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Title 26: Internal Revenue
§1.412(c)(3)-1 Reasonable funding methods.(a) Introduction—(1) In general. This section prescribes rules for determining whether or not, in the case of an ongoing plan, a funding method is reasonable for purposes of section 412(c)(3). A method is unreasonable only if it is found to be inconsistent with a rule prescribed in this section. The term "reasonable funding method" under this section has the same meaning as the term "acceptable actuarial cost method" under section 3(31) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). (2) Computations included in method. See §1.412(c)(1)-1(b) for a discussion of matters that are, and are not, included in the funding method of a plan. (3) Plans using shortfall. The shortfall method is a method of determining charges to the funding standard account by adapting the underlying funding method of certain collectively bargained plans in the manner described in §1.412(c)(1)-2. As such, the shortfall method is a funding method. The underlying method of a plan that uses the shortfall method must be a reasonable funding method under this section. The rules contained in this section, relating to cost under a reasonable funding method, apply in the shortfall method to the annual computation charge under §1.412(c)(1)-2(d). (4) Scope of funding method. Except for the shortfall method, a reasonable funding method is applied to the computation of— (i) The normal cost of a plan for a plan year; and, if applicable, (ii) The bases established under section 412(b)(2)(B), (C), and (D), and (3) (B) ("amortizable bases"). (b) General rules for reasonable funding methods—(1) Basic funding formula. At any time, except as provided by the Commissioner, the present value of future benefits under a reasonable funding method must equal the sum of the following amounts: (i) The present value of normal costs (taking into account future mandatory employee contributions, within the meaning of section 411(c)(2)(C), in the case of a contributory plan) over the future working lifetime of participants; (ii) The sum of the unamortized portions of amortizable bases, if any, treating credit bases under section 412(b)(3)(B) as negative numbers; and (iii) The plan assets, decreased by a credit balance (and increased by a debit balance) in the funding standard account under section 412(b). (2) Normal cost. Normal cost under a reasonable funding method must be expressed as— (i) A level dollar amount, or a level percentage of pay, that is computed from year to year on either an individual basis or an aggregate basis; or (ii) An amount equal to the present value of benefits accruing under the method for a particular plan year. (3) Application to shortfall. Paragraph (b)(2) will not fail to be satisfied merely because an amount described in (i) or (ii) is expressed as permitted under the shortfall method. (c) Additional requirements—(1) Inclusion of all liabilities. Under a reasonable funding method, all liabilities of the plan for benefits, whether vested or not, must be taken into account. (2) Production of experience gains and losses. If each actuarial assumption is exactly realized under a reasonable funding method, no experience gains or losses are produced. (3) Plan population—(i) In general. Under a reasonable funding method, the plan population must include three classes of individuals: participants currently employed in the service of the employer; former participants who either terminated service with the employer, or retired, under the plan; and all other individuals currently entitled to benefits under the plan. See §1.412(c)(3)-1(d)(2) for rules concerning anticipated future participants. (ii) Limited exclusion for certain recent participants. Under a reasonable funding method, certain individuals may be excluded from the first class of individuals described in paragraph (c)(3)(i) of this section unless otherwise provided by the Commissioner. The excludable individuals are participants who would be excluded from participation by the minimum age or service requirement of section 410 but who, under the terms of the plan, participate immediately upon entering the service of the employer. (iii) Special exclusion for "rule of parity" cases. Under a reasonable funding method, certain individuals may be excluded from the second class of individuals described in paragraph (c)(3)(i) of this section. The excludable individuals are those former participants who have terminated service with the employer without vested benefits and whose service might be taken into account in future years because the "rule of parity" of section 411(a)(6)(D) does not permit that service to be disregarded. However if the plan's experience as to separated employees' returning to service has been such that the exclusion described in this subparagraph would be unreasonable, the exclusion would no longer apply. (4) Use of salary scale—(i) General acceptability. The use of a salary scale assumption is not inappropriate merely because of the funding method with which it is used. Therefore, in determining whether actuarial assumptions are reasonable, a salary scale will not be considered to be prohibited merely because a particular funding method is being used. (ii) Projection to appropriate salary. Under a reasonable funding method, salary scales reflected in projected benefits must be the expected salary on which benefits would be based under the plan at the age when the receipt of benefits is expected to begin. (5) Treatment of allocable items. Under a reasonable funding method that allocates assets to individual participants to determine costs, the allocation of assets among participants must be reasonable. An initial allocation of assets among participants will be considered reasonable only if it is in proportion to related liabilities. However, the Commissioner may determine, based on the facts and circumstances, that it is unreasonable to continue to allocate assets on this basis beyond the initial year. Under a reasonable funding method that allocates liabilities among different elements of past and future service, the allocation of liabilities must be reasonable. (d) Prohibited considerations under a reasonable funding method—(1) Anticipated benefit changes—(i) In general. Except as otherwise provided by the Commissioner, a reasonable funding method does not anticipate changes in plan benefits that become effective, whether or not retroactively, in a future plan year or that become effective after the first day of, but during, a current plan year. (ii) Exception for collectively bargained plans. A collectively bargained plan described in section 413(a) may on a consistent basis anticipate benefit increases scheduled to take effect during the term of the collective-bargaining agreement applicable to the plan. A plan's treatment of benefit increases scheduled in a collective bargaining agreement is part of its funding method. Accordingly, a change in a plan's treatment of such benefit increases (for example, ignoring anticipated increases after taking them into account) is a change of funding method. (2) Anticipated future participants. A reasonable funding method must not anticipate the affiliation with the plan of future participants not employed in the service of the employer on the plan valuation date. However, a reasonable funding method may anticipate the affiliation with the plan of current employees who have not satisfied the participation requirements of the plan. (e) Special rules for certain funding methods—(1) Applicability of special rules. Paragraph (e) of this section applies to a funding method that determines normal cost under paragraph (b)(2)(ii) of this section. (2) Use of salary scale. For rules relating to use of a salary scale assumption, see paragraph (c)(4) of this section. (3) Allocation of liabilities. In determining a plan's normal cost and accrued liability for a particular plan year, the projected benefits of the plan must be allocated between past years and future years. Except in the case of a career average pay plan, this allocation must be in proportion to the applicable rates of benefit accrual under the plan. Thus, the allocation to past years is effected by multiplying the projected benefit by a fraction. The numerator of the fraction is the participant's credited years of service. The denominator is the participant's total credited years of service at the anticipated benefit commencement date. Adjustments are made to account for changes in the rate of benefit accrual. An allocation based on compensation is not permitted. In the case of a career average pay plan, an allocation between past and future service benefits must be reasonable. (f) Treatment of ancillary benefit costs—(1) General rule. Under a reasonable funding method, except as otherwise provided by this paragraph (f), ancillary benefit costs must be computed by using the same method used to compute retirement benefit costs under a plan. (2) Ancillary benefit defined. For purposes of this paragraph an ancillary benefit is a benefit that is paid as a result of a specified event which— (i) Occurs not later than a participant's separation from service, and (ii) Was detrimental to the participant's health. Thus, for example, benefits payable if a participant dies or becomes disabled prior to separation from service are ancillary benefits because the events giving rise to the benefits are detrimental to the participant's health. However, an early retirement benefit, a social security supplement (as defined in §1.411(a)-7(c)(4)(ii)), and the vesting of plan benefits (even if more rapid than is required by section 411) are not ancillary benefits because those benefits do not result from an event which is detrimental to the participant's health. (3) Exception for certain insurance contracts. Under a reasonable funding method, regardless of the method used to compute retirement benefit costs, the cost of an ancillary benefit may equal the premium paid for that benefit under an insurance contract if— (i) The ancillary benefit is provided under the contract, and (ii) The benefit is guaranteed under the contract. (4) Exception for 1-year term funding and other approved methods. [Reserved] (5) Section 401(h) benefits. Section 412 does not apply to benefits that are described in section 401(h) and for which a separate account is maintained. (g) Examples. The principles of this section are illustrated by the following examples: Example 1. Assume that a plan, using funding method A, is in its first year. No contributions have been made to the plan, other than a nominal contribution to establish a corpus for the plan's trust. There is no past service liability, and the normal cost is a constant percentage of an annually determined amount. The constant percentage is 99 percent, and the annually determined amount is the excess of the present value of future benefits over plan assets. The present value of future benefits is $10,000. Under paragraph (b)(1) of this section, the present value of future benefits must equal the present value of future normal costs plus plan assets. (No amortizable bases exist, nor are there credit or debit balances.) Under method A, the present value of future normal costs would equal the sum of a series of annually decreasing amounts. Because of the constant percentage factor, the present value of future normal costs over the years can never equal $10,000, the present value of future benefits. In effect, then, assets under method A can never equal the present value of future benefits if all assumptions are exactly realized. Therefore, method A is not a reasonable funding method.
Example 2. Assume that a plan, using funding method B, determines normal cost by computing the present value of benefits expected to be accrued under the plan by the end of 10 years after the valuation date and adding to this the present value of benefits expected to be paid within these 10 years. Plan assets are subtracted from the sum of the two present value amounts. The difference then is divided by the present value of salaries projected over the 10 years. Under paragraph (c)(1) of this section, all liabilities of a plan must be taken into account. Because method B takes into account only benefits paid or accrued by the end of 10 years, it is not a reasonable funding method.
Example 3. Assume that a plan, using funding method C, determines normal cost as a constant percentage of compensation. (This percentage is determined as follows: The excess of projected benefits over accrued benefits is computed. Then the present value of this excess is divided by the present value of future salaries.) However, the accrued liability is computed each year as the present value of accrued benefits. (This computation does not reflect normal cost as a constant percentage of compensation. Thus, normal cost under the plan does not link accrued liabilities under the plan for consecutive years as would be the case, for example, under a unit credit cost method.) In determining gains and losses, method C compares the actual unfunded liability (the accrued liability less assets) with the expected unfunded liability (the sum of the actual unfunded liability in the previous year and the normal cost for the previous year less the contribution made for the previous year, all adjusted for interest). Under paragraph (c)(2) of this section, if actuarial assumptions are exactly realized, experience gains and losses must not be produced. Under method C, the use of a constant percentage in computing normal cost (and the expected unfunded liability) coupled with the manner of computing the accrued liability (and the actual unfunded liability) generally produces gains in the earlier years and losses in the later years if each actuarial assumption is exactly realized. Therefore, method C is not a reasonable funding method.
Example 4. Assume that a plan, using funding method D, bases benefits on final average pay. Under method D, the past service liability on any date equals the present value of the accrued benefit on that date based on compensation as of that date. The normal cost for any year equals the present value of a certain amount. That amount is the excess of the projected accrued benefit as of the end of the year over the actual accrued benefit at the beginning of the year. Accrued benefits, projected as of the end of a year, reflect a 1-year salary projection. Under paragraph (c)(4) of this section, salary scales reflected in projected benefits must project salaries to the salary on which benefits would be based under the plan at the age when the receipt of benefits under the plan is expected to begin. Because the plan is not a career average pay plan and compensation is projected only 1 year, method D is not a reasonable funding method. (Under paragraph (c)(4) of this section, the use of a salary scale assumption could be required with a unit credit method if, without the use of a salary scale, assumptions in the aggregate are unreasonable.)
Example 5. Assume that a plan, using method E, a unit credit funding method, calculates a participant's accrued benefit according to the following formula: 2 percent of final salary for the first 10 years of service and 1 percent of final salary for the years of service in excess of 10. Under the plan, no employee may be credited with more than 25 years of service. The actuarial assumptions for the valuation include a salary scale of 5 percent per year. For a participant at age 40 with 15 years of service, a current salary of $20,000 and a normal retirement age of 65, the accrued liability for the retirement benefit is the present value of an annuity of $16,932 per year, commencing at age 65. The $16,932 is calculated as follows:
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(3.3864 is 1.05 raised to the 25th power; the 25th power reflects the difference between normal retirement age and attained age (65-40).) Salary under this method is projected to the age when the receipt of benefits is expected to begin. Therefore, method E meets the requirement of paragraph (c)(4) of this section. Also, the allocation of benefits under method E between past and future years of service meets the requirements of paragraph (e)(3) of this section.Example 6. Assume that a plan that has two participants and that previously used the unit credit cost method wishes to change the funding method at the beginning of the plan year to funding method F, a modification of the aggregate cost method. The modification involves determining normal cost for each of the two participants under the plan. Therefore, it requires an allocation of assets to each participant for valuation purposes. The actuary proposes to allocate the assets on hand at the beginning of the plan year of the change in funding method in proportion to the accrued liabilities calculated under the unit credit cost method. The relevant results of the calculations are shown below:
Example 7. The facts are the same as in Example 6. However, the actuary proposes to allocate all the assets to employee M, the older employee. Method F, under these facts, is not an acceptable funding method because the allocation is not in proportion to related liabilities as required under paragraph (c)(5) of this section.
[T.D. 7746, 45 FR 86430, Dec. 31, 1980]


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Spacious accommodations, unfortunately we arrived very late and had to leave early, so we didn't really have a chance to use the space. Parking was close.
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the room was very large.
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The services provided were fantastic and great. i enjoyed staying there with my family. This will be my next home once i visited virgia - Alexandaria on my coming visits.
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Check-in was fast and easy. Beds was super comfy! Staff was pleasant.
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mostly everything was great all my next trips to dc will be in this hotel
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The price was right for the area, and the staff at the front desk were friendly.
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Good value for the money. Pet friendly, very nice staff. Decent food in pub. Good location.
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shuttle to metro, pool
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Desk staff was helpful about the area and friendly, room was large and clean, provided all additional amenities requested (extra pillows)
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Room was wondereful: beds, kitchen, view, etc. super!
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Located 5 miles from Arlington city center, this hotel boasts shuttle services to Van Dorn Metro Station and an on-site restaurant. The Washington DC National Mall is 9 miles away.
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Spacious accommodations, unfortunately we arrived very late and had to leave early, so we didn't really have a chance to use the space. Parking was close.
Somewhat dated, but fine. Free breakfast was adequate, but not as good as other places we have stayed. Housekeeping seemed to cut a few corners, but nothing worth writing about.
The services provided were fantastic and great. i enjoyed staying there with my family. This will be my next home once i visited virgia - Alexandaria on my coming visits.
Check-in was fast and easy. Beds was super comfy! Staff was pleasant.
It was raining and there are no side doors to go in to from the back parking lot. It wouldve been nice to have more bariety of pots and pans (skillet) to cook with
The beds were very comfortable and the room was spacious.
The hallways smelled very bad -- a mix of fish (or puke) and cleaning products. The breakfast did not include any fruit or protein (except for artificially sweetened low-calorie yogurts).
The location was only 1 mile away.
Breakfast offerings too limited. Only protein was a sugary yogurt. Had waffles, pastries & muffins. Parking was difficult. Had to park & walk a long distance at night.
mostly everything was great all my next trips to dc will be in this hotel
The price was right for the area, and the staff at the front desk were friendly.
The room smelled like mildew! There was a sign near the thermostat that said the entire hotel was either on heating or cooling mode. It was warm and humid and we wanted to turn on the air conditioner but couldn't (they were on heating mode) so we opened the windows (at the hotel's suggestion). There were smokers outside and a trash compactor near our room window and we were woken up several times during the night. The bathroom smelled like old cigar smoke. The kitchenette was clean but very dated and worn. When we opened the sleeper sofa there were crumbs and an old bottle cap under the cushion. We were booked for a whole weekend but checked out after one night.
Good value for the money. Pet friendly, very nice staff. Decent food in pub. Good location.
A bit run down. My suite could have used a facelift and there was a bit of water damage and mold on one wall in the bathroom. The place has a lot of potential so hopefully the minor cosmetics will be addressed.
The rooms were clean and the proximity to Washington dc is good. I have stayed here many times before.
Generally, front desk managers have been courteous, helpful and willing to accommodate reasonable request. This trip, however, the suite I was assigned was not what I have become used to at this hotel. The night manager was a bit inflexible and it took a lively discussion with her in order to change my room to a more appropriate one, which was available.
The suite was large, comfortable, clean and well maintained. The staff was friendly and helpful. The availability of the shuttle to take us to the train station and local restaurants was much appreciated. Breakfast was great.
This hotel has a large number of resident families with many small children who create unpleasant situations for guests. Upon check-in we were given a room next to one of these families where one of the children was kicking and banging on the door and screaming in an alarming manner. We were given a different room. There were children running up and down the halls at night. The most concerning situation is the children who play in the playground area at night. This is an area in front of the hotel where cars are coming and going all the time. The children run back and forth across the driveway, jump on guests' parked cars and in general create a very dangerous and uncomfortable situation.
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breakfast wasn't much to be excited about, noisy in hallways, a/c in two of the three rooms didn't work well
Noise! Noise! Noise! At 3 in the morning kids were running up and down the halls playing- they took money out of my account without asking me- I will never stay there again and will discourage anyone I know from staying there- the lobby smelled so bad - it was horrible!
Desk staff was helpful about the area and friendly, room was large and clean, provided all additional amenities requested (extra pillows)
The breakfast staff was horrible. It was a buffet, which was perfect for a family to "grab and go" before heading to D.C. for the day. However, the woman running it was rude and literally would grab things out of our hands insisting that that we either "had too many" or she would "make our plate for us". Make-your-own waffles were not allowed because she "had to do it" --- which I'm assuming was her way of getting a tip, but it slowed down the line considerably and left other stations running out of fruit, juice, etc because she was so focused on waffle making. She even yelled at my daughter with special needs for "climbing on the counter" when in actuality she was just reaching for a bowl. She was caught in the lie after screaming at my daughter "Where is your mother?!" and I was standing right behind her. She was taken aback and did apologize, but this shouldn't have happened in the first place. This woman alone would be reason enough for me not to return to this hotel. Additionally, the noise level was ridiculous. There were many families with unsupervised children running around the hotel at all times of the day and no one said a word to them. They even were running up and down the 9th floor hallway at 3:00 in the morning two out of the five nights we were there. Inexcusable. I would have given the next level up in scoring for comfort and staff had it not been for these two issues.
We were given another suite for the last six days of our stay and it was great. We loved the kitchenette which was perfect for a family with a toddler. Location was great. We loved the family feeling at the hotel.
On our first night we were given the suite closest to the lobby on the first floor. This was horrible as young children were playing all night and the door to the office (?) next door was slamming ALL night. We did not sleep at all.
Room was wondereful: beds, kitchen, view, etc. super!
Suite, with a full kitchen. Free shuttle was great! As a whole it was an ok Place to stay and we'de likely stay there again if we are in the area.
Smokey restaurant made us not want to eat there, and we didn't. Poor open hours for the pool. Not very well cleaned.


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Obama Requests "No Spoilers" for House of Cards Season 2
By Lenny Pierce on February 14, 2014
Even the leader of the free world is afraid of dummies ruining his binge watching. Mr. Prez released a tweet yesterday warding off spoilers for the second season of NetFlix's House of Cards. Since all HOC episodes are released at once, one could easily crush the entire season in a day and then crash the party for those of us with jobs – including the president.
The world has long known that number 44 is fan of the show. At a White House meeting in December, Obama spoke with NetFlix CEO Reed Hastings, saying "I'm just wondering if you brought advance copies of House Of Cards?". Hastings jokingly offered Obama a cameo in response.
At the same meeting, Obama jokingly said that he "wished things were that ruthlessly efficient" in the actual White House. Despite the advantages of House of Cards' political efficiency, I think we can all be glad that problematic congressmen aren't (SPOILER REDACTED).
Check out the trailer for House of Cards Season 2 below.
In other HOC news, NetFlix execs recently confirmed that the show will be renewed for a third season as well. I think we can assume from this move that Season 2 won't disappoint.
Any predictions for Frank Underwood's meddling in Season 2? or Season 3 for that matter? Will we see any new developments in Frank and Claire's shockingly functional marriage? How many visits to Freddie's BBQ Joint can we expect over these next 13 episodes?
HT: @BarackObama, Deadline.com
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"…one could easily crush the entire season in a day and then crash the party for those of us with jobs – including the president."
Wait a minute. Now just wait one darn minute here.
We're actually calling what Obama does "work"?
Mind = blown.
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Could the Cops Be Lying in Boston? Surely Not!
Posted by Travis Holte on April 21, 2013 08:02 AM
During the occupation of Boston it was widely reported that the bombing suspects had robbed a 7/11. That turned out to be false. The robbery was perpetrated by others. That's right; with a massive police state presence, criminals were undeterred. But how convenient for officials to let the story float for nearly a day?
It's looking like that is not the only whopper coming from officials (shocking, I know). Police Chief Wiggum has been providing all sorts of details throughout the affair and since. Here he goes into great detail about the "shootout" in the early hours of Friday morning. According to Wiggum, the older brother all of a sudden decided to come out from behind cover and walk right up to the cops, unloading his gun in the process. When he ran out of ammunition, says Wiggum, one of the heroes in blue tackled him. As officers were handcuffing him, Wiggum explains, his younger brother decided to charge them with the stolen SUV. The donut eaters were able to leap away just in time, leaving the older brother not only to be run over but dragged down the street as the younger suspect hightailed it out of there.
This all happened after what Wiggum describes as a 5-10 minute gun battle. So how did the remaining suspect elude the cops? Was there no police helicopter? Did someone at the top want him to get away?
One thing is for sure, Wiggum's story is completely contradicted by an eye-witness. She says the cops ran over the older brother, and then, in what seemed to be retaliation, filled him full of lead.
The '7-11 Robbery' that supposedly the alleged bombers patsies committed?
Eh! NOT! Never happened: 7-Eleven robbery not related to Boston bombing suspects
WITNESS: Nope, the suspect did NOT run over his own brother. The Cops did.
Linda calls in to describe the scene on Dexter St in Watertown
Fri, 19 Apr 2013
Linda explains how the shootout transpired in Watertown during the early morning hours. She saw the first suspect mortally wounded and police beginning the manhunt for the second suspect.
Who you gonna believe at this point?
Your fellow citizenry, your own research via publicly available info, and assessing witness commentaries, 'news', spin, documented facts, historical geopolitical analyses by others, and via your own individual discernment skills?
Or, an institutional guild of tax-leechin' political police & dutiful private Praetorian Guards for the Ruling Class, who have a VERY LENGTHY track record and factually verifiable history of committing crimes, whom in fact have an institutional incentive TO continue to lie, steal, cheat, entrap and murder?
Wonders never cease: it's hilarious that the 'conspiracy theorist' label gets thrown around vs. the rightfully sane skeptics, who are simply applying current scrutiny into State/corporatist actors based on factual history, vs. gullible, naive, delusional statists who are apparently suffering from generational Stockholm Syndrome and almost Pavlovianly believe everything and anything that corporatist govt goonsquads & cheerleaders print, play, or say??
Baghdad Bob, the Boston Edition:
The REAL sick, Cosmically ironic joke, is the fact that most Americans don't realize that they're essentially watching the same propaganda, on their own TV.
A Cop's Personal Guide to Lying
"Deception during interrogations to coerce a confession — that's just good police work — and the entire enterprise of undercover work is a complex, multi-layered deception. There are also lies justified by investigative necessity, and conduct intended to deceive that is not malicious in nature."
Why Cops Lie UNDER Oath:
Rebuttal from a Cop site: http://www.policeone.com/patrol-issues/articles/6177608-Do-p...
*** Again, I would like to ask: WHEN, does the 'brand' Govt become synonymous with a guild of liars, assaulters, kidnappers, pedophiles, torturers, rapists, and murderers??
How many more factually verifiable history does a 'sane' person need see more, before accepting nothing they say at face value??
Isn't it about time, that one absolutely learns to discern incompetence and malice? That just because govt on the most part is incompetent, does not mean that there are elements of it that are not exceedingly good at setting up and destroying things, which by its nature are MUCH EASIER to do, than building or creating something worthy, lasting or beautiful?
Why is that such a difficult concept to grasp for the human race?
April 15th was another in a long line of Govt Failure Day, regardless of whether the Boston Massacre was a malicious false flag (inside job, or compartmentalized nudging cluless assets/patsies along the way, or simply letting an event happen on purpose), organic or real terrorism, or incompetence.
The only thing that matters now is, what rights will they infringe, using this event?
Will the American citizenry continue to allow their govt SERVANTS to expand the infringement on more of their rights, coming out of this current 'crisis,' or not??
Predictions in due Time...
"Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it's realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy." - Dr. Ronald Ernest Paul
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Given Name: Luis M. Martinez
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School: Did not attend college.
Primary Position: Catcher
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Firstly: the film.
This was all shot in a day (with one pickup shot done the next day), as part of a collaboration with my friend Bart from Forgotten Walrus Entertainment. You'll probably recognise him from a few videos I've posted here (Namely "Inside The Walrus" which was a doco I did as part of my film studies assignment last year). Bart has moved away from where I live, so when he contacted me about coming down for 4 days to do some filming, I jumped at the chance. I had all of about two days to dream up an idea (as did he), and this is what I came up with. We also shot another, which I'll post when it's done... but that one is his film. This one was under my control.
Things I learned from this shoot? Have a goddamn boom operator. I know my audio is cruddy for the most part, but in the end I was glad to have finally done a short film after all this time. I've been doubting my abilities as a film maker (figured I was destined to rot in videography for the rest of my life) for a few months now, after not coming up with any ideas for films. When Bart offered to travel down for some collaborating... I got my anus into gear and wrote whatever came to mind. My GH1 is becoming a pain in the ass. At least four times I had it crap out on me during a take. I guess the particular hack I'm using doesn't like trees, as every time I tried to film that wide shot of Bart in his car, it would stop 10 seconds into the recording. I love my tripod! Honestly, it's the film-makers best tool... I also love my shoulder mount, but I'm beginning to see just how useful this tripod is for film making (and not just videography).
For those that care for technical stuff:
This was all shot on the Panasonic GH1, kit 14-42mm lens and the Rode Videomic and Zoom H1 for audio. Edited all in Sony Vegas 11, with some audio parts tweaked in Adobe Audition.
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Lennox G. Hood |
December 18, 1961 - December 12, 2012 |
Memorial Service | Saturday, January 26, 2013 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM |
Owen Brown Interfaith Center |
Obituary: On December 12, 2012, Lennox G. Hood of Columbia, born December 18, 1961 to the late Ronald G. Hood and Martha I. Hood (Baugher). He is survived by a cousin Susan (Hood) Personett, aunts, uncle, cousins and very dear friends. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, January 26, 2013, 2pm to 4pm at the Owen Brown Interfaith Center, 7246 Cradlerock Way, Columbia, Md 21045. The Memorial Service will be interpreted in ASL.
Donation: In lieu of flowers donations in memory of Lennox Hood may be made to the Maryland School for the Deaf, Attn: Jennifer Lake, 101 Clarke Place, P.O. Box 250, Frederick, MD 21705, or to the KODA Camp, Camp Mark #7, P.O. Box 45, Boyds, MD 20841.
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Pia Taavila | Lennox will be dearly missed. May his memory be a blessing for all of us who mourn his loss. Our hearts are heavy.
Tonya George | You were, and will always be dear to my heart. You were my friend and my "Corportate Husband". We've shared many laughs thru the years, and you will be truly missed!! |
Jean Philippe Laplagne | We have lost a wonderful soul. He was such a joy to so many of us and when I think of Lennox, I shall always do so with a smile upon my face. |
Susan | We may not have had Brother's and Sister's but we ALWAYS had each other. We were cousins, true friends and more importantly you were like a Brother to me and you were the best Brother anyone could ever ask for. My loss is deep and on a different level in which I've never experienced before in my life. I still can't believe you're gone this feels like a never ending nightmare, actually I'm still shocked. What gives me some comfort is that I believe you are truly at peace now as I know in my heart you're reunited with your parent's; Aunt Martha and Uncle Ronald and of course your baby Bandit and my baby Beacon. I love you and will miss you the rest of my life. Rest in peace Lennox. "Big Hugs" Love, Susan & Mark |
Amy Bopp | Darn it, Lennox, you made me cry! The first time when you sent me a handwritten-from-the-heart thank you note, when I made a donation to The Hearing and Speech Agency, because CIRS is so close to your heart because of your parents, and the second time on 12/12/12. ILY! See you again in the eternal life,
Amy |
Jeffrey | You'll be missed. |
Donna Schultz | We met as children and then again at 18. You were my pal. You, Susan, and I were the three stooges, literally. I can never forget the fun, laughs and inside jokes we shared (women's lib). We had many fun nights out to the Glass Menagerie and Mr. Pips. You will always be in my heart. See you one day in a better place. Love you. |
Susan Hood Personett | ***1/8/2013 IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Please be advised the service for Lennox Hood will be held on the the same date and time. However, due to circumstances out of our control the location has been changed to the Owen Brown Interfaith Center, 7246 Craddlerock Way, Columbia, MD 21048 (410) 381-2000 www.obicolumbia.org http://www.facebook.com/lennox.hood |
Karen Klein | Lennox,
You were a fabulous friend and all of tue Kleins considered you family. We shared many many wonderful times, but tue one we all remember the most is watching you watch Pee Wees Big Advrnture!
My work life at AMX was tons more fun when you arrived.
You brought joy and laughte rot so many people and I dearly wishnyou were here to share more laughter with all your wonderful friends.
Karen, Eddie, Rachel and Ali |
Dr. Jane Connall | Lennox was one of the sweetest, kindest, and loving people I have ever known. He truly enriched my life and those of many others. My condolences to all the people who were close to Lennox. His memories will last forever and he will be always looking after us. I feel somewhat lessened without him. He is with the angels now! Love, Dr. Jane Connall and family |
Patricia L. Richey | If only Lennox and I were able to get together like we planned. It was a privilege when his dear parents, especially his mother...one of my best friends at MSD-Frederick, brought him to my house for a surprise visit...he was about 10-12 years old. My son, Mark D. Insley, had fun playing with him. He looked more like his father who always had rosy cheeks growing up at MSD. Godspeed.
~Pat Richey - MSD 1955
(His mother and I graduated together even though we were not in the same class.) |
Tom Bull | GONE TOO SOON - a song by Michael Jackson - is what comes to my mind now. Lennox was 51 and had so much more in life to accomplish. He was a giver and then some. He loved his deaf parents and the deaf community. He is missed and today we remember a Coda friend. |
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Edward was forced to wear shorts on his Brazilian honeymoon in 'Breaking Dawn'! Are you surprised?
Michael Wilkinson, the costume designer for Breaking Dawn: Part 1 and Breaking Dawn: Part 2, reveals in an interview with MTV what a fiasco it was to get Robert Pattinson to wear a pair of shorts!
"It's a challenge to put an Englishman in shorts," Michael tells MTV. "They have an instant freakout! I think it has to do with their public school uniforms that they wear as kids."
Yikes! We're hoping Edward doesn't leave Forks for a warm weather destination in Breaking Dawn 2. We'd hate for Rob to have another short freak out!
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People bd takes place in the winter time remember,it starts out in fall and end after new years, come are you really a twi fan.if you didn't know that then you better read the book again….as always peace to both the pattinson and stewart families and all my prayers to you all.peace and love to rob ,kristen and bear too….k
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Tara Knowles-Teller | |
First appearance | "Pilot" (episode 1.01) |
Created by | Kurt Sutter |
Portrayed by | Maggie Siff |
Information | |
Gender | Female |
Occupation | Attending Surgeon at St. Thomas Hospital Trauma Surgery |
Title | F.A.C.S. |
Family | Unnamed Father (deceased), Unnamed Mother (deceased) |
Spouse(s) | Jackson "Jax" Teller |
Children | Thomas Teller |
Nationality | American |
Tara Knowles-Teller | |
First appearance | "Pilot" (episode 1.01) |
Created by | Kurt Sutter |
Portrayed by | Maggie Siff |
Information | |
Gender | Female |
Occupation | Attending Surgeon at St. Thomas Hospital Trauma Surgery |
Title | F.A.C.S. |
Family | Unnamed Father (deceased), Unnamed Mother (deceased) |
Spouse(s) | Jackson "Jax" Teller |
Children | Thomas Teller |
Nationality | American |
Dr. Tara Grace Knowles-Teller is a character on the FX drama Sons of Anarchy played by Maggie Siff. She is the wife of the main character, Jax Teller, and the mother of his two children Abel and Thomas.
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Tara is a native of Charming, California. (She says her heritage is half-Irish.) Tara's mother died when she was nine years old. According to ATF Agent Stahl, she had a "drunk daddy", whom Tara described as a "bit of a packrat." She was Jax Teller's high-school girlfriend, and during this era she had a crow tattooed on her lower back representing her connection to SAMCRO. Tara was arrested in Jax's company at least three times in 1996. Tara left town when Jax was 19, trying to get away from small-town life and the influence of the club. According to his mother Gemma, this all but broke Jax's heart.
After leaving Charming, Tara moved in with a cousin of her father's who lived in San Diego, studied at UC San Diego where she graduated with honors, attended medical school in Chicago (Feinberg Medical School at Northwestern University according to her file in "Fun Town" but "Loyola Med" according to Agent Stahl in "Better Half") where she was at the top of her class, and then went on to her internship in Chicago Presbyterian.
While in Chicago, Tara dated ATF agent Joshua Kohn, and got pregnant by him, but had an abortion at six weeks. Kohn became intimidating, violent and obsessive, so she took out a restraining order against him several months before she returned to Charming, after an absence of 11 years.
Tara works as a pediatric resident at the local hospital, St. Thomas. A capable physician, she often tends to Jax's gravely ill infant son Abel during the infant's hospitalization.
Tara lives in her childhood home, which was left to her by her father when he died. She also drives a Cutlass her father had parked in the garage under "two tons of old newspapers."
Tara's relationship with Jax upon her return to Charming is largely tentative, based primarily on their mutual concern for gravely ill Abel, until the psychotic ATF Agent Kohn comes to town. He is looking to continue his relationship with Tara on the pretext of investigating the Sons of Anarchy. Afraid for her life, Tara seeks Jax's help in driving off Kohn. Jax stabs Kohn's car on her behalf, beats him bloody in an altercation at Floyd's barber shop, and then escorts him out of town. When Kohn returns in the dead of night and attacks Tara in her home, she shoots Kohn in the gut and calls Jax for help.
The couple discuss the matter, Jax, angered by Kohn's abuse of Tara, shoots Kohn in the head, thereby putting a permanent end to his intimidation tactics and bullying. Tara and Jax then fall into each others' arms and make love while Kohn's iPod plays the Andy Williams song "Can't Get Used to Losing You" on repeat.
Following the killing of Kohn, Jax and Tara seem to settle into a largely healthy and positive romantic relationship. Tara spends more time with Jax at the clubhouse, plays nice with Gemma, and works to heal wounded club associate Cameron Hayes.
The Jax-Tara relationship soon seems to disintegrate after his ex-wife Wendy returns from rehab. In the penultimate season-one episode "The Sleep of Babies", Tara is seen sleeping alone while Jax and Wendy make love. In the final episode of the first season, "The Revelator", Tara tells Jax that she has arranged to return to Chicago as she does not believe she is cut out for life in Charming. This angers Jax and he storms off. At the end of the episode Tara is seen to have changed her mind, and she turns up at Donna's funeral where Jax and Tara share a kiss.
Season two shows Tara officially becoming Jax's "old lady" and becoming integrated into the club's world. After Gemma is raped, she turns to Tara for medical help. Tara encourages Gemma to seek out counseling to deal with the psychological repercussions of the attack but Gemma is reluctant. However, Tara's help with Gemma along with her help raising Abel seems to help heal the rift between Tara and Gemma. Tara's connection with Jax and SAMCRO, on the other hand, causes problems for her at work. Gemma accidentally breaks Tara's nose after Tara startled her. One of the hospital administrators, Margaret Murphy, believes that Jax was responsible for the injury and warns Tara about the problems her association with Jax could cause her. Later, Margaret files a "hostile work environment" complaint against Tara after Gemma confronts the administrator about the hospital's desire to move Chibs to another facility because of his insurance situation. Chibs later falsely complains of head pain and is able to stay at the hospital. Margaret accuses Tara of coaching Chibs with his symptoms and has Tara's privileges suspended.
When Jax decides that he wanted to go nomad, Tara is upset that he made the decision without talking to her. However, unlike just about everyone else connected to the club, she feels like it might be the right decision given the tension between Jax and Clay.
Gemma lets Tara know that as Jax's "old lady", Tara has considerable prestige and respect in the club after other women in the club defer to her, and that she shouldn't "take any shit" from anyone. Later, Tara confronts Margaret after a verbal exchange and it gets ugly, with Tara choking her and punching her in the face. Tara tells Margaret, "I know where you live, I know where your kids go to school." and informs her that the cops are on SAMCRO's payroll and that the club runs Charming. Tara advises Margaret to keep her mouth shut and retract her complaint. Margaret, face bloody, quickly agrees.
In the season two finale, Tara attempts to convince Gemma to not get revenge on those that raped her but is unsuccessful. She is present at Jax's home when Cameron Hayes appears and is tied to a chair by him before he kidnaps Abel Teller. Tara is untied by Jax and is able to tell him what has happened to his son. Jax and the rest of the club unsuccessfully try to save Abel while Tara is later seen being consoled by Deputy David Hale.
Tara is still saddened by the loss of Abel. As time goes by, Jax continues to push her away with increasing force. She feels Jax is pushing her away because he blames her for not stopping the kidnapping of baby Abel. While visiting Gemma when she was on the run, Tara helped Gemma kill her father's caregiver and Tig helped them cover it up. She later reveals to Gemma in the hospital that she is six weeks pregnant with Jax's child.
After Jax leaves Tara, she catches him with Cara Cara porn star, Ima. Later in the day Tara is at Jax's house packing. He apologizes for what she saw earlier, but she feels he wanted her to see it, because he wants her gone and he knew it was the one thing that would drive her away. She expresses that she thinks he is doing all this because he hates her for what happened to Abel. He says that it is to protect her and she still doesn't believe him as he is not very convincing. Jax starts to go after her, but she is already quickly pulling out of the driveway. When Tara leaves Jax's house it is shown that recently ousted Calaveras MC leader, Hector Salazar has been secretly stalking her and Jax.
The way Tara starts feeling and her anxiousness to keep the baby a secret from Jax permanently indicates she might be thinking about getting an abortion. She believes that he is not ready for another child. Gemma tries to convince Tara to wait until Jax gets back and look into Abel's eyes before she does anything. Gemma wants Tara to try to mend the relationship because Jax hasn't been thinking clearly since Abel's abduction. Tara ultimately helps Gemma escape custody so that she can accompany Clay and Jax to Belfast.
Lyla asks Tara if she knows of any clinics that conduct abortions. After she goes with Lyla to have the procedure, they have a conversation about why Lyla is having the abortion. It turns out Lyla is having the same problem with Opie that Tara is having with Jax. He won't open up to her in fear of what might happen. The baby is also an inconvenience to Lyla, because she doesn't want another baby, so that she can continue working as a porn star. After the conversation, Tara sets an appointment for herself to have an abortion as well. Later, Tara reveals to Margaret Murphy that she is going to have an abortion and Margaret agrees it is a good idea and offers to drive her to the clinic. On her way to get an abortion, there is a staged car accident where the two women are taken hostage by Hector Salazar and his girlfriend Louisa. Salazar found Tara's location through information from Jacob Hale, Jr., the corrupt businessman who is trying to become the mayor of Charming.
While Tara and Margaret were being held by Salazar,he becomes upset that his hostage demands aren't met, that he threatens to kill Margaret. Tara tries to persuade him not to and when he doesn't listen to her, she causes a distraction. She pulls Salazar's girlfriend and tries to get away. However, Salazar kicks her hard in the stomach and tries to do so again; stopped only because she exclaims that she is pregnant. After being assaulted, she continues to lie on the ground with a hand on her stomach.
When Tara gets a chance to go to the bathroom, she looks for something to use as a weapon. She breaks off a piece of a mirror. As Salazar's girlfriend breaks into the bathroom, Tara cuts her neck and almost escapes with Margaret just as Salazar arrives. After a stand off, Tara tells him that is girlfriend is in the bathroom bleeding badly. She says that she will keep his girlfriend alive if he lets Margaret go. After they leave the house Salazar's girlfriend dies in the car and Salazar grabs Tara, throws her on the car, and puts a gun to her head.
Salazar takes Tara to Jacob Hale's office, where he takes Hale hostage as well. When he gives his list of demands, one of them is for Jax to come to Hale's office. Tara sees Salazar pull out a knife and he tells her that he plans to kill her while Jax watches and then kill Jax. As Jax enters the office, Salazar is about to kill Tara, but is stabbed by Jacob Hale. Jax wrestles the gun from Salazar and gives it to Tara and tells her to kill anyone who is not a cop. When the whole ordeal is over with Jax and Tara go to doctor for a ultrasound to make sure the baby was not harmed during Tara's abduction and captivity. The baby is healthy and Jax and Tara hear the heartbeat and see the baby on the ultrasound. Jax and Tara then go to Gemma's house where Gemma hugs her for her safe return from Salazar. When Tara sees Abel, she happily holds him and welcomes him back home. In the season finale, Tara has become more involved in the club. She drives Jimmy O. back to the garage with him in the trunk after SAMCRO buys him off the Russians. Jax makes sure that she wears a bulletproof vest to insure her safety in case something goes wrong. When Stahl tells the club about the deal Jax made with her, which was actually a trap by the club to kill Stahl and Jimmy, she runs and hugs him distraught and fearing that the club will kill him in prison. In the closing minute of the season 3 finale, Tara reads letters from John Teller to his mistress Maureen Ashby implying that Gemma and Clay would be responsible for his death should it happen. The close up shot of Tara's face transitions to Jax's face and that is the end of season 3.
Bridge between end of Season 3 and beginning of Season 4: By the end of season 3 when Jax and the other Samcro members were hauled off to prison, Tara was a little over 8 weeks pregnant. However, in a special feature "appisode" (titled: Tara and Piney)- that took place day 85 of Jax's incarceration; a pregnant Tara is shown about 5 months along. In this appisode, Tara goes to Piney for information on John Teller's death but was rebuked and told not to investigate further and that the past was "dead and buried" . In another special "appisode" (titled: Second Son) - that bridges the gap between seasons; Tara and Gemma are visiting Jax in prison. Tara had just given birth to the newborn baby Thomas and he was brought to visitation so Jax could meet his son. Jax was beaming with pride and love for his son and Tara. He apologized for missing the delivery and promised he wouldn't miss anything important again.
At the beginning of Season 4 Tara is waiting to greet Jax on his return home. When Jax arrives he and Tara spend a little time with Abel and Thomas before Jax has to go inside the clubhouse for a meeting. When Tara and Jax meet at their house later, they waste no more time and begin making love. Jax then proposes to Tara by putting a ring on their son Thomas's finger. Before Tara can fully accept they have a serious talk about the future of their family. Jax explains that he is done with SAMCRO, but he has to stay until Clay steps down as president because he and Gemma won't let Jax walk away without conflict. He does assure her that as soon as Clay retires and once he has saved enough money to avoid living off his wife he will leave SAMCRO and they will start fresh as a normal family. Later, at Opie and Lyla's wedding, Jax is the best man and Tara is the maid of honor. The next day Tara and Jax are having breakfast with their sons when they see on the news a story about four dead bodies found at the construction site of Charming Heights. She asks Jax to tell her all he knows about it. He tells her it was retaliation for him getting stabbed in prison. Later on she encounters Gemma in her office who asks why Tara is not wearing her engagement ring. Tara simply tells Gemma that she and Jax are just waiting for the right time to tell everyone. Later at the clubhouse a distraught Tara is reunited with Jax after he is rescued from the Russians. There she discovers, along with Jax, that the clubhouse had been trashed by Sheriff Roosevelt. To lighten up the mood she decides to announce the engagement. During the season (and before) Tara has become more fearful of the consequences of being involved with SAMCRO and increasingly begins to think about the effect it will have on her son. This leads Tara to make the decision of leaving town with her son until things settle down. Tara is also conflicted about the letters from Maureen Ashby. Gemma has found out she has them and tries most of the season to obtain them and destroy them. Piney also shows interest in them as a way to blackmail Clay, but Tara keeps them protected. Clay finds out about the letters and he is so fearful of them getting out, that he takes out a hit on her life from Romeo. Eventually after confronting Gemma about the letters, Tara admits that she is not capable of showing the letters to Jax, feeling that if he knew who his father truly was, Jax would get deeper into the club out of guilt, therefore getting him further from her. Tara eventually heads to a medical conference in Oregon and takes Abel and Thomas with her, most likely for an indefinite stay. Jax accompanies her and on the way there the assassins hired by Clay try to kill her. Tara survives thanks to Jax, however during the fight her right hand gets smashed in a van door. Her hand is repaired, but the nerves are terribly damaged. Her doctor affirms it is unknown if it is permanent but she feels otherwise and believes her career to be over. Jax, extremely upset himself, tries to comfort her, but Tara has become distant and asks him to leave her alone. She feels that now their future is set and they will never get out of Charming. She's later encouraged by Jax that everything will go as they had planned, which Tara barely believes. During the day she's visited by Jax's ex-wife Wendy, who makes it clear that she wants to know Abel better, as she gave up custody but not the right to know him. This unnerves Tara who feels she is Abel's true mother and becomes fearful that Wendy will take him away from her. Wendy leaves her number and Tara smashes the vase of flowers, screaming in anger. She's later put under psych watch and restrained to her bed. Jax begins to feel at a loss as how to take care of and comfort her. Later Gemma comes to see her and confesses that it was Clay who wanted her dead because of the letters, which she gives to Gemma. She reveals later to Gemma that she was fully aware of her plan to have Clay killed by Jax and hide the letters that involve her and Unser, to prompt Jax to stay as President. Tara gives Jax a blood thinner to inject into Clay, who is recuperating at St. Thomas. She then tells Jax, in front of Gemma, that he will kill Clay and come get her and the boys, so they can leave Charming forver. This plan fails as Jax is forced to stay due to the influence of Romeo Parada and Luis Torres who are undercover CIA agents. They need SAMCRO to provide weapons and transport drugs or they will crush the club. Understanding that Jax has to become President, Tara decides to remain with him. In the season finale, with Gemma watching Tara stands behind Jax at the head of the table, one arm draped around him, mirroring a photo of Gemma and John Teller.
She and Jax's mother, Gemma Teller Morrow (Katey Sagal), were once on bad terms, although they seem to now respect and like one another. In season 2 she regularly gives Tara advice on how to cope with being a "club woman" and how to assert herself as such. It seems Gemma has been grooming Tara. However by the fourth season Tara and Gemma are at odds with each other once again over Jax's involvement with SAMCRO and Tara's desire to get him out.
Tara and Jax's ex-wife Wendy (Drea de Matteo) had a surprisingly cooperative relationship given their conflicting feelings for Jax. Wendy however, is not a factor in their lives since the end of season 1. In a deleted scene from the SOA app, it was stated by Jax that Wendy gave Tara custody of Abel.
The New York Times' series-premiere review remarked on the "chemistry" between Jax and Tara, and described the character as "beautiful...refined and book-smart."[1]
TV Squad credited Siff with a "superior performance"[2] and the Chicago Tribune described her as "excellent."[3]


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Carrie Banged on a Pool Table for Money
Dug up some more photos of Carrie (girl in glasses from the College Rules ad) getting banged on a pool table for Money Talks! Notable is that she is not wearing glasses in this set and actually like her better WITH because they give her that naughty nerd look. Tits are still great though and thats all that matters in the end.
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Re: how to access a mapper counter in reducer
I will take a shot at it. I think it would be about writing a custom comparator and a partitioner, reading some config parameters and sending the counters as key/value pairs to the reducers. It shouldn't be that difficult. If I am stuck, I will post in the forum. I will also know how to create a patch. Regards, Praveen On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Robert Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry I have not responded sooner I have had a number of fires at work > to put out, and I haven't been keeping up with the user mailing lists. The > code I did before was very specific to the task I was working on, and it > was an ugly hack because I did not bother with the comparator, I already > knew there was only a small predefined set of keys so I just output one set > of metadata data for each key. > > I would be happy to put something like this into the map/reduce framework. > I have filed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-3520 for > this. I just don't know when I will have the time to do that, especially > with my work on the 0.23 release. I'll also talk to my management to see > if they want to allow me to work on this during work, or if it will have to > be in my spare time. Please feel free to comment on the JIRA or vote for > it if you feel that it is something that you want done. Or if you feel > comfortable helping out perhaps you could take a first crack at it. > > Thanks, > > Bobby Evans > > > On 12/6/11 9:14 AM, "Mapred Learn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Praveen, > Could you share here so that we can use ? > > Thanks, > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 6, 2011, at 6:29 AM, Praveen Sripati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Robert, > > > I have made the above thing work. > > Any plans to make it into the Hadoop framework. There had been similar > queries about it in other forums also. Need any help testing/documenting or > anything, please let me know. > > Regards, > Praveen > > On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Robert Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED] < > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > Anurag, > > The current set of counter APIs from within Map or Reduce process are > write only. They are not intended to be used for reading data from other > tasks. They are there to be used for collecting statistics about the job > as a whole. If you use too many of them the performance of the system as a > whole can get very bad, because they are stored on the JobTracker in > memory. Also there is the potential that a map task that has finished > "successfully" can later fail if the node it is running on dies before all > of the map output can be fetched by all of the reducers. This could result > in a reducer reading in counter data that is only partial or out of date. > You may be able to access it through the job API but I would not > recommend it and I think there may be some issues with security if you have > security enabled, but I don't know for sure. > > If you have an optimization that really needs summary data from each > mapper in all reducers then you should do it a map/reduce way. Output a > special key/value pair when a mapper finishes for each reducer with the > statistics in it. You can know how many reducers there are because that is > set in the configuration. You then need a special partitioner to recognize > those summary key/value pairs and make sure that they each go to the proper > reducer. You also need a special compairitor to make sure that these > special keys are the very first ones read by the reducer so it can have the > data before processing anything else. > > I would also recommend that you don't try to store this data in HDFS. You > can very easily do a DDOS on the namenode on a large cluster, and then your > ops will yell at you as they did with me before I stopped doing it. I have > made the above thing work. It is just a lot of work to do it right. > > --Bobby Evans > > > > On 12/1/11 1:18 PM, "Markus Jelsma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] < |


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Come experience the heartbreak and hope of Holy Week with a number of unique worship opportunities.
Thursday April 17
6:30 pm at the Port Road Community Garden
Join us for this Maundy Thursday service as we meet and clean and till a community garden together. We'll get it ready to plant and will pull out shrubbery and weeds and all that stuff. Maundy Thursday is the traditional day in the church calendar when we get our hands dirty and live into Jesus' command to serve and love others -- part of that is caring for creation. So come ready to get dirty. Wear work clothes! And then we'll have a brief service of Holy Communion in the garden.
Friday April 18
6:30 pm at the Port Road Community Garden
Good Friday is the evening we mark the sentencing, trial and death of Jesus. As we gather, we'll meet at the grove right next to the Community Garden and will walk through the Stations of the Cross together. It should last about an hour and will be a powerful, moving experience.
Sunday April 20
Worship at 10 am at the JMU Arboretum
(with breakfast at the Arboretum beginning at 9:15 am)
After all the snow and bitter cold of winter, we wanted to be outside as much as possible this Easter! So join us at the JMU Arboretum beginning at 9:15 am if you want breakfast or 10 am if you just want to join us for our Easter celebration. Come and experience the beauty of God's creation!
(If it rains, we'll be at Court Square Theater.)
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The community, which began with thirteen sisters, grew rapidly, and by 1962, there were over sixty members. We were blessed with two outstanding mentors: Dom Desroquettes, O.S.B. for chant, and C. Alexander Peloquin, director of music at the cathedral of Providence, Rhode Island, for polyphony. It seemed a good time to make a recording—a long-playing record at the time--Christmas in the Cloister.
That was 50 years ago. Since good music has a timeless appeal, and since there is a growing interest in chant, this seemed like a good time to reissue the original record as a CD.
It is only natural that song, the inseparable companion of joy and love, is so often on the lips of the contemplative. This recording is a celebration of God's greatest expression of love for us - the gift of Christ. The song in which the sisters are here reflecting on the mystery of Christmas is of two kinds: first, Christmas Biblical texts set to ancient and prayerful melodies of Gregorian Chant, and secondly, carols in modern polyphonic arrangements.
1. Christmas Midnight Mass: Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory, Communion2. Christmas Lauds Hymn: A Solis Ortus Cardine3. Third Mass of Christmas: Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory, Communion4. Susani5. In Dulce Jubilo6. Il est Né7. Silent Night8. How Far To Bethlehem9. Coventry Carol10. While Shepherds in Meadows11. Welcome, Son of Mary12. Lullay, My Liking13. The Christmas Child14. Abbey Bells


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I'm finishing my second quarter at Drexel and here are somethings that you should know before you start your first quarter in library school. Not all of these will apply to all people.
A good article. Now, sit down, write this up, and publish it in a library journal.
Item number 12 is the number of things a lis student should know is the impact of your professional writings. So, even while in library school, you should think about adding to the body of library science literature.
R. Lee Hadden (These are my own opinions!)
12. Always order the soft taco. When you only have $1 for lunch, order the soft taco because they always stuff more food into it.
13. You can sleep out in the lobby between classes and it's unlikely that another library school student will draw on your face with a permanent marker.
14. Since you will never be home, you can room with almost anybody, with any annoying habits. Trust me, you won't be home for anything other than sleeping and showering.
15. Go to the gym. Library School is your one chance to get in shape before you become a librarian and spend 15 years on your ass in front of a desk. Take advantage of your student status and hit the treadmill.
16. Don't be invisible. But don't be helpless. If your library school has some club, ask to be an officer. Believe me, no one else wants to do it; that's how I became Treasurer.
17. Visit local public libraries. Take a look at your future (if that's where you're going). But when you're in the library, please, for the love of God, stay away from the bathrooms.
18. Don't be afraid to let people like you. I saw many library school students who forgot to have some fun. If possible, fall in love with someone with better career prospects than you and get married. Being a librarian will not make you rich, so don't marry one, either.
19. No matter how hard you work, or how much you learn, it won't be enough to convince anyone that librarians need to go to school to learn how to do what we do. Don't let it bother you.


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Celta Vigo captain Borja Oubina has revealed that Coach Paco Herrera held a crisis meeting with the team this morning.
The Celestes lost 3-1 to Getafe yesterday to slip into the relegation zone, and the 30-year-old has insisted that the team has what it takes to avoid the drop.
"I think it is good to talk about these kinds of situations," he told reporters. "Whatever has to happen will happen.
"But now we have to talk less and work more. I want the fans to know that everyone will work as hard as possible for the club.
"I know the Coach will do everything he possibly can to change the situation we currently find ourselves in."
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Getting There
The drive from Boston is approximately 3.5 hours. Take I-93 North to Concord, New Hampshire and then follow signs to connect with I-89 North. Follow I-89 North into Vermont until you get to exit 10 (Stowe / Waterbury exit). Make a right onto Route 100 North and follow this for 11 miles until you reach your first stop sign. This is the center of Stowe Village. Make a left at the stop sign onto Route 108 North and follow this for 6 miles to reach Stowe Mountain Lodge and the ski area.
Getting Around
Once you reach Stowe, you can leave your car at home and take advantage of the complimentary Stowe Mountain Road Shuttle that runs all day between Stowe village and the mountain.
The Art of Smart Timing
Try to avoid Columbus Day Weekend, at the height of fall foliage, the week between Christmas and New Year's Day, the three-day Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday and President's Week in February. This is when the inns and hotels tend to charge the highest amount of money. I especially like visiting Stowe over 4th of July, when the neighboring village of Moscow holds "the world's shortest parade."
Off the Radar
Every Thursday and Saturday night in winter, Umiak Outdoor Outfitters in Stowe leads guests on a snowshoe walk into the mountains where you then enjoy a fondue dinner. Enjoy the hot Cabot cheddar cheese and Lake Champlain chocolate as a local magician provides entertainment. Cost of the "Magic of Stowe Fondue Dinner Tour" is $69 per person.
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