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Before raising the compensation of state legislators, there should be consideration of "total compensation." It is far more than $31,140 per year. Per diems of $66 for House members and $86 for Senate members are available just for the claiming — no receipts, no documentation at all.
They can be claimed seven days a week during the regular session. There is also state-paid health insurance, year-round. There is a 6 percent state pension contribution. During the regular session, per diem payments count toward pension benefits. Retired legislators can go on and off the state health insurance plan, to enhance coverage when needed and reduce premium payments when not needed, something not allowed for other retirees in the plan.
Before increasing compensation, let's have an open, honest appraisal of what it is currently, and not just the salary component.
Chester Rorvig, St. Cloud
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I welcomed the thoughtful editorial "On autopilot, at taxpayers' expense" (March 11). It makes a number of disturbing points about how the state's Medicaid program has been conducted for the past 10 years, but there are still a couple of fundamental questions unasked.
Eight of those years were under a Republican administration, and the last two have been under a DFL administration, yet there have been no significant changes. It has taken public outcry and a federal lawsuit to focus attention on the abuses of the health insurance companies.
Are not both major parties being held hostage by a powerful private industry? Do we not need to challenge the two-party system and the money poured into elections to achieve honest regulation?
Also unquestioned is the assumption that "managed care" lowers costs. The experience of the last couple of decades shows exactly the reverse. Yet we continue to accept a system of payment, otherwise known as "capitation," that veils the actual charge for medical services and assumes that health "outcomes" can be weighed, measured and graded like any other commodity.
Rhoda R. Gilman, St. Paul
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The tone of complacency in the editorial was telling. The use of the elegant phrase "state officials also inexplicably failed to exercise their authority" indicates to me apathy about expecting officials to take responsibility to recover the millions of taxpayer dollars held by Minnesota HMOs.
Ho-hum, state officials should let the bygones of millions of taxpayer money be bygones … there's just no use in demanding that fiscally conservative Democrats do their jobs … righting the wrong by retrieving the funds is way too much to expect. The whole Medicaid affair was merely years of shoddy management and poor bookkeeping. No need to rescue that missing treasure for the benefit of Minnesotans here and now.
Diane J. Peterson, White Bear Lake
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Is it better to trap, spay/neuter, release?
Is it possible to educate someone to the level of a doctorate in the sciences, who has no understanding of the most basic principles of ecology and environmental biology? I think so. Every veterinarian who participates in a catch, neuter and release program of feral cats is testament of such. Feral cats, are invasive, subsidized predators, who wreck ecological havoc across America ("Catch and release? Minneapolis rethinks stray cat approach," March 8).
No one would ever consider implementing such a program with feral dogs, because of the danger they'd represent to the human population. And yet there is no empathy toward the predatory destruction which surrounds free roaming cats. There is only one solution: Keep your cats inside.
Mark Palas, St. Paul
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I applaud Minneapolis City Council Member Cam Gordon for introducing this issue. St. Paul shows a statistically relevant decrease in the feral cat population using a spay/neuter approach. It is right to target irresponsible pet owners, but too often neighborhoods are presented with a fait accompli in the form of unwanted kittens who are too terrified of people to be socialized as pets.
I have seen hawks fly birds into my windows for an easy meal, and owls have left rabbit remains in my back yard. So cats are not the only threat to wildlife, and cats who are fed are less likely to seek birds for a meal. I hope this endeavor succeeds as a model for other communities. As communities, we need to find solutions to living with animals besides just killing the ones we find undesirable.
Christine Olson, Golden Valley
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Admire them with a proper dose of respect
One need only to read the headline "Investigators look into why lion killed a fearless lover of big cats" (March 8) to answer the question it poses. Two words explain — "fearless" and "lion." I grieve for the family of the woman who died, and I applaud her energy and zeal for the welfare of these magnificent creatures. How we wish she had channeled her love and talents to a safer method of conservation of the species in its own habitat.
Big cats kill. It is that simple. They cannot be domesticated and should not be caged, nor used as entertainment for humans. They are meant to be in the wild. They don't want us around, except as food. Let us all learn to love, but respect, these fellow inhabitants of our planet.
Before you interact with an animal, or go to a circus, animal park or rodeo, ask yourself: "Did this animal volunteer?"
Pamela Haase, Rochester
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When they were delivered I peeled and chopped the lot while still fresh, put it all in a small pot and froze it down. Seems non the worse for being frozen, I have about half a teaspoon with good quality runny honey and same of lemon juice in warm water every morning.
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As other reviewers have said, the ginger is cut up into small pieces as though they were offcuts. This makes it difficult to peel and exposes large areas. I threw away the last packet
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They said I would get a check 4 -6 weeks after they recieved the equipment, I had to Take down my self. I was very carefull when I shiped it back, cost me over 50$. I was too trust worthy and didn't keep most of my paper work because I was sick of looking at it. Now months have gone by and I am having trouble contacting them.
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hi there!
i noticed that only admins and editors are able to duplicate posts, how could i allow it authors as well?
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hi there!
i noticed that only admins and editors are able to duplicate posts, how could i allow it authors as well?
thanks in advance!
Choosing the minimum role level allowed to duplicate posts and page will be introduced in next version (very soon, I hope).
By now I'm afraid you have to hack the code... (e.g. the duplicate_post_plugin_activation() function)
i took a peek in here and tried changing some of the values - specifically here:
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but i didn't hit on any changes to the numerical values there that made authors capable of posting. can a php neophyte get a little help with that? The plugin has been extremely helpful for admins, but now we've realized our authors need it too! thanks!
I'm sorry I answered in a quick and dirty (and, in fact, wrong) way.
Here are the instructions. Be careful, since they need to edit the DB "by hand" and it can be very dangerous. I suggest you to backup your DB first...
- get access to the DB, e.g. with PhpMyAdmin
- go to the "options" table (usually
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or http://YOURDOMAIN/wordpress/wp-admin/options.php (depending on where you installed WP) and edit the option there.
The first way is safer, because you will edit only that option, while in second way when you click on "Save" you edit all the options: even though you leave the other ones untouched, things can be messy.
Please note also that Authors will be able to copy all posts, even those of more powerful users. It can be a bit non-standard (an Author can edit only his/her own posts), depending on your policies.
I hope that this kind of editing the option, in a friendly and safe way, will make into the next version, which I'm trying to release by the arrival of WP 3.0.
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to be honest, I think BR had the team selection perfect, it was the same side I picked myself ;) It made perfect sense to play Suarez alone (its looked ok so far) and have the 2 wingers, try and control the game or at least take out the sting with possesion play. It made perfect sense to keep 2 recovering strikers on the bench, the team had already managed 7 wins in 9 without them.
I honestly believe he got it spot on but it was the players application that let us down, they tried to rectify it after he got in their ears at halftime but was too late. I have noticed we generally start slowly and don't often score in the first half of matches, we always tend to be stronger in second half, maybe getting out of the blocks quicker is something he needs to sort out.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
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I agree on the strikers front, it would have been crazy to start all 3 away from home and especially considering how little football either Sturridge or Borini has had in recent months. However I pointed out how impressed I was with the 3 in the second half as it's something I'm looking forward to seeing in the future. Also I think it illustrates that BR is not afraid to go to a plan B if the A plan is not working, and there is no way anyone can say we were defensive in the second half after taking off the defensive midfielder and throwing on two strikers.
The problem for me was application of the starting 11, and I don't know if anyone could have predicted that ahead of time, as for the most part other than Wisdom it's the same starting 11 that has impressed in previous outings.
But the way I look at things is we held our own, and were able to mount a fight back even if not successful. So for me while it hurts losing to MU, let's be honest they are a better side than us right now. But there were also positives to take forward into the Norwich game and beyond, and it's those matches that will decide our season, not a loss to the league leaders away from home.
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I agree and I also agree with your points on changing things and or having a plan B. That's something others on this forum have criticised Rodgers for. I've seen Rodgers as a very proactive manager and ready to change things early if necessary. 1st half substitutions for example.
For me losing on Sunday was a disappointment but if I'm honest there's been other resulsts that have hurt more this season. Lets be honest and losing at Old Toilet is not a huge surprise right now. But dropping points at Anfield against Villa and Newcastle hurt more.
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The Baltoscandian Confederation (or Baltoscandia) is a geopolitical concept developed by Professor Kazys Pakstas (born June 29, 1893; died September 11, 1960), a Lithuanian scientist in the field of geography and geopolitics. The purpose of this concept was "to promote the idea of a Baltic–Scandinavian union (consisting of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania)".[1]
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Pakstas states in his book The Baltoscandian Confederation that the term Baltoscandia was first used by Prof. Sten de Geer in an article in "Geografiska Annaler" in 1928.[2] In this book Baltoscandia is described in several different dimensions: as a geographical and cultural, as an economic and as a political and military unit.[3] Prof. Kazys Pakstas proposed that one of the ways for the small nations to withstand the influence coming from the large ones is to unite and to cooperate more closely among each other. As he mentions, unification is possible only among nations that are similar by their size, geographical environment, religion, also they have to respect and to tolerate each other.
As the foreign policy of Lithuania has shifted towards Northern Europe even more after Dalia Grybauskaitė came into post of the President of the Republic of Lithuania,[4] voices questioning the return of the Baltoscandian Confederation idea are on the rise in this country.[5]
For almost 20 years, the Academy of Baltoscandia (Baltoskandijos akademija) has functioned in Lithuania, in Panevėžys. It was founded on 17 November 1991 as the institute of science researches which regularly organizes arrangements dealing with Baltic and Scandinavian cultural, historical and political contacts. Its main aims were to "develop versatile links of the lands and nations in the region of Baltoscandia and to integrate the culture of Lithuania into the cultural space of Baltoscandia".[6] The academy has been liquidated in the end of 2009 because of funding-related problems. The funding was provided by the Municipality of the City of Panevėžys, but the functions of the academy have not met the criteria of the functions of the mentioned municipality.
The main forms of activities of Academia Baltoscandia were:
- to organize conferences and seminars, some of which become traditional;
- to celebrate anniversaries of Independence of all Baltic and Scandinavian countries as well as other national festivities;
- to publish the information bulletin "Baltoskandija";
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- to create museum "Baltoscandia";
- to gather archive of Baltoscandian contacts;
- to form Baltoscandian consultation-information centre.
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- ^ "SCAND 344: The Baltic States and Scandinavia, Spring 2002". Retrieved 16 March 2010.
- ^ SCAND 344: The Baltic States and Scandinavia, Spring 2002
- ^ The Concept of Baltoscandia according to Kazys Pakstas before the war and now (in Lithuanian)
- ^ Lithuania looks towards Northern Europe
- ^ Back to Baltoscandia? (in Lithuanian)
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It's surprising how many house pets hold advanced degrees. Last year a dog received his MBA from the American University of London, a non-accredited distance-learning institution. It feels as if I should add "not to be confused with the American University in London," but getting people to confuse them seems like a pretty basic feature of the whole AUOL marketing strategy.
The dog, identified as "Peter Smith" on his diploma, goes by Pete. He was granted his degree on the basis of "previous experiential learning," along with payment of 4,500 pounds ($7,723). The funds were provided by a BBC news program, which also helped Pete fill out the paperwork. The American University of London required that Pete submit evidence of his qualifications as well as a photograph. The applicant submitted neither, as the BBC website explains, "since the qualifications did not exist and the applicant was a dog."
The program found hundreds of people listing AUOL degrees in their profiles on social networking sites, including "a senior nuclear industry executive who was in charge of selling a new generation of reactors in the UK."
Inside Higher Ed reports on diploma mills and fake degrees from time to time but can't possibly cover every revelation that some professor or state official has a bogus degree, or that a "university" turns out to be run by a convicted felon from his prison cell. Even a blog dedicated to the topic, Diploma Mill News, links to just a fraction of the stories out there. Keeping up with every case is just too much; nobody has that much Schaudenfreude in him.
By contrast, scholarly work on the topic of counterfeit credentials has appeared at a glacial pace. Allen Ezell and John Bear's exposé Degree Mills: The Billion-dollar Industry That Has Sold Over a Million Fake Diplomas, first published by Prometheus Books in 2005 and updated in 2012, points out that academic research on the phenomenon is conspicuously lacking, despite the scale of the problem. (Ezell headed up the FBI's "Dipscam" investigation of diploma mills that ran from 1980 through 1991.)
The one notable exception to that blind spot is the history of medical quackery, which enjoyed its golden age in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Thousands of dubious practitioners throughout the U.S. got their degrees from correspondence course or fly-by-night medical schools.
The fight to put both the quacks and the quack academies out of business reached its peak during the 1920s and '30s, under the tireless leadership of Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
H.L. Mencken was not persuaded that getting rid of medical charlatans was such a good idea. "As the old-time family doctor dies out in the country towns," he wrote in a newspaper column from 1924, "with no competent successor willing to take over his dismal business, he is followed by some hearty blacksmith or ice-wagon driver, turned into a chiropractor in six months, often by correspondence. ... It eases and soothes me to see [the quacks] so prosperous, for they counteract the evil work of the so-called science of public hygiene, which now seeks to make imbeciles immortal." (On the other hand, he did point out quacks worth pursuing to Fishbein.)
With no competent successor willing to take over his dismal business, he is followed by some hearty blacksmith.
The pioneering scholar of American medical shadiness was James Harvey Young, an emeritus professor of history at Emory University when he died in 2006, who first published on the subject in the early 1950s. Princeton University Press is reissuing American Health Quackery: Collected Essays of James Harvey Young in paperback this month. But while patent medicines and dubious treatments are now routinely discussed in books and papers on medical history, very little research has appeared on the institutions-or businesses, if you prefer-that sold credentials to the snake-oil merchants of yesteryear.
Diploma mills, are sometimes backed up by equally dubious accreditation "agencies." Photo / Getty Images
There are plenty still around, incidentally. In Degree Mills, Ezell and Bear cite a congressional committee's estimate from 1986 that there were more than 5,000 fake doctors practising in the U.S. The figure must be several times that by now.
The demand for fraudulent diplomas comes from a much wider range of aspiring professionals now than in the patent-medicine era-as the example of Pete, the canine MBA, may suggest. The most general social-scientific study of the problem seems to be "An Introduction to the Economics of Fake Degrees," published in the Journal of Economic Issues in 2008.
The authors-Gilles Grolleau, Tarik Lakhal, and Naoufel Mzoughi-are French economists who do what they can with the available pool of data, which is neither wide nor deep. "While the problem of diploma mills and fake degrees is acknowledged to be serious," they write, "it is difficult to estimate their full impact because it is an illegal activity and there is an obvious lack of data and rigorous studies. Several official investigations point to the magnitude and implications of this dubious activity. These investigations appear to underestimate the expanding scale and dimensions of this multimillion-dollar industry."
Grolleau, et al. distinguish between counterfeit degrees (fabricated documents not actually issued by the institutions the holder thereby claims to have attended) and "degrees from bogus universities, sold outright and that can require some academic work but significantly less than comparable, legitimate accredited programs." The latter institutions, also known as diploma mills, are sometimes backed up by equally dubious accreditation "agencies." A table in the paper indicates that more than 200 such "accreditation mills" (defined as agencies not recognized by either the Council for Higher Education Accreditation or the U.S. Department of Education) were operating as of 2004.
The authors work out the various costs, benefits, and risk factors involved in the fake-degree market, but the effort seems very provisional, not to say pointless, in the absence of solid data. They write that "fake degrees allow their holders to 'free ride' on the rights and benefits normally tied to legitimate degrees, without the normal investment of human capital," which may be less of a tautology than "A=A" but not by much.
At least 3 percent of all doctorate degrees in occupational safety and health and related areas" are bogus.
The fake-degree consumer's investment "costs" include the price demanded by the vendor but also "other 'costs,' such as ... the fear of being discovered and stigmatized." I suppose so, but it's hardly the sort of expense that can be monetized. By contrast, the cost to legitimate higher-education institutions for "protecting their intellectual property rights by conducting investigations and mounting litigation against fakers" might be more readily quantified, at least in principle.
The authors state, sensibly enough: "The resources allocated to decrease the number of fake degrees should be set equal to the pecuniary value of the marginal social damage caused by the existence of the fakes, at the point of the optimal level of fakes." But then they point to "the difficulty in measuring the value of the damage and the cost of eliminating it completely."
So: If we had some data about the problem, we could figure out how much of a problem it is, but we don't-and that, too, is a problem.
Still, the paper is a reminder that empirical research on the whole scurvy topic would be of value-especially when you consider that in the United States, according to one study, "at least 3 percent of all doctorate degrees in occupational safety and health and related areas" are bogus. Also keep in mind Ezell Bear's estimate in Degree Mills that 40,000 to 45,000 legitimate Ph.D.s are awarded annually in the U.S.-while 50,000 spurious Ph.D.s are purchased here.
"In other words," they write, "more than half of all people claiming a new Ph.D. have a fake degree." And so I have decided not to make matters worse by purchasing one for my calico cat, despite "significant experiential learning" from her studies in ornithology.
Scott McLemee is the Intellectual Affairs columnist for Inside Higher Ed.
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I received an email to "Name Your Price" ad through Priceline. I clicked the link and and input the price I wanted to pay for a trip. The price processed, I was shown a price with taxes and fees, totaling about $350 this included a small fee for trip cancellation for any unforseen event (didn't read the fine print).
Nonetheless, after I receive the price with taxes,etc., it asked for all my credit card information. I entered it, believing this was the price I was going to pay. The site processed the credit card information, and then I received a message that my price (bid) was not accepted by anyone, and they popped up with the "best price" of $800+, and the itinerary came up. There was not place to reverse the charge, nor was there any place for me to decline this price when it popped up. The sale was final. Well, since I was going on the trip, I decided I'll just keep it. Even though I felt deceived on the price.
A few days later my plans changed. My husband was not going to Spokane on business afterall, so there was not need for me to go there either. This was the reason I purchased the insurance, just in case his plans changed. So I filed for a refund, and was told it was not refundable. That was when I was informed that the insurance was for illness or injury or unforseen weather issues and the flight were to be cancelled.
I contacted Priceline and let them know that I was not going to make the trip, and would like a refund or credit for a future date. No dice. I then took the opportunity to tell them about the "Name Your Price" that I responded to, and how I was not even made aware of the price difference until after they charged my credit card. Additionally, since I didn't get my bid price, I should have been able to cancel or not proceed with the purchase, but was not given an option.
They wrote back and told me that I could have cancelled anytime during the bid process when I didn't get the bid price. I explained I didn't get that opportunity as the system requested my credit card information prior to processing my request. I told them that this is a bad policy because once the charge goes through, there is no refund. And based on the fact that I was not given the opportunity to cancel, I should be refunded my money anyway.
Well, th emeir email to me stated that my purchase was not in response to the "Name Your Price". I told them it was, and since the system came back with a total with taxes and fees, and requested my credit card information, I believed that was the price I was going to be charged.
Basically they said there was nothing they could do to help me. So, I'm just out the $800+.
I'd like to file a class action lawsuit if there are any other persons that have experienced this same issue of being charged, only to find out that's not the price you get, and the sale is processed.
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Loki..if u read the whole article unless Im mistaken it stated that its just as a result of the dates that the figures were reported...eg over the Xmas holiday period when there are a disproportionate amount of outgoings to be taken into account and that were the figures to be reported somewhat later as was stated the balance would as a result of incoming cash and a diminishment of outgoings be very different.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Loki the reason that I posted this stuff up about the accounts was cos i thought u guys might have been interested to the extent that it was this very matter that is so governed by FFP that u have spoken so much about and I wanted to point out... IF u had read the article carefully u self u would have seen it.... that even though it looked like we had lost money it was stated that as the next posting period came up it would reflect the reverse of this which would in essence make the picture look somewhat rosier inthe next quarters reporting...however the whole thing has turned into..yet again...Colin says" FSG ARE TAKING MONEY OUT OF THE CLUB"...something I have never actually posted up so clearly u have it in for me and not a lot I can do about it.
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Jesus Colin this is a discussion board. Not East germany and i am not the Staasi! dont go all paranoid on us! I don't have it in for anyone. The boards are for debate persuasion and opposing opinions.i wouldnt be on here if everybody agreed all the time.
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So what are you saying here Colin? Are you saying that because these accounts are out of date and don't take into account current circumstances that the club must be making a profit now, but the owners are taking much of that out for themselves, or that the owners are actually spending on the club everything the club actually brings in, or in fact like this current report, the club is actually spending more than the club is making?
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DSTEER LOKI COLYN...please show me a single post where I have definitively stated that the owners FSG are or have been taking money out of the club ? I am on record in these posts of stating categorically that I am not in any way against the owners making a healthy profit. I am I will readily admit also on record in these posts as stating that I "dont trust FSG"....so what ? If I say I "dont trust FSG" does that then mean that in every post where I have stated that it should then automatically be also read as "FSG have taken monies out of the club'...If I say "I dont trust you." Should that automatically also be read as "You are a thief, dishonest and disreputable." of course not....I may not trust u sense of judgement..simple as that with no further necessity to read anything more into it ...let alone posting up putting words in to my mouth as this seems to be all u three can do...oh for the days of Jose Pombal and Paisley Shanks on this board where their was some real divergence of informed opinion instead of this pathetic ganging-up...dont think I will be much longer for this board doesnt seeem too much point in posting up as people will read what it is they want to read into it rather than simply reading what it is Ive actually posted up.
dsteer...Im not saying anything other than what was said in the article whereas Loki wants to use it as definitive proof that the owners have made nothing since buying the club and have taken nothing out since this time. All it is is the reporting of one particular financial period and what the article said is that had the report been for a couple months later it would have painted a very different picture...make what u like of it. You want people to believe we are owned by benevolent altruistic owners fine...your free to try and convince who u like of such an opinion..likewise Loki. Me I think we are owned by hard headed American Businessmen and such people will do what proves best for their own interests when such a time arrives and at that point we are just a commodity sold on to the highest bidder and look what happened when Moores sold on !...???


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Forza Horizon and Earthlock headline the Xbox Games with Gold for September
This month, the Xbox Games With Gold service has another quartet of games on offer in exchange for your subscription fees, with tastes possibly varying.
Australia is properly represented in Forza Horizon 3
Australia may be designed to kill you in the worst way possible, but it's a different story behind the wheel in Forza Horizon 3.
E3 2016 – Australia sure looks enticing as hell in Forza Horizon 3
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Forza Horizon is hailed as one of the best racng titles to ever have been released on the Xbox 360. Does its sequel go one step forwards or backwards?
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Forza Horizon 2 will be an extremely social experince, with a ton of online features
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Time to swap tarmac for dirt, as Forza Horizon hits the rally track in the latest addition to our favourite racing game of 2012.
The Lazygamer Awards 2012 – Best Xbox 360 Game
So which was the best game on the Xbox 360 this year? The pickings were slim, but one game stood head and shoulders above them all to win the crown as the best exclusive on that platform.
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As a freshman, the majority of my classes are prerequisites or general education requirements, but from what I have taken (am taking), the classes are top-grade and diverse.
I have decided to double major in Business and Computer Science. In my first year, I have mapped out all the prerequisites I need to take to take major classes in my programs. I've gotten a lot of general requirements done from being enrolled in high school and a community college. Computer science pre-req's require you take a few introduuction classes to the field to expose you to a lot of concepts before delving into the major stuff. If you plan to get a B.S. you will take a few more maths as compared to getting a B.A. This program doesn't need an application process to major in this field and has great professors in every branch of C.S. Then, there's business. The Business School of Kenan-Flagler does require an application process to be admitted into their program, even if you declare it. Usually, you will be admitted your junior year (or spring of your sophmore year). Less than half of the applicants are admitted and it is very competitive. A few pre-req's include Econ 101, Busi 101, and and Econ 410. Business does require more classes than others. So PLEASE, if you can, take one or two pre-req's at a community college or during the summer. Introduction classes, like Econ 101 are huge classes and can chew up your GPA if you let it. If you know these are the majors you want to look into, take the highest maths you can take in high school. Seriously. Either AP or college classes.
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A Record 24 Million Latinos Are Eligible to Vote
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Hispanics will account for three-quarters of the growth in the nation's labor force from 2010 to 2020, according to new projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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A new Pew Hispanic Center analysis of Census Bureau data shows the foreign-born population in the U.S.—39.9 million in 2010—is 1.6% greater than it was in 2009, markedly lower than the reported increase of 4%. The new growth estimate stems from the Center's revisions to the 2009 Census data.


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Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (/ˈstɛfəniː dʒɜːrməˈnɒtə/ STEF-ə-nee jur-mə-NOT-ə; born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her self-empowering messages, fashion, and live performances. Gaga initially performed in theater, appearing in high school plays, and studied at CAP21 through New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before dropping out to pursue a musical career. After leaving a rock band, participating in the Lower East Side's avant garde performance art circuit, and being dropped from a contract with Def Jam Recordings, Gaga worked as a songwriter for Sony/ATV Music Publishing. There, recording artist Akon noticed her vocal abilities and helped her to sign a joint deal with Interscope Records and his own KonLive Distribution.
Her debut album The Fame (2008) was a critical and commercial success that produced global chart-topping singles such as "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". A follow-up EP, The Fame Monster (2009), was met with a similar reception and released the successful singles "Bad Romance", "Telephone", and "Alejandro". Her second full-length album Born This Way was released in 2011, topping the charts in more than 20 countries, including the United States, where it sold over one million copies in its first week. The album produced the number-one single "Born This Way". Her third album Artpop, released in 2013, topped the US charts and included the successful single "Applause". In 2014, Gaga released a collaborative jazz album with Tony Bennett titled Cheek to Cheek, which became her third consecutive number one in the United States. For her work in the television series American Horror Story: Hotel, Gaga won a Golden Globe Award in 2016.
John Felix Anthony Cena (/ˈsiːnə/; born April 23, 1977) is an American professional wrestler, rapper and an actor signed to WWE, but is on hiatus due to injury as of February 2016. Cena is credited by WWE as the public face of that organization, and has served as its franchise player since 2005.
Cena started his pro wrestling career in 1999 with Ultimate Pro Wrestling (UPW), and won its heavyweight title the following year. Cena signed a developmental contract with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later renamed to WWE) in 2001, debuting on the main roster in 2002. As of February 2016, Cena has won 24 championships, with 15 reigns as a world champion; he has won the WWE Championship/WWE World Heavyweight Championship a record of 12 times and the World Heavyweight Championship three times (WWE.com has repeatedly described him as a 15-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion), Cena also had five reigns as United States Champion, and four reigns as world tag team champion (two World Tag Team and two WWE Tag Team). Furthermore, he is a 2012 Money in the Bank ladder match winner, a two-time Royal Rumble winner (2008, 2013), and a three-time Superstar of the Year Slammy Award winner (2009, 2010, 2012).
Randall Keith "Randy" Orton (born April 1, 1980) is an American professional wrestler and actor who has been employed by WWE since 2001, but is on hiatus due to injury as of February 2016. He is a 12-time world champion, having held the WWE World Heavyweight Championship eight times and the World Heavyweight Championship four times. He was the final holder of the World Heavyweight Championship.
Orton is a third-generation professional wrestler; his grandfather Bob Orton, Sr., his father "Cowboy" Bob Orton, and his uncle Barry Orton all competed in the professional wrestling business. Before being promoted to the main World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) roster, Orton trained in and wrestled for Mid-Missouri Wrestling Association-Southern Illinois Conference Wrestling for a month. He was then sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), where he held the OVW Hardcore Championship twice.
Orton became a member of the stable Evolution shortly after his WWE debut, which quickly led to a Intercontinental Championship reign, his first title with the company. He also acquired the moniker "The Legend Killer" during a storyline where he began disrespecting and then physically attacking WWE Hall of Famers and wrestling veterans. At age 24, he became the youngest person ever to hold the World Heavyweight Championship. With this win, he departed from Evolution and a feud with his former stablemates began. In 2006, Orton joined forces with Edge in a tag team known as Rated-RKO. Together, they held the World Tag Team Championship.
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Been gone too long.
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Let's hope your resolution's made.
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We're counting down.
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Where are your friends?
Who are you gonna tell?
Been gone too long.
I guess the time alone will do you well.
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but I wouldn't re-write anything.
Let's hope your resolution's made.
Happy New Year, you're dead to me.
Now that I've set the record straight:
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This Monday night the Westmoreland Supervisors agreed to accept conservation easements in partnership with Northern Neck Land Conservancy. Such partnerships were previously established in neighboring King George, Northumberland and Richmond counties with the Conservancy. A fifth partnership with Lancaster will be ratified at a later date.
Northern Neck Land Conservancy Field Director Joe Thompson returned on Feb. 14 to
field questions associated with the request initially presented in November 2010. The Westmoreland supervisors had delayed action at that time in order to gather additional information concerning potential administrative costs and liabilities.
In the end the board determined that the benefits associated with preservation of open areas outweighed costs of defending easements in the courts. During the 60-day review period it was established that no recorded conservation easement had been challenged in any Virginia court. In the event of a challenge, the Conservancy's local government partner would be charged with defending the easement at public expense.
"The county would be a co-partner with Northern Neck Land Conservancy if the board agrees to accept the conservation easements," explained Westmoreland Planning Director Robert Fink Monday. Fink advised that "legwork would be provided by the Conservancy" and not the County Land Use Office. "Legwork" would include annual site inspections and establishment of best management practices on the easement properties.
Thompson explained that the Conservancy will retain responsibility for developing appropriate management protocols and monitoring duties.
"The county will have the responsibility of defending an easement if there is a challenge," he explained.
After purporting to know of no instance in which an easement had been challenged in a Virginia court, Board Chairman Woody Hynson then asked County Attorney Tom Bondurant to weigh in.
"Putting property aside in a conservation easement is completely voluntary on behalf of the landowner," Bondurant commented.
"There will be no cost to the county but [accepting the Conservancy's request] will enhance the county's ability to maintain an agricultural atmosphere.
"Some board members had concern about the cost of defending an easement, but no [conservation] easement has ever been contested within the commonwealth and no one knew of one being contested in the United States. I don't know how such an easement could be overturned unless it could be established that a person was mentally ill when the property was put in the conservation easement," Bondurant explained.
"We make sure the property owner is comfortable with it," Thompson then stated.
"We view the relationship as a trust the property owners place in us when they move forward."
Thompson further advised that most of the easements involve parcels of at least 100 acres. In those instances, "the easements are usually placed with a state [agency]," but the state does not as readily accept easements involving smaller tracts. The local government and the Conservancy would jointly hold the smaller tract easements the state would not accept," he told the members of the Westmoreland County Board.
"Conservation easements are useful tools to advance a number of useful purposes," interjected Robert Fink.
"And," said Thompson, "we have in-house expertise, so this won't place a burden on the county."
"The board can choose whatever easements they would want to accept," explained County Administrator Norm Risavi.
"As I understand it, the state in only interested in the large parcels and that's why there's a need for the Northern Neck Land Conservancy to come to us with this request," Hynson told the other members of the Board.
Every individual easement has to be voted on by this board. There could be a limit to how much land this county can set aside for tax purposes. A time could come when the county could no longer afford to lose tax revenue."
Easement properties would be included in the Commissioner of Revenue's land use program whose discounted values result in lower real estate tax bills as an incentive for keeping properties in active timber and agricultural production. District 5 Supervisor Larry Roberson was the only Board member who declined to support the partnership.
No public hearing occurred, but several private citizens shared their assessment during the March 14 public comment segment.
Montross Tea Party President Frank Sherman shared concern that conservation easements "represent a departure from the historic picture of land ownership.
"Perpetuity is a long time," Sherman warned, adding that the county's tax base could be greatly impacted by a large number of conservation easements.
"The saving grace would be voting on each easement individually," he advised.
Bill Horn followed Sherman to the podium and remarked that implementation will be crucially important because it's impossible to project conditions forty or fifty years from now.
"There could be a change in situation nationally that could impact certain regions," the New York native told the members of the board.
"Why shackle the hand of a future generation?
"As more land is set aside, taxes will go up for other people."
Prior to voting "present" on the Conservancy request, Roberson commented, "I'm still not comfortable with the request."
"And 'present' is a 'no' vote," Norm Risavi said.


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A bus is a road vehicle that is designed to carry passengers from one destination to the other in Jefferson. Primarily the buses have a capacity of almost 300 passengers. The most-seen bus on the road is the single-decker bus. Since there are huge costs involved in owning, maintaining and driving buses, many contractors usually prefer to hire vehicles from various charter bus companies in Jefferson. The contracts may be either for a day or two, or for a longer agreement basis. In such cases, the charter company provides rental or charter buses along with qualified drivers. Charter bus operators may completely own this business independently.
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Jolene Van Vugt already earns her badass street cred by racing in the professional motocross circuit, and setting records for her back flips. Now she's doing even crazier extreme stunts on Nitro Circus, the new show from the producers of Jackass. Van Vugt parachutes off a bike, flips tricycles and hydroplans her bike over a lake among the show's wild stunts.
Crave Online: So what's the deal, you're so competitive you just need to win any crazy competition you can find?
Jolene Van Vugt: Well, not everything but we're all a group of friends that is competitive with each other so sometimes it's not even really about the stunt. It's just about beating our friends.
Crave Online: How does a tricycle compare to a dirt bike?
Jolene Van Vugt: Well, it's very small, hard to sit on sometimes. I've got no suspension and no motor, so it's a little bit more of a challenge. For instance, when you're hitting jumps, you don't have the throttle power off the lift. It's all about balance and motion. Just sit as far back as you can go and have someone push you as fast as they can go.
Crave Online: You've flipped both though.
Jolene Van Vugt: Well, I didn't actually successfully backflip a big wheel. I crashed. I was injured attempting doing what I was doing but I gave it a shot anyways. Yeah, another day.
Crave Online: Oh, you have to land it too?
Jolene Van Vugt: Well, of course. Isn't that always how it goes? If you're going to go for something, eventually you want to try and do it right.
Crave Online: When will they add parachuting to professional motocross?
Jolene Van Vugt: Officially, I don't think they ever will.
Crave Online: It's pretty badass though.
Jolene Van Vugt: Oh, thanks.
Crave Online: How do you compare the rush of free falling to the speed of riding?
Jolene Van Vugt: Well, they're two completely different separate things. To me, I have a completely different feeling when doing both of them. I've grown up around motorcycle and raced dirt bikes most of my life so for me it's almost second nature. It's a lot different than jumping out of a plane. I'm extremely afraid of heights so jumping out of an airplane for me is a little bit different and a little bit more of a challenge.
Crave Online: Are you still afraid of heights after doing that a few times?
Jolene Van Vugt: Oh yeah. Being afraid of heights doesn't go away. You just get used to it, that's all. You adjust.
Crave Online: How about hanging from the spinning helicopter?
Jolene Van Vugt: That's fun. That's like one of the best things ever. Seriously, that was one of the funnest things I've done. That was really cool actually. I found it really fun and of course we put a challenge in on it. Two people go up, see who can hang on the longest. That's how we work. You always make it a contest. You always make it about who you can beat in the crew.
Crave Online: How are you at handling four wheels with the car race?
Jolene Van Vugt: I actually love the car stuff. I don't think I'm actually too bad at racing cars. I really enjoy it. I've always been a big lover of cars. There's always been a part of me that's always wanted to try racing them so any car stuff that we got to do, I was always really excited and had a good time.
Crave Online: You wiped out on the hydroplane. If you'd made it to the ramp, do you think you'd have made the flip?
Jolene Van Vugt: I'm not sure. It's hard to tell. That's a trick that's never been done. Travis made it to the ramp and didn't make the flip the first time he tried it, so who's to say if I would have done it any better, We'll see in the future, give it another go, see what happens. I would have just liked to have made it to the ramp.
Crave Online: Why didn't you try again?
Jolene Van Vugt: Sometimes the days just don't allow for it. Setups can take up a lot of time. A bike getting bogged down in water, it doesn't take two seconds to get it back up and running. Time just didn't allow for me to give it another shot on that shoot so another day and I'll give it a go.
Crave Online: I like the one with the ski on it.
Jolene Van Vugt: That was Jim, the longest distance hydroplane.
Crave Online: How does that even work?
Jolene Van Vugt: Well, it's just a hydroplane in general. If the ski wasn't there, the bike would've been doing pretty much the same thing. In our opinion, we think the ski actually hindered him and was the reason for why he ended up going down underwater before we anticipated, because the way the ski hit the water, it actually makes the bike jump. Instead of skimming on a flat plane and having a nice consistency, it started bopping. When it started doing that, that's when the front end dropped and it went under water, it lost power.
Crave Online: Did you get to try that one?
Jolene Van Vugt: No, that's on a big huge scary bike that I didn't want to go on. That was on a pretty intimidating bike and for never doing a hydroplane before, I wasn't ready to mount up onto that sucker and hit the water going fifth gear.
Crave Online: Is it more fun to do the stunts or watch them?
Jolene Van Vugt: It's a little of both. We all enjoy doing them and we all want to do them. A lot of the times, there's, "Oh, I want to do that one first. Oh, I want to do that first." Sometimes there's, "I'm not going first. No, you're going to go first." That's just the way it is and sometimes they're a lot more fun to watch than they are to do. I mean, sometimes you get hurt, no matter what the stunt is. There's a huge possibility for getting hurt but sometimes there's no way about it. You are going to get hurt and yes, people don't always line up first for those ones but they're sure funny to watch when your friends doing wrong.
Crave Online: How good are you at coming up with one-liners on the sidelines?
Jolene Van Vugt: Hey, I try my best. I don't always claim myself to be the funniest. Andy and Tommy seem to be pretty good at it. I have my moments. Sometimes I'm funny and sometimes I just don't say anything because I don't even have the words.
Crave Online: How were the crossfire waterslides?
Jolene Van Vugt: Slip and Slide is actually one of my little things in the Nitro videos. I'm always in the clips for the Slip and Slide. When you're a little kid you find those little yellow Slip and Slides to be the most amazing thing in the world and all they are is on a flat piece of grass in your backyard. Add 10 years to your age and a hill and some jumps, it's the same amount of wow.
Crave Online: What won't you do?
Jolene Van Vugt: I mean, everyone's got their limits. I don't really know what mine are sometimes and I know exactly what mine are in other aspects. It all depends on the stunt. A stunt has to be brought forward and then I make my judgment on that.
Crave Online: What's coming up in future episodes?
Jolene Van Vugt: Oh, that you'll have to stay tuned and watch.
Crave Online: How will you top these?
Jolene Van Vugt: I don't know. We just keep doing what we're doing and somehow we keep managing to come up with things that just go a little further each time.
Crave Online: Are you worried an injury on this could hurt your professional career?
Jolene Van Vugt: There's always that, but anything can. There's always risk for injury with doing anything and I've been racing a really long time and have had a lot of fun doing that. This for me is another part of my life that I really enjoy and have been doing for a while. I'm going to do both of them as long as I can and when one interferes with the other, you just kind of take your bumps when you come. If that happens I'll deal with it at the time, but until them I'll just keep plugging away doing the best I can in both.
Crave Online: How do you prepare for the pro circuit in May?
Jolene Van Vugt: Training, riding the bike, racing with people that push me and help me to get a little better, training in the gym with my trainer and my friends, getting physically and mentally fit and then just going out there and doing the best I can.
Crave Online: What are your goals for this year?
Jolene Van Vugt: We hope that Nitro Circus goes for a second season. I hope to place podium in the Canadian National Series. I want to get out there and race as many of the WMA pro races that I can do and hope to qualify for the X Games in motocross.
Crave Online: How do you learn to get faster? The bike must have its own limits so how do you learn to push it for an extra edge?
Jolene Van Vugt: It's all skill. Learning to ride smoother, learning to corner better, faster, properly, jumping, scrubbing time when you're in the air. There's starts, getting good starts, having the endurance to race as fast as you did in the first lap on the last lap 20 minutes later. There are a lot of things you can always improve with athletic sports, especially with motocross. You just find the things that are your weaknesses and you work on them.
Crave Online: Has Nitro Circus helped you any on the pro scene?
Jolene Van Vugt: I mean, it helps make people more aware of who I am. It's brought a little more awareness to women's motocross because we're able to put women riding in the videos and people see me in the videos and they associate me with riding, so that's good for the women in the sport. Like you said before though, with taking my bumps and bruises in Nitro Circus, sometimes it doesn't help your training when it comes to motocross. It's got its positives, it's got a little bit of its negatives, but I don't really see them as negatives. I just see it as opportunities, the great things I love to do.
Crave Online: If you've done the back flip, shouldn't that make you number one?
Jolene Van Vugt: No, if you look at the men, Ricky Carmichael's never done a back flip and he's the greatest of all time in motocross. There are guys that do back flips on a regular basis and I don't think they've ever won a national championship racing a dirt bike. So they're two different sports, they have two different titles and they take two different types of training so doing flips doesn't make you a champion of any sort for racing dirt bikes. You have to put the time and the work in for that specific sport. Motocross and freestyle are two separate sports.
Crave Online: Have Jeff Tremaine and Johnny Knoxville mentioned getting you into any Jackass stunts?
Jolene Van Vugt: No, we haven't really talked about stuff like that just because Jackass is Jackass and Nitro Circus is Nitro Circus. We've got our show going right now. We bring in a Knoxville and we bring in a few other special guests from Jackass so maybe in the future, yeah, maybe they'll have us come in on some Jackass stuff. We don't know.


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Abstract: Whitmer, TD, Fry, AC, Forsythe, CM, Andre, MJ, Lane, MT, Hudy, A, and Honnold, DE. Accuracy of a vertical jump contact mat for determining jump height and flight time. J Strength Cond Res 29(4): 877–881, 2015—Several devices are available to measure vertical jump (VJ) height based on flight time, VJ reach height, or ground reaction forces. The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of a VJ mat for measuring flight time and VJ height compared with a VJ tester or a force plate. Seventeen men and 18 women (X ± SD; age = 20.9 ± 0.7 years, height = 176.1 ± 0.9 cm, weight = 72.6 ± 13.5 kg) served as subjects. Subjects performed counter-movement vertical jumps while standing on both a force plate (1,000 Hz) and a VJ mat. A Vertec VJ tester was used to measure jump reach. Compared with the force plate, the VJ mat reported greater VJ height (VJ mat = 0.50 ± 0.12 m, force plate = 0.34 ± 0.10 m) and flight time (VJ mat = 0.629 ± 0.078 seconds, force plate = 0.524 ± 0.077 seconds). Comparison of VJ heights from the VJ mat and the Vertec revealed no significant differences (Vertec = 0.48 ± 0.11 m). Regression analyses indicated strong relationships between testing methods and suggested that high VJ performances may be underestimated with the VJ mat. This particular VJ mat compared favorably with the Vertec but not the force plate. It seems that the different flight times derived from the VJ mat may permit the VJ mat to be in closer agreement with VJ heights from the Vertec. Also, the VJ mat may not be an appropriate tool for assessing high VJ performances (i.e., ≥0.70 m; ≈28 inches). Practitioners and researchers using similar VJ mats may not obtain accurate flight times and may underestimate high performers.
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Ava does have a point, like it or not . . .
Hey-they look good witb clothes on-modern is
becoming to Alley and Oola.
Alley's axe shouldn't set off the alarm.
What will happens if the Security Guard see it ?
Where are-You ?
I hope you are fine.
Alternate Alley Oop Chapter 15 "House of the Worm"(117) 11/27/2012
Panel One
Dr. Tucker, with Lavainge's help, do something to the PNE gun then abruptly gets up telling them all to "RUN!" They do, with Alley picking up his club as he does it. We see that whole boards are all lit up red, and one flashing around the battery readings. It says "Overload in progress."
Panel Two
"What did you do?!" The Baroness shouts as they start to run from the horror oozing toward them at increasing speed. Ahead of them are swarms of creatures, some manufactured from animal parts and animated by either the necromancers or Dr. Havelone's secret reanimation technology.
Panel Three
They run past Dr. Havelone's dust sprinkled and web shrouded lab long in disuse as they hurry to reach the stairs that takes them to the basement of the old edifice. The PNE gun flashes red and has a harsh warning sound with each flash as they run and blob of ectoplasm engulfs it.
Had to get up early for doctor's appointment.
He left the axe in the car. Yesterday.
At least Alley already has his shoes off (see yesterday's strip). That should speed up the process by at least ninety seconds.
Another day with nothing happening.
Security will look at Alley's feet and assume he's a poet.
When the Security Guard sees that Alley has bare feet, he'll probably force Alley to fill out a five page disclaimer which will take an hour to complete!
And the Benders will make that hour last five days.
OK, you're fine !
What bare feet? you can't even see them.
I notice Ooola is wearing pants!
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