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This article describes how The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that "obese individuals have the right to two airline tickets for the price of one on domestic flights." Pause for a moment and re-read that statement if you must. This is not some peculiar, local district court ruling or some scribbled platform of a fringe advocacy group... this is a ruling from Canada's Supreme Court. It is now ILLEGAL for an airline company to charge the price of two seats when those two seats happen to be filled by one individual.
The thought of someone being so fat that they required two seats to fly is almost as disgusting as forcing the person in the third seat to ponder the fact that he is actually subsidizing the presence of the huge monstrosity next to him. Not only is the person in the third seat unable to go to the restroom when he pleases, due to the blockade, but he is also unable to spend $X on something else he desired, because a tiny portion of his ticket price will reflect the loss the airline must endure in light of the Supreme Court's decision.
Because, you see, by giving a fat person two seats for the price of one, that's the same as selling two tickets at half price. Halving the revenue of two seats will actually cost the airline more than it makes, because less than half of one full ticket price constitutes profit (few industries in the world can claim a 50% profit rate). The airline will thus be selling the fat man his tickets at a loss... which is the same as the airline paying to fly the fat man to his desired destination. An airline is just a group of people, so really this means that a group of people is being forced to fly the fat man to his destination.
Further, because the fat man can choose to fly whenever he so chooses, and because the group of shareholders must pay for his flight (either through direct loss, or opportunity costs, or slowed business due to budget restraints, etc), Canada's Supreme Court has essentially given the fat man the right to steal property from the shareholders. And the Supreme Court states it as a right! The Court proclaims the fat man has a right to the half-priced seats... so he thus has a right, a god-given right, to usurp wealth from those he desires service from.
Let there be no delusions that what is going on is in any way a just, moral, voluntary transaction. The price at which the airline is willing to sell the seat is not the price being paid, yet they are still forced to make the sale.
There is no fundamental difference between this scenario and one in which a man offers to sell an apple at a certain price, only to be forced to sell it at half that price. Can it honestly be claimed that a man owns an item of property if he has not the authority to set the price at which he is content to part with it? Can it honestly be claimed that shareholders really own an airline if their ability to set the price of its seats is not honored? What defines property if not the ability to utilize or sell as desired? Why, exactly, would one buy something he did not have the right to sell?
If private property is no longer honored, let society stand up and truthfully pronounce it. If the age of ownership is over, let the history books record this transition with integrity. If it is truely moral and just to take, by force, from those who have in order to give to those who have not, purely for the sake of ensuring the two groups are drawn ever closer together, then why all this meandering about? Why all this scribbling outside of the lines? Why all this pretending that property rights still have a place in society?
This is an issue of ownership over one's property. Do we, as a society, respect private property? It doesn't seem to be the case. It should not matter whether legislating the rights of an individual or a group of individuals, the pillar of private property is essential to any society that can be considered just and good by order of being voluntary. A society that abandons property must fall ever into the darkness of force and violence, and any Court that advocates violence in order to alleviate the lives of fat people is no Court to be respected.
There is nothing new about socialists or "egalitarians" trying to bolster the situations of the underprivileged. It is noble to care about the downtrodden, and real charity is always to be commended. However, the problem with socialists is that they do not provide charity, rather they "help" the downtrodden by downtrodding upon others. They give to one person by taking away from another. They steal, or "redistribute," property from Group A to Group B, thereby patching up the wounds of one by inflicting wounds on the other. Why this is not real charity is a question for another essay. Needless to say, socialists accomplish their moral goals with immoral acts and this is made frighteningly stark in Canada's ruling.


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Mat Honan: How I Resurrected My Digital Life After an Epic Hacking
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Almost immediately, my phone lit up with text messages from concerned friends, wanting to let me know I'd been hacked.
Thanks guys, I know. I know.
Just before noon on Saturday, my Google account was restored. Given what I've subsequently learned about how long it has taken others to do the same, I think that had my case not been escalated, this process could have taken 48 hours or more. Yes, I went through the normal steps, and had to prove I was who I claimed to be, but the process was likely faster for me than it would be for most.
Once in my inbox, I saw how remarkably little the intruders had done. They had torched the joint just after getting a password reset on Twitter. I went through and checked all my mail filters and settings to make sure new messages wouldn't be also copied to someone else without my knowledge, and systematically revoked every single app and website I'd authorized to connect to my Google account.
Saturday night, after verifying my Wired e-mail address and exchanging several e-mails with tech support, I got back into my Twitter account too. It was in ruins. There were racist and anti-gay tweets all over the place, as well as taunting remarks aimed at other hackers, and other users. At first I left these up, just as documentation, but then went in and deleted the worst of them.
That night, I stayed up late, direct-messaging Phobia on Twitter.
Sunday afternoon, I found myself at the Apple Store in San Francisco's worst mall. I was, to say the least, cranky. Although I'd called on a Friday night, the first appointment I could get was at 1 p.m. on Sunday. By 1:20 p.m., I was talking to an Apple genius named Max. He was awesome. He'd heard of my case.
He told me that while Apple couldn't recover my data, it could probably stop the wipe from progressing further. There was the 4-digit PIN that needed to be entered, as well as a firmware-level password, and I had neither. I told him all I cared about was preserving my data. He scurried away with my machine.
And indeed, Monday afternoon, Max called to let me know that they had been able to reset the firmware password. They couldn't crack the PIN, but he said I should be able to pull whatever data existed on there off. Good news. I began researching data-recovery firms.


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Hartlepool have suffered a blow with the news striker Colin Larkin requires another operation on his knee.
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Colin Larkin may have played his way into Hartlepool's starting line-up against leaders Brighton this weekend.
Hartlepool forward Colin Larkin was disappointed his side came away from Brisbane Road without a point.
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Crazy Greek Café: $50 for Unlimited BOGO for 90 Days
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The café offers classic Greek fare like gyros, moussaka and spanakopita, along with all-American hoagies and cheese steaks, which can be "Greekified" with feta cheese. All sauces and soups are made fresh daily, including hummus and tzatziki sauce. Specials include the "Alexander the Great Plate" (spanakopita, grape leaves and hummus) and "Nick's Fish Wrap," a fillet of flounder, onions, tomatoes, spinach, and mushrooms in a wrap. Wine and beer is served, and the café offers more than a dozen beers, including Greek favorite Mythos beer. Wines from Greece, South Africa, and Spain are selected for their taste and value.
The café offers a frequent diner discount card, the Crazy Greek Lunch Program. Diners who purchase a card for $50 receive unlimited buy-one, get-one-free lunches or dinners for 90 days, after which the card expires. The café also frequently posts specials on its Facebook page for friends.
The Crazy Greek Café offers free delivery from Deerfield Beach to Boca Raton and is open Monday to Saturday from 11 a,m. to 9 p.m. (closed Sunday).
Why the name? According to co-owner Stan Prakas, "We're Greek, and we're crazy"! Nuff said.
The Crazy Greek Café is located at 131 NE Second Ave., Deerfield Beach, across the street from Deerfield Beach City Hall. Call 954-428-7770, or visit thecrazygreek.com.
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BLT Book Club - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams." The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist. The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.
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Hello! I would like to recommend my sons school, Old Firehouse in Lafayette. He has been at their program for 3 years. He will be participating in their Dev K program next year. This program is designed for those children who do not meet the cutoff date to attend kindergarten or for parents who feel their child needs an additional year prior to entering elementary school. The school has a warm environment, stimulating program and reliable, trusting, experienced and loving teachers. They have part time and full time schedules. I just wanted other families to know that there is an other option besides putting your child in TK. Please contact the school if interested at 925.284.4321 Monica G
Re: Full-day but part-time preschool near Walnut Creek
My kids went to the Old Firehouse School in Lafayette (on Moraga Rd
near Mt. Diablo Blvd) and they had part-time full day programs when we
were there. It was a number of years ago, but you could choose M-W-F or
T-Th or all 5 days. I believe they have another location in Walnut
Creek, as well as Mill Valley. We absolutely loved the school, the
director, Dorothy, and all her teachers. My daughter is in 7th grade
now and my son is in 4th, but they still have very fond memories of
their years there.
Happy Former Old Firehouse Parent
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Our daughter went to the Old Firehouse School in Lafayette,
which we loved. She had a wonderful experience there. She
is 10 now, but at the time, that was one of the few full
time preschools we were able to find in the Lamorinda area.
Happy Old Firehouse Mom
Re: Suggestions for a preschool in Walnut Creek
I would recommend checking out The Old Firehouse School. The Old
Firehouse school is a play based developmental preschool based on
Emilio Reggiano. The Lafayette branch has a long wait list, but
the Walnut Creek school is newer and more likely to have room,
and has a larger outdoor space. I toured most of the preschools
when we moved out to Lafayette and found their philosophy to be
the most similar to our daughter's current program at the Child
Study Center at UC Berkeley. We love the Child Study Center but
wanted to have her closer to home, and the director of the Child
Study Center also recommended Old Firehouse.
Re: Preschool that accommodates language delayed child
I would encourage you to check out Old Firehouse School in
Walnut Creek. It opened just last year, and while growing
(about 40 families right now, accommodating 2 - 5 YO) it is
still very intimate. And while I'm not specifically aware of
the school's approach toward language-delayed children, I do
know of one student who was delayed and he has since thrived.
The staff is incredible and works very hard to meet the needs
of each student. I have seen them learn basic words in Farsi,
Chinese, and Spanish - as well as sign language - in order to
communicate with their students. You can learn more about the
program itself at www.oldfirehouseschool.com, or contact the WC
school directly at 925.934.1507.
good luck,
OFS mom
hi! i'm considering sending my toddler to either the old firehouse school or diablo valley montessori and would like candid opinions about either school. i know the old firehouse focuses on nurturing the emotional well being of the child and focuses on communication and the DVMS is more ''task oriented'' but i know those two aren't mutually exclusive. i'm sure kids at the old firehouse school learn and i'm sure at DVMS, they also nuture the emotional needs of the child as well. i went to both schools and they both seemed good. i've heard though that the old firehouse school can be viewied as just glorified daycare. they also are much more expensive. i just don't know what to do. he will be starting with the 2's and i wanted to make sure i make the right decision. i would love to hear any and all opinions anyone has had with these two schools. i'm mostly curious on how kids from both schools turn out when they enter kindergarden and what difference if any might be. thanks a lot! undecided parent
I recently attended the open house at Old Firehouse School. Does anyone else have any comments positive or negative about OFS? Just wanting a reality check. I was happy with the building - it was large, clean and airy with little nooks and hiding places and lots of areas to explore. And the teachers were wonderful. But I was turned off by several things: it is so play- based and child directed (Reggio Emilio-style) that the director stated that the kindegartens complained that the graduates of OFS could not write their name. Also, I was not too keen on the annual $1000+ payment to a fund for the teachers that they receive for staying for several years. It helps to retain teachers. The school is already in the top for tuition, s o I feel a little put off by this. ALso, their policy is that the teachers move through the levels with the children, so your child will have the same teacher for 3 years. They say this aids attachment. But what if its not a good match. Are there any recent or past graduates who can provide more feedback on this school? Thanks. anon
Also I could not agree with you more about the hefty extra fee involved to put towards the teacher's fund. I truly do not agree that the children are benifitted by having the same teacher for 3 years. The director holds this idea in the highest esteem, saying that children need to feel that people don't ''abandon'' them. Personally I feel that this lesson is better grounded in each child's family experiences. Not only will your child experience only one teacher and one teaching style, but YOU will be stuck with the same teacher as well. If you and your child's teacher are ''not on the same page'' about particular issues, or are not able to communicate well, YOU are stuck with them for the entire duration of your child's preschool life!
Despite my reservations about these issues, I still think Old Firehouse School is an excellent choice. Now if there was a bit more ethnic diversity, that would be even better; but maybe that is just Lafayette... well, that is another topic. anon
1. The school hours are catered to Stay at home moms or people with more flexible schedules. Our Child's fulltime schedule is 8:00-4:30 so even if you had no commute you would be hard pressed to be able to drop off the kids put a full work day in and then pick them up.
2. The School takes off every holiday as well as most of the normal vacations that K-12 kids have. 2 weeks of Xmas, 1 week for easter, 1 week in August. Which adds up to over 5 weeks that you pay for but have to find other Daycare solutions for.
3. You have to pay the teacher stability fund although your child may not have the teacher in continuous classes. The notion of the Teacher Following the kid through all grades doesn't always apply. My older Daughter has had a different teacher for every class, so the extra money that we pay for Teacher Stability is not really true.
4. You have to pay extra for your kid to participate in special activities during the normal day care hours even if the person teaching that special activity is your childs assigned teacher. Like I said before its a great school, my main issue is the short fulltime hours and all the days off but we are lucky to have relatives close by to help us work around this. OFS parent
If you are looking for full-time care for your infant, I would wholeheartedly recommend the Old Firehouse School in Lafayette on Moraga Rd. Both my kids attended preschool there and they had a wonderful experience. All the teachers are incredibly nurturing and are there because they seem to truly love children. The teachers all stay with the same class as they move up to the pre-K program, and they have an incredibly low staff turnover rate. Although OFS may be a little more expensive, if you can swing it, they are absolutely worth it. Linda
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Robinhood Marine Center
We are a full service yacht yard and marina with winter storage, new and used yacht sales, Spartan Marine hardware manufacturing, Tessie Ann, Charles Andrew and Nancy Lou (our Island 40s), and the well known Osprey Restaurant. Located on beautiful, secluded Riggs Cove (Chart # 13293) just 50 minutes north of the Portland Jetport, 7 miles southeast of Bath, Maine.
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Gonzales commentary: A few must reads
While doing some research for this column I turned to Amazon.com, a favorite Web site.
What I don't like about Amazon is the incessant shilling for the Kindle, a wireless reading device. In other words, not a book.
Now, I am sure there are many who will embrace the technology of reading e-books. I dare say I will not be one of those early adopters.
I spend a fair share of my time reading from my computer screen, sometimes for work, sometimes for breaking news or information I can't find elsewhere.
That's the greatest strength of the Internet, its immediacy and wide range of information.
But I can't imagine willingly reading a book from an electronic device. Same goes for newspapers and magazines. I do read papers and mags at times on the Internet, but nothing replaces the feel of a newspaper in your hands on a Sunday morning, checking out the boxscores. And nothing can replace the feel of a good book in your hands, new adventures on the next page.
Reading for the fun of it is one of life's simple pleasures for me. I've been a voracious reader for as long as I can remember.
So once I got past that annoying Kindle ad on Amazon, I was able to confirm what I found at BookFinder.com, another favorite Web site.
At BookFinder I ran across what I thought was a favorite book of mine from my high school days. All I had to go on was it was written by Ernie Pyle, a famous World War II correspondent.
Once I narrowed down the search to one particular book, I went to Amazon, found the book, and was lucky enough to see it was one which allowed you to look inside. Once I started reading the first few pages, memories came flooding back to me. This was the book.
I have a stack of books at home, waiting to be read, and I am already reading one book and have another I can't wait to start on. But I just have to order the book by Pyle. As a World War II history buff, I still remember Pyle giving vivid, detailed accounts of what it was like for the ordinary soldier to serve in Europe.
I found another favorite book, "Brazen Chariots" a few years back and ordered a used copy. That book was about tank warfare in the North African desert in World War II.
Normally, my rule is to read one book at a time. However, I have tried to read two books at once a few times. However, with Pyle's book begging to be read again ( I checked it out so many times as a kid, my name was the only one on the card), there are two other books in front of it. One, I am already reading. Bill Simmons' "Big Book of Basketball" was a Christmas present, all 715 pages of it. It's a great read.
But another must-read that just came out is "Game Change" written by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. For a political junkie, this book promises to be the best yet on the 2008 election cycle.
It took me three months to read Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol" in my spare time and it was just 528 pages. Dare I add "Game Change" plus Pyle's book, "Brave Men" and read all three at once?
That's a good problem to have: so many good books to read, so little time to read them.
As a kid, I devoured books from the school library, and sports magazines such as The Sporting News and Sports Illustrated. You could also order books at school from a company which handed out a flier from time to time. That's how "Brazen Chariots" was discovered by me.
During the summer months, there was a bookmobile that made weekly visits. You could check out a book from this treasure trove of books on wheels, and return it the next week.
Comic books were something I could buy from Denny's Drug Store. A new comic cost 12 cents, and an old one was a nickel. For me, it was Sgt. Rock or Jeb Stuart's Haunted Tank that I bought each month.
But you have to be careful what you pick to read. When I was in the fourth grade I found at the school library a cool book about a spy . I immediately checked out this book about a spy named Harry. I got home, anxious to read this exciting book about a spy's adventures.
Turns out, the book was titled "Harriet the Spy" and when I checked it out on Amazon while looking up Pyle's book, I learned it was intended for young girls. One reviewer said the book was about a young girl with an over-active imagination who spied on her neighbors and wrote down her observations in her diary.
Guess I should have checked out that title more carefully. Or, maybe not. I ended up reading the book (after all, I already checked it out). Not a bad read, as it turned out, even for a young boy.
If I had a young daughter, I would encourage her to read it.
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Pointed out by Prefix (thanks for making me give a fuck about music) and shortly after praising her ill appearance on J. Cole's new track… she pops up in New York at Tim's show with brand new music for everyone to enjoy. I am scouring the internets for some kind of mp3 on this track but for now, what I can hear of this bass-heavy, Pimp C sampled track sounds kinda fucking awesome. I might have a bias with the way I love Missy, but fuck that.
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Web makes almost anything doo-able
Sunday, March 30, 2014
The conversation with co-workers and later with Facebook friends was about the two days in March when it got to nearly 50 degrees. We talked about the spring thaw and how great it was to feel the warmth of the sun after such a long, cold winter. "The weather's really great except for one thing," I said. "I can now smell a whole winter's worth of dog poop thawing in my yard. It stinks." The dog owners in the group laughed and nodded in agreement. We all knew the day of reckoning was upon us. The poop that had lain dormant under mounds of snow and ice would soon be visible and smell as fresh as the day it was dropped. It's a smelly mess for most dog owners every spring and an environmental disaster, too. The federal Environmental Protection Agency considers dog poop a serious pollutant on a scale with pesticides and other harmful chemicals. Dog waste is a health threat because it contains fecal coliform bacteria that can make humans sick.
The dog doo problem at my house is on an epic scale. There's poop aplenty from our four beasts: Rosie, a big docile yellow Lab-Chow mix; Sally, a medium-sized English setter; Dante, a nasty little Chihuahua-dachshund-pug mix; and Abbie, an extra-large, rambunctious American bulldog terrier.
I may be a latecomer to the party, but I've embraced the Web. Nearly any do-it-yourself project seems doable after watching a couple of instructional videos on YouTube.
So I am going to Plan B — build it myself.
Plenty of baby boomers (those over 45 years old) are doing the same. Consider this study from Google and Ipsos, the Parisian global market research giant. Boomers now spend more time online than watching television. Senior citizens and boomers spend 19 hours a week online compared to 16 hours watching TV. |


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Last week Notre Dame's recruiting Class of 2014 was examined by comparing Notre Dame's current defensive line commitments to those of other programs composing the top ten recruiting classes in the nation. While it's far too early to definitively state where Notre Dame stands – 2014 recruits do not sign their letter of intent to the school of their choice until next February – the good news is the Irish clearly belong in the top ten with their current defensive line commitments.
Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly has done an excellent job building depth along the defensive line with the 2014 class, an element that has been desperately lacking under previous coaching regimes. But the one point of emphasis moving forward will be landing a home run recruit, one that can rise to the level of stardom Irish standouts Louis Nix and Stephon Tuitt have enjoyed. Below are defensive line recruits that the Fighting Irish feel can meet the challenge, and ones Kelly and staff are recruiting hard.
Andrew Williams (6'4", 245 lbs), Rivals 4-star
Andrew Williams is from the increasingly powerful recruiting state of Georgia, and he attends the same high school that produced Notre Dame freshman defensive lineman, Isaac Rochell. Rochell's influence is what originally gave the Fighting Irish a launching point with Williams, as Williams joined Rochell on a visit to campus last fall. Notre Dame put its best foot forward, which is important considering how highly coveted Andrew Williams is nationally. Williams' offer list is the premier crop of college football and can be found in every corner of the country, from USC to Alabama.
Though it could be argued Notre Dame jumped to an early lead with an unofficial visit last fall, the overwhelming number of scholarship offers has jumbled the field. Williams has taken a summer road trip to a number of Southern schools, including Clemson, Georgia and Auburn, and emerged with a preference for playing defensive end in a 4-3 scheme. Such a development is problematic for Notre Dame, which sees Williams as an outside linebacker in a 3-4 system that occasionally puts his hand on the ground.
The Fighting Irish are still very much in the mix for Williams' services, though they may have fallen behind for his signature. Williams has expressed an interest in ending his recruitment before his senior year of high school, which would give Notre Dame limited time to sell him on ND's 3-4 scheme.
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Thomas Holley (6'4", 299 lbs), Rivals 4-Star
Thomas Holley hails from Brooklyn, New York, and attends the same high school that produced current Notre Dame linebacker and former 5-star, Ishaq Williams. Brian Kelly is arguably chasing Holley more than any other defensive line recruit left on the board, and Holley possesses the requisite talent to one day step into Louis Nix's oversized shoes. Just how good is Holley? Considering New York is not widely known for its high school football production, and Holley only has one year of varsity football under his belt, it's a testament to his ability that Alabama, Florida and Ohio State are in heavy pursuit.
If any questions remained regarding Holley's lack of playing experience they were silenced at The Opening, a recruiting event hosted by Nike that allows the best high school players in America to showcase their capabilities. As one recruiting analyst for 247 sports stated, Holley was one of the most "consistently good" players at his position, highlighting Holley's enormous potential once he gains experience and develops.
While 247 Sports has Notre Dame leading for Holley, others have suggested it's a two-way race between Notre Dame and Penn State. Still, it's worth noting the large defensive tackle had many positive things to say about Ohio State after his visit to Columbus, and given Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer's history of prying recruits away from Notre Dame, the Buckeyes shouldn't be ruled out of the race.
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Matt Elam (6'6", 325 lbs), Rivals 3-Star
Elam has largely been flying as an under the radar recruit, though his massive frame would suggest such a label is laughable. Why the Elizabethtown, Kentucky, native is a 3-star when he boasts offers from Alabama, Ohio State and Notre Dame is a bit of a mystery, but what is clear is how hard programs such as Alabama and Kentucky are pursuing Elam's services.
Notre Dame jumped into the Elam sweepstakes a bit later than other suitors, but a June 24th visit to South Bend left him impressed enough to place Notre Dame near the top of his list. The question is whether or not ND can make up for its slow start. Kentucky has put everything they have on Elam, with Kentucky head coach Mark Stoops selling the idea Elam's signature is a final missing piece to a recruiting class that already cracks the top ten. Add to the fact Alabama is selling Elam on the notion he could be the next Crimson Tide standout in the mold of Terrence Cody, and Notre Dame has quite a battle ahead of them.
Will it be enough? While the Fighting Irish are more than likely on the outside looking in, Elam has indicated his desire to make a late decision, which could give Brian Kelly and staff much-needed time to sell Elam on being Nix's replacement, as well as ample potential to contribute early.
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Solomon Thomas (6'3", 263 lbs), Rivals 4-Star
While many may disagree, a strong argument can be made that Thomas represents the most impressive recruiting effort of the names listed, even though Notre Dame is not in the lead for Thomas' services.
Solomon Thomas attends Coppell High School in Coppell, Texas, the same high school as current Notre Dame running back, Cam McDaniel. What's noteworthy about Thomas is the fact he holds offers from Alabama, Ohio State and Texas, making him an elite recruit. What's noteworthy for Notre Dame, however, is the fact they managed to get Thomas to even visit. Brian Kelly has made an extraordinary effort to increase the presence of Southern talent on the Fighting Irish's roster, particularly in Texas. While it may not appear to be a coup on its face, for Notre Dame to host a Texas recruit with offers from Texas, Texas A&M and Oklahoma is a monumental feat (and a rare one for ND), as the battle for elite Texas talent is as fierce as anywhere in the nation.
Notre Dame is in the mix for Solomon Thomas, and Thomas was impressed by his visit to Notre Dame. Will it be enough? Despite the visit, Thomas has not publicly mentioned Notre Dame as one of his leaders, making it fairly safe to assume ND has quite a bit of ground to cover. While there aren't any prizes for second place in recruiting, Thomas' visit to Notre Dame represents massive gains in Notre Dame's recruiting power, as well its expanding influence in the South.
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Toulmin H. Brown commented on July 16th, 2013 at 10:26 am
I think ND wins he BCSNC this year! Two seasoned QB'S. A talented powerful defense. A stable of great backs. Experienced coaching staff.
The State of Georgia has produced other gifted athletes at Notre Dame over the years besides Mr. Andrew Williams.
One of those former Georgia greats provided here who contributed to "Our Lady" in tough games in 1998.
old school commented on July 16th, 2013 at 11:46 am
Without one or two top defensive line recruits, the prospects for our defensive line are not good. As you said in the last article, the average star rating of our defensive line recruits so far for 2014 is 3.25. In our current defensive line, the average star rating is 4.33 (Tuitt was a five star and Nix and Day were four stars). So there is a huge difference, at least in the estimation of the ratings services, between our current stellar line and what's to come.
We can call our 2014 recruits a top ten class so far. But that would be kidding ourselves. A 3.25 defensive line is probably not going to blow anyone away. Let's hope we get one or two of the kids you discuss.
HURLS replied on July 16th, 2013 at 3:32 pm
Right-on, oldie. "There IS a huge difference between our current line and what's to come." We can hope our recruits exceed their potential, being BKRKGs. Which would make the NDRKGs. But hope is something to enjoy, not to count on. GO IRISH!
Scott Janssen replied on July 16th, 2013 at 7:44 pm
I wouldn't be concerned about it. Right now Notre Dame is right there with the best of them for defensive line recruiting, and Notre Dame is in very good position with a few elite defensive prospects. I think ND will snag one of the above from the list, which would be a home run for the defensive line class. Take one of the prospects above with the likes of Jay Hayes, who I think is going to be elite, and you really have something.
And there might even be an opportunity to take two from the above list. If Notre Dame can have a successful season this year, they'll haul in another great defensive line class. That will allow ND to finally have some stability and consistency along the line, something we simply have not had in a long, long time.
Pops commented on July 16th, 2013 at 11:33 pm
…giving credit where it's due. I thought this was much more in line with content that should be on this site than the previous article. Nice work providing some next level analysis relevant to an ND-knowledgeable audience.


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COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course deconstructs the question "What are you?" We will explore the "mixed race" space−its history, identity, questions of authenticity, sexual, racial, and gendered politics, and its links to colonialism, colonial desire, and militarization through the experiences of mixed people in the U.S. and other parts of the world. It will provide a global and historical framework through the interdisciplinary lens of critical anthropology to understand how race operates and is resisted.
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COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Grading is based on participation, reading summaries, and a research project and final paper.
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COURSE DESCRIPTION: : The goal of this course is to explore how culture shapes and constructs sex, sexual diversity, and gender as well as our perceptions of these issues. Our analysis will be historical and cross-cultural in nature. We will be assessing cultural hierarchies and their impact on gender roles, (dis)empowerment, and hierarchies between genders and within genders. We will critically examine the effects of ethnocentrism, colonialism, the expression of gender and sexuality in different cultures, and the effects of development on gender and sexuality. Students are challenged to examine their own cultural and individual biases as they are exposed to numerous cultures from around the world (for example Iroquoians, Thais, Indians, Samoans, Hawaiians, etc.) and how each culture (and subculture) shapes gender roles (whether it be male, female, transgendered (TG), māhū, fa'afafine, travestí, or kathoey), gender status, and how sexuality is expressed/suppressed.
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COURSE DESCRIPTION: Ethnoprimatology integrates theory and practice from primatology and cultural anthropology to provide insights into how humans and nonhuman primates share both their ecological and social spaces. For thousands of years, humans and nonhuman primates have engaged in a diversity of interactions that range from reverence to conflict, and both have played important roles in the lives of the other. With anthropogenic pressures on primate populations increasing worldwide, the ethnoprimatological approach enables us to better assess human-nonhuman primate relations and their associated impacts. This course will review the theoretical underpinnings in ethnoprimatology, explore the diversity of relationships between humans and nonhuman primates historically and today, and examine these relationships in the context of sustainability and conservation.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Format combines lecture, discussion, powerpoint presentations and video.
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ENROLLMENT: 15 per section
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The incident occurred shortly after midnight on Monday morning in the are of the 1200 block of NW First place in Miami.
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My wife is threatening me with bodily harm and no sex if I don't fix my brewing set up. Please Help!!! So here's the readers digest version.... I brewed a batch a while back and overtightened my ported spigot and had some beer dribble out on our hardwood floors... I didn't catch it for a couple days and it ruined a small section. It was a slow leak so the damage was minimal, unless you ask my wife. I got it cleaned up just fine but you can see where the wood was swollen. In an attempt to create a more stable temperature during ferment stages I decided to make a simple swamp cooler... Tin pan with a little water/starsan and a cotton towel...the towel will keep moist and allow for evaporative cooling. Temps were held 60-65f when doing this and I was pleased with the results...however, my wife thought differently. Condensation from the pan/water ect soaked into the floor in the same spot making the floors swell and increasing my soggy footprint. Fast FWD to my current batch. After the condensation issue I placed a plastic backed picnic blanket under the pan and repeated the swamp cooler method thinking that any condensation would be held in the blanket and not get past the plastic lining. Wrong... bigger soggy footprint and the wife blew a gasket. I don't have the space for a beer fridge(or money for that matter) hence having to brew on the hardwoods. The couch is comfy and I do have my beer to drink!! BUT, I'd really like to figure out a solution so I can move back upstairs and maybe just maybe get laid again
Go to the hardware store and get a polyethaline drip pan for a water heater.
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Lemont assistant coach Mark Tomczak said the Indians "couldn't serve a ball at all" Tuesday in a costly loss to Reavis.
Wednesday, Lemont had no problem serving the ball in the direction of Teddy Trifunovski, who capitalized with the game of his life.
Trifunovski recorded his first hat trick, doing all the scoring in the host Indians' 3-0 win over Tinley Park.
"It was a good feeling," he said. "I had a lot of room in the box and my teammates made some great crosses to me so I didn't have to do much."
Lemont (14-3-5, 9-2 South Suburban Blue) struck first in the 17th minute when Christian Goushas was left alone in the corner and found Trifunovski unmarked in the middle of the box where he headed it home.
Tinley Park (10-12-1, 3-7) hung tough and nearly found the equalizer when Bobby Neylon sent a shot just high, but the Indians delivered a backbreaker in the final seconds of the half.
Tommy Gasienica set up Trifunovski, who was left open at the far post and finished with 24 seconds left before the break.
Trifunovski scored on a header off a Roy Delatore pass in the second half to close the scoring.
Tuesday's shootout loss against Reavis kept the Indians from sealing a share of the South Suburban Blue title Wednesday. Lemont's only hope for a share now is for Bremen to be upset by T.F. co-op Thursday.
"We lost a rough one (Tuesday) so it was good to bounce back and hopefully we can take this momentum into the playoffs," said Tomczak, filling in for Indians head coach Rick Prangen, who missed the game due to the birth of his second child.
Dan Daluga made five saves for the Titans.
"The worst thing is numbers wise, we should have matched up perfectly with them," Tinley Park coach Mike Boniface said. "But we get on this college length and college width field, and we can't do anything."
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Online doctor reviews: not ready for prime time yet
It sounds like a useful idea: online ratings that help consumers sort through their choice of doctors and pick the one who's the best match.
In real life, though, the concept doesn't seem to have flourished as well as expected. An intriguing piece published this past weekend in the New York Times explores why this would be the case for what writer Ron Lieber calls "the highest-stakes choice of service provider that most people make."
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The Clarion
The Clarion is the University's student newspaper. Students can participate in all aspects of newspaper production including reporting, writing, editing, layout, photography and management. Any student can apply for a position on the newspaper staff.
Working for the newspaper is excellent experience for students in many different disciplines. Art, public relations, and graphic design students can earn field experience by helping with layout in Adobe InDesign or creating comic strips and cartoons; business and marketing students can earn experience by selling and creating advertisements and working with advertisers; and students from any discipline can write columns or news stories based on information in their areas of study.
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Religious Belief and Freedom of Expression: Is Offensiveness Really the Issue?
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An objection frequently brought against critical or satirical expressions, especially when these target religions, is that they are 'offensive'. In this article, I indicate why the existence of diverse and conflicting beliefs gives people an incentive to formulate their complaints in the language of offence. But I also cast doubt on whether people, in saying they are offended really mean to present that as the foundation of their complaint and, if they do, whether their complaint should weigh with us. These doubts do not apply to everything we might find offensive; in particular, they do not apply to simple cases of 'sensory offence'; but they do apply to 'belief-based offence'. Relying on offence also implies, inequitably, that different faiths should be differently protected depending on their susceptibility to offence; and the faithful themselves should worry about the flimsiness of claims based on 'bare knowledge' offence. I propose a principle of respect for beliefs as a differently grounded and more plausible reason for curbing our treatment of others' beliefs. However, that principle has a limited compass and is hemmed in by the claims of free expression. It is also less suited to dictating the content of law than to influencing our conduct within the law.
- Cram, Ian. 2009. The Danish cartoons, offensive expression, and democratic legitimacy. In Extreme speech and democracy, ed. Ivan Hare and James Weinstein, 311–330. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Ellis, Anthony. 1984. Offense and the liberal conception of the law. Philosophy & Public Affairs 13(1): 3–23.
- Feinberg, Joel. 1985. Offense to others. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Hart, H.L.A. 1963. Law, liberty and morality. London: Oxford University Press.
- Jones, Peter. 1990. Respecting beliefs and rebuking Rushdie. British Journal of Political Science 20(4): 415–437. CrossRef
- Keane, David. 2008. Cartoon violence and freedom of expression. Human Rights Quarterly 30(4): 845–875. CrossRef
- Laegaard, Sune. 2007a. The cartoon controversy: Offence, identity, oppression? Political Studies 55(3): 481–498. CrossRef
- Laegaard, Sune. 2007b. The cartoon controversy as a case of multicultural recognition. Contemporary Politics 13(2): 147–164. CrossRef
- Mill, J.S. 1974. In On liberty, ed. Gertrude Himmelfarb. Harmondsworth: Penguin
- Rostbøll, Christian F. 2009. Autonomy, respect and arrogance in the Danish cartoon controversy. Political Theory 37(5): 623–648. CrossRef
- Simester, A.P., and Andrew von Hirsch. 2002. Rethinking the offense principle. Legal Theory 8(3): 269–295. CrossRef
- Title
- Religious Belief and Freedom of Expression: Is Offensiveness Really the Issue?
- Journal
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Volume 17, Issue 1 , pp 75-90
- Cover Date
- 2011-02-01
- 10.1007/s11158-011-9144-4
- Print ISSN
- 1356-4765
- Online ISSN
- 1572-8692
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
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- Topics
- Keywords
- Freedom of speech
- Freedom of expression
- Offence
- Offensiveness
- Respect
- Respect for beliefs
- Danish cartoons
- Jerry Springer: the Opera
- Industry Sectors
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- Peter Jones (1)
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- 1. School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK


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BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS (KVEO NEWSCENTER 23) — "A stroke is a blood clot in the brain that causes either face weakness, arm or leg weakness, speech disturbance, and basically we want patients to be aware of these signs and call 9-11 immediately," said endovascular neurologist, Dr. Ameer Hassan.
Even though the RGV has one of the highest rates of stroke in the country, Valley Baptist Medical Center is the only hospital in the Valley that treats patients using endovascular stroke coverage.
The biplane lab at Valley Baptist has two cameras, which allow doctors to see the brain more clearly to better treat stroke patients.
"So with this advanced imaging, we basically can treat more patients," said Hassan. "And if we look at the data since we've been here, we've treated almost thirty percent of our patients."
...which is a whopping ten times as many patients as Valley Baptist was able to treat before.
Following much research on Valley patients, Dr. Hassan has discovered that the endovascular treatments are significantly more efficient that the IV treatment, which is the norm for most hospitals:
"Before we were only using IVTPA and now with this advanced imaging and the biplane angio suite we're allowed to either take our catheters up and either pull clots or suck clots out," said Dr. Hassan.
But this new technique is not the only thing that's improving the health of stroke patients. Most patients make the mistake of waiting several hours before taking any action to cure their stroke, now that time frame can be slightly increased.
"The biggest deal with imaging, especially advanced imaging is that it opens up a time window," said Dr. Hassan. "Traditionally, you can only treat IVTPA within three hours, that's the FDA approval. With advanced imaging, you can go up to eight hours, what we're looking for is salvageable tissue. It also helps patients who are wakeup strokes or unknown onset."
Reporting in Harlingen, Marty Watson, KVEO News Center 23.


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It came from the Blog: Join the Lunar Lunacy on Sunday
- When: Sunday, Jan. 30 at 1 p.m. EST (10 a.m. PST, 11 a.m. server time)
- Where: The Lunar Festival near the flightpath in Orgrimmar on Zangarmarsh (US-PvE-H)
- Who: Any level Horde character is welcome, but you will probably have the most fun with your highest-level character.
- What: Fun, achievements including Elders of the Alliance, more fun
- How: Ask Robinator or any member of <Blogling> for an invite if you are not already in one of our guilds.
- The Rocket's Red Glare
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- We will have an event chat room announced in the guild info on the day of the event. Instructions will be made in this chat.
- I will also be streaming the event and be giving more detailed instructions verbally.
- No shouting except for me. I use all caps in our event chat so that I can be "heard" over everyone else.
- No funsuckers allowed. If you spam, have an offensive name or are otherwise behaving in a way that sucks everyone else's fun, you will be kicked without warning.
- Summons and rezzes are for sissies. We won't be waiting for those who lag behind -- we won't have time. So grab your body and catch up as fast as you can.
- This could get messy. Since we have announced our intention to get Elders of the Alliance, we may have opposition. Expect to die ... a lot.
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A cherry angioma is a noncancerous (benign) skin growth made up of blood vessels.
Cherry angiomas are fairly common skin growths that vary in size. They can occur almost anywhere on the body, but usually develop on the trunk.
They are most common after age 30. The cause is unknown, but they tend to be inherited (genetic).
A cherry angioma is:
Your health care provider will look at the growth on your your skin to diagnose a cherry angioma. No further tests are usually necessary. Sometimes a skin biopsy may be used to confirm the diagnosis.
Cherry angiomas usually do not need to be treated. If they are affect your appearance or bleed often, angiomas may be removed by:
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Angioma - cherry; Senile angioma
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Woodhouse JG, Tomecki KJ. Common Benign Growths. In: Carey WD, ed.Cleveland Clinic: Current Clinical Medicine 2010. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2010.
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Name: Dan Status: student Grade: 9-12 Location: MA Date: December 2007
How does the shape of a parachute affect its falling speed, when all the shapes have a relatively similar surface area?
The basic principle of a standard parachute is drag. Drag is the amount of force required to keep an object moving through the air at a given speed, and it increases with speed. The design of a standard parachute (for someone jumping from a plane we will say) is to have enough surface area that the amount of drag equals their weight at a relatively slow and safe speed.
Now for the less than standard part. You may have seen some pictures with parachutes that were pulled into a much longer, narrower shape. This is done by restricting how far the same parachute can open. This way, the rate at which the jumper slows down is not so great right at the start of their jump. Consider that a human body can fall at around 120 MPH, and a 'safe' landing speed might be closer to 5 MPH. At 120 MPH, the force of drag on that parachute would be so great, it would likely injure the skydiver, or just break the lines it is attached with.
Now for even LESS standard parachutes. The large, square parachutes you have probably seen do not rely solely on drag to slow their user down. They are cut and trimmed so they form an airfoil as they descend. This airfoil acts like a wing, and even begins producing lift! The trade off for the reduced drop rate though is an increased forward momentum the skydiver will have to deal with once they touch down. (instead of coming straight down, they are now moving forward at the speed of a good run!) Usually, this can be turned to the skydiver's advantage though, to counter wind, or aim for a specific spot on the ground.
Ryan Belscamper
That is an excellent question, especially since the sport parachute has undergone so much development in the past 30 years that I have been jumping. Today's chutes, called wings, are just that. They are shaped so that they fly forward and develop lift just like an airplane wing. As such, they are very maneuverable and land far easier than the old round ones. They are, however, a little more likely to malfunction. If a modern chute stops moving forward with respect to the wind, it "stalls" and falls pretty much straight down rather quickly. The lift you get depends upon the surface area of the chute, its design and your weight. On the whole, they stay in the air longer than the old designs. The older chutes, called conical or spherical or just round, depended on their design to catch air to slow descent. To provide some little forward motion and control, panels of cloth were left out of the backs of the chute. Air spilled out of the gores and forced the chute forward. The mushroom shape of the canopy gave some lift, but not much. These canopies are great for going pretty much straight down and they deliver you to the ground with a pretty good thump (up to 20 mph) depending upon your weight and canopy size. Again, the rate of descent was controlled by the size of the canopy. They maneuver like a wounded elephant with a broken leg - that is rather poorly. It was impossible to "fly back up" in one of these as you can with a wing if conditions are right. Go to a local drop zone for more information. Believe me, like all folks who have hobbies, parachutists will love to talk with you and give you all sorts of ideas, prejudices and stories.
Robert Avakian
The shape of the parachute affects the parachute's drag. If the shape of the parachute is aerodynamic (spherical or tear drop shaped), the drag will be reduced, making the parachute ineffective. Scott P. Smith
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John Colagrande Jr.
Little Haiti
Editor, öJust doing my job.' As a bottom feeder I guess. I'm sure you've already rationalized what you've done. There was no need for all that irrelevant garbage except to sell papers. For the $$$. Congratulations. You are no better then the people & institutions you are forever öexposing.' Sleep well.
Reg Sermersheim
Upon reading the article written (and I use that word loosely) by Francisco Alvarado about the late Art Teele. I was appalled by the fact that the editors of the New Times permitted such a story to go to press with the raw data taken from unconfirmed police sources. Information that is published by newspapers, particularly in circumstances of investigative journalism, should be subjected to rigorous scrutiny to determine reliability. Incidents of erroneous facts making their way into the news have occurred all too often to warrant repeating. Not withstanding the need to confirm stories, verify tips and facts, the New Times chose to publish the most painful, sordid and lurid details which in this case were provided to detectives by an informant and others without even trying to confirm the accuracy of the reports themselves. Most tragically perhaps for Mr. Teele and those who wish to honor his memory, the New Times published sexual details about a person's life with what appears to be little or no regard for the possible consequences. How terribly irresponsible. Did anyone ever think to question whether Frederick Davis (if that's his true name) was just spinning a jail house yarn in the hopes of reducing a sentence? For the record I do not know Art Teele and am new to Miami, but I could not let stand what I feel was a serious journalistic error on the part of your newspaper which I enjoy reading very much.
Ivan Mercado
North Miami FL
I am a supporter of free press and expression as I come from a country which denies these rights, however, there are such things as integrity and professionalism.
I read your paper because it is available at my gym. I have always found it to be a little rough on the edges and lacking true reporting qualities but, I have not classified your paper as a real source of news. Entertaining and fun, yes!
Last night I saw interviews of the gentleman that wrote the article on various television stations. Now I understand the rough edges.
I am sorry to say that there was not a single intelligent, meaningful comment coming from his mouth. As far as I am concerned he is a shmuck off the street with a fake certificate claiming to be a journalist. He fooled you! You should do a background check on it.
He was sweating profusely, could not say two words without saying under his voice "you know," "I mean" etc. Where did you get this 6th grade journalist wanna be?
I think what was done with Arthur Teele was morally incorrect but, you should have at least given him the dignity of having the article that caused his demise to have been written by someone who has at least a high school education, pleasing conduct, appearance and manners.
I am sorry but he is physically disgusting. Hide him in some closet and give him the How to dress, speak and act for success guide.
Lilia Crespo
While I am not a resident of Miami, I feel compelled to comment on your östory' about Mr. Teele since it garnered national headlines. I would personally be ashamed of myself for sleeping with law enforcement and trying so hard to sell their side of a story to the general public and thus assisting in destroying a man based on allegations (not yet facts). Law enforcement gets free front page articles thanks to the trash you disguise as journalism. I believe our judicial system is designed to punish people for their wrongs, not our media. Journalism was once a respectable art; you are helping lead it to the level of bad used car salesman. I guess you'll be able to sleep knowing that you probably helped your circulation increase that week and Mr. Alvarado will probably get a promotion. I was under the false assumption that news journalism was based on reporting facts and/or trying to get to the truth through a system of checks and balances. One method to use is to place yourself in the shoes of the victim you are chasing/harassing and ask would it be fair for thousands of people to read östories (gossip)' about you that are not substantiated. Should we be entitled to know your history (especially your sexual history) since journalists' report important stories on public figures? (Your staff is already harassing the new commissioner, Mr. Allen, because they can't get an interview. I believe that should be considered abuse of power).
Here's an idea, why not report on the exploitation of the poor, research and report on the corporate class that don't earn the extravagant salaries they are paid, or the needs of less fortunate children in your community (too boring). There are thousands of interesting factual östories' that would be great front page articles if you use creative verbal and journalistic skills to present them to a public that still loves to read well-written articles other than filth and copies of police reports.


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The mission of the NCUA is to facilitate the availability of credit union services to all eligible consumers, especially those of modest means, through a safe and sound credit union system.
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Home > News, Media and Events > Fryzel: Understand Member Needs and Provide Least-Cost, Highest-Quality Service
MONTEREY, Calif. (Sept. 27, 2012) – National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Board Member Michael E. Fryzel today highlighted the importance of credit unions understanding the needs of their members during his address at the Combined Council of America's Credit Unions' 31st Annual Conference. "We have to understand what credit union members want and then make sure they get it in the least-cost highest-quality manner possible. For 80 years credit unions have done this, and done this well," Fryzel said. "But in the years ahead we have to do as well or better." In his first address before the automobile-related credit unions, Board Member Fryzel praised the group for doing the "heavy lifting" and for "making a difference in families' lives," and he urged them to become "national leaders in national issues." Fryzel discussed the struggles the automobile industry has faced and the effect these struggles have had on the Council's credit unions. He commended the Council's credit unions for their large rate of member growth and their healthy range of net worth and urged them to continue to make a difference. "You like financial institutions across the country, have struggled during these difficult economic times. Our nation's automobile industry has experienced setbacks but the credit unions that serve them have been unwavering in their service," Fryzel concluded. The full text of Board Member Fryzel's address is available online at: http://www.ncua.gov/News/Pages/SP20120927FryzelCCACU.aspx.
NCUA is the independent federal agency created by the U.S. Congress to regulate, charter and supervise federal credit unions. With the backing of the full faith and credit of the United States, NCUA operates and manages the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, insuring the deposits of more than 99 million account holders in all federal credit unions and the overwhelming majority of state-chartered credit unions. At MyCreditUnion.gov and Pocket Cents, NCUA also educates the public on consumer protection and financial literacy issues.
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