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Amour French Film Review
By Kam Williams
Undying Love Explored in Poignant, Character-Driven Drama
Retired music teachers Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) have been married for over 60 years. But the frail octogenarians' love for each other remains as strong as the day they met.The elderly couple lives in a Paris apartment surrounded by music and art and other indicia of an appreciation of culture. Unfortunately, with Anne's health in sharp decline, their days are now mostly spent attending to her host of medical issues.
For, she's basically been bedridden since a stroke that left her right side paralyzed. And the poor woman's biggest fear is not death but the prospect of returning to the hospital or being moved to a nursing home.
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So, when it becomes obvious that Anne has passed the point of no return, Georges finds himself on the horns of a dilemma. Does he abide by his life mate's last request and let her live out her days in the familiar confines of home, or does he resign himself to the fact that he can no longer provide the quality care she so dearly needs to survive?
That is the crux of the critical question explored in Amour, a bittersweet romance drama which just tugs on the heartstrings. Written and directed by Michael Haneke (The Piano Teacher), the flashback flick has deservedly been nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Foreign Film, Director, Actress and Original Script.
Paradoxically, Haneke decided to hint at the resolution during an opening tableau during which Georges and Anne's flat is found on fire. A poignant tale of undying love.
Excellent (4 stars)
Rated PG-13 for mature themes and brief profanity
Running time: 127 minutes
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
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Kam Williams is a syndicated film and book critic who writes for 100+ publications. He is a member of the New York Film Critics Online, the African-American Film Critics Association, and the NAACP Image Awards Nominating Committee. Contact him through NewsBlaze. Read more reviews by Kam Williams.
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You can receive a tax credit if you commute to work by bicycle.
This is your last chance to take advantage of the old tax law using these helpful tax tips.
I know, it's five months until tax time, and you don't want to think about it right now. You're going to save a bundle with the new tax law anyway, right?
Maybe, maybe not. If you've itemized your deductions over the last few years, you may have a very unpleasant surprise waiting for you on April 15, 1988. There are ways to head off some of the pain, though. By taking advantage of being on the cusp of the tax law shift, you can save money using these tax tips.
Consider carefully the financial balance between the savings offered by the following methods and the lower marginal tax rates that will be in effect next year. (For example, if you're a farmer, you may want to purchase feed and seed this year for use next year, since your tax rate will be lower next year.)
My calculator has been running full speed since the tax law was finalized in late August (the proposed legislation hasn't actually been passed by Congress as MOTHER EARTH NEWS goes to press). Here are a few of the approaches I'm recommending to my customers.
1. Incorporate or become self-employed, if you can . Many of the deductions previously available to employees and individuals have been stripped from the new tax law. Only those employee business expenses in excess of 2% of adjusted gross income will be deductible, and those can only be used as itemized deductions. A number of items — including union dues and tax preparation fees—that you may have deducted on the line Miscellaneous Deductions from Schedule A (Itemized Deductions) will no longer be allowed. Sales tax will no longer be deductible for individuals. In fact, as of January 1, 1987, many cherished deductions of the citizen with one employer will disappear.
In order to optimize your deductions, you must be either self-employed or the employee of your own corporation. Bear in mind that this strategy is acceptable to the IRS only if you have more than one source of income. It may be time to do work on the side and arrange to be a consultant to your present employer.
Incorporation will be advantageous even to sole proprietors and partners, because it will allow you to defer income into the future, when tax rates will be lower. You can pay yourself a minimal salary and declare bonuses based on profits at a later date.
2. Realize capital gains. As of January 1, 1987, there will no longer be a 60% exclusion for capital gains income. If you've been holding stocks or other property for more than six months and if they've appreciated in value and you've been considering selling them, do so before the end of the year.
3. Consider prepaying medical expenses you're anticipating, or have the work done now. After December 31, 1986, the medical deduction threshold on Schedule A will be increased from 5% to 7.5%.
4. Make contributions before January 1, 1987. If you don't itemize deductions in 1987, contributions won't be deductible. Even if you do itemize, the deduction will be worth less because of lower marginal tax rates. (Many people who previously did itemize won't find it to their advantage in 1987.)
5. Make large purchases before the end of the year. If you're planning to buy an automobile, an airplane, a boat, or home construction materials, keep in mind that as of January 1, sales tax isn't deductible.
6. Prepay consumer loan payments or interest. Pay in December to the extent you're financially able. As of the first, consumer interest won't be deductible. If you can arrange with your lender to prepay interest rather than principal, it will be further to your advantage. (There's actually an interest phaseout: 35% is nondeductible in 1987, 60% in 1988, 80% in 1989, 90% in 1990.)
After December 31, 1986, consider taking a second mortgage to finance certain consumer credit purchases. Mortgage interest will still be deductible, and you can offer a second on your house as security.
Bear in mind, though, that mortgage interest will be deductible only to the extent of the original cost of your house plus improvements. If you borrow against its appreciated value, that interest won't be deductible, unless the funds are used for home improvement, education, or medical expenses.
7. Consider paying for a five-year rental on your safety deposit box. Storage of your financial papers (old tax forms) won't be deductible after January 1, 1987.
8. Make the maximum IRA contribution this year. As of 1987, people with employer pension plans will only be allowed a tax-deductible IRA if their income is less than $35,000 single or $50,000 married. A phaseout begins at $25,000 and $40,000.
9. If you've been considering buying rental property, do so before January 1, 1987. As of that date, the depreciation period for residential real property is extended from 19 years to 27 1/2 years. Watch out for passive loss restrictions if you're not managing the property. An exception to the buy-now policy applies if you're interested in buying or building low-income rental housing. New credits may make this a tax-shelter boon.
10. If you have high income, look into forming a 401(k) retirement plan and making a large contribution this year. If you have one already, make the maximum contribution. Next year it will be limited to $7,000.
11. If you have unused investment tax credit carryover, it may be wise to take income in 1986 instead of 1987 to use the credits. This credit will be reduced by 17.5% in 1987 and by 35% in 1988, and will be eliminated in 1989.
12. Prepay your accountant's fees (tee-hee). As of January 1, 1987, you're going to need me more than ever, but my charges won't be deductible.
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A Quick Ride To The Coffee Shop
Since I wrote a few posts about my bike, I thought I would share a quick ride with you. The main reason is because I just bought a new video camera that shoots in high definition. I thought I would test it out and see what the quality is like on YouTube now that it offers HD. So check it out:
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Betty White Goes Wild!
All of these big cats are so unique and I pray we can help them in their quest to survive.
These lorikeets are so beautifully painted. God is quite a perfect artist. Betty White seems so calm and, again, very respectful of God's creations.
Amazing photo. And Betty White is an amazing person who really loves and respects animals.
They are simply beautiful! These animals should be preserved so that the generations after us can also witness these magnificent creatures.
Well I watched the special with Betty White which showed the 4 big cats.....well it was suppose to show the 4 big cats, but even though they said they had there was no segment on the leopard. I even ran the show back thinking my mind had taken a timeout. There was a spot where they had snow leopards and clouded leopards but no segment on leopards,
Wildlife Safari, Winston, OR, has a Cheetah, and Anatolian Shepherd, that were raised together, and still live together. It's fun to watch people, when they see them together, for the first time. They get all excited, worrying that the cheetah is going to eat the dog. Then, quite often, they see that the Anatolian Shepherd is as big as the Cheetah,and wonder who would win. It is also interesting to see that if they need to separate the two, the Cheetah will get upset, and begin to make it's sad cry, that sounds like a bird cawing.
Betty White,
Here is a lady that was personally touched by God at birth, living the perfect life. ninety one years old and still going strong, I love this lady.


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The U14 rep Thunder struck for a pair of impressive cup wins last weekend.
Last Saturday in the pouring rain Thunder was faced with the possibility of winning the North Shore Cup and qualifying as the district representatives for provincial play downs.
Both teams started off strong and looking for the win.
Defenders Melissa Iverson, Sienna Lewarne and Emily Bullen were outstanding and kept the ball as far away from the 18-yard line as possible. The few times balls made it past them, Emma Cooney and Ingrid Hansen were there to pound the ball up the field to midfielders Nisha Wells and Alyssa Rive, and then to outsider wingers Holly Piepjohn and Geordie Owen.
Late in the second half, a powerful corner kick from Pearl Deasey sailed though the mass of girls in front of the net to the far post where Lulu Kammerle one timed a left footer in the net for the win.
Sunday was a beautiful sunny day, and with the home field advantage, Thunder took to the field hoping for another win to become league champions this time.
The Thunder defence was on their game again with only a few shots on goalie Lydia Harvey-Lloyd who made each save look effortless. Wingers Sophie Fielder and Lucy Schick went for run after run up the field, shooting just shy of hitting the back of the net. Out of nowhere came Foofy Foody who saw a ball roll in front of the net and cracked it across the goal line. Next up was Georgie Aleong who, after a long run up the field, shot and scored, clinching the win at 2-0.
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Judge Larry Puts on the Ritz
Boy, was former Broward Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin living high off the widow.
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A civil suit filed by Bill Scherer alleges that Seidlin -- who gained notoriety as the judge in the Anna Nicole Smith hearings and reportedly has a TV show in the works -- basically ran a con game on an 84-year-old neighbor in his Fort Lauderdale condo building. The suit claims Seidlin and his wife and in-laws extracted hundreds of thousands of dollars from Barbara Kasler.
The evidence is clear that Seidlin, who allegedly called himself Kasler's son and would sometimes lie in bed with her, lived lavishly at Kasler's expense, paying off vacations, electronics, jewelry, and other items on the widow's credit card.
But new evidence filed in court indicates that Seidlin also may have managed to rip off the state court administration system. Let's start with a copy of Kasler's credit card bill from June 2006:
As you can see, in the space of a couple of weeks, Seidlin charged up a Walt Disney World vacation and an expensive stay at the Ritz-Carlton in Naples. He even spent $150 for swim lessons at the Jack Nelson Swim School in Fort Lauderdale. It's suspected those were for Seidlin's daughter Dax, whose education at the expensive private Pine Crest School was also subsidized by Kasler.
But it's Seidin's stay at the Ritz that is of chief concern here. He stayed three nights -- June 11, 12, and 13. That happens to coincide with the 2006 Florida Conference of Circuit Judges, which Seidlin also allegedly attended.
Inside, see evidence that Seidlin double-dipped at the conference on the taxpayers' dime.
Although it's clear from the credit card charges that Seidlin charged Kasler for the stay at the Ritz and for gas during the conference, that didn't stop him from hitting up the state for reimbursement. Here's a copy of the travel voucher reimbursement Seidlin submitted to the state after the conference.
The voucher shows that Seidlin was reimbursed a total of $330 for the stay at the Ritz. He submitted the Ritz bill, which showed that his room was $289 a night less taxes, but the state's per-diem limit was $110 a night. The bill also shows he charged $61.48 in mileage.
So it looks like Seidlin charged the hotel to Kasler and then turned around and got reimbursed in his own pocket from the state. Nice work.
Now he will likely have an explanation for this -- perhaps that he reimbursed Kasler cash for the trip after he was paid by the state. I'm waiting on a call from Seidlin's attorney, Russ Adler, whom I left a voice-mail with this morning.
Without absolute proof, I won't buy it, though. Seidlin's an old-fashioned viper, and based on his known actions from information gleaned during the lawsuit, I think he squeezed Kasler -- and the state -- for every penny he could get.
Would it be a crime? I suppose a case could be made for theft, but has the two-year statute of limitations run out since he left office in 2008? Or would this even fall under that particular statute?
I'm still trying to answer those questions and will update.
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Label Decoder: Diacetyl
by Toby Amidor in Grocery Shopping, March 9, 2012There's no better snack for movie night at home than a bucket of buttery popcorn. But you may think twice about the microwave stuff after we tell you about and ingredient it contains, diacetyl, and the trouble it has caused.
What is it?
Diacetyl was first synthesized more than 80 years ago and can now be found in about 6,000 food products. It's used as a preservative in unsalted butter to lengthen shelf life, but higher amounts are added to butter-flavored products like microwave popcorn, cooking oils and sprays and margarine.
Is It Safe?
Low levels of this additive are safe, however diacetyl gained notoriety around 2005 to 2007 when employees working in American factories became very ill after long-term exposure. Studies have also found that professional chefs who stand over hot grills or skillets for hours using large amounts of butter substitutes are also at risk. Reported side effects included persistent dry cough and wheezing, shortness of breath. Several employees of food companies using the ingredient were diagnosed with obstructive lung disease, which is potentially fatal. After this fiasco, most major food companies switched to safer ingredients.
Bottom Line: To play it safe, you're better off making your own popcorn. Leave the microwave stuff for a once-in-a-while snack.
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Survey reveals nine of the 17 biggest landlords in Britain have no firm plans
Landlords in fix over green deal
The majority of large social landlords are not planning to allow tenants to make their own arrangements under the government's flagship energy efficiency scheme.
Citing fears about quality of works, damage to buildings and lenders' concerns, landlords said they do not want tenants to agree their own deals when the green deal goes live in October.
An Inside Housing snap survey revealed that despite most landlords having no green deal plans in place, just two of the 17 largest landlords in Great Britain would grant consent for tenants to take up green deal offers. Nine landlords ruled out allowing tenants to commission the work while five said they had not decided.
Under the green deal, due to launch on 1 October, households will be able to receive loans to carry out energy-efficiency works on their homes. The cost of the measures – usually insulation – will then be recouped through resulting savings in energy bills.
Accredited green deal providers, mainly for-profit companies, will be approaching tenants to offer them green deal packages. If tenants do not get consent from their landlords they may not benefit from reduced fuel bills from October.
The survey also reveals just two of the 17 landlords, Gentoo and London & Quadrant, plan to become green deal providers, while three plan to partner with other providers. Nine of the 17 landlords have no firm policy with little more than a month to go before the scheme starts
Simon Dow, chief executive of 60,000-home Guinness Partnership, said allowing tenants to commission their own works could lead to 'difficult conversations' with lenders, who might be concerned about alterations to properties used as loan security.
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Sadly, the staff in housing associations tend to be control freaks and as a result distrust their tenants doing anything. Many of the poorest in society will be consigned to live in energy inefficient buildings unless housing associations allow them to take advantage of the Green Deal themselves.
''The cost of the measures – usually insulation – will then be recouped through resulting savings in energy bills''
So a guy in a nice suit turns up and sells the tenant a loan,they can't afford,in the first place?.
Hey don't worry about it,you will save that,and more on your energy bills.
Yeah right,as the saying goes :).As I understand it Dennis, the repayments cannot be more than the savings made through the lower bills. It does however beg the question that with the amount of profit generated by the privately owned energy companies, why they can't carry out this work gratis. Probably because the shareholders will get twitchy at such an idea!
The tenant need not worry Dennis, as the loan is listed against the property and not the person. This is probably why the landlords are not happy with it. Mind you, if they want the gain without the pain then they could always do the decent thing.
But taking into account current government policy and the likelihood that the other Tory Parties will not oppose it, and will embrace it if in power, then tenants need not worry about taking on the debt as they will soon be removed from their home anyway, and then siloed into the private sector without any call to energy efficiency but plenty of calls upon what little cash they may have!The Green Deal is a scam designed to shift the cost of energy saving measures from government/the energy companies to householders. At the moment, tenants in receipt of JSA and other means-tested benefits can get loft, cavity and solid wall insulation free. Under the Green Deal they will be paying for it in higher energy prices. So, more energy efficient home, but higher energy costs. And the charge is on the property, so we could see properties being blighted by high energy costs for years to come. Lots of companies and consultants stand to make lots of money out of this scheme; guess who will pay the bill.
i think you have hit this one on the head dave
another aspect is that if people use less energy the utility companies will just put up their prices to protect their bonus fund - sorry profit margins for future investmentsIt's been said before on this site, and I'll say it again - nationalise the lot of them and let them be run for the genuine good of the public, including funding energy efficiency schemes and giving meaningful discounts to vulnerable groups.
that is heresy IF - running public services for the public good at a fair cost
unless perhaps they start to burn the undeserving poor as fuel.
chris might have a view on that initiativeThis is perhaps why the pasty tax was scrapped Philthy. The Governmen realised that with more fat reserves, the poor would burn better.
I understand Philthy that humans make poor fuel unless heated to a considerable temperature first, which takes a disporoportionate amount of fuel, and hence cost to achieve any gain from the human. This may explain the previous tendency to confiscate all of the human's possessions prior to burning, to offset the energy cost to reach the optimum temperature at which some energy return may be gained.
We could do with a scientist to put some clear equations into this so as to be sure, but as this is a Housing Forum, we are unlikely to find a competent one!
Mind you thinking on it:
Shapps is taking away the homes of the poor
Ids is taking away the incomes of the poor
Osborne is taking away the wealth of the poor
Perhaps the confiscation to offset cost is already happening - still at least with winter coming there will be something warm to look forwards to!
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I just learned today in class that the neurons that carry information about the sense of touch send messages more quickly than neurons that carry messages of pain to the brain. That's why when we hit our arm or leg on something, we tend to rub it with our hand. Our brain and nervous system become more occupied about us rubbing it than the pain of the injury. So in a way, it reduces the intensity of pain that we feel.
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Hot rooms will be a thing of the past
Air conditioners can greatly improve the comfort level in a home, especially during scorching summer days. And with today's models, you can find practically any type of air conditioner to suit your needs, whether you need to cool the entire home or a single room.
Energy-efficient air conditioners cool your home using less energy than regular models, making them more affordable and better for the environment. An air conditioner's SEER (seasonal energy efficiency ratio) rating shows how much energy it uses to cool an area, and a rating of 13 or higher is standard on today's energy-efficient models. Replacing your old air conditioner with a newer, energy-efficient model could reduce your cooling costs by 20 to 40 percent. Some models even have fan-only options for nighttime use, or lights that notify you when it's time to change the filter.
Read MorePortable air conditioners are easily movable devices that either evaporate or refrigerate air to cool a room or small space. Their power levels range from 5,000 to 60,000 BTU (British thermal units), with 7,500 to 14,000 being the most common levels needed to cool a normal-sized room. Portable air conditioners typically sit on the floor, but some models can be mounted to a window to redirect heat outside. Depending on the model, you may need to empty the unit, as they remove moisture from the air to cool it.
Read MoreCentral air conditioning is beneficial because a single unit cools the entire home at once. Units typically range from 5,000 BTU (British thermal units) to 34,000; the larger your home, the more BTU you'll need to cool the house. Unlike window or portable air conditioners, a central air conditioning unit cools the whole house and allows you to set a specific temperature. Because central air units are located outside the home, they're typically quieter and more visually appealing than window air conditioners.
Read MoreA mini-split, also sometimes called a ductless air conditioner, gives you the comfort of a local air conditioning unit without the extra bulk and hassle. It is so called because it splits the parts of the air conditioner between the inside and the outside of your home: The blower is on the inside wall of your room, while the compressor and condenser stay outside and out of hearing range.
Read MoreSummer is supposed to smell good, right? Freshly mown grass, suntan oil, flowers blooming and burgers on the grill make summer a happy time of year for our olfactory glands. The last thing we want ruining this brief paradise is a smelly air conditioner that reminds us less of today's picnic on the beach and more of last week's leftover poached fish. If your air conditioner has developed a stench, don't resort to turning it off and broiling in your home. Get to the root of the problem yourself by following these steps.
Read MoreYour window air conditioner offers great relief during the hot summer months, but sometimes things can go wrong. If your unit begins leaking water, there can be a handful of causes. Here are a few suggestions on how to troubleshoot the problem and fix it quickly, so you can get back to enjoying the cool air as quickly as possible.
Read MoreProfessionals estimate that leaky ducts rob households of about 20 percent of their heating and cooling efficiencies. Since many houses run either heating or cooling for most of the year, this can really add up in wasted energy and money. A few minutes of maintenance can help regain some efficiency and shave dollars off your energy bills year-round.
Read MoreCleaning up a flooded floor can be expensive. Not only do you have to fix whatever caused the mess, you may have to do costly floor repairs if the damage to the flooring or surrounding furniture is extensive enough. If your air conditioner condensate line is causing you trouble, it may lead to a puddle that could cost you hundreds. Simply vacuuming it out only takes a few minutes, so it's worth adding to your annual air conditioner maintenance list.
Read MoreIn the dead of summer, the last thing you need is hot air blowing into your home, which is why you installed an air conditioning unit in the first place. If your air conditioner is blowing warm air, you need to troubleshoot it fast so that you can get back to comfortable temperatures.
Read Moref you've ever experienced that desperate moment when the temperature outside rises and your air conditioner decides to up and quit, you know just how important it is to understand how to quickly diagnose and fix the problem. A little investigating and a trip to the hardware or appliance repair store may be all that's needed to get you back to a comfortable temperature level.
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When your air conditioner breaks down, it can be daunting to know how to tackle the project ahead. With an expensive and enclosed system like an air conditioning unit, it's tough to figure out the difference between simple home repairs or potentially dangerous technical fixes. We compiled some of the most common problems homeowners face with their air conditioners to determine whether you can tackle them yourself or if you should call in a professional.
When you're buying an air conditioner, it's important to determine the right air conditioner power level for your needs before you make your decision, in order to save as much energy and money as possible. An air conditioner's cooling capacity is measured in British thermal units, or BTUs, and how many BTUs you need is determined by the square footage of the room you're trying to cool.
Read MoreWhen it comes to installing a new air conditioner, there are several important factors that you'll need to consider, including the size of the unit, its electrical needs and the best placement. Before you buy the unit, determine your needs, look at your options and make sure you know what you want.
Read MoreIce on your air conditioning unit is never a good sign. Finding the cause of the ice may be simple, but you might also need a certified HVAC technician to help you out. Follow these steps to determine and eliminate the cause of the ice build-up.
Read MoreThe size of the air conditioner you need is based on the size of the rooms you want to cool, the type of rooms you want to cool and how many people live in the house. The actual air conditioner size isn't what's important; the air conditioner BTU (British thermal units) rating is what determines the actual output of the air conditioner. Measure your room before buying a unit to figure out what size you'll need. For example, 14,000 BTU cools 550 to 700 square feet.
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Star Wars Bits: Saoirse Ronan Confirms Audition Rumor; Plus Sullivan Stapleton and Potential TV Resurrection
Posted on Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 by Germain Lussier
One casting rumor is confirmed while another one pops up. In today's edition of Star Wars Bits, read about the following:
- Saoirse Ronan confirms she's read for Star Wars Episode VII.
- 300: Rise of an Empire star Sullivan Stapleton also is rumored to have read.
- The success of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. may have breathed new life into a Star Wars TV series.
- Disney uses Star Wars to launch a new parks campaign.
- Check out a concept drawing from Return of the Jedi.


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When a buffer is changed, the region that Font Lock refontifies is by default the smallest sequence of whole lines that spans the change. While this works well most of the time, sometimes it doesn't—for example, when a change alters the syntactic meaning of text on an earlier line.
You can enlarge (or even reduce) the region to refontify by setting the following variable:
This buffer-local variable is either
or a function for Font Lock mode to call to determine the region to scan and fontify.The function is given three parameters, the standard beg, end, and old-len from
(see Change Hooks). It should return either a cons of the beginning and end buffer positions (in that order) of the region to fontify, ornil
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"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations". Jeremiah 1:5.
Most of us have gone through the stage of being lost. There are times we forget who we are, and forget where we come from. Often we find ourselves lost in the wilderness, looking for an identity, pleasure, wholeness, love, and many other things. We've been guilty of making some serious decision that affect us, and cut us deeply in a way that it seems almost impossible to turn back time. Continue reading


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have you tried new fuel filter?
I think you'd be better going to a local ford dealer or someone who has a Ford IDS vcm. they can plug it in & get all your live data etc. It'll tell them exactly what fuel pressure,sensors etc are returning. It should only cost a max of £40 (ish)
is it the same with or without cruise?
if you're goin downhill,& put it in neutral,can you rev it right up? does it hesitate then?(the revs i mean)
faulty maf sensor can cause this but so can lot of other things. get the data readings read i'd say.
Have you tried resetting the ecu?
got to admit,Ive never come across this particular type before.Id get some electrical contact cleaner. I wouldnt use carb cleaner as it degrades plastics.Give it a good scoot & let it dry out. Dont aim the jet of cleaner directly at the wires though & dont touch them with anything,as theyre very delicate.
personally if it was mines I'd want to get it scanned on a dealer level Ford IDS vcm. the software they have will tell them exactly(or it should) what sensor isnt working properly.It could be 1 of too many things & its no good chucking money & parts at it without knowing what these results will be. It'd be worth the £40 (approx) to have it done.
It could be anything from clutch sensor,(had similar prob on own car but only when changing gear but have been told from ford that if clutch pedal sensor elecs are sticking it could also cause probs when not pressed),accelerator pedal(fly by wire),air sensor,idle control,etc
It would be worth getting it done though i think
what was the final bill?
wow, that is pretty damn impressive for a dealer?
damn good price also.wonder if the injector was dirty & just needed cleaning.
perhaps where it was leaking fuel from the injectors, the engine was slow to respond when you took the foot off the gas. there wasnt enough fuel and too much air, so immediate fuel adjustment may have caused knocking or stalling, so this may be why the car froze at high revs then eventually caught up?
Well, glad you got it resolved, let us know if it changes. I will mark this thread as resolved for you, in case someone comes along, and needs an answer to it!


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General Board of Global Ministries UM Information UM Reporter Florida Southern College Bethune Cookman College FL UM Children's Home
February 14, 2003
Photo by Mike Loomis
LAKELAND While the nation mourned the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and the seven astronauts on board, members of the community and churches in the Melbourne District felt that loss even more deeply. For them, the tragedy hit home and on very personal levels.
Churches throughout the district opened their doors Saturday and Sunday following the Feb. 1 breakup of the shuttle to help members and neighbors cope with their grief and fear about the future.
Approximately 11 United Methodist churches north of Melbourne have high concentrations of Kennedy Space Center (KSC) employees, between 10 percent and 40 percent of their members, according to Melbourne District Superintendent the Rev. Dr. Anne Burkholder.
Burkholder called many of those churches Saturday after learning of the disaster, offering support and help.
Without a doubt they were all making changes in their services [Sunday], opening their churches I was really proud of our clergy and our churches. They responded immediately, Burkholder said. For other communities this is a tragedy. For this community its a disaster.
At Satellite Beach United Methodist Church, about 15 miles south of KSC, between 20 percent and 25 percent of the churchs members have aspects of their work supporting space flight, according to the Rev. Mike Loomis, the churchs pastor. The whole area is intricately involved with Kennedy Space Center.
That includes KSC Director Roy Bridges, a member of the Satellite Beach church.
I spoke with Roy Saturday night this is a man of very deep faith, Loomis said. His comment was, for people that are part of NASA its like losing seven family members all at one time.
Loomis said about two dozen people, mostly church members, visited the church Saturday for prayer and counseling. Sunday morning worship was dedicated to remembering the shuttle crew, their families and the community, but also communities in Israel and India as they mourned the loss of their astronauts aboard Columbia.
We just tried to think about the anxiety that was there. People are very anxious about the future. Will I have a job in a few months? How long will the investigation take? Loomis said. Its a very personal grief for people who knew the astronauts and are involved with the space program.
Members of First United Methodist Church, Titusville, also felt the sting of loss. Anyone who lives in this area feels pretty personally about what goes on at the space center, the Rev. David Waller, pastor of the church, said. The community kind of listens for that dual sonic boom [upon reentry].
Waller said some members of his congregation work at KSC, but there are many more who were related to the space program in the early years We have a history of seeing that program develop, he said.
Waller said KSCs vehicle assembly unit and launch pads are visible from the church. When theres a launch, sometimes when were having a meeting, we can step out and see the launch.
First, Titusville, also opened its sanctuary Saturday evening and dedicated Sundays worship to remembering the crew. On Sunday, worship leaders placed a candelabra holding seven candles on the altar, one for each astronaut who died, and each astronauts name was read aloud.
Waller, Loomis and Burkholder all say people couldnt help but remember the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger Jan. 28, 1986. Loomis said a member of his congregation was one of the KSC personnel who made the decision to launch Challenger.
There are people here who still have very many painful memories, not just from the accident, but the aftermath, Burkholder said, adding the area suffered a major economic downturn as a result, with no shuttle launches for three years. It triggers within them a real fear about consequences in the areaabout jobs. Thats an issue other people are not worrying about.
Burkholder held a meeting for district pastors Feb. 4, offering them an opportunity to seek support and support each other. A statement from Florida Conference Bishop Timothy W. Whitaker was read aloud and offered for inclusion in bulletins and newsletters. A specialist from Florida Memorial, Winter Park, helped debrief the clergy and prepare them for the potential crises their members and communities will be facing.
Loomis said one of the things his church can do in the days to come is be aware of the issues affecting people. Psychologically its [our role] to provide a non-anxious presence, Loomis said. Theologically its to help people get in touch with the peace of God that passes all understanding.
A memorial service for KSC employees was held Feb. 7 at 8:15 a.m. on the landing site where the shuttle would have landed. Loomis participated, along with other spiritual leaders of the community, former astronauts and Florida governor Jeb Bush. Bridges led the service.
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Existence of two or more chemical compounds that have the same chemical composition but different structures (isomers) and that convert easily from one to another. A major class of tautomeric reactions involves exchange of a hydrogen atom between two other atoms in the same molecule, in both cases forming a covalent bond. For example, in keto-enol tautomerism, the hydrogen atom bonded to the carbon atom in a carbonyl (keto) group (singlehorzbondCHsinglehorzbondCdoublehorzbondO; see functional group) moves to the oxygen atom, making it an enol group (singlehorzbondCdoublehorzbondCsinglehorzbondOH). The keto form predominates in many aldehydes and ketones, the enol form in phenols. Sugars (e.g., glucose) exhibit tautomerism between open (chain) forms and closed (ring) forms. Seealso isomerism.
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The All-Prem Team, 2011-12
A superb Premier League XI that could beat Barcelona -- possibly
With just four games left in a madcap Premier League season, it's time to re-evaluate the EPL's best XI. Because despite the fact that the title, the final Champions League spot and the relegation trio have yet to be determined (my picks: United, Chelsea and Wolves/Blackburn/Spurs; sorry, QPR), we all know you don't get selected to the All-Prem team on the back of one good month. Otherwise, Andy Carroll might have made the cut.
No, to qualify for this highest of high honors -- for a spot on my heavily biased-toward-Arsenal list of the Prem's best -- you must turn in nine months of RvP-esque excellence, which might explain why so many new faces emerged from our midseason XI.
Gone is Yakubu -- just four goals in 2012 -- along with David Silva (seriously, one assist since mid-January? Who does he think he is, Stewart Downing?). Also, there's no room on this squad for Joe Hart, given City's slow erosion from presumptive champion to the second-best team in Manchester. Yet again.
And my apologies to the great Wayne Rooney, transcendent and newly hirsute for most of the season but strangely lackadaisical down the stretch. Or, as Sir Alex Ferguson put it: "When the game gets causal, Wayne gets casual faster than the rest."
Again, I'd remind you that civility in sharing your opinions is the key here. You don't have to agree with me -- I'd be disappointed if you did -- but you should remember that punching my mustache on your computer screen will hurt you more than it hurts me. Cheers!
GK: Tim Krul, Newcastle United
Highlights: 13 clean sheets in 33 Prem games, third-best in 2011-12. Single-handedly reviving the Shaun Cassidy blow-dried look
It's hard to render the great Shay Given an afterthought. England's No. 1, Joe Hart, did it at Manchester City, but far more praise (don't expect any from Robin van Persie, though, Tim) should be heaped on the Netherlands' third-choice goalie for what he does between the posts at St. James' Park. After all, the exploits of the Demba Duo means little without solidity at the back, and Krul is responsible for preserving some valuable points in the Magpies' remarkable hunt for fourth place: eight saves in a 2-0 win at Swansea, six in a 2-1 win over Aston Villa, six in a 1-0 win against QPR, and five in a 1-1 away draw at Manchester United. In short: When the pressure's cranked to 11, Krul is arguably at his finest.
Not bad for a guy who was on loan to SPL minnows Falkirk and third-tier Carlisle a few years ago.
DF: Bacary Sagna, Arsenal
Highlights: Scored the goal that ignited the Gunners' 5-2 comeback vs. Spurs. Runner-up in the Silliest Hairdo of any North London Full Back contest (please claim your prize at the desk, Benoit Assou-Ekotto)
Despite missing three months with a broken leg, the quiet French right back has been a multihued and braided model of consistency for five years, as bold in attack as he is composed when penned deep in his defensive third. The Prem is lacking in great right backs -- the last person Glen Johnson truly frightened was the cashier at that toilet seat shop -- but Sagna's place on this list is based on merit rather than my usual Arsenal bias.
He's also pulled off the almost impossible stunt of making Theo Walcott occasionally appear dangerous. Sagna's presence as an overlapping second winger gives the Arsenal attack another dimension, creating space for Theo to sometimes find the head of one of his teammates with a cross (while monkeys type Shakespeare).
David Hirshey
For more from David Hirshey, check out his columns on all things soccer.
• The All-EPL Team, 2011-12
• Saying goodbye to Chinaglia
• Time to dethrone King Kenny Dalglish?
• In praise of Fulham
• The comeback artists
• Call it a comeback
• Death by Manchester
• The battle for third
• Spurs' title credentials
• EPL's best starting XI
• City handed first EPL loss
• Chelsea pushed to brink
• Fragile egos crossing
• City and United
• Is Newcastle for real?
• The bad-behavior derby
Moreover, Sagna's return to the lineup in late January coincided with the start of the Gunners' surge up the Prem table: nine wins from 12 with him in the lineup and Johan Djourou mercifully back in the Wenger gulag. But it was his thumping header with Arsenal down 2-0 to their then-in-form neighbors that is widely considered the tipping point of both the Gunners' and Spurs' seasons. Magnifique!
DF: John Terry, Chelsea
Highlights: Has stayed away from all current teammates' WAGs
Oh, I'll burn in Gooner hell for this, but you have to hand it to the Chelsea skipper (yes, he kept that title). A more self-aware human being would have buckled under the weight of the relentless derision, racial abuse charges and crippling injuries he's endured this season, but ol' Braveheart has shown impressive resilience to lead (and co-manage) the Blues to a cup final and within an eyelash of a May date in Germany. Either that, or EBJT is so utterly oblivious and self-absorbed that he hasn't really noticed the media circus, or his looming July day in court with Anton Ferdinand. If Terry isn't the epitome of good old-fashioned English stoicism, who is?
DF: Vincent Kompany, Manchester City
Highlights: Hasn't burned down his bathroom or disappeared on an Argentine golf vacation. Can tear a phone book in half with one hand. Cost only $10 million
To measure his value, note how City just isn't City in the absence of Vincent's company. In January, a suspension caused Vinny K to miss four games, during which time the Sky Blues were dumped from two domestic cup competitions. Then another five-game vacation in March birthed a Europa Cup humbling by Sporting Lisbon, a tepid 1-1 at Stoke and defeat away to Prem rookies Swansea.
While Sir Alex works on his latest comedy routines ("Jonny Evans is the best defender in the EPL" is almost certainly destined to become a cult classic, along with other winners like "Ashley Young stays on his feet like a man" and "Dimitar Berbatov has a role to play on this club"), the ox-like Belgian center back/City captain is, head and shoulders, the best center back in the Prem. Sorry, Nemanja Vidic, but there's a new "murderer" in town.
For all of City's attacking prowess, the richest team on earth is nothing without Kompany's composure and confidence at the back. Marauders like Yaya Toure are unable to romp. David Silva shuts down. Mario Balotelli is human (actually, scratch that -- Mario Balotelli isn't human, but rather a slightly defective alien approximation). Even Roberto Mancini's scarves lack their usual Italian panache when Vinny isn't around.
DF: Benoit Assou-Ekotto, Tottenham Hotspur
Highlights: Doesn't use them. His crazy, copious coif is au naturel
Nowadays, the Cameroonian left back looks like the love child of Carlos Valderrama and Questlove but patrols the flanks with a languid ease that suggests he's listening to cool jazz as he fires off 30-yard screamers on goal (see his surface-to-air missile against Everton in January). That's because BAE is one of the few Prem players who sees the modern game for what it is: more of a job rather than as the apotheosis of a childhood calling. Counterintuitively, this philosophy may well be why there's an effervescence to his play that radiates beyond the three-foot radius of his magnificent penumbra of hair.
Assou-Ekotto's greatest contribution is the one almost everybody has forgotten, for it was his emergence as a defender that forced 'Arry Redknapp to move a certain Welshman forward and unleash the unholy terror that is Gareth Bale. It worked out well for both Spurs players, as the North London choke artists now have the most powerful left flank outside of Venezuela's parliament.
With age probably the leading contributor to the regression in both Ashley Cole's and Leighton Baines's skills, while Patrice Evra has a had a season more about race than pace, BAE is now the best left back in the Prem -- at least until Jose Enrique grows out his hairdo.
MF: Paul Scholes, Manchester United
Highlights: Helped mastermind United's comeback from 3-0 down at Chelsea as a second-half sub. Orchestrated wins at Spurs (3-1) and Norwich (2-1). Has led United to a 12-1-1 Prem record since rejoining
After putting away his pipe and slippers, Sir Alex's favorite son returned to his Old Trafford playpen to:
A. Rescue United's season.
B. Show the world that an un-retiring, reticent 37-year-old ginger ninja is better than almost any wildly overpriced January transfer buy in the last decade.
All Scholes has done since being coaxed into duty after alarming back-to-back United performances against Blackburn and Newcastle is make Mancini wonder whether he could talk Patrick Vieira into returning to the fray. Nani, Antonio Valencia and even Rooney require a calming anchor in the middle to allow them to flourish, and given Scholes' neat, incisive play -- completing a Barca-worthy 92 percent of his passes and scoring three goals of his own from deep midfield -- the redheaded Dorian Gray is the rock against which his younger, more erratic teammates, like the raw Danny Welbeck, can eddy.
Can we please just put Scholes in the heart of the England Euro Cup side now? They're still not going to win, but at least they'll crash out with a bit of verve.
MF: Juan Mata, Chelsea
Highlights: 9 goals and 11 assists in his first Prem season, while outlasting his doppelganger at Stamford Bridge, Andre Villas-Boas. Brings Spanish flair (ole!) as he whiffs defensively
The stubbly Spaniard makes the list for transitioning so smoothly to the Prem; the EPL is traditionally hard to adjust to, but Mata has been consistently thriving for one of the league's more combustible, drama-laden teams. When all the turmoil with their Portuguese wunderkind-turned-washout faded and the Terry-Anton Ferdinand contretemps threatened to decimate the Blues, there was Mata, calmly distributing above the fray, dispensing assists like Nurse Jackie in a dysentery ward and bamboozling defenders with acute passes better suited to Barcelona than the Bridge.
Where Chelsea have for so long relied on muscle and brute force to bludgeon opponents, Mata brings an artist's touch to their workmanlike midfield, a serene creative foil amid the chaos. And despite a down season overall for the Blues -- seriously, lose 5-3 to Arsenal? Cough up a 3-0 halftime lead to United? -- Mata's emergence as a midfield maestro should give their next overpriced part-time manager something solid to build around.
MF: Clint Dempsey, Fulham
Highlights: 16 goals and five assists in 33 Prem games. Best body art in the league
Go ahead and snicker. Call us chest-puffing, flag-waving and hot dog-munching American homers. But before you do, name another player who deserves to be on this list more than Deuce. Gareth Bale? A down year for the Welshman, who has faltered like Spurs toward the end of the season. Plus, his ears are scarily large.
Dempsey has become what U.S. Soccer has been praying for: a field player who has earned the right to be called "excellent" first and "American" second. The uber-tatted Nightmare of Nacogdoches has blown away all myths that Americans don't have the technical skills required to be game-changers in the Prem, increasing both his goals and nearly doubling his assists every year since joining the Cottagers for $4 million in 2007.
He works hard, generally stays out of trouble, plays anywhere he's asked and is always a threat in Martin Jol's free-for-all attacking lineups (he scored twice against Wolves as a left winger in March in a 4-4-2, then twice against Bolton as lone striker in a 4-4-1-1). And he does it all with a swagger, a scowl and more facial stubble than Jason Statham after rolling in a mound of Clint Eastwood's beard trimmings. No wonder that no less a soccer snob and ageist than Arsene Wenger lies awake at nights, fantasizing about having the 29-year-old American partner Jack Wilshere in Arsenal's midfield next season.
Americans are always jealous of classy stuff from across the pond -- "Downton Abbey," Keira Knightley, Guinness. Finally, there's a classy American for the Brits to covet.
FW: Grant Holt, Norwich City
Highlights: 13 EPL goals, the second-highest English scorer in league. Broadest jawline behind Wayne Rooney. Inducted into Norwich City Hall of Fame after just two seasons. Can fix the flat on the team bus
How often is it you see a pub league clogger transform into an EPL superhero in something other than a very special episode of "Mr. Belvedere"? It's not unheard of for a small-market player to light up the Prem scoring charts -- James Beattie scored 23 for Southampton in 2002-03, while Andy Johnson bagged 21 for Crystal Palace in 2004-05 -- but this former tire fitter has certainly let the air out of the belief that every goal must be measured in FernandyCarroll millions or RvP athleticism.
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Unlike his grease monkey origins, there's nothing slippery about the Norwich No. 9. His bulky frame (think Gary Lineker plus 50 pounds and 50 inches) and grit have led to his 13 league goals, including impressive efforts against the big boys (Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea). What makes Holt so intriguing is that he embodies the English version of the American dream: Work hard, get lucky, become rich and famous. Can an England callup be far behind?
FW: Demba Ba/Papiss Demba Cisse, Newcastle United*
Highlights: 26 goals in 38 combined games. Hat tricks against Blackburn and Stoke (Ba). Eight goals in last five Prem games (Cisse)
The last time someone combined two Dembas in the Premier League, it didn't work out so well. Anyone else remember Sir Alex's great Eric Djemba-Djemba experiment at Old Trafford?
But whoever decided it was smart to save money on shirt printing over at St James' "Until We Rename It Something Odiously Corporate" Park certainly struck post-Andy Carroll gold, as the Senegalese duo have led Newcastle to being absurdly on the verge of a Champions League spot. While they probably won't manage that trick -- after all, Alan Pardew is still in charge -- no team has spent its big-club-overpays-for-transfer-target windfall better.
Papiss Demba Cisse, Ba's teammate at Senegal who signed in January from the Bundesliga, picked up when his countryman began to flag by scoring 10 times in just nine Prem appearances. The pair have galvanized the Geordie crazies and seem poised to keep the Tynesiders far above Carroll's new club for many years to come.
The only question I have is: Considering how cheap and brilliant they've been, why didn't Arsenal find them first?
*Two Dembas is better than one Djemba
FW: Robin van Persie, Arsenal
Highlights: All 27 goals and 10 assists from 34 Prem games
Hail Wenger, full of grace
Our RvP is among thee.
Blessed is he among strikers,
And blessed is his agent who keeps him away from City.
Manager: Paul Lambert, Norwich City
Highlights: Took third division team to the top flight in two years and presides over the best of the promoted sides. Never met a collar he couldn't pop
Any man given the task of stopping Zinedine Zidane in a CL final, as Lambert did for Borussia Dortmund over 15 years ago, has more guts than sense. Pulling off the trick successfully suggests a level of self-belief that few get to witness outside of a Donald Trump news conference. In the first game of the 2009-10 League One season, Lambert's Colchester squad marched into Norwich and slipped by the recently demoted side 7-1. Norwich's response -- hiring the Scotsman immediately -- began one of the most dizzying ascents to the top since Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone decided to ditch all the extra names and devour showbiz like a tarantula versus a wounded fly.
Along the way, he's gathered young and hungry lower-leaguers (Steve Morison, Anthony Pilkington, Elliott Bennett, Bradley Johnson and Jonny Howson) to create a crafty, compelling and relentlessly attacking side that is as capable of dominating Spurs at the Lane as losing to Manchester City by around a dozen goals. Lambert's players reflect his steadfast nature and drink at the altar of his pragmatic, game-by-game approach to tactics, formation and preparation.
Imagine the kind of team he could assemble if he had, say, King Kenny's budget. But then again, if Lambert had spent ludicrous amounts of money on mediocre players (Jimmy Bullard, anyone?), he wouldn't have gotten to where he is -- best manager in the Prem this season.
Honorable mentions: Michel Vorm, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Leon Britton, Swansea City; Martin Skrtel, Liverpool; David Silva, Yaya Toure, Sergio Aguero, Manchester City; Antonio Valencia, Wayne Rooney, Manchester United; Scott Parker, Tottenham Hotspur
David Hirshey has been covering soccer for more than 30 years and has written about the sport for The New York Times, Time, ESPN The Magazine and Deadspin. He is the co-author of "The ESPN World Cup Companion" and played himself (almost convincingly) in the acclaimed soccer documentary "Once in a Lifetime."
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The Power of Protest
Speaking out can be good for your health
By Marilyn Berlin Snell
The hundreds of thousands of people (including many environmentalists) who marched worldwide last fall and winter to protest U.S. war preparations were at first depicted in the media as a small bunch of marginalized malcontents. But a new study shows that though protesters may be depressed about the state of the world, their collective action actually improves their physical health and mental outlook. Those malcontents, it turns out, are really rather happy individuals.
John Drury, a professor of social psychology at Britains University of Sussex, conducted a series of in-depth interviews with activists and discovered that involvement in political demonstrations boosted feelings of empowerment, connectedness, and well-being. "Positive experiences engender positive emotions like joy and contentment," says Drury. "These emotions are not only psychologically good but they are linked with the absence of depression, anxiety, and stress."
Of course, people dont protest to improve their mental health. Drury, whos studied social movements for ten years, says there are many reasons citizens get involved: "They feel its necessary, theyre angry, they feel an obligation, they think change is possible," he says.
He notes that the recent demonstrations underscore the difference between a "physical crowd" in a mall, for example, and the "psychological crowd" at protest rallies. "We all know the unpleasant experience of being in a crowd of shoppers. But the same physical proximity can be experienced as enjoyable when we identify with that crowd." When people engage in large-scale protests, says Drury, they sense they can change history. "Collective action can therefore be a life-changing, uplifting, and life-enhancing experience."


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Dodd Financial Regulation Bill: Super Regulators Not the Answer
There are many valid reasons to be angry with bankers, and supporters of Senator Chris Dodd's (D-CT) latest rewrite of his financial regulatory bill, the Restoring American Financial Stability Act, have mentioned them all. Americans have heard all about greedy bankers, huge bonuses, shady accounting practices, and outright greed. But the reason for this rhetoric is nothing less than an attempt to seize control of the financial services industry and to micromanage it.
Unfortunately, if this ploy succeeds, the result would be an all-powerful bureaucracy that would do little to address the real problems in the industry and actually make future crises--and bailouts--more likely. The first step has already been taken after the Senate Banking Committee amended the 1,336-page original text with a 114-page manager's amendment and sent the bill to the full Senate after a 22-minute markup on March 22.


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I'll chuck my vote into the "no" column for now. An article from SeekingAplha.com makes the suggestion that Microsoft could and should purchase RIM to create an amazing device that'll blow the iPhone (and other competitors) away. They present a compelling case, but there's no swaying my vote just yet.
"After playing a secondary role to Apple (AAPL) in the iPod space, Microsoft could tackle Apple, Nokia (NOK), Motorola (MOT), Samsung and Palm (PALM) head on in the iPhone world."
"If Microsoft were to buy Research In Motion (RIMM), it would give the former immediate access to the worldwide mobile communications market expanding its portfolio as a designer, manufacturer and marketer of wireless solutions – an area that is the core of RIM's business model."


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H. Keith Melton is the author of many spy books [1]
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Keith Melton is the holder of the largest collection of privately held espionage artifacts with thousands of items. The collection is not open to the public. Discovery Times Square has a temporary exhibit of his more important pieces from his collection on display beginning May 18, 2012.
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10 Years After: Remembering 9-11
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I woke up to beautiful late summer/early fall conditions. Warm temperatures and a good-looking day.
After my morning run and breakfast, I headed to the office to pick up a few things before leaving for Albany International Airport. I was on my way to Baltimore to see Cal Ripken, who was planning to retire at season's end.
The purpose of the meeting was to determine what artifacts Cal would consider sending to the Hall of Fame, once the season ended, as well as how they would be presented to us. Would it be at the ballpark? Quietly, or in a ceremony? The day of the final game or some other time?
Cal had a long history of presenting historic artifacts to the Museum, so we knew he understood the enormity of his career concluding, and how we would recognize this sure-fire, first-ballot future Hall of Famer in Cooperstown.
I left the Hall of Fame at 8:30 am for an 11 a.m. flight on Southwest Airlines. From there, I planned to make my way to Cal's hometown, Aberdeen, Md., for a lunch-time meeting with Cal and Orioles PR chief John Maroon. We had arranged the meeting a few weeks prior, and picked September 11 because it was an off-day for the Orioles, who returned home on a redeye from Seattle after playing on the 10th.
As I left Cooperstown that morning, I tuned the radio dial to the 50,000-watt news station out of Albany, WGY Radio. I was about 40 miles north and west of Cooperstown when I heard about the planes hitting the World Trade Center and then the Pentagon. Without the benefit of owning a cell phone at the time and without access to a television, I listened in amazement, not realizing the enormity of what was happening.
Then the report came that all airports were closed. I was already really nervous and frightened hearing about the plane crashes and when it was reported that all airports were closed, I was more than happy to turn around, which I had been contemplating anyhow. When I returned to the Hall of Fame and put on the television, I realized the severity of what had happened.
We ended up having the meeting by telephone a few weeks later. I went to Baltimore for Cal's final game. Afterward at the press conference, he took off his jersey and handed it to me along with his glove, with his kids by his side. I flew home to Cooperstown with the artifacts the next morning, where they were put on exhibit as a remembrance of Cal's indelible career, and – to me – as a reminder of a tragic day in American history.
Jeff Idelson is the President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
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I was in Toronto the day baseball resumed. They played the Orioles. Tow things I will always remember about that day. The Royal Canadian band playing the National anthem. The other was watching one player taking batting practice before a meaningless game from the restaurant above the field. Hours before the game and weeks before retirement Cal Ripken and his coach were the only two people on the field.


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Superintendent Evans is blocked by barricades even his car can't get past. He catches a lift to the edge of Copley Square and covers the last block on foot, adrenaline making up for what the marathon wore out.
It's taken him almost thirty minutes to get from Southie to the finish line. He is awed by what he sees.
Later, investigators will learn each of the two bombs was a pressure cooker packed with shrapnel—ball bearings, nails, BBs—and powder from dismantled fireworks. Later still, they will learn that the bombs were allegedly placed on the sidewalk by two brothers of Chechen descent living in Cambridge. Evans will see video from surveillance cameras of the moments after the explosions, and he will be proud just as surely as he is sickened. He'll see Officer Christine Carr stripping off her gun belt and then her trouser belt, wrapping the latter around a man's hemorrhaging leg, tightening it. He'll see Officer Thomas Barrett on his hands and knees, slapping at a man on fire, then rolling him over and patting down his back.
But Boylston Street is strangely quiet now. The wounded have all been removed. All that's left is the wreckage: metal fencing toppled into the street, the glint of shattered glass, bright red smears on the sidewalk. Evans has seen training films of bombings in Israel. The aftermath looks the same in Boston as it does in Tel Aviv.
There are still officers on the street, state cops and Boston cops and federal agents, securing the scene, already gathering evidence. A block and a half down Boylston, where the second bomb detonated in front of a restaurant called Forum, there are also two bodies: Lu Lingzi, a 23-year-old student from China, and Martin Richard, an 8-year-old from Dorchester. A third body, that of the pale woman Segatore and the others tried to save, is still in the medical tent. Her name was Krystle Campbell, and she was 29. Evans hates that the bodies are still out there, hates that they can't be gently moved away. But the dead are evidence now. There may be clues in where and how they fell, and there may be evidence, traces of the bombs, on their bodies. They need to be examined and processed, and so they will lie where they died until long after dark.
The center of the city is locked down, Boylston cordoned off from Hereford Street to Berkeley, twelve square blocks in all. It is the largest crime scene in Boston history, and it is painstakingly examined by technicians in white hazmat suits.
Officially, the bombings are a federal investigation, overseen by the FBI. But Boston cops and federal agents get along better than ever these days. State police and transit police and National Guardsmen and ATF agents are in the streets, too. Boston is an occupied city, a heavily armed camp in and around Copley Square, the police presence thinning farther from the epicenter.
On Tuesday, investigators find parts of the bombs—a circuit board, batteries, wires, fragments of the pressure cookers—on the sidewalks and in the street and even on rooftops. By Wednesday, they know almost exactly how they were assembled and detonated. Other agents are looking at tens of thousands of images, stills and movies from spectators and video from surveillance cameras, and by Thursday afternoon they have clear pictures of two suspects.
A few hours later, likely spooked by their faces on television, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 19 and 26 respectively, allegedly shoot an MIT police officer named Sean Collier in the head, apparently in a failed attempt to steal his gun. Then they carjack a Mercedes SUV (again, allegedly) and wander around Brighton and Cambridge before driving into neighboring Watertown.
Superintendent Evans, like a legion of other officers, has worked more than seventy-two straight hours by then, catching naps when he can. He races out to Watertown that night, after the Tsarnaevs start a gunfight in the street that Tamerlan loses. And he's in Watertown the next night, when Dzhokhar is found hiding beneath the tarp of a wintered-over boat. That was Evans's voice on the radio, screaming Hold your fire! Hold your fire! after one officer fired a round at the boat—why is unclear—which got a bunch of other officers shooting, too. And Evans was there when Dzhokhar was on the ground, wounded but alive. There's no way he would have missed that, no way any of the cops would have.
"They messed with us," Evans said later. "And we took it personally."
By that Friday night, the media narrative shifts from the dead and the wounded to the bad guys. Krystle Campbell and Martin Richard and Lu Lingzi become "three killed," and all the others are abbreviated to "more than 260 wounded."
Those are grotesque numbers, even without faces and names attached to them. If there is any comfort in them, it is only that the first one—three dead—could have been so much higher. That so many medical personnel were assembled on-site was fortuitous, as is the fact that Boston has five level-one trauma centers within a five-mile radius of the finish line. But that so many people ran toward the smoke and the blood, that so many strangers tied tourniquets and pushed wheelchairs and dressed wounds, is astounding. Stephen Segatore eventually learned that ninety-seven of the most seriously wounded were triaged and evacuated in twenty-five minutes. Later, a doctor in one of the ERs marveled to him about seeing "all these horrifying wounds on remarkably stable patients."


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Professional Career Movie. Infographic. About me. Autobiography. I was born (6 weeks premature) on Monday morning, January 23, 1950 at my parent's home on the grounds of my grandfather's coffee plantation, Hacienda Esperanza, in Barrio Guilarte (1843 feet up in the central mountains) of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico.
(Another map of Adjuntas here.) I was named after my father, José Antonio, to which was added Tomás thus explaining how I grew up with the family nickname of Tommy. My 5 "mottos" Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Carl Jung in 1910.
Myers and Briggs extrapolated their MBTI theory from Jung's writings in his book Psychological Types A chart with descriptions of each Myers-Briggs personality type and the four dichotomies central to the theory. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.[1]:1 These preferences were extrapolated from the typological theories proposed by Carl Gustav Jung and first published in his 1921 book Psychological Types (English edition, 1923[2]).
Jung theorized that there are four principal psychological functions by which we experience the world: sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking.[3] One of these four functions is dominant most of the time. 9 Types of Collaborators (I am a "Ringleader")
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Dick Lugar's one-sided loss in last night's Indiana Republican primary is only the latest indication that this isn't your grandfather's Senate anymore. The days of "the World's Greatest Deliberative Body" are long gone. Bipartisanship a thing of the past. In fact, the man who ended Lugar's 35-year run in the Senate – State Treasurer Richard Mourdock – recently said that Washington's problem was "too much bipartisanship." Compare that to Lugar, who was held in such high esteem by his foes across the aisle that some Democrats even called his loss "a tragedy for the Senate."
Out with the old and in with the new. In a scathing statement after his defeat, Lugar, the longest-tenured Republican senator, pulled no punches.
"He and I share many positions," Lugar said of his victorious opponent, "but his embrace of an unrelenting partisan mindset is irreconcilable with my philosophy of governance and my experience of what brings results for Hoosiers in the Senate."
"Unless he modifies his approach," Lugar warned, "he will achieve little as a legislator. Worse, he will help delay solutions that are totally beyond the capacity of partisan majorities to achieve."
Mourdock joins a growing list of lawmakers propelled to victory by the Tea Party's anti-government, anti-tax movement. In the years since the Tea Party's 2010 success, Capitol Hill has become gripped by gridlock. Even the most basic task of Congress – to fund the government – has turned contentious. The government came close to a federal shutdown last year – and more problems undoubtedly loom in the near future.
Moderates like Lugar on both sides of the aisle are falling by the wayside. Only two months ago, Sen. Olympia Snowe, a Republican from Maine, announced her retirement, saying she was tired of the gridlock that has paralyzed Congress. When Snowe revealed her decision not to run for re-election, she said she found it "frustrating" that "an atmosphere of polarization and "my way or the highway" ideologies has become pervasive in campaigns and in our governing institutions." Snowe, one of only three Republicans to back President Obama's stimulus package in 2009, warned that it was "time for change in the way we govern" and emphasized the "vital need for the political center" but said she was not optimistic about the future.
"Unfortunately, I do not realistically expect the partisanship of recent years in the Senate to change over the short term," Snowe said.
It is not only Republican moderates who are becoming extinct on Capitol Hill. Democratic Sens. Jim Webb of Virginia and Kent Conrad of North Dakota are retiring this year, too. Other moderates who have decided to fight for re-election, as evidenced by Lugar's loss, have a hard fight ahead.
Crossing the aisle, it seems, is something people used to do in the good ole days. A sign of things to come could be seen on the Senate floor on the day of Lugar's loss when an attempt to prevent student loan rates from doubling this summer went down in defeat. The measure did not even gain enough votes to undergo debate in the esteemed upper chamber of Congress.
That made the goings-on 350 miles to the north seem especially pointless. In Albany, N.Y., Obama was busy outlining a "to-do list" for Congress to accomplish over the coming months.
"I know this is an election year, but it's not an excuse for inaction," he said. "Six months is plenty of time for Democrats and Republicans to get together and do the right thing."
Of course, Obama, a former senator himself, knows perfectly well that "getting together" and "doing the right thing" are just about the last things anyone in Congress cares about these days. His own "to-do list" was merely an exercise in political mockery.
For both Democrats and Republicans alike, that is sadly what Congress has become: a dysfunctional object of derision. With moderate lawmakers like Lugar, Snowe, Conrad and others on their way out of town, the polarization on Capitol Hill is now likely only to increase.
While the nostalgia about what Congress used to be is frequently overblown – the people who sang its praises the most were always the lawmakers themselves – the recent gridlock could start to prove problematic for the country in the coming years. More partisanship. More filibusters. More secret holds.
Maybe the Senate, even in its heyday, never was "the World's Greatest Deliberate Body," but now, it appears, it won't be able to lay claim to that title anytime soon.
Matthew Jaffe covers the 2012 campaign for ABC News and Univision.


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How to Avoid Swooping Magpies in Australia, 'The Eyes Don't Work' [VIDEO]
When trying to avoid swooping magpies in Australia, there is one technique that definitely doesn't work.
When trying to avoid swooping magpies in Australia, there is one technique that definitely doesn't work.
A camera that was set up to capture crocodile movement in Australia wound up with something a little different.
It's really easy to forget there are several other versions of the X Factor than the US version. Of course, we know the UK has one, but did you know there was an Australian X Factor? Check out the stunning Samantha Jade performing Britney Spears Everything.
Did Jonah Hill have to be rescued from the ocean after drunk swimming in Australia? No, but that story was running rampant. Jonah cleared up the rumors, saying he was only wasted and being awesome.
Jonah and Channing Tatum were in Sydney to promote 21 Jump Street, and they jumped in the ocean after sucking down several drinks during their 14 hour flight
The Script just recently wrapped up a tour of Australia and they made a video documenting the time that they spent in the Western city of Perth. Which happens to be a town I've always wanted to go to I have never been able to for some reason. Check out some behind the scenes footage, as well as some clips from the show too, after the jump.