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Lining up to enter Lowry Elementary School in east Denver Tuesday night, Shana Saint-Phard, 11 years old, is excited for her first ever Caucus.
As Bernie Sanders supporters course through the lines of what turns out to be more than 500 people, Shana delightedly takes a "Bernie 2016" button.
"I am not going to really wear it, it's just really fun to have," Shana said.
She's is an aspiring political journalist, and is covering the Caucus and election process for a fifth grade class project. She is a student at Carson Elementary school, though Lowry Elementary was her mother's Caucus precinct.
As Shana and her mother, Deborah Saint-Phard, crowd into the school's cafeteria, the young reporter squeezes her way to the very front so she can better hear the rules and two minute speeches from various local and state candidates and their supporters.
"There are a lot of rules," Shana comments, trying to write them all in her notebook.
In a Colorado Democratic Caucus – it gets confusing, even for the Caucus captains.
"I'm not totally sure exactly how it all works, I think there are superdelegates, and this is the first step," said Camille Spaccavento, precinct captain. "The rest, you should look up online."
Here's basically how it works: The Caucus is step one in a four-part process. Caucus-goers rally for the candidate they hope to elect and each precinct is allocated a designated number of delegates that will go to the county convention, which is the next step. Then, delegates are sent to the state assembly, which will take place in April, and, finally, delegates represent Colorado at the Democratic National Convention this summer in Philadelphia.
So while the straw poll in the Colorado Democratic Caucus was not binding, a win for Sen. Bernie Sanders is still considered important for his campaign.
After the rules were explained, people broke out into separate precincts, and Shana followed a crowd of 97 people into the Lowry Elementary library, where things got heated.
A straw poll revealed that the room was split almost evenly between Clinton and Sanders supporters – 48 for Clinton, 45 for Sanders and just four uncommitted voters – who sparked a lively debate.
"I am voting for Hillary," Spaccavento said, "because she's the only one who can hit the ground running and be president."
From the crowd, Sander's supporters shouted out, "You should vote on your principles! Vote for what you feel is right!"
"Why are they fighting like this," Shana asked, still taking photos on her phone, and writing notes. "Aren't they really all on the same side?"
Ultimately, almost all those participating agreed that they would vote for the Democratic nominee, but the undecided voters still wanted to be convinced.
"I'm a veteran, and so is my husband," said Francesca Kollar. "I don't want my kids to fight a war that their father and I were already fighting."
She said that unclear positions on foreign policy make her unwilling to commit to either candidate. Of the four undecided voters in the room, she was the only one to remain uncommitted; the other three ultimately supported Clinton.
Aside from foreign policy, healthcare became an important issue in the room. Many were interested in a single payer system – which as one Sander's supporter pointed out – could become law in Colorado if voters support Amendment 69.
In the Lowry school library, Clinton won by six votes, but at the statewide level, Sanders led the straw poll by a big margin, 19 points.
Colorado Republicans did not participate in a presidential preference poll, but nationally, Donald Trump emerged from Super Tuesday still in the lead. He picked up an additional 234 delegates in Tuesday's voting, giving him a total of 316, or one-quarter of the 1,237 needed for the Republican nomination.


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i called some friends today and asked them what the first things were they did with their new tablets and some of them said they took those cameras out of business, i noticed that earlier that nearly all of them had a sticker or paint over their laptops front facing cameras like me
even my parents noted this after some time and asked if that is a camera looking at them and they are in their early seventies, oh boy they hated that
btw. they found the "running out of graphics memory when looking through images for more than a few minutes" bug
so do people in their thirties, forties, plus, think different about privacy, or am i living in a abnormal paranoid environment
does rim try to sell those tablets to business customers and did they asked for the same
did the first ipad maybe didn't have a cam because jobs was sitting there and got fed up by this camera starring at him, at home, in his privacy
i also guess people at this age, my age, using tablets more to read and consume then to communicate, never seen someone not skyping with anything other than a laptop or pc, the fire doesn't have cams and it seems its selling itself pretty good
rim should seriously think about having a version of their 7" and future 10" tablets without cams and microphones, like i said before, same price just with and without cams and microphones, nothing fancy, same price, maybe fifty bucks less
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01-27-2012 12:03 PM - edited 01-27-2012 12:16 PM
wiki "bundestrojaner" or "vorratsdatenspeicherung" big discussion here, like on sopa in the us
i guess you americans simply aren't there yet
oh and you can please everyone or at least a lot of them by giving choices, rim lost the kids, lets try getting the saner grown ups
thats funny, in germany it really is, "i have nothing to hide" is actually a quite often used catchphrase to get people started about civil rights and how it changes ones behavior if you being monitored or there even is the possibility in the back of your head someone could watch you right now
take the playbooks youtube app or app world, both doesn't let you delete what you have done with it, that violates your right for information privacy
in fact facebook gets their behinds kicked in the eu for the same kind of behavior
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someone is really going to care about what apps you tried and deleted?
so dont use the youtube app and go via browser for now O_o
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sure, if you connect all this together, blogs, forums, online shopping, the games you play, friends you have, search results, what not, all that makes you predictable
you probably do it yourself with your social network activity
who ever has this information can tell more about you then you know about yourself, how you react, what you like, were you go, there are limitless applications for such information
if you have access to a million peoples passwords, you will find that most of them are very similar and with a little luck you reduced a complex problem you need a supercomputer to solve, to a few days work your pc can do
mostly this is just used to sell you stuff, like funny videos, music, clothes, you probably like it
but you do not need to create all this information if you not have to and you want control and the possibility to delete
most people over here are pretty **bleep** about those things
trust me you get that in school like we do, you just don't remember it because the internet was different back then and there is no largely spread debate going in the media


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It took a little while to get "into" this book. It spends a lot of time in character developement (as you'd expect) and not as much time in plot. But eventually it all comes together.
Once you get through the first section of the book it does flow a lot better and you can see the interaction of the two main characters --- which surprisingly isn't a whole lot. It ties up nice and neat at the end though.
"A fun book, but aspires to do too much"
This book was a lot of fun, original and had a very interesting story. However, I feel it tried to accomplish too much. It seemed to try to establish a new universe in order to develop a sci-fi series, rather than focusing on the story at hand. As a result of far too many peripheral characters and the mistake of jumping back and forth in time to explain these characters' origins, this book was extremely hard to follow (especially in audio book format). It was worth reading, but I wish it was more focused.
"Pretty much what "they said""
Not a comic guy myself, but familiar enough through pop culture (all the superhero films, etc) that the treatment of the superhero mythology was easy to access
light and witty, and well paced so it didnt wear
the narration is EXCELLENT and the swapping of narrator (and first person character) keeps things from dragging
This one is extremely user friendly and just plain a hoot!
"A fun listen"
I found "Soon I Will Be Invincible" to be an easy book to get into even though I don't follow any superhero comics. The events and archetypes are fun concepts. I found this book comparable to "Watchmen" in that it gets into the superhuman psyche and the conditions of being an inhuman person.
"Really fun"
This was a fun mix of action, sarcasm and and clever inner thoughts and dialogue. It moved along at a good pace and I really got into the characters.
"Maniacal laughter"
An amazing audio experience! The readers are having all kinds of fun with this, right down to the maniacal laughter from Doctor Impossible. It's hard to believe this is a debut novel, and I'm glad I took a chance on the recommendation from Audible.com. It's a comic book in prose form, and it works.
Doctor Impossible is getting the lion's share of the raves here, but let's not short-change the superheroes! Fatale is a great balance of nerves and cool, and the behind-the-scenes interactions of the rest of the "New Champions" are priceless. Great fun for fans of classic comic books everywhere.
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I bought this book because the premise alone made me smile. The narration was great, espescially Dr. Impossible. I believe this is a book that benifits from being experienced in audio form, due to the wonderful reading styles. Great fun for fans of the old comic books.
"Really Fun Listen"
Was doubtful when purchased,but was soon addicted. Dr. Impossible rules. Characters were well crafted. A sequel would rock!! Duel readers has a great feel. Enjoy this one
"Author has a hard time making up his mind"
The book has an interesting premise, discussing the world of superheroes and villains from the perspective of the world's greatest super-villain. He's the smartest man in the world, but he's also trite and can't help falling into the super-villain stereotypes. The book seems to waver between an almost serious and a mocking tone as the perspective switches between the two main characters, who are linked. An entertaining listen, but the ending was a little too abrupt.
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STARKVILLE -- Johnthan Banks decided Tuesday not to declare for the NFL draft and to return to the Mississippi State University football program for his final year of eligibility. Banks, a former East Webster High School standout from Maben, was a semifinalist for the Jim Thorpe Award, which is given to the nation's top defensive back. He also was MSU's Conerly Trophy representative. That award is given to the state's top college football player.
STARKVILLE -- The Mississippi State University football program has made a scholarship offer to East Mississippi Community College quarterback Bo Wallace. Wallace, who would be able to sign as a member of the 2012 recruiting class and enroll early to compete in spring practices, led EMCC to a 55-47 El Toro Bowl victory against previously unbeaten Arizona Western College in the NJCAA Football Championship Game on Dec. 3 in Yuma, Ariz. He set NJCAA single-season records for passing yards (4,604), total yards of offense (4,810), and touchdowns (53) in a season.
OXFORD -- The tension was still showing on University of Mississippi men's basketball coach Andy Kennedy's face several minutes after his team squeezed past Southern Methodist with a 50-48 victory on Tuesday night. Simply put, it was ugly. Kennedy admits that might be a common theme this season.
ATLANTA -- JaMychal Green appears recovered from a right shoulder injury, and the University of Alabama men's basketball team got another big boost with the return of Andrew Steele for the first time this season. So with the Southeastern Conference schedule beginning in four days, the Crimson Tide look ready to roll.
STARKVILLE -- Mississippi State University junior wide receiver Chad Bumphis was arrested early Sunday morning in his hometown of Tupelo and charged with disorderly conduct and public drunkenness. The Lee County Sheriff's Department confirmed Sunday morning to The Dispatch that Bumphis' arrest occurred at 1:31 a.m. in the city proper of Tupelo, and that Bumphis was released nearly an hour later after being booked on the charges. Bumphis, 22, has one year of eligibility left at MSU. He is scheduled to appear Jan. 12 at the Lee County Courthouse.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Piling a bunch of people in a car and going to a famous destination is how a lot of great tales begin. For Mississippi State University students and recent graduates, bowl games represent the perfect excuse for that classic college road trip story.
STARKVILLE - New Hope High senior basketball player Lawrence Brown had a lot of fun Thursday afternoon. Brown scored 29 points and pulled down 15 rebounds as the Trojans hustled past East Oktibbeha 73-64 in a second-round game at the Travis Outlaw Slam Dunk at the Hump holiday basketball tournament being played at the Humphrey Coliseum on the Mississippi State University campus.
RENO, Nev. - Mississippi State's late rally came up short Thursday night as the Lady Bulldogs dropped a 78-71 decision to undefeated Oklahoma State in the second contest at the University of Nevada-hosted Peppermill Classic.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Cameron Lawrence can only remember one season he and his older brother Addison haven't been competing on the same football field. After tonight's 2011 Music City Bowl, the Lawrence duo will be split up again for likely the final time of their football careers.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Mississippi State head football coach Dan Mullen has stressed the goal of the next season since this New Year's Day victory in Jacksonville. Get to back-to-back bowl games.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Fans of every Southeastern Conference school got a look at the football schedule for upcoming 2012 campaign Wednesday afternoon.
DALLAS -- With one big play, Pierre Jackson made up for a series of mistakes to keep No. 6 Baylor undefeated. Jackson drove for a layup with 28 seconds left to give the Bears a 54-52 victory over No. 15 Mississippi State, which had won 11 straight.
STARKVILLE -- Tick, tick, tick. The Mississippi State women's basketball team has seven days before it plays host to LSU in its Southeastern Conference opener.
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Does the following series of moves represent 3 fold reptition (I am black)? Or do both players have to make the same moves three times? Finally, if it does represent 3 fold repetition, why wasnt I able to claim a draw?
Thanks in advance, Kidpoolside
Both must repeat three times.
Thanks for the clarification. That explains why this game is still going on! I am still confused though. I looked 3 fold repition up on wikipedia and they give the following example from a Fischer / Petrosian game. It is not clear to me that Petrosian is repeating the same moves at all:
In the third game[4] of the 1971 Candidates Final Match between Bobby Fischer and Tigran Petrosian, Petrosian (with a better position) accidentally allowed the position after 30.Qe2 to be repeated three times (see diagram). Play continued:
and then Fischer wrote his next move
It's not the *moves* that need to be repeated - it's the *position*. In the example you cite, the position does indeed repeat three times. Moves 30/31 constitute and interlude where the queens dance to the kingside and then the position repeats. Moves 32/33 are an interlude where the rook shuffles over and then back to the same posistion. People often think it's the actual moves that need to be repeated, but it's not - just the position that results afterwards.
If you can click on a move in the move list, and the position on the board is exactly the same, with the same person to move, then it's an identical position.
If such a position occurs 3 times in a game, that's what constitutes 3 fold repetition.
Otherwise when a GM needed to draw to claim 1st place we'd see some nonsense along the lines of Nf3-g1-f3-g1 sometimes early the opening.
As a side note it counts whether an opponent had the option of playing a "special" move like castling or en passant. So all available moves must be identical too.
That's definitely one of the perks of living in the computer age...
thanks! very helpful!
The position is the one that repeats, not the move. It's a normal thing some people forget about three-fold repetition. Good luck in your next three-fold repetition game.
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Situated in Zhongshan within a 30-minute walk of SPOT-Taipei Film House and Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Orange Hotel- Linsen, Taipei is a 3-star city center Taipei hotel. National Taiwan Museum and Confucius Temple are also within 3 mi (5 km).
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Is Rashida Jones Edgar Wright's first choice for the Wasp in 'Ant-Man'?
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I'd love for this to be true, which is the only reason why it made today's Comic Reel, but Superhero Movies News cites an unnamed source and it's tough to confirm these sorts of stories -- especially given that it's not an actual casting rumor, just that Jones may be on the top of the short list. Plus, comic book movie fans are used to wild rumors spinning out of control (remember Bryan Cranston-as-Lex Luthor?), so remain skeptical until it's confirmed by an official source.
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White: Melodies of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is an arranged album of tracks from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. The first pressing came with a blue cloth pouch with the Final Fantasy Tactics Advance logo. The fold-out liner notes include the tracklist in Japanese and a message from Hitoshi Sakimoto.
Track listEdit
- "Monster Farm" (Bandneon Version)
- "Ivalice, A Different World" (Piano Version)
- "Crystal" (Quena Version)
- "Mewt" (Acoustic Guitar Version)
- "Teach Me, Montblanc" (Fagot Version)
- "Marche" (Love for Humanity Version)
- "Main Theme" (Piano Version)
- "The Anxiety One Can't Hide" (Electric Guitar Version)
- "Beyond the Desert" (Bandneon Version)
- "The Place to Which We Must Return" (Invincible Version)
- "Valley of Amber" (Sing Me Softly Version)
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- Official website, contains samples of tracks.
- VGMdb - white melodies of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
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Biking at midlife: crazy outfits optional
By MARY KAY RAUMA
My husband has become a biker. Not a leather-clad Harley Davidson riding biker — the other kind. I'm really happy for him, truly I am, but his transformation comes with some baggage.
For years we've been watching our friends, male friends, get into biking. Not to stereotype, but it seems to be a mid-life thing. We've enjoyed listening to their bike chatter with a sense of smug detachment. Who knew there was so much to talk about? There's bike technology, bike gear, bike routes, elevation gains, mileage conquered, horror stories, injuries, epic highs and lows. Truly, before I alienate the amazing bike riding men in my universe, I really love hearing about biking.
It's just not my thing. And, as it were, it wasn't my husband's thing either. We'd soak up the stories and boyish excitement of our friends' stories while shooting each other knowing glances that said, "We're runners, not bikers. We'll never go there."
And, I have to tell you, although I will talk about the outfits in a moment, I do not think bike riding is for sissies. On the contrary, listening to my friends talk about their run-ins with rabid drivers, King County rumble strips, raccoons, gravel, potholes and senile old ladies on rainy days (yes, someone got rear-ended at the four-way stop right in front of Sound Food) — all of it has left me completely freaked out about riding a bike.
Then there are the hills. Vashon specializes in hills. This is not some Burke Gilman joyride at sea level. This is home to the Passport 2 Pain, for goodness sakes. What started as a friendly fundraiser for the Vashon Island Rowing Club has become a rite of passage for all of the bike crazies in the Pacific Northwest. Why else would you pay to ride 80 miles and 10,000 vertical feet in a day? Yes, I know, they get their money back, but we all know it's really uncool to collect the refund.
And now we've come to the outfits. Dave and I used to have so much fun giggling about the Tour de France-esque outfits that "biking people" seem to have to wear. I mean, I run (okay, jog), but do I dress like Jackie Joyner-Kersee? A huge percentage of bikers wear tight tops emblazoned with logos, shrunken hot pants and weird shoes that make men clip clop around as though in stilettos.
I just placed two of those tight racing shirts with the funny pockets into the washing machine.
About four months ago, my husband Dave came home and said that his downtown athletic club went out of business.
"I'm thinking of commuting to work by bike," he said. Two days later he was up at Spider's Ski & Sports getting outfitted with a loaner; two days after that he was in, full Monty: road bike, convertible pedals, bike shoes, helmet, nubby tires for off-road and fenders for foul weather.
The entire family embraced his new lifestyle. Even our Rotary exchange student from Taiwan got in on the action reporting to Dave his arrival time each day. We all ran outside screaming the day he beat his best time by 5 minutes!
"You're not going to wear those crazy outfits, are you?" I snuck the question in as we sipped wine and waited for the barbecue to heat up.
"No need," he said.
A couple of weekends ago he went off to ride his first bike event, a 50-mile fundraising ride around Lake Washington. They gave him one of those fancy shirts to wear and another one for completing the race. He loved the experience so much that he's going to ride the 150-mile route next year.
"Did the shirt make a difference?" I just had to ask. "The pockets are really handy," he confessed. I caught his eye and we both broke out laughing.
"You'd look pretty cute in those little bike shorts," I added.
"We'll see," he replied.
My how the tables have turned.
— Mary Kay Rauma is a mother of two, principal at Rauma Associates and not a biker … yet.
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Do public subsidies stimulate private R&D spending?
The objective of this paper is to contribute to the empirical literature that evaluates the effects of public R&D support on private R&D investment. We apply a matching approach to analyze the effects of public R&D support in Spanish manufacturing firms. We examine whether or not the effects are different depending on the size of the firm and the technological level of the sectors in which the firms operate. We evaluate the effect of R&D subsidies on the subsidized firms, considering both the effect of subsidies on firms that would have performed R&D in the absence of public support and also the effect of inducement to undertake R&D activities. We also analyze the effect that concession of subsidies might have on firms which do not enjoy this type of support. The main conclusions indicate absence of "crowding-out", either full or partial, between public and private spending and that some firms - mainly small and operating in low technology sectors - might not have engaged in R&D activities in the absence of subsidies.
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- Heijs, Joost, 2003. "Freerider behaviour and the public finance of R&D activities in enterprises: the case of the Spanish low interest credits for R&D," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 32(3), pages 445-461, March.
- Dirk Czarnitzki & Georg Licht, 2006. "Additionality of public R&D grants in a transition economy," The Economics of Transition, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vol. 14(1), pages 101-131, 03.
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"R&D and subsidies at the firm level: an application of parametric and semiparametric two-step selection models,"
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- Katrin Hussinger, 2004. "R&D and Subsidies at the Firm Level: An Application of Parametric and Semi-Parametric Two-Step Selection Models," Public Economics 0403005, EconWPA.
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NEW CASTLE, Del. -- Police here are investigating direct online communications between New York Rep. Anthony Weiner and a 17-year-old girl and are looking for any other young women who may be involved, though the nature of the communications wasn't immediately clear.
The police probe comes as Weiner, who is married, fends off calls from both sides of the aisle in Congress for him to quit after he admitted to lying about his inappropriate online and phone communications with a half dozen women.
Weiner's interactions with the Delaware girl "were neither explicit nor indecent," Weiner spokeswoman Risa Heller said Friday night.
Two officers from the New Castle County Police Department arrived at the high school junior's home around 4:30 p.m. Friday and asked to speak with the girl's mother about the daughter's contact with Weiner, the disgraced Democrat. Another officer appeared at the home a short time later. A FoxNews.com reporter was at the home when the police arrived.
The girl, whose name is being withheld because she is a minor, told FoxNews.com, "I'm doing OK."
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sex offender bump!
How's that old saying go? If you shake your congressman more than twice you're playing with it.
Possible "jail bait".
So saying "I gotta go choke my congressman" is no longer a threat?
What a Weiner!
You are right. If his wife gives birth to a little girl, I hope she moves out immediately. I wouldn't trust him.
What'd'ya wanna bet that the dems are orchestrating this.
Apparently this jerk will show his junk to anybody, even kids. Sick. I would love to see this girls father pick him up by the neck and shake him like a ragdoll.
Here comes leverage!
Resign now and this is just a case of mistaken identity, didn't happen.
Don't resign now and you get charged with some sex crime with a minor.
They have Weiner by the balls.
Weiner should be required to register as a sex offender.
Not only should he resign, but sounds like he needs to be arrested.
It depends on what the meaning of "is" is, right?
I still can't believe he thinks he can continue to in Congress! Definately needs to resign.
Why can't they subpoena his twitter and yfrog transcripts? Why doesn't he volunteer them since ' to his knowledge' they were of legal age since he is adamant he has come clean? And him saying 'to his knowledge' several times was lawyerspeak to cover his you-know-what. That told me someone thought it might be a possiblity and he said that to err on the hope no one would find out.
I certainly would not be surprised if someone had visited the child's home before the police. Go public girl. This isn't a game and there may be some big players involved. You have done nothing wrong and have nothing to be ashamed of.
It was revealed on Hannity tonight that Weiner said that the pictures were neither indecent or explicit. The Democrats think they can play with dirt and get away with it. God is watching and He will deal with these stupid idiots in His own time. I just pray that God will deal with Weiner soon and in a way that people will know that it is God's doing!
This man is truly disgusting
Send the Pima county SWAT team after him.
So if you are a marxist crook sex pervert baby killing moron trial lawyer trade unionist son of a bitch from the bowels of hell domestic enemy within congressman you are just fine, but if you message a 17 year old all bets are off?
Weiner and his kind should have been tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail a long time ago.
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text: [[quoteright:333:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Mike_and_Molly_4673.jpg]]A 2010 Creator/{{CBS}} sitcom produced by Creator/ChuckLorre and starring Creator/MelissaMcCarthy, Billy Gardell and Swoosie Kurtz. Mike and Molly meet at an Overeaters' Anonymous meeting and hit it off.----!!This show provides examples of the following:* AbortedArc: Mike & Molly's attempts to conceive a kid. The season finale that included the plotline was pulled off the air because the episode featured a tornado...just when real tornadoes devastated parts of the Midwestern U.S. When the next season began, Molly for some reason quits her job & becomes a writer. Aside from frustration over failing to conceive, Mike and Molly pretty much never brought it up again.** It was brought up again in a recent episode, with both coming to terms that it might or might not happen, and if it doesn't they'd eventually consider adoption.** [[spoiler:In the final episodes, the series this time focused fully on Mike & Molly attempting to bring a child to their household one more time. In the finale "I See Love," they successfully get not just one kid from a surrogate, but also would get another from Molly herself. She reveals she's pregnant. The writing storyline was pretty much abandoned & clearly became the aborted arc.]]* AerosolFlamethrower: Victoria plans to use a can of hairspray and a lighter on an ex-boyfriend in one episode. Mike manages to talk her down and take the can and lighter away from her.* BasementDweller:** Carl lives with his grandmother, who frequently henpecks him, and is portrayed as something of a loser because of this. [[spoiler:She finally kicks him out in the third season.]]** There's a bit of a DoubleStandard here at work as both Molly and her sister still live at home as well, but Molly at least is treated as responsible and practical. Victoria probably wouldn't make it on her own. The Double Standard is later demolished when it's revealed that Molly is bad with money, is in debt up to her eyeballs, and probably wouldn't make it any further than Victoria on her own.** For a time, Mike & Molly cleaned up the basement at Molly's house & moved there from the second floor. They then return upstairs later on.* BitchInSheepsClothing: Peggy's sister Rosemary. Mike and the others are instantly taken in by her warm and friendly attitude, but it turns out that she was highly favored by their father, mocks Peggy for being a whiner and liar both then and now and that she brought her own neglect on herself (all of which was completely untrue). Needless to say, their reconciliation was short-lived and Peggy throws her out, and Mike quickly comes to his senses.* BlackBestFriend: Mike's partner, Carl, although it's less egregious than most examples since Carl has a decent amount of episodes revolving around him.* BookDumb: Victoria claims to be "not so much book smart as magazine smart."* BrideZilla: Molly turns into one three weeks before the wedding.* UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}* ChristmasEpisode* CloudCuckooLander: Victoria, though mostly because she's a pothead.* CoolCar: One episode has Mike buy a 1957 Chevy Bel Air, only to have [[InformedFlaw Informed Flaws]] no one could have missed pop up, and Molly forcing him to sell it and get back his money.** Season Five sees Molly [[spoiler: spending the advance from her publisher on a muscle car]], despite her ongoing problems with debt. * CoolOldLady: Carl's grandmother.* ADateWithRosiePalms: The reason Molly's mother made so much banana bread three years after her husband died.* DeadpanSnarker: Samuel* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:-->'''Victoria:''' Dead people are just like us. Except they're dead.* DirtyOldMan: Vince. ** Peggy enjoys reading erotic bodice rippers, making her a DirtyOldWoman. * DysfunctionalFamily: Both Mike and Molly's families. [[FreudianExcuse And they both wonder why they have weight issues...]]* ExecutiveMeddling: In-universe. [[spoiler: Molly's publisher wants her to have the protagonist in her story to time-travel after orgasms, which Molly considered to be a bad idea. But she somehow manipulates her way to leave her novel as is.]]** The show did undergo a shift in focus when showrunners changed. It became much more slapstick oriented and rather than an ensamble, seemed to become The Molly Show... It seems to have shifted back somewhat to focus a bit more on the ensemble again rather than just Molly hijinks recently, though.* FanDisservice: "Vince Takes a Bath." You will never un-see anything that appeared on screen in this episode. Ever.--> Molly: (''holding up the towel on Vince's lap while Mike walks in'') Look at it! ''Look at it!'' '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis LOOK AT IT!!!]]'''** "This Old Peggy." Mike, Carl, & Samuel get an unwanted peep show from Mike's mom when Peggy forgetfully (the episode's issue at hand) walks into the living room naked as the three are repairing the house. There are no better descriptions other than "all white" & "PTSDD."* FreudianExcuse: Starting in Season 5, we get to learn more about Peggy's background and why she's so angry and bitter. She was abused and neglected as a child while her sister was spoiled. She ran away with a man who she thought was the love of her life but separated with him for reasons unknown and ended up marrying Mike's father, who abandoned her to live with a stripper and left her to raise Mike on her own.* GoingCommando: In one episode Joyce is wearing a LittleBlackDress to go out to dinner with an ex-boyfriend of hers. Vince says that he doesn't want her coming home with her panties in her purse. Joyce tells him not to be stupid, as she never wears panties with this dress.* HalloweenEpisode* HeterosexualLifePartners: Mike and Carl.* HiddenDepths: Most of the time, Victoria is just a goofy stoner, but in the episode "Victoria Can't Drive", she spouts out some very surprising insight about her views on the afterlife, [[spoiler: and convinces Mike's mom to come to his wedding, not taking any credit for it.]]* HomemadeSweaterFromHell: Mike buys a repugnant green sweater from his partner's cousin.* IAmBigBoned: Molly's mom calls her that.-->'''Molly:''' Bones don't jiggle, ma!* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Not completely consistent, but the large majority of episodes begin with a character's name, followed by an action relevant to the episode. (i.e. "Mike _____", "Carl's _____", etc.)* IntoxicationEnsues: Mike eats gelato, not knowing that it was "specially" made by Victoria's pot dealer, and ends up wandering the streets, groaning and acting like FrankensteinsMonster.* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Molly's sister Victoria is ... unlucky in love to say the least. Molly and Joyce had to physically stop her from going after her married boyfriend. * MistakenForGay: Carl and Mike are mistaken for this "at least three times a week." In the season 3 premiere, Carl gets a temporary partner while Mike is on his honeymoon, and on their last day together the partner kisses Carl full on the lips, resulting in a HeroicBSOD.* MostWritersAreWriters : The fourth and fifth seasons deal with Molly becoming a writer. In particular, she suffers from WritersBlock. * MotorMouth: Carl* MyBelovedSmother: Mike's mom, who fakes a heart attack as soon as she finds out Mike is on a date with Molly.** Another episode has Mike getting very sick and being taken care of Molly at his place. His mother shows up and steals him back to her place and them stealing him back & forth. Eventually, she gets him last and alludes to possibly hiding him in his uncle's ice cabin to keep her away.* NameAndName* UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}}: Billy Gardell, who portrays Mike, hasn't forgotten where he came from and makes regular appearances on Pittsburgh radio station WDVE's morning show.** In one episode, they go to a baseball game between the Cubs and Gardell's favorite team, the Pittsburgh Pirates. Don't think that wasn't done on purpose.** Gardell speaks in his natural "yinzer" accent. It would be apparent to anyone who knows what they're listening for, but it's portrayed as being a Chicago accent.* RealSongThemeTune: "I See Love" by Keb' Mo'.* ReassignedToAntarctica: After Mike's mom dumps the police chief, he gets even with Mike by assigning him and Carl to guard the port-a-potties at a Renaissance fair.* RecoveredAddict: Mike and Molly met at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting, and are often seen attending such meetings in the early seasons. After getting married in the fourth season, that angle of the show was phased out to concentrate on their domestic lives. * SassyBlackWoman: Carl's grandma.* TheStoner: Victoria.-->'''Molly:''' You're high?-->'''Victoria:''' You're not?* StrawLoser: No matter what kind of trouble Mike is having in his life, it's loads better compared to Carl's life.* TookALevelInJerkass: Carl in the last two episodes of season five. [[spoiler:His immaturity, which is his FatalFlaw pointed out several times in previous episodes in the series, ultimately costed him his relationship with Victoria (due to flip-flopping over proposing to her). Understandably, her family didn't want him to be at Mike and Molly's anniversary cruise so soon after what happened. Even though it visibly pained Mike to ask it of him, Carl didn't listen and instead showed up at the cruise anyway with a woman he met on Craigslist, to get back at Victoria. It ended with him (accidentally) knocking Molly's present to Mike overboard, and Mike finally getting fed up enough with him to denounce him as someone he doesn't seem to know anymore. And after all that, instead of even thinking about apologizing, Carl requested a transfer away from being Mike's partner and the season ended with Mike completely stunned.]]* TwoDecadesBehind: Occaisional references to Mike carrying a service revolver. Almost all North American police departments switched over to semi-automatic pistols in the early '90s. Chicago Police Department ''does'' permit senior officers to elect to carry a revolver, however, Mike is shown using a Glock 17.* UglyGuyHotWife: Averted, in fact it's the entire point of the series.* UnusualEuphemism: ''Every'' conversation between Molly's mother and Victoria ends up dissolving into this.* WhamEpisode: [=McMillan=] and Mom. [[spoiler:Carl finds out his mother is still alive and that his grandmother lied to him his whole life about it, and sets off on a road trip with Mike and Samuel in tow. Unfortunately, she dies before he gets to see her. The episode ends with Carl and his grandmother singing at a piano and comforting each other. For a (mostly) lighthearted comedy series as this, the entire episode was a massive punch to the gut.]]** "Whatever Happened to Baby Peggy". Molly uses Peggy as inspiration for a new book, but it doesn't go as well as she thought it would. She goes into the attic to look around and finds a hope chest that Peggy forbids her to open. [[spoiler: Peggy reluctantly shows her that it's filled items from her childhood that her father sent her after her mother died. Eventually she tells Molly of how hard life was on the farm, and that her father would get drunk and hit her mother. She left at fourteen to get away from him but has always felt guilty about leaving her mother behind with no one to protect her. Mike puts it best at the end: "I'm gonna go hug my mom."]]* WhamLine:--> '''Victoria''': Harry? What are you doing down there? --> '''Harry''': I'm sorry that I ran out on you the way I did.--> I just panicked.--> '''Victoria''': No, I'm sorry.--> I shouldn't have kissed you.--> I was just so excited about my grade and you have been so lovely to me.--> '''Harry''': Don't apologize.--> That kiss changed my life.--> '''Victoria''': Oh, Harry.--> '''Harry''': Don't speak hear me out.--> I've been mustering the courage to say this, and if I don't do it now, I never will.--> '''Victoria''': I'm listening.--> I'm sure whatever you're feeling, I'm feeling the same.--> '''Harry''': [[spoiler: I'm gay.]]* WrongInsultOffence: In "Fish for Breakfast", Carl's latest girlfriend (who thought she was going to a party) calls Mike and Vince (Mike's mother-in-law's fiance) as "two gay guys eating a banana split". Mike protests that he hasn't had a bite of the banana split.----


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Two former federal prosecutors who acknowledged making anonymous online posts about cases will no longer practice law in the Eastern District of Louisiana, WDSU reported Wednesday night.
Sal Perricone and Jan Mann acknowledged in 2012 that they had posted anonymous comments about federal cases on the NOLA.com | The Times Picayune website. Both resigned, as did their boss, former U.S. Attorney Jim Letten, who was not implicated in the online posts.
The court allowed Mann to "permanently resign from the practice of law before the Judges of the Eastern District of Louisiana" on March 25, according to William W. Blevins, clerk of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana. Perricone was allowed to resign on April 3, Blevins said in an email.
Letten "is in active status as a member of the bar for the Eastern District of Louisiana," Blevins said.
Attorneys must be admitted by each federal district court in order to practice there, and admission is independent of licenses granted by the state.
Last week, the U.S. attorney's office in New Orleans said the Justice Department completed an investigation and discipline process into the case involving Perricone and Mann. The report has not been made public.
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Despite its slim profile the S8000 handles well. The square shape is easy to grip, and there is a good indented and textured thumbgrip on the back, which also doubles as a speaker grille. The controls are very basic, following the pattern of Nikon's simpler compacts. There are buttons for shooting, video and playback modes, a delete button, a menu button and a four-way D-pad which also has four secondary functions.
The S8000 has only four main shooting modes, selected by pressing the green Shooting Mode button and using the D-pad to choose between Auto, a Scene mode with 16 fairly typical scene programs, a Smart Portrait mode which includes the Smile Timer option and blink detection, and a Tracking AF mode which includes face priority tracking. Menu options can be displayed and a list or as icons.
The main shooing menu is very brief, with just seven entries; image size, white balance, ISO setting, drive mode, autofocus mode and metering mode. There are only two metering options, matrix or centre-weighted, with no spot metering available. There are four AF modes; auto, face priority, manual area selection and centre, with single or continuous AF available. Drive modes include single, continuous, Nikon's useful Best Shot Selector, which picks the sharpest of a sequence of shots, and the somewhat less useful Multi-shot 16, which shoots a sequence of 16 low-res shots and then presents then as a grid in a single image. Also available is the Sports Continuous mode, which can shoot up to 45 frames at 3fps, but only at 3MP resolution.
The S8000 has a few simple but useful features in playback mode too, including the options to apply D-Lighting for high-contrast shots, Skin Softening for portrait shots, and a three-level Quick Retouch feature which increases contrast and saturation. All of these produce good results, and can improve some lacklustre images.
The monitor is worthy of special mention. It has a 7.5cm (3.0 inch) screen with an exceptionally high resolution of 921,000 dots. It also has a very wide angle of view in all directions, and a good anti-glare surface, which I'd be delighted to test in full sunlight if only we had any.
Also of note is the S8000's video recording mode. It shoots at a maximum resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels at 30fps, recording in MPEG- AVC/H.264 format. Audio is recorded in AAC stereo via two microphones on the top of the camera. Video quality is very good for a compact camera. The stereo separation isn't brilliant as you can imagine, but sound quality is definitely better than average.
NIKON, Coolpix S8000, 14.2MP Digital Camera, 10x Zoom, Black, plus Charger$24.99 View Item
Nikon COOLPIX S8000 14.2 MP Digital Camera - Red$46.00 View Item
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NIKON, Coolpix S8000, 14.2MP Digital Camera with 10x Zoom, 720HD, 3"LCD (Black)$37.40 View Item
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Not sure what to make of this review. I had two of this model both of which had very poor image quality. The shots here are no different. I thought the first one I had was a one off maybe. Took it back to the shop and exchanged. The next one was the same if not slightly worse. The overall image quality is possibly the worst I have seen in a compact. I am not even comparing quality to that of a dslr as no compact can match one but to see image quality getting rated 8/10 is almost laughable.
Not only is the image quality poor the video quality is another league altogether. The video quality is by a long shot the worst I have seen. For HD it was comparable to that of a 1mp camera phone type of quality. Also in video mode there is a loud ear piercing noise that's quite similar to the sound that a mosquito repeller gives off...only problem being it's quite noticeable to the human ear. Both cameras had this fault. Contacted Nikon and they are apparently aware of that issue yet have no plans to remedy it.
I own 2 Nikon dslr's and there is no doubt both are excellent quality. I only bought the S8000 as a carry around camera when using a dslr is not needed but I regret that decision. I have found that the overall quality of the dslr's and the compacts are worlds apart. Given the current price of the S8000 I'd highly recommend saving your money and buying another camera. I have seen cameras half the price that are twice as good.
Sorry Nikon but a big step up in quality control of your compact cameras is urgently needed.
@Darren - glad you mention the HD video. Makes me feel less guilty about buying a Panasonic SD60 reviewed here earlier in camcorder section
I can't believe these pictures were taken with Nikon camera!!! They are so bad!!! Are you sure they are from S 8000? My cheap Fuji makes better pictures....
Inexplicably, my camera does not switch on even after hours of charging, removal and re-insertion of battery. It briefly light up but I have to keep my finger on the on/off switch. Has anyone experienced this and how did they overcome it?
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Golden Tate of the Seattle Seahawks tried to go over the defense en route to scoring a go-ahead touchdown against the Vikings. Unfortunately for Tate, despite scoring the touchdown, he took a brutal hit and was spun around like a helicopter in mid-air. While the ball does come loose, replays showed he did not fumble until after crossing the goal line...
Seahawks Receiver Resembled A Helicopter Trying To Score A Touchdown
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1991 King Silver Flair
1953 Olds Super (LA)
1979 King KG1055T (pre UMI) Silver Flair
1940? Olds Ambassador (LA) tenor trombone
I'm not responsible for offending people -- people are responsible for themselves taking offense at me
1991 King Silver Flair
1953 Olds Super (LA)
1979 King KG1055T (pre UMI) Silver Flair
1940? Olds Ambassador (LA) tenor trombone
I'm not responsible for offending people -- people are responsible for themselves taking offense at me
Unless Monette radically lowers their prices, or I win the lottery, I cannot say whether or not a Monette made for me would be better than
the Summit that was made for me cause I'll never buy a Monette. I do feel my Summit works better than the few Monettes I've tried,
but the again, those horns were made for someone else.
I often wonder about people that buy Monettes over the internet used. I mean, if you truly believe that a Monette is a custom made horn
for each buyer (ahem, different thread, cough,cough), then why would anyone spend that much extra money to play someone else's
"dream horn"?
Stop acting like someone shot your dog.
I'm suspecting the early horns were more "conventional" and user friendly. I "bought" an early used C from a good friend in the States while I was in Germany. I had a German buyer for it, unless I really liked it. (I've never "flipped" horns, by the way.) It arrived, and play testing in my apartment I couldn't tell any difference between it and my Monette tuning-bell conversion, so I sold it to my German colleague. All was good until we had a rehearsal in a big hall, and during the break he went up into the seats and had me play both for a side-by-side comparison. Again, at my end of the horn the two felt and sounded the same. Out in the audience though, there was a huge difference. I've kicked myself ever since.
"A tool good enough to be so used and not too good"C.S. Lewis That Hideous Strength
Tom- you're right the audience doesn't give a rip what brand a person plays.
KT-right, one can make just about any horn work for them.
Unfortunately, I don't have "lips of steel" like some players in the business, and I don't have hours each day to spend
attaining lip of steel. I know that I can play at a high level much, much longer (we're talking hours for long wedding gigs)
using my Summit than I could with the horns I used to own.
I have only met one player that I knew could play for hours on a conventional horn and still have the same range and endurance
at the very end of "party band" gig that he had at the start. He is one of my best friends who plays lead in several groups with me...
and guess what? He just ordered his first Harrelson a few weeks ago because he was blown away by how much easier it was to play.
Stop acting like someone shot your dog.
Adams A1, satin gold lacquer, 0.55 (and it's twin in clear lacquer)
Adams F2, gold brass bell 0.55
Yamaha 8335LA (Navy horn)
Adams ACB Prologue
Conn 112B
NY Bach Mercury
50's Calicchio
Marcienkewicz Rembrandt flugel (for sale! Contact Trent Austin for details)
Schilke P5-4
French Besson Classic C
Yamaha 761 Eb/D
Weril Regium Eb/D (for sale soon)
vintage Benge pocket trumpet
Austin Custom Brass mouthpieces
More news to come!
I do not normally even post about my relationship with the Monette. For those that don't understand it, there is no meaningful conversation possible. Often flames or other stupidity is posted - for what? Who walks away "KNOWING" more than they did before? The flamer proves nothing and no words could EVER enlighten anyway. I just let them be ignorant. My horns are good for ME and that is all that matters. What comes out of the front has been good enough that the people who pay to have me play stay loyal regardless if I show up with a zink, natural trumpet, baroque trumpet, Monette, Selmer, Bach, Besson, Heckel, Getzen, Enders or any of my "custom" horns.
Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
I played on a Harrelson Bravura for 18 months, and it is nowhere in the league of a Wild Thing. The Bravura was sharp above the staff with the G at the top of the staff being especially sharp. The player that has that horn now struggled with the intonation on that note for quite some time. The Bravura's response was okay, but it wasn't especially easy or efficient to play.
Now that I have gzent foaming at the mouth and before he rips me a new one with a heated response, there is one HUGE caveat to everything I just posted. It applies to any comments or review anyone makes about any trumpet at any time. And that caveat is: FOR ME.
No trumpet or mouthpiece is going to work for everyone. In fact, I once heard that a horn and/or mouthpiece maker is lucky if his/her stuff works for 15% of trumpet players. Whatever that percentage is, not everyone likes or responds well to any one horn or MP.
What is especially important and beyond cool here is that gzent has finally found what works best for him. If you have not experienced that it is hard to convey the concept. When I first played my Wild Thing, all of a sudden I found a horn that fit me. I didn't have to do any unnatural gyrations to play the horn well and in tune. I just picked it up and played it without having any issues to overcome. I like my Wild Thing better each time I play it, and I have now had it for 19 months.
When you find the horn that matches you, you will be as enthusiastic about it as gzent is about his Harrelsons and I am about my Wild Things.
Wild Thing Copper Bell
Wild Thing Standard
Wild Thing Flugel
Carol Brass Picc
Wedge Custom MPs
Warburton Backbores
Reeves Sleeves
1991 King Silver Flair
1953 Olds Super (LA)
1979 King KG1055T (pre UMI) Silver Flair
1940? Olds Ambassador (LA) tenor trombone
I'm not responsible for offending people -- people are responsible for themselves taking offense at me
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Our immigration attorneys have years of experience in handling all types of immigration matters, from removal and deportation issues, green card and other immigrant visas, employment visas, citizenship applications, Board of Immigration appeals, to criminal defense matters.
Immigration issues are oftentimes very stressful matters to deal with. At our law firm, we pride ourselves on getting things done that other attorneys would normally give up on. Our team of immigration lawyers have experience in dealing with some of the most complicated and pressing immigration requests, often obtaining great results.
As Immigration attorneys we practice in front of some of the most conservative courts in the U.S. Our firm is prepared to fight for you at every hearing, anticipating every issue that may arise and preparing how to deal with them. When you hire the immigration attorneys of Pastor and Associates, rest assured that we will work as hard as possible to obtain the best results on your immigration matters.
Our firm has a great track record for obtaining successful outcome for our clients. The following is a list of some of the immigration cases we routinely handle:
If you have any questions or would like to discuss your immigration matters with a professional, dedicated and aggressive attorney, then please call our immigration law office at (248) 619-0065. Our immigration attorneys are available in person or over the phone to answer any questions you may have.