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Several cities host polar bear swims/ plunges, etc... where participants showcase their love of winter (and their bravery) by plunging into icy cold water in as little or as much clothing as they dare. I think Edmonton would draw a courageous crowd if we held this in front of City Hall (once the temperatures return to zero).
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A lot of European cities host outdoor Christmas markets in the winter with traditional Christmas foods, hand made gifts, communal areas (e.g. bonfires/ licensed venues) and entertainment/ activities. I think an Edmonton version of this in Churchill Square would provide a much needed kick off to celebrate winter outside and downtown in the heart of Edmonton at this time of year - even if just for the business lunch crowd. ...more »


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Movie News After Dark: Frankenweenie, Dredd and Plenty of Bond, James Bond
- By Neil Miller
- @rejects
- October 5, 2012
What is Movie News After Dark? It's a nightly movie news column that's taking it easy on this Friday evening. Expect fun, happy thoughts heading your way in the news rundown below… We begin this relaxed Friday evening edition of MNAD with a shot from the Frankenweenie art exhibition currently going down...
Note: The following article assumes that you've seen Looper and contains massive spoilers. "I don't want to talk about time travel," says Bruce Willis to Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Looper. "If we start talking about it, then we're going to be here all day talking about it, making diagrams with straws!"...
Movie News After Dark: The Dark Knight Returns, Extended Hobbit, Bond Music, John Hughes and Cooking with Christopher Walken
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- October 4, 2012
What is Movie News After Dark? It's a nightly movie news column that does not need an animated continuation. It just goes on and on with very live action. We begin this evening with a shot from The Dark Knight Returns: Part 2, the animated follow-up to The Dark Knight Returns....
Editor's Introduction: Normally this feature is created by diving into the deep end of interviews, but when Rian Johnson agreed to write an entry himself, it was an opportunity impossible to pass up. With only three features under his belt, Johnson is already a force to be reckoned with. Emerging onto the...
Ah yes. It's that time of the year, folks. The only month where it's slightly less mean to jump out at a child while wearing a clown mask. The vandal's holiday… cretin Christmas. It really is a special time for all of us horror movie fans. So let's light some...
Movie News After Dark: The Presidential Debate, Prometheus Spoilers, Looper Loops and Mad Men
- By Neil Miller
- @rejects
- October 3, 2012
What is Movie News After Dark? It's a nightly movie news column that isn't so political. Unless you consider watching the Presidential Debate and imagining the candidates as Muppets to be political… We begin this evening with the nation's top story — no, not Saturday Night Live — the Presidential Debate....
The Many Movies Inside 'Looper'
- By Landon Palmer
- @landonspeak
- October 2, 2012
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Looper. Several hours after seeing Rian Johnson's Looper, I find the film still rattling in my head. Not because certain moments have resonated with me, nor because the möbius strip sci-fi structure has motivated any existential introspection. Instead, I felt surprisingly conflicted by Looper,...
The Best of Fantastic Fest 2012: Our Favorites of the Festival and The 2012 Death Squad Awards
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- @rejectnation
- October 1, 2012
It's not hard to see that Fantastic Fest has come and gone for another year. If many a film fan could find a way to "wear black" on Twitter, they'd do so in mourning of the end of another great year of hardcore geekery. It was a diverse year for...
The Biggest Question at the End of 'Looper' Is…
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- September 30, 2012
Now that Looper is a decent hit — especially in China — we can anticipate that people will be discussing the movie around the web, the water cooler and wherever else we talk about movies these days. Much of the conversation will be devoted to the usual with the time...
What is Really the Best Sci-Fi Film Since 'The Matrix'?
- By Christopher Campbell
- @thefilmcynic
- September 29, 2012
Rian Johnson's new film, Looper, is a pretty awesome time travel flick, one with as many elements that are clever and original as there are purposefully derivative and influenced. It's the kind of smart and stylish sci-fi cinema we expect every once in a while on the festival circuit, like...
Joe (the conveniently similarly named Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a Looper, and no, sadly, that has nothing whatsoever to do with stunt piloting. What his profession actually entails is the assassination of targets sent back through time by an organized crime syndicate; the only entity to have access to the highly...
Reject Recap: 'Looper' Saves Studio Sci-Fi, 'Dredd' Sequel Suggestion and 36 Fantastic Fest Reviews
Jesus H. Franco, it's been a busy week here at Film School Rejects. Mainly because of Fantastic Fest, of course. Since the last Reject Recap, we've posted 36 reviews of films from the event, plus six interviews, including one with Tim Burton. And we're not done. The festival may be...
In Honor of 'Looper': Bruce Willis Fighting Bruce Willis [Video]
- By Scott Beggs
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- September 28, 2012
In Rian Johnson's Looper, our old pal Bruce Willis plays a man who is sent back in time to be shot by himself. Twisty? Yes, but it all comes through in the wash judging by the high amount of high praise the sci-fi flick is getting. In honor of the...
'Looper' Composer Nathan Johnson Talks Sound Manipulation, Customization and Creative Freedom
Out today, Looper tells the story of mafia hit-man Joe (Joesph Gordon-Levitt) who spends his days offing victims, but there's a twist here: these victims are sent to him from the future. And when he comes face-to-face with his future self (Bruce Willis), things really start to unravel. Part sci-fi, part action,...
Fantastic Fest: Rian Johnson Talks 'Looper,' 'Back to the Future' and What Happened to France
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- September 27, 2012
Rian Johnson is a director you're going to want to get to know, if you don't already. He's one of the more innovative filmmakers around and his previous films, Brick and Brothers Bloom have been triumphs of independent cinema. If nothing else, Brick showed us that there is still life...
Nathan Johnson's 'Looper' Score: A Revelation That Plays on Repeat
Unlike most films, Looper starts off with only ambient noise – the sound of the wind and the rustling of leaves fill the space, but as we look upon a stone faced man wielding a gun these every day sounds we rarely notice take on a new feeling and become...
Movie News After Dark: Mondo Prints, Cinderella Sketches, And Dark Knight Discs
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- September 26, 2012
While today certainly feels like a slow news day, the Internet has provided a ton of great links to share with you all. I've felt compelled to keep my links strictly film related over the past couple of days, but I think you'll appreciate some of the geeky, non-film stuff...
Could 'Looper' Star Joseph Gordon-Levitt Make For a Better Young Bruce Willis Than Even Bruce Willis Did?
- By Nathan Adams
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- September 19, 2012
Rian Johnson's upcoming Looper is clearly filled with thought-provoking elements, but certainly one of its more interesting aspects has to be the way in which Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are playing the same character, but at different ages. Much ado has been made about the effects work used to...
The 12 Must See Movies of Fantastic Fest 2012
- By FSR Staff
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- September 18, 2012
As you well know, Fantastic Fest is the one. There are plenty of fine film festivals that take place in many fine locations around the globe. They all show movies, many of which end up on our top ten lists at the end of the year. But no matter what...
Movie News After Dark: Dredd, You're Next, Oogieloves, Skyfall, Looper Art and Fantastic Fest Bumpers
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- September 14, 2012
What is Movie News After Dark? It's a nightly news column that doesn't always have something to say. But when it does, the geeks of the world listen. We begin this evening with some great DREDD concept art found by the folks at Comic Book Movie, picked up via Germain Lussier's ever-excellent...

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I have a patch that fixes this issue - will post once the patch is cleaned up.
Ok, I have both SQL Server 2005 and 2008 so will test and verify once you post the patch
This patch resolves this issue - all manifest tests pass. Please confirm.
What environment did you run the tests in?
I got the patches applied fine but I have been unable to test so far because our corporate network is so locked down I can't access the SQL Server instances on my local VM (we run OS X as our main OS) or on the remote servers to which I have access.
This means I will probably not get to test till the weekend when I have time to test at home and can freely expose my SQL Server instances
Verified and applied, will leave this open for a couple of days in case this impacts anybody using other databases (which it shouldn't AFAICT)
Patch was applied a couple of days ago as previously commented


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Healthcare products giant Johnson & Johnson ( JNJ ) on Monday saw its rating and price target boosted by analysts at Wells Fargo.
The firm upgraded JNJ from "Market Perform" to "Outperform" and raised its valuation range from $67-68 to $70-72. That new range implies up to a 12% upside to the stock's Friday closing price of $64.07.
A Wells Fargo analyst commented, "We downgraded JNJ to Market Perform on 12/9/2010 because we saw significant risk of a second plant shut down in JNJ's Consumer business. However, we believe that JNJ is poised to outperform over the next 12 months because (1) the Consumer division risks have been mitigated by the consent decree: (2) the company plans to launch 4 major new drugs in H2 2011-our favorable view of the pipeline and blockbuster opportunities remain unchanged; (3) potential acquisition of Synthes represents upside to estimates; and (4) the MD&D business should benefit from easier comps going forward."
Johnson & Johnson shares rose 35 cents, or +0.6%, in premarket trading Monday.
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The Queen of Versailles
A fall from grace that can be described as an American liberal's dream come true.
"That's it baby, when you've got it, flaunt it! Flaunt it!" So says Zero Mostel's Max Bialystock in Mel Brooks's The Producers (1968). The sentiment, though not unprecedented, was not characteristic of the rich in America theretofore. Old money here was nowhere near so old as old money in Europe, but it had something of the same disdain for vulgar ostentation. Like so many other traditional beliefs and attitudes, that one was on its way out by the end of the go-go Sixties when The Producers was made, but this has never prevented artists, writers, and film-makers from affecting a similar attitude of cultural superiority to those they characterize as the latter-day nouveau riche, often for political reasons. I take it that some such impulse lay behind Lauren Greenfield's Queen of Versailles, a documentary about a Florida billionaire named David Siegel and his trophy wife, Jackie, who were building what was to be, at 90,000 square feet, the largest private home in America before the crash of 2008 more or less wiped out Mr. Siegel's time-share empire.
But in the course of patronizing and making fun of this couple and their brood of spoiled children, Ms. Greenfield must have been surprised to discover that the precipitous decline in their fortunes had made her subjects almost sympathetic -- and her movie is all the better for it. It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good, they say, and Mr. Siegel's misfortune at least had the benefit of making The Queen of Versailles into something more interesting than it would have been as the mere act of humorous condescension that the footage shot before the good times ended suggests it was intended to be. Jackie, in particular, with her pneumatic chest and shopaholic ways, is transformed from a figure of fun into one of pathos. But condescension is built into this kind of movie, which is what makes the sympathy, when it comes a surprise -- and something against the grain of the medium. Not quite transformed into Schadenfreude, it lingers in the air as a modern-day "Vanity of Human Wishes" might do, if one could imagine such a thing in our politicized age.
Unfortunately, the critical reaction to the movie shows how poorly equipped we are nowadays to think otherwise than politically about such subjects as The Queen of Versailles raises -- mostly inadvertently, it must be said, since the authors are also prisoners of politics. At our first introduction to David Siegel, for example, Ms. Greenfield shows him arrogantly asking himself, "Why did I build the biggest house in America? Because I could." Then, with a nudge and a wink he tells her about how he was supposedly responsible for the election of George W. Bush in 2000, though he would rather not say how, since what he did was "not necessarily legal." That has him placed all right. Maybe it's also what led Justin Chang of Variety to write of "Lauren Greenfield's often hilarious, mostly infuriating chronicle of the rise and fall of one of America's most obscenely wealthy families." It's hard to think of what else he might have found infuriating or obscene about poor Mr. Siegel's misfortune.
Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post writes that "it would be so easy to demonize Jackie Siegel" -- easy for her, I suppose -- "but by the end of the film, with the animals dying, her house descending into unkempt chaos and her marriage fraying, viewers can't help but feel confounded sympathy for a woman who so willingly bought into the American Dream at its most perversely distorted. Attention must be paid, even to those who so outlandishly overspent." Ms. Hornaday's glib use of "American Dream" together with "perversely distorted" doubles the irony of her criticism back on her. She doesn't see that "the American Dream," at least journalistically, is never used except ironically anymore, and it's already been "perversely distorted" out of all recognition when applied to a Louis XIV-scale palace that can hardly be identified as distinctively American.
But to me what is most striking thing about the movie is how those from whom one might least expect it stick by the stricken mogul. His son by an earlier marriage who has day-to-day running of the business tells the camera early on, during the high volume days on the sales floor, that he and his father are "not close" and have what is essentially "a business relationship." Yet when all his other business associates have deserted him, he insists he is sticking by his dad. Jackie, too, though she shyly admits to being rather pleased that David has been to a degree "humbled' by his troubles -- not humbled enough, some will say -- likewise insists that she is in it for the long haul, no matter what happens. Looking on the bright side of life, she says that the "stress has made us closer, stronger. . . [It's true] what they say, when you're down, you find out who your friends are."
David, however, has not been so blessed in his troubles. So devastated is he by his losses that he tells Ms Greenfield's camera: "Nothing makes me happy these days; I will be happy when I find a solution to -- " and he looks around him -- "This." The key moment in the film comes when David is asked, "Do you get strength from your marriage?"
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Most players aren't picky when it comes to ballpark food
Ballplayers spend much more than just the three hours of the game every night at the ballpark.
In between bullpen sessions, batting practice, film study and everything else that goes along with being a professional baseball player, the players have to find something to eat.
For the RedHawks and other professional players, that usually means hitting the training table spread.
With players from all over the world, it can be hard to please everyone.
Tulsa native Dallas Keuchel isn't too picky, although his tastes vary depending on whether he's pitching that day or not.
"If I'm not throwing, I'll eat just about anything," he said. "But if I'm pitching, it's just usually a turkey sandwich or something else light."
The best training table food in the minor leagues usually comes at the expense of big leaguers down on a rehab assignment.
When Cubs outfielder Marlon Byrd had to go down to Iowa for a few games last year, he treated the team to Fleming's Prime Steakhouse.
"It's exciting," RedHawks outfielder Brad Snyder said. "It was ridiculously good."
While many of the players said steak was their favorite clubhouse food on the rare occasion it made an appearance, outfielder Fernando Martinez isn't picky.
"There's so much food that is good," Martinez said. "I don't have a problem with most anything.
"There's a couple of friends I have in baseball that have trouble finding something to eat in the clubhouse sometimes."
P.F. Chang's is another favorite among ballplayers — both catered to the clubhouse and as a place to hit up on the road.
Things are a bit different now than when Leon Roberts began his minor league career in 1972 and broke into the bigs two years later.
Clubhouse food was, much of the time, the cheapest food available to feed the large group.
"When I first came up, they'd throw two loaves of bread out there and a bunch of sandwich meat and maybe some mustard," said Roberts, who spent 11 years in the majors, including the 1976 and '77 seasons with the Houston Astros. "It was either that or a bucket of fried chicken."
Players do occasionally get time for a meal away from the ballpark when on the road.
In the Pacific Coast League, there are two clear favorites among road cities to eat — Memphis and Las Vegas.
"I really enjoy Memphis," RedHawks outfielder Collin DeLome said. "There are so many great places to eat there."
Manager Tony DeFrancesco's favorite stop is Vegas.
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This morning, Casey and I attended a briefing about child nutrition reauthorization that was sponsored by Feeding America, a network of over 200 food banks that operate throughout the country. I have to say, it was probably the most disheartening 45 minutes I have experienced during my time as an intern at NETWORK. The briefing consisted of a panel of three food bank directors: one from Tucson, AZ, one from East Haven, CT, and one from southeastern Michigan. These individuals came from diverse areas of the U.S. but all shared the same problem and concern – they need more money to run their programs and ensure enough children are getting the proper nutritious meals they need. Sitting in the briefing, my emotions went back and forth between sadness because so many thousands of children in the U.S. go without food every day, and anger at the fact that members of Congress would vote for laws that literally take food out of children's mouths. As Bill Carnegie of the Community Food Bank of Tucson said, "We are fighting a war to get the children fed."
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It looks better to me. City buildings should always set the example by preserving the historic character of an area.
Hey, went from Black to White-call the ACLU!!!!!!!I smell discrimination. Hee,hee,hee.
Well if this is better I'm Santa Clause! If this is what it takes to silence all of the small minded wannabes so that a new library can be built then I think it's the most beautiful building ever.
It really has a historical look and should blend well with the eclectic architectural style of that area.
Better, maybe. Ugly, definitely.
Will this library include bunk beds for the vagrants of Augusta to crash?
Just build it !!!! Oh and your right biggdawg...hope they will keep the "non-readers" out .
What's historical about this design? There's a slight (very slight) nod toward the art deco design style with the corner design but the rest of the building is simply modern construction. There appears to be no particular design style in mind...it's not Gothic, Victorian, Georgian, Classic, neoclassic or any other recognized style. We needed a historical preservation commission to select a completely unhistorical style?
Why bother most of Augusta is too ignorant to know how to read or would bother to use it if they do. Hee,hee,hee,hee.
Come on, Mojo. It's just a library. It needs to be boxy to hold the books. It needs to be functional, not pretty.
Those little trees along the sidewalk will get bigger as time goes by unless the drought kills them.
Just build the library already. The Historical Society made all that noise and got very little action in return. THe building did not change that much in outward appearance. It is still very modern and boxy in design.
$22 million dollars for a library that will turn out to be just as bad as the one that is there now?!? I think the money needs to go to tearing down more of the abandoned buildings in the downtown area! Everytime I go through downtown, realize I said go through, because I never stop, I just find it digusting and awful looking! Downtown looks dirty and run-down! Augusta has a LONG way to go! Obviously Savannah and Charleston are doing something right, and tourist dollars are proof of that!
Savannah and Charleston actually have a history. What a load of "you know what" by local developers and their politico buddies. Augusta's history centers on May 1970. " A time that will forever paint the portrait of Augusta".
Savannah and Charleston had something to work with, a "sound reputation". Sound leadership, not a circus of idiots and "wanabees".
Much a do about nothing. Ever town has a library, so Augusta has a library. We have a jail, a courthouse, a civic center. All are "management nightmares".
"Tear down paradise and put up a parking lot". "When you are low and life is making you lonely, you can always go, DOWNTOWN".
Libraries are a relic of the past.
Charleston was a rundown, dilapidated town not too many years ago. They also built an ugly pink walled library on Marion Square which they later tore down completely and replaced with a historic design. Augusta is coming around, but the keeping the historic character of the town is paramount. The Charleston Preservation (Historic) Society has lots of legal power to enforce matters these days. Ausgusta's doesn't have that power.
They saved the toaster! Changed it from all black to white and black. But, I believe the trend is for stainless steel. Change the toaster to stainless steel!
The architect, probably a C graduate of some third-tier design school, must have lost his feng shui in the rush to deposit his commission check. This building, especially the Dantesque entrance, instead of saying "Come in and check us out" rather warns "Keep out."
My husband and I have an on-going joke. When we ride through Augusta, we count how many abandoned buildings we see....the number keeps going up! Shocking!!
Loved the comments deekster...tooooo funny!
That is just another ugly inappropriate building to add to downtown. I love going to the library, I guess I will just have to keep my eyes closed as I approach. Here is a question, did the designer even go to the building site to see what the area was like? You can't tell by looking if they did. A new sore thumb.
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My prediction-they will spend more money and time deciding on what to build than actually building the dang thing. My advice:Build it underground, then place a nice park and parking lot at ground level and a modest entrance. hee.hee,hee.
Just sit down, shut up, and build it already!
I like it Bizarro, perhaps the dog park can go there!
I, like many others, am thrilled with the new design. It is going to be a beautiful landmark in downtown Augusta. I predict that it is going to be one of the most loved buildings in our community; not only for the way that it looks, but also for the role that it plays.
I think augusta could be a six flags and some people would still complain. Mayor deke is doing a great job for this city. Downtown now has a library, whites building, kroc center, tee center, watermark condos, and a hotel/condo project on the common.
The new design looks great. It is not Tara but then Scarlett's been dead for a long time. The new library will be for people who are alive and can READ. It will be a tremendous improvement over the old gas station and will look a lot better than the headquarters of the Augusta Chronicle.


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Warren Spahn Award Gala organizers announced Monday 12 winners of the Ferguson Jenkins Awards, which are presented annually to the state's top high school baseball and softball players and coaches.
The baseball winners include Cascia Hall's Bryce Carter, Deer Creek's Caleb Eldridge, Carl Albert's Gavin Lavalley, Edmond Santa Fe's Quin Walbergh and Owasso's Braden Webb.
Softball winners include Southmoore's Katelyn Brown, Sand Springs' Mallory Collins, Piedmont's Brè Davis, Westmoore's Destinie Lookout and Carl Albert's Abby Meador.
The two coaches honored are Deer Creek baseball coach Ron Moore and Southmoore softball coach Jeff Small.
The athletic winners are selected based on athletic and scholastic achievement.
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I am watching the show right now.... AND let me just say.. Rafe, the more I listen to you the more I can't stand you. Did I hear him right? Getting on to Will for not letting Nick know he was the babys father and that the babys father had the right to know??? I swear he's the BIGGEST hypocrite on this show. He shows it time and time again. Why harp on Will? The kid is just being there for his friend. And Gabby really should of just talked to Will instead of running off with Nick. OK it's back on.
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I'm glad Gabby told Nick the truth but why did he yell at her. If it wasn't his why did he think she needed to tell him if she wasn't going to keep it. Nick is an idiot.
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I officially hate Chad. He over acts, and I HATE his hair cut and this hate he has for Gabby is going to go over board. Does he have nothing else in his life going on? Friends? A job? Anything? He is pathetic. I wish he would leave. I'm embarassed that he is a Dimera.
Yeah, Rafe just gets on my last nerve.
Funny how Marlena is acting like Sami.. All those years of preaching to her about trust, right and wrong doesn't seem to apply to good ole Doc. She probably doesn't know what a tablet even is. lol
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And Kate today? She acted like she was acting for broadway.. What was that?
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My favorite line EVER, "You...enjoy...your....cannoli!"!!! Said by Kate with lips jerking and nose flaring after signing divorce papers. Such an awesome parting line!
Rafe is a turd. I have never not liked him but today he just needs to be slapped. IT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!! GABBY IS AN ADULT!!
yeah, she is an adult.. I don't get it. And when Rafe said, y'all don't be making any plans with out talking to me about it first.. Huh? Why? All he's ever done is worship Sami.. Break the law for Sami.. Try and Keep EJ from Sami and the kids he mentally thinks are his. He doens't ever know what Gabby is doing because he's never around her. Rafe is gonna go out and buy some home thats large enough for Sami and her kids yet, his sister came to town as a kid and has NEVER been offered a home from him. GMAB. Can't stand him.
Kate was super cheesy today.
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I'm loving Marlena. Shocked she sent that fake text. That's hilarious!
Like the sands through the hourglass....so are the Days of our Lives board at BBC.
Yeah Chad is super annoying, and Rafe is too! So the first thing that Rafe does after he leaves Sami and after he learns all the Gabby stuff is bring flowers to Sami's office??? How about checking on your sis? I'm sure this will be where Rafe finds out that EJ is Sami's boss and EJ and Rafe will have a confrontation.
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After Sharon:Emergency surgery appears to have stabilized the condition of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, but all indications are that he won't return to office. Deputy Ehud Olmert will likely continue to lead the country until the March elections, the first involving Sharon's moderate new Kadima party.
Many praise the man. "We used to hear a good deal about 'third way' politics," writes attorney Paul Mirengoff at conservative syndicate Power Line. "Ariel Sharon actually came up with a third way -- a policy that consists neither of resistance to all Israeli territorial concessions and to a Palestinian state nor of concessions made in negotiations with the Palestinians. Sharon's way is to withdraw without Palestinian involvement from territory deemed too difficult or costly to defend, thereby creating a de facto Palestinian state with borders of Israel's choosing, and to build a fence betweent the two states." Mystery novelist and blog entrepreneur Roger L. Simon also believes that Sharon's moderate policies point the way forward. "I'm rooting for Olmert and Kadima and the legacy of Sharon," he writes. "I can't see how it's possible not to."
"For all of his past, and the dubious nature also of some of his present policies, he was the man who opened up a realistic possibility of a peace in the years ahead," praises Carl Bildt, former prime minister of Sweden, at Bildt Comments. "Now everything suddenly looks very uncertain. Can anyone assemble the strength and determination that will be required to take Israel to a realistic deal for peace?" he asks. "It should be noted that things are getting increasingly complicated on the Palestinian side as well…. Turmoil seems to be the order of the day in Gaza."
At Informed Comment, Irvine Professor Mark LeVine writes that, on the contrary, neither the end of the Sharon era nor the upcoming Israeli and Palestinian elections will have much effect on the future of the nation or the region. "This is because for all intents and purposes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is over, and Israel has won, decisively," he writes. "Indeed, since the beginning of the 1990s the whole point of the Oslo peace process, followed by the…low intensity war that began in September 2000, have been to convince and then compel Palestinians to accept that not even their most minimal demands will be met, whether through negotiations or violence."
A number of others worry, particularly, over implications for Iran. "That scheduled Israeli elections happen to roughly coincide with the expected fulfillment of Iran's nuclear ambitions (March) should get the entire planet's attention," exhorts Randian Christian Kobayashi Maru. To fail to address the Iranian arms buildup would be a costly case of denial, warns the New Yorker behind ShrinkWrapped. At Dr. Sanity, psychiatrist Pat Santy strikes a similar note of caution. "With Sharon out of the current picture, the Iranians must be chortling with glee and hoping that their way is clear to proceed--without even having to worry about Israel's response," she writes.
Teacher and Israel supporter Meryl Yourish complains that many observers are getting hysterical about the future of the country. "Let's be realistic: Israel isn't going to disappear," she assures. "The IDF and the IAF and the intelligence services remain. The Knesset remains. The Cabinet remains. The people of Israel remain. And most important, the will of the people of Israel remains." At Israpundit, however, David Gerstman writes that the shape of Israeli politics may have already, significantly changed and predicts that the new Kadima party will quickly lose support without Sharon.
At the Huffington Post, putative blog magnate Arianna Huffington recalls a conversation with Ehud Olmert in June. Now the acting prime minister, Olmert embraced disengagement, she writes, "out of a deep conviction that this was the only way for Israel to achieve security and a lasting peace. … Unlike so many of our political class, Olmert is able to maintain two competing thoughts at the same time: that withdrawing from land captured in the 1967 war would be both really, really, really painful, and really, really, really necessary."
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One has to hope Colorado's fiscal situation has hit bottom, because additional shortfalls of this magnitude are tough to contemplate.
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Higher education has taken a hit. The state is delaying the opening of a new prison to save the cost of hiring staff. Social services have been squeezed. State workers have been forced to take unpaid furloughs.
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The Ritter administration says the state can make the reductions, despite Amendment 23, by revamping what are called the "factors." The factors are a formula by which the state equalizes education funding, making allowances for districts that operate in expensive parts of the state, or those that have high percentages of at-risk children. Ritter proposes cutting the cost-of-living factor, but creating a new "equity" factor so that no district is disproportionately cut. We have to wonder whether the cuts will land him in court.
Ritter also is proposing to suspend 13 of the state's 100 special tax credits and exemptions, a move that will generate nearly $132 million in revenue but also some heat from critics.
Some of the exemptions are pretty arcane. For example, the governor proposes the purchase of non-essential containers - items passed on to consumers by food vendors - ought to be taxed. We're talking about paper napkins and bags. It's obscure, but worth $2.1 million annually.
He also wants to tax soda pop and candy, which may be tough to swallow for some, but those aren't essential food items.
Other exemptions with the potential for broader impact include temporarily capping enterprise zone investment tax credits. Another would revoke the tax exemption for energy use in industry and manufacturing, but only for two years. The governor has wisely chosen to impose a time limit on most of these changes in an effort to gain support from the business community, which should expect to share in solving the state's budget woes.
We know lawmakers will be tempted to end more exemptions to raise more revenue to help K-12, but they need to be very careful about not damaging the state's chances of economic recovery.
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Leticia runs a retail shop in Kisasi, one of the Kampala city suburbs, and that is how she earns a living. She uses public transport to and from shopping. She receives about 35 customers a day and sells to all categories of people on a retail basis. She works seven days a week and rent for her business premises is 30,000 per month. She has done this business for ten years now and is faced with the challenge of competition, as all her neighbors deal in retail businesses.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Darin Erstad drove in four runs, and Jason Dickson won his seventh straight decision Sunday night to spark Anaheim to a 10-7 victory against the Texas Rangers, the Angels' 18th win in 21 games.
Erstad's three-run double keyed a five-run second against Matt Perisho (0-2), and the Angels scored five more runs in the third to take a 10-0 lead.
By winning two of three from the second-place Rangers, the Angels opened a 2 1/2-game lead in the American League West.
At 44-29, the Angels matched their 1982 club for the best 73-game record in franchise history.
Dickson (8-4), pitching with a broken index finger on his throwing hand, allowed seven hits and four runs in six innings. He retired the first 11 before the Rangers got four straight hits with two outs in the fourth, including Will Clark's RBI-double and Ivan Rodriguez's two-run single.
The Rangers closed within 10-7 in the ninth before Troy Percival got his 23rd save in 25 tries.
Juan Gonzalez got his major league-leading 89th RBI for the Rangers.
Erstad's bases-loaded double, a bases-loaded walk by Tim Salmon and Cecil Fielder's force-play grounder gave the Angels a 5-0 lead in the second.
The Angels added five more in an ugly third inning. Gary DiSarcina and Jim Edmonds had RBI-singles, and Erstad hit a run-scoring grounder. Another run scored on a bases-loaded walk to Damon Mashore and one came in on third baseman Fernando Tatis' error.
For the second straight game, the Rangers threw an Angels discard against Anaheim. Perisho, who made eight starts for Anaheim last season, fared even worse than had Todd Van Poppel, an 8-3 loser Saturday.
In 2 2/3 innings, Perisho's earned-run average actually rose from 23.14 to 27.00 as he allowed 10 hits and 10 runs - nine earned - with five walks and one strikeout.
After Perisho was gone, and with reliever Al Levine restoring order with 3 1/3 shutout innings, the Rangers made a run at Anaheim.
Rusty Greer's RBI-single in the fifth made it 10-4, and Greer's run-scoring single against Mike Holtz and Gonzalez's sacrifice fly against Shigetoshi Hasegawa made it 10-6 in the seventh.
Dickson suffered the minor fracture to his right index finger on Wednesday when the bat slipped out of his hands during batting practice in preparation for the resumption of interleague play.
Sunday's game ended the Rangers' streak of 252 consecutive televised games - on Arlington or national TV - since Sept. 11, 1996; it was Texas' only 1998 game not being aired.
Texas played its 13th consecutive game without stealing a base. Contributing to that drought is a 2-for-29 slump by leadoff hitter Tom Goodwin, second in the AL with 23 steals.
Anaheim has charged into the AL West lead with three-fifths of its starting rotation - Ken Hill, Jack McDowell, Allen Watson - on the disabled list. But replacements Omar Olivares (5-2), Steve Sparks (2-0) and rookie Jarrod Washburn (3-0) have gone a combined 10-2.
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From conga drums to guitars, keyboards, woodwinds and strings, instruments are playing an increasingly central role in Conservative worship. But the practice is not without controversy. More ▸
Religious Jewish teens are far less likely to attempt suicide than their secular Jewish counterparts, a new study finds. More ▸
Nearly three-quarters of Americans think religion is losing its influence in American life, according to a new survey. More ▸
For a sixth-grader in a Texas town with few Jews, attending social events at church with friends was no big deal. But Dina Gachman's thinking changed when they sang about Jesus at a friend's home. More ▸
A project to reinforce the ground beneath the only synagogue at the Auschwitz memorial and state museum will begin this spring. More ▸
If Bear Grylls needed a kippah clip, he'd choose this one. The LeatherDOS, designed by Holon Institute of Technology student Yaacov Goldberg, doesn't stop at fastening your skullcap to your hair. [[READMORE]] The product features a knife on one side, a ruler on the other plus three screwdriver heads, a wrench and a trolley coin… More ▸
More than one-quarter of Americans believe God plays a role in determining sports outcomes, according to a survey by the Public Religion Research Institute. More ▸
An Orthodox woman was named the president of a transdenominational rabbinical school in Southern California. More ▸
Jews are "enemies of the Church," the head of a radical Catholic sect said in Canada. More ▸
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