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Veronica Roth is no George R.R. Martin but in the final installment of her Divergent trilogy, she shows a similar merciless streak. Barely six chapters in, Roth brutally offs a character who's been around since the first book. The message: In this dystopian universe, nobody is safe.
Of course, Roth is merely following in the footsteps of giants like J.K. Rowling and Suzanne Collins, both of whom wrapped their own sagas after racking up the body counts. Their influence can be felt throughout Allegiant, as can that of The Truman Show, M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, and every superhero story centered on a Christ figure. (So, every superhero story.) And the plot, which finds Roth's characters venturing beyond their city's walls only to discover a new network of conspiracies, is straight out of the sci-fi handbook, clumsy racism allegory and all.
None of this will matter to Roth's fans, who thrill to the heart-pounding immediacy of her writing and swoon over Tobias, the damaged dreamboat who co-narrates Allegiant with his true love, Tris. If you've already been sucked into Roth's world, you'll appreciate the book's twisty plot which provides needed context for the series' prefabricated society and its chastely torrid Tris/Tobias love scenes (''I am like the blade, and he is like the whetstone''). Others may not get what the fuss is about until they reach the novel's shocking ending. Perhaps Roth is more dauntless than her role models after all. B+


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The first piece of the Derrick Storm trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle, available exclusively as an eBook short.
When Derrick Storm needed to leave the CIA, he couldn't just retire. He had to fake his own death. So when his former boss calls in an old favor that will bring Storm out of early retirement and back to Washington to investigate a high-profile kidnapping, he knows there must be more at stake than the life of a Senator's son.… (more)
Publisher: Hyperion e-books (May 01, 2012)
Format: EPUB
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Rochester, New York
This iReport is part of an assignment:
Severe weather
Weather in Rochester...
Truckers are coming in from all over the northeast and as far as Canada to get a load of salt. Plus the mine has a railway system shipping salt around the country.
When the season first started, it was stocked full. As high as the catwalks. As you can see now, the "cupboard is getting bare"... There are estimates that a couple million tons have already been hauled out of the mine. That estimate is accurate the way I see it. And there mining daily trying to keep up with supply and demand. We have waited up to 2 hours to get loaded. Between 800 and a 1000 trucks have been loaded in a day according to reports. I have seen lines 3 rows deep extending around the salt pile to the entrance way, out on the road waiting to get in.
The weather has been rough. With temperatures in the single digits, and the wind chill bringing it below 0. Plus when snowing, the temperature, it creates "black ice",, not good.
According to weather reports we are going to get another cold spell. Bundle up, stay warm!
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My blog traffic and SEO strategy
The most effective and worthwhile method of communication is by writing and publishing either in online journal (blog) or offline like newspaper, magazine and some other means of disseminating information. Blogging can be view as such; as just decide on a niche that one can handle properly and make a move to write on it consistently, and if however a reasonable niche has been chosen, and some reasonable articles have been published and the next thing will be to seedown and keep expecting the traffic to start coming with time but there is more to that if really a reasonable traffic either from social networks or search engine to start flowing in and as well to make it a last long traffic.
Now that this is known that the issue of blog traffic is all about give and take (law of karma), not realism, not by luck, not by fortunate, not even depends on the number of article published on your blog and neither is by doing all sort of unnecessary traffic gimmick. However, to easy you from this stress, below are the four means you can use in driving huge traffic to my blog as well as what I did.
1. SEO friendly: The number one point is making your blog SEO friendly under this headline. And how does a blogger make his or her blog SEO friendly? To start with, dispatching your articles into category, and try as much as you can as a blogger either a problogger or newbie to make reasonable use of your blog keywords in your articles and sometimes in your blog title. This step must be properly handled, how do I mean? If however you have not been doing this before, it is high time you start doing it to effect changes to your blog traffic and create a blog title that is SEO friendly.
2. First-class content: I believe this is the most common language ever used by the leading bloggers, the either say quality content, or content is king, or great post or/and blahblahblah... But I must confirm this from my end that quality and first class content is the second best way to drive quality traffic to yourblog. Yes!, you have made your blog title both SEO and user friendly but what are the chances that the blog title will be able to withstand it content, is the title just catching and appealing or a worthwhile blog title when comparing with the blog content itself? Making your blog content a first class means it must be relevant to what readers are searching for, beneficial to your blog readers and it should be a topic that encourages blog-author and readers interaction else their might be some problem in your blog search engine ranking due to poor blog content.
3. Social network friendly: I personally believe in cordial relationship and to me as matter of fact, blogging is a community on its own that encourages friendship andrelationships with other bloggers either in your niche or thereabout, building relationship in blog-o-sphere does not only bring about exposure to you and your blog but as well bring some quality backlink from other bloggers who find your blog article interest and worthwhile and some did this with even making use of trackback feature for more juice (Trackback can be simply put as a way to inform you about whoever includes a link pointing to your blog or site)
4. Blog search engine friendly: This is virtually all bloggers dream, to rank high on a certain keyword on search engine for maximum traffics, for instance; the rumour skyrocketing everywhere is Google PageRank which have kept so many bloggers on their nerves just because we are all waiting for it despite the fact that it is not the only criteria for a successful bloggers, many have written different articles about GooglePageRank and they have been ranked very high because the keywords is search engine friendly, many can't wait again and they are really expecting it any moment from now as a the time of this article. In making your blog a search engine friendly, some criteria needs to be considered some of which are: Blog URL, Constant pinging and building blog quality backlinks from a reputable blog.
Conclusion: No matter what you are doing to drive traffic to your blog, either through comment, or guest blogging; just keep in mind the rightful keywords you are targeting inline with first-class content in order to bring improvement to your blog SEO.


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With her new nose and giant sunglasses Ashlee Simpson is starting to look suspiciously a lot like Paris Hilton. Although if she's planning to take her identity and inherit her fortune, she's gonna have to work on looking less like she just saw a unicorn dancing on a rainbow, and more like she thinks poor people should be ground into soap and used to wash her car.
Ashlee Simpson makes highway pit stop
Now now Megan, I did say you were better looking than Kirsten, don't be so hard on yourself.
Hehe, hard on.
99 I imagine your voice is whiny.
I'd hit it only out of self-hatred.
To all those who say that we insult these celebs because we are ugly and have no lives…..sorry kittens, but goodlooking people are WAY more disdainful than ugly ones. i.e…we mock them because we are hot. Except for Tom Cruise, we mock him because it's fun to watch his craving for cock fighting with his desire to stay in the closet. "HEY TOM! YA GOT SOMTHING DRIPPING OFF YOUR CHIN!"
I think her nose looks fucking great, yeah?
Dear Gawd, it's me krisdylee…
Bless Mommy and Daddy, and my kitty-cat and my goldfish, and even bless my rotten little brother..
Bless all the poor starving people in the world.
Bless my nana, and bless all my SF friends.
And Gawd, if you could do one more thing? Please create a gaping hole in the ground and let Ashlee Simpson fall into it, never to be heard from again.
You are one sick individual…and extremely well versed in the intricacies of homosexual literature.
Her hands are there to help keep her mouth closed because her jaw can no longer handle the weight of her gigantic Jay Leno chin.
#88 BigJim
I think my abs are a little bit firmer from the laughter I was suppressing when I read that.
Thanks for always being such an original mofo.
Dear krisdylee and all the other unholy believers at the SF….. this is GOD speaking.
I have tried, unsuccessfully, on various occassions to rid the world of these nast unnatural beings. Take Britney for instance, after strategically placing an infected needle directly in her path, i find that the her ripples of fat are so extensively chunky, that the poor old HIV virus was unable to fight through.
Unfortunately, Satan has an unhealthy habit of intervening just in the nick of time. You see my dear krisdylee, skanky herpe infested whores are his speciality and he prefers them to remain on the earth so that they may continue to spread their skankiness and, thus, complete the destruction of the human race.
Keep faith my dear krisdylee.
Btw, if you happen to pass by heaven, look me up ;)
Forever yours .. GOD
sweet jesus, this is still the top story? ashlee has a pit stop and has to shield her hard nipples from the prying lens of the paparrazi, i need a drink…
Stupid girl, stupid girls, stupid girls
Maybe if I act like that, that guy will call me back
Porno Paparazzi girl, I don't wanna be a stupid girl
Go to Fred Segal, you'll find them there
Laughing loud so all the little people stare
Looking for a daddy to pay for the champagne
(Drop a name)
What happened to the dreams of a girl president
She's dancing in the video next to 50 Cent
They travel in packs of two or three
With their itsy bitsy doggies and their teeny-weeny tees
Where, oh where, have the smart people gone?
Oh where, oh where could they be?
Maybe if I act like that, that guy will call me back
Porno Paparazzi girl, I don't wanna be a stupid girl
Baby if I act like that, flipping my blond hair back
Push up my bra like that, I don't wanna be a stupid girl
(Break it down now)
Disease's growing, it's epidemic
I'm scared that there ain't a cure
The world believes it and I'm going crazy
I cannot take any more
I'm so glad that I'll never fit in
That will never be me
Outcasts and girls with ambition
That's what I wanna see
Disasters all around
World despaired
Their only concern
Will they **** up my hair
Maybe if I act like that, that guy will call me back
Porno Paparazzi girl, I don't wanna be a stupid girl
Baby if I act like that, flipping my blond hair back
Push up my bra like that, I don't wanna be a stupid girl
Oh my god you guys, I totally had more than 300 calories
That was so not sexy, no
Good one, can I borrow that?
(Do ya thing, do ya thing, do ya thing)
(I like this, like this, like this)
Pretty will you **** me girl, silly as a lucky girl
Pull my head and suck it girl, stupid girl!
Pretty would you **** me girl, silly as a lucky girl
Pull my head and suck it girl, stupid girl!
Baby if I act like that, flipping my blond hair back
Push up my bra like that, stupid girl!
Maybe if I act like that, that guy will call me back
Porno Paparazzi girl, I don't wanna be a stupid girl
Baby if I act like that, flipping my blond hair back
Push up my bra like that, I don't wanna be a stupid girl
She's one of ^^^ them ^^^ now…'nuff said!
-and I am bananas
I think that you are the biggest idiot on the planet. I would try to explain, but I think it speaks for itself.
And the reason "why you often get first post" (re: 26) is because you are a moron who plays on a computer for five hours straight just so you can try to defend your dumbfuck comments to everyone who hates you.
Thank you HelpMe, your comment mean absolutely shit to me. You're obviously retarded because you don't understand the term joke.
It distresses me that you would come here and talk about how moronic I am to defend my posts. Let's look at this for a sec shall we. I make a statement, someone attacks my statement, I defend my statement, you attack my defenses. You see the problem with your logic?
The fact that you can say that anyone 'hates' me is equally distressing because it shows you cannot distinguish between online worlds and real worlds. My only wish for you is death by Land-Man's Land-cock. Thank you and good night.
Okay kiddies! Time for the Ole Mailbag here at ASK MR. SCIENCE!
Feed_Me_Chocolate writes:
"Dear Mr. Science,
What's with her hands clasped demurely beneath her chin?"
Well Feed_Me, the answer is that JOE SIMPSON'S POST-CLIMAXAL EXCREMENT, when fully dry, has the same bonding properties not unlike your common industrial strengh model airplane glue.
Since Joe Simpson's jizz is 1 part water 7 parts Methyl-2-Cyanoacrylate (CH2=C(CN)COOCH3) we here in the science field refer to
JOE SIMPSON'S POST-CLIMAXAL EXCREMENT as an "Instant Adhesive" carrying a flashpoint of 77
you're an idiot.
I read in the Ho-han posts that you have children…what is "distressing" to me is that you play in Superficial threads all day. Who the fuck is fathering the babies while you jack off on the computer and attempt to retort like a 12 year old?
#115–there is no way anyone is a bigger idiot than LameBananas. That has to be the 20th time she's pasted the lyrics to "stupid girls." I think she's trying to tell us something about herself.
HelpMe, it's called a job. Get ready because if you ever move out of your mother's basement you'll have to get one. Maybe you already have one but it is so demanding that you can't break for a minute and hit the computer, afterall, fries don't cook themselves.
As for my children, who also outmatch your pathetic intellect, they are at school during the day while I am at work. You remember school, that place where everyone picked on you because you are retarded. The place where your mom would drive you to dances so you could stand in a corner and watch others socialize, then go home and cry yourself to sleep. I knew you'd remember it.
Good to know you are just another idiot who gets paid for being a dumb fuck. I moved out when I was 16, and I got a life. Maybe one day you will find one too. You're a great role model. I can tell by your combative nature and moronic comments. Making more welfare babies, huh? Well, it's good to know that you, at least, have trained them to grab your beer refills. That's parenting, right there. Did they teach you that in school or your mother's basement?
she is STILL ugly even with her worst feature remodeled! and remember when she said in a recent interview that she was better looking than jess, mainly because she has a better body?? she still looks like an ugly HORSE with a body that isn't 1/100th as bangable as jessica's!
ashley, our lives here on earth are short. please stop wasting the public's precious time spent feasting on media figures on people not worth looking at. thanks.
You guys missed the previous thread. It's like a Grateful Dead concert on the SF now. Love and peace.. Smoke em' if you got em'
Now, I don't listen to Pink, but are those the real lyrics? Cuz if they are, isn't lamebananananananananas violating some copyright law??? Sure wish Edna, in all her cuntiness, were here to report HER.
Cheers all you fuckers, I am enjoying a glass of wine, and I may spark one big fat one up later, and I just might fuck my hubby's brains out tonight…. Love you all.
HelpMe, I know when I am outmatched. Anyone who takes what I say and throws it right back at me (mother's basement) must be of superior intellect. My points are moronic but you are using them, but you are so smart and I am so moronic, ahhh, the paradox. It's also funny that you post about my combative nature. Who invited you into this anyhow? It was between Lou and I until all the other asshats (except Zooza, who I like for some reason) decided to put in your half a cent worth.
Let's recap shall we. You are retarded and not worth any further comments.
Lou, I like Lou, she's got moxie. No real sense of adventure, but hey, to each their own.
I got 'em, Cruising, wanna smoke 'em???
wait guys.. thought I'd try this…
dunno if I did this right.
Gerald Tarrant
God, that sounds so British!
Funny shit.
That song
AK Ak AK AK AK AK AK-47!!! I just adore!
krisdylee…..shut the fuck up, I already fucked your husband, and he's still locked in the closet crying *lights spliff, laughs quietly*
128 Only if you promise not to pass out
You are great at dodging the issues to bring up again and again the degree of my intellect. You said I'm "not worth any further comments" and I ask you, Do You Promise????
And the Land shall inherit the Earth.
where's the love? Gerald…I'd still do ya! AND Big Jim – WHO still says "NARDS"?!?! Dude – that is a blast from the past…WAAAAY past….where I can hardly remember….but I wanna know when you're gonna drop that towel (get permission yet?!?!) And who are these people who are bringing the mean on?
TCLTC–some things NEVER change
& krisdylee–I'm a glass ahead of ya–can I share?
And did I not tell you that Ashlee will be test drivin' that new schnozz all over the SF in the next few weeks? Next thing ya know we'll be seeing her pickin' her boogers outta that thing! It slices, it dices, it vibrates….you KNOW it!!!
Thy Land-Balls and thy Land-Staff comfort me.
Land-Man, confirm or deny if that is you in my link, #108. Thanks.
This is the dawning of the age of my Land-Balls
the age of my Land-Ballsss
I don't want no scrubs, scrubs are the guys who can't get no love from me, hangin' out the passenger's side of their best friend's Land-Cock, tryin' to holla at me…
Gerald, I gotta tell you, you're casting pearls before swine. Let it go. You are clearly witty, and I like the name "Gerald," so I offer this advice lovingly:
THEY ARE ALL DEAD TO YOU. Namely "LOU" (who is very definitely "HelpMeImFalling" and "blondebubba") is dead to you. Consequently, there is no need to respond to his posts… as much as you are twitching and frothing and yearning to burn him right back, it yields nothing.
Without a response, posts like his seem spectacularly lame. Like he's FISHING for attention and sucking the funny right out of a thread. DEAD TO YOU. Don't give him satisfaction.
137 I think I love you.
ATTN Gerald:
Yeah, that was my Land-Cock when I was like 8 months old. Isn't that picture just average for all non-Land-Men?
In an attempt to upstage magician David Blaine's recent stunt, Megan Harris will attempt to spend two days submerged in a plastic sphere filled with Land-Juice. How this differs from her normal weekend plans is not known.
i think she llooks more like Nicole Richie but thats still a bad tjing.
#142 i mean thing.
M@ce — the force is strong with you tonight.
you are another child who is obsessed with me!
I love obsessions with me…
I can't believe another one is added to the group.
Okay, here are the rules to be in the club of people obsessed with me:
1. Hang onto every word I think and express.
2. Wait for me to post my next comment.
3. Try to insult to get my attention and fulfill your pathetic life.
4. Obsess over me… a lot
5. Study what I type extensively.
and finally…
6. Comment about… well… (that's right, you guessed it)… *********ME***********!!!
(Looks like you've fulfilled ALL rquirements! You re officially obsessesd with me, like many others)
(I've set up an e-mail account JUST especially for you obsessors…)
M@ce is oficially a member of C.O.O.B.
What the fuck do some of you have against Gerald? Did he kill your father and rape your mother? Damn, I'm, still not sure what started this, but if you don't like him, you are certainly encouraged to go somewhere else. If you want to stay here, please post something witty or interesting. Observe Jacq, Papa, Feed_me, and BigJim, to name a few (forgive me, those of you I left out, I still love you guys!). Look at MeganHarris, Sherry-co, and lamebananas to see what NOT to do. Now carry on, all.
And you, along with the malodorous Megan Harris, are founding members of The Sisterhood of the Reeking Poon. (TSRP)
Stink Sisters Unite!


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Dram Shop Liability and Signage Dollar Limits
Amount of minimum
liability coverage allowed for 2013 increased to $206,405.89
The Illinois Liquor Control Act of 1934
[235 ILCS 5/6-21(a)] requires the Illinois Comptroller to
determine each year the liability limits for causes of action
brought under the Act in accordance with the consumer price
index-u (CPI-U) during the preceding 12-month calendar year.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United
States Department of Labor, the CPI-U increased 1.74 percent during
the preceding calendar year. Based upon the previous determinations,
the 2013 Dram Shop Liability Limits have been adjusted as
For liability limits dating back to 2005, please click on Dram Shop Liability Limits on the the Illinois Comptroller's Office website. If you have additional questions regarding Dram Shop Insurance,
please call the Illinois Liquor Control Commission at 312-814-2206.
Cost adjustment for signs and other advertising materials
The Illlinois Liquor Control Commission has established the adjusted dollar limitation on an annual basis beginning in January, 1997, and annually every year thereafter. The term "cost adjustment factor" means a percentage equal to the change in the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index-U (CPI-U) or 5 percent, whichever is greater.
Since the CPI-U increased 1.74 percent during
the preceding calendar year, dollar signage limits increased by 5 percent this year. As of January 1, 2013, the following limits apply to the cost of signs and other advertising materials, which manufacturers, distributors and importing distributors provide to retailers:
Please click on TPP-10 Signage Dollar Limits for the above limits dating back to 2005. If you have additional questions regarding these limits,
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Senate Republicans chose a Prescott rancher Thursday as president to replace Russell Pearce who was ousted from the Legislature entirely by voters in his Mesa district two days earlier.
Steve Pierce of Prescott edged out Andy Biggs, a retired Gilbert attorney, by one vote after a closed-door meeting that lasted more than an hour. But Biggs remains majority leader and said he will have no problem working with Pierce.
The Republicans also chose Tucson's Frank Antenori as majority whip, filling the position that Pierce previously occupied.
The new president said he does not expect major changes in the agenda for Senate Republicans, who control 21 of the 30 seats, from the way the chamber was run by Russell Pearce. But Steve Pierce sidestepped questions of whether the Senate will continue the sharp focus on issues involving illegal immigration.
Pierce was one of several Republicans who voted with Democrats to kill several measures that Pearce and most of the other members of the caucus wanted.
One would have denied state birth certificates to children of illegal immigrants. Another sought to force schools to collect data on students who could not prove legal presence in the country, though it would not have denied them permission to enroll.
Pierce sidestepped questions of whether he will continue that focus, saying the decision really is not his.
"My position is to do what the caucus wants to bring forward,'' he said. "And if that comes about, why, that's going to be one of the issues.''
That disappointed Senate Minority Leader David Schapira.
The Tempe Democrat said Pierce is "tone deaf'' if he believes that Arizonans want the Legislature to spend time debating immigration issues. Schapira said lawmakers need to instead focus on economic issues.
Pierce agreed — sort of.
"I think the No. 1 issue we have is the economy and working forward with getting the state back to work and getting people back to where they can afford to make their house payments,'' he said. But the new Senate president said that does not mean members of his caucus are giving up in their bid to have Arizona do what it can in the fight against illegal immigration.
That's also the assessment of Antenori.
He said he expects some of the defeated measures to come back, particularly the one on counting the number of children in public schools who are neither citizens nor legal U.S. residents. Antenori said that will help gauge the actual cost of illegal immigration on Arizona taxpayers.
"The electorate ... wants to know what it's costing them, and why we're not being compensated by the federal government,'' Antenori said. "The issue isn't going to be educating kids as much as why we have to shoulder the burden for the rest of the country.''
He said once there is a firm number, that will pressure the federal government "to chip in at least a portion of that.''
Thursday's closed caucus was also the first for Jerry Lewis, the Republican who defeated Pearce in Tuesday's recall. Antenori said it remains to be seen how well he gets along with his new colleagues.
"There were several people who voiced some concerns about his loyalty because of how he got there, who it was who got him there — and who he's beholden to,'' he said. That refers to the fact that one of the key recall organizers was Randy Parraz who is not only a registered Democrat but actually tried to be that party's nominee last year for U.S. Senate.
Lewis declined to discuss his reception, other than to tell reporters he believes he was treated fairly.
Antenori said Lewis addressed the caucus, telling them he believes in Republican principles.
"He didn't really answer the question about the loyalty thing,'' Antenori said. "We'll see how it goes. We'll see how he votes.''
Biggs said he does not believe there will be issues.
"Everybody got to state what their thoughts were, their ideas were,'' he said. "Then we all basically held hands and said, 'Let's get on with the vote.' ''
And Pierce said he does not believe that, in the long term, the Republicans who supported Pearce will try to torpedo any legislation Lewis sponsors.
"He's a part of the caucus and we're all a team now,'' Pierce said.
"We've got to move on now,'' he continued. "Yesterday was yesterday and we've got to look to the future and do what's right for the state.''
One potential shift has to do with geography: Two members of the GOP leadership team are now from outside Maricopa County.
Pierce said he believes the Legislature already has been taking care of the whole state. But Antenori said he's not sure that all the attention — and all the resources — have been spread around equally, particularly in southern Arizona, citing the forest fires of the last few years.
"All the attention went to the Wallow fire, the Monument fire,'' he said. "And the Horseshoe 2 fire didn't quite get the attention.
But the issues, Antenori said, go beyond specific events like that, to the question of economic development.
"If you look at the employment numbers, Maricopa County's economy is starting to pick up and Pima County's stagnating,'' he said. Antenori said lawmakers need to push plans to create an "aerospace, high tech, biosciences corridor'' in southern Arizona.
Pierce waged his campaign based on the argument that the GOP caucus had become divided, not only over immigration but other issues. He described himself as a compromise voice between the more conservative elements represented by Biggs and those who are more moderate like Sen. Steve Yarbrough, R-Chandler, who opted not to offer his name for nomination for the post.
Biggs, who lost by one vote, said he will be able to work with Pierce, at least in part because of the new president's promise to pay attention to the wishes of the majority of the caucus rather than advancing his own agenda.
"If we have a majority of our caucus that wants to put a bill up on the board (for a vote), that's what's going to happen,'' Biggs said, even if all the Republicans do not ultimately vote for the measure.
According to his official bio, the 61-year-old Pierce is a third-generation Arizonan, moving to Prescott as a young child when his father, Delbert, acquired the first of several properties now know as the Las Vegas Ranch. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor's degree in animal science.


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It's voting season! From reading the signs along the roadways and street corners, we have the ability and duty to vote for our parks, our roads, libraries, fire department, and the well-being and betterment of our town and county!
What I haven't seen yet is a sign promoting voting for our water. Proposition 6 information specifically. Proposition 6 relates to the State Water Plan. You can find more at the Water4Texas website or at the Texas Water Foundation website.
Here's the basics though about what Prop 6 is and what's its purpose is:
Please vote this election season, and think about our water supply when voting!
Rain, rain, come and stay! Isn't all this rain wonderful? The plants and flowers in my yard are looking fantastic! And everyone's rainbarrels are overflowing! Driving around town, I see plenty of great looking landscapes. The best part is that we haven't had to water our yards for a few weeks now, thanks to Mother Nature. For those of us with automatic sprinkler systems that may forget to turn them off during rain episodes, I highly encourage you to purchase and install a rain sensor. This will help save some water, save a little money, and certainly, save your image by not allowing your sprinklers to water during or just after a nice rainstorm. I know I've seen many properties doing just that (watering while it's raining)--and it drives me nuts!
Rain sensors prevent an irrigation system from turning on during or after a rain event, after a specified amount (you set this on the sensor) of water has fallen into it. It then allows the system to turn back on and run according to its schedule after it's dried out. A sensor doesn't stop the irrigation system from turning on when a rain storm is predicted, though there is technology out there that does just that. That would be a weather station, that receives weather data several times a day to determine if watering is needed on any day or not. One such sensor like this is called idd; all of the major irrigation manufacturers (Rainbird, Hunter, Toro) have weather-based sensors that can be installed and set to water based more on weather conditions, or soil moisture, rather than just a set schedule. This type of watering schedule is better for the landscape and can be modified to work with restrictions on watering days.
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First off I really do appreciate all the info, highly informative for a newbie like me, will go further into detail on some of my thoughts here momentarily.
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Go w/ 5.56/.223. I ran 300 BLK for a while but ammunition is quite a bit more expensive and not as readily available. Plus it's made for shorter ranges. The system/round was originally designed to be shot out of a SBR at CQB ranges.
$1500 will get you a lot of rifle. If your budget is $1500 I would look to spend the majority of it on the AR itself. I would not recommend spending $600 on a rifle and the remaining $900 on UTG/Macko junk. I would shoot the rifle as is and figure out what you want to mount on it as you figure out what works best for you. If not the chances are you'll end up wasting money that could have been spent on ammunition and other necessities. Avoid the initial buying spree.
Look at quality, value packed options such as BCM, Daniel Defense, and Colt. These companies produce a consistantly reliable AR. You can have the piece of mind that comes w/ purchasing quality.
The ammo cost or at least the difference between 300 Blk and 5.56 would be minimal as I do reload and will soon be casting also and it helps that I have a borderline unending supply of free .223 brass which of course can be converted to 300 Blk.
I do want a quality rifle and quality optic so the 1500 is not written in stone, if it takes 1750 for instance to get the job done so I do not have to buy something again in the future and waste the initial purchase then the money is there to do so and since this is my first new gun in 4 years and shooting is pretty much my only hobby the purchase is certainly justifiable especially since the wife is onboard.
Most people shoot within these ranges. Since this would be your first rifle, you'll probably want to start at 25m.
No doubt going to take me several hundred just to get used to the feel.
I'll chime in, too. Though I'm not as experienced as others that have responded I'll share what has worked for me, especially since you remarked about optics and your vision. I agree that a 16" barrel will do what you want to do. The gun will be lighter than a 20" (now that I have both I can say that there is a significant difference) and with the considerations of your wife then it'll be more usable by her. Plenty of other responders will have brand recommendations but I do believe that you can get a good AR for under $1000. Optics-- there are those that will say do irons first and add optics later, others will say go ahead with the optics. You know your eyesight-- if a scope works better for you, go for it. I did not initially put any optics on my AR. Then I put an Eotech on it, liked it, but my astigmatism (even though it is sorta corrected by my glasses) made it a bit funky. I had/have scopes on other rifles (deer rifle, .22s) so I knew that things worked better for me when scoped. I put a scope on my recent build and will never look back. I do have irons for it, just in case.!
Some type of optic will work much better, guy who let me shoot his AR had an Eotech on it and I was hitting a small target 25m away on shot 2.
OP, generally when one has $1500 to spend, and needs an optic, I suggest spending 1/3 on the opric and 2/3 on the gun. Magnification alone is not always the fix for vision issues, and a $500 scope that does not do what you need it to do is a poor way to expand your hobby. Would you share more about your vision? Nearsighted? Astigmatism? Farsighted? Corrected with glasses or contacts? Eyes slow to focus? Cloudy vision? Floaters? Glaucoma? Diabetic vision issues?
Nasty astigmatism is the big issue along with severe light sensitivity, partially corrected by glasses. Very cloudy vision and unable to focus well, shooting irons on my Glock, I can hit a target no problem but as to exactly where I am aiming is essentially a blur along with the sights so I can hit a 8in target no problem but hitting a smaller one is essentially guesswork. It is to the point I am seriously considering putting an RMR on my G19 if I can find one to try out first.
As you can see above, there's many different thoughts on how to get into ARs, so I'll throw in my $.02
First, if your budget is $1500.00, I would first start by going through the stickied picture thread at the top of this forum, to see what sort of set-up appeals to you. Quad rail?
Pistol grip type?
BUISs? A carry handle?
M16 rifle or M4 carbine?
There are so damn many different configurations, you'll need to figure out what you want.
I myself would probably blow your entire budget on the base AR, getting something from Daniel Defense or BCM with a quad-rail and VFG (I like the DDM4-V4 myself)....plus some mags and ammo. Then over time I'd look at an Eotech or Aimpoint optic, or perhaps something magnified. Be aware, optics can be very, very expensive.
Very good idea, I will check out that thread later and post back. I hear you on the expensive optics just looking through some sites I am amazed how much they are, thats why I set a budget for the whole weapon system as opposed to individual parts of it. Thankfully I got a decent amount of Pmags on the last sale from Primary Arms so I should be good to go in that respect for some time.
Again I appreciate the time everyone took to read and respond to this and look forward to more ideas.
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Two Rikers Island correction officers and a captain have been indicted in connection with the beating of an inmate and the alleged cover-up that followed.
Captain Moises Simancas, correction officer April Jackson and correction officer Tyrone Wint are all facing multiple felony charges for the assault, as well as charges of falsifying records.
Officials say in the fall of 2012, the officers allegedly cuffed inmate Gabino Genao's hands behind his back, took him from his cell to a room without witnesses or cameras, and punched, kicked and beat him with a baton.
Prosecutors say the officers knocked out the prisoner, then lied about it.
"Medical experts were able to say that these wounds were caused by the baton, the kind of baton the correction officers are not supposed to be carrying in the prison, and we have their reports, which very clearly don't square with the physical evidence that we saw," said Department of Investigations Commissioner Mark Peters.
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Reduce the Costs of State Employee Health Insurance
The state's cost of providing health insurance to state employees and their dependents has risen sharply because employees are using their insurance more and doctors and hospitals are receiving higher reimbursement rates. Moreover, employees are using prescription drugs more frequently and the cost of prescription drugs is rising. To ensure benefits remain available to employees and curb costs, the Employees Retirement System of Texas should begin to offer employee health benefits 90 days after a new employee's start date, increase co-payments for office visits to $20 for all health insurance plans and increase co-payments for visits to specialists by $15 for all health plans.
The Employees Retirement System of Texas (ERS) administers a wide variety of health insurance and retirement benefits for state employees and their dependents. ERS' health benefits include health care coverage for employees of state agencies and institutions of higher education (other than the University of Texas and Texas A&M systems); optional insurance coverage such as life, disability and dental insurance; flexible benefits programs such as health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts; Texa$aver deferred compensation plans including 401(k) and 457 options; a death benefits program for public safety officers; long-term care insurance; and the State Kids Insurance Program (SKIP), a health program for the children of low-income state employees.[1]
The health care plans available to participants are HealthSelect, HealthSelect Plus and four health maintenance organizations (HMOs): the Scott and White, First Care, Community First and Mercy plans. The state contracts with Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Texas to administer HealthSelect.
HealthSelect and HealthSelect Plus are self-insured, meaning the state pays all the claims and assumes all financial risks for these two plans. The HMOs are fully insured, which means that the state pays the HMO a fixed, monthly premium, and the provider assumes the financial risk.[2]
As of March 2002, more than 213,000 active state employees participated in ERS' health care plans, as well as more than 250,000 dependents and SKIP dependents and about 55,000 retirees (Exhibit 1). Nearly 57 percent of those insured participate in HealthSelect; 32 percent participate in HealthSelect Plus and 12 percent in HMOs.
Exhibit 1
State Health Plan Participation as of March 2002
Source: Employees Retirement System.
Health Plans Employees Retirees Dependents Skip Dependents Other Total HealthSelect 114,762 45,273 125,367 8,219 5,157 298,778 HealthSelectPlus 74,635 7,045 76,380 7,731 688 166,479 HMOs 24,245 3,233 32,956 3,100 328 63,862 Total 213,642 55,551 234,703 19,050 6,173 529,119
Health care cost increase
The cost of these health plans has risen dramatically in recent years. From fiscal 1998 to fiscal 2003, ERS estimates a 72 percent rise in total health plan expenditures and a 79 percent increase in the state's portion. ERS also has seen its reserve fund balance fall. In fiscal 1998, the reserve fund balance reached $236 million. By 2003, ERS projects the balance will have declined to $10.6 million, a 95.5 percent reduction (Exhibit 2).[3]
Exhibit 2
Changes in Health Care ($ Millions)
Source: Employees Retirement System.
Actual FY 1998 Actual FY 1999 Actual FY 2000 Actual FY 2001 Projected FY 2002 Projected FY 2003 Health Plan Expenditures $907.8 $1,002.9 $1,084.2 $1,211.7 $1,406.2 $1,565.3 Method of Finance State payments $699.6 $717.3 $798.3 $867.8 $1,116.2 $1,254.9 Employee Contribution $175.3 $185.1 $199.9 $226.8 $262.7 $295.5 Projected Shortfall ($32.9) ($100.5) ($86.0) ($117.1) ($27.3) ($14.9) Other Funding Sources Hostal/Formulary Refunds $4.0 $7.0 $7.2 $7.6 $18.5 $15.0 Net Investment Income $21.6 $17.5 $16.2 $11.6 $1.8 ($0.9) Reserve Fund $7.3 $76.0 $62.6 $97.9 $7.0 $0.8 Reserve Fund Balance $236.0 $171.1 $116.1 $18.3 $11.2 $10.6
ERS estimates that average monthly claims per member for HealthSelect will rise from $291 in 1998 to $450 in 2003, while per-member monthly claims for HealthSelect Plus are projected to rise from $291 in 1998 to $467 in 2003. These figures represent increases of 55 and 60 percent, respectively. The average per-member monthly HMO premium also has increased, from less than $300 in 1998 to more than $450 in 2003.
ERS estimates a 27 percent increase in the state's health insurance costs during the next biennium, from $2.37 billion in fiscal 2002-03 to more than $3.01 billion in fiscal 2004-05. ERS' cost estimate, moreover, assumes no rise in the number of participants.[4]
A number of factors have contributed to these increases. ERS has reported a significant increase in the costs of services and in reimbursement rates to hospitals and doctors; a rise in the use of services; increased usage of prescription drugs in treatment; and increased costs for these drugs, due in part to the introduction of new and more expensive drugs.[5]
National data tend to support these findings. The Kaiser Family Foundation reports that monthly premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose 12.7 percent from spring 2001 to spring 2002; this was the second consecutive year of double-digit increases.[6]
A PricewaterhouseCoopers study for the American Association of Health Plans reported an increased demand for services (partially a result of an aging population), prescription drugs, medical devices and other medical advances are responsible for nearly half of the increase in medical costs from 2001 to 2002. The report also identifies rising provider expenses and general inflation as factors.[7]
In a 2002 survey by Hewitt Associates, LLC, employers were asked what cost containment issues they plan to use. Seventy-six percent said they will increase co-payments for drugs; 92 percent stated they would increase dependent contributions; 89 percent will increase employee contributions; 55 percent will increase deductibles; 59 percent will increase physician office co-payments; 47 percent will increase out-of-pocket limits; and 46 percent will increase hospital co-payments.[8]
Employees contribute a nationwide average of $38 per month for individual coverage and $174 per month for family coverage.[9] Texas state employees contribute nothing per month for individual coverage and between $229 and $294 per month for family coverage.[10]
Many employers also implement a waiting period for health insurance coverage for new employees. Average waiting periods range from 1.2 months to 4.1 months, depending on the size of the employer.[11]
ERS' history of cost containment
To contain rising costs, ERS has implemented a number of cost-containment measures over the years. In 1993, for instance, ERS began to use managed care, negotiated discounts with providers and offered employees incentives to use providers on the plans' approved lists of health care providers.
In 1996, ERS restructured its retail pharmacy network, and in 1997, the system introduced a mail-order prescription drug program and negotiated reduced reimbursement rates with certain physicians.
For 1998, ERS increased prescription co-payments, reduced hospital reimbursement rates and eliminated early refills of prescription drugs. In 1999, ERS negotiated a two-year contract for competitively bid HMOs and standardized HMO physician co-payments. In 2000, ERS contracted with an independent pharmacy benefit manager for HealthSelect; increased HealthSelect and HealthSelect Plus co-payments for brand-name prescription drugs; and increased HealthSelect's deductible for visits to providers not on the plan's approved list.
In 2001, ERS implemented a three-tier prescription drug program to create an incentive for the use of lower-cost prescription drugs, increased prescription drug co-payments and implemented drug quantity limits.
For 2002, ERS required prior authorization on certain prescription drugs and expanded quantity limits on prescription drugs.
A. The Employees Retirement System of Texas (ERS) should delay new employees' health insurance benefits 90 days from hire date.
B. ERS should, at a minimum, increase employees' co-payments for office visits to $20 for all health plans.This would entail an increase of $5 for members of HealthSelect, which already requires a $15 co-payment, and an increase of at least $10 for HealthSelect Plus and the health maintenance organizations (HMOs), which require a $10 co-payment.
C. ERS should, at a minimum, increase employees' co-payments for visits to specialists by $15 for all health plans.For fiscal 2003, HealthSelect requires a $15 co-payment for specialist visits, while HealthSelect Plus and HMOs have a $10 co-payment. The recommended increase in co-payments would result in co-payments of at least $30 for HealthSelect and $25 for HealthSelect Plus and the HMOs.
All of these recommendations are designed to keep health care benefits available while curbing costs.
ERS should develop methodologies to measure and report the achieved savings from these recommendations to the Comptroller of Public Accounts and the Legislative Budget Board (LBB). These methodologies would have to be approved by March 1, 2004 by the Comptroller of Public Accounts and the LBB. In addition, ERS would have to report to the Comptroller of Public Accounts and the LBB every six months on the savings realized with the first report submitted for the period ending August 31, 2004. Any shortfall in savings shall be made up by increases in co-payments sufficient to generate the required savings.
Fiscal Impact
This estimate assumes savings would begin in the first year of the fiscal 2004-05 biennium.
ERS estimates that delaying new state employees' health insurance coverage by 90 days would save the state about $30 million per year.[12]
Savings also would be achieved by increasing participants' co-payments for medical appointments. An increase in co-payments for doctor's office visits would save about $35 million annually. Increasing the co-payment for specialist visits by $15 would result in annual savings of $37.6 million.
Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Texas receives an administrative fee based on the number of employees enrolled in HealthSelect and HealthSelect Plus. Blue Cross-Blue Shield pays the medical costs of these employees and then submits claims for reimbursement to ERS. Increased co-payments would require members to pay more of the cost of their medical care, allowing the state to pay less.
Increasing HMO co-payments would shift more costs to the member, allowing ERS to decrease its monthly premiums for HMO members.[13]
In all, these changes would save the state $205,200,000 over the 2004-05 biennium.
To realize these savings, the state should reduce the amount of the appropriations transferred to ERS by these amounts of the employees' increased co-payments.
Fiscal Year Savings to General Revenue Savings to Dedicated Funds 2004 $60,534,000 $42,066,000 2005 $60,534,000 $42,066,000 2006 $60,534,000 $42,066,000 2007 $60,534,000 $42,066,000 2008 $60,534,000 $42,066,000
[1]Employees Retirement System of Texas, Agency Strategic Plan for the Fiscal Years 2003-2007 (Austin, Texas, June 14, 2002), p. 6.
[2]Texas State Auditor's Office, "Selected Controls at the Employees Retirement System," Austin, Texas, March 27, 2002, p. 1.
[3]Employees Retirement System of Texas, ERS Health Plan, a presentation for the Texas Conservative Coalition (Austin, Texas, July 19, 2002), p. 7.
[4]Employees Retirement System of Texas, ERS Health Plan, p. 23.
[5]Employees Retirement System of Texas, ERS Health Plan, p. 15-16.
[6]The Kaiser Family Foundation, Employer Health Benefits: 2002 Summary of Findings (Menlo Park, California), p. 1.
[7]American Association of Health Plans, The Factors Fueling Rising Healthcare Costs, by PricewaterhouseCoopers (Washington, D.C., April 2002), pp. 5-8.
[8 ]Hewitt Associates LLC, Health Care Expectations: Future Strategy and Direction (Lincolnshire, Illinois, January 2002), p. 17.
[9]The Kaiser Family Foundation, Employer Health Benefits: 2002, p.77.
[10]Employees Retirement System of Texas, Employment Guide to Benefits (Austin, Texas, 2002) p. 5.
[11]The Kaiser Family Foundation, Employer Health Benefits: 2002, p. 51.
[12 ]Interview with Sheila Beckett, executive director, Employees Retirement System of Texas, October 11, 2002.
[13]Interview with Sheila Beckett, executive director, Employees Retirement System of Texas, October 15, 2002.


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Getting older doesn't have to be painful – not on your wallet anyway. A number of places will happily help you celebrate your birthday with birthday freebies!
Many restaurants offer a free meal or dessert for your birthday when you sign up with their program. Here are some examples of restaurants that will make you feel extra special on your big day.
Start off your big day with a free cup of Stumptown coffee and maybe even a freshly baked cookie at Second Stop Café. Or, if you're not near Second Stop Café, there's always Starbucks! Cardholders get a free cup on their birthday.
For lunch and dinner you have options, it's a good thing some offers are valid for the entire birthday month!
• Become a member of City Crab's Insiders Club and enjoy a free entrée during your birthday month. citycrabnyc.com
• Join the Haru Access Program and receive a $20 birthday certificate for this Japanese cuisine. www.harusushi.com
• Sign up for the email list and get a $30 birthday month coupon at Benihana, a teppanyaki restaurant. www.benihana.com
• The Melting Pot with a membership to Club Fondue gives a free fondue-for-two coupon on your birthday. www.meltingpot.com
Birthdays are definitely a time for dessert, or two. When you join Ben & Jerry's ChunkSpelunker club you get a free scoop of ice cream on your birthday. Sprinkles Cupcakes gives you a deliciously free cupcake when you sign up for its birthday club.
But it doesn't stop at food! There's no better birthday gift than a little personal pampering:
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• Integral Yoga Institute of New York knows that aging can be stressful. You and a friend can relax with a free class on your birthday. iyiny.org
• Sephora gives birthday gifts when you sign up to be a Beauty Insider. www.sephora.com
• Aveda also offers complimentary gifts on your birthday when you become a member. www.aveda.com
Continue the celebration with a free drink, or two. Birthday celebrators get free drinks all night at East End Bar & Grill as well as Second Chance Saloon in Brooklyn. The Dead Poet will let you drink for free on your birthday if you happen to share your birthday with a famous dead author - they issue a list each month of acceptable authors. If you can round up 10 friends for a birthday celebration, Justin Timberlake's Southern Hospitality BBQ offers the birthday person free drinks and some free peach cobbler.
Now you're ready for your birthday in New York; one year older, so much wiser, and with a fuller wallet!


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was genuinely saddened to read of the death of Hunter S. Thompson
two weeks ago. I'd never met the fellow, but back in 1965 when I
worked as a reporter for the old National Observer, Hunter
was a free-lancer who wrote occasional pieces out of South America
for the Dow Jones weekly. I wound up talking to him by phone a number
of times when he was working on his
first book about the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang, and I vaguely
recall him mentioning something I'd written about the gang after
a shoot-out that summer in Laconia, N.H. I'd followed his checkered
career as a political journalist in the years that followed and
came to admire what came to be called "gonzo" journalism.
It was wildly entertaining, I thought at the time, and showed a
recklessness rare among newsies then or now in his distinctive,
idiosyncratic view of the political universe.
wasn't going to write about him, having noted the myriad remembrances
of him by working journalists. But a column by William F. Buckley
Jr. earlier this week was so furious at the nice things being said
about Hunter and his influence on journalism that Buckley himself
approached "gonzo," letting it all hang out, practically
doing a jig on Hunter's grave. Then a more balanced view showed
up yesterday, with an advance publication of Frank Rich's weekly
commentary in the Sunday New York Times "Arts &
Leisure" section: "Gonzo
Gone, Rather Going, Watergate Still Here." In looking at
the flaccid performance of the Washington press corps in recent
years, rolling over and playing dead during the government's march
to war in Iraq, it's easy to see how Rich could celebrate a journalism
that would "savage" today's "news-free world."
are excerpts from Rich's lengthy commentary:
Two weeks
ago Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide. Next week Dan Rather
commits ritual suicide, leaving the anchor chair at CBS prematurely
as penance for his toxic National Guard story. The two journalists
shared little but an abiding distaste – make that hatred
in Thompson's case – for the Great Satan of 20th-century
American politics, Richard Nixon. The best work of both was long
behind them. Yet memories of that best work – not to mention
the coincidental timing of their departures – only accentuate
the vacuum in that cultural category we stubbornly insist on calling
What's missing
from News is the news. On ABC, Peter Jennings devotes two hours
of prime time to playing peek-a-boo with U.F.O. fanatics, a whorish
stunt crafted to deliver ratings, not information. On NBC, Brian
Williams is busy as all get-out, as every promo reminds us, "Reporting
America's Story." That story just happens to be the relentless
branding of Brian Williams as America's anchorman – a guy
just too in love with Folks Like Us to waste his time looking
closely at, say, anything happening in Washington.
In this environment,
it's hard to know whom to root for. After the "60 Minutes"
fiasco, Mr. Williams's boss, the NBC president Jeff Zucker, piously
derided CBS for its screw-up, bragging of the reforms NBC News
instituted after a producer staged a truck explosion for a "Dateline
NBC" segment in 1992. "Nothing like that could have
gotten through, at any level," Mr. Zucker said of the CBS
National Guard story, "because of the safeguards we instituted
more than a decade ago." Good for him, but it's not as if
a lot else has gotten through either. When was the last time Stone
Phillips delivered a scoop, with real or even fake documents,
on "Dateline"? Or that NBC News pulled off an investigative
coup as stunning as the "60 Minutes II" report on Abu
Ghraib? That, poignantly enough, was Mr. Rather's last hurrah
before he, too, and through every fault of his own, became a neutered
Hunter Thompson
did not do investigative reporting, but he would have had a savage
take on our news-free world – not least because it resembles
his own during the Nixon era, before he had calcified into the
self-parodistic pop culture cartoon immortalized by Garry Trudeau,
Bill Murray, Johnny Depp and most of his eulogists. Read Fear
and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 – the chronicle
of his Rolling Stone election coverage – and you find that
his diagnosis of journalistic dysfunction hasn't aged a day: "The
most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism
in America has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships
that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists."
He cites as a classic example the breathless but belated revelations
of the mental history of George McGovern's putative running mate,
the Missouri Senator Thomas Eagleton – a story that had long
been known by "half of the political journalists in St. Louis
and at least a dozen in the Washington press corps." This
same clubby pack would be even tardier on Watergate, a distasteful
assignment left to a pair of lowly police-beat hacks at The Washington
was out to break the mainstream media's rules. His unruly mix
of fact, opinion and masturbatory self-regard may have made him
a blogger before there was an Internet, but he was a blogger who
had the zeal to leave home and report firsthand and who could
write great sentences that made you want to savor what he found
out rather than just scroll quickly through screen after screen
of minutiae and rant. When almost all "the Wizards, Gurus
and Gentlemen Journalists in Washington" were predicting
an unimpeded victory march for Edmund Muskie to the Democratic
presidential nomination, it was Thompson who sniffed out the Muskie
campaign's "smell of death" and made it stick. The purported
front-runner, he wrote, "talked like a farmer with terminal
cancer trying to borrow money on next year's crop."
But even
Thompson might have been shocked by what's going on now. "The
death of Thompson represents the passing from the Age of Gonzo
to the Age of Gannon," wrote Russell Cobb in a column in
The Daily Texan at the University of Texas. As he argues,
today's White House press corps is less likely to be invaded by
maverick talents like a drug-addled reporter from a renegade start-up
magazine than by a paid propagandist like Jeff Gannon, a fake
reporter for a fake news organization (Talon News) run by a bona
fide Texas Republican operative who was a delegate to the 2000
Bush convention…
Today you
can't tell the phonies without a scorecard. Besides the six "journalists"
we know to have been paid by the administration or its backers,
bloggers were on the campaign payrolls of both a Republican office-seeker
(South Dakota's Senator John Thune) and a Democrat (Howard Dean)
during last year's campaign. This week The Los Angeles Times
reported that Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration, "taking
a cue from President Bush's administration," had distributed
fake news videos starring a former TV reporter to extol the governor's
slant on a legislative proposal. Back in Washington, the Social
Security Administration is refusing to comply with Freedom of
Information Act requests for information about its use of public
relations firms – such as those that funneled taxpayers'
money to the likes of Armstrong Williams. Don't expect news organizations
dedicated to easy-listening news to get to the bottom of it.
America's Story," NBC's slogan, is what Hunter Thompson actually
did before the phrase was downsized into a vacuous marketing strategy.
As for Mr. Rather, he gave a valedictory interview to Ken Auletta
of The New Yorker in which he said, "The one thing
I hope, and I believe, is that even my enemies think that I am
authentic." The bar is so low these days that authenticity
may well constitute a major journalistic accomplishment in itself.
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Deviled eggs aren't some out of date party dishon February 25, 2013 @ 12:51 pm (Updated: 4:22 pm - 2/25/13 )
Joining KIRO Radio's Seattle Kitchen, she turned to host Thierry Rautureau, and lamented the high expectations when a chef brings a dish to a party.
Instead of something extravagant, Casey brought something classic to the party: deviled eggs. And an experiment began. Her new book, "D'lish Deviled Eggs" shares 54 different recipes that take your deviled eggs from the classic to wild.
Thierry asked, what's the secret to a really good deviled egg?
"You have to start with eggs that aren't super fresh," Casey explained. She said she learned it the hard way - eggs that are too fresh are difficult to peel - so they should be at least seven to 10 days old.
"You're going to start with them in cold water, and bring them to a boil." Then, just as the boil starts, cover the pan and turn off the heat and let the eggs sit for 15 minutes.
Casey said she tried hundreds and hundreds of eggs while working on her book, and came to the top recipes she shares. They all seem to have something in common: texture.
One, a buttered corn egg, features butter in the mixture and a piece of popcorn on top. Another egg modeled after the California roll calls for avocado in the mixture and is topped with crab.
As it turns out, the egg is "a great base for many different flavors," says Casey.
For more expert chef tips listen to the Seattle Kitchen show on KIRO Radio, Saturdays at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 10 a.m. Available anytime ON DEMAND at KIRORadio.com.
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