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PARRY SOUND-MUSOKA - MP Tony Clement has been getting calls from his constituents. Ever since Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a speech in Switzerland two weeks ago announcing to the world that Canada is looking into changes to its Old Age Security program, seniors have wanted to know what that will mean to them.
Harper suggested the government might change the age of eligibility from 65 to 67.
But, Clement says, this won't affect people currently receiving benefits or people planning to retire any time soon.
"Anyone who's a senior now – not affected. Anyone who's near being a senior now – not affected. Maybe there are some 45 year olds out there that will be upset … but they can take into account the situation and they've got 20 plus some years to rearrange their affairs … and knowing full well when they need the system it will be fully funded, not a system that's crashing."
He said it is not yet policy so he can't speculate about actual timeframes, but that it could be more than 10 years before changes take place.
He's getting a couple of calls a day from area seniors.
Muskoka has a senior population of 24 per cent, compared to the provincial average of 17. There are currently 150 area seniors on a wait-list for affordable housing, according to Rick Williams, commissioner of community services for the District of Muskoka.
Clement is adamant that changes will not affect the Canada Pension Plan; that it is self-sustaining, but may affect Old Age Security, which is funded through the federal budget.
Williams said the current pension eligibility age of 65 was established when the average age of mortality was 71.
"And now it's closer to 80 … there needs to be adjustment, sustainability."
But he said that raising the age of eligibility would put more pressure on the provincial welfare system. Currently Ontario Works cuts off at age 65, when Old Age Security kicks in.
Also welfare payments have been historically at a lower rate than the pension rate, so seniors in poverty will have to make due with less for two additional years.
"There's an inevitability to some reform, just how do you achieve fairness? There's lots of tricky things in there," said Williams.
Clement said demographic trends have pointed to a need for reform for a long time.
"The population is aging, there are fewer workers to support seniors in their retirement."
He said the government is opening the discussion to get feedback from the Canadian public and is "crunching numbers" to determine how to reform the system to make it sustainable.
"This discussion is about people who are years away from retirement who want to gain access to retirement income other than the Canada Pension Plan and who want to make sure that program is sustainable. We want to make sure it's sustainable too. That's why we're launching this dialogue."
Clement said experts are backing the government statistics, saying that the current program costs $30 billion a year and if nothing is done by 2020 that will spike to over $100 billion.
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other things like education or health care
Clement on public pension plan
and those kinds of things. People are living longer, which is great, and there are fewer workers per retiree who can continue to pay taxes to support the system. It's the combination of those two demographic certainties that cause us some concern. Not now, not five years from now, not even 10 years from now, but for the next generation."
He said the government wants to make sure that post-baby boomer generations are not left out in the cold.
"We have to have this dialogue now so people can plan for their retirement years, decades from now … if we don't have discussion now, if we put it off and sweep it under the rug, the choices available to society 10 years from now are going to be a lot worse and that's what you're seeing in other countries around the world."
Clement said there are at least 30 countries that have already made similar changes and the Canadian government has an obligation to make sure pension programs are sustainable for the future rather than creating a crisis situation years from now.
Critics have been calling any move to alter government financial support for seniors "political suicide" and reference Brian Mulroney's failed attempt to open the dialogue in 1985 and Paul Martin's similar debacle in 1996.
"Twenty years ago … we were 20 years farther away from a crisis point. Time is really not our friend right now. We either make some decisions now that are reasonable decisions ... the problem is when this issue comes up again it will be a very different and difficult set of decisions."
Clement said the people calling his office tend to be over 60 and once they learn that they will not be personally affected by the changes being discussed, "people calm down and they concede that really in order to make sure the system is sustainable, you can't just let things go. You have to face the reality of the situation. That's the dialogue I've been having with constituents on this matter."
As pension reform is discussed, the issue of public sector pensions is at the forefront, particularly the pensions for retired members of Parliament, which kick in at age 55 and many of which amount to over $100,000 per year.
"When you're talking about changing public sector pension plans, you can't really talk about that without talking about options for the MP pension plans," said Clement. He added that he has been tasked with coming up with options to the current pension program for members of Parliament for the upcoming federal budget.
"Whatever we decide to do will both have respect for the employee, in this case the MP or other public servants, and at the same time have respect for the taxpayer. That's the balancing act."
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Warm Friday in D.C.
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Warmer Friday and a few showers possible Saturday morning.
Tonight: Mostly Clear
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Friday: Partly Cloudy, Very Warm
Highs: 71-75 | Wind: W 10-15 m.p.h
Saturday: Cloudy Chance A.M. Showers-Partly Sunny P.M.
Highs: Near 60 | Wind: N 5-10 m.p.h
Clear tonight and bright. Some clouds in for Friday but a taste of June.
A weak low-pressure wave will buzz through the region on Saturday, likely a bit to our south, bringing the chance for a few morning showers. Cooler air is coming for the weekend but sunshine returns Saturday afternoon as high pressure builds in for Saturday night and Sunday. Temperatures Sunday will be in the mid-50s. The spring equinox is at 7:21 p.m. Sunday.
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Total War: Rome 2's patch 8.1 brings balance to the (Roman) force
So far, the good guys and gals over at Creative Assembly have been keeping pretty regular updates on Total War: Rome II. I say keep this trend going! Due to this reason, the game is receiving patch 8.1. With this update, you'll find improvements to technical and performance issues, the campaign, and battles.
For a full list of these changes, check out the list below or from the source HERE. Crush the savages under Rome's boot better than ever!
Patch 8.1 - Build 9066.483605
Technical and Performance Issues
- Fix for dark squares which appeared on the battle terrain, whilst using the "Shader Model 3" graphics setting.
- Improved performance on the medium Rome siege map.
- Resolved an issue that caused the UI to become unresponsive when the Triumph video plays at the end of a campaign.
Gameplay Improvements
- Improved AI parameter balancing: increased tactical focus and aggression, especially for major factions in both Grand Campaign and Gaul Campaign.
- Improved campaign AI raiding behaviour. AI factions are now more likely to raid during campaigns.
- Siege artillery now uses flaming projectiles appropriately (when attacking walls and towers).
- Fixed an issue in siege battle AI which could lead to the general's unit exposing itself to attack when trying to use its special abilities to support assaulting units on walls.
- Fixed a range of issues with the AI's interaction with walls in siege battles, enabling the AI to conduct a more effective assault using siege towers and ladders.
- Improved the tactical co-ordination between different sub-groups of units when assaulting the walls in siege battles. When the AI attempts to enter the settlement via the gates, it is now able to do a better job of first eliminating the threat of boiling oil.
- Fixed an issue which caused units to march off in a random direction when reforming on a siege tower.
- Improved the behaviour of units when a unit on the ground is ordered to melee-attack a unit on the walls.
- Boiling oil no longer causes incendiary damage (so won't burn battering rams for example).
- Improved pathfinding when attacking units on walls with units on the ground or vice versa.
- Improved attacking siege AI's interaction with walls, and its use of battering rams.
Usability Improvements
- Fixed a bug that made it impossible to exchange units during a multiplayer campaign, unless the "Turn time" option was set to "unlimited".
- Fixed a progression blocker in the Grand Campaign, which occurred when a "Triumph" video played (celebrating a high ranking Roman General). This prevented the player from continuing the game, by making the games UI become inactive.


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Kitchen is based on bepe's platformrebuilder.exe, LZX compression is ON by default,
Quick manual:
1. Place you OEM files in OEM directory
2. Make new directory in SYS with name is your build number (for example 21874), and copy you SYS files in to it (without .ROM and .VM)
3. Make new directory in ROM with name is your build number (for example 21874), and copy in it MSXIPKernel direcotry from this build
4. Place you EXT packs in EXT directory,
5. Run Recmod SYS.cmd and write you build version,
6. Run DIY ROM Utility.exe and you can chose you version/lang/Edition
7. You can select with directory's should be in rom or not (skip files)
8. If you are ready... press Build !!
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Pink House Bronze Basics Collection Hoop Earrings - Lime Green
- Warm bronze and lime green glass beads
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Last week I was at Dollar General and I found these cute little plastic coffee mugs for a dollar! So, I bought them up! I went to another Dollar General and bought all theirs up too!;) Here's what I did...
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I got everything I needed at Dollar General. The hot chocolate was 10 for $1.60= 16 cents apiece. The marshmallow sticks come in a pack of 10 for $1= 10 cents apiece. So, I spent about $1.26 on each one:) Then, I whipped up this little tag and put a staple on each side of it to attach it to the marshmallow stick:)
If you'd like to make these for your students or for your own childrens' classes you can grab the tag here! Just click on the picture below:)


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Albany, New York (PRWEB) August 27, 2014
Rare Earth Metals Market demand was worth USD 3.93 billion in 2013 and is expected to reach USD 8.19 billion by 2019, growing at a CAGR of 13.0% from 2013 to 2019. In terms of volumes, global rare earth metals demand is expected to cross 290 kilo tons by 2019.
Rare earth metals are set of seventeen chemical elements, especially fifteen lanthanides, plus scandium and yttrium. The set includes lanthanum, gadolinium, holmium, praseodymium, cerium, samarium, neodymium, promethium, dysprosium, terbium, thulium, europium, erbium, ytterbium, and lutetium. These are further classified into heavy earth metals and light rare earth metals. The heavy set is inclusive of yttrium, gadolinium, europium, terbium, holmium, dysprosium, thulium, erbium, ytterbium, and lutetium, while the light set includes lanthanum, praseodymium, cerium, promethium, neodymium, and samarium. Despite termed as rare, these metals are used in most of the day-to-day items such as DVD's, fluorescent lighting, cell phones, rechargeable batteries, magnets, computer memory, and car catalytic converters.
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Industry experts suggest, the rare earth metals market is on the rise in the coming years. Increasing demand for clean energy, existing and emerging applications, and initiatives taken by government to promote greener energy are some of the important market drivers for this industry. Some of the applications markets for this industry are metallurgy, magnets, catalysts, and phosphors. Presently, magnets attribute to a major application chunk in terms of revenue and consumption. However, metallurgy seems to be the next promising segment. These market drivers are being tugged at the other end by market inhibitors such as fluctuating prices and China's dominance over rare metals market.
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Cerium is widely used in fast growing applications such as magnets and metallurgy. This metal is followed by lanthanum, neodymium and others. Despite cerium's popular usage, scandium wins in terms of revenue, which is followed closely by neodymium, dysprosium and others.
The recent report published by Transparency Market Research studies the global market for rare earth metals and forecasts the volumes and revenues with regards to regions of Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, and Rest of the World. It further profiles top players in the market such as Arafura Resources, China Rare Earth Holdings, Indian Rare Earths, Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare Earth Hi-Tech Co, Alkane Resources, Great Western Minerals Group, Avalon Rare Metals, Rare Elements Resources Ltd, Greenland Rare Earth and Energy Ltd, Lynas Corporation Ltd., Molycorp, and Chinalco Yunnan Copper Resources Ltd. The aim of this report is to provide every reader with a granular view of the rare earth metal market to be able to make well-informed business decisions.
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500 E. 15th St. Beardstown, Illinois 62618
The schools 2010 enrollment numbers are 442. The Tigers' colors are Black/Orange. Beardstown has qualified for the IHSA playoffs 15 times, the last playoff appearance was 2006.
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Since its last playoff appearance in 2006, the Beardstown football program has slowly increased its wins total in each year. Following a (7-4) finish in the '06 season, the Tigers mustered just a single win the following season. In Aaron Elmore's first year, the Tigers won two games, and improved by another win last fall, finishing (3-6).
Six of their nine opponents last year were playoff qualifiers, and half of them advanced to at least the second round. One area the Tigers must improve upon, is the defense. Last year's unit allowed almost 39 points/game. The offense did their best to keep up with some juggernauts on the other side, scoring just under 19 points/game.
Beardstown returns some skill positions on offense, but only five starters are back. Caleb Bell (5'9" 160 Sr. QB) will be leading the offense. He will have two veterans in the backfield, Brady Spears (5'10" 175 Jr. RB) and Wes Carlock (5'10" 165 Jr. RB). Bell and Spears were all-conference picks in the West Prairie Trail's Southwest division. Spears rushed for eight touchdowns last year. On the offensive line, Jake Logsdon (5'11" 220 Sr. OT) and Tyler Patterson (6'0" 180 Sr. OT) are back.
Defensively, six starters return. Up front, Mat Roegge (6'4" 275 Jr. DL) and Austin Jones (5'11" 175 Jr. DL) are back. Carlock returns at Linebacker, where he totaled 39 tackles last season as a sophomore. Three members of the Tigers secondary return. Bell, Spears, and Jed Lux (5'9" 160 Sr. DB). Bell had 46 total tackles last season.
"Team that could have a good year based on youthful experience and aggressiveness," coach Aaron Elmore said on the 2010 season outlook. He will have some newcomers that could step up and bring quite a bit to the table. Jarod Stock (6'3" 220 Sr. OL/DL), Carlos Garcia (5'10" 215 Sr. RB/LB), Sam Hardwick (5'11" 160 Jr. QB/DB), Joey Luna (5'10" 165 Jr. RB/DB), and Sean Taylor (5'10" 170 Jr. LB) will all be fighting for playing time this offseason.
It's a completely different schedule for Beardstown this year. Just four of their opponents on last year's schedule are members of the Prairieland Conference, since the dissolvement of the mega-conference, West Prairie Trail. "Very competitive," Elmore said about the new 12-team, two division league. "Farmington (the) early favorite," he added.
Aaron Elmore enters his third season at Beardstown, where his record is (5-13). Brad Allen is the Tigers defensive coordinator this fall.
According to IHSA records, Beardstown has had one undefeated season, and that came during the fall of 1936, when the Tigers finished, (9-0), under head coach Clyde McQueen.
Don "Skip" Dillon coached Beardstown for 15 seasons, (89-57). His teams qualified for the IHSA playoffs nine times, including a string of six consecutive, that carried over into Rich Thompson's reign as head coach, for an additional three years.
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Dodoma — THE tenth session of the National Assembly continues on Monday with a private motion by Mr John Mnyika (Ubungo-Chadema) after the ordinary question and answer session.
Mr Mnyika's motion is expected to be tabled after deliberations on a private motion tabled last week by Dr Khamis Kigwangala (Nzega-CCM) in which he proposed the formation of a fund that will assist in youth self employment through agriculture.
The motion by Mnyika seeks to ask Parliament to pass declarations on measures to be taken to ensure that Dar es Salaam residents get clean and safe water and proper handling of waste and sewage.
It is also expected that this week another private motion by Mr Joshua Nassari (Arumeru East-Chadema) will be tabled.
He will highlight on how activities of the National Examination Council of Tanzania (NECTA) affect education in the country. Still on education, it is eagerly anticipated that the State will bring in Parliament primary and secondary school curricula as it was requested by Mr James Mbatia (Nominated-NCCR-Mageuzi).
After a heated debated last week on weaknesses in the education sector as per Mr Mbatia's motion, the Minister of State (PMO-Parliamentary Affairs and Coordination), Mr William Lukuvi, intervened and promised that the government will give MPs the curricula before this meeting is adjourned.
Debate on the weaknesses in the education sector took a new twist last week as Opposition Members of Parliament staged a walkout in protest of the decision by Deputy Speaker Job Ndugai not granting Mr Mbatia's request to postpone his motion.
Both members of the ruling party (Chama Cha Mapinduzi) and the opposition agree in principle that issues raised by Mr Mbatia are of genuine concern and some have hinted that they are waiting for the government to table the curricula as promised. This session of the National Assembly is expected to end on Friday.


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J.K. Rowling's 'Casual Vacancy' casts 'Harry Potter', 'Penny Dreadful' starsAdd to Favorites | Penny Dreadful
J.K. Rowling is turning to a familiar face for one of the starring roles in the miniseries adaptation of her book, "The Casual Vacancy." The co-production of the BBC and HBO has announced its primary cast.
Michael Gambon, who played Albus Dumbledore in six "Harry Potter" movies, will portray Parish Council leader Howard Mollison. Joining him will be Rory Kinnear, who viewers will recognize as Frankenstein's monster on Showtime's "Penny Dreadful," in the role of Barry Fairbrother.
Other actors announced for the cast include Keeley Hawes ("Ashes to Ashes"), Monica Dolan ("Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa"), Julia McKenzie ("Notes on a Scandal"), Keeley Forsyth ( "Coronation Street"), Marie Critchley ( "In The Flesh") and more.
The miniseries will begin production in July, though no release date had been announced yet.
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Edwaard Liang is BalletMet Columbus' New Artistic Director
BalletMet Columbus has announced that renowned choreographer Edwaard Liang will become its new Artistic Director effective July 2013.
A former dancer with New York City Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater and on Broadway, Liang has built an international reputation as a choreographer. Over the last decade, he has created work for the Bolshoi Ballet, Houston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Kirov Ballet, New York City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Shanghai Ballet, Singapore Dance Theatre and Washington Ballet.
Born in Taipei, Taiwan and raised in Marin County, California, Edwaard Liang began his early dance training at age 5 at Marin Ballet. After studying at the School of American Ballet he joined New York City Ballet in 1993, the same year he was a medal winner at the Prix de Lausanne International Ballet Competition and won the Mae L. Wien Award. By 1998, he was promoted to Soloist.
In 2001, Edwaard joined the Tony Award winning Broadway cast of Fosse. His performance in Fosse was later televised nationally on PBS' Great Performances series - "Dance in America: From Broadway: Fosse," and subsequently released on DVD.
By 2002, Liang was invited by Jiri Kylian to become a member of the acclaimed Nederlands Dans Theater 1. While dancing with NDT 1 Mr. Liang discovered his passion and love for choreography. Since establishing himself as a choreographer, his works have been performed by dance companies around the world and he has won numerous awards for his choreography including the 2006 National Choreographic Competition.
BalletMet Columbus started its search for a new artistic director last spring after former Artistic Director Gerard Charles announced he would leave to become the Ballet Master at Chicago's famed Joffrey Ballet. "Throughout our search process, we have been aware that his position was not only important to BalletMet, but to Central Ohio. Our search committee of board members, dancers, staff and community members worked tirelessly for nearly a year to evaluate more than 80 applicants from around the world," said BalletMet Columbus board chair, Mary Duffey. "Edwaard has committed to move to Columbus, and to our mission of engaging the community through quality performances, instruction, and education programs and creation of new work."
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From Munich Airport you can reach your chosen hiking area quickly and conveniently: simply use the shuttle services provided by Four Seasons Travel and SMS Airport Transfer.
10 % discount for Lufthansa customers
You will receive a discount of 10 % on both shuttle services. If you book when you arrive, simply show your Lufthansa boarding pass. If booking online, please use the relevant Lufthansa Shuttle pages of Four Seasons Travel or SMS Airport Transfer and enter your flight number.
Four Seasons Travel
The official transfer partner of Tirol Werbung (the Tyrol Marketing Board), Four Seasons Travel has been operating its shuttle service for 30 years. Its modern, 8-seater minibuses will take you to your hiking area reliably, safely and comfortably. Larger groups can travel in buses with up to 45 seats.
As well as Economy Class and Economy Plus shuttle services, there is also a Private Class and First Class available which will take you directly to your destination without stopping en route. You will find transfer-service counters in each of Munich's two terminals. You can book at any time online or by phone.
For general information:
To book with Lufthansa Shuttle:
Tel.: +43 5 12 58 41 57
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SMS Airport Transfer stands for reliability, safety and service at a fair price. At the same time it gives you a choice: for a group transfer you travel to your destination with a maximum of eight people in a comfortable minibus; for an individual transfer you will be collected in a comfortable mid-range car.
SMS has its own counter in each terminal at Munich Airport; these counters also serve as meeting points. You can book your transfer very easily online or by phone.
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Goals from Ghanaian Jordan Ayew and Tunisia's Zouhaier Dhaoaudi sounded victory for their teams in the French Ligue 1 over the weekend. Ayew headed the ball in the second-half to shoot Marseille to joint-top of the table after they beat Lille 1-0. Evian's Dhaoaudi scored the only goal in their 1-0 win over Rennes. In the English Premier League a last-minute strike from Cameroonian Sebastien Bassong handed Norwich City a 1-1 draw against Everton. AC Milan beat Juventus 1-0 thanks to Ghanaian Kevin Prince Boateng's brilliant support up front in Italy's Serie A. Sterling defence by Guinean Kevin Constant also kept Juve's attackers at bay.
SEBASTIEN BASSONG (Norwich City)
Cameroon international centre-back Bassong claimed a dramatic late equaliser to give Norwich a 1-1 draw at Everton. The former Tottenham Hotspur player struck in the 90th minute, heading home a deep Javier Garrido free-kick at the back post.
STEPHANE SESSEGNON (Sunderland)
Sessegnon's goal in his second game running proved in vain as Sunderland fell 4-2 at home to West Bromwich Albion. The Beninese attacking midfielder got on the score-sheet in the 87th minute, slamming home a rebound from close range, only for Marc-Antoine Fortune to reply immediately for the visitors' success.
JORDAN AYEW (Marseille)
Ghanaian international Ayew's second-half strike drew Marseille level with arch-rivals Paris Saint-Germain at the top of the table. Ayew, who had an earlier goal ruled offside, headed in Mathieu Valbuena's cross on 46 minutes to hand Marseille a 1-0 victory over Lille.
ZOUHAIER DHAOAUDI (Evian)
Tunisian winger Dhaouadi was the hero for Evian, netting the only goal in their 1-0 win at Rennes that lifted them out of the relegation zone. Dhaouadi replaced Youssef Adnane on 76 minutes and scored the winner three minutes later as he fired home from Ivory Coast midfielder Brice Dja Djedje's cut-back.
KOSSI AGASSA (Reims)
Togolese goalkeeper Agassa kept a fourth clean sheet of the season for Reims, ending the promoted side's three-match losing streak, as they secured a point after a goalless draw at home to Brest.
KARIM MATMOUR (Eintracht Frankfurt)
The Algeria midfielder was sent off three minutes from time in Frankfurt's
1-1 Bundesliga draw in Gelsenkirchen against Schalke 04, who reached the Champions League knock-out phase. The 27-year-old fouled Schalke captain Benedikt Hoewedes, then earned a second yellow for bringing down Roman Neustaedter.
CEDRICK MAKIADI (Freiburg)
Congo midfielder Makiadi was a strong presence in defence and attack as Freiburg warmed-up for Wednesday's visit of Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga with a 3-0 win over VfB Stuttgart.
KEVIN PRINCE BOATENG (AC Milan)
Ghana's Boateng was a lively element in AC Milan's conquest of champions and leaders Juventus, combining well with Robinho and Stephan El Shaarawy up front as the Rossoneri secured a 1-0 win from a controversial Robinho penalty -though Boateng was still off target with his few shooting opportunities.
KWADWO ASAMOAH (Juventus)
For the first time this season Juventus were bossed from start to finish by a committed Milan side and Ghanaian Kwadwo Asamoah was one of several players whose normal, solid game was thrown off kilter.
Despite his best efforts to score from the left he was substituted midway through the second half.
KEVIN CONSTANT (AC Milan)
Constant lived up to his name with solid cover at the back throughout and helping stop numerous Juve attacks. The Guinean has made the left back position his own and, thanks to his movement up the left, gives the Rossoneri further attacking options.
MANUCHO (Valladolid)
Valladolid's former Manchester United striker Manucho scored the only goal of the game of his side's 1-0 win over Granada.
The Angolan international powered home his fourth of the season with a second-half winner that puts his side up to ninth position.


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Turkish police are looking for 22 Somali students who have progressively gone missing since coming to the country in November 2011 to study on Turkish government scholarships, Turkish newspaper Today's Zaman reported Monday (January 7th).
The first disappearance occurred in December 2011, when two students fled their dormitory in Kayseri Province. Then in 2012, school officials in KirÅŸehir Province denied the request of 13 students to obtain their passports to leave the school, but seven of them left anyway. The most recent disappearance took place at a school in Ankara in December 2012, when three students left the school, leaving no indication of their whereabouts.
The missing students raise concern due to an incident that happened on August 25th when five Somali girls in Tekirda? Province were kidnapped by a group involved in the illegal trade of human organs. Police were able rescue the students before they were harmed, however.
In November 2011, 500 Somali students came to Turkey to study at universities on a government grant. The scholarships are part of Turkey's contribution to Somalia's development.


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A Howard County schools sports committee recommended sanctions yesterday against five coaches at Oakland Mills High School for allowing academically ineligible students to compete last fall, but that no further action be taken against the teams.
"The school students have suffered enough for the adult mistakes," said Don Disney, athletics coordinator for Howard schools. "The community is hurting, and everyone is sensitive to that."


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Pitt and Syracuse officially became the 13th and 14th members of the Atlantic Coast Conference today and Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg said on a morning conference call that the move should not have been a surprise to the jilted Big East.
Nordenberg said he warned Big East Commissioner John Marinatto in writing in May, 2010, that the university would "seriously assess" other opportunities.
"Any university leader involved in intercollegiate athletics really has two fundamental responsibilities," Nordenberg said. "One is to work to build strength in a current conference home, which we at the University of Pittsburgh always have done in the Big East.
"Second is to be appropriately attentive to the changing landscape and institutional opportunities that might need to be pursued. We also have been attentive to that responsibility
"We also made very clear if other opportunities did arise we would feel as if we were obligated to seriously access them."
Nordenberg said the conference response was that other Big East schools were making similar plans.
On other matters, ACC Commissioner John Swofford said including Madison Square Garden in a rotation for a basketball tournament venue was "very appealing" to the conference.
Also, although Big East by-laws mandate a 27-months notice before an institution can leave the conference, Nordenberg said it could be modified.
"I would think in the weeks ahead everyone will be looking at the transition period and trying to determine whether that 27-months notice really serves everyone's best interests and whether there would be a modification to it.
"But our starting point is the Big East bylaws. The ACC would be comfortable with waiting that period of time if that, indeed, is how things unfold."
Pitt and Syracuse must pay a $5 million exit fee to the Big East.
ACC Commissioner John Swofford said the conference's broadcast contract with ESPN can be contractually modified with the additions of the two schools.
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Sir Karl Raimund Popper (July 28 1902 – September 17 1994) was an Austrian and British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is counted among the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century, and also wrote extensively on social and political philosophy. Popper is known for repudiating the classical observationalist/inductivist account of scientific method by advancing empirical falsification instead; for his opposition to the classical justificationist account of knowledge which he replaced with critical rationalism, "the first non justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy and for his vigorous defense of liberal democracy and the principles of social criticism which he took to make the flourishing of the "open society" possible.
In 1919 he became attracted by Marxism and subsequently joined the Association of Socialist School Students and also became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria, which was at that time a party that fully adopted the marxist ideology. He soon became disillusioned by the philosophical restraints imposed by the historical materialism of Marx, abandoned the ideology and remained a passive supporter of social liberalism throughout his life.
In 1928 he earned a doctorate in Psychology and taught secondary school from 1930 to 1936. He published his first book, Logik der Forschung (The Logic of Scientific Discovery), in 1934. Here, he criticised psychologism, naturalism, inductionism, and logical positivism, and put forth his theory of potential falsifiability as the criterion demarcating science from non-science.
In 1937, the rise of Nazism and the threat of the Anschluss led Popper to emigrate to New Zealand, where he became lecturer in philosophy at Canterbury University College New Zealand (at Christchurch). In 1946, he moved to England to become reader in logic and scientific method at the London School of Economics, where he was appointed professor in 1949. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1958 to 1959. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1965, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1976. He retired from academic life in 1969, though he remained intellectually active for the rest of his life. He was invested with the Insignia of a Companion of Honour in 1982. Popper was a member of the Academy of Humanism and described himself as an agnostic, showing respect for the moral teachings of Judaism and Christianity.
Popper won many awards and honours in his field, including the Lippincott Award of the American Political Science Association, the Sonning Prize, and fellowships in the Royal Society, British Academy, London School of Economics, King's College London, Darwin College Cambridge, and Charles University, Prague Austria awarded him the Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold. He died in 1994. After cremation, Popper's ashes were taken to Vienna and buried at Lainz cemetery adjacent to the ORF Centre, where his wife Josefine Anna Henninger - who had died in Austria several years before - had already been buried.
In All Life is Problem Solving, Popper sought to explain the apparent progress of scientific knowledge—how it is that our understanding of the universe seems to improve over time. This problem arises from his position that the truth content of our theories, even the best of them, cannot be verified by scientific testing, but can only be falsified. If so, then how is it that the growth of science appears to result in a growth in knowledge? In Popper's view, the advance of scientific knowledge is an evolutionary process characterised by his formula:
In response to a given problem situation (), a number of competing conjectures, or tentative theories (), are systematically subjected to the most rigorous attempts at falsification possible. This process, error elimination (), performs a similar function for science that natural selection performs for biological evolution. Theories that better survive the process of refutation are not more true, but rather, more "fit"—in other words, more applicable to the problem situation at hand (). Consequently, just as a species' "biological fit" does not predict continued survival, neither does rigorous testing protect a scientific theory from refutation in the future. Yet, as it appears that the engine of biological evolution has produced, over time, adaptive traits equipped to deal with more and more complex problems of survival, likewise, the evolution of theories through the scientific method may, in Popper's view, reflect a certain type of progress: toward more and more interesting problems (). For Popper, it is in the interplay between the tentative theories (conjectures) and error elimination (refutation) that scientific knowledge advances toward greater and greater problems; in a process very much akin to the interplay between genetic variation and natural selection.
Where does "truth" fit into all this? As early as 1934 Popper wrote of the search for truth as "one of the strongest motives for scientific discovery." Still, he describes in Objective Knowledge (1972) early concerns about the much-criticised notion of truth as correspondence. Then came the semantic theory of truth formulated by the logician Alfred Tarski and published in 1933. Popper writes of learning in 1935 of the consequences of Tarski's theory, to his intense joy. The theory met critical objections to truth as correspondence and thereby rehabilitated it. The theory also seemed, in Popper's eyes, to support metaphysical realism and the regulative idea of a search for truth.
According to this theory, the conditions for the truth of a sentence as well as the sentences themselves are part of a metalanguage. So, for example, the sentence "Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white. Although many philosophers have interpreted, and continue to interpret, Tarski's theory as a deflationary theory, Popper refers to it as a theory in which "is true" is replaced with "corresponds to the facts." He bases this interpretation on the fact that examples such as the one described above refer to two things: assertions and the facts to which they refer. He identifies Tarski's formulation of the truth conditions of sentences as the introduction of a "metalinguistic predicate" and distinguishes the following cases:
The first case belongs to the metalanguage whereas the second is more likely to belong to the object language. Hence, "it is true that" possesses the logical status of a redundancy. "Is true", on the other hand, is a predicate necessary for making general observations such as "John was telling the truth about Phillip."
Upon this basis, along with that of the logical content of assertions (where logical content is inversely proportional to probability), Popper went on to develop his important notion of verisimilitude or "truthlikeness".
The intuitive idea behind verisimilitude is that the assertions or hypotheses of scientific theories can be objectively measured with respect to the amount of truth and falsity that they imply. And, in this way, one theory can be evaluated as more or less true than another on a quantitative basis which, Popper emphasizes forcefully, has nothing to do with "subjective probabilities" or other merely "epistemic" considerations.
The simplest mathematical formulation that Popper gives of this concept can be found in the tenth chapter of Conjectures and Refutations.. Here he defines it as:
where is the verisimilitude of a, is a measure of the content of truth of a, and is a measure of the content of the falsity of a.
Knowledge, for Popper, was objective, both in the sense that it is objectively true (or truthlike), and also in the sense that knowledge has an ontological status (i.e., knowledge as object) independent of the knowing subject (Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach, 1972). He proposed three worlds (see Popperian cosmology): World One, being the physical world, or physical states; World Two, being the world of mind, or mental states, ideas, and perceptions; and World Three, being the body of human knowledge expressed in its manifold forms, or the products of the second world made manifest in the materials of the first world (i.e.–books, papers, paintings, symphonies, and all the products of the human mind). World Three, he argued, was the product of individual human beings in exactly the same sense that an animal path is the product of individual animals, and that, as such, has an existence and evolution independent of any individual knowing subjects. The influence of World Three, in his view, on the individual human mind (World Two) is at least as strong as the influence of World One. In other words, the knowledge held by a given individual mind owes at least as much to the total accumulated wealth of human knowledge, made manifest, as to the world of direct experience. As such, the growth of human knowledge could be said to be a function of the independent evolution of World Three. Many contemporary philosophers have not embraced Popper's Three World conjecture, due mostly, it seems, to its resemblance to Cartesian dualism.
This may be a true description of the pragmatic approach to knowledge adopted by the scientific method, but it does not in itself address the philosophical problem. As Stephen Hawking explains, "No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory. It may be pragmatically useful to accept a well-tested theory as true until it is falsified, but this does not solve the philosophical problem of induction. As Bertrand Russell put it, "the general principles of science . . . are believed because mankind have found innumerable instances of their truth and no instances of their falsehood. But this affords no evidence for their truth in the future, unless the inductive principle is assumed. In essence, Popper addressed justification for belief ("why do you believe") that the sun will rise tomorrow, not justification for the fact ("how do you know") that it will, which is the crux of the philosophical problem. Said another way, Popper addressed the psychological causes of our belief in the validity of induction without trying to provide logical reasons for it. In this way, he provided a psychological account of the use of induction, but left the philosophical ground of induction as a valid mode of knowledge unaccounted for.
He later said "When speaking here of Darwinism, I shall speak always of today's theory - that is Darwin's own theory of natural selection supported by the Mendelian theory of heredity, by the theory of the mutation and recombination of genes in a gene pool, and by the decoded genetic code. This is an immensely impressive and powerful theory. The claim that it completely explains evolution is of course a bold claim, and very far from being established. All scientific theories are conjectures, even those that have successfully passed many severe and varied tests. The Mendelian underpinning of modern Darwinism has been well tested, and so has the theory of evolution which says that all terrestrial life has evolved from a few primitive unicellular organisms, possibly even from one single organism. "
He explained that the difficulty of testing had led some people to describe natural selection as a tautology, and that he too had in the past described the theory as 'almost tautological', and had tried to explain how the theory could be untestable (as is a tautology) and yet of great scientific interest. His "solution was that the doctrine of natural selection is a most successful metaphysical research programme. It raises detailed problems in many fields, and it tells us what we would expect of an acceptable solution of these problems. I still believe that natural selection works in this way as a research programme. Nevertheless, I have changed my mind about the testability and logical status of the theory of natural selection; and I am glad to have an opportunity to make a recantation."
While there is some dispute as to the matter of influence, Popper had a long-standing and close friendship with economist Friedrich Hayek, who was also brought to the London School of Economics from Vienna. Each found support and similarities in each other's work, citing each other often, though not without qualification. In a letter to Hayek in 1944, Popper stated, "I think I have learnt more from you than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski." (See Hacohen, 2000). Popper dedicated his Conjectures and Refutations to Hayek. For his part, Hayek dedicated a collection of papers, Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, to Popper, and in 1982 said, "...ever since his Logik der Forschung first came out in 1934, I have been a complete adherent to his general theory of methodology." (See Weimer and Palermo, 1982).
Popper also had long and mutually influential friendships with art historian Ernst Gombrich, biologist Peter Medawar, and neuro-scientist John Carew Eccles.
Popper's influence, both through his work in philosophy of science and through his political philosophy, has also extended beyond the academy. Among Popper's students and advocates at the London School of Economics is the multibillionaire investor George Soros, who says his investment strategies are modelled on Popper's understanding of the advancement of knowledge through falsification. Among Soros's philanthropic foundations is the Open Society Institute, a think-tank named in honour of Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies, which Soros founded to advance the Popperian defense of the open society against authoritarianism and totalitarianism.
Popperian philosophy also inspired the creation of Taking Children Seriously, a movement which noticed that Popper's general theory of knowledge creation does not differentiate between adults and children, and that all previous theories of learning contradict Popperian epistemology.
Most criticisms of Popper's philosophy are of the falsification, or error elimination, element in his account of problem solving. In interpreting these, it is important to bear in mind the aims of his idea. It is intended as an ideal, practical method of effective human problem solving; as such, the current conclusions of science are stronger than pseudo-sciences or non-sciences, insofar as they have survived this particularly vigorous selection method. He does not argue that any such conclusions are therefore true, or that this describes the actual methods of any particular scientist.
Rather, it is a recommended ideal method that, if enacted by a system or community, will over time lead to slow but steady progress of a sort (relative to how well the system or community enacts the method). It has been suggested that Popper's ideas are often mistaken for a hard logical account of truth because of the historical co-incidence of their appearing at the same time as logical positivism, the followers of which mistook his aims for their own (Brian Magee 1973: Popper (Modern Masters series)).
The Quine-Duhem thesis argues that it's impossible to test a single hypothesis on its own, since each one comes as part of an environment of theories. Thus we can only say that the whole package of relevant theories has been collectively falsified, but cannot conclusively say which element of the package must be replaced. An example of this is given by the discovery of the planet Neptune: when the motion of Uranus was found not to match the predictions of Newton's laws, the theory "There are seven planets in the solar system" was rejected, and not Newton's laws themselves. Popper discussed this critique of naïve falsificationism in Chapters 3 & 4 of The Logic of Scientific Discovery. For Popper, theories are accepted or rejected via a sort of selection process. Theories that say more about the way things appear are to be preferred over those that do not; the more generally applicable a theory is, the greater its value. Thus Newton's laws, with their wide general application, are to be preferred over the much more specific "the solar system has seven planets".
Thomas Kuhn's influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions argued that scientists work in a series of paradigms, and found little evidence of scientists actually following a falsificationist methodology. Popper's student Imre Lakatos attempted to reconcile Kuhn's work with falsificationism by arguing that science progresses by the falsification of research programs rather than the more specific universal statements of naïve falsificationism. Another of Popper's students Paul Feyerabend ultimately rejected any prescriptive methodology, and argued that the only universal method characterizing scientific progress was anything goes.
Popper seems to have anticipated Kuhn's observations. In his collection Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Harper & Row, 1963), Popper writes, "Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention of experiments, but with the critical discussion of myths, and of magical techniques and practices. The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition in having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but it also passes on a critical attitude towards them. The theories are passed on, not as dogmas, but rather with the challenge to discuss them and improve upon them."
Another objection is that it is not always possible to demonstrate falsehood definitively, especially if one is using statistical criteria to evaluate a null hypothesis. More generally, it is not always clear that if evidence contradicts a hypothesis that this is a sign of flaws in the hypothesis rather than of flaws in the evidence. However, this is a misunderstanding of what Popper's philosophy of science sets out to do. Rather than offering a set of instructions that merely need to be followed diligently to achieve science, Popper makes it clear in The Logic of Scientific Discovery that his belief is that the resolution of conflicts between hypotheses and observations can only be a matter of the collective judgment of scientists, in each individual case.
Popper's falsificationism can be questioned logically, by asking about statements such as "There are black holes", which cannot be falsified by any possible observation, yet which seems to be a legitimately scientific claim. Similarly, it's not clear how Popper would deal with a statement like "for every metal, there is a temperature at which it will melt", which can neither be confirmed nor falsified by any possible observation, yet which seems to be a valid scientific hypothesis. These examples were pointed out by Carl Gustav Hempel. Hempel came to acknowledge that Logical Positivism's verificationism was untenable, but argued that falsificationism was equally untenable on logical grounds alone. The simplest response to this is that, because Popper describes how theories attain, maintain and lose scientific status, individual consequences of currently accepted scientific theories are scientific in the sense of being part of tentative scientific knowledge, and both of Hempel's examples fall under this category. For instance, atomic theory implies that all metals melt at some temperature.
Other critics seek to vindicate the claims of historicism or holism to intellectual respectability, or psychoanalysis or Marxism to scientific status. It has been argued that Popper's student Imre Lakatos, for example, transformed Popper's philosophy using historicist and updated Hegelian historiographic ideas.
Charles Taylor accuses Popper of exploiting his worldwide fame as an epistemologist to diminish the importance of philosophers of the 20th century continental tradition. According to Taylor, Popper's criticisms are completely baseless, but they are received with an attention and respect that Popper's "intrinsic worth hardly merits". William W. Bartley defended Popper against such allegations: "Sir Karl Popper is not really a participant in the contemporary professional philosophical dialogue; quite the contrary, he has ruined that dialogue. If he is on the right track, then the majority of professional philosophers the world over has wasted or is wasting their intellectual careers. The gulf between Popper's way of doing philosophy and that of the bulk of professional philosophers is as great as that between astronomy and astrology.
In 2004 philosopher and psychologist Michel ter Hark (Groningen, The Netherlands) published a book, called Popper, Otto Selz and the rise of evolutionary epistemology, ISBN 0521830745, in which he claimed that Popper took some of his ideas from his tutor, the German-Jewish psychologist Otto Selz. Selz himself never published his ideas, partly because of the rise of Nazism which forced him to quit his work in 1933, and the prohibition of referring to Selz' work.


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Thursday, 14 February 2013
Valentine's Day, Social Security and Darlene Costner
As many of you are aware, Darlene Costner is a reliable supplier of terrific items for Saturday's Interesting Stuff posts and she often comments here at TGB, at The Elder Storytelling Place and on other elderblogs. (Until last August, she also kept a blog – Darlene's Hodgepodge – which she may yet return to.) Many of us consider Darlene close friend.
However, for awhile you may not see her name so frequently. Not long ago, her son suffered a terrible accident resulting in serious burns to his face, hands and arms that will take a good while to heal.
He was released from the hospital a few days ago and on Saturday, Darlene traveled from her home in Arizona to California to care for him until he further recovers and is able to drive again.
At first, Darlene was led to believe her son's care would involve several months of full-time nursing from her. Fortunately, that is not so. He is doing well and Darlene will mostly be lending emotional and motherly support for a much shorter period of time. Let's wish her well and wish her son a speedy recovery.
Did you see the State of the Union address on Tuesday evening? Because President Barack Obama so frequently waffles on whether he supports the chained CPI to calculate COLAs (lately the answer is, unfortunately, yes), I was paying special attention for mentions of Social Security and there was one although it was not planned.
Thanks to digby at Hullabaloo, we know the president inserted an "apparently spontaneous" departure from the original text:
After all, why would we choose to make deeper cuts to education and Medicare just to protect special interest tax breaks? How is that fair? How does that promote growth?
After all, why would we choose to make deeper cuts to education and Medicare just to protect special interest tax breaks? How is that fair? Why is that deficit reduction is a big emergency justifying cuts in Social Security benefits, but not closing some loopholes? How does that promote growth?"
As Digby comments:
"...we know that cutting SS and Medicare in exchange for some illusory tax reform is the president's patented 'balanced approach.' It's telling, however, that he put Social Security in the speech when it wasn't in the text.
"I'd have to guess that they had haggled over whether it was smart to include it and he changed his mind at the last minute. Maybe that indicates some tension among his advisers about this. I hope so."
Roger Hickey at Campaign for America's Future gives us this note on the SOTU (god I love when all these other good people do my work for me and all I have to is quote them):
"The President reminded his State of the Union audience that he has put forward proposals for 'entitlement reform' in his quest for a 'grand bargain' to achieve that $1.5 trillion target of additional deficit reduction.
"The fact is that President Obama has never taken off the table his very draconian offers: to impose the so-called chained CPI that would cut the benefits of current and future Social Security recipients...
"Tonight the President talked in general terms about reforming Medicare – including some good reforms, like reducing 'taxpayer subsidies to prescription drug companies.' But also still on Obama's table is his proposal to raise the eligibility age for receiving Medicare from 65 to 67. (He hasn't talked much about this lately, but he hasn't repudiated it either.)
"And tonight he mentioned the possibility of 'asking more of the wealthiest seniors,' a phrase that is usually cover for reducing Medicare benefits that middle class retirees really need."
There are only a few weeks until the deadline for the "sequestration" otherwise known as devastating cuts across the board. I'll get back to you before then on all of this.
Meanwhile, it is also Valentine's Day and I send loads of love and appreciation to all Time Goes By readers for your continuing support for this blog. You have no idea how much it means to me every day.
Since it's hard to pass out roses and chocolates via the internet, here is a charming little video of 25 tykes answering questions about love, marriage, dating, kissing and where babies come from produced by the Small Fry blog.
At The Elder Storytelling Place today, Marie Campbell: Mothers – Unsung Heroes
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Dear Ronni,
I look forward to your blog every day, learning something, getting a laugh and/or touching my heart. But (you knew there was a but coming) would you consider any revisions to Social Security? Canada, who seems to have reasonable public policies, has a "claw back" for the wealthy from their social security. I am not wealthy but a 1-2% reduction in social security would not affect the quality of my life. I agree there needs to be means testing to be fair to recipients who would be harmed by any reduction. Even knowing that there are many ways to reduce the deficit, I would prefer to be part of the solution rather than contributing to the problem.
Let us be clear: Social Security does not add a penny to the deficit.
Let me repeat: Social Security does not add a penny to the deficit.
Thanks, Ronni! I wish folks would stop equating Social Security to some kind of handout!!
Thanks, too, for sharing that sweet kids' video! Happy Valentine's Day!
Dear Darlene....we wish you and your son the best of days this Valentine's day, and a return to health for your son.
Dear Ronnie....You know you are my first wake-up blog read every morning. You poke my thinking and give my days a jump start. Glad you like us too. Cute video.
Happy Valentines Day...
Darlene here comes a huge Canadian hug for your strength and love for your son.
take care.
Darlene, another huge hug for you and your son. Wishing him a speedy recovery!
Ronni, Happy Valentine's Day to you, and thanks for the marvelous job you do with this blog.
Thanks too for repeating that Social Security does not add to the deficit.
And to Mia...you may have a large SS benefit and/or additional income. Good for you. Most of us do not have either....any reduction is a hardship. This is not an entitlement...we earned it. We and our employers paid for it. It is cheating us and them to take any of it away.
I confess I did not watch the SOTU address, nor have I read a lot about it since then. I've reached a point where I believe very little of what any politician says at any particular moment in time. They lie, they prevaricate and obfuscate, they pander, they change their stances from one hour to the next, etc., etc., etc. ad nauseum. Since the election, I've pretty much been on hiatus from political news. It's just too frustrating as a 24/7 diet.
Speedy well wishes to Darlene and Son - and thanks Ronni for your patience and insightful writing. As for SS and Med. without them we would have nothingto live on. So there!!!!
Thank you for the news of Darlene; I've been wondering about why she hasn't posted anything for so long and been afraid to ask. Fortunately, I see her name on comments and so I'd been letting myself think she was just fed up with the blog or taking a break. I'm really sorry to know the real reason, but very grateful to know that her son is getting better. Best wishes for better and better, Darlene.
And, Ronni, I wonder whether you have any idea of how much your blog means to me and so many others, EVERY DAY.
Thank you.
Happy Valentine's Day to you Ronni, Crabby, and Ollie!
Best wishes to Darlene for her son's speedy recovery and for Darlene's safe travels back home to Arizona.
I, too, have been missing Darlene. Thank you for news and I wish her and her son well.
And another grand thank you to you for all you do.
Applying means testing to Social Security is a toxic idea. Means testing, by definition, is an investigation into whether a person is financially eligible for benefits--i.e., if you're poor enough to qualify. It therefore casts SS as a charity handout, which it emphatically is not.
That this notion has become acceptable to so many otherwise sane people is an example of the mindset fostered by vermin like Paul Ryan, as part of the rightwing plot, since its inception, to destroy Social Security.
At the moment, my SS check is the only thing keeping me fed and a roof over my head. And as Ronni has reminded us many times, we will have to fight to keep our benefits intact and untampered with by those who would use our earned benefits to "reduce the deficit."
People are entitled to Social Security because they worked and paid into it. It is not a welfare program and should not be treated as such.
Those with higher income pay taxes on a portion of their Social Security income. That's as "means tested" as the program should be.
Darlene, I have been missing your Facebook posts since you stopped those. I hope your son gets better soon. I miss you and am really glad Ronni posted about you.....
Ronni -- Thank you for taking a stand on Social Security -- as always!
Darlene: I'm keeping good thoughts for you and your son in this difficult time. I hope he mends quickly and you are back home soon!!!
Darlene, I am so sorry to learn of your son's accident, but happy to know he is on the mend. Hope that continues!
Dear Darlene, Good to know your son is doing better than the doctors first expected. My thoughts are with you and your son tonight.
Dear Darlene, So sorry to hear of your and your son's awful ordeal. There is nothing more painful than feeling your child's pain. I am sending many healing thoughts, and holding you both in the light.
Many thanks to Ronni for informing everyone as to why I have not been commenting. And a big bunch of virtual roses for Valentine's Day to those who wished me and my son well. I deeply appreciate all of your kind comments.
An update - my son is doing much better than predicted and is being fitted for pressure gloves this morning. They will enable him to drive once he is able to bend his fingers. I am only offering moral support at this point, so I am not taxing myself and I am fine.
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Gaming and slot machine computer solutions manufacturer Quixant has launched its new Spanish website and an improved English version, which form the first in a long line of intiatives in the firm's ongoing development process. The new website provides a platform from which to showcase Quixant's wide range of gaming platforms, with detailed descriptions of its product ranges and accesories, pictures and improved developers tabs. Gary Mullins, sales director of Quixant, said: "This launch is about building a relationship with our customers by making the website more accesible and understanding to our new audience. The focus of the new website will be offering comprehensive information and easy navigation for the users."


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Wow…..I wish I had mom friends like this blogger. I came across her post from someone who posted it in a forum that I visited. Made me cry and wish I knew people who thought like her. Unfortunately I have a lot of friends who are so consumed in their own lives/kids lives and would never in a million years think like she does. Amazing.
Ironic that this comes after my sister's post about friendship.
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4 charged in arson at youth soccer field in Exeter
Published: Oct 09 2012 08:00:00 PM EDT Updated On: Oct 10 2012 07:21:41 PM EDT
Four people have been charged for their suspected roles in an arson in Exeter Township.
The group tipped over a portable toilet at a youth soccer field on Oct. 3 and then doused the toilet in gas and set it on fire with fireworks, police said.
A 16-year-old, a 20-year-old and two 19-year-olds have been charged with arson, criminal mischief and related offenses, police said.
Fortunately, no one was hurt.
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The 4th of July is nigh, and I'll be doing double duty with my family during the day (loooong drive) and then with friends (choreographed pyrotechnics in a secret location with fire extinguishers). I am happy that sometimes America works–like the acquittal of the San Diego chalker (despite the judge banning the mention of the First Amendment):
Score one for Mayor Bob Filner in his continuing fight with City Atty. Jan Goldsmith — this time concerning Goldsmith's prosecution of a man who chalked protest messages on the sidewalk outside branches of Bank of America…On Monday, a Superior Court jury sided with the mayor — acquitting 40-year-old Jeffrey Olson of 13 misdemeanor counts filed by Goldsmith's office…
Olson had never denied writing slogans or drawing outside three bank branches.
One slogan said, "No thanks, big banks." Another, "Shame on Bank of America." In yet another, the bank was portrayed as an octopus grabbing at cash with its tentacles.
Courts have held that graffiti is vandalism even if, like chalk, it can be easily washed off, Goldsmith said.
That Bank of America had contacted the city attorney's office to urge prosecution had become part of the dispute between the Democratic mayor and Republican city attorney.
At trial, however, Judge Howard Shore said Olson's lawyer could not invoke the 1st Amendment as a defense. As the dispute flared at City Hall, Shore last week imposed a gag order on all parties. [emphasis mine]
In California we have marriage equality (and for gods' sakes, could the mainstream media please stop calling it 'gay marriage'?! According to the Federal law it's "everyone marriage" ergo, it's MARRIAGE! Gotta mention two people got married who couldn't before? Please think about "marriage under passage of equal rights laws" etc.
Now if only every state could have equal marriage rights.
Speaking of equal rights and more, on Sunday FDL's Book Salon has a great novel up for discussion, Christian Nation by Fredric C. Rich. JP Sottile of Newsvandal will be hosting. Imagine if John McCain was elected and died and Palin became became president. Full of real quotes from real and very scary evangelicals and Dominionists, this book is a horror story beyond measure.