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OAKLAND -- Almost a year after Jose Lumbreras killed his girlfriend and her 6-year-old son in a drunk-driving accident, the UC Berkeley master's graduate admitted the crimes in court.
Rather than face a jury trial, Lumbreras, 25, pleaded no contest and was found guilty of two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and now faces up to 12 years in prison.
Lumbreras was found guilty of killing his girlfriend, Milanca Lopez, 22, and her son, Xavier, on May 18, 2012, by driving his Cadillac into a tree at about 65 mph.
The accident occurred at the intersection of California Street and Allston Way in Berkeley just after Lumbreras and Lopez picked up Xavier from a baby sitter.
It also occurred after the couple had spent the evening drinking in celebration of their graduations. Lumbreras had just graduated with a master's degree, and Lopez had just graduated with a bachelor's degree. Lumbreras' blood-alcohol level was 0.16 percent, two times the legal limit.
"He has never denied responsibility for the accident, the injuries and the death," said Paul Wolf, Lumbreras' defense attorney. "This is a nightmare, a tragic case all the way around."
Lopez was killed instantly when Lumbreras crashed the 1999 Cadillac, and her son died a week later after family members decided to take him off life support.
Lumbreras spent two months in the hospital with two broken legs and bleeding in his brain before he was taken to Santa Rita Jail on two charges of gross vehicular manslaughter.
Attorneys trying the case were scheduled to select a jury Wednesday, but Lumbreras decided to plead to the counts charged to avoid what promised to be an emotionally devastating trial.
Deputy district attorney Luis Marin said his office accepted Lumbreras plea because it resulted in him being found guilty of the crimes.
"With the plea, we are where we would have been with two guilty verdicts," Marin said. "The trial runs a risk."
Although Lumbreras has taken responsibility, questions about his punishment remain as Alameda County Superior Court Judge Thomas Reardon must decide if Lumbreras gets the maximum 12 years in prison, the minimum of probation or something in between.
Marin said he will request the maximum sentence while Wolf said he will argue for something less.


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- Smoking allowed
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Apartments Jadro can offer you 2 newly renovated studio apartments in more than 500 years old authentic Dalmatian stone house, which is located in a quiet street, and it takes only 3-5 min leisure walk to the old city core (the Diocletian's Palace and Riva Promenade) and main city beach.
You will find everything you need within 100 metres. There is a supermarket, bars and restaurants, a bank and ATM, an exchange office, a pharmacy and a green market where you can shop for fresh, home-grown fruit and vegetables.
You can also find many night bars in the vicinity, as most of them are situated at the beach and in the city core.
Main bus and train station, as well as ferry port are only 5-10 min walk from the apartments. The city bus line station is also 3 min walk.
There is no private parking place, but the car can be left in the street where the apartments are situated, since you can always find a free spot there.
Apartments Jadro can offer you 2 newly renovated studio apartments. Each of them can accomodate 2 perons.
They are equipped with an air-conditioner, Cable TV, Wireless Internet, a microvawe oven, dishes and cutlery, towels and sheets.
Baby cot is available upon request.
Everything is included in the price.
Tourist fee is also included in the price.
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We stayed 4 days at Rina's appartment and really liked it. It's perfect for a short stay for 1 or 2 people. It is very tidy and everything you need is there.
My boyfriend and I spent a week in this wonderful,little apartment.There's everything you need in there and it was very clean when we arrived.Rina was really nice and helpful and if you need anything you can easily contact her.
I would definetly go back there.
The only thing is,that the apartment is a bit dark sometimes and it's pretty much for staying alone or as a couple,cause it's quite small.
Bonjour aux futurs vacanciers qui se rendront dans ce super appartement ,
placé au bon endroit par rapport à la visite de la ville, et au départ pour de belles excursions dans les iles.
Rina est très accueillante et de bons conseils, et en plus, vous aurez droit à son sourire merveilleux.Merci à elle!!!
Appartamento piccolo ma perfetto. Ben realizzato e mantenuto, e completo di ogni elettrodomestico. Per essere nel centro storico è davvero una bella location.
Ciao Rina
Nice apartment and friendly host. It was easy to communicate with her and make needed arrangements even if I arrived quite late at night.
I was in a romantic trip with my squeeze and it was just fantastic. First of all, beautiful white stone bright house, right at the heart of Split. Rina is an absolutely sweetheart and gave us all kind of help, advise and facilities. It was that good that we swap plans after visit Hvar Island to stay one more night in Split (what a city!!)and we went straight to Rina who offered us a even better room. Me and my lady will be back in Dalmatia and surely will go again to Rina's. Probably one of the best deals Location/ facilities/price in town. 100% recommendable
We had a lovely time in Split and this apartment was great! Nice, clean, newly renovated, 5 minutes from both the Old Town centre and the beach - everything as it was advertised. Rina, the host was extremely kind and helpful - we highly recommend her place!
There's not a single negative thing to say!!! The apartment was comfortable and cosy, it was as clean as just beeing renovated. Apart from that, it's literally IN the center of the city but other than hearing some locals laughing, there's no noise at all. Besides, Rina is very helpful and uncomplicated. We had a great time, we'll definitely come back. Thanks!
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Its already started , lies to Dawson my captain etcavb a vacuous bullshi**er !!Get rid of him now and that kin idiot who hired himLevy !!!
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H-P CEO Meg Whitman Reiterates Caution on PCs, Europe
Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Meg Whitman said her company isn't ready to raise guidance despite stronger-than-expected results reported Thursday, calling recent earnings a "very good deposit" toward management's long-term goal to revive the struggling technology company.
Ms. Whitman also reiterated the company's commitment to keeping its massive collection of hardware, software and services businesses under one roof rather than splitting the company, as some analysts have suggested.
"I am convinced that we should not break up this company," Ms. Whitman said in a Friday morning interview on CNBC. The executive last year rebuked a proposal her predecessor floated in 2011 to spin off H-P's shrinking personal-computer business.
The segment that holds PC sales continued to decline in the latest quarter, weakening along with H-P's other major segments, except for the financing unit. Ms. Whitman has cast 2013 as a rebuilding year, warning she doesn't expect overall revenue to re-accelerate until next fiscal year.
"We've got a long way to go," she said, adding the company would avoid getting "out ahead of our skis" by raising its core full-year profit target. H-P has said it expects to earn $3.40 to $3.60 a share this fiscal year, though its current quarter range of 80 cents to 82 cents a share topped analysts' average target of 77 cents.
Ms. Whitman cited challenges facing the PC business as reason for caution, in addition to H-P's server business in slow-growing Europe, where the company holds a dominant market share.
"When Europe is soft, we're disproportionately affected in that business," she said.
H-P shares recently rose 7.4% to $18.37. The stock is still off 37% over the past 12 months.
Earlier Friday UBS raised its rating on H-P to neutral. "Although a number of businesses remain under pressure, the company's blocking and tackling is improving, and the likelihood of the bottom falling out appears diminished," the firm wrote.


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I already had my dough fermenting on the counter when I made this decision. You see, while I was waiting for the dough to rise, I was reading through my daily blog roll and found a fantastic recipe for pizza buns at Baker's Banter, King Arthur Flour's web blog. Pizza dough is rolled out and cheese and whatever toppings you like are sprinkled over the top before rolling the dough into a log and slicing it into cinnamon roll-like slices. The rolls are then partially baked before adding pizza sauce and more cheese. After returning to the oven to finish baking, these rolls are cheesy, saucy bundles of pizza goodness. I'm not kidding you, this is perhaps my favorite recipe find of the year! You're going to love these.
Pizza Buns (adapted from Baker's Banter)
1 1/2 lbs bread/pizza dough
2 tsp olive oil
1/2 onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
4 oz. turkey pepperoni, diced
3/4 cup green olives, diced
1 cup pizza sauce
3 cups mozzarella cheese, divided
Heat olive oil in a skillet. Add onions and saute to soften, 5-6 minutes. Add garlic and saute another minute or two. Remove from heat and cool to room temperature.


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(Before I got started, I boiled 2 small chicken breasts and then diced them up into chunks)
Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
Spray 10 muffin cups with nonstick vegetable spray. Place a biscuit in each muffin cup; press down and 1/4 of the way up the sides.
Spoon chicken mixture into biscuit cups, filling about 3/4 full.
I overfilled some of my cups and the mixture did bubble over a bit but it didn't affect the taste at all and it was still easy to get the pot pies out.
Bake for about 15 minutes (until bubbly and biscuits are golden).
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My fellow citizens: If you are like most Americans, a toothbrush, a tube of toothpaste and a spool of dental floss are long-standing incumbents in your bathroom cabinet.
During Dental Hygiene Month, another candidate, mouthrinse (also known as mouthwash), is vying for a spot beside the aforementioned daily use products. Should you welcome it to this exclusive club?
For its part, mouthrinse has long campaigned on a cosmetic platform of simply reducing or eliminating bad breath and making your mouth feel fresh. The cosmetic mouthrinse caucus has a large and loyal following. People who use it like that it eliminates bad breath, morning mouth and pesky food particles when used after meals, and that it promises to meld easily into your morning or evening routine. These are noble ideals.
More recently, a new ideology, therapeutic mouthrinse, has tried to distance itself from the cosmetic party line. Therapeutic mouthrinse has on its slate active ingredients like fluoride to fight cavities, and anti-microbial agents (such as hydrogen peroxide) to combat plaque, gingivitis and other gum diseases.
Every candidate has its critics, however, and mouthrinse is no different. Some point out that cosmetic mouthwash has too limited an agenda, that it just masks bad breath but doesn't reduce cavities, gingivitis or plaque. Others have questioned the harmful effects of some mouthrinse products' high concentration of alcohol content (ranging anywhere from 6.6 percent to 26.9 percent). A small but vocal contingent believes that factor could be a risk for oral cancer, but so far the overall evidence does not support that conclusion.
These criticisms have led mouthwash to position itself as a dental hygiene populist product that can appeal to all people, introducing non-alcoholic varieties to please even the harshest critics. It has also rolled out exciting new flavors (like cinnamon, bubblegum and orange) to appeal to a block of voters who want fresh breath but desire more than just the taste of mint.
"Mouthrinses are not a substitute for brushing or flossing but they might be a useful addition to your daily oral hygiene routine," said Dr. Bill Kohn, DDS, a mouthrinse campaign expert and Delta Dental's vice president for dental science and policy. "At a minimum, most mouthrinses will at least provide temporary relief from bad breath. Check with your dentist if you have persistent bad breath or to see if you would benefit from a mouthrinse that has fluoride or anti-bacterial agents to protect against cavities or periodontal diseases."


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The Oakland Museum reopens May 1-2 with a 31-hour event following a major renovation of its Art and History galleries. The changes include more lighting and data cables for interactive and multimedia experiences, but also a new approach to mixing art, history and science in the same space. Here are some highlights:
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As we prepare to celebrate summer, let's pay homage to the sultan of splash, Herbert Sellner. This Minnesota inventor came up with the water slide in 1923, the most exciting way ever to enter the H2O.
My affair with aquatics goes back to my childhood in Minnesota, which -- for the record -- has 12,000 lakes, not 10,000. With that many watering holes, we got pretty creative with our splashdown. We used rope swings and slides, even bridges and cliffs as our jumping off point.
It's not surprising that Minnesota is home to the country's tallest indoor water park -- Water Park of America. It's a maze of pipes and pools that slosh you around like a sock in the washer. The park is so large that some slides have to start outdoors and work their way in -- making the outside of the building look like Medusa. The day I was there I lost 10 pounds running up ramps and sliding down tubes at a frantic pace. It made me feel young again, until I tried the Flow Rider Surf Simulator and was tossed to the side of the wave pool like a crumpled-up Kleenex. There's a skill to surfing on a thin sheet of water, and a person who bruises easily should stick to the ocean.
Still, landlocked resorts don't have an ocean. They use things like wave simulators instead. My first experience with a fake wave was in college, at an attraction that's still around today. Big Surf in Tempe, Ariz., has been operating so long that it should be listed under the definition of "oasis." It's also where I lost my first swim top. Bodysurfing in my bikini, I underestimated the force of the wave as it crashed onto shore. I won't go into details but suffice it to say that I've been wearing a wetsuit ever since.
The granddaddy of all water park towns is the Wisconsin Dells. With 20 water resorts in the area, it's earned the distinction of "The Waterpark Capital of the World." Maybe it's the harsh winters (they're home to the nation's first indoor water park), or the fact that the Wisconsin River winds its way like a great serpent through the center of town, but people here are crazy for water sports. The Dells was the first area to use World War II amphibious vehicles, Duck Boats, for recreation. They were brought here in 1946, letting visitors rumble through the streets and into the water seamlessly.
Across the pond, as they say, it's Europe that holds the record for world's tallest waterslide. The $26 million Divertical water coaster in Italy (a 197-foot drop at 65 mph) trumps Brazil's Insano waterslide, which was once the tallest at 135 feet. Both these chutes are on my bucket list. But not before I get a new wetsuit.
What are your favorite local adventures? Drop me a line, and I'll share them with readers. You can reach me at firstname.lastname@example.com or online at www.ginnyprior.com.
Bay Area waterslides:
Raging Waters, San Jose: http://www.rwsplash.com
Waterworld, Concord: http://www.waterworldcalifornia.com


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The 50 Most Heavily Shorted Stocks by Hedge Funds
One of the main reasons for the hedge-fund industry's lackluster performance this year is because of how detrimental short positions have been for these managers.
Goldman Sachs finds the 50 stocks (with market caps over $1 billion) that hedge funds are heavily shorting have averaged a 30% gain this year, far outpacing the S&P 500′s year-to-date rally.
The individual stocks that hedge-fund managers are buying and selling (and shorting) attracts a tremendous amount of attention from retail investors. Mom-and-pop like to see where the so-called "smart money" is flowing as a factor in their own investing decisions.
Without further ado, here's a look at the 50 stocks with the largest short interest as a percentage of market cap that hedge-fund managers are shorting (yes, Herbalife is on the list). All data are courtesy of Goldman Sachs. And while you're at it, be sure to take a gander at our other list showing the 50 stocks most loved by hedge-fund managers.


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Rick Popp
Director Human Resources – Ford Motor Company
Effective October 1, 2013, Rick Popp is the Director Human Resources for Global Marketing, Sales, and Service (MS&S) and Corporate Communications. In his new role, Mr. Popp is a member for Ford's MS&S, Communications, and HR senior leadership teams and is responsible for HR Business Operations, which includes individual, organization, and team capability development, performance management, succession and compensation planning, and other responsibilities as the HR business partner of these global operations.
Mr. Popp has been with Ford Motor Company since 1990 and has held various positions throughout the Company.
From January 2008 to October 2013, Mr. Popp was Director Employee Benefits, Ford Motor Company. In that position, Mr. Popp was a member of Ford's Global Human Resources leadership team, reporting to Ford's Group Vice President of Human Resources and Corporate Services, and was responsible for:
- Global benefits planning, strategy, and governance
- U.S. benefits administration, including benefit negotiations with the United Auto Workers (UAW) and other unions representing Ford employees
- Core benefit programs, including Retirement/Pensions, Health, Life & Disability Insurance, and additional programs including International Service & Relocation and Company Vehicle Programs
In that assignment, Mr. Popp led Ford's Employee Benefits Office through a difficult period in the auto industry and a period of transformation for Ford Motor Company, which included major employee and retiree benefit changes, total benefits administration outsourcing, global international service administration consolidation and sourcing, the first major U.S. retiree lump sum offering to 95,000 former Ford employees, national bargaining with the UAW in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2011, and various cost saving measures totaling billions of dollars, while at the same time significantly improving operational performance, upgrading customer service and administration technology, implementing robust internal controls and raising then maintaining high team morale.
Prior to his benefits role, Mr. Popp was Director of Human Resources, Ford of Mexico, where he helped Ford achieve the honor of being named "Best Place to Work 2007" in Mexico for the first time by a leading Mexican business magazine. Prior to his assignment in Mexico, Mr. Popp held various HR leadership positions with responsibilities in labor relations and contract negotiations, joint ventures, corporate compensation, organization and personnel planning, organization development, and multiple HR assignments in Ford's manufacturing facilities.
Mr. Popp holds a Master's degree in Public Administration, with an emphasis in personnel and labor relations, and a B.S. degree in Computer Science, both from Northern Michigan University. He is also a "fellow" of the 2001 inaugural Wharton Fellows Program, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Executive Education, and recently graduated from Ford's Organization Design Institute.
Mr. Popp also serves/served as:
- Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees for Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan (first appointed as Trustee by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder in 2011 to 8-year term)
- Executive Committee Member, Conference Board Research Council on Employee Benefits
- Former Ford Motor Company representative on the Economic Alliance of Michigan, a business-labor coalition focused on legislative and regulatory lobbying on employer benefit related issues, including health care, workers' compensation, and unemployment insurance.
- Founding and former Member of the Board of Directors for the National Institute for Health Care Reform, a health care policy research organization establish by the United Auto Workers, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Chrysler in the 2007 UAW collective bargaining agreements
- Former Member of the Board of Directors for Health Alliance Plan (HAP), a non-profit health plan based in Detroit, MI, providing health care coverage to over 500,000 members
- Former Board member of Dentemax, the former for-profit dental PPO network subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.


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Friday, February 21, 2014
The Great Diamond-maker
Posted by Shreve & Co. at 5:26:29 AM in Harry Kotlar (30)
Beauty. Art. Perfection. These are the three magic words the put Harry Kotlar Jewels on the pedestal. Harry Kotlar's elegantly designed rings, bands, earrings, pendants, necklaces, and bracelets are surely a must-have. The core element of every Kotlar jewel is its perfectly-cut diamond that the brand has been known for since 1948. Kotlar sells one of the finest diamonds in the world market today. If you find it hard choosing a piece or two from the Kotlar collection, then the Kotlar Cushion center stone set is for you. The 18-carat rose gold earrings, the 18-carat rose gold pendant, and platinum rings are all handcrafted to perfection. Harry Kotlar is inspired by elegance making its brand synonymous with quality and integrity. It's a family-owned business ran with passion and commitment. No wonder, it has carved its own niche in the diamond industry.
Harry Kotlar is available at Shreve & Co. in Palo Alto, California, San Francisco, California, and Portland, Oregon.
Reference: http://www.harrykotlar.com/
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Debra Wood, RN
Deanna M. Neff, MPH
Multiple myeloma
is a relatively rare cancer of the plasma cells. Plasma cells normally produce proteins, or antibodies, to help the immune system fight infection. Myeloma occurs when the body produces too many abnormal plasma cells, which are called myeloma cells.
These extra myeloma cells produce excess proteins in the blood. This can cause health problems. Myeloma cells also collect and grow in the bone marrow, the soft interior of the bone. This often results in decreased production of blood cells. The types of blood cells include:
When myeloma cells grow in more than one site, the disease is called multiple myeloma. A single tumor of abnormal plasma cells is called a solitary plasmacytoma.
The cause of multiple myeloma is not known. Doctors think exposure to toxins, radiation, or a virus may play a role. Inherited gene mutations may also lead to multiple myeloma. In nearly all cases, doctors have no idea why a particular person develops the disease.
According to the American Cancer Society, about 20,580 Americans are diagnosed with multiple myeloma each year. Slightly more men than women are affected. And 10,580 people with the disease die from it annually. Multiple myeloma affects older adults. The average age of people with this disease is 65 years. It is uncommon for myeloma to occur in people younger than 35.
Symptoms of early stage multiple myeloma include:
When the disease progresses, symptoms may include:
Complications of multiple myeloma typically relate to problems with blood function. These complications include the following:
As malignant plasma cells multiply, they produce enormous quantities of abnormal antibodies. These abnormal antibodies accumulate in the blood and urine. This can cause kidney damage and a weakened immune system. About 20% of patients with the disease develop kidney problems. Most find themselves more susceptible to infections. The antibodies can also cause the blood to thicken. This can, in turn, decrease circulation to the brain, which can result in
. Decreased circulation to other organs can cause death of tissues in those organs, as well.
The growing tumor may destroy the surrounding bone, which leads to bone pain. Bones may break as they weaken. The bones in the spine may collapse and put pressure on the spinal cord, creating a medical emergency. Destruction of the bone also leads to high levels of calcium in the blood. Too much calcium can cause weakness and confusion, which can mimic stroke or
Myeloma is also associated with
. This is a rare condition in which abnormal proteins accumulate in various organs of the body. The accumulation of these proteins causes the involved organs (usually heart, muscle, nervous system, and intestines) to malfunction. Amyloidosis is the result of a malfunction in the plasma cells that make antibodies. It is sometimes associated with myeloma. Anyone diagnosed with amyloidosis probably needs to be evaluated for the presence of myeloma. Patients with myeloma will sometimes experience complications as a result of amyloidosis.
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Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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ESPN: Jared Coppola, now at UNH, continues to fight on after paralysis
The story of the Coppola triplets took to the national stage, when the Eagles made their run to the MIAA Division 1 Super Bowl in 2010. Jared was paralyzed from the waist down in a September 2009 scrimmage, just a year after Brandon fractured his own C-5 vertebrae, though he made a full recovery. The third triplet, Tyler, was the catalyst for Prep's journey to the title game, leading the state in rushing and earning a spot on ESPNBoston.com's annual All-State Team.
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Belle Foret BFNLD3SN Satin Nickel 1.25-Inch Lift and Turn Lavatory Drain with Overflow
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Lift and Turn Lavatory Drain with Overflow
- Brass Construction
- 1 1/4" OD Outlet
- All Exposed Parts are Finish Matched
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Our SKU: NLD3
This product is listed under the following manufacturer number(s):
- Chrome
- Oil Rubbed Bronze
- Polished Brass
- Satin Nickel
- Tumbled Bronze
*Denotes a finish or option that has been discontinued
4 Questions from the Community
If you have a sink with overflow you would want a drain with the same and visa versa
Can the NLD3 lavatory drain with overflow be used on a vessel sink without overflow?
A. If you have a sink with overflow you would want a drain with the same and visa versa
The Belle Foret NLD3 will work with that sink.
Will this drain assembly fit the Porcher 12090-00 Marquee sink?
A. The Belle Foret NLD3 will work with that sink.
The Belle Foret NLD3: the size refers to the innerpipe diameter this is a standard drain and should fit most sinks.
will this fit a sink with a 1.75" opening?
A. The Belle Foret NLD3: the size refers to the innerpipe diameter this is a standard drain and should fit most sinks.
The stopper on this drain is can not be removed.
Is the stopper on this drain removable?
A. The stopper on this drain is can not be removed.
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Warranty Info
What This Warranty Covers
Belle Forêt warrants that our faucets are free of manufacturing, mechanical and finish defects.
What This Warranty Does Not Cover
Damage to the product that has been caused by improper installation, accident, misuse (wheter performed by a contractor, service company or others) or abuse (including the use of harsh or abrasive cleansers) is not covered by this warranty.
This warranty also does not cover any consequential or incidental damages attributable to a faucet defect or to the repair or exchange of a faucet, all of which are expressly excluded from this limited warranty. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.
What the Period of Coverage is
The coverage of this warranty is for a period of five years from the date of purchase.
What We Will Do to Correct Problems
At our option, Belle Forêt will either replace the defective part of the fitting, or the entire faucet, excluding labor and other costs incurred in installation, repair or replacement.
Who is Covered
This warranty is calid for the original consumer/purchaser only, and excludes industrial, commercial, or business use of the product.
How to Get Warranty ServiceTo obtain warranty service, please bring your proof of purchase (original sales reciept) to the store or contractor that sold or installed your faucet.
How State Law Relates to the Warranty
This warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you may also have other statutory right that vary from state to state.


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Thank you for visiting the website of Franciscan St. Margaret Health. We have updated our websites and each Franciscan St. Margaret hospital now has its own web address. Select from a location below to learn more about the hospital nearest you.
24 Joliet Street (US Route 30)
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"Comfort and convenience of upright geometry with the swift efficiency of a road bike"
The Clarity series fits into the Performance Hybrid category. Taking the best from both the mountain and road worlds, The Performance Hybrid combines their elements to create the ultimate machine. Larger-diameter 700c wheels offer an efficient platform for this nimble, lightweight bike that's suitable for commuting, training or simply a weekend ride. Our Clarity series also embraces performance factors valued by today's training racers and charity riders.
The Clarity series falls into our Devine Designs line which pays tribute to women riders. The collection features bike geometries built for women's smaller frames and colors that reflect women's tastes in aesthetics. You'll find the same devotion to technology and elegant craftsmanship that's engineered into all of our Diamondbacks – in designs specifically tailored towards the female rider.
The 2012 Clarity 1 performance hybrid is aimed to please those who commute, train exercise, or are simply looking for a smooth riding bike to recreate on. The jewel of the bike is the Clarity 6061-T6 Butted Aluminum Performance Hybrid frame with a formed/hooded top tube, an integrated headtube, and vertically compliant stays (VCS).
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There are way too many awful shows on TV to even keep track of. But here are a few that stood out during 2012:
1. "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" (TLC) -- An exploitive, offensive collection of redneck cliches. The lunkhead executives at TLC are clearly drunk on their own go-go-juice.
2. "Animal Practice" (NBC) -- Someone thought that putting a monkey in a sitcom would get a lot of laughs. It didn't.
3. "H8R" (The CW) -- Host Mario Lopez offers a forum to poor, misunderstood celebrities. No, Mario, leave us alone and let us hate in peace.
4. "The Mob Doctor" (Fox) -- There aren't enough painkillers in the world to make us sit though this insipid medical series.
5. "Partners" (CBS) -- Perhaps this trite sitcom about gay buddies would have been funny in the mid-'90s. Then again, probably not.
6. "Duets" (ABC) -- What seemed like a fun twist on the tired talent-show genre instead could have used a major tuneup.
7. "The Neighbors" (ABC) -- Aliens in New Jersey? Snooki and company beat them to it.
8. "Beauty and the Beast" (The CW) -- An ill-conceived drama that turned out to be more beastly than beautiful.
9. "Are You There, Chelsea?" (NBC) -- We love Laura Prepon, but not enough to have watched this stupendous failure.
10. "Malibu Country" (ABC) -- Reba hits a flat note in a conventional, fish-out-of-water sitcom that isn't even remotely funny.


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SANTA CLARA -- While Michael Crabtree recovered in a Stanford Hospital room after Wednesday's surgery on a torn Achilles, quarterback Colin Kaepernick searched for a new go-to receiver on the 49ers' practice field.
"We have a lot of talent out here, a lot of great players," Kaepernick said. "It's just: 'Who's going to step up and fill that role?' "
Coach Jim Harbaugh doesn't anticipate Crabtree being lost for the entire season. But the reigning NFC champions likely will be without Crabtree through at least October.
"The good news is, he woke up from the surgery and the first thing he asked doc was how it went," said Harbaugh, who visited Crabtree at the hospital before Wednesday's practice.
Crabtree completely tore his right Achilles while making a cut on a pass route during Tuesday's 7-on-7 drills, the first day of organized team activities.
When team doctor Tom McAdams told Crabtree the Achilles was completely repaired in Wednesday's surgery and that he likely won't miss the whole season, Crabtree showed the positive approach Harbaugh expected.
"His comment to that was, he's got no choice but to be back," Harbaugh said. "Every day now is a healing day, and that starts today."
A few hours after his surgery, Crabtree tweeted: "I go hard for my friends family and fans, just felt like I let everybody down.. But I'll be back ready!! I promise! #yungcrab."
A best-case-scenario blueprint came last season from Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs, who returned to action five months and six days after surgery for his Achilles tear. Using that timeline, Crabtree's return might work best Nov. 10, when the 49ers return from their bye week (and a preceding London trip) to host the Carolina Panthers.
Crabtree, 25, posted career-best statistics last year: 85 receptions, 1,105 yards, nine touchdowns. Then came a three-game playoff boon: 20 receptions for 285 yards and three touchdowns.
Kaepernick's favoritism toward Crabtree was evident at the end of the 49ers' 34-31 Super Bowl defeat, when Kaepernick's final three passes unsuccessfully targeted Crabtree inside the Baltimore Ravens' 5-yard line.
Both Kaepernick and Harbaugh said it's time for someone new to assert himself opposite veteran Anquan Boldin, who was acquired in a March trade with the Ravens.
But who?
Kyle Williams could be the roster's leading candidate if he continues to recover well from a torn anterior cruciate ligament suffered Nov. 25. Former starter Mario Manningham also is rehabbing a torn ACL, but he might not be ready for training camp after the severe Dec. 23 injury.
Younger options include A.J. Jenkins (2012 first-round draft pick), Marlon Moore (a free agent from the Miami Dolphins) Ricardo Lockette (2012 practice squad, Kaepernick's roommate), Chad Hall (2012 practice squad), Joe Hastings (2011 practice squad), Quinton Patton (2013 fourth-round pick) and Chuck Jacobs (undrafted rookie).
"The job we're competing for just happens to be one of the most important jobs on this team, and that's replacing the best receiver we had on the team," Lockette said. "We're not taking this lightly. Hopefully we can replace Crab and hold it down until he gets back."
Linebacker Patrick Willis was on the field when Crabtree went down after what Willis called a "simple, normal cut" during a 7-on-7 drill.
"Crab is one of those tough guys. He can get hit hard, and he'll bounce right back up," Willis said. "Yesterday he stayed down a little longer than normal. You say a little prayer and hope it wasn't as bad as it looked. Unfortunately it is."
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Typical Warnock!
Of course it's difficult to win with 10 men, but Warnock once again blaming everyone but himself, he has to face the fact that his own performance as a manager has been nothing but a disaster. The sooner we are rid of him the better, all we can do now is look towards the summer and next season, and the riches and success that our new owners are promising. I will never understand why they didn't get a couple of good players in for that last push to the play-offs, but it's academic now.
Warnock is all mouth, loves himself, and completely talentless.
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The comments the guy has made in the press merely verify what a p-ss taking money grabber with no real passion he is. He was finished in management 2 years ago mentally, but he suited Bates's plan to a T.
Wonder if the Gullit whisperings are an April Fool?
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Not a bad whisper Lotto but Big Mac or Owen Coyle would do for me. Thank goodness Sunderland got the April fool not us. Imagine what the training ground patter would be like ...would need a hord of translaters at the ready. Get ready to welcome them back to the championship.


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Well, John the Baptist after torturing a thief Looks up at his hero the Commander-in-Chief Saying, "Tell me great hero, but please make it brief Is there a hole for me to get sick in?"
The Commander-in-Chief answers him while chasing a fly
Saying, "Death to all those who would whimper and cry"
And dropping a bar bell he points to the sky
Saying, "The sun's not yellow it's chicken"
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"Beat, beat, beat, and beat again."
— Joseph Stalin
Scott Horton has just put up an important, hard-hitting post: Bush and the Art of Breaking Human Beings. Horton amplifies the harrowing details of the Bush Administration's Stalinist persecution of U.S. citizen Jose Padilla, reported yesterday by the Christian Science Monitor's Warren Richey. You should read the whole piece right away, but this passage that Horton quotes from Jack Balkin puts the case in its larger — and most chilling — perspective. Says Balkin:
It's important to remember that the Bush Administration did everything it could to deny Padilla even the basic right of habeas corpus. It argued that courts had no power to second guess the President's determination that Padilla was an enemy of the United States and could be held in solitary confinement indefinitely. It argued that no one had the right to contact Padilla and that no one had the right to know what the government was doing to him. It argued that courts should defer to the President's views about who was dangerous and who was not—that once the President declared a person an enemy, that person had all the process that was due them and courts should respect that determination.
It argued, in short, that the President always knows best. If the President had his way, the government, on the basis of information that never had to be tested before any neutral magistrate, could pluck any citizen off the streets, throw them in a military prison, and proceed to drive them insane.
Those are the powers that the Bush Administration sought. I will not mince words: They are the powers of a dictator in an authoritarian regime. They are the powers of the old Soviet Union, of the military junta in Argentina during the time of the disappeared.
We are all Jose Padilla now.
I've been writing about Bush's seizure of arbitrary powers since November 2001, when I first took note of the universal license to kill that he had granted himself:
The Washington Post reports this week that George W. Bush has signed an executive order giving himself the right to issue death warrants for any individual he deems a terrorist or terrorist supporter. These people will be killed in secret by the CIA, without any pretense of due process, without defense or appeal...
Bush's license to kill leaves the meaning of "terrorist" and "terrorist supporter" deliberately vague. The definition is entirely up to the president: there is no legislative oversight, no judicial review, no public scrutiny. If he wants you dead, he can have you killed. It's as simple as that.
This official acceptance of the principle of extra-judicial murder degrades the American government to the level of moral savagery. It is the same "principle" underlying all terrorist activity: a threat to a group's interests is arbitrarily defined by its leaders, who then act arbitrarily, lawlessly, to eliminate the threat...It is the principle of evildoers, men of blood, murderers and beasts. And it is now a guiding light of the "civilized" world.
All of this was enshrined in "law" by Congress last fall, when it passed the "Military Commissions Act" — an "enabling act" for tyranny that the new, Democratic-led Congress has not bothered to repeal. As I noted at the time:
It was a dark hour indeed last Thursday when the United States Senate voted to end the constitutional republic and transform the country into a "Leader-State," giving the president and his agents the power to capture, torture and imprison forever anyone - American citizens included - whom they arbitrarily decide is an "enemy combatant." This also includes those who merely give "terrorism" some kind of "support," defined so vaguely that many experts say it could encompass legal advice, innocent gifts to charities or even political opposition to US government policy within its draconian strictures.
All of this is bad enough - a sickening and cowardly surrender of liberty not seen in a major Western democracy since the Enabling Act passed by the German Reichstag in March 1933. But it is by no means the full extent of our degradation. In reality, the darkness is deeper, and more foul, than most people imagine. For in addition to the dictatorial powers of seizure and torment given by Congress on Thursday to George W. Bush - powers he had already seized and exercised for five years anyway, even without this fig leaf of sham legality - there is a far more sinister imperial right that Bush has claimed - and used - openly, without any demur or debate from Congress at all: ordering the "extrajudicial killing" of anyone on earth that he and his deputies decide - arbitrarily, without charges, court hearing, formal evidence, or appeal - is an "enemy combatant."
That's right; from the earliest days of the Terror War - September 17, 2001, to be exact - Bush has claimed the peremptory power of life and death over the entire world. If he says you're an enemy of America, you are. If he wants to imprison you and torture you, he can. And if he decides you should die, he'll kill you. This is not hyperbole, liberal paranoia, or "conspiracy theory": it's simply a fact, reported by the mainstream media, attested by senior administration figures, recorded in official government documents - and boasted about by the president himself, in front of Congress and a national television audience.
And although the Republic-snuffing act just passed by Congress does not directly address Bush's royal prerogative of murder, it nonetheless strengthens it and enshrines it in law. For the measure sets forth clearly that the designation of an "enemy combatant" is left solely to the executive branch; neither Congress nor the courts have any say in the matter. When this new law is coupled with the existing "Executive Orders" authorizing "lethal force" against arbitrarily designated "enemy combatants," it becomes, quite literally, a license to kill - with the seal of Congressional approval....
The first officially confirmed use of this power was the killing of an American citizen, along with several foreign nationals, by a CIA drone missile in Yemen on November 3, 2002. A similar strike occurred on December 4, 2005, when a CIA missile destroyed a house and purportedly killed Abu Hamza Rabia, a suspected al-Qaeda figure. But the only bodies found at the site were those of two children, the houseowner's son and nephew, Reuters reports. The grieving father denied any connection to terrorism. An earlier CIA strike on another house missed Rabia but killed his wife and children, Pakistani officials reported.
However, there is simply no way of knowing at this point how many people have been killed by American agents operating outside all judicial process. Most of the assassinations are carried out in secret: quietly, professionally. As a Pentagon document uncovered by the New Yorker in December 2002 revealed, the death squads must be "small and agile," and "able to operate clandestinely, using a full range of official and non-official cover arrangements to ... enter countries surreptitiously."
What's more, there are strong indications that the Bush administration has outsourced some of the contracts to outside operators. In the original Post story about the assassinations - in those first heady weeks after 9/11, when administration officials were much more open about "going to the dark side," as Cheney boasted on national television - Bush insiders told the paper that "it is also possible that the instrument of targeted killings will be foreign agents, the CIA's term for nonemployees who act on its behalf."
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In that article, I quoted from an earlier piece about Bush's brazen championing of this arbitrary power to kill, in "one of the most revolting scenes in recent American history: Bush's state of the Union address in January 2003, delivered live to the nation during the final warmongering frenzy before the rape of Iraq":
Trumpeting his successes in the Terror War, Bush claimed that "more than 3,000 suspected terrorists" had been arrested worldwide - "and many others have met a different fate." His face then took on the characteristic leer, the strange, sickly half-smile it acquires whenever he speaks of killing people: "Let's put it this way. They are no longer a problem."This is the United States today, this is what we've come to. Is there a hole big enough for us all to get sick in?
In other words, the suspects - and even Bush acknowledged they were only suspects - had been murdered. Lynched. Killed by agents operating unsupervised in that shadow world where intelligence, terrorism, politics, finance and organized crime meld together in one amorphous, impenetrable mass. Killed on the word of a dubious informer, perhaps: a tortured captive willing to say anything to end his torment, a business rival, a personal foe, a bureaucrat looking to impress his superiors, a paid snitch in need of cash, a zealous crank pursuing ethnic, tribal or religious hatreds - or any other purveyor of the garbage data that is coin of the realm in the shadow world.
Bush proudly held up this hideous system as an example of what he called "the meaning of American justice." And the assembled legislators ... applauded. Oh, how they applauded! They roared with glee at the leering little man's bloodthirsty, B-movie machismo. They shared his sneering contempt for law - our only shield, however imperfect, against the blind, brute, ignorant, ape-like force of raw power. Not a single voice among them was raised in protest against this tyrannical machtpolitik: not that night, not the next day, not ever.
UPDATE: Scott Horton pursues the torture theme further, with this fascinating look back at the unlikely figure who played a pivotal role in eliminating legalized torture in the English-speaking world for almost 300 years: John Donne. Here's an excerpt:
Over a series of centuries, the genius of the English law had been steadily to restrict and limit the use of torture, until at this point, under King James, it was controlled by the king's judges and limited in practice through a series of special writs. Which is to say, legally it was far more constrained than it is today under an Executive Order issued by King James's understudy in allegedly Divine Right governance, George W. Bush.
[In his Easter Sunday sermon of 1625], Donne delivered a direct blow against this system, the use to which it was put, and the suffering it caused. He makes no equivocations. And in the end he delivers his blows against even the king's judges who administer the system. No one viewed Donne as a "political figure." Indeed, owing to his Catholic background and sympathies, he eschewed court politics. Nor in the end was there anything "political" about the question of torture—it was an issue of ethics and of faith...
Donne points to the ultimate irony of the use of torture, not to punish the guilty, but as a tool to extract information—when it is well established that doesn't serve that end. He notes the immorality of this practice. John Donne was the most important clerical voice in England in his day. His opinion carried weight. Only three years after this sermon, following the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham, the lawyers and judges of England assembled in the Inns of Court in London to consider a special question put to them by the king. Was the practice of torture to be permitted by the common law?
And the judges met, deliberated and declared "upon their sacred honour, and the honour of England" that the answer was "no." That marked the end of legalized torture in the English-speaking world… until the arrival of George W. Bush.
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"A Radicalizing Cauldron"
For all of its blustering ignorance of human nature the NYPD report "Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat" contained an inadvertent and dangerous truth buried deep down inside of it.
Prison is "A Radicalizing Cauldron".
"Prisons can play a critical role in both triggering and reinforcing the radicalization process. The prison's isolated environment, ability to create a "captive audience" atmosphere, its absence of day-to-day distractions, and its large population of disaffected young men, makes it an excellent breeding ground for radicalization."
So I have to ask, what does this mean for America with its ever growing world record prison population? An ever growing population that the New York Times characterized just last January as breeding a permanent "felon caste" in America.
"Worse still, the country has created a growing felon caste, now more than 16 million strong, of felons and ex-felons, who are often driven back to prison by policies that make it impossible for them to find jobs, housing or education." NYT
So one wonders why America pursues a drug war policy that gives our nation this world record prison population.
SEE: U.S. drug war prisons: "A Radicalizing Cauldron"
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MARIETTA - A small black bear stands on his hind legs, front paws outstretched as he cradles a freshly caught trout.
Nearby a mountain lion keeps a wary eye on a much larger bruin lumbering by on all fours among a menagerie of moose, deer and buffalo.
It may sound like a scene out of the north woods, but those animals and foxes, beaver, wild boar - even a chipmunk popping out of a hollow tree limb - are on exhibit at the Williams Auction Center in Oak Grove this week.
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This mounted black bear holding his 'catch' is one of the mounted animals from the Frank Lamp estate that will be auctioned Sunday afternoon at the Williams Auction Center.
"There's a total of 104 mounted animals. It's a beautiful collection from the estate of the late Frank Lamp," said Ed Williams, who operates the auction center with his wife, Angela.
Due to a lack of space to store the animal mounts, Lamp's family has decided to sell them during an auction at the center Sunday afternoon.
An avid hunter born and raised in the Dexter City area, Lamp, who died last May, had a variety of the animals he'd taken over the last 30 years mounted for display in his home.
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* Mounted animals and other items from the late Frank Lamp's estate will be sold at the Williams Auction Center, 234 B.F. Goodrich Road in Oak Grove, beginning at noon Sunday.
* The items can be viewed at the auction center from 1 to 4 p.m. today.
* For more information and photos, visit www.auctionzip.com and enter auctioneer number 7202.
"He started doing the mountings in the 1980s, but we lived in a small house, so he had to keep adding rooms for the animals," said Frank's daughter, Nancy Lamp, who now lives near Lower Salem.
She said a 50-by-30 foot room was the last addition. It included a waterfall and fireplace along one wall where her father had placed a full-mounted mountain lion
"He killed the mountain lion in Idaho, and my brother filmed it," Nancy said. "They were hunting in snow that was almost up to their butts."
Many of the animals Frank had mounted were taken during hunting trips to Club Trout Lake in Quebec, Canada.
"The French name is 'Lac a Truite.' It's 460 square kilometers of private hunting and fishing property that belongs to Noel Thibault. He and Dad were lifelong friends, and we went there every summer when we were kids," Nancy said. "We started going when I was 12. There were five of us, and he taught us all how to hunt and how to handle guns safely."
She noted that her father ate almost all of the animals he killed, and nothing went to waste.
"He respected the animals and said he always thanked God for the animal after every kill," Nancy said.
The Canadian trips must have made a great impression on Nancy, 52, who has spent the last several summers as a hunting and fishing guide in the Quebec area.
"I'm a bear hunting and fishing guide on the club property now," she said. "Sometimes I help on moose hunts, but it can be very hard to call a bull moose out of the bush."
But Frank took his share of moose.
Back at the Williams Auction Center Angela Williams pointed out a cone made of rolled-up birch bark.
"The family said Frank was on a moose hunt one time and the Indian guide peeled this bark from a birch tree trunk, rolled it into a cone, then used it to call out a moose," she said. "That moose head is one of those mounted on our back wall."
Another interesting mounted display at the auction center is that of Frank's favorite hunting dog, "Boy," headed through tall grass to retrieve a pheasant.
"Boy was his best bird dog, and Dad used him to go pheasant hunting," Nancy said. "But in the early 1980s the dog developed heartworm. There wasn't a lot known about heartworm in dogs at that time, and he died. It nearly killed my Dad. So he had Boy mounted."
The Williamses have auctioned many mounted animals during the last 20 years they've been in business, but the couple was not prepared for what they saw when the family asked them to take a look at the collection at Frank's home in Dexter City.
"We'd never seen anything like this," Ed said. "And just one of these large animals would have cost thousands to mount."
He said there's been a lot of interest in the mounted animals, and he expects a large crowd will be attending the auction that begins at noon Sunday. There will be a preview of the mounted animals and other estate items from 1 to 4 p.m. today at the auction center.
Nancy said her father had planned a hunting trip to Africa several years ago, but due to some health concerns he decided not to go at that time.
"He never got another chance to go," she said.
Frank owned and operated the Lamp Logging and Lumber sawmill business in Dexter City.
"He had cut timber since he was 20-years old," Nancy said. "But he also enjoyed raising horses and mules."
Frank retired two years ago, but had developed cancer and died on May 26 at the age of 70.
Nancy said her father will be sorely missed, especially in the fall when he always took her hunting.
"He was just a common man who really loved to hunt," she said. "Everyone who knew my dad misses him."


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By MICHAEL R. GORDON and JUDITH MILLER
Published: September 8, 2002
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 — More than a decade after Saddam Hussein agreed to give up weapons of mass destruction, Iraq has stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and has embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb, Bush administration officials said today.
In the last 14 months, Iraq has sought to buy thousands of specially designed aluminum tubes, which American officials believe were intended as components of centrifuges to enrich uranium. American officials said several efforts to arrange the shipment of the aluminum tubes were blocked or intercepted but declined to say, citing the sensitivity of the intelligence, where they came from or how they were stopped.
The diameter, thickness and other technical specifications of the aluminum tubes had persuaded American intelligence experts that they were meant for Iraq's nuclear program, officials said, and that the latest attempt to ship the material had taken place in recent months.
The attempted purchases are not the only signs of a renewed Iraqi interest in acquiring nuclear arms. President Hussein has met repeatedly in recent months with Iraq's top nuclear scientists and, according to American intelligence, praised their efforts as part of his campaign against the West.
Iraqi defectors who once worked for the nuclear weapons establishment have told American officials that acquiring nuclear arms is again a top Iraqi priority. American intelligence agencies are also monitoring construction at nuclear sites.
While there is no indication that Iraq is on the verge of deploying a nuclear bomb, Iraq's pursuit of nuclear weapons has been cited by hard-liners in the Bush administration to make the argument that the United States must act now, before Mr. Hussein acquires nuclear arms and thus alters the strategic balance in the oil-rich Persian Gulf. Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain met with President Bush today to reaffirm his nation's support for action against Iraq.
Iraq's nuclear program is not Washington's only concern. An Iraqi defector said Mr. Hussein had also heightened his efforts to develop new types of chemical weapons. An Iraqi opposition leader also gave American officials a paper from Iranian intelligence indicating that Mr. Hussein has authorized regional commanders to use chemical and biological weapons to put down any Shiite Muslim resistance that might occur if the United States attacks.
The paper, which is being analyzed by American officials, was provided by Abdalaziz al-Hakim of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, an Iran-based group, during his recent visit with other Iraqi opposition leaders in Washington.
Much of the administration's case, however, revolves around Iraq's attempts to develop nuclear weapons and assessments of the pace of the efforts. In the unfolding debate, administration hard-liners argue that possession of nuclear arms would enhance Iraq's sway in the region.
Administration officials also assert that the acquisition of nuclear arms might embolden Mr. Hussein and increase the chances that he might use chemical or biological weapons. The officials contend that Mr. Hussein refrained from using chemical and germ weapons during the 1991 Persian Gulf war because he feared a devastating retaliatory blow from the United States and that he might now conclude that the Americans would not dare strike him if he had nuclear weapons.
"The jewel in the crown is nuclear," a senior administration official said. "The closer he gets to a nuclear capability, the more credible is his threat to use chemical or biological weapons. Nuclear weapons are his hole card."
"The question is not, why now?" the official added, referring to a potential military campaign to oust Mr. Hussein. "The question is why waiting is better. The closer Saddam Hussein gets to a nuclear weapon, the harder he will be to deal with."
On the Brink of War
Hard-liners are alarmed that American intelligence underestimated the pace and scale of Iraq's nuclear program before Baghdad's defeat in the gulf war. Conscious of this lapse in the past, they argue that Washington dare not wait until analysts have found hard evidence that Mr. Hussein has acquired a nuclear weapon. The first sign of a "smoking gun," they argue, may be a mushroom cloud.
Still, even though hard-liners complain that intelligence about Iraq's program is often spotty, they plan to declassify some of it to make their case in coming weeks. The administration briefed members of Congress on Iraq's programs to develop weapons of mass destruction this week, but it is not known to what extent officials talked about the intercepted shipments. Given the special intelligence-sharing relationship with Britain, the information on the attempted purchases Mr. Blair plans to release in a few weeks.
The administration's critics assert that the last decade has shown that Mr. Hussein can be contained through a combination of United Nations sanctions, carefully designed inspections and, if Iraq refused to admit the monitors, targeted air strikes. Iraq, the critics say, remains heavily dependent on external assistance to advance its nuclear program. Washington, the critics say, has time to try its hand at diplomacy and should enlist United Nations backing to force Mr. Hussein to accept inspectors back. Taken in its totality, the critics insist that the intelligence suggests there is no rush to take military action.


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Washington County Common Pleas Court and Marietta Municipal Court are warning residents not to be fooled by a suspicious message about missed jury duty appearances that have been circulating throughout the community.
"We've been getting calls from people who say their relatives saw their name in the paper and a warrant is going to be issued for their arrest," said Common Pleas Court Bailiff Renee Marshall.
The messages have been circulated in phone calls and text messages. However, neither municipal nor common pleas court issue such notifications, said Marshall.
"The Marietta Municipal Court and Common Pleas Court do not publish that information," she said.
The calls or messages provide a phone number, (704)-319-7254, which the alleged offender can call to pay a fine.
The number does not appear to be part of a financial scam. It does not request any personal or financial information from the caller. Instead, the phone number appears to be part of a practical joke hosted by the website Humor Hotlines.
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The Marietta Municipal and Washington County Common Pleas Court do not release the names of those who have missed jury duty.
If you receive a call or text from (704) 319-7254, it is a hoax and should be ignored.
If you would like to report a suspicious call or text message, you can contact the Marietta Police Department at 376-2007 or the Washington County Sheriff's Office at 376-7070.
An automated voice tells callers that they skipped a 9 a.m. jury duty appointment last Monday and prompts them to press one to pay a $500 fine or press two to serve a 30-day jail term. Regardless of what number the caller chooses, the voice tells callers they have a final option.
"You have one final option and we strongly suggest you choose this one. Rather than a $500 fine or a 30-day prison sentence, you may instead choose to pay it forward and pass this phone number to your top 10 most gullible friends and attempt to trick them into thinking this is actually a real failure to appear for jury duty notification."
Those who receive a call that seems suspicious or fake, should simply hang up, said Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks.
When calls are obviously a joke, it is not necessary to report them. However, if a call or message ever requests financial information or money, it should be reported, said Mincks.
To report such a scam, contact the Marietta Police Department at 376-2007 or the Washington County Sheriff's Office at 376-7070.


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Summer picnic season is well underway. If you're going to a picnic or hosting your own, it's always a good idea to have some games planned for the smaller picnic goers.
Here are the games I organized for my church's recent picnic. These games were great because the older kids (as old as 13-14) were able to play with the younger ones (as young as 3-4), and everyone had a great time.
- Water balloon dodgeball – Each child starts with one water balloon. When you get hit with a water balloon, you have to sit down and you're out of the game. After you've thrown your water balloon, you may come back to the bucket and get a new balloon and throw it at someone else. For a group of 14 kids, we used about 60 water balloons in this game. You could also play this game with squirt guns, if you didn't want to fill all those water balloons.
- Sponge relay race – Divide the kids into teams of 5-6. Each team needs a big dishpan full of water, a sponge, and a jar or wide mouth container. The dishpans should be at the far end of the area, around 20 feet away from the teams, and the jars should be next to the team. Each child will soak the sponge in the dishpan, keeping as much water as possible in the sponge, then run back to the jar and squeeze the sponge into it. The first team to fill their jar til it's overflowing is the winner. (This game works best with really big sponges and smallish jars.)
- Limbo – All you need for this one is a stick. Have two adults hold the limbo bar as all of the kids pass underneath. If anyone falls, touches the ground with their hands or arms, or touches the bar, they're out. The last kid to successfully pass under the bar is the winner.
- Tug of war – We used the same teams as we had for the relay race earlier. Tie a knot in the center of the rope, and mark a space about 10 feet apart as the neutral zone. The team that wins is the first to pull the knot over to their own side. Encourage the kids to tie handles into the rope to make it easier to hold on to, and help the little ones to do it.
- Bubbles and water play – After the organized games were over, I put out bubbles, bocce ball, bean bags, and dishpans full of water with the sponges. The kids had fun making up their own games, blowing bubbles, and playing.
What are your favorite picnic games?


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Waterfowlers have long known that ducks like working rice lands and a recently release report shows just how important they really are as habitat. The report, authored by Ducks Unlimited scientists for The Rice Foundation, found that if we needed to replace current rice lands with natural wetlands to maintain habitat capacity it would cost more than $3.5 billion.
The report was announced last week at a press conference at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in which Natural Resources Conservation Service Chief Jason Weller participated.
"The bottom line is, without the presence of working rice lands, there would be significantly less waterfowl habitat to speak of in several critical regions of the U.S.," said Dr. Mark Petrie, DU director for conservation planning and lead scientist on the report.
All three rice-growing regions of the United States – the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV), Gulf Coast and California's Central Valley– overlap directly with the continent's most important waterfowl wintering grounds. According to the study, more than 40 percent of the food resources available to wintering dabbling ducks along the Central Valley and Gulf Coast derive from flooded rice fields. The values for geese are higher because of dry-land feeding.
"Thanks to this research, we get a three and a half billion dollar perspective about what it would take to replace this habitat if rice acreage continues to dwindle," said John Owen a Rayville, Louisiana rice farmer and chairman of the USA Rice Producers' Group. "This gives producers a powerful message to bring to their neighbors, to conservationists, to hunters, and to government, to build support for incentive-based conservation policies and programs."
Unfortunately for waterfowl and rice farmers alike, all three regions face challenges as it relates to keeping rice on the land. Water supplies for rice production are under increasing pressure in all areas, and many producers may be forced to adopt practices that provide far fewer benefits for waterfowl.
Long-term declines in rice acreage on the Gulf Coast are especially worrisome with the simultaneous dramatic loss of coastal prairie and marsh habitats. Halting this decline and flooding a greater percentage of rice acreage will be necessary to meet the needs of Gulf Coast waterfowl in the future.
"Rice production and farming are important components to ensuring we meet the population goals set forth in the North American Waterfowl Management Plan," said DU CEO Dale Hall. "This study is an excellent tool we can utilize to show policymakers and waterfowl managers just how critical rice lands are to waterfowl populations."
The USA Rice-DU Stewardship Partnership was formed in 2013 to advocate for sound agriculture- and conservation-related policies and to promote the important ecosystem benefits of rice agriculture.
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not quite hansome enough 4 me. i use main menu. it gives loads of different tools like this stored up in ur menu. u should try it
Here's the AppleScript that does exactly the same thing:
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Awesome. While the dashboard and all the widgets take up relatively little resources, I have self-updating ones and process-hogging ones that also self-update. I love having them, but they choose the WORST times to update (usually in the midst of a big online battle. Thank you, Murphy).
This really is (IMO) the best solution for killing the dashboard. It's still available on command, but click a button, and it goes away completely.
Omahgawd. This widget belongs on your dashboard. If you play any kind of system-intensive games (for me, Quake 4), than you NEED this widget. It really is invaluable. Excellent. I give it 5 *****.
FANTASTIC little app.
It really should be included with OSX. Allows you to stop dashboard and all the little widgets (which take up memory).
Highly recommended.
Just like the description says, it is that easy and that effective. Quit Dashboard when you're done using it (since it's a widget itself) and just press F12 when you need it again. Seamless, and meanwhile no widgets are using your memory.


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Disputes between those holding differing political views are ubiquitous and deep-seated, and they often follow common, recognizable lines. The supporters of tradition and stability, sometimes referred to as conservatives, do battle with the supporters of innovation and reform, sometimes referred to as liberals. Understanding the correlates of those distinct political orientations is probably a prerequisite for managing political disputes, which are a source of social conflict that can lead to frustration and even bloodshed. A rapidly growing body of empirical evidence documents a multitude of ways in which liberals and conservatives differ from each other in purviews of life with little direct connection to politics, from tastes in art to desire for closure and from disgust sensitivity to the tendency to pursue new information, but the central theme of the differences is a matter of debate. In this article, we argue that one organizing element of the many differences between liberals and conservatives is the nature of their physiological and psychological responses to features of the environment that are negative. Compared with liberals, conservatives tend to register greater physiological responses to such stimuli and also to devote more psychological resources to them. Operating from this point of departure, we suggest approaches for refining understanding of the broad relationship between political views and response to the negative. We conclude with a discussion of normative implications, stressing that identifying differences across ideological groups is not tantamount to declaring one ideology superior to another.
John R. Hibbing is Foundation Regents University Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He conducts research on the psychological and biological correlates of political orientations. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Senior Fulbright Fellow, and is a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Kevin B. Smith is Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he is Director of the Political Physiology Lab and Associate Director of the Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior. His articles, primarily on physiology, genetics, and political beliefs, have appeared in Science, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and the American Political Science Review.
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The St. John-Hudson Lady Tigers lost a tough one at Burrton Tuesday evening playing the Halstead Dragons in three sets 20-25, 25-23, 23-25 in a game of fairly evenly matched teams with a slight edge going to the 3A Dragons. Earlier the Tigers defeated the Burrton Chargers 25-13, 25-13.
The Tigers did have their chances in the Halstead match, but being down by three points (21-24) in the deciding set was just a little too much, even though the Tigers did close the gap 23-24 before the Dragons got the match point.
Earlier in their first match against Burrton, the Tigers had little trouble defeating the Chargers - part of that from serving 13 aces in the first set, perhaps a Tiger record of sorts- Ashlyn Fisher five aces, Jessica Hanson three aces, Maddy Lippoldt two aces, Haley Falk two aces and Taylor Woodward one ace. (During the combined three sets playing the Dragons, the Tigers could only muster up three aces.)
St. John's varsity starts out the season 1-1.
Big smiles were the "order of the day" when St. John's junior varsity won both of their matches, defeating Halstead and Burrton in two sets each to start out their season 2-0. Sophomore Marsena Irvine played so well in the junior varsity matches that she suited up and had major playing time in both varsity matches.
Next on St. John's schedule is Pratt Skyline's Thunderbird Invitational this Saturday in Pool play at Pratt's Community College.
The Tigers's first match will start at 9 am. when they're matched up against a strong Pratt Greenbacks team, followed by matches against the Pretty Prairie Bulldogs at 11 am. and the Stafford Trojans at 2 pm. The other teams playing in Pratt-Skyline's Pool are Skyline, Pawnee Heights, Hodgeman County and Medicine Lodge.
The first and second place winners in each pool will play in the afternoon on Skyline's court, the matches starting shortly after all matches are finished in Pool play. The first place winner in the Skyline Pool will play the second place winner in the PCC Pool. The first place winner in the PCC Pool will play the second place winner in the Skyline Pool. The winners will move on to the championship match while the losers play for third place.


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FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2011 file photo, confetti flies over New York's Times Square as the clock strikes midnight during the New Year's Eve celebration as seen from the balcony of the Marriott Marquis hotel. It's no small task making sure the annual celebration remains safe, but the New York City police use an array of security measures for the event that turns the "Crossroads of the World" into a massive street party in the heart of Manhattan. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)


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BIRTHPLACE: Ozieri, ITA
DRAFTED: PHI: 2008-19 overall
|Traded to Anaheim by Philadelphia with Joffrey Lupul, Philadelphia's 1st round choices in 2009 (later traded to Columbus - Columbus selected John Moore) and 2010 (Emerson Etem) Entry Drafts and future considerations for Chris Pronger and Ryan Dingle, June 26, 2009. Signed as a free agent by Lugano (Swiss), September 19, 2012. Missed majority of 2013-14 due to hand injury vs. Tampa Bay, November 22, 2013 and as a healthy reserve. Traded to Vancouver by Anaheim with Nick Bonino and Anaheim's 1st (Jared McCann) and 3rd (later traded to NY Rangers NY Rangers selected Keegan Iverson) round choices in 2014 Entry Draft for Ryan Kesler and Vancouver's 3rd round choice (Deven Sideroff) in 2015 Entry Draft, June 27, 2014.
|2012-13: Appeared in his fifth NHL season, his fourth with Anaheim…scored 1-7=8 points with an even plus/minus ranking and 23 PIM in 41 games…ranked second among team leaders with 99 hits and also finished with 57 blocked shots…matched a career high (second time) with a +3 rating in a 5-2 victory, Apr. 3 vs. DAL…recorded his first career GWG and first goal of the season in a 2-1 win, Mar. 12 @ MIN…logged a season-high 23:03 TOI, Mar. 4 @ PHX…tied his career high in points/assists (fifth time) with 0-2=2 in a 7-1 victory, Feb. 2 vs. LA…appeared in his 200th career NHL game, Jan. 29 @ SJ…missed the final six games of the season with a lower-body injury, Apr. 17-27…played in his native Switzerland during the lockout, collecting 5-7=12 points with 14 PIM in 30 games with Lugano.
CAREER: Signed a four-year contract extension through 2014-15, Mar. 8, 2011…2011-12: Appeared in his fourth NHL season, his third with Anaheim…scored 5-19=24 points with 66 PIM in 80 games…established career highs in several categories, including goals, assists, points, appearances, shots on net (88) and TOI (17:55)…ranked third among team defensemen in points and assists, tied for third in goals, and second in PIM…also led Anaheim with 186 hits and ranked fourth with 99 blocked shots…recorded three separate point streaks of three games to match his career best, including Jan. 31-Feb. 3 (1-2=3), Jan. 6-10 (1-2=3) and Dec. 22-29 (1-2=3)…appeared in his 100th game as a Duck, Nov. 30 vs. MTL…logged a career-high 26:45 TOI, Nov. 23 @ PHX…tied his career high in points (0-2=2, fourth time), Oct. 16 vs. STL…missed two games with an upper-body injury, Mar. 12-14...2010-11: Appeared in his third NHL season, his second with Anaheim…played all six CQF games vs. NSH, collecting one assist (0-1=1) with eight PIM…earned his first career Stanley Cup Playoff point (assist) in Game 5 of the CQF, Apr. 22 vs. NSH…made his Anaheim postseason debut in Game 1 of the CQF, Apr. 13 vs. NSH…appeared in 68 regular season games, scoring 2-9=11 points with 43 PIM…ranked second on the club in hits (170) and sixth in blocked shots…among club defensemen, finished fourth in points and shots (76), and third in PIM…tallied two assists (0-2=2) for his third career multi-point game and second of the season, Mar. 11 @ COL…appeared in his 100th career NHL contest, Mar. 9 vs. NYR…recorded the second multi-point game (0-2=2) of his career, Feb. 16 vs. WSH…scored his first career PPG as part of a 3-2 Ducks win, Jan. 16 vs. EDM…recorded his first career NHL goal and earned a career-high +3 rating, Dec. 28 @ PHX…began the season with Anaheim, but was assigned to Syracuse (AHL), Oct. 16…in eight AHL games, scored 2-7=9 with a +2 rating and four PIM...was recalled from Syracuse, Nov. 10 and remained with the Ducks for the rest of the season…2009-10: Appeared in his second NHL season, his first with Anaheim…played eight games for the Ducks, going scoreless with six PIM…made his Anaheim debut, Oct. 3 vs. SJ, recording 12:59 TOI…was assigned to Lethbridge (WHL), Oct. 26…appeared in 29 games with Lethbridge and Portland (WHL), collecting 4-14=18 points with 29 PIM…added 2-2=4 points in 13 WHL Playoff games with Portland…2008-09: Appeared in his first NHL season with Philadelphia, scoring 0-7=7 points in 39 regular season games…became the second-youngest Flyer to make his Stanley Cup Playoffs debut in Game 2 of the CQF, Apr. 17 vs. PIT (Dainius Zubrus)…had a career-high 25:08 TOI, Dec. 4, 2008…posted a career-best three-game point and assist streak (0-4=4), Oct. 28-Nov. 2…recorded an assist, his first career NHL point, Oct. 22 vs. SJ…made his NHL debut, Oct. 11 vs. NYR, becoming the fourth-youngest Flyer and second-youngest defenseman at 18 yrs., 255 days…was loaned to Lethbridge on Feb. 2 for the remainder of the WHL season…posted 4-11=15 points in 18 regular season games and 2-1=3 points in 11 playoff games with Lethbridge…following the WHL playoffs, was assigned to the Flyers' AHL affiliate, the Philadelphia Phantoms, for two games from Apr. 10-11 (1-1=2)…2007-08: Spent the entire season with Lethbridge, earning 6-27=33 points in 62 games…won the Carl Trentini Memorial Award as the Hurricanes Rookie of the Year…led all WHL defensemen in playoff scoring with 3-12=15 points in 19 games as Lethbridge advanced to the 2008 WHL Finals...was selected to participate in the 2008 CHL Top Prospects Game…Miscellaneous: Represented Switerland at the 2012 IIHF World Championship in Helsinki, scoring 0-1=1 point with eight PIM in seven games…had the rare distinction of representing Switzerland at both the 2010 World Junior Championship as captain and 2010 Olympic Winter Games…appeared in five games during the Olympics and three in the World Juniors…suffered an oblique injury in his third game at the World Junior Championship and missed the rest of the tournament…was also a member of Team Switzerland at the 2008 World Junior Championship.
PERSONAL: Grew up in Zug, Switzerland before moving to Canada to play junior hockey…worked in the office of his hometown ice rink in Switzerland as his first job…the first NHL jersey he received was an Anaheim Ducks sweater, his favorite NHL club…his favorite NHL player growing up was Mats Sundin…attended Winston Churchill High School in Lethbridge, Alberta, graduating in 2008…plays golf and tennis during the offseason…his favorite athlete outside of hockey is Roger Federer…split his summer between Newport Beach, Vancouver and Zug, Switzerland…his favorite TV show is "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and cites Tamper Trap as his favorite band…his top restaurant in Orange County is The White House…has an older sister, Chiara (24).


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Published: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 10:36 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 10:36 a.m.
Schools, government offices and the post office are closed in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
In Terrebonne, Friday is a staff-development day so classes are canceled. Lafourche schools are open Friday.
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