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Red Wings prospects Louis-Marc Aubry and Garnet Exelby play table tennis outside the Wings' locker room Tuesday, April 17, 2012. No Predators allowed. / HELENE ST. JAMES / DFP
When forward Todd Bertuzzi on Monday afternoon spied a couple of Nashville Predators wanting to play table tennis on the tables that belong to the Detroit Red Wings, he told team security, who took care of the matter.
The Wings figure it's fair game, seeing as the Predators don't play nice with them, either.
"I came out of our room, saw some of their guys wanting to play on our Ping Pong tables and told security," Bertuzzi told the Free Press. "I didn't do anything else. I didn't move the table myself."
Rumors that Bertuzzi had personally packed up the table and wheeled it away swirled around the morning skates today. The Wings host the Predators at 7:30 (NBCSN, FSD, CBC) in Game 4 looking to even the first-round series.
No one among the Wings had heard of Ping Ponggate, but greeted it with delight.
"You know he's a terrible Ping Pong player," forward Danny Cleary said with a grin. "At least he can do something with it. But it's good. He's our sheriff around here."
When a TV reporter asked Wings coach Mike Babcock about it during his morning news conference, he said, "is that true or not?" A team spokesman yelled out, "no," which made Babcock laugh.
"So that's why stuff like that is rumors," he said. "Lots of the rumors that are going around, honest to God, when I'm bored, I start them to get them going."
Predators forward Brandon Yip confirmed that Bertuzzi was not around when he and Roman Josi were denied the opportunity to play Ping Pong by arena security at Joe Louis Arena on Monday.
"I dont know where that came from, Yip said of Bertuzzi being involved. He wasnt out there.
Nashville coach Barry Trotz said, "If they want a Ping Pong table in Nashville, we'll get them one. It's their toys, we have our toys. We're OK. It's not a big deal to us at all."
The team spokesman likened the situation to a visiting team's player going into the home team's gym and using the workout equipment, something that would never happen. Besides, the Wings feel it's only fair to keep the Predators away from their hallway, as the Predators won't allow the Wings to walk through the hallway outside their locker room at Bridgestone Arena, forcing the Wings to walk around to exit.
Bertuzzi, of course, did do his own handiwork in Game 2 of the series, when he challenged Nashville defenseman Shea Weber to fight in retaliation for Weber slamming Zetterberg's head into the glass at the end of Game 1.
As for tonight's game, it looks like Bertuzzi will start on the third line, with Justin Abdelkader and Drew Miller, and Cleary will be with Pavel Datsyuk and Johan Franzen. Babcock didn't commit to anything, and the morning skate was optional, but based on what players said, that's the indication. The other lines would be Henrik Zetterberg with Valtteri Filppula and Jiri Hudler, and Cory Emmerton centering Tomas Holmstrom and Gustav Nyquist.
Of course, the focus tonight is on starting hard, peppering Pekka Rinne with pucks and forcing the Predators to play from behind.
"We've done some good things," captain Nicklas Lidstrom said. "The result hasn't been what we wanted in a couple of games, but we feel we've done some good things. We have to continue to play well without the puck and play well defensively, and take advantage of our opportunities when we have them. We've got to keep working and keep grinding."
Contact Helene St. James: 313-222-2295 or email@example.com.
Join Free Press sports writer Shawn Windsor for a live blog of Game 4 of the Wings-Predators series Tuesday night at freep.com/sports.


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Francesca Davies, who works at the website who undertook the research, revealed that Harry Styles made it to the top spot because it was a style both men and women can fall in love with:
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every other Wednesday night, you can catch Sensemaya doing
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to or not. (And its surely no coincidence that the steamy
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one long stream of Latin genres and cross-pollinations,
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of Cuban rhythm and bebop phrasing), salsa, traditional
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jazz), and even some Brazilian touches of samba and bossa
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call-and-answer vocals, improvisation and head arrangements.
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with their brother, their sister. In many ways, its a way
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looking at music as culture. And Gleason, sipping at a
latte in the Borders café on a Saturday morning (with a
heavy, straight rain casting more of an Eastern European
than Caribbean atmosphere to the conversation), talks about
his chosen form earnestly and intelligently, explaining,
for example, that guajira is the Cuban, 19th-century
precursor to Salsa. . . . Its a little bit slower, really
florid. Its music that comes from the Cuban mountainside,
or tracing the development of salsa from its nascent years
in Cuba to its further development via Puerto Rican musicians
in New York City.
The boyishly intellectual, 24-year-old Colonie native and
middle-school music teacher (at Mont Pleasant) is a far
cry from the pianist plunking out complex, heated improvisations
with his fellow bandmates only a few nights before. But
thats the other side of the coin with Gleason: Sensemaya
emerged when he decided to put all his fieldwork to practice
back home. His studies at Tufts involved immersing himself
in the work of veteran salsa musicians in Boston. He not
only interviewed and observed, but frequently sat in with
them as a player in an effort to try to get inside [the
music] and understand itand understand its connection with
culture. With the completion of his thesis, Gleason thought
to himself, Wow, this is really cool, but how can I use
this to make a group? Such were the roots of Sensemaya,
who have been around for only just over a year, and who
have taken up a popular residency at Justins on Lark Street.
The groups primary lineup consists of Gleason on piano,
vocalist Walter Ramos (whom Gleason had interviewed for
his graduate project) on congas and percussion, Pete Sweeny
on drums, Benjamin Acrish on trumpet and flugelhorn, Tim
Williams on sax and flute and Ryan Lukas on bass. Acrish,
Williams and Lukas were old college buddies from Gleasons
undergrad days at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam (together
they had, of all things, a jam band). Sweeny and Ramos were
well-appointed veteran pros brought in to help see the project
out. For most of the musicians, this was new territory,
but in true jazz-musician spirit, they were excited to stretch
themselves in new and interesting ways.
Seeing the group in action, moving through numerous styles
and blending rhythms and forms, one might find it hard to
believe that 1) the group came together fairly recently
2) that this is a relatively new area of music for most
of the members and 3) that most of the members are of decidedly
non-Latin American heritage (not that that should matter,
Gleason says the eclecticism of the set was part of the
plan from day one. I thought that one way to make it really
interesting was to have each song be its own groove. A set
[would be] a presentation of seven or eight grooves or styles
that took the listener on a sort of journey. Besides traditional
songs from various Latin cultures and other arrangements,
the group also perform compositions by both Gleason and
Ramos, a wildly experienced NYC native whose law career
brought him northward in 99.
Gleason is also quick to point out the tremendously supportive
atmosphere of the local jazz scene, a point perhaps underscored
by the fact that local renowned player Adrian Cohen, who
also books Justins, took interest in Sensemaya early on
and helped them secure their Wednesday night residency,
in which they alternate week-to-week with Ramos other group,
Mundo Nuevo (a way more traditional group, Gleason notes).
The people are so friendly, Gleason says, noting
that, while there is obviously some competition among players,
they also want to encourage other musicians to reach their
fullest potential, knowing that its just healthy for the
scene in general.
Down the road, they have a couple of local fests to play
and a CD to put together (theres already a batch of MP3s
available at www.sensemaya.net). Or you can simply catch
them in what has become their natural habitat, Justins.
And when you hear the whole group singing a gang vocal back
and forth with Ramos lead vocal line, heres a little lesson
I picked up from Gleason: The musicians are singing the
córo (chorus), a response to Ramos córo-pregón,
which like a vendors sales pitchalong the lines of Hey,
check it out . . . we want you to listen and enjoy. (If
you think of the call-and-response in Oye Como Va, you
get the idea.) There are things to learn and Gleason is
willing and ready to teach, whether its in conversation
or through Sensemaya.


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Trying to fight off a Republican supermajority in the State Senate, the Georgia Senate Democratic Caucus recruited Lisa Collins to run in Senate District 11 in the Southwestern area's January 8th Special Election.
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Animal rehabilitation clinics have been caring for a larger-than-usual number of malnourished ducks this winter. Some ducks don't migrate in winter and dive into water in search of food.
When conservationist Tom Kocourek heard frozen waterways were preventing the birds from finding food, he decided to do something about it, HTR Media reported ( http://htrne.ws/1bRJ0oF) Friday. The Two Rivers man called a marine contracting and engineering firm, which used a trawler to break up ice in Manitowoc and Two Rivers harbors.
"We figured we had to do something," said Mike LeClair, president of Susie-Q Fish Co. in Two Rivers. "We have to keep the ducks going. Maybe the Lord will keep us going."
Days after ducks had been spotted walking through streets in search of anything to eat, they were in the water, diving for food again.
"We were just blown away" by the effort, said Jim Knickelbine, executive director of Woodland Dunes Nature Center and Preserve in Two Rivers. "We are just so grateful for the interest and commend them for what they are doing. For this to have happened says good things about our community."
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First Ashcroft stumps up for a Royal Yacht – but would Miliband?
Lord Aschroft has come riding to the rescue of a grateful nation this morning, telling the Daily Mail and ConservativeHome that he will stump up £5m towards a new royal yacht to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
The idea caused a stir this week after the Guardian reported that Michael Gove thought it was just what her Maj deserved, though played down his suggestion it be privately funded thus triggering inevitable Twitter outrage.
I was chatting to a mischief making minister who suggested the issue could be used to cause more problems for Ed Miliband.
"David Cameron and George Osborne should announce they are giving £100 out of their own pockets to the yacht, and then sit back and watch days of contortions from Miliband as he tries to weigh up being either disrespectful to the head of state, or out of touch with his supporters who think the whole thing is just awful," I was told.
As tactics go, it is perfect because the Labour leader would once again have to upset someone.
"He'd probably give £50 to the yacht and then split the rest between 50 leftie charities," says the minister laughing, before heading off to start unknotting the bunting for June.
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I've never understood ... perhaps a reference to spiders?
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I think this was mentioned after they rescued Killua. Hisoka was the one who informed Kurapika that the Spiders will meet up in Yorkshin for the auction.
Hisoka told him that he had information on the spiders.
"I'm watching you in your sleep." :cheez
(no, I'm not serious...but someone had to make the joke)
I think a bigger question would be what he whispered to Bodoro.
Hopefully Togashi addresses it in the upcoming chapters :3c
Hisoka (to Bodoro):"Make sure Leorio wins."
Kurapika is so lucky that Hisoka helped him pass the final phase of the exam.
I think that Bodoro is a heartbreaking character.
During his interview he said that he would never hit a child and refuses to fight them.
He said that he would not want to fight Gon or Killua.
I think that Hisoka threatened to hurt the kiddies and Bodoro gave up.
Sadly, Bodoro's love and protection of children is ultimately his undoing when Killua a child assassin kills him.
He never suspected the child to be his killer. He lived an honorable life.
I like to imagine that Bodoro ran a dojo.
Eh, I'm pretty sure he just said, "Let me tell you about the Spiders"?
It's not like Kurapika was in danger of losing even if he lost to Hisoka. He's easily stronger than quite a few guys in the final round.


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This will be the third year of a collaborative four-year NSF/ODP*-funded project to study sediment processes within the subduction zone off Costa Rica by using MBARI-developed OsmoSamplers to continuously monitor porewaters within the subducting sediments.
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Happy Thanksgiving folks!
After Netflix jacked up its prices and tried to diminish services, it bled customers like a patient with an aortic vein severed. Netflix profits have completely disappeared. According to Business Insider:
Yes, that's the latest news that Netflix tucked into the prospectus for the stock portion of its stock and convertible bond offerings:
We expect that consolidated quarterly revenue will be relatively flat until we can achieve positive net subscriber additions. As a result of the relatively flat consolidated revenues and previously announced increased investment in our International segment, we expect to incur consolidated net losses for the year ending December 31, 2012.
The diminished role of females isn't a romance issue; it's an entertainment issue. According to a study by USC's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, women have fewer speaking roles, are generally more unclothed and sexualized, particularly at younger ages. There are fewer women behind the camera and when there are women in directorship positions, the number of women in front of the camera increases.
There is one area where women surpassed men in films in 2009 — they bought more than 50% of the movie tickets sold in the U.S., according to the Motion Picture Assn. of America.
"Females represent half of the population and half of moviegoing audiences, but they don't hit a third of the characters," Smith said. "Male consumers aren't the only ones going to the movies, but our cultural storytellers today are male. The problem is really thinking about the perpetuation of the status quo."
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In a tribute to the past, the Capitals will don their original white jerseys with the Washington Capitals logo worn from 1974-1995. Former captains Rod Langway and Yvon Labre joined Ovechkin on stage at the team's fan festival to model the Jan. 1 sweater. The Caps will also wear red pants and red helmets.
"It's pretty sick … I like it," Ovechkin said of the throwback-style uniform at the 2010 Capitals Convention, which had a capacity crowd of more than 6,000 fans.
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Art by Bob AulThe odds of the world coming to an end on Jan. 1, 2000, currently stand at a million to one. That's according to Costa Rica-based online gambling firm NASA International (www.betonsports.com), on whose page you can wager on the likelihood of various disastrous and not-so-disastrous Y2K scenarios. Other bets include the odds of a commercial airliner crashing somewhere in the world due to Y2K bugs (300 to 1), a 200-plus point drop in the stock market (30 to 1), and an increase in the number of guns sold in December 1999 (-200 to 1).
Oh, and the chance that aliens will land at the White House on Jan. 1 stands at 100,000 to 1. Just in case you were wondering.
Folks seem to have gotten a lot cheerier about Y2K over the past few months. There are still a few stocking up on Uzis and freeze-dried foods and heading for the Ozarks, but the ranks of those considering the survivalist route have dwindled. A survey conducted in September by Internet marketing research firm Greenfield Online showed that 85 percent of respondents thought the Y2K thing was just way overhyped. And in a survey conducted by the Information Technology Association of America, only 7 percent of respondents thought they would experience major Y2K problems.
This is a far cry from, say, a year ago, when practically every TV news show, magazine and newspaper was doing pieces on stockpiling guns, buying generators and moving to Wyoming; when a fair chunk of our citizenry was plotting a run on banks and toilet paper; and when quite a few Christians were announcing that Y2K was the Big One, the End Times, the Rapture, Armageddon.
Irvine resident Nathan Gopen, for one, likes the optimism. Gopen is the owner of Diadem Productions, a software company that produces multimedia CD-ROMs devoted to books of the Bible—including Revelation. About a month ago, Gopen decided to do what he could to spread the calm among his fellow Christians and posted an essay on his company's Web site (www.diadempro.com) titled "Why Y2K Is OK."
"The Bible does not specify anything significant about the year 2000. There is no specific time given for the second coming (in fact, Jesus specifically says it will be at a time when the unbelieving world does not expect it)," Gopen wrote. "However, we can state with certainty that Jesus will not appear in the year 2000, nor will the battle of Armageddon happen then. There is a well-documented set of events, trends and courses of prophecy that need to take place before the 'grand finale' of God's plan."
"I felt that there tends to be a large bias toward Y2K panic for a lot of ministries trying to capitalize on the sensationalism of it," Gopen said. "That's kind of a sad situation. Speaking as a software engineer, I think the hype has been overstated; it's more constructive to give people encouragement."
Gopen's efforts to spread what he regards as the Good News—that while Armageddon will come eventually, this ain't it—mirror a general trend in the Christian community away from the wilder predictions of gloom and doom. Indeed, some religious figures who previously made rather apocalyptic claims about the impact of Y2K are now backing away from them. In a three-part sermon on Y2K delivered in August 1998 (and later released on video), Jerry Falwell suggested that Y2K was God's way of giving our morally and spiritually corrupt nation a divine noogie. "It is easy to look at this wealthy, powerful nation and our wicked leadership . . . and wonder if there is any hope for America," he said. "Is there any way God can get the attention of this mammoth superpower nation? I believe the answer is a resounding YES! God can send natural disasters that literally devastate us. God can send war. God can send economic collapse . . . overnight . . . instantly. God may use Y2K to crush us and prepare us for revival!"
But in May, Falwell told the editor of Christian Computing magazine that he no longer believes that. "While I expect Y2K to be annoying and somewhat disruptive, I do not expect it to be as serious as some are projecting, or as I first feared possible," he said in a fax.
This renewed optimism in the Christian community is reflected in the secular community as well. Peter de Jager, the man who in 1993 first woke the world up to the potential disaster contained in the Y2K bug, announced in August that when the clock rolls over to midnight on Dec. 31, he'll be on an airplane winging its way to London. Five years ago, he quipped that the only way to get him in an airplane on that date would be to hand his wife a check for $50 million—and make sure she'd already cashed it. Senator Robert Bennett (R-Utah), who heads the Senate committee on Y2K and has traditionally been one of the government's crankiest critics when it comes to Y2K preparation, is sounding a much less dour note these days, predicting only short-term disruptions in the U.S.
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Rabbi Cytron teaches one course a year in the Macalester religious studies department. His primary work is as director of the Jay Phillips Center for Jewish-Christian Dialogue, a unique partnership of Saint John's University, in Collegeville, Minnesota, and the University of St. Thomas, in St. Paul and Minneapolis. Cytron has been teaching at Macalester since 1989. EDUCATION: B.S., M.A., Columbia University; Ordination, Jewish Theological Seminary of America; Ph.D., Iowa State University
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|Intrauterine growth: correlations of maternal nutritional status and rate of gestational weight gain.
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|The influence of increasing pregravid weight and gestational rate of gain on birthweight, length, head circumference and complications was investigated. Each gravida was categorized by height and pregravid weight as underweight, normal, or obese. Birthweights, lengths, and head circumferences were evaluated as well as maternal and infant complications. Within each pregravid category and each rate gain group there was an increase in mean birthweight, length, and head circumference with advancing gain and pregravid weight. The incidence of small for gestational age (SGA) infants decreased and large for gestational age (LGA) infants increased with higher gain and pregravid weight. The incidence of antepartum anemia decreased with higher pregravid weight and gain (P less than 0.02). Higher pregravid weight and rate of gestational gain may help insure optimal intrauterine growth.
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The Neighboring Food Co-op Association (NFCA) is a co-operative federation bringing together over 30 food co-ops and start-up initiatives that are working together toward a shared vision of a thriving co-operative economy, rooted in a healthy, just and sustainable regional food system and a vibrant community of co-operative enterprise.
The NFCA includes over 30 food co-ops and start-up initiatives in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut (click here for a map of member locations).
Our co-ops are member-owned and democratically governed community grocery stores ranging in size from large, multiple storefront retailers with thousands of members to smaller markets with just a few hundred. Most of these co-ops have been in operation for more than 20 years with some being founded in the 1930s and '40s. Despite the challenges of the current economy, many of our member co-ops are expanding and new stores have opened their doors in just the past few years. In 2013, more than 10,000 people joined our member co-ops.
Food co-ops have been leaders in the development of natural, organic, local, Fair Trade and Domestic Fair Trade food movements in our region and across the country.
Shared Economic Impact
Together, the member co-ops of the NFCA have a combined membership of more than 90,000, employ over 1,700 people, and have annual revenue of $255 million (2013). An independent study found that in 2007, when the NFCA was comprised of just 17 co-ops, the association already had a dramatic impact on the regional economy, including:
Support of Local Economies…
- Median revenue for member co-ops was $3 million and the average was $9.5 million. The median growth rate over the previous three years was 14%.
- Purchases of more than $33 million in local products, including $10 million in fresh farm products, $18 million in locally-processed foods and $5 million in other products.
Stable Employment and Services…
- $28.6 million in employee wages, with the average wage being 18% higher than the average for food and beverage stores in the same states.
- Co-ops had lower staff turnover (36%) when compared to supermarkets (59%) and more staff employed fulltime (62% compared to 43% in supermarkets).
- Taken together, member food co-ops in Vermont would be among the top 25 employers in the state.
Support of Local Government and Infrastructure…
- …including $7.3 million in sales, excise, and other taxes, $434,000 by employees, and $500,000 in property taxes.
What We're Doing
The members of the NFCA are working together to measure our economic and social impact, conduct education, outreach and sourcing activities that benefit our members, and partner with likeminded organizations to advance shared goals.
A focus of the NFCA is regional sourcing, and we have recently launched "Farm to Freezer", a pilot project launched in partnership with Sunrise Orchards to explore a branded line of frozen fruits and vegetables grown, processed and distributed here in the Northeast.
Partnerships & Networks
The NFCA has collaborated with groups across the region such as the Northeast Organic Farming Association, the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group and Vermont's Farm to Plate initiative. Our association is an affiliate member of the New England Farmers Union, reflecting our shared commitment to a healthy regional food system, family farming and co-operative enterprise as a tool for community ownership, sustainable agriculture and economic resilience.
The NFCA works in partnership with the National Cooperative Grocers Association and the Cooperative Fund of New England, and is committed to collaboration among co-operatives. In addition to working together as food co-ops, we support a vibrant, innovative and cross-sector co-operative economy in our region, partnering with co-ops such as Organic Valley, Cabot Creamery, Deep Root Organic Co-op, the Valley Alliance of Worker Co-ops, Equal Exchange, and the UMASSFive College Federal Credit Union.


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During the past week, we have had a minor rain, cooler temperatures and moderate winds. Fall is here. The lake level at Bull Shoals Dam rose 0.2 of a foot to rest at 5.7 feet below the power pool of 654 feet. This is 46.7 feet below the top of the flood pool.
Upstream, Table Rock Lake fell 0.3 of a foot to rest at 7.4 feet below the power pool and 23.4 feet below the top of the flood pool. Beaver Lake fell 0.3 of a foot to rest at 9.8 feet below the power pool or 19.4 feet below the top of the flood pool.
On the White, we have had moderate generation with limited wadable water. Norfork Lake remained steady at 7.5 feet below the power pool of 552 feet or 35.5 feet below the top of the flood pool.
On the North Fork, we have had reliable wadable water every day. All of the lakes in the White River system are well below the flood pool. With the current mild weather we are experiencing, we should receive more wadable water.
On the White, we have had less wadable water. The fishing on the upper river, from the catch-and-release section down to Cain Island has picked up a bit. The best fishing has been from Wildcat Shoals down to Rim Shoals.
Rim Shoals has been particularly hot. The best time to fish is early morning or late in the afternoon. Mid-day can get slow. The hot flies were zebra midges (black with silver wire and silver bead), pheasant tails, copper Johns, pink and cerise San Juan worms, gold ribbed hare's ears and olive scuds.
Double-fly nymph rigs have been very effective. Try a small bead headed nymph (zebra midge, copper John or pheasant tail) suspended 18 inches below a brightly colored San Juan worm (hot fluorescent pink or cerise).
It is time to fish grasshoppers. These are terrestrials not aquatic insects. They are blown into the water by wind or fall in near the shore. They are large tempting morsels that can draw big fish. Use a 9-foot 4X tippet and cast near the bank. Occasionally twitch the fly to imitate a struggling insect. Dave's hoppers and large foam western hoppers are effective patterns. Use a small nymph as a dropper (a beadhead pheasant tail or a zebra midge is a good choice) tied to the bend in the hook with eighteen inches of 5X tippet to increase the takes. Make your connections with improved clinch knots. Other terrestrials like beetles and ants have also been effective.
Crooked Creek and the Buffalo River are very low and gin clear. Both are barely navigable. You will have to drag your boat in many spots. Several anglers have reported success with Clouser minnows and crawfish patterns.
The Buffalo has been fishing well. Carefully check the water level before entering Crooked Creek or the Buffalo River. There are no dams on these streams. They both have large drainages and are prone to flooding during and following any rain event. The water can rise very quickly.
There has been reliable wadable water on the North Fork every day and it has been fishing particularly well. The most productive flies have been small midge patterns like zebra midges (black or red) and Dan's turkey-tail emerger or soft hackles like my green butt or the partridge and orange.
There have been some small mayfly hatches that are best imitated with a size 22 parachute Adams. There still are some crane flies in the area. Try using a partridge and yellow. The fishing is much better in the morning and tapers off in the afternoon. Olive woolly buggers have also accounted for a lot of trout.
Dry Run Creek has fished well. The hot flies have been sowbugs and various colored San Juan worms (worm brown, red, hot fluorescent pink and cerise). Small orange or peach eggs have been very effective. School is back in session, and there is less fishing pressure during the week.
There is precious room to cast, and the most effective technique is to high stick nymphs under an indicator. These fish are huge. Use at least 4X tippet to increase your chances of landing them. While you are there, take a few minutes to tour the adjacent Norfork National Fish Hatchery. It is fascinating. Be sure and remove your waders before entering to prevent the spread of aquatic diseases. The water level on the Spring River is low and clear. This is a great place to wade fish when they are running water on the White and North Fork Rivers. Canoe season is over and the few boaters still around should not prove to be a problem.
The hot spot is the Dam Three Access. Be sure to wear cleated boots and carry a wading staff. There is a lot of bedrock that can get very slick. The hot flies have been olive woolly buggers with a bit of flash, cerise and hot pink San Juan worms and Y2Ks.
Remember that the White and North Fork Rivers and Dry Run Creek are infected with didymo, an invasive alga. Be sure and thoroughly clean and dry your waders (especially the felt soles on wading boots) before using them in any other water. Many manufacturers now are making rubber-soled wading boots that are easier to clean and are not as likely to harbor didymo.
Practice water safety and always check conditions before you leave home.
John Berry, a fishing guide from Cotter, has 25 years of experience fishing local rivers. Contact him at http://www.berrybrothersguides.com or 435-2169.


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Me and my friend are going to be in Thailand on 8th December traveling and will be heading over to Cambodia in January.
Our final destination before Cambodia will be Koh Phangan for NYE of course we have to be there for The Full Moon Party.
We need to book a ticket before we arrive in Thailand to prove were leaving the country which we are and need advise on where to book a boat, train or bus from Koh Phangan to Cambodia.
Could anyone help us and point us in the right direction so we can get it booked
Cannot wait to get over there!
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If you've got loadsamoney you could fly to Cambodia from Samui
Otherwise go via Bangkok.
Unless you're desperately short of time you can do bus/boat for the entire journey, stopping for a night in Bangkok for a rest. The requirement for a ticket to leave Thailand is theoretical for your average Western tourist: if the airline insist on you buying one get the cheapest fully refundable ticket you can and get the refund once in Thailand.
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Do you know any websites online where I can buy bus/ boat tickets in advanced? Dont know which ones are legit?
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In celebration of National Public Lands Day on Sept. 28, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Ridge Rangers Program is looking for volunteers to help conservation efforts at nine sites throughout the Lake Wales Ridge area. Each site is different and has a set of unique conservation goals suited to volunteer efforts.
"Volunteer events include removing invasive plants, restoration of native plant communities, trail maintenance, debris removal and acorn gathering. Some events also include a guided hike and eating watermelon," said Bill Parken, FWC Ridge Rangers coordinator. "This is the 20th anniversary of National Public Lands Day, and we're hoping for a big turnout!"
Areas on the Lake Wales Ridge targeted for volunteer help are Louisa State Park, Hilochee Wildlife Management Area, Pedersen Preserve, Lake McLeod Unit of the Lake Wales Ridge National Wildlife Refuge, Bok Tower Gardens, the Arbuckle Tract of the Lake Wales Ridge State Forest, Highlands Hammock State Park, Royce Ranch Unit of the Lake Wales Ridge Wildlife and Environmental Area and the Archbold Biological Station.
The Lake Wales Ridge is an ancient sand ridge that runs from north of Clermont to south of Lake Placid and was once the only part of peninsular Florida not covered by oceans. Due to this ancient island's isolation, the ridge developed a unique ecosystem of plants and wildlife that survives to this day.
Ridge Rangers are FWC volunteers who work with a number of conservation agencies and nongovernment organizations on and near the Lake Wales Ridge to help restore wildlife habitat.
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Wednesday, 12, 2013
All ages
8 days of shopping until midnight 7 nights of partying until dawn (See details below)
Multi-faceted artist, underground music aficionado, fashion designer and Montreal tastemaker Renata Morales will inhabit the PHI Centre from June 5th to 12th and program it with her unique vision.
"A not to be missed" happening featuring 8 days of shopping and 7 nights of parties—a fashion hub of late night retail and music.
For 8 days and 7 nights, Renata will let loose her creative muse and show us her musical influences, artistic inclinations, design affinities and culinary taste. She will propose a series of music shows, film screenings and a curated pop-up shop offering exclusive fashion labels sourced from her friends, the most talented designers in Montreal, as well as limited edition items not found in Canada.
Come to Renata's clubhouse and see musical artists: Actress, Tonstartssbandht, Prison Garde, Agor, Petra Glynt, Karneef, Paula, Slim Twig, Young Paris, The Salivation Army, Jef Barbara, Nom de Plume, U.S. Girls, and find items by Complex Geometries, Denis Gagnon, Odd Future, Joe Becker, Morales, and Andrew Floyd, Jouets Lafrance, among others...
DJ sets by Cadence Weapon, CFCF, d'Eon, Jealous Lovers, Ryan Playground, and anita alvarez de toledo
EXHIBITION: June 5-22
Joe Becker
SHOPPING: June 6-12 (12PM to 12AM)
Renata Morales, Denis Gagnon, Complex Geometries, OF/ Golf Wang, Andrew Floyd, Jeremy Laing, Arielle de Pinto, Lyn, Jouets Lafrance
MUSIC: June 5-11 (9PM to 3AM)
June 5, 2013
Grand opening night (starting at 6PM)
$200 (taxes and fees included)
· Exclusive pre-purchase in designer pop-up stores
· Meet the designers
· Preview of opening art exhibition
· Live music performances
· Meet the artists
· Complimentary food and drinks
June 5 (starting at 9PM)
Young Paris, The Salivation Army, Nom de Plume, Anita Alvarez de Toledo
June 6
Slim Twig, U.S. Girls, Petra Glynt, DJ Windows 95
June 7 (starting at 10PM)
Actress, Agor
June 8 (starting at 10PM)
Prison Garde, Seb Diamond
June 9
Tonstartssbandht, Paula, SteveJR
Film screenings: Waterpark directed by Evan Prosofsky
Dogs directed by Spencer Giley and Andrew Hovi (featuring a live soundtrack by Andy Boay and Eola)
June 10
June 11
Jef Barbara, Karneef, Foxtrott
Renata Morales
Renata Morales was born in Mexico in 1975. After studying fine arts, she first turned her interest to painting and to making hand-painted fabric. She then began creating her own clothing lines and quickly garnered international success. That said, Renata is above all an artist: a multidisciplinary artist who designs clothing.
Renata has had the chance to collaborate with an impressive array of artists including Arcade Fire, Grimes, Zola Jesus and Pierre Lapointe. She created all the costumes for Denis Villeneuve's film Next Floor, winner of Best Short Film at Cannes. She has also worked with filmmakers Pedro Pires and Spike Jonze, and she took part in the Big Bang exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
But it's probably Yves Schaëffner from Elle Québec who described her best, saying that Renata Morales is the artist-painter of fashion.
On top of the activities already planned, the Phi Centre will also be a space where guest curators can express their vision and feature an artist or artists whose work they admire.
In addition to Renata Morales, six other guest curators have confirmed their involvement:
Xavier Dolan, filmmaker
Godfrey Reggio, filmmaker
Pop Montreal, international music festival
Suroosh Alvi, co-founder of Vice Media
Denis Villeneuve, filmmaker
Rad Hourani, designer
Each guest curator must present his or her project by the end of next year.
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The Nunavut Department of Education in Canada recently certified five Inuit elders as Innait Inuksiutilirijiit, or teachers.
The distinction gives the elders the ability to become active instructors in the schools, connecting their knowledge to the formal education, ICTMN reports.
The Education Act passed in 2008 allows the certification. Elders are incorporated into the system to help preserve the culture and values of the Inuit.
"Today is a great day for learning in Nunavut," said Premier Eva Aariak in a statement after the February 2 ceremony. "The certification and recognition of Elders and their expertise is an important step in creating a Nunavut education system that is founded in Inuit culture, language and traditions."
Mary Akumalik, Sinea Kownirk, Serapio Ittusardjuat, Letia Tikivik and Sheepa Ishulutaq, all from Iqaluit, were the first Elders to be awarded this certification under the new Education Act, which stipulates in Section 102 that District Education Authorities (DEAs) may employ Elders to assist in teaching about Inuit culture, tradition and knowledge, the release said.
On a par with faculty as well as the principal, guidance counselors and student support assistants, certified elders may participate in instruction of school programs, in concert with teachers and other school personnel.
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On our spring break trip, we visited our old Maryland home.
We found Ditto, the farm cat, or did he find us? Tail high, motor revving, he nuzzled up to our legs. My uncle swears the cat won't come near him. But he sauntered over to my sons, who were only five when we moved away. Could he really recognize the lanky young men who were once the little boys he loved?
And then we saw Amy M. and her daughter. We met when our kids were only a year old and became fast friends. The teens darted around the bowling alley and arcade the way they used to race around the playground.
So here's what I think.
Every heart connection gets marked with a universal thumbtack and we forever orbit one another. When our paths cross again, our cells ring with remembered joy. Although we grow and change, the relationship remains a point of light that reminds us who we are and what matters.
Like Ditto, we recognize each other in a way that goes beyond the physical and doesn't fade with passing years.
I don't why it works that way.
But I'm glad that it does.
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ast week, I previewed a card that served up answers to the problems many opponents might pose.
This week, I preview a card that serves up a lot of questions. We'll spend the article answering as many as possible.
We contracted writers don't see the art from the preview cards until they go up on the site, so I think we'll need to wait on this one for magicthegathering.com flavor-master Matt Cavotta to weigh in.
To till means to cultivate; and yore refers to times past. So put it all together, and you have a giant capable of cultivating things that have come before.
Totally serious. So serious, in fact, that there are four more just like this guy. Well, not exactly like him, but similar to him. I'll bet you can't guess their casting costs!
It's a good idea to take the time to understand how combat works before you try to make this creature work. Put into plain English for newer players, combat breaks down into attacking, blocking, and damage. (Yes, there's more to it than that. Stow it for now.) First you move into your combat step, during which time you can use instants and abilities. Next, you declare attackers. Then you can have instants and abilities happen again. Then comes blocking, with the same interval. Then you come to damage, which you assign and then put on the stack (giving another pause for instants and abilities), and then the damage resolves.
The Nephilim ability happens as soon as you declare the Nephilim as an attacker. Boom, it's attacking, you put the triggered ability on the stack – including your choice of target for exhuming. Players can put other instants and abilities on the stack in response (for example, they might use a Withered Wretch to get rid of the creature you're trying to bring out of the graveyard). If your target is still around when the ability resolves, you just earned yourself another attacker. Woo-hoo!
Then, you continue with combat – another chance to put instants and abilities out there. For example, you might decide to Terminate a potential blocker before it can get in the way of either your Nephilim or his new friend.
You could do this, but it doesn't necessarily add much – and again you need to time everything correctly. Assume you have an Eager Cadet in the graveyard, a Ninja of the Deep Hours in your hand, the Nephilim in play, and enough mana available to play the Ninja's ability.
Attack with the Nephilim. Its ability triggers, and you bring the amazing Cadet back to life. Your opponent cannot withstand this onslaught – they cower before the 2/2 and 1/1 charging at them. No blockers declared!
Now comes the ninja part of combat, where you pull back one of your attackers to your hand (probably the Cadet, unless you want to show off the fact that you can still pay four colors for a 2/2 whenever you like) and replace it with the ninja. Congratulations – you've come up with a happy little ability in both of the key steps of the combat phase. You're a complete nerd.
Ugh. How nerdy! Yes, you can do this. But bear in mind that if you bring one Yore-Tiller Nephilim to bring out another Yore-Tiller Nephilim, the second one does not enjoy its triggered ability – it comes into play already attacking. So no yore-tillin' chains, circles, or chorus lines for you, buddy.
Maybe. Ask later.
Yes. The only thing unusual about what the Nephilim does is that it brings out the creature already attacking, without you having to pay anything for it. Everything else, including comes-into-play abilities, happens normally.
No. It comes into play attacking, sees a Portcullis and freaks out, leaving the battlefield and standing behind a large, annoying gate. Note that comes-into-play abilities will still trigger (and perhaps you might even find a way to make the Nephilim work together with the Portcullis and comes-into-play creatures)!
Yes, I will. Bear in mind that the suggestions I'm about to make are the only ways you can possibly play this card. (Okay, not really. But I had a reader complain last week because I was "giving people ideas" about how to play preview cards, and I just had to tweak him. Giving people ideas! Gracious! You know how teenagers can be when they get an idea in their heads!)
Right. Well, there are three basic duties for the owner/controller of a Nephilim: 1) Getting it into play with a tough casting cost; 2) Getting it to attack more than once without dying; and 3) Getting it to bring out cool things;
True enough. This nephilim is particularly difficult to play outright, since you probably didn't play Harrow the turn before to get to . For my money, the most efficient way if you're restricted to recent (say, Standard-legal) cards is to blend the two obvious Ravnica guilds – Boros and Dimir – and use their mana tools. Boros Garrison and Dimir Aqueduct, and/or Boros Signet and Dimir Signet, represent fairly simple two-card combinations that can get you the four colors you need without tons of hassle.
This system isn't perfect – you still have to get three very precise cards (the two mana sources and the Nephilim itself), and some probability geek will be happy to run the numbers and tell you it's not quite 100 percent that you'll get this every game by turn 4. But if you're devoted to the idea of casting this card outright and don't have a lot of fancy old-school (or new-school) dual lands, you don't have to give up hope.
You might also want to take a look at the decent artifact mana fixers lurking around in Ravnica, Mirrodin, and Invasion block. Each of these blocks took a little effort to provide players with common and uncommon fixers, so that we could take advantage of everything from domain to sunburst.
There are certainly unconventional ways to pay , as well – heck, even a Terraformer can pull it off (with a bit of extra effort, consisting primarily of three extra mana).
Of course, you don't have to pay the cost, if your deck is adept enough at putting things into play. With Sneak Attack, you can play a horrific creature like Nicol Bolas one turn through the Attack, let it die, and then bring the Nephilim out with the Attack the next turn – using the Nephilim's ability to bring Nichol back for a second swipe. When the Nephilim dies, the Nichol…stays in play! Hey, no one ever said the rejuvenated creature had to die, right? Aren't you clever.
Yes, they screwed you. Because they hate you. Yes, even Aaron. (In fact, he hates you even more than Rosewater does.) They don't want you to play the cards they make, because the corporate conspiracy dictates that – huh, wait, I got confused there. Thought I was on the message boards. Give me a sec…
…okay, feeling better. Wizards doesn't hate you. They gave you a 2/2 for four mana with a potentially ridiculous ability. All you have to do is keep up your end – keep this thing alive. That's not horribly difficult. You might start with simple equipment like No-Dachi, or a broad strategy like Bubble Matrix, or a nifty little trick like Delif's Cube. (Okay, the Cube wasn't amazing; but it fits the theme and if you get any attacker through once, it's not bad!) Notice that all three of my suggestions are artifacts – I think you want to keep most of your support cards colorless, so that you don't have mana problems with both your creatures and the means to keep them alive. Don't make the yore-tillin' life more difficult than it already is.
You can also take the tack of "good combat damage" – expect the creature you bring out to do something devastating if and when it hits. Stuff like Blinding Angel, Dragon Mage, or Dromar, the Banisher may be your cup of tea.
A third option? Searchers. These are a subset of the comes-into-play crowd. Having an Avarax come into play from your hand and attack is nice, since it has haste and finds a buddy. But then, even if they kill it, attacking with the Nephilim later means you get that Avarax back into play, finding buddy #2 (or #3, if buddy #1 already did its work). See also: Godo, Bandit Warlord. These may seem underpowered at first, but everything you can do to thin out your deck a bit and get useful cards in your hand or in play is a good thing.
Finally, you can just put good beef in there – something that will fly, or trample well, and distract a bit of attention from the 2/2 that keeps pulling these freaks out onto the battlefield. You don't have to be choosy or use a ton of money rares – good, efficient creatures are fine targets for the Nephilim.
If you want to be as obvious as Buried Alive, you certainly can. Black has a bunch of different ways to get key cards in the graveyard – and so does Blue, if you recall such gems as Fact or Fiction and Gifts Ungiven.
But there's also nothing wrong with an all-out assault strategy – something you don't often see in multiplayer formats, but which can work fine in duels or smaller group games. Just keep plugging at someone with creatures - and let them die if blocked. Use the Nephilim in the late game (when casting should be easier anyway) to bring back your precious resources.
You don't need to be a genius to realize that the more opponents you have, the more likely it is that one of them won't have enough defenders to deter the Nephilim. Swinging at the weak link is a perfectly legitimate multiplayer strategy, though it may seem a bit cruel at times.
Your group should be clear on what rules you will set on attacking multiple opponents. Our group is likely to allow the exhumed creature to attack a different opponent than the one the Nephilim is already attacking. That will add an additional spark to the card, and I believe the "official" multiplayer rules do allow this.
Another way this Nephilim shows strength in multiplayer formats – as I suggested during my answer to the last question, it gives you a way to bring back dead creatures with virtually no cost. This increases your chances in a longer game, and makes global destruction a bit less devastating to you. (On the other hand, mana denial is horrible for you. But with luck, your group has already gone through its "Isn't Armageddon Cool?" phase.)
While I don't think many players should have a problem figuring out how to stop a 2/2 that only looks scary when it's pulling creatures out of graveyards, I'd like to suggest one or two creative solutions for those who want to move beyond Shock:
That's true. I'm done. Enjoy your "mighty men", and remember: friends don't let friends drink and till yore!
Anthony has been playing multiple Magic formats for over seven years, and has been writing far longer than that. His new fantasy young adult novel, Jennifer Scales and the Ancient Furnace, was co-written with his wife MaryJanice Davidson, is currently available from Berkley Books.
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Matt Torma (left), Joe Bills and Savanah Simpson star in the Shreveport Little Theatre Academy production, "Dark of the Moon," which opens Thursday.
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Star-crossed lovers, evil magics and Appalachian townspeople make up the bizarre and isolated world of "Dark of the Moon," opening Thursday at Shreveport Little Theatre.
The production is performed by the Shreveport Little Theatre Academy, and guest directing is Shreveport native Courtney Loggins. Loggins studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles and returned to Shreveport in 2009 after the birth of her daughter. For her, stepping back into Shreveport Little Theatre is like being 15 again. ...


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Politics Counts
...deserting the sinking ship.
Because Barry lied.
"Georgia Senate candidate Michelle Nunn on Friday became the latest Democrat to break with President Barack Obama and call for Mr. Shinseki to go in the wake of the scandal that has engulfed the agency and become a major distraction for the White House."
Oh really Michelle? Then why didn't you fire yourself and step down when it was discovered that the organization YOU were in charge of, Points of Light, sold over a thousand phoney travel vouchers to raise money for your organization?!?
"An estimated 1,100 customers who purchased travel vouchers for airline flights from the Points of Light Institute's store on eBay have been left with nothing. The Points of Light Institute has closed that area of the eBay store and is working with law enforcement to investigate what it is calling "significant financial and operational irregularities. Each reservation is for one to four people, so as many as 4,400 travelers could be impacted. Sources told The NonProfit Times that travel had been booked through May 2009 that could total more than $1 million."
This is what I can't stand. FRAUD democRATS who have never successfully managed anything on their own in their lives calling for the heads of someone else? Michelle Nunn would have done no better being in charge of Veterans Affairs. She's quick to scapegoat just like the rest of these liberal democRAT progressive Neo-Marxist frauds. Go back to the looney bin Michelle Nunn. When it comes to experience and qualifications you have NUNN.
Getting rid of the head guy is usually symbolic. The real stuff is getting someone to fix the problem.--fast. The real answer is to get someone who knows the whistleblower laws and start cutting immunity deals to get to the people who are the real perps. Then fire and prosecute. In the meantime, hand out McCain Cards so vets can get treatment somewhere. The real and immediate question is who should be hired, not who should be fired
Gotta feel pity for these military guys who grow accustomed to having only the enemy out to get 'em.
W. Bush fired this man for telling the truth about Iraq war.
"I said we would systematically work to fix these problems, and we have been working really hard to address them," Mr. Obama said.
Working really hard? People should be going to jail.
He should go, but not as cover for Democrats to claim the Obama administration has actually done something to reform the VA. Top down, government run healthcare doesn't work. It's an impossibility. The whole enterprise should be privatized.
Finally, a REAL scandal.
""I said we would systematically work to fix these problems, and we have been working really hard to address them," Mr. Obama said."
And yet things have only gotten worse over the past 5.5 years.
Hey HA HA,
Veterans don't think this is funny. Don't be such an idiot.
If a military commander's incompetence led to the death of men or women in the command and then the commander tried to cover it up - he or she would be in jail.
The Sec of Veterans Affairs has one job - the care of veterans .
The VA has to start ridding itself of managers, monitors, regulators, sustainability secretary, diversity managers, etc.
Focus on competent medical care and management.
I fear this is the face of healthcare in America with the ACA dominating every health care conversation.
I hope Shinseki stays the course. I think he was a good General who made his mistakes and is a good man, far, far better than most of the pols who want to get rid of him.
He should stay for now since he knows the various "powers that be" and can gather information as they investigate, then suspend and fire the miscreants responsible and any and all impropriaties.
It might hurt the investigation and it's integrity.
I was involved in investigation of negligence in hospital settings and it takes some time to gather evidence and wrongdoing, accusations are to be closely looked into---the goal is to hold people in the various veterans hospitals accountable. There has to be scrutiny of a lot of activity--that takes time.
It is true that heads will roll, but the reality is key executive staff are crucial.
If you get a light weight in there it will drag it out and more will be hidden in the bureaucracy.
It is a primal urge to punish, but any abuse investigator will tell you heads can't roll too early as you attempt to gather the facts of the case.
Look for Democrats to break ranks over Benghazi next.
dont forget to donate $50 today to stop the Benghazi coverups and get a free tote bag
Sebelius isn't busy so she should be put in charge of the V.A...........AfTer all she has first hand experience with corruption and incompetence.
You can always tell when Obama is around. The bucks stops anyplace but him.
Many Independents are demanding Obama resign.
I'm tired of Democrats stonewalling investigations worthy of airing, continually being deliberately misled and lied to by Democrats and then have Democrats try shift blame on Republican effort to expose the Democrats for the party of worthlessness.
Shinseki Should Be Fired For Gross Incompetence
If Shinsenski had a boss who knew what he was doing, he would no longer be in charge of Veterans. Fortunately for the General, who was relieved of command by President Bush, his present commander in chief Obama has neither the brains or balls to fire him. This mess is typical Obama through and through. He talks a good game but can't deliver or manage anything.
Richard--harsh, and disrespectful. When hospital workers hide information, it is difficult to know that back at the main office. That is part of the reasons why hospitals are subject to inspections and accredidation surveys. It is unrealistic to think the president would absolutely be aware that a hospital in Arizona was cooking the books.
George Bush had the same issues during his presidency. Military veterans were waiting--there were so many of them from Bush's ill-advised Middle East Adventure. Experts say that on the ground emergency treatment for soldiers as injuries occurred kept them alive, although their conditions are far worse for the long term due to the nature of the war--explosions, etc.
You'll recall soldiers lacked armour for their vehicles and were devastated by injuries. Bush's appointee Donald Rumsfield did nothing to address it, saying you go to war with the army you have.
Talk about people who should have resigned.
Firing Gen. Shinseki would be a 'feel good' measure that would serve no legitimate purpose. He is himself an injured combat veteran who uses the agency's services. Whoever replaced him would lack the insight and dedication he brings to the job. Shinseki inherited these problems, which have been chronic at the VA for decades.
We also need to acknowledge the allegations of deaths of veterans caused by delayed appointments appear to be false. People appear to be waiting more than 30 days, but there is no evidence the wait is killing them.
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