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News: Centegra Health Bridge offers yoga for breast cancer survivors
Breast cancer survivors now have a new way to improve their health in an understanding environment at Centegra Health Bridge Fitness Center-Crystal Lake, 200 E. Congress Parkway. A free Yoga for Breast Cancer Survivors class will be offered from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturdays.
"This program will be taught by a certified yoga instructor who is also a breast cancer survivor and understands the emotional and physical barriers that participants may be experiencing," said Lynn Griesmaier, breast health navigator at Centegra Health System. "Our goal is to give women the opportunity to gently exercise while gaining the benefits of stretching according to their personal comfort levels. The class will also help women connect with other breast cancer survivors."
There is no preregistration required for the Yoga for Breast Cancer Survivors class. Participants should sign in at the front desk. The class is open on a first-come, first-serve basis and the limit is 27 participants."A woman doesn't need to have any yoga experience to join this inspiring group of women," Griesmaier said. "We welcome new faces each week and participants can start coming at any time."For more information, contact Griesmaier at email@example.com or 815-788-2290.


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Rating: ICanSeeThem – change your friends into Monsters Review: As far as photo apps go I Can See Them {Free} for iPhone is pretty good especially at this time of year where Halloween is just around the corner and people start to think spooky thoughts on how they can scare themselves and the friends. Well, ICST (iCanSeeThem) does just that while … Read More
Mystery Mania For iPhone: Fun, Original Puzzle Game
Mystery Mania Rating: Halloween may be over but if you want to extend your Halloween fun to a few more days then Mystery Mania may be just for you as this interactive puzzler will push your brain cells to the limit. The spooky cartoon style graphics setup an appropriately ominous atmosphere and the game starts with a short introduction for … Read More

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We are pleased to present the new IANDS web site layout! Here are the main improvements:
- A new overall "look" with our new logo and style that's easier to read
- Responsive layout that scales automatically for mobile devices
- A simplified menu structure: better organized -- it's easier to find things
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We have fixed many problems with the existing site, but there may still be problems: if you find a problem, please report it to us.
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Jessica Biel's Brother Justin Rips Timberlake's Tequila
Having an uber-famous sister has it's perks, and for Jessica Biel's brother Justin, it meant he got to work for Justin Timberlake's 901 Tequila company.
But due to slow sales, Mr. Biel is no longer employed by 901, and he released a foul-mouthed video to show his frustration over the whole ordeal.
Justin starts, "Hello, my name is Justin Biel and I'm coming to you live from the West Coast corporate office of 901 Silver Tequila, also referred to as my sh--ty one bedroom apartment… Yes, I am Jessica Biel's brother. Probably the only reason why I got this f---ing job in the first place."
"I've been waiting for (Timberlake) to do something with this f---ing brand," he continues. "Make a song about it, put it in a go**amn video, hold it up, take some pictures, I don't care! Just do something because we're dying on the motherf---ing vine here!"
A spokesperson for 901 claims it's all satirical. "Justin Biel's video was intended to be one in a series of videos created by 901 Tequila employees (including the brand owner) as part of a larger viral marketing campaign slated for the end of December. It was released prematurely without our knowledge and prior to the final edit."
And Jessica posted to Facebook, "For all you knuckleheads that haven't figured it out. This is a joke hahaha. got ya."


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Don and Ruth Taylor, longtime friends and supporters of the University of Calgary, donated $25 million in December, 2006 to help build the new digital library. In recognition of this generous gift, the Board of Governors of the University named the library the Taylor Family Digital Library (TFDL).
In addition, the gift from the Taylor Family will be used to create the Taylor Quadrangle, a green space in the centre of campus adjacent to the TFDL. Such quadrangles often serve as iconic meeting places for the entire university community, for both informal and formal gatherings. The Taylor Family donation allows us to build such a green space in the heart of our campus.
The Taylors, like all our other donors, are committed to improving the lives and experiences of our students and the quality of work we do at the University of Calgary.
The Province of Alberta matched the Taylors' original donation through their matching gifts program and also allocated additional funds for the building, for a total amount of $151.5 million in financial support. Funding has also been provided by the Government of Canada with $27 million from the Knowledge Infrastructure Program.
Currently, opportunities exist for naming rights and sponsorships of several Taylor Family Digital Library spaces, such as the lecture hall, reading rooms and other learning and research-related areas. These opportunities are available at various levels of funding.
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Piazza, New York Catcher
Baseball season is underway, but here in Miami, there might be more fans singing "Take Me Out to the Ballet." That's because legendary catcher (and former Florida Marlin) Mike Piazza will take the stage with Miami City Ballet next month. Yes, really. He'll portray the Gangster in Miami City Ballet's production of George Balanchine's Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, part of Program IV: Broadway and Ballet. No, Piazza hasn't traded his catcher's mitt for a tutu. Miami City Ballet's announcement assures fans that "Piazza will not be dancing, leaping, or catching ballerinas." He will, however, stroll onstage like an extra from Boardwalk Empire, dressed in "a 1920s-era gangster costume," and say a few lines in imitation of Al Capone. It'll be the cat's pajamas, see, dollface? Piazza isn't performing for the love of ballet. (Well, probably not.) He's doing it for the love of his daughters, one of whom is a 6-year-old student at the Miami City Ballet School. "It's going to be a lot of fun seeing the reaction of my two little girls," Piazza said in a statement. "My oldest daughter is a student at Miami City Ballet School, and for her to have the opportunity to see Daddy onstage is my little gift. I'm looking forward to it." OK, that's pretty cute. Who wants to bet that attendance at the Arsht Center (1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami) during Piazza's performance will beat attendance at Marlins Park during the average regular-season home game?
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Tax change may be spurring need for levies
POCATELLO, Idaho - You would be hard pressed to find a school district in southern Idaho that doesn't need more money. School administrators say they're struggling every day to operate.
Of course, the recession has a lot to do with it, but some say the recessions blow would have been softened if it weren't for a tax change made a few years ago.
School districts started feeling the financial squeeze soon after the recession hit.
So many began cutting or dipping into savings to make it through.
Now, the number of districts across the state asking for levy help from voters has exploded.
"And now they're at a point that they have no where else to go. They don't have money left in their fund balances, they can't make any more cuts," School District 25 Spokeswoman Shelley Allen said.
During then-Gov. Jim Risch's term, support for education was moved from property tax to an increase in sales tax.
Some school officials say that might work fine when it's smooth sailing for the economy, but once we hit a rough patch, it means a whole lot of chaos.
"When you took away that stable funding, and you put it on sales tax, which is not a stable form of funding anyway. Then the economy tanked. The sales tax went way down, then we were left at the will of the Legislature," Allen said.
Risch, now a U.S. senator, says every change in tax law has positives and negatives, but he doesn't see anybody complaining about their lower property taxes.
"Their property tax bill today would be 20 percent higher than it is, had they not passed that," Risch said.
The change was voted on by the public and sailed through with 72 percent of the vote.
But if opinion flips, Risch says it's not set in stone.
"This is only a law. If people want to change it back, all they'd have to do is get the Legislature to change it, or do an initiative," Risch said.
For levy and bond results from Tuesday, see http://goo.gl/SrdL7.


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Boston World Partnerships and Reel Entrepreneurs have joined forces to feature Boston's most innovative people in The Reel Innovators Series.
Over the next several months, The Real Innovators Series will follow Boston's best into their companies and into their lives to give you an inside view into how talent translates to execution and startup success.
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Headlight Upgrade
Pretty sure this topic has been beat to death. :deadhorse:
Looking to upgrade my headlights. I've searched the forums, but still don't have a clue. It appears some headlights are sealed and some support a replacement bulb. Also what is involved in installing a new wiring harness, unplug the old and plug in the new, or cutting and splicing.
Sorry if this is a beat down for some of you, but the more I look into the dumber I seem to get.
Okay let's go in order:
1. The ORIGINAL "headlights" for the jeep are actual bulbs themselves so these are what would be the SEALED headlights. These are usually cheaper. The ones that allow replacement bulbs would be what you would probably want if you want to upgrade. Hellas e-codes are a crowd favorite due to the cut pattern for the light. They use your standard h4 bulbs and you can upgrade them to HIDs Hella Lighting 002395031 - Hella E-Code (ECE) 7? Round H4 Headlamp Conversion - Quadratec
2. To change the harness it all depends as to how you're gonna go about it. If the connecting end is ruined, you would have to cut and splice a new one, if you're upgrading your accessory (ie your fog lights or headlights) the kit usually comes with a pigtail adapter that you plug into the existing harness and to the accesory AKA plug-n-play.
And as always with ANY electrical job, PLEASE disconnect your battery. 10 seconds of your life to not mess up your rig or electrocute yourself is a great deal. 12v is enough to do a number on you.
Thanks for the reply. I feel like I am a little smarter than I was before.
Personally I would upgrade the housing, bulbs and wiring harness.
I would stick with halogen bulbs in a e-code glass housing. Some people put HIDs in halogen housings but then your light is gonna be in other peoples eyes and what not.
The new wiring harness you can buy or build yourself and will help get more juice to your new bulbs.
danielstern.com is a good resource.
Yep.. :deadhorse:.
Check out Busdepot.com they have quality Bosch E-code housings for $45.00 per pair (great deal). They also have quality bulbs for $4.00 each. Then RJM Injections or Susquehanna Motorsports for a complete plug and play harness.
I just did this upgrade a couple weeks ago and I'm very happy with the results for the amount of money spent. :thumb:
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CFPB Now Accepting Payday Loan Complaints
November 14, 2013 - Posted by Patrick McNeil
Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) began accepting complaints from borrowers who encounter issues with payday loans.
Payday loans are generally for $500 or less and provide a quick route to credit for consumers who may otherwise not qualify, though many must be fully repaid in a short period of time. In fact, payment is often due when the borrower is next paid, and many lenders require advance access to borrowers' checking accounts.
According to a CFPB report released earlier this year, this repayment structure and lack of underwriting creates for many consumers a cycle of indebtedness. "To the extent these products are marketed as a short-term obligation," the report says, "some consumers may misunderstand the costs and risks, particularly those associated with repeated borrowing."
The Center for Responsible Lending notes that these consumers are disproportionately African American and Latino, and found in a 2009 study in California that "Payday lenders are nearly eight times as concentrated in neighborhoods with the largest shares of African Americans and Latinos as compared to white neighborhoods, draining nearly $247 million in fees per year from these communities."
Established by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, the CFPB began overseeing payday lenders in January 2012, and currently accepts complaints about credit cards, mortgages, bank accounts and services, private student loans, consumer loans, credit reporting, debt collection, and money transfers.
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Splitting duct to a new bathroom
I am drawing up plans to build a bathroom in my basement and am trying to determine how this space should be heated. Currently the basement is unfinished and there is a duct that runs to my upstairs bathroom - which is directly over top of my downstairs bathroom. The duct work is rectangular and the upstairs has a large old style grate cover. Is it possible to split this duct to run heat to both bathrooms? Thanks!
It would be possible to split the duct to serve both bathrooms but most likely it will be incorrect. Then the original ducts were sized, the were sized according to the amount of cubic feet in each room. If you tap in to that duct, you will be taking away from the upstairs bathroom and the airflow to the upstairs would be inadequate. If you decide to split the duct, you will have to follow that duct back to the unit and enlarge the duct up to the splitting point.
Guessing the basement bathroom won't be used much.
Use an electric heater.
Splitting the duct like you want. It would not keep the lower bathroom warm.
The cold air from upstairs will fall into the the lower bathroom. And the warm air from the lower bathroom would rise to the upper floor room.
That is true, you have a very good point there.
Another thing to consider is sound transfer.
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|Adam McQuaid feels for Pascal Dupuis
|12.11.15 at 6:54 pm ET
Adam McQuaid doesn't know Pascal Dupuis. All he's heard from mutual friends is what a great guy he is. He does, however, know Dupuis' current situation better than most hockey players.
A longtime Penguins winger and Sidney Crosby linemate, Dupuis announced this week that he was retiring from hockey because of issues with blood clots that date back to January of 2014. McQuaid had his own scare with a blood clot during the 2012 lockout, when his right arm suffered massive swelling in the fall. The blood clot, which was under his collarbone, required surgery that involved removing a rib and part of his neck neck muscle.
For the grounded yet oft-injured McQuaid, his experience with the blood clot made him feel more grateful for his health. Asked about Dupuis Friday, McQuaid expressed both disappointment in the player's on-ice fate but optimism for his off-ice future.
"I think he said it himself, that his priority is his family and his health and [his longterm] health," McQuaid said. "Any time anyone's health gives out on them, you feel for them. I'm sure that they'll miss not having him in the lineup."
Dupuis returned at the start of last season from both a knee injury and blood clot issues, but was diagnosed with another blood clot in his lung of November of 2014, ending his season. The 36-year-old returned again to play in 18 games this season before shutting it down for good.
Dupuis' condition was both more serious and more recurring than McQuaid's. The Boston defenseman was assured at the time of his blood clot and subsequent surgical work that aside from months spent on blood thinners, it "wouldn't be an issue going forward," as it hasn't. As such, McQuaid was quick to note that though "a blood clot's still a blood clot," he wasn't comparing his misfortune to Dupuis'.
"It's not quite the same thing, but I can relate," he said. "Mine was a little more short-term, but I know what it's like to go through the whole process. It definitely makes you reevaluate things and appreciate things and realize how lucky we are to do what we do, and to have your health ' mainly, having your health.
"I'm sure that as disappointed as he is, staying on the protocol [means] he'll have a long and happy life, so you take the positives and look at all the great things that he still has to look forward to."
At the time of McQuaid's blood clot, its silver lining was that it came during the lockout and didn't require him to miss games. Looking at how much worse things could have been, McQuaid said he considers himself blessed that it proved to be a speed bump rather than the major roadblock blood clots can be for athletes.
"It's one of those things where you can think of it as, like, 'Why is this going on? Why am I having to do this?" McQuaid said. "Then you look at it like, 'Well, I'm lucky that it's just a short-term thing, too.'"
|Chris Kelly impatiently awaiting his return to Bruins lineup
|12.30.13 at 7:48 pm ET
Chris Kelly took the ice Monday night, but unfortunately for the injured Bruins forward, he wasn't skating.
Instead he was standing on the ice at Fenway Park as some of his Bruins teammates took part in an open skate as part of Frozen Fenway. Rather than skates, Kelly was wearing the walking boot he's had to wear since suffering a broken right fibula on a slash from Penguins forward Pascal Dupuis on Dec. 7.
Kelly says he hopes the boot will be off within a matter of days, but as he stands over three weeks from suffering the injury, he admits that his total time before returning to Boston's lineup will be closer to six weeks, as Claude Julien had told reporters earlier Monday.
The Bruins had initially said that Kelly would miss four to six weeks. Given that he had returned from a broken tibia last season in less than a month, he expected a quicker recovery this time around than he's had.
"When you're told a date, you think you can come back quicker," Kelly told WEEI.com. "[Last season's tibia injury] was one of those that was an injury that you could push, I found. As soon as I was diagnosed [this season], I said, 'Oh, well I can make it back faster than that.' Obviously with where the injury is, you can't push it like the other one. This one might take time, and you need to be patient, but I'm not very patient."
The good news is that Kelly has been exercising since suffering the injury. He was on the bike the next day, and though he knows there will be some adjustment back to the ice once the boot comes off, he's at least been keeping in shape.
"I do everything," Kelly said. "I started riding the bike regularly. We do the aerodyn bike, where I use my arms and my one good leg. And I do upper-body and legs as well."
Dupuis slashed Kelly in the second period of the injury-laden Dec. 7 meeting between the B's and Penguins. Kelly played the third period, thinking that the injury wasn't serious.
"Not that bad," Kelly said of what he thought at the time. "It hurt and I knew it hurt, but I played the rest of the game and it affected my stride in the third, but I thought maybe [it was] a bone bruise or something. You don't think it's broken when you can finish a game."
Though the Bruins certainly could use Kelly, Ryan Spooner has adjusted to the NHL and has played well of late in his place. Given that this is the second injury to keep Kelly out weeks in his career and that Rich Peverley slid over to handle his duties in his place last season, it's the first time Kelly has seen a young player step into his spot and perform well in his absence. Kelly says he's happy to see that his line is in good hands.
"He has played extremely well," Kelly said. "Spoons skates well and thinks the game well. He's done a great job. All those young guys that have come in, it's been great to see. I think when you're looking at it from a fan's aspect of how bright the future of this franchise is, you always want your farm system to have players that can step in. Not everyone has that luxury. We're extremely lucky to have that."
|Penguins know they need to play better from behind
|06.05.13 at 2:23 pm ET
Two years ago, scoring the goal didn't necessarily mean anything huge early in the Eastern Conference. The team that scored the first goal between the Bruins and Lightning went 2-3 in the first five games of the season, proving that getting on the board early is important, but it isn't everything.
That hasn't been the case this year. In two games, the Bruins have scored the first goal and eventually seen the Penguins go through lifeless stretches as they struggle to play from behind. Pittsburgh had just 13 shots on goal through the first two periods in Game 2, and the chances they got were limited.
So the Penguins enter Game 3 knowing that if they fall behind Wednesday, they can't pack it in. Remember, this is the same team that came back from a 2-0 deficit against the Bruins with three goals to win in regulation on March 12. They have it within to be a team that plays well from behind, but they just haven't done it thus far.
"I think the latter half of the games was us deviating from the plan," Dan Bylsma said of the first two games of the series. "Boston was up at that point in both those hockey games, playing very well and getting to the scoreboard early in contests and then playing well the rest of the way and us, the latter half of both games, looking for offense, pressing the issue and getting away from our game plan."
Pascal Dupuis said Wednesday that playing from behind against the Bruins is especially difficult because of how much the B's clog the middle once they're ahead. That makes the Penguins' job tougher offensively and forces them to make more chances, which then leads to turnovers. That, partially, can explain just how lopsided the scoring has been (9-1).
Obviously, the Penguins need goals any way they can get them. They'd like the first goal, but if they can't get it they still need to generate more offense than they have. Sidney Crosby, like Bylsma, feels that the key is to not try anything drastically different once they fall behind.
"We don't have to chase it," Crosby said. "I don't think we need to try to get that one back with one big play, if that's the case. I think we believe in our game, trust in our game. The regular season would be a good example of that. We're down 2-0 and it takes a while to finally get that first one, but we just stuck with things. It's more about the process of the game and playing the right way than maybe the results right away."
From the Bruins' perspective, scoring first has meant good things, so they obviously view getting on the board early as a key to potentially taking a 3-0 series lead Wednesday.
"In any game, the first goal is always a good one to get," Milan Lucic said. "It kinds of builds momentum, builds confidence, but the series is still early. Fortunately we were able to get the first goals in both games, and it's going to be a big one, whoever gets it tonight."
|Steven Kampfer: Surgery on nose is a possibility
|01.20.11 at 12:08 pm ET
Bruins rookie defenseman Steve Kampfer, sporting stitches on his right nostril, said he will try to play with his broken nose for now. But Kampfer said surgery is a possibility if his breathing is affected. Kampfer left last Saturday's game with a bloodied and broken nose when Zdeno Chara's stick became entangled with Pascal Dupuis and flew up and raked Kampfer across the face.
"They're going to try and open up the airway, surgery or what it be," Kampfer said. "Right now, we're just trying to see if it pops open in the next couple of days with flushing it more but I'm optimistic that I don't have to go to surgery because that's the last thing you want to do but at the same time, I can breathe enough to get by. I think that's the main issue right now is I can breathe, I can play and that's what I'm going to try to do moving forward.
"I breathe mostly through my mouth when I play, anyway. I keep my mouth open the whole game. It's not something that's bothered me the whole time when I've played. But at the same time, it would be nice not to wake up with a cotton mouth every morning. It's one of those things you've got to pray it opens up."
|Steve Kampfer suffers broken nose, Marc Savard 'fine' after fall into boards
|01.15.11 at 4:11 pm ET
Rookie defenseman Steve Kampfer was sent to the hospital with a broken nose after being bloodied by teammate Zdeno Chara 57 seconds into the second period. Chara became entangled with Pittsburgh's Pascal Dupuis in the offensive corner when Kampfer came skating by, catching Chara's stick in the face.
"He went to the hospital and has a broken nose," Bruins coach Claude Julien said. "They are just checking him out. We're going to find out more and the severity of it [Sunday]."
Dupuis was called for the major high-sticking penalty but TV replays clearly showed it was Chara's stick that did the damage.
"I think it was my stick but not 100 percent sure," Chara explained after the 3-2 loss to the Penguins. "I was batting and somehow my stick got high, hit Stevie. Just an unfortunate play. But I don't know exactly how it happened."
Meanwhile, Marc Savard took a header into the far boards in the third period, after a hit from Pittsburgh's Deryk Engelland but after spending about a minute on the ice, he got to his knees and skated off on his own power.
"From what I'm told, there was nothing wrong. It was a clean hit," Julien said. "He was off-balance, got his bell rung a little bit but he's alright."
Savard, of course, was hit by Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke last March 8 on a blindside hit and missed several weeks with a Grade 2 concussion. The two had a couple of run-ins on Saturday but no major brush-ups.
Still, Savard will pay close attention to how he feels over the next 24 hours before getting ready for the Hurricanes on Monday afternoon at TD Garden.
"I'll monitor it and watch the rest of the day, see how I feel a little bit," Savard said. "I was a little bit shaken up."
|Bruins road win streak halted by Penguins
|03.07.10 at 5:40 pm ET
Summary — For the last time ever in the regular season the Bruins travelled to Pittsburgh to play in Mellon Arena against the Penguins and came away losers by a 2-1 score in a Sunday matinee. Tim Thomas got his third straight start for Boston and took the loss with 27 of saves. The Penguins Marc-Andre Fleury took the decision with 15 stops. The loss snaps the Bruins five-game road winning streak.
The Penguins jumped all over Boston in the third but Thomas stood tall in the losing effort after getting peppered through most of the period. Thomas did give up the game-winner early in the final frame to superstar Evgeni Malkin on a dump shot through a screen down the right wing.
After a scoreless first period the Bruins struck first on the power play when Blake Wheeler was able to sweep a loose puck out from under Fleury at 3:12 in the second. The Penguins came back about five minutes later when Pascal Dupuis put the puck in a scrum in the crease in front of Thomas and banged on it until it trickled passed for the equalizer at 8:57.
Bruins' center Marc Savard took a hit and elbow to the head late in the third period by Penguins' forward Matt Cooke. He was carted off the ice on a stretcher. No word on the type or severity of the injury but a concussion would seem likely. Cooke was not issued a penalty for the hit.
Patrice Bergeron played his first game since the Olympic break after sitting the previous three with a groin injury. Tuukka Rask is still listed as day-to-day with a minor knee injury and did not dress.
Three Stars
Marc-Andre Fleury — The Penguins goaltender picked up his 31st win of the year with steady play and a solid defensive effort in front of him.
Evgeni Malkin — The "other" superstar in Pittsburgh scored the go-ahead goal for his 23rd strike of the year early in the third period.
Blake Wheeler — The sophomore forward scored the first goal of the game for only his second strike in 17 games when he tallied on the power play in the second period. The goal was his 14th of the year.
Turning Point — The start of the third period was where the Penguins turned on the heat. Malkin scored the go-ahead goal early in the period and the Bruins could not slow Pittsburgh down the rest of the game as the Penguins dominated the positional play in the final frame.
Key Play — The Penguins new addition of Alexei Ponikarovsky at Wednesday's trade deadline paid dividends in the third period. Malkin came down the right wing on the rush and threw a dump shot on Thomas that passed through a moving screen by Ponikarovsky on its way to the back of the net. Pittsburgh turned on the heat after that and pressured the Bruins for the rest of the third on its way to the victory.
|Second period summary: Bruins-Penguins
|at 4:35 pm ET
With the Penguins handing the Bruins multiple opportunities with penalties, it was just a matter of time before Boston broke through.
Evgeni Malkin won the dubious distinction of being the man who committed the penalty (hooking – 2:15) that helped get the Bruins on the board. David Krejci put the puck in the crease and banged on it to the point that Marc-Andre Fleury fell flat on his stomach though not quite on top of the puck. Blake Wheeler then snuck in and swept the puck out from under the goaltender for his 14th goal of the season that gave Boston a 1-0 lead at 3:12.
The Penguins came back in 5-0n-5 at 8:57 in a similar scenario to Wheeler's goal. Pascal Dupuis swept around the goal only to be semi-stuffed by Tim Thomas but the forward stayed on the puck and it trickled passed Thomas to tie the game at one apiece.
Michael Ryder took a slashing penalty at 3:43 in the period but Boston was able to kill it off. In the middle of the period the teams played two-minutes of 4-on-4 as Ruslan Fedotenko and Mark Stuart got in a tangle in the crease in front of Thomas that led to matching roughing penalties.
Shots in period (total):
Boston — 8 (11)
Pittsburgh — 11 (21)


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I have a P45 and have had problems with it...I need to stop procrastinating and send it back to Kahr to get looked at.
This is a discussion on speaking of Kahrs..... within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I'm not hearing of any raves about the poly .45's or hardly know of anyone here that has one. I still have mine and all ...
I'm not hearing of any raves about the poly .45's or hardly know of anyone here that has one. I still have mine and all is well. I just put another 100 rounds thru her the other day.
Ok... so fess up....who has one and who's scared to get one ???
" Refuse to be a victim, make sure there is a round chambered ! "
Just call me a pessimistic optimist !
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I have a P45 and have had problems with it...I need to stop procrastinating and send it back to Kahr to get looked at.
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I just looked at the PM45 at the local gun shop. seems like a nice gun, very small and very light for a 45. the price seemed a little outrageous, nearly $900.
I'm scared of them. I'm not a fan of the .45 due to the higher recoil and noise factor and a .45 in that little thing would probably do me in if I had to use it. I carry the CW9 and I think the recoil in it is snappy with defensive loads. I can only imagine what the .45 is like.
Age...you big wussie!
Firing a .45 caliber Kahr is no problemo at all!
(Mommie....I stubbed my big toe! Waaaahh!)
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$900 for a PM45???
It that Kahrs idea of a swift kick to the ?
I own a P45 and carry it daily. It's got 850 rounds through it and has had no problems. It'll feed anything I load into the magazine. Felt recoil is that of a .45 ACP.....no different than the felt recoil of a G36 I used to own.
Recoil-sensitive folks might want to wear an Uncle Mike's padded shooting glove if they're skittish about felt recoil.
The Edge ... there's no honest way to describe it. The only ones who know where it is have gone over.
I onced owned a P45 and it was 100% reliable. Never had a malfuction of any type while firing various brands of .45ACP ammo. I traded it in on a Glock 27 and regretted it as soon I got home. I couldn't see myself using the slush fund to buy the same exact gun after foolisly trading it off, so I waited for the PM45. I have owned the PM45 for 5 days now and I am very impressed with it. I put 500rds. of WWB 230gr. FMJ and 3 boxes of Speer GDHP Short Barrel 230gr. ammo thru it without one single glitch. I think its a keeper!
born2die: I wouldn't buy the PM45 for $900 that is way TOO MUCH!!!
I would consider buying one. Honestly, I think that a .40S&W has more recoil than a .45 ACP.
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I currently have and carry a CW9, tried the polymer 45 and 40 models before settling on the CW9. I helped a fellow range member break-in the 45 version and had shot another range buddy's 40. I found the 45's recoil to be excessive, and at the time I was carrying a 3.5 inch 1911 as my primary. The recoil of the 40 felt even more excessive than the 45. Double taps being the norm I dicovered that I could deliver two shots to the thoraic triangle with the 9mm faster and with more accuracy than I could with either 40 or 45 Kahrs. I have an assortment of 45 caliber 1911's, XD40's and S&W .357's and enjoy shooting them very much, but when I go out the 9mm Kahr rides on my hip.
Folks i think we are discussing 2 different models the more common and larger Kahr p45 , and the newer , smaller pm45 . With Kahr pistols , like womens undies as you get more skimpy you get more expensive .
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Check out this range report at the firing line.
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I have a P45 and love it. It is my daily carry weapon. I did have to send it back to the factory right after purchase because of a bad slide release, but after they worked on it I have had no problems since! I just love the slimness of the gun and i can also get my whole hand on the grip.
I carry my CW9 a lot also and like it!! Steve48


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Louis Pools necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 54 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
We are an existing pool design and construction company by the name of Louis Pools of Frisco, Inc. that is looking for a fresh, modern and attention grabbing logo used for marketing, website banner, apparel (hats, t-shirts, etc).
The logo will be used on the website, business cards, apparel and printed materials (vector file). I really am looking for something trendy, glossy, fun. I like shadows, etc.
- eye catching, modern and creative
- tag line that communicates experience, creativity, professionalism and our goal of exceeding expectations; ideas include ("your pool, our reputation.", "exceeding expectations one pool at a time.")
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Johnny Marr, Members of Radiohead and Wilco in Neil Finn Documentary
TV special chronicles the making of 7 Worlds Collide album
Last year, we reported that Crowded House/Split Enz singer/songwriter Neil Finn was working on a sequel to his 2001 solo album 7 Worlds Collide. The new project had quite a role call of collaborators: Johnny Marr, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway, Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Glenn Kotche, and Pat Sansone of Wilco, and others.
Finn invited this talented mob to join him in New Zealand last winter to write and record a benefit album for Oxfam International last winter. A New Zealand documentary film crew was on hand to film the whole thing.
The 7 Worlds Collide documentary, which aired on TVNZ last month, is now up on YouTube, chopped into six parts. (Thanks to Lee Simmons for the tip.) It's about as well-made and generally pleasant as a documentary about dudes sitting around in a recording studio could possibly hope to be. You can watch the whole thing below.
Throughout the documentary, we hear a number of snippets from songs apparently destined for the album, as the musicians work on them in the studio or play them on stage.
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After walking for over 4 hours we made our way back across the river to the hotel.
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... the original room. According to charming Veronika the guide who gave us an excellent presentation, the Amber Room was already in need of a 'tune-up' when the pictures were taken before WW II. After the panels disappeared and were not recovered, those old black and white photos were used to help designers and craftsmen remember and imagine the appearance of the original room, down to each individual piece of amber, its color and ...
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In the face of impending ecological and environmental crises worldwide caused by human alterations to the biosphere, the rise of neoliberalism and the knowledge economy on a global scale, as well as the permeation of new technologies into everyday life and the rapid developments of bioengineered living and non-living matter, it has become exceedingly clear that new modes of inquiry and praxis are needed to alter our ideas of how we understand and relate to each other and our broader environment.
Through this special issue, we wish to invite contributions on the topic of Speculative Realism(s) Objects/ Matter/ Entanglements of Art and Design Education to address pressing pedagogical, political, visual, aesthetic, ecological, methodological and ethical challenges in art and design education, museum, community and classroom practices, as well as contemporary art.
As a non-unified, diverse and speculative philosophical approach, Speculative Realism or (SR) draws on perspectives aligned with Object Oriented Philosophy (OOP), Object Oriented Ontology (OOO), and New Materialism. In this special issue, we combine OOP, OOO, and New Materialism, under the constellation of Speculative Realism(s) with the understanding that while these philosophical propositions share significant tenants, they are also distinctive critical projects. Accordingly, we seek submissions that are informed by one or more of these emergent, interdisciplinary and fluid philosophical approaches.
Speculative Realism(s) brings into focus new and speculative thinking about and commitments to materiality—for instance, the idea that objects have agency on their own terms and occur through intra-action between subject and object. SR inquiries use post-human and post-anthropocentric standpoints to displace the human subject as preeminent in all aspects of life while disavowing correlationism—the philosophical proposition that the reality of objects and matter are in correlation to human thought and being, and as such, must be accessed through human perceptual, cognitive or practical experiences. When considering the non-human world, speculative realists argue that all objects, matter and levels of existence are equally real and significant for ontology.
In this special issue, we propose that art and design education have something to say to emergent studies in Speculative Realism(s). If we tentatively accept the claim made by speculative realists that aesthetics is first philosophy, one could subsequently argue that art education plays a crucial role in extending the ideas and arguments of speculative realism(s) in ways that challenge us to rethink what is possible to see and say about the entanglements of objects, things and matter in art, aesthetics and education.
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Cristino, Filipe and Conlan, Lina I. and Leek, E. Charles (2012) The Appearance of Shape in Visual Perception: Eye Movement Patterns During Recognition and Reaching. In: Predicting Perceptions: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Appearance. Lulu Press, Edinburgh UK, pp. 125-127. ISBN 978-1-4716-6869-2
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One fundamental aspect of understanding appearance is the visual perception of shape, and how this is modulated by task demands. Here we examined how eye movement patterns relate to the perception of shape during tasks of object recognition and the planning of prehensile movement. Participants carried out either a recognition task (where they learned a set of novel objects and were then tested on recognition), or were asked to plan a reaching movement. The results show that eye movement patterns were linked to the perception of shape, and that these patterns varied between tasks: not only in terms of fixation and saccade parameters but also scan patterns.
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No Hot Water Pressure In Shower
Here it goes...Our shower lost hot water pressure one day when I was in it. I tried a few things, blow out system, check valves, cartridge, etc. and I can't get the pressure back. Everything else that runs on the same water heater works fine. I just replaced the old cartridge with a new one and still no luck. The cold water has fine pressure but as I turn up the temp of the shower the pressure goes way down. I just don't know what to do next. I had a plumber out and he suggested we have to knock down the tile.walls to open it up so we can see. I don't want to go that route as I just spent 8K renovating it. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Very frustrated guy / with a upset wife....
If you end up having to access the shower body remember you can get to it from either side. If the back of the wall is Sheetrock it's much easier to get to that way.
One thing to do it remove the cartridge and any seals, etc then let the water run for a few seconds with no cartridge in place. This will help blast out any crud in the lines. Take precautions not to get water in the wall or anywhere else you don't want it though and make sure you don't leave any small parts that are going to get blown out and lost in there.
I never even thought of that. If I have to go in I'll go in from the other wall.
I already blew all that out.....so I guess that didn't work. Any other suggestions??
did you remove the shower head. with the flow restriction they plug up easly.
When you run it with no cartridge do you have pressure?
I have removed the shower head and there was some stuff caught up there but that affected both hot and cold. Now its clean but no improvement.
When we flushed it, it was without the cartridge but it was hard to tell becasue both the hot and cold lines come out of the valve in the same spot. There was alot of water....Is there a way to turn off the cold so I can just flush the hot line??
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Tauranga's deserved reputation as a premier nursery for world-class paddlers will be enhanced further this week when three local paddlers line up at the world canoe slalom championships in the Czech Republic.
Olympians Luuka Jones and Mike Dawson are joined by young tyro Ben Gibb at the championships, which open today at the Prague Canoeing Centre in Troja.
Jones is coming off her best ever world cup result - a 13th-placing in the latest K1 round in Slovenia - and has used Prague as her European training base this year.
"The most recent world cups were good for me and I found a comfortable way to race and had a good mindset," Jones says.
"I really just want to replicate that composure this week and not to get caught up in the hype and temptation to try and paddle too fast, which can lead to penalties and mistakes.
"If I can have a race I am proud of then I'll be happy."
Dawson is back to his best after nine months out after breaking his back in an extreme race at the end of last year.
He is up to 22nd in the world cup rankings and is confident of doing well in Prague.
"I feel like I'm getting some decent fitness and competition behind me now and I'm really looking forward to testing it against the best in the world," he says.
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The mustache trend seems to be sticking around and gaining even more momentum. We started seeing them last year with photo props being a big trend for holiday cards and now they're everywhere! You can find just about anything with a mustache on it and if you can't, just buy yourself some mustache decals and stick 'em wherever you want. I personally love the mustache decals on laptops but I am not sure I would go as far as putting one on my toilet!
Mustache's also seem to be the new owl for baby shower themes and little boy birthday parties. People are using "Little Man" or "Mustache Bashes" as the new theme and phrases. Some couples are getting really creative by using them at gender reveal parties, using a mustache and a bow on baby shower invitations and party decorations. So go on get your mustache on…
Check out these fun mustache finds I found on Etsy!
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If there's one band that absolutely deserves the documentary treatment, it's The Replacements.
My adolescence wouldn't have been the same without the Minneapolis rockers; I think I still have worn copies of Let It Be and Pleased to Meet Me in a closet somewhere. Even though the group never broke through to the mainstream, they had a massive impact on fans, and I hope teens are continuing to discover their music today.
Director Gorman Bechard has crafted a paean to The 'Mats called Color Me Obsessed, and, like the band, most of its exposure has been through word of mouth. Obsessed collects 100+ interviews with other musicians (Colin Meloy, Grant Hart, Craig Finn), critics (Legs McNeil, Matt Pinfield) and famous fans (Dave Foley and, uh, George Wendt) and pieces together the guys' dramatic rise and fall.
As one person says in the trailer, The Replacements were "a glorious mess":
Good lord, I can't wait to see this movie. Color Me Obsessed doesn't arrive on DVD until Nov. 6, but if you pre-order the two-disc set you'll get a free 'Mats magnet. (The DVD release comes with six hours of extras!)
Bechard is also the director of the recent Archers of Loaf concert documentary, What Did You Expect?. That arrives on DVD Nov. 20.
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North Country DU event raises more than $50,000
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Play The Fanghorn Forest Level:
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Link to a Gamecube and play the GCN version of ROTK. Sam will be unlocked and playable in multiplayer mode as well as on bonus maps.
Duplicate Items:
If one player gives another player an item in multiplayer mode, and the receiving player saves the game but the giving player does not, then the giver will still have the item when he or she restarts.
Free runes with Frodo:
After you defeat Shelob, Frodo will get kidnapped. You have to free him with
Sam. After you have freed him get out the building and go down the stairs. You
will find a rune each time you enter this area.
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Minuteman Bikeway
It's one thing to bomb down Mass Ave on your bicycle, that two-wheeled city dance. Swerves and dips, human-consuming potholes, roaring buses, entitled drivers distracted and owning the road. There's a pleasure to it, sure, an on-your-toes and wits-about-you thrill. But there's an argument to be made for a tree-lined trail, where traffic consists of cyclists, bladers, people in sneaks on two feet. The MINUTEMAN BIKEWAY, running 11 miles through Cambridge, Arlington, Lexington, and Bedford, rambles through back yards and history — the route roughly follows the path Paul Revere rode marking the beginning of the American Revolution in 1775. It's a lovely, verdant stretch of New Englandary.
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Inside Pitch: Ozzie Smith Part 3This week in the Ameren Illinois Inside Pitch, former Cardinals pitcher Kyle McClellan talks to Hall of Fame shortstop, Ozzie Smith.
Ozzie Smith Gets Another Call From HallRetired Cardinals shortstop is newest member of baseball shrine's board of directors
Inside Pitch: Ozzie SmithFormer Cardinals pitcher Kyle McClellan talks to the Hall of Fame Cardinals shortstop Ozzie Smith about baseball and life in St. Louis.
KMOX Profiles: Ozzie SmithLegendary Cardinals Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith joins Tom Ackerman for an in-depth interview about his mission of making St. Louis a better place to live.
VIDEO: Wainwright's 3rd Annual Fantasy Football DraftFans drafted against Cardinal legends, a Super Bowl champ and an award winning actor.
Cardinals to Induct First Hall of Fame Class During Ceremony on Saturday2014 Class of Edmonds, Marion, McGee, and Shannon will be enshrined during ceremony at FOX Sports Midwest Live! at 10:30 a.m.
Top 5 Cardinals Hall of FamersHow do I pick the five best Cardinals Hall of Famers? I'll be leaving some amazing players off the list, won't I? Here goes...
Celebrities, Former Major Leaguers Face Off in All-Star GameSt. Louis was well-represented in the Taco Bell All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game, with Rapper Nelly, Bravo TV show host Andy Cohen and former Cardinal Ozzie Smith all taking the field.
Top 5 Cardinals Trades Of All TimeWhile we hear all of the different rumors of trades, let's think back to the best trades the Cardinals have made.
Top 5 Calls Of Jack Buck's Career - Which One Is The Best?Of all of Jack Buck's famous calls, which one is the best? That's where you come in. We've picked the top 5 and we need you to help us pick a winner.
White House Rejects Opening Day Holiday PetitionSpokesman tells Budweiser, Ozzie Smith, and all those who asked, it's up to Congress, not the President.
VIDEO: Ozzie Smith, Budweiser Taking Opening Day Petition To DCThe former Cardinal urges baseball fans everywhere to sign a petition to make Opening Day a national holiday.


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It's a robot-filled week for artificial intelligence. From manufacturing and labor to stock exchanges, robots are being introduced as men's accomplices at work.
Working Class-Robot Invasion
The world's food consumption will double by 2050. This will burden the farming industry to supply the increasing demand; farmers will have to multiply their usual pace and technology. That is if there are still those who are interested in farming by that time. To not only alleviate the scarcity of workforce, but to also assist farmers in meeting global food security challenge, Farmerbots are being developed.
These Farmerbots are designed to take care of the hard labor and plant seeds in a field. This industrial revolution is headed by David Dorhout and colleagues from Dorhout R&D. But he explained that there is no complete "robots replacing human" scenario that will transpire with the existence of these machines.
"There's no long-term memory, there's no centralised command and control: robots just follow simple rules from which complex behaviour arises," says Dorhout.
The military is also tapping robotics to carry out complex tasks. Robo-soldiers are a commonplace in sci-fi action movies. In reality, militaries are already exploring this option for cost and life-saving alike. In April, the U.S. Navy revealed their plans of coming up with the underwater robot, Knifefish. The main purpose of this marine robot is to roam around open waters and search for mines underneath. Dolphins are the ones doing this job at the moment. While the U.S. Military has admitted that it is not an easy thing to replace the capabilities of animals to perform intricate tasks, it could be an alternative.
Their main reason of eliminating the use of dolphins to hunt for mines is cost. Dolphins must travel via specialized vessel with a portable but complete veterinary staff with it.
Corporate Robots
Robots are also expected to invade corporate offices. From adopting the BYOD trend, the workplaces may also be walking towards the Bring Your Own Robots sooner or later. According to Intel's chief evangelist once people tried using these personal data agents for their personal lives, they would be enticed to bring them into the corporate environment. Of course, everyone wants their job to be a lot easier than it is.
But if you think that these office robots will just settle for the assistant position, think again. A Forex trading robot has just recently landed on the desk of financial experts. This one is poised to revolutionize the way money is moved and played within the foreign exchange market.
"The Forex Striker development team has just released Forex Striker to the public and everyone involved in Forex trading is talking about this monumental new technology," reports WealthSpringMarketing's Tiffany Hendricks. "Over 300 beta testers have already traded profitably using Forex Striker to quickly rack up over $450,000 in net profits from small-scale accounts."
Teaching Aide for Autism
At the Topcliffe Primary School at the United Kingdom, robots have been helping in teaching children with autism. Surprisingly, the knee-high robots that mimic the moves a normal child, are making the kids respond more compared to actual human teachers.
Head Teacher Ian Lowe said, "They are really cute looking. Children with autism struggle with communicating with adults and with other children, but for some reason they engage with these robots.
"Children who first come into school unable to make eye contact with humans start to communicate through the robots."
According to the researchers Birmingham University which has been conducting studies using robotics for autism concluded that the key to making this technology work better is programming. This is why they are focusing now on how to creatively program these robots to enhance the children's social interaction and communication skills.
The movement to using artificial intelligent machines just like with any other changes is preceded by great demand that human powers are unlikely to fulfill efficiently. Furthermore, AI developments of today are geared towards making our lives easy, and not necessarily to replace us. I am just not sure with Eric Schmidt, who would like to swallow a robot and have a robot doppelganger attend a part for him.


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Some will remember a classic Saturday Night Live skit that aired right after the midterm election of 1998 and featured Chris Parnell playing deposed Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and Will Farrell playing Gingrich's short-lived successor, Bob Livingston.
The two Republican leaders sit glumly at a bar wondering how they suddenly find themselves out of work while Bill Clinton — whose sexual shenanigans and impeachment were supposed to net the GOP massive midterm gains — remained securely ensconced in the White House.
"What the hell happened?" is all Livingston can bellow over and over again, even as Darrell Hammond, playing Clinton, emerges from a back room with two bimbos and buys a round of drinks before exiting.
These days, Californians probably feel something like those dumbfounded House leaders.
"What the hell happened?" they'd be justified in asking about their once-golden state.
Twenty years ago, California had it all: yes, unmatched weather, but also a booming Pentium-driven economy, ample jobs, bountiful well-watered agriculture, good schools, great universities, exemplary infrastructure, a can-do business culture and entrepreneurs galore.
Now the economy's in the dumps, jobs are tight, taxes are high, bond ratings are low, businesses are bailing, schools are failing, streets are crumbling, deficits are yawning, cropland lies fallow, cities are filing for bankruptcy, and a corrupt, incompetent state government seems perpetually on the verge of catastrophe.
In short, says Brian Anderson, editor of "The Beholden State," a new book of essays that chronicles the collapse, "the future (a generation ago) was Californian." But today, "signs of decline are everywhere."
The reason, concludes Anderson, editor of City Journal, the monthly magazine of the right-leaning Manhattan Institute, is "misguided policy rooted in a political culture too often disconnected from reality." A genteel way, perhaps, of saying, "They've gone completely bonkers out there." But an apt summation nonetheless.
Veteran California-watcher Joel Kotkin is less genteel in his chapter on "The Golden State's War On Itself." No conservative himself, Kotkin cites a shift "from an older progressivism, which emphasized infrastructure investment and business growth, to a newer version, which views the private sector much the way the Huns viewed a city — as something to be sacked and plundered."
The plunderers in this case are public-sector unions, which gained bargaining rights in the late 1960s and rose to power over the next two decades as the population boomed and government payrolls swelled. Here, the trenchant Steve Malanga does the heavy lifting.
It didn't take long, he says, for public workers "to learn how to elect their own bosses — sympathetic politicians who would grant them outsized pay and benefits for their support." Over time, the teacher, public-safety and service-employee unions "have turned the state's politics completely in their favor. The result: unaffordable benefits for civil servants (and) fiscal chaos in Sacramento and in cities and towns across the state."
And helping pay for this circus, Malanga adds, is the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), the managers of which have been as co-opted as completely as the politicians.
All this might be tolerable if state services were still tip-top. Instead, notes William Voegeli, California has developed a "big-spending, high-taxing, lousy-services paradigm" in which additional spending consists not of highway and other improvements that benefit the most people, but "transfer payments to government dependents ... or generous payments to government employees and contractors."
IBD readers will appreciate the data that "Beholden State" brings to the task, as well as details provided by 16 writers who know whereof they speak.
It's one thing to brush up on the agricultural differences in California's vast Central Valley, how the verdant East Side is fed by massive snowmelts in the Sierra Nevada while a desiccated West thirsts for water cut off by environmentalists protecting a three-inch bait fish.
But Victor Davis Hanson, a nationally syndicated columnist and longtime East Side raisin-grower, puts a deliciously fine point on it in "Water Wars" with a compelling comparison of pumping pure water on the East Side vs. brackish water on the West.
In "A Crude Awakening," another seasoned Californian, Tom Gray, remembers when California was a petro-state that produced about a quarter of the world's oil. Then, of course, came the 1969 blowout of a well six miles off the Santa Barbara coast, which begat Earth Day, which begat the EPA, which begat ... well, you know the rest.
Gray notes, however, that California still has plenty of oil available for pumping both offshore and on. This includes more than 15 billion barrels of recoverable crude in the Monterey Shale — or four times what's estimated to lie within the Bakken formation fueling North Dakota's boom.
Making use of such ample resources is one of four solutions that Hanson offers in the book's obligatory there's-still-hope final chapter. The other three are: Don't raise taxes any higher, reform public-employee compensation and stop the flow of illegal aliens (a mega-topic to which the book gives relatively little space).
But will a state that just re-installed Gov. Jerry Brown, re-elected Sen. Barbara Boxer and put Democrats in all but one of last fall's open legislative seats accomplish any of these goals ?
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I dont agree with much of his second half of article.
It's our Constitutional right. Please see my sig for my opinion: Freedom doesnt mean safe, it means free.
Personally, altho it's a tired analogy, we are all in more danger from each other with our cars.
(This is not meant as a criticism of the OP...thank you, it was an interested read)


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Minnesotans are represented at the capitols in both St. Paul and Washington D.C. The U.S. Senate and U.S. House in Washington function much like the state Legislature with one major difference. The bills U.S. senators and representatives debate apply to the whole country – not just the state.
The U.S. Senate has 100 members; two senators are elected from each state. They are elected to six-year terms and about one-third of the seats are elected every two years. Senators are elected state-wide and each represents the entire state.
The U.S. House of Representatives has 435 members; the number of representatives a state has is based on the state's population. Minnesota has eight representatives in the U.S. House, each elected from one of the state's eight congressional districts. Each U.S. House member represents about 500,000 people. Unlike U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives represent those people who live within their districts. They each serve a two-year term and are elected on even-numbered years.
Although the U.S. House is often informally referred to as Congress, that term really refers to both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate taken together.
Current contact information and listing of elected officials serving south central Minnesota is available here.


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Prosecutors lay out case in Coast Guard homicides
A 63-year-old Coast Guard civilian technician is scheduled to go on trial Monday in the shooting deaths of two co-workers nearly two years ago at a communications station on Kodiak Island.
James Michael Wells is charged with murder counts in the deaths of 51-year-old Richard Belisle and 41-year-old Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins of Vergennes, Vt.
Prosecutors say Wells claimed to have been delayed by a flat tire but that he used his wife's sport utility vehicle to drive to the communications station and gun down his co-workers, with whom he had feuded.
Defense attorneys say the government case relies on surveillance video that is inconclusive. They say in a trial brief that prosecutors have no physical evidence linking Wells to the homicides.
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What are you learning? The Practice: Ask questions. Why?My dad grew up on a ranch in North Dakota. He has a saying from his childhood - you may have heard it elsewhere - that's: "You learn more by listening than by talking."Sure, we often gain by thinking out loud, including discovering our truth by speaking it. But on the whole, listening brings lots more valuable information than talking does.Nonetheless, many people are not the greatest listeners. (You've probably noticed this … [Read more...]
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Stay Right When You're Wronged
What happens after you're mistreated? The Practice: Stay right when you're wronged. Why?It's easy to treat people well when they treat you well. The real test is when they treat you badly.Think of times you've been truly wronged, in small ways or big ones. Maybe someone stole something , turned others against you, broke an agreement, cheated on you, or spoke unfairly or abusively.When things like these happen, I feel mad, hurt, startled, wounded, sad. Naturally it arises to want … [Read more...]
Give Over To Good
What is living you? The Practice: Give over to good. Why?In every moment, you and I and everyone and everything else - from quantum foam to fleeting thoughts, intimate relationships, rainforest ecosystems, and the stars themselves - are each a kind of standing wave, like the ever-changing though persistent pattern of water rising above a boulder in a river.We are the result of multiple causes flowing through us. As Buckminster Fuller famously said, "I seem to be a verb."This fact … [Read more...]
Say Thanks
Each Thanksgiving holiday, we are reminded to be thankful. When times are tough, finding reasons to be thankful may be challenging or even seem inappropriate or impossible. This year, before we sit around the dinner table, let's think about the myriad benefits to saying thanks, and how to truly savor the opportunity, no matter what.What do others give you? The Practice: Say thanks. Why?What do you feel when someone thanks you for something? For a comment in a meeting, a task done at h … [Read more...]
Relax, You've Arrived
Are we there yet? The Practice Relax, you've arrived. Why?We spend so much of our time trying to get somewhere.Part of this comes from our biological nature. To survive, animals - including us - have to be goal-directed, leaning into the future.It's certainly healthy to pursue wholesome aims, like paying the rent on time, raising children well, healing old pain, or improving education.But it's also important to see how this focus on the future - on endless striving, on … [Read more...]
Balancing Joining and Separating
There is a natural balance within us all between the desire for joining and the desire for separation, between the desire for closeness and the desire for distance.These two great themes – joining and separation – are central to human life. Almost everyone wants both of them, to varying degrees.People tend to focus a lot on the joining theme, both because relationships are about – uh – joining, and because spiritual practice of any kind is fundamentally about coming into relationship with thi … [Read more...]
The Brain in a Bucket
Have you ever seen a real brain?I remember the first time I saw one, in a neuropsych class: the instructor put on rubber gloves to protect against the formaldehyde preservative, popped the lid off of a lab bucket, and then pulled out a brain.It didn't look like much, a nondescript waxy yellowish-white blob rather like a sculpted head of cauliflower. But the whole class went silent. We were looking at the real deal, ground zero for consciousness, headquarters for "me." The person it came from … [Read more...]


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(Houston, TX - Wendy Siegle, KUHF) Metro, the Metropolitan Transit Agency here released the results of an external review today. Metro has already been cleared of any wrong doing in the recent document shredding scandal, but the transit agency still ordered the review in an effort to boost its public image and restore public trust. The review found positive change in the new board, but also highlighted some areas in need of improvement. In response to one recommendation, the agency is considering whether to take minutes of its committee meetings in order to ensure better transparency. More.


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Re: Dr. Pepper MiniGame
VioletWinds wrote:
@ ITCOB1 and TheLunatic Parade: I'm trying to think how to respond without saying you're both stupid.
ITCOB: " As a male, I found the campaign quite funny. Come on people lighten up. It is a Great Reward and I am happy to see corporate interest in Home."
As a male, you find sexist campaigns funny? Wow, there's a surprise.
As a female, I find it freaking hilarious. It is okay to laugh at ourself. Really.
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This went from "Dr.Pepper minigame and reward" to "Oh em gee Sony's so sexist"...nice job guys
Come check out my Twitch TV channel, will be streaming various PS4 games from time to time http://www.twitch.tv/reddaxel
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Anyone can drink Dr. Pepper. What's the big deal?
I remember buying it for 7 cents a bottle. It said 10-2-4 on it and I think the idea was to drink it warm to replace drinking coffee.
I liked the old Pepper commercials and still do.
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This went from "Dr.Pepper minigame and reward" to "Oh em gee Sony's so sexist"...nice job guys
And this is why I stopped helping the forums with reward information. XD That'll learn me to help the forumites. lol
I don't budlist-add on forums, and blank PSN requests get ignored!
Missing Rewards -over a year old, still never fixed! 3-4 months worth of items still MIA.
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It's pretty ridiculous to see people being offended by this campaign. The whole "manly" premise is obviously a bit of a lark anyway. Does anyone really believe that drinking a Dr. Pepper makes a man more masculine? Do the people behind the ad campaign really believe that they've convinced anyone of that notion?
Everyone knows that a woman is more likely to swoon over a doctor.
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ITCOB1 wrote:
You hand picked a couple of sentences out of the context of my post and clearly missed the point of my post.
As a side note, that ad campaign was directly only targeted for men. Obviously, their market research must have shown adequate product saturation with already diet conscious women.
This ad campaign aired on network tv several months ago. In this country it received a considerable internet backlash at the time. Personally I think people have become way to sensitive and easily offended. We have lost all sense of humor in this country. As a male, I found the campaign quite funny. This country is divided 50/50 on many issues. With our diversity someone will always be offended.
Come on people lighten up. It is a Great Reward and I am happy to see corporate interest in Home.
There's your whole post. I believe you made more than one point -- I responded to one of them. My comments remain the same.
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Personally, I enjoyed learning which new object would represent the "manified" versions of the ones initially presented. So, the ladybug became a scorpion, the purse, a toolbox, etc. Each was worth a chuckle.
Also personally, I enjoy Dr. Pepper from time to time, and was going to suggest that Dr. Pepper Ten is for everyone, but then I learned that it's a diet drink. Sorry, it's not for me.
;^) But the reward item is a hoot, and it's good to see sponsors still taking an interest in Home.


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Location: Exotic and Invasive Weeds Research
Project Number: 2030-22000-025-06-S
Project Type: Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Aug 1, 2010
End Date: Sep 30, 2014
The objective of this cooperative research project is to discover prospective biological control agents of yellow starthistle, Scotch thistle, Russian thistle (tumbleweed), and other weeds of mutual interest in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and conduct experiments to evaluate the host plant specificity and potential efficacy of the more promising species.
Explorations will be conducted at different seasons to regions where the target plants are known to occur to collect arthropods and pathogens likely to be host-specific. Specimens will be identified by qualified taxonomists, and phylogenetic analysis of DNA will be done when appropriate. Prospective agents will be evaluated using host specificity experiments to determine if they feed, oviposit, or develop on representative nontarget plants that are likely to be at risk of attack. Further tests under laboratory or field conditions will be conducted when appropriate. Populations of promising agents will be sent to quarantine laboratories in the U.S. to conduct further tests on the most promising agents.


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Curious as to whats the latest ...
ive seen mentioned here and other places about the inevitable end to support and development but what exactly does this mean?
should xp owners be more seriously considering moving to vista / 7 / 8 ? (NOT interested in thoughts or opinions of which and why unless theres talk of support / development being stopped for one of those too) dont want this thread to become a "which is the better OS" discussion.
Just curious as if to weather or not its really time for one to be looking into getting away from xp and more importantly why.
what if it were a computer that was mostly used for kids to play games online? a computer where no real work / tasks are being performed?


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Finding Himself Far From Home
Sunday, July 12, 2009
BILLINGS, Mont.
This is how it happens. You play 10, 12, 13 years in the big leagues, cash in a couple of big contracts at the end. "Retire" by the simple act of not answering your phone for an entire offseason, your career numbers a statement for all eternity as to who you were. You lay low, help raise those kids, get the oldest ready to fly the nest. Get divorced -- ouch -- and watch the economy go down the toilet -- double ouch. Start thinking that, well, if you were ever going to get back in the game, this might not be a bad time.
Yep. That, as a general outline, is how you get from the couch back onto the field. But even that doesn't explain -- look around -- this: how Delino DeShields, player of 1,615 big league games, stealer of 463 big league bases, earner of nearly 29 million big league bucks, wound up in Billings, Mont., hard by the Yellowstone River, at the lowest rung of the minor leagues, a rookie ball hitting coach at the age of 40, some six years after retiring as a player.
To explain that, you have to find a shady spot out of the way of the blazing, Big Sky summer sun and ask some questions DeShields has contemplated himself, but never really articulated.
"I've been sitting home, basically, since I retired in 2002," DeShields says one recent afternoon. "Really, [I was] just bored -- besides the fact I was able to spend a lot of time with my kids. I just felt that something was missing. This ain't about the money, obviously. . . . I enjoy seeing young men improve."
He is sitting at a picnic table under a giant tent, outside the home clubhouse at Dehler Park, home of the Pioneer League's Billings Mustangs, a rookie-level affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds. It is six hours until game time, and he is clutching a Subway sandwich bag, foot-long, having apparently found the standard pregame clubhouse spread -- peanut butter, jelly, white bread, bananas, same thing every day -- somewhat lacking. Inside, meanwhile, DeShields's players, some of them still teenagers, are slathering it on and gobbling it down.
"This is who I am," he says. "This is pro baseball. This is what I'm more accustomed to."
Accustomed to? Only in the most general sense. In the big leagues, where DeShields played from 1990 to 2002 for five franchises, he traveled in chartered-air elegance; here, he is taking bus trips of up to 12 hours. In the big leagues, he never touched his luggage -- it just magically showed up in his five-star hotel room; here, he is always carrying something, whether a clipboard or a fungo bat or a camcorder or a bucket full of scuffed-up batting-practice balls.
Here, the Mustangs can't always practice when they want, because the field is being used by local American Legion teams -- which , for that matter, sometimes get better play than the Mustangs themselves on the front of the Billings Gazette's sports page.
There being, at present, no baseball played on the moon, this is about as far as one can possibly get from the big leagues -- almost literally: The nearest big league team, the Colorado Rockies, is 551 miles away. As for Cincinnati, it's 1,500 miles, at least two flights and five ladder rungs away from Billings.
"He must love what he's doing," said Marquis Grissom, a longtime friend, ex-teammate and neighbor back in Atlanta, "to be all the way out there in Montana."
It's funny how things work out, depending upon whom you know. Like DeShields, Grissom is back in the pro game this year after a layoff (his lasted three years), but Washington Nationals President Stan Kasten adored him, so Grissom is now the Nationals' first base coach. DeShields, meantime, has an old buddy, Freddie Benavides, who is the Reds' director of minor league infield instruction, and so he wound up in Billings.


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GoPro, which makes wearable cameras used by surfers, skydivers and other action junkies to post their exploits online, reported a bigger quarterly loss as costs nearly doubled.
GoPro shares fell 9.3 per cent to $US43.50 in extended trading.
The company spent $US34.7 million on research and development in the quarter, more than double a year earlier, while general expenses jumped nearly six times to $US41.2 million.
The net loss attributable to GoPro stockholders widened to $US19.8 million in the second quarter from $US5 million a year earlier, in the company's first quarterly results after its debut on the Nasdaq last month.
The company said revenue jumped 38 per cent to $US244.6 million in the quarter but operating expenses rose to $US119.5 million from $US62.8 million a year earlier.
Videos taken using the company's wearable cameras have made a big splash on the Internet. The company said in June its videos attracted more than 1 billion views in the first quarter on YouTube, where its channel has 2 million subscribers.
San Mateo, California-based GoPro went public late last month with shares jumping as much as 38 per cent in their first day.
Up to Thursday's close, GoPro shares had doubled to $US46.32 from its IPO price.