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H.R.3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009
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- Official: America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 as introduced.
- Official: To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. as introduced.
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- oderintdummetuant 10/04/2009 4:41am
I love that you are mad that someone else makes more money or is in a better situation than you are. Here's a thought, take advantage of what this country already affords you….OPPORTUNITY. Improve your life. Don't get mad because others are smarter, worked harder or took big risks and it paid off, go do better for yourself. The fact that we are all ready subsidizing health care for those who don't pay for insurance is no defense to creating/instituting new taxes or penalties simply because the "haves" do in fact have.
You attribute never having to go without insurance to "fortunate enough to be wealthy or lucky" but you don't even consider maybe they just worked harder than you, sacrificed lifestyle choices that you haven't or a host of other possibilities. You just throw a tantrum claiming that their "fat" paycheck is something you earn for them?
I'm not mad at people that make outrageaous sums of money, I just don't understand greed. Without writing a biography, I'll just say I make enough. I didn't always, and I had to work hard to get here. Your presumptions are wrong. Being intellegent with strong work ethics is not enough to make money. They need to know how to make money. But where would we be without the people who know how to fix your computers, or build your roads or cook your food, or clean your sewers, ….
- oderintdummetuant 10/05/2009 5:07am
Its not a presumption, my comments were directed solely at the statements you made. Your claim that intelligence and strong work ethics are not enough is laughable. This bill has nothing to do with teaching "them" how to make money, it has to do with giving them money or benefits that the rest of us have earned. Bottom line, personal responsibility and accountability. Again, it seems that is just asking too much.
You haven't earned anymore right to health care than any of the rest of us. Wealth is not a sign of intelligence or hard work. And it certainly doesn't mean you are any better for the future of this country then the guy who picks up your garbage or does your dry cleaning. Neither is it evidence of your personal responsibility or accountability. The lack of a moral compass has never prevented anyone from making money, but the reverse is often true. I could have made a fortune preying on other people, but I have a conscience. That is not to accuse you specifically, but the examples are abundant.
- TSpringer59 10/05/2009 1:20pm
Today, however, we are seeing the rise of principled immorality in this country. We are seeing a total abandonment by the intellectuals and the politicians of the moral principles on which the U.S. was founded. We are seeing the complete destruction of the concept of rights. The original American idea has been virtually wiped out, ignored as if it had never existed. The rule now is for politicians to ignore and violate men's actual rights, while arguing about a whole list of rights never dreamed of in this country's founding documents — rights which require no earning, no effort, no action at all on the part of the recipient.
Sorry. Didn't mean to say that is WHY it is considered a living document, the ability to modify it is what makes it a living document. I agree about the violation of actual rights. Allowing corporations to be treated as an individual under the law is causing the very problems we are debating now. Group Health being allowed to act as an individual instead of a collection of individuals makes them an almost insurmountable obstacle to democracy.
- TSpringer59 10/05/2009 3:49pm
That is why the U.S. system defines rights as it does, strictly as the rights to action. This was the approach that made the U.S. the first truly free country in all world history — and, soon afterwards, as a result, the greatest country in history, the richest and the most powerful. It became the most powerful because its view of rights made it the most moral. It was the country of individualism and personal independence. The United States Constitution is the shortest and oldest written constitution still in use by any nation in the world today, I suspect because of the simple, yet powerful, principles used as its foundation.
"A lack of wealth is certainly a sign of a lack of intelligence or at least poor decision making skills or hard work." You are far too humble.
And myopic. There is nothing I could possibly say that would make you sacrifice your life, let alone one thin dime, for your fellow American; so I'll leave it at that.
- oderintdummetuant 10/05/2009 7:12pm
I am a Captain in the U.S. Army and have served two combat tours in Iraq so far. You know nothing of sacrificing for your country. Having held together the body of my soldiers I believe I have a vague concept of sacrificing for my fellow American. The freedoms you enjoy I provide and you have only the vaguest comprehension of what this country was founded on and the principles on which its power, history, reputation and economy are based.
- oderintdummetuant 10/06/2009 4:55am
The country I defend requires the same from each of us, without excuse we are all provided the same thing. Opportunity. Sure some have it better than others to start but thats not some great evil, because every person in the United States can elevate their life if the simply want to, history has taught us that. "A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government." Thomas Jefferson "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." Thomas Jefferson "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." Benjamin Franklin
"Those seeking profits, were they given total freedom, would not be the ones to trust to keep government pure and our rights secure. Indeed, it has always been those seeking wealth who were the source of corruption in government. No other depositories of power have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge."
-Thomas Jefferson in an 1816 letter to Samuel Kerchival
(continued)"I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. … We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. … [Otherwise], as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, … and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow sufferers."
-Thomas Jefferson in an 1816 letter to Samuel Kerchival
- oderintdummetuant 10/07/2009 1:58pm
You want to quote Jefferson to me? Ok.
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.
Delay is preferable to error.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
- oderintdummetuant 10/07/2009 2:05pm
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
There's more if you want.
- oderintdummetuant 10/06/2009 5:02am
What makes this country wealthy is unrestrained capitalism, regulated but unrestrained. Yes we have more resources based, if nothing else, on the youth of our nation, but our wealth stems from being a capitalist leader in the world and from being hard workers. So yeah, Duty and Honor do contribute to our wealth. This country strength came from parents wanting better for their children….today its parents borrowing from their children with no thought as to how their kids will afford it. Yes we need reform and regulation. Ben Franklin said "Mine is better than ours", I agree. Yes I'm selfish and greedy, congratulations you've just discovered what drives the free market economy. Its odd to me that in the market place of ideas the left can ONLY see a public option, like its a silver bullet gonna fix it all.
The Ben Franklin line is just a joke. Here are a couple more bi-spectacled witticisms for you.
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."
Benjamin Franklin
"He does not possess wealth; it possesses him."
Benjamin Franklin
"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
Benjamin Franklin
"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."
Benjamin Franklin
- oderintdummetuant 10/07/2009 2:16pm
Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.
God helps those who help themselves.
Half a truth is often a great lie.
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Industry need not wish.
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Want some more Franklin? Don't mistake what our founding fathers said with your politics. Their beliefs are in fact the way in which we were founded and the system you think doesn't work.
- oderintdummetuant 10/07/2009 7:26pm
Its funny, when you make a baseless accusation and talk about me be ignorant with out any supporting comments. Take a look to the right of all these comments. See where it says __% Users Support Bill? Whats that number? Pretty sure as ridiculous as I look….I'm in the majority.
Tell me how I don't know American History? Then I'll tell you what my degree is in. Then you can trash the school I went to and I'll tell you how elitist that is of you.
If you think I've got it all wrong then prove me wrong, show everyone how silly I am, don't act like a baby or better yet don't act like a monkey and just get all huffy and fling your poo everywhere.
Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, has apparently hired a cadre of left-wing, Democrat campaign bloggers to troll through the Internet looking for news stories and blog posts that denigrate the Obama agenda. After such websites are found it is the job of these secret lefty bloggers to leave comments that come to the support of Obamaism in the comments sections. It seems that Eric Holder has created his own little propaganda unit in a valiant effort to become the Bloggi Riefenstahl of the Obama era.
As reported at The Muffled Oar, a blog that first broke the story of Holder's secretive blogging unit — dubbed the "Blog Squad" by blogger Isaac Muzzey — Holder has housed this unit in the Office of Public Affairs at the Department of Justice. It also appears that former John Edwards staffer Tracy Russo is part of this special unit.
Theodore Roosevelt is another favorite of mine: "We must drive the special interests out of politics. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have themselves called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains."
A new value-added tax (VAT) is "on the table" to help the U.S. address its fiscal liabilities, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday night.
"They get a tax off of that and they use that money to pay the healthcare for their own workers," Pelosi said, using the example of auto manufacturers.
The only way Obama can get the un-constitutional HR-3200 past the Supreme Court is to lie to the American people and tell them it is an insurance or health care reform bill while telling the Supreme Court it is a new tax for an American benefit. After all, that is what FDR had to do with the Social Security (SS) bill and look how well that is working. OBAMA LIES, this is a new tax on the American People with no accounting just like Social Security. Any one see a LOCK BOX? The money will go into the general fund and then to the Pork Barrel Projects just as bankrupt SS. IT IS JUST A POWER GRAB.
- oderintdummetuant 10/07/2009 1:53pm
You are right about Roosevelt he had some great things to say….like…"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."
"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."
"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education"
"It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws."
"Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures."
All courtesy of Theodore Roosevelt.
I would like to agree that we can avoid amending the constitution. At the time it was all we needed. Rugged Individualism and "personal independence" are not what they used to be. A person is not free, for example, to just wander west and live off of the land.
But I think you have it backwards. It is not the morality of our rights that made us powerful, it was 150-200 years of tapping virgin resources and under regulated capitalism. It is the Constitution and our, generally, national respect for humanity and the rights of the individual that we are most admired for and most proud of.
Those values have been carried by those of us that have served this country all over the world. I suppose there is some power in that; I'll give you that much.
Not only did the four doctors who flanked President Obama at his White House press event on Monday recommend his plan; three out of four of them donated to his presidential campaign.
"Accordingly, 3 out of 4 doctors agree, contributing to the President's campaign gets you a great photo-op!" joked one Republican Hill staffer
I hate to tell you, but the only rights you have are the Inalienable Rights and those few granted to you by the constitution. Everything else that you enjoy in this country is a privilege- a result of democracy in action. I believe it costs less in the long run to pitch in to take care of those of my fellow Americans who need it. And one of the rights I have as an American is to vote for someone who will legislate as I see fit. As do you.
We should all really be against the corporation, the legal entity that is given the same rights as us, even though they are made of thousands of people and billions of dollars. These are the 'people' in 'We the People' now. A government that serves all the people cannot exist when corporations exist, nor can a free market. But, just as some want a necessity of life with "no earning, no effort, no action at all on the part of the recipient", others want their own self-gratification with no liability. Plus they get much more welfare than the poor.
I disagree about the 'moral principles' upon which this nation was founded. This nation is ten times more moral today than it was then. Black people are no longer considered property or 3/5 of a person, women are no longer considered property or somehow worse than men, it's no longer legal to beat your wife, everyone is allowed to vote, not just the rich, everyone is allowed to own land, etc. We have been improving with age, despite what your fantasies while watching old movies lead you to believe. And a good reason for that improvement is because intellectuals try to learn and grow.
- oderintdummetuant 10/05/2009 4:02pm
There is no "right to health care". Thats your misconception. There is the right to earn and provide health care/health insurance. "Wealth is not a sign of intelligence or hard work"….I agree however the reverse is often true. A lack of wealth is certainly a sign of a lack of intelligence or at least poor decision making skills or hard work. Evidence of personal responsibility and accountability is that I do in fact provide for myself and don't ask for hand outs because its just too hard for me to provide for myself.


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I really feel that, most of the time. Good people always die first.
I know I wasn't a good person to start off with. In the first month since I started college I managed to get 90% of the people that I knew during orientation to at least loathe the sight of me. Nobody told me why, and I never knew until a classmate walked up to me and said "You've been a big sucker, and everybody hates you. You know why?" Of course I didn't. If I knew, I would have tried to make things a little more comfortable and accommodating for everyone.
"Nobody told you so because you write in your blog that you cry at night from the prospect that people actually dislike you," she continued. I asked her to give me a list of things I should improve on, or at least make myself less socially-awkward and more socially favourable among my peers. She dished me a laundry list of my own imperfections. I studied it hard to change for the better.
Afterall, I've always wanted to be a good person. Not popular like the prom king, not lovable like the teacher's pet. I just want to be nice to everyone and hope that people will treat me so.
As I changed for the better, I realized yet another thing. First impressions last, well, virtually forever. The people that disliked me still avoided me. Nobody really talked to me. The three cliques in the class simply chose to overlook my existence. Other than the three cliques, there is really nobody left for me to hang out with. Maybe except for Ivan. He's the only one that I talk to.
I'm stuck on the fence, hanging by a thread. And the worse thing is that I have changed. Yes, I changed for the better, sometimes too nice, with some of the people in my class going to the shameful extent of treating me as their tool. I'm good at certain subjects. They made me their tutor and gave nothing in return.
My birthday came and went. The rest of the class threw a small celebration for me. I got a few gifts from classmates. For a moment, I felt sheer joy. And then there's this guy whom I've been helping him with his lectures and tutorial for the past 2 years. He never said anything to me.
And there's this graduating class video (the soundtrack was replaced because YouTube decided that I have infringed some copyright). Do you know who labouriously compiled all the photos and made a video out of it? Nobody even had the humility to deign to help me out with the video. Everyone simply assumed that "Oh Terry will get the job done and if he don't we'll make sure he's in deep shit". I could still vividly remember there was a biology mock test coming up right before the video submission deadline and I was the only one toiling away in front of the computer with my notes in tow.
Nobody. Not a single soul, offered any help in one way or another. Eunice did. She gave a storyboard for me to work on and provided me with music.
I was their tool. When they're done, they just left me there to die. I was so sure that the world is going to end on me, I really thought of taking my own life.
* * *
Then came university, when things are a little better. The new university experience for the girls, and the two year national service for the guys, seemed to have diluted all the negative karma pointing at me. I thought it was over.
In university my friends knew me as the nice guy who is too nice most of the time, sometimes to the point of being an annoyance. In two year's time I transformed as a person who is bad and everybody hates, to a person that is too good that annoys people.
Class reunions were rarely a joyful event for me. Most of the time I attended because I felt obliged to do so, for old time's sake, perhaps. While everyone chatted away, talking about their previous shopping trips, lunch dates and outings, I realized that I was brutally left out of the loop.
While everyone was at the barbeque pit, I stood in the corner silently sipping on my cup of fruit punch. I tried to play nice, and the only questions I asked was "Do you need to refill your fruit punch?" And all I get is a nonchalant reply.
It kills me to see them having a sustained, active social life with their college friends - from their stories and Facebook photos, I can feel that they're having a smashing good time without me. Well, that's true. I kill a good party because nobody in the party likes me.
It kills me even more that even as I inch towards my 9th year in Singapore, nobody really cared for me. I have few friends to give my heart too. Don't get me wrong - I would love to love, I would like to like, just anybody. But they don't want me around.
That's why I fear class gatherings. I fear group outings. I fear hanging around with a lot of people. I'm tired of being ridiculed as the good guy of the present, or the antisocial guy of the past.
* * *
As I picked up photography and design over the years, I thought I would have made people respect me a little more and not trample on my ego like their carpet. I thought it would have made me a more dignified person.
It didn't. A photography job that went bad in January this year left me a bitter taste in the mouth. Since then I swore to myself never to do events photography until I have mastered it. And even when I go with my friend for photo outings, I couldn't help but feel isolated and distant from the rest. Some were close to me for awhile and then just ditched me for the better. And what am I supposed to say? "Thank you for using me as your tool?" or anything to the effect of being grateful and humble while I'm being humiliated and used at the same time?
* * *
I never thought of fighting back. I thought anyone would have the shame and humanity to at least appreciate what I've done over the years - to help them out when they need, to do things for them when they command, to change for a better person that suits their taste better.
Good people die first. Maybe I should just cut my wrist and end it all. Perhaps a celebration would be thrown because of my passing, a farewell party to the most disliked person my friends have ever met.
The plan didn't quite work out, but I'm glad I'm a better person. At least if I die, I die trying.
Today, I was driving in the snow when I saw an old man walking on the side of the road.
His car had broken down, & I offered him a ride, and we ended up going to the cemetery, where I watched him lay daffodils on his wife's grave, as he has apparently done every day since she passed.
Undying LGMH."—Love Gives Me Hope #1597
Oh, my major is biological sciences. Quite a boring one, eh? :D
Oh, no problem at all :D
Yeap, I'm back already! I have a Malaysian number too, if you want to reach me or something. It's in your Messages.
Are you starting work anytime soon?
Today C and I kissed. It was my first (in many ways). And yes, it was great :)
I'm supposed to attend an Adobe CS5 roadshow and product launch in Suntec City tomorrow. I carpet searched my room for my camera charger but to no avail. Called up my ex-roommate who moved out a few days back, and what he said was:
Oh I was just about to tell you. I think my dad packed your charger into the car and it was so deep inside I couldn't find it so I wanted to tell you (blah blah blah)
And now I have 37% battery left with a 9-hour roadshow to cover. Thank you. I'm so pissed right now I can explode and shut down all airports in a 300-mile radius.
No problem, Sterling :D I really love your entries too. Looks like you've got a love for cars, eh? And I find it really heartening that someone actually has a desire to learn something not in their discipline - like you learning so much about how ATP works. I'm really, really loving your enthusiasm in everything.
So, have a great Saturday evening and Sunday :) It kind of bothers me that it's only 6.20pm over at your place and it's already halfway through Sunday here. Darn, so much for living on the other side of the International Date Line, buddy :P
It was a crazy night. This cocktail of emotions is making me nauseous. Perhaps I need to cuddle up to someone and cry.
I think I'm turning in early. If you have any questions, you know what to do :)
p/s: Happy Mother's Day, mom. I love you.
p/p/s: Nooo it has nothing to do with my mom. It's another unrelated issue that's getting to me.
Over the past few weeks, as exams neared I found myself incapable of committing myself to write something thoughtful everyday. Now I truly understand how hard is it to be a writer - writing is not about weaving a story out of thin air. It requires a keen eye for details, an open mind, and a tasteful, tactful selection of words.
The conclusion of the feared virology paper marked the start of my four-month summer break (yes, you're reading it - four months). Just as the previous semesters, the novelty of a long break starting after the exams was very short-lived. What really sank in was a sense of loss and confusion.
Now what? I would ask myself. I desperately need a coherent plan to ensure that I don't waste the next 120 days away and seeing it fade into a chapter titled "The Wasted Summer". I have done exactly the same thing shortly after I graduated from college, doing nothing but lazing at home. While I did picked up better designing skills over the period, I always felt that I could do better.
* * *
The afternoon immediately after my last paper, I met up with a secondary school friend of mine. He contacted me a few days back intending to interview me for an article he was working on, about social media and how people interact online.
His main focus was on chatroulette, partly because of the amusing idea of meeting strangers online behind a veil of anonymity, and partly because I did wrote a short entry about how chatroulette made me realize that it's simply an extension of man's limitless voyeurism.
We had lunch at Bakerzin, the interview was conducted shortly after the meal. I think we talked for a good 20 minutes, gulping down so much water we had to make a mad dash to the restroom. The rest of the afternoon were spent catching up with each other's lives at Starbucks.
* * *
Ming texted me in the evening asking if I wanted to join her friends for a night out in town. I happily obliged under the preface that we're not going clubbing. I'm not a big fan of a toxic, deadly mix of deafening music, insane party-goers, alcohol intoxication and perhaps, drugs. Ming echoed my opinion and we ended up at Clinic instead.
The house drinks were awful. The shots tasted like cough syrup, and the only saving grace was the slice of strawberry straddling the glasses. Rion ordered cosmo on my behalf because Ming said that since Betty had cosmo and I was such a hardcore fan of hers maybe I should give it a try. It wasn't half bad.
Halfway through our session this Caucasian guy came from behind, and out of the blue moon he hugged Ming and I with his hands. How are their drinks? He asked. I stammered (perhaps in a wee bit of drunken stupor) and I could only remember myself repeating almost every other word she said.
Shortly after he left I was sober and I turned around and asked Ming if he took anything from us. Ming gave me the cheeky smile and said she immediately body-blocked her bag when he came in. My wallet was on my lap. It wasn't gone, I heaved a sigh of relief.
Rion started to ask what kind of person I would like to have a relationship with. I laughed it off until I realized that he was actually semi-serious about it.
His stomach started to growl and he suggested that we walk to Chinatown for supper. It was 2.30 in the morning. Walking 200m along a deserted street that is usually choked with traffic in the daytime felt good.
We settled for porridge and tofu, talked a little more over supper and it was already 3.15 before we knew it. Ming and her friends shared a cab home, dropping me off at the nearest bus stop to catch a night rider.
The bus took another 30 minutes to come. Waiting around me were the stereotypical nightlife folks - the punks, the crossdressers, the underage deviant teens, the cosplay girls. But I didn't feel unsafe. Everybody was minding their own business, waiting patiently for their buses to come.
Mine eventually came, and at 4 in the morning I arrived at my stop. I alighted, flagged down a cab to take me back to my dorm. The driver and I talked along the way, and I was delightfully surprised that we actually chatted so much I nearly missed my destination. The fare came up to $7.20. I gave him a $10 bill and alighted.
At 4.30 in the morning, I slept like a dead pig on my bed.
Police Chief Richard St. John, Fairfield Township north of Cincinnati.
I smell a PETA protest :P
GD03 - Singapore Architecture: The Historial, Cultural and Socioperspectives
Off to sit for my architectural paper. I think I'll be preoccupied with vomitting whatever I've managed to squeeze into that tiny cranial space in the past day.
I have to say that I really enjoyed the course though. The project allowed me to pour through architectural blueprints of buildings, go for on-site tours, sometimes trespassing into secured areas to check their utility pipes and *gasp* garbage chutes.
So, wish me luck. I still have two more papers to go after this, both of which are equally nightmarish - biophysics II and virology. Someone just stab me now.

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The Vampire Diaries 5.07 "Death and the Maiden"A tv review article by: Shawn Hill
Everyone gets what they wanted this episode. Which only makes you realize how messed up their desires have always been.
First the good news: Elena and Caroline get their best friend and college roomie, Bonnie, back in the land of the living. Sure, she's a resurrected witch who's lost her entire family over the course of this show, and Elena and Caroline are both immortal vampires now, but high school cheerleader bonds, those last a lifetime!
Also, Jeremy gets Bonnie back in the flesh, and being dead seems to have given her a new perspective over the whole "I See Dead Girlfriends" thing of his that was such a problem in the past. There is, of course, a catch for Bonnie, but we'll save the dire consequences for later.
Stefan gets to kill his tormenter, Silas. In order to drive out his demons of a summer spent drowning. Only it doesn't quite – no, wait just a bit. Damon gets to cluck over everyone like the weirdest of all mother hens, desperately fighting to bring Bonnie back for Elena and Jeremy, to give Tessa her fantasy of keeping Amara and Silas apart, even to keep Amara from killing herself before her time.
Amara, mind-ravaged over being the Anchor for the Other Side (the special supernatural limbo for the non-human created by Tessa so long ago), gets her wish to die, at last. It's almost noble, especially as she does it with the knife that ended Silas before her eyes as well. He was crafty fun, but 2000 years of sparring with Qetsiyah can sour a man irrevocably.
About the only person who doesn't get what she wants is Katherine, who is enlisting all and sundry to help her not die now that she's a "cured" human who also lacks the cure for being human. All and sundry think five centuries is plenty for even someone as cute as she. I suppose Nadia also fails to get what she wants, as Katherine seems to nobly be cutting off her just reunited daughter in order to spare her the impending rapid decline now looming for mom. Or something, Katherine's motivations get really confusing when they're anything other than Machiavellian.
Amara learns her lesson about stealing another woman's man, and apologizes. Tessa learns her lesson about mixing up mortality with the divine, and expires. Silas learns that waiting two millennia to reunite with his stolen love is a little bit too long.
Now for the bad news: Stefan learns that vengeance won't treat post traumatic stress disorder. Bonnie learns that being alive hurts, especially if all supernatural beings get to call you to their death pangs. Damon learns that he can't save everybody, whether for their own good or his own. Which he already knew, but he's been pretending to forget because he's finally got the hottest doppelganger of all to wake up to most mornings.
Wow, that was a real clearing of the decks. Seems like TPTB really want to get back to The Curse of the Campus Vampire mystery. Fans have been likening this season to Buffy's 4th (when that gang went to college -- go Class of 2003!), but it's more like distant echoes of the whole series. Seems like Spike and Dru (Silas and Tessa) were just the little bads after all, when we really should have been worrying about Faith and the Mayor all along.
Katherine, of course, has always been this show's Faith. She gets all the most biting lines, she's hiding a world of fear and insecurity, and she's even finally on a mini-redemption arc. The Mayor, I presume, will be the so far unseen Augustine Vampire. Let's hope they pulled out the big budget for the casting call.
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Here's an awesome trick for adding external HDD storage to an iPad. By "awesome" we mean complicated, round-about, wire-friendly and ultimately impractical (are you going to sit at Starbucks with this rig?), but hey…why do people climb Mt. Everest? Because it's there!
After reading our own Erica's post on enjoying Apple's deceptively versatile iPad Camera Connection Kit, Maxwell C. Shay found a way to get his jailbroken iPad to recognize an external drive with it. Maxwell explains the process in great detail here, but basically he used his MacBook to tunnel through via SSH and trick the iPad into mounting the drive connected with the kit and a split-USB cable.
This set up won't win any prizes for looks, but as for ingenuity it gets an A+. Well done.[Via Engadget]
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--Brazil's Vale CEO aims to "leave Argentina in the most serene and peaceful way"
--Vale CEO hopes Rio Colorado may ultimately be developed by "other partners"
--Vale fertilizer unit looking for other options, "didn't have a plan B"
By Paul Kiernan
RIO DE JANEIRO--Brazilian mining giant Vale SA (VALE) is preparing to pull out of Argentina after costs at its Rio Colorado potash project spiralled out of control and negotiations with local authorities failed to bear fruit.
Following months of general reticence since Vale abruptly stopped work on the project in late December, company executives took advantage of a series of conference calls Thursday to clarify that they do not expect to lift the suspension announced last month.
"We hope, with the discussions going on this week, that Vale may leave Argentina in the most serene and peaceful way and that the Rio Colorado may be implemented, but by other partners," Vale Chief Executive Murilo Ferreira told reporters on a call.
Mr. Ferreira also suggested there may be a limit to how much Argentine authorities can demand of the company. Since Vale shelved Rio Colorado on March 11, Argentine cabinet members and judges have threatened to revoke the company's concession, obliged it to continue paying workers and blocked it from dismantling installations located at the site.
In the latest move, on April 19, Argentina's Labor Ministry began mandatory mediation proceedings between Vale and Rio Colorado employees and blocked the company from firing or laying off workers for 30 days while the mediation takes place.
"We continue to discuss this process with the local authorities in a show of good faith," Mr. Ferreira. "However, I should stress that Vale in Argentina has no revenue because Rio Colorado is a project, and the capital contributions are made by the company which is outside Argentina. Any payments made must be remittances to Argentina."
Though Vale never publicly revised its $5.92 billion investment forecast for Rio Colorado, the Argentine government said the company's most recent estimate for the project's cost was $10.9 billion. High inflation, a depreciating Argentine peso and issues with provincial governments drove up Rio Colorado's price tag.
Vale's capital expenditures on Rio Colorado stood at $308 million in the first quarter, out of a $611 million budgeted for 2013. All in all, the company has spent $2.54 billion on the project, which included railworks, a port terminal and a mine capable of producing 4.3 million metric tons of potash per year.
Rio Colorado represented by far the biggest greenfield project in Vale's fertilizer business, the main platform for the company to gain exposure to Brazil's booming agriculture sector. Vale currently earns slightly more than half of its operating revenue in Asia, where it ships iron-ore to supply China's steel industry, while relying on Brazil for just 19% of sales.
Roger Downey, the head of Vale's fertilizers and coal unit, said his team has started looking at other options, including an expected expansion of its Bayovar phosphate mine in Peru.
"With fertilizers, we had to basically re-jig our business plan with the developmnets at Rio Colorado," Mr. Downey said. "Obviously we didn't have a plan B because we were focused on Rio Colorado, but we do have options in our pipeline which we are working very hard on."
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NFC North Spin cycle: Packers, Bears moving in opposite directions
The Packers overcame a slow start to beat the Lions and the Bears' slide continued as the Vikings kept their playoff hopes alive.
Peterson, Vikings run over Bears
Adrian Peterson rushed for 154 yards and two touchdowns and Vikings beat the free-falling Bears on Sunday.
Webb on ready alert if Vikings call
Joe Webb remains the backup QB to Christian Ponder for now, but things could change if the passing game continues to struggle.
Vikings place WR Harvin on I.R.
The Vikings placed WR Percy Harvin on injured reserve Wednesday. Harvin has not played since Week Nine because of an ankle injury.
Key matchup: Vikings QB Christian Ponder vs. Bears defense
In Wednesday's key matchup, we delve into Sunday's meeting between struggling Vikings QB Christian Ponder and a banged-up Bears defense.
Week 13 Players of the Week
This week, PFW selects Adrian Peterson, William Moore and Greg Zuerlein as its Players of the Week.
NFC North Spin cycle: Bears' skid is boosting Packers
The Packers have nosed back into the division lead after a victory over the Vikings and a Bears defeat at home to the Seahawks.
Packers pick Ponder twice in win over Vikings
Morgan Burnett picked off Christian Ponder twice and the Packers overcame a monster day by Adrian Peterson for a 23-14 victory Sunday over the Vikings.
Struggling Simpson needs more than better technique
Vikings WR Jerome Simpson is struggling and his problems might run deeper than merely needing better technique.
Report: Vikings DE Allen fined $21,000
Vikings DE Jared Allen was fined $21,000 for his blind-side block on Bears OG Lance Louis, according to Sean Jensen of the Chicago Sun-Times.
NFC North Spin cycle: Vikings can't stop Bears
The Bears are back in control of the NFC North after beating the Vikings soundly and watching the Giants shut down the Packers on Sunday night.
Bears top Vikings but at costly price
The Bears made a statement in the NFC North but lost five starters in the process; the shocking number of pick-sixes in the NFL; and more observations from Week 12.
Vikings pass defense needs to be step faster
The Vikings were not quick or strong enough to stop the Bears' passing game.
Cutler returns, Bears top Vikings
Jay Cutler threw for 188 yards and a touchdown after missing a game because of a concussion, and the Bears got a 28-10 victory over the Vikings on Sunday.
Report: Bears QB Cutler will start vs. Vikings
Jay Cutler has been cleared to return from the concussion he suffered in Week 10 and will start Sunday vs. the Vikings, according to a CBS report.
Webb, who hadn't thrown a pass all season, was sacked three times and off target all night in Saturday's loss to the Packers in which he was 11 of 30 for 180 yards with a TD and an interception.||||||| Webb, pressed into service because of Christian Ponder's triceps injury, recorded his only highlight on a 50-yard scoring pass to Michael Jenkins late in the fourth quarter.
Webb will start at quarterback for the Vikings with Christian Ponder inactive for Minnesota's wild-card playoff game against the Green Bay Packers.||||||| Ponder's participation in practice this week was limited and Webb took many of the turns with the first team offense. Ponder was listed as questionable on the injury report, though, and he took only about a dozen soft, short throws in early warm-ups.
After replacing Christian Ponder under center, Webb through for 84 and a score during Sunday's 34-28 loss at Detroit.||||||| Webb also rushed for a career-high 109 yards - including a 65-yard score. He remains a risky fantasy play but definitely has some value due to his speed.
Webb has come in at quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings after starter Christian Ponder lost a fumble and threw three interceptions.||||||| Webb entered the game in the third quarter Sunday and ran for a 65-yard touchdown to cut Detroit's lead to 31-21. Webb had attempted only two passes on the season before Sunday, playing behind Ponder and Donovan McNabb. He started two games last season as a rookie.
Webb has been fined $5,000 by the NFL for a "major" facemask penalty he committed during a run in Minnesota's last game against Philadelphia. League spokesman Randall Liu confirmed the punishment Friday.||||||| Webb was whistled near the end of the third quarter Tuesday night when he grabbed Eagles linebacker Jamar Chaney's facemask and pulled it down while reaching the first-down marker at the end of a third-and-7 scramble. The 15-yard penalty wiped out the gain, and the Vikings had to punt one play later. Webb could start Sunday's game at NFC North rival Detroit.


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Potash mine planning decision delayed again
The decision over whether to grant planning permission for a potash mine under the North York Moors has been deferred for a third time.
York Potash has asked the National Park Authority for more time to submit environmental information.
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George Carlin.
"It's easy to draw conclusions about a person based on little (or no) evidence. It takes true maturity to understand, empathize and forgive. Life's struggles are a subjective experience. Tragedy is not quantifiable. To diminish a person's experience through comparison is to be daft and egocentric."
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Bring Back Monkey Island
Throughout the 1990's, Lucas Arts produced what are generally regarded as some of the best adventure games of all time. In recent years, they seem to have completely forgotten about these classics, such as Monkey Island or Grim Fandango, in order to concentrate on producing excessive numbers of Star Wars games. I, frankly, for one, am sick of this.... This petition aims to show Lucas Arts that enough people miss these classics to make the production of sequels/followups a viable alternative (in terms of profit) to producing more generic Star Wars games, and so deter them from halting the production of, or scrapping, the aforementioned sequels. In particular, the undersigned believe that Lucas Arts should commision another sequel to Monkey Island franchise, or surrender the rights to its creator, Ron Gilbert, so that he might do what they have been unwilling to do for the past 7 years.
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Jury says Concord man is guilty of hate crime
A Merrimack County Superior Court jury convicted Freese of felony criminal threatening, second-degree assault and accomplice to simple assault for the attack on a Manchester man, Alhaji Kargbo, 25, last July 31 in front of the Market Basket in Hooksett.
Witnesses testified that Freese, co-defendant Joshua Peno, 21, of Nottingham, and two others in a vehicle shouted racially offensive words at Kargbo, who was on a moped on Route 3A. Kargbo then sped up to the vehicle to confront those inside at a red light.
Prosecutors say Freese and Peno got out of the car and attacked Kargbo, pulling him off his moped, punching and kicking him. Freese was accused of later brandishing a knife and slashing at Kargbo, who was able to escape.
The two men were accused of repeatedly cursing and shouting a racial epithet at Kargbo, who is a native of Sierra Leone and moved to the United States in 2005.
Freese did not testify in his own defense, nor did two other people in the car last July, a 15-year-old and Peno's girlfriend, Nicolette Nicolaides.
Nicolaides was convicted in connection with the fatal shooting of Lennoxx Tibbs in Manchester on Oct. 22, 2009, who was the subject of racial slurs as he was chased and killed on Wilson Street. Joshua Sprague, then 25, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Nicolaides pleaded guilty to felony burglary conspiracy and misdemeanors of hindering apprehension and false swearing in a negotiated plea that called for cooperating with prosecutors.
She was one of seven people recruited by Sprague who went to Tibbs' 259 Wilson St. apartment building to fight with a woman he blamed for drug deals gone bad. That woman, who was staying at Tibbs' apartment with her boyfriend, heard the group enter the building and hid on the third floor as Tibbs tried to escape the crowd, which entered the second-floor apartment armed with baseball bats and a gun.
The group chased Tibbs down the stairs and out into the street, shouting racial slurs. When they reached the street, Joshua Sprague fired at Tibbs, whose hands were raised, fatally wounding him.
Because the accomplice to simple assault charge against Freese was brought as a racially-motivated hate crime, the enhanced penalty is two to five years, instead of the one-year sentence for simple assault.
The class B felonies carry sentences of 3 1/2 to seven years each.
Assistant Merrimack County Attorney Wayne Coull said Freese will be sentenced in 45 to 60 days, after completion of a pre-sentence investigation.
Freese's co-defendant, Peno, is scheduled for trial in March on two of the same charges. He does not face a criminal threatening charge.
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Keeping active can help take the edge off the cold winter weather
Posted: February 19, 2014|
LEADING local doctors are advising older patients across North Staffordshire that keeping active can help take the edge off the cold winter weather and help keep you healthy.
Physical activity can also help you stay energetic and independent, and help improve your sense of wellbeing.
While it is tempting to huddle up, being too inactive can have a negative impact on both physical and mental health.
Wolstanton-based GP Dr Mark Shapley is Chairman of North Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group.
She said: "Keeping active is the key to staying fit, mobile and independent.
"Doing some fairly basic exercises indoors can really make a difference to flexibility, strength and balance.
"Moderate exercise also helps keep you warm and improves circulation. Everyone should make sure that at the very least they move around once every hour and don't stay in a chair for too long.
"It is also well known that mental health can suffer in winter.
"Exercise can also help your mood during the winter gloom and give you a more positive outlook."
The NHS has produced a guide to exercise for older people, which includes exercises that can be done while sitting (pictured right).
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The week is off to a mild start, with today's temperatures expected to rise to near 40 along the coast and in Southeastern Massachusetts and the mid-30s inland. Tuesday looks even warmer, according to the National Weather Service.
Temperatures rose to 39 at Logan International Airport at midday today. The Bay State can expect a mix of sun and clouds throughout the day.


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Fiscal cliff deal taps most taxpayers, not just 2 percenters
Recalling the sharp rhetoric of the presidential campaign, one would have assumed that only the 2 percenters were going to be hit by the recently settled fight between the House of Representatives and the White House.
To the contrary. Anyone earning a paycheck will be slammed by the bill. Here are a few examples of how the middle class will be impacted by the new tax law:
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text: Filosofem lies on the most chaotic and turbulent era in Varg's career, and rather than reflect the chaotic horror of a mind of a man who has just murdered someone it rather reflects the sedated mourning voice of someone being punished for their beliefs. Yet rather than go out with a whimper of fatalistic anguish, Filosofem reflects Varg's dark promise that his soul and vision will haunt us long after he's been sent to the grave.Filosofem is like a witch's last words before death, a downward spiral of musical depression, yet coated from beginning to end with the feeling of resurrection, or being reborn someway.However broad or narrow-minded your tastes in black metal may be, whether you're for progression or traditionalism, there's no denying the pure power this cd has. Containing the spirit of black metal, yet in some ways this cd doesn't sound at all like conventional metal, but perhaps something new and different altogether. The guitar style is definately not your typical headbanging riffs. There's a very "grungy" feel, as if every instrument has been coated in a layer of dust and decay, which is what I believe was the intended atmosphere, as the layers upon layers of guitar distortion wash through each track in an ambient drone. "Dunkelheit" a very dark track and one of Burzum's best, showcases this minimalist drone sound through a landscape of morbid decay with just a few simple main riffs and a ghostly xylophone echoing the melody. His ode to "darkness" rasps through his new industrial sounding vocal style, very different from his tormented screams of past albums, and sounding somewhere on a line between whispering and screaming. The next two tracks continue in this hypnotic drone style, although not as powerful as the opener. The later half of the cd is where things start(purposefully) becoming disconnected, and we are lost in a long downward spiral of ambient instrumentation and dispair, the conclusion of our last bitter glance at the world.Now I definitely don't claim to agree with this man's racist and anti-satanist attitude, but there's no denying the sheer genius within his tormented mind and how he's changed the world of dark pagan music forever.


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Drought causes 35 percent water rate increase
DECATUR, IL — Starting next month, businesses and residents here will be paying 35 percent more for water, FOXIllinois.com reported.
The April 3 story stated that the area was one of the hardest hit by drought last year, and the city had severe water restrictions. The city council voted that the money generated by the rate increase would be used to find new water sources.
Wash works to conserve during long-term drought
Dan Doughtery, owner of Rain Storm Car Wash, is trying to figure out how he will handle the increased cost. "What we're going to try to do first is look to see how much water we're using in each different application. See if we can reduce that usage or see if we can reuse some water in some applications that won't bother our car's finish," he said in the article.
During the drought last year, Dougherty had to haul in water just to keep Rainstorm Car Wash open. He hopes the higher water rates will not force him to raise prices.
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Steps to Address the Health Care Challenge of an Aging Population
Creating a blue-ribbon commission to address the health care challenge of the growing senior population and lack of trained care providers
The Alliance for Aging Research conceptualized, organized and laid the groundwork for a blue ribbon commission holding hearings throughout the United States to:
- Increase awareness about the growing challenges posed by an aging U.S. population and the growing incidence and impact of chronic diseases and disabilities associated with aging.
- Identify key quality improvement strategies for chronic and geriatric care including prevention, health care systems coordination and investment in systematic training of health care professionals.
Key Results: The Alliance for Aging Research:
- Established a steering committee for the proposed blue ribbon commission. The steering committee, composed of medical educators, providers, consumer groups and health professionals, met regularly to develop the vision and strategy for the blue ribbon commission and completed a proposal outlining the rationale, goals, objectives, expected outcomes and resource needs.
- Conducted a comprehensive environmental scan of related health care reform activities. Project staff created an 18-page grid summarizing nearly 100 initiatives by coalitions, foundations, professional societies, the health care industry, not-for-profit groups and government agencies. The steering committee used the results of this research to inform its deliberations about the rationale, goals, objectives and expected outcome of the proposed commission.
- Secured written endorsements and commitments to participate in the commission from more than 30 major stakeholder organizations. These included AARP, American College of Physicians, American Nurses Association, American Heart Association and Service Employees International Union.
- Convened organizations and stakeholders in Washington, D.C., in December 2006 to refine priorities, goals and strategies for improving the care for the oldest and most disabled Americans. Refinement in the objectives of the commission were agreed on, including a focus on most vulnerable and geriatric patient populations. Officers of the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality joined endorsers committed to launching the commission.
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Now, Nick Miller is not a reliable WR and is not a big play threat when it comes to the return game, so how is he just what the Raiders need? The Raiders retaining him clearly points to more playing time for Denarius Moore. During the beginning of training camp and the preseason there was a lot of talk that D Moore was going to take over for Miller returning punts and this meant that Miller was on his way out. The fact that Miller stays tells me that they don't want to risk injury to D Moore on PR's; thus making it clear they want him on the field making plays for our offense. Assuming that DHB's performance stays consistent with what it has been, I see D Moore taking quite a few reps from him this season (and hopefully taking his spot next season).
Lineup @ WR by end of season will be:
Ford becomes #1 (Steve Smith of the Raiders)
Schilines + Murphy split reps #2
D Moore becomes solid #3, but will also see reps as a starter in at least 2 games and push Schilines and Murphy for their spot
Hagan Will take the #4
DHB Will be benched and by next season will have to either restructure and take a lot less $ or he will get cut.
Offensive Projection's:
Passing:The 2012 Raiders are going to be a legit Passing threat depending less on check down passing and more on WR's
Jason Campbell - Has his best season 267/390 (68%) 3,600 yards 23 TD's 15 INT's (+ 1 Rush TD)
Denarius Moore - 30 receptions 450+ yards and 3 TD's
Darius Heyward-bay - 15 receptions 200 yards 0 TD (Loses spot to D Moore after Game 3)
#12 on the Roster but #1 In our hearts Jocoby "Gimme my Ball" Ford 60 receptions 1,000+ yards 5 TD's (10 Total TD- 3 rush, 2 return) - Yes, Ford will be the first Raider to reach 1000 yards recieving since Moss did it in 2005! Look for a high YAC%
Louis Murphy - 40 receptions 450 yards 3 TD's
Chaz "Ouch my Leg" Schilines - Stays healthy and records 45 receptions 450 yards 3 TD's
Derek Hagan - Not much playing time until DHB is gone 12 receptions 150 yards 1 TD
Kevin Boss, David Ausberry, Richard Gordon (Brandon Meyers if they keep 4 TE) combine 30 receptions 300 yards 5 TD (All but 1 in redzone- Ausberry gets his one TD on a big play) I have a 75% of receptions coming on 3rd down or in redzone.
Marcel Reece - Due to better performance by WR's Reece is going to be less of a factor- 15 receptions 200 yards 2 TD's
Bush, McFadden, Jones - 20 combined 400 yards 2 TD
Darren "Mama there go that man again" McFadden - 275 carries 1,500 yards (5.45 yd average) 9TD's
Michael "The Bulldozer" Bush - 160 carries 700 (4.4 yd average) yards 8 TD's
Taiwan "The Flash" Jones - 75 Carries (6 yd average) 450 yards 3 TD's
Jacoby Ford - 10 carries 150 yards 3 TD's
Marcel Reece - With how deep the backfield is Reece will be even less of a factor in the run game then he was last year making his contribution negligible.
Raider's Run Game - 520 carries 2,800 yards 23 TD's # 1 Run Game in the NFL averaging 175 yards a game
What do you think? Are my #s off? What do you think the offense production is going to look like?


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Hindu wedding ceremonies of Gopal Parekh & Joanna Bell held August 18 - 20, 2011 in Northern Virginia.
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MacklerMedia is a partnership between photojournalists Chris Mackler and Kristin Eberts. Both have recently graduated from Ohio University, earning Bachelor of Science degrees in Visual Communication, majoring in photojournalism. Chris is a freelance photographer in the Southeast Missouri area; Kristin is a Staff Photographer for the Southeast Missourian. Chris and Kristin's work has been published in The Post (Athens, Ohio), College 101 magazine, The Elkhart Truth (Elkhart, Ind.), the South Bend Tribune (South Bend, Ind.), The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), The Muskegon Chronicle (Muskegon, Mich.), The Associated Press, Roady's Hometown Truck Stop Magazine, and the Southeast Missourian (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) We are currently accepting work in the Southern Illinois and Southeastern Missouri region and beyond. We specialize in photographing editorial assignments, weddings, portraits, sports, events, and music/bands. If you have a photographic need we look forward to hearing from you!
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By Stephanie Springer - bio | email ALBANY, GA (WALB) - US Senator Johnny Isakson says he will continue to fight President Obama's health care reform plan.
Isakson talked to a group of Rotary Club members in Albany today.
He discussed the economy and the Obama Administration's recent decision to investigate interrogators who may have broken the law while questioning terror suspects.
But the main issue was health care.
Isakson says he stands firm.
"You don't want to destroy the system you have that serves 86% of the public because 14% of the public doesn't have it or chooses not, there are ways to deal with the uninsured and make accessible and more within their reach without destroying everybody else's healthcare," said Senator Isakson.
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Armed robbers broke into the Apple Store in Paris on New Year's Eve and made off with more than a million dollars' worth of merchandise, according to reports. Masked suspects wielding handguns forced their way into the store through an employee entrance as a janitor was leaving, about three hours after the store's 6 p.m. closing time, England's Telegraph reported. The janitor was "lightly injured," the news outlet said. The Wall Street Journal cited French reports and said a security guard had also been overpowered by the thieves. The Journal said two suspects forced their way in, and the Telegraph reported that four or five suspects total were involved in the robbery. The thieves ignored display items and grabbed boxes of goods, loading them onto a truck. The whole operation took about 40 minutes, the Telegraph reported.
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Shelly Palmer is Fox 5 New York's On-air Tech Expert (WNYW-TV) and the host of Fox Television's monthly show Shelly Palmer Digital Living. He also hosts United Stations Radio Network's, Shelly Palmer Digital Living Daily, a daily syndicated radio report that features insightful commentary and a unique insiders take on the biggest stories in technology, media, and entertainment. He is Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures Group, LLC an industry-leading advisory and business development firm and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy® Awards).


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.- According to a report on the Lifesitenews.com website, African Health Ministers have adopted a new proposal that will increase legal abortion throughout the continent, under the policies of the controversial Maputo Protocol on the rights of women.
"A wider women's health programme should be institutionalised including broad coverage of family planning (repositioned into wider reproductive health programmes),"the proposal states. "Amongst other factors, …safe abortion services should be included, as far as the law allows."
South African Acting Health Minister and Conference Chairman Jeff Radebe said in a statement, "I am sure that with our partners, both local communities as well as our development partners we shall do all we can to ensure the full implementation of the Strategy."
But opposition to the proposal came from Dr. Philip Njemanze, chairman of the Nigerian African Anti-Abortion Coalition, who accused some international organizations of violating the Nigerian Constitution in promoting abortion. In Uganda the Deputy Secretary for Finance and Administration of the Uganda Joint Christian Council, Sylvester Arinaitwe, said, "We request President Museveni and the delegation that will represent Uganda at the upcoming meeting of the African Union in Addis Abba to reject any policy that would expose Uganda in particular, and Africa as a whole, to mass murder through the legalisation of abortion."
Cardinal Polycarp Pengo of Tanzania called on African leaders to reexamine certain sections of the Maputo Protocol, at a recent press briefing in Accra after a five day meeting of Catholic leaders in Africa. "We, the Catholic Church, teach that 'human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person -among which is the inviolable rights of every innocent being to life,'" Cardinal Pengo said.
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Israel Update – with guest Dr. Eugene Narrett
Posted by The Gates on 15 Jan 2009 at 03:47 am
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Peace Process or War Process, Politics by Attrition.
The real truth behind operation "Cast Lead".
Please join Joseph Good and his very special guest, Dr. Eugene Narrett, as they discuss the current situation in Israel. Prof. Narrett's insights go way beyond simply reporting the news, and help to explain the larger picture of which the current "cast lead" operation in Gaza is simply a symptom. The show is available on-line to listen directly or via podcast. Find out what is really going on in Israel, and the world.
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The Matrix (1999) ending / spoiler
Cypher betrays the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar by killing Dozer, Apoc, and Switch, and mortally wounding Tank. Just as he is about to kill Morpheus, Trinity and Neo, Tank kills Cypher. Trinity and Neo save Morpheus from Smith, but Smith later kills Neo. He is reawakened by Trinity and he assimilates himself into Smith, becoming "The One".
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Stern Talks Salary Cuts and Contraction
Kelly Dwyer has a great write-up on the latest saber-rattling over the new Collective Bargaining Agreement in the NBA. David Stern talks about cutting salaries by about a third, meaning $750-800 million coming out of players' pockets. He also references contraction as a possible step towards profitability.


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September 12, 2010
For decades, Black farmers dealt with devastating discrimination from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Because of it, many lost their land. It cost them dearly, and it took the government years to admit it. The Senate needs to appropriate the funds for Pigford II, lest the shame grow even deeper.
February 3, 2009
In 1920, at the height of Black farm ownership, one in seven U.S. farms was Black-operated; by 1992, the number had fallen to one in 100. From discriminatory lending practices to foreclosures, the USDA's policies have directly contributed to a massive loss of Black land wealth.


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BHGP Abroad: Football Preseason Q&A: Black Heart Gold Pants
Oh hey, so I did a pre-season Q&A with Chris V. at The Only Colors. Nothing exactly groundbreaking, but I did get to compare Iowa's 2012 outlook to an infamous scene from Reservoir Dogs and call Jerel Worthy an (allegedly) injury-faking ninny, so hey. Give it a read, won't you?