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Thirteen eastern Kentuckians say their lives are back on track after months of going to court for drug counseling.
For some it wasn't easy to admit their mistakes and talk about years of abusing both drugs and their family.
But for those who are now clean, they say they're ready to start a new life.
Tears and hugs fill the courtroom as former drug addicts tell stories of addiction.
"I was just a shell of a person. I weighed 85-pounds," Tammy Boyd said.
Tammy Boyd says she started doing drugs when she was just twelve-years-old.
"I ran away from home. I started drinking when I was 12 then drinking led to other things," Boyd said.
She says she used drugs for more than twenty-years, but at age thirty-seven, she's drug-free.
"I figured it's time to stop. I'm a grown woman and I need to change," Boyd said.
Before she began counseling nearly two-years ago, Boyd suffered several losses.
She says she was still hooked on drugs when she became pregnant and as a result she lost eight babies.
"My last two little boys I buried at six-months. I was taking meds when I had them," Boyd said.
That loss made her grow, change, and start her life over.
Now she's healthy and so is her baby boy, whom she calls a "miracle."
Boyd says it's also a miracle that she and twelve others still have the support and love of their families.
Now she says she will support those who loved her, those who helped her grow and become a loving friend and mother.
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Lateral Transfer for Law Enforcement Officers - At the discretion of the Chief, applicants possessing Kansas Law Enforcement certification or out of state law enforcement certification with reciprocity may be placed in the pay grid no more than one step for each two years of service not to exceed initially the third year of service step.
- 1) Overtime - Hours worked in excess of eighty (80) per working pay period.
- Shift Differential Pay - Officers assigned to 2nd and 3rd shift receive $.45 additional per hour.
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Police personnel have group hospitalization insurance through Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
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An officer receives two per year and has the ability to earn up to four additional days with perfect attendance.
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Vacation Leave - New officers receive 3.69 hours per pay period for the first four years of service. Days earned increase to 4.62 beginning the fifth year of service and increase in five year increments. The rank of Sergeant and below may carry over a maximum of 40 days into the new calendar year.
Leave With Pay - Compensatory time earned and emergency leave are available based on considerations and approval of Division commanders.
College ReimbursementThe City may reimburse Officers up to $1,000 per year for job-related college courses they enroll in and complete with a "C" average or pass with a pass/fail option.
Education Incentive PaySworn officers will receive pay based on their confirmed education level:
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RetirementMember of the Kansas Police & Fireman's Retirement System. Normal retirement age is 50 with a minimum of 25 years of service. Members contribute 7.15% of their salary. The maximum retirement benefit (90 percent of final average salary) is reached when you have 36 years of service credit. Members are vested in the system at 15 years. For more information check the KPERS website at http://www.kpers.org/memberskpf.htm.
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Women and Lung Cancer
K. Adam Lee, MD, Medical Director, Thoracic Surgery & Lung Center, Jupiter Medical Center
1240 S. Old Dixie Hwy
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(561) 263-5560
Lung cancer kills more women every year than breast, ovarian and cervical cancers combined. Because lung cancer was once mostly a male disease associated with smoking, women assume if they never smoked or if they stopped years ago, they don't need to be on the lookout for this deadly cancer. But they do.
Women who have never smoked appear to be at two to three times greater risk for developing lung cancer than men who have never smoked. Women tend to develop lung cancer at younger ages than men, and the disease is striking younger women who have never smoked.
Yet the stigma of smoking and the shame people feel for bringing on their illness has caused women to delay seeking medical attention, even in the early stages of lung cancer. As a result, lung cancer rates have continued to rise and this disease has overtaken breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer death in women.
Don't be a statistic. Low-dose CT lung screening at Jupiter Medical Center gives you the ability to take that first step to safeguard your health. Based on the National Lung Screening Trial guidelines, screening recommendations are for those ages 55 to 74 years old, who have no personal history of cancer, are current or former heavy smokers or have quit smoking less than ten years ago. If you have any signs or symptoms of lung disease, you would require a diagnostic test, not a screening. You can self-refer for this test by contacting the Thoracic Surgery & Lung Center at (561) 263-5560.
The Thoracic Surgery & Lung Center at Jupiter Medical Center offers the areas only comprehensive program dedicated to the prevention, early detection and treatment of lung cancer. The program includes a Lung Nodule Clinic designed to follow patients who have positive findings on CT lung scans and a Multimodality Lung Clinic that offers the convenience of seeing multiple specialists in one day. Patients leave with a plan of treatment in hand. The clinic is designed for newly diagnosed patients, patients with a recurrence of their disease or patients seeking a second opinion.
The program is led by K. Adam Lee, MD, Board Certified, Thoracic Surgeon, who serves as the medical director. Minimally-invasive thoracic surgery, including robotic assisted thoracic surgery has changed the future of lung surgery. Dr. Lee was the first surgeon in the state of Florida to perfor m robotic assisted thoracic surgery and has a decade of experience in this field. Performed through less than 2-inch incision, this surgery is highly accurate, offering patients less blood loss, less pain, less chance for infection and a much faster recovery.
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Administrator Costle served as the third administrator of the EPA from 1977-1981. During that time he was faced with both the Love Canal disaster and the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. One of the greatest landmarks of his administration was the Congressional creation of the Superfund Program.
- Biographies
- Oral History Interview (EPA publications number 202-K-01-002; January 2001) -- examines the background in the Nixon Administration and the term of Douglas M. Costle as EPA Agency Administrator (1977-1981) during the Carter Administration, including: involvement with President Nixon's Advisory Council on Executive Organization; EPA's implementation of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); energy policy; the growth of risk assessment and regulatory analysis in standard-setting at EPA; and EPA relations with Congress, states, courts, and the public.
- November 1985 article "EPA History (1970-1985)" - Administrator Costle's tenure
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Some turn to bourbon, others to ice cream but Rory McIlroy dealt with his relationship blues this week by staging a remarkable comeback to win the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. McIlroy began the final round seven strokes behind Thomas Björn but he shot a classy 66 to finish on 14 under par and win his first European Tour title in 18 months.
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Definition of dead man's fingers in English:
dead man's fingers
plural noun
1A soft coral that has spongy lobes stiffened by calcareous spines. When found washed up on the beach it is said to resemble the fingers of a corpse.
- Alcyonium digitatum, order Alcyonacea.
Example sentences
- On her dives, Louise is likely to catch sight of lobster, starfish and octopus, as well as plants such as sea cucumbers, dead man's fingers and soft and hard corals.
- The rocky seabed is covered in jewel anemones, dead man's fingers and hydroids.
- So far it has been a dive typical of the area, with crawfish, lobsters, clumps of white and yellow dead man's fingers, sea urchins grazing paths across the rocks, and small jewel anemones on any spaces left.
2A fungus that produces clumps of dull black, irregular, fingerlike fruiting bodies at the bases of dead tree stumps in both Eurasia and North America.
- Xylaria polymorpha, family Xylariaceae, phylum Ascomycota.
Example sentences
- Dead man's fingers, a wood-digesting fungus that produces a variety of different dull-colored club-like fruiting bodies, is most likely not a single species.
- The dead man's fingers fungus also causes root rot disease.
- I recall the fungi protruding through the duff: dead man's fingers, jelly babies, coral fungus, and earth tongue.
3 informal The fingerlike divisions of a lobster's or crab's gills.
Example sentences
- Next, remove the crab's gills, or dead man's fingers, from the abdomen and throw them away.
- You end up standing in the kitchen, apron on, hair tied back, getting increasingly, well, crabby, as you pick and shove your way through bones, cartilage and dead man's fingers.
- Open the crab, remove the 'dead man's fingers' and cut the body into four.
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About little penguins
Penguin Facts
General penguin facts
What type of animal are penguins?
Penguins are seabirds that don't fly. They have a beak, feathers and lay eggs. Penguins have modified wings called flippers that they use for swimming in the ocean.
How many species of penguins are there?
Around the world there are 17 species of penguins. All penguins are found in the southern hemisphere (Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, sub-Antarctic islands, South America and Africa).
"Little penguins are only found in southern Australia and New Zealand."
Why do penguins waddle?
Waddling is the most efficient form of movement for penguins. Little legs and big feet make movement awkward on land but waddling helps by raising a penguin's centre of mass, allowing the penguin to swing its body forward.
How big are little penguins?
Little penguins are the smallest penguin in the world at only 33cm (13in) tall and one kilogram (2.2 lbs).
Where can I find a little penguin?
How many little penguins are there?
Phillip Island is home to an estimated 32,000 little penguins. Current estimates put the total little penguin population at one million.
How do you tell the difference between male and female little penguins?
It's all in the beak! Adult females have a thinner beak than males. Males have a distinct hook on the end of their beak.
Yearly penguin cycle
Penguin breeding
"Little penguins have an annual divorce rate between 18 and 50%."
Little penguins do not mate for life. If breeding success is low, penguins may look for a new mate. Researchers from Phillip Island Nature Parks have recorded an annual divorce rate for little penguins of between 18 and 50%.
How much time do little penguins spend on land?
Depending on the season, a little penguin may spend between one day and one month at sea. When little penguins are breeding they will regularly return to incubate the eggs and feed their chicks. During winter little penguins spend more time at sea chasing fish and only return to rest and renovate their burrows.
Why do little penguins only cross the beach at sunset?
When returning to land little penguins will only cross the beach at sunset. Crossing the beach in darkness provides protection against potential predators.
Do little penguins migrate?
Little penguins usually remain in the same colony their whole lives. They typically retun to within 40 metres of the area they were born. Little penguins find their burrows by looking for familiar landmarks.
Why do penguins moult?
Every year little penguins grow a new set of feathers in a process known as moulting. New, clean feathers are important for keeping penguins waterproof throughout the year.
It's not all black and white:
Adult little penguins are the only penguins in the world with blue and white feathers instead of black and white feathers.
The dark back of penguins blends in with the water to camouflage against anything flying or swimming overhead, and the light stomach blends in with the sky to camouflage against anything swimming underneath.
How far can a penguin swim?
Researchers use satellite and GPS trackers to record where penguins go at sea. Satellite tracking from Phillip Island Nature Parks shows that Phillip Island's little penguins swim an average 15 to 50 kilometres (9-31 miles) a day. This includes diving up an down as they look for fish. Little penguins swim at an average speed of 2-4 km/hr.
"The deepest little penguin dive recorded was 72 meters."
How deep can a little penguin dive?
The deepest little penguin dive recorded is 72 meters. An average dive in search of fish is between 5 and 20 metres.
"The longest little penguin dive recorded
was 1 minute 56 seconds."
What do little penguins eat?
Little penguins must go to sea to find food, preferring to eat fish such as pilchards, anchovies, warehou, red cod and barracouta and a small quantity of squid.
Discover more about penguins with our handy penguin facts guide or download the Little Penguin Q & A prepared by the education team at Phillip Island Nature Parks.


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Wilie Lee and his family used to consider 6302 Shady Pine their home. But a house fire has forced them out. Before arriving back home from an out of town trip to Birmingham, Alabama, Lee received a phone call that no one ever wants to get.
"Friday morning about ten o'clock, my neighbor across the street gave me a call. I was out of town in Birmingham," said Lee.
That neighbor told Wille Lee that his house was on fire. From the outside, damage doesn't appear to bad. The inside is a different story. Firefighters told Lee repairs just wouldn't be possible.
"Well the way they talked, they said right now it's going to be a total loss," Lee described.
What once was a beautiful home is now nothing but a burnt mess. Home for the Lee family is a hotel. Now Lee is thankful for the temporary home. As of right now, he and his family are staying in two hotel rooms together. Space is hard to come by with a wife and four children to take care of.
"It's hectic with four small kids," commented Lee.
The small space is something the Lee family has been adjusting to. The hardest part is not knowing when they'll have a permanent place to go back to. The children just want to stay in a bed that they can call home.
"Daddy, when are we going to go home?". That's the question Lee said his children keep asking. Lee may not be able to answer that question right now, but he has been offered help from the American Red Cross. His friends and family have also been there for support.
"For clothing I had a couple of friends come through and they helped me financially. So beyond that, I'm just praying about it." said Lee.
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Not so much bad as pointless (and pointless at slightly extra cost with something else to go wrong).
They sound like a good idea in theory, before you stop and think about it, but then you realise that walking sticks for the infirm don't have them, and if they don't have them when they use them for all their walking, all the time, probably with flimsier wrists than yoiurs, you see it's a marketing bullet point rather than something that's any use.
Yes, they'll be more comfortable for people who bang their poles down hard, but then there's an easy way round that: don't bang your poles down hard...
I need (at least) 140cm to be happy but crazy long limbs
The BD distance FL poles are pricy things but seem really nice with it. The longer version adjusts happily to anywhere between 120 and 140 and still packs down small enough - avalanche probe style - to happily go inside a rucksack.
Think there are other avalanche probe style ones, but don't think anything else quite that long.
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.....but then you realise that walking sticks for the infirm don't have them, and if they don't have them when they use them for all their walking, all the time, probably with flimsier wrists than yoiurs, you see it's a marketing bullet point rather than something that's any use.
But walking sticks for the infirm are not necessarily cutting edge. Some high end models are sprung.
Years ago I had long discussions with Simon King (Mountain King poles) about the benefit of anti-shock poles & he was genuinely a big believer in their benefit (& angled grips). I've had a set of his poles with antishock for about 12 years & can't see any benefit over regular poles with regard to reducing fatigue. That said, I like the antishock & leave it on all the time except when doing more difficult stream crossings. Simon told me I was wasting energy using it on the uphills & I'm sure he's right. However when I use poles I often use them very proactively, unlike many folk who seem to use them so passively as to be virtually of no benefit. I actually enjoy the compression & kick off from the antishock on the flat & uphill as a small addition to the excercise benefit of walking in general.
But is that because of a benefit or because someone's marketing them as a potential benefit which some people go for? That orthopaedic walking sticks are not "cutting edge" is, I would suggest, a case of their being little going to improve a rigid stick if you want to transfer weight to the ground via your arm. There is no reason for a shock to be involved in that, so no need for a mechanism to reduce what needn't be there at all.
Angled grips are another marketing bullet point. If you're leaning on the strap then you have very little contact with the grip at all, beyond hooking it with fingers to pull it forward. IMHO any need for angled grips and antishock is an indication of poor technique that's too reliant on putting your weight through a tightly held grip, rather than leaning on a strap. If you want to throw technology at it then really go to town with it and go with Pacers.
I actually enjoy the compression & kick off from the antishock on the flat & uphill as a small addition to the excercise benefit of walking in general.
Fairy nuff, but it's not actually "anti shock" in that case, it's "bonus exercise spring".
Fair point re the ortho's but that's partly why i didn't think it was a fair comaprison to start with.
I'm not convinced about the angled grips offering any great benefit (I was given the poles by MK for a review) but I do think they fall where they should more naturally than straight sticks in part because you're not actually gripping the pole firmly. On the odd time I've used another straight pair they've felt wrong after the angled ones No great need for the angle or the antishock I guess but I'm not hurrying to change them. I've even found them fine for skiing..
No bad technique from me Peter. Like you I'm also a nordic skier & I'm on the strap rather clinging to the grip.
I think I'm actually agreeing with you re the spring not being a benefit as advertised & saying pretty much the same re the angle although I think it edges straight poles slightly. I've come to like the anti-shock for totally different reasons to what it was designed for.
Bottom line I wouldn't advice anyone that anti-shock was essential.
As for Pacer Poles - I really don't think they'd suit my style of pole use! I can't see the point of the handle shape when it's the strap I work against.
Nordic walking is a workout technique. A pole is a pole is a pole. Folk will try and sell you Nordic walking specific poles, but for that matter they'll try and sell you NW specific shoes. And walking lessons, for that matter... I must admit it rather bemuses me, but not as much as it bemuses my pals who are BASI Nordic instructors...
Some of the poles notionally for NW may have a rather more enclosing glove-type strap. I have those on my Nordic skiing track poles, and they're great for power (don't forget that for a Nordic skier a lot of your forward motion comes from your poles pushing back, and to do that they're quite a bit longer than a walking or NW pole), but they're a complete PITA if you want to do anything other than use poles. I would unhesitantly reccomend you don't use such poles if you want to use hands for non-pole stuff with any sort of frequency (biathletes often seem to use less efficient traditional straps because they're that much more awkward to get in and out of, judging from Winter Olympic TV coverage). While power sounds good for a workout, if you supply as much when Nordic Walking as you'd get from a full-on double pole on skis, I suspect you'd just fall flat on your face!
more like nordic ski poles. Trekking poles are more akin to alpine ski poles.
Trekking poles are more akin to adjustable ski touring poles, which aren't specific to Nordic or Alpine.
dunno about pacers - I guess you have to hold them
You push down on them as you would the strap on a conventional pole. You can either hang on lightly for recovery or use the retention loop to hook them forwards.
What's a ski touring pole?
A Swix Mountain is one example (also my favoured hut to hut example), and it has very little in common grip/strap-wise with my Swix CT4 track poles. The strap set up, aside from being leather, is basically the same as a trekking pole's, and there's nothing particularly Nordic specific about it: an Alpine randonneur could use it just as readily.
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I wanted to share my recent miscarriage story. I went to the doctor just about a month ago thinking I was 11 weeks pregnant. It was my first prenatal visit. I had orginally had an appointment at 8 weeks, but was told it was too early and was rescheduled. At that point I had dealt with mornning sickness, and was feeling all around pregnant. I checked daily online for updates on how far along I was and what was happening with my body. I have a 3 year old, and had had a very healthy wonderful pregnancy with him. So needless to say I was feeling pretty confident with my pregnancy. I wasn't drinking when we were out with our friends or family, so they were definitely suspicious.
Anyway so there my husband and I were at my 11 week appointment. The first thing that happenend was an ultrasound. The technician seemed to have trouble finding the baby, so she did a transvaginal ultrasound. She saw the sack, but didn't say much else. I immediately knew something was off. There was no baby! The woman then told me to get dressed and that my doctor would talk to me. I had a sinking feeling. I had seen my son's ultrasound, and it was so exciting.
When my doctor came into the room, she said I'm sorry but there is no baby. She said that there is a sack, but no baby ever developed. She explained to me what a Blightend Ovum is, and said that is most likely what is happening.
So pretty much my body thought it was pregnant and was still producing the HCG hormones.
I felt so disappointed, and my doctor said I should start bleeding after a few days. She had me take a blood test, and later that day she said my levels were very high, around 18,000.
So now I had to wait. And wait.
All I wanted to do was have this be over, and it took a few weeks for me to start spotting. I spotted for 4 days before i started passing anything significant. Then on the fifth day I started cramping and bleeding more heavily. I ended up staying in bed for the whole day. I had a heating pad and took some advil. After about 4 hours of being in bed the cramps got stronger. I felt like I was in labor. I was passing pretty big clots, and changed my pads often. I don't know if I passed the sack. I'm sure I did. I have never had so many clots before.
Time passed and I could not bear the physical pain much more. I called my doctors office, and the on call doctor called me back. I told her I had taken 400 mg of Advil and she said that she tells her patients to take 800 mg in these instances. So I took more advil and within an hour my cramping was much better. I bled for a few more days before it turned into light spotting.
3 weeks later, my HCG levels are now below 100. I am no longer spotting, and hoping this will all end soon, so we can start trying again. I am hoping to get pregnant as soon as my doctor says that it is okay. My son is 3 and we have been trying for the last year to get pregnant.
I've read that people have gotten pregnant soon after a miscarriage, but I am so impatient. I read that you won't ovulate until your HCG is down to zero again. I'm not there yet. I will remain hopeful that I will be pregnant again in a few months.
Thank you for reading my story. I look forward to some insight and words of encouragement.


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"It's about questions of, do I want to share my desires with someone else or do I just want to sate them myself with my laptop and my Twitter account?," Contactmusic quoted him as telling The Times.
He added: "Knowing that I could blog right now from my iPhone and it's up on the internet with people reading it and responding to it. How much is that a synthetic version of having dinner with somebody? How intimidating must it be to try to find an 'in' with the man who is consistently satisfying himself by all means necessary? Where is her place in that?"


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Types of Numbers
What is a fraction?
A fraction is a number written in the form , where q is nonzero. Any rational number can be written as a fraction. Fractions are usually used to think about "parts of a whole." For example, if someone steals all but one-fifth of your ball of wax, you'll be four-fifths shy of having a whole ball of wax. Gross.
To understand fractions, it may be helpful to think about brownies. Unless you're on a diet. In which case, just mentally replace every occurrence of "brownies" in the following example with the words "veggie squares."
Sample Problem
If we cut a pan of warm, double chocolate caramel brownies (man, those would be some hi-cal veggie squares) into q pieces of equal size and take p of those gooey brownies, the fraction of the pan of brownies we have is because we're taking the p from the q. The size of each brownie is .
So if we cut a pan of brownies into 4 pieces and take 3 brownies, we'll have of the entire pan since each piece is of the whole.
Never mind the oddly-shaped pan we used to bake these brownies. We have an old, oddly shaped oven.
Getting back to this fraction of ours, we call the number on top of the line the numerator and the number below the line the denominator.
Numerator comes from the word "numerate," meaning "to number." The numerator tells you how many pieces you have. Denominator comes from the word "denominate," meaning "to give a name to." The denominator gives a name to the pieces, according to their size (for example, "fourths" or "fifths"). Just think, if you had a big litter of nameless puppies, you could numerate and denominate them at the same time.
If the fraction we're looking at is less than 1 (the numerator is less than the denominator), the fraction is called a proper fraction. A fraction that's greater than or equal to 1 is called an improper fraction. Especially if it's using its dessert fork to eat its salad.


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The Vereen Gallery inside the Colquitt County Arts Center will open tomorrow evening with "The Life of a Photographer", a collection by photography veteran John Mercer.
Mercer says he never considered his photographs to be noteworthy -- he says his only goal in taking a picture is to capture a little piece of everyday life that others can relate to.
Mercer says he went to school for computers, but a job in the Navy put him on the path to becoming a photographer more than 30 years ago. He spent a majority of his career after the Navy working as a photojournalist for the 'Moultrie Observer'.
Mercer says he hopes visitors will enjoy his pictures, which were all taken in Colquitt County, and be able to see a little bit of themselves in some of them.
The exhibit will run from November 18th until February 12th and is free to the public. A celebratory event will mark the opening of the exhibit tomorrow evening at 7 PM.


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Mr JOHN COBB (Calare) (12:42): I rise to speak on the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Legislation Amendment Bill 2012. Let me start by saying that I support, in fact the whole coalition supports, the stated objectives of the Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Senator Wong, on the agricultural and veterinary chemicals reform to reduce regulatory compliance costs for businesses and to improve competitiveness.
On the Department of Agricultural, Fisheries and Forestry website it says the reform aims are to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Again, these are goals the coalition and I support. But—and it is a big but—that is not what this alleged ag vet chemical reform is all about. This reform is a smokescreen for the Labor government to deliver an election promise made to the Greens that will further cripple agricultural communities and farmers and those who work, need and live around them. This promise was made as far away from farming communities as possible by the then minister for agriculture, one week before the 2010 election, but not explained in Labor's pre-election statement on agriculture, so as to hide its impact on the agriculture industry.
This bill is a hoax. It is completely about winning favour with the Greens by making it cost-prohibitive to register chemicals and more costly to conduct agriculture. Who was the minister who announced this one week prior to the election without explaining the true motive behind it? It is the man who is now the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities and who is charged with responsibility for agriculture in this House. Or should I say charged with the job of making far harder and more expensive to conduct. He will respond by, in his relaxed manner, laughing it off as a joke. But this, make no mistake, is the smiling assassin to agriculture. Let there be no doubt that this government, via the Greens, is intent on putting our agricultural business if not out of business then damn close to it.
I was the first minister or shadow minister in Australia to have 'Food Security' in my title. It was to highlight the damage to our industries and our long-term food security from irresponsible policies like this. There is a huge risk for our long-term food security, a huge risk for the standard we set not just for Australia but for the world on how to produce good food from having ambitious politicians using the agricultural sector as a sacrificial lamb to feed a ravenous green lobby. Myths are perpetuated and balanced reporting is ignored as ambitious politicians see this as an easy way to win favour with their electorate without having to solve the real issues of government in health, education, jobs, economic development and helping farmers make a quid. There are classic examples like Labor using the 457 visa issue to placate unions while towns and industries in rural and remote Australia are in genuine need of workers. It is a bit like doctors: in regional New South Wales—and I suspect probably in Western Australia as well—half the doctors out in the bush are foreign doctors who have had to come in, not because we do not have doctors but because it is very hard to get city based doctors out where they are needed. It is the same issue when it comes to agriculture and mining.
So this bill is not about reform for the chemical registration process to improve efficiency. This bill is about Labor's promise to the Greens or—now that the coalition is all over between the Greens and Labor—about competing with the Greens to feed the green lobby. This bill is seen as an easy way to win favour without causing any major distress to Labor electorates—where they have very few prospects, I would suggest to the House, in the coming election.
I did speak earlier about how the finance minister said this bill was about efficiencies and improvements. I can see this bill does fiddle around the edges to improve efficiency but this is a side-effect, not the purpose of the bill. Let me tell you: industry and chemical retailers—the people who spend millions of dollars registering new products—are far more concerned about the changes to data protection that make the re-registration so expensive.
Changes make the initial registration of chemicals somewhat more economical with the ability of the APVMA to recognise similar international health and safety systems and data, so the APVMA will not have to start from scratch with lengthy, excessive, expensive assessments paid for by industry when they have already been done. There are countries like Canada and the USA, which have damn good systems. They do not actually want to kill their populations with bad chemicals either. This will allow the APVMA to use their work. It does not say they have to or they should. I think that is not the way we should go. We should tell them that, where it is obvious the work has already been done by countries like Canada or the USA, they should use it.
However, the bill is designed to first and foremost implement a re-registration system to raise the cost of chemical registration and make the registration of many chemicals economic. It is to give the green lobby designated time frames to concentrate on campaigns to have chemicals removed. For example, the campaigners will run a campaign on a chemical because of a tenuous link with a disease that is unscientific and force the APVMA to withdraw registration because of political pressure, not because of scientific fact. The re-registration system does not introduce—and this is a big point—any new triggers; it just forces the APVMA to run a costly recheck of existing triggers. In the same way they had the super-trawler ban, they will wear down industry and make it too difficult to continue instead of using science based reviews triggered by genuine issues.
The coalition will not support this bill in its current form and will be moving amendments in the third reading stage. Let us look at the issues. The current system is not efficient—that is a given. These views were widely expressed in submissions to the bill development, in submissions to the Senate and House inquiries and hearings. For example, CropLife stated during the House Standing Committee on Agriculture, Resources, Fisheries and Forestry hearing:
We would agree with the WWF that a greater responsiveness from the regulator in this space would be a very good thing, and something that is supported by our members.
This is further supported by the Australian National Audit Office's inquiry into the APVMA, which demonstrated that it is not as efficient in the way that it conducts its work as it could be. The APVMA is also not meeting its obligation to finalise all applications within statutory time frames and this obviously increases the cost of regulation for both the APVMA and applicants, and impacts on users' access to pesticides and veterinary medicines. It amazes me that you can have statutory time frames and then not meet them. While all stakeholders, both industry and environmental lobby groups, involved in the process agreed that reform was needed to improve efficiency and to speed up the review of high-risk chemicals, this bill does very little to address them. In fact, the bill actually increases regulatory burden on industry and ties up resources which will detract from the authority's ability to process high-risk chemical reviews.
When you talk about safeguards—and certainly they are needed—the ANAO's inquiry into the APVMA confirmed that we have a reliable and scientific regulatory system for effective management of risk. In other words, the ANAO said the current safeguards are adequate and work well. The ANAO report found it was not the triggers for the review that was the issue; it was the time taken for the process of a review once chemicals were identified.
I was perplexed that Minister Ludwig, who has long been campaigning on the need for reforms to increase efficiency on the chemical registration system, has now changed his tune. At the recent ABARES conference the minister proclaimed the reform to ensure the health and safety of the farmer and consumer. It is apparently not about efficiency at all anymore, despite this claim being made endlessly for the last couple of years, almost since the last election.
The truth is that the minister was sold a pup by the former minister—the current Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities—the member for Watson. This is the same minister who put in place the rules to manage the fisheries that invited the supertrawler to Australia, and then backflipped as minister for the environment to undermine the agriculture minister's authority. The major flaw in the argument that the re-registration system is for health and safety is that the retract check of the triggers under the re-registration process will actually reduce resources available to the APVMA, reducing their ability to process the reviews of high-risk chemicals in a timely manner.
The department have acknowledged that there will be at least $2 million in increased costs, while industry have calculated that the cost—and they did not do this on the back of a postage stamp; they paid Deloittes to do an in-depth costing of what this means to industry—will be more likely in the vicinity of $8 million annually, a massive increase of 30 per cent. This is extra red tape—in this case it is probably green tape—of 30 per cent to the system each year. The department acknowledged during Senate estimates that they did not take into account the cost to the chemical companies and others who would have to produce the data for the re-registration. They obviously did pretty much a 'back of a postage stamp' costing on the general costing of having to process some 9,000 products. This is despite Finance and Deregulation minister Penny Wong listing ag and vet chem reform as the second key area where the government would reduce regulatory compliance costs for businesses and improve competitiveness.
Internationally, our registration process is already struggling to compete, and that is one of the key reasons the industry and the coalition supported reform to make it more efficient. Increasing the cost will further reduce our competitiveness and force international companies to evaluate whether costs and returns will justify the expense. In the last 30 or 40 years Australia has gone from being the place where every company around the world wanted to come and test their chemicals and go through an initial registration process to the last place they want to do it. Now the Greens support the re-registration process as they claim it will help new products, as getting rid of the old products will encourage new products onto the market. Let's just have a look at that for a second. The government has deregistered dimethoate and is trying to get rid of the last fruit fly control chemical on the market. Is there any sign of a new product? Deputy Speaker Adams, as a member representing agriculture, you would know there is not.
There is the time and the cost. There is a sheep drench that was developed in Australia for Australian conditions which is still not available for Australian farmers, despite New Zealand having registered and having access to that same chemical for over two years. It was developed here, has been used in New Zealand for two years, but has still not got through the registration process here in Australia. Does this new efficiency, this new compliance the government wants to bring upon agriculture do anything to help this drench get registered? No, it does not.
There is a third example I have as to how it does not help the process, and that is the new sheep dip based on tea tree oil. Last week we went with some tea tree growers in Tweed Heads at the invitation of the Nationals candidate, and what a candidate Matthew Frazer is. You can never have enough successful small business people in this parliament, and he is certainly one of those and will add to the skills if he is successful, as I am sure we all hope he is. Getting back to the tea tree grower, he has been using his initiative and has come up with an innovative way to use natural tea tree oil as a basis for a sheep drench. However, it is going to cost about $3 million to generate the data, such as toxicity tests. But, with very limited data protection for such a product, there would be no way that the company could get a return on investment in a small market such as Australia. Will the legislation make it more attractive to get this registered? No, it will not.
This legislation does nothing to improve the ability for these products to be transitioned to market more cost effectively, and if they are brought to market they will now have expensive seven to 15 year reviews on their products, adding to the costs and making them even less viable. It is clear that the re-registration system is being used to force products off the market by making them too costly. The agricultural department has acknowledged that the European re-registration system has led to products being lost because it is not viable for companies to re-register—not because the products are dangerous; simply because the costs of re-registration to a competent, safe product are too high. Well, here we go in Australia.
The department claim that our system is less expensive than the European system. However, they have admitted that it does add costs—and, as industry has pointed out, there are already products in Australia that are uneconomic to register and the increase in costs can only further exacerbate that situation. The department have played down the extra costs and, in the House committee hearing, pushed the WWF line that the maximum was $100 a year. That is so far from what the actual cost is, and does not even begin to account for the fact that the chemical companies—those who are responsible for the chemicals—will have to come up with the data. It has been estimated by Deloittes that each one could be as much as $300,000. However, as the industry explained in the same hearing, there are many more costs than that on industry from this re-registration process.
The APVMA's own documentation indicates that we are looking at an increase in the cost of the system for the proposed legislation. In fact, the 30 per cent number is the interim. Equally, the costs that DAFF were referring to are the straight-up application fees, and that does not even approach the issue of the cost to the industry to provide the regulator with the data they will require.
Aside from that, the administrative processes, while simple, come at a cost. If you have the regulator about to have hundreds upon hundreds of re-registrations—that is what it is, and I will come to that shortly—just to manage, file and respond to those re-registrations costs money and it takes resources and time away from the core inputs. The bill in its current form will, however, deliver a net loss in efficiency and cannot be said in any way to address the system's failure to function within statutory time frames. It will exacerbate the situation.
Surprisingly the department also conceded that the regulatory impact statement failed to quantify the financial costs and financial impacts on industry. Instead it based its decision on:
… benefits outweighed the costs of the system. But it was done in a qualitative sense and not a financial sense.
So surprise, surprise: no cost-benefit analysis was done on the system.
Just like the carbon tax, like the mining tax, like the ban on live exports and like the super-trawler ban, this government has shown their disregard for the primary industry sector on which this nation was built. The coalition will stand up and be counted for agriculture and will stop the burdensome regulation designed to drive our industries out of business. We will move amendments to the bill to remove the mandatory registration system, to ensure this bill has a net increase in efficiency as initially outlined by the government itself. We will do the job of government and not allow them just to change the spin to suit their agenda to remove large numbers of chemicals from the market irrespective of whether they can be used safely. The re-registration system adds no triggers but just another expensive recheck of the triggers funded by industry.
These are the facts: the seven to 15 year timeframe is unrealistic for re-registration of the 1,900 active constituents—of which 780 are unique and each one would have to be treated totally separately—of the 9,900 currently registered agvet chemicals. This process will tie up staff and resources in APVMA and cause an economic burden on registrants, and parent companies, of active constituents. Will these costs be taken up by the government? Will they be passed on to end users, such as land managers and producers? Yes, of course they will—once again, 'Ah, they'll be right.'
Contrary to the government's claims that the re-registration process will increase the scrutiny on suspect chemistries, the increase in the administrative workload of the APVMA staff will reduce regulatory body resources available to deal with critical registrations and permits.
We will move amendments that delay commencement by 12 months. Commencement of the bill is 1 July 2013. There are only 17 evaluators and some 9,000 products that may be up for the re-registration process; a CEO who has only just come on board; and nothing from the APVMA on how it will manage the changes and the increased workload. The APVMA needs time to establish its processes and time to consult with industry on how they will manage the new legislative requirements. Currently it takes up to 15 years to review some chemicals, so it is important that we give them time to adjust or the whole organisation will just go into meltdown.
The delay in commencement will allow time to develop a risk-management framework clearly detailing the application requirements, which is essential to support other efficiency measures such as 'shut the gate' and 'elapsed time frame' reforms. Registrants agreed to work with the APVMA to road test the risk framework to ensure that it operated as intended. This has not occurred to date. No consultation on the risk framework has occurred. The current manual of requirements and guidelines is insufficient, with significant gaps that need to be addressed. Without a comprehensive risk framework to deliver high-quality applications to the APVMA, it may struggle with applications that do not have all the information required, resulting in more applications being denied, longer time frames for decisions and a higher refusal rate.
The consequence of a poorly handled transition will be to amplify the problems identified by farmers and industry—that is, that fewer safe products will remain on the market, diminishing the competitiveness of the Australian industry. This will increase costs for farmers as the price of pesticides increases. Some generic products will be lost from the market. Products are also less likely to be introduced as regulatory risks and regulatory costs increases.
We need to be leaders in sustainable health, environmental and animal welfare standards, and not absent from the field because of the overreach of lobby groups. Our support for this bill will be contingent on the government supporting our amendments. This will show whether the government is genuine in wanting to introduce reforms that do improve efficiency and reduce costs to industry or is just trying to spin their way through another promise to the Greens and the green lobby.
I urge the government to support these sensible amendments to show that they understand the industry and to show that the split with the Greens, which most government members seem to be happy with, is real and not just talk. But we know that these alleged jilted lovers will be back together to sacrifice agriculture once again.


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I'm staying with Robin for the week and just before I left she tagged with a meme in which I am to start enumerating weird things about myself and stop at seven. Well that is a piece of cake. I'm unique like everyone else. I could keep right on going even after seven, but then comes the hard part. I am then to tag seven other bloggers with the same meme. No can do. Sounds way too much like a chain letter and I am always the deadend street for those. If anyone sends me anything with "send this to you whole address book in it," I take great joy in looking up the claim in snopes and replying with the bust-the-myth link right back. Not only that but I am concerned about tagging people, do I even have seven people to tag who haven't done this already? So on the way here from the airport I could say "hey Robin do you care if I just don't play along?" and good thing she doesn't.
When I was on yahoo personals this winter, I was chatting with a guy who had an ad with the tag line Ten Things I'm not Afraid to Admit. It was funny, a nice change from the drab my perfect date would be dinner and a movie. He had me reply with ten things I'm not afraid to admit. So dutifully I list them all out. His response, six are funny three are downright disturbing. Well that's me sixty percent funny, thirty percent disturbing. They were all a little off and would be good meme fodder. I just went to yahoo personals to take a look at the list in thought that maybe I might do the seven part. They deleted my mailbox. I'm a little sad at this. They didn't delete my mailbox in between the first go with it and the second (ten months of dating AgentY) but now they did. Do you think they saw my YDTiPs post? OK, definitely no sevens meme now.
Instead let me give you a conversation from the flight, this is during delay after thunderstorms in Detroit
annoyed business guy: can you believe three days travel for a two hour meeting. who are they loading? why do they get to go, do you think I can just get in line now?
pct: Gee you really want to get and just sit for a long time. I doubt getting on earlier gets you actually off the plane in Seattle any faster
abg: well I like to sit, (growl) why don't the load the plane from the back
pct: well someday when you are king you can fix the world. I'm sure it will be more efficient
abg: that is my title… I am an engineer
He said engineer as if he was saying superhero who saved the world 11 and a half times since lunch. I am thinking overpaid egomaniac with very little social skills. How glad am I that you really aren't king. While waiting for the tram to take us to the terminal he said "you made it ok" and I said sure and pointed to my earphones, that were doling out Augusten Burroughs, a way better choice than bad small talk with the king. "Have a nice meeting"
Driving downtown Ellensburg yesterday I saw a sign on the back of a truck. "Single guy seeks female companionship 509….." I so wanted to call and ask the guy how that was working out but Robin didn't drive close enough for me to get the number. This in the long run is probably for the best but I am sad to miss the rare opportunity to check on the benefits and tragedies of an emerging new dating venue. Maybe, I think, we will start seeing sticker campaigns more and more. For a good time call… Single White Male seeks Trophy Wife. These will appear on cars, trash cans and of course bathroom stalls.
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Official trailer for Jack Reacher, starring Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise is Jack Reacher, in the first movie based on the character created by Lee Childs. And here's the trailer...
Earlier this week, a Russian trailer for the upcoming big screen debut of Lee Childs' Jack Reacher appeared online, before swiftly disappearing again. And the reason for that disappearance was the impending debut of the English language version, that we can now see here.
Reacher is, of course, being played by Tom Cruise in the movie, a piece of casting that, not for the first time in the actor's career, hasn't gone down brilliantly in all quarters. Whether Cruise can bring Reacher to life on the screen convincingly remains to be seen, but we've got that first proper trailer to feast our eyes on.
The movie is based on the book One Shot, but goes by the name Jack Reacher. And the reason we're optimistic about it? That'd be the fact that Christopher McQuarrie is writing and directing. His directorial follow-up to 2000's The Way Of The Gun (a cracking film), it's his deserved crack at directing a major blockbuster, and we'll find out in December how he's done.
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OAKLAND -- The word "truant" might bring to mind a teenager with a spray can. But younger children miss school each year, too, with alarming regularity. If a bill clears the state Legislature this month, parents could face jail time and a hefty fine.
In the Oakland school district, more than 5,000 children in kindergarten through eighth grade -- or 18 percent -- missed at least five full days of school without excused absences this past school year, according to district records. About 2,000 missed 10 days or more. Some of their parents, after repeated warnings, were sent to truancy court in Alameda County and charged with an infraction.
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Contra Costa County's nine elementary school districts reported that 5,600 children -- or 22 percent of their combined enrollment -- had at least three tardies or unexcused absences in 2008-09, according to data posted by the California Department of Education.
Senate Bill 1317 would make truancy a misdemeanor, at least for the more serious offenders -- those whose children have missed 10 percent of the school year. Other states, such as Florida and Texas, have similar laws on the books.
The legislation was drafted by Kamala Harris, the San Francisco district attorney and candidate for state attorney general. She oversees a truancy program that she credits with a dramatic rise in school attendance in San Francisco. She's a Democrat, as is Mark Leno, the state senator from San Francisco who introduced the bill, which has received bipartisan support.
"I think that everyone realized that for too long, issues that affect children were seen as small issues -- maybe because children are small -- instead of taking these on as big issues," Harris said. "You know who that chronically truant 6-year-old is going to be? The 'menace to society' that everyone will be knocking on our door about, asking me to prosecute."
Under a recent amendment, school districts would be required to provide "language accessible support services to address the pupil's truancy," referring a parent to the justice system. Parents sent to court will be allowed to enter a guilty plea in exchange for a "deferred judgment." That means the charge will be dismissed if their child's attendance improves and they have followed court orders, which may include parenting classes and substance abuse treatment.
Teresa Drenick, a deputy district attorney for Alameda County, said parents often wind up in truancy court because "their life issues have gotten so overwhelming to them that getting their child to school becomes a very low priority." Many have physical or mental health problems, move from home to home, and rely on public transit to get their child to school. Some are grieving the loss of a family member. Others suffer from domestic violence and homelessness.
Drenick says it is important for the court to step in when parents have not responded to appeals from the school district. "At that point, maybe the parent needs the criminal justice system to enforce the law in order to get the children the help they need to be students," she said.
After all, she said, school attendance habits often start in elementary school. Most of the high school truants she encounters in court, Drenick said, missed lots of seat time when they were younger. As they fall further behind in school, they become embarrassed and discouraged when they go to class and seek out peers with similar attitudes about school. Their attendance then worsens, she said, as do their prospects for high school graduation and gainful employment.
Since the county's truancy court opened in 2004, Drenick has charged about 500 parents of nearly 1,000 children with infractions. She said she sees only a handful of repeat cases each year, and at least 80 percent of the families show significant improvements in attendance.
"By and large, in our program, the infraction has been enough," Drenick said. Still, she added, a misdemeanor would give the district attorney "more teeth and more tools."
But some have concerns. Safe Passages, a 12-year-old intergovernmental partnership that advocates for Oakland's poorest children and families, withdrew its opposition after the recent amendment to the bill. Its legislative analyst, Isabelle Mussard, says the organization still has concerns about the further criminalization of families.
Adrian Kirk, who directs the Oakland school district office that works with truant children and their families, said he feels the bill is too punitive. Sending your child to school is such a basic thing, he said. If a parent is not doing so, they must have serious problems -- problems that the threat of punishment is not necessarily going to solve.
"Where's the solution?" he asked. "The circumstances of their lives haven't changed one iota, and now we're going to punish them harder."
If the bill becomes law, Kirk said, "More people will wind up going before the DA. More people will wind up having to pay a fine. People will end up going to jail."
Meanwhile, he said, the problem will continue.
Read Katy Murphy's Oakland schools blog at www.ibabuzz.com/education. Follow her at Twitter.com/katymurphy.
The bill would allow prosecutors to charge the parents of "chronically truant" children with a misdemeanor. Penalties include a fine of as much as $2,000 and/or imprisonment of as long as one year. It applies to the parents and guardians of children who are 6 and older and in kindergarten through eighth grade.
SB 1317 defines chronic truancy as missing at least 10 percent of the school year with unexcused absences. Under a recent amendment, school districts would be required to provide "language accessible support services to address the pupil's truancy" before referring a parent to the justice system.


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The Tesseract OCR engine was one of the top 3 engines in the 1995 UNLV Accuracy test. Between 1995 and 2006 it had little work done on it, but it is probably one of the most accurate open source OCR engines available. The source code will read a binary, grey or color image and output text. A tiff reader is built in that will read uncompressed TIFF images, or libtiff can be added to read compressed images.
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OPEC to Stick With Dollar Pricing
Edmund Daukoru, Nigeria's Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and the newly elected president of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, said that there is no imminent interest inside the cartel in moving away from the practice of pricing oil in dollars and pricing it instead in a basket of currencies.
The dollar has lost 30%. If that's not a trigger, I don't what would be, he said in an interview in Washington with reporters and editors of The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau.
OPEC has in the past discussed and rejected such a change, he said. There are occasional rumors in markets that a weak dollar could spark renewed interest, and Daukoru stopped short of taking the idea off the table indefinitely.
The creation of the euro would make it easier to move towards pricing oil in a basket of currencies because four currencies the U.S. dollar, the euro, the British pound and the Japanese yen would suffice. In the past, before the creation of the euro, a reasonable basket would have had too many currencies to be practical, he said.


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New characters revealed for The Avengers 2
That brother-sister team that Joss Whedon mentioned for The Avengers 2? Seems we know who they are...
The release of Iron Man 3 has brought with it a swathe of questions regarding The Avengers 2, not least because Marvel people are on the publicity trail, and available to answer them.
Entertainment Weekly, then, has been able to confirm - citing "a source" - the identity of the brother-sister team that Joss Whedon had said would be joining The Avengers 2. The brother-sister combo in question? That'd be Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. We don't know who'll be playing them, but they're now understood to be in Joss Whedon's current draft of The Avengers 2.
EW did put the question to Marvel Studios' head honcho Kevin Feige, although he was inevitably playing things closer to his chest. "I'm not confirming or denying", he said. "The draft could change six months from now".
Furthermore, while Robert Downey Jr's contract to play Iron Man is reportedly up, he is, EW reports, still expected to be a part of The Avengers 2.
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I think we are nearly there, so I hope I don't confuse things further...!In Aperture Priority mode, the sub-command dial (the front one) allows you to choose the aperture value you want - let's assume you have (as you mentioned) chosen f/11. Turning the main command dial (the rear one) then has no effect - UNLESS you have Custom Setting b5 Easy Exposure Compensation set to "on".If that is the case, turning the main command dial will apply positive or negative (depending which way you turn it) exposure compensation. Since you are in Aperture Priority and have fixed the f/stop that you want, it does this by adjusting the other half of the exposure equation - the shutter speed - to give you the higher or lower exposure value (EV) that you are looking for.
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The fagging system was in the process of winding down when I arrived. Personal fags, of the kind found in public-school fiction, had become more or less extinct. Fags still had to run errands for pollies, but there was none of the toast-making, shoe-shining, study-tidying, bog-seat-warming, head-patting, thigh-stroking, buttock-fondling drudgery, slavery or abuse that I had dreaded. Fagging consisted essentially of communal chores, the most notable roles in which were to be morning fag, who had to wake the House (more on this later), and the unpleasantly named lav fag, who only had to sweep the corridors, and so far as I remember, had nothing to do with lavatories at all. The paper fag was obliged to go into town early in the morning, before breakfast, pick up the House's order of newspapers and deliver them to the studies. Another job was to go bringing up their messages to the House, that sort of thing. I can't remember what this duty was called--pigeonhole fag, I suppose, but again it is madness to expect logic, he might well have been called kitten fag, balloon fag or ethics fag for all I know.
That was an excerpt from Stephen Fry's autobiography Moab is My Washpot (wonderful read, by the way, you should totally check it out), describing his arrival at Uppingham. Of course being a different culture, it's reasonable to assume that their meaning behind the usage was different from our own. Still, it's there. Being used. All -fag suffixy. Interesting, no?
EDIT: The internet usage I'm referring to is the practice involving tacking the word "fag" onto the end of an adjective, like "artfag" or "writefag" or "musicfag"--generally, using it to mean "person" (also upending its contemporary connotations, using it because it's ironically offensive). Just so's you know.


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Staios picks a number
Saturday, 09.17.2011 / 9:58 PM ET
Veteran d-man Steve Staios, who accepted an invitation to attend the New York Islanders training camp on Friday, will wear 44 with the team.
In his NHL career he has worn 48 with the Bruins, 45 and 25 with the Cauncks, 25 with the Thrashers, 24 with Edmonton and 27 with the Flames.
He reports to Islanders camp Monday.


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Almost twenty years after turning The Water is Wide into one of his greatest hits, La Ballade nord-irlandaise, Renaud has fulfilled one of his old dreams: to transcribe some of the most famous Irish folk songs into French. And from Je reviendrai to Belfast Mill, and Vagabonds to Dubliners, the impression is that Renaud is not just singing about the Ireland of the Irish, but about everything he finds lacking in France: a rebellious, assertive people, unflaggingly loyal to working-class mentality and solidarity, and always ready to join together and fight the oppressor and its servitors.
The struggles and ordeals of Ireland provide the singer with a pool of myths, where the pride of IRA soldiers combines with the despair of a proletariat struck by yet another crisis, and the melancholy of the exiled with the fatal grief of a country at civil war. From the liberty of the vagabond to the frightening destiny of fighters' wives, he sings about a country and a history straight from the movies. With its closed-down factories and its drama of uprooted lives, social and economic catastrophes, the whole album is tinged with saga.
And the saga is sung in unison, arm in arm, hollered out in the friendly, virile atmosphere of the pub. Recorded with French and local musicians, Molly Malone is a traditional Irish disc, done French style, including traditional melodies, uilleann pipes, tin whistles and fiddles. And in his lyrics, Renaud gives space to that other well-known Irish instrument, the gun.
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Something Wicked This Way Comes Chapter 22 Summary
- Jim calls to Robert the Nephew as Will hides in a bush.
- Finally, unable to hide himself any longer, Will calls to Jim and begs him to leave.
- Jim tells Will to go home otherwise he will "spoil everything" (22.16). He admits that he saw something intriguing earlier that day in the maze. He wants to get older, he admits to Will, and Will ought to just let him go.
- Will relinquishes his grip on his friend. He thinks about what an older Jim will look like. He hits his friend on the nose and begins wrestling him.
- The front door opens. The nephew is there on the porch. He strides forward easily towards the two older boys locked in a fight.
- Robert smiles down at them and then rains glitter down on them. He then calls for the police.
- Will and Jim realize that the glittering stars by their sides are pieces of jewelry.
- Robert continues shouting for the police. Jim still tries to talk to Robert. Miss Foley opens a window and sees Jim and Will.
- Jim runs away. Will follows. He hears Miss Foley discover the burglary. Clearly, Mr. Cooger, in the disguise of Robert, has set up Will and Jim to look like thieves.
- Will imagines himself as a scared rabbit. He runs into the night.