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So we are able to setup framelock using the GUI just fine. Everything syncs up as it should and all is good. However we are trying to set it up via the command line so that we can have system configure itself automatically once it all comes up. This fails miserably. If I run the command nvidia-settings -q myserver:0/FrameLockMasterable where myserver is the hostname of my server machine, it returns absolutely nothing. Not true not false, just nothing. What is supposed to be shown here, both if it fails and if it succeeds? I would expect something.
Then when I do nvidia-settings -a myserver:0/FrameLockMaster=0x00000001 to setup CRT-0 as the master, it returns a glibc error. All the previous steps to getting to this point succeed no problem. I can query all of the slave machines and disable framelock on them and everything. It is just setting up the master. And if I go into the gui and assign the master, then I can successfully use the command line to add all the slaves. Is it possible that there is a bug in the driver command that is failing?
I am going to do some more testing and have a whole bunch more information tomorrow when I gain access to the system again.
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By Gerry J. GilmoreAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15, 2004 Billions of dollars worth of new, hard-to- counterfeit Iraqi dinar bank notes are now officially in circulation throughout the country, the Coalition Provisional Authority reported today.
The new money became the official currency of Iraq Jan. 15 after a three-month exchange period that also has involved the destruction of tons of Saddam Hussein-era notes, according to a joint CPA-Central Bank of Iraq news release.
"The new dinar is a real improvement over the old," Ahmed Salman Jaburi, deputy governor of Iraq's Central Bank, asserted in the news release.
Because the new money has security features that make it hard to counterfeit, it has the Iraqi public's confidence, he said. The new money "will provide a firm foundation" for Iraq's economic future, Juburi noted in the release.
The updated currency, the release said, jettisons the image of deposed dictator Saddam Hussein in favor of depictions of important Iraqi scientific contributions, Iraqi history, landscapes and economic life.
Jaburi praised the combined efforts of Central Bank managers and staff, coalition planners, economists, and Iraqi and coalition security forces in designing, printing and distributing the new money.
Shipments of the new Iraqi currency began arriving in Baghdad Sept. 17, and exchange of the new currency for old began Oct. 15. The value of Iraq's money, the release noted, has gone up by 25 percent since then.
A fleet of small aircraft delivered the new money to regional banking centers, and Iraqi armored vans and large trucks effected delivery of the cash to outlying bank branches.
Despite a number of insurgent attacks on convoys delivering new currency and picking up old notes, no money was lost, according to the news release.
Thousands of Iraqi tellers at 250 bank branches across Iraq worked overtime to make the currency exchange happen, the release said.
Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III, the Coalition Provisional Authority's administrator, said the currency exchange marks an important step in Iraq's post-Saddam reconstruction effort.
"Rebuilding Iraq's ruined economy is a key priority for the coalition a new currency to replace the discredited old one was a necessary early move," Bremer noted in the release.
"With the new dinar now wholly in place, a line has been drawn under Iraq's recent economic past, and the focus shifted to its economic future," Bremer concluded.
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Update: Arch. of DC decries "Catholics for Equality", says "not a Catholic organization"By
Catholics For Equality – an organization I sounded the alarm about about last week – is hosting an event at Georgetown University tonight (which I will be attending).
The Archdiocese of Washington has today responded to a false claim circulated by the Rainbow Sash Movement that this event is happening with the permission of the Archdiocese:
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington has reaffirmed the illegitimate status of Catholics for Equality, a budding homosexualist "Catholic" group that is scheduled to host a student event at Georgetown University on Wednesday evening.
The archdiocesan statement followed a statement from the Rainbow Sash Movement (RSM), another "Catholic" homosexualist group, which had claimed in a press release that D.C. Cardinal Donald Wuerl had explicitly allowed Catholics for Equality to appear at Georgetown.
"The Rainbow Sash Movement wishes to congratulate Cardinal Wuerl of the Archidocese of Washington for siding with common sense and reason" by condoning the event, stated the Rainbow Sash press release, entitled "Gay Catholics welcome Cardinal's (sic) Wuerl's Change of Heart on Gay Rights."
Susan Gibbs, communications director for the Archdiocese of Washington, called the Rainbow Sash press release a "nice piece of fiction" and asserted that Catholics for Equality was not a legitimate Catholic organization.
"Putting the label 'Catholic' on a group doesn't make it Catholic," Gibbs told LifeSiteNews.com. "It's not a Catholic organization. It was formed in opposition to Catholic teaching." [LifeSiteNews]
I am very pleased to see that the Archdiocese is taking steps to ensure that Catholics are not confused and further misled by the efforts of Catholics for Equality and the Rainbow Sash Movement.
Time permitting I will be posting updates from the debate tonight on my Twitter account. Those who wish to watch the debate after it has concluded may (hold their nose) and do so at the Catholics for Equality website.
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And yet the archdiocese rolled over and no longer gives spousal benefits for new employees so they don't violate the district's new law that demands benefits for homosexual couples. They could have put up a legal fight – it would have been the perfect opportunity to have such laws declared unconstitutional because they lack a religious exemption. Instead they did nothing, and treat the marriages of new employees as equal to homosexual unions.
It's a travesty this man was made a cardinal after capitulating to the beginning persecution. The Holy Spirit has His work cut out for Him if this man is expected to be capable of voting for a new pope someday.
I think we all ought to
1. Stop throwing stones
2. Acting like 7th graders
3. Read the Catechism, which preaches love in the face of homosexuality. Love, prayer, and gentle encouragement.
All this article does is further estrange the church from groups seeking reform, rather than build bridges with intercessory prayer and gentle love.
Look at us all, don't we just know what's best. Read the haughty way in which this article is written (rather, the haughty way ALL of this author's posts are), and reflect on these things silently in prayer and meditation before hitting "post".
Lord, pity us, that we may come to you as children with love and seeking wisdom.
Well God gave the author of this blog a brain and common sense to use. ZeroProfit, a group seeking reform that goes against Church teaching? Prayer and gentle love only go so far, then you have to get off your knees and use the gifts God gave you to fight the good fight. When people lie, you correct them. I don't think Mr. Peters did this in a haughty way, he simply stated the facts. Truth is hard sometimes, and it definatly hurts. That's what makes us grow. I would think that you would agree that the Rainbow sash movement shouldn't lie and if they do, they should be corrected.
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Derrick Brown notched his fourth-career double-double on Monday.
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CINCINNATI - The Musketeers scored the game's first 14 points and senior Bob Cousy Award nominee Drew Lavender scored a team-high 21 as the Xavier University men's basketball team defeated Kansas State by a 103-77 score on Monday evening at U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati. With the win, XU concludes 2007 with a 10-3 mark while the Wildcats slip to 9-4.
Xavier scored 100 or more points for the first time since December 8, 2001 when the Musketeers hung 108 on Long Island at Cintas Center.
XU spread out the scoring considerably as Lavender led seven Musketeers in double-figures, marking the first time on record Xavier has had seven players score in double-digits.
Lavender's 21 came on a scorching 8-of-12 from the floor, including a 2-for-3 effort from beyond the 3-point arc. Lavender also dished-out four assists and committed only one turnover in 29 minutes of action.
Sophomore forward Derrick Brown recorded his fourth-career double-double with a 14-point, 12-rebound effort. He was 6-for-8 from the floor and made both his free throws.
The win marked the Musketeers' seventh-straight at U.S. Bank Arena and the dynamic senior duo of Stanley Burrell and Josh Duncan improve to 8-1 all-time in the downtown facility.
U.S. Bank Arena was the site of the 2006 Atlantic 10 Championship, which saw XU take home the championship hardware with four wins in four days. XU also downed Illinois and Kansas State in U.S. Bank Arena during the 2006-07 season.
Burrell scored 12 points and dropped a career-high eight dimes vs. the Wildcats. His eight assists came against only one turnover. Duncan broke out of a mini-slump to score 13 points in 11 foul-plagued minutes. Duncan was 4-for-7 from the floor and 3-of-5 from deep.
Junior forward C.J. Anderson scored 14 points, grabbed four rebounds and recorded a pair of thefts. Sophomore center Jason Love recorded a career scoring high for the third consecutive game as he scored 11 points on 4-of-8 shooting and corralled seven rebounds.
Junior B.J. Raymond was the seventh, yes, seventh Musketeer in double-figures with 11 points, which included a perfect 6-for-6 evening at the free throw line.
XU's 14-0 spurt to open the contest was capped by a Duncan 3-pointer at the 16:10 mark and saw four different Musketeers hit a field goal.
Xavier held Kansas State scoreless for the first 15:41 of the contest and the Wildcats had only seven points on their side of the scoreboard with 6:21 remaining in the first half.
Xavier would extend its lead to as many as 23 points after B.J. Raymond converted on a driving lay-up at the 6:50 mark. However, KSU would whittle the XU advantage down to 14 points, 37-23, after Jacob Pullen made a couple of free throws at the 1:50 mark.
Lavender answered though and effectively put the game away by scoring seven-consecutive Xavier points, including a floater as the first half expired, to give XU a commanding 44-25 lead at the break.
XU shot a blistering 53.3 percent (32-of-60) from the field and scorched the nets at a 52.9 percent clip (9-of-17) from deep. XU also took care of business from the charity stripe, hitting 30 of its 39 free throws.
The Musketeers out-rebounded a rugged KSU frontline by a 38-to-34 margin and out-scored the Wildcats 42-to-26 in the paint.
Freshman star Michael Beasley was held to only five points, marking the first time all season he has failed to score in double-figures. Bill Walker led the way for KSU with 25 points on 9-of-11 shooting.
The Musketeers return to action Thursday, January 4 when the team welcomes Virginia to Cintas Center. Game time is set for 8 p.m. and the contest will be televised nationally on CSTV.


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The OECD estimated that the global trade in counterfeit goods and pirated works was valued at US$200 billion in 2005 growing to an estimated US$250 billion by 2007. Estimates exclude the value of infringing digital works traded as well as domestically created and traded counterfeit goods.
New Zealand is not immune to the problem. Trade mark owners and copyright holders are reporting a growth in the sale of counterfeits here. This is reflected in New Zealand Customs Service statistics showing that more counterfeits are being found at the border.
Impacts of counterfeiting
The sale of counterfeits deprives honest businesses of income, deters investment in quality products and services, and damages the profitability of creative and innovative industries.
There is growing evidence that counterfeits can also pose serious health and safety risks through the use of inferior quality and sometimes poisonous ingredients, materials and manufacturing processes.
What gets counterfeited?
The types of goods commonly targeted by counterfeiters are luxury items, because their retail price often greatly exceeds their costs to manufacture and distribute. Typical counterfeits include fashion clothing, footwear, accessories, perfume, sunglasses, handbags, watches, caps and jewellery.
New technologies have facilitated the copying, distribution and sale of pirated movies, music and software. Many other types of goods are also being counterfeited, such as auto parts, electronics goods, motorcycles, cigarettes, medicines, sporting equipment, toys, drinks and foodstuffs.
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Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong has been disbarred after being found guilty of a battery of ethics violations for his handling of the Duke Lacrosse investigation, a North Carolina Bar disciplinary committee announced Saturday evening.
"We are in unanimous agreement that there is no discipline short of disbarment that would be appropiate in this case," said F. Lane Williamson, the committee's chairman.
Before the panel announced its punishment, Nifong said he believed disbarment would be appropriate and that he planned to waive all rights to appeal the findings of the bar panel, his attorney David Freedman said in court Saturday afternoon.
"He hopes that in light of his accepting his punishment it will restore some of the confidence in the criminal justice system," Freedman said. "You have some semblance of relief when this is all over, regardless of the outcome."
After announcing Nifong's punishment, Williamson excoriated the disgraced prosecutor. He said Nifong was driven to prosecute the Duke Lacrosse case out of "self-interest and self-deception."
"Sometimes character is called upon ... and it is found wanting," Williamson said. "That is what happened to Mr. Nifong."
The bar's three-member disciplinary panel unanimously found Nifong guilty of fraud, dishonesty, deceit or misrepresentation; of making false statements of material fact before a judge; of making false statements of material fact before bar investigators, and of lying about withholding exculpatory DNA evidence, among other violations.
Nifong's punishment could have ranged from a written reprimand to disbarment. He already announced Friday his intention to resign as district attorney.
With the panel's decision, the long saga of what was once known as the Duke Lacrosse rape scandal may be largely over, though a raft of civil lawsuits are expected.
Nifong's conviction was widely anticipated as long-overdue justice for the three players who were indicted in spring 2006 on charges of rape, kidnapping, and sexual offense.
Last April, the three were cleared of all charges and declared innocent by the attorney general of North Carolina.
All three exonerated Duke Lacrosse players -- Reade Seligmann, David Evans and Collin Finnerty -- were in the courtroom Saturday with their families. They listened intently as Nifong was found to have behaved unethically, but showed little emotion.
Later, as Nifong's disbarment was announced, there was an air of relief and satisfaction among the lacrosse players and their families.
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Moving on won't be as easy for Nifong. Attorneys for the exonerated lacrosse players say they have more in store by way of legal action.
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President Obama laid out some strong progressive ideas, but there's lots more work to be done.
Richard Kirsch, Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow:
Two years ago, progressive groups came together to develop the Progressive Economic Narrative. And last night, at the very beginning of his State of the Union address, the president began with our story, ending with our central metaphor:
Our economy is adding jobs, but too many people still can't find full-time employment. Corporate profits have skyrocketed to all-time highs, but for more than a decade, wages and incomes have barely budged. It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth: a rising, thriving middle class.
Then he said the way we build that middle-class economic engine is by following the same path we laid out: government investment in research, infrastructure, energy and education. And he added at least some substance on good jobs, with his minimum wage proposal. This is a battle of ideas and policies we should welcome.
Dante Barry, Chapter Services Coordinator & Summer Academy Fellowship Coordinator at the Campus Network:
Last night, the president announced a new Presidential Voting Commission, an ambiguous and amorphous idea to address the "voter experience" on Election Day, chaired by lawyers from the Obama and Romney campaigns. I am pleased that he decided to tackle this problem, yet I am also disheartened to see the efforts to take bold action on voting reform do not include a large amount of input from the communities represented, suppressed, and deterred. This commission should provide forward-thinking recommendations and take bold action to support our most sacred right for any American: one voice, one vote. We have a responsibility to provide access and opportunity for every American to vote in a way that reflects this country's progress and values with 21st century innovation and technology.
Thomas Ferguson, Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow and Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts:
What you think of the president's speech depends on what you think the real state of our union is. I think that we are five years into an economic crisis that is barely improving thanks to a huge deficiency in aggregate demand for goods and services. All over the globe, that crisis is toppling governments, fanning competitive depreciations, and, if you look closely, stimulating arms races, especially in Northeast Asia, where governments are pushing back more vigorously against the economic crisis than in our own country. Against this standard, the president's proposals look pretty weak. Spending $50 or even $100 billion on infrastructure is a drop in the bucket. Raising the minimum wage is an excellent idea, but it won't solve the aggregate demand problem. We'll just have to see about climate change, but acknowledging the problem is just a first baby step. And the problem of medical costs is fundamentally a problem of monopolistic practices and limited information. If you don't name that situation and deal with it, you have no real hope of delivering better care at lower cost. The president didn't. To all of this, of course, there is a ready answer: If you don't like these proposals, wait till you see those of the Republicans. And, this, alas, is equally true. Except when it comes to drones and killing Americans without due process.
Bryce Covert, Editor of Next New Deal:
Women were decisive in helping elect President Obama to a second term, and last night he began to start thanking them for their support. Perhaps the most important policy he proposed was his call for universal preschool, an enormous yet desperately needed program that would not only help children, but also help their working parents -- and let's be real, mothers still do the majority of work in caring for children -- go to their jobs knowing their children are taken care of. But he also put forward some other key policies that, if they were to be passed, would mean a lot to the country's women workers. He called for a raise in the minimum wage to $9 an hour and to have it indexed to inflation so that it doesn't continue to stagnate as it has for the past three years. Women absolutely need a raise in the minimum wage. They make up two-thirds of the workers who make such low pay. He unfortunately didn't call for a raise in the tipped minimum wage, which has been stuck at $2.13 for 20 years and would give a huge boost to the 64 percent of waiters who are women. But he did take aim at another problem affecting women's pay: salary secrecy. He called for the passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would build on the Lilly Ledbetter Act to get rid of the ban at half of all companies on discussing salary. Women first have to know what their coworkers are making before they can root out discrimination. All three of these policies would actually be huge steps forward in combatting the gender wage gap, as balancing children and work, making the minimum wage, and being forced into secrecy about paychecks are big factors.
Jordan Fraade, D.C. Pipeline member:
In terms of its delivery, the State of the Union felt like a victory lap: President Obama seems more confident and confrontational, a little bit feisty, and vindicated by the election. But despite this tone, the speech's policy proposals seemed to focus on incremental change with a few major exceptions (universal Pre-K is a pretty big deal). The president kept coming back to the idea of making government "smarter," not larger or smaller. His proposal for a "Fix-It-First" program for infrastructure is typical of this approach to policy, and in this case, it's a good move. Putting people to work doing things like rebuilding deficient infrastructure and revitalizing abandoned urban neighborhoods is a far smarter way to plan for the future than building new highways to the suburbs and encouraging sprawl, which has been standard U.S. policy for over 60 years. However, along with his comments on mortgage relief and homeownership, I would have liked to see President Obama propose something to help renters as well, who are disproportionately urban, minority, and young and end up subsidizing homeowners through the tax code. Millennials, who graduated into a bad economy and a bottomed-out housing market, have largely had no choice but to pay the rent that's asked of them, since tight credit and low salaries have made buying a home nearly impossible. The president, whose administration is filled with smart growth advocates, likely knows all of this already. His Millennial supporters would surely appreciate it if he acted on it during the next four years.
Mike Malloy, Campus Network member and student at Michigan State University:
In recent years, two Republican strategies to weaken the Democratic voting base have emerged at the state level: voter restriction and attacks on labor. Unfortunately—and unsurprisingly—President Obama neglected both in his speech last night. The president's eagerness to see bipartisan cooperation is commendable. But failing to expose partisan games undermines his bipartisan vision, enables the misleading of the public, and hurts targeted groups.
The president spoke about "improving the voting experience," addressing logistical issues that caused long waits in November. Why not address attempts to supress voters by requiring special identification and limiting early voting, both intended to obstruct Democratic voters? The president could still champion convenient voting efforts and—in a perfect world—even call for both parties to end gerrymandering.
Likewise, despite emphasizing manufacturing and proposing a new minimum wage, the president did not mention organized labor, including the right-to-work laws and collective bargaining restrictions Republican state legislatures have passed to weaken unions' political influence. Acknowledging the problematic worker pension and benefit costs state and local governments face, President Obama might have called for a renegotiation of contracts while reaffirming the rights of workers, acknowledging the views of both parties. Instead, the president's silence continued a trend of staying quiet on labor issues. This likely stems from the unpopularity of unions, but it also reinforces that negative view.
The president's pursuit of bipartisanship cooperation is truly admirable. But in order to achieve it, he should call attention to egregious acts of partisan gamesmanship in addition to finding common goals.
Tim Price, Deputy Editor of Next New Deal
There were a lot of takeaways from last night's State of the Union, but the most striking to me is that after the last four years, President Obama still has the ability to surprise us. After what many viewed as an uncharacteristically progressive inauguration speech, there was potential for the president to retreat into his reflexively centrist comfort zone -- and there were hints of that, like his insistence that nothing he wants to do should add to the deficit, or the questionable decision to lead off the night by talking about entitlement reform. But for the most part, he exceeded expectations and behaved like post-2012 Obama, who seems much more comfortable pushing the boundaries of the debate now that he knows he won't be running for anything again. Who expected him to even mention the minimum wage or universal pre-K, let alone highlight them as major policy proposals, before the prepared text began to leak last night? We still have a long way to go before the solutions on the table measure up to the challenges we face, but at least we're having the conversation.
Where Obama defied expectations, Republicans met them, to their detriment and ours. Whether the topic was jobs, immigration, voting rights, or protecting women from violence, John Boehner kept his hands at his sides and grimaced as if he were sitting on a tack -- except that would at least have motivated him to stand up. In his response, Republican rising star Marco Rubio rehashed every tired anti-government argument you've heard a thousand times before and offered bold ideas like... tax cuts. It's obvious that they have nothing new to offer and are hoping mindless obstruction will be a winning strategy like it was in 2010. But that was a different time and a different economy, and the president's message to them last night was clear and forceful: we're all tired of your shtick. What else have you got?
Tarsi Dunlop, D.C. Pipeline leader:
President Barack Obama highlighted the importance of investment last night: in America, in the middle class, and in future generations. He also talked about the return on investment, which is particularly pertinent when it comes to expanding access to early childhood education. Access to high-quality Pre-K education is one of the most effective ways to ensure that all children are prepared for academic success in K-12 and then ultimately for college and careers. If children are not reading at grade level by third grade, they are at a higher risk of falling behind and dropping out by the time they reach high school. Early childhood education offers early exposure to vocabulary, numbers, and helps children learn how to socialize with others. An additional benefit for families is that access to Pre-K education allows both parents to earn an income while offering children a safe and engaging learning environment. Outside high-quality daycare is expensive, and many parents don't have several hundred dollars a week to pay for it, something that the president noted last night. While expanding early childhood education is not cheap, there is a significant lifelong return on investment over the course of a lifetime, as the president pointed out: boosting graduation rates, reducing teen pregnancy and violent crime, increasing the likelihood of students holding a job, and having more stable families of their own. Ideally, as this proposal gains traction, the president's definition of "working with states" should not involve competitive grant funding. This implementation method puts resource-strapped districts and states at a disadvantage in applying for funding and creates winners and losers. Best practices already exist for statewide programs, with effective public-private partnerships, that can and should be replicated. In the spirit of progressive values and ideals, dollars and investment should reflect an equal and fair commitment to each child, regardless of external circumstances.
Michelle Tham, Campus Network member and student at American University:
Obama's speech mentioned the success in natural gas and how further investments must be funneled into the renewable energy sector. However, by not mentioning intellectual property rights, Obama misses the target of the conversation on renewable energy. Alternative energy resources is one topic that all countries are willing to share information on, except the United States. Foreign firms from Europe invest in China and India because their IPR (intellectual property rights) are less stringent, which allows the flow of information and design to flourish. China is the leading producer in solar panels because its designs are more affordable than American-based solar panels. Wind technology is China's third largest energy source domestically -- after coal and natural gas. Therefore, in order to increase innovative ideas, Obama needs more open trade policies with different countries and needs to encourage cooperation, not only in diplomatic relations, but in commercial relations as well. Technology transfers are occurring in commercial levels and the government's role is to facilitate such transaction.
Naomi Ahsan, D.C. Pipeline leader:
In his inaugural address, the president broke with the rhetoric of politics as usual to lay out his philosophy for good government in a very genuine manner. He used this new voice again in his State of the Union address and listed several legislative priorities within the overarching objectives of addressing poverty and gender justice. The first was raising the federal minimum wage. His description of how a family fully employed with honest work at the minimum wage can still be living in poverty captures the rationale for supporting welfare programs. The president also noted that persistent poverty has emerged as a geographically-defined phenomenon within the U.S. and called for direct community development efforts as well as making high-quality preschool available to every child. This would help break the cycle of poverty, particularly in distressed neighborhoods. Children from low-income families are already less likely to graduate high school and they start kindergarten demonstrably behind better-off peers on developmental milestones leading up to literacy. Making quality preschool universal would show that we have learned from seeing programs like Head Start and Jumpstart dramatically improve underprivileged children's educational prospects by providing extra support at the pre-kindergarten level. It is also important to recognize the connection between gender inequality and poverty: women account for about 62 percent of those earning the minimum wage and often are taking financial responsibility for leading families. Fair pay for these women workers contributes to the health and opportunity of children and families as a whole. I was impressed that the President was offering informed and thoughtful solutions for the growing issue of poverty, which has great potential for benefiting the economy and is deserving of the national attention that too often goes to deficit reduction.
Florence Otaigbe, Campus Network member and student at Michigan State University:
As a staunch supporter of President Barack Obama, my first reaction was that I couldn't agree more with his introductory remarks on how America is now stronger than ever before. There is no disagreement when it comes to the matter of progress. The disagreement comes in trying to push progress further. During his address, the president laid out various proposals for his next term. Ranging from education to gun control, the president hit the nail on the head. Yet in spite of these great ideas, it's up to Congress and the people for any change to occur. That's where my reaction turns less optimistic. I truly believe that there is a great divide in Washington D.C. that is starting to reach the point of no return. Both sides are polarized like never before, and it's really hard to reach a consensus on anything. I just don't see how the country can advance when there is so much tension among the people who enable that advancement. There's much more room for change in America, but most of that rests with most of our leaders in D.C. Without their cohesion, it's likely that America will remain stagnant, and that is not what we want for our country.


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I wonder how much drugs that car will buy?
It doesn't mtter if it is the state or Trenton filling ou the paperwork NJ never gets the federal grants.
It shows how bad the education system is that we can't get competent and literate people.
Realistically who in their right mind would give money to Trenton with Tony Mack running the show. Somehow he would probably try to use it to help ot some of his so called "supporters", cronies, or relatives. Might even get some kicked back to himself.
Whatever business that is left in the area has gone across the road. They will be fighting an uphill battle. It's dig in and battle or continue to go downhill so looks good for area shoppers.
After watching all the cronism and incompetent appointments and disregard for the bylaws of the city all I can add is "WHAT TOLD YOU SO LONG"! Send that unqualified crooked homeboy packing. Do it NOW!
yo crayoff! For years the dems nominated people for prez without broad enough appeal who couldn't win and now it looks like the gop is in that boat. Gov fatboy just isn't ready yet to move his school age kids to DC. All the gop candidates are sound bite machines pandering to their bases with no sense of reason. Obama can't get anything done with a gop house and let Nancy carry the ball down the toilet with misplaced initiatives the first 2 years. He didn't tackle the economy hard enough when he had the majority. Nancy never met a republican whose opinion she wanted when she ran the house. She just counted up her votes to get things to pass. Really, it doesn't matter who gets elected because Congress is only interested in getting special iterest money to run expensive re-election campaigns and they al pander to their base to get thru the primaries. The only elected body that passes less meaningful legislation is the NJ legislation who is more interested in Megan's Law and anti-bullying then tackling the real issues. Been that way for at least 20 years now.
The spending problem in NJ is mostly two fold. The cities require ay too much maintenance. The per capita number of police even after the cuts is still double the national average. The rich didn't tell the under educated single mothers to continually have more kids they couldn't afford to support nor are qualified to parent except biologically. We have been throwing billions of dollars at the Abbott school districts and parents who can't read nor write and don't care aren't going to raise Rhodes scholars. The Asian immigrants care more about education as a community than do the urban minorities sucking on the system for decades. That has already been proven but the liberal NJ courts keep requiring money to be thrown at them. Second the legislature has created a pension and health care system for municipal and state workers we could never afford but they all figured that the bills would come due after they were out of office. While in office they just pander and get the workers votes. The workers put their heads in the sand and refuse to see that the private sector has had a benefit and pension erosion over the past 20 years and they don't want to participate. Our legislators are more worried about passing bullying laws, Megan's Law, and other social issues because we just don't have the dollars to support the cities and their never ending needs. This state is bankrupt but not even governor fatboy has the balls to file the paperwork.
San Jose has 1134 officers for a million people.
Oakland has 720 offiers for 390,000 people.
Trenton still has over 200 for just 85,000 in a small geographic area.
Now read the story about test scores dropping.
The answer is simple but the solution complex.
Urban cities with few tax dollars need more cops because the cities are full of under educated people who keep having kids they can't afford to support and are not qualified to parent other than biologically. The cities are infested with gangs and drugs.
New Jersey is a great example of the suburbanites being continually asked to come up with money to support the cities for education and other services. I don't like governor fatboy but at least he is trying to draw a line in the sand to make everyone self sufficient. There is a difference between shared sacrifice and sucking the life and blood out of hard working people.
NJSP are there to protect the legislators, gov. fatboy, and the judicial system. TPD just drinks coffee with Hamilton cops. Sorry but it is racial. Most of these gangbangers have no value for life because theirs have been so bleak ever since they were conceived by too young mothers out of wedlock not equipped to support them or raise them properly. Only if all the males are either dead or in jail will the problem cease because there will be no males to procreate. It is a SAD state of affairs in our urban areas.
Most of the guns used are illegals transported north up I-95 from the easy states from Georgia to Virginia. Can't see where legal guns will help. Are law abiding citizens going to carry and shoot it out with the gangbangers?
not only can't people afford an NJ attorney they can't afford to make the house payment and pay rent. Divorce NJ style is one sleeps in the bedroom and the other sleeps on the sofa in the basement.
Drug deal on East State Street? Everyone knows where the drugs are sold except the cops who probably know but just don't care.
No what Mack needs is in butt out of office and put into jail for corruption. He is al about taking care of his friends and self at city expense any way he can do it. The list of crooked and unqualified appointments since he took office is disgraceful. Yet, the black community still suports him because he is a homeboy and one of them. They get what they deserve. Too bad everyone else who ventures into Trenton has to pay the price as well.
What a joke this so called conference has become. They previously kicked out Temple. Villanova can't support a D-1 program. Navy, Air Force, Army???? Trying to turn back the clock 30 or 40 years when they were national powers. They should add N. Carolina Central, Catawba, and Fla A & M so Rutgers will have someone they can beat consistently. Forget about an automatic BCS bid. This conference is toast. Sciano should have left when he was hot. The conference and Rutgers are getting to the same level, both 3rd rate.
an entire website is needed to report and keep track of Trenton's violent crime.
There is just about no regard for human life or law and order in Trenton. All you have to do is read the crime report daily. You would think that there are 800,000 people there by the number of violent crimes, not 80,000. By comparison to other cities there are still too many police. If they had added 108 instead of cutting it wouldn't be enough for the bunch of scum living there.
ffmpm - you are sooooo right. It' the trash in Trenton cleaning up the other trash. It will just happen more quickly with less police.
It's the wild west. No! It's Trenton, NJ!
Yo ah56. I agree a little sensationalized but not as much as the city rag, the Trentonian. The big increase in violence hasn't started yet but will come. Face the facts that Trenton is a slime infested pit of illegal drugs, illegal immigrants, gangs, under educated blacks with single mothers and almost no good male role models. Same as Camden but not as hispanic. Samller version of Newark.. That's New Jersey, the suburban haves and the city slums with havenots.
Shouldn't have done something to bring the FBI into the case. Stay local in Mercer County and much less likely to get caught. In trentn they hardly ever caught anyone before they laid off those police officers today.


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Posted by Anonymous on 02/01/2012
Went for Restaurant Week for the 3-course lunch, which will now be every week. The mesclun salad was wonderful and the port chop looked delicious as seen at the next table. If you want exceptional steak, exceptional service, in a very nice atmosphere, then do patronage the Post House. I was glad I did.
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The lobster ravioli was delicious! My friends really enjoyed their steaks and I loved the atmosphere it was classy.
Posted by Anonymous on 01/28/2011
I find myself often dissapointed with some restaurants over restaurant week in terms of service and dishes offered on the special menu, but Post house didn't dissapoint! The service was good (albeit a bit slow but attentive none the less). The choices off the special menu were plentiful in comparison to many other restaurants as well and everyone in our party enjoyed their dish. The berry crumble dessert definitely made my day! I would absolutely return.
Posted by marzi on 01/26/2010
Three of us went to lunch and we were amazed at how great the food was. I had pumpkin bisque that had just a hint of spice and was velvety. We all had the rack of lamb - a big portion, 7 chops each and they were perfectly cooked and were delicious. Then dessert - I had the apple crisp - best one I've ever had.
Posted by t-bone on 06/08/2009
Had dinner at the Post House last night, and received a truly classic meal. Was tired of over-seasoned beef at Del Frisco, horrible service and wannabe aged beef at Wolfgang's, and couldn't trek out to Lugers. Was just seeking a "classic steakhouse meal" in Manhattan, and the Post House delivered!! Steaks were all perfectly cooked, nice and rare prime cuts as ordered, and classic sides!! Hash browns and creamed spinach were a perfect compliment, and the overall experience was what one should expect!
Posted by Bonnie on 12/20/2008
The portion of porterhouse for 2 was big enough for 4 people and wasn't that tasty. The size was a turn off. The noise was almost deafening and the atmosphere was as a usual steak house. Lights too bright.
Posted by Silver Spoons! on 12/13/2007
this review is too all the people who have reviewed the post house to be a bad place to eat. Its not my fault is rich people are never satisfied with anything. My experience at the post house was great. The steak watered in my mouth, the lobster was delightful and i never went a brief moment without being asked if everything was alright. All you park avenue people can really just stay home, but then again nothing is satisfying to you people.


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Emissions of trace gases and aerosols during the open combustion of biomass in the laboratory
McMeeking, Gavin R.; Kreidenweis, Sonia M.; Baker, Stephen; Carrico, Christian M.; Chow, Judith C.; Collett, Jeffrey L., Jr.; Hao, Wei Min; Holden, Amanda S.; Kirchstetter, Thomas W.; Malm, William C.; Moosmuller, Hans; Sullivan, Amy P.; Wold, Cyle E. 2009. Emissions of trace gases and aerosols during the open combustion of biomass in the laboratory. Journal of Geophysical Research. 114: doi: 10.1029/2009JDO11836.
We characterized the gas- and speciated aerosol-phase emissions from the open combustion of 33 different plant species during a series of 255 controlled laboratory burns during the Fire Laboratory at Missoula Experiments (FLAME). The plant species we tested were chosen to improve the existing database for U.S. domestic fuels: laboratory-based emission factors have not previously been reported for many commonly burned species that are frequently consumed by fires near populated regions and protected scenic areas. The plants we tested included the chaparral species chamise, manzanita, and ceanothus, and species common to the southeastern United States (common reed, hickory, kudzu, needlegrass rush, rhododendron, cord grass, sawgrass, titi, and wax myrtle).
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Family and friends participate in a memorial bike ride for Brice Nelson, a Des Moines adventurer and former urban planner for the Iowa Department of Economic Development, on Nov. 9 in Des Moines. Nelson died unexpectedly at the age of 55. / Charlie Litchfield/ Register photos
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Collin Nelson of Missouri was honored to ride this bike his uncle had pedaled across the Midwest, down the Eastern Seaboard to Florida, over to Texas, down through Mexico and to Panama. / Charlie Litchfield/ The Register
Kevin Nelson, brother of Des Moines adventurer and former urban planner Brice Nelson, gets a hug from a friend before the group set out on the memorial bike ride. / Charlie Litchfield/ The Register
Brice Nelson often talked about winning the lottery, leaving his job and bicycling across the hemisphere.
Heard that before?
Brice Nelson did it � all but the lottery part.
�He finally decided that time was going by and he might not have the opportunity to do this trip as a rich man,� said his brother Kevin Nelson. �So he decided to do it as a poor man.�
With age 50 bearing down, Brice Nelson sold everything and took off on his bicycle from Des Moines to live on $3 a day and the kindness of strangers. He did this for several years and it largely worked.
�Find what you love and do it,� he wrote in his trip journal. �For me, collecting smiles, meeting people, hooting and hollering, and riding my bike.�
His relatives are sure he would hoot and holler if he could have seen them last Saturday. They wore blaze orange stocking caps � his signature photograph on Facebook, where followers tracked his whereabouts over the years.
This was his funeral, pedaling bicycles to bars along Des Moines trails.
�We call it his FUN-eral,� said Brice�s sister Kelly Curran.
Some people may not be known to the masses, but they can certainly show a glorious way to live and how to celebrate it upon death.
�Nobody who knows Brice would think this is inappropriate,� said Curran of Chicago.
Brice�s nephew Collin Nelson of Missouri was honored to ride the very Fuji road bike his uncle pedaled across the Midwest, down the Eastern Seaboard to Florida, over to Texas, down through Mexico and to Panama.
He was the fun uncle that Collin and his cousins jumped on at holiday gatherings. He ordered them to call him �Uncle King.� He was the smart one who would send them articles in their areas of academic interest or tell them stories about getting robbed in Guatemala.
But he is also the one that for years watched after his aging parents, Arthur and Lucille, in the Roosevelt neighborhood. His life settled there after a whirlwind post-college adventure to Trinidad, where he had brief runs as a bar owner and husband.
He came home to be an urban planner and legislative liaison for the Iowa Department of Economic Development, as well as a party-time bachelor.
�Every Friday night we�d go to Pal Joeys and he�d have the place roaring. He had a great wit,� said co-worker Dennis Brehm.
When Brice�s mom died in 2003, he called his siblings. It�s your turn, he told them. Look after Dad.
Then he joined the Peace Corps at age 47. But in 2005 in Suriname his car hit a pothole and crashed. Next thing, he was back in Des Moines in a coma.
He awoke to even fiercer dreams and soon spirited out on his bicycle, pulling a trailer filled with a tent and clothes.
He planned on a great time and to perhaps witness road rage, anger, maybe even thuggery.
Instead, he was �overwhelmed by human kindness,� he told an Alabama radio station during an interview.
Living on $3 a day forced him to be humble and to make connections with strangers. As a result, he said, �I�ve met thousands of people and two stinkers.�
People bought him meals, let him pitch tents on their property and bought him drinks. They told him that his quest made them happy.
Once, he was thrown in jail for drinking beer on a South Carolina beach, yet he still wrote a glowing report in his journal.
�Everyone was nice and they gave me extra blankets and a Salisbury steak T.V. dinner for supper. It was a pleasant experience even though $161 amounts to 53 days of my budget.�
�He never had a bad word about anybody,� said his brother Brock from Portland, Ore. �He saw no color or social class.�
He would join shrimpers and work with them for a bit. He would chat up the homeless and regale big shots with stories. He�d often check in with the cops to ask a good place to camp, or strangers would offer him one.
�In going through his stuff,� Curran said, �I found a card: �This person has a right to sleep on my property.� �
The funeral ride continued on Saturday to Confluence, a brewery off the bike trail, and after a pint Curran tossed his ashes, showering those standing downwind. It reminded some of a scene from the movie �The Big Lebowski.�
�The dude abides,� said brother Brock Nelson.
Thinking of their big, friendly brother as a dude who lived it up right, they rode toward El Bait Shop, another bar.
The group of a couple dozen came from all over the country, even nieces and nephews who thought of him as �the man of mystery.�
Brice had taken up in Panama by December 2009, when he got the call about his dying father, and within 24 hours rushed home and ended his adventure.
But within a year he had another plan. He would take the one thing he didn�t sell, his beloved 1985 Mercedes convertible, and retrace his bicycle route. He ended up in Canada, then living on Long Island, before he decided to come back to Des Moines in September, hinting only that he had an idea for a new adventure.
He stopped at a hotel in South Bend, Ind., went to bed and never rose again. He died at age 55. Family members think the death may have to do with after-effects of his head injury, but they have yet to receive autopsy results.
The family didn�t get a chance to say goodbye.
�This is bittersweet,� said brother Brock Nelson from Portland, Ore., pedaling into the wind. The group made it around Gray�s Lake and down to the bar where stories and beer flowed. Relatives said his ashes are being spread around the world by friends now, from China to London to Mexico.
His words are still spread around, too, on a radio interview burned to disc: �I think you get what you give,� Brice said.
And in a journal:
�What you need seems to always be there when you need it,� Brice wrote. �It has been my luck, so far, to find places to stay, food to eat, decks to build, people to meet, many sweet smiles � I have forgotten names now and think that might be a good thing. I prefer to remember images better. This may sound self-serving, however. I am doing this for me.
�I will stop where I find love again.�
On a chilly Saturday in Des Moines, the love was where he often found it. On bicycles.
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600 N Main St - Ketchum, ID (Map)
A stay at Bellemont Hotel Sun Valley places you in the heart of Ketchum, steps from Sun Valley Center for the Arts and close to Big Wood Golf Course. This hotel is within close proximity of Sun Valley...
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260 Cottonwood Street - Ketchum, ID (Map)
Located in Ketchum, Best Western Tyrolean Lodge is in the mountains and convenient to Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Sun Valley Ski Resort. This ski hotel is within close proximity of Big Wood Gol...
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291 Walnut Avenue - Ketchum, ID (Map)
The Tamarack Lodge in Ketchum Idaho is a pet friendly accommodation that has a superior location which places you steps away from ski lifts, walking paths, hiking trails, biking trails, fine dinin...


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JOPLIN, MO.--- Some area students are volunteering their time at a local center that houses families with sick children. This week is Volunteer Week, and more than two dozen students from South Middle School visited the Ronald McDonald House in Joplin. The students made pillow pets that will be given to newborns who are staying at area hospitals. The students also spent several hours cleaning the home. Many of the students say this homework assignment was worth the hard work because it gives back to the community.
"This assignment has a reward. We got to make someone's day better. Just the fact that it's possible is worth it," said Becca Brown, 8th Grade Student.
This is the third year that students have given back to the Ronald McDonald House.
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The Bluths are back, and your friends in public radio have obsessively compiled all their recurring jokes.
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Hi All,
We had a discussion many moons ago about atheists and morality and a lot has happened since then. I reached some new conclusions (which I'll withhold for now so I don't poison the water) and at least one other poster here has some new ideas about it.
So, I was wondering what the prevailing opinion is out there on this topic. Do you believe that atheists can be "moral"? Is it impossible for an atheist to be truly moral? Is "morality" something to which adherents have a valid claim? The infamous Dawkins and Harris had a discussion at Oxford about this about a year or so ago that was very good and I would also be interested in what anyone thinks of what was discussed there.
Thanks and all are welcome.
- kk
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Hey Simon,
I think this is one of your greats.
... Sam Harris would use it as a stick to beat religion with, because he's morally a child, ...
... Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins are divisive and destructive in their approach. ...
Which is not how you sell a car.
The hypothalamus is all very well and all that - but for this system, you don't even need a brain.
lol, I understand.
- kk
Hmmm --
"No, it isn't - kk"
Arch - where did I say that? - kk
In your message to me.
Are you really sure about that, Arch? I see that you and Kir are not on each other's friends lists, and you don't seem to have had a comment on your page since October. I don't know of any other way that you could be messaged, apart from e-mail.
You ARE aware that we all have TA emails, aren't you, Simon? That's how most of my friends communicate with me.
You, on the other hand, lost that privilege after your earlier comment: "Arch - give it a rest, frankly you're being a total asshole."
If he wanted to tell me something he would just say it, because he has balls.
"you and Kir are not on each other's friends lists"
"That's how most of my friends communicate with me."
Why, Arch?
RE: "If he wanted to tell me something he would just say it, because he has balls."
Again, Hmmmm --
Why, what, Simon?
Why is it that, "That's how most of my friends communicate with me."? - because, astonishingly, we like to talk to each other.
Why is it that, "you and Kir are not on each other's friends lists"? - YOU're the one who said that that was the case, frankly I hadn't noticed.
Regarding objectivity, the way I see it is that it is possible to identify a small list of moral values which all homo sapiens within 3 standard deviations would agree with. However, moral values are "high level" manifestations of the basic underlying principle, and that's probably why there is so much room for disagreement. Many moral values which people hold would only be shared by a fraction of the human race, which is why they are not called objective values. It is definitely true that not all values are completely based on my underlying principle. That in itself doesn't invalidate those values.
Hey - wait ... three s.d. s or 4? Or 2? Shouldn't it be an even number? Anyway, I'm seeing your point here as well as from some other things you showed me. There is something nicely realistic about this - as opposed to the hypothetical hyperbola I sometimes get wrapped up in.
- kk


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Pippa Middleton is single again after splitting from beau Alex Loudon, who, if you haven't done your research, is a banker and ex-cricket player. A source indicated that all the new found celebrity wasn't working for them (Pippa loved it, he didn't) and, "After lengthy conversations, they've taken what they call a 'permanent break'." So… who's next? We're not joking about this considering our young royal-by-association has a history of racking up eligible men! Pippa's list of exes are all super wealthy and connected, including Simon Youngman (heir to a diamond fortune) and Alexander Spencer Churchill (wealth management millionaire and distant relative of Winston Churchill's). Do you see a trend here?
The bloke in the background of the picture with Pippa is George Percy, the Duke of Northumberland's son, who happens to be one of the richest men in England. Did we mention they used to date at university? They've also been spending a lot of time together — always with the tenet of "best mates blah blah blah" — with holidays in Madrid and checking out the French Open all happening within the last month. Knock yourself out, sweetheart. Just keep them paws off Prince Harry!
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I've noticed a few more centrist "experts" like Ezra Klein trying to push this contrarian idea that Liberals are stupidly misplacing blame on private insurance companies. His analysis though ignores the central role our private insurance companies play in the politics of keeping the system broken.
While it is true the fractured nature of our health care system benefits hospitals and drug companies by allowing them to overcharge, the insurance companies are the only part of the system totally dependent on everything remaining broken. They are the most invested in preventing any real solutions because for them it is fight for their very survival.
American insurance companies' only justification for being so large is that they must each individually negotiate millions of prices with thousands of different providers and then handle the huge paperwork demand this unnecessary complexity creates. This fractured market creates a side benefit for hospitals by allowing them to charge higher prices, but for insurance companies it is their own excuse for keeping so much of each premium.
If we adopt a single-payer or all-payer system doctors, hospitals, and drug companies would all remain largely profitable businesses. Reform would slightly reduce their profits but these parts of the industry would all still be fine. But adopting even just all-payer would basically kill the insurance companies as they now exist.
While other countries like Germany or Belgium technically have private health insurance "sickness funds," they are nothing like American insurance companies. They are basically just bank accounts with very small processing centers. Their medical loss ratio is around 2-3 percent compared to the roughly 10-20 percent for American insurance companies. All-payer should cut the operational size of health insurance companies by 90 percent. This would destroy the salaries of insurance CEO's.
The real problem is whoever is standing in the way of the solution, and insurance companies know they, relatively speaking, have the most to lose. Any real fix to the system would either eliminate or at least radically shrink them.


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Tonight's Game:
Baltimore Orioles (83-76) vs. Boston Red Sox (96-63), Oriole Park, 7:05 p.m.
Starting pitchers:
Scott Feldman (5-5, 3.57) vs. Clay Buchholz (11-1, 1.60)
Keys to the Game:
After winning two low-energy games against the last place Toronto Blue Jays, the Orioles will try and play spoiler against the Red Sox, who are trying to secure the AL's best record.
The Orioles must solve Buchholz. In his only start against him this season, they had just three hits in seven innings
News and Notes:
The Orioles can win the season series against Boston with one win this weekend.
Buchholz is 8-3 with a 3.36 ERA against the Orioles in 15 games.
Nick Markakis is just 5-for-34 (.147) against Buchholz. Adam Jones is 5-for-24 and Brian Roberts 8-for-22 (.364).
Chris Davis, who sat out Thursday's game with a sore foot, is expected to play.


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MVS (Most Valuable Shooters)
This list is for all of those shooters that are simply different. When you see a gameplay video, you say "oh that's a (insert franchise here) game". The reason for this is because each of these games took something and made it better, perfected something, or invented something new and different. Here we go:


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LaVone Sterling is an award winning California Artist. Her work has can be seen in both public and private collections and has been juried into many National and Internation Exhibitions. She works primarily in charcoal, pastel and watercolor. But loves to experiment. She is a Signature Member of the Alliance of California Artists, a member of Calfornia Watercolor Association and Pastel Artists of the West Coast. She holds a Masters Degree in Art and is a retired City College Art Instructor. She is married with 3 adutt daughters and 6 grandchildren. She lives in Visalia, California with her husband and 3 dogs.
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