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With the way the economy is these days, being laid off isn't exactly the best news for a person. Laura Martindale thought otherwise. She saw an enormous opportunity.
Martindale, a 2004 graduate of Coker College, was laid off from her job near Charleston, S.C., in September 2009. The very next day she started up her own business, and it's what she's been doing ever since.
"It's something I wanted to do my whole life," said Martindale, who left Coker with a bachelor's degree in art with a concentration in fine arts. "Being laid off was an opportunity. It was the biggest life-changing experience for me."
Her business is Artistic i, and she can be found online at www.myArtistici.com. Launched in October 2009, the site features artwork, giclee prints and graphic designs. All of her work can be purchased directly from the site as well as on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and eBay.
Business has grown enough that she's hired her first assistant, and a graphic designer is expected to be brought in soon.
While she has experienced success through her website, Martindale has lofty long-term goals.
"I plan to make it on HGTV or another national television show at some point," she said. "I have very high expectations of myself."
Currently, Martindale says she is building five websites on top of having a blog and graphic design work. She also does side jobs for paintings and murals. All projects come in addition to preparing for her March 2 show at the Spencer Art Gallery in Charleston.
According to Martindale, being able to juggle multiple projects and start a business wouldn't have been possible without her time at Coker.
"The art and communications departments were excellent programs for me," she said. "Having sales and marketing experience made all the difference."
For those unsure of which career path to choose, Martindale has some advice.
"I highly suggest doing an internship in a field you love, even if it's unpaid," Martindale said. "Everyone has a talent or a gift that they can turn into a career. You must have confidence and put yourself out there. You will find a job if you continue to make connections."
Martindale's road to success was far from the traditional path. But the education and traits she left Coker with paved the way to make it all possible.
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Plato was the Einstein of Greece's Golden Age and his work founded Western culture and science. Dr Jay Kennedy's findings are set to revolutionise the history of the origins of Western thought.
Dr Kennedy, whose findings are published in the leading US journal Apeiron, reveals that Plato used a regular pattern of symbols, inherited from the ancient followers of Pythagoras, to give his books a musical structure. A century earlier, Pythagoras had declared that the planets and stars made an inaudible music, a 'harmony of the spheres'. Plato imitated this hidden music in his books.
The hidden codes show that Plato anticipated the Scientific Revolution 2,000 years before Isaac Newton, discovering its most important idea – the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics. The decoded messages also open up a surprising way to unite science and religion. The awe and beauty we feel in nature, Plato says, shows that it is divine; discovering the scientific order of nature is getting closer to God. This could transform today's culture wars between science and religion.
"Plato's books played a major role in founding Western culture but they are mysterious and end in riddles," Dr Kennedy, at Manchester's Faculty of Life Sciences explains.
"In antiquity, many of his followers said the books contained hidden layers of meaning and secret codes, but this was rejected by modern scholars.
"It is a long and exciting story, but basically I cracked the code. I have shown rigorously that the books do contain codes and symbols and that unraveling them reveals the hidden philosophy of Plato.
"This is a true discovery, not simply reinterpretation."
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British physicist Stephen Hawking has co-authored a book that's due out in September. Bantam Dell said Monday that "The Grand Design" will be published on Sept. 7.
The publisher said it's Hawking's first major new work in nearly a decade. His previous books include "A Brief History of Time." Hawking's co-author is another physicist, Leonard Mlodinow. He teaches at California Institute of Technology, and previously wrote "The Drunkard's Walk."
In "The Grand Design," they examine evidence of "a unified theory" that can "describe and explain all the forces of nature."
"Oliver Sacks, the famous neuroscientist and author, can't recognize faces. Neither can Chuck Close, the great artist known for his enormous paintings of … that's right, faces.
Oliver and Chuck–both born with the condition known as Face Blindness–have spent their lives decoding who is saying hello to them. You can sit down with either man, talk to him for an hour, and if he sees you again just fifteen minutes later, he will have no idea who you are. (Unless you have a very squeaky voice or happen to be wearing the same odd purple hat.)
In this podcast, we listen in on a conversation Robert had with Chuck and Oliver at Hunter College in New York City as part of the World Science Festival. Chuck and Oliver tell Robert what it's like to live with Face Blindness and describe two very different ways of coping with this condition, which may be more common than we think."
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Male molly fish in Mexico wear a moustache that makes them appear more sexy to females. Scientists were unsure why male Mexican mollies wear an extravagant moustache-like structure on their top lip.
Now a study has revealed that female fish find the moustache sexually attractive, and it is likely to be a sexually selected trait. As well as being visually-attractive, the moustache may be used to rub the female fish's genitals, exciting them.
Details are published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. As their name suggests, Mexican mollies (Poecilia sphenops) live in Mexico, being a fairly common species that resides in a range of habitats from small rivers to creeks and lakes.
The fish has a complicated mating behaviour, with males fertilising females internally, rather than spreading sperm over externally laid eggs.
Lizzie Velasquez weighs just four stone and has almost zero per cent body fat but she is not anorexic. In fact, the 21-year-old from Austin, Texas, must eat every 15 minutes to stay healthy.
Despite consuming between 5,000 and 8,000 calories daily, the communications student, has never tipped over 4st 3lbs.
"I weigh myself regularly and if I gain even one pound I get really excited," said 5ft 2 ins Miss Velasquez, who wears size triple zero clothes. "I eat every 15-20 minutes to keep my energy levels up.
"I eat small portions of crisps, sweets, chocolate, pizza, chicken, cake, doughnuts, ice cream, noodles and pop tarts all day long, so I get pretty upset when people accuse me of being anorexic." She was born four weeks prematurely weighing just 2lb 10oz. Doctors found there was minimal amniotic fluid protecting her in the womb.
"They told us they had no idea how she could have survived," said Miss Velasquez's mother Rita, 45, a church secretary.
Doctors speculated Lizzie might have the genetic disorder De Barsy syndrome but soon ruled it out as it became clear she did not have learning difficulties.
"They kept on trying to figure out what was wrong with her but we treated her like any other child," said Mrs Velasquez, who charted her daughter's health in dozens of notebooks. She was taken to see genetic experts but they still could not diagnose her.
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Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander said Monday that he would not support a resolution authorizing military force in Syria, adding to the tally of lawmakers who plan to oppose President Barack Obama's request.
"I will vote 'no' because of too much uncertainty about what comes next," Mr. Alexander said in a speech at the Nashville Rotary Club. "I see too much risk that the strike will do more harm than good by setting off a chain of consequences that could involve American fighting men and women in another long-term Middle East conflict."
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A Wall Street Journal tally counts 18 senators as "nos" and another three who are leaning "no." Some 14 are "yes," and if Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), who is counted as "lean yes," is added, that would mean as many as "15 yeses."
Another way of putting it is that The Wall Street Journal tallies 15 senators as "yes" or "leaning yes," and 21 senators as "no" or "leaning no.
Mr. Alexander faces a primary challenge in his conservative home state, where state Rep. Joe Carr announced late last month he would run against Mr. Alexander, until then considered a safe bet to win re-election. A coalition of Tennessee tea party groups signed an open letter last month urging Mr. Alexander to retire. A fiscal conservative, Mr. Alexander voted with Democrats in the Senate to broadly overhaul the immigration system.
Mr. Alexander made his decision on Syria after listening to a telephone briefing with top administration officials and discussing the proposed strike by telephone with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel over the weekend, according to the lawmaker's office.
The Senate vote is expected to be tight. Earlier Monday, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat from North Dakota, said she could not support the Senate resolution in its current form.
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Bolt Bus service, with its enticing $1 ticket fares to Seattle, rolled into downtown Portland for the first time Wednesday morning
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It seemed the $1 fare was the hot topic for curious people who meandered over to the bus Wednesday morning and asking what the catch was.
"Well, there really isn't a catch," said General Manager David Hall. "It's just a pretty good deal.
Hall said the earlier riders book a ticket on Greyhound's new bus, the cheaper the seats. There's always at least one seat per ride that will be $1. Depending on the day of the week, there could be more.
"Kind of like the airlines or hotels do," Hall said. "The busier it is, the fuller you are, the higher the price is ... so middle of the week it might be $12, $15 bucks."
Melody Kirkendall's son goes to Seattle frequently to see friends. She said the BoltBus is a good deal.
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The BoltBus is already a hit on the East Coast. Apparently, people ride it so much that it pays for itself. The ride isn't too shabby either, said customer Michael Hicks, who has ridden Greyhound previously. He said the BoltBus is nicer.
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Our third installment in the "Law Firm Taxonomy" series addresses corporate-centric firms. With malice towards none and candor towards all, I must confess that I find this species the most problematic of all seven in our taxonomy. I'll explain why in a moment, but first let me, following Linneaus, simply describe these firms. By and large they:
There are a host of such firms, and some of them are quite large indeed, ranking comfortably within the Am Law 50, but in an odd way they are a residual category consisting of firms that don't fit credibly or plausibly anywhere else.
Where did these firms come from and where are they going?
First, where they came from is the easy question: As any thoughtful reader well knows, Biglaw had a golden age from ca. ~1980 until September 2008. That economic environment, sui generis in our lifetimes (and absorbing the entire career of some fortunate souls), will never return. In those palmy times, it's no surprise that some favored firms found themselves rooted in fertile ground and grew accordingly. It came with the territory.
Understand what I'm not saying: I'm not saying firms couldn't exploit their blessed circumstances more or less effectively, and I'm not saying that individuals don't matter. Individual leaders matter, and the only reason we don't think of firms that failed to take advantage of the incoming tide is because, well, they didn't. So they've been passed by and dropped off the radar. Call it survivorship bias, call it tautological, or merely call it res ipsa loquitur, but firms that lagged in the tailwind-fueled race aren't big players today.
Now, where are they going?
This requires balancing the pros and cons of what these firms have going for them.
I said at the beginning that I find this category the most problematic. Why so?
I'm afraid it could become a self-liquidating group: That is to say, I'm not confident there's any available long-term equilibrium strategy available to these firms to grow or even to stay even where they are. They can pin their hopes on their clientele being desirable on the one hand and (ironically) unsophisticated about exerting market power in terms of rate pressures on the other, and that can sustain a good long run, but my intuition, and economic history, suggest that this niche has a finite half-life. To put it bluntly, relying on your clients to be both rich and ignorant doesn't strike me as an informed and winning long-run bet.
Yet this category continues to trouble me, because clearly an impressive number of successful firms would stake a claim to being here. We must be missing something, no?
This brings us to the heart of the matter when we put Corporate-Centric Firms into the larger taxonomy context: They may be a residual category of firms that don't obviously fit anywhere else. They're not global, not capital markets centric, not category killers, not traditional boutiques and not super-boutiques. They're what's left over.
I don't know about you, but for a classification system to have intellectual and real-world integrity, I find this a dubious way to populate a category.
I am more than prepared, indeed eager, to be proven wrong.
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EU Demands That U.S. Made Cheese Be Called Something Else…
As part of trade talks, the EU wants to ban the use of names like Parmesan, feta and Gorgonzola on cheese made in the United States. The argument is that the American-made cheeses are shadows of the original European varieties and cut into sales and identity of the European cheeses.
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Though it has not laid out a public proposal, the EU is expected to make similar attempts to restrict marketing of U.S.-made cheeses, possibly including Parmesan, Asiago, Gorgonzola, feta, fontina, grana, Muenster, Neufchatel and Romano.
And it may not be just cheese. Other products with traditional ties to European countries that could be affected include bologna, Black Forest ham, Greek yogurt, Valencia oranges and prosciutto, among other foods.
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on 12 Mar 2014 at 7:00 am # comatus
There is a difference. Due to Americans' touchiness about multitudes dying suddenly, US cheese has to be made of pasteurized dairy product. Not so the famous Eurocheeses. So I'm thinking, their cheese won't sell here either way.
Monks took Italian vines to California. Time passed. France got the root-rot, every vine there died. And every snooty, snotty wine in France is made from re-planted vines — from California.
By all means, Europe, let's go to war on this.
on 12 Mar 2014 at 8:20 am # Gerry
Your last line had me laughing out loud!
on 12 Mar 2014 at 2:52 pm # Maxpwr
I have a comment for the European Union: How well do those words for cheese translate into Deutsche?
on 12 Mar 2014 at 3:37 pm # McThag
Thanks to Vidalia Georgia we have precedent here for this insanity of regionalized naming of identical products.
on 13 Mar 2014 at 1:37 am # Maxwell
I have a very European solution for this problem: The oh-so-European phrase, "caveat emptor"
And, after that, "go fuck yourselves"
on 15 Mar 2014 at 7:47 am # Richard
Let's compromise. We will rename Parmesan "Fuck the EU"
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Jono when Publicker Quit Distilling spirits they sold most of the Brands if not all of them. For one Old Hickory went to Medley for a bit then He sold it and someone else sold it and when I talked to Charles Medley he said He thought that Luxco had that brand now sadly. Heaven hills has Rittenhouse Rye and some others, the guy who owns the place does not have a clue about much of anything about Whiskey.
Publicker when they went into trying to be like P&G industrial only in 1980, they sold him the plant in 1982 to get more capital to buy more Equipment, after they sold him the Kinsey Plant they leased the Bottling House and all the Tankage and one or two Warehouses till to many loses and Him raising their lease Price made them go under and Then He just shut the whole Place down and walked away all these years except for going there maybe once a year or so and just looking around.
I think that the Kinsey Name belongs to Inver House Distillers I may be wrong but I seem to recall them getting it, why I do not Know.
And the guy who owns Kinsey pays the two fellows I am friends with to just keep locking buildings after they are broken in to. And cleaning up some when they have time.
I wish someone would buy the Old Hickory Name and bring it back with the Original Mash Bill, it was a fine whiskey and the Old Hickory that Medley made was very good also.
I still think if someone brought that Name back with a Fine High End Whiskey it would again be a big seller as there are still many people livng that loved it and those people would pass the word on!
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"My friends Jerom and Natasja are getting married and I would like to give them something special. Since they are both lovers of American history and trivia, I'd love to give them some unexpected knowledge. I am writing a large group of American museums to ask if they could send me an anecdote, a factoid or a bit of trivia that surprises their visitors when they tour the museum; something that makes them laugh, think or realize a connection to American history they hadn't known before. Would you please send me a contribution as well?" – Lambert Teuweissen
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A York City man told police he was simply walking along North Pine Street about 7 p.m. Saturday when he was shot in the leg.
Ramon Severino, 18, of West Princess Street, suffered a gunshot wound to the lower left leg, city police Capt. Tim Utley said. The bullet then traveled upward and lodged in the victim's knee, Utley said.
Severino was in satisfactory condition Monday in York Hospital, a hospital spokesman said.
City officers went to the hospital shortly before 8 p.m. after being alerted a shooting victim had arrived there, police said.
Severino told officers he was on his way to see a friend and was walking in the first block of North Pine Street, minding his own business, when he heard two gunshots, Utley said.
He was struck by one bullet and told officers he didn't see anyone in the area either before or after the shots were fired, according to the captain.
Severino made his way to Philadelphia Street and called his aunt and cousin, who picked him up and drove him to the hospital, Utley said.
Officers went to the block where Severino reported being shot, but could find no physical evidence of a shooting, the captain said.
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by Anders Aslund, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Op-ed in the Central Europe Digest. Reposted with permission.
May 1, 2013
© Center for European Policy Analysis
Europe remains divided, but its division no longer runs between East and West—it is now between North and South. Northern Europe thrives economically, while most of Southern Europe is in financial crisis.
The advantages of the northern fiscal approach are crystal clear. Latvia and Greece offer the most obvious contrast. Both countries have lost almost a quarter of their output, but Latvia suffered only two years of output decline, while Greece has so far recorded six years of contraction. And unlike Greece, Latvia has now resolved all its financial problems.
Any observer would presume that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would praise the North and urge the South to follow its example. Incredibly, the IMF does the opposite. It urges the North to loosen its sound fiscal policies and the South to take more time to reduce its excessive budget deficits. Thus, the IMF encourages the South to suffer longer. The explanation seems to be poor economic theory, a revival of old-style Keynesianism that caused stagflation with low growth and high unemployment in the 1970s.
When the global financial crisis hit in the fall of 2008, the three Baltic countries—Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania—instantly put their house in order. They front-loaded fiscal tightening, carrying out a fiscal adjustment of about 9 percent of GDP in 2009. Each of them cut public expenditures by about 6 percent and hiked tax revenues by about 3 percent of GDP. In doing so, the Baltic countries enjoyed seven notable advantages. And most of the lessons they learned would be useful to other European countries as well.
First of all, when a severe crisis hits, it is politically easy to do what is necessary. As Rahm Emanuel so rightly stated: "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste." In crisis, people think of the interests of the nation rather than the interests of their particular group. The Baltic countries saw minimal protests precisely because they resolved their crisis almost instantly, while the tardy South European governments have experienced massive and prolonged popular unrest.
Second, the design of a reform program becomes much better if it is developed right away, as vested interests lie low when a crisis hits. Good program design is much more a matter of politics than analysis, because we largely know what reforms are needed. Europe's big problems are low growth and high unemployment, and both require structural reforms such as deregulation of labor and product markets.
Third, financial sustainability is a fundamental issue. At the end of 2011, public debt in the euro area averaged no less than 98 percent of GDP, while the EU Maastricht ceiling is 60 percent of GDP. One-third, or nine, of the 27 EU countries have required or still require financial stabilization programs. European fiscal policy should therefore focus on containing public debt.
Fourth, international rescue funding is often limited. Latvia faced such a barrier in 2009, while the IMF and the European Union have poured excessive funds in Greece, leaving it with an unsustainable debt burden. As a result, Greece has gone through a default.
Fifth, an early fiscal improvement restores confidence both at home and abroad. Financial flows return to the country, firms invest again and interest rates decline. Latvia had accomplished that by July 2009, while Greece has yet to succeed in doing so.
Sixth, a large front-loaded fiscal adjustment inevitably contains more expenditure cuts than tax increases, simply because tax revenues cannot be boosted fast. This is advantageous in European countries, which all have excessive public expenditures. The Baltic fiscal adjustments consisted of two-thirds of expenditure cuts and only one-third of tax hikes, while the less successful southern programs relied much more heavily on tax increases, which in turn have stalled economic growth.
Finally, a quick return to economic growth is vital for economic, financial, and political reasons. The three Baltic countries restored growth after only two years of decline, and all three recorded growth rates of around 5 percent in 2011 and 2012. They are now clearly on the highest growth trajectory in Europe, a result of allowing fiscal adjustments to drive vital structural reforms. Southern Europe, by contrast, is set to record many consecutive years of economic decline. No wonder that the Greek people protest so vehemently.
It is now clear that the IMF advice to Southern European countries could hardly have been more flawed. In 2008–09, it urged them to carry out fiscal stimulus. Cyprus, Slovenia and Spain did so, ending up in severe financial crises. Now, the IMF is publicly telling the crisis countries not to cut their budget deficits too fast, which means that the IMF effectively contributes to prolonging and aggravating their crisis.
So what does all this mean for the United States? In fact, because the US situation is so different, it does not mean very much. Admittedly, the US public debt is significant at 107 percent of GDP (not deducting the social security trust fund), but the US government also enjoys an exorbitant privilege of cheap international financing because it holds the dominant global reserve currency. Therefore, it runs minimal risk of default. Moreover, the United States does not have the European problems of overregulated labor and product markets, and thus few Americans understand the nature of these issues in Europe. The US public expenditures remain far below the average European level, so the need to cut them is not as obvious.
Since the United States faces a rather different economic situation, much of the American commentary on the European financial crisis is misplaced. Few American economists know much about the European economies—Paul Krugman is a prime example with his persistent condemnation of the successful Baltic countries. If you know so little, the Hippocratic Oath should be applied: Do no harm!
Testimony: Sovereign Bond Purchases and Risk Sharing Arrangements: Implications for Euro Area Monetary Policy June 2015
Testimony: European Banking Union: Current Outlook and Short-Term Choices February 26, 2014
Policy Brief 13-23: How to Form a More Perfect European Banking Union October 2013
Op-ed: The ECB Can and Should Make the ABS Market Happen June 4, 2014
Policy Brief 13-17: A Realistic Bridge Towards European Banking Union June 2013
Op-ed: Five Myths about the Euro Crisis September 7, 2012
Article: Why the Euro Will Survive: Completing the Continent's Half-Built House August 22, 2012
Testimony: Challenges of Europe's Fourfold Union August 1, 2012
Working Paper 12-12: Sovereign Debt Sustainability in Italy and Spain: A Probabilistic Approach August 2012
Policy Brief 12-20: Why a Breakup of the Euro Area Must Be Avoided: Lessons from Previous Breakups August 2012
Policy Brief 12-18: The Coming Resolution of the European Crisis: An Update June 2012
Book: Transatlantic Economic Challenges in an Era of Growing Multipolarity July 2012
Book: Resolving the European Debt Crisis March 2012
Policy Brief 12-4: The European Crisis Deepens January 2012
Policy Brief 11-21: What Can and Cannot Be Done about Rating Agencies November 2011
Working Paper 11-2: Too Big to Fail: The Transatlantic Debate January 2011
Policy Brief 10-27: How Europe Can Muddle Through Its Crisis December 2010
Policy Brief 10-14: In Defense of Europe's Grand Bargain June 2010
Op-ed: New Imbalances Will Threaten Global Recovery June 10, 2010
Book: The Euro at Ten: The Next Global Currency? July 2009


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Oakland County's Department of Health and Human Services has disputed a recent report by Lighthouse of Oakland County that said poverty in the county increased by 77 percent between 2005 and 2012, calling the report 'exaggerated' and 'disingenuous'.
George Miller, Director of the county's Health and Human Services department, says he does not dispute the fact that there has been an increase in the number of low-income families in the county in recent years, but not to the extent the report estimates.
"What I am challenging is really the irresponsible way it was presented in (and in) such an exaggerated fashion," said Miller. "I feel like it's sort of an alarmist tone."
The report said there were more than 118,000 low-income people living in Oakland County in 2012, which is an increase of about 77 percent compared to the number of low-income people in the county in 2005. It also highlighted the shift of low-income families out of urban areas and into suburban communities, particularly in southeastern Oakland County.
Miller said the report applies a wrong formula to calculate the increase and the actual increase in those years is 4 percentage points.
Miller also disputes some other numbers in the report saying it portrays a wrong picture of a county which is doing better than many others.
"I think it's disingenuous when it's done so in a fashion where you can, in essence, affect negatively the economic growth of your community. And I think it's disingenuous to many of the taxpayers who are the contributors to many of these non-profits," he said.
Lighthouse of Oakland County CEO John Ziraldo responded to the criticism, saying much of what the county described as errors in the report were simply different ways of calculating the size of the large and growing problem.
"Their critique focused on the change in the rate of poverty and our analysis examined the change in the absolute size of the poverty problem as a whole," Ziraldo said. "The US Census data clearly indicates that approximately 51,000 more individuals now live below the federal poverty line in Oakland County than did so in 2005."
There hasn't been direct communications between the county and Lighthouse, but both Ziraldo and Miller agree that the best way to deal with poverty in the region is better coordination among government and private institutions.


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National Weather Service cancels South Florida wind advisory
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Published On: Apr 22 2012 07:12:15 AM EDT Updated On: Apr 22 2012 05:14:23 PM EDT
The National Weather Service canceled a wind advisory issued for South Florida on Sunday afternoon.
The wind advisory was put into effect at 11 a.m.
The National Weather Service reported seeing winds subsiding across the area, and that frequent gusts of 35 mph or greater were not occurring.
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Only a few more than 4,100 basketball fans were on hand at the Hersheypark Arena in Hershey, Pa. on March 2, 1962.
But what a memorable night it was!
Wilt Chamberlain, of the Philadelphia Warriors, established a new standard in individual sports achievement when he scored 100 points to lead his team to a 169-147 victory over the New York Knicks.
There is no video of the game, but there is a dramatic audio play-by-play of the fete, by the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association's own legend, Bill Campbell.


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Julian Gollop says "Firaxis has done a great job".
By Jess Colwill on November 29, 2012 at 3:05 pm
XCOM: Enemy Unknown is generally hailed as a great game, both in its own right and as a successor to the original XCOM. Enemy Unknown's producer, Jake Soloman regards original XCOM's creator, Julian Gollop as a personal hero, which was part of why Enemy Unknown is such a faithful and reverent remake.
So we know what fans think, and we know what the creator of Enemy Unknown thinks. But how does Julian Gollop feel about this recreation of one of his old classics? "The game is addictive and absorbing, not to mention quite challenging on the Classic difficulty setting," Gollop told Eurogamer. "Most of Firaxis' decisions have been pretty sensible. Overall, I think they have preserved the essence of the original XCOM. Firaxis has done a great job."
There was some small criticisms about some of the more 'contrived' departures from the original, though. "One small disappointment is that the positions of events and bases in the world view have no relevance at all," he explained. "I often get the feeling that some things are just too deliberately contrived, the three simultaneous abduction sites [of which the player can only respond to one] being the worst offender."
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This may be old news to some of you but its the first time that I have come across it.
I have just bought a copy of 'Round about Roma' by Stefano Di Battista on Blue Note.
This disc does not seem to have been released in the US yet.
I put it into my pc to have a listen while I browsed and suddenly a player that I had never seen before appeared! Anyways the cd provides its own player but apparently will not allow me to use my usual player to rip it as I usually do for use on my ipod.
When I opened the cd through explorer it does not display the audio tracks separately.
This is infuriating (I dont share MP3s on the net and I don't download them) but I can't listen to an album that I have bought as I would wish!
I presume the introduction of the player is to get over the complaints of cds not being playable on pcs.
Any other incidents of such cds? What are other people's views?
Incidentally I tried to copy it on a 'normal hi-fi type copier and it wont copy either!
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I got a similar cd as christmas present. It launchs its own player showing a bitrate of 47 kbps AFAIR. As it didn't play in two of my CD players I was "forced" to make a working copy.
Happened to me as well. My review of the disc here:
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The Muhlenberg Campus of Madisonville Community College will host an Open House 9 - 6 p.m. Thursday, July 17. MCC will have representatives from admissions, academic advising, registration and financial aid onsite to answer questions you may have about how to get started.
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The Martin Scholars program is specifically designed to help Muhlenberg County adults, age 25 and older with at least 30 college-level credit hours, to complete their associate's degree. Students accepted in the program will receive a $250 cash stipend each semester they make satisfactory progress toward a degree at MCC. In addition, participants will receive a $400 bonus when they complete their degree at MCC.
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Brock experts weigh in on managing Halloween's sugar nightmare
October 29, 2015
Bags full of sweet treats your little ghosts and goblins bring home Saturday night might be scarier than the costumes themselves. Halloween is a fun night of trick or treating, but the sudden mountain of sugar can wreak havoc on children's health.
Brock University has numerous experts specializing in nutrition, obesity and pediatric health issues who are weighing in on how to keep Halloween's from getting out of hand for young kids.
Andrea Josse, Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology and the mother of a soon-to-be three-year-old, said Halloween is a time of indulgence that needs to be managed.
"It's not about taking away everything just because it's not healthy. It's about letting kids enjoy this fun time once a year. The fact is, kids do eat a lot of things that aren't healthy, so it is a good idea to use Halloween to engage in discussions with your kids about healthy vs. unhealthy eating," she says.
Knowledge focus needed to transform Niagara's economy, says new Brock policy brief
October 28, 2015
Niagara needs to develop a "knowledge" economy that would build on the region's strengths, says a new policy brief from the Niagara Community Observatory.
In it's brief, titled "Moving Niagara Towards a Knowledge Economy," the Brock University research group says that while Niagara has strengths in agriculture, tourism and as a border community, manufacturing enterprises have been the traditional source of jobs in the area.
With the decline of the manufacturing sector, large and small communities in Canada are now positioning themselves to function as "vibrant economic hubs." Core to these hubs is a knowledge economy, which "places a premium on creativity and creation of new knowledge and innovation as drivers of economic revitalization," says the brief.
Included within innovation would be new inventions in fields such as genetics or biotechnology, reconfiguration of existing goods produced or revolutionizing the way that these goods are produced, including advanced manufacturing.
Brock researchers involved in world forum focused on ecosystem threats
October 22, 2015
Brock University biologist Liette Vasseur and Master's student Christine Janzen are heading off to China for the first-ever World Forum on Ecosystem Governance.
Modeled after the World Economic Forum, the World Forum on Ecosystem Governance brings together experts and leaders from around the globe to come up with ways to respond to ecosystem threats.
Vasseur, who holds a UNESCO Chair in Sustainability, is a program leader for one of the forum's two themes: implementing the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Recently approved by the United Nations, the SDGs include measures and targets to reduce poverty and increase access to health care, food, education, employment, energy and many other basics by 2030.
Vasseur will be giving a number of presentations on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the conservation of ecosystems, which relates to the forum's second theme – addressing climate change.
Brock study explores gender differences in workplace bullying perceptions
October 21, 2015
Young women preparing for the business world tend to see teasing, isolation and other relationship-oriented actions as being acceptable behaviours in the workplace as compared to the view of their male counterparts, says a recently published Brock University study.
The study, "Workplace Bullying: The Perceptions of Canadian University Students" aimed to determine differences in male and female undergraduate business school students in the way they viewed manifestations of workplace bullying.
"A common misconception is that workplace bullying is gender neutral; the reality is that it is not," says study author and Goodman School of Business Assistant Professor Lisa Barrow. "Gender plays a significant role in the workplace bullying epidemic."
And, both sexes accepted a range of hurtful behaviours that Barrow says is troubling.
Research looks at fungi that kills bugs and helps plants
October 21, 2015
It's a mouthful for most of us to say "entomopathogenic fungi" out loud. But not for Larissa Barelli, a doctoral student in Brock's Biotechnology program and recipient of a prestigious 2015 Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
Her scientific vocabulary rolls out with enthusiasm — and passion — along with a knack for explaining the complexities of her research interest and what motivates her as a researcher.
"I believe that some of us are born to ask the question why, to question the mechanics of life and how we can improve upon them, and solve the problems that affect the world around us," she says. "Every researcher has their niche that they carve out for themselves, and I want the opportunity to contribute my piece to the larger puzzle."
Barelli has found her piece of the puzzle working with her supervisor, Michael Bidochka, and his world-renowned research team. The group studies entomopathogenic fungal species that not only kill insects but are also plant symbionts — meaning they have an association with plants that contribute to the health of the plant.
Nursing team receives award for patient care and teaching research
October 16, 2015
The U.S.-based Journal of Nursing Education has awarded a Brock team for research on how nurses make decisions on patient procedures and care.
Researchers Joyce Engel, Dawn Prentice and McMaster University undergraduate student Adriana Cappelletti (first author) received the Christine A. Tanner Scholarly Teaching Award for their paper "Systematic review of clinical judgment and reasoning in nursing" in the Journal of Nursing, 53, 453-8.
"We were completely surprised," says Engel. "The fact that we're Canadians and that the award is given to an article that advances knowledge in nursing education is a huge honour."
The paper explores factors that influence clinical decision-making resulting in "a reasoned and accurate judgment that guides nursing actions and evaluations," and how best to teach these concepts to nursing students, says Engel.


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Arlington National Cemetery's expansion plans attract skeptics
WASHINGTON — Arlington National Cemetery leaders are working on what could be one of the largest expansions in decades, warning that without more burial space the nation's iconic military burial ground would run out of new grave sites for veterans within a dozen years.
Workers just finished construction on a giant structure that can hold tens of thousands of cremated remains; cemetery officials hope to begin a controversial 27-acre expansion this fall; and they will soon start designing a 38-acre addition around the Air Force Memorial near the Pentagon.
The dramatic expansion plans are part of a whirlwind of modernization and improvements put in place since investigators revealed widespread problems several years ago. The changes, including digitized records that allow cemetery visitors to look up burial sites online, have transformed internal operations and the visitor experience at the cemetery, which dates to the Civil War.
But one project - which officials say would beautify the area and add more than 27,000 much-needed interment sites for veterans on the northern side of the grounds - has sparked opposition.
Critics say the Millennium Project, as the 27-acre expansion is called, doesn't fit the historic site, would damage a stream and raze hundreds of trees in place since the Civil War. And some ask whether it would make more sense to begin planning for the inevitable - the day when the cemetery will be full.
It's no small question for a place that attracts more than 4 million visitors a year, with graves that span U.S. history, including Revolutionary War soldiers, U.S. presidents, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Joe Louis and many thousands who served the country.
"I love Arlington. But it's not big enough for all future wars," said Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., a member of the House Armed Services Committee. "It seems like we need to be preparing for Arlington Two, making sure it's just as nice and wonderful and historical as Arlington One."
On Thursday, the cemetery will dedicate a new columbarium court, nearly as long as two football fields, where more than 20,000 cremated remains can be stored. Without it, Arlington would have run out of what cemetery officials call "niche" space by 2016.
Now the focus is on new grave sites with the Millennium Project. "This is important," said Kathryn Condon, executive director of Army National Military Cemeteries, "because if we do nothing today, we will run out of in-ground burial space in 2025."
There are about 22 million living U.S. veterans now, said Paige Lowther, of the National Cemetery Administration at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and each day many hundreds die.
Nationally, only a little more than half of VA's 131 national cemeteries - administered separately from Arlington, which is run by the U.S. Army - are fully open for new burials. VA is planning to expand, as well, with five enormous new cemeteries.
"Eventually Arlington is going to close because there is no more space. That's a given," said Joe Davis, a spokesman for Veterans of Foreign Wars, which supports the expansions. "We want Arlington to continue to serve as the final resting place for all of our nation's fallen warriors for as long as it possibly can. But Arlington does have a life span."
A few years ago, Arlington officials were scrambling to explain to furious lawmakers and distraught families a rash of burial problems. Condon, who is stepping down at the end of the month, was brought in June 2010 after investigators found scores of unmarked and mismarked graves, urns that had been unearthed and dumped in a dirt pile and millions wasted in botched information-technology contracts.
She has overseen changes large and small: overhauling burial procedures; fixing the leaky roof in the visitors center; adding recycled-material sidewalks so that grieving relatives are not walking in roadways; modernizing the eternal flame at John F. Kennedy's grave site (requiring the recent installation of a temporary burner) ; taking down the "Keep Off The Grass" signs so visitors can explore.
Condon has also been working to get the cemetery listed on the National Register of Historic Places. And she oversaw the effort to move the cemetery from an antiquated index-card record-keeping system to digital mapping of grave sites - complete with an app for visitors to find family remains and historical points of interest.
Last month, John Hamilton, VFW's commander in chief, sent a letter to Condon thanking her for "the extraordinary accomplishments . . . under intense scrutiny." VFW had repeatedly called for management of the cemetery to be transferred to Veterans Affairs, but, he wrote, "our trust in Arlington has returned, and it's due to your leadership."
Condon also inherited strong opposition to earlier Millennium Project plans. In 2010, cemetery leaders asked the Army Corps of Engineers' Norfolk District for "a more environmentally friendly design," cemetery officials said.
But critics such as H. Hedrick Belin, president of Potomac Conservancy, said last month that the recent plans would "totally devastate the topography of the region," tearing down trees and leaving "some real questions about the impact on water quality in the Chesapeake Bay." The stream valley would be altered, he said.
"We want to preserve this place, a wonderful place to reflect on their sacrifices," said Rob Nieweg of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. "We oppose what we consider to be a ham-handed design."
"Arlington wants to bulldoze ⅛one section⅜ essentially, remove 800 native trees and an extraordinary amount of earth."
Those woods that one section would replace are historic, he argued. "These are the last remaining bits of the Arlington estate. The Custis-Lee mansion at one point was surrounded by 1,100 acres."
Stephen Van Hoven, the cemetery's urban forester, said the work will preserve the stand of trees next to Arlington House, so the view from that site will remain the same.
Lt. Col. David Fedroff of the Army Corps said the design requires cutting into the slope for safety reasons; a cemetery can't be put on a steep hill.
The project, which will be submitted to the National Capital Planning Commission for final approval in June or July, would also remove invasive species that choke native plants and vines that strangle trees, Van Hoven said. Plans call for nearly 800 new trees, thousands of bushes and seedlings, efforts to improve water quality and restoration of the eroded streambed.
All the trees have been numbered with small metal tags, which helps track the different species. After earlier criticism, the design of a road was changed to save some trees. Orange ties around trunks mark a wetlands area as off-limits, and an arched bridge design allows animals to cross the stream; earlier plans had concrete embedded in the water, project manager Greg Hegge said.
Hegge said cemetery officials think that they have addressed almost all of the criticisms, although "some individuals have expressed such a degree of concern over the living trees on the site that they will accept no tree removal." The officials won't be able to satisfy those concerns, he said.
"And we owe it to our veterans and our loved ones who served this country to make that balance," Condon added.
But Arlington officials would not have so many environmental issues to juggle, said Cooper, the congressman from Tennessee, if they were not trying to expand into land so ill-suited for a cemetery. He wondered what the cost per grave will be and asked whether that is truly patriotic, to spend so much.
"I don't mind paying top dollar, and our veterans deserve to be honored," he said. "But anything we purchase - literally - would be cheaper than what we're doing now."
Cemetery officials should be looking ahead and finding a beautiful new site, he said, rather than staying in denial.
The Millennium Project has cost $17 million so far, including planning and design, storm-water retention and stabilizing the stream, and $82 million has been budgeted for construction, Arlington officials said. The new columbarium court cost nearly $16 million. And it's too soon to know how much the Navy Annex project might cost.
"It's tough," said Davis, the VFW spokesman. "That's where everyone wants to go. Even people whose immediate family doesn't live anywhere near here. Because they're surrounded by all their brothers.
"My parents are buried there. I want to go there - knock on wood they have space for me."
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Oklahoma OT Lane Johnson (No. 4), West Virginia WR Tavon Austin (No. 8), Texas S Kenny Vaccaro (No. 15) give Big 12 three first-round NFL Draft picks, fewest since 2008
Three players from the Big 12 were selected in the first round of the NFL Draft on Thursday night, down from five Big 12 first-rounders a year ago and the fewest since 2008, when Kansas cornerback Aqib Talib was the only player from the conference to be selected in the first round (No. 20 to Tampa Bay).
Oklahoma offensive tackle Lane Johnson was the first Big 12 player off the board when the Philadelphia Eagles picked him at No. 4, giving the conference a Top 5 pick for the fifth straight year. But 2013 marked the first time since 2008 that the Big 12 did not have a player picked among the first two picks. Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III was selected by the Washington Redskins with the No. 2 overall pick last year, Texas A&M's Von Miller was picked by the Denver Broncos with the No. 2 overall pick in 2011, St. Louis made Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford the top overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft and Baylor offensive tackle Jason Smith went No. 2, also to the Rams, the year before that.
St. Louis traded the first of its two first-round picks (No. 16), a second-rounder (No. 46), a third-round selection (No. 78) and seventh-round pick (No. 222) to Buffalo for a third-round pick (No. 71) and the No. 8 overall pick, which the Rams used to take West Virginia wide receiver Tavon Austin — the first wideout taken in this year's NFL Draft. Before Austin was picked, six of the first seven selections were linemen.
"I'm just ready to get to St. Louis and go to work," Austin said. "I'm thankful for the opportunity that they have given me… I'm going to go there and I'm definitely going to work hard and I'm not going to be a distraction. I'm going to come in with the right mindset and hopefully put some points on the board so our team can get some wins."
Texas' Kenny Vaccaro was also the first at his position to be selected in this year's draft as the Longhorns safety was picked by New Orleans with the No. 15 pick. He became the 13th defensive back and fourth safety from Texas to be drafted since Duane Akina was hired as the Longhorns' secondary coach in 2001. Six of those 13, including all four safeties (Vaccaro, Earl Thomas, Michael Griffin and Michael Huff) were taken in the first round. Thomas, who was selected by the Seattle Seahawks with the No. 14 overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft, was the last Longhorn picked in the first round before Vaccaro this year.
"This was such a great night, and I'm so excited to be a Saint," Vaccaro said. "I got chills when I looked at my mom after my name was called. We've been through so much, and she's been there for me all the way… I have been grinding my whole life, literally since I was four years old for this opportunity, and it is finally here."
Arguably the biggest surprise of the NFL Draft's first round this year was that West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith didn't make it four Big 12 players that were selected Thursday night. Smith, who passed for 4,198 yards and an FBS-best 42 touchdowns last season, was projected as a first-round pick by almost all draft experts and widely considered the top quarterback prospect available. But Florida State's E.J. Manuel was the only quarterback to be taken in the first round as he was picked by the Bills with the No. 16 pick.


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A fight among friends turns violent. One man is stabbed and the other in jail.
Pikeville Police say 21 year old Daniel Gillispie stabbed 21 year old Tommy Bray Tuesday night at an apartment building on Poplar Street in Pikeville.
Bray is in intensive care, and Gillispie is charged with assault and impersonating a police officer.
Police say Gillispie confessed he pretended to be a police officer to get Bray to open the door, and then stabbed him.
Friends at the apartment building say the fight between the two men started because Gillispie was mad someone called him a "rat."
Madison McGuire said, "It was bad."
Madison McGuire says she is friends with her neighbor Tommy Bray. The man she was dating is charged with stabbing him.
"Daniel is not that kind of person. I never thought he would do anything like that," said McGuire.
She says Daniel Gillispie was visiting her in the upstairs apartment when he got into an argument with Tommy Bray who lives downstairs. She says later someone sent Gillispie a text message saying they called him a "rat."
"Daniel automatically left and he went to his car, and we looked out the window, and we asked Daniel what he was doing and he said it was nothing. Then we heard him knock him knock on the door, and they asked who it was and he said police, and they opened the door. We heard arguing and then I see Gage run out the door with a stick and I see Tommy run out into the road holding his side, blood gushing," said McGuire.
Police say Bray has severe injuries and underwent emergency surgery.
Detectives arrested Gillispie on scene.
"He admitted to the altercation and admitted to pulling a knife and stabbing the subject as well. He stated the fight started over some of the victim's family calling him a rat," said Detective Phillip Reed.
Gillispie is charged with assault and impersonating a police officer because he allegedly claimed he was police to get Bray to open the door. He is in the Pike County Detention Center on a $30,000 full cash bond.
"I'm just shocked because Tommy is our friend. Daniel is our friend. I don't know, I have love for both of them. It's just crazy. It's shocking," said McGuire.
McGuire says she visited Bray in the hospital, and he is expected to survive.
Gillispie is scheduled to be arraigned on Thursday.


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They are organized arent they. Tuck, duck, and roll and get the hell out of dodge.....
This is a discussion on BAD: Smash and grab within the In the News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Video of a smash and grab of an ATM. POS's armed with AK "machine guns"...I know, I know... VIDEO: Extreme Smash and Grab Robbery...
Video of a smash and grab of an ATM. POS's armed with AK "machine guns"...I know, I know...
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They are organized arent they. Tuck, duck, and roll and get the hell out of dodge.....
Don"t let stupid be your skill set....
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Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means, that you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you......
Organized, yes, but not really well prepared. The van they brought could not accommodate the ATM. You would think they would have the right tools with them.
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Anyone noticed that some places are putting the ATM near the back of establishments now? This is true for a few places that I use, & a local gas station/convenience store moved theirs there during a recent remodel.
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Yet another reason to stay OUT of Detroit.
Not much good going on in that city.
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Out of curiosity, I've always wanted to know how much was in a fully loaded ATM machine. Any guesses?
"Machine guns...""The suspects are seen carrying machine guns."
Store owners should invest in some of those concrete pillars.
As the owner of the machine depending on how often you want to go refill it. As BIL is LEO he would have no problems vaulting the ATM's. You open two bank accounts. 1st one is for the money that you keep replacing the vault with. So as the money is dispenced fromthe machine it gets replaced into the holding account.
2nd one is for the transaction fees to go into.Thats the profit. If you set up a couple of machine in a good location you can make some money. Funny thing that we noticed is that city employess will put out a few dollars several times a day.
The guy selling the route what asking a lot of money for the locations. We scoped them out and they were surrounded by other machines did not think the deal was worth it.


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A bit of fog is clouding some part of the region this morning, especially areas north of the city.
The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a special weather statement cautioning patchy, dense fog in Butler and Warren counties through at least 9 a.m.
Closer to the Ohio River, visibility is at four miles in downtown Cincinnati and at three miles at Lunken Airport. ...


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On the internet, I get a lot of pushback when I write about sex and gender from guys who say things like "It's not fair, women can have sex whenever they want!", "Women are the gatekeepers," "You don't have to work for it," etc. If it were only dudes on the internet that spouted this rhetoric, I'd write them off as idiot trolls.
But it's not just misogynistic commenters and entitled jerks online who think this kind of thing; I hear it from real guys too, the normal ones, the nice ones, the ones who I know to be decent humans. The thing I think they're all missing is that finding any old someone who wants to get down doesn't exactly guarantee any magic will happen. That's not to say you can't stumble on to awesome amazingtimez with a one-night stand, only that what many women want (need?) to enjoy sex isn't what a lot of those one-night standers are offering.
Today at Role/Reboot I wrote about how "getting laid" might be easy, but "getting laid" is sometimes a pretty low, unappealing bar. It's not hard to find someone casual who wants to get it in, it is hard to find someone casual who wants to get you going.
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