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1. Investigators say two off-duty police officers found the body of 32-year-old Jose Ruiz in a field off County Road 84 in the Speake community.
2. Huntsville police are looking for the man who robbed a Papa Jacks gas station on Old Madison Pike around 6:00 Tuesday morning. They say he walked into the back of the store with a gun and demanded money.
3. Lightning is believed to be the cause of a house fire on Liberty Hill Drive in Toney. The blaze started around 1:00 Tuesday afternoon. No one was home.
4. A bill providing school tax credits for kids at failing schools is hitting some opposition from the AEA. A judge will rule Wednesday on whether the Governor can sign the bill into law.
5. A threat on the bathroom wall at Sylvania High School prompted extra law enforcement. The superintendent says they are investigating.
6. "Free 2 Teach" opened a new location on 9th Avenue in Huntsville. The non-profit organization provides teachers with free supplies to help in the classroom.
7. Tuesday was a record day on Wall Street as the Dow shot up 94 points, blowing by a record set in October 2007. Experts warn slow earnings outlooks could knock back some of the gains.
8. Beer sales in the U.S. are up for the first time since the 2008 recession. Craft and imported beers helped boost revenue, along with leap year celebrations.
9. Starting April 25th, you can carry small knives and novelty-sized bats through TSA security checkpoints. It's part of an updated prohibited items list.
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Amorn Thai in Mountlake Terrace -
YES! Mountlake Terrace is making hanging out in the Seattle Suburbs worth every bite! I have long been a fan of Thai food and have frequented delicious Thai places like Penn Thai in Bothell and Chantanee in Bellevue, but Amorn Thai BLOWS THEM AWAY in my mind! This is a tiny little Thai restaurant in the unlikely spot of Mountlake Terrace, but neighbors are thanking their lucky stars that it is here!
Where is it?22826 56th Ave W
Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043
(425) 712-9112
They do great take out or dine in and are so nice on top of it. There is a special burst of flavor with each dish and a huge vegetarian selection. The dish pictured is one of my favorite - The Praram Tofu (item V1 under vegetarian) - it is a yummy peanut sauce which is both spicy and sweet over tofu, spinach, and broccoli. You can eat it with or without rice. I also love the second vegetarian dish - Tofu Kra-Prow. It has such a great mixture of basil and chili garlic sauce. The spring rolls are peppery and perfect and I like to order them with the spicy plum sauce on the side instead of the normal dipping sauce. Phad Thai is always a great gage for a Thai restaurant for me and Amorn Thai makes a perfect Phad Thai! Top it off with Thai Iced Tea or Thai Iced Coffee and it is perfection. Lunch with all the perks - drink and appetizers ran $25 for two and there were plenty of leftovers for later.
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Came here for a calm and peaceful bachelorette weekend and was blown away by the home. The property is stunning, the home is wonderful, and the pool is fantastic. We were amazed by the amenities included, the kitchen, movies, towels, BBQ, etc. It was the perfect relaxing weekend retreat. Would DEFINITELY recommend!! Can't wait to return one day.
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A wonderfully unique, embracing little cottage with all the necessities of life, including intangibles....I stayed there for two months while working on a music project and enjoying a retreat from the hectic life...it was perfect. Isolated enough at the end of a quiet street, close enough to walk to town or to a store or restaurant, and always bathed in light, warmth and nature. Jane is a delightful lady, keen to answer and questions or offer assistance.
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I loved my week long stay at The Secret Garden Suite. The Suite itself is whimsical yet extremely comfortable. The 5-acre property, Casa de Paz, is unique and gorgeous. The owners, Eva and Marcus are amazing people and hosts. I initially reserved The Secret Garden Suite for it's location-almost on the border of Thacher-my daughter's school. The experience turned out to be so much more than just convenient and practical. It was magical and probably life changing. I certainly plan to return.


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That'll do Stan, that'll do. Sharp signed to 5 year contract extention. Presser at 3 pm.
First off, I'm shocked that I came home for lunch to find that this deal is done. Secondly, I'm shocked that it isn't here already, so lo and behold: A fanshot is in order, so here it is! Anyway, yeah... We get to keep the most handsome athlete in Chicago around for a few more years at a cap hit (according to capgeek) of 5.9 mildo per. Phew... Let's revel in this for a bit! Yelof Tap for everyone!!


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1) Matt Wieters (Mauer w/ power)
2) David Price (tho part of me sees a LH Andy Benes)
3) Dexter Fowler (complete package: for some reason, I see Robin Yount when he shifted to CF, but with more range)
4) Colby Rasmus (not worried, somewhere b/w Jim Edmonds and Steve Finley)
5) Jason Heyward (could be a monster)
6) Neftali Feliz (worst case scenario is Joel Zumaya, best case is something like Lincecum)
7) Rick Porcello (polish and power)
8) Cameron Maybin (power potential, but I don't see a 300 hitter)
9) Pedro Alvarez (if he stays at third, Aramis Ramirez with better plate discipline)
10) Chris Tillman (damn you Bavasi)
11) Chris Carter (that's right--his batting average on balls in play was unlucky to start the year; he should be at around his 290-300 usual ba; he's a 270 hitter in the majors, with huge power)
12) Engel Beltre (all about the upside)
13) Trevor Cahill (a Brandon Webb who doesn't kick it up to Cy Young levels)
14) Mike Moustakas (believe in the tools)
15) Travis Snider (all bat; Brian Giles 2.0?)
16) Matt LaPorta (all bat; Richie Sexson 2.0?)
17) Madison Bumgarner (pass)
18) Gordon Beckham (I'm getting Longoria, Tulowitzki vibes)
19) Tim Alderson (pass)
20) Derek Holland (the kool aid tastes great!)
21) Jesus Montero (only 20% chance of staying at catcher, but still looks like a specimen regardless)
22) Jeremy Hellickson (10% of becoming Oswalt, but still a likely #2)
23) Jordan Walden (ugliest guy on the list, but classic power package)
24) Andrew McCutchen (I just don't think he'll put it all together; I see Corey Patterson with a better eye)
25) Frederick Freeman (more kool aid)
26) Brandon Wood (if Rob Deer played 3rd base)
27) Brett Anderson (classic 2/3 starter, just enough oomph to not have to be crafty)
28) Tim Beckham (tool shed, will likely have a long apprenticeship)
29) Logan Morrison (mix between Youkilis and Overbay? or more power?)
30) Nick Weglarz (the performance isn't quite there, but next year he taps the huge power to go with the great plate discipline)
31) Lars Anderson (overrated due to organization and Lancaster, but still an everyday first baseman)
32) Wilson Ramos (my own mancrush koolaid; ballpark and BABIP have artificially skewered his numbers downward, though those numbers are starting to look pretty decent on their own; strong athlete, I think he's an all-star catcher: 280/350/450 line with GG defense, tho it may be for somewhere else)


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Death notices 2/7/2014
William Rush Allison Jr.
William Rush Allison Jr., died Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 in Colleyville. Arrangements pending with The Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road.
Rosemarie Bailey
ANSON — Rosemarie Bailey, 75, died Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. Arrangements are pending with Adams-Graham Funeral Home.
Alvis Burks
Alvis Burks, 69, died Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. Arrangements pending with Girdner Funeral Home, 141 Elm St.
Zada Ozell Byrd
COMANCHE — Zada Ozell Byrd, 90, died Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Friday at Heartland Funeral Home of Comanche. Service 1 p.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church of Comanche. Burial to follow in the Windham Cemetery at Byrds. Send condolences to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Willie Odis Davis Jr.
LUBBOCK — Willie Odis Davis Jr., 82, died Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Visitation 1-2 p.m. Saturday at Bell-Cypert-Seale Funeral Home. Service to follow at 2 p.m. at the funeral home. Burial afterward in Hillside Memorial Gardens. Post condolences at www.bellcypertseale.com.
Eva Marie Dupre
BALLINGER — Eva Marie Dupre, 83, died Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Private service. Arrangements by Heritage Family Funeral Home of Ballinger.
Jimmy Don Fulcher
BROWNWOOD — Jimmy Don Fulcher, 58, died Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. Memorial service 2 p.m. Saturday at Heartland Funeral Home. Post condolences at www.heartlandfuneralhome.net.
Herb Hunt
LAKE COLEMAN — Herb Hunt, 85, died Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Abilene. Visitation 5-6 p.m. Friday at Stevens Funeral Home of Coleman, 400 W. Pecan St. Service 2 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Burial to follow in the Coleman City Cemetery. Sign the guest book at www.livingmemorials.com.
Lowell Ray Maxey
Lowell Ray Maxey, 76, died Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. Visitation 5-7 p.m. Saturday at Elmwood Funeral Home, 5750 Highway 277 South. Service 3 p.m. Sunday at Oldham Lane Church of Christ.
Michael Scott 'Scottie' Minton
Michael Scott "Scottie" Minton, 40, died Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. Memorial service 2 p.m. Sunday in the auditorium of Southern Hills Church of Christ. Arrangements by Piersall-Benton Funeral Directors, 733 Butternut St.
Jim C. Nelson
BIG SPRING — Jim C. Nelson, 70, died Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. Visitation 7-8 p.m. Friday at Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Big Spring. Service 2 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Burial to follow in Mount Olive Memorial Park. Post condolences at www.npwelch.com.
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Carlin Davis
Carlin Alexis Davis
September 17, 2013
Carlin Alexis Davis, age 12, a resident of Bay Minette, passed away, at home with her family, Tuesday, September 17, 2013.
Carlin was preceded in death by her paternal grandparents, Barbara and Ray Davis; paternal great grandparents, Joe and Tootsie Davis, Leslie and Syble Bryars; maternal great-grandparents, O. C. "Tuffy" and Nell Waters, Allen and Laine Valine.
She is survived by her parents, William and Alice Davis;
sister, Clare Davis; brother, Myles Davis, all of Bay Minette; grandparents, Judy Waters Valine of Bay Minette, Spencer and Pat Valine of Gulf Shores; aunt, Denise (Greg) Johnson; cousin, Whitney Johnson, all of Bay Minette; Mrs. Gorney's 7th grade class, Father Pat, Sister Margaret, all the staff, faculty and students at St. Patrick's, as well as many other family and friends.
The family will receive friends at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Thursday, September 19, 2013, from 5:00pm until 7:00pm.
Mass of Christian Burial will be held from St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Friday, September 20, 2013, at 1:00pm. Carlin will lie in state at the church from 12:00pm until the service time.
Interment will following in Pine Grove Cemetery.
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Partnerships for Emergency Preparedness
At their fifth public hearing, focused on "Emergency Preparedness," the commission heard from panels of business officials and… read more
At their fifth public hearing, focused on "Emergency Preparedness," the commission heard from panels of business officials and federal, state, and local government representatives; and individuals working to enhance emergency preparedness in the private sector. With nearly 85 percent of the critical infrastructure of the country owned and operated by the private sector cooperation between the public and private sectors is necessary to achieve emergency preparedness. The witnesses testified about lessons learned from the events of September 11, 2001 and other disasters, and about initiatives taken since then, and strategies for further preparedness. Among issues addressed were insurance coverage, skyscraper safety, building codes, standards for what constitutes being prepared, procedures for making and enforcing codes, positive and negative incentives, and public education. close
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- Andrews, Richard J. Senior Director National Center for Crisis and Continuity Coordination->Homeland Security Projects
- Ben-Veniste, Richard Commissioner National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
- Byrne, Michael F. Director Department of Homeland Security->National Capital Region Coordination
- Caspersen, Sidney J. Director New Jersey->Office of Counter-Terrorism
- Corbett, Glenn P. Assistant Professor John Jay College of Criminal Justice->Fire Science
- Degnan, John J. Vice Chairman Chubb Insurance Group
- Fielding, Fred F. Commissioner National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
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- Gorelick, Jamie S. Commissioner National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
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Wiggins often watches Sports Center late into the night. The other night Wiggins was watching sports center and got an urge. The urge had to be taken care of. Sorry, Wiggins is a guy and guys do those things. Even Dex, despite being married, pleasures Dex. Dex loves Dex in the biblical sense. Wiggins has seen it!
Wiggins was taking care of business when news of Khalil and his broken hand came on the screen. Wiggins paused the pleasure to listen, even though he was close to completing the pleasuring routine. If only Wiggins had kept going!
Just then Wiggins mom walked into the room and found him with hand in pleasuring positon while looking at the television and news about Khalil. She just looked at Wiggins, paused, and walked back out of the room.
Wiggins is embarassed and hasn't spoken to his mom since then. Stupid Khalil. If he wouldn't have been an idiot Wiggins wouldn't finished the pleasuring just in the nick of time. Wiggins is kind of depressed.


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by Zahir Ebrahim
featured writer
Dandelion Salad
Zahir's blog post
Project Humanbeingsfirst
29 November 2008
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
November 23, 2008
Dateline California, 11/23/2008
I'd like to know why abolishing the "money as debt" paradigm that is legally implemented by the Federal Reserve System, isn't Lyndon LaRouche's overarching, coherent, and very first-order solution?
His prescription, as reproduced below, is only useful as a bandaid – or more accurately, as a topical treatment – of the current financial crisis, and by keeping the systemic illness intact, undiagnosed, latent, it leaves wide open the monetary conspiracy for world government under control of the private central banks:
' "This is the big explosion, detonating right now," LaRouche warned. "And so far, I am offering the only coherent solution–bankruptcy reorganization of the entire global financial system–starting with the cancellation of all derivatives obligations. My solution poses an existential threat to the entire Anglo-Dutch financial system of globalization. I know it, many leading bankers and government officials around the world know it, and, of course, the British know it. This is why the fear has turned to outright panic. We are nearing the showdown moment." ' ( LaRouche: From Fear To Panic As Derivatives Crash Hits, Nov. 21, 2008. )
Indeed, if one examines Larouche's documentary film "1932" about President FDR's New Deal presented in the backdrop of a broad swipe of Anglo-American history, one notices, amidst the excellent explanation of the British Empire and its organized global free trade, amidst accurate analysis of Lincoln's stance against the British imperialists, and amidst the insightful exposition of post Civil War miracle of industrialization of the American continent and the lead up to FDR, the bizarre praise of Alexander Hamilton.
A Project Humanbeingsfirst Document: LaRouche: A nuanced and expert Disinformationist or merely Uber Alles?
The Monetary Conspiracy For World Government by Zahir Ebrahim
Towards a Common Standard Benchmark for evaluating all Monetary Reform Proposals
Response to 'Sign Petition for a Monetary System That Puts People First – Open Letter to G-20′
Sign Petition for a Monetary System That Puts People First – Open Letter to G-20
Monetary Reform: Who will bell the cat? by Zahir Ebrahim
Renewed Interest: Analyst Ties Monetary Reform To Social Credit Movement (2007; Richard C. Cook)
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aybe it was the stately stone building on 79th Street, just around the corner from Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Or the shoe-tap echo of the marble floors. Or the woman behind the desk, who said Savas Zembillas '79 was in a meeting with "His Eminence" and invited the visitor to have a seat in the foyer next to a silent chapel where gilded icons hung and votive candles flickered.
But somehow it was completely unexpected that in a matter of minutes Zembillas, chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, would be chatting about, among other things, his short but happy career as a punk-band front man.
The band: Mick and the Malignants. The set list: covers of the Sex Pistols, the Ramones. The venues:
Frat Row and the old Colby Spa in the basement of Roberts Union. At the Spa gig, band members were escorted through an up-on-the-tables crowd by the men's hockey team. Zembillas went on as a rock-and-roll lounge lizard, recalled drummer Robert Noyes '82, and finished in fatigues as an urban punk guerrilla. "It was really a peak experience," Zembillas said. "Our tactic was to treat every song like the last song. Jump up and down like a madman, that sort of thing. It was almost shamanistic."
Not so his new front-man job, as the Greek Orthodox chancellor hand-picked last year by Archbishop Demetrios, with whom he had just met upstairs in the church's stately headquarters down the street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Seated at a table in the church library, Zembillas, 42, spoke of his time in Greek Orthodox monasteries and his responsibilities as a parish priest in Long Island and as overseer of more than 500 parishes across the country. He wore black robes and the traditional full beard of a Greek Orthodox clergyman. And without a trace of embarrassment or irony, he noted that the Malignants always kicked off their shows with the same tune: "We did a punked-up kind of Who version of 'The Kids are Alright.'"
From gifted actor to punk rocker to ascetic Greek Orthodox monk to prominent ecclesiastic, Zembillas has followed a twisting, turning path that would have defied prediction. Is he an iconoclast or the ultimate traditionalist? Like a hologram, Zembillas can seem like either, depending on the angle from which he is viewed. "He's an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, wrapped in a beard, wrapped in a robe," said Robert Lizza '79, a Boston lawyer and one of Zembillas's closest Colby friends.
Zembillas broke away from the pack early, leaving inner-city Gary, Ind., where his parents, Greek immigrants, ran a corner grocery store. Gary wasand isranked among the most dangerous cities in America, and Gold Coast Finer Foods was held up three or four times a year by robbers undeterred by the pistol in Zembillas's father's belt. But holdups went with the turf as did the expectation that Savas Zembillas and his three brothers would pitch in at the store. "It was every day in the summer," Zembillas said. "It was every night after school."
Until college loomed and Zembillas planned his escape.
"I really picked Colby to get away from the grocery store because I knewI'd been accepted at Notre Dame and closer schoolsif I was close enough, I would have been expected to come home for weekends," Zembillas said. "So I just kind of put a compass on a map and I would only consider schools a thousand miles away."
Colby fit the geographic and academic bill and Zembillas came to Mayflower Hill. His blue-collar background hadn't prepared him for things like Eastern prep-school old-boy networks, and he was surprised that some first-year students actually had met before. But if some aspects of Colby were new to Zembillas, some aspects of Zembillas were startling to Colby.
"I consider myself sort of a regular guy," said Lizza, Zembillas's first roommate. "You know how it is. You don't want to stand out too much. I'm coming up from the pub in town, it's like eleven o'clock at night. My room's in basement Woodman. I look in my window. Anybody who's standing waiting for the Jitney can look right in. And he's in there. He's wearing this robe. He always wore a robe. Usually you wear your gym shorts. He's wearing a robe. He's got his headphones on. And he's doing 'the Bump' with the closet door. I thought, 'I gotta get a new roommate.'"
Instead Lizza came to admire Zembillas tremendously. He wasn't alone.
While his parents expected him to choose one of two career pathsdoctor or lawyerZembillas plunged into the world of art and literature at Colby. In his first year he landed the lead in Barefoot in the Park (the Robert Redford character, he points out) and the lead in The Glass Menagerie. In Jesus Christ Superstar Zembillas played the part of Pontius Pilate. "If I had to list the ten best students I've ever had, he would be one of them," said Richard Sewell, adjunct associate professor of theater and dance. "An absolutely truthful ability to zero in on the emotional states of whatever role he was playing. There was never a 'fakey' moment in anything he ever did on stage. . . . That's something that can happen fairly often with a young performer, but usually it's not coupled with the ability to project that, to make it happen for an audience at a distance. He had both."
While Sewell said he is chary to encourage student actors to attempt to go pro, he made an exception in Zembillas's case. "I really felt the potential was there," he said.
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The cause of the fire that ravaged a three-family house on Perkins Street late Friday night and Saturday morning has been deemed accidental, Gloucester fire officials say, but the precise cause of the blaze remains under investigation.
Gloucester Deputy Chief Miles Schlichte said Saturday that the smoky, two-alarm fire, which struck at around 10:30 Friday night, started in a first-floor bedroom.
The blaze drove eight people from their homes, including two families being placed in temporary housing by the Red Cross – "in this case, a hotel stay paid for by our donors," said Kat Powers, communcatiins director out of the Red Cross office in Cambridge. The other family is staying with family, Powers added.
All three units in the 9 Perkins St. building were occupied at the time, but all escaped safely — including one couple with an infant and another with a child. The Red Cross is also providing emergency funds for food and clothing, and provided blankets for those at the scene, Powers said.
"We're handing out comfort kits, which are toiletries one will need in the morning, and funds for baby supplies the infant will need," she added..
A Gloucester Fire Department crew also remained on the scene Saturday. The fire, on a narrow street that is off Mount Vernon Street above Prospect, posed a number of obstacles for crews, who confined the blaze to the single bulding.
"It's a tough place to fight a fire," Schlichte said Saturday morning – "tough access, a lot of properties on top of each other, a windy night -- the guys did a real good job." The Department of Public Works was also called in around 12:45 a.m. Saturday to bring sand into the area, as streets iced up and firefighters started using chainsaws to clear debris.
The initial alarm for the fire came in around 10:30, and went to a second alarm shortly before 11 p.m.


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Police responded to the smell of marijuana coming from Nelson's apartment. No one answered an officer's knock on the front door, but right when he was leaving he saw a Domino's Pizza delivery guy. The policeman asked the delivery person what apartment he was going to. The pizza was headed Nelson's way.
Nelson then exited his home in order to get the pizza and attempted to quickly go back inside.
The officer confronted Nelson at that time. Upon finally entering the apartment the officer found eight roaches of marijuana made from cigarillos (small cigars that can be emptied and stuffed with the drug).
Ole Miss basketball coach Andy Kennedy called Nelson's dismissal "a shame."
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It's been almost two weeks since iOS7 was updated, now news sources suggest that the Gold master release , ie the most final looking release before the actual one , is due today. It's unknown what improvements Apple have made but users can expect bug fixes and hopefully more dynamic wallapaers.
In other news there have been a few leaks of the supposed iPhone 5C ie the cheaper and more colurfull iPhone that us due to be announced next week alongside the iPhone 5s. Both iPhones are expected to have hardware upgrades.


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Sonic Producer Beat Maker
Sonic Producer Beat Maker
Looking for an easy to use beat maker? Sonic Producer is an online beat making tool that you can easily use to pump out instrumental beats one after the other. Make loops and full tracks in just a few clicks.
Sonic Producer has been around for a while and thousands of people from all over the world use their online app for all kinds of reasons but we use Sonic Producer for making quick loops to sell online.
Watch this cool video of Sonic Producer in action
Use the app to build a sequence of beats using the pattern builder. There is hundreds of sounds and instruments to choose from so you can make any kind of music no matter what style.
So if you're looking for something that is easy to use, can be used anywhere you have an internet connection and doesn't cost hundreds of dollars like most music software then give Sonic Producer beat maker a go.


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GIRARD, Ohio - The state wants the public's input on a plan to widen a stretch of I-80, replace bridges and add noise walls in Mahoning and Trumbull counties.
An Ohio Department of Transportation hosted an open house will be held on Thursday evening to discuss adding a new lane in each direction of I-80 from the I-680/Route 11 interchange, east to the Route 193 interchange.
The widening project cost is $88 million.
Noise walls are recommended along the following two noise sensitive areas: 1) north side of I 80 and east of US 422/State Street in Girard; and 2) north side of I 80 in the vicinity of Webb Road/Mulberry Run in Austintown Township.
The decision to construct the recommended noise walls will be based on community input.
Construction on all three projects is expected to begin in the summer of 2015.
All interested persons are invited to attend, participate and provide comments regarding the proposed project. Written comments may also be submitted by Friday, July 12, 2013 to:


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August 31, 2004
Valdosta - A South Georgia college is hoping to recruit more students with new degree programs.
Valdosta Technical College kicked off its "Invent Yourself" campaign Tuesday. They're introducing more than 10 new programs, including fire science, criminal justice, banking and finance and early childhood education.
All of the degrees can be earned in two years or less. "A couple of years ago when I started making commercials for the college, I think we said 70 programs in two years of less, now we say 85 plus because it keeps growing so fast," said Ruby Riesinger.
Most of the new programs will be available when fall quarter starts in September, with the exception of criminal justice, which won't be offered until winter quarter.
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Guest Star: "I Wanted To Show That Styles P's Not On The Corners, He's A Grown Dude"
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[Flashing Lights: Renowned photographer Mike Schreiber shares his experience ditching the glamour to portray mature version of Styles P. for a VIBE photo shoot.]
[When I begin shoots], I don't set up lights or do anything fancy. I typically don't ask and love to just start shooting. One of my most memorable experiences [as a photographer] was when I ended up going grocery shopping with Styles P. I was shooting Styles for VIBE sometime last year in 2009, and you can tell by my pictures that I like to get the realness of things. I've shot Styles a couple times before, so I went to his house up in Westchester [where] he lives with his wife and kids. I wanted to show he's a grown dude. He's not on the corners, he's not some crazy thug. Maybe he used to be but he isn't anymore.
He's a family man. One of the things his wife wanted him to do was clean the pool, so I took some shots of that and then they were like, "we have to go food shopping" and I said, "cool, I'll come with you." So I took some shots like him with eating a tuna fish sandwich, stuff that everybody does. That was my whole intention of my time with Styles.
My goal was to show that Styles P is a dope emcee but he's also a grown dude who eats lunch, buys groceries and cleans the pool. He's just a cool guy and I learned that he [actually] eats organic food. We went grocery shopping up around Westchester and then we headed down to his juice spot in Harlem. Those photos didn't get published.
Everything was cool overall. He wasn't trying to put on any sort of fake front about his life..
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Old Dominion has named Dominic Manilla as women's tennis head coach, Athletic Director Wood Selig announced recently.
"I was most impressed with Dom as an assistant tennis coach at ODU upon my arrival last year. He has only enhanced his tennis acumen with his stint at the John McEnroe Tennis Academy Coaching staff," Selig said. "Dom knows the ODU program and has great vision on improving our program to one of the nation's top women's programs in the country. He presented an extremely detailed plan for enhancing our recruiting, competitiveness, scheduling and fundraising that captured the attention and interest of the entire selection committee. We welcome Dom back as our new head women's tennis coach."
Manilla, an ODU graduate and former men's tennis player, spent last year coaching at the prestigious John McEnroe Tennis Academy in New York. He was a part of the day-to-day on-court training and worked closely with McEnroe, Gilad Bloom (former ATP No. 56 ranking and academy director) and Fritz Buehning (former ATP No. 21 ranking and assistant academy director).
"I greatly look forward to working with the athletic department, especially volunteer coach John Brinkman and our facility coordinator, Mary Jordan, in bringing the program to a level that the Hampton Roads tennis community can be proud of," Manilla said, adding, "Being the head coach at Old Dominion has been a goal of mine since I stepped foot on campus as a student-athlete for coach Cummings. I am humbled and eager to get to work."
Before joining the McEnroe Academy, Manilla returned to his alma mater for three years as an assistant coach. He joined the Monarchs in the fall of 2007 and helped ODU to a third place finish in the Colonial Athletic Association, and ranking as high as No. 38 during the season, and an appearance in the conference tournament semifinals.
Prior to joining ODU, Manilla was the tennis camp instructor at the Boars Head Sports Club in Charlottesville, Va. He worked with the junior program and traveled to tournaments across the mid-Atlantic region.
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"I feel fortunate to have Dom return to his alma mater. I think he embodies the tangible and intangible qualities that will enable him as a head coach to foster a winning culture within our program," Associate Athletic Director and committee chair Bruce Stewart said. "He is a tireless individual that not only has the best interest of our program at heart, but truly bleeds blue and will be an asset to our campus community."
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WASHINGTON (BP)--Newly released video of public executions in North Korea demonstrates the need to pressure China to protect refugees from that repressive regime, a Southern Baptist leader and other human rights advocates say.
Richard Land, president of the SBCs Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, joined Sen. Sam Brownback, R.-Kan., and others at a Capitol Hill news conference in calling for action on behalf of North Korean refugees who escape to China. Some observers rate North Korea, a communist dictatorship ruled over by Kim Jong Il, as the worlds most oppressive regime.
The calls for action at the April 7 news conference followed a screening of two public executions secretly recorded and smuggled out of North Korea. The video, which was telecast first by the Japan Independent News Network, showed the executions by firing squad of two people March 1 and one person March 2. The executions took place after brief, outdoor trials at sites in North Korea near the Chinese border. Those executed apparently had helped refugees cross the border into China.
While Land, Brownback and others condemned North Koreas act of executing its citizens for non-capital crimes, the focus of their criticism was Chinas refusal to protect the refugees. China has been returning North Korean refugees to their home country, where they face imprisonment, torture and sometimes death.
The videos are absolutely horrifying but are not surprising, Brownback said. They underscore and make clear the moral and human dimensions of the plight of North Korean refugees and those who try to help them escape the brutality of North Korea and this regime. They need our help, and they need it now.
Brownback released an April 6 letter Rep. Frank Wolf, R.-Va., and he sent to Kofi Annan calling for the United Nations secretary general to take strong action to correct the organizations failure to protect North Korean refugees. They charged the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees with refusing to hold China accountable regarding its responsibility to refugees under a U.N. treaty.
North Korea is the worst of the worst of the worst, Land said. The entire country is a concentration camp with the government serving as the guards and executioners, and the citizens of the country its inmates.
There is only one reason [the North Korean government] continues to exist, and its because of the support of China, and it is time that the international community shame China and put some pressure behind the shame, he said.
Land and others said protests alone are insufficient.
It is time for us to call China to account, not just through protests but through concrete methods, Land said. If China continues to act in an uncivilized way toward its own people and North Korean refugees, it is time for those of us who are resolved to do what we can to insist that the considerable influence and the considerable resources of the United States are on the side of the oppressed and not the oppressors, to develop creative ways to force China to choose between its continued support for the regime of Kim Jong Il and its own economic progress.
We become partly responsible for the oppression when we continue to treat an oppressor nation as if it were a civilized one, Land said.
The methods could include economic boycotts, calls for relocation of the 2008 Olympics set for Beijing or a boycott of the Olympics, Land said.
Michael Horowitz, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a leader in the fight against religious persecution, included the following as recommendations in the effort:
-- Congressional passage of the Advance Democratic Values, Address Non-democratic Countries and Enhance (ADVANCE) Democracy Act, legislation that would promote democracy and human rights as essential ingredients in Americas foreign policy.
-- Confirmation of John Bolton as American ambassador to the U.N. A Senate hearing on the controversial Boltons nomination began April 11. Whatever ones views of John Bolton, the fact is he is the symbol of all American officials in resistance to this tyranny, Horowitz said. His defeat will be the greatest single diplomatic triumph of Kim Jong Il of the past 25 years and, on those grounds alone, whatever else some people think, must not be permitted to happen.
-- Signal the U.N. it must be more aggressive and robust in protecting the refugees and speaking out about the gas chambers and the gulags, if it wants better relations with the United States.
Bolton, as undersecretary of arms control and international security at the State Department, has been outspoken about repressive regimes and has called Kim Jong Il a tyrannical dictator.
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John Grueling, president and CEO of the Will County Center for Economic Development (CED), went to Washington D.C. recently to talk to Illinois legislators about the importance of a global supply chain to the state and the national economy. Unfortunately, he came back depressed.
During his May 12 presentation to more than 400 attendees at CED's Poised for Growth event in Romeoville, Illinois, Grueling said, "If you thought Springfield was depressing, you should go to Washington, D.C. It is all about the money."
Grueling was making the case for the importance of integrating business, government, and the transportation industry as a way to capitalize on globalization and increase jobs. "The next five year plan is all about jobs," he said. Then he began to talk about Illinois.
He cited a May 1 survey conducted by Chief Executive Group, LLC, which polled 556 CEOs across the county and rated Texas as the number one state friendly to business. Texas has no income tax and, according to Grueling, is creating more jobs than any other state. Illinois, however, is in 48th place – a drop from the number eight position it held in 2006.
Nevertheless, Will County has seen some good trends in unexpected areas. "A lot of value retail is coming back like a storm," said Grueling. "Any uptick in retail is huge."
Other good news for Will County has to do with the transportation sector of the economy. Will County has two major intermodal sites including the recently completed CenterPoint facility in Joliet, which began doing business in August 2010. Additionally, many businesses have moved some of their operations to Will County. In some cases, they moved their headquarters. Among them are Hollywood Casino, Navistar, G&W Electric, and Goglanian Bakeries.
Although Will County has succeeded in bringing in some new business, Illinois continues to suffer from a bad reputation. Grueling told the story of a discussion he had with an Austrian official who had attended an economic meeting in Europe where they discussed business opportunities in the United States. The official told Grueling that everyone agreed to avoid California and Illinois in their business plans.
Such a reputation may explain why Illinois is only two steps away from last place in the Chief Executive survey. It may also explain why other states are "making eyes" at Illinois businesses trying to convince them to move. According to a May 11 Chicago Tribune article, Indiana is cutting its corporate tax rate by nearly 25 percent as a way to woo businesses out of Illinois. And Caterpillar Chief Executive Doug Oberhelman told the Tribune that he received information packages from more than 20 states trying to persuade the manufacturer to move.
These aggressive tactics by other states may explain why Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is making deals with corporate giants including Motorola Mobility in Libertyville that received a $100 million tax credit over a ten-year period. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Motorola Mobility will also receive Employment Training Investment Program (ETIP) job training money and a Large Business Development Grant.
"The problem we have in the State of Illinois is that the governor seems to think we can 'buy' corporate headquarters," said Grueling commenting on the recent deal. Grueling believes Illinois may become a state that has to pay to keep corporations from moving. "Our business climate is such that we have to pay companies to stay here," he said.
Despite the current climate, there is a great deal of potential in Will County. The intermodal facilities, the proposed Illiana Expressway linking Illinois and Indiana, the South Suburban Airport proposal, and access to the largest inland port in North America present many challenges and opportunities. "There is a huge level of confidence in the County's future," said Grueling, "also a high level of confidence in CED."
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La Matante - Microbrasserie Archibald
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4/5 rDev +19.8%
06-23-2014 14:11:16 | More by krome
Quebec (Canada)
3.5/5 rDev +4.8%
05-23-2014 04:45:22 | More by VbolieuV
Quebec (Canada)
3.5/5 rDev +4.8%
05-13-2014 01:45:57 | More by Socialiste
Quebec (Canada)
3.25/5 rDev -2.7%
04-19-2014 22:39:17 | More by wizo
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02-01-2014 15:34:58 | More by 4ster
2.7/5 rDev -19.2%
On tap at Le Chic Shack. Served in a pilsner glass.
Appearance - Clear yellow. No head to speak of. Medium collar. A lonely island wisp.
Smell - Smells like a pilsner. Slight earthy and grassy hop nose. Lots of pilsner malt. Clean lagery aroma.
Taste - More of a sharp hop presence, but still mostly a tinge of earthy German hops. Dry crisp malt. Clean finish with a minimal hop bite.
Mouthfeel - Crisp and light. Drinkable on a warm day. Almost too dry.
Overall - Listed as a pale ale on the menu. I find it difficult to believe an ale yeast produced this mild a flavor.
07-22-2013 02:05:50 | More by Alieniloquium
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3.5/5 rDev +4.8%
05-12-2013 21:48:54 | More by RefillMyglass
Quebec (Canada)
3.5/5 rDev +4.8%
04-08-2013 02:05:36 | More by jrempel
3.78/5 rDev +13.2%
Poured on tap in Montreal into a nonic pint glass. From notes.
Real nice dark gold and clear body, with slow rising carbonation crawling up. Bright white head, kind of creamy, real nice looking brew.
Nose is fruity with a sweet malt and mild honey. Dense and rich quite surprising.
Taste is full of flavor in the palate but not as bold from what is hinted in the nose. Seems lager like, with a good crispness. Nice mix of fruit and yeast like esters too.
Overall pretty solid, kind of funny how I sort of fall into these blonde ales once in awhile.
08-27-2012 01:12:01 | More by smakawhat
Quebec (Canada)
3.75/5 rDev +12.3%
08-26-2012 16:55:22 | More by Melomanemusher
Quebec (Canada)
3.5/5 rDev +4.8%
A bit excited for this one but also readying myself for disappointment.
A- Using a tulip. Very, very slight haze makes the gold liquid look very, very slightly dull. Awesome looking, super white fluff of a head. Fine lacing and good retention. Looks very tasty and I can't wait to try it.
S- Honey from hops and American adjunct lager grain.
T- Hops are nice and subtle. Grassy and a little bit. A bit sour and woody in the finish. It's good but the sourness is kind of weird.
M- Medium to high carbonation. Medium body. Not really dry.
D- Good. Easy to drink but it tastes a little off with the sourness and all.
Might be my least favorite Archibald can I've tasted yet. Still good though.
12-24-2010 21:08:42 | More by Yoonisaykul
Quebec (Canada)
2.63/5 rDev -21.3%
Bottle: Poured a golden color ale with a medium foamy head with average retention and no lacing. Aroma of cereal and unrefined grain is tolerable. Taste is also composed of a mix between some lightly sweet cereal and some unrefined grain. Body is about average with average carbonation. Probably one of the least interesting beer form this brewer.
08-19-2010 19:48:36 | More by Phyl21ca
Quebec (Canada)
2.53/5 rDev -24.3%
473 ml can.
A- Pale gold with OK white head. Nice bubbles rising. Very clear and pale.
S- Fresh lemony beer out of the can. Not a strong aroma. Touch of sweetness.
T- Watery up front with very little hops. Soda water carbonation flavour. A hint of grain and citrus in the finish and aftertaste. As it warms, a sour note in the middle intensifies.
MF- Light bodied. Watery.
D- The least interesting beer I've tried from this brewery. Blander than their Pilsener. Overall, this beer is too bland and its general character is slightly unpleasant and lacking balance.
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Quoting jess ♥ soph & will:" William Thomas was born on August 31, 2011 (with an original due date of September 25). He was 4lbs 8oz ... [snip!] ... and with no complications! Brand New: With Daddy & Big Sister: One week: Almost 2 weeks... :): so in love! :)"
ao tiny awwwwwwwwwwwww I hope Nicholas's eyes stay blue too lol.
Quoting Crlyheadedfck Is a Mommy.:" ao tiny awwwwwwwwwwwww I hope Nicholas's eyes stay blue too lol."
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hahahah i expected them to be brown so i was very excited they are gray blue and just beautiful.
Quoting Crlyheadedfck Is a Mommy.:" hahahah i expected them to be brown so i was very excited they are gray blue and just beautiful."
I love his dark hair! That would be such a great combination.
I was really shocked that Will was born with as light of hair as he had, and now in the light it looks blonde and his eyelashes and eyebrows are blonde, so is his little arm hair. Haha. Didn't think I could have a blonde haired/blue eyed kid!
Quoting jess ♥ soph & will:" I love his dark hair! That would be such a great combination. I was really shocked that Will was born ... [snip!] ... eyelashes and eyebrows are blonde, so is his little arm hair. Haha. Didn't think I could have a blonde haired/blue eyed kid!"
thank you I know I hope it happens his grandpa has dark hair and blue eyes its real pretty :)
lol I was shocked with how much flipping hair he had! I couldnt believe it. :)
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My son had a two vessel cord, so we expected him to be small...he was my (and our family's) biggest baby at 7lbs even!
He's a DOLL!
Woot! Excited to be with you gals!! I've posted my labor story in the forums but I'll post it here as well. Congrats to the new families!
Wow, where to begin. On Tuesday, Sept 6, 2011, my husband and I went to Labor and Delivery at our local hospital as my contractions were steady and strong. Once at the hospital they of course seemed to dissipate. This is with weeks of early labor and being 2cm dilated and 30% effaced at the last Dr's visit. After being checked, they found my cervix was funneling and causing me to dilated incorrectly. The Dr gave me some Vicodin and had me head home to rest.
At 4pm in the afternoon, my husband woke me doubled over in pain. I took him to Urgent Care worried it was a gallbladder issue. As we waited for a Dr, his' condition upgraded to ER need. I drove quickly to the ER with him and let his' parents and work know he was not well. His' parents, boss, and I joked about me not now going into labor. Funny.
My DH was hooked up to an IV and sent to the waiting room after being checked and assessed. We sat there for a bit and I had to get up to use the restroom and grab a drink from the vending machine. As I stood I felt a small gush but shrugged it off. As I walked down the hall toward the vending machine I felt more come out and by the time I hit the bathroom, I was bleeding a little and gushing fluid. I waddled quickly down to the ER waiting room and told my DH he would NOT believe what just happened. I let the front desk ER nurse know my water had broken and she called L&D immediately for someone to come get me via wheelchair. I kissed DH goodbye and off we went. Sure enough once checked out, my water had broken and I was in labor at roughly 8:15pm.
My mother and best friend arrived a few later to help me along while DH's parents arrived to be with him. We kept up to date with one another via text and phone although just hallways apart. About 8 hours later DH arrived in my room with his parents and he was diagnosed with kidney stones. Poor guy. So we were the talk of the L&D unit that day.
All throughout Wed. Sept 7th, I fought to get my body into a good labor pattern. Nothing. So that early afternoon, late morning, I was strapped to Pitocin. I went 3-4hrs almost without any pain medication and tried to tolerate it via walking and labor ball. I also used the jet tub. Once the contractions came on one on top of the other and I was about to a 5, I opted for the Epidural. It was helpful. My labor still progressed throughout the day but by 4pm that afternoon, I stalled into a 6, almost 7 with nothing. My Dr. was worried she was going to be too big a baby and this would not go well. For hours, we tried to get me to move and nothing would help. Despite the Epidural, I still felt everything down below internally. My mother decided to get me on my side and rock me. Throughout the day the Pitocin had to be increased and decreased because babies heart rate would dip into a danger zone. Things became intense and they had to hook up baby into internal monitors. We kept rocking away and soon I hit a 7. At 9pm, my Dr wanted to see more progress or other options wold be explored. I was determined NOT to have a section.
Around 10pm, my pain increased greatly. I went from a 7 to a 10 in a matter of a half hour and was fully ready to push and at a +1. I began doing small push grunts with the nurse to move her down. At 11:45pm I was +2 and Dr was ready to get this show on the road. I began to transition into full on pushing. We tried every position you can think of pushing. Knee to chest, sideways, squatting, the works. At 1am, my Dr. began to worry a little. However, he knew my wishes and stalled the OR Dr who seemed to me dying to get me in for a section. The nurses kept pushing me to keep going as well saying they KNEW I cold do it. At 2am, she was a +3 ... but kept getting stuck on my pubic bone. That's when things got really rough. I was in terrible pain and was exhausted from going on now almost 30 hrs of labor. I hadn't eaten since 11am Tuesday morning and was sick to my stomach. I couldn't stop getting sick. At 2:45am, my Dr said this was it. We either got this baby out or I had to section. I screamed out that I wanted to die and he winked at my mother (no joke) and said, "She's ready!" That was when my MIL and husband at my head yelled out for me to get mad and get her out! My best friend and mother took my legs and watched as she came close. I felt down to feel her head right there and I clicked. This was IT! I HAD to get my baby girl out safely and I would NOT section! I grunted and grabbed my inner thighs and pushed with every last bit I had. I wouldn't STOP pushing. This baby was there and I felt it. At 3am, I felt every amount of pain and pressure coming at me and knew she was almost there. Dr. got on his delivery gear quickly and sat up to snag her. I pushed with every last bit not caring what it took. I looked down to see him shimming her out of me and before I knew it, Annaliese was on my chest crying her eyes out ... okay so was I. They announced at 3:04am, she had entered this world finally after 31 hours of labor and 3 hours of pushing straight.
She was cleaned up, checked up and was 7lbs, 20in long. Come to find out, she was no big baby...she just had her hand up in her face when she was delivery and that is what got stuck. Little stinker. She was quickly brought to me for skin to skin and DH and I were just in love.
The labor was long, the story was nuts, the delivery was intense...but we could not have asked for a more precious little girl. We are so very, very blessed to have Annaliese here with us.
OH! And PS: Daddy is feeling much better with his' Kidney Stones. :) Bless his' heart! He loves his' little girl.
Quoting Cassi♥DLK♥:" My son had a two vessel cord, so we expected him to be small...he was my (and our family's) biggest baby at 7lbs even! He's a DOLL!"
whoa! yeah, at the very end his growth tapered off, so they were talking about inducing me anyway. SIGH. glad it's over with and now he's growing FAST. discharged at 4lbs 3oz, and at his newborn checkup (a week later) he was 4lbs 13 oz!
and thank you so much!! :)
Quoting Crlyheadedfck Is a Mommy.:" thank you I know I hope it happens his grandpa has dark hair and blue eyes its real pretty :) lol I was shocked with how much flipping hair he had! I couldnt believe it. :)"
I love head-full-of-hair babies!
Quoting KC ♥ AC~MWP~:" Woot! Excited to be with you gals!! I've posted my labor story in the forums but I'll post it here as ... [snip!] ... us. OH! And PS: Daddy is feeling much better with his' Kidney Stones. :) Bless his' heart! He loves his' little girl. "
She is beautiful! :)
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My water broke at 3:30 am, got to the hospital an hour later, pushed her out 4 hours later with a damn near failed epi...I could feel almost EVERYTHING.
5lbs 6oz 17 1/2" of perfection. :)
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guess I should post my actual labor story lol.
I went to the hospital on my due date September 5th 2011 for contractions about 3 to 5 minutes apart. I was really only going to see if there had been change to my cervix or not as I had been contracting frequently all weekend. I get here and of course no change. Still 3 1/2 cm, thin & Nicholas was not engaged. I go home frustrated as usual and in pain. I took ambien around 4 am to try and get some sleep. At 9 my phone rings its my doctors office. I answer groggily and they ask if I can come in to the office today ( I had an appointment scheduled for Wednesday) .. I agree and ask what time she said whenever works for you. I told her I needed to wake up some but would 11 be okay? She said of course. Dr.Williams said have your bags packed & ready.. "whats going on" I asked patty the nurse. She goes just come in at 11 and well see whats going on. Okay..
Get up shower get dressed and leave for the doctor. Get there and do the usual weigh in, blood pressure, all that jazz and wait on the doctor. Dr.Williams comes in and discuss's he for sure thought I would of had Nicholas this weekend and I was still pregnant. Obviously lol. He discusses something about trying to rupture my membranes.. and an NST scan to see if we have a reason to induce. ( My office did NOT believe in inducing til 41 weeks for no reason ) So I go okay... First he says hes going to check me to see if Ive progressed from last week when he checked me last. Ive been disappointed so many times I figure I havent but whatever floats your boat doc.
He checks me Im 4 cm. " Okay thats good enough for me! " I ask what does that mean lol. He goes Im going to augment your labor send you to L&D and hook you up to pitocin hopefully its fast!
Get to the hospital and get admitted admitting takes forever. Finally at 2:08 they do my iv with antibiotics in it and say theyll start pitocin in an hour.
3:09 pm Pitocin is started contractions are a bit toughter but Ive been doing this for 13 weeks I can handle this.
3:39 pm or so they up my pitocin. Holy crap I am in pain but again NOTHING I cant handle I have a high pain tolerance.
Around 4:15 or 30 I cant remember now they broke my water. I was still just a 4 when they broke my water.
Around 5 I was a 5.
Around 5:30 somethign I think I was a 6.
Jumped to a 7.
Almost an 8.
It was going by fast.
Then it got a little stalled. I stayed at an 8 from 7 til about 7:45 I was having intense contractions feeling like I needed to push but I wasnt dilated anymore. All of a sudden the next thing theyre slapping an oxygen mask on my face and shoving an internal monitor in me. Nicholas's heartrate was plummenting. He was descending too quickly into the birth canal and it was stressing him out. They had oR prepped for an emergency csection and neonatal ready. Doctors were everywhere and I was exhausted.
The doctor checked me after I would moan and yell during contractions I needed to push. Sure enough I did I was complete in 15 minutes or more I cant remember fully. I began pushing around 8:10 or something and had him out by 8:23. His cries.. oh my god.. his cries were the most beautiful thing I had EVER heard.
I did it all natural no epidural .. it was worth it.
8 lbs 3 oz 21 inches long. I am so in love and cant stop staring at him.
He has a head FULL of dark hair, gray blue eyes & just the cutest face ever.

Quoting Crlyheadedfck Is a Mommy.:" why induction so early? if you dotn mind me asking. I was furthered a long lol I was 4 cm so they just gave me pitocin and broke my water for me."

My baby is measuring small so dr wants to get him out before its an actual problem. My daughter stopped growing at 36 weeks so my baby must just start to give up a little :(


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You argue about suppliers.
You don't know that in some local administrations, like Southern town halls, even salaries are not paid to employees as there is no cash available.
Italian businesses must thank if they receive payment at all, even if a bit later.
Good article! I run a small family business in the field of orthopedic supplies with 2 operational unit; one in Calabria where we've to wait more than 2 years to be paid and an other one in the north-eastern region of Emilia-Romagna, where the waiting time is "only" 6 month although the law says we should be paid after 90 days. Moreover, the Italian fiscal laws say that you have to pay the taxes not on the basis of what you have effectively cashed, but on the basis of commercial transactions completed and invoiced in the fiscal year even if they have not be paid yet. Therefore, I can say that we're doing free credit at the Italian State that doesn't pay for interest on late payments.
A few years back I was working to help a global medical device company get back on its feet after some pretty rough times. The shocking accounts receivable backlog was a very tempting target for improving the company's cash flows until we saw the cause - receivables of 12+ months in Italy (far worse than anywhere else in the world). Oh, and with indications from the Italian authorities that, given the economic issues the country was going through that we may expect that to rise to 18+ months. In the end, you don't have much leverage to make anything happen. You just make a guess at how awful they are going to be at paying and work that into the model of what price you need to charge to make a reasonable profit by selling to them.
Nice concept on the 1 hour transaction processing, but in practice IT systems are not set up to do it. Many, many companies still have IT systems set up for a monthly or bi-monthly batch processing of invoices and bills. Depending on the dynamics of accounts payable and accounts receivable that could be good or bad, but changing it generally requires either expensive new IT systems or horrible kludges in the finance systems. (oh, and that your supplier/customer also has systems that can handle the fast transactions) The upgrades will come in time, but long after the technical capability is made available on the market.
Does the Italian government pay its VAT returns on time?
Obviously, delaying supplier payments is harmful for (or imposes higher finance costs, accounting cost & risk on) domestic suppliers.
Yet slowness in paying VAT returns would hurt the competitiveness of Italian exporters as well as weakening the domestic economy.
Really, it would be better to have well enforced taxes as Scandinavian levels - but clear compliance with law and government predictability - than the current mess of corruption, bureaucratic favours, instability and unpredictability.
And incidentally (in all developed countries), in an age of electronic money, all transactions should be legally required to be completely processed (at latest) within one hour of the service being rendered or the good delivered. Anything else would require a specific bilateral financing agreement to be agreed to - where the acceptance of risk and finance cost is explicit, and the payment schedule similarly precise.
We want efficiency, confidence and freedom to invest for growing incomes - rather than instability, waste and jobs for accountants & lawyers.
So why not simply stop selling to Italian organizations altogether? Instead of having the illusion that one will get paid, suppliers can instead direct their efforts towards selling to buyers who will actually respond positively to invoices within a reasonable period of time. After Italy has ground to a halt, things may perhaps change a little - but certainly they won't change before this occurs. As always, it's better to deal with reality than to play a "let's pretend" game that can only end in ruin.
The markets already know this; these massive late healthcare payables are effectively off-balance-sheet public debt. Italy is not in good shape.
I'd be interested to know how the auditors treated the accounts receivable in the books. :-)
if foreign pharma multinationals still do business in Italy, they must have a return...since they are not in the charity line of business...something fishy here.
by the same token if Italian SMEs were this strapped for cash, they would not even make it on life support...they would set up business somewhe else. And they too are not in the charity line of business.
Bill Gates has shown what effective management can achieve in medical supplies in Africa : 40% drop in medicines costs. And he is in the charity line of business. So, maybe Monti can invite Gates for a gelato in Rome ? and practice what is possible and done in Nigeria ?
Very good article. Unfortunately the decline in consumption due to the current economic downturn has exacerbated a situation which a few years back was confined to a few sectors only and late payments seem to have become the norm in every sector in Italy, even though dealing with the public sector is still everybody's nightmare.
An English FLA I know can't get schools to pay her for the work she did from October to April: a school came up with a new form to fill in which her business consultant had never heard of and no school had ever asked for (a good example of Italian creativity). Another school went back on their word, changed payment terms after she had done her work resulting in a loss comparable to the VAT she had to pay and as of today still hasn't paid.
I supposed the Italian art of "arrangiarsi" will soon mean people will have to start printing money themselves if they want to get by!
The situation is exactly the same in most of Spain. Surely, the suppliers are willing victims by agreeing to do business in the first place?
Let me give you a further reason for late paying: banking practices, induced by corporate tax practices. As most SMEs' accounts are unreliable - companies do their best to hide profits from the taxman - it is much safer to finance suppliers instead of buyers. In turn, buyers know they may rely upon suppliers to finance them by agreeing longer payment terms and forgiving further delays.
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NEW YORK--Platinum futures advanced to their highest level in more than a year, while palladium set fresh multi-month highs, amid ongoing concerns about South African supply of the precious metals.
Platinum for April delivery, the most active contract, was recently up $22.60, or 1.3%, at $1,729.80 a troy ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract touched an intraday high of $1,744.50 a troy ounce, the highest price since Sept. 22, 2011.
Platinum and palladium prices continued to draw strength from international focus on South Africa's platinum mining industry. The country dominates global output of both precious metals, which are often found together.
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Investors have been flocking to platinum since the start of the year. Platinum-backed exchange-traded funds, which buy and store the physical metal on behalf of investors, added 140,000 troy ounces of the white metal in the year through Feb. 1, according to data from metals consultancy CPM Group.
ETF holdings of platinum's sister metal palladium are up 220,000 ounces in the same period, according to CPM Group.
"A lot of it is bullish sentiment among investors. This year they've identified platinum and palladium as the winners," said Erica Rannestad, commodity analyst with CPM Group.
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Palladium futures also set fresh multi-month highs, climbing to $772.90 a troy ounce, its highest traded price since Sept. 2, 2011.
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We have talked a little bit about a few free agents. I swear Tullocks name is brought up every day. Nnamdi is obviously a favorite. Stepehen Nicholas has had some metions around here. Sense the draft is over I wondered what everyone had in mind for free agents now. Or if they had resonable trades they had thought about. I for one could see Shaun Hill being moved some time between when the NFL opens and kick off. Drew played very well and with all the teams that need an experinced NFL QB. A team like Tenn might be willing to make a fair deal for him.
So here is a few guys I'd like to see the Lions go after. Nnamdi would be a favorite no doubt but realisticly I see a team like Atlanta much more likely to get him at the end of the day. Also assume we resign out players like Houston.
Carl Nicks - If the Saints decide after they paid Evans so much they can't afford to keep Nicks at gaurd we must go after him. A great run blocker and a very good pass blocker Carl Nicks is one of the least famoust Saints of all. Which is what you want in an interior lineman. Set Peterman on the bench he makes a good back up and Carl Nicks takes our offensive line to new heights.
James Anderson- This ones intresting the strong side linebacker for the Carolina Panthers. A very solid linebacker who fills the stat sheet nicely. With the Panthers defense he is one of the few bright spots Beason being the other. Could be a quite yet successful signing if he leaves Carolina. Nicholas might be my first choice but James Anderson would be a very good consilation prize.
Chris Carr- Ravens Corner might become a free agent atleast with the drafting of Jimmy Smith I am hoping so. Very good in coverage and run support. He isn't a ball hawk but he gets the job done and with our D line I think thats about all you need. Other options might include Ike Taylor, Carlos Rogers.
My number 1 choice not being Nnamdi would be Kansas Citys Brandon Carr from Grand Valley state I am not sure if he is restricted or not but this guys is young and can play serious ball. I have a spot for the home guy from a small school as well and perhaps with Gunther as the DC might give us an edge in getting him if availible.
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Fighting is not a numbers game, or at least not realistically so. KJ Noons/Ryan Couture was a sharp reminder of that. That no matter how clearly it seems that one fighter beat another, or how clearly the compu-stats reinforce it, winning and losing often comes down to a few subjective viewpoints. It is for this reason that fighter rankings are so often problematic. The idea that in the grand scheme of things Frankie Edgar moved down the board in MMA top ten lists and Ben Henderson moved up it, seems almost ridiculous to those who watched the fight, who remembered, or cared about the context.
And so time marches on, lists are largely discounted and we as fans (and even promotions) are left to judge fighters largely based on sentiment or a cutthroat "what have you done for me lately" attitude. But, perhaps, in between the worlds of subjection, sentiment, and compu-stat there exists a missed potential. A potential for judgement.
My goal when I put this idea together was to create a system by which we could give or retract some set amount of credit to a fighter for each fight in their career. Because while no single fight may define a fighter the aggregate of their fighting career can paint a fairly vivid picture. Anyway here was my initial system, what I did with it, what I planned to do with it, and how I tried to modify it.
+.5 for win over %0-%50 opponent
+1 for win over %50-%70 opponent
+2 for win over %70-%90 opponent
+3 for win over %90-%100 opponent (bonus only on 20+ fight fighters)
possible +4 for win over opponent w/TBD score
+1 for every KO/SUB win
-.5 for loss to %100-%90 opponent
-1 for loss to %90-%70
-2 for loss to %70-%50
-3 for loss to %50-%0
possible -4 for every loss to opponent w/TBD score
-1 for every KO/SUB loss
All opponents taken at time of fight
All wins over opponents with less than 10 fights get an automatic +1 if fighter has less than 10 fights. If fighter has more than 10 fights a win over a fighter with less than 10 gets +.5.
All losses over opponents with less than 10 fights get an automatic -1 if fighter also has less than 10 fights. After fighter has 10 fights any loss to an opponent with less than 10 fights is an automatic -2.
Anderson Silva:
BJ Penn:
Jeremy Horn:
*% is winning percentage (i.e. a fighter who is 10-5 has a 66% winning percentage)
*The second set of values at the end of the Silva and Horn sums represent the totals if wins over -%50/-10 fight fighters was reduced from .5 to .25.
First and foremost, you can see that Anderson Silva is head and shoulders above anyone else I tried to quantify. That surprised me, a lot. I expected he and Fedor to be more or less equal, but the big difference came from the fact that Fedor has never finished a top fighter who was at the very peak of their career. This in and of itself probably speaks a bit poorly of the system, but it's an interesting result none the less.
The second thing (and what I might expect to be the first question from many) is, why look at Jeremy Horn? And the obvious answer is that he, and fighters like him, are the most likely candidates to totally game this system, and unfortunately he does, sort of. Adjusting the lowest possible positive points downward to .25 solves a lot of this, he no longer outstrips Fedor and GSP as an all time great, but he's still way up the list. Maybe that shows the real respect that we should show him and guys like him for being able to climb in a cage 100+ times, and more often than not win. Probably not, but it's an interesting point.
Finally, and above all, this system is obviously circumloquitous. I feel a bit like Tycho trying to build a mathematical model of the Ptolemaic solar system. In which I keep building more complex mathematical models to account for small idiosyncrasies, rather than just scrapping the whole damn thing for something simpler.
Thoughts, ideas, ridicule, all are welcome.
Because it was brought up below, I figure I'll mention that the idea of creating a system which takes time into account did not escape me. I think there is serious room to analyze whether top fighters are currently fighting more or less than they used to, losing more or less than they used to, or getting finishes more or less than they used to. The combination of these factors could be used to do a certain amount of skewing of older fighters records, however the massive amount of time it would take to crunch that data, is something I really don't have. So that may potentially be a missing element of the formula above (which is probably useless in and of itself). But it would take a massive amount of work to develop, and I'm not sure that it would actually result in a meaningful shift in data.


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You see, my drummer is a moron. The only hope we have is a drum machine. He doesn't own a computer, there are no computers in the basement we practice. I'm not going to be using a drum machine to teach him everything, mainly what i'll be doing is adding drums to a song i've written, very basic drums, so that he can understand the riffs. From there he can learn the beats of that song and build off of it.
There's no way the guy will learn any theory. We've tried explaining very simple stuff and he looks dumbfounded and his eyes start twitching. He won't take lessons because of some bullshit reason he'll make up, and we tried getting him to buy an electric drum kit to play at home but he decided against it.
Oh, speaking of which, he only practices once a week, DURING band practice. That's the only time he ever touches a drum kit. We wanted him to at least get an electric kit to practice at home, which would have been perfect, but no. He wants to replace his current kit with newer parts. So our last hope is this drum machine.
So i ask again.....does anyone know anything about them? I'm going out today to hopefully find one i can rent, or at least get info from some people at the music shops.
Through me you pass into the city of woe
Through me you pass into eternal pain
Through me among the people lost for ay
Justice the founder of my fabric moved
To rear me was the task of power divine
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure
All hope abandon, ye who enter here
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