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COLUMBUS, Ohio - It could take several days for construction to ramp back up, but work at the future site of a racino coming to Austintown is now a go.
The Ohio Racing Commission approved the transfer of a racing license for Penn National to operate its new complex coming to Route 46 at its meeting in Columbus Wednesday morning.
The approval comes after six meetings and a handful of new seating and horse stall designs, the center of the comission's concerns.
The topic of how many race viewing seats the Hollywood at Mahoning Valley Race Course would offer to patrons often sparked heated debates between commissioners and Penn National officials.
Now, local and state leaders are relieved the parties finally settled on a compromise of a little more than 1,000 seats to be ready and waiting on opening day.
"Both realized that they need each other, I mean, Penn needs the racing commission, because you have to have a track in order to have slot machines ... the racing commission needs Penn, because they're going to build a $150 million dollar facility," Senator Joe Schiavoni of Ohio's 33rd District said.
The economic impact is what the township is waiting for and in the coming months, Penn National plans to review applications for 1,000 racino jobs.
"We want to hire local. We want to use local vendors," Penn National spokespersonEric Schippers said.
In addition to jobs, a number of for sale and lease signs line Rt. 46 near the racino site off of I-80.
"With this being finalized today, I think you're going to see those properties be at a premium dollar," said Austintown Township trustee Jim Davis. "I think you're going to see those properties start to sell right away."
Davis said he doesn't have any details on any new tenants interested in moving into the area next.
As previously reported by 21 News in March, Davis announced spinoff activity would include at least one hotel. Davis said Candlewood Suites, an extended stay hotel, applied for zoning permits to build a location behind the Holiday Inn Express off of Rt. 46.
Davis said a second hotel is also interested in building in the township.
While the construction of the racino is a month behind schedule, Penn National is hoping it can still hit its original goal for opening next summer.


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Johnson-Odom, Taylor on pre-season Wooden Award list
The Wooden Award, which recognizes the top collegiate basketball player in the country, has revealed its list of 50 finalists. On the pre-season list is Marquette Senior guard, Darius Johnson-Odom and Wisconsin Senior guard, Jordan Taylor.
Johnson-Odom will be the Golden Eagles leading returning scorer at 15.8 points per game last season. He has an incredible shot fake, quick first step, and outstanding touch from behind the arc.
Taylor, the leader of the Badgers offense, paced the scoring with 18.1 points per game combines with 4.1 rebounds and 4.7 assists. He rarely makes mistakes and has a knack for hitting clutch shots when the game is on the line.
It will be interesting to watch the draft stock of each player as the season rolls on.
For the complete list of Wooden Award finalists, click here.
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NY Times: Fighting Captain Crunch's 'Darker Side' Against 'Epidemic of Childhood Obesity'
William Neuman's New York Times story on the latest attack by the food and advertising police, "U.S. Seeks New Limits on Food Ads for Children," which topped Friday's Business section, was slanted (as most Times business stories are) against business and in favor of federal regulators.
Will Toucan Sam go the way of Joe Camel?
The federal government proposed sweeping new guidelines on Thursday that could push the food industry to overhaul how it advertises cereal, soda pop, snacks, restaurant meals and other foods to children.
Citing an epidemic of childhood obesity, regulators are taking aim at a range of tactics used to market foods high in sugar, fat or salt to children, including the use of cartoon characters like Toucan Sam, the brightly colored Froot Loops pitchman, who appears in television commercials and online games as well as on cereal boxes.
Regulators are asking food makers and restaurant companies to make a choice: make your products healthier or stop advertising them to youngsters.
"Toucan Sam can sell healthy food or junk food," said Dale Kunkel, a communications professor at the University of Arizona who studies the marketing of children's food. "This forces Toucan Sam to be associated with healthier products."
Neuman admitted "The guidelines are meant to be voluntary, but companies are likely to face heavy pressure to adopt them."
While quoting Kelloggs and lobbying groups opposed to additional anti-child-marketing regulations on top of the ones already in place, the Times avoided a single philosophical argument for consumer choice and free speech, which National Public Radio at least provided in its own slanted story, bringing on David Boaz of the libertarian Cato Institute. It's a strange omission for the New York Times Co., which relies on free speech protections to complete its news-gathering mission.
Then there's this silly melodramatic sentence:
By explicitly tying advertising to childhood obesity, the government is suggesting there is a darker side to cuddly figures like Cap'n Crunch, the Keebler elves, Ronald McDonald and the movie and television characters used to promote food. It also raises the question of whether they might ultimately share the fate of Joe Camel, the cartoon figure used to promote Camel cigarettes that was phased out amid allegations that it was meant to entice children to smoke.
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Let me get this straight. The
Submitted by Chris Norman on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 10:49pm.
Let me get this straight. The little kids see the "cute and cuddly" cartoon characters advertising high sugar food and go to the grocery store and buy the products themselves? And the parents figure into this - how? Wow, there is no problem out there that the "we know best for you idiots" crowd have a government mandated "solution" that completely bypasses the role of parental responsibility. And the "Government must do something about this problem" media will cheer them on. What these pathological "do-gooder" busybodies really want to do is mandate and control what people do - period. Everything else they propose are merely interim baby steps to their final goals.
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Consider this.....
Submitted by Timothy H on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 7:27pm.
If their argument that putting these cartoon characters on the box is causing childhood obesity, then aren't these same idiots liable because they haven't forced regulation to put cute and cuddly cartoon characters on boxes of Grape Nuts, Special K, Total and plain old Shredded Wheat?
I mean, if the Cartoon Characters have that much sway, then why aren't they used to promote healthier choices? Because it's hogwash. And the fact that they haven't tried to forcce implementation of this "powerful" tool means that they know they are full of feces right up to the eyeballs.
Parents are ultimately responsible, not Cap'n Crunch.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -Albert Einstein
And for blonde:Some days it just doesn't pay to chew through the restraint. -Timothy H
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Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 10:27pm.
I like the way you think. Yeah, the "healthy" cereals have box graphics that make them look like they contain antibiotics.
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Look who's back!
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 10:47pm.
And I must say, in rather good form, too!
Spot on, Timothy.
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SILENCE!! The Great and Powerful Oz Speaks!!!
Submitted by MidAmerica on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 10:55pm.
This is just one more step in total control over the individual. Sugary cerials are much older than the so-called obesity problem. I grew up in the sixties and nobody I knew drank a diet soda or gave up surgary cerials, candy bars, hamburgers/french fries.. But even so an obese person was unusual. The real problem is kids today do not excercise the way they used to. My parents wouldn't let me and my brothers lay around. We had to get out of the house and go do something such as play baseball with the neighbor kids.
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Submitted by Chris Norman on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 11:09pm.
It's probably because of the threatening world we live in, but I rarely, if ever, see kids playing in their front yards with the kids down the street. I realize it's a generational thing, but what a shame. On my street, after we walked home from school, we played Hide and Seek, soft ball (home plate being the storm drain cover), Red Rover, Tag, and Touch Football (my mom hated the grass stains I'd get on my pants). Forget the childhood obesity "crisis" - I'm feeling really, really old about now....
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mommy I'm scared...
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 6:52am.
I'm not sure the world is that much more dangerous than before but the kids we raise now are so coddled (even high schoolers) that they cannot be trusted to fend for themselves. Boys especially are so feminized that they no longer do the stuff that boys used to do like setting up ball games on their own or bike around town. Now kids just work their social networking sources and lay around. So it's laughable that the government is going to do anything about obesity by going after Kapn Crunch.
When i was 8 or 9 years old I used to climb the huge maple tree in our front yard (so did other boys) to heights where falling could be certain death or major injury and you know what my mother would say........ nothing. She just looked at this as just boys growing up to be men. Men were expected to be brave, strong and self reliant. Now the nanny state thinks dodge ball is too violent.
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Well said, MidAmerica
Submitted by Timothy H on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 7:30pm.
Clap, Clap, Clap.......
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -Albert Einstein
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Submitted by Rukus on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 11:14am.
I remember growing up in Fairhope AL. Lord, we used to leave on Saturday morning and not come home but for lunch. Then, at dark, all the mom's on the block would come out and holler for the kids to come home and wash up and eat. Those were the days, I sure miss them. Can't let the kids just go off now a-days, too dangerous. What's happened to our great land? I wish we could go back to the 50's and 60's, much better times... sigh. : (
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Chris, I'm only 37.......
Submitted by Timothy H on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 7:36pm.
And it was the same way when I was a teenager in the late 80's and early 90's. I left int he morning, stopped off to grab some lunch (if I didn't eat at a friends house) and then came home just before the street lights came on. We played stickball, football, hockey, hide and seek, basketball, rode our bikes, went swimming, ran away from girls when we were younger and chased them when we got a bit older. And we were fit. My parents never let us lay around the house, and I can hardly tell you what was on the tube in the 80's. They made good choices about what and how much they fed us.
But then, the government wasn't giving my parents an excuse to blame Ronald McDonald and The Trix Rabbit for their own failed parenting, so they actually had to parent. Imagine that.....
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -Albert Einstein
And for blonde:Some days it just doesn't pay to chew through the restraint. -Timothy H
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Personally speaking…
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 11:02pm.
....I'm all in favor (not flavor) of laws preventing children under 18 from eating chili cheese burgers w/bacon…
Oh! What a wonderful world it could be!
-Grump :o)
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Have no doubt,
Submitted by Chris Norman on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 11:11pm.
Your satirical joke of today will be a serious proposal from some liberal group in the future.
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Who said it was satire...
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 11:30pm.
I'm a firm believer that chili is the cause for global warming… and is the single greatest threat to mankind's survival!
But: They will have to pry the last spoonful of chili out of my cold cholesterol infected hands before I give in!
- Grump :o)
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Submitted by Chris Norman on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 11:32pm.
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A renewable resource…
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 11:39pm.
If I'm not mistaken.
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Another meddlesome leftists
Submitted by rbosque on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 11:41pm.
Another meddlesome leftists trying to dictate to us how to run our lives. They're trying to ram their beliefs down our throats even if it means making up laws.
It's none of their damned business!
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This is what democrats and
Submitted by Slyrr on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 11:54pm.
This is what democrats and leftists have fallen to.
They see no threats from radical Islam. They don't think Iran, or China or any other country trying to destroy us is anything to worry about. They don't care that they've created a 14 trillion dollar debt monster that's threatening this country and every man, woman and child in it - along with the unborn for generations.
No - all the liberals, democrats and leftists care about is destroying a cartoon character. Yes - 'Cap'n Crunch'. THIS is what liberals are scared of.
Think of that. Liberals are more scared of breakfast cereals and their cartoon mascots than they are of terrorist jihadists with nukes. Cap'n Crunch and the Trix Rabbit are the deadly enemies that keep the modern liberal up at night cringing beneath their bedcovers.
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Leave Cap'n Crunch Alooooonne!
Submitted by jefflebowski on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 11:59pm.
I like Cap'n Crunch. I like crunchberries. Is that so wrong? I don't like Obama. I don't like Democrats.
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Submitted by Herbster on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 12:29am.
The food police are after us again. No more salt, foie gras, trans fats, etc. Question: If trans fats are banned, can Rosie O'Donnell legally enter a restaurant? Just asking.
Everything is "Voluntary" to start....soon to be followed by "Required." Have we learned nothing these past years of how the commucrats operate?
Any restaurant that lists calories, fat content, sodium content, etc. on their menu will NOT have me as a customer.
Remember, triple bacon cheeseburgers don't kill people - people kill people!
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Michell Obama Proposes Slaughtering Obese Children!
Submitted by HollyW on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 2:46am.
According to the Daily Rash, last year Michelle Obama considered slaughtering morbidly obese children! That may be going too far! http://www.thedailyrash.com/?p=2270
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Childhood Obesity Epidemic
Submitted by Phryj1 on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 2:54am.
Straight out of the liberal nanny state playbook. Declare something a serious problem that we absolutely need the government to deal with to justify giving the gov't more control over people. They did the same thing with global warming.
It's not even a problem! They're kids, so most of them will outgrow their obesity. Besides that, it's the parents' business what their kids eat, not the governments! Not to mention, but the main cause behind kids being overweight is lack of physical activity, not diet.
You know, it seems to me like these psychotic anti-childhood obesity crusaders are really all about sucking all the fun out of kids' lives. Getting them ready for their gray, bleak, boring, freedomless lives in the gray, bleak, boring, oppressive nanny state utopia that the progressives all dream of.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
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Cap'n Crunch's "darker side" is NOT the sugar
Submitted by mrt721 on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 10:55am.
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Let's see if I've got this right...
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 3:53pm.
Let's see if I've got this right. According to our nanny state busybodies, it's not OK for children to eat Frosted Flakes or Cap'n Crunch or drink Coke, but it's perfectly all right for them to watch pornography at the local library?! They would rather kill our children's souls and minds in order to defend so-called "free speech"...
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America is becoming more tyrannical as each hour passes
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 8:42pm.
Just when the Hell is Boehner & Co. going to start ripping the financial guts out of these unneeded, tyrannical bureaucracies and send these freedom-hating control-freak goobers packing for good?
Vote for the American in November
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Submitted by TxTarp on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 1:22pm.
How often do small children go to a supermarket to buy groceries by themselves? I never realized that children made money, or planned family meals. Yes, me must regulate these children's food intake, because they are not old enough or smart enough to know what is healthy and what is not. Oh, and those pesky parents dont know any better either.......
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RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - Late South Dakota School of Mines and Technology President Robert Wharton will be remembered during an outdoor memorial service on campus.
The school says the service is at 2 p.m. Monday at the Campus Quadrangle.
Wharton died Wednesday of complications from earlier cancer treatments. He was 60 years old.
Wharton had been the school's president since July 2008. Provost Duane Hrncir has been named acting president.
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Vintage Noma 1950's Candolier Candle Christmas Lights With Halos Lites
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Festive 1950's Noma Metal Candolier lights with Halos. It has a total of 8 candles & measures approximately 20 1/2" long, 11 3/4" high and 2 3/4: wide. The ribbed bulbs are also vintage & all working when I tested it. The front base of the lights have a decal of carolers and a sleigh full of presents pulled by reindeer! The tops of the candles are made to appear like wax is dripping. All the candles have the clear halo around the bulb. This would look lovely in your window or on a mantel.
The electrical wiring is a bit temperamental and flashes on & off. I highly recommend you rewire before using in your home. Other than the wiring It is in good shape for its age considering it is almost 60 years old. The front of the light looks in very good condition with some minor paint loss on the very bottom of the base.. The back side shows some paint loss & spotting.
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Employees hired for this role will accept cases through both the In-Home Therapy and Therapeutic Mentoring Programs. Determination of caseload mix will be at the agency's discretion.
Therapeutic Mentoring offers structured, one-to-one, strength-based support services to eligible youth for the purpose of addressing daily living, social, and communication needs.
Therapeutic Training and Support is a service provided by a qualified paraprofessional working under the supervision of a licensed clinician to support implementation of the clinician's treatment plan to assist the youth and family in achieving the goals of that plan.
o Bachelor-level counselors/paraprofessionals must have a bachelor's degree in a human services field form an accredited academic institution and one (1) year of relevant experience working with families or youth
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1Institute of Chemical Engineering and High Temperature Chemical Processes, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Patras, Greece
2Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Molina Center for Energy and the Environment (MCE2), USA
3Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
4Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
5Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Abstract. New primary and secondary organic aerosol modules have been added to PMCAMx, a three dimensional chemical transport model (CTM), for use with the SAPRC99 chemistry mechanism based on recent smog chamber studies. The new modeling framework is based on the volatility basis-set approach: both primary and secondary organic components are assumed to be semivolatile and photochemically reactive and are distributed in logarithmically spaced volatility bins. This new framework with the use of the new volatility basis parameters for low-NOx and high-NOx conditions tends to predict 4–6 times higher anthropogenic SOA concentrations than those predicted with older generation of models. The resulting PMCAMx-2008 was applied in Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA) for approximately a week during April of 2003. The emission inventory, which uses as starting point the MCMA 2004 official inventory, is modified and the primary organic aerosol (POA) emissions are distributed by volatility based on dilution experiments. The predicted organic aerosol (OA) concentrations peak in the center of Mexico City reaching values above 40 μg m−3. The model predictions are compared with Aerosol Mass Spectrometry (AMS) observations and their Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) analysis. The model reproduces both Hydrocarbon-like Organic Aerosol (HOA) and Oxygenated Organic Aerosol (OOA) concentrations and diurnal profiles. The small OA underprediction during the rush hour periods and overprediction in the afternoon suggest potential improvements to the description of fresh primary organic emissions and the formation of the oxygenated organic aerosols respectively, although they may also be due to errors in the simulation of dispersion and vertical mixing. However, the AMS OOA data are not specific enough to prove that the model reproduces the organic aerosol observations for the right reasons. Other combinations of contributions of primary, aged primary, and secondary organic aerosol production rates may lead to similar results. The model results suggest strongly that during the simulated period transport of OA from outside the city was a significant contributor to the observed OA levels. Future simulations should use a larger domain in order to test whether the regional OA can be predicted with current SOA parameterizations. Sensitivity tests indicate that the predicted OA concentration is especially sensitive to the volatility distribution of the emissions in the lower volatility bins.
Citation: Tsimpidi, A. P., Karydis, V. A., Zavala, M., Lei, W., Molina, L., Ulbrich, I. M., Jimenez, J. L., and Pandis, S. N.: Evaluation of the volatility basis-set approach for the simulation of organic aerosol formation in the Mexico City metropolitan area, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 9, 13693-13737, doi:10.5194/acpd-9-13693-2009, 2009.


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Feds Say City Submitted False Counseling Claims
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 05:15 PM
The city's Department of Education falsely billed the federal Medicaid system for almost $700,000 in counseling services for low-income pupils with special needs, according to the U.S. Attorney's office in Brooklyn.
The complaint from the Eastern District says the reimbursement requests were submitted between 2001 and 2004. During that time period, the Medicaid program paid $223 per month for each student who received two or more services in the month. The costs were shared by the state and federal governments. But the complaint alleges the city falsely claimed to have provided thousands of students with many more sessions than they actually received, in order to receive the maximum reimbursements.
A social worker, Dana Ohlmeyer, who provides psychological services to emotionally disturbed elementary and junior high students, brought the allegations to the U.S. Attorney's office.
The complaint says that between 2001-04, approximately 7,957 students received psychological counseling in District 75, the non-geographical district for the city's neediest special education pupils. It also says the city "knowingly employed a billing system which resulted in its submission of false claims" and did not check against attendance records, submitting claims for all pupils in District 75 who were Medicaid eligible, "regardless of what services it had actually provided."
The U.S. Attorney's office is seeking over $2 million from the city in damages and penalties. The city's law department says it hasn't yet received the complaint.
"However, the Department of Education takes counseling services for special needs students very seriously and cooperated with the U.S. Attorney's investigation," said Thomas Crane, chief of the general litigation division, in a statement to reporters. "We disagree with any assertion that the D.O.E. engaged in misconduct and will respond appropriately to the complaint."
In a separate case, the city was forced to return hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursements it couldn't properly document after a federal audit several years ago. New rules were imposed and since then, the city has been slow to recover tens of millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursements for services to children with special needs.
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This location is in the Georgetown neighborhood in Washington D.C.. Nearby parks include Volta Street Playground, Volta Park and Book Hill Park.
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Gators for Higher Education June 2012 Update
As we turn our focus to the 2013 legislative session, we wanted to share some key information about the University of Florida. Your voice has made a difference! We are counting on your support and involvement again this year.
Higher Education Update
In the 2013 legislative session, Higher Education will continue to be in the spotlight. There have been several committees formed to focus on the role of higher education in our state. Of note are the two listed below.
Florida Governor Rick Scott created the Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education to evaluate the states university system and suggest ideas for reform. Learn more here.
The Florida Board of Governors created the Commission on Florida Higher Education Access and Degree Attainment. Learn more here. Go to the committee website for agenda, meetings dates and more information.
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A Smith County jury sentenced a 22-year-old Tyler man to 20 years in prison Tuesday after he pleaded guilty on Monday to a charge of aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony.
The sentencing took place in the 241st District Court with Judge Jack Skeen Jr. presiding.
Marquette Bernard Johnson, who faced a punishment range of probation to life in prison, will have to serve at least 10 years of the sentence before he is eligible for parole, Smith County Assistant District Attorney Jason Parrish said. Johnson has committed no other offenses, Parrish said.
In the early morning hours of Sept. 2, Johnson, along with Jeremy Antoine Black, 22, entered the Texas Donuts store on South Vine Avenue and robbed two employees there using a firearm, Parrish said.
Black also pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated robbery in February and was sentenced at that time to 30 years in prison, Parrish said.
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Today we are celebrating Woody, owner of Woody6Stitch Etsy shop for upcycling these old Nintendo NES consoles into cool new things. First on the docket is the Nintendo NES Shoulder Bag. The innards of the console have been removed and the interior is lined with fabric to provide soft storage space. The bag comes with an adjustable shoulder strap that is reinforced from the inside (extra durability, yay!).
The Nintendo NES Briefcase is very similar to the shoulder bag (complete with interior fabric lining and reinforced opening latches), but instead of an adjustable shoulder strap, the briefcase comes with a sturdy handle. Both consoles feature a functional game door – perfect for dropping something into the bag without having to undo the hinges. Plus, the bottom of both NES consoles come with a concealed storage area for valuables.
We think these Nintendo NES carryalls are so very kitschy-chic, we'd just have to have one! A great upcycle project rarely goes unnoticed by the WHOA! team – we hope you like these geektastic fashionable accessories as much as we do.
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A ROADSHOW is visiting town to raise awareness of possible symptoms of ovarian cancer.
Latest figures for St Helens show 23 women were diagnosed with ovarian cancer and 10 died of the disease in 2011.
The event is part of Public Health England's Be Clear on Cancer regional pilot in the North West to raise awareness of the fact that feeling bloated, most days, for three weeks or more could be a sign of ovarian cancer.
More than 90per cent of women diagnosed with the earliest stage of ovarian cancer survive the disease for at least five years.
The Be Clear on Cancer roadshow was at St Helens Church Square Shopping Centre last week and will be at the Hardshaw Shopping Centre until Friday, March 15. For more information visit nhs.uk/persistentbloating.
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Black lens? That sound like a Nikon thing. The 500mm I was using is white all the way through. I was standing just at the corner of the Concorde hanger next to a bloke who was also using a gimbal.
Looks like it will be the last Leuchars show in a few weeks. So far the only thing of interest is the Viggen. Dunno if I can be bothered paying £30 plus travel costs etc. just to see that. Quite a bit of the proposed display was at East Fortune so would probably just get more pics of the same - how many pics of a Jet Provost does a man need?
Liked your pics though.
I was further across from you, in the middle of the grassy section.
I do remember seeing a rather large Canon lens at the corner of the main hangar so there must have been more gimbals there than I thought
Great pics mate - with the 500mm you can get right in close.
Best display for me was the Typhoon - very disappointed with the Hurricane display - all high altitude stuff and he didn't give us a decent topside run past.
I really want to go to Leuchars but I have an appointment in Glasgow that night and 7:30pm and would need to get to it, so it's touch and go for me.
Worth going to get some shots of the Vulcan though - and there are lots of Typhoons up there too.
Lancaster and Spitfire coming as well so might be worth the trip.
Just need to find out the flying times and when stuff is displaying to see if I can go or not.
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Now don't get me wrong, I expect vulgarity at a game and even partake in some of it. But chanting "faggot" and throwing things at a player's grandmother and calling her a whore is more than just below the belt. Being the obnoxious drunk frat guy is one thing, this is something else entirely.
I'm not going to advocate a solution by clamping down on fan behavior and the potential 1st amendment right violations, I'm just saying this is in very, very bad taste.


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Double Helix Game's Xbox One remake of the classic SNES-era fighting game is one of the first titles in the genre to utilise a free-to-play business model, and took the interesting approach of offering only a single character for free, with the rest of the roster requesting microtransaction unlocks.
As promised, Double Helix Games have continued to rotate the character being offered for free, and today it's Orchid's turn, following Thunder, Sabrewulf and Jago's turn in the cheap seat (thanks VG247).
Pirate skeleton warrior Spinal also became available for purchase over the weekend, and the next character release has been teased as Killer Instinct poster-cyborg Fulgore.
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Peter Travers Rolling Stone
Murder is just another day at the office for corporate America, and the film hammers that theme home with diminishing returns. But the acting is aces, especially Pitt mixing it up with the superb James Gandolfini. show more
Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle
Brad Pitt is in ecstasy here, despite the cool demeanor throughout. This is an actor who is never better and never happier than when he gets to be seedy, slick his hair back and wear a leather jacket. show more
Claudia Puig USA Today
There's nothing touchy-feely about Killing Them Softly, a stylish thriller worth seeing -- despite its relentless violence -- for its sharp dialogue, mesmerizing photography and gritty performances. show more
Joe Morgenstern Wall Street Journal
The film, for all its visual felicities, comes to life only sporadically. show more
Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer
Jolting, suspenseful, full of twisted sympathy for its goons' row of characters, and wickedly amusing to boot, Killing Them Softly summons up the ghosts of "Goodfellas" and a whole nasty tradition of crime pics. And then it lets its ghosts go, whacking and thwacking away. show more
Joe Neumaier New York Daily News
While McNairy and Mendelsohn are solid but almost too showy, Liotta, Jenkins, Sam Shepard and a chewy supporting cast beautifully fill in the blanks. Killing Them Softly adds each of its characters to a punchy, prosaic tale that believes in America, one way or another. show more
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The film is terribly smart in every respect, with ne'er-a-false note performances and superb craft work from top to bottom. show more
If gangsterism is just capitalism in a more raw form, then Jackie is the creature best suited for this world. He knows the rules and enforces them without prejudice, because it's just business and this is just a job. Killing Them Softly doesn't give that idea its intended sting. show more
Killing Them Softly has more unruly energy, and less art-house pretension, than "The Assassination of Jesse James." Its disreputability does come with a faintly arty sheen sprayed on - the picture could be a little grubbier, but let's not split hairs, especially such nice, greasy ones. show more
Ty Burr Boston Globe
A bleakly comic, brutally Darwinian gangland saga that at times comes close to being this year's "Drive." It also does something that, if you're from around these parts, seems downright perverse. It takes the Boston out of George V. Higgins. show more
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Terrible film. Oh my, I forgot to introduce myself. I\'m a lonely, pathetic useless internet troll who spends his time making a bunch of accounts with like 10 zeros in the username (see below). I like to rate films 1 star because thats the highest number I can count to, because I\'m a retard. Anyways, I\'m about to commit suicide because nobody likes me except my pet goldfish.
July 04, 2013 revasophia
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I likethat Brad Pitt makes movies with a message and \"I get it\"
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long conversations,extremely boring
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Horrible movie, would not recommend watching.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was at least colorful... This is not long... only drawn out. Wow... these conversations could take place on public toilets that have not stalls....
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The only reason I can imagine that Brad Pitt did this movie is because they let him direct it. It is simply awful! Don\'t waste your time.
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Worst movie we\'ve ever seen. The writing is terrible. There are 5 minute conversations about whether the waiter brought the right drink or not. Viewers don\'t want to watch long boring conversations that they wouldn\'t put up with in real life, much less put up with in a move they paid good money to have entertain them. Don\'******* this movie. It is a waste of 97 minutes of your life. This review was better written than the movie.
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Am big Tony Soprano fan and almost always enjoy the pithy Pitt. Was very disappointed when I had to walk out in first 30 minutes, because my party was so turned off by the absolutely filthy language, which was carried to needless excess. Never even saw Pitt or Gando. Only thought, as I got my money back, was \"Man, has Pitt really sunk this low!\"
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Story isn\'t original but some great action and fast moving. If you\'re shy about going to R rated movies, don\'t see this one. It is too close to organized mob reality.
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This movie is just crap ! No enjoyment with this senseless piece of junk. Why Brad can\'t you read ??
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Matt Davidson homered and drove in three runs, Gerardo Parra had three hits, and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Colorado Rockies 7-2 on Saturday night.
Chris Owings also had three hits for the Diamondbacks, who won for the first time since being eliminated from the NL West race Thursday.
Charlie Blackmon had three hits for Colorado.
Arizona starter Trevor Cahill (8-10) lasted into the sixth despite taking a line drive by DJ LeMahieu off his right leg in the bottom of the first. The Arizona trainer didn't come out to look at him, and Cahill got the next three batters to strand runners at first and third.
Colin McHugh (0-3), still looking for his first career win, allowed six runs and 11 hits in five innings.
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Although Syrena Collision Center, Inc. in Montgomeryville was established in 1997, it is not a new-comer to the auto body industry. Syrena Collision Center, Inc. is located at 691 Bethlehem Pike, Montgomeryville, PA 18936. The building was an existing vacant Silo store that was converted into an auto body shop.
Chester Chrzanowski opened the doors of his original shop, Syrena Auto Body Shop, Inc. in 1976. Syrena Auto Body Shop, Inc. is located in Northeast Philadelphia at 6201 Oxford Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19111.
Specialties: Auto Body Repair, Collision Repair, Professional Frame Straightening & Painting
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In 2006, our Syrena Auto Body, Inc. location in Northeast Philadelphia was expanded with a new building addition of 12,000 square feet to accommodate more volume of work and faster turn-over of repairs.
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Chris Rozier, an all-star player at Wolfson High School, has signed to join the JU men's basketball program for the 2009-10 season.
Rozier's arrival to the program marks the first Jacksonville-area high school signee since Micah Ross in 1994. He joins a cast of JU legends from Jacksonville to stay at home for college, including the likes of James Ray, Otis Smith and Ross.
"We welcome Chris to our program," said JU head coach Cliff Warren. "Chris potentially could play a number of positions due to his versatility. One of Chris's strengths is his rebounding ability and we were looking for somebody who is going to be active on the glass."
Rozier finished a stellar three-year career at Wolfson as the sixth all-time leading scorer in school history with 1,323 points – leading the Wolfpack to a 74-16 record during his career and a berth in the regionals all three years.
His senior season was legendary as well. En route to averaging 20 points and eight rebounds, he led Wolfson to a 25-4 record and a No. 2 ranking in the state – including a school-record tying 42 points against Terry Parker. Following the season, he was named all-Gateway Conference as well as first team all-city.
"I've seen Chris grow a lot and become a good basketball player," said Wolfson head coach Bruce Rosebrock. "He has the ability to score down low in the post, step out and knock down the three, as well as hitting a 15-foot jumper. He's not a one-dimensional player and is very versatile.
"While he's good basketball player, he has a great personality and is a hard worker. His parents did a great job in raising him and JU is going to love him. Hopefully with his signing its shows that its cool to stay home and play at JU, returning the program to where it belongs."
Over the summer, Rozier has been a star for the Jacksonville-Lee Bulls under head coach David Jones. This past year, he was second on the team in scoring with 15.9 points per game to go along with 7.3 rebounds and 1.0 blocks per game.
"Chris is a great kid," Jones said. "Chris has been in our program since the ninth grade and is one of the most honored kids I've coached. He is a hard worker, who made the most of his opportunities to travel in big-time tournaments over the summer and perform for college coaches in the summer months. He is gives JU another long, athletic, lanky guy that can get up and down the court and knock down some open shots."


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As part of the 120-day public review and comment period for the Draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan and its Draft Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement, plan proponents are hosting a series of twelve public open house meetings throughout the state. Locally, the open house meeting will be held from 5 to 9 p.m., on Jan. 28, at the Hilton Garden Inn, 2200 Gateway Court in Fairfield.
The public meetings will be an open house format. There will not be any formal presentations or panel to receive public comments. Informational exhibits and project team members will be available throughout the meeting for one-on-one assistance and a sign-up sheet will be provided for those wishing to give verbal comments to a court reporter.
Those wishing to provide verbal comments to a court reporter will have a three-minute time limit so that others may also provide comments. If three minutes is too short a time for the full comment, written comments of any length can be submitted, organizers said. However, if no one else is in line to provide comments, additional time may be granted at the discretion of staff managing the comment station.
The Bay Delta plan seeks to upgrade the state's current system of levees that transport water through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta with two 30-mile underground tunnels to ensure stable water delivery from Northern to Southern California.
The tunnels would have the capacity to move 9,000 cubic feet per second of water. Construction is expected to begin in 2017.
Proponents say the plan will help with water supply reliability and ecosystem restoration.
Opponents say the new tunnels are a waste of taxpayer money, saying the plan would create no new water, be of no use in dry years and use funds that could otherwise be spent on better water projects.
The 120-day public review and comment period for the plan and environmental impact report began Dec. 13 and will close on April 14.
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For several months I have contemplated doing a DNA test for genealogical purposes. But my dilemma is trying to determine which one to take. I know that there are several legitimate companies out there that offer this service, but I have narrowed it down to just a few.
1. FamilyTreeDNA seems to have several great benefits. I like the way that the haplogroups are organized. They also create a fund that members can contribute to so that other family members can take a test at discounted rates. I can take a 37 Marker Y-DNA test for a discounted rate of $119.00.
2. 23&Me also seems like a good deal. Their website states that their test is normally $499.00, but is on sale for $99.00 through Christmas Day. The only catch is that you must enroll in a $5/month subscription service. I also could not find how many markers are tested.
3. Ancestry.com also offers a DNA testing service. You can get a 33 Marker test for $149.00 or a 46 Marker test for $179.00. I currently have an Ancestry account, so the integration would be seamless. However, you can manually import your DNA results from other companies and still utilize many of Ancestry's benefits.
Have you used one of these services or possibly another? I would love your feedback. As of right now I am leaning towards FamilyTreeDNA.
ETA: I decided to go with the FamilyTreeDNA test. It has been ordered (24 Dec). I will post the process.
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this is Melanie. we've talked before regarding Thomas Bannister Morris. regarding DNA....i don't recommend ancestry.com. their database is small and their system is difficult to understand / use. all of our DNA testing (all branches of the family) have been done thru FamilyTreeDNA and we've had more luck, contacts & "eliminations" using them. are you still working the Morris line?
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Somerset GPs launch five-year plan in face of massive Government cuts (From This is The West Country)
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DOCTORS in Somerset facing Government funding cuts of £200million have launched a five-year strategy to safeguard people's health.
The strategy has been created by the NHS Clinical Commissioning Group in Somerset – which represents 400 GPs in the area – with the aim of maintaining a high standard of care within the budget constraints.
The areas the Somerset CCG will be tackling include eliminating avoidable deaths in hospitals, reducing time spent in hospital through better and more integrated care in the community and reducing the number of years of life lost through treatable conditions such as cancer, strokes, heart disease, respiratory disease and liver disease.
Somerset CCG plans to make the patients, public and carers a key focus in its five-year plan with the hopes of encouraging healthy lifestyle choices, supporting self-care and helping people to manage their conditions.
Dr Matthew Dolman, chairman of the Somerset CCG, said: "There needs to be a community-wide response.
"All of the NHS organisations, the county and district councils, voluntary and support organisations, and most importantly the patients, public and carers need to work together to build a sustainable NHS in Somerset for generations to come."
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...In the fight to defend our NHS, it is vitally important to know your enemy.
"In their attempts to destroy the NHS the government has established local organisations under the guise of local accountability.
In reality these bodies are part and parcel of the privatisation and fragmentation agenda.
The most important are the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). They exist in every locality, are responsible for spending about 80% of the national NHS budget, comprise of local GPs and commission most NHS services.
It is they that are responsible for outsourcing medical services to private providers.
For example in Bracknell, when the NHS Minor Injuries Unit closed at Heatherwood Hospital, it was the CCG that commissioned a private provider to replace it.
Sometimes there could be a clear conflict of interest with GPs both commissioning services and being themselves providers of private services.
Another body is the Healthwatch (HW), which is meant to be the local independent, health watchdog on behalf of patients.
It is neither independent nor democratic. It is funded by the government via the local authority, although the money is not ring-fenced.
HW is commissioned by the local authority although the latter is responsible for public health, a clear conflict of interest.
In Bracknell the HW is supportive of all the government's reforms, including privatisation of dementia services.
In fact they castigated campaigners for demonstrating against the privatisation. So campaigners launched Bracknell Forest People's Healthwatch, which is democratic, accountable and fights against NHS privatisation and calls for openness and transparency in the NHS.
Bracknell Forest People's Healthwatch recently organised a survey asking people what they know about these bodies. Early indications are that most people have never heard about them, yet they are the organisations running the NHS at a local level.
Mobilising the trade unions nationally to fight the government privatisation of the NHS is vital, but it is also important to build local struggles.
In Bracknell campaigners have built a united front against the government policies, involving trade unionists, pensioners, anti-cuts campaigners, political activists and patients."
The spokesperson for Bracknell Forest People's Healthwatch concluded by saying,
"we think that to defeat the government we must first understand their strategy. While the local NHS bosses do not like us they have learned to respect us, after all we obtained 25,000 names opposing closure of our local hospital and they were forced to back off."
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Doctors have recently warned that the National Health Service (NHS) is facing collapsing services due to an underfunding crisis. However, the Con-Dem government is keen to point out that spending on the NHS is both 'ring-fenced' from austerity cuts and is rising in real terms. In reality...
*The government is pushing through £20 billion in 'efficiency savings' ie cuts, by 2015, while NHS England estimates a £30 billion shortfall by 2021.
*Making cuts means fewer staff and poorer healthcare. Since the Con-Dems came into office there are 5,000 fewer nurses working in the NHS. Staff shortages have resulted in trusts having to use agencies to supply staff costing even more money. For example, there has been a 60% rise in the total bill for locum doctors in the past three years.
*The drive to achieve Foundation Trust (FT) status (all hospital trusts were meant to become FTs by April 2014) has also sparked rounds of cost cutting. It contributed to the scandal of 'excessive deaths' at the Mid Staffordshire Hospital because management cut permanent staffing levels on wards.
*Furthermore, the rate of inflation in the NHS is significantly higher as a result of the excessive cost of drugs charged by mega-profitable pharmaceutical companies.
*NHS resources are also being siphoned by rip-off Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contracts. Construction and maintenance of all new buildings in the NHS must be done through PFIs. These decades-long deals amount to a super-expensive hire-purchase arrangement, except that the buildings are not owned by the NHS but leased back to health trusts. PFI payments have drained many trusts of resources threatening healthcare provision. Over 25 trusts are currently facing bankruptcy.
*In 2012, South London Healthcare Trust had to be placed in administration, following bankruptcy, because PFI repayments amounted to 14% of its income.
*Under the 2013 Health and Social Care Act, 60% of the NHS budget will be open to for-profit private health providers.
*Since 2005, Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) run by for-profit companies have been awarded contracts in the NHS to deliver minor elective treatment, but are estimated to charge 11.5% more for operations than those carried out by the NHS.
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SocialistParty-SomersetBranch says...
*No cuts. Abolish the Health and Social Care Act which allows the further selling off of our NHS to private companies
*End big business profiteering from the NHS: Abandon the Private Finance Initiative which is bleeding the NHS dry
*End NHS job losses and low pay. No downbanding
*Nationalise the pharmaceutical and medical supply industries and all private health providers
*A fully publicly funded NHS, free for all at the point of use
*Democratic control and accountability of health services
*United action to defend the NHS - the TUC must name the day for a 24-hour general strike against austerity
*A new mass workers' party that fights for these demands. Support the
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (www.tusc.org.uk) as a step in this direction
*A socialist planned society that can genuinely meet and exceed the original aims of the NHS
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"Kate Zambreno and Lisa Cohen, two authors of genre-blending feminist books that ended up on top of plenty of "Best of 2012" lists, will be in conversation at Community tonight. Zambreno's "Heroines" weaves together memoir and feminist literary scholarship, examining the minor roles to which women have been relegated in literary culture and criticism, while Cohen's "All We Know" tells the stories of three women connected with gay and feminist culture during the Modernist era. Both books were heavily researched and extremely well-written, so expect a lively conversation. "


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Yeah, I'll jump in right there and say, uh, Christina, that is fantastic, that is great news, that you're going to leave risk with those who decide to take the risk in the first place. Can you give me any sense of what the capital requirement will be? In other words, setting a new capital requirement is – sounds great, but again, for a market that was once thought to be highly levered when I borrowed five or six dollars for every dollar that was out there, and even in the peak of the eighties' takeover boom we were at ten-to-one, we allowed this marketplace to go – in some cases to go forty-, sixty-, even a hundred-to-one in some cases. I'm curious as to what you believe – what your agency believes fair leverage is.Now to be fair, there is no right answer to this question. Ratigan is asking for a specific ratio, which Romer cannot possibly give, unless it has been unilaterally decided by the CEA. But when she attempts to dodge the question, Ratigan holds her feet to the fire:
CHRISTINA ROMER: You know, I think the crucial thing is, that is a topic which is going to be worked out, it's going to be something –And this is Ratigan's mentality – when Mika Brzezinski later thanked Romer for being on the show, she also thanked her for "tolerating Dylan." Ratigan's laughing response?
RATIGAN: Well, worked out by who, though? That's – my concern is, because I know that the financial lobby has exploded over the past couple of months into Washington D.C., and my concern is that the size of that leverage will be set by the same people who set it last time, one of which was Hank Paulson, who was at the time the CEO of Goldman Sachs, and went on to be the Treasury Secretary, and then he went on to be able to have a secret meeting where he gave out, you know, a few hundred billion of the taxpayer's dollars behind closed doors. I'm curious what the new process of setting leverage will be.
Oh, tolerating? That's journalism, Mika, she enjoyed it – we were having a good time there.While it's debatable whether Romer actually enjoyed that tough-but-fair interview, it was certainly enjoyable for viewers. Kudos to Ratigan, for asking tough, fair-minded questions – and for pursuing those questions to the point of substantive response. That's journalism.


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Ever since power ouple Hov and B announced that their next collaboration project would be not an album but -- a baby, some pretty interesting stories have hit the Web in regards to their upcoming role as proud parents. One point that may be worth mentioning, however, is how Shawn the dad may affect Jigga the rapper.
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In hip-hop, many listeners expect their favorite artists to be lyrical Terminators -- non-human and possessing no emotion but aggression - an interesting fact when considering that one of rap's legends has frequently allowed real events to not only trickle into, but shape, his musical sound.
How will Hov's upcoming bundle of joy influence his music from now on -- will he tone down his arguably already toned down approach? Will we get more hard-edged lyrics as an act of overcompensation?
Let's look at 2 events that have jolted Jigga's sound in the past
The Death of Biggie Smalls
Still reeling from the death of his longtime friend, Hov dropped In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 to less than stellar reviews. In what could have been easily confused as a case of sophomore jinx, Jay has repeatedly stated that he was out of his zone while working on this project.
His Return from Retirement
Kingdom Come came and went without much of a fuss: Fans complained that The Big Homie sounded too far removed on his comeback album. Add one too many filler tracks along with several struggling hooks and KC is an album that clearly shows a man who had gotten rusty during his time off.
SOHH -- Watcha Think? Will the baby give way to a softer, gentler Jigga? Should we expect a few fatherhood flows and Brady Bunch bars? They say that art imitates life: But how will this new life resonate within art?
Check out this new track by Jay's RocNation artist, J. Cole, below:
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That is why charter commissioners were right last week to approve a motion to raise the mayor's pay substantially. The current salary is $68,000 a year. Veteran teachers and police officers can make more than that. The commission approved a proposal to set the salary at $107,937, an increase of almost 59 percent.
That is a huge jump, and such a big move would be better made in smaller increments. But the ending place is roughly appropriate. The mayor of the state's largest city need not be paid as much as a hospital CEO, but the pay needs to be enough to land top executive talent from the private sector. A salary in the $100,000 range would do that.
Mayor Ted Gatsas is independently wealthy (by his own hand), so the pay is not an issue for him. It would be for many others. Unlike serving in the Legislature or on a city board, being mayor is a full-time job. If the city wants executives of skill, talent and experience, it should offer a level of compensation that would not necessarily attract them, but that would not be a disincentive to them.
Public service is its own reward, to a point. People who could be making $200,000 a year in the private sector might sacrifice a few years of financial rewards to serve the people of the city. But requiring them to take a 66 percent pay cut makes it much less likely that they will.
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A Room With A View
I also shut off my alarm, determined to get as much sleep as necessarily. For me, sleep is job one. Without it, I'm working at a disadvantage. So I slept in this morning and I'll go to yoga at lunch. Tomorrow it will be back to the routine, but for right now, I'm rested and ready to go.
Take good care of yourself. Be kind to others. Give yourself the best opportunities to be at your best.
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I see the early warning system is working fine. Even better, you've learned what to do when the alarms go off.ReplyDelete
That's great progress!
Sleep is so important in so many aspects of your life. I can't sleep outside of my own home very well and always suffer. Glad you are home and back to normal (or getting there).ReplyDelete
Take Care Roxie!
Lack of sleep has the same effect on me - which is a problem for me as I struggle even at home in my own routine and surroundings. At least you're back and rested and getting to grips with things again.ReplyDelete
What's GNO by the way? Ignorant English person here!
My favorite commercial right now shows a sunburned, vacation taking couple coming into their house and falling onto their bed. They lay there and say "I missed you, I'll never leave you again!" I'm an idiot with no sleep. Which is why, if necessary, you can sometimes find me in bed at 8 p.m.!ReplyDelete
I am terrible with any change. Just ask my son what happened when he changed my cellphone ringer. It wasn't pretty.ReplyDelete
Glad your rested. What a difference a day makes and a good night's sleep. Being over tired is the worse. It really does effect everything.
enjoy yoga.
I like my sleep, too. I got a white noise machine [take it everywhere] that helps me a lot ... most times. Not always. I always have trouble sleeping some place strange.ReplyDelete
Sleep. I sympathize, and I need some. Unfortunately unless it actually happens at night (rarely), it won't happen for me until Tuesday.ReplyDelete
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Series 16 Episode 14: Brit Car Challenge
This week on The Gadget Show, Jason, Jon and Pollyanna faced a gruelling challenge as they competed in the annual 24hr BritCar Motor Race – virtually! Ortis is tested hi-tech modern microwaves to see if they can replicate the taste of a good oven cooked meal and Suzi took a trip to Western-Supermarket to capture some memorable moments to find the Top 5 Photo Books.
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Consider The Eel: A Natural And Gastronomic History
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Rather unusual for me to be reading a book on food, particularly seafood, and not be stimulated to cook and eat it. Ell, like gator-tail, chocolate-covered locust, dog, mealy-grub, and snake however are foods that I have decided not to eat again – once, maybe for some, twice - was enough.
However, it is fascinating animal and well worth the considering given to it by Schweid, a Barcelona ex-pat from Nashville, who savors the "rich, fish taste" of eel like a true European. Still largely unknown to science in all its habits, gestation, reproduction and even exactly how it selects it breeding and living grounds. Once chosen however; the eel settles "right in" growing and living in the same place for twenty, thirty or even (observed) 57 years. Then comes the long haul out, from fresh water to salt, to the middle of the Atlantic to breed – it is thought- in the Saragossa Sea, that mysterious Triangle off Bermuda. In order to perform the miracle of changing from a fresh-water fish to a pelagic the eel decides to stop eating, and its digestive tract atrophies! After breeding the offspring, having decided if they are Americans or Europeans, begin to swim back to those respective coasts, making a further triggered-decision not just of species, but of gender.
Americans no longer eat the eel, but the booming markets of Japan and North Europe are hard to satisfy, particularly – the old sad story – as pollution and over-fishing take the inevitable toll on the entire species. The smoked eel of northern Europe is celebrated throughout history and in all literature. There is a scene in Len Deighton's Berlin Game where the hero orders schnapps after eating smoked-eel in a small Gasthaus up close to the "wall". Merely, he insists as part of a long established German ritual, to wash the smell of eel off his fingers.
No, perhaps I will never eat eel again, but I now know much more about a fascinating animal from this well written intriguing book.
eels! i picked this book up with only a mild interest; when i put it down, i had developed a bona fide fascination with eels. an excellent read, engaging and informative, with historical, social, economic, biological and gastronomical context.
Much of the charm of Consider the Eel is that Richard Schweid imparts his freshly acquired knowledge in the words of those directly involved in the industry. . . . Those who fish for or deal in eels . . . are a secretive bunch, and it says much for Schweid's professionalism and underlying sympathy that he was able to extract so much colour and interest from the men and women he sought out.
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Outside of sushi houses and the rare four-star restaurant, most Americans would never think to eat eel, but throughout Europe and Asia you can find it grilled, smoked, stewed, jellied, skewered, fried, baked, sautéed, and even cooked into an omelet. In Consider the Eel, acclaimed writer Richard Schweid takes the reader on a journey to show how this rich yet mild-tasting fish is a vibrant part of the world culture. Discover how eels, from their birth in the Sargasso Sea to their eventual end as a piece of kabayaki or as part of an Italian Christmas dinner, are one of our oldest and least understood gifts from the sea.
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YUMA - Since the middle of summer it has been a back and forth court scuffle between the state of Arizona and Planned Parenthood. Now if the state wins its appeal 3,000 AHCCCS patients in Arizona including many here in Yuma could be cut off.
That means - women like Aislinn Uribe who has been going to planned parent hood for the last two years will not be able to go there anymore for her monthly birth control pills.
Aislinn says "It's pretty pricey if you don't have insurance. That's what I like about this place the insurance is so affordable and stuff." The cuts would also block women like Susan Sheppard from getting other basic check-ups like mammogram's and physicals. Sheppard tells News 13 "the trust and the back up support and financially it's secure here so to have that taken away, with insurance and the way things are going now I can't imaging how it would be."
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Nov. 9, 2010 -- Postmenopausal women who use hormone replacement therapy face a 29% increased risk of ovarian cancer, according to a study.
Researchers at the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford in England analyzed data from the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition to evaluate the relationship between hormone therapy use during the postmenopausal years and ovarian cancer risk.
Investigators led by Konstantinos Tsilidis, PhD, looked at data on 126,920 postmenopausal women who did not have a history of cancer and who had not had their ovaries removed. During nine years of follow-up, there were 424 cases of ovarian cancer diagnosed.
The women were also asked about their height and weight, whether they smoked, use of oral contraceptives, number of pregnancies, and what age they started menstruating.
After accounting for other factors, the research team found that:
The findings were presented at the Ninth Annual American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference held in Philadelphia.
"This study is consistent with previous recommendations that say if women are going to take hormones they should only take them in the short term," Tsilidis says in a prepared statement.
Previous research has shown an association between hormone replacement therapy and an increased risk for breast cancer. A study published last month in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that postmenopausal women who take a combination of estrogen and progestin therapy face a greater risk for developing a more advanced form of breast cancer and an increased risk for dying from the disease. The findings were based on the ongoing Women's Health Initiative, a major research program launched in 1991 by the National Institutes of Health.
In the United States, ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer death. According to 2006 data from the CDC, 19,994 women in the U.S. were diagnosed with ovarian cancer and 14,857 women died from the disease.
SOURCES:Ninth Annual American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, Philadelphia, Nov. 7-10, 2010.Chlebowski, R. TheJournal of the American Medical Association, Oct. 20, 2010; vol 304: pp 1684-1692.CDC.
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Back to the Future Part III question
Okay, in the end of Back to the Future Part III, after Marty gets back in time on the railroad tracks in the DeLorean only for it to be destroyed a minute later, how in the heck does Doc return to the future in a time machine train? Okay, if he had that technology to create a hover conversion from the 19th century, why didn't he just do that to the DeLorean instead of having to configure it to the tracks on a railroad? This question just recently came up after having a conversation about it with my friend.
Now, of course when watching the movie, you don't really think twice about how he was able to make the train hover and he even says, "Marty! It runs on steam!" Okay, that party I understand, but to have the ability to make it fly in addition to having a flux capacitor? That just didn't make sense. Now, I do remember when Doc saved Clara at the last second, he sped away on Marty's hoverboard. Now, maybe that was what gave him the technology to create a time machine train with a hover conversion, but I'm not sure if that one board would be enough to create a hover conversion on a train.
And one more thing, remember how Doc was so upset about how the DeLorean caused nothing but disaster? Why on earth would you go on and create another time machine which could cause all of the same problems?
A more important question is, what the heck is Verne Brown doing in this scene?
Actually, quark Doc brown says they've already been to the future.
If you recall that where the Delorean was out fitted with Hover tech. I have no doubt he had the plans for the FC in his head and while it would have been more difficult in the past...it wouldn't be impossible....just analog instead of digital.
"Where are you goin' now, Doc? Back to the future?"
"Nope. Already been there."
And that's why she flies ;)
Yeah he means...he's already been...BACK TO THE FUTURE!!!
Where did he get all the parts to make a time machine out of a train in the first place?
From the prop shop.
Yes, that would make the most sense :)
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