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BC professionals condemn autism cuts
As Victoria parents prepared for a candlelight vigil at the Legislature Monday Feb 1 to mourn the Province's closure of critical autism early intervention programs, the BC Association for Behaviour Analysis -- the equivalent of the BC Medical Association -- issued a lengthy position statement criticizing these and other recent autism policy changes.
The Association calls for significant increases to the current autism funding levels for preschoolers, for funding to be tied to individual need, and for restoration of the direct funding option for families. It also strongly condemned the lack of consultation over the controversial changes announced by Children's Minister Mary Polak last fall.
"Many people in the Autism community were shocked and disturbed by the closure of all of the EIBI programs and the funding structure changes," the BC ABA statement reads. "...Furthermore, discussions with stakeholders might have resulted in a more sound decision on how to achieve province-wide, equitable access to services for individuals with ASD."
The BC ABA joins parents, advocacy groups and other professionals who have universally panned the province's abrupt autism policy changes, stating that the new provincial funding formula for preschoolers with autism "is not sufficient to purchase intensive behavioural therapy at the level (25-40 hours per week) which research has shown to be effective." The Association cites the example of other Canadian provinces that fully fund the costs of early intervention, noting that "given the discrepancy between provincial funding and the actual costs of implementing an intensive ABA program, few children in British Columbia will likely receive the intensity of treatment that has been empirically shown to improve the core characteristics of Autism." (Emphasis added)
Boards warn of looming Special Ed cuts
Vancouver and Victoria join the growing list of BC school districts warning that special education could bear the brunt of unprecedented budget cuts projected for 2010-11, due to unfunded costs that the province is downloading on school boards.
Surrey: Last week, Surrey DPAC warned that some $18-20 million in downloaded/unfunded provincial costs will result in program cuts that directly harm students. (Press release attached)
Victoria: Victoria trustees told the Times Colonist yesterday they would have to consider cutting the district's Special Education program to balance their budget.
Vancouver: Last week, Vancouver served notice that up to 800 teachers could be laid off to address a provincial funding shortfall ranging from $17 to $35 million, depending on what the province decides to fund in the upcoming provincial budget. And at a meeting for parents of students with special needs this week, the Board Chair acknowledged that special education was particularly vulnerable to cuts, since staff costs are protected via contracts and class size is now protected by legislation, leaving unprotected services like special education as one of the few areas they can cut.
Virtually every school board in the province is confronting similar choices, given the limited number of unprotected programs, like special ed, that they can cut to make up for unfunded provincial costs, since all boards are required by law to balance their budgets regardless of provincial funding shortfalls. Accentuating the looming threat to special education is that the province only funds half or less of what districts actually spend on special ed - a subsidy that is hard for trustees to defend when schools are being closed and core programs slashed.
At the core of this unprecedented crisis is the growing number of downloaded costs that the province has so far refused to cover in provincial education funding grants. These include further increases for teacher salaries and benefits under contracts that the province negotiated, new provincial carbon tax and carbon offset charges, increases to provincial MSP and WCP premiums, implementation costs of new provincial requirements like Bill 33 and full-day kindergarten, and general inflation, which the provincial funding formula also does not cover.
The provincial government will present its budget for 2010-11 in early March and has to date refused to consider new funding to cover these new costs, leaving districts projecting the largest deficits seen in a decade, and cuts that will seriously impact students.
Vulnerable kids unfairly targeted
Provincial officials are justifying the cuts by stating that districts have to tighten their belts like anyone else. This response fails to acknowledge that districts cannot force most district services to tighten their belts because they are protected by provincially-negotiated contracts and requirements. Staff will not sacrifice pay or benefits and boards must also find a way to cover new pay and benefit increases negotiated by the province. Along with provincial requirements governing a host of activities, from class size to reporting and administrative roles, this means districts actually have very few options or "discretionary" spending that can be cut when they are told to tighten their belts.
In effect, school board "belt tightening" amounts to downloading a provincial budgetary crisis onto the most vulnerable students in our public schools - students with special needs, ESL and Aboriginal students and those who need additional programs and supports to succeed. In failing to provide any policy to protect these programs and students while protecting everything from teacher pensions to teacher-student ratios in law, the province has created an uneven playing field that forces school boards to unfairly penalize their most vulnerable students whenever cuts must be made.
ADVOCACY: What you can do
The harsh reality facing our kids is just emerging and there is very little time to act. Parents and advocacy groups representing students with special needs and other vulnerable groups need to act immediately, by telling their MLAs, Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid, Finance Minister Colin Hansen and Premier Gordon Campell that it is not acceptable to target BC's most vulnerable students to solve a problem they had no hand in creating.
1. We need to convince government to cover all education costs in the 2010-11 budget before it is presented on March 3.
2. Strength in numbers. We can be most effective if we join with broader groups of parents, PACs and public education advocacy groups to demand that the province fully fund all provincially-mandated costs, including special education - instead of fighting each other for shares of an inadequate budget and ignoring the roots of the problem.
- Contact your PAC and DPAC and encourage them to write the Premier, FInance Minister, Education Minister and your local MLAs - just as Surrey DPAC has done.
- Join our growing Facebook group "Stop BC Education Cuts" to find out what other parents and districts are doing, to find and share information about cuts and to connect with other parents or advocacy efforts in your community.
Victoria Vigil for lost children's programs
Next Monday Victoria families will hold a candlelight vigil at the Legislature to protest the closure of the province's critical early intervention programs for autism (see notice below).
Children's Minister Mary Polak stopped funding the province's EIBI programs last fall to save $1.5 million annually, despite the desperate pleas of families and many studies confirming that these programs are hugely effective, saving on average $3 - 5 million PER CHILD in net lifetime costs to society (for more details and sources, see our EIBI Facts).
As a result, at least 70 BC children per year will be denied the intensive early behaviour intervention that provided the only hope for these children and their families of a near-normal life, unless they can afford to privately pay tens of thousands annually to top up inadequate subsidies and susbstitute programs to replicate the benefits that only a full EIBI program can offer.
These children join thousands more in BC who are already being denied access to the early intervention supports and programs that they need, due to foolish and short-sighted policies that place enormous and unnecessary strains on other provincial services, such as education, health care, welfare, community living, social housing, justice, etc etc....
Minister Polak and her colleagues also ordered the closure of a series of other cirtical children's programs (which collectively don't put the tiniest dent in the current provincial deficit). These include the provincial Infant Development, Supported Child Care and Aboriginal Supported Child Care program, the Roots of Empathy program, FASD prevention, child and youth mental health and more - all of which will directly impact children and create significantly higher long-term costs than the meagre short-term budgetary savings.
These actions cruelly target the province's most vulnerable children and directly violate Premier Campbell's 2005 promise to build "the best system of supports in Canada for children with special needs."
Your support
We invite families outside of Victoria who can't make it to the vigil to show their support by signing and circulating our petition calling on Premier Campbell to honour his promises to BC's children with special needs and/or by writing their MLAs to remind them that BC families will not rest until these and other programs are restored, and that all children with special needs are able to get the basic help and support they need - in a timely manner and in a form that respects their individual needs and those of their families.
The petition can be accessed online here.
Find out more and support the ongoing FAIR campaign to restore EIBI programs on Facebook
New evidence-based Autism manual
The U.S.-based National Autism Center, which released the landmark National Standards Report last July summarizing the evidence base for various options in autism treatment, has just released a comprehensive manual titled, Evidence-Based Practice and Autism in the Schools. The 181-page manual includes important findings from the Center's National Standards Report, touted as the most extensive analysis of treatments for children and adolescents with ASD ever published.
The Center, a nonprofit organization, is dedicated to supporting effective, evidence-based treatment approaches for individuals with ASD. The manual assists educators in selecting and implementing the most effective research-supported treatments for ASD. In addition to providing important information about newly published research findings, it offers guidance on how to integrate professional judgment, family values, and preferences into treatment selection in order to build capacity and implement interventions accurately.
Although obviously written for the U.S. context, the manual should offer valuable insights for educating students with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Canadian context as well.
You can download a free copy of the manual or order a print copy for purchase here:


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Welcome ! We are a group of young Armenian-Cypriots. We have launched this site to facilitate contact within the Armenian-Cypriot community and to cultivate ties with the outside world, Armenian and non-Armenian alike. We have named the site after our local parish church—Saint Stephen (or "Sourp Stepanos" in Armenian)—due to its prominence as a reference point of our community and because it stands as a…Read more
The Adana Massacres of 1909, whose 30,000 victims are being commemorated on the centenary of their death this year, are of special significance to the Armenians of Cyprus since a large proportion of them are descendants of the 1915 Genocide survivors from Adana who found refuge in Cyprus, and who still consider themselves "Adanatsi". In Larnaca, the Armenian Church of St. Stephanos, built in 1913, is dedicated to the 1909 victims.
Massacres of Armenians in Turkey were nothing new, in fact about 15 years earlier, the Hamidian Massacres of 1894-96 had claimed tenfold that figure and had shown the lack of enthusiasm of the European powers for takinRead more
I would like to ask a very simple, ordinary question. Would you wish to be an Armenian in 1915? No, you wouldn't.
Because now you know you would have been killed. Please stop arguing about the number of murdered or the denials or the attempts to replace pain with statistics.
No one is denying that Armenians were murdered, right? It may be 300,000, or 500,000, or 1.5 million. I don't know which number is the truth, or whether anyone knows the true number accurately. What I do know is the existence of the death and pain beyond these numbers. I am also aware how we forget that we are talking about human beings when we are passionately debating the numb
Garabed Melkonian, ο νεώτερος από τους τρεις γιους του Artin H. Melkonian, γεννήθηκε στη συ…Read more
There is a long link between Cyprus and Armenians, possibly dating back to the 5th century BC. However, the real history of the Armenian communi…Read more

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Superintendent Jeremy Lyon told trustees last night that the new Independence High School set to open next year comes at just the right time.
Long ago, Frisco leaders and the community purposely decided they wanted the nation's fastest growing district to maintain a small-school mentality. Smaller campuses - particularly keeping high schools at a 4A size - meant more students could be involved in their activities of choice and teachers were able to get to know their students better.
But as of this week two of Frisco's six high schools are above the University
Interscholastic League's enrollment cutoff (2,089 students) for 5A classification. Liberty has 2,226 students enrolled and Centennial has 2,190. Both schools are above their current capacity, officials said. Close behind is Wakeland with 2,015.
UIL has sent the current classifications through the end of this school year and typically reclassifies schools during a winter realignment process for the following school years, when Independence will relieve enrollment at Liberty, Heritage and Centennial bringing them back down to 4A status.
Frisco High School's enrollment is at 1,919 and Heritage at 1,989. Lone Star is 1,246, which is at nearly 70 percent capacity.


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HitFix Critics debate Katy Perry v. Lady GaGa
While the music may not be a mirror image, Lady GaGa and Katy Perry have an awful lot in common. Both are in their early '20s. Both had previous heartbreaking record deals before finding a home that produced a hit pop record. Both have had at least three Top 40 singles, and are best-sellers on iTunes (and two of their most recent singles happen to feature a gambling theme). Both can dance, sing, and write. Both are becoming household brands.
Is it too soon to decide who has a career and who's a flash in the pan relegated to "one hit wonder" status two years from now?
Below, HitFix music critics Melinda Newman and Katie Hasty sound off -- via instant message -- on the relative merits of these chart-topping beauties, vis-à-vis the most recent videos for KP's "Waking Up in Vegas" and LG's "LoveGame." Katie generally throws down the gauntlet for Ms. Perry while Melinda, who just reviewed the new video for "Paparazzi," defends Lady GaGa.
Watch -- and debate -- along. Who wins? Lady GaGa or Katy Perry? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.
HFKatie: Well I'll just kick off by saying the name Katy is probably the best name in the whole world.
HFMelinda: Let's tackle "Waking up in Vegas."
HFKatie: Alright, what I can already tell you what I love about this vid... is the dude looks like a total goober-fest. And she looks like a Kewpie doll
HFMelinda: Who is he? Is he someone famous? I know I said I'm rooting for LG, but Katy is adorable here and really knows how to play toward the camera.
HFKatie: and play cards, apparently.
HFMelinda: And wear kick ass costumes. I'm getting ready to name drop, but when I interviewed her, she told me that the costumes were picked for her by the famous designer Bob Mackie, who dressed Cher. She looks amazing.
HFKatie: Cute! They're banking on the fact that people recognize Penn & Teller!
HFKatie: This video concept has fire in it. Which is always aces.
HFMelinda: ACES! HA!
HFKatie: and a phone booth with money blowing it.
HFMelinda: AND AN ELEPHANT!!!
HFKatie: What do you think of the song? I mean, its an obvious play on oooo-I'm-Katy-Perry-and-I'm-kinda-naughty, her losing money and drinking 'til she forgets stuff.
HFKatie: "I say shut-up! And frikkin'." Oooooo! Edgy!
HFMelinda: The song is fine, but the video is what makes it. This is truly a case -- and that's part of my issue with Katy -- is that she hasn't proven yet that she can come up with a song that stands on its own without a really great video.
HFKatie: But the vocal performance, for Katy, is a little eh, especially after "Hot n Cold." But Katy as a singer is what makes her legit for me.
HFMelinda: But "I Kissed a Girl" was gimmicky and a novelty song enhanced by a strong video. Interestingly, one of her straight ahead songs, "Thinking of You" -- which had a gorgeous video btw -- didn't chart nearly as high as her other stuff. Katy does look like a Kewpie doll and she has to be careful that people don't just look at her as a Betty Boop-type character. FROM THE START, Lady GaGa has set herself up as a character---there's no room for confusion. It's a very, very interesting conceit.
HFKatie: did you catch the product placement? with that phone she has in the car?
HFKatie: Katy Perry could sell diaper cream.
HFKatie: a face to launch a thousand ships. Or potato chips.
HFMelinda: I'm not sure that anyone is looking at Katy as the next best singer. She is going to be that type artist that people look to as a style fixture-- it's about the look, her appeal to girls and guys -- which GaGa doesn't have.
HFKatie: i think GaGa appeals to drag queens.
HFMelinda: Hey, drag queens make the world go 'round. They're a hell of a lot more interesting than most of us walking the planet and I'm still pissed that they ALWAYS, ALWAYS look better in high heels than any real girl
HFMelinda: Katy is edgy, but only to 9-year-old girls. It's completely homogenized with, as you said, "I'm a good girl gone bad, but I PROMISE I'll be back to good before any real damage is done!"
HFKatie: this is true. GaGa is a different doll. Rather, a robot. Katy Perry is a doll from every decade
HFKatie: But the singing! The songs! "Ur So Gay" had that little flip to her voice, and the verses were so sexy, as she's dissing on her former dude.
HFMelinda: "Ur So Gay" complete novelty song -- even offensive in some ways to me -- and a flop, deservedly so. She has got to start to get some cred with a solid ballad or two. "Waking Up in Vegas" is a step to be taken more seriously.
HFKatie: I thought "Ur So Gay" was crazy catchy. I'll go out on a limb and say I don't think the lyrics were offensive. Campy, yes. Tacky, yes. Offensive? Meh.
HFMelinda: We agree to disagree. However, like LG, it's clear that Katy loves "her gays," as Kathy Griffin calls them, so I know she didn't mean any offence...
HFKatie: also, the 7" had the best cover. Simply put: her, doing the splits in a stupid leotard, wearing a bunny pinata head, flipping the bird.
HFMelinda: I didn't see the 7" cover, but the image in my head is perfect!
HFKatie: ok you ready for some gaga? "LoveGame"
HFMelinda: I don't think Lady GaGa is such a lady as it's very clear what "taking a ride on your Disco Stick" means
HFKatie: not really subtle, is she...
HFKatie: but then again, wearing sparklies naked isn't subtle either.
HFKatie: CAMPARI product placement....
HFMelinda: Campari is all over this one. Am I the only one that that bothers?
HFKatie: totally bother me too.
HFMelinda: Campari's in the Pussycat Dolls video too... they are spending some cold hard cash to get young girls drinking Campari -- good luck with that. I HATE IT
HFKatie: I will now associate disco sticks with Campari.
HFMelinda: Okay, where was this crew whenever I ride the subway?
HFMelinda: After all the money she's earned by now, can LG still not afford a pair of pants?
HFKatie: note to producers: Lady forgot her pants.
HFMelinda: For me, it's all about the beat. LG makes boring videos, if you ask me. Katy has her beat when it comes to that.
HFMelinda: I thought it was interesting that Katy talks about kissing a girl, but LG puts her money where her mouth is, so to speak
HFKatie: does she remind you of gwen stefani during the dance sequence?
HFMelinda: More Janet Jackson for some reason
HFKatie: RHYTHM NATION, DISCO-STICKERS
HFKatie: GaGa used to be a burlesque dancer, and it shows. I can't tell if she's any GOOD, though, yknow?
HFKatie: the following phrases may not survive the apocalypse:
HFKatie: "I love game"
HFKatie: "This beat is sick"
HFMelinda: Unlike Katy, LG is all ABOUT BRANDING and not being subtle about it at all. We get "Haus of GaGa" at the beginning of every clip. Her styling is always exactly the same or some variation of it-- leotard, platinum hair. She is a product, just as McDonalds is, and I give her incredible credit that she has managed to brand herself so completely so quickly
HFKatie: Lady GaGa my favorite evil robot brand.
HFMelinda: She managed to completely change outfits on the subway... she really is magic! but, as you suggest, is she using her power for evil or good?
HFKatie: she makes me think of the mean girl on the school bus that would kick the back of your seat for no reason. that kind of evil.
HFMelinda: I just wonder if she ever eats -- starving yourself can make you evil
HFKatie: hahaha, "Sweetheart, you need to eat more..."
HFKatie: <piles on mashed potatoes on GAGA'S NAKED BODY>
HFMelinda: What's with the yellow watch... what kind of product placement is that?
HFKatie: what kind of jeans are those.... what kind of lipstick is that... which city's mass transportation system is that....
HFKatie: now I think everything is a product placement
HFKatie: LoveGame (TM) brought to you by Activision!
HFMelinda: Here's my thing about LG. She is singularly more focused than KP and that may be what gives her the edge. Katy is more mainstream. While LG's music is inescapable this summer, Katy definitely plays to the mainstream while LG wants to pretend to have a little bit of an edge
HFKatie: singularly focused. I agree
HFKatie: katy perry has a handle on the '50s, '60s and Warped Tour, while gaga has the '80s and ALL OF THE DISTANT FUTURE.
HFKatie: both their histories factor into their image
HFMelinda: When I interviewed LG, it was clear that she has the kind of focus that an early Madonna had. Unclear yet as to whether she's adopting that focus or it's truly hers.
HFKatie: Katy can rock, dance, pop
HFKatie: GaGa just makes my ass move
HFMelinda: What's wrong with that? It's a tough world. there's something great about someone who's only purpose is to get your booty shaking and let you forget about everything even if it's just for a second
HFKatie: nothing's wrong with it, Katy's being ambidextrous... makes me think she's real, and in charge. Her vision.
HFMelinda: Just as in "Poker Face," LG has cards she has not ever begun to show us
HFKatie: Poker! I hardly even know her! RE: cards...mmmmmaybe... but i've seen all of GaGa's "cards" in this last vid, including her ladybits
HFMelinda: I think if you could freeze some of the frames, we could definitely see her lady business.
HFKatie: Katy I think is more fun and takes herself less serious... at least in these vids. but if GaGa can keep up the self-imposed ruse, then that'll be fun to see what she can do in the future
HFKatie: Katy would definitely not kick my seat on the bus, however.
HFMelinda: Katy would scoot over and let you sit with her on the bus
HFKatie: i want her life-force to be for GOOD
HFMelinda: I agree. There's room for both. Lady GaGa is one of the most intense people I've ever met. It may be a ruse, but it's easy to believe that for her, there is nothing else other than what she's doing right now with her career. There's a steely-eyed conviction and I think she can recreate herself over and over. Katy, on the other hand, may be the healthier person in the long run
HFKatie: haha, when I talked to Katy, she said she works out for fun.
HFKatie: WHO THE HELL WORKS OUT "FOR FUN"
HFMelinda: Now you had to ruin it for me. I actually liked her until that last comment
HFKatie: hahaha. And she has a healthy obsession for fruit.
HFMelinda: Yes- phallic shaped ones-- she's all about her bananas and cherries. She told me she has no use for kumquats...on that note
HFKatie: I'm pretty sure GaGa may do other "things" for fun...
HFKatie: like dance with ambisexual men on broken subways.
HFMelinda: And talk about her stripper past in her faux-British accent
HFKatie: she did that?
HFMelinda: She speaks in a very deliberate manner, sort of like Madonna
HFKatie: ooof. that must be exhausting.
HFKatie: but so is her "LoveGame"
HFMelinda: Depends upon whose disco stick you're riding, ; )
HFKatie: OMG MELINDA HitFix High-Five!
HFMelinda: But seriously, I worry alittle about LG burning out. There is a lot of effort that goes into being that fabulous all the time. I have a feeling that Katy is enjoying the ride a little more right now. Having said that, I feel like we already know how KP is going to develop -- it could be great, but LG has me glued to my seat (well, not really, but kind of ) to see what she has up her sleeve for her next go 'round.
HFMelinda: And, if I can bring commerce into it, the public is clearly feeling Lady G. Her album has been in or near the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 for more that 26 weeks! There is a fascination with her...
HFKatie: fabulous is one word for it... it seems stale already in some regards. like, how many chain-mail (and gay-male) tunics can you own?
HFKatie: Katy seems like one of the boys... and girls...
HFKatie: her songs are fun. gaga's are sexy.
HFMelinda: Yes- 100% agree. that's why if she can't be like Madonna and figure out a way to keep us fascinated with the reinvention, she will ride into the sunset---on her disco stick.
HFKatie: <salutes the setting sun>


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Lamenting 6267′s Breakup
For the last few seasons, Italian label 6267 has been the hottest newcomer on Milan's catwalk. Yet this season, the brand was absent. The reason: an acrimonious split between the label and its promising young designers.
The dispute strikes at the tensions in fashion between old and new brands, and at the dilemmas faced by ambitious young designers. Half of 6267 is owned by Angela Picozzi and the other half by its two designers, Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi. But in April, the designers signed on as designers at prestigious Italian fashion house Ferre.
Ms. Picozzi was skeptical. She thought that making a break with the past would prove difficult for the designers, given the lingering memory of Ferre founder Gianfranco Ferre, who died just a year ago.
Ferre had already blown through one designer, Nars Nilsson, in less than a season. And the brand's clientele is old, Ms. Picozzi said. "I thought it was risky," she said. And anyway, "how can a designer dream of expressing himself through someone else's name rather than his own name?"
Many young, proclaimed designers depend on work from bigger brands as they develop their own lines and struggle to get their businesses off the ground. Yet they tend to abandon the contract work once they have enough funding to sustain their own label. For example, Matthew Williamson signed off on his last collection for Pucci earlier this week to dedicate himself full-time to his namesake brand.
Messrs. Aquilano and Rimondi didn't abandon designing on their own behalf entirely, and this season presented a collection under their own names, "Aquilano e Rimondi." The new line, presented at a fashion show Tuesday night, was full of dresses and skirts, many made out of satin and accented with knots and bows.
For 6267, Messrs. Aquilano and Rimondi drew up a pre-collection in June, which accounts for about two-thirds of 6267′s sales. But they broke off contact by September, when it came time to rush out the fashion show collection.
The split from 6267 has created some confusion over whether the brand still exists and where the two designers are working. Style.com has renamed all of the designers' previous collections under the new "Aquilano e Rimondi" brand name.
Ms. Picozzi insists that 6267 will go on without the two designers. She says she is in the final stages of hiring a new one, and that the pre-collection is selling well to 200 wholesale clients. "We worked so hard to get the brand known and to sell it," Ms. Picozzi lamented in 6267′s Milan showroom, surrounded by dresses decorated with bows and beads from the pre-collection. "This was the time to reap the rewards." — Christina Passariello


text: as mothers we know how hard it can be to raise our kids sometimes, but, if youre a special needs mom it must be alot harder. so for someone to leave a note like this in your house, it must be horrible! i would reaaaally want to know what kind of "mother" would leave this in someones house.


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BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Prior to the post-fight press conference following Saturday night's unanimous decision at Barclays Center over fellow Brooklynite and two-division titlewinner Zab Judah, Paulie Malignaggi received a call from boxing advisor Al Haymon, with whom he informed RingTV.com that he planned to sign with in October.
"I spoke to Al on the phone after the fight and he said, 'big things for you. That's what he told me," said Malignaggi, who is not yet signed with Haymon. "I'll know more in the next couple of weeks. But we're going to talk."
Signing with Haymon would add Malignaggi (33-5, 7 knockouts) to a seemingly endless list of talented fighters in and around the 147-pound division, including Adrien Broner, Danny Garcia, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Devon Alexander, Lucas Matthysse, Keith Thurman, Marcos Maidana, Austin Trout, Andre Berto, Peter Quillin, Erislandy Lara, and Deontay Wilder.
"Back in the day, you would always hear that fighters were thanking Don King when they would win fights. They were always thanking Don King," said Malignaggi. "But then, they were always talking s__t behind his back. I know Al's fighters. Nobody ever complains about being with Al Haymon. They're all happy, publicly, and privately."
Malignaggi had last been in the ring for a split-decision loss to Broner, who dethroned Malignaggi as WBA welterweight beltholder in June. Judah was coming off a unanimous decision loss to RING, WBA and WBC junior welterweight champion Garcia.
Malignaggi said that he was so disappointed following the loss to Broner that he considered retirement until hearing from Haymon afterward.
"So that's something that, when I had decided after the last fight that I don't need this in my life, and I don't need the frustration, and you get a call for an opportunity to work with a guy like that, and to eliminate those headaches and to make things happen and to get those big fights, listen, I was frustrated, because, I thought that I won the fight," said Malignaggi.
"But if I can eliminate some of the headaches and focus on my training, that makes fighting a little bit more enjoyable. It was kind of a no-brainer. I went from not wanting to fight again to 'Okay, let's give it a shot.' With this win tonight, I'm glad that I did it, and I've got to thank Al and Sam [Watson] for that. If I didn't get that call, I don't think that I would have fought here tonight."
Malignaggi had won the belt in April of 2012 with a ninth-round stoppage of Vyacheslav Senchenko, who represented Malignaggi's fifth straight victory as a welterweight after moving up from the 140-pound division. The victory over Judah was Malignaggi's best performance since he beat the previously unbeaten Ukrainian.
"We wanted to take [Judah] to school," said Malignaggi's Los Angeles-based trainer Eric Brown. "We wanted to make him fight when he didn't want to fight. Our mission was to make him fight our fight, and not necessarily to go for the knockout.
"As long as we controlled the tempo and the way that the fight was working out, we knew that he we could beat him. I think this is way up there with the Senchenko fight, but the Senchenko fight was for the title, and we went into his back yard and we took it."
Malignaggi desires a rematch with Broner (27-0, 22 KOs), and will be ringside as a Showtime commentator on Dec. 14 in San Antonio, Texas, when the 24-year-old makes the first defense of his belt against Maidana (34-3, 31 KOs), a 30-year-old puncher from Argentina.
"I would love to fight the winner. They're fighting for the belt that belongs to me. It shouldn't have been me and Zab Judah fighting tonight, it should have been me and Marcos Maidana," said Malignaggi.
"Because he was the mandatory for the WBA title, and I should still be the champion, so I should be fighting Maidana. But they've given the title to Broner, so he gets to fight in my place. The title shouldn't even be involved in that fight. That belt belongs to me, so I want a chance to win it back."
Another bout Maliganggi would consider is one opposite Garcia (27-0, 16 KOs), a 25-year-old Philadelphia resident who unanimously decision Matthysse in September.
"Danny's a solid world class fighter who has done a lot of great things in his career, and he's a big 140-pounder, so I anticipated that Danny would be moving up to the welterweight division," said Malignaggi.
"If the money is there, I have a lot of respect for Danny and his [outspoken] father [and trainer, Angel Garcia,] and I'm not going to argue with his father. Don't expect that. I'm not going to get into that. It's an interesting fight, as are a lot of other fights in the welterweight division."
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Complete ballot
October 16, 2009
Washington County ballot for Nov. 3 General Election.
President of Council
Judith A. Drake (write-in), 809 Westview Drive, Belpre.
Will Neff (appointed), 1454 Boulevard Drive, Belpre.
Leslie A. Pittenger (R), 813 Ashberry Drive, Belpre.
William R. McAfee (write-in), 2203 Pride Ave., Belpre.
Member of Council at Large
Elect 3
Susan J. Abdella (R), 765 Ann St., Belpre.
John E. Baker (D), 129 Hamilton Court, Apt. A, Belpre.
Linda Mulligan Boso (R), 2212 Miller Ave., Belpre.
Steve Null, 2321 Washington Blvd., Belpre.
President of Council
Paul G. Bertram III (R), 102 Sassafras Trace, Marietta.
Valerie J. Holley (R), 109 Merryhill St., Marietta.
Member of Council at Large
Elect 3
Harley Nelson Noland (D), 434 Bellevue St., Marietta.
Joshua D. Schlicher (R), 909 Lancaster St., Unit 1, Marietta.
Debra L. Scott, 626 Ninth St., Marietta.
Kathy Shively (D), 108 Rathbone Terrace, Marietta.
Andrew M. Thompson (R), 729 Sixth St., Marietta.
Member of Council
Elect 4
Jay Arnold, 1001 Lakeview Drive, P.O. Box 273, Beverly.
Kandy Baker, 706 Center St., P.O. Box 243, Beverly.
Elizabeth S. Kenyon, 220 Fifth St., P.O. Box 395, Beverly.
Amista Naylor Lipot, 715 Mitchell Ave., Beverly.
Arlene Pennock, 509 Pinecrest Drive, P.O. Box 638, Beverly.
Christine Spung-Theis, 313 Fourth St., P.O. Box 162, Beverly.
Jim Ullman, 216 Center St., P.O. Box 274, Beverly.
Board of Public Affairs
No valid candidate filed.
Member of Council
Elect 4
Judith M. Gilham, 305 Fourth St., Lowell.
Jim Lenhart, 7 Hanes Trailer Park, 180 Main, Lowell.
Board of Public Affairs
No valid candidate filed.
Member of Council
Elect 4
Helen Haas, 303 Second St., P.O. Box 53, Lower Salem.
Myra L. Noe-Smith, 201 Second St., P.O. Box 72, Lower Salem.
Louis Verdi, 107 Second St., P.O. Box 67, Lower Salem.
Member of Council
Elect 4
Phyllis Carpenter, 551 Broad St., Macksburg.
Ted E. Dobbin, 380 Mechanic St., P.O. Box 196, Macksburg.
Dorothy L. Pack, 336 Green St., Macksburg.
Jerry Williams, 301 Green St., Macksburg.
Tina Williams, 301 Green St., Macksburg.
Spencer L. Young, 552 Broad St., Macksburg.
Member of Council
Elect 4
G. James Addlesburger, 406 Vine St., P.O. Box 614, New Matamoras.
Jim Beaver, 1300 Dode Ave., P.O. Box 414, New Matamoras.
Howard Byard, 612 Third St., P.O. Box 644, New Matamoras.
Wynn Hott, 821 Grandview Ave., P.O. Box 595, New Matamoras.
Roger D. Weddle, 719 Main St., New Matamoras.
Board of Public Affairs
Jorita S. Batten, 1200 Williamson Ave., P.O. Box 473, New Matamoras.
All races - Elect 2
Adams Township
Jeff Anthony, 4875 Rainbow Road, Lowell.
Wayne Howard Isner, 2710 Laurel Ridge Road, P.O. Box 16, Lowell.
Dennis L. Perdew, 365 Laurel Ridge Road, Lowell.
Terry J. Schwendeman, 189 Schwendeman Hill Road, Lowell.
Aurelius Township
Jeffrey E. Haas, 16230 State Route 821, Macksburg.
Carl Petry, 260 Mechanic St., P.O. Box 12, Macksburg.
Barlow Township
Alan R. Harris, 428 Barrett South Road, Vincent.
Harvey Proctor, 2003 Reese Road, Fleming.
Scott T. Rhodes, 178 High St., Vincent.
Darren Roddy, 9457 State Route 339, Vincent.
Belpre Township
Asa Boring, 2481 State Route 124, Little Hocking.
John E. Cleary, 209 Mooreland Road, Belpre.
John T. Smith, 2015 State Route 555, Little Hocking.
Decatur Township
Ben Cook, 827 Cave Hill Road, Little Hocking.
Jim Irvin, 90 Burke Hollow Road, Little Hocking.
Phil O. Mayle, 4090 Two Mile Run Road, Cutler.
Terry L. Mayle, 6532 State Route 555, Little Hocking.
Eddie D. Place Jr., 2920 Welch Road, Little Hocking.
Dunham Township
Clayton Allman, 2500 Sealy Ridge Road, Vincent.
Benjamin N. Elder Sr., 1037 McGill Road, Vincent.
Fred Fritsche, 7068 Veto Road, Belpre.
Kenny Maze, 452 Veto Circle, Belpre.
Mark Perdue, 7755 Veto Road, Belpre.
Fearing Township
Allen Miller, 525 Miller Lane, Marietta.
Chuck Nonnenmacher, 1259 Hartline Road, Whipple.
James Seevers, 1014 Lynch Church Road, Marietta.
Fairfield Township
Shelly Ann Hawkins, 470 Tick Ridge Road, Vincent.
Larry K. Miskimins Jr., 639 McDonald Road, Waterford.
Lee Ann Piggott, 1498 Windy Ridge Road, Vincent.
Kevin Place, 10062 State Route 555, Cutler.
Grandview Township
David Packy Beaver, 1125 Parr Hill Road, New Matamoras.
John W. Buegel, 1500 Fairview Ridge Road, New Matamoras.
Richard Earley Sr., 700 Third St., P.O. Box 518, New Matamoras.
Danny Riggs, 4050 Brownsville Road, P.O. Box 182, New Matamoras.
Darell Spears, 740 North Fork Road, New Matamoras.
Independence Township
Bryon D. Binegar, 8300 County Nine Road, Newport.
Karen Bookman, 7190 Archers Fork Road, Newport.
Jedd A. Butler, 830 Butler Road, Newport.
Michael S. Dalrymple, 6750 Archers Fork Road, New Matamoras.
Kurt A. Eddy, 970 Smith Road, Wingett Run.
Daniel E. Freeland, 1785 Duff Road, New Matamoras.
Charles David Hearn, 7501 County Nine Road, Newport.
David Kendall, 165 Upper Archers Fork Road, New Matamoras.
Daun Lutes, 44403 State Route 7, New Matamoras.
Jeremy West, 865 Upper Archers Fork Road, New Matamoras.
Lawrence Township
Gale D. Depuy, 13145 State Route 26, Marietta.
Gerald E. McGregor, 8935 State Route 26, Marietta.
Paul D. Metz, 620 Martin Road, Reno.
Liberty Township
David L. Kehl, 1595 Campbell Run Road, Lower Salem.
Dale G. Lauer, 240 Lauer Road, Whipple.
Roger S. Ritchie, 515 Scotts Ridge Road, Whipple.
Ludlow Township
Roy Bowersock, 24700 State Route 26, Rinard Mills.
Milton H. Eddy, 155 Scottown Road, Wingett Run.
Craig Alan Howell, 25791 State Route 26, New Matamoras.
Howard Steinhoff, 6986 State Route 260, Rinard Mills.
Marietta Township
Steve Bober, 112 Brant Drive, Marietta.
Michael S. Hill, 100 Ewing Road, Reno.
Dan Ritchey, 345 Smith Drive, Marietta.
Muskingum Township
Carolyn O. Dempsey, 108 Riverview Road, Marietta.
Rick Dunbarger, 1185 Dunbarger Road, Lowell.
John R. Karas, 20 Maple Shade Drive, Marietta.
Jay Stowe, 625 Ash Road, Marietta.
Newport Township
Randy Jackson, 470 Greenwood St., Newport.
Rodney G. King, 97 Greene St., P.O. Box 371, Newport.
Richard Seevers, 1788 Rosenbush Road, Newport.
Philip Smitley, 525 Kesselring Run Road, Newport.
Palmer Township
Allan Ray Hill, 395 Derby Road, Waterford.
Ralph W. Pinkerton Jr., 290 Shaffer Road, Waterford.
Randy K. Pugh, 1290 Pugh Road, Stockport.
Tom Strauss, 8250 State Route 676, Waterford.
Salem Township
Ernest Biehl, 6680 State Route 530, Lowell.
Bill Kidd, 120 Main St., Lower Salem.
Dennis V. Lang, 1465 Whipple Eight Road, Whipple.
Warren Township
Jeff Beaver, 17824 State Route 550, Marietta.
Nelson Benedict Jr., 1481 Benedict Road, Fleming.
Kevin E. Decker 153 Martin Drive, Fleming.
Larry Huffman, 1640 Wynncrest Drive, Marietta.
Robert W. Lemasters, 1938 Vickers Road, Marietta.
Joseph D. Vickers, 188 Riggenbach Hill Road, Marietta.
Wesley Township
Dinah L. Barker, 500 Whealdon Road, Cutler.
Danny Gage, 56 Patten Mills Road, P.O. Box 128, Bartlett.
Gary W. Ginther, 1740 State Route 550, P.O. Box 62, Bartlett.
Mark S. Lawrence, 220 Lawrence Blvd., Amesville.
Spencer McPeek, 715 Roberts Road, Amesville.
Waterford Township
Kathleen E. Boyd, 786 Luke Chute Road, Waterford.
Matthew P. Cavanaugh, 19255 State Route 339, Waterford.
James R. Harper, 507 Stony Run Road, Beverly.
Bessie F. Sparling, 4525 Sparling Road, Waterford.
Watertown Township
Lewis R. Lang, 1275 Lang Farm Road, Marietta.
David Eugene Miller, 150 Watertown Road, Waterford.
Thomas J. Neill, 14274 State Route 339, Waterford.
Douglas B. Parks, 3440 Watertown Road, Waterford.
Member of Governing Board of Educational Service Center - Ohio Valley ESC
Elect 2
Hugh Coffman, 747 Coffman Road, Marietta.
Patrick E. Lang, 425 Lang Ridge Road, Lowell.
Member of Board of Education
Belpre City School
Elect 3
Wayne Clark, 813 Westview Drive, Belpre.
Linda Sue Copeland, 1400 Washington Blvd., Belpre.
Rod Hineman, 712 Warren Ave., Belpre.
Daniel Eugene Law, 2107 Pride Ave., Belpre.
Rita Lowe, 315 Maple St., Belpre.
Loretta Matheny, 705 Barclay St., Lot 17, Belpre.
Fred Meredith, 2013 Rockland Ave., Belpre.
Leonard L. Wiggins III, 852 Mill Branch Road, Belpre.
Caldwell Exempted
No valid candidate filed.
Fort Frye Local
Elect 3
Letha K. Haas, 12410 State Route 821, P.O. Box 152, Lower Salem.
Lisa Perry, 9684 State Route 60, Lowell.
David E. Vandenberg, 5460 Lowell Hill Road, P.O. Box 304, Lowell.
David H. White, 72 Germantown Road, Lower Salem.
Johnna G. Zalmanek, 5744 Germantown Road, Lower Salem.
Frontier Local
Kent Hall, 1730 Cow Run Road, Marietta.
Frontier Local
Elect 3
Jeffery C. Knowlton, 350 Hendricks St., Newport.
Jeffrey E. Lauer, 840 Moss Run Road, Marietta.
Bryan Oliver, 225 Woodland Drive, newport.
Morgan County School
No valid candidate filed.
Marietta City School
Elect 3
Karen M. Burton, 507 Warren St., Marietta.
W. Ryan Elliott, 1856 Masonic Park Road, Marietta.
Jack Moberg, 314 Sixth St., Marietta.
Wendy K. Myers, 406 Fourth St., Marietta.
Warren Local
Elect 3
Bob Allen, 25 Hillcrest Ave., Little Hocking.
Sidney Brackenridge, 205 Baker Road, Little Hocking.
Robert L. Crum, 173 St. Andrews Blvd., Belpre.
Garry L. Marks, 100 Lake Road, P.O. Box 352, Belpre.
Dan McDermott, 1951 Graham Road, Cutler.
R. Douglas Reeder, 375 Lewis Pointe Drive, Vincent.
Phil Zeller, 200 White Oak St., Vincent.
Wolf Creek Local
Elect 2
Roger W. Doak, 285 Main St., P.O. Box 266, Waterford.
C. Lynn Sandford, 646 Reed Road, Vincent.
Belpre First Ward council member
Larry K. Martin (R), 208 Elm St., Belpre.
Belpre Second Ward council member
Roger David Hendershot (write-in), 506 Elm St., Belpre.
Deborah L. Marshall (D), 810 Franklin Ave., Belpre.
Stephen Rogers (R), 809 Main St., Belpre.
Belpre Third Ward council member
Bradley W. Harper (R), 1426 Virginia St., Belpre.
Eric W. Sinnett (D), 927 belrock ave Belpre.
Belpre Fourth Ward council member
Dewey N. Robinson (D), 2404 Norris Ave., Belpre.
Marietta First Ward council member
M. Louise Gwinn (D), 127 Warner St., Marietta.
David A. White (R), 112 Seventh St., Marietta.
Marietta Second Ward council member
Michael M. McCauley (D), 509 Whites Road, Marietta.
Randall L. Wilson (R), 510 Cutler St., Apt 2, Marietta.
Marietta Third Ward council member
Jon J. Grimm (R), 123 Sunset Drive, Marietta.
Marietta Fourth Ward council member
Glen F. McCabe Jr. (R), 106 Lincoln Circle, Marietta.
Tom Vukovic (D), 115 Flintwood Drive, Marietta.


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East Mississippi Community College in Scooba has an Aug. 17 registration deadline for fall classes.
Its recruiters are using social media to answer students' questions.
Michael Black is always on Facebook, Twitter or his EMCC email. Whether from his office at EMCC's Golden Triangle campus in Mayhew or on his phone, Black stays plugged in to keep EMCC on students' minds.
"Social media is a huge tool for recruiting. I live in district high schools during the fall and spring semesters talking to students," said Michael Black, recruiter for the Mayhew campus. "After that, focused recruiting in the summer is a huge deal. And social media is where we can answer specific question from parents and students quickly and precisely."
His counterpart at the Scooba campus, Taylor Ray,
says electronic connections provide a direct line of communication to potential students.
"Don't wait to get your classes. Financial aid does not have to be finalized to register for classes," said Black."Financial aid and scholarships are still available. Classes on the Golden Triangle campus are Monday through Thursday, so you have a three-day weekend each week."
"The new Student Union opens with the fall semester. Scooba is Monday through Thursday, too. And it's not too late for housing, but dorm rooms are limited," Ray said.
Many of these reminders are aimed at saving students time or money before the semester begins Aug. 20.
Students registering on or before July 31 can save $80 on registration fees. Or a Registration Guide is available on EMCC's website at www.eastms.edu, under "Current & Future Students" to ensure students have all the necessary information to make the process go smoothly.
Prospective students can ask questions online in several ways:
• EMCC recruiters can be reached on Twitter @EMCCINFO.
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/East.Mississippi.Community.College and ask a question on their wall.
• Look for the "Ask us a Question!" links on EMCC's website, www.eastms.edu.
• E-mail your Golden Triangle campus questions to Michael Black at email@example.com
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The 9th Cir.'s Felon-Voting Ruling: Justice Served or an 'Embarrassment'?
Predicting whether the Supreme Court will agree to hear a given case is often, as many LBers know, a futile exercise.
But occasionally a ruling will emanate from a state supreme court or federal appellate panel which sort of has "Certiorari Granted" written all over it. (Many such cases happen to come out of the Ninth Circuit, a court that gets derided for being too liberal as often as it gets derided for covering too much geographical territory.)
In any event, such is our hunch concerning a ruling handed down yesterday, by a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit. The panel voted 2-1 to overturn a 2000 ruling of a district judge in Spokane that Washington state's felon disenfranchisement law didn't violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The ruling, written by Ninth Circuit judge Wallace Tashima, essentially mandates that incarcerated felons in Washington state must be allowed to vote. Click here for the opinion; here for the AP story; here for the Seattle Times story.
According to the AP story, there's a patchwork of laws across the nation concerning restoration of felons' voting rights, but only Maine and Vermont allow those behind bars to cast ballots. But Tuesday's ruling might open the door to more incarcerated-felon enfranchisement.
The lawsuit, filed by a Washington man serving a three-year sentence at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla for a series of felony-theft convictions, contended that because nonwhites make up a large percentage of the prison population, a state law prohibiting inmates and parolees from voting is illegal because it dilutes the electoral clout of minorities.
Of the more than 18,000 felons currently in state custody who could get their right to vote back under this ruling, 37.1% are minorities. Of that group, blacks make up the largest percentage, at 19.2%.
The state contended that the lawsuit should be dismissed because the law wasn't intended to discriminate against minorities.
Larry Weiser, a law professor at Gonzaga who is the lead attorney in the lawsuit, cheered the ruling. "In this case, we have proved that the criminal justice system in this state is biased against African-Americans, and the impact has been a violation of their voting rights," he said.
Not everyone agreed. Tuesday's court's ruling is "an embarrassment," said Trent England, a policy director at Evergreen Freedom Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington state. "It flies in the face of precedent," he said. "Not only is felon disenfranchisement constitutional but it's good policy. People who commit the most heinous crimes should be deprived of their voice in our system of government at least for a time."
LBers, any thoughts on this?


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(abbreviation VCR)
A device that, when linked to a television set, can be used for recording on and playing videotapes.
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- In Britain, around 94 per cent of homes now have at least one colour TV and 66 per cent a video cassette recorder.
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Gary Grant (The General)
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Height: 6-3 ▪ Weight: 185 lbs.
Born: April 21, 1965 in Canton, Ohio
High School: McKinley in Canton, Ohio
College: University of Michigan
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Hot Day Sparks Controlled Blackouts
Just when South Koreans thought the summer heat was done, sweltering temperatures blasted the country Thursday, creating a spike in power demand that forced the Korea Power Exchange for the first time to use rolling blackouts to keep power consumption below what's considered safely available.
The blackouts started around 3 p.m. and lasted for 30 minutes each as they rolled around neighborhoods in Seoul, Busan and several other major cities. They were scheduled to keep going on until 8 p.m.
The exchange, or KPX, manages power supply and demand conditions in the country. It starts the blackouts when there is less than 4 million kilowatts of power still available. Part of the intention is to make sure that essential facilities, such as hospitals, military bases and some factories (like those making chips for Hynix and Samsung), are always supplied with power.
Thursday marked the first time in memory — and probably ever — that KPX resorted to rolling blackouts to conserve power consumption, said officials at Korea Electric Power, or KEPCO, the nation's biggest utility.
The threshold level that triggers the blackouts — 4 million kilowatts –is enough to meet the power consumed each day by about 1.3 million households. South Korea has about 17.5 million households.
By early evening, officials said the rolling blackouts had cut about 1 million kilowatts from power demand. They said that voluntary reductions by users who are under contract to cut power in emergency situations likely cut another approximately 1 million kilowatts.
The high temperature in Seoul on Thursday was 31 degrees Celsius, or 87 degrees Fahrenheit. The average temperature for a mid-September day in South Korea is 24 degrees Celsius, or 75 Fahrenheit.


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19th C. English Openwork Linear Pendant
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The forthright design of our lantern-style fixture reflects the functional architecture of 19th-century lighting. We've omitted the glass panes that once shielded the candle's flame to allow unobstructed illumination.
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Bell ready to go steady with Cook
Keep up to date with England's NatWest Series against West Indies with our in-depth day-by-day reports - plus all the reaction, highlights and photos
Ian Bell is hoping his 'new' opening partnership with Alastair Cook can serve England's one-day international team handsomely for years to come.
Bell is delighted to have been given another crack at opening the innings for his country - a prospect which seemed distant at best even a month ago.
Back then, Cook and Kevin Pietersen had between them scored hundreds in four successive England victories at the top of the order.
Yet Pietersen's shock retirement gave Bell another chance - and he has responded with scores of 126 and 53 in two innings to date as England have wrapped up NatWest Series victory over West Indies a match early.
Bell was not even put off, or out, by his mishap in the Ageas Bowl indoor nets which left him with a broken jaw on the eve of the first match last weekend.
Instead, he posted just his second ODI hundred there - and is now looking forward to a future in which he and Cook will be setting the tone for England at the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
"I'm really happy. I felt like I'd been playing some good one-day cricket with Warwickshire at the top of the order but batting four, five or six with England," he said.
"One thing I wanted was another crack at the top of the order. KP's retirement gave me that opportunity."
Bell, sumptuously talented yet somehow understated in deed as well as word, is not one to shout the odds.
He can hardly help but be encouraged with the events of the past week, though.
"It has started nicely, and now I want to continue improving and keep the relationship and partnership with Cooky going," Bell added.
"If we can continue to develop that platform but also playing quite aggressive, proper cricket shots then I hope we'll get scores that allow our bowlers to win one-day games for England.
"We've always had a good relationship in Test matches batting together. It's a new partnership, but then it's not really.
"I think we've played 70-odd Test matches together, so we know each other inside out."
English pitches and two new balls have allowed both Bell and Cook - who added a hundred of his own in yesterday's win at the Kia Oval - the luxury of timing rather than having to clout their runs.
"He has some big strengths and - being a left-hand, right-hand combination - I hope we can work together over a period of time now," added Bell. "I think we complement each other well.
"We both play quite well off the back foot and, with the new ball and pace coming on, there is the option to cut or pull.
"That fits our games nicely. Then with the left-hand, right-hand (partnership) it is never going to be easy for bowlers.
"If there is any slight width, Cooky is going to use his cut shot - and I'm quite similar. I hope we go quite nicely together."
Bell is able to crack a smile about the favourable turn of events, but does still have to make some allowances for that painful hairline fracture to his jawbone.
"It's okay...a bit sore chewing, if I get a tough bit of steak or something like that," he explained.
"I was lucky. The guys who stitched me up were fantastic and gave me the peace of mind to go out and play.
"It doesn't feel quite right (yet); the teeth still feel slightly out of line."
There is no such imperfection in his batting at present, though.
Keep tabs on the England team - click here for all the breaking news from the camp, exclusive interviews, match reports and much more


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Vino's Tarmac SL4
by Byron on Aug 03, 2012 at 12:23 PM
Because of strict IOC rules, # 40, companies can't advertise, market or officially comment on the bikes athletes are winning on, like Vino in the men's road race. Here's his Tarmac SL4, as seen after the race. You won't see this in an ad campaign.
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Lea Michele, Ariana Grande join Ryan Murphy's 'Scream Queens' cast
Type: Post | Date: Saturday, Jan 17, 2015Joe Manganiello, Abigail Breslin and Keke Palmer are set for the anthology
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FABongrass FABongrass May 14, 2011 07:09 Flag
Psycho Alert - Martletts is Back
Ring the alarm. The nutcase is back.
Much Love xxxxxSort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
The Alcoholic Brown Family The Alcoholic Brown Family May 14, 2011 09:32 Flag
And he brought two of his trusted carers with him, Bert and Tezza!
This is the final nail in his coffin, everyone has now turned on him, not that many were ever on his side, most of them were his own creations, Bert, Tezza, Cliff, Marquis, Nobamunism, Buster, Gidup, Sarah .... and many, many more.
The only real people that had it with him were Nige, Kipper, NODDY and Irons, I don't know why, he's always been a racist #$%$ with no redeeming features, but there you go, I don't think he can rely on them any more, so it's back to his imaginary friends.
cheers, Doh!
- 1 Reply to The Alcoholic Brown Family
A Yahoo! User May 14, 2011 15:11 Flag
Trusted Carers? HAhahahahahahhaa
That concept sounds rich coming from a thieving drug addled jailbird who supplies hard drugs to his own family members!
Is that what you call being a 'Trusted Carer' 'Daddy Altree?
HAhahhahahahahahaha "Please Daddy, Can I have some More?" Hehehehhehehee
'Trusted Carer Altree' Killing Them With Kindness! HAhahahaha
HAhahahaha "Roll Up Your Sleeve Now Petal' HAhahahahha
Worthless Maggot!
cheers, Dere


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Laura, the mother of a little girl, is working toward a degree in human services. She has lived in the United States since she was two years old, but as an undocumented immigrant, she's ineligible for government financial aid, including loans. She makes her tuition payments in cash.
She says she "couldn't believe it" when she heard the news about Deferred Action.
The new program announced by the Obama administration in June allows undocumented immigrant youth—Dreamers—to live in the United States without fear of deportation for the next two years and to obtain work permits on a renewable basis as long as they meet certain criteria.
For Laura, Deferred Action means she can take a job in human services, her field of study.
"I'm very happy that we've been given this opportunity to show our potential and that we belong here," Laura says. "I don't know what I would do if I had to go back; I'd be lost."
She was among 80 immigrants who came to a legal clinic in Des Moines, where AFSC and Justice for Our Neighbors, aided by 30 volunteers, provided assistance in applying for the program. (See photos from the clinic.)
"I think Deferred Action is lot better for the country," says high school student Jose, who also attended the clinic. He's lived in the United States since the fourth grade.
Today, he plays on his school's football team and is an aspiring engineer.
"There are a lot of kids like me who just want an education, to go to college and have a good future," he says.
Deferred Action falls far short of providing a pathway to citizenship, which AFSC and others will continue working toward. But the program represents a significant step forward for Laura, Jose, and thousands of young people brought to the United States by their parents.
Want to get involved? See our resources for immigrant allies.


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Definition of sonoluminescence in English:
Luminescence excited in a substance by the passage of sound waves through it.
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- For 70 years, physicists have puzzled over sonoluminescence, a process where sound waves create thousands of hot, luminous bubbles in water.
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- In a controversial report last March, researchers offered evidence that such a so-called sonoluminescent bubble's implosion attains temperatures and pressures high enough to make atomic nuclei fuse together.
- Using this theory, temperatures inside the sonoluminescent bubble can be expected to reach 10 Kelvin.
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Well, I knew I couldn't get by too long without racing. Not that you can call PIR a "real" race, but it is a race, none the less. Kendra, my coach, thought it would be good practice. I have avoided PIR (Portland International Raceway) so far this season with so much travelling, etc, but I knew the time would come. I managed to postpone it one night (I was going to have to go Monday to masters night), but opted on Tuesday to race with Tim. For those not from Portland, PIR has road races and basically we ride around the race track. Each lap is approximately 1.9 miles. Well, Tuesday, there is no women's racing, so you just race with the boys. Road racing has categories that are by number. 1 being the highest and 5 being novice. I am a cat 3 on the road with very little experience. Well, because I don't believe in the easy way out, I chose to race with the cat 1/2/3 men, or rather I was told to race with them. That was fine, b/c then I was able to race with Tim (b/c thankfully he was able to borrow a rear wheel after he so graciously gave me his after my tire exploded on the way out there and was not safe to ride.) I actually raced once at PIR last season after knee surgery and with the novice women in a pack of about 10. I won, by a lot. Thus, I was upgraded to a 3 and there I have sat. This pack was a few more than 10. Tonight the 1/2/3's had about 91 people starting. 5 were women. For me this was not a race, but a workout and it was hard. A lot harder than I thought it would be. With an average speed of about 28 miles per hour and a nice strong wind and due to my lack of knowledge of where to sit in the pack, I just about got spit off the back more than once. I felt safer in the back b/c I could see everyone and avoid bad bike handlers and crashes, but in the back, you work harder. When corners come, the peloton (group) strings out and then the people in the back have to pedal like hell to catch back up. It's like an accordion. I kept trying to work my way up to somewhere in the middle and then when I thought I was there, I would look back just minutes later to discover I was on the back again. But I hung on and worked my way up for practice and tried to shelter myself from the wind. 20 laps later I had done what I set out to do: I didn't get dropped. I made it all 20 laps.
This blog has evolved over time. Basically it has become a way to document my adventures. Thanks for coming along...
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Monday, May 21, 2007
A weekend without racing! May 19-20, 2007
Yes, a weekend without racing was finally here, but not a weekend without riding. On the contrary. I rode more this weekend than I have for a very long time. Tim was pretty focused on pre-riding some of the Mt. Hood Classic courses, which is a stage race on the road that we will be doing in a little over a week. For me it is a 6-day race, so a huge commitment. The greatest thing about this race is that it is near the cabin and we get to spend time at our favorite place. This past weekend, however, that meant catching up on a much neglected home away from home.
We got a late start rolling out of Portland, but finally made it to the Discovery Center near the Dalles for an easy spin back to Hood River on the time trial course. Our good friend Erin rode with us and drove the car back for us and we had dinner with her afterwards. We didn't even get to the cabin until after 11. It was so great to be home!
Saturday was the BIG day. Another River City rider came out, Jason, and we were going to ride the mountain stage, which is 86 miles and 9000 feet of climbing, plus the miles to and from the cabin. Ouch! I had just had a small break off the bike, so I knew it would hurt. I didn't know it would hurt as much as it did, b/c the head wind was brutal. We actually hooked up with 4 of the Fred Meyer juniors that were out there and lucky for us, they had a sag wagon. Their parents were great and helped us out with water, food, etc. I still marvel at the kids' dedication, but also the parents. It was a long day! Over 6 hours of riding when all was said and done. I didn't hesitate to accept a ride from Meadows to Cooper Spur. I was done. Tim and Jason forged on. Amazing! We were so exhausted by the time we got back to the cabin, our appetizers of pizza became dinner, b/c we just didn't want to make dinner.
Sunday we woke up to rain. I decided not to go skiing, although I was considering poaching a few runs on the last day at meadows, but I don't ski in the rain. But I do bike in the rain. I wasn't happy about it at first, but we survived. The circuit race actually goes right by our cabin, so we did a couple of laps of that (40 miles, about 2.5 hours) and then called it quits. Even though I whined as I got ready to ride in the rain, it wasn't that bad. It lightened up and we were dressed for it. Perhaps over dressed, but now my pretty bike is all dirty. And that is first on my list for today. I have to clean them up and get them to the shop for a look over. One week from tomorrow and the real pain begins. Then, back to the mountain bike...
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Thursday, May 17, 2007
Maplelag MTB Spring Opener: Callaway, MN: May 12, 2007
Abi, Me & Alec after my pre-rideWhere the heck is Maplelag??? Northern MN, of course. When I saw a UCI race scheduled for Minnesota, I figured it would be a great trip back to the homeland to see friends and family and maybe get a few UCI points. Why not? And then to find out my teammate Emily had signed up too. It was looking to be a good weekend. I had invited my family to come up and spend the weekend at the resort, my treat. I had to entice them to come and watch, b/c I needed my fan base. I arrived in Minneapolis/St. Paul Thursday p.m. and it was HOT! I finally motivated to put together my bike and did a short spin to the river with my brother in law, Tuma. He was on his $20 Schwinn Varsity chasing down the fat guys on litespeeds. There were so many people out riding on Summit and by the river, it made me almost miss MN.
Cathy and I left Friday morning for the 4.5 hour drive up to Maplelag. It sure wasn't close, but we managed to get there at a reasonable hour and I hooked up with Emily and we went out for a pre-ride. To my surprise, there was some great singletrack on this course and also some pretty technical spots with some tight trees. It was going to be a fun race. The resort seemed quite deserted, so it was a quiet ride with only us out on the course. Jay Richards, who put on the race, was working out there and was very welcoming. I was excited to be in a spot in MN I had never been and knew the race would be fun. My family arrived soon thereafter and we were all taking in the beautiful area and our fantastic HUGE cabin with nooks and crannies everywhere. A kids paradise.
Climbing up suicide hill
RACE DAY: Saturday, 5/12All meals at Maplelag are served family style, so 8:30 a.m. we were at the lodge getting our pre-race meal of Swedish pancakes, sausage and oatmeal. 11 a.m. was race time, so preparations started and all 7 of the pro women were called up to the front line. This was my first time on the front line at a race outside of Oregon. Bear Naked/Cannondale represented 3/7 of the racers, with Jenna Zander also being a MN native and Emily Van Meter decided to join us. Megan Monroe and Kelli Emmett came from CO and then 2 local MN racers were there. Hopefully next year we can double the numbers. It was a fast start and the fun kept on coming. I had an o.k. start, but for some odd reason, I wasn't too worried about being up in front, b/c I knew by the time we started climbing, things would shake out pretty well. And they did. Kelli was out front and I followed Jenna to the first set of singletrack and then the next one, where I proceeded to take the first of three falls on the first lap. A vine maple reached out and grabbed my handlebars and took me down so fast, but I didn't let anyone by. Not a chance. Then we looped back to the starting area and to the 'lakeside drops'. This was the second time I found myself off my bike. A silly mistake cost me a bit of time, but I was still in 3rd. A great photo sequence of my flub can be found on http://www.skinnyski.com/. Quite embarrassing and of course cyclingnews.com had to publish a pic of me "getting tripped up". Well, I rode it clean the next 2 laps.
Entering the 'lakeside drops'.The singletrack was awesome, but I found myself scrubbing speed more than I wanted to. I think the first 2 falls made me a bit cautious. There was one set of trees that my handlebars did not fit through, so I had to stop and get through every time. See below...
4th place podium finish
Post Race Thoughts & Happenings:
It's not after every race that you get to go canoeing on a marvelous lake right outside your cabin. The race was challenging, but I finished thinking I could have done better. I think I had more to give. I watched my fellow Oregonians in the men's race, Erik Tonkin & Evan Plews, cheering them on to a 3rd and 5th place finish respectively. The weather was awesome, the views were spectacular and my niece and nephews were having a ball. Most of my family was together and after our family style dinner, we headed out to the lake. I found out that beer doesn't taste as good out of a plastic water bottle, but one must do what one must do. Emily and I paired up with my nephew Alec and Paul and Nikolas, 2 of my brothers, had my niece Abi. Somehow it became somewhat of a 'competition' on the lake and some bumper boating. It was the first time I had been in a canoe in years. After canoeing, the party moved to the deck at the cabin. Hours passed and many beers and laughs later, race day was over. It was a great trip. I was able to spend mother's day with my mom and hopefully this will become an annual trip for us!
Paul, Emily, Alec, Sue & Musa, Abi & Nik ready to canoe
Me, Alec & Emily on Little Sugarbush Lake
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Monday, May 7, 2007
NMBS#3: Fontana National: Fontana, CA: May 5-6, 2007
It has been a great week in SoCal, staying with my good friends Gina and Hal near Claremont. Wednesday I met up with my teammate Emily and we did an awesome ride in the San Gabriels out of Chantry Flats. We climbed over 2 hours to the top of Mt. Wilson on singletrack that was sometimes not rideable, then we descended down some sweet singletrack! It was a great ride and good to have some company to sample some of the local rides. Thursday I decided to go ride the course and had so much fun, I rode it three times! It was going to be a fun race! Friday Brett Nichols had his semi-pro race, so I went early and road a lap and then sat in the feed zone and handed up bottles! Tim rolled in around 7 p.m., so we picked him up at the airport and put together his bike and made dinner. And the next day was game time!
Race Day 1: Cross Country
Although Short Track has been first for the past 3 races, XC was Saturday. Race time for me was 11 a.m. Tim raced at 8 a.m., but needless to say, I didn't go with him. My start position was much better this week. I think I landed in the third row. I had a great start out of the gate and it was a super fun race! It hurt, especially the 500ft. ascent at the beginning of the lap. The sandy descents were challenging and got sandier each lap. I only messed up once on the second lap, taking a bit of a closer look at the sand. Mmmmm. It tasted great. It was a fun race and there was a little something for everyone. At times you thought you were going through a dump, and other times it was fun rocky singletrack. It was, well, interesting, but all in all, I liked the course. I had a great finish, passing 2 girls with 1K to go and was able to sprint to the finish to maintain my 17th place. Not bad. My best NMBS finish yet and and the same as Sea Otter.
Race Day 1: Cross Country
Although Short Track has been first for the past 3 races, XC was Saturday. Race time for me was 11 a.m. Tim raced at 8 a.m., but needless to say, I didn't go with him. My start position was much better this week. I think I landed in the third row. I had a great start out of the gate and it was a super fun race! It hurt, especially the 500ft. ascent at the beginning of the lap. The sandy descents were challenging and got sandier each lap. I only messed up once on the second lap, taking a bit of a closer look at the sand. Mmmmm. It tasted great. It was a fun race and there was a little something for everyone. At times you thought you were going through a dump, and other times it was fun rocky singletrack. It was, well, interesting, but all in all, I liked the course. I had a great finish, passing 2 girls with 1K to go and was able to sprint to the finish to maintain my 17th place. Not bad. My best NMBS finish yet and and the same as Sea Otter.
finishing the XC with 2 girls on my tail...
Race Day 2: Short Track
A very late race with a 3:15 start time. It was going to be a hot one, for sure. We got to the venue plenty early with Brett racing at 2:30. The course was open at 1:30, so we checked it out. I knew it was going to hurt with the course going up the mountain cross course. We would see how it would play out with a funnel down to a single person descent towards the end of the course.
My position was great at the line. I managed to be in the second row and put myself right behind Alison Sydor. I figured she would be a good person to follow out of the gate. I had a great start and was right up there in the top 15. I had a great first lap and decided not to wait at the funnel of the descent and dismounted to run around on the right. It didn't gain me as much time as I had hoped, but didn't lose any either. By the next lap, I would be in a position to ride each time. The hill hurt every time and I lost some steam. I finished 24th.
Post Race Thoughts:
Well, I made it home today in time to unpack, nap and get a massage and go to dinner with Tim. I am really enjoying the racing. It has thus far been a great experience, especially when it allows you to spend time with people you haven't seen and visit places you haven't been. It is strange that the national mountain bike series is half over, and as Wendy pointed out on the way home from the airport, our trails haven't even really opened. I haven't really done any mountain biking in Oregon except for the Syncline and racing. Looking forward to some epic rides...
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Definition of spring water in English:
spring water
noun[mass noun]
Water from a spring, as opposed to river water or rainwater.
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LAX Series King Platform Bed with Headboard
designed by MASH Studios
Sleep soundly on this meticulously constructed, low-set platform king bed that emphasizes comfort and refinement above all else. A solid-wood base and wall-mounted headboard with a sliding white aluminum panel for storage complete this perfect bed set. Both king bed platform and wall mounted headboard are made of solid English Walnut construction. Sliding panel is made of powder-coated aluminum. All mounting hardware for headboard included. Partial assembly required.
Materials & Measurements
Both king bed platform and wall mounted headboard are made of solid English Walnut construction. Sliding panel is made of powder-coated aluminum.
Platform bed: 6" h x 84" w x 93" l
Headboard: 20" h x 84" w x 5" d
Cleaning and Care
For simple cleaning, use a damp cloth with a mild detergent. Over time, you may want to refinish the surface with a refinishing agent to regain its original luster. For this we recommend Scott's Liquid Gold. Pour a small amount onto a rag and wipe the entire surface until you have an even finish. Do not pour the cleaner directly onto the furniture as this can result in an uneven coat or discolor the wood.
If your furniture develops stains like a watermark from a glass, use 220 grit sandpaper and lightly sand the wood until the stain dissapears. For best results, follow this with a treatment of Linseed Oil to refinish the surface to its original quality.
Try to keep the piece out of direct sunlight if possible. It is wood's natural property to darken over time when exposed to sunlight, so if an object is left on your LAX furniture and left in the sun for a long time, the covered surface will appear lighter once the object is moved. This light spot will take time to blend back into the surrounding area and may never be fully as dark. Also, don't put hot stuff like pots and pans directly on the wood.
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Don't let the fact that this is made in China scare you. I ordered the king size bed and king size headboard. The wood is solid and high quality and the sliding metal doors on the headboard are heavy and well made. The assembly was simple and I was able to do it on my own in about one hour.
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Delivery was prompt representatives from Smart Furniture regularly kept me updated. The product was in great condition. The amount of carboard they used to ship was insane, but I guess thats a necessary evil. Make sure you have a way to get rid of all the cardboard.
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Great bed. It's classy, simple, and very sturdy. The smell of the wood fills up the room the first night. I only ordered the bed (not the headboard) and am confident that it's quality and design will outlast me.
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Inside delivery is a cost efficient way to have large or fragile items delivered to your room of choice. When your order reaches the local station in your area, the delivery agent will call to schedule a four hour delivery appointment. Caveat: If you need debris removal or light assembly (30 min max), you may want to consider our White Glove service.
The LAX King Platform Bed Set ships in three boxes:
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Each of these slats fit flush together, and feature hand-hold cutouts in their centers so they can be installed and removed easily. (It should be noted that these slats are constructed of a veneer that matches the visual wood tone of the English Walnut frame, skeleton, and drawers.)
Though there is no formal weight rating on how much weight the bed can hold, the slats provide a completely solid flat surface that the manufacturer estimates holds roughly 600 lbs., and the headboard is rated to hold up to 90 lbs. if mounted correctly on the wall.Answered on 1/11/2016 by Karen G. from Smart Furniture
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NEW YORK: Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.
NEW YORK: Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.
US District Judge Louis L. Stanton authorized full access to the YouTube logs after Viacom Inc. and other copyright holders argued that they needed the data to show whether their copyright-protected videos are more heavily watched than amateur clips.
The data would not be publicly released but disclosed only to the plaintiffs, and it would include less specific identifiers than a user's real name or e-mail address.
Lawyers for Google Inc, which owns YouTube, said producing 12 terabytes of data equivalent to the text of roughly 12 million books would be expensive, time-consuming and a threat to users' privacy.
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The database includes information on when each video gets played, which can be used to determine how often a clip is viewed. Attached to each entry is each viewer's unique login ID and the Internet Protocol, or IP, address for that viewer's computer.
Stanton ruled this week that the plaintiffs had a legitimate need for the information and that the privacy concerns are speculative.
Stanton rejected a request from the plaintiffs for Google to disclose the source code the technical secret sauce powering its market-leading search engine, saying there's no evidence Google manipulated its search algorithms to treat copyright-infringing videos differently.
The court has yet to rule on Google's requests to question comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert of Viacom's Comedy Central.
Viacom is seeking at least $1 billion in damages from Google, saying YouTube has built a business by using the Internet to ``willfully infringe'' copyrights on Viacom shows, which include Comedy Central's ``The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'' and Nickelodeon's ``SpongeBob SquarePants'' cartoon.


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WASHINGTON (March 29, 2013)—U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler, was "rude and irate" after he was ticketed for parking in a reserved space earlier this month near the Lincoln Memorial, a police report says.
The report says Gohmert, who's a Baylor University Law School graduate, told U.S. Park Police he's on a committee that oversees their agency and would not pay a fine.
According to the report obtained by Politico Gohmert received a citation after 11 p.m. on March 13 for parking his vehicle in a spot reserved for National Park Service vehicles.
Gohmert's spokeswoman Kimberly Willingham said the congressman parked in one of several empty spaces and believed he was allowed to do so.
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In August 2009, Paul Kearns of Imhotep conducted an interview with Michael Berberian, the head honcho of the French record label Season Of Mist. During the three-part chat, which can be viewed below, Berberian talked about the label's growth, the American market, touring, the newly signed MORBID ANGEL, the German efficiency, following bands from their demo days, today's scene and how to make money in the music industry.Part 1:
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Jana's Non-News CNET News
The announcement that activist shareholders led by Jana Partners are setting their sites on CNET should be a major boon to the technology-media company's shares. According to everyone but investors, that is.
Jana is the hedge fund run by Barry Rosenstein (left) that is famous for taking on corporate titans at companies like Time Warner, and racking up eye-popping gains for its investors. Today it surfaced that the group has amassed a 21% stake in CNET, and wants to take over the company's board in an effort to revive the lackluster shares. CNET swiftly responded, saying its bylaws would preclude the Jana initiatives.
But even before that CNET response this morning, investors had responded to the news with a big yawn. Even though the shares briefly spiked above $9 at the open, they quickly settled down into the $8.50 range they had been trading at Friday. (They closed down 12 cents, or 1.4%, to $8.44 on Nasdaq.)
Why the tame reaction? We have no idea, but wonder whether the hedge funds's ultimate lack of success in sparking a long-term rally in Time Warner shares or its ill-fated TD Ameritrade advice have anything to do with it. Take the latter, for example. As we pointed out in this post, in one of Jana's last major activist pushes, it advised TD Ameritrade to pursue a purchase of E*Trade Financial. In hindsight, that, of course, would have been one of the most ill-advised acquisitions in history.


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Small earthquake in Ellis County is deepest in latest string of quakes in North Texas
A 2.7-magnitude earthquake in Ellis County Tuesday night was the deepest in the latest string of quakes, according the U.S. Geological Survey,
County officials said there were no reports of damage in the area. According to the USGS data, the quake struck just before 10 p.m. and was about 7.5 miles deep in its epicenter in Midlothian.
Midlothian police also confirmed there was no damage or injuries reported by residents.
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North and Central Texas have seen about a dozen earthquakes in the last six months, none above a 3.5 magnitude and all at about 3 miles deep, according to the USGS.
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Definition of Urodela in English:
An order of amphibians that comprises the newts and salamanders, which retain the tail as adults. Also called Caudata.
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- There are more than 4,000 species of modern amphibians in three orders; in addition to the Anura, the Urodela (salamanders and newts) and Gymnophiona (caecilians - worm-like, with no limbs).
- They include all the members of the order Urodela, including the newts (family Salamandridae).
- Middle Jurassic salamanders are more primitive than members of the modern families, but unequivocally belong to the Urodela.
Modern Latin (plural), from uro-2 'tail' + Greek dēlos 'evident'.
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text: Another division of Sable Homes is Sable Realty. We are expanding our sales staff each year. One thing we like to mention to agents 'We never run out of listings – we are constantly building new homes'. Sable agents are encouraged to run their normal real estate business and continue to sell their clients homes and to help buyers in the pursuit of any home on the market. Sable Realty has a highly competitive compensation and training program for new or experienced REALTORS. We encourage and support agents with our model homes, superior advertising and marketing programs, and many other avenues that are not available from normal broker relationships.


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SIKESTON - Correan Dockery Hufstedler, 85, died at 12:05 a.m. July 26, 2002, at Missouri Delta Medical Center.
Born Dec. 23, 1916, in Conran, daughter of the late George Ebbin and Myrtle C. Thompson Dockery, she was a member of the Sikeston Community Church. She owned and operated the C&H Service Station in Sikeston and was a volunteer for the American Cancer Society office in Sikeston for 17 years.
She was first married to Arthur Lee Johnson.
On March 22, 1940, in Hernando, Miss., she married S.D. "Dude" Hufstedler who preceded her in death on Jan. 17, 1987.
Survivors include: two sons, Bobby Lee Johnson of Thornton, Colo., and Billy J. Johnson of Glenn Heights, Texas; and three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Two sisters also preceded her in death.
Visitation is from 1 p.m. Monday until service time at 2 p.m. at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Dolan Rogers, pastor of the Sikeston Community Church, will officiate.
Burial will follow in Garden of Memories Cemetery.


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Megestrol acetate is used for treatment of cachexia and anorexia associated with cancer and human immunodeficiency virus infection. Megestrol acetate is relatively well tolerated even when administered in high doses. Although in several double-blind prospective trials differences in the incidence of adverse reactions associated with use of megestrol acetate and placebo were often not statistically significant,1- 4 adverse effects have been documented. These include irregular vaginal bleeding, fluid retention or edema, nausea, and impotence.2,5 Also, although self-limited hiccups can occur without sequelae; severe or intractable hiccups may lead to difficulties with eating and sleeping resulting in malnutrition, weight loss, dehydration, fatigue, exhaustion, and depression.6 Reported herein are 4 cases of hiccups probably induced by megestrol acetate use occurring in persons with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
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