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Cutting the Risk of Heart Disease
In ancient times, people thought the heart was the seat of memory. We know it isn't. Something else we know: We can't forget to give the heart a lot of TLC. Fortunately, it's not really hard to provide that extra care. Among other things, we can:
Stop smoking. Each year, smoking—the single most preventable cause of death—kills about 400,000 Americans. Smokers' risk for heart disease is four times greater than the risk for nonsmokers.
Eat to beat high blood pressure. Blood pressure is the force of blood coursing through your arteries when your heart beats. Over time, high blood pressure, also called hypertension, tires the heart muscle by making it work harder. Heart attacks and heart failure can follow, and so can strokes.
Hypertension rates are much higher in modern, fast-moving cultures like ours than in less industrialized parts of the world. The main difference is the quality of the diet. In the United States, we eat huge portions of highly processed foods and minimal amounts of fruits, vegetables, and unprocessed grains. People in less industrialized cultures have simpler, healthier diets.
Cook smart to knock out cholesterol. Cholesterol, a fatlike substance, circulates in the blood primarily in two forms. LDL cholesterol can clog arteries and contribute to cardiovascular disease. HDL, the "good" cholesterol, sweeps harmful cholesterol out of the arteries.
Medical experts believe HDL cholesterol levels should be no lower than 40mg/dL. They recommend that LDL levels be no higher than 70-100mg/dL and that total cholesterol levels be no higher than 200mg/dL.
Our livers produce as much cholesterol as our bodies need. Genetic factors, smoking, inactivity, and obesity raise total cholesterol to dangerous levels. The major culprit here is the meat-and-potatoes American diet. Its saturated fat and trans fatty acid content is simply out of control. Substituting monounsaturated fat for saturated fat will go a long way toward bringing cholesterol down to a safe level and keeping it there.
What foods are best for controlling high cholesterol? The top-of-the-line foods are plant-based. Most vegetables and fruits are free of saturated fats. But this isn't their only advantage. Just as important is the power of plant foods to lower cholesterol levels. In a recent study, women who ate 8 to 11 walnuts every day in place of other fats cut their LDL cholesterol levels significantly. In another research project, men and women who ate a cup of carrots a day for three weeks experienced an 11 percent decrease in their blood cholesterol.
One reason for the drop is that carrots are high in soluble fiber. The soluble fiber in oats, carrots, and psyllium (available in health food stores) is particularly helpful, researchers say. Soy protein and other plant proteins seem to have a similar effect. The recipes in this book will show you how to use soluble fiber to enhance the taste—and the healthfulness—of the meals you prepare.
Eat more and weigh less. Fiber comes in two basic forms. The insoluble form passes through your digestive tract mostly unchanged. Bran, whole grains, and fruit skins are insoluble fibers. The other form of fiber is soluble. Soluble fiber dissolves, forming a gummy substance in the intestines. Oat bran, beans, citrus fruits and strawberries are a few of the foods that are rich in soluble fiber.
Both kinds of fiber are good for your heart. Soluble fiber traps cholesterol and removes it from your body. Insoluble fiber slows down the movement of food in your digestive tract. It makes you feel full more quickly and for a longer period of time than foods that contain little fiber. A half-cup of bran will fill you up faster than two sugar doughnuts.
A bean salad vs. pasta? No contest. Fiber-rich foods are a blessing to dieters and nondieters alike. They're heart healthy, filling, and when prepared correctly, as tasty as any food on the planet.
Exercise more. People who get too little exercise are twice as likely to develop heart disease as people who are active. Medical experts recommend that you get at least 30 minutes of moderate activity, such as brisk walking, five days a week. Do that, and you are likely to lower your blood pressure, resting heart rate, and total cholesterol. And exercise will also help you maintain your weight.
Stay cool and in control. Less important than the main risk factors discussed are what doctors call "secondary risk factors." Among these are stress and alcohol.
People under stress often eat, smoke, and drink too much. Overdoing alcohol can raise blood pressure and triglycerides (fat particles in the blood), tighten coronary arteries, and lead to obesity. Learn how to relax without alcohol. Slow down. Ease up on yourself. Let go of whatever is nagging at you. Distract yourself with a positive activity—a bath, a book, a movie, a phone call to a relative. Exercise. Laugh.
Fix a heart-healthy recipe, and share it with a friend.


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Perfectly Closed
By Gregp on Oct 20, 2009
my peers in the industry, I ask you to carefully think
through your positions on the new set of "open internet" rules the FCC
is proposing. The rules would prevent Internet
companies from selectively blocking or slowing certain Web content and
would require providers to disclose how they manage their networks in
an effort to promote transparency and true "openness."
FCC has said the rules will allow ISPs to manage their networks to
ensure smooth performance during peak traffic times. Internet service
providers are concerned that the rules would apply only to them and not
other Web companies. Manufacturers are worried that the rules would
hamper their ability to find new ways to manage Internet traffic.
Certainly, I have a visceral reaction to most attempts to impose policies on markets, especially around the internet which has seemed to prosper well on its own set of organic rules, and with blessedly little regulation. The capital cycles and innovation rates are enormous; and they are, of course, related to the prospect of making money through market differentiation.
I don't see the proposed rules as a set of regulations,
any more than a constitution is.
They are, in my view, a codification of a set of fundamental principles around openness. A central question is, given we have done this well and gone this far, why do we need them now? I have a few answers to this, but mostly it's because along with our technology advances in delivering networking and network services, we've also improved the ability to unilaterally, and thus dangerously, control it.
In many cases, nearly perfect unilateral control. Cryptography, in particular, lets us get really good at controlling content and devices. We can, if we choose, dictate the applications that can and can't run on a device (a phone, say). We can also, instantly and en masse, revoke the content residing in the network (on an ebook, say). And we will certainly get better and better at extending these controls on a packet-by-packet basis, deciding which packet gets to go where, and perhaps re-written in the process. Perfect interlock is possible between devices, networks and services.
This certainly has not been the principles on how so much collective innovation has taken place on, and under, the internet. The vibrancy of where we are today is because we have been free from unilateral control points. With the web, in particular, anyone can challenge an incumbent with their idea of a new service by simply creating and publishing it, without getting any prior permission --- apps review, network service connections, or otherwise. Cloud computing lowers the barriers even further. But it is very easy to imagine that any of new control points by an single company or entity could be become a land mine to innovation.
Why new rules? We should actively and collectively set our principles around openness. It's in our mutual self-interest to codify them. I say "mutual self-interest" for a bunch of reasons. At an abstract level, the internet is one big value-add network effect. Wherever you are along the food chain, you benefit from the value of the internet to society always increasing. Certainly for new web services, keeping the barriers as low as possible maximizes their creation. Similarly, getting more bandwidth, reliably and cheaply, to customers will increase the ability to consume these new services. And new devices benefit from more ubiquitous broadband and tons of services. We all have to keep this open cycle open.
a purely pragmatic level, the shoe can very quickly go
onto another foot. You might see open principles as somehow restrictive
to your
particular business decisions today, but I assure you that tomorrow a
new perfect
control point somewhere else will have you wanting to have some rules
by which we all play.
finally, there is enormous mutual self-interest in
getting out in front on these principles. The FCC has promised that the analysis will
be data-driven and fact-based. Let's have the conversation,
figure them out collectively, and work to get
the right policies in place. Maybe what are being proposed aren't
exactly right,
but to me a blanket response of don't need any rules will come back and
us all. Unilateral control is getting really good, and quickly.
to my peers, let's hang together on this. Let's be
progressive and write down the principles we should continue to shape
network around.
Or we shall most assuredly hang separately.

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The right of Gov. Pat Quinn to play with the Illinois Constitution in the name of gun control has been infringed.
State lawmakers during the fall veto session that ended Wednesday resoundingly rejected an amendatory veto by Quinn that turned a bill allowing Illinois residents to buy ammunition through the mail from in-state vendors into an assault weapons ban.
Quinn borrowed the language from a ban that has passed committee in the House but has never been called because it doesn't have the votes to pass. He completely rewrote the ammunition bill, which resoundingly passed both houses, in the wake of the Aurora, Colo. theater shooting.
Both houses resoundingly voted to use Quinn's veto for musket wadding. The Senate voted last week, 49-4, to override, and the House on Wednesday did the same on a 78-28 vote.
Law-abiding gun owners like myself get more options to buy ammuntion, and Quinn got publicity, so it's a win-win.
It's pretty obvious that Quinn overstepped his constitutional authority to, unfortunately, take advantage of a true tragedy. The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled (hat tip to Capitol Fax) that the Illinois Constitution forbids a governor from using the amendatory veto to substitute a completely new bill.
Of course, I cited this very item as one example of many in another blog post about how the Illinois Constitution is not even worth the paper it's printed on.
Quinn said he would work hard to get an assault weapons ban passed in the next session.
Hopefully, this means he will do something harmless like create a cute mascot along the lines of Squeezy the Pension Python to address the need for gun control. I vote for Shooty the Weapon-Owning Honey Badger or Petey the Pistol-Packing Porcupine.
Or Quinn could do something more sneaky, like dangle the promise of high-paying government jobs and boosting those sweet, sweet pensions to the 35 outgoing lawmakers if they would pretty please, with sugar on top, vote for a ban.
After all, it worked to raise our income taxes 67 percent – temporarily, of course. And if the rumors that have swirled through Springfield for months are true, it might work again next month to make them permanent.
For additional reading, I blogged earlier this year the thought that recent gun control bills being floated by state lawmakers might have less to do with public safety and more to do with a gun grab as the state spirals toward economic oblivion.
Senior Writer Kevin Craver can be reached at email@example.com.


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February 9, 2012 —
I have a terrarium of moss and ferns that we planted in a glass domed cake plate—the type of plate you see upon a diner counter with a carrot cake inside. My terrarium sits in the middle of my kitchen table like a green island of spring. I like to lift the lid off the pedestal and breathe in its moist, pungent woodland smell. It is a world unto itself. We planted it so as to have some green in the winter months, but without the contrast of winter whiteness it doesn't have quite the same effect.
"Wintertime and the livin' is easy" is not how the song goes. In February my windows are usually in the grip of a glistening mouth of icicles. Where are the icicles? As I look out my window there is no snow. The woodland is strewn with the haphazard angles of the parts of trees—trunks and branches like so many pick-up-sticks. There is no thigh high snow to fight. I run outside without my coat. Certainly we have had mild winters before. But while I am enjoying the ease of this unseasonable season, I feel uneasy too, as if something is amiss. It is a strange winter, people say. Who knows how long this lull will last?
Last Sunday, we went walking in the woods—something generally unimaginable this time of year without snowshoes or at least boots. As it was, I wore my sneakers and it was an easy trek to our old pond. There were hints of wintertime green—lichen and the tiny leaves of partridgeberry. And the flattened, arching fronds of the evergreen Christmas fern—the same species that is in my kitchen terrarium.
We keep an eye on the activity at the pond in hopes that a beaver will again move in and call the pond home. The beavers that had lived there relocated after the dam broke last spring. Now there seems to be some evidence of freshly gnawed willow saplings and work on the dam. The pond, which is now partially frozen, is again holding water. One of the lodges could be occupied.
My son, Sam, shimmed his way into the entrance of another old and abandoned lodge and took some photos. This entrance is currently far above the waterline. Still, Sam, of course, got muddy and cold. As it is, we like to joke that Sam is part beaver due to his thick, rough textured hair which seems to be naturally repellent to water.
Sam managed to crawl into the lodge far enough so that only his legs were still out. His photos show a snug tunnel that leads to the beaver's living quarters and a tangle of fine, hair-like roots, sticks and branches. There are three entrances to this old lodge. It was another luxury of this strange winter to be able to cross the threshold of the beaver's lodge and view its indoor world.


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#29280 - 05/15/01 05:29 PM Name for a pictorial illusion
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Loc: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Does any-one know what one calls a drawing that can be interpreted in (usually) two different ways? I'm editing some seventeenth century material and the device of drawing a picture that has two forms depending on how one looks at it was a common trick illusion. A typical example is a drawing when viewed one way seems to depict a man; when viewed another it depicts a devil - very seventeenth century.
#29281 - 05/15/01 05:53 PM Re: Name for a pictorial illusion Anonymous
Ambiguous art??
#29282 - 05/16/01 03:06 AM Re: Name for a pictorial illusion
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Posts: 609
Loc: Portsmouth, United Kingdom
calls a drawing that can be interpreted in (usually) two different ways?
I don't know how far back the practice originated but certainly in Victorian times, gentlemen (well supposedly) would often show "Butterflies" to their male friends. These were painted on transparent butterfly shaped paper to make pretty patterns, but when the wings were folded over each other they made another picture, usually pornographic. I have seen more modern examples of triptych or polyptych (to use a word I learnt here recently) art, sometimes used in advertising flyers, which make one picture folded and a completely different one unfolded. I'm not sure if the phrase "ambiguous" would apply to this type of art as each picture is specific (and in some cases, explicit ).
#29283 - 05/16/01 05:18 AM Re: Name for a pictorial illusion
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Posts: 3146
Loc: Northamptonshire, England
How about trompe d'oeil? It originally meant "photographic reality" but seems to have transmuted to mean any picture which is an illusion._________________________
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#29284 - 05/16/01 06:00 AM Re: Name for a pictorial illusion
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How about trompe d'oeil? It originally meant "photographic reality" but seems to have transmuted to mean any picture which is an illusion.
CK. I thought it was the other way round. "Trompe d'oeil" means "to deceive the eye", hence an illusion. It is most often used now (in my experience anyway) to mean photographic reality. For example the painting of an elaborate cornice on a flat surface.
For one of my favourite examples of trompe d'oeil, if only for the size, look at http://www.boucherbrothers.com/Fontainebleau_Hilton_hotel_resort.htm which is the whole wing of a hotel.
#29285 - 05/16/01 06:52 AM trompe
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I've seen both trompe d'oeil and trompe l'oeil . Can any connaisseurs explain why there are two forms and - are both correct?
#29286 - 05/16/01 07:32 AM Re: trompe
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Loc: Portsmouth, United Kingdom
both trompe d'oeil and trompe l'oeil
I have also seen both used interchangeably. However I believe that only "trompe l'oeil" is correct (but am quite willing to be corrected). The verb "tromper" = to deceive and is transitive. You deceive someone, or in this case "the eye"="l'oeil", not "deceive of the eye"="d'oeil". Tromper is often used in the reflexive form "se tromper" = "to deceive oneself" or to be wrong about and then the thing one is wrong about takes "de". "se tromper de route"="to take the wrong road". "tromperie d'oeil"="deception of the eye" might be ok.
Also Larousse online only has the "trompe l'oeil" form.
Rod (who is quite capable of deceiving himself)
PS. Just remembered that "trompe" is also an elephant's trunk, and from the endless song "Un elephant ca trompe, ca trompe" it must also mean trumpet. There must be a pun in there somewhere with "ca trompe"="se trompe".
#29287 - 05/16/01 07:44 AM Re: Name for a pictorial illusion
Registered: 03/16/00
Posts: 315
Loc: Italy - Perugia is a town with...
Anamorfosi = ???
is a way of drawing something -according to the laws of perspective - from a very strange angle of view, so that it usually difficult to guess what the subject is, unless by looking at the picture from a similar angle
Holbein was famous for this kind of picture. Anyway, I imagine that my explanations are very poor, since a picture is worth a thousand words...Maybe you can try to find some example of that by a search in the web.
#29288 - 05/16/01 07:49 AM Re: Name for a pictorial illusion
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Posts: 11613
Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
LUCY--what a delight to see you back! Wish I had your answer, but I've only seen them as "illusions". My dear, I hope you can be with us more often in the future--you're neat.
B96--excellent link. I saw a Dali painting that I found rather disturbing--but then most of his are.
Rod--(good heavens, just now you came out, inadvertently, to be Roc!) Fascinating, about the butterflies! (Got any you can send me?) And, the hotel--did you mean the last picture? I couldn't detect anything strange about the others.
AnnaS., I learned it as trompe l'oeil: fool THE eye, and when I put trompe d'oeil (that would be fool OF eye, not very sensical.) into tsuwm's x-refer, it gave me trompe l'oeil. So I guess trompe d'oeil is an English
(American?) bastardization of trompe l'oeil.
#29289 - 05/16/01 08:28 AM Re: Name for a pictorial illusion
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Posts: 609
Loc: Portsmouth, United Kingdom
the hotel--did you mean the last picture?
Yes. I did have some other links a month ago back. A colleague's daughter was asking about trompe l'oeil and I looked it out then, but I can't find the better one now. I will google for some butterflies and post if I find, so you can explain them to me .
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Learning Curve1 of 14
By Shannan Rouss
Men and women have come a long way in understanding one another, but there remain certain essential female truths that guys have yet to fully grasp. To help move us forward, we're putting it all out there and revealing 13 things that men still may not know about women—but should.
Call It a Night2 of 14
Sometimes, we'd rather sleep alone: We don't always want to be held. Occasionally, we just want to go home, or for you to go home, depending on the circumstances. It could be that we have to get up really early the next morning, or that we forgot our contact lens solution, or that your mattress is lumpy—in which case, it might be time for a new mattress.
Under Cover3 of 14
We prefer "comfort" bras: Most women have four, maybe five bras, in their weekly rotation. And chances are that none of them is particularly sexy. In fact, they are most often decidedly unsexy, providing what bras are supposed to provide: support. The frilly, lacy undergarments that you're certain women wear all the time? We don't.
A Leg Up4 of 14
The longer you date us, the less we shave our legs: Those days of us always being smooth and stubble-free? Enjoy them while you can. Because like the sexy underthings, they won't last. It's not that women intend to let themselves go, but one of the perks of being in a relationship is not having to keep up with a time-consuming grooming regimen.
Nothing More Than Feelings5 of 14
Sometimes we're in a bad mood just because: It's not "that time of the month," so don't ask. Our feelings are complicated and not completely subject to our hormones.
Put It in Writing6 of 14
We expect a card with the present: Yes, we are grateful for the gift, but without a card it sort of feels half-hearted. If you're not good with words, then take more than 30 seconds to choose a card that gets the sentiment right.
Maid to Order7 of 14
We're not your mother: This should be pretty self-evident and yet men seem to frequently conflate their significant others with the women who raised them. We are not here to pick up after you, and we don't want to nag you about it—but we will if we have to. So don't make us.
Sharing Is Caring8 of 14
We always want half of your dessert: Even if we say we're not hungry, couldn't eat another thing, no way no how, when we say that we just want a taste what we really mean is "I'll take half."
Looking Back9 of 14
We will judge you—and ourselves—by the women you dated before us: We will look them up on Facebook and scrutinize their photos. If they are cheesy, we'll feel better about ourselves but question your judgment. If they are tall and thin and doing humanitarian work in the Sudan, we'll wonder what you see in us.
In the Know10 of 14
We expect you to remember our birthday: And the name of our first dog, where we went to college and how we like our eggs. Is that too much to ask?
Blues Clues11 of 14
We notice your jeans: Whether they're skinny jeans, dad jeans (slightly faded, a bit too baggy), or low-rise, straight-leg, with-contrast-stitching jeans, we will see them and we will draw conclusions, even if we don't want to.
Cramping Our Style12 of 14
We don't want you to be better dressed or have better hair than we do: Yes, we want you to look good, but in that rugged, manly, didn't-try sort of way.
Take Charge13 of 14
We want you to make the first move: As long as you're a well-adjusted guy with emotional intelligence, trust yourself to know when a woman is into you. We want to be approached, we want to be asked out, and we want you to be confident enough to do those things.
One of a Kind14 of 14
No two of us are the same: We don't all love to shop, drink cosmos and watch romantic comedies. While some men think that "you know one woman, you know them all," each woman has her own unique history and habits, her own endearing quirks and idiosyncrasies. Embrace them!
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Opposition Fails To Maintain Momentum In Venezuela
By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro • Mar 20, 2014
Originally published on March 20, 2014 5:37 am
Venezuela has cracked down on student protests, leaving 29 people dead. The main square in Caracas, where protesters were based, has been dismantled. The opposition is divided over what to do next.


text: I have been lucky enough to be able to go and feed my 8 month old one time each day since he started daycare at 4 months. It is starting to get harder to make it to the daycare each day. So far he has been having two bottles of pumped milk at daycare and two solids and then the one feeding that I come and give him. Even with pumping three times at work I do not have enough to send him with three bottles each day. I have been telling the daycare to give him an extra solid each day when I cannot make it to feed him. Is this okay? Is there a better way to work this out?


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Condominium that burned had multiple violations; many residents lost everything
April 18, 2012 —
As many as 100 residents of Grandview Palace in Loch Sheldrake were made homeless when a blaze broke out on April 14 and raced through the aging campus. According to Michael De Vulpillieres, a spokesman for the Red Cross, about 80 of those people took temporary shelter at the Paul Gerry Field house at Sullivan County Community College.
It's estimated that up to 300 units out of a total of 396 were totally destroyed. Because of the speed of the blaze, many residents lost all of their possessions as well as their apartments. The main building in the complex was burned to the ground, but several other buildings survived. However, it is not clear at this point when, or if, any units will be livable in the wake of the blaze, which led to the closing of Route 52, and was responded to by more than 40 firefighting companies.
There were no fatalities; four firefighters were treated for minor injuries.
The complex had been sited for numerous safety and code violations in the past year, and the Town of Fallsburg sought to condemn the buildings. That matter was put to rest in March when the town reached a settlement with the building management.
Fallsburg supervisor Steven Vegliante issued a statement saying that the measures taken by the town over recent months had been effective at increasing safety. He wrote, "Due to the efforts of our code enforcement officer, Mollie Messenger, and her staff, sprinkler systems were operational, doors and alarms functioned and a fire watch worked exactly as designed, evacuating the building and saving the lives of all residents on the property."
The cause of the fire is still under investigation and according to Richard Martinkovic, Sullivan County Commissioner of Public Safety, the cause is not considered to be suspicious.
Vegliante wrote, "The Grandview is, at this point, under the jurisdiction of the Fallsburg Police Department (FPD) as they begin the painstaking and precise process of fire investigation. This process will be performed by members of the FPD along with members of the Sullivan County, Orange County and New York State Fire Investigation teams.
Simultaneously, the town will be bringing structural engineers to the site to examine the buildings still standing to determine when we may allow residents to enter with escorts and remove personal belongings."


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A systematic approach to safety
Business jet pilots dedicate themselves to safety, but also to delivering passengers to their destinations on time. Occasionally, the latter goal interferes with the former and the folks in the cockpit take risks you might view as, well, overly risky.
Two pilots who regularly flew a jet owner to spen, Colo., offer a case in point. The pair worried that they were courting disaster when they made the trip in marginal winter weather but felt that getting their employer to important meetings was an overriding necessity. Finally, however, they assessed the risks they were taking and talked with their boss, who had no idea that the flights had posed any danger.
Thanks to their discussion, the pilots figured out a better way to operate. On days when there was a chance of having to divert from Aspen because its weather cut safety margins too low, they arranged to have a limo waiting at the alternate airport. That way, the boss would still be able to travel to Aspen and the flight would be completed more safely. The jet owner helped by planning for an extra half hour of wiggle room on days when a diversion might be necessary.
The sort of process these pilots and their boss underwent is at the heart of a trend developing in business jet circles toward employing a safety management system (SMS). That's a process for measuring and evaluating the risks of aircraft operation. Your company may already use a similar risk-management process, especially if you're in the pharmaceutical, medical, chemical or nuclear power business. The principle behind all such systems is simple: evaluate risks and the severity of possible outcomes, then apply processes to measure those risks and avoid situations that could lead to the worst consequences.
The International Business Aviation Council administers a business-aviation-oriented SMS program called IS-BAO (International Standard for Business Aircraft Operations). Roy Rohr, IBAC's standards manager, said he has found that company leaders are more comfortable with the SMS concept than pilots might expect. "For senior managers, it's not a revelation," he said, "but for some flight department managers to understand that their senior managers understand SMS-that's a revelation."
Implementing an SMS like IS-BAO is not a simple task, but it's also not as time-consuming and expensive as you might assume and can make sense for any size operation, not just big flight departments. "We need to discover where our potential hazards are and how we mitigate them," said John Sheehan, a consultant who conducts audits to assess SMS compliance.
An SMS isn't meant to constrain business jet operations, he added, but to codify a process for measuring risk and intelligently adopting safety standards. "If you want to go beyond those [standards]," he said, "then you have to do a risk assessment and show how you mitigate that risk. IS-BAO is not hidebound. You can deviate from any standards so long as you perform a risk assessment."
Don't be surprised if you encounter some resistance when your flight department implements an SMS, but if you present your desires in terms of risk management, the program might be better received. Once you decide that an SMS is in your interest, an easy first step is to have an IS-BAO auditor scrutinize your operations. Using that as a starting point, you can build an SMS that will keep your operation not only supremely safe but cost-effective.
One form that cost savings can take is more reasonable insurance rates. "Insurance carriers view any [meaningful] process that promotes safe operations as beneficial," said Darryl Abbey, senior vice president of the Boston-based risk-management firm Hays Aviation. "Although no insurer will directly quantify the impact of those benefits on premium, the premium of an entity that implements IS-BAO should be better than [that of] a similar operation that does not have IS-BAO certification."
The other area of cost savings is accident-prevention. "If you think it's expensive to put an SMS together, just wait to see how much it costs to deal with an accident, said consultant Don Baldwin, president of Baldwin Aviation in Hilton Head, S.C.
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Knowshon Moreno ran for 119 yards and a score on a career-high 32 carries and Matt Prater kicked four field goals for the Broncos (10-3), who moved a half-game ahead of New England and Baltimore for the second-best record in the AFC. Denver visits Baltimore next week in a game that will help decide who gets a first-round playoff bye.
Carson Palmer threw one interception that thwarted a possible scoring chance for the Raiders (3-10) and lost a fumble that set up a touchdown for the Broncos as Oakland lost its sixth straight game.


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Stephania Rodriguez '14 loves mentoring young people—that is, people just a year younger. She has found a calling to become a student affairs professional, thanks to her experiences as a mentor for the Premier Scholars Program and resident assistant. "I really have enjoyed working with first-year students," she says. "I've always known I wanted to major in a business field like human resources but now I know I want to branch off into student affairs."
To make her goal a reality, she applied for and was accepted into the 2011-2012 class of the Undergraduate Fellows Program of Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, formerly known as the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA). Acceptance into the program ensures access to mentoring, a national conference, paid internships and participation in NASPA's Summer Leadership Institute. She schedules regular meetings with Kimberly Sluis '99, dean of students and her mentor at North Central. "She'll be guiding me through the steps of reaching my goal," says Rodriguez, who knows that graduate school is in her future.
She said she especially enjoyed her role in last summer's Premier program, giving advice to incoming students about academics and campus life. "The feedback I got from them was so rewarding," she says.
Despite commuting from her Aurora home last year, she earned a resident assistant position in Geiger Residence Hall. "It's another step up into a leadership role," she says. "It's been fun to see my floor turn into a community and I try to be there for them when they need something."
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PRINCESS ANNE, MD - (April 15, 2012) - The UMES women's bowling team delivered a memorable gift Saturday night to celebrate the university's125th academic year – another national championship.
The Lady Hawks defeated east coast rival Fairleigh Dickinson University four-games-to-two to win the NCAA title for Division 1 schools, repeating a feat the university achieved a year ago.
"Words cannot describe the feeling of winning," junior T'nia Falbo said. "It's the greatest feeling ever."
The scintillating victory marks the third time in five years UMES has come home with the coveted national championship trophy, firmly establishing the university as one the most consistent performers on the women's collegiate bowling scene.
This year's win was particularly gratifying for the team and the university. Halfway through the season, long-time coach Sharon Brummell resigned to take an administrator's job at Georgetown University in Washington.
Into the breach stepped Kristina Frahm, a two-time national champion and 2011 graduate, to serve as interim coach. The victory over Fairleigh Dickinson in the finals makes Frahm the first person in NCAA history to win a national title as a bowler and as a head coach.
The 2011-12 Lady Hawks had a successful regular season but were not considered strong title contenders when the tournament field was announced. In addition to Frahm, the 2011 championship team featured seasoned veterans Martha Perez and Maria Rodriquez, who also graduated a year ago.
Nevertheless, UMES had a solid corps of experienced bowlers returning – senior Paula Vilas, Falbo and fellow junior Anggie Ramirez, and sophomore Megan Buja. Those unflappable four plus freshman Mariana Alvarado formed the quintet that brought home the 2012 hardware.
"I was the only lefty today," Ramirez said after Saturday's final. "So I was getting some good shots but didn't have anyone else to talk to or watch about how the lane was reacting, so it times it was trial and error."
After a preliminary round on Thursday to establish seeding for double-elimination match play on Friday the 13th, the Lady Hawks defeated three opponents to earn a spot in the finals. Triskaidekaphobia clearly was not a factor.
The Lady Hawks had to wait for one more elimination match Saturday between the squad from Fairleigh Dickinson, a private institution with 12,000 students, and the school UMES defeated for the title a year ago, Vanderbilt University.
The team from Teaneck, N.J. just outside New York City prevailed in that midday contest, setting up a championship match broadcast live on the cable sports channel, ESPNU.
College bowling employs the ultimate team approach to crown its champion in a best-of-seven match. Each school uses five bowlers in a single game, so each participant rolls two frames. Frahm tapped Vilas, the team's emotional sparkplug, to lead off in the first frame and put Falbo in the anchor slot to handle the pressure of finishing the game.
In the deciding sixth game, Falbo came through in a tense back-and-forth contest with three strikes in the final frame to seal the victory for the team – and the tournament's "Most Outstanding Performer" honors.
"It feels amazing to make those big shots," Falbo said. "I know that those seven girls behind me have complete trust in me. There is no extra pressure because of that. They trust me to be in that position so I am going to go up there and do what I have to do."
Throughout much of the finals, Frahm sat stoically as her team (and former teammates) exhorted one another with fist-pumps, high-five hand slaps and linking arms in unity. But in the sixth game, the old competitive juices clearly brought Frahm to her feet and she stood alongside the team as it watched Falbo clinch the victory.
"You just can't describe this feeling to somebody; you have to experience it to know," Frahm said.
From her home in Ohio, incoming UMES President Juliette B. Bell was among the first to react to the victory just moments after the last pin fell.
"Congratulations on an awesome victory," Bell wrote in an e-mail to the team and the campus community. "I am so proud of the Lady Hawks bowling team and to be a member of the Hawks' family. Go Lady Hawks!"
With apologies to the legendary baseball star, Yogi Berra, the UMES victory was. indeed, "déjà vu all over again."


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Most of today's Internet uses IPv4, or Internet Protocol version 4, which has proven to be robust, easily implemented and interoperable, and has stood the test of scaling to the size of today's Internet by using different mechanisms such as NAT. However, the initial design of IPv4 did not take into consideration several issues that are of importance today and suffers from problems in various areas: address space limitations, inefficient routing, lack of support for security, lack of autoconfiguration, lack of QoS support, and poor mobility support.
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) had two options. The first option was to fix IPv4 and risk the continued degradation of the Internet model, which would lead to more complex and volatile network services, lower performance, and less robust, less secure, and less manageable networks.
The second option was to replace IPv4 with a newer version and enable simple and stable network services, higher performance, and more robust, secure, and manageable networks. They wanted to avoid doing changes now to IPv4 and then repeat the same exercise a few years later on. Therefore, they made the decision to design a new protocol. As a result, the IETF defined IPv6 to fix the problems in IPv4 and to add many improvements for future networks.
The design philosophy of IPv6 is a scalable protocol that provides a large address space with a simple structure, an original end-to-end environment, a NAT-free network, fast processing, and many features needed by current and future applications. Migrating from IPv4 to IPv6, and IPv6 deployment should not be expensive. IPv6 should inter-operate with IPv4 and provide tools and mechanisms needed by hosts running different IP versions to communicate with each other, and to enable applications to work with both IP versions.
IPv6 was designed with enhanced features compared to IPv4. Its major features are:
IPv6 provides a 128-bit address field. This extended address space is very essential, as IP addresses will be assigned to mobile phones, home appliances, motor vehicles, and other equipment. In addition, with such a huge address space, we can create multi-level hierarchies of addresses, simplifying routing problems — requiring simpler routing algorithms and less space needed for routing tables.
IPv6 introduces the concept of scoped addresses and defines three types of addresses: unicast (global, link local, site local), multicast, and anycast.
An IPv6 unicast address identifies a single interface. A packet sent to a unicast address is delivered to the interface identified by that address. Three types of unicast addresses exist:
1. A global unicast address is used for point-to-point communication.
2. A link local unicast address allows packets to traverse on only one link or segment. Routers will not forward packets with link local unicast addresses.
3. A site local unicast address limits the scope of packet delivery to your intranet. The edge router connecting your internal network to the external network will not forward packets with site local unicast addresses to the external network.
An IPv6 multicast address delivers copies of one source packet to recipients. In the IPv6 multicast address, you can specify multicast scope, which can be node-local, link-local, site-local, or global.
An IPv6 anycast address identifies a set of interfaces typically belonging to different nodes. A packet sent to an anycast address is delivered to one of the interfaces identified by that address. Anycast differs from multicast in that it delivers a message to any one of the nodes in a group. When one node — often the nearest node in the group — receives the message, anycast is finished.
IPv6 provides hosts with the ability to configure themselves automatically without the use of a stateful configuration protocol. A host can also use router discovery to determine the addresses of routers, additional addresses, and other configuration parameters. This feature allows hosts to discover automatically all the information they need to connect to the Internet, without any human intervention.
IPv6 has a new 40-bytes header (as shown in Figure 1) with the following fields:
Figure 1. The IPv6 header.
In addition, IPv6 is much more flexible in its support of options through extension headers. Extension headers encode optional Internet-layer information. They are placed between the IPv6 header and the upper layer header in a packet and are chained together using the next header field in the IPv6 header. There are six different extension headers: Hop-by-hop Options, Destination Options, Routing, Fragment, Authentication, and Encapsulated Security. The next header field indicates to the router which extension header to expect next. If there are no more extension headers, the next header field indicates the upper-layer header (TCP header, UDP header, ICMPv6 header, an encapsulated IP packet, or other items).
IPv6 provides enhancements that allow better network management such as network renumbering, which make it simpler to move a whole network to a new ISP by reconfiguring the router with the new routing prefix from the new ISP.
Mobility support in IPv6 allows transparent routing of IPv6 packets to mobile nodes, taking advantage of the design of a new version of IP.
The IETF has mandated support for Internet Protocol Security (Ipsec) with IPv6 so it will not be an optional extension, as was the case with IPv4.
The IETF has specified two approaches, integrated services and differentiated services, to provide guaranteed and selectable Quality of Service (QoS) over the Internet. In addition, IPv6 provides flow labels that can be used to provide QoS by identifying the packets as belonging to a flow. These labels can be used in conjunction with a hop-by-hop routing extension header (allowing predefined routes) and the priority field (allowing for QoS). The flow label also serves as a key in the router cache to reduce the amount of processing. When a router first receives a datagram, it can cache the flow label and next hop so as to save time when the next datagram arrives with the same flow label. This technique reduces router processing time considerably.
As a result, IPv6 is feature-rich, fixing many of the problems of IPv4 and adding much new functionality. To read more on these features, please refer to my IPv6 Essentials article.
IPv6 support can be enabled as a built-in kernel feature or as a loadable module. First, we will demonstrate how to support IPv6 as a built-in feature of the kernel, and then as a kernel module that can be loaded and unloaded as needed. For the purpose of this article, we will be using a Linux test machine running Red Hat 9.0 and the official kernel version 2.6.0-test9, which was available at the time of writing this article (November 2003). However, you can follow the same steps for virtually any kernel version.
You need to download the latest kernel version and uncompress it;
alternatively, you can use whatever kernel version is already available on your
system. I would assume, though, that you'd want to try the latest and greatest version. Download the compressed source and
uncompress it under
% cd /usr/src
% bunzip2 linux-2.6.0-test9.tar.bz2
% tar -xvf linux-2.6.0-test9.tar
A directory called linux-2.6.0-test9 will be created.
Before you can configure the kernel, you need to perform a few steps:
Delete the symbolic link to the older kernel source tree:
% rm linux
Create a symbolic link to the new kernel source tree:
% ln -s linux-2.6.0-test9 linux
Move into the kernel source directory:
% cd linux
Make sure to clean up any existing
.o files and old
% make mrproper
You can use
make config,
make menuconfig, or
make xconfig to configure the kernel. We'll use the latter here.
There are three areas where you need to update the kernel configuration; we
will explain all of them.
Figure 2. Code maturity level options.
Since IPv6 is still an experimental feature, you need to enable the "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/driver" option to be able to have the option to activate IPv6 support in a later configuration option (see Figure 2).
Figure 3. Loadable module support.
In most systems, the option "Enable loadable module support" is enabled by default, as shown in Figure 3. You can also enable the following options:
Module Unloading and Forced Module Unloading. Enable these options if you want to be able to unload a module or force a module to unload, even if the kernel believes it is unsafe.
Module Versioning Support (EXPERIMENTAL). If you enable this option, it will be possible sometimes to load modules compiled against a different kernel version. This is not required in our case since you are compiling the IPv6 module with the same kernel you are running. However, you can enable it.
Automatic Kernel Module Loading. If you enable this option, then when
needed, the kernel will be able to load modules for itself: when a part of the
kernel needs a module, it will run
modprobe with the appropriate
arguments, thereby loading the module if it is available.
To enable support for IPv6, you need to enable the "IPv6 protocol (EXPERIMENTAL)" either as a built-in kernel feature or as a module, as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4. Networking support options.
After enabling these options, save the configuration and exit the kernel configuration tool. Now you are ready to compile the kernel.
% make bzImage
The result of the compilation will be a new compressed kernel image created
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/ (or the appropriate
architecture-specific directory for your computer). If you compiled some
features as loadable modules, you should compile and install the modules:
% make modules
% make modules_install
You can now copy the new kernel image
bzImage and
System.map to your boot directory:
% cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0-test9-ipv6
% cp /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.0-test9-ipv6
% rm /boot/System.map
% ln -fs /boot/System.map-2.6.0-test9-ipv6 /boot/System.map
If you configured IPv6 support as a module, a module will be created in
/lib/modules/linux-2.6.0-test9/kernel/net/ipv6. The module is
If you use LILO, you need to add a new entry in the LILO configuration file
/etc/lilo.conf) for your freshly-compiled kernel. At boot time,
you'll see this entry in the list of kernels to boot. A sample entry will look
like this:
Make sure that the
root directive refers to the correct partition on
your system. Next, run
/sbin/lilo to install the bootloader with
the new configuration options.
After following these steps, you will have a boot-time entry called
2.6.0-test9-ipv6. We recommend that you do not set this new image
as the default at first; it is best to try it and make sure it works before you
set it as a default boot image or delete a known-good entry.
On the other hand, if you use grub as your bootloader, add an entry to the
/etc/grub.conf configuration file as follows:
title 2.6.0-test9-ipv6
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.0-test9-ipv6 ro root=/dev/hda1
Please remember that you need to update this entry to reflect your disk partitioning.
You are now ready to reboot your Linux machine with the new kernel:
% shutdown -r now
When the bootloader prompt comes up, choose to boot with
2.6.0-test9-ipv6. After rebooting, if you compiled IPv6 as a
module, load that module:
% insmod ipv6
Now you can verify the network interfaces on your Linux machine by typing
ifconfig at the command prompt.
[root@pgtest1-ibha root]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:8B:F1:6A:D0
inet addr:192.168.15.70 Bcast: 192.168.15.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fec0::1:250:8bff:fef1:6ad0/64 Scope:Site
inet6 addr: fe80::250:8bff:fef1:6ad0/10 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:28134 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4351 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:1719007 (1.6 Mb) TX bytes:352632 (344.3 Kb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x1000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:394 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:394 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:47176 (46.0 Kb) TX bytes:47176 (46.0 Kb)
[root@pgtest1-ibha root]#
You can also test by pinging your IPv6 loopback address and your link local address.
[root@pgtest1-ibha root]# ping6 ::1
PING ::1(::1) from ::1 : 56 data bytes
64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.052 ms
64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.046 ms
64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.044 ms
64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.047 ms
64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.046 ms
--- ::1 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% loss, time 3997ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.044/0.047/0.052/0.002 ms
[root@pgtest1-ibha root]#
[root@pgtest1-ibha root]# ping6 fec0::1:250:8bff:fef1:6ad0
PING fec0::1:250:8bff:fef1:6ad0(fec0::1:250:8bff:fef1:6ad0) from ::1 : 56 data bytes
64 bytes from fec0::1:250:8bff:fef1:6ad0: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.043 ms
64 bytes from fec0::1:250:8bff:fef1:6ad0: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.057 ms
64 bytes from fec0::1:250:8bff:fef1:6ad0: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.047 ms
--- fec0::1:250:8bff:fef1:6ad0 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% loss, time 2000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.043/0.049/0.057/0.005 ms
[root@pgtest1-ibha root]#
If you try to ssh over IPv6, you'll see something like this:
[root@pgtest1-ibha root]# ssh -6 fec0::1:250:8bff:fef1:6ad0
The authenticity of host 'fec0::1:250:8bff:fef1:6ad0
(fec0::1:250:8bff:fef1:6ad0)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is b6:1b:d2:62:03:0c:d4:a0:61:46:50:9b:6e:03:5b:05.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'fec0::1:250:8bff:fef1:6ad0' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
root@fec0::1:250:8bff:fef1:6ad0's password:
Last login: Thu Nov 6 20:09:08 2003 from 220.127.116.11
[root@pgtest1-ibha root]#
Since you do not yet have a global IPv6 address, you are limited to test with your own machine and the machines sitting on the same local link (vlan).
This article introduced IPv6, along with a step-by-step tutorial on supporting IPv6 on your Linux machine. An upcoming article will demonstrate how to connect your Linux machine, now IPv6-enabled, to the IPv6 Internet, which will also allow you to have all kinds of testing and functionalities over IPv6.
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Ibrahim Haddad is the Director of Technology for the Software Operations Group (Home & Network Mobility Business Unit) at Motorola Inc.
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It is amazing how quickly fantasy fortunes can change for those in keeper or dynasty leagues. Just a few days ago, those who owned wideout Larry Fitzgerald really did not know what they had in the future Hall of Famer, which was a sad statement because he is still in his prime and is, you know, a future Hall of Famer.
I'm not saying his new QB Carson Palmer is unquestionably a savior, but Palmer landing in Arizona is pretty news for this offense. Yes, the OL is a major concern, but let's keep in mind it was pretty bad in Oakland, too, and Palmer managed to throw for over 4000 yards with a lesser receiving corps and a crappy running game.
I particularly like the fit with Bruce Arians, who is as proven an offensive coordinator as there is in the league. Arians has had particular success with big, strong-armed QBs like Palmer in Ben Roethlisberger and Andrew Luck. Palmer doesn't move as well as those two, but he's not a total statue in the pocket, either. And I LOVED what Arians did last year with Reggie Wayne, particularly how he moved him around to find good matchups. I said on […]


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Mary Jo Salter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and grew up in Detroit and Baltimore. She was educated at Harvard and Cambridge Universities and worked as a staff editor at The Atlantic Monthly and as poetry editor of The New Republic. A vice president of the Poetry Society of America, she is also a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry. In addition to her five poetry collections, she is the author of a children's book, The Moon Comes Home. She is Emily Dickinson Senior Lecturer at Mount Holyoke College and lives with her family in Amherst, Massachusetts.


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What was your most recent binge watching of television? A series you finished or caught up with in a few days or weeks
Just finished the office. I think i had something in my eye.ReplyCancel
I haven't watched TV for years, my choice, but I'm moving soon and have been told that there are TVs all over the place.
What to watch, what to watch… 🙂ReplyCancel
Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire.ReplyCancel
The first season of Twin Peaks was on a few weeks ago where I lived. I watched it for the first time but lost interest after the first season.ReplyCancel
Real Husbands of Hollywood. I watched all of Season 2 but I only watched four epis of Season 1. I keep stalking BET hoping they will re-air that shit.
I know you hate Robin Thicke, but he's really funny on the show.
I watched Downton Abbey last year in marathon form. It was exhausting. But I'm hooked.ReplyCancel
America's Got Talent. Seriously, I love it. Like Howie Mandel says, it's like watching Ed Sullivan when I was small. I have a million other shows and series downloaded. Prior to that, my marathons were SVU and BBT. I can't watch anything on TV anymore-too many interruptions.ReplyCancel
@VIP i love Big Ang. She is everything.ReplyCancel
Miami Vice; I'm taking a break in Season 4 and watching The Rockford Files now.ReplyCancel
Cold caseReplyCancel
Seasons 1-4 of The League. So. Damn. Funny.ReplyCancel
Netflix just put all 8 seasons out on streaming.
Next up?
Then I've got to do American Horror Story, seasons 1 & 2…if they're anywhere near season 3, I'm one happy camper.
Big Ang has a true heart of gold.ReplyCancel
the killing. netflix. amazingReplyCancel
Pretty little liars. Guilty pleasure. Sue me.ReplyCancel
Binge watched Top of the Lake and The Fall back to back. Really enjoyed it except for Elizabeth Moss' accentReplyCancel
Love Doc Martin and The IT Crowd!
The new Sherlock is out and I'm binge watching all the old ones to catch up again. Before that it was Entourage. I think the next one will be Breaking Bad, everyone keeps telling me awesome it is.
What is up with Blogger and conflicting edits all the time?ReplyCancel
Broadchurch, lead actress was excellent.ReplyCancel
Hannah Montana :pReplyCancel
House of Cards and Shameless. Turns out politicians are more fucked up than a a family of poor, horny drunks.ReplyCancel
Game of Thrones. It's a repeat for me, but I keep watching.ReplyCancel
@JBE, LOVE House Of Cards! Can't wait for season 2.ReplyCancel
Orphan Black S1…….amazing showReplyCancel
Misfits & Chuck though I'm only on s3
PS if any of you can access 4od (in the uk) please watch Secrets of the Dolls – it's an eye opener!ReplyCancel
I need to find something to binge watch on my flight to Hawaii. It needs to be something I can download and not stream … what do y'all recommend? I've already seen American Horror Story, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Walking Dead ….
I'm watching Sons of Anarchy at the moment (Season 1) and I'm not all that impressed. It's totally Dukes of Hazzard … the bumbling, dorky cop always trying to bust them, Uncle Jesse-type Clay, DukeBoy-esque Jax, all the racing around except on motorcycles instead of muscle cars. And everything is neatly wrapped up at the end of the episode.ReplyCancel
I was using up my vacation time, and I had some recent snow-days, so I have binge-watched a lot. I did Sherlock, Community (although I didn't pay much attention to the last season), A Moody Christmas, Spy, The Wrong Mans, Doctor Who, and the first season of Shameless (UK version). I am sure there are others, too.ReplyCancel
Shameless! I am going to start on House of Lies, Mad Men (I KNOW…I am probably the last person on Earth who hasn't seen it!), and Weeds. All are on my instant stream queue except for HOL. I also have Doctor Who, Downtown Abbey and Arrow on there…is Arrow worth it?
@Ninna Zanette…Top of the Lake and The Fall were SO GOOD!! Loved those two shows.ReplyCancel
Will & Grace bingeathon Saturdays.ReplyCancel
Covert Affairs.
I was seriously pissed off by the Henry Wilcox plotline. He never would have been allowed back into the CIA after what he had done before.
@Kristin There's no shame in loving Jackson Rod Stewart :pReplyCancel
old episodes of Degrassi and Degrassi Jr. High—the 80s onesReplyCancel
Hemlock Grove, Bill Skarsgard is hot. Show could use some improvements though.ReplyCancel
I've had AHS recommended to me and it looks good, but they also advised to skip season 2. Apparently not worth it, but s3 is back to formReplyCancel
@MissInfo, I loved Top of the Lake, too! I was surprised that the lead male is playing a bad guy in another show!
I've caught an episode or two of Arrow while visiting the family. I wasn't really paying attention, just listening, and it sounds so cheesy. They also watched "Immortal Instruments" and that sounded like an episode of Arrow to me.ReplyCancel
Watched the entire series of Dexter before the end of the series. Was very disappointed with how the show ended, but the first 7 seasons were awesome!ReplyCancel
Recently had a long break and am somewhat embarrassed to say that I re-watched season 6 of Sex and the City.ReplyCancel
My four year-old is obsessed with Call of the Wildman. It makes sense, cause that guy's on about a four year-old level. I saw an episode the other day where a client paid him $22 and a basket of potatoes. I just can't. Now I just laugh uncontrollably whenever it is on.ReplyCancel
That's how I felt about Gillian Anderson's accent. It took me a while to get used to it.ReplyCancel
Me too!ReplyCancel
I agree.ReplyCancel
I'm posting before I read the comments, but I re watched Sex and the City AGAIN during Christmas break. I miss those gals.ReplyCancel
@Merlin @Nosy @Jacq
I was hoping to tell this soon and perfect timing! School started back today and one of my professors told us that she is Michael C Hall's cousin. They spent the holidays together and everything. She was saying how proud they are of him and I kept wanting to ask about Julia Stiles, hehe.ReplyCancel
Last Binge: Continuum (S1-S2, waiting for S3)
Current Binge: The Fall
Other good ones: Luther, Sherlock, House of Cards (US & UK are good), Winter's Bone and Ab-Fab.
Forgot to add The Politican's WifeReplyCancel
"The Fugitive" – that 1960's show. Got into it because they show it on Sunday nights, downloaded the series, and finally watched them all. Last episode was a bit goofy in how they wrapped it all up, but still a great show.ReplyCancel
Chuck, almost 5 seasons in 3 weeksReplyCancel
@Derek I can't believe you said Degrassi!!!! I pray to GAWD that you are talking Zit Attack! Joey and Caitlin 4-evaReplyCancel
Veronica Mars! Orange is the New Black. My girlfriends keep telling me I need to watch Shahs of Sunset but…ReplyCancel
House of Cards, Sex and the City and FriendsReplyCancel
Love It or List It. I have no idea why. My 14 year old son is hooked now too.ReplyCancel
Ohhh yeah, House of Cards! Love it. I'm also big on ID on Netflix i.e. Nightmare Nextdoor, Who the B%#^*@ did I Marry?!, Behind Mansion Walls, Disappeared. I can't stop! I wish they would put Dateline and 48Hours on Netflix, god I would never leave the house.
No shame in the PLL game ladies. Rosewood is addicting!
I totally knew that Ezra was naughty! He did something around this time last year that immediately pinged my naughty boy radar, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was. I don't think this is another Toby situation, I think Ezra is bad bad bad aaallll the way.
The entire season of GCB in a day!ReplyCancel
Sons of anarchy. Love it, can't wait for next season. I read that it's loosely based on Hamlet which means 7th and final season will be good (and bloody)
I love Charlie now, and wish he was still going to be on Fifty Shades:(
Also like Its Always Sunny in PhiledephiaReplyCancel
@JSierra I freaking love Sins & Secrets on ID. Oh, sign me up for some Dateline. Keith Morrison is a true pimp! Dateline, anytime.ReplyCancel
"in the Heat of the Night"
Love that show!
The United States of Tara(Toni Collette is awesome as a multiple personality and her family.sweet show, Leverage ( crooks conning crooks, )Tim Hutton looks like his daddy ( my firstest crush, Mr Ellery Queen Jim Hutton) , Black Butler 1and 2 ( anime with great story and graphics)
Seems like a lot but I have a tendency to obsess and try to see as many as possible. My addictive behavior coming out.
More Is Better! 😀
Orphan BlackReplyCancel
I'm watching way too much fucking television these days. I have a fussy baby who doesn't allow me to sit and read often so tv or music is always on.. I've watched about 5 seasons of breaking bad in the last couple of weeks – We also watched an entire season of Under the Dome – I read the book and I am still confused on why the shows varies so far from the original source. I caught up on the UK Shameless. My hubby and I are watching Falling Skies now and that's pretty good so far. I cracked out on this seasons Boarwalk Empire as well and got on the Mob Wives train too .. Jesus I'm throwing this tv out the window after this baby turns 2!! I feel my brain melting!!ReplyCancel
Ally McBeal…also have all the seasons of the Facts of LIfe to watch.ReplyCancel


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Written by Jason W. on 27.12.2012 at 20:52
Thanks for reviewing, I'd totally forgot about this being released! "I brought you closer to me and the waves got higher.": Ahh, such a great line in the opening track
Yes, lots of greys and darkness, and you are right about there being a calmness before the spiral!


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Born in Galveston, his comedy act has taken him all over the United States and now he's returning to Texas with a show at the Victoria Performing Arts Center June 20.
He talked with the Bee-Picayune about working as a stand up and finally achieving his lifelong dream of becoming an actor, in both comedic and dramatic roles.
Bee-Picayune: How long is the tour this time?
Bill Engvall: I'm pretty much on tour all year long. I'm like a band that will go for six months then take six months off. Comedians are pretty much on tour all year long.
BP: How's the road treat you when you're out there?
BE: It's getting harder. The older I get the more the traveling sucks. (laughs) Every job has it's downside and unfortunately for a comedian it's the traveling part. But I get to come home to Texas which is always a good thing. I wish it was at the end of this run instead of the beginning.
BP: Are you going to be doing all new material for the show in Victoria?
BE: My own career has been pretty much made talking about kids and being a dad and all that.
Well, now they're all grown up so the show has now taken a life of it's own with me dealing with life and getting older and not handling that well.
We cover a lot of subjects now, which is fun. With the kids being grown, it's kind of forced me to write the way I used to write before I had kids. It's still a clean show, there's no swearing and all that. It's very relatable. People will enjoy it, I think.
This is my first time playing Victoria, so I'm pretty excited about that for a couple of reasons.
One, because it's always fun to break in a new market. But also because a lot of people haven't seen me before. When I play Dallas, I've probably played it a hundred times, and they say, "Eh, we saw him last time," but they like it, they just assume you haven't written any new stuff. (laughs)
It really is a fun show. I set it up as if I'm just sitting in your living room and I'm just a funny guy talking. I don't want people to think of it as it's them going to see a comedy show. I tell stories that people can relate to.
BP: Do you get to bring your family along with you?
BE: Not so much anymore. My wife will drive with me every once in a while. If we were going to be able to stop and visit the ranch, she'd come with me. But from Victoria I go to Jacksonville, Fla., then New Buffalo, Mich., so it's a rough road life.
BP: Do you have it in you to want, and do serious roles?
BE: Oh yeah. That's the main focus of my acting right now. I'm having my agent really seek out dramatic roles. I always want to do stuff that's different. When people see it they say, "I didn't know he could do that." And I think in order to do drama very well you have to do comedy.
I got to do a dramatic role on "Leverage," that show on TNT, and I did a three-episode arc on "Hawthorne" where I played a detective which was just really fun. It was something different.
BP: You have the look for it, the look for serious dramatic roles.
BE: I'd love to play that psychotic, sick bastard. (laughs)
BP: How was it filming your 2007 comedy "Delta Farce"?
BE: You know, it was fun. I always joke and say "Delta Farce" had two things go wrong. One was the timing because of the war and the second was a bad script. (laughs)
I think sometimes, "Delta Farce" was a prime example of this, I don't know what we expect from our movies. It's called entertainment. People have different forms of entertainment. Some people like booger and fart jokes and some people like really smart humor. And, if you're one of those people that like really smart humor then you can look at the title and say, "That's not for me."
A lot of people loved it. I had fun shooting it. I got to ride around in Jeeps and shoot big guns and Larry (the Cable Guy) was funny as always; it was perfect.
If Will Ferrell would have made it, it would have been huge. (laughs)
I think there was a perception about Blue Collar that was like, "Oh these idiots, blah, blah, blah." Nobody gave us any respect at all. We weren't looking to be respected, like, "Look at these actors." We were just having fun. I don't know why people couldn't just go to the movies and have a yuk and not take too much out of it.
BP: It just seemed like you guys had a blast making it.
BE: First off, nobody's going to buy that beautiful chicks are going to fall for Larry. (laughs) Right off the bat you know it's a comedy.
BP: Did you guys get to train with all the machine guns and stuff?
BE: No. I'll tell you a funny story. When the Jeep landed in the desert, it was about 100 degrees, it was hot as hell, and we had all the gear on. But our flak jackets were filled with Styrofoam or foam rubber. It wasn't like the Mylar and the bulletproof stuff the real soldiers have. So our whole pack weighed maybe 10 pounds whereas a real soldier's weighed about 80.
We were running around the desert and it was hot. The director called cut and Larry goes, "My God, I'm dying." And then the craft services guy goes, "Would you like a popsicle?" and Larry goes, "Oh yeah, thanks!" (laughs)
We got to play soldier, but we didn't have to do any training. The only training we had to do was to learn how to salute right, then we were supposed to screw that up.
BP: So you and Jeff Foxworthy are getting animated for "Bounty Hunters" on CMT, what's that like?
BE: Jeff, Larry and I are. It's called "Bounty Hunters." It's a little animated show that's coming out on CMT.
Lisa Lampanelli plays our boss and basically, we play three bungling bounty hunters who in the end get the job done. We recorded 13 episodes and it's a fun little show. People will enjoy it.
BP: How cool is it to see yourself animated?
BE: You don't want to see yourself as a cartoon; it's not good. (laughs)
It's like when you go to Six Flags and you get your caricature done. They take your worst feature and make it 10 times bigger than what it is.
It's really fun and easy to do, you just go into the studio and record it. I finally got to see a little bit of it and it's really wild. It's an amazing process they go through.
BP: You're also headed back to TBS for a new show called "Do It Yourself," right?
BE: I shot a pilot for them and we're waiting to hear back. It's a little project about people that work in a home improvement store and I get to play this guy who was an executive for Circuit City and got let go and this was the only job I could get. It was a really fun role.
Also, I've sold a drama to TNT kind of loosely based on the old "McCloud" series, so that will be really fun if it goes.
We have a few irons in the fire but nothing really to say it's going to be on so and so date.
BP: It seems like you always have irons in the fire. You're a really busy guy.
BE: I have to because idle time is not my friend.
BP: Do you ever get tired of "Here's Your Sign"?
BE: You know what? Not really. Because that's what got this whole thing started and I can't turn my back on that. It's one of those things that I'll always do. People want to hear it and that's what brought people to the party.
BP: It also got you a pretty decent radio hit as well.
BE: I've been really lucky. My whole career has been really blessed. I was joking with a friend the other day and said if I had to start over again I probably wouldn't make it.
I caught it at the right time and I'm very grateful for what God's given me. The ability to make people laugh and I hit at the right time.
It's one of those businesses where it's easy to get caught up in what you're not doing. Every once in a while when I'm doing a interview, like this one, I'll look around my office and see "Best Male Stand Up in '92" and I see a Grammy nomination and a platinum record and a gold record and I realize, man, if I was to quit tomorrow I could easily retire and say that I did everything I wanted to do.
BP: Is being a stand up comedian something you always wanted to do?
BE: No, no. I wanted to be an actor. But when you grow up in a small Texas town you don't tell your dad you want to be an actor. You might as well say you want to be a ballerina.
BP: If you could go back to wanting to be an actor as a child, is this what you thought it would be like?
BE: Oh no. Because I had no idea. It is so much better than I thought it was going to be. I didn't know what I expected, it's just been so awesome.
I love to climb in to the skin of another character and bring it to life. I think when I was younger I was thinking more about the parties, but there's so much more to it than just that. It's beyond my wildest dreams.
Even when I did stand up, it wasn't my job. It filled all my job requirements. Work at night, drink on the job and sleep in late. It was the perfect job. But, it wasn't what I thought I'd be doing for a living. I didn't think it'd be 30 plus years of doing it.
This ball just keeps rolling and people keep buying tickets to come and see the shows. And when I do my show in Victoria, I may be talking, but in my head I'm thinking, "I still can't believe people still come out and see me." (laughs)
BP: Do you have a new album in the works?
BE: I don't know. I'm working on a bunch of new material, maybe putting together an album.
Times have changed. People don't really buy albums anymore. If I was to do one, I would probably just release it on iTunes or something like that where people can download.
BP: Have you ever thought of doing something like what Louis C.K. did, releasing it all on his own through his website?
BE: I think Louis really broke some ground there and I think you're going to see a lot of people doing that.
It's just the way of the world now. Social media and all that Internet stuff. It's not like the old days of when I would go to the record store and buy an album.
One of prized possessions is a 45-inch record of "Here's Your Sign." When it went gold, they asked if I wanted it on a DVD and I sad no. I wanted it on an album. I want it like an old gold record. So they made it up and I have it on my wall. It's very cool.
BP: Is there anything you want to say to people who haven't seen your show live before?
BE: I just say to people, thanks for buying the albums and CDs and downloading the songs but, if you really want to get the true essence of the show, come and see it live.
Places like the Victoria Performance Arts are small, intimate venues and that's the way comedy should be seen.
Come out, sit back, relax and have a great night.
Paul Gonzales is the entertainment writer at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 116, or at email@example.com.


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Saturday, June 22, 2013
A Lesson Learned for Every Year
If you aren't learning, you aren't living. I truly believe we learn from our mistakes, so long as we don't keep making them. I also believe humility is as much gained in our shortcomings as it is in our successes. The ability to not allow one, or the other to have a disproportionate amount of this humility is what I think establishes our maturity.
Thus far, 2013 has been a pretty rough year in terms of running. It's been the school of hard knocks, and it's only June. However, not for one second will I pout and harp on the would have, could have, should haves of the year. In a very real sense, this year has been perhaps the most mentally and physically demanding year of running because of the fact I was basically starting from scratch. I battled back from months of random, weird, and ill timed injuries to run a lot of not so stellar races. Normally, when fully healthy, my race results would have had me feeling fairly disapointed. I'd be lying if they didn't urk me at some point, but I learned to let them go in realization that I needed to set my personal expectations much lower when running with a body still on the mend.
In 2013, I learned that it is incredibly difficult to build up the training volume needed to just finish 100 mile races, while simultaneously trying to recover from other injuries. To be fair, it did come with some trial and error. Okay, so it was more error than trial. I accrued a nasty deep tissue bruise on my metatarsel that knocked me out of the Graveyard 100, I slogged through an 8 hour trail race, sprained an ankle 8 miles into a 50k, and proceeded to fizzle out on two other 50k trail runs. All that lead up to my back injury debaucle at Massanutten. Sounds pretty ridiculously not fun, right?
The answer? Half true. Of course in the moment, it really sucked. Feeling crappy always sucks in the moment, but being present with what is happening is the very reason I do these crazy ass races. I could easily try to wander off to some "happy place", and sometimes I've tried, but these incredibly physical and mental low points are the exact places you find out what you are truly made of. These are the places you don't get venture into every day, and sometimes, it takes running some insane 100 mile race to get there. I think humans have built in a wide margin of safe zones throughout their everyday lives. You know, kind of like the bumper guards they put up at bowling alleys so that even if you roll a shot that couldn't knock over a town drunk, you still never end up in the gutter. The gutter, my friends, if where the learning happens.
The Mohican 100 was a special race, regardless of the fact I got e coli sickness from drinking from a stream when I had run out of water. It was a calculated risk, and one that I ended up on the losing end of. But, here's a question for you. How many runners know what it feels like to spend over 4 hours at an aid station laying down sick after already spending an hour laying on the side of the trail? How many runners know what it feels like to be in the top 10 for 81 miles before a nasty virus strips them of their strength, and in an instant threatens to end their race? Most people, no less runners, would argue that having never experienced something like this is probably a good thing. How could anything like this be fun? Fun? No it was never fun, but a part of me relished the fact that I was getting to partake in an experience, albeit bad, that most people may never get to. This time around I knew that overcoming this bad experience would lead me to a place of greater fortitude than if I have never been there. It was a concept that I had not yet grasped during the onset of my struggles at Massanutten, but became so much more evident as I neared the finish.
Massanutten and Mohican were not pretty races. 203.7 total miles and 61 hours and 33 minutes of elapsed time. Slow as all get out, but I think I learned more in those two races than a lot of my other events combined. A 50k can't take you where a 100 will. A 50 miler can't take you there either. Sometimes you have to go beyond the conventionally accepted distance to reach those fascinatingly uncharted waters.
2003- The year I learned I actually like running
2004- The year I learned I can actually run really far
2005- The year I learned I can actually train to run really far and still be able to walk the next day
2006- The year I learned about proper nutrition
2007- The year I learned I can run 100 miles
2008- The year I learned I can run faster if I work hard
2009- The year I started running faster at ultras and it showed, but got humbled by races like MMT
2010- The year I set PR's at all distances and still got faster, but got humbled by races like Leadville
2011- The year I barely ran because of bad relationships, but learned to press on and finish my dream race, Western States
2012- The year I learned I still had mojo to run fast, but also learned the hard way to stop running when your body tells you to stop
2013- The year I lost a lot my fitness and somehow soldiered through five ultras, two of which were challenging 100's.
What will I learn next?
3 comments:
- Helen said...
HOLY CRAP. I didn't know you ran WS!!!!!!! You're something else, my friend.
- July 2, 2013 at 2:55 PM
- Helen said...
HOLY CRAP, MIKE! I DIDN'T KNOW YOU RAN WS!!!!!!!! Crikey, you're something else!
- July 2, 2013 at 2:55 PM
- Matthew Prineas said...
Just sort of stumbled across your blog & thought, hey, I know that guy. Sorry to hear about your rough year of running. But you'll be back...maybe you are already? Maybe see you again at the February 8-hour or Graveyard?
- September 22, 2013 at 3:06 AM
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Pirate Exercises?
Notice how none of them include baseball?
No surprise there.
And I know my own Redbirds had their problems with these pesky losers, but the Pirates are 16-60 on the road so far this season and I haven't bashed them in quite a while, so… yeah.
Hate me 'cuz my visual aids are top notch, just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
(Image courtesy of 9GAG)
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The Pirate exercises left out:
Accepting prolonged failure and a how to accept trade rape.
hahahahahahahaha okay you got me with that one , too frikin funny..
SLY — True. Trade rape is something they've been the victim of many a time… thank god there's alcohol in Pittsburgh.
Peter — Frikin thanks! hehehe
Trade rape! Haven't heard that term before, but I guess it applies to the Pirates!
Jane — Indeed it does… it sounds like it is: brutal.
Being from an area that celebrate Pirates more than once a year, I can tell you they are like elephants and will not forget your words.
With a young whippersnapper team that they have assembled, I would fret to want to play a lot against them in 2011.
And that time is not as far off as it might seem when these Buccos from the Steel City post a few sabers in your belly.
Youwill need a hearty grog when this bunch of sea-baren seas dogs come across your bow.
Rays Renegade
That's twice in 3 days you got me to bust out laughing!!!!
The Street….Boss!!!!
Gotta please the boss!
–Street Boss
and here i was thinking you forgot about us…were looking solid now. if we win 2 out of 3 against the marlins we'll avoid the worst road record in history!…still embarrasing
RR — I'm always up for some grog. Hearty or not. LOL.
Matt — Never! I could never forget about y'all! Embarrassingly awesome!


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Now what?March 01,2013
That silence you hear is the sound of nothing happening as the so-called sequester takes effect this morning because of the inaction of Congress.
The effects of the massive budget cuts demanded by the sequester will be felt over time, but after the war of words between the Obama administration and Republicans in Congress, morning in post-sequester America might seem like an anti-climax.
Government agencies in Montpelier are already trying to figure out how to cope with less money for health care programs such as vaccinations, drug treatment and HIV tests, as well as meals for seniors. School districts are likely to see a decline in federal education aid. The National Guard is expecting to furlough personnel this spring.
The White House has been playing up these cuts as a way to pin the blame on Republicans. Republicans have been playing down the cuts, as if to say its much ado about nothing. The potential for delays in air travel has received much attention, but federal cuts will be imposed across the board, affecting food inspection, defense production, the processing of taxes and all the other functions of government we take for granted.
The larger effect may be on the performance of the overall economy. Economists say that the last thing we need is a decline in government spending, which has been an important support for the economy as it struggles to regain momentum following the Great Recession. Premature austerity in Europe has pulled Britain and other nations back into recession or worse. Spain is wrestling with depression-level unemployment, and continuing hardship is pushing politics, especially in southern Europe, toward greater extremism.
What the economy could have used instead of massive budget cuts was investment by Washington in the kind of infrastructure projects that are long overdue and which are crucial to future economic progress. But fear of indebtedness has crippled the ability of the government to take steps to revive the economy so it could begin to produce the revenues that would help curb the national debt. Already, health care reforms are eating into projections of future indebtedness, and the spectre of a debt crisis is receding. And yet Republicans have used the bogeyman of debt to cripple the government and threaten the welfare of the people.
The sequester, it will be remembered, was the response of Congress and the president to Republican blackmail in the summer of 2011 when GOP leaders threatened to force the federal government into default unless Congress enacted draconian budget cuts. The draconian cuts were deferred as a so-called super-committee looked futility for an answer. Now across-the-board cuts are upon us.
The tendency in public discussion of these budget battles has been to assign blame to both sides: the Republicans for obstructing action and Obama for failing to exercise leadership. That is a false picture. The sequester itself may have been advanced by the Obama White House, but only as a last-ditch effort to avoid the catastrophe of a default toward which the Republicans were pushing the nation in 2011. Obama has offered to compromise; the Republicans have refused. Inaction is the deliberate strategy of Republicans intent on sabotaging Obamas program. That the voters thrashed Republicans in the November election appears not to figure into the thinking of Republican strategists.
The effects of the sequester will range from the inconvenience of airport delays to the hardship of increased joblessness. It did not have to happen. In the end, as the American people witness Republican-engineered paralysis take effect, they may gain a new appreciation for the government services on which they depend.
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total dance such a cool mix lovely tracks love it to the max awsme .
Really awesome remix Can't stop listening to it Love it all the way
nice 2 see you back bro mist your lovely sweet dance mixes and this 1 is just amazzing and loving it so much well done perfectly mixed from start 2 end and i am dancing away with it to my favs........
Once again very nice comment from one of the greatest DJ's in M9
Thank you so much Goran bro
Awesome mix Harri!!
I love the tracks you used, and this mix is very well mixed
I love it!! Jumps into faves
amazing mix Harri -- it's nice to have you back
fantastic comeback
Awesome Mix Great song selection!!! Super mixing!!! Loved it
So powerful and beautiful!
Loved it bro
Super duper comeback mix Diabo bro
Sound beautiful and loving it
What an amazing comeback mix Love it all the way
Excellent mix Harri
Sounds awesome from start to the endamazing track selection & very well mixed
i love ur mix so much
impressive mix bro!...track so awesome..
great work...
and glad ur back!
Nice cool mix bro.
So powerful but peaceful....and beautiful! Perfectly mixed! Love your style of mixing Harri!
Welcome back budy!
What a rockin' comeback entry Harri bro
Superb track selection, great track placement, great energy levels and terrific mixing
Love it all the way Welcome back to RC
Thanks alot thumpy bro for your awesome and nice comment I really appreciate it
Thats a good One ...Love that...
awesome awesome awesome mix harri bro
superb mixing great tracks
loving it harri bro
oh my!!! super Tracks
Undoubtedly AWSOME mixing love this mix to MAX!!
Very good one