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Drugs law overview
The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 categorises drugs (or 'controlled substances') according to their perceived harmfulness and makes their 'production, supply and possession' illegal except in clearly defined circumstances, as set out in the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.
Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
The Misuse of Drugs Act not only criminalises the production, supply and possession of controlled drugs, it also makes it unlawful to allow one's premises to be used for the purpose of producing or supplying them.
To enforce the law the police have special powers to stop, detain and search people on 'reasonable suspicion' that they are in possession of controlled drugs.
The Misuse of Drugs Act categorises controlled substances into three classes according to their relative harmfulness when used:
Class A Drugs
This class includes ecstasy, cocaine, crack, magic mushrooms, methylamphetamine (crystal meth), heroin, LSD, mescaline, methadone, morphine, opium and injectable forms of Class B drugs.
Penalties for possession: up to seven years in prison or an unlimited fine, or both.
Penalties for dealing: up to life in prison or an unlimited fine, or both.
Class B Drugs
This class includes oral preparations of amphetamines, barbiturates, cannabis, codeine and methaqualone (Mandrax).
Penalties for possession: up to five years in prison or an unlimited fine, or both.
Penalties for dealing: up to 14 years in prison or an unlimited fine, or both.
Class C Drugs
This class includes most benzodiazapines (e.g., Temazepam, Valium), ketamine, gammahydroxybutyrate (GHB), other less harmful drugs of the amphetamine group, and anabolic steroids.
Penalties for possession: up to two years in prison or an unlimited fine, or both.
Penalties for dealing: up to 14 years in prison or an unlimited fine, or both.
Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001
Since most controlled substances have medical and/or scientific uses, there are various exemptions to the general prohibition on possession and supply.
Under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, substances are categorised under five schedules to determine how broad an exemption applies.
Schedule 1
This schedule includes include marijuana / cannabis, coca leaf, ecstasy, LSD, raw opium and psilocin (when extracted from magic mushrooms).
These drugs are not authorised for medical use and can only be supplied, possessed or administered in exceptional circumstances under a special Home Office licence (e.g., for research purposes).
Schedule 2
This schedule includes amphetamines, cocaine, dihydrocodeine, Diconal, heroin, methadone, morphine, opium in medicinal form, pethidine and Ritalin.
These drugs are available for medical use and can be prescribed by doctors. It is illegal for people to be in possession of these drugs without a prescription. They are also subject to strict record keeping and storage requirements.
Schedule 3
These drugs include barbiturates and Rohypnol and temazepam tranquillisers, which are subject to less stringent record keeping and storage requirements than Schedule 2 drugs.
Schedule 4
This schedule has two parts: Part 1 comprises most minor tranquillisers and a few other substances, which can only be lawfully possessed under prescription. Part 2 drugs comprise anabolic steroids, which can be legally possessed in medicinal form without a prescription but are illegal to supply to other people.
Schedule 5
This schedule includes cough medicines, anti-diarrhoea agents and mild painkillers, most of which can be bought over-the-counter at a pharmacy without a prescription. Once bought, however, they cannot legally be supplied to another person.
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A long-term ground lease has been arranged for the development of a hotel at 95 Rockwell Place in Brooklyn, near the Brooklyn Academy of Music, it was announced last week.
The news of hotel development comes on the heels of Mayor Bloomberg's November 2012 announcement of plans to begin the development and construction of 600 units of mixed income housing, as well cultural and commercial space in the area. The site, bounded by Fulton Street, Rockwell Place and Ashland Place, is to be developed through the Gotham Organization and DT Salazar.
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Inconsistency in Area of Chromatogram
I am having problem in obtaining the consistent area of peaks (Chromatogram). % of CV calculated with 10 repeated readings (injected 10 times from the same vial). The % of CV is 14%. Any suggestion to trouble shoot the problem?
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I'm having the same problem, only that the CV% I obtain is around 35%, the area goes from 1 200 000 to 400 000 cps in the 10th injection.
How did you solve the problem?
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"Oh yeah, he's totally in charge. When I'm home, I'm like, shoes are off, I'm making him dinner. He has a job too and he's really busy."–Lady Gaga admitted that while she's queen of the universe in public, behind closed doors with BF Taylor Kinney, she's take a more old-fashioned approach.
"I'm in charge all day long. The last thing I wanna do is tell him what to do. It's not good for relationships to tell men what to do, female listeners who are out there," she added during the radio interview.
You may find this surprising minions, given how sassy and saucy I can be, but I definitely share LG's romance philosophy. Being an alpha female can be oh so exhausting, it's nice to put someone else in the driver's seat once and awhile, n'est ce pas?
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Meadowview Elementary School phy ed teacher Joe McCarthy is doing his best to address childhood obesity. And these days, he's taking his efforts outside the school building, and inside national conventions. Continue Reading


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Aim: to share the story of Pentecost, and explain the Holy Spirit's role in helping people to hear about Jesus
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When you're choosing Easter songs for children to sing, what kind of thing should you be looking for? Easter is such an important celebration, reminding us of the amazing events of Jesus' death and resurrection. The Bible is full of wonderful things to learn about Easter and all the Jesus has done, and we want to reflect that in the songs we sing together.
Here are four aspects of Easter that we can sing about, with some ideas for songs:
Words from the Good News Translation, © American Bible Society
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With songs from maynardsgroovytunes.co.uk
This is a simple Nativity Play, designed to be the central part of an All-Age event, such as a "Family Carol Service". Surround it with some Carols, some prayers, and a short Bible talk about the Good News of Jesus, and you've got your service! It's tried and tested, and takes only a couple of rehearsals to set up. Hope you can use it!
The Bible events are narrated and acted out in 4 scenes, with children coming together to sing songs between each scene. The play is fairly simple, with most speaking done by one or more Narrators, who should be older children or young people who can cope with the amount of speaking. Younger children can take the other parts, which have only small (and memorable) amounts of speaking.
The information on this site is also in this pdf file available from Maynard's Groovy Bible Tunes: Simple Nativity Play PDF
With Christmas approaching quickly, it's time to choose the songs you'd like your Children's Church or Sunday School to sing at the Carol Service - but how will you make your choice?
Listening to children singing at Christmas services, it sometimes sounds like they're just performing a song that adults want to hear.
They're performing: that is, they're doing a beautiful job, but it's a performance which we'll clap, it's not them enjoying celebrating Jesus' birth in song.
It's a song the adults want to hear: lovely children all dressed beautifully singing sweetly... But what kind of music do they enjoy themselves? What kind of music do the kids sing round the house?
At various times during the year, Christians like to zoom in on special events in Jesus' life, and important celebrations in the church's life.
Of course, Christmas and Easter are the biggest and best festivals, celebrating Jesus' birth, and then his amazing death and resurrection for us. Another favourite is Harvest, when we say "Thank you!" to God for his wonderful provision of food.
At these times, its great to have special songs for children to sing in church, or in their Sunday schools and clubs, midweek clubs and school assemblies. We all need songs for kids that are based on the Bible and take it seriously, while still being great fun to sing and memorable. We need songs that can be part of a church's worship together, as well as being enjoyable to sing in the car on the way home. That's what we've got here - not so many you'll be confused, but just enough great songs to help you out.
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Cameras everywhere, even in online maps
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Worse, he was photographed smoking outside the EFF offices in San Francisco, and he had been trying to hide his habit from his family.
That's a relatively benign incident, but it illustrates how easy it is for the technology to threaten an individual's privacy, Bankston said at the Where 2.0 conference here, where Google on Tuesday announced its new street-level map view. Google's feature allows users viewing San Francisco to zoom in close enough to read street signs and even see inside front windows.
"It is irresponsible for Google to debut a product like this without also debuting technological measures that would obscure the identities of people photographed by this product," he said. "If the Google van happened by your house at the right moment it could even capture you in an embarrassing state of undress, as you close your blinds, for example."
Personal indiscretions aside, the larger concern is for people entering and leaving places like domestic violence shelters, Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, fertility clinics and controversial religious or political events, Bankston said.
The Google map feature offers a way to request the removal of photos and will take down identifiable images if a person requests.
"Street View only features imagery taken on public property. This imagery is no different from what any person can readily capture or see walking down the street," a Google spokeswoman said in a statement. "We provide easily accessible tools for flagging inappropriate or sensitive imagery for review and removal...We routinely review takedown requests and act quickly to remove objectionable imagery."
However, removing images of people after the fact doesn't entirely solve the problem, Bankston said. "That is of limited use if you don't know the image is on the site and by the time you find out, whatever privacy harm may already have occurred," he said.
Google removed photos of women's shelters before launching the feature, said Cindy Southworth, director of technology at the Washington, D.C.-based National Network to End Domestic Violence, which is the umbrella group for state shelters.
"We don't want to call attention to the shelters," Southworth said. "We would rather it look like a choppy horizon line as you pan by. Our hope is that other companies will do a similar thing and reach out to us in advance."
Removing the shelters from the map greatly diminishes the privacy threat to battered women, said Ashley Tan, volunteer coordinator at Woman Inc., a San Francisco-based 24-hour domestic violence crisis line. However, there is still a slim chance a stalker could see a victim's whereabouts. "If someone is obsessed with their victim it could be used as another tool, and it will be something we have to consider in safety planning," Tan said.
The block view that Amazon.com's A9 map showed is gone, along with A9 maps in general. One of those maps outed Bankston as a smoker.
Microsoft offers a bird's-eye view on its maps that doesn't show faces and other ground-level details. The company does have a preview of a street-level technology in San Francisco and Seattle, but it won't likely be launching that product publicly and is, in fact, looking at ways to obscure identifiable images like faces and license plates, according to several Microsoft executives.
"I don't think you'll ever see us do what Google is doing," said Erik Jorgensen, general manager for search and mapping at Microsoft. Such up-close imagery on maps might make sense for applications related to travel and real estate, but users don't need and don't necessarily want a picture-perfect world on the map, he said. "The feedback we got was that people like visuals as cues integrated into driving directions," rather than the "exploratory mode" that street-level offers, he said.
AOL's MapQuest offers only a satellite aerial view. Yahoo hasn't gone I-Spy on its maps either, and it doesn't sound like it will.
"It's a different approach to developing applications. Google puts out the technology and it's not clear what the use-case is," said Jeremy Kreitler, director of product management at Yahoo Maps. "Now that (map images) can see in your windows and not just your roof, there are privacy concerns."
As technology gets more advanced it gets harder for individuals to remain invisible, said Greg Sterling, online maps expert and founder of consultancy Sterling Market Intelligence. "In this world of ubiquitous imagery it's hard to avoid privacy issues," he said. "Relatively speaking, privacy has been eroded by all this readily discoverable information."
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- Privacy?
- Okay, so let me get this straight.
-Mr. Bankston is a smoker. So far, nothing wrong with that.
-Mr. Bankston is intent on hiding the fact that he's a smoker from his family. Trust issues and general lack of character abound right there.
-Mr. Bankston is upset that Google took a picture of him smoking, which immortalizes the secret he's been keeping from his family.
And he has the audacity to claim that his [i]privacy[/i] has been violated? Sounds like his morality is very situational and only applies when the circumstances inconvenience him directly. What right has he to point at Google for being "irresponsible"? His example of a Google van catching you doing something embarrassing in your house is non-topical, as well, because that's clearly in [b]private.[/b] Mr. Bankston's actions were in [b]public.[/b]
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- Stalkers & Abusers, line up at Google Street View!
- This will be a boon to the spousal abusers and stalkers of the
world. It will allow them to track, right down to whether their
victim's car is in the driveway, their target's activities at home.
This makes "casing a house" even easier for felons looking to
stage a break-in as well.
How nice of Google to think of the safety and well-being of the
American public.
If I see the Google Street View Van, I will have a very difficult
time keeping myself from throwing a blanket over it's viewports.
Or reporting them for violating my insurance agent's HIPAA
rights of privacy, for example. Or my wife's right to privacy in
our yard or inside our home, which could be "accidentally"
viewed by the van as it drives by (private property, invasion of
Commercial use of the image of an individual is still a protected
thing, even on a public street in some states - and the
publication OF an individual's image for profit without proper
media releases being signed could, possibly lead to litigation as
Wisconsin, for example, has some very sticky laws regarding
such unfair use of a person's image for commercial purposes as
I understand it.
It will be interesting to see what the various State's Attorneys
General will do with this, not to mention the various civil
liberties groups - especially after the first person gets killed
through the use of this "useful and harmless" product.
Darrow's Second Law states: "Common Sense Ain't. If It Was,
There'd Be A LOT More OF It Around!"
Google has just proved it with this product.
Google needs to rename itself. I nominate Big Brother for their
new name.
Anyone care to second the motion?
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- I just don't see it
- I don't see how this will be a "boon to the spousal abusers and stalkers of the world". The images captured by the street view van will probably be at least a few days -- if not weeks -- old by the time they hit the site. There would be no way to know if someone was home or not at any given time based on this.
Your privacy concerns, on the other hand, have merit if the cameras are able to see inside windows of residences. Otherwise, there is no expectation of privacy on the street. After all, someone who knew Kevin Bankston's family could have just as easily seen him smoking on the street and told.
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- image, as long as they pay me the money. You have a great point, but I don't see how it would stop. Thanks to the tech sharing globalists(please read into this statement) of this world, all Google has to do is to move offshore. What could we do? Just be mad I guess. If we got most Americans to agree to protect ourselves instead of worrying what other people thought of us, we MAYBE could do something about it. Sadly, I believe it is too late for that now. Now, or in the very near future, some as*hole from where ever(please read into this statement, too) will be able to know what you are doing and when you are doing it without the permission or knowledge of the U.S. government or its citizens.
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- No likely
- "It will allow them to track, right down to whether their victim's car is in the driveway, their target's activities at home."
These images will quickly become stale and considering the investment it's unlikely these images will updated a great deal. So I don't think it's anymore a boon that MapQuest and the telephone book.
"This makes "casing a house" even easier for felons looking to stage a break-in as well."
Unlikely, the view is somewhat limited for that purpose. Besides anyone can photo graph a houses from the street.
"If I see the Google Street View Van, I will have a very difficult time keeping myself from throwing a blanket over it's viewports."
You might have an easier time after words cause you'd probably be arrested.
"Or reporting them for violating my insurance agent's HIPAA rights of privacy, for example. Or my wife's right to privacy in our yard or inside our home, which could be "accidentally" viewed by the van as it drives by (private property, invasion of privacy)."
HIPAA doesn't even apply in this case. You don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in your yard if it's clearly visible from public land (the street in this case) Hester v. U.S., 265 U.S. 57 (1924). As for the inside of your home, the fact that it was open to view from the street by anyone would likely limit any claim of invasion of privacy.
"Commercial use of the image of an individual is still a protected thing, even on a public street in some states - and the publication OF an individual's image for profit without proper media releases being signed could, possibly lead to litigation as well."
Of course the problem with those laws is that in most cases you must demonstrate that your image has a commercial value. Unless you're a celebrity this usually proves to be quite difficult.
"Attorneys General will do with this, not to mention the various civil liberties groups - especially after the first person gets killed through the use of this "useful and harmless" product. Darrow's Second Law states: "Common Sense Ain't."
I am not sure there is much the Attorneys General can do with it. I am not sure how anyone would killed through Street View. Google is not the first to do this (off photographs from street level) though they are probably the biggest.
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- Am I Spying on me?
- I hope there is only a minute % of folks that are surprised by this technology. It has been going on for quite a while, in the form of Toll Booth cams, cams at intersections, live cam of Mardi Gras, the list goes on.....cams in elevators...and before that, the helicopters in the sky, the debit cards, the grocery store cards,any credit card, "They" already know more about you,than you may know. Renting an Adult film late one night? 1). your on camera 2). If you used a check or credit card, "they" even know what your into, sexually. and the time of day/night..To go one small step furthera case could be made showing when you like sex, what kind of sex,you like,and how often.
Wake up, please, don't be alarmed by this. did anyone really not see this coming? I love America, and will fight until I can fight no more, But... again... what would you expect, from a government gone ary? We are so lost we don't respect our own laws anymore. We just lost a major engagement with Mexico. We let illeagles break our law,we even welcome them.Free medical, while they spit in our faces, and their leader keeps spouting indignities at my leader. and we allow them to take from our system, with no giving back. We have been outwitted by the Mexicans, and now 1000's are overrunning our borders, daily, like ants, illeaglly, without respect,and burning American Flags,and who knows how many baby rapers there are amongst them? We probably have them vidioed, though. Think about it.
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- surprised, or at least shouldn't be, however, this is a global issue, not a national one. Even if the U.S. made it illegal to participate in the technology, it would still happen. Our laws only extend to our borders. The apple has already been bitten and the box already open.
With respect to the border, no, we haven't lost. In fact, I am optimistic about the outcome. While the minority is the loudest, in the end, the majority will have its way. While, I do not agree with the insect analogy, I understand your frustration and know that no nation, however conceived, can stand long without respect to the law and order in the public surroundings. But, most importantly it is necessary to love the nation in which one is residing for the bounty that it does provide. For those that wish to come here and spew their hatred for the things that I hold dear, (my God, my country, my people), I stand ready to send them wherever their leisure would take them. (Hell or their homeland.)
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- The privacy thing is moot here. These cams are not peering into houses. They are taking the same pics you or any other person walking down the street can take. If I'm smoking a cigarette, having a drink, or engaging in sex on the front lawn, I would have no more reasonable expectation of privacy than if I were doing these things on the National Mall on July 4th or in the median strip of a nearby interstate highway. OTOH if they should happen to put their cameras right up to my windows and take advantage of a tiny tear in the window shade to view inside the house, that's entirely an invasion of privacy.
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- So you don't mind if I ...
- ... hang out in front of your house, take pictures of you coming and going, pictures of any visitors you may be having, and follow you around on public streets with my camera clicking? Might seem more extreme than google maps, but all falls into the acceptable expectation of privacy indicated by your comment.
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- What about
- behind your privacy fence? Would that be ok too? The fact that you can be tracked, without law, is an offense and ill warranted. Should anyone have the ability to track or "stalk" anyone? I think not. Not our citizens. Can we do anything about it now? No, probably not. Maybe later, thanks to the tech sharing globalists, all of us can share.
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- Google Street View is great.
- Google Street View is the greatest map tool. Kevin Bankston is overreacting to this great feature. Individual's privacy is not threaten here. Google Street View photographs only the public space not private space.
This mapping tool is very useful. One can get virtual viewpoint of the places a person must go to. By looking at virtual 360 viewpoint, a person would have photographic picture of the destination.
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- Once Again--More "Free" content for the Final Library
- Google's street view is more content that people have to catch them using to make them take down. But wait...Street View isn't a copyright issue, it's a privacy issue. No DMCA "safe harbor" (if that law even applies to Google).
So where is it written that Google gets to look inside your house until you tell them to stop?
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- Do no evil...
- I hope people are finally waking up to the reality that Google is just another big company trying to make a buck even if it costs us our privacy. Google is no better than any other big corporation. I just can't wait for the Google-sycophants to finally realise.
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- Shocked at EFF's position
- I have a right to take pictures in the public space and I have a right to post those pictures online. And so does Google.
If EFF doesn't support that online right of mine then EFF is not for me.
I can't believe EFF is pandering to ninnies that don't like the fact that they voluntarily and knowingly expose themselves to the public sphere. If the cat lady doesn't like people being able to see in her window, then she should close the curtains. If whiny secretive EFF boy doesn't like being caught smoking, he shouldn't smoke in front of the building. (Or he should, you know, QUIT.)
It's not Google's fault you did something stupid or embarrassing or "secret" or "personal" while *in public.* It's your own. Own up to it. Don't do private things in public, and don't rely on a big glass window to protect your privacy.
There is lots of precedent on taking and publishing pictures of public scenes and other things that are visible from the street. EFF's lawyers ought to be well versed in it.
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- I disagree with EFF's position
- There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in public, the courts have recognized as much. As for those worried about an accidental photo of the inside of their home I would suggest shear curtains or a shade. I think the EFF's postion on this is absurd.
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Why did the people of the Zambesi Delta affected by severe flooding return early to their homes or even choose to not evacuate? How is the forced resettlement of small-scale farmers living along the foothills of an active volcano on the Philippines impacting on their day-to-day livelihood routines?...
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Voucher Repeal Passes 188-151
After more than an hour of debate on the floor of the New Hampshire House, the repeal of last year's voucher bill for religious schools passed pretty much as expected. In fact, only seven Republicans (including I; see other blog for my speech) voted for the bill, and only five Democrats voted against it in the final vote of 188-151.
The bill now faces an uphill fight in the Senate where all 11 Democrats and Republican Bob O'Dell are expected to support repeal, but that would still leave a 12-12 tie (and defeat) since Hampton Republican Nancy Stiles, a long-time opponent of vouchers, has tipped her hand and promised to vote to keep the vouchers in place.
Governor Maggie Hassan does not fund the voucher program in her budget, and without a doubt, the House will follow suit which should set up the final showdown in a committee of conference battle come June.
Start asking (and wagering on) whether Senate Republicans are so enamored of this unconstitutional plan as to jeopardize the entire state budget?
My guess is they'll back away from this...if in fact the entire thing isn't struck down in court before then.
The seven Republicans voting for the bill were: Gargasz and Vaillancourt (co-sponsors), Lockwood, Copeland, Oligny, Sytek, and Grenier. New London Republican David Kidder, surprisingly, voted with his party.
The four Democrats were the three usual suspects--Winters, Garcia, and O'Flaherty (I like all three but simply don't agree with them on this issue); Jean Jeudy of Manchester (most likely for religious reasons); and Kris Roberts, of Keene, who spoke against the bill and managed to get into racial comments about it (that's as far as I plan to go here).
Democrats lead among House members was reduced by two with the resignation earlier in the day of Tom Donovan of Claremont and Roland LaPlante of Nashua. Unlike yesterday's special election won by a Democrat in a highly Democratic Nashua ward, Republicans would either be favored or given an even chance in the two special elections to fill vacant seats announced today, especially if popular Joe Osgood runs in Claremont. Another upcoming special election, in Ward 2 in Manchester, should be considered a pure toss-up. Ward 2 is a classic swing ward, and former Republican Rep Win Hutchinson will not to face the shadow of Obama at the top of the ticket.
When the new Nashua seat is filled, the Democratic advantage will be down to 218-179.
However, note that on a given day, more Democrats tend to be absent than Republicans, including of course the always absent Manchester No Shows led by the Katsiantoni and Pat Garrity.
Of 56 Representatives absent for today's voucher vote, 31 were Democrats, 25 Republicans.
Of the 56, eight were from Manchester, including seven Democrats--the Katsiantoni, Garrity, Boisvert, McCloskey, Williams, Palanagas (and Martel). Once again, the Manchester absentee rate was twice the state average.
See if you read that in any of the main stream media!


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Two wins. That's all it takes. Two wins during the Super Regional round punches a ticket for a team to advance to the ultimate college baseball destination…Omaha.
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Recent mainstream movies haven't exactly been spitting forth self-possessed, charismatic leading men. Peter Dinklage, the star of the charming, even lovable independent film The Station Agent, towers above all others at a height of 4-foot-5.
As a railroad fanatic named Finbar or Fin McBride, who inherits an abandoned train depot in Newfoundland, N.J., Dinklage burns with an adamant sense of self that transcends his dwarfdom and intrigues everyone around him. He suggests a vast interior life and a fierce determination to protect it from intrusion. He uses his eyes and brow to express not belligerence but independence and completeness.


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"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day.
Give him religion and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish."
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"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day.
Give him religion and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish."
Timothy Jones
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
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"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made." Dan Quayle
"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people." Dan Quayle
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe." Dan Quayle
"The loss of life will be irreplaceable." Dan Quayle
"They asked me to go in front of the Reagans. I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan, so we went out behind the Bushes." Dan Quayle after the swearing in ceremony on Inauguration Day, 20/1/89
"My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right."Dan Quayle, in a speech to the Christian Coalition
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." Dan Quayle
"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick-boxing."
Emo Philips.
I can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it.
- J. Kenfield Morley
" go then there are other worlds than these"- Jake that one sticks with you. Also I like " first come smiles, next come lies,last is gunfire"
Say thankee
" America is so advanced that even the chairs are electric."
Doug Hamwell
"I don't believe in astrology. I am a Sagittarius and we're very sceptical."
Arthur C. Clarke
A Dog's Last Will and Testament
Before humans die, they write their last Will and Testament, give their homes and all they have to those they leave behind. If, with my paws, I could do the same, this is what I'd ask:
To a poor and lonely stray,
I'd give my happy home,
My bowl and cozy bed, soft pillows and all my toys,
The lap which I loved so much,
The hand that stroked my fur, and,
The sweet voice which spoke my name.
I'd will to the sad, scared shelter dog,
The place I had in my human's loving heart,
Where there seemed no bounds.
So, when I die please do not say,
"I will never have a pet again, for the loss and pain are more than I can stand."
Instead, go find an unloved dog,
One whose life has held no joy or hope,
And give my place to him.
This is the only thing I can give...
The love I left behind.


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Religious/Spiritual and Related Groups
The Center for Spirituality, Dialogue and Service serves a vibrant and diverse community of religious, spiritual and related groups that meet regularly on campus.
Groups (listed alphabetically below) are for members of the Northeastern University community only, unless otherwise noted. Please note that many groups do not meet over summers and intersessions.
Groups adhere to all standing University policies and regulations. You do not need to be an adherent to the relevant faith in order to attend open group meetings.
Meeting Location Code:
SS = Sacred Space, 200 Ell Hall
RR = Reflection Room, 201 Ell Hall
Hillel = NU Hillel, 70 St. Stephen Street
CCNU = Catholic Center, 68 St. Stephen Street
CSC = Curry Student Center
Fenway = the Fenway Center, 77 St. Stephen Street
Agape Christian Fellowship (Campus Crusade) Meets - Thursday 7:30 -9pm West Village G
Phone: 617-373-2728
Email: www.agape.neu.eduAthletes in Action Meets - Tuesdays 8pm Cabot Lounge, Cabot Center, 400 Huntington Ave.
Phone: 617-373-2728NU Buddhist Group
Dharma Dialogue with the NU Buddhist Group Meets - 5:30-6:30pm, SS
Meets -Wednesdays 7:30 pm, CCNU
Masses -
Tuesdays and Fridays: 4:30pm CCNU
12:30pm Fenway
5pm Mission Church, 1545 Tremont St. (up the hill from Brigham Circle @ Huntington)
Reconciliation -
Wednesdays 6:30- 7:30pm CCNU; Sundays after 12:30 mass
Catholic Center Phone: 617-373-8694
Catholic Center affiliated priest: Fr. Philip Merdinger
Website: www.nucatholics.neu.edu
Fr. John, Pastor, St. Cecilia Church
Website: http://www.northeastern.edu/communityservice/aboutus/index.html
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Center of Community Service
Offices at 212 CP and 172 CSC
Phone: 617-373-5809
Website: http://nuccf.wordpress.com/
Email: email@example.com
Phone: 617- 373-2728
Elham Yoga Meets -Mondays 9- 10:30am SS Weekly gathering of Farsi speaking women across campus to practice some yoga asana and pranayama )
Episcopal Group and Worship Please see entry below under "Lutheran-Episcopal Campus Minstry
Evangelical NU Fellowship Forum (ENUFF)
Email: email@example.com
Phone: 617-373-2728
Website: http://www.goodvibescommunity.org/Hillel
Meets -
Shabbat Service - Fridays 6pm followed by 7pm kosher dinner
Location: Sacred Space
200 Ell Hall
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: http://www.northeasternhillel.org
For Kosher meals: www.mycampusdining.com
Phone: 617-373-3937Hindu Student Group Meets- Mondays 5:45 - 6:45pm (biweekly/every other week: 9/9; 9/23; 10/7; 10/21; 11/4; 11/18; 12/2) Nita Desai, Hindu Spiritual Advisor: firstname.lastname@example.com
Hindu Vedic Vision Society Meets - Wednesdays 7:45-9:30pm, SS
Phone: 617-373-2728Interfaith Law Students' Association Meets- as needed
InterVarsity Multiethnic Christian Fellowship Meets - Mondays 7pm Cabral Center in the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute, 40 Leon Street, West Village F
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.ivcf.neu.edu
Phone: 617-373-2728
Islamic Society Northeastern University(ISNU)
Meets - "Deen & Dine" Mondays 6-7:30pm, RR
Jumuah prayer - Fridays 1-1:35pm SS
Stories of the Prophets Class: Fridays 2:15 - 3:15PM SS
Daily prayer - SS
Email: email@example.com
For Halal meals: www.mycampusdining.com
Phone: 617-373-2729Jain
Wednesdays, 11:30 am to 12:30pm, Sacred Space (200 Ell Hall)
Thursdays, 6:30pm, Richards Hall, Room 235
Email: email@example.com Day Saint Student Organization
Meets - Mondays 8-9pm, Reflection Room 200 Ell Hall
Fridays 1:30-3pm Social Justice Resource Center, 106 St. Stephen Street, Boston, MA 02115Facebook Page
Lutheran - Episcopal Campus Ministry
Meets - Thursdays 5:30-7:30pm SS
Worship - Thursdays 5:30-7:30pm SS
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.lecm.neu.edu
Phone: 617-373-4923Men's Bible Study Group Meets - Tuesdays 12noon-1pm Reflection Room, 200 Ell Hall 617-373-2728
Northeastern University Interfaith Council (NUIC)
Meets - Wednesdays 6:00-7:30pm SS, biweekly beginning 9/18/2013
Alexander Levering Kernander Kern - Executive Director of the Center for Spirituality, Dialogue and Service, NU
firstname.lastname@example.com 617-373-4931
Phone: 617-373-2728
Sojourn Christian Collegiate Ministry Meets - Tuesdays 7:15pm, 410 Ell Hall and Wednesdays from 7:15pm, 410 Ell Hall
Email: email@example.com
Website: sojourncollegiate.com
Phone: 617-373-2728NU Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Meets -Wednesdays 7:00-8:30pm, SS, biweekly, beginning 9/11 Facebook Page
Unitarian Universalists Meets - Tuesdays, 8:15-10pm SS, beginning 9/9/2013 Facebook Page
Unity Gospel Ensemble (John D. O'Bryant African-American Institute) Meets - Tuesdays 6-8pm JDOAAI African-American Inst.
617-373-2728Pagan/Wiccan Group Meets - TBA This group is currently inactive. If you are interested in re-forming this group, please call the Center for Spirituality, Dialogue and Service 617-373-2728


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Cross Street Market Estd. 1846
Steady growth in South Baltimore led to a petition for a market
here in 1838. The first market building, a long open-air shed
erected in 1845-46, extended along Cross Street between Charles
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I'm not trading real money per se (I leave that to my broker at MSDW) but
I have used a couple of different tools in the past.
1. gChartman - even though its GTK, it looks rab enough to b Motif ;) Does
not have all the features a hardcore day-trader would want, but stable
enough to dare a try.
2. kstock - kde stock ticker
I have heard good things about:
1. RAPID (MAS toolset)
2. eeStock
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The practice of mark to market as an accounting device first developed among traders on futures exchanges in the 19th century. It was not until the 1980s that the practice spread to big banks and corporations far from the traditional exchange trading pits, and beginning in the 1990s, mark-to-market accounting began to give rise to scandals.
To understand the original practice, consider that a futures trader, when taking a position, deposits money with the exchange, called a "margin". This is intended to protect the exchange against loss. At the end of every trading day, the contract is marked to its present market value. If the trader is on the winning side of a deal, his contract has increased in value that day, and the exchange pays this profit into his account. On the other hand, if he is on the losing side, the exchange will debit his account. If he cannot pay, then the margin is used as the collateral from which the loss is paid. As an example, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, taking the process one step further, marks positions to market twice a day, at 10:00 am and 2:00 pm.
Over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives on the other hand are not traded on exchanges, so their market prices are not as readily available. During their early development, OTC derivatives such as interest rate swaps were not marked to market frequently. Deals were monitored on a quarterly or annual basis, when gains or losses would be acknowledged or payments exchanged.
As the practice of marking to market caught on in corporations and banks, some of them seem to have discovered that this was a tempting way to commit accounting fraud, especially when the market price could not be objectively determined (because there was no real day-to-day market available), so assets were being 'marked to model' using estimated valuations derived from financial modeling, and sometimes marked to spurious valuations. See Enron and the Enron scandal.
Internal Revenue Code Section 475 contains the mark to market accounting method rule. Section 475 provides that dealers that elect mark to market treatment shall recognize gain or loss as if the property were sold for its fair market value on the last business day of the year, and any gain or loss shall be taken into account in that year. The section also provides that dealers in commodities can elect mark to market treatment for any commodity (or their derivatives) which is actively traded (i.e., for which there is an established financial market that provides a reasonable basis to determine fair market value by disseminating price quotes from broker/dealers or actual prices from recent transactions).
FAS Statement 157 includes the following:
FAS 157 defines "fair value" as: "The price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date."
While FAS 157 does not introduce any new requirements mandating the use of fair value, the definition as outlined does introduce key differences.
First, it is based on exit price (for an asset, the price at which it would be sold) rather than an entry price (for an asset, the price at which it would be bought), regardless of whether the entity plans to hold or sell the asset.
Second, FAS 157 emphasizes that fair value is market based rather than entity specific. Thus, the optimism that often characterizes an asset owner must be replaced with the skepticism that typically characterizes a risk-averse buyer.
FAS 157's fair value hierarchy underpins the standard. The hierarchy ranks the quality and reliability of information used to determine fair values – quoted prices are the most reliable valuation inputs, whereas model values that include inputs based on unobservable data are the least reliable. A typical example of the latter is shares of a privately held company whose value is based on projected cash flows.
Although FAS 157 does not require fair value to be used on any new classes of assets, it does apply to assets and liabilities held at fair value. The accounting rules for which assets and liabilities are held at fair value are complex, and sometimes are adopted at the discretion of a company (see FAS 159, "The Fair Value Option"). It requires that certain assets held at fair value by financial companies, including sensitive investments linked to mortgages and other kinds of debt, be marked to market. In other words, you have to value the assets at the price you could get for them if you sold them right now on the open market.
The rule forces banks to mark to market, rather than to some theoretical price calculated by a computer — a system often criticized as "mark to make-believe." (Occasionally, for certain types of assets, the rule allows for using a model)
Sometimes, there is no market—not for investments like collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs, filled with subprime mortgages. There are few, if any, buyers for such products. This complicates the marking process. In the absence of market information, an entity is allowed to use its own assumptions. However, when market information is available, it cannot be ignored by an entity.
FAS 157 makes no distinction between non cash-generating assets, i.e., broken equipment, which can theoretically have zero value if nobody will buy them in the market – and cash-generating assets, like securities, which are still worth something for as long as they earn some income from their underlying assets. The latter cannot be marked down indefinitely, or at some point, can create incentives for company insiders to buy them out from the company at the under-valued prices. Insiders are in the best position to determine the creditworthiness of such securities going forward. In theory, this price pressure should balance market prices to accurately reflect the "fair value" of a particular asset. Purchasers of distressed assets should step in to buy undervalued securities, thus moving prices higher, allowing other Companies to consequently mark up their similar holdings.
In response to the rapid developments of the financial crisis of 2007–2008, the FASB is fast tracking the issuance of the proposed FAS 157-d, Determining the Fair Value of a Financial Asset in a Market That Is Not Active.
Similarly, if the stock falls to $30, the mark-to-market value is $3,000 and the investor has lost $1,000 of the original investment. If the stock was purchased on margin, this might trigger a margin call and the investor would have to come up with an amount sufficient to meet the margin requirements for his account.
In marking-to-market a derivatives position, at the end of each trading day, each counterparty exchanges the change in the market value of their position in cash. If one of the counterparties defaults in this daily exchange, that counterparty's position is immediately closed by the exchange and the clearing house is substituted for that counterparty's position. Marking-to-market virtually eliminates credit risk, but it requires monitoring systems that usually only large institutions can afford.
Stock brokers allow their clients to access credit via margin accounts. These accounts allow clients to borrow funds to buy securities. Therefore, the amount of funds available is more than the value of cash (or equivalents). The credit is provided by charging a rate of interest, in a similar way as banks provides loans. Even though the value of securities (stocks or other financial instruments such as options) fluctuates in the market, the value of accounts is not calculated in real time. Marking-to-market is performed typically at the end of the trading day, and if the account value falls below a given threshold, (typically a predefined ratio by the broker), the broker issues a margin call that requires the client to deposit more funds or liquidate his account.
Section 132 of the proposed Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, titled "Authority to Suspend Mark-to-Market Accounting" restates the Securities and Exchange Commission's authority to suspend the application of FAS 157 if the SEC determines that it is in the public interest and protects investors.
Section 133 of the proposed Act, titled "Study on Mark-to-Market Accounting," requires the SEC, in consultation with the Federal Reserve Board and the Department of the Treasury, to conduct a study on mark-to-market accounting standards as provided in FAS 157, including its effects on balance sheets, impact on the quality of financial information, and other matters, and to report to Congress within 90 days on its findings.
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 has been passed and was signed into law on October 3, 2008. For the history and the passage of this law see Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.
On September 30, 2008 the SEC and the FASB issued clarifications regarding the implementation of fair value accounting, to help address concerns regarding the impact of fair value measurement on financial institutions holding mortgage backed securities (MBS). This guidance helps clarify that forced liquidations are not indicative of fair value, as this is not an "orderly" transaction. Further, expected cash flows from such instruments are an appropriate means of valuation, subject to applicable adjustments for default risks.
Under FAS 157, many companies had been forced to deeply mark-down (reduce) the value of MBS due to their inability to sell them, resulting in margin calls from investors, even when cash flows from the securities suggested a much higher value. In short, the SEC has acknowledged the market for MBS is not "orderly" and fair value standards should be more liberally applied to reflect the expected cash value.
On October 7, 2008 the SEC began to conduct a study on "mark-to-market" accounting, as authorized by Sec. 133 of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.


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Since the return of classic panel show Shooting Stars, host Bob Mortimer has commented that 'comedy feels serious now.' I'm inclined to agree with him. Although extremely funny, shows such as Mock The Week do, to quote Bob, have a 'spirit of competition and cynicism' and a sense of continual one-upmanship among contestants, reminiscent of the sophisticated style of comedy my parents would chortle away the evenings to on Radio 4. I'm not knocking it and don't for a minute think comedy should be 'dumbed down', but one of the many great things about watching Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer in action, is that as well as the sense they're just enjoying arsing about with each other, they're also, in the true spirit of improvisation, actually assisting each other in the process.
Neither is itching to be the funnier, they just feed off each other's desire to continue the cycle of silliness between the two. You never know quite where Vic and Bob are going to end up but you know it'll be somewhere funny, and this is what stops it from dissolving into watching two schoolboys fart around in a science lab, they are always hilarious and genuinely surreal – they're not 'trying' to be, there's no agenda of smug, self-congratulatory out-witting, they just give into the moment. They're not the best example because, as the pair have known and worked with each other for so long, they've practically created their own complicit eco-system of daftness, but they're a most welcome contrast to much of the more 'controlled' comedy we witness now. This is perhaps a long-winded way of saying that it's been incredibly refreshing to have these guys back on our screens.
However, although there may be a severe lack of funny people just genuinely arsing about on telly at the minute, a new night has appeared on the comedy circuit in London, which could well redress the current lack of fun and unpredictable comedy available. Vic and Bob should perhaps pop down to comedian Bob Slayer's new comedy night at Doggett's, Southbank, a night which feels a million miles away from 'serious.' Or a PG certificate for that matter..
Slayer, who has been described as "marching all over the line that should not be crossed like a drunken Henry Rollins with tourettes", wanted to bring comedy to the Southbank after establishing a regular following at the Dirty Dicks venue in Liverpool St. For the launch night, he put together a sterling line-up of surreality, silliness and alternative comics– co-founder of Viz comic magazine Simon Donald doing his character act Barry Twyford; Dr Brown and Andrew Lawrence, all nicely sandwiched between Slayer's endearingly provocative style.
Slayer was particularly excited to have his hero, Simon Donald, on stage performing: "I think everyone knows Viz magazine or can tell you about their experience of discovering it as a child. I was a teenager and someone handed me a black and white fanzine type comic with a man with testicles so huge he carried them around in a wheelbarrow. I was hooked immediately." Slayer praised the 'pure, unadulterated bollocks' Viz provided, no doubt influencing his own brand of anarchic silliness. His compere technique does not shy away from the audience. Ok, so bashfulness is not a trait you're likely to find in many comperes but Slayer is not afraid to slay anyone, and will happily get in many a face– particularly if you happen to be in the front row looking indifferent. He reminded me slightly of Michael Douglas in Falling Down, crossed with Father Christmas (triggered by the red shirt perhaps!) who's finally cracked under the pressure and boredom of delivering all those toys to children.
Simon Donald has inspired many, including Vic and Bob. As well as creating the legendary comic Viz, which embedded a host of characters such as Sid the Sexist, The Fat Slags and Roger Mellie ("The Man on the Telly") into the nation's psyche, Donald has acted in theatre and TV since the '70s. It's not until quite recently however, that he's ventured into performing stand-up as his brilliant character, Barry Twyford, a market researcher from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Dressed in the obligatory, un-stylish luminous jacket and cap, and carrying a clipboard, Donald didn't produce laughs the second he stepped out, he kept the audience waiting at least ten minutes to drop his first bombshell, and there was slight, awkward tension in the air to begin with. It was worth the wait however, and quite refreshing to see a comedian toying with the audience's expectations in such a way. He proceeded with his 'market research', questioning different members of the audience in a calm and charming Geordie lilt (not that dissimilar to that Cheryl off The X Factor) in a tone that hilariously contradicted a lot of the filth and cheek flowing forth – "are yer for real with them fucking trainers?" and "did you get fingered in the No 64 bus stop?" with answers ranging from one to five – five equal to: "I didn't even know where the 64 bus stops, I get done at the No 10 stop."
It's easy to see why Dr Brown's become a firm favourite on the 'alternative' circuit. Charmingly childlike and silly he manages to dissolve the audience into giggles with his hilarious expressions alone. Without the hint of self-consciousness he announces "ooh, a day at the beach", then proceeds to undress and declares in a coquettish and rather camp manner "I'd better protect my skin", cue his mate in the audience to rub suntan lotion all over his back. It has to be seen to be appreciated.
Headline act Andrew Lawrence, who has attracted something of a cult following, slew the room with a tornado-style ream of gags and punchlines that would feel rather rudely incessant if the delivery and content weren't so funny. One particular diatribe, aimed at a policeman who pulled him over for having a dirty windscreen, had the audience in stitches but the line that's refused to leave my head takes self-deprecating ginger jokes to the limit – "upon entering a room I hear a loud clap. The sound of 80 vaginas slapping shut." Hmm, lovely. Funny though.
So, if you do like your comedy unpredictable, unselfconsciously surreal and of the 'testicles in a wheelbarrow' variety, then definitely dive into this night's next offerings, featuring Martin Davis and Paul Foot. Be prepared not to take any of it too seriously though.
Comedy at Doggett's
1 Blackfriars Bridge, Southbank, London SE1 9UD
£5 advance / Concessions
£7 on the door
Wed 11th Nov
Martin Davis – "a hilarious parrot-faced twat!" Viz
Nik Coppin – "A rapid, non-stop act full of energy"
+ Dr Brown + Bob Slayer (MC)
Tue 15th Dec
Paul Foot – "surreal and flamboyant one-off whose inspired rantings turn the mundane into the magical"
Terry Saunders – "effortlessly funny… a gentle genius" Metro
+ Dr Brown + Bob Slayer (MC)


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LAKELAND, Fla. – The Saint Leo women's basketball team (13-11, 6-7 SSC) fell for the third consecutive time Wednesday evening, dropping an 81-61 decision to the Florida Southern College Moccasins (18-7, 8-6 SSC), from the Jenkins Field House in Sunshine State Conference play.
The Lions were led by senior Sierra Williams, as she posted a team-high 16 points and totaled four rebounds in 34 minutes of action. Willonda Windham also had a solid contest bucketing 13 points and grabbing a team-best nine boards. Gekeela Clemmons chipped in 10 points, while Lauren Lee was one point and one rebound shy of a double-double, ending the night with nine points and nine boards.
Saint Leo shot 38.7 percent (24-for-62) from the floor, including 2-of-9 from the three-point-line. The squad was out-rebounded 43-to-36 and committed 20 turnovers resulting in 33 Florida Southern points. The Mocs' maneuvered their way around the paint, outscoring the Green & Gold 32-to-22. The Lions did have the advantage in bench scoring, however, shutting out FSC, 18-0.
The Lions appeared primed for another close contest with their rivals from Lakeland, as they took an early 16-6 advantage over the first six minutes of the contest. Williams and Windham combined for 10 of the Lions points over that stretch, using a physical inside attack and precision shooting from the perimeter.
Minutes later, the lead expanded to 12 points as a result of a Joanna Bussa layup. The Mocs had no answer for the Lions attack over the first 15 minutes, but a three-pointer by Chelsea John with 5:46 left to play sparked a 20-0 run by the Moccasins. The rally not only tied the game, but also allowed the home team to claim as much as a seven point advantage. Lee put a momentary stop to the bleeding by scoring the Lions first basket in nearly seven minutes. The team eventually trimmed the lead to five going into the halftime break.
Out of intermission, the Moccasins began to scorch the nets, starting the half on a 7-0 run. Holding a 44-32 lead, the Mocs opened the floodgates by going on their third run of the ballgame, a 14-3 sprint to take a 20-point advantage with 13:53 to play.
The lead never sunk below 20 points the rest of the way out. The Mocs' offense continued to find ways to get to the basket, expanding their lead to as much as 29 with 6:45 left to play.
The Lions did use a 9-0 run in the final minutes of regulation to trim the lead to 20. Lee was the major contributor in the burst, racking up six of the nine points.
Unfortunately, the deficit proved too large to overcome as FSC their winning streak over the Lions to four-straight. For the Moccasins, Chelsea Johnson led all scorers with 25 points, her second 20+ point outing against SLU
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CHIRUNDU local board has moved to repossess more than 60 stands that have not been developed in the last five years as it seeks to implement its development plan. The repossession is aimed at curbing speculative activities involving the stands.
In an interview yesterday, local board administrator Mr Wilson Gunhe accused the stand holders of defaulting on rates payment.
"We are repossessing stands that have not been developed in the last five years after they were allocated. We are not benefiting anything from them (stand owners) as a board from the non-development," he said.
Stand holders have been given until the end of the month to explain why they have not developed their properties or the local board would re-allocate them.
The border town of Chirundu has a modest 500 people on the housing waiting list with alternative land earmarked for residential and commercial stands development.
He said some people were developing their properties and the town had seen an increase in construction activity in the last two years but the exorbitant prices of building material in the town were a cause for concern.
"We are very far from other towns and the cost of building material in the town has negatively affected the rate at which we are developing.
"If people have to seek alternatives it would mean going to Karoi which is over 150km away which makes it even more expensive," he said.


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Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life—lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks, unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists, actresses, swindlers, misers, parasites, sexual adventurers, crackpots, and more—move through the pages of The Human Comedy, Balzac's multivolume magnum opus, an interlinked chronicle of modernity in all its splendor and squalor. The Human Comedy includes the great roomy novels that have exercised such a sway over Balzac's many literary inheritors, from Dostoyevsky and Henry James to Marcel Proust; it also contains an array of short fictions in which Balzac is at his most concentrated and forceful. Nine of these, all newly translated, appear in this volume, and together they provide an unequaled overview of a great writer's obsessions and art. Here are "The Duchesse de Langeais," "A Passion in the Desert," and "Sarrasine"; tales of madness, illicit passion, ill-gotten gains, and crime. What unifies them, Peter Brooks points out in his introduction, is an incomparable storyteller's fascination with the power of storytelling, while throughout we also detect what Proust so admired: the "mysterious circulation of blood and desire."
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Ingenious bubble wrap. The 1990s revelled in decadence and imposture. Sadly, this clever cultural history is as superficial as the era it recalls, writes Will Self
The Nineties: when surface was depth
Michael Bracewell Flamingo, 373pp, £12.99
The Nineties: when surface was depth
Michael Bracewell Flamingo, 373pp, £12.99
by Will Self Published
Now - in 2002 - comes a cultural history of the 1990s. Quite rightly, it is written by Michael Bracewell, whose tensely minatory excursions into the brightly lit labyrinth of the decade were so much a feature of the era, if, like the characters in Private Eye's "It's Grim Up North London", you had a pubic goatee, a faceful of metal and a mouthful of chevre. This outrageous stereotyping would be to do Bracewell and his book a grave disservice, were it not that his own subtitle invites such a drive to reduce the decade (like some stock of time itself, stirred by Old Father Gary Rhodes) to so much less than the sum of its parts.
That Bracewell, with a characteristically straight face (this is, after all, a writer who expertly anatomised depression in his novel Saint Rachel), has dared to publish on the Nineties in the early Noughties is in itself proof of the contention that, in so far as this decade had any character at all, it was the merest trace of maquillage, dabbed across the awful, ravaged face of decadence. As Bracewell himself would acknowledge, the 1970s didn't get under way culturally until at least 1974, and then it was only to set up the anti-style theses of On the Buses and butterfly collars and David Essex, ready to be annihilated by the postmodern Antichrists of the King's Road. When we consider the 1980s, we find that although the decade commenced with the ceremonial Banging of the Royal Brood Mare, and exploding of Molotov cocktails on the streets of Brixton, the true cultural markers of the era - big hair, big money, matt black - belong to its latter half.
But as Bracewell amply demonstrates, both in the form of this book and its content, the 1990s were the decade where recency itself became a slippery commodity. (On the overheating of a fervid stock exchange, in the middle years of the decade, it should have been possible to buy options on the present.) He prefaces The Nineties with a quote from an academic called Greg Dening: "Try writing what you have written in the past tense in the present tense and you will see what I mean." Then he goes on, deadpan, to present us with a compendious selection of his cultural journalism from the period (what the late, great Elizabeth Young termed "ingenious bubble wrap"), gussied up by the device of interposing a series of reflective scenes, set in 1988 in an ultra-hip penthouse, tenanted by a couple of "culture-vulturing City Slickers", whose anticipatory take on the coming age becomes the focus for the author's own more discursive musings.
It's a dangerous tactic, one that gives us a decade defined not from the perspective of rigid chronology - whether public or private - but in terms of a series of passing preoccupations. One has a sense, reading The Nineties, of Bracewell as a kind of Middle-aged Mariner, at the helm of a ghost ship bumping its way between chilly floes of cultural cool: Oops! There's Nan Goldin . . . and over there it's Tracey Emin . . . Whoa! Watch out for that Alexander McQueen . . . and try to avoid the serrated cliffs of Leigh Bowery looming in the near distance. It's no wonder, given the ruckled, maritime topography of this text, that Bracewell favours tropes of the form "this was the point where Naturalism met Marketing - on an island off the coast of Camp". And then reprises them: "If he [Alexander McQueen] were an island, he'd be off the coast of George Michael owned by Sony."
The discrete cultural bergs each have their own, abrasive contemporaneity, and they all rub up against each other. This produces uneasy shifts in tense which at first seem to be the result of sloppy editing, until, that is, you begin to get the hang of Bracewell's shtick: it is exactly this sense of Ballardian time-slip, of a culture lost in a hopeless fugue, that will come to be seen as the defining characteristic of the 1990s. It is an arresting idea, one that he glosses in the section entitled "Retro: running out of past", but whether or not it can really justify long critical essays on subjects as diverse as Bridget Riley, Duran Duran, Hanson (remember them?!), Michael Caine, Ulrika Jonsson, Malcolm McDowell, the Carpenters and Yoko Ono, I have my doubts. I mean to say, actors? There are limits to the validity of any cultural discourse, and these pieces are wilful transgressions. (Unless it can be argued that, in a further permutation of be-here-nowness, Caine et al are so well known that they are, in fact, actors playing actors.)
But these jostling platelets extending to the event horizon do at least short-circuit that tedious old question: Yes, but will it last? In a decade where, to quote Bracewell, "the slipstream of the zeitgeist was pretty much dominated by a steady cross-cultural cloning of the two principal Attitudes: Irony and Authenticity, conflating mid-decade to breed the cult of Confession and the mediation of the formerly private and personal as mass public spectacle", posterity itself can be exposed as a drug-induced delusion ("I've just been to a high cultural rave, man, we all got fried on posterity . . ." and so on). All things being equal, it makes as much sense to write about Yazz (remember her?) as Yahweh (aka the Ancient of Days). While the indisputable facts about the decade - such as the personal autogeddon of Diana Spencer - become, on closer examination, merely aspects of the "necrothon" that her death provoked: a 24/7 celebration of sexuality and death enjoyed by young and old and infants alike, all of them clad by Gap.
None of this do I disagree with, and although he downplays it, Bracewell does "get" the - to my mind - essential character of a decade that revelled in imposture; namely, that the 1990s existed in dyadic relationships with two other decades, the 1980s - for which they were a rerun with knobs on, sort of: "1980s (R)" - and the 1890s. Bracewell writes perceptively and wittily on Wilde: "If you think about it, a Wildean maxim such as 'Cultivated leisure is the aim of man' . . . would be the perfect slogan for Saab, Ford, or Hilton", but he does not press home his advantages as a writer, his extreme cleverness, his encyclopaedic knowledge. There was a thesis on decadence pure and simple to be developed in The Nineties, but Bracewell, I feel, has suckled too long at the tricksy teats of postmodernism, slurping down the infantilising formula of relativism, to be the one to write it.
Questions about the nature of kidult culture and the pre-teen focus of the contemporary pop charts bother him, but he dare not go beyond the signs themselves to see what they signify, namely a real decline in the birth rate, and a genuine shift in the demography of western society (complete with attendant cultural changes). In my view, this is why the 1990s will come to be seen as the Gotterdammerung of periodicity itself. With the current of cultural transmission reversed - "Hey, son, why not listen to a few of these Bob Dylan albums? They'll blow your mind." "Gee, thanks, Daddio!" - never again will the brute fact of what year it is matter so much in cultural terms.


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MOOCs in session: Chris Cramer, professor of chemistry and faculty liaison for eLearning, appeared on MPR's The Daily Circuit, on June 7, and discussed massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Cramer is teaching one of the U's first MOOCs offered through Coursera: Statistical Molecular Thermodynamics. More than 64,000 people have enrolled in the five U of M courses.


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"You're going to see this interesting pattern emerge in other large states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Texas where the interests of the incumbents are going to start clashing with the party because the party can't spread around enough Republicans to protect their incumbents," McDonald said.
"Republicans will be more protecting what they have as much as they possibly can, rather than trying to expand their majorities in Congress through redistricting in some of these states," he added.
Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, is another notable congressman who could soon face this challenge. A new district will have to be formed from parts of the area he represents, which could make the next election more competitive for the veteran congressman.
Democrats who are most vulnerable are those in whose states Republicans control the state legislature, such as in Texas, and those who represent districts in the center of their states where they've seen significant population changes.
"If you currently represent a voting rights district or you're in a district that's on the corner of the state, you're probably OK," McDonald said. "If you're in the middle of the state, and you don't represent a minority district, you're very vulnerable because even if your states win or lose congressional districts, there could be internal changes within the population of the state that are going to ripple across the state."
Observers are closely eyeing California, where a ballot initiative in 2008 created the 14-member California Citizens Redistricting Commission that would be responsible for drawing up state legislative district lines, instead of the legislature itself.
In Florida, voters passed a constitutional amendment that keeps the power to draw district lines in the hands of the legislature but sets a specific criteria that says boundaries that are drawn cannot favor any political candidate or party.
Arizona also has an independent five-member redistricting commission but that hasn't been without its controversy either.
Experts say partisan wrangling will likely be worse this year compared to the past, given the political climate and what's at stake for the parties for the next decade.
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for all you baseball fans Arthur Blank may buy the Atlanta Braves.I won't believe it till I see it but if true then a miracle has happened.AOL?TW has kept the braves payroll around 80 million a year which isn't bad,enough to keep the Braves competitive but no where near the teams like the Red Sox,Yankees and now the Mets who have there own TV network. I love baseball as much as football so this is good news if it happens.
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Just from a financial standpoint, Blank would be apt to delay his purchase of anything major until the salary cap thing gets solved in the NFL. Gene Upshaw has stated on numerous occasions that if the NFL loses its cap, it won't ever go back. So, the NFL might become a lot like baseball within 2 years, and then I'm sure in order to keep the Falcons competitive, Blank is going to have to concentrate all his funds on the Falcons.
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