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I have been potty training my daughter for about 3 months. She will be 3 in October. We've cracked the weeing and she will happily ask when she needs a wee and sit on the toilet or a potty to do so. She did successfully poo on the toilet just twice but now won't even consider pooing on the toilet anymore. She's well aware when she gets the sensation of need to poo but will just whinge and grab at her bottom. If I say to her "Do you need to poo?" she says no. If I put her on the toilet she gets very upset and will just get down saying "No poo mummy, no poo". We have been still using pull-ups for naps and nighttime and she has got into the habit of waiting until an opportunity when she's got a nappy on to poo. She's even asked me for a nappy so she can poo. We've tried rewards, potty training stories, i've tried to explain the process to her, she even says herself "I'm a big girl and big girls do poos on the toilet, not in my pants" but she still won't try when the situation arises and has had several accidents and tummy aches resulting from holding it. Can anyone suggest anything, please? I'm so proud of the progress she's made with her weeing but this is getting entirely frustrating. Do I remove the nappies altogether and just cope with wet/dirty bedding/clothes? If I do that, how do I stop her holding it to the point of getting constipated and uncomfortable? HELP!!!! x


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It takes a herd to make a successful team roper – a herd of
horses, friends and family, and mentors
Along with hard work and determination, it takes a herd to make a successful team roper – a herd of horses, friends and family, and mentors – just ask Charly Crawford.
He has qualified for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (NFR) three times in the heading and is on his way to his fourth this December. Along the way, he has been underneath a horse as nearly as much as he's been on top of one, shoeing to make money for entry fees. He has also ridden outside horses and done whatever it took to realize his goals.
Crawford grew up splitting time between his mom and dad's. His mother, a hairdresser in Canby, Ore., did all she could to support her son and in Charly's opinion, probably spoiled him. His dad worked at a power company in Portland, was a horse shoer and rode bareback horses and roped.
Traveling to rodeos with his father instilled a love of the sport from the get go. He started competing in dummy roping and when he was on a horse, there would be a challenge among his friends for a horse race. That led to roping.
"Before long, you win your first buckle, win your first saddle and then, it's all you want to do," Crawford said.
While roping was all he wanted to do, initially people tried to discourage him telling him there was no future in it. That made Crawford more determined than ever. He won the Oregon State High School Rodeo Association team roping title in 1996, the same year he bought his permit in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA). That led to college, first at Lewis-Clark College (Lewiston, Idaho), then on to Central Arizona State University (Casa Grande).
He spent his summers in Oregon and after college came back to his home state. He spent his time at the Crossley home in Hermiston where Shane Crossley became Crawford's first team roping mentor.
"Shane was like a second dad to me," Crawford said. "After high school we roped all summer. I had set a goal of winning the (PRCA) rookie but I didn't think I had what it took to go hard, so he encouraged me to go to college."
After a year at Lewis-Clark, Crawford made the move to Arizona where he partnered up with Shain Sproul. The two college rodeo athletes started 1998 off well earning a check at the National Western Stock Show Rodeo in Denver. Things kept clicking and Crawford realized his first goal of winning the Rookie of the Year. He also finished second at the College National Finals Rodeo that year.
It took seven more years of sweat, tears, disappointments and triumphs before he finally realized his dream of competing at the NFR, qualifying in 2005 with Richard Durham. After college, he went back to Oregon, was shoeing horses to pay his entry fees and really struggling. In 2001, he had the opportunity to move to Salado, Texas, and jumped on it.
Texas was a brand new experience that Crawford took advantage of in every way. He had horses to ride, could rope all the time, and had the opportunity to learn from horseman and ropers. Popeye Boltinghouse, a horseman and roper from Cherokee told him "It's not how much you can win off a horse, it's how much one keeps you from winning." That caused Crawford to rethink his horse herd.
He changed his focus from qualifying for the NFR to setting more realistic goals and putting him in situations to win money. He followed the advice of Tyler Magnus who taught him a lot about horses and how to win.
"Tyler told me not to worry about losing, but to think about winning," Crawford said. "He told me to think about how many horses I wouldn't need to shoe if I won. That put things in perspective for me."
When that first NFR qualification came, Crawford arrived in Las Vegas early, put his horses away and couldn't wait to see the inside of the Thomas and Mack Center. He ran down the alley in a nearly empty building, stopped in the heading box and fell to the ground and made a big dirt angel.
"I couldn't believe that I was finally there," he said. "That is one of the things I was thinking about when I was underneath a horse putting shoes on when it was 100 degrees outside, with sweat dripping off my nose. When I finally made the finals it was all worthwhile. I wouldn't have it any other way. The hard work paid off and made me appreciate being there."
In 2006, he started roping with Durham again, then roped with Allen Bach and finally Cody Hintz at his second NFR. He bought a place in Llano with his new bride Lindsey who he met through the Crossleys. He was taking care of his horse shoeing clients and driving up to Weatherford to practice with Bach. It was beneficial both in and out of the arena.
"Roping with Allen was probably the best decision I ever made," Crawford said. "He taught me how to make a run with my partner and to be consistent. Getting to pick his brain for a year was awesome. That was the point in my life that I decided to make a career out of roping. He taught me to believe in myself."
In spite of the newfound faith in himself, 2007 was a year with more struggles. He was driving his pickup pulling a three-horse trailer in Llano when a woman pulled out in front of him. He tried to keep roping in spite of two bulging discs that were pushed up against his spinal cord from the accident. Following advice of Magnus, he finally went home, took some time off and spent a month doing therapy. His partner, Cody Hintz, was with him all the way.
When he was healthy again, they started winning money and had a shot at the NFR. It came down to the last steer of the season. They had been to seven rodeos in four days from Harrison, Ark., to Poway, Calif. They were late getting there, got horses out, made three quick circles to get them warmed up, got in the box and went after a hard running steer. Crawford threw a Hail Mary loop that surprisingly connected and Hintz cleaned up and they won $800.
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It was enough for Crawford, but not Hintz. The 2007 NFR found him roping with Britt Bockius. 2008 was another transitional year. He started roping with Tyler Magnus, again thinking about what he could learn. Magnus is known for his teaching and ability to help ropers improve their skills. He has made a career away from the competition with "The Roping Show" that airs on RFD-TV. This was an opportunity for Crawford to learn more about clinics and schools and prepare for a future outside of the arena. He also roped with Jhett Johnson.
He finished the year in 26th place in the PRCA standings. He had been talking to Russell Cardoza and they paired up at the beginning of 2009 and have been a duo all year. Cardoza is now headed to his first NFR.
"Russell is young and excited and I guess I needed someone like that so I could remember how much I love roping," Crawford said. "He ropes good, is smart and has great horses."
Crawford has also found help in 2009 from the 2007 world champion header Chad Masters. When he had problems, it was Masters or Magnus that would be getting a phone call.
"You never feel like you get team roping figured out. When you think you do, you get in a slump and wonder what you're doing," he said. "Every time that happens, I humble myself enough to talk to Chad or Tyler. It motivates me and makes me want to work harder."
The one consistency in Crawford's career has been ropes from Cactus Ropes. He currently uses the Xplosion or the Whistler depending on the weather conditions.
"Things are getting so fast in the arena now, when you pick up that rope it better feel like it's going to do what it's supposed to do," he said. "If you have the right horse, saddle and rope, you can tear down your roping and build it back up again.
"It's a blessing to have friends that can help you. I've learned something from all of my partners and my friends. When things aren't working, that's when you find out what makes you better."
Other partners on Crawford's rodeo roster have been Mike Beers, Bucky Campbell and Matt Funk. Regardless of who he is roping with, what part of the country he is driving across, or which horse he is riding, Crawford will be depending on his herd to help him achieve his goals and keep reaching higher.
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The collapse of the Jacoby & Meyers Bankruptcy LLP law firm, which was formed in 2012 by two consumer law giants, has mobilized some unpaid creditors to push for their final payments.
LegalZoom.com Inc., which says it is owed about $1 million for leads it provided to Jacoby & Meyers Bankruptcy last fall, joined several other creditors to file an involuntary bankruptcy petition against Jacoby & Meyers Bankruptcy last week.
The move is meant to pressure the assignee, Chicago financial professional Robert Handler, to investigate the firm's former managers and to look other places for potential lawsuits that might win money—some of which could repay the firm's bills.
According to lawyers who are representing creditors, Mr. Handler said that the firm will pay what debts it could from its few remaining assets: contingency fees receivable, furniture and equipment. If the firm enters bankruptcy, their lawyers would be given more power to recover money, and it would provide more transparency and information for creditors, lawyers for creditors said in court papers filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.
Jacoby & Meyers Bankruptcy has 21 days to respond to the petition. Mr. Handler confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that the merged law firm was shutting down, but he declined to comment on the bankruptcy or any other piece of litigation.
Judge Shelley C. Chapman has been assigned the involuntary bankruptcy case.
Jacoby & Meyers Bankruptcy was formed by a merger between two giants in consumer law: Jacoby & Meyers LLC —the consumer law firm known for its TV ads—contributed its bankruptcy practice. Macey Bankruptcy Law PC, which claimed to be the nation's largest consumer bankruptcy firm with up to 40,000 clients per year, gave up its name. The Jacoby & Meyers law firm continues to operate. Messages left with its spokesman were not returned.
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Petit Palace Germanías features tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and concierge services. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. This business-friendly hotel also offers complimentary newspapers in the lobby, laundry facilities, and dry cleaning/laundry services.
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Cars got crushed by falling ice Sunday in Plano, but that wasn't the only place where sliding sheets of solidified sleet posed a threat that day.
Marshall Bayless of Houston shot the video above shortly before noon at the Great Wolf Lodge resort in Grapevine. As temperatures crept above freezing, the ice accumulated on the roof from sleet and freezing rain started to break loose from the roof, break apart and fall in big chunks from sloped roof of the resort's main entrance.
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|9th Apr 2008, 3:32pm
|This looks ideal, we walk everywhere at weekends, and living in cornwall, its a real outdoor place.
No huge tractor tyres like some, but just the job for around town, and the baby walker looks ideal for the house
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|my son is still in his pram and be good to have something that would be easy to get in and out of the car and he will be able to see more
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|9th Apr 2008, 2:18pm
|Lightweigh pushchairs are the way to go. I'm expecting my third baby in September and it will make things easier when getting in and out of the car.
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I am having a child in october and i have been looking at this website ever since and this is my third child
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|26th Mar 2008, 4:26pm
|My son would love the baby walker, he is just getting about by rolling so this would be great
|by Stephaniehicks
|26th Mar 2008, 4:15pm
|The Little Shield baby walker sounds great to me, my youngest is desperate to get going but with a big sister who is two and always wants to hug and kiss her I think she could do with a bit of getting knocked over protection. My garden also has a bit of a steep hill so this walker sounds ideal
|by elliemc
|26th Mar 2008, 4:13pm
I am delighted to hear about a light pushchair that folds easily and can fit in a boot easily. I have a fight daily with my pram and car boot and I have had enough. I will be looking at the internet baby shop with interest.
|by chris03
|26th Mar 2008, 4:07pm
|Hi what a great pushchair, my little girl has just turned one and its a nightmare going round the shops with my travel system! Youve also got the added bonus you could see us coming!
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|The babyshop was started in 2007
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|20th Mar 2008, 4:34pm
|it is interesting to hear of products for the first time.Little Shield is a new name to me.
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|20th Mar 2008, 4:33pm
|The Davos pushchair is just what I've been looking for as we're off on holiday in the summer!!
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|i have been looking for a gift for my great niece these products are very vibrant in colour and have great safety specs so even if i dont win thankyou for the information about this company
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|I think that this is a wonderful idea! It really get parents involved in the different things for their child. And on top of that, the child gets a gift out of it! It's a great idea!
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|20th Mar 2008, 3:44pm
|Amazing lightweight products!!
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|20th Mar 2008, 2:10pm
|just what joshua needs to find his feet a baby walker
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|20th Mar 2008, 1:58pm
|lovley idea
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|20th Mar 2008, 1:41pm
|Good site which gives useful weely tips and is easy to read!!!
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|20th Mar 2008, 1:38pm
|'Win goodies from The Internet Baby Shop'
Wow the colurs are so summery and bright perfect for the hoped for sunshine we all need.
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Typhoon Francisco was moving northeast off the southern coastline of Japan's main island of Honshu on Saturday, bringing heavy rain and strong winds to small islands south of Tokyo.
While the typhoon is on course to head into the Pacific without directly hitting Japan's main islands, it has brought stormy weather to the Izu Oshima island 75 miles south of Tokyo. Officials have urged all of the island's roughly 8,400 residents to evacuate their homes, and as of 8 a.m. Saturday, 1,374 people were in shelters, such as elementary schools, according to the Tokyo metropolitan government.
While Japan has a typhoon season every year from May through October, the country has been hit particularly hard this year, including a severe storm earlier this month that struck Oshima island, killing 31 people. But no damage or injuries have been reported from Francisco so far even as heavy rain warnings over the islet remain in effect, the Tokyo government said.
Around noon local time (0300 GMT), Francisco, the 27th tropical storm of the season, was heading northeast some 250 miles off the southern coastline of Honshu, moving at a speed of about 28 miles an hour, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
The agency is warning of heavy rain, high waves and ground-loosening that could lead to landslides for Oshima. It has also issued advisories over gale-force winds and high waves for Tokyo and nearby areas.
The Tokyo metropolitan area saw hard rains in the morning, but that later turned to a drizzle, and there were no reports of any major problems or disruptions to the city's public transportation system.
All Nippon Airways has cancelled its planned flight to Oshima for Saturday, according to Japan Airport Terminal Co. ANA also cancelled Saturday two of its three scheduled flights to Hachijo-jima, a small island 180 miles south of Tokyo where people have called off planned festivals over the weekend.


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Love And Loathing the Kindle
Love it or loathe it Amazon's Kindle has changed the face of eBooks. And while it remains the market favorite, it appears not everyone loves it.
In a glorious rant on Enlightened Economist Amazon's eBook reader gets a bit of a kicking alongside all eBook readers. But the Kindle clearly has a special place in the author's spleen.
I particularly hate the Kindle. This is a personal thing, as obviously many eager readers luuuurve the Kindle. What I hate is the smallness of the screen, meaning you only get a couple of hundred words of text on it. I read quickly so have to keep thumbing to the next "page" and get thumb-ache. I hate not having the text immediately preceding the bit I just read. I hate having to keep scrolling back by several "locations" to go back to something rather than just turning back a page. I also hate the greyness of the screen and the ugliness of the device – and correspondingly do love my iPad on which I read work papers and an occasional e-book. I hate the way my e-book has comments and highlights from strangers on it, even if I can turn the feature off.
Other reasons for not liking eBook readers include their robustness (sand and electronics never play well together), the effect on charity book shops, and the best reason of all…
I have other idiosyncratic dislikes of e-books too. For example, I can't see what other people are reading when I'm on the train. This used to offer moments of delight. One time, sitting in a block of four seats on the Tube, I was reading an improving economics book, and my fellow-passengers were reading a Nick Hornby novel, Seamus Heaney's District and Circle, and Herodotus. How cheering is that?
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Four more Labour councillors in Stoke-on-Trent have been pulled in for questioning by police as part of an ongoing corruption scandal in that city.
The move follows the arrest of Labour elected Mayor Mark Meredith on March 6 on suspicion of misconduct in public office and complicity in corruption in public office.
He was arrested exactly a week after Conservative councillor Roger Ibbs was arrested on suspicion of corruption in public office. Both men have since been bailed until June, pending further enquiries.
The councillors who were spoken to are understood to have been questioned about the council's attempts to shut the splash pool at Dimensions Leisure Centre, in Burslem, last year.
The Labour Party announced last week that it was postponing its annual general meeting, and the election of the group's leader, because of the ongoing corruption inquiry.
The case stems from a report which was drawn up by the director of the Dimensions Leisure centre which recommended that it be closed down because it was poorly attended and in need of extensive repairs.
BNP councillors, who knew otherwise, objected to the report, and a subsequent investigation revealed that the manager of the centre had been pressured into making the false report by the Labour Party councillors.
A new report was drawn up, with completely the opposite conclusions - resulting in an investigation as to why the Labour councillors had wanted the centre closed down.
It has now transpired that they had some type of relationship with a local Muslim businessman who wanted to purchase the site and develop it into what was apparently going to be a Muslim centre.
It is not known what, if any, kickback was involved to the local Labour Party - but the police arrests indicate that there must have been.
All of these events have boosted the BNP's chances of getting Councillor Alby Walker elected as council leader, as voters express their disgust at the corrupt charade which marks both Tories and Labour in Stoke.
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by Neil Gaiman
Coraline Jones Timeline and Summary
- Coraline moves into an old house and starts to explore.
- During her explorations, she discovers a weird door with a brick wall behind it.
- That's about all the excitement, though: Coraline's parents and neighbors tend to ignore her and she's just plain bored most of the time.
- One day, Coraline goes through that strange door and ends up in another world, where she meets her "other mother" and "other father."
- In this new world, her other parents and neighbors pay a lot of attention to her. Her other mother even makes her some super delicious food.
- Just one problem: the other world is weird and totally scary. Example: everyone there has black buttons for eyes. You get the idea.
- Coraline decides to head home, but when she gets back to the real world, her parents have disappeared: they've been kidnapped by the other mother.
- She knows what she has to do: Coraline returns to the other world to rescue her real parents.
- While she's there, she meets three ghost children who have been trapped in the other world for years. Now she wants to save them, too.
- Coraline decides to challenge the other mother to a game. The rules go like this: if Coraline can't find the children's souls and her parents, she'll stay in the other world forever. If Coraline wins, though, they all get to go free.
- After some close calls, Coraline manages to find all the kids' souls and her parents.
- But, being a totally evil villain, the other mother won't let her leave.
- Too bad, other mother: Coraline makes a run for it with her new feline friend, and – whew – makes it home.
- It turns out the other mother's hand has followed her back to the real world, but don't worry: Coraline has something up her sleeve.
- She lures the other mother's hand to a deep well and gets it to fall right in. Ta-da!
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Poster ID: CL61885
Original Title: Stroncare il Male, Il Francobollo Antituberculare e un'Arma
English Title: Stamp out illness, the anti-tuberculosis stamp is a Weapon
Designer: Mosca
Year of Poster: 1930s
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Size: 55 x 39 inches = 140 x 99 cm
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President Obama's budget proposal projects steadily declining deficits. Do the facts support the promise? (Stock image)
President Obama this week submitted his annual budget, which boosts IT spending, establishes plans for expanded cybersecurity efforts, and eventually brings the annual deficit almost down to the $459 billion level that he inherited when first elected. But agency executives had better hope the president's budget forecasters are closer to the mark than they were four years ago.
When Obama took office in the middle of the deep recession, his budget projected the deficit would decline from $1.412 trillion in 2009 to $533 billion in the current 2013. Yet as shown in the following figures that Obama submitted in February 2009, plus the most recent results according to the Office of Management and Budget, the president's budget was far too optimistic in its revenue projections. And the slowdown in spending during the past two years reveals the impact of the Republican-controlled House.
All dollar figures below are in billions of dollars.
The following forecasts from the budget that Obama unveiled this week show robust increases in revenues resulting from economic growth, which would override the renewed growth in spending that would fund the Veterans Affairs Department's claims-processing system, the next generation of weather satellites and other government operations. (Again, dollar figures in billions.)
If the notably unpredictable budget forecasts prove accurate, the deficit in Obama's final year in the White House would remain higher than the 2008 deficit, which had been the largest in U.S. history. Making things worse, the Congressional Budget Office forecast in January a renewed rise in the deficit immediately after Obama leaves office, which would result chiefly from the surge in Social Security and Medicare spending because of the retirement of baby-boomers.
"After 2017, if current laws remain in place, outlays will start growing again as a percentage of [gross domestic product]," according to CBO. "The aging of the population, increasing health care costs, and a significant expansion of eligibility for federal subsidies for health insurance will substantially boost spending for Social Security and for major health care programs relative to the size of the economy." That red ink concerns deficit hawks and some economists, who warn that the steadily growing federal debt will eventually drag down the U.S. economy. But for agencies, the worry is even more direct: The only certainty in the budget numbers is that they will change, and -- optimistic projections notwithstanding -- virtually all the pressures are pushing in a downward direction.
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You know what is ironic, is that nobody up there gets it, that is what is ironic. We waste time on paper work just to "CYA" because no ones wants to be a fault not even the ones commenting here. It is not about Republicans or Democrats it is about us being able to take another breath of freedom. As long as we continue to vote this same people in and vote on radicules that want to change it but want to do it at our expense then beware of what is going to happen to us. Playing the blame game and blaming one person is stupidity, that makes us no better then the ones we have up there. America better grow up goes our greed is going to send us ( if we are not there already) into termoil and someone else running this country. God grant us the sernity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference. Amen....
But according to the article, these figures are just Obama's estimates in 2009. The Projected numbers are what they projected in 2009, not in 2010 or 2011 or 2012. No surprise they're wildly off four years out. All this really says is that the recovery was a lot slower than they expected, and it's not like we have lots of data about these catastrophic banking events with which to make an educated guess. And if you look at the 2014 projection, it looks more realistic: revenues rising between 2013 and 2014 by about the same amount that revenues rose between 2012 and 2013; spending rising by a similar amount compared to 2012/2013; slower increases in revenue and variable spending increases in the out years. This looks like an instance of the author cherry-picking numbers to make the readers gravitate towards a specific point of view, not like a real point being made.
The ironic thing is, the Republican controlled House is going to make Obama look good by supressing spending at a faster rate than Obama can propose new spending. So the deficit goes down and Obama will look good. Thank you House. This is what's causing all the turmoil. If spending proposals weren't so over the top (read Obamacare), we wouldn't be suffering the House's drive to reduce federal spending. I felt better about the $787B stimulus bill the Democrats approved in March 2009 (that the president said was going to "rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and go to shovel ready jobs") than I do about Obamacare. But the albatross was upheld by the Supreme Court, so here we are, out of money and suffering the House's attempt to restore fiscal credibility in spite of the president's spending plans.
If the table is correct then 8 years of Bush debt is about 9.8% of 4 years of Obama dept. This is about 10 time the debt rate of 8 years of Bush, but only in 4 years. ( 459 Bush) to (4691 Obama)
As long as we're on the subject of how numbers can mislead, it's misleading to report the deficit inherited by Obama as $459 billion. Three weeks prior to his inauguration, CBO was already projecting a $1.2 trillion deficit for the coming year: http://www.cbo.gov/publication/24860 .
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Turkey came to Mannheim with a baggage full of confidence and a mixture of very talented players. The main man to scout for me was of course 1992 born Enes Kanter who has dominated the U16 Türk Telekom Tournament a few weeks before. But it was not only him that came up with interesting performances.
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This year's edition of the Onil U18 Tournament ended with the success of the Spanish U18 team. The second place was for Turkey, while Germany beat Croatia for the third place. The Spanish PG Alejandro Hernandez, a NBA Basketball Without Borders participant in 2006 and member of the Youth teams of FC Barcelona, got elected […]


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Pharmacy Robbery Investigation, CVS, 6220 St. Joe Center Road, Sept. 25
For Release: September 25, 2012
Contact: City of Fort Wayne Police Department
Office of Public Information, 260 427-1343
Pharmacy Robbery Investigation
Date/Time: September 25, 2012 / 8:14 a.m.
Location: 6220 St. Joe Center Road
Victim: CVS Pharmacy
Arrested: Brandon A. Peters, age 24, Fort Wayne
Charge(s): Charges Pending
Fort Wayne, Ind. – On Tuesday, September 25, 2012, at approximately 8:14 a.m. officers with the City of Fort Wayne Police Department responded to the CVS Pharmacy at 6220 St. Joe Center Road reference a report of an armed robbery. The perpetrator, armed with a handgun, demanded Opana from the pharmacy employee and then fled the scene in a vehicle. Within minutes, an off-duty Fort Wayne Police Officer located the suspect vehicle on Wheelock Road and a vehicle pursuit ensued. During the course of the nearly twelve-minute vehicle pursuit, officers with the Allen County Sheriff Department had deployed a tire-deflation device (Stop-Sticks) along the anticipated escape route of the fleeing suspect vehicle. The suspect vehicle, a black Ford F-150, continued to flee with deflated tires and came to a final stop in the area of 14800 Parent Road, Allen County. The driver/robbery suspect was taken into custody by city police units at that time, and without incident. There were no reported collisions during the pursuit and no injuries.
This incident remains under investigation with the City of Fort Wayne Police Department, and the Allen County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.
Responding/Assisting Agencies: Allen County Sheriff Department
Raquel Foster
City of Fort Wayne Police Department


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I am sorry about the late post I was at the doctor this morning. On the way way home however, my mom and I spotted a garage sale and decided to check it out!
You know those people who are a little to interested in decorating their lawn during holiday season? well I stumbled upon a yard sale full of holiday stuff! Being the creature of the night that I am I rushed to their Halloween decorations. They had tons upon tons of Halloween stuff. Several over sized lawn monsters, boxes of severed limbs, They had even more in the back that I did not even investigate.
|This is just a small portion of their Halloween stuff
Now most of this stuff as, impressive as their collection is, is useless to me. I used my "Gothy" sensibility to scan for anything not to tacky for everyday use or decoration. i quickly stumbled upon two candle holders with black candles decorated with silver spiders.
Now The candles did not interest me as much as the candle holders. Both holders had tiny hanging skulls on them. I checked to see if all the skulls had their purple eye socket gems attached. They did so I bought them. The candles were thrown in for free so I got this all for $5. The candle holders, or pillar holders as the label on the bottom of them says, were originally $6.99 each and practically new!They actually have some weight to them so they are not flimsy plastic as I originally thought; they are probably some sort of glass work or ceramic. The candles are new too though I favor the candle with the smaller spiders on it. All and all a pretty good find.


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Last weekend saw the return of the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco's majestic Golden Gate park, and by all accounts the two-day musical extravaganza was a smash success. Check out our huge gallery from the festival!
Pared down from last year's seven-stage overload, a leaner and more efficient Outside Lands this year sported appearances from The Strokes, Kings of Leon, Al Green, Cat Power, Wolfmother, Social Distortion, Phoenix, Nas & Damian Marley, Electric Six and many, many more.
Performances were spaced out enough on the fairgrounds that music revelers weren't forced to choose between their favorite acts or sprint between stages, adding to the casual pleasantry of the overcast skies and cool ocean breeze that kept the late-August heat from becoming a bother.
We got through the labyrinthian media check in in time to catch Electric Six turn the early afternoon crowd into a bouncing bonanza with "Improper Dancing". We're all massive fans of E6 and have seen 'em tear down the house at a dozen club shows, but these Detroit demons are most in their element in the festival setting, winning over tens of thousands of complete strangers with infectiously hilarious party-rock voodoo. Their new album comes out next month - it's called Zodiac, and it's without hesitation the single most fun record you'll hear this year.
We moved on to Gogol Bordello after an interview break, and were reminded how much better these guys are live than on record. Their unique brand of gypsy Rock matched the jubilation of Electric Six, with an Eastern European flare that kept the largely-unfamiliar crowd on their toes.
For a long while now I've had the same feeling about Wolfmother that I've had about eating broken glass, but it's only fair to acknowledge that goat man and his hired guns had the crowd in the palm of their hand Saturday night, particularly during a surprisingly impressive rendition of The Who's "Baba O'Riley" late in the set.
After being completely indifferent towards My Morning Jacket for years, the photo-pit proximity to the show - coupled with some undeniably fantastic nugs - created the perfect environment for Jim James and company to fully win me over. They opened with a slow-rising rendition of "Tonight I Wanna Celebrate," before moving on through an impressive set that included fan favorites "Highly Suspicious" and "Golden". I was disappointed to leave after only a few songs, but I wanted to get good positioning for Chan Marshall, better known as Cat Power.
I've been a Cat Power fan for many years, but it gets difficult to maintain an active listenership with a voice that cuts through my heart like a sword through rice paper. Opening with Good Woman, a Vedder-tinted track from her astounding "You Are Free" record, the understated agony of heartbreak wafted through the air like a sweet sedative, calming the fidgety crowd and enrapturing all in earshot.
Moving on through a soft-step cover of the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction," Chan took advantage of the singalong to step back and survey her audience. The look of appreciative enthusiasm illustrated just how far she's come as a musician since her early days of botched shows and fits of stage-fright.
My hectic trek to the opposite end of the park for Grateful Dead spinoff Furthur, featuring original Deadheads Bob Weir and Phil Lesh, proved unnecessary; they didn't appear onstage until 15 minutes into their set time, after which they spent another 20 minutes noodling around, warming up and completely ignoring the crowd.
Once they opened with "Cassidy," the joints were lit and the crypt-keeper face of Lesh was mercifully hazed out in a thick cloud of weed smoke. Watching a woman my grandmother's age lose her shit as the band broke into the celebrated Dead jam "Loser," screaming with joy and throwing herself to the ground again and again, proved to be my breaking point.
The hippies rolled deep for Further, and I nearly missed the start of the Strokes set back across the field at the Twin Peaks stage. But I made it, in time to muse on how bizarre it was that a band who hasn't had a record in four years or toured in ages was drawing such a massive crowd. I was a fan, but the boys had long since dropped off my radar, and I found myself wondering if they could even hold my attention anymore.
It only took one song. "New York City Cops," a buoyantly stabby non-album track, kicked off a high-energy set of accelerated darkpop jams that escalated through "The Modern Age" and "Hard To Explain," two more cornerstone songs that sold even the most cynical skeptics on hand.
We parted the hipster/hippie seas before the band closed with "Take It Or Leave It," a triumphant day behind us, to gear up for Day Two.
Sunday's festival events began far more low-key, with a 3pm Janelle Monae performance serving as our introduction to the day. It would've been perfectly timed, had Miss Monae's plane not gotten in late, resulting in a half hour delay. She tore up her 25-minute set nonetheless, running through breathlessly energized versions of "Dance or Die," "Faster," "Tightrope" and the Charlie Chaplin cover "Smile".
It was hard to believe that we'd be seeing the legendary love-soul crooner Al Green until he actually appeared onstage, kicking off with a loose rendition of L-O-V-E before belting out classics like "Let's Stay Together," Roy Orbison cover "Pretty Woman" and "Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay "while throwing literally hundreds of roses out to the ladies in the crowd.
Even in his sixties the man's still got it, despite dancing like a woman who's never had to take a shit so bad in her life.
I took an early exit to hit the Chase Lounge, where Janelle Monae was finishing up a short acoustic set that bordered on magical. During a heart-searing rendition of "Cold War," the famously tidy & composed songstress broke down in tears for just a moment - before collecting herself an finishing the song as strong as she began. Watch an exclusive video of the performance.
The five o'clock hour brought one of the festival's biggest surprises; I had written off electro-dance act Chromeo more times than any other artist I've encountered, simply because I've had various inboxes mercilessly assaulted with promotional blasts for months on end, from no less than half a dozen publicists. In our book, if we're only hearing about an act from the people hired to sell that act, then that act won't be going many places.
Chromeo is a shining exception. Thirty seconds into "Tenderoni," I was sold and dancing like a complete idiot along with the thousands around me who were singing every word. You'll be hearing more about them from us in the near future. They've earned it.
Phoenix also won me over quickly, despite the thick armor of hipster-hero repellant I'd constructed since they hit the collective radar. Unavoidable single "Lisztomania" kicked off the set, which found frontman Thomas Mars climbing out into the crowd.
"This is our last show here for a very, very long time," Mars explained, so they wanted to go out right. That they did, with a dozen songs that ran like a hipster's wet dream soundtrack. I can't complain - I enjoyed every moment of it.
Special mention goes to Empire of the Sun, a band so horrifically abominable and disgustingly gimmicky that a little bit of fear for the future of music crept into my heart as I saw hundreds of people singing along.
After catching a few songs from Social Distortion, I grew wary of being reminded so strongly of Southern California and moved on to Nas & Damian Marley. I'd seen their set months prior at a festival in L.A. and then again at Bonnaroo back in June, but this performance took the superstar collaboration to a new level. Fluidly comfortable with one another's style, songs and timing, Nas & Damian played with the boundaries of their tracks, shifted lyrics and added freestyles in a tight format that only suffered from sound drops that littered the set.
After watching the dynamic duo close with a glorious version of Bob Marley's "Could You Be Loved," we moved down to catch Kings of Leon at the Lands End stage. Typical to form, KOL was the only band to have an exclusive photo pass list all its own, for which only select few publications were allowed to shoot. Unwilling to be defeated by diva bitch behavior, we put on our pigeon costumes in spirit and dug our way into the crowd to get a few good shots.
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By Gale Fiege Herald Writer
STANWOOD — It's week two of the Great Northwest Glass Quest.
Believe it or not, more than half of the 250 hand-blown, signed and numbered glass-art snowballs are still out there.
All you have to do is find a corresponding clue ball hidden in the Stanwood-Camano Island area and then follow the directions to collect your glass art treasure.
Nearly 70 organizations and business owners have hidden clear plastic clue balls in public parks and in shops around town and on the island. When found, the clues are traded for wintry glass balls, shaped like the green Japanese fishnet floats that occasionally wash up on Washington's ocean beaches.
The glass quest continues through Feb. 28, coinciding with the winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, B.C., and the Port Susan Snow Goose and Birding Festival this weekend.
The glass quest snowballs, created by Stanwood artist Mark Ellinger, could become sought-after collectors' pieces if the quest becomes an annual event, said organizer Doris Platis of the Seagrass Gallery on Camano Island.
More than 2,000 Quest booklets and maps were distributed last weekend, and many went to groups of more than two people, Platis said. Another 1,500 are to be distributed beginning today, she said.
In Stanwood, many business owners are happy just to know that the glass quest has brought new visitors to the interesting shops around town, said Gayle Picken of Gallery By the Bay.
To participate, pick up a booklet at the visitor information booth at the intersection of I-5 and Highway 532; the Stanwood Chamber of Commerce, 8725 271st St. NW; or the Camano Island Chamber of Commerce, 578 N. Camano Drive.
Those who don't find a clue ball can enter a free drawing for a glass ball or get a coupon to buy one. The entry form is at the back of the booklet. It must be stamped by five participating businesses to be entered in the drawing.
For more information, go to www.thegreatnwglassquest.com.
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By Leslie Jorgensen
Tom Tancredo is running for governor on the American Constitution Party ticket, the former Republican congressman said on Monday afternoon. It's a move the state GOP chairman says will hand the election to the Democrat, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper.
Tancredo's announcement follows an ultimatum he issued late last week to Scott McInnis and Dan Maes, the two candidates on the Republican primary ballot based on a poll to be taken after the primary. If the nominee trailed Democratic nominee John Hickenlooper, the GOP primary winner would drop out.
Tancredo termed both Republicans "unelectable" and said he would jump in the race unless they agreed to withdraw by "high noon" on Monday. Both candidates' campaigns brushed back Tancredo's proposal and said they were staying on the ballot.
"I am going to seek the nomination of the American Constitution Party for governor of Colorado," declared Tancredo in a one-sentence press release, Monday.
Tancredo told The Colorado Statesman late Monday he planned to announce his bid officially on Tuesday.
"After that all hell will break loose!" said Tancredo. "I changed my voter affiliation today — I'm no longer a Republican."
Any questions about Tancredo pulling out might be answered by the fact that Tancredo is being advised by Bay Buchanan, who steered Tancredo's 2008 Republican presidential bid. Without a doubt, Buchanan, sister of former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, will put the campaign into the national spotlight and be a magnet for campaign donors.
"We've already found a place for Bay to live during the upcoming months of this campaign," said Jen Raiffie, Tancredo's campaign communications director.
"Things are moving fast!" said Raiffie, who can barely keep up with the volcanic local and national media inquiries.
In the wake of criticisms hurled by state GOP Chair Dick Wadhams and the Colorado "Tea Party and 9-12 Project Coalition" leaders, Tancredo said, "I did what I had to do."
Tancredo said that Wadhams had originally liked his idea of an ultimatum for Maes and McInnis to agree to withdraw from the race in order for a GOP vacancy committee to select a viable candidate. However, Tancredo acknowledged that the committee wouldn't have picked him.
Wadhams said he never liked the idea. To prove the point, the party chair has gone on a tirade against Tancredo, calling him a "maniacal egotist" to The Colorado Statesman and on the Caplis & Silverman radio talk show today.
The exchanges between Wadhams and Tancredo have turned into a duck-and-cover shooting match on radio airwaves. Tancredo's revelations of Wadhams' alleged disdain for Maes and McInnis are like ricocheting bullets that could critically wound the GOP gubernatorial nominee as much as Tancredo's entry into the race.
"Dick has gone… I don't know what," said Tancredo. "Maybe he needs a little medicinal marijuana."
The "high noon" showdown was subdued compared to the early morning shots fired Monday between Tancredo and state GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams on the Peter Boyles show on 630 KHOW. The two veteran Republicans called each other liars.
Wadhams set off the fireworks when he told Tancredo, "I'm glad to finally talk to you, since you wouldn't return my phone calls for three days last week."
Tancredo returned fire.
"If you really want to get into this," he said, his voice rising, "and that's fine buddy, if you really want to get into this, we will because one of the things I didn't want to do necessarily was bring to light all the things you have told me about the candidates we have presently."
"Go ahead," Wadhams said. "Why don't you also tell people that you called me before the state assembly and said you wanted to exploit your supporters … to keep Dan Maes off the ballot."
"You thought that was a good idea," Tancredo countered.
Then Tancredo zeroed in on the reason he said he was running.
"If I've ever seen a train wreck waiting to happen, it's this party," Tancredo said. He added, "Somebody's gotta do something."
Moments later, addressing Wadhams directly, Tancredo said even the state GOP chairman didn't think the two current candidates could win.
"You hate the people you've got on the ballot," Tancredo said. "You dislike them both, you don't trust either one. You've told me on more than one occasion that your opinion of Scott McInnis — let me think of the exact term — is 'untrustworthy.' Your opinion of Dan Maes is 'a joke.' Those were your words."
Wadhams denied holding the opinions or making the comments Tancredo attributed to him.
"That is a lie, that is a bald-faced lie," Tancredo shot back.
"The guy who reneged on his term limits pledge is calling me a liar — what a joke," Wadhams said.
Tancredo, an early and prominent supporter of the term limits movement, served five terms in Congress, which was four years longer than he had promised, Wadhams pointed out in a release Monday afternoon.
"Tancredo pledged to serve only three terms when he was elected to Congress in 1998, but he broke that pledge," said Wadhams in a statement.
On the Peter Boyles radio talk show, Wadhams repeatedly asked Tancredo to explain why he was getting into the race for governor now instead of letting Republican primary voters pick their candidate. The state party chair implied that Tancredo was using the ultimatum to Maes and McInnis as an excuse to jump into the race for governor.
When Tancredo pitched the "ultimatum" plan last week, he said, Wadhams liked it.
"I never said it was good idea," Wadhams said.
The dustup turned into a two-against-one match when Boyles sided with Tancredo over Wadhams' opinion of McInnis and Maes.
"You told me both of those guys are jokes," Boyles said.
Wadhams denied the specific allegations but conceded that he'd said both candidates have problems. McInnis plagiarized articles he wrote for the Hasan Family Foundation as part of a two-year fellowship worth $300,000. Maes recently paid a $17,500 fine for campaign finance violations tied to reimbursements he paid himself for mileage.
Wadhams said that Tancredo's entry into the race would ruin any chance of a conservative candidate beating Hickenlooper. Wadhams predicted that Tancredo's campaign would amount to a series of headline-grabbing statements about "impeaching (President Barack) Obama and bombing Mecca and all that stuff."
Tancredo dismissed the criticism. But Wadhams returned to the topic he said mattered most — electing a Republican governor.
"We have a primary that needs to play itself out, and then we'll see what happens," Wadhams said. "Why can't you let that process continue?"
He said a Tancredo bid would make it impossible for Republicans to sort out their problems and effectively challenge the Democrat in the fall.
"What Tom Tancredo is doing is taking it off the table and ensuring Hickenlooper will win," Wadhams said.
Tancredo rejected the notion his candidacy was the problem, instead pointing to the state GOP.
"I am trying my best, to do my level best, to do what I believe is necessary for the conservatives in this state," Tancredo said. "I don't want Hickenlooper as governor. If we continue down the path we are on, and the Republican Party specifically, that's where we're headed. And you know it and I know it."
Aside from the blame and after all the shouting, Tancredo said it was essential he start running as fast as he could.
"If I get into it, buddy," Tancredo said, "I've got to get into it as hard and as tough as I possibly can."
When current ACP gubernatorial candidate Benjamin "Big Ben" Goss withdraws his candidacy — in a notarized letter delivered to the Colorado Secretary of State Bernie Buescher — the party's vacancy committee will convene to consider filling the vacancy with Tancredo. Goss said these steps would occur late Monday or early Tuesday.
The campaign has a website and extensive marketing materials ready to go, Raiffie said, just waiting for all the pieces to be in place before throwing the switch.
Some critics — both Republicans and Tea Party converts — have viewed Tancredo's ultimatum as hypocritical. He said the plan would have ensured Republicans of a viable candidate who can defeat Hickenlooper — and because Maes and McInnis did not agree to drop out, Tancredo is launching his gubernatorial bid.
GOP leaders, including Wadhams, have said Tancredo's entry into the political contest damages the GOP and the "ultimatum" plan demonstrated a lack of respect for Republicans who have participated in the process from caucus to the state GOP assembly to the primary.
"Those looking for a deadline should focus on the only real deadline — August 10 at 7 p.m. This is when the polls close, the people have voted and their votes are counted," declared McInnis. "That's the way the system works in a free society."
"Coming from a man whose career has been marked by often-astonishing levels of arrogance, this move shouldn't surprise us. And yet, one would suppose that even someone of Tancredo's conceit would bow to the greater good in a year such as this," Maes said in a statement.
"Tom Tancredo is now running on the American Constitution Party's platform to end congressional pensions and salaries and, once again, I assume he will forego his own congressional pension and he will reimburse the taxpayers for more than $1.5 million that he was paid as a congressman for ten years," Wadhams said in a statement issued soon after Tancredo announced.
Tancredo said that Wadhams has misinterpreted the American Constitution Party's platform. That section, he said, aims to reform the federal system of paying congress members by transferring the responsibility to states that elect them.
"It is my understanding that the party wants to kick the whole thing of paying members of congress back to the state, including pensions," said Tancredo, of the plan that, if successful, would only affect newly elected congress members.
"Tom did not leave the Republican Party — the party left all of us," declared Raiffie. "Tom is just blowing the whistle."
Countering questions about Tancredo's motivations, Raiffie said, "Tom is doing this for one reason only — to beat John Hickenlooper."
Logistics still in play
Tancredo has a few obstacles to hurdle — first, the press release issued by the Colorado 9-12 Project and Tea Party Coalition that underscored its members support for Maes who won website polls over the weekend.
Raiffie said the poll was "tainted" because of language in emails sent to members encouraging them to participate in the poll. The following e-mail was dispatched to Denver-Front Range 9-12 Project members by Max Brewster.
"URGENT! — Emergency Governor's race poll," stated the e-mail.
"Hi Folks, a new development today in the Colorado governors race requires we ask you take this one question emergency survey. Results will be forwarded to our State 9-12 Chair for inclusion in the statewide numbers.
"Today, Tom Tancredo announced that both Scott McInnis and Dan Maes must step down by high noon July 26 and he be made the GOP nominee or he will announce he is running as the American Constitution Party candidate for Governor."
Raiffie sent the following e-mail to Brewster and copied Lu Busse, known as "Granny" in the 9-12 Project.
"Max, your statement is incorrect. Tom never demanded to be appointed GOP nominee. Tom said if they did not commit to stepping down so an electible candidate could be appointed, then he will announce Monday his candidacy through the Constitution party. Please issue a correction. This will affect your poll."
Raiffie said the poll was influenced by a statement about Tancredo "that was absolutely false!"
Fueling the "tea party" and 9-12 Project" leaders' dissatisfaction is a letter that Tancredo wrote last fall that encouraged them not to form a third party but work within the GOP. Raiffie said,
"Tom stands behind what he said then — now, time and circumstances have entirely changed," said Raiffie. She said the "Tea Party and 9-12 Project" activists originally promoted "principles over party" and asked, "Where is that now? They've become the establishment."
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There's much more to TV than the networks these days, and Hiltbrand, 35, is going to take a hard look at all of it. No stranger to the Picks & Pans section of PEOPLE, David already has contributed hundreds of music and book reviews. "He gets excited about what's good, as well as indignant about what's bad," says senior editor Ralph Novak. That sort of fierce enthusiasm may be familiar to the many fans of our departing TV critic—Jeff Jarvis. After 8½ years of throwing his distinctive, often acerbic voice back at the box, Jeff has left PEOPLE to launch a new publication for Time Inc. Magazines, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY.
Hiltbrand's armchair occupation comes after years of anything but couch potatodom. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he joined the 1974 charter staff of PEOPLE as a copy clerk at age 20. But he pulled up stakes two years later and roamed the country, supporting himself by working in a California lumberyard, as a Cambridge, Mass., cab driver and on a freighter bound for Africa. After graduating from California's Sonoma State University in 1978, Hiltbrand returned to PEOPLE as a reporter, then went on to work as a writer at TV-CABLE WEEK and PICTURE WEEK. For the last two years, he has edited the Insiders section of TV Guide.
Hiltbrand lives outside Philadelphia with his wife, Mary, his stepdaughter Ceara, 16, daughter Erin, 3, and son Rory, 11 months. From there he will screen approximately 35 hours of television each week, helping PEOPLE readers to sort the great from the gawdawful. "I'm not an elitist," says Hiltbrand. "But I expect a lot from TV." PEOPLE readers, in turn, can expect a lot from him.
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