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An official with the group that organizes the Tri-State Fair and Rodeo said a large $500,000 awning will be built over the food court to give fairgoers much-needed shade during lunch hours.
The 60-foot-wide awning will be finished before the fair returns in September to the fairgrounds on Southeast 10th Avenue, said Virgil Bartlett, Amarillo Tri-State Exposition general manager. Five aging buildings used for concessions will be demolished to make room for the addition, he said.
"It's kind of like a big gazebo,"
Bartlett said. "There will be picnic tables and some concession stands underneath it. And it's not just going to be utilized for the fair, but also during the springtime for outdoor dances and family reunions."
Construction crews are demolishing the structures and plan to start building the awning in about 45 days, he said. The crews also are removing asbestos from the buildings, he said.
Vendors who regularly occupy two of the permanent buildings during the fair are the Tri-State Exposition's in-house concessionaires, Bartlett said. The other buildings usually were rented out by the Optimist Club, Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church and Phillips Hall of Foster Care, he said.
The Optimist Club no longer exists.
Tom Jordan, who has helped run Phillips Hall of Foster Care's booth, said his organization has no plans to return in September.
But the vendors that used the permanent buildings can still do business at the fair by bringing portable booths, Bartlett said.
Jordan said his group doesn't have the money to get a portable booth. He said a booth would also be too small to hold the necessary kitchen equipment.
"We're told as little as $10,000 can get you a portable building," he said, "but that's nice if you have 10 grand lying around."
The equipment Jordan's group uses includes a 1950s-era ice slaker, five 50-pound fryers and a three-door freezer, he said. The food Jordan's group sells at the fair includes hot dogs, popcorn shrimp, lobster bites, catfish and chicken nuggets.
"We just physically can't afford to do it," he said. "We don't do the typical fair menu. That's what makes us a little different. You can't really do what we did in a portable building. We have lots and lots of equipment to handle the amount of people who go through our booth."
Phillips Hall of Foster Care has been at the fair for about three decades and used the permanent building since 1994, Jordan said. The organization uses fair profits to buy toys for a few dozen children during the Christmas holidays, he said.
Bartlett had little to say about Phillips Hall of Foster Care's decision against attending the fair.
"That's up to them," he said.
Bartlett said he's still deciding who his organization would like to attend the next fair. Contracts will go out in April and return in May, he said.
"Everything will be portable out there now," Bartlett said.
The two-week fair averages 40 to 42 vendors each year and generates about $900,000 from food sales, Bartlett said. About 126,000 people attended in 2011, according to Tri-State Fair and Rodeo figures.
Vendors have to pay $45 per frontage foot to set up a booth at the event, Bartlett said. The Tri-State Expo also gets 11 percent of each vendor's profits, he said.
Jimmie Cain, who operates Cowboy Taters of Texas, said it costs roughly $2,200 to $2,300 to run a fair booth. He said $1,000 goes to covering electricity and getting the booth space.
"If you don't make enough over the sales to pay the Tri-State Fair, in the end you go take money out of your pocket," Cain said.
Cain said he is a regular fair vendor because it is much cheaper for him to operate a booth in Amarillo than in places outside the city.
"I do the Tri-State Fair because I live here. It saves me having to take my trailer to set up and getting gas and things to drive from here to wherever," he said. "Say I lived in Lubbock, Friona or New Mexico, I wouldn't be doing the Tri-State Fair."
Cain, who has been a fair vendor for about a decade, said he doesn't expect to be affected by the structure. But he said the buildings being destroyed could cause fewer vendors to show up.
"I don't really understand why they're tearing down those permanent buildings when they can get more money from those vendors," Cain said.
Cain's specialty is tater tots, but his menu also includes funnel cakes, hamburgers, corn dogs and curly fries.
Jimmy Lill, who has operated Curly-Q-Tator at the fair for 15 years, said the awning won't affect him.
"It's probably a good thing," he said, "but I hate to see anything torn down and not be replaced."
Bartlett said he thinks the awning won't affect the number of vendors.
"Hopefully, we'll have some new ones this time," he said. "We try to grow it every year."
Bartlett said he also plans to have two or three new acts at the event, but declined to talk about them until contracts are finalized.


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RENO —Tyler Skaggs dealt a quality start on Thursday night, but the Aces fell 4-2 to the Colorado Springs Sky Sox at Aces Ballpark.
Skaggs and Sky Sox Drew Pomeranz each faced the minimum through the first three innings of the contest.
DJ LeMahieu singled with one out for Colorado Springs in the top of the fourth to register the first hit of the game. LeMahieu scored on a triple from Corey Dickerson, who advanced home on an error by shortstop Chris Owings.
The Sky Sox extended their lead to 3-0 in the top of the seventh on a sacrifice fly by former Aces infielder Tommy Manzella.
Reno jumped on the board for the first time in the bottom of the frame when Tuffy Gosewisch's two-out double drove in Tyler Kuhn. The Aces drove in another run in the bottom of the eighth off the bat of Kila Ka'aihue.
Colorado Springs added an insurance run in the top of the ninth to take a 4-2 lead. The Aces had the tying run at the plate after Evan Frey singled with two outs, but Gosewisch struck out to end the game.
Gosewisch and Ka'aihue each collected two hits on the night for Reno.
Skaggs, who registered a season-high eight strikeouts, was charged with the loss for Reno. He gave up two earned runs on six hits through 7.0 innings pitched.
Pomeranz earned his second-straight win for Colorado Springs. He struck out nine batters and gave up only two hits through 5.1 shutout innings. Reliever Rob Scahill, who threw 3.1 innings of relief, was credited with his first save of the season. Scahill gave up two earned runs on five hits, while striking out five.
The series wraps up tonight, as the Aces look to secure their first series victory of the season. Nelson Figueroa (0-1, 14.73 ERA) gets the nod for Reno, while Colorado Springs will counter with Nick Schmidt (0-1, 4.14 ERA). First pitch is set for 6:35 p.m. The game will be highlighted by Saint Mary's Fireworks Friday presented by KRNV News 4.
Tickets are on sale for all Aces home games, at RenoAces.com, by calling (775) 334-7000 or by visiting the Aces Ballpark Ticket Office.

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Charlestown, MA (PRWEB) June 14, 2011—DSA Encore is pleased to announce client Windstream Hosted Solutions' grand opening of a premier SAS 70 Type II compliant data center in Charlestown, MA. Tonight's ribbon-cutting gala will feature baseball Hall of Fame legend Dennis Eckersley.
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James, 40, checked into the treatment center last month after his marriage to Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock went into a crisis amid reports that he had multiple affairs.
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In these turbulent, if not revolutionary times, I am reminded of my favorite lines from the American theater. Ironically, they are not spoken from the stage.
William Saroyan in the prologue to his 1930s play "In the Time of Your Life" writes: "Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values for these are the things that hold death and must pass away." I used to hear these lines quoted in church occasionally. They bear remembering.


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The challenge is out there. Financial writers love to trash the CD and the savings account but in an economy that is taking people's wealth faster than our credit cards, we can't put our money in to just anything. The CD and the savings account are safe but they won't make you any money. Still, though, if we're going to snub the CD, shouldn't we give our readers some alternatives? Today we're answering the call. Here are three ways to invest your money that will make you more money than a 3 year CD.
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First, the challenger. The certificate of deposit has safety behind it. Even if the bank that holds your CD were to be shut down, the FDIC will make sure you get every dime of your money back. Two of our three alternatives are equally safe because they aren't investments at all. They carry no risk. The highest yielding CD we found at the time of this article had a yield of 1.53% so all of our options will yield at least 1.53%. Here we go!
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Instead of putting your money in CD, pay off your debt. Maybe not your mortgage but all of those credit card bills, car loan, student loans that have a low balance, and the loan you have for the big TV in the living room. It would be better to pay off your debts before investing because that is an investment that has no risk and pays very well. Chances are these loans are at least 6% and probably considerably higher so put us down for our first score.
Refinance Your Home
If you are planning to stay in your home for a long period of time and you haven't refinanced since 2008, you could save, on average $2,000 per year. The average mortgage rate in August of 2008 was 7.00%. Now, you could get a mortgage for close to 4%. That's much more than 1.53% even with the mortgage fees so we'll take another point. Of course there's a chance that you won't qualify for a refinance but if President Obama has his way, a lot of people will be able to refinance their mortgage even if they have bad credit or an upside-down mortgage.
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If you're not a stock picker, you may not be comfortable with this option but consider asking for help from a qualified fee based or fee only advisor in your area. Some stocks don't have large price movements even in bad market conditions and as a result, pay you a dividend to hold them but for stocks held for the long term, you will see a rise in the stock price along with the dividend payment. A stock like Verizon or AT&T pay dividends of more than 5% as of this writing. It's not hard to find high quality companies that pay dividends well over 1.53%. Ask your financial advisor to set a tight stop. A stop causes a stock to automatically sell if it drops a certain percentage in value. A stock can have almost no risk if you set the stop very close to your purchase price.
Although we'll claim victory on this challenge, remember that the first rule of investing is, don't lose money. It's better to put your money in a low yielding CD that makes little to nothing than it is to put it in an investment that ends up resulting in a loss. A 0% gain is better than a 1% or more loss. Do with your money what makes you comfortable and resist the peer pressure from people like us who think you should do more.{ 7 comments, please add your thoughts now! }


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MUSKEGON — A 20-year-old Muskegon man is listed in critical condition and a 21-year-old Muskegon Heights man is in stable condition following a shooting early Tuesday near downtown Muskegon.
The victims were in a vehicle at the time of the incident, which occurred about 1:20 a.m. near the intersection of Sixth Street and Monroe Avenue, said Muskegon Police Sgt. Monica Shirey.
The 20-year-old victim was shot in the abdomen and remains at Mercy Health Partners Hackley Campus. The 21-year-old victim was shot in the torso and was transported to Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids overnight.
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Whether the latest movie will show nerds as socially awkward know-it-alls, table top gamers in a basement on a perfectly fee Saturday night, or hackers with supervillanous abilities getting into some hugely important piece of top secret data someone mysteriously decided to leave internet accessible, there's going to be a common thread running through the nerds' backstory. They'll have to be relentlessly picked on when they were kids, they have to be emotionally stunted, and they have to have descended into their nerdy obsession to the point at which their lives revolve around it. This is why the scientists in The Big Bang Theory can't relate to Penny, why the teams of early 20-somethings on King of the Nerds say they're good at math, science, and gaming, as well as totally oblivious to flirting, and why the game master of Zero Charisma is such a sad sack who loathes the nerd hipster with a girlfriend playing in his multi-year D&D circle.
Basically, all this inability to coexist with normal humans is what's supposed to make you a nerd because you're supposed to latch on to games, comic books, sci-fi, anime, what have you, as a convenient escape until you find your niche in college, or as an adult. But the thing is that pretty much everybody gets picked on in one way or another, everyone has a hobby, and any of these hobbies can be taken to an extreme. Sure, your eyes will probably glaze over if a Star Wars fan who has seen all the movies so much that he memorized every frame, debates with equally rabid fans about the inner workings of the Millenium Falcon's jumps to light speed and the physics of luminal travel (science tidbit of the day: the stars will not streak by outside). But won't they also start to do the same when two people who live and breathe baseball use your ear canals as an amplifier for their dissection of statistics labeled by an acronym soup? So why is it more socially acceptable to make fun of the former scenario and the latter is supposed to be manly?
Why were the nerds who are supposed to be our future scientists, writers, and engineers given pretty much no social acceptance until now, when parts of geek culture are being adopted into major blockbusters? Even I have to admit to a little unease when on a first date some seven or eight years ago (was it that long ago?), a 20 year old blonde with a warm smile, wearing what I assumed to be trendy clothes who found me on MySpace (holy crap, it's official, I'm old), told me that her whole family plays D&D on the weekends. Just let that sink in for a second. A guy who's been working on computers since he was 13 was taken aback by trying to imagine an otherwise perfectly "normal" girl playing Dungeons and Dragons with her parents. Hypocritical? Probably. But this is how bad stigma is. Even nerds will balk at other nerds should a few dreaded hobbies come up in conversation because the message with which we're constantly bombarded is that a D&D circle is the geekiest activity of them all. That, or devil worship, as per Jack Chick.
Who the hell decided that it should be the norm to ostracize comic books, computers, games, or sci-fi but fantasy sports leagues are a-ok? Whose edict was it that he who is nerd must hide his or her nerddom or be picked last for any sport or social activity? I'd ask why so many movies, TV shows, and sitcoms perpetuate the stereotypes, but it's pretty obvious why. They wouldn't want to rock the boat by casting a nerdy character as anything other than a punchline or a borderline insane genius with social anxiety, absurdly, though harmlessly aloof. Why showing a nerd with a normal day job who goes home, watches sci-fi to unwind from a long day and recharge since he finds long periods of time spend around people to be exhausting, then helps his significant other do the dishes would make him look, gasp, normal! Can't have that. Likewise, we couldn't show a nerdy girl doing something other than awkwardly trying to get laid by working all her nonexistent womanly charms on a disinterested jock on film. What are we going to do? Send her on a date with someone at a coffee shop to talk mostly about non-nerd things? That's blasphemy…


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At least some of the success of Reebok's current comeback can be attributed to the various celebrity co-signs of their sneakers. Southern rap behemoth Rick Ross has been one of their champions up to this point, but it looks like Reebok has decided to end that partnership on the heels of the "date rape lyric" controversy surrounding the MMG frontman. While no official statement has made, Reebok has commented to let the public know that their partnership with Ross is coming to an end. Are they making the right move with this one? Let us know if you think Ross deserved to be dismissed and hit the jump with us to see what Reebok had to say about it.
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Reebok tells TMZ "Reebok holds our partners to a high standard, and we expect them to live up to the values of our brand. Unfortunately, Rick Ross has failed to do so."
Reebok goes on: "While we do not believe that Rick Ross condones sexual assault, we are very disappointed he has yet to display an understanding of the seriousness of this issue or an appropriate level of remorse."
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YOU AINT EVEN KNOW IT... Hahaha... Wat a joke, ITS LYRICS PEOPLE. DONT TAKE IT SO SERIOUS. Eminem told u dat after his 1st album.. But I'm sure Nike will sign him soon enuf...
i heard rick ross, promoting wonder bra ( .)(. )
So fat guys really can't get bad bitches without drugging them. U.O.E.N.O.
" I just can't believe Reebok did a deal with a psycho "
- fifty cent
Him and Reebok are trash.
I really don't care if they drop him or keep him. Keep him pay him drop him they still have to pay him because of the contract he signed so no matter what he's getting paid
Rick Ross and his music is nothing but trash! Give back Freeway Rick Ross's name back! you fony!!
Rick Ross is doodoo anyways
What company is my favorite rapist Kobe sponsored by...? Oh yeah, Nike. Rick Ross would fit right in.
I think Reebok made the right move. In business you have to be smart with whom you associate yourself with. Even though it is clear that Ross isn't speaking for Reebok, it cast a bad light on the brand. These endorsers need to start thinking before they just spew out lyrics without thinking about the consequences. I haven't heard the song and have no intention of doing so but I can imagine it must have been really bad if it causes you to get dropped by a company.
They only made that move because of the public uproar the lyrics brought. And that decision was pure Bull! I guess "Date Rape" is clearly worse than "Murder", and thats what 90% of rappers rap about. No Uproar about that though.. Forget Reebok.
UOENO im still putting a molly on her champagne, im going to take that home and enjoy that and she aint even gonna know it...bitch should know not to drink from my cup...
@dopeman978 @iamromierome Nothing was taken out of context. His lyric was directly referring to drugging a woman and having sex with her. That's rape. Rick Ross is a garbage rapper and a shitty human.
They took his lyrics way out of context
This is a purely business decision. Anything else is a smokescreen.
Even tho I don't listing to Ross music, its fucked up to see an African American loose money (Even if he's rich) because of misunderstanding lyrics from an urban culture.. things like this makes hip-hop the way it is now (trash) because it seems there no more freedom of speech. P.s I watch the protesters video its 100% white people was there who prob don't even know Ross real name muchless his music.. & its not a racist tip I just speak the truth.
@Nikola_Tesla Even he saw this coming.
@jhoward how is ross "doodoo", he has still to this day one classic mix tape! his albums all sold and went platinum. he has rap songs that can still be played right now even though they are 2yrs old. you sir dont listen to rap! you probably think chief keef is the truth! looking at his work in the past few years it looks like ross has been successful to me, so if being one of raps top stars means being doodoo then i guess ross is the shit
and so is Reebok
@bubblegoose yea but mcdonalds and nike did drop kobe for a while. i dont know if mcdonalds picked him back up, but you got a point!
@jrlemons3 listen to the song! the concept of the song is to talk about shit, that you aint know! the HOOK of the song goes "you aint even know it". its bragging about shit and saying you aint even know it, but its just lyrics and its not a bad song.
@JBracs OK RAPIST
and i am going to drop a few more gems on you about rap and rape lyrics! ice cube had a song called "getting fucked with no vasaline" that was talking about rape and raping a man, two live crew, iced t, biggie smalls, and many other TOP rappers had questionable lyrics about woman and date rape but nooooooooooooo one took a stand about this, its just that he represents and has a major deal with a shoe brand! ross talks about bussing guns, selling keys of drugs etc but nooooooo one took offense to those lyrics, but the man made a quick 8 bar lyric and its all hell! rebook played themselves and who ever had the idea of getting rappers to endorse sneakers should be fired at rebook, because they didnt think it thru enough.
you don't know the history of rap! rappers have been saying shit like this for years! its just that rick ross is one of the top rappers right now in the industry and they choose to spot light his rhymes. rappers been rapping about woman and drugs for years, i heard worse that what ross said, but where was the protest and outrage in that? plain and simple only reason why he got dropped because the white audience didnt approve of his "freedom of speech". because in the black community my community we just know these are just lyrics and he is not saying or instructing people to go out and date rape a female. where are the black churches at with their protest? where is the naacp stand? like i said it only a big deal because the white audience didnt approve. this isnt new in rap! rappers been rapping about shit people dont approve its a fact that he is a top star, has a deal with a sneaker brand. fyi where is protest about lil wayne lyric on futures track karate chop remix, where he says "beat the pussy up like emmett till"? i dont see these same protesters in front of supra headquarters protesting that
@gb_pdx idec anymore dude, I spoke my facts already.. you just don't understand nothing by your comment.
People take everything out of context these days.
@iamromierome There is no misunderstanding of the lyrics. Rick Ross can say whatever he wants Reebok didn't take away his freedom of speech.
@iamromierome STOP PULLING THE RACE CARD YOU IDIOT, ALWAYS GETTING BUT HURT AND CRAP
@iamromierome STOP PLAYING THE FUCKING RACE CARD YOU IDIOT. ALWAYS GETTING BUT HURT AND SHIT
@iamromierome 80% of the rap audience is white. Stop defending another rapper who says dumb shit in his songs. Rick Ross is a terrible rapper along with most of the rap out today. He needs to lose some weight and get a real job at something he is actually good at. #keepinitreal
Ross sucks, his image is built on a lie.
@dopeman978 @jhoward Also none of his albums went platinum. It appears he has 4 gold records.
@dopeman978 @jhoward Was just looking at a best 30 rappers in their 30s article, and Rick Ross is above people like Big Boi, Andre3000, PushaT, BunB, TI, Mos Def, Killer Mike, Talib, and more. How does something like this happen in any universe you ask? Ross is just very mainstream and commercial and that is how you make a lot of money and end up near the top of lists you certainly don't belong in. His music isn't doodoo, but it's close imo. But if you like his music, than respect to you for speaking your mind.
@jhoward so you're not copping the shaq attaqs then?
Exactly @dopeman978
@dopeman978 Come on, man. "No vaseline" was a metaphor for being mistreated in the rap business. Ice Cube didn't make a song about rape, he was 1) saying the rest of NWA were getting cheated out of money by their manager and 2) dissing Dre, Eazy E, and Ren by suggesting they were having sex with each other. That's battle rap stuff, not the promotion of rape. Look up the lyrics.
@dopeman978 These are the saddest comments I've read in this forum to date. I dont know what you think Hip-Hop is, but you condoning this MF's date rape lyrics is just sad. Context, do you know what "context" means? "The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood" "I put a molly in her drink she ain't even know it, took her home and enjoyed that she ain't even know it". No room for ambiguity there.
I don't know where you come up with this bullshit about Reebok dropping him because of white people. As far as I know Black people have sisters and mothers like everyone else. And while a lot of rap is usng metaphors and /or describe extreme behaviors. The point for this was to make it sound like a cool thing to do, as cool as doing shots of Patron. You know that.
And to be clear... I like Rick Ross, it's beyond fucked up that he thinks this this shit was cool. And even worse that he thought he wasn't talking about rape. The only way somebody can co-sign this shit is if they done shit like this or thinks its a good idea. LETS BE CLEAR, IF YOU DRUG A GIRL WITHOUT HER KNOWLEDGE AND HAVE SEX WITH HER WITHOUT HER KNOWLEDGE THAT'S RAPE. IF YOU DONT KNOW THAT YOU ARE A FUCKING SAVAGE.
@dopeman978 yeah like biggie talking bout fucking a girl and throwing her over a bridge. i cant stand this new age of political correctness. there have been much worse things said in rap music. starting to remind me of all the protests of death row records back in the day
@dopeman978 Actually there was displeasure about the Waynes Emmet Till reference. So much so that they were talking about boycotting his album. It just didn't get as much attention. He has some endorsements but I don't think any are on the level of Reebok.
@dopeman978 Don't know if its a race issue or not, nor do I care. I'm all about Equality, but other than that I Strongly agree with your comment above. Very True.
Dude who's pulling the race card. We're terribly sorry that you're not a black person and knows about rap, white people know about rap too but you can clearly tell who on this forum Is following the propaganda from the protesters and don't know about rap as much as I don't know about heavy metal
@Paulochenko nobody's tryna be racist its facts its 100% of people in the protests video protesting for the wrong reason. Plus wtf does "ALWAYS GETTING BUT HURT AND SHIT" means? Your so ignorant & feening to broadcast your dumb opinion you typing what your doing fag #fuckoff
If 80% of the rap audience is white that's like saying 80% of country music audience is black think about
@TheShoeWizard If 80% of the rap audience is white, what the fuck do black ppl listen to? LOL... pure jackass.
@TheShoeWizard 1st off I'm not defending Ross I clearly said I don't listing to his music its just if me or anyone else is at the peek of there hustle & someone or "people" trying to knock me off for misunderstanding.. 2. Rap & hip-hop is two different things & hip-hop is definitely not 80% of white people (smh) 3. Ross is trash point blank he's an entertainer not a rapper, so far him loosing out of wack ass Reebok is stupid because hes entertaining the people who likes the music he makes like people that actually do the things he "raps" or people who just like the boss shit or that luxury, dieing to live the image he paints! #keepingItRealer
@TheShoeWizard @iamromierome Not to be racist but if you pull over a white person and ask what kind of music they listen to it's probably not rap. On the other hand rap is supposed to be an expression of feelings like any other genre and just talking about money and other stuff that people can't relate to is why hip hop is getting to be trash. The beat may be nice but the lyrics are not. I don't think what he put in the song is right even if it was lighthearted and Reebok could care less because Tyga and Swizz Beats are still there.
@TheShoeWizard @jhoward Nope! Not my style.
@DugLast @dopeman978 well to these people who know nothing about rap its all the same. rick ross is a gangster mafioso misogynistic rapper. wtf did they expect?
@dopeman978 you are absolutely right. those people who protested know for a fact they don't even wear Reeboks. What a joke. Why u gotta try and fuck up a man's money cause some words he said hurt ur feelings? its some real greaseball shit
word! biggie had some line off his "ready to die" album where he said "i like em young with no grass in between, nah mean". talking about how he like young girls with no pubic hairs aka minors. c'mon now, this isnt new in rap and to me reebok played themselves. how you expect a rapper who raps about sex & violence not to say some shit. smh. bad move by reebok! and what about tyga dude has a adult film out, and the porno industry has noooooooo respect for woman lol. where the outrage in that
@dopeman978 @jrlemons3 lil wayne is garbage. and his supra shoes look like high heels, id boycott that Lol
@jrlemons3 the family of emmet till was not happy, but thats what rap is, its about catching lines and METAPHORS. thats what good rappers do, use thought provoking metaphors to paint a picture in your mind of what they are saying. as brutal as emmett till story is, when i hear that metaphor i can draw a picture in my mind of what he(wayne) is trying to say. thats what good rappers do
@JFresh_136 No, that's a stupid thing to say. Think about it.
@JFresh_136 You put it very properly there, JStale. Do you realize that if less than 100% of black people listen to rap (which is what I assume to be true), then fewer white people are required to be 80% of the rap audience?
I think I could only argue that more white people were on welfare than blacks IF more white people were on welfare than blacks. (I couldn't care less whether or not that were actually true so don't get your knickers in a bunch over it). The point is, there is a difference between numbers and percentages. Don't take it so personally if a higher percentage of white people make up the rap audience. Or, if you must take it so personally, perhaps you could take comfort in the thought that the percentage of black people that listen to rap is higher than the percentage of white people that listen to rap. That's a completely different idea, and how I assume people have been interpreting this train of not-much-thought. Now stop being such a jerk-off.
@JFresh_136Did anybody ask anybody to get so stupid? Did I ask YOU if anybody asked me. I'm not defending the original statistic posited by whomever. But someone else implied that it is impossible for 80% of the rap audience to be white as if that doesn't leave any room for a black audience. THAT is preposterous. Oh, I like the way you quote the word math as if it's some imaginary thing. Stop being such a putz.
@JFresh_136Actually bro, in reality, more Whites ARE on welfare than Blacks. Don't take my word for it
Base your arguments on facts and not furthering stereotypes my brother.
I only did that because they're both the same point. And skin color doesn't matter if you read what I posted because it's culture. Each person has a culture to them. People can deviate from their culture, no problem. But my comparison is interpreted by those who actually get my point and I really don't think you get it. It doesn't matter what the topic is comparisons are made so you can illustrate a point now.
@JFresh_136 Thanks bro. Good points.
@JFresh_136 Yes people listen to whatever music they enjoy. The color of their skin does not predetermine what music they enjoy listening to. That being said, you also cannot compare being on welfare to what music people listen to.
Ok , I'll be the one to put this properly. Not all white people listen to country music, not all Latinos listen to reggaeton, not all Jamaicans listen to reggae ( I'm Jamaican so don't tell me different) and I'm black and not all blacks listen to rap/hip hop. You can argue that since there's more white people in America that 80% of rap's audience could be them. But look at welfare for example. You can say more white people are on welfare than blacks because there's more whites than black. But that's not true in reality. Can you see my point? And being on grammar patrol is pointless that's like going on twitter and correcting people, find something better to do.
@TheShoeWizard The peak of ignorance is when you're shallow and ignore everything around you bcuz your mind is feeble.
@HighTuned_1 Actually the peak of ignorance is when you ignore facts and logic and offer your opinion in their place.
@TheShoeWizard How classic is this. A Carlton wanna be. This wouldn't be America without opinions, now would it? You're so shallow bro, grow up. Bcuz someone doesn't speak with proper grammar you assume they're not educated? Now thts ignorance at it's peak.
@HighTuned_1 @TheShoeWizard @JFresh_136 I was just saying from your grammar use and the way you stereotype black people leads me to believe you have little education. Just keeping it real. Don't get mad. Instead learn proper grammar and stop using your opinion as fact.
@JFresh_136 He only got statistical to show you and the other naysayers that it is very possible for 80% of the rap audience to be white. But as usual you think your ridiculous opinion has any bearing on facts and logic. CLASSIC.
@TheShoeWizard I been graduated high school buddy. You're trynna get all personal bcuz you're wrong. Lol, is everybody accounted for in those "facts and logic" NO. Plain and simple. HOW AM I STEREOTYPING??? ITS THE TRUUUUTH! You're probably not use to taking an L, seeing as you went to sleep, woke up, blew my email up, and replied. Get a life. And exactly @JFresh_136 a fuckin' census for music. LOL
@HighTuned_1 @TheShoeWizard If you cant understand how you are stereotyping your own culture, I have nothing else to say. Come back when you have a high school diploma and MAYBE we can have an actual conversation. Cosmonaut's posts with facts just ended this anyway.
@cosmonaut Facts and logic. I wonder what HighTuned is gonna say now.
Did anybody ask you to get statistical ? Just because your "math" is correct go survey 156 million white people or whatever about the music they listen to. Only some white people mostly young listen to rap Jesus Christ
In 2010, the US population was nearly 309 million. Of these, nearly 224 million were white and about 39 million were black. If we assume that 100% of black people listen to rap (39 million audience members) and assume that they comprise of the remaining 20% of the rap audience, then it is entirely possible for 80% of the rap audience to be white because this only requires about 156 million white people. That's math.
@TheShoeWizard How am I stereotyping us even more? Hip Hop IS the main selection for most of us. Me myself, I enjoy 90's Rap over any of this. But go to any black neighborhood, home, or block. Most of the time, its music like Ross' playing. You're lacking in your own culture bro. Suck it sideways.
@HighTuned_1 @TheShoeWizard WOW stereotype black people more bro? They listen to whatever music they happen to enjoy. #ignorantrandoms
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- This 5-1/2" German silver and ivory dotting pen is marked: KEUFFEL & ESSER Co. N.Y. (/) GERMANY. It is also marked: PARAGON. When the tightening screw is removed, the top blade of the point lifts up to reveal six small serrated wheels. These may be interchanged in the point of the pen to create six different types of dotted lines. The lower blade has a reservoir for ink.
- Keuffel & Esser introduced the Paragon line of drawing instruments in 1901. K&E considered these to be its highest quality products and had them manufactured in Germany for the American market. Paragon instruments were unavailable during World War I but were reintroduced by 1921. By 1936 the ivory handles were replaced with wood. This pen was model 551, priced at $4.25 in 1909
- References: Catalogue of Keuffel & Esser Co., 33rd ed. (New York, 1909), 42, 46, 74; Catalogue of Keuffel & Esser Co., 36th ed. (New York, 1921), 52, 70; Catalogue of Keuffel & Esser Co., 38th ed. (New York, 1936), 104, 127.
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>LOS SUPER SEVEN Los Super Seven (RCA) A truly magnifico siete, including Latin roots rockers Freddy Fender and Los Lobos's Cesar Rosas and David Hidalgo, celebrate the lovely Mexican folk songs (and one Woody Guthrie classic) they grew up on.
KRONOS QUARTET: 25 YEARS Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch) In a dramatic 10-CD retrospective, classical music's Fab Four—violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, violist Hank Dutt and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud—reinvent their genre.
ON A DAY LIKE TODAY Bryan Adams (A&M) The price of admission: Vancouver's would-be working class hero Spices up his meat-and-potatoes sound on "When You're Gone," a duet with—we're not kidding—Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm (aka Sporty; aka Mel C).
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Army South conducts first NCO induction ceremony
"No one is more professional than I."
It is statement that all noncommissioned officers live by every day. Becoming an NCO is a distinguished title that every enlisted Soldier strives to achieve.
Twenty Soldiers from Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, U.S. Army South commemorated their rite of passage as they transitioned into the Corps of Noncommissioned Officers during a ceremony conducted at the Academic Support Building July 31 at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
The ceremony which is rich in history and tradition, was the first ever coordinated and hosted by HHB.
The inductees walked through the threshold signifying their 'Rite of Passage', signed their names into the Army South Noncommissioned Officer's Induction Book, and received a plaque engraved with their name and the day they were inducted into the NCO Corps.
"This is a pivotal moment in my career that I'm always going to remember," said Sgt. Michael Floore II, enlisted aid to the Battalion Command Team, Headquarters Support Company, U.S. Army South, one of the 20 NCOs inducted during the ceremony. "Walking across that stage and officially being inducted into the Corps of the Noncommissioned Officers is something that I will never forget."
For Floore and the other inductees, as NCOs they are now expected to lead, train and take care of Soldiers. The Army's newest sergeants are now mentors and role models for the junior enlisted Soldiers to look up to.


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- Cultivation: Invastive, Naturalizing, Low-Maintenance, Easy-To-Grow
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Genista is a genus of legumes which includes many species of the plants known as Broom. So called because their twiggy almost leafless branches were traditionally used to make sweeping brooms in native European cultures.
Many of these brooms are notorious as Noxious weeds and some are used as very hardy landscape plants with masses of flowers.
Brooms are a group of evergreen, semi-evergreen, and deciduous shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the legume family Fabaceae, mainly in the three genera Chamaecytisus, Cytisus and Genista, but also in five other small genera (see box, right). All genera in this group are from the tribe Genisteae. These genera are all closely related and share similar characteristics of dense, slender green stems and very small leaves, which are adaptations to dry growing conditions. Most of the species have yellow flowers, but a few have white, orange, red, pink or purple flowers.
Two other close relatives are Ulex (gorse) and Laburnum (laburnum), but these differ more strongly in appearance from the brooms. Some botanists include Podocytisus caramanicus in the genus Laburnum.
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The most widely familiar is common broom (Cytisus scoparius, syn. Sarothamnus scoparius), a native of northern Europe where it is found in sunny sites, usually on dry, sandy soils. Like most brooms, it has apparently leafless stems that in spring and summer are covered in profuse golden-yellow flowers. In late summer, its peapod-like seed capsules burst open, often with an audible pop, spreading seed from the parent plant. It makes a shrub about 1–3m tall, rarely to 4 m. It is also the hardiest broom, tolerating temperatures down to about -25°C.
The largest species of broom is Mount Etna broom (Genista aetnensis), which can make a small tree to 10 m tall; by contrast, some other species, e.g. dyer's broom Genista tinctoria, are low sub-shrubs, barely woody at all.
All the brooms and their relatives (including Laburnum and Ulex) are natives of Europe, north Africa and southwest Asia, with the greatest diversity in the Mediterranean region. Many brooms (though not all) are fire-climax species, adapted to regular stand-replacing fires which kill the above-ground parts of the plants, but create conditions for regrowth from the roots and also for germination of stored seeds in the soil.


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GREENSBORO - How parents deal with each age group is different and students often don't see all the changes coming when heading to a new school.
Guilford County Supervising Counselor, Dr. Karen Meadows joined News 2 at 5 to share her expertise.
How parents can help kids transition from elementary to middle school and middle to high school and ease their anxiety?
-Be a listening ear to your young adult. Practice active listening and listen empathetically.
-Help children turn their anxieties into positive actions by learning about school rules, schedules, locker procedures and the availability of counseling.
-Reassure your son/daughter that they are still learning.
Remind them of other times when they were new or needed to transition and how they managed.
-Encourage children to try new things and to regard failure as a necessary part of learning and growing.
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-Have student participate in extracurricular activities. Parents are encouraged to attend school functions and stay involved in children's schooling.
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Be alert to signs of depression or anxiety in their children and seek help.
-Remember transitioning is not a single event, it is a process. If student has a difficulty or experiences challenges, encourage to persevere.
How parents and students can improve their time management skills
• Provide student with strategies to manage time effectively, such as using a timer to complete tasks, writing down instructions, appointments, etc. (even if they think they will remember), chunking up their tasks and assignments.
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Watch out over the summer as a range of Bacardi Brown-Forman brands will be wearing a special promotional collar, entitling users to a range of branded glassware that matches their favourite drinks.
A whole series of special giveaway glasses has been created just for UK customers who enjoy drinks such as Bacardi rum, Bombay Sapphire Gin, Southern Comfort and Jack Daniels.
Running from the 21st of May and throughout the summer, the promotion will enable drinkers of these spirits to enjoy two free glasses for every purchase.
Talking about the free glasses promotion, Andrew Jones, Off Trade Sales Director at Bacardi Brown-Forman Brands, said: "The Summer 2012 events calendar is full of occasions for friends to get together and celebrate, from the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and London Olympics to the usual summer BBQs and gatherings.
"When deciding what to drink at these occasions, we want consumers to consider something a little different to the usual bottle of wine or can of beer. By providing a pair of stylish glasses and cocktail recipes and how-to guides on our microsite, we hope to inspire consumers to celebrate this summer with easy to create drink serves served in designer branded glasses."
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100% Italian design, 100% Italian made and 100% focus on safety, the Kask 50NTA Road Helmet is one of the most affordable helmets in the extensive Kask range. Kask helmets are proud sponsors of Sky Professional Cycling Team, taking numerous wins including two sensational Tour de France victories. The 50NTA Road Helmet is full of features keeping you safe, well ventilated and looking stylish as you pound the pedals.
The head produces a lot of heat and a sweat soaked helmet is never a comfortable feeling. Twenty four cleverly placed air intakes grace the helmet, providing a good balance between breathability, without feeling that unwanted, cold, wind chill. These well positioned air vents also making for a very aerodynamic helmet.
At a lightweight 260 grams you will not even realise you have this helmet on, unobtrusive and with a unique hinge adjustment system, making for precise, spot on helmet adjustment, both up and down.
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Here are some links to funny duct tape sites....
Poem by Max Sherman - in Dr. Seuss style
Duct Tape Fashion - You can actually purchase hats, belts and wallets made from duct tape.
The Duct Tape Guys - A very comprehensive duct tape humor site).
Duct Tape Cam
Duct Tape page - God made the world, but it's held together with duct tape.
The World Is Held Together By Duct Tape - everyone's got an obsession. Some, however, are stickier than others.
Duct Tape on Jeopardy(R) Duct tape has even made it to gameshows!
Car Talk (Click here to download RealPlayer if you need an audio file reader.)
Ig Nobel Home Page - Max Sherman gave a speach about duct tape as one of the highlights
· "How Duct Tape Changed My Life", A first person view of the media frenzy surround the discovery that duct tape is really not very good on ducts. September 1998
· "The Ig Nobel Sciences" Watching good scientists roast bad ones is both fun and sobering. Duct tape is the theme of the 1998 Ig Nobel awards ceremony. November 1998
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'I know the names of all seventy-two Lawlords. Among the greatest was Milord Rayleigh, who knew why the sky was blue. There was Milord and Lady Ayn Stein, who wrote the laws of relativity'.
Stuart Kolakovic interpreted the prisoner's memories of the Lawlords, the great scientists of the past. His illustrations, created through a mixture of hand-drawn and digital techniques, are reminiscent of both religious iconography and futuristic comics. They form part of a wooden altarpiece that depicts Einstein, Newton, and Rayleigh and their achievements.
Kolakovic is an illustrator and graphic novelist based in Staffordshire. Working under the pseudonym Herman Inclusus he has created a body of work that references both medieval illuminated manuscripts and Eastern European traditions of painting. He has worked for a wide variety of editorial and publishing clients including The New York Times, Lonely Planet, GQ Magazine and Penguin.
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The first event I am working on is the Sock Put. Yes, like Shot Put but instead of hurling a ball 30+ Feet (yes, this photo is from me in high school track - a bazillion years ago), I am working on knitting a pair of socks during the Olympics Games. So far...well, I could really use a vacation day or two from work to get on task but since I'm a good gal, I am just hitting the heel on my first sock and will simply take my chances on the finish line deadline. If I were to finish this pair by Sunday, I could possibly make the schedule. We'll see.
The second project is a baby hat for a co-worker. I won't be posting any photos beyond this one nor will I tell what it will become (unless you can take a good guess) until after the baby shower next week. I am using 100% Cotton Made 100% in the USA. This is for the Baby Dressage Event. Which Olympic event this is supposed to mimic? The horse event that has been in the news due to Mitt Romney. Yeah, hmmpf, that's all I will say.
I will be completing a skein or two for the Handspun Heptathlon but I am denying myself my spinning wheel and spindles until I get at least one sock completed. Now...share your adventures in Fiber Arts! As always, thank you for visiting my blog and sharing your Fiber Arts Blog.
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Egyptian Stocks: Orascom Construction, EFG-Hermes, South Valley
Egypt's benchmark EGX30 Index declined 1.7 percent to 4,394.32 at the 2:30 p.m. close in Cairo, the lowest level since January 24.
The following shares were active on the Egyptian Exchange. Stock symbols follow company names.
EFG-Hermes Holding SAE (HRHO EY) declined 5.1 percent to 10 Egyptian pounds, the lowest level in more than five months. Planet IB Ltd. said in a statement yesterday "confirming the seriousness of its offer" to buy the biggest publicly traded Arab investment bank, threatening to derail a deal between EFG-Hermes and QInvest to create a joint investment bank.
"There's speculation that Planet is trying to recruit significant investors in EFG-Hermes to file a complaint with the regulator to suspend the QInvest deal," Wafik Dawood, director of institutional sales at Cairo-based Mega Investments Securities, said by phone. "The dispute between the pro- and anti-QInvest camps is weighing on sentiment."
Orascom Construction Industries (OCIC EY) fell 1.5 percent to 244.24 Egyptian pounds, the lowest level in more than four months. First-quarter profit for Egypt's biggest publicly traded builder dropped 54 percent to 567 million pounds ($94 million) from the year-earlier period. That missed the 716 million-pound average estimate of eight analysts compiled by Bloomberg.
South Valley Cement (SVCE EY) slumped 2.6 percent to 3.02 pounds, the lowest level since January. The Cairo-based producer of the building material will call a shareholders' meeting to seek approval for the sale of a precast concrete plant in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.


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Claude Wagner: A Life Outdoors
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Bodhi Garrett: After the Wave
When the great Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 hit Thailand, Bodhi Garrett was luckier than most of his friends; he was spending the Christmas holiday with family in the United States. But Garrett returned home almost immediately to Thailand's remote North Andaman region to help sort out the nightmare of missing persons. The rogue wave had destroyed his home, erased his job at a local eco-tourism resort, and taken the lives of many of his neighbors. And yet, he says, "I was inspired by those around me who had lost everything, and still dared to dream of a better future."
There was no shortage of volunteers during those first few weeks. Locals worked tirelessly to find survivors, to begin rebuilding, and to just get by. Messages poured in from people around the world asking how they could help. "In one of those emails someone asked where they could donate," Garrett says. "I had to pause because I had no idea. It made me think that there might be a good way to get something bigger started." And so North Andaman Tsunami Relief was born.
The nonprofit Garrett launched was vastly different from mega-charities like the Red Cross, which also descended upon the scene. Such large organizations provided critical resources; however, Garrett realized that they didn't have the capacity to address the devastated communities' long-term needs. "I wanted to build a relief organization that was sustainable," says Garrett. "A model of grassroots, need-based aid. I thought this might be a more successful model than the traditional, more external approach." Garrett's model required intense focus on what the locals truly needed, as well as their participation. His main goal was to develop a model that would eventually be run entirely by local villagers.
"A lot of companies and foundations gave us money for different projects," says Roma Pakdee, a villager from Ban Talae Nok. "In the beginning things were okay. But over time they were not stable." North Andaman Tsunami Relief was different, she says. "They always followed up with us. They're different from other organizations that just give money and then leave."
Belief in the power of sustainable community development was a product of Garrett's education. During his senior year at Berkeley in 2000, with support from a CNR grant, Garrett conducted research in a Himalayan national park, examining the links between eco-tourism, firewood use, and deforestation. He credits this experience as giving him his "first taste of international work and the conidence to continue." Though he had never faced anything like the devastation wreaked by the tsunami, this background provided him with the perspective and skills that shaped his fledgling relief organization.
Garrett launched his project with the help of "an all-star revolving cast of characters" that included friends from Berkeley, other international volunteers, and most importantly, tsunami survivors. "Tapping into local knowledge was an instrumental part of this project. Instead of imposing what I had learned onto the situation, I took the time to learn what the local needs truly were," Garrett says. "Then we were able to develop the capacity to meet those needs - not by importing ideas from the outside, but by supporting local creativity and capacity."
Over two years, Garrett and his collaborators completed over 150 tsunami relief and community development projects, starting with emergency needs and moving on to education, livelihood development, and conservation. One key idea was tourism. Traditional livelihoods like fishing had nearly vanished, but locals felt that tourism could support them. They wanted to be sure that it could be done in a way that would preserve their land and benefit their community. So Garrett and the villagers launched Andaman Discoveries. "Tourism can be used not only for economic benefit, but also as a tool for community development," Garrett says. "So for us that means allowing people to come in and participate in the mangrove reforestation efforts, it means helping to replant orchids in the forest and working with the handicraft programs."
Today, Andaman Discoveries runs community-based eco-tours, cultural tours, and a volunteer placement program that was named one of the top 50 "Trips of a Lifetime" by National Geographic. North Andaman Tsunami Relief's other projects, including environmental education, vocational training, a handicraft cooperative, and a community center have also taken off. Garrett predicts that soon the programs will be entirely self-sustaining, thereby working him out of a job. To him that will be the truest measure of success.


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Bush-Era Tax Cuts May Expire as Step to Budget Deal, Tyson Says
Bush-era tax cuts may be allowed to expire at the end of the year as a prelude to an agreement on the budget, according to Laura Tyson, an economics professor who advises President Barack Obama on the labor market.
An expiration "is the major scenario right now," Tyson, a professor at the University of California-Berkeley and a member of Obama's jobs advisory board, said in an interview today with Bloomberg News editors and reporters in Washington.
Tyson played down the impact of such a step on the economy, saying the tax cuts could be reinstated later and made retroactive to the start of 2013. The expiration though might help "force" through a deal on the budget, she said.
The Berkeley economist took Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to task for criticizing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and said the financial-services industry is undergoing a "secular" change that would restrict its profits during the next decade.
The income-tax reductions that were first pushed through in 2001 and 2003 by former President George W. Bush are the biggest single item in the so-called fiscal cliff -- a mix of more than $600 billion of tax increases and government spending cuts that will go into effect next year if Congress does nothing.
House Speaker John Boehner said on Sept. 11 that he was "not confident at all" that Congress will reach a deal on avoiding the fiscal cliff and blamed Obama and the Democratic-controlled Senate for the impasse.
Tyson, who served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton, said the "tone may change" on Capitol Hill if Republicans lose seats in the Nov. 6 election.
Tyson Optimistic
"The willingness to deal might change," Tyson said, adding, "I'm optimistic" there will be an agreement. She said she's unsure whether that will occur later this year or early in 2013.
There's little appetite in Washington for providing much in the way of stimulus for the economy, Tyson said. Some small measures though might be discussed in the context of negotiations on the fiscal cliff, including extending and possibly broadening the 2 percent payroll-tax cut due to expire at year-end, according to Tyson.
The economics professor said the Fed "did the right thing" last week in deciding to expand its holdings of long-term securities in a third round of quantitative easing.
The move showed that central-bank policy makers "are seriously worried about the economy," she said. Growth slowed to a 1.7 percent annual rate in the second quarter from 4.1 percent in the final three months of last year, and the jobless rate has been stuck above 8 percent since February 2009.
Romney criticized the Fed's action, saying it would do more harm than good, and repeated his determination to replace Bernanke as Fed Chairman when his term expires in January 2014.
'Attacking' Fed
"I would criticize the Romney campaign for attacking the Fed and the Fed chair," Tyson said, adding that politicians in general should refrain from bashing the independent central bank.
Tyson, who is on the board of Morgan Stanley, said the financial-services industry is undergoing a structural change in the aftermath of the recent crisis. Companies are trying to come up with new business models at a time of "very significant" uncertainty about the regulatory regime they face, she said.
It's unclear how some of the new rules governing the industry, both domestically and internationally, will be implemented, she added.
Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. also are adjusting to being regulated by the Fed after converting into bank holding companies during the crisis, she said. Morgan Stanley is the sixth-largest U.S. bank by assets and Goldman the fifth largest. Both are located in New York.
"People have put their heads down to try to figure out what to do with their own institutions," she said.
She said she does not see a return to the days before 2007, when the industry's profits were growing as a share of the economy and as a share of corporate earnings.
"It's not just cyclical," she said. "There's a change in the structure of the industry going on."


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What do you have left on your list to do?
It's officially less than a week to Christmas and the final weekend before.
What is on your to do list yet?
I am still waiting for a few things to arrive-many of which are arriving today, then I need to wrap those, separate everything into where they are going, buy rolls and bake a pie for tomorrow and then I'm done, I think.
The only thing I have left to do is pick up some side dishes to make on Christmas. I managed to get everything done very early this year.
I have my pie crust in the oven right now for my pumpkin pie. I need to make my spaghetti squash au gratin. (The squash is already cooked as is the pumpkin for the pumpkin pie.) I need to wrap all presents, which we do on Christmas Eve. I'll probably make something to take to my aunt's house on Christmas. I just found out she's having a buffet meal, so people will be eating all day. We weren't going to go over until after dinner, so now I need to bring something so DS and I can eat, too.
I have a few things left to wrap, cookies to bake and helping dh put dd's dream house together but that is it
tomorrow is craft day. the kids will make ther cards and presents for my parents. monday we will make cookies. tuesday we will watch christmas specials and go have dinner at a friends house then back home. my parents always spend the night on christmas eve
3 gifts to wrap, baking to do,(today) and a hash brown casserole for Christmas eve.


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Even the most dedicated hip-hop fan might have to admit that rap shows are not usually known for their excellent pacing.
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I usually refrain from posting personal (speak: not work related) information about Marion Cotillard but since this appears to be official I decided to make an exception:
The Oscar winning star, 35, will welcome her first child with longtime love Guillaume Canet, her rep confirms to UsMagazine.com exclusively.
• Source: US Magazine
The news was also confirmed by the rep to other US media outlets such as People.com, USA Today and JustJared.com as well as to French PurePeople – who also posted that the baby's due at the end of May.
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OMG I"M SO HAPPY FOR THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She's going to make a great mother!!!Jan 10, 11 at 11:01 pm
Congrats to Marion, I'm so happy for her and Guillaume!Jan 10, 11 at 11:19 pm
Awesome news! Congrats to Marion!Jan 10, 11 at 11:21 pm
Congratulations to both Marion et Guillaume.Jan 10, 11 at 11:43 pm
Very happy news! That baby will be gorgeous. Congrats, she will be the best mum.Jan 11, 11 at 2:30 am
So happy for them!!!!!!!!! Yes, she will be a great mum! Congrats!Jan 11, 11 at 3:42 am
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Congrats! Everything comes to those who wait! At 35 and 37 y/o, with many experiences making them wiser behind them, knowing what they need/want/annd don't want, they're ready to give their best in the hard but rewarding task of raising a child! Very happy for them 🙂 They deserve all this.Jan 12, 11 at 2:48 pm


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The City Council gave the go-ahead Monday to buy the former Fran Kral auto dealership on Third Street near City Hall for $400,000.
The 1.7-acre property includes surrounding parking lots that boarder North Second Street, State Street and Market Street. City officials plan to open the lots to the public and nearby businesses.
Several aldermen, Mayor Larry Morrissey and city Administrator Jim Ryan said there's no use planned for the building yet.
The dealership closed at the end of 2012.
Some are eyeing it as a potential police district station for when the police department decentralizes from one headquarters at the Public Safety Building to three yet-to-be-determined district stations.
The property was assessed at $458,000, City Attorney Patrick Hayes said.
Sunil LLC, an offshoot of development firm First Rockford Group, negotiated a deal for $400,000 with owner Fran Kral. Sunil LLC offered its contract position to the city, stepping aside for the city to buy it.
The city will close on the deal by the end of the month, Hayes said.
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The Miami Dolphins secondary is no longer waiting for Richard Marshall to return from a back injury that has kept him off of the field since late September. Instead, the free agent acquisition was placed on the injured reserve list, and will not likely be back in the Dolphins line up this season.
Marshall, who has 18 tackles and one interception in four games as a Dolphin, has been bothered by what is rumored to be a blood clot in his back and had hoped the situation would resolve itself with time and rehab...Who do the 'Phins hope will replace the starter? Read the rest of the story here..http://bit.ly/SUCSAL
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The Least Common Multiple (LCM) is also referred to as the Lowest Common Multiple (LCM) and Least Common Denominator (LCD). For 2 integers a and b, denoted LCM(a,b), it is the smallest integer that is evenly divisible by both a and b. For example, LCM(2,3) = 6 and LCM(6,10) = 30. For the least common multiple of more than 2 numbers, say a, b, c and d, it is the smallest integer that is evenly divisible by all numbers and can be calculated such that LCM(a,b,c,d) = LCM(LCM(LCM(a,b),c),d).
Enter the numbers you want evaluated separated by commas. Do not use a thousands separator. Two thousand five hundred and one thousand should be entered as 2500, 1000 not 2,500, 1,000.
For integers a and b you can find the greatest common divisor (GCD) of a and b and use that result to calculate the LCM. You can also find the prime factorization of each integer and use those results to calculate the LCM.
LCM(a,b) = (a*b)/GCD(a,b).
For example, find the LCM(6,10). First find the GCD(6,10) = 2. Then calculate (6*10)/2 = 60/2 = 30. Therefore, LCM(6,10) = 30.
The LCM(a,b) is calculated by finding the prime factorization of both a and b then taking the product of the sets of primes with the highest exponent value among a and b.
For example, for LCM(12,30) we find:
For example, for LCM(24,300) we find:
[1] Zwillinger, D. (Ed.). CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae, 31st Edition New York, NY: CRC Press, 2003 p. 101.
[2] Weisstein, Eric W. "Least Common Multiple." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LeastCommonMultiple.html
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Intel has pretty much been running the tables for the past
year on the desktop, notebooks and server fronts. During the past year, the
company has stretched its legs with its 65nm Core 2 micro
architecture, introduced DDR3
memory platforms for the desktop and is on the verge of releasing new 45nm processors.
At this year Intel Developer Forum, the company showed off
its technologies for the future including 32nm test wafers, 45nm Nehalem processors and its 45nm Menlow platform for Ultra Mobile PCs
(UMPCs) and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). Despite this wealth of good news on
the performance and power efficiency front, Intel is still looking for more
ways to stay competitive.
In an effort to further streamline its operations, the
company has announced that it will cut its worldwide IT staff by up to 10
percent. "We're in a very competitive environment and need to stay agile
and stay efficient," remarked Intel spokesperson Chuck Mulloy.
Mulloy made the comment after being questioned about the Intel Perspective
Blog. The author of the blog, Intel IT Guy, went through all the nasty
details of Intel's latest force reduction.
"We're in a very competitive environment and need to
stay agile and stay efficient," said Intel IT Guy.
According to Intel IT Guy, the company is the process of
assessing the skills of its employees and scoring their performance. Employees
that don't make the cut will be "redeployed" within the company.
Redeployment means that employees will have two months to find another position
within the company according to Mulloy. For those that choose not to stick
around for two months or don't find a new position within two months, a
severance package based on years of service with Intel will be offered.
"This is primarily 'skills based'
redeployment, which means we are going through a skills assessment process for
each employee, scoring them, comparing scores, and then determining which
skills we can most afford to lose from our individual groups. It's unpleasant,
painful work, and just not going well - at least not for my team," said
Intel IT Guy. "The skills assessment process is [in my opinion] meant to ensure that
we're legally defensible and identifying people objectively."
Over the last three years, the company has trimmed its numbers by more than 11,000. Ten thousand workers were fired in September of 2006; an additional 1,000 were let go just months before that.
quote: An anonymous blog posting by an Intel employee blogger known as "Intel Guy" described in great detail the process that Intel is using to prepare to eliminate IT employees.The posting forced Intel to agree that it will be laying off some IT employees worldwide in a cost cutting endeavor. Rumors are circulating that the job cut could be as high at 10% of Intel's IT workforce.The blog was posted last week and claims that the layoffs are based on a skills assessment process for each employee according to which employees the company can best afford to lose. The blogger also reported that the painstaking skills assessment is meant to provide more objective results that will give Intel a strong legal defense against the workers selected for elimination.The blogger claimed that within his group most of the technical female employees would be let go, thus eliminating some of the workforce diversity that Intel has boasted that it has.Intel's CEO announced in May that its workforce headcount would continue to drop over 2008. Intel already announced that it will lay off about 1,000 employees in one of its New Mexico memory chip plants, and newspapers in Ireland are reporting that Intel plans to eliminate at least 200 workers at one of its flash memory plants in Ireland.Intel had 92,000 workers at the end of June, which is 12,200 fewer employees than were employed at the same time one year earlier.
quote: to the person who is writing the microcode for processors, to the person who is writing their chipset drivers.
quote: Was that supposed to be taken literally?
quote: I mean just think about it, trying to get the guy at Best Buy to explain to someone that X3 is better than X2, but not better than X4.


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Barker and Son, Staffordshire, England c. 1850
This is another stunning transferware toddy plate or childs plate. Originally part of a child's tea set or dinner service, the plate measures 4 1/2" in diameter. The color is a rich chocolate brown or sepia with a pearlware glaze. The set is impeccably potted and light bodied.
The plate is decorated with a whimsical image of a young boy going for ride on a big dog probably a Newfoundland. The rim is decorated with net border with animal cartouches alternating rabbits dogs and a horse with a cat. The busy and imaginative decoration is very rich, with little white space.
There is no maker's mark. We've seen the pattern marked Adams but the image, originally from a child's early primer book, was used by several potteries during the 19th century. The authors of the book "Understanding Miniature British Pottery & Porcelain" (Maurice and Evelyn Milbourne) identifies the pattern name as "Infancy" and attributes it to Barker and Son from the Staffordshire district c. 1850.
The plate is in great condition with no chips, cracks, or repairs. Stilt marks, normal glaze crazing, and a dot of kiln fleck, and other minor typical manufacturing imperfections original to the making, a sign of authentic early Victorian era industry. A very desirable pattern, perfect for friends of animals , and advanced collectors of unusual doll dishes.
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Q: What would cause my daughter's ferret to pee blood? When the ferret pees, the urine has brown and red in it.
A: It is not normal for ferret urine to be anything other than a shade of yellow. Dilute ferret urine is a very light in color; a very light shade of yellow. Dehydrated ferrets can have urine that is a very dark shade of yellow, but this should not look red or brown.
Very fresh blood will make the urine look red, and blood that has been sitting in the urine for a period of time will degrade and take on a brownish tint. Why does this happen? Many times, blood in the urine represents a disease process. Visit your ferret's veterinarian as soon as you can.
Blood can come from one or both kidneys, from the ureter(s), from the bladder or from the urethra. Stones anywhere in the urinary tract can initiate bleeding due to the irritation they cause along the walls of the urinary tract. Infection is another common cause of bleeding in the urinary tract. Typical areas for infection that lead to bleeding are the kidney and bladder.
Uncommon in ferrets, but seen in other species, are tumors of the urinary tract. Depending on the type of tumor, these can lead to blood in the urine. In some male ferrets with adrenal gland disease, if the prostate enlarges, this can cause infection and disease, which can lead to bloody urine.
Finally, there are syndromes where blood enters the urine somewhere in the urinary tract for reasons we may not be able to determine. It is called a syndrome when we cannot determine a cause for the blood loss. You might believe that with any of these causes your ferret would be in pain when he/she urinated, but this does not always occur, because ferrets can be so stoic.
Visit your veterinarian very soon. Your vet will recommend a urinalysis to determine if the color change is due to blood in the urine. He or she can also determine if there other abnormalities in the urine, such as bacteria, evidence of crystals or even parasites. Your vet will also recommend a complete blood count to see how much blood your ferret is losing in the urine. A biochemistry panel will determine the health of the kidneys, along with other measures of your ferret's overall health. Then imaging studies, such as radiographs and an ultrasound of your ferret's abdomen, will help your veterinarian pinpoint the cause of what you are seeing.
In most cases, blood in a ferret's urine is easy to diagnose and treatment can be instituted immediately.
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Kathleen Paice 315 464-4839
World's foremost authority on medication errors to speak Feb. 16 at SUNY Health Science Center
Michael R. Cohen, MS, FASHP, considered one of the world's foremost authorities on the causes and prevention of medication errors, will be speak Tuesday, Feb. 16 in the Medical Auditorium, Weiskotten Hall, 766 Irving Ave., Syracuse. Registration is at 6 p.m., the lecture from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., followed by coffee and dessert.
Cohen's presentation will examine medication errors related to drug use systems, including distribution methods, look-alike product labeling, packaging, and nomenclature. He will discuss some of the procedures implemented by hospitals, the pharmaceutical industry and regulatory agencies in order to prevent medication errors.
As president and co-founder of the Institute for Safe Medication Practice (ISMP), Cohen has been a longtime patient safety advocate, concentrating on the prevention of adverse drug events. Through the nonprofit ISMP, Cohen writes medication error prevention features read by over 1.5 million physicians, nurses and pharmacists monthly. He also edits ISMP Medication Safety Alert!, a biweekly bulletin sent via fax or e-mail to institutions worldwide.
Cohen has more than 100 publications to his credit, including the books Medication Errors; Medication Errors: Causes and Prevention; and 200 Medication Errors and How to Avoid Them. In 1998 he was named as one of the top 50 most influential pharmacists in the United States by American Druggist, and in June of last year, the ISMP received the Pinnacle Award from ApHA.
Cohen received his bachelor's and master's degrees in pharmacy from Temple University. He is a member of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the American Pharmaceutical Association and the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management of the American Hospital Association.
There is no fee for the lecture, which is approved for 2.0 Continuing Medical Education contact hours for physicians and 2.0 Continuing Education Unit contact hours for nurses and pharmacists. Cohen's presentation is sponsored by University Hospital's Department of Pharmacy Services in collaboration with the pharmacy departments at Community General Hospital, Crouse Hospital, St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center, the Veterans' Administration Medical Center and the Central New York Society of Health System Pharmacists, and supported by educational grants from Baxter Pharmaceuticals and Astra Pharmaceuticals.
To register, or for more information, contact Phyllis Burke at 315-464-4311.
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