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"Mr. Boehnachev: Tear Down This Stall!"
Original post made by Tom Cushing, Danville, on Oct 3, 2013
Examining the situation makes that conclusion clear and unambiguous.
First, the so-called Continuing Resolution on the budget is a basic element of the legislative function of government, and properly a matter of routine. Congress appropriates money for all the far-flung functions of the federal government. We can argue the wisdom of deficits vs. surpluses, military vs. civilian allocations and a hundred other priorities and either/ors, but at the end of the day, it's a simple underwriting action that simply has to be taken, every year.
Some dissemblers might argue with only a slight smirk that including a provision to defund the Affordable Care Act is just such a financial decision. In context, however, it is an obvious ideological crusade to undermine final implementation of a law passed three years ago, that the GOP-controlled House has already voted to repeal 40-odd times. It is included in the CR only to try to exert maximum minority leverage of the rest of the government, and on the recipients of government services (in other words, everybody).
Second, the only reason that ACA term is included in the Resolution is because the radical Tea Party caucus within the GOP House wing has just enough members (49 or so, out of 435 reps, about 11%) that they are necessary to maintain the Republican majority (234R vs. 201D). They are a visible and disciplined little band, and have made this issue their own private Alamo – somehow convincing the Speaker to take up their cause. Put another way, the tail is directing the elephant.
Third, and most crucially, there are votes aplenty in the House at-large to pass the uncomplicated CR sent over from the Senate, with numerous more-moderate Republicans crossing the aisle to vote it in. Those numbers are growing by the hour. But the GOP has an internal preference (the so-called Hastert Rule, named for a prior Speaker) to only allow general votes on bills that enjoy majority support among Republicans themselves. In other words, if the House today was allowed by the Speaker to vote on the CR – IT WOULD PASS. Only by keeping it bottled-up can this sham 'crisis' continue, and the power over the process resides squarely with the GOP leadership.
In summary, the Party that accuses government of being unproductive has, by its own internal rules, forced that government to take utterly unproductive steps to shut itself down (and then soon, to start back up again). It has also preoccupied itself and the national attention with this suicide mission, when it has not acted on other priorities that ARE clearly important to the rational, national interest – like immigration reform. It looks down on the height of folly from a loftier perch.
At this writing, word has come out that Mr. Boehner is signaling that he will not participate in a similar charade regarding the debt ceiling later this month. That's a good thing, because if the shut-down is a despicable waste of resources (and it is), a default would be a hundred-times worse. As predicted hereabouts in an earlier RC, it may come-out that he has been convinced to refuse that mission by his Party's financial handlers, to protect their fabulous economic interests. If he survives with his position intact, he's lucky – most suicide bombers don't get a second chance.
Perhaps that move was made in the hope that it would make this crusade look better, but it really only makes it look emptier, and worse. If you're going to shut-down government over an issue, it had better be so damned important that you'd also go over the fiscal cliff for it. Otherwise, it's revealed to be only a foolish, poorly thought-out exercise in blackmail politics.
This Congressional cold war has to end. Mr. Boehner – tear down this stall!
Synopsis: the GOP has created a budget crisis out of its own internal processes. The Speaker of the House has failed to prevent his Party from acting on its worst, least well-thought-out instincts. It's in his power to fix it, and he really ought to do so.
a resident of Danville
on Oct 4, 2013 at 7:05 am
'Indiana GOP Rep. Marlin Stutzman ... told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday: "We're not going to be disrespected. We have to get something out of this. And I don't know what that even is."'
Brilliant. "Worst, least well thought-out instincts" dignifies this gentleman's thinking process. Thank you for your service, sir.
a resident of Danville
on Oct 4, 2013 at 7:05 am
'Indiana GOP Rep. Marlin Stutzman ... told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday: "We're not going to be disrespected. We have to get something out of this. And I don't know what that even is."'
Brilliant. "Worst, least well thought-out instincts" dignifies this gentleman's thinking process. Thank you for your service, sir.
a resident of Danville
on Oct 4, 2013 at 9:03 am
Think a major problem today is lack of respect between the parties. President Reagan and Tip O'Neil may have disagreed on many issues, but at the end of the day they respected each other, which led to compromises that put our country first over partisian politics. Today, both parties are guilty of smear tactics and disrespectful words and actions, which makes it so much harder for anyone to compromise and try to find a middle ground. Personally, I think Harry Reid is one of the worst offenders, and his lack of respect to anyone who disagrees with his views is so evident it creates conflict, and he is a horrible role model for the younger senators and congressmen.
I was blessed to see President Reagan speak in person my senior year in undergraduate studies, and he was amazingly charismatic, and actually seemed to be able to connect with everyone in the audience, regardless of their political party affiliations. I have read several accounts that long time Secret Service members have noted that President Reagan was the most genuine nice and respectful President they ever protected.
I think if President Obama took a page out of President Reagan's book on respect, and actually made an effort to listen to the Tea Party members and treat them with some respect, they might be more inclined to compromise. I certainly do not blame President Obama alone for this gridlock, I think both parties are to blame, but if he wants to be a true leader like President Reagan, he really needs to work on treating everyone with respect.
It is too early to start chanting "Lets go Oakland!"? Have tickets to Saturday nights game, and our beloved A's are just the diversion our country needs to get our minds off the nightmare shutdown in Washington.
a resident of Alamo
on Oct 4, 2013 at 10:25 am
Why, oh why, is it that the House Republicans only want to talk after they've made an outrageous demand? Where, oh where, was this spirit of cooperation when the House deep-sixed a carefully crafted, BI-PARTISAN bill on immigration reform that was backed by Marco Rubio AND Nancy Pelosi?
Demonstrated fact is (meaning their actions, not their words) that they want to run the place as the minority party. That's not how this works, and there are limits to how outrageous you can be and still command respect. This is a tantrum and the TP-ers are reveling in the attention it has gotten them. As Mr. Stutzman says -- they do.not.even.know what they want.
I do not think you can lay this at the White House door. I believe he's tried (and tried) to work with an Opposition whose Numbers 1-10 goals involved his demise, and got slapped repeatedly for it. He's a good Christian, but how many times do you have to turn the other bruised cheek?
That said, I like your timing on this thing: LET'S GO, OAKLAND!
a resident of Danville
on Oct 8, 2013 at 9:08 am
Obama has never lead on budget issues. He ignored the recommendations of his own bi-partisan commission (Simpson-Bowles). He has never engaged the opposition in any meaningful way.
During his five years as president, Obama's budgets have been so ridiculous, they've never received a single vote in the House or Senate, not even from Democrats.
Obama is steering America towards default. Obama could avoid default by signing the Full Faith and Credit Act, which was passed by the House but was stalled by Senate Democrats. This bill would prevent the federal government from defaulting by mandating that the Treasury pay the nation's debts even after the debt ceiling is reached.
Lyndon Johnson twisted arms to get his budgets passed. Reagan, Bush Sr., and Clinton all worked with opposing parties to raise taxes and cut spending.
Obama just runs around the country lobbing insults.
a resident of Alamo
on Oct 8, 2013 at 12:23 pm
1 -- If "Put a clean CR up for a vote and we'll actually see if it passes" is your idea of an insult, don't watch any baseball, okay, S-P? I heard far worse on the infield yesterday -- I fear you'd be shocked.
2 -- what makes you think that you know everything that the Administration is doing? I would assume the opposite, given the sorry state of contemporary reportage. Once again, you sell the President short -- I don't know why.
3 -- The What Act is that? By all means, call Wall Street, Mr. Reid, the Prez, the Nobel Committee -- everybody. Eureka!
a resident of Danville
on Oct 8, 2013 at 12:36 pm
You know, there's always that scene in the movie where the villain who has taken a hostage sneers into the phone: "If you don't do as I say, Shirley here will get a bullet in her head. And it will be your responsibility. Her blood will be on your hands!"
The Tea-types today are the only people I know who would nod their heads and say "Yeah - it will be the cop's fault if that girl gets shot - not the criminal's."
a resident of Danville
on Oct 8, 2013 at 4:27 pm
Tea Party types aren't the only ones who would play games with the debt ceiling. Remember when Obama did the same thing in 2006, back when he was a Senator?
He was against the Iraq war, so he voted against increasing the debt limit. Web Link
But your point is well taken. We need politicians who will not play games with the nation's credit rating.
a resident of Danville
on Oct 8, 2013 at 8:01 pm
Actually, spcwt, let's chalk that up to another entry into the encyclopedia of false equivalencies. In 2006 we shouldn't have had to raise the debt ceiling. In 2006 (and most years since 1981) we should have been paying ***down*** the debt. The only valid reasons for increasing debt are a major war or a major economic recession. The debt ceiling was raised for 35 years - starting with Reagan - primarily to backfill lost revenues from irresponsible tax cuts. I don't blame Reagan for running a (temporary) deficit when he first took office, because the economy was legitimately weak and needed help. But he was grossly irresponsible to continue to push for tax cuts (and paper over the revenue shortfalls) after that recession had ended. I also don't blame GWBush for running a (huge) deficit in his last year of office - there was a reason for doing so then to help the nation avoid falling deeper into the worst recession since the 1930's. But I do blame him for running a deficit before that.
That is what cracks me up about the new found fiscal responsibility of the right wing. The majority of our national debt was run up during Republican administrations (Reagan, Bush and Bush) during times of relative economic prosperity, in order to paper over irresponsible tax policies. The right didn't make a peep. But when deficits were warranted to stave off economic collapse - all of the sudden the sky is falling.
Casting a symbolic (and rationally valid) vote against raising the debt ceiling to finance a war our government refused to fund through taxation in a healthy economy in 2006 has no symmetry with the Tea Partiers wasting billions and threatening to throw the nation (and world) into economic chaos in 2013 to gratify their ideological hobby-horse.
The problem is evident in your assertion of equal significance to the two events. That's not rational; they're not equal. The implicit assertion that they are demonstrates either ignorance of context or lack of maturity, neither of which appears to be in short supply on the right these days.
a resident of Danville
on Oct 9, 2013 at 2:09 pm
So, my view is "not rational" and is due to "ignorance" and a "lack of maturity."
Oh yeah? Well you're a doo doo head!! So, neener neener!
Aren't ad homonym attacks fun? And mature.
What about you Tom? Do you think it is ok to vote against increasing the debt ceiling merely for "symbolic" reasons, like Obama did?
a resident of Alamo
on Oct 9, 2013 at 3:16 pm
What do I think? I think S-P's argument is a diversionary smokescreen. I also think the timid GOP moderates are hoping the Prez bails them out by "leading" on this issue. I'll let Tom Friedman take it from there:
"President Obama IS leading. He is protecting the very rules that are the foundation of any healthy democracy. He is leading by not giving in to this blackmail, because if he did he would undermine the principle of majority rule that is the bedrock of our democracy. That system guarantees the minority the right to be heard and to run for office and become the majority, but it also ensures that once voters have spoken, and their representatives have voted — and, if legally challenged, the Supreme Court has also ruled in their favor — the majority decision holds sway.
A minority of a minority, which has lost every democratic means to secure its agenda, has no right to now threaten to tank our economy if its demands are not met. If we do not preserve this system, nothing will ever be settled again in American politics. There would be nothing to prevent a future Democratic Congress from using the exact same blackmail to try to overturn a law enacted by their Republican rivals.
The president has said that he would give the G.O.P. an agenda for negotiations that could start when the government is funded and the debt ceiling lifted. He's ready to consider trading the medical-device tax in Obamacare for another equivalent source of revenue or having a talk about closing tax loopholes and reforming entitlements — to both lower the deficit and raise revenue to invest in infrastructure or early childhood education. What Obama will not do, and must not do, is pay an entry fee to that negotiation — say giving up the medical-device tax — just to help Boehner down from the tree. Cruz & Co. would claim victory.
The reason so many mainstream Republican lawmakers want Obama to give something to Cruz & Co. is that they want to get out of this mess, but they're all afraid to stand up to the far-right fringe themselves — with its bullying network of barking talk-show hosts and moneymen. But Obama shouldn't take them off the hook.
Only Republicans can delegitimize the nihilistic madness at the base of their party. (I wouldn't exaggerate this, but I think Boehner underestimates how many mainstream Republicans feel their party is being stolen from them by radicals — and hunger for a leader who will take them on.)" Web Link
Me again. All GOP attempted smokescreens aside (as above), this prefabricated 'crisis' is entirely the GOP's doing. It is the functional equivalent taking your family hostage, and then demanding a "conversation" about the price you want for your house.
It simply cannot be legitimized. And if Republican "moderates" do not grow-a-pair and stand-up to the unguided Cruz missile, they will cede control of the remnants of their Party to its radical wing. They need to take back their Party, before those radicals destroy what's left of its electability -- otherwise, it'll be all Mourdock, O'Donnell and Akin, all the time. Good luck with that.
a resident of Danville
on Oct 9, 2013 at 3:52 pm
Ha ha!! I KNEW you wouldn't say anything bad about Obama.
But seriously, just between us, be honest, I won't tell anybody: Do you agree that Obama's vote against increasing the debt ceiling in 2006 wasn't wise?
I mean, obviously, if Obama did it, I know you have to say it was wise. So maybe "wise" isn't the word I'm looking for.
Was it advisable? Or prudent? Yeah, "prudent." Can you at least say it wasn't "prudent"?
Certainly Obama's vote shouldn't be viewed as him acting like a terrorist, or an arsonist, or a deadbeat, right?
a resident of Danville
on Oct 9, 2013 at 3:58 pm
Actually, spcwt, I wrote "ignorance ***of context***" By which I meant that you could only consider the two situations equivalent if you were ignorant of the differing economic and political contexts of 2006 and 2013. If you are not ignorant of the different contexts and actually understood them but wanted to make a point based on a fundamentally false implied assertion that the contexts were similar, I consider that to be an immature form of argument.
But you knew that. That's why you edited "of context" out of what I wrote, and then wrapped yourself in the mantle of victimhood. That's exactly the kind of "argument" the right wing seems to specialize in these days.
"Neener neener" yourself.
a resident of Alamo
on Oct 9, 2013 at 4:12 pm
S-P: an old lawyer once told me: "if the facts are on your side, but not the law -- argue the facts. And if the law is on your side, but not the facts, emphasize the law. Again if they're Both against you -- try to confuse the hell out of the jury by diverting their attention."
Your line of argument here is the last, above. It's basically: "Look, a butterfly!" Sorry, pal, I'm not biting. Butterflies may be free, like your investment portfolio if the Know Nothings -- who've now decreed that "default doesn't matter" -- actually precipitate one. I'll have you to blame for not standing-up to your internal bullies -- you'll have no one.
Trying to discredit me as an Obama shill is a diversionary tactic and a crock, and you very well know it -- anyone who wants to read back can find ample evidence in these 102 columns. Nice try.
a resident of Danville
on Oct 9, 2013 at 4:46 pm
Blast your legal sophistry! I will discredit you yet! MARK MY WORDS!!!!


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The apartment consists of a bright double bedroom with storage space. The kitchen includes a coffee maker and microwave. A rainforest shower and heated towel rack are featured in the elegant bathroom, and the sunlit living room includes a sofa bed and a dining area for 4.
Gare du Nord Train Station is within 15 minutes' walk of the apartment. Château Rouge Metro Station is a 5-minute walk away, providing guests with access to popular tourist destinations including the Notre Dame Cathedral and Luxembourg Gardens.
The surrounding area offers cafés, shops and parks. Laundry facilities, and a baby crib and change table are available.
Ev kurallarıWe love our walk-a-terre in Paris and have put all our love to renovate it completely! We hope you will feel right at home!
- We ask for a deposit of 300 Euros which you will get back at the end of your stay.
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We enjoyed our stay in this appartment with 2 small rooms, kitchen and bathroom. The bed was good. The television did not work. There is a bakery and some other shops at the other side of the street. Walking from the subway to the apparment you feel a bit in Africa, alle the shops and people are African.
The apartment is situated in the 18th in history known as 'La Goutte d'Or'. We loved it, the colors, the smells and sounds and the hurling crowds with people originating from the different countries from Africa. The accommodation was need, bit small for 4 persons but Paris had good weather for most of the time so no need tot stay in. Toilet and bath were not all that clean and the WC had little space between the sink and the washing machine. What surprised us was the quietness of the building, no noise from the outside and little from the inside.
All together a good price-quality ratio and a good starting point for exploring Paris.
Very tipical flat in Paris, so nice! The area is not the most beautiful in Paris but it's near to montmartre and the metro is only 2 minutes walk far from. Sarah is very kind and helpful.
If you want you can pay 30 euro for housekeeping or If not you can do it yourself.
The flat was exactly as was shown and described , very clean , quiet and comfortable. Perfect for few days stay. The Kitchen had everything you needed and Coffee machine was great.
Neighborhood was fine. cheaper supermarket across the road and Boulangerie on the corner. Sarah was quick to reply and key hand over was simple even after our train was delayed.
Will stay again and recommend.
The one drawback to our flat was that it was a little far out of central Paris, though that could be our fault for not giving location enough attention. Also the washing machine to ages to finish a cycle. Other than that our stay was extremely comfortable. The building was beautiful and the flat was quaint!
Sarah's Flat is incredibly central and clean and comfortable, but it is extremely small. However, in Paris, that is normal, but the images are deceptive.
We slept four women comfortably.
Although, this apartment is advertised as accommodating four people - when we arrived the second bed was not made up and when we looked for the linen to do it ourselves - we found it wet and still in the washing machine.
The towels were also all wet and draped about the place drying.
Sarah, asked for E30's for cleaning services after we had booked and paid for the accommodation, this in itself is fine - the problem we had was that the information was not given in the original advert so it was an extra cost we had not expected.
Overall, the apartment is central and clean - which is important. But make sure you check about extra costs and whether or not there will be any clean or dry linen and towels available before you book.
We stayed in Sarah's flat for 3 nights in December. The appartment is very cute , especially the wooden floor. The kitchen and the bathroom were clean and tidy and had everything you needed. There's a bedroom with a double bed and in the living room you can find a sofa which can be turned into a bed; so probably four people could sleep there but I'd say it's perfect for couples! The appartment is located in an ethnically mixed area but it's actually quite charming. A supermarket is just across the street, and the metro station is only 5 minutes away. The beautiful church Sacre Coeur is within 15 minutes walking distance. All in all, this flat is a good and cosy place to stay and the price is very fair. We had a great time, merci beaucoup et à la prochaine!!
We´ve had an amazing time in Paris, so the apartment was great, just 5min from the Metro Station "chateau rouge", a supermarket on the other side of "rue myrha" and 10min by feet to Sacre Ceur! It includes all you need for a pleasant stay in Paris ;) Price performance ratio has just been perfect! We´ll dafinately need to come back! Thanks Sarah ;)
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Dependence Day is an unofficial holiday in the United States, on July 3rd, which commemorates the 169-year relationship between the United Kingdom and the 13 American Colonies. It is commonly associated with college parties, pro-monarchy rants, gaudy displays of the Union Jack, and various libations which celebrate the history, government, and traditions of the United Kingdom. Festivities end at midnight, with celebrants drinking apple pie shots to exalt freedom and the Fourth of July.
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The robots are coming
In essence, Ford is hypothesizing that Marx may just turn out to have been a little ahead of his time when he talked about capitalism's "contradictions." Eventually capital will concentrate in fewer and fewer hands (in tomorrow's case, the robot owners'), and surging unemployment will combine with sagging wages to undermine the mass markets capitalism requires in order to function…
In a phone interview Tuesday, Ford emphasized that the pace of technological change is a much bigger force for disruption than globalization – yet it's the latter that generates the ink and the fears. It's wrong to think that only less-skilled workers are at risk, Ford adds; it's much easier to automate a radiologist's job than a housekeeper's. For this reason, the idea that the policy answer is "education and training" strikes him as self-evidently flawed. Yet less-skilled workers will have no haven either, as Foxconn's recent order of 1 million robots for its low-wage Chinese factories proves.
In the end, Ford says, if something like the scenario he sketches comes to pass, capitalism's salvation will require that mass consumption not depend on income from work. What does that mean exactly? It means government redistribution on a scale that today seems as unthinkable as does the economy-wide automation of jobs he foresees.


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The Royal Opera's classic production of Bizet's much-loved opera returns with a host of international stars, including Anita Rachvelishvili, Elena Maximova, Bryan Hymel, Yonghoon Lee and Jonas Kaufmann. Carmen is the most popular work from French composer Georges Bizet. For this, his 17th and last opera, Bizet took inspiration from the popular novella by Prosper Merimee, which had enticed French readers with exotic tales of Spain. Its heady combination of passion, sensuality and violence initially proved too much for the stage and the opera was a critical failure on its premiere in 1875. Bizet died shortly after, and never learned of the spectacular success Carmen would achieve. Popular around the world, the opera has been performed more than five hundred times at Covent Garden alone. The opera contains many much-loved numbers, such as Carmen's seductive Habanera and Escamillo's rousing Toreador Song, in which he celebrates the thrill of the bullfight. In Francesca Zambell's 2006 production for The Royal Opera, richly coloured designs by Tanya McCallin capture the sultry heat of the Spanish sun, while ranks of soldiers, crowds of peasants, gypsies and bullfighters bring 19th-century Seville to life.


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CHICAGO - April 17, 2003 - Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY), a leading software industry publisher and developer, announced today that RoadKill, a mission-based, post-apocalyptic combat driving game, is scheduled to ship in fall 2003 for the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system, the Xbox video game system from Microsoft and Nintendo GameCube.
Set in a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by a plague and ruled by gangs, players unleash havoc in more than 30 vehicles with weapons such as machine-guns, guided missiles and grenade launchers. Assuming the role of the mercenary, players must build a gang following as they battle rival gangs, city guards and anyone else that gets in the way.
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What are the digital security concerns and threats facing women human rights defenders?
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BERLIN, Germany, 26 October 2012
One of the first steps to addressing violence against women is documenting that there is a problem. This is as true online as it is offline. APC's Connect Your Rights! Campaign has conducted a survey of 40 women human rights defenders (WHRDs) from across Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia, on their online experiences, their security concerns and their training needs. This is an important step towards developing long-term strategies, responses and policy to the ongoing threats that all women, but particularly women human rights defenders, face online.
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County engineer warns some culverts in critical condition because of floods
EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. - El Paso County's engineer warned Tuesday that several dozen culverts in Black Forest could be swept away during the next heavy rain.
The 30 vulnerable culverts run along major roadways in Black Forest.
Heavy rain in Black Forest last weekend already took out one culvert and left a massive hole in Casey Lane. El Paso County Engineer Andre Brackin said the incident didn't come as a shock.
"With the fire, and the changed conditions of the soil, you're going to have a lot faster run off, (and) greater impacts dow stream," said Brackin. "All these culverts are recipients of that."
Brackin said many culverts are already vulnerable from years of erosion and damage.
"Even culverts that are in good condition and the installations are done the right way, even those have potential for washing out in big rains," said Brackin.
He's most concerned about culverts in the Kettle Creek Basin. It's the area south of Vessey Road, West of Black Forest Road, North of Burgess Road and East of Highway 83. Of those culverts, the ones at the highest risk are along Black Forest Road north of Shoup Road.
Small culverts have contributed to flooding problems along Shoup Road. The area has flooded several times during the past month during heavy rain. Floodwater carrying mud and debris clogs small culverts and forces water over the top of Shoup Road.
Brackin said the county wants to replace Shoup Road's small culverts with larger ones to help debris flow. If not, Brackin said water will continue over the top of the road and it could take the road out with it.
The life span of a culvert is 50 years. The county wants to replace vulnerable metal culverts with sturdier cement culverts. It would cut back on erosion.
Replacing culverts isn't cheap. The damaged culvert coupled with road repairs to Casey Lane will cost an estimated $500,000 to fix.
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Brackin presented a report on culverts' conditions in Black Forest to El Paso County Commissioners Tuesday morning. The report included estimated costs for repairing or replacing culverts in critical condition.


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Tuskegee University welcomes applications from prospective students living outside the US. Applying internationally, however, is a bit more complex. International students must meet standards, just as others, for admission. Tuskegee University accepts World Education System (WES) credential evaluations from non-U.S. schools. The WES form is required since their evaluations standardize the various academic credentials from around the world.
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Discussion in 'Moves In The Field' started by pinky33, Mar 25, 2011.
I am looking for a listing of Comps on the East Coast, is USFSA complete and best info?
Well, since the USFS has to sanction all these competitions, I don't know who else would have all that information.
Unless you want to look for ISI competitions as well, which are listed at http://www.skateisi.com (look under the "skaters" link for the list of sanctioned events).
The USFSA site will list their sanctioned competitions, but you'll have to search state-by-state if you only want the East Coast.
I believe their competitions are only listed after the USFSA Sanction has been approved, so the list changes sporadically.
It seems like major events, such as Nationals, stretches their staff thin, so things are added in batches rather than daily.
Of course, the USFSA does not list ISI competitions. For those, you have to go to the ISI website (http://www.skateisi.com/site/Sub.Cfm?Content=Events)
Thanks, I looked at the list on USFS and I know there are several comps I know they have every year that are not listed, That is why I am asking. Thank you!
Thanks, I thought what would Sylvia do and I found a great listing on Unseenskaters!
Thanks. Here's the direct link: http://unseenskaters.wordpress.com/competitions/
FYI, I usually start a general US club competitions news & results thread in the Kiss and Cry forum (FSU subscription or season pass is required for access) sometime in June once the club comp. season really gets underway.
Thanks so much!!! You are the go to person for the skating world!!!!
Hi Sylvia -
My club is hosting one in July - hasn't been announced yet. Can I let you know when it is finalized, so it can get on your list?
Sure. It will have IJS events, right? You can use the "Leave a Comment" form on the bottom of the Club Comps page as soon as you know the dates/have an announcement online and it will be added.
The New England InterClub Council site www.neicc.org, lists most of the competitions there, plus qualifying competitions and some other major events for scheduling purposes.
To get a lsiting on the NEICC and the USFS site, clubs have to send the information to the listmaster; it's not an automatic thing when the sanction is given out (although it should be, IMO).
Are we talking about competitions in my area (Hartford,CT.)? As I myself could always be kept updated too if anyone can please keep me updated,thanks.


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Serj Tankian, one of the busiest guys in music, releases yet another flawless solo album Harakiri.
While we all patiently wait for a new System of a Down album, front man Serj Tankian has given fans the next best thing: a new solo album that's been streaming for free online since last week. It's hard to imagine that he would have time to write an entire album, since in the past year he's been touring the world with SoaD, published a collection of poetry, worked with various orchestras and cowrote the musical Prometheus Bound. Equipped with his iPad, the self-proclaimed political activist has created the album Harakiri, which some fans believe is the best thing he's written since the highly celebrated SoaD album Toxicity.
"I used the iPad's different music applications to sketch out three of the songs on the record," explained Serj during a midday phone call. "It gave me another way of writing a song than if I sat in front of my piano or guitar. The XY-axis iPad is a great controller for different iOS synthesizers and there are really interesting music applications that do things in a different way than you would be able to do it on the computer; it's a really cool and nifty tool."
With an album that talks a lot about "environmental degradation and men's contribution to it," the thought of utilizing something that brings up so much debate over Chinese pollution is comically incongruous. In the same way, there is a lot of humor in Harakiri as well.
"'Figure It Out,' for example, is the single that is a political song but is very comedic. It deals with the complexity of the inequalities in our economic system around the world and it (the song) targets the CEOs. CEOs are the disease so let's go after them. It's a comedic way of dealing with really heavy issues for that song. 'Harakiri' on the other hand, our second single, is more deep and more of an artistic interpretation of things that are going on around the world, so it's a little bit of everything there."
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The arrest affidavit for Donthe Isiah Lucas, 20, has been sealed by a Pueblo judge. Lucas was arrested Friday.
Sgt. Ken Espinoza of the Pueblo Police Department's investigation unit said Monday he could not comment on Lucas' arrest because the affidavit had been sealed by the court.
Police have said that Schelling, a Denver resident who turned 22 on Monday, traveled here to visit her boyfriend. She was last seen Feb. 4 and her vehicle was found here Thursday.
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The standout piece in the "2010 RISCA Fellowship Exhibition" is Alison Owen's hand-drawn wallpaper installation. She teases us with charming optical illusions — hanging framed designs alongside empty picture frames that actually highlight stripes and fleur de lis designs that she has dawn on the wall behind them. And then there's her secret serious joke that the wallpaper stripes are drawn with dirty mop water and the patterns of fleur de lis made from dust she's swept up.
Here's where the catchy delicate loveliness of Owen's light rococo designs nudge you toward heavier thoughts about the difference between art and decoration. And the place of women in art, and the world. As art has returned to out-and-out beauty over the past 15 years or so, it has come charged with lingering questions about why in the past beauty and patterns (think wallpaper) had often been dismissed as, say, women's work. She presses further with that questioning by using the recycled detritus of housekeeping — another branch of what is often women's work — as her art materials. Which raises another issue: how to keep making art amidst all the demands of our daily chores? Her answer is a lovely alchemy that turns dirt into treasure.
The 13 visual artists in the show at Imago (36 Market Street, Warren, through February 27) are all winners of Rhode Island State Council on the Arts grants ranging from $1000 to $5000. (The fellowships also support choreography, music, and writing.) There's no central theme in the exhibition, except here is a bunch of good stuff from local artists (all but one reside in Providence). A number of the strongest works continue Owen's exploration of pattern and decoration.
You may have seen Jenine Bressner wandering around Providence in one of her cascading necklaces of big rainbow-hued glass beads. If you have, you'll remember: the pieces are eye-popping collections of what look like miniature outer space cartoon party balloons. Here she offers a selection of glass jewelry, including one of the Party Neck Crowns, as well as a more demure Four Strand Glass Chain Necklace, which features tiny glass chain links that look like ice. Bressner excels at making flamboyant showstoppers. The most striking piece here is Red Drops Neck Crown. It's an alluring, luscious necklace of vivid red glass that resembles a colony of sea anemones — and seems similarly alive.
Elizabeth Duffy creates a neat installation that resembles a high-end furniture showroom featuring a mod chair upholstered with fabric featuring a wiggly circle pattern sitting before a wall papered with leaf designs. On the wall hang two sharp pencil drawings of these same patterns filling envelope shapes. Which makes you might realize that all the patterns here are redrawn versions of the designs inside security envelopes. Duffy aims to speak a bit about security in our culture. That doesn't ring deeply with me, but there's something right on about taking these hidden patterns embedded in our culture and blowing them up into enveloping designs.
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Hello to everybody,
finally figuring this thing out! Jamie Oliver has inspired me ever since I was a child,and have this crazy thing to collect all his Cookbooks.
Am constantly looking for new ideas and inspirations...and by reading the forums have already found so much...looking forward to testing some things out..
Looking forward to reading loads more....
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welcome Nadine..
dunno why, I don't have the little wavy smilie..
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Hi Nadine, glad to hear it and glad to have you here! Look forward to seeing you around.
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Hi there everyone,
Just introducing myself - I'm a foodie and an aspiring foodie writer! I'm hoping to get some cooking tips as well as some ideas for articles.
Looking forward to seeing what other foodies have to say!
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Good morning guys !
Have been reading around these pages last couple of days (inbetween learning for an exam) and I must say I'm so fascinated and inspired by them that I hardly could let go of them ;-)
I have also spent a lot of time looking videos on youtube and learning about all projects Jamie has initiated the last couple of years. I think it's so good and important that people come together and stand up for food sovereignty and take time to cook. I couldn't believe it when I heard that sometimes they don't even have kitchens in newly built homes.
What I like most about Jamies recipes is their simplicity! And you don't have to run around the whole town just to get hold of ingredients you hardly get anywhere.
What in my opinion is also very important is not only getting people back to cooking and growing their own stuff, it is also important to have sovereignty over the seeds we use. There are lots of efforts by companies to patent seeds (patents on life - horrific!). In consequence they deprive farmers and all others of the right to keep seeds for their own use! It's a kind of dependency that worries me a lot...not to say that seed diversity and old varieties are going to be lost for future generations...
Well, there's a lot more to say, but I have to go back learning...
Lots of love from Stuttgart, Germany
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Hi Jamie, im Constanza from Chile.
I just joined today, and im very excited to become a part of the people who want a change in their food industry. Im a believer that healthy way to cook can be tasty, creative, and motivating as well as the regular food. So im very happy that you can spread some of that ideas with a strong example to all of us. And of course, give us your delicious recipes. I really love them.
Keep innovating in food, and sharing your twist to all who love cook Our Way To The Good Life..
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Discussion in 'Sports & Outdoors' started by ChevyFan, Oct 28, 2013.
Who's going hunting this year ... or already gone?
We want to hear stories. We want to see photos.
Waiting for shotgun season to start.... opens Nov 16th here for me in NY... Got 2 doe permits and can shoot one with horns..so 3 total. Im due for a couple this year since last year I got skunked for the first time in several years.. Hopefully a big wall hanger is in my near future:gasp:
Im a waterfowl-er, but havent been out yet this year because of the move. Hope to get out during late season goose though
Our gun season opened today (2 previous weeks were bow and black powder). It is 4 weeks long, planning a "walk in the woods" on Wednesday.
Last Wednesday? Or this next Wednesday?
Shotgun season starts here December 2nd for two weeks then the remainder of the year is black powder season. I will be participating in both. Hoping for a little snow for the hunt.
Snow?? For what tracking blood?...just need to make the first shot count..my hunting teacher when i was a kid said one shot dead deer, two shots might be deer,three shots no deer.lol
I went opening weekend of dove season on Sept. 1 but didn't get any birds.
I went again two weekends ago at the very end of dove season and got about 10 birds.
Not for tracking blood, but to be able to walk in without being heard for miles. Also helps to see where they have been. I only have one shot as I use an inline TC .50cal. It hasn't let me down yet.
yeah see Im the opposite on the snow thing.:no: Thats why I started a thread for the perfect place to live because I Hate snow..Every time it snows here for hunting its loud because usually the snow is packy and it makes it loud as I walk over it. I prefer it to rain the night before so all the leaves are wet.. Thats my perfect scenario for me that way I can sneek up on deer which I have done several times.. a few years ago I watched a spike buck walk in near me very cautiously(he knew a few of us were in the woods) so since I decided he was too small I wanted to see how close I could get to him.. he layed down but not directly toward me but he was on a hill and I was below him. Well using a tree to kind of block his view to me I got about 25 yards away from about 50 when he originally came in. All of a sudden I saw his head jerk and there came dinner trotting up to him.. I decent 7 point that also didnt see me and I let him have it. One shot one kill. But it was a little behind where the perfect shot was I will admit. Then watched the spike try and figure out where the shot came from and was all confused.. he ran 10 yards from me down the hill and I actually took pics with my cell phone as he ran and of him before the 7pt came in.. that opening morning it was wet out but not raining.. this is my perfect hunting weather..heres the deer (little blurry but better than nothing)anyway but I cant find the pics I took of the spike .
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Via Philip Klein. The original 10-year price tag, the one that made it "safe" (but not really safe) for Democrats to drop this fiscal atomic bomb, was $940 billion. What happened, you ask? Well, see for yourself:
Remember, they gamed this thing so that it wouldn't take effect until 2014, which means that the cost of the first four years of implementation was essentially zero. That $940 billion figure really represented just six years of cost, not 10, but it was politically invaluable to Democratic messaging in letting them tout the bill as costing less than a trillion dollars. Now that we're nearing 2014 and the 10-year window of cost projections has slid forward, you can see what this leviathan boondoggle really costs: $1.76 trillion, soon to top $2 trillion when the window slides forward another year in 2013 and the new projection reaches into 2023.
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President Obama's healthcare reform law coverage provisons will cost less but cover fewer people than first thought, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday.
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Thanks to the economy, we're going to end up with a lot fewer people getting health insurance through the workplace than previously estimated and a lot more people getting it through Medicaid, which, as Klein notes, inches us a little closer to that government takeover of health care that the left insists is a conservative myth. In fact, the only "good news" here is that projected revenue from penalties imposed on employers and the uninsured is up slightly, which means the net cost of O-Care has dropped by $48 billion to a cool $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years. But don't worry: We're going to pay for that with cuts to Medicare and other stuff that'll never, ever, ever, ever, ever happen in the real world. He'll figure it out in his second term. Stay tuned.
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I looked at your pictures and I don't understand the concern. Are you questioning the gap in the slide on top of the barrel? I see the marks that you are talking about and I just took out my CW9 that I have had for a few years and shot 1000'ss of round through. I see some similar marks on my barrel. It is not a cause for concern for me at all i carry this weapon everyday. It looks normal to me.
If you don't like the scratches you are pointing out I suggest you sell it and get a different gun is my opinion. Because if this make you disatisfied with a Kahr you will not ever be satisfied with a Kahr.
I personally put more emphasis on the way the gun shoots how it feels and if I can conceal it properly. Maybe you cant hit anything with it and you think this may be the cause? I own Kahrs and I would gladly take your CW40 and give you an handful of rocks, then bet you 500 bucks I can do more damage to some ballistic gel then you can and I would gladly use your gun you cant trust and give you big rocks.
There is a site dedicated to Kahrtalk dot com that has some very very knowelegable Kahr folks who could either put your mind at ease or who might buy the gun from you. Check them out. They know Kahrs. I would not worry about what you are seeing but I worry about different stuff then some folks. Good luck with your concerns. Kahrs are fine weapons and the CW is a great platform.


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We regret to inform the people of Saudi Arabia that their government has closed down the Jeddah office of a Lebanon-based television after it aired an interview with a Saudi man who discussed his sexual escapades. Mazan Abdul-Janwad, 32, was arrested last month in the Red Sea city of Jedah after he went public with stories about how he enjoyed sex and was able to please women who had the good fortune to physically interact with the big man. The divorced father of four spoke from his bedroom in Jeddah and discussed various techniques of foreplay to make the sexual experience an enjoyable one for both partners.
The good news for Saudis is they had an opportunity to listen to descriptions of how to enjoy sex in the bedroom. The bad news is the speaker did not provide visual instruction about how to fool around before really plunging into some sex. For those who do not live in Saudi Arabia, are we to infer no one in Saudi Arabia engages in foreplay but just gets to it?
Perhaps, the crackdown on Mr. Jawad explains why Saudi women are not allowed in the driver's seat?


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Stand-up paddlers compete on Gull
Stand-up paddleboard riders competed Saturday morning, July 13, on Gull Lake.
The race, sponsored by MN Surf Co. out of Nisswa, began at Zorbaz on Gull and made a winding track through the channels. There were two courses- the 2.3-mile course and the 7-mile course.
Taking first place overall on the men's short course race board category was Chris Holmes. In the 12'6" and under board category, Austin Riewer took first, Todd Hanson took second and Bryce Johnson took third.
In the women's short course 12'6" and under board category, Angela Herlofsky took first, Sam Goldberg took second and Shannon McWilliams took third.
For the long course, Lisa Jacobs took first for women's. For men's long course 12'6" division, Peter Albertson took first, Jeff Givens took second and Craig Smith took third. For the men's long course 14' board category, Evan Lawrence took first and Nathan Hildenbrand took second.


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October 31, 2012, 04:25PM
At ACE, we went all out for Halloween today. Our staff came dressed in their most creative costumes, with the ACE Wizard and Wayne from Wayne's World coming in first and second place in our costume contest.
We had Fred Flinstone, a friendly flight attendent, a witch, a nerd, and even Wednesday from the Addams Family show up to work today. The ACE Wizard stole the show, casting his spells on the ACE staff so that they would vote for him to win the contest. Wayne from Wayne's World came in a close second, winning the crowd over with his "Party on, man" mantra.
Rex Kwon Do from Napoleon Dynamite and even Fred Flinstone himself showed up to the Halloween Bash!
ACE hopes you all have a safe and happy Halloween!
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Hello Ben, welcome from northern California! The gift card sounds wonderful to me! She will be able to pick out just what she needs. You are a very thoughtful husband!!
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Hello Ben, welcome from northern California! The gift card sounds wonderful to me! She will be able to pick out just what she needs. You are a very thoughtful husband!!
Janet L52
I have the same machine that you bought your wife. Hope she loves it - I love mine. My machine was sold with a table from Janome which was wonderful so my machine sets down into it. And I also bought the Sew-EZ table for my Viking - bought it on-line from the manufacture and it was delivered in 2 days. Excellent customer service and the table is very sturdy they cut the insert to the machine you own.
Hi Ben from Australia. Aren't you going to be popular on Christmas morning?
Do you have an unmarried brother I can adopt? Lol.
Hi from Ohio. Ben, your wife will have a great Christmas no matter how big the gift card is!
Sorry katesnanna my brother is married. But AU is an awesome place I would love to return there one day and just travel. I've been to Perth an loved it there.
You sound like my husband! If I just look at a machine it mysteriously appears in my sewing suite ~ not complaining but when you have 28 machines you can run out of room quite fast.
Your wife will love any gift card for sewing if she loves sewing.
Welcome from Adrian, MI
Do you give lessons to other husbands because my husband of 32 years wouldn't even think about getting me a machine or quilting accessories as a gift! Although, I still love him...ha. If, your wife has talked about a table for the machine & she has the space I think that would be a great gift. Your should stop by the shop where you bought the machine & talk with the sales person. Good luck. Be sure to let us know what you got her & her reaction.
I have ordered the table since they didn't have one at the store. I hope it will be in by Christmas.
Welcome from Rhode Island, maybe you and your wife will both quilt together.Awesome.
learn each and every day,memories or play.
Honestly we started quilting together almost 20yrs ago them it fell to the side due to our limited income and in the past 5 years we've picked it back up and she has been pretty serious about it. She's in a quilting club and they make and donate blankets for the local fire and rescue department for an auction that they have. Ill have to upload some pics to show some of her work space and quilts


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My verdict: yes.
Who is Alastair Reynolds? He writes science fiction and I have read a range of what he has written. First, I have read a series that includes the terms revelation, absolution, and redemption in the titles of various novels. So, who could fail to be drawn in by the ways the arc of his series "redeems" or, perhaps better, reframes, the narrative arc of aspects of Christian history.
More crucially, I recently read House of Suns. Without in anyway divulging the plot of the space-opera-ish novel, I will say this: I truly enjoyed this book and it made me think about writing here, on Evocations, a blog devoted to higher education.
Partly, this is for some silly reasons: there is a major aspect of the plot which has to do with "shatterlings" -- aka clones -- that disperse across the galaxy to collect information and experiences. I love the word shatterlings (are all Shimerians actually shatterlings in some sense?). But, what is truly amazing is the ways Reynolds points to the complexity of information - and the various ways in which information and knowledge and memory are distinct from one another and related. As an author, Reynolds does not engage in any didactic asides -- and is always engaging the reader in his tale. Thus the thematic emphasis on the ethics of information collection, information withholding, and censorship reach you in very subtle and important ways. In many ways, the novel raises ethical issues around these themes -- and identifies a whole range of kinds of information collection as well as potential ways that such information might change those who "hold" it.
In addition, the novel (as all of Reynolds' work, actually) directs our attention to the relation of machine and human culture (extending both beyond what is today's experience thereof). By doing so, Reynolds does make us all think -- again, without a heavy hand -- about the ways we all (as I sometimes say) outsource our memories and more.
So: is this enough for Reynolds to be a Shimerian? I would also bring forward the following evidence: (a) he has a vivid (very) imagination capable of communicating extraordinary ideas through the written word; (b) he has a Phd in astronomy and was emplyed by the European Space Agency as an astrophysicist; and (c) he lives in Wales. At least two of these three (perhaps all three) simply make me say even more directly: my verdict is yes. Yours?


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PlayBook: The New York Giants Are Dead. Long Live The New York Giants
The Giants are the new comeback kids plus Week Six NFL picks.
Eli Manning is a dirty little worm who has developed a nasty habit of covering point spreads in the fourth quarter of supposedly all-but-lost games, and it's making many a fine fool out of many a sorry gambler and causing many other onlookers to act in decidedly heinous and contrary ways.
In week two, for instance, the people of Tampa were turned sideways by a 25-point fourth-quarter comeback and got ugly, setting fire to the stands and burning straw idols of Eli openly in the streets. In Cleveland last week, a 20-point spike in the second drove those poor bastards into complete catatonic despair, what the doctors are now calling the incurable Weeden Disease. And last year alone, he engineered seven fourth-quarter comebacks, burning the 'Niners and the Eagles, the Cowboys and Dolphins, the Bills, the Cards and the Patriots, twice with the game on the line, the second of those scorchings of course coming with the Lombardi trophy looking on.
Yessir, Brother Eli is all grown up and looking like a full-fledged flier; all told, he's got 22 fourth-quarter comebacks and 26 game-winning drives. His Q4 QB rating jumps 20 points when he's playing from behind, and his YPA kicks up five and a half ticks, from 4.0 when he's one to eight points ahead to 9.6 when down by the same margin, and all the while his completion percentage remains exactly the same.
That's impressive stuff for a QB under pressure. When the boy's within seven, when he can smell blood in the air and see the sharks circling, his fourth-quarter QBR hits a high of 114.4. When he's tied or behind, he's got nine TDs compared to only one when he's ahead, and when Little Brother Eli has found himself in the limelight in the postseason with an unspectacular regular season record, he has twice beaten the big bad boys from New England and twice emerged as the Super Bowl MVP.
All that to say that the standing Candlestick 10-count we've already imposed on the G-Men might not be necessary; 6.5 points is a hell of a lot of ground to cover against a team and QB that can hold their own in the clutch. The 'Niners already know the feeling of being beaten like a drum by a lame little boy living in his big brother's shadow, but come Sunday they might know what it's like to be lit up by a Giant who's all grown up and got it all figured out.
The New York Giants are dead, everybody. Long live the New York Giants.
This Week's Lines:
New York (+6.5) over San Francisco
This is about the time the Giants descend in utter collapse, unruly crowds gather en masse outside MetLife calling for the head of Tom Coughlin as New York breaks off a 1-4 streak before stumbling ass-backwards into the playoffs at a surprising 9-7, wins the wild card game, the divisional game, the NFC and another Super Bowl. That's how this story ends. But it starts with a upset win.
Houston (-3.5) over Green Bay
Falling to 2-4 is essentially a death sentence when two teams in your division are 4-1. It's a long way to the light.
Indianapolis (+3.5) over New York
This has more to do with a missing Darrelle Revis and a lack of faith in New York's bumbling offense than any real faith in Andrew Luck's.
Atlanta (-9) over Oakland
Better quarterbacks than Carson Palmer have been caught cross-eyed and confused by Atlanta's lying-low-in-weeds secondary.
New England (-3.5) over Seattle
Committing a cardinal sin here: betting against the Seahawks, a good defense, at home, against a hurry-up offense and a team that can't contain the run. Wait…Seattle (+3.5) over New England.
Minnesota (+3.5) over Washington
This is the game when we all come to terms with a real NFL reality: the Redskins, surrounded by hype are not all that good and the Vikings, a team surrounded in shit, surprisingly are.
Denver (+1) over San Diego
Another notch in seemingly endless Norv Turner embarrassment belt.
Baltimore (-3.5) over Dallas
Things that shouldn't concern you: Baltimore's nine point mudfest last week in Kansas City. Things that should concern you: Tony Romo's 5-8 TD/INT ratio.
Quick Slants:
Miami (-2.5) over St. Louis, Tampa Bay (-4) over Kansas City, Philadelphia (-2.5) over Detroit, Cleveland (+2) over Cincinnati, Buffalo (+4.5) over Arizona.
Last Week: 7-6
Overall: 42-28-2
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The way you smell after laying in a tanning bed that hasn't been cleaned. Essentially, you smell like the BO of every person who used the bed before you! Good reason to clean out the tanning bed before using it.
What the? I had a shower this morning, but now I have this funny smell. Oh my God! I forgot to clean out the tanning bed. I smell like that big fat guy. Ewww.
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Hunting Regulations Process
Every two years, the Wildlife Resources Division (WRD) invites all hunters and other interested persons to attend public meetings and provide input on the development of changes to current hunting regulations.
Paramount to this process is the understanding that the Georgia General Assembly passes laws and the Board of Natural Resources passes regulations. Laws take precedence over regulations, and the Board can promulgate regulations only specific to the authority the General Assembly grants it. The Wildlife Resources Division (WRD) does not have an active role in introducing or voting on proposed law changes. Those rights are reserved for Georgia's elected General Assembly members. WRD's role is to serve as a source of information to assist lawmakers in making informed decisions relative to related issues and to make regulatory recommendations to the Board for their consideration.
The purpose of hunting regulations are to manage Georgia's game birds and game animals according to sound principles of wildlife management and to meet public objectives for use of these renewable natural resources.
The development of hunting regulations follows this general timeline:
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Our bedding's densely patterned paisleys resemble Indian Kalamkari textiles, created through an intricate process of dyeing, block printing, and freehand brushwork.
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A two-person female Hamlet set in contrast to the drudgery of office work? Were the play and the setting picked from two hats? What's next — Macbeth on a construction site? King Lear in a laundromat?
But not only does Leigh and Melissa Present: Hamlette rescue itself from arbitrariness, it's a delight. The independent production runs at the Empire Black Box, the AS220 performance space, through September 30.
The little theatrical ditty grew out of a late-night performance sketch the local duo threw together last fall. It makes fun of the process and aspirations of theater as only people who love the endeavor can do.
Although Leigh Hendrix and Melissa Bowler are playing invented characters rather than themselves, the office drones we meet are named Leigh and Melissa and inhabit adjoining cubicles. Unfortunately, things begin with an offputting implausibility: we are supposed to believe that although Leigh has been working in the accounting department for six months, Melissa doesn't recognize her when they encounter. (The unlikeliness is exacerbated by the partition between their desks being low. But perhaps office efficiency demanded that everyone scoot around in their swivel chairs rather than stand up.)
Not to worry. Things proceed from there entertainingly, starting with each sneaking away from a "Team-Building Day" seminar. Both pretend to be getting something out of it, until they loosen up and get real. The trust continues as Melissa teaches her new friend to not take her assigned busywork seriously and certainly never hand it in early.
Various twentysomething traits get made fun of, in the good-natured way of those who have lived the foibles. There's a lengthy exchange where each justifies being stuck in her day job. Melissa says she's a standup comedian but gets vague about her next gig when Leigh eagerly asks when she can catch her next show. Similarly, self-declared actor Leigh changes the subject when asked about going for auditions. Both sneer at the prospect of becoming "pigeonholed" by success. Each rails against such a prospect — getting tapped for a sitcom after nightclub discovery and becoming "the face of Revlon" after commercial acting — when we know they dream of those opportunities.
They start rehearsing Hamlet after work, with hopes of performing it publicly. The choice of play fits not only because it's mostly two-person scenes but also because, Leigh points out, it "defines masculinity."
Their interplay is frequently funny, extending into a farcical reminder of John Cleese's Ministry of Funny Walks when Leigh wants to demonstrate that she can perform contrasting characters. Solving the problem of multiple-character scenes in Hamlet results in the most hilarious scenes in Hamlette. The visually uproarious crowd-pleaser is when Leigh demonstrates how this could be done with sock puppets. Melissa's understated reaction makes it even funnier as she very patiently, diplomatically, tries to convince Leigh that perhaps that solution is not the best one.
Melissa's restrained character, contrasting with Leigh's enthusiasm, gives this little play more impact than it might otherwise have, bringing it down to earth. It also has some interesting character development for Melissa, starting with her self-serving excuse to the bosses for being there after hours; that lays the groundwork for a decision she makes that more fully defines her for us. There is more relationship ebb and flow between the two that keeps us interested, such as when they have a falling out when Melissa overhears Leigh upset on the phone to her mother. Wisely, we don't get a reconciliation scene, just one with the two friends fencing with Swisher handles.
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Meet Linda Conley
Trine University - Ketner School of Business
260.665.4467 | email
"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
– the Rev. JH Boetcker.
B.S.B.A. majoring in Human Resources, Master in Organization Development – Bowling Green State University
During my own college education, I developed an interest in HR and organization development. Over time my interest in HR and organization development expanded to the strategic focus required in HR and Strategic Management in an organization. I am proud to say that I earned an SPHR (Senior Professional Human Resources) certification.
With a young daughter, most of my hobbies and interests revolve around my family. I enjoy volunteering to help with her activities and coordinating Sunday school for our church. My family loves watching movies, cooking, traveling and reading. I think I acquired my interest in politics when our family lived in New York. After being on a legislative committee for a SHRM group, I recognized the significant impact of government on the HR profession. I have closely followed politics since then.


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I'm using VMware, the base is pre SP1 of XP Pro, and I've met all of the pre-req's that Foundstone has laid out but when I go to login I either get the code of the page inside IE or I get the actual page when it does work, however the input boxes for the username and password are non existent and therefore the app is pretty much useless.
Anyone else ever ran into this or have suggestions? By the way I have even deleted the virtual and started over from scratch with the whole project.
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When a person triumphs over a more major complication in their life - therefore rising to a higher level of society. One who accomplishes "beating the golf ball" can also be known as a Taylor and, from that point on, be spoken to in person as "...my Lord" "...your Majesty" or "...his Greatness".
Ah man, Taylor's boss! He beat the golf ball!
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Bensimon Lace Ups - On SalePosted May 14, 2009
A quintessentially French classic, these simple canvas tennis sneakers are entirely charming and finished with tonal laces and metal grommets. Available in a variety of colors that all have a washed and worn vintage finish.
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OldMech ........Where do you buy lumber from ??? BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)
I've been beating the internet sites looking for wooden-ware for 2 complete 8-frame hives to restart beekeeping next spring. For me BetterBee and Kelly are the most competitively priced. I'm leaning toward BetterBee as they claim their boxes are 7/8" vs. 3/4", so maybe just a tad bit better insulation and longevity.Jim


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A delicious morsel of reefer, rolled in paper, and enjoyed when you need it the most. Typically a small amount and shared between two friends.
"Jon, my dear friend, would you be so inclined to indulge in this scrumptious doob snack, by my very side on this breezy, autumn day?"
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What if something apocalyptic happens in the future and suddenly 90% of the population can no longer sleep? What if you are one of the few who CAN? How quickly would society crumble? What happens when no one can sleep anymore?
If you don't sleep, you will go crazy and then die. This is a biological fact. Without sleep people start to lose their minds, their bodies begin to fall apart, their immune systems collapse.
When a deadly insomnia epidemic descends upon the earth, populations become overwhelmingly afflicted, and society starts to shut down. Gangs of the sleepless roam the streets, confused and disoriented, attacking anyone still capable of sleep. As the number of zombie-like sufferers increases, mere survival becomes less likely for both the sleepers and the sleepless.
In Black Moon, Kenneth Calhoun re-imagines the Zombie Apocalypse genre, only instead of turning into the undead, the "Insomniacs" turn into sleepless lurching, insane, murderous beings, their wrath and hatred turned toward the few "Sleepers" who must now hide to sleep or they run the risk of being discovered and killed, even by their loved ones.
Calhoun's depiction of the collapse of language, reason, and love in a world without sleep is unflinching, and—scariest of all—it feels very contemporary.
Find it in the New book room under SF CALHOUN, KENNETH