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Based on their improvement last year, it seemed Toyota might just be the team to bring Ralf Schumacher his dream of becoming world champion - a dream that would finally enable him to escape from the shadow of his older brothers achievements. Then came the disaster that was last weekends Bahrain Grand Prix. However, Schumachers and Toyotas spirit remains unbroken, both confident that the sun will rise again for the Japanese team
Q: Toyota ended last season on a high - a high that the team were expected to continue this year. However, in Bahrain last weekend, reality caught up with you. How painful was that?
Ralf Schumacher: Last weekend was somewhat painful in the sense that we did not expect to be so far back. However, as a team we are strong enough and we will fight back with a vengeance.
Q: Just as it seemed there was light at the end of the tunnel, suddenly you are fighting towards the back of the grid again. How does that affect your motivation?
RS: I am very motivated, just like I always am. Ive been in the business for too long to let a situation like this get to me. My motivation continues to be based around winning races and to have the best possible results with and for the team.
Q: What impact does this setback have on your strategy for the season and the dream of more podium finishes?
RS: Our strategy now is to analyse the situation and to find solutions in order to remedy the lack of performance. Our dreams stay the same though, we want to fight at the front of the grid and ultimately to win the championship. Its actually more than just a dream, its our goal.
Q: With the team travelling directly from Bahrain to Malaysia and then on to Australia, there seems little chance of improvement at the next two races. How will the team approach Sepang and Melbourne? And when can we expect Toyota to resume their upward trend?
RS: Well we wont be able to change an awful lot for the race in Malaysia. However we are fitting in a test in between the races of Sepang and Melbourne. Our results in Bahrain do not reflect our true results and potential. I believe that in Malaysia we should already be in a much better position than we were in Bahrain.
Q: How sensible do you think it was for the team to switch tyre suppliers just as you were starting to enjoy some serious success?
RS: Weve changed the tyre company with a long term perspective in mind. Were confident that in the long run it will pay off. When Michelin leaves F1 next year and Bridgestone is the sole tyre supplier for F1 we will have an advantage over the teams that are still on Michelin this year.
Q: Toyota has two highly-regarded drivers and one of the strongest engines. Are there any areas in which you feel the team failed to do their homework properly over the winter testing period?
RS: Toyota has a strong engine, but it is early in the season to tell if this is the strongest one. Last year we had the strongest engine in F1. This year I believe that Cosworth has an initial advantage over the rest of the F1 grid. You just need to look at Nico Rosbergs overtaking manoeuvres over the Red Bull cars at the end of the start-finish straight in Bahrain and you see that Cosworth might have an advantage over all of us.
Q: Following your split with Willi Weber last year, you are the only top driver to not have a manager, at a time when contracts are the talk of the Formula One paddock. Do you feel comfortable and competent representing yourself in this respect?
RS: Yes I do represent myself, but not by myself. I have a team around me consisting of my officials back at home in Austria. I also have Guido Piedade who takes care of my private PR issues as well as my marketing and commercial interests, which includes management interests. Im very well taken care of at all the races.


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Without question, lots of kids have recently made UT Austin their dream school. While they may not have understood Empowering Leadership Alliance's (ELA) Towers of Hanoi problem, or walked away with the ability to program UT's soccer-playing robots, they certainly got the message that computer science, and school itself, is fun.
Some of them were wearing matching shirts with pictures of Einstein that said "be smart, go to college," while others walked around with their alumni parents nervously chattering about how their three year olds might grow up to break their hearts by going to A&M.Other attendees had already been accepted, and watched as their future professors guided robots through a hula hoop, or heard from current students about what it's like to major in computer science.
And current students like myself were reminded of how fortunate we are for our opportunities, and how many people are amazed at what we get to do—even if forty kids had seen me struggle with the washing machine earlier that morning while touring my dorm.
A wonderful thing about UT is that it basically stays like this all year. Sure there's typically fewer kids climbing on Gateshenge (thanks Rohan for finally explaining to me what the giant structure in front of GDC is), but almost every day you can fill in the sentence "Whoa, I didn't know we had a _____!" with something new and exciting.
There's lots of reasons that people say college is the best years of your life. You're given all of the knowledge and resources that you could possibly want, and you're encouraged to see the world with the same wide-eyed excitement as UT's tiny explorers. At the same time, you're responsible and smart enough to do the really cool stuff – and nobody's worried that you'll break something. And you're constantly surrounded by brilliant and inspiring people with lots of common interests.
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I need to rant a little.
As an analyst at Gartner, I can't describe how angry I get when I read bloggers spouting as "fact" their opinion that I and my teammates have no integrity. That we can be "bought."
In my 14+ years at Gartner, I have never, ever allowed a vendor to influence my opinion with anything but facts. Period. They have certainly tried to influence me with non-facts. I can say this definitively – it has never worked.
I don't think there is a single vendor that I have dealt with who has not been very angry with me at some point. Tough. I've been yelled at by many IT executives – including the CEOs of Microsoft and HP, and many other firms. I can't think of one of those cases when I changed my analysis one bit. I can't speak for other firms, but at Gartner, getting yelled at by a CEO is a badge of honor. Being proven right as time goes on – priceless.
I certainly spend time helping vendors with their strategies and their marketing messages – and I enjoy doing it. Frankly, the ones who yell at us the most seem to respect our opinion the most. We can spot holes a mile away, and engaged early enough, we can help vendors fill those holes with real product offerings – that not only help the vendors, but help our end user clients. And my primary business is helping end users.
I worked at IBM for 11 years. During the last few years, I was doing some technical evangelizing to analyst firms – and hiring these firms to write white papers. There were plenty available for hire – and still are. There was only one firm that wouldn't allow us to edit their work – Gartner. Only one. We tried, but they wouldn't budge. They could not be bought. It was unusual, and I completely respected that. When the opportunity came to join Gartner, I jumped. I wouldn't have even considered anyone else.
Since I've joined the firm, my appreciation for the integrity of the firm and its analysts has only increased. If I felt that the firm's integrity was bending, first I would fight it with all my might, and then I would be outta there. I'm not gone yet!
So I understand the impression in the marketplace that analyst firms can be bought. But that's not where I work. My integrity is very important to me. I'm sure we'll continue to make enemies of vendors, and bloggers who have a vested interest in one thing or another. Badge of honor! But my goal is to provide value to my clients, and to be proven right over time – priceless!
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ESPNBoston.comOur Baseball Tonight crew -- Curt Schilling, John Kruk and Barry Larkin - look ahead to the ALDS between the Red Sox and Rays, which kicks off Friday afternoon at Fenway Park. What does Schilling expect from the series? In a word, "Pitching." "...
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Ford: C's targets in draft
ESPNBoston.comNBA Draft guru Chad Ford provides a couple nuggets on Boston's thinking as the draft approaches: Larkin, Pressey, and Adams were part of the early workouts -- ones that included our lone media access of Boston's pre-draft process. Hop HERE for ...
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ESPNBoston.comBarry Larkin and Aaron Boone preview the third game in the Twins-Red Sox series at Fenway Park on Wednesday night. The game starts at 7 ET and will be aired on ESPN amd WatchESPN....
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'BBTN Minute' on AL East surprises
ESPNBoston.comBarry Larkin and Karl Ravech discuss the early-season surprises in the AL East, including the impact of John Farrell's presence and the emergence of Clay Buchholz....
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Schilling: Bobby V 'toothless from day one'
ESPNBoston.comIn the video above, Curt Schilling and Barry Larkin weigh in on the latest flap involving Bobby Valentine, a Yahoo! Sports report that a group of disgruntled players met with owners to strongly complain about the manager. Schilling has his harshes...
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Video: The wild wild-card finish
ESPNBoston.comBarry Larkin and Karl Ravech break down the final regular-season matchups -- Red Sox-Orioles and Rays-Yankees -- with the AL wild card on the line....
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Video: "BBTN" on where wild card stands
ESPNBoston.com"Baseball Tonight" looks at the American League wild-card race after the Red Sox's dramatic win at New York. Barry Larkin says the Sox need to compartmentalize things and stay focused on the task at hand, while Bobby Valentine stresses the import...
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BBTN: Sox aren't panicking
ESPNBoston.comBarry Larkin of "Baseball Tonight" suggests Red Sox Nation can take a deep breath after Monday's doubleheader split. Saying he liked the way the Sox bounced back in the nightcap and giving major props to Alfredo Aceves, Larkin thinks the Olde Town...
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Video: BBTN previews Sox-Rangers
ESPNBoston.comThe Baseball Tonight crew of Steve Berthiaume, Barry Larkin and Curt Schilling break down the upcoming series between the Red Sox and the Rangers. The series starts tonight with Andrew Miller and Derek Holland on the mound....
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BBTN: Sunday night (8 ET, ESPN) preview
ESPNBoston.comSteve Berthiaume, Rick Sutcliffe and Barry Larkin break down Sunday night's series finale between the Red Sox and Yankees. Sutcliffe looks at the pitching matchup between Josh Beckett and Freddy Garcia and Larkin talks about how the Yankees need to s...
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Video: How good are the Sox?
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Video: Kruk, Larkin on AL East race
ESPNBoston.comOn "Baseball Tonight," John Kruk and Barry Larkin discussed who would emerge from the tough AL East and debated whether the Red Sox or Yankees qualify as a great team....
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Can Thirsty India Bottle The Monsoon?
By Aubrey BelfordJuly 12, 2012
India is pioneering efforts to overcome water shortages by catching — and keeping — more of its annual rain. But in this sprawling country, even the simplest and cheapest solutions can be hard to pull off.
Tuesday, July 3 was another dry, dusty day of summer in Dakshinpuri, a crowded cluster of tenements in the south of Delhi. Even at the best of times, the inhabitants of India's capital are a notoriously ornery lot, prone to shoving, screaming matches and fistfights. But in the hot months before the monsoon, when temperatures grind up and over 40 degrees, day in day out, things easily get out of hand.
The annual monsoon, and the relief it brings, was four days late … and counting. In the shade of one of Dakshinpuri's alleys, a crowd of about two dozen had gathered to tell us of their water troubles. The supply from the city is intermittent and brackish, they complained; every time the taps come on, there is a mad dash to fill up. Locals conduct nighttime raids, to steal water from other neighbourhoods, or they scrounge from each other.
While other neighbourhoods buy water from pricey tanker trucks, that is not an option here. And the fights among local women are just too nasty.
"Everyone just busts each other's heads open," says Shakila Khatun, a local housewife, who sits braiding a girl's hair.
Water, and the lack of it, had become an obsession. "From 11 in the morning my exercise [of gathering water] starts and doesn't end until six in the evening," says Vaijayanti Koli, a mother of three. "I don't have time for anything else because in the back of my head, there's always water."
On Friday, the black clouds rolled in and, with a swirl of dust, brought the first pre-monsoon rains. But the arriving monsoon will do little for Dakshinpuri. The water simply rushes down the alleyways into overflowing drains, polluted canals and flooded streets. Taps will stay dry.
These days, the huge monsoon that has nourished much of the Indian subcontinent for millennia just isn't doing the trick. Across the country, water tables have dropped dramatically and turned salty under the strain of one billion thirsting people and their industries. India's great rivers, too, are suffering from pollution and overuse.
Faced with crisis, India has over the last decade and a half become a key laboratory for the revival and adaptation of an ancient system of overcoming water shortages: rain harvesting.
On paper, the country is undertaking the largest ongoing experiment in testing technology that could help solve water crises around the world, including in Australia. But putting the experiment and its successes into widespread practice, has proved complicated.
Rainwater harvesting involves catching the rain, storing it, and reusing it in ways that ensure a year-round supply of fresh water, explains Lalit Sharma, the head of natural resource management at the Institute of Rural Research and Development, or IRRAD. This philanthropically funded organisation is based in the city of Gurgaon, outside Delhi. A massive boomtown of more than 1.5 million people, Gurgaon has sprung up from next to nothing in the past two decades.
In private homes, harvesting involves collecting rain on rooftops and channelling it into either above- or below-ground tanks; the water is then filtered before use. On a larger scale, harvesting involves excavating reservoirs, so the water can be used to irrigate fields; or building check dams to collect the rain, which is then allowed to seep into the earth and recharge groundwater tables.
Some of this sounds familiar. In Australia, for example, simple rainwater tanks have long been in use, and are now mandatory in some states and council areas for collecting water for limited purposes, such as for outdoor use, flushing toilets, or washing.
India's plans are far more ambitious.
"Whatever rain we get in a particular area, if we conserve that, it is more than enough," Sharma says. "Even if we take agriculture, which is the largest consumer of water, the crops adopted in these areas need much less water than the water coming from the rains."
Such systems have a long history in India. In the dry western states of Rajasthan and Gujarat, homes have traditionally collected rooftop water for drinking. In India's south, Hindu temples have for centuries incorporated large above-ground rainwater ponds.
Using the rain to recharge groundwater, however, is a much newer idea.
Under British rule, and after independence, India's traditional rainwater harvesting systems fell into disuse, as centralised irrigation and drinking-water supply systems were built, Sharma says. This worked for a while. But now India's water supply has hit a wall.
"The consequences? They've just started showing," Sharma says. "[The water in] Gurgaon has turned brackish because the level is dipping down, and once you go deeper, the quality deteriorates and salinity increases. More than 40 per cent of Delhi has turned saline, which was not the case 10, 15 years back."
Most of India's states and many of its major cities have, over the past decade, passed rules mandating rainwater harvesting in homes and commercial buildings, with some notable successes. In the southern state of Tamil Nadu, the capital Chennai enacted rules in 2003 requiring all buildings to implement rainwater harvesting for both drinking and groundwater recharge. Within five years, much of the city's saline water table became fresh again, while groundwater levels in many areas rose between three to six metres. In patches around the country, mostly in the south, there have been other successes. In most of the rest of the country, however, rules have largely gone unenforced.
To see experiments with rainwater harvesting in the field, The Global Mail travelled with Sharma and another of his colleagues, Salahuddin Saiphy, to Mewat, a hardscrabble district in Haryana state. The lay of the land is vastly different here from the glass towers of Gurgaon. Or as, Sharma puts it: "We've travelled 100 kilometres, and it's as if we've travelled back 100 years."
Mewat is home to 1.2 million people. It is a flat, dusty zone, where the water has turned salty, except in the surrounding rocky hills. Over recent decades, most local wells have become useless.
In the mud-brick village of Khanpur Nuh, we come across Mohammed Tahir, squatting in the shade having his head shaved with a dry razor that is being unsettlingly, and loudly, scraped across his head. The temperature today is 47 degrees and, stating the obvious, Tahir says he's adopting the shaved style "because it's so hot".
"In the '70s, we had a well, but that dried up," explains Tahir's father, Mohammed Ismail, who is 62. "Then we were getting water from the government, but that stopped."
Now villager Ismail and his family of 15 get their water from tanker trucks, a set-up he calls the "mafia". Each month, he pays more than 600 rupees, or about AUD10.50, for 7,000 litres of water. But he says he expects a big change this year, as his is one of 14 families that has had 20,000-litre rainwater tanks installed by IRRAD. Once the monsoon has filled this tank, it should be enough water to provide for drinking and cooking for a year.
IRRAD's mission in Mewat is to build working models of rainwater-harvesting systems that governments can then adopt on a larger scale. Across the region, we visit check dams, tanks and pools the institute has built. So far, they appear to be showing patchy success.
At one primary school in the village of Paat Khoori, a system was set up in 2010 to harvest monsoon water from the school's roof and store it in four 25,000-litre tanks. The cost of the whole project, which is maintained by the school, was 228,000 rupees, or about AUD4,000. Previously, with no water for drinking or toilets available at the school, children were forced to walk home to the village at lunchtime to have a drink, and many would not return. Within one year, the new system saw enrolments in the school jump from 350 to 480 students, according to Saiphy. Working toilets have been key to boosting the attendance of girls.
Seeing this success, the Haryana government has reached an in-principle agreement with IRRAD to build 500 similar school systems. Negotiations now centre around who will pay for them, who will build them and who will maintain them.
As we traverse villages with little water or sanitation we pass beneath new high-tension power lines that deliver electricity to the boomtown of Gurgaon. In India, governments have long tended to prioritise large-scale infrastructure projects over small community-based solutions or inexpensive rural developments. For rainwater harvesting to work, it needs widespread government adoption, but the cheapness of such initiatives is, ironically, one aspect that makes them unappealing to governments, explains Saiphy.
"[Big] infrastructure projects have a lot of interests. They get commissions and everything. And all these small things like toilets, drinking-water wells, and all these things, they don't get you anything," he says.
Back in Delhi, water shortages have recently exploded into a major political headache. The capital's chief minister, Sheila Dikshit, announced in early June that she would privatise the city's water supply in an effort to increase efficiency of use. She has also regularly exhorted residents to conserve water, claiming that she bathes with only half a bucket of water a day. The city's rivers and canals are polluted and much of the green space previously used to recharge groundwater has been built over; some claim that more than 40 per cent of the city's water is lost in leaky old pipes.
Since 2001 Delhi has also had rules on the books mandating rainwater harvesting in new buildings on plots of 100 square metres or larger. But this and other measures in Delhi have failed to take off, largely because incentives have been minimal and punishment for noncompliance nonexistent, says Nitiya Jacob, the head of the water program at Delhi's Centre for Science and Environment.
At most, around 500 rainwater harvesting projects have been implemented in the capital: "Just a drop in the bucket —Sheila Dikshit's bucket," Jacob says.
He is a champion of rainwater harvesting as a promising technology, but is frank about its limits. We can't harvest enough rain to provide for heavy industry, intensive large-scale farming or mining, he says. And in high-density cities like Delhi, limited space on which to place tanks means many apartment blocks would not be able to accommodate them.
"You could take houses off the [water-supply] grid. But that's provided everybody does it and there's technical help available for people, and the government gives some kind of tax incentive or subsidy or something," Jacob says.
India's southern states have done better at enforcing water self-sufficiency in domestic residences, simply because they are better governed, he says. And, he adds, the rest of India could fix a lot of its water troubles, if only it could leave behind its long tradition of government inefficiency and non-compliance.
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The most interesting thing about the Hobby Lobby discussion is . . .
Look, I'm not even going to debate the issue of whether contraception is a "preventive treatment" and whether that means pregnancy is a disease, or whether it's a consumer product.
But everyone's flipping out: "OMG, what if the Jehovah's Witnesses decided it violated their religious principles to cover blood transfusions? Companies can now do whatever they want as long as they claim it's in their religion!" (See here for the becoming-famous Ginsberg line.)
And it occurred to me that this "worst case scenario" is actually fairly instructive.
Imagine if there were a significant number of Jehovah's Witnesses running companies, or closely-held corporations, and that they believed that if they provided health care coverage to their employees which included blood transfusions, they'd be enabling a sin. I skimmed the article on the topic in Wikipedia but it's not clear to me if they view this as something required only of their adherents, like keeping kosher or observing the Sabbath for Jews, or a general moral code applicable to everyone.
But let's assume its the latter.
It's still not a problem. Blood transfusions are a component of medical treatment -- after an accident, in the course of surgery, and so on. It shouldn't be that difficult to split out the claims value of the blood transfusion component of such surgeries, based on the mountain of data that insurers have available to them. Then an insurer could design a standard policy which excludes transfusions, and an additional rider which includes them, and there shouldn't be any risk of anti-selection in the rider-policies because this is true insurance, for serious medical needs, the cost should be relatively minor, and yet everyone working at a JW-employer should have the common sense to know, when the mailing arrives from the insurance company, to select the "blood transfusion" rider.
But imagine a "contraception" rider -- it doesn't work, does it? Who would choose a contraception rider? Pretty much only those who know that they'll be using contraception, and that the contraceptive of their choice is more expensive than average, so that, even with an at-cost policy, they figure they'll save money. In other words, there'll be an immediate death spiral, as the IUD users sign up but not the generic-pill users.
Which all just highlights the problem with contraception being a part of an insurance policy, when it's a known, predictable, and, for most people a managably-small expense.
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For a very interesting legal commentary on this, I would point you to the blog of Judge Richard G. Kopf of the US District Court for the District of Nebraska. He has a major issue with the idea of closely held corporations being distinguished from other corporations for religious protection. Do read the comments as well.
http://herculesandtheumpire.com/2014/07/01/isnt-the-loosey-goosey-closely-held-distinction-in-the-hobby-lobby-cases-intellectually-incoherent/Replies- AnonymousJuly 2, 2014 at 10:53 AM
I tend to agree with "Peter H" in the comments -- the difference between closely held and public corporations is that the former is free from the requirement to maximize shareholder value.
Given the realities of business and commerce, it is all but impossible to be even a very small business without incorporating, so I find this an important consideration in the case.
- David That was me, though I don't hold the position I argued. I gave that defense as a devil's advocate thing since the judge had expressly asked me to elsewhere in the thread.
If you want the shield of limited liability, then you have to take with it the fact of limited purpose. If the business is just a furtherance of you personally, then there's no public policy reason that you should be personally immune from responsibility for its mistakes and misdeeds.The judge is correct that it's wrong to distinguish between closely held and publicly held corporations for this purpose or any other purpose. A corporation is a legal entity that has the same legal rights a person. This was a precedent upheld in the Citizens United case, and it's a precedent that goes back at least to John Marshall.
A corporation is just an institution that some group of persons form, choose to belong to, and which the state agrees to relate to collectively as if it were a person. Its rights proceed from the fact that each of its members chooses to belong to the corporation, and that each of them has human rights. If this case involved a sole proprietor, it wouldn't be an issue; and the issues aren't any different if the plaintiff is a corporation, whether profit-seeking, publicly held, or any other characteristic.
The discussion of a corporation being profit-seeking, publicly held, or whatever else is a distraction and a thinly veiled pretense for persecution. Does a person trying to make a profit not have the same rights as a person who has renounced private property? It's really got nothing to do with anything, just a meaningless distinction that was introduced for income tax purposes. Corporations, regardless of their tax status, as groups of individuals, have a right to define their governing principles, to define them in their charters, to act based on them, and to expect their members to live by them.
Don't get distracted by all of the mud in the dialogue.
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Being a moderate and centrist, what goes on in the mind of an ideologue is a great puzzlement to me. I don't understand the lack of discernment, the inability to argue an issue from multiple POVs, and the reliance on contrivances. I guess all the adolescent drama must serve as some sort of signaling to each other rather than promoting their side to the public. Surely, they can't think that Indies and others can't see through the blatant BS and aren't turned off by it. I am in sync with some Althouse posters that the partisan histrionics on this issue is particularly irksome. I know that I am offended by the subtext that women are hapless, hopeless and helpless. Good grief, my mother had a prescription for birth control in the 60s, and of course she paid for it. In fact, back then, many insurances didn't even cover normal, uncomplicated deliveries, since insurance was practical and largely for catastrophic and unforeseen medical issues.
I guess I sorta understand why HRC would make an embarrassing spectacle of herself to pander to the base, but Ginsburg, I don't get. Her writing was bizarre; it was if she hadn't done her homework and hadn't familiarized herself with the RFRA. It seems to me that the legislature had already covered most of the concerns, like you mentioned. For the record, most of my input on this comes from the Althouse blog To be clear the majority opinion, I believe, explicitly states that this ruling is for the contraceptive mandate only.
Justice Alito: "This decision concerns only the contraceptive mandate and should not be understood to hold that all insurance-coverage mandates, e.g. for vaccinations or blood transfusions, must necessarily fall if they conflict with an employer's religious beliefs."The most frustrating thing about popular commentary on this is that a lot of people suddenly seem to hate the fact that corporations are legal persons and think that this is somehow a new development. Never mind that because corporations are legal persons, you have an entity to sue if need be, and you have an entity to contract with in order to offer your services as an employee.
I'm not sure why the obvious solution seems to be to deny that corporate personhood exists (but only in regards to results we don't like), rather than decouple the employer - health insurance relationship altogether.
I get that it's a raw deal if you accept employment expecting the benefits you were promised, only to have your employer unilaterally change your benefits, but that's unfortunately the risk you run if you are dependent on someone else to provide something. You are in a similar (but much worse) position if you choose to live your life in such a way as to be eternally dependent on public benefits(*) - when the money runs out, you're screwed.
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quote: Carry on with your blinders on if you think there is no correlation in not having another attack on U.S. soil after this was said and we went to war in their backyard.
quote:Carry on with your blinders on if you think there is no correlation in not having another attack on U.S. soil after this was said and we went to war in their backyard.
quote:Wasting trillions of dollars and giving up the liberties this country was founded on > not having another attack.
quote:the worst president since carter?
quote:Japan decided war was necessary to secure flow of oil. It isn't crazy to think Iran might too.
quote:Candidly stated, 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' was a war designed to install a pro-U.S. government in Iraq, establish multiple U.S military bases before the onset of global Peak Oil, and to reconvert Iraq back to petrodollars while hoping to thwart further OPEC momentum towards the euro as an alternative oil transaction currency (i.e. "petroeuro").[
quote:to reconvert Iraq back to petrodollars
quote:A nation-state taxes its own citizens, while an empire taxes other nation-states. The history of empires, from Greek and Roman, to Ottoman and British, teaches that the economic foundation of every single empire is the taxation of other nations. For the first time in history, in the twentieth century, America was able to tax the world indirectly, through inflation. It did not enforce the direct payment of taxes like all of its predecessor empires did, but distributed instead its own fiat currency, the U.S. Dollar, to other nations in exchange for goods with the intended consequence of inflating and devaluing those dollars and paying back later each dollar with less economic goods—the difference capturing the U.S. imperial tax.
quote:Yeah because that isnt exactly the type of thing Bin Laden was running his yap about or anything. We would control the oil but create how many more pissed off muslim terrorists?
quote:because america created jihad right?
quote:So we should roll over and let them control the world? Piss on muslim extremists that want to destroy this country and her interests.
quote:Iran has stopped selling crude
quote:Oil is fungible,
quote:See Gaddafi; See Chavez, etc. Funny how these folks don't become evil dictators until after they decide to quit dealing oil in dollars.
quote:Are you completely out of touch with reality now?
quote:So you think it is sort of crazy to suggest that countries go to war to protect what they perceive to be their economic interests.
quote:Ghaddafi never stopped selling oil for dollars although he threatened to stop accepting dollars and only accept the euro or gold. His threat was never implemented.
quote:Do you even follow current events???
quote:Eta: and I see you completely ignored my correcting you about Iran.


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Shumow teaches at Florida International University, and roughly 70 percent of his students are Hispanic—not terribly surprising for a Miami-based institution. In that majority-minority city, people don't favor broad labels. "There are huge Puerto Rican festivals, huge Dominican festivals," he says. "There are gigantic Cuban celebrations. There are tremendous Colombian and Peruvian activities that take place."
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Lalo Alcaraz says the threshold for relevance seems low among the new Latino sites. "They'll run a story about some woman that, whatever, beheads her baby or husband or something," he says. "And they'll just run it because the person's Latino. That's not what the Internet's for, if you're trying to talk about Latino life."
Here, for example, is a representative headline from HuffPost LatinoVoices: "Brazil Cannibal Empanadas: Brazilian Women Murdered, Eaten And Made Into Human Pastries." Fox News Latino also ran a story on the flesh-eating incident.
That's another thing: There tends to be a lot of redundancy among the sites. Not only do they cover the same topics, they'll often use the same AP stories. Sometimes, that's unavoidable, says Chris Peña, executive editor of NBC Latino. "There are going to be some parallel rails here, especially when it comes to news and politics," he says, pointing as an example to the reporting earlier this year on Florida Senator Marco Rubio's vice-presidential prospects.
Nevertheless, stories on food, education, and parenting will stand out, Peña says. NBC Latino also unearths "firsts," like Carmen Ortiz, "the very first Hispanic—and woman—to be named Massachusetts chief federal prosecutor," he says. "Frankly, if we're not finding those stories, who's going to find them?"
In fact, though, Fox News Latino has a similar feature, "Our American Dream," which profiles inspiring Latinos. (The network declined my interview request.)
Another issue: The sites often "fall under clichés," says Univision social-media editor Conz Preti. "They just upload a video of Sofia Vergara on Saturday Night Live," she says. "Of course, that made news, and there's a lot of ratings. But what else? It's not just throwing names out there or targeting entertainment only."
Overall, she's glad there's more Latino news. "But we do feel that we know our audience better," she says.
The skepticism isn't limited to competitors like Preti. The business community also is unconvinced that English-speaking Latinos are a true market niche, says Rosa Alonso, a marketing consultant who's studied this group, and who used to run an English-language site of her own, MyLatinoVoice.com, which has been on hiatus since late last year. Businesses know how to target Spanish-speakers, but bicultural Latinos are often considered part of "a general market pool," she says. "Well, that's ridiculous. African-Americans speak English. There's this cultural element—that's what you're trying to get to."
These criticisms in part reflect the fact that the new English-language sites are young and still trying to differentiate themselves, win a larger share of the audience, and pay the bills. As of June, comScore was only monitoring Fox News Latino and HuffPost LatinoVoices, so reliable, comprehensive numbers on traffic are hard to get. Between April and June, LatinoVoices drew 1.8 million unique visitors a month on average, while Fox News Latino attracted just over 2 million.
NBC Latino hopes to gain a competitive advantage, in part by creating a "superior mobile experience," says editor Peña. Compared to non-Hispanic whites, Latinos are more likely to use the Internet via their phones than at home, says the Pew Hispanic Center.
To compete with Fox News and companies with "all the resources in the world," NewsTaco editor Victor Landa says his site offers stories ignored by the mainstream media—pieces by food bloggers, activists, political consultants, and other professionals, not just journalists. He also partnered with VOXXI, another English-language site aimed at Latinos, and says he hopes to form relationships with nonprofits and other publications.


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Anglers and boaters can help prevent the spread of fish diseases and other aquatic invasive species by taking the following steps:
Natural resource managers are concerned about introduction of new species and have set up an Angler's Monitoring Network to report any discoveries. Anglers should save and report unidentified fish to the nearest DNR Customer Service Center.
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Parents, officials meet to discuss Bethel school investigation
BETHEL — As Connecticut State Police continue to investigate into inappropriate activities by a former Bethel school employee, district officials hosted a forum for parents Thursday to discuss the investigation process. Many of the approximately 50 parents who attended the event at the Bethel Middle School auditorium appeared frustrated with the lack of information on […]
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Officials to meet with Bethel parents over school investigation
BETHEL – School district officials will host an informational session Thursday to familiarize parents with the investigatory process over a former elementary school employee. Superintendent Christine Carver said no new details will be released as the meeting will focus solely on the process. "Please be aware, we do not have any additional updates at this […]
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Search continues for New Milford bank robber
New Milford police are still searching for a man who fled with an undetermined amount of cash after robbing the Bank of America branch on Main Street Wednesday afternoon. The suspect was described as a white male, 6-feet to 6-foot-3 and about 30 to 40 years old. He has a grey goatee and was wearing […]
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Accident backs up traffic on I-84 in Waterbury
UPDATE 11:33 A.M. The tractor trailer accident before exit 18 on eastbound Interstate 84 has been cleared. ORIGINAL POST State Police are responding to a tractor trailer accident on Interstate 84 in Waterbury. The eastbound left lane between exits 17 and 18 has been closed, which is causing significant delays in the area. […]
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New details released on New Milford rollover crash
UPDATE 2:20 P.M. The driver involved in yesterday's rollover accident in New Milford has been treated and released from the hospital, a Danbury Hospital spokeswoman said Thursday afternoon. ORIGINAL POST New Milford police have released new information about Wednesday's rollover accident on Danbury Road. The driver, Christian L. Vossen, was traveling northbound at about […]
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New Milford police search for bank robber
NEW MILFORD — Police are searching for a man who fled with an undetermined amount of cash after robbing Bank of America, 55 Main St., Wednesday afternoon. The suspect indicated that he had a gun, although none was displayed, police said. He is described as a white male, 6 to 6.3 feet tall, about 30 […]
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Cops: Prostitute, client caught during sexual act in Danbury
A prostitute was caught during a sexual act with a client in a van parked on a dead-end road in Danbury Tuesday morning, police said. Officers from the Community Conditions Unit were in plain clothes driving an unmarked vehicle on Stevens Street at about 9:30 a.m. when they saw Anjelica Miraglia, 25, of Danbury, walking […]
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What's New
Download now the improved version of the app 'miffy's garden'!In this update of 'miffy's garden' some things are improved to make it easier for your toddler or pre-schooler to play the app.
- When the game is achieved, your child sees an image of Miffy as a reward that he/she did well.
- The buttons on the menu and game now light up when you touch them. Also they open directly when you tap the buttons.
- You can switch off the sound of the app through the sound button on the side of the iPhone, instead of in the app itself.
You can now also apply for the newsletter in the info-menu of the app. This way you will get all the new information about the miffy apps and updates!
App Description
Miffy in the garden: reading together, playing and learningRaking, sowing seeds and harvesting carrots. Miffy has her own garden and you can help her with it. Listen to the story and you will know exactly what to do.
Miffy in the garden is a fun and educational iPhone app developed specifically for toddlers and pre-schoolers. Very young children can enjoy listening and watching while older children can participate more actively in the story and the game.
- First Miffy iPhone app!
- For toddlers and pre-schoolers
- 'Miffy's Garden' story
- Interactive: listening and participating
- Simple, fun and educational
- Carrot game
Interactive story
- Based on the book 'Miffy's garden' by Dick Bruna
- Miffy has her own garden, can you help her with it? Raking, sowing seeds, and watering the garden too. Watch as the plants appear…. it's time to harvest them. And then…enjoy a feast!
- Listening, watching, reading and participating
Playing and learning
- Counting: counting carrots. Are you counting along out loud? And did Mother and Father Bunny also get a tasty carrot?
Search for miffy in the App Store to find all available miffy apps.
Sanoma Media Netherlands b.v. developed this app in collaboration with Mercis b.v.
App Changes
February 12, 2014 Price Decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
October 09, 2013 New version 2.0
June 26, 2013 Price Decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
May 27, 2013 Price Decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
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VIDEO HERE: Small Business Development Center celebrates 35 years
LEWISBURG– The Small Business Development Center of Bucknell University celebrated 35 years of growing small business on Friday at the County Cupboard.
Steven Stumbris, Director of Bucknell SBDC, spoke about the history of the organization saying, " The SBDC was created in 1978 for the purpose of helping all types of small businesses in nearby counties having problems in all subjects ranging from accounting to welding, with assistance being provided by Bucknell faculty members, employees and students serving as assistants to professional people. "
Also during the event SBDC honored area small business owners. The Small Business Person of the Year went to Kathy Grandizio, owner of the Danville Pharmacy.
Others honored include, Jessica Grill, owner of Pompeii Street Soap Company. Grill was awarded with the Innovation in New Product Development Award, and Erin Jablonski, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bucknell with the Charles H. Coder Entrepreneurial Leadership Award.
The Bucknell Chapter of SBDC continues to provide entrepreneurs with the education, information, and consulting services they need to build successful businesses. ( Sarah Lagerman)
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This guy wants us to reduce our power usage, while he uses about as much power per month that we do in an entire year. http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm
so, your point is that Gore should give away all his assets that he's earned and live poor, relatively speaking, like you and me so that he can "practice exactly what he preaches?"... cool...
He should shut the hell up about our energy usage is the point. And while he's at it . . . Atkins Diet, buddy . . . man is he getting fat
Well said... the whole hypocrisy of the Hollywood left (a group Algore can now loudly proclaim he is a member of) is quite galling... Melissa Etheridge wants to sing a nice song with text in the background telling us all what we should do to help "solve the problem"... things like "Everyone use public transit"... I doubt there was a single member in that audience who currently uses public transit in their daily lives... but those people feel like they have right to tell us how to live our lives....
I think you are missing his message. And accepting the Rovian one. I'm sure if there was an electric plane, solar Train etc. Gore would ride it. He is trying to tell you that there is a problem, and we as a planet need to be aware of it, and as a race of humans need to try and fix it. Statements like yours above are Fox/Hannity/Drudge talking points, and get us nowhere fast. I didn't see anywhere in Gore's movie, or in his speeches where he says "Everyone needs to do this....or everyone needs to do that". You clearly haven't seen the film, or ignored it if you did. He lays out the problem, presents the evidence, and offers solutions. And all you can do is point fingers, and bash him. What is so wrong about wanting to stop CO2, and methane from heating our planet? Why are you so offended by people trying to raise awareness about climate change? What are you afraid of?
What makes you so sure...? The guy uses 12 times the average American in terms of energy consumption. There is absolutely nothing in his lifestyle that suggest he conserves energy - oh, but he wants all the rest of us to make major sacrifices in our daily lives. And yet, he's not willing to do his part. I think you are missing my message. And accepting the ultra radical left wing Hollywood loonies one. Have you ever responded to a Conservative on this board without bringin up "Rovian" or Fox/Hannity/Drudge talking points...? Then you just ain't paying attention. I bash him because he is a hypocrite. Typical liberal, brain dead response. Whenever a Conservative gives an opinion, liberals love to respond with "What are you so afraid of?" or "Why are you so afraid of gay people/black people/Latino people?" (etc.) It's one of the oldest - and most disingenuous - tricks in the book. For the record: I am not afraid of anything Algore has done. I just don't like being lectured to by hypocrites. No you seem to have no problem with your heroes not practicing what they preach. Nothing you have said in your feeble post has changed the fact that they are quite extreme in their hypocrisy.
wow! a Conservative doesn't like being lectured by HYPOCRITES! You are priceless... "America is addicted to oil" "The Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." "[Iraq] has aided, trained and harbored terrorists, including operatives of Al Qaeda." "If we must begin a military campaign, it will be directed against the lawless men who rule your country and not against you." "Should Saddam Hussein choose confrontation, the American people can know that every measure has been taken to avoid war and every measure will be taken to win it." "[T]he only way to reduce the harm and duration of war is to apply the full force and might of our military, and we are prepared to do so." Read this: http://www.slate.com/?id=2067870 You have been lied to, and the funny thing is you seem to like the taste of it. Yummmm....its like skittles. I love you followers of the talking points memo....the problem you are all having now is that everyone else is on to the game being played. The irony is that the game is actually being played on YOU. And you have no clue. sorry.
even better... so only poor people have a right to say anything about climate change and energy usage... the rest are all hypocrites... that's profound analysis...
As long as it doesn't inconvenience him, I guess So should I skip my smog check because it inconveniences me ? How about it Gorey puts his energy usage where his mouth is and sells his 20 bedroom mansion for, say, a 5 bedroom house ? Then he'd cut his energy usage. Until then, he's a hypocrite who is abusing the energy he needs for the convenience of a mansion he doesn't "need".
Next NeoTalking Point: #1854-B "Cows let out more methane gas than humans do....do you want us to kill all the cows?"
Typical liberal redirect... You can't defend your guy against anything I have said here, so you try and just deflect the argument.... Qui-Gon: Algore is a hypocrite. Holy Diver: Oh yeah..?!? Yeah..?!? Well, George Bush..!! Iraq War..!! What are you so afraid of..?!? And stop using talking points..!!
Yeah...Blame Al gore for the failed environmental policy of this administration.... its helping to cool the ice caps. None of what you people are doing/ saying is positive.
The righties are apparently still POed that their savior turned out to be Ted Haggard, gay meth addict. Take a poll of his church you will find well over 95% of his congregation to be people just like Qui Gon. Talk about hypocrites.
what you are saying is stupid. "Al gore has a big house, and uses a jet, thus everything he presents in his movie and speeches is hypocritical, thus its wrong" THAT is what you are saying, and that is rediculous. You are a follower of the memo, admit it.
Yup.... like I said... typical liberal response... deflect, redirect, deflect, redirect... QuiGon: Algore is a hypocrite AAB: Oh yeah..?!? Yeah..?!? Well, Ted Haggard..!! Halliburton..!! Dick Cheney..!! Oh, and stop using talking points...!!
Your feeble reading comprehension skills have once again manifested themselves. If that is your interpretation of what I have said then, no offense, you're too stupid to partake in the conversation, so I suggest you stop making such a public fool of yourself.
Talk about deflecting, dude you are UNREAL! Al Gore: CO2 is heating the Planet QuiGon (Via Hannity): Oh YEAH! well he flies on a plane and has a mansion!
I think Al is raising awareness and good for him. Now lets just give him the Nobel and be done with it. But if you want to point fingers at hypocrites, there's plenty to choose from. You, for example, are probably ready to give up your social security benefits right? I mean considering how you rail against social expenditures... Have a nice day Ted. Oh, Qui Gon...its not that I necessarily disagree with you all the time. Its more that I really truly dislike you in general.
I have said multiple times I would renounce my SS benefits IF AND ONLY IF it was to pay for structural change. By that, I mean that if we privatized it the lost revenue for those retired now would have to be paid for somehow and I would happily allow my future benefits to pay for that IF AND ONLY IF it were to privatize the system so that it would be better for everyone in the future.


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Throw Pillow made from 100% spun polyester poplin fabric, a stylish statement that will liven up any room. Individually cut and sewn by hand, each pillow features a double-sided print and is finished with a concealed zipper for ease of care. Sold with or without faux down pillow insert.
I'm pretty sure most people aren't as color crazy as I am. So I thought I'd make a more 'traditional' version as well - still with some greenish flavor :D
wow Bianca, this is so artsy and well done, color texture and all. the tribal thing in the red lines makes me think of the american indians! my favorite american flag art, in fact, the best american flag art i've ever seen, that i like.
David, that you so much for this amazing compliment!
It made me extremely happy to hear how you feel about this and I hope many others will feel the same way!
It made me extremely happy to hear how you feel about this and I hope many others will feel the same way!
Wow, another piece with the American flag I love! Too much I wanna buy! And by the way: the American flag is very hot in the Netherlands!
Thank you Esther, glad you like it! I noticed that the flag is having a huge hype right now, so I hope this one will also make its rounds around the world :) Thx for your comment!
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Shamrocks, leprechauns and pots of gold — so many fun things can be part of your kids' craft projects during a St. Patrick's Day party.
You can use this shamrock printable to trace shamrocks on green construction paper. Then, all you'll need are glue, glitter, stickers and paint to let the kids personalize their own special shamrocks to take home. Also consider these other easy St. Patrick's Day party crafts:
Plan some age-appropriate party games for your little guests on St. Patrick's Day. Some classic party games can be adjusted for your St. Patty's Day theme:
Serve fun green foods for your St. Patrick's Day get-together. Practically any food can be dyed green with a little food coloring. If you are serving a meal, consider mini meatloaves made in cupcake tins. Add food coloring and chopped green onions to the meat to give it a festive look.
For a great St. Patrick's Day dip, try Irish cheddar fondue served with apples and Irish soda bread for dipping. You can also serve foods that are naturally green — guacamole, pistachios or kiwis.
Green Jell-O or mint chocolate chip ice cream makes a simple green dessert. You can also try one of these St. Patrick's Day desserts or a St. Patrick's Day cocktail for the parents.
When it's time for the party to wind down, kids can enjoy St. Patrick's Day books and movies. For little ones, read That's What Leprechauns Do, The Night Before St. Patrick's Day or The Luckiest St. Patrick's Day Ever. If you want to rent a DVD, consider A Very Unlucky Leprechaun (1998) or even Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959).
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2006 70 (ft.) Sumerset 70 Aluminum Houseboat
Inactive - This listing is not for sale at this time
General Information
Listing# 99244
- Price
- $169,000.00
- Location
- St Johns River, FL, United States
- Manufacturer
- Sumerset
- Boat Type
- Powerboat
- Model Year
- 2006
- Category
- House Boats
- Model
- 70 Aluminum Houseboat
- Status
- Used
- Length
- 70 (ft.)
- Beam
- 16
- 70
- Hull Material
- Aluminum
- Fuel Type
- unleaded
- Engine Model
- Number of Engines
- 2
- Engine Type
- Inboard/Outboard
- Engine Hours
- 123
General Details
Here's your your chance to buy a top quality home on the river in Florida. Sumerset Houseboats are legendary in the for their spacious layout, fine interior woodwork and custom workmanship throughout the midwest.
Havin Fun is currently berthed on one of the most serene and safe locations in Old Florida and can stay there indefinitely at very reasonalbe rates. Or you can cruise your moveable condo up and down the river and the ICW as you please.
Havin Fun also has potential as a business/entertainment vessel. Her top party deck and multiple levels can host a crowd!.
- Accommodations
- Havin' Fun is a two stateroom two head home on the water. The master stateroom is furthest aft and features a walkaround king berth, ensuite head with full shower, lots of storage, and a sliding door leading to the covered aft deck. Moving forward is the guest head with full shower and guest stateroom on the port side, the guest stateroom is currently set up as the owner's office, but is decigned as a queen size cabin The foward part of the boat features a huge open galley/dining/living area with the helm station most forward to starboard. The galley has residential size appliances and lots of storage. Comfy furniture and an entertainment center complete the homelike atmosphere of the interior. Another set of sliding glass doors forward leads to the covered front deck. The upper deck is accessed by steps along the side from the front deck or a circular stair case from the aft. The top deck features wraparound cushioned seating forward with a central upper helm station. Aft of the helm is an enormous open party deck with an solid aluminum frame and canvas bimini top. All the aluminum and fiberglass work throughout the boat is of top quality.
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- Havin Fun has everything she needs to live up to her name. She is well maintained and well located for her next owner to step aboard and start the fun! Despite her lenghth she can also be loaded on a trailer and shipped over land to another location if desired.
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A lunge can refer to any position of the human body where one leg is positioned forward with knee bent and foot flat on the ground while the other leg is positioned behind.[1][2][3] It is used by athletes in cross-training for sports, by weight-trainers as a fitness exercise, and by yogis as part of an asana regimen.
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Lunges are a good exercise for strengthening, sculpting and building several muscles/muscle groups, including the quadriceps (or thighs), the gluteus maximus (or buttocks) as well as the hamstrings.[4] A long lunge emphasizes the use of the gluteals whereas a short lunge emphasizes the quadriceps. The lunge is a basic movement that is fairly simple to do for beginner athletes.
A lunge can be performed using bodyweight alone. However, weight trainers may seek to increase the difficulty using either dumbbells or kettlebells held in each hand, or a barbell held atop the neck and shoulders. Grip strength may be an issue with the dumbbell lunge so practitioners may prefer the barbell lunge.
As a variation, plyometric lunges (also known as split squat jumps) can be performed by jumping explosively between lunge positions.
The practice of yoga often includes any number of lunge-related asanas, the names of which vary in different yoga traditions.[5] Examples of Sanskrit names include Anjaneyasana (Anjaneya's pose),[6] Ashwa Sanchalanasana or Aekpaadprasarnaasana (equestrian pose),[7] Utthita Ashwa Sanchalanasana (extended equestrian pose),[8] and Ardha Mandalasana (half circle pose).[9] Depending on the lineage and circumstances, the back knee can be down or up, the toes may be tucked or untucked, and the arms may be in any number of positions.
Lunge variations are sometimes incorporated as part of Surya Namaskar, a flowing sequence of asanas linked by breath.
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Poor lung cancer care hinders survival, say experts
Poor care for lung cancer patients is "hindering" their survival, an expert group says.
The UK Lung Cancer Coalition said a lack of access to specialist teams and poor awareness about the disease were among the major problems.
The coalition, which includes doctors, patient groups and drug firms, said if standards could be raised as many as one in 10 deaths could be prevented.
Its report sets out a range of measures that could improve care.
These included giving all patients access to specialist nurses and ensuring they are part of teams of professionals that include specialist lung surgeons.
The coalition believes this is not the case for about a third of patients.
'Not good enough'The report also said there needed to be better co-ordination between GPs and hospitals, including the ordering of quick diagnostic tests for patients with suspected lung cancer.
And awareness about the disease needed to be increased among both patients and GPs - late recognition of symptoms is one of the key causes of late diagnosis which means the UK has low survival rates.
Lung cancer
- Lung cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the world, according to the World Health Organisation
- In the UK, it's the second most-frequently occurring cancer among men (after prostate cancer), accounting for one in seven new cases, and the third most-frequently diagnosed cancer in women (after breast and bowel cancer) accounting for about one in nine new cases
- Numbers have dropped considerably in recent times, by about 16% in the last decade alone
- The majority of cases are caused by the effects of smoking - and while people are living longer with lung cancer, unfortunately the majority of cases cannot be cured
Source: BBC Health
It believes if all 30 of its recommendations were implemented across the board it would help the UK match the best in Europe, which could lead to 3,500 lives being saved each year.
The coalition said lung cancer was still being unfairly stigmatised because of the perception it was self-induced by smoking - despite one in eight cases being among people who have never smoked
Dr Mick Peake, who helped to draw up the report, said the current standards were "simply not good enough" and urged the NHS to take action.
"The report identifies a gold-standard practice for lung cancer - the sort of care clinicians would wish for their own families."
Duleep Allirajah, head of policy at Macmillan Cancer Support, said: "For too long lung cancer has been one of the more overlooked cancers, despite being the UK's biggest cancer killer.
"Implementation of these recommendations, especially with regards to vital and often life saving surgery, would undoubtedly go a long way to improving survival, where we still trail behind Europe."
The report comes after the new health secretary has vowed to improve survival in areas such as cancer.
Jeremy Hunt has said matching the best standards in Europe was one of his priorities after replacing Andrew Lansley in September.


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Saw a recent thread with people questioning Sam2000's identity, whether he's really 12, etc. So, just want to point out that this issue will not continue.
I understand that it is human nature to be skeptical of things that seem amiss, and in an environment like Oasis, where things don't seem to add up, and there is really no means of proof, you can't really resolve it.
So, there's no riddle to unwind here. Everyone is what they say they are online.
That said, it is really not anyone's role here to try and find holes in anyone's writings to question anyone else's identity. If you don't think someone's posts add up, stop reading them and stop commenting on them.
In a nutshell, if Sam says he's 12, he's 12.
If you don't think he's 12, and have nothing positive to say to or about him, don't comment on his posts and don't mention him in your journals. Easy.
As stated above, if you don't have anything nice to say to Sam, or you don't know what to say, or you don't believe he is 12, or you don't believe he exists, don't read or comment on his journals.
So, any comments on any future Sam posts questioning his identity will be deleted, as it provides no value, only negativity. And it's basically online bullying, if you're wrong in your assumptions.
Also, I have often suspected some accounts to be bogus, but I don't really care, because it doesn't change a huge value Oasis provides.
If a fake user does post seeking advice on here, and gets real advice, real people then read it and still benefit from it. So, ultimately, it serves the same ancillary purpose. Feedback given to one person on here is read by and can help others who read it, so there is benefit to commenting on journals beyond addressing the one person who wrote it (and why I almost entirely post comments publicly and rarely, if ever, PM people).
I'm not going back and deleting any old comments, but just a heads up. If people have nothing better to do with their time than pick on 12 year olds, read a good book or something.
Good idea. I was getting really tired of the whole Sam controversy.
now im suspicious of who's accounts you think are bogus
if your not going to be deleting comments are you just going t lock them on D_Listed Journal or what?
I didn't say it was other currently active users, I've been at this for a while...
Not locking anything anywhere. I posted a similar message on that post, so anyone posting anything new there that runs against the above will be deleted.
In the future, when I get around to updating the site, it will be easier, because then Sam will get the power to block people from reading his posts, like Facebook and Twitter allow.
And, there is no timeframe for that, so I'll save myself a follow-up comment in advance. ;-)
"You can judge the whole world on the sparkle that you think it lacks" - Dawes, When My Time Comes (http://youtu.be/Z0FrcTX6hWI)
as long as the accounts don't have Timeline that would suck, maybe a like system, for example someone makes a comment on someones Journal or Forum you can like that comment? that would completely and totally kick ass!
There've been a lot of past issues with that sort of thing, but either way, it doesn't matter. I wouldn't worry about it.
That's redick!
I actually don't know who I'm talking about. It's all a blur at some point. ;-)
Offline, though, I actually used to talk on the phone with JT Leroy, so talk about identity issues!
Background on JT here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JT_LeRoy
"You can judge the whole world on the sparkle that you think it lacks" - Dawes, When My Time Comes (http://youtu.be/Z0FrcTX6hWI)
She (he?) seems to be out of the news since 2007?
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My father in law just handed me a rifle that has been in the family for a long time. He asked if I could get it cleaned up for him so we can take it out with us the next time we go shooting. Here is the situation:
This is an old Springfield / Stevens model 15.
The barrel is covered in surface rust, some of it looks bad.
The wood stock is in fairly decent shape with minor dents and dings.
So I know wood work and the stock is going to be easy. Some Tru-oil and sanding and good as new. The barrel is another story. I have been told that a lot of gun oil and super fine steel wool should help. If that doesn't work, do you have any suggestions on a good product I can use to refinish the barrel myself? I have read up on some cold bluing products, and some have recommended Brownells Alumahyde II. Anyone here have any experience refinishing metal gun parts? How about a good shop in southern california? Any help would be great. I would love to put this gun back in tip top shape and suprise the hell out of him. Thanks!!