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Even though the death penalty was repealed in New Mexico, a Roosevelt County farmer accused of arranging a murder-for-hire still faces possible execution.
Prosecutors filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty against William "Billy Joe" Watson last August.
Watson is accused of conspiring with the Aryan Brotherhood in the 2005 shooting death of Jimmy Bo Chunn.
And though the governor signed a repeal of the death penalty Thursday, Watson is still facing possible execution because of a grandfather clause that allows the death penalty for crimes committed prior to July 1.
Chunn, 71, was shot in his home around July 4, 2005.
The issue has set the stage for a debate over Watson's life between defense attorney Gary Mitchell and the state.
A hearing is scheduled for April 8 and 9 in district court in Portales, to determine if probable cause exists that one of seven aggravating circumstances occurred to justify seeking the death penalty against the 44-year-old.
Murder-for-hire is a qualifying factor for the death penalty.
Mitchell said Tuesday he was already arguing against the constitutionality of the death penalty and that it was inappropriate to use against Watson, who even the state acknowledges was not the trigger man in the shooting.
But with the repeal of the death penalty, to exercise it against Watson would amount to selective execution, he said.
Mitchell said he plans to file a motion arguing his objection to the clause in the repeal within the next few days. He said he hopes the district attorney's office will see the moral contradiction and decide not to seek the death penalty in Watson's case.
"When you do a repeal of the death penalty, you can't repeal it for some and not for others, so it's all encompassing," Mitchell said.
"We have never said that the death penalty applies only to a segment of the community and right now we're saying that … If it were based on race, creed or religion, the public would find this outrageous. You have it for all or you have it for no one."
Watson is charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.
Prosecutors have said he conspired with another Roosevelt County man, Donald Taylor, who they allege was a member of the Aryan Brotherhood.
Taylor is accused by federal authorities of carrying out the shooting and is also facing the death penalty under federal laws that remain in force.
Taylor was among a group of individuals allegedly connected to the Aryan Brotherhood and arrested by federal agents on racketeering and drug charges.
Prosecutors have alleged Watson and Taylor conspired to have Chunn killed in exchange for 500 pounds of anhydrous ammonia, an ingredient frequently used in farming as a fertilizer, but also used to manufacture methamphetamine.
"(Watson) paid the bill by providing the anhydrous ammonia to federal agents. That is a contract from beginning to end that resulted in the death of Mr. Chunn… We believe this is the classic case that the Legislature had in mind when they added murder for hire to the death penalty," District Attorney Matt Chandler said.
"We're certainly prepared to exercise the system to do what we can to bring the justice that the victim's family feels is warranted in this case."
Chandler said he, along with other prosecutors throughout the state lobbied against the legislature and the governor's repeal of the death penalty because it is an important tool for prosecutors.
Chandler believes the death penalty finds justice for families. He also said it acts as a deterrent, providing safety to police and detention officers from inmates serving life sentences, who might otherwise have nothing to lose by committing another murder.
"This is an issue that I have questioned internally," Chandler said. "I've talked to many law enforcement officers and many victims. And I've prayed over this issue and I firmly believe after speaking to those that have lost a loved one to a heinous, egregious murder that the death penalty should at least be an option for those families to exercise.
"My opinion comes after much thought and prayer and I feel very strongly about the way the law was on the books for the death penalty," Chandler said.
Mitchell said the death penalty is nothing more than a tool prosecutors use to coerce defendants into plea bargains out of fear for their lives.
"The deep dark secret of the death penalty that nobody wants to talk about is it gives tremendous bargaining power to the government and it holds a gun to your head," Mitchell said.
"My client is innocent of these charges and we intend to fight that, but it's always a dangerous fight when the state says 'if you lose we're going to execute you.' You've got to have a lot of willpower to proceed with your life on the line."
Chandler said the 9th Judicial District Attorney's office has, including Watson's case, pursued the death penalty against four men since 2004.
Two of the men, James Smith and Jerry Fuller, pleaded guilty, and Stanley Bedford was convicted by a jury. All three are serving life sentences of more than 100 years in prison.
Having the death penalty as an option was highly instrumental in obtaining the high sentences against Smith and Fuller, Chandler said.
Executions in New Mexico: Since 1933, New Mexico has executed nine men. The most recent execution, in 2001, was the state's first since 1960.
The death penalty's repeal will not affect the two men currently on New Mexico's death row or those convicted of qualifying crimes that occurred prior to July 1.


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LINDEN, MICH. - Sixteen-year old Dolores White of Lakeland, Fla., sank an eight-foot birdie putt on the first sudden-death playoff hole to win the Buick Junior Open presented by Golfweek. First-round leader Andy Shiels of Rockford, Ill., came from two strokes behind firing a final-round 70 to win the Boys Division.Conducted by the American Junior Golf Association, the Buick Junior Open presented by Golfweek was a 54-hole stroke play tournament held at Spring Meadows Country Club. The tournament featured 99 of the nationâs premier junior golfers, from 16 states, including 38 Michigan natives. Now in its 20th year, the tournament is one of the longest-running events on the AJGA schedule.White was able to defeat second round leader Carly Truitt of Marysville, Ohio, in a playoff, after both players finished the tournament tied at 224. White carded a 73 on the final day, including an impressive 34 on the front nine. White was able to finish her round with three pars, reach the playoff and earn an emotional win.âI was born here and I really wanted to win,â White said. âAll my family was here, including my grandfather, and that really got the fire going in me. I got a little tired on the back nine, but I was able to par three difficult holes to finish,â she said. Whiteâs day began with a birdie on No. 1 and another on the par-5 6th . White went on to birdie No. 11, but it was her play on No. 18 which got her into the playoff. âI hit my drive right and then a 5-iron to just off the green,â White said. âI putted from just off the green and it almost went in. I knew it was close,â she said.White, who won last weekâs First American Title Avila Junior in Tampa, Fla., pulled her drive left on the playoff hole. She then drew a 5-iron to within eight feet of the hole. She was able to hold her nerves in check and make the birdie putt for the victory.âIt was a double breaker and I was just hoping it would go in,â White said. âIt just fell in the hole and I gave quite a fist-pump. It was really exciting for me, especially with my grandfather being here.âFinishing behind White and Truitt was Jordan Craig of Connellsville, Pa., who finished with a 4-over-par 76 and a tournament total of 225. Shiels, 18, shot his second under-par round in the tournament and claimed his first AJGA victory. Shiels hit 15 fairways in the final round and was able to hold off second-round leader Billy Rankin of Traverse City, Mich., and two other players. Rankin, Dan Doyle of Rochester, Mich., and Clayton Parkhill of Champaign, Ill., all finished one-stroke back at 213. Blake Furgerson of Westlake, Ohio, rounded out the top-five, carding a tournament total of 2-under-par 214.âIt is always nice to win, especially my first AJGA title,â Shiels said. âIt was good to win before I go off to college,â said Shiels, who will play for the University of Memphis this fall.The American Junior Golf Association is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the overall growth and development of young men and women who aspire to earn golf scholarships through competitive junior golf. The AJGA has a membership (boys and girls ages 12-18) of approximately 5,000 junior golfers from 50 states and 30 foreign countries.Titleist, the AJGAâs National Sponsor, has been the catalyst and driving force behind the Associationâs success since 1989. Rolex Watch USA, a supporter of the AJGA since 1983, became the inaugural AJGA Premier Partner in 2004.For more information on the Buick Junior Open presented by Golfweek, please contact the AJGA at (770) 868-4200 or visit ajga.org.
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- This paper canvasses aspects of my PhD research. The research project is premised on the hypothesis that Planning Law Decision Makers (PLDM) rely on tools such as social impact assessment, plans, maps, expert witnesses, planning legislation and related policy and regulatory instruments, to gain knowledge on social impacts for significant land use and development. It is positioned on the proposition that all of these, including PLDM themselves, are actors in the planning system. The study defines Planning Law Decision Makers (PLDM) as decision makers in the context of planning in the State of Victoria, Australia who make decisions on land use and development proposals. These include planning officers and managers at Councils, elected Councillors, members of the planning tribunal (Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal), Judges in superior courts who have jurisdiction to deal with planning matters and the State Minister for Planning. For the sake of this study, it also includes Planning Panel Members. Generally speaking, such panel members only make high level recommendations for planning matters and the Minister for Planning in this context, is the ultimate decision maker
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- 2009
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- 120504 Land Use and Environmental Planning; 180119 Law and Society; 180124 Property Law (excl. Intellectual Property Law)
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- Australia; Decision making; Law; Legislation; Planning; Planning panels; Social impact assessment; Victorian State law
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- Faculty of Built Environment, University of New South Wales
- 1863081569
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The implementation of filters is a new mechanism being introduced into the Servlets 2.3 standard. This article explores the implications of filters to the Servlet architecture.
It has been a pet peeve of mine that one should not buy into an entire EJB solution just to gain the transparent (container-managed) transactional support for Java objects dealing with relational databases. One could inquire, what is the cost of implementing such a solution in the servlet tier itself? Because transactional support is valuable, whether the solution is distributed or not.
Typically, this transparent transactional support is accomplished by enrolling the active thread with a connection pool manager that the application relies upon for connections. The filtering mechanism is positioned to intercept the calls to an eventual servlet by registering the current thread with a connection pool manager in order to accomplish this. As one can see, the filtering mechanism is ideally suited for interposition, similar in concept to the EJB interposition of remote object calls from the EJB object to the bean instance.
Using the same interposition trick, one could also enroll a logging mechanism with the current thread as well and thereby provide applications with server-side logging that delineates at the thread level, as opposed to interlacing the log messages.
For those types of filters that do not interfere with the request or response, interposition could be adapted even in the current releases of servlets, and can provide an invaluable service to the developers that are currently bogged down by managing their own transactions programmatically. When this is combined with higher level data-access mechanisms (paralleling ADO from Microsoft or TDP(Transparent Data Pipeline) architecture that I have proposed in some previous articles), programmers can be completely oblivious to database connections altogether. This is the stage where developers can write business logic with the same ease that the database developers enjoy today with stored procedures; native and quick. I intend to demonstrate here the ease and simplicity of this process with some concrete code examples.
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Java Servlet Programming, 2nd Edition
The best way to gauge the usefulness of a facility (or framework) is by looking at some sample code that actually uses that facility. As suggested, filters and transactional support are implemented by the framework, and the developer code has no reference to those objects. The servlet programming model is a request/response model, so a developer typically interprets and executes a request by dividing his work into a series of tasks. These tasks could include database queries and updates, and perhaps multiple updates requiring transactional integrity.
The ITask interface is introduced here to represent the concept of a task. Given a task name and arguments, it will perform an abstract task and return an object and throw an exception to indicate exceptional failures. Many tasks can be derived from this task, and this gives us a mechanism to treat and manage all tasks as ITasks. Please keep in mind that these concepts are introduced here just to explain transactional support. In your own program, you are free to have your own class hierarchies and methodology and to never ever refer to ITask.
Interface ITask {
Object executeTask( String taskName, Object Arguments ) throws TaskExecutionException;
Let us write a task that allows us to add an employee to a company:
class AddEmployeeTask implements ITask
Object executeTask(String taskName, Object args) throws
// Get a connection pool manager
IConnectionPoolManager icpm = Factory.getInstance().getObject(IConnectionPoolManager.NAME);
// From the connection pool manager
// obtain a connection
SQLConnection con = icpm.getConnection("data_source_1");
.. use the connection to store the data in the
.. return any required object
// return the connection back to the pool
Now let us write another task that would allow us to update an employee:
class UpdateEmployeeTask implements ITask
Object executeTask(String taskName, Object args) throws
IConnectionPoolManager icpm = Factory.getInstance().getObject(IConnectionPoolManager.NAME);
SQLConnection con = icpm.getConnection("data_source_1");
.. use the connection to store the data in the database
.. return any required object
Now assume, for some reason, we need to add a collection of employees:
class AddEmployeesTask implements ITask
Object executeTask(String taskName, Object args) throws TaskExecutionException
// No need to get the connection manager here
// We also assume the enumeration of employees is passed through the args
Enumeration e = (Enumeration)args;
AddEmployeeTask addEmployeeTask = new AddEmployeeTask();
addEmployeeTask.executeTask(AddEmployeeTask.NAME, e.nextElement());
If you have noticed, the individual
AddEmployeeTask that independently acquires and returns the connection can now work well even, when it is used in a compositional context. This paradigm allows developers to organize their work as independent units and test them while allowing them for future compositions. So each task, whether composed or individual, will always get executed in a transactional context. That means the transactional filter we are talking about will automatically commit or roll back these tasks, depending on the exceptions that were raised. Although I prefer exceptions as the main channel for these automatic
commit/rollbacks, one could imagine a different scheme (either via return codes or http response attributes) that could be implemented. Now it remains to be seen how the transactions are actually commited and rolled back.
Let us investigate where this magic is taking place, allowing us to return the same connection when executed on the same thread. Obviously, the trick lies within the implementation of the
IConnectionPoolManager class. As a
matter of good practice, the implementation of this class is obtained via a factory, allowing us to migrate to an EJB instance when it is justified, while keeping the rest of the code unchanged.
interface IConnectionPoolManager
SQLConnection getConnection(String dataSourceName) throws SQLException;
void putConnection(SQLConnection con) throws SQLException;
TransactionalConnectionPool implements IConnectionPoolManager
// Hashtable<Thread,SQLConnection>
Hashtable threadVsConnection = new Hashtable();
String m_getConnectionLock = "lock";
SQLConnection getConnection(String datasourceName) throws SQLException
SQLConnection con = (SQLConnection)threadVsConnection.get(datasourceName);
if (con != null)
return con;
// no connection available
SQLConnection con = (SQLConnection)threadVsConnection.get(datasourceName);
if (con != null)
return con;
con = m_dataSources.get(dataSourceName).getConnection();
void putConnection(SQLConnection con) throws SQLException
.. return connection to the underlying data source either by closing it or returning it
// called by the filter to remove any
// connections associated with this thread
void removeAssociation()
// returns the current thread
Thread getCurrentThread()
void commitForThisThread()
SQLConnection con = threadVsConnection.get(getCurrentThread());
..commit logic
void rollbackForThisThread()
SQLConnection con = threadVsConnection.get(getCurrentThread());
.. rollbacklogic
As you can see, when you ask the connection pool manager to give you a connection, it checks to see if the current thread is already associated with a connection. If it is, the connection pool manager will return the same connection. If not, it will contact the necessary data source, obtain a connection, and register with the current thread. Eventually, the filter will remove this
threadVsConnection association when it is no longer required.
Now that we have seen how the connection pool manager coordinates threading with connections, it is time to see how the filters could use this property to effectively demarcate transactions.
The references included in this article are sufficient to understand filters. Unlike EJBs and like Servlets, the spec is small and can be mastered in a single sitting. To summarize the spec: the servlet container will call a series of Java objects that are registered for a given URL. These objects are called filters. Each filter will control the input and output of the downstream filter. The servlet itself is conceptually at the end of this chain. Besides the initialization and destroy methods, there is only one significant method that we need to worry about. And the code below overrides that
doFilter method to intercept calls to the intended servlets requiring transactional support.
class TransactionFilter implements Filter
// An implementation of the IConnectionPoolManager
// and obtainedat the filter initialization
private TransactionConnectionPoolManager icpm = null;
void doFilter( ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain)
icpm = Factory.getInstance().getObject(IConnectionPoolManager.Name);
.. analyze exception to see if this requires a rollback
.. for commit
// remove the connection from the connection pool
if (icpm != null)
The principle here is quite simple: at the end of the servlet request, just tell the connection pool manager that the transaction has ended (whether for good or bad) by calling its
The developer is not responsible for commits or rollbacks. When there is no exception, the transaction is automatically commited
Allows a developer to write code as if a task is independent while allowing that task to be part of an another larger composed task
Filters can be selectively placed using the
web.xml file in a declarative
fashion for all of the updatable content
Interposition is nicely provided because of the interception priniciples of filters
This sample code is only demonstrating one connection per data source per one thread. This can be extended for multiple data sources, provided the underlying data sources support XAConnections.
Again, this is a lightweight transaction management that is highly practical for majority of the single database solutions
Nevertheless, this can be easily extended for multiple data sources for queries
In the case of updates and multiple databases, they are restricted to one per thread. That is, one thread could be using data source 1 to update, and thread 2 could be using another data source to update. And as mentioned earlier, to update multiple data sources on the same thread, one would at the least require XA support, and possibly JTA support.
The same trick could be applied for thread-specific logging as well:
interface ILog
void log(String message);
void log(String message, Throwable);
class PerThreadLog implements ILog
// Hold messages on a thread by thread messages
Hashtable threadVsMesaageVector = new Hashtable();
void log(String message)
Vector messageVector =
void initializeMessages()
threadVsMessageVector.put(getCurrentThread(),new Vector());
void dumpMessages()
Vector messageVector =
..lock(stream) // or you can transfer this job to a lower
priority serialized thread
..Stream the message vector to the target destination
class Log
public static log(String message)
//One would cache this object in
//production environments
ILog ilog = Factory.getInstance().getObject(ILog.NAME);
void function1()
Log.log("This is a test message");
Filters are only going to be available in 2.3 implementations. But one would quickly realize that even in the current implementations, the majority of developers typically settle for a single base servlet solution anyway. So one could very easily incorporate this solution by making the appropriate calls at the beginning and end of the servlet and effectively acheive the same thing. Carrying this out using filters just seems natural, and also provides an additional opportunity to effect the request and response if needed.
Using the suggested architecture here you have relieved yourself of commits and rollbacks, but you are still dealing with conenctions and other JDBC-related entities. Instead, imagine the following code segment:
void printEmployees()
Hashtable args = new Hashtable();
args.put("employee_id", "E*");
ICollection empCollection = DataFactory.executeTransaction("GET_EMPLOYEE",args);
IIterator empItr = empCollection.getIterator();
Employee emp = (Employee)(empItr.getCurrent();
Doing it this way, the DataFactory handles all of the connection details. The only thing needed is the abstract
collection.close(). Not only that, but the same interface works for non-relational data sources. The rowset API of JDBC 2.0 and the connector architecture, somewhat, have some
similarities to these ideas. But the concept and implementation behind this is so simple, one can implement all the abstractions outlined here in less than two weeks. Also, see how the collections actually return objects as opposed to simple rows and columns? Well, if I were to explain the details of this, that would be material for another article.
One truism in program optimization is that you don't do it pre-maturely. And 80% of your time is spent on 20% of the code. Obviously, one would benefit more by effecting that 20% first. The same way, in an appication server, lots of things happen locally as opposed to distributedly. I wish EJBs addressed these local issues first before addressing the distributed issues; for example, transactions, factory services, security, representing business concepts as entities, and representing business procedures as tasks. These are fundamentally local issues, if you were to make use of them effectively. All of these are of tremendous value to the servlet tier. Becasue EJBs have extended these issues to the network model, the spec is so large that it is harder to follow all the implications. Java has come to be used so effortlessly because it minimizes the complexity of C++, while preserving the OO architecture. I believe the EJB model has grown too complex trying to address multiple constituencies (distributed transactions, object databases, object to relational mapping, etc.). As a result, it is harder to get a good EJB container that is consistent and relatively cheap. My contention is that a lightweight EJB framework has a great value for the servlet tier. And such a framework would have the following features:
In systems developed with the http thin client model, clustering is always possible, either at the client machine level or user session level, providing the needed scale when the user demand increases.
Related Reading
Java Servlet Programming, 2nd Edition
Newer is Better by Kevin Jones in JavaPro
Lucid explanation of the new features of Servlets and JSP, including filters and tag libraries.
Servlet 2.3: New Features Exposed by Jason Hunter in Java World
An authoritative source for the new features of the Servlets 2.3 standard. Doesn't cover new JSP, though.
Filter Code with Servlet 2.3 Model by Jason Hunter in Java World
Code samples for a reusable set of filters, including file upload and visitor monitoring.
Servlets 2.3 Spec itself from Sun
Mandatory (although somewhat terse) reading material for the new spec.
A JSP architecture for Oracle Stored Procedures by Satya Komatineni in
Java Report (print version)
Explains the TDP (Transparent Data Pipeline) architecture in a relational context.
Java/XML Programming for Relational Databases by Satya Komatineni in XML Journal (subscription required)
Explains TDP again, and also pluggable transformational services and declarative conversion of relational data to XML.
Satya Komatineni is the CTO at Indent, Inc. and the author of Aspire, an open source web development RAD tool for J2EE/XML.
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July 12, 2001: There are stars with planets. Stars with companion stars. Stars with pancake-shaped disks of rocky debris. But how about young, hot, hefty stars embedded in large inner tube-shaped clouds of shimmering gas? Astronomers had suspected that the thick rings are the signatures of stars with strong magnetic fields. Sometimes, the surfaces of those "magnetic stars" possess peculiar chemical compositions, namely low amounts of "heavy elements" like iron. Now a team of astronomers analyzing archival information on four stars provides convincing evidence of the link between rings and magnetic fields. The team also suggests that rings around massive stars are more common than scientists thought. The study shows that magnetic stars with normal chemical abundances can have rings, too.See the rest:
According to a popular theory, the magnetic field directs the flow of particles streaming off the star in the form of "stellar winds" streams of charged particles that travel about 2 million miles per hour (4 million kilometers per hour). All hot stars have stellar winds, but those without strong magnetic fields release streams of particles in all directions. A star with a magnetic field positioned along the poles like the ones in this study channels the wind only from the two poles. The wind particles, especially material like iron, are driven by the star's intense radiation and travel on the cloverleaf track over the star. A few hours later, they slam into streams of matter traveling from the opposite direction, somewhere along the star's tilted magnetic equator.
The collisions resemble a series of head-on car accidents along a congested highway. As the particles slam into each other, they stop and congregate along the equator, eventually forming a thick ring. The particle collisions also cause the material to glow and radiate at high energies, detected in ultraviolet and perhaps X-ray wavelengths.


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Hey guyz, are you sure there will be some other bands??? I hope so.
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I didn't get the chance last year to see Megadeth -BTW Testament didn't come last year-
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Barre police chief wants to buy new Tasers now, says city will save moneyBy David Delcore
Staff Writer | September 23,2013BARRE City councilors are being told its time to buy new Tasers even though the ones their police officers are carrying arent quite four years old and, according to the manufacturer, their useful life is five years.
Councilors will consider what is being pitched by Chief Tim Bombardier as a cost-saving proposal when they meet Tuesday night and, if they follow Bombardiers recommendation, it may be the last time they have to publicly discuss replacing the controversial weapons that are generally less lethal than guns.
Its not because the 18 new Taser X2s that Bombardier wants to buy will last any longer than the 21 Taser X26s that the city acquired with a federal grant four years ago next month.
They wont.
Its just that, in addition to an upgrade that will come at a one-time cost of roughly $20,000, Bombardier is asking the council to take advantage of a Taser promotion that, he says, will save the city money in the long run.
Its called the Taser Assurance Plan and for an annual expense of $3,582 $199 for each of the 18 new Tasers the city will receive an extended warranty, a spare stun gun, and a guarantee that all of the electronic control devices will automatically be replaced after five years.
The cumulative cost of the five-year plan $17,910 compares favorably to the $22,250 price of acquiring the new Tasers now.
In a memo to City Manager Steve Mackenzie, Bombardier indicated if the council acts swiftly it can trim $2,700 from the cost of the upgrade by selling its four-year-old units back to Taser International for $150 a apiece. After Sept. 30, he indicated the buy-back offer would drop to $100-per-Taser, or a credit of $1,800.
Assuming the council approves Bombardiers request, funding for the new Tasers $19,550 would come from drug forfeiture funds, while the first of five annual $3,582 installments would have to be built into the budget from the fiscal year that starts July 1, 2014.
According to the last completed audit, the city had approximately $130,000 in drug forfeiture funds available for use heading into the fiscal year that ended on June 30.
Though Bombardier indicated the citys Tasers are approaching the end of their recommended five-year service life, he did not provide much in the way of a written justification for upgrading the soon-to-be four-year-old weapons now. He did indicate that if the city doesnt act before Sept. 30 it would receive a reduced credit for its existing Tasers, effectively trimming $900 from the projected savings.
However, barring a significant spike in the price of the devices the city could save more by waiting a year to pull the trigger on the proposed upgrade than it would by taking the full credit that is being offered today.
Taser International rolled out the assurance plan last year as a way to provide budget certainty for law enforcement organizations that use the devices it manufactures. The theory was that by creating a predictable annual line item that guaranteed replacement of Tasers every five years, departments including many far larger than Barres could avoid having to make expensive requests for equipment upgrades every few years.MORE IN Vermont NewsMONTPELIER Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt. Full StoryVermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell plans to join the U.S. Full StoryMONTPELIER Gov. Full Story
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Even though she's been teaching for 36 years, Cindy Best is still full of energy. She is a 5th grade teacher at Lemonweir Elementary in Tomah.
"I'm close to retirement age but I like what I do. So it's fun coming to school everyday," said Best, the Top Notch Teacher for March.
Best says her favorite subject to teach is social studies because she can explain many of the topics using firsthand knowledge.
"We study the states and I've been to most of them and I like to tell them stories (including) being chased by buffalo at Teddy Roosevelt National Park," she said.
It's not just in the classroom, however, where Best is finding ways to connect with her students. She recently invited the entire grade to go to a high school basketball game with her. Needless to say, it was a hit with the kids.
Taylor Hennessey said she liked being able to "spend time with the class."
"She has the last name of Best. Coincidence maybe?" remarked Charlie Ella.
"I think it's important for kids to know you care about them. I think by taking a little bit of your time, you show them that you do care," said Best.
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Medical Restrictions & Which Countries They Serve
This list is a list of conditions that can lead to a Peace Corps medical restriction. By clicking on the link, you'll be taken to a page that lists the countries people with that condition have gone to in the past. Please note that this was compiled through a survey, so this list is in no way complete and is entirely subject to change due to (a) evaluations made case by case, and (b) the ever changing availability of care in different countries.
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If an applicant is currently dealing with any of the following conditions, his/her invitation to the Peace Corps will be deferred. The length of the deferral period varies according to each individual case.
|Abnormal Pap Smear requiring current treatment
|Alcoholism, Substance Addiction minimum of 3 years for alcoholism or minimum of 5 years for substance abuse
|Allergies requiring desensitization injections
|Anemia (cause must be identified)
|Cancer –no deferral for most skin cancers and carcinoma-in-situ
|Cataracts requiring surgery
|Celiac Sprue
|Coronary artery bypass surgery or angioplasty – 6 months symptom free, no medications, normal stress test
|Cystic Acne-Accutane treatment – 2 months after completion of therapy
|Gastritis, Esophagitis, Peptic, or Duodenal Ulcer – minimum of 6 months well controlled, non-smoker
|Glaucoma – 3 months well controlled medications
|Herniated Disc
|Herpes Keratitis (eye) – 2 years inactive
|High Blood Pressure – 3 months well controlled under treatment; weight within medically recommended range
|Inguinal Hernia
|Internal Hemorrhoids
|Joint Replacement (hip, knee, shoulder) or Arthroscopy – 1 year
|Kidney or Bladder Infections
|Ligament Reconstruction (knee, ankle, shoulder) or Arthroscopy – 1 year
|Mental Health Conditions (except stable, treated conditions)
|Myocardial Infarction (heart attack) – 12 months symptom free, not on medication, normal stress test
|Orthodontic Braces (excluding bite-plate)
|Ovarian Cyst
|Uterine Fibroids - symptomatic
|Seizure Disorder – minimum of 1 year seizure free
|Stroke – 2 years symptom free, not on medication
|Post Tramatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - symptomatic minimum of 1 year without symptoms may defer for minimum of 2 years
|Sexual Assault or Abuse standard may differ for men and women, up to two years deferral from incident or last date of therapy
Incomplete List of Conditions Typically Unable to Reasonably Accommodate
After individually assessing each applicant, Peace Corps is typically unable to reasonably accommodate applicants with the following conditions.
|Addison's Disease
|Allergic Reaction-life threatening
|Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease)
|Aneurysm- inoperable
|Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
|Cancer (recent treatment for cancer or cancer with metastasis)
|Cardiac Arrhythmias – symptomatic
|Celiac Sprue - symptomatic within the last 6 months
|Cystic Fibrosis
|Complex medical health conditions with multiple diagnoses
|Complex mental health conditions with multiple diagnoses
|Conditions-requiring blood thinner medication
|Conditions-requiring oral or injectable steroids
|Connective Tissue Disorders
|Coronary Artery Disease
|Crohn's Disease
|Diabetes - with any complications
|Esophageal Varices
|Glomerulonephritis- chronic
|Heart Conditions-chronic
|Heart Failure
|Hematological Disorder – chronic
|Hepatitis – chronic
|Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/AIDS -- immunosuppressed
|Inflammatory Bowel Disease
|Irreversible Lung Disease (emphysema)
|Iritis – chronic
|Kidney Stones – recurrent
|Major Depression – recurrent
|Muscular Dystrophy
|Multiple Sclerosis – no exacerbation or no new symptoms for a minimum of 3 years this has been modified – check with Dr. Simon
|Myasthenia Gravis
|Narcolepsy – poorly controlled
|Obstructive Sleep Apnea - with or without C-PAP machine
|Optic Neuritis – recurrent
|Osteoporosis with history or high risk for stress fracture
|Pancreatitis – chronic
|Parkinson's Disease
|Psychiatric Hospitalization within 1 year
|Pyelonephritis – chronic
|Reiter's Syndrome – chronic
|Rheumatoid Arthritis
|Thrombophlebitis – recurrent
|Ulcerative Colitis
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#36890 - 07/29/01 01:52 AM onomatopoeic words
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Could someone kindly tell me where I could find a list of onomatopoeic words? I am translating a short story from Romanian into English. At one point the author says [translation follows, with Romanian word in capitals]: "...the melting asphalt into which the high heels of her shoes were sinking with a FLEOSC" What would be the English equivalent? "Swoosh" (Probably not). "Slosh"?
#36891 - 07/29/01 11:29 AM Re: onomatopoeic words
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Hello Doru.
I don't have a complete list of onomatopoeic words, but you can find a short list here:
It seems to me that you want something like "squish" for the sound of high heels sinking into melting asphalt. Don't be shy about making up a word that seems to sound like the effect the author intends.
#36892 - 07/29/01 10:32 PM Re: onomatopoeic words
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Thank you, Sparteye. Coming up with my own word for that sound was precisely what I had thought of doing, and now, with your blessing, I will be doing. Great list.
#36893 - 07/30/01 12:26 PM Re: onomatopoeic words
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#36895 - 07/31/01 09:37 AM Re: onomatopoeic words
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a totally irresistible urge
Oh, go ahead, Max. Resist it.
#36896 - 07/31/01 11:44 AM Re: onomatopoeic words
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Dear Sparteye: I looked at the link you gave. It had a lot of good ones, but I counted twelve words that I do not believe are onomatopoeia: allude,asinine,blurred,bow,cling,explode,lexicon,rose,shimmy,tingle,twinkle, and veracity.
#36897 - 07/31/01 12:45 PM Re: onomatopoeic words
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two thoughts, bill...
1) onomatopoeia itself is an old, Greek word; so maybe some of the old roots of these words were formed from the imitation of sounds
2) there is a second sense to the word onomatopoeia (and this is the more likely explanation): the use of words whose sound suggests the sense [it's a chicken and egg sort of thing]
#36898 - 07/31/01 03:13 PM Re: onomatopoeic words
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"explode" sounds like one to me because of the "xpl-" sound.
For the same reason that "blink" does sound like the "interrupter" in an auto's turn signal circuit... "twinkle" seems to work... a little bit.
#36899 - 07/31/01 03:36 PM Re: onomatopoeic words
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The etymology of "explode" is not what I thought, so even if dictionary's first meaning is to "explode a theory" (which ought not be done with dynamite) everything else is in favor of onomatopoeia, so I was wrong on that one.
The question of "blink" being onomatopoeia is akin to the drill sergeant's order "Eyes right, and I want to hear those eyeballs click!"
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Work begins on Mount Rushmore, Sputnik is launched into space, the pope visits America for the first time, Janis Joplin is found dead of an overdose, all on this day.
2004: American astronaut Gordon Cooper, one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space program of the United States, dies of heart failure at age 77 in Ventura, California. Cooper piloted the longest and final Mercury spaceflight in 1963. He was the first American to sleep in space during that 34-hour mission and was the last American to be launched alone to conduct an entirely solo orbital mission. In 1965, he also flew as command pilot of Gemini 5.


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A Dane County judge who drew fire from conservatives for a ruling last year halting implementation of Gov. Scott Walker's collective bargaining law is considering running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court next year.
Judge Maryann Sumi tells the weekly newspaper Isthmus that she is working with a nonpartisan group of people helping her explore the possibility of a run against conservative Justice Patience Roggensack.
Roggensack sided with conservatives on the court in overturning Sumi's ruling last year.
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Very special thanks to Dontrelle Willis for still giving it the old college try. At least you'll have 2005, D-Train. You will always have 2005.
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I disagree. But then again, I refuse to look at my own division objectively. 🙂 That's how I roll. Congrats on #2!!
Julia — Thanks! Congrats to you as well.
Jen — I wish I thought the Sox would take it easily… but lots of young question marks need to step up for that to happen.
You guys are killing me.
As much as I'd like to see the White Sox win the Central, I just have this weird feeling that Anthony Reyes is going to win 17 games for the Indians and lead them to the division title.
Oh no, don't say it, Chris, don't mutter his name!!! LOL. Still, he was well worth that '06 WS Game 1.
Hey guys I'm poor but I'd be down to pitch in on some curtains for this house you are filming in. You could stay warmer and maybe have lower your utilities. I'm just sayin.
I have to disagree but like Jen I have a very difficult time being objective. But you have to admit the Indians' lineup if everyone's healthy (which they are) is scary. Pitching's iffy but I think it will pull together. I have the Twins second though.
Well, I can remain objective about the division, and I think the Indians are going to win it. Their lineup, if healthy, makes me nervous, and they do have some nice depth in their rotation (that's right, I just called Carl Pavano 'depth in the rotation'). Thanks for trying to jinx the Twins, though!
The key to the Indians is staying healthy. When you have Pavano, Victor Martinez, and Travis Hafner as major cornerstones of your success, that's not a sure thing. Still, I love their upside. Sizemore, Shoppach, Pronk (if he can stay healthy), Martinez (ibid), Peralta… Choo has the ability to be very good, and DeRosa carried the Cubs offensively at times last year. If that rotation can stay in one piece and get leads to Wood at the end of the game, they can be very good.
Great video.
Also love the retro Expos jersey. Bring a nice touch to it all.
Great to see you guys get back up into number two on the rankings. The videos lately have been awesome. Another side of the duo we never knew. You guys are sports anchors underneath it all.
Keep it up guys!
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I love all these predictions. Next time one tries to predict, ask them to provide the predictions for a horse race or a marathon. Its hard to do. After all, weren't people predicting Clinton to win the Democratic nomination and Romney for the Republicans, at least the ones I know were. Yet Barack Obama and John McCain won.
Gotta love your spirit and perhaps you will be right, the Twins will win. However, let's play the games and see what may happen.
Tom — We were lookin' for some light. Still lost.
Melissa — Curious to see if the real Cliff Lee stands up or not.
Katie — a la Justin, I'm bringin' Expos back.
Erin — Pav could be the real deal this year with the interlocking NY off his chest.
Roundrock — Yeah, Wood looks a lot better than Borowski. That's for sure.
RR — Thanks for the good word! We'll keep bringin' it!
Aaron — I agree. Let's play. Let's play two.
With regards to D-Train, all i can think is… 'Oh the Humanity' truly a disaster of epic proportions. 'I can't talk, ladies and gentlemen. Honest: he's just laying there, a mass of smoking wreckage … I'm gonna have to stop for a minute because I've lost my voice. This is the worst thing I've ever witnessed'.
-Herbert Morrison-
DK, nice historical reenactment. Have you thought about donning the rebel gray or union blue and pulling the ol' musket out of the closet?
There seem to be a lot of Tribe supporters on here. At least you're Midwesterners. I can let it ride because of that.
Every weekend Jeff. You'll be getting your invitation via telegraph, be sure to tip the operator.
DK — I'll loose change… though I don't really know what you're talking about.
Jane — I meant to say, "all Yankee fans who do not read RSBS have no souls". Pardon the mistake😉
The video reminds me of Spinal Tap somehow.
I hate to break it to everyone who was a fan of Dontrelle Willis (myself included), but it's starting to look like the D-Train is D-Funct.
The video reminds me of Spinal Tap somehow.
I hate to break it to everyone who was a fan of Dontrelle Willis (myself included), but it's starting to look like the D-Train is D-Funct.
Tom I've been trying to get jeff to close the shades at that place but too many people like looking at him and he doesn't want to disappoint them.
Uh, fellas? Could you please erase at least three of the same comment that was published five times because I kept getting an error message and was repeatedly trying to put it through? I look like a dick.
Always willing to help a fellow blogger in need. Left two of them up so your last comment would makes sense.
I'm bringin' Expos back. Prince, you will never look like a dick. A dick looks like this: http://www.sportable.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/curt-schilling.jpg
So it's fun to look back at predictions so:
In review… Royals are definately bottom… and the Twins could still take it… good call on this one..
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Quite possibly the craziest sound library ever conceived - literally hundreds of musical toys meticulously multi-sampled at 24/96 with world-class equipment. Everything from toy pianos, guitars, bells, xylophones, baby drums, melodicas, blow toys, music boxes and more. We even went to the museum (Musée des Art Décoratifs) and sampled their collection of antique musical artifacts!
97 vintage music toys including Style-o-phones, speech and development toys, organs, music toys, mini samplers, drum machines and more - meticulously captured at 24/96. We sampled every odd sonic blip and speaker glitch these gizmos could make resulting in a massive library ready to add life and variety to all of your productions.
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No library in the world has such a wide range of acoustic toys - literally hundreds of musical toys, in every conceivable category. The value of this library isn't just in numbers, great effort was made to capture the authentic sound and detail of each instrument. We meticulously multi-sampled everything at 24 bit / 96 kHz with world-class microphones and Class-A equipment. We even recorded full phrases from the music boxes and loops with the baby drums and toy guitars.
Includes Toy Pianos, Musical Boxes, Ancient Automates, Wood and Metal Xylophones, Mini Bells, Baby Drums, Toy Guitars, Ukulele, Melodicas, Small Accordions, Harmonicas, Percussive, Funny Horns, Musical Gadgets, Musical Cubes, Plastic Tubes and much, much more. Download the Content PDF for a full list of all included toys.
The most complete selection of toy pianos in the world; including Michelsonne pianos, rare wood pianos and more
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Distinct classics and newer models with clean tones. Classic models come with presets
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Melodicas, accordions and harmonics
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Giggle sticks, puzzling boom whackers, everything we couldn't easily categorize
Animated plush animals
Roly-poly toys, moo boxes, play centers and more
Warning: Must be 36 mo. old or more to play with this category
In line with our work on the Acoustic Toy Museum, we set out to create another playful retrospective, this time focusing on battery-powered contraptions. We found some 97 different toys dating back to the 60's, some with truly incredible character.
The sounds of playful blips and cheap plastic come alive through our meticulous process; over 14,000 samples at 24 bit / 96kHz with many instruments multi-sampled with release samples for each note, rhythms converted into sliced loops, GM drum kits, and FX and speech voices all carefully organized for easy navigation.
We sampled everything. Every note, every key press, every click, resulting in a truly comprehensive and highly detailed library of classics, unmatched in the industry.
These toys are particularly designed for kids, even if most of the time,
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Sometimes, real advanced keyboards are hidden behind the word "toys",
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Especially designed for drums and FX, whether they re pure sound FX machines or
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Seriously impressing for their days and intent, these keyboards came with a microphone
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More toy than musical, most of the time with no keyboards,
some of them hide very surprising features ...
THE electric organs that have been scattered about in youngsters' bedrooms for
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It's not they sound poorly, it's not they were too quickly designed, it's not we don't
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These keyboards were designed to be "child-fingers-compliant". Some machines from
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These are talkative toys, whether it's for learning spelling, just for fun or for making music
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My eyes getting red after wake up from sleep And also feel pain sometimes and become sensitive to light This is happening from 3 weeks What should I do?
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8. Individuals taking certain kinds of eye drop that have the danger of building up a retinal separation. Pilocarpine, which for a long time was a pillar of treatment for glaucoma, has for quite some time been used for retinal separation.
9. People with incessant irritation of the eye (uveitis) are at a greater danger of suffering from retinal detachment.
10. Cross section degeneration of the retina is a kind of diminishing of the outside edges of the retina, which happens in 7% to 10% of the overall public.">
Retinal detachment is a condition in which a layer of tissue called the retina gets lifted or pulled far from its initial position in the eye. This can cause a number of symptoms including slight vision impairment and blurred vision as well as pain. The retina is a light sensitive part that can be found in the rear portion of the eye. This part is responsible for sending visual signals to the brain which helps in forming the images that we see when we set our eyes on an object. If a person with this problem is not treated immediately, he or she can suffer from permanent vision loss.
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- Once in a while little ranges of the retina get torn. These are called retinal tears or retinal breaks. These can cause retinal separation.
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- A family history of a disconnected retina that is hereditary could be one of the reasons for this disorder.
- The second eye of a patient with a retinal separation must be inspected by an ophthalmologist immediately.
- High astigmatism builds the danger of a retinal detachment. The danger increases to 2.4% when compared with a 0.06% danger for a defected eye at 60 years of age.
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- Individuals taking certain kinds of eye drop that have the danger of building up a retinal separation. Pilocarpine, which for a long time was a pillar of treatment for glaucoma, has for quite some time been used for retinal separation.
- People with incessant irritation of the eye (uveitis) are at a greater danger of suffering from retinal detachment.
- Cross section degeneration of the retina is a kind of diminishing of the outside edges of the retina, which happens in 7% to 10% of the overall public.
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Kalamazoo Conspiracy
"Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction."
–Edward Teller
Fear not, my dear and trusted readers, for I also feel the sentiment of pain and worry caused by Mr. Krause's latest right-field reclamation. While it is common for seedy men in prominent positions of power to manipulate their stances on a particular subject in order to woo the masses, this one goes far and beyond being just a simple cause for alarm.
One minute Mr. Krause is doling out his undying hatred for the "evil" Yankees; the next he's praising New York's golden boy, Derek Jeter (nice work on catching Lou Gehrig, by the way). And the worst part about it? He substantiates his softness by claiming the "Kalamazoo" connection.
To get to the heart of this conspiracy, the RSBS interns and I have toiled hard to unlock the mystery of Mr. Krause's secrecy. So just go with me here…
Kalamazoo. While this is the city where Mr. Krause and I first met and became friends, this is also close to the home of a minor league baseball team: the West Michigan Whitecaps, affiliate of the Detroit Tigers.
Tigers. This is the team Mr. Krause supposedly loves. This is the team that was defeated by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2006 World Series. This is the team synonymous with backwoods alcoholic racists. This is the team that lost 119 games in 2003.
119. If you add up the individual digits of this atrocious number, you will get 11. The word "eleven" has six letters in it, three of them "e"s, eerily akin to the word "seethe"!
Seethe. If anyone has the ability to foam at the mouth from agitation, it is Mr. Krause. Some would even call him a shape-shifter — like he showed us in his last video, which proved he has a special place in his heart for Colby Rasmus (and cross-dressing).
Colby Rasmus/Cross-Dressing. Only in Mr. Krause's world does this combination sound like a great way to spend a Friday night. And Al loves Fridays.
Fridays. If you are a woman and you go on a date with Mr. Krause, this is where you will go. This is Al's place to spend big. Pay special attention to his overbearing recommendations of anything and everything from the "Jack Daniel's Grill" menu. Al loves him some Jack Daniel's.
Jack Daniel's. This is the only key you need to unlock Mr. Krause's mind.
Mr. Krause's Mind. Der-ek Je-ter *clap-clap-clap-clap-clap*… Der-ek Je-ter *clap-clap-clap-clap-clap*… Der-ek Je-ter *clap-clap-clap-clap-clap*
Yes, folks, that is what Al was trying to say.
He loves Derek Jeter.
And ever.
And if Ozzie Guillen can kiss a dude then I have absolutely no problem with Al lovin' on Jeet. Just come out and say it; and don't blame it on geography.
Hate me 'cuz I pull back the layers, just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
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Allen is some weird dude.
I gotta tell you tht.
the Seawolves a AA affiliate of the Tigers is 30 min away from where I live.
I go to games every once in awhile and have actually played on the Seawolves field =)
Great place it is!!
Allen's mind "Dang, I wish I could like the Cards like Jeff, They are so much better than the Tigers!!"
So true, so true. haha.
–Ted "TTW/T"
Ouch. Now Allen's dating secrets are out. You're spoiling it for all the girls! LOL!
It's ok if he shows some love for Jeet…could do a whole lot worse!
Everybody should have at least a little love for Jeet… I think Al's entitled. Dressing up as a girl and proclaiming his undying love for Colby Rasmus on the other hand… not so much.
I would have thought it would have taken tequila to get him to crack.
Jeff.. you're sic.. just awesome with the pen. And… Colby must be incredibly proud of his fan base : ) Nice post.
Kalamazoo…Damn it. How could I have not seen the truth? It explains it all.
The Whitecaps in K-Z00? I think they're up north just a bit in Grand Rapids (or 'Comstock Park' if ya wanna be all Rand McNally). Don't hate on the Kalamazoo Kings of the Frontier League, it's better than anything we have way up here in the U.P. If Kalamazoo and Battle Creek could get along, you'd still have the Battle Cats or a variation there of (as long as they didn't name the team after the old Kalamazoo Kazoos-egad). You can check out my blog to see pics of the Kings at TC.
Nothing Nuclear Ozzie and Jon Garland did could compare with the disturbing nature of the Bill Belichick-Bill Parcells photo:
It makes one wonder what exactly was going on during the late-night skull sessions as the duo worked together for all those many years.
Ted – You're not far off, I'm sure.
Ginny – You're right, like love on Sergio Mitre.
Lisa – Colby reminds me of a young Jeet with power, so maybe Al has a thing for young, spry fellas w/ talent.
ToTL – I know. Next time, if you wanna quote me, why don't ya link to my blog too? That's just common courtesy.
Julia – Tequila makes him FIGHT!
Buz – Thanks, man!
Mike – Fixed.
Prince – Yeah, there's a lot goin' on there that we don't wanna know about.
Oh, and Tom (sorry I left ya out on accident there), Kalamazoo holds a lot of secrets… ones I won't share here. Al might kill me.
I agree with Ginny and Lisa, of course: Al could do a lot worse than have a man crush on Jeter. How would you feel if he proclaimed his love for, say, Albert Pujols? Now that would trigger a cat fight I wouldn't want to miss.
Jane — AP's mine. ALL MINE!


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Skip to comments.Michelle Obama's Surprise Oscars Appearance: How It Happened, Dress Details!
Posted on 02/25/2013 7:14:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
People you expect to see towards the end of a typical Oscar ceremony: Jack Nicholson. People don't expect to see: First Lady Michelle Obama. Presenting the final award of Sunday's very long Academy Awards -- Best Picture -- three-time Oscar winner Nicholson, 75, introduced the President's wife, 49, appearing via satellite from the White House.
"Thank you Jack, and welcome to the White House everyone. I'm so honored to introduce the nominees for Best Picture," said the First Lady, resplendent in a Naeem Khan dress plus chandelier earrings. "And to help celebrate the movies that lift our spirits, broaden our minds and transport us to places we have never imagined."
Flanked by servicemen and women, Mrs. Obama praised the nine Best Picture nominees' uplifting qualities: "These lessons apply to all of us no matter who we are or what we look like or where we come from or who we love, but they are especially important for our young people . . . I want to thank all of you here tonight for being part of that vitally important work."
Obama then went back to Nicholson, who awarded the trophy to an emotional Ben Affleck and the entire Argo crew. What was behind Obama's inclusion?
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Who cares about Michelle Obama?
My Little Pony........
Let's call this sow what she is, Michelle Antoinette. (Apologies to the original).
Low Information Voters!
I have no use for her either.
This cockroach has accomplished nothing in life. Getting to "hang out in the WH" was made possible by extreme stupidity. I'm no fan of Hollywood and it's wierdos but at least they have a reason to be there.
This is why I am not much of a movie watcher!
How about those people in the back? HOW uninformed are they? SAD!
Her eyes and mouth are smiling, but her neck and shoulders look tense.
Was she going for the Beatles look?
She never did win an Oscar for her roles in the Star Wars movies.
She's also pro Sodomite "marriage".
Michelle: And the Oscar for the best Comedy Movie goes to:"President Obama and his mob"
Ugh. Where was the barf alert? I'm going to be sick. Especially after I read that the Academy invited her because she was a "movie lover."
I let myself momentarily indulge in a bit of fantasy, when she said, "And now the moment you've all been waiting for..."
Really? Your husband's resigning?!
But it was just the Best Picture award.
I ended up watching against my better judgment, but at least DVR-delayed so I didn't have to sit through the commercials, too.
Best moment of the night: Shirley Bassey (following the one thing I'd been looking forward to, the Bond tribute, that turned out to be pretty weak). I sat there hoping she was going to do a medley of the three Bond themes she's recorded (the only artist to do more than one in the history of the franchise; Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker being the other two), but no such luck.
Unfortunately, my wife wanted to see the red carpet fashion parade, so I also suffered through watching the smarmy, painfully shallow and anorexic-looking pixie Kristin Chenoweth with her vaccu-formed Lon Chaney smile.
"I'm in with the in crowd
I go where the in crowd goes
I'm in with the in crowd
And I know what the in crowd knows
Anytime of the year, don't you hear?
Dressing fine, making time
We breeze up and down the street
We get respect from the people we meet
They make way day or night
They know the in crowd is out of sight
I'm in with the in crowd
I know every latest dance
When you're in with the in crowd
It's so easy to find romance
Any time of the year, don't you hear?
If it's square, we ain't there
We make every minute count
Our share is always the biggest come out
Other guys imitate us
But the original is still the greatest in crowd
Any time of the year, don't you hear?
Spendin' cash, talkin' trash
I'll show you a real good time
Come on with me, leave your troubles behind
I don't care where you've been
You ain't been nowhere 'til you've been in
With the in crowd, with the in crowd, in crowd."
(Lyrics by Billy Page)
The FLOTUS has the emotional maturity of a 14-year old.
Another day on the Obama BROADcasting Corporation (OBC)...
Just when you think its safe to go back to the Oscars.
Cheap publicity? Hollywood fawning?
I am at a loss as to why she had military on stage with her, just odd.
I hate this woman.
I hate this woman.
Isn't that Mike Jackson's old wig?.
Every time Kristin spoke I wanted to go screaming down the street (my wife was watching it). She sounded like she was breathing helium before she spoke.
Ditto that, though I was in and out of the living room. Dunno why Mrs WBill finds those shows so fascinating.
Agree that the butt-kissing on the red carpet was painful to watch, but not as painful as Seth McFarland trying to be funny.
Shirley Bassey really belted it out. She's still got it. I also saw the singer do "Skyfall" (what's her name? dunno, suppose it's not important). I thought that she beat Bassey. IMHO, "Skyfall" might be the best Bond theme. She had the perfect voice to pull it off.
Jeez you'd think that the Obamas sycophants would get tired of looking at them. No accounting for taste, I suppose.
The Obamas are more interested in being celebrities than public leaders. Jackie Kennedy, Nancy Reagan, Laura Bush, and just about every other first lady had too much class to get involved with something like this. (Hillary probably would have appeared at the Oscars if her publicist had thought of it.)
I don't recall Laura or Barbara having Ocsar appearances. How much did all this cost us taxpayers?
And sung by Dobie Gray? If someone here remembers "I'm in With the In Crowd", maybe I'm not so old myself.
Anyway, Ben Stein says Moochelle was wearing a dress made of aluminum foil and being surrounded by military men when she's not head of state made her look like Evita Peron.
Who cares about Hollywood!!! I saw Skyfall and I'm looking forward to the new Star Trek movie, but I don't go to movies much...
that crap with the 1st lady ruined the show for me.. I was digging the show up until then.. both the wifey and I..
interesting, how ARGO wins best picture.. in which (and I haven't seen the movie so I may be off here) Hollywood concocts a way to get the bad guys , without firing a shot.
meanwhile in the real world, Zero Dark Thirty depicted close to what actually happened, but that was completely shunned by those hollywood people... a bit too much reality for them I guess...
Notice how the military in full dress uniforms are the back drop for the photo op? Reminds one of Hillary using the military as waiters at their formal dinners. These limousine liberals are like pornography, no redeeming social value.
LOL, LOL, LOL jimbo.
Why were taxpayers paying 10 people overtime to be a brocaded human backdrop while Michelle read from a card?
What was their job, there? What vital function were they performing that it was worth a couple thousand taxpayer dollars to keep them there late into the night?
Clooney, Spielburg, Hanks and the rest of the phony Hollywood low shots called in their chips on Bathhouse Barry because of having stuffed his campaign chest.
What was behind Obama's inclusion?
Setting up Wookievita for the 2016 coronation, of course.
All through the Obama Infestation, she has always seemed like she was telling us all where to go with her outrageous fashions and lack of attempt at looking ladylike and graceful in her position as FLOTUS. I remember thinking that, surely, she had people to teach her protocol, to tell her you don't go outside in shorts with your bra strap hanging out, that you exit a car, a plane, in a certain way etc. I concluded that she, apparently, told all of them to take a flying leap.
I found myself a little puzzled when I could see, on Inauguration Day, that she clearly had been taking lessons in walking. She was obviously trying to put one foot in front of the other, model-style, instead of her usual Frankenstein stagger. Then, she came out with the bangs recently to cover those eyebrows that make her look eternally ticked off.
It all make sense now. Soros has decreed that she will be our first female and first real black president — the halfrican doesn't count.
Wookievita — perhaps I should get a copyright on that.
Adele sang Skyfall,wbill and yes, her voice was perfect for it. It won best song too, didn't it?
And agree that Seth M. was very unfunny.
They should get Billy Crystal back..newly reduced jowls, rug, looks rather clown-like now but at least, he's funny.
I am at a loss as to why she had military on stage with her, just odd.
Props for her run as Wookie-in-Chief.
But Jack Nicholson IS pro-life, but he's there too! Do you "have no use" of him? Of course, other than that, and that he's pro-military, he's a liberal Democrat, so I'm not too surprised that he's there, I guess!
If she is, she apparently doesn't want it splashed around! Haven't you read where recently, she wanted her name/picture taken off of a pro-gay marriage add?
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