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Instead of being a rabid gun-grabber, tonight Piers Morgan of CNN went to Texas and talked to responsible firearms owners, users and businessmen and fired semi-auto and full-auto firearms. When he asked did anyone "need" such things, he was told firearms are a good investment and Mexican drug-runners frequently slip over the border and confront land-owners in Texas. The drug-runners definitely don't follow any gun-control laws.
He followed with Ted Nugent and actually listened to him, for a while…
Clearly Piers Morgan now realizes firearms ownership is much more complex than what is seen on the news or Hollywood movies. There are ordinary people who need firearms of all kinds and firearms are tools just like hammers and saws, lethal in the hands of bad guys, and life-savers in the hands of good guys. Fortunately, most firearms owners are good guys and should be left alone. The situation in Texas is different than in northern cities, Alaska, or the farmlands but firearms are useful everywhere. I doubt this experience will convert Morgan but it might make him a lot less likely to blow up on people expressing legitimate views on the matter. Look at it this way. If there are 300million+ firearms in USA and only a few thousand unlawful killings with firearms annually, the firearms problem is tiny and clamping down on the vast majority of good guys will do nothing. Does anyone really believe one needs to ban anything that has 0.1% per annum probability of being misused?
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I know for certain that guns and ammunition are more available (now illegally) than ever (in my living memory) in Australian cities. Places to shoot them safely, however, have declined. As far as keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, John Howard's gun ban has completely backfired.
As to Australian government statistics they have no validity but just say what the government of the day wants them say. The most obvious bogus statistic is unemployment. If a person is even employed one hour per month they are considered 'employed' — yeah, right!
Robert Pogson what you are missing is the victim count of homicide has decreased compared to the amount of homicide.
Murder counts in the stats include Attempted Murder and Murder.
Manslaughter in the stats includes Attempted Manslaughter and Manslaughter. USA figures split these.
Please also note the Line is decreasing in-line with gun usage in crime in Australia.
Chicago Tribune does not know how to read the Australian numbers. They did not publish a graphic of the victim numbers.
http://www.aic.gov.au/statistics/homicide.html Go down the page look the 1915-2003. To be correct by 1996 in Australia firearm crime numbers were starting to drop.
The last major spike was 1969. Or world war 2. Then until 1971 a very major drop off due to ammo not being produced or imported. Yes Australia produced most of the bullets for World war 2 and at end of war shut factories instantly causing a massive short fall in supply.
Yes since 1969 the number of guns criminals have been able to get hands on have been decreasing Australia.
Gun control is not a fast process Robert Pogson. Its most likely going to take 30 to 40 years to plug most of the leaks and recover most of the weapons particularly that the buy back was 100 percent screwed up. Yes when the gun laws came in vast number of weapons were released to the criminals. They stock piled them out of fear of lack of means to replace.
Australia has been able todo so much by import control volume limiting the market. That is 1969-about 1991 Levels off until about 1996 when the new firearm laws come in. Spike due to buy back being botched. The decrease will keep on going.
The Brookings Institution did not take into account that the gun buy back was completely stuffed up. Criminals running the so called gun crushes taking vast number of guns. So the criminal world in Australia 1997- on was flooded with guns. Volume lost is about 20 years worth of criminal supply without the latter stolen weapons.
It is the one major mistake the Australia system did. The mistake has delayed the effect of the gun laws right. No in by historic number when ever market is flooded with guns and ammo crime rates go up. This did not happen due to the fear of not being able to replace weapons. So they have been stock piled. Police are still hunting those stock piles down. The weapon buy back was the most number of stolen weapons Australia has ever had. So Australia is screwed. Remove the firearm laws criminals will no longer have a reason to hide there stock piles. Its the law that stopped something really bad happening.
Robert Pogson
"I'll take my odds even if the nearest police officer is 15 miles away."
Remember what I said most cause of death rural by firearm is dropping by unannounced.
Rural you can do something to reduce your risk of being dead in problem areas just obey the simple rule ring/contact everywhere you are going first and be sure they 100 percent know you are coming. Also make sure you never get lost rural it might be the last thing you do. Not just the wild life the local humans are more problem to lost humans.
This is why locals to rural area have very little problems. Visitors on the other hand. Yes this is why with a Visitor to a rural area it is wise to setup for a local to be with them at all times. Reduces death rate. Problem is not all Visitors are wise the city slicker or the over confident rural people are the ones that end up dead.
Cities you have idiots in gangs this is a worse problem you cannot do much about that other than be lucky. Yes the rural problem is sortable by education. Mandatory education of firearm users. Most of the decrease in homicide is rural in Australia. Cities in Australia are now more of a risk than rural after the gun laws.
Our gun laws are limited on how far they will help in cities. Cities will take longer for the number of arms to disappear from criminals. Rural in Australia have increase there number of firearms.
Lot of Australian numbers are completely backwards to what is expected.
Cities gun ownship has reduced and risk has not moved. Rural gun own-ship has increased yet death rate due to guns in Rural has decreased and the over all death rate in rural has decreased. Historically in Australia increased gun ownership equals increased deaths.
The more you do the in Australian numbers the more strange. The gun control in Australia has done something. Number are going against there natural out comes. It would have be more useful if the weapon buy back had not been screwed up. Most of the lost weapons from the buy back are turning up in the cities.
This is the problem. You look at one lot of number they suggest crime in Australia should have gone threw the roof but it did not move.
ram Go recheck the numbers now. Straight after it went up years down the track its gone down every year.
The register found guns entering system that should not be. Hang on these guns went here to be crushed and hey we got some from this crime over here. Hey that crush has a leak. Cancel that crushes contract. This all takes time.
Before the country wide register yes guns were so called crushed in one state and turned up doing crimes in others and no one knew the difference.
ram the crime states of Australia are fully on the public record. You will not be able to make a case of increased crime 2 to 3 years after the gun ban. It has been declining since.
homicide weapon guns are kinda getting rarer. Homicides where the charge is attempted Homicide not Homicide has also increased.
Shows up in victim stats. Less victims ever that there have been more attempted Homicides. Reduce guns make people doing Homicides use knifes less people die. Even if your Homicide rate does not appear to change. Yes australian homicide rate include failed attempts at Homicides. The number would be clearer if they were reported differently.
Robbery really has not increased it is lower now than when the gun laws were brought in. Less deaths again.
http://www.aic.gov.au/statistics/violent%20crime/assault.html Increased assault rate should equal higher death rate again not the case.
This sexual assault and general Assault rate rate increase lines up with mandatory reporting requirements. Those laws came in the year 2000.
Notice the sharp jump on all Assault year 2000 to 2001. That is not the year Australian gun laws came in. 1996-1997 is when gun regulation comes in. 2000-2001 is medical forced to mandatory report to police about assaults and those going into the register even if nothing is done. Of course there was a arguement over mandatory reporting of sexual assault the reason for is spike being end of 2001 start of 2002.
Yes trap with stats. You have to be sure the stats are recording exactly the same thing. What is being measured has changed.
Less than 10 percent of guns come from illegal production used by crime. 90 percent+ is coming from legal owners having weapon stolen or legal owners selling to criminals.
Criminals are mostly not importing. We know this from the the guns they are being caught with. Most turn out to be imported into Australia then have false deal to sell them back overseas never happens or be stolen.
This has also resulted in criminal gangs stock piling particular classes of weapons for gang wars and not using them on a general base. Reason they may not be able to replace them. Lots of those weapons are pre buy back and hard to find.
Note the report is from 2012 and most of the guns we are still weeding out are from the buy back because the buy back was not setup properly and many crushes as Ram said lead straight into the hands of criminals. This stopped with the crush press at police station and it being crushed into front of owner.
So its not like Australia has not done things wrong. Allowing criminals to operate gun crushes that was a very big opps. Sharing of tracking data still has to be improved.
ram in canada rural you are more likely to die by gun shot than in Australia combining the numbers of poisons snakes, spiders, jelly fish. Your percentage of risk is insanely high in Canada rural.
Ram the stats don't show increased rate in Australia without explanation. The increased don't like up with the firearm laws. The interesting is the reduced death from crime. The amount of reported crime is the same or more yet the death rate from crime is lower.
Reducing guns appears to reduce death from crime. Right. Other than the fact Australia has more guns now than before the gun laws in legal people hands.
So its not gun reduction. For some reason criminals are having a harder time getting hands on guns even that the number of guns is there. I suspect the fear of tracking knowing you have lost a gun.
'You are more likely to die from snake bite in Australia than a gun in rural areas.'
oiaohm is definitely right about the snakes though! Also don't forget about our spiders!
How about a swim? That's even more dangerous with the amazingly lethal jellyfish, crocodiles, and sharks. Not to mention venomous fish and sea snakes!
oiaohm is mistaken about the gun situation in Australia. Since John Howard's gun ban, gun crime, indeed all crime, is way up.
As to the police destroying guns seized from criminals he should visit (i.e. work for a while, say undercover) at one of the local metal/scrap dealers that 'destroy' arms for the police under contract. Curiously, those same scrap dealers are run by 'biker club' members and are the same places stolen vehicles get crushed for insurance purposes.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is!
Robert Pogson
"Nonsense. There are vast regions where the probability of meeting anyone, let alone a bad guy, are so small that humans are not a problem."
And the shocking part in Canada the odds of being killed in those vast regions by another human holding a gun is higher than being in the city. Yes its in the Canada Murder stats on the wikipedia.
Your statement does not match reality Robert Pogson.
This is also wrong.
"It is Nature that is out to get you on the tundra or in the forest."
You are more likely to die by gun even in areas with polar bears. Yes death rate by gun is higher than death rate caused by polar bears and all the other natural ways to kill us. Nature is mostly not out to kill us unless we are stupid.
Reality when you get down to the cold hard numbers Robert something needs to be done about guns in Canada and the USA. In Australia deaths on farms and nature areas after gun control has become basically non existent. Few to domestic violence but that is it. No more accidental shootings. You are more likely to die from snake bite in Australia than a gun in rural areas. Yes we have some very toxic snakes. Heck even a lighting strike is more likely if you are just visiting the area. Canada and USA both have a problem of shooting people who are lost and happen to go near someone house with a person not trained to use guns properly.
Yes Australia you will hear verbal order to halt if you miss that a warning shot. If you run you live if you stop you live. If you processed forwards then killing shot might come. Trained process for dealing with intruders using gun.
There is a training requirement with firearms to use them correctly for self defence so you don't shot some poor bugger who is just lost.
Yes the problem here is the person who is the bad guy in rural areas thinks they are being a good guy protecting their property and is doing it wrong. So very nice person other than the fact they shot you. They also end up mentally scared by it.
Most common cause of gun death in rural areas without gun control is shot by properly owner while unarmed. Humans have a fear problem when alone so without training can over react leading to these problems. Yes this has nothing todo with how nice or evil the person is.
Not all people who kill with guns has evil intent. Yes firing a warning shot and not being able to aim well can turn from a warning shot to a killing shot. People watch too many movies and in movies they see shots across bow and in front of people as warning shots. These are not even attempted by expert marksman in real life. Yet untrained amateurs attempt todo them as self defence to property resulting in hurt and dead humans who really were doing nothing wrong.
City people are in fact more accepting of uninvited guests dropping by than rural if you go by firearm usage. Yes movies are part to blame for incorrect training.
Yes rural people are more helpful and friendly as long as you are not an uninvited guest to there property.
Both city and rural have there own unique culture problems. Rural culture problems can be handled by mandatory training.
Yes just like driving a car where you have to have a license so you know what in hell you are doing on the roads so you don't kill others is the reason why you need a gun license with required training. Just registering or just licensing is not enough.
USA and Canada have massive number of problems caused by lack of effective gun training/control. If you don't want to bring in gun control.
Other option is mandatory gun handling and self defence usage training in all schools then at least this would go away to sorting out the rural.
Basically something needs to be done. If not Australian gun control to force training some other way to force training. Untrained twits with guns are the ones who shot bystanders in cities and visitors in rural areas.
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You look up to to this guy?
You're an idiot.
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"Get out of the city! In sparsely populated areas there is no "effective" law enforcement."
Maybe that opens up some grounds for compromise then. In the city or environs where citizens expected government supplied security, let us control firearms along the lines proposed by the Australian here. People who want to shoot guns for whatever reason would first need an operator's license gained through some effective training procedure and, once qualified at some level, would have some strict requirements for keeping their weapons secure and away from others who might use them criminally.
Out on the frontier, as defined by those residing within any such area, lawlessness would prevail and one would have to band together with other citizens for mutual protection. Strangers could be shot on sight and important agri-businesses could hire private security or even sub-contract things to National Guard or similar organizations.
Robert Pogson
–Ask anyone in Afghanistan who has had family members killed by US forces whether they need protection from US.–
The answer will be yes and no. If the person was an active combatant and know as such the family members may understand USA forces had no choice.
Now when its a case that they were just attending a funeral or just walking down the street next to the wrong building and shot directly by USA forces of course they will want protection from the USA forces. Not like one small machine gun will be about todo anything.
Robert Pogson
–There is a town in Saskatchewan, Batoche, where the Canadian government used artillery and machine-guns on civilians to quell an insurrection.–
Ok what is the results of doing this.
Canada population include you remember this event. So have embedded in the back of mind that they must remain armed against the Government because they cannot trust the Government not todo this to them.
Result of massive force is massive mental scare in the population that prevents the country being properly peaceful. You will find some of the criminal groups in Canada use the same thing to justify there stealing and other crimes.
Robert Pogson
–Dozens of treaties resulted with aboriginal tribes wanting to avoid that fate…–
You complained about the poor education out comes in Canada with aboriginal tribes.
Where I lived growing up in Australia the aboriginal tribes were different to the normal. They were not defeated. They entered into a true willing treaty included as part of the treaty is a free university for the best grade holding local. They don't have the Education problem. Reason why a true willing treating was required. Whites had guns the 3 local tribes had airborne bio and chemical weapons what they still know how to make. Neither side could win. Also the local aboriginals started with there no killing bio weapons. Disabled and captured.
Most other areas in Australia I go to have major Aboriginal problems they were taken by force.
The outcome in the Canada would have been vastly different if one of the tribes from here was there with their bio weapons. Force of arms becomes impossible against equally or better armed.
The lose of life causes resentment.
Australia has its scares. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Rebellion
They lost to force of arms. Yet we as Australians can never forgot them or there ideals.
We understand as Australian. Just because you win by force of arms. You can completely lose on paper after the war. The agreements at the end decide if you have victory or not. Numbers killed make the scare deeper so creating a force for change in the favour of those you killed.
Prime goal to avoid losing like Eureka is don't kill were able.
–Governments are tyrannical– Line comes from the scare your population still carries.
Yes Australia is well aware governments can be tyrannical but we do as much as we can on paper to prevent and limit there powers.
Robert Pogson
–In sparsely populated areas there is no "effective" law enforcement.–
This also shows you are being foolish. As well as no effective law enforcement there is no effective medical. This is why you need to be trained to have a gun in those areas you cannot afford to shot yourself or a friend.
Australia law does not forbid arms. Requires you to have to the training to use them correctly to reduce accidents. So you get a new weapon you have to go to an armorer to pick it up. Who will run you threw the weaknesses and defects of the weapon. Result no more accidental shooting because two models of guns have safety switch different ways.
Everything about the way Australian firearm law works its to make sure the legal person is least likely to hurt themselves or any other party they are not internally aiming at. Yes starting off with single shot weapons instead of semi automatic gets people out of the habit of spray and pray.
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I like your articles Robert but your non-FLOSS positions are much weaker than your FLOSS ones.
Youre support for death or guns is not more than rehashing of NRA scare tactics.
The majority of people have guns because their cool.
They make noise, and are dangerous and they given even the weakest coward a sense of manliness.
Simply because one click of a trigger allows you destructive power more than most people ever have in their lives.
Not that much different from power tools.
You can do a Freudian analysis dealing with penis envy and other such phallic substitutes as to why the need but guns owners love to shoot guns. It excites them, it makes them feel alive.
And if you gotta shitty job, a naggin wife and a dump for a home, at least you have your gun making you feel like a man.
I remember years ago when a friend remarked about how the majority of people that have Photoshop didnt pay for it and another one mentioned thats because 'Everyone' is a graphic designer because theyve learned to do a flared lens effect. Most of them never got paid for a job but they are 'graphic designer'.
The same way the mexican bogeyman he is taking one particular regional problem (kill the war on drugs and it will drive them out of business. illegality=profit) and transferring it to themselves.
And why is arming against mexicans ok but arming yourself in inner cities against gangs not considered a good example anymore? Imagine someone said, I need a gun because of all the black criminals and drug dealers… cant say that, youd be a racist. So the mexican bogeyman is the one to go to.
Ive heard the western reform party yahoos belittle the arms registry in Canada and have yet to find a cop who wouldnt like to go into a house knowing weather there are guns there or not when going in for a domestic abuse case.
But gun nuts have fought tooth and nail.
The gov has to know if you have a car, if you have a mortgage but not if you have a gun? Sorry, there is no reason for this. (please dont bring the bogus unmarked gun red herring, most of the big killings here have been done with legal guns..we just had a 12 yr old kill his brother last week…dad was violent, barred from seeing his ex-wife, unstable and loved guns, the big Polytecnique, Concordia and Dawson school killings were all legal guns just like the Qc election shooter who was huntin-fishing guide.)
For someone who reads between the lines of the MS propaganda, you seem to be willing to overlook (and use) the cheap reasoning the NRA has been pumping for decades.
Semi-automatic hogwash is hogwash, pure and simple.
its not about danger but about feeling like a man.
guns do that for a lot of people and to totally overlook the fun aspect of gun ownership is hypocritically self serving. Because people like you dont like that guns and fun is a way of life that has nothing to do with protection. I understand. Its frivolous as opposed to the do gooder chord you are going for.
Ive heard the same BS expressed about armed forces being liberators. Every invader doesnt seem himself as the bad guy, even the nazis. All you got to do is convince some high school dropout that his killing of civilians is done for a greater good.
Heck, we have that BS in schools now where they get ex-NHL goons telling kids that they werent bullies, they were there to protect their teammates against bullies.
In all three cases, its how you perceive yourself that clouds your view. I cant be the bad guy, Im a good guy.
It seems incredible to me for anyone to actually hold the notion that they must have a gun ready to defend themselves against drug runners or worse. Ditto for the idea that some tyrannical government will assault them and put them in chains (or worse).
If any of that were a real threat, any rational person would simply leave that area if it were not possible to do the common thing and establish police or sheriff protection in the locale. Anyone hunkered down on their property awaiting the imminent arrival of a bad guy in need of dispatching is crazy enough to qualify for a firearms exclusion.
Doubtless there have been cases of burglars or other interlopers shot dead by an armed homeowner and maybe some day as many such criminals will be killed to equal the number of innocents shot by mistake when taken for a burglar, but it seems unlikely.
Piers Morgan is quite right and the gun nuts are looking more and more insane in their paranoia.
But it is important that the good guys with semi-automatic have decent training so they don't shot like the power metre reader.
Mexican drug-runners ok how did they get there guns thinking Mexico don't make guns. Possible steal them from houses along the boarder when people are not home.
Tracking of weapons and security of storage of weapons is important.
–If there are 300million+ firearms in USA and only a few thousand unlawful killings with firearms annually, the firearms problem is tiny and clamping down on the vast majority of good guys will do nothing.–
Ok who is supplying the bad guys with guns. Think of this guns get used in crime. Police takes gun. Gun gets crushed no more gun. Criminals need a constant supply of new guns because between disposing of guns to hide the evidence of crimes and what police take they are going threw guns.
Tracking mind find the few thousand unlawful used guns might be coming from police letting guns back on street or by some people selling guns illegally under table. Plug these leaks yes it takes time but the result is what you see today in Australia. Dropping number of guns in criminal hands.
Remember with our gun laws more people have guns today legally than before the laws. Just now they are better trained if they have semi-automatic.
Mexican drug-runners I would guess are mostly poorly trained. So the people along the board properly trained in combat would reduce the chance of 1 Mexicn drug-runners getting away. Number 2 of the good guy dieing in the fire fight against the Mexicia drug runner.
Yes a gun is a tool. But a gun with training is the same as asking a person to panel beat a car without proper training they might pull it off or they might cause a complete disaster like killing a non-guilty person who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Firearm control is really not about taking weapons away as Australia has shown. It make sure people with weapons are trained. It also make sure a person does not think they can sell there guns under the table to some criminal for some money because they are desperate. Reason they know the guns will track back to them.
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First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads-driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity.
A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America.
The Grapes of Wrath
summed up its era in the way that
Uncle Tom's Cabin
summed up the years of slavery before the Civil War. Sensitive to fascist and communist criticism, Steinbeck insisted that ?The Battle Hymn of the Republic" be printed in its entirety in the first edition of the book?which takes its title from the first verse: ?He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored." At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck's powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.
This edition contains an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Robert Demott.


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Retired Chief Judge Will Oversee Effort to Find Any Evidence of Perjury in Lawyer's Client Files
Posted Mar 28, 2012 1:57 PM CDT
By Martha Neil
A retired chief of the Wayne County Circuit Court was appointed a special master on Wednesday and put in charge of an effort to review client files of Detroit attorney David Dunn to determine whether they contain evidence relevant to a perjury conspiracy case he is facing,
Judge William Giovan, who left the bench in 2008, will be paid $125 an hour to separate legitimate evidence from client secrets, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Dunn was on the verge of trying a first-degree murder case when he was arrested in open court last week. He and his client, Andre Collins, are accused of plotting to concoct perjured testimony to use in at trial.
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ABAJournal.com: "Arrested in Court Yesterday, Attorney David Dunn Gets Personal Bond Today in Perjury Conspiracy Case"
ABAJournal.com: "Defense Attorney, Unlike Prosecutor, Was Publicly Arrested and Jailed in False Testimony Case"
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THEO, ORION, BARTON & EVAN for the Bloom family — OH
Christian and Kayleigh are very excited to be on this journey! They have talked about adopting since they were first married, but the time has never been right. When they began discussing it again recently, things started coming together in ways that they never could have imagined. They decided that was their sign to jump in! They have been working hard to get all of their paperwork and training completed. Now they have completed most of the work they are responsible for, and they have more time to focus on fundraising while they wait for all of their approvals and their invitation to travel!
UPDATE: They will also be adopting Barton, an incredible young man who aged out back in December. Their family is one of very few whose paperwork makes them eligible to adopt him, and they are thrilled to see what his future holds.They already have four wonderful children at home, and they can't wait to add to their family. They are in awe of how amazing Theo is, and can't wait to meet him. Now they will also be bringing Orion home! They are both loving boys who have waited for families for a very long time. These boys have grown up together at the same institution, and now they are going to be brothers. Isn't that exciting?
The Bloom family would appreciate any financial support or prayer you can offer as they proceed on this adventure.
Theo, Orion and Evan are now home with their family! They are all getting settled in and accomplishing new things every day. Theo is finding so many things he can do independently, Orion is speaking much more clearly than he was in the orphanage, and Evan is learning what is like to experience love and attention for the very first time. Court for Barton was delayed and is now scheduled for July. This will require an additional trip, more time in country, and extra expenses. It will all be worth it to see him have his chance to blossom in a family too!
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They play those glorious sounds
Down on Bourbon Street.
The soul never left,
This glorious place,
Down on Bourbon Street.
Sounds of the laughter,
Play along with clarinets.
And the Jazz,
Oh, the Jazz!
No, the soul never left this place.
You can see it now, 3,000 strong
Yet none now walk the streets
But they're coming back,
3,000 strong
The soul never left this place.
This piece has been published in Teen Ink's monthly print magazine.


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I am very happy to tell you that we are finally live with the first two language versions of our website: French and German.
Italian will follow this summer and the Japanese version later this year.
I know that many of you have been waiting for these versions, and rightly so. We are an international organisation and have an international label. Of course, we cannot communicate in English only.
It is important to us that people can discover NATRUE certified products and read about our criteria in their own language. The same is true for our activities beyond the label: the more people know about our activities to protect and promote Natural and Organic Cosmetics, the better.
For the moment, we have to stay mono-lingual in our news and blog section. We simply don't have the resources yet to translate every post into many languages - though we will have language versions for important news and press releases.
And please don't forget: we have a very mixed and multicultural team here in Brussels with English, French, German, Italian and Japanese mother tongues. You can contact us any time with any query in these languages (and Spanish).
The same goes for our Facebook page and Twitter. We mainly communicate in English but we are happy to answer questions and discuss in other languages. We will always reply, that's a promise!
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Indie Next ListFebruary 2012
Here's another page-turning, mind-reeling masterpiece by Ruff. Imagine a world where the United Arab States is threatened by Christian fundamentalist terrorists, a world where a few good Homeland Security Agents have to fight corruption and conspiracies to protect all they believe in. I predict this is the novel that everyone will be talking about in 2012. And it's not just provocative, it's a darn good read! -- Tegan Tigani, Queen Anne Books, Seattle, WA
From the beloved cult author of "Bad Monkeys" comes an unprecedented, mind-bending psychological thriller, in which an alternate history of 9/11 uncovers startling and harrowing truths about America and the Middle East.
About the Author
Matt Ruff is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Bad Monkeys, Set This House in Order, Fool on the Hill, and Sewer, Gas & Electric. He lives in Seattle.
Praise for The Mirage…
"A unique and compelling read."
-The Associated Press
"Like Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, the premise behind Ruff's alternate-history novel is chilling."
-The New York Post
"An unnerving but intriguing premise forms the backbone of Matt Ruff's latest novel, The Mirage, one of the most daring 9/11-inspired novels to emerge after that horrific day
-The Seattle Times
"Ruff embraces his twisty concept with an attention to detail that suggests many months, more likely years, of fervent research. . . . He is a world-class world builder who, perhaps better than any other writer, can create exotic, mysterious worlds and communicate their unique rules and consistent logics."
-The Stranger
"A funhouse-mirror mash-up where H.G. Wells and Graham Greene collide with The Arabian Nights and The Matrix. . . . Ruff dizzies and dazzles the reader with a fantastic-and fantastical-story."
"Sci-fi/fantasy/post-cyberpunk cult author Matt Ruff imagines an alternate world in which Arabia becomes the earth's dominant superpower and America is a dictator-led, fundamentalist backwater. More than half the fun here comes from discovering all of the intricately clever consequences Ruff derives from that simple premise."
"The alt-historical framework is in many ways the best and most entertaining part of the book, and you want it to expand beyond the mere 400 pages of The Mirage."
-Seattle Weekly
"Furious entertainment. . . . It echoes Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union or Steven Barnes's Lion's Blood, but more comparisons will be made to Philip K. Dick's World War II reimagining The Man in the High Castle."
-The Onion's AV Club
"If you amalgamated the methodical, punctilious, world-building skills of Ian McDonald with the reality-distortion powers of Philip K. Dick and then folded in the satirical, take-no-prisoners savagery of Norman Spinrad, you might be able to produce a book approximating The Mirage."
-Barnes and Nobles Review
"That The Mirage shares DNA with airport-kiosk genre exercises is nothing to be ashamed of. A good thriller is hard to pull off. The ingredients are clear enough: propulsive action, sympathetic characterization, and enough detail to ground the story without slowing things down."
-The Philadelphia City Paper
"This book quite successfully challenges the ideas of Christian moral supremacy and the unchallenged political agenda of superpowers. It is a deeply satisfying novel which excites hopes of a long and productive career for this young writer."
"The Mirage is an intriguing addition to the genre . .. . Ruff spices up his tale with a wealth of arresting details. . . . Ruff keeps you reading, [out of] eagerness to see what twist he'll think of next."
-The New York Times Book Review
"An audacious new novel. . . . . The Mirage is a topsy-turvy tour de force, another winner from a truly inventive and unpredictable storyteller."
-The San Francisco Chronicle


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Ashley Rodriquez doesn't need a belly bed now. She had her baby Monday night. Amelia Diane Rodriquez is a healthy eight pounder, and Wednesday it was time to go home.
"It's umm, look at her, really awesome, unbelievable, to think I did this, we did this, and we get to take her home and keep her. We couldn't be more blessed," says Ashley Rodriquez. Late today, Ashley and Robert loaded up their bundle of joy along with a cart full of balloons, gifts and flowers for their first trip home with their new baby. Ashley couldn't stop staring at her. Robert couldn't figure out how to work the car seat.
"You supposed to take the blanket off? Yes, take the blanket off," says Ashley Rodriquez. Through it all, little Amelia was so patient with her new parents. Being the first grand-daughter in a family full of grand-sons, the word is her nickname will not be just Mia, but Princess Mia.
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- Mission and Vision
- History
- President's Message
- Leadership
- Board of Directors
- Executive Council
- Regional Governors
- Expansion Team
- Cabinet
Lambda Phi Epsilon's vision is to become the preeminent international Asian interest fraternal organization, providing outstanding leadership, philanthropy, and advocacy in the community.
The mission of the organization is to promote Lambda Phi Epsilon and its brothers by:
Developing active members to become leaders through training and hands-on experience, to advance personal growth, and to achieve academic excellence.
Perpetuating leadership of our alumni members in the community, creating opportunities, and encouraging the spirit of fellowship.
Promoting positive Asian American awareness and providing the highest level of philanthropy in the community.
A Brief History
The Founders of Lambda Phi Epsilon
Lambda Phi Epsilon was founded on February 25, 1981 by a group of nineteen dedicated men led by principal founder Mr. Craig Ishigo. Hoping to transcend the traditional boundaries of national origins, the founders aimed to create an organization that would set new standards of excellence within the Asian American community, develop leaders within each of the member's respective community, and bridge the gaps between those communities. While the initial charter was comprised of Asian Pacific Americans, the brotherhood was open to all who were interested in supporting these goals. Mr. Craig Ishigo and Mr. Darryl L. Mu signed the charter as President and Vice President, respectively.
|Mr. Craig Ishigo
|Mr. Hunter Chang
|Mr. Neil Miyazaki
|Mr. Randy Fujimoto
|Mr. Darryl L. Mu
|Mr. John Hanvey
|Mr. Kelvin Sakai
|Mr. Jeff Kaku
|Mr. Kevin Shida
|Mr. Bobby Kawai
|Mr. Albert Sun
|Mr. Dean Kumagawa
|Mr. Weyton Tam
|Mr. Jim Lee
|Mr. Jamie Watanabe
|Mr. Bruce Mau
|Mr. Bennett Wong
|Mr. Ted Mihara
|Mr. Fred Wong
On May 28th, 1990, the fraternity, now with six chapters total, convened on the campus of the University of California, Irvine for the first annual National Convention, which to this day has been held regularly over Memorial Day weekend. A national governing body was established to oversee the development of individual chapters and the fraternity as a whole, with Mr. Robert Mimaki, Mr. Eric Naritomi, and Mr. Doug Nishida appointed as National President, Northern Governor and Southern Governor, respectively. On September 8th, 1990, Lambda Phi Epsilon reached another milestone and became the first and only nationally recognized Asian American interest fraternity in the United States with the admission to the National Interfraternity Conference.
Growth and the Future
Rapid expansion followed throughout the 1990s. Chapters were chartered across the nation through interest groups such as those at the State University of New York, Buffalo and the University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor, leading to the fraternity having a notable presence in all major regions of the country. After becoming a California non-profit organization and incorporating in 1995, the fraternity changed its official name to Lambda Phi Epsilon National Fraternity, Inc. The next decade brought the fraternity international status with the formation of a chapter at the University of Toronto in 2004, making it the first Asian interest fraternity established in Canada.
With the organization's rapid expansion across North America thus far, the national officer corps has begun to revitalize and refocus the efforts of individual chapters and the fraternity as a whole to better reflect its size and influence in the Asian community through academics, leadership, brotherhood, and service.
Welcome to the national website of Lambda Phi Epsilon, National Fraternity Inc.! My name is Charles Andrean and I am the National President of the fraternity. We've designed this space to provide you with all of the latest information and news on the programs, activities, and direction of our fraternity.
Since its inception in 1981 on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, Lambda Phi Epsilon has been committed to forwarding the Asian American community, supporting philanthropic causes, providing exceptional education and training, and promoting brotherhood among our members. Lambda Phi Epsilon's focus lies primarily on its members, with the goal of guiding each individual to become the best version of himself. We strive to create men who will leave a positive and indelible mark on this world.
We encourage you to explore our website and learn more about Lambda Phi Epsilon and what we stand for. Please feel free to direct any questions you have to us through our contact page. We thank you for your support and interest!
Charles Andrean
National President 2012 – 2014
Board of Directors
|Phi Nguyen
|Earl Lum
|Alexander Wong
|Edward Ham
|Jason Louie
|Kuan-ren Su
|Paul L. Nguyen
|Richard Tran
|Robert Chan
Executive Council
Charles AndreanCalifornia Polytechnic State University
Vice President of Chapter Operations
William TamRutgers University
Vice President of Judicial Affairs
Joe VoUniversity of Georgia
Vice President of External Affairs
Isaac ChungNorthwestern University
Michael LiangPurdue University
David QuachMcMaster University
Expansion Chair
Christopher ChenUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Regional Governors
West Coast Governor
Evan PhamUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Mid-Atlantic Governor
LJ KimPennsylvania State University
Midwest Governor
Alford LewUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Southwest Governor
Minh LaiUniversity of Oklahoma
Northeast Governor
Jason LauUniversity of Toronto
Southeast Governor
Ben MillerFlorida State University
Expansion Team
Midwest Expansion Chair
John LipariNorthwestern University
Northeast Expansion Chair
Alvin PhunUniversity of Toronto
Southeast Expansion Chair
Josh NguyenUniversity Georgia
Southwest Expansion Chair
Matthew ChanUniversity of Texas at Austin
West Coast Expansion Chair
George PaiUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Academics Chair
Tony KimUniversity of Houston
Events Coordinator
Ramon QiuStanford University
Billy LauUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Human Resources Chair
Tony HuangUniversity of Massachusetts
Philanthropy Chair
Bernard ChengUniversity of Georgia
Public Relations Chair
JC ChanUniversity of Houston
Bryan DosonoUniversity of Washington


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Weibel helped the Tigers to two wins over the weekend. The junior scored a hat trick Friday in Fairview's 12-3 win over Mechanicsburg at the Cumberland Valley Screaming Eagle Invitational.
She recorded a second hat trick in the Tigers' 10-0 win against Pottsville Saturday. She also scored a goal in Fairview's 8-2 loss to Hazelton in the same tourney.
Weibel, a utility player, is in her third year on Fairview's water polo team and is a team captain.
"She's a great leader for the team and she's a great student," Fairview coach Kyle Figaski said.
Weibel is second in the team in scoring this season with 10 goals.
She is also a diver for Fairview's swimming and diving team.
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Sony announced two small games are going to PlayStation 4 on At the game developers conference this evening. The two games are Blacklight: Retribution and Primal Carnage: Genesis.
Zombie Blacklight: Retribution is a free to play first-person shooter that was released on PC in April 2012. Check out PlayStation 4 trailer below.
Primal Carnage: Genesis is an Unreal Engine 4- powered dinosaur single-player journey tittle from Lukewarm, that is a extreme starting from its multiplayer centric predecessor. The game includes a mixture of open-world exploration and liner game-play through a first-person perspective. Check out trailer below.
Both of there titles may be the beginning of an indie overflow for the freedom offers to developers. At the event Sony defined it is reconfigured strategy to its industry. After then are accepted as a PlayStation licensed self publisher, developers can decide own release date and price of their games.


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But what exactly is a National Letter of Intent? And what does it mean for the player who signs it, and the college who accepts it?
Simple: A National Letter of Intent is essentially an amateur sports contract—a contract that, at least in the short term, binds a player and college together.
Here are the basic facts behind the National Letter of Intent.
- A student-athlete who signs a National Letter of Intent is obligated to attend their college of choice for one academic year.
- In return, a college who accepts a player's National Letter of Intent is obligated to give the player a scholarship for one academic year, provided the player meets the conditions set forth in the NCAA rules.
- Once a player signs an NLI with a particular college, no other college may continue recruiting that player. To do so would be a violation of NCAA rules.


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I'm almost scared to bring up this subject but there have been reports that Roger Clemens is not done - I don't have an article to link at the moment, though it's on ESPN insider's rumor central. Houston was the team cited as potentially re-signing him.
Do we have any interest? Yes? No? Maybe so?
That brings up another question I asked a friend of mine - if given the choice between these two shamed superstars, who would you rather have, Bonds or Clemens?


text: Good morning ... I'm Darren Perron. And I'm Jenninfer Reading. Thanks for joining us. This morning we're talking bike and pedestrian safety -- with our guests Nancy Schulz and Bruce Lierman -- of the Vermont Bicycle & Pedestrian Coalition. Thanks for joining us. But before we begin our conversation -- we have a recent case that highlights the problem. Police say a repeat drunk driver -- hit three cyclists during a cycling tour.Here's Ali Freeman. Avid biker, Steve Hare, says he can't believe what happened to fellow cyclists on Sunday. ((Steve Hare "people who are impaired by alcohol -- please stay off the roads.")) Police say on Sunday morning, 54-year-old Brain Miller cut across the center lane in Shoreham, plowing into three cyclists -- taking part in a bike tour. Court papers show that Miller was drunk, and says he passed out at the wheel.((Trooper Justin Busby "the gentleman that was struck by on his bicycle and actually went over the hood of the vehicle and penetrated the windshield of the car, due to the force of the impact.")) Hare says this accident is a reminder of how vulnerable cyclists are -- even if they are following the rules of the road.And has scars to prove it. He was hit by a car last year.((Steve Hare "a motorist just hit me from behind. I had crashed on my bicycle in the passed or gone down, but I've never been hit where I had no idea something was about to happen.")) Sunday's injured riders were participating in Tour De Farms, an organized bike tour throughout the town. Police say the bikers were NOT in any violation, and were safely following the road rules. All riders had been briefed before the tour on biking safety. ((Lea Calderon-Guthe/ Tour De Farms "safety is our number one priority. I was out late last night putting up signs at every major road crossing. We have caution signs at least 200 yards ahead of the crossing {butted}. Its hard to prevent every accident.")) Two of three cyclists hit were seriously injured, including a 15-year-old girl from Massachusetts. A Moretown man remains in critical condition. ((Dave Fenster / Addison County State's Attorney "its a very serious offense. We have an individual here who has been driving on a suspended license. His license has been suspended since 1970's -- 1978. And he got into a motor vehicle accident that caused two people very serious injuries.")) Miller is still in the hospital, but plead not guilty via phone on Monday. The Shoreham man is facing 7 charges, and if convicted could spend up to 60 years behind bars. Prosecution says this isn't his first run in with the law.((Dave Fenster / Addison County State's Attorney "he does have a pending DUI offense that he was on release conditions for, when this offense occurred.And he was also on arrest warrant status because he failed to appear.")) And the two pending DUI charges add on to a rap sheet that already has two prior DUI convictions in 1978 and 1985.((SU Close AF Channel 3 News.)) thanks for joining us this Sunday morning. Call it the grande finale of fair season. The Eastern State's Exposition in West Springfield, Massachusetts is more than half way through its 17 day stint. Gina Bullard checked out the more than 170 acres of fair fun -- from food and games to everything agriculture. It's all about the animals at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield Massachusetts.((nat braiding horse hair)) fair -- animals are ((nat blow dryer?)points count -- that's in Newport Vermont -- takes every measure necessary to make sure her Ayshire cows look their best.(7:01:18) ((Rachel Before/Agawam Farm Newport "they get treated better than i do. when we're at the show its all about them.")) Rachel's been coming for 12 years to the Big E and pulls out all the stops. Blow dryers -- sheers -- even hair spray gets used to beautify these cows.(4:14:05)((Rachel Before/Agawam Farm Newport "its a little stronger than stuff you'd use on yourself but they move around a lot more")) Keeping the girls looking good for their once from the judge the competition is stiff.(32:39:13) Descoteaus/Ayrshire Judge "i'm judging the big e because of my years of ) 25 years to be exact -- this Ayrshire judge from Quebec knows what he's looking for.((Dennis Descoteaus/Ayrshire Judge "its a very hearty robust breed we're looking for want to see in females the dairy qualities the capability to produce milk")(33:55:09)((Dennis Descoteaus/Ayrshire Judge "gb- i saw a quebec cow just win - are you being a little bias? D-haha i hope not")) Winning at this national show means more than just money.(34:25:11) Judge "she gains in exhibitor for the gains value its dairy farm"))(23:11:14)Before/Agawam Farm Newport " for us its a big deal. its free publicity for your animals you do well everybody knows it its published everywhere. its a pride factor"))(33:45:00) ((Dennis Descoteaus/Ayrshire Judge "gb0hwo are the vt cows doing today? D-they're doing pretty well there's a lot of nice ones there ehh"))5 )5ones there ehh")there's a lot of nice doing pretty well today? D-they're the vt cows doing today? D-they're doing pretty well there's a lot of nice ones there ehh"))5 Like most fairs -- the Big E in West Like most fairs -- the Big E in West Springfield Massachusetts has A LOT to offer.((GB"chocolate covered bacon here we go...mmmm")) Especially when it comes to food.((nat)) Each New England state is represented by its own state run building. We decided to find the best food that each one has to offer. First up -- we'll start with our twin state -- New Hampshire. Its specialty -- blueberry pie.(1:14:03:28)((NH ladies "better than Maine's!") ) If you're wondering what all these people are in line for -- well it's for a Maine baked This booth sells around 6-thousand loaded potatoes a day long fair.That's more than 100-thousand potatoes -- topped with a whole lot of cabot sour cream. This spud gets Burton Spooner from Randolph Vermont coming back every year.(54:43:14)((Burton Spooner/Randolph VT "gb-whats the best part of the big e for you? B-the baked potato gb-the maine baked potato - so whats so good about it? B- id ont know")) In Rhode Island it's all about seafood...(45:44:23) ((Stuart Tucker/Tucker's Seafood RI "the appetizer of the state is going to be calamari - gb-but isn't ri known for quohogs? S-yah but we beat that to death so we had to come up with something new")) The calamari salad with mussels squid and shrimp sure works on a hot day!((nat yum gina?))(1:10:39;22)((GB"now when it comes to the CT building the best export we could find is -- ME!"))((nat?) ) In Massachusetts -- fin cakes are filling people up. The Finish treat is made with more eggs than flour to make it extra thin.((nat)) And finally -- Vermont. The Green Mountains are well Big E. Favorites like maple syrup....and lots of cheese...line (1:07;43:26) ((Bruce Martell/VT Smoke & Cure "its been a nice experience and its good to get the word ) This year the state building welcomes Cure -- with a show s'mores.((Bruce Martell/VT they looked shocked then they try it and ) Signature samples England states.Gina Bullard Channel 3 News West Springfield 3 News West Gina Bullard Channel England states.from all the New ) Signature samples they smile")then they try it and they looked shocked Smoke & Cure "first ((Bruce Martell/VT (1:07:20;16)s'mores.stopper -- bacon Cure -- with a show Vermont Smoke and building welcomes ) This year the state out to the public")good to get the word experience and its been a nice Smoke & Cure "its ((Bruce Martell/VT (1:07;43:26) the aisles.lots of cheese...line maple


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Currency Shop Re-Emerges as Fund Seeder
Former currency-fund manager Lily Pond Capital is reinventing itself as a seed-capital investor.
The New York firm already has launched a vehicle called LilyPad Investors 1 that takes general-partnership interests in nascent hedge fund shops. Now it is marketing a separate entity dubbed WaterLily Investors that would invest in newly launching funds as a limited partner.
The effort represents the culmination of an April 2012 decision by Lily Pond founder Howard Kurz to unwind a $400 million foreign-currency fund that he had run since starting the firm 11 years earlier. As he pondered his next move in the following months, Kurz began receiving inquiries from startup managers searching for backers.
The idea for the new funds evolved from there, with Lily Pond ultimately taking the unusual step of segregating LilyPads operating-capital investments from WaterLilys limited-partnership interests. That said, the two funds typically would deploy their money to the same managers.
Lily Pond is willing to invest with a range of managers, including those dealing in unusual products such as tax liens and mezzanine financing so long as it deems their approaches relevant. Its focusing on startups with pedigreed leaders and strong operations, but also is offering operational and marketing support to those who want such services.
Lily Pond held a first and final close for LilyPad at the beginning of April with an undisclosed amount of capital from 14 investors six that backed its currency fund and eight family offices that are new to the firm. Lily Pond plans to use the vehicle to get 6-8 hedge funds off the ground. It already has stakes in two shops, one of which is a New York outfit called AlphaParity that former Tudor Investment portfolio manager Steve Gross and ex-Tudor quantitative researcher Josh Smith launched in April with a little less than $50 million.
Marketing for WaterLily, meanwhile, began last month. Lily Pond already has pinned down some commitments for that fund, with expectations of holding a single close with $250 million in the next several months. To assist in the push, the firm hired marketing specialist Harlan Simon this month as a managing director. Simon previously worked at Patriot Group, following capital-raising roles at Academy Investment, Enso Capital, XE Capital and Clinton Group.
Lily Pond expects to deploy WaterLilys capital in chunks of $25 million to $35 million, reserving the right to pull the money from managers that experience drawdowns of 15% or more. Backers of the fund would get guaranteed capacity to invest additional money with the seed-capital recipients.
Both LilyPad and WaterLily would get cuts of the revenues produced by their underlying managers. WaterLily is charging investors below-market rates of less than 1.5% of assets and 15% of profits.
The effort comes at a time when many established seed-capital shops, including Larch Lane Advisors, Man Group unit FRM and PineBridge Investments, have spent the better part of a year trying to reach the first closes for their own funds. For its part, Lily Pond believes its unusual structure will appeal to investors and aspiring hedge fund managers alike.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Dallas Cowboys defensive end Anthony Spencer has practiced for the first time this season and says he should play in Week 2 against Kansas City.
Spencer was a limited participant Wednesday when the Cowboys practiced in their $1.2 billion stadium to avoid another day in the Texas heat.
The 29-year-old Spencer missed all of training camp and the preseason after aggravating a left knee injury from the offseason in the pre-camp conditioning test. He had surgery July 25.
Spencer missed last weekend's opener against the Giants. Dallas forced six turnovers and his replacement, journeyman George Selvie, had a fumble recovery and a sack.
Spencer says he "should have time out there" Sunday against the Chiefs if he doesn't have any setbacks.
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Hey everyone! I'm Kyle Jurczak, a Freshman at MSU. I've been following this blog for around three years and love the information and community at TOC. I'm also a Fancred Brand Ambassador for MSU. Fancred is a social media iPhone app (Android is in progress I believe) that is sports-centered and allows people to connect with other fans of all their favorite teams, college and professional. The more you are involved, the higher Fancred "score" you reach!
I've really enjoyed interacting with the people on Fancred, but there is one problem - a lack of MSU participation. I think many of the members here would love Fancred and would be great additions to the MSU Community on the app. Hopefully you can give the app a shot in time for College Football season! Thanks!


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1 box of yellow cake mix
2 small boxes instant vanilla pudding
1/2 cup veggie oil
1 cup apple cider, plus a few extra splashes for the frosting
4 eggs
1 cup applesauce
2 tablespoons cinnamon (divided)
1 cup caramel pieces (found on the chocolate chip aisle)
1 cup caramel ice cream topping
1 stick butter, softened
4 cups powdered sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Grease (I use Pam) a 10 inch bundt pan
In mixing bowl, combine cake mix, puddings, oil, 1 cup cider, eggs, applesauce and 1 tablespoon cinnamon with electric mixer. Stir in caramel pieces. Pour into prepared bundt pan.
Bake 40-45 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Let cake rest on counter in pan 10 minutes. Then, invert cake onto serving plate to finish cooling.
To make the frosting, beat butter, powdered sugar and 2-3 splashes of cider with electric mixer until creamy. Beat in remaining tablespoon of cinnamon. Add more sugar if the frosting is too runny and more cider if it's too thick.
Spoon caramel ice cream topping over cooled cake and then frost with your cider frosting.
If you can't find cider (which you should this time of year) you can use apple juice instead. If you can't find the caramel pieces on the chocolate chip aisle, then unwrap some caramel candy squares and chop them up a bit...they'll work equally as well.


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Saks Fifth Avenue will open a three-level, 107,000-sq.-ft. store in Brickell City Centre, Miami.
Saks Fifth Avenue is reportedly planning to both increase the amount of high-end luxury goods it sells and also increase the number of Saks Off 5th outlet stores it operates.
Hudson's Bay Company will sell its flagship in downtown Toronto and neighboring office tower for C$650 million ($587.09 million) to an affiliate of commercial real estate developer Cadillac Fairview Corp., and open a full-line, 150,000-sq.-ft. Saks store in the leased-back space.
Saks Fifth Avenue, a subsidiary of Hudson's Bay Company, announced the appointment of former Harrods executive Mark Briggs as chief marketing officer for Saks, effective March 2014.
Many retailers today are looking to bolster profits by offering merchandise outside of traditional locations. Well-known brands such as Gap, J. Crew and Disney all have been on the outlet side of retail for several years
Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th has launched its first e-commerce site, saksoff5th.com, on the Demandware platform.
Executives with Renaissance Place are working with officials from the City of Highland Park, Ill., to identify the best use for a 49,000-sq.-ft. building that Saks vacated at the close of 2012.
Saks Fifth Avenue has signed a letter of intent to relocate its downtown Cincinnati store to The Kenwood Collection, which Phillips Edison & Co. is transforming from a regional destination to a super-regional destination that will draw shoppers from three states.
Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th plans to open a new store in Pearl, Miss., (metropolitan Jackson) on Nov. 14.
Saks Inc. has settled lawsuits from investors related to its proposed buyout by Hudson's Bay Company (HBC).
Saks Fifth Avenue, in partnership with Stylewhile, has launched a new iPad App that allows users to fit clothing to their specific body type before purchase.
Saks Fifth Avenue in January 2014 will unveil its renovated men's store in its Chicago flagship on Michigan Avenue. The renovation will encompass a total redesign of floors six and seven, creating an open environment that will be easily accessed by a new express elevator that will take passengers directly to the men's floors.
Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th has launched an e-commerce site that gives shoppers visibility and accessibility to shop for items that may have limited distribution and only in select stores nationwide.
Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th plans to open a second store in Orlando, Fla., on Oct. 3.
Saks Fifth Avenue was able to reach nearly 100% display compliance at its 8th floor shoe department in their flagship New York City store with the TrueVUE Inventory Display Execution application from Tyco Retail Solutions.
Saks Inc. plans to open seven new Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th stores in 2014: The Outlets at Bloomfield in Pearl, Miss.; Potomac Mills in Woodbridge, Va.; Palm Beach Outlets in West Palm Beach, Fla; Outlet Shoppes at Louisville/Lexington, Ky.; Twin Cities of Eagan in Minneapolis, Minn.; The Mayfair Collection in Mayfair, Wis.; and Easton Gateway in Columbus, Ohio.
Hudson's Bay Co. (HBC) has appointed Marigay McKee, chief merchant of Harrods, as the future president of Saks Fifth Avenue.
Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th plans to open a new store in Aventura, Fla., on Sept. 20.
The planned merger between Saks Inc. and Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) took another step forward with the expiration of the 40-day "go shop" period for Saks on Sept. 6.
Law firm Morgan & Morgan is investigating potential legal claims against the board of directors of Saks Inc. relating to the proposed acquisition of Saks by Hudson's Bay Company.
Discount retailers TJ Maxx and Saks Off Fifth outlets are reportedly planning to enter the online sales arena this year.
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A buyout of Saks could further downgrade the retailer's already low credit rating.
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Been spending the last month updating my landscaping at our new house in Williamsville. Cut down five tree and removed about 18 bushes from the front and backyard.
I need to take better pics, since these probably don't do it justice.
Been spending the last month updating my landscaping at our new house in Williamsville. Cut down five tree and removed about 18 bushes from the front and backyard.
I need to take better pics, since these probably don't do it justice.
I am working on an old library exhibit website that is from 2001, so of course it is filled with <font> tags and a <table> layout structure. I wanted a way to quickly remove all the old dated code so it would be easier to put into our new template. After searching though Google I found I could use a regular expression with find and replace to remove almost anything.
This expression will remove anything that has the "font" name in the brackets. Also used it for <table>, <tbody>, <tr>, <td>, and, <div> tags. This gave me just the <p>, <img>,
<blockquote> and a few other tags to work with.
Spent an hour (at least it felt like an hour) trying to figure out why the hand tool in InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator stopped working. Finally figured out it was the LastFM scrobbling app. For some reason my preferences screen comes up when I launch it and if I don't click OK or Cancel the hand tool in all Adobe programs stops working. Weird.
Finally finished my first ebook for Against the Grain: The History of Buffalo's First Ward. Took me awhile as this was the first one I have tried to code. It was a little time consuming, but was well worth it. Learned a lot about how they work and how I can save time on the next one.
The ebook is currently available on amazon.com and will soon be on the iBook store.
Did a quick poster/flyer for Tim Bohen's speaking engagement at the University at Buffalo. He'll be speaking about Buffalo's First Ward and his book, Against the Grain, The History of Buffalo's First Ward.
Managing and backing up your content is something we should all try and do. I was guilty of not backing up my content and thankfully I never had a problem with losing data. I knew it was time though to have something in place incase I had a hard drive fail or something else happen. I also wanted a way in which I could access all my content on all my devices easily. I currently use a MacBook Pro (home), iMac (work), iPhone and an iPad.
Here is what I use for managing and backing up my content:
Dropbox does have a free plan that gives you 2gigs for free of charge. I tried that for a couple months and loved how easy it was to use on all my devices. So I purchased the 100gigs for $99 a year. In my opinion it's so worth the money. I can access all my photos, graphic work and any other data I have. Dropbox also has a great iOS app that will automatically backup your photos from your device. Which was key for me. Being able to access all my content from my 4 devices was the main reason I went with this system. I know there are other cloud systems out there. But this one worked best for me.
I was pretty excited when Apple introduced iTunes Match. It allows me store all my music in the cloud for only $25 a year. The matching functionality was also nice. Uploading all my music to a Google Music account would have been a pain. I can access all my music from all my devices so easily. I have about 60gigs worth of music so the $25 seemed like a good deal to me for the size.
I use iCloud to store all my contacts, calendars, and backup my apps. I didn't see the point in buying a larger account for photos since I use Dropbox. I also hooked up my wife's iPhone to backup her photos to my Dropbox account. So now I have easy access to all her photos.
Did a quick 32″ x 40″ poster design for the new 48 Good Films project here in the UB Libraries.
I recently finished the design for Tim Bohen's book, Against the Grain – The History of Buffalo's First Ward. Tim has been writing this book for over 5 years now and working with him on this project was awesome. He was very open to ideas and the process was seamless. It's easily one of my favorite projects I have worked on. The book turned out great and Tim has gotten a great response from the community.
The book is available for purchase on his website, which I also designed.
Working on getting this design coded and up. I am putting the design into WordPress and will link up with smugmug.com for the payment handling.


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Firefighters responded to a chimney fire in West Caldwell Wednesday night that started with a smoky fireplace, officials said.
No one was injured in the fire, which took place at 49 Parkview Terrace.
West Caldwell Fire Chief James Alvine said the homeowner called in the fire at 6:45 p.m. when smoke from her fireplace filled the house with smoke.
When firefighters arrived, Alvine said, the house was smoky. However, the smoke soon became heavier and firefighters were forced to open up the walls surrounding the fireplace.
Once the walls were opened up, Alvine said firefighters saw flames in both the interior and exterior walls and extinguished the blaze.
"Everyone did a great job as the fire was stopped before the ridge line of the roof," Alvine said. "If fire got to the ridge line, it would have spread across the entire roof with the wind gusts we were having."
The fire has been deemed accidental, but the cause remains under investigation.
Caldwell and Verona fire officials provided mutual aid during the fire.
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I mean, either SVG is just trying to make DTS pony up or he's really out of it this year. Pretty stupid of him if you ask me. Anyway, with SVG happy eating donuts in Florida and Phil politely telling us to go screw ourselves, the only other established coach I want is Jerry Sloan.
If we go the assistant route, it's either Mike and Mike. Very tough call. All have their pros and cons, except Budenholzer who might be con-free, I don't know. He's been coaching for the Spurs for 17 years. Like Thibs coached for 19 before the big call. That alone might make him preferable over Malone, whose only draw back is less experience.
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Lender of Last Resort in a Peripheral Economy with a Fixed Exchange Rate: Financial Crises and Monetary Policy in Sweden under the Silver and Gold Standards, 1834 – 1913
AbstractAccording to the classical view, an economy's lender of last resort should be its central bank. For brief periods of time, the bank might suspend convertibility in order to provide the liquidity needed to support the domestic credit market. Recent experience of financial crises demonstrates the conflict between maintaining a fixed exchange rate and serving as a lender of last resort. The lesson of Sweden's history of crises under the classical specie standard is that a transitional, capital importing economy has to pay closer attention to the specie standard rules than do capital exporting economies. While the Swedish central bank, for a limited time, could support the credit market within the limits of the specie standard, if the crises persisted support mechanisms other than abandoning convertibility were required. The solution adopted was to import high powered money through loans guaranteed by the Swedish State.
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Length: 35 pages
Date of creation: 02 Oct 2003
Date of revision: 14 Oct 2003
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Monday's news has been quite troubling to people in Dowagiac. Many people were sad to hear a teenager took his life near a school and they were surprised that it happened in their small town.
"It surprised me because nothing really happens in Dowagiac," said Dowagiac High School student Christian Bryant.
News that Darren James Price, 13, committed suicide near Dowagiac Middle School came as a big shock to many. Not only are neighbors concerned about the safety of children in the small city now, but there are also unanswered questions swirling through town.
"For children to be getting a hold of guns still I just don't understand how or why that could happen," said Laura Slavings, a Dowagiac resident.
Even those who did not know the teenager say it is hard to hear about what happened.
"My heart broke," said Rita Leason, a Dowagiac mother of two. "I could think of all the other parents. I have a nephew who goes [to the middle school] and my best friend has her nephew up there too. All I could think of is his parents, family and friends."
While many wonder how something like this could happen in Dowagiac, other are not as surprised.
"[I'm not surprised] it's sad to say, but no, especially in the world we live in today," said Danielle Lott.
Residents say it has become clear tragedy can strike anywhere and now they worry about the future. They say when students go back to school Tuesday it will be a long emotional day for the children; Whether they knew Price or not.
"Knowing someone your own age, when you're 14 years old and in middle school, you don't think of ever saying goodbye to them, to your friends," said Slavings. "[You think] you're friends will always be there and that's not so."
When classes will resume at Dowagiac Middle School there will be extra security and counselors will be on hand.
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Trivia: When did Dick Clark host his first "New Year's Rockin' Eve" special?
Dec. 23's trivia answer: Kevin McCallister used the TalkBoy to his advantage in "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York."
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An upcoming new 13-part television series set in an alternate "Pan-African universe," where all sorts of unexplainable, paranormal dark threats rule.
Here, a specialized Police Occult Unit led by ambitious young detective Alice Kunene, together with seasoned veteran Harkness, and their high-tech detective team, situated in a cavernous, dingy basement, called Room 9 (other teams disparagingly refer to this team as "Zombie Cops"), hunt down the "perpetrators of evil," both in the world of the living and of the dead.
Welcome to the playground of the Devil, where Satanic cults, Muti murders, the Tokoloshe, Demons, Poltergeists, Zombies, Werewolves, Aliens, Vampires, and even a Mermaid, are all on the menu.
Zethu Dlomo, David Butler, Anthony Oseyemi, Angela Ludek, and Elné Pretorius make up the starring cast.
Some of the creators behind the new series should be names you recognize, like Charlie Vundla (he directed last year's South African crime drama, How To Steal 2 Million), and Darrell Roodt (director of Winnie).
Room 9 premieres on South African TV network SABC1, on Thursday, November 8, at 8.30pm. Maybe it'll travel.
Watch the series trailer below:
Micah | November 4, 2012 10:40 AM
I dig the concept and main star seem very likeable. I wonder if she could crossover into big films.
Emil B. Garuba | November 2, 2012 4:37 AM
Definitely on my watch-list!
Screamwriter | November 1, 2012 11:39 AM
Production values aren't great but it looks interesting.