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Tower of Guns is the Rogue-Like Doom Clone You Never Knew You Wanted - PreviewJake Weston, posted on 12 June 2013 / 1,387 Views
Big AAA-shooters are all the rage these days, with Call of Duty: Ghosts, Battlefield 4, Titanfall, and Destiny grabbing all the attention on the show floor today at E3. However, sometimes you just want an old-school experience, one that harkens back to classic shooters such as Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein. Thankfully, this year's Indiecade has offered such a game, and that game is Tower of Guns.
Developed by Terrible Posture Games,Tower of Guns is a fast-paced, twitch first-person shooter that immediately evokes nostalgia for the '90s classics. Levels take place in foreboding yet wide open industrial interiors, almost immediately beginning with a relentless assault from a wide variety of robots and other death machines meant to kill you as efficiently as possible. Unlike today's cover-based first-person shooters, however, Tower of Guns relies on quick movements, solid reflexes and lots of strafing to make it out alive.
Tower of Guns' retro sensibilities were enough to sell me on the product, but its rogue-like design elements and randomly generated levels and enemy placement add a whole new layer of uniqueness and replayability. Like other rogue-likes such as Binding of Isaac, FTL, and Dwarf Fortress, death is permanent in Tower of Guns, prompting the player to restart with a whole new set of levels to try it all over again. Terrible Posture Games' head Joe Mirabello was quick to clarify that the levels are not fully randomly generated, instead composited from a selection of 30 already designed maps, but the levels felt different and distinct enough to keep me engaged during my time with the game.
One of the most refreshing things about Tower of Guns is its challenge. This is not a game that holds you by the hand. At first, I grew frustrated at the multiple deaths I faced early on in each playthrough, but I quickly found myself not only growing accustomed to the game's high level of challenge, but having fun in my failure, and pushing myself to try even harder.
This was easy to do with the wide variety of weapons and perks to choose from at the beginning of each play-through. My demo only had three weapons available: a standard pistol, a standard shotgun, and a gun that shoots buzz-saws (think Dead Space). However, the final product will feature 10 weapons to choose from, all of which can be upgraded to be more powerful and gain new abilities in each playthrough. On top of that, second "attributes" can be found and attached to weapons throughout the game. For example, a shotgun's "scatter" attribute can be applied to a pistol, keeping the pistol's range but adding the power of the shotgun. I didn't get the chance to see all the combinations of weapon attributes the game has to offer (though the official description states that you can have a "rocket-launching shotgun"), but depending on how it's implemented, this simple mechanic can provide near endless variety to the gunplay in the game.
Tower of Guns is currently being developed exclusively for Windows, though Mirabello hopes to be able to port it to Mac if the project proves to be a success. Mirabello also stated he'd like to explore the possibility of bringing the game to home consoles in the future, but it's not a focus at the moment. Of course, one of the most revered aspects of '90s shooters is classic deathmatch, but Tower of Guns is being developed as an offline, single-player experience. "I think [multiplayer] is a bit over my head at the moment," said Mirabello, who is developing the game all by himself. However, Mirabello did not rule out perhaps bringing multiplayer of some form to the game post-release (although it's unlikely).
I've grown cynical of first-person shooters over the last few years, but Tower of Guns has reignited my enthusiasm for the genre. Tower of Guns is currently only about 20% complete, according to Mirabello, but is currently available for pre-order and is playable in its "pre-pre-pre-alpha state" from Terrible Posture's website. Also, the game is currently up on Steam Greenlight.
Tower of Guns currently does not have a set release date, but Mirabello does have a deadline at least: "I plan on getting it done before the new Thief game comes out. So I won't feel bad when I stop everything to start binging for four days on that."
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Hot Cocoa Cake
This recipe is for TeamSugar member 7kimba7 who requested that I add in some more dessert recipes! Well, I have the perfect one in mind. It's the perfect wintertime treat and great for those days you want to snuggle under a blanket with a treat in hand. And slow cooking makes for an incredibly moist and delicious dessert, just like this one! Serve with a little peppermint and yummmmmm....
Slow Cooker Hot Cocoa Cake
From Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade Slow Cooker Recipes
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Makes about 10 servings
Cooking Spray (Sandra Lee recommends butter-flavor)
2 cups milk
1 box (18.25 ounce) chocolate cake mix
1 1/2 cups water
3 large eggs
1/3 cup canola oil
1 box (5 ounce) chocolate cook and serve pudding mix
Miniature marshmallows
Chcoolate flavored syrup
1. Coat a 5-quart slow cooker with cooking spray; set aside. In a small saucepan, over high heat, heat milk until almost boiling. Remove from heat; set aside.
2. In a large mixing bowl, combine cake mix, water, eggs, and canola oil. Using a handheld electric mixer, beat on medium speed for 2 minutes, occasionally scraping down the side of the bowl.
3. Transfer batter to prepared slow cooker. Sprinkle pudding mix over cake batter. Slow pour in hot milk.
4. Cover and cook on Low for 4 hours. (Do not lift lid for first 3 hours of cooking.)
5. Turn off slow cooker. Sprinkle cake with 1 cup of the marshmallows. Cover; let stand for 5 minutes to allow marshmallows to melt slightly.
6. Serve warm by scooping out cake. Top with additional marshmallows and chocolate-flavored syrup.
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Head coach Brett Nelligan of the Maryland gymnastics team announced this week the commitments of four future Terrapin gymnasts to attend the University of Maryland next fall.
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The Maryland gymnastics team celebrated its season and seniors at the Terps' annual team banquet last Sunday. Student-athletes, coaches and support staff gathered to commemorate the team's 2016 season.
Sophomore Abbie Epperson recorded a 9.850 in the uneven bars to lead the Maryland gymnastics team's representation at the NCAA Athens Regional at Stegeman Coliseum Saturday.
Six members of the Maryland gymnastics team will travel to Athens, Ga., to compete in the 2016 NCAA Regionals Saturday at 4 p.m.
18 student-athletes from the University of Maryland men's basketball, women's basketball, gymnastics and wrestling programs were named Big Ten Winter All-Academic selections in a release made by the conference offices Wednesday afternoon.
Six members of the Maryland gymnastics team earned bids to compete in the 2016 NCAA Regionals, as announced by the NCAA Monday. Senior Kathy Tang, junior Emily Brauckmuller, sophomores Abbie Epperson, Dominiquea Trotter and Evelyn Nee and freshman Macey Roberts will travel to the Athens Regional.
The Maryland gymnastics team posted its highest team score on floor of the season at the Big Ten Championships Saturday. The Terps finished fourth in the early session with a 194.025.
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Incoming Maryland gymnastics freshman Kirsten Peterman was named to the Canadian National Team to participate at the 2016 Pacific Rim Championships this April, as announced by Gymnastics Canada Thursday.
Hi Terp Fans! The GymTerps spent the week preparing for B1G Fives, which was held in Columbus, Ohio. We had a full practice on Monday then had a rest day on Tuesday. Tuesday was a beautiful day so some of the GymTerps relaxed by soaking up some sun and playing volleyball on the quad. We were back in the gym on Wednesday and Thursday for team events. At Big Fives the team has to stand in a corral, so during team events we practiced cheering as it would be at Big Fives.
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Enroning Capitalism
The collapse of Enron, the seventh largest company in America, is the biggest story in the US media after the war against terrorism. Unsurprisingly, critics of a capitalist society have tried to portray Enron, and especially its CEO Ken Lay, as the posterboy of a rampant, laissez-faire capitalism that needs to be regulated. They argue that more controls over companies are needed, that campaign finance reform is required to remove the influence of such companies, and that the privatization of the Social Security system would be dangerous. The real message of the Enron affair is the direct opposite: namely, that capitalism works.
Enron was not the free-wheeling, capitalist enterprise portrayed by the media. It sought to use political power to engineer the market in its favour, a classic example of what public choice economists call `rent-- seeking'. It tried to rig the so-called 'deregulation' of the energy markets by advocating the banning of electricity utilities from the generation market, price controls on access to transmission grids, and control of the electricity distribution systems by government officials. Rarely mentioned in the media is the fact that Enron was an active supporter (and thereby a quiet contributor to the Green movement) of the US's signing the Kyoto agreement on global warming, in order to cripple coal as a competitor. The Bush Administration wisely refused to sign the declaration that would have devastated the US economy. (See IPA Review, June 2001.) Enron was more successful in obtaining $1.5 billion in subsidies for investments abroad from the Clinton Administration.
Congress is likely to pass campaign finance reform that would restrict soft-money donations to political parties and increase the amount of hard money that can be donated to candidates. (See IPA Review, March 2000.) Previous attempts to pass the legislation had only just failed. The perceived scandal of Enron was the decisive factor in getting the bill through the House this time. Yet the media failed to note that almost all Enron donations to campaigns were in the form of hard money, which was increased by current legislation, and not soft money, which will be banned. This law would have done nothing to have changed Enron's contributions strategy. …


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There was an important study released by the Post Carbon Institute last week that gives us an insight into how long our great shale oil bonanza —or more likely, bubble— is going to last. As you might suspect, the thrust of the new report is bad news so we are unlikely to ever read much about it in the mainstream media, which continues to tell us about the bright energy-rich future ahead.
By now we should all know about the technological wonder of "fracking" that has raised America's oil production by over 2 million barrels a day (b/d) in the last few years and has reversed the decline of our natural gas production. The speed with which this has happened has been amazing and shows that if oil prices get high enough (oil has risen from $20 to $100+ a barrel in the last decade), then we can have all the oil we will ever want.
Rapid increases in production, however, mean that the faster we use up something the sooner will come the day when production starts to decline—and that day may not be very far away. In the case of North Dakota, new drilling seems to be concentrating in four counties, known as sweet spots, which may be the only places where it is profitable to drill at today's prices. With new drilling concentrated in a small geographical area it may soon be the case that there are no new places to drill — but since this is probably at least a couple of years off, there is no sense in worrying about it.
While areas in Texas and North Dakota are where spectacular increases in oil production have taken place, less well-known is that our energy future really is supposed to rest in California, where the government says some two-thirds of America's shale oil will be found. Should North Dakota and south Texas ever start running dry, all we will need to do is move the drilling rigs to California and there will be enough new oil to last for many years. Energy independence, millions of jobs and a bonanza of tax revenue will come when California's oil production revives.
To make sure there was no mistake about the good times ahead, the U.S. Department of Energy hired a contractor to examine America's shale oil reserves to confirm there really was a bonanza of oil and gas out there that could be accessed by horizontal drilling and fracking. To no one's surprise, the contractor came back and said "Yes America" there are 24 billion barrels of oil there for the taking.
As the U.S. burns about 7 billion barrels of oil a year we therefore have at least a three-year supply of shale oil — if we can get it out of the ground. Interestingly, the government's contractor reported that some 15.4 billion barrels of this shale oil were buried under California while only 3.6 billion was in North Dakota and 3.4 billion in south Texas. The rest was sort of scattered around. The report also talked about 750 trillion cubic feet of natural gas buried in the shale, but that is a story for another day.
As we are already extracting roughly a million barrels of shale oil a day from both North Dakota and Texas, the future of the industry was thought to be in California. Of course, anybody with the most rudimentary knowledge of geology should know that the earth under California and under the American Midwest are very different places. Remember the San Francisco earthquake, the San Andreas Fault, and that giant tectonic plate that disappears under California.
To the U.S. Energy Information Administration's credit, it did caveat the introduction to the report noting that: "Because most shale gas and oil wells are only a few years old, their long-term productivity is untested. Consequently, the long-term production profiles of shale wells and their estimated ultimate recovery of oil and natural gas are uncertain." But, of course, nobody reads caveats. For most, California has 15 billion barrels of oil just waiting to be extracted after North Dakota and Texas start running short so the great shale bonanza can go right on into the future.
We now have a second look at the Monterey shale and things don't look so rosy. First, the geology of California is similar to a bowl of spaghetti, with the earth squeezed into folds and steep inclines, not the 20,000 sq. miles of flat-laying shale deposits found in North Dakota. The Monterey shales are thick and complex, and do not lend themselves to drilling the long horizontal wells that can be fracked so productively in other places. Much of the shale oil in California appears to have drained over the years into conventional oil reservoirs and has already been extracted by many of the 238,000 oil wells that have been drilled in the state during the last century.
Our new study by an experienced Canadian geologist, who has already examined the productivity of other shale oil formations in the US, concludes that the government and its contractor's study is absurdly optimistic about the prospects for shale oil production in California. Despite the use of all the latest drilling and production techniques, oil production in California has fallen from 1.1 million b/d 30 years ago to 500,000 b/d today. It is highly unlikely that this will be turned around given the geology of the region.
The Department of Energy's report starts with the assumption that California's shale is much like that in Texas and North Dakota. It posits that the oil industry will only have to drill 28,000 new wells—each yielding ridiculously large amounts of oil (550,000 barrels)—to extract California's shale oil. This is simply not supported by the recent history of drilling in the state and is unlikely to happen. We will be lucky if California's oil production does not continue to decline, for its geology is simply not the same.
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Vango Ark 300+ Tent
To create the Ark 300+ Tent, Vango has taken the standard Vango Ark 300 and added a large front porch to it to create a tent that will be an instant hit with tourers and bikers.
The Vango Ark 300+ has a simple tunnel tent design but with the highly recognisable 'gothic arch' poles that provide a greater internal space, headroom and stability. The unique feature of the Ark 300+ is the extended porch area which allows for greater storage and freedom of movement about the tent.
There's a bathtub groundsheet to the proch area which toggles up against the flysheet. This groundsheet is also attached to the inner tent to make a secure area from draughts, bugs and water ingress.
The 3-berth inner tent is made of breathable polyester and features a part mesh door for added ventilation. In the living area there are two door options, a roll-to-the-side side entrance and a canopy front entrance door that can be propped up and used as a sun canopy (porch poles not supplied).
The flysheet is made with Protex 3000 70D polyester providing 3000mm HH waterproof protection. The groundsheet is a robust polyethylene providing 10,000mm HH protection and the poles are Vango's own Powerflex fibreglass poles.
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Vango Ark 300 Plus - A limited edition tent for those who like to think they're a bit different!
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14th September 2013
Bought this tent as a replacement for a small 2 man tent we previously owned. Easy to put up (About 5 Minutes), And quite roomy, although a bit of a push if you want to fit 3 people in it.. Large enough porch area for a reasonable amount of gear (me and my wife even managed to fit a couple of camping chairs in there on rainy days). Large bedroom area for 2 people, With side pockets on either side. Good in poor weather, with not too much problems with condensation. Good amount of ventilation. Not a sewn in groundsheet for the porch area, just clips in, although proved quite useful. Would recommend.@aej1974 Vango ark 300+ is a great new tent, simple to erect, spacious and ideal for lightweight camping.
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11th September 2013
Bought this for live roleplaying events (think festival, but with even sillier outfits). Needed a tent that would hold one person, a whole lot of costume kit, food, cooking equipment and a washing up bowl, a rubber sword or two and still give me room to change and clean up. This does the job brilliantly. The gothic arch poles give it a great personality for LARP as well as making it easy to find in a crowd of more ordinary tents!
The linked-in groundsheet in the porch is great: you can tip water off the edges if you spill a drink or let some rain in. It won't keep you dry in flood conditions but what tent will! Of course it doesn't keep the crawlies out either so this isn't a tent for serious arachnophobes.
The arch design has extra headroom over the usual tunnel design which is a big benefit when you're getting changed and makes it feel much airier too. Ventilation is fantastic, especially if you buy some 130cm king poles and put the front up like a porch. Crashing out to get some headspace on a hot day is easy in this tent. The only improvement I would have made is to have fly mesh inside both doors - the front one only opens completely, and I got to spend way more time than I wanted having tea with a friendly wasp on my last day.
The flysheet is no better and no worse than any other tunnel design, you have to shake the rain off before you open the door but like I said the linked-in ground sheet makes it easy to get rid of puddles. Space in the sleeping area is as you'd expect and has the usual small storage pockets. Overall this is a great weekend tent for car or train campers - it's a good compromise between comfort and size/weight and is solid and reliable for a long weekend away.@chime What a great review, Vango ark 300+ is indeed a great new design, easy to erect and very spacious too.
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Just used this tent for the first time at Glastonbury. I like to have a bit of room so it was ideal for me on my own with a LOT of kit! I don't travel light and took in 2 x 100L rucksacks, the contents of which were easily swallowed up by the tent and left plenty of room for my blow up single mattress in the sleeping area and a blow up (Vango) camping chair in the porch. I also purchased the extra king poles, which proved very useful both for keeping the sun from shining directly in, and to keep drizzle out during the one wet day whilst sitting in the porch. The flexibility that is provided by having 2 doors in the porch is useful. Note that this tent has a linked-in groundsheet in the porch area (not sewn in as stated in the description) and I found this to be an invaluable feature. One of my water containers leaked during the night, but all I had to do was sweep the water to the edge of the groundsheet with a sponge and that was it gone out under the tent and the floor was dried up in 30 seconds. It was also useful just for sweeping out bits of grass etc without having to unzip the door. Ventilation is OK, although if I were to have one very minor complaint it would be that the morning after the one night it rained there was quite a build up of condensation on the inside of the porch roof, which had to be sponged dry, but that's only to be expected. Setting up is simple; I just laid out the tent and pegged it to the floor first, inserted the poles, pegged out 3 guy ropes et voila, 10 minutes at a stroll. The tent was up for 5 days in some fairly stiff breezes at times and was fine with just 2 guy ropes at the front and one at the back, which meant I had no problems with people tripping over them. There are of course several other guy ropes that can be pegged out if necessary. I could go on for ages about this tent, I really enjoyed using it, it is very sturdy, good quality and I'm more than happy to recommend it.@MR777 Great review thanks, Vango Ark 300+ tent is a great easy to use design, easy to erect, spacious and very sturdy too.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Greek Cypriot club says a Turkish Cypriot player from the breakaway north of divided Cyprus was prevented from joining a team practice.
Alki FC spokesman Michalis Markou said Tuesday that Turkish Cypriot authorities stopped forward Mustafa Yasinses from crossing into the internationally recognized south to join the workout.
Turkish Cypriots playing for Greek Cypriot teams is rare. The island was split in 1974 when Turkey invaded after a coup by supporters of a union with Greece.
Yasinses recently signed a four-year deal with Alki. He is only the fifth Turkish Cypriot player to join a Greek Cypriot club since a ban on crossing a United Nations-controlled cease-fire line was lifted in 2003.


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For a great detective, the best part of retiring is coming out of retirement.
Retired private detective and current seventh grader Steve Brixton has a new job: He takes out the trash for five bucks a week. But it's hard to leave the old game behind, and on a train trip down the California coast, Steve and his best chum, Dana, are pulled into a mystery involving a fleet of stolen automobiles, a vanishing girl, and a phantom train car. Oh, and there might just be some romance .
This laugh-out-loud mystery is a witty, modern-day companion to the adventures of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew that brims with humor and intrigue.
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Mac Barnett is the author of several picture books, including Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem, Guess Again!, and Oh No!: Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World. He also writes the Brixton Brothers series of mysteries. Mac is the founder of the Echo Park Time Travel Mart, a convenience store for time travelers, and serves on the board of 826LA, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center.
Adam Rex is the author of many books, including Cold Cereal and Unlucky Charms, the first two books in the Cold Cereal Saga; the New York Times bestselling picture book Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich; the middle grade novel The True Meaning of Smekday (now a major motion picture from Dreamworks, Home); and the teen novel Fat Vampire. He currently lives in Arizona with his wife.
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"Barnett's sly and often silly Hardy Boy parody chugs along with plenty of laughs and enough honest-to-gosh mystery to please any lover of boy detective fiction. Rex's black-and-white pencils (which also parody the Hardy tales) are still a fine match for the goofiness. Mention of the next adventure at mystery's close will make Brixton fans smile."--Kirkus Reviews
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I need to slightly change a string in an exe which I dont have source code for anymore. It was writtin in C.
I notice that C string literals do not seem to appear in the machine code listing at all - not in raw ASCII anyway, not in utf8/16/32 or anything like that. They seem to be encoded, I am guessing as part of 32bit op-codes. For example I know the code had c line: print("My string"); by the bytes 'm' 'y' ' ' 's' etc. but the string doesnt seem to appear at all, not even in any utf8/16/32 coding, and not even with 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8 bytes between each character (I have checked for all those combinations).
From what I understand the literals could be in immediate op-codes, and these could have the 8 bit for the ASCII value at non-byte alligned position. Anyone know what opcodes I should be looking for? At the moment I still can't find anything that looks like the strings even if I shift the whole file bit by bit.


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The Justice Will See You Now
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The fate of Obama's health-care law may rest with one man.
As of now, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is the most pivotal health-care policy thinker in America. Following district court Judge Roger Vinson's Jan. 31 ruling that declared President Obama's health-care-reform law unconstitutional, the plan has a solid 2-2 record in the federal courts: two district judges have ruled for it, and two against. The odds are very good that it will eventually wind up in the Supreme Court. And once it gets there, odds are the bill's fate will come down to one person: Justice Kennedy.
None of that is certain, of course. Perhaps the issue will be resolved at the circuit-court level. Perhaps Chief Justice John Roberts will side with the administration and Kennedy won't be the swing vote. Or perhaps an asteroid will hit the earth, rendering tweaks to the U.S. health-care system moot.
But probably not. Health-care reform is likely to come down to Kennedy--in particular, his views on the so-called individual mandate, which requires all those who can afford it to purchase health insurance. And here's the irony of the whole thing: the individual mandate was a policy that Democrats adopted precisely in order to attract moderate Republicans like, well, Anthony Kennedy. If it gets rejected, what's likely to come next is going to be a whole lot less congenial to conservatives.
"Health care is unlike other commodities," Walter Dellinger, who served as solicitor general to Bill Clinton, told the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. "There is nothing else in our economy where an individual who has made no preparation can go in and get $1 million of goods and services passed on to them at taxpayer expense." That means it struggles with free riders: people who would have society pay for their care, rather than pay for it themselves.
One solution is single-payer health care, in which everyone pays taxes and everyone gets government-provided health-care insurance. But conservatives aren't big fans of replacing private industries with government monopolies. So in 1991, a group of conservative academics proposed an alternative: the individual mandate, which says that everyone who can afford health-care insurance has to buy it. That means no free riders, no healthy people waiting until they get sick to buy insurance or stick the rest of us with the costs of their care. "We did it because we were concerned about the specter of single-payer insurance, which isn't market-oriented, and we didn't think was a good idea," says Wharton economist Mark Pauly, one of the idea's authors.
For the next 18 years or so, that's the role the individual mandate played. It was what Republicans proposed as a smaller-government alternative to the health-care plans favored by liberals. In November 1993, Sen. John Chafee, a Republican from Rhode Island, proposed the Health Equity and Access Reform Today Act. The legislation became the GOP's semiofficial response to President Bill Clinton's health-care bill, and it was eventually co-sponsored by such influential Republicans as Bob Dole, Richard Lugar, Chuck Grassley, and Orrin Hatch. The other major Republican alternative, the Consumer Choice Health Security Act, included Jesse Helms and Trent Lott as cosponsors, and also included an individual mandate.
Neither bill went anywhere, but they cemented the individual mandate as a central feature of Republican health-care thinking. In Massachusetts, Mitt Romney's 2005 health-care plan used an individual mandate. In the Senate, Utah Republican Bob Bennett joined with Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden to offer the Healthy Americans Act, which included an individual mandate and attracted more bipartisan support than any other universal-coverage bill in history. …


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Police search for suspect who crashed into Waterville garage
Police are looking for a person who fled the scene after the car he was driving hit another car, a garage, and then a gas valve in Waterville early today, authorities said.
The incident occurred shortly after midnight off County Rd. 53, Waterville police said, adding that the incident remains under investigation
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Tandoori Paste
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Needed a recipe for Susie's Tasty Tandoori Sweet Potatoes; This is a very nice handy spice mix; has all the Indian flavors for me.
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- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cayenne
- 1 teaspoon coriander, ground
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon dry mustard
- 1 teaspoon ginger
- 1 teaspoon turmeric
- 1 teaspoon fennel
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1⁄2 cup yogurt
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- Mix together salt, cayenne, coriander, chili powder, garlic powder, dry mustard, ginger, turmeric, fennel, cumin, and paprika in a food processor.
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The current population of Buckingham County is 16,962 with the median age of 41. Buckingham County's median household income is $38,658, and the average household net worth is $346,235.
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Age distribution represents the distribution of the population in Buckingham County by age group. In Buckingham County, the male-to-female ratio is 9,314:7,648, which is 25% higher than the ratio of Virginia, which is 4,127,655:4,267,822. Age demographic data is sourced from census, 2015.
Crime rate index represents the average crime rate for a local area in comparison to nearby areas and the national average. A crime index of 100 represents the national average. Buckingham County, has 56% less property crime than Virginia, and is 66% below the nation's average. Buckingham County, has 23% less personal crime than Virginia and when compared to that of United States, Buckingham County is 57% below the national average.
Marital status represents the percent of residents in Buckingham County that are single, married, widowed and divorced. In Buckingham County, 70% of people are married and 30% of people are single. The percent of people married is 5% lower than the ratio of Virginia, which is 75%. Marital data is sourced from census, 2015.
Household income distribution represents the distribution of Buckingham County income brackets at the household level. Overall, the median household income for Buckingham County is $38,658, which is 39% lower than that of Virginia ($63,033). Income data for Buckingham County is sourced from census, 2015.
Education data represents the highest level of education attained by residents in Buckingham County. In Buckingham County, 39% of residents 18 and over graduated from high school and 13% completed a Bachelor's degree or higher, which is 28% lower than that of Virginia. Education statistics is sourced from census, 2015.


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BC Hockey and Hockey Alberta announced the 22-man roster for the 2009 Team Pacific squad. Team Pacific will compete at the 2009 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge in Port Alberni and in satellite communities from Dec. 28 through Jan. 4.
The World Under-17 Hockey Challenge is the first step in Hockey Canada's Program of Excellence that continues at the national level with the Under-18 Team and National Junior Team.
Team Pacific is comprised of 11 players from B.C. and 11 players from Alberta.
Each province held a provincial camp over the summer to identify a set number of players; these players were evaluated during the first part of the season by the high performance evaluators.The B.C. camp was held at the Nanaimo Ice Centre in July.
"The staff of Team Pacific is pleased to announce the selection of the 22 players that will lead the region in Port Alberni," said Team Pacific head coach Tim Kehler. "Our staff feels that the players selected represent the right mix of skill, competitiveness and character that will lead our team to a gold medal at the World U-17 Challenge."
Team Pacific will compete against four other teams from Canada (Team Ontario, Team West, Team Quebec and Team Atlantic) and five international teams (Finland, Germany, Slovakia, United States and Russia).
The 10 teams will compete against each other for the right to be named the 2009 World Under 17 Hockey Challenge Champion.
Team Pacific will look to improve on their fourth place finish in the 2008 World Under 17 Hockey Challenge.
The 2009 Team Pacific will look to capture gold for the first time in the history of the tournament. The squad has been carefully put together by the coaching staff and evaluators. Team Pacific will have the home field advantage as the fans in Port Alberni are patiently waiting for their team to arrive.
Team Pacific will be in action on Sunday, Dec. 28 at 7 p.m., at the Alberni Valley Multiplex, when they take on Team USA in exhibition play.
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Nowhere to Run
Nowhere to Run
Putnam Adult, Hardcover, 9780399156458, 368pp.
Publication Date: April 6, 2010
The extraordinary new Joe Pickett novel from the Edgar Award-winning author.
"Box's series is the gold standard," wrote Library Journal about Below Zero, but never has he written a novel as harrowing as Nowhere to Run.
Joe Pickett's in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in the mountains, and his conscience won't let him leave without checking them out: reports of camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. And then there's the runner who simply vanished one day. Joe doesn't mind admitting that the farther he rides, the more he wishes he could just turn around and go home. And he is right to be concerned. Because what awaits him is like nothing he's ever dealt with, like something out of an old story, except this is all too real and too deadly. When he'd first saddled up, he'd thought of this as his last patrol. What he hadn't known was just how accurate that thought might turn out to be.
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The 5 Best Social Media Apps for Kids
Aug 28th
"Wait," I hear you thinking. "Social media apps for children? I don't want my kid on social media." Neither do I, and yet we know they'll try it out sooner or later.
Five million kids under age 10 already have Facebook accounts. (In case of "social media emergency," click here.) This is sort of like having "the talk." You want to get to it before they hear about the birds and the bees from some kid on the bus.
Enter social media apps for children. These apps can help parents guide young social media buffs in the ways of online communication. Parents provide them a safe, supervised environment and set clear ground rules about what's okay to share, and what isn't. Real names, street address (or even town), and school should all be off-limits, of course. That's where these apps excel: they're designed for children and parents, with teaching in mind.
It would be irresponsible to hand your child car keys before they've taken driving lessons, right? Same goes for social media. Train them up right! Empowering your child to participate in social networking might even help you to keep them safe.
Age ratings on the apps below come from Common Sense Media.
Ages not specified in Edmodo's terms of service
Platforms: mobile site, iOS, Android
Price: Free
Pretty much the safest place to start, Edmodo is a secure social learning platform for school districts. Teachers provide students with access codes, so they can access Edmodo to collaborate on academic projects.
Disney Club Penguin
Platforms: iOS
Price: Free
Anything Disney is family friendly, and Club Penguin is no exception. A virtual world with games, chat functionality, and Parental controls include time limits for app use and "safe chat" mode in which children select from preformatted messages instead of freely typing. There are rules of conduct, although some parents report inappropriate language used if the "free chat" option is used.
Everloop: Goobit
Ages 10 and up, 8 to 15 according to Everloop's Terms of Use
Parent Accounts enabled
Platforms: iOS
Price: Free
A social network for kids, Goobit is not an educational app, so if you're looking for educational content (in the academic sense), look elsewhere. That said, there are rules for proper conduct, and a robust privacy policy for kids.
Ages 13 and up (and Instagram's terms of service)
No Parent Accounts, No Moderation
Price: Free
You know this is one of my favorites! That said, Instagram's terms of service restrict the app's use to people 13 and up (not that the restriction actually works). If you choose to let your child use Instagram, supervise their use carefully, and review the accounts they follow, ideally family and friends only. People frequently use profanity and post images that are inappropriate for children.
On the positive side, Instagram can provide an excellent outlet for a child's artistic drive. When I have let my children take a picture for Instagram, their perspective is always fascinating, even if the focus is a teensy bit fuzzy.
Ages 13 and up, no age specified in Fanlala's terms of service.
Platforms: iOS
Pandora type app / streaming music player. Profanity free, family friendly.
Friend sharing and community functionality, so children can create stations and share them.
Bonus: Giant hello. http://www.gianthello.com (Actually a gaming site for kids, but with social elements) Can access using a mobile phone, though it's not optimized. They're currently working on an iPhone app.
Now that you've unleashed your kids onto the Internet, here's a post about apps that can help you keep children safe online. And you might want to brush up on your lingo.
Kerry O'Shea Gorgone teaches New Media Marketing at Full Sail University. She is also hosts the weekly Marketing Smarts podcast for MarketingProfs. Find Kerry on Google+ and Twitter.
Five tools to help with your social media makeover
May 16th
By Ian Cleary, {grow} Contributing Columnist
Part of my daily routine is going to the gym. The gym is a chance for me to think about what I've delivered that morning, plan out my day and dream about potential ideas for my business.
In the world of social media it's important to step back and review what you have done and implement changes on a regular basis. And maybe, just maybe, it's time for a makeover. Here are five cool tools you can use that just might deliver some new "oomph" to your social media efforts:
1. Ignite Facebook Fans
On average only 16 percent of your fans see your Facebook updates. Suck! This is a well-known number but something you should completely ignore because there's no reason why you should be average!
But even if 50 percent of your fans see your Facebook updates there's still the other 50 percent that don't see them at all. And on top of this are they actually reading them? How often do you read all the updates on your Facebook page?
One strategy for ensuring more of your fans see your updates is converting your fans to eMail Subscribers. This means you can communicate with them over both channels and have a better chance of reaching them.
You can add a customized application to your Facebook page with a provider such as Heyo, Tabsite or a run a competition using Shortstack and start building those email subscribers.
2. Measure Conversion from Social Media Traffic
Social media is not necessarily all about sales but I'm sure you'd like to see some action from the updates you make. This may be visits to your website where you get people spending time there, subscribing to your email list or buying your products or services.
If you set up goals within Google Analytics, Google will start tracking social media activity for these goals. If you go to the traffic sources section of Google Analytics, select all traffic and then select the relevant goal you can view the conversion rate across any channel.
The goal set up in this report is related to getting email subscribers. From the image above you see that there is a 2.50% conversion rates from LinkedIn and 1.90% from Facebook. This gives you a goal to achieve higher on both channels.
If you don't have goals set up in Google Analytics or an equivalent analytics program, then consider doing so as soon as possible!
3. Easily Optimize Your Content for Google
If you have a well-established blog with a large amount of traffic, you may not be too concerned about optimizing your content for Google. But if you want to get additional traffic and you want to ensure that it is relevant, then it's important to help Google index your content correctly.
When writing blog posts there is a very useful free plugin called WordPress SEO which gives some guidelines that you can follow to optimize the content.
Using this plugin you specify the focus keywords you want Google to rank you on and then it then gives an indicator where these keywords are mentioned in the post in areas that are relevant for Google.
If you don't have WordPress you can still identify focus keywords and make sure they are included in relevant areas as indicated in the image above.
4. Capture the Attention of your Website Visitors
What are you doing to capture the attention of your visitors when they come to your website?
Do you use popup's, clear calls to action, a bar that appear across the top of the screen?
By getting your visitors attention you can get them to take action. Lead Converter is a useful tool for capturing attention. You can test out a banner that appears across the top of the screen, popup's, boxes that slide out at the bottom the page and more.
If you had a free guide you could show a banner across the top of your screen after a visitor is on the page for a certain time. This captures the visitor's attention like this:
The conversion chart will show what conversion you get from this and in this example it's 2.11 percent. A conversion in this case is someone that clicks the "Yes, please" button and signs up as an e-mail subscriber.
2.11 percent is OK but not what I want so more testing is required. Think about how you can attract attention of visitors on your website to achieve your goals.
5. Start Using Slideshare
Slideshare was initially developed as a tool for sharing presentations but has since expanded out to videos, documents and much more. When you create your blog post it's useful to consider where else you could promote this post. By changing your blog post into a presentation you could share it on Slideshare. This is very much a B2B platform so if you are targeting the business community Slideshare is ideal.
When you share out a presentation on Slideshare it's indexed almost immediately so straight away you can start getting visitors. Just make sure you consider what your 'focus keywords' are when sharing out content to help Google index it correctly.
If you are interested in Slideshare a good starting point is Todd Wheatland's book on SlideShare.
These are just five improvements you could make today for an almost instant social media makeover. Let us know your thoughts and please share any improvements that you would suggest.
Ian Cleary is founder of Razorsocial, a website that provides sharp insight on on social media management tools. Follow Ian on twitter @iancleary
Case study: Fox Sports connects social media to advertiser revenue
Mar 12th
By Ian Cleary, Contributing {grow} Columnist
Engaging with your fans or followers through social media dialogue, polls and interactive competitions are quite popular, but they are not easily discoverable or linked to revenue generation — These online competitions are generally run in isolation through a Facebook page, website or other social media platform.
Clearly that is the essential goal for any business — connecting all this social activity to business goals. I discovered a great example of success in this area when I caught up with Andrew Hossom, vice president of marketing and consumer insights for Fox Sports Digital (he recently left his position to set up his own consultancy)
Andrew wanted a solution that allowed his marketing team to set up online competitions without any development help. He also wanted to run them simultaneously across many sites on the web and mobile platforms and bring in a sponsor to offset expenses for the opportunity of engaging brands with the fans of FOX Sports.
It was also important to aggregate results across all sites and platforms. So for example, the same leaderboard in a competition would be displayed wherever customers access the site.
Fox launched a suite of apps provided by Voices Heard Media (VHM). Instead of creating a new and sometimes artificial destination site less likely to attract users to competitions, they integrated these apps into the existing channels that consumers were using in addition to the sites of the sponsors. What I like about this approach is that Fox deployed once and the contest data is all coming back to one source without nay artificial manipulation.
VHM provides an easy tool for setting up the competitions and great analytics to monitor results. What surprised me is the sophisticated level of functionality available at a price affordable not just to Fox, but to any type of business. Here's an example of a Quiz currently running on Fox Sports: This quiz was sponsored by CitiBank and can be displayed on many sites across the web – Fox Sports sites, Citi sites, Mobile Sites, Facebook pages. I think this is an interesting application because advertisers are increasingly looking for more than just an impression through a banner ad.
In this case study, the advertiser is providing fun, social engagement in a relevant, integrated, and compelling web experience. Just seems like a much more effective type of sponsorship, doesn't it?
But even if you're not bringing in a sponsor to your web activities, what about offering a discount for your product and service based on the contest participation? Or just collecting the name/e-mail address for another mini competition and then adding this person to your email subscriber database?
What makes this type of innovation interesting is that the industry is starting to push beyond the vanity of fans and followers to integrate revenue generating opportunities as part of our social promotions. And all the data from every channel is put together in one easy to understand dashboard for your advertiser and internal management team.
I like Voices Heard Media as an affordable social media tool that connects the dots between social engagement and customer metrics.
So what is your experience running similar social engagement applications? How have you turned fans and followers into dollars? What other applications have you come across that allow you to engage your customer in interactive competitions wherever they are on the web? We'd love to hear your feedback.
Ian Cleary is founder of RazorSocial an award winning website that provides social media training on social media management tools. Follow Ian on Twitter @iancleary
How to do Social Media Management on the cheap
Jan 16th
By Kerry Gorgone, Contributing {grow} Columnist
A while back, I wrote a post on the Best Social Media Management Tools for Small Business Owners. I researched and reviewed a handful of the least expensive, most versatile options, but the comments included some lesser known alternatives that seemed worth investigating.
I've taken some time to check them out, using the same parameters I used to gauge the initial set of tools. To restate, any tool considered must enable you to:
- Schedule posts
- Connect numerous social media accounts
- Provide analytics
- Shorten URLs
Here are some additional options for small business owners in need of a cost-effective social media management tool.
Price: Starts at $9.99 / month for eight accounts, offers plans up to $99.99 for 120 accounts
Platforms: Web application and mobile apps for iPhone and Android, mobile web version
In addition to offering low-cost plans, Sendible enables you to manage your Google+ pages, which is still a rare feature in social media management tools. (Note that this is limited to Google+ pages, as opposed to your individual profile or stream.)
The service also supports Facebook (profiles and pages), Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr, Ning, Bebo and a number of other options. The full array of services you can connect to Sendible is impressive, so most business owners should be able to manage their social media efforts quite handily. Sendible does not offer a free plan, however, which is a drawback.
Price: Free for 7 social accounts, offers plans up to $499 / month for 50 accounts
Platforms: Web application (Chrome extension available)
Viralheat also connects a robust assortment of networks, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google+, offers robust analytics including sentiment analysis for paid accounts (basic account analytics for free), has URL shortening via Bit.ly integration, and enables scheduled posts. My favorite feature: it enables geotargeted sharing to Facebook.
In short, Viralheat is a versatile social media management tool, well worth considering for small business owners.
Price: Free up to three team members managing 20 accounts, $20/month for five team members and unlimited accounts, custom pricing available for larger teams
Platforms: Web application, mobile web version
What you get for free with Jugnoo is impressive. Link up to 20 social accounts, managed by up to three team members. You also get access to web analytics, Google analytics and social analytics. This makes Jugnoo highly appealing, and if you need to connect additional accounts or give access to more team members to manage your content, leveling up costs just $20 per month. They do have a custom pricing model, as well.
Fresh out of beta, this lesser known option added some new features recently, including link previews and rich media embeds.
Scheduled posts are enabled through BufferApp, which is itself a good option for business owners to manage their social networks.
Among free and low-cost options, Hootsuite is still the reigning champion, in part because its widespread use means there are many plugins and informational resources available. There are some viable contenders for small business owners to consider, however.
I investigated some of the platforms mentioned by commenters on my previous post. Although helpful, they do not fully meet the criteria outlined above:
Agora Pulse — Offers granular management of your Facebook pages, from scheduling posts to managing contests, but it's limited to Facebook only.
Engagio — Engagio is a discovery tool, as opposed to a social media management tool. This service enables monitoring and engaging with Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and more through an inbox message format. Although this is helpful, this service lacks analytics and the ability to schedule posts, both of which are critical to small business owners.
Bottlenose — Still in beta, Bottlenose is a helpful tool for monitoring Facebook and Twitter feeds, LinkedIn, and more. The service offers some ability to engage by posting to linked accounts. Although Bottlenose is potentially useful for individuals, small business owners need need a tool that provides more holistic management capability (scheduling posts). The company is planning a pro version, which might have additional functionality.
Bundlepost — This service takes your existing RSS feed and makes it easy for you to select stories that would be of interest to your online audience. Then, you export prepared posts to a spreadsheet that gets uploaded to HootSuite. With minimal effort beyond scanning your news feeds, you've scheduled informative, helpful posts to go out over the course of the day, keeping you top of mind for your audience. In short, it's a great tool, but works in concert with HootSuite, as opposed to providing an alternative to it.
The good news for small business owners is that options abound for you to customize your own no- or low-cost social media management solution.
What do you use? What would you recommend?
Kerry O'Shea Gorgone, JD/MBA, teaches New Media Marketing in the Internet Marketing Master of Science Program at Full Sail University in Winter Park Florida. Follow her on Twitter: @KerryGorgone
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quote: The TSA does not want to do real work any more than anyone else…. but one look at me and they see potential work. It is much easier to waive me through and hope for the best.
quote: I think the best way to look at it is as a pre-crime assessment every time you fly. The default will be the highest, most intrusive level of search, and anything less will be conditioned on providing some additional information in some fashion.


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Leonardo remembers when "he" first tried committing suicide due to his dark side.
He also remembers another time when something important happened in Japan.
He also remembers another time when something important happened in Japan.
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i need MORE!!!
Oh there is more to this back story...Must read!!!!!!!
Yeah, there's a third and final part to Leonardo's flashback.
It's coming up later and I plan to make it the most memorable of them all.
It's coming up later and I plan to make it the most memorable of them all.
I simply love this comic. You're getting even better -though you ARE freaking good to begin with- for each page...
Looks forward for more more more!! XDD
so epic
Who is that girl? At first i thought it was Karai, but I dont know her to show that kind of emotion, unless she has a soft spot for Leo. Is that Sayako? or someone new?
I hope he comes back to himself.
Ahh! Leo! ;A; This comic really likes to break my heart.
DDDDD: poor leo
go leo
It was about time, actually.
All I needed was more time, more motivation and less distractions.
The flashbacks in this are the best kind, ones that actually get you excited and worried about what happened in the past.
Hehe, actually if you look at this page and connect the dots correctly, you can guess exactly what will happen in the third (and last) flashback of Leo in Japan.
fight Leo! Fight!
At least he was snapped out od it!
O.o did Leo meet a girl?!
yep, then she died. You should read this from the beginning it's quite good.
Yep, then he murdered her. Fun times, you should read this from the begining, it's really good stuff in here.
That woman crying. Was that... Sayako?
Damn those last few pages came out fast!! I've never read a comic that whiped out the pages like that, except for PMD Victory Fire!! Nice!!
It's an update frenzy!
Is that the girl he meet in the forest but a bit older? D: Holy crap!
You've been pumping out pages these days Tiger!
My freelance work is finished, so I can invest my idea and inspirations in other things.
ah!!! that must be refreshing for you
It is refreshing.
It just need to draw what I want to draw exactly, you know?
Also, building a playlist of songs that reflects the universe of this fan comic really goes a long way to motivate me. (Silent Hill songs...)


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With this second loan that she is receiving, Roció plans to acquire another sewing machine as well as fabrics, thread, and needles. This purchase will help increase her production so that she can pay for her children's studies. Her house is made of reeds and her dream is to build one out of cement so that she can have a larger workshop.
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Torvalds announced that the 2.6.37 Linux Kernel is now available for download.
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We have had several students check out of school to move back to Mexico this year.
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It's apparent that this country id more concerned about caring for illegal aliens than it does for the american people. If the illegals would go home and take all their strifes with them it would make america a happier place to live and grow up as americans. These illegals don't want to be americans and refuse to become americans so why coddle them and worry about educating illegal aliens. It's too bad that americas education system isn't as worried about american students and put more effort in educating our own children. This and all children of illegals do not merit any sympathy about their nomadic and undocumented lives. I'm tired of supporting this scum in america.
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The transiency of non-native speaking students is distressing. To have an entire school judged on the academic performance (or non-performance) of a small group who make up the majority of those who come and go throughout the year is ludicrous. It happens in every school. I teach them. They need all the help we can give them, but, lets not leave the mainstream behind in our efforts of dotting every i and crossing every t to satisfy "No Child Left Behind."
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Nothing has ruined the American family more than money. I'm a dying breed who
can remember when one income could rise a family. That has been replaced by two
incomes and twice the exposure to risk if there is a job lost.
Utah is a perfect example. Utah talks a good game. Utah touts being a "family state." Utah as worked ardently to keep wages low. How can you reconcile being about families when you promote poor wages?
My childhood was better than most. The only argument my parents had surrounded money issues. The less parents earn, the less harmony at home.
This really burns me. I grew up when most Utah communities where village like. As communities dissolved crime increased.
Back in the single income era, neighbors were a extension of families. Today, you with provoke a fight if you say the truth: it takes a village to rise children.
- 3:03 p.m. May 28, 2009
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To "who cares", You should, as should we all! Every one one us, including you, unless you are 100% Native American, comes from immigrant backgrounds, and don't give me that "they learned the language" stuff because there are still sections of New York and Boston where Italian and German immigrants can find native speaking neighborhoods from the 19th century still going strong. Education of our immigrant children leads to a strong labor force in the future and an educated electorate. Don't be ignorant, racist, and isolationist. This isn't 1909! We live in a global village with a global economy. Learn to cope or move to cave in mountains where you can live alone with wonderful philosophy!
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After driving, we tried to start the car and had nothing electrical working, No headlights, interior lights, starter,Ect. This has happened once before and after messing with the igniton switch (basically turning the key and wiggling it many times over) we got the crown to revive. where should i start looking? fusebox, ignition switch, other?
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The small town of Howevalley will be buzzing with activity Saturday with the annual Howevalley-Vertrees Days festival.
The annual event brings the community together each year with an array of activities catered to young and old. Funds raised go back into the community, said one of the event organizers, Barbara McCamish from the Howevalley-Vertrees Community Club.
Three Hardin County projects were included in the state Transportation Cabinet's list of $26 million worth of asphalt work announced Wednesday.
The longest is a 10.8-mile section of Flint Hill Road, also known as Ky. 720. The improvements will stretch from the county line to Ky. 84, the cabinet reported.
Also, scheduled for resurfacing is seven-tenths of a mile of Ky. 222 beginning at U.S. 62 and extending southeast and a nearly five-mile section of Ky. 1375, known locally as North Long Grove Road, from U.S. 62 to Ky. 86.
Patti Cowherd was at work at Caritas Home Health Care attacks occurred on Sept. 11, 2001.
"When it came on the radio, we all quit what we were doing and we just cried," she said.
Cowherd was among residents who lined Dixie Highway from Elizabethtown to Fort Knox Tuesday to watch a convoy of first responders pass to remember about 3,000 who died following terrorist-orchestrated plane crashes that day at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and near Shanksville, Pa.
The convoy was organized in appreciation of first responders.
Retired firefighter Alan Wallace said the work he did to help evacuate the Pentagon after the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001, should not be classified as heroic because it is something cops and firefighters do every day around the country.
Radcliff is taking on a mouthful in October.
The city has entered a contract with Major League Eating to host a professional competitive eating competition at City Park North, scheduled for 2 p.m. Oct. 5.
The contest is the headlining attraction for a revamped Radcliff Days that is swapping venues this year to host local bands at the amphitheater and stage a mini Oktoberfest complete with a beer tent.
Finance Director Steve Park said there is a misperception circulating around Elizabethtown that the American Legion Park pool's demise means an end to all city-sponsored aquatic ventures.
Park and members of Elizabethtown City Council argued the old pool must go before the city has the financial resources and flexibility to explore new options.
"We took action to at least get some action," Councilman Marty Fulkerson argued.
During its weekly meeting Tuesday at Stone Hearth Restaurant, the Elizabethtown Noon Rotary Club took a moment to remember those who were affected by the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
"We must never forget the innocent lives lost that day," President Val Claycomb said during Tuesday's ceremony.
Hardin Fiscal Court accepted a recommendation by Judge-Executive Harry Berry to hold property tax rates steady for the sixth straight year during its Tuesday voting meeting.
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LAREDO, TX (KGNS) - The South Texas Food Bank is planning a May fundraiser.
A food bank representative says the organization has a waiting list for more than 1,200 applicants. Many of those are fixed-income seniors he says. The food bank says a $10 donation will raise funds for 80 meals at the food bank.
Tonight on KGNS News at Six, reporter Christian von Preysing gives us more on this story.
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