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Bernard Tolbert, the former Buffalo FBI chief who has been exploring a mayoral candidacy for more than a year, said he will officially announce his candidacy Saturday.
His entry into the Democratic primary in September will take place Saturday morning in the Family Life Center of St. John Baptist Church, and it signals the start of a major challenge to incumbent Mayor Byron W. Brown, who is seeking a third term.
"I'll be announcing on Saturday" is all Tolbert would say Wednesday.
Tolbert, who turns 65 this weekend, has been meeting for months with dozens of community leaders and attending virtually every civic event in town. He had never confirmed his candidacy until now, though it was all but certain he was in the race after he established a campaign finance committee and began raising money earlier this year.
Brown begins the race as the favorite, with more than $1.1 million in his campaign treasury and an experienced political organization ready to aid his efforts.
But Tolbert has promised he will raise enough money to prove a competitive opponent, and he has been quietly concentrating on fundraising for months.
In overwhelmingly Democratic Buffalo, it is expected that the Democratic primary will decide the next mayor.
But Brown has long cooperated with the Erie County Conservative Party, dating to the days when he served as an aide to former County Executive Dennis T. Gorski, who enjoyed Conservative backing. He is considered the favorite for the Conservative line, which usually does not attract many votes but would guarantee his appearance on the November general election ballot.
Conservative Party leaders are expected to interview Tolbert, Brown and Republican candidate Sergio R. Rodriguez on Tuesday, with an endorsement slated for later in the month.
Brown and Tolbert both intend to seek the Democratic Party endorsement.
Party Chairman Jeremy J. Zellner has indicated he would consider the mayor, despite Brown's long estrangement from the party hierarchy.
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The military is creating a new cyber medal for drone pilots and others. Should it rank above the Purple Heart?
But, the article says the military...am I reading this incorrectly.
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Yes he is, but I believe Congress authorizes medals.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but he is the Commander in Chief, right?
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"Really? Just another point of the Obama vengence." Are you for real? Is there anything you won't blame on the President? I personnally feel they should receive recognition for the contributions they make, but it should not be placed above valor awards earned on the battlefield.
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Reading "American Sniper" by Chris Kyle, who was tragically killed a few weeks ago. If your not offended by the language, he gives an inside view of what our guys are fighting for.
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And what is a sign of your posting, ladybug, is that you still don't know the subject.
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As we have said, some with tongue in cheek, awards given should be earned and special. There is a difference between a soldier who is wounded while in active hostile fire and a person who is sitting behind a protected barrier. Both can be extremely important but certainly different in courage and risk taken. I guess we are saying to stop being political with everything!
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What does this got to do with ----?
Don't you ever get tired ?
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On his return his unit made many attempts to contact him, he responded to none. When questioned by myself and his sisters, we found that his biggest problem was medals. In formation several troops were awarded Bronze Stars for Valor. The problem,most of the guys awarded those medals never went outside the wire. They worked in the motor pool or some other duty that never put them in harms way. He knew guys and gals involved in hostile fire incidents that didn't get a howdy do. Once he saw the politics he din't see the point.
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Absolutely not. It has to do with 'esprit de corps'. My son went to Iraq a while back for the Army. He served as a truck driver on convoy duty,they went outside the wire on a near daily basis,dealing with hostile fire from ambush, IEDs and RPG and mortar fire. When he left he was planning on making a career of the Army.
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Make sure everyone gets a medal...there are no losers here, right?
The military issues certain medals in recognition of extraordinary deeds and they should be highly respected, but for everyone of those medals there are probably a dozen or so other medals that represent nothing of significance and they get handed out like candy.
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Really? Just another point of the Obama vengence.
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LAHAINA - In a see-what-you're-made-of contest, Southern California's resili-ence paid off best.
The Trojans earned their first EA Sports Maui Invitational win in 13 seasons, and a spot in this year's fifth-place game, with a 59-53 overtime win over Texas on Tuesday at the Lahaina Civic Center.
USC (3-1) had lost by 30 points to Illinois on Monday in the game that followed Chaminade's win over Texas.
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Texas' Javan Felix drives as Southern California's Chass Bryan defends during the first half of the Trojans' 59-53 overtime win over the Longhorns on Tuesday.
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"I'm really proud of our guys, you know, bouncing back from the late game last night and then the noon game today," said Trojans coach Kevin O'Neill. "Both of us were in desperate mode. We got waxed last night in the first half and they lost to Chaminade, so you have got two teams that are pretty good teams in a desperate mode. It was that kind of game."
USC shot 22-for-64 (34.4 percent) from the field. Texas was just a bit better, going 20-for-54 (37.0 percent).
In overtime, Dewayne Dedmon's 3-point play gave the Trojans a 54-51 lead with 87 seconds left in overtime. After a jumper by Sheldon McClellan brought the Longhorns within 55-53 with 25 seconds left, J.T. Terrell was 4-for-4 from the free-throw line in the final 17 seconds to seal the win.
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USC, which is making its first Maui appearance since 1999, will play Marquette for fifth place today.
Texas will face Mississippi State for seventh.
Terrell's dunk with 26 seconds left in regulation tied the game for the 11th time, at 47-47. The Longhorns' Julien Lewis missed a 3-pointer with four seconds to go.
"It was a rock fight and I thought we did a great job executing offensively, especially down the stretch," O'Neill said. "I like how hard we played and I thought we kind of took over the game."
Texas (2-2) shot 9-for-27 in the second half, and 2-for-7 in overtime.
"I thought both teams played hard defensively, they were hard on their opponent," O'Neill said. "We made enough to win. When you are playing one-possession games like that, free throws are critical."
The Trojans were 13-for-20 from the foul line overall, but 8-for-9 in overtime.
Eric Wise had 13 points and four steals for USC. Jio Fontan had 11 points and six assists, and Bryon Wesley had 10 points and eight rebounds.
"I think for the most part today we just did a better job of going out there and sticking to the game plan," Fontan said. "The coaching staff did a great job of helping know how to stop their offense."
Lewis scored 17 points for Texas, which entered the tournament one spot away from being ranked in the USA Today coaches poll.
"I thought there were some much better things," Longhorns coach Rick Barnes said in comparing Tuesday's game to Monday's, after which he called his team "scared."
"At least we competed," Barnes said Tuesday. "We came out and played with more passion. We executed better and we had some opportunities. Overall, there were some things we can build on. We still haven't gotten into a rhythm where we need to be offensively. We're a better shooting team than we've shot."
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Holmes 1-3 0-0 2, Papapetrou 3-7 4-4 10, Ridley 3-7 1-2 7, Felix 2-11 2-2 6, Lewis 6-8 3-4 17, McClellan 5-14 1-2 11, Holland 0-1 0-0 0, Lammert 0-2 0-0 0, Ibeh 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 20-54 11-14 53.
Dedmon 3-11 2-3 8, Wise 5-9 2-4 13, Fontan 3-13 5-9 11, Terrell 2-9 4-4 9, Wesley 5-9 0-0 10, Woolridge 0-1 0-0 0, Allen 0-0 0-0 0, Bryan 0-1 0-0 0, Fuller 1-3 0-0 2, Blasczyk 0-0 0-0 0, Oraby 3-8 0-0 6. Totals 22-64 13-20 59.
Halftime-Tied 26-26. End Of Regulation-Tied 47. 3-Point Goals-Texas 2-11 (Lewis 2-3, Holmes 0-1, Felix 0-1, Lammert 0-2, McClellan 0-4), Southern Cal 2-11 (Wise 1-1, Terrell 1-4, Bryan 0-1, Woolridge 0-1, Fontan 0-2, Wesley 0-2). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Texas 38 (Holmes 9), Southern Cal 43 (Dedmon 8). Assists-Texas 15 (Felix 8), Southern Cal 14 (Fontan 6). Total Fouls-Texas 17, Southern Cal 14. A-2,400.


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It's been a chaotic month at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
In early January, the gallery's longtime director, Louis Grachos, left for a new job directing a museum in Austin, Texas. Two weeks later, the gallery announced the appointment of Finnish museum director Janne Sirén as its new director.
That same week, it opened a new exhibition, "Looking Out and Looking In," a survey of the photography the gallery has collected over the past three decades. And on Saturday, after its excellent "Decade" exhibition came down, it launched two long-planned shows, "Dennis Maher: House of Collective Repair" and "Agnes Martin: The New York-Taos Connection (1947-1957)."
There's even more in store, in short order: On Feb. 16, after more than a year of planning, the gallery will open a major, midcareer survey of work by the Canadian digital and video artist Kelly Richardson. And work by members of the gallery's "Creative Connection" program, which caters to gallerygoers with developmental disabilities and other special needs, goes on view March 15.
Here's a look at what's going on during this very busy winter at the Albright-Knox.
"Dennis Maher: House of Collective Repair"
Through May 12
In 2009, local architect and artist Dennis Maher bought a house on Fargo Street for $10,000.
Since then, he has stripped back layers of wood and paint, radically reconfigured the interior structure of the building and filled it with an always shifting collection of oddities, thrift store finds and sculptural objects of his own design.
The show features sculptures by nine local contractors, each of whom was invited by Maher to visit the house and draw inspiration from his work to create their own pieces of art. The results – from a model house made from roofing materials by contractor Chris Ziolkowski to another house model that doubles as a guitar by window and door expert Dan Farrell – challenge viewers to think more deeply about the materials that surround them.
Maher told The News in September that he was excited that the gallery had chosen a local artist for a residency. The entire endeavor, from the house to the work of nine local contractors, he suggested, is an attempt to paint a picture of the city in an entirely new way.
"I call this whole project a city-house model," he said. "I think about this as kind of consolidating the energy, the movement of things in the surrounding world of social, economic material exchanges and bringing them into the boundaries of the house."
"Agnes Martin: The New York-Taos Connection (1947-1957)"
Through May 12
When some artists come face to face with their early work, a kind of instinctual revulsion sets in.
For these artists, the idea of confronting a flawed painting or a piece that no longer fits into their artistic approach is just too painful to bear. So these artists – among whose ranks are some of the best ever to set paintbrush to canvas – make a concerted effort to destroy that work.
Martin, the enigmatic painter known best for her stern, minimalist paintings featuring austere grids, was one such artist. While living in Taos, New Mexico, in the 1950s, she created 100 or so abstract paintings that are very different in style from the work she's most famous for. So Martin, motivated by that feeling of disgust familiar to so many committed painters who have methodically destroyed old work, did away with as many of them as she could.
But she missed a few. And these paintings, which reveal a different side of an artist many in the art world only think they know, are the basis for this exhibit. The show originated at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos and was organized by Harwood curator Jina Brenneman.
The exhibition features a series of biomorphic abstract paintings, which will give context to the Albright-Knox's modest holdings of Martin's work, which includes the quiet 1965 painting "The Tree." Albright-Knox Chief Curator Douglas Dreishpoon will also pad out the exhibition with works on paper and other paintings by Martin from the gallery's collection.
"Looking Out and Looking In: A Selection of Contemporary Photography"
Through May 26
Lately, the tucked-away exhibition space known as "The Link" has been home to some of the gallery's most potent and effective exhibitions. Its smart deployment by gallery curators in recent years goes to show that you don't need huge amounts of space to wow crowds – just huge vision.
This compact photography show, smartly curated by education curator Mariann W. Smith, is a successful attempt to demonstrate the gallery's good taste in recent photography.
It starts off with several pieces by the talented Western New York photographer John Pfahl. His "Scrolls" series is made up of nature photographs that have been elongated, stretched and otherwise digitally manipulated to make them seem otherworldly. Pfahl's digital trickery causes a disconcerting effect in the viewer not unlike the feeling one might get from looking at a map of familiar surroundings turned upside down.
Jean Marc Bustamante's "L.P. II (Long Playing, Lost Paradise, Lake's Photographs)" is a seductive scene of a tree stump at the edge of a mountain lake. Look awhile, though, and you'll see the clear marks on the stump and others that surround it, each a subtle sign of man's interference into nature. In that way, his work is not unlike the photographs of Victoria Sambunaris or the addictive oil paintings of local painter Michael Herbold, part of a proud and long lineage of artists concerned with our effects on the natural world.
Phillip-Lorca diCorcia's "Head #6," a photograph of a pedestrian caught in deep thought on a sidewalk, has all the visual allure you could hope for from a piece of deeply conceptual art. DiCorcia set up a remote flash on a random section of sidewalk and shot at shutter speed high enough to black out the background. The images, devoid of all context, make the viewer focus on the face and the emotion of the subject in a way a typical photograph couldn't accomplish.
There are dozens more excellent pieces, including Andreas Gursky's "Atlanta, 1996," which captures in crisp detail several floors of an Atlanta hotel, and several pieces by French artist Sophie Ristelhueber, whose large-scale photographs of Kuwait in the wake of the Gulf War are beautiful and disturbing at once.


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Feb. 8, 1948 – May 17, 2013
James J. Murray, a former Catholic priest and an administrator in the Erie County Probation Department, died Friday in his Orchard Park home after a struggle with cancer. He was 65.
Born in Buffalo, he was a graduate of the Diocesan Preparatory School. He earned a master's degree in theology from the University of Louvain, Belgium, and a master's in public administration from Buffalo State College.
Ordained as a priest, he served in Holy Cross Church in Buffalo, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Clarence and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church in Orchard Park.
In the 1980s, Mr. Murray left the priesthood and became a mental health administrator for Erie County. Later, he was a probation officer supervisor. He retired in 2006. For several years, he also taught a course for drunken drivers at Erie Community College.
An avid reader and a theater and concert supporter, he traveled extensively in Europe and was a dedicated gardener who surrounded his home with numerous gardens. He was a member of the Birthday Group for more than 35 years.
He and his companion of 30 years, William J. Roof, were married in 2011.
Survivors also include three sisters, Mary Goodspeed, Pam and Annie; and a brother, Patrick.
A Memorial Mass will be offered at 10 a.m. Friday in Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, 3148 Abbott Road, Orchard Park.


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on February 10, 2013 - 1:00 AM
You romantic devil, you. You're going to make dinner at home for your best girl on Valentine's Day, aren't you? Good for you. Everyone knows the way to a woman's heart is through her stomach. And, of course, her palate.
You can do it. Sure you can. Here are some tips:
First impression: As she walks in the door, hand her a glass of bubbly. Let her relax on the sofa while you bustle, whistling, over final dinner preps.
The setting: Candlelight. Table for two. A single rose in a vase on the table. A pillow for her feet. Barry White on the sound system.
The menu. Here are some ideas. I'm providing wine matches, but you'll have to Google the recipes. I can't do everything for you.
• Caviar with champagne. Only the good stuff. True, two servings of good caviar like Petrossian's will set you back $80 or more, and a good French champagne will be at least $40 – so you might save this for when you plan to pop the question. Or for an even-year anniversary.
• Rich stone crabs with crisp sauvignon blanc. I base this pairing on years of research at Joe's Stone Crab restaurant in Miami Beach, Fla.
• Smoked salmon with real French rosé champagne. Pink. With bubbles. Delicate, smoky tenderness with the world's most romantic wine.
• Raw oysters on the half-shell accompanied by a delicate French Muscadet wine. The wine is fizzy and fun. And you know what they say about oysters.
• Steamed lobster with butter sauce, with a big California chardonnay. Richness upon richness.
• Bacon-wrapped filet mignon with cabernet sauvignon. The classic red-meat, red wine combo.
• Chicken rollatini, stuffed with prosciutto and provolone and rolled, served with an Italian chianti. You might even dress up like the Sopranos.
• Pumpkin ravioli with sage cream sauce with a Hungarian gruner veltliner. You can impress her by pronouncing it. GROO-ner FELT-leener. (Roll that first "r" a little.
• Roast duck with pinot noir. Dark. Mysterious. Sensual.
• Chocolate molten lava cake with sweet, decadent ruby port. Two of the sexiest flavors on earth.
• Chocolate biscotti with a soft, sweet, red, fizzy Brachetto d'Acqui from Italy. Pour it in a wide-mouth bubbly glass and dip the biscotti in it. This is what those glasses are made for.
• Vanilla bean-flecked ice cream with dark, sweet Sherry made from the ultra-concentrated, extra-viscous Pedro Ximinez grape poured over it.
•Bananas foster with sweet Italian Moscato. Turn off the smoke alarm and flame the bananas at the table. That should impress her.
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• 2011 Karolyi Estate Gruner Veltliner, Tolna, Hungary: crisp and zingy, with aromas and flavors of white grapefruit and minerals; $11.
• 2010 Wild Horse "Unbridled" Chardonnay, Bien Nacido Vineyard, Santa Maria Valley: hint of oak and bread dough, rich, opulent flavors of pineapples and toffee; $24.
• 2010 Reata Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast: dark hue, aromas and flavors of black cherries, cinnamon and earth; deep and rich; $30.
• 2009 Piccini Chianti Classico DOCG Tuscany (85 percent sangiovese, 15 percent merlot): floral aromas, tart cherry flavors, medium body, smooth; $16.
• 2012 Vietti Moscato d'Asti "Cascinetta Vietti" DOCG, Italy: delicate yellow color, sweet, with balancing crispness, aromas and flavors of apricots and cloves, $15.
• Nonvintage Sandeman Ruby Port, Portugal: bright red color, sweet, hearty red berry and cinnamon flavors, full-bodied; $15.
• 2009 Banfi "Rosa Regale" Brachetto d'Acqui: red and soft and sweet and fizzy, with aromas and flavors of strawberries and cherries; $20.
• 2010 Sauvion & Fils Muscadet de Sevre et Maine Sur Lie, Loire Valley, France: pale green color, delicate and light and dry, with crisp green apple flavors and a tiny fizz; $10.
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AS they assessed the pre-Broadway tryout of the new musical "American Idiot" in California last fall, the director, Michael Mayer, and his creative team kept coming back to the same question: Should they add more dialogue to flesh out the tormented journeys of the three main characters or continue to rely on the songs — by the band Green Day — to do the storytelling?
At 95 minutes, perhaps the musical could be clarified by giving more lines to the best friends at its core: Johnny, whose pursuit of big city life is hobbled by drug addiction; Tunny, whose intoxication with patriotism and war has horrifying consequences; and Will, who is left behind with a pregnant girlfriend and a much-used bong.
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An acronym meaning "Boyz U Envy." B.U.E. (or more commonly spelled bUe) is made up of an overwhelming amount of closet homosexuals from the Greater Waterbury area in CT. Their lives consist of promoting a bunch of teen parties at old run-down nightclubs because they're too young to get into real clubs, then they use whatever money they make to buy hair gel and pink clothes/accessories. Several of them are considered DJ's (because now-a-days, any moron who can press play and start pumping a bunch of annoying techno is considered a DJ.) They're your typical Guidos, from the fake tans to the Mars Attacks hair styles to the stupid hand sings they make in every picture they take for their MySpace pages as if to make people think they were in a gang of some sort.
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Named for a drawing done by a little kid that was supposed to say "That is how god showed his love." but the "lo" looked like a "b" and the "v" looked like a "u." so the sentence appeared to read "That is how God showed his Bue."
Named for a drawing done by a little kid that was supposed to say "That is how god showed his love." but the "lo" looked like a "b" and the "v" looked like a "u." so the sentence appeared to read "That is how God showed his Bue."
I flexed my muscles to show off my bue.
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Angolan portuguese slang for "much, very, alot"
Estou bue cansado. Estou bue alegre. Havia bue de gente
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B.U.E. stands for Butt Ugly Elephant. The term is usually used to describe a person that is being a bitch or acting bitchy.
I can't believe you slept with chase. You're such a B.U.E.
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an acronym that stands for "bust upon entry" and describes the immediate ejaculation that occurs the first time you bang a total slam piece. more prone to happening on boats in the islands. a BUE can occur for several reasons, which include: banging a girl after a little too much foreplay, triumphantly banging a girl you've been trying to bang for a really long time, banging a girl after a long dry spell, banging an unbelievably hot girl, banging a girl for the first time without a condom on, banging while thinking too much about how you're presently banging, or really just any time you pull a BWS (banging while sober)
"dude i paid $400 to bang that stripper but it was a total BUE. what a waste of money"
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Student loan interest rates debate continues
June 30, 2013
MARTINSBURG — For now, there's no clear indication whether federal lawmakers will act to stop the doubling of interest rates on federally subsidized Stafford student loans — going from ....
It is never too early to teach irresponsible borrowing or that when it happens, the federal government will be there to bail you out. How about this? Attend a community college to reduce the potential debt from four years to two. Or join the military and take college classes for free while socking away funds to finish post service? Or how about NOT attnding college at all until you can afford to do so? There are many options but Manchin's plan is the easy, irresponsible way out.
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Those who reap the benefits directly should also take the potential risk directly! The market manipulation is just bringing maleficence.
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I worked my way through college and began saving at age 12.
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It is unconscionable that we can bail out the big banks but can't keep student loans affordable. I would imagine that when we are the elderly, these young people will find a way to pay us back, but good.
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The Republican Zombies are at it again, make the poor suffer with higher interest rates while they have all the best in life. Best schools, best clothes, best food, but hey cut the education opportunities so only they can send their kids to college. What is wrong in their heads that they think its a good idea to raise interest rates on school loans, yet scam for tax breaks for the richest among us? Free Market? That's a JOKE and only a stupid person would buy into that lie. Whats free about it? Republicans sending manufacturing jobs to China and then saying we cant compete with their wages? So we must lower ours? Same with education, keep the poor uneducated so we can used them in our factories at below livable wages. How can anyone buy into the farce? WV citizens what are you doing helping these snake oil salesmen cut your own throat? We need cheaper loans for education to stay ahead of the world not get behind like the Republicans want. Look at what they do NOT what they say.
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After taking student loans away from commercial lending institutions and aggressively presuming repayment the government is making money on student loans. Why would the Repubs want to raise rates?
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You state, "I would imagine that when we are the elderly, these young people will find a way to pay us back, but good."
Yeah, heaven knows that they paid for pre-K through 12th grade themselves at $10,000 per kid per year! But, we need to pay for their college, grad school and doctorates too, right?!?
If they are going to receive the direct reward of their college degree then they can take the direct risk.
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SME, no one is saying student loans should not be repaid. The issue is that the interest rates that Repubs are asking for are too darned high. They are doing this to make private lenders more appealing than the public, "Yay free market" and all that nonsense.
Add it all up, with additional credit requirements, increased national average cost per credit, less funding for federal student loan programs, and higher intrest rates on those loans; they only want to well-heeled to attend college, much like former Presidential candidates who railed against traditional post-secondary education on the campaign trail, while simultaneously sending their own children to high priced institutions around the country, and reaping the benefits of their own college educations as well.
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You state, " no one is saying student loans should not be repaid."
That odd because I hear a lot of my "Progressive" comrades and their political leaders calling for it and implementing policies which make walking away from repaying loans to be very easy after a certain length of time.
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Different issue, and one I happen to disagree with. Student loans should be loans, not grants, but they should also remain something achievable by those who actually need them.
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"make walking away from repaying loans to be very easy after a certain length of time." When these loans were made by private institutions (banks) and guaranteed by the government, many students defaulted because lenders had incentive to pursue payment. Now that the government is making the loans and aggressively presuming payment defaults have dropped. And the government is making money, so again why do repubs what to raise the rates?
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oops, had no incentive
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If defaults have dropped, then perhaps it is because the government has made forgiveness very easy--almost turning loans into grants. That is my understanding from several sources.
Can you show me some facts?
Also, perhaps government should stop guaranteeing them or providing them. Then those who reap the benefits directly would also be taking the potential risk directly! The market manipulation is just bringing maleficence.
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Um, that's exactly what the Repub's are trying to do SME. The rates for federal student loans WERE set, and now they want them to go up exorbitantly AFTER the fact. But hey, from your perspective it's no big deal if we turn the government into a predatory lender, it just gives the anti-government fascists another bit of ammo at the next election. If the government isn't failing, just keep increasing the uber-con presence; it will be soon enough. Nothing like creating a self-fulfilling prophecy through sabotage; particularly when your core constituency continues to age into dementia, believing every lie you spoon feed to them.
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Isn't funny how the far right always spins these issues into the old "this is what's wrong with today's society" category. The real issue here is that the Repubs want to basically utilize student loans as a business venture. This isn't about deserving a free education, which isn't this case now. It's not about defaulting on loans, because raising the interest rates definitely wouldn't be the answer there.
This is about doubling profits and exploiting the need for a higher education.
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Handing them money? Try giving them loans designed for performance rather than profit. Then again, if the government profits from anything, the uber-cons are going complain about that too. Like I said before, they are trying to craft a self-fulfilling prophecy; some folks just want the government dissolve so we can realize their dream of serfdom to the rich. The painfully obvious part is that many who speak to that reality would be serfs themselves.
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"Or how about NOT attnding college at all until you can afford to do so?"
Really Piper? Yeah, because SO many folks looking to go to into a degree-required field can just work unskilled jobs until they have an extra 150 grand or so just laying around, and that's just for an undergrad degree. We'd be paying med students Social Security before they could even get their residency. Good plan.
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Mike Rowe has a charity trying to convince young kids to goto get a Trade instead of a "useless" degree,so they will be workforce ready. Main reason being because of the cost of a college education has Become punitive. Who do we thank for that? If we talk about the cost of administrative cost who cries foul? Talk amongst yourselves.
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If Obamacare Goes into full force one day it might pay to be a master electrician instead of a phd.
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Who are you all claiming is being "exempted" from ACA?
In the 2010-11 year, the average per year cost for a traditional college was over 22 grand per year (including both public and private institutions, but not 2 year schools offering only associate's degrees). The average student spends 5 years on a bachelor's degree (many site increased credit requirements for this change, and I agree), so that put's it around 110 grand on average, and that was nearly 3 school years ago! 150 grand for a degree is hardly a stretch, but it is probably still a little above average. However, you really don't need an Ivy League degree to pass that dollar amount.
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IC, I had read through the mrW site some before, and then searched the web for anywhere that the charity or Rowe says a degree is "useless". Was that a direct quote or implied?
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Gotcha, thanks.
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You should have left the last word off of your comment; it would have made it far more accurate.
I checked the stats from 3 different studies and they were all comparable; the truth hurts.
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Dark, brooding and with a decidedly feminist bent, the film attempts to represent all facets of womanhood, punish the patriarchy for trying to usurp female power, upend fairy-tale clichés and – very occasionally – be funny. It's no surprise the violent fantasy film (for kids!) can't quite get its muscular wings around all that.
As is often the case with villains, Maleficent wasn't born bad. The young fairy (played as a girl by Isobelle Molloy) actually is quite a delightful sprite, making friends with all sorts of magical creatures and flying around her beloved moors, protecting them from human intrusion – until one particular human crosses the boundary. His name is Stefan (Michael Higgins), and he's the love of Maleficent's life. They carry on a cross-cultural romance for years, until Stefan grows older and colder, the ambitions of the wicked humans clouding his judgment.
Here I must warn you that what happens next is extremely disturbing – not for kids, but for adults. When they're quite grown up, Stefan (Sharlto Copley) betrays Maleficent in a way that is grotesque and violent, a clear allegory for sexual assault. Your kids probably won't pick up on the subtext. They'll see a terribly cruel act, not one that cuts to the vulnerability of the victimized, but it's important to mention it nonetheless. Unsurprisingly, the betrayal turns the fairy's heart dark, leading her to curse Stefan's baby girl Aurora (played at one point by Jolie's own daughter Vivienne) with the sleep of death.
It's then that Maleficent suddenly remembers that a sense of humor might be a good idea. The swing in tone is dizzying, as the film morphs from the darkest of melodramas to a chirpy farce, as we watch baby Aurora (Elle Fanning) grow into a young woman, tended by a triumvirate of dimwitted pixies. But they're not the only ones keeping tabs. Maleficent, as menacing as ever with her leather-clad horns and cheeks that could cut ice, develops a soft spot for the girl. The warrior fairy who once took on an army to protect the moors suddenly becomes, well, maternal.
That dichotomy is where the film really wants to live, exploring what it means to be a woman, in all our strength, complexity and vulnerability. And in our rage. Because Maleficent's anger isn't just the cackling of a blighted she-devil; it is defensible, wrenching, a solid meaty thing that feeds the soul of one who's had so much taken from her. That surrogate motherhood is what eventually quells that fury is no negation of the film's feminist principles, but a celebration of them. Maleficent is every woman – the mom, the militant, the protector, and yes, the vengeful shrew.
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Should you take older kids anyway? I'll give you a firm maybe. They may not find much fun in the brief flashes of humor, though director Robert Stromberg (a two-time art direction Oscar winner) does create a visually arresting world that may enchant for a while. Still, you'll most likely get more out of the movie than your kids will, with its grand discourse on power and femininity.
It's just too bad Maleficent doesn't quite strike the balance between giving viewers something to ponder and being downright ponderous.


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No, no, no. Jazz isn't dying. It isn't even sick. It's just too intimidating for easy popularity. The trouble with the jazz present, as well as jazz in the future is the formidability of the jazz past. What, for instance, is an ambitious young tenor saxophonist supposed to do after encountering a Sonny Rollins or John Coltrane record – after, that is, being tempted briefly to throw up his hands and murmur "I'm not worthy?"
Anyone who wants to know how brilliantly alive and bursting with ideas jazz is should rush to Bruce Eaton's invaluable Art of Jazz concert series at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Auditorium. That's where you'll hear the magnificent Indo-jazz saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, who was previously in the Art of Jazz series with the universally praised jazz group of Vijay Iyer.
This time, Mahanthappa is bringing his extraordinary quartet Gamak, which is named after the South Indian term for melodic ornament. Mahanthappa says their jazz is grounded in "Chinese or Indian or Arabic music and a lot of 20th century and 21st century classical music" as well as "the rock/punk esthetic" of the band from which the group's guitarist hails, the Screaming Headless Torsos.
A pre-concert demonstration performance at 2 p.m. on "Unraveling the Mystery: The Sounds of the Sitar" is by Naryan Padmanabha. Tickets are $25 members, $29 nonmembers.
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A sister winery of Pepperbridge in Walla Walla – Amavi allows winemaker, Jean-François Pellet, to have some fun with other varietals of grapes that don't fall under the model of Pepper Bridge. This Syrah from the Walla Walla Les Collines vineyard is showing very well right now – let's dive into it.
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ALBANY – Senate Republicans struck a deal this afternoon with a group of five breakaway Democrats to form a coalition that will keep the GOP in at least partial control of the 63-member chamber in January.
The deal by the GOP and the Independent Democratic Conference appears to make moot a legal battle over a still-contested Senate race in the Mohawk and Hudson valleys that Democrats believe they will win if all the remaining 877 contested paper ballots are opened.
The deal amounts to a "Hail Mary" play by the Republicans, who suffered several stinging losses last month and already had to cut a deal with an incoming Brooklyn Democrat to cross party lines to caucus with them.
On paper at least, the arrangement would appear to also end the looming chaos that would be created if a new legislative session began in January without a clear party in control of the Senate.
Insiders say Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo privately expressed pleasure at the prospect that the Republicans, with whom he has been cozy for two years, worked out a deal with the group led by Sen. Jeff Klein, a Bronx Democrat who helped organize the defection by his now-five member group from the main body of Democrats two years ago.
The move came only hours after Sen. Malcolm Smith, a Queens Democrat, announced he was joining the breakaway group known as the IDC. Smith briefly led the Senate as majority leader before a series of bizarre leadership fights in 2009.
Klein and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos called their deal today "historic" and said it that will guarantee a "fiscally responsible, fully functional Senate.''
"The Senate Republican conference has worked closely with the Independent Democratic Conference and Cuomo to bring historic progress to New York," Skelos said in a statement. "We've brought spending under control, ended Albany dysfunction, and consistently delivered the bipartisan results New Yorkers need and deserve – even on many of the most difficult issues. Sen. Klein has proven to be a thoughtful and effective leader, and I look forward to partnering with him to move this state forward.''
Klein, who has been tagged as a traitor by some of his Democratic colleagues in the Senate, said he looks forward to working with Republicans in a "constructive, bipartisan way.''
Three weeks ago, Klein told The Buffalo News that his IDC group wanted to become a permanent caucus in the Senate, a position he said is maintained with the deal he and Skelos struck today. The IDC already has been tight with the Senate Republicans since they broke off from the main Democratic conference two years ago.
As for titles, always a consideration in Albany, Skelos and Klein will be called conference leaders of their two groups and will "administer joint and equal authority" over what bills are heading to the chamber floor for votes, have dual roles in negotiating the state budget with the Assembly and governor, and share in decisions about appointments of individuals made to state and local boards and commissions. The two also will share in leadership and committee assignment decisions. Also, Skelos and Klein will, in a unusual move for a legislative body, trade off on the title of temporary president – essentially, the head of the Senate – every two weeks.
The depth of the deal shows just how far the Republicans were willing to compromise in order to stay in power for another two years. The deal will all be put in writing in new Senate rules when the Legislature returns in January for its 2013 session.
Senate Democrats dismissed the term "coalition'' to describe the deal.
"This is not a coalition, but a coup against all New Yorkers who voted for Democratic control of the Senate and a progressive state government,'' said Mike Murphy, a spokesman for the main Senate Democratic conference headed by Sen. John Sampson of Brooklyn. He said the "real victims'' of Tuesday's deal will be New York's residents.
The agreement was announced as lawyers for Democrats and Republicans were squaring off in a Montgomery County courtroom Tuesday over 877 contested paper ballots that have not yet been counted in a race between the GOP candidate, George Amedore, and Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk in a district that stretches from the Mohawk Valley to the Mid-Hudson Valley near Poughkeepsie. While Amedore holds about a 100-vote lead, Democrats say their candidate would win if the court rules that all or most of the 877 remaining ballots had to be opened and counted.
That put pressure on Republicans to cut a deal with Klein and his fellow breakaway Democrats – Diane Savino of Staten Island, David Carlucci of Rockland County and David Valesky of Madison County – before the Amedore and Tkaczyk race was decided, most insiders agree.
Democrats have been arguing for weeks that the IDC members, as Democrats, should honor the votes of their constituents that put them in office and re-join the main Democratic conference. The IDC group was also, until Smith's entrance on Tuesday, all white, and that created further tensions with accusations that the group, by joining with Republicans, would deny African-American and Latino Senate Democrats their place of power in Albany.
The power sharing deal may also help explain why the governor did not -- as he did two years ago when chaos loomed over which party might control the Senate – ask the state's top judge to get involved and expedite the court case in the 46th Senate court fight.
While the power-sharing agreement took up a mere one paragraph in a joint statement released by Skelos and Klein, it remains to be seen how the process will work. Officials said there is no more of a deal, in writing, and that final provisions will be made public when the new Senate rules are adopted in January. To make it all legal, negotiators said the title switch every two weeks between Skelos and Klein as Temporary President keeps intact an actual provision in the state constitution that such a position be filled in the Senate.
Unclear is what other side deals were made, such as leadership posts that pay additional stipends beyond the base pay of $79,500, choice committee chair assignments that can give additional access to prestige and campaign donations for their holders, and things like state-issued cars and office locations.
And there are numerous policy question marks.
Will the Republicans let out onto the floor, for instance, a measure pushed by Staten Island's Savino to legalize medical marijuana when, typically, such bills have been kept from ever reaching a floor vote as a way to kill unpopular items with GOP senators?
And will the breakaway Democrats – called renegades by those in the main Democratic conference – join with the regular body of Democrats to push, over the opposition of the GOP, stalled efforts to raise the state's minimum wage?
Skelos and Klein declined interview requests Tuesday, preferring to let their brief statement stand for the day.
A spokesman for Cuomo, who sources said earlier in the day Tuesday was pleased with word of a looming deal, did not immediately return calls for comment.
The power fight has its consequences. Democrats have insisted what they call progressive legislation – such as new gun control restrictions and public financing of campaigns – will not happen now that the Republicans remain partially in control.
For Cuomo, it means he will have in power a group he has already cut major deals with during his first two years in office, including a property tax cap, a public school teacher evaluation system and higher pension contributions by new government workers. Republicans say it also means he will not have to re-wage certain fights, such as some efforts to weaken the property tax law's components, again with a Democratic-run Assembly and Senate.
For upstate, the fight was important.
The GOP base of support is upstate and Long Island, while most Democrats in the Senate hail from New York City. Republicans say that would have played out by upstate being ignored if the Democrats took control. Democrats have called that claim absurd, and say the GOP has been in charge of the Senate during decades of economic decline upstate.
"It preserves the balance in the state,'' Sen. George Maziarz, a Newfane Republican, said of the New York City-led Assembly and the upstate and suburban New York-led Senate.
"This is one state, and we either sink or swim together,'' Sen. Liz Krueger, a Manhattan Democrat, said in a recent interview. "Republicans are constantly making arguments that it's the city versus everyone else, and nothing else can be further from the truth when you look at where the revenues come from and go to in the state of New York.''
For Cuomo, he gets to start a second term without having to pay attention to the demands of the main Senate Democratic conference, a group he did not help in their bid to re-take the Senate and whose members include those who have questioned his Democratic Party credentials because of the help he gave GOP candidates, such as the warm words he heaped upon freshman Sen. Mark Grisanti, a Buffalo Republican, in his re-election bid.
In the IDC, Cuomo gets a small group of Democrats who have already shown a willingness to cut deals with Senate Republicans and, as importantly, given him the public respect he is known to demand in fellow politicians.
"I think Governor Cuomo has singlehandedly brought back the Democratic brand in New York,'' Klein said in a recent interview. "He has shown that we can govern in a bipartisan fashion and has singlehandedly shown the Legislature can function again. His legislative agenda is really my legislative agenda."
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Adventure Out, a month-long outdoor fitness campaign to encourage residents to visit county parks for exercise, will hold its Kickoff event on Wednesday, May 1 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. in the Fitness Park behind the Medical University of South Carolina's Drug Discovery Building. Exercising outdoors or "green exercise" has many additional benefits to indoor fitness activities, including stress management, improved self-esteem and mood, increased frequency of exercise, and improved sense of well-being.
For the month of May, the best fitness instructors at MUSC Wellness Center will pair up with the prettiest landscapes in Charleston County parks to entice you to get moving in the great outdoors. The Adventure Out program features more than 25 offerings, including aqua, Zumba dance, yoga and martial arts to help you turn over a new leaf and discover the benefits of green exercise.
Adventure Out Family Fitness Day: The kickoff event will be May 4, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. - at James Island County Park (Wappoo Pavilion and Stage) with food trucks, jump castles, Zumba, family fun fitness games and more. Purchase T-shirts at multiple locations and events.
When: The whole month of May – more than 25 free fitness activities to pick from with the purchase of an Adventure Out T-shirt ($10). Classes include sunrise yoga, beach sculpting, family games, Tae Bo, interval conditioning classes, trail running lessons and more. The T-shirt also gives you free park admission when attending a class.
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In MOTU season 2, episode 20 "The Rainbow Warrior" it seems that Queen Marlena knows about Adam's secret.
In POP season 1, episode 55 "Loo-Kee Lends a Hand", Loo-Kee finds out about She-Ra and He-Man secret identities.
My son and I were watching my season 1 DVDs today and he asked me if during any of the Filmation series, if anyone figured out the He-Man/Prince Adam secret identity. Can anyone point me to the episode(s) if this is true? Thanks in advance!
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In MOTU season 2, episode 20 "The Rainbow Warrior" it seems that Queen Marlena knows about Adam's secret.
In POP season 1, episode 55 "Loo-Kee Lends a Hand", Loo-Kee finds out about She-Ra and He-Man secret identities.
I seem to recall Zodac knew his secret. Maybe that's just the 200x cartoon I'm remembering.
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They need to not have secret identities, they are the royal family, if they cant protect Eternia then they shouldnt be all regal and stuff.
Besides who's gonna mess with 'Prince He-Man', other than an idiot.
1. Skeletor's primary focus is Castle Grayskull; the Eternian government is distinctly secondary. Keeping a distinction between the Royal Family and He-Man keeps him from turning all his attention on the royals and helps split his focus a bit;
2. The secret identities were as much for the twins' sake as for their family's. Adam needed to learn patience and humility--I was taking a lead from the DC comics for how he was acting before and when he received the Power of Grayskull. Adora needed a chance at a life of her own if she wasn't going to become embittered and war-weary or wind up becoming a tyrant like Hordak.
I understand that methos, but I have come to beleive a different idea, that Skeletor is mainly after the throne of Randor and is uninterested in GreySkull.
..(this is because I took the 'spirit of Greyskull' out of my plot, leaving only two questions to ask of Skeletor, what is anyone really looking for in Greyskull, whats in there..? and what makes Skeletor who he is, individualy and as a group..?)
..(eventualy you need to see Skeletor as a blood magic character and the Sorceress as a rock magic character, and understand that neither have a goal involving the other)
Eternian-King Paul, you really need to stop mixing your fan-fic ideas with conversations about shows and things that happen on them. Blood magic and rock magic discussions are silly and pointless.


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Women's Basketball Drops Season Opener to Evansville
MUNCIE, Ind. - The Ball State women's basketball team (0-1) fell to Evansville 54-45 Friday night in Worthen Arena in the first game of head coach's Brady Sallee's tenure with the Cardinals.
Ball State pulled within four at 46-42 with 2:11 left in the contest on a pair of free throws from freshman Nathalie Fontaine, but Evansville hit a three pointer to go back up 52-43 with 36 seconds left to secure the victory for the Purple Aces.
Fontaine led all Ball State scorers with 14 points plus added five rebounds and two steals. Shelbie Justice added eight points, three rebounds, three assists and three steals for the Cardinals. Brandy Woody managed seven points, five rebounds, five assists and four steals for Ball State.
The Cardinals were able to hold Evansville to 37.5 percent shooting from the field in the second half and 40 percent for the game, but Ball State could only shoot 28.3 percent from the field for the game.
Ball State trailed by five (32-27) after a layup from freshman guard Taylor Miller with 11:24 left to play in the game. Evansville put together a 5-0 run to go up by 10 (37-27) at the 8:10 mark. The Cardinals tried to fight back cutting the Purple Aces lead to seven (37-30) after junior guard Lindsey Wellman hit a three pointer.
It was a low scoring game to start the first half, with the game being tied 9-9 at the 8:11 mark. Evansville orchestrated a 6-1 run to give them a 15-10 advantage over Ball State at the 6:15 mark. Fontaine then single handedly put together a 4-0 run of her own after back-to-back baskets to close the gap to 15-14.
Evansville continued to hold on to its lead but a layup from freshman guard Taylor Miller knotted the game 20-20 with 1:04 left for the third time in the half. The Purple Aces Chelsea Falkenstein nailed a three pointer with 52 seconds on the clock, Fontain then answered with a layup but Evansville would hold on to a 23-22 lead over the Cardinals to end the half.
The Ball State University women's basketball team continues non-conference action at Worthen Arena Tuesday when it hosts in-state rival Butler at 7 p.m.


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Cars might get faster, safer, and more fuel efficient all the time, but there is some compelling evidence that not all of the changes in automotive design have necessarily been progress. Cars, and especially luxury cars, built before the Second World War would often be built by the manufacturer as just a chassis, with custom coachwork being added later by a third party. These are some of the most beautiful cars ever made, but the practice has almost completely died out since then, with just a few examples surviving. You might have heard of Ugur Sahin Design (USD) from their Soleil ANADI Corvette-based prototype, a pleasantly surprising example of how the art of coach building isn't entirely dead.
USD has now focused their efforts on the Rolls-Royce Jonckheere Aerodynamic Coupe II, a modern reinterpretation of a custom Rolls-Royce, known as the Jonckheere Aerodynamic Coupe, which was built in Belgium in 1935. The car survived the war and after undergoing extensive restoration is now in the possession of the Peterson Museum in Los Angeles, California. It is known that the car was built by Henri Jonckheere and his son Joseph Jonckheere, unfortunately the Jonckheere Works factory was destroyed in WWII, along with all of their records. Sadly, details such as who commissioned and designed the car have been lost to history.
The USD reinterpretation treads a difficult line. As Ugur Sahin explain in the press release "It is challenging to re-interpret something from that past which has a very imposing and impressive character like the original car, into a modern shape without losing its core essence. Many things like the proportions and lines, the impression some shapes give, are very essential to re-capture in the new design. While keeping the past DNA, injecting modern design elements which are in coherence with the past, is always a challenging task for every designer. It was important to avoid creating a design which is too modern by changing the original proportions too much, while still adding and changing elements in a certain way to avoid creating an outdated impression."
Elements like the unique round doors and the huge grille were musts, although USD interestingly chose to de-emphasize the large fin on the back of the original car. USD say that they are in talks with some buyers about the feasibility of the custom coachwork, so there may actually be a few of these out on the road soon. It has to be said that the design is gorgeous, so we're keeping our fingers crossed that USD will actually move forward with the project.


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Mission accomplished! Ryan Reynolds completed the ING New York City Marathon on Sunday – and lived to tell about it.
"I'm still standing. I'm very excited about that," he told reporters
after crossing the finish line in 3 hours and 50 minutes,
faster than he anticipated. "It was an incredible experience."
Reynolds says in the last leg of the race, he was motivated to keep going by one special spectator.
"When I saw Michael J. Fox on Fifth Avenue, I gained about 15 pounds in goose bumps," said Reynolds. "It kind of pushed me through the last six miles or so."
Reynolds ran for Team Fox in honor of his father, Jim Reynolds, who has suffered from Parkinson's Disease for the past 15 years.
"[During the race] I thought a lot about my father and Michael and the 500,000 other people afflicted with this awful disease in the United States alone. I ran for those who can't," Reynolds told PEOPLE.
Reynolds's mother Tammy and brother Terry greeted him with hugs at the finish line in Central Park.
On Friday, Reynolds told reporters that his wife Scarlett Johansson would be cheering "on the road somewhere." On Saturday, Johansson helped campaign for presidential candidate Barack Obama at Ohio's Case Western Reserve University.
Asked how Reynolds plans to celebrate his marathon accomplishment, he joked, "I'll probably celebrate by eating my own body weight in raw dough."
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Cosmos & Company sells antique and contemporary books on art, literature, children's and general non-fiction. We offer antique illustrations, original art and a stunning array of unique objects and ephemera. Some are flea market purchases from our travels, others estate or auction finds. Louise Weinberg, proprietor, is also a photographer and collage maker constantly in search of items that are imbued with an inherent sense of nostalgia. We travel the globe to bring the best to you.


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"Fuel Up" rewards youth
It took an NFL stadium to contain the excitement Minnesota youth had for the Fuel Up to Play 60 Program.
by Lucas Sjostrom
It's not every day you get to meet an NFL athlete, especially as a 6th grader. But if you're in a school involved with the Fuel Up to Play 60 (FUTP60) program, you might get your chance.
On Tuesday (April 30, 2013), leaders from 30 schools from across Minnesota descended on the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome's Mall of America field, where the Minnesota Vikings play football. About three to five kids from each school were selected to attend on behalf of their school for outstanding participation in the Fuel Up to Play 60 program (FUTP60), which is a partnered effort of the National Dairy Council, Midwest Dairy Council and the NFL in collaboration with the United States Department of Agriculture. Midwest Dairy is the checkoff association representing 9,500 farms across 10 states stretching from North Dakota and Minnesota to Oklahoma and Arkansas.
In the morning, the students ran football drills with some volunteers from the University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis) football team, who also play in purple. Then in the afternoon, participants worked to make the program even better through small-group brainstorming and idea posters. They also toured the Vikings locker room and were introduced to the star of the day.
Matt Cassel, a very recent addition to the roster, appeared inside the Metrodome for the first time as a Viking. He had worked with the FUTP60 program with his previous team, the Kansas City Chiefs, and was kind enough to take some time to talk to me about the program. Beyond what you'll hear in the YouTube video accompanying this article, Matt said that chocolate milk was his favorite dairy product, and guessed that Minnesota was ranked one or two in dairy farm numbers – I let him know he was a little off.
To kick off the day, Minnesota dairy farmer Kristine Spadgenske welcomed the crowd and answered the question, "Will cows explode if they aren't milked?" Minnesota Princess Kay of the Milky Way Christine Reitsma, the state's dairy princess, was also on hand to answer questions and sign autographs.
The day focused on physical activity and youth making healthy eating choices. However, the most interesting part to me was the lack of focus specifically on the dairy industry. You'll hear why Caroline Hudson, a registered dietitian on Midwest Dairy's staff, thinks that's just fine, (YouTube) as the entire diet is important. As a dairy farmer, Spadgenske agreed with her, explaining, "It's all a part of making a complete plate of nutrients."
See the video below and listen to comments on the event.
If you want to learn more, you can visit http://www.fueluptoplay60.com/ or contact your local checkoff organization.
The author is a graduate student in animal science at the University of Minnesota. He lives on his wife's home farm near Brooten, Minn., and is a former Hoard's Dairyman associate editor.
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Well, that was quick.
Just a day after it was announced that his engagement with Miley Cyrus was over, Liam Hemsworth wasn't just spotted flirting with a new gal: he was caught in a passionate lip-lock with Mexican actress and singer Eiza Gonzalez.
The two had met over the weekend in Las Vegas, where Hemsworth, 23, attended Saturday night's Floyd Mayweather vs. Canelo Alvarez fight at the MGM Grand. Later that night at Hakkasan, he and Gonzalez, 23, were seen flirting into the early morning hours.
The next night, they were spotted at XS nightclub before returning to Hakkasan, where they seemed "coupley," according to an onlooker.
But whatever happened in Vegas apparently did not stay in Vegas as the two were spotted kissing in L.A. two days later.
So how does Gonzalez stack up to Hemsworth's ex? Like Cyrus, 20, Gonzalez is a singer and actress. She started her career on the Mexican soap opera Lola, Once Upon a Time and is also a platinum-selling singer (in 2009, she won a Nuestro Award for best new artist of the year).
She is also newly on the market: according to People en Espanol, she ended a long-term relationship with Mexican businessman Pepe Diaz this summer. An April profile of her by the magazine revealed a few other choice tidbits: she loves family (her father died in a motorcycle crash when she was 12), fashion, reading and traveling.
So what's next for Gonzalez and Hemsworth? On Wednesday Gonzalez was spotted in a floral dress and over-sized sunglasses enjoying a French Riviera-inspired lunch at West Hollywood's Fig & Olive Melrose Place. She happily chatted with two girlfriends while dining on a crostini sampling, octopus a la Gallega, beef carpaccio, shrimp & salmon salad, truffle risotto and paella del mar.
Thursday, the new couple will be parting ways, at least for a little while. She will be in Mexico promoting the Spanish-language DVD release of The Croods, for which she did a Spanish voice over, while Liam is in Atlanta, where the next installment of The Hunger Games is being filmed.
– With reporting by MELODY CHIU and MARK GRAY
Liam Hemsworth Smooches Eiza Gonzalez Days After Split with Miley Cyrus
Bruja/Juan Sharma/Pacific Coast News
updated 09/19/2013 AT 01:45 PM EDT
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I knew she wasn't giving any action so I had to resort to the Dirty Ramirez.
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Jilly said she wanted to try something new so after her mom went to sleep, I rammed her up the hershey highway and before she could scream I flipped her over and gave her a dirty ramirez.
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Even before graduating from Westminster in 2009 with a BS in Finance, Anthony Englert had secured a job with Goldman Sachs as a financial analyst after completing an internship with the company. As a financial analyst, Anthony works with investments, private wealth, client portfolios, and various funds, analyzing information and predicting any trends and problems that may arise. "I already felt overly prepared for this position based on the skills I learned at Westminster," Anthony said. "The business and finance curriculum is so practical that it transferred directly to my job." Anthony said Westminster taught him to understand the field as a whole, engaging the critical, analytical, and integrative thinking skills he learned here to know "not just the rules, but the building blocks and the underlying things behind it." The skills Anthony uses in his daily work are skills he acquired at Westminster, including working with teams on projects, making democratic decisions, and working collaboratively. "It all goes back to what I learned at Westminster," Anthony said.


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Nearly a year after the Boston Marathon bombings prompted officials of large races to increase security, the 37th annual Cooper River Bridge Run and Walk had unprecedented protection from local, state and federal law enforcement.
The planning for the security has been in the works for 11 months.
Other than their main goal of preventing and deterring an attack, the "unified command" of law enforcement agencies wanted the increased protection not to interfere with the Bridge Run's fun and festivities.
By the sights, sounds and testimonies of participants on Saturday morning, they succeeded.
A better race?
"I noticed it (the tight security), but I think it's important . I felt safe," said Ana Guarino, 30, of Mount Pleasant, who wore a banana costume and was running in her first Bridge Run.
Many veteran Bridge Run participants said they noticed more security, particularly at the starting line corrals, where police officers and members of the S.C. State Guard replaced volunteers from charities at each of the 30 corral gates along Coleman Boulevard.
Former assistant race director Howie Schomer says the result of more security and planning turned the start of the race "into the smoothest I've ever seen."
Last year's Bridge Run board chairman Larry Schrecker said he thought the added security made participants "pay attention to the rules more," such as proceeding from the finish line on Meeting Street to Marion Square, thereby not clogging the roadway.
None of the 40-plus runners interviewed by Cedric Jaggers, author of "Charleston's Cooper River Bridge Run: A Complete History in Words and Photos," after the race complained about any issues with police or security. For 37 years, Jaggers has asked people to "Tell me about your Bridge Run," for his ongoing documentation of the race.
The most common comments on Saturday, Jaggers said, pertained to the array of musical performances along the route and the headwind, coming out of the west, on the bridge. He added some runners who were less heat tolerant complained about the temperature and humidity.
At the 8 a.m. start, it was 64 degrees with 75 percent humidity. Jaggers says the headwind on the bridge may have helped cool runners who might have otherwise succumbed to the balmy conditions.
Same old fun
But the warm morning and sunshine, not to mention performances by Edwin McCain and the Blue Dogs, made it conducive for hanging around Marion Square, savoring Charleston's greatest rite of early spring.
And the people-watching was as world class as Holy City is itself.
Dressed as Elvis, Richard Wendt, 60, of Daytona Beach, Fla., was being stopped by people wanting to pose with him for photographs. For Wendt, coming to the Bridge Run with friends from North Carolina, Georgia and Florida is becoming a tradition.
A group of nine runners from Spartanburg - who ran as the Jamaican bobsled team, complete with sled made out of Duct Tape - also spent much of the morning posing with total strangers for photographs.
Sammy Goode, 51, of Spartanburg, says it was the group's first attempt running in costume, but that it might not be last. The friends often travel to Jamaica together and Goode was inspired by the fact that Jamaica returned to the Olympics this year with a bobsled team.
Will you marry me?
Almost every Bridge Run has a wedding proposal or two, but few do it in front of thousands of people at Marion Square.
On Saturday, Richard Handy's well-orchestrated proposal ended with a tearful acceptance by Megan Luzander. Handy, 25, of Huntersville, N.C., enlisted Luzander's twin sister, Molly Jones, and other members of their families in the top-secret endeavor. They managed to get the ring and flowers to Marion Square safely in all the chaos.
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i just saw previews for the movie and it looks really good. It comes out on July 10th and i gotta see it when it comes out.
it already looks 1000 times better than dragonball evolution in the effect that there are japanese actors. hopefully it is good and they don't deviate to far from the story like they did in dragonball. heres a link to flixster for the film http://apps.facebook.com/flixster/m/686047248?lsrc=ptwts "When the heavens do not bring forth justice, man must bring it upon himself to do so. That is the meaning of Jinchuu." -Enishi Yukishiro.
that is so cool really japanese actors so are they talking in japanese or english?
i think english, but it'd be cool if they did it like the animated movie blood the last vampire where they switch between the two. "When the heavens do not bring forth justice, man must bring it upon himself to do so. That is the meaning of Jinchuu." -Enishi Yukishiro.
so do they have this on flixter? i wanna see it
ha ha ha i watched it it was okay i guess
Probly CGI though..... how do film makers get these ideas for the movies like Dragon ball or the american Akira "Lord please forgive us for the truspasses that we are about to commit!!" - Dead Leaves, #777
i saw some thing's about it and it look's very very cool i want to see it i hope that it is as good as the anime .


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I've been trapped in my neighborhood for five days now without mail, phone or electricity because of the Snowmaggedon !!!
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Manuel Cabral began serving as Chancellor of Leeward Community College on June 1, 2008 after serving as interim chancellor since March 2007. Cabral worked for 28 years at Leeward Community College in various capacities including faculty senate vice chair, chair of the Leeward Community College Campus Council, and for 19 years as the mathematics and science division chair.
Cabral earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and French from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR. and a master's degree in mathematics from Indiana University.
He has been recognized for his excellence in teaching and leadership with the University of Hawaii Board of Regents' Excellence in Teaching Award and the Outstanding Leadership Award of the National Community College Division Chair Academy.
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Nov. 3, 1922 – July 3, 2013
Dr. Eugene J. Zygaj, an area physician who delivered an estimated 3,000 babies during his 36-year career as an obstetrician and gynecologist, died July 3 in Harris Hill Nursing Facility, Lancaster. He was 90.
Born in Buffalo, Dr. Zygaj received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of Buffalo in 1940. He went on to study medicine at the UB School of Medicine and Biological Sciences, graduating in 1950.
To help pay for his studies, he worked with a team of chemists at Linde Air Products Co. in the Town of Tonawanda to recover residual uranium from leftover ore used in the Manhattan Project.
After graduating from medical school, Dr. Zygaj served in the Korean War as a medic, treating wounded troops as part of a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, or MASH, unit.
Dr. Zygaj practiced medicine at four area hospitals during his career: Deaconess Hospital in Buffalo, St. Joseph Hospital in Cheektowaga, Millard Fillmore Hospital and Women & Children's Hospital.
Dr. Zygaj played a major role in the founding of St. Joseph Hospital and served as president of its medical staff. He was also an active member of the Erie County Medical Society and Medical Art Society.
He retired in 1986 to spend more time with his family, which grew to include four children, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Dr. Zygaj's areas of expertise extended beyond the hospital setting. He was an accomplished carpenter, plumber and electrician, and used those skills to build his retirement home in Lancaster with the help of his son and son-in-law.
Dr. Zygaj also had a lifelong love of softball. He enjoyed playing the sport, even into his 80s, and was an umpire for a recreational girls softball league in Lancaster.
He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Gertrude; three sons, Lawrence, John and Edward; a daughter, Margaret Winiewicz; and two sisters, Jane Mytko and Irene.
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text: Seniors in Tucker County are gearing up for the 2013 Tucker County Senior Center Annual Picnic. Festivities are scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. Aug. 5 at the Hendricks Park. The center will provide hot dogs, hamburgers, pasta salad, beans, drinks and tableware. Attendees are asked to bring a covered dish. Those in need of transportation may sign up at the Mt. Top and Parsons senior centers in advance of the date to insure drivers and vans are assigned.


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Issues in Dynamic Analysis and Design of Interconnected DC-DC Power Supply Systems
Karppanen, Matti
Publication type: Doctoral dissertation
Issue date: 2008-11-21
Belongs to: Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto. Julkaisu - Tampere University of Technology. Publication;764
University: Tampere University of Technology
Faculty: Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering
Department: Department of Electrical Energy Engineering
This thesis studies issues in dynamic analysis and design of interconnected DC-DC power supply systems. The history of the dynamic analysis dates back to the 1970s, when the modeling method for an individual switched-mode converter was introduced. Later on, the methods to analyze stability and performance of interconnected systems have been widely discussed in literature. However, a full understanding of many issues regarding the impedance interactions within the systems still seems to be missing. Therefore, the main objective of the thesis is to show that the minor-loop gain, which is commonly used in the interaction analysis, contains perfect information on the stability of the interconnected system but not necessarily much information on the robustness of the stability and the interactions taken place inside the converters. As a consequence of this, the second objective is to introduce techniques with which the interactions can be reduced or totally removed, thus making the dynamic analysis and design of the systems deterministic. The thesis utilizes two-port networks and the concept of dynamic profile introduced recently in the analyses of converters. Comprehensive formalism is derived to analyze also the effect of output-voltage remote sensing on converter dynamics. Such formalism is not found in literature, although remote sensing is widely used to improve voltage regulation of a converter. The effect of source and load interactions on the converter dynamics are discussed by the general interaction formalisms and the minor-loop gains defined at the input and output of the converter. Peak-current-mode, input-voltage feedforward and output-current feedforward controls are treated in the thesis as an example of the methods with which the interactions can be reduced. It is shown that a converter under peak-current-mode or input-voltage feedforward control can have ideal input-voltage noise attenuation. Dynamically, this means that the converter would be invariant to source interaction and the converter would act as a buffer within a system preventing the interactions from propagating through the converter. It is shown that the output-current feedforward control can improve the load-transient response of the converter. However, the converter can be more prone to source interaction if the implementation of the feedforward is not made for a converter which has high invariance to source interactions. In addition, the ideal reverse current transfer function is introduced to be an important parameter of the dynamic profile defining the ideality of output-voltage feedback or output-current feedforward control. Extensive experimental measurements are provided to support the theoretical findings with conventional buck converters under different control methods and a fourth-order step-down converter known as superbuck under peak-current-mode control.
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What if someone were to tell you that a 16th-century French chateau just became available for the night?
Hmm, let me run down to the convenience store and pick up some more lottery tickets. Then I'll get back in touch.
This may fall into the category of, "If you have to ask, you can't afford it," but a Charleston real estate agency has indeed started offering chateaus for rent for a week or overnight.
"Escape to a chateau of your dreams with our exclusive offerings throughout France!" Handsome Properties International exclaims in a promotion.
The country mansions are "available for weekly or nightly reservations," the affiliate of Handsome Properties says.
These short-term chateau leases are "perfect for vacations, retreats, weddings or any function," according to Handsome Properties International.
Based on the international wing's website, one luxury chateau for rent was built in the 1500s in Normandy and "witnessed the signing of the Treaty of Cherbourg between U.S. General Lawton Collins and German General Von Schlieben on June 26, 1944" — the culmination of the D-Day invasion.
The chateau, which resembles a small castle (one definition of chateau is a French fortress), is set on a 20-acre park and is furnished inside "with period antique furniture" as well as all the modern comforts, the website points out.
According to Handsome Properties International, the chateau is between Cherbourg and Bayeux and is "an ideal base to explore Bayeux, the D-Day landing beaches, the Bayeux Tapestry, the Giverny garden and Le Mont Saint Michel."
For golfers, there's a links course at Fontenay nearby and a parkland course at Omaha Beach Golf Club Bayeux.
If a large family or group wanted to go, the chateau "sleeps up to 15 people in comfort with eight bedrooms and eight bathrooms." Meanwhile, "At your disposal, in the great garden, is a heated pool and tennis court, as well as wine tasting on request."
To find out the cost, however, you have to ask Handsome Properties. On its website, the agency says the price is available upon request.
Meanwhile the real estate agency provides tidbits for people considering the chateau rental.
On the website, viewers can check out the distance from the chateau to such places as Paris — 3 hours by car and 2 hours and 45 minutes by train. They can check the latest exchange rate: A U.S. dollar as of last week was worth about .76 of a Euro.
Interested parties can get a quick history lesson on Normandie, as it's spelled in France. Rouen, the cradle of impressionism, is also home to France's tallest cathedral tower, Rouen Cathedral. Impressionist artist Monet's hanging gardens are in Giverny.
"Haute-Normandie's largest city, Le Havre, was devastated in the Battle of Normandy and rebuilt with architect Auguste Perret's designs," the website notes.
Along with its scenic coast, Normandie sports parks, gardens, rivers, beaches, museums and historical landmarks. The surrounding countryside is home to Camembert cheese and apples for making cider and calvados (apple brandy). And fishermen haul catches of oysters, scallops and lobsters from the sea.
The real estate agency also provides a "good to know" section, including:
• William the Conqueror reigned in Normandie.
• The Battle of Normandy in World War II was fought here.
• Joan of Arc, Pierre Corneille, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, Claude Monet, Roy Lichtenstein and Marcel Duchamp are part of Rouen's heritage.
• Mont-Saint-Michel is a rocky tidal island and commune just off the Normandie coast.
Along with the new chateau rental program, Handsome Properties International offers properties for sale and rent in France and in Italy. More than 70 houses and apartments are for lease in Paris and elsewhere in France, according to the website.
For more information, call Handsome Properties at 843-727-6460 or visit www.handsomepropertiesinternational.com.
Reach Jim Parker at 937-5542 or email@example.com.
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I just saw a car in the Walmart parking lot with a camoflouche paint job! How can anyone with any self respect drive such a vehicle?!
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