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I made a boo boo. I meant Choice Specs on Alakazam. And you could thro Signal Beam on him for coverage.
@ Esp: No, for the love of god, do NOT take out Tri attack. You have your choice on T bolt or Ice beam, up to you, but Tri Attack will damn near kill anything it touches with the boosts from adaptability plus x2 nasty plots + Z's unbelievable SpAtk already.
@ Tyran: Honestly, im not the biggest Kazam expert... Its your choice, just thro something that will give him more coverage.
That's what I've been saying!Originally Posted by The Storm
Shadow Ball is supposed to take care of other Psychics that Focus Blast and Psychic won't touch. Signal Beam does the same job and gets a more reliable hit on Dark Types than Focus Blast.Originally Posted by The Storm
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uhhh Esp were we gonna battle
right. I'll get ready.
single lv 100 6vs6
I thought it was 5vs5!
And does Lv.100 make all Pokemon lv.100? The Pokes on my team are aroundthe mid-80s.
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And my 125th post discounting White Noise.
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When you name your movie "Funny People," you better fucking back it up. I mean, you wouldn't name a movie "Badass Express" and then cast Kevin Kline and Bill Hader as grizzled law enforcement veterans, would you? As far as I can tell, director Judd Apatow was using the word "funny" in an ironic sense, like "wouldn't it be funny if a comedian was dying?" Well, after having sat through almost two hours of his dead-end ruminations on this tedious theme, I can only reply by asking "wouldn't it be funny if Apatow's next film was a pornographic snuff film starring himself and Seth Rogen?"
Because let's be honest here: Rogen is not a funny man. Sure he's overweight in that non-threatening, elementary school janitor kind of way, and he talks like the friendly guy behind the counter at the local McDonalds. However, these qualities don't make you a star, and the only reason I can conceive of for Apatow's insistence on casting him in the majority of his films is that a secret love has blossomed between the two Hollywood hotshots. It is often said that serial killers murder their victims so that no one else can ever possess them, and from the amount of time Apatow spends directing his lens onto Rogen's chunky face I feel it is inevitable that one day, the public will be treated to grainy, night-vision footage of their awkward physical intimacy followed by two gunshots and then silence.
But back to the movie. Rogen is far from the only actor horrendously miscast in "Funny People." You can't manufacture the frenetic energy and audience connection that stand-up comedians have with their audience, and supporters Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzman simply can't cut it, no matter how many times Apatow waves his magic wand over them or sprinkles their bare asses with fairy dust. Adam Sandler puts in a credible performance as the dying comedian in question, largely because he isn't allowed to yell at pregnant women or punch Bob Barker's corpse, but even his effort is wasted thanks to a script that meanders throughout its final third.
Mel Brooks once said, "Tragedy is when I fall down an open manhole and die. Comedy is when you fall down an open manhole and die." Apatow apparently misunderstood and thought that as long as SOMEONE was dying, we could both laugh AND cry. He was wrong. The film is utterly ruined by Apatow's indulgence in maudlin sentimentality. In a tedious attempt to give Sandler's suddenly not-dying character depth, his mission goes from "trying not to die right now" to "trying not to die alone, eventually". As he attempts to reconnect with a lover from his past, the audience becomes trapped in a seemingly endless weekend stay at the-one-that-got-away's house. We are bombarded by images of marital bliss, then marital discord, then a bizarre boxing match on the front lawn that couldn't possibly feel more contrived if it had instead taken place in space with the entire cast replaced by Klingons.
"Funny People" is the kind of film that Woody Allen would have made if, instead of New York, he had been born in an suburban neighborhood outside of Ohio. Even with a gamut of comedian cameos, including a bizarre turn by rapper Eminem as himself cursing at Ray Romano in a chintzy dinner lounge, the movie falls flat on it's face and begins to implode after the first hour or so. My advice to you is take the ten dollars you were going to spend on this flick, exchange it at the bank for a roll of pennies, and then slowly eat them one by one until you either pass out or gain some kind of super power.
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Thu. 6:50pm: Man charged in school vandalism
January 3, 2013
WARREN - The second of two men charged with massive vandalism last spring at the construction site of the new Niles McKinley High School pleaded guilty today to a series of charges that will most......
Should have to pay for all damage and theft.
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Mental evaluation my foot. I see this is the new gimmick to excuse away thugs from the suburbs who murder and cause mayhem. They need to send these two losers to prison for five years each and make them pay back every cent of the private and public property they destroyed. Maybe if these two scuzzy bumbs had jobs, instead of collecting disability or living in their parent's basements, they wouldn't have time to go on joy rides, tearing down homes and schools. So not only do tax payers get to pay for the school they destroyed but we get to send them to "diversion" programs. Diversion programs are for children. Not 20 year old adult thugs who think they can do whatever they want. Guaranteed these slime balls won't do a day in jail and will be out causing trouble again as soon as the weather breaks.
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Was it copper nmcLone? Maybe I have it wrong .......
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That's a pretty light sentence for the destruction that these two caused. Anyone who starts construction equipment and causes massive damage like this should have received double the sentence. They both should have had a thorough mental evaluation to go with it. Apparently they had access to money that made the entire process less painful ........
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Stallone to star, co-write $40 mil actioner
Stuart Ford's IM Global is launching pre-sales in Berlin via its Opus label on the new Sylvester Stallone pic "Headshot."
The $40 million-plus action thriller, currently in pre-production, is helmed by "The Cooler's" Wayne Kramer and penned by Stallone and "The Messenger" scribe Alessandro Camon.
Stallone will play a New Orleans hitman whose fate becomes intertwined with that of a New York-based detective as they work together to exact revenge on the killers of their former work partners.
Pic, now in pre-production, is produced by Alexandra Milchan, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar and Kevin King Templeton. Templeton produced Stallone pics "The Expendables," "Rambo" and "Rocky Balboa." Ford and Deepak Nayar will exec produce; pic is skedded to lense in May in Louisiana and New York.
Ford will descend in Berlin with a slew of titles on offer to buyers including Madonna's "W.E.," which will bring Madonna to the fest to screen footage, and Jose Padilha's Brazilian B.O. hit "Elite Squad: The Enemy Within."
Outfit is currently in post-production on Jason Statham starrer "Safe," helmed by Boaz Yakin.
Through IM Global's Octane genre label, Kevin Smith's Sundance preem "Red State" and Rob Zombie's contemporary horror "The Lords of Salem" will also be offered to buyers.
Zombie's pic is the third offering from Octane's joint venture with Haunted Movies, the Alliance Films/Jason Blum shingle that also produced "Insidious," and Barry Levinson's zombie eco-thriller "The Bay." "Insidious" sold at Toronto in September and will be released domestically through Sony and FilmDistrict in April.
First footage from "The Bay" will be unveiled to buyers in Berlin.
IM Global has had some robust markets in the past year. At Toronto, the outfit generated $30 million in foreign pre-sales for $45 million 3D pic "Dredd," while at AFM the company pre-sold a raft of territories for the Reliance-backed "Walking With Dinosaurs 3D" to Fox.


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I finally got the chance to see the much touted political ad in which Mr. Raby states that Redstone got zero funding.
If people believe that then they deserve him as their elected representative.
What some people fail to see is that by crumpling up that sheet of paper and throwing it over his shoulder he committed an act of littering.
And if memory serves littering is against the law.
Now I know who I am picking up after when volunteering for Adopt-A -Mile clean ups.
If you ask me Raby just stands for Rob Alabama Blind Ya'll.
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Washington insider?
I'm confused. I just finished reading a Times' letter that claims "Steve Raby has 14 plus years legislative experience in Washington." He then speaks to the years of experience Raby has had working in and around Washington.
Why then, does Raby claim in his TV ads that he won't "fit in" in Washington and that he is not one of those Washington insiders? Which is it?
Raby is a lobbyist who supports public policy positions based on who pays him the most money.
Don't we already have too many congressmen like that? Sounds to me like Raby will fit right in!
The writer also incorrectly claims Mo Brooks signed the GOP Pledge to America and that it somehow prevents Mo Brooks from obtaining funding for Redstone Arsenal.
If the writer had done his research, he would know the Pledge to America says no such thing.
Mo Brooks has been very clear in his support for continued funding for the thousands of federal jobs and employers that help make North Alabama a world leader in national defense, aerospace and medical research.
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Huntsville, 35802
AEA master?
I assume that the Alabama Education Association has bought Robert Bentley in the hope that he will be elected as the next governor of Alabama.
I believe that this action indicates that neither the Republican Party of Alabama nor the AEA thinks that Alabama can elect a governor who will pursue the greatest good for the majority of the people of Alabama.
If elected would Bentley propose and do what is right or what the AEA proposes?
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GEORGE BORGESI was 36 when he was indicted on racketeering charges in 2000. The hotheaded mobster was convicted the following year and spent his 40s in federal lockups in West Virginia and North Carolina.
Borgesi, now 50, completed that prison sentence in 2011 but hasn't gotten out yet, and the feds keep extending their invitation for him to stay even longer, say, into his 60s.
They won't take no for an answer.
"He's not the same guy as when he went into the system. It breaks my heart," said Borgesi's mother, Manny. "It's a vendetta."
It's starting to seem like the U.S. government won't ever set Borgesi free, and that's turning "Georgie Boy" into an angry man. His hair is thin, his temper is short, and he's definitely not mellowing with age. Earlier this year, he called an assistant U.S. attorney a "f---in' punk" to his face when they crossed paths in a courtroom.


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What Began as a Home Invasion in Cheshire, Conn., Ends in the Gruesome Murders of Jennifer Lynn Hawke-Petit and Her Two Daughters
It was about to get far worse. Less than 45 minutes later, Jennifer and her two girls were dead, wantonly murdered. Even in a day and age when grisly crimes come and go with each news cycle, there was something truly horrifying about the killings in Cheshire, Conn., on July 23. Part of it was how well-known and well-liked the Petits were: Jennifer, 48, a pediatric nurse, had made a name for herself in the community with her unfailing kindnesses; her daughters were beautiful, friendly girls full of promise. But part of it was the way they died: held hostage for hours, with two of them sexually assaulted, before their final moments of terror. Police quickly arrested two men at the scene—Steven Hayes, 44, and Joshua Komisarjevsky, 26—ex-cons who had roomed together recently at a state correctional halfway house, but that scarcely softened the sense of shock that rippled throughout the community. "What all of them went through, especially little Michaela, it completely broke me up," says Bob Averack, who lives across the street from the Petits. "The anger and the sadness and the absolute outrage at what happened to that family is beyond description."
The tragedy began with a chance encounter. On July 22, police have confirmed, the suspects happened to spot Jennifer and Michaela at a Stop & Shop in Cheshire, where they were getting into a white Mercedes. They followed the pair to the Petits' comfortable four-bedroom home. "They liked the house and figured there was money there," says Bill Petit's father, William Sr. That evening Bill, a prominent endocrinologist, and Jennifer enjoyed a dinner of pasta with homemade tomato sauce whipped up by Michaela; afterward the girls read Harry Potter before going to bed. At 3 a.m. Hayes and Komisarjevsky allegedly returned and got into the house through an unlocked cellar door. Once inside they attacked Bill with a baseball bat, knocking him out. They then tied the three women up, with Hayley and Michaela apparently lashed to their beds. After that they managed to walk Bill, bound and groggy, down to the basement. With him out of the way, they allegedly went back upstairs. According to the state's attorney, Hayes raped Jennifer, and Komisarjevsky sexually assaulted young Michaela.
At 9 a.m. one of the suspects—reportedly Hayes—drove Jennifer to the bank and waited for her in the car. When shown the slip of paper from Jennifer, the bank manager summoned police, who turned up in force in minutes. The police raced to the Petit home, but by the time they arrived, it was too late. As they pulled up, Hayes and Komisarjevsky were coming out. They had apparently spread gasoline around the beds of the two girls and set them afire in a seeming effort to cover up the crime. Police quickly nabbed them after they had rammed three patrol cars trying to get away. But before cops could enter the house, it was already engulfed in flames. Meanwhile Bill had awakened to the sound of his wife screaming for her life. He managed to untie his hands and escape from the cellar by the outside door. "He couldn't undo his legs, so he hopped his way up the stairs and into the yard," says William Sr. His wife and daughters were not so fortunate. Authorities found Jennifer, who had been strangled, along with Hayley and Michaela, who died of smoke inhalation while tied to their beds. "Five minutes earlier, and they could have saved everyone," says William Sr., "but that's not the way it worked."
Their awful deaths were in stark contrast to the grace with which they lived their lives. Bill and Jennifer had met at a hospital in Pittsburgh, where he was a medical student and she was a nurse. On July 28 Bill, bruised and stitched up, spoke at an overflowing memorial for his lost loved ones. He described how he had tried to show off with Jennifer by demonstrating how to take a patient's blood pressure, only to have her gently correct him. Even then, he recalled, "She knew more about how to take care of kids than I ever would." Eight years ago Jennifer had been diagnosed with MS, but she never complained. She had been working as the school nurse at the private Cheshire Academy, where she was known as almost a surrogate mom for the students. Says fellow nurse Debra Bonds: "She only saw the good in people."
Her daughters were from the same mold. From the time she was very young, Hayley had wanted to follow her parents and go into medicine. In a recent essay for college she had spoken of how she idolized her father and his "amazing godlike powers to heal." Through participating in walkathons, she had raised $55,000 for MS research and had even formed a team called Hayley's Hope. This fall she was about to realize a dream and begin studies at her father's alma mater, Dartmouth. Meanwhile Michaela—nicknamed "Kay Kay"—was just coming into her own. A vegetarian, she had a passion for cooking and the Food Network. As her father, choking back his tears, said at the memorial service, "She was a wonderful little girl who was going to grow up to be a beautiful woman."
As for the two suspects, both have extensive rap sheets. Hayes, who grew up in nearby Winsted, Conn., has a criminal record, with 26 prior convictions, including burglary and weapons charges, stretching back to 1980. Lately he had been living with his mother in a down-at-the-heels condominium. Komisarjevsky, though, comes from a relatively privileged background. His Russian grandfather and grandmother had been prominent figures in dance and the arts. Adopted as an infant, Komisarjevsky had been raised in Cheshire, where his family owned a good deal of property. By the time he was 14, however, he was already in trouble with the police for burglary. By his early 20s, he had become increasingly brazen in his methods. At a sentencing hearing in 2002 after Komisarjevsky was convicted of burglary, the prosecutor pointed out that in contrast to most burglars—who commit their crimes during the day in order to avoid encountering homeowners—Komisarjevsky worked at night, sometimes listening to his victims sleep. He even used night-vision goggles to aid in his crimes. At that same hearing, Komisarjevsky's attorney cited drug problems and alleged molestation—by foster kids his family had taken in—as mitigating factors. Nevertheless, the judge pronounced Komisarjevsky a "calculated, cold-blooded predator."
There is some evidence that Komisarjevsky at least entertained the notion of going straight. An unidentified woman, who said she had been a friend of his, provided letters to CNN he had purportedly written from prison in which he talked of becoming a real-estate developer and being able to provide for his daughter, now 5. But he also worried about his "criminal demon" derailing his dreams.
Amid an outcry, Connecticut officials have promised to investigate how they could have been let out on parole and to reform procedures if necessary. But in the meantime, the two suspects, who police confirm have confessed, have been charged with multiple counts of murder and kidnapping and are facing a possible death penalty. While the prospect of severe punishment provided comfort to some people, some friends of the Petits preferred not to dwell on that aspect of the tragedy. "It makes you want to give up on a world where this could happen to people like this, but then you realize they would not want us to give up," says Deb Hereld, who was a friend of Jennifer's. "If this happened to somebody else, they would be the people in the front, comforting, organizing help and just being there on a personal level. You don't meet many people like that in your life; you just don't."
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1887 Birth Born on September 26, 1887.
1912 24 Years Old In 1912, he moved to Hollywood, California and he was signed to Vitagraph Studios and began his career in bit parts and as a movie extra.
1914 26 Years Old In 1914, Moreno began co-starring in a series of highly successful serials opposite the enormously publicly popular silent film actress Pearl White. … Read More
1915 27 Years Old By 1915, Antonio Moreno was a highly regarded matinee idol and appearing opposite such successful actors as Tyrone Power, Sr., Gloria Swanson, Blanche Sweet, Pola Negri and Dorothy Gish. … Read More
1923 35 Years Old Moreno married American heiress Daisy Canfield Danziger, in 1923, and the couple moved to an estate known as Crestmount, now known as the Canfield-Moreno Estate. The union lasted ten years and ended shortly before Canfield Danziger was killed in an automobile accident on February 23, 1933. … Read More
1926 38 Years Old In 1926 Moreno starred opposite Swedish acting legend Greta Garbo in The Temptress and the following year followed up with a starring role in the enormous box-office hit Clara Bow vehicle It.
1932 44 Years Old During the early 1930s, Moreno directed several well-received Mexican films, among them is the 1932 drama Santa, which has been hailed by film critics as one of the best Mexican films of the era. … Read More
1954 66 Years Old By the mid-1940s and throughout the 1950s, Moreno appeared in a number of well received roles, most notably, his 1954 role in the classic horror film Creature from the Black Lagoon and his 1955 role as Emilio Figueroa in film director John Ford's influential western epic The Searchers opposite John Wayne and Natalie Wood.
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FRIDAY, April 5 (HealthDay News) -- Diabetes has a negative impact on the ability to work, according to a review and meta-analysis published in the March issue of Diabetes Care.
Marie-Claude Breton, Ph.D., from Laval University in Quebec, Canada, and colleagues conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to examine the ability to work for individuals with type 2 diabetes. Data from 23 studies (17 cross-sectional, four cohort, and one case-control) were reviewed, with outcomes of interest including absenteeism (17 studies), productivity (six studies), presenteeism (four studies), and early retirement (four studies).
The researchers found that the effects of diabetes on the ability to work were generally consistent across 11 studies with high methodological quality, with diabetes having a significant negative impact on the ability-to-work outcome considered in nine of the studies. The correlations between diabetes and increased absenteeism were significant in all but two studies. Compared to those without diabetes, individuals with diabetes had between two and 10 days more absenteeism per year and retired 0.7 years earlier.
"Taken overall, diabetes appears to reduce an individual's ability to work," the authors write. "There is a need for setting up diabetes prevention programs and to develop and implement effective targeted intervention to help workers better manage their disease. Otherwise this diabetes-related burden could worsen as the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in the working-age population continues to rise."
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I have been going to DR. Rankin since 2004, I consider myself lucky to have found her, when I started seeing her she was in the chiropractor office on Saturday, I loved her immediately, such a caring DR. Who has seen me go through it and back. She has been there through the death of my son (were her whole staff came to his funeral). I have always struggled with my weight and DR. Rankin and her staff I been so supporting in my weight loss journey, I can truly say I have am very blessed to have such an awesome DR and staff.
Great every time I go in, they have everything from chiro to massage therapist under one roof. Great Dr. wonderful staff.
I made an appointment as a new patient, and had a well visit. They were prompt and courteous and Dr. Rankin has a great bedside manner. Later that month, I was severely bitten by a dog on the calf. Dr. Rankin was available even on the weekends through email if I had any problems. Everyone was great! I really enjoy going to this office. Dr. Rankin and her staff are top notch
Dr.Rankin is a great doctor, she actually listened to me and helped me when other doctors were not able to. I was a little worried about the staff after reading some of the review but I was happily surprised. She has a friendly and caring staff.
I could not be more please! She got my kids in for school physicals when no one could see me untill second week of sept. Very neat and careing. Seen her assistant he is great took care of my kids. Took tome to explain whatwvas going on at their physical, walked out with shot rec and physical forms for schol
I can honestly say I have the BEST DOCTOR... I`ve been seeing her almost a year often once a month when needed. She`s been nothing but awesome. I don`t need to explain why, the email is great very convenient. Faster then phone calls.
Dr. Rankin is next to impossible to reach, never returns calls. Her front staff is rude and disrespectful. Nobody ever smiled!!! I have waited for 6 months to get my records and still am waiting. I do not recommend this doctor.
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Dr. Rankin took her time with me. She's the first doctor that I feel actually listened to what I had to say. The staff was very nice and I didn't mind waiting. They have coffee and snacks and a TV to watch so the wait did not seem long. I would highly recommend this office!
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So disappointed with this Doctor and her staff, the only professional one is Beverly. Never return calls, poorly handled insurance issues, I would not recommend to anyone.
I'm sure going to look for another family doctor, trying to get any assistance with a call back, proper insurance filing or just seeing Dr. Rankin is next to none. Very disappointed with staff not following up with insurance, not filling, not returning messages in a timely manor is ridiculous.
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I was very happy with my visit to this office. The staff was very friendly and caring and the male PA was very kind and helpful. I would recommend this office.
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I really like Dr. Rankin, she is a very caring person and she knows what se is doing but her staff is horrible. It takes you forever to get an app, they always want to schedule you with the nurse practioner instead of the Doctor, and the nurse pactioner is terrible, she won't even get close to you, she acts like she is afraid to get near you. They never answer the phone or call back. The staff leaves much to be desired. She should get new help in her office.
I've gone to this office for about 8 years and I've never been truly impressed. More often than not, I've left utterly disappointed. They lose records, never answer their phones, have inexperienced staff, and seemingly float along without doing any research on their vaccines and/or diagnosis. I've met Lisa twice; otherwise she couldn't be bothered, and sat me with one or two RNs who refused to listen to my symptoms and stated a few lifestyle choices would fix me right up. You're a wallet here, nothing more.
Staff is the worse I've ever experienced and some don't have certification or license to do what they do and dr rankin let's them work there you will always see a nurse practitioner not the dr she is too busy!!!!
I cant get in to see Dr. Rankin, they put you with nurse practioner. And charge the same as if you were seen by doctor. I like Dr. Rankin is a great doctor but they cant run doctors office this way, people want to be seen by a real doctor. Also cant get thru on the phone during the day. Press this button and never answer their phones. Im sure other patients feel the same way, i have to look for a new doctor. Its hard to find doctor or office who really cares about people its all about insurance money.
Worse doctor in St Lucie County
Dr Rankin is a good Doctor and seems to care about her patients. Her office staff is not very professional or caring. It is very hard to get through to anyone in the office most days all calls go to a voicemail. I have never had a good experience with the staff they seem as though they do not want to be there. Not a happy office.
I would definitely NOT recommend this doctor. It is almost impossible to get an appointment with her - they always want to schedule you with the nurse practitioner or a "webvisit", which of course costs the same as seeing the doctor. I had a bad UTI and they insisted I had to come in before they would prescribe anything - I called my gynecologist and she called a prescription into the pharmacy right away. Her staff is incompetent and if you have a billing problem (which I assure you you will) you never get to talk to a real person. Their voice message says they will call back within 24 hours - it's been 3 days and I have not heard from anyone after leaving 3 messages.
staff is unreliabe, not polite, they do not reture calls. I have been with them for 2 years and I have yet been able to meet dr. rankin they always schedule me with PA and she imposes her religious beliefs she is very unprofessional.
Dr. Rankin is an amazing doctor! Her new staff is wonderful. They are caring and attentive. I highly recommend Dr. Rankin.
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I have always had a great experience with Dr Rankin and her office.
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Dr. Rankin may be an excellent physician, unfortunately her staff, leaves much to be desired. I had an appointment with her PA Patricia for severe back pain that was causing numbness in one foot and a tingling sensation down the same leg. She NEVER touched me during the visit, and spent the entire time entering information into her laptop. As they say, the buck stops here, Dr. Rankin is ultimately responsible for the behavior of her staff.
Dr. Rankin is a fantastic doctor, but I've had so many problems with her staff, i.e. not faxing all prescription refills and then I have to call and leave messages and email and leave messages and finally a few days later get results. I've had to do without my regular prescriptions because I'd do a webvisit three days before I ran out and then finally after a few days I will get the refill. They've over charged me for visits, given me refunds and then telling me I didn't pay enough and have to pay more, then get refunded. It is insane. I think Dr. Rankin would be the only doctor anyone would ever want to see but for someone with a heart condition that has orders from the cardiologist to avoid stress, dealing with Dr. Rankin's staff is causing more. I hope she reads this.
I really enjoyed my visit w/Dr. Rankin. I have rarely experienced the amount of time and attention that she provided! She did not seem rushed or antsy to get to the next patient. She listened to all the concerns I had.
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Whenever someone in my family is in need of attention, Dr. Rankin always comes through for us. My husband is not that comfortable with seeing doctors; Dr. Rankin has him actually listening to what she suggests.


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Saginaw Bay beach muck has been called a lot of things, from crud to pea soup to unprintable expletives.
An aquatic biologist from the state Department of Environmental Quality has given it yet another moniker: blobs.
Bruce Walker, a senior biologist with the DEQ's Water Bureau, recently tested muck collected from a private beach in Port Austin.
Instead of finding just cladophora, a benthic algae that usually dies off and washes up along the bay, Walker found a bunch of unidentifiable remnants of dead and dying green and blue-green alga, including cladophora.
"It wasn't, obviously, a lot of one thing," Walker said.
In a DEQ report on the testing, Walker wrote that 40-60 percent of the muck also included "an amorphous, light gray, nondescript accumulation which occurred in many 'free' chunks/blobs, but also adhered to or wrapped around vegetative debris."
He added, "It appeared that ultra fine sands or organic debris stuck into/on to these blobs which seemed to have some kind of mucilaginous or gelatinous base material."
He said he's not sure what the "amorphous stuff" was. He also found body parts of insects, bird feathers and woody debris.
Charlie Bauer, with the DEQ Water Bureau in Bay City, said five samples were collected in June after his agency was contacted about muck on the beach in front of Dennis Bryce's home.
Samples were sent to Walker and other researchers with the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration.
"One of the reasons we wanted to do it was because this is kind of early to start seeing some of this stuff," Bauer said of beach muck.
"We didn't think it was probably cladophora because that's later in the season."
Bauer said he'll pass along findings from the NOAA researchers when they become available.
Excessive growth of muck in the bay and Great Lakes has been blamed on phosphorus, a nutrient used in fertilizers.
Bay County has put restrictions on residential lawn fertilizers beginning next year.
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Scientists around the world are sounding the alarm about "peak phosphorus." In as little as 30 years, we may run out of the element, which is essential to modern agriculture and doesn't have a synthetic alternative, according to a post at Treehugger.com.
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ABSTRACT Misuse of current stereochemical terms is discussed, including terms that should be avoided altogether and replaced by other, standard ones. The reasons for using the proper terms and avoiding the infelicitous ones are pointed out.
Chemical nomenclature has always been somewhat problematic, and this seems to be particularly true when it comes to stereochemical terms. Authors tend to let their imagination run wild in the invention of new (and often unneeded!) terminology, making life difficult for the reader who, of course, is not familiar with the newly invented terms.1
This situation persists even though what we had hoped to be a "minimalist" glossary was published in 1994 in a stereochemistry treatise of which I am a coauthor2,3 Some particularly egregious slips were observed at a recent conference at which I had the honor of receiving the Chirality Medal. One of the attendants at this meeting was Professor Koji Nakanishi, a previous winner of the Chirality Medal, who shared with me his dismay with some of the nomenclature used. It, thus, seems appropriate that I should take up the subject in this article, which is dedicated to Professor Nakanishi as Chirality Medalist. Here are some examples of what I call "infelicitous nomenclature" in stereochemistry.
Asymmetric Synthesis. This term is probably too deeply embedded in the chemical nomenclature to be eradicated. Nonetheless two problems with this term should be pointed out. First of all, the term, in its most general sense, applies to dissymmetric (or, as we now say, chiral) reagents, catalysts, products, and chiral auxiliaries. In fact, some of the most effective chiral auxiliaries have C2 symmetry, i.e., they are not asymmetric at all! Secondly, of course, it is the catalysts, products, etc., that are chiral (not necessarily asymmetric!), not the syntheses as such. (We shall find this kind of wrong apposition in many of the other examples below.) The proper term to use, in lieu of "asymmetric synthesis" would be "enantioselective synthesis" (if one of two enantiomers is produced in predominance) or, in some cases, "diastereoselective synthesis" when one of two or more diastereomers is produced predominantly. (This, also, has been called an asymmetric synthesist i.e., when both starting material and product are enantiopure or enantioenriched, for example in the hydride reduction of cholestanone to 33-cholestanol where a new chiral center is introduced stereoselectively at C(3). Such dual use of "asymmetric synthesis" is, in this author's opinion, confusing.)
Chiral Chromatography. It is not the chromatography that is chiral but the material to be chromatographed. It might be objected that adjectives are often used loosely in English, for example "chiral center" is used properly for "center of chirality." [This looseness does not necessarily apply to other languages. Center of Chirality (Chiralitatszentrum) is the obligatory term used in German!] However, there is no linguistically inferrable sense for "chiral chromatography." The proper expression, "enantioselective chromatography," is just as easy to use! By the same token, the expression "chiral column" in this kind of chromatography should be avoided; it is not the column but the packing that is chiral (and, one hopes, enantioselective). In contrast, "chiral stationary phase," "chiral support," and "chiral solvent" are proper terms except possibly for the inherent ambiguity in the use of the term "chiral" (see "chiral substance").
Chiral Substance. This is an appropriate term for a compound whose molecules are chiral, i.e., not superposable with their mirror image molecules (enantiomers). However, at the level of a substance or compound (implying large numbers of constituent molecules) it is not clear whether these molecules are all homochiral (i.e., of the same sense of chirality), or heterochiral (i.e., some of one sense of chirality and some of the other). In the latter case, the substance, though chiral, might be racemic, or it might be partially racemic (i.e., an excess of one enantiomer over the other, but not to the exclusion of the minor enantiomer). Therefore, additional terminology is needed. The term "scalemic"4 has been proposed for any non-racemic chiral compound, but it leaves out the question as to whether the compound is "enantiopure" (enantiomerically pure) or "enantioenriched" (having an excess of one enantiomer but not to the exclusion of the other). The latter terminology has been favored in our textbooks It must be admitted that the definition of "enantiopure" depends on one's standards and means of analysis. Does it mean 99, 99.5, 99.9 or 99.99% pure? The first degree of purity is probably at the limit of what can be seen by nmr using chiral shift reagents but the highest limit might be accessible to analysis by enantioselective gas chromatography. (This question might assume importance both in relation to FDA approvals and patent litigation!) Where possible, the enantiomer excess or enantiomer ratio (see below) should be given as a number.
Chiral Synthesis. This term is even more objectionable than "asymmetric synthesis," again because it is not the synthesis that is chiral. In most cases, this term has been applied to a synthesis from a chiral, enantioenriched, or enantiopure starting material (sometimes said to belong to the "chiral pool," i.e., the inventory of readily available enantiopure or highly enantioenriched starting materials; "chiral pool" is another misnomer). The proper term here would be "stereospecific synthesis," implying a synthesis in which a starting material of a given configuration gives a product of given configuration; thus an enantiopure starting material (e.g., a natural product--though not all chiral natural products are enantiopure) would give rise to an enantiopure product in a stereospecific synthesis.
Geometrical Isomers. At one time in the past, stereoisomers were divided into "optical" and "geometrical" isomers. [We shall dispose of the term "optical isomer" in the sequel (see "optical antipode")]. The dichotomy resulted from a belief that enantiomers were topological isomers and cis-trans ("geometrical') isomers were not. In fact, however, most common enantiomers are not topological isomers either.5 In addition, it is more logical to distinguish those stereoisomers that are mirror images of each other ("enantiomers") from those that are not ("diastereomers"). The latter include not only the subclass of cis-trans isomers (which is what they should be called) but also such achiral compounds as the 1,4-dichlorocydohexanes and the two meso-2,3,4-trihydroxyglutaric acids in addition to such classical examples as the chiral and meso-tartaric acids.
Homochiral. This term has been misused to mean "chirally homogenous." In fact it means "of the same chirality." Molecules can be homochiral (or heterochiral, i.e., of opposite chirality or configuration), but to apply the term to a substance or compound is inappropriate. Recently the term "monochiral" has been suggested,6 the Greek prefix "mono" meaning "one" or "single" and this term would seem more appropriate. (A conceptual term does seem to be needed; the experimental designation "enantiopure" is not entirely synonymous, since it applies to an experimental attribute, not to a concept.)
Optical Antipodes. This archaic synonym for "enantiomers" is still occasionally used even though it is doubly flawed. When I visited Australia, my right hand remained my right hand and did not turn into my left hand a did not become an "enantio-Eliel"). Therefore, at best, antipodes are related by a C2 symmetry axis, not by a symmetry plane. Moreover, the prefix "optical" should no longer be used for enantiomers (they should not either be called "optical isomers") since optical activity - the hallmark of chirality in the first 100 years of stereochemistry - is no longer its main feature. Today that main feature is fit vs. misfit (as an enzyme with its chiral substrate or a drug with its chiral receptor).
Optical Purity. This term was appropriate when such purity was measured by polatimetry. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, the main one being that the maximum optical rotation of many not-so-common compounds is not firmly known, polarimetry is generally a poor method for determining enantiomeric purity. (An exception may be cases where the same measurement is carried out repeatedly and routinely on the same substance, as in the determination of purity of sugar.) Nowadays other methods, such as enantioselective chromatography, are preferred because they are more accurate. Therefore the original term should be dropped. " Enantiomeric purity" has been used but is, unfortunately, not unequivocally defined. If used, it should denote the percentage of the major enantiomer in a mixture of the two enantiomers. A more commonly used (and unequivocal) designation is that of "enantiomer(ic) excess" meaning the excess (in percent) of one enantiomer over the other; a precise definition (which applies even if there is third-body contamination) is e.e.% = (l%R - %SI)/(%R + %S). It is interesting, however, that the term "optical yield" (e.e. of product)/(e.e. of starting material) in a reaction is still used because there seems to be no better term. "Enantiomer ratio" (er) may also be used to specify enantiomeric composition; it is unequivocal.
Stereochemistry of a Compound or Reaction. This terminology is found disturbingly often but is entirely inappropriate and moreover unnecessary. What is meant in the former case is "configuration" (of a compound). In the latter case ("stereochemistry of a reaction," e.g., retention, inversion, racemization), the proper expression is "steric course" (of the reaction).
Stereogenic Center. This term was coined by McCasland7 and brought to wider attention by Mislow and Siegel8 who also defined the term "chirotopic." A stereogenic center is a center (usually located at an atom) in a molecule such that exchange of two ligands at the center leads to a stereoisomer of the original molecule. There may be some confusion as between "stereogenic center" and "chiral center." At least with tetrahedral atoms, such as carbon, a chiral center is necessarily stereogenic, since the interchange of two ligands at a chiral tetrahedral atom interconverts enantiomers. However, the converse is not true: not every stereogenic center is a chiral center, since one cannot define chiral centers in achiral molecules. Thus C(1) and C(3) in 1,3-dichlorocyclobutane are stereogenic, since the interchange of C1 and H at C(1) or C(3) leads to (diastereo)isomers, converting the cis isomer into the bans or vice versa. However these atoms are not chiral since the 1,3-dichlorocyHobutanes, cis or bans, are achiral. By the same token C(3) in the (meso) 2R,3,4S-trihydroxy-glutaric acids is stereogenic, since switching H(3) and OH(3) coverts one meso form (3r) into the other (3s), but neither is chiral, so C (3) is not a chiral center. Ct used to be called a "pseudoasymmetric center" and this nomenclature still persists even though it is illogical in that there is no asymmetry about such a center: it lies on a plane of symmetry and is therefore "achirotopic" in the Mislow-Siegel definition8 as are C(1) and C(3) in 1,3-dichlorocyclobutane, which are not usually called pseudoasymmetric centers).
Finally, I should like to include here a fallacy, which, while not a matter of nomenclature, is repeatedly found not only in the popular literature and in scientific magazines, but also in scientific articles. I refer to the statement that the thalidomide tragedy, i.e., the birth of babies with deformed or missing limbs, could have been prevented if the pregnant women who took this drug would have been given the one pure enantiomer pharmacologically active as sedative or anti-nausea agent ("eutomer"), free of the other enantiomer ("distomer"), which was shown to be the teratogenic one. While the pharmacology of the two enantiomers was correctly established,9 it was discovered recently10 that thalidomide is racemized not only in vitro but even more rapidly in vivo so that even if the pure eutomer had been administered, it would quickly have been partially converted into the dangerous teratogenic distomer.
1. See also Helmchen, G. Glossary of problematic terms in organic stereochemistry. Enantiomer 1:1996; 4 unnumbered pages following p. 84.
2. Ebel, E.L., Wilen, S.H. Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds. New York: W~'ley-lnterscience, 1994;1191-1210.
3. See also Gawley, RE., Aube, J. Prmciples of Asymmetric Synthesis. Oxford: Pergamon, 1996:15-40.
4. Brewster, J.H. Racemic, scalemic, holemic. Chem. Eng. News 70:1992, May 18, 3; see also Heathcock, C.H. Alternative to homochiral. Chem. Eng. News 69:1991, February 4, 3.
5. Mislow, K A commentary on the topological chirality and achirality of molecules. Croat. Chem. Acta 69:485-511,1996.
6. Cornforth, RH., Cornforth J.W. How to be right and wrong. Croat. Chem. Acta 69:427-433, 1996.
McCasland, G.E. A New General System for the Naming of Stereoisomers. Columbus, OH: Chemical Abstracts Service 1950:2-3.
8. Mislow, K, Siegel, J. Stereoisomerism and local chirality. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 106:3319-3328,1984.
9. Blaschke, G., Kratt, H.P., F~ckentscher, K, Kohler, F. Chromatographische Racemattrennung von Thalidomid und teratogene Wlrkung der Enantiomere. Arzneim. Forsch. Drug Res. 29:1640-1642, 1979.
10. Knoche, B., Blaschke, G. Investigations on the in vitro racemization of thalidomide by high-performance liquid chromatography. J. Chromatogr. A 666:235-240, 1994. The half-life for racemization at 37°C in a phosphate buffer (pH 7.4), about 4.5 hr. is reduced to about 10 min in the presence of human serum albumin.
Originaly published in: CHIRALITY 9:428-430 (1997) ©Wiley-Liss, Inc.


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Peruvians hold predominantly negative opinions about Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Bolivias Evo Morales and resent their comments about Perus presidential election. Few support following Bolivias lead and nationalizing their countrys oil and gas industry.
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These findings emerge from nationwide surveys conducted in May 2006 by Apoyo and Datum. The Apoyo poll asked Peruvians their opinion about Chávez, a vociferous critic of the United States and a close ally of Cuban President Fidel Castro. Sixty-one percent responded negative, 17 percent said positive, while 14 percent said they did not know. Asked about Bolivias president Evo Morales, who has also allied himself with Chávez and Castro, 41 percent of those polled said they held a negative opinion, 23 percent said positive, 26 percent did not know.
The Datum poll focused on the recent nationalization of Bolivias natural gas industry by President Morales. Asked whether it would be positive to nationalize Perus oil and gas industries, 34 percent said it would be positive while 49 percent said it would be negative. A similar poll by Apoyo among residents of the capital city of Lima found that 40 percent favored the nationalization of Perus oil and gas industry and 51 percent were opposed. Few thought taking over foreign oil and gas companies would benefit Peru. Slightly more than a third (36 percent) said the country would be better off. Only 23 percent said nationalizations would be good for foreign investment and 33 percent said it would have a positive impact on employment.
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Humala has promised more state intervention in Perus economy to redistribute income to its overwhelmingly poor population. Though he has not said he would expropriate foreign assets, he has threatened to renegotiate international contracts to exact higher royalties. The country is in the midst of a multi-billion dollar pipeline project to bring natural gas from the Amazon jungle to the Pacific coast.
The Venezuelan and Bolivian presidents have emerged as important issues in Perus presidential campaign because of their outspoken support for Humala and their attacks on both García and Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo. Chávez has repeatedly declared his desire to see Humala elected and publicized his disdain for García, calling him a thief and a crook. Toledo withdrew his ambassador from Venezuela at the end of April, accusing Chávez of persistent and flagrant interference in Peruvian affairs. That sparked another volley from Chávez, who called Toledo an office boy for President Bush.
Morales also publicly declared his support for Humala when the Peruvian candidate visited Bolivia earlier this month. Nor has he refrained from attacking Perus President Alejandro Toledo, calling him a traitor for supporting a free trade pact with the United States. According to the Apoyo poll, 61 percent of Peruvians disapproved of Morales attack on Toledo. A larger majority (75 percent) said they disapproved of Chávezs comments about candidate Alan García.
Though García governed Peru as a populist in the 1980s, he is now campaigning on a platform of political and economic pragmatism, saying he will pursue the center-left, pro-growth policies of neighboring Chile. But as president of Peru from 1985-1990, García was more radical. He nationalized foreign banks and left Peru with hyper-inflation and an escalating guerrilla war.
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Kids are back in school, the leaves are changing color and the air is cooling — all signs that autumn is upon us. But for me, the unofficial start of the season is the annual National Association for Pupil Transportation (NAPT) Summit.
This year, folks from all over the school bus industry will be heading west (or other directions) to Portland, Ore. It's the first time the event has been held in a western state since 2003, when it was in Salt Lake City.
There are many reasons to attend the NAPT Summit. One is the exceptional speakers. Over the past few years, NAPT has been raising the bar on its lineup of lecturers and attracting some big names.
If you attended last year in Louisville, Ky., you got the chance to hear a keynote address from Dirk Kempthorne, the former senator, governor and U.S. secretary of the interior.
In Portland, one of the featured speakers will be Hall Davidson of the Discovery Channel. Davidson, who is a former classroom and television educator and Emmy Award winner, will discuss his diverse teaching experiences and will talk about using technology to create new knowledge. Davidson taught middle and high school English, mathematics, Spanish and bilingual mathematics before leaving the classroom to teach math on television in Los Angeles.
Another NAPT speaker whom you may have seen on TV is Matt Roloff. He and his family are featured on the hit series Little People, Big World. Roloff has proven successful in overcoming the challenges imposed on him by diastrophic dysplasia, a rare form of dwarfism. The entrepreneur, author and advocate for all people with differences will share advice on how to make positive changes at work, at home and in our communities.
From the government sector, Kevin Jennings will give a presentation titled "Creating an Environment Where Everyone Can Learn: Addressing Bullying and Harassment in Our Schools." Jennings, the assistant secretary of education and director of the U.S. Education Department's Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools, will explain the importance of eliminating bullying and harassment, which detract from a student's ability to focus on learning. He will also discuss how President Obama's Education Department plans to make schools safer as part of the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
As usual, the NAPT Summit boasts an impressive array of educational workshops. Just a few of the topics to be covered are bus stop safety, in-service training, distracted driving and budget cuts.
We'll also get to hear from some of the locals. Officials from Salem-Keizer Public Schools will speak on the importance of understanding your organizational culture and on mentoring new drivers. The Beaverton School District will talk about its use of a unique labor-management team to effectively and quickly address issues that might otherwise have gone to grievance and arbitration. And Albany's school transportation department will give a presentation on extending "the honeymoon" — when the answer to most reasonable requests is "yes."
Throw in the two-day trade show, abundant networking opportunities and a variety of special events, and it's clear that a trip to the Summit is well worth the investment. I hope to see you there.
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In loving memory of George Archie "Waabaankwad" (Paul) WAHSQUONAIKEZHIK, August 3, 1931 - December 19, 2006.
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KULA - Hunters took turns Wednesday night aiming to shoot down a state proposal to preserve an East Maui forest area that has been a source of sustenance for their families.
"If you guys are thinking about moths and butterflies, they don't feed the people," said 73-year-old Haiku resident Donald Wallace, a hunter with 53 years of experience. He said he's hunted goats, pigs and deer in the vicinity of Nakula, a 1,517-acre portion of the Kahikinui Forest Reserve.
During a contentious meeting at the Kula Community Center, state officials told Wallace and other hunters opposing the plan that public access to Nakula would not be restricted under a proposal by the state Department of Land and Natural Resources to include it in the Natural Area Reserve System.
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Dr. Dave Brown used his own white boards Wednesday night to highlight arguments against a state plan to add a 1,517-acre chunk of the Kahikinui Forest Reserve as part of a Natural Area Reserve System. "What we want is an E I S," Brown said, referring to an environmental impact statement.
The designation would give the sensitive ecological area special protection, allow for better cooperation among officials and make available more resources to preserve it.
Nakula is part of a leeward Haleakala koa forest that once shaded 40,000 acres from Makawao to Kaupo. The area is home to 20 species of rare plants, eight of which are endangered, and serves as a habitat for two endangered bird species, the Hawaiian hoary bat and Blackburn's sphinx moth.
By a show of hands, nearly all of the nearly 70 people who attended Wednesday night's meeting indicated their opposition to the plan to include Nakula in the state's reserve system.
There were a few people who testified in favor of the state proposal, citing the benefits of environmental protection of endangered plants and animals and particularly, the koa forest.
"It's fifteen hundred acres. It's not much," said Makawao resident Justin Kekiwi, a DLNR employee who spoke out as a private citizen.
"It's such a precious resource," Kekiwi said, and it should be protected and preserved for future generations.
According to a state report, the region has a good chance of recovering if it is protected. Koa forests have repeatedly shown an ability to regrow in damaged areas after grazing animals have been removed.
Retired firefighter Benjamin Joaquin, 74, of Makawao, said he's hunted in Nakula, and questioned the need for the Natural Area Reserve System to expand beyond the 110,000 acres it already has statewide.
"There's nothing really left for the hunters," Joaquin said. "The mountain is almost shut out to the local people."
Wallace's nephew, Patrick Wallace of Haiku, said he did not see the public benefit in adding Nakula to NARS, especially since the area is only accessible through permission from either private landowners and/or the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, which has property adjacent to the land.
DLNR was represented Wednesday night by staff member Emma Yuen, who provided a PowerPoint presentation about the area. Other staffers were William "Bill" Evanson, the Maui District program manager for the Natural Area Reserve System; and Randy Kennedy, the Natural Area Program manager from DLNR in Honolulu.
Yuen said protecting the 1,500 or so acres of Nakula is foundational to preserving Hawaiian culture to allow future generations to see what the area was like in the past.
Evanson said the idea of preserving Nakula has been talked about for two years. Other designated areas in the Natural Area Reserve System have bounced back with more vegetation growing in forests and coral returning in the waters in just a two-year period of preservation protection.
"Nature has a way of coming back. There's a real resilience," he said.
Hunters complained about plans to build fences in the Nakula area, but Evanson said the fences were going up with or without the Natural Area Reserve System plan.
"Fences are highly controversial," Evanson responded. "We don't like doing them."
But fencing is the only effective way to keep animals away from destroying fragile ecosystems, he said.
Former state game warden Charlie Villalon, who works for the county's Planning Department and hunts as well, questioned the state's ability to restore the Nakula area by giving it special protection.
"I'll be honest. It's too little, too late," Villalon said.
Evanson pointed out that 90 percent of the areas in which the Division of Forestry and Wildlife manage, including those designated in the Natural Area Reserve System, are open to the public, including hunters.
As they did on Molokai, hunters might be enlisted to help rid the protected area of animals that do damage, he said. In a Natural Area Reserve System, groups of 10 or more people would be required to seek a permit.
Aside from the hunters, Dr. Dave Brown, a member of the board of directors of Public Access Trails Hawaii, also testified against the NARS proposal.
He said he has camped in the area twice.
"It's just a magical place, and NARS can't be trusted," said Brown, a Waihee resident and a retired physician.
Brown and county planner Paul Fasi, who said he was testifying as a private citizen, called on the DLNR to conduct an environmental impact statement on the NARS proposal.
"It should not go forward without an EIS," Fasi said.
Some of the proposal's critics said they believed that with state funds lacking, the DLNR should drop its plan.
"There is no money for this foolish project," Fasi said. "You guys have your priorities mixed up."
If the proposal advances, the nomination of the area for inclusion in the Natural Area Reserve System will be taken before the state Board of Land and Natural Resources. It then would make a recommendation to the governor, who would make the final decision on the area's designation.
Public comments on the proposal are being accepted through May 10 and can be sent via e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com or mailed to DLNR Chairperson, attention: Emma Yuen, P.O. Box 621, Honolulu 96809.
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Report: Ashton Kutcher, Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones Close to Signing on for Another Season of 'Two and a Half Men'
Deadline Hollywood reports that all three of Two and Half Men's leading men are close to inking new one year deals for next season which would mark the tenth season of the show and Kutcher's second. Deadline reports all three will return at their current salaries with a signing bonus. Getting the contracts done is presumably the only thing holding up the renewal announcement.


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From: Jon Stanford ------------------------------------------------------ So I've been beefing up my ~/.bashrc with some useful, and some not so useful CLI magic. I thought I would share some of my fav functions... and offer a beat that style discussion ;) One thing I'm working on is using the takepic to capture an image of anyone who opens the terminal and eventually everytime the computer turns on. The problem is each time it overwrite the previous pic, so I can't keep a directory with all the pics using the date as the filename. :( Here are my fav functions. # Take webcam pics #usage: takepic 4 #takes four pictures takepic() { if [ -z "$1" ]; then echo "Taking one picture" mplayer -vo png -frames 1 tv:// else echo "Taking $1 pictures" mplayer -vo png -frames "$1" tv:// fi } #show a pretty figlet clock (blocks term) clock() { while [ 1 ]; do clear date +%r | figlet sleep 1 done } #search wikipedia for a term wiki() { if [ -z "$1" ]; then echo -e "You must supply a query\nie: wiki Snoop\ Dogg" else dig +short txt "$1".wp.dg.cx fi } #get my external IP myip() { curl ifconfig.me } #show time in top right of terminal (persistant, constantly updated and doesn't block term) showtime() { while sleep 1;do tput sc;tput cup 0 $(($(tput cols)-29));date;tput rc;done & } #get all the strings from RAM **may contain private info like passwords** showram() { sudo strings /dev/mem } #make a graphical representation of the underlying directories from current location in file tree graphtree() { ls -R | grep ":$" | sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/-/|/' } #free memory that is no longer being used freemem() { free && sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop
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In his most extensive interview to date with the foreign press, Peruvian president Ollanta Humala tells LatinFinance his plans for economic reform – and how he hopes to safeguard the fruits of his country's economic boom.
LF: The confidence that
Peru's economic miracle has inspired is
astounding. How will you maintain today's growth
levels? Do you see any risks amid the jubilation?
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we have a stable macroeconomic policy. We have concerned
ourselves with consolidating a macroeconomic framework that
lets us act domestically in the country to redistribute this
economic growth.
We have pointed out that we
maintain a state policy of following through on what we sign
and we are trying to be state that is predictable. You can know
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I compare myself to the driver of a combi (minivan bus). The
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