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Things keep getting more confusing these days dealing with the image of Justin Bieber. After being confronted with allegations of egg throwing at the home of a neighbor in California and DUI charges in Florida he is now being hit with rumors he took part in a kinky sex tape with strippers in Queensland, Australia. There are heated rumors a sex tape exists with Bieber doing some really hot stuff with some strippers, reported The Hollywood Gossip on Feb. 3, 2014. It is said this scandalous Bieber sex tape really does exist.
Bieber was apparently filmed spanking the bare backside of two strippers and "pulling off their panties with his teeth" in the outlandish sex tape. According to the rumors Bieber is said to have been recorded in this sex tape on a surveillance video inside a strip club in Queensland, Australia, during his 2013 tour stop. Sources say there is a 12-minute video of Bieber which is crystal clear in various compromising positions and romping around with the two strippers.
MTV reports Bieber is continuing to live up to his reputation as a bad boy as he was reportedly caught in the performance of lewd acts with a number of strippers in Australia. It is now said this video is being shopped around to various media outlets. Bieber has a reputation for having an insatiable lust for sexy women, and so it appears these rumors could be true. These allegations are said to have created a furor among the deport Bieber from the USA crusaders.
If Bieber was not doing anything at all illegal, let alone seriously illegal, the hate Bieber campaign remains a hypocritical portrayal of double standards by rednecks in the United States. After all a lot of the native American women in Hollywood, such as Miley Cyrus, Beyonce, a Rihanna, are not at all shy about the fact that sex appeal sells well in entertainment circles. And so if that's what Bieber is really into, it appears a young male entertainer also deserves to be recognized for his understanding of the fascination with human sexuality among a lot of people.

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We do it without thinking - pop open the back door and let Fido out to play in the fenced back yard. We know Fido is safe out there - or is he really?
Last night I was out in the yard with my three rescued Miniature Schnauzers SueSue, Ladybug and Whizzer. It was a nice evening, cool with a nice breeze after a big rain. Being a gardener, I'm always looking around at my various flowers. I spied a zinnia plant over by the fence that had fallen over, probably from the rain and wind. I walked over to prop the plant up and noticed a lot of grass had grown up around it. I've been healing up an injury all summer so I haven't gotten out to weed like I normally would.
When I reached down and started pulling up grass, something started stinging me all over my hands and feet! Unfortunately I had sandals on. I was being attacked by a swarm of Yellow Jackets! I did my best to get them off of me but the more I swatted the more I was stung. I started backing away and walked over to the patio, the little stinging monsters following me there. I shook them off me until I was fairly sure they were gone, then dashed into the house and slammed the door. Since my dogs are always right by me, they dashed in as well.
I knew I was in a world of hurt and probably had a lot of stings. I ran in to grab medicine to put on the stings and tried to put the fire out. Once I had everything settled down to a roar, it occurred to me that Ladybug and Sue had to have been right by me when it happened. Did they get stung too? I checked them both over and they had no sign of bites and weren't in any apparent pain. Thank heavens!!
These yellow jackets weren't there just a few days ago. They were newcomers to my yard. My husband went out and sprayed the area, killing lots of them. Today I've mixed up some nice sugar water to put in my Yellow Jacket trap bottle. They will flock to it and drown. Normally I wouldn't go around killing creatures but these are a danger to me and my furry kids!
In one way I'm very sorry that I have to endure over 20 stings. In another way, I'm very glad that they came after me instead of the doggies.
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1. Draw the appropriate volume of VENTOLIN Inhalation Solution into the specially marked dropper that comes with each multidose bottle (Figure 1). For children 12 years of age and under, the volume is based upon body weight. Use the dropper volume prescribed by your doctor.
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I've covered gang shootings in sketchy neighborhoods at midnight. I've lived through an earthquake that red-tagged my house. I've stood in line for Justin Bieber tickets. But nothing sends me into absolute freefall heart-thudding panic as when a kitchen appliance goes on the fritz.
On one horrible day last month, etched into my brain forever, both my dryer and my refrigerator required urgent medical care at the same time.
The dryer just plain didn't work, which I discovered when my teenage son walked in and informed me, "Mom, all our towels are in the dryer but it doesn't turn on."
Nice. So much for cleanliness today. Good thing I have a large supply of wonderfully aromatic cologne from the dollar store, given to me by my precious children for the last seven birthdays.
Then, a puddle of water appeared under the fridge. I'd seen this puddle before, and now I realized it wasn't an ice cube that fell down and melted due to the fact that my kids are congenitally unable to reach down and pick up ice that falls from the ice dispenser.
No, this was a Serious Puddle. Not a cute puddle, like the ones that ducks swim in. But a bad puddle, like water damage to your floor.
Did you know that water is the No. 1 element that will damage your home and make it impossible for you to go on vacation on Puerto Vallarta because you have to pay for repairs?
Seriously, that is true. I know because I recently had to repair water damage to my eaves that caused dry rot, and it emptied my wallet, making a vacation impossible. Someone has to pay, preferably those losers who didn't install the roof shingles properly, causing water to drip down for 27 years and rot the beams.
But I digress.
Here are the reasons I don't like it when my good appliances go bad:
1. I have to pay to call the repairman (I would be politically correct and say repair person but they are invariably men) and then invite a strange dude into my house, where he might possibly judge my poor housekeeping.
2. I will have to pay aforementioned repairman a sum equal to the gross national product of Grenada, and he will have to order the necessary part from the Red Planet, then return later to install it, at which time he'll have a second opportunity to judge my housekeeping.
3. Once again, I'll have to consider whether it's worth it to keep my elderly, blue-haired appliances on life support, or just pull the plug and buy new ones.
I really, really hate having this internal debate, because then it opens up an entirely new can of indigestible worms, such as deciding what type of new appliance to buy, how much to spend and where to get it.
I tend to be the sort of person who keeps charts and does endless research before making a major purchase, which is good, except when it's bad.
It can be bad when you do so much research that you become paralyzed with indecision, and just decide to live with wet clothes forever.
Case in point and, as Dave Barry says, I am not making this up: My friend Kim, a normal middle-class person like you and me, who owns her own home, had her washer break down a few years ago.
Instead of replacing it, she just decided to start washing her clothes at the laundromat instead.
Seriously. The laundromat. A place I always considered as a punishment for having to be poor or in college.
When I was in college, I used to buy new packages of cheap underwear every week, just so I could delay having to go there.
She claims she likes going to the laundromat, because she can get all her wash done at once. But, really, I think the appliance breakdown just drove her out of her mind entirely.
See what I mean? Appliance repair fatigue is hard on your psyche. Not as bad as having to watch another season of "American Idol" with Mariah Carey, but bad enough.
In my recent case, a miracle from heaven occurred, undoubtedly because I just recently went to church without grumbling.
The repairman came over and looked at my two ailing appliances. Turns out, the puddle under my freezer was caused by all the frozen food stacked so poorly that the drain inside didn't work. All I had to do was restack the food and it was fine.
The dryer did not work because the switch that makes it stop when you open the door was broken. Seeing how ancient and rusty my dryer is, the repairman asked me if I just wanted him to snip the switch instead of replacing it, meaning that the dryer won't shut off any more when you open the door, but I can still turn it off manually with the timer dial.
"Sure," I said, very excited.
So both of those repairs were affected without any parts having to be ordered from any far-away planets whatsoever.
And the repair guy only charged me $8,000. No, just kidding, he only charged me $50.
I thought about kissing him, but I figured then he might raise his fee. So I just paid the $50 and had a glass of champagne to celebrate.
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I'm looking at hooking up some rain barrels using PVC piping. Is there a certain type of PVC that would be best to use for this, considering that it will be exposed to sun/rain/heat/cold? Lots of people seem to use "regular" white PVC but I didn't think that was intended for outdoor use.
All PVC is subject to UV light degradation. PVC without UV protection will eventually suffer a loss of impact resistance. Your pipe will be whole, until impact at which it will shatter or crack instead of flex.
Some PVC (PVC UVR) is UV resistant. The sunlight still damages the PVC pipe, but it is in a matrix of other chemicals that compete for the UV light (stealing it away from the would be damaged PVC). PVC UVR will degrade, but at a slower rate.
Thicker wall pipe will take longer to fail, as the UV will be caught by upper layers before penetrating lower layers. Painted pipe will not fail, provided that your paint blocks or reflects UV light (and nearly all paints do).
You are right, a lot of people use PVC pipe, but mostly it is meant to be used in buried applications (where it will be shielded from UV light); however, most of those buried applications come out of the ground at some point. Typically the out-of-ground portions are not properly protected, which is just a timer for eventual failure.
Sometimes that's due to ignorance, sometimes people rationalize that PVC is so cheap the pipe repair in the future will be cheap too. Save yourself the headache of doing it twice, paint your PVC.
You could try the gray colored Schedule 80 PVC pipe. This is a much heavier duty material that will stand up to being outdoors. It is recommended by manufacturers. such as U.S. Plastic Corp, that PVC pipe and fittings be painted after installation with a coat of white water based latex paint to provide for UV resistance. The UV light is what is part of the sunlight that can degrade PVC.
Link to manufacturer PVC Pipe Catalog: http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item.aspx?itemid=23979&clickid=redirect
I wonder if you could address the glue used for connecting PVC pipe - whether gray outdoor, or white pipe, or "UV resistant"… specifically when the PVC piping will be used with an ultraviolet generator for pool sanitizing. I just had a big failure of a glued joint in dark gray, schedule 80 PVC pipe, leading into the side of an ultraviolet generator built by Siemens Corporation, at a pool I am caring for. It looked like the gray pipe leading to the unit had been glued with a jet-black colored PVC glue, (which I have never seen before)… Except that, perhaps they ran out of (the correct?) glue at the most important place: where the pipe enters a (similarly gray colored) PVC collar that is part of the unit.
After the leak, and loss of a foot of pool water into the indoor pump room, I noticed the glue near the unit, which probably sends powerful UV rays at least several feet down the inlet and outlet pipes, appeared to be a yellowed clear PVC glue, and the leak (massively) started right there at the collar, while I was gone for some days, leaving a foot of pool water to soak into the pump room, in the former swimming school, within the then-unrented shopping center unit, which had been a swim school. This may help someone else to consider the "glue factor"- if I am correct - if self installing a similar UV unit, or even fixing the white pipe found around filters on many outdoor pools!


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FTC gives itself an anti-trust extension as Intel deal eludes it
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AN APPARENT FAILURE TO FIND agreement has led to the US Federal Trade Commission extending by two weeks the time it has to find a settlement with Intel.
We reported Tuesday 20 July that the FTC and Intel claimed they were close to a deal, the 22 July had been the deadline over the FTC's complaint that Chipzilla was running a monopolistic chip-shop.
Both parties said they had reached an initial agreement, with Chipzilla limiting volume discounts on its chips. One wonders what the hiccough is, if the FTC now wants to extend the deadline by two weeks and has requested the temporary withdrawal of its case.
The FTC says it wants more time to consider its proposed settlement before adjudication. This was first issued for 21 June at 12:01am and due to run out on 23 July at the same time. Now the FTC withdrawal will give Chipzilla a temporary reprieve up until 12.01am on 6 August.
This is the gazzilionth anti-trust inquiry into Intel's competitive - or rather, anti-competitive - business practices. This time around the FTC isn't in a position to fine Chipzilla. It doesn't have the power to impose a fat cash penalty as a civil fine in US anti-trust cases.
Intel wasn't so lucky when it was dragged through the European courts, which have the power to fine with impunity. And so they did, to the tune of $1.45 billion. µ
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On January 11, 2010, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Fiji.1
Growth has been sluggish in recent years because of delays in economic reforms, worsening terms of trade, and political developments that have strained Fiji's international relations and hurt business confidence. Fiji's economy is expected to have contracted by 2½ percent in 2009, reflecting the adverse impact of the global crisis on exports and tourism. The economy was also hit by flooding in January 2009 that damaged tourism, crops, and infrastructure. As a result of slow growth, the unemployment rate rose to 8½ percent, and would have been higher if not for an increase in emigration.
The real effective exchange rate appreciated by 10 percent between 2000 and 2008 as the terms of trade deteriorated by 15 percent because of lower export prices for sugar and higher oil prices. The current account deficit widened from 4 percent to 18 percent of GDP over the same period, and in early 2009, foreign exchange reserves fell to US$300 million, less than two months of imports. In April 2009, the Reserve Bank of Fiji (RBF) devalued the currency by 20 percent and intensified exchange controls. Following the devaluation, weak economic activity and lower commodity prices helped contain inflation.
Tourist arrivals fell by almost 25 percent year-on-year in early 2009 because of the global crisis and January floods. However, tourism recovered mid-year, as the devaluation of the Fijian dollar against the Australian dollar made Fiji a more attractive destination.
Foreign exchange reserves doubled between April and November 2009, to reach US$593 million, almost four months of imports, explained by a pickup in remittances and an improvement in the trade balance. About half of the increase was also explained by the SDR allocation (US$93 million) and repatriation of foreign assets of the Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF, a public pension fund). Despite high current account deficits in recent years, external debt is low at 13 percent of GDP in 2008, as deficits were financed mainly by foreign direct investment (FDI) in the tourism sector.
Recent developments have put considerable pressure on the budget. Tax revenue was hit by the fall in economic activity, with a shortfall of about 10 percent relative to the budget in the first 10 months of the year. Government restrained current spending, including by containing wage increases, and the fiscal deficit increased to about 3 percent of GDP in 2009 from near balance in 2008, in line with the budget. Central government debt is expected to rise to 53 percent of GDP by end 2009. Central government guarantees of public enterprise debt and contingent liabilities arising from poor performance of public enterprises amount to about 70 percent of GDP (excluding the public pension fund).
Bank liquidity has risen sharply in recent months to more than 13 percent of deposits as foreign exchange reserves have recovered. However, credit growth is likely to have contracted in real terms in 2009, as banks took a cautious approach in light of heightened political and economic uncertainties. The RBF increased the statutory reserve requirement on banks from 5 percent to 7 percent of deposits to reduce excess liquidity. It has also removed bank-by-bank credit ceilings and announced the removal of ceilings on banks' lending rates and spreads by January 2010.
Executive Board Assessment
Executive Directors noted that Fiji's economic performance in recent years has been negatively affected by a difficult political situation, delayed structural reforms, natural disasters, and the global crisis. Faced with increasing budget pressures, the authorities have made commendable efforts to restrain current spending and limit the overall fiscal deficit in 2009, while the devaluation of the Fijian dollar has helped reverse the sharp decline in foreign exchange reserves. The economic situation nevertheless remains challenging, and downside risks remain high. Directors therefore stressed the need for further decisive actions to restore macroeconomic stability and implement structural reforms needed to lift growth and ensure debt sustainability over the medium-term.
Directors agreed that a substantial reduction in the fiscal deficit is necessary to ensure macroeconomic stability and stabilize public debt. While acknowledging the difficult economic situation, most Directors recommended a faster pace of consolidation starting from 2010 than is currently envisaged. They considered that infrastructure rebuilding needs should be offset by expenditure measures, including civil service reform, while revenue could be strengthened by rationalizing tax incentives, improving tax administration and raising excise taxes. Directors encouraged the authorities to adhere to their earlier target of reducing central government debt to 45 percent of GDP by 2014.
Directors supported a tight monetary policy to ensure that inflation returns to low levels and to protect foreign exchange reserves. They welcomed the recent increase in the statutory reserve deposit ratio and the removal of ceilings on bank lending rates and spreads, and called for further measures as needed to absorb excess liquidity.
Directors encouraged the authorities to move toward a more flexible exchange rate. They considered that the shift to a more flexible exchange rate regime will help Fiji absorb external shocks and protect its reserve position. Directors noted that exchange rate flexibility should be accompanied by a strengthening of monetary and fiscal policies.
Directors welcomed recent improvements in bank supervision. They expressed concern about the vulnerability to adverse shocks of some smaller banks and recommended remedial action where appropriate. Directors called for fundamental reform of the FNPF. In particular, they stressed the importance of measures to put the FNPF on a sound actuarial footing, of an independent management responsible to beneficiaries, and of strengthened supervisory oversight.
Directors considered that structural reforms are crucial to ensure fiscal sustainability, address competiveness problems, lift potential growth and create jobs. They called for well-designed reforms of the civil service, of the public enterprises with a view to eventual privatization, and of the land-lease system, accompanied by price liberalization. Well-targeted measures should help address the social impact of these reforms.
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The first death sentences under India's tough new rape sentencing guidelines were imposed on April 4 in Mumbai as three Indian males received death sentences for their parts in the gang rapes of a Mumbai photojournalist and another woman last summer.
The New York Times shared the nuances of the new law, which states that "repeat offenders must be sentenced to a minimum of life in prison, and may also be given the death penalty."
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All three were found guilty of raping not only the photojournalist in Mumbai last August, but were also convicted of raping a call center worker last July.
Public protests and uprisings took center stage in India beginning in 2012 as gang rapes by Indian men seemed rampant throughout parts of the country. Although the general population welcomes the new rape law passed last year in India, not everyone there supports the new law and its implementation.
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The three men that were sentenced today reportedly and "repeatedly attacked women who wandered into an abandoned mill in Mumbai."
The mother of one of the assailants yelled out in court today after her son was sentenced to death, and blamed not only his cohorts in crime for her son's woes – but the victim of the gang rape.
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At the sentencing hearing today, the judge said of the three assailants, "They have used the most powerful weapon in their possession — the penis, with which they have caused grievous injuries."
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College Hockey:Denver Survives Wisconsin
Goal Disallowed At Final Buzzer
DENVER — Sixty minutes of hockey ultimately came down to a tenth of a second Friday night at Magness Arena, as the second ranked Denver Pioneers survived a furious rally from No. 17 Wisconsin to hold on for a 3-2 win.
As time expired, Matt Ford scored what would have been the tying goal for the Badgers, sending the Badgers into crazed exultation. However, upon video review, the goal was disallowed, starting a raucous celebration in the Pioneers' end and looks of disbelief in the Badgers' end. The referees ruled that time had expired.
"I had no idea," said Pioneers coach George Gwozdecky after the game, questioned about whether he thought the goal would be disallowed.
"The one reason that our coaches in this league and administration, and the referees especially, pushed so hard and for so long for a very expensive but effective tool like instant replay was to get the call right. It's tough when it goes against you, no question about it, but as tough as it is, you can't argue against it."
"Without question," said Badgers coach Mike Eaves, when asked if it was the most disappointed the Badgers have felt all season. "They deserved better. They needed that point for their own health and well-being."
The Pioneers dominated the first period in almost all aspects. Cody Brookwell set the tone early, ringing a shot off the post at the 15 second mark of the period.The Pioneers continued to buzz in the offensive zone, while the Badgers struggled to get any pressure on Mannino.
"The first half of the game, we came out flying, got a lot of opportunities and put a lot of pucks on net," said Pioneers' freshman forward Kyle Ostrow, who had two assists.
Senior Tom May got the Pioneers on the board with a beautiful play. Standing on the boards at the red line, Rhett Rakhshani backhanded a pass cross ice to May, who cut to his right around Badgers' defenseman Ryan McDonagh at the blue line, skated down low and lifted the puck top shelf glove side past Badgers' goalie Shane Connelly at 7:20.
The Pioneers quickly built on that lead. Dustin Jackson carried the puck into the Badgers' zone, but had it poke checked away from him. The puck went back towards the blue line and sat there. Jackson started back to retrieve it, but Ostrow came across the blue line with speed and picked it up, then slipped a pass through the Badgers' defense to Anthony Maiani all alone at the right side of the net. Maiani redirected the pass through Connelly's legs at 9:58.
"We were just racing for it, and I called for it 'cause I was going towards the net," said Ostrow. "I was going to shoot, but then I saw Maiani back door and just tried to get it to him and it snuck through and it got in."
With about seven minutes left in the period, Tyler Bozak stepped up and crushed Kyle Turris at the Wisconsin blue line, knocking Turris to the ice. Bozak battled Turris for the scoring title last year in the BCHL, a title Bozak ultimately won.
"They definitely had the pace a little bit," said Eaves. "It looked like we were kind of looking at each other like, who's going to get the job done here, and then eventually we kind of kicked into gear and everybody started doing their part."
Late in the period, the Badgers started to generate some pressure, but Mannino made big stops, first robbing Sean Dolan with his right pad, then stoning Turris' doorstep attempt from the left side post on a power play.
The big hits continued in the second period. Rakhshani leveled Ben Street at the Wisconsin blue line right in front of the Pioneers' bench early in the second.
Wisconsin finally started to get good chances as the period progressed. Kyle Klubertanz rang a shot off the crossbar from the top of the slot, and Aaron Bendickson broke in on a two-on-none after Andrew Thomas misplayed the puck at the Pioneers' blue line, but Bendickson lifted a backhand high over the crossbar.
The Pioneers broke through on a power play to make it 3-0 on a perfect play. Brock Trotter backhanded a pass to Ostrow at the left side boards, and Ostrow and Tyler Ruegsegger broke in two-on-one. Ostrow held the puck till he was low, then sent a perfect pass through the crease to Ruegsegger, who tapped it into the open net at 4:28.
"We weren't very happy with our first," said Turris. "We came back and started getting it going in the second, and in the third we really competed."
Wisconsin finally solved Mannino on a power play at 18:34 of the period. The Pioneers almost had a chance to break in two-on-one shorthanded, but they misplayed the puck at their blue line, allowing the Badgers to keep the pressure on.
Bendickson finally made them pay. Turris fired a shot from the blue line that was blocked by Jesse Martin, who was visibly in pain, but the rebound came right back to Turris, and Bendickson, right outside the crease, tipped the shot through Mannino's legs.
"With a couple minutes left in the second, they get a late goal like that and it puts them back in the game where they had nothing going for them," said Ostrow. "They took that momentum and brought it into the third and we were scrambling a bit."
Wisconsin carried the momentum from their goal into the third period, keeping the Pioneers pinned in their own end for the first two minutes. Denver looked tired, and the Badgers made them pay early when John Mitchell got the puck in the left corner, started towards the back of the net and flipped a pass in front to Dolan, whose shot had just enough to beat Mannino low glove side at 1:55 of the period.
"Hockey games, you've got to play 60 minutes," said Ruegsegger. "We felt we played a good period and a half, and then we started getting away from the things we were doing well and give them credit, they worked extremely hard, and they fought their way back."
"That was one of the positives without question, they never gave up," said Eaves. "They battled for each other, they battled for themselves, and it gave them a chance to get back in the game."
The Badgers continued to bottle up the Pioneers in their own end for long stretches, and it looked like the bigger physical presence of the Badgers had an impact on the smaller Pioneers.
"I think they tried to use it, finishing checks and stuff," said Ostrow of the Badgers' size. "I think our speed out managed them a bit today, but they do have size."
"I don't know if we tired, but they put an awful lot of pressure on us, especially on their forecheck," said Gwozdecky. "At times, we made some very strange decisions with the puck. It all started in the second period with us getting reckless with the puck. Their forecheck really at times bottled us up in the third period."
With just 30 seconds left in the game, Ruegsegger carried the puck into the Badgers' end and had an open net to shoot it, but shot high and wide. The Badgers carried it into the neutral zone, but Chris Butler got the puck with less than 10 seconds to play and had a chance to carry it, but iced it, setting up a faceoff to the left of Mannino with 2.7 seconds left.
Turris and Bozak squared off, and Bozak tried to tie Turris up, but Turris got it back and the puck came to Ford in the slot, but it was too late.
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Of 131 participating laboratories 86 % achieved a sufficient mark.
In table 1 the antibodies (Abs) used and marks are summarized.
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1) Proportion of sufficient stains
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Following protocol parameters were central to obtain an optimal
staining: Concentrated Abs mAb clone 23A3: Protocols giving an optimal result were all based on
heat induced epitope retrieval (HIER) using either Target Retrieval
Solution pH 9 (3-in-1) (TRS pH 9;Dako) (8/18)*, Bond Epitope
Retrieval Solution 2 (BERS2; Leica) (6/9), Cell Conditioning 1
(CC1; Ventana) (8/25), Tris-EDTA/EGTA pH 9 (2/10) or Bond
Epitope Retrieval Solution 1 (BERS1; Leica) (1/3)as the
retrieval buffer. The mAb was typically diluted in the range of
1:10-1:75 depending on the total sensitivity of the protocol
employed. Using these protocol settings 30 of 34 (88 %) laboratories
produced a sufficient staining (optimal or good).
* (number of optimal results/number of laboratories using this
buffer)mAb clone D6: Protocols giving an optimal result were all based on HIER using either Tris pH 9 (1/1), BERS2 (Bond, Leica) (1/1), CC1 ( Ventana) (1/1) or Tris-EDTA/EGTA pH 9 (1/1) as the retrieval buffer.
The mAb was typically diluted in the range of 1:4-1:100 depending on
the total sensitivity of the protocol employed. Using these protocol
settings 6 of 7 (86 %) laboratories produced a sufficient staining.rmAb EP1582Y: Protocol giving an optimal result was based on HIER
with CC1 (Ventana) (1/1) as the retrieval buffer. The
rmAb was diluted 1:1.000 and OptiView (Ventana, 760-700) was used as
detection system. Ready-To-Use Abs mAb clone 23A3 (product.no. IS / IR077, Dako): Protocols giving an
optimal result were based on HIER in PT-Link using TRS pH 9 (3-in-1)
or TRS pH 9 (heating time 10-30 min at 95-97°C), 20 min incubation
of the primary Ab and EnVision FLEX/FLEX+ (K8000/K8002) as detection
system. Using these protocol settings 20 of 20 (100 %) laboratories
produced a sufficient staining (optimal or good).rmAb clone
EP1582Y (prod. no. 760-4386, Ventana): Protocols giving
an optimal result were all based on HIER using mild or standard CC1,
8-36 min incubation of the primary Ab and UltraView (760-500) or
OptiView (760-700) as detection system. Using these protocol
settings 15 of 16 (94 %) laboratories produced a sufficient staining
(optimal or good).The most frequent causes of insufficient stains were:
- Too low concentration of the primary antibody - Use of low sensitive detection systems.
In concordance with the previous NordiQC assessment for GCDFP, the
prominent feature of an insufficient staining was a too weak or
false negative staining of structures expected to be demonstrated.
The majority of laboratories were able to demonstrate GCDFP in
apocrine metaplastic cells and the majority of neoplastic cells of
the breast carcinomas no. 2, 4 and 5. Demonstration of GCDFP in
normal ductal epithelial cells of the hyperplastic breast specimen
and in particular neoplastic cells of breast carcinoma no. 3 was
more challenging and required an optimally calibrated protocol.
A sufficient result (optimal or good) could be obtained with all the
clones used. In this assessment 126 of 131 participants used HIER.
49 of 50 optimal protocols were based on the use of an alkaline HIER
buffer. Applied as a concentrate with an in-house calibrated system,
the most widely used Abs were the mAb clones 23A3 and D6 showing a
relative high pass rate of 81% and 82%, respectively. The proportion of sufficient results was influenced by the choice of
the detection system used. If the mAb clone 23A3 was used as a
concentrate and applied with a 2-step polymer-/multimer-based
detection system (EnVision FLEX (Dako) or UltraView (Ventana)), 74%
(28/38) of laboratories obtained a sufficient staining result, and
22 % were optimal. If same protocol settings were applied with a more
sensitive 3-step polymer-/multimer-based detection system (EnVision
FLEX+ (Dako), Bond Refine (Leica) or OptiView (Ventana)), 94 %
(29/31) of the laboratories obtained a sufficient
staining result and 55% obtained an optimal mark. Compared to the overall pass rate of 86%, the pass
rate was significant lower for the participants using a biotin based
detection systems, as 6 out of 10 laboratories obtained an
sufficient staining result (60%) out of which none was assessed as
optimal. 11 participants used the mAb clone D6 as a concentrate of which 3
protocols were based on proteolytic digestion and 2 protocols used
no pre-treatment at all. Of the protocols based on non-HIER, 4 out
of 5 laboratories produced a sufficient staining result (80%) but
none (0%) were assessed as optimal, as an excessive background
staining typically was seen compromising the interpretation. Of the
remaining 6 protocols, all based on HIER, 4 out of 6 laboratories
produced a sufficient staining result (67%) and all (100%) were
assessed as optimal. The slightly lower pass rate, compared to
participants using non-HIER, was caused by use of less sensitive
protocol settings as too low concentration of the primary Ab and/or
insufficient HIER.The most successful and robust assay for GCDFP in this assessment
was obtained by the Dako RTU format based on mAb clone 23A3 (IS /
IR077) giving a pass rate of 100% (20/20) of which 50% were assessed
as optimal. The Ventana/Cell Marque RTU format based on rmAb clone EP1582Y
(760-4386) also provided a high pass rate of 94% (17/18) out of
which 53% (10/18) were assessed as optimal.ControlsNormal skin is the preferred positive control for GCDFP. The
epithelial cells of the eccrine sweat glands must show an as strong
as possible positive cytoplasmic staining reaction, while all other
cells should be negative. As in this assessment, normal breast
tissue can also be used as control in which scattered epithelial
cells of the ductal glands must show an as strong as possible
staining reaction. For both skin and breast tissue a weak to moderate background
staining in the vicinity of a strong staining reaction must be
accepted due to antigen diffusion – an aberrant nuclear staining
reaction in these areas may also be observed and has to be accepted.
It has to be emphasized that the number and intensity of the ductal
epithelial cells may vary throughout these two tissues.Effect of external quality assessment
This was the second assessment of GCDFP in NordiQC. A significant
increase in the proportion of sufficient results was observed
compared to the previous run 25 (Table 2).
Table 2:
Proportion of sufficient results for GCDFP
Participants, n=
Sufficient results
The pass rate of 87 % in this assessment was high and was obtained
despite many new laboratories participating for the first time. The
explanation could be due to several factors including extended use
of properly calibrated commercially available RTU formats or less
challenging tissue material circulated. ConclusionThe mAb clones
23A3, D6 and the rmAb clone EP1582Y are all
recommendable Abs for GCDFP. Efficient HIER in an alkaline buffer in
combination with a sensitive and specific IHC system is mandatory
for optimal performance. Biotin based detection systems can not be
recommended due to a reduced sensitivity and the risk of a false
positive staining reaction caused by endogenous biotin. In this
assessment the Ready-To-Use systems based on the mAb clone 23A3 from Dako and rmAb clone
EP1582Y from Ventana or Cell Marque gave the
highest proportion of sufficient results. Normal skin is an appropriate control: The epithelial cells of the
eccrine sweat glands must show the strongest possible cytoplasmic
reaction, while all other cells should be negative. A weak
background staining can be expected.


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Link Group
At the Link Group you will have the opportunity to spend time with local senior citizens, take part in activities, listen to interesting talks, get creative and make things, and last but not least make some new friends. The Link Group is full of characters who love to chat to you!
You need to be:
• Friendly
• Chatty
• A good laugh
• Reliable
• Committed
• Fun
• Have the ability to make tea and wash up!
What activities do the group do?
• Games and quizzes, bingo and family fortunes
• Physical activities such as Ten–Pin Bowling and Indoor Bowling
• Craft activities such as Card making, Painting and biscuit decorating
• Talks from staff and external speakers such as The History of York, Exotic Holidays and the Fire Brigade
• Christmas meal/Summer Trip
• Visits from (or visits to) other PDP groups such as Debating, Badminton and Masterchef
What do you have to do?
• Be ready to start at 1.25 p.m.
• Set out chairs and tables
• Set up the kitchen, ready for tea and cake
• Chat to the members
• Join in the weekly activities
• Maybe plan and organise an activity (and lead it if you feel able)
• Make and serve the tea
• Collect the tea money
• Help to clear up
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Germany Molds Willing Europe in Its Own Likeness
Germany is reshaping Europe in its own image to a degree that would have been unthinkable not that long ago.
And incredibly, its actions appear to have the support of most Europeans.
That may be partly because its current leaders—a woman, a disabled elderly man, a Vietnamese immigrant and an openly gay man—don't project raw Teutonic power.
A survey published Tuesday by polling institute TNS Sofres found that a large majority of French people think the European Union should have more control over national budgets.
That indicates strong support for the German-led "'fiscal compact," which aims to boost fiscal discipline among EU states and impose tough sanctions on fiscal sinners, even if French Presidential challenger Francois Hollande has stated his opposition to the pact.
Last week, 25 of the EU's 27 states signed up to the accord. Support is such that Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and Italy's technocrat leader Mario Monti have reportedly agreed not to meet Mr. Hollande because of his said opposition.
Still, public opinion polls show French people have more faith in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's crisis leadership than in that of their own President, Nicolas Sarkozy.
That undoubtedly reflects admiration of Germany's success in weathering the crisis as well as a growing reliance on the country's top-notch credit rating.
The French can only but bear witness to a Germanic export engine purring, sending goods and services to the Far East and the U.S., and offering near full employment to a satisfied worker base.
Economic, rather than perceived military, hegemony could show that Europe's long-held fear of German dominance is fading as the debt crisis rolls on.
This new confidence in Germany is arguably boosted by the fact that its leaders do not project raw power.
Angela Merkel is the first woman to become German Chancellor, as well as the first citizen of the poorer, formerly communist East Germany to hold the role. Moreover, her leadership style is interpreted in parts as being modest and consensus-seeking, far from the Margaret Thatcher mold.
Ms. Merkel's finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, is an avuncular 69-year-old who has been unable to walk since an assassination attempt in 1990. Her Vice Chancellor and economics minister, Philipp Roesler, is a Vietnamese immigrant who was adopted as an infant by a German couple. Meanwhile, her foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, is openly gay.
Clearly, perceptions of Germany's leaders aren't the only factors behind diminished fears of Teutonic dominance. And such perceptions are more mixed in Greece, where newspapers regularly publish portraits of Ms. Merkel and Mr. Schaeuble in Nazi attire.
Still, Germany might have had more difficulty in selling its ideas if it were run by outspoken men in the mold of former Bundesbank president Axel Weber.
Todd Buell in Frankfurt contributed to this article.


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Nationally renowned folk/bluegrass singer/songwriter, Phil Rosenthal, will make a solo appearance tonight at Cafe Nine in New Haven,CT tonight. Rosenthal was the founding member of the legendary bluegrass band, The Seldom Scene. He has written a number of songs for various recording artists, including Johnny Cash. He is an accomplished instrumentalist as well, versatile on banjo and mandolin.
Rosenthal concurred that there is a renaissance of bluegrass/folk music in the state now, "It never disappears, and it becomes wildly popular.Right now there's more interest than I can remember."
The price of admission is $10 for the 7pm show. Don't miss out on a great night of bluegrass music from this CT troubador!


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LAREDO, TEXAS (KGNS) -- A Laredo ISD teacher is out of the classroom and under investigation for an incident that happened in his classroom.
Some Martin High School students used their phones to take video of teacher, Hilario Cavazos, after his pants allegedly fell.
Students and parents complained about the incident and Cavazos has been placed on administrative leave, while the district looks into the matter.
Cavazo's attorney says his client did nothing wrong.
The incident happened last week.
No charges have been filed against Cavazos.
He is being paid during his administrative leave.


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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – A Jill Kelley, Bubba the Love Sponge feud was launched by General Petraeus, new emails revealed. Did General Petraeus hire Jill Kelley to go after Bubba the Love Sponge? Yes, new emails reveal. Petraeus used Jill Kelley to go after Bubba the Love Sponge after the radio host planned to deep fat fry a Koran on air. Kelly then went after Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn to get involved. And she even got her "sweetheart" General John Allen involved.
For weeks, news analyst have been trying to determine why Jill Kelley reported roughly six emails from Paula Broadwell to the FBI, rather than calling up Holly Petraeus. And questions have surrounded why did Jill Kelley exchange thirty thousand emails to her "sweetheart" General John Allen in two years.
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Today, there is more clarity. Kelley just apparently has a propensity to send lots of emails to political leaders, even about Bubba the Love Sponge, than previously known. And some of these emails were requested by General Petraeus.
Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn told news Friday that his office found sixty pages of emails from Jill Kelley. But some of them feature Kelley tells Buckhorn that General Petraeus has enlisted her to go after Bubba the Love Sponge .
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In it she writes "This Bubba the Love Sponge is a complete moron". She took issue with Bubba's intention to deep fat fry a Koran. But Kelley was not alone. She claims that General David Petraeus urged her to get the episode halted. "I have Petraeus & Allen both emailing me about getting this dealt with", she told Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn in an email. Apparently, even Vice Admiral Robert Harward was contacting Jill Kelley to stop a Bubba the Love Sponge antic.
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In another email she wrote "I just got off the phone with Gen. Allen & Adm Harward. I'm going to need your assistance, vice versa with the potential crises we'll be dealing with."
"It was absolutely a concern," Lt. Col. T.G. Taylor said in an interview with NBC News this weekend. Taylor said he called Bubba and got the antic stopped. He reportedly told the host "Look Bubba, somebody's going to get hurt if you do this." He tells news that Bubba was "completely reasonable and said he understood."


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...How was the cuneiform script deciphered?
Dear Mr. B. P.,
It was very good to hear from you, and to learn that you are finding the website of value.
I'll try to summarize the way in which the cuneiform script was deciphered. In a sense, it was done through guess work; by a somewhat more favorable description it was done by methods comparable to those in archeology.
You know that copies of the inscriptions were being brought to Europe at the end of the 18th century, more in the 19th, and that various scholars tried to read them. It was clear that Persepolis inscriptions were written in three types of cuneiform. The simplest type was found to have 42 signs. So specialists like Grotefend set out to try to read it.
From patterning of the signs they decided that, at the beginning of the inscriptions, there were repeated combinations of symbols that were partially the same. On the basis of knowledge of forms of reference to rulers in the Middle East, they decided that these combinations meant 'king of kings'.
They also knew the names of the great Persian rulers, Hystaspes, Darius, Xerxes. They then assumed that the inscriptions would begin with a sequence like "Darius, king of kings...son of Hystaspes...," "Xerxes..."
As you have noted, they first assumed that the cuneiform signs coresponded to letters. In time, comparing the Sanskrit syllabary, they found that correspondence to syllables would be more accurate. So they proposed these for the inscriptions that had only 42 signs, and then moved from the signs in the sequences like that cited above to determine the value of the other signs, and thus identified that inscription as Old Persian. They enlarged the number of identified signs in the two other inscriptions as at Behistun, and in this way identified the other two languages, finding that the inscription with the largest number of different signs was Babylonian. Gradually identifying all the signs in it provided access to all the cuneiform tablets and inscriptions, and full knowledge of the cuneiform system of writing was obtained.
With best wishes, W. P. L.


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Archive for May, 2012
Find Interleague Records and Head-to-Head Histories Using the Play Index
Did you know that you can use the B-R Play Index to search for information regarding interleague play? With games between leagues starting later this week, here are a handful of PI tricks:
* Search for great single-game or multigame player/team performances using the Game Finders. This lets you find trivia like the all-time winningest career pitchers in interleague play.
* Use the Streak Finders to look for long streaks in interleague games.
* Query franchise head-to-head records using the Head to Head Finder. This allows you to search for lists like the Mets' records vs. each opponent since 1997, which includes all of their interleague games.
* The Situational Finder can search teams' records in interleague games and find items like the teams who had the best interleague records in a single season.
Give them a try, and learn something new about interleague play.
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2012 Japanese and Independent American Leagues Updated Daily – Baseball-Reference.com
2012 Japan Central League / Japan Pacific League / Atlantic League / Pecos League / All 2012 Leagues Covered
Starting today, we will be updating statistics for Nippon Pro Baseball and American independent leagues, like the Atlantic League, on a daily basis. Hope you enjoy this one of a kind feature on Baseball-Reference.com. Because you know you want to follow Lastings Milledge of the 2012 Yakult Swallows.
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Player Twitter Accounts
As with baseball and basketball, we've now added player Twitter account links to player pages. Let us know if we're missing anybody.
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WAR Comparison Chart by Site- Baseball-Reference.com
WAR Comparison Chart - Baseball-Reference.com
Colin Wyers was kind enough to fill this out for WARP, so I've added WARP to the comparison chart and also split it off onto its own page for easy linking. If you want to know why numbers are different from one site to the next, this explains why.
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WAR 2.1, Fixed Runs to Wins for Pitchers and More
WAR 2.1, Baseball-Reference.com WAR Explained
As some noticed in our last update to WAR. Pitchers were being significantly bumped up in value. This was due primarily to a change in our runs to win calculation. After some consultation with noted, anonymous sabermetricians Tom Tango and Patriot, we worked out a more sophisticated approach that still accounts for the player's effect on the run environment, but doesn't overvalue the contribution of stellar pitchers. We've added a new page to run through the changes we've made when converting from runs to wins. Converting Runs to Wins.
There are a few other changes that have been made as well.
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Greg Spira Baseball Research Award
From the award's website...
A group of distinguished baseball writers and researchers have collaborated to create a new award as a memorial to the late baseball researcher Greg Spira. The new Greg Spira Baseball Research Award (www.SpiraAward.org) will be given annually in recognition of the best published article or paper containing original baseball research by a person 30 years old or younger. The winning entry must display innovative analysis or reasoning.
Greg Spira founded the annual Internet Baseball Awards (IBA) in 1991 and announced the 2011 winners a month before his death. The IBA are now maintained by Baseball Prospectus at www.baseballprospectus.com/iba. Spira was an early adopter and a pioneer in using the Internet to advance baseball analysis, particularly via Usenet's groundbreaking rec.sport.baseball as well as via BaseballProspectus.com.
Spira later contributed to many sports books as a researcher, writer, and editor, including the ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, the ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia, Total Baseball, and several annual periodicals about the Mets. A lifelong and passionate Mets fan, Spira died on December 28, 2011 in his native New York City.
Working with the Spira family, the creators of the Greg Spira Award include Sean Forman of Baseball- Reference.com, Joe Hamrahi and Dave Pease of Baseball Prospectus, Sean Lahman of Baseball1.com, and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball, L.L.C.
The winner of the Greg Spira Baseball Research Award will receive a cash prize of $1,000. The program will also recognize two additional writers with awards of $200 for second place and $100 for third place.
Articles or papers eligible for consideration include those published on the World Wide Web, in e-books, and in print, as well as academic dissertations and presentations at conferences. Winners of the Greg Spira Award will not be eligible for consideration for future awards.
The inaugural Greg Spira Baseball Research Award winner will be announced on April 27, 2013--the 46th anniversary of Greg's birthday. Future awards will be announced on April 27 of succeeding years.
A seven-person panel of judges will determine the winner. Greg's brother Jonathan Spira has agreed to serve as one of the initial judges for the Award. Deadlines and procedures for submissions will be announced on June 1, 2012.
Remembrances, tributes, and other information about Greg Spira can also be found on these Web sites:
- www.GregSpira.com
- www.BaseballProspectus.com
- www.Baseball-Reference.com
- www.Baseball1.com
- www.247Baseball.com
For more information, please go to www.SpiraAward.org or contact Gary Gillette (GilletteAT247Baseball.com).
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WAR 2.01: Renaming ndWAR to afWAR
The change from oWAR and dWAR to ndWAR and dWAR is confusing folks, so I'm making an additional change.
afWAR => Average-Fielding-WAR. The player's WAR if they were a league average fielder, or what you should use if you trust no fielding metrics.
dWAR => Defensive WAR thanks to fielding and position.
afWAR = batting + baserunning + DP's + replacement + position
dWAR = fielding + position
afWAR + dWAR does not equal WAR as you'll be double counting the position adjustment. And on a team level you shouldn't be using WAR anyway to determine what your team is good or bad at.
I'll start adding version numbers as I make tweaks to the system. This one changes no numbers, so it really is just a naming convention.
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WAR 2.0: WAR Upgraded on Baseball-Reference.com
Baseball-Reference.com WAR Explained - Baseball-Reference.com
As many have noticed, we have not been updating the 2012 WAR data in-season. The reason for this is that we have been working on a major upgrade to our WAR framework. The link above gives a very detailed rundown including: how to compute each part of our WAR formula, our reasoning on making the changes, downloads for historical WAR data, charts of the various constants and factors we use, and a chart of differences between the new B-R WAR, the old B-R WAR and FanGraphs WAR.
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Lawyers and unions have disputed NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell's claims that his changes to WorkCover aren't retrospective, saying workers with existing claims will be affected by the compensation overhaul.
Mr O'Farrell flatly denied the WorkCover reforms are retrospective, a day after the controversial changes passed the lower house.
"The changes simply mean if the parliament passes the laws, the laws come into effect from the day the government signs off on them and from that moment on they take effect," he told ABC radio on Wednesday.
Mr O'Farrell compared it to speeding fines.
"You find the week after we put them up the people who got fined two weeks earlier do it under the other regime," he told ABC radio.
However, Unions NSW secretary Mark Lennon said the premier had demonstrated he didn't understand the legislation by saying the changes weren't retrospective.
Mr Lennon pointed to schedule 12, clause three of the new laws, which he said clearly stated the changes could be applied retrospectively.
That clause says the changes extend to an injury suffered before the "the commencement of the amendment", and "a claim for compensation made before the commencement of the amendment".
"This is cruel, retrospective legislation that pulls the rug from under sick and injured workers," Mr Lennon said in a statement.
"We know of specific cases where grieving widows who were set to seek compensation for nervous shock will now be denied the right to even make a claim."
Under the government's long-awaited reforms, unveiled on Tuesday, medical expenses and benefits will be capped, benefits reduced after 13 weeks, and claims for injury on journeys to and from work will also be abolished.
The changes adopt many of the recommendations of a parliamentary inquiry which last week called for major changes to rein in a deficit of more than $4 billion.
The changes are expected to pass through the state's upper house later on Wednesday.
Sydney-based personal injury lawyer Ivan Simic said the laws were retrospective and workers who'd made claims under the old regime would be immediately affected.
"It's going to affect the vast majority," he told AAP.
"The starting point for the legislation is that it applies to all injuries and claims that were made before the date of the commencement of the Act."
Mr Simic said the only people who would be exempt from the changes were police officers and coal miners.
"If you're a police officer good on ya - you've got a gold pass," he said.
Chair of Stacks Law Firm, Maurie Stack, said the retrospective changes would "hit the poorest and most vulnerable members of the community".
"The retrospective aspects of the changes are completely unfair and against all legal principles," Mr Stack said in a statement.
"Most of the changes take force immediately."
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|Vandals swimmers cap phenomenal weekend
HOUSTON, Texas - It may not be possible for Idaho swimming and diving coach Mark Sowa to be happier after his fourth meet as the Vandals' head coach. His young team went on a record-setting spree at the University of Houston Cougar Classic to finish seventh with 340 points with strong swims and dives throughout the ranks.
"This program took a nice step forward this weekend," Sowa said. "We competed very well against some really good teams and our athletes fed off of each other's successes. I like the direction this team is taking and I'm confident we can continue to see more improvement.
"It's a good day to be a Vandal."
Saturday's final day of competition netted one more school record for Rachel Millet, Idaho's freshman phenom out of Spokane's Ferris High School. With her 50.46 knocking .76 off of Alyson O'Brien's 2009 mark, she earned a fourth-place finish in the 100 freestyle and her fourth school record of the meet. She also recorded Vandal record times in the 100 fly, 200 free and 50 free.
Junior diver Paige Hunt made the most of a rare opportunity to compete on the platform. Her 199 gave her a third-place finish in the event.
"What's possibly even more exciting is the number of best times across the entire team," Sowa said.