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Gestational diabetes usually begins in the fifth or sixth month of pregnancy (between the 24th and 28th weeks), and it often has no symptoms, so most women are routinely tested between the 24th and 28th weeks of pregnancy. However, if you are considered high-risk for gestational diabetes, you will be screened before the 24th week of pregnancy.
The gestational diabetes screening test, also called the one hour glucose test, consists of drinking a sweet liquid called Glucola, and then having your blood analyzed about one hour later. A blood sugar level below 140 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) is usually considered normal. If your blood sugar level is higher than this, you do not necessarily have gestational diabetes, it simply means you need more extensive testing, called the glucose tolerance test (GTT), to diagnose or rule out gestational diabetes. This test requires you to fast for 8 hours (or overnight), have a baseline blood test and then drink another sweet liquid (with a higher glucose content) and have your blood re-tested every hour for three hours. If at least two of the blood sugar readings are higher than normal, you are considered to have gestational diabetes. If only one of the tests shows an elevated blood sugar level, you may be asked to repeat the GTT in two to four weeks.
Women who are considered high risk for gestational diabetes include those who had preexisting diabetes, were diagnosed and treated for gestational diabetes during a previous pregnancy, or those who may have had large babies with previous pregnancies. Other women who are considered high-risk include those who:
Most women who develop gestational diabetes are able to manage it with a modified diet and regular exercise (always check with your doctor before beginning any exercise regimen). The most effective way to manage your diet is to have your doctor or midwife refer you to a registered dietician who can create a diet plan for you. He or she will determine how many calories you and your baby need on a daily basis; as well as the correct balance of protein, fats, and carbohydrates; and teach you how to distribute them throughout the day to maintain your energy and blood glucose levels. Depending on how serious your condition is, you may have to test your blood several times a day to monitor your blood sugar levels as well. If you are not able to control your blood sugar by diet and exercise, you will have to give yourself daily insulin shots.
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Fall is in the air in Pure Michigan! The new season officially begins on September 22, which means that brisk days and vibrant colors are in sight. In Michigan, there's really no better place to see the dynamic colors of a trillion trees than by taking a fall colors tour along our highways, country roads and coastlines. To learn more about how to experience a fall colors tour for yourself, we're hosting a live chat with Pure Michigan's very own David Lorenz on Monday, September 30 at 12:00 p.m. (noon) EST. David will be answering questions on timing of peak colors, routes to explore and things to do along the way.
On September 30, you can join us right here at the following box. Learn more about David below, and get your questions ready for the chat!
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Prior to coming to Travel Michigan in October 2002, Mr. Lorenz was the Manager, Partnerships and Promotions, for Meijer, Inc. where he was responsible for the facilitation of collaborative marketing programs with key consumer goods manufacturers such as Nabisco, Kraft, Kellogg's, General Mills, Coca-Cola, Disney and Mattel.
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Results for the varsity girls are as follows: Summer Garza – 9th medal, Allison Bryce – 45th, Mayra Pena – 49th, Meghan Teague – 56th, Miah Baker – 55th, Baylea Herring – 19th
Results for the varsity boys are as follows: Michael McCormick – 26th, Chase Galloway – 14th medal, Tristen Geffert – 39th, Nate Smith – 38th, Derek Cantu – 43rd
For the JV boys division Preston Smith placed 11th.
In the eighth-grade girls division: Andrea Waggoner – 1st medal and Nicole Gutierrez – 13th.
"We ran well this weekend," Cross Country Coach Johnathan Sheffield said. "We will be headed to Poth Cross Country Meet this weekend. This is our last meet before district meet."


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I've been continuing to BF my 13 month old before bed at night and first thing in the AM. He eats a lot of solids and drinks water and a little milk from a sippy during the day but has refused to take a bottle since just before his birthday. I would like to wean entirely, but I've also wanted to take it slow for his sake and we have kind of stalled where we are now.
I've been feeling like my milk supply is getting much lower at night and for the the past week or so he has seemed frustrated, like he doesn't want to wait for the let down (which seems to be taking ever longer to come). The past few nights he's sucked a little, cried a little, sucked a little more, but has finally latched on enough to get to the letdown and seemed happy when it finally happened. Tonight, however, he started sucking, then started crying hysterically and would not calm down or resume sucking. The only thing that calmed him finally was when I put him in his crib with his paci, and he appears to have gone right to sleep.
Since this is my first time going through weaning, I have some questions I'm hoping someone can answer:
How can I figure out if he was crying because of the letdown issue or because he truly did not want to BF?
Since I've been looking to cut out this feeding, if this works ok should I take this as an opportunity? Meaning, if he doesn't wake up starving in the middle of the night tonight, should I not offer before he goes to bed tomorrow?
On the waking up starving issue, at what age do babies not need to eat anything before bed anymore if they are eating a good dinner? Should I be giving him some sort of snack right before bed if he's not going to BF any more? If so, what is a good snack to give? I'd love to get him to drink a sippy of milk before bed but he prefers water.
He's been night weaned for months, but if he does wake up tonight, should I assume he's hungry and feed him? Or am I going to set a dangerous precedent by doing so?
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Areas west of Randall Road will have hydrant flushing this week. All remaining areas east of Randall Road will have hydrant flushing the week of April 22. All flushing is scheduled to be completed by April 26, the village said in a news release. Hydrant flushing is not expected to take place on weekends or after 6 p.m. on weekdays.
Hydrant flushing is meant to improve water quality throughout the village. Signs will be posted at the main entrance of subdivisions at least 12 hours prior to flushing and be removed when work in the subdivision is complete.
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Last Wednesday, the Wasps were beaten 13-0 by Cache Valley Independent—a much more established team. It was the fourth game on the schedule for Wasatch and it left them still searching for a win.
Head coach R.C. Shuflin, assistant coach Volker Ritzinger and team trustee James Soderborg, despite the double-digit losses, still manage to leave the arena with smiles on their faces. They have built solid youth and high school hockey teams before and they believe they are on their way to doing the same with Wasatch.
"It's a work in progress," says an optimistic Shuflin. "We knew there'd be some growing pains, but the kids' heads are up and they're working hard and getting better each day."
In the Wasp's opening game loss to Northern Utah Independent back on September 25, it was evident the new team needed more ice time to get competitive. They were outplayed that night by a much larger and faster hockey team losing 13-1.
The outcome of the next two games against the Salt Lake Stars and Davis County Independent was basically the same, losing 11-2 and 16-0 respectively, but something was happening within the team. They were learning to play together as a unit and getting some good experience—and getting it pretty fast.
"The first part of our schedule—these first four, was definitely tough," added Shuflin. "That will explain a lot of the games so far. But our goal is, and always has been, to get these kids to play some good hockey and to become a competitive team. It takes time, but it's happening."
Wasatch began the first and third periods against Cache Valley stout on defense, not allowing goals until the halfway point or later. The Wasps have been getting much improved play on the backline and more players are getting involved and comfortable on the ice. If the defense continues to improve it is only a matter of time before some of the more experienced skaters like Colton Shuflin and Cody Ritzinger will be able to clear the puck and apply some pressure on the offensive end.
Wasatch has also been getting excellent play from goalkeeper, Mason Hascall. Even though an average of a dozen goals given up does not look impressive on the scoreboard, the sophomore has been defending five to six times as many shots. Against DCI, Haskell recorded more than 60 saves.
"We knew coming in that we had our work cut out for us," said Hascall. "We've gotten so much better already though. We just believe in our coaches and know that it takes a little time to bond. But we're getting a better idea of where we are and what we can do with each game."
With nine more games scheduled, and the possibility of more being added, there is plenty of time for the Wasps to hit their stride and to show a supportive prep sports community that there is a good hockey team in town.
Wasatch returns to the ice tonight against the Utah County Independent Warriors. The game is scheduled to begin at 6:30 at the Park City Ice Arena.


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July 30, 1997: An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant galaxy in the universe to date. They found it by combining the unique sharpness of the Hubble telescope with the light-collecting power of the W. M. Keck Telescopes with an added boost from a gravitational lens in space.
The results show the young galaxy is as far as 13 billion light-years from Earth, based on an estimated age for the universe of approximately 14 billion years. The Hubble picture at left shows the young galaxy as a red crescent to the lower right of center. The galaxy's image is brightened, magnified, and smeared into this arc-shape by the gravitational influence of an intervening galaxy cluster, which acts like a gigantic lens. The image at upper right is a close-up of the "gravitationally lensed" galaxy. In the picture at lower right, astronomers have "unsmeared" the galaxy, revealing the galaxy's normal appearance.See the rest:
An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant galaxy found in the universe to date.
The galaxy is so far away that its light is only reaching us now from a time when the universe was but 7% of its current age of approximately 14 billion years. This places the young galaxy as far as 13 billion light-years from us, and far back in time during the "formative years" of galaxy birth and evolution.
The team of astronomers made observations by combining the unique sharpness of the images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope with the light-collecting power of the W. M. Keck Telescopes and with an added boost from a gravitational lens in space.
Marijn Franx, Pieter van Dokkum (Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands); Garth Illingworth, Dan Kelson, Kim-Vy Tran (the University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, California).
"When we received the Hubble image, we immediately knew that we had found something special," says Marijn Franx. "We were excited by the possibility that we may have found a unique example of a galaxy in formation at the time of the earliest quasars".
"We are fascinated to be witnessing the very early stages of the construction of what could well become a massive galaxy like our own Milky Way," says Garth Illingworth of University of California, Santa Cruz. "This object is a pathfinder for deciphering what is happening in young galaxies, and offers a rare glimpse of the powerful events that transpired during the formation of galaxies."
Hubble shows that bright dense knots of massive stars power this object. Because of the firestorm of starbirth within it, the galaxy is intrinsically one of the brightest young galaxies in the universe, blazing with the brilliance of more than 10 times our own Milky Way. The object is similar to what Hubble sees in nearby starburst galaxies, though it is a very extreme and dramatic example.
Predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity gravitational lenses are collections of matter (such as clusters of galaxies) that are so massive they warp space in their vicinity, allowing the light of even more-distant objects to curve around the central lens-mass and be seen from Earth as magnified objects.
The object is so far away, observing it in such detail would tax the capabilities of both Hubble and Keck without the magnification of the gravitational lens, provided by a foreground cluster of galaxies that is much closer to us at 5 billion light-years.
A telltale sign of the lensing is the fact the remote galaxy's image is smeared into an arc-shape by the gravitational influence of the intervening galaxy cluster. The smeared image of the galaxy stood out because of its unusual reddish color, never observed in such galaxies before.
The special color of the galaxy in the arc is due to absorption by the matter in the universe between us and the galaxy, suggesting it was at a great distance.
The suspected remoteness of the lensed object was confirmed when the team of astronomers made spectroscopic observations with one of the twin Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii to measure its redshift (4.92), which is a measure of the expansion of space (due to the Big Bang) the larger the redshift, the greater space has expanded between us and the object. This can be used to estimate its distance.
Though candidates for still more distant galaxies have been proposed, they have not been confirmed spectroscopically.
The researchers used a theoretical model of the effects of the gravitational lens to "unsmear" the galaxy back into its normal appearance. The corrected image clearly shows several bright, very compact regions of intense star formation.
The stellar knots could be the building blocks that eventually assembled to form the hub of a galaxy, like the central region of our Milky Way. The tiny, 700 light-year-sized stellar knots are scattered over a region that is only about 15,000 light-years across, only about a quarter the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy.
"Based on this image we can begin to make some conclusions about the early growth of galaxies," says Illingworth. "The knots show that starbirth happens in very tiny regions compared with the size of the final galaxy." This helps clarify the astronomer's view of the formation of galaxies as occurring within a cauldron of hot gas, with knots of intense star formation, strong winds, and "mergers" collisions of the dense star-forming knots.
Using Keck's spectroscopic capabilities, the astronomers have also, for the first time, been able to measure the motions of the gas within such a distant galaxy. The observations reveal a nearly half million mile per hour "wind" an outflow of gas, presumably accelerated by energy from supernova explosions going off like a string of firecrackers.
"The strong winds that we observe suggest that galaxies may lose a lot of material when they are young and thereby enrich the empty space around them," say Franx. "Many astronomers had speculated about the existence of such winds in such distant galaxies, and we now have an object where we can see them directly. It is striking that the most distant galaxy found to date is also the one that provides us the most detailed picture of events in such distant galaxies."
Credit: Marijn Franx (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), Garth Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz) and NASA


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PITTSBURGH, PA (July 10, 2008)—The Allegheny County Airport Authority announces that Advantage Rent A Car has recently opened for business at Pittsburgh International Airport, offering travelers even more rental car options.
Advantage Rent A Car offers a full range of vehicles, with terrific specials featured throughout the year.
"We offer very competitive rates and travelers like to see a new face at the airport," said Derek M. Brown, Director of Marketing.
Another major benefit for commuters is the option to rent a one-way vehicle to and from Johnstown, Ebensburg and Bedford, PA, which are all destinations that recently lost air service. An Advantage Rent A Car franchise operated by the same owner, Bob Gardill, is also located in Johnstown.
"This is an important service that Advantage is offering to these communities. It is vital to provide convenient and competitive transportation options to these important regions of Pennsylvania," stated Bradley D. Penrod, Executive Director/CEO, Allegheny County Airport Authority.
The Advantage Rent A Car shares a booth with Pittsburgh Airport Valet Parking and is located in the rental car return area in the bottom level of the Short Term Parking Garage, only a few steps away from the Pittsburgh International Airport Terminal. Advantage and the valet parking service also have the same owner.
"Whenever a customer picks up their car, we pull it up for them, just like we do at valet parking," said Brown.
Because it shares a booth with the valet parking service, which is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, customers can rent a car from Advantage at all hours of the day. All airport parking is patrolled by the Allegheny County Police. Valet customers are also offered additional services, such as wash, detail and oil change, that can be done while they travel.
"If someone needs to rent a car at 2:30 in the morning, we're the only place where they can do that," said Brown.
Advantage Rent A Car is a privately held rental car company, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It is a proven service-focused company that provides business, leisure, government and local customers with a wide range of services at more than 150 U.S. locations and 130 locations in 33 countries internationally. To contact Advantage Rent A Car at Pittsburgh International Airport, call 412-472-3100.


text: My son just turned 2 and is a very active nurser. He is night weaned as of 3 mos ago but nurses all day if i'm around. He's still very clingy to me. I love him to death but I still feel like he's very needy of me. Now, I'm considering getting pregnant. I KNOW he's not ready to wean so I'd have to nurse during pregnancy and probably tandem as well. I could try the "baby needs the milk" approach but my son is sooo stubborn and his "boo" is the only comfort object he has ever had. He was also colic for 6 months and up untill a couple of mos ago, up all night long. I just feel confused about the 2nd baby. Do I want to start all over again? I'm just starting to really enjoy my son more now. I don't want to have kids years from now. I feel like its now or never. It just seems like my life is so hard and tiring NOW. Then you add another all consuming baby on top. I'm just afraid I'll be resentful once I have it. I KNOW I'll love the new baby but I'm scared it will also be as difficult a child as my son. I feel like I want him to have a sibling more than I want another baby. Am I thinking too much? Please don't think I'm cold. I'm so not. I'm a very loving and self sacrificing mommy- which is why I wouldn't do anything different with the next baby. I just give so much of myself and love with all of me that i'm exausted sometimes- and that's with just one.


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The church, built in 1912, stopped doing services in 1996. After that, it was used for Vacation Bible School for a time.
The last two members of the church – Leroy and Bobby Spiegel – donated the church and land to the city in August 2012.
Mayor David Cann said most of the furnishings inside and outside the church were auctioned off.
A few pews remain as well as books and 12 to 14 hymnals remain and are for sale.
Cann said plans are to clean up the 100-year-old church building and get it ready to sell.
He said the city will sell the church and land as one package.
"We'll request sealed bids on it sometime in July," he said.
Cann added that a minimum bid will be figured, as well.
In other business, the council adjusted the job description of its city secretary, a position that is open currently.
Added to the current description was a requirement of applicants to have a minimum of a high school diploma.
Also added: Applicants must complete online training on the Open Meetings Act and Public Information Act.
Also successful applicant also do general upkeep and cleaning of the city hall in addition to other requirements.
The council also approved a water services contract with Torres Water Services.
Cann said the city had been working with Torres since January without a contract, so it was best to approve the contract.
The contract approval had the stipulation that Torres provides a copy of insurance.
The council also approved a request from Earl Bluhm to waive a sewer tap fee because Bluhm has offered to lay the 300 feet of line and complete the work from his existing tap.
Bluhm is building a pistol range and has decided to install a rest room, the reason he needs a sewer line to his facility.
The council stipulated that along with the waiver, the work would be inspected.
So far, Bluhm said the slab has been poured for the pistol range.
He estimated the range which will initially have three lanes, will be finished in two-and-a-half months.
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I wonder how many celebrities are looking up at elevator cameras now
Only the ones not trying to recover their spilled cokeReplyCancel
You should always assume there is an elevator camera.ReplyCancel
Even I'm wary of elevator cameras. LolReplyCancel
Now, everyone who wants attention will be doing things on elevators, in the hope the video will make its way to the public.
Not to mention all the wanna-bes who will now stage all sorts of things on elevators in the hope of becoming famous.
Also, the countdown to a TV series consisting of nothing but elevator video begins now.ReplyCancel
A security guard will be fired at the Standard (maybe several including a supervisor). I hope they got paid$$$ for giving the footage to TMZ.ReplyCancel
From a privacy standpoint, I don't really mind elevator footage as much as I mind the release of the recordings of private phone calls. I think when you're talking one-on-one to a friend, you have the expectation of privacy. When you're in public, even when you're in a little box in public, you don't.
Which is not to say I've never scratched myself or done other unseemly things in an elevator.ReplyCancel
All the ones getting BJs from skanks.ReplyCancel
I assume the second I walk out my front door that I'm on a camera somewhere (even if it's the NSA). As for conversations, yes, I think you have the right of privacy, although didn't Sterling admit he knew the conversations were recorded? In that case, it IS legal, although extremely disgusting, to release these recordings. I still think it was a case of blackmail gone bad.ReplyCancel
Aghhhhhj!! Men!!ReplyCancel
They have this and still can't find that damn plane.ReplyCancel
You always have to assume you're being monitored, elevator or elsewhere. Street light cameras & CCTV will get what the paps cannot. Technology be crazy. If anything, I'm surprised how long this story was suppressed for…ReplyCancel
……err. Not anymore.ReplyCancel
I've always been very aware of Big Brother in any elevators. So I've always deferred my nose picking to the obscurity of the street. Where it now can be captured on multiple surveillance cameras. 🙂ReplyCancel
@count you know, I'm often confused by attitudes like yours, you spend a lot of time on this site talking about who you want to fuck up the ass and what porno sites you like and sex sex sex, but then you make these comments (and have an avatar) that imply that women who like sex are 'skanks'. Which is it? Sex good or sex bad? Only you may enjoy sex? What?ReplyCancel
@missy prissy: Really, it is just a fun adjective.
If you want a deeper explanation, all women who enjoy sex aren't skanks, but women who blow celebs in elevators have a high likelihood of being skanky.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I don't have a problem w/ Skanks, Sluts, or Whores. I have been friendly with many and may have partaken with a few. Also, I have no problem being called a Pig, Pervert or Creep. Generally I smile and say, "Yeah" to myself when I read it.ReplyCancel
@Count, for what it's worth, I appreciate an open, honest, real person, such as you are. Hate this saying, but, you are true to yourself. I admire people like that. Plus you're fun in you're unique Count way and you love your kid like crazy.
I can say that about most people on here.
Fake is boring, celebrity gossip is digging through the layers of the fake and revealing that genuine person.
Sometimes we like that genuine person more, and sometimes we can't stand them – because they can't stand themselves. It's an interesting social non-interaction. Would I enjoy intaracting with a celebrity, not at all. I'd rather give them their space and me mine. Wouldn't trade lives for anything.ReplyCancel
Thank you, Dingle.
What it really boils down to is that I don't care enough to be fake, online or in real life. It certainly isn't always a good thing, but being full of shit is too much hassle.ReplyCancel


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Alleged 'out of nowhere' assault concerns judgeFebruary 20,2013By Brent Curtis
Jacob A. Vandenburgh is only 18 years old, but a Rutland judge decided his young age was less a factor in setting bail than the allegations that he hospitalized a man last week for apparently little reason.
"He's only 18 years old and I'm torn about that ... and yet the allegations appear to be quite serious and involved a violent assault that seemingly came out of nowhere," Judge Nancy Corsones said during Vandenburgh's arraignment Tuesday in Rutland criminal court.
The Rutland man, listed as a transient but with a number of family members in the area according to court records, pleaded innocent to a felony charge of aggravated assault and a misdemeanor count of unlawful mischief.
The charges were brought against him following an altercation police said Vandenburgh had with a motorist at the intersection of West and Wales streets Feb. 15.
The violence that concerned the judge was spelled out in an affidavit filed by Rutland City Police who said the man Vandenburgh punched, Kevin Tanner, 47, was knocked unconscious and had multiple facial bones broken.
Hours after the incident, Tanner couldn't remember his name, date of birth or the assault, police said
Public defender Mary Kay Lanthier said Vandenburgh could stay with his grandmother if released. She asked for 24-hour-a-day curfew rather than the $5,000 bail sought by the prosecution.
"He's unemployed, so there's no way he could meet that amount," Lanthier said.
Corsones agreed that the bail request was too high, but she also said a curfew didn't go far enough to supervise Vandenburgh.
"His mental state is a concern," she said. "I'm concerned that at 18, he's beyond the ability of a grandmother to monitor."
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Davos preview: who's who at the World Economic Forum
Whether your idea of a celebrity is Goldie Hawn, the actress, or Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs, Davos is the place to find them. The event is a mash-up of business, celebrity and charity, which can throw up some strange combinations once the panel discussions and brainstorming are over.
Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, tells of a dance floor encounter at Davos a couple of years ago when he was dancing to Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger" and turned around to find the real Mick Jagger, of the Rolling Stones, dancing next to him.
"The thing about Davos," he says, "is that everyone comes eventually".
The official theme of the event this year is "The Reshaping of the World: Consequences for Society, Politics and Business". It's pretty general – now that the world is no longer on the brink of an economic meltdown there's no obvious overarching theme for Davos man (and, to a much lesser extent, Davos woman) to focus on.
Disruption from technology, the challenges of global economic and population growth, and the problems of managing new types of change with old types of institutions are ever-present Davos themes, and this year is no exception.
The official agenda is important. But the event is part-founded on the idea that simply getting people to talk – especially if they're from countries or sectors with little conventional dialogue – is of value. Whether Hassan Rouhani, president of Iran, will meet Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu or president Shimon Peres is an interesting question. They're just a selection of the government leaders attending, which this year is a particularly strong line-up.
At the other end of the VIP spectrum, Hawn is on a panel talking about the work of The Hawn Foundation, which helps children develop self-awareness and positive thinking. Meanwhile, actor Matt Damon is being honoured for his role with Water.org, a non-profit organisation that aims to improve water supplies and sanitation throughout the developing world. Rock singers Peter Gabriel and, probably, Bono will both be making return appearances, discussing development and culture respectively. A Google party will feature R&B legend Mary J Blige.
However, Hollywood A-list is far outranked by business A-list, particularly in banking. Bank chiefs, in particular, think it's worthwhile making the flight and climbing halfway up a mountain to attend as they can meet as many clients in four days at Davos as they can meet in four months back home.
This year's roster is as strong as ever, with not only Blankfein but Brian Moynihan, chief executive of Bank of America, Michael Corbat, Citigroup chief executive, Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive of JP Morgan, and James Gorman, chairman and chief executive of Morgan Stanley on the list of participants.
From Europe, bank chiefs include Antony Jenkins, chief executive of Barclays, and Jürgen Fitschen and Anshu Jain, co-chief executives of Deutsche Bank.
Many of the big chief executives will be hosting public events. JP Morgan, for instance, is holding a reception in the Kirchner Museum Davos, which allows you to mingle with Dimon and other executives while looking at some of Switzerland's best Expressionist paintings. Last year, the lavatories were scattered with rose petals – nice touch.
However, for most of the big chief executives the real action doesn't happen at receptions, but at small private gatherings. The Steigenberger Grandhotel Belvédère is a classic venue for these, an upmarket location near the centre of town with good security. This year it expects to lubricate the World Economic Forum's crowd with some 1,600 bottles of champagne and prosecco, and 3,100 bottles of wine, and fuel them with around 80kg of salmon.
At the other extreme are the raucous gatherings. Last year's biggest such event was funded by Sean Parker, former president of Facebook, and Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff. Their multifloor disco featured a vast array of stuffed animal heads – with laser eyes – brought from Paris. Multiple Grammy Award-winner John Legend played the piano.
The World Economic Forum isn't keen on giant parties and has generally had success in keeping events modest. Adrian Monck, managing director in charge of communications and media at the forum, said: "We ask people to respect the forum and the fact that we are coming to Davos to debate serious issues." Having said that, he pointed out that the people of Davos can rent their premises out to whoever they like – the forum doesn't control the city.
Hosts have a couple of ways to ensure a good turnout to their event: one is to go for the VIP name. Hawn, for instance, is not only on the conference centre stage, she is appearing at an evening event on Thursday alongside Aetna's chairman, chief executive and president, Mark Bertolini, and president and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, Arianna Huffington.
The other option is to appeal to the tastebuds. Indian companies have typically offered spicy fare, for instance, and this year is no different, with IT company Infosys bringing in Michelin-starred Indian chef Sriram Aylur for its reception on Thursday night.
A Davos event doesn't have to be a giant affair. Anthony Scaramucci, co-managing partner of investment firm SkyBridge Capital, this year is principal sponsor for the fourth year running of a wine-tasting that also raises money for charity, which costs him about $15,000 and allows him to mix with clients, associates and generally meet up with people. He reckons it's good value for the company. Why does he do it? "It's a fun event, there's a charity component, and people like wine," he said.


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Get Rich or High Trying
By David Bienenstock
Image collage by Courtney Nicholas.
"At this moment in history, you've got to choose between being in favor of legalization, or being against 'the system.'"
Mason Tvert is leading a quick tour of what he irreverently describes as the Marijuana Manor—a genteel, three-story, historically-registered, 1880s-era brick and stained-glass building in downtown Denver that was recently converted into permanent office space for a consortium of do-gooders fighting to make legal cannabis work in America. The building houses four separate activist organizations, a trade association, and a law firm. Tvert is clad in a conservative suit jacket and tie worn above a pair of faded blue-jeans—an ensemble compiled in deference to a remote television appearance earlier in the day that shot him from the waist up. His clashing outfit offers an unintended statement on the split-personality of the pot world right now: Business in the front, party in the back.
Last November, Tvert certainly had plenty of reason to celebrate, after heading a historic campaign that saw voters in Colorado approve Amendment 64 by a wide margin, ushering in a new era of state-legal commercial cannabis cultivation and retail sales of up to an ounce for all adults 21 and over. A similar ballot initiative in Washington State also passed easily on the unforgettable night when pot outperformed the president, while making headlines around the world.
To date, lawmakers in both states continue to work out exactly how to implement the herb-friendly will of their citizenry, ever-mindful that a miraculous crop that can't kill you, won't hurt you, and just might heal you remains fully illegal under federal law, even if you've got terminal cancer and floor seats to see Phish. Despite the fact that smoking a joint remains a lot less dangerous than swilling booze. Not to mention that the same federales imposing cannabis prohibition ultimately answer to a guy best known in his youth for "roof hits," "interceptions," and sharing some righteous Maui Wowie with the Choom Gang.
Mason Tvert posing in front of a SAFER billboard. Photo courtesy of Mason Tvert.
Tvert has made such hypocrisy at the highest levels the centerpiece of his messaging ever since co-founding Safer Alternatives for Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) in 2005. From erecting billboards declaring "Marijuana: No Hangovers. No Violence. No Carbs," to publicly calling brewpub pioneer turned Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper a "drug dealer," SAFER never misses a chance to challenge cultural norms that have us blithely cheering on a Jack Daniels-sponsored NASCAR team, while kicking down the doors of otherwise law-abiding ganja smokers.
So, I wonder, now that the good guys finally won big, how long until the Denver Nuggets (pun abstained) start offering an officially-licensed glass bong alongside the collectible beer mugs and shot glasses they already sell to basketball fans of all ages?
Well, don't hold your breath, but with the smart money increasingly looking to marijuana as the nation's biggest new business boom since the internet, don't look away either.
"The Silicon Valley of cannabis is already happening," Troy Dayton, co-founder of the Arcview Group, assures me as his angel investor network prepares to gather venture capitalists and pot entrepreneurs together in Seattle for the second time in three months. Attendees from both camps pay Arcview a sizable fee to participate.
"I always thought I'd have to choose between making a lot of money and changing the world," Dayton, a long-time fundraiser for non-profit drug law reform organizations, muses on his new role as a pot impresario, before offering up the mind-bending hypothesis that free-market capitalism just might be the best thing to happen to cannabis sativa since the advent of sinsemilla.
Troy Dayton addressing Arcview investors meeting. Photo by Kim Sidwell.
"The hippies keep being right. They were right about personal computing, alternative energy, organic foods, and yoga—four of the biggest business success stories of the past few decades. And they're right again about cannabis. All of this bubbles up from the counterculture, until finally the mainstream takes notice. Do things get diluted along the way? I mean, now you've got McYoga and Fortune 500 companies that aren't doing everything the way the original organic food movement wanted, and renewable energy owned by oil companies, but the overall impact is hugely positive."
Especially when you consider that we never arrested 800,000 Americans a year for practicing kundalini. Or let Mexican drug cartels and violent street gangs control the trade in organic arugula.
"It's so much better to have large investors and corporations involved in this industry," Dayton concludes, "because when you have big business behind something that creates jobs and tax dollars, it becomes completely untenable to keep putting people in prison for it."
His partner in Arcview, Steve DeAngelo, agrees, but with a dollop of trepidation. As head of Harborside Health Center in Oakland, California, the nation's largest and perhaps best-run medical cannabis dispensary, DeAngelo sees a bright green future for both the plant and the industry, even as he battles the federal government in and out of court to keep his own doors open. After spending nearly 40 years fighting to legalize it, the star of Discovery Channel's Weed Wars still speaks warmly of his distant past as a professional underground marijuana retailer, while making it clear he'd much prefer to see cannabis culture transform corporate culture than the reverse.
"There are millions of people around the world who are either incarcerated or have seriously suffered because of their involvement with this plant," DeAngelo explains. "Until we address their incredible persecution, I think that anyone who's only in this for the money is in the wrong industry. Honestly, if your main motivation is making the largest profit possible, in the shortest amount of time, you'd be much better off working on Wall Street."
For the time being, Arcview remains focused on what they term ancillary and secondary players, meaning operations not directly involved in cultivation, distribution, or sales. Dayton describes the ideal investment opportunity as a company seeking between 200,000 and a million dollars to bring a new idea to market, or better yet expand a cannabusiness that already has some traction.
After forming in 2010, when it looked like the Obama administration would take a states-rights, hands-off approach to medical marijuana, Arcview itself almost went under following a marked shift in federal enforcement that saw armed government agents raiding state-compliant growers and dispensaries in Oregon, Michigan, Montana, Washington, Nevada, and California, including several considered models of the industry. Naturally, once the perceived risks of the pot biz eclipsed any potential reward, the investor class quickly evaporated, but they've now returned in droves after Colorado and Washington made history and the President of the United States revealed himself as (knock on wood) too afraid of America's ascendant marijuana majority to stand in the way.
"We've got bigger fish to fry," Obama told Barbara Walters more than a month after the election, rejecting the idea of federal agents going after individual pot smokers in legalization states, while failing to directly address the larger issue of state-licensed cultivation and sales. Since then, Attorney General Eric Holder has repeatedly promised a more comprehensive federal response to the new laws, but so far the Justice Department has said little and done nothing.
Meanwhile, at the foresighted end of the political spectrum, Mike McGinn, Seattle's progressive mayor, actually helped lead the charge for legalization in Washington, getting out in front of an issue both major political parties have refused to embrace, despite a Pew poll showing support from 52 percent of Americans (with 85 percent approving legal medical use in a recent Fox News poll). McGinn, who met with members of Arcview and their allies in the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) during the groups' recent visit to the Emerald City, says welcoming the pot lobby to town didn't take any convincing.
"It's a legal industry," he explains over the phone from his office in City Hall, "and I thought it would be interesting to share what I know."
The mayor's focus remains squarely on the public safety benefits of legalization, rather than in promoting economic development. Still, one attendee described him as "gung-ho" when it came to bringing marijuana jobs, tax dollars, investment, and innovation to Seattle. And McGinn did share with me an idea of how he'd like to see things move forward.
"In Seattle, we love local and we love quality. That's what we look for in our coffee, beer, and spirits. So we want to create a type of regulatory framework that rewards small, local businesses and allows them to engage effectively, because that's what will reflect this city's values over the long run."
McGinn worries that as the implementation process moves away from reformers and into the hands of state legislators, many of whom remain opposed to this bold, though long-overdue experiment, we may end up with a set of rules that's too restrictive. "Our biggest challenge is ending up with a system that displaces the black market completely," he concludes, before returning to overseeing the governance of the nation's 23rd largest city.
Topics: Arcview, NORML, Mason Tyvert, Mike McGinn, Kris Krane, Choom Gang, SAFER, Tripp Keber, NCIA, Silicon Valley of Cannabis, Jessica Leroux, Colorado, Legalize it, House Bill 1284, MMED, prohibition, Marijuana reform, Samuel Caldwell, Medicine Man, THC, Mike Elliot, Troy Dayton, The New Pot Barons, weed, pot, Obama, Maui Wowie, Medical dispensaries


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This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows five moons orbiting the distant, icy dwarf planet Pluto.
The green circle marks the newly discovered moon, designated P5, as photographed by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on July 7.
Other observations that collectively show the moon's orbital motion were taken on June 26, 27, 29, and July 9, 2012.
The moon is estimated to be 6 to 15 miles across. It is in a 58,000-mile-diameter circular orbit around Pluto that is assumed to be co-planar with the other satellites in the system.
The observations will help scientists in their planning for the July 2015 flyby of Pluto by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
Object Names: P5, S/2012 (134340) 1
Image Type: Astronomical/Annotated
Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute)
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I got some new player sketches.
My scanner died so I am using one from the garage that is full of dust so the scans suck ass.
I got some new player sketches.
My scanner died so I am using one from the garage that is full of dust so the scans suck ass.
If you like my draw-rings. http://yig.deviantart.com/
If you can't find them for some reason beyond that page. http://yig.deviantart.com/gallery/
WOW screenshot and concept art gallery http://smg.photobucket.com/user/evilknick/library/WoW
Okay, so I just did this in 4 1/2 hours from start to finish and now my fingers are numb so here you go:
I had another go at slapping a cloth sim on my female Dreaeni rig, it turned out to be surprisingly difficult and took a few weeks of messing up. On the other hand, it means this rig is now finally ready for production.
I somehow made a Pandaren Shaman from weavesilk. Or at least it looks like a Pandaren Shaman. Tell me what you think.
My sister bought my husband and me a couple of commissions from deviantart for Christmas, and they turned out so good I just had to share them around.
And here are some pixel smilies my sister did awhile back. They're pretty adorable.
Working on an orc 3d sculpture Suggestions and criticisms welcome!
I've another animated shot, this time it's my character drinking ale.
This thread is just sad. I remember back before we weren't asked to put all the names of every single artist of every picture under it or as a link how there was art in here almost every day. Now we barely get 1-5 pieces of art a month.
ye its sad how those filthy artists would want to be credited for their artwork
So have a picture of a tauren druid in a lovely black dress, it's Valentine's day coming up after all!
[art by me]
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By Danny Caro, December 3, 2012
Goals from Nick Astaire and James Gold took London Maccabi Lions B to joint-top in Division One of the JC MSFL following a 2-0 victory over title rivals Camden Park at the Ark Academy in Wembley. Here are the key moments. Photos: Marc Morris
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New rules keeping Mainers coldDecember 09,2013AUGUSTA, Maine A new mandate that requires applicants for federal fuel assistance to show their Social Security cards is delaying aid to those who need it, Maine advocates say.
Kennebec Valley Community Action has received about 6,800 applications for heating help, according to Kelly LaChance, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program manager for the group.
About 4,000 clients have been paid but some have been denied access because of the new requirements aimed at preventing fraud, she said.
The biggest holdup this year is everybody has to bring in a Social Security card, LaChance told a gathering of the Emergency Heating Assistance Group, made up of about a dozen people representing nonprofits, municipalities, social service agencies, and an oil dealer.
LaChance said some people only have photocopies of their Social Security cards, others dont have them or havent had a card in years, according to the Kennebec Journal .
Its a hardship, she said.
The Social Security Administration is backed up in processing requests for cards but can issue an official snapshot of the card, which will be accepted for heating assistance, she said.
Maine is expected to receive about $37.5 million in Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funds this year.MORE IN NewsNarration and audio production by RH Alcott Full StoryNarration and audio production by RH Alcott Full Story
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Bill named for Bennington EMT advances
BENNINGTON Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said Thursday that progress had been made on passing the Dale Long Act, which would benefit emergency medical technicians and is named after a Bennington EMT who died on duty in June 2009.
First responders are flesh-and-blood lifelines to all of us, in every community across the nation. From the firefighters in Vermont who race to the scene of a rural fire during a cold winter night, to the ambulance crews bringing emergency medical help when tragedy or disaster strike, first responders lay their lives on the line through their sense of duty, their skill and their selflessness. We count on them, and they need to be able to count on us, Leahy said in a news release.
Leahy won Senate approval on Wednesday night to add the act to the pending defense authorization bill. The Senate vote on Leahys amendment was 85 to 11.
The other members of Vermonts congressional delegation, independent Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democratic Rep. Peter Welch, also support the legislation.
The Dale Long Act is designed to strengthen and improve a federal program that provides a safety net for the families of first responders who are killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty.
The legislation is Leahys most recent effort to remedy what he believes are gaps in the Public Safety Officers Benefits Act, or PSOB, that have left some first responders, or their survivors, without benefits when they are injured or killed in the line of duty.
The PSOB was first enacted in 1976, providing benefits for certain public safety officers, or their survivors, who die or are disabled as a direct and proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty. But existing law excludes certain classes of safety officers and trainees.
The Leahy-authored legislation includes a provision to extend the federal PSOB program to paramedics and emergency medical technicians who work or volunteer for nonprofit ambulance services, and their families.
Leahy first introduced the Dale Long Emergency Medical Service Providers Protection Act in June 2009. The bill would qualify an estimated 1,200 Vermont EMS personnel for the PSOB program, which is run by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, for which Leahy serves as chairman, considered the legislation in 2010 and reported it to the Senate, but further action on the legislation stalled due to a single Republican senators objection. Adding the bill Wednesday during the lame duck legislative session to the must-pass defense bill is Leahys latest effort to get past the obstacles.
Now that this bill is on a track for passage, it is time for the obstruction to end so that these overdue reforms can finally begin helping first responders and their families. Each day that passes is another day that Mr. Longs family, and others who would benefit from this legislation, must live without the help they need and deserve, Leahy said.
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He was born on Oct. 14, 1931, in Charlotte, Texas, to Walter and Josie Scott.
He graduated as valedictorian from Charlotte High School and attended Baylor University on scholarship where he received a double major in geology and Spanish with minors in history and radio.
Walter married Mary Elizabeth Vaughan on July 6, 1960 and subsequently moved to Goliad where they have spent the better part of the past 53 years living on their ranch, the Copa de Vino.
He practiced geology in Corpus Christi and Goliad for a period of time but is better known for his love of Texas longhorn cattle and Texas History. Walter became a charter member in 1965 as one of the original founders of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America (TLBAA). He was a two-time past president for the TLBAA and was recognized in many circles as one of the country's foremost subject matter experts on the history and genetics of the Texas longhorn breed. In addition to having several papers published including "The Texas Longhorn's Role in Today's Beef Industry," Walter and the Copa de Vino Ranch were featured as cover stories for several cattle industry periodicals and most notably the very first front and back cover page story for "The Smithsonian" and "Texas Highways."
He served as a guest professor at the 1975 International Stockmen's School sponsored by the Agriservices Foundation. He was elected as a director in the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) in 1977 and was elevated to honorary director in 2002.
In 1999, he was a member of the committee for the commemoration of 250 years of ranching in Goliad County.
Walter was known for entertaining folks with his guitar and the singing of old country and western music and Mexican ballads as he was fluent in reading, writing and speaking the Spanish language.
Walter was also a director of the Goliad County Chamber of Commerce, a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, a Mason, and member of the Sons of the Republic of Texas.
He is survived by his loving wife, Mary Elizabeth; children, Michael and Lee Scott of Houston, Richard and Vicky Scott of Allen, Eric and Carol Scott of Goliad, Anthony Scott of Tomball, Stephanie and Ted Rodriguez of San Antonio; and grandchildren, Stephen, Hillary, Tyler, John, Warren, Daniel, Audrey, Conner, Brady, Maddie, Brandon and Marshall.
In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by brothers, Gary Scott and Randall Scott, and one grandchild, Andrew Carlisle Scott.
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Peace is possibleJuly 22,2014
Peace is possible
The American press has helped legitimize Israels merciless attacks on Gaza by castigating Hamas for rejecting an Egyptian cease-fire proposal.
The Egyptian offer was the poisoned fruit of collusion among Egypts new dictator, Tony Blair, Israels prime minister and John Kerry.
As reported in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Hamas was never invited to the party.
Rule No. 2: If you want a cease-fire, talk to your adversary.
Rule No. 3: When your adversary offers a credible truce proposal, negotiate.
The same week the Egyptian cease-fire story was making headlines, Hamas offered Israel a 10-year truce in exchange for 10 conditions, including: withdrawal of Israeli tanks from Gazas border; freeing of all prisoners arrested after the killing of three Jewish settler youth; lifting the siege of Gaza and opening border crossings; establishing a seaport and airport in Gaza under U.N. supervision; and increasing the fishing zone off Gazas coast to 10 kilometers.
It also called for internationalizing the Rafah crossing under U.N. control; placing international forces on the borders; easing conditions for permits to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque; prohibiting Israeli interference with the reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Fatah; and re-establishing an industrial zone in Gaza and further economic development.
Clearly, the chief focus is ending Israels inhuman and unlawful siege on 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza, most of whom are refugees and desperately poor.
So why did Israel destroy Gazas only rehabilitation hospital Saturday, and why does it keep killing civilians indiscriminately, after it was offered a 10-year truce?
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Cost Effective?
With a lavish salary comes severe responsibilities, as Karen Bowling is about to learn. She needs to tackle them immediately and decisively.
Bowling, 55, has been appointed to head the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services. She takes over an agency on the verge of perhaps the biggest transition in its history.
She will be paid $175,000 a year. That is nearly eight times the per capita income of Mountain State residents. It also is $80,000 a year more than her predecessor received.
State legislators agreed to the massive pay hike this year, after being told the previous $95,000 rate was not enough to attract top-quality applicants for the post.
Bowling's credentials seem solid. She has worked as a nurse practitioner, college dean and chief executive officer of a hospital in Beckley. She has served as chairwoman of the state Hospital Association.
None of that has prepared her for what she is about to encounter, we suspect: the most massive bureaucracy in state government. The DHHR budget is more than $4.3 billion and is growing by leaps and bounds. It is by far the single largest item in the state budget.
Hundreds of thousands of West Virginians rely on services provided through the DHHR. That number will grow much larger once plans are finalized to expand the state Medicaid program by about 91,500 new clients.
Medicaid provides health care services to low-income and disabled people, and is funded jointly by federal and state governments. The expansion is one of many mandates in the new national health care law.
In addition to implementing cost-cutting proposals by a consultant, it will be Bowling's task to ensure expansion of the Medicaid program is done responsibly. Regardless of what anyone in Washington says, more Medicaid means more spending by state taxpayers.
It already has been reported the state plans to curb growth in Medicaid spending by providing that clients will be responsible for modest co-payments for some services. In addition to that, Bowling should consider some sort of more sweeping personal responsibility plan – both to hold down spending and improve the health of Medicaid enrollees.
By any standard, Bowling is being paid extremely well. In exchange for that, legislators and taxpayers have a right to expect results – soon, not in years – in better DHHR services at lower cost.


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The Goliad County Appraisal District had a record 807 property owners protest their valuations. Out of the 807, 633 were settled before going to the appraisal review board (ARB). Of the 27 that went to the ARB, 14 assessments were reduced.
Miller said the appraisal district was able to gain more sales information on county properties this year to make more accurate valuations. He said county properties had been undervalued in years past, causing the taxable values to rise as much as 75 percent for some property owners.
"Unfortunately, Texas is a non-disclosure state. You do not have to tell the person how much you bought or sold a home for," Miller said. "That makes it very difficult for the appraisal districts at times to value property.
"In some years, we might not get a lot of sales information and the prior five to six years that has been the case. This past year for 2014, we were very fortunate to gain a lot of sales information in the county. What has happened is for the prior five or six years our county has really been undervalued because we just did not have the information to raise values."
Charles Watts, who owns a home in the Lakewood subdivision, saw his assessment increase 62 percent from 2013. He protested the valuation and said he was first offered a 3-percent reduction by Miller. Watts elected to meet with the ARB and was scheduled for a 9 a.m. appointment on July 15.
"Eighteen protestors were in the lobby and the sign-in sheet showed 120 protestors were to meet with ARB," Watts said. "I was shuffled into a private room and told they had reconsidered my valuation and and offered almost a 50-percent reduction of the increased assessed value. I refused the offer. After waiting four hours, I finally met with the ARB. Some protestors had to leave because they had taken off work and could not wait for hours to meet with the ARB."
Watts said he felt the appraisal district intentionally made the process difficult to force property owners to concede.
"The appraisal office knows most people will never protest because of the lost time, expense and hassles it takes," Watts said. "I think the Goliad County Appraisal Office has placed an unfair burden on taxpayers."
Miller agreed that the protest process needs to be improved.
"It can seem a little bit overwhelming," Miller said. "I, myself, had to protest my my property down in Nueces County this year. You have to take time off from work.
"We are looking at re-evaluating some of the things that we can do. For instance, one of the things that the district needs to do is offer the opportunity for property owners to come into the office on Saturday. Under the state code, we can offer that. We can also offer one evening where we hold ARB hearings from 6 to 8 p.m. for people who cannot get off of work. In addition, we will be offering an electronic protest on our website. You can actually go online and file your protest and upload images. We will take a look at that and then offer you a value over the Internet. We will send you an email."
Homeowners received their notices from the appraisal district around the first week in May. Property owner have 30 days after receiving the notice to file a protest. Once the protest is filed, a hearing is scheduled with the ARB, which is made up of county residents and independent of the appraisal district. Anytime prior to the hearing, homeowners can meet with the appraisal district to come up with a mutually agreeable value.
"We stress to property owners to bring us pictures, estimates, any documentation of anything that requires work," Miller said. "It doesn't have to be something that is already done. It can be something that needs to be done to the home. We can determine the value we can take off according to the amount of work that needs to be done.
"Once the ARB sets the value, a determination order is sent to the property owner. If they are still unhappy, they can litigate. They can file a case in district court and sue the district or, if you are a residential homeowner, you can go into binding arbitration."
Miller said county property owners should not see a substantial increase in next year's valuations now that the properties are closer to the market value.
"Absolutely not," Miller said. "We saw a correction of the market because for so many years this district just didn't have the information that it was able to garner this year. Next year, we'll likely see values increase because the housing trend is still going in that way. But are we looking at 35, 65, 75 percent increases? Absolutely not. If anything, we would see something single digit."
Miller has certified the rolls and the taxing entities in the county are now working to establish their tax rates.


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LAKE HUNTINGTON, NY — If you haven't been to a Collabonation Productions show yet then what are you waiting for? The production company made up of Joe Murray and Dylan Smith has been booking shows for over a year, most of them being at The Nutshell in Lake Huntington, a popular bar/concert venue for young people from all over the area. Most of the shows are jam bands from upstate or the city, but Collabonation did something a little different last Friday night. They booked three bands (one being a jam band from Brooklyn), but the other two bands were local (or mostly local). They are Dizzy Feast, a rock group of teenagers from Narrowsburg, and Noise New York, a synth-pop band from Purchase with the lead singer Noah Barker from Jeffersonville. Both bands have a completely original sound and some serious talent.
I'll start with Dizzy Feast. The Feast is made up of Shane Andrewski, 17, (lead singer, guitar); Kyle Hector, 17, (drums); and Jacob Whispell, 18, (bass). They have a very rock and roll sound, both grungy and classic. Their performance was rock solid, it sounded like a recording—no mess ups and a clean, polished sound. The band had just released an album a few days before the show, comprised of 12 original songs written by Andrewski and recorded in Scranton.
Before I could even tell Shane that his voice sounds just like Jim Morrison's, he aptly listed The Doors as one of his favorite bands. Just like The Doors, some of Dizzy Feast's songs have a blues sound, like "Roads to Drive" and "The Desert." Other songs have a more punk feel to them, and Shane's voice gets angry and the guitar gets gritty. Kyle has a natural ability on the drums, never missing a beat, and Jacob could definitely be heard on the bass, an instrument that sometimes gets lost in the rest of the band. In fact, the bass line on many songs was a main attraction, and elevated the song to a new level.
The band ended their set with "Apathy," which Shane said is his favorite song to perform live, probably because the crowd kept requesting it and was pretty hyped as soon as the first riff was played. If you want to hear a band that will bring you back to the days of true rock, but also lead you down a new path, then check out Dizzy Feast, on their Facebook and SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/dizzyfeast-1 [1]).
Up next was Noise New York, who was playing for their album release party. It's hard to put a label on these guys, but if I had to it would be dreamy electronic indie pop, and maybe even happy shoegaze. The band features Noah who sings and plays the synth, Sean Liljequist on bass and Nick Roeder on drums. The trio played a remarkable set; the music transfixed you and washed over your whole body. Noah's voice is kind of baritone and juxtaposes nicely with the airy music, which he writes. They remind me of newer electronic groups like DIIV, The xx and Beach House (but more powerful) and classics like My Bloody Valentine and Broken Social Scene. I was really happy to see this kind of music at The Nutshell.
The band explained that each of the three musicians came from different musical backgrounds to form Noise New York. Noah has a deep-rooted background in jazz, Nick has a handful of backgrounds, from prog metal to Americana, and Sean comes from the post-punk scene. Nick said they "meld" what they're doing and balance it out without being constricted, "kind of like a Venn diagram," added Noah.
Their new album, "You Are Here," has six songs and all of them are really good, I don't think I can even pick a favorite because I like them all.
The band is now on tour and I highly recommend seeing them or listening to their music on Bandcamp (http://noisenewyork.bandcamp.com [2]) and checking out their Facebook.


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Make you feel better? Yankee Stadium is starting to turn to that too now
I just have to come on here and rant to some knicks fans
I was at the game last night, and it was DISGUSTING the amount of people cheering for the Lakers there. ARE YOU KIDDING ME! Go to LA to do that, theres a nice place called the staples center. I almost punched this girl infront of me in the face because she was screaming like a cat everytime kobe went to the line (she was pretty hot, but still)
half the crowd last night were Lakers fans, what kinda new yorkers are you people!? Do you have any pride?
And the funny thing is as soon as kobe sucks in 3 years we will find no laker fans anywhere (unless another pau gasol-like giveaway happens, which seems to always happen to that team.)
Someone say something to make me feel better please
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the lakers are like the yankees.they have fans everywhere.you can't really expect the garden to not have plenty of laker fans at the garden.
This is why I don't respect downtown Manhattan...not true New Yorkers...just people going for a site visit, MSG is full of celebrities and softcore New Yorkers.
iono, American sports tends to rub me off negatively.
Knick's fanbase has gotten soft.
Yankee's organization tend to appeal those outside of NY than Bronxnites.
Sadly, I'm stuck with these teams. Yankees win a lot, I know, I just wish they were a Bronx team. They play in the Bronx, but everything about them is so not Bronx.
It's ****ty, but it happens...NY has some of the most fair weather fans around. It was crazy to see, after the Yankees won the World Series for the first time in 9 years, how many "Yankee fans" came out of the woodwork to say they "Always supported the team".
I think u guys also forget how many ppl travel back and forth from LA and NY or moved here from there... Most of these ppl who u see cheering for LA aren't Knick fans at all (it's prob the first game they've been to in MSG this year since it's the first time we played LA in NY). My popz has had season tickets as long as I've been alive and I've seen this SOO much... Whenever we play in LA there are a lot of NY fans there as well... but the balance is worse here because we suck as a team and the Die hard fans don't really come out anymore cause it's a waist of $$$.
That is so true about the Yankees.Before 1996 I remember being the only Yankee fan in my school and the only person who knew what was going on with them.Nobody really cared about baseball or the Yankees during those days.But then as the Yankees begin to go on this great championship run everybody in my school becomes newly converted Yankee fans.Yankeemania begins to spread around like a deadly epidemic.Even people who had previously mocked me for liking such a boring sport as baseball were all of a sudden hardcore Yankee fans.
The same thing use to happen when Michael Jordan was playing.If you grew up in the 90's you would most likely have gone to a school in which mostly every student was a Chicago Bulls fan.Being a Knick fan was like rooting for the enemy since every kid would want Michael Jordan to win.I remember how my fellow classmates use to celebrate everytime the Knicks would get eliminated from a playoff series.The Knick hatred was at it's peak throughout this time period.But as soon as Jordan retired for the second time in 1999 everybody I knew jumped off the Chicago Bulls bandwagon.People all of a sudden didn't even want to talk about their favorite team anymore.The Bulls scored 49 points in a game but I couldn't rub it in anyone's face because nobody was a Bulls fan anymore.The Bulls were so irrelevant in the year 1999 that many of these people started rooting for the Knicks after hating them the year prior to that one.
That's just how frontrunners are and I've always laughed at them for having to constantly run around and find a new bandwagon to jump on.I don't believe that they root for a team with the same kind of passion that a die hard fan would root for his team.These people just like whoever is on the front pages of newspapers and on the front covers of sports magazines.They only watch a NY team whenever they're playing in the playoffs.Just like how some people only attend church on holidays such as Easter and Christmas.What ever is socially suitable and acceptable for them to do they just go ahead and follow it.If there is one thing that most NewYorkers and Americans fail at it has to be being a true fan of a team.
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1.People who don't like sports at all:A large number of people fall into this category but they don't make up the majority.
These people could care less about rooting for or following a sports team.Knowing about a team is basically a waste of time for them.They find no significance or social benefit in liking a particular team.Even if that team is the best team,plays in their home city and makes the playoffs every year they'll never pay attention to them.Their priorities seem to occupy most of their time and day for them to attend a game or watch a sporting event on television.Sports is something that is completely oblivious to these type of people.
2.The casual fan:Most people fall into this category and sadly but true, they make up the majority of a team's fan base.
Bandwagoners, frontrunners, fairweathers and people who are easily persuaded by glamor and success fall into this very category.But they're not the only ones that fall into this list.Some people actually do like a team but their 24 hour schedule doesn't permit them to dedicate as much time as they'd like to their team.You can include a lot of celebrities in this list and people who root for a particular individual of a team rather than the team that they play for.
Most people in this category won't watch 95% of any sports season but will tune in to a game if their home team happens to be competing in the playoffs and are the center of everyone's attention.They don't show up at sporting events out of a wholehearted desire to watch their home team win but show up at these events because someone from their job or very close to them, gave them a free ticket to do so.And once they're at these events they either don't pay attention to the games or leave the sporting venues before the games end.These are the kind of people who aren't very passionate about a team but will celebrate amongst the passionate fans if that team happens to win it all.Sure they'll be exuberant and excited for a few days after watching a championship run but they'll totally forget about the team until that team makes another championship run.They could go more than 15 years ignoring a team if that team happens to be irrelevant for that long.
Example:Many people who've rooted for the New York Knicks in the 90's and the NY Mets in the late 80's have been reported missing for more than a decade.The Knicks in early 2010 are to New York what the Yankees were to NY during the first half of the 1990's.
Only winning and triumph can resuscitate the part of the brain in these people which allows them to pay attention to and like a sports team.But if that team happens to fall from grace they'll turn their backs on them once again.Some of these people even have the nerve to claim that they've been a fan of that team for most of their lives.
I forgot to mention that these are the people who attend championship parades and have limited knowledge about sports teams.They could probably tell you the jersey colors of a team but could only identify the 2 or 3 superstars on that team.This is why I consider them casual fans because of their erratic knowledge and attitude towards teams.
3.The True fan or die-hard fan:They make up the minority and are very rare to find in a large city with a big market.
These are the people like us who follow their teams religiously.They'll buy the newspaper everyday just to read the latest news about their teams.They'll show up at games even if the stadium or arena is 3 quarters empty.They'll go ahead and watch the same Sports Center highlights over and over again and never get tired of it.They'll root for their teams wholeheartedly even when nobody else wants to root for them.These people can tell you the history of their teams like the back of their hands.They do not root for a team because they're popular, successful or well liked by the masses.The'll get frustrated or even depressed after their team loses a game and will watch every single game of the season even if it's an exhibition game.Whenever they hear someone criticize their team they'll defend their team as though it was their birth right.And would never turn their back on their teams to root for other teams.
These are the best fans in the world and this is why I decided to leave them for last.
Last edited by johnstarky; Feb 12, 2010 at 21:34.
JohnStarky - very well written and precise. Nail on the head analogy. Totally describes me.
Born in Harlem. Always a diehard Knick fan - even while living in Miami, Atlanta, Vegas & now Scottsdale AZ.
Hey, I even have the summer league games wsite bookmarked!
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It's good to know that New York isn't the only city that has Knick fans.Hopefully I can socialize with fans like you if if I ever decide to move to another state.With the lack of support that the Knicks have been receiving from many New Yorkers I sometimes feel like the only Knick fan on this planet.Let's just hope that the Knicks start playing winning basketball again and put the Scott Layden and Isiah Thomas memories far behind them.
I hate fair-weather fans.
I'm a Yankees, Jets, Knicks, and Rangers fan.
I grew up during the Yankee dynasty so that is all I know, but I'm not going to jump ship if they start losing.
As a Jet fan I hate seeing all these phony fans jump out of the woodwork. I mean seriously I grew up on Doug Brien missing field goals, Brett Favre collapsing, and Chad Pennington getting hurt every other year. Where where then then?
With the Knicks and Rangers it was more complicated. As a kid my two favorite basketball players were Patrick Ewing and Michael Jordan. Every time we played the Bulls I wanted MJ to drop 100, but the Knicks to beat the Bulls by 1. Then I started to follow the Knicks in 03-04. I was pumped when they made the playoffs, but I really started to follow them after they got D-Lee. D-Lee's game winning tip-in and Steve Francis game winning shot against the Wizards cemented my status as a diehard Knicks fan.
I follow the Rangers casually, because I need to live a some what productive life lol.
New York is not only the "melting-pot" of the Human-Races, but the resting-pot of all the States.
Everybody want to be able to say they live in New York.
MSG is LUVIN it....makin that money from the million of die-hard fans, the famous entertainer, and all the visitors making MSG a New York land mark.
Invest in MSG stock u win even when the team lose....by 50 points
Been a Knick fan as long as I've been watching and playing basketball. Ewing remains my favorite player of all time. I am still not sure what cemented my Knick fandom, but I think it had to do with hating on the boston celtics...
Anyways, there's all KINDS of fair-weather fans, they don't just exist in NY. Think about how many fan's the Cav's have now... Think about how many they had before LeBron... Success breeds fandom, gets jersey sales, sells tickets, creates pride, etc.
Fans like us are few and far between my friends. People that will stick with a team even when they are the laughing stock of the league are so very rare. I have people who fall into starky's category 2 continually laughing at me as the Raptors beat the lakers, destroy the knicks and we get blown out by the injured Mav's AT HOME.
Who's going to stick around to be ridiculed like that? I don't know if that makes me some kind of masochist or what but I know it ain't easy. I wouldn't blame anyone for leaving this team behind in the last 10 years and never looking back.
But I'm Knicks fan 4 life! I was a fan during Van gundy, I was a fan during Isiah, I'm a fan now and I always will be. I couldn't not be a fan of this team if I tried. Basketball is ingrained in my soul and as tightly as I attach myself to the game I attach myself to this team. I breathe Knicks and I bleed Blue and Orange.


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I gave up trying to install MySQL on my Windows 7 machine. Hours of fiddling, and it never could install properly. So, I uninstalled it, and installed it on my Windows XP machine where it seems to be running happily, waiting for someone to connect to it.
On my main Windows 7 64-bit machine, I am running Apache Web Server and PHP. I would like to be able to connect to my remote SQL server. I just can't get it to recognize the function calls related to SQL.
My php.ini file has
extension_dir="C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\ext"
I've verified that php_mysqli.dll is in that directory, and I don't get any error messages starting PHP. It successfully does the basic "Hello World" level stuff. However, when trying to access the mysqli functions, I get:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysqli_init() in C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\sqlconnect4.php on line 8
Most installation guides I find assume that I have MySQL installed locally. Is there something special I need to do to deal with the remote server?
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Famous Actors with Impressive Tattoos
Tattoos are celebrated all-over the world. They hold tradition and tell stories. In the entertainment industry, many of our favorite actors dawn some of the most impressive ones. Here are several famous actors and the meanings of their tattoos.
Transformation and Companionship
Tattooed women are sexy and actress Angelina Jolie does not disappoint. She has worked with refugees around the world and has "Know Your Rights" in gothic letters across the back of her neck. Human rights is a cause that is dear to her heart. One of her other prominent tattoos is the Buddhist inscription for Protection dedicated to her adopted son, Maddox. It is done in traditional Thai style and she had to kneel in prayer during the process due to certain rituals.
Drew Barrymore, actress and producer, also has a number of tattoos. They include a bouquet of flowers on the left part of her hip, a crescent moon, a black butterfly below the navel, a cross with vines near her lower right leg, and two angels on her lower back. Barrymore describes herself as being free as bird. That might explain the bird outline she has on her forearm.
Megan Fox loves poetry and has a few quotes displayed across her body. "We will all laugh at gilded butterflies" is tattooed on her upper right back and is quoted from Shakespeare done in Old. Near her rib cage is "And those who were seen dancing thought to be insane by those who could not hear music." A lovely piece of prose she has on her left side, "There was once a little girl who never knew love until a boy broke her HEART." She has other tattoos scattered all over her body.
The Latin actor, Danny Trejo, spent most of the 1960's in and out of prison which is where most of his tattoos were done. The most prominent one is his large chest portrait of a women wearing a sombrero. It began in Folsomm prison and was finished in San Quentin two years later. He also added a red heart wrapped in barbed wire. The majority of his other tattoos are gang-related.
"My body is a my journal, and my tattoos are my story", says Johnny Depp. He started with his arms with a Cherokee Indian Chief and above it is a "Wino Forever" banner in honor of his ex Winona Ryder. His mother's name, Betty Sue, appears on his left arm wrapped in a heart which is tribute to "the greatest lady in the world." Depp also has "Lily Rose", the name of his first born daughter, tattooed above his heart. His son's name, Jack, is tattooed on his arm similar to the one shown in Pirates of the Caribbean which he starred in.
A Lasting Tradition
Tattooing has been practiced all over the world for centuries. Famous Actors use tattoos to tell stories, honor loved ones, and to display their passions. Somehow, it allows us to get a little closer to them and even share in their world.


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