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I really dig the parachute gold but I'm still undecided about this cw. That's my hometeam too so I should be into this but I can't honestly say I'm 100% feeling these.
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I really dig the parachute gold but I'm still undecided about this cw. That's my hometeam too so I should be into this but I can't honestly say I'm 100% feeling these.
Why call them Miami heat.... I would call them the "Lebron XI Blood Baths"
Need to see them worn! Come on Trinidad James, show us some instapics with these as well!
Details look crazy in these pictures. Also, the red probably pops a lot more in person
Aight last week these boys had a orange sole now this week its red. This cw is dope and have been a fan of this since they showed these back in May. Hopefully this is what releases and I will easily pick these up
these pics make me actually like thi cw. Still an ugly shoe though
If anyone hasn't seen these by now they must be living under an avalanche....
the armorposite material is a LJ logo. The rear of shoe is the L and front tip with swoosh is the J. Suprised nonodys noticed.
IMO these would look tough in a galaxy cw.
they needa stop posting the same damn pics and show some with somebody in these with jeans on. shoe isnt straight ulgy, i just think they wouldnt work good with jeans, but its yet to be seen. They look like good balling shoes though no doubt about it
These pics look different than the other 20 articles SN has posted in the last couple of days.... C'mon now we've seen these enough shesssssh
I said surprised nobody noticed thew ay the armor posite is his initials. Stupid fukkin douche.
@isaacdexx the f*ck you sayin man!
@SoCalSole I'm sure a sneaker customizer will do exactly that hahaha....
What are you talking about? What does what you said have to do with have to do with what I said?? I said if anyone hasn't seen the LeBron 11s before then they're living under a rock. That has nothing to do with some initials in some armorposite so who's the stupid douche?
What the fuk I said look at the shoe you imbcile. The armourposite are his initials. The L is the red amour in back on side and the J is the tip on sides as well,fukkin moron.
Give it a rest, your low IQ comment above reiterates what I just stated. No explanation was needed to prove anything to me. I don't care about what your name stands for nor do you need to prove you don't live in poverty by you stating you have Internet. Have a nice day,my times worth more than the petty banter between someone like yourself.
Ignorant: lacking knowledge. I'm not lacking knowledge of the fact that you can't spell and you like to make assumptions and call people names like a child. You're the one who was ignorant. You assumed that I was talking to you, therefore you were ignorant of what I was talking about. Stupid:acting in an unintelligent or careless manner. That describes everything that's connected to your name on this page. If I live in poverty then why do I have access to a computer and internet 24/7? Want to know why my profile name is JFresh136? My first name starts with J, fresh means new, clean, 1+3+6 adds up to 10 , my favorite number. I'm in no pain, I just laugh at your every post.
You'd know about Dr. Seuss, I'm sure. With your ignorant ass self. I recommend getting a hobby like book reading for yourself, (bahaha) and I'm the mentally challenged one. Wtf is wrong with society now days, bet your one of those chumps with a living with a parent or relative. No life at all besides getting the latest fad from mainstream hip hop, to look(fresh). Thanks ,reason I stay over compensated financially is because imbeciles like yourself and your friends.
Calling me stupid is a plain example of your utter ignorance. [Never seen] more like never heard because you'd never see me. Sure your broke ass lives in poverty with a name like jfresh. Smh, your pain is felt you lame. Let's see what Mr. smart ass has to say to upstage my comment. I'm sure it's something ignorant.
You don't have a d1ck anyways, and come back when you graduate the 5th grade you idiot. I've never seen such a stupid person in my life.
Damn gotd already. Peddling my nuts, you ain't teird yet?
This guy is hilarious, it's like the pot calling the kettle black, never gets old.
Some dumb ass siding with another lame. Amen
@JFresh_136 Bahaha I recommend Dr. Seuss for mentally challenged individuals like him.
Lol that's all you can say, you sound like a broken record. Go read some books, it helps.
Yea sure fukkin douche. Go buy some ugly shoes and gotd.
@JFresh_136 Amen.
No, pretty sure you're the douche since you love assuming things. Don't you think if I was talking to you it would be under your comment? Were you dropped on the head as a baby or what? Your answer wouldn't make a difference since we can't fix stupids like you. Too bad mental hospitals closed because I think you need help....
Just thought the comment was in response to mine and your still a douche,lmfao.
Ok clown ass bitch. Fucking Bozo.the clown telling someone shut up,how funny.
Your a crack baby I bet, with your ignorant ass comments.
Bitch nobody said shit to you. Clown ass fag.
@isaacdexx No, I troll on trollers. You need to use your words wisely. Don't be mad, it's okay I'm here for you if you have any issues.
Not mad just stating the obvious. Your the bitch made fag who was on my Dick over a simple comment.
@isaacdexx Why you mad bro?
This coming from a lame who has misspelling in his fairy tale internet alter ego. Kon questing. More like cock queering quest ,fukkin faggit. And I know I misspelled the f word whiny ass homo.
@isaacdexx So you're saying that your phone auto corrects "fucking" to fukkin?
@isaacdexx youre an idiot. shut up.
I ain't on a computer my fukkin phone auto corrects and I ain't trying to argue with a lame fuk who makes me rich. Plus going back to correct a few typos is a waste of time. Y'all retards understand what I mean,lmfao..
@isaacdexx Why don't you buy yourself some education with that money you're collecting. Maybe some English classes might help your grammar skills.
Not me in picture fukkin retarded fuk. I just think it's a funny picture. I love making cash off these ugly ass shoes. Keep em coming Nike. Stupid ass kids andPe even lame ass dudes wasting cash on gross kicks puts extra cash in my pockets. People will buy anything that's over rated by the NBAs puppet boy bron. Why he got his last ring given to him by daddy David stern. Refs on the payroll to give this chump rings to sell merchandise. Keep me paid up. Thanks to all you idiots that believe the NBA ks called fairly now days.
@isaacdexx you must be smoking too much crack.
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We love B. Toys around this house. We've had the Critter Clinic (old style of it) for almost 4 years, Meowsic (old style) for 2 1/2, Parum-pum-pom, the HelloPhone and the FunKeys. Oh, and PopArty. Actually, come to think if it, I'm fairly certain we have Whee-ls. See what I mean? We LOVE them. Bright, vibrant colors that don't chip or fade, and super durable materials for construction. All B. Toys are lead and phalate free. That means they are safe for our little ones even if they end up in their mouths!
The toys are all appealing to kids of many ages, but are also appropriate for the ages specifed for the toy. Whee-ls, for example, have a softer body construction because they are made for littler children. (A note, B. Toys were also known as Battat toys and when I say old style, that's what I'm referring to).
The new B. Toys we've had to play with are the Alphaberry (or as we call it, Baby's First Blackberry). A fun shape, and a neat way to reinforce and learn ABC's for 18 month-5 year olds. Spin the colorful wheel on the side and change the display screen color. Even on loud this is not a LOUD toy. Lots of fun!
- Push any button. A letter
appears & is read aloud.
- 3 screen colors
- 4 musical styles of the
alphabet song
- Cozy in little hands
- Auto-off and volume control
(It can use its inside voice, too)
My kids are big big big into music- the older two sing in the Jr. Choir at church, and we have dance parties almost daily in the kitchen and living room. When B. Toys sent the Okideoke, they went nuts. FINALLY they can have a microphone and have their voices heard!! (I say that from their point of view, because I promise you, they are not quiet children. They've been heard all along). What's not fun to a kid about having a microphone to hear themselves sound all sorts of famous?
- Amplify your voice
- 8 pre-recorded tunes
- Record a message or a song
- Control the tempo
We needed a new doctor kit. Our old one literally disappeared, perhaps disintegrated from overplay? I'm not sure. But the new Dr. Doctor kit is awesome. I love that the doctor kit itself is large enough to add extra doctor-type items into- something our old one definitely did not.
- Stethoscope with heartbeat sound
- Beeper with light & sound (this does NOT come with the batteries so you have to get them yourself)
- Otoscope & mirror
- Blood pressure cuff
- Syringe & scissors
- Thermometer & tweezers
One thing besides the design (NEUTRAL!! and FUN!!) of the B. Toys that really makes them stand out to me from other toys is their consciousness of the world around us. Their packaging is an excellent example of just how much they think about their impact on this earth. The new B. Toys boxes actually double as wrapping paper-a few quick things to do and you have an already wrapped gift – and haven't wasted a single piece of paper in doing so. The box wraps are not hard to do: (instructions can be found here)
B. Toys that do use batteries have different volume settings. Parents, if you are like me, this is REALLY important. There are some brands of toys that, while fun, are SUPER LOUD and give me an instant headache. Thank you, smart people of B. Toys, for thinking of the ears of the adults in the house….the car….the store…
I would like to take a moment to give thanks to B. Toys for including (most of) the necessary batteries in the packaging. Nice attention to detail, yet again! Kids don't have to wait for someone to locate enough batteries that are 1. not dead and 2. in the right size and 3. in the right quantity!!
You can find B. Toys at Target stores, Barnes & Noble and specialty retailers nationwide and many places online. Just visit B.Toys.com to find a retailer near you! You'll be helping to give back, too, when you purchase B. Toys. For every toy purchased, 10 cents goes to Free the Children.
I received samples of this product to facilitate my review. Opinions expressed within are my own.


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BEEVILLE – Short of a hurricane or tropical storm, the National Weather Service in Corpus Christi is warning to expect the drought to continue through next winter.
Warning Coordination Meteorologist John Metz, in the service's first online drought webinar – they are planned monthly – said the current drought is the driest since records have been kept – drier than 1917, the 1930s or the 1950s.
So far this year, precipitation levels for Bee, Goliad, Refugio, Live Oak, Karnes and McMullen counties all are 65 percent below normal.
The severity of the drought is indicated by calculating that the chances of such a dry spell occurring is about 2 percent. "This has never happened before," Metz said.
Another measure is lake levels. Choke Canyon is 42 percent of capacity; Lake Corpus Christi is at 15.8 percent of normal.
The drought condition map shows Bee County suffering from an extreme drought; counties directly south are in the exceptional, or highest, drought condition.
"Summer isn't here yet," Metz said, "and already we're in extreme drought." The Keetch-Byrum Drought Index (KBDI – used to measure soil moisture) is between 500 and 600, and 93 counties in the state already have instituted burn bans.
Equally alarming is the Weather Service's long-range forecast, which mostly hinges on water temperatures in the Pacific.
If the waters are cool, known as La Nina, the jet stream shifts to the northern areas of the United States, which results in less rain in South Texas.
If the waters are warm, known as El Nino, the jet stream moves over Texas, bringing with it a higher chance for moisture.
But the extended forecast maps are labeled EC – equal chance. "Equal chance," Metz said, "means it's anybody's guess."
Meaning, drought conditions are expected to persist or to get worse through next winter.


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Man Without a Country
Lifelong Pasadena resident Andres Romero fights deportation to Mexico after serving nearly 10 years in state prison
By Kevin Uhrich 01/23/2013
For Cheryl Romero and her family, the 2012 holiday season was going to be especially joyous.
After spending nearly 10 years behind bars for committing a drug-induced attempted burglary, Romero's 53-year-old husband, Andres, was set to be released from state prison in Norco three days before Christmas.
However, the Romero family's Yuletide euphoria was short-lived, turning to bitter disappointment after Cheryl was informed that her husband of nearly 33 years would not be set free, after all.
On Dec. 21 — one day before the planned release — the family learned Andres would be taken from Norco to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency's detention center in Adelanto, a small desert town near Victorville. There, he would be held with hundreds of other men for yet another legal proceeding, this one set for Wednesday before a controversial administrative Immigration Court judge. That proceeding will decide whether he should be deported to Mexico. Although Romero has been living in the United States all of but 2 of his 53 years, he admits to never filling out the paperwork to become a naturalized citizen.
For Cheryl, after waiting for the father of her four adult children to do his time and finally come home from prison, the news of Andres' possible deportation was nearly unbearable.
"I expected the worst, but when the worst came …," says Cheryl, her voice filling with emotion while speaking with the Pasadena Weekly last Thursday in the living room of the family's modest home on Del Mar Boulevard in eastern Pasadena. Cheryl and her 27-year-old son, Andres III, addressed letters to her husband while she spoke with a reporter.
"I didn't expect what we are going through now. It's a wake-up call for a lot of people," she continues. "I'm sure others are going through the same thing. Wow. I'm just blown away by it."
'My America!'
Cheryl was correct: Likely many families — mostly those of Mexican and Central American heritage — are going through something similar to what she and her children are experiencing with her husband's federal deportation proceedings.
Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, the US Department of Homeland Security was formed. Out of that agency grew US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the principal investigative arm of Homeland Security and the second largest investigative agency in the federal government. ICE, according to the agency's Web site, was created through the merger of the investigative and interior enforcement elements of the US Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, or INS, in 2003.
According to an ongoing study of immigration enforcement conducted by Syracuse University, ICE apparently hasn't been very effective at getting rid of terrorists, with deportation for terrorism-related activities decreasing from 88 in the decade prior to 9/11 to just 37 since then.
On the other hand, there have been 2.3 million deportations in the 10 years after 9/11, as compared to 1.6 million in the decade before the attacks. Most of those deportations involve run-of-the-mill immigrants from Central America, primarily Mexico, a place where people flee drug cartels that run roughshod over corrupt government officials, resulting in innocent people dying in the crossfire, or being killed for daring to inform on these ostensibly illegal activities. Mexico is a country so riddled with violence that journalists are routinely murdered, Facebook users are mercilessly slaughtered with machetes, according to CNN and other reputable news sources, and most journalism advocacy groups, such as Reporters Without Borders, and academic political science institutions like Freedom House, headed by former CIA Director James Woolsey, are barely able to classify it as a "free" democratic state when it comes to gauging press and other basic liberties.
When viewed in terms of the activities of the past two American presidential administrations, "the annual number of deportation proceedings since 9/11 increased on average from 219,941 a year under President Bush to 246,572 a year under President Obama," according to the Syracuse University report, which, according to its authors, is based upon "a detailed analysis of the millions of records covering each deportation proceeding initiated by the Department of Homeland Security and the (INS) in Immigration Courts." The individual case records were obtained through requests by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed with the Executive Office for Immigration Review, a unit within the Department of Justice, according to the report's Web site home page.
Other key findings of the Syracuse University report state:
* Instances where a removal was sought on some other "national security" grounds in the decade before 9/11 numbered 384, or less than 2 out of every 10,000 removal proceedings. As was the case under terrorism, these types of deportation actions became even rarer after 9/11, dropping to 360.
* Individuals charged with having committed some sort of criminal offense were more common but still represented fewer than 1 out of 4 (22.8 percent) of the 1.6 million people charged during the decade before 9/11. "By comparison, even though there was a vast increase in all deportations in the post-attack period, the actual count of criminal filings dropped. Furthermore, when examined in percentage terms, those charged with committing a crime fell from 22.8 percent in the decade before to 15.2 percent after 9/11," the report states.
* From 1991 to 2001, charges filed against 3 out of every 4 suspected illegal immigrants (75.7 percent) were limited to immigration violations. Since 9/11, this enforcement component had grown to nearly 6 out of every 7 of all individuals (83.2 percent). And, in sharp contrast to ICE's stated priorities of catching crooks and terrorists, this category was the only one that saw real growth in numbers, going from 1,193,564 before the attacks to 1,896,717 in the decade after.
According to another study, conducted by the Medill Journalism School at Northwestern University, Mexican nationals had the highest rate of removals throughout the previous decade, making up about 70 percent of the total number of deportations by the close of 2008. Other countries that led in receiving US deportees throughout the past decade included Honduras, Guatemala, Dominican Republic and Colombia, according to the Medill data.
Childhood sweethearts
For as much as ICE says its goals are to weed out and deport terrorists and criminal aliens, more than 82 percent of deportees were not charged with any criminal violation, "nor was any claim advanced that they were a terrorist or posed a security risk," according to the Syracuse University study.
Romero is considered a "criminal alien," one who has spent the past decade in a place where immigration officials can easily boost their numbers in that category — sitting in a prison cell, with his records readily available for review by federal agencies, which since 9/11 have been sharing information with state and local law enforcement more than ever. It also doesn't help Romero's argument for freedom that he has been in and out of state prison for mostly drug-related crimes since the 1980s.
In his favor, however, is the fact that deportation of criminal aliens dropped 7.6 percentage points between the decade before 9/11 and the decade after 9/11. Whether that was due to less enforcement, fewer criminal aliens to deport or ICE agents' bypassing Immigration Courts by simply shipping people back to their nation of origin following their detention, is not immediately known.
What makes Romero's case somewhat unusual is the fact that while he may have been born in Tijuana, he has been living in California for 51 years, more than four decades of that time in Pasadena. Further, Cheryl Romero, formerly Cheryl Crawford, was born in the United States. Although Andres always considered himself a US citizen and never filed the proper paperwork to get on a path to permanent residence as Cheryl's husband, for what it's worth, the two have known each other since they were 13, when they attended Pasadena's Blair High School together in the 1970s. They married shortly after graduation.
"Since this turn of events in my life, everyone has asked me, 'Why didn't you become a naturalized United States citizen?'" Andres Romero wrote in a Jan. 10 column for the Weekly titled "My America!"
"My response is and always will be, 'Because I am an American citizen!'" he wrote. "This is my country! Maybe not on some binding and legal document, but this is the country I was raised in and have lived in my entire life!'"
Inside out
Andres Romero knows it will take a virtual miracle to avoid deportation. But then, he's already seen a few of those in his troubled life.
In prison a number of times, mostly for thefts related to his addiction to crack cocaine, Romero's last conviction in 2003 for attempted burglary, occurring shortly after he relapsed, made him a prime Three Strikes candidate. This meant that, under California law, he could have faced a sentence of 25 years to life in prison for having three felony convictions on his record.
If not for the work he did during the late 1990s and early 2000s as a volunteer gang counselor in Pasadena and Altadena — dealing directly with the Pasadena City Prosecutor's Office on gang-related outreach and organizing peaceful football and basketball games, picnics and other events involving members of some of Pasadena's toughest gangs and their families — Romero would likely still be sitting in prison, and not confined at the Adelanto Detention Facility.
At the time of his sentencing in 2003, a number of Pasadena civic leaders and others, among them former police Chief Bernard Melekian, Assemblyman and former Pasadena City Councilman Chris Holden (and, in the spirit of full disclosure, this reporter) wrote letters commending Romero's good deeds and urging leniency for his latest nonviolent offense. That letter-writing campaign paid off, as Romero received 11 years in state prison. An opinionated man with often good ideas and valid observations, Romero has also occasionally written columns for the Weekly from prison titled "Inside Out."
In his federal deportation case, Romero is rallying supporters once again in hopes of persuading Immigration Court Judge Anna Ho to let him go. However, according to published reports, that may also require some type of divine intercession.
According to a 2006 story appearing in the Baltimore Sun, Ho was among 20 of the nation's 224 immigration judges to have complaints filed against them, prompting a review by then-US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. According to the Sun, Ho was on the immigration bench in Seattle in 2001 when the case that resulted in a rebuke from the appellate court was being heard. In that case, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco concluded Ho had failed to conduct herself as an impartial judge, "but rather as a prosecutor anxious to pick holes in the petitioner's story," according the news report.
Prior to the Gonzales review in 2006, Ho's record when it came to denying petitions for asylum dropped significantly. From 2004 to 2008, Ho heard 427 asylum cases. From 2004 to 2006, the judge denied 69.7 percent of the cases. From 2006 to 2008, her denial rate fell to 62.8 percent, according to the Syracuse University TRAC project.
Then something not yet fully explained occurred. The latest TRAC data, released earlier this month for fiscal year 2013, which began in October, shows ICE requests for deportation orders dropped 25 percent from last year's pace. "During the first three months of FY 2013 only 56.6 percent of Immigration Court closures resulted in a removal or voluntary departure order. In the remainder of the cases (43.4 percent), the individual was allowed to remain in the country. This year's figure is by far the lowest removal percentage seen since TRAC' systematic tracking began in 1998," states the latest report. The declines, postulate the study's authors, could be due to an increase in prosecutorial discretion in bringing only certain cases to court.
According to the US Justice Department, Homeland Security in 2011 allowed for more prosecutorial discretion in determining whether certain cases could be considered a law enforcement priority. If not deemed such, Homeland Security could request "administrative closure" of the case, meaning it would be removed from the court's calendar. This does not mean the case is completed or that the court has sided with the petitioner. "If the court orders your case administratively closed, it simply means you will have no further hearings unless you or DHS specifically ask the court to schedule a hearing," according to Justice Department's Web site.
"Deportation orders issued by the Immigration Courts started falling in 2010," states the latest Syracuse TRAC report. "While deportation orders rose slightly [last] October, this appears to have been only a one-month anomaly: both November and December 2012 orders fell sharply. December orders were also down 23.2 percent from the average monthly number of deportation orders issued during FY 2012, and were 38 percent lower than the monthly average during FY 2011." However, despite fewer removal orders, deportations have actually continued climbing.
"Recent case-by-case data obtained by TRAC from ICE under the Freedom of Information Act suggests that ICE may increasingly be bypassing the Immigration Courts, deporting individuals without court action using other provisions of the law," the report states. This means Romero — or, for that matter, any undocumented immigrant lacking legal representation — could have their names removed from the court docket by prosecutors and never have their cases heard by a judge.
For now, he's been lucky — again. Romero's case is scheduled to be heard by Judge Ho on Wednesday morning in downtown Los Angeles. He plans to ask for time to find a lawyer. According to ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice, detainees may have attorneys, but legal aid is not directly provided by the government, as it would be in traditional state and federal criminal courts.
"While individuals in administrative immigration proceedings MAY be represented by legal counsel, it is not like a criminal case where they will be provided with a court appointed attorney if they don't have a lawyer," Kice said in an email.
While the government does not offer legal representation to immigrants, at least one nonprofit organization is known to aid detainees who need counsel. The Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project, a program of Catholic Charities of Los Angeles that gets most of its funding from the government, provides continuing legal education on immigration law to attorneys willing to work for free in helping detainees. Esperanza has helped people detained at not only Adelanto, but also at the Crittenton Services for Children and Families shelter in Fullerton, the David & Margaret Home for Children in La Verne, where the Office of Refugee Resettlement holds immigrant children while their cases are pending, and Men's Central Jail and the Twin Towers jail in downtown Los Angeles.
A good man
If anyone has a right to be angry with Romero, it's his wife and children. Andres Romero III says he gave up on his dad nearly a decade ago, when he went to prison for a fourth time on a drug-related offense.
"His addiction, it caused a lot of hurt to the family, and it put us in a lot of holes, you know. I did my best to fill some of those potholes. It didn't always work, but we found a way to make it happen. I hated him for a long time, you know," the younger Romero says. "He caused a lot of hurt to my mom and my sister. It took a long time to not just forgive him, but to want him back in our lives. It took a couple of years to actually want a relationship with him. I think I was 21 or 22 when I first started talking to him again and we began to rehab our relationship. I had absolutely no intention of going to visit him. I just didn't want to see him there, but it took a while to rehab that relationship, but I wanted him in my life."
When it became clear his father wasn't coming home, the son visited him for the first time while he was in federal custody at Adelanto.
"I felt like he needed us, and I needed something. I wanted him to know that we are still here. Even though I never went to see him those 10 years, I just wanted him to know that we are waiting for you."
"I just want someone to grow old with, that's why I've stayed married to this man," says Cheryl. "You're not supposed to grow old by yourself. You're supposed to grow old together."
Both mother and son say drugs are what brought so much tragedy into their lives.
"He used to take care of my grandmother, take her for walks. He's got a good heart, but he just got caught up in drugs and it totally wasn't him. It's like a wolf that needs to eat and it's hungry …That's what a lot drug addicts do," Cheryl says.
"I mean, it wasn't like he chose to be a drug addict, either," says the son.
Andres Romero Jr. says he fears most for his wife's financial and physical well-being should he be deported. Cheryl has worked at Avon in Pasadena for the past 18 years, and the company announced last week that it is planning to close next year.
"That's another blow," Andres Jr. says in a telephone interview from Adelanto of Avon's announcement. He claims to have jobs already lined up for when he is finally released. Although being sent to violence-wracked Mexico with no connections and speaking little Spanish is a major concern, he worries more about his wife losing her job while he's in exile. "She always says don't worry, but that would be a real hardship," he says.
Andres III just wants his dad to know: "We've been here the whole time," he says. "We aren't going anywhere. We are all in this together. I want him to know that he is still loved. I just want our family back together. Really, that's what it comes down to."
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As his own family says, "it's like a wolf that needs to eat and it's hungry". Good for him that his family loves him. But how many people did that wolf eat when he was hungry? He squandered a great opportunity, and that is on him. Enough ink on this guy, may he find a great new life, mas alla, in Mexico.
You propagandize here as if four-strikes, "drug-induced" crime is somehow not really a perp's fault. Oh, and Kevin, Mexico is not Central America. While it may be "South-of-the-Border," Mexico is yet, still a part of North America. Go ahead, just make the mistake of calling someone from El Salvador a Mexican.
Meanwhile, the son says: "I mean, it wasn't like he chose to be a drug addict, either ..." this sounds a whole lot like the homophone of that river in Egypt.
As it is, even if homeboy is deported, he'll simply return to California in a few months to a year or so, where his family will join him in another location to continue living under-the-radar like ten other million (or more) of his south-of-the-border, illegal resident compatriots. All it takes is desire and money, 'cause as often as not, our government is the enabler, if not the coyote itself.


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Rose Bowl tickets go on sale
Badgers beat Nebraska in Big Ten Championship game
Tickets for the Rose Bowl are officially on the market.
The Wisconsin Badgers football team is making its third straight appearance in the Rose Bowl.
General public tickets went on sale Monday morning through the university, with students able to purchase starting Sunday night.
The University Bookstore on campus has one "Back to Back to Back" sweatshirt for fans now but has more custom clothing coming in.
A little more than half of about 24,400 tickets allotted to UW are now accounted for, ranging from $150 to $185 each.
The UW Athletics Department said it expects the strong play against Nebraska this weekend to help with ticket sales despite an 8-5 record this season.
"We went into the season knowing what the rules were going to be, and we got to the championship game. And they said, 'If you win it, you go to the Rose Bowl,' and we did. So I don't know if there's any other way for us to look at it," said Justin Doherty, assistant athletics director.
Stub Hub has Rose Bowl tickets ranging from $180 for an upper deck seat to $2,500 for club seats.
Doherty said there were more donor requests for tickets in previous years, but he said playing in Pasadena should not be something fans take for granted.
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I notice lately that when I pump and it slows and eventually I stop getting milk in a session, I still have alot of hard "blocks" in my breast that I think are filled with milk. No matter what I do, I can't seem to get the milk out of those hard areas. The rest of my breast is soft and I haven't gotten nearly what I'm supposed to. (I usually get 8-10 ounces of milk per day at work. Today I got 5.5 ounces but I feel like there is still more milk being retained in my breast.
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But once they got everything in sync against the Victoria St. Joseph Flyers, there was no stopping the Tigers.
Goliad overcame an early 3-0 deficit and reeled off 34 unanswered points to open the 2012 season with a 34-10 non-district victory over the Flyers at Tiger Stadium.
Quarterback Dalton Sturm had three touchdown runs and running back Jeremy Pena added two as Goliad rolled up over 400 yards of offense.
"You never know what's going to happen in the first quarter of the first ball game," Mares said. "But we settled down and the kids did well."
After the Tigers lost the ball on a pair of fumbles on their first two possessions, Sturm scored on runs of 7 and 24 yards after St. Joseph went up 3-0 on a 27-yard Tyler Englebart field goal.
Goliad scored two more times in the final 5:24 of the first half to take a 27-3 lead into intermission.
Pena raced 69 yards for a touchdown with 5:24 to go and, on the Tigers' next possession, Sturm broke several would-be tackles en route to a 24-yard touchdown run with five seconds left before halftime.
"I just pulled it on the read and somebody hit me," Sturm said. I just bounced off of him. I had very god blocking as well."
Sturm's play fakes had the Flyers' defense guessing the entire game. Mares was pleased with the Tigers performance in the newly installed Wing-T offense.
"Coach (John) Livas and the offensive staff have done a great job ever since we've started this thing," Mares said. "We're going to get better."
The Tigers finished with 378 yards rushing and needed only two pass completions on the night. Pena led the ground game with 136 yards on 13 carries, while Sturm added 96 yards on 11 carries.
"The first game is so important," Sturm said. "We got some momentum going and everything is god, so hopefully we'll come back next week and do the same thing."
Pena's 1-yard touchdown plunge with 5:21 left in the third quarter ended the Tigers' scoring as substitutes played for much of the rest of the game on both sides of the ball.
Quarterback Eric Alvarez got the Flyers in the end zone with 15 seconds left in the third quarter on a 10-yard touchdown run.
The Tigers will return to action Friday night when they travel to Yorktown for a 7:30 p.m. contest against the Class 1A Wildcats.


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You guys told me to chill when I called STAT out after the Bosto game, now I'll tell you to chill out.
That's our team and it's not going to change, you better start living with that
Atleast we're making the Playoffs these days...better than the 23 win seasons under Isiah.....but honestly, as long as James Dolan is our owner we'll never win a championship.
D'Antoni is a good coach, Melo is a great player, Amar'e is a good player, but these 3 are not fitting together.....not one bit, plus our backcout is D-League level....
I'd say time to rebuild via Dwight Howard, but it's obviously not going to happen. Melo and Amar'e sell tickets and Dolan likes D'Antoni.
So once again, our cap space is eaten up for the next 4-5 years and our roster is stacked with good, but also very expensive players that won't win us a championship.
I don't know what to make out of this situation, on the one hand it's cool to have superstars and hype here and I'm somewhat proud Melo is a Knick, on the other hand I feel very sad, because we've ruined our cap for years to come with no chance of winning a championship.
It's no coincedence that D'Antoni, STAT and Melo have never made it out of the Western Conference Finals...they're just no champions I'm afraid, but Dolan is not interested.
This is about money first and not success on the court.
Things would be very different with Spike Lee as our owner....
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Critique for No Reason
One of the wonderful things about the interwebs is how they allow us to time travel. Well, into the past at least. Which really isn't time travel at all. Anyway, what I'm really trying to say is that I want to go back to a post that my friend Mr. Lung put up last week. Now, I can rally behind the Thanksgiving and giving thanks sentiments included in the entry but I have to take issue with the picture he included. It's not that I dislike the picture. In fact, I think it's adorable. Rather, the problem is that it is a complete misrepresentation of the two of us.
Check that. It's not so much a misrepresentation as it is a mislabeling. See, on the most basic, phenomenal (in the Kantian sense) level, Jeff is shorter than I am. A lot shorter. I don't mean any disrespect by this but it's true. I am several inches taller than my friend and any graphic representation of the two of us should reflect this fact. Also, I don't wear lipstick but Jeff has been known to sell Mary Kay products to supplement his income. So, there's that.
However, there is one thing out there that is not misrepresentational and that is the new latest leaders up on the MLBlogs website. I have to tell you, it's pretty amazing that you all have managed to keep us in the top five for months on end, especially considering how much we've been slacking as of late. But, it just goes to show that there ain't no party like an RSBS party because an RSBS party don't quit. Except for on major holidays. Thank you for indulging us and we hope to see you back here soon.
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Jeff is pretty short. I think he had a small part in the "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" movie as an oompa loompa.
I'm still waiting for that royalty check too, Tim.😉 And yes, Julia, party like it's 2004… or 2007.
Thanksgiving wasn't the same without you guys. I kept eating turkey and then checking RSBS. And then eating more turkey and then checking RSBS. You get the picture. It was such a lonely holiday without a single post from you two. Sob.
Jane, I was doing the same thing only instead of checking RSBS (because I was at my mother's who still has *gasp* dial-up) I was putting money on how many points the Lions would lose by. I came out on top… and STUFFED!
Congrats, you seem to have a loyal reader base. I enjoy your blog a lot, even though you both can get rather liberal in your political ranting (I guess that can be a pro or con, depending on your own political stance), but you have enough of a humorous take on everything, it is always a fun read. Keep up the great posts, gentlemen!
Thanks, Bob. Good to have another Redbird fan on board to help me when I go postal having had enough of Mozeliak's incompetency.
Congrats on being in the top 5 so consistently! I just broke the top 50 myself (23).🙂. I enjoy the blog!


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Gov. will speak at rally opposing abortion rights
Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds will join for a Statehouse rally in opposition to abortion rights.
Nine groups opposed to abortion rights will gather Monday afternoon in the Capitol Rotunda to pray. They later will meet with lawmakers to discuss abortion-related legislation.
Branstad opposes abortion rights but has declined to say whether he supported any abortion bills introduced this session.
Jennifer Bowen, executive director of Iowa Right to Life, says this is the 10th anniversary of the annual rally.
She says her organization supports a bill introduced by Republican Rep. Matt Windschitl of Missouri Valley that would ban abortions in which a doctor meets with a woman by webcam and can then prescribe medication.
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If you are heading to the CEDIA trade show next week, the Epson booth is one you won't want to miss...
Epson will be unveiling three new 3D 1080p models based on the new D9 inorganic 480 Hz LCD panels—the Pro Cinema 6010, the Home Cinema 5010, and the Home Cinema 3010.
The most aggressively priced unit, the 3010, delivers full HD 3D with two pairs of 3D glasses and an emitter for only $1,599. It is rated at 30,000:1 contrast and 2200 lumens, and is scheduled for shipment in October.
The 5010 and 6010 are the higher performance models, rated at 200,000:1 contrast and 2400 lumens. The differences between them are related to marketing channels. The Pro Cinema 6010 is packaged for the custom installer. It includes ISF Calibration for customizable settings, an extra lamp, a ceiling mount, a third year of warranty, and a cable cover for flexibility in installation. The 5010 will be more widely available through online resellers, and is a less expensive package designed for the DIY home theater enthusiast. Pricing on the 5010 and 6010 is not yet determined, but you can count on it being attractive. These models should be available in November.
A version of Home Cinema models will offer wireless capability. Those models will be known as the 5010e and the 3010e respectively.
Epson still plans to release the 1,000,000:1 contrast, reflective LCD based Pro Cinema 610000 that was announced last year. CEDIA attendees will be able to see this unit in action at the Epson booth as well. Currently this model, which is not 3D enabled, is scheduled for shipment prior to year end.
I had an opportunity to see the 3010 and 6010 last week at Epson's headquarters in Long Beach, CA. From what I could tell, Epson appears to be taking their tradition of excellent performance for the money to the next level. 3LCD technology has been improving by leaps and bounds. It is now capable of producing rich, high contrast, pixel free video images that were unimaginable just a few years ago.
We will be anxious to get our hands on the Home Cinema 3010 and Home Cinema 5010 as soon as possible after CEDIA. Assuming the review samples arrive on schedule, the reviews should be done by the end of this month.
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What I meant was obviously you thought the trade(s) had potential to improve your team otherwise why would you agree to trade in the first place?
And I don't see the point in comparing NBA stats here. The only thing that matters in this league is fantasy points.
When I traded Deron for Harden it was 32fp vs 34fp and Harden was slumping and Deron was improving at that time he had 2-3 really solid games in a row.
Yes Steve Nash was injured but Paul George was averaging 28fp and to this day Nash is averaging 27fp so had George not improved considerably that part would have been a wash. The deal made a lot of sense for Soupastars because he had ONE PG on his roster and several SFs. What would have happened with this trade if George carried on playing how he had all season up to that point and Deron had gone back to his 20/10 averages? It would have been a solid trade for both parties.
Yes it is fantasy basketball and Drummond's "bright future" would be occurring right now had he not gone down injured, you know this just as well as I do which is why you traded for him. The dude is averaging nearly 25fp in 19 minutes per game... Everyone and their grandmothers knows that when he's put into the starter job he's going to average 30-35fp.
I don't really remember the trades you had vetoed. Wasn't there only 1? I'm obviously not counting the ones from yesterday which you even vetoed yourself lol...
I have vetoed many trades this year. I called for a veto on the WaterMELOn rape of Soupastars but it didn't happen. I also did in fact veto both of Displacers trades today for his own good but I'm sure those will not be vetoed either.
You can look back on that trade now in hindsight and call it the most unbalanced but actually at the time it was reasonably balanced and it made sense for both of us as I had a hole at SF and Soupastars had a gaping hole at PG.
Plus as I mentioned, I didn't even try to do the Drummond for Hickson part, that was offered to me in a counter offer, and I gladly accepted


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- Fizz's dexterity allows him to ignore unit collision and take less damage from basic attacks.
- Urchin Strike (Q)
- Fizz dashes through his target, dealing normal attack damage plus additional magic damage.
- Seastone Trident (W)
- Passive: Fizz's attacks rend his target, applying a damage over time effect that strengthens if the opponent is low on life.
- Active: Fizz's attacks are empowered, dealing additional magic damage and causing grievous wounds to his opponents.
- Playful (E)
- Fizz hops onto his staff, becoming untargetable. He may then choose to slam the ground or hop off to another location
- Chum the Waters (Ultimate)
- Fizz flings a fish that can bind itself onto enemy champions - After a brief delay, a Shark emerges from the earth to eat the fish, dealing damage and knocking back all enemy champions.
- Twin Disciplines:
- Initial spell vamp gained upon obtaining 10 bonus attack damage reduced to 8% from 10%.
- Additional spell vamp reduced to 1% per 6 attack damage from 1% per 5 attack damage.
- Initial magic damage bonus upon obtaining 20 ability power reduced to 8% from 10%.
- Additional magic damage bonus reduced to 1% per 6 ability power from 1% per 5 ability power.
- Mark of the Assassin: projectile based damage and proc based damage reduced to 45/70/95/120/145 from 50/75/100/125/150.
- Stats
- Movement speed reduced to 300 from 305.
- Phosphorus Bomb
- Base damage increased to 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280 from 70 / 120 / 170 / 220 / 270
- Now reveals non-stealthed champions for 6 seconds in addition to revealing the area for 6 seconds.
- Burning Agony
- Essence Flux
- Now correctly flagged as an area effect spell.
- Stats:
- Base mana lowered to 255 from 302.
- Range reduced to 525 from 550.
- Buckshot:
- Damage per additional missile reduced to 25% from 30%.
- Fixed a few small tooltip errors.
- Ionian Fervor
- Null Sphere: cast range reduced to 650 from 700.
- Force Pulse: damage increased to 80/130/180/230/280 from 60/115/170/225/280.
- Shunpo:
- Now moves Katarina in front of the target.
- When Killer Instincts is active, Katarina moves behind the target.
- Bio-Arcane Barrage: bonus range reduced to 130/150/170/190/210 from 130/160/190/220/250.
- Stats
- Base armor increased to 18 from 13.
- Brutal Strikes
- Cooldown reduced to 14 seconds from 16.
- Ground Slam
- Cooldown reduced to 7 seconds from 8.
- Alpha Strike: mana cost reduced to 60/70/80/90/100 from 80/90/100/110/120.
- Highlander: mana cost reduced to 100 from 120.
- Bullet Time
- Attack damage ratio increased to .45 from .4.
- Unspeakable Horror
- Cast range reduced to 425 from 500.
- Leash range reduced to 465 from 525.
- Ragnarok
- Olaf is now immune to blinds and silences for the duration.
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- Base mana regeneration per 5 seconds increased to 7.0 from 4.54.
- Mana regeneration per 5 seconds per level increased to 0.5 from 0.45.
- Command: Attack
- Cast range increased to 825 from 800.
- The Equalizer: now works with smart cast. Hold down the smart cast hotkey to mark the beginning of the line, and release the hotkey to cast.
- Cryptic Gaze: ability power ratio reduced to 0.9 from 1.0.
- Death's Caress: ability power ratio reduced to 0.9 from 1.0.
- Insanity Potion
- Aria of Perseverance:
- Mana cost adjusted to 60/65/70/75/80 from 65 at all ranks.
- Passive aura reduced to 7/9/11/13/15 armor and magic resist from 8/11/14/17/20.
- Noxious Trap
- Now has an ammo stack and cooldown timer on the buff bar.
- Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 46.5 from 44.5.
- Explosive Shot
- Tristana will now automatically attack the target of Explosive Shot.
- Buster Shot
- Knockback radius increased to 200 from 175.
- Now has an indicator around the target to show knockback radius (similar to Brand's Conflagration.
- Contaminate
- Fixed a bug where the display range for Tides of Blood was much shorter than the actual range.
- : lifesteal reduced to 15% from 18%.
- Ryze's Arcane Mastery. : no longer triggers spell cast effects like , , or
- and are no longer purchasable in the Dominion game mode.
- Added small amounts of experience to various jungle monsters in order to maintain current jungling paths without the necessity of the Awareness mastery (which increases experience gained).
- Death Recap:
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- Fixed numerous bugs with the display of ability damage.
- Masteries have been remade.
- Improved Summoner Spells are now condensed into 3 masteries, each at the first tier of their respective trees.
- Summoner's Wrath improves Offense tree Summoner Spells.
- Summoner's Resolve improves Defense tree Summoner Spells.
- Summoner's Insight improves Utility tree Summoner Spells.
- All summoner spell icons have been updated.
- "Welcome to the Crystal Scar" announcement will now play at the start of a Dominion game.
- Fixed a bug where Allied Player Portraits would not update unless they were on screen.
- Fixed a bug that caused an error to appear in chat on Dominion.
Summoner Spells
- Empowers your champion, increasing ability power by 10-78 (depending on level) and attack speed by 35% for 12 seconds. 220 second cooldown.
- Improved Surge increases the attack speed bonus to 40% and ability power gained by 10%
- Usable at summoner level 1.
- Cooldown increased to 70 seconds from 55.
- Improved Clairvoyance increases duration by 2 seconds, down from 4 and no longer reduces the cooldown.
- Now cleanses summoner spell debuffs such as Exhaust's movement speed and damage reduction and Ignite's damage over time.
- Improved Cleanse no longer reduces cooldown, but now extends the secondary disable reduction buff by 1 second.
- Duration reduced to 2.5 seconds from 3.
- Improved Exhaust no longer increases the duration.
- Cooldown increased to 265 from 255.
- Range reduced to 400 from 450.
- has been removed.
- is now usable at Summoner Level 1, down from Summoner Level 4.
- is now improved in the Offense Mastery tree instead of Utility.
- Heal amount per level increased to 25 from 20.
- Improved Heal no longer reduces the cooldown but now increases the amount healed by 15%.
- Added to Summoner's Rift.
- Promotes the nearest allied siege minion, increasing its attack range, health, armor, and magic resist. 180 second cooldown.
- Improved in the Utility tree - Improved Promote increases the defensive bonus stats of promoted minions by 15%.
- Now usable at Summoner Level 8 (on both the Crystal Scar and Summoner's Rift), up from Summoner Level 1.
- has been removed.
- Health bonus upon reviving is now innate to the spell (as opposed to requiring Improved Revive).
- Improved Revive now grants a 125% movement speed increase upon revival down from 225% without any mastery.
- Now improved in the Defense tree instead of Offense.
- Improved Smite no longer reduces cooldown but the gold gained on cast is increased to 10 from 5.
- Cooldown reduced to 70 seconds from 75 seconds.
- Summoner's Insight no longer reduces cooldown.
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Summoner Spells
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- Now has a new death particle and sound.
Rune Pages
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Draft Mode
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Ranked Teams
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- Jungle experience increased by 5% to compensate for new mastery trees.
- Fixed a bug where spectators would crash if a champion stealths not in the vision of the spectator.
- Fixed a bug where Shift + enter did not work in multiple languages.
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- Specialty crops take center stage at farm bill hearing
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- Panelists hit on a number of important topics for U.S. specialty crop producers during Wednesday hearing.
- House farm bill write-up expected to begin in mid-May.
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STAX, burdensome regulations
On a different subject, Barry Bushue, who farms in Oregon and is an American Farm Bureau Federation vice president, advocated for allowing program crop producers the options of "either a Stacked Income Protection Plan (STAX) or a target price program, on top of participation in crop insurance and marketing loans, as the three legs of a safety net." This would mean a "STAX program for all program commodities, as well as for apples, potatoes, tomatoes, grapes and sweet corn" plus providing "a target price program for all program commodities, with the exception of cotton."
Read Bushue's prepared statement here.
STAX, Bushue said, "is an insurance product designed to provide a fiscally responsible and effective safety net for program crop farmers and growers of tomatoes, potatoes, apples, grapes and sweet corn. The program would be administered by USDA's Risk Management Agency in a manner consistent with the current crop insurance delivery system. It is designed to complement existing crop insurance programs. It does not change any features of existing insurance policies."
Benefits of this STAX approach include addressing "revenue losses on an area-wide basis, with a county being the designated area of coverage. In counties lacking sufficient data, larger geographical areas such as county groupings may be necessary to preserve the integrity of the program. The 'stacked' feature of the program implies that the coverage would sit on top of the producer's individual crop insurance product."
Bushue also reminded the subcommittee of the value of U.S. specialty crop production. In 2012, some 17 percent of the $391 billion in agriculture cash receipts came from the sector.
What about making block grants more effective?
"The SCFBA (Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance) has offered several suggestions," said Frey-Talley. "For example, we'd like to see more timeliness in the announcement of funding available to ensure states have plenty of time to review requests. States could pursue more grower-level projects that address grower needs."
Frey-Talley also pointed to the need for "greater consideration of multi-state projects, which have been a fraction of the projects" approved.
On Frey-Talley's operation, "five farms in several states we're growing the same commodity throughout those regions. Often, the specialty crop industry faces challenges that affect an entire commodity, or region. The coordination from states working together to develop projects would serve producers well."
Florida Rep. Ted Yoho said an example of that is citrus greening disease currently hammering production in some states. In Florida, the invasive pest-vectored disease, "has cut production about 50 percent and (the problem) extends all the way over to California."
More on citrus greening here.
Yoho then asked the panelists what agency is the most burdensome to their industry. The agencies named, as expected: the Department of Labor (DOL), the EPA and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The "EPA, DOL and FDA have placed so much more burdensome rules on us in the last five years," said Brim. "The cost of doing business has probably gone up 25 percent just (due) to government regulations.
"I'll give you an instance with the EPA. We wanted to put a boiler system in our greenhouse operation. At the time, it would have cost $250,000 to put it in. Well, with the EPA's regulations on new boiler emission standards, the cost went to $750,000. So, I couldn't do it and had to back off."
The regulations "are tremendous," continued Brim. "We're all very considerate about food safety but think the FDA has gone overboard. I'm a cantaloupe grower and they're fixing to come test all our farms. They'll find something – either out in the field, or wherever. What I'd like them to do is test after we've packed, not in the field. We know it's in the fields. We know it's there."
Brim also advocated fewer EPA restrictions on chemical companies being able to introduce products.
With regard to Farm Bureau views, said Bushue, "I think the EPA and the Endangered Species Act is probably driving the majority of what's going on. I agree (with Frey-Talley and Brim) on the DOL and FDA, but on a broader scale, especially in the Northwest, the Endangered Species Act drives almost everything we do and costs us incredible dollars just to try and figure out ways to get water and the other (inputs) we need."
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Edison voters should say 'yes'
Basic operating expenses is what voters in the Edison Local School District are being asked to help maintain with the 9.45-mill levy in a special election on Tuesday.
The continuous levy would aid the school district in maintaining existing programs, plain and simple. There are no frills being funded with this levy, administrators want the voters to know.
School administrators don't want to add any new programs with the approximately $3 million that would be generated each year from the levy – they're just hoping to be able to put the money back into the classrooms and to stay in the black for another five years.
There are approximately 2,000 students in the school district, and they travel from as far away as Knoxville, Hammondsville, Amsterdam and Bergholz, among other nearby communities and hamlets.
Let's not forget the district has lost approximately $2.1 million in permanent revenue, stemming from three sources, including a loss of $700,000 in property taxes garnered from FirstEnergy Corp.; a $470,000 loss due to changes in the way state tax is reimbursed to school districts; and a $949,813 loss in funds from federal stimulus funds.
And because of that, the school district had to cut 97 positions in the last seven years. In fact the district's staff has been cut from 245 people in the 2010-11 school year to 199 staffers for this school year, and the end result is being below the recommended (state) staffing level now, according to a state audit.
Voters, too, must remember that students playing sports in the Edison Local School District are doing so because money from their parents or other sources is paying for them to play.
Despite the many cuts in work force and the pay-to-play standard, as well as the fact that not too many years ago the district was put on fiscal watch by the Ohio Department of Education, Edison has come shining through. The school district recently was deemed excellent by the ODE – a testament to the quality administrators, teachers and students.
Area voters should remember, too, that students right now have an opportunity to take more than 40 college credit hours without leaving the high school and produce the highest average ACT scores in the county.
The cost for the 9.45-mill levy to homeowners in the district would be minimal. For a $50,000 home, it will cost $144 per year. And senior citizens, through the Homestead Exemption, would pay $72 for the year.
If the levy does not pass, the school district will have to cut even deeper, and administrators have said one of the first cuts would be busing for students in grades nine through 12. Another cost-cutting step would be closing Pleasant Hill Elementary School.
We still believe that no one wants to see the state take over the district or even possibly consolidate with a neighboring district, which could become a reality sooner than later.
We support the upcoming levy for the Edison Local School District and encourage all voters to do the same.


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I am new to Sticky Password. I came from using Norton 360 password vault but when Norton decided in a recent update to go with only allowing the user to store their passwords via the cloud, I tried to find another solution to remain storing passwords locally on my machine. I decided on Stickpass and purchased several pro versions.
I have already seen the thread about Hotmail not auto-filling but as far as website logins I am not struggling too bad there. That has been fine.
My problem is Auto Form fill in. I haven't auto form filled anything that has credit card information successfully - nothing. Not from Zappos to Amazon - absolutely nothing. I have to take out my wallet for every single credit card purchase I make. Norton never missed one single auto fill for credit card purchases. For me this is a problem as it is a big reason I like password managers - so I don't have to constantly reach for my wallet and enter in the card info. Name and address never makes it for auto form fill either...
I am running Windows 8 Pro 64 bit Internet Explorer 10 (and I only run Internet Explorer 10 from the desktop - not from the Windows Start screen.)
I have had this program for several months now. Am I doing something wrong? I have all my info set up correctly within Stickypass. Is there some trick to get this program to fill in the credit card or address information? Is there some other program causing interference? Or are you not ready yet for Windows 8?
There has to be something wrong for it to just never fill in anything that has to do with a credit card - any credit card. I have 4 listed within the program. Sometimes I can get the expiration date to auto fill but never the credit card number.
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Hot on the heels of the Sony Alpha, Panasonic introduces its first DSLR.............
Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1 Review
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Lumix DMC-L1 specifications
The Live MOS sensor, as previously seen in the Olympus E-330 has the 4/3 sensor, populated by 7.5 effective million pixels out of a total 7.9million. Like the Olympus, the sensor offers live view – real-time viewing of the subject on the back LCD. Unlike the Olympus, there is just one easy-to-use mode: press the live view button, the mirror and shutter open and the image is fed from the sensor to the monitor. Once the shutter release button is pressed, the shutter drops, then opens for the exposure and the pixels become 'live' (ie, they capture the image), and the shutter closes, the recording pixels switch back to video feed mode, and the shutter and mirror open once again so you can view the monitor stream again. This all happens within a second or two, and the monitor blacks out while the exposure is made, much the same way as an optical prism viewfinder blacks out when the mirror is lifted.
Also unlike the Olympus E-330 mode B the live view mode allows autofocus operation. Finally the system allows a manual focus assist function to enlarge the image by up to 10x, theoretically to check focus details, something usually only available in preview mode.
The sensor itself is like a cross between CMOS and CCD, offering the image quality of CCD with the low power consumption of CMOS, according to Panasonic. This is achieved by allowing the large pixel receptor ratio of 50% typical of CCD, with the single pixel signal reading as used by CMOS to lower power consumption. Panasonic has managed this by reducing the number of control wires to each pixel from three to two, allowing the larger light-receiving area. Panasonic also claims that this system results in lower noise, further enhanced by making use of embedded photodiode technology and lower voltage technology to reduce dark noise.
Another of Olympus's technologies within the camera is the Supersonic Wave Filter dust reduction system. When the camera is switched on, the filter generates 30,000 supersonic vibrations to shake dust from the sensor to keep it clean.
Processing in the camera is performed by Panasonic Venus Engine, now at version III, which the company claims produces better colour reproduction, higher resolution and high-speed processing. Furthermore, the new processor has 80% of the power consumption of version II. The company claims that the processor reduces luminance noise in shadow areas, to enhance the effect already achieved by the sensor. It also isolates and processes chromatic noise found in high ISO images and reduces colour bleeding.
Panasonic has also migrated other features from the LC-1, its digital rangefinder-alike camera. Like that, the L1 has a traditional shutter dial on the body and an aperture ring on the lens. Both have an auto setting, allowing aperture priority or shutter priority AE modes, or ignoring the A settings allows manual. Setting both to A gives full auto mode.
Metering options include the obligatory centre- weighted and spot modes, as well as multi-pattern metering. As it happens, this is 49 zone if you use the viewfinder or a 256-block pattern in live view mode. The focus options meanwhile include a wide three-area AF with dynamic manual focus – that is, you can switch directly to manual focus just by turning the manual focus ring on the lens for fine-tuning.
There's a number of colour options, including Standard and Dynamic which increases saturation similar to transparency film. There's also a nature setting for enhanced greens, reds and blues designed for landscape photography, and a Smooth colour mode for more lifelike and natural images. There's also three black and white modes covering Standard, Dynamic (with increased contrast) and Smooth for soft skin tones.
Colour is also affected by colour temperature, so the Lumix L1 has a range of White Balance options, including the usual set of presets for common lighting, as well as a manual mode and the option to dial in numerical values in the Kelvin scale. Finally there's a fine-tuning adjustment should you need it.
A couple of firsts on the camera also appear, buried in the menu. First you have the option to switch the aspect ratio, from 4:3 to 3:2 or 16:9. Both these formats use less of the sensor area though, so essentially are a crop of the imaging area. Second, the camera is billed as the first to have Extra Optical Zoom, with a 1.5x extension to the focal length of the lens attached. This is a little bit of marketing speak though – actually in this mode, just a section of the sensor is used, to produce a 3MP image, so again, the camera is cropping. Panasonic doesn't try to hide the method, so can't really be accused of dishonesty, but other than time or memory space savings, I would recommend cropping full-resolution images later for more accuracy, or to make different choices of the crop. I dare say this would be useful to some people, though. Incidentally both these options are only available when the camera is in live view mode.
Like the LC-1 before, the L1 has the ingenious 'Z' built-in flash. Folded flat into the top-plate the flash offers two positions, straight on and 45° for bounce flash either from the ceiling or from a wall if the camera is held in portrait position. There's also a hotshoe to accept Panasonic's FL500 and FL360 flash units. I haven't had one of these for review, but they do look suspiciously like Olympus FL50 and FL36 flashguns to me!
The Panasonic L1 has a couple of interesting playback options such as the ability to crop in-camera (other than Extra Optical Zoom!) and a resize function for preparing images for email. You can also view images as a slideshow or via a calendar view which lets you browse images by date. And of course the camera offers direct printing via PictBridge.
A final word on the SilkyPix Raw converting software. Apart from a great name, the software is a fully featured RAW converter allowing colour changes curves and so on, which is nice to see included in the box and the price.
Some cameras are sure to split opinion, and I'm sure the L1 will offer an affront to some photographers' views of what an SLR should look like. It's boxy square and looks like a oversized rangefinder. This isn't surprising, given Panasonic's ties with Leica, not only in thinly disguising and rebadging Panasonic cameras for Leica, but also in trying to appeal to rangefinder users via the LC1. The L1 follows that camera's aesthetic, and I like it. It takes some getting used to, I'll admit, but who's to say boxy isn't good?
It worked for years for Ikea, Hasselblad and Volvo (so the L1 will do well in Sweden!). If nothing else it's distinctive and I certainly received a few glances while using it in London. The camera is well made and feels solid. The main controls are secure, and reasonably well spaced, but the 2.5inch screen takes up a lot of real estate so some people may feel that the back of the camera is cramped.
Since the 1980s camera manufacturers have been keen to make things ergonomic. By adapting a traditional look for the L1, Panasonic has reduced the ergonomics, especially when it comes to the shutter release button.
With modern SLR cameras, the shutter release button is usually placed forward on the hand grip, perfect for the forefinger. The L1's is back on the shutter dial on the top plate, like in days of yore. At first, this is uncomfortable; your hand has to reach further back, and if you have a camera strap, you also have to negotiate with that. In all it's a little uncomfortable, and at times I found myself searching for the shutter release button. Repeated handling cured it, but I still find it less comfortable than other cameras.
In other ways, though, the camera is nice. It has a rugged feel, helped by the rubberised coating on the body which is nicely non-slip.
Space on the back is slightly cramped thanks to the large screen, but there's just enough room for the thumb to rest on the back command dial without knocking it.
The biggest handing issues concern the aperture ring and shutter, which is just like going back in time and simply fun! It didn't take long at all to adapt my thoughts back ten years to using a camera like this one; it's a system that worked for years so why did we change it?
The viewfinder is slightly small, but has a high profile, so is clear. Still, switching to Live View offers some advantages, mainly if the camera is on a tripod – we wouldn't recommend using the L1 as you would a compact camera. I also found that the flip-out screen of the Olympus E-330 is much more useful because it gives you the option for waist-level shooting.
Image Quality
Panasonic cameras raised the bar when the company launched the FZ1, and the Venus Engine showed how high image resolution could be achieved with a small pixel resolution chip. Since then the company has continued to produce the goods, though image noise has sometimes been a problem.
The L1, with the combination of 4/3 sensor and Venus Engine III can produce some fine images, and there is a lovely tonality to the images. However, this tonal smoothness comes at a cost, as images usually need just a little sharpening to give them a lift, particularly when viewed close-up on screen, or if printed to a decent size.
For the most part the L1 produces images with good colour saturation, excellent tonality and, at ISO 100 and 200, reasonable, visually excellent noise control.
Measured noise is a tad higher than the Canon EOS 350D, but not visibly apparent. From ISO 400 upwards we see more noise in the images, which is borne out by our lab tests. Obviously noise is raised as the gain is raised, but maintains reasonable result. Our lab results at ISO 1600 shows all the RGB and luminance noise levels staying closely plotted throughout the grey tones; it is more usual for the blue channel to show a greater incidence of noise, especially in the darker tones. So while the camera produces more measured noise in our tests, the way it's well controlled keeps it hidden, especially in the mid range of the ISO.
Value For Money
At a penny shy of £1500, including the lens, the L1 is somewhat more expensive than its competitors. It reminds me of the Fujifilm S3 Pro, in that it offers something different for a high price. The S3 Pro is now half the price it was, if you can find one. With the similar Olympus E-330 at half the price of the L1, and 10 MP models now even lower, I worry that the Panasonic brand name alone justifies the price.
As it offers a significantly different feature set from most other DSLRs, the L1 is worth considering particularly if you are new to automated cameras, maybe coming from older analogue models, or if you're enough of a traditionalist to miss the operation of those cameras.
Certainly I enjoyed going back to the days of shutter dials and aperture rings, and I think as a I result I took more care in my photography, which isn't a bad thing. I also had fun with it, and if photography is your hobby, then fun should play a big part. The camera isn't going to suit all subjects, but for most enthusiast purposes, it will.
Of course, image quality is the most important consideration and the results from the L1 are very pleasant with a great tonality. Shame about the price, though.


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but an u18 academy is not the sole reference for a sl franchise as a stadium is not the sole reference.. it is part of a greater whole.. if Leigh dont believe they need an academy becuase the amateur youth sorts it all out then that is absolutely fine its 1 point.. there are 9 others to aim for.. you ony need aabout 5 to be up towards the top of the tree for a liscence.. but the other bits need to be good. its horses for courses..
Not sure if Leigh still have an academy but they did have one for a long time. Nevertheless not all young lads in Leigh want to play in the academy, BECAUSE the set-up at the amatuer clubs in Leigh are superb. Leigh RLFC are working with those amateur clubs now, but the pro club won't be able to "claim" these youngsters as part of franchising even if they are born and bred in Leigh and Leigh RLFC have played a part in the schools set up etc
On the other hand moneybags Wire could come in, snare a good young Leyther up from Leigh Miners with ���� and stick him in their academy. That guy will then be deemed to be a Wire youngster - what a load of ##### guff
I don't like the concept of academies below a certain age, say under 20/21, because they are dear to run and also perhaps detract from the enjoyment of amateur set-ups.


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Prevention and resolution of environmental problems depends significantly on effective environmental advocacy. Science, government regulation, and market mechanisms are insufficient without it. The purpose of this 4-credit graduate elective is to learn and practice skills needed to be an effective environmental advocate, including analysis of a contested policy situation, development of an effective strategy to affect its outcome, and methods for implementing the strategy through organized, collective action. This knowledge is useful for those working within government, the private sector, environmental advocacy groups, and as citizen activists. We will study cases that illustrate the successes and failures of various attempts to influence events, including guest lectures by participants in those cases. We will learn to practically apply social science theoretical frameworks in ways that help create effective strategy. The course provides a critical survey of approaches to environmental advocacy – from global to local – emphasizing strengths and weaknesses. Students will research, write and present on a case of their choosing, preferably from their own experience, that illustrates the principles we study. They will have the opportunity for experiencing a physical analog for policy conflict through one or more practice sessions in the martial art of Aikido. After taking the course, students should have improved abilities to diagram the sequence of events leading to an environmental policy decision, locate decision points and key players, find pivotal opportunities for intervention, assemble coalitions capable of effecting change, and act ethically and appropriately to carry out strategy from within their role in the public or private sector.
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One of the most iconic aircraft of the 20th century has arrived at the Pacific Aviation Museum at Ford Island after sitting idle in a Papua New Guinea swamp for 65 years.
Nicknamed the "Swamp Ghost," the B17E Flying Fortress arrived at the museum in seven Matson containers as a jigsaw of engines, fuselage and wings.
The historic airplane was lifted from the swamp in 2007 by David C. Tallichet and the 'Swamp Ghost Salvage Team.' It remained in Papua New Guinea until 2010, when Tallichet finally received clearance to bring it to Long Beach, Calif., where it remained until being purchased by the museum.
"It adds to our footprint in making us an internationally recognized museum," said Kenneth DeHoff, the museum's executive director. "It'll become part of our display, telling the whole story of World War II."
On the night of Feb. 22, 1942, the B17E was part of a Flying Fortress raid on Rabaul, a harbor in Papua New Guinea, which was controlled by the Japanese. After the bombing run, the formation headed back toward its base in Townsville, Australia. However, the airplane got into a running fire fight with at least nine Japanese fighter planes.
"They got a lot of fire coming at them, and our B17 got a round through one of the wing tanks, and it started draining (fuel)," explains Burl Burlingame, the museum's curator.
Pilot Fredrick Eaton decided on a belly landing, and ended up in the Agaiambo swamp on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. The nine-member crew made it out alive, but survival rates among B17 crews was extremely low. In the European theater, a Flying Fortress airman had about a one in four chance of surviving a tour of duty, which prior to 1944 consisted of 25 sorties.
"A crew member in these airplanes knew they were going into danger and they were going into harm's way. But, they knew there was an enemy that needed to be defeated, and they went willingly to it," said Burlingame.
The museum still needs about $5 million to complete its Flying Fortress display, which will feature the B17E resting within a compass rose as the plane's nose faces west, a tribute to all aviators lost in combat. The display will also be surrounded by memorial bricks that can be purchased for a loved one or a World War II pilot.
"The idea is to create a place that is a memorial of quiet contemplation, where you can reflect on the sacrifices people have made in the past," said Burlingame.
Those wishing to make a donation to the B17E display can visit the Pacific Aviation Museum website at www.PacificAviationMuseum.org.


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Major League Tool
Forget everything you already know about Nick Swisher.
Nevermind his explosively jovial presence in the Yankee clubhouse. Pay no attention to those 27 homeruns. Disregard his selfless donations to community charity and his insatiable propensity for all-world positivism.
This dude is a friggin' tool.
Whether you focus on the plastic hook-tag still fastened to the top of his cap, the pantyhose wrapped around his right wrist, the forced bleary eyed smirk of a man you'd never let date your sister or the weak flash of a devil horn gang sign while mugging the camera, this Nick Swisher looks more like every frat guy you've ever hated.
Move over Tucker Max because apparently they do serve Swisher in hell.
Hate me 'cuz I hate on the playuh, just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
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Yeah, when the Yanks were in Arlington earlier this year, I noticed what a d!ckhead he was when playing right field…not once did he toss a ball up to some bratty fking kid in the stands…what an jerk!
You do realize that by painting Nick Swisher as a callous, hard-partying, womanizing d-bag that you've made him even more attractive to female fans? That picture reeks of Natty Light and Axe body spray, and yet somehow I find him strangely appealing.
Jonestein — And you know Swish WAS that kid when he was little, with crusted cotton candy stains on his lovable cheeks.
Prince — YES HE IS!!! WHOO HOO a la Jack^ss!
Erin — Yep. That's pretty much how life works. I'm working on my beating up bookworm skillz.
Austin — Who says he does?
You are SO jealous that he stank it up as a White Sock but has done a great job as a Yankee. Oh, well. At least you got Wilson Betemit.
That's a relief…I thought I was the only one who thought, "FRAT BOY-O-RAMA!" Him and his pal Joe Blanton both.
Jeff – First, Swisher is a piece of work. To put it mildly.
Second – gotta say "Congrats to the Cards!" That was a pretty sweet game. Bring on the playoffs!
ha love the title: Major league tool. Great job Cards!! Ha frat boy once = always a frat boy. Layin down the lines Jeff, new post up – Indians style
Jane — Nah. I don't mind that Swish is doin' well. Really, I don't. I just think he's a tool off the field, that's all. And oh yeah, I love me some Wilson Betemit… no one gets DFA'd like Wilson.
IBDB — Nope, you're in good company with RSBS!
Ginny — Thanks! It was sweet and we're all geared up in Cardinal Nation. We hope to put a hurtin' on those beasts from the AL East that knocked y'all out.
Ted — Just remember that, Ted, when given the opportunity to become a frat boy. You will be destined for tooldom if you do.
You couldn't be more right…TOOL…very fitting since his fav show is Tim the Tool Man Taylor…
Outside the Phillies Looking In
Peter — How'd you get this inside information? Who do you work for? Are you on special assignment from the British Government? LOL.
So Jeff what does that give him.. 2 tools? He's a 2 tool playa? Power and well… bein' a tool : )
Buz — He's not even close to being a 5-tooler, so for now, 2-tool player it is! Good call!
I'll have to disagree with Erin – the picture & description do not make him "attractive" to this woman.
Julia — Thou art a breath of fresh air.
Wow, comparing him to Tucker Max? That's pretty harsh… for Tucker Max at least.
Emily — I'm sure everyone feels real sorry for Tucker too😛 He's the King of the Tools.
09indians — Touche.
Tsk tsk tsk, Jeff. Don't hate the playa, hate the game.😉
I know, I know, Lisa… not generally my style but in this case… I had to hate on it. It won't happen again (for a few minutes).
Jeffy, this is the first time I WILL hate you.. but only because you've become the hatuuuh, lol.. Swish is the man!.. =P
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I figured you'd say something like that, V, if you saw it. LOL. It's cool though. It had to be done.
Jeff is a ****** loser!


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