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Congressman Weiner: Bush Should Stop Weapons Sales To Saudi Arabia
Recently, upon visiting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, President Bush formally notified Congress of his intent to sell $123 million worth of some of the United States' most advanced weapons and technology to the Saudis, a known sponsor and financier of terrorism. The package is part of a larger $20 billion arms sale.
To prevent the arms sale to Saudi Arabia, a bi-partisan coalition of members of Congress led by Representatives Anthony Weiner and Robert Wexler have announced that they would introduce a Joint Resolution when Congress officially returns to session.
President Bush notified Congress on the day before he was scheduled to arrive in Saudi Arabia, as part of his weeklong visit to the Middle East. The latest piece of a larger arms package he announced includes 900 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM's) tail kits, which will vastly improve the all weather of the Royal Saudi Air Force.
A broad bipartisan coalition of over 100 members of Congress released a letter to President Bush expressing their deep opposition to the sale and said they intend to vote to stop it.
Congress may reject any large arms sale according to the Arms Control Export Act of 1976. The President is required to officially notify Congress of an impending arms deal, which then has 30 days to pass a Joint Resolution of Disapproval.
The Joint Resolution of Disapproval has been used in the past by Congress to affect weapons sales to Saudi Arabia. In 1985, the Kingdom wanted to purchase F-15 fighter jets, but congressional opposition convinced the Reagan administration not to go forward with the sale. This was on the heels of a bruising battle with Congress on a 1981 sale of AWACS after Senator Bob Packwood questioned selling arms to Saudi Arabia saying, "They have displayed a hostility that must be interpreted as their deliberate intentions to promote continued instability in the Middle East."
In 1990, an arms package to Saudi Arabia valued in excess of $20 billion was expected to be proposed to Congress. House Majority Leader Richard A. Gephardt took the lead in writing a letter to President George H.W. Bush advocating "a unilateral pause in arms sales to countries in the Middle East and Persian Gulf." The deal ultimately submitted to Congress was significantly smaller at $7.3 billion, and did not include controversial hardware such as AWACS and KE-3 tanker aircraft.
Saudi Arabia has not been a true ally in the war on terror, or furthering the United States interests in the Middle East. In July of this year, American officials in Iraq said the majority of suicide bombers in Iraq are from Saudi Arabia, and that about 45 percent of all foreign fighters are Saudi. Iraqi media reported that students at the Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, located in Riyadh and known as the "terrorist factory," had organized activist groups and sent members streaming north to join the onslaught on Iraqi Shias. Brig. General Kevin Bergner, the top American military spokesman in Iraq, detailed an account of a Saudi Arabian smuggled into Iraq to be a suicide bomber. Yet Prince Saud was quoted as saying, "All that we can do in order to protect the border in Iraq we have been doing."
In February the Saudi Arabian government torpedoed U.S. plans to conduct a high-profile peace summit meeting between Israel and the Palestinian Authority by brokering their own power-sharing agreement, catching the U.S. off-guard and ensuring the agreement would not require Hamas to recognize Israel or forswear violence. On March 29, many agree Saudi Arabia King Abdullah referred to the U.S. troops in Iraq as an "illegitimate foreign occupation" at a two-day Arab summit in Riyadh.
And, despite assurances to the contrary, Saudi Arabia appears to continue to bankroll terrorist organizations that have attacked both the United States and Israel. In sworn testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in November 2005, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Daniel L. Glaser indicated that the Saudi Arabian government refuses to crack down on the World Association of Muslim Youth (WAMY), which spreads radical Wahhabism and finances Hamas and Al Qaeda. 70 percent of the most-wanted international terrorists are Saudi Arabians.
"People of all political stripes have come out against this deal," said Weiner. "It's bad policy, because the Saudis at every turn have been uncooperative. The idea that we are going to reward the Saudis with precision weaponry is a stunningly bad idea, and clearly deserves the full review of Congress."


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What stops women from getting help?
There can be many reasons why women with antenatal and postnatal depression do not get help as soon as they feel something is wrong:
- She may not know what antenatal or postnatal depression is and how it is different from the normal struggles of being a new parent.
- She may not be ready to acknowledge her difficulties and that she is not coping.
- She may have difficulty putting her painful feelings into words.
- Depression itself may stop her from seeking help even if she knows something is wrong - low energy, motivation and withdrawal.
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Recovery from antenatal and postnatal depression will be more likely if the woman is able to access services as early as possible. It is also really important that she feels comfortable with whoever she is seeking support from and that she feels heard and understood. It can take time to set up these supports and to find a good 'fit' with the service provider so try to persevere.


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I signed a contract with the owner of this property in October. Within a month we started receiving foreclosure notices on the property. The owner assured me he was working with the bank to stop the process even though the mortgage was over $10,000 dollars behind. One month later he told me that he was letting the house go. The bank then postponed the sheriff sale to later date after the lease would be over. Does this void the contract? What rights do I have. I'm now trying to renegotiate with the guy to lower the rent. Do I have a leg to stand on? Thanks for your help. Signed pissed off tenant
Although this is a touch beyond my expertise, as I see it, the lease is either void (or voidable) or it is not. It is not a hybrid in which the lessee becomes entitled to a rent reduction and modification of the lease agreement. By maintaining possession, and so long as no covenants, implied or otherwise, are breached, you are obligated to pay rent. If you wish to avoid the lease, that is a different story. But you can't have it both ways.Ask a similar question
No the lease is not voidable. If the property is foreclosed on and sold at sheriff's sale, the owner will be in breach of the lease and you will have a good cause of action against the owner. Your lease is subject to the mortgage meaning that the mortgagee's rights are superior to yours since the mortgage was entered into prior to your lease and I assume recorded.
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You don't really have a leg to stand on. Not that it wasn't an underhanded move by the landlord if he knew the house was going into foreclosure, he fully intended on letting the house go through foreclosure, and he withheld that information from you. Still, from a legal standpoint, you likely don't have recourse.
If you have a bona fide lease (and it sounds like you did), the purchasing party at the sheriff's sale has to honor that lease when it survives beyond the date of the expiration of the redemption period. The redemption period will last for either 5 weeks, 6 months, or 12 months following the sheriff's sale in Minnesota, depending on a variety of factors. In the vast majority of cases, the redemption period lasts for 6 months. But if your lease expired or will expire prior to the sheriff's sale (and thus, prior to the expiration of the redemption period), the landlord wasn't under any obligation to enter into a new lease agreement.
On a bit of a side note (and acknowledging that I know nothing about your landlord's financial situations and intentions), the mere fact that he was $10,000 behind on the mortgage does not mean he wasn't trying to stop the foreclosure process. Banks won't accept partial payments, so it can start to snowball if the bank starts being difficult in the modification process or in trying to find other workout options. And there are other methods to retain property that can be successful even with full opposition for the bank. Specifically, I'm thinking about chapter 11 or chapter 13 bankruptcy, which can be particularly helpful in situations where rental property is involved. But, bankruptcy won't make sense for everyone.
Where you MIGHT have a leg to stand on is potential fraud against the landlord. If he knew a foreclosure was imminent, knew that you had no idea one was coming, and specifically withheld that information from you to induce you into signing a lease agreement you otherwise never would have signed, you might be able to make a claim for fraud. I think it's unlikely to be successful for a variety of reasons that I don't really have time/space to get into on a forum like this. Even if it is successful, the damages would be minimal since the landlord wouldn't be required to renew the lease anyway. You might be able to get your moving costs out of him.
If you simply stop paying rent, your landlord could sue you for unpaid rent or start an eviction action. You may want to consider the likelihood of him actually suing you for that money, the chances he would be able to collect, and the chances that he would start an eviction action against you so he could attempt to rent it to someone else for a period of just a few months.
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BMW 1 Series Models and 1 Series History
Available in Europe since the 2004 model year, BMW brought the subcompact 1 Series to the United States in 2008. Entered as a contender of a growing small premium car segment, the BMW 1 Series presented a look similar to a BMW 3 Series. Offered in a variety in hatchback body styles internationally, the BMW 1 Series was only imported to North America as a two-door coupe as well as a convertible. The passenger compartment of the BMW 1 Series was classified to accommodate four adult occupants.
Embracing an entry-level luxury car market, the 2008 BMW 1 Series included an array of high-end standard features such as multi-zone climate control, 17-inch aluminum wheels, rain-sensing windshield wipers and a sunroof on the coupe models. Bluetooth connectivity was added to the standard features list of the BMW 1 Series in 2012. A 230-horsepower 3.0-liter naturally aspirated six-cylinder powered the BMW 128i while the BMW 135i was equipped with a 300-horsepower twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter powerplant. A compact rear-wheel drive vehicle, the 2008 BMW 1 Series featured a six-speed manual and six-speed automatic transmission option.
For 2011, a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission was added to the BMW 1 Series. The 300-horsepower engine on the 2011 BMW 135i model was enhanced for better low-rev torque and better fuel economy. Also in 2011, a high-performance 335-horsepower BMW 1 Series M was offered. The BMW 1 Series was replaced following the 2013 and is scheduled to be replaced by the all-new BMW 2 Series.
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Available as a coupe or convertible, the 2009 BMW 1-Series is a small sporty two-door car that offers the thrill of driving a BMW in a smaller, more affordable package.
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Steve Jobs wasn't kidding when he said Apple was borrowing philosophies from the iPad to implant into the new MacBook Air. Like the iPad, Apple's brand new MacBook Air is missing a software plug-in that shipped with previous Macs: Adobe Flash.
I noticed this upon booting up and attempting to watch a Hulu video for the first time on an 11-inch MacBook Air that Apple loaned to Wired.com on Wednesday. Instead of a video, the message "Missing Plug-in" popped up in an empty window.
The lack of Flash on the new MacBook Air is not a big deal, considering you can simply head to Adobe's website, download the plug-in and install it on the computer within a few minutes — unlike the iPad or iPhone, which doesn't support the plug-in at all. But the omission of Flash is both interesting and amusing.
Apple's grudge against Flash is thoroughly explained in a web post written by Jobs in April. There, he explained that Flash wasn't technically up to par to perform well on mobile devices such as the iPhone and iPad, and supporting Flash would stifle Apple's ability to innovate. He added that Flash was the No. 1 reason that Macs crash, and Adobe still hasn't made any major improvements.
"We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash," Jobs wrote. "We have been working with Adobe to fix these problems, but they have persisted for several years now. We don't want to reduce the reliability and security of our iPhones, iPods and iPads by adding Flash."
However, Apple failed to completely block Flash from the iOS platform. In September, Apple revised its developer guidelines to allow third-party programming tools to be used to develop iOS apps. That effectively opened doors to Adobe's Packager for iPhone, a tool in Creative Suite 5 that enables Flash to be easily converted into native iPhone app language. So Flash has made it to the iOS platform in a roundabout way.
Jobs can't be happy about that: An iOS developer told Wired.com it was likely that the FTC forced Apple to allow third-party programming languages because the restriction reeked of anti-competition. The ineffective exclusion of Flash on the MacBook Air, and presumably on future Macs, serves as a statement more than anything else: Apple really doesn't want to endorse Flash anymore.
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- Why Apple Won't Allow Adobe Flash on iPhone
- Apple Slaps Adobe's Flash with iPad-Friendly HTML5 Showcase …
- Apple Promotes 'iPad-Ready' Websites Ditching Flash
- Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Mantra Is 'Bullshit,' Adobe Is Lazy …
- Apple Video Shows iPad Flash Support, But Don't Believe It …
- Apple Eases App Development Rules, Adobe Surges
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Dec 16, 2013 - StaffFormer Riverton resident Richelle Shannon Lampreeth Doty of Tucson, Ariz., died Friday, Dec. 13.
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What would servers from across the country tell you if they could get away with it? Well, for starters, when to go out, what not to order, what really happens behind the kitchen's swinging doors, and what they think of you and your tips. Here, from a group that clears a median $8.01 an hour in wages and tips, a few revelations that aren't on any menu.
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Ever since the Clinton administration agreed in 1999 to make $50,000 payments to thousands of black farmers, the Hispanics and women had been clamoring in courtrooms and in Congress for the same deal. They argued, as the African-Americans had, that biased federal loan officers had systematically thwarted their attempts to borrow money to farm.
But a succession of courts — and finally the Supreme Court — had rebuffed their pleas. Instead of an army of potential claimants, the government faced just 91 plaintiffs. Those cases, the government lawyers figured, could be dispatched at limited cost.
They were wrong.
The New York Times reported Friday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has likely enabled massive fraud in the Pigford series of legal settlements, in which black, Hispanic, female and Native American farmers have claimed to be victims of past discrimination.
The cost of the settlements, which could exceed $4.4 billion, is the result of a process that "became a runaway train, driven by racial politics, pressure from influential members of Congress and law firms that stand to gain more than $130 million in fees," the Times notes.
Among those influential members of Congress was then-Senator Barack Obama, who made Pigford payouts a priority in exchange for political support for his 2008 presidential campaign among a coveted group of black voters in the rural South, the Times reports.......
Levin even says how Breitbart knew Pigford was a scam and called him for advice about it.
This is incredible theft.
The left, led by the George Soros-funded Media Matters for America, attempted for years to dismiss claims of fraud in Pigford, calling it Breitbart's "stupidest conspiracy theory." When Fox News picked up the story, Media Matters called it an attempt to attack "anti-discrimination efforts."
Everyone needs to know the term "Pigford" RTR America. This is as disgusting as it gets for a President- full sail robbery based on race. Title change of thread maybe?
Obama The Thief- Racial Robbery of Taxpayers in Pigford Scandal
$113 billion down the pooper against a SCOTUS ruling.
Breitbart speaks about Pigford at CPAC
The podcast he did with Adam Carolla is one of the best things on the internet.
Link? TIA
Due to the pliability of the Clinton Justice Department and the dogged efforts of a few highly incentivized trial lawyers, the original Pigford settlement made $50,000 payments available to any African American who could merely claim to have been discriminated against by the federally deputized administrators of USDA bridge loans (loans designed to get farmers from the planting season to the harvesting season). And "claim" might even be too strong a word; since administrative records for the loan program were poor, the courts set the bar laughably low. To establish oneself as a farmer for the purposes of Pigford, it would all but do to establish that you had once bought a seed and passed within a country mile of a USDA office. And to establish that you were discriminated against there, it would all but do to affirm on a form that you found that experience less than satisfactory — and to have your second cousin affirm that you told him as much at the time.
. The Times quotes several USDA employees whose job was to process — and ultimately rubber-stamp — these claims. "You couldn't have designed it worse if you had tried," one says of the process. "You knew it was wrong," says another, "but what could you do? Who is going to listen to you?" "Basically, it was a rip-off of the American taxpayers," says a third.
But as the Times reports in great depth, instead of closing the spigot, in 2010 the Obama administration did not just acquiesce to, it spearheaded the expansion of, the Pigford con on the taxpayer's dime, and saw to it that not just black Americans, but any woman, Hispanic, or Native American who could so much as gesture at discrimination had access to a billion-dollar pool of easy money.
It did this by dubiously tapping a Justice Department fund reserved for court-ordered, not politically dispensed, payouts.
The Times report exposes — as Dan Foster did in his piece for us two years ago — Senator, Candidate, and President Obama's advocacy for the settlements as barely alloyed quid pro quo, in which Pigford profiteers promised to help Obama run up the score against Hillary Clinton in the rural South in exchange for his work on their behalf.
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HCC to Host Local Author Eric S. Brown on April 2
Haywood Community College's Book Club in cooperation with the Student Government Association and Student Activities will host local author Eric S. Brown on campus on Tuesday, April 2 from 12:30 until 1:30 p.m. in the auditorium. Brown is an internationally published horror writer of over 40 books. At the free event, Brown will sell and sign books.
Some of Brown's works include the highly praised Bigfoot War series, War of the Worlds Plus Blood Guts and Zombies, Jack Bunny Bam-Bam and the Weeper Apocalypse, The A Pack of Wolves series, and Season of Rot. His short fiction has been published hundreds of times in the small press and beyond. He also writes an ongoing weekly comic book news column for the Mountaineer's weekly entertainment paper, The Guide. Currently, Brown is scripting the Stormchasers and Unstoppable Origins comic book series for Unstoppable Comics.


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Same great look
Themed keyboard (updated in v4)
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wireless tether
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Market permanantly themed (or until they update it again..lol)
Free 3G Hot Spot with NVRAM Hack
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Add SMS back into Blurless version (oops)
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2 months ago I went to doctor for repairing my permalip implants gone wrong. Because I was afraid to ruin the result, I kept my lips motionless for a period. Today my lips feel stiff, I can't smile as I used to. Can this problem be resolved with exercises and masagge?
Can Lips Remain Stiff After Permalip Implant Recover?
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Lip implants can make your lips feel stiff but they will get better
Lip implants will be stiff for a while. I would wait as 2 months you are still in the healing process believe it or not. You actually get 60% of your healing at 6 weeks and 90% at 6 months but you can heal for almost 2 years from the original procedure. The stiffness will get better with time. But implants are going to make your lips feel a litte more stiff in the long run but you might get used to this particular feeling. But you won't know the difference until at least 6 months.
Permanent lip implants
Yes, unfortunately lip implants can make the lips feel unnatural. You are probably better off with fillers.
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Wakefield was going for a major league best 17th win until he pulled up with a sore back tonight. Wakefield has posted a decision in every one of his 26 starts this year. He is the 8th pitcher since 1957 to record a decision in his first 26 starts (Source: Dave Smith, Retrosheet). BUT he has been scratched and Julian Tavarez will take the mound tonight to pull the Sox out of their slump.
Tavarez has looked very strong. His last 2 starts against LA Angels and Chicago White Sox he kept to 3 ER in 12 IP. Julian was scheduled to start Saturday but had to be moved up because Wakefield has a sore back
The Orioles are currently on a 9 game losing streak. While the Sox are riding a 3 game losing streak. The last 3 game losing streak the Sox had was July 17th-19th. After that losing streak the Sox went on to win 5 straight.
When the Sox offense seems to be struggling this is one of the worst lineups to get things going. Manny is still out with an oblique injury and Eric Hinske is hitting 7th tonight. And with Wakefield suppose to be pitching Kevin Cash has the start. And there isn't much we can do about JD Drew, Coco, and Lugo.
Luckily the same kind of oblique injury keeping Manny out is also keeping Eric Bedard from starting tonight. Although the Red Sox have never had much success against pitchers they've never seen. It's certainly better then Bedard who leads the majors in strikeouts and is 4th in the AL in ERA.
Radhames Liz, the Orioles starter, has made one major league start against the Minnesota Twins. Where three walks, a well timed single, and a three run shot lead to a bloated 7.50 ERA. Liz managed the rest of the game well. On the AA Bowie Baysox Liz was 11-4, with a 3.22 ERA, 137 IP and 161 K's.
It's looking like an even match-up tonight.
GO RED SOX, BLOW THEM BIRDS OUT! Helps to be a homer at times.
-The Sox are 7-4 against the Orioles this year.
-Mike Lowell is currently riding a 12 game winning streak
-Mike Timlins next appearance will be the 1000th of his career. Something only 12 people have done in all of major league history.
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Romney Stands By Secret Video Comments [VIDEO]
Mitt Romney isn't denying – or apologizing for – comments that he made to donors at a $50,000 per plate closed-door fundraiser in Boca Raton, Florida that were secretly recorded and leaked to the press.
FOX News Radio's Jared Halpern has details from Washington:
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The Republican nominee is trying to explain an answer he gave supporters at a closed-door fundraiser back in May, describing Americans who don't pay any Federal income tax as people who see themselves as "victims."
(Romney – Tape) "So my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them."
The answer was secretly recorded, then obtained and released by Mother Jones.
(Romney) "By the way, whoever has released the snippets, I'd certainly appreciate it if they'd release the whole tape."
Romney saying in a news conference last night his message has always been about two different approaches between his and the President's.
In Washington, Jared Halpern, FOX News Radio.
LISTEN to more of the recording from the video, posted on Mother Jones:
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"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the President no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement, and the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this President no matter what. I mean, the President starts of with 48…49…48…he starts off with a huge number. These are people who pay no income tax, 47 percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn't connect. He'll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich, and that's what they sell every four years. And so my job is not to worry about those people, I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. What I have to do is convince the five-to-ten percent in the center, that are Independents, that are thoughtful, that look at voting one way or the other depending upon, in some cases, emotion, whether they like the guy or not."
Tuesday morning, Mother Jones released more video from the fundraiser. In the new release, Romney talks about foreign policy, specifically about the prospects, or lack thereof, for peace in the Middle East.
LISTEN to some of the second release posted by Mother Jones:
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"And I look at the Palestinians not wanting to see peace anyway, for political purposes, committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel, and these thorny issues, and I say, 'There's just no way.' And so what you do is you say, you move things along the best way you can, you hope for some degree of stability, but you recognize that this is going to remain an unsolved problem. I mean, we live with that in China and Taiwan. Alright, we have a potentially volatile situation but we sort of live with it, and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it. We don't go to war to try and resolve it imminently."
WATCH more of Romney's response late Monday night:
READ a statement from the Obama campaign about the video release:
"It's shocking that a candidate for President of the United States would go behind closed doors and declare to a group of wealthy donors that half the American people view themselves as 'victims,' entitled to handouts, and are unwilling to take 'personal responsibility' for their lives. It's hard to serve as president for all Americans when you've disdainfully written off half the nation."


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Trufant would certainly be my pick, however, there are some interesting players at CB in the second and third rounds that may be available. Reese says he will pick the best player available and I believe him. It will be interesting to see who he picks.
I agree about there being plenty of interesting CB prospects in this draft. This has to be one of the best drafts for CB's that I have seen in quite a while. I really hope we capitalize on this and get a CB who really can help us out.
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Our first full day in Louisiana finds us venturing south from New Orleans to Houma, a town about an hours drive to the southwest. It is from here we are to take a flight over the marsh to inspect the damage, thus far, caused by the ongoing BP oil catastrophe.
Walking into the office of Butler Aviation Services at the airport, the downtrodden mood, and accompanying anger, are palpable. Of course this is not assisted by the fact that Vice President Joe Biden is visiting Louisiana today.
"What would you tell Joe if he walked into your office," Robbie Butler, with the flight service of his name, asks me. He then adds, "Hey Joe, lead, follow, or get out of the way. That's what I'd tell him."
At approximately the same time Butler is telling me of these three excellent suggestions, Biden is in downtown New Orleans inside the "command center" meeting with more than 100 BP, government and military officials inside a cavernous office dubbed "the bullpen." In case anyone wasn't clear about the priorities of the US government, included in Biden's entourage are BP's chief operating officer Doug Suttles, and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. It was Jindal who, on June 2nd, sent an urgent letter to President Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar regarding his grave concerns at the time of the administration's decision to place a moratorium on deepwater drilling.
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The virus, panleukopenia, is highly contagious to cats and kittens, and is spread by direct contact with infected animals or their bodily fluids.
The disease is completely harmless to humans, said Dr. Leonard Sigdestad, veterinarian at the Loma Linda Animal Hospital
"We took in a cat that displayed symptoms of the disease, and after the veterinarian diagnosed the cat, shelter employees quarantined the feline," said police Lt. Paul Williams. "We have taken every precaution to ensure the safety of all animals at the shelter."
The shelter is still taking in cats and kittens, but the ones infected with the disease are in an outdoor shaded kennel to stop the parvo-like disease from spreading, Williams said.
"Mortality rate for cats with the disease is 90 percent without treatment," Sigdestad said. "With treatment though it's around 20 percent."
"It only attacks the feline family," he added. "Lions, Minks, ferrets, raccoons, and house cats."
The virus strikes white blood cells and reduces the circulating white cells (leukopenia cells) giving the disease its name.
Signs of the infection appear about two to 10 days after the animal is exposed, Williams said.
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#1 Mon 04 Feb 08 12:23pm
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Collop Monday Breakfast - today 4th Feb
Today - Monday 4th February - is Collop Monday.
Its an almost forgotten tradition, I wonder how many of you have even heard of it?
Collop Monday is the day before Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Tuesday) when households used up the last of the meat in the house in preparation for the days of Lent, when meat was off the menu.
This was in the days long before refrigeration or canning, so the only meat available at this time of year would be salted or smoked meat, usually bacon or ham. There may also have been dried sausages, and black pudding.
COLLOP is a Yorkshire dialect word meaning a thin slices of meat (from the French - Escallope).
The tradition was to eat up all the bacon and other preserved meats, fried, with eggs, for breakfast on this day. (The fat from the frying was saved for making pancakes for Shrove Tuesday.
In addition to giving up meat for Lent, there was also the custom of abstaning from leavened bread (bread made with yeast), and eating only unleavened bread (notice that pancakes are a form of enriched unleavened bread). Bakers yeast was, of course, not available, and all leavened bread was "sourdough". On Collop Monday, the whole of the sourdough starter was used to make bread, and no starter was retained - a fresh batch of leaven would be prepared at the end of Lent on Holy Saturday.
All this was an unusual treat - breakfast on ordinary days would just be a bowl of gruel or porridge, with no meat or eggs. It was a real feast before the fast of Lent.
These days, most people have forgotten about the Collop Monday Breakfast feast - but the tradition lives on in the form of the Full English Breakfast!
Collop Monday Breakfast was a big fry up of Bacon, Sausage, Black pudding, Fried Bread and Eggs - which is precisely the basic ingredients for the traditional Full English Breakfast.
Next time you tuck into a Full English - remember that you have the medieval Christians of Yorkshire and the Season of Lent to thank for its invention
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Re: Collop Monday Breakfast - today 4th Feb
Love the history and story of food. Didn't know/never heard of Collop Monday - makes good sense though!
Thanks for taking the trouble to share the history Burkey
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Nov 01 2012
Telling the truth
I have made no secret over the last few years of the contempt I feel for Allen West. If someone would take him out back and beat the living shit out of him-I would cry no salt tears. The guy was probably a prick as an officer, deserved his Article 15, and since leaving the service has shown himself to be a disgrace as a politician and a human being.
So it was with great interest that I read this little tidbit:
Bob Crowder, the Republican who ran against Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) in the primary, announced Wednesday that he is endorsing Democrat Patrick Murphy in the congressional race. And he didn't mince his words.
"As a Republican for over 30 years, I'm embarrassed by the radical fringe that has taken over the party. Sadly, Allen West is their poster child, and the hateful, divisive comments he's made throughout this campaign make it clear to me he's the wrong choice for our district," Crowder said in a statement.
Crowder, who is the Martin County Sheriff, said he is backing Murphy because "he has the right temperament and respect for others — including people he doesn't agree with."
Crowder said Murphy can work with both parties and will be a congressman that Florida's 18th District can be proud of, "unlike his opponent."
Crowder has been mum on the West-Murphy race until now. But his wife, Debbie Crowder, endorsed Murphy earlier this month. She cited the fact that West wouldn't shake her husband's hand at a local GOP meeting as one of the reasons behind her Murphy endorsement.
Allen West stays classless to the very end.
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# Curtison 01 Nov 2012 at 3:50 pm
Martin County Sheriff Robert Crowder, one of the most popular lawmen in county history — with a 47-year history of serving his community and the Republican Party — looks around today at his lonely campaign for U.S. Congress, knows it's a long shot at best and admits he knows why.
He backed Democrat Alex Sink in the 2010 gubernatorial election. No — he did more than that. He campaigned for her, on national television and in high-profile TV spots.
Nevertheless, the affable sheriff holds out hope that he can pull out a victory in the GOP primary for the new District 18 — or at least be close to his opulently financed and better-supported opponent — when the final ballots are tallied Aug. 14.
The local party had no problem tossing him aside and district polls show a wide gap between him and the incumbent forced to run in the new district, flame thrower U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Plantation, who is looking to represent the Northern Palm Beach County and Treasure Coast market.
Crowder contends the local party leadership has become "more radical and less responsible."
I think the Republicans in the district show some promise of intellectual honesty and keeping the faith by voting against Crowder and he showed us once again his true colors. He's a democrat for Christ's sake! Having this clown try to torpedo me in the previous election, or the one I love, I wouldn't shake hands with the rats either.
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# Skippy-sanon 01 Nov 2012 at 4:35 pm
When the GOP is represented by a worthless piece of shit like West-then you have to do other things. Besides, how is that any different than what several other politicians do. You don't get to choose his party affiliation-only he does. And he has just as much right to publicly note the hole the teabaggers have driven the GOP into.
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On the front foot: Matthew Hayden leads the onslaught against Zimbabwe in Harare on Thursday. Photo: Getty Images
Australia clinched the one-day cricket series over Zimbabwe with a 139-run win in the second match at the Harare Sports Club overnight.
A massive Australian total of 8-323 gave Zimbabwe's batsmen no chance of a successful run-chase and despite a good early showing, the home side folded to be all out for 184.
Opener Brendan Taylor made a polished 65 to follow his 59 in the first match on Tuesday.
But his careless dismissal - he swept Brad Hogg straight to Jason Gillespie at fine leg - was the first wicket in a collapse of 6-17 in 33 balls.
Darren Lehmann achieved great turn to land extraordinary figures of 4-7 off 4.3 overs after making a run-a-ball 67 in Australia's innings and was named man of the match.
Fast bowler Michael Kasprowicz took 2-23 and Brad Hogg 2-56.
Needing six-and-a-half an over at the start of its innings, Zimbabwe was never in the hunt although its top order batted well.
But from 2-163, Taylor was out where possibly a century in just his second ODI might have beckoned.
His teammates followed suit swiftly, offering a series of mistimed swipes and one stupid mix-up, which left captain Tatenda Taibu run out by the length of the pitch and standing next to batting partner Alester Maragwede.
Earlier, Australia revamped its batting order and made its intentions of slogging Zimbabwe's bowlers around for three hours clear from the first over, when Adam Gilchrist struck two fours and began swiping at everything.
Gilchrist (20) didn't last long, but opening partner Matthew Hayden made up for a golden duck on Tuesday with 87 and put on 137 with Lehmann, who hit seven fours and a six.
Captain Ricky Ponting used the match to promote some of his under-played batsmen, although Michael Clarke (16), Ian Harvey (22) and Hogg (26) missed out on the chance to capitalise on their elevations despite getting starts.
Ponting came in at No.8 and was happy to play second fiddle to Gillespie, who smashed a career-best 33 not out from just 16 balls, with three sixes.
Australia should make it a clean-sweep of the series in Saturday's third match, where Shane Watson is likely to play his first match for Australia in a year-and-a-half after being overlooked for the first two matches.
AUSTRALIA v ZIMBABWE
At the Harare Sports Club
A GILCHRIST c Mwayenga b Hondo 20
M HAYDEN c Vermeulen b Mupariwa 87
M CLARKE b Panyangara 16
D LEHMANN b Matsikenyeri 67
I HARVEY c Mupariwa b Matsikenyeri 22
B HOGG c Matsikenyeri b Taylor 26
D MARTYN c Panyangara b Mupariwa 20
R PONTING st Taibu b Mwayenga 10
J GILLESPIE not out 33
M KASPROWICZ not out 2
Sundries (1b 7lb 3nb 9w) 20
Eight wickets for 323
Fall: 25 43 180 219 233 274 276 314.
Bowling: Hondo 9.3-1-47-1 (2nb, 3w) Panyangara 6-0-34-1 (1nb, 2w) Mwayenga 9-1-61-1 (2w) Mupariwa 8.3-0-64-2 (2w) Matsikenyeri 10-0-43-2 Sibanda 2-0-24-0 Taylor 5-0-42-1
Overs: 50. Batting Time: 209.
Toss: Zimbabwe.
S MATSIKENYERI c Hayden b Kasprowicz 27 (53)
B TAYLOR c Gillespie b Hogg 65 (93)
V SIBANDA c Lehmann b Kasprowicz 23 (47)
M VERMEULEN c McGrath b Lehmann 25 (25)
T TAIBU run out 1 (1)
A MARAGWEDE not out 18 (29)
D EBRAHIM LBW Hogg 1 (4)
T PANYANGARA c and b Lehmann 1 (4)
T MUPARIWA c McGrath b Lehmann 0 (3)
W MWAYENGA c McGrath b Lehmann 0 (9)
D HONDO absent hurt
Sundries (4b, 8lb, 1nb, 10w) 23
Fall: 48 108 163 164 164 168 179 180 184
Total 184
McGrath 8-1-24-0 Gillespie 8-0-37-0 (3w) Harvey 5-0-25-0 (1w) Kasprowicz 9-1-23-2 (1nb, 1w) Hogg 10-1-56-2 (5w) Lehmann 4.3-1-7-4
Overs: 44.3 Minutes: 170
Australia won by 139 runs
Australia leads the three-match series 2-0
Man of the match: D Lehmann (Aust)
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|25th October 2004, 05:53 PM
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st c4558 opamp, help needed
I have a problem with a Philips universal player I bought a couple of months ago: when a heavily modulated disc is played -CD, dvd,etc- there is a lot of distortion and compression in the analog outputs. It´s easily audible and annoying, but depends of the relative loudness level at which each disc is recorded. So, quieter or less hot recordings sound a lot better than louder ones.
I opened the lid of the unit and detect the output section, based on a ST c4558 opamp. I have searched the web and the only thing close to that designation was ne4558 by Philips.
The THD is not quoted in the datasheet, but in the distortion vs. frequency graphic for a 1 volt output I saw that at 20 kHz and 30 Hz distortion reach 2%!!
Am I misinterpreting something about the data of this opamp, or it is really that crap?
I am planning a substitution of the stock opamp for a better one -opa2604 or similar-, but I don´t know if such modification could help.
Thank you very much in advance for your help.
|25th October 2004, 05:57 PM
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4558 opamps have been around a long time. pretty standard opamp....
Not sure of the specs, but i do know that the JRC brand of 4558 were specifically choosen for there distortion characteristics in many of the early 80's Guitar FX distortion pedals!!!
Any dual Opamp should be a direct swap NE5532 etc....
|26th October 2004, 06:15 AM
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A subtle distinction if you will. The guitar FX chips were chosen for the resulting distortion when driven into it on purpose, not the everyday distortion experiienced under normal audio use.
Op amps are cheap, so why not try some new ones, but you may have some lack of linearity in the DAC circuits or even a soft power rail
|26th October 2004, 04:08 PM
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Zero: as you pointed, some eighties distortion boxes used the c4558. While searching on this subject on the web I noticed that... So maybe I have not a DVD player, but some sort of processor...
It´s incredible how those things are made: the fascia sports the brand ¨Philips¨, and a very cool look, but the innards don´t have a single chip of that manufacturer. It´s a generic ítem -just like some computers- designed by numbers.
I suppose it have a potential to sounding better than it´s sounding now, but...
Thank you for your advice.
The dac is a Wofson 8761, a very tiny chip. I don´t understand how such a complex device can be so little. The datasheets claim 24 bit resolution, a very optimistic proposition, I suppose, taking in account the S/N ratio and thd characteristics quoted.
For a soft power rail, what do you mean? A lack of voltage, a lack of current or a lack of both?
The PSU is a switching type one. I don´t know the way to make it more robust.
Maybe it´s time to make some measurements and some swap of capacitors in a first instance, and leave the opamp change for a second try.
Thanks for your suggestion.
|27th October 2004, 06:36 AM
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I had a jrc4558 in a Pioneer cd player and it was ok, not great a change to a opa2134 revealed its waknesses. Anyway i do not think it is your opamp that is the problem if the distortion is that obvious. You say heavily modulated music causes problems my guess is either a powersupply which cannot cope, unlikely since it is only driving line level outputs (if you are using headphones it is another issue)? or that the rails are too close to the required output voltage, the 4558 seems to need vout<Vsupp-2 so if it is fed with +-5 it is not possible to get more than +-3 V. That and the fact that it is much more sensitive to powersupply noise if it is supplied with a low voltage makes it the first thing i would check.
Link to the 4558 opamp
As for changing caps in a switched powersupply, I wouldn't some are sensitive to the ESR of the cap and changing the cap could cause problems. Do you have the possibility to measure the supply rails, for ripple?
|27th October 2004, 07:07 AM
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A lot of CD players these days have really hot outputs. Try padding down the output a bit to make sure you're not overloading something later in the chain before you operate on your CD player.
|27th October 2004, 04:54 PM
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Hi, dayvel. The dvd player is feeding a preamp whose volume control is before the active section -opa627/buf634-, so the overload would be dependent of the vc position. Even at minimum vc settings the distortion is there.
I have tried feeding directly a NAD tape deck and the distortion was there too, even at minimum input volume.
Besides that, I coincide with you in the hot output characteristics of a lot of cd players. There is really too much volume sometimes.
Thank you very much for your suggestion.
Hi, hjelm. I´ll try to take some measurements this weekend at the supply pins of the 4558 to see what happen. Of course the Philips player is at line level. It has not headphone output.
Surfing the threads yesterday I noticed that modifiying a switched ps is something beyond my skills and knowledge, so I´ll take your advice and leave it as it is.
I have noticed too that my player has a pseudo equalizer -you know, that sort of horrible gadget with settings labelled ¨rock¨, ¨soft¨, ¨classic¨, etc.-, that is managed via tv set and remote. When you select the hotter settings -¨rock¨, for example, with a lot of boom and tizz-, the distortion worsen to incredible levels. Maybe the distortion is born in the digital domain and hence beyond any cure. Who knows how those crappy things were made...
Maybe it´s time to go for a better player. But i´ll take some measurements and I´ll let you know. Thank you very much.
|28th October 2004, 12:57 AM
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Hi federico,
The are two other possibilities.
First, check the supply voltages to the op amps. They are happier at +/- 10V rather than +/- 5V, up to +/- 15V is okay.
Second, the output muting transistors could be beaking down, or there is a problem in the muting circuit. Remove the transistors temporarily to see if the problem goes away. If it does, replace the transistors with units with high reverse breakdown ratings. Normal transistors will not do. Otherwise, the bases may not be help negative enough. Troubleshooting time.
|28th October 2004, 07:14 AM
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If the equalizer causes clipping in the digital domain try to level it and perhaps lower the volume. Also test with different volume settings if the saturation disappears. It could also be clipping in the output stage where you could gain something by lowering the volume in the equalizer, you are probably tossing away bits if you do so do see if there is an optimum.
In short see if the problem persists if you have a flat equalizer and volume max. If so try lowering the volume.
|2nd November 2004, 04:07 PM
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fine gentlemen:
In first instance, thank you very much for your helpful suggestions.
I have measured voltage at the psu pins of the 4558 opamp: +/- 12 volts, so I think it´s ok.
Regarding the equaliser, it´s always in ´flat´ position. I have run across all the tricks displayed in this thread, exception made of the muting transistors obliteration suggested by anatech. Maybe this weekend, with great caution, I´ll perform that trick to see what happens. Those components are incredibly tiny -the MSOP package, cuasi microscopic-, so I´ll have to be very careful to avoid problems.
Thank you everybody, again.
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The recent Steam sale causes Pete to become enraptured with Euro Truck Simulator 2's heavyweight charms.
I've always had a bit of a soft spot for detailed simulations.
And I'm not talking about the FarmVille clones that Facebook developers laughably refer to as "sims" these days -- I'm talking about honest-to-goodness simulations of piloting something you'd probably never get to pilot in a million years; games that necessitate the reading of a 200-page manual before you even think about booting them up; games that have keyboard commands for the most ridiculous and mundane of functions.
I blame my father, personally. His long-standing infatuation with Microsoft's Flight Simulator series meant that my childhood home was rarely without the dull hum of a virtual aircraft's engine somewhere in the background, and over the years he invested in increasingly elaborate control schemes to make the experience more authentic.
Being a youngster back when I first became aware of simulations like this, I was more one for the thrills and excitement of jet fighter combat rather than the aimless flying around of Microsoft's long-running franchise -- I recall with some embarrassment that I used to cosplay as a fighter pilot (complete with home-made oxygen mask made from a vacuum cleaner hose) when I played F-19 Stealth Fighter on our family's Atari ST -- but at the back of my mind I always thought, even at that early age, that there was scope for the simulation of other, relatively mundane and combat-free forms of transportation.
Before I was able to drive, for example, I always thought it would be fun to have some sort of open-world car simulation where you could just drive for the enjoyment of driving rather than racing -- the Test Drive series came close to this in several of its earlier incarnations, but were often too "gamey" for my liking; similarly, playing games like Elite and Privateer made me wonder why on Earth there weren't more games that followed a similar formula, but which kept you firmly rooted on terra firma, confined to the cabin of a truck rather than a space freighter.
Imagine my surprise, then, when it turns out that one of those weird-looking, oddly specific, niche simulations that the Internet seems to take great pleasure in mocking, actually turned out to be pretty much the game I've been craving all these years. Enter Euro Truck Simulator 2, which I took a chance on in the recent Steam sale and actually found myself enjoying way past its initial novelty value.
In Euro Truck Simulator 2, you're a trucker, and consequently you get to drive a big truck. To be honest, that alone, when combined with the game's rather condensed but impressively rendered open-world map of Europe, would have been enough to provide an enjoyable experience for a few minutes at a time, but what was most surprising about this game was how much actual, uh, game there was in the package. This isn't a game about aimlessly driving around highways and cities -- though you can play it as one if you please -- but instead a surprisingly detailed simulation of a haulage company operator's life, both on and off the road.
The early part of the game is kept simple. For each job, you're given a truck with a trailer already attached, so all you have to do is deliver it safely to its destination. Along the way you'll have to avoid damaging the truck and cargo by not crashing into things, and avoid fines by not getting caught speeding, running red lights or driving the wrong way down sections of divided highway. (The latter is something you need to take particular care with when moving from the European mainland, where everyone drives on the right like in America, to the United Kingdom, where everyone drives on the left.)
Once you've completed a couple of jobs and mastered the surprisingly taxing task of reverse-parking your trailer, the game starts to open up. You're invited to visit a truck dealership that matches up with your "preferred" model of truck -- a choice you make when creating your profile at the start of the game. Upon arriving there, it becomes painfully apparent that trucks are, in fact, rather expensive, and so right on cue, the in-game bank emails you offering you some competitive rates on a loan. Conveniently enough, the top loan package available to you is just about enough to afford a shiny new truck, and the repayments will be reasonably straightforward if you ensure you keep earning at a steady rate.
From this point on, you're not only tasked with successfully hauling your own cargo from place to place, but also the day-to-day running of your business. Over time, you'll be able to add to your fleet of trucks and hire drivers to increase your available income -- but you'd better make sure you can afford to pay them. Both you and your drivers will level up, too, allowing both you and them to take on more lucrative jobs, drive more efficiently and for longer. Alongside all that, you have to take care of yourself and your truck, too; fuel isn't free, and you can't drive indefinitely. Continue driving for too long and you'll start yawning; keep going even longer and you'll start blacking out at the wheel, so you'd better find a hotel quickly.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 is a pleasure to drive. A wide variety of control options are available, ranging from simple, purely automatic "push forward to go forward" keyboard controls up to complicated systems that support steering wheels and stick shift controllers. I've been playing using an Xbox 360 controller, which provides a decent enough experience, and fully configurable controls mean that you can assign the features of your choice to whatever buttons you have to hand. You don't have to use things such as the windshield wipers and indicator lights, but after a while it feels wrong not to. This is immersive simulation at its finest.
The game's full of nice little touches, too. Each area of Europe, while necessarily condensed and geographically inaccurate, is visually distinct, with accurate styles of road signs, scenery and recognizable landmarks. While driving, you can turn on the radio, and the game will stream actual radio stations from around Europe via the Internet. Alternatively, if you prefer to listen to your own music, you can simply load up the game's folder with a selection of appropriate (or, more amusingly, hideously inappropriate) MP3s prior to setting off on a long journey. Look around your cockpit and you'll see everything working in the way it should -- though the fact you can't see your own knees when you look down is something that continually bugs me in this kind of game. Swing your camera over to the side and instead of your head turning 180 degrees Exorcist-style, your viewpoint will actually lean out of the window and look behind you, complete with a change in how audible the sounds of your truck and the environment are. Authenticity.
I honestly have no idea how long I'll stick with Euro Truck Simulator 2 in the long-term, but I was both surprised and delighted to discover it was an experience that has considerably more value and potential for enjoyment beyond the initial "woo! I'm driving a truck!" phase. If you've been pondering checking out one of these curiously specific games with "Simulator" in the title when you've seen them around, Euro Truck Simulator 2 is certainly well worth at least a few hours of your time -- and you might even find yourself hooked on the process of dominating Europe with your haulage empire.
Now, I must be off; the light is fading, and there's a farmer in Frankfurt who desperately needs the tractor I've got hitched to my trailer.
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Culver Named BlueCross Vice President, Chief Audit Executive
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee (BlueCross) has promoted Dennis Culver to the position of vice president and chief audit executive. In this position, Culver will be responsible for directing the operations of the internal audit division, which includes the internal audit, internal controls, claims audit, provider audit and quality assurance teams of the Chattanooga-based insurer.
Dennis joined BlueCross in 2005 as senior manager of internal audit, said John Giblin, executive vice president and chief financial officer for BlueCross. Since that time he has made substantial leadership contributions, and has built an outstanding team that provides assurance that BlueCross operations are effective, and our assets and financial information are protected.
Under Culvers leadership, the BlueCross internal audit team has received three Best of Blue Awards for excellence from the BlueCross BlueShield Association, developed and successfully implemented auditor rotation programs, and passed two external quality assessment reviews which recognized BlueCross for numerous best practices.
Prior to joining BlueCross, Culver was assistant vice president of customer care financial services at Unum and controller at Siskin Hospital for Physical Rehabilitation. He started his career in public accounting where he led audit and consulting engagements for clients that included hospitals, universities and health care related companies.
Culver has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration Accounting from Auburn University. He is a member of the American Institute and Tennessee Societies of Certified Public Accountants and Financial Executives International. Outside of work he is active in the community and serves on the Board of Directors for the Boys & Girls Club of Chattanooga and the Leadership Chattanooga Alumni Association. He and his lovely wife, Amy, have two sons, Matthew and Walker.
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BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee's mission is to provide its customers and communities with peace of mind through affordable solutions for health and healing, life and living. Founded in 1945, the Chattanooga-based company is focused on reinventing the health plan for its 3 million members in Tennessee and across the country. Through its integrated health management approach, BlueCross provides patient-centric products and services that drive health improvement and positively impact health care quality and value. BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Inc. is an independent licensee of the BlueCross BlueShield Association. For more information, visit the company's website at www.bcbst.com.
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Dog Continues Daily Visits to Church After Owner Dies
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A heart wrenching story is making the rounds on social media this week. Tommy, a German shepherd in Italy grieving for his deceased mom, is reportedly still attending mass each time the bells begin to ring.
According to this story on Life with Dogs TV, Tommy's mom, Maria Margherita Lochi, passed away two months ago. Prior to her passing, she had adopted Tommy, a homeless stray she found in a field near her home.
Lochi, a devout Catholic who attended mass each day, would walk to church with Tommy in tow. The priest allowed Tommy to enter the church and he was always quite well mannered, sitting at his mom's feet until mass was over.
When she passed away, Tommy didn't stop the routine he shared with Lochi. Each day when the bells ring, Tommy shows up for mass. Unfortunately, he doesn't find his mom and he is heartbroken.
The village has reportedly symbolically adopted Tommy. Many of the community's members provide him with food and shelter, but the priest says he would like one special person to adopt Tommy and make him their own.
There have been numerous reports throughout history of dogs that will not forget their humans after they have passed.
One of the most famous stories involves Fala, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Scottish terrier, which even accompanied the Commander in Chief to cabinet meetings, where he had his own special chair.
After the president died in 1945, the loyal canine reportedly sat in the dining room of the home so he could watch for his master at both entrances. Eleanor Roosevelt once wrote that Fala became very excited when President Eisenhower once visited the estate. The sirens and fanfare of the motorcade made the dog think his dad was coming down the drive.
Another famous story involves General Barksdale, a famous Civil War officer at Gettysburg, and his dog, which lay wailing on the general's grave after he died. Barksdale's wife came to retrieve the pooch, but legend has it that the dog would not leave. Of course, there are ghost stories to this day that the dog's spirit still wails on some nights.
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FAIRFIELD -- The Community Corrections Partnership, a committee which has been studying the opening of a Day Reporting Center in Vallejo, meets at 2 p.m. today in Conference Room A of the County Events Center, 601 Texas St., Fairfield.
Committee members will review and hear from subcommittees on various services, Solano County Public Information Officer Steve Pierce said. The subject of the Day Reporting Center in Vallejo, which has garnered considerable controversy locally, is not an action item on today's agenda, he added.
Both a public meeting and the expected opening of the center in the 300 block of Tuolumne were delayed after the Vallejo City Council passed a resolution opposing the project until various conditions could be met.
The main objective of the committee is to fulfill state law mandates which transfer responsibility of low-level offenders from the state to the county after they are released from prison.
Another effort is to reduce the recidivism rate of adult offenders in the local criminal justice system.
Members of the CPC, defined by state law, include the following -- chief probation officer, the presiding judge of the Superior Court, the county administrator, district attorney, public defender, sheriff, health and social services director, county superintendent of education, a local chief of police, someone who represents victims, and a representative of a community-based organization which works with convicts.
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John Malkovich is well prepared
for any criticism of
his new clothes collection,
to be launched in London
later this year. For a man who
grew up in small-town Illinois
in the late '50s with a yearning
to be an actor and - more
dangerous - with an interest
in designing his own outfits, he
doesn't care about insults.
"My brother's friends used to drive by and throw bottles of beer or soda at me. And I've always had gay taunts. We like gay taunts. We aim to please."
Whatever the criticism, he's keen to perfect the collection, produced by his clothes company Mrs Mudd, to go with his film production company, Mr Mudd.
"I design everything. It's not just somebody who puts their name to it and does nothing."
As he talks in Mrs Mudd's headquarters in Prato, the centre of the Italian wool business, just outside Florence, he is interrupted by a tailor interpreting Malkovich's drawings, wanting to know whether a label should be rough or smooth.
"I think rough. Maybe we extend the pink here … Va bene. Grazie."
Malkovich sketches the clothes and then the tailors come back with prototypes for him to tweak. "This vent needs to be six centimetres more; shrink the pocket; make the tags bigger; what about the label?"
The result ends up looking
like what the Telegraph's
fashion editor, Hilary Alexander,
has described as "classic with a
hint of the dandy". Lined up on
rails in the studio are seersucker
suits in a special stretch fabric, a houndstooth check mac
with a glossy finish, and a dinner
jacket in linen - "So you
don't melt in that 600-degree
material they're usually done
Malkovich christens each design according to what inspired it: the "Japanese Spy" is a belted jacket, modelled in his sketch by a shifty-looking Oriental; the "Jazz Sidemen" series has an open-collar, New Orleans, '50s nattiness to it. And the "Nervous Breakdown coat?"
"I went to a friend's house in Wiltshire and had a sort of nervous breakdown. And I borrowed a coat like this while I was there."
His designs are not his own ideal clothes. "Most of this I would wear. As opposed to saying I will wear. I'm more boring and more conservative. I usually wear a banker's suit — generally more of an English style. But not necessarily Savile Row.
I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect. Today, I look like a bum."
It's true he's looking a bit deshabille when we meet, though he is certainly not sporting the "cretin in show-business" look that he loathes.
"I see actors in baseball caps, in sweats. Things have changed," he says, dragging a film magazine across the table and opening it up on a page that shows Federico Fellini standing next to Marcello Mastroianni in front of a poster for La Dolce Vita. "Forty or 50 years ago, this was really typical wear - he's in a suit, he's in a sports jacket.
In New York in the '40s or '50s, everybody's in a suit, an over-coat and a hat. Now you have a down coat and sneakers, jeans and sweatpants. I find it ugly. I don't see what it adds. I don't mind tracksuits. At the track."
Malkovich's next film will be Colour Me Kubrick, the story of a man who pretended to be the film director during the filming of Eyes Wide Shut and ran up vast bills in his name. Then comes The Libertine - "a very dirty film" - the story of the 17th-century poet and high-liver Lord Rochester, played by Johnny Depp, with Malkovich as Charles II.
But if the right roles don't come along, he can even imagine spending most of his time on his clothes, although the extremes of fashion leave him cold.
"It's absolutely silly. It wouldn't interest me to design something that I thought wasn't wearable. That's part of the big business of fashion. You do your ludicrous concoctions, your show is ludicrous and your clothes have nothing to do with what's in the show, anyway."
- Telegraph
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