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And your grandfather did not know either just which one of them it was who told them he was, must be a negro, who could neither have heard nor recognized the word "nigger," who even had no word for it in the tongue he knew […]. (6.31)
Charles Bon's son, Charles Etienne de Saint-Valery Bon (say that three times fast!), is part black and the only living heir to the Sutpen dynasty. Sutpen clearly would not have been pleased.
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And even then I did not act hastily. I could have reminded them of these wasted years, these years which would now leave me behind with my schedule not only the amount of elapsed time which their number represented, but that compensatory amount of time represented by their number which I should now have to spend to advance myself once more to the point I had reached and lost (7.26).
Shreve and Quentin speculate about the story Sutpen told General Compson. They imagine the setback Sutpen must have felt when he discovered that his wife from the West Indies was black and he would have to start building his dynasty all over again. To give up everything he had worked for – it's clear that he has some pretty strong feelings about this.
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But they would drink together under the scuppernong on the Sunday afternoons, and on the week days he would see Sutpen (the fine figure of the man as he called it) on the black stallion, galloping around the plantation, and Father said how for that moment Wash's heart would be quiet and proud both and that maybe it would seem to him that this world where niggers, that the Bible said had been created and cursed by God to be brute and vassal to all men of white skin […]. (7.44)
Wash Jones looks up to Sutpen as the successful white plantation owner. He is proud to be associated with him and believes himself to be above the black slaves, because that's what he read in the Bible. Speaking of the Bible, what was that about "Thou shalt not kill"?


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James replaces Lance Hanlin, who recently accepted a job as sports editor of the Post Register newspaper in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
James has worked in the Standard Democrat sports department for seven years. He graduated from Sikeston High School in 1993 and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Southeast Missouri State University in December 1999.
"Considering his rapport with local coaches and his knowledge of sports, he is the perfect choice for the sports editor position," said Hanlin. "He has done an excellent job of promoting area athletes in the past and I'm confident he will continue to do so in the future."

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Published: Friday, June 19, 2009 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 9:15 p.m.
There is a certain young man I am acquainted with who really, and I mean really, wants to turn 18 so he can play the lottery. The idea of having enough cash to dive into and swim around in is his goal in life. Winning the lottery seems very doable to him. Being as how we are a home schooling family, I seized this as an ideal teaching moment.
I try and explain about chance. The likelihood of a random, non-planned event occurring. I talk about statistics and compare it to lightning strikes and ants in an anthill and his eyes start to glaze. He just cant seem to understand that the odds are stacked gigantically against such a remote possibility.
OK then. How about this? That credit card in his Mamas pocketbook has 12 numbers. The reason credit cards have 12 numbers is because the chances of someone guessing a real, active account number is so infinitesimally small, no matter how many times over how many years they try, that credit card companies dont have to worry about it at all. They worry about a number being stolen, but never, ever, guessed.
Still didnt impress him. After all, doesnt National Geographic prove that purely by chance a little lightning and methane created some acids and bases that randomly swirled together and coiled into a structure that started telling some other chemicals that just happened to be in the neighborhood how to interact and thus the first life form appeared?
Actually, the scientists at the Institute for Genomic Research (now known as the J. Craig Venter Institute) who determined the Mycoplasma genitalium sequence have followed this work by systematically destroying its genes (by mutating them with insertions) to see which ones are essential to life and which are dispensable. Of the 485 protein-encoding genes, they have concluded that only 381 of them are essential to life.
So, essentially, what happened is somewhere back in the mists of time, a correct lottery number consisting of 381 numbers, in the correct order and with the right stuff to work with, came up a winner.
Well, that just boggled his adolescent mind to pieces.
You mean all I have to do is guess is six numbers in the right order? Compared to evolution, this will be easy!
Well. No. He was missing the point entirely. I tried again.
There is one chance (1) in 195,249,054 of you picking the right, and only right, Powerball combination. (according to Durango Bills applied math Web page). That would be picking one set of numbers every second of every hour, every day, for 32 weeks straight.
That got through.
When do I sleep? Or eat? Or play ball? He furrowed his teenage brow as the implications burrowed into his brain. Hey! That means if evolution really happened ...
Yes, that is right. 381 matched pairs just happening at the right time and with the right stuff. How many years you suppose it would take for that to happen? Dr. David J. Rodabough, associate professor of mathematics at the University of Missouri, estimated the more realistic chance that life would spontaneously generate (even on 1,023 planets) as only one chance in 102,999,940.21 ... scientists Walter L. Bradley and Charles Thaxton, point out that the probability of assembling amino acid building blocks into a functional protein is approximately one chance in 4.9 X 10191.16.
OK, I snookered you into reading what you thought was about the N.C. lottery so you would see why some people have a hard time with evolution being a valid theory.
I got to tell you, I just wouldnt bet on those odds.
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MONTREAL –Without a doubt, scoring 50 goals in a single season is the gold standard for all aspiring snipers in the National Hockey League. But when it comes to scoring goals, what's in a number?
For those unfamiliar with hockey history, the choice of 50 may seem arbitrary. And it would be, if it weren't for Maurice "Rocket" Richard's scintillating 1944-45 season.
In the fall of 1944, with the Second World War's VE Day less than a year way, a speedy but injury-prone 23-year-old Montreal native suited up for his third professional campaign with the Canadiens. The Rocket had shown his nose for the net with 32 goals in 46 games the year prior, but there were certainly no indications that he was about to break Joe Malone's scoring record of 44 goals, set in only 20 games back in 1917-18. However, Richard started the season hot and kept lighting the lamp. He shattered Malone's mark and added a few more for good measure, netting No. 50 with scant minutes left in the 50-game season to shock the hockey world. And so, a tradition was born.
Even though the NHL schedule was subsequently lengthened to 60, 80, and finally 82 games in later years, the indelible mark left on hockey fans by Richard's historic season meant that the 50-goal milestone would become the definitive barometer for offensive greatness.
MTL 50-goal scorers Season GP G
Stephane Richer 1989-90 75 51
Stephane Richer 1987-88 72 50
Guy Lafleur 1979-80 74 50
Pierre Larouche 1979-80 73 50
Guy Lafleur 1978-79 80 52
Guy Lafleur 1977-78 78 60
Steve Shutt 1976-77 80 60
Guy Lafleur 1976-77 80 56
Guy Lafleur 1975-76 80 56
Guy Lafleur 1974-75 70 53
Bernard Geoffrion 1960-61 64 50
Maurice Richard 1944-45 50 50
All that being said, times change, and the game of hockey has evolved as well. Since Richard's heyday, the league has expanded from six teams to 30, lengthened its schedule by 64 percent and seen scoring drop by nearly two goals per game. From an objective point of view, there is no denying that a goal today is harder to come by than in the age of brown leather pads and laminated wooden sticks.
While he may not break into the exclusive 50-goal club this season, Max Pacioretty remains no less a generational talent for the Habs, scoring at a pace unseen in Montreal since Stephane Richer terrorised opposing netminders in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
A relatively simple way to find an equal base for comparison between Pacioretty, Richer, Guy Lafleur and Richard is to adjust the goal totals obtained in their two highest-scoring seasons for the number of games played and the average numbers of goals scored per game in their respective eras.
Era total goals/game Adjusted goals %Team offense
2014* 5.51 49 18.1
2012 5.47 42 15.6
1990 7.43 49 17.7
1988 7.37 49 16.8
1980 7.03 51 15.2
1978 6.59 66 16.7
1947 6.32 68 23.8
1945 7.35 78 21.9
(*Current season to date)
The difference is striking. Not only does the table reflect Richard's achievements in a new and all the more impressive way, it also lends credence to the idea that many of today's 35 and 40-goal scorers would be bona fide 50-goal men in a different era. Had Pacioretty played alongside Lafleur in 1980 or Richer in 1990, he would have a fair chance of finishing the season with around 50 goals. As it were, he is on pace to end his 2013-14 campaign with a less glamorous, but still career-best 38 tallies.
One final note on the numbers: the last column on the table indicates a scorer's goal total as a percentage of the Habs' total goals scored in that particular year. One can see that Pacioretty, Richer and Lafleur were all the offensive focal points of their respective teams. But Richard regularly contributed more than one-fifth of his team's goal total, which is absolutely remarkable. Even more extraordinary is that his goal-a-game season of 1944-45 might not even have been his best. In 1946-47, Richard scored "only" 45 goals, but completely carried the Montreal offense and accounted for nearly a quarter of the team's total regular season goals. It remains to be seen if this oft-overlooked mark will ever be approached by another Montreal skater.
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An 88-year-old Staten Island man, an 83-year-old Bronx woman and an 81-year-old Manhattan woman died on July 19 and 20, the medical examiner's office said Monday. They bring the death toll to four, including a 78-year-old Staten Island man who died on July 19. All four had underlying medical conditions that contributed to their deaths, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office.
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Insurers normally focus their investment on domestic assets because the policies they offer are denominated in yen. The low-yield environment of recent years amid sluggish growth and central bank easing has made that more difficult.
The Bank of Japan's new easing program, announced in early April, has complicated bond-buying for domestic investors even further by roiling the market. Yet it has also brought one respite: higher yields.
The company's vice president, Hiroaki Tonooka, said last week 10-year JGBs around 1% and 20-year around 1.7% are good levels for purchases. The 10-year JGB yield ended Friday at 0.860% and 20-year yield at 1.630%.
Mr. Aratani said that yields had merely risen to February and March levels, when the company originally laid out its investment plan for the upcoming fiscal year. That meant the company could stick to its original plan, while leaving wiggle room, but had moved little in April when bond market gyrations increased.
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City of Del Mar announces new public works director
The City of Del Mar recently announced the promotion of Eric Minicilli as public works director, which will become effective May 16, 2011. Minicilli has been with the city since 2008 as deputy director of public works. As deputy director, Minicilli assists in planning, organizing, directing, and supervising activities of the Public Works Department.
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Allegedly an internal Blue Cross Blue Shield memo on Michale Moore's "Sicko," written by Barclay Fitzpatrick, VP of Capital BlueCross Corporate Communications [via BoingBoing]
So where is the smoking gun? Did I miss something?
Perhaps most damaging of all, Moore completely fails to address the most significant driver of health care costs – our own lifestyle choices.- our own lifestyle choices – and seeks to focus attention and efforts on the alluring 'quick-fix' of universal health care. It has taken a generation of poor nutrition and exercise to get obesity and related health issues – and subsequent costs – to their current levels, and Moore's movie fails to acknowledge the causal relationship or need to change (he briefly touches the subject in a non-memorable way).
Way to miss the point entirely people!
Or is this their way of justifying what goes on? "We wouldn't have to deny everyone's claims if y'all weren't so fat!"
Of course, these are the same people who spent 7 months telling my doctors I didn't have coverage at all.
BTW, how is poor nutrition and exercise responsible for what happened to the 18 month old (under Further Notes)?
If that is an authentic memo, then Blue Cross is in trouble.
The memo is not a particularly effective response to a skilled fifth-columnist.
It's a shame that the forces of evil are so much better story tellers.
I loved the BS about "being a nonprofit". The whole Nonprofit healthcare is a scam, allowing these companies to expand like crazy, eliminate competition while paying no taxes, and then go public.
In Pittsburgh, for example, there is the "University of Pittsburgh Medical Center" which continuously buys every hospital in the region. They spend millions on advertising, and most of their services are provided by private for-profit doctor offices. They just bought the 27y/o mayor an expensive celebrity golfing package to grease the wheels a little.
Similarly, the local BCBS company is trying to take over all the healthcare insurance in the state, so there will be no competition.
There should be a law by which a company that started as a nonprofit can never go for-profit or public, should not advertise, and should not pay a fortune for lobbyists.
Sicko was such a disappointment that I'm glad I was able to watch it for free from the internet.
The movie is as the memo describes: A vague attempt to promote universal health care(UHC) as the be all end all to US health care problems.
Moore selected specific cases to show the WORST of HMO's and the BEST of the UHCs overseas and to the north. Taken solely at face value you would agree with Moore, but even the slightest bit of Googling will show you that he painted with quite the broad (and in the HMO's case, most unflattering) brush strokes.
I didn't learn much of anything new from SiCKO. I already followed news stories about things like BC/BS's illegal retroactive reviews in California (which is only an issue because they happen to be illegal in California). I'm familiar with the studies that show that medical costs are one of the strongest predictors for bankruptcy. I live with a semi-retired PI lawyer, so I know that the majority of damages sought in personal injury lawsuits are attempting to recover exhorbitant medical costs. Hell, Kaiser Permanente made me drive my bleeding, injured child about thirty miles across town once, his ear hanging by a little flap of skin and tissue, his face torn wide open, because the local facility didn't have the resources to treat him. Pretty similar experience to the dead little girl, except my son is still alive despite Kaiser's best efforts.
But for people who haven't dealt with it personally or watched as friends and family are saddled with crippling medical bills, killed by lifetime caps, or left to get sicker and sicker while insurance companies try to evade their responsibilities, good on Moore for making the story compelling and human enough that his movie is showing in big suburban multiplexes, where people can see it, talk about it, and go home and research the subject.
@Rectilinear Propagation:I agree that our lifestyle choices are partly to blame.
I do believe the health care system is borked, but a government run universal health care system is not the resolution. Going to the doctor's is already too much like the DMV, we don't actually need it to be run by the same entity.
I still love when I go in for anything medical (or dental) and get a whopping bill, then when I complain that I don't have insurance, suddenly it magically gets dropped to 30% of what the original quote was. Part of the scam here isn't just big bad HMOs, but the hospitals and doctors that routinely bilk insurance companies for every dime they can.
Why do you assume that the insurance companies are being overcharged? Your experience is certainly not typical, as far as I'm aware. What leads you to believe that the doctors are actually overcharging the insurance companies, rather than taking pity on you and undercharging you accordingly?
And how is it that you're being handed these giant bills and they don't already know you're uninsured? Every place I've ever been asks for that information beforehand.
Health care does indeed have multiple prices. Go have a heart attack or an EVAR repair, and when the bill comes it'll be something like $60,000. Then you'll see a "settlement amount" from your insurance company for something like $14,000. Then there will be a line for a "writeoff amount" for $40,000, and you'll finally owe $6,000.
Or thereabouts. These examples taken from recent actual events where I actually saw the bill.
So when the hospital gives you a 30% break, they're probably still making more money off of you. The lower prices are justified because the insurance company is a volume buyer and contracts with the providers to provide service at the lower rates.
There are so many things wrong on both sides of this argument I wouldn't know where to start. I don't think UHC is the answer since I know multiple Canadians who go to NY for procedures they've been wait listed for in Canada. If UHC is so great, why bother?
But the Blues are way out of line here. They just settled with doctors in SC because of prompt pay issues. Basically they don't pay you bills either.
Medicare only pays $7 per visit on $150 bill, and the large insurers base their pay rates on Medicare. Then they don't pay for months because they're "reviewing claims." It's a wonder anyone becomes a doctor anymore.
I personally know of an experience with BCBS in VA where the patient was self-insured female over 50, and they were charging her $2,000/month to maintain insurance, but wouldn't pay any medical bills for preventative care. I guess this is how they 'ensure access'.
PS @SWALVE Depends on the hospital. I don't know too many in America who are making money right now, unless they're doing elective surgeries.
@goodkitty: I do know a doctor who does this but not in any effort to bilk the insurance companies – he honestly does it to allow people who have no insurance or lost insurance (unemployment has increased locally) affordable health care.
The current healthcare system isn't working but I don't think UHC would work much better. Isn't there something inbetween that could?
I've had the same two experiences mentioned in your post.
1) This month, I received notice that a bill from my dentist had been sent to collections because the insurance company was still reviewing the bill. I ended up paying it out-of-pocket.
2) I had my first physical last month. As I was signing in, I was given a paper to sign: I am financially responsible for the tests administered during my physical, as insurance doesn't cover those tests. I laughed when reading in that memo BCBS's desire to focus on "preventative medicine," when my insurance isn't even willing to cover a basic physical. I can't wait to see what the bill ends up being for that.


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Are You Gambling At The Cross?
On the day that Jesus Christ was hanging on the cross for our sins and to provide the Way for us to return home there were men at the foot of the cross throwing dice and gambling as if this life had no meaning. They had no regard nor respect for the life of Jesus in fact they mocked Him with accusations and words.
What is the difference between us today in gambling our daily lives with no meaning nor purpose as these soldiers were doing at the foot of the cross? Are we not showing the same disrespect to Jesus for what He did for us when we lie, cheat, gossip, and suppress the poor? What is the difference between these soldiers at the foot of the cross in making false accusations about others when we do not know the Truth? What is the difference in these soldiers at the foot of the cross than us when we put our own desires in front of others?
This is what is laying heavily on my heart; "Do we need another crucifixion of Jesus Christ or was the first enough?" Everytime we mistreat others and only think of ourselves we might as well be gambling with the soldiers at the foot of the cross. I challenge you today to not gamble your life away at the foot of the cross and learn how to serve others in order to serve God instead of driving in the nails on the cross..amen
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A partly overloaded DNS server can slow down all the workstations on the network. Dnsgraph is an early warning system that gives administrators a graph of critical values. Your Dnsgraph charts will help you keep your systems serving names.
Just recently I heard about a memory genius who could remember the value of pi to several thousand decimal figures; at the same time, this person couldn't explain the practical value of this exercise. People like that don't need a DNS server; instead they could just memorize a few thousand IP addresses. But normal folks prefer DNS. And if you run a name resolution service yourself, I'm sure you will appreciate Dnsgraph [1]. The project name indicates a similarity with projects such as Mailgraph and Queuegraph, and Dnsgraph is actually based on Mailgraph. The tool parses a file for the status information generated by my Bind 9 DNS server [2], and converts the figures into a graph.
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The following appeared in the November 2004 Astrogram newsletter:
Louisa R. Beck, a senior research scientist with Ames' Ecosystem Science and Technology Branch (Code SGE), passed away on 16 Oct. She was 52. In 2001, Beck was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Her courage and resolve in battling this disease was an inspiration for all who knew her.
Beck began her career in remote sensing while she was a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley's Department of Geography. She came to NASA Ames in the late 1970s to work on the AgRISTARS program, which used satellite data in identifying crops and field estimates.
From 1986 to 1989, Beck was a research associate at the Arizona Remote Sensing Center at the University of Arizona at Tucson. Here, Beck's affinity with the desert landscape was fulfilled. For her, the sun, sand and open spaces represented all that was unassailable in nature and in life.
Beck returned to NASA Ames in 1990 as a contractor with Technicolor Government Services (later Johnson Controls World Services) to work on the Global Monitoring and Human Health (GMHH) program. This interagency collaborative program used NASA science and technologies to model mosquito habitat distribution for use in models of malaria transmission risk. With Byron Wood, Beck transferred the knowledge gained from the GMHH program into the formation of the Center for Health Applications of Aerospace Related Technologies (CHAART) at Ames in 1995. CHAART's purpose was to expand disease modeling to other vector-borne maladies such as Lyme disease, leishmaniasis, filariasis and schistosomiasis. In the course of her work with CHAART, Beck traveled extensively throughout the world.
Beck was a pioneer in the area of public health and landscape epidemiology. For nearly 20 years, she collaborated with many international partners and organizations in the field of public health research. As a co-founder of CHAART, she had much influence on NASA Headquarters programs in both Code U (biological and physical research) and Code Y (Earth science). Her publications were well respected and often cited. In recent years, her work was acknowledged in journals such as Emerging Infectious Diseases, Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, and Journal of Medical Entomology to support the application of her ideas in Asia, Africa and South America. She was especially proud of and committed to inspiring the next generation of public health researchers through student collaboration and mentorship. Visiting researchers and students who trained at the CHAART facility received her attention both in and out of the lab. Beck often served as a tour guide to local points of interest or to favorite restaurants. Most visitors were transported in her battered but beloved yellow VW Bug to and from Ames, to San Francisco or a nearby art festival, or simply to run errands. For Beck, these tasks were not just part of the job: by assisting the facility's students and visitors, Beck assured their inclusion into the extended CHAART family.
In the past year, Beck received two well-deserved awards in recognition of her work: the Presidential Rank and NASA Honor Award for Exceptional Achievement and an Ames Honor Award for Excellence in the category of scientist/researcher.
Beck was an avid gardener. Completing the master gardener's program out of U.C. Extension, she identified most plants by their botanical names. Pedestrian terms like 'daisy' or 'marigold' were not part of her vocabulary, nor were such plants a part of her garden. She was particularly fond of salvias and her backyard was a display of the many varieties of this hardy plant. She appreciated their durability and adaptability in the local landscape, as well as their beneficence to hummingbirds. For bees and butterflies there was a fair representation of native plants and, as a reminder of the desert, there was a vast array of cacti and succulents. She was an avid bird watcher, both in her back yard as well as at Ames. A pair of binoculars sat on her desk, ready to identify a possible red tail hawk or even a golden eagle as it flew outside her office window. Her love of wildlife included her championing several causes for the protection and well being of animals. At home, she loved and cared for her succession of cats, beginning with Mr. Spot and Sonia, and later Rajah and Moses.
Beck is survived by her brother, Stephan Beck and his family and a sister. The memorial service for Beck will be held on Saturday, Dec. 4 at 2:00 p.m. at the Fernwood Cemetary in Mill Valley. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Nature Conservancy, Attn: Treasury, 4245 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 100, Arlington, VA 22203, (800) 628-6820. Beck will be deeply missed by her many friends and colleagues here and around the world.
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On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:46:45 -0600, Stephan Rose wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:29:38 -0600, snipe wrote:
>> And many other Linux developers are of the opinion that we should have
>> nothing to do with Windows apps because accommodating them will blunt
>> efforts to create open-source alternatives. Many developers and users
>> are even openly hostile towards WINE.
>> Personally, I don't care either way because I don't need any Windows
>> apps and if I did I'd just run them in a virtual machine. Autocad?
>> Photoshop? No problem at all.
> Great for you. Now go try to run Solidworks in a virtual machine and get
> back to me when you completely and utterly fail.
I don't need Solidworks, or any of the other niche applications that
most people have never heard of and don't care about. But for what it's
worth, we're only about a year from VM software that uses the host's
video graphics acceleration from inside the guest. I don't remember for
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Fall and Winter Weekends in Happy Valley Will Get You Through Spring Break
A visit to Happy Valley is the perfect way to cast off
the back‑to‑school or winter doldrums, or to enjoy
the spectacular beauty of the seasons. In addition
to the natural beauty of the area, Happy Valley has a
variety of events and accommodations that will turn
an ordinary weekend into a great mini‑vacation or
help you celebrate the holidays.
Since most things in State College are just a few
minutes away, there are many combinations of where
to stay and what to see, but like good wine pairings
here are just a few we appreciate.
Where to stay…
Located just north of Penn State's University Park campus, The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel is one of Central Pennsylvania's largest hotels, offering the comfort and relaxation you want coupled with the modern amenities you need. It has two on‑site restaurants – Legends, which literally surrounds diners with Penn State trivia and images and The Gardens which has an elegant Sunday Champagne Brunch.
The Chatelaine Bed & Breakfast is also featuring a Thanksgiving package and it benefits a good cause. The Chatelaine will be donating $50 per room going to the Habitat for Humanity Fund. Learn more here.
What to see…
The Penn Stater is just minutes away from the Bryce Jordan
Center, a 16,000 seat arena located on Penn State campus. A show
at the BJC is a perfect way to spend an evening enjoying world class
entertainment. The BJC draws exciting acts, including a‑list musical
talent like Carrie Underwood and Bruce Springsteen—both coming
this fall—as well as major productions like Cirque du Soleil and
WWE wrestling. The upcoming BJC schedule doesn't disappoint, so
check it out and pick a weekend.
Remember that the BJC also hosts Penn State Men's and Lady
Lions Basketball, another great way to spend a winter evening!
Where to stay…
The historic Nittany Lion Inn, is located on campus grounds,
so you can be close to the action while enjoying a gracious and
intimate environment. The Nittany Lion Inn was once referred to
as "Penn State's living room" by one of the university's former Presidents and looking at the comfortable arm chairs and crackling fires in public areas, it's easy to see why.
What to see…
The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State is only
minutes away from The Nittany Lion Inn and is a leading voice in the
arts for the Happy Valley area. It brings audiences together with
enriching performances in theatre, dance, and music. Previous seasons
have included performances by prominent dance troupes, jazz
performers, and musical revues. The calendar also includes special
holiday performances for those in spirit of the season. Schedule highlights
include Tap Dogs in December and The Addams Family, a new
musical comedy, in February, and tons of amazing shows in between.
Where to stay…
The Courtyard State College and the Holiday Inn Express
State College at Williamsburg Square are both comfortable
and affordable options easily accessible to the downtown area.
Both are modern and attractive and offer all the amenities you'd
expect, like high‑speed Wi‑Fi and fitness centers. The Holiday Inn
Express offers a hot breakfast buffet while the Courtyard has a
full service restaurant. The Courtyard also includes an indoor swimming pool and whirlpool – both lovely ways to warm up after an active winter's adventure.
What to see…
In addition to lots of seasonal charm, State College's downtown area offers some of the best holiday shopping in Centre County. Unique gift shops like The Growing Tree, Avant Garden, The Cheese Shoppe, Kitchen Kaboodle, and Nittany Quill will help you find a special something for everyone on your shopping list.
First Night
Of course, First Night is an event not to be missed. The festivities begin at 10 a.m. on New Year's Eve with giant ice sculpture carving – over 100 ice blocks are carved – and lasts until midnight ringing in the New Year. Throughout the event, spectators are treated to brass bands, carriage rides, Celtic music and puppet shows, just to name a few of the attractions that take over the downtown area. This is the ideal New Year's event for families looking for fun for all ages!


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Men Who Love Selfies
Everybody loves taking selfies…but sometimes it seems weird for men to take so many of them. Are they obsessed with their bodies? What's going on? These men love taking selfies…do you think it's weird or are you okay with it?
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February 25, 2010
Photos From the ASI Show San Diego
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While we here in the Philly area suffer through Snowmageddon Part III, my pal Joan Chaykin is basking in the lovely California weather at the ASI Show San Diego. She also brought along a camera to further rub in just how nice it is out there on the Left Coast.
Joan, this ain't helpin' us!
Anyway, enjoy the pics …
Gotta be California …
Two clowns and a red snapper fish head. Nice.
Ahhh, California sunsets.
Giant statue of the sailor and nurse in that famous kiss pose.
Melinda and Kathy on the entrance to the Gaslight District.
Group shot posing with Andy. Strangely, we all think it looks like we're visiting Andy (one of the youngsters) in the old-age home "Wave hi to the camera Andy!"
USS San Diego.
USS Midway.
Anchors aweigh!
Statue of Bob Hope entertaining the troops.
Southern California!
CJ and Matt.
Gaslamp Quarter.
February 23, 2010
Got A Favorite Promotional Product?
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Ahh, what an industry. When I first started working with promotional products, I thought it was gonna be all pens, notepads and T-shirts. Alas, I've discovered that promotional products can be more than that, including journals made of elephant poop, motorized coolers and USB drives in the shape of just about anything … including carrots (honestly! see image at right).
Yes, it's actually quite an interesting and fun industry.
Anyway, we here are ASICentral want to know, What Is Your Favorite Promotional Product?
And we're encouraging you to upload images of your favorite promotional product to our Facebook page (NOTE: chance for egregious self-promotion!) for a future vote. In a few weeks we'll post all the products to our Facebook fans and let them decide which one is the best one.
So, go to our Facebook page now and upload an image of your fave promotional product, tell us a little bit about it, and you'll be automatically entered in the contest. (Not a fan yet? Just click the "Become A Fan" link at the top of the page.) And if you're wondering what the spoils are, it's bragging rights, a blog writeup and a mention in our newsletters!
That's all folks!
— Buggsy
February 19, 2010
About Tony Robbins …
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Growing up a child of the almighty television, I have lots of memories of sitting in front of the boob tube late at night watching mindless Joe Bob Briggs-inspired cheesy horror flicks, Johnny Carson and Taxi reruns as my brain rotted away. And as the night wore on and I drifted off to sleep, I inevitably woke … to Tony Robbins and his white teeth.
Sure, they were lovely and big and bright, but why would I always wake to them? Did Tony Robbins own the late-night infomercial market? Well, if you grew up in the '80s and had, like, only a handful of stations, then yeah, I think he did!
Anyway, my first impression of Tony Robbins was of an annoyingly verbose, albeit well-spoken, talking head who seemed to have an excellent grasp of what he was talking about, though I never listened. I was too fixated on his bleached teeth, and so I just didn't like him.
But in the early 2000s, he appeared in the movie Shallow Hal with Jack Black — the movie where i not only discovered how ginormous Robbins is, but also that he has "banana hands" — and a newfound respect was born. He played himself in the movie and really came across as endearing and genuinely interested in helping others help themselves.
Since I joined ASI in 2007, Tony Robbins has been a keynote speaker at one of our ASI Shows and is set to be the keynoter next week at our San Diego show and, though I'm not going, I really wish I could. Because from what people have told me from the last time Tony appeared at a show, he's really something special.
So if you're going to the ASI Show San Diego next week, but aren't going to see Tony Robbins, then I need to ask … what's wrong with you!!? It's FREE!!! And all you gotta do is click here to register!
And if you simply can't make it, I'll be glad to go in your place.
— deezTV
February 15, 2010
Tip of the Day – 7 Niche Markets to Target Swimwear
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Stitches magazine found seven cool niche markets that want decorated swim gear now.
1. Pro sports. Lori Coulter, president and CEO of Lori Coulter LLC (asi/46771), says professional sports teams in the NFL and Major League Baseball are buying bikinis – but fortunately, not for the players. "We get a lot of requests from cheerleading teams, particularly for professional teams," she says. "They may do a calendar and need everybody in the same swimsuit."
2. Car and boat dealerships. Coulter also sells some of her skimpier swimwear to high-end auto and boat dealers for what she calls the "age-old image" of an attractive woman standing next to a shiny new car or boat to add appeal for the consumer. "The dealerships are very interested," she says. "If a decorator has a relationship with a dealer, it's an easy add-on to the account – so decorate a branded Lexus or Porsche bikini that models can wear for an event."
3. Fishing. Stan Rudman, a principal owner of Sportailor Inc. (asi/88796), has taken advantage of the fishing industry's newfound interest in swimwear via one of its brands, Hook and Tackle Outfitters. "The fishing guys are wearing boardshorts," he says. "My company came out with boardshorts for the fishing industry, but added features to make it fit into that industry, like utility pockets. They can also be sold to beach stores."
4. High schools. John Amsterdam, president of Neet Feet Inc. (asi/73525), says flip-flops have come a long way in terms of popularity, both in swimwear and in general fashion. "At first they started as a novelty," he says. "They've become more mainstream and visible, from celebrities wearing them to the Northwestern University championship women's lacrosse team showing up at the White House with flip-flops."
5. High fashion. Who knew that flip-flops are high fashion? "We do private-label projects for retail customers," Amsterdam says. "One of our biggest customers is a top New York City fashion designer and we do flip-flops for his retail stores."
6. Lifeguards. At municipal swimming pools, lifeguards have always been a popular target in terms of swimwear, but Gulbenkian says business is picking up in this area. "This has been a growing market," he says. "Drownings are up, and people are a lot more safety-conscious. What's the first safety item at a pool? It's the lifeguard, just as the policeman is the first safety item downtown."
7. Swim teams. "The competitive swim-team market grew a little bit after the Olympics and Michael Phelps, no question," Gulbenkian says. "What is growing is a solid swimsuit with the individual team logo on it."
From Stitches' February 2010 cover story, "Suit Up"
February 12, 2010
Tip of the Day – Be A Top Seller
Filed under: Tip of the Day
Three tips on how to be a top seller:
From Counselor magazine.
February 11, 2010
Filed under: General
Philly and the surrounding suburbs are currently experiencing Snowmageddon 2010 (definition: 20+ inches of snow followed by 20+ more inches of snow 4 days later), and we had a rare day off yesterday. So I threw the gauntlet down to the folks in Editorial and asked them to send me their best snow pics. I'm proud to say they didn't disappoint …
February 5, 2010
10 Sexiest Valentine Promo Products
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Queue Barry White's Greatest Hits and light some candles … Introducing ASI's inaugural list of the Top 10 Sexiest Promotional Products!
Looking for a hot idea for a Valentine's Day promotional giveaway or business gift? Look no further!
From chocolate lips (#5) wrapped in red foil, to contrasting color thongs (#4), this list is smmmokin' hot!! Want to know which product is the hottest?! Check out the list here, and read more about it in today's press release.
And as an added bonus, watch a special edition of The Joe Show, where our very own Joe Haley shows us some of the products on this year's list. Just click on the video below and enjoy!
— BarryWhite'sGhost
February 3, 2010
Tip of the Day – Cold Calling
Filed under: Tip of the Day
Make your cold calls brief, no more than two to three minutes and be focused on understanding the prospect's needs at a high level so you can provide them with a compelling reason to spend some time with you, and most importantly, getting the appointment.
February 2, 2010
Poll Results: Tiger Woods' Woes
Filed under: Poll Results, Uncategorized
Fore! Look out, Tiger Woods – according to our latest poll results, your brand is in trouble.
If our latest survey is any indication about how the shamed professional golfer's image will affect the sale of his products in this industry, then there's a long road ahead for the marketers who deal in Tiger Woods' merchandise. Earlier this year, I posted the following question:
Are you less likely to sell Tiger Woods branded products to your clients in light of recent news?
The answer options were simply: Yes, No and Maybe.
Being from the old school, I immediately thought the answers would be predominantly "No", that people would be more likely to buy and sell these products due to the meteoric rise in media scrutiny. The old adage There is no such thing as bad publicity stuck out in my mind, and I suspected the results would lean toward "No".
Somewhat to my surprise, almost half (178, 48%) of our respondents replied they'd be less likely to sell his name to their clients. Here are the full results broken down in a visual:
I suppose, then, that infamy does come at a steep price. Unfortunately, it won't be Tiger Woods who pays up (he'll be just fine financially), but those who are trying to repair and unload his branded merchandise.
— TigerBeat
February 1, 2010
What's the best way to get new business in 2010?
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March 17, 2011
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
If you've been following our Monday Muse Journal series, you'll know we have recently been keen to celebrate women from around the world that we feel are uniquely talented, spirited and inspiring. In line with this theme, we wanted to take a minute to talk about this young, beautiful poet and model from London, Greta Bellamacina.
The Better Geranium
I like to pretend
I don't care as I pour you a lake
From my kitchen sink.
I pour you my tears
Wide-wept dunes, to the
Geranium hero liver, in
Seas of flowerfaces.
I reorder my ways,
Cause my 'Friends' told me it was the 'right' way.
"I hope you will stay better"
I say it, but don't know it.
You will go, because I will go,
In innocence when others are not innocent
A less to lesser us both
My daytime idol, as it appears, bacteria
I grew.
Greta graduated from King's College London in 2012, with a BA in English. Her poems and articles have been widely published in various magazines and international poetry journals - a regular contributor to Harpers Bazaar UK, known for supporting the literary world through fashion, the publication has been a follower of Greta from the early stages of her career. Greta has also been short-listed as the Young Poet Laureate of London.
Greta has recently collaborated with Dame Vivienne Westwood to help campaign for climate issues. Creating new, emotive poetry about the climate, and world we live in, helping raise awareness for Westwood's 'Climate Revolution'.
Her poetry revolves around an unwavering devotion to words, a curiosity for depicting emotions from unfamiliar phrases and seeking unique lexical patterns.
Her debut collection of poetry 'Kaleidoscope' was released in 2011, her newest collection is entitled 'To December - A Devotion To She.'
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In J 11/06 the board held that according to the established jurisprudence of the Legal Board of Appeal following decision J 27/90, even if renewal fees were paid by someone else, the appointed professional representative remained responsible in the procedure before the EPO, and had to take the necessary steps to ensure payment if intended (likewise J 1/07, J 4/07, J 12/10). No reasons had been submitted as to which concrete steps had been taken. The board distinguished the case at issue from T 14/89 and J 13/90. In both these cases, specific reasons were given as to why the mistakes happened, and corroborating evidence was filed. In J 4/07 the European representative had every reason to believe that it was the appellant's intention to continue prosecution of the application in suit. Under these circumstances the Board did not consider that it was sufficient for the European representative only to send a single reminder more than four months prior to the expiry of the critical term. In J 12/10 the board confirmed that it was established jurisprudence of the boards of appeal that a representative, once appointed - and even if the renewal fees were paid by someone else - remained otherwise fully responsible for the application, and that this included a continuing obligation to monitor time limits, send reminders to the applicant, etc.
In J 19/04 the board held that a professional representative is not obliged to pay renewal fees on his client's behalf if he has received no instructions to do so. However, the representative's conduct has to be assessed according to the extent to which he has done all that is necessary to ascertain the client's true wishes (see also J 1/07). It is not the number of (unanswered) reminders that is decisive, but when those reminders were sent in relation to the date on which the time limit expired, how the reminders were formulated and what the representative's duties were in relation to the client.
In J 16/93 the board stated that a representative who had not received any funds for the purpose of paying the renewal fee and whose authorisation was silent in this respect was not expected to advance moneys on behalf of his client out of his own pocket. As the client was, in this situation, free to abandon its application by ceasing to pay the fees demanded by the Convention, the representative risked effecting a payment which he would not be able to recover either from the EPO (even though his client had not wished the payment to be made), or from the client, if the authorisation was silent in this respect.
In T 338/98 the appellant was first represented by professional representative A, but later asked him to transfer all files to a new representative B. One European patent application failed to be transmitted. Although the representatives were aware that the renewal fee was due for this application, they did not reach clear agreement about paying it, with the result that the fee was not paid and the application was deemed to be withdrawn. The board held that in these circumstances it did not appear appropriate formally to delimit the individual responsibilities of each of the representatives during a transfer of cases requiring, by its very nature, close co-operation between the persons involved and naturally leading to overlapping responsibilities. The fact that in these circumstances the representatives had been unable to reach agreement about the way to proceed and that the appellant had not been informed of the outstanding renewal fee and of the disappearance of the file in question was not an indication that all due care required by the circumstances had been taken at that moment.


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"I highly recommend reading Racing Weight even if you don't need to lose any excess poundage. You'll come away with a better understanding of your physiology and also of food." — Joe Friel, founder of TrainingBible Coaching and author of The Triathlete's Training Bible and The Cyclist's Training Bible
"Even if you are already a lean machine, you'll likely still learn something from Racing Weight. From how to determine your optimum weight, to improving your diet and training around it, to controlling your appetite and making your own fuel—it's all in this book." — BikeRadar
"The mysteries of weight and its relationship to performance are unlocked in Matt Fitzgerald's Racing Weight. If you've got a basic handle on both training and nutrition, this book offers the means to improve both your diet and athletic performance." — DailyPeloton.com
"Fitzgerald is going to go down as one of the most competent and prolific authors of books for serious runners covering just about every legitimate aspect of the all-important runner's lifestyle." — Letsrun.com
"It's not too hard to convince cyclists that they can improve their performance if they drop their weight to an optimum level. However, that's generally as useful as a physician telling a client they need to lose weight and then sending them out the office door. There are endless diet or nutrition books out there, but very few specifically catering to the endurance athlete. Into this void comes Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald." — Pezcyclingnews.com
"Racing Weight answers the difficult questions athletes often have about dieting, including how to handle the off-season. The book gives readers a scientifically backed system to discover your optimum race weight, as well as five steps to achieve it." — Triathlete magazine
"Reaching an ideal weight for endurance sports is important, but doing it the right way is even more important. Matt Fitzgerald provides scientific and sound advice for anyone trying to achieve their racing weight." — Scott Jurek, 7-time winner of the Western States Endurance Run and 2-time winner of the Badwater Ultramarathon
"Racing Weight is the first book written exclusively about an issue that is very important to runners—eating and training properly to get to the start line of the peak race with the right body composition for running fast." — Letsrun.com
"Racing Weight offers endurance athletes a simple approach to dietary quality. The Diet Quality Score system is worth the price of the book alone. It's easy to follow and makes sense. Amateur to professional athletes can optimize their potential with this book." — BikeWorldNews.com
"Every now and then someone writes the giant-killer text, the volume that becomes the bible of a subject. Ten years from now most of us will be wondering how we managed before Racing Weight came along." — RedKitePrayer.com
"Fitzgerald is a fountain of information on current research studies and findings from the sciences of healthy nutrition and exercise performance." — Ultrarunning magazine
From the Back Cover
A 5-step plan to optimal body composition and better performance.
If you're like most endurance athletes, you're concerned about your weight. You know that every extra pound you carry costs time, wastes energy, stresses your joints, and hurts your performance.
Racing Weightis the first book to explain how endurance athletes—runners, cyclists, triathletes, cross-country skiers, rowers, or swimmers—should lose weight. Using sound scientific principles gleaned from the latest sports research, Matt Fitzgerald lays out 5 easy steps to get lean for races and events. His guidelines will help you hit your target numbers for weight, body composition, and performance, while maintaining your strength and conditioning.
Fitzgerald makes good nutrition simple with 21 great recipes from pro triathlete and dietician Pip Taylor, and a look at the diets of 14 elite professional athletes. He explains how to avoid the most common mistakes in training and embark on a strength-training program that works.
The Racing Weight plan will help you close in on your performance goals while feeling—and looking—great.
Matt Fitzgeraldis the author of eleven published and forthcoming books on running, triathlon, nutrition, and weight loss. A contributor toBicycling,Runner's World, and Senior Editor ofTriathletemagazine, he is also a featured coach for TrainingPeaks.com and Active.com. He is a certified sports nutritionist (CISSN) licensed by the International Society of Sports Nutrition. He lives and trains in San Diego.


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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
On the Road Versions of Reality Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost. I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future, and maybe that's why it happened right there and then, that strange red afternoon. (I.3.6)
Sal's vision about self-identity is overlaid onto a vision of geography, the country being split in East and West factions. This is interesting, suggesting that Sal's visions of America may actually be about himself.
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"In Farmington, Utah, once, where I went to work with Ed Wall - you know Ed Wall, the rancher's son in Denver - I was in my bed and all of a sudden I saw my dead mother standing in the corner with light all around her. I said, 'Mother!' She disappeared. I have visions all the time," said Ed Dunkel, nodding his head. (II.4.1)
Ed has a vision of his mother that is quite different from Sal's hunger-driven hallucination of his historical "mother."
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Just about that time a strange thing began to haunt me. It was this: I had forgotten something. There was a decision that I was about to make before Dean showed up, and now it was driven clear out of my mind but still hung on the tip of my mind's tongue. I kept snapping my fingers, trying to remember it. I even mentioned it. And I couldn't even tell if it was a real decision or just a thought I had forgotten. It haunted and flabbergasted me, made me sad. It had to do somewhat with the Shrouded Traveler. Carlo Marx and I once sat down together, knee to knee, in two chairs, facing, and I told him a dream I had about a strange Arabian figure that was pursuing me across the desert; that I tried to avoid; that finally overtook me just before I reached the Protective City. "Who is this?" said Carlo. We pondered it. I proposed it was myself, wearing a shroud. That wasn't it. Something, someone, some spirit was pursuing all of us across the desert of life and was bound to catch us before we reached heaven. Naturally, now that I look back on it, this is only death: death will overtake us before heaven. The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die? In the rush of events I kept thinking about this in the back of my mind. I told it to Dean and he instantly recognized it as the mere simple longing for pure death; and because we're all of us never in life again, he, rightly, would have nothing to do with it, and I agreed with him then. (II.4.7)
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The Seneca Diabetes Foundation has established the Geraldine Memmo Scholarship to
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or social services professions. It is the hope of the Seneca Diabetes Foundation
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama marked the one-year anniversary of the deadly school shootings in Newtown, Conn., by urging Americans to redouble their efforts at the state and local levels to control gun violence.
At 9:30 a.m., the time the shooting began that day a year ago, the president and first lady Michelle Obama, dressed in black, lit 26 candles at the White House and then stood silently before them for a moment.
"We haven't yet done enough to make our communities and our country safer," Obama said in his weekly video address Saturday morning. "We have to do more to keep dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun so easily."
In an indirect acknowledgment of his own failure to enact new restrictions at the federal level, Obama said it's up to citizens around the country to bring about change.
"We can't lose sight of the fact that real change won't come from Washington," he said. "It will come the way it's always come – from you, from the American people."
The shootings were so horrific that many predicted they would force Congress to approve long-stalled legislation to tighten the nation's gun laws.
They did not.
A divided Congress denied President Barack Obama's calls for changes. The national gun lobby, led by the National Rifle Association, is arguably stronger than ever. And surveys suggest that support for new gun laws is slipping as the Newtown memory fades.
A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds that that 52 percent of Americans favor stricter gun laws, while 31 percent want them left as they are and 15 percent say they should be loosened. But the strength of the support for tighter controls has dropped since January, when 58 percent said gun laws should be tightened and just 5 percent felt they were too strong.
Nearly eight months since the Senate rejected expanded background checks for gun buyers – the year's foremost legislative effort on the issue – Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., hasn't found the five votes he would need to revive the measure.
Says Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy: "I was repulsed by the inability of the Congress of the United States to deal with reality."
At the state level, though, 21 enacted some sort of gun control laws this year.
But the legislative knife cut both ways: 39 new state laws tightened gun controls, while 70 loosened them, according to The New York Times.
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SIKESTON -- A Veterans Day concert in Kentucky featuring a Sikeston singer will make this Christmas a little merrier for some struggling families.
A benefit concert featuring country, gospel and bluegrass music will take place from 2-4 p.m. Nov. 11 at the Gracepoint Church, 111 West Vaughn, in Mayfield, Ky.
"We're working on flyers right now," said Trisha Ann Matthes. While she lives in Mayfield, she still considers Sikeston to be home.
"From age 3 till up to three years ago I lived in Sikeston and sang gospel music," Matthes said. "I was with a group there called 'New Beginnings.'"
In addition to Matthes, the concert will feature musicians recruited for the event from two organizations Matthes has become active with since moving to Kentucky.
"We're going to have members of the Tennessee Country Gospel Music Association and the Kentucky County Music Association as well as some other area musical artists," Matthes said. "There has been a lot of people contacting me that want to be a part of this."
Matthes is looking forward to one performance in particular: her husband, singer-songwriter Carl Graham, will use the event to introduce a new song called "Tribute to a Veteran."
"It was written about one of his great friends in Colorado," she explained.
And the cause is a good one, according to Matthes.
"The money from this concert is going toward the Christmas Outreach program which will be Dec. 22," she explained. "It's a great honor to help in this."
The Christmas Outreach is being organized by Jennifer Hughes, wife of the Gracepoint Church's pastor, Jim Hughes.
"This will be my first one in Kentucky: we took over this church about a year and half ago," Hughes said. "My husband and I have been ministering for over 20 years. This will be the first Christmas Outreach here but we have done them all over the country so we are very experienced at them."
Tickets for the Veterans Day concert will be available at the door. The cost is by donation.
"We are asking for a donation of a toy of at least a $10 value or for monetary donations for the purchase of gift cards and other gifts," Hughes said.
Matthes said helping to raise money for the Christmas Outreach is a particularly special opportunity for her as her family once was on the receiving end of such an effort.
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By Cpl. Lim Hong-seo (IMCOM)September 17, 2013
Seoul, REPUBLIC OF KOREA -- Soldiers from U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan celebrated the National Korean holiday, Chuseok, by making songpyeon with local volunteers at Geumchun Senior Welfare Center and shared it with the underprivileged elders, Sept. 11.
Area II Soldiers volunteer to help the local community throughout the year, particularly during the Chuseok holiday season. This year 30 soldiers from Headquarters and Headquarters Company USAG Yongsan (HHC USAG-Y) travelled to Siheung 1dong, Geumchun-gu to participate in the annual philanthropic event.
Welcoming performances of traditional dance and martial arts organized by Seoul Geumchun Senior welfare center set the tone for the day's event.With a brief explanation of how to make songpyeon, the soldiers and civilian volunteers began making the Korean treat. KATUSAs translated for the U.S. Soldiers and elderly volunteers. Together they managed to make enough songpyeon to deliver to local incapacitated elderly citizens and a little extra to enjoy for themselves.
"It is very meaningful to have U.S. soldiers here and make songpyeon together," said Koo Ja-hoon, director of Seoul Geumchun Senior Welfare Center. "It is a Korean tradition to make songpyeon with your family or relatives before Chuseok; it feels like we all became one big family. I really enjoy sharing this wonderful tradition with the Soldiers."
At the end of the event Soldiers delivered the treats, along with other holiday goodies, to the local elders who live alone. Carrying bags of rice and walking the hills of the city, Soldiers and volunteers wished happy Chuseok for the seniors and made a deep bow, the Korean way to display respect to elders.
"It was a great experience," said Pfc. Brandon Garland, Soldier from HHC USAG-Y. "I enjoyed making songpyeon, but most of all, it was really nice to have an opportunity to talk with the elders, share thoughts and listen to their life stories."


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Paul Simpson is a musician, vocalist, lyricist and writer from Liverpool, England. His vocal and lyrical styles have been described as "haunting" and "doomed romantic",[by whom?] respectively. Musically, his contributions have crossed the genres of synthpop, post-punk, neo-psychedelia, new wave and ambient.
Early career[edit]
His music career began in the late 1970s, commencing with the bedsit collaboration with Julian Cope, Ian McCulloch and others under the name 'A Shallow Madness'. This later transformed into the Cope-lead Teardrop Explodes, while McCulloch went on to form Echo & the Bunnymen. Around this time, Simpson shared a flat with Bunnymen drummer Pete de Freitas.
He left the Teardrops in 1979 to form his own band The Wild Swans in 1980. Between the two incarnations of the band, he was also co-founder of the duo Care with Ian Broudie, later of the Lightning Seeds.
Care broke up around 1984 and after a while, he and a Mark II version of The Wild Swans re-formed to record 1988's Bringing Home The Ashes and 1989's Space Flower.
Speaking of his past, he recalls, with some humour, the early Teardrops and Wild Swans period where he often sported enormous baggy trousers and a foppish, 'Brideshead Revisited' haircut.
Later career[edit]
Subsequent to a final parting of the ways for The Wild Swans in 1990, Simpson embarked on a variety of more-or-less solo projects, including 'The White Capsule' and 'Skyray'. For most of his later career, he has abstained from singing, preferring to compose instrumental pieces and channel his more literary talents into creative, sometimes auto-biographical writing, extracts from which occasionally appear on his website, sometimes in the form of a diary.
In 2011, the current revival of The Wild Swans performed two shows in the Philippines, one concert in Cebu on 30 September and the other at the Mall of Asia Complex in Manila on 1 October 2011.


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Many professionals in the field of psychology consider the use of the word "subconscious" to be "quasi-scientific" and prefer to use the term "unconscious." It was Sigmund Freud who introduced the concept of interpreting the thoughts within an "unconscious mind" through techniques such as random association, dream analysis, and Freudian slips.
On the other hand, unconsciousness is known to be a comatose state, where the mind does not respond to environmental stimuli. Rather than suggest an "unconscious mind," which nevertheless responds to the queries of the psychoanalyst, this website prefers the concept of a "subconscious mind," which responds to stimuli beneath conscious awareness. Subconscious responses often enter conscious awareness.Understanding the subconscious mind requires an overview of the principal pattern recognition processes operating in the nervous system. Beneath your awareness, neural drives remember and recognize patterns and act with logical precision. Those drives support your speech. They respond to your feelings, organize an idea, find the right words, arrange them in order, check grammar and operate your vocal chords. You are only conscious of the final outcome.


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NOPD officers say a man raped 14-year-old in Behrman Park while she was walking home on Friday night.Video Transcript
...ACCUSED OF RAPING A 14- YEAR-OLD GIRL. THE INCIDENT HAS AN ALGIERS NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERNED FOR THEIR SAFETY. NOW THEY ARE ASKING THE CITY FOR MORE PROTECTION. IT ALL HAPPENED FRIDAY NIGHT IN THE 15 HUNDRED BLOCK OF FLORENCE AVENUE IN BEHRMAN PARK. POLICE SAY THE YOUNG GIRL WAS WALKING HOME AROUND 9 PM. WDSU REPORTER ANDY CUNNINGHAM IS THERE LIVE WITH HOW RESIDENTS ARE CONCERNED BUT NOT SURPRISED. MOST PEOPLE WE TALKED TO SAY...MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE IN THIS AREA, PARTICULARLY AROUND BEHRMAN PARK, WHEN IT COMES TO SAFETY. SO ATTACKS LIKE THIS DON'T HAPPEN AGAIN. Shane Wade: It's really, sad SHANE WADE'S JOB TAKES HER TO BEHRMAN PARK ALMOST EVERYDAY ...SHE WORKS WITH THE YOUTH THERE AND HEARING WHAT POLICE SAY HAPPENED TO ONE OF THEM, JUST DAYS EARLIER, CONCERNS HER. Shane Wade: It was mind boggling, especially to the extent of the little kids here and their always running around playing, it really scared me ACCORDING TO POLICE THE 14- YEAR-OLD VICTIM WAS WALKING BEHRMAN PARK FRIDAY NIGHT AROUND NINE O'CLOCK...WHEN SHE SAID...A MAN GRABBED HER AND SEXUALLY ASSAULTED HER. INVESTIGATORS RELEASED THIS SKETCH OF THE MAN TUESDAY AFTERNOON NOW WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH THAT ALLEGED ATTACK. Darriel Kelley: It made me sick at the stomach DARRIEL KELLEY... IS THE MOTHER OF TWO YOUNG TEENS. SHE WALKS THE PARK DURING THE DAY...BECAUSE AT NIGHT SHE SAID IT'S PITCH BLACK. Darriel Kelley: You don't feel safe at night walking...so you gotta walk in the morning, before you go to work and stuff RESIDENTS SAY A NUMBER OF THE LIGHTS ON THE WALKING PATH DON'T WORK AND SOME POLES DAMAGED BY HURRICANE ISAAC WERE NEVER REPLACED. Adrian Braud: Something like this shouldn't have to put the city in motion... they should do things to prevent things like this from happening ADRIAN BRAUD... SAID HE'S REPEATEDLY ASKED THE CITY FOR BETTER LIGHTING AND NOW HE AND OTHER'S ARE ALSO ASKING FOR ADDITIONAL POLICE PATROLS. WHILE THE SEARCH FOR THE ALLEGED SUSPECT CONTINUES. I JUST SPOKE WITH THE PARK SUPERVISOR HERE. HE TELLS ME THEY ARE IN TALKS NOW WITH ENTERGY TO REPAIR THE LIGHTING HERE. LIVE FROM ALGIERS AC WDSU NEWS. POLICE SAY THE SUSPECT IS 16 TO 19 YEARS OLD, ABOUT 5'7'' AND WAS LAST SEEN WEARING A PURPLE SHIRT AND BLACK BASKETBALL SHORTS. IF YOU'VE SEEN HIM CALL CRIMESTOPPERS AT 822-1111. AND TONIGHT A MAN WHO USED TO LIVE IN JEFFERSON
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Think the Icap Libor Fine Is Small? Think Again
In simple terms the penalty levied on London-based broker ICAP for the alleged participation of some of its staff in rigging the Libor rate is much less than the fines handed down to Barclays, the Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS.
The broker was today fined £14 million ($22.4 million) by the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority and $65 million by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission for "unlawful manipulative conduct that continued for more than four years," according to the CFTC.
Sure, that's nominally smaller than the combined $2.5 billion the three other banks have paid to three regulators.
But have a quick look at that fine relative to the broker's market capitalization, and the fine seems more swingeing.
At $87.4 million it represents 1.9% of ICAP's current market capitalization of about $4 billion.
Barclays, which paid a total of $453.6 million to three authorities (those above plus the U.S. Justice Department), has a market cap of $71.2 billion. So fines = 0.6% of market cap.
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RBS has paid the same three authorities $612 million. That makes total fines = 0.9% of its roughly $66.2 billion market cap.
And Swiss giant UBS, with a market cap of $80.7 billion, has paid $1.52 billion. So fines = 1.8% of market cap.
But let's break that down further.
ICAP has been fined only by two of three regulators that imposed penalties on the other three (in fact UBS had to pay to Swiss authorities too). The Department of Justice hasn't levied a fine but has said it will charge three former ICAP employees as part of a continuing criminal investigation into the manipulation of Libor. They could face a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison, according to the DOJ's statement.
Take the DOJ element out of the equation for a fair comparison and the penalties to market cap comes in at 0.4% for Barclays, 0.6% for RBS and 1.1% for UBS. All of which makes ICAP's fine looks even bigger.
It's a pretty simplistic measure of course, but worth noting its impact on ICAP isn't quite as small as is being talked about.


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Denkyira was a powerful nation of Akan people that existed in southern present-day Ghana from 1620. Like all Akans they originated from Bono state. Before 1620 Denkyira was called Agona. The ruler of the Denkyira was called Denkyirahene and the capital was Jukwaa. The first Denkyirahene was Mumunumfi.
Later the capital of Denkyira moved to Abankeseso. Denkyira became powerful through gold production and trade with Europe.
The 1690s saw wars between Denkyira and the Asen and Twifo. The goal of these struggles was to keep open the trade routes to the coast.
The Denkyira state dominated the trade Europeans on the Western part of what is now Ghana while the Akwamu Domuniated trade with Europeans on the Eastern part. It dominated the neighboring states apart from the Akwamu and Akyem and Ashanti was a tributary to Denkyira until 1701, when it was defeated by the Ashanti in the Battle of Feyiase, and became a tributary to the Ashanti empire.
In 1868 Denkyira entered the Fante Confederacy to fight for Great Britain against the Ashanti and the Dutch. When the confederacy proved unable to defeat the Ashanti, it became a part of the British colony Gold Coast in 1874. In 1957 Gold Coast became independent as Ghana.
The present-day ruler of the Denkyira is Odeefuo Boa Amponsem III.


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The Morning Leverage: PBR For Hipsters, But Not PE Firms
In this morning's media roundup:
News: Despite all of the healthcare warnings, First Reserve's latest deal proves it isn't afraid of getting a little sun. The firm is teaming up on a $1.5 billion joint venture with solar developer SunEdison to support renewable energy projects. First Reserve is no stranger to the space, with significant solar exposure in Europe through an investment in 9Ren. Read the LBO Wire story here.
Oriental Brewery; parts of Anheuser-Busch InBev; North American Breweries. If you've picked up a beer anywhere in Europe, North America or Asia in the past year, there's a significant chance it was brewed by a PE-owned outlet. But one brewer has managed to escape the grasp of PE, and not for lack of interest. The Wall Street Journal reports that around 15 PE firms considered bids for Pabst Brewing Co., but it was consumer brand revitalizer C. Dean Metropoulos who walked away with the Blue Ribbon.
The college-dorm entrepreneur is nothing new in the era of Web 2.0. But the story of LoveSac, which just got $8 million from Mistral Equity, varies ever so slightly from the norm, given that its trade is in soft chairs rather than software. The company's founder started making bean-bag chairs while at the University of Utah and has since expanded the business through a stint on a British reality TV show and chance meetings in China. Read on via LBO Wire here.
Apparently politicians aren't the only ones concerned about chief executive compensation. The Associated Press reports casino operator Harrah's, owned by TPG and Apollo, cut CEO Gary Loveman's salary down to about a sixth of what he took home last year.
Analysis: With the window closing on bargain properties, PE real estate funds are trying to make the best of it by extending investment periods, revising mandates, and in some cases, returning capital to investors. The Wall Street Journal reports 19 funds have returned or plan to return more than $6 billion of capital to investors.
Reuters profiles TLG Capital, a new firm focused on small deals in emerging markets including Ghana, Uganda and Cambodia. Founder Zain Latif is looking to fill in the financing gap left by investors who won't consider deals under $100 million.
The euro-zone debt crisis is beginning to create cracks in the financing markets that buyout firms rely on. According to our colleagues over at Private Equity News, drops in the secondaries market and the issuance of high-yield bonds are moving the market "backward" to ca. 2008.