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counting down the days to summer does not seem to ease my pain. in fact, it only adds to it. five days is still too much for me to handle--between the lack of sleep and my internal struggles and friendships.
to me, it seems as though each and every one of my friends is using me to gain some certain advantage they could not otherwise reach without me.
not only this, but they constantly come to me for help. i help them, of course, but when i am faced with a problem, i cannot go to them in fear of anger, hatred, or hurting them. while i genuinely care for them, i know their feelings towards me are different--perhaps indifferent.
i have friends who, when they come to me, talk crap about other friends (whether i am also friends with them or not). while they dub me "the only friend who cares" or "the only friend who listens", i do not return those feelings. i have perhaps a single (if not two) friends i can go to with my own problems. one of them which lives 3,000 miles from myself and cannot do much to aid in my mending of friendship.
it seems strange to me... that while my friends trash talk their other friends to me in solitude, they place them above me in public.
is it just that i am not cool? or that perhaps i am a newer friend?
why do you talk so poorly of these people, then worship the ground they walk upon the very next day? why do you use me for ranting and raving, then pretend i don't exist?
these problems, i feel, i have addressed before. once or twice, i thought that in doing so, the problems would become mended. however, they constantly come back. is it a forgetfulness? or simply because one does not care enough for me?
my friends also seem to bring me down. i am in this slump because of friends. would i be better of without them altogether?
a few days ago, i allowed a friend of mine to read a presentation i was throwing together. not a single kind word is said. before i showed it to them, i told them, "it is pretty full of cheese oops", meaning that, of course, it was cheesy.
instead of complimenting or praising my hard work, i simply received:
"yeah, it is really cheesy."
not only this, but this was after i had praised her presentation. i had told her i liked it very much, even picked out specific parts that i enjoyed.
what i received from her:
"yeah, it is really cheesy."
perhaps it is cheesy, but i did not get a single nice word about it. and since then, i have been freaking out, stressing over the presentation. is it too cheesy? is it not good enough to be selected?
i was going into this mess with the mindset that no, it was not good enough, and no, i would not be selected. but a friend could have, perhaps, heightened my views. perhaps a few nice words from a friend could have turned me from a negative nancy, into a positive polly.
i can pick out things each of my friends do to hurt me. and i am taking those conscious (or unconscious) beatings silently, tucking them away. wearing my heart on my sleeve is something i have never done, and never will. i mean, how much of a heart do i even have left after taking this?
in this game we play, is trust so cheap?
promises you never meant to keep
kick me while i'm down so you can watch me bleed
everything you said like you were god...
my old friends, who abandoned me earlier this year, were perhaps better at making me not feel so crappy about myself. maybe i have simply forgotten what they have said to me or what they did to hurt me...
i just wish my best friend lived here. i am so lost without her. thank you for always supporting me, kenzie, and lifting my spirits when my local friends failed.


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It shows two men loading two boxed televisions into a blue Ford Expedition in broad daylight on Wednesday, April 2, Middle Township police said Friday, and then drove away from a department store in Rio Grande.
On Friday, Capt. John Edwards posted a video to the police Facebook page seeking information on two suspects who he said stole two 42-inch LED televisions from Kmart.
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According to police, one of the suspects loaded the televisions into a cart and pushed them into the Garden Center, where there is a door but no cash register. The other suspect left the store and parked a Ford Expedition outside KmartŌĆÖs Garden Center exit. In the video, two men can be seen loading televisions into an Expedition.
Edwards said the video was provided to police by store security.
According to the Facebook post: ŌĆ£The video is pretty clear so it should not take too long for our Facebook Fans to find these two mopes.ŌĆØ
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To see the video, visit the Middle Township Police Facebook page at www.facebook.com/middletownshippolicedepartment
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I attended my first SPX over the weekend! It was a privilege to breathe the same air as Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez, Adrian Tomine, and so many amazing, talented people in the indie cartooning world.
Hats off to the organizers for a fantastic event. I am both pooped and inspired to the max.
WELCOME! This blog is a personal project I started in August 2011 with the goal of drawing and posting an illustrated status message a day - I haven't stopped since. On weekday mornings, I get up, draw a cartoon, and post whatever I can manage to before going to work. I began cartooning to find my voice. Still searching, but I've learned that the attempt is everything. What's your status message today?
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You should try coming to the midwest sometime :)It looked like SPX was a great show, and was really cool seeing all the pictures on fb and instagram. I'm planning on adding it to my show schedule next year.
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Iris (of Pigs in Maputo) told me about your blog ("Look! Another fellow female Asian cartoonist!") so I came to check it out....AWESOME STUFF! Will definitely dig through your archive over the next few days. :D
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A strange fascination for World War II in the Pacific overtakes many Catholic blogs in early August each year, so in line with that I throw out this question: should Hirohito have been tried as a war criminal? The video clip above is from the movie Emperor (2012) which is being released on Blu-ray and dvd next week and which has a fictional account of an American attempt to determine the extent of Hirohito's involvement in the launching of Japan's war of conquest which would claim over thirty million lives.
MacArthur had little doubt of Hirohito's war guilt, but he also had little doubt that Hirohito's cooperation was necessary for a peaceful occupation of Japan. Hirohito thus served as a figure head while MacArthur, the Yankee Shogun, remade Japan. This picture tells us all we need to know about the relationship between the two men:
MacArthur encountered considerable resistance to his decision not to prosecute Hirohito. Belief in Hirohito's war guilt was an article of faith in America and in the other nations that had fought Japan. MacArthur played along with the fable promoted by the Japanese government that Hirohito had always been a man of peace, who was powerless in the face of the militarists who ran Japan. This myth, well bald-faced lie would be a more accurate description, was surprisingly successful. The first major scholarly attack on it was by David Bergamini's 1200 page Japan's Imperial Conspiracy, published in 1971. Read a review of it here. Continue reading
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Getting the annual Saint Blogs August Bomb Follies off to an early start. Father Wilson Miscamble, Professor of History at Notre Dame, and long a champion of the pro-life cause, defends the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the video above. The video is a summary of the conclusions reached by Father Miscamble in his recent book, The Most Controversial Decision. Go here to read a review of the book by British military historian Andrew Roberts. Go here to read a review of the book by Father Michael P. Orsi. Go here to read a review by Michael Novak. Continue reading


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2012: Played in all 13 games, starting two ... 1,018 yards and 9 TDs ... Seawolves' Offensive Rookie of the Year ... three games of a 100 yards or more ... rushed for 56 yards at Montana State (12/1) ... season-high 29 carries and 107 yards vs. Villanova (11/24) ... rushed for 30 yards at Liberty (11/10) ... totaled 139 yards vs. VMI (11/3) ... rushed for 144 yards and two touchdowns at Presbyterian (10/27) ...62 rushing yards and a touchdown and two catches for 21 yards vs. Gardner-Webb (10/20) ...totaled 64 yards, including a long of 18, at Coastal Carolina (10/13) ... rushed for 80 yards and a touchdown vs. Charleston Southern (10/6) ... totaled 53 rushing yards at Army (9/29) ... rushed for 68 yards and two touchdowns vs. Colgate (9/22) ... totaled 59 yards on the ground at Syracuse (9/15) ... rushed for 81 yards and two touchdowns vs. Pace (9/8) ... recorded 75 yards on 19 carries and a touchdown vs. Central Connecticut (9/1) ... preseason All-Big South by Phil Steele's College Football Preview.
Before Stony Brook: Transfer from Iowa ... rushed for more than 2,000 yards and 18 touchdowns in two seasons with Hawkeyes ... second in the Big Ten in rushing (1,384 yards - 115.3 ypg) as a sophomore, earning second-team all-conference ... named co-MVP of 2010 Insight Bowl against No. 12 Missouri after rushing for 219 yards and two touchdowns.
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Congress agreed on something. The White House has turned purple. We've paid off the national debt! Yeah right. That would be a miracle that would make even Moses stand up and take notice. Parting of the Red Sea… Pah!
The miracle that I am speaking of is a GREEN one (go figure). Washington DC. Nearly four years after residents rallied to turn a vacant lot on the corner of 13th & C Streets SE into a community park and garden, volunteers gathered to plant nine trees in the newly constructed space under the supervision of Casey Trees, a DC non-profit dedicated to "restoring, enhancing and protecting" the canopy of the nation's capital. The ribbon-cutting that was to follow has been postponed due to weather until sometime in May or early June. Despite the drizzle, the event was an enormous success.
Once complete, the space will play host to a number of garden plots, a water feature, plenty of turf for enjoying the greenery and even a wall reserved for outdoor movie screenings. And, of course, the nine trees.
But who provided the funding for this green edition to our nation's capital? Remember the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009? Say it with me friends…INFRASTRUCTURE. That's what this 'restoring, enhancing and protecting' is called, amongst other things. Billions of tax dollars were supposedly committed to assisting us through the recession. There's a photo below that prooves it!!! Now THAT'S an Earth Day miracle!
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Republicans in central Ohio say they are making plans for the bellwether state's first presidential straw poll.
The Franklin County Republican Party event will take place Oct. 22 on the campus of Ohio State University.
Executive Committee Chairman Doug Preisse (PRYS') says the straw poll will give Ohio Republicans a chance to be heard in the increasingly competitive GOP presidential primary.
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Mental illness awarenessWhen I was a teenager, I had this issue. I never told anybody about this issue because I always thought that people would be afraid of me, or they wouldn't understand. This issue affected me so much, it eventually started to eat away at me, and my feelings began to corrode. Soon enough I had given up everything I was working for, the issue was taking over.A few months after I realized I had an issue, I met another person and they had an issue. Except they were different to me, they could cope with it, they could talk about, and they had accepted it. I looked at the statistic and decided to give in and accept that I was born different, and God had chosen for me to have this issue for some kind of life lesson that I would soon learn. I never learnt from it so to say, I didn't survive from it either. The issue got worse over time, but no one noticed, not even that friend with the issue, and at that point I stopped going to school.I started hearing things, abnormal things, they w
RamblingsYou don't know me.You don't know and you don't understand.If I were to tell you what went on in my head.You'd be afraid.I'm not coming home to you,I'm not going to sleep with the devilI'd rather sleep on the street.Light it up, knock it down and the pain is gone.
Cecilia's maze of life: chapter twoCECILIA'S MAZE OF LIFE: FINDING THE RIGHT STAIRCASECecilia was faced with a 6 foot high hedge that had a small sign on the outside that was attached to an over-sized candy cane. "BEWARE OF FLYING FOXES SWOOPING IN BREEDING SEASON!" Cecilia disregarded this notice and took a liking to the candy cane and ripped the sign off and tossed it to the ground of soft pristine grass. She used the candy cane as a baton throwing it up and catching whilst she sung For he's a jolly good fellow. "For he's a jolly good fellow. For he's a jolly good fellow. For he's a jolly good fellow! Which nobody can deny. Which nobody can deny. Which nobody can deny. For he's a jolly good fellow. Which nobody can deny!"Cecilia weaved in and o
Cecilia's maze of life: chapter oneCHAPTER ONE: MEETING MAD MAN SILVERStrands of silky golden hair whipped Cecilia's face as she ran in pursuit of her golden retriever that was chasing a squirrel. Her beloved dog had gotten free from it's enclosure in the courtyard for the third time this month. Cecilia could see Tiara running into someone else's yard, it was getting dark and she had strayed far from home. Tearing the hem of her dress as she ran through the tall grass and foliage she had found herself lost and no longer had sight of Tiara.Cecilia gave up and sunk down next to a stump of a tree with tears running down her cheeks."Oh poor, Tiara! She will miss me so. I wonder if she will find me,"Taking a look at her surroundings, it came to her attention that she was at the mad man's estate."Mother has always told me this man was insane, and that I should never to venture this far down to the country, oh she will be so worried! But I don't seem to remember how
Happy marriage or harsh reality?Do opposites attract? I'm sick of waiting.They say opposites attract.Like magnets, maybe?Sometimes I feel like an idiot,because we're exactly the same.Reminiscing the good times,Reminiscing the bad times.Fantasizing about something I can't get,Fantasizing like a poor child in a toy shop.Why do people say opposites attract?Is it the opposites that get divorces?Do they fight too much?Do they end up hating each other?I feel like a child in toy store,asking mummy for a toy.Mummy says no,but I continue wanting it.The only difference is,I grow up,mother is the reality,and I'm the child.I'll never get what I want,because what I want,I can't have.I can't have him.
A Candlelit Dinner With Hope And FaithI had this hope;it's was a flame on a candle.This hope was dying,this hope was fading.It breaks me down,kills my core.And when I least expect it,it wants more.It burns my courage,it burns my faith.It burns my fake smile,it burns my sanity.You ignore me, you ignore the candle.You ignore the spark it ignites,you ignore your feelings.You ignore the fact that you're in denial.I distinguish the candle,I distinguish my hope,I distinguish my fake smile,I distinguish my love.I waited, you didn't come.I waited, you didn't care.I waited; you didn't admit you're love.I waited for too long, I gave up.I had this hope,it was a flame on a candle.This hope died.This hope faded.
Dear Future Self,Dear Future Me,I bet you weren't expecting a letter from your past self, were you?Well, you probably were, considering we're the same person andyou'd have to know I was writing you a letter since you wrote it in thepast so I guess you know already what's in this letter, right? Do I evenneed to write it? If I don't write it
will that set off a chain of eventsthat lead to the you who won't read this being someone completely different!?I've watched 'Back to the Future' far too many times.Well, I'm going to write it. I guess I can't offer you infinite insightabout your future since I'm writing forward as opposed to back, and Idon't know what the future is going to be like, but I want to reiteratea couple of things for you that might be weathered by time.Alrighty, for starters:a) Zombies will always be awesome. Forever and always. Don't lose your love for the genre, buddy.b) There's always time. When it comes to projects, the less of it you have, t
To My Future SelfTo my Future Self, Breathe. You must be thinking, seriously, my teen self is acting like an old fart of a teacher telling off overstressed kids, but seriously, breathe. Stop. Pause. Listen. It's your heart beating. It's telling you, I'm beating so damn hard, I might just kill you one day. Okay, let's digest. There can only be two reasons for your heart to beat like that. One reason is because I wouldn't have changed- I would still be that overzealous, neurotic, depressed teenager with a penchant for word thieves, dream catchers and moment makers. The other reason would be just the opposite: it's beating with life, with purpose, with hope. I hope you'll be that second person. Because being that second person means being serenaded by Chopin in a boy's car, travelling down to Bondi Beach watching sculptures rear out of the sea and you're feeling like, maybe, love may finally find you at last. Being that second person means you just won't shut up talking to patrons
Dear You (Or, Alternatively, Me)Dear You (Or, Alternatively, Me) I worry about you sometimes.I worry about how you are doing: who you are spending your time frolicking with, whether or not you have finally kissed someone, if you still get nervous easily. I worry about my friends in your time are they still our friends? Or have you finally let them all go, or pushed them away, or left like we always dreamed of?Sometimes I lay in bed in the late hours of the night, dreaming of your life. Do you remember? Do you remember staring at the dark ceiling so long it began turning red, tossing and turning, hoping and dreading what is to come? I wonder if the things I have done effect you as we have always worried they would; if they have broken you. You see, the truth is and I am certain you remember this about me I fear you. I fear you like a lightning rod fears a thunderstorm. Do you remember why I fear you so? You do, don't you? Just as I shrink away from the possibility of becoming you, so you shrink
Dear Adult Me.Dear adult me,I'm tucking this letter safely inside your favorite copy of 'The Dragonlance Series', where I'm sure you're going to find it. Page 241--your page. This book should be worn and weathered by now. I say 'should', because I'm frantically hoping that you're still reading it; because people change and you--we--are no exception.So, dear future self, it's definitely been a while since I last thought of you. The truth is, I'm afraid to. All those hopeless and overly irrelevant dreams I have right now are probably just a fade memory in your mind. Some of them you probably accomplished. Some others you probably don't even remember; not that I blame you, you probably thought that those ambitions were too ridiculous to realize.Did you finally manage to publish your book? This may sound funny to you, but right now, publishing our book sounds like an amazing and generally possible idea. Maybe, as time passed, the thought started becoming more and more untenable and, consequently, you
Dear Adult MeDear Adult me,Did you succeed in all those crazy plans you made? Every day I look at my to-do list and just say to myself "Not today." But what about you? Did you get off your lazy butt and actually do those things listed? Did you write those countless stories, play all of those amazing games, learn all the knowledge to satisfy you, listen to every song on those lists received, read every book suggested, and all the while still manage to do the chores at home and hang out with every friend?There's so much I want to ask you, but there's nothing you can say. I want to know if the life I've made now will be the life I have forever. Some days it feels like that's true. Other days it feels like everything I've lived through is a lie.Did you ever tell that guy how you really feel? That girl? Did you ever become a mother?As our sister traversed life along side us, we both know the things she went through, and a refresh on her history only strengthens it more. It's scary to think that you
Dear Teen MeDear Teen Me ~You, with the bleu Sharpie pen.Those ripped leggings are hugging your bones like another layer of skin. Werent you maintaining your weight? Oh, thats right. I remember now. You were spending some more time in that day hospital program. Philhaven. The depression had come back in a rush. It was overwhelming; a tide of uncertainty and anxiety, complete with a bow laced with self-loathing. It was wrapped around you like gauze and medical tape, all melted together as one hard cast. All that weight, Love, and you crashed. You fell under a suffocating blanket of hatred and were constantly shrouded by ribbons of past mistakes./Failure, failure, failure/Those thoughts followed you around like a black dog with a limp, slow at times, but always there. Your friends turned their backs on you after that night. We decided that they werent friends, remember? But then there was something else to think about. Who /were/ your friends, then? The ones you had
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AnguishedDear teen me, First off, I hate you. I HATE you. You are despicable and you are vile. I wish you nothing but the anguish of nightmares and sad, sleepless nights. I hate you for what you've done, and I hate you for all the reasons why you've done it. I hate you for being so stupid as to thinking that building a wall would keep out the sadness. Because guess what? It didn't. I hate you. I hate YOU who crushed my dreams, and turned my skies from blue to gray. It was you who convinced me that daydreams were just a sad, pathetic excuse to escape reality, and ever since then, I've felt as if I were deaf in a hearing world. You are despicable even in the eyes of the lowest. I hate you! I hope you've lived your life in complete and utter anguish . . . and then we'd be even! Because you've made my life a living hell. You are selfish
Ahoy there, future meAhoy there, future self.You probably found this letter whilst going through things to sell in a garage sale, or even moving out. You probably weren't expecting to be sitting down on your bed with a seedy smile on your face reading what your past thirteen year old self had once written, on that same bed you are sitting on. Do I need to go on? Or do you already know what I've written? Do I have to remind you what being a teenager was like, or do you already remember how insanely mind-boggling it is and it was that horrible that you will no matter what. Never, ever forget it?Well, I'll start be reassuring a few things:1. Don't stop loving Narwhals, they're awesome and if you have- shame on you. I'm disgusted.2. You should chill out and have chocolate for breakfast. Because that's something adults don't do, and they should. It's the best feeling in the world. However since you being an adult.. you might have found other guilty pleasures. But I don't want to know. Or do
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Chicago voters were about evenly split on the idea of using tax dollars to attract and build a Barack Obama presidential library in the city, a Chicago Tribune poll has found.
Chicago voters were about evenly split on the idea of using tax dollars to attract and build a Barack Obama presidential library in the city, a Chicago Tribune poll has found.
SPRINGFIELD — Republican governor candidate Bruce Rauner on Tuesday sought to publicly pressure the Illinois Supreme Court to rule in favor of putting his term limit proposal on the November ballot, saying voters want a chance to weigh in on the idea.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel today said GOP governor hopeful Bruce Rauner should release his tax returns, echoing calls from Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn's campaign.
More than 4 out of 5 voters back Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal to significantly increase Chicago's minimum wage in the coming years, even as it remains unclear whether the plan will ever be called for a City Council vote.
Shea McClellin flipped his hips and turned to cover Jaguars wide receiver Mike Brown late in the second quarter of Thursday's exhibition game.
The Jackie Robinson West All-Stars have caught the nation's attention with towering homers and lots of runs. The kids from Morgan Park can win with pitching and defense too.
The Bears hope new receiver Santonio Holmes will be ready to see at least some game action Friday night in Seattle. But as of Tuesday coach Marc Trestman steered away from a definitive proclamation of Holmes' availability.
If Ferguson police wore body cameras, the circumstances of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown would be much more clear.
The unemployment rate in Illinois has dropped, and Gov. Pat Quinn is buoyant. Not so fast, countered Republican challenger Bruce Rauner.
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This year's Super Bowl has the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers duking it out in Dallas. Whether you're bringing your game face to the your favorite sports bar, or just in it for the food, commercials and house-party, we've got looks for both teams that are a sure win.
Now, representing your team calls for some serious color coordination. Our playbook calls for a comfy, black (Steelers) or green (Packers) dress, polished off with a whole lot of gold (Steelers and Packers).
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Lily Ko (lily.7x7 @ gmail.com) studied fashion design and merchandising at Central Saint Martins and the Academy of Art University. In addition to writing for 7x7, Lily is an editor at SF Station, works as a freelance stylist and covers food, fashion and fun on her blog, Curated SF.
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You've known me in the past as tkow, but Seth has bestowed upon me the honor of writing on the front page. With that, I'll be using (at least part of) my real name from now on. Of course, this isn't on the front page, but it's also not really a substantive post, so there's no reason to put it there.
Basically, I want to use this post to get ideas from you guys. I have story ideas of my own and I'll be writing about those, but I thought it might be fun to receive feedback. In the comments, let me know who and what you're curious about. It can be something as simple as "Is Raymond Felton as bad as we thought?" (though the answer to that, I'm sure, is yes) or as complicated as "How does J.R. Smith's pick and roll passing/scoring compare to other 2-guards?". I actually just bought a subscription to Synergy, so I'll have access to more stats than I did for my posts on Carmelo Anthony's passing. As in, don't worry asking for something too specific!
That's basically it. Obviously, I won't be able to get around to every suggestion made (unless no one makes any suggestions at all), so if a common topic comes up or if there are one or two topics that get a lot of Recs, I'll make sure to get to those at some point this off-season.
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text: Leading U.S. Senators from the American West introduced a bipartisan measure to make Forest Service cabin fees more affordable and predictable, without costing the federal government any money.Many Western families have owned family cabins on leased Forest Service land for generations.However, due to skyrocketing land values, annual user fees have doubled or even tripled, forcing some to consider abandoning their cabins."These are not mansions, these are truly cabins that are you know, places people have taken their kids for generations," said Sen. Jon Tester. Led by Democratic Senator Jon Tester, lawmakers are restructuring the fee system to reduce annual user fees to as low as $500 and requiring new land appraisals to be completed within two years. Sen. Tester said, "It protects the federal tax payer, so the federal tax payer doesn't have to supplement with dollars at all, and it doesn't price the cabin owners out of their property."The Cabin Fee Act assigns annual user fees according to an eleven-tier "cabin value" system ranging from $500 to $5,500. This system will provide greater certainty to cabin owners, but will not reduce the Forest Service's revenue from cabin leasing."I think middle class folks would have been priced out of a property they've been able to use for decades and decades," Tester said.Tester is joined on the bill by Senators Max Baucus, and senators from Idaho, Wyoming, and California.Roughly 14,000 cabins across the country are located on fee-based federal lots, many of which are in Idaho."We've been working on this bill for four to five years now, I think the opportunity to get this across the finish line is good right now, we just have to keep pushing," Tester said.Senator Tester and others on the bill are referring it to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. They expect to have a hearing with that committee in the near future.


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Our Hit Parade says good-bye
Neal Medlyn becomes a Juggalo
It's not the first place we'd expect to find Kathleen Hanna's name, but there it is, subtly tacked onto the credits for Neal Medlyn's Wicked Clown Love, a 2012 experimental work "built around the music and culture of hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse, their devoted fan base the Juggalos, and other form ... More >>
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Miley's musical taste inspires a cabaret
The OHP gang sings goodbye to the 00s
Because if Kanye can, so can you
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Murray Hill has the Academy to thank
I'm kind of obsessed with Kenny Mellman, Neal Medlyn, and Bridget Everett's blog, where the trio posts a reworked pop song every day. The best is "Medley Mondays," when they combine two songs with the same names, like the brilliant slow-dance mashup of "Rehab" (Rihanna and Winehouse), and an examina ... More >>
A sneak peek at the downtown theater season
Herb branches out
A dude who knows how to Get Off
Choreographers offer ragouts of history and memory
Kenny Mellman (of Kiki and Herb) and Bridget Everett join forces for an explosively bitchy cabaret act at Joe's Pub entitled Sexercise Live! A Tribute to the Potty Mouthed and Profound Millie Jackson. Kenny Mellman chatted with the Voice about it. Village Voice: Whose idea was it to show love f ... More >>
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What George Bush truly deserves: Karen Finley's vision of his sex life with Martha Stewart


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MCD will always have broader appeal than more specialized outfits like Chipotle and Panera. The latter are fine (if more expensive and riskier) investments, but MCD is still king and likely to be very hard to push off the hill.Feb 14 10:18 AM | 2 Likes |Link to Comment
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A High Dividend Stock That's Ready To Rise [View article]
MVO's area of operations is quite spread out geographically---another plus.
I see this stock as pretty safe for at least ten years out from here. That's a long time to be reaping a yield ranging from 5% to 15%. Around 2022 will be time to think about pulling the plug. Comfortably far off.Sep 13 10:02 AM | 2 Likes |Link to Comment
Peak Oil Myth: Debunking The Peak Oil Theory [View article]
In any case, I do not think you have "debunked" the Peak Oil theory---which is quite complex and nuanced---in any convincing way here. You have expressed your opinions nicely, that is all.Sep 4 10:51 AM | 2 Likes |Link to Comment
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Set Yourself Up To Let Compounding Work Its Magic [View article]Jun 19 09:55 AM | 2 Likes |Link to Comment
Exxon Mobil's New Dividend Is Not Enough [View article]
Everything is relative, Skafan. Long-term holders of Exxon have been richly rewarded. The yields on their original investments have compounded hugely and are much higher than the numbers you cite. And their unrealized capital gain is gigantic.
Exxon's purchase of XTO was smart, not dumb. Yes natural gas is cheap right now but that won't last forever. As oil prices continue to rise, there will be more and more pressure to use NG, including possibly for transportation.
Exxon is thinking years and even decades ahead, not just the next fiscal quarter. I like companies like that. Probably Exxon is not an appropriate choice for those who are focused only on the next dividend payment.
Total is a good investment but it is considerably riskier than XOM in my opinion.Apr 28 08:08 AM | 2 Likes |Link to Comment
Exxon Mobil's New Dividend Is Not Enough [View article]Apr 27 11:21 AM | 2 Likes |Link to Comment
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The comment about lots of young people starting smoking is on target. You see it everywhere. Anecdotal, but I pay attention to the evidence of my own senses.
Europe is definitely a problem zone, but its population is shrinking anyway. The rest of the world will more than make up for the European problem. PM is smart and flexible enough to make the shift.Oct 11 01:05 PM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
Raises All Around: Dividend Increases For The Month Of August [View article]
Roundup, along with breeding "superweeds" resistant to all herbicides and that are far worse than the weeds they evolved from, kills soil microbes that are essential to healthy soils capable of sustainable agriculture. Roundup-treated soil becomes hard and sterile; in time, yields will drop below the norm. Also, as weeds develop resistance, you need more and more Roundup---perfect for MON stockholders, right? Some farmers are starting to understand these matters and are stopping Roundup applications.
Of course, that's only a tiny part of this company's crimes.Sep 20 09:22 AM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
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ScarsSlender are the scars that bind,
That haunt my body and fragile mind.
They keep me here in this odd place,
And remind me that I fell from grace.
No matter who I choose to be,
They will always be a part of me.
Without them,
I would be quite lost.
I need them,
Never mind the cost.
If only I knew what they were for,
And didn't endlessly thirst for more.
Scars so slender,
And so pale,
Raised on skin,
You never fail
To excite my darker dreams.
All I need is found within,
And placed upon unoffending skin.
A part of me they shall always stay,
Until my flesh has gone away.
Scars so pretty,
Let me see
Who I was and shall be.
Every single tomorrowSo many words describe
how I really feel
yet not words say it right
and make it seem as real
as it seems to me
because no matter what I say
I can't describe the rush
that comes my way
when I feel your touch
and my stomach flips
then there's that feeling I get
when I can feel your lips
as they part against mine
and my heart beat skips
quite a few times
as my conciousness dips
from the feeling of happiness
that only you can bring
and it my world
it's for you that the birds sing
because you are the reason
that I get up every day
and in and out of each season
I wouldn't want it any other way
so no matter how much time passes
I'll want to be with you everyday
lying down on green grasses
wasting our time away
with fingers intertwined
and lips brushing
a soft touch of your neck
and I can feel your heart rushing
though it seems to me
that no words can explain
the compexity of our emotions
that will forever remain
so I will tell you here
to hold back your tears
because no matter what you think
'metaphorically speaking'you're tumbling with me through a sea of cloth
and our bodies are waves crashing into one another.
lips crushing together, our waists whisper their longings.
tracing your collarbones with kisses,
i giggle, you shiver, you smile.
you're atop a forest and i'm down in the valleys.
grasping the arch of my back, your fingers like torches,
i shiver, you giggle, we moan.
i'm tumbling with you through a field of skin
and our bodies are blades of grass slightly licking each other
when the wind blows over and through us.
we shiver.
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The Justice Department announced today that Happy Asker, franchise owner of multiple "Happy's Pizza" franchises, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit along with Maher Bashi, Tom Yaldo, Arkan Summa and Tagrid Bashi for multiple tax offenses arising from a conspiracy to underreport taxable income and payroll taxes of nine Happy's Pizza franchises. All defendants with the exception of Happy Asker were arrested.
A multiple count indictment was unsealed in the Eastern District of Michigan charging Happy Asker, Maher Bashi and Tom Yaldo with conspiracy to defraud the United States by keeping fraudulent accounting records and falsely reporting income taxes and payroll taxes due and owing.
The indictment alleges that from approximately June 2004 through April 2011, the defendants conspired with each other to divert business receipts, underreport wages and understate the true income and expenses of specified Happy's Pizza franchises. According to the indictment, the scheme resulted in the specified franchises paying more than $2.1 million in unreported wages to employees and shareholders .
Additional charges in the indictment include three counts of filing a false individual income tax return as to Happy Asker; 21 counts of aiding in the filing of false payroll tax returns as to Happy Asker and Maher Bashi; 23 counts of aiding in the filing of false payroll tax returns as to Tom Yaldo on behalf of specified Happy's Pizza franchises; and 11 counts as to Happy Asker and Maher Bashi for aiding in filing false corporate tax returns on behalf of specified Happy's Pizza franchises.
Finally, the indictment also charges Happy Asker and Maher Bashi with one count of obstructing the due administration of the internal revenue laws. Arkan Summa and Tagrid Bashi are also charged together in a count of obstructing the due administration of the internal revenue laws and Tom Yaldo is also charged with one count of obstructing the due administration of the internal revenue laws.
An indictment is not a finding of guilt. Individuals charged in indictments are presumed innocent until proven guilty. If convicted of the conspiracy charge, the defendants face up to 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The charges of filing a false income tax return and aiding or assisting in filing a false return carry a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a fine of $250,000 for each count. The obstruction charge carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a fine of $250,000 for each count.
This case was investigated by Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI and is being prosecuted by Senior Litigation Counsel Corey Smith and Trial Attorney Mark McDonald of the Justice Department's Tax Division.
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Wallace replaces Rick Adair, who left the club for personal reasons back in August. The 66-year-old was chosen over former Phillies pitching coach Rich Dubee, Mariners pitching coach Carl Willis and Texas bullpen coach Andy Hawkins.
He joins the Orioles after spending the last four seasons with the Atlanta Braves as minor league pitching coordinator. Prior to that, the Connecticut native spent two years as special assistant to the general manager in Seattle.
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Etim (14-3) has won four of his past five UFC fights, but is a coming off a loss to Rafael dos Anjos at UFC 112. Faaloloto (2-2) has lost his past two fights.
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Round 1: Etim is the biggest favorite on this card, more than 6-to-1 on the betting lines. Etim comes out throwing bombs. Faaloloto tries to shoot in for a takedown, Etim jumps into a guillotine. It's locked in and it's over in a flash.
Winner: Terry Etim via guillotine submission, Rd. 1 (:17)
"I'm back now, I'm 100 percent, and I'm ready to make an impact in the division," Etim says after the win.
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Single Laparoscopic Incision Transabdominal (SLIT) Surgery—Adjustable Gastric Banding: A Novel Minimally Invasive Surgical Approach
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Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) has become an exciting area of surgical development. However, there are significant limitations to this surgical concept due to the lack of surgical expertise and appropriate flexible instrumentation. An alternative and competing technology to NOTES is single-access surgery. We present a novel surgical technique for placement of an adjustable gastric band utilizing a single laparoscopic incision which was ultimately used for implanting the subcutaneous access port. This new technique is called single laparoscopic incision transabdominal (SLIT) surgery which describes an advanced laparoscopic bariatric operation that can be performed through a tiny slit. The operative time was 55 min. There were no intraoperative complications. The patient did well postoperatively and was discharged on postoperative day 1. There were no postoperative complications at 1-month follow-up. Adjustable gastric banding performed through a single laparoscopic incision is technically feasible. The procedure was performed with mostly existing ports, laparoscopic instrumentations, and visualization platform. Advantages of SLIT surgery compared to conventional laparoscopic surgery will ultimately require further randomized clinical trials.
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5:30am Friday 14th March 2014 in News By Dominic Gilbert
POLICE in West Swindon have seen a dramatic fall in burglaries over the past year, despite resources being stretched.
Beat manager for West Swindon, PC Tom Turner, took up a new role with CID last month, and his replacement is now being lined up.
A recent recruitment drive for new PCSOs across the town will benefit the team, with two new recruits currently in training before hitting the streets.
Sgt Pete Foster said drug raids in collaboration with other policing teams have helped drive down opportunistic burglaries.
"We have had a good year in terms of the proactive side of the work," he said.
"If we are making drugs harder to come by, we are driving crime away from the area.
"If we can make it more difficult to obtain drugs, there will be fewer thefts.
"Some of it can be from people leaving the area or going to prison."
PC Stephen Yeates, beat manager for Toothill and Freshbrook, said although their numbers are currently at a low, major inroads have been made over the last year.
"It has been quite a hectic period for us," he said. "We are not at full strength, and are currently in the process of recruiting.
"It is important to tackle the drugs problem, because addicts will often commit acquisitive crimes.
"Robberies are currently down by 25 per cent over last year, and overall crime is down by 12 per cent.
"Last year we had 3,703 reports of crimes compared with 3,462 this year, so progress is being made.
"The most substantial reductions in burglaries have been in non-dwelling properties, such as sheds and garages. That number has fallen by 37 per cent over the last year, from 354 to 236.
"We know that drugs and thefts go hand in hand, but we are always going to be two steps behind. We always rely on good information from the public.
"If we do not know about a crime we will not be there, and if we are not there they will always get away with it."
The largest increase in crime across the sector was reported rapes, which rose a 25 per cent to 75 cases.
Sgt Foster said: "This is a national issue as a result of some of the high-profile cases. There seems to be a willingness to engage with police now.
"What we are concerned about is the public place attacks where we need to look at tackling the problem with more foot patrols in problem areas."
PC Yeates said the statistics were often influenced by backdated cases.
"We have certainly not had 75 rapes in the sector over the past year," he said. "What will often happen is someone will come forward after they have been the victim of a number of offences, and we will then be looking at cases which go back a few years.
"We do take every incident seriously and would encourage anyone who has been the victim of a sexual offence to come forward."
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"Some of it can be from people leaving the area or going to prison."
No burglar can commit burglaries whilst in prison. That much is undeniable and one reason the government introduced the mandatory 3 year starting point for those sentenced for a third (or more) burglary conviction.
Sadly, the judiciary often ignore this and the CPS/courts also go out of their way to contrive charges such that the 3 conviction threshold is held off for as long as possible.
Drugs have got little or nothing to do with it, as drug dealers will always fill any void that's opened up by their colleagues being sent to prison and drugs will always be easily available for those who want them and who have the money to buy them.
It is quite disturbing and concerning that even the police now seem to be following the bizarrely misguided mindset of the judiciary and a few ill-advised politicians who believe that 'prison doesn't work'.
All the evidence shows that prison works exceptionally well in terms of protecting the public from criminals.
What absolutely doesn't work is the laughable concept of 'rehabilitation' that some deluded individuals still like to cling on to as a lovely theory that might, one day, actually become a reality.
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|April 13, 2007 11:45 AM EDT
BEIJING, April 13 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- The route and torch of the torch relay program for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will be made public in the near future.
The news came from the 81st session of the Executive Board of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) on Thursday. The meeting listened to a report on the scheme of the ceremony to announce the route and torch of the Beijing Olympic Games torch relay program. It was stressed that the relay route is the most important part of the program. A carrier of the torch relay activity, the torch symbolizes peace and friendship. BOCOG has successfully completed the formulation of the Beijing 2008 torch relay route and the design of the torch. According to the arrangement made by BOCOG and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the route and torch will be officially announced in the near future.
BOCOG intends to take the opportunity to spread the Olympic Spirit, display the concepts of the Beijing Olympics and how the Chinese people understand and seek after the Olympic Spirit, spread the theme of the "harmonious journey" of the Beijing 2008 torch relay, showcase the traditional and modern images of the cities on the relay route, and inspire the people's passion to welcome and participate in the torch relay, with an aim to increase the influence of the Beijing Games and create a favorable social environment for the Games preparatory work.
The meeting also listened to a report on the launch of the ticketing program for the Beijing Games. Guided by the concept of "carrying out the Olympic Spirit, attaching importance to the mass participation, expressing the Chinese characteristics and taking into account the interests of various parties," BOCOG has formulated the program after repeatedly studying the IOC rules and the practices of the previous Olympic Games. The program comprises the basic conditions of the venues' seats, the quota allocation, sales methods, Beijing Paralympics ticketing program and E-ticketing.
The meeting noted that the ticketing program has attracted wide interest from people at home and abroad. Based on the IOC rules and China's conditions, the sales process should be just, open and transparent.
The meeting was chaired by BOCOG President Liu Qi, who is also member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and secretary of Beijing Municipal CPC Committee.Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
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