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this lady voted yes on NDAA. A law allowing the government to use the military against US citizens. I just thought you should know.
somehow I doubt this means he will attempt to become a friendly partner toward total global trade.
that is how the economy moves idiot.
well today star 105.7 started playing christmas music already. I know most people think this is to early. But I think it is great. I think more people should focus more on the holiday season like our culture did when we were children. It just seems to me the past 15 years of holidays have been people complaining about all of the shopping they are expected to do. While not even thinking about sitting down with your kids to watch Charlie Brown or whatever you watched when you were kids during the holiday season.
So yeah I am ready for the holiday season this year.
David doesn't it just suck that you can't wear the same shoes as Tom? Tom followed a team he loved and wrote about him. You spend your life writing about a team you continue to hate on.
Tom will be remembered. You not so much. We miss Grinz.
oh and RIP Tom Killer Kowalski
will mlive be worth it during the nfl season coming. I'm not saying that Tom is above the Lions org. I'm just saying MLive with Tom was the best forums for Lions fans EVER.
just wish I could see a player quoted as saying "looks fellas I'm packing it in before the season starts, any injury would be a step up from playing a full season with this team." I really don't care who the athlete is or for whatever sport it may be. I would just love to see something out there besides this koolaid fodder
I just wish I could see a player quoted as saying "looks fellas I'm packing it in before the season starts, any injury would be a step up from playing a full season with this team." I really don't care who the athlete is or for whatever sport it may be. I would just love to see something out there besides this koolaid fodder
They mean cutting 5 trillion over ten years. In other words half a trillion a year.
those bird are in old orchard apartments now. I tried to go to my car earlier but was run back into my aprtment several times before I thought of my sports horn and blasted it on its way toward me.
Ok then Dr Savage. You want to complain about California doing this on it's own. Then you want to turn around and say states rights. You can't have it both ways you blibbering moron.
You see this is when the right gets all screwed up. They open their mouth and then wait to be punched right in the mouth. They want to dictate how things go on in their own state and be darned if anyone else in the world tell them anything. Then when another state does something they don't like then they open that fat mouth which makes them look stupid.
I think this sould be put across all political forums and everyones facebook links. it shoudl be updated daily. If the republicans win the whitehouse in 2012 then everyone shoudl take 2 weeks off work right at the beginning of that persons first term.
We the people run this show. Not big business.
I'm just going to say it. Republicans are mental retards. They simply can't understand what is coming out of their mouths. Critical thinking left them a long time ago.
They have no good reason to hate good fuel mileage other then Obama said to make it so.
Yeah theyw ould rather pay atleeast twice as much in fuel costs then get our country back to work building better cars that save them money.
They just tote the party line. What is the party line? Feed the oil companies money. This fuel economy crap cuts into their profits. Because they know full well that for the next 30 years until the average american can afford these type of cars that they can't price gouge those who do have the high fuel mileage rated cars. Big Oil loses and republitards go crazy.
well they are doing it. Exactly what they want to do. the CONs are bringing religion back into the election.
People on the left be warned. So long as you fight this in the first term of Obama. You should know that they are going to use it to push all of the religious people to vote in 2012.
I don't see what everyones problem is really. I know 3 closet gays in Holland. All lesbians. Yet they are trying to be "in" with the church and wouldn't have the courage to come out of the closet even when it is in their own best interest.
So Liberals let this battle fall to the side as you can easily pick right back up AFTER the election
they may have large debt but they aren't going anywhere. Who is going to collect it? You don't get it. Nations are not businesses. They do not have to run a profit. When will you people learn that?
As for those countries rioting. They do it all the time and have for decades. Nothing changes. They did then they will now and they will in the future.
The fact is we are setting those goals here in america. We will get them. Every human deserves the right to live the same lifestyle as anyone else.
People we are dealing with the fringe of society.
there is no point even attempting to convert these people. We should just be eliminateing them from social security collections when they are older.
We should organize an effort to create a petition to elimiate social security benifits and work the wording in the 4 page petition that directly excludes them from future social security cheques. We know they won't read the contract. They will see end social security at the top and see an elephant at the top of the petition and just assume it means ending social security as a whole. Then when we can get as many of them to sign away their right to collection then we can turn it into the government. Then we can give it to the people who really need it. I think it's a great idea.
Other then that there is no hope. Once they get into this fringe crowd there is no saving them.
They hate america and what makes her great. They actually have amental disorder that forbids them from seeing they are tools for the elite. They somehow think they will one day become rich. Or they are a bitter has been nobody who never made anything of themselves and don't want others to do better then their miserable failure.
Make no mistake about it I do not have any compassion for republitards or teatards. They have bitten hook line and sinker the crap of capitalism and they deserve to get what life has limited to them.
While Europe has better programs all the way around FOR ALL OF THEIR CITIZENS we Americans keep getting kicked around by Regeanomics because these stupid people do what they are told and call themselves freemen.
what a joke these people who tear themselves down. it is amazing how they can call themselves patriots when the word is parrots. They call it freedom when actually it is FREEDUM. They say they are Americans, when they don't know what being an American means.
Its just pathetic. They wouldn't know a lick of American history then they complain about education. They want to eliminate taxes then demand roads be paved.
This is just pathetic how braindead they are.
Oh and for you morons on the right. We are a socialist nation and have been every day of your life. We have not had a free market any day you have lived.
Senate Document No. 43, 73rd Congress, 1st Session
"The ultimate ownership of all property is in the State; individual so-called "ownership" is only by virtue of Government, i.e., law, amounting to mere "user" and use must be in acceptance with law and subordinate to the necessities of the State."
Also see Eminent domain. I will find it for you hold on
The Supreme Court has held that the federal government and each state has the power of eminent domain—the power to take private property for "public use". The Takings Clause, the last clause of the Fifth Amendment, limits the power of eminent domain by requiring that "just compensation" be paid if private property is taken for public use. The just compensation provision of the Fifth Amendment did not originally apply directly to the states, but since Chicago, B. & Q. Railroad Co. v. Chicago (1897), federal courts have held that the Fourteenth Amendment extended the effects of that provision to the states. The federal courts, however, have shown much deference to the determinations of Congress, and even more so to the determinations of the state legislatures, of what constitutes "public use". The property need not actually be used by the public; rather, it must be used or disposed of in such a manner as to benefit the public welfare or public interest. One exception that restrains the federal government is that the property must be used in exercise of a government's enumerated powers.
so stop pretending like this is anything new
also to the idiot who reported Dr Williams on page 7 I think it was. Well a simple google search proved that was phony.
I wonder if people think others won't research their right wing propaganda.
I just don't understand why the people do not go and take the governments money back by force.
Maybe someday we will have someone who will go and do something about it instead of smiling for a camera and making promises.
I support Obama and I will vote for him again. I just think someone should be going and getting that money the rich refuse to spend. That would serve America more then hand shaking.
oh get over it evermalace. If you continue on with that holier then thou attitude you are going to convince the extremely dangerous criminals that prison isn't a fairytale place to go and kill everyone they possibly can to prevent being captured.
As of right now besides not being able to get laid to the opposite sex prison isn't all that bad of an option for those on the run. When they are captured they know things aren't going to be bad. Especially if they are a repeat offender. Most people make up with prison house rape story to make people fear the prison block. i'm not saying things don't happen at all. I am just saying they don't happen tio a super majority of the prisons population.
Give the guy a chance to communicate with his family.


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Rutgers University's governing board approved a $295 million deal today to buy part of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary and redevelop other university properties to build a series of classrooms, apartments, dorms, retail space and parking lots in the center of the New Brunswick campus. Rutgers officials stressed, though the grease trucks may be moving from their current location, their "fat sandwiches" and other food will still be available on campus. The trucks will likely be parked in multiple locations and have a permanent presence in the new apartment building on Lot 8.
The plan includes moving the grease trucks — the beloved food vans that have become an institution in Lot 8 on College Avenue — to make way for an apartment building. The building will have a spot for a grease truck-like restaurant on the ground floor, campus officials said.

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Kate Moss will not face charges over her alleged drug use caught on film in London last year, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Thursday.
In September, London's Daily Mirror published stills from a video of Moss, 32, apparently snorting cocaine in a recording studio with her then-boyfriend, admitted drug user Pete Doherty.
After the photos were published, Moss apologized for her actions and checked into an Arizona rehab facility. In January, she was questioned by police but not arrested.
Still, the CPS said it was unable to determine what kind of drug Moss and others were using, Reuters reports.
"The film footage provides an absolutely clear indication that Ms. Moss was using controlled drugs and providing them to others," said Rene Barclay, the CPS's London director of serious casework.
"However, in the absence of any forensic evidence, or direct eyewitness evidence about the substance in question, its precise nature could not be established. Ms. Moss declined to provide any explanation when interviewed, and the direct eyewitnesses also declined to provide evidence."
Burberry, H&M and Chanel canceled contracts with Moss after the publication of the incriminating photos, but she has since rebuilt her career, signing on to appear in ads for Nikon, Virgin Mobile, Calvin Klein and other clients.
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The members are;
MEDIOCRACY are a band who take influence from many genres mainly the ones mentioned above and give them all a unique and brilliant modern spin. They don't fall into any category but take the best from each ones and make it something hard-hitting brutal and brilliant.
These guys are heavy as fuck. I have heard these guys described as Nachtmystium gone full Sludge/Stoner. That is one part of their music. But these guys are more than that. They are their own band. Crafting their own indentity in the world of underground extreme metal.
The band have released 2 brilliant albums so far.
2010 - "Human Progress – Endless Regress" - 9 songs - 38 mins
2011 - "Asoma" - 8 songs - 35 mins
Both of releases are available for free download from the excellent website http://asiluum.com mentioned in ROADKILLSODA post before.
Now both of these albums are brilliant in their own right. Heavy, Loud and as Angry I have heard from anybody this year.
Both of these albums are superbly produced and shows a band with hopefully a very long and bright future ahead of them. I can't recommend these albums highly. They are both fucking epic. Both full of heavy, sludgy guitar riffs to pummel the senses into submission.
Check these guys out now. You won't be sorry. Simply unmissable stuff. Both releases are highly recommended.
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Matthew Fort cooks a perfect springtime dessert using the sweetest Alphonso mangoes to be served with cream and crisp, buttery biscuits
Method1. For the mango fool: roughly chop the mangoes and blend to a smooth puree in a food processor.
2. Whisk the cream in a mixing bowl until soft peaks form, then gently fold through the mango puree. Add sugar and lemon juice to taste. Spoon the mixture into a serving bowl and chill for at least one hour before serving.
3. For the Brittany sables: sift the flour with the baking powder and salt into a bowl. Cream the butter with the sugar in a large mixing bowl until pale and fluffy (you can do this with an electric beater). Add the egg yolks one at a time to the sugar and butter mixture, beating well between additions.
4. Add the flour mixture to the sugar, butter and eggs and mix to form a soft dough, being careful not to overmix. Cover the bowl and put into the fridge for at least one hour to firm up. Then add the flour and mix until it just comes together into a soft dough. Take care not to over mix or knead. Cover the bowl and put into fridge. Leave to rest for at least an hour to firm up.
5. Preheat the oven to 170C/150C fan/gas 3.
6. Turn the dough out onto a floured work surface and roll to about 3mm thick. Cut out discs using a 7cm cutter. Transfer the biscuit rounds to a baking sheet lined with non-stick baking paper.
7. Bake for 10-15 minutes, or until the biscuits are pale golden-brown and still slightly soft in the middle. Transfer the biscuits to a wire rack to cool and harden.
8. To serve, spoon the fool into individual glasses and place a few Brittany sables alongside.
For the mango fool
- 6 Alphonso mango, peels, stones removed
- 284 ml double cream
- squeeze lemon juice
- caster sugar, to taste
For the Brittany sables
- 300 g plain flour
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 100 g unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 200 g caster sugar
- 6 egg yolks


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The Vampire Diaries
Top 11 Damon Snarks from The Vampire Diaries Season 3, Episode 22, "The Departed"
Damon Salvatore is the snark king of Mystic Falls. Sure, he mumbles and has a tendency to smirk. But oh — the things that come out of his mouth. So what witticisms did prime time's finest bloodsucker drop this week? Here are Damon's best zingers from the third season finale, "The Departed."
11. Decisions, decisions
Bonnie: It was her call.
Damon: You know what else was her call? Every bad thing ever.
10. Dude!
Damon (as Klaus's eyes pop open): Whoa. Creepy.
9. I love you too, man
Damon (to Stefan): Have I told you lately how much I appreciate you not being the dumbest brother on earth?
8. Luck of the draw
Damon: Our life is one big proverbial coin toss.
7. Storage Ward
Damon: Mini fridge. Couple of birdcages. Box full of Playboys. One beef-jerkified Original.
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Damon: I was going to use Unit 666 but I figured that would be a little obvious.
5. So impatient
Damon: Just jam the witch locator... bat signal... whatever and get on with it, Bonnie!
Stefan: What would you have done, Damon?
Damon: Grabbed her. Gagged her. Throw her in a well. I don't know — anything other than let her trust Elijah.
Stefan: You know she'd just hate you for it, right?
Damon: Yeah, but she'd be alive, hating me. Thus the eternal difference between you and me, brother.
3. Goodbye, love
Damon: Well, I guess you'll just have to say goodbye for both of us. Call me if you cough up a lung.
2. Stating the obvious
Damon (to Alaric): I see you're still pissed. I take it goldilocks gave you the slip.
1. Not snarky — just sad
Damon (to Elena): I get it. Stefan. It's always gonna be Stefan.
6. So he can be subtle
4. Hindsight is 20/20
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Lucani (ancient people)
The Lucani (Lucanians) were an Italic tribe living in Lucania, who spoke an Oscan language, a member of the Italic languages.[1]
According to an unconfirmed theory, their name would derive from the Greek λυκος ("wolf"), referring to the use of the Sabellic people of a totemic animal as a guide during their migrations. According to other scholars, the name would stem from the Latin lucus ("sacred wood").
Strabo reported that they had a democratic constitution, save in time of war, when a dictator was chosen from among the regular magistrates.
According to Pliny the Elder, the names of their tribes were Atinati, Bantini, Eburini, Grumentini, Numestrani, Potentini, Sontini, Sirini, Tergilani, Ursentini, Volcentani.[2]
Language and writing[edit]
The Lucani spoke a variety of the Umbrian-Oscan language, like their neighbours, the Samnites, who had absorbed the Oscii in the 5th century BC. The few Oscan inscriptions and coins in the area that survive from the 4th or 3rd century BC use the Greek alphabet.
Around the middle of the 5th century BC, the Lucani moved south into Oenotria, driving the indigenous tribes, known to the Greeks as Oenotrians, Chones, and Lauternoi, into the mountainous interior.[3]
The Lucanians were engaged in hostilities with the Greek colony of Taras/Tarentum, and with Alexander, king of Epirus, who was called in by the Tarentine people to their assistance, in 334 BC, thus providing a precedent for Epirote interference in the affairs of Magna Graecia. In 331, treacherous Lucanian exiles killed Alexander of Epirus.
In 298, Livy records, they made alliance with Rome, and Roman influence was extended by the colonies of Venusia (291), Paestum (Greek Posidonia, refounded in 273), and above all Roman Tarentum (refounded in 272). Subsequently, however, the Lucanians suffered by choosing the losing side in the various wars on the peninsula in which Rome took part. They were sometimes in alliance with Rome, but more frequently engaged in hostilities, during the Samnite wars.
When Pyrrhus of Epirus landed in Italy in 281, they were among the first to declare in his favor, and after his abrupt departure they were reduced to subjection, in a ten-year campaign (272). Enmity continued to run deep; they espoused the cause of Hannibal during the Second Punic War (216), and Lucania was ravaged by both armies during several campaigns. The country never recovered from these disasters, and under the Roman government fell into decay, to which the Social War, in which the Lucanians took part with the Samnites against Rome (90 - 88 BC), gave the finishing stroke.
In the time of Strabo the Greek cities on the coast had fallen into insignificance and, owing to the decrease of population and cultivation, malaria began to obtain the upper hand. The few towns of the interior were of no importance. A large part of the province was given up to pasture, and the mountains were covered with forests, which abounded in wild boars, bears and wolves.
- ^ Elena Isayev; University of London. Institute of Classical Studies (2007). Inside ancient Lucania: dialogues in history and archaeology. Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. ISBN 978-1-905670-03-1.
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, III, 98.
- ^ Helle W. Horsnaes (2002). The Cultural Development in North Western Lucania C. 600-273 BC. L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-88-8265-194-7.


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Saw my goat points increased for 2013. Didn't draw...
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Saw my goat points increased for 2013. Didn't draw...
Unfortunately, there are no points for the desert Sheep tags, so won't know until the results are posted.:(
You all really need to stop calling it the back door. The back door was a sneaky way to see if you got a tag. It never showed points, but it would tell if you got the tag, and it would tell you early, before it was released to the public.
What you're looking at now was put up by the DOW, and anybody can see it. Which was the point of it. I believe the DOW shut down the back door, so it can't be seen anymore. As an example. You might be able to see if you got a deer tag a week earlier than it was released to the public. There was a code that you needed to figure out, but it wasn't hard.
I just checked the back door. It's not showing anything for me except the applications. Later it will show the tag, or if it shows nothing it means no tag. It did this early in the past, but now it doesn't do that until it's a public release.
The DOW caught on to us.
My points for goat increased from 0 to 1.
You didn't get the tag. Sorry.
Plus 1 on Goat and Sheep!
Just points. I'm sure moose will be points too.
Nothing but another point for me.


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I am Greg, husband of the recently deceased White Unicorn, Suzanne Olson-Hyde. We are/were both confirmed atheists of long standing - roughly 50 years each - we both gave up religion in our early teens.
But now that Suzanne has 'ceased to be', I am having an internal struggle between my logical self - still DEFINITELY an atheist, and my 'fantasy', wishful thinking self that would love to believe that Suzanne still exists somewhere and that she is being looked after.
My 'fantasy' self can't REALY come to grips with the fact that the "essence" of Suzanne, all her memories, personality, love and humour have simply evaporated back into the cosmic whatever. At this time in my life, I actually envy religious people as they have faux comfort ladled out to them by the faith they have - it really works for them as they don't realise or won't admit, that it is indeed 'faux'. So, faux or not, the comfort is real - for them.
Sadly, us atheists have no such comfort or reassurance, faux or otherwise - Suzanne is not in heaven being looked after by god or his entourage, and I certainly will not meet up with her when I snuff it - for me, at the moment, it all sucks.
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First off Greg, I am sorry for your loss.
I've been questioning religion since I was 12 years old (I'm 36 now.) I didn't become a full blown atheist until I was 23. Unfortunately, about two months after I had come to the decision that I could no longer believe in religion, my older brother died in a car accident. I know that's different than losing a wife of many years, but he was my hero. He was 6 years older than me, and when I was growing up, as far as I was concerned, he could do anything. We weren't close as children, but in the five years before his death we became incredibly close.
I had a hard time dealing with his death (still do at times) along with the fact that I knew I was never going to see him again. I actually started to try believe again for a short time. Eventually, the rational part of my brain took over again and I realized that wanting to see my brother again wasn't reaon enough to start twisting my logic enough to believe.
I didn't mean to ramble on. I guess I just wanted to let you know that, although you never quite get over losing a loved one, it does eventually get easier. The way I've chosen to deal with it is to share as many stories about him with as many people as I can. This way, maybe he will live on, not only in my memory, but in the memories of others after I am gone.
Greg, Suzanne's memories, personality, love and humour have NOT simply evaporated back into the cosmic whatever. You have them.
Ah, Greg, I am so sorry for your loss, and for the loss to all of the communities in which she engaged. Her passion for justice will not be forgotten by any who knew her.
As a token visiting theist here, I will say a prayer for Suzanne. Perhaps you all are right, and she is gone, and the rest of us await that fate. But there is always the possibility that we do not yet have all the data on this. If so, I expect her consciousness will welcome you into whatever is to come ( and she will surely kick my ass for being a Catholic and praying for the repose of her soul).
Until then, may you find comfort in the communities which share some of your memories of her, and the courage to persevere in good things as I'm sure she would have expected you to.
...I will say a prayer for Suzanne... for the repose of her soul.
This does seem like a passive-aggressive way for Bob to express that his religious views are superior. It's partly that Bob is praying for an atheist, partly that "repose" means "shorten Suzanne's time in purgatory", but mainly that Bob made a point of announcing it.
Would it be beyond the pale to announce to a Jewish widower that you're praying for Jesus to forgive his wife's Judaism and let her into heaven anyway? Is it rude considering Bob acknowledges that Suzanne herself probably would've been annoyed and that she can no longer respond?
It's hard to imagine Bob believes prayer is comforting to non-believers or more effective for having announced it instead of doing it privately. So why say anything? Why make a point of telling Greg and everyone that Suzanne is being prayed for? Maybe Bob isn't being rude deliberately, but the prayer announcement comes off as more thoughtless than thoughtful.
Keeping in mind that dictionaries both describe and prescribe word use, I turned to my tiny shirt-pocket-size Larousse French-English dictionary. It defines faux thusly: 1) wrong, 2) false, 3) fake.
So, Greg, your ...religious people have faux comfort ladled out to them by the faith they have uses the word correctly. My vision might be failing but that's one of at least two reasons I see nothing there to envy.
The native people I read of long ago in a cultural anthropology course have something I envy; they regard tribe members as having died only when no living person remembers them.
Further, a bit of thought tells us that Bob adapted a book formula -- I will say a prayer for X ... for the repose of her/his soul -- to the circumstances of Suzanne's death.
With formulas that call for prayer, xians conceal their feelings.
The existentialism that helped me free myself from religion told me I am condemned to freedom. We who have no belief in an afterlife are condemned to feel.
BTW, when we kick Bob's ass, let's each turn our kicking foot sideways. He is on his way to joining us and has a long journey ahead; we don't want to hurt him.
Bob, explain how your praying for an atheist's "soul" is any different from the Mormons baptizing the dead (including Holocaust victims) into Mormonism. Doing somthing they would have disavowed in life is abusing the dead.
I agree Bob was being disrespectful, and I don't know whether it was intentional or not. In this case I would just let it go. Hashing it out here is disrespectful by all involved, in my humble opinion.
Sorry, Greg, for your HUGE loss. It's not usual to use the word, "giant" in reference to a female, but, to me, it fits her personage.
Bob, you missed a real opportunity to garner a modicum of respect. If only you'd just dropped your middle paragraph.
Sorry for the lack of replies, but every time I try I fail to find the required words. However, I would like to say that I was overwhelmed by the responses and will reply one day when the muse returns to my brain.
One thing I would like to clarify is what I meant by "all her memories ... have simply evaporated back into the cosmic whatever." I meant that the private memories in Suzanne's head, all the private nuances of her life that even I was not privy to, are the ones that have evaporated, not the memories OF her, those will never vanish. Not sure if I am making sense, so I will end here, only to return one day with greater verbosity and clarity.
Thanks to All - even her arch nemesis Bob


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The NHIS data and Commonwealth survey are consistent with trends in other earlier sources that showed an increase in the percentage of young adults 19 to 25 with health insurance coverage since 2010.6,7 Today's results show that the initial gains from this policy have continued to grow as more plan renewals took effect and the public's awareness about this coverage option has increased.
Source: Cohen RA, Martinez ME. Health insurance coverage: Early release of estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 2011. National Center for Health Statistics. June 2012
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2There are 29.7 million adults in this age group, as of the most recent Census data (see Footnote 6). There was a 10.4% increase in insured young adults (64.4% to 74.8%) from Q3 2010 to Q4 2011 (Table 8). 10.4% of 29.7 million is 3.1 million young adults. The increase in insurance coverage for Q4 2011 represented a statistically significant change from Q1-Q3 2011 (74.8% versus 71.3%).
3Sommers BD, Schwartz, K. "2.5 million young adults gain health insurance due to the Affordable Care Act." Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services, 2011. (Accessed at http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/2011/youngadultsaca/ib.shtml).
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5Sommers BD, Kronick R. "The Affordable Care Act and Insurance coverage for Young Adults." JAMA. 307(9): 913-914.
6DeNavas-Walt C, Proctor BD, Smith JC. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, P60-239, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.
7Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. In U.S., Significantly Fewer 18- to 25-year-olds Uninsured. 21 September 2011. (Accessed at: http://www.gallup.com/poll/149558/Significantly-Fewer-Year-Olds-Uninsured.aspx)
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After another disappointing season in which he averaged 2.7 yards per carry but still managed five touchdowns in eight games, Cardinals running back Beanie Wells is looking to the future -- a future that doesn't include Arizona.
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Wells was benched last week against the Bears after his lost fumble led to a returned touchdown for Chicago (he only carried the ball four times for three yards). That followed another injury-plagued season in which he was affected by a bum knee and turf toe (he was on the IR list with a designation to return).
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RALEIGH — An effort to create a state panel separate from North Carolina's State Board of Education to oversee charter schools appeared over Tuesday when a House panel recommended retaining an advisory commission on charter matters as currently exists.
A divided Senate last month voted for creating an independent board whose decisions on approving or closing charter schools and other policies for these alternative public schools could only be blocked with a 75 percent majority of the State Board of Education.
But opposition to the idea continued to build, particularly on the concept in the North Carolina constitution that gives the state board the job to "supervise and administer the free public school system."
State board Chairman Bill Cobey, a Republican appointed to the board by Gov. Pat McCrory, and elected state schools Superintendent June Atkinson, a Democrat, also spoke out against creating a powerful charter school board.
"The State Board of Education and the governor were all in accord on that one," said Sen. Jerry Tillman, R-Randolph, a primary sponsor of the original charter school bill creating the separate board. "They thought we needed a constitutional divide there (and) I agreed that was something we could do."
The updated bill, which received strong bipartisan support in the House committee, would replace the current 15-member state "Charter School Advisory Council" now in place with an 11-member "Charter Schools Advisory Board."
The board — most of which would be appointed by the governor and legislative leaders — would perform many duties of the current council. It would recommend to the State Board of Education rules about charter schools, including which applications should be approved and which charters should be renewed or revoked. The State Board of Education would still make the final decisions.
Eddie Goodall, executive director of the North Carolina Public Charter Schools Association, said his group's members wanted to keep any panel advisory in nature. "We didn't want to be siloed. We wanted to be a part of the bigger public education pie, if you will," he said.
Charters are public schools allowed to operate with fewer of the regulations facing traditional schools. The number of charters had been limited to 100 since they were first created in North Carolina in the mid-1990s. The Republican-led General Assembly removed the cap in 2011 but didn't lay out many details about how to handle the expected increase.
"We need a comprehensive charter school bill," Tillman said while presenting the updated bill to the committee. The measure also lays out more financial and admissions standards for charter schools and encourages the board to give preference to charter applications that show promise to help children at-risk of academic failure.
The bill keeps current language saying that within a year that a charter school opens its doors the population should "reasonably reflect" the racial and ethnic composition of the population in the school district where it resides or the special population it seeks to serve.
The North Carolina Justice Center opposed the updated bill, which now is slated for another House committee, in part because it reduced the required percentage of licensed teachers in charter schools for K-5 from 75 percent to 50 percent. Studies show "teacher certification is highly associated with better outcomes for student," center policy analyst Matt Ellinwood said.
While Rep. Paul Luebke, D-Durham, told colleagues he was against the bill because it strengthened "the division between the traditional public schools and the charter schools," other Democrats publicly backed it.
"It strikes me as the right balance," said Rep. Rick Glazier, D-Cumberland.
Tillman said he expects fellow Senate Republicans will support the new version of the bill, although there may be concerned that the governor would get to choose the advisory board's chairman and vice chairman.


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To be fair, this is the first time he has been so blatant about making a decision that is clearly something I am not supportive of...and, I can afford more food--so we are far from "starving", but I don't feel right about spending a lot on groceries when we are on the tipping point on financial freedom or ruin (will know more in a few weeks).
So, I do feel he is caring for the family, and he has had a long, hard run, working as hard as he can on the business for the ultimate success for the family--so maybe he deserves a few days off.... But I just don't think it's fair that he expects that when he calls me that I am going to enthusiasically be asking about his trip, and all the details on his fabulous day, when I'm not having a good day. I'm wondering if I'm mad because of some stupid jealousy, and if so, it feels like I own that, and it's my problem.
The easy cave-in/apology to bring peace is an on-going problem.....but I'm not sure how to fix this. If I bring it up, it will be another fight. I have brought it up many times, and he says we both handle anger/arguments in different ways, and he handles it by taking some time/space to think it through that I misinterpret as emotional coolness (which if you saw him, it would be hard to not interpret it that way).
We have solved many problems, and this high stress just adding as gasoline to a fire. I'm just not sure how to prepare for his return. He is mad right now, and over-reacting. I want to tell him I'm angry, but I also don't know if I'm "right" to be angry, or if I'm really just mad/angry about many other things (including his travel behavior), and I'm just spinning with no resolution.
That's actually why I'm writing. I feel like I can't tell my friends or family because I don't want them to think he's a jerk, or to know what's going on with our business worries. It's hard, I feel like I have no "vent" to my steam-pot of anger/(Jealousy?).
I'm sure we'll just have to have a blow-out fight, where I can vent, and he can be mad for a few days, and then we move on.
Thanks, have a goodnight.


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The elusive alpha channel remains one of the most misunderstood yet powerful tools in Photoshop. Alpha channels are collections of luminance data that control the transparency of an image, and they inform just about every aspect of Photoshop. As he builds transitional blended layers, fashions a depth map, makes edge adjustments, and takes on extreme channel mixing, Omni Award-winning expert Deke McClelland teaches Photoshop users that where there's a will, there's a way. Photoshop CS3 Channels and Masks: Advanced Techniques covers mapping texture on an image, turning flesh into stone, using vector masks, working with all different channels, creating a rustic edge effect, and much more. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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All right gang, you may recall in the previous exercise we went ahead and applied our Depth mask using the Lens Blur Filter, but rather than working from the actual Depth mask, this guy right here the Alpha Channel that's called Depth, I went ahead and applied the Field mask instead which blurs all of the grass in a quite unrealistic way, so that we could independently adjust which portion of the grass is focused and which portion of the grass gets out of focus using a Knockout layer and that's what we are about to do.
So if you are just joining me by the way, I am working inside of an image called Depth mask.psd that's found inside the 12 Specialty folder and it features two layers, one is called the Background layer of course and the other is called Lens blur. I want you to go ahead and click on the Lens blur layer to make sure that it's active. Then I want you to press Ctrl+Alt+N or Command+Option+N on the Mac in order to create a new layer and let's call this one Knockout of course, because we are going to be creating a knockout effect here. Go ahead and click OK and then let's go ahead and grab the Gradient tool once again and just to make sure that we can see our gradient quite independently of the rest of the image, I want you to set the foreground color to something that compliments the image that is to say a color that we are not finding elsewhere inside the image. So blue comes to mind.
I will go ahead and change the Hue value to 210 here inside the Color palette and I will change the Saturation and Brightness values to 100 a piece, so we have got a little bit of a cobalt going and I will go ahead and make sure that my Gradient Style is set to Foreground to Transparent as it is. The Linear option is also turned on at this point, Opacity is set to 100%, Mode is Normal, Reverse is turned off and so on. Now I am going to draw a gradient from this dandy line just like we did a couple of exercises ago. We will draw the gradient from the top of this dandy line up like so and I have got the Shift key down this entire time and then I will release in order to draw a gradient that looks like this. So she looks like she is mired in some weird blue pudding or something along those lines.
Now we will take this Knockout layer and we will turn it into a Knockout, a true Knockout so that it's knocking out the effects of the Lens blur layer below it. Go ahead and double-click somewhere on the Knockout layer in order to bring up the Layer Style dialog box, then I am going to change the Knockout setting to Shallow, just because we want to burrow through one layer down to the background. I will set the Fill Opacity value of course to 0% in order to make not only the layer transparent so that we are not seeing any of that blue gradient, but also we are using the blue gradient to burrow through the layer below it. Then I will click OK in order to apply the effect.
Now you can see that we have indeed burrowed down to the background image. So we are burrowing through the foreground grass toward the bottom of the image. This is without -- I will go ahead and turn off the Knockout layer for a moment. This is without the Knockout layer, you can see the grass toward the bottom of the image is out of focus, this is with the Knockout layer and so it is doing its job, it's knocking out the layer below. But not only that, now we have the option of moving this Knockout layer and deciding exactly which portions of the grass are in focus or out of focus. I will go ahead and grab the Move tool and I will go ahead and drag the gradient layer down so that much of the grass is now out of focus. You can see that this entire big range toward the top of the image is out of focus at this point.
Now I will drag it back up and as I drag by the way I have got the Shift key down so that I am constraining my drag to exactly vertical and as I drag my gradient upward, you can see that less and less of the grass is out of focus. So this was before my move, lots of the grass out of focus toward the top of the image and this is after the move much more of the grass in focus. Now I have revealed this big area toward the bottom of the image that's now out of focus and that's because we have got a gap inside of the Knockout layer itself. I would go ahead and Shift+Tab the palettes away so that I can better see what I am doing. I would get my Marquee tool in order to fix this problem down here and I will drag around this region and I am trying to avoid an auto scroll, but I bet I won't be successful.
Actually I was successful, nice, and because I want this area -- I will go ahead and press Shift+Tab once again so that I can see my Knockout layer. I want this area to be filled with blue. My foreground color is currently set to that same shade of blue. So I will press Alt+Backspace or Option+Delete on the Mac in order to fill that region with color so that we are burrowing a hole through that region to the Background layer. So this gives us total flexible control over exactly which portion of the image is in focus and out of focus. It also gives us a higher degree of control if we want to apply say a blend mode to this effect that we have created here.
Let's say that I want this blur to exclusively lighten the background. Then I would bring up my Layers palette once again and I would go ahead and change the blend mode that's applied to this Lens blur layer, I will change it to Screen so that we are getting this nice lightning effect associated with the Lens blur as well. Now the problem is at this point even though it's just affecting the top grass, it's also affecting the top of her as you can see here, I will go ahead and drag her over a little bit so that you can see this is what the image looked like before I changed the blend mode, this is what it looks like after.
So I am lightning the top of her head and her shoulders and so on. So that means I just need to mask away that Lens blur layer inside of the model. I will do that by going back to the Channels palette. I will go ahead and load the Field layer in order to load that selection that traces around the model right there. I will switch back to the Layers palette. I will click on this little layer mask icon in order to convert the selection to as layer mask, she is once again protected inside of this layer and the grass is affected exclusively.
So you can see now, if I turn off that layer or turn it back on, she doesn't change, her luminance doesn't change, the luminance of the grass changes alone. So there we have it, the final version of the depth of field effect created using a combination of the Depth mask, the Lens Blur filter and a Knockout layer.
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come, tooth fairy~!Posted by hana in Aniqspeak, News, tags: dentist
come, tooth fairy~!, originally uploaded by izadd.
his wobbly tooth finally dropped! well, technically, it got knocked out, thanks to him bumping into his sister by accident. whoops. :p
this was taken after his initial shock at the amount of blood that spilled out of his gum. yes, there were some tears involved, lol. so much for being gungho and teasingly shaking the tooth at me and laughing when i CRINGE.
told him that it's ok, happens to every kid, and when we were small, ours dropped too. my grandma even extracted one with a string! (sadism runs in the family, apparently.)
the daddy gave him a container to keep the tooth and ALL the future milk teeth that will eventually drop off. to make him feel better, we even told him to put the tooth under his pillow… (so, what IS the market price these days?)
and so we hit another milestone.
do you remember when YOUR first tooth dropped? :)


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Sorry, my apologies to you proud dad. I check my notes and I'm not sure how I made this mistake. A good photo isn't any good if we identify the people in the shot wrong. I have fixed the name in the post.
Judging any photo contest is purely subjective; one of my criteria on the orange contest was to look for the shots that didn't play up the obvious, like pumpkins, leaves and flowers. I was looking for the shots that made me stop and take a second look. I try very hard to resist always picking shots that would reflect my personal style and try to give you a variety of shots to vote for. In the 33 years I've worked as a photojournalist, I've looked at and have "judged" most of the photos you see here on the web site and in The Express-Times every day.
Having seen this flooding happening in Bethlehem and having been down there this morning, I don't think the dam is the problem as much as the walk bridge just a bit down from the dam. Check out the gallery of photos I shot this morning. http://photos.lehighvalleylive.com/express-times/2011/09/flooding_sept_28_and_29_18.html
Check out the other shots in the gallery.... I worked my way around the building looking at other views of the situation too, and as you say, not to get argumentative here, but it is hard to move the sun so I could see that side of the building.
LOL...Thanks for your post. The imagery you refer to was purely unintentional. Sorry, but I didn't see it in those terms when I was shooting on the run. It's kind of hard not to get any sort of strange angle on a building with the wide angle lens. The 14mm lens will make most everything tilt a a weird way, plus I had to get up close because the sun was directly behind the building.
In Kelly's defense, her pizza was perfect. The 14mm lens I was using makes it look that way.
I like to use coupons and watch for sales on can good so I can stock up for both the Boy Scouts and mail carriers food drives. A few extra bucks a week on my food bill that will help a lot of hunger folks is worth it. Those cereal and the soup coupons were you have to buy 4 or 5 to get discount or one free is a good deal to stretch those food dollars out.
Gee what a waste of time watching that video, thanks Dustin... I can sing better than that....and I'm tone deaf... and can still tell she sings flat. What ever happened to the good female singers like Carly Simons, Aretha Franklin..Diana Ross.. ???? you youngsters don't know music..
Joe, I've got a bike for you and a helmet.....when should I bring it in?
I watch the dog for about 15 minutes, I too wonder whether this would constitute animal cruelty. My dogs would never have put up with it, but this dog made no move to even try to get out of the swing.
I've had dogs for almost all of my life. Except for a year or so when I was in an apartment that didn't allow dogs. I got my first dog when I was 8, but the family had a dog even before that.
I've shown one of my dogs, have done obedience training, agility training and click training with others of my dogs. I've always found that I could only get my dogs to do only what they truly wanted to do even out of love or food.
Socrates seem to me to be perfectly content to sit and swing. There are a lots of dog that do a lot of amazing things, I'm sure others know dogs with special tricks or habits.
She was heading the other way from Route 22 towards Route 57. Coming from that way there is a curve and a short downhill stretch in which it would be difficult to recognize the hazard and to bring that much momentum to a stop. On the other hand there are multiple warning signs coming from that direction. I would suggest that she was blindly following a GPS unit that gave her the shortest route but doesn't recognize the height of her rig.
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Yep, that is a reflection you see. I took the picture since I tagged along as part of the impromptu committee of co-workers that when to verify the existence of this "tasty treat" and to convince Joe to test it.
Being a mid-west girl, I really don't understand all this hoop-la-la over cheesesteaks. After I arrived in the valley years ago I decided to try out this local delicacy. But after a bout of food poisoning from one, I have mostly avoided eating any of them since. That is except for the blue cheesesteaks from Chrissy's. Give me a Michigan style pickled ring baloney any day.
I tune in just at the end of half time to see the score and watch the half time show. It was so BAD that I walked away, but I could still hear it, Ouch… The only part that sounded any good was the start of the song that Fergie did a solo to "Had the Time of my Life". I almost walked back to see what was happening but it went really bad really fast after that and I tuned it out.
Ever try to follow one of those cars that the driver can't manage to clean off their brake lights? I've seen way to many drivers peering through tiny holes carved out of snow on their front windows trying see where they are going while leaving side windows, back windows and their brake lights covered.
Let's remember that we all share the roads, let's make it safe out there for the other guy. Consider it your random act of kindness.


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"If your only goal is to become rich, you'll never achieve it," said John D. Rockefeller, America's first billionaire.
His point was simple: when the only thing you care about is making money, no amount of money is ever enough. What you have always pales in comparison to what you don't have and could have.
That's why true success always involves a lot more than money… but even so, while we all define success differently (as well we should), most of us do factor some degree of wealth into our success equations.
So how do you become super rich? First embrace one fact: you'll never get there on salary alone.
How do I know? The IRS says so.
Every year the IRS releases the annual report 400 Individual Tax Returns Reporting the Largest Adjusted Gross Incomes. The latest report is for the years 1992 through 2009. (To you and I, 2009 seems like a long time ago, but to the government probably seems very timely.)
In 2009 it took $77.4 million in adjusted gross income to make the top 400. That might sound like a lot, but it's down from $109.7 million in 2008 and significantly down from a record high of $138.8 million in 2007.
Making $77.4 million just lets you squeeze into the top 400, though. The average earnings were $202.4 million, clearly a lot of money but significantly down from the 2007 average of $334.8 million.
What's interesting is how the people on the list made their money. Here's a breakdown by percentages:
- Wages and salaries: 8.6%
- Interest: 6.6%
- Dividends: 13%
- Partnerships and corporations: 19.9%
- Capital gains: 45.8%
The top 400 averaged $92.6 million in capital gains income, or 16% of the total capital gains reported by all taxpayers. That means just 400 people accounted for over one-sixth of all capital gains income.
What that means is, if you want to get rich:
- Working for a salary won't cut it
- Making relatively safe "income" investments won't cut it
- Investing only in stocks of large companies won't cut it
- Owning a business or businesses, whether in part or partnership, could not only build a solid wealth foundation but could someday…
- Generate a huge financial windfall and make you rich
The data clearly supports the last point. A total of over 3,800 taxpayers have made the top 400 since 1992, but only 27% appear more than once, and only 2% appear 10 or more times.
Don't let a rotten economy spoil your goals. Use the career and money advice in The Millennial Game Plan to get and stay ahead for good.
Obviously becoming super rich (in financial terms) comes from investing in yourself and others, from taking risks, from doing a lot of small things well… and then doing one big thing really, really well.
Even so, the key is to achieve other goals along the way – professional, personal, family, relationships, etc – so if you don't turn out to be wealthy, you'll be rich in many other ways.
And you might even decide those riches are a lot more important than money.


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