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Well, SM dropped my DD off as promised. After working in the yard all afternoon, I came in to find several phone calls from my ex. Only message was to call him back when I could. I figured he was calling to tell me that SM was not bringing DD home, so I was in no rush to call back. When it got close to the time we agreed on, I called, got no answer and left VM. I then called SM to find out when DD would be home. DD answered saying she was pulling up the drive now. Confrontation averted!
This left me wondering why ex called so many times? About an hour later I got my answer when he called back. He asked me what my plans were for Easter (here we go, I thought!). I told him that I was making breakfast and then we would be having dinner later. He then says he has a flight down here in the AM and is it OK if he takes her for the day. I said, "Of course, it IS your holiday after all." All of that aggrivation and he ends up here after all. I am sure if it were just him, he would not have gotten so irrate with me. IMO, the whole drama was orchestrated by SM thinking that she could have him do some posturing with me and I would back down. Instead, he met with the exact thing he handed me, the threat of what would happen if he got me in a courtroom. Now he had really gotten himself stuck b/t a rock and a hard place. I let him take her. In fact, he asked me to keep it secret so he could surprise her. And not only did I do that, but I let him come in and go to her bedroom to surprise her this morning. No mention of court, no hostility. My DD called this evening to ask if she could stay another night since her dad wasn't leaving until Tues. I told her to let her dad know that I said, "No problem." I have no problem working with my ex when it comes to DD, but I will no longer be taken advantage of simply because SM wants things her way. I refuse to give her that kind of control. She needs to get a grip and realize her place when it comes to my DD. Now I don't know whether he came here for our DD, to pacify his wife, or thinking it would piss me off (thinking I was trying to take the holiday away from him somehow??); but whatever the reason, my DD got to spend the holiday with her father, as it should have been all along. Amen to that! Happy Easter all! |
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You are an amazing mom and you have a very luck daughter. (and your ex should be grateful) Now I only wish there were others that put their kids first.. After all it is about the best interest of our kids. |
"(here we go, I thought!)" I cringe... I just hate that 'what now?' or 'here we go' feelings. Glad things worked out for your daughter. She's lucky to have you for a mom, that's for sure! |
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Latest trade buzz: One day to go
Is Brad Miller on the move? Will the Cavs make a deal? Here's the latest trade chatter.
We know of three trade scenarios involving Brad Miller. They surfaced this week with the Kings' pushing hard to move the veteran center before Thursday's deadline.
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The Kings and Knicks continue to discuss an alternative package for Miller, which would feature the $7.6 million expiring contract of New York's Malik Rose. Sacramento, though, also is seeking Nate Robinson in that scenario, which isn't going to happen because the Knicks -- fond as team president Donnie Walsh is of Miller dating to their Indiana days -- are too high on Robinson.
The Kings likewise have talked with Chicago about a still-developing swap that would net Andres Nocioni and Drew Gooden's $7.2 million expiring contract for Miller and swingman John Salmons.
Salmons is the Sacramento player generating the most interest.
The Mavericks and Kings have been exchanging proposals involving the 29-year-old for some time. Portland and Oklahoma City also are frequently linked with Salmons.
San Antonio, meanwhile, is in the hunt as well, pursuing Salmons -- with an offer of Bruce Bowen and Ime Udoka -- as a far more affordable trade target for its perimeter rotation than Vince Carter. New Jersey's Carter has tempted the small-market Spurs for days but can be absorbed by them only in a hugely expensive and complicated deal.
The Mavericks have been offering Jerry Stackhouse's virtual expiring contract ($7 million this season, only $2 million guaranteed next season) and Brandon Bass ($826,000) to the Kings since this past summer, when Sacramento was shopping Ron Artest. The biggest obstacle for Dallas on a Salmons deal has been the Kings' insistence that the Mavericks -- lacking draft picks to sweeten the deal -- also take back guard Beno Udrih, who has four years and nearly $27 million remaining on his contract after this season.
There is another complication for interested parties: Sources revealed Tuesday that Salmons has a 15 percent trade kicker in his contract that would require the team that acquires him to pay him a bonus of nearly $2 million and add that figure to its payroll. Salmons otherwise would rank as one of the league's better bargains, earning just $5.1 million this season while averaging 18.3 points and shooting 47.2 percent from the field and 41.8 percent on 3-pointers.
The Wizards, sources said, quickly rebuffed Cleveland's offer of Wally Szczerbiak's $13.8 million expiring contract for former All-Star forward Antawn Jamison.
One source with knowledge of the Wizards' thinking said Tuesday that team president Ernie Grunfeld is determined to continue resisting interest in Jamison and Caron Butler because the club has renewed hope that injured starters Gilbert Arenas and Brendan Haywood will play in a small handful of games before the season ends, affording the Wiz an opportunity to evaluate the full team they hoped to field this season.
With Arenas and Haywood both having missed the entire season so far, Washington has cratered to a nightmare record of 12-42.
The Cavs, meanwhile, are expected to shift their focus from Jamison to making a final pitch (or three) for Clippers center Marcus Camby, after being convinced in this week's talks that the Wizards are not interested in parting with the 32-year-old in spite of their luxury-tax concerns.
The Clippers have been saying for weeks that Camby and rookie guard Eric Gordon are their only untouchables in trade talks, but history says Clippers owner Donald Sterling is bound to be tempted by the opportunity to remove Camby's $9.7 million from next season's payroll if presented with Szczerbiak's contract on deadline day ... unless L.A. can move Chris Kaman's longer contract first.
"The Cavs are definitely being super aggressive," one Eastern Conference executive said. "They see this economic frenzy out there with so many teams trying to get off money and lower their payrolls like New Orleans did [by trading Tyson Chandler] and they want to capitalize. If they can spend now to help them keep LeBron later, they're going to do it."
The Bulls have been shopping Larry Hughes and Gooden for months, but multiple executives suggested Tuesday night that Kirk Hinrich suddenly was closer to relocation than any other Bull entering the final day and a half of trading.
Minnesota, according to NBA front-office sources, has strong interest in Hinrich and is pursuing the 28-year-old to address a void at lead guard that hasn't been filled by Randy Foye (whose success this season came after a shift to shooting guard) or the undependable Sebastian Telfair.
The Wolves also have two expiring contracts of their own (Jason Collins and Rashad McCants) that they're prepared to shed.
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With half the country in a deep freeze today, it is definitely time to bring out the winter coats.
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Timing is everything, they say… well, it turns out that Twitter released their new layout just as I promised a new client a customized background graphic that would compliment her new site design. After some research, and a little help from my friends, the new layout wasn't as difficult to work around as I first thought.
Below, find the first two "New Twitter" background designs I've completed. As I test more, and *if* Twitter decides to roll out this layout with changes to the current version, I will be able to easily adjust. There's a little less room for that all important branding, but as usually happens with artistic folks, we simply become more creative.
If your Twitter account needs a bit of a "face lift", why not get yourself a new background to go with the "new Twitter"? Contact me to discuss your vision for your Twitter homepage by filling out this form, or contact me on Twitter or Facebook. As always, I invite your feedback… leave a comment on this post and let me know what you think!
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The Role of Advocacy in Building Democracies that Deliver for Women
Originally posted on CIPE's Development Blog by Jon Custer on Februrary 29, 2012
CIPE has long recognized the value of business associations to articulate and advocate for the interests of entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Women entrepreneurs and business owners face many of the same regulatory, legal, and policy issues as businesses headed by men. However, despite driving much of the world's economic growth, women also face unique obstacles that hinder their participation in the economy, especially in leadership roles. Of the world's 500 largest companies, only 13 (less than 3%) have a female chief executive officer.
In this week's Economic Reform Feature Service article, senior director of La Pietra Coalition Sandra Taylor talks about how the strategies of collective action and advocacy can be used to increase women's economic opportunities and make democracies more responsive to their citizens. "Non-profits, government, businesses, and the public can make substantially greater progress in alleviating many serious and complex social problems if they join around a common agenda," she writes. "When we work together to accomplish a similar goal we can be very powerful and have a real collective impact."
Article at a glance:
- For democracy to deliver for women around the world, women's voices must be heard on policy and regulatory issues that affect them at the local, national, and increasingly, the global level.
- Women's business associations, networks, and coalitions are important vehicles for political, economic, and social empowerment.
- The focus on creating economic opportunity for women is key not only to women's empowerment but to the democratic and economic development of countries.
With International Women's Day approaching on March 8, we will be focusing for the next week on women's issues here on the blog, on Facebook, and on Twitter @cipeglobal. Tomorrow: 20 Empowered Women You Should Be Following on Twitter.


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Debits to Dow Jones and Bloomberg for being a bit too rah-rah after a big stock rally on Tuesday. In these pieces, which appeared the same day of the rally, there's too much short-term Wall Street think and not enough common sense.
Dow Jones quotes an analyst in the second graph who talks about "healing." Bloomberg has a quote in the third graph about the market "getting a little more comfortable that the crisis is over." These quotes are up high and not sufficiently contextualized.
Compare this to the The New York Times, which in another same-day story keeps its head. Its piece, by Michael M. Grynbaum, starts with a reminder that Wall Street has its own bizarre rules under which up can be down and then has a nice and cautious quote from a now-repentant bull in the fourth paragraph:
"Nobody's kidding themselves," said Ed Yardeni, the investment strategist. "The financial crisis isn't over."
And later:
And though some observers will take Tuesday's rally as a sign of recovery, this type of investing strategy does not have a good track record…Last fall, as Citigroup became one of the first Wall Street firms to acknowledge its mortgage-related assets had lost billions of dollars in value, markets rallied in the hopes that the worst was over. The Dow has since fallen 11.6 percent from its October high.
Perspective: we like it.
So name one
A Debit to The Wall Street Journal for a Thursday article on how some value funds, which pride themselves on prudence, have been experiencing losses on par with their more unapologetically rash colleagues:
When the technology-stock bubble collapsed, 'value' managers smugly tsk-tsked, saying it would never happen to them because when they bought a stock, they understood the business model. Now, some value funds are posting losses rivaling those suffered by go-go 'growth' funds in 2001 and 2002, thanks to hits to stocks whose earnings were inflated by the real-estate bubble.
But the Journal never tells us by name which value funds plummeted. We only hear about funds that steered clear of disaster. Why not air a little dirty laundry?
A story about funds getting caught in the housing bubble should include at least one.
Good local reporting—from India
Credit The Atlantic for letting reporter Robert D. Kaplan wander around Calcutta and tell us what he saw. The piece might surprise you: It's as much about a rising, upwardly mobile segment of the population as it is about the poor.
Kaplan has a strong reaction to this economic divide, made more glaring by the close proximity of rich and poor: "Calcutta is, frankly, obscene."
Why? Take this example: "1.5 million poor Calcuttans live within a few feet of air-conditioning, even as they will never experience it."
But Kaplan also warns us not to only see what we have long been trained to:
too often, our Western fixation on the visual brutality of its poverty has obscured its harsh, unsentimental upward mobility.
Kaplan doesn't ignore either aspect of life in Calcutta.
More from off the beaten path
Continuing with the shoe-leather Credits, we liked a NYT's piece on the resurgence of silver mining in Idaho.
With the real-estate market down and prices of silver up, William Yardley reports, "Miners are feeling less like fading local color and more like the backbone of the local economy."
This situation might not last, of course, but it is a testament to the idiosyncrasies of the uneven process of de-industrialization.
Too easy on boards
A Debit to the Journal for George Anders's column Wednesday on the staying power of bank boards despite the credit debacle, which so many of them failed to foresee. Anders lets them off way too easily.
But even though shareholders in the U.S. could toss out lots of bank directors, don't look for that to happen. A union-led effort to trace culpability into the boardroom is running into skepticism from investment heavyweights.
Okay. But then Anders goes on to support this inertia. His reasoning?
Morgan Stanley and its kind aren't Tyco. The financial sector's stumbles are mostly about managers' hubris, sloppy analysis and a poor awareness of what happens when bull markets end. Those are pretty standard failings on Wall Street—and they're a long way short of systematic fraud.
That's the standard?
Also, Anders writes:
Directors can spot some trouble early, but they can't protect against everything. Their main recourses are to ask tough questions, replace problem bosses and help build better safeguards, all of which are happening at the more-resilient banks. Kicking out legions of directors just means that a new generation of boardroom novices has to learn those lessons afresh.Frustrated investors might be better served by asking how banks can build stronger boards in the future.


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The Explosion of Patent Litigation Recorded: Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Research Fellow William J. Watkins, Jr., author of Patent Trolls, appeared on the Steve Malzberg Show on Newsmax TV. Watkins talks about patent trolls, who are costing billions to the US economy by filing lawsuits against innovators. The result of these lawsuits slows the process of new technology and stifles innovation.
Experts: William J. Watkins Jr.Type: TelevisionIssues: Business, Free Market Economics, Litigation, Regulation and Deregulation, Science, Technology
William J. Watkins, Jr. on Patent Trolls Recorded: Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Research Fellow William J. Watkins, Jr. appeared on XMSatellite radios Innovation Navigation show to talk about his new book Patent Trolls: Predatory Litigation and the Smothering of Innovation. The cost of patent trolls is staggering, both in terms of lost work and in court costs and attorney fees. The outmoded patent system in the US is discussed, including proposals for reforming the patent system.
Experts: William J. Watkins Jr.Type: RadioIssues: Antitrust, Competition, and Monopoly, Business, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Litigation, Regulation and Deregulation, Science, Technology
John C. Goodman on FOX & Friends Recorded: Friday, June 22, 2012
Research Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, joins FOX & Friends to speak on competitve healthcare and the pending U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act.
Experts: John C. GoodmanType: TelevisionIssues: Free Market Economics, Health Care, Litigation
S. Fred Singer Interviewed on KUSI San Diego on Global Warming Recorded: Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Research Fellow S. Fred Singer speaks with KUSI San Diego's David Davis on the scientific and economic issues surrounding the global warming debate.
Experts: S. Fred SingerType: TelevisionIssues: Energy, Environment, Science, Technology
Alex Tabarrok: Launching the Innovation Renaissance Recorded: Friday, December 9, 2011
C-FIRE Deputy Director R.J. Lehmann interviews Independent Institute Research Director Alexander T. Tabarrok about his new book, Launching the Innovation Renaissance: A New Path to Bring Smart Ideas to Market Fast.
Experts: Alexander T. TabarrokType: RadioIssues: Economic History and Development (International), Economic History and Development (U.S.), Education, Free Market Economics, Litigation, Privatization, Property Rights
Clifford Thies on the American Economic Association and Richard T. Ely Recorded: Monday, November 28, 2011
The American Economic Association (AEA) takes pride in celebrating its founder Richard T. Ely. This pride is strange, given the character of Elys thought, which is revealed in The Independent Review article The Shaping of a Future Presidents Economic Thought: Richard T. Ely and Woodrow Wilson at The Hopkins by Gary M. Pecquet and Clifford F. Thies, as well as the Econ Journal Watch article Richard T. Ely: The Confederate Flag of the AEA? by Clifford F. Thies and Ryan Daza. In this podcast, Thies is interviewed by the economist Lawrence H. White and explores Elys ideas, values, and impact. Thies is the Eldon R. Lindsay Chair of Free Enterprise and Professor of Economics and Finance at Shenandoah University.
Experts: Clifford F. Thies, Lawrence H. WhiteType: RadioIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Collectivism, Culture/ Society, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Economists, Government Power, Immigration, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Public Health/ Consumer Protection, Race Issues, Regulation and Deregulation, Religion, Science, Welfare
Randal Rucker Discuses the Resilience of Private Beekeeping on the John Batchelor Show Recorded: Thursday, June 30, 2011
Research Fellow Randal Rucker (co-author of Plowshares and Pork Barrels: The Political Economy of Agriculture) appeared on the John Batchelor Show to discuss the resilience of honeybees through private beekeeping in the face of colony collapse disorder.
Experts: Randal R. RuckerType: RadioIssues: Business, Environment, Labor and Employment, Science
The Supreme Court and the Battle for Second Amendment Rights Recorded: Thursday, July 22, 2010
In June 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling on the Second Amendment individual right to keep and bear arms with its Heller v. District of Columbia decision. Two years later, in June 2010, a second historic decision squeezed through the highest court in the land.
Experts: Stephen P. Halbrook, Donald E. J. Kilmer Jr.Type: Independent Institute EventIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Justice/ Prisons, Culture/ Society, Gun Control, History (U.S), Law Enforcement, Litigation, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Race Issues


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Ultra-rare sets added to the database
Posted by Huw,I've added a number of old polybag sets to the database recently, including three today. Thanks to Dmitriy and Gena_A from doublebrick.ru in Russia for sending them to us. Normally, when we receive images for sets that we don't have in our database we can cross-check with BrickLink, Peeron or the Collector book to find out more about them, such as year of release.
However in this case, the three added today are not mentioned anywhere else. It's very unusual for them not to be at BrickLink in particular, so they really are ultra-rare. It wouldn't take much to re-constitute the sets from parts in your own collection, but even so, for the collector who has to have everything, these are going to be difficult to track down!
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That mouse/seal/dog one is funny!
What an ugly mutant thing the dog is!
They might have been happy meal toys. I remember as a kid seeing poly bag Lego sets in happy meals. Circa 1987-88.
Wow wow!
If they were available in the USA in happy meals there's a fair chance they'd be listed on Bricklink: someone would have sold one at one time or another.
I remember those Happy Meal sets too. I haven't seen them anywhere though. I know at least one of them was a red airplane. 1987-1988 sounds about right for the timeframe.
I have some very similar polybags which, if I recall correctly, came from the very first advent calendar which was not sold in the US.
Adding to my comment above, looking at the set here:
it looks like the angel set is indeed the exact same as the one that came with that advent calendar. I am not sure if this is truly the original one since they tend to change theme over the years. Is there an all-advent-calendar bricklist?
what's that third alternate model in the picture supposed to be? It looks like 3 pieces just randomly stacked :/
I have no clue what 2877 is, but the one one the bottom looks like a boat
I have one in the package but lost it
Ultra rare? wow! the people look simalar to the ones in 6166s instructions.the dog is exactly like the one in the 1998 advent calender.
The origin of this sets seems to be Milky Way Promo in russian. From where does original year came from ? :)
@tkf, I guessed it and made a note in the comments that it's unconfirmed. I can't leave it blank in the database.
@Huw, I think by the style they are closer to 1997 promo sets like 2876. ^_^
Sorry i'm not always reading notes. Not a very good habit.
I agree with tkf, because I faintly look at the photo of polybag of 2877, and find that the year is 1997.
Also the packaging style of 2842, 2875 and 2877 should be after 1996, because of the logo of suitable age in left bottom corner.
Nice find everyone. I have been looking for more info about these sets for ages... I can confirm that sets 1756-1, 1758-1, 1767-1, and 1828-1 are all part of a co-promotion with Milky Way, circa 1995. This info is based on a catalog that went with these sets. Hope that helps! :)
Weird sets!.....But also sorta cool.
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A to Z of MS
Click on the relevant link for more information on a topic.
A to Z of MS Fingolimod (Gilenya)
Product name
During development the drug was known as FTY720
Fingolimod is a disease modifying drug for relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis. It is also undergoing trials as a potential treatment for primary progressive MS.
Fingolimod is licensed for people with rapidly evolving severe relapsing remitting MS (two or more relapses a year), and for people who continue to have relapses despite treatment with one of the beta interferon drugs or glatiramer acetate (Copaxone). Fingolimod can also be used by people switching from natalizumab (Tysabri) who are at high risk of developing PML.
Fingolimod research
Relapsing remitting MS
Two main studies have provided the evidence to support licensing of fingolimod for relapsing remitting MS:
- FREEDOMS was a double-blind, placebo-controlled study involving 1,272 people with relapsing remitting MS in 22 countries. Participants received one of two doses of fingolimod or placebo over two years.
The relapse rate for people in the placebo group was 0.40, compared to 0.18 for a 0.5mg fingolimod dose (a reduction of 54%) and 0.16 with a 1.25 mg dose (a reduction of 60%). The reduction of progression of disability was 30% and 32% respectively compared to placebo. - TRANSFORMS was a one year phase III study. It compared two doses of fingolimod (0.5mg and 1.25mg) against interferon beta-1a (Avonex) in 1,292 people with relapsing remitting MS.
Relapse rates at one year were 0.33 for interferon beta-1a, 0.16 on the lower dose of fingolimod (a reduction of 52% compared to interferon beta-1a) and 0.2 on the higher dose (a 38% reduction). 80-83% of the fingolimod groups remained relapse-free over the year compared with 69% of those on interferon beta-1a.
Primary progressive MS
Laboratory investigations provided evidence that, in addition to its effect on the immune system, fingolimod may have neuroprotective and remyelinating properties in the brain and spinal cord.
- INFORMS was a phase III double blind study testing whether fingolimod (0.5mg taken daily for three years) was effective in delaying disability progression compared to placebo in 951 people with primary progressive MS. The initial results, announced in December 2014, showed that fingolimod was no more effective than placebo.
How fingolimod works
Fingolimod works by binding to the surface of white blood cells (lymphocytes) in the immune system. This causes a large proportion of the lymphocytes to be retained in the lymph nodes, reducing the number that can reach the central nervous system and attack nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
In addition, there is evidence that fingolimod may have a direct effect on nerve cell damage and enhance the repair of myelin, which may have implications for people with progressive MS.
How is fingolimod given?
Fingolimod is taken orally as capsules.
Side effects and contraindications
Fingolimod causes a temporary bradycardia (decrease in the heart rate) and may be associated with atrioventricular block (a type of heart rhythm disorder). Following a formal safety review by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), guidelines are in place that mean people should take their first dose of fingolimod under medical supervision and have their heart rate and blood pressure monitored for at least six hours.
Other common side effects include headache, liver enzyme increases, influenza, diahorrea, back pain, and cough. Fingolimod may also cause macular oedema (a swelling in the eye affecting vision).
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).
Fingolimod for the treatment of highly active relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.
NICE technology appraisal guidance 254.
Available from NICE website
Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC).
Advice: fingolimod (Gilenya) - 10 September 2012.
Available from SMC website
Kappos L, et al.
Placebo-controlled study of oral fingolimod in relapsing multiple sclerosis.
New England Journal of Medicine 2010;362(5):387-401.
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Cohen J, et al.
Oral fingolimod or intramuscular interferon for relapsing multiple sclerosis.
New England Journal of Medicine 2010;362:402-415.
Read online
INFORMS study
ClincalTrials.gov website
Update on fingolimod Phase III trial in primary progressive MS (PPMS)
Novartis press release, 1 December 2014
Brinkmann V, et al.
FTY720: sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor-1 in the control of lymphocyte egress and endothelial barrier function.
American Journal of Transplantation 2004;4:1019-1025.
Miron VE, et al.
Fingolimod (FTY720) enhances remyelination following demyelination of organotypic cerebellar slices.
American Journal Pathology 2010;176:2682-2694.
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- Gilenya (EMC website)
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Economic Impact Study
The report examining the economic impact of the Smoke-Free Arizona Act is available here. The study, prepared by the W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, includes the analysis of actual sales data for restaurants and bars, and the results of a survey of owners and managers of restaurants and bars in Arizona that was conducted prior the implementation of the Act and repeated one year later. The report also includes a literature review on the effects of tobacco regulations on the hospitality industry in the United States and in other countries. Click here to view the entire report.
Smoking is not allowed in most enclosed public places and places of employment including (but not limited to):
For more information, contact
The Smoke-Free Arizona Program
Arizona Department of Health Services
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Smoke-Free Arizona Program
Smoking is allowed on the outdoor patio of your bar or restaurant. Before modifying or building a new outdoor smoking patio, you should consider contacting the county health department, the Department of Liquor Licenses and Control, the local building department, and any other applicable authorities.
Outdoor Patios and the 20 Foot Rule
If your outdoor patio is less than 20 feet from any entrance into your establishment, as a proprietor you may permit smoking on the outdoor patio only if you use a method that:
For more information regarding outdoor patios, call 1-877-AZ STOPS, or contact your county health department.
Reporting Violations
The public is encouraged to report businesses that are not in compliance with the Smoke-Free Arizona Act to the Arizona Department of Health Services. Complainants may choose to remain anonymous. County health departments are in charge of investigating complaints about violations of the Smoke-Free Arizona Act. The county health department will notify the business owner about the complaint, and/or conduct an inspection within 15 days after receipt of the complaint.
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Chelsea players celebrate with the trophy after winning the Europa League final soccer match between Benfica and Chelsea at ArenA stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Wednesday night.AMSTERDAM Branislav Ivanovic scored on a looping header from Juan Matas corner kick in the third minute of stoppage time, and Chelsea beat Benfica 2-1 Wednesday night to win the Europa League following its Champions League title last year.
Fernando Torres put Chelsea ahead in the 60th minute, but Oscar Cardozo tied the score when he converted a penalty kick eight minutes later after a hand ball by Cesar Azpilcueta.
Chelsea earned the stoppage-time corner kick when Ramires knocked the ball off Jardel and over the end line.
Ivanovic, suspended for last years Champions League final for yellow-card accumulation, rose between Jardel and Andre Almeida and from 8 yards headed the ball over goalkeeper Artur, who froze. The goal came at 2:13 of three minutes of stoppage time, and Ivanovic slid to the nearest corner flag, punched it and was mobbed by teammates,
Manager Rafa Benitez, criticized intensely by Chelsea fans since he replaced Roberto Di Matteo in November, led the Blues to the only major title they had not won. Benitez already has said he will leave at the end of the season, and Jose Mourinho appears likely to replace him in his second stint as Chelsea manager.
Playing its 68th match of the season, Chelsea won despite missing captain John Terry and midfielder Eden Hazard, both injured in Sundays 2-1 Premier League victory over Aston Villa. Terry was suspended for last years Champions League final, won on penalty kicks over Bayern Munich.
Before a crowd of 46,163 at Amsterdam Arena, Benfica lost its sixth straight European final since winning the Champions Clubs Cup in 1962, when promising 20-year-old striker Eusebio scored twice to beat Real Madrid 5-3 in Amsterdam. Eusebio was among the spectators for this final.
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Honorable Robert L. Charette
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Cite as: AGLO 1970 No. 30
Dear Sir:
This is written in response to your recent letter requesting our opinion on a question pertaining to the authority of Grays Harbor County:
". . . to adopt a county-wide ordinance concerning mandatory collection and disposal of solid wastes and establish an adequate fee schedule to support such service where necessary?"
In response to this question, we would specifically call your attention to the provisions of Title 55 RCW, relating to the formation of county sanitary districts. On the basis of the statutes contained in this Title (which was originally enacted as chapter 155, Laws of 1933) we concluded, in an opinion dated September 23, 1943, to the Executive Secretary of the Washington State Association of County Commissioners (copy enclosed), that a board of county commissioners, through the formation of one or more sanitary districts, could operate a county garbage collection service on a fee basis. We would particularly direct your attention to RCW 55.08.010, which spells out the rule‑making power of a board of county commissioners upon the formation of a sanitary district.
Alternatively, we believe that a county such as Grays Harbor County may be said to possess the necessary authority to enact the type of ordinance to which you have referred under the provisions of RCW 36.32.120 (7). Under this statute, each of the several boards of county commissioners which are governed thereby is empowered to:
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"(7) Make and enforce, by appropriate resolutions or ordinances, all such police and sanitary regulations as are not in conflict with state law, . . ." (Emphasis supplied.)
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Laying the Burning Legion to rest {WoW}
May 26th 2008 6:53PM Its pretty obvious from his death animation (which has been floating around for a while now) that he just gets pushed back to where he came from. He's not dead, just defeated. Now its time to focus on Arthas while the Legion plans their next attack.
Ask WoW Insider: Casual Raiding -- does it exist? {WoW}
May 26th 2008 3:35PM @14
We pretty much skipped over Vashj/Kael in favor of gearing up a bit more. We took Vashj to Phase 3 prior to 2.4 and never took any swipes at Kael. We plan to pick up with Vashj again this week and start in on Kael attempts shortly there after. But, I appreciate your concern. Hopefully, then we'll be okay in your eyes. Because I need your validation in order for me to feel like I have accomplished anything in a pretend world.
Ask WoW Insider: Casual Raiding -- does it exist? {WoW}
May 26th 2008 11:06AM Casual guilds exsist. I have been in a casual guild that has been going strong since the beginning of TBC. We have cleared Kara, ZA, Gruul, Mag, 5/6 SSC, 3/4 TK, 4/5 Hyjal and 4/9 BT. http://whj-guild.org
Addon Spotlight: Steal Your Carbon {WoW}
May 11th 2008 6:54PM Hmmm... I need something like this... but, not this. I only buy pet food from the vendor. My food/water comes from a mage table. What I would like is something to tell me when I'm low on Fel mana pots, flasks of relentless assualt, mad alchemist pots, Elixir of Major Agility, Mageblood Elixir, etc and how many of each reagent I need to buy. Anyone know of anything like that?
Questioning the fate of 25 mans in Wrath {WoW}
May 9th 2008 4:49PM This is a concern I just shared with a fellow guildie on our guild forums. Seems to be a common one. I'm sure Blizzard is aware of this concern as well. Considering they haven't designed a single raid boss yet, I'm going to try and not think about it until the launch date to WotLK gets closer. Hopefully we have enough time between now and the launch of WotLK to kill Illidan, that's going to be the goal. :)
Officers' Quarters: Casual raiding that works {WoW}
Apr 7th 2008 2:38PM Being a part of a casual raiding guild for over a year now, as both a member and officer I can tell you the two biggest factors of our success are: 1) Patient and Persistent officers and 2) Having a strong core for people who like playing with each other no matter what you're doing.
We suffered many set backs as a casual guild but we kept on fighting through our issues and we are 5/6 SSC, 3/4 TK and will probably be starting Hyjal/BT next week. Not bad for a guild who raids 2 nights a week. While we were working Karazhan membership dropped off while trying to get Karazhan down. We fell back to running 5 mans, recruited and went back in and dominated the rest of Karazhan. We met up with another guild to co-raid Gruul's with and eventually merged with them. We took down Gruul together but all their members disappeared once we started to attempt Mag and school started. We fell back to Karazhan and ZA. We found another guild to co-raid with but that quickly broke up as they were absorbed by another guild. We ran ZA for a few more weeks. Yet again we found another guild with similar problems as us (solid core of well geared players, poor attendance for the rest of the guild). We joined up with them and started learning SSC and TK together. At the same point in time both guilds were ready to try 25mans on our own and we parted ways. Both guilds are now thriving.
The hardest part to the high-end raid game is getting a solid group of 25 players together at the same time. Outside of Vashj and Kael the bosses in SSC and TK are not really that hard and neither are the first 3 bosses in Hyjal and BT. Its content definitely asseciable to casuals.
Loot Reaver gets his revenge {WoW}
Apr 4th 2008 9:17PM Just did him last night. Was actually easier WITHOUT DBM. You just have to do a crazy thing called PAY ATTENTION. We easily one shot him without any major issues. I like him the way he is currently. Still a little too easy for a boss that drops T5 shoulders.
2.4 leaves hunters low on mana {WoW}
Mar 28th 2008 8:18AM I did Hydross, Lurker, Tidewalker, Fathom-Lord and Al'ar last night without running into any mana problems. I ran as I always do with AotH and drinking Fel Mana Potions when needed. I actually had less mana problems then normal. But, I had 376 Int when buffed with AI and Kings. I even broke 1500 DPS for the first time on Tidewalker. So that was fun. ;)
Breakfast Topic: The price of flight {WoW}
Mar 21st 2008 8:38AM Are you kidding me? 5Kg on my server would cost about $200. I didn't really have any problems getting money for my epic flying mount through conventional means. Sure, I didn't do it overnight. But, I did the most of the grind BEFORE daily quests were introduced in the game. You just have to make it a priority and save your money. At that time I played for about an hour Monday through Friday during my lunch breaks and then twice a week I would raid.
You'd be surprised how much easier something is when you set a goal and focus on it.
Blizzard doesn't deliver on Pandaren Express {WoW}
Mar 18th 2008 9:48AM Do you bloggers bother to research ANYTHING? Geez a simple search on WoWWiki would reveal that Pandaren Express was a paradoy of EQII's /pizza comand that was largely ridiculed in the WoW community because all it did was launch the users default web browser to PizzaHut.com. WoW developers insist they would have handled it better.


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For those of us who have been fortunate enough to live or work outside of the US, the experience provides a unique view on business. Former expats seem to understand how US-centric many American companies are. (Think about your Web forms and date fields: Are they structured in a US-only format? What about your call centers? Which countries do they support?)
Understanding the needs of the international community is essential to expanding your business and embracing global opportunities. After all, you don't want your international prospects and partners to think you don't care enough to make your forms capture their essential information correctly, do you?
This brings me to perhaps the most sensitive topic in international marketing: translation. To translate or not to translate. I get this question often and, although there are no clear-cut rules on what to translate, experience does play a role in guiding the decision. I look at it like this: a reasonable presence (say, 10 people) requires a reasonable effort (translate essential content).
So what's essential? Webpages? Collateral? Contracts? And, moreover, what if you are expanding to a multi-lingual country like Switzerland? What language would you translate into in that case?
I worked for an Israeli-based company for several years and we had offices worldwide. We never translated materials into Hebrew, but we did translate our most essential collateral into local languages, as we established major offices in Japan, Germany, China and France, and we sold extensively into Latin and South America. We did not translate our website however and neither our customers nor our partners objected.
To translate collateral or a website can be a major undertaking, both in human and capital resources. Who will manage the sites? How will you ensure that the translated material is current and, most importantly, correctly written in local language?
It's something to think about. In my opinion, wait until you have a strong presence in a country before considering translation. It can be an excellent asset in establishing your company in new markets, however, if you fail to execute it properly, the effort could backfire.
For more on this topic, read the blog from Language Weaver. There you'll find great tips.
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Charlie Louvin: Steps to Heaven
The Country Hall of Fame inductee releases his first of two 2008 albums with a stripped-down gospel setting.
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Hurray for May, going out with sunshine and balmy breezes! My peas are doubling in size almost daily, the cool weather veggies are looking lush and it looks like spring may be more in evidence in the coming weeks. Hurray!
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I was so happy to see the sun - all my tropicals were able to go out for a few hours this afternoon. My lettuce and peas are doing well too :) Never hear anything about the plant swap but since it's on Shabbat (Sabbath), I won't go. it's too bad they are not on sundays or another day of the week - I have tons of plants I could trade |
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Saturday, 04 November 2006 17:41 |
*This piece has been corrected. See note at the end.* I am now writing a piece for Truthout.org on the wider ramifications of the Bush Administration's lunatic dumping of a nuclear weapons "cookbook" on the Internet and leaving it posted up for months: a pearl beyond price for any government, militia, terrorist group, religious cult or criminal mafia hoping to wield some of the nuclear terror that has hitherto been the sole province of the world's "most developed" nations. As we all know, the
reason for this data-dump was purely and solely partisan politics: the Bush
Faction wanted their little bootlickers in the rightwing blogosphere to
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finding something that would goose a couple of news cycles here and there with
stories of "revelations" that "justify" one or more of the
Bush Regime's warmongering lies. They've been disappointed in this propaganda
gambit, however – namely because there can be no data of WMD programs that
didn't exist (or links to al Qaeda that never were). However, there was plenty
of data on the almost-successful nuclear weapons program that Saddam had built
before 1991 – with a mighty assist from a former All of this is bad
enough; however, late-breaking news in the Below is a companion piece that I'd written to go with an earlier column for Truthout dealing solely with the Bush dump. The news today has superceded that original article, so I'm rewriting furiously; however, the companion piece – providing some of the long-range background to the situation – is still valid, so I'm putting it up now. (More after the jump.) Prelude
to a Quagmire The Bush Party were
eager for their acolytes to exhume damning nuggets from the history of Saddam's
regime. But even here their idiocy showed itself. For a truly thorough and
objective analysis of the rise and rule of the Iraqi roughneck would have
indeed unearthed damning revelations –about generations of American leadership
that helped create and sustain Saddam's brutal regime. This history gives the
lie to everything the Bush Faction has said about Iraq and why we are there – yet it
is virtually unknown to the general public and is almost never mentioned by the
mainstream media, except in brief flashes, like shooting stars, that appear
briefly then disappear into the darkness. As
I noted in a Moscow Times piece earlier this year,
historian Roger Morris reminded us – in broad daylight, in the New York
Times, a week before Bush launched his invasion in 2003 – that Saddam's regime
had been helped to power by not one but two coups supported by the CIA. The
first brought the Baathist Party to power in 1963 – after the CIA had helpfully
tried to murder the incumbent strongman, Abdel Kassem, with a poisoned
handkerchief. Kassem, who had been Washington's boy as long as he posed a
counterweight to Egypt's Nasser and his "dangerous" secular
nationalism (oh, for some dangerous secular nationalists in the Middle East
today, eh?), left the reservation when he began "threatening Western oil
interests" and "talking of openly challenging" American
dominance in the Middle East, Morris notes. Operating from bases in The
coup was successful; Kassem was tried for "crimes against the Iraqi
people" and executed. The CIA then helpfully provided the successful
Baathists with lists of "suspected communists and leftists." The
Baathists then proceeded to systematically murder hundreds of people on the CIA
lists. American arms were soon flowing to the new "legitimate government
of Iraq" – weapons which, as Morris notes, the Baathists turned against
the Kurds whom the CIA had armed only months before. Meanwhile, "western
corporations like Mobil, Bechtel and British Petroleum were doing business with
was coup number one. Five years later, a Baathist faction led by Saddam
Hussein's kinsman, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, staged a violent uprising against the
government, again with CIA support. Where did Morris get this information?
Straight from the horse's mouth: " Serving on the staff of the National
Security Council under Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon in the late 1960's, I
often heard C.I.A. officers –
including [Kermit}Roosevelt, grandson of Theodore Roosevelt
and a ranking C.I.A. official for the Near East and Africa at the time – speak openly about their close relations with the Iraqi
Baathists." It is unlikely that the lowly thug and enforcer Saddam Hussein
would have ever been in a position to take power in But that was not all. Again, from March: "Bush also used the
global criminal network of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI)
to secretly funnel cash and weaponry to Saddam – then intervened to quash
federal investigations of the scam. What was BCCI? Only "one of the
largest criminal enterprises in history," according to the U.S. Senate.
What did BCCI do? "It engaged in pandemic bribery of officials in Europe,
Africa, Asia and the
"Yes, the Kuwaitis
had called in their marker. Like a warlord of old, Bush used the "Then came the
Carthaginian "peace" of the victors – Now Bush the Son has
surpassed the Father in This group, in public
letters and weighty "policy documents," openly proclaimed the
overwhelming "necessity" of overthrowing Saddam and establishing a
strong "military footprint" in the Middle East, as well as planting
new U.S. bases all over the world – with a special concentration in Central
Asia – embracing the concept of unilateral military action as a cornerstone of
national strategy, and increasing military spending by astronomical amounts.
All of this was planned, laid out, set down and published months – even years –
before the first plane struck the Every policy that the
Bush-Cheney regime has pursued has grown out of that long pre-existing vision
of domination and empire, a vision that has nothing to do with "protecting
the American people from terrorism." Almost immediately after 9/11, the
Bush Faction began diverting resources and money – often illegally – from the
effort to find Osama bin Laden into the desired war with In fact, Bush and Blair
got their first taste of war crime blood in May 2002. That was when they
launched a ferocious air war against "Not only were they
clearing the path for the coming invasion, but the memos show that the leaders
also hoped to provoke Saddam into retaliating, thereby giving them a PR excuse
for war: "self-defense" against Iraqi "aggression." But Saddam, this "raging
madman" lusting to destroy "In fact, Saddam
spent the months of bombardment frantically offering a virtual surrender:
unhindered WMD inspections, free elections under international supervision,
support for any What Bush and Blair
wanted was conquest, not disarmament or Iraqi freedom or a damping down of
terrorism in the world. They wanted the power and status given to "war
leaders" – as George II himself confirmed to a Bush family biographer,
Mickey Herskowitz, in 1999. Herskowitz, whose work
was too considered too truthful to be used as a propaganda piece in the 2000
campaign – but who has nonetheless remained close to Bush Senior – said Bush
was lusting for war long before taking office, as Guerilla News Network
reported in 2004: "He was thinking
about invading
Thus, by his own
admission, Bush regards war — slaughter, ruin, chaos and terror — as the
measure of success, the path to greatness. He sees blood as the prime lubricant
for his rapacious domestic policies. He uses unprovoked military aggression to
achieve his personal and political goals. This personal
psychopathology dovetailed with calculating geopolitical ambitions of Dick
Cheney. From the GNN story: "Bush's circle of
pre-election advisers had a fixation on the political capital that British
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher collected from the Falklands War. Said
Herskowitz: 'They were just absolutely blown away, just enthralled by the
scenes of the troops coming back, of the boats, people throwing flowers at
[Thatcher] and her getting these standing ovations in Parliament and making
these magnificent speeches.'" None of it, not a single bit of it, has anything whatsoever to do with the security of the American people. It has only to do with the aggrandizement of George Walker Bush, Richard Bruce Cheney, and their courtiers, their corporate cronies, and their fellow feasters on the bodies of the dead. *This
piece originally referred to "Archibald Roosevelt, grandson of Teddy
Roosevelt." This was in fact a perpetuation of a mistake in the
original article by Roger Morris; it should be "Kermit Roosevelt," who
was the TR grandson with a lifelong involvement with the CIA. Apologies
for the error, which was spotted by an astute reader over at
LewRockwell.com. It has now been corrected.* |