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- Feb 14:
- Tweet this: Olympians turn medals into buzz, money
- Sharks in Sochi: How Marleau, Pavelski, Vlasic and Niemi fared
- Purdy: Chasing the ghost of Stalin in Sochi
- Olympics: Meredith Vieira to host NBC's prime-time broadcast
- Olympics: Super combined silver medalist had inside knowledge
- Olympics: Could melting Sochi host Summer Games someday?
- Olympics: Quick to start for U.S. hockey team against Russia
- Olympics: U.S. women's curling team on brink of elimination
- Olympics: U.S. beats Germany in men's curling
- Winter Olympics: Your Friday morning update
- Olympics: High-tech suit to blame for slow speedskating?
- Olympics: Waiting for star to emerge
- Olympics: Americans Bode Miller, Ted Ligety fail to medal in super combined
SOCHI, Russia -- When Jenny Jones won Olympic bronze at the Sochi Games, her following on Twitter exploded. The audience for @jennyjonessnow has grown 10-fold, to 65,000 followers, in the three weeks since the British snowboarder tweeted: "Just found out I officially made the GB winter Olympic team. Whoop!"
Olympic success is also working wonders for @sagekotsenburg. The U.S. snowboarder's account had 13,645 followers when he got the gold in slopestyle and tweeted: "WOW!! I just won the Olympics!!" That number grew to 14,196 in 30 minutes, 16,697 in an hour, 40,791 in 24 hours and to nearly 64,000 by Friday.
Vacuuming up followers on Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms is the smart play for Olympians at the Sochi Games. Athletes who catch and ride the once-every-four-years wave of social media interest in all things Winter Olympics, sharing pictures, thoughts and stories from their privileged backstage access at the games, could come home from Russia with stronger hands to woo new sponsors or squeeze more money from existing ones.
"They only have one shot at getting in the zeitgeist," says Walter Delph, CEO of Adly, which helps brands build buzz via social media movers and shakers. His advice to Olympians: "Grab the followers, grab the volume now because that is the best opportunity."
It used to be that Olympians had only traditional media -- newspapers, reporters and later radio and TV -- to tell their stories and recount their feats. Although they are still required to brave thickets of microphones and gauntlets of reporters after competing, they also are increasingly cutting out the middle men and addressing global audiences directly in 140-characters or less.
Savvy Olympians, their sponsors and managers made sure they came to Sochi prepared not only to compete with each other on snow and ice but also in an arm-wrestle for social media attention and buzz. Being cool and engaging on Twitter and posting eye-catching photos on Instagram are becoming the 21st century equivalents of a 1,000-megawatt smile -- practically a must-have. U.S. snowboarder Faye Gulini, for example, opened her Twitter account three weeks before flying to Sochi, prompted by the radio station she works with in Salt Lake City, her hometown.
"The more people that know who I am, the better off I am," she says. "The more people that follow you on your social media, the more people know of you and then that opens up doors for sponsors and money and all that stuff."
The three U.S. women ski jumpers who competed in Sochi were all "highly" encouraged in an 18-month lead-up to the games to develop their presence on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. "It's absolutely a must. You have to have it," says Whitney Childers, communications director for Women's Ski Jumping USA. "Our team sponsors require that."
"We knew that as we got closer to the Olympics, people wanted to know more about them, they wanted to get to know them, they wanted to understand their story and the best way to do that now is to be in control of it yourself and that's through social media, " she said. "And they all did it, some more reluctantly than others."
To avoid distractions and pressures from outside to perform, some Olympians unplugged for the games. The defending champion in women's aerials skiing, Lydia Lassila, tweeted Jan. 31: "Time to sign off until after #Sochi2014."
But forgoing the chance now to build on @LydiaLassila's 2,800 followers may pay off later, the Australian's manager, Bruce Kaider, argues. They plan something "engaging and interesting" -- Kaider wouldn't be specific, to preserve the "surprise" -- on her platforms post-games, when social media channels aren't as saturated with Olympic content as they are now.
"Everyone is trying to compete on who can do the coolest tweet, who can take the coolest photo," he says. After the games close Feb. 23, "she will get some real clear air."
What Olympians can and cannot tweet, like and share is also regulated by the International Olympic Committee. Its rules bar them from promoting "any brand, product or service on their social media pages, blogs or personal websites" during the games without prior, written Olympic approval.
But there does seem to be wiggle room. In Sochi, the account of figure skater Gracie Gold has retweeted tweets first posted by sponsors of the U.S. Olympic Committee. They must be thrilled, because @GraceEGold's following has more than doubled -- from 27,100 to 60,000 on Friday -- since she marched with Team USA in the Feb. 7 opening ceremonies and won bronze in team skating.
While noting that she isn't privy to the details of Gold's deals with her sponsors, the USOC's chief marketing officer, Lisa Baird, says by email that some athletes "are required to tweet on behalf of their sponsors" and others "do this on their own initiative (without contractual commitments) as they value their sponsor relationships highly."
"When an athlete's following explodes like Gracie's has this Olympic Games, it definitely makes her a more valuable spokesperson for a brand," Baird says.
Other Olympians insist they won't sell out or just aren't interested. Jones, whose slopestyle bronze was Britain's first-ever medal on snow, said she was "really shocked" by the spike in her Twitter following and hasn't thought about how she might exploit it financially.
Iouri Podladtchikov, the cool-cat snowboarder who ended superstar Shaun White's gold-medal reign in halfpipe, lamented that "some of my biggest idols" turned him off with social media feeds that make "you feel like you're in a never-ending advertising campaign."
"I-Pod" isn't a prolific tweeter, posting links to just three photos -- of his medal, his winning run and the opening ceremony -- since the games opened. He also retweeted a shout-out from fellow Swiss Roger Federer, whose 1.4 million Twitter folllowers makes the audiences for most winter Olympians look meager in comparison.
Without vigorous engagement, the following for @iouriamazing has grown only modestly to top 9,000 on Friday. I-Pod, a photography enthusiast, is doing better on Instagram, with more than 30,000 followers.
"I really don't care if it's 10,000 followers or 100,000," he says. "I just want it to be me ... even if it's not selling."


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- Jul 27:
- Michael J. Fox tries to find the funny in Parkinson's
- NBC producing Hillary Clinton miniseries
- Cory Monteith recalled as 'wonderful guy,' great leader by Mike O'Malley
- Jul 26:
- 'Breaking Bad': Cast discusses 'unapologetic' ending
- Sean Combs hopes to start a television Revolt
- 'Shake It Up' canceled by Disney Channel
- 'Doctor Who': Matt Smith parties with the TV critics
- Jul 25:
- Gandolfini pilot won't air on HBO
- 'Doctor Who': Matt Smith wonders if leaving show will be 'big mistake'
"Sharknado" apparently is just too big to hold to the small screen.
The cheesy Syfy Channel movie, directed by Antioch native Anthony C. Ferrante, is coming to movie theaters.
Regal Cinemas will host midnight showings of "Sharknado" on Aug. 2 at roughly 200 theaters across the country.
"Sharknado," which combined sharks with a tornado in one big, fin-tastic storm, touched off a feeding frenzy on Twitter when it aired on Syfy two weeks ago. The cable channel has already announced that there will be a sequel set in New York City. It is set to air on in 2014.
Regal is hoping to create a rousing communal experience similar to theatrical showings of the "Rocky Horror Picture Show."
"You know how audiences have had fun with 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' over the years. If the internet reactions to this film are any indication, then our moviegoers are primed and ready to enjoy 'Sharknado' larger than life in cinemas," Chris Sylvia, director of digital marketing for Regal Entertainment Group, said in a statement. "Regal is proud to be giving our guests this chance to fuel the social media whirlwind by inviting friends to come to the show and tweeting reactions."
Ken Thewes, Regal's chief marketing officer added: "There's just something epic about watching these huge beasts on the big screen with your friends and family. The crowd reactions will make for a memorable experience in our theaters."
Tickets will cost $12.50 each.
Find a list of theaters here: www.regmovies.com/promotions/sharknado

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There is good news for the civil space program in the Fiscal Year 2014 budget adopted by Congress. Within H.R. 3547, a joint House and Senate omnibus bill, NASA, NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service and the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Flight were funded close to or at the President's budget request.
NASA FY 2014 funding will be $17.65 billion, an amount just below the President's budget request, but most significantly, $750 million above what the space agency would have received had sequestration budget levels remained in effect.
AIA is pleased that the final NASA budget is consistent with our position that the NASA budget enable "the agency and its contractors to execute the key programs agreed upon by Congress and the President." A number of other bill provisions follow AIA recommendations from its 2013 suite of civil and commercial space advocacy papers, including the extension of the Commercial Space Launch Act's (CSLA) launch indemnification regime for three years. The extension of launch indemnification beyond a one year renewal (as happened in 2013) will provide the commercial launch industry much needed stability and a more level playing field with foreign launch competitors. Also, NASA's priority programs - the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, the Space Launch System, the International Space Station and the James Webb Space Telescope - are funded at levels very close to the President's request. This aligns with AIA's 2013 advocacy for steady support and funding of NASA's priority programs. Unfortunately, the Commercial Crew Program, which is vital to restoring independent US crew access to ISS, was underfunded by $125 million.
NASA's Science Mission Directorate's allocation of education and outreach program funding was maintained in the bill, which tracks with AIA's space organization group letter submitted in 2013. The letter asked Congress to "reject the proposed consolidation of all STEM activities as requested in the President's Fiscal Year 2014 budget submitted to Congress." The bill included language explicitly rejecting the proposed reorganization.
NOAA's "flagship weather satellite programs" were fully funded at the President's requested levels of $5.4 billion. AIA had strongly advocated for such funding given NOAA's need "to replenish aging (weather) satellites and avoid disastrous coverage gaps."
Finally, full funding of $16 million was provided for the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation, consistent with AIA's support for "timely and appropriate licensing for commercial space launch activities." This office licenses new commercial space capabilities; adequate funding assures prompt license processing.


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Applying a Parallel Hint to SQL Code that cannot change
By AndyBaker on Mar 15, 2013
Last night during investigation of a performance issue for a client it was found that due to significant growth in the database a select query was suddenly taking hours to run instead of minutes. Obvious things like statistics and the database were checked and it was clear to see the SQL code needed a review. However this code is from a vendor and cannot be changed so the client was interested in anything that could be done to assist them in the short term. This blog update covers the analysis and final answer which was to introduce the parallel hint into the SQL code with NO actual code change using the ' dbms_sqldiag' package and 'i_create_patch' procedure.
The first answer and quickest to implement was to execute the SQL tuning advisor against the code and that prompted a couple of SQL profiles for answers. The most positive of these was a PX_PROFILE which would introduce parallelism of a DOP (48) into the query and although warning about resource increases it looked good enough to investigate further. To take a stage forward the query was tested using the PARALLEL hint to see how much benefit parallelism would introduce. It should be noted that care is required before jumping into parallelism as a solution. For example in Oracle RAC what is the value of 'parallel_force_local' and what is the available CPU, memory, 'large_pool' etc.
Developers executed the code from SQL developer using the PARALLEL hint as below to see the real effect of the parallelism suggestion.
Note this is not the actual code but just an example of using the PARALLEL hint.
Select /*+PARALLEL */ count(*) from test_table;
The test was very positive with execution now taking around four minutes to complete which was a large difference from over 2 hours previously. However examining the explain plan with the PARALLEL hint showed it was very different to that of the explain plan for the SQL profile produced by the SQL tuning advisor. This meant the SQL profile was not the answer as the requested approach was now to get the PARALLEL hint implemented as tested and proven and not the execution as the SQL profile suggested with the PX_PROFILE.
Easy, create
a baseline was the next answer to adopt. Baselines are very easy to generate from the SQL cache linking the
execution plan for the SQL with the hint to that of the SQL without the hint. References on how to do this are contained in the acknowledgements.
After the baseline was introduced the code was re-tested to ensure correct results. Although the baseline was enabled and accepted the original code refused to implement the new baseline. The execution was not going to parallel execution as desired. What was wrong?
Researching this further, the reason why the baseline was not being selected is that the PARALLEL hint does not make it into the plan hints of the baseline but is obviously essential to force the parallel plan and get the appropriate hash plan value. Again this is not going to be discussed further here as it is available in other blog entries elsewhere, see acknowledgements.
So a profile and a baseline were now ruled out as possible solutions. It was then that an alternative arose called SQL PATCH. There are some pre-requisites in what SQL PATCH will and won't do as also referenced in the acknowledgements section. However for a straight /*+PARALLEL */ hint it worked a treat!
To add the parallel hint to the query with SQL PATCH:
Sqltext clob;
SELECT sql_text into sqltext FROM DBA_HIST_SQLTEXT WHERE sql_id ='9h8a1m1a4fwzc';
DBMS_SQLDIAG_INTERNAL.I_CREATE_PATCH(Sql_text => sqltext, Hint_text=> 'PARALLEL',Name=>'PARALLEL Hint Patch');
NOTE: The SQL text was obtained from the view DBA_HIST_SQLTEXT with the sql_id as it was a large query.
After submitting the above and testing with explain plan and execution finally we have the PARALLEL hint being used as was desired without any code change. In the explain plan there is even a note showing the name as above which aids in identification later.
If required at a later stage to drop the above it can be implemented with the code as below:
DBMS_SQLDIAG.DROP_SQL_PATCH(name=>'PARALLEL Hint Patch');
The following blogs were referenced in this research piece:
1. http://metekarar.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/adding-hints-with-sql-patch.html
2. http://orastory.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/sql-patch-iii-plus-parallel-baselines/
3. http://orastory.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/no-need-to-change-source-code-hint-it-using-a-baseline/
4. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28274/sql_tune.html


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BRECKENRIDGE - With longtime director John Jones gone, savings depleted and the Summit Stage facing a budget shortfall this year, Summit County may hand off management of the free, tax-funded transit system to a private company.
No decisions have been made, but county officials confirmed Tuesday there have been conversations with First Vehicle Services, the contractor that currently handles the maintenance on all county vehicles.
A request for proposals from other businesses interested in taking over the system's operation could go out by summer.
It is a defining moment for the Stage, which officials say cannot continue to offer the same level of service under its current model.
"We would like to think that if we did (privatize), it would help create a more sustainable system," assistant county manager Thad Noll said. "We cannot keep doing what we're doing for the same amount of money."
Officials say the shift to a private operator would be virtually unnoticeable to riders and no jobs or even pay would be lost in the transition. All current Stage employees would be brought on to work under the private contractor.
But the final decision, which will rest with the Summit Board of County Commissioners, will likely hinge on money and customer service.
Two years ago, facing a recession-induced budget crisis, Summit County government turned over the maintenance of its entire fleet of vehicles to First Vehicle Services to save money.
The move was a test run, and according to county officials a successful one, for the privatization of the Summit Stage as a whole.
"We wanted to test it with the fleet first," Noll said. "But the transit operations are very different. The fleet doesn't have a public face to it, and the Summit Stage is a lot more customer oriented."
He said there will have to be assurance that a private company could continue to offer a high level of customer service and save the system money for a privatization deal to go through.
The high-level orchestration of the Summit Stage operation and routes would remain under the control of the existing transit board and a system director. But the specifics of the transition, if it happens at all, are not yet determined, leaving some involved with the transit system wary of privatization.
"The devil's in the details," Summit Stage board president Kent Willis said. "I'm still concerned about how it all works out and I'm not totally convinced that there is a cost savings there or that it would be better for the system."
Despite assurances that jobs and pay would be maintained, the bus drivers have their problems with the idea as well.
"We're not real impressed with the service the county has gotten from First Vehicle," said Cathy Brosius, a former driver and president of the local driver's union. "We're very concerned that drivers could lose a tremendous amount of money in benefits and we're very concerned about the safe operation of the system."
Many of the older, more experienced drivers who are close to retirement might quit if the system is privatized, and it will be difficult for operators to find good replacements for them, she said.
The county contracted out its fleet maintenance operations out to First Vehicle Services in February 2011, at the same time a department of motor vehicles office was closed in Frisco. At the time, officials said the moves would result in a $700,000 savings in the first year.
But maintenance costs for the Summit Stage increased by more than $250,000 in that first year, from 2011 to 2012.
Noll said the increase resulted from the state of disrepair of the Summit Stage fleet.
"The Summit Stage buses had not been taken care of, so there was so much old maintenance that needed to be done," he said.
The cost of the existing maintenance needs was not covered in the initial contract with First Vehicle Services and therefore had to be charged back later, Noll said.
There are several publicly funded transportation systems in Colorado that are operated by private contractors.


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Amazon.co.uk: Printers
Welcome to the Amazon.co.uk Printers Store, home to our wide selection printers. A printer is the ideal office companion and at the Amazon.co.uk Printers Store, you'll find a wide range of printers available, including all-in-ones, inkjet printers, laser printers and photo printers.
Whether you're looking for a cost-efficient printing solution or you want to print out high-quality photos, Amazon.co.uk has the right model to suit your budget and your needs.


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Address Book
Address Book provides a flexible and convenient way to store your contact information online. Because Address Book is integrated with Mail, iChat, and other applications, you have to enter information only once to have your contacts available from all these applications.
Required OS: not specified
Tags: contacts , manager , 64bit
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Address Book works, but the cut & paste issues drive me nuts. The app tends to delete far too much text when cutting.
Address Book is especially great for freelancers and others who work from home and need to print labels in order to send out a mass mailing.
I like this address book and I like that it can be extended using plugins. But I still miss the ability to add more user-defined fields e.g. in the instant messenger aerea.
AddressBook is a very basic application. It does the job. But for a real contact manager where you can links information and organize in different ways, i strongly advice Contactizer Pro (http://www.objective-decision.com)
I like Apple's Address Book because of the seamless integration with most of apps. Also being able to sync my contacts into my phone using iSync is saving me valuable time.
The lack of support for some (newer) phones is a small limit though.
I lost my adressbook and want to install it again, but I do not want to do a format ? does any body know
Try synchronizing AddressBook with Plaxo service (plaxo.com). Works quite well.
I use it due to the seamless integration with Mail. My favourite function: copying photos of my contacts into Adress Book and seeing this photo when I get a mail of one of them. That's lovely.
I use this because of the smooth intergration with Mail and iSync (to my mobile.)


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Vail official report: 0 inches new snow, six lifts and four runs open
Lifelines: Eagle Bahn and Chair 8 both empty during the 9 a.m. hour
Weather: It's definitely cloudier than yesterday, which could mean colder temps, but so far it feels the same as yesterday and Monday. Dress warm in the morning but use removable layers if you plan on skiing into the afternoon.
Breakdown: While everybody's waiting for more snow, we should probably just be thankful we're able to ride the snow at all, given the low accumulation numbers for November. With Vail being known around the world for its impeccable grooming, you're in one of the best possible places to ski manmade snow, so you may as well enjoy it. The secret to a good day at Vail is to get on as much of that fresh groom as possible, and the secret to that is getting out early. Wildlife lovers, keep your eyes peeled out there; we saw deer running through the woods on the morning gondola ride up this morning.
Snowcast: Sadly, ten times nothing is still nothing.


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SAN JOSE -- The Sharks head into Saturday's matinee against the Colorado Avalanche well aware they have lost control of their own fate when it comes to the Pacific Division title.
Yes, San Jose still holds a one-point lead over the Anaheim Ducks. But Anaheim has two games in hand, as well as a schedule featuring opponents who are far less formidable than San Jose's.
Only three of Anaheim's past 10 games were against teams likely to be in the playoffs while San Jose has five of its final seven against teams that will be vying for the Stanley Cup. Entering Friday, the Ducks' opponents were averaging 77.8 points this season, while San Jose's were averaging 86.7.
After San Jose's 3-2 loss to the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night, coach Todd McLellan talked about the need for his team to win every game and seemed to welcome the challenge.
"It should keep us honest and alert and aware," he told reporters.
Friday, McLellan distanced himself from that "we've got to win them all" declaration, saying it was a response to the phrasing of a particular question.
"We've given up some points over the last game or two that certainly don't put us in a great position," the coach said, "but we'll just keep playing our games and the other teams will play theirs and in two weeks we'll look and figure out who we play."
And while his team has cooled off with a 2-2-2 record as of late, McLellan said he didn't have a problem with the effort.
"I know the group is showing up to play. They want to play hard, they want to do the best that they can. Some nights they don't have it," he said. "But there intentions right now are good. They're not delinquent at all."
"That's a pretty substantial amount of time between goals. It's a little bit of a relief," Boyle said. "It was pretty tough when obviously you're expected to be an offensive player, but I dealt with it as best I could."
McLellan noticed that Boyle has also contributed to the improvement in a struggling power play as of late.
"His game's been sharper over the last little bit, which is nice," the coach said. "The power play has been clicking a little bit more, and he's a big part of that. Maybe he's getting where he needs to be at the right time."
"Speed and skill and they play hard," said defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic of an Avalanche team led by Matt Duchene with 70 points and Ryan O'Reilly with 26 goals. "They have a lot of confidence this year, a young group that has a lot of energy."
For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak's Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks.
With just more than two weeks remaining in the regular season, the Sharks and Ducks are in a fight for the top seed in the Pacific Division. San Jose has a one-point lead (103-102), but Anaheim has played two fewer games. Here's a look at both teams' remaining schedules:
Date Opponent
Saturday at Colorado
Tuesday vs. Edmonton
Thursday vs. Los Angeles
April 5 vs. Nashville
April 9 at Anaheim
April 11 vs. Colorado
April 12 at Phoenix
Date Opponent
Saturday at Vancouver
Monday vs. Winnipeg
Wednesday vs. Edmonton
Friday vs. Nashville
April 6 at Edmonton
April 7 at Vancouver
April 9 vs. Sharks
April 12 at Los Angeles
April 13 vs. Colorado
Sharks (47-19-9) at Colorado 46-21-6), noon CSNCA


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I haven't changed that so it's the same as it was before, however the new MEncoder is better at managing memory and threads so you might not need to do it. I'm interested to know if that's the caseSuperDre wrote:k, so you want us to use clean config, that's ok, but how about the starting with a bat file for more memory? is that still needed or is the executable capable of setting figuring it out itself?
phrozenstare said it all; I recommend that you start with the clean config and re-apply your settings using the program. I thought about a migration thing but I ran into oddities with Windows permissions so decided to just avoid it.SonicSam wrote:Is there a migration guide (settings wise) between transferring from PS3MS to UMS?
I've been meaning to test Win8 for testingmyself. Any information you can give about your tests will be helpful, and yeah like phrozenstare said that OS won't be supported until it is released but hopefully I can fix any bugs with it before its releaseManco wrote:Subjunk I tried UMS. I installed the new Windows 8 Release Preview and decided to try out some programs that I have problems with first before installing other programs. The first time installed UMS on Win8 it worked fine. The I wiped the hard drive and installed Win8 RP again. I started installing my programs and got to UMS and this time it wouldn't find my PS3. I'm guessing somethings change in my windows install?
I installed PMS SB64 and it worked fine.
I'm going to install Win8 again and install UMS again early on and see what happens.
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Seib & Wessel: What We're Reading Friday
By Gerald F. Seib and David Wessel
Recommended reading from around the Web:
Precisely 40 years after the Arab oil embargo, the world energy situation has reversed: The U.S. now "has a historic opportunity to lead a counterrevolution against the energy world created by OPEC as innovation in the U.S. energy industry looks poised to end the decades-long, precarious 'dependence on foreign oil.'" [Foreign Policy]
David Wasserman (@Redistrict), in a detailed analysis of swing congressional districts in the wake of the budget fight, concludes Republicans have done a lot of damage to their brand name but that Democrats have "a long way to go" to win back control of the House on a field tilted to the GOP's favor: "By our calculations, House Democrats would need to win the national popular vote for the House by between six and seven points in order to win the barest possible majority of 218 seats." [Cook Political Report]
After the political arm of the Heritage Foundation, a venerable conservative think tank, actively supported the push to defund Obamacare and opposed legislation to reopen the federal government, conservative Sen. Orrin Hatch is questioning whether the organization is succumbing to "radicalness" and becoming irrelevant. [Huffington Post]
In a detailed report on the computer problems plaguing the insurance exchanges set up under the health-care law, Yuval Levi says that exchanges run by individual states are doing better than the federal one, but that even on that front "insurers believe that only Nevada, Colorado, Washington state, and Kentucky have what could reasonably be described as working systems at this point." [National Review]
Democrats need to abandon the hope of raising taxes – a victory for which Republicans have given up nearly every other issue – and leverage their debt-ceiling victory for something they actually want, like immigration reform and infrastructure investment, writes Ezra Klein (@ezraklein). [Washington Post]
Conservatives have declared war on the GOP, writes Molly Ball (@mollyesque). Long a tense relationship, tea partiers and the Republican establishment are approaching a boiling point, and analysts say it is becoming unlikely that the two will continue to coexist. [The Atlantic]
President Barack Obama is "Romneyizing" Sen. Ted Cruz and the tea party with a world-class political messaging machine that's leaving Republicans in the dust, writes Daniel Henninger (@DanHenninger). If the GOP doesn't step up its messaging efforts to embrace the digital age, the party will be stuck on the losing end, he says. [WSJ]
Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe has embraced a liberal agenda on social issues, deciding the cautious middle ground traditionally taken by Virginia Democrats would be a greater electoral risk. The fact that opponent Ken Cuccinelli hasn't much criticized his views reflects the state's changing balance, Ron Brownstein (@RonBrownstein)writes. [National Journal]
Mainly Macro says the impact of austerity is greater than politicians and most journalists say. [Mainly Macro]
Sign of the Times
Minor milestones we've spotted:
AOL has shot past Google to become the number-one producer of video ads. [Forbes]
More illegal immigrants are asking for asylum: 27,546 made "credible-fear" claims in fiscal 2013, up from 10,730 in fiscal 2012 and 3,273 in fiscal 2008. [WSJ]
Almost 30 million people globally are living in slavery-like conditions, with 14 million living in India, according to a global slavery published by the Walk Free Foundation. [Time]
Democrat Terry McAuliffe holds an eight-point lead over Republican Ken Cuccinelli among likely voters in the race for Virginia governor, 46%-38%, according to the NBC4/NBC News/Marist poll. Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis received 9%. [NBC]
The share of undergraduates who took out loans to finance their bachelor's degrees increased to 66% in 2009 from 64% in 2001 and 49% in 1994, according to an Education Department report. [Chronicle of Higher Education]
About 700 million people will eat at cafeterias inside IKEA stores worldwide in 2013 — downing an estimated 150 million meatballs. [WSJ]
CGI Federal, the Canadian IT company that developed healthcare.gov, has an $8 billion pipeline of future task orders with the U.S. government. [Washington Post]
Three-quarters of employees would choose a demanding, high-achieving manager over a pleasant, ineffective one, a survey found. [WSJ]
For critical perspectives on politics and the economy from Jerry Seib & David Wessel, visit Seib & Wessel and follow them on Twitter @GeraldFSeib and @davidmwessel.


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Body Condition
Does Skeletal Muscle Inflammation Lead to Hyperinsulinemia?
Researchers could not identify a positive relationship between inflammation and obesity or insulin resistance in horses.
Photo by iStock
Can Owners Help Horses Achieve Weight Loss at Home?
Weight loss is possible in most situations, provided the owner remains actively involved in the nutrition program.
Photo by iStock
What's the Best Weight Loss Plan for My Horse?
A bossy gelding has ballooned during the summer months, and his owner seeks advice for a safe and effective diet.
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Does Skeletal Muscle Inflammation Lead to Hyperinsulinemia?
August 30, 2016
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August 05, 2016
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August 01, 2016
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July 21, 2016
Find out how to keep your middle-aged horse's teeth, feet, joints, and more healthy. ... Read More
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July 13, 2016
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If you've wandered into the television section of your local electronics shop lately, you've seen sets sporting something called "4K."
The feature designates a new, super-high resolution picture standard. Retailers have created special displays to tout such sets, and a growing number of models you'll see in their showrooms have the feature built-in.
4K sets, which have four times the number of pixels as regular high-definition ones, have actually been available for more than a year now. But they've plunged in price over the past six months or so. While you used to have to pay thousands of dollars extra for a 4K set, you can now find some at smaller screen sizes that are comparable in price to the top-of-the-line non-4K models.
But if you're thinking it's time to rush out and buy a 4K TV, take a moment to catch you breath first. Here are some things to consider:
Size matters -- a lot. The ability to perceive all the extra visual information in 4K pictures is a function largely of viewing distance and the size of the screen. The smaller the screen or the farther you sit from it, the less likely you'll be able to notice the benefits of a 4K picture.
American viewers typically sit about 9 feet away from their televisions. At that distance, people with 20-20 eyesight can't distinguish the difference between a high-definition picture and one that's of greater resolution if the screen is smaller than 70 inches, said Raymond Soneira, president of DisplayMate, a research and consulting firm that focuses on display technologies. And even on a 70-inch screen, the difference is marginal.
So, if you're shopping for a smaller television, don't expect to see any great difference between a 4K set and one that only has regular high-definition. Even if you get a jumbo-sized set, you may not be able to tell any difference if your couch is farther away than that of the average American.
Prices are down, but still high. The first 4K TVs to hit store shelves back in the fall of 2012 were 84-inch behemoths that cost more than $20,000. By contrast, you can now find a 50-inch 4K model through Best Buy's Web store for as little as $1,400. That's about what you'll pay for 50-inch LG model with all the bells and whistles except 4K. But you can find entry-level 50-inch sets for less than $500 and ones from major brands such as LG for less than $700.
The price differences between 4K and regular HD sets increase as the screens get larger. A 4K Sharp 70-inch screen costs $3,500 at Best Buy, or about $700 more than you'd pay for one of Sharp's top-of-the-line non-4K 70-inch models.
4K content remains hard to find. When Sony debuted one of the first 4K TVs less than two years ago, about the only thing you could watch on it -- besides slide shows of high-resolution photos -- were a handful of movies stored on a hard-drive device that shipped with the set.
Today, you have a somewhat broader selection. Sony offers a revamped media player for its 4K TVs that provides access to some 200 ultra-high definition movies via the Internet. Netflix now offers some of its collection of streaming movies and TV shows in 4K, including "Breaking Bad" and the second season of "House of Cards." And YouTube offers a collection of 4K videos, though most are shorts uploaded from users.
Beyond that, though, you're not going to find much. You can't get 4K content through your pay-TV service yet. Nor can you find 4K movies on 4K Blu-ray discs. Moreover, most online video services -- such as Vudu, Apple's iTunes and Hulu Plus -- don't yet offer 4K content.
"As soon as you bring that new 4K TV home, it's not like you're going to get that much bang out of it," said Claudio Ciacci, test program leader for televisions at Consumer Reports.
4K TVs offer other advantages. 4K sets generally offer many of the same features found in high-end non-4K TVs. They generally have smart TV features, are usually capable of displaying 3-D content and often have premium speakers and sleek designs. What's more, said Soneira, they often have high-quality innards as well, featuring the better glass panels, image processors and screen calibration than the typical television. He said a 4K set will deliver better picture quality because of those because of those advantages, even if you're not watching 4K content.
The sets also generally include the ability to "upscale" standard HD content to 4K resolution. This doesn't magically transform the content to full 4K quality, but it can make images look less pixelated if you're sitting close enough to notice the difference.
One other advantage of 4K sets is that some of them allow you to display up to four HD video streams on the screen at once. So you could potentially tune into two different baseball games at the same time, while also viewing box scores from both games streamed from the Web.
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OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Warriors weren't going to beat the powerhouse Thunder anyway. The real question was in what fashion they'd lose.
In the grand scheme of things, Sunday's 119-109 loss to Oklahoma City was one they could swallow. Golden State shot the higher percentage (52.4 to 50.6) and hung with the Thunder on the boards (40-35). The Warriors kept their turnovers down, and their bench outscored Oklahoma City's.
So how did they trail by as much as 22 and walk away with a loss? To put it generally, Oklahoma City is superior.
"We played against a very good basketball team that went to the (NBA) finals last year," Golden State coach Mark Jackson said. "They have a couple of very special players.
"The thing that I pointed out to our guys is that this is a process, and they went through the same kind of experience and learned from it. It is important for us to do the same thing and continue to get better."
To put it specifically, the Warriors offense couldn't keep up with Oklahoma City's attack.
Stephen Curry led the Warriors with 22 points and six assists. David Lee finished with 19 points, 10 rebounds and five assists. Carl Landry's 14 points led a Warriors bench that had 47 points (to the Thunder's 40).
But much of the Warriors' offensive success came in the second half, after they got down big. And they got down big because they were helpless against the Thunder's stars.
Russell Westbrook finished with 30 points and six assists. Kevin Durant notched his first-career triple-double: 25 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists. Kevin Martin had 23 points off the bench.
Golden State was determined to keep the Thunder from scoring inside. Oklahoma City was outscored by 26 points in the paint but made up for that with good ball movement (31 assists) and the long ball. The Thunder knocked down 13 of 20 from 3-point range, many of them wide-open shots.
"If you stick to the game plan," Curry explained, "making them swing it to the weak side, and they're knocking down 3s, they're tough to beat."
The Warriors made a game of it late, sort of. Taking advantage of an odd lineup by Thunder coach Scott Brooks -- the only starter on the court was Thabo Sefalosha -- Golden State opened the fourth quarter with a 12-4 run. Jarrett Jack knocked down four pull-up jumpers over Martin, the latter cutting Oklahoma City's lead to 98-85 with 9:14 left.
Brooks called a timeout but still didn't bring back his stars, just Serge Ibaka. Golden State continued to chip away, rattling off eight straight after a Martin 3-pointer. Lee's putback made it 101-93 with 7:42 left. Not even two minutes later, a 3-pointer from the left wing by Curry had the Warriors within seven, 105-98.
"More than anything," Lee said, "I was just thinking, 'let's keep playing, let's keep playing. Let's keep doing what we've been doing. When we were down 17, we continued to play. We were down 12, we continued to play. Let's keep it going.' "
Oklahoma City countered with a jumper from Ibaka and a 3-pointer from Martin. About a minute later, a 3-pointer from the top by Durant pushed the Warriors' deficit to 115-102 with 2:58 left.
Jackson had seen enough. He pulled his starters, waiving the white flag.
The Warriors conclude their three-game road trip at Dallas on Monday night. They could salvage the road trip with a win, putting them back above .500. That would be huge considering five of the six games after this road trip are at Oracle Arena.
"We came here to get a win," Jackson said, "but there are some good signs. We're not satisfied, but we feel good about where we're headed and the things we're doing."
Jackson is growing more comfortable playing Green because of his size, versatility and basketball IQ. But Sunday, Green pulled out the offense. Taking advantage of being matched up against Martin, whom the Warriors successfully attacked all night long, Green made three straight baskets late in the first quarter to power a Warriors run that sent them into the second quarter down just 26-25.
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TALLAHASSEE - The annual compensation package for State College of Florida President Carol Probstfeld ranks in the middle of the pack of 28 state college presidents, according a report released Monday by Gov. Rick Scott's office.
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In October, Scott had asked Melinda Miguel, the state's chief inspector general, to review the compensation plans to determine "the risks presented to the taxpayers through the existing employment contracts with the state college presidents."
Miguel's report raises questions about issues such as how the colleges design their total compensation packages, vacation and sick leave policies, severance pay and how the contracts are reviewed and renewed.
The report has already prompted action by some of the colleges to bring their compensation plans into line with state policies.
In a statement on Monday about the probe, Scott said, "We support our colleges with taxpayer funds and we must ensure we get the best return on that investment possible by graduating students with the skills and training they need to get great jobs."
"Every dollar we invest in our colleges must be geared toward this ultimate goal," the governor said.
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The data on State College of Florida is a little more complicated because much of it reflects information from former President Lars Hafner, who resigned in October.
Probstfeld took over the school this year.
Hafner's compensation plan totaled $363,168 for 2012-13, ranking it 13th among the 28 colleges, according to the report. Miami Dade College had the largest compensation package for its president at $630,157 per year, with North Florida Community College the smallest at $143,866.
Probstfeld's compensation is smaller than Hafner's at $346,448, which would rank it 14th among the 28 presidential pay plans.
In addition to a base salary of $235,000, Probstfeld receives payments for an annuity ($25,000), deferred compensation ($14,271), a vehicle allowance ($1,683), housing ($20,000), medical coverage ($5,712), retirement plan payments ($30,000) and other benefits ($14,600).
In a response to Miguel last week, Carlos Beruff, chairman of State College of Florida Board of Trustees, noted the president's recent hiring and said the trustees "believe the new contract with Dr. Probstfeld substantially complies with the recommendations of the report."
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Combined, presidents in the state college system are receiving nearly $10 million in salaries and benefits during the current fiscal year.
Scott ordered the review after trustees at a Jacksonville college agreed to a $1.2 million severance package to the outgoing president.
The investigation did not cover the salaries and benefits paid to presidents at the state's 12 public universities — which include schools such as the University of Florida and Florida State University.
Miguel noted that in some instances the total amount of pay and benefits offered to presidents "was not readily transparent" or that some contracts offered benefits for life which means the total owed by taxpayers is difficult to calculate.
Sandy Shugart, president of Valencia College, gets a golf club membership and membership in the group that hosts the Florida Citrus Bowl as part of his nearly $479,000 compensation package.
Auditors also found that Shugart received a $190,000 lump sum bonus in 2012.
Hafner received nearly $21,000 for health insurance premiums.
Miguel called on college board trustees to establish guidelines for compensation and to spell out how much taxpayers will be responsible for paying even after the president is no longer working for the school. Eduardo Padron, Miami-Dade president, is guaranteed lifetime health insurance after he leaves the college.
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Residents of King County, Washington, are seeing several improvements in their community thanks to a $6.1 million Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG). The grant, which is funded by the Recovery Act, has allowed King County to conduct a variety of public and commercial energy efficiency upgrades, including the installation of electric vehicle charging stations, upgrades to its vehicle fleet, and energy improvements to senior housing.
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A standard Golgi opens the show. AC/DC follows and a fast-paced jam ensues, at this point one of the longer ventures of the song, and the band morphs into Possum. Possum contains inspired soloing by Trey and interesting effects by Page. Fluffhead is strong and contains the typical to 87 Fluff's Travels x2 and screaming conclusion.
An interesting YEM is next, and Fish is still trying to figure out how to approach the song, which makes it, at times, choppy. Overall though, the version is decent, with jams led by each member and DEG teases by Page which leads into a screaming vocal jam over top of DEG. The band then moves into DEG proper which is quite strong.
Punch Me In the Eye, probably the strangest song in Phish's entire catalog, played just once ever, is next. The song history for this song does a good job trying to explain this song, but really, it must be heard. First of all, Trey sings falsetto to an airy series of chords about 'Killing you till you're dead, punch you in the head'. After some dissonant changes, an angry verse is sung, and then a Avenu Malkenu jam with Mike playing occurs. From there, the band moves into what will soon become the pre-silent part of Divided Sky (you know, the ascending chords part). This is, probably, the best part of the song, so it's no surprise that the band tears it out of the song and puts it elsewhere. Then, after some weird transitions, the band plays a rollicking 50's era rock/boogie series of chords with Trey in falsetto and Mike singing do-wop. I think there's definitely a reason why they shelved this immediately. It is just SO weird. I can't believe the audience claps afterwards, honestly.
After a typical Alumni Blues, Mike introduces 'Matt' a friend of the band, asks Paul to check the audio levels, and Trey introduces Hydrogen which is "what you learn when you go to Goddard College". Hydrogen at this point contains the familiar Hydrogen that we all know, along with a beautiful ascending jam that seemed to end in late 1987. A movement into Who Do? We Do? follows and it is the first time the band plays it, and they do a pretty good job, albeit with much slower transitions than we hear today.
Trey introduces David Bowie, which an audience member recognizes. A clean version of Bowie, it's evident that the band has practiced the changes since its last outing. It's amazing that this version could probably be interchanged (with better audio and equipment) with a modern day version and the structure and jam are near identical (save for the ending arpeggios).
A standard Dear Mrs. Reagan is followed by a very nice Slave with a beautiful build and little Trey solo.
A short Phish set, but really the only thing particularly noteworthy here is the long version of Hydrogen (if you haven't heard it) and the absolute weirdness of Punch Me In the Eye.


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Calls for civil disobedience and a general strike on 11 February are gaining momentum across Egypt in the wake of the massacre of football supporters in Port Said.
The Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions and the Egyptian Democratic Labour Congress, which between them claim a membership of around 2 million workers in affiliated unions have backed the strike call.
In addition statements promising action in solidarity on the day are being reported from regional union federations, including the 10th Ramadan City unions, the Textile Workers' League in Kafr al-Dawwar, textile workers in the giant mills in Mahalla al-Kubra, and the Independent Union of Public Transport Authority workers in Cairo. The Cairo public transport authority workers recently occupied the Transport Authority's headquarters demanding the resignation of management.
There is intense agitation for the strike on university campuses across Egypt. By 4 February students in 34 public universities and 6 private universities had declared their intention to strike, and over the past day individual faculties have been making their own declarations of support. Announcements by school students planning to join the strike from several of the big Alexandria secondary schools were posted on Facebook on 7 February.


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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- They say you should try everything at least once.
"Whenever they told me I was going to the Masters, I was like, OK is the Hooters on the golf course, is it right next to it?" said Briana Law, a Hooters girl in Augusta.
She's one of 80 Hooters girls who were chosen to work the prestigious week in Augsta.
She came all the way from Myrtle Beach, and she's heard about how busy it really can get.
"I've had a chance to talk to a couple of tables, and they told me that it's going to be packed, that we'll be open to 2 a.m. sometimes, and there just so many people that are going to be in and out of here," Laws said.
The chain restaurant has a lot to live up to, though.
"It's a feather in our hat to have the busiest week, completely in the whole world for the Hooters company," said Matt, a manager at Hooters.
His restaurant sits not even 2 miles from the green, but they're in just the right spot to make good money.
"We have all the hotels on the left, we're in the middle, and the golf course is on the right, so we're always busy, we constantly have people walking by buying drinks," he said.
And their setup is massive.
Another full bar, close to 300 more seats, all to accommodate the Masters crowd. They've always been a hotspot.
"The tent will start to fill up for the first part of the tournament, we will have a lot of people that will come in from all walks of life," he said.
But other businesses, like Kroger, are feeling the heat, too.
"People who are coming in for the Masters, they hire companies to come in and do their grocery shopping for them, so that's prep ahead of time that we actually do, we pull the orders," said Shea Anderson, a supervisor at Kroger.
She knows how to handle the crowd, like most of the other seasoned businesses along Washington Road.
And with all of the out-of-towners "driving" down this busy road, and Matt and Anderson know they'll get the business they need.
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INMAN, SC-- Jared Wayne Davis, 24, died suddenly Wednesday, December 5, 2012. He was the son of Becki J. Genobles and step-father, Keith D. Genobles and father, Phillip Wayne Davis.
Jared was of the Baptist faith and a former forklift operator at Meyco Products.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by brothers, Bryan K. Genobles, Tyler S. Genobles, and Conner Price, all of Spartanburg; a sister, Logan Price of Spartanburg; and his grandmothers, Diane Johnson of Pacolet and Linda Davis of Jonesville. He was predeceased by a sister, Macie Davis; and grandfathers, Billy W. Davis and Norman H. Johnson.
Visitation will be 7:00-9:00 p.m., Sunday, December 9, at Bobo Funeral Chapel. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m., Monday, December 10, at Hammett Grove Baptist Church officiated by Rev. Buddy Hogan and Rev. Henry Coley. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Jared will lie in state from 1:00-2:00 p.m. before the service.
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The Chippewa Soil and Water Conservation District is hosting "Local Women Give a Dam", an evening workshop for women landowners focusing on how the removal of dams affect rivers. "An aging infrastructure and a better understanding of river systems has led to the removal of several dams in Minnesota, including two local ones," says Jean Diggins, Chippewa SWCD Manager, "and this year's workshop will provide information on the removal process and the anticipated river changes."
The event is being held Thursday, June 20 from 5:30-9:00 pm. Participants should meet at the Shelter House in Smith Park, Montevideo. A complimentary meal is included as part of the workshop. Both the workshop and meal are free. Preregistration is requested by June 17.
The evening will feature guest speaker Chris Domeier, DNR Assistant Area Fisheries Supervisor, explaining the dam removal process, in particular, the removals of the Minnesota Falls Dam near Granite Falls and the Chippewa River Dam in Montevideo. These removals were done within the last year and the workshop will cover the effects on river health and the changes that can be expected. It's an opportunity to view the Chippewa River Dam removal site and ask questions.
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Quote: In many ways, the lily-livered method that Obama chose to push health care into being is a crystal-clear example of how the Democratic Party likes to act showering a real problem with a blizzard of ineffectual decisions and verbose nonsense, then stepping aside at the last minute to reveal the true plan that all along was being forged off-camera in the furnace of moneyed interests and insider inertia.
Quote: Without single payer or a real public option, we'll all just be worse off and Obama will lose even more political capital and the Dems will probably get hammered in the mid-terms then he'll be even more of a lame duck than he is proving to be right now. Perfect shit storm, just uniquely depressing.
note1 wrote: Not to be a dick...but did you read the article?
redball wrote: note1 wrote: Not to be a dick...but did you read the article?
I just did. It didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. It's also slanted and has the same whiny "government funded insurance or nothing" attitude that I find to be so ridiculous and counterproductive. The problems detailed in this article are largely a product of the attitude expressed within it.
redball wrote: You cannot say that until at least tomorrow night. The bigger picture here is twofold: One is that progressives have been using the same negotiating tactics in this debate that my son does when he doesn't want to go to bed. The other is that Obama has to handle this carefully and must accept some compromise to avoid the same failures of the past.
Tomorrow could be two things. It could be Obama will announce that this health care reform will not be substantial (though he'll use a grandiose speech to make it sound otherwise. Or he will begin to step on the bully pulpit. If the latter happens things could change dramatically. If he'd done this from the start they would have Clinton'd the bill in no time.
Re: Attitude - What's driving the debate is attitude. Progressives have a lot of it, but not enough. They've decided to hang their hats on one item at any cost. This article expresses exactly that: everything is fucked because omigod no public option. Well, I guess we just can't win! Meanwhile they're not fighting any other battles. They've given up. We have a situation where the message has become pretty clear: blue dogs will be voted out of office if this legislation passes and the republican machine has any substantial gripes. Liberals have made no such statements, except in the most liberal of districts. In large numbers they've given up and turned to debating whether town hall crashers are really crazy. Meanwhile their representatives are including no end of shitty things in the bill, primarily as sweetener to try to get a sham public option through.
Give up on the public option and start demanding that you get something. Progress can be made without that single component. If you're going to demand it, start fucking breaking down doors. Don't fucking give up you morons.
Alan Hague wrote: I like using the term "lily-livered" to refer to the Democrats. They're (for the most part) corporate stooges just as much as the Republicans are.
Amazing how when a public option, let alone single-payer, is brought up, critics bring out the "s word" - socialism. And it's effective! Democrats are too scared to push a public option for fear of being labeled socialist and being voted out of office because of it, instead of rationally explaining the benefits of such a plan. It's pathetic.


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Kissinger and The Mothers of the Disappeared in Argentina: America on the Brink of Horror.
This blistering Buzzflash editorial deserves to be spread far and wide. The reappearance of Henry Kissinger as a top adviser in the White House dredges up horrors that have long been buried by time – but which are still fresh in the scarred hearts of millions of people. It reminds us of the complicity and cooperation of the American political elite in the South American mass murder campaign known as "Operation Condor." This earlier "war on terror" – which reached its apogee on that other September 11 terrorist attack, in 1973, with the American-backed murder of Salvador Allende, Chile's democratically elected president – also featured unrestrained "unitary executive power" claiming the right to imprison and torture and permanently detain anyone arbitrarily declared a "terrorist" or "enemy of the state" on the most specious – or nonexistent – grounds.
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helped visit upon South America is now coming home, brought to you by the same people,
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to Argentina to Chile to Central America to Iraq, they know only one
way to rule: by force, by fear, by lies, by loot, by lawlessness and
This same faction has contracted with Halliburton to build "emergency detention camps" set to hold tens of thousands of people. They have induced their bootlicking rubberstamps in Congress to vote its approval of unrestricted, arbitrary presidential power over the lives and liberties of every American – indeed, every person on earth. They have launched a war of aggression that has killed an estimated 250,000 innocent Iraqi civilians and more than 2,700 American soldiers as well.
Given everything they have already done, given the autocratic powers they have claimed for themselves and have had confirmed by Congress, given their until-now secret reliance on a war criminal directly complicit in the death of millions of people in Southeast Asia, where do you think this faction will draw the line in order to retain their power, their privilege, their dominance?
There is no line for them. There is no limit. History has proved this. And history is now circling back on the United States, preparing to visit upon us some of the same horrors that this same group has wrought upon other people.
Excerpts from the Buzzflash editorial:
...What happened during Operation Condor is so horrific – all done in the name of the safety and security of "the nation" – that it is barely speakable. The torture included one of the Bush Administration's favorite techniques – waterboarding – and many other methods. Families were forced to watch or listen to their love ones being mutilated. Friends were required to conduct torture on those that they knew....Many Americans will say that this horror cannot happen in the United States, but they are wrong. Legally, as a result of the legislation passed in September, it is now quite possible...
The new law is vague enough that the Bush Administration, which drives a Mack truck through loopholes or openly disregards congressional laws, can justify arresting American citizens it simply declares are providing support to those it declares are enemies of America. It is "Operation Condor" all over again.
What one must remember about "Operation Condor" and Gitmo, for example, is that they were basically horrifying fishing expeditions. One did not need to be guilty of anything. One was adjudged guilty merely because a state authorized agent declared one so. In "Operation Condor" – as at Gitmo – the vast majority of people were detained and tortured merely on the suspicion that they might have some knowledge of value. And if they didn't, it was their bad luck – and their detention would be a sacrifice paid for the "security of the nation..."
It is not a large leap – however much Americans would like to think otherwise – from the summary arrest, torture and occasional murder of foreigners to applying the same process to residents of the United States. Suspicion or politically-motivated accusations of the government become equivalent to a sentence of guilt. Bush has already declared persons who disagree with his Iraq policies "tools of the terorrists."
One cannot fully control torture as if it were a thermostat. When you start down the road of torture, people are going to die accidentally. And then when the culture of torture becomes ingrained in the military, people will start to be murdered. It is hard to contain torture; it is impossible to just torture the "guilty." Soon, it becomes – as it did in "Operation Condor" – a nightmare combination of "trolling" and "cleansing" the political opposition.
In such an environment, torture is the first step on a descent into state-authorized murder to achieve political goals, not necessarily "national security."
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November 16, 2005
In a new report released by the National Transportation Safety Board, we hear what went wrong on a fatal day in Graniteville. Among the statements are pictures of emergency responders measuring the hole in a train car leaking chlorine. News 12 is on your side with who's to blame and how those in Graniteville are taking the news.
"It always happens somewhere else but it finally happened here," said Allen Hudson, evacuee.
They're pictures Allen Hudson sees in his head every night before falling asleep.
"This is awful, this is a tragedy, to the family and to the community," Hudson said.
His family was among the 5,000 forced to evacuate after January's train wreck and chemical spill. On this quiet night and eleven months later, he still remembers.
"I mainly wanted to run down there to see if anybody was hurt. You know, when that stuff hits you there's no air at all," Hudson said.
Close to a year after the collision, the National Transportation Safety Board has released a 300-page report. In it are statements from an engineer, conductor and brake man who say they may have forgotten to flip a board switch. According to the brake man, he had it in mind he was going to do it, but that he isn't 100 percent sure he did. The conductor says, 'I should have done a briefing to ensure that the switch was lined back, I probably should have.'
"I don't think there's been a lot of truth told to us through the whole thing. Accidents happen, you know, I realize it was an accident. I'm sure nobody wanted it to happen," said Tom Heider, lives near tracks.
"They know what's coming through there, they know they have that stuff everyday. If they're gonna haul it, they need to be prepared to suffer the consequences if something goes wrong," Hudson said.
An obligation Allen hopes the railroad lives up to after something went terribly wrong just a couple hundred feet from his home.
"I mean, it's just unbelievable. If you lived through it you never would have dreamed it," Hudson said.


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Backgrounder: Selected Medicines in Development for Alzheimer's
Selected Medicines in Development for Alzheimer's
Current medicines for Alzheimer's disease are approved to treat the cognitive symptoms of the disease – helping memory loss, confusion and problems with thinking – but do not address the underlying causes of the disease. Current research is focused on treatments that may stop or slow down the disease progression – disease-modifying agents. Two key hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease are the appearance of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. Plaques are abnormal clusters of beta-amyloid protein fragments between nerve cells, while tangles are twisted fibers made primarily of a protein called "tau" that accumulates in the brain cells, damaging and killing them. Other areas of research are looking at the role inflammation and insulin resistance play in Alzheimer's disease.A diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is based on cognitive testing, but the only definitive way to diagnose Alzheimer's disease is by conducting a biopsy of the patient's brain after death. There are several potential positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agents in clinical trials that researchers hope will help with diagnosis by identifying beta-amyloid plaques in the brain early in Alzheimer's disease.
Helping Memory – A treatment in development selectively targets 5HT6 receptors in the brain. These receptors are associated with learning and memory. Currently available symptomatic treatments, such as cholinesterase inhibitors, are not brain specific and can alter systems in the entire body, leading to possible side effects. A brain selective treatment like this has the potential to reduce systemic side effects.
Gene Therapy to Restore Neuronal Function – Agene therapy for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease in clinical trials is designed to deliver nerve growth factor (NGF) to the brain. NGF is a naturally occurring protein important for neuron survival. The gene treatment is injected into the brain region where neuron degeneration occurs in Alzheimer's disease. It is thought that the resulting sustained expression of NGF in the neurons can restore their lost functions, leading to memory and cognition improvement.
Neuroprotection with Intranasal Treatment – An intranasal peptide derived from a naturally occurring protein produced in the brain, called activity-dependent neuroprotective protein (ADNP), is in development for the treatment of amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), a precursor to Alzheimer's disease. ADNP is essential for brain formation, and its loss leads to cognitive deficits and degeneration of the microtubules normally associated with the tau protein to maintain the integrity of brain cells (neurons). This potential medicine appears to protect the microtubules from damage that would lead to tau protein tangle formation and neuronal dysfunction.
Boosting Immune Responses with Vaccine Treatments – A synthetic vaccine using an "affitope," a peptide designed to mimic beta-amyloid antigens, induces antibody production against this protein, without creating a systemic immune response (which carries safety concerns). Another vaccine in development for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease uses a specific adjuvant (an immunological agent able to modify the effect of another agent) to enhance the vaccines effectiveness by producing a more potent and sustained immune response against certain beta-amyloid antigens.
Preventing Plaque Formation – A small molecule compound that has been shown to reduce the formation, deposition and accumulation of beta-amyloid protein, as well as induce its removal from already formed plaques. It also appears to target the tau protein, by inhibiting the protein from forming filaments that are important in neurofibrillary tangle formation. It potentially could affect both of the two major known components of Alzheimer's disease brain lesions.
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Coyote Grill in Zephyr Cove will host its grand re-opening Jan. 25.
Owner Leland Faegre's expansion has more than doubled the size of its current business model, according to a press release. The expansion - which includes live performances and karaoke, pizza, gaming and varietal coffees and espressos - began when Faegre purchased the business in July 2009.
"The necessary provisional space for entertainment and gaming will also make possible the opportunity for expanded coffee and espresso choices from our Gardnerville-based, strategic partner Blind Dog Coffee, filling an aromatic vacuum created by the vacancy of Not Just Java, a previously popular, coffee-centric business model in Round Hill Square," Faegre said in a press release.
KTHO's "The Knuckleheads" with "The Insane Darrell Wayne," will stream live during the restaurant's soft opening Jan. 23 from 7-10 p.m. at www.kthoradio.com and www.kdsk.com.
The official grand re-opening will begin Jan. 25 at 2 p.m. with the demolition of an adjoining wall with local charities, dignitaries and patrons participating.
Those interested in helping "Tear Down This Wall" should contact the Coyote Grill at 775-586-1822 to schedule a segment. The entire event will also be broadcast live on KTHO from the Coyote Grill and videotaped for future television commercials.


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Editor's note: Jonah Dominick, 10, is a fifth-grader at Frisco Elementary who participated in the school's mentor program. He currently enjoys writing poetry, but someday would like to write about music and tattooing. As part of a project for the mentor program, he interviewed Guapo, a local tattoo artist, to learn about his job and wrote about the experience. This is his first professional publication.
Buzz. I hear the machines as I walk into God Speed Tattoo. I have just started my mentorship with Guapo, owner and operator of God Speed.
He has just walked in.
"Rule No. 1 for being a tattoo artist: you have to sterilize your hands," Guapo says.
The sink was no ordinary sink. It was a foot pedal sink like the pedal you would use in your car, but instead of brake and go it has hot and cold.
Now I walk into the tracing room. There are three writing binders filled with artwork and tracings of roses, animals and all sorts of different art.
Guapo flipped through pages and pages, looking for something for me to trace. Finally, he found some beautiful roses for me to trace.
"Take your time," he said. "No rush."
And again he repeated it. And I repeated it.
While I was tracing, little did I know what awaited me. A stencil? An apprenticeship?
Finally, I finished tracing. I walked out of the tracing room and Guapo asked, "You done, buddy?"
"Yeah," I replied.
"Let's see it."
"Everything has a beginning and end," Guapo said.
"OK," I replied.
"How many tattoo guns do you have?" I ask.
"You mean machines," Guapo said. "Call them machines, not guns. Guns are bad. I love them."
Finally, I found out what awaited me. He showed me how to tattoo on a real person. The customer, Valani, had just had a baby girl, Bailee, and was getting their bonding tattoo.
"I am originally from the San Francisco," Guapo says. "I moved here 20 years ago and that's when I started tattooing."
"Is it hard to multi-task when you're tattooing like now?" I asked so eagerly, wanting to know all the answers.
"No, not really," he replied. "The license is more about sterilization, not too much about the art."
"So do you need a license if you're going to a convention out of state?" I asked.
"Not most of the time, because they are only for a couple of days," Guapo said.
So, as you can see, tattooing is more complicated than just the art. So if you're looking to get a tattoo or want to know more, stop by God Speed Tattoo in Breckenridge.
A big thanks to Betsy Tomlinson, Guapo and Caddie Nath for letting me write this article.


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A Shelbyville woman was left with minor injuries following a Tuesday afternoon wreck in Macon County.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol the crash happened at 4:30 p.m. on Missouri 156, seven miles east of LaPlata.
A 2010 Toyota Corolla was being driven east by 22-year-old Danielle M. Rich of Shelbyville. While overtaking another vehicle Rich reportedly lost control of the car on loose gravel. The car ran off the left side of the road where it struck a ditch.
Rich, who was wearing a safety device, was taken by ambulance to Samaritan Memorial Hospital in Macon.
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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that's busier than Alice's white rabbit this fine Monday morning. But we do have a few important notes to leave you with before we scamper off down our rabbit hole.
The first is a shout-out to Ev Thomas (right) who scored some totally awesome award (we assume that would be the one around his neck) which we could never possibly explain properly, so we'll leave it to the expert, Diane Currier, who writes thusly:
"Ev Thomas, was recently awarded the Silver Beaver Award which is the highest honor the Western Colorado Council can award for distinguished service for the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Thomas volunteered for numerous years for Troop 187 in Breckenridge and was honored at a reception and Court of Honor. Mr. Thomas, thank you, thank you for everything you have done for our fine youth in Summit County!


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Second Quarter Real Estate Taxes FIscal Year 2016
Category : Town Finance
Department / Board / Committee : Collectors
Type : General
Second quarter real estate tax bills for fiscal year 2016 have been issued.
Payment is due November 2, 2015.
Payment may be made the following ways:
By mail - Please send payment to Collector's Office, 580 High Street, Westwood, MA 02090
In person - Town Hall is open Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM, Tuesdays 8:30 AM to 7:00 PM and Fridays 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM.
Online - Please click on "Online Bill Payment". Credit card or electronic debit is accepted. There is an additional fee for credit card payments.
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23.11.2012 - The European Embryo Transfer Association (AETE) has elected Frank Becker as the society's new president.
The former AETE vice-president from Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN) studied veterinay medicine at Humboldt University Berlin and is working in the field of reproductive biology at FBN in Dummerstorf, Germany. The AETE was founded 1985 in Lyon and lobbies for the interest of veterinary reproduction biologists.http://www.european-biotechnology-news.com/people/bio-people/2012-2/frank-becker.html


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N.H. inmate sues prison doctors, nurses over post-surgery infection
A Sunapee man sent to prison in 2009 after a drunken driving crash that killed a woman has filed a federal lawsuit against doctors and nurses.
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