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Menolly is a gifted harper (musician, essentially), but being a girl and belonging to what seems to be the equivalent to a backwater town on her world, she's bullied by her parents into giving up her dream. She resists, though, by running away, and in the process befriends some small dragon-like creatures in a way that she doesn't at the time realize is just short of miraculous.
One of those gawky-girl-who-doesn't-realize-she's-actually-really-amazing type stories. It's good, but not the best of its kind. I enjoyed it, but not enough to scramble for the next in the series.
Re-read of an old favorite.
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey is the first book of the Harper Hall trilogy (along with Dragonsinger and Dragon Drums). I first read these and the original Dragonriders of Pern trilogy (Dragonflight, Dragonquest and The White Dragon) back when I was barely a teenager.
I loved all of them for many years, along with many other McCaffrey stories. It took me awhile to figure out that one of the things that I really enjoyed is that there is no religion in this fantasy setting, and no war or large-scale violence.
The Harper Hall trilogy are my favorites, and the only ones I am interested in keeping now. That's because they don't involve any sex, unlike the other early trilogy. It took me a long time to figure out that McCaffrey's portrayal of sex was deeply problematic: almost always involving at least one scene where the man makes sexual overtures, the woman says no, and the man goes ahead anyway. Sex without consent is by definition rape. Add in the particular twist of the telepathic bonds with dragons or fire lizards, such that when the dragons mate, the people linked to them have sex too, swept away by the sexual urges. Which is to say, the woman bonded to the gold queen dragon doesn't get to pick her sex partner and may not even know what the hell is happening if she didn't happen to grow up in a dragon weyr. But hey, that's just biology and associated social order.
The protagonist of Dragonsong is Menolly, the youngest daughter of the chief (Holder) of a small, isolated fishing village (seahold). She's 14 at the beginning of the first book, musically gifted, and bereft at the death of her mentor Petiron, the hold's harper. Her father reluctantly assigns her to teach the children until the new harper arrives so they don't fall behind on their lessons. However, she is to teach only the formal and traditional teaching songs. She is forbidden to make her own music because only boys can apprentice to learn a trade, including harpering.
Menolly becomes increasingly unhappy under the patriarchal and narrow restrictions of her family and village and runs away because possible death foraging alone and holdless is better than her increasingly intolerable home life. Adventures ensue as Menolly learns to survive and become self-sufficient. She isn't lonely though, when she discovers that the legendary fire lizards are real and become a part of her new life. Part of the story is told from the perspective of Elgion, the new harper, as he tries to find out what happened to Petiron's mysterious apprentice at the behest of the Masterharper. Their stories converge at the end for a happy resolution and shiny new future for Menolly.
This is a charming books featuring a strong female character coming of age and finding her strength and her friends. She deals with physical and emotional abuse, seeking food and shelter, social ostracism, prejudice, and overly narrow gender roles. But the story is hopeful and ultimately rewarding. I wanted to be Menolly when I read these books at her age.
I haven't devoured a book in a single session in a long time! I got swept away!
I seem to be reviewing these as I reread them.
By the time she wrote this one, McCaffrey seems to have had enough of a society that limits women. Menolly is born into that society but rejects it and by the end of the book is promised the life she always wanted.
The book concentrates more on the 'song' half of the title than the 'dragon' half. It takes the developments of Dragonflight and Dragonquest as given, and parts of the story will not make much sense to those who haven't read them. Those parts however, while important to the series, don't really matter to this book.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553258524, Mass Market Paperback)Anne McCaffrey's best-selling Harper Hall Trilogy is a wonder-filled classic of the imagination. Dragonsong, the first volume in the series, is the enchanting tale of how Menolly of Half Circle Hold became Pern's first female Harper, and rediscovered the legendary fire lizards who helped to save her world.
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On the planet Pern, after her father forbids her to indulge in music in any way, fifteen-year-old Menolly, runs away and takes shelter with the planet's fire lizards who, along with her music, open a new life for her.
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If you had to identify a Stanley Cup favorite right about now and you applied perspective and logic to the process, chances are the Penguins wouldn't be the team you'd identify.
And that would be just fine with Dan Bylsma.
"Coaches worry about a lot of things," Bylsma allowed prior to the Penguins' hosting of the Phoenix Coyotes. "I can tell you the last couple years listening to the pundits and the people and the TV through the month of March and into April and you hear how you're the best, the most favored, you're a lock; if I knew how to program these TVs and shut them off so that we didn't always hear that from everybody I would do it.
"If we're not there right now I'm kinda glad I don't have to shut the TV off a little bit and hear everyone say you're a favorite, a lock, their pick, Final Four, whatever goes on on the TV shows and the talk."
That was Bylsma's perspective before he announced today that Evgeni Malkin would be out for two to three weeks with a foot injury, before the Penguins sunk a little bit deeper under the perceived radar, relatively speaking.
There was a time this season when a Boston-Pittsburgh Eastern Conference Final could be and was anticipated as all but inevitable.
The Penguins were considered the favorite and the Bruins the only team capable of challenging them back then.
Not anymore.
The deck has reshuffled and the Eastern Conference is suddenly filled with would-be Cup contenders.
The Bruins have emerged as perhaps the class of the conference in the wake of the 12-game winning streak they had snapped on Monday night.
The Tampa Bay Lightning, like the Bruins, lost in a shootout on Monday night. But prior to that the Lightning had gone 5-1-4 in their last 10 games and Steven Stamkos had produced six goals and three assists for nine points in his last six games (Stamkos had understandably gone scoreless in his first three games upon returning from injury).
The Flyers got beat in regulation on Monday but prior to that they had won five in a row and their victims had included the Penguins (twice), the Blackhawks and the Blues.
And the Rangers climbed over the Flyers and into fifth in the conference on Monday via a 4-3 victory over the Coyotes, in part because New York had won 21 of its last 28 road games and was tied for first overall in road wins with 23. The Rangers also have goaltender Henrik Lundqvist setting franchise records for victories and shutouts, seemingly on a nightly basis.
That's not to suggest the Penguins wouldn't or couldn't beat any of those teams in a postseason series.
But would you really consider the Penguins a lock against any of them right about now?
If you would, you probably haven't factored in how injured the Penguins have been this season, how they're still groping for the right combinations in the wake of all those injuries, and how they might continue to do so when and if injured players return.
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And if you've made that mistake you might want to reacquaint yourself with the difference between "aspirations" and "expectations" between now and the playoffs.
"We're working and striving to be a better team right now in how we play," Bylsma said. "(Sunday's 1-0 loss to St. Louis) was a great test and indicator. That's exactly the kind of game and team we want to play and expect it to be in playoff time.
"We came up short in that game. I think we can be better and do better. We're still working toward that."
In the meantime, "that's fine if we don't have that side talk on TV," he said.
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Viewpoint: No regrets from a president who 'fell to the occasion'
By Ellen Goodman
December 26, 2008
What I can't "snap out of" is the fact that he (Bush) is preparing to write a book and design a library whose themes will undoubtedly be: "Heckuva job, George."
The 43rd president is going home with less remorse and fewer regrets than my grandchildren express for spilling their cereal.
This is the tenor of the farewell tour being conducted across the landscape from ABC to the American Enterprise Institute. It's the No Regrets Tour, the nonreflective "reflections by a guy who's headed out of town. "
George W. Bush will be remembered with names such as Abu Ghraib, Gitmo and Katrina. With phrases such as "weapons of mass destruction" and "mission accomplished." He came in with a budget surplus and leaves with a massive deficit. He blew the good will of the post-9/11 world. But being this president means never having to say you're sorry.
Leaving office, he takes credit for seven years of safety and no debit for a day of disaster. He takes credit for the boom - "it's hard to argue against 52 uninterrupted months of job growth" - without taking responsibility for the deregulated bust. He takes credit for the surge, not the disastrous pre-emptive war.
"The biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq," he said. But would he have led us to war anyway? "It's hard for me to speculate."
No. 43 has the lowest approval ratings in modern presidential history.
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"Black holes, the ultradense collapsed objects predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, are often depicted as voracious feeders whose extraordinary gravity acts like a one-way membrane: Everything is sucked in, even light, and virtually nothing leaks out.
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In March or April, a gas cloud that has been hurtling toward the center of the Milky Way is expected to collide with Sagittarius A*, a black hole that lies just 26,000 light-years from Earth. (The actual event, of course, took place 26,000 years ago.)" (NY Times, It's Snack Time in the Cosmos)
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GBP/USD closed higher on Tuesday ending a two-day correction off last week's high. The high-range close sets the stage for a steady to higher opening on Wednesday. Stochastics and the RSI are diverging and are turning bearish hinting that a short-term top might be in or is near. Closes below the 20-day moving average crossing are needed to confirm that a short-term top has been posted. If it extends the rally off May's low, the 50% retracement level of the 2009-2010-decline crossing is the next upside target.


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by Donald Michael Kraig
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I read this a LONG time ago (16 or 18 years), and it was really the first occult/new age book I picked up. I remember enjoying it, but I also remember it being a bit more structure than I was comfortable with. But there were techniques in it I've internalized, and it was an effective introduction to the whole arena.
Having heard very polarized views of this book, I figured it was time I read it myself, and while I'm not ending up on the far end of the views I've heard about this book, I must say I was disappointed. While I think the content was ordered and laid out well, the writing suffered in several ways. For a man who apparently doesn't like blinds in occult texts, he sure had enough. They ranged from just not explaining why you had to use one colour, and not another, to changing rituals (or putting them randomly in Enochian) and not explaining why, to actually admitting giving incorrect information earlier in the book. The last example bothered me, as Kraig seems to work from an objective magickal perspective, so spelling something wrong in Hebrew will mess up the ritual item, so he proceeds to misspell an important name on the defencive pentacle, and tell you near the end of the book. Even if not for the objective magickal perspective, due to spacing and writing (we don't leave gaps randomly for mistaken letters to fit in) and people shellacking their items, he's essentially ruined the object. While some of his information, and ritual suggestions are useful, I won't be recommending people to this book, preferring to send people to Frater U:.D:. or Lon Milo DuQuette.
Good entry-level sorcerer's handbook. Cuts through the B.S. & gets down to the brass tacks. Handful of step-by-step lessons lay occult practices bare. Author can be a bit pretentious, but wealth of info makes it worthwhile. Follow with "Sefer Yetzirah" by Kaplan for more history & practical info.
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Ancaster's Laura Fortino has every reason to feel confident in her game as she prepares to help Team Canada's women's ice hockey team battle for a fourth straight Winter Olympics gold medal in Sochi, Russia next month.

Yet when she does feel any doubts, the Bishop Tonnos grad says she draws strength from her past success on the ice, both during a stellar career stateside at Cornell University and while representing Canada on the under-18, under-22 and national teams. Highlights – and there are many – include being named one of two defensive all-stars at the 2012 International Ice Hockey Federation championship in Vermont, where Canada took gold with a 5-4 overtime win over its perennial U.S. rivals.

The rearguard also posted an incredible plus-142 goal record over four years at Cornell, where she was named to the All-American first team three years in a row, Ivy League Player of the Year on 2011 and was either a nominee or finalist for the NCAA Division 1 player of the year in every season.

"Earlier this year, I sometimes had days where I lacked confidence," says Fortino, named to the 21-member Olympic squad on Dec. 23.

"At points this year I looked back on how well I prepared and how my development as a player has really, really progressed over the years. I just believed in that and the tool set I have as a player," she says.

"Having that success, especially my four years at Cornell playing in the best women's league you can, the NCAA, and having that success, for myself (I know) I can do it and I can do it at this level also."

While she managed to come home to visit parents Ignazio and Ivana for a couple of days over Christmas, Fortino has been living and training with Team Canada full-time in Calgary since August.

At 22, the former Stoney Creek Junior Sabres star is the fourth-youngest player on the Olympic team.

She says she's honoured to be playing alongside the likes of captain Haylee Wickenheiser, who has represented Canada in all four Olympics since women's hockey became a medal event in 1998.

"Probably half of the girls on the team or more, they were my role models when I was younger. They were my idols, all the girls that I looked up to, and I was, like, 'I one day want to be like them and play in the Olympics,'" Fortino says.

"But the fact that I'm even now able to play and be their teammate and hopefully win a gold medal and go to the Olympics with them, it's a bit surreal."

Known for her offensive prowess – she had 133 points in as many games at Cornell – Fortino says she's worked on all aspects of her game to become a more complete player.

"The one thing they really emphasize is being able to play both ends of the ice and that's something I've really had to learn, to make sure my defensive game is as good as my offensive game," she says.

"I think for me naturally bringing both to the team is really going to help a lot."

While Canada and the United States continue to dominate women's hockey, Fortino says other countries have made great strides, noting Finland reached the gold medal game at last November's Four Nations Cup – won by Canada – by knocking off the U.S. squad.

Sweden meanwhile gave Canada a good run in the lead up to the final, dropping a 4-3 decision.

"I feel like this year there's going to really be a big step up in women's hockey and the competition," she says of the Sochi games.

Fortino acknowledges Canada will be under pressure to once again take gold, but says that's part of playing hockey in this country and the team embraces the challenge.

Adding to that challenge is the sudden coaching change that saw ex-NHLer Kevin Dineen take over the bench following the surprise resignation of Dan Church in mid-December.

Under Dineen's helm the team lost all four final games of a six-match exhibition series against the United States – although the final two were by one-goal margins and Canada has a history of turning things around when the games count.

Fortino says she's confident Dineen "will do a great job," given his experience coaching in the NHL and representing Canada at the international level as a player.

"I think with the veterans we have and the leadership on the team, we've really come together to move forward," she says.

"I think if we focus on the little things and get better and better as a team, we're hoping success will follow and we can bring back that gold medal."

Though being an Olympian will be a new experience for her, playing in Sochi won't. She and her teammates went there in September for two exhibition games against Russia, both won handily by Canada, so they'll be familiar with the venue.

But Fortino says she's still adjusting to the idea of going to Sochi for the real thing, one made easier by a top-notch Olympic training centre in Calgary that offers players "everything under the sun" as they prepare for the games.

"I don't think it really has truly set in for me that I am an Olympian now and I'm going to be going to the Olympics," she says. "I think it will hit me soon, but I think it won't be until I actually get there for the opening ceremonies and it's like, 'Wow, I'm actually here.'"


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The Falcon Flyer is the ship in which Captain Falcon flies in to complete his bounty hunter missions. Interestingly, both in F-Zero and Super Smash Bros. Melee., he never uses it. In fact, its only video game appearance is in the Super Smash Bros. series and first appeared in Super Smash Bros. Melee. It was shown in the comic that came along with the original F-Zero though. In Super Smash Bros. Melee, it appears as both a trophy and on the Big Blue stage.
The Falcon Flyer appears in Brawl's Subspace Emissary, summoned by Captain Falcon to escape from the Subspace Bomb Factory that was about to explode, then he, Samus, Pikachu, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Olimar, and R.O.B. face Meta-Ridley on top of the Falcon Flyer. A short time after that, the Falcon Flyer (piloted by Captain Falcon), along with the Halberd, lands where the rest of the heroes are, and helps in the assault to stop the Subspace Gunship. The Falcon Flyer has two rear engines on Big Blue, while it has three in its trophy.
In Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Trophy Description
- Captain Falcon's speedy, midsized galactic cruiser, equipped with an onboard computer. Captain Falcon uses the Falcon Flyer mainly to track down criminals when he's plying his trade as a bounty hunter. Of course, it also comes in handy for transporting and maintaining the Blue Falcon. The Falcon Flyer is an exceedingly reliable partner.
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl, 2004
See also: List of SSBB trophies (F-Zero series)
In Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS
Trophy Description
The treasured ship of the bounty hunter Captain Falcon. Don't get this confused with the Blue Falcon, his F-Zero machine. The nose looks like a falcon, reflecting Captain Falcon's dauntless pursuit of his prey. Beware, bounty heads! Captain Falcon will track you down!
- NGC - Super Smash Bros. Melee (12/2001)
- Wii - Super Smash Bros. Brawl (03/2008)


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Days Inn Arlington Six Flags/Ballpark/AT&T Stadium, Arlington
- Free continental breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
Main amenities
- 87 smoke-free guestrooms
- 2 restaurants
- Outdoor pool
- Free area shuttle
- Self parking
- Airport shuttle
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Front desk safe
- Meeting room
- Free continental breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
For families
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Premium TV channels
- Television
- Free toiletries
What's around
- AT&T Stadium (0.6 mi / 1 km)
- Six Flags Hurricane Harbor (1.7 mi / 2.8 km)
- Globe Life Park in Arlington (0.9 mi / 1.4 km)
- Six Flags Over Texas (2.3 mi / 3.6 km)
- Arlington Convention Center (1.4 mi / 2.3 km)
Days Inn Arlington Six Flags/Ballpark/AT&T Stadium, Arlington
Hotel Info: 855-238-1590from $53
- Double Room, 2 Double Beds
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- This hotel has 87 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 4 floors
- Check-in time 2 PM-10:30 AM
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- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Airport shuttle (available 24 hours) *
- Free self parking
- Self parking *
- RV/bus/truck parking
- Free area shuttle
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- Smoke-free property
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- Free continental breakfast daily
- 2 restaurants
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Outdoor pool
- Golfing nearby
- Conference space size (feet) - 200
- Conference space size (meters) - 19
- One meeting room
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- Hair salon
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
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- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Picnic area
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
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- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
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- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 27-inch TV
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I was the recipient of some very good advice yesterday, though I'm not entirely sure what to DO with it.
CT and I were sitting in the tiny office she shares with another English teacher when she turned to me and said, "Okay, I'm going to tell you this because I've been at this for 25 years, and it took me a long time to learn it and I want to save you some time. Freshman will only work for you if they think you like them."
Apparently, all grade levels perform better for teachers they feel kindly towards, but this axiom holds particularly true for freshman. Coming from middle schools, freshmen are used to being coddled and treated kindly, CT said, and they often don't know how to function independently. The idea that "you're in high school now and the rules are different" doesn't seem to sink in until at least sophomore year – if even then – and the key to getting 9th graders to produce is to give them the impression that they're your favorites.
I was out of the period 4 classroom on Monday and CT told me that they'd expressed relief to have her back as their teacher. It seems that they don't think I like them.
To be fair to me – and to them – I didn't come to them under the best of circumstances. I arrived, unannounced and in the middle of a week, and almost immediately started leading their class. There was almost no transition to speak of. Add to that the fact that they'd been disintegrating as a class since the semester break back at Christmas, and CT was starting to crack back down on the expectations for classroom behaviour. I was in on that process and my theory is because my appearance coincided with the reestablishment of order, they've decided that I don't like them.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. While I may not KNOW them very well, I do like them. And I'm SO proud of the work they did with the Hamlet unit! When I was back in class yesterday, I made a point of telling them that I'd been bragging about them to everyone I know (and even to people I DON'T know) since Friday – that I think they did truly remarkable work when asked to do things that are usually only asked of upper classmen and freshmen in college, and that I'm really excited to be working with them.
I'm hoping that helps but, short of being more expressive of my enthusiasm for being with them, I'm not sure what else I can (or should) do.


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In this special edition of the Ricochet Podcast, James Lileks, Andrew Klavan, and C.J. Box discuss the writing process, their inspirations, noir movies, and the pros and cons of self publishing. It's a fascinating inside look at the life and thought processes of the working writer from three guys who do it every day.
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I have 2 Corvette vintage race cars which I basically reserve for track use. I find it to be just too frustrating to drive high performance sports cars on the street. Having the Volt has created a whole new game of trying to be as efficient as possible in energy use and, most importantly, trying to buy gas as infrequently as possible. I last filled up on Christmas Eve and I am down to about 5/8 of a tank, LOL. So I'm starting to get really anxious about possibly having to fill up again before January is over.


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$671,700 373 acres Johnson Neck Rd, Pocomoke City, MD 21851 - Worcester County
The Mason Tract is located 5 miles northeast of Pocomoke City just off State Highway 113. Premier recreational opportunities exist both on and off the property. Pocomoke State Forest and Pocomoke River Wildlife Management Area provide an additional 14,753 acres of public recreational land that abut the property to the immediate north of 113. The Bachelors Branch of the Pocomoke State Scenic River flows directly through the property with bottomland hardwoods found on both sides of the tributary. There is an existing hunt lease on the property that may be terminated or extended at buyers discretion. Property taxes for 2012 were $62. Several urban centers are within a 2-3 hour drive of the property: Philadelphia (166 miles); Was
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Hold/gaze into the crystal, put your thought/need (what you wish to manifest) into the crystal, the crystal receives the thought (and the feeling behind the thought) then stores and transmits those thoughts and feelings into the ethers. Thus, even while you're not thinking about that particular manifestation, the crystal is still putting it out. Thus drawing your manifestation towards you at a much greater rate than before. Power tools, you have to love 'em!
Many refer to this process as programming; many books state that a crystal can hold only one program. They have just found a way to store terabytes of data into a single bubble that makes up the mist you see in the Quartz. My feeling is that Quartz crystals can in fact hold and run more programs than we could give in a life time! Quartz is one of the most flexible crystal tools around. It is very responsive to our intent, what you intend is what you get, to this point it is also one of the most powerful tools and should be treated as such.


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Your Employer Can Share Your Medical Information
If you work in Illinois, Indiana, or Wisconsin, it just got a little easier for your employer to reveal to others any health care information that you voluntarily offer up.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Nov. 20 issued an opinion in EEOC v. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, taking a narrow reading of the Americans with Disabilities Act's confidentiality provisions that protect employees' health information.
Fake Reference Check
In general, the ADA requires that employers keep medical records and information about "medical examinations and inquiries" confidential. But in this case, a consultant's former employer – Thrivent – got away with telling prospective employers that he had a problem with migraines.
After the employee failed to report to work, he responded to his supervisor's inquiry about his whereabouts with a long email about how he'd been suffering from migraines since a 1984 accident. He quit his job soon after and started looking for a new one.
Having no luck and feeling suspicious, he hired a reference check agency to pose as a prospective employer and call Thrivent to ask about him. Thrivent told the agency about the former employee's migraines, and the man filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which in turn filed the lawsuit against Thrivent.
How Employers Get the Info Is Key
The key in this case was the 7th Circuit's interpretation of the ADA's confidentiality provisions as only covering information that an employer learns through a "medical examination or inquiry," explains Donald Schroeder, a lawyer with Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. in Boston.
Because the employee in this case voluntarily gave his employer some medical information, the court felt it didn't fall within the ADA's protection. "If an employee voluntarily discloses information, the employer should not be held liable under the ADA," Schroeder says.
While there may be other protections for the confidentiality of an employee's health information – such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and state privacy laws, according to Melissa Burdorf in a post for XPertHR – none of those would really help in this case, Schroeder indicates.
"HIPAA only protects a small cross-section of personal health information, so I don't think it will apply in this scenario," explains Schroeder, who adds that state privacy laws can't be expected to protect things that an employee voluntarily discloses, especially since he placed no restrictions on the information.
Keep Your Headaches to Yourself
The upshot is that employees need to be very careful about what they voluntarily disclose in the workplace. If the employee in this case had simply responded by saying, "I'm sorry I didn't make it in today – I'm not feeling well," there likely wouldn't have been a problem.
Schroeder says that there's no special loophole created by this opinion. Employers are still limited by the ADA in terms of what they can ask an employee about his health. Still, this employer had to defend its actions in court, so many lawyers are warning employers to tread carefully around information they receive from employees in the wake of this opinion.
Employees, too, can draw a lesson from it. "Employees should be careful about what they reveal to co-workers and also exercise some caution on social media websites when they post messages which can be seen in the public view," warns Schroeder.
If you're concerned about your rights to be free from workplace discrimination, contact a discrimination lawyer on Lawyers.com.


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Sept. 21, 2010
Saturday, Sept. 25 -- at Cowboy Jamboree (Stillwater, Okla.), 9:45 a.m. CDT
After a three-week hiatus, the University of Michigan men's cross country team will resume competition at the annual Cowboy Jamboree on Saturday (Sept. 25) at Oklahoma State 's OSU Cross Country Course in Stillwater, Okla. The 8,000-meter men's race is slated for a 9:45 a.m. CDT start.
U-M will send eight runners to the race -- junior Bobby Aprill, freshman Sean Bone, sophomore Dallas Bowden, senior/junior Craig Forys, junior/sophomore Derek Henning, freshman Nathan Karr, freshman Nick Kern, sophomore Zach Ornelas. All but Henning will be making their season debut.
For more information about 74th annual Cowboy Jamboree, including course map, please visit www.okstate.com.
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|Bobby Aprill
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|Brendon Blacklaws
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|Zach Ornelas
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The Wolverines kicked off their 2010 campaign at the annual Michigan Open on Sept. 3 with all five U-M competitors placing among the race's top-five finishers. Junior/sophomore Derek Henning (Alanson, Mich./Petoskey HS) led the field to the finish line, earning his first collegiate win with a time of 16:00. Junior/sophomore Geoff Burns (Traverse City, Mich./West HS) and sophomore Dallas Bowden (Hastings, New Zealand/Nelson College) crossed the finish line together -- separated by just 0.29 seconds -- in second and third position, respectively, while junior Nick Thomas (West Bloomfield, Mich./Brother Rice HS) clocked 16:19 to place fourth in his U-M cross country debut. Sophomore Dan Tyler (Wallingford, Pa./Strath Haven HS) rounded out the Wolverines' competitors in fifth place at 16:25.
Familiar Faces -- While the 2010 Wolverine lineup includes no seniors and just three juniors, U-M returns eight letterwinners from last season's squad, including two All-Big Ten selections in senior/junior Craig Forys (Howell, N.J./Colts Neck HS) and sophomore Brendon Blacklaws (Wellington, New Zealand/Wellington College). Other returning Wolverine letterwinners include Big Ten meet participants junior Bobby Aprill (Dexter, Mich./Dexter HS), sophomore Dallas Bowden (Hastings, New Zealand/Nelson College), junior/sophomore Geoff Burns (Traverse City, Mich./West HS), junior/sophomore Derek Henning (Alanson, Mich./Petoskey HS), sophomore Zach Ornelas (Cedar Park, Texas/Vista Ridge HS) and sophomore Dan Tyler (Wallingford, Pa./Strath Haven HS).
Introducing the Newcomers -- The Wolverines add 14 new faces to the 2009 men's cross country roster -- 13 freshmen as well as an addition from the track and field team. Among the newcomers are a trio of local freshmen -- Nathan Karr (Ann Arbor, Mich./Pioneer HS), Adam Kern (Ann Arbor, Mich./Pioneer HS) and Nick Kern (Ann Arbor, Mich./Pioneer HS) -- who all posted back-to-back top-30 finishes to guide Pioneer High School to the 2008 state title and 2009 state runner-up honors. On the track, freshman James Yau (Troy, Mich./Troy HS) is a two-time high school All-American, placing in the distance medley relay and 4xMile at the Nike Indoor Nationals, while junior Nick Thomas (Bloomfield Hills, Mich./Brother Rice HS) joins the harriers from the Wolverine track team; Thomas was a Nike Outdoor All-American in 800m during his high school tenure.
Calling the Shots -- Head coach Alex Gibby was announced as the eighth head coach in Michigan men's cross country program history on July 29, 2010, and enters his first season with the Maize and Blue. As head coach of the William and Mary men's cross country and track and field programs (2003-10), Gibby paced the Tribe to four straight top-16 finishes at the NCAA Cross Country Championships, three NCAA Southeast Region titles and seven CAA cross country titles. Last fall, Gibby was honored as the Southeast Region Coach of the Year for the third time in his career (2005, '08, '09) after leading William and Mary to fifth place at the NCAA Championships -- the second-best showing in Tribe program history -- and three individual All-Americans. He is also a seven-time CAA Coach of the Year recipient.
Michigan cross country/track is now on Twitter. Sign up and follow the Wolverines (michigan_track) with up-to-the-minute news and information throughout the season and beyond. Twitter is a free casual, online social network that is designed to connect businesses, organizations and individuals. Each Twitter post (or "tweet") can be received on a user's cell phone via text or on the web.
The Wolverines remain just outside of the top 30 in the latest NCAA Division I cross country poll, released Tuesday (Sept. 21) by the United States Cross Country Coaches Association. U-M owns the eighth spot among the Great Lakes Region.
Saturday, Oct. 2 -- at Wisconsin adidas Invitational (Madison, Wis.), 11 a.m. CDT
Saturday, Oct. 16 -- at NCAA Pre Nationals (Terre Haute, Ind.), 11 a.m.
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GM Expands Truck Recall
(Detroit -- Jerome Vaughn, WDET) General Motors is expanding a recall of sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks because of a faulty part could cause the rear axle to lock up.
The recall includes a dozen different models from 2011, including the Cadillac Escalade SUV as well as the Chevrolet Avalanche and GMC Canyon pickup trucks.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says pins in the rear axle may not have been heat treated…making them more susceptible to fracture. Broken pins could allow the rear axle to lock, increasing the possibility of a crash.
GM had originally recalled 1,200 vehicles last month, but expanded the action to more than 26,000 after finding more trucks with the faulty parts.
The automaker is advising owners not to drive the vehicles until the rear axle pins have been replaced by dealers.


text: When Personal Computers are networked, energy consumption increases due to the direct requirements of the PC network interface and network infrastructure hardware (switches, routers), as wall as indirectly by keeping many PCs in a higher power state than is otherwise necessary. The size of this increase is already large, and poised to increase with more network-dependent applications being used, and more non-PC devices gaining network connectivity. This talk will review the size of the energy impact from networks, mechanisms for power management in PCs, technical opportunities for reducing the induced and direct energy use, and the potential energy savings. This topic is important in its own right, but also indicative of a new type of energy problem/opportunity that is likely to become more important in future as energy use is increasingly connected to electronics and digital networking.


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Eco-homes furnished to a very high standard capture the essence of the laid-back beach life at Watergate Bay, some 200m away.
A superb collection of two-to-four bedroom houses available for self-catering holidays, all with allocated parking spaces, individual surf storage and outside showers.
Enjoy spacious open-plan living areas with high ceilings and floor to ceiling windows leading out onto a private balcony. Spacious bedrooms, all with en-suite bathrooms, and underfloor heating. Dogs welcome in selected apartments.
To book your stay at The Village at Watergate Bay, email [email protected] or call 01637 861005.


text: Hello everyone, My question is, when do the dog bones lose their effectiveness. I was doing a visual check under the hood of my '99 eldo and noticed the tolerance in both tourque arms. Both (l&r)and front &rear of each have about.045-.050 movement, method being raising them up from a resting position(gravity) Is that tolerance number acceptable or should I order new bushings? If I need new ones ,does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations...Thank you everyone...Ed


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Green Wave punch ticket into second round of the WNIT Full story »
The Tulane women's basketball team (21-11) secured their seventh straight trip to the postseason. Full story »
Great big thanks to Tulane University's pep band and women's basketball team. After Tulane's victory over Memphis Saturday (March 5) the brass section of the pep band convinced Mohegan Sun officials that they should be allowed to play in the resort itself. In a food court, the brass section began to play. The New Orleans sound drew the attention of... Full story »
No. 5 Tulane looks to usurp No. 1 UConn in Sunday's semifinal match-up, marking the third time the two will have squared off in the past month. Full story »
Tulane knew it faced a tough task against top-ranked Connecticut and the Huskies did not disappoint. UConn(21-0, 11-0) opened the game on a 14-2 run and never looked back as it rolled to a 96-38 win against Tulane (15-7, 6-4) Wednesday night at Devlin Fieldhouse. "They really set the tone," Tulane head coach Lisa Stockton said. " That first... Full story »
UConn has won 104 of its last 105 games. Full story »
After sitting out last year because of transfer rules, Malik Morgan has taken the reigns as Tulane's starting point guard and his little sister Kolby might be happier than anyone about it. Full story »
Tulane brings back six players mixed with six newcomers Full story »
Weber, Mitchell are both class of 2018 prospects Full story »
The 2015 NCAA Woman of the Year winner will be announced, and the top-30 honorees celebrated, at the annual award ceremony Oct. 18 in Indianapolis. Full story »
Berry averaged 18.5 points, six rebounds and five assists as a senior. Full story »
Berry averaged 18.5 points, six rebounds and five assists as a senior. Full story »
Tulane senior guard Jamie Kaplan was named to the First-Team All-American Senior CLASS Award list while the University of Iowa's Sam Logic was selected as the overall winner. "I want to thank everyone who voted for me for the Senior CLASS Award," Kaplan said in a release issued by Tulane. "All of the support I've received over the past couple... Full story »
Tulane women's basketball commitment Taylor Emery speaks out about her sexual orientation, report saysTulane women's basketball commitment Taylor Emery speaks out about her sexual orientation, report saysEmery, from the Tampa area, is Hillsborough County's all-time leading scorer in girls basketball. Full story »
The Olive and Blue are making their 11th NCAA Tournament appearance. Full story »
It took nearly the whole NCAA tournament selection show, but Tulane women's basketball finally got the thrilling news Monday night. They're headed to the Big Dance for the first time since 2010. The Green Wave earned the No. 12 seed in the Spokane Region of the 2015 bracket and tip off their journey Friday vs. No. 5 Mississippi State in Durham, N.C. Play begins at 1:30 p.m. on ESPN2. Friday's... Full story »
Tulane reached semifinals of AAC tournament Full story »
LSU, Tulane hope for bids to tournament Full story »
Lisa Stockton's hands have been tied this time of year in previous seasons. The Tulane women's basketball coach would load up her non-conference schedule with big dogs but without a Conference USA Tournament title, the Green Wave didn't have a prayer of drawing an at-large NCAA Tournament berth. The league's RPI sunk anything Stockton's teams would do in the pre-conference... Full story »


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The Center for Immigration Studies recently released a study demonstrating the way immigrants tend to filter through the U.S. political system and what that could mean for votes. Immigration has always been a political issue, and Republicans have been more clearly in favor of a harder line, while Democrats are on average more sympathetic to citizenship pathways for undocumented immigrants.
This latest examination in the political leanings of immigrants puts an especially fine point on how the influx of voters will look as time goes on. It is especially notable considering the changing political rhetoric in the Democratic Party at present — that is, right before Congressional elections.
CIS's analysis showed that legal immigrants are arriving in the United States at a rate of more than 1 million per year, and that this influx is altering votership within the country in favor of Democrats. And while it's true that Republican opinions on illegal immigration range depending on region, the analysis shows that partisanship for the most part does not, despite local positions. The organization also notes that, "if legal immigration levels remain at the current levels … it will likely continue to undermine Republicans' political prospects moving forward."
The analysis adds: "Further, if the substantial increases in legal immigration in Senate's Gang of Eight bill (S.744) were to become law it would accelerate this process." Lowering the rate of legal immigration would aid Republicans by altering the voting demographic, it points out.


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Hay trailers?
Posted 04 April 2013 - 12:56 PM
What are y'alls opinions on the "payoff" of owning a trailer and hauling my own hay?
Lets say I can buy a trailer to haul hay for $7,500. Lets say I haul 700 900lb round bales. Lets say my current hauler charges me $5/bale, or $3,500/season, to haul hay to market.
That would mean trailer cost (no repairs, tires, etc included) would be paid off part way into year 3. It also means I have to take the time to haul it all and the risks involved with it. Seems like a 3yr payoff is a short time, but theres so much risk, hassle, time with hauling hay.
Think its worth it to buy a trailer and haul my own hay? I keep coming up with "no" for an answer, but find owning trailer very convenient.
Posted 04 April 2013 - 01:31 PM
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Posted 04 April 2013 - 01:52 PM
Well just had a guy offer me $5K for trailer. Good point Shetland Sheepdog. Think I'll let 'er go and look for a good gooseneck.
JMHO, but owning a trailer of this type is all about convenience, unless you are using it almost daily! One would, most likely, have to use it almost daily to justify the expense given cost of ownership, operation, maintenance, registration, insurance, time, etc.
Posted 04 April 2013 - 02:34 PM
Really want a hay trailer, but by no means would I be using it every day. Maybe average 1x per week.
Posted 04 April 2013 - 07:18 PM
How much can you assign to the trailer? Does it justify?
If not, does the want outweigh the need? Can this trailer make money other ways? What uses?
Posted 04 April 2013 - 07:43 PM
I dont like it as much as I used to. I think I'm talking myself out of this....but would like to be able to haul hay on moments notice, Dont wanna lose customers if they can find someone to deliver quicker. ........
Posted 04 April 2013 - 07:46 PM
Posted 04 April 2013 - 08:20 PM
Since I feed most of my hay then I haul it myself. I do not have the immediate cash flow that selling the hay generates. I would be paying out of pocket as compared to sharing a little piece of the pie.
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yeah, I'd love to see the script. Thanks in advance for your help!
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yeah, I'd love to see the script. Thanks in advance for your help!
I'm trying to get this up and running with a wusb54gc I get the same error as posted here about the bind.
here's the full output
This is post editing files to reflect rausb0 instead of ath0Quote:
./karma karma.xml
Starting KARMA...
Loading config file karma.xml
ACCESS-POINT is running
/root/Desktop/KARMA/karma-20060124/modules/servers/DnsServer/dns.rb:39:in `bind': Cannot assign requested address - bind(2) (Errno::EADDRNOTAVAIL)
from /root/Desktop/KARMA/karma-20060124/modules/servers/DnsServer/dns.rb:39:in `run'
from ./../modules/loader.rb:176:in `run'
from ./../modules/loader.rb:175:in `initialize'
from ./../modules/loader.rb:175:in `new'
from ./../modules/loader.rb:175:in `run'
from ./../modules/loader.rb:163:in `run'
from ./../modules/loader.rb:158:in `each_key'
from ./../modules/loader.rb:158:in `run'
from ./karma:49
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/element.rb:934:in `each'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/xpath.rb:53:in `each'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/element.rb:934:in `each'
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No luck on google... although I did enjoy the top result of Dharma Karma boutique on rt 73 ;)


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Passion, rivalry and genuine sports spirit; it all comes alive with The Ashes. One of the most anticipated events of the year can now be played throughout the year on your computer with Ashes: Cricket 2009. Even if the series is played between England and Australia, Ashes has a rich and amazing history that no other series in cricket does.
Cricket 2009 is for anyone who likes cricket. Built for casual as well as hard-core gamers, Ashes packs in a lot of interesting features. The sports simulator cum cricket video game is available for the PC platform and has a 3+ rating from PEGI, making it entertaining for the entire family.
Synopsis and Features
Cricket 2009 is about celebrating the glory of cricket. The game has plenty of game modes and 12 teams from different countries that you can select to play with. Developed by Transmission Games and published by Codemasters, Ashes promises hours of exciting cricketing action.
The minimum requirements for the game to run easily on your computer are Windows XP or Vista, 2 Ghz Pentium processor, 2.5 GB hard disk space, 1 GB RAM, GeForce 6800 or Radeon X1600 graphics card. The game's single player mode lets you select any team of your choice and play the game for a win. Cricket 2009 has 6 different game modes such as The Ashes, Test Cricket, One-Day International, Twenty20, Legends Mode and Customisation.
Each mode is interesting as it provides something different that the other. For passionate lovers of cricket who like enjoying long sessions of gaming can opt for the Test matches. One-Day Internationals and Twenty20 follow the same rules as the game and are much for exciting and fun to play. The customization lets you customize editing tools, rename players, reassign skill points, and adjust visual sliders for players and much more.
The game has a competitive AI. This helps you in improving your skills and abilities every time you play the game. The game has some interesting features such as Hawk-Eye prediction that resemble real on-TV predictions, making the game more involving. The game has intuitive bowling and batting mechanisms that make it more interactive. The interesting thing about batting is that you have to be quick on your fingers as timing matters a lot. One miss and you might be looking at the broken stumps staring out you.
The game also has a simulate function that allows you to skip parts of an on-going match. If you like a particular aspect of a game like only bowling or only batting, you can select this option. This will allow you to skip over an entire innings, if required, letting you do what you love.
Featuring 18 cricket stadiums from all over the world, you can play the game from the famous Eden Gardens in India, Queen's Park Oval in West Indies to Melboune Cricket Ground in Australia. The graphics are pleasing and each stadium resembles a real stadium, giving the game a vivid and brilliant atmosphere.
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If you want to rival against others and show off your cricketing skills you can do it with Ashes: Cricket 2009. The game supports friendly and ranked matches that you can play online. These matches can be played in various disciplines including twenty20. The ranked matches are much more fun as they assign you ranks based on your winning rate.
You can with play with gamers across the world by connecting through an in-game application. This provides for much fiercer and competitive gameplay as you will be playing against human counterparts. The patches, demos and trailers for the game can be downloaded directly from the company's website.
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Hi All, I am attaching the piano hinge to my rufkin gauntlets... and was wondering what is the best glue to use. I don't want to add any rivets etc... I went to the hardware store, and the back of all the ones I looked at said not to use on polystrene or styrene products? I must admit I only read the back of all the 2 part and goop style glues.
any thoughts? what is best to use for this application?
I also did a search.. and did not come up with anything definitive (without using rivets etc)
Once glued I will be adding another piece of plastic over top to make kind of a clam shell for the piano hinge as I think that should be more that strong enough.
thanks for looking


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Faulty police equipment may have wasted $43M in Ill.
Equipment installations part of Homeland Security program Project Shield began in 2005
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CHICAGO — Project Shield was supposed to make citizens safer. But in the end, the $45-million Homeland Security program more resembled a disaster, wasting taxpayers' dollars and failing to make a single citizen more secure.
The failed Cook County initiative was replete with equipment that failed to work, missing records and untrained first responders according to a report by the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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Ken Leasure cleared snow from the grounds of Calvary Presbyterian Church in Indiana on Sunday.
Another 3½ inches this weekend added to our season total of 49 inches, almost 19 more than normal, according to AccuWeather. (James J. Nestor/Gazette photo)
James J. Nestor is a photographer for The Indiana Gazette.
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Yoghurt, baby milk and bottled water giant Danone is skirting around the growing eurozone worries by targeting growth elsewhere.
The French company that owns Aptamil, Volvic and Activa among many other well-known brands, said today that sales in the last quarter were up a healthy 5.6%. Analysts had forecast a much lower 4.2%, assuming Europe sales would hit performance.
Instead, strong demand for baby food in Asia and improved business at its core dairy unit in the US and Russia helped Danone to soar.
In Paris, shares in the company were up 3.4% this morning to 56.67 (4841p), its highest since before the financial crisis in early 2008.
The world's largest yoghurt-maker warned, however, that sales remain weak in austerity-hit southern Europe and that consumer trends in Europe would stay negative this year.
Danone, which competes with Nestlé and Unilever, is the most exposed among big food groups to the eurozone debt crisis and is under pressure from US activist shareholder Nelson Peltz to improve its performance.
Total sales, which include the effects of foreign exchange fluctuations, reached 5.34 billion, a reported rise of 4.3%.
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WASHINGTON – With Beijing growing in strength, a U.S. scholar is calling for a major rethink on Taiwan in which the island cuts its troop numbers in half and rebrands its army as a self-defense force.
The proposal marks a rare break from the conventional view of American and Taiwanese policymakers that the island needs to close the military gap with Beijing, but its author said an opposite course could strengthen Taipei.
Scott Bates, president of the Washington-based Center for National Policy, said that the balance is "irretrievably shifting" in China's favor and that it is politically and economically unrealistic to think Taiwan will commit enough to close the gap.
Instead, Taipei can take the lead by halving the size of its army, rebranding it as a self-defense force like Japan's and renouncing any military action on mainland China's soil, he argued.
"If Taiwan were to take a bold step like this, that would change perceptions on the mainland and perhaps win some popular support for the Taiwanese position," the former congressional aide said.
"If there were a showdown, it might make (Beijing) think twice."
Taiwan should turn the new force into a disaster response team ready to deploy throughout Asia, and also highlight the island's democracy through a major initiative that supports civil society across the continent, Bates said.
And instead of waging a battle to preserve a dwindling number of nations' recognition of Taipei instead of Beijing, Taiwan can use its diplomatic resources to seek solutions to Asia's bitter territorial disputes, he said.
The new Taiwanese approach would give the island the moral high ground, win over global opinion and ensure that China will appear as the aggressor if it attacked, he argued.
"Mainland Chinese public opinion is beginning to matter more. The Chinese Communist Party cannot ignore its own people without repercussions," Bates said.
China considers Taiwan to be a territory awaiting reunification, by force if necessary. China's defeated nationalists fled to Taiwan after defeat by the communists in 1949, with the island developing into a self-ruling democracy.
The United States switched recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1979, but at the same time had Congress pass the Taiwan Relations Act, which requires Washington to provide the island with the means to defend itself.
Bates said that his proposal will complement efforts by Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, who has sought to ease tensions with China by expanding economic ties, though domestic critics accuse Ma of jeopardizing the island's de facto independence.
Bates supported the continuation of the Taiwan Relations Act, saying the island needs a credible deterrent. While cutting its army, Bates called for Taiwan to launch a major upgrade of its air defenses and navy to show that any effort to gain supremacy over the island will be costly.
The Taiwan Relations Act enjoys virtually unanimous support in the U.S. Congress, where lawmakers have pressed President Barack Obama to sell to the island new F-16 jets — a step that China strongly opposes.
Bates' ideas, however, are unlikely to win quick support.
Joseph Bosco, a former Pentagon official, sharply criticized the proposal, saying it goes against accepted concepts of deterrence and that Taiwan already has the moral high ground.
Bates, who spoke last year at Taiwan's National Defense University and wrote an opinion piece in the Taipei Times, said he wants to start a debate.
"It doesn't have to be my plan, but there does have to be a strategic rethink," he said.


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If you are familiar with the original USB pole dancer, you may rememember that early on it was yanked from store shelves because it was deemed disrespectful to women. While that may be true, it doesn't mean that other companies are not trying to capitalize on the idea. In order to circumvent previous problems, the manufacturers of the version pictured above made two key upgrades.
First, the pole dancer has taken on a more stylized, cartoonish like appearance which I'm assuming makes it seem less controversial. Plus, they have added a productivity feature that could make it more acceptable in the workplace. The pole dancer performs as you type and it includes software that features a daily word count, your top five typing performances and a WPM testing function. So, you can always make the excuse that your tiny private dancer is actually helping you perform your job more efficiently.
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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) accepted the role and responsibilities of facilitating activities related to the action line under C.7 ICT Applications - e-Agriculture at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) follow-up meetings held in February 2006 in Geneva.
In May 2007, a pilot web-based platform, www.e-agriculture.org was launched providing a dynamic space for those interested in shaping e-agriculture policies and practices to network, share information, experiences, and opinions, and to find out about new and useful systems, tools, and methodologies.
From 12 September to 3 October 2007, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) invites all e-Agriculture Community members to participate in its online consultation on "Opening Access to CGIAR Research and Knowledge: From Data, Information and Collaboration to Food" at the online forum. The objective is to make it easier for CGIAR staff, partners and potential partners to access, use and add value to the research and to the scientific outputs of the CGIAR.
With the objective to support the use of ICTs and knowledge management in the agricultural sector, a strategy has been drafted on global public goods.
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Every Sunday there is a meet at a place called Wing Command in chesterfield , like to see more WRX/SUBARU owners there . it started out awhile ago with just subaru owners then the rice started to come in . the owner gave the subaru owners permission to sit , relax , b.s. there . of course the owner is also has a wrx . everyone started to meet there around 7pm but of course thats when the rice started to come . so we should all shoot for 6pm so we can all get the good parking spots and hopefully move some of the rice farther into the parking lot away from us . mailing address is below for directions . mapquest.com is still a good tool .
Wing Command (no its not a r/c hobby shop )
10811 Hull street road
Midlothian, VA 23112
It's right behind the applebee's and beside the radio shack. On hull street between courthouse and genito.
shooting for 6pm every sunday .
if something changes , like weather or differ location it will be posted soon as i get it and will be posted in the virginia forum .


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Tisch, a self-made billionaire whose financial empire began with a single New Jersey resort, was suffering from cancer, said Candace Leeds, a Loews spokeswoman.
At Loews, Tisch oversaw a financial corporation with assets of over $70 billion, including a hotel chain, a tobacco company, an insurance firm and an offshore drilling company.
The Brooklyn native served as chief executive officer and chairman of the board of CBS Inc. from 1986-95, a period when the "Tiffany Network" saw its nightly newscast fall to third place and lost NFL football to the upstart Fox Network.
Tisch was just 23 when he made his first investment, purchasing a 300-room winter resort in Lakewood, N.J. Two years later, his brother Bob joined him in the business, launching a lifelong partnership between the pair.
As the first hotel took off, the Tisch brothers bought hotels in Atlantic City and the Catskills. Their hotel empire continued to expand, generating millions of dollars, and the Tisch brothers began investing in Loews Theaters.
In 1961, Tisch — known to friends as Larry — gained control of Loews and became its co-chairman with his brother. The pair soon diversified the business, successfully venturing into a variety of areas.
Tisch was born March 5, 1923. He graduated college when he was just 18, and five years later made his New Jersey hotel purchase.
After he and his brother took over Loews, the company moved in a variety of directions. Loews acquired Lorillard, a tobacco company, and the Bulova Watch Co. Through shrewd acquisitions, Tisch built Loews' revenues from $100 million in 1970 to more than $3 billion by a decade later.
In 2002, the corporation had revenues of more than $17 billion and assets of more than $70 billion.
In 1986, when CBS Inc. was the target of several hostile takeover attempts, Tisch stepped in to seize control by spending $800 million for a 24.9% stake of the company.
But the Tisch era was marked by cost-cutting and criticism that he had tarnished the network's reputation and damaged its morale. Westinghouse Electric bought CBS in 1995.
Tisch was also known for his philanthropy, with major donations to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York University, the NYU Medical Center and the Wildlife Conservation Society. His $4.5 million gift to the latter created the Tisch Children's Zoo in Central Park.
Tisch served as chairman of the board of trustees at NYU from 1978 to 1998. He was also a former president of the United Jewish Appeal of New York.
Tisch was survived by his wife, Wilma; four sons, Andrew, Daniel, James and Thomas; and his brother. There was no word on funeral arrangements.
James is the current president and chief executive officer of Loews, a position he assumed from his father in 1999.


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Make it sustainable-meat Sundays
Grass-fed meat may take a bigger bite out of your wallet than the usual grain-fed supermarket choice, but the extra dollars pay off nutritionally with meat that is lower in fat, and––thanks to the animals' pasture-based diet––higher in omega-3s and a group of fatty acids that can actually lower your cholesterol . Farmers' markets and some supermarkets sell grass-fed beef and sometimes bison, lamb, and even goat.
- Suggested Recipe: Mini Lamb Meatballs with Cilantro-Mint Chutney
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Damage Arts is an expression on how I lay down my art skillz! Whenever I put pencil to paper, I'm cauzin' DAMAGE to it making it no longer a perfect piece of paper, creating my Imagination to show everyone! Unleashing my Talents!
Current Residence: Some tiny planet called E Arth
deviantWEAR sizing preference: XL
Favourite genre of music: Hip Hop, Rock, Soundtracks, etc.
Favourite style of art: Joe Madureira
MP3 player of choice: Philips 4 gig Go Gear
Favourite cartoon character: Son Goku, Naruto, Inu Yasha, Ranma, Vash The Stampede, Cloud Strife
Personal Quote: I'm the master of my own Talent!


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Drugs can make people do bad things. Like getting your EYEBALL tattooed black. Covering half of your face with skulls and skeletons. And rimming your lips with skeletal teeth and an eyeball in the middle of your forehead. People often make poor judgments while high, like shooting at an officer of the law investigating a stolen car.
Jason Barnum, 37, was arraigned on one count of attempted murder in the first degree and two counts of assault in the third degree in Anchorage, Alaska. His bail was set at $500,000 cash.
At the arraignment Friday afternoon Barnum appeared fidgety, swaying from side to side, at times hitting his face on the microphone. When asked basic information from the judge like if his name was spelled correctly, Barnum replied "sure" and "sounds good."
Police don't know why Barnum shot at officers. In charging documents, Barnum admitted to being a heroin addict. Lt. Anthony Henry said that based on his behavior, they have reason to suspect he was high during the shooting.
This individual does not appear to have a happy bone in his body. Or even outside of his body, for that matter.


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Kourageous. This one should add to the embroidery stitching that is on the Bellflower block (March). The Flax block should be a walk in the park after the Larkspur block (June).
Check back again to see my progress.
... where I ramble on about my love of quilting with my work in progress, share some of my day's doings, and offer some sewing tips along the way... You can find my completed projects on my web page at www.kwiltnkats.com. Comments make me smile =^.^=...
you will have this one done in no time. After all the hard ones, this is a skip in the park.


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Japanese market trades lower on profit-taking
The Japanese stock market was trading lower on Wednesday following the strong gains posted in the recent sessions and on the back of negative cues from Wall Street overnight.
In early morning trades, the benchmark Nikkei 225 Index was losing 62.60 points or 0.74% to 8,425.70.
Overnight, U.S. stocks moved back to the downside, partly offsetting the standout gains posted in the previous session. While profit taking contributed to some weakness in the markets, selling pressure remained relatively subdued, helping the major averages to hold onto the bulk of Monday's gains.
Crude oil closed modestly lower on Tuesday, but rebounded off of its lows of the session. Traders looked ahead to Energy Information Administration data, which is expected to show another build in inventories. Light sweet crude for May delivery fell $0.18 to end at $53.92 per barrel.
The Japanese market closed higher on Tuesday on optimism that the Obama administration's plan to help banks sell toxic assets will pave the way for a revival in credit flow and ultimately revive the global banking sector. The Nikkei 225 Index ended 272.77 points or 3.32% higher at 8,488.30 and the Topix Index gained 21.16 points or 2.7% to close at 812.70.
On the economic front, the Ministry of Finance said on Wednesday that Japan posted a merchandise trade balance of 82.4 billion yen in February, compared to expectations for a 13.7 billion yen deficit following a 956.9 billion yen shortfall in January. Exports during February plummeted by a record 49.9% on year, the data showed, while imports fell 43.0% on year to 3.443 trillion yen.
In the currency market, the U.S. dollar was trading in the upper 97 yen-range on Wednesday. In early morning trades, the dollar was quoted in a range of 97.97-98.00 yen, down 0.31 yen from Tuesday's close of 98.28-98.31 yen in Tokyo.
Banking stocks are trading mixed. Mitsubishi UFJ, Japan's biggest bank, is down 0.19%. Mitsubishi UFJ will likely take a 60% stake in a brokerage it plans to create with Morgan Stanley through the merger of their brokerage subsidiaries in Japan, the Nikkei business daily reported Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Sumitomo Mitsui is gaining 0.77% and Mizuho Financial is unchanged. Resona Holdings is adding 1.42%. Shinsei Bank is declining 2.63% despite the lender saying it will raise 48.2 billion yen by issuing preferred securities in the current month as it seeks to bolster its capital base. Brokerage Nomura Holdings is down 0.54%.
Exporters are declining on the back of a stronger yen. Canon is losing 0.52%, Sharp is down 1.67% and Sony is edging down 0.24%. Automaker Toyota is easing 0.63% and Honda is down 1.7%.
Oil-related stocks are trading mostly lower following the decline in crude oil price overnight. Inpex is losing 1.64% and Showa Shell is easing 0.11%, while Nippon Oil is adding 1.54%. Meanwhile, trading house Mitsubishi Corp. is up 0.80% and Sumitomo Corp. is adding 0.44%, while Itochu is losing 0.58%.
Electronics maker Sanyo Electric Co. warned of a 90 billion yen net loss for the year ending March 2009, hurt by a worsening global recession. This compares to its earlier forecast that it would breakeven. The company's stock is down 1.44%.
Sanyo Electric's peer Toshiba is declining 1.47%. The company, facing its biggest-ever annual loss in the current year, will sell a former factory site in Japan to Nomura Real Estate Holdings for 22 billion yen by the end of March. The company noted that the sale will generate a pretax profit of 14.2 billion yen, but will not change its earnings forecast for the year to March 31.
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How to Deal With Lazy Teenagers
Sometimes it seems like it would be easier to understand astrophysics than to understand teenagers. It's like living with an alien, isn't it? Your little bundle of joy is now a lump on the couch with barely enough energy to move his fingers enough to play the video game in front of him, right?
Laziness in your teenager can be a symptom of many different things, most of which will be covered in later chapters. Apparent laziness can be a result of depression, drug use, or too many video games. The results of laziness can be frustration for mom and dad and extra pounds and other health issues for your teen.
I'll probably start sounding like a broken record soon, but I can't say it often enough. Lazy teenagers don't respond to preaching and nagging; however, they do respond to being given choices. They also respond to discomfort. If you make it uncomfortable for them to choose not to get chores done or do what you've asked them to do, by removing whatever privileges they hold dear, they'll be a little more motivated to get things done.
In fact, you have a huge opportunity to engage your lazy teenager by encouraging physical activity together. Play basketball, join a softball team together, or coach a sport your teen is interested in. While these ideas may not work with every teen, you never know when an opportunity like that will give you both the time to get to know each other on a different level.
You also must consider placing limits on things like TV time, Internet surfing (non-school or non-research paper related, i.e., social networking sites, chat environments, etc.), and definitely on video games. Your teen should not have a computer or video games in his or her bedroom. Encourage your teen to be involved in a school sport or spend time as a volunteer doing charity work. Not only will your teen benefit from increased self-esteem, but the time spent away from video games, texting, and computers will help him or her learn to relate to people on a more human level.
Bert Yakichuk was a principal at a high school in Canada and has worked with teens for over 35 years. He has a bachelor's degree in adolescent psychology and master's degrees in educational administration and biochemistry, giving him a unique outlook on teenagers and the way their brains work. He has spent a great deal of time learning about adolescent brain development.
Yakichuk explains that teenagers use a different part of their brain to make decisions than adults do; it is because of this difference that teens feel they are invincible and indestructible, why they seek the surge of adrenaline in everything they do. Teens need to be entertained. Teens are capable, however, of learning to follow guidelines; you should not just set the guidelines, but you should also be willing to enforce them.
Communicate with your teens that you respect their individuality and that they have the power to choose how they will live their lives. At the same time, make sure they understand that living at home and being part of a family brings with it certain responsibilities, like treating each other with respect and participating in the function of the household (doing chores, helping with dinner, taking care of siblings). When they choose not to be a part of the family, they choose the resulting consequences as well (like a lack of freedom and privileges).
In addition to focusing on behavior, remember to focus on your teen's health. Yakichuk believes there is a direct connection between teen behavior and teen health. Teens need more sleep and a better diet. Scientific studies have proven that teens that are sleep deprived have difficulties with sexual development, short-term memory, long-term forgetfulness, and inappropriate behavior. By focusing on addressing teen health issues, he believes many behavior issues might also be minimized.
Encourage your teen to choose healthy foods and make sure you provide healthy choices at home. Teach your teen about balance by living a balanced life yourself. If you exercise regularly, eat healthy foods, take breaks to relieve stress, and don't overwork, your teen will pick up your good habits. If you overeat or turn to drugs or alcohol to relieve stress and live an unbalanced life, no amount of talking will undo the example you are setting.
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Boats searching for man who jumped from bridge
Boats from the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office searched the Mississippi River today for a man who reportedly jumped off the I-10 bridge.
Authorities said the man jumped around 11:30 a.m. after parking his vehicle on the bridge.
The incident closed one lane of traffic on I-10 East across the bridge while police removed the car.
Boats were deployed to search the river south of the bridge for the man.
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I love my pets! ~ Taylor Lautner, Andy Samberg, Jiffy, Waffle and Pancake!
yes they can. red grapes help prevent cancer i believe.
The family:
1.0 Yellow Lab (Apollo)
0.1 Leopard Gecko (Rica)
0.1 Normal Ball Python (Pheobe)
1.0 Blue Betta (Swimmy)

Soon to come:
0.2 Dumbo Rats =)
yes they can, mine get grapes everyday and they love them. Red are the best for them as stated already.