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Journalists under attack in Libya: The tally
CPJ has documented more than 80 attacks on the press since political unrest erupted in Libya last month. They include five fatalities, at least three serious injuries, at least 50 detentions, 11 assaults, two attacks on news facilities, the jamming of Al-Jazeera and Al-Hurra transmissions, at least four instances of obstruction, the expulsion of two international journalists, and the interruption of Internet service. At least six local journalists are missing amid speculation they are in the custody of security forces. One international journalist and two media support workers are also unaccounted for. Here's a running list of all attacks on journalists and the media in Libya since February 16:


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Dec 19, 2011
Last week, MapQuest Vibe closed out the last of a series of TechCocktail sponsorships in Boulder, Washington DC, San Francisco and finally Phoenix.
TechCocktail highlights emerging technology news, people, startups, products, and innovations for the true tech enthusiast. The sponsorships allowed for 40 start-ups to participate in the events for free and show off their products in front of almost 1800 attendees.
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Obama's Approval Ratings Through the Roof! Proving Spread of Disease of Liberalism
Original post made by Wither America?, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Feb 20, 2013
A Bloomberg National poll released Wednesday found that 55 percent of Americans approve of Obama's performance, his highest rating in the poll since September 2009.
Additionally, the Bloomberg poll found Republican popularity at a record low. Just 35 percent of respondents said they have a favorable view of the GOP, marking the lowest ratings for the party since the poll began three years ago. The Republican rating also marked a six point drop over the last six months.
The poll surveyed 1,003 adults between February 15 and February 18, with a three percent margin of error.
Obama's popularity has been on an upward trend in the months since his reelection. A Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted last month found that 60 percent of respondents had a favorable view of the president. In December, a CBS poll showed Obama's strongest numbers since the death of Osama Bin Laden in May 2011.
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Feb 21, 2013 at 11:01 am
@Wither America?
This is one disease worth catching!
a resident of Birdland
on Feb 21, 2013 at 11:10 am
People love pos Obama? Ha ha ha! Bloomberg/NBC poll of 1004 democrats? Yea right!
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Feb 21, 2013 at 12:15 pm
Yes, Pos Obama refuses to believe polls like Bloomberg, Pew, USA Today, ABC/WaPo, CBS, and others. Instead, he chooses to believe Rasmussen and other bought off right-wing hacks who had Romney winning the popular vote by 4 points. And how did that work out for you guys? Still waiting for the networks to call Ohio for Romneybot?
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Using "cout", I can get text, then a variable, then some more text. I wondered if I could replicate that into a string?
cout << "Hi, I am " << x << "years old."; into a string.
EDIT: I've tried something with a string, but I've gotten a compile error:
invalid operands of types `const char[22]' and `int' to binary `operator<<'
The string is as follows:
string day1_c_1 = "You, along with your " << rs_q_c << " friends, set up camp outside of town. You carried " << rs_q_f << " units of food with you, along with another " << rs_q_m << " units of metal.";
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Writing Ideas
1. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" is a ballad—one of the oldest poetic forms in English. Ballads generally use a bouncy rhythm and rhyme scheme to tell a story. Think about an event that has happened to you recently and try to tell it in ballad form.
2. The poem is a narrative of an encounter that entails both pleasure and pain. Think of a person you have met in your life who has brought you both joy and unhappiness. Write a poem that describes your first encounter and, like Keats, the moment you realized they had you "in thrall."
3. Take the final word from each line of Keats's poem (arms, loitering, lake sing). Use them as the first words of lines to your own poem, which either recreates the mood of Keats's poem, or creates a totally opposite mood.
4. Make an erasure of Keats's poem. Cross out words or entire phrases to make a new poem "within" or "underneath" the real one.
Discussion Questions
1. Keats wrote in a letter to his friend Richard Woodhouse, "A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no Identity." Keats thought poets should remove their egos from their poetry, to better allow for poetry to happen unfiltered by personality. What similarities do you detect between the Knight in "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and Keats's idea of a poet?
2. Go through and circle all of the poem's adjectives. What do you notice about them? Why does Keats use so many? What effects do they create? What happens when you read the poem without them?
3. There are a few voices talking in this poem. Go through the poem and figure out who is speaking, and when: what does each voice say, and not say? What is the effect of having multiple voices frame the poem? Who speaks and who doesn't?
4. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" is a kind of fairy-tale gone awry. What are the "fairy-tale" elements in the poem (words, themes, emotions) and how do they relate to other poems you have read? You might compare this poem's content to "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe, or its structure to "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Teaching Tips
1. Use "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" to do a brief introduction to meter and prosody. Ask your students to recite the refrain of a popular song, or one that gets stuck in their heads easily. Pull different kinds of metrical feet—anapest, dactyl, iamb, trochee, spondee—from the lyrics they give you (having a few songs in mind yourself may be helpful). Emphasize that these names just describe the system of stressed syllables already inherent in English. Go through the different kinds of metrical feet with your students. Tell them they are going to play "Meter Madlibs," and then hand out a few stanzas of "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" with some of the words removed. On the board, write down the kind of foot that belongs in each blank space. "O what can ail thee ______________"[dactyl], for example. Have students work in groups to fill in the blank with their own words.
2. Have students try to map the events of "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" on two timelines—one that shows the events as they happen in "real" time, and the other as Keats relays them in "poem" time. Talk about how narrative works in poetry and fiction. Why do poets and authors play with sequence and chronology in their work? What might it tell us about how we experience time ourselves?
3. The rhyme scheme in "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" is consistent, but not exact. In groups have students go through and circle all the exact rhymes, put a square around all the slant rhymes, and underline the words that don't seem to rhyme at all. Review the different kinds of rhymes as a class. Then form a rhyme circle. Make whatever stipulations you want (no exact rhymes; only slant), say a word, and go around the circle using different kinds of rhyme on that word.
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POL participants and judges: in this poem's third-to-last stanza, recitations that include "Hath thee in thrall!" or "Thee hath in thrall!" are both acceptable.
John Keats: "La Belle Dame sans Merci"
Poem Guide
When John Keats was finishing "La Belle Dame sans Merci" in the early spring of 1819, he was just weeks away from composing what would become some of English literature's most sustained and powerful odes. "La Belle Dame," a compact ballad, is wound as tightly as a fuse. Keats's life and conflicts, his love for his neighbor Fanny Brawne, and his awareness of impending death are written like code into the predicament of a dying medieval knight, the poem's principal character. It is one thing to read this explosive ballad for the story of the knight, but if we peer behind the tragic surface we can see a writer—with one of the shortest working lives of his generation—creating a pact with literary immortality. We can glean from his letters at the time that there is a sudden and powerful merging between his thinking about poetry (what we now call theory or, more loosely, poetics) and the gestation of his poems. "La Belle Dame" also shows how Keats expanded his own poetic capabilities by reacting to the poems and theories of other poets, namely his contemporary Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
John Keats's use of the English balladic form in "La Belle Dame sans Merci" has its Romantic precursors. Lyrical Ballads, a collaboration between William Wordsworth and Coleridge, was his principal reference. It was everyone's. Coleridge explains the book's inception twenty-odd years after it was published, in his Autobiographia Literaria. By then Keats was an avid reader of Coleridge, and in two of the book's chapters he would find a basis for components of his own poetic justifications. These bear directly on "La Belle Dame" and what was to come in the months following. Coleridge writes,
. . . it was agreed, that my endeavors should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least Romantic; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. . . . (Chapter XIV)
. . . That illusion, contradistinguished from delusion, that negative faith which simply permits the images present to work by their own force. . . . (Chapter XXII)
Keats's notion of "negative capability"—the most famous among his rare contributions to literary theory—is the child of Coleridge's "willing suspension of disbelief," and is an important working principle in the conception of "La Belle Dame sans Merci" and its cast of two, the knight and the belle dame, "shadows of imagination," as Coleridge would have called them. Keats's reimagining of Coleridge's formulation of poetic faith first crops up a couple of months after the publication of the Autobiographia, in a letter to his brothers, George and Thomas Keats:
. . . I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason. (Letter XXIV—December 21, 1817)
If read as a rephrasing of Coleridge's "willing suspension of disbelief," Keats's famous statement demonstrates that he, like Coleridge, feels the need to allow the powers of the imagination to rise above the critical demeanor that is part of every great poet's arsenal. The transference of inward nature onto supernatural characters, the fleshing out of those characters to create plausibility and verisimilitude, is beautifully executed in the poem.
To carry the story forward, Keats invents a swiftly moving variation on the traditional balladic stanza, which used the quatrain as the principal stanzaic form, alternating tetrameters and trimeters. These metrics evolved out of the folk idiom and early minstrel forms to create a rolling, almost singsong pace, but Keats compresses the lines by using three tetrameters followed by a final, truncated line of only four or five syllables. This pattern, which at first we hear and then internalize, hastens the poem's rhythm: the shorter last lines of each quatrain act like a spring hurtling us forward.
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.
It is not only the form that sustains the wonderful economy of the poem, but the way Keats pushes negative capability beyond just a tolerance for working through uncertainties toward a truly dramaturgic investment in character development. This is linked to his conception of poetic identity. The more we consider the knight's story, the more we uncover parallels with Keats's life. The knight's predicament in the poem is Keats's drama transformed and played out in allegorical fashion. Keats's knight is lost, abandoned, and already living a posthumous existence, which is how the poet himself would eventually refer to the last months of his life just two years later. Keats articulates his view of poetic character in a letter to his friend Richard Woodhouse, by using Wordsworth's attempts at character development as a juxtaposition:
As to the poetical Character itself (I mean that sort, of which, if I am anything, I am a member; that sort distinguished from the Wordsworthian, or egotistical Sublime.…) it is not itself—it has no self—It is everything and nothing—It has no character.… What shocks the virtuous philosopher delights the cameleon poet. . . . A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no Identity. . . . (Letter LXXVI—October 27, 1818)
In contrast with what he calls the "egotistical Sublime" in Wordsworth's narrators, who are nearly always a dramatis personae, Keats seemingly loses his own self to fully inhabit the inner mood of his malingering knight. Except for the first three stanzas, Keats stays out of the poem itself; he is neither a self-conscious narrator nor a character who symbolically mirrors the poet, like the one who appears in Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
To structure the poem's narrative, Keats borrows a question-and-response form from earlier folk ballads and pastoral eclogues. In the first three stanzas the poet does indeed appear as a third-person narrator, but only as a kind of rhetorical presence, addressing the knight in a series of questions that allow the poet to "transfer," in Coleridge's words, "from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth" onto the character of the knight. Likewise, the knight's predicament is laid out in this mini-interrogation—he is given a vocabulary—and the rest of the poem will be taken up by his response, his story, as it were.
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
So haggard, and so woe-begone?
The squirrel's granary is full,
And the harvest's done.
With the belle dame playing a figure of love and fantasy and the agent of death and decay to the knight, it is as though Keats has stumbled upon his mirror image as he gazes upon the knight:
I see a lily on thy brow,
With anguish moist and fever-dew,
And on thy cheeks a fading rose
Fast withereth too.
For a fantasy poem whose setting seems so distant from real time, the poem might very well express figuratively what Keats was experiencing in his love life and his health. The mix of literary and emotional forces influencing Keats at the time he wrote "La Belle Dame sans Merci" was nothing less than extreme. His mother had died of tuberculosis when he was 14; his brother, whom Keats nursed through his final months, died of the same disease in 1818. Even before his brother's death, Keats too would begin to show signs of the disease, returning from his rigorous tour of Scotland and Ireland with a harsh cough and an ulcerated throat. That year he would also fall in love with Fanny Brawne and by the spring of 1819 would embark on what was to become one of the most important sequences of odes in our literature, all written in a single year. "La Belle Dame sans Merci" was written in the heat of his passion for Fanny, the fever of death hanging over him. He was on fire poetically, in love, growing ill, and suffering from depression. By the end of May 1819 Keats finished the poem:
I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful—a faery's child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.
I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She looked at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan.
I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long,
For sidelong would she bend, and sing
A faery's song.
She found me roots of relish sweet,
And honey wild, and manna-dew,
And sure in language strange she said—
"I love thee true."
She took me to her elfin grot,
And there she wept and sighed full sore,
And there I shut her wild wild eyes
With kisses four.
And there she lullèd me asleep,
And there I dreamed—Ah! woe betide!—
The latest dream I ever dreamt
On the cold hill side.
The knight's story is of coming upon "a lady in the meads," "a faery's child" with wild eyes. The story is full of double entendres: "fragrant zone" (a girdle of flowers or his lover's nether regions?), "I set her on my pacing steed" (his horse, or his erection?). She weeps and sighs "full sore" (until she is sore?). There are often two ways of seeing this scene, as the knight quickly learns. The landscape is lush with meadows and spring, wild honey and manna dew, but the story quickly moves from idyllic to horrific, as the fairytale romp turns to imprisonment on a cold hillside.
After his rough-and-tumble, the knight finds himself in a kind of hell through the common gothic transport of a dream. He is surrounded by all of the lady's previous victims, who include kings and princes and warriors; her taste in men is evidently consistent.
I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried—"La Belle Dame sans Merci
Thee hath in thrall!"
I saw their starved lips in the gloam,
With horrid warning gapèd wide,
And I awoke and found me here,
On the cold hill's side.
And this is why I sojourn here,
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.
The repetition of "pale" reinforces the subtext of tubercular illness. In the next stanza we see the victims' "starved lips" (starved for air?) and hear their only words, "La Belle Dame sans Merci / Thee hath in thrall!" The thrall of love is clearly equated with the thrall of illness.
The partnering themes in gothic literature—love and death; temptation and duty; dream and waking, and the murky suffering of the consequences of ungoverned emotion; ecstasy and its aftermath of despair; the otherworldly seductress, Homer's Circe or Sirens, or the poetic muse herself—these are all figures without pity (sans merci) whose function is to entrap. All of this informs the consumptive grayness of the knight's predicament, a cache of themes that are echoed in the poet's own feverish condition. Even nature cooperates, with its withering sedge and finished harvest.
Keats's notions that the poet is "without identity" and "the most unpoetical of anything in existence" extend Coleridge's "suspension of disbelief," but mostly in practical ways: Keats's knight seems a purer creation of dramatic character than Coleridge's Ancient Mariner or Christabel, and more like a Hamlet or a King Lear, albeit in miniature. Of course, a total subjugation of "poetic character," as Keats calls it in his letter, would be impossible, though many modern and postmodern poets have attempted just that. In this way, Keats was certainly anticipating post-Romantic strategies of expression. Through allegorical displacement Keats is able to diffuse overobvious "self-expression" and transform what in a lesser poet would remain self-pity into a self-erasing empathy for his created characters. By using the figure of the knight as a dramatically convincing surrogate for the pathos he himself feels, Keats makes powerful use of some of the most important Romantic themes: the stress of self-examination, the fraught duality of Eros and death, and individual mortality and its mirroring in the cycles of nature.
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John Keats, who died at the age of twenty-five, had perhaps the most remarkable career of any English poet. He published only fifty-four poems, in three slim volumes and a few magazines. But at each point in his development he took on the challenges of a wide range of poetic forms from the sonnet, to the Spenserian romance, to the Miltonic epic, defining anew their possibilities with his own distinctive fusion of earnest energy, control of conflicting perspectives and forces, poetic self-consciousness, and, occasionally, dry ironic wit. In the case of the English ode he brought its form, in the five great odes of 1819, to its most perfect definition.
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But what if the content of the programming promotes "prosocial" behaviors like sharing, tolerance and empathy? Is the content of "screen time" as important, or perhaps more important, than the quantity of screen time? A new study published in the journal Pediatrics set out to answer that question.
The Scoop
Researchers from Seattle Children's Hospital conducted a randomized controlled trial (the "gold standard" in research design) of what they termed a "media diet" intervention. A total of 820 three- to five-year-old children who had spent at least three hours per day watching television participated in the program along with their parents. Half of the children were randomly assigned to the "media diet" intervention and the other half received a nutrition intervention intended to improve eating habits. As part of the "media diet" intervention, parents received home visits, coaching, resources and phone follow-ups to help them replace violent or age-inappropriate programs with educational or "pro-social" content. No efforts were made to decrease the quantity of screen time.
When researchers followed up with the children at six and 12 months, they found that the children assigned to the "media diet" intervention watched less aggressive television and more prosocial television, scored higher in areas of social and emotional competence and experienced improved sleep. They also found that low-income boys benefited the most from being on the "media diet." It is important to note that there was no significant difference in the amount of screen time between the two groups.
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This is the first study to demonstrate that intensive efforts to provide more educational and productive media opportunities for young children decreases their aggressive behaviors and increases their social and emotional competence. The average preschool child spends more than four hours per day in front of a screen. To date, efforts to decrease the amount of screen time have only been marginally successful. Focusing not only on quantity of screen time, but also quality of screen time will help optimize early childhood development. Still, despite the benefits of educational programming compared to non-educational programming, ACE believes that it is important to enforce screen-time rules (accumulating no more than two hours per day) to help ensure that young children engage in at least 60 minutes of physical activity per day. While it is ideal if the physical activity can occur in natural environments with other children, ACE also recognizes that there are some health and fitness benefits to "exergaming" and other activity programs that rely on media and technology.
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Go for it!
Well folks,, now I went and did it,,,,,I'm so sick and tired of all this gun ban bullshit I'm going to/have done,, something about it!
I contacted NRA about the gun theft incident I've told you guys about before. That the state of VT won't do anything about even after I've contacted the Gov,s office,, Senators,, and Representatives, and the DA's offices,,, they flat,,,refuse to follow federal firearms laws,,,and prosecute,,, so,,,,,,,
I went above there heads,, I contacted NRA/ILA, gave them the story and I'm waiting to see if one of there lawyers would like to file a law suite on my behalf naming the State Of Vt, and possibley the Fed Gov as defendants,, for not protecting me and for not following federal firearms laws. No clue what the charges would be,,, but I'm damn sick of my rights being stomped on and I'm just sick and tired of it,, don't have nothing better to do anyhow that would be any more productive than that, so,,,,,CHARGE!!!! Onward men,,, take that hill,,,Capital Hill !!!!
I'm sure it will be a pain in the ass, and I live to regret it,,, but,, I'm fighting for my Grand Kids future right's too. I'm not just standing back and taking it any longer.
So ,,, will you guys come visit me in the "Gulouge" when this is all said and done??
Go for it!
God so loved the world He gave his only Son...
...Believe in Him and have everlasting life.
John 3:16
I'm behind you all the way Brother!!!!!!!!
Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!
"If theyre going to come here illegally, apply for & receive assistance through a corrupted Government agency encouraging this lawless behavior, work under the table & send billions of dollars each year back to their families in Mexico, while bleeding local economies dry, protest in our streets waving their Mexican flags DEMANDING rights, while I have to press 1′ for English, then they need to be shipped back to where they came from!" -Chad Miller
I'm behind you. And I will bring you soup in the Goulag. I'm almost positive though it will be an unbearable prison sentence. You will be banished from the United States and forced to live in San Fransisco for the rest of your days.
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" -Thomas Jefferson-
"Our rights come from our humanity and may not be legislated away -- not by a vote of Congress, not by the consensus of our neighbors, not even by agreement of all Americans but one." Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
Visit you in the golouge - Hell NO! We'll come bust you out though!
I'd rather be a "has been" than a wannabe!
2TIMOTHY2,4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairsof this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
God, Guns and Guts made America free,
Lets keep all three.
I'm sure that nothing will ever come of this,, but at least it may bring to light publicly, another story of why the gun laws don't work with out the prosecution to back them up. And how the courts don't even follow the laws they've written already,,where's the deterrent to the criminal?
Any fuel we can add to this fire is going to do nothing but to help us, lets all keep writing , calling, e-mailing, and subscribe to your legislators sites and give them direct feedback, myself I give them Hell on some stuff and thank them for doing the right thing. I honestly think there checking the comments pretty closely just to see which way the wind blows on any issue. They'll follow the path of least resistance so they can keep there cushy jobs, don't you worry,,the more we do the things I mentioned ,, the more they'll see what a battle they will have on there hands and that there job just might be on the line if they don't start abiding by the Constitution and listening to the voices of the people!! "squeaky wheel",, syndrome ya know!! They won't buck the current if everybody swamps them with mail and comments.
It's ,,NO SHITTING AROUND time,,, we got to get busy, if we want to keep our guns! And our rights in general!
Please,,, Please,,,, get busy writing and e-mailing guys,,,, we have to do this, period or we'll eventually loose everything that makes this country great,,, 1 thing at a time. This will just be the first step. The main step.
Well ther eis one thing you can do, Is contact the Governor of the state and explane your problem that no-one wants to lok into your stolen firearms , and that by law they have to, and also point out the fact that if anyone gets hurt or killed with those guns, that you will make sure that everyone knows that the police and goverment did not do thier job as you followed federal protocal in reporting the theft, hell take it one step further and report them to ATF, with a copies sent to the new media as well, Im kinda good at turning up the heat when i have to,Dont back down bro stand your ground, and point the fingers at who is really to blame if someone gets hurt its easy the police! for not doing thier job, now nimd you not all agencies are like this I had a few guns stolen about 25 years ago, But I knew who the culprit was,, and I gave him a choice,, my justice or jail,, He said you cant do anything worse to me than the courts can. I said you want to bet! I dont like a thief and espically when its one of my own brothers so , you can eathier go to jail or I'm going to break everyone of your fingers at every joint with a ballpeen hammer! it your choice,, He said just call the police and turn me in
and I did. And her went to prison for 10 years, due to the fact he already had a felony coviction for trafficing marajunia. Now before anyone says I was a bad brother and I should have just talked to him , let me explaine about him hes a love lif douchbag that will steel the pennys off a dead mans eyes, and chew and pull a mans teeth out just for the dental gold, every family has one of these no good SOB's. He did his time, and he came to me to say how sorrry he was, I accepted his apolidigy, but I told him that I did not trust him and that it would take a long time to get that back. and he worked very hard at it until the day he died. he asked me if I truly forgave him as his conditioned worsened, I told him yes and I ment it , I told him if you just need mioney you shouls have just asked me I would have given it too you no questiones asked. 24 hrs later he died of a massive heart attack, may he rest in peace, and I hope hes not stealing angels wings and tring to seel them,,,,,Doc
I was able to retrieve them the following AM, so the public was safe there. This incident took place at aprox 1030 PM or so, the night before when the 3 people jumped my son. I tracked them down the next AM and approached the 3 perps and informed them I was a federal officer,, which I was at the time, and told them they had 30 minutes to return the guns and that I;d be at my friends house,, 2-3 houses down the road from the incident. Of course I was conspicuously carrying,,,,
With-in 10 minutes I heard a car pull in,,,,a few seconds,,,,, and door slam ,,, and car go ripping out the door yard,,,,,,, guns returned,,,, totally destroyed but 1,, but returned,,,missing all the mags, broken stocks, broken and missing scopes, bent barrel on one,, basically a mess. Of course I got a description and # of the driver and vech., with a witness.
Should be pretty cut and dried it would seem ,Right???? ,,,, Nope!!! A bunch of BS towards me,,I didn't get informed about hearings till about maybe 12 hours before,,, continuances, failure to appears,ect ,,, ect ,,,,ect,,,,
Long story short,,, my kid got beat up by 3 guys he'd just meet 8 hours before, 2600 dollars damage to his car, 2 of the guns destroyed and,,both on my FFL book as stock, 1 OK but missing mag, and badly dinged up,,,a once all matching pristine K31 Swiss,,missing accessories , mags, scopes, one a nice Burris ,a couple 10/22 high cap mags,,a total of gun damage at around $1600-1700..guessing.
Every thing totaled about 4600 bucks not even taking into account the assault and battery, and all 3 have already have a long record at 17-19 years old,,,, get this,,,,,,,,,
They were charged with malicious mischief and one paid restitution of 436 bucks total,,,,BFD,,,!! No State or Federal firearms charges, No assault and battery, No full restitution, no time,,,,,, back on the streets. 2 days later ,, they threatened me with a baseball bat and 2x4 and motioned me towards them when I was driving down the road,,,,,, I reported it,,,, 4 days later ,, there down the road shooting 2 ,,,,9mm's,later that day they threatened the landlord with them,, all of them are under 21, Illegal to posses a handgun in this state at that age ,,,,,I reported it,,,,,,,,,,NOTHING DONE AGAIN!!!!! ?????????????????????
Theft of firearms from a licensed dealer is a "must prosecute " offense,,, under federal statutes,,,, do you think the DA's office gave even gave two shits ,,, no matter how much I protested,,,,, HELL NO!!!!! Even after reporting all this other stuff they wouldn't do shit,,,, Still..
Contacted the ,,,Gov's office,,, DA's Office,,Lahey's Office,,, Welsh's office,,,,, BATFE,,, PISSING IN THE WIND!!!!!
That's why I contacted NRA/LRA about this whole deal,,, I think they'd be interested in this story for there archives,, if nothing else.
And people wonder why I get so pissed off at the system sometimes,,,, GOOD LORD!!!!!!! GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!
We don't need more gun control,,,, we need to prosecute and jail dangerous criminals,,,,, PERIOD!!! Or,,we,, shoot them when they threaten us with deadly force. There choice.


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Hey everyone! Make sure you vote for PSASBR as the "Best PS3 Full Game" on the PSN! It really needs the recognition. Sony needs to understand that, despite mediocre sales, the fans actually do want more content for this game and a sequel in the future. Here's the link to the blog post:
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Ehhhhh you can vote for it but Im pretty sure Borderlands 2 will win....
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I think a lot of people will want to vote for games they don't have - so PSABR is at an advantage lol. Otherwise, AC3 is more likely to win then Borderlands 2.
Vote for games they don't have? Why would they vote for a game they don't know if they like or not and has generally unfavorable reviews? Also arguably Borderlands 2 has a larger following than AC3 at least from what I've seen.
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- Governor Says New Education Money a Big Help During State's Budget Problems (April 23, 2003)
- Conference Chairman Deborah Pryce: "When it comes to flexibility in meeting federal regulations, the No Child Left Behind Act has it." (April 22, 2003)
- Colorado Builds on No Child Left Behind Reforms; Offers Even More Options to Parents (April 21, 2003)
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- Number of Schools Labeled "Failing" By No Child Left Behind: Zero (April 16, 2003)
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I was invited to Laughlands, St. Ann, Jamaica to teach current beekeeping practices and queen rearing. Laughland is centered on the North coast. http://www.fallingrain.com/world/JM/09/Laughlands.html
William Masterton met me at the Montego Bay airport for the drive to the farm. Wednesday, the next day, was the first day of training. William and Tom Hall were eager and ready to learn.
Most of Williams hives are a few feet from the farmhouse.
They have hives near the shore.
These two hives were feral colonies the beginning of October.
It rained Wednesday but we had work to do. The bees were not happy after being opened twice in the rain and twice the next two days. By Friday most of the hives were quite defensive. William and Tom set up a starter hive. We pulled two frames of brood for grafting larvae.
Tom practiced grafting a cell bar.
William grafting under the watchful eye of Tom.
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Is this game worth the buy?
When i first noticed this game existed(about a month ago)i was extremely excited a game with playstation's greatest hero's will come out.Then i took a look at the characters.I have to admit i am more disappointed than pleased and although there are some memorable characters fom my childhood like Sir Daniel and Parrapa and some more recent i liked like Ratchet and Clank Jak and Daxter Sly Cooper and Kratos most characters are either a marketing trick(New Dante sucks,Raiden is lame Big Dady what the...)and some annoying characters like fat princess(THE HELL) and that random cartoony cat thing.If you compare this game with the first super smash bros the second one had much much more characters who were popular and beloved.Now that game took characters from their first games since they were all they had but this one had so much potential.3 generations of gaming machines have passed and the best lineup they could come up with is this?They really should have put more time in developing and finding a good lineup.I can't really complain about Cole and Nathan since they quickly became really popular and are both great.Now i really like the idea of using supers which have cool animations,especially the lvl 3 ones and stages are fun and inspired from games too.
Tl;dr For a game that is supposed to celebrate Playstation with classic characters its representants aren't very outstanding featuring only a handfull of really popular old characters while the majority are desperation attempts to fill a roster(sweet tooth,radec,the newcomer emett graves) and marketing tricks(new dante raiden).So is the gameplay so good to forget that the game was about showing off playstation's REAL mascots?
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How is Sweet Tooth a filler? He's classic. And getting all the Nintendo characters was easy since they owned the ones they used at the time. Not the case with PlayStation. That said, the mechanics are great and the gameplay is addictive.
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No its not worth the buy. Its to unbalanced, not so good of online, a roster that easily gets boring after 2 or 3 weeks(also this games community is very... hurtful... XD Maybe once more dlc and patches come out it will be much better. Until then i dont recommend it to anyone. And dont say none of that is true, because if it werent true there wouldnt be all these people saying it every day.
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I think you'll find this game pretty rewarding. I mean If you're fimiliar with the characters, which it sounds like you are, then you will definitely get a kick out of seeing some of these characters battle it out. Even with out the nostalgia factor its actually a pretty fun game when it boils down to just it's mechanics.
Not for nothing but all of the characters on the list, with the exception of Big Daddy, have been on playstation for quite a while. So while Dante and Raiden have new games coming out and their incarnation in this game is the newer variety, their roots from the PS2 era can not be contested.
So in short, pick it up and try it out. You may even end up changing your forum username.


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GREEN BAY, Wis. - Slowly but surely, they are becoming household names. OK, maybe not all of them. OK, maybe only some of them.
If you start at the top of the draft and work your way to the two of them who were promoted from the practice squad to the 53-man roster on Tuesday, the Green Bay Packers have 14 – fourteen! – rookies on their roster entering Sunday's game against the Cleveland Browns at Lambeau Field:
Datone Jones
Eddie Lacy
David Bakhtiari
Johnathan Franklin
Josh Boyd
Micah Hyde
Nate Palmer
Sam Barrington
Andy Mulumba
Lane Taylor
Chris Banjo
Michael Hill
Jake Stoneburner
Myles White
The list doesn't even include fourth-round pick JC Tretter, who is on the physically unable to perform list as he recovers from a broken ankle, or the two rookie wide receivers (seventh-round pick Kevin Dorsey and undrafted rookie Sederrick Cunningham) who are on injured reserve. And while with the Packers' draft-and-develop philosophy one would expect most of their rookie draft picks to be on the roster, the final six names – with Stoneburner and White having been added Tuesday – belong to undrafted rookie free agents.
As of Tuesday evening, no team in the NFL had as many rookies on their 53-man roster than the Packers, whose team makeup is 26.4 percent rookies. The Browns have the next most rookies with 13, followed by New England with 12; Chicago, Atlanta and St. Louis with 11 and Miami, Jacksonville, Oakland, Dallas, New Orleans and Tampa Bay with 10. The Washington Redskins have the fewest with five, followed by Denver and Indianapolis with six and Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Tennessee, Minnesota, Carolina, San Francisco and the New York Giants with seven.
And so, as the Packers try to persevere through their latest injury crisis with a host of real household names – outside linebacker Clay Matthews, wide receiver Randall Cobb, wide receiver James Jones, outside linebacker Nick Perry, inside linebacker Brad Jones, cornerback Casey Hayward – sidelined, they will increasingly rely on their youngsters.
"The development of these players to get ready to play in these games doesn't start this week because the guy in front of him went down. That started the day they walked in here April 15," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said, referring to the first day of the team's offseason program. "That's always been our plan. That's our program. It's worked and it will continue to work. This week we have to go out and do that against the Cleveland Browns. That's just who we are."
The Packers also have two first-year players (tight end Brandon Bostick and cornerback James Nixon) and six second-year players on the roster. Of those 22 players, at least seven – Lacy at running back, Bakhtiari at left tackle, Hyde as the nickel corner, Mulumba at outside linebacker, Datone Jones as a dime pass rusher, Don Barclay at left tackle and Jarrett Boykin at wide receiver – will either start or play a key role in a sub package against the Browns. In addition, Palmer is the lone backup at outside linebacker and, if Brad Jones can't play, Sam Barrington would be the lone backup at inside linebacker.
The good news for the Packers is that most, if not all, of those injuries aren't season-ending.
Cobb was placed on injured reserve Tuesday with the designation to return, meaning he could be back for the final three regular-season games and the playoffs, beginning Dec. 15 at Dallas. Matthews, who broke his thumb against Detroit on Oct. 6, could be back in two or three weeks; James Jones and Brad Jones have not yet been ruled out for Sunday; and Hayward could finally be cleared this week after missing the first five games. It's unclear whether how long Perry's broken foot, which he suffered against the Ravens Sunday and still played in the fourth quarter, will keep him out, while the statuses of running back James Starks (knee) and special teams ace Jarrett Bush (hamstring) are unclear as well.
But what is clear is this: If they all return – and if the Packers' bad luck in the injury department ever ends – their rookies will no longer be rookies when called upon again.
"I'll tell you one thing it does do is, you find out a lot about your young players," defensive coordinator Dom Capers said. "And I think in the long haul, it can help you a little later on because of the experience these guys are gaining now.
"Those guys have to do double-time in their preparation, they've got to feel the responsibility to the rest of the team that if they're going to be out there, they've got to do their job. To this point in time, I feel really good about what the young guys did. It kind of falls in line with what we ask of them.
"We're just going to prepare for Cleveland with that in mind. We've got to elevate some of those younger guys and get them more reps because they're going to be playing a lot of football for us."
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When we first saw the trailer for the ill-conceived Chernobyl Diaries a few months ago, the only thing less shocking than a movie studio making a cash grab over a tragedy was that by turning it into some mutated zombie flick, audiences wouldn't appreciate what really did go down outside Reactor Number Four.
Though studios are infamous for injecting some form of drama into historical films (see: Titanic), playing off our fear of nuclear deformation is never a great idea.
What the film did get right, however, is that you can still visit the site today. As scary as that sounds, officials are fairly certain that low-level contamination, timed visits and carrying a Geiger counter (radiation monitoring device) are sufficient precautions to let you poke around. Though if your sperm mutates down the road, don't hold us accountable!
Along with Chernobyl, here are a few other crazy tourist destinations to check out if you're in need of an adventure. Just do us a favor and survive; we'd rather not lose our readers to near-certain death.
On April 26, 1986 an explosion at the Chernobyl power plant a couple hours outside of Kiev, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) released massive quantities of radioactive material into the atmosphere. While the related loss of life has been argued over at length by officials and international organizations, figures range from the low thousands to the hundreds of thousands. A substantial contributor to this was that the nearby workers' city of Pripyat was not immediately evacuated during the crisis, exposing thousands of families to the radiation and potentially closing the region for settlement in the future. This ghost city is now a tourist destination for those thrill seekers who want to experience going back over 25 years in the past to a city stuck in time.
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If you've ever experienced a fear of heights while flying, hiking or standing on an observation platform, then we would definitely not recommend this less-traveled tourist trail. Located in Shaanxi province, near the city of Huayin, China, the Mount Huashan path winds 7.5 miles up to the summit, at times, as in the video above, with barely a foot between you and plummeting to your death thousands of feet below. While this isn't the only "hanging on for dear life" experience you can find in the world, it does rank as one of the most unstable (note the fraying nails). As there seems to be a lack of hand rails, we'd strongly suggest you buy the optional safety harness.
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When it comes to international security of late, the only thing that can cause a global freak-out faster than Iran playing hooky with U.N. Atomic Inspectors is North Korean military antics. Now led by hot-headed late-twenty-something Kim Jong-un, whose apparent need to placate the legacies of his infamous father and grandfather seems to consist of threatening all his neighbors with imminent doom and testing nuclear arms delivery missiles that never seem to work. That being said, the world's most unstable quasi-nuclear nation is still technically at war with its southern brethren, which makes a trip to the dividing line a must for any adventurous visitor. Considering the number of deaths over the years from accidental incursions, illegal tunnels and other obscurities (including the aforementioned war possibilities), this is definitely a thrill stop.
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You know that feeling when traveling in the U.K. the first time you start driving on the "wrong side of the road"? Take that sense of wrongness, add some speed, language confusion and at least 2000 feet of sheer drop and you will have found yourself at North Yungas Road in Bolivia, also known as the Road of Death (cue grave musical motif). As this 40-mile stretch between La Paz and Coroico claims an estimated 200 to 300 lives per year, it's no wonder the Inter-American Development bank has named this trip the "world's most dangerous road." If the dust, fog and speeding locals don't kill you, trying to pass an oncoming car with less than 10 feet of space between you and death is one adventure you might be literally taking to the grave. Check out the good guys over at Top Gear testing it out a few years back (above); at least they had a film crew to fish them out if need be!
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WASHINGTON COUNTY, Va. - Last week we told you about a local library skipping late fees in return for donated jars of peanut butter.
We've learned about 90 jars of peanut butter were donated to the library over the last week.
Each jar goes to help stock the shelves at Feeding America Southwest Virginia.
The library was accepting peanut butter in lieu of late fees and employees tell us they are simply blown away by people's generosity. "One gentleman came in with four big jars and he said 'I just brought a jar in for every dollar that I owe.' So he only owed $4 but he gave us four jars of big peanut butter," said Debbie Legg with Washington County, Virginia Library System.
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I'm not seeing that at all. he got touched a little in the first, but since then he's been pretty solid.Originally Posted by Aronchis
I'm not seeing that at all. he got touched a little in the first, but since then he's been pretty solid.Originally Posted by Aronchis
Raisel Ghul, the Demon's Head
The eyes never lie.
That Smoltz AB is a good example, no way that should have happened.Originally Posted by TRF
Still, 7 k's for Claussen through 3.5
Hes thrown 80 pitches in 4 innings. Hes to busy trying to paint the outside corner.Originally Posted by TRF
Randa's 9th HR. His career high is 16 so he's more than halfway there
Giles HR. That didn't take long.
I don't sweat giving up jacks to the second or third best 2Bman in the majors.Originally Posted by Austin Kearns
My point was that we immediatley gave back the run that we finally got.Originally Posted by Falls City Beer
1.160 vs. LH last year, he kills em.Originally Posted by Falls City Beer
I do however have a problem with giving up a hit and a walk to guys like Marte and Franco.
Belly flop by Cruz ... nice effort on a painful looking long strike
9 k's now for Claussen as he gets out of the 5th inning.
You know what I've never understood? When coaches and managers say stuff like "We don't want to let a guy like Bonds beat us." Who would you rather get beat by: Bonds or Neifi Perez? Seriously. To me there's no shame in getting beat by the great ones; I'm made sick to my stomach getting beat by the goats.
Its not like he threw the pitch down the middle.Originally Posted by Austin Kearns
That pitch was a ball out off the plate and up.
We're gonna crush these guys
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text: I checked on my 3 hives and they all looked really good. They are putting away lots of nectar in their top boxes and have nice brood patterns in the bottoms. My strongest hive has brood in the top box as well. I'll need to keep an eye on that one for expansion.


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(March 23, 2007)--The UTSA Department of Communication will host a lecture, "Media Transformations in the Arab World: The Impact on the Local and International Public Sphere" by Mansour El-Kikhia, UTSA associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science and Geography.
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Free and open to the public, the presentation is at 3 p.m., Monday, March 26 in Business Building Room 3.04.06 at the 1604 Campus. It will be simulcast in Frio Street Building Room 2.506 at the Downtown Campus.
As part of the course, International Communication, the lecture is the second of two on the role of the media in the Middle East and the Arab region.
A San Antonio resident and native of Libya, El-Kikhia earned his undergraduate degree in political science from American University of Beirut. After coming to the United States, he received master of arts and doctoral degrees in international relations from the University of California at Santa Barbara. The author of two books, he is working on a third.
The series of guest speakers in the course International Communication will conclude at 3 p.m. April 9 with the presentation, "The European Union Internal Market and the Liberalization and Deregulation of the Information Industry," by Boyka Stefanova, UTSA assistant professor of political science and geography. The lecture will be in the same location as previous lectures in the series with a Downtown Campus simulcast. Watch UTSA Today for details.
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Look What Mourad Bouzidi Has To Say About Gokhan Saki's "Explosive Message"
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If you didn't see yesterday, GoldenGloryTV uploaded a video titled "Explosive Message - Gokhan "The Rebel Saki" which features Gokhan Saki essentially reciting a few lines and then tossing a molotov cocktail into the background, creating massive flames as he walks off in a type of scene you'd normally see in a B-level action movie. Well, Mourad Bouzidi, who fights Saki at GLORY 2 Brussels on this Saturday, October 6 replied with a rather hilarious message, which you can see in the picture below.
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Saturday at Bulls...thinking about copping the tickets and taking the wife.
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See what i mean about Tyson Chandler? Hes now playing how i always knew he was capable of playing! Hes playing a complete NBA players game, and if he keeps playing like he has the past couple wk's, hes gonna end up in the NBA AS GAME. I love how hes been playing latley! Far less 5-7pt 8-9rebound games, and more 13-18pt 9-15reb games.. He a absoulutle beast at C, and extremely athletic, and can actually shoot FT's at a solid pace.. Theres no reason he should have games where hes scoring less then 10pts a game, ever...
He didn't score 15points or more in his first 9games of the season, and now has done it in 5of his last 9, with 2 20pt games and a 18point game.. He also only had double digit rebounds in 2of his first 9games, and now has done it in 5of his last 9games, with 3games of those last 9 that he had more rebounds then any of his first 9...
Hes playing like a maniac right now, and this is what we have to have outta are very high priced big man, and what i knew he was capable of! So proud of Tyson Chandler right now! So proud!!!
People keep talking about weather or not the age is gonna catch up to us.. Are they stupid? Thats why we built a team so deep, so that way the older guys don't have to play mega minutes every night.. The older guys are in great situations, because theres such a deep rotation thats only gonna get deeper, so they won't get over worked during the season, and will still be as fresh as the other younger players by post season time..
I honestly don't know why thats so hard to understand?
Good post, buddy!!!lol
attacking fellow Knicks fans won't be tolerated here NYCsportz...
be cool, yo uknow as fans we wear our emotions on our sleeves and get caught up in reactionary post or speech etc.
I'm still a little skeptical of the overall longevity of older players throughout the Season. So Woodson minimizing minutes is a great strategy.
That said, if we can see both Amar'e and Iman return and buy into the kool-aid then I see possible a 2nd round of the play-offs being more realistic.
crawl before walk before run guys and girls !
2-0 verse the heat this year with 40 points in between in both meetings?! Am I dreaming?
As great as these wins are they mean very little in the big picture. Getting home court would be nice because the Knicks are great at home but if this team isnt completely healthy in the playoffs they arent going to win. I dont like Felton playing hurt in game 20 and Kidds back spasms. These guys need to keep the minutes very manageable the goal is to win the Championship. Really disappointed with Marcus Camby this season. The guy looks finished. The great thing is Wallace has given the Knicks a lot more then I expected that has made up for Camby doing nothing.


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KINGSPORT, Tenn. - Sue Frye has endured her share of health-related hardships. After surviving breast cancer, her body told her something else was wrong.
"I could not get my breath. I went downstairs, wanted to do a little decorating for my father. I was staying with him at the time for Christmas, and I couldn't get the ladder out. I couldn't do anything," she said Friday.
Frye was diagnosed with viral cardiomyopathy, or immediate onset heart failure. After undergoing aggressive treatment, her heart began to heal, but a new life-threatening problem knocked on her door.
"I knew I was being restricted by my weight, and that the weight might win the battle over my heart," Frye said.
Dr. Mark Kadowaki is a bariatric surgeon at Holston Valley Medical Center. He said obesity can make a woman four times more likely to have a heart attack. "The bigger your body is, the more area that the heart has to pump blood to, and that's a tremendous stain on the heart, and almost anyone who's morbidly obese will have an enlarged heart just from the strain of the heart having to pump all that blood," he explained.
Because of the strain on her heart and joints, Sue opted for a gastric sleeve surgery to lose weight. In that procedure, the stomach is formed into a tube. It's something doctors say can actually be best when fighting heart disease.
"One of the increased risk factors with heart disease is not just how much you weigh, but weight cycling. Meaning, it's more dangerous if you re-gain it than as if you kept it on the whole time," Dr. Kadowaki said. Unlike many diets, surgery is permanent.
Sue Frye had hers just over a week ago, and she's already dropping pounds. "I'm doing it for me, but I'm doing it for my heart, and I'm doing it to extend my life," she said, "a year from now, a year and a half from now, I would be a very healthy, dynamic, active person." She's hoping by sticking to her program, she'll lose 100 pounds in the next two years.


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Oh my: Walker 54, Barrett 42 in Wisconsin
posted at 4:41 pm on May 24, 2012 by Allahpundit
This is from We Ask America, the same pollster that recently had Walker by nine, which was already the biggest margin of any recent recall poll. Now they're topped it. The little Eeyore on my shoulder is whispering "outlier" — and yet, they're using likely voters and an enormous sample, which means their margin of error is smaller than any of their competitors.
Is this happening?
If Scott Walker actually wins public-employee households, I'll need to drop Humpbot and come up with a new, even sexier victory mascot to fully capture the jubilation. Over at the NYT decision desk, Nate Silver is about ready to make a call:
Mr. Walker leads his Democratic opponent, Mayor Tom Barrett of Milwaukee, by an average of six percentage points in those polls and has not trailed in any poll since February.
Some polls issued by Democratic-affiliated groups have shown a somewhat tighter race, with Mr. Barrett trailing by about three percentage points instead. Partisan-affiliated polls have a long track record of somewhat exaggerating their candidate's standing, however, and it may be telling that even these polls do not show Mr. Barrett ahead.
In a typical November election, a 6-point lead with two weeks to go would translate into a high probability of winning — roughly on the order of 90 percent, based on the historical accuracy of polls of governors' races.
The dynamics of a recall election may be slightly more uncertain. But with high turnout expected, which tends to make polling more reliable, Mr. Barrett would most likely need a last-minute change in momentum to have much of a chance of prevailing.
Like me, he's not fully sure what accounts for Walker's staying power. The collective bargaining law appears to be a minor asset at best and possibly even a tiny liability at worst, but the magical combination of incumbency, massive campaign spending, a contentious Democratic primary, and recall fatigue among Wisconsinites has us rocketing towards a waterloo for big labor. And … maybe more?
In other Wisconsin news, Tom Barrett's own pollster says this one is going down to the wire. I'm skeptical, but beware: Even We Ask America, the most bullish pollster of all, cautions that "A massive, well-organized GOTV program by Barrett's supporters combined with enough of Walker's supporters staying home can change everything." Buy champagne, but only on the way home from voting.
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The best part of this will be the uniongoons' poor behavior after being trounced.
What they do and say thereafter will be highly entertaining (except for any victims of mayhem and property damage, of which there might be plenty).
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For Dusty Crophopper, a small-town plane, life on the farm feels a bit too slow. He dreams of becoming a world-famous racing champion. But Dusty isn't built for speed, and he's afraid of heights. When he gets the opportunity of a lifetime, Dusty must face his fears head on.
Disney's Planes is a 3-D adventure set in the same world as Cars. It's a tale of friendship, bravery, and determination. The film's director, Klay Hall, has worked on other animated features, including The Simpsons and Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure. Hall spoke with TFK about his love of aviation and animation, and how he took those passions to new heights.
What's the basic story line?
In many respects, it's a universal story. It is about Dusty Crophopper, who is a small, crop-dusting plane living in rural America. Deep down, he has a desire to do something bigger than what he was built for, yet he is fearful of trying. But with the help of friends, he learns that if you're able to challenge yourself, you may be surprised at the results.
How did you create the story of Planes in the world of Cars?
As I was finishing my last film, executive producer John Lasseter and I began talking about future projects. We discovered we were both geeks with passions about airplanes, trains, and cars, and decided to expand the universe of Cars. John was aware I had some aviation background, so he came up with the broad concept and we sat down and cracked open the story.
This is a very colorful cast. Can you tell us about some of the key characters?
One of the most important characters in the film is Dusty's mentor, Skipper. Skipper is an old school, World War II veteran—he's been there, he's seen it, and acts kind of like the tough football coach. He sees ability and potential in Dusty and helps him reach his goal.
Then there is Ripslinger, the antagonist, who doesn't think Dusty belongs on the race circuit at all.
Back home, Dusty has Chug, a fuel truck and his best friend, and Dottie, the mechanic. They are a great support team and are always hoping for the best for Dus
What was the process for choosing the plane types and countries to be represented in the film?
Working with Disney/Pixar, it's all about research. To create these characters, we needed to see different parts of the world and talk to the people that live it and breathe it. Once we obtained all that information, we weaved it back into the film.
Do you have a favorite character?
They all have moments where they shine. I really love El Chupacabra, the Mexican champion. He has such a sincere warmth and humanity. When he meets Dusty, he hasn't flown around the world either. This places the two planes on common ground, and for that, he embraces Dusty.
Can you relate to Dusty's fears and reservations?
I channeled a lot of my earlier fears in life through Dusty's character, like my first opportunity to direct a movie. During that time, I had to just say to myself, "I've got a support team, I have people who believe in me, I have to go for it."
You come from a family of aviators. What was it like working on a film about airplanes?
The whole production has been a dream come true. It has been amazing to see aviation history firsthand during our travels for the film.
My father was a pilot, his dad was a pilot, and they passed that love of aviation on to me. I grew up loving airplanes and started sketching them at an early age. I then became infatuated with animation. Planes was the perfect opportunity for these worlds to collide.
Did you ever want to be a pilot?
I am not a certified pilot, but I have flown planes. Although, I haven't taken off or landed myself yet – that I need to work on. When I was 12 years old, my dad gave me flying lessons for Christmas, so I started flying at an early age. But working on this film for the past four years has been a labor of love and I haven't been able to fly much. When I have more time, I'm going to try and finish my lessons.
Do you have a favorite scene from the movie?
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Why should kids see Planes?
It teaches viewers that it's okay to be fearful or hesitant about certain things. It's not about always trying to win but about being respectful, about honor, and about truth. Planes is an amazing, fun adventure that embraces different cultures and ethnicities around the world. You really experience what it's like to fly.
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text: I guess I am not a beekeeper yet but will be next week. I am going to pick up my hive bodies and other pieces tonight and get them painted and will pick up my bees on May 5. I live in a subdivision and have .66 acres so I will be an urban beekeeper I guess. I was a little concerned my spot didn't have enough sunlight because it seems like SHB are a big problem around here but it starts getting direct sunlight around 9 and has it until 6. Before 9 there is still alot of ambient light around so it's not like it's deep in the woods so hopefully they will still get started early. My hive will be about 75' from my house. Hopefully that won't be a problem. I have been on the fence about getting into this and can't remember what put it in my head but figured I would just dive in.


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Nice setup!
American made Honey Processing Equipment "Built to last a lifetime"
I like what you did with the office and the brochure gets Really shows the beauty(color) of your products, though it's missing your sumps and the parallel radial. Maybe the web site will make up for it, see it's getting there too.
ME, ME, ME, ME!!!! I've been there twice and absolutely loved it. The pastel houses, historical places of interest, Goslings Rum, tree frogs, road toads, mopeds, pottery, the many forts and their museums, Bermuda cedar, lighthouse, wreck diving, the railroad museum, onions, pink beaches, zoo, oh I could go on...
I've been wanting to go back, as my wife and I haven't been there since before we got married ('91). Now I can write off a visit on business, ..scratch that, international business! I've got to stop drinking coffee in the afternoon.
Seriously, I'd love to see your set up as it looks very nice. I'll try to drop you a line when I get back out there.
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I took combs of brood, honey & some pollen out, banded them to frames, bees stayed on the comb, wasnt a bad removal at all. I felt I had the queen because all the bees stayed in the hive box I put frames in. It was 68 degrees.
After I finished I decided to set hive box on top of ladder to be close to the soffit I removed them from so the foragers could find the new hive full of bees etc.
The bees climbed out of the hive and crawled up the wall going back into the roof/soffit. I left them alone fiquring they would see the hive held everything the needed and get back into the hive box.
I have not been back today but, could the queen have fallen off and still be inside the house or were the bees just smelling where she was and going to check it out and will be back into the hive today. ????
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I mean, people keep saying the Giants will draft a LB in the early rounds? LMAO, I'll believe it when I see it and won't hold my breath...
I mean, people keep saying the Giants will draft a LB in the early rounds? LMAO, I'll believe it when I see it and won't hold my breath...
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Yeah, let's call him and see if we can pick him up. I shouldn't have to say, "for the right price," just to please some of you kids. That just goes without saying...
Well that is what He said according to Mike and Mike in the AM. We have seen odder things happen. Welker took less jack ( supposedly ) to be Peyton Manning's new " Little Buckeroo " When you can't always get what you want, ( Great Song ) Sometimes a player will go somewhere else just to show-up His former team in another uniform. " Hey Brian, come on over the water's fine. Play for the League Minimum, and actually win a Super Bowl "
I wonder if he will take a $2.53 one year contact with 75 cents guaranteed.
On a serious note, I would love to have him, but we'd have to offer him about 2-3 mil.
If it were just his age it would be a lot easier to make the decision for a short term deal, but he's also coming off a major knee injury.
However, I'm expecting Reese to once again neglect the LB position in the draft, which might change my opinion on Urlacher.
A 70% Urlacher might be better than what the Giants have after the draft.....in his prime his production was off the charts. And, he's coming from a Lovie Smith defense, which is very similar to what Fewell does.
Still, considering the Connor signing, there's no need to make a decision until after the draft.....and then, they could kick his tires. He'll be 2 years removed from the knee injury.
As a sidenote, the Bears didn't handle this well....from what I'm hearing in the papers, there was really no effort made to work a deal, and there was no "mutual" agreement to part ways, according to Urlacher's camp.
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"I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones." - Bill Parcells
"Name the starting linebackers from 2007." - Jerry Reese
Nothing against Urlacher, but I don't see him ending up in a Giants uni. I don't know what kind of money he is looking for---but apparently 1yr at 2 mil was not it. At 35, Urlacher may have 2 yrs left. I think a team will sign him as a stop gap/band-aid, but I don't think it will be for top dollar. And who knows, Urlacher may want to go to a contender, since he is in the twilight of his career.


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Can anyone help me find some resources on scratch building an X-Wing Pilot's helmet? This year for halloween I have a gig playing drums so my first choice (Rorschach) wouldn't work. Looking to do Luke or maybe Biggs, tht way I can play drums in the suit and keep eye contact with the band.
Any help would be great, thanks!