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With the state Legislature approving $3.6 million for preliminary work on the Kihei-Upcountry highway earlier this month, it appears the project is finally moving ahead, more than 30 years after the new highway was first conceived.
But Maui residents shouldn't expect the 9.6-mile highway - from Haleakala Highway's intersection with Haliimaile Road to the Piilani Highway and Kaonoulu Road intersection in Kihei - to be constructed anytime soon, state Department of Transportation officials said.
"We need to stress it is really preliminary," department spokeswoman Caroline Sluyter said Friday.
And that may come as a relief to some residents who remain opposed to the project and its current design.
Funding is a major hurdle, which is why it has stalled in the past, Sluyter said. The project's final environmental impact statement was completed in 2002, with state officials saying then they hoped construction would begin in 2004 and finish in 2007.
According to the DOT, the estimated cost for all three of the project's construction phases is $200 million, with 80 percent coming from the federal government and 20 percent from the state.
Speaking as an individual and not on behalf of his organization, Kihei Community Association President Mike Moran pointed out that he hasn't seen any traffic studies for the Kihei-Upcountry highway, but he's concerned about more traffic coming to already-congested Kihei. More people in South Maui also could contribute to overcrowding at the region's public parks, he said.
Moran said he prefers another alternative for the highway's South Maui terminus, moving it farther south to allow more direct access to Wailea and Makena and giving people in those areas another escape route in an emergency.
For example, he cited a recent traffic fatality that shut down Piilani Highway and caused "mass gridlock for several hours."
The terminus at Piilani Highway and Kaonoulu Road would have been impacted by that highway shutdown, he said.
"If we think what if it were a big natural catastrophe, a tsunami or earthquake. People would be trapped," Moran said.
Kula resident Shelley Maddigan said she is concerned that the highway could bring more traffic to Upcountry and disturb the rural lifestyle there.
"Personally, I can see the need for it . . . with more residents on the island and developments that are planned," Maddigan said. "But, in my heart, I really don't really think it's a good thing for Upcountry."
Maddigan serves as president of the Kula Community Association, but she was speaking as an individual.
She added that she was concerned about tourists navigating Upcountry's narrow and winding roads.
While the county has the Maui Bus, Maddigan said the state and county need to do more to provide "decent transportation" for tourists and residents to take more cars off the road.
Alleviating traffic on Maui's roads is one reason for the highway, according to the final environmental impact statement for the two-lane, Kihei-Upcountry highway. Other reasons include establishing a direct road between Upcountry and South Maui, providing another coastal evacuation route and supporting economic development.
"Although it is still in the preliminary stages, the Upcountry highway project is moving forward," DOT Director Glenn Okimoto said in an email. "This is an important connecting roadway for the people of Maui and will eventually provide a much-needed corridor between Kihei and Upcountry that will save travel time and help to reduce traffic congestion."
The $3.6 million proposed for the highway in Gov. Neil Abercrombie's recent budget and subsequently approved by the Legislature will be used to assist with the land acquisition for the highway.
Out of the $3.6 million allowed to be spent on the project, $2.88 million is federal funding and $720,000 is state funding, officials said.
The highway will cross properties owned by Alexander & Baldwin, Kaonoulu Ranch and Haleakala Ranch, said Charlene Shibuya, DOT Highways Division assistant Maui District engineer/construction engineer.
In all, the state is seeking to purchase an estimated 437 acres, she added. The road will not go through residential areas, but it will run through cane fields and uncultivated open ranch lands.
The state is in the preliminary design phase of the roadway and in right-of-way negotiations.
This includes negotiating access crossings, irrigation and ditch crossing easements and other ways to reduce the new highway's impact on agricultural operations and cattle ranches.
Some sections of the 2002 environmental impact statement will need to be updated as the highway's design is completed, Shibuya added.
The state is targeting funding for federal fiscal year 2014, which runs from Oct. 1 through Sept. 30, 2014. That funding would be contingent on completing all land acquisitions, utility easements and updating the environmental impact statement.
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When nearly 200 members of the Warren Easton Charter High School Class of 2014 entered the University of New Orleans Lakefront Arena for their graduation ceremony Monday morning, they had no idea their pal Sandra Bullock was going to be there to celebrate with them.
Hidden from the crowd, Bullock stood on the side of the stage and clapped for the graduates before emerging and being introduced to thunderous applause.
"You know at Warren Easton, you are loved and appreciated and supported for what you have to offer," she told the students. "I was trying to remember my graduation and, oddly, I couldn't remember anything. I remembered how good I looked and then I went back and looked at pictures and I really didn't look so good."
She added, "I didn't remember anything, because I was so worried about the future."
Bullock, 49, who adopted the school after it was heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to help rebuild the historic campus, pay for band uniforms and athletic equipment, and has also helped to open a health clinic at the school, as well as funded scholarships for graduating seniors.
Easton is the oldest public high school in Louisiana, and Bullock, who received a People's Choice Award for her work there, told PEOPLE in 2010 that she adopted the school after Katrina because she "felt such a profound need to do something for them."
Bullock's connection to New Orleans strengthened when she adopted her son, Louis, 4, there. She also owns a home in the Garden District.
Don't WorryShe also told the kids, noting this is something she also has told her son Louis over the past four years, "Stop worrying so much. I don't remember any of the moments in my life where I worried. Raise the bar higher. Nothing is a failure it's just not supposed to work out."
In addition, she found time to mention: "Eat something green every day. Do not pick your nose in public. How about we just go get a tissue? When someone who cares about you hugs you, hug them back. If someone doesn't want to play with you, it's okay. Not everybody is going to love us.
"And last but not least go find your joy. It's what you're going to remember in the end. It's not the worry, it's not the what-ifs. It's the joy that stays with you. And I want to thank you for the joy that Warren Easton brings me every day."


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MOTLEY, Ronald Lee, 68, of Charleston, a lawyer, founder of MotleyRice LLC and husband of Stephanie Poston Motley, died Thursday. Arrangements by Stuhr's Downtown Chapel.
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BUSH, Kenneth Dale, 80, of Bonneau, a retired staff sergeant with the Air Force, Charleston Air Force Base retiree and husband of Ruth E. Raulerson Bush, died Thursday. Arrangements by Dial-Murray Funeral Home of Moncks Corner.
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Is Antitrust Too Complicated for Generalist Judges? The Impact of Economic Complexity & Judicial Training on Appeals
Michael R. Baye
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Business Economics & Public Policy
Joshua D. Wright
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
January 27, 2009
Journal of Law and Economics, Forthcoming
George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 09-07
The recent increase in the demand for expert economic analysis in antitrust litigation has improved the welfare of economists; however, the law and economics literature is silent on the effects of economic complexity or judges' economic training on judicial decision-making. We use a unique data set on antitrust litigation in federal district and administrative courts during 1996-2006 to examine whether economic complexity impacts antitrust decisions, and provide a novel test of the hypothesis that antitrust analysis has become too complex for generalist judges. We also examine the impact of basic economic training by judges. We find that decisions involving the evaluation of complex economic evidence are significantly more likely to be appealed, and decisions of judges trained in basic economics are significantly less likely to be appealed than are decisions by their untrained counterparts. Our analysis supports the hypothesis that some antitrust cases are too complicated for generalist judges.
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Being on Splash was a matter of life or death to Kendra Wilkinson.
The reality star, 27, who stepped down from ABC's diving competition on Tuesday, tells PEOPLE, "I feel like the world is off my shoulders now. Every morning I would wake up and be shaking. It's a really risky show. I related jumping off the high board into the water to jumping to my death. That's how big of a deal it was. To me, it really meant risking my life."
A teary-eyed Wilkinson climbed down from the 23-foot platform on Tuesday's show, and said, "One thing I don't do is quit. This is the first time in my life I've quit something. This will haunt me for the rest of my life."
Wilkinson, a veteran in the water, thought she'd be doing aquatic activity when she signed up for the series.
"I love to be in the pool," she says. "I was always a swimmer, but this is an aerial sport. I didn't know that until I signed up. I thought it was swimming. But then I was like, 'Wow, this is acrobatics. This is what you see in the circus."
Despite some hate for quitting the show, Wilkinson says the positive has definitely outweighed the negative.
"People link quitting to failure," she explains. "But on the other hand, I think people understood. After I quit, I expected the world to fall down on me and it actually ended up being the opposite. It's one of those situations either you understand or you don't. If you don't, you hate me. And if you do, you love me."
But the former Girls Next Door star understands what is behind the hate.
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"The reality of the situation is I was truly afraid and could not fulfill my role on the show and had to let it go. There were other contestants who truly wanted to win. I just wanted to get over my fear of heights. I wasn't on there to be competitive."
The best support of all has come from not only Wilkinson's husband, Hank Baskett, but also her fellow contestants.
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You can always count on Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic and Delone Catholic meeting for the championship of the Jim Ellis Shootout.
Well, almost always.
When the state small school girls basketball powerhouses hooked up in Saturday afternoon's title tilt, it marked the fifth straight year and sixth time in the last seven the two met with the tournament crown on the line.
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Bishop Guilfoyle's Kayla Bates drives to the basket against Delone Catholic in the first quarter of the Jim Ellis Shootout girls game Saturday afternoon at the Pleasant Valley gymnasium.
BG kept the championship trophy at home this time, holding off the Squirettes, 49-42, at the Pleasant Valley gym.
"It was a good win against a quality team," BG coach Mark Moschella said.
"The difference between this year's [championship] game and last year was their outside shooting," Delone coach Gerry Eckenrode said.
BG jumped out to a 19-12 lead in the first quarter Saturday as Devin Stessney and Halee Adams combined for all 19 points.
Delone started the game in a zone and Stessney hit 4-for-4 from behind the 3-point arc in the opening quarter. Adams opened the game with a trey and added a putback and a layup off a steal before the first quarter ended.
"It seemed like we did just enough in the first quarter, with the big start from Devin [Stessney]," Moschella said. "It was real big and might have got them out of a zone, but he [Eckenrode] knew he had to stay patient."
Stessney, who finished with 15 points and was named to the all-tournament team, took advantage of Delone's zone.
"They were just falling, I guess," Stessney said of her 3-point barrage in the first quarter. "I was feeling it."
Stessney wasn't surprised Delone was able to stay close most of the game.
"They're a good team, but we were ready for them," she added.
Delone didn't have the quickness or athletes to play BG straight up.
"We didn't think we could match up, especially with [Elyssa] Ehredt, Adams and [Kayla] Bates off the dribble," Eckenrode said, "so that's why we played a zone.
"They shot the ball well the first half, and that was the difference in the game - their outside shooting," said Eckenrode, a 1969 Bishop Guilfoyle grad who has won three PIAA Class AA state championships during his 14-year career at Delone.
Although BG led from the first quarter, the Squirettes wouldn't go away, and stayed within striking distance most of the time.
The Marauders got a key 3-pointer from Brittany Boslet to end the third quarter, and take a 42-34 advantage into the final eight minutes.
"That was a big shot from Brittany to end the third quarter," Moschella said, "but we just couldn't seem to put them away.
"We couldn't knock them out, and that's a tribute to how good they are."
Delone used its size advantage to control the boards, although Moschella thought his club did a better job in the second half when he switched Adams inside.
Adams converted two free throws to make it a 10-point spread [44-34] with 2:35 left, and the Marauders sank five free ones in the final 64 seconds to seal it.
Adams finished with a game-high 21 points [16-of-23 free throws] and was named tournament MVP for the second time in three years.
"All in all, I thought we kept our composure," Moschella said after the Lady Marauders improved to 9-1.
Eckenrode also was pleased, even though the Squirettes fell to 7-2.
"I thought we played well," said Eckenrode. "Even though we have a lot of seniors, we're still a young team.
"Mark [Moschella] did a great job," Eckenrode continued. "They held the ball on us [early in the fourth quarter], but I wanted to shorten the game. I figured our best chance to win was at the end of the game.
"I was pleased with the effort. We had some opportunities, but we just lost to a great basketball team," Eckenrode added.
Game notes: Besides Adams and Stessney, other all-tourney picks included BG's Boslet, Delone's Bethany Ball, Maddie Comly and Abbey Sponseller and Bishop Walsh's Ally Simpson. ... BG's Ehredt won the hustle award. ... Lady Marauders return to action at Penn Cambria next Friday.
DELONE CATHOLIC (42): Comly 3 6-6 12, Gingrow 3 1-2 7, Sponseller 4 0-0 10, Ball 3 0-0 6, Mall 2 0-0 4, Ugarte 0 0-0 0, Becker 0 1-2 1, Wilson 0 2-2 2, Durbin 0 0-0 0, Thomas 0 0-0 0, Laughman 0 0-0 0. Totals - 15 10-12 42.
BISHOP GUILFOYLE CATHOLIC (49): Ehredt 0 1-2 1, Bates 2 0-0 5, Boslet 1 2-2 5, Stessney 5 1-2 15, H. Adams 4 12-17 21, Miller 1 0-0 2, Craig 0 0-0 0. Totals - 13 16-23 49.
Delone Catholic12 12 10 8 - 42
Bishop Guilfoyle19 12 11 7 - 49
3-point goals: Delone 2 (Sponseller 2); Bishop Guilfoyle 7 (Stessney 4, Bates, Boslet, Adams).
Officials: Thompson, Searer, Heider.
Records: Delone Catholic (7-2); Bishop Guilfoyle (9-1).


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What's your number?
You're supposed to answer 10 questions about yourself, so here goes:
1) Favorite Color: Pink & Orange (in that order)
2) Favorite Animal: Dog
3) Favorite Number: 8
4) Favorite (non-adult) drink: Water? Diet Coke? Green smoothie?
5) Facebook or Twitter? Twitter
6) Passion: Writing, Running
7) Giving or receiving presents? Giving
8) Favorite Pattern: Plaid or solids (I'm not really a pattern person.)
9) Favorite Day: My birthday
10) Favorite Flower: Hyacinths and sunflowers
Because I know you were dying to know the answers to these questions.... Here are the lovely ladies that I'm tagging in this fun and quick q&a!
Valerie, Sherri Lynn, Leah, Jess, Stephanie, Ashley, and Carrie!
19 comments:
- Leah said...
Yay, thanks for tagging me. I love these :) (Nerd alert)
- March 13, 2012 at 9:06 AM
- Beth Dunn said...
Love your answers!
- March 13, 2012 at 9:31 AM
- Natalie said...
What you love pink? I had no idea :)
- March 13, 2012 at 9:33 AM
- Ashley @ The Sweet Life said...
Oh, heeey! Thanks for tagging me :)
- March 13, 2012 at 9:40 AM
- Courtney B said...
Pinnnnnk! Just another reason why I love you :) I'm trying to get my passion back for running, I really am. (stupid knee injury) I just bought new running shoes a week ago so here's hoping I can get back into it!
- March 13, 2012 at 10:20 AM
- amy b.s. said...
i too would much prefer to give than receive. i find that the most fun.
- March 13, 2012 at 10:32 AM
- Valerie Griffin said...
thanks for tagging!
these are the same questions for the sunshine award!
- March 13, 2012 at 10:36 AM
- Elle Sees said...
I can't stand Facebook! I quit two years ago and don't miss it at all
- March 13, 2012 at 12:01 PM
- Jess said...
Woohooooo! Thanks for tagging me, sweets!
- March 13, 2012 at 12:06 PM
- Ruthie Hart said...
When I saw the title of this post I was thinking OMG is she talking about number of partners?! then I remembered you were classy ;-)
- March 13, 2012 at 12:31 PM
- lil desiqua said...
Haha, I thought the same as Ruthie Hart above!! Glad you didn't mean that though! Just curious, what's a green smoothie?
Have a great day!
- March 13, 2012 at 1:12 PM
- Kristin said...
I love anything plaid. And I'm glad I'm not the only person with 2 favorite colors. Sometimes I just can't decide between purple and pink!
- March 13, 2012 at 1:14 PM
- Carrie {Living It Up in U.P.} said...
Thanks for the tag! I'm so bad, if I answer honestly I totally like receiving gifts more than giving gifts. But I'm a giver too!
- March 13, 2012 at 1:15 PM
- poptartyogini said...
I was wondering if anyone else liked to get presents. Thank goodness Carrie does too. It makes me feel special when I know someone thought about me and what I'd like. While I'm kind of a tomboy, I'm a tomboy who likes pink too!
- March 13, 2012 at 1:34 PM
- Hilliary@ Happily Ever Healthy said...
Great answers! My favorite colors are pink and orange too (also love navy)! Its the best color combination in my eye!
- March 13, 2012 at 4:09 PM
- Amy Powell said...
You have won 2 giveaways from me haven't you? I'm not telling you about the next one :-p
Thanks for playing along! Love seeing your answers!
- March 13, 2012 at 6:56 PM
- Danielle said...
This is so fun! Love hearing about blog friends :) Your blog is adorable!
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- March 15, 2012 at 2:59 AM
- sherri lynn said...
Oh I love that your favorite day is your birthday! It's coming up :) And hey my favorite number is 8 too! we were meant to be friends :)
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That's how we enthusiastically feel about one of our favorite websites celebrating its first birthday. HumaneWatch.org turned 1 recently, and what a present it has been for everyone who hates deceptive and misrepresentative attacks on animal agriculture by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).
If you've never visited the site and read its blog, if a day is going poorly and you need a pick-me-up, go take a look for a few minutes. It'll probably fire you up in a very good way. To commemorate its anniversary of being a watchdog exposing the true colors of HSUS, HumaneWatch.org renewed its public pledge to forever shut down its site if HSUS promised to give 50 percent of its budget to animal shelters.
Crickets are chirping amid the silence from HSUS.
The website calls HSUS "a humane society in name only" and is relentless in its efforts to expose it as a donation-generating money machine that actually contributes more to its executive pension program than it does to animal shelters. HumaneWatch.org says from 1998 to 2009 the pension fund grand total was winning $14.8 million to $16.3 million. It also says that, according to a 2009 consolidated financial statement, HSUS was worth $191.3 million and had a budget of $121 million. Total contributions to animal shelters that year were $976,775 – less than 1 percent of its budget.
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May is National Mental Health Awareness Month and NAMI is celebrating by launching a brand new health insurance coverage campaign and website: Got You Covered!
Today it takes an average of eight to 10 years after symptoms of mental illness emerge to get an accurate diagnosis, much less treatment. Health insurance is costly, hard to get, hard to keep and often does not cover needed care.
The future looks brighter because new health insurance options are coming this fall to help over 11 million uninsured Americans with mental health conditions get the care they need. The new insurance comes as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), passed by Congress and signed into law by the president in 2010. The purpose of the ACA is to make sure that all Americans have access to affordable health insurance.
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A lot of people (well, maybe not the ones who regularly read blogs like this) think of animal shelters as safe places for strays and pets people can no longer keep. After all, it's called a SHELTER, right? Folks believe that if they need to rehome a pet, the staff at the shelter will do everything they can because nobody WANTS to kill animals, right?
Unfortunately, the reality at most kill pounds is that owner surrenders are the first to go. In NC, there is no law requiring that the shelter hold, evaluate or attempt to find homes for these pets, and the easiest and cheapest way to deal with them is to kill them immediately. (Well, OK, there sort of is a law, but it's got big holes in it and no actual enforcement, so it may as well not exist.) So in pounds where the director is dedicated to doing what's easiest and cheapest, that's what happens.
A few pounds acknowledge the truth to surrendering owners, telling them their pet will most likely be killed. Some lie and let people surrendering pets believe pound staff will find the animal a new home, when staffers know perfectly well the animal will be marched straight to the kill table. Which is preferable?
Consider what happened to Danielle at the Wake County pound (2011 kill rate: 49.82%). Danielle's family had to move into a small apartment and she believed her 2-year-old dog, Tucker, would be happier in a home with a yard. So she took him to the Wake pound thinking they would be able to find a better home for him. "I thought, as did everyone else I asked prior to making this choice, that the shelter was a selfless option for rehoming our beloved dog. Based on the website, they made the adoption section to look like a positive way to do things. I thought that was the step in finding a better home for your loved animal," Danielle said.
"The Shelter greeted us with smiles, and appeared on the outside to be a great choice," Danielle said. "They then killed my dog in less than an hour of him being there."
Danielle called twice in the hour after she dropped Tucker off to see if staff had deemed him eligible for adoption.
I called immediately after I got home from dropping him off to see how he was doing and if he was okay because I was worried. They told me he was "great and his picture would be posted on line within a half hour, if not feel free to call back." I waited 30 minutes, no picture, so I called again trying to get through. When I got through to a staff member at the office, I asked how he was again. She said he was still processing, then told me to hold on. She got back on the phone and said, "he actually is about to be euthanized, not adopted." I was in complete shock and said "Can I please reclaim him?!" She said yes, and I told her I was on my way. By the time I ran my son out to the car and my husband was walking to the car with my baby, she called me and said "don't bother coming, he's gone." I cried and pleaded with her that I just brought him there and it was impossible. The staff doted on how sweet he was and acted like they were a warm, loving, rehoming facility. An image that was completely false behind closed doors, I now know.
Danielle went back to the Wake pound to pick up Tucker's body and asked staff why they couldn't let him live. "The director stated they didn't have to call me per their policy. I asked her why a simple phone call couldn't be made or a note in the computer that I was calling, and I expressed I didn't want him euthanized from the beginning when I brought him in. The director said it happened too fast to stop it. My point exactly, they killed him in less than an hour. I cried to the director this morning and pleaded with her to make a change where they inform the owner before euthanizing. I pray that it happens."*
It happened too fast to stop it. As if the killing at her pound were completely out of the director's control. As if she were just the powerless servant of the big killing monster in the back, who gobbles up all the fresh owner-surrendered pets before anyone can stop him.
Cut to Alamance county: Pam Lee (yes, that Pam Lee), was looking for her lost cat Sassy** at Burlington Animal Services (2011 kill rate: 70.9%) when she saw an elderly man sitting in the lobby filling out paperwork:
I smiled at him and asked him how he was doing, to which he replied, "Not very well, I'm afraid." I asked him what was wrong and he told me that due to their health and age, he and his wife were having to surrender their two beloved cats to the shelter. They had run an ad in the paper, but got no response, so they didn't know anything else to do. He was under the impression that the shelter would put them up for adoption and help find them homes. I told him this would not happen and to not surrender the cats; I would take them with me.
At that point, the lady working in the front came into the waiting room and let him know that they were full to capacity and his pets would probably be euthanized as soon as he surrendered them. He was horrified and I saw tears come to his eyes. She then told us that if we wanted to make a "deal" for the cats to go to the parking lot and discuss it and they would just tear up the paperwork he was filling out. He handed her the incomplete papers and went to the parking lot with me. He had one of the cats with him: a beautiful fat 7-1/2-year-old lilac point Siamese named Lily.
Pam took Lily home and picked up the couple's other cat, a 4-year-old male named Charlie, a couple of days later.
"The shelter was accommodating on this transaction, although they made it pretty clear that they would make no effort to find these cats homes," Pam said.
Burlington Animal Services is a high-kill pound, but at least they don't lie to to surrendering owners:
(They do, however, lie to potential adopters who want to save pets scheduled for death.)
Of course, this whole discussion would be moot if the Wake County and Burlington pounds were to join the growing ranks of shelters across the country who have stopped killing healthy and treatable pets. Instead of being greeted by cheerful lies or devastating truths, Danielle would have spoken to a staff member about programs designed to help her keep Tucker if possible, or she would have been asked if Tucker could stay with her family while the shelter helped find him a new home. Or if no other solution could be found, they could have told Danielle a truth everyone could be happy with: "We don't kill healthy pets like Tucker."
*Danielle said the Wake pound director left her a voice mail saying that they are going to adjust their policies regarding owner surrenders.
**Pam went to BAS three times a week looking for her lost Sassy, who finally turned up back at home on Nov. 18, after being gone for three weeks.


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Eighteen Students from Across the Midwest Selected to Lead Healthy Changes in their Schools, States and Throughout the Country as Part of the Fuel Up to Play 60 Program
Midwest Dairy Council and the NFL Select 18 Midwest Students to Serve as Fuel Up to Play 60 National and State Ambassadors and Attend a National Leadership Summit
Eighteen students from across the Midwest have been selected to serve as National and State Ambassadors for Fuel Up to Play 60, an in-school nutrition and physical activity program created in partnership with Midwest Dairy Council and the NFL, in collaboration with USDA. Fuel Up to Play 60 encourages students to eat healthy, be active and make positive, healthy changes in their schools and communities. They are:
National Ambassadors
Robbie Sadoski – Manfield, Arkansas
Shauna Gilles – Plainfield, Illinois
Rachael Byl – Waverly/Shell Rock, Iowa
Rachael Odhiambo – Affton, Missouri State Ambassadors
Cainin Whisenant – Morrilton, Arkansas
Taylor Healy – Chicago, Illinois
Lexus Carpenter – Waverly/Shell Rock, Iowa
Jessica Usdanksy – Olathe, Kansas
Andrew Gorton – Maple Grove, Minnesota
Tim Keran – Coon Rapids, Minnesota
Joey Moorkamp – Grover, Missouri
James (Solaris) Anderson – Omaha, Nebraska
Gavin McCoy – Weston, Nebraska
Olivia Larson – West Fargo, North Dakota
Garret Holman – Locust Grove, Oklahoma
Lynzie Jenkins – Locust Grove, Oklahoma
Carolyne Burdick – Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Mitch Eichacker – Sioux Falls, South Dakota
"We are so excited to welcome this amazing group of young people into their new leadership roles," said Melissa Young, director of health and wellness for Midwest Dairy Council. "These outstanding students have shown a great passion for Fuel Up to Play 60, and we're delighted that they've chosen to inspire their peers and communities to eat healthy and get active. I look forward to seeing all that they accomplish in the upcoming school year."
Five National Ambassadors and 54 State Ambassadors from across the country lead the Fuel Up to Play 60 Student Ambassador Program, which engages youth directly as leaders to increase access to nutrient-rich foods and 60 minutes of physical activity at school. From smoothie stations to walking clubs, Fuel Up to Play 60 helps students create healthier school environments in nearly 73,000 schools nationwide. The program also encourages and recognizes schools and students with rewards, such as a trip to the Super Bowl, official NFL gear and NFL player appearances.
Selected from a nationwide search that drew more than 1,000 applicants, these State and National Ambassadors recently returned from a four-day Student Ambassador Summit for Fuel Up to Play 60 in Charlotte, N.C. at Bank of America Stadium, home of the Carolina Panthers. The annual Summit brought together Fuel Up to Play 60 student leaders and adult educators who are committed to improving their school and community by eating smart and staying active. Ambassadors had the opportunity to participate in football drills led by Carolina Panthers players Ben Hartsock, Steve Smith and Luke Kuechly. The popular NFL players also shared their advice on the importance of eating nutrient-rich foods and getting active every day. Ambassadors and Program Advisors also collaborated to create a unified declaration, which will guide their efforts in leading the program during the upcoming school year. These Ambassadors are now armed with essential leadership skills and resources to bring that declaration to life and enact healthy changes in their schools.
For more information about Fuel Up to Play 60 and the Student Ambassador Program, visit www.FuelUpToPlay60.com or find us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/FuelUpToPlay60.
Midwest Dairy Council®, an affiliate of National Dairy Council, is the nutrition education division of Midwest Dairy Association. The Council is dedicated to dairy nutrition research and education through the investment of more than 9,500 dairy farm families across 10 Midwestern states, and is committed to child health and wellness through our collaborative program, Fuel Up to Play 60. For more information, visit www.midwestdairy.com. Follow us on Twitter and find us on Facebook at Midwest Dairy.
About Fuel Up to Play 60
Fuel Up to Play 60 is an in-school nutrition and physical activity program launched by National Dairy Council (NDC) and National Football League (NFL), with additional partnership support from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The program encourages youth to consume nutrient-rich foods (low-fat and fat-free dairy, fruits, vegetables and whole grains) and achieve at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day.
Fuel Up to Play 60 is designed to engage and empower youth to take action for their own health by implementing long-term, positive changes for themselves and their schools. Customizable and non-prescriptive program components are grounded in research with youth, including tools and resources, in-school promotional materials, a website and student challenges. Fuel Up to Play 60 is further supported by several health and nutrition organizations: Action for Healthy Kids, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, National Hispanic Medical Association, National Medical Association and School Nutrition Association. Visit FuelUpToPlay60.com to learn more.
About NFL PLAY 60
Designed to help tackle childhood obesity, NFL PLAY 60 brings together the NFL's long-standing commitment to health and fitness with partner organizations like the National Dairy Council. NFLPLAY 60 is also implemented locally, as part of the NFL's in-school, after-school and team-based programs. For more information, visit NFLRush.com.
About National Dairy Council
National Dairy Council® (NDC), the non-profit organization funded by the national dairy checkoff program, is committed to nutrition education and research-based communications. NDC provides science-based nutrition information to, and in collaboration with, a variety of stakeholders committed to fostering a healthier nation, including health professionals, educators, school nutrition directors, academia, industry, consumers and media. Established in 1915, NDC comprises a staff of registered dietitians and nutrition research and communications experts across the country. NDC has taken a leadership role in promoting child health and wellness through programs such as Fuel Up to Play 60. Developed by NDC and the National Football League (NFL), Fuel Up to Play 60 encourages youth to consume nutrient-rich foods and achieve at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day. For more information, visit www.NationalDairyCouncil.org.


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Load of glass tipped onto 21-year-old
A 21-year-old Sonoma County man has been crushed to death at the Santa Rosa glass company where he only had worked for four weeks.
The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa reports that the Thermalsun Glass Products employee was using a cart to move seven large sheets of glass on Friday morning when the cart tipped and the load toppled onto him.
His name has not been released, but the Press Democrat says he lived in Windsor.
Co-worker Mathias Howell estimates that the panes weighed more than 100 pounds each. Howell says that as the glass started tipping, it seemed like his colleague froze.
State workplace safety regulators are investigating.
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Authorities say a 42-year-old California man drowned at Lake Tahoe after falling off a paddleboard.
Kenneth Campo of San Mateo was 200 to 300 yards offshore at Sand Harbor State Park when he fell in the water Friday afternoon.
Nevada Department of Wildlife spokesman Edwin Lyngar says the paddleboard was equipped with a life jacket and foot leash, but Campo wore neither.
Lyngar tells the Nevada Appeal that an employee from a rental company retrieved Campo from about 20 feet underwater.
Emergency responders were unsuccessful in trying to resuscitate him. Campo was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.


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In the antique centres this sort of thing is priced at £30-50, perhaps more with the butterfly. Nice one Rose.
For your first Scottish paperweight, I think you did very well. It's quite pretty.
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Oh my god, I nearly squirted everywhere when she was sucking and licking his sack while he fucked that girl. I have ALWAYS wanted to be in that position, going back and forth from licking a girl's pussy lips and sucking & licking a guy's sack. FUCK that is hot!!
So jealous of the girl with the black hair in this video. She had all the best positions. I want to do this with my hubby.
What a nice pussy! I'd lick that up too.. Then clean his cock with my tongue... Let's do it YUM.
Oh ya i would love to suck your cumm out of your wife's pussy & drain the last drop from your fine cock. Any takers ?
That was fucking hot!!!!!
Marvellous Seska
fucking good good good
Love to be the girl underneath at 2.30 any one out there want to join me ????????
That cum shot was one of the most beautiful scenes I have seen.
Man I would love to have a session with these two. Love to have my balls sucked while fucking a hot, juicy pussy.
I to am a guy, but would love to be the one under getting to lick up that load. I am just now getting my wife to share my cum with me & it is great.
Judy, I want my hubby to push his thick dick into your soaking wet pussy. Of course I would get you both wet first with my soft wet tongue then I would spread your lips apart with my two fingers while i massage his dick into your sweet pie of a pussy. My pussy is now dripping at the thought of your moans and the sound of your wet pussy gripping his dick while your ass taps his thighs. I will devour you Judy I'll suck those hard nipples and kiss you all over while my man makes you scream. I can't decide what I'd do next because i am so excited maybe we could do the 69 you'd hav to teach me about that way I can hold you open and watch you take my man's dick on top of me then in between he can tease you by pulling out and letting me suck your juices off his dick then ram it back in. I know he would speed up the pace having a new pussy to fuck with me there holding you open for him and sucking his ball and sucking your clit to make sure you cum hard with him so when he fills you I can get both your juices down my tongue at the same time. We could do a little cumswapping after the 4th round. I say 4 because we fucked 4 times last night. I was so worn out I fell asleep loaded with cum in my pussy. I just woke up wet with my juices and his mixed. I need you to suck this little tight wet, cum filled young pussy clean right now Judy.
one of the best cumshots i've ever seen and i've seen a lot
That was good I just wish I was her on the bottem , Yummm that would be good.
Very hot.
best ending ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want a girl with huge nice tits to lick the cum from my pussy
i want to try both girl's positions
@ Allie... Well done, but I would have preferred: No condoms! More male partners. Males with uncut cocks. And having the male actor cum on the brunette's cupped hands, then seeing her inseminate the blond with her fingers.
Hey Judy,How is the sexy pussy of yours? Is it all packed with creamy cum fo me to fanatazise about sucking our if you? Wanted to ask: have you tried anal? I want to, but need some pointers.
This has got to be the hottest scene on YP.. Fucking nice!!
Seska is the beautiful brunettes name. Big fan of hers...
I just love a video with a happy ending! ;)
wish I could join in
hot maig
Id eat the creampie out of either of those two ladies
That was so good ahhhhh I'm so horny right now
I agree three-way oral sex is the only way to go. Licking out both girls nice and round butt-holes would be a great way to go. Sign me up.
Lol his condom is too big! It slides the entire time! "Quit lying to yourself bro #denial
Fucking hot!! Damn it the girls are so naughty!
the brunette is Seska and she's AMAZING
I've got some cock to bring to the party. Just tell me where and when.
lick that cunt yummie
great picture of fuckng good
I love this video. Two good looking gals and a guy with a nice cock shooting a hot load! I love the feel of my cock in a hot cunt or ass as it gets licked at the same time! If it happens to be the "other" threesome, two guys and a gal, I still love it. Even if I'm on the bottom eating the creamy cunt and cock. Nothing finer.
Young I can almost see you underneath me licking your man's balls as he fucks me hard. You can feel his balls get tighter and tighter knowing he is going to shoot his load deep in me. Then I am all yours. I wouldn't want it any other way. kisses
judy, i would love that
Young, I wish that was you and I and your hubby. But we would have to take turns and switch positions....I need to taste you and your hubby to.
EPIC FINISH! Fucking Rad.
Seska Lee is THE HOTTEST girl on the internet!
She creams at 2:02
great cumshot. love to trade places with the girl on bottom
best tits ever!
OMG that gal has the nicest ass, so ready for doggie, the best part when he spills his full load into her mouth.
Look at that fucking lovely cream at 2.02. God I'd love to lick that out of her hot cunt.
I want to suck a guys cock while he fucks my wife like in 1.00 and want to lick his cum out of her like from 2.35-2.50 , Awsome creampie !!
me encanta
I volunteer !!!
I love cumming on my girl's ass and pussy while her friend eats her out. It's so good, the very first time we tried it, I put my cock back in her cum-filed pussy and came again! Try it!
Das ist der geilste Abspritzer, den man haben kann!
I want to fuck a girl while the other licks her pussy from underneath. Sexy video. Anyone know of any other vids like it?
Ditto to Bill 69 comments. Excellent action and video shots! Fucking a, hot girls!
Allie's boobs were nicer before the op.
The cum shot at 2:37 is perfect for jacking off. The guy shoots his load on one girl's pussy and th eother girl licks the cum up as it drips off the first one's pussy. Both girls are super hot.
be a man and ditch the rubbers
I want to change with the brown hair girl. Even He can drill my ass. I want to lick that pussy and dick at the same time.
That is the best position ever to shot a load. That's what I really call cumswap. It is my dream to try once this position. Anyone volunteers from Hungary?
Hottest movie yet
that is the hottest cum shot ever I'd like to be down there when that happened.
not a creampie but a wicked video
allie, how do we become partisapants
Been there. It was even hotter when I was fucking the wife's girlfriend doggy style in the ass, and the wife was resting her chin on her butt waiting to take a shot in the mouth. Now THAT was a fun night.
that cum shot at end is great hope i can get two girls like that to do it too.
that was fuckin great
I would love to be that girl that Squirtgirl would lick, and the guy would fuck...sounds like it would be fun....I so need some sex right now...anyone have any suggestions for me
Is that Seska? She's so hot...
Yay... Old people...
Allie fucking rocks.
The brunette's hot! A creampie would have been better indeed.
decent cumshot, but not a creampie.
that was a good cumshot!
You lucky sod getting it on with 2 horny ladies like that
The end was hot!
nice, wish i was the one eating her pussy while he was fucking her. and would love to have been under her when he shoot his load. and yes i am a guy
Mmmmm Now that made me cum. I wanna be fucked like that baby. Give me that cock doggy anyday.
Shame about the ads, but would LOVE to find a couple to do this with... xxx
what's the brunette name?
now THATS how you end a scene!!!
I love this clip. What a lucky guy, wish i could have that too with Allie.... Greetings from Germany...
Geiles vid! Das haett ich jetzt auch gerne!
holy fuck,how lucky could this guy get !!!!!!!
love it


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On June 3, 2013 Stetson Director of Athletics Jeff Altier announced Corey Williams as the 21st Hatters men's basketball head coach in program history. Coach Williams went to work immediately after stepping foot on campus, hiring his staff in just a few weeks, and bringing in four new recruits less than a month after that.
With an earlier start to the season – holding its first official practice on September 27 – the 2013-14 version of the Stetson men's basketball team has been hard at work preparing to build off of the team's success from a year ago.
"We've been learning," Williams said of the Hatters' preseason. "We've been learning the intensity of it all, the expectations of the coaching staff, and our guys have really put forth the effort. We're still making some mistakes that we will need to get better at, but overall I think the enthusiasm, the energy has been good."
Having finished third in the Atlantic Sun Conference standings, earning a berth to the A-Sun Tournament for the first time since in four years, and reaching the conference semifinals for the first time since 2005-06, last season was one of the Hatters' best in recent memory.
When Williams arrived on campus, however, there were only nine players on the Stetson roster, and only six of them had seen time on the court as Hatters.
Seniors Aaron Graham, Willie Green, and Hunter Miller have all seen time in the starting lineup during their careers at Stetson, giving the Hatters a healthy core of experience and leadership with a new coaching staff on board.
"They've been here," Williams said of his returning seniors. "They know how this place operates. They know this league a lot better than I know the league, because they've played in it. They bring a wealth of knowledge to our newcomers. They need to share what it takes to be on top, and hopefully that message resonates."
Graham is coming off of two productive years with the Hatters, recording two of the four best single-seasons for three-point shooting in Stetson history. As a sophomore he knocked down 68 triples – the second most ever – and last year he tallied 66 treys. With just 15 more makes from beyond the arc, Graham will become the all-time three-point leader in Hatters history.
Miller stepped into the starting point guard role midway through last season, his first year of competition with the Hatters after transferring from Florida Gulf Coast, and he will see much of his time at the point again as a senior. With the ability to control the game and score when needed to, Miller finished 2012-13 with 88 assists, 25 steals, and a 40.9 three-point percentage.
After leading the Hatters in rebounding a year ago, Green returns to the frontcourt ranked eighth in Stetson history with 80 career blocked shots in just two seasons. Last year the Orlando native had a breakout campaign, starting all 31 games while leading the team with 6.6 rebounds per game, shooting at 54.1 percent from the floor, and recording 41 blocks.
Sophomores Tanner Plemmons and Leke Solanke, junior Kyle Sikora, and redshirt freshman Brian Pegg round out the returning Hatters for the 2013-14 season.
Plemmons showed signs that he can seriously shoot it as a freshman last year. In limited minutes, the guard knocked down 11 three-pointers on 44.0 percent shooting from beyond the arc, and shot 46.7 percent overall during his 20 games of action.
Solanke and Pegg, who came in together as freshmen last season, will provide plenty of depth to the Hatter frontcourt in their second seasons at Stetson. Solanke brings plenty of energy, has the ability to block shots, and can finish with authority. Pegg only played in two games last season before missing the rest of the year due to injury, but the younger brother of former Hatter star Adam Pegg certainly showed signs of excellence in limited action.
Sikora, who sat out last season due to NCAA transfer rules, gives the Hatters size in the middle. The seven-footer also has experience from his time at Oakland. In 2011-12 he played in 33 games, starting 16 contests and averaging nearly 10 minutes per game at center.
Stetson brings eight new faces into the fold for the upcoming season, including a pair of upperclassmen who gained valuable experience at Louisiana-Lafayette.
After three seasons and 68 starts at point guard for Louisiana-Lafayette, Raymone Andrews brings experience, leadership, and stellar defense to the Stetson backcourt as a fifth-year senior. In 2011-12 Andrews averaged 6.3 points per game while shooting 72.9 percent from the free throw line and recording a 1.7 assist-to-turnover ratio.
"Raymone is a natural leader," Williams said. "He'll bring that poise that we need at the point guard position. [He and Hunter] understand that they have to be an extension of me, so when I need something done I look at those two guys to make sure they spread that message and that our guys are up to the task."
Kentwan Smith played in 28 games as a freshman at Louisiana-Lafayette before transferring to Otero Junior College in Colorado. There he averaged 10.4 points and 5.2 rebounds while shooting 51.8 percent from the floor.
A trio of true freshmen guards will give the Hatters plenty of depth in the backcourt in 2013-14. Glenn Baral, who has brought winning ways everywhere he's played, is a big shooting guard with a pure stroke. B.J. Glasford, who moves upstate from Miami, is a smooth combo guard who can play the point or the two. Finally, Raekwon Harney is a true point guard who averaged double digit assists and nearly five steals per game while leading Winston-Salem Prep to two state championships.
Freshman Andrew Zelis is a 6-11 center who gives Stetson another big man to work with in the middle. Sophomore Cameron Harvey was added late in the summer, and will redshirt after transferring from Eastern Illinois. Finally, sophomore Aidan Hadley was added as a walk-on just prior to the start of the season.
After home exhibitions against Tampa and Palm Beach Atlantic, Stetson begins the 2013-14 campaign at Clemson and Notre Dame to open an eight-game road trip. The Hatters will host Davidson in the home opener on Nov. 30 and begin Atlantic Sun Conference play on Dec. 30, hosting Lipscomb.
"The resounding message that [the players] will here from me is take advantage of today," Williams said. "Today is very important. Let's not look on down the line. Let's make the best of today. If we do that, if our approach is that way, then we won't have any regrets each and every day that passes by because we'll know that we gave 110 percent."


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Problem Solver: Royal Caribbean cruise insurance offers little to couple
People need to read the fine print when purchasing cruise insurance. If something goes wrong, you don't also want it to go wrong with your coverage.
"If your plans go awry and you cancel or interrupt your cruise vacation (for specified reasons) Royal Caribbean will waive the non-refundable cancellation provision of your cruise ticket contract and pay you IN CASH the value of the unused portion of your prepaid cruise vacation," reads the cruise lines website entry on CruiseCare.
As a couple I wrote about in a recent column found the "specified reasons" for a cash refund are limited to: Sickness and death; a car accident on the way to the trip; your home made uninhabitable by a natural disaster; if you're called to active duty to help at a natural disaster; and a subpoena or being called to jury duty.
Be sure that the insurance does cover what you think it covers before purchasing.
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the action of placing your index finger and thumb around the penis about halfway along the shaft and moving the skin up and down to produce a pleasureable sensation leading ultimately to orgasm & ejaculation
she stroked me until I came as I was licking her pussy
po Jake Март 15, 2004
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Can you define these popular missing words?
Stroke is a type of cardiovascular disease. It affects the arteries leading to and within the brain. A stroke occurs when a blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrients to the brain is either blocked by a clot or bursts. When that happens, part of the brain cannot get the blood (and oxygen) it needs, so it starts to die.
Do you know someone who's had a stroke? Pay tribute to them
po m4t3k Април 30, 2004
Basically sexually intercourse, but delivered in a stylish manner.
I gave your mum some STROKES last night
po ©™ Октобар 15, 2003
the best band.
the best songs.
the best vocalist.
the best songs.
the best vocalist.
try "what ever happened" from room on fire album.
po fakehappykid Децембар 9, 2004
Sexual Intercourse. To fuck, beat, or smash.
"Girl I'll have to call you back later. My nigga just got out the shower and I'm tryna stroke"
po RemyRedd Децембар 29, 2006
Fabulous rock band from New York. Credited as one of the major players in the early '01/'02 garage rock revival (along with the Hives and the White Stripes and to a lesser extent the Vines), they have continually improved and expanded their sound over the years. Have released 3 albums so far (Is This It, Room On Fire & First Impressions Of Earth) and look to be moving from strength to strength. Excellent to look at or listen to, they are the embodiment of "cool" and hipster-chic
Random idiot #1 - Did you see the strokes play last night?
Random idiot #2 - Yeah man they were too rad if anything
Random idiot #1 - Fully man
Random idiot #2 - Yeah man they were too rad if anything
Random idiot #1 - Fully man
po D@yne Август 3, 2006
It can mean a lot of things, but most importantly, it's the last seat in a rowing boat.
Stroke seat, weigh 'nuff!
Stroke seat, power ten in two!
Stroke seat, power ten in two!
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There have recently been plenty of calls for government and council documents to be rewritten in plain English – and talks over the Scottish Government's Community Empowerment Bill have led to yet another.
The discussions have been spoiled for anyone other than those at the very top – it's hard to imagine anyone else having a clue what 'top-down capacity building', 'community anchor organisations' or 'third sector interfaces' are.
Dodgy developments
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Oxford City Council are under fire for trying to sneak through a hugely revamped land-development project under a conveniently confusing cloud of gobbledygook.
The residents of Wolvercote are understandably far from happy about the information available to them on a matter that could massively change their local environment and quality of life.
Retire the jargon
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The financial sector has taken a bit of a hit recently, with the fallout from the banking crisis and mis-sold PPIs severely damaging its reputation.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), brought in to keep an eye on the use of jargon, over-complexity and misdirection in the industry, has overseen something of an improvement, and positive changes have been made.
Leaving ballot to be desired
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A record number of spoiled ballot papers in an Irish referendum have prompted calls for revamped versions and referendum questions written in plain English.
Unhealthy habits
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We at the Campaign have spent plenty of time attacking the use of jargon in various industries. We have criticised those relying on waffle in banks, universities, supermarkets, and all manner of other industries.
However, when it comes to the NHS, the issue is a bit more serious than collaring deceitful salesmanship or ambiguous terms and conditions. We're dealing with information that could seriously and directly damage someone's health.


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7 Ridiculous Things People Believe About the 'God Particle'
Here at Cracked Labs, we're working to make the world a better place. The whole "website" thing was an accident resulting from early experiments on what too much Internet does to the human brain, and early court orders dictating that we were responsible for the tragic results.
"Columnist" sounds so much nicer than "Extremely Failed Test Result."
Scientists at CERN recently announced the discovery of a Higgs-like particle, the culmination of decades of genius, but there's an empty spot in our cocktail cabinet, so we figured we'd scoop their Nobel Prize. Because we've already found a practical application for it. Interaction with the Higgs field is what gives particles mass; therefore, there will be more Higgs interactions near denser objects, so we can use Higgs particles as a tricorder for finding thick-skulled idiots. Our new system is already working: Scanning a spectrum from the New York Times through Twitter to the Daily Mail, the Higgs announcement has revealed thousands of idiots all over the world!
#7. Ultimate Pedantry
In 1989, CERN invented the World Wide Web to transmit important information between smart people, and the world has been using it for the exact opposite ever since. On July 4, 2012, CERN announced what could be the smallest unit of anything that could really matter, and idiots on Twitter immediately obsessed about something even smaller.
When God said, let there be light, these guys complained about the wattage.
A literally reality-defining discovery, and they were whining about the Comic Sans font. You couldn't miss the scientific point more painfully if you assumed Erinaceidae were spheres.
"Shoving this into my underpants approximately shouldn't hurt."
It would be cruel to say that they picked on the font because it was the only part of the presentation they understood, so I'll say that, because that's exactly what happened. The scientists had just used a machine that makes the Saturn V moon rocket look like a sparkler to interrogate reality itself, and these dumbasses were trying to look superior because they prefer letters with curly bits at the ends.
You have to understand the whole page before you're allowed to complain about any of it.
When someone announces a new fundamental particle, they could write their results in eight pints of warm human blood and the species would still be better off for the trade. They might have just completed the Standard Model of understanding existence. If you're trying to trump that with typography, you'd be better off using your special skill against Batman, because at least then you'd entertain a few people while humiliating yourself in public.
DC, Warner Bros
"Looks like they tried to be comic sans intelligence!"
#6. "What's the Point?"
When smart people announce an understanding of the basis of reality, the other kind of people ask why they'd bother. And it's impossible to answer, because that sort of person thinks "being able to understand things" is elitist.
When people ask, "What's the point in understanding everything?" they've just disqualified themselves from using questions and should disappear in a puff of paradox. But they don't understand and just continue existing, which are also their only two strategies for life. These are the apes who sat in the back of the cave, scratching themselves while ooking about how bashing rocks together was a total waste of time. Except back then they had a better excuse for their sloping foreheads and scratching themselves in public.
"Not eat, not grope, THIS USELESS!"
Previous investigations of apparently pointless physical phenomena led to little things like electricity, quantum mechanics, absolutely everything, the entire modern world. Stuff like that. The most important breakthrough in the last thousand years came from shining invisible light on a piece of metal to watch more invisible bits come out. If scientists hadn't followed up on this odd little detail (aka the Ultraviolet Catastrophe, the most badass-sounding revolution in scientific understanding), the absolute limit of modern technology would be brass and steam. And we'd have Cavepunks wearing fake animal skins, posting lithographs of themselves holding giant fake clubs that don't actually work for hitting things.
The paleolithic version of "duck face" was "flamingo face."
#5. "What's the Point?" Cancer Edition
comment on Daily Mail
"I spend five hours a day commenting on websites to tell people to do something useful!"
Complaining about "wasting money" is how people pretend to care without doing anything, or spending money of their own. When someone demands to know how people dare spend money on anything but curing cancer, steal their smartphone and sell it for charity. Repeat their argument back to them, duck, and over the next few years gradually notice how much better your life is now that they're not calling you.
"It all started that day I stopped listening to morons!"
This attitude reveals such fundamental misunderstandings about science that it could only happen at the Standard Model level. Science isn't one big resource pool. You can't switch particle physicists over to curing cancer, unless you want a lot of confused patients being accelerated down huge underground tunnels. Also, you're too late, because particle physics has already totally helped with curing cancer. And every other disease. And all injuries. X-rays, MRI, positron emission tomography -- all were incredibly abstract madnesses until humanity found them. Then fitted them with tiny subatomic harnesses to help fix our fleshy monkeybodies.
"We're going to watch antimatter explode inside you, and this is not a joke, WE ACTUALLY DO THIS."
When the military's going-to-Iraq budget is bigger than NASA's going-to-space budget, science might not be the first place you should cut. And it's pretty rich to talk about whether to fund science when funding as a concept only exists because of the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). Without metallurgy, machinery, computers, medicine, agritech, etc., most of us would never have been born, the rest would have starved and the last surviving stockbroker would be an ape with no apples promising "Give you lots apples! First give me apple!" followed by loud chewing noises. The most successful businessmen in the world are just the best at playing in the world science gave them.
#4. "They're Not Sure if They Found It!"
The whole point of science is making progress despite being 90 percent dumbass. That's not mocking the masses of humanity -- I mean that every individual brain is at least nine-tenths stupid. The only difference is that the smartest tenth knows that. That's why science uses established predictions, recorded results and peer review to make sure they're not fooling themselves. Adapting your answers to new evidence leads to discovery and progress. Adapting your evidence to fit your answers leads to human sacrifice and witch-burning.
Nicolas Cage got away, but the cast and crew of The Wicker Man were dealt with.
For most life forms, changing your behavior based on new evidence is smart, or basic survival strategy. But some see it as a sign of weakness, a dangerously intellectual flip-floppery that means you're no longer the most 100 percent BEST MOST RIGHTEST winner of arguments.
This makes the CERN announcement a useful intelligence-improving test. If your favorite news site pointed out that they've maybe found the Higgs boson, great. If they claimed "THEY FOUND THE HIGGS!" in 20-point type, find a new information source, because that one thinks good tweets are more important than actual facts. Rolph Heuer, director general of CERN, said, "As a layman I would now say, I think we have it. But as a scientist I have to say 'What do we have?'" That's the most exciting day of his life, and his first priority is "I will indulge in celebration for 2.4 seconds of this sentence before reminding myself to do things properly." That's the closest humanity has to Vulcans, and we've already put him in charge of scientific machinery larger than every Starship Enterprise put together.
Fascinating. Fucking. Squared.
Another wave of "It's not the Higgs?" articles will reveal further idiots. The only thing that could be even more exciting than finding the Higgs would be finding something else. Both tell us about the how the universe works. The only difference is that a non-Higgs would start by saying "Not like that," and then igniting the most awesome race to understanding the world has ever seen.


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Land price bubble, or sound economics?
Land price bubble, or sound economics?
The main question at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's Rising Farmland Values: Causes & Cautions was: Is there a bubble? The quick answer is: No.
Twenty years ago, a room full of farmers talking about land prices wouldn't have surprised anyone. But what about a room full of investors? On November 15, we attended the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's Rising Farmland Values: Causes & Cautions in downtown Chicago. The room was split about 50 percent investors/bankers and 50 percent people in agricultural fields.
The Chicago Federal Reserve Bank is District 7, covering the southern portions of Michigan and Wisconsin, all of Iowa, and northern Illinois and Indiana.
Speakers filled the day's slate to provide research, projections, and opinions on where farmland values are going, why, and what to expect long-term. Below are some quotes stated during the conference; we hope they help you determine what your best bet is for land prices:
- Chicago Federal Reserve's David Oppedahl:
- Late 1970's corn would be $30 per bushel in 2008 dollars. So today's prices are relatively, not record-setting.
- Farmland prices increased by 25 percent over 2010 in the third quarter. Specifically by state, Iowa 31 percent, Indiana 29, Illinois 23, Wisconsin 17, and Michigan 16.
- Jennifer Ifft of USDA-ARS did a study on the percent of rural land that is influenced by urban areas:
- About 17 percent of land nationally is urban-influenced. In the Federal Bank District 7, about 27 percent is.
- She concluded that urban influence is not a contributor of the run-ups in the past five years.
- Michael Duffy, Iowa State:
- Iowa land survey says 10 percent of land is in trusts, 43 percent of owners don't live on farmland, 55 percent are over 65 years old, and 35 percent are over 75.
- 12 percent of land buyers were investors in 1991. In 2006 that jumped to 39 percent, but it is back to 23 percent in 2010.
- 56 percent of farmers rent no land (in Iowa). 24 percent of farmers rent 75 to 100 percent.
- Crop sharing as a form of rent is shrinking. It was at 20 percent in 1982 and has shrunk slowly to 13 percent in 2007. This could be bad for beginning farmers as it limits land access.
- But beginning farmers also hurt themselves; they want to own all their land immediately, limiting their options.
- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago:
- The 25 percent year of year gain in agricultural land value in 2011's third quarter is the largest in three decades.
- The 7 percent increase in the value of good farmland is the highest since the 1970s.
- Brent Gloy, Purdue University:
- Over 70 percent of farmland sales are farmer to farmer.
- How much time has corn really been north of $6 per bushel?
- Big biofuel demand increases are likely over. Demand will level by 2015.
- Is it really food versus fuel, or food versus pheasants? We have 30 million acres in CRP today.
- Perry Vieth of landholding company Ceres Partners:
- 10 percent of ethanol is exported, and none of that receives a blenders credit. This shows that ethanol will continue to have a market without subsidies.
- I have talked to two people in the fuels industry. They told me a rough breakeven formula for ethanol plants: Take the oil price, divide it by 10, and subtract $3. In other words, at $100 per barrel, the breakeven is $7 corn. At $50, it would be $3.50.
- Is there a farmland bubble? No, it depends on the price of each individual farm and acre.
- When we export corn to China, we are really exporting some of our water as they are deficient.
- Leland Strom, Farm Credit Chair and CEO: We are often asked if there is an asset bubble. I just want to say these unprecedented times warrant extreme caution. We all face risk in prosperity.
- Kim D. Greenland, Great Western Bank:
- There is no evidence that this [rise in farmland prices] is caused by credit.
- Unknown: Only 1.3 percent of land changes hands each year.
Hearing all that, it seems like today's land prices are "for real." Speakers repeatedly commented that both land prices and rents were generally cheap compared to expected returns. Listening to the record prices in the newspaper, however, is not the best strategy. That being said, every individual acre has its own price and worth.
Knowing these facts, does anything change? At what price (considering today's commodity prices) would you sell land? At what price do you buy? How sure can we be of the world economy?
Unfortunately those questions aren't rhetorical, and we all need to answer them on our own.


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on December 21, 2012 - 4:44 PM
LOCKPORT – Joseph J. Nicholson, 19, of Prospect Street, Lockport, pleaded guilty to third-degree burglary in Niagara County Court this week and was assigned to the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment by County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas.
Nicholson entered a South Street apartment Sept. 19 and stole a laptop computer. He also was ordered to pay $700 in restitution.
Co-defendant Jeremy Russell, 20, of Main Street, Lockport, pleaded guilty Nov. 29 to reduced charges of second-degree criminal trespass and petit larceny, and is to be sentenced Feb. 6. He also must repay the owner $700.


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Last week, students at City Honors School experienced a round-table book talk with Somali author Nuruddin Farah about his novel "Links."
Farah was born in Somalia to a storyteller mother and a merchant father. He studied philosophy, literature and sociology in India before being forced into exile by Siad Barre's regime.
Farah started the discussion by giving insight into his life and many works, including three trilogies. When talking about his exile from Somalia and eventual death sentence, he said, "To be sentenced to death I must have done something really terrible or really good."
Farah said he enjoyed writing about different viewpoints of issues such as war and dictatorship and how they affect different groups such as women, children and the elderly.
"People change in a period of war," he said, and that is highlighted in "Links."
Later, Farah gave the floor to the students, requesting that they ask him questions. One student wondered why Farah chose to write his novels in English even though it is his fourth language. Students learned that the Somali language had no written script when Farah began writing, and he did not want to write in Ethiopian, "the language of the enemy." Additionally, Farah said the Arabic typewriter was very complicated and difficult to use.
Farah said he wrote based on his own experiences. Alienation, Farah said, was not different from "keeping things to yourself or not sharing things with others, self-distancing."
Later, at Kleinhans Music Hall, Farah delivered a talk more focused on his early life and specific aspects of his writing. He talked about living with oppression under a totalitarian regime. He said he strives to keep his "country alive by talking about it."
Additionally, Farah discussed growing up in an aural culture with a mother as a poet and traditional storyteller. He was educated, unlike many in his culture, which opened him up to more work and education opportunities. Farah talked about how his writing always "got him in trouble," starting with refusing to write a violent letter, and ending with his exile.
Through Farah's open conversation with the students, they were able to gain valuable insight into his mind and works. His eloquent speech paralleled his insightful and thoughtful style of writing.
Lillian Kahris is a sophomore at City Honors.