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A referendum, not an election
Posted By Dennis Prager On 10/26/2010 @ 12:00 am In Commentary | Comments Disabled
Next Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010, is not Election Day. It is Referendum Day.
It may be commonplace for commentators to announce that every election is "the most important election in our lifetime" or something analogous. But having never said that of a presidential election, let alone an off-year election, this commentator cannot be accused of crying wolf when I say that this off-year election is not simply the most important of my lifetime. It is the most important since the Civil War.
The reason is that, unlike all previous elections, this one is actually a referendum on the direction of the United States of America.
If the Democrats win:
The American people have announced, consciously or not, that they support the Democratic Party's "fundamental transformation" – those were President Obama's words when he campaigned, and he has lived up to them – of America from a liberty-based state of limited government into an equality-based welfare state with an ever-expanding government.
The Left has never been primarily interested in creating wealth. Its primary goal always and everywhere has been to redistribute it. That so many businessmen and much of Wall Street are only now awakening to this fact is only a testament to the staggering lack of wisdom in big business.
For proof, just look at the virtual shutdown of much of France and the ubiquitous rioting of vast numbers of its citizens over a tiny change in its welfare state – raising the age of retirement from 60 to 62. The idea that one will work two more years before receiving benefits until death so offends vast numbers of French – including young people who have every reason to believe they will live until the age of 100 – that they are fighting it as if their very lives were in jeopardy. That is the self-centeredness that all welfare states engender in their citizens.
Latinos, blacks, Muslims, gays and vast numbers of women have been told by the Left and its political party that they are all persecuted by a country that is SIXHIRB – Sexist, Intolerant, Xenophobic, Homophobic, Islamophobic, Racist and Bigoted. That America is the least SIXHIRB country in the world is a fact that has been all but drowned out by the left-wing domination of television and print news media, all the entertainment media and the high schools and universities.
With a Democratic victory, the country's very motto – E Pluribus Unum, "Out of Many One" – will continue to erode as ethnic and racial identities rather than one American identity are increasingly celebrated. Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has just announced that Germany's experiment with multiculturalism has "utterly failed," but the Left and its political party, the Democrats, have redoubled their efforts to supplant E Pluribus Unum with multiculturalism.
With a Democratic victory, unsustainable debts will mount, wealth-producing companies will continue to flee from higher taxes and more regulations, energy use will be taxed in the name of environmentalist utopianism and the government will continue to print dollars.
With a Democratic victory, the Left's goal of rendering America's other motto, "In God We Trust," an anachronism will come closer to fruition. Leftism is a jealous god. As in Western Europe, the Judeo-Christian roots of this country are ceasing to play the indispensable moral role they have played since before 1776.
And what would constitute a Democratic victory next Tuesday? Anything other than a Republican landslide. Any other result will be interpreted by the media and the Democrats as solely a result of the economic recession and as the normal losses of the dominant party in off-year elections.
In other words, the only way to ensure that the electoral results are seen as a repudiation of the growth of the state and the other Democratic and leftist goals is through an enormous Republican victory.
Only then will America understand that this election was not first about jobs. It was above all about America.
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Traditional hearing screenings start with an audiologist playing tones to a child or an adult wearing headphones or sitting inside a sound booth. The person being screened responds, letting the tester know the range of sounds he or she can hear.
But what if the subject is an infant, or an adult with dementia, who can't be expected to understand test instructions, raise a hand, press a button or talk to the screener?
Wafaa Kaf, a professor of audiology from Al Sharqia, Egypt, has spent many of her 10 years at Missouri State University researching ways to evaluate the hearing of these challenging populations.
Kaf is most interested in detecting mild degrees of hearing loss using "electrophysiological measures" - ways to assess hearing that don't rely on patient response, but instead objectively track the brain's responses to sounds. She may use electrodes placed on a patient's head or probes inserted into a patient's ear.
Kaf said hearing loss is a substantial problem that is largely hidden, and estimates there are 35 million American children and adults with mild, moderate or severe hearing loss. They might experience no symptoms, or just have slight ear pain or an ear infection that resolves quickly.
However, hearing damage lasts forever.
"Hearing is one of the most important things for children because it is the precursor for them to develop the ability to talk," Kaf said.
Hearing loss may lead to stunted speech-language development, making these children feel less competent and confident in school.
Kaf started a service-learning pediatric audiology class for doctoral students in 2005. With her supervision, students perform free hearing and middle-ear screenings for low-income and under-served populations. Since the start of the class, she and her students have screened more than 400 children in the Ozarks. They typically are 6 months to 5 years old.
If further testing is warranted, she often invites the family to her lab at the Missouri State Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic. All of this is provided at no cost to the parent.
"With our traditional measures, mild hearing loss is often missed," she said.
"We detect it later, when the child starts to behave like he cannot hear everything or when he does not quite have age-appropriate speech and language development - but this is too late."

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Commemorated on January 11th
Our Righteous Father Theodosius the Cenobiarch
St Theodosius had Cappadocia as his homeland. He lived during the years of Leo of Thrace, who reigned from 457 to 474 AD. The Saint established in the Holy Land a great communal monastery, wherein he was the shepherd of many monks. While St Sabbas was the head of the hermits of Palestine, St Theodosius was governor of those living the cenobitic life, for which reason he is called the Cenobiarch. Together with St Sabbas, towards whom he cherished a deep brotherly love in Christ, he defended the whole land of Palestine from the heresy of the Monophysites. The heresy was championed by the Emperor Anastasius and might very well have triumphed in the Holy Land without the opposition of these two great monastic fathers and their zealous defence of the Holy Synod of Chalcedon. Having lived for 103 years, he reposed in peace.
Dismissal Hymn (Plagal of Fourth Tone)
With the streams of thy tears, you cultivated the barrenness of the desert; and by thy sightings from the depths, you beared fruit a hundredfold in labours; and you became a luminary, shining with miracles upon the world, O Theodosius our righteous Father. Intercede with Christ God that our souls be saved.
Kontakion (Plagal of Fourth Tone)
To you, the Champion Leader
A being planted in the courts of Christ thy Lord and God, with holy virtues thou delightfully didst blossom forth and multiplied your children amid the desert, who were watered with the showers of thy fervent tears, O chief shepherd of the godly sheepfold of our God. Hence we cry to you, "Rejoice, O Father Theodosius".


text: As Archbishop of San Salvador, Father Romero was a source of strength and hope for the poor and for the oppressed of his country, working with and for them, taking their struggles as his own. Romero wrote and spoke passionately and publicly of the need for Christians to work for justice, frequently faced with threat and danger from those who opposed his ideas. On March 24, 1980, while celebrating the Eucharist, Archbishop Romero was shot and killed at the altar by a death squad assassin, paying the highest price for the commitment about which he spoke so often and so eloquently. Because of his courageous stand for justice, he became a martyr not only for poor Salvadorians but for all struggling to overcome oppression and poverty. Today, his sermons are read as powerful reminders of Christians' obligation to fight for a just society. Shortly before he was murdered, Romero said: "It is my hope that my blood will be the seed of freedom and the sign that hope will soon be reality" The example of Romero's courageous life and ultimately death continue to inspire those who struggle for human dignity and justice.


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"The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the nation's historic places worthy of preservation." -- National Park Service
The National Register is an important and useful tool in preservation. Inclusion in the Register signifies to the nation that a place is worth preserving. It also often opens up doors to helping the preservation of a site become a reality, though doesn't guarantee it.
Scroll through the online database and you'll find thousands of America's historic places are in the Register. (Want to know the exact number? See below.) Of course, there are many more places not in the Register that are worthy of preserving. But the National Register is one, official way of recognizing that value.
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Wish your business finances were more organized? There's no better time to get a handle on them than right now. Get control with these five tips for organizing your business finances.
Keeping on top of your business finances, whatever industry you are in, is essential and allows you to keep abreast of what is going in and out of your business. It also helps to be organized so that you aren't feeling anxious when it's time for Mr Taxman to come along to review your financial state.
To help kick start your finances in the New Year so that you keep on top and in good financial health, we've put together some suggestions for a successful new year.
Prepare your taxes
Ensure that all your documents, statements and balance sheets up to date and in order. If you have been tracking your finances throughout the year then this should be an easy task. If not, you could find yourself having a rather large job on your hands. Start as early as possible so that you don't receive a hefty fine should you be running behind schedule and ensure that going forward, you keep on top of your taxes.
Do an annual review
Have a look at where your money has come and gone from over the last year. What is your biggest expense? Where is your biggest income coming from? This review will allow you to work out where you need to focus your efforts in the New Year and where you maybe need to cut back.
Understand your numbers and then remember them
Do you understand what you need to be making to turn over a profit? What are you taking for yourself as a salary and should you be looking at either cutting back what you take or can you afford to take more? Keep an eye on your sales and what is coming in and whether you have had any dips in revenue. It may be the case that you start to see a trend forming over the previous years as to when you had more income coming in and when there was a dip. This will allow you to plan effectively for those times when the income may be low.
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Budgeting is key
How much can you afford to spend this year? Do you have your business plan to hand to make sure that you are hitting your goals and target? If you are finding that you aren't meeting those goals, maybe you need to move where your budget is being spent or make cuts so that you can ensure profitability in your business.
Related: How to Create a Budget for Your Small Business
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Your long term goal should always be to pay off what you owe. Put a budget plan in place that looks at what you can afford to pay out each month. If you have made a profit on last year and can afford – with the business projections in place being successful – to pay back more on your debts, do so. This will hopefully see you paying off your debt sooner, which will see the interest you pay back, hopefully become less.
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Still enjoying the series. I, for one, am glad that they are releasing two installments at a time. I personally don't think I would be as willing to follow a web series in ten (or more) 8-9 minute installments. However, it is much easier for me to enjoy five 18-minute pieces. You get a little more content at once, a little more story, and a little more invested. For web series like "The Guild", I just wait until it's all over and watch it in one sitting because watching little snippets week to week is irritating.
I'm really curious to know what the benchmark is in determining if B&C is successful. How many views must each installment earn in order to deem this experiment a success? Or does Universal just not care at this point, and they are waiting for DVD sales to recoup the cost?
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<Axion> is a joint venture between my fiancé Tecla (In Game, Fendika) and Me Travis (In game Axisis)
The reason for "being" simply put is this:
We are too tired of having to abide large 25man and even 10man hard core guild raiding times, rules and attendance. We do enjoy a life outside of WOW and we both work fulltime so WOW & RL clash for us both.
Our aim is to put together a group of mature, relaxed, casual players who wish to peruse all aspects of WOW.
Wow for us is not just raiding NEW end game content night after night. We enjoy doing old raids, working on fishing achievements, hero farming for those extra badges, slaving away for our law master achievements and loads of other miscellaneous things.
Ideally we would like to build a team of core 10man raiding members who wish to start raiding 10man WOTLK content each week. Attendance would be appreciated if you want in for this core group, but honestly it will not be the end of the world to me if for some reason someone could not attend due to whatever. We will just fill your sport from casuals in guild or trade.
If you have any questions or queries just message me though the forums or PST in game. See you in the world of Warcraft ^^ ***cough, cough lameo***
I have had no real feedback in game or though the web site regarding weekly raids and times.
I am going to put on the table 8 -11 PM ST, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. This allows for people to be home, feed, watered and ready after work/uni/school.
I will be moving members into "Core Raiders" rank soon and opening the guild to new recruits to suit what rolls we need to fill.
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Jon Gruden: In Oakland, Bill Callahan told me, 'let's throw it every snap'
In Bill Callahan's two games as offensive play-caller, the Dallas Cowboys have passed the ball 91 times and ran it 39. Only three NFL teams have thrown the ball more than the Cowboys and only five teams have run it less.
During Monday night's game between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton threw 32 times in the first half of a 20-10 victory.
When the discussion in the TV broadcast booth turned to the high number of Dalton throws, former Tampa Bay and Oakland head coach Jon Gruden mentioned Callahan.
"When I left the Oakland Raiders, I watched Bill Callahan take over for me," Gruden explained. "I don't think he ran the ball one time. He says, 'Gruden, why do you want me to run it?' He says, 'Everything is a two or one yard gain. Let's throw it every snap.'"
While Gruden was joking a bit, the comment certainly relates well to the Cowboys offense through two games with Callahan calling plays.
Many thought going into the season that since Callahan is also the team's offensive line coach, he'd be more likely to run the ball and have a balanced attack. Some have even suggested that Callahan is calling run plays but possibly Tony Romo is checking into more pass plays at the line of scrimmage.
Either way, with the ground game stuck in neutral, the "throw it up every snap" offense wasn't too far away from what Dallas ran Sunday in Kansas City.
(Hat tip to DCFantic.com for posting video of Gruden's comments.)
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It's no secret to anybody running a small or independent retailer that we're operating in an unprecedented economic environment. Right now, it feels like the only thing that we can be certain about is uncertainty. Credit is extremely tight, and forecasting sales is like throwing a dart. The only bright spot is that gasoline prices have begun to descend from the stratosphere.
Most retailers are struggling on the top line right now. The only major national retailers who seem to be reporting increases are Wal-Mart, TJX and the warehouse clubs. For everybody else, the internal metrics are just about the same; weak traffic counts, conversion rates, average sale and units-per-transaction.
In an environment where everybody else is running sale after sale after sale, it can be hard for a small or independent retailer to know how to respond. I have long advised small and independent retailers to avoid competing on price. I believe that sustained success for any small or independent retailer flows directly from compelling product offerings, exceptional product knowledge and customer service, and an in-store experience that appeals directly to each customer's passions and aspirations.
In keeping with that, I have consistently advised against running sales or price promotions. Driving sales by dropping prices has been a slippery slope that few retailers are ever able to get back off of. But, as we have seen in the daily headlines, unprecedented times require fresh thinking and pragmatic approaches, even ones that you've been fundamentally opposed to.
In working with small and independent retail clients who share my aversion to sales and price promotions, we've sought an approach that strikes a balance between the need to offer customers exceptional values while maintaining the store's fundamental pricing integrity and brand equity.
Here's what I would recommend many small and independent retailers to consider. First, identify narrowly defined categories of merchandise that you can develop promotions around. Each offering must be meaningful and compelling. It might be a specific sub-category of merchandise, such as dresses, or silk flowers, or lamps (depending on the store's particular retail niche), or it might be a specific vendor's branded or designer line. The offering may also be driven by inventory levels, focusing in on categories or subcategories that are somewhat heavier than others.
Then, establish a promotional calendar, through the rest of this year and into the early part of next year, at least. Plan a promotion every two to three weeks, each lasting no more than two to three days, and running on the best sales days of the week. Do not run the promotion longer than several days; if you do it tends to blur the distinction in your customers mind between promotional and non-promotional periods. Determine which grouping of goods would be most attractive for each promotion, and be sure that each promotion in turn is featuring distinctly different merchandise from the prior promotion.
For each promotion, offer a single grouping of goods at a significant discount, at least 25 percent off, perhaps as high as 40 percent off, depending on the discount level necessary to grab the customer's attention. You're not putting large swaths of the store on sale, so you don't need to be as concerned about the impact of deeper discounts. The key consideration is offering a discount great enough to drive traffic into your store.
Focus your advertising of the promotion around your customer email list. Target your offering to your best customers, those customers that value your store enough to give you their email addresses. These are the customers that you want to get into the store. These are the customers who have demonstrated that they will buy from you. If you feel you need to communicate more broadly, simple ad in the local paper would probably be just fine.
Be sure to run an unadvertised, in-store special in addition to the promoted merchandise. This will drive up your units-per-transaction and your average sale, while delighting your customers and giving them an extra reason to come to the next promotion. Also, ask your vendor whose merchandise is being featured if they have any promotional items that can be used as giveaways.
Dress the store up. Make it an extra special place to visit. Change out the displays and vignettes. Make sure everything is properly accessorized. Be sure to feature the promoted merchandise prominently to the best effect. Set up a coffee urn, bring in some coffee cake, do whatever it takes to fully create the warmest possible atmosphere.
Most important of all, every customer entering your store must be greeted warmly as a returning guest, invited in and immersed in the atmosphere you have created. Each member of your selling staff needs to fully engage their customers. Each customer must come away with an experience worth telling their friends about.
The business objective of each promotion is to drive traffic, conversion rate, units-per-transaction and average sale. The point is not just to sell the items being promoted, but to generate add-on sales of un-promoted, full margin merchandise. By focusing each promotion on a narrow slice of the store's merchandise, and not putting the whole store on sale or running an early clearance, the store's brand equity and pricing integrity (not to mention profit margins) are maintained as much as possible, while still driving the top line.
Difficult times require difficult choices. Most small and independent retailers take a very principled, strategic stand against competing on price or running promotional events. And many of them know they simply must offer their customers special values in this uncertain environment to get them into the store and spending their money. Finding the right balance is the key to achieving the necessary short-term results without sacrificing long-term integrity.


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Dance and Art in Dialogue
dance legend Trisha Brown is the subject of a major exhibit
opening at Skidmore Colleges Tang Teaching Museum and Art
Gallery this weekend. Brown, who emerged from the Judson
Dance Theater in the early 60s and formed her own New York
City-based company in 1970, became best-known for her revolutionary
dance vocabulary. Instead of drawing on traditional movements,
Brown took her inspiration from natural body movements and
gestures taken from daily life. It was, critic Marianne
Goldberg said, something new: Browns gestures did not
look like anything seen before. She traveled beyond the
known lexicon of modern dance.
This multimedia exhibit, arranged by independent curator
Hendel Teicher, includes drawings, paintings, costumes,
photographs and sets. There will also be, screening continuously,
what the museum calls an extensive selection of videos
of Browns work over the years, as well as examples of her
collaborations with visual artists like Robert Raushenberg,
Nancy Graves, Fujiko Nakaya, Donald Judd and Terry Winters.
The exhibit opens at the Tang Museum (Skidmore College,
815 N. Broadway, Saratoga Springs) on Saturday (Feb. 1),
and runs through June 1. The museum is open from 10 AM to
5 PM Tuesday through Saturday. The opening reception is
also Saturday, from 6:30 to 8 PM; before the reception,
the museum will present Trisha Brown and Hendel Teicher:
Dancer and Curator in Dialogue, at 5 PM. Admission to the
museum is free. For more information, call 580-8080.
Evening with Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin has a career that spans both decades and genres.
Shes done lots of movies (like Nashville, which
earned her an Oscar nomination, and 9 to 5), TV spots
(a role on Murphy Brown and appearances on numerous
other shows), and recordings (mostly in the early 70sshe
was even on a Barry Manilow album in 1980). However, Tomlin
is perhaps best-known for her talent in taking on different
personalities, some of whom are practically as well-known
as the actress herself. Everyone knows Edith Ann, the little
5-year-old girl in the very big chair. And who can
forget Ernestine the telephone operator?
Lately, the actress has been up to some interesting things,
like performing in a tour of life partner Jane Wagners
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.
Also, Tomlin and Wagner are collaborating with the Los Angeles
Gay and Lesbian Center and the Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund
to establish the Lily Tomlin Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center
in Hollywood, with a goal of raising money to provide services
for people living with HIV and AIDS. Currently, Tomlin is
touring, performing her array of characters for fans around
the United States.
Iron Horse Entertainment presents An Evening with Lily
Tomlin at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall (corner of Second
and State streets, Troy) on Saturday (Feb. 1) at 8 PM. Tickets
are $55, $45 and $35, and can be ordered by calling the
Music Hall box office at 273-0038.
Burton, aka Blackloud, was a founding member of one of the
areas favorite stoner-rock ensembles, Small Axe, who came
out kicking in the 80s and continue in the new millennium
sans Burton. The bassist left the band last summer to forge
his own path, one hed like to share with you tomorrow (Friday)
at the Chapel + Cultural Center on the RPI campus.
Burtons material features the bass as the lead melodic
instrumentand we mean balls-to-the-wall rock & roll
bass sans noodlingand combines it with vocals, drum machines
and synthesizers. A rhythmic stew with electronic currents
(its a big, big stew after all), Burtons solo stuff veers
stylistically from the sound of his former band, but we
still think that if youre a fan of Small Axe, youll likely
be a fan of Blackloud.
Blacklouds performancewhich also will include the debut
of Burtons video for the single Slipper, created by Sleight
of Hand Productionsis the first show of many scheduled
by the Chapel + Cultural Centers new director, Metroland
contributor J. Eric Smith. The season continues with music,
lectures and art exhibits, including guest speakers Alice
Fulton (March 4) and author Christopher Ringwald (March
20); nationally acclaimed violinist Deni Bonet (April 11)
and Ambient Night featuring Sara Ayers, Mindspawn and Dreamstate
with video by Twisted Pair (April 25); and an ongoing art
exhibit, Uncovered Treasures: Contemporary Latino and
Latin-American Art, which runs through February.
Blackloud will perform tomorrow (Friday, Jan. 31) at the
Chapel + Cultural Center (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy). The show starts at 8 PM, and tickets are $5, $3 students.
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Coho salmon are trapped in the Russian River and urgently need a boost from Mother Nature.
Cut off by lack of rain from most of the small streams where they habitually spawn, the endangered coho face a ticking biological clock that could decimate this year's reproduction.
"We know their time is running out," said Nick Bauer, a biologist with UC Cooperative Extension's coho monitoring program.
Coho Salmon Struggling in Russian River
Bauer was one of seven fish specialists who donned wetsuits and drysuits Thursday to check on the condition of the coho forced to congregate in pools along the river where they are exposed to foraging harbor seals and sea lions as well as human anglers.
Upstream from Monte Rio, the divers spotted coho, steelhead and primarily chinook salmon -#8212; the river's three spawning species -#8212; all apparently waiting for more water.
Flow in the lower river was 100 cubic feet per second on Thursday, a trickle compared with the average January flow of 8,000 cubic feet a second. At this time in ultra-dry 1977, the flow was 96 cfs.
Access to the major coho spawning grounds, such as Green Valley, Mill and Dutch Bill creeks, is blocked by low or no flow of water in the tributaries.
Without significant rain -#8212; and none is forecast through the end of the month -#8212; the coho are likely to die without spawning or lay their eggs in the main stem of the river where the eggs survival rate would be low.
"We might lose a year's class of fish," said Mariska Obedzinski, coordinator of the coho monitoring program.
Coho salmon have a three-year life cycle that begins in freshwater creeks, includes a year or two of growth in the Pacific Ocean and ends with a one-way spawning run to the creeks of their birth.


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One of the more interesting quarterback battles to watch this preseason will be Jimmy Clausen and recently-made-rich rookie Cam Newton, as they battle out for the top spot on the Panthers depth chart.
For now, Clausen appears to be winning, as he topped the Panthers first "unofficial depth chart" released by the team on Tuesday.
That's not a guarantee for the majority of playing time, however, as coach Ron Rivera indicated Tuesday that they could flip-flop between starters throughout the preseason.
"We want to see how each guy looks with each offensive line," Rivera said. "It would be unfair to have one guy with the ones, one guy with the twos, one guy play against a one defense, the other guy play against a two defense and say one looks better.
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Rivera also made it clear he hadn't picked a starter for the preseason opener against the Giants.
"No," Rivera said when asked about the starter for Saturday's game. "We're going to meet tonight as far as that is concerned in terms of who's going to play where, what the depth chart will be and what the number of plays will be."
So, in other words, it means very little that Clausen is currently on top of the depth chart. And it may mean even less if he ends up starting against the Giants.
All that matters, one has to assume, is in-game production. And we already know who's to blame for that.
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While the entertainment industry is cheering the Grokster decision, I am concerned about the issue of vicarious liability and the thwarting of legitimate innovation. I suspect ultimately the decision will be terrific for Trial Lawyers, but not so great for everyone else.
Example: What does the Grokster decision means for Google? The comapany just rolled out Google Video, a search tool that lets you find video on the Web. Let's say you use that to find copyrighted material on line and then I download what you find, is Google now viacariously liable under this decision?
Even worse, is there now no bright line standard, as their was in the Beta-Max case. Now, we should expect a ton more litigation, all on a very piecemeal basis. I'll bet SCOTUS will be forced to revisit this decision after a decade or so.
How will the Grokster case stop the 100 to 200 million PCs that have grokster installed from file swapping? Its decentralized and the company cannot control it. (hint: it won't)
The bigger concern is now litigation risk: While file swapping will continue unabated, legitimate innovations and (previously) legal applications may not get venture funded. That's not good for innovative companies like Apple and TiVo.
I wish the Supremes woulda stuck with their BetaMax decision . . .
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I think the big difference is that while sharing programs are capable of it, there has been less than substantial non-infringing use of the programs. There has been substantial use of publishing programs like the web and BitTorrent to publish original content. The only actual non-infringing content published by sharing programs is stuff copied from the web and the spyware that frequently gets included in free downloads. I hope the loss of Grokster will reduce the demand for legislation that may actually harm publishing programs and threaten BetaMax.
There may not have been much economic damage from sharing. Payola and independent promoters show that the market price for disposable music is frequently negative. I think the biggest problem is that with most music prices being fixed at zero by sharing there has been much less innovation in micro-payment then there should have been. Music publishing should be the driving innovation for micro-payment both to labels and to individual publishers. Instead, sharing programs have been driving innovation for their paying customers: spammers and spyware publishers. The customer is always right. It is best that the customer be the consumer.
Apple Computer Won Suit over Beatles
TechnologyOn Monday, Beatle's record company took another twist of a long legal road. This was a British Judge ruled that Apple Computer Inc. has the right to se the apple logo on its iTunes Music Store.
The lawyers of Apple computer defended their client saying that Apple Computer Inc. was conducting a legal business and that music lover will easily identify the differences between the two logos. Apple Corps' logo is a shiny green apple while Apple Computer uses a cartoon-like apple with a neat bite taken out.
The 1991 agreement ended previous lengthy litigation over the logo. Apple Computer stated that it even paid Apple Corp $26.5 million as a settlement in exchange of an expanded field of use.


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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier says
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frustrating finishes deter him from returning to the Gamecocks next
Spurrier said Tuesday he'll be more active in scheming plays for
his team and return to the sideline huddle during timeouts and
stoppages to give instructions instead of hanging back while others
on his offensive staff did the talking.
Spurrier also says he's liked the direction of his young program
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South Carolina (6-4, 3-4 SEC) has lost three of its past four
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This was a collaborative project I worked on as a producer with a good friend of mine named David Whitlow. We created it as an entry for a film festival in Milan, Italy under the category Domestic violence.
It's a simple piece that carries much weight and meaning despite its lack of complexity. While we both have our own ideas of what this piece means, we were very interested in creating something visually rich, yet simple, that would serve as a basis for discussion and thought.
Everyone is going to interpret what this means in very different ways, and that's something David and I embraced as a possibility when we crafted this. Some people will love it, some people might be offended at its subject matter, others might think its dumb... but part of the allure of this type of work is that it can affect people several ways. We like that. Share it with people you know and see what they think.
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Some Arctic scientists are quick to point out that certain environmental changes could slow warming rather than speed it up, however. Sturm has also found areas where shrubs are not expanding and soils are colder. In other regions, the conversion of mossy tundra to thin forest, not shrubland, offsets some rise in greenhouse gases by storing more carbon in trees. Still, the consensus is that warming will dominate. "The question is whether this is a weak positive or a strong positive," Lawrence says. "It may take a long time to get the numbers right."
Even now, though, Lawrence is willing to offer a lower bound of methane release. It is easy, he says, to envision conditions that double methane emissions from the Arctic by the end of the 21st century simply by activating more microbes in those uppermost few feet of Arctic soil that thaw every summer, the so-called active layer. But more lakes formed because of thawing would send that estimate skyrocketing. Walter's work suggested that the lakes near Cherskii expanded significantly between 1974 and 2000 and that as they did, they ate into the permafrost along their shorelines. She found that methane rises up most vigorously at these outer edges, which fueled her 2006 estimate that an expansion of thaw lakes increased methane emissions in the region by 58 percent.
Going back to Siberia as a professor in 2008 made her wonder if it was time to update that estimate. The banks of the lake where she lit her first methane bubble in 2002 had advanced greatly. "The dramatic changes to my study sites really made my eyebrows go up," she says. "I couldn't even recognize the lake margins. Some ponds appeared to have doubled or tripled in size." If other lakes experienced similar growth they may have contributed to the global methane spike that began two years ago.
Walter still spends four months or more each year walking the lakes in dogged pursuit of answers. Her collaborators and study sites have expanded considerably. To date, she and her colleagues have visited 60 lakes in Siberia and Alaska, but that is still only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. With no hope of visiting every Arctic thaw lake in person, her team is now working on a technique to spot methane seeps from space. One new high-resolution German satellite, TerraSAR-X, is making it possible to identify distinct patches of bubbles on the surfaces of frozen lakes—and to keep track of which patches are growing.
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Once a given helping of permafrost starts to thaw and a gas leak starts, not much can be done about it. Local villages could capture the bubbling methane gas and use it to replace diesel fuel (technologies already exist for capturing methane released from landfills). But that is a "very small fix," Walter concedes. The only real solution is to slow the thaw itself.
Those of us living at lower latitudes can make the greatest difference. The model linking permafrost thaw to loss of sea ice predicts that both processes could be slowed considerably if humanity stabilizes CO2 emissions soon, slowing the atmospheric warming that is generating the methane. "It's not a runaway train," Lawrence says. Not yet, anyway, Walter and others warn. Lawrence sounds optimistic when he says, "Perhaps we have to reduce emissions by 80 percent rather than 70 percent by 2050." But such dramatic reductions won't be easy. Since 2000 human activities have raised CO2 concentrations much faster than expected.
Even if humanity finds the resolve to slow warming, too much thawing in the wrong place could tap submerged caverns of methane. Just below the permafrost layer in many locations lurk large pockets of pure gas that formed millions of years ago. Some of the pockets are run-of-the-mill natural gas reserves, but others are so-called methane hydrates, massive deposits of ice that contain large amounts of gas within their crystalline structure.


text: DraftExpressProfile: Lawrence Hill, Stats, Comparisons, and Outlook Loading NBA Mock Drafts 2016 NBA Mock Draft 2017 NBA Mock Draft Complete Draft History My Mock Draft 2015 Early Entry List 2015 Extended NBA Mock Draft Rankings Top 100 Prospects NCAA Seniors NCAA Juniors NCAA Sophomores NCAA Freshmen International 1994 International 1995 International 1996 International 1997 NBA Draft Eligible Features DX T-Shirts Complete Draft History Measurements History NBA Player Salaries NBA Contract Calculator Player Agents Listings NBA Agent/Agency Affiliations RSCI Early Entry List Team Clubhouses Draft Pick Transactions DraftExpress Podcast NBA Draft Lottery History Videos Scouting Reports Group Interviews Highlights Interview & Highlights Interviews NBA Draft Workouts Newest Popular Practice Footage Slow Motion Dunks Stats NCAA Stats NBA Stats Euroleague Stats EuroCup Stats Spanish ACB Stats Italian A1 Stats French Pro A Stats Adriatic Stats Greek Stats D-league Stats Team Stats Stats by Team Articles Archives NCAA Draft Prospects International Draft Prospects High School NCAA Commentary International Commentary General Draft Commentary NBA Pre-Draft Camp D-League NBA NBA Summer Leagues NBA Team Needs Interviews Humor Mailbag Site Announcements Sections DX T-Shirts DX Home NCAA Home International Home NBA Home High School Home D-League Home Columnists Jonathan Givony Matt Kamalsky Mike Schmitz Kyle Nelson Derek Bodner Josh Riddell Jim Hlavac E Weiss Jacob Eisenberg DraftExpress User Menu Edit Profile Log In Log Out DraftExpress DX T-Shirts About Us Contact Us Opportunities Privacy Policy Our RSS Feeds Lawrence HillRecent TweetsAll TweetsDraftExpress: D-League in a nutshell RT @nbadleague: Zach Andrews, Tyren Johnson, Leo Lyons Moses Ehambe & Lawrence Hill are D-League AllStar replacements2012-02-23 10:14:46 Team: NON-NBA College Team: Le Havre PhysicalsPositionsRankings SalaryMisc H: 6' 9" W: 223 lbs Bday: 08/16/1987 (28 Years Old) Current: PF NBA: PF Possible: PF RSCI: 92Agent: Chris Emens High School: Deer Valley Hometown: Glendale, AZ Predraft Measurements YearSourceHeight w/o ShoesHeight w/shoesWeightWingspanStanding ReachBody FatNo Step VertMax Vert 2009Portsmouth6' 7.25"6' 8.75"2237' 2.5"NANANANABasic Per Game Statistics - Comprehensive Stats - Statistical Top 25s YearLeagueNameGPMinPtsFGFGAFG%2Pt2PtA2P%3Pt3PtA3P%FTMFTAFT%OffDefTOTAstsStlsBlksTOsPFs 2015/16FrenchLawrence Hill929.212.05.010.248.93.25.85126.96.36.1990.00.20.36188.8.131.52.18.104.22.168.32.6 Player Page  | Player Stats | Mock Draft History | Related Articles  | Add to My Draft Express   Top NBA Draft Prospects in the Pac-10 (Part Two: #6-10)September 26, 2008After a breakout sophomore season, many were expecting Lawrence Hill to pick up right where he left off as a junior. Things didnt quite work out that way, as Hills numbers went down across the board in both production and efficiency. With the Lopez twins coming into their own last season, Hills role took a large turn from what it was the season prior. In 06-07, he rarely saw his minutes dip below 28 per game, but in 07-08, the varied wildly from the teens to the low 30s, with his place in the starting lineup also changing from night to night. In analyzing the numbers provided by Synergy Sports Technology, the distribution of how Hill got his scoring attempts barely changed from his sophomore to junior season. However, his efficiency in jump shooting and post scoring both fell off significantly, which is why his FG% dropped from 51% to 41%.Hill netted 1.25 points per possession off jump shots as a sophomore, but fell to 0.96 as a junior. Likewise, he netted 1.04 PPP in the post as a sophomore, but just 0.40 PPP as a junior. Watching extensive tape of his jumper from the two seasons, there really isnt much noticeable change in his mechanics or execution. He has a great natural touch, but hes always had somewhat of a loose form, taking a fair share of off-balance and fade-away shots, and not always bringing the ball up from the same place. That said, he has a quick and high release with a pretty consistent release point. In all likelihood, Hills shot isnt as good as it appeared to be in his sophomore year, and isnt as bad as it appeared to be in his junior year. In the post, Hill just appeared to be really out of his element this season, not establishing good position, not selling his moves well, not looking very decisive, and often ending up taking a shot that didnt like much more than the ball being thrown in the general direction of the basket. He also didnt do as good of a job taking advantage of mismatches this season, taking smaller players to the post much less frequently. On the contrary, Hill does do a good job on the offensive boards, though, showing good timing and mobility, often streaking in from the wing to pull down a board from out of position. One area where Hill did show progress is with his dribble-drive game, as he looked a bit more comfortable putting the ball on the floor this year, occasionally mixing in crossovers and spin moves, and showing flashes of taking his man both left and right. With his long strides and decent quickness for his size, Hill is becoming a much more formidable threat in this aspect of his game, though his handle is far from a finished product, still looking high and sloppy at times, while his ability to change directions with the ball still isnt perfected. At the rim, Hill isnt the most creative player, but has good touch and can go to lay-ups, floaters, and runners to get the job done, or even the occasional dunk, though he doesnt have the body to power up over players very much. On the defensive end, Hill is very much a tweener at this stage, not having the body to really challenge opponents in the post, and really lacking the lateral foot speed on the perimeter, getting beat frequently. Despite his length, he usually isnt even able to recover in these situations, and his perimeter defense is a major concern in his efforts to convert to the small forward position. With the Lopez twins gone this season, Hill will have a chance to reclaim his starring role for the Cardinal, and should once again have consistent minutes and touches in the rotation. This season he should look to return his shooting efficiency to what it was as a sophomore, and continue to improve on his dribble-drive game, which will be important for him to make it at the next level. He is someone who could come into second round discussions come draft time, and will be someone scouts and executives will look to see at the pre-draft camps. [Read Full Article] Top NBA Draft Prospects in the Pac-10 (Part Two: #11-#15)September 24, 2007Hill was one of the more improved players in the country last year, increasing his scoring output by 11 points from his freshman to sophomore campaign. Playing for the Cardinal, he is placed in a situation that benefits him greatly in terms of showing NBA scouts his full arsenal of skills. For most teams, Hill would be used as a power forward, but due to the presence of two seven footers in the starting lineup (the Lopez twins), he is able to play outside on the perimeter much more. Making the most of this opportunity, he shot a sizzling 41% from beyond the three point arc as a sophomore for Stanford. Standing only 6-7 or 6-8, Hill is undersized for the power forward position, yet not fully developed as a small forward. He is able to shoot the ball with consistency beyond the collegiate three point line, although his mechanics could use some refinement. The junior forward causes match-up problems, scoring against bigger players from the perimeter, while taking smaller defenders down to the low post. He does an excellent job of exploiting mismatches, often relying upon short pull-up jumpshots when unable to get all the way to the rim. Clearly Hill is a player who knows his limitations on the offensive end, and his molded his style of play to cater to his strengths. Although he played the small forward position the vast majority of time he was out on the floor, Hill is not a very creative player, as far as his one on one skills are concerned. His ball handling and passing abilities are limited to say the least, as he looked uncomfortable any time he put the ball on the floor more than two or three times last season. The All PAC-10 Team selection struggles with passing the ball into to the post as well, frequently being unable to enter the ball in from the wing and/or turning the ball over. Defense is one area of the game that Hill has shown to be awfully cerebral in, despite his physical limitations. Not the quickest player laterally, he makes up for his lack of speed with knowledge of how to actually play team defense. His physical liabilities hurt him especially when guarding players on the perimeter, and Hill is a much more adept defender in the post, displaying nice toughness and rebounding talents. While Hill does not have the upside of many of the players ranked above him in this conference, he is more productive then the large majority of them. His lack of ideal size and athleticism make him a more marginal prospect than some of his more hyped counterparts, but at the end of the day, Hill is still a player that NBA personnel will need to monitor closely to evaluate the progress of his perimeter skills. [Read Full Article] NCAA Weekly Performers-- 2/28/2007, Part OneFebruary 28, 2007The role of the Lopez twins in Stanfords mid-season emergence has been discussed at length here at DraftExpress, but the freshman 7-footers arent the only draft prospects in Trent Johnsons frontcourt. Sophomore forward Lawrence Hill has quietly emerged as one of the elite players in the Pac-10, leading the Cardinal in scoring at 16.1 ppg, and stretching defenses all season long with a beautiful midrange jumpshot. Hill is somewhat of a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to scoring, as he began his career as more of a post-oriented player, but has taken his game outside more and more. With a formidable wingspan and lanky build, Hill is more than capable of playing either forward spot at the college level, becoming a master of understanding how to best take advantage of individual matchups or situations. His bread and butter would be a beautiful, high-arcing jumpshot that he can hit in a variety of situations. A phenomenal spot-up shooter from just about anywhere, Hill is especially effective hitting off balance leaners, fadeaways, and baseline pull-ups in the midrange. He doesnt have the look of a typical shot-creating wing, but lets the game come to him and wont hesitate to pull the trigger if given a reasonable amount of space. He has enough toughness, athleticism, footwork and touch to be a threat in the post, and his ability to drive on perimeter defenders appears to be improving. Hill does a great job of using his length to hang in the air, fade away, and generally sneak his way around defenders to the get the ball to the rim. While Hill is probably capable of scoring in some way on just about any potential defender in the Pac-10, the NBA will be a different story. His mobility and comfort level on the perimeter is certainly improving, but he still has work to do in order to become a full-time wing. He rarely handles the ball unless putting it on the floor for a straight-to-the-basket slashing move, and just doesnt move quite like a natural perimeter player. He needs to continue to make major strides in his perimeter game over the next two seasons if he wants make a complete transition in terms of NBA aspirations. Hills long arms and workmanlike mentality will certainly help him out defensively, but he is still very much a tweener on that end of the floor as well. Lawrence Hills NBA future is far from set in stone, but the sophomore is developing quite rapidly and has 2+ seasons to work on moving out to the wing full time. While some aspiring power forward prospects may have taken the arrival of two 7-foot freshmen like Brook and Robin Lopez as a negative, Hill has managed to make the most out of the situation. He is certainly athletic enough to play small forward in the NBA someday, and his instinctual shooting form is something he should be able to hang his hat on. With Stanfords roster likely to remain intact through 2008, it would appear the program has a bright future. Lawrence Hill is certain to play a big role in this, and with continued development, appears to be on track for an NBA career someday himself. [Read Full Article] © 2015 DraftExpress LLC All rights reserved.


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The fly-in, fly-out movement is already well underway, with another 30 people arriving back in the Illawarra by plane from mining jobs in Queensland, home in time to see their kids for Father's Day.
The workers, flown on a Dash 8 plane brought into the Illawarra for the purpose, followed another similar-size group who arrived on Thursday.
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WORKERS from as far away as Ireland will be part of the massive fly-in, fly-out workforce needed to build the $45 billion development turning coal-seam gas into liquified natural gas on Curtis Island off Gladstone, central Queensland.
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November 27, 2015
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors - s-s-r-i's are the most common prescribed drugs for women suffering from depression, but they can be dangerous to pregnant women.
Danish researchers say women who take s-s-r-i's are more likely to give birth early - and have twice the risk of preterm delivery than women with a history of mental illness.
Newborns of mothers who took s-s-r-i's are more likely to have a low agpar Score -- which is a general indicator of infant health -- or be admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Researchers looked at the birth outcomes of more than fifty-five-thousand women to come up with the findings.
It appears in the "Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine."
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Thank you for being there to expose the serious matters the mainstream news media will not! I have started a petition to the White House for the United States to remove itself from the United Nations and to remove them from our soil! If it were to receive enough signatures, at the very least, it would voice the opinion of Americans, that we are opposed to the U.N. having a say in American matters and that is is unacceptable for our administration go around Congress and use the U.N. to change American law!
America is capable of deciding its own destiny, and we do not need a bunch of Third World dictators to dictate one thing in our matters! Please pass this along so that Americans can remain free from the U.N.'s influence and remain a sovereign nation under our God and our Constitution!
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The Magazine
Great Books Redux
An educator strives to rediscover knowledge.
Dec 22, 2008, Vol. 14, No. 14 • By TRACY LEE SIMMONS
Racing Odysseus
Perhaps we could write off Roger H. Martin's bizarre decision to the onset of a "midlife crisis" and make our facile diagnosis stick, had he not safely passed the moment for that milestone over a decade before. Or the move might have been inspired by a costly and elaborate bit of field research designed to astound the trustees. Or maybe it arose from a gnawing need to take a whack at reality and go slumming for a spell.
Whatever the explanation may be--and it's never made exceptionally clear in this book--here before us stands the fantastical fact: Four years ago, Roger H. Martin, 61 years old and a respected historian, snatched a sabbatical from his eminent post as president of Randolph-Macon, a fine liberal arts college in Ashland, Virginia, and betook himself to wind back his intellectual and emotional clock over 40 years and
Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, we have here, it would seem, either a nut case of a loon--or a man, noble and true, who has achieved both a wisdom and humility of Socratic proportions. However that may be, what we know we have here is a tale worth reading.
Martin's little adventure did not come ex nihilo. He had been fighting a desperate battle with a nasty form of melanoma a few years before embarking on this experiment, enduring the excruciating treatments and deflations of spirit attending a lingering death sentence. But as he rallied and as the metastasizing cancer lapsed into a blessed remission, he found himself, a tired and grateful survivor, prompted to take an almost spiritual accounting of his life, his accomplishments, failures, and still-smoldering hopes alike.
Perhaps he wished to be young one last time before easing finally and irrevocably into his decrepitude; it's an ancient yearning. The gods not allowing that, though, he thought he could at least try to see the world as the young see it today and emerge somehow richer for having done so.
A gamble, we should think, at best. Yet we come to enjoy his tumble of the dice. After negotiations that must have been amusing to witness, Martin gets himself admitted to the freshman class of 2004 at a place prominently mentioned in the previous review: St. John's College in Annapolis, the agreeably archaic institution still hoisting high the banner of the Great Books movement, installed securely at St. John's since 1937. Martin, as it turns out, chose well if not typically.
St. John's does not pretend to serve slackers. Students there declare no majors; practically the whole of the four-year curriculum of original reading in the humanities and sciences comes rigidly set, from Homer to Euclid to Virgil to St. Thomas Aquinas to Descartes to Hegel to Tolstoy to Melville, a daunting course of perennial philosophical and literary works. Classes as such don't exist; no one lectures to legions of the drowsily inert. Instruction, such as it is, happens in seminars and tutorials where students learn dialectically, by engaging in guided give-and-take with tutors--the diminutive title for faculty--and, most of all, fellow students.
Textbooks are pitched: Students read only what authors of the distant past wrote, not what their later interpreters have claimed they wrote. Even mathematics (through close reading of Euclid, for instance) gets tackled this way. The reading list, while formidable, is admittedly narrow and, according to critics of Great Books teaching, impractically so. Yet the very narrowness of the curriculum sharpens the point of the place, the idea being not to read many works cursorily but to read a few of them exhaustively and emerge with a trained mind that can grapple with anything else on its own.
This method does not aim at dogma. Students are "told what to study but not what to think," as one "Johnnie" puts it. At St. John's the passion for learning is taken in dead earnest, smoothing manners and elevating tone. Decorum dictates that all members of the community, both faculty and students, be addressed as Mr. or Ms. with surname appended, a courteous practice: Students are credited for the adults they are or should aspire to be, and faculty, no matter how accomplished in the realm of scholarship, are treated simply as veteran fellow laborers in the vineyards of learning, not as experts demanding, or even especially deserving, deference.


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telly and i hope that you'll be able join us for one (or more) of our three february shows. the illustrious lucas ives will be on drums.
the first is in Port Jefferson, long island this thursday (02.05) at Lulus Village Pub. milan karunaratne will be opening the night around 9p and we should be on by 10p.
next week (tuesday the 10th) we are playing at the National Underground in New York City. 'evan & telly' will be on at 9:30 and 'telly and friends' will be before us at 8p.
on feb 27thth (friday), we are back at Desmond's Tavern in New York City. we'll be playing from 9 to 11.
lastly, thank you everybody who voted for me in revolutionartist.com's artist of the year…i just wanted to let you know that we won it.


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Chloe Morgan and Derrick PierceStarts with the two kissing on the couch, she is alreayd topless exposing her very flat tits, Her nose sticks out much more than her small chest, but she does look fairly young, big eyes and a flat chest contribute to her "teen" status. he spends a lot of time sucking her nipples before she strips sh0wing off more tatoos, this pair is quite heavily tatooed. she drops down to suck his completely shaved cock and balls. kind of a short cock, decently thick, biut nothing to write home about, more oral with him sitting on the couch before she straddles him. They fuck in this position for a while, nice cum vuildup on his cock is visible. she cleans him off leaving lots of spit on his dick. rides him in reverse (nice if you like flat tits. switches to doggystyle, you can see his massive side and back tattoos. this many tatoos realy area turn off for me. more oral with her cleaning off his dick before some spooning sex. he finishes with a big cumshot on the outisde of her pussy and stomach. Nice thick white cum spatters, no one big load, just lots of droplets. Hannah West and John West Opens with her wearing flower panties fingering herself, she wants to be fucked so her man comes out of the shower and lets her suck him off the edge of the bed. She is fairly average looking, nothing ugly nothing particularly pretty. He is a big muscle jock, with a short, but thick cock. more oral with him throat fucking her off the bed. He goes down on her licking his wet pussy. She has smaller tits as well, but at least she is about an A cup. She has a nice heart shaved with her pussy hair. Cute. Cue the fucking missionary, she has a little pooch that jiggles, but not distracting. Her body type really could use a B or C sized tits. She rides him reverse and again her cum lathers up on the side of his dick. Fucking doggystyle is a good position, he really drives it in and pushes her face into the pillows.Finishes with a kneeling cumshot that drips mostly on her chest, clear runny cum that she says tastes sweet. one good strand on her face, but most cum misses its target. Lena and Sarah Blake Two girls kidding in lingerie, this scene is very classy because its dark outside, I feel like most porn is shot in the daytime. Anyway, these two girls love to kiss and suck each others nipples, the tits are nicely sized, about a handful, enough to grab, but nothing too large. one girl looks a bit like Mary-Kate Olsen with dark hair which is pretty hot. Great chemistry between the girls as they lock each others shaved/trimmed pussies. They use some vibrators while licking the clit. Both girls are wearing makeup, but it only adds to the classiness of the scene. The girls are wearing gold heels and overall, this is just a fantastic lesbian encounter. They share long, intense kisses, but sadly they never use the golden dildo on the coffee table! Michelle Honeywell and Cheyne Collins She goes out and tells him about a present, not a puppy, but a little tattoo on her hip! she's wearing a tight white t-shirt that you can see her dark nipples. her dark green shorts barely cover her ass. she's a dirty blonde who apparently loves Hollister clothing. the camera shot is 90 twisted, and that started to give me a headache, but the camera soon turned around. she gets naked and we see she is really pale and a few more tattoos. she has a fit body and he soon licks her pussy. She sucks him, when they fuck she is pretty loud, but there isnt anything special. they fuck missionary and reverse, and the clock on the table says 6:52. doggystyle is nice a view of her getting it very deep. spoon sex is so-so. She lays on the edge of the bed with her head hanging off to make him cum and he drips his creamy load onto her chin, a few drops go into her nose, but there's not too much overall. A few streams run down her cheek and shoulder. Cali Winters Jada Stevens and James Deen two girls making out on the couch with a guy sleeping nearby. she takes her top off and she's wearing a bikini top? weird, but the blonde has much better tits. The blonde is much hotter, very young looking with full A/B tits. The brunette is a little pudgy, small tits and she should never be seen from the side when bending over. Its really a shame they had to pair these girls because the blonde could be incredibly sexy, the two kiss and seduce the sleeping James Deen and rub their naked bodies all over his cock. Brunette sucks him, while the blonde gets fingered. They alternate sucking his cock. The blonde drools a bit onto her chest while sucking him. He fucks the brunette while she licks the blonde, this is a great scene for the blonde as she is perched up on the couch. Luckily, there isn't much focus on the brunette and she is mostly used to suck and lick. Hot threesome with the blonde and James Deen. When he fucks the blond doggystyle, I nearly came instantly. She arches her back and just screams out. cums on the brunettes ass and it drips down onto the blondes outstretched tongue. The blonde laps her pussy to get every last drop, very hot ending to a sensual threesome. The blonde swaps the sum into the brunette who returns the cum for her to swallow. Lets go back to sleep. 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The accusation of plagiarism leveled at Providence mayoral candidate Jorge Elorza (�Elorza campaign letter at issue,� news, Aug. 30) stretches the definition of plagiarism out of shape.
Plagiarism is generally defined as knowingly and willingly passing off another�s work as your own. Many politicians use professional writers to help them craft letters, speeches, and campaign literature. According to Elorza, the two letters were written by the same person for his two different clients (Central Falls Mayor James Diossa and Elorza).
It seems�the writer used a cut-and-paste approach to the two letters based upon the very similar stories of the two politicians. Since they were both signed by Diossa and Elorza they essentially become the product of those two men. But, in order for Elorza�s letter to be an act of plagiarism, he would have had to know that his letter contained the copied material.
He claims he did not know. Solomon would like us to believe he did not intentionally leave out information from his financial disclosure forms. Like Elorza, we only have his word to go on.
Perhaps both men should be careful when throwing stones at each other.
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Anti-Nuclear Antibodies, Human (ANA) BioAssay ELISA Kit
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The United States Biological ANA Screen ELISA test system is designed to detect IgG class antibodies to a variety of common nuclear antigens in human sera. Wells of plastic microwell strips are sensitized by passive absorption with antigen.
Kit Components:
All reactive reagents contain sodium azide as a preservative at a concentration of 0.1%.
A2298-12K1: Microtiter Plate, 1x96 wells, coated with capture antibody.
A2298-12K2: Conjugate, IgG (HRP) Gt x Hu, lambda chain specific, 1x15ml
A2298-12K3: Calibrator (Human Serum) CF=0.41, 1x500ul
A2298-12K4: Positive Control (Human Serum) 1x350ul
A2298-12K5: Negative Control (Human Serum) 1x350ull
A2298-12K6: Sample Diluent, 1x30ml (Contains PBS, pH7.2, BSA, Tween-20)
A2298-12K7: Wash Buffer, 10X, 1x100ml, (Contains PBS, Tween-20)
A2298-12K8: Tetramethylbenzidine (TMB), 1x15ml (Contains <15% DMSO)
A2298-12K9: Stop Solution, 1x15ml (1M H2SO4, 0.7M HCl)
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Important Note: This product as supplied is intended for research use only, not for use in human, therapeutic or diagnostic applications without the expressed written authorization of United States Biological.


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The electrical fields that are picked up by this technique include a variety of rhythms. Delta waves—slow brain waves that occur one to four times a second—are characteristic of deep sleep. Beta waves, which occur 12 to 30 times per second, dominate when people are actively concentrating.
At a middle tempo is the theta rhythm, which repeats three to 10 times per second. (To put this in perspective, consider that when I run along the steep trails in the San Gabriel Mountains, my heart rate plateaus at 160 beats per minute, or 2.6 beats per second.)
The theta rhythm is particularly strong when people are finding their way or looking at something novel—in other words, when they are learning. Previous experiments suggest that the stronger these oscillations are and the more often they occur during learning, the better the person will remember the new material.
So it was not a surprise that the Rutishauser team picked up prominent theta activity when the patients were memorizing the images. But their findings went deeper. Using sensitive electronics and sophisticated software, the scientists could detect the faint staccato sounds that individual neurons make as they send information to one another by way of all-or-none pulses known as spikes.
The team recorded the activity of 305 neurons in the hippocampus and the amygdala. The total number of spikes that occurred while a subject viewed an image did not predict whether or not the patient would later recall it. (On average, participants recognized two out of three of the initial pictures.) Yet the scientists found something that did predict successful recall in about one fifth of cells.
Getting into a Groove
Nerve cells do not generally operate in lockstep. They typically send out pulses irregularly, whenever their excitation levels exceed a threshold. What the Caltech team found, however, is that neuronal rhythms can be highly orchestrated at times—and that this synchrony helps people form lasting memories. Think about a freestyle swimmer. She regularly turns her head to the side to breathe within the triangle formed by her upper and lower arm and the waterline. If she takes a breath during a different phase of the crawl, she most likely will swallow water and lose her rhythm. And so it seems to be for these memory-forming neurons.
During the learning phase, the team found, if a picture flashed on the screen at a moment when neuronal spikes in the hippocampus and the amygdala lined up with the local theta clock, patients were more likely to remember the image and feel confident that their recollection was accurate. When people were viewing images that they would later fail to recognize, this coordination between individual memory-encoding neurons and overall brain activity was much reduced.
This research reveals an extra factor besides attention, novelty and emotional impact in determining what makes something memorable: timing. Neurons always spike in response to new images and experiences. But when the spikes happen to coincide with the theta rhythm, this coordinated electrical activity alters the brain's synapses, those specialized molecular machines between neurons, enabling memories to form.
These subtle findings help to decode the mechanics of memory—how three pounds of viscous tissue produces a mind possessed of innumerable impressions, recollections and knowledge accumulated over the course of decades.


text: hey guys... i wanted to see if anyone here had an issue with their carpc freezing out of complete nowhere when running map monkey 1.1.3. I have had this problem with D3 1.1.3B3 as well. Im running the Deluo GPS (Serial->USB) and my pc is not overheating. I cant pinpoint whats causing the crash/freeze, all i know is that when Map Monkey is running (even in the background), my computer randomly freezes and i have to stop my car and reboot somehow if i wanna get it back up and running. (not fun) .... anyone having these issues or perhaps if NM is reading this, he can offer some suggestions to troubleshoot this. Thanks again :)