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Turkle (Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other) was shocked when a Scientific American reporter accused her of standing in the way of same-sex marriage. She doesn't oppose gay marriage, but the reporter was unhappy that Turkle objected to "mating and marriage of people to robots" (5).
The interview was in response to David Levy's Love and Sex with Robots. Turkle summarizes Levy's argument:
"Love and Sex is earnest in its predictions about where peopleand robots will find themselves by mid-century: 'Love with robots will be asnormal as love with other humans, while the number of sexual acts and lovemakingpositions commonly practiced between humans will be extended, asrobots will teach more than is in all of the worlds published sex manuals combined.'Levy argues that robots will teach us to be better friends and lovers becausewe will be able to practice on them. Beyond this, they will substitute wherepeople fail. Levy proposes, among other things, the virtues of marriage to robots.He argues that robots are, of course, 'other' but, in many ways, better. No cheating.No heartbreak. In Levys argument, there is one simple criterion for judgingthe worth of robots in even the most intimate domains: Does being with a robotmake you feel better?" (5-6).
Turkle's response is to the point: "A love relationship involvescoming to savor the surprises and the rough patches of looking at the world fromanothers point of view, shaped by history, biology, trauma, and joy. Computersand robots do not have these experiences to share. We look at mass media andworry about our culture being intellectually 'dumbed down.' Love and Sexseems to celebrate an emotional dumbing down, a willful turning away fromthe complexities of human partnershipsthe inauthentic as a new aesthetic" (6).
Which brings her back to the reporter: "His analogizing of robots to gay men and women demonstrated that,for him, future intimacy with machines would not be a second-best substitutefor finding a person to love. More than this, the reporter was insisting that machineswould bring their own special qualities to an intimate partnership thatneeded to be honored in its own right. In his eyes, the love, sex, and marriagerobot was not merely 'better than nothing,' a substitute. Rather, a robot had become 'better than something.' The machine could be preferablefor any numberof reasonsto what we currently experience in the sometimes messy, oftenfrustrating, and always complex world of people" (7).
But one does have to ask: If marriage no longer requires a man and a woman, if it is only a legal validation of affection, why not marry a machine?


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The Pastrana Tapestries: The Portuguese Expedition in North Africa [detail]
The Pastrana Tapestries: Conquest of Tangier. Probably produced under the direction of Passchier Grenier, Tournai (Belgium), 1470s. Wool and silk.
Diocese of Sigüenza-Guadalajara and Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Pastrana, Spain. ©Fundación Carlos de Amberes. Photograph by Paul M.R. Maeyaert.
The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries
On view October 27, 2012 to December 31, 2012
Located in the: Peabody Essex Museum
Monumental in scale and meticulous in construction, the Pastrana Tapestries are one of the finest examples of Gothic tapestry in existence. The four, 36-foot-long tapestries are on view together for the first time as part of a rare U.S. tour that follows an extensive restoration project. Commissioned by Portugal's King Afonso V (1432-1481) and expertly woven in Belgium's Tournai workshops in the late 1400s, the Pastrana Tapestries are singular for their depiction of a contemporary subject: Afonso's military campaigns in North Africa. Through vibrantly colored wool and silk threads, a vivid scene of military pomp and conquest emerges -- knights in full regalia raise their swords to the sky, royal trumpeters sound their advance, ships' masts punctuate the horizon and scenes of battle teem with valor and might. PEM is the exclusive Northeast venue for The Invention of Glory.
The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Fundación Carlos de Amberes, Madrid, in association with the Embassy of Spain, the Spain-USA Foundation and the Embassy of Portugal, and with the cooperation of the Embassy of Belgium and the Embassy of Morocco in Washington, D.C., as well as the Diocese of Sigüenza-Guadalajara and Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Pastrana, Spain.
The conservation of the tapestries was undertaken at the initiative of the Spanish Fundación Carlos de Amberes, with support from the Belgian InBev-Baillet Latour Fund, and the following Spanish institutions: Fundación Caja Madrid, Region of Castilla-La Mancha, Provincial Council of Guadalajara, and Diocese of Sigüenza-Guadalajara and Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Pastrana.
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Science Says: Climate Change Stress Is Crippling Our Forests
Half of the planet's animals, birds, and insects make their homes in forests, which cover 30 percent of our blue-green planet. Forests provide jobs and livelihoods for 400 million of the world's people. Across the globe, forests and their soils absorb a quarter of all manmade carbon emissions.
But climate change is altering all of that. Forests are increasingly susceptible to drought and heat-stress, and scientists have been recording massive tree die-offs due to the warming of the planet—a phenomenon that will only become more frequent.
A paper published this week in Nature Climate Change provides an overview of the kinds of disturbances that climate change inflicts on forests, from radical shifts in ecosystems dynamics, to changes in the density and composition of trees, to a reduction in forest biodiversity.
MORE: Are 'Champion Trees' a Climate Change Silver Bullet?
That might sound remote and specialized, but these impacts have serious consequences for public health, environmental safety, and the economy.
For example, the paper's authors, Carnegie Institution for Science's William Anderegg and Leander Anderegg, along with Jeffrey Kane, wrote that the drought-induced death of huge numbers of trembling aspen had increased the prevalence of the Sin Nombre virus in Western deer mice in the United States. Sin Nombre is a deadly virus from the same family as the hantavirus that has resurged in Yosemite, killing three visitors to the park, and infecting five more.
The widespread die-off of lodge-pole pine in the Rocky Mountains is expected to wreak havoc on public health: dying pines will increase the likelihood of forest fires that challenge respiratory health and safety.
And a study in Western Colorado, the epicenter of tree death due to ravenous pine beetles, found that for every tree killed within a hundred meters, adjacent properties declined by $648 dollars per tree. For verdant Colorado, this amounts to a real estate death sentence.
Even worse, dying trees actually contribute to climate change, lead author William Anderegg says.
Healthy trees soak up an incredible amount of carbon dioxide from their air. "They take it up and essentially turn it into sugars in their tissues, and that's how they grow through photosynthesis," he said, in an interview with TakePart. "Trees can lock away carbon for long amounts of time, which not only slows climate change, but creates rich soils and rich ecosystems."
But when trees die due to thirst or heat, not only do they stop soaking up carbon, they emit it back into the atmosphere, which in turn, accelerates climate change. "It's a double whammy," Anderegg says.
Tree die-offs due to high temperatures and frequent droughts have occurred on every continent except Antarctica.
The prevalence of thirsty, stressed trees is an emerging global trend, but the researchers make the point that the field of scientific literature on the subject is still in its infancy.
There is little analysis of the grave consequences that massive, climate-induced tree death will wreak on society, the economy, and on the Earth's natural systems. The science will have to catch up, and quick, according to the study's authors.
But the average woods-enthusiast can help by documenting and bearing witness to the affects of drought and climate change on their local wilderness.
"One of the amazing and powerful messages of forest mortality is that it's a piece of climate change that's probably happening already in our own backyards and in our own mountains and forests," Anderegg says. "It's a tangible and visible early warning sign of climate change."
Have you ever planted a tree? If not, why not? Discuss in the comments.


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Google New Privacy & Policy: Do You Want Cancel Your Account?
Google's new Privacy Policy is a stark defiance of personal information and data and requires serious concerns from its customers. By applying the Privacy Policy, Google gets a free pass to access and store information about your webpage searches and websites visited by you. Google will collect this information and combine it with other relevant data from the other Google Services like Gmail, Google Talk etc. with the help of data extracted from your web searches Google will send customized search results and ads related to your searches.
Confidentiality of the web history is utmost essential because it reveals vital information about any individual like location, age, religion, interests, sexual orientation, health concerns etc.
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Enabled Web History in your Google account will allow Google to track and store the records for indefinite time. But if you disable Web History, then information gained by Google will become partly indistinctive after a period of 18 months and some operations like transferring customized search results will be stopped.
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- Click on "Ok" button.
Note: Disabling the Web History will keep it so until you enable it again. Removing the Web History also suspends it.
Disabling Web History doesn't restrict Google from gaining information. The best solution is to cancel your Google Account.
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Follow the simple steps mentioned below and cancel your Google Account.
- Log in to your Google Accounts Homepage.
- Select the Accounts Settings tab present in the navigation bar present on top of your Google Account.
- Click on 'Service' link of the Account Settings.
- Choose among the various options to delete. You can either delete your Google Profile, GooglePlus Account or completely remove all the data present in your Google Account.
- Clear your Google Profile or GooglePlus Account: if the Google Privacy policy is not a headache for you and you are ready to share some of your information, then you can choose only the chosen Google packages.
Delete your Google Account: deleting your Google account will shut down your complete account along with removing your webpage history, Google Talk, Gmail etc. Every data and information related to you and your profile will be deleted.
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Your college career is about to begin! Start off on the right track by attending a Freshman Friday orientation session.
Freshman Friday is your chance to get acquainted with campus and student services, learn how the college and your instructors will communicate with you and learn how to get involved in student activities.
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Blood on my handsDavid Dale
Published: October 20 2013 - 3:00AM
Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone? And so I say unto you: Cherish your local DVD store, rent from it often, talk to the nerds behind the counter, be patient about waiting for others to return the discs you want, and stop your filthy downloading practices right now. Otherwise you will suffer the tragic fate that I'm about to recount.
My local video store used to be five minutes' walk from my house, so once a week I would rent movies I'd missed at the cinema and TV series I wanted to binge on.
Four years ago that store closed down, and my local DVD rentery became a 10-minute drive away, which meant I visited only every two weeks or so. It was brilliantly stocked, with an upstairs room full of cult classics and a back room full of TV series that had only ever been shown on pay TV or late at night and out of order on the mainstream channels.
Most importantly, the film buffs who ran it made me think of Quentin Tarantino, who learnt his writing and directing skills from B-movies he'd watched while working at a store called Video Archives in Los Angeles.
They could speak in microscopic detail about whatever was playing on the big screens at either end of the store, and gave authentic advice to each of the demographics into which their customers seemed to fall: the very young, the fairly old and the deeply eccentric.
Early last month I decided to binge on season one of The Killing (the original Danish series, not the lame American ripoff). It was out, so I reserved it. After six days I grew desperate, and bought the box set at JB HiFi (for $29, when downloading it from iTunes would have cost $53.99). Of course the next day I received a text saying it had been returned to my DVD store, but I ignored that and binged on my bought copy.
Last week, having finished my Killing spree, I dropped by my DVD store to check on the new arrivals. I found the door padlocked. This sign was stuck on the glass:
''On Thursday 6pm on the 29th of January 2004 The DVD Gallery opened its doors for the first time. And on Sunday 9pm on the 15th of September, 2013, we closed our doors for the last time. Alas, times have changed, and it seems that visiting one's local video store is no longer the primary means of renting a movie or TV show for most customers. This means that - unfortunately - it is no longer economical for The DVD Gallery to continue. We wish to take this opportunity to thank our customers for being part of our store during its 10-year history. The staff and management.''
I blame myself. My failure to respond to the message about The Killing must have been the Tipping Point.
All I can say in my defence is that I have never (well, hardly ever) resorted to downloading in my search for binge material. (I mean, why would you, when DVDs are so much cheaper and more convenient? Recently I bought the complete box set of The West Wing - 100 hours of superb writing, acting and directing - for $85). But my decision to buy rather than rent was fatal for the trainee Tarantinos at The DVD Gallery.
I have found a new rental store, which is 15 minutes' drive away.
The display is minimal - there are no screens showing surprises, and most of the DVD boxes are crammed onto the shelves with only their spines visible. The dust makes me sneeze. The nerd behind the counter is grumpy and paranoid. But I'm going to try to rent something there every week.
I don't want another killing on my conscience.The bingeworthies: to rent or buy?
There are some TV series box sets you just have to buy, because you'll want to watch them again and again - The West Wing, The Wire and Breaking Bad, for example. Others should be rented from your local video store (don't even think of downloading) to check if they are your sort of addiction. These are my suggestions:
The Black Donnellys: A crime comedy about a gang of Irish brothers trying to rise in organised crime in New York, where there seems to be no effective police force.
House of Cards: The US remake of the British political thriller, with Kevin Spacey as a Ruddish figure who takes the concept of backstabbing literally.
Justified, seasons 1-4: A crime comedy set in Kentucky, where the hillbillies now make meth instead of moonshine, based on stories by Elmore Leonard.
The Killing, seasons 1, 2 and 3: A (subtitled) Danish series about Detective Sarah Lund, brilliant at finding murderers and hopeless at personal relationships. Her crime-solving interweaves with corruption in local and national politics.
Spiral, seasons 1, 2 and 3: A (subtitled) French series about the underbelly of Paris, where the cops and the lawyers are out to screw each other in every sense.
For more on supporting your local Tarantinos, see www.smh.com.au/entertainment/blog/the-tribal-mind.
This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/content/adaptive/theage/entertainment/box-seat/blood-on-my-hands-20131017-2vqcj.html


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Phantom School Gains Strike Again
The Department of Education has decided that elementary school students will have to take nine standardized tests next year – five in reading and four in mathematics – in addition to federally mandated standardized tests in science and social studies. That mandate raises anew questions about the state and city's draconian testing program that seems, after more than ten years of "accountability," to have no rational purpose. At the outset, the idea of accountability in education was compelling. The idea, which came largely from the business community and from mega-millionaires such as Eli Broad and Bill Gates, was that education would improve only if we use the business model of profit and competition to help us understand what makes a good teacher. The brave new world was upon us. Except, it wasn't. All we proved by a massive ten-year testing program is that we can't really tell anything from test scores, especially if we are constantly going to renorm the way the tests are scored. We have found out that graduation rates improve if you lower the graduation bar far enough. Now, comes a report that the state has made double-digit gains in high school graduation. The report, by "Grad Nation," Colin Powell's nonprofit, says that the percentage of diplomas handed out went from 60 percent in 2002 to 74 percent in 2009. Wonderful news! Right? Wrong. The rise in diplomas granted is not due to any rise in educational accomplishment, unfortunately, but to new programs such as Credit Recovery, a program that allows high school students who have never attended a class to get credit for that class with one short computer-driven assignment. Couple Powell's report with state statistics that show only 33 percent – a third – of those who graduate from high school in New York City are ready either for the world of work or for higher education and the fact that CUNY recently reported that fully 80 percent of city high school graduates who enroll in its community colleges need remedial work in math, reading or writing – or, all of the above and once again, the graduation statistics have no meaning when viewed through the prism of how they are attained. Those who see the business model as the savor or Education want to privatize the schools by discrediting teachers and their unions, demonizing public education, closing hundreds of public schools and turning them into charter schools. They are succeeding. The public has to let them know that they are angry and they are not going to take it anymore.


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To me there is nothing better than getting smoked by a little Honda mystery box. You never can tell what youre up against.
I cant see why anyone wouldnt respect a fellow tuner, esp when they're making race cars out of economy cars. True, there are tons of young kids in hatches with nothing more than loud exhaust racing thru traffic giving Hondas a bad name. But, how many kids with WRX's have only a CAI and a BOV and do the same. I give respect where its due.
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I'm a CHOCOHOLIC are you??
Use Nutella instead of butter?
Yes you tried the chocolate flavoured Weetabix.
Your pudding is always chocolate fudge cake.
You hide Maltesers under your bed and cry if you left them under your pillow because they are squashed.
Thought you found a milk button on your jacket but it was actually the button?
"Yes" or "Gosh Mita that's a great idea"
My tips are: Get a grip, eat in moderation.
Eat chocolate with minimum 30% cocoa mass. It's always on special offer at the supermarkets!
Chocolate can come cheap but so can everything else.
Why eat it? Because it's delicious, sweet, comforting and feels a bit naughty.
Also the darker the chocolate the better it is for you, read this study: http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20030827/dark-chocolate-is-healthy-chocolate
These were my favourites and now my ex's:
Flipz (chocolate covered pretzels)
Terry's chocolate orange
Jaffa cakes
I only nibble on G&B's now and again; it's the chocolate I use in all my baking too.
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The New Zealand cricket side may be having serious problems finding a successful opening duo but they are lucky their number three is quickly becoming their most reliable asset.
While Brendon McCullum and Ross Taylor were breaking records and getting accolades over the home summer, Kane Williamson was quietly going about amassing an almost equally impressive record.
The 23-year-old has continued his form in the West Indies this morning, with his second century of the series to finish on 153 when rain took players off the field. He became just the fifth New Zealander to score 400 runs in a test series of three games or fewer.
With the New Zealand top order failing on all six occasions in the West Indies - making 52 runs in six partnerships at an average of 8.7 - the pressure has gone on Williamson every time he has come to the crease.
His longest wait before heading out into the middle was just 52 balls as Peter Fulton, Hamish Rutherford and Brendon McCullum all struggled in the top two positions. Tom Latham has been the only opener to find any form in the three test series with back-to-back scores in the 80s and 73 in the first two tests before two failures in Bridgetown. Latham's latest, a duck, saw Williamson again begin his innings in just the third over.
In all but one of his six innings in the Caribbean he has played a major role in getting the New Zealand innings back on track, helping to consolidate his side's efforts at the crease when a quick dismissal could have triggered carnage in the rest of the order.
Williamson steps up for the Black Caps and digs them out of holes by doing the opener's role of taking the shine off the new ball.
His bowling technique may be under scrutiny but there is nothing to fault when he has the bat in hand.
With seven centuries and 14 fifties to his name in 34 test matches, he is now averaging over 40 after passing 150 for the first time in tests.
Just three test players scored more centuries than Williamson before the age of 24 - Don Bradman, Garfield Sobers and Sachin Tendulkar. England captain Alastair Cook also had seven centuries by the age 24, and has since scored 25 for his country.
Already Williamson sits in a share of seven in New Zealand's most test century-makers, joining the likes of Glen Turner, Andrew Jones and Bevan Congdon. Teammate McCullum (87 tests) and Stephen Fleming (111 tests) sit just two centuries ahead of him.
The leader of the list - Martin Crowe with 17 centuries - scored his sixth ton at aged 25 years and five months, meaning Williamson is ahead of schedule to surpass New Zealand's greatest batsman. The question is quickly becoming realistic of whether Williamson could surpass Crowe's record one day.
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Modern elections can be won or lost according to what I call The Underdog Effect. All media outlets, except those who are actually a branch of a political party – like Fox News or The Sun – have an interest in seeing an extremely close contest. A nail-biting finish makes for the best story.
So the media overplay the chances of the underdog and underplay the chances of the favourite. That gives the underdog an aura of electability they don't actually deserve – but thereby increases their attractiveness to voters and so their eventual chance of winning. You're seeing this in the contest to be the Republican party's presidential candidate this autumn, which is the longest suicide march in modern American history. Mitt Romney should be clear favourite. But Newt Gingrich's superb performance in South Carolina has created a momentum which all of America's media wants to feed. Gingrich finally triumphing over Mitt the Moderate – long established as the front-runner – would be a great story.
Two remarkable polls over the last week have suggested that something similar might just happen in London's forthcoming Mayoral elections. A YouGov poll last week had Boris Johnson – long presumed likely to waltz to victory – two points behind Ken Livingstone.
Then a ComRes poll for yesterday's Evening Standard confirmed the surprise figures: Livingstone was again two points ahead. That's after being 8 per cent behind Boris in a Standard poll in November. The underdog is threatening to become the usurper. Game on! Even the Standard headline, which referred to an election fight "on a knife edge", shows how we hacks savour a close contest. Given that Boris has long been the favourite, reporters everywhere will know that the better Ken does, the bigger the upset – and the better the story. Labour campaigners ought now to put huge energy and resources behind Ken's campaign. In November I sat next to one of the failed candidates for Labour's leadership at dinner. He was so utterly hateful of Ken and dismissive of his chances that I presumed he was exceptional in the party. But in fact senior Labour figures have been briefing against Ken for weeks. If they want control of London again, that should stop.
As for Tories, the most striking finding in the poll is that Boris still leads Ken in the outer boroughs that delivered him victory last time, albeit by less. But in the inner boroughs, Ken is well ahead, with 68 per cent. Boris is doomed unless that number comes down. How to do it? The answer, in two words, is London Citizens. That will be the subject of my Thursday column.
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I'm planning to go to RED in concert because it will be the luckiest.... for my 13th birthday!!! :)
Taylor is just truely amazing. I wear something Taylor (bracelets) everyday, and one of her tee shirts once a week, if not more. I absolutely hate it when people talk MEAN about Taylor, because she is so nice, and inspiring and such a role model. In school this year everyone talked MEAN about her and I couldn't stand it, it aggravated me soo much!
I went to her MetLife stadium concert on July 13th, 2013 and I turned RED. It was ENCHANTING, magical, I was WONDERSTRUCK.
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While traveling last October through Denver, CO, my wife and I were approached by a gentleman working a kiosk, asking us if we would enjoy a free flight. We had a few minutes, and decided to give him some our ear. He told us about a WorldCard that Frontier Airlines has, and that if we spent $500 in the first 90 days, that we would qualify for a free round-trip ticket. There is a $59 annual fee for this card. My wife and I looked at each other and decided it was worth a few minutes and $59 for a round-trip ticket anywhere Frontier Airline flies, so we each filled out an application.
We were both told within just a few minutes that we "qualified" and that our cards should be in the mail in 10 to 14 days. Great, we thought. After arriving at home and getting our cards in the next few weeks, we proceeded to use these cards for some purchases, foregoing use of other cards and/or cash, because we wanted to insure we spent the $500 per card, to qualify for the airline tickets.
We waited patiently a few months, knowing it might take awhile for the miles to show up on our Early Returns mileage summaries. But last week, I thought 3 months was plenty of time, so I called Frontier Airlines. They seemed to not understand the program that was offered through Barclays; this was the issuing bank's program. They saw mileage in our accounts, but not enough for a trip.
I called Barclays ... they first told me I should be talking to Frontier Airlines. I was bounced back and forth between the two companies, before someone finally told me that the type of card I had did not come with a free ticket, but just 5000 miles, only 25% of what I needed for a flight. I continued to get the runaround and finally an explanation that we weren'tissued World Cards, butPlatinum cards ... neither of us qualified for the trip on the Platinum Card. ( We applied for World Cards ... not Platinum Cards.)
I explained that we applied forWorld Cards ... we were told before leavingthe Kiosk that we had been approved, we were bothwilling to pay the $59 annual fee, and we bothspent $500 in the first 90 days... that we upheld our end of the agreements, nowwe expect Barclays/Frontier to uphold their promise and sent the miles for the tickets. They offered to cancel / close my account but I said that I wanted what I was promised. I was told the case would be escalated, but that was four days ago. It only took them about 2 minutes to approve the platinum card, but it's been daysgoing back and forth about theirlack of fulfilling their commitment.
I guess we should have remembered the adage, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
We'll keep you posted, but we aren't holding our breath.
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Funding Opportunity: Improving the Health of Women and Girls through Health Professional Education
A Request for Proposals from the Health and Human Services Regional Offices on Women's Health
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I'm on right now, Midgar Server. IGN: Buttons Eorzea
I'm on right now, Midgar Server. IGN: Buttons Eorzea
ya'll on different servers lol maybe make a server to play together..
i am creating a new character right now to change my name so what server
anyone else get error 3108?
Welp decided to buy it.
I'm on Midgar.
IGN: Rag Waryn
Man, the start of EA today was crazy. I had like 11fps in towns there were so many people on Ultros. Leaving town brought me up to 30. Can't wait for everything to start getting steady, though. There were times where I would wait for 2 minutes for an NPC to appear and I could just sit and watch people run in, do their quest, and run away. Was really annoying.
Also, I think probably 5 other people in the world besides me started Conjurer. I rarely see anyone with the first 2 quest outfits.
thats annoying lol, queued up for copperbell mines, waited in queue for 50minutes, queue popped and accepted, bam, problem with duty finder server please try again.
Aaaand it's maintenance, folks, for three hours. Kinda of a (un)expected for first day with such initial server congestion.
Players who bought FFXIV v1.0 in 2011 will not have to buy the game again - that's what website says. But when i login to my 2011 old account (bought the game back then), it appears that i have no games in profile and there is no download link.
Maybe D/L link of the game client will appear on Aug 27?
"Use of the Lodestone requires a FINAL FANTASY XIV service account with at least one character.
Please log-in again after you have created a character in-game." Okay, will just wait for release date.
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page in jp but client lets you choose
Hey peeps anyone on Diabolos. Add me up name is Wolfgang Amadeus.
90k error nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooo
"Connection with the server was lost error code 90000"
we meet once again worthy opponent.
Anddd servers going down for maintenanceeee
Anyone know anything to replace the in-game FXAA with? It's utterly shit and forcing settings don't work and sweetFX ****s up the font.


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The Old Media establishment is refusing to cover this outrageous story of an abortion mill that killed babies born alive and in new testimony this week a worker at Kermit Gosnell's abortion clinic said that she witnessed the abortion of a baby born alive that chillingly started screaming when the devious doctor aborted it.
In testimony, abortion clinic employee Sherry West described the incident saying that it "really freaked me out."
West told the court that the baby in question was 18 to 24 inches long when it had been ripped out of its mother's womb. In a gruesome sight, the baby's face and hands had not fully formed, but the baby was alive and moving when it was discarded onto a glass tray.
The baby began to wail as it proceeded to die alone on the cold glass tray and emitted a sound that West said was "like a little alien." The sound caused her to run from the room in horror.
West claimed that workers called the aborted babies "specimens" because it was mentally easier to deal with killing them.
Gosnell had few such qualms. Apparently neither does Planned Parenthood which recently demanded that it be allowed a right to "post-birth abortion."
The nurse was being paid on a cash-only basis by Doctor Gosnell because she had lost a previous job due to a nervous breakdown. West was also on the anti-anxiety drug Prozac and was diagnosed with Hepatitis C, a virulent disease that should have barred her from delivering medical services to anyone.
The trial of Doctor Gosnell, accused of performing thousands of illegal abortions for years, has been a horror show that isn't for the squeamish. Gosnell's favorite way of killing infants was apparently to shove a pair of sharp scissors into the baby's skull to cut the spinal cord in half.
1 million abortions are performed every year in the US, that is more than 3,000 every single day.


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Q&A: Novelist Haley Tanner on Love After Death
Haley Tanner's debut novel, "Vaclav & Lena" (Dial Press), is about love without questions, hesitation or limits. This love flourishes between two Russian-Jewish immigrant children in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn: Vaclav dreams of becoming a magician, like Houdini, and casting the fragile Lena as his assistant. Tragedy temporarily unhinges this plan, and when the two children become teenagers, they are forced to reconcile their pasts and decide how they'll embark on a future together. Tanner intimately knows the love and struggle that Vaclav and Lena share: She wrote this book while living with the man who would become her husband and, soon after, die of melanoma. Tanner says that the loveliness and lightness in the novel is his. She spoke recently with the Forward.
Allison Gaudet Yarrow: What was your Jewish upbringing like?
Haley Tanner: We had a terrible time in the Conservative synagogue that we belonged to, where we were products of intermarriage, which didn't make sense to us, because we were a Jewish family. Rosh Hashanah was the first holiday that we ditched synagogue. We went camping in the woods, [with] silver candlesticks, a white tablecloth, brisket and apples and honey. It became the most meaningful holiday.
The novel is quite dark. When it ends, illusion, lies and deception seem to prevail.
There is a fine line between storytelling and lie-telling. We walk around thinking that we're going to live forever. If we were struck all the time by our own mortality, we would be immobilized. I was interested in the many layers of storytelling that are not bad but are necessary to get us through, and the line where those stories become dangerous.
Despite the heavy subject matter — Lena's chaotic childhood and broken family — your prose and the novel's tone are very light.
The entire time I was writing, I was dealing with something difficult and heavy. Gavin [my husband] had cancer that no one survives. Our lives couldn't be heavy; they had to be light and fun, and they were, always. We're all walking around with a terminal illness. We have to laugh all the time, or there's just no point in being here at all. I like the tone of my life to be honest and light and dark and serious all at once.
What do you want readers to take away from this book?
The only important thing you can do is love someone else as hard as you can, as fast as you can, without any fear or hesitation. It's the only thing you can do. You never know how long you're going to get to do it. It's an amazing thing to do.
That's antithetical to the way America operates. Everything is about pushing away and defensiveness and holding yourself in a knot, and love is seen as weak and passive.
Right. It's seen as something that happens to you. Something that you fall into. We've started to look at partnership like consumerism, where we try out the product and see if it's going to last. The truth is, there's no way to know. You've got to just jump in. Vaclav believes [in love]. Lena doesn't believe in it yet. His final story for her, his final magic trick for her, is that he loves her enough and believes enough in love and in the possibility of the universe giving you good things to make it true for both of them. And he's going to write their story.
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Taylor Swift Magazine Cover Sales Are NOT Flopping, Despite Reports
A number of outlets published pieces on Tuesday claiming that Taylor Swift magazine covers have been selling poorly.
But the story seems to stem from a sloppy interpretation of the original WWD numbers report, which actually gives evidence that Swift had a solid year on the newsstands.
In the original analysis of celebrity-based magazine sales, WWD makes note of Swift's recent cover women's mag ubiquity — the singer was Vogue's cover girl in February 2012, followed by Glamour (November), Harper's Bazaar (December), Cosmopolitan (December), Elle (March 2013), and the new Vanity Fair (April 2013).
Swift sold better than average in almost every case. For Vogue, Swift sold 329,371 copies — below Lady Gaga and Adele, but higher than the six-month average provided by the Alliance for Audited Media. Swift's Glamour sold 443,000 copies, which fell short of Lauren Conrad's 2012-best 500,000, but did not "flop," as many reports would make it seem.
The singer's Harper's Bazaar also beat the period average, and while her Cosmo cover actually did fare poorly, it also had some timing issues, explicitly referencing a relationship (with Conor Kennedy) that had already ended before the mag hit newsstands. Regardless, the Cosmo case was the outlier — most of the time, Swift's sales were good.
It's no surprise when the media rushes to pile on a celebrity, and calling something a "flop" is more sensational than "solid" or "above average." But the Swift mag industry stories are calling the singer a "failure" simply because she did not automatically have the year's biggest newsstand sales. They're twisting the facts to make something out of nothing.


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* Why your heart hurts!
* Who has taken your love energy?
* Separation techniques to get your love energy back.
* Spiritual tools for retriving your heart energy from past relationships.
* What are karma seeds and how do you release them?
* Do you have a past life with this person?
* Looking at how your past lives influence your current love life.
Racquel Moore has 20+ years of experience as a Clairvoyant. She has a Bachelor's degree in Acupuncture & Herbalism, Physical therapies and Nutrition from the Institute of Psycho-Structural Balancing. And she graduated in 1997 from the Berkeley Psychic Institute. Later she became a teacher there specializing in women's healing before venturing out on her own.
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L. Parmelee needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 22 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
Muskan, LLC
I am a unique, entrepreneurial woman who recently discovered the fascinating country of India and the unique and beautiful textile industry there. I am starting a business importing scarves and other textiles. "Muskan" is a Hindi word that means "smile". I plan to sell both in the retail and wholesale markets.
Women who like beautiful, unique, handmade fashion and home accessories
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Does This Look Like The Face Of A Spring Breaker Who Pissed On A Cop's Sandwich?
Huff Po – A spring breaker in Florida made good on his promise, "I will piss in your car!" when he urinated inside a patrol car and on a deputy's lunch. Cops showed up shortly after Chris Brennan, 18, and two others were allegedly smashing bottles on a Fort Myers Beach resort at around 2 a.m. Monday, Fort Myers News-Press reported. A deputy threw Brennan in the back seat of a patrol car for "safety purposes" while he questioned the other two, according to a Lee County Sheriff's Office report. The teenager responded by banging his head against the car's window bars and threatening to pee. He then allegedly urinated through the car's screen cage and onto the deputy's personal items, including a cellphone, water bottles, and his lunch bag. The 18-year-old was arrested and charged with resisting an officer without violence. Brennan's "I will piss in your car!" line rivals that of Dylan DiFalco, who last year peed in a cop car and allegedly said, "I told you I had to go, you stupid cop."
Get em, Donkey Lips! Spring Break Woooo! No Parents!! Smashing bottles!! Pissing on cop's sandwiches!! Wooo!!
I mean he gave him fair warning, right? Announced he was gonna piss in his car and the cop still put him in the car. Fuckin pigs – always so arrogant. Think because they carry a gun and a badge that their turkey with American cheese is safe from the piss of an 18 year old spring breaker. In my experience when a shitfaced 18 year old tells you "I will piss in your car!" he's probably not bluffing. Whether you're a cop or not.
On a side note I think I'm gonna use "pissed on my lunch" as a new euphemism for when somebody ruins something for me. "He really pissed on my lunch" "Just go ahead and piss on my sandwich." I really love a good lunch. Enjoy a great sandwich. Pissing on it would genuinely upset me.
On a side note – if you're going on spring break, rather than just breaking bottles and pissing on sandwiches, join us for the Fckin Foam Tour in Panama City Beach:
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Type of Document Dissertation Author Adamack, Aaron Thomas Author's Email Address email@example.com URN etd-07122007-133132 Title Predicting Water Quality Effects on Bay Anchovy (Anchoa mitchilli) Growth and Production in Chesapeake Bay: Linking Water Quality and Individual-Based Fish Models Degree Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Department Oceanography & Coastal Sciences Advisory Committee
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Date of Defense 2007-06-19 Availability unrestricted AbstractWater quality in the Chesapeake Bay and the Patuxent River has decreased since the 1950s due to an increase in nutrient loadings. Increased nutrient loads have caused an increase in the extent and duration of hypoxic conditions. Restoration via large-scale reductions in nutrient loadings is now underway. How reducing nutrient loadings will affect water quality is well predicted; however the effect on fish is generally unknown as most water quality models do not include trophic levels higher than zooplankton. I combined two water quality models with bay anchovy models (Anchoa mitchilli) to examine the effects of changes in nutrient loadings on anchovy survival and growth. An individual-based predation model was statically linked to Patuxent River watershed land-use and water quality models, and used to simulate the effects of changes in watershed land-use, Chesapeake Bay boundary condition nutrient loadings, and water year types on the summertime survival of daily anchovy egg and larval cohorts. I found that changes in Patuxent watershed land-use had little effect on egg and larval survival, while reduced nutrient loadings at the Chesapeake Bay boundary condition increased egg survival but reduced larval survival in June. The second analysis dynamically coupled a spatially-explicit, individual-based population dynamics model of juvenile and adult anchovy to the 3-dimensional Chesapeake Bay water quality model. Growth rates of individual anchovy within water quality model cells were calculated using a bioenergetics equation. Zooplankton densities from the water quality model provided prey for anchovy consumption, and anchovy consumption was an additional mortality term on zooplankton. Anchovy mortality was size-dependent. Anchovy movement depended on water temperature, dissolved oxygen, and zooplankton concentrations. Multi-year simulations with fixed annual recruitment were performed under decreased, baseline, and increased nutrient loadings scenarios. Increasing nutrient loadings had small effects on survival, but increased anchovy growth and therefore biomass. Anchovy growth exhibited compensatory density dependence. The results of both analyses showed that anchovy responses to changed nutrient loadings were complex and depended on life stage. Full-life cycle, spatially-explicit population models that are dynamically coupled to water quality models are needed to truly predict the effects of changes in nutrient loadings on fish populations. Files
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Africa's 10 Wealthiest UHNW Billionaires
The wealthiest man in Africa is Nigeria's Aliko Mohammed Dangote, a self-made business tycoon with a personal fortune of US$17 billion. He leads the Wealth-X list of Africa's wealthiest individuals, which is primarily dominated by South Africans and Egyptians.
With a combined fortune of US$73.2 billion, these 10 individuals account for 0.4 percent of Africa's ultra high net worth (UHNW) population but over 20 percent of the UHNW wealth in the region.
Wealth-X released this list as part of the Wealth-X and UBS World Ultra Wealth Report 2013. The study showed that in 2013 Africa's UHNW population increased by 9.5 percent to 2,775 individuals with a combined wealth of US$350 billion – a 7.7 percent rise from last year.
Dangote started a small trading firm in 1977 that grew to become the Dangote Group, Nigeria's largest conglomerate and a major supplier to the country's soft drink companies, breweries and confectionaries – effectively dominating its sugar market. The group also has interests in other commodities, with operations in Nigeria and neighbouring countries.
The only other Nigerian in the list is Michael Adeniyi Isola Adenuga, who has a net worth of US$6.8 billion. Adenuga is the chairman and CEO of Globacom Limited, a privately-owned telecommunications company in Lagos.


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Editors Note: After reading this article, we encourage you to read part 2, where Chris delves deeper into Morrow's injury history and mechanics, while also discussing the Blue Jays and their reluctancy to adopt biomechanics.
If you've followed the Jays over the past year, which considering you're reading this post is most likely the case, I'm sure you've heard the narrative surrounding Blue Jays pitcher Brandon Morrow. He makes too many changes to his delivery, he's injury prone, he will be a borderline ace once the BABIP dragon shows him mercy, so on and so forth.
The one thing that has gained the most attention recently has been this incessant need to give Brandon Morrow the injury prone label. It is a little bothersome to me, because people use the phrase to make it seem like he's never on the field—which is simply untrue. He has had his issues with injuries, however. His first season in the bigs was his only one with a clean bill of health, and he has two consecutive seasons with 60-day DL trips under his belt, so I can understand where that line of thinking comes from.
He's only pitched more than 150 innings once, although if he wasn't shut down early in 2010 it would likely be two. That all looks really bad, but to me an "injury prone" player is someone that can never stay on the field—someone like fellow Jay Dustin McGowan, for instance. Until 2012, Morrow simply did not have that problem.
He was officially converted to a full time starter when the Blue Jays acquired him from Seattle in December 2009. In four seasons with the Jays he has started 26, 30, 21, and 10 games respectively and is second in starts among Blue Jays over the last five seasons, which, admittedly, isn't the highest of accolades in the post-Halladay era. There is some reason for concern going forward given his age and consecutive 60-day DL stints in 2012 and 2013, but in some sense it seems to be getting blown out of proportion. Maybe I have a different definition than others of what being an injury prone player means, but I think this all boils down to semantics.
Instead of placing focus on this supposed injury proneness, what we should instead be looking at is the fact that Brandon Morrow had still failed to reach his ever so highly touted potential.
A lot of internet analysts looked at Morrow's traditional stats in 2010 and 2011 and brushed off his poor performance as bad luck. They drooled over his strikeout rates, other peripheral numbers, and at times, dominant performances. They thought the laws of nature would magically fix his woes going forward. In 2010 he led the majors in K% and was third in 2011 by mere decimal points. The right stuff was there. The ability to dominate was there. His problem has been his inability to put together a repeatable set of mechanics.
In part one of this two part series I will dissect Morrow's mechanics from his time in Toronto thus far and point out some concerns I have going forward.
Various Mechanical Adjustments
A major factor to any successful pitcher is repeatable mechanics. Morrow made his first appearance in the show back in 2008 and has been struggling to find consistent mechanics ever since. Below is a GIF montage of Morrow from the windup every year since joining the Jays. The first thing you'll notice is the drastic differences in his mechanics each season.
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Shortly after arriving in Toronto in 2010, Morrow made immediate and consistent tweaks in his delivery throughout the year. This affected his timing in the delivery and as a result, his command. He struggled to find a consistent arm path because he kept tinkering with small parts of his mechanics. Throughout the year, his hand position at maximum leg kick changed more than a few times. These seem like small insignificant changes, but they directly affected his arm path, wrecking his timing and command.
By the end of the year he had found something that finally stuck. He was able to find the right rhythm and tempo in his delivery by adding a slight twist at maximum leg kick, as well as changing his hand position. Below you can see the hand changes. When lowering his hands in the picture below, he waits longer to separate the ball from glove creating a more fluid action in the kinetic chain. The negative here of course it that Morrow is over rotating which can cause the back leg to stall. However, it appeared as though Morrow had finally found the mechanics he needed to be successful and the future was promising.
However, in 2011 he changed his mechanics again. He took the slight twist that he had brought in near the end of 2010, but modified it towards the creation of a much more exaggerated movement. The new twist that he had implemented, once again, negatively affected his timing. Below you can see the difference in the twist.
His overall timing from the windup remained repeatable despite the exaggerated twist—where the timing suffered was from the stretch. One of the biggest mistakes pitchers make is altering their stretch mechanics. Ask Mitch Williams how he feels about the slide step, and you will most likely have to cover your ears due to profanity.
A slide step is when a pitcher is in the stretch position and instead of using their usual leg lift, they just fall forward to the plate. As stated before, repeating mechanics are vital for a pitcher's survival in the bigs. Therefore it's never made sense to me that you would alter a pitchers mechanics in a small attempt to control base runners—one that's never really been proven to help much anyway.
Morrow saw a home run and BABIP spike with runners on base in 2011 as a result—assumedly—of his altered mechanics and the implementation of the slide step in his delivery. Below you can see a clear difference from 2010 to 2011.
While it's not a full version of a slide step, he makes an half hazard attempt at a leg lift, rushes his hands into a lower position and everything that follows is completely out of sync.
His homerun issue wasn't isolated to men on base. He was giving up HR's at an above average rate from the windup and from the stretch. Again, the changes with the exaggerated twist affected his timing towards the plate and resulted in him losing command. Fast forward to 2012 and we saw yet another change in Morrow's delivery. He and the coaches recognized the problems with the exaggerated twist and lessened it to mirror the 2010 version.
Morrow went back to a slight twist and pause at his maximum leg lift. This time he avoided lifting his hands too high. This helped him avoid unnecessary movement and created a much smoother flow to his delivery. They also recognized his painfully obvious struggles with men on base and made the necessary mechanical adjustments from the stretch.
Morrow brought back a more 2010-style approach when pitching from the stretch. He reaches the same level of leg kick as he does from the windup which helps with overall repeatability. 2012 was easily his most repeatable and smoothest delivery since arriving in Toronto. Once again Jays fans were delighted as we saw Morrow reach his full potential as a starter. 2013 saw yet another regression when it came to Morrow and mechanical adjustments. We saw the return of a more exaggerated twist and the worst slide step of his career, as evidenced in the GIF and picture below.
You can see how the multiple mechanical changes have affected the way Morrow releases the ball from here to year here
Release Point Graphs via Texas Leaguers
Some will look at 2013 as a write off because he only started 10 games and the forearm issue started to rear it's ugly head after only 3 starts. It's possible that his arm was uncomfortable and affected his ability to repeat his mechanics. Frustrations with not being able to get loose prior to games could have affected his mental focus. Regressing with his mechanics after finally living up to his ceiling in 2012 is a concern no matter what excuse you come up with. Having said that, I'm willing to give Morrow a mulligan for the 2013 season, but it would be impossible to disregard it completely. In part two, I will look further into the nerve injury that sidelined Morrow in 2013. How this could have been avoided, the warning signs, and my concern with the overall pitching philosophy of the organization.
Picture courtesy of james_in_to via Flickr.


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In the middle of the 20th century, the cognoscenti knew there was one place in New York to head for jazz: Bedford-Stuyvesant. The Brooklyn neighborhood was once the scene for the city's best jazz clubs, which saw greats by the likes of Miles Davis, Max Roach, and Hank Mobley. Though those historic clubs are long closed, Debbie McClain has started to resurrect the neighborhood's jazz bona fides. Inside her renowned 19th-century brownstone, you'll brush elbows with world-class performers during an intimate salon-style evening of music, all under the direction of bassist Eric Lemon. At the 10:30 p.m. intermission, you'll get a chance to tuck into some homemade fish fry before returning to your seat for an open mic that lasts until the wee hours of the night.
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Gathering some of the city's best musicians, hostess Debbie McClain values authenticity and talent, forbidding amps
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When lifelong jazz enthusiast Debbie McClain inherited her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone, she decided to use the 19th century building as a portal to the not-so-distance past, when the neighborhood was a hot spot for jazz music. With help from jazz-string musician Eric Lemon, the musical director and developing partner, she began inviting such city legends as James Spaulding, Kiane Zawadi, and Keisha St. James for Friday night gatherings at the historic property.
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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's The Muckle Man tells the story of a marine biologist whos searching for giant squid, and who drags his wife and kids along with him on the hunt. Mom and kids arent happy about this -- or about much of anything else, it seems. But on the latest expedition, a strange man shows up, having just walked in out of the sea, and suddenly things are more interesting for the biologist and his family.
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Cute baby fox is cute. The Takagami family are suckers for cute things it seems. Must run in the family. The color scheme reminds me of fox-Kouta if he were a baby fox though, lulz.
Another episode of Kou showing off her abilities and her assets (and her weakness for cute things too *snickers*). Daigoro is one lucky fox cub. Looks like Kou's the type that looks slender when clothed. I can't say much with the steam, but she definitely has some decent "melonpan" there. Ah… "just-out-of-bath" Kou is nosebleed-inducing.
Mmm~ Kou.
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Should Valley citizens be subsidizing a for-profit company?
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Amid discord over whether the county should be providing free assistance to a business, the Board of Supervisors today deferred action on a proposal to remove waste from a Thermal composting site and thereby spare Coachella Valley residents from foul odors.
"Why in the world should the citizens of this county subsidize a for-profit company?" Supervisor Jeff Stone asked in challenging board Chairman John Benoit's plan. "Why should the taxpayers pick up the tab for this business's problems?"
Benoit brought forward the proposed agreement with Thermal-based California Bio-Mass Inc. to address an ongoing nuisance at the company's composting site.
"It's a situation where there's now a large residential area within one mile of this facility," Benoit said. "The city of La Quinta has been a very vocal proponent of trying to relocate it."
According to the chairman, liquid waste, mostly grease, has been used at the location for years for recycling purposes. The substances give off a noxious odor that carries on the wind, generating numerous complaints that have resulted in citations for state environmental violations, Benoit said.
He said lawsuits have been threatened. The county's Department of Waste Management got involved to help find possible solutions. The most workable, according to Benoit, was for the site to undergo a clean-up and the mounds of grease-laden compost be hauled away to the county's Oasis Landfill.
The dump is one of the most under-utilized countywide, containing at most between three and 17 tons of waste on any given day, with a capacity of 75,000 tons, according to Waste Management Director Hans Kernkamp. He said more trash would be needed at the location to cover the estimated 1,600 tons of greasy material transferred from the Cal Bio-Mass facility.
Benoit's proposal called for waste hauler Burrtec to take refuse that would otherwise be dumped at the overburdened Lamb's Canyon Landfill in the Banning Pass and dump it at the Oasis site.
The proposed agreement with Cal Bio-Mass included the waiver of so-called "tipping fees" charged for dumping refuse at a county landfill. According to county documents, around $700,000 in fees would be waived.
Department of Waste Management officials' contributions to the cleanup and coordination of the transfers would result in the county absorbing $250,000 in costs, essentially making in-kind donations, officials said.
"This is a low-cost way to expeditiously deal with the problem," Benoit said. "There has been lots of discussion about the pros and cons, and this is a very innovative approach to resolve this."
But Stone pointed out that the county would be extending itself in money and time to accommodate a firm that had not even been sued yet, without the benefit of a lien on the Cal Bio-Mass property to protect the county's interests.
"This is a gift of public funds," he said.
Supervisor Kevin Jeffries echoed those concerns, noting that a composting operator in the county's First District could ask for the same bargain proposed for Cal Bio-Mass.
"It gets a little complicated," Jeffries said.
Temecula resident Paul Jacobs criticized the arrangement, deriding it as a form of "corporate welfare."
"This would involve the use of county equipment. Waste management personnel would be working overtime, taking staff away from other duties," Jacobs said. "You'd be throwing a million dollars at an unknown. The public is weary of bailouts."
Supervisor Marion Ashley, initially behind the idea, made a motion with Supervisor John Tavaglione to postpone action on the Benoit plan until next week to give the Office of County Counsel time to research how the county's financial interests would be best served.


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The audit looked into 731 veteran affair service organizations and spoke with 3,700 staff members, finding that as of May 15, 2014 there were over 6 million appointments schedules in the VA, 57,436 veterans waiting to be scheduled, 63,869 who have enrolled in the system but haven't been given an appointment, and that there are 57,436 newly enrolled veterans on the electronic wait list who will have to wait up to and beyond ninety days to receive treatment.
"No veteran should ever have to wait to receive the care they have earned through their service and sacrifice. As the President said last week, we must work together to fix the unacceptable, systematic problems in accessing VA healthcare," said Acting Secretary of Veteran Affairs Sloan D. Gibson in a press release on the audit last week.
According to CNN, a death toll of twenty-three veterans was confirmed for those who sought care but were unable to obtain the help they needed. Previously, CNN reported that documents showed 82 preventable deaths had occurred due to postponed treatment, such as late diagnoses from medical screenings like colonoscopies that were overlooked.
The recent audit targeted a fourteen day wait limit goal the VA had been using to encourage speedy care to veterans who were enrolling, saying the goal was a case of bad managing and leadership; the fourteen day wait limit was unrealistic given demand and resources. "We will remove the 14-day scheduling goal from employee performance contracts to eliminate any incentive to engage in inappropriate behavior," said Gibson. The report found that 13 percent of scheduling staff had been told to enter a different "desired date" to what was actually asked for, and that this was found to be the case at least once in 76 percent of the facilities examined. "Findings indicates that in some cases, pressures were placed on schedulers to utilize inappropriate practices in order to make waiting times … appear more favorable."


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And then steals all your stuff, pecks your eyes out and rapes you with its rabid beak.
And then calls his mates to get in on the action while your carcass is still warm.
And then calls you nasty names.
I'm sorry I got a little carried away. You'll forgive the heavy dose of melodrama inflecting this post. Things have taken a turn for the worst, but I'm still alive, I'm not starving and homeless, and I have my health. Just.
So the story goes...
I was feeling a little homesick in the morning with the news that "hurricane Bawbag" had hit Scotland. The Facebook posts and tweets I was reading had me in stitches. I was crying with laughter. I honestly don't think there is a funnier nation on earth. I missed you today Caledonia.
It was another lazy day in the sun, relaxing, slightly stressing that my card had still not arrived, yet there was little I could do about it so hey ho. I ate another amazing pizza, met some friends, life was ticking over nicely. As I mentioned before I thought I would do the chivalrous thing and make sure two girls got home safely. Separately of course; I walked one, then went back and walked the other. Upon returning the last time I discovered the place was closing, my friends had obviously turned in to hit the hay. Yet again I found myself walking home alone, but I was in high spirits from a lovely evening.
"Hey man..want some coke man...?" The shady voice reached out from the blackness. I recognised him as the dude I had given a cigarette to not moments before. I replied in the negative, sighting I had no money left, not tonight amigo, and other such convincing throw away lines as I attempted to leave his overly aggressive presence. This began to become more so, and soon he was showing me some small scars on his arms, telling me to "give me my money man" (which for some reason he presumed was his to be given), and outright threatening to kill me. As ever I was still trying to talk my way out of the situation when he whipped the glasses off my face.
Now I've never really been in a proper fight in my life. Sure there were those handbags at dawn playground scraps, usually where I ran crying to the teacher, but nothing like fight club. I'm no knuckledragger. I'm not a big guy (thanks twin), and I certainly don't go out looking for trouble. I try to break fights up, I don't start them. In 32 years, I had never thrown or landed a proper punch. Until this one.
With almost alarming speed, the process between acknowledging I needed to do this and it actually happening was frightening. Before I knew it, my fist had slammed a beauty right under the left side of his jaw. His head snapped back and he staggered away. Yet I didn't put him down. He reeled, and bolted onto the beach and into the darkness. I gave chase, without any real thought as to how dangerous this was; because the little bastard had my glasses.
He's turned into night as I reach the water. The sea and the moon can do little to illuminate the dark beach. My footwear slips off in the waves, and as I compose myself, the moment is gone. Added to this the minus four in both eyes doesn't help matters. I can't see at the best of times, and my short sight fails to locate any human movement. He's gone to ground; literally. Playing to his dark skinned strengths, and knowing the moonlight would betray him, he's dipped to the sand. I've no chance. My adrenaline gets the better of me and I scream after him;
Emotions charge as I race back to the road. Perhaps I'll catch him on the one main street trying to sneak away? With shoes in hand, my bare feet slap the concrete as I tear up and down. It's fruitless male bravado. My knuckles bleeding, I stride purposefully into the local casino. Quite why I did I do not know. Maybe it was the one moment where I felt like I could take on the world. Maybe I wanted people to see my fearlessness. Maybe tonight I was the Alpha male. Maybe I just wanted someone to tell me it would all be OK.
The tears come as I reach dejectedly for the hostel gates. Sleep doesn't follow suit, as my system continues to rush through chemicals. Adrenaline denies me the rest needed to make this all go away. I feel totally alone as the space around me shrinks in. With my glasses gone, the world changes. It closes in to a few feet, everything else a frustrating blur. A suffocating claustrophobia. Yet with or without them, I've not been able to really see at all.


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Housebreaking 6 month old male puppy
Hey everyone. This is my first time to actually post on here but I browse often. We have just gotten our second boxer, a male puppy who is now 6 months old. He is full german and was the runt of the litter which is why he was given to us. We've had him a little over a month and since then he has been doing really well. He has put on weight, plays well with our 8 year old female boxer and is very well adjusted. The only issue we've seen is with housebreaking. When we got him he had been outside some, in the garage some and in the house some. I know he has had confusion issues with knowing where to go, etc. Some days he will do great, and let us know he needs outside, then others it's as if he doesn't even try: he'll play outside for an hour then come in an pee in the floor. He's even pee'd on the sofa twice. We use a crate with him at night and he does great with it and we try to watch him for clues that he needs to go but like I said, he doesn't always give any. He also will start peeing in one spot and then start walking while he is going so there is a trail all around the house. Please share any secrets, tips of advice that you may have that would make this easier on us both. Thanks so much!
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we put bells on our door and everytime you take the puppy out you show them to ring the bells. now she is a ringing machine with those darn bells, only problem is when we go somewhere other than our house we watch her very closely on hints of having to pee bc we dont take the bells with us.
also try taking him our every 45 minutes to an hour, i know he can hold it longer than that, but if you go out every hour give him a minute or two to walk around adn sniff and if he doesnt pee back inside, and if he pees praise and give treats.
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I also put jingle bells on my door. I would show her to ring the bell with her nose, and we would go out. When she would potty she got a treat. At first she thought ringing the bell and taking a step outside meant a treat, so I had to be consistent with only rewarding when she rang the bell AND pottied. This process did not take long, and for the rest of her life she would ring the jingle bells with her nose when she needed to potty, and occasionally when something interesting was going on outside and she just wanted to check it out. Before the bells, she would just poop in any corner of the house regardless if i had just taken her out or not.
I have a baby boxer coming in a few weeks, and ringing the bells is going to be the first thing i teach her. It REALLY helped.
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the bells changed things for Dually in about a week, she learned to ring those bells and boy does she love to ring them, and if she rings them once and you dont get a move on to go out, she keeps on ringing them with more and more assertion each time, its so funny. she also will ring them when she sees somethign going on outside she would like to join in, especially if she sees our neighbor Hope who lets them out for us, they love her and respect her age of 85.
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Bell training is an excellent tool. If you do not already do so, make sure that you use the same way to take him out every time. Being that the he has been in different parts of the house the consistency has contributed to him not knowing where to go to potty. Decide on one place to have him and use the same route in taking him out. However, you may need to start over and use his crate even more and put him on a potty schedule simultaneously with the bell training. Schedules are necessary in the potty training process. If you cannot watch him 100% then he has to be in the crate and take him out at specific times, its good that he does well in his crate overnight. He will eventually learn to "hold it" until you let him out at your scheduled time and when you take him out, take him out on a leash ring the bell prior to going out the door and say "potty". Consistency in the schedule is key.
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Welcome to the forum - perhaps a visit to the vet to rule out any health issues
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Fantastic suggestions already from so many...
I just want to add that we would mop up some of the urine with a papertowel and keep this in a zip lock back. (Only for a few days) And every time we took our male dog outside we would open the zip lock and have him smell the pee. Even toss it on the ground showing that is where we want him to go. We used a phrase too. You can use any kind of phrase. (Like the jingle bells) "Do your business!" "Make a gift" "Action Jackson!"
Our dog learned to go on command. We could say any place any time "Make a gift?" And he would wag his tail and make a pee. I want to add this took a super long time to train. It felt like months and months but worth it.
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Thank you guys so much. I will try the bells on the door. I've never heard of that before so this should be interesting. We are consistant on the door we use to take him out and always tell him to "go potty". He seems very smart, but I also know that like a toddler, he gets busy and forgets until its too late. I guess what really makes it seem worse is when he doesn't wait to finish and walks through the house while still going potty. Never seen such a little guy have so much pee.
I know the fact that he was outside and inside before we got him, has hurt him as far as housebreaking goes, so patience is the name of the game. Thankfully, right before we decided to take him, we pulled up our flooring to put down new flooring and are now just waiting until he is better house broke before putting the new stuff down. You just forget how long training takes when you have an older, reliable girl like our Wendy Thanks again, I really appreciate the help!
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In Southern California, there have been several major fires as of late. What the folks down there would do for just a scant amount of rain!
Here in the Pacific Northwest, we are being inundated with a deluge of precipitation. For example, in the Aberdeen area, 12.5" of rain is the average for the month of November. We exceeded our average on November 11 (13.07"). We now find ourselves less than 4" away from the [recorded] record for the month.
Now, if we humans could control things as we like to think, we would dispatch some of our rain down south to quell the raging fires. Of course, we don't have that power, so southern Cal will continue to burn, while we paddle through the streets to work.
Since we really have no control over the things that truly matter, we seek to control lesser things...like the price of oil.
Has anyone else noticed that, since Election Day has come and gone, the price of gas has magically started to climb? In the past week, the price has risen 11 cents which reverses the pattern for the previous 6 months.
Before the election, many wondered if the appreciable decline in gas prices was the Republican's way of trying to dupe voters into believing our economy was turning around. When many suggested such a gambit, conservatives got all in a huff and denied the connection. The connection seems really clear now!


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Bishop Daniel E. Flores answered questions on Oct. 1 following his talk about Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship during a Theology on Tap session in McAllen.
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Currants, from the genus Ribes that is, come in three forms: red, white, and black. The red and white currants belong to the same species; the whites are color variants of the reds. The black currants are separate species with dark colored fruits.
Currants were cultivated for their fruits by the mid-1500s and were known for their herbal and medicinal properties for at least 100 years before. Cultivars known from the mid- 1700s are available from collections today. The following are descriptions of three of these "ancient currants." The information was obtained from U. P. Hedrick. 1926. The Small Fruits of New York. J. B. Lyon Co., Albany, NY. and from evaluation data collected at the Corvallis Repository.
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