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'They're betting that between now and November, you're going to come down with amnesia," President Obama told a Milwaukee crowd on Monday, vilifying the Republicans who "helped devastate our middle class." But it seems as if the real case of amnesia—or maybe post-traumatic stress disorder—has struck the Democrats, who are now doing everything they can to help voters forget ObamaCare.
This is a remarkable turn of events for Mr. Obama's major domestic achievement that was also supposed to be a political winner. Facing a grim November, Democrats are now running on another quarter-baked stimulus plan and the specter of John Boehner's perpetual tan, instead of the bill they spent more than a year debating and hailed as the liberal triumph of the century. Democrats now barely mention ObamaCare on the trail—unless they're trashing it.
In Milwaukee, the President made a few desultory mentions of "health care that will be there when you get sick." And in Cleveland Wednesday, his list of the iniquities from which he saved the country included "health insurance reform that stops insurance companies from jacking up your premiums at will."
But what about all the grandiose ambitions of universal coverage? What about bending the cost curve? The parade of horribles that would occur if Congress failed to act? "Our deficit will grow. More families will go bankrupt. More businesses will close. More Americans will lose their coverage when they are sick and need it most. And more will die as a result," as Mr. Obama put it in a speech to Congress a year ago.
The only politicians who today are finding any redeeming electoral value in ObamaCare are Republicans running on reform alternatives and the Democrats who voted against it. In South Dakota, four-term Democrat Stephanie Herseth Sandlin is running ads that tout her vote against "the trillion-dollar health-care plan." Mrs. Herseth Sandlin won in 2008 with 68% of the vote but now is in a dead heat against GOP challenger Kristi Noem.
Idaho freshman Walt Minnick says in one TV spot that "I've had to say no far more than I've said yes. I've said no to more government spending, no to President Obama's big health-care plan," because "standing up to what's wrong in Washington is right for Idaho." Pennsylvania's Jason Altmire, class of 2006, features constituents who say things like, "You saw when he voted against health care" and, "He's not afraid to stand up to the President."
Frank Kratovil from Maryland's eastern shore says he voted against ObamaCare and sundry other White House priorities because it was merely "common sense and doing what's best for our families." All these Members would be better off had their party used its historic majority for something else, but then again at least they're better off than Blue Dog colleagues like Earl Pomeroy (North Dakota) and Tom Perriello (Virginia) who voted for it and are in danger of defeat.
The Barney Franks and Pete Starks can continue to plug ObamaCare from their safe liberal redoubts. But the marginal seats are the ones that matter for controlling Congress. At any rate, even among the 219 House members and 60 Senators who voted for final passage, the new Democratic triage strategy seems to be to claim the bill is not perfect and could be improved, but it still has a heart of gold.
Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, who wrote most of the bill, attempted this line at an August townhall in Billings, Montana when he tried to calm an angry voter by saying, "Mark my words, several years from now, you're going to look back and say, 'Well, that wasn't so bad after all.'" Now there's an endorsement.
This public revolt comes despite the millions spent by Big Pharma and the Obama Administration to promote the bill since its passage. The Administration even rolled out ol' Andy Griffith of Mayberry for a plug, which has only hurt his reputation. This week two new pressure groups are forming to try again, the Health Information Center and the Health Information Campaign. These outfits were founded by former White House communications director Anita Dunn and Democratic strategist Andrew Grossman, formerly the executive director of Wal-Mart Watch, the Service Employees International Union-backed antibusiness outfit.
They plan to spend $2 million on TV advertising before the election to rebut ostensible "myths." Perhaps they have in mind the 1% to 9% premium increases that insurers nationwide are planning for individuals and small businesses to cover the cost of new mandated benefits, as the Journal's Janet Adamy reported.
These and many other emerging consequences of the bill—all of them predicted by opponents—are the reason it remains so unpopular. Democrats convinced themselves they could ram ObamaCare through Congress on the liberal noblesse oblige theory that the public would eventually come around, but their own campaign strategies now show how wrong they were. If Democrats are victims of their own success, so is everyone else—because despite the political second thoughts, the country is still stuck with this policy debacle.


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Full detailed profile on Rebecca Hotchkiss Played by Andrea Evans on Passions Daytime Soap Opera.
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Birthday: June 18, 1957
The doctor tells Ethan and Rebecca that Gwen's heartbeat is weakening and her blood pressure is dropping. The nurse comes back with the antidote and the doctor injects her with it. They all wait to see if the antidote has any effect. Rebecca and Ethan fear the antidote isn't working and they plead with Gwen to come back to them, as Theresa looks on worried. Sam enters the room with a balloon for Jonathan and learns that Gwen has been poisoned.
Ethan, Sam and Rebecca go out in the hall and Sam questions Ethan about what Gwen recently ate and drank. Ethan points out her tea and Sam takes the cup as evidence and to search for fingerprints. Tabitha thinks that's a great idea and realizes that Theresa's prints will be all over it. Theresa panics after hearing this as well and thinks she has to get rid of the cup. Ethan asks who would want to poison Gwen, the mother of a newborn? Rebecca spots Theresa and says she did it. Ethan defends her, but Rebecca says that Theresa has wanted to kill Gwen for years. Ethan stands by his woman and says that she would never do that, but if she did, where's the bottle of poison? Rebecca says that Theresa is a lying, cheating, snake, but she's not stupid, she would have gotten rid of the evidence.
The doctor comes out and tells everyone that the antidote seems to be working, but they will have to monitor Gwen for some time. Rebecca grows impatient and demands that Sam test the bottle. Annoyed at Rebecca ordering him around, Sam tells Rebecca that he will do just that and starts to leave. Theresa panics and stops Sam saying she needs to tell him something about the bottle and the poison. Theresa says she never meant to hurt Gwen and Ethan, again not hearing what Theresa is saying, tells her he knows she would never poison Gwen and defends her to everyone. Theresa then says Rebecca is right, she poisoned Gwen. Ethan is stunned and Theresa says she put the poison in her drink. Tabitha is very pleased and Rebecca demands that Sam arrest Theresa and put her in jail for attempted murder.
Everyone asks for an explanation from Theresa, but before she can say anything, Gwen's monitors go off and the nurse says she's taking a turn for the worse. Rebecca tries to physically attack Theresa saying it's her fault and she will she her in jail, but Sam holds her back. Ethan looks at Theresa and heartbrokenly asks, "Theresa? You confessed?" Tabitha revels at the thought of her plan working and Theresa quietly pleads for Gwen not to die. The nurse yells out that they're losing Gwen.
In another part of the hospital, Rebecca makes a call to Mexico, but gets a lot of static so she thinks to send an email instead. She tells the woman in her email that the Pilar Lopez she told her about is not the Pilar Lopez she wants to kill. Rebecca asks the woman to call off the assassin. Her message doesn't go through and Rebecca tries to resend it. While she waits for a response, she goes to the computer and looks to see if she's gotten any hits on her personal ad. In the process, she sees Jonathan's electronic chart and looks to see how the little guy is doing.
Rebecca comes back to see Gwen and tells her that she emailed the woman in Mexico. Ethan walks up and Rebecca tells them that she saw Jonathan's electronic chart and that the boy is fine. However, the doctor comes out and says there's been a change and it isn't good. The doctor says he needs to be hooked up to a machine to perform basic life functions and it will help Jonathan fight off the overdose he received. The doctor asks for Gwen's consent and she agrees to sign the papers. Ethan leaves and Gwen tells Rebecca that Jonathan's condition is karma for them putting out the hit on Pilar. Rebecca says she's done all she can to reverse the plan she's put into motion.
Rebecca goes into another part of the room and calls Mexico. She gets an answering machine and tells the woman to not send someone to kill Pilar. She hangs up and hopes the woman gets the message or else the entire Lopez-Fitzgerald family will be dead and Gwen will never let her hear the end of it.
Theresa watches as Gwen continues to drink her tea and notices that Gwen is talking to Ethan. She thinks the potion should be putting distance between them, not bringing them closer. Tabitha also watches and is concerned that Gwen isn't gasping for air by now. Suddenly, Gwen starts to choke uncontrollably and says she can't breathe. Theresa panics, worried about what she gave Gwen and Tabitha celebrates. Ethan and Rebecca come to Gwen's side as she drops to the floor and they call for help.
Rebecca enters another area of the hospital and calls Mexico saying she's going to talk to the person Pilar fears most so she can come and kill Pilar and her entire family. Rebecca talks to a woman with stark white hair and tells her that she's calling about Pilar Lopez. The woman says Pilar is evil and vile and wants to know what Rebecca knows about her. Rebecca tells her that it's her lucky day because she's going to tell her where Pilar is so she can kill her and her entire family. The woman wants to know who she is and Rebecca tells her she's someone who embraces revenge. The woman says they are kindred spirits and asks where Pilar is. Rebecca tells her she's in a town in New England called Harmony, but static makes it difficult for the woman to hear Rebecca. Rebecca again tells her where Pilar is and hangs up, but the woman only heard that Pilar is in New England.
Rebecca walks up to Gwen, Theresa and Ethan discussing what Gwen and Theresa were fighting about. Gwen calls Theresa selfish for wanting Ethan to leave the hospital to go to sports day. Ethan asks Theresa if she really expected him to leave his son to go to Little E's school. Theresa thinks to herself, "But Little Ethan is your son too." She says that she never wanted Ethan to leave if Jonathan was still in danger, but she didn't want Little E to be disappointed. Ethan doesn't understand why they are still talking about it since he thought both Little E and Theresa understood why he couldn't go. Rebecca chastises Theresa for asking Ethan to leave his sick son for another person's child. Ethan says it doesn't matter since he got Manny Ramirez to attend sports day and that Little E will be fine and they should drop the subject.
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Quote TheBluebird: I had hoped that Victor would finally acknowledge that Adam is a smart businessman & learn to bring him into the fold. Now that EB is acting so weird on Twitter, I'm afraid he might sabotage any plans that the writers might have for that direction.
I hope so and I hope they reprimand him
It would be nice if they at least talk to him about it. I follow Y&R stars & they have so much fun with each other. To read those accusations is very disheartening.
I think they need to simply because EB made a personal dig at a fellow actor. MM never took a dig at EB, in fact, he praised working with him. MM commented on storylines that have been universally panned and are, more than likely, the reason MAB got fired. If EB is going to take to tweeting, he needs to realize the difference between being critical of a storyline and being critical of a fellow actor. One should be allowed, in moderation, but the other never should be. EB crossed a professional line that shouldn't be allowed. He could have made his dig by simply leaving MM out of his praises (which he did). He didn't need to take it as far as he did.
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His nasty rude dig at MM was uncalled for and very unprofessional IMO.
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The fact that his family couldn't be bothered to call him to let him his own father is alive is disgusting. The have no problem getting in contact with him when they need a favor. I won't blame him one bit if the dark part of him starts to return.
Me either. It would be one thing if Adam was still being "evil" Adam but he's not. They've all seen him turning over a new leaf which is why they even bothered going to him this last time. Vicki, of all people, should have called/texted Adam. She wouldn't have her son, Johnny, if it weren't for Adam. He never even tried to take credit for it. He just did it. She owes him at least the ability to text him that their father is alive.
Good Morning All! Adam to the top! Let them keep treating him like sht he will get his fill and the grey will appear the sooner the better.
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My heart ached for Adam thanks to MMs potrayl of him. I know that Adam has done alot of horrible things but he has tried to make amends for those things whereas Victor has never had to truly apologize for what he does. They still forgive him for everything all because he's Victor and treat Adam like he's dirt beneath their fingernails. I hope that Adam makes them remember that he is a force to be recokned with. That don't care that he is trying to change so why should be keep trying to bend over backwards to get them to accept him.
Hated Little Nicky's smartarsed remark. He causing you trouble. Man Little Nicky needs to grow the he!! Up! Adam is way more man than Little Nicky will ever be.
Adam back to the top! I feel bad for him his dad not caring enough to even call him so sad. More fodder for the fire. Ready for Adam to come out on top.
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Just read this blog about MM. I glad people in the media are being supportive of him. Links below...
I will be so glad when Adams story lines pick up he needs to have something happen to put him back in the spot light and back in Daddy Dearest orbit.
Good Night All! We are getting closer to the new crews beginning and I hope we do not have to sit through more of what we have had to see the last 6 months. Adam needs to find his spark.
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Hardy upstaters mostly stood up to a double-barreled nor'easter that buried some communities in two feet of snow, but municipal officials said the density of the snow and a Saturday forecast for more posed public safety risks.
The storm that started Thursday morning and ended around 7 a.m. Friday dropped 14.4 inches of snow at Albany International Airport, but much more in other parts of the Capital Region. The Helderbergs, the Catskills and western Albany County were hit the hardest. Weather watchers measured 27 inches in South Berne and 24.2 inches in Guilderland Center, according to the National Weather Service.
The forecast for the weekend calls for more precipitation. Up to two inches of snow could fall Saturday, with temperatures topping out in the low 30s.
Road crews, some limited in resources, were hard-pressed to keep up with the driving snow, which fell at a rate of three inches per hour early Friday. Strong winds on Friday afternoon complicated the cleanup by blowing snow onto plowed roads. In Berne, five highway department workers cleaned 75 miles of roads on Thursday night, then went back out at 4 a.m. Friday, town Highway Superintendent Kenneth Weaver said.
"It was snowing, blinding," Weaver said. "It was definitely white-out conditions."
The snow came in waves all day Thursday and fell most intensely from midnight to 5 a.m. Friday, National Weather Service meteorologist Tom Wasula said. It ranked among the historic Valentine's Day storms of the last century. Set 100 years ago in 1914, the daily snowfall record for Feb. 14 in Albany is 23.5 inches, according to the weather service. Nearly 17 inches fell at the Albany airport on Feb. 13-14, 2007. "In the last seven years, we've had two pretty significant storms," Wasula said.
Elsewhere, this year's storm dumped 23 inches of snow in Westerlo; 20 inches in Ravena; 18 in Latham; 17 in Troy; 16 in Cohoes; 15.6 in Clifton Park; and 13 in Ballston Spa, Saratoga Springs, Niskayuna and Schenectady, according to the National Weather Service in Albany.
Police urged motorists to avoid all but essential travel. Westbound traffic on the state Thruway came to a stop early Friday after a tractor-trailer jackknifed between exits 25A and 26 in Schenectady County. In urban areas, many drivers were stuck in the snow on side streets. Still, Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple Sr. said that by Friday afternoon roads were in good shape.
"We had a handful of accidents," Apple said. "A lot of people were snowed in."
About 700 National Grid customers in Sharon, Schoharie County, lost power at around 12:45 p.m. Friday, company spokesman Patrick Stella said, when snow caused a tree branch to fall on a line. Power was restored in about an hour, Stella said. National Grid reported about 20 other outages across the region.
"The system held up pretty good," Stella said. Problems occur when winds pick up and snap snow-covered tree limbs, he said.
There was no loss of power and no roads were closed in Rensselaer County, said County Executive Kathy Jimino. "The trouble now is there is a lot of wind," she said. "We will have to address the blowing and drifting snow over the next few days."
Saratoga County Sheriff Michael Zurlo called on residents to help first responders by clearing paths to fire hydrants.
Thursday's snow started out fluffy but turned dense and heavy. It came during a punishing winter with above-average snowfall and below-average temperatures during January and February, according to the National Weather Service. The weather has been tough on municipal equipment. By 10 a.m. Friday, two of Berne's five plow trucks were in the town garage for repairs, one for a damaged plow blade, Weaver said.
The wind was expected to die down Friday evening. The forecast for the weekend, however, calls for more precipitation.
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The fat director in his piggy mien
Sitting in opulent oval office,
Wearing costly French suit
A delicate silk bow tie,
While the buttons are straining to keep
The belly from bursting out,
In performing callisthenic of the bulge.
Telephone rag, he lifted two of several
Dropped and picked with Havana stuck to his pout
And spoke rapidly with cheek dancing:
I want them in my piggy bank
I want the whole, as my piggy position is concern,
I will take seventy five per cent of the piggy taken
Forget about them,
Leave the piggy bubble project uncompleted
I will meet you for a brunch,
Masses rendered impotent, swallowed and wolves down
By the pig and his henchmen
Raining down hardship and flooded hopelessness,
Wiping up suffering and slashing death,
They fed and sold selfishness
And leave many to immeasurable loses,
To wash and watch shame
Inside the sewage of the rich
Presenting dramatic performance of bone to bone,
And starring, the ultimate Warrior Kwashiokor
For nouveau rich spectators applause,
Waifs and beggars begged and flogged more
Expectation refused to manifest in globe
Yet those who have expanded chests came out
To yell protestation but, castrated in their ranks.
The robbed queued in supplication to Almighty
Ears from the nooks of the ghettoes
From the air every blessed hour,
Wailing mulimukun sobbed Allah
That of rabbi baritone Jehovah Rapha
Enough! Prostration to lead infinite frustration
And threw hands up,
And supported the jaws with fragile limbs waiting
Aluta continua! Drummed the repressed voices,
With boundless bundle of fists thrown up
To face the militant ants with all laser weapon
Punctured, battered and marched down
Until the rout were silent;
Real war is not wage on the battlefield
But on a space minute than head of a pin,
World is just a rounder
Which urchins kick about in the streets,
The rule and regulation, don't bother
Whether pricked by volley
Or pretended thorns hidden all around
When permitting dribbling,
We are fools to the brim.
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U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., spoke Wednesday during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, taking a stance in opposition to gun control.
Here are some highlights from his remarks from the hearing:
• "I think I'm speaking for a lot of people when they say we're heartbroken when a family member is taken through an act of gun violence, whether it be a child or anyone else but particularly children. That's just a heartbreaking episode in society. And I think most people would appreciate the fact that there are thousands, if not millions of Americans who saved their families from home invasions or violent assault because they had a gun to protect themselves."
• "Let's talk about a real-world incident that happened in Loganville, Ga., on Jan. 4. My basic premise is that one bullet in the hand of a mentally unstable person or a convicted felon is one too many. Six bullets in the hands of a mother protecting her twin 9-year-olds may not be enough. So, I've got a chart here. At the very top is a .38 revolver and on the right is a 9-millimeter pistol that holds 15 rounds.
"Does everybody on the panel agree that a convicted felon should not have either one of those guns? Does everybody agree that a mentally unstable person shouldn't have either one of those pistols? OK, common ground there.
"Put yourself in the shoes of the mother. The guy broke into the home. She ran upstairs. She hid in a closet. She got on the phone to the police. And she was talking to her husband in real time. The intruder broke into the home, had a crowbar and he found them in the closet. And they were confronted – confronted face to face. According to (a) media report, her husband said, "shoot, shoot." She emptied the gun, a six-shot revolver. The guy was hit five of the six times. He was able still to get up and drive away.
"My question is: Put your family member in that situation. Would I be a reasonable American to want my family to have the 15-round magazine in a semi-automatic weapon to make sure that if there's two intruders, she doesn't run out of bullets? Am I an unreasonable person for saying that in that situation, the 15-round magazine makes sense? Well, I'll say I don't believe I am. So I can give you an example of where a 15-round magazine could make the difference between protecting a family if there's more than one attacker."
Sen. Graham speaks out against gun control
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Police chief: Man threatened officers with screwdriver
SAN ANTONIO - San Antonio police identified a man who was shot and killed by one of their officers on the city's Northwest side.
The officer who fired the shot was originally responded to a call for help from the man's girlfriend about 8:30 p.m. Saturday.
When they arrived at the home in the 3700 block of Tupelo Lane, the officers spotted Derrick Smith, 26, running into a bathroom and locking the door, according to Chief William McManus.
Smith already was bleeding from self-inflicted cuts, and because he was injured, McManus says the officers kicked in the bathroom door.
One of the officers then deployed a Taser in order to bring the situation under control.
"It did not work. He ripped out the prongs and advanced toward the officers,." McManus says. "At that time, one officer, the backup officer, shot and he was killed there in the bathroom."
McManus says Smith was holding a screwdriver at the time.
The officer who fired the shot is on administrative leave.
McManus says he has been with the police department for about a year and a half.
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text: Gavin Rich - SuperSportJohannesburg - John Smit believes the key to his Springbok team's chances of beating Australia in their fifth Vodacom Tri-Nations encounter at Loftus on Saturday will be the level of intensity they can bring to the game – and he is 100% on the money. Australia have over the years displayed a penchant for imploding on the Highveld, and if the Boks care to look back through the history books, they will be emboldened by the knowledge that often the Wallabies have conspired against themselves when playing at upcountry venues. If you speak to former Australian coach Eddie Jones he will tell you how cowed Australian players tend to be when they get on a plane and the destination is a match in Johannesburg and Pretoria – and this year they have two matches scheduled for the Highveld. Unlike the All Blacks, Australia have elected not to stay at altitude in the buildup to Saturday's match. Instead they have spent the weekend in Cape Town, and will fly to Johannesburg on Thursday, and next week they will be staying in Durban for most of it. The decision to build up at the coast was taken jointly by the coaching staff and the players, but coming up two days before does seem like an odd decision. The conventional wisdom is that you go to altitude either on the day of the match or a week before if you want to stand the best chance of acclimatising. But while the Wallabies may find the dry fields and air of Loftus and the hostile atmosphere of Pretoria a far cry from the more moist air and softer fields of Cape Town, the Boks nonetheless need to tread warily going into two matches they should be expected to win. The Wallabies appear to have seen what many others saw at FNB Stadium this past weekend, where the All Blacks came from behind to beat a Bok team that was clearly out on its feet in the last quarter. They have made no bones about the fact that they will be trying to outpace and out-last a team they feel only plays in patches. The one big thing that should be of concern to South Afrcans is the level of intensity the Boks through into last week's big occasion match. Can they repeat it again, or did they in a sense play their final then and now their emotion is spent? Only Saturday will tell, but Smit is under no illusions as to what is needed. "The Australians play with a different style to the All Blacks and are not as physical, but for us to win we are going to have to take the same intensity into the Loftus match that we had last Saturday," said Smit. Of course, what he did not add was that the intensity has to last for 80 minutes, and not just 60, and it is going to be crucial for the Boks to put points on the board if they dominate the early stages of the game when they will still be fired by the emotion of Victor Matfield's 100th appearance and the experience of being back on a field that so many of them regard as their stomping ground. Australia vary their attacking game much more than New Zealand do, and the defensive system is going to have be even more efficient than it was in the first half last week. Halfbacks Will Genia and Quade Cooper offer attacking options through the middle and on their inside, where skipper Rocky Elsom is a key ball carrier. But Smit, who says the disappointment of the last minute defeat to the All Blacks has been swept away by the focus that needs to be put on the next game, reckons that it is less about what the Wallabies are going to do and more about what his own team need to do. "We need to step away a bit and think less about what we are playing against and more about what we are going to do. We must focus on ourselves and getting our game right and not worry too much about the opposition."


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This is my Nanna. My beloved, dear, sweet Nanna who has been there for me all my life. More than a grandmother, she played a big part in helping to raise me when my parents divorced and was always the foundation stone of my life. Sometimes I feel like my mum and I are more like sisters and we both share the loss of this amazing mother. She was gentle, wise and compassionate and I will miss her more than words can possibly express.
She went to bed last Thursday and died peacefully in her sleep. It came as a shock to all the family – she was 86 and wasn't in the best of health, but it wasn't expected.
But I'm afraid there's more.
This one will probably be harder for a lot of my loyal readers. I'm sorry to have to tell you that Basil is no longer with us.
He picked up a little after Christmas, but I've known for a while now that he had a probable tumour and we have monitored him carefully over the last few weeks. We decided last week that we needed to talk to the vet and today we all agreed that he was only going to suffer more and more as time went on and it was time to let him go.
What else can I say. There's no point trying to describe how I'm feeling, I could go on for pages and pages, but I don't really have the energy. Life goes on, we still have Adrian's parents to care for and even though Derrick is home, he's not really ready for it. He's managed to have a pretty serious fall and hit his head and hurt his arm quite badly. To add insult to injury, his doctors surgery just burnt down at the weekend. You couldn't make it up really, could you!
Nanna's funeral is next week and I will be coming back and getting straight into preparations for the Harrogate show. I know there's a lot of people thrilled to bits that we are going back to some shows this year, but I need to ask you all to do something for me – don't mention this stuff. I know the natural reaction is to offer sympathy, to pass on condolences, to offer a quick touch on the hand or a sympathetic smile – it's exactly what I would want to do and in any other environment, I would appreciate it. However, it is all going to be so raw, that the kindest thing you can do for me at the shows is to let me put my "professional head" on, focus on the crafting and not think about this. The majority of people who will see us at the shows probably don't read the blog and wouldn't understand if I dissolve into tears because someone gives me a hug.
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With each issue of this magazine, I find myself exploring new territories. I am interested in how art influences fashion and how in turn these two disciplines influence almost everything from architecture and interior design to popular culture. A few issues ago, we featured the Norwegian artist Rune Guneriussen, who produces magical images of lamps in the wilderness. They are at once installation, photography and sculpture. However, only months after publishing the article, I saw an advert on television for a certain Scandinavian company and their campaign had a similar idea. I couldn't believe it. In a nutshell, this was the process of influence and saturation in full form.
The June issue of Aesthetica follows such an ideology – many of the artists featured are moving between sectors and providing true proof that innovation still exists today. We take a look at the new phenomenon of re-purposing shipping containers and turning them into luxurious homes. The idea that something which has defined modern times is now being reused in the domestic sphere is fascinating. It shows humankind's insatiable appetite for invention. Kostas Murkudis's rejection of mass production is presented in a show that's not so much a retrospective but more a timely appraisal. Influenced by sculpture, he has reinvented the catwalk by allowing models to dress themselves in front of audiences.
In photography, we've curated a selection of works that inspire – from Lori Nix's detailed scenes that depict an apocalyptic world but in miniature to Ellie Davies's lush images of forests overlaid with actual images from the Hubble telescope, humanising the universe. How we inhabit spaces is a theme explored in Carlo Cafferini's detailed images of buildings, capturing the detail and somehow a uniqueness which can be found in repetition. We also take a look at the show Modernities, which traces hidden moments in an industrialised society. In film, we look at the new documentary Good Girl, which portrays the filmmaker's ordeal coping with depression. Finally, Candida Höfer offers you the last words. Enjoy!
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text: A few years ago, the county commissioner back in my little hometown in western PA wanted to feed roadkill to inmates of the county jail. His reasoning: About once a day, someone in the county hits a deer with a car or truck. One carcass alone can yield up to 120 quarter-pound burgers and serving roadkill would reduce food cost $2.30 per day per prisoner. Nothing ever came of it. Well, except it was "fodder" for a lot of jokes...:laugh:


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Approved Code of Practice for the Management of Noise in the Workplace (2002 edition)
The principal objective of the code of practice is to reduce the incidence and severity of hearing loss resulting from excessive noise exposure in workplaces. The most effective and reliable way to prevent and control this significant hazard is to eliminate, or at least quieten the sources of noise to which employees are exposed.
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The HSE Regulations set out minimum standards employers and others in control of workplaces must meet to be certain they've taken "all practicable steps". Regulation 11 requires employers to take all practicable steps to ensure that no employee is exposed to noise above an average level of 85db over eight hours, or a peak level of 140db – whether or not the employee is wearing a personal hearing protector.
Available by clicking on the 'Statutory Regulations' button at: www.legislation.govt.nz.
AS/NZS 1269 (1998): Occupational Noise Management
This Standard sets out requirements for, and provides guidance on, the types of noise assessments which may be necessary and suitable noise measuring instruments to carry them out. The procedures for noise measurement are also included. This document can be purchased online.
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Update: Out now on Beatport. 3/19/13: We're all for pumping your own stuff up, and we're definitely fans of both Billy The Kit and Jacob van Hage. That being said, here's the official description for "This Record": This is the record that will blow up every dancefloor worldwide. This is the record that will rock [cont.]
It's been a hot minute since we've heard from Peace Treaty, but they've come back with a dope new mashup of recent tracks from Wolfgang Gartner and Jacob Van Hage & Saint Liz.
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The Blue Devil coaching staff will find out if their 2012 class will have another member besides Rasheed Sulaimon when Amile Jefferson announces his college decision Tuesday night. Jefferson will decide between Duke, Kentucky, and N.C. State.
Fellow class of 2012 forward Anthony Bennett recently spurned Kentucky for UNLV, which could help the Wildcats' chances to land Jefferson given the increased availability of playing time in Lexington now. Furthermore, the Wildcat coaching staff has reportedly pursued Jefferson harder in recent weeks. N.C. State, however, might be the favorite to land Jefferson.
Furthermore, Wright State transfer guard Julius Mays has chosen to attend Kentucky and will be available immediately for his final year of eligibilty, leading to speculation as to whether or not the Wildcats have spot on their roster now for Jefferson.
Two weeks ago, Duke made an offer to Robert Hubbs, who is a 6-foot-6 guard/wing in the class of 2013 from Newbern, Tenn. Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski offered Hubbs a scholarship after watching him and his AAU teammate Austin Nichols, who also holds a scholarship offer from Duke. Hubbs' offer was quite surprising to most fans considering that he was not really a household name on the national recruiting scene until Duke suddenly entered his recruitment. A large contingent of SEC schools are strongly pursuing Hubbs and he recently took an unofficial visit to Missouri. Hubbs is the 17th ranked shooting guard in the class of 2013 according to scout.com. ESPN does not have Hubbs ranked at this time.
Since getting a scholarship offer from Duke, Nichols has seen his recruitment blow up. The 6-foot-8 big man now has scholarship offers from nearly 40 schools, including Kansas, North Carolina and Ohio State, among many others.
2013 wing target Semi Ojeleye narrowed his list of schools down to Duke, Wisconsin, Arizona, Stanford, UCLA, Indiana, Kansas State, Oregon, Missouri and Kansas. Duke and Kansas are the only two schools on Ojeleye's list that have not offered him a scholarship.
The two Kansas schools are thought to be major players for Ojeleye. The powerfully built, 6-foot-6 2013 wing from Ottawa, Kan. has an older brother who plays for Kansas State. It remains to be seen though if Kansas will offer a scholarship to Ojeleye, who only lives 30 miles from Lawrence, given that 2013 swingman Brannen Greene has already committed to the Jayhawks. Kansas head coach Bill Self has a solid track record of keeping quality in-state kids in Kansas, so many fans expect Ojeleye to receive a scholarship offer from the Jayhawk coaching staff. Ojeleye is a terrific student in addition to being one of the best wing prospects in the class of 2013, which will likely play a role in his college decision.
Duke already has offers out to 2013 wings Hubbs, Ishmail Wainright, Jabari Parker and Matt Jones, who committed last November. Mississippi State transfer Rodney Hood, who won't be eligible to play until 2013-14, is also being courted by Duke. The Duke coaches closely monitored Ojeleye during the first two sessions of the Nike EYBL and he could very well receive a scholarship offer over the summer.
Many of Duke's 2013 and 2014 prospects including Jones, Julius Randle, Parker, Jahlil Okafor, Theo Pinson, Wainright, Ojeleye, Allerik Freeman, Anthony Barber, Marcus Lee, and JaQuel Richmond, among others, competed in the third session of the Nike EYBL in Dallas, Texas over the weekend. Tyus Jones, one of the Duke's most sought after recruits, did not play as he was battling an illness.
The fourth session of the Nike EYBL will be May 25-28 in Oakland, Cali.
Justise Winslow is a name that has recently emerged on Duke's 2014 recruiting radar. The Houston native is a smooth 6-foot-6 wing that has a very well rounded game. According to scout.com, Arizona, Baylor and Texas, among several others, have already offered him a scholarship.
Similarly, Austin Grandstaff is another Texan who is drawing interest from Duke even though he is only in the class of 2015. At 6-foot-4, Grandstaff is a quality shooter and has the ability to play both point guard and shooting guard.


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Thanks to the PlayStation 4′s Play As You Download feature, PS4 gamers will be able to play any of their digital games from any system without having to wait hours for a game to download.
"You can visit your friends house you can log into your account and play any game from your digital library, which is good," said Neil Brown, Sony Sony's R&D senior team leader, speaking at Develop. "But how useful is that if it takes half a day to download the game you want to play? With Play As You Download you get much quicker access to at least the first section of the game so you can start playing quicker. So this makes a digital library a practical option in the real world."
Brown went on to note that a similar system is in place for physical Blu-ray games.
Chunks of data "are automatically copied to the hard drive in the background. This means that after the first few minutes your game can rely on having faster read speeds from the hard drive. Which provides a better experience for players, and this is a completely background process for the player. They don't have to wait for anything to install before playing the game. The game will launch as soon as the disk has been put in the drive."
The instant boot-to-game functionality of the PS4, combined with the background downloading and installing, are what make the PS4 truly "next-gen" in my book, more than simply the improvement in graphics.
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Microsoft Microsoft's attempt to make digital games the future of the Xbox One by essentially handicapping the second-hand game market ended with a major policy reversal. Both Sony and Microsoft need to realize that in order for gamers to adopt a digital future, certain incentives will need to be in place including things like Download As You Play and the right price-points for digital titles as well as viable, reliable cloud services.
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CORPUS CHRISTI - The National Swimming Center Corp.'s plans for Memorial Coliseum are officially back on the table. Two other plans — one to reconsider a proposal dismissed last week and another to let the owner of a hockey team refurbish the building — aren't off the table.
During a second conference call between the swimming group and the city, the group agreed Monday to give the City Council a presentation about its plans for the coliseum.
It's tentatively set for Nov. 10, the council's next meeting.
"If they get their act together, there's no reason to throw them out," Mayor Joe Adame said. "The whole (coliseum bidding) process was started because there was hope they could do something."
The council voted 4-3 last week to end negotiations with Brass Real Estate. Some council members said they wanted to reconsider the swimming corporation, Brass' runner-up in the bid process.
Brass proposed converting the coliseum into an ice rink and home for the Corpus Christi IceRays and developing a hotel, shops, restaurants, apartments, a theater and a parking garage.
City lawyers are evaluating whether the council can consider another offer, from IceRays majority owner Tim Lange, City Economic Development Director Irma Caballero said. After the council voted down Brass, Lange offered separately to refurbish and operate the coliseum.
Whether Lange's offer can be considered is unclear because he was a member of the Brass proposal team and his separate offer is outside the city's bid process. The city can consider the swimming corporation because it was the runner-up in the bidding.
Adame said he would be surprised if the council entertained Lange's proposal because it moves a tenant of the American Bank Center to the coliseum without added development.
"There's no way I could support something like that," he said.
The city can reconsider Brass' proposal only if one of the council members who voted to end negotiations makes a motion to reconsider the vote. At least two members who voted to kill the deal would have to change their minds because reversing votes requires a two-thirds majority.
Adame said he reviewed the negotiation documents and understood why four members voted to end negotiations. He said he was unsure whether he would support reopening negotiations if another member suggested it.
He has abstained on votes because he owns land nearby but is awaiting a legal opinion on whether he can weigh in on the issue.
David O'Connell, who is leading a group of residents who want the swim center, said the group will be more willing than Brass to make the project work. His group hopes to enter negotiations with the city after its presentation, he said.
The swimming corporation, an Austin-based nonprofit, hasn't yet built a pool. It is in negotiations with Cape Coral, Fla., for a larger center.
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But unlike the vision, the actual president has turned out to be exceptionally small-minded. His enemies list has grown long — Fox News, the Chamber of Commerce, the "professional left," talk show hosts, the lazy liberal base, the 24/7 media cycle, Wall Street, the House minority leader, and on it goes. He persists in reducing the prestige of his office and decimating the image of himself as a unifier. As Ed Gillespie has pointed out: "This kind of rhetoric and behavior only reinforces the idea that [Obama] is not up for the office. … It's just the latest in a long litany of demons that they've tried to attack, going all the way back to Rush Limbaugh, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell … it's what they do."
It's been a turn-off for independents, who find this sort of behavior unseemly, and it hasn't — if this was the intention — managed to keep the base pumped up. Instead, Obama has elevated his opponents and further eroded his credibility. It's a sign of tone-deafness both in the White House and in a president who temperamentally cannot tolerate dissent or criticism. He must vilify opponents, not simply rebut their arguments.
We will find out if this is a flawed strategy born of Chicago bully-boys or a reflection of the president's core personality. The former is reversible, the latter probably isn't. The liberal punditocracy has speculated that John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are no match for Obama and that Congress will overreach by appearing too confrontational. There is always that possibility. But those theories assume that the president has a winning persona and is adept at staying above the fray. His first two years have shown just the opposite.
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Schools can't afford foreign language courses, sports programs or music classes. But they found funds for dieticians?
Besides, the hocus-pocus they're practicing is not an exact science. There is a big argument going on among doctors and scientists as to what a BMI really means. For one thing, in measuring body mass, it doesn't distinguish fat from muscle.
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Mahtab Singh, a Sikh hailing from India, sips a milk-tea in a food court in Sugar Land, just south of Houston city-limits. Enjoying the sunshine, he is dressed in business attire, sleeves rolled up, wearing a traditional dastar, or turban. Tables around him include Anglos, other Indians/Pakistanis and a few Vietnamese. The scene reflects Houston's […] [Read More]
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It's that time of year when just about every website, magazine, blog or news outlet is putting up Top 10, or even 12, lists for 2012, noting the most "intriguing people" of the year and counting down the best and worst of what was the first year of the second decade of the twenty-first century. […] [Read More]
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"Religion is always, first and foremost, local; it lives and thrives in particular places, cultures and people," said Timothy Beal, a professor of religious studies at Case Western Reserve University. Perhaps that is why, over the last several years, Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston (IMGH) has hosted its Dinner Dialogues series introducing the interested to […] [Read More]
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A gurdwara is a peaceful place where Sikhs learn spiritual wisdom and gather for prayer, food and companionship. It is the last place where tragedy is supposed to strike. But on Sunday August 5 around 10:30am at a gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin a lone gunman, Wade Michael Page, entered this peaceful place of prayer […] [Read More]
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LINC Houston mission pastor and University of Houston outreach chaplain Rev. Vijay Gurrala is a native of India, but his heart is for ministry here in Houston. Serving as a chaplain and working with Our Redeemer Lutheran Basilica of India he reaches out to Asian-Indian immigrants in a variety of ways, celebrating Jesus and Indian […] [Read More]
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Looking for a new autopilot? It's worth considering this one. The Evolution Autopilot by Raymarine has won top honours at the 2013 National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) International Marine Electronics Conference & Expo, winning the NMEA-BWI Technology Award.
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The NMEA event, held at the San Diego Sheraton Hotel & Marina recently, was attended by representatives of leading marine electronics manufacturers, dealers, distributors, media, and others from the United States and abroad.
Three members of Boating Writers International (BWI) selected the winners from a dozen entries of recently introduced marine electronics products, based on innovation, benefit to boaters, practicality, and value.
In presenting the award, head judge Bill Bishop, who writes The Marine Installer's Rant blog, said, 'The new Raymarine autopilot, after a simple dockside set-up, automatically teaches itself how to steer the boat, and linearizes the compass. This artificial intelligence feeling system eliminates the traditional sea trial autopilot calibration, and when coupled with the mount-almost-anywhere heading sensor made it a technology stand out.' Bishop is also a contributor to Practical Sailor and owns Parmain Boatworks.
Runners-up were Nobeltec's TimeZero app (first) and Garmin's quatix marine watch (second).
The heart of the Evolution system is Raymarine's EV sensor core, which contains a nine-axis sensor system for precise monitoring of pitch, roll, yaw, and heading. It also contains all of the autopilot's guidance electronics. This reduces the size of the traditional autopilot core pack to an ultracompact five-inch disc that can be mounted just about anywhere above or below decks.
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EaselJS is a free JavaScript library that makes creating interactive web content for HTML5 more straightforward and intuitive. This course transitions web designers, animators, and content creators who may be used to working with Adobe Flash and ActionScript to this new open web standard. Author Ray Villalobos first explains the capabilities of the EaselJS framework and the HTML5 Canvas element, and what they mean for web design. The rest of the course shows how to use EaselJS's helper classes and hierarchal display list to load images, draw, animate, and handle mouse input from visitors.
Describing graphics with any programming language can yield very long files. EaselJS lets you combine methods together, so that complex objects can be described in a single line of code. It also lets you use shortcuts for some of the commands. Even the values within commands can be shortened and this is pretty exciting so let's take a look. I am starting off with a basic HTML template and a modified version of the end product of the video on defining lines and strokes, so make sure you take a look at that video if you need to understand how to define strokes and shapes.
So we have a graphic and a sequence of line commands. We can chain this together by putting all of the graphic commands one after the other. EaselJS is going to draw the graphic just fine. So what I am going to do is take this second graphic command and then delete the part that says shape.graphics and then attach it to the other command. So I am going to save and come over here and refresh, and you see that it still draws the exact same shape. As a matter of fact, I could just take all of these graphic commands and chain them one after the other to make my graphic fit in one line.
So I do that with all of these line commands and now our shape is all in one line of code. So I'll save this and I'll refresh, and you see it still draws the exact same shape. Now that's pretty cool, but that's not all. The graphic commands can also be condensed so that they are shorter. We can take a single command like beginStroke and just use the letter s. This is going to work with or without chaining, so the setStroke command becomes ss, moveTo command becomes mt, lineTo command becomes lt and others.
Most of the time, the shorter commands are going to be pretty easy for you to figure out. So let's check this out. Instead of begin stroke I can just use the letter s. Instead of setStrokeStyle I can just use ss, instead of moveTo I can just use the letters mt, lineTo becomes lt and closePath becomes cp. You see the shape is still drawn in exactly the same way. I can even take some of these defaults and convert into a numeric value.
So round is the second option, so it gets a 1, and this other round is also the second option, so that can get a 1 as well, and now an entire graphic fits within a very short line of code. You may want to go to the EaselJS documentation to find out what the default values for some of the commands are. So here for example on setStrokeStyle, you can see that you can assign values either by using names or also numbers. Chaining drawing commands lets you organize your graphics and makes it easy to copy and paste a single object.
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