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YOUTUBE: Rep. Charlie Rangel sasses Luke Russert http://bit.ly/9K024U
OBAMA: VILSACK "JUMPED THE GUN" ON SHERROD -- The president told Elisabeth Leamy, "Good Morning America" consumer correspondent, who interviewed him yesterday on Wall Street reform, that Agriculture Secretary Vilsack "jumped the gun, partly because we now live in this media culture where something goes up on YouTube or a blog and everybody scrambles. … I've told my team and I told my agencies that we have to make sure that we're focusing on doing the right thing instead of what looks to be politically necessary at that very moment. We have to take our time and, and think these issues through. … If there's a lesson to be drawn from this episode, it's that rather than us jumping to conclusions and pointing fingers at each other, we should all look inward and try to examine what's in our own hearts."
--"THE AGE OF RAGE" -- John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei: "Get ready for more of the same. … Responsible people in power and in the mainstream media are only beginning to grapple with this new environment -- in which facts hardly matter except as they can be used as weapon or shield in a nonstop ideological war. Do you dive in to the next fact-lite partisan outrage -- or do you stay out and risk looking slow, stupid or irrelevant? … So, despite a new burst of hand-wringing, … many commentators predicted in interviews that Shirley Sherrod will soon enough be regarded as merely another footnote in the Age of Rage." http://bit.ly/9gZjBZ
POLITICO has a 42-page glossy mag out today, "50 Politicos to Watch" -- The freshmen: Sen. Scott Brown, Rep. Alan Grayson, Rep. Steve Scalise, Rep. Jared Polis, Rep. Gregg Harper … Instant GOP stars: Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Kristi Noem, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Rep. Paul Ryan …Rising Obamans: David Plouffe, Chuck Hagel, Cecilia Munoz, Chris Gregoire, Jennifer Granholm … The Obama generation: Ben LaBolt, Joshua DuBois, Heather Zichal, Nancy Hogan, Alaina Beverly … The game changers: Beth Noveck, Lisa Jackson, Jay Angoff, Alec Ross, David Vladeck … Top 2012 staffer gets: Gentry Collins, Mike DuHaime, Anne Hathaway, Rob Jesmer, Nick Ayers … The anointed: Ian Gershengorn, Preeta Bansal, Caitlin Halligan … Next-generation military: Adm. James Stavridis, Maj. Gen. Suzanne Vautrinot, Brig. Gen. Rhonda Cornum … Media stars: Dave Weigel, David Chalian, Jason Horowitz, Matea Gold, Jennifer Steinhauer … The scenemakers: Jim Courtovich, Reggie Love, Andrew Breitbart, Tammy Haddad, Terry McAuliffe … The fixers: Bob Barnett, Philippe Reines, Samantha Tubman, Thomas Boggs Jr.
--All the profiles http://politi.co/9U3GLx The list http://politi.co/aY6I44
BIRTHWEEK: Gwen Ward and Mason Black, both 1.
BIRTHDAYS: Warren Bass (hat tip: Anu Rangappa) … David Brock … Alex Pareene … Melinda Wittstock (h/ts Patrick Gavin).
WHOSE BUMPER IS THIS? http://politi.co/dbKjx7 (Hint: It was parked outside Poste during last night's Clinton staff-press power dinner. The bison and soft-shell crabs were popular. SPOTTED, in a booth near Joel's private room: Axe and Maureen Orth.)
SPOTTED: Senator Mikulski, celebrating her 74th birthday at Proof, with champagne and tuna tartar, and friends Wendy Sherman and Nikki Heidepriem. The senator was just back from New York, where she saw her friend, former Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, and husband, John, renew their vows on their 50th anniversary.
** A message from Intel: For decades, Intel has produced the world's most advanced microprocessors right here in America-and is continuing that legacy with U.S. capital investments of $7 billion in '09 and '10. **
Good Friday morning. DIGGING DOWN -- L.A. Times lead story, "FINANCE REFORM LAW TO REWARD TIPSTERS," by David G. Savage: "Tucked in the massive bill is a provision that for the first time extends a concept long applied to government contracts to the private sector. It gives whistle-blowers a mandatory 10% -- and as much as 30% -- of what the government recoups in fines and settlements in financial fraud cases. These can include insider trading, false earnings reports and Ponzi schemes. To claim a bounty, the whistle-blower must provide the Securities and Exchange Commission with 'original information' that … leads to a recovery."
NETROOTS NATION OPENS IN VEGAS -- Firedoglake's Gregg Levine blogs a training session, "Covering Congress: The Art of Insider Citizen Reporting": "Being on the Hill, getting noticed by staffers and members is important. Counterpoint to lobbyists from private firms. Lobbyists pay 'line sitters' – folks that are paid by lobbyists up to $1K just to hold a space, sometimes overnight, so the lobbyists can get front row seats. FDL go involved in exposing this during the healthcare reform hearings. You can now watch Cap Hill online. Most committees now livestream, but there is no standard format or way to find them. Main St. Insider is trying to standardize and provide one stop shop for this info." http://bit.ly/aWEcxR "Day 1 impressions" http://bit.ly/9hr8bb
--COUNTERPROGRAMMING: House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.), speaking this afternoon to conservative activists at the Americans for Prosperity Foundation's RightOnline Conference, also in Vegas: "A nation conceived in liberty has come of age in bondage to big government. We've lost respect in the world. We are going broke. And our social and cultural fabric is unraveling. In the face of failed leadership by Washington Democrats, our party must produce a vision for a better America." http://rightonline.com
THE AGENDA -- "Kerry Says Democrats May Take Broad Climate Bill After Election," by Bloomberg's Lisa Lerer and Viola Gienger: "Senator John Kerry said Democrats may take up his comprehensive climate-change bill in a lame-duck session after the November elections, while calling on President Barack Obama to escalate his advocacy for the measure. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yesterday introduced a more limited energy bill that doesn't include a cap on greenhouse gas emissions, citing the lack of support for a broader bill. The bigger measure 'is not dead,' Kerry said in an interview on Bloomberg Television's 'Political Capital With Al Hunt.' 'If it is after the election, it may well be that some members are free and liberated and feeling that they can take a risk or do something.'"
--"Climate bill blame game begins," by Darren Samuelsohn: "One exasperated administration official lambasted environmentalists or failing to effectively lobby GOP senators. 'They didn't deliver a single Republican,' the official told POLITICO. 'They spent like $100 million and they weren't able to get a single Republican convert on the bill.'" http://bit.ly/anUKJo
TOP STORY -- "Rangel trial looms after secret talks break down," by John Bresnahan: "Thursday's unexpected announcement that the House ethics committee would begin a trial on ethics charges leveled against Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) came after a secret, months-long effort to settle the case fell apart … [T]he conditions for a settlement included a public apology by Rangel for his ethical transgressions in exchange for lesser sanctions … One source close to Rangel suggested a compromise still may be reached next week … Behind-the-scenes negotiations to settle the case between Rangel and Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Jo Bonner (R-Ala.), the chairwoman and ranking member of the ethics committee, began in earnest in May, and continued into this week … Several House insiders suggested Rangel wanted to string out the talks even longer … 'He didn't want to do a deal, that's for sure,' said a House official briefed on the talks … [T]he ethics committee shocked him with the announcement." http://bit.ly/cMI7MT
THE NARRATIVE -- DAVID IGNATIUS COLUMN FOR SUNDAY: Obama's script could "blow up in November": "If you want a handle on what ails the Obama administration (and who doesn't, these days), try thinking about it as the 'scripted' presidency. Barack Obama has been very good at following his mental teleprompter -- he has passed health care and much of the rest of the legislative agenda he campaigned on, as his supporters rightly keep stressing. But he has been less successful at responding to the roiling free-for-all of events that is part of governing. For … Lyndon Johnson or Bill Clinton, it's these unplanned events that make the job exciting … By contrast, Obama and his advisers seem to avoid these moments whenever possible … The president gives few news conferences, and the ones he does hold are often wooden events, with little of the spontaneity and human theater that allow the country to get to know its leader. … [H]is answers are overlong and taxonomic. ... Here's what I hope, as someone who wants Obama to succeed: His script is going to blow up in November. It's increasingly likely that Democratic House and Senate losses will be so large that Obama will have to scramble all the time. 'Staying on message' and 'no drama' won't be options in the freewheeling political environment that's coming."
BREITBART: "I AM PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1 OR 2 TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY" -- Kenneth P. Vogel: "An unrepentant Andrew Breitbart told POLITICO on Thursday that the Obama administration and its allies have manufactured a controversy over the video he posted of Shirley Sherrod's speech to the NAACP as part of an orchestrated effort to take him down. 'I am public enemy No. 1 or 2 to the Democratic Party, the progressive movement and the Obama administration based upon the successes my journalism has had,' Breitbart said in a telephone interview late Thursday morning as he headed to the airport for what he said was a long-planned, three-day vacation. … Breitbart [defended] the footage he posted as 'a self-contained newsworthy video that established the media standard of pointing out that the NAACP countenanced racism in its own award dinner setting. That was the point. That was the point. And the video proves it.' He offered no apology to Sherrod but said that she has not been held accountable for the racial overtones of what she said. 'If anybody reads the sainted, martyred Sherrod's entire speech, this person has not gotten past black vs. white.'" http://bit.ly/ddJsXk
2010 -- 102 days till Nov. 2:
--PLAYING DEFENSE -- "DCCC buys time in 40 districts," by Alex Isenstadt: "The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has [reserved] $28 million in air time to defend vulnerable incumbents … Most of the buys are designed to shore up vulnerable first-term Democrats … The committee is also devoting resourcing to helping a small group of veteran lawmakers facing unusually stiff challenges, including South Carolina Rep. John Spratt, who chairs the House Budget Committee; Missouri Rep. Ike Skelton, who chairs the House Armed Services Committee; North Dakota Rep. Earl Pomeroy, Pennsylvania Rep. Paul Kanjorski, Texas Rep. Chet Edwards and Iowa Rep. Leonard Boswell. In a sign that Republicans have succeeded in broadening the playing field for the midterm campaign, the DCCC bought time in several districts represented by members previously viewed as safe, including Ohio Rep. Betty Sutton, Texas Rep. Ciro Rodriguez and Florida Rep. Allen Boyd. Of the 40 districts the DCCC has invested in, only one is an open-seat race: Kansas's 3rd Congressional District, where Stephene Moore is hoping to keep the seat her represented by her husband, retiring Rep. Dennis Moore, in Democratic hands." Full list http://bit.ly/9vF7RV
--TRACKER VIDEO: REID OPPONENT DUCKS MEDIA, MAKING PREGNANT REPORTER FOLLOWER HER TO PARKING LOT -- "Angle walks away from media," by Andy Barr: "Sharron Angle walked out of an event to which her campaign invited reporters … After giving a three-minute speech on Wednesday on her desire to repeal the estate tax, Angle was asked to make herself available to answer questions from the assembled reporters. Angle turned around without saying a word and left the event, as a video provided by the Nevada Democratic Party shows. Angle was followed out of the event by several camera crews and reporters. Without speaking to the media, Angle got into a white Jeep Cherokee with a campaign aide and left the event. According to the Las Vegas Sun, Wednesday's event was the first to which the press had been invited since she won the June 9 Republican primary. The Nevada Republican has spoken with Fox News and numerous conservative outlets since her primary win, but has generally avoided the local press corps amidst a slow drip of negative stories. The episode Wednesday came 24 hours after declaring on Fox News that she was ready to 'go to war' with the negative press coverage she has received. … 'We're ready to go to war with this communication problem that we have.'" YouTube http://politi.co/bPsE8l
--"Morning Score": The U.S. Chamber of Commerce will endorse former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio's campaign for Senate this weekend at an event in Orlando, putting the muscle of one of the country's most powerful interest groups behind the Republican's bid. http://politi.co/cHoYjM
--"Morning Tech": Rep. Bobby Rush plans to get his privacy bill to the floor before the end of the year, despite concerns voiced by some of his subcommittee colleagues that he's moving too quickly by scheduling a hearing just four days after dropping the legislation. "It's my job to get it done … we needed to jump start the process," Rush told Morning Tech. http://politi.co/9xaKqN
--"Pulse": Democrats for Life announced Thursday they will launch a campaign to defend 16 members of Congress who supported reform. DFL executive director Kristen Day tells PULSE it will be "our biggest campaign yet" with funding likely in the hundreds of thousands. http://politi.co/8XfQZN
--Paul Krugman in the NYT, "Addicted to Bush": "[T]he only problem Republicans ever had with George W. Bush was his low approval rating. They always loved his policies and his governing style — and they want them back. In recent weeks, G.O.P. leaders have come out for a complete return to the Bush agenda, including tax breaks for the rich and financial deregulation. … But they have a problem: how can they embrace President Bush's policies, given his record? After all, Mr. Bush's two signature initiatives were tax cuts and the invasion of Iraq; both, in the eyes of the public, were abject failures. … What's a Republican to do? … There's now a concerted effort under way to rehabilitate Mr. Bush's image on at least three fronts: the economy, the deficit and the war. … Republicans aren't trying to rescue George W. Bush's reputation for sentimental reasons; they're trying to clear the way for a return to Bush policies. And this carries a message for anyone hoping that the next time Republicans are in power, they'll behave differently. If you believe that they've learned something — say, about fiscal prudence or the importance of effective regulation — you're kidding yourself." http://nyti.ms/azLTXv
--Charles Krauthammer in the WaPo, "Beware the lame duck": "Barack Obama's considerable political capital, earned on Election Day 2008, is spent. … There's nothing left with which to complete his social-democratic ambitions. This would have to await the renewed mandate that would come with a second inaugural. That's why, as I suggested last week, nothing of major legislative consequence is likely to occur for the next 2 1/2 years. Except, as columnist Irwin Stelzer points out, for one constitutional loophole: a lame-duck Congress called back into session between the elections this November and the swearing-in of the 112th Congress next January. Leading Democrats are already considering this as a way to achieve even more liberal measures that many of their members dare not even talk about, let alone enact … Perhaps shame will constrain the Democrats. But that is not to be counted on. It didn't stop them from pushing through a health-care reform the public didn't want by means of 'reconciliation' maneuvers and without a single Republican vote in either chamber -- something unprecedented in American history for a reform of such scope and magnitude." http://bit.ly/9fiZt1
THE WARS --WaPo A1, "Afghan leaders are cutting ties with Karzai," by Joshua Partlow in Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan: "The man who served as President Hamid Karzai's top intelligence official for six years has launched an urgent campaign to warn Afghans that their leader has lost conviction in the fight against the Taliban and is recklessly pursuing a political deal with insurgents. … Amarullah Saleh … [says] that Karzai's push for negotiation with insurgents is a fatal mistake and a recipe for civil war." http://bit.ly/97Cg3H
--WSJ A2, "Geithner: Taxes on Wealthiest to Rise," by Deborah Solomon and John McKinnon: "The Obama administration will allow tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans to expire on schedule, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday, setting up a clash with Republicans and a small but vocal group of Democrats who want to delay the looming tax increases. Mr. Geithner said the White House would allow taxes on top earners to increase in 2011 as part of an effort to bring down the U.S. budget deficit." http://bit.ly/c8v689
--NYT A1, "Pentagon Faces New Pressures To Trim Budget," by Thom Shanker and Christopher Drew: "After nearly a decade of rapid increases in military spending, the Pentagon is facing intensifying political and economic pressures to restrain its budget, setting up the first serious debate since the terrorist attacks of 2001 about the size and cost of the armed services." http://nyti.ms/aDEOqQ
--WSJ A4, "Lawyers to Jockey Over Litigation Venue," by Dionne Searcey: "Dozens of attorneys next week will gather before a panel of judges in an attempt to influence two key questions in the hundreds of lawsuits triggered by the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster: where the cases will be heard and who will preside over them. The seven federal judges have been charged with deciding whether or how to consolidate the more than 200 federal civil suits filed ... against BP PLC, rig-owner Transocean Ltd. and other contractors tied to the spill." http://bit.ly/cFTBGR
MEDIA WATCH – FoxNews.com, "Military Opens McChrystal Retirement Ceremony to Media After Complaints": "The Defense Department has decided to open the retirement ceremony for Gen. Stanley McChrystal to all media after members of the press corps complained that only three reporters had been cleared to attend. Fox News reported on Wednesday that the ceremony full of military VIPs was being closed to all but Greg Jaffe from the Washington Post, Julian Barnes from the Wall Street Journal and Gordon Lubold from Politico. ... Two military officials, who wished not to be named, said the Army made its case to McChrystal that if one journalist is invited, the ceremony should be open to all press. These officials said McChrystal and his staff were unyielding in their stance and had no interest in opening the event to others." http://bit.ly/8Y5ECK
SPORTS BLINK – NYT A1, "Baseball Using Minor Leagues for a Drug Test," by Michael S. Schmidt: "Major League Baseball announced Thursday that it would immediately expand its drug-testing program by drawing blood from minor league players to test for human growth hormone. Olympic athletes have been subject to blood testing for many years, but baseball's decision marks the first time that a professional league in North America will test its players' blood for signs of doping. Baseball's commissioner, Bud Selig, was able to put the testing in place without the approval of the players union because the vast majority of minor league players are not subject to collective-bargaining rules. … Although [MLB] began testing urine for steroids and other drugs in 2003, H.G.H. can be detected only through blood tests." http://nyti.ms/anVJOR
** A message from Intel: For decades, Intel has been producing the world's most advanced microprocessors-right here in America.
Approximately three-fourths of Intel microprocessor manufacturing is done here in the U.S., and investments by Intel have made it one of the top employers in both Arizona and New Mexico and Oregon's largest corporate employer. Seven of Intel's ten semiconductor factories are here in the U.S. - factories that are leading production of the next generation of microchips that will advance computing and communications and help enable the technological breakthroughs of tomorrow.
Intel sees ongoing investments in America-including $34 billion in capital expenditures over the past eight years-as critical not only to our company's success, but to our country's success: it's what fuels America's innovative spirit, and keeps it at the forefront of new technologies, new industries, and new ideas. **
How can we view allen's writings as news now that he's one of the journaolist liberals?
We can't! He has been exposed as an unethical, and immoral person! He has conspired with other so called journalists to bury stories that would have made sure this Socialist in Chief never made it to the WH. He has conspired with those unethical people on that list to coordinate attacks on Hillary and not only Palin BUT PALIN'S CHILDREN!!! Children of candidates were always considered off limits until this group of immoral and unethical idiots decided they would rig the election!
Hey Mike....DID YOU FORGET ABOUT THE CODE OF ETHICS FOR JOURNALIST??? Or do you just not care about ethics??? I think it's the latter!!
Mike you have no credibility whatsoever anymore.....we cannot trust you to inform us of the TRUTH (you know the FIRST item on the journalist code of ethics!!)
Seek Truth and Report It Journalists should be honest, fair and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information.
You are no journalist Mike......If you ever were, you lost it somewhere....maybe when you decided that you were a Socialist and wanted to destroy America!!!
No, we cannot view Mike Allen's writings as anything now, except maybe as the likes of say some gossip rag!!! You are no more a journalist than the people who work for the gossip rags, lying and making up stories.
I would be surprised that you still have a job......but after all you are working for a site that promotes socialism and Obama! Just look 3 of their so called writers are on the Journolist....and Roger Simon, has his lips attached to Obama's butt....they said he had surgery to remove his leg.....but I think it was to make sure his lips stayed permanently attached to Obama's hindend!!!
Yeah, from now on, I will read politico stories as just that, entertaining stories, because they sure don't have any ethical journalism in them!!!
Just remember, Politico, Lisa Lerer, Mike Allen, Ben Smith and Roger Simon.......YOU HAVE BEEN EXPOSED AND YOUR DAYS AS WRITERS ARE NUMBERED!!!! What do you think is going to happen when the Dems lose the house in Nov.? Do you think you will be able to go back to being journalists (even though you never have been, not in the ethical sense). Nope forever, now you have lost credibility and will be nothing but fiction writers!!! I guess you will learn the hard way that ETHICS in JOURNALISM ARE VERY IMPORTANT!!! TOO BAD POLITICO AND IT'S FICTION WRITERS DON'T HAVE ANY!!!
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. ~ Unknown
Contards are sociopaths.
Fox News contributes to this condition with thier silly apologist articles about scumbag slanderer Biebert (can you say lawsuit), thier constant race baiting lies about black panthers, Van Johnson bull and the hundreds of lies and bile they spew daily. This channel is a channel of hate and intolerance . Same could be said of this website Republico.
Workingman47 asks: "Do you know what the definition of Socialism is?"
I do know what it means, apparently you do not!!! You see only a small part of what Socialism is.......Let's go back to 1959 and Cuba.....Fidel Castro takes over Cuba, and in the first year nationalizes (government takes control of) the largest export, in Cuba it was sugar, in America....The automobile industry, he nationalizes the financial institutions, Obama took over Goldman Sachs put his own people in charge of the Fed, and now has a bill the takes control of wall street, nationalizes the healthcare industry, and last but not least Obama is working on the final control of over 80% of our economy by nationalizing the utility companies, i.e. Cap and Trade!!!!If that doesn't work for you how about Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, or Chavez in Venezuela.......Oh yeah I forgot the most important as far as Mike Allen and the other Journolist unethical writers.......State control of the media!!!
White Supremacy
Why is it White Supremacy when a white person is proud of their color or heritage, yet it's black power, when black people are proud of their color or heritage.......why is there is Black College Fund but not a White College Fund? Why is there an NAACP but not a NAAWP? Why is it okay for black people to be proud but not white people?
Love to see your response, especially since I'm black.......and unfortunately for you and Obama....I BELIEVED MLK, JR WHEN I STOOD IN D.C. AND LISTENED TO HIS "I HAVE A DREAM" SPEECH......You know the one where he said we should judge a person by the CONTENT OF HIS CHARACTER AND NOT THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN!!!!
You back Obama simply because he is a black man......because he has no CHARACTER!!!! And maybe you can explain to me why a Presidential Candidate would be reading something like..oh say....this????
In case you can't read it, the book is called "The Post-American World" it is a book about how the muslim/islams can destroy America from within!!!! Funny how MSNBC, CNN, POLITICO and many other news organizations (state owned) ignored the fact that a PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE was reading a book like this!!!!
besides a lack of basic math, history, dictionary skills, or any grasp of reality whatsoever you make perfect sense
And your ignorance and refusal to admit the truth tells me our discussion is over....you are obviously a Socialist hiding behind a Libertarian screen, because if you were a true Libertarian you would be against what this Obama government is doing!!!! Look up Libertarian, their whole belief system is based on LESS GOVERNMENT not more government!!!! LESS RESTRICTIONS not more restrictions!!!
This is from the Libertarian website, which you obviously don't subscribe to: As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others.
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Yale-New Haven Hospital's neurosciences program brings together state-of the-art resources with the professional experience and expertise found at few other medical centers in the country. In HealthLINK: Neurosciences, some of YNHH's best minds weigh in on developments and controversies in one of medicine's most complex disciplines.
May 2012
Brain surgery is often a last resort for people with drug-resistant epilepsy, but performing surgery earlier may prevent years of suffering, according to a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
The number of patients resistant to medical control remains around 30 to 40 percent. Dennis Spencer, MD
Epilepsy is a disorder of brain function that causes recurrent seizures. Nearly 3 million Americans and 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, and 30 to 40 percent of them do not achieve seizure control with drugs alone. The American Academy of Neurology recommends referring certain epilepsy patients who have failed two antiseizure drugs to specialized epilepsy centers for evaluation.
A designated epilepsy center, like the one at Yale-New Haven Hospital, has the professional expertise and facilities to provide the highest-level medical and surgical evaluation for patients with complex epilepsy. A multidisciplinary team composed of neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, neurophysiologists and specialized nurses, share the goal of finding the right treatment to help each patient control their epilepsy.
Although 13 new anticonvulsant drugs have been developed in the past 20 years, the number of patients resistant to medical control remains around 30 to 40 percent. It may be that the numbers of new medications available are in part responsible for the delay of referral to surgical programs. Despite the evidence that after failing two anticonvulsant trials the chance of seizure control is poor, some physicians may switch and/or combine multiple medications. It is important, then, that both physicians and patients be aware of when to refer to an epilepsy center for surgical consideration.
The study described in the JAMA article further emphasizes this point. Multiple surgical centers recruited patients for consideration of early surgery after failing medical control, but only 38 participants enrolled, and for this reason, the trial was terminated. Despite the small number of candidates, the statistics were very significant. After two years, none of the patients randomized to continue medical therapy were seizure-free, compared to the 11 of the 15 patients who underwent epilepsy surgery.
The comprehensive epilepsy program at Yale-New Haven Hospital pioneered the surgical treatment of epilepsy in the 1970s. Medical and surgical solutions are considered for both our pediatric and adult patients, and resective procedures are offered early, when the patient is an ideal candidate for surgical cure. Our multidisciplinary team meets weekly to discuss the phased evaluation of patients with difficult-to-manage chronic epilepsy. We lead in the development of surgical approaches that will optimize the chance of seizure control while minimizing side effects. This includes the modified anterior medial temporal resection for the treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy, which we developed in the early 1980s and that was reported in the JAMA study.
An early referral of an epilepsy patient to Yale-New Haven Hospital's comprehensive center does not mean that the patient will definitely have surgery, rather recommendations may be offered for medical, surgical, or novel interventions with follow-up by the patient's primary physician.
Dr. Spencer is chair of neurosurgery and director of epilepsy surgery at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He is the Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery at Yale School of Medicine.
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The Department of Defense announced today the death of Spc. James E. Powell, 26, of Radcliff, Ky., who was killed on October 12 in Baji, Iraq. Powell was killed when his M2/A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle struck an enemy anti-tank mine. He died as a result of his injuries.
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June 27-August 23, 2008
Lee Center for the Arts
Hedreen Gallery
901 12th Ave (at Marion), Seattle
**ARTIST TALK** Saturday, August 23rd at 1:30pm
ArtDish Review
STRANGER Podcast
Who is shaping the future of Seattle architecture? Which firms represent the "new blood" that will carry us forward, challenge our status quo, and shape a new architectural frontier for our city? AIA Seattle explores these questions in "New Edge: New Blood", an exhibition of several up and coming Seattle firms.
Firms Include:
Build LLC
chadbourne + doss
Graham Baba
Hutchison & Maul
Lead Pencil Studio
Pb Elemental
workshop A|D
Zero Plus
Congratulations to IMPLIED VIOLENCE, this year's STRANGER GENIUS AWARD WINNERS for arts organizations.
Want proof?
SUMMARY IN SEQUENCE (a Lawrimore Project supported performance) is happening now.
Congratulations to CRIS BRUCH and LEAD PENCIL STUDIO for being included in "Century 21" curated by the members of SADA for the WRIGHT SPACE.
Opens September 11, 2009
More details to follow.
Congratulations to SUSAN ROBB and ISAAC LAYMAN for being shorlisted to the 2009 Nortwest Biennial at the Tacoma Art Museum.
Hot on the heels of them completely knocking the art world dead at the CREATIVE CAPITAL retreat in upstate NY, SuttonBeresCuller's
OBSERVATION CAMERA, 2007 was included in this show last month in the heart of Chelsea.
Creative Capital Here
Seatte Weekly Article
By Brian J Barr
With a cover image by Peter Mumford no less!
WITHOUT ROOM (Installation View)
It's not that our standard notion of art is obsolete, but that in many cases it falls short of its role, Sutton believes. "Before contemporary culture, where we're bombarded by all this media, television and stimulation everywhere, visual art was mass culture's medium. Everybody looked at it; everybody was inspired by it. That doesn't fit anymore," Sutton says. "We talk all the time about wanting to make art that's not for an art-educated audience, wanting to make art for anyone who's willing to engage it — but that's adding to this ongoing art dialogue as well."Read more of Sheila Farr's article in The Seattle Times Pacific Northwest Magazine
Our "booth" and Aqua's new Wynwood space.
Car Culture looks at the interrelationship of cars, people and society-for better or worse. We associate the ubiquitous automobile with romantic notions of the freeing, open road; with the craftsmanship of customization; and with the prestige of conspicuous consumption. Cars are also combustible devices that frustrate us when they malfunction, pollute the environment and become tools of global malevolence, from smuggling to car bombings. Car Culture spans from parody to politics. It encourages viewers to think about cars as never before through the eyes of artists from eight countries with very different car cultures.www.smoca.org
STRANGER PROFILEby Jen Graves.
Excerpt: "Two years ago, Lawrimore Project didn't exist and Scott Lawrimore was just another assistant at somebody else's gallery. He has a nondescript background: grew up in a trailer park in northern California, once made a drawing of Scrooge that got him placed in art classes, ended up with a master's degree in art history, came to Seattle to work and moved up the gallery chain, ending at Greg Kucera Gallery.
Now, Lawrimore is historic.
Ken Allan, an art historian at Seattle University, compares Lawrimore to some-one like Walter Hopps, who schlepped slide projectors to collectors' L.A. homes in the 1950s to spread the gospel of abstract expressionism. Or to Richard Bellamy, the man who stood behind minimalism in its very early days, but quickly lost his Green Gallery in New York to bankruptcy.
"I think that, in the end, Scott will have developed one of only two art spaces here in Seattle that were distinct from what everybody else did," Kucera said of his former protégé the other day.
The other gallery Kucera was referring to was run by Donald Young, who put everyone else to shame by importing world-famous artists to Seattle. (He moved to Chicago.) That's different from Lawrimore's gig, which is aptly described as a "project" instead of a "gallery." Lawrimore Project is a commercial gallery, but there are times when it seems an awful lot like a nonprofit, a theater, a school, a bar, a party, a brunch place, a think tank, a salon, or a community center."
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"A recent award-winning graduate of the University of Washington MFA program, Rice has been making waves with his smart, sensual blending of sculpture and video, with six solo shows already under his belt and two of his pieces pledged to regional museums. Borrowing from the legacies of both Minimalism and Surrealism, Rice wants to change the linear, two-dimensional experience of video art to an emotional, three-dimensional experience..."Elizabeth BryantHave we succeeded in whetting your art-appetite? If you said yes, continue reading HERE
"Depending on how the light and wind hit them, their skin could change from flat black to chrome to mottled to wrinkled, like the sides of a tin can. When they went flying, they could be aggressive, or affectionate, or teasing. Occasionally, one of them, not caught by the wind, would stand inexplicably erect while the others flew diagonally like a clump of underwater reeds. People were picking favorites, but I only had eyes for the whole."Jen GravesRead More Here!Watch the Toobs on Youtube!
"Finally, we come to the alluring pieces of Tivon Rice. Although television is the identifiable magnet for Rice's investigations, he strips away its seductive narrative possibilities for another more seductive and hypnotic level of representation. With The History of Television, Rice has made the ultimate conflation – the glowing cathode ray tube as the enlightened one, the Buddha. Television is our god, the carrier of the light and the sort of transcendence offered by Simon Cowell, transmitting the promise of full participation in the culture, fit abs and no baldness. Rice goes all the way with an homage to the most arresting of video artists the late Nam June Paik, except here Paik's television doesn't represent the Buddha; it is the Buddha – a repeating image of peace and perfection glowing with the blue of sea and sky…two unlimited fields. Marshall McCluan had it right and Rice has illustrated his famous line perfectly: America (and perhaps the world) long ago traded the natural church of the landscape for the aura of the pixilated screen. Please bow to Rice's piece before you enter the temple – then go numb."Gregory AmenoffCUE Art Foundation
Liminality: Art on the Threshold >>> Thursday, March 8 through Sunday, June 3 2007 >>> San Francisco Exploratorium
IN A SEA OF THE FAMILIAR, ONE INVENTIVE INSTALLATION SETS SAIL >>> Seattle Times, March 2nd 2007 >>> The main thrill at TAM, though, floats outside the gallery in the form of another fabulous site-specific installation by the creative machine SuttonBeresCuller. These are the three guys — John Sutton, Ben Beres and Zac Culler — who've been triple-handedly raising the bar for local artists with their inspired collaborations in unlikely places. In this case they took over the museum's glass-enclosed courtyard. Last year the space was used as a vitrine for an installation of Chihuly glass floats, but SuttonBeresCuller had a bigger and more startling idea: They envisioned the courtyard as a glass "bottle" with a ship sailing inside.
What they accomplished is a gorgeous and mysterious thing. A beautiful 26-foot wooden sailboat (a 1956 Blanchard Senior Knockabout salvaged by the artists) seems to ride a wave, its jib aflutter in the breeze. Flumes of steam puff from throughhulls. With the improbable scale of a model ship in a bottle, the installation is an intellectual puzzle — how did they get that big boat in that little enclosed space? (Answer: by crane.) Where does the steam come from? (Who knows.) But it's the metaphor that sticks in your brain: a ghost ship asail on some mythical journey, breasting a cloud, tossed on a sea of stone.
The blend of poetry, conceptual punch, impeccable craftsmanship and ingenious execution is what distinguishes the best of SuttonBeresCuller's work.
-Sheila Farr
It was precisely a year ago that LAWRIMORE PROJECT made its art world debut. Jaq and Dirk allowed me to take part in the 1st AQUA even though I didn't have a physical space in Seattle yet. I cannot thank them enough for their generosity in that regard. What a way to enter the scene! This year felt like a culmination of all that has happened for the project since Aqua 06. It was validating, inspiring and emboldening to find out that what we have built as a group is finding an audience and generating a 'buzz' in greater art circles. I couldn't have done it without my amazing group of artists, support of collectors and curators, and the press. Warm thanks and here's to a healthy and prosperous 2007.
...Last year, the Aqua design issue was a double-bed headboard in horizontal strips of pine, built into the wall. Most Aqua dealers pretended it wasn't there or placed a white board in front of it.
Lawrimore, who hadn't even opened his gallery in Seattle yet, took the trouble to take out the headboard and commission Cris Bruch to make small, fetishistic replicas surrounded by aluminum, turning a key obstacle into art.
This year, a lot of dealers took out the headboard but Lawrimore left his in, adding a ledge and putting a matching box in front of it to create a bar, its glass top running videos and he standing behind it, serving wine.
Lee's "Consummation," featuring a slowed-down Bach prelude stripped to the right-hand melody line, hung above the headboard, a layered wooden base with a curlicue kink in it that represents a kind of curl in the score. Across its face, a piece of thread smoked in a horizontal progression that turned the string to ash.
If there were a contest for gallery design, Lawrimore walked away with it this year.
"This is a Seattle gallery?" a man beside me asked incredulously, looking around. He appreciated the wit of Bruch's shiny red metal quote marks, subtly claiming ownership of whatever art hung inside them, in the best Duchampian mode... >>> Regina Hackett >>> READ COMPLETE ARTICLE: www.seattlepi.nwsource.com
THE STRANGER >>> ...Installation-wise, Lawrimore Project was the best venue I saw Miami-wide. Lawrimore is a mastermind impresario. He built, in Seattle, and shipped to Miami, a functional bar (serving delicious Lillet, a white wine mulled with herbs). Under the glass bar top, videos played by request according to a printed "menu" of works. Nearby hung the clever little sample headboard Cris Bruch made last year in homage to the striped Aqua headboards. This year, Bruch made large n's whose purpose was to inspire connections between works (this 'n' that). At the door was the ultimate Miami object: a velvet rope. And in the closet was a pile of the detritus Lawrimore collected during his time at the fair, with appropriately gritty video and a light-box photograph from Charles LaBelle. Susie Lee's delicate counterpoint, a video called Consummation, of two strands of twine burning down to the sounds of Bach, hung over the bar. Consummation sold eight editions right off the bat... >>> JEN GRAVES >>> READ COMPLETE ARTICLE: www.thestranger.com
MODERN ART NOTES >>> ...Lead Pencil Studio @ Lawrimore Projects. Lead Pencil Studio, aka Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo, describes itself as "a new voice in the emerging field created from the interdisciplinary overlap of architecture and site-specific art." (I'm tempted to call them "the art world's biggest over-consumer of adjectives.")
Earlier this year, near the Oregon/Washington border, LPS built Maryhill Double, a scaffolding-and-construction-netting piece of earth art. The piece challenged the monumentality of earth art, by setting aside a void in a massive landscape. I'd have given my left lobe to have been there. The piece reminds me of Rachel Whiteread's language, Robert Irwin's relationship to light, James Turrell's interest in volume, and a California impressionist's sense of color. I wanted to see much, much more than just the video that Lawrimore showed in Miami... >>> TYLER GREEN
SEATTLE PI >>> Visual Arts 2006: Lawrimore Project makes a splash with its fresh space and talent >>>
In Seattle's visual art scene, 2006 was the year of blurred boundaries.
Freelance art curators competed with the museum-employed; non-profits went head-to-head with commercial spaces, and artist teams grabbed the spotlight from rugged individuals. It's the year Seattle artists headed online to create art on a virtual island, a project scheduled to make it big in 2007.
My top 10 list features nine pros... >>>
1. Lawrimore Project: From the outside, the building at 831 Airport Way S. is anonymous modernism. Even though Scott Lawrimore took over from a sign company this year, there's no sign to announce his presence. Only those who walk inside get the full effect of his radical chic, from the concrete floor and concrete board walls of the first gallery to his mint-green waiting room, elegant cluster of other gallery spaces and his office on concrete blocks, a tribute to his youth in a trailer park.
Designed by Seattle's Lead Pencil, there's nothing quite like this space anywhere.
Then there are his artists, the strongest lineup since DONALD YOUNG opened here in the 1990s. Unlike Young, whose artists tend to have blue-chip credentials, Lawrimore's are mostly young and unproven in a commercial gallery, until now.
Lawrimore is a commercial space that feels alternative, a smaller version of Western Bridge or a larger version of Suyama Space and the Wright Space... >>> REGINA HACKETT
SEATTLE WEEKLY >>> ...For the avant-scenesters, the event of the year was the June grand opening of Scott Lawrimore's space on the industrial edge of town. Artfully designed by accolade-gathering team Lead Pencil Studio (Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo), Lawrimore Project was the scene of the latest shenanigans of performance art trio SuttonBeresCuller, who built a mysterious installation in a giant box, unveiled three weeks later as a Chinese restaurant. Lawrimore's willingness to champion challenging artists like SBC, Susie Lee, Tivon Rice, and Sami Ben Larbi makes his space the place to go for bold expressions, and expands the perimeter of the city's artscape both geographically and psychologically... >>> SUE PETERS
SEATTLE PI >>> FIVE TO WATCH in 2007 on the local arts scene >>> ...#3. Scott Lawrimore >>>
When he worked at the Greg Kucera Gallery, Lawrimore used to muse about opening his own gallery. His musing went on for nearly five years, and yet when he opened at 831 Airport Way S., his space, the Lawrimore Project, came as a radical surprise. In business less than a year, it's already the most distinctive and original gallery in the city's history...
...Best new Seattle thing: The opening of Scott Lawrimore's new space, Lawrimore Project, in Seattle. Without a doubt the scene-changing event of the year in Seattle. If it absolutely must be a singular exhibition, I would have to say it's the Sutton/Beres/Culler show Lawrimore did as his opener...
Tivon Rice >>>> Lead Pencil Studio >>>>
Cris Bruch
Annie Han + Daniel Mihalyo of LEAD PENCIL STUDIO are the 2006 STRANGER GENIUS AWARD winners for visual art.
Congratulations to CRIS BRUCH for making the Visual Arts SHORTLIST for the STRANGER GENIUS AWARD
LAWRIMORE PROJECT made the SHORTLIST for THE STRANGER GENIUS AWARD >>>> the first 'commercial' arts organization to be so recognized >>>> Thanks STRANGER! [you idiots]
Nancy Guppy has produced a piece about the gallery
for the SEATTLE CHANNEL (ch. 21) >>>> It can be viewed on the web >>>> www.seattlechannel.org


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The Mafia vs The Yakuza
The game seems to have changed. Gone are the days of predominant hand to hand combat. What we have here is a whole different realm of taking people out.
The Mafia vs the Yakuza – not sure which way I'm going to go for this one. I bet on the wrong horse last week (the knight), making me 2/3. I can't afford to go 2/4! With that in mind, let's take a look at what I consider an obvious issue with this episode.
Aren't the Weapons Basically the Same?
I understand that there are technical differences between the guns available to both societies, but weren't they really close?
I suspect that both parties will be utilizing a machine gun, a sidearm, and a short range stabbing weapon. From what I can tell, the mafia will be using the Tommy gun and an ice pick.
Will the Yakuza be utilizing a katana? As I understand it, the katana was more ceremonial amongst their ranks.
Unfortunately my knowledge of Japanese culture doesn't extend into guns, and there is very little information online about it. It seems to me like this episode might devolve into a comparison of hardware capability, rather than warrior skill+weapon effectiveness. Who knows, I could be wrong.
One thing I am willing to say though is that guns seemed much more available to the mafia. The yakuza had to import a lot of their equipment, where the mafia had quick access to American made firearms. That means they would get the chance to be much more selective about the quality of their guns.
Quick Cultural Note
Did you know that the Yakuza made the bulk of their profit running prostitution rings? It's true! They augmented that with drug running and business extortion. The mafia on the other hand dipped more into alcohol (and later drugs), and racketeering.
Decisions, Decisions…
This is tough. On one hand I think the mafia is going to have an edge when it comes to quality of firearms. On the other hand, if the yakuza are granted their katana, they will have a distinct advantage at short range.
Ultimately, I see this as a major long range battle. Who can do the most damage with the most accuracy from a distance. That's why, based off of supposition and limited information, i'm going to make my guess for the mafia.
How about you?
If you know more about these guns and crime organizations, please include something in the comments section! Not only do I want your input for this one, I need it!
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Demotivational Posters for Martial Artists
It's friday so I'd like to leave you with something a little fun for the weekend. Have you ever heard of demotivational posters? They are spoofs of the original motivational posters that had impressive pictures and inspirational slogans.
Demotivational posters have gotten popular and have even branched out into martial arts. The following are some of my favorites. Enjoy!
Posters Inspired By the Martial Arts
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Tonfa (Tunfa): Weapon of Versatility
Among the ancient kobudo weapons of Okinawa, the bo and nunchaku have attained the most popularity. Despite that, the tonfa (tunfa, tuifa, etc) has maintained a small but loyal following of practitioners. The reason why is the dynamic versatility that the weapon allows.
If you're wondering where the tonfa came from or what it looks like, take a quick peek at this video:
In summation, the tonfa is a straight wooden rod with a perpendicular handle attached. It was used (probably) as the handle to a grain grinding stone. If needed, the handle could be easily removed and used as a destructive weapon.
History aside, let's look at what makes the tonfa so dynamic.
Ways of Holding the Tonfa (Tunfa)
The interesting thing about tonfa is the different ways it can be held.
On the left you'll notice the "classic" way of holding a tonfa, which is long-edge-in. In this position you have the length of the shaft to guard your arm as you attempt to block, parry, and close distance. You also have the butt end of the shaft to punch with. In this position you can use the centrifugal force of swinging the back end around to strike.
In the middle the tonfa is being held long-edge-out. Although practitioners often end up in this position after a strike, it can also be used as a starting position. When facing a long edged weapon like a sword, it is often desirable to have some sort of method of deflection. With the tonfa, the long edge is the best possible way of decreasing the distance disadvantage while keeping all your body parts intact.
On the right is a lesser known but still very useful method of holding. This is a form of reverse grip where the practitioner holds the actual long edge, using the handle as a tool for hitting and hooking. Much like the kama, the handle can be used to ensnare limbs, weapons, and the throat, as well as create a harsh point of impact for striking.
Ways of Striking with the Tonfa (Tunfa)
Along with the different grips for tonfa is the different means of striking. Each grip offers different possibilities, and knowing these possibilities helps when deciding which style to utilize.
As you can see, the left picture shows the fairly limited method of striking when the tonfa is folded in. Despite that, the blocking possibilities are enhanced.
In the middle the practitioner has a wide array of swinging, poking, and striking techniques.
On the right the practitioner has hooking, poking, and bludgeoning strikes. All in all, when fighting an adept tonfa user, one can never really be sure where a strike is coming from, which creates an amazing versatility.
So Good It's Still Around
One of the best arguments for the usefulness of the tonfa is the fact that it's still around. Police all over the U.S. (especially in Los Angeles) utilize a single "night stick" called the PR 24. While okinawans tended to use tonfa in pairs, the single baton has proved very effective for dealing with the unpredictable criminal element.
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"This is The Curse. It's for our love for the beautiful and sometimes all too tangible. I know we've been trying to let go of the idea of 'stuff' I know I have for a long time but sometimes it's just so fucking pretty that it's hard to do so! It's always very sharp and if you get stuck to this idea it will cut you, no matter how lovely. it hides a true core inside. i think that's what most people are looking to get to, to do away with all the hard crystal on the outside and to get to the real loving core on the inside. I believe this also helps represent us, and how we're really growing with each other... looking for something 'more'"
"This guy is Bloom. It's representative of our friendship which is very volataile and confusing at times, but cohesive and has a very solid and lovely core that shines bright. It's like a very lovely flower that keeps getting bigger and brighter. The Penrose triangle is for a unity that can not be broken nor comprehended normally; this is love."
"a series of blooms will become a garden where all the magic in life is stored and is waiting to be found"


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Herbal Voices: American Herbalism Through the Words of American Herbalists
Haworth Integrative Healing Press, 2005 - Medical - 369 pages
Learn how traditional herbal practitioners are responding to the sudden, massive popularity of herbal medicine!
Herbal Voices: American Herbalism Through the Words of American Herbalists examines how herbal practitioners who started in the 1960s and 1970s are reacting to the mainstream popularity of herbal medicine today. This unique book features interviews with 20 of America's most prominent herbalists—focusing on their careers, their beliefs, and their perspectives on the contemporary herbal product boom in recent years. Also included is important information on herbal organizations, publications, schools, and companies where seeds and rootstock of endangered medicinal plants can be obtained, as well as a list of the United Plant Savers' "At Risk" and "To Watch" medicinal plants.
Herbal Voices synthesizes the words of a representative group of herbalists into a compelling picture of modern American herbalism as they offer their opinions on the roles of science, folklore, and spirituality in herbal medicine. This timely resource addresses controversial issues that arise within the herbal community, such as the endangered plant crisis, professionalism and licensure, and shifting the American consciousness toward a more Earth-centered way of life and health.
In Herbal Voices, you'll hear from many well-known herbal practitioners, including:
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You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver.
This post is the culmination of 48 hours of intense Googling, Foruming, Cursing, Head Scratching and Sorrow. ANY assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Got a new box today, and new 12.04 LTS ISO. While trying to make the magic happen with a clean install and a fresh pair of 24 inch monitors and a lenovo docking station ( I confirmed that dual head is supported, one VGA, one DVI), I hit a nVidia debacle that is stumping me. My system configuration is at the bottom.--
I place the laptop in the docking station and I am able to get one monitor up. Here is what I tried (after locking myself out of X, and having to do another fresh install):
0. sudo nvidia-settings. [this gave me the following message:You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server.]
2. run nvidia-xconfig. [this failed hard on restart, left me with a 400-600 screen]
1. download linux driver for appropriate nVidia card [confirmed it is already installed]
3. curse
4. revert to my backed up xorg.conf [things are back to where I started]
5. Removed nouveau drivers for X.
per http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=88900
6. Enabled OPTIMUS for nVidia at the BIOS level (scary stuff)
7. sudo nvidia-xconfig
8. gksudo nvidia-settings [when I boot using the nvidia xorg.conf now, things look better than step 2]
After step 8, I still get the "You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server."
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Steve McClaren's men fell behind to Isaiah Osbourne's early header and the visitors' goal led a charmed life for the remainder of the first half.
However, their luck ran out after half-time as a Chris Martin hat-trick, his first in the Football League, and goals from Craig Bryson and captain Richard Keogh saw the Rams romp back to win handsomely.
They were helped by Blackpool, though, as they had Neal Bishop and substitute Angel Martinez sent off.
It was the Seasiders' fifth red card in a little over 90 minutes of football following their lack of discipline in midweek at Yeovil, where Kirk Broadfoot, Ricardo Fuller and Gary MacKenzie were all sent off in the final five minutes.
It was also an eighth dismissal of the season for Paul Ince's team.
"I don't think it's a lack of discipline," Thompson said.
"It might be in part but it is also down to a lack of judgement.
"It comes down top self control. When you are on a yellow card you are walking as tightrope and the last thing you need to do is make a rash tackle.
"That's what's letting us down at the moment and it has to stop happening.
"It can be down to the discretion of the referee too. The linesman gave the penalty for the first red card but Bishop seemed to come out with ball, which suggests he got the ball.
"We also didn't think he was the last man as it was at an angle where were getting players back in position.
"The lads are just as frustrated as we are. There weren't any bad tackles in the game and yet again we have two sent off.
"We've just got a team that competes very well. If you look at the tackles, they aren't high or with studs showing or career threatening or anything."


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She had him at "hello!" A pair of World War II heroes celebrated 70 years of marriage this week. Ninety-one-year-old Steve Stevens first heard the voice of his future wife, radio operator Maureen, in 1943, when he was just 21.
At the time, Stevens was a pilot, and Maureen was guiding him back home after a bombing mission over Germany. Stevens was so intrigued by the female voice at the other end of the line that after landing he went to the air traffic control tower to meet her.
He says he was too shy to approach the "glamorous" Maureen at first, but eventually got up the courage to ask her out. The couple were married eight short months later, at the height of World War II. The rest, as they say, is history! Story courtesy of Daily Mail Online


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ASHLAND, Wis. (AP) — The workers manning the McDonald's drive-through window in Ashland were enough to make your jaw drop.
Green Bay Packers Mason Crosby and Brad Jones took turns at the window handing burgers and fries to stunned customers Thursday. They also joined other Packers personnel making coffee, flipping burgers and taking orders at the counter.


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How to Draw a Chibi Character from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit
Chibi is a Japanese word used to describe a "small thing or a person with a small body". Chibi is a simple, cute form of manga -- Super Deformed or SD is another name for chibis and it's meaning is obvious. It is essentially a version of manga/anime.
Steps to Draw Chibi Characters
Things You'll Need to Make Chibi Drawings
Chibi is a Japanese word used to describe a "small thing or a person with a small body". Chibi is a simple, cute form of manga -- Super Deformed or SD is another name for chibis and it's meaning is obvious. It is essentially a version of manga/anime.
Steps to Draw Chibi Characters
- CG - Computer graphic [CG] chibis can be drawn by hand and then scanned and edited on a PC or drawn and coloured on a PC. The lines are shaped better than hand-inked lines and the colours are very vivid and usually 'perfect colouring' [no white gaps or pencil marks] it's also easier to do chibi shading, on the hair there will be a white or light colour zigzag to show the light hitting the hair, the rest of the shading is done using darker shades to show shadows. Some great programs for CGing are Adobe Illustrator, and OpenCanvas. look these up on google to get some free trials. To CG, most prefer to use a tablet, but they can get expensive (up to $1200 for a really nice one), and you can still use a mouse, it just might be more dificult.Type chibi into Google to see some examples o work. remember though, no tracing!
- Traditional - This is hand drawn chibis, less common on search engines but found on sites such as gaiaonline.com and deviantart.com they can either be black and white or coloured in by hand, occasionally showing shading thought this is generally tonal shading using gradual darkening of colours to create a 3D effect. Usually, when people choose traditional, they scan their work and adjust opacity or other factors to make their work look neater.
- How Can I Draw Them?
- There's different methods depending on your equipment, time and style. First decide traditional or CG. #Traditional:
- What You Need -Pencil, black pens or outlining markers like pigma microns (these you can get in diferent width, which can be really nice when you start to get really good.), colouring pencils and/or pens
- Things To Remember: Everything about a chibi should be simplified, hair, feet, eyes and the head size are exaggerated. The photo tutorial is an independent source. remember that porportions are MUCH diferent in a chibi, and using a "head giude" to help with porportions can be extremely helpful.
- )Start with a circle, it can be any size but for a first time make it big enough so you can practice the detail
- )The body - draw a simplified outline of the clothing, for this tutorial we'll look at a very simple dress, it should be a similar shape to a triangle, and the chibi won't have a neck [A photo tutorial will be posted so don't worry if you're lost]. If you've mastered this method, try drawing a simplified and smaller body using rounded rods and circles for joints.
- ) The arms should end at about hip-level. The important things to remember is that the elbow isn't really shown unless the arm is bent and even then its just a rounded corner in the arm; the arm should start big and end small with a simplified hand. Try to taper the hands, don't make mickey-mouse cartoony hands.
- ) the legs also start big and end with a smaller ankle. Shoes must be kept simple, trainers or sneakers become a circle or occasionally a simplified trainer, [an x shape for laces and lines for the sole of the shoe] sandals are a circle with a square to show straps, other details may also be simplified.
- ) The facial details - Chibi eyes are huge and an important 'cute' factor, start with an arch for the top of each eye and draw a straight line quite a bit beneath them, link the left end of the curve with the left end of the line and same with the right side. Try to develop your own chibi eye, this will make your drawing much more unique! Noses aren't really there on a chibi face, and the mouth is small when closed, and big when opened.
- Inside this new space you've made between those lines draw a circle nearest to the curve and a smaller circle near the base line, colour the rest of the space in either black or the colour of the iris, if the chibi is looking to the side then draw these circles slightly closer to the lines on the side of the eye and make the colouring fade as it reaches the other side.
- The eyebrows - an arch shows happiness, diagonal eyebrows like these \/ show anger and diagonal lines like these / \ show sadness, other expressions such as sarcasm can be shown by having one like a V and one like an upside down V
- The Nose - doesn't exist, to replace it draw 3 straight lines close together where the nose should be
- The mouth - is very simple, think of MSN smilies either draw a sideways D or a simple curve for a smile or sad face
- The ears - are just a curve, they should be set low on the face, the top should be in line with the middle of the eye and the bottom of the curve should be in line with the top of the mouth
- ) After drawing the face focus on the hair, it should be big and exaggerated, fringes cover most of the forehead and often the eyebrows too, partings should be huge curves that extend away from the head and down,always draw it behind the body if ot extends past the shoulders. Bangs and fringes are the only parts that should be touching the face.
- 7) Go back and add detail, examples: hair accessories, earing, bows or images on clothing, shoe details, shading etc.
- Computer Graphic [CG]:
- What You Need: A Graphics Programme, OPTIONAL: a sketch, a scanner, a tablet
- ) Read throught the traditional guide, it shows how to draw the chibis properly, this is what we are going to do but using you graphics programme.
- Optional: if you have a black and white sketch you want to use then scan it onto your PC and open it using the graphics programme, when the guide is telling you to draw something simply outline it in black on your graphics programme, after outlining you can use the programme to colour it in.
- ) Get used to the basics of the programme and find a shape tool, draw a circle using the shape tool, if you don't have a shape tool then draw a circle using the pen/pencil tool
- ) Follow the steps of drawing the simple chibi shown in the traditional guide, you can use either a pen or line tool to draw it
- ) Pick colours for each of the outlined sections, use the paintbucket/fill tool to fill these in with block colours. Well done you've completed a simple CG chibi, to make it more advanced add some shading, look at pictures of chibis there's some simple things that they all have.
- A zigzag or shape with the same curves as the chibis hair, this is normally coloured white or a darker colour than the chibi's block hair colour, you can also try out the shadows, look at where they are on other chibis such as under the fringe, eyes and chin.
- Keep your hands clean so you don't smudge pencil lines, you can even wear a latex glove if you need to.
- Use sharpened pencils to get fine lines and to keep everything consistent.
- Simplify!
- Practice drawing the eyes and different expressions, think of as many as you can and just draw the different faces, if you don't want to draw the whole head then just draw the eyes, nose dashes and mouth
- Keep looking for different examples of chibis. look at how the different eyes and clothing are drawn.
- Try places like gaiaonline for great little chibi/manga characters to practice drawing, lots of players will pay [in in-game money] for chibi art, go to www.gaiaonline.com to sign up then check out the forums for people looking for art, it's a good place to practice drawing.
- Never be discouraged by doing something wrong, just keep trying until you get it right, especially for CG it can take many months until you can control the graphics programme properly and make your chibis look lifelike and 3D
Things You'll Need to Make Chibi Drawings
- Pencil and eraser
- Paper
- For CG - a drawing program on your computer, like paint, paint.NET, manga studio, photoshop, photostudio 5.5 and adobe. If you need a free program, try GIMP.
- For traditional - Colored pencils or markers to color in the chibi.
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I miss times when I had big ass room and very large desk at my grandma house(where I was living from time to time). But anyway, I had to move back to my "origin" flat foor good about 3 years ago with my pc offcourse. All I have is this little improvised desk. (Its actually a shelf on side standing on two chairs, Not looking all that bad in fact, as its at the end of my bed) I like this setup but I got bored.
When I didnt had 360 the setup was simple and easy. Screen and speakers on sides. For like 3-4 months back I had 360 standing to right of the screen vertically with speakers on sides of 360. But I am not feeling right with it so I am thinking of anything else. What about that? Wont the speakers damage somehow "megnetically" 360 hardware? I guess not but it never hurts to ask. They are also very light so no problem with weight.
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Communities in Schools of Rutherford County will use a $3,000 grant from the Timken Foundation to hold a career day for middle school students.
"We are very excited that we will be able to put on a career fair for our middle school students. We want to help them focus on what they might want to do in the future and see the opportunities are here in the county," Brenda Watson, executive director of CISRC said. "Our goal is not to have an available workforce, but an educated workforce. We want to insure that our students will succeed and achieve in life."
Timken Human Resource Manager Mike Martin and Plant Manager Mark Propst presented the money to Watson and CISRC Chair Mike Tanner at the plant on Tuesday.
"Every year we get grant requests. We try to look at the organization and what they are planning to use the money for. The grant is from the Timken Foundation, which was founded by members of the Timken family. They look to support communities where they have plants operating," Propst said. "Unfortunately, there is never enough money to go around, there are more applications than we can provide. But we try to make sure that we can help a broad base of the community."
CISRC will collaborate with the McNair Foundation and Isothermal Community College to put the career fair together.
"We encourage students to look forward to what they can do after graduating," Watson said. "Along with talking about job possibilities, ICC will also discuss with them the courses that they need to take to get them where they want to be."
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U.S. District Judge M. Christina Armijo says she struggled to strike a proper legal balance in the case, since city officials have a legitimate interest in protecting children from harm, danger and crime, "especially crimes of a sexual nature."
Thousands of U.S. homes tainted by Chinese drywall should be completely gutted, according to guidelines released Friday by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The guidelines recommend that electrical wiring, outlets, circuit breakers, fire alarm systems, carbon monoxide alarms, fire sprinklers, gas pipes and drywall need to be removed.
"We want families to tear it all out and rebuild the interior of their homes, and they need to start this to get their lives started all over again," said Inez Tenenbaum, chairwoman of the commission, the federal agency charged with making sure consumer products are safe.
Now a new wave of school reform is headed our way. It is being spearheaded by the federal government. States don't have to accept these new requirements, or the federal funding attached. But Maryland education officials are making it clear they are fully on board, even if some local school districts are not.
New national curriculum standards won't be significantly tougher than current Maryland standards. State schools are likely to require four years of math in high school. Currently three math credits are required for graduation in Charles County
Teachers unions in Maryland are lukewarm about these changes at best. But they have two choices; they can oppose what the state says is coming anyway, or they can be part of the process of coming up with this new evaluation system. The same goes for local school boards. There was some talk earlier by the Charles County school board that the competition for federal dollars in the Race to the Top initiative is a lot of work for very little extra federal money. But recently an official with the Maryland State Department of Education has made it clear to the school board that these changes likely will be adopted no matter what happens with the federal competition. Charles County can either get on board as the new state reforms are developed or be told what the new rules are after they are established.
The House of Delegates on Friday passed a $32 billion state budget on a largely party-line vote that Democrats said met the state's needs, but Republicans said would mean tax hikes after the election.
The House and Senate must reconcile the differences in their spending plans before the General Assembly session ends April 12. That will likely be done through a 10-member conference committee that is scheduled to meet Monday afternoon.
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Pull a lever and win some coins. While this may be what a typical person thinks of when envisioning slot machines, gamblers in Maryland may be in for a much more interactive experience when the state's slots parlors begin opening this fall.
Visiting the state's gaming facilities might mean taking a mystical journey into an ancient Mayan realm to the sounds of "soothing world music." Or gamblers might head to the farm and play Cock-A-Doodle-Dough, a state of the art video lottery terminal featuring farm animals that break into song with every winning combination of "nesting hens."
But a proposal by the Maryland State Lottery Agencythat could allow spending more than $50,000 per machine has alarmed some public officials who think that's too much taxpayer money, creating another obstacle for a state gambling industry already beset by problems.
I read the article on the cross-county connector by Meredith Somers in the March 17 issue of the Independent ["Agencies wrapping up connector permitting procedure"]. It is strange how two sets of people can take the same set of facts and come to different conclusions.
The article essentially states that the process is all but finished. However, that happens not to be the case.
Based on all of the above, it is quite apparent that this process is far from over. It is up to the citizens of Charles County to ensure that this permit does not get steamrollered through. We can do this by standing up to be counted at each point in the process, and by spreading the word about the plans of the county commissioners.
We should all work to ensure that we get commissioners and delegates who truly represent the needs and desires of their constituents.
Judge remands special exception request to board
The special exception case pitting Nanjemoy residents against a proposed research facility will return to the Charles County Board of Zoning and Appeals, but by no means is that a return to square one.
An opinion issued by Charles County Circuit Court Judge Robert C. Nalley ordered the case for an 80-acre research facility along Liverpool Point Road be sent back to the board so that a determination can be made on whether the proposal complies with the county comprehensive plan.
"It's a great victory," said Kurt Wolfgang, the attorney who filed the appeal on behalf of a group of Nanjemoy residents potentially affected by the proposal, as well as the Nanjemoy Potomac Environmental Coalition and Nanjemoy Vision.
"We're not starting over," said Charles County Assistant County Attorney John Buchanan. "The case was remanded for the sole purpose of having staff present to the board of appeals their analysis and findings as to the applicability of the master plan to the proposed use by the Washington Security Group."
Blue Crabs will parade at annual town jubilee
Everyone is invited to grab a baseball or mitt and a decorated bed and join in the fun at the Celebrate La Plata event this year.
The eighth annual event will be held from noon to 4 p.m. April 17 at town hall and a whole slate of activities is planned, including a parade featuring the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs and an autograph session with the team, said Courtney Freeland, the team's marketing manager.
"This is the first time that the community can see the whole team together," she said.
When the bank sued Leann Weaver for not paying her credit card balance, her reaction was typical for someone in that situation. Personal and financial setbacks weighed her down, and she knew she owed the $2,470. So she never went to court to defend herself.
She was startled by what happened next. When she swiped her debit card at the grocery store, it was declined. It turned out Capital One Bank had taken $224.25 from her paycheck, a quarter of her wages for two weeks of work at a retail chain, and her bank account was overdrawn.
One of the worst economic downturns of modern history has produced a big increase in the number of delinquent borrowers, and creditors are suing them by the millions. Concern is mounting in government and among consumer advocates that the debtors are not always getting a fair shake in these cases.
Congress voted to overhaul the health care system on a Sunday. On Monday, Patti Lawson e-mailed her employer's human resources office to ask how soon she could get her 22-year-old daughter back on her health insurance.
In about six months, the new law will allow at least 2 million young adults to be covered under their parents' policies. These are the "millennials," those who came of age in the new century and now are struggling to get on their feet during the worst slump since the Depression.
The law will allow young adults to stay on or return to their parents' insurance until age 26. To qualify, young people must be "dependents" of their parents. They don't necessarily have to live under the same roof.
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If you think Washington traffic is bad because of the tourists and the cherry blossoms, in just over a week it could get a lot worse.
Nearly 50 heads of state will be in the nation's capital for the Nuclear Security Summit that's scheduled to take place April 12 and 13. It's expected to be one of the largest gatherings of heads of state in history.
While the summit will take place on a Monday and Tuesday, traffic and transit changes will likely begin the weekend before the huge event.
The next battles over President Obama's sweeping revamp of the nation's health care system will be waged in the states — where health care interests are heavily invested.
Six of the 15 attorneys general who have challenged the new law count health care interests among the top five industries giving to their most recent campaigns, according to the non-partisan National Institute on Money in State Politics.
Influence is in the eye of the beholder: A look at perceived highs and lows in the House and Senate
Rank hath its privileges.
We asked a select group of State House observers who has, and who lacks, influence. Influence, of course, is in the eye of the beholder. Maybe it's the parliamentary prowess to pass a bill, or the legislative legerdemain to kill another. It could mean the brains to master a complex issue. Or a good sense of timing &mdash when to stand and when to stand pat.
The result is a highly unscientific poll. The margin of error is plus or minus a whole lot.
But even if the results need a grain of salt, political watchers with a sodium-restricted diet can enjoy some of the findings.
Initial claims for unemployment benefits fell slightly last week as the recovering economy moves closer to generating more jobs.
The Labor Department said Thursday that new jobless benefit claims dropped 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 439,000, nearly matching analysts' estimates. It's the fourth drop in five weeks.
The four-week average of claims, which smooths volatility, fell by nearly 7,000 to 447,250, the lowest total since the week of Sept. 13, 2008, just before Lehman Brothers collapsed and the financial crisis intensified.


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