to the series don't know how it came to be, or what I was doing before I wrote it, and with three-quarters of a million posts at the MB, specific information can be hard to find.
Lately, a lot of people have asked me what the hardest thing about writing the Fever series was. Hands down, the most difficult thing was that it didn't follow any of the rules by which I was used to writing. I had to abandon control issues and take a leap of faith.
The entire series came to me one night in a dream. I said that in a recent interview and the person interviewing me looked at me strangely and said, "Wow! That must have been a really long dream."
It wasn't. In the dream I wasn't actually being told the story, or watching it unfold. I was reading a book, turning the pages faster and faster, being dragged along by the throat. The feeling was both exhilarating and uncomfortable. I was thrilled to be reading it. I didn't like anything keeping me so compulsively riveted. It's been a love-hate relationship from the beginning.
When I woke up from the dream, I exclaimed without thinking—or I would have realized I was being handed one of those contracts you have to sign in blood—yes, please, yes. I want to write a story like that!
The floodgate opened. The entire series shunted into my brain like a squirt on a Dan Simmon's fatline. Not piece by piece. Dumped. One minute I didn't have it, the next I did. Complete with names of installments, characters, plot twists and turns, even how many books it had to be and where each installment had to end.
I resisted it for months. Sometimes I took it out for a test drive in idle moments just to marvel at how wrong it was for me to write. It wasn't my kind of story at all. It was first person, not third. It had no neatly defined hero or heroine. It ended on cliffhangers, and was spread out over five books. Then there was the troubling fact that it didn't have a traditional 'romance' which was precisely what readers loved about my books. There were only shades of gray, no black and white. Even worse—it made me think. I read to escape.
I'd made a successful career for myself writing stand-alone romances with happy, complete endings. Not only was there no reason for me to change genres suddenly, there was compelling reason for me not to.
Determined that the Fever series would have to find another storyteller, I sat down to write another stand-alone third-person romance novel. Safety net below me, pole in hand, I knew how to walk that wire.
Nothing came.
I sat there for three months staring at my computer. And nothing came.
I offered innovative bargains to various deities for a little inspiration (ignoring the massive inspiration that was constipating me). I wrote down all the reason I shouldn't write the Fever series. I wrote down all the reasons I was not going to make a career change. I staunchly refused to write word 1 of the first book.
[As an aside, what I didn't know at the time but would soon find out was that I had been bitten by a tick that carried Lyme disease and I was about to embark on a five year journey to hell and back while it invaded my CNS and crippled me. Like Mac, I was happy and carefree. I think the lessons we most need to learn are usually at our fingertips.]
I remember the day I sat down at my desk and stared at the computer screen for the ninety-fifth day in a row of blank pages and, in a trancelike state, picked up a black Sharpie (my husband had to paint over it and has never let me forget it:) and wrote on the wall the titles of the five installments: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever.
I sat back and stared at the wall, contemplating how difficult a career change would make my life.
Then I remembered finding Frank Herbert's Dune when I was a teenager, going through some hard times. I remembered having to face something I was terrified of. I remembered discovering the Bene Gesserit mantra: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
I remembered the many times in my life I'd recalled that mantra, word for word and how much I'd needed it. I wondered where I'd have been if not for it. How I'd have gotten through.
Something shifted in my head and I got up and wrote below the titles: Hope strengthens. Fear kills.
I began writing Darkfever that day.
There were times I hated taking on this series. There were times I relished it. Days I felt cursed by it, other days I felt blessed by it. I haven't always liked the characters, nor have I agreed with many of the things they've done. In the end all I can say is this:
The story came to me. I told it. And I'm glad I did.
Onto the nuts and bolts…
Though the story was complete with names, character, plot, etc., I still had to decide how to write it. Structure, theme, vantage point. These are some of my notes made during and after in no particular order. I think of them as the steel girders for the building.
• The Fever World is a dark one, pierced infrequently by light, literally and metaphorically. I kept in mind a famous quote by Kahlil Gibran as I was writing: "Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you."
• I wanted to explore two completely different characters: an innocent who'd never known sorrow of any kind and the only rules she lived by came from The Bartender's Guide for Mixing Perfect Party Drinks, and a borderline sociopath who'd constructed a frame of ethics for himself. I wanted to give them both something life-changing then sit back and watch them change. I wanted to capture the urban fantasy world as the pivotal transformation was initiated—not after the vampires had come out, or once the weres/witches/ zombies had legal rights. I wanted to chronicle the characters that were in the line of fire before the walls crashed, and see how they behaved as their world melted down.
• When every other novel I was picking up in the bookstore announced: Vampire/Werewolf/Demon hero on the cover, and was marketing it on the basis of that paranormal creature's mythic resonance, I wanted to write a story with a male center-stage character that defied labels, and wouldn't permit one. I wanted to make the reader choose to take him or leave him without the convenience of a pre-packaged tortured-hero caricature to slap over his outline, and no easy answers about whether he was good or bad. I wanted to write a paranormal creature and never tell the reader what he was, because I believed they would ultimately see him more clearly in his everyday behavior, than through the distorted lens of someone else's legend.
• Barrons says, "Judge me by my actions" and makes the reader do the same. At the end of the series, I want the reader to answer the question: Who/what is Barrons? the same way Mac does: Who cares? He's Barrons.
• In the vein of showing, not telling, I want my characters to love each other—but never tell each other that. I will show it in their actions, in the choices they make. Words are easy; lies as simple as parting your lips and breathing.
• Although Mac begins as an innocent, she doesn't stay that way long. Her sister's brutal murder takes her to Dublin on a quest for justice and revenge. With Alina dead, her everyday life rapidly transforms from sunshine and carefree dreams to a dark, frightening shadow-realm with monsters in every cobwebbed corner. It rains incessantly where Mac is, inside her head and out. Most of the crucial action takes place at night, in an urban decay setting. I want to achieve this feeling: When the sun manages to penetrate the storm clouds hanging over the Temple Bar District, or one of the dazzling Fae strolls across the page, the leavening effect must be jarring, breathtaking.
• I want the series to function as a Janus head on multiple levels, highlighting contrasts and creating a play of tension between opposites compressed in a volatile reality to illustrate the point that Jean Paul Sartre makes in Being and Nothingness when he explores the concept of anguish at the point of absolute freedom: The only thing that matters are the possibilities, what you choose, what you commit to. All potentials exist in every character, at every moment. It is their actions that define and separate them.
• When we first meet Mac in Darkfever, the only carving she's ever experienced is cutting up limes to wedge into the neck of a frosty Corona while hanging out on the beach, playing volleyball. I like that about her. She's going to be easy to break. I wonder how she'll get back up. Her sister's gruesome murder is only the beginning of her fall. Barrons, on the other hand, will be a tough one to rattle.
• By the time Mac encounters the Fear Dorcha in Shadowfever, the fifth and final book in the series, she will have been tortured, gang raped, turned Pri-ya, survived attempts on her life from multiple sources, had her parents kidnapped, found they weren't even her parents anyway, and come to suspect—with good reason—that of all the monsters she's had to face since her sister's death, she's quite possibly the worst. At that moment she must stand her tallest, shoulders back, spine straight, unflinching.
• Jericho Barrons says the only reality you can control is the one you're willing to face—and who would want to live in a reality that was controlled by someone else? It's a cage, no matter how gilded. Sartre's faith of bad faith is the greatest hypocrisy and frank absurdity to him. Every lie a person tell oneself forges another link in the chains that bind. Barrons cares about only this: How much truth can you face? How free do you dare to be? If the choice is yours—and it is—wouldn't you crave absolute freedom? The more clearly one sees that there's nothing within, the more power one has to create whatever one wants without. Barrons understands this and because he does, he is truly free. For this same reason, he's Unseelie king in the making.
• V'lane understands this, too, and is another shadow hero, a doer of great good or great evil depending on the standards by which he's being judged. As the king will say at the end of Shadowfever, in another reality, V'lane would have become the king and Barrons Cruce, or Barrons would have become the king and imprisoned War, perhaps V'lane might have been Barrons…perhaps where Mac is concerned, he is…but this time he doesn't get the girl. The three of them: Barrons, V'lane and the king are mere choices away from having been the other.
• Mac can't even spell existential angst but is going to get a crash course in the day-to-day application of it, and along the way become fascinated by the two nearly omnipotent males that are so dangerous and attractive. A woman doesn't get something like Barrons or V'lane without paying a high price. Mac 1.0 is like a peacock, one of the showy males strutting around showing off her fabulous plumage, trying to get the king of the jungle's attention, but to survive in Barron's bed she'll have to lose her tail feathers and grow claws. Part peacock., part lion, Mac 5.0 won't know what she is any more and won't care because she knows this much: she's unbreakable and she likes it.
• Mac, Barrons and V'lane are complicated, self-aware characters. Each is flawed. There will arguably be no heroes in the series. With a minor twist of the lens, those who are perceived as the villains might be viewed as the heroes, and the heroes might be villains. It all comes down to who's writing the press releases. I may eventually have to tell it from someone else's point of view.
Character notes:
• Jericho Z. Barrons: Barrons is hard, cold, brutally efficient killing machine, brilliant, cunning and utterly focused on what he wants at all times. He rarely smiles and if he does, it's a brief softening, a faint uplifting of the corners of his mouth—never a full smile. Since he met Mac, he has smiled on several occasions. Once, he laughed out loud. JZB is not a man for expressions of happiness. At best he radiates self-satisfied calm, a big cat at rest. Harsh, forbidding, controlled, a man of intense discipline, he emotes anger, mockery, challenge, irony, raw sexuality, animalistic fury, but no tenderness. He's a hard man. There are no cracks in his walls but the one Mac can slip through—and he hates that but he accepts it because it is the truth and to pretend otherwise would be an exercise in futility. Whether he likes it or not, she gets under his skin and makes his dick harder than any other woman ever has. He wastes no time examining the whys of it or resisting her effect on him. He focuses his energy like a laser, slicing and dicing, rearranging reality to suit what he wants the best way he can get it. Since the moment he met Mac and accepted that he wanted her, he has been ruthlessly altering her, making her ultimately suitable for him. The only question in his mind is: will she survive what he's doing to her?
• MacKayla Lane: Mac is a woman on the verge of…everything: A complete psychotic episode, a life-changing epiphany, becoming something truly good or truly evil. She often feels bi-polar—because she is. A sweet, southern girl with refined taste and pretty manners, she's a shining star with a great, sucking black-hole at the center. The evil she's been hunting so assiduously, the mind-numbing, soul-crushing monster of twisted destructiveness she's been tracking through the rain-slicked streets of Dublin—is her. Every dark spell, all the dangerous power, the vicious rage and hunger crouches inside her. It never intended to let her find it in the streets until she'd found it in herself.
• V'Lane: V 'lane had a lousy publicist. He's the center-stage male character I gave a label: Seelie, shining death-by-sex Fae, erotic, brilliant, ballsy and no more sociopathic than Barrons. With V'lane, I can't help but play the "what if" game: What if the night Mac rushed through the dark zone seeking sanctuary, Mac had found V'lane instead of Barrons Books & Baubles? What if he'd taken her to Faery and told her the truth, the full truth that very night? Would she have been swayed by his desire to save his trapped brothers? How different is he really from Barrons and his eight? V'lane may have rebelled against the Unseelie king's wishes but he was only trying to set the rest of the Unseelie free. He was beautiful, powerful, he could have left the icy prison and abandoned them, and pursued his own pleasure. But he wanted all the Unseelie to have a chance in the sunshine and beauty of the world. He was a freedom fighter, a renegade, a determined, cunning, patient, valiant crusader. Doesn't the world need War? Isn't he the only reason tyrannies topple, empires fall and humans change? War is the catalyst, the means by which wrongs are righted, scales are balanced, and the world transformed. Isn't V'lane the real hero?
I hope this sheds a little light. Enough to stay to...
Check back for a more general Q & A coming soon…


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Princes Street shops set to be demolished
Archiseek / Scotland / News / 2004 / November 5
Evening News
Two landmark stores in Princes Street are set to be bulldozed under radical plans drawn up for city chiefs. The Bhs and Marks & Spencer stores at the east end of the world-famous thoroughfare are expected to be demolished to make way for a brand-new building. The modern section of Jenners department store and the entire Mount Royal Hotel above M&S also face the wrecking ball as part of the master plan prepared for the taxpayer-backed Edinburgh City Centre Management Company. The plans - which would mark one of the biggest facelifts for the street since the Victorian age - have been inspired by a similar proposal drawn up by heritage watchdog the Cockburn Association with city architect Malcolm Fraser.


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|2011-01-15, 07:06
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: All ghillied up spying on someone ~2,000 yards away using telescope sights.
Age: 25
I just don't know whether I should laugh, facepalm or do both.
By the way, everyone, especially to Mr. Flere821 and Chaos2Frozen (who answered most of my questions), here's what I've been contemplating with which led to my questions in the Q&A thread.
The idea I had in mind is to take on the perspective of someone who is not involved with the developments of the Magic or Science side, akin to your everyday worker in Academy City's POV. But for this one character I had in mind, I added a little bit of... a flavor, someone who is adequately trained in the use of firearms and self-defense, akin to a footsoldier by the very least or to a common Special Forces Operator at most.
I'd really love to do like my past self in which I just write whatever I have in mind, but since doing that is "harmful" I decided to give some insurance to myself by trying to see whether I can make this idea at least plausible, or not.
tl;dr Solid Snake-ing on a second thought, Soap MacTavish-ing in Academy City. Yay or Nay?
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Think about it.
Or better yet, have you watched [The Unit] ?
I'm strictly Index-Touma-Mikoto.
And Himegami, and Fukiyose, and some long distance loving for Orsola after this season... Cause she's just that good.
...Come to think about it, Valentine's in one month's time right...?
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Its not a bad idea or that far fetch really. anti skill are basically that; special squads who are teachers as side jobs, so a fanfic centering on anti skill guys would be pretty interesting. just make sure to add yoshikawa (or was she yomikawa?) and the rest of the anti-skill guys from railgun.
or you could make it darker and make it about a squad akin to the hound dogs or maybe make him an ex hound dog member who wants a less mess up life and joins anti skill and becomes a teacher (becoming some sort of GTO guy)
another idea is maybe make it about a special squad who focuses on taking out magicians who invade academy city sort of like a magician version of antiskill.
anyway just throwing some ideas at you; be free to take or ignore whichever you like.
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I would be thankful if anybody could point me to any ToumaxKuroko doujinshis as well. (because I sure as heck haven't had any luck finding any)
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As far as doujinshi is concerned, though, nobody did any yet. At least, not if we exclude ones where Kuroko becomes the third participant in a threesome
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Good news everyone! After an extended break due to Uni, Kitsune and computer fail, I will be restarting Judgement and Level 5 Conversion Project.
Here is a little reminder. I posted part of this here quite awhile back, but I've added to it since then. well, here you go. Look forward to more, soonish.
Spoiler for Judgement:
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A To Aru fanfic might be my next fanfic after I finish with my Hayate no Gotoku fanfic. I just don't know how I would go about doing a fanfic for To Aru, nor know which main characters I would use. With my Hayate fanfic I had like a lil passion with Hina, but I just don't feel like I have that with To Aru, even though this anime is amongst the ones I like. Perhaps if someone can give me an idea to jumpstart it, I might be able to do a fanfic for To Aru.
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I'm predicting a certain Albino will be joining the Delta Force soon enough
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I'm thinking about doing one on Heaven Canceller (I think that's how you spell his name) if there aren't that many fanfic already dedicated to him. But if I do do one on him, I'd wanna tie it in with both Toaru Index and Toaru Mikoto and a few other side characters.
Edit: I'm not really that good with action, and if it is about Heaven Canceller I think Romance is out of the pix, it will be more of slice of life. Mystery is too hard to do.
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I was thinking more about doing a more-than-everyday-normal routine for Heaven Canceler. He just wants to be a normal doctor and not deal with anything weird like Touma losing his arm. Him wanting to satisfy his nurse fetish (amongst many other normal hobbies) is always getting interrupted by people like Touma, Mikoto, Accelerator, etc. He has his pride as a doctor to serve all, enemy or not, but one day collapse/snaps. However, I do not know how far I can get with a story like this. I also do not know that plot sequences between the Index series and the Railgun series, therefore I do not know which stories come first.
edit: Are there many fanfiction for Heaven Canceler?
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Friday, 10 May 2002
It's a real pleasure and honor to be here this morning with Chancellor Brown. Few leaders in the industialized world have demonstrated the commitment to children's issues that Gordon Brown has.
It is vitally important that we have this kind of leadership from donor governments. It has become crystal clear that no real progress can be made toward poverty reduction and toward peace and stability without first investing in children.
World leaders embraced this principle when they adopted the millennium Summit Goals two years ago. They embraced it again at the Monterrey Conference on Financing for Development a short time ago. And at this Special Session on Children, there has been virtually no conversation in which investment in children has not been named as a specific and urgent priority.
In short, we know what we have to do - and why we have to do it.
How to do it is another question.
In his speech this morning, Gordon Brown challenged donor countries to take bold action to finance development. This includes opening up their markets to goods from developing countries, driving forward with real and substantial debt relief, and significantly increasing ODA.
Ensuring that this money is used wisely, transparently, and put toward basic social services is also essential to success.
We have examples of countries that have shown leadership - that have picked up the gauntlet.
Just yesterday, at this Special Session, the president of Peru pledged to reduce his government's military spending in order to redirect the funds to basic social services for children. This is a fantastic initiative.
Also yesterday, the Norwiegan Minister of Development, Hilda Jonsson, called for the G-7 to join what she called the "G-point-7" group. In other words, it's a call for the G-7 to join those countries that have firmly committed themselves to devoting point-7 percent of GNP to overseas development assistance.
Gordon Brown has gone a long way toward making that happen with his commitments to changing the way business is done. His leadership has proven to be crucial. We are extraordinarily proud to be a partner with him.


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A Waynesboro judge has convicted two people of animal cruelty in a case that police say nearly cost a dog its life. Both defendants could face jail time, but they've already taken the case to a higher court.
A Monday trial in Waynesboro District Court ended in guilty verdicts against 36-year-old Elvira Janet Ring and 33-year-old James Simmons-McBeth. They could face jail terms of 10 to 20 days, but that all hinges on the appeal they immediately filed to circuit court.
Ring and Simmons-McBeth were arrested in November 2012 on misdemeanor charges. Waynesboro police say both of them were responsible for an 8-month-old pit bull that had a collar buried an inch deep in its neck.
The canine was hospitalized for two days, after a veterinarian sedated it and removed the band. Since then the dog has been kept at the regional animal pound.
"The dog got some very good treatment and is now—I won't say fully recovered—but is doing a lot better," said Sgt. Brian Edwards of the Waynesboro Police Department. "It was probably just days away from irreversible injury that would have killed the dog."
The dog was among several living in a makeshift kennel behind Ring's house on Henry Avenue in Waynesboro. The district judge ruled that both defendants are barred from owning companion animals.
Ring and Simmons-McBeth also face fines and restitution for the expenses of boarding the dogs at the animal shelter. The two defendants are free on bond until their trial in February.


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The Combined Walkthrough: Measuring Behavioral, Affective, and Cognitive Information in Usability Testing
Timo Partala and Riitta Kangaskorte
Journal of Usability Studies, Volume 5, Issue 1, Nov 2009, pp. 21 - 33
This paper describes an experiment in studying users behavior, emotions, and cognitive processes in single usability testing sessions using an experimental method called the combined walkthrough. The users behavior was studied using task times and completion rates, and emotions were studied using bipolar scales for experienced valence and arousal. Cognition was studied after each task by revisiting detected usability problems together with the users and applying an interactive method based on cognitive walkthrough to each usability problem. An interactive media application was tested with 16 participants using these methods. The results of the experiment showed that the developed methods were efficient in identifying usability problems and measuring the different aspects of interaction, which enabled the researchers to obtain a more multifaceted view of the users interaction with the system and the nature of the problems encountered.
Practitioners Take Away
The following were the main findings of this experiment:
- Behavioral, affective, and cognitive aspects of computer system usage can be cost-effectively studied together in usability testing.
- The information obtained by the behavioral, affective, and cognitive measurements can contribute to a more multifaceted understanding of user interaction with the system.
- Variations in the users emotional experiences (valence and arousal) related to completing a task using an interactive system can be efficiently measured using bipolar scales. Systematic measurement of emotional experiences broadens the scope of subjective measures beyond traditional satisfaction measures.
- The use of highly positive or negative media elements influences overall ratings of task-related affective experiences in interactive media applications.
- Ideas underlying the cognitive walkthrough can be useful in retrospective analysis of usability problems together with the user.
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