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Where should I go next fall? / Re: I can't decide!« on: February 07, 2013, 07:13:54 PM »
What degrees do you have? Are you sure you can sit for the patent bar?
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Where should I go next fall? / Re: I can't decide!« on: February 07, 2013, 07:13:54 PM »
What degrees do you have? Are you sure you can sit for the patent bar?
Where should I go next fall? / Re: LSAT 163, GPA 3.3 NEED HELP DECIDING WHERE TO APPLY« on: February 07, 2013, 07:09:09 PM »
I wish I had seen this earlier to help. my UGPA was a 3.33 and my LSAT was a 166. I ended up getting amazing offers from schools like Alabama, Richmond, William & Mary among others. The trick was to have great references and personal statement.
How do you know this was the trick?
Law School Applications / Re: GPA: 3.82 LSAT 169 URM Chances Anyone?« on: February 05, 2013, 04:27:26 PM »
You should have plenty of options with that said really consider location and cost above all else. If you want to be in California go to Stanford or Boalt instead of Yale also remember law school debt is real, but you should have some great options congrats!
Living Legend is full of good advice, but if you get in to Yale (you probably won't) go to Yale, even if you want to work in California.
Law School Applications / Re: GPA: 3.82 LSAT 169 URM Chances Anyone?« on: February 04, 2013, 12:40:55 PM »
What are my prospects?
Here are a couple URM's to consider with similar stats.
General board for soon-to-be 1Ls / Re: What are my chances?« on: January 28, 2013, 04:41:04 PM »
My first year of college I had no idea what I wanted to do. As a result I did not attend class very often, and my GPA was a 3.2. Since then I have maintained a 3.8 GPA, or higher, through my sophomore and junior years. If I keep my GPA high and do well on the LSAT do I still have a chance to get into a great law school, or does that first year with a 3.2 GPA ruin my chances?
The LSAC calculator is a good place for you to start. https://officialguide.lsac.org/release/OfficialGuide_Default.aspx
Most law schools look at the raw data first (since that's what impacts their rankings). They divide the applications into three piles. Automatic in, automatic reject, and further review. The further review applications are analyzed a little bit (but job experience and awards are really only tiebreakers), and then they are divided into reject, waitlist, and accept.
According to LSAC, If you have a 3.5 cumulative and a 165 LSAT, you are the median applicant at schools like Fordham, BYU, Wisconsin, and UC Davis.
You'd be in the bottom quarter of applications at places like Harvard, NYU, Duke, Penn, Virginia, UCLA, Michigan, USC, Texas, and Cornell.
By contrast, if you had a 3.8 and 165, you'd still be in the bottom quarter of Harvard, NYU, Duke, Virginia, Penn, and Michigan, but you'd be above the bottom quarter of Cornell, UCLA, Vandy, and you'd be around the median at schools like Texas and George Washington.
Job Search / Re: Big Law GPA Cutoff« on: January 23, 2013, 11:16:03 AM »
I doubt you'll get the information you need on this board. Maybe you should try TLS or XOXOhth
What rank is a 3.3 at Duke?
Where should I go next fall? / Re: difference between ag law and enviromental law« on: January 23, 2013, 11:15:01 AM »
I'm no expert, but I have a couple friends who have gone into evironmental, ag, and water law. They all gained experience and opportunities through internships. So my advice would be to go to a school that is near a lot of employers who might be hiring environmental attorneys. Then do everything you can to get an internship and gain some real experience.
Looking for a law school specialty is usually a bad decision. You need to focus on which schools have the most agriculture law alumni. Find a few firms that do agriculture law, email the attorneys and ask them whether it matters where you go to school.
Also, my impression is that a lot of agriculture law is contract and commercial law. You deal with purchases and sales, acquisitions, and other contracts. You also deal with some water acquisition and disputes. Environmental law is generally more specialized and focused on disputes involving environmental impact. A lot of environmental lawyers work for oil and manufacturing companies.
Law School Applications / Re: What are your thoughts?« on: January 23, 2013, 11:08:37 AM »
On tier 3/4 schools? I've gotten in a few with pretty decent scholarships and am waiting to hear back from quite a few schools (ranks mixed) still.
Livinglegend is providing a lot of useful information, but he's overloading you. You are perfectly capable of evaluating the cost and whether you like the city. The bigger issue is how the school is viewed in the region you want to work. For example, the university of Idaho is ranked 129, but it's the only ABA law school in Idaho. If you want to work in Boise, Idaho is a good choice. You could go to a much higher ranked school like the University of Arizona and get little to no benefit.
If you want to live in Topeka Kansas, Washburn Law School will give you similar job prospects to the University of Kansas. However, if you want to work in another state, the name recognition and superior ranking of the University of Kansas will be a significant benefit.
The top graduates from any school will have an opportunity to get a job based on their performance in school, but the rest (like 85%) will get jobs based on their hustle and relationships. So in most cases, I would recommend you consider your potential debt load as the #1 factor in your decision, followed closely by where you would like to work.
One additional comment. Law school applications have declined sharply. This year, LSAC estimates that there are 50,000 applications for 59,000 spots. When I applied, there were over 100,000 applications. This is great news because the legal industry is only projected to create 9,000 new jobs per year and only 10,000-15,000 attorneys are retiring every year.
Where should I go next fall? / Re: Decisions-Decisions...<grumble>« on: January 21, 2013, 02:07:24 PM »
I'm 46 years old. I'm in Memphis.
This really depends on what you'd like to do. And you probably don't know that yet. I sincerely doubt you'll get over 170. Why? because only 2.6% of test takers get over 170.
What schools would you be shooting for? Let's say you get into WUSTL. They are ranked pretty high and they have some good placement, but they don't offer a sure thing. WUSTL at full price vs. Memphis with no Debt? I'd say take Memphis.
I did very well at a school ranked around 50 at full price. I was a law review editor, moot court guy, and top quarter of my class. (graduated in 2010) The job search was brutal, but maybe things have changed now.. I passed up a full ride at a T3, and I really should have taken it.
Reviews, Visits, and Rankings / Re: ABA versus Non-ABA; marathon LSAT-taker« on: January 21, 2013, 02:00:13 PM »
I'm talking about potential. My point is that the difference in your grades between working 50 hours a week and working 100 hours a week won't be that substantial if you are a mediocre student. Yes, it is extremely difficult to get all As in law school on a curve, but it's not very difficult to get all Bs (or whatever the average grade is.)
You really start to see harshly diminishing returns as you add more and more hours. You start to get into minutiae that nobody cares about.
Now that may vary depending on the type of final exams your school has, but not by much.
I really doubt anyone in the bottom quarter of their class (outside the top law schools) puts in 50 hours of real studying every week. I'd love to hear about a real world example.


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When Barack Obama announced the selection of Joe Biden to be his running mate in 2008, the New York Times, echoing the conventional wisdom at the time, included among Biden's attributes the following: "it appears unlikely that Mr. Biden would be in a position to run for president should Mr. Obama win and serve two terms. Shorn of any remaining ambition to run for president on his own, he could find himself in a less complex political relationship with Mr. Obama than most vice presidents have with their presidents."
That was a widely held view and reportedly something the Obama team considered a significant mark in Biden's favor. And it was sensible of them to do so. Sharing the White House with Hillary Clinton, for example, or a popular moderate Democrat like then-Senator Evan Bayh, would have almost surely meant nominating his successor who would want an agenda and to perhaps even share in the credit for Obama's legacy. So instead Obama nominated Biden to be his vice president and Hillary Clinton to be his secretary of state. And wouldn't you know it, they may both run for president anyway, touting their respective legacies and sharing in the glory of Obama's own legislative victories. The only difference–and what might be the source of endless future headaches for Obama–is that he has a clear preference for Clinton over his own vice president, the latter now launching his own possible bid from the White House and simultaneously in need of restraining.
So what did Obama miss when he nominated this pair of Washington insiders? He forgot about something he really shouldn't have: the natural ambition of politicians and the way access to the White House only magnifies it. And it's what makes stories like this National Journal piece arguing against the likelihood of either Clinton or Biden running in 2016 less than convincing:
Her most famous speech as first lady catalogued abuses against women and hammered home the message: "Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights." As notable as what she said was where she said it — a United Nations women's conference in Beijing. It is easy to imagine her setting up her own organization, or a branch of her husband's Clinton Global Initiative, to focus full-time on issues affecting women.
It's more difficult to envision a post-politics role for Biden, who has spent his life inside the Beltway as a senator and as vice president. But he has proven such a valuable White House asset on such a range of issues, and such a constructive bipartisan negotiator, that future presidents of either party would likely press him into service to help solve knotty problems at home and abroad.
Which leads to the next reason neither Biden nor Clinton will run. Their reputations will never be better than they are now.
Rarely does a politician get near the top of the world and proclaim to be satisfied. "Dayenu" (the refrain from the Passover Hagaddah in which Jews proclaim "it would have been enough") is not in the political lexicon. And voters reading those paragraphs above can be forgiven for interpreting them as Clinton's record of global leadership and Biden's record of getting things done when no one else could. Jill Lawrence, the author of the piece, makes other, more compelling arguments as well. Both Biden and Clinton would be in their 70s early in a hypothetical first term–Biden would be 74 on inauguration day if he won the election. And both have a history of some health issues. But Biden looks as energetic as ever, and Clinton's health didn't stop her from logging close to a million miles in four years.
Additionally, it's hard to escape the notion that both are explicitly laying the groundwork for their candidacies. For Clinton, carefully chosen on-the-record speeches and interviews, plus an obvious desire to perpetuate the idea she is running, have spurred some activists into being confident enough to set up a Hillary 2016 PAC. And as for Biden, Obama and his advisors have found that the veep's attention span is almost totally consumed by 2016 calculations. As Politico reported:
Officials working on the Obama-Biden campaign last year were struck by how the vice president always seemed to have one eye on a run, including aggressively courting the president's donors. Obama aides at times had to actively steer Biden to places where he was needed — like Pennsylvania — because he kept asking to be deployed to Iowa, New Hampshire and other early states.
"He wasn't just doing fundraising the campaign assigned to him," said a campaign adviser. "He was inviting people to the mansion to hang out and have dinner." Biden was way more into the donors than Obama was. "He embraced it with a tirelessness and a gusto that even the president didn't," another campaign official said.
We can and should keep in mind how much the political landscape is likely to change in three years. But they want people to think they're running, and it won't go unnoticed that even the cases against the two of them running for president seem to borrow liberally from the arguments in their favor.


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Hardly a day passes when The Post and Courier does not report a shooting incident. The National Rifle Association preaches that "the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun." It would like to see everyone packing heat so that during an emergency, the "good" citizens can take action without police presence.
The obvious question is "How do you identify the bad guy?" Suppose you are in a department store and see a person carrying an assault rifle. Do you feel safe or do you feel threatened?
If someone started shooting and everyone took out their guns, how would the shooter be identified? Even if the shooter was known, and the "good guys" took action, wouldn't innocent people be at risk during a crossfire?
Regardless of training, people do not react the same way under pressure as they do on a firing range. There are numerous accounts of policemen missing their targets and hitting innocent bystanders.
During the summer of 2012, for example, two counter-terrorism officers in the Empire State Building killed an armed suspect, but nine innocents also were wounded. One can only imagine the mayhem caused by a shooter in a dark movie theater if most of the audience carried guns and decided to be heroes.
Sometimes you have to be stupid before you get smart. Those people who advocate the guns for all and everywhere philosophy will soon realize the lunacy of this idea when gun-toting hotheads begin to pull the trigger every time someone plays loud music or takes a disputed parking space.
A safer route would be to place reasonable restrictions on firearms such as licensing, background checks and limiting rounds. This is not a Second Amendment issue, it is a common-sense issue.
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Every consultant has secrets, shortcuts, tricks of the trade. For me, if called on to quickly size up a company's culture, customer-centricity, customer service or operational excellence, I've been know to start by checking out how clean the windows are.
Let me back up. You're likely familiar with the broken window theory of community policing, made most famous in New York City's crime turnaround: that if you don't let little things slip by without respomse or correction – graffiti, petty crime, and the eponymous broken windows of this theory – then big things, big bad things, will go away on their own.
The thing is, it's unclear here what comes first: the chicken or the egging. Because a police force (and a community, and social services, and politicians, and taxpayers who control funding) that is attuned to even the little things is going to be attuned to the big things too.
Still, I believe in a similar "unbroken windows" or "are the windows clean?" theory of company culture and operational and customer experience excellence in business. Even though causality is hard to prove.
For example.
Bob's Red Mill, an employee-owned organic-foods mill, store, and café in Milwaukie, Oregon is a phenomenally run operation. But don't take my word for it. Look through its windows.
They're so astoundingly clean that I thought, sitting inside the café at Bob's Red Mill for half an hour, that the windows were actually open. It wasn't until I looked at the building's exterior that I realized no windows were open. They had just been cleaned to the point of utter invisibility.
Clean windows and other cosmetic details of your physical plant, of course, don't create customer or operational excellence by themselves, although I do believe they help: the action of keeping them clean, of training your peripheral vision to notice when they aren't, tones your muscles for customer-serving excellence. Regardless, indisputably, clean windows are a marker for it. Because, to have windows this clean, in spite of entropy, customer noses, and plain old dust, requires:
• Care: This one is obvious.
• Awareness: Employees can care, but if they don't have an awareness of details (the broad psychological trait called "conscientiousness,") mere caring is not quite enough.
• The resources – sufficient time, manpower, money — to keep them clean. You can try to care and have an awareness of details, but by themselves these aren't enough. Operational and customer-focused excellence require enough time, people, and money.
These three factors — care, awareness, and resources — matter in all aspects of an operation and are central realities of your corporate culture.
Postscript: For whatever reason, there is not — let me repeat that emphatically: there is not a similar correlation between messy desks and messy business practices. There is no reason to start believing in a "clean desk theory." Thank heavens, as I have the messiest desk this side of, perhaps, yours.
Micah Solomon is a customer experience consultant, customer service keynote speaker, and the author most recently of High-Tech, High-Touch Customer Service
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Join One Direction, Olly Murs, Jessie J and stars this Red Nose Day - and put Grimsby on the map!
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One Direction, Olly Murs, Jessie J, Alesha Dixon, Dennis the Menace and Christine Bleakley - just some of the stars who are already gearing up for Red Nose Day 2013.
And we want to know how you will help the Grimsby area boost this year's Comic Relief fundraiser on March 15.
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One Direction and a host of stars are featuring in The Beano Red Nose Day special. With David Tennant acting as Band Manager, Jessie J playing the part of Voice Coach and Olly Murs offering style advice, the celebrity collective helps Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx and a whole host of The Beano favourites perform their very own charity song.
Meanwhile, Alesha Dixon has teamed up with Mini Babybel to search for the nation's cheesiest joke. One lucky winner will be chosen by Alesha to tell their joke on national TV in the ad break. Post your jokes below - clean ones only please!
And television presenter Christine Bleakley and T-Spex, the Red Nose character, have also launched Sainsbury's nationwide search to find the UK's funniest face for Red Nose Day.
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Laura Mercier Crystal Pink Lip Shine Review, Photos, Swatches
Laura Mercier Polished Collection: Crystal Pink Lip Shine
Laura Mercier Crystal Pink Lip Shine ($22.00 for 0.14 oz.) is designed to be a lightweight "polish" with a glossy finish. It's limited edition and part of Laura Mercier's Polished Collection. It's very much like lipgloss in a pot, to be honest. The texture and feel reminded me a lot of MAC's Tendertones, actually.
On my lips, it goes on like a slightly bronzed pink shimmer. It gives some color, but it still acts much like a gloss–more shimmer than color–which is fine. It's very moisturizing, feels nice on lips, and looks pretty for a quick lip. It doesn't have much staying power (fades in about two hours or so), but I like it as a fancier lip balm, actually. It's not something I'd reach for if I did heavier eye makeup or anything, but if I was just running out to errands, I'd consider wearing this to give my lips a little more oomph.
Pricing is fair, I'd say, relative to Laura Mercier's price point. You get a good amount of product for your money, too.
I'm just not a fan of the packaging, because I personally find potted lip products to require lip brushes in order to remain hygienic. As germaphobic as I can be, I still tend to just make sure I wash my hands really well before slicking this on, because I really am too lazy to bother digging out a lip brush just to apply a product like this. Wish it came in tube form!
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I have apparently explained myself poorly. Perhaps an analogy would be more clear, particularly when I talk about constructs of the mind and matter.
I live in a house which includes a living room. Lovely room, high ceilings, oak floors, big leather chair in the corner where I read. You get the picture. The living room clearly is something I can point to (
it is) and is constructed of various materials yet
living room
is also a construct of my mind. It is an outgrowth of the physical manifestation, but they are not entirely independent of each other. I could replace the oak flooring with maple, remove the sheet rock and replace it with paneling (yeech!), in fact I could remove and replace every part down to the 2x6s in the walls and it would still be
living room
. I could then take all of the parts that I removed and reassemble them elsewhere as a place to store stuff but the result would not be
living room
. This much it seems we agree on. But, if I didn't replace those parts with other parts,
living room
disappears. I'm merely
. So
living room
is a functional description and also a real physical thing.
So when I read this:
"We are not made of matter but process it. "
I have a fundamental disagreement. We are indeed made of matter. That matter changes at the molecular level, and even at the macro level, and we're still us. But if there was no matter, we wouldn't exist.
Also, I don't think it is entirely correct to say (I assume you're referring to dark matter here):
"96% of the known universe is not matter."
I would add "as we understand it today". Like I said, we detect it via gravity so we know there's
, we're just not sure what, so it seems to be a leap to say that it's immaterial.
My comment regarding spirituality was perhaps premature. All I can say is that I've had conversations like this before and inevitably that's where they lead. Using the "not made of matter but process it" comment as an example, I have heard people use this line of argument to attempt to show that humans are "spiritual creatures", that there is "another plane of existence", etc.
In closing, I understand that forum policy is to avoid discussion of politics and religion. I haven't seen anything prohibiting discussion of philosophy, though. ;-)
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While Blizzard has spent months prepping its newly revamped Battle.net service, it hasn't stopped paying attention to the original Battle.net. As evidence of this, the publisher yesterday announced a massive wave of account bans for the service that still operates Warcraft III, Diablo II, and Starcraft.
According to a post on the official Battle.net forums, Blizzard recently suspended or permanently banned 320,000 accounts for Warcraft III and Diablo II, citing terms of use violations. First offenders were slapped with a 30-day suspension, while accounts with prior problems had their CD keys banned permanently. The post didn't specify what the violated terms were but instead reminded players that "abuse of unintended mechanics and/or use of third party programs is a violation of the agreement made when signing on to Battle.net."
It's possible for players to inadvertently run afoul of Battle.net. Blizzard hands down temporary restrictions for creating or joining new games too frequently (the publisher suggests staying in new games for 10 minutes to avoid problems) or creating dummy characters just to store items and weapons. For more on what is and isn't allowed, check out the full Battle.net terms of use.


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Jefferson-Henderson family celebrates 32nd family reunion
Descendants of the late Daniel and Rosa Russell Jefferson and Hunter and Dinkie Jeffers Henderson gathered June 21, 2014, to celebrate their 32nd Family Reunion. The celebration took place from 1 to 5 p.m. at First Fruit Farms in Louisburg. More than 170 family members, friends and guests attended.
After an official welcome by host Jason Brown an invocation was given by Pastor Leroy S. Anderson Jr. Special family recognitions and gifts were acknowledged. They included the farthest traveled, Annie R. Beidleman of Mt. Vernon, New York; the oldest member, Willie B. Jefferson (95), of Henderson; the youngest member, Isaiah Edwards (3 months), son of Jamia Edwards and great-great-grandson of Willie B. Jefferson; the longest married couple, Weldon and Cordelia Bullock of Henderson (56 years); and newlyweds, Quincy and Whitley Carson of Herndon, Virginia (2 years).
Recognitions and gifts were also awarded to the first person who registered, Edith Bazemore and family of Fort Washington, Maryland; and the person registering the most family members (20), Gloria Moore of Henderson. Birthdays and anniversaries for the month of June, all high school and college graduates, as well as students promoted to the next grade were also acknowledged.
Pastor John E. Jefferson returned thanks for the food, after which a picnic style meal was enjoyed by all. The menu consisted of fried and rotisserie chicken, hot dogs, hamburger, corn on the cob, potato salad, coleslaw, baked beans, green beans, rolls, an assortment of drinks and water. An abundance and variety of homemade desserts, many of which had been entered into a bake-off contest, capped the dining experience.
Competition for the dessert bake-off contest was extremely stiff. Using a point system, a panel of youth (shadowed by Vincent and Bernadette Jefferson) judged each dessert entry based on presentation, flavor and consistency. Winners were: first place, Jason Brown (banana pudding surprise); second place, (three entries received the same number of points) Natalie Chubbs (peach cobbler), Emma Lou Fields (walnut-coconut pound cake) and Denise Tompkins (coconut pie); and third place, (two entries received the same number of points) Ethel A. Anderson (cherry-strawberry cobbler) and Tina Proctor (chocolate pudding pie).
Younger family members either volunteered or were drafted to work with older family members to gain reunion planning and execution experience. They included: Michael Simpson, parking; Dana Simpson, registration; Natalie Chubbs, moderating; Whitley Anderson and Latoya Jefferson, servers; Sherrie Brown, children activities; Tay Brown, kitchen and cleanup duties; and Patrick Bazemore, Alexis Blount, Quincy Carson, Tamika Moore and Melissa Proctor, dessert judges.
Following the meal, most family members gathered for a family photo while others enjoyed viewing window-framed collages of photos that captured individual or group snapshots of prior family gatherings. Pictures of deceased loved ones were also included in the collages.
Between showers of blessings, kids jumped for joy in the bounce house, while older members engaged in various other activities, including free health and wellness materials available at a pre-arranged health booth, a hay ride, fishing, basketball and kickball. Fun, food, and fellowship were enjoyed by all before departing.
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National Journal discussed the difficulties the Republican Party has had attracting the youth vote during the "Conversations With the Next Generation" event Wednesday. The panel was moderated by Chelsea Clinton, NBC's Chuck Todd, and National Journal's Jim Tankersley. Panel guests included Josh Romney, son of Mitt Romney, and Michelle Rhee, CEO of StudentsFirst and former head of the District of Columbia public school system.
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Spokane County neighborhood finds leaking asbestos bags spread on the sides of the street30 Oct 2014 by Temp Temple under News
What would be your reaction to plastic bags filled with asbestos illegally dumped on your street? In Spokane County, Wash., neighbors correctly responded to the dangerous situation by immediately notifying law enforcement about the leaking asbestos-filled bags; however, the bags have yet to be fully addressed since the emergency is "just" a "level three" call, according to county officials. (more…)
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Richard "Jaws" Kiel, RIP
Richard Kiel who played the steel-toothed Jaws in the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979) has died; he was 74 and 7-foot-2.
Richard Kiel who played the steel-toothed Jaws in the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979) has died; he was 74 and 7-foot-2.
I cannot begin to explain the loss that is Molly. She was just a few weeks shy of her 13th birthday. She lived the most amazing, cared for, caring life a Cavalier King Charles could dream. My Molly had the deepest, most soulful eyes you have ever seen on any creature or finest work of art. Everyone who met her loved her. Even dog haters could not resist this dog, because Molly might actually have been love herself.
Harry Harwood Garrison of Cincinnati, Ohio died last week at age 77. Sounds like an amazing guy; wish I'd know him! From his obituary:
Sole proprietor of the Player Piano Shop, enthusiast & restorer of all variety of automated musical instruments, life-time entertainer performing magic acts & smoke-ring blowing, including an appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson…Harry Harwood Garrison obituary (Cincinnati.com, thanks Gil Kaufman!)
Raconteur, gourmand, fine-arts supporter & lover of music, particularly traditional & Dixieland jazz, boogie-woogie piano, blues, bluegrass, & opera. Historian of Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Westwood, & Colerain Township; craftsman, traveler, latter-day renaissance man, noted by many friends & colleagues for having a remarkable memory & his ability to recall detail.
Jean Stapleton, who most famously played Edith Bunker on "All in the Family," has died. She was 90 years old. (via CNN)
Last month, on her Facebook page, she wrote about the experience of being a breast cancer patient since 2010:
"Unfortunately the last 18 months have been a real challenge for me having breast cancer and MS and all the new places that will take you. You become sadly a patient in a world of waiting rooms, waiting sometimes hours for a result or an appointment. You spend a lot time in cold machines... hospital beds, on your knees praying for miracles, operating rooms, tests after tests, looking at healthy people skip down the street like you once did and you took it all for granted and now wish you could do that. I have not stopped singing throughout all this in my dreams and to be once again performing and doing what I love to do."
My boyfriend Miles O'Brien lost his beloved little sister to breast cancer today. She was only 46 years old.
They both lost their mom to it a few weeks after I was diagnosed with the same disease.
There is so much to say about what a beautiful soul Aileen was, what a cruel and ugly and brutal disease breast cancer is, how torturous treatment is, how enraging it is that science and medicine have nothing better to offer us yet, how unjust the financial devastation a diagnosis brings to so many women is—and, most of all, what it means to those of us with cancer to have the kind of support in our lives that men like Miles provide, selflessly and heroically and with unconditional love.
But for now, I just want the world to see, respect, and remember this photograph Miles took of his sister this morning, shortly before her life ended. He brought her dog Jethro from her home to the hospice house so Jethro could also say goodbye.
Gone but still loved by all. RIP Aileen Crimmings O'Brien Graef - 10/30/64-8/21/2012
She is survived by two beautiful daughters, Katie and Aileen, whom she loved very much.
And, their dog Jethro.
Update: Miles and her daughters suggest that donations in honor of Aileen be sent to Visiting Nurses Association of the Treasure Coast (@vnatc), 1110 35th Lane. Vero Beach, FL 32960. This is the hospice center that cared for Aileen in her final days. Services at Strunk Funeral Home, 916 17th Street, Vero Beach, FL 32960. If you wish to send cards or flowers, this is the best address.
Image link (photo: Miles O'Brien).
One of the original writers of Saturday Night Live, Tom Davis, has died of cancer at age 59. He was best known for his work with Al Franken, who went on to become a U.S. Senator, representing the state of Minnesota. Not long before his death, he wrote a piece on the site Incident Report saying that he and Franken were working on something for the latter to read after he "de-animate[d]." Sadly, that happened yesterday, and the world is less one amazing comedy writer.
In his obituary, The New York Times describes a 2004 incident involving a Jeopardy question asking who Davis was -- no one had an answer. I want to be a part of making sure that never happens again. We lost a good one, so pay attention, eggheads.
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The alt-adult performer known as Hollie Stevens (Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, Wikipedia, MySpace) has died of breast cancer.
In addition to her work in indie pornography (including "clown porn", NSFW link), she was also a model for, and contributor to, the weirdo horror-rotica zine Girls and Corpses.
From an early account of Hollie's story by Vanessa Pinto at SF Weekly, it sounds like the lack of access to affordable health care (and health insurance) was a significant factor in the case of Hollie, a freelance creative based in San Francisco:
She was no different than a lot of us when we were young who believe we're invincible. So when this very young healthy woman noticed a lump on her breast, she let it go at first.
"I noticed it and paid attention to it, but going to the doctor is hard when you don't have insurance," says Stevens.
The lump didn't go away.
More from Vanessa Pinto, this time writing Hollie's obituary one year later:
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The late actor James Doohan, best known for his role as "Scotty" on the original Star Trek series, left instructions in his will that he wished to be buried in space. His family worked hard to fulfill that wish, and made arrangements with Celestis, Inc., a subdivision of the Houston-based company Space Services that offers "post-cremation memorial spaceflights."
Those remains became part of the payload for a 2008 SpaceX Falcon 1 launch attempt that didn't reach orbit because of technical problems. Each failed attempt was newly agonizing for family members, prolonging their grief and lack of closure.
But today, seven years after "Scotty's" death, SpaceX successfully launched his ashes into space. From the startrek.com website today:
Doohan's ashes – which also were launched to space in 2008 as part of an unsuccessful mission -- were part of a secondary payload included on the second stage of the rocket, not on the Dragon itself. That payload separated from the capsule at the 9-minute, 49-second mark and is now orbiting, on its own, above the Earth. It's expected to stay in orbit for approximately a year before descending back to Earth and disintegrating during re-entry.
Wende Doohan, James Doohan's widow, was on hand for the launch with the couple's daughter, Sarah, now 12. Doohan posted a photo on Twitter and tweeted the following comment early today. "Sarah and I enjoyed watching a beautiful rocket launch this morning - certainly a first for her." Also, on May 18, Doohan tweeted the attached photo of Sarah at Cape Canaveral with a caption that read "Following Daddy's footsteps?"
In 2008, just after that last unsuccessful attempt, we shared on Boing Boing a personal account of what the process felt like for Doohan's family. It was written by Ehrich Blackhound, one of Doohan's seven children. Here it is again, below.
Rest in peace, in space, Mr. Doohan. And on behalf of all of us at Boing Boing, our best to the whole family.
From multiple sources today: One of the three Bee Gees has died. Robin Gibb was 62 years old, and was diagnosed two years ago with colon and liver cancer that responded to treatment, then returned and spread. Read the rest
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One of the greats is gone. Donna Summer died of cancer this morning in Florida, according to reports. The Queen of Disco was 63.
Summer was born and raised in Boston, and first sang in her church's gospel choir. She went on to perform in the touring production of "Hair," and met producer/songwriter and electronic music pioneer Giorgio Moroder in 1974.
About "I Feel Love," the synth-driven club anthem she recorded with Moroder in 1977, Brian Eno said at the time: "This is it, look no further. This single is going to change the sound of club music for the next 15 years."
The singer who went on to win five Grammys ascended to diva status in the seventies with hits like "Love to Love You Baby," "Last Dance," "Hot Stuff," "MacArthur Park," and "Bad Girls."
Two must-listens today: This Fresh Air interview with Summer, and this Tavis Smiley interview on NPR, both in 2003 when she was promoting her memoir, Ordinary Girl: The Journey.
The artist widely credited with founding the Go-Go music genre died today. Chuck Brown was 75.
Like many punk teens growing up in Virginia in the eighties, I discovered this DC-rooted genre of black American music by accident—a go-go band opened up for a hardcore group I'd traveled from Richmond to DC to see. But it just took once to fall under the spell of that heavy, funky beat.
Bands like Trouble Funk and E.U. were among the go-go acts to achieve fame beyond DC, but Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers started it all.
"Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!" Art Spiegelman drew his experience of hanging out with Maurice Sendak in 1993 for the New Yorker, and the magazine has "unlocked" the archival link in honor of Sendak's passing today.
(via Neil Gaiman)
Earlier this morning, Pesco posted the awful news that Adam "MCA" Yauch died this morning at age 47. Words here can't express how sad I am, reading that news. Hits home in part because I'm fighting the same disease, and in part because the Beasties were such a formative part of my subcultural education as I grew into my teen years.
The first time I heard them, and Adam Yauch, was when a friend from middle school handed me a home-copied dupe of this cassette tape EP [YouTube, and you can still buy copies on Amazon]. I played it over and over until that little black ribbon wore right out. Some of you may not know that the Beasties were a hardcore band before they became a hiphop band. Now you do.
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Caribbean carrier Liat was forced to cancel all flights today after pilots staged a sick-in and refused to fly.
Over the past year labour relations at the carrier have been strained, and pilots in November threatened to strike.
Earlier this week, pilots who are represented by the Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association, said they had no choice but to "withdraw enthusiasm and issue strong resentment" after failing to resolve a dispute over a claim for retroactive pay.
"Clearly the first people to feel the impact of any industrial action by the pilots will be the small man - the taxi driver, the hotel worker, the airport vendor," said Liat Acting CEO Brian Challenger in a statement from the airline. "In that context one must really question any action that would harm so many soft interests at this time."
Passengers were advised to contact their local Liat airport office or the Liat call centre for flight information.
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Posted by Nick P. on 04/29/2014
As soon as we came inside we felt so unwelcomed, the lady at the front was so rude, didn't smile didn't say a thing. We followed her and sat down to wait for the menus. The water was dirty, the food was cold, and very bland. The waiter was nice and knew every dish but couldn't say if they were good or not. We had pastichio and fish, i have to say the most unappetizing pastichio ever, i didn't eat it, it had no flavor. Our meal came to $80.00 what a waste of money. Sorry Okeanos, you were a big disappointment to us.
Posted by Alex on 09/03/2013
We asked for delivery. The other food was ok, but moussaka (the signature meal of all greek place) was unappetizing. Not tasty, not good. What kind of greek restaurant would have their signature dish so not good?
Posted by Robin on 11/08/2012
The atmosphere and the service was excellent. I want to move this place to Denver! The absolute best moussaka I've ever had. The presentation was amazing. I had to tell the Chef in person. Thank you for such a wonderful experience. I'm going back to Denver, I wish I could come back more often.
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Delicious food!! Really fresh and tasty fish and seafood. The wait staff was a bit standoff-ish and we had to ask for every little thing, but overall, it was a good experience, with a great atmosphere and giant portions that will last you days. And if you use ScoutMob right now, you get half off your entire bill!
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Went there for Easter Dinner. The service, atmosphere AND the food was incredible! We enjoyed the entire experience. Can't wait to go again and sample the regular menu!
Posted by AR on 02/18/2012
Fresh and perfectly prepared is almost an understatement. Accompaniments are consistently delicious and meat entrees are also special...I love the lamb dishes. The eggplant dip is light, nuanced, and the best I've ever tasted. Service is not only impeccable, it's warm and sincere. The waitress is a jewel of a human being; she's also great at recommending Greek wines that pair up extremely well. I'd venture that we'd dined at Okeanos at least 20 times and never a disappointment. Simply put....go, you'll go again and again.
Posted by Seth and Op on 02/18/2012
We came here for our Valentines Day date and it was wonderful! Excellent food, very attentive service and large portions made the price worth it. We would definitely recommend this place to anyone looking for good food, atmosphere, and service.


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The Retirement Guys: Buy, Hold, Or Sell Stocks Now?Written by Nolan Baker Mark Clair | | email@example.com
This year we have seen major gains in the stock market indexes. This has been followed by gains in the past four years. This now puts many of the major stock market indexes to all time record high. Some investors are now starting to feel comfortable with getting back into the stock market, while other investors are starting to wonder if it is time to sell. So what should you do?
The answer depends upon if making a change would increase the probability for an investor to be able to reach their financial goals. Just because the stock markets are at an all time high, doesn't mean it's time to sell. It also doesn't mean that all stocks in the index are overpriced and aren't attractive to buy. Let's remember in the short term the performance of the stock market is beyond your control so we recommend considering the following three guidelines:
Guideline #1: Reasons to buy stocks:
The six months from November to April has gained 473% for the SP 500 since 1990. That is nine times greater than the 52.6% return achieved during the May through October time frame according to BTN Research. Although the S&P 500 Index is an unmanaged index that you cannot invest directly into, it shows that, if history repeats, there could be more market gains to come.
The younger an investor is the more time they have on their side for being a successful investor. In most cases any younger worker should start to save a portion of their income in a retirement savings account, such as a 401K or an IRA. Ask any retiree and you will learn the value and importance of saving early.
Stocks can also be a great option for part of a retiree's savings. Many times the goal of stock investing for younger investors is growth. Although growth is still important for a retiree, income can be a more important goal during retirement time. Certain dividend paying stocks still offer great income options for retiree's that are not available in most traditional fixed accounts.
Guideline #2: Reasons to stay in stocks:
Staying in stocks can make sense for most investors at any age for part of a portfolio. Yet, while stocks indexes are close to or at an all time high, it is important to review your downside risk management strategy. In our office, we call it having "circuit breakers" in place on stock accounts. Instead of trying to time the day to day stock market, the primary objective of adding this into a portfolio is to protect against significant losses, but with the technology tools available today, protecting gains can also be accomplished as well.
Long term investors, with little to no current need of their investments and who avoid allowing their emotions to get involved in making investment decisions, may also be better able to ride the ups and downs of the stock market. Looking back at previous years we learn that, over the long term, owning stocks can be a great investment.
Guideline #3: Reasons to sell stocks:
Consider paying off your debt. For a retiree having debt can be a major drawback on having a relaxing retirement as it often times takes a large part of the monthly spendable income to cover debt payments. A lot of time, I have told many investors I have met with that it's ok to use the profits, just try not to touch the principal. Investors on track and ahead of their goals should review paying off any outstanding debts.
Investors who are more conservative could sell some stocks to protect gains. Don't forget about what happened in 2008. Stocks have grown significantly and an investor's portfolio may have become out of balance. Bonds have gotten a lot of negative media lately, but not all bonds are bad investments. They still can be used to help diversify a portfolio. Principally protected investments are also safe places to move gains into.
Protect income. Add up the income sources, work, social security, pension, and investment income. We believe that it is important to have a plan B in place with income needs. This can be accomplished by keeping three to five years worth of money in safe investments. In the event of a major stock market downturn, an investor could change their investment income strategy and draw current income needs some the safe money and not be forced to sell stocks in the down market.
For more information about The Retirement Guys, tune in every Saturday at 1 PM on 1370 WSPD or visit www.retirementguysnetwork.com. Securities and Investment Advisory Services are offered through NEXT Financial Group Inc., Member FINRA / SIPC. NEXT Financial Group, Inc. does not provide tax or legal advice. The Retirement Guys are not an affiliate of NEXT Financial Group. The office is at 1700 Woodlands Drive, Suite 100, Maumee, OH 43537. 419-842-0550
Diversification is a strategy that is designed to reduce risk, it doesn't not guarantee against loss.
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There may be hypocrites among the public...but there are lot of deceptive issues being thrown at the public. The school board announces 227 layoffs. Now they know full well that this an overblown number that will be cut back at a later date...they have to notify staff by a certain date or they can't lay them off at all. The real number will be much less.
Another scam that the public is being fed is in the Fire Dept. They announced some layoffs so that they can qualify for a grant that "bring back" the firefighters who weren't really laid off. This is really a scam to make it look as though Flint's Fire Dept. is understaffed and qualifies for the grant..
Someone needs to explain why taxing pensions is so wrong. Take this scenario:One person is working and making $40000 and a retired is sitting home and getting a $40000 pension. The both use the roads...they may even both have kids in school...they both use all municipal services...yet the working stiff pays state taxes and the retired doesn't. What's so wrong about them both being taxed. (BTW...I'm retired)
Attracting tenants to privately owned storefronts is not the business of the city manager. If I had several empty houses in Linden would the city manager help me find tenants? It would be nice to see stores open but it is not the business of the city manager....running the city is his job.
Why is it important to enforce the seat belt law to save lives when it is not important to wear a helmet on a motorcycle to help save lives. Also, why don't motorcycles have seat belts if they are so important?
Agree with ic23b...there will be hot water in the jail. Let's see the sealed competitive bids. Then rebid if not happy. And everyone who is griping about the cost...don't worry about whether it's a local union contractor.
Could it be that Rosie just got scammed by Mike and John? Seems pretty likely that Carr. and Gleason worked this out to get Bogardus out of the picture and to find a job for Gleason who couldn't run for another term in the Senate. John always finds employment when he gets term limited. Make no mistake about it....this is just an employment plan for Gleason...had nothing to do with ability to do the Clerk-Register job. These career pol's are always looking out for themselves in the name of "public service". These jobs pay well for no experience. Dave Robertson did it...Deb Cherry did it. They just can't find easy jobs like this in the private for $100,000.
C'mon...they're nodding...right?Minit to Win it is their physical fitness program? I've never seen that machine at the gym.
Poor lighting.
Now I know why the jailhouse photographer isn't working for Olan Mills.
Yep...I saw this one coming, too. I just didn't tell anyone. Wonder if the Journal would like my picture.
Time magazine's cover picture gives new meaning to "attached parenting".
Oh great...a few years ago we were struggling with the meaning of "it". Now we have to work on how to use 'the". Wonder how long it will take for some cheating politician to graduate to two syllable words..like "admit" and even three syllables like "adultery" (or is that four syllables).
A reasonable expenditure for a technology that is so useful...it seems to me.
A reasonable expenditure for a technology that is so useful...it seems to me.
Get off the GOP's back...the are busy balancing the ledger after years of pro union legislators...the Union's influence will return someday and they will work to reverse the laws and statutes implemented during the Snyder term. The unions have failed to keep the advantage they have had for years. It's the way politics works.. It's important to have a balance of power.
daleone....you are one suspicious dude or duress...you couldn't be farther from the truth...even Tony Brown would be shocked to learn my identity. BTW way. wh6 didn't you file...apparently no one filed to oppose Brown.
This whole demonstration is a big affair to show support for a minister who ought to be ashamed of himself for his public circus with a bullhorn. I think that Rev. Flynn is a good man who has worked tirelessly to get young men on the right track in life...but this fiasco is totally out of character for him and he needs to voice his political opinions in other ways.
Wow...I just read that Rev. Jesse doesn't think that appointing czar is good. Does he know how many czars that Pres. Obama has appointed?
I noticed that Mayor Walling and Sheriff Pickell were there at church. Is that where they go to church? Why were TV cameras at God's house? How come TV 12 wasn't at my church? We had a nice Mother's Day message...is that what Jesse talked about?
It'll be interesting how the prosecutor handles this case...as a criminal offends or turning it back to the school authorities for inhouse discipline. Prosecuting it would send a message that would help teachers. But then there is the sol's plea bargain that essentially says "that was not nice...don't do it again".


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