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Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks Fitzgerald's, March 7 Slack-rock innovator Stephen Malkmus -- best-known for his tenure in '90s figureheads Pavement -- is, in reality, quite insightful. But he's as always been an anomaly in many ways. He's a pioneering musician, smart-as-a-whip scholar, skilled sports ... More >>
The Black and White Years, BLSHS Fitzgerald's January 31, 2014 They say in the business that it's all about who you know, and that couldn't have been truer for Austin art-rockers The Black and White Years. One day you're playing a sparsely attended gig in your hometown and some stranger walks in to ... More >>
The Black & White Years Fitzgerald's, January 31 The Black and White Years were blessed with good luck almost from the get-go. No less than Jerry Harrison, the former Talking Heads guitarist, took a shine to the Austin indie-rockers at their 2007 SXSW show and produced the eponymous album that foll ... More >>
Phillip H. Anselmo & the Illegals Warehouse Live, January 10 It's been more than a decade since Texas metal gods Pantera broke up, but lead screamer Philip H. Anselmo still sits upon a throne of reverence in the Lone Star State's headbanging community. Anselmo's main musical project these days is N ... More >>
DJ Sun The Flat, April 1 Now that some of the well-deserved publicity surrounding DJ Sun's first-ever full-length release, One Hundred, has subsided a little, his true accomplishment on the disc seems even more impressive. In the span of 70 minutes, he pours his 20-plus-year career as one of Houston ... More >>
The Bright Light Social Hour, Ishi Fitzgerald's December 7, 2012 Having thoroughly conquered its hometown rock scene up Highway 290 -- the group swept its six nominations at the Austin Music Awards last year, including Band of the Year -- the Bright Light Social Hour spent 2012 on the march. The ba ... More >>
It's 2 p.m. and Austin blues diva Lou Ann Barton is just downing her first cup of coffee of the day. Rocks Off admitted to her he was only on his second. "We were recording last night, so I'm a little sluggish," says the Fort Worth native in her gravelly voice. One of the masters of ceremony at t ... More >>
If the recently retired Asylum Street Spankers were "God's Favorite Band," their fellow Austinites White Ghost Shivers are more like friends of the devil. Or most likely to violate some Blue Law somewhere. They're naughty, but nice. The seven-piece Shivers can't be onstage without you looking aroun ... More >>
More FPSF 2012 Coverage: • Summer Fest line-up reviews on the Rocks Off blog. • Free Press Summer Fest 2012: The Sexy, Sweaty Crowds • Popsicles and Pizza: The Food of Summer Fest • FPSF: The Bands from Saturday • FPSF: The Bands from Sunday Nathan Smith: The best part of Summer Fest Day ... More >>
That guy, Lee Fields (above), is playing the Continental Club with his band the Expressions. Tonight. Some of Fields' songs include "The Bull Is Coming," "She's a Lovemaker" and "The Funky Screw." Could get steamy. Locals Nick Gaitan & the Umbrella Man open, and should have a new album out any day n ... More >>
If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at SXSW. To break down the bright, scintillating chaos, Village Voice Media's roving musi ... More >>
Photo by WinkerBassist Gene Kurtz, who co-wrote Roy Head's 1965 hit "Treat Her Right" and went on to play with a wide range of artists across rock, R&B, jazz and country, passed away Sunday night, according to a post on his Facebook page. Kurtz had just celebrated his 69th birthday last week. ... More >>
Austin alt-country progenitors the Wagoneers return for the first time in 20 years.
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South by Scorsese: The festival in a single 6th St. tracking shot. Video by Craig Hlavaty It didn't take long for Aftermath to remember you don't have to look very hard at all for music at SXSW; in fact, we were barely even awake when it happened. After arriving in Austin late, late Thursday night, ... More >>
Even if you've never pulled a trigger in your life, SXSW is, on some level, an exercise in hunting. Rocks Off had no idea how true this was until earlier this afternoon. As we were looking over the schedule at sxsw.com, we got the brilliant idea to note every band named after any kind of animal, ... More >>
Toni Price hasn't played in these parts much since her move from Austin to California a couple of years ago. But for Lonesome, Onry and Mean, her show tonight is made all the more interesting by the inclusion of Nashville songwriter Gwil Owen. Owen isn't a household word, but the guy has written mo ... More >>
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Austin is full of ghosts, and not just at the Driskill Hotel. (Say hi to LBJ's mistress for us, though, those of you staying there.) Some of the ghosts aren't even dead. Take the Dicks (above), Austin's early-'80s hardcore trail-blazers who reconvened to play Wednesday night's Austin Music Awards an ... More >>
I think I set a new SXSW personal record yesterday. I managed to make it until almost the stroke of 5 p.m. without seeing any music. True, there was our company's two-and-a-half-hour music-editor meeting and then another couple hours of hotel-room blogging, but it just goes to show that even thoug ... More >>
Can't find a hotel room? Maybe these people will let you crash on their bus in front of Emo's. Let's dish about Lou Reed for a minute. He didn't show up to join Roky Erickson and Okkervil River at the Austin Music Awards last night, as was rumored, because apparently 11 p.m. (when they went on� ... More >>
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Congress Arrested On Manslaughter Charges - YouTube
Its true.....
Congress Arrested On Manslaughter Charges - YouTube
Its true.....
Capitalist: A man who has gained an unhealthy love of his money - the root of all evil according to the Bible.
Social-ist: A man who has gained an unhealthy love of other peoples money - but by then, the Bible has no effect on his conscience any more
You only have power over a man for as long as you don't take everything away from him. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power, he's free again. - (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
What you call "Palestinian militant propaganda" is no different from the stance taken by people like Barenboim and that which has been taken by the UN for at least the last four decades.
Even set against successive Israeli governments, your attitude towards the Palestinian people is perverse, ridiculous and often downright offensive.
and many Jews think the same. It is the ultra right with Zionists that try and dominate the debate. Shame as if the Israeli politicians remembered their history and treated the Palestinians with kindness the world would support them
I, personally, find your view of this part of the world truely incomprehensible. Nothing, and I do mean absolutely nothing, you espouse is supported by any real evidence. Through your ignorance you talk of UN resolutions, but you have no idea of their significance or rather lack thereof. You talk of a Palestinian peoples and their right to self-determination, but you have no clue, even though I have given you the necessary information, as to what the right to self-determination is or evidence that the Palestinian peoples are a distinct culture separate from their Arab identity and Arabic heritage. You have said that Israel has no right to settle in the West Bank, but time and time again you have failed to support your claim with any legal or historic proof. Instead you avoid the difficult truth by diseminating falsehoods, inane political statements and insults.
[QUOTE=hawksmoor1711;27904002]which you claim gives the Israelis the right to rule over ALL Palestinian territory now, in the 21st century.......except that you can't quite pinpoint the bit in it that does what you claim it does!!![/QUOTE
The Mandate for Palestine gives the Israelis a legal and historic claim to settle in both Gaza and The West Bank in the 21st century and it does this thanks to Article 80 of the UN Charter. It matters not when the document was written only the fact that the International Community still recognises it as the onlyvalid legal instrument pertaining to the establishment of a Jewish homeland and the fact that there has been no legal instrument, since 1922, that rescinds the rights contained therein.
The document merely makes reference to the fact that the Jewish homeland is to be established in Palestine and the geographical extent of Palestine, as recognised by the International Community, is shown in this report:
Mandate for Palestine - Report of the Mandatory to the LoN (31 December 1938)
Therefore we know, and there is no interpretation necessary, that the co-ordinates mentioned are Israel's internationally recognised borders.
But Barenboim goes further than that by rightly acknowledging that Israel must ultimately withdraw to it's pre-1967 borders before there can be any hope of a just and lasting peace. And now in your most personally offensive rant so far, you're accusing me of basing my views on "anti-Semitic propaganda spread by a bunch of vile Palestinian terrorists" ....when all I'm doing is saying exactly the same as he is!!
As for the British Mandate, frankly you're just making yourself look stupid now. A lie often repeated does not make a truth, especially when you have clearly have absolutely nothing to back it up with.
Historically the only land the Palestinians, or technically any Arabs for that matter, have an actual historic claim to is the Arabian peninsula.
If you are going to enter into discussion with me please do so, but don't come on here and start spouting pro-Palestinian propaganda I'm sick and tired of having to reading it...
As that other anti-Semitic purveyor of vile Palestinian propaganda Daniel Barenboim put it: "In truth, everyone knows how this story ends: Israel's withdrawal to the 1967 borders and a viable solution to the questions of (the status of) Jerusalem, the borders and the returnees".

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Designed specifically with families in mind, the beautifully appointed Mikri Poli Kos offers an excellent selection of amenities within a stone's throw of Kardamena's fine white sands. Whether your idea of the perfect holiday is relaxing beside the ample pool or joining the children in more active pursuits, this stylish complex has it covered. Each spacious guest room is tailored to family needs, with partitioned bedrooms and modern furnishings for comfort and convenience. Plus there is the added bonus of a Waterpark to splash about in.
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• Family room for up to 4 adults consists of • Twin beds • Partitioned section with twin beds • Satellite TV • Safety deposit box • Minifridge • Tea and coffee-making facilities • Bath or shower and wc • Hairdryer • Balcony or terrace • Air-conditioning • Sea view family rooms, One bedroom family rooms for up to 4 adults with or without sea view and Single rooms available at a supplement
• Billiards • Video games • Gym • Use of spa centre at neighbouring Carda Beach Hotel
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• Meals: Full board with buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner. Theme nights twice per week in main restaurant. Hot and cold snacks from pool restaurant 10am-midday and 2.30pm-6pm. Ice cream 2pm-6pm. • Drinks: Unlimited locally produced alcoholic drinks and soft drinks 10am-11pm. Afternoon tea, coffee and hot chocolate with cakes and cookies 4pm-5pm. • Activities: Multicourt for tennis, basketball and mini football. Aerobics, watersports, gym. • Entertainment: Regular day and evening entertainment.
• Swimming pool • FREE sunbeds and parasols • Waterpark planned for Summer 2014 • Private beach • Internet and WiFi access • Laundry service
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|Heres a slight taste of the stuff I write.
LonelinessLoneliness, a strange and bitter poison, quite common and yet one of a kind.Loneliness by Captainblackwing
Oh! How is makes it's drinker blind!
For it twists the soul and clouds the mind!
Once it has crept in, you see the world maligned!
Balking, at it and pushing away mankind.
Seeing none of the good, only the unkind.
It makes you hate, becoming hard and unrefined.
And yet you long for all to be redefined.
So you maybe intertwined and finally find some peace of mind
But that evil and bitter poison will not unbind.
A weapon most deadlyNo, isn't much of a word, but it's a dangerous word.A weapon most deadly by Captainblackwing
It can be poison that chokes and kills slowly.
An angry wound that festers and ooze.
For No, is the road of that painful hell of rejection.
They try to hide poison, with sweet words, like sugar mixed with arsenic
"Let's be friends!" "You're too good for me, you need someone on your level!"
The sugar does nothing to hide that bitter poison, which fills your stomach and eats away at you. But, it's too late, you drank it, there is no antidote for you now.
But this is not No's only form, for it can come like a sharp knife, suddenly stabbing you, like an attacker in the dark. The killer, does not care for your suffering, they just want to know you are not wanted, that you are forever less and unfit.
"Eww…you're disabled!! No thanks!!" "Why don't you find someone of YOUR kind?" "Aren't there places for people like you, so you&
|Heres a slight taste of the stuff I write.
Current Residence: Somewhere in this great universe
Favourite genre of music: Anything really
Favourite photographer: Dont have one at the moment
Favourite style of art: Is writing consider art?
Operating System: idk
MP3 player of choice: Ipod!
Shell of choice: Sense when do humans have shells?
Wallpaper of choice: Anything pretty
Skin of choice: Mine! of course!
Favourite cartoon character: Captain Hook (the bad guy from peter pan), And the joker (from the batman), Beast (disney)
Personal Quote: "I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night"> Galileo
OR "You see, madness, as you know is like gravity. All it takes is a little push!" > Joker.


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Has anyone any experience of adding extra modules in a joomla 1.6 template?
At the moment my site looks like this with the module position showing Test site joomla 1.6
I would like to split the logo module in two so i had logo and logo 2.
This way I could put some sort of slideshow up at the top in one module and have the site name in the other.
Has anyone any idea how this can be achieved?
I am furiously googling at the moment to try and find out. i will update if I find a solution.
I have found a work around. I move the user modules above the logo modules in the index.php
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Someone who had 3 hours of volunteer time could: Help to sort donations such as folding felt, bundling envelopes, cleaning furniture, and many other activities. The tasks change every day.
Programs: We also offer workshops.
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EXCL is an extraordinary organization! I visit at least 6-8 times a year and gather bags upon bags of materials to use in my practice as a local speech-language pathologist. I have gotten numerous used/new binders, which I have used to create communication books for nonverbal children. I have gotten... more »
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November 23, 2014
Knoxville (WVLT) - You're going to see more changes inside Neyland stadium on gameday saturday.
One big change is the new LED screens around the stadium.
There are over 600 feet of ribbon signs.
You'll see cheer messages, and ads on them.
Also, the stadium's brand new turf is ready to go.
It's a bermuda grass.
Thursday, Volunteer TV is live at market square for the University of Tennessee's first-ever big-orange blast, football pep rally.
It's from 6:00pm-10:00pm and the entertainment is free.
Coach Fulmer, the pep-band, cheerleaders, even some players will be present.
You'll get to hear Kimberly Ainge, Erik's sister sing, along with Waycross and Jason D. Williams.
If you can't make-it, catch it live on Volunteer TV and it will be streamed right here on volunteertv.com.
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I've previously written that one of my ContextMenu test cases for the April '10 release of the Silverlight Toolkit was to implement a quick "split button" control for Silverlight using Button and ContextMenu. Though it wasn't my goal to build a general-purpose control for widespread use, there's been a lot of interest in SplitButton/MenuButton and I followed up with a few fixes for the Silverlight version and "official" support for WPF.
That might have been the end of the story - until Fabio Buscaroli contacted me to report an issue he was seeing with the WPF version (follow our exchange here). At first, I thought the problem was related to the DataContext not inheriting properly - and while that was true, it wasn't the whole story! When Fabio told me the tweak for DataContext I'd suggested didn't solve his RoutedCommand scenario, I had a look at a simple example he posted and realized the DataContext problem was a symptom of a larger issue: that the ContextMenu wasn't a logical child of the SplitButton. As soon as I solved that problem, it fixed Fabio's scenario and the related DataContext issue I'd discovered during my own investigation.
Aside: None of this applies to Silverlight because that platform doesn't expose the notion of a logical tree the way WPF does.
While I was working on this fix, I noticed full code analysis wasn't enabled for the SplitButton assemblies; I turned it on and addressed the handful of warnings it generated. Most of the changes won't matter to you, but one of them will: the namespace for SplitButton/MenuButton has changed. These classes now live in the Delay namespace - which is consistent with the rest of the sample code I post to my blog. Upgrading existing projects to the latest code will require a tweak of the XAML's "xmlns:" prefix and/or a tweak of the code's "using" statements. Otherwise, there have been no behavior changes to the functionality of SplitButton on Silverlight or WPF, so everything else should continue to work the same as before.
[Click here to download the complete Silverlight/WPF source code for SplitButton/MenuButton and the sample application shown above.]
It's been great to see the positive response SplitButton and MenuButton have generated. Thanks for everyone's help trying these controls out, finding issues, and reporting them!


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PORTAGE, Wis. (AP) -- A Fitchburg man accused of supplying the heroin that killed a teenager in 2012 has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
Twenty-three-year-old Milton Moore pleaded no contest Thursday to first-degree reckless homicide by delivery of drugs.
After his prison term, Moore will be on extended supervision for seven years.
The Portage Daily Register reports Moore apologized to the family of the victim, 17-year-old Jacob Adler of Lodi.
Adler's mother, Shelly Johnson, says she hopes her son's story might save other lives.
Moore's co-defendant, 20-year-old Lars Atkinson of Lodi, was sentenced in October to 5 1/2 years in prison and 5 1/2 years on extended supervision.
According to the complaint, Atkinson told police he and Adler purchased the heroin in Madison, giving Moore $75 for half a gram.
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The Proteas' management have wished fitness and conditioning coach, Rob Walter well, after he was appointed as coach of the Nashua Titans on Tuesday. Walter has been part of the Proteas' setup since 2009 when he took over from Grant Compton, and is scheduled to begin his post on July 1st.
Proteas Team Manager, Dr Mohammed Moosajee led the praise: "We have always set out to creating an environment that gives our management the best platform to grow and develop, and it's encouraging to see how far Rob has come over the years. He has led from the front, taking the initiative to excel in his portfolio and to give the team environment the best possible resources. He is deeply respected by the players and his peers and I hope the opportunity he has been given to follow his life-long ambition is a success."
Incumbent Head Coach, Gary Kirsten, believes Walter's passion and knowledge of the game will be an invaluable asset for the Pretoria-based Franchise. "I started working with Rob in 2011 and his aspirations of becoming a head coach were always widely known. He understands the environment that is needed to create leaders and to grow a winning culture and his skills are of high quality after serving a dual purpose for us as our fielding and fitness coach. I don't think his lack of experience as a head coach will matter because he has fantastic man-management skills, which forms an important base when coaching at the top level."
Walter thanked the Proteas family: " It's a great honour for me, and I look forward to the challenges that lie ahead, but in the same breathe, it is sad to leave the Proteas family because it is a deeply rewarding and enriching set-up to be part of. I have made many close friendships and learnt so much from them, I will always be indebted to them.
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TUESDAY, July 8, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- A fungus that
triggered a yogurt recall last year poses a health risk to all
consumers, according to a new study.
In September 2013, there were reports of illness among people
who ate Chobani brand Greek yogurt, and the company issued a
recall. The yogurt was found to be contaminated with a fungus
Murcor circinelloides.
"When people think about food-borne pathogens [germs], normally they list bacteria, viruses, and maybe parasites. Fungal pathogens are not considered as food-borne pathogens," Soo Chan Lee, of Duke University, said in a news release from the American Society for Microbiology.
"However, this incidence indicates that we need to pay more attention to fungi. Fungal pathogens can threaten our health systems as food-borne pathogens," Lee added.
At the time, it was believed that the fungus was only a health
threat to people with weakened immune systems. However, there were
many complaints about gastrointestinal illness from otherwise
healthy people, prompting researchers to take a closer look at the
fungus in the yogurt.
The investigators found that the strain of
M. circinelloidesthat caused the outbreak of illness was one
commonly associated with infections in people. The researchers
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infections in the rodents.
The findings were recently published in the online journal
Chobani disputed the study's claims, and said company tests
found no presence of "pathogens," or germs.
"Chobani conducted an aggressive, statistically significant series of tests of the products voluntarily recalled in September 2013 with third-party experts confirming the absence of food-borne pathogens. Chobani stands by these findings, which are consistent with regulatory agency findings and the FDA's [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] Class II classification of the recall on October 30, 2013," Dr. Alejandro Mazzotta, Chobani vice president of Global Quality, Food Safety, and Regulatory Affairs, said in a news release.
"In regards to this specific study, we were just made aware of it and want to take more time to review its methodology and assertions," Mazzotta added. "To our knowledge, there is no evidence, including the assertions presented in this publication, that the strain in the recalled products causes illness in consumers when ingested. Food quality and safety has always been and always will be paramount to Chobani."
Since the 2013 recall, Chobani has "implemented additional
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Seconds after helping to present Bud Cauley the championship trophy at the Hotel Fitness Championship, Rich Beem, the winner of the 2002 PGA Championship, had this to say: There's no doubt you're going to win a bunch of championships on the PGA Tour. And I think I say this for everybody: I hope we don't see you back here anytime soon.
By winning the Hotel Fitness Championship, which was in its second year at Jack Nicklaus-designed Sycamore Hills Golf Club, Cauley pocketed $180,000 and secured his PGA Tour card for next season.
He shot a final-round 7-under 65 to finish at 20-under, one stroke better than Colt Knost, who lipped a 10-foot birdie putt on the par-4 18th hole that would have forced a playoff.
Yeah, it was so much fun today, Cauley said. I've had some chances in the past and obviously haven't gotten it done. But it was so much fun to be out on a Sunday afternoon, hitting the ball well, making putts and competing to win. It was a blast.
The four-tournament Web.com Tour Finals, which began at Sycamore Hills, decides 25 such cards for next season.
Cauley finished tied for fifth place at the Hotel Fitness Championship last year at 17- under, three strokes back of champion Trevor Immelman, yet he wound up getting his tour card. This year, on the PGA Tour, he played in 19 events, making the cut in nine, finishing in the top 10 once and earning $647,886.
I've known I'm capable of playing like this and expected this of myself, said Cauley, 24, who is from Daytona Beach, Florida, and played for the University of Alabama.
Not everything goes perfectly to plan, but I came into these four events with a great attitude and felt like I was playing well. This will give me confidence coming into next year and hopefully I can win another one on the big tour.
Cauley came into the day tied for fourth place at 13-under, two strokes behind the leader, Knost. I felt good coming out here today, Cauley said. I got in a good rhythm on the driving range and felt good warming up. I knew I had to get off to a good start. I knew I probably needed to be about 3-under through the first four holes to be in contention somehow.
Indeed, Cauley birdied his first three holes, and five of his first six, to put himself atop the leader board at the 7,318-yard course.
I played great, but Bud played awesome. I can't really say anything, said Knost, 29, who shot a 68 and earned $108,000. Bud shot 7-under and the conditions were awesome. It was definitely gettable and I played great, but I got off to a little bit of a shaky start. I was nervous and started off with bogey on the first hole. But I made a double and a bogey all week; I played great all week.
Knost ranked 52nd on the Web.com Tour this season with $84,559 in earnings in 19 tournaments. He also secured a tour card with his performance in Fort Wayne.
Greg Owen placed third at 16-under following a 70.
Cauley, whose caddie, Mike Bester, wore a TinCaps baseball cap – he went to a game last week – hadn't won a tournament since he was in college. This championship was particularly gratifying for Cauley after suffering a shoulder injury on a tee shot in the third round of the John Deere Classic in July.
I wasn't sure I would be able to play that Sunday, but I did and luckily that decision didn't come back to haunt me, said Cauley, who placed 52nd at 7-under in that tournament. When I was coming down, my shoulder came out of the socket and went back in. It hadn't bothered me all year or that day. It was a normal swing.
I was a miserable person, just having to go home and knowing I had been playing well. It being out of my control was frustrating. Then it was a (five-week) rehab and trying to get back out here as fast as possible.


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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- DeMarcus Cousins and Rudy Gay are out of the Sacramento Kings' lineup again because of injuries.
Cousins is sitting out his third straight game with a sprained left ankle Monday night against the Utah Jazz. Gay warmed up his strained left Achilles but was scratched from the starting lineup.
Both players were injured early in a 119-98 loss at Houston last Wednesday. Without their two top scorers, the Kings nearly upset Indiana before losing 116-111 in overtime Friday. Sacramento then lost to Denver 125-117 on Sunday night.
Cousins, who averages a team-leading 22.6 points and 11.6 rebounds, stayed in California to receive treatment. Travis Outlaw was inserted in the starting lineup and Jason Thompson moved to center.
Gay has averaged 20.1 points since arriving in a Dec. 9 trade with Toronto. Derrick Williams started at Gay's forward spot for the third consecutive game.
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RAM's multi-day clinics in southwest Virginia often draw thousands of low-income residents in need free dental care, eyeglasses and medical procedures.
Set to join Brock are members of Gov. Terry McAuliffe's administration. The new Democratic governor is pushing to expand Medicaid eligibility to as many as 400,000 low-income residents.
Most Republican lawmakers oppose the governor, setting up a showdown over the state's budget that could lead to a government shutdown.
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STAUNTON, Va. (WHSV)-- Could a drone be coming to a neighborhood near you? Squadrone Systems has plans to put one in your hands.
"Hey, Kickstarter. Drone technology doesn't need to stay in the hands of only professionals. We want to make aerial filming accessible to everyone," said Xavier De Le Rue, the founder of Squadrone System in a video posted on the campaign's page.
The company markets its drone, the HEXO+, as a way to get good action shots when you're doing things like skateboarding or biking. It has a GoPro camera mounted on it that you can control using an app on your smartphone.
"They think that just because they can, they can. And they don't bother to think about the repercussions," said artist Barbara Buckingham. While she may not be completely for this this type of drone, she said she wouldn't mind having a drone to get some good views of Beverley Street in Staunton.
"It's amazing to me that technology moves so rapidly that we're learning more and more and doing more and more things and have unbelievable, unimaginable possibilities now that years ago we didn't have," said Buckingham; however, she and others also have concerns about the growing use of drones.
Squadrone Systems has already far surpassed its original goal of $50,000. The campaign has raised nearly $600,000 with 26 days left to raise more money.
The company is marketing the drones for action sports, saying you can get a higher perspective for your tricks, but some are concerned about what it could mean for privacy.
"I would be concerned if my neighbor had one and I saw it flying over my property," said neighbor Derick Ellis, 'I'd be afraid of wrecking it and crashing and burning on my investment."
Regardless, prototypes are up and running and the drones will be ready to take flight next spring.
Drone models start at $899, but before you buy, you might want to keep in mind that according to the Federal Aviation Administration,drones are considered aircraft and fall under FAA regulations.
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On July 23, the House voted to require Customs and Border Protection to take a comprehensive look at a troubled port security program. But legislators also gave the agency something it has long lacked: clear statutory authority for its operations.
The House unanimously passed, by voice vote, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Authorization Act (H.R. 3846). According to the bill's sponsors -- Reps. Candice Miller (R-Mich.), Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) -- the bill provides CBP with formal statutory authorization within the Department of Homeland Security for border, maritime and transportation security responsibilities for the first time since DHS was created in 2002.
When she helped introduce the bill in January, Miller said that over the years, the statutory authority for border security granted in the Homeland Security Act has been spread across several agencies and organizations, some of which did not exist in 2002. If passed by the Senate and signed into law, the new measure would authorize CBP's security functions, including the Office of Border Patrol, Office of Field Operations, Office of Air and Marine, and Office of Intelligence and Investigative Liaison. The legislation would also clean up the current statute to remove references and authorities granted to organizations that no longer exist and instead vest them with the commissioner of CBP.
"I am pleased the House has passed the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Authorization Act, which will authorize CBP for the first time ever," McCaul said in a joint statement with Miller. Given that it is "an agency with more than 44,000 federal law enforcement officers, it is critical that Congress provide greater transparency, accountability and oversight to CBP on a routine basis."
"With the ongoing crisis of unaccompanied children crossing the border, we are reminded how difficult their mission is and so critical to our national security," Miller said.
CBP is the largest federal law enforcement agency in the U.S., and Miller said it was time for it to be formally recognized.
As it approved CBP's authorization, however, the House also bumped up the agency's workload. The Essential Transportation Worker Identification Credential Assessment Act, introduced by Jackson Lee, also passed unanimously on July 23. It requires the DHS secretary to prepare a comprehensive security assessment of the TWIC program.
The program is run by the Transportation Security Administration and the U.S. Coast Guard. TSA issues TWIC cards to maritime transportation workers, such as port employees and truckers, who have access to potentially sensitive infrastructure to ensure that they don't pose a security threat and to prevent unauthorized access.
The TWIC card, which contains the bearer's fingerprint data and is supposed to be available to card readers at critical port facilities, has been controversial almost from the program's inception. The rollout process and the screening of card holders remain points of contention for the agencies participating in TWIC, the largest standardized biometric identification program used by the federal government across industries.
DHS declined to comment on either bill when asked by FCW on July 31.
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The court should tread cautiously, if at all, on this dark and bloody ground.
The Obama administration says California's law expresses "prejudice" that is "impermissible." But same-sex marriage is a matter about which intelligent people reasonably disagree, partly because so little is known about its consequences.
When a federal judge asked the lawyer defending California's ban what harm same-sex marriage would do to the state's interests in "the procreation purpose" of heterosexual marriage, the lawyer said, "I don't know." This was mistakenly portrayed as a damaging admission. Both sides should acknowledge that, so far, no one can know.
A brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the California case by conservative professors Leon Kass and Harvey Mansfield and the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy warns that "the social and behavioral sciences have a long history of being shaped and driven by politics and ideology." And research about, for example, the stability of same-sex marriages or child rearing by same-sex couples is "radically inconclusive" because these are recent phenomena and they provide a small sample from which to conclude that these innovations will be benign.
Unlike the physical sciences, the social sciences can rarely settle questions using "controlled and replicable experiments." Today "there neither are nor could possibly be any scientifically valid studies from which to predict the effects of a family structure that is so new and so rare." Hence there can be no "scientific basis for constitutionalizing same-sex marriage."
The brief does not argue against same-sex marriage as social policy, other than by counseling caution about altering foundational social institutions when guidance from social science is as yet impossible. The brief is a pre-emptive refutation of inappropriate invocations of spurious social science by supporters of same-sex marriage.
For example, a district court cited Dr. Michael Lamb, a specialist in child development, asserting that the "gender of a child's parent is not a factor in a child's adjustment" and that "having both a male and female parent does not increase the likelihood that a child will be well-adjusted."
The conservatives' brief notes that, testifying in the trial court, Lamb "had conceded that his own published research concluded that growing up without fathers had significant negative effects on boys" and that considerable research indicates "that traditional opposite-sex biological parents appear in general to produce better outcomes for their children than other family structures do."
The brief is replete with examples of misleading argumentation using data not drawn from studies satisfying "the scientific standard of comparing large random samples with appropriate control samples." The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a distinguished social scientist, said the "pronounced" liberal orientation of the social sciences is "well established" and explainable: "Social scientists are frequently caught up in the politics which their work necessarily involves" because social science "attracts persons whose interests are in shaping the future."
This helps explain why "Brandeis briefs" have shaped American law. Before joining the Supreme Court, Louis Brandeis defended constitutional challenges to progressive legislation by using briefs stressing social science data, or what purported to be such, rather than legal arguments. He advanced his political agenda by bald assertions inexcusable even given the limited scientific knowledge of the time. For example, in his 1908 defense of an Oregon law restricting the number of hours women could work, he said "there is more water" in women's than in men's blood and women's knees are constructed differently.
Since Moynihan wrote the above in 1979, the politicization of the social sciences has become even more pronounced, particularly in matters of "lifestyle liberalism." Hence the need for judicial wariness about social science that purports to prove propositions - e.g., that same-sex marriage is, or is not, harmful to children or society - for which there cannot yet be decisive evidence.
If California's law is judged by legal reasoning, rather than by social science ostensibly proving that the state has no compelling interest served by banning same-sex marriage, the law may still be overturned on equal protection grounds. But such a victory for gay rights, grounded on constitutional values, and hence cast in the vocabulary of natural rights philosophy, would at least be more stable than one resting uneasily on the shiftable sand of premature social science conclusions.
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£45K - £50K + excellent benefits package including £5K car allowance, 10% bonus, pension and healthcare
** An excellent opportunity for a Regional Service Delivery Manager, Service Manager, Service Level Manager, Radiology Services Manager or Imaging Sales Account Manager with a background in radiology or medical imaging to join a market leading supplier of medical equipment**
Location: Northern England, Midlands and Southern England
The Company - Regional Service Delivery Manager x3 (Radiology / Medical Imaging Systems)
My client is one of the largest suppliers of medical services in the UK. This instantly recognisable market leader is renowned for its forward-thinking healthcare solutions, which include 'best in class' medical imaging systems, patient monitoring solutions, biomedical equipment and clinical systems. As a leading organisation, product innovation, excellent levels of customer service and good people are fundamental to their future success.
The Roles - Regional Service Delivery Manager x3 (Radiology / Medical Imaging Systems)
Following expansion, they now seek to recruit three commercially astute Regional Service Delivery Managers, responsible for the delivery of service to key customers within the radiology and imaging sectors.
The successful applicant will be responsible for building and nurturing all relationships with key customers, regularly attending meetings and providing customer care, ensuring the delivery of KPIs (including resource utilisation, PPM delivery, team and customer satisfaction) and financial delivery within set budgets. The successful incumbent will also be an instrumental driving force in attempts to grow and develop all service revenues throughout their radiology and imaging operations.
Your Background - Regional Service Delivery Manager (Radiology / Medical Imaging Systems)
To be considered for this exciting role you must be able to demonstrate a background within a service management, service delivery management, regional service management, radiology services manager or imaging sales account manager role and must have extensive knowledge of the radiology and medical imaging systems (x-ray, CT, MRI or ultrasound).
A strategic thinker with a proven track record in radiology, you will bring with you the necessary commercial skills and business flair required to succeed in this demanding and exciting role. Utilising this organisations excellent reputation for providing quality products and their 'brand leading' status as a platform, you will foster key relationships with the customer and meet all service related operational obligations.
The Benefits - Regional Service Delivery Manager x3 (Radiology / Medical Imaging Systems)
This is an excellent opportunity to join a world-class medical systems organisation. You will be joining a team who take great pride in their work and who aim to build upon long-term relationships with customers. You will receive constant support and guidance from senior management and directors. For those with the desire there are opportunities to progress your career into more senior positions.
In return, the successful applicants will benefit from a generous and competitive salary of £45K - £50K, £5K car allowance, 10% bonus, healthcare package, contributory pension scheme, phone and laptop, along with the opportunity to progress your career within a market-leading organisation.
To apply for this excellent opportunity, please forward your CV to the named contact below.
This vacancy is being advertised by TRS Consulting (UK) Limited. The services advertised by TRS Consulting (UK) Limited are those of an employment agency and / or employment business.
Job Type : Permanent
Location : Uk, Nationwide, London, Swindon, Bristol, Birmingham, Coventry, Northampton, Nottingham, Stoke-On-Trent, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Hull, Milton Keynes
Salary : £50K + £5K CA +Bonus
Date Advertised : 19 Jan 2013
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Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA asked a judge to dismiss a $45 million lawsuit brought by the liquidator of Bernard Madoff's firm, saying U.S. bankruptcy law doesn't empower him to take back money withdrawn from the Ponzi scheme in other countries.
"The statute is silent as to its extraterritorial application and cannot be used by the trustee to recover transfers made" outside the U.S., the bank said in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court filing yesterday.
Trustee Irving Picard sued Banco Bilbao in December, accusing it of withdrawing money from Fairfield Sentry Ltd., a so-called feeder fund to the scheme, while being "armed" with information about possible fraud at Madoff's firm. The Spanish bank said it lost more than $700 million investing with feeders including Fairfield, which "deceived" it, and it didn't know of the fraud.
Picard's application of U.S. law to foreign companies faces its biggest challenge by UniCredit SpA, which has asked a federal district judge to dismiss U.S. racketeering claims seeking $59 billion against it and other defendants. Banco Bilbao said the U.S. law cited by Picard to justify clawbacks gives no "indication" of extraterritorial reach, and therefore the statute has none.
Picard's "cookie cutter" complaint also didn't have enough facts for a plausible claim, Banco Bilbao said.
"The trustee flagrantly mischaracterizes the relationship between BBVA and the Fairfield defendants," it said. "The court will search the BBVA complaint in vain for a single fact indicating that BBVA had actual knowledge of any fact" that warned of fraud.
Amanda Remus, a Picard spokeswoman, didn't immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment before regular business hours.
The case is Picard v. Banco Bilbao, 10-05351, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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Not adding a location to a dining thread title
- toodie jane Oct 15, 2009 10:08 AM
This is a problem on the California board, turning up in restarant/chowposts about San Diego.
While the Califonia board designation covers a vast area of the state, San Diego posters often just refer to a restaurant name or small neighborhood in the title., without identifying the location.
Does this happen on other large regional boards? Do chowounds find this annoying or frustrating?
I'm afraid I view it as ...rude. Could you add our perspective? Thanks and happy chowing.
re: ChinoWayne
I used to ask, to nudge the poster a bit...but it happens so often that it feels habitual, not innocently unintentional. I've stopped inquiring.
SD is out of my chowdar range, but what about folks from out of state who're expecting a CA board search for "San Diego area" tips to give them all the info available?
I spend a lot of time on the South board. Most people are pretty good about putting a location in the title.
Most times confusion results when people new to the board aren't familiar with regional area terms, such as Triangle, Triad, etc. Likewise newcomers to the board sometimes list common town names without a state - Midway, Franklin, Fairview- almost every state has a town by that name!
Perhaps part of the problem with the San Diego postings may be that the posters "know" each other well enough to identify area posters by name...thus forgetting about other interested or disinterested parties. I see this on the Florida board a bit - a big state but only a handful of areas that have frequent postings.
happens *all the time* on the Tristate and Outer Boroughs boards, and i've never thought of it as rude. sure, it can be a bit frustrating, but as ChinoWayne said, all you have to do is ask where in the world they're talking about. most of the time people respond to say that they simply flaked and forgot to specify.
this happens on the midwest board a lot too, and i agree with ChinoWayne that it's usually just an oversight on the part of the original poster. i do get annoyed because it seems thoughtless--for example "restaurant in bloomington" title on the midwest board. . . uh, do you mean bloomington indiana? bloomington missouri, bloomington minnesota. . . so i post the "give us a clue where you are talking about" response, and the op usually realizes the mistake, corrects it promptly, apologizes profusely, i am no longer annoyed, and rather, i am apologizing for asking for clarification. . . lol :)
i think a separate problem might be that some folks on a board that covers a big geographic area start to think of the whole board as "theirs" & stop posting location markers because there is. . . a clubhouse mentality. . . & if you don't know the lingo related to the neighborhood, you're an outsider and your opinion doesn't count, and isn't being solicitated by the post. dangerous waters, i know. this is a separate issue where the op is aware of the omission and does it for reasons of snobbery. it's much less common ime, but i could see it becoming a real problem on some regional boards.
re: bbqboy
The New England board hounds feel your pain, toodie jane:
I'm with the other posters--I don't find it rude--"careless" is probably more accurate, but it can be frustrating. Kind of like that Seinfeld "movie phone" bit: "Why don't you just TELL ME what movie you want to see?" HA HA! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM79_i...
Not really rude, but somewhat clueless. My home board is Texas and that covers a lot of area. Most people are pretty good about putting the area, town, or city in the title, but it seems that the larger the city is the more the poster thinks you know where they are, so they get vague, like "what's around the Galleria?" Well, there is one in Houston and one in Dallas, so then you have to ask, or if you recognize the OP as being from Dallas or wherever, then hit the report button and ask to have it added to the title.
re: danhole
They will modify a thread title?? Good suggestion.
At least in Texas two towns can't have the same name. Kattyeyes gave you one thread to look at.
Here, http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/6533..., I show that all of New England can fit inside Texas' borders. They can have two-three towns in NE's six states with the same name. Gets damn confusing.
Better than saying, "It's across from McDonald's". Hmmm. Which one?
Rude, inconsiderate, ignorant, thoughtless, clueless? I don't know, but it can be a PIA to sniff it out on Google.
re: Scargod
Yes, if you use the report function and ask us to add a city name and/or state to the title of the post, we will do that.
re: The Chowhound Team
Thanks--good to know, but I'm not volunteering to be on title patrol. That's still creating more work for others.
It's the spirit of All for One and One for All that makes being a member of a group like Chowhound more fun and rewarding than, say, contributing to Yelp. H-m-m-m...maybe it's a habit developed at Yelp where you're already in your city of choice so no need to identify...?
re: toodie jane
>>>"...It's the spirit of All for One and One for All that makes being a member of a group like Chowhound more fun and rewarding ..."
Yes, exactly! The great thing about the board is that not all the information has to come from the original poster. We can and should all chip in, information-wise.
Sometimes we might add information about a dish from the restaurant that hasn't been reported. At other times it could be about the location. We're all on information patrol.
re: The Chowhound Team
This does bug me. I travel and eat a lot in various parts of California, and to have the current divisions of California, Los Angeles and Bay Area just seems weird to me in a state this size. I think it does stifle contributions to have San Diego and Sacramento together, for example. With that said, I didn't realize that using the report feature was the way to go. I just reported two with no locations in the title. Here are the current options for "Report"
-Vulgar / Inappropriate
I clicked on off-topic, even though none of the options seemed right to me. I will report when I have the time and inclination. In the case of the two I reported, all I thought they needed was to be prefaced by SD-; let me know if there is a better protocol. Thanks.
re: souvenir
We realize the "Report" options are limited, so don't worry which one you choose. As long as you leave us a little note - as you just did - we'll deal with it appropriately. Thanks very much, we appreciate your help!
re: The Chowhound Team
Great, thanks.


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