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Here is a new vid with Bonnie.
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Posted 22 June 2010 - 09:12 AM
Hey Maja,
I would say overall I see a lot of improvement. She's staying behind her sheep and walking at a good pace. When she feels comfortable that things are truly under control, she'll probably start giving more space behind the sheep on her own. The whole busting and splitting thing is something a young dog will do sometimes, as you noted, so no big deal. Probably if you had gotten up while telling her to stay (assuming she would have listened), then that wouldn't have happened.
Since you asked about voice and commands, I did note that at one point you were saying "stop" I think or something that sounded like that, but you were saying it very rapidly and at a higher pitch. Those kind of tones will get you the opposite of what you wanted--rapid-fire delivery of commands tends to speed a dog up, and often tighten it as well. I've been working on this very thing with a student of mine who is taking lessons using one of my open trial dogs. It's hard to remember to do sometimes, but a slow, calm voice will result in a slower, calmer dog.
When working a dog, if you want it to speed up, you usually use a set of quick, repeating whistles, or "hurry, hurry, hurry" or something similar said quickly and with urgency. So when you were saying "stop, stop, stop" (or whatever it was), the way you were saying it was actually having the *opposite* effect on Bonnie than you intended.
The "time" command works because it sounds a lot like the first part of the lie down. But in other situations where you want to slow a dog, try to remember to keep your voice lower and slower, if that makes sense. (Any dog will read you and react to you, and tone of voice and delivery can have a huge effect on how the dog responds.)
The only other thing that really jumped out at me on the video is that you tend to ask her to lie down when she's not on balance and so she ignores your command, unless you get really forceful with her. Try waiting to ask for the lie down until you are sure she's on balance or close to it. Otherwise, by repeating the lie down, you are in effect teaching her that she can ignore the command the first couple of times you say it. While many of us become much more lax with that with our trained dogs--allowing them to interpret what we really want when we say lie down--when it comes to a youngster you're just starting, it's better to not ask for the lie down unless you're sure the dog is in a position where it will be willing to take the command. That way, lying down feels right to the dog and it will comply on your first request. I've seen lots of dogs who have learned that the command for lie down is "lie down, lie down, lie down" and they never actually stop until the handler has said that third lie down....
You can experiment with what works for Bonnie, and certainly during a training session try to do some of your work without giving her any commands, just letting her work and figure out some things for herself. I do this a lot with a young dog and also have students do the same thing. If we've had a short session where we've been demanding obedience (lie down or time, usually), then I give the dog a break from that by just doing some wearing around without saying anything to the dog.
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The cold is terrible! it should be very warm in June, but I have to wear my coat. it there is global warming then we got left out somehow
Love the fact you have a coat on; it is hot here in AZ,USA. Nice sheep and pasture. You are so lucky to be able to work.
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I agree that it is definitely possible, and indeed it was the reason earlier, but later she stopped weaving and now she started again. It's still holds true about the distance in some cases, but not all in my opinion and that's why I wrote about it to see your opinions and see what I should try out. The reason why I think distance is not the reason now is because (1) she can walk perfectly straight at a smaller distance, (2) increasing distance does not seem help the weaving (3) increasing pressure from me seems to increase the weaving. That's what I think. I think that as soon as she gets to walk straight I have been trying to force her to increase the distance, so she rarely gets the chance to walk behind the sheep without pressure from me and hence she concluded that I don't like her there. But maybe I am wrong, so thank you for your input .
Bonnie is weaving because she is too close to the sheep. She has no where to go, but side to side. Before you disagree with me, please know that this is the same behavior I saw in my BC pup, at the same age, and once we got him to stay off the sheep, this behaviour stopped.
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When this popped up in my notifications I knew I'd seen in somewhere, the SFIII OE Vault. Excellent work.
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appreciate you brah. lol I really don't mind if i win or lose, just as long as i tried my best. Im satisfied regardless ~_~
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I'll admit I never played SF3 despite being a huge SF fan (2 and its various incarnations, the Alpha series, and 4 are more my speed), but this is awesome!
hey thanks a bunch. yeah i feel ya. SF3 was in my opinion, the definitive of the series. still much deeper in the fighting mechanics than SF4. SF3 is more than 10 yrs old and it still looks and plays really really smooth.
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Increased health woes among climate change impacts
This article is the first in a two-part series considering the findings of a new climate assessment for the Southwest. This part explores health issues and vulnerable populations, with an emphasis on tribes. (A correction was made on January 24 to this article.)
An increase in respiratory problems from raging wildfires and dust, more heat-related deaths in an aging population, and shifts in the range of diseases—these are some of the human health-related impacts the Southwest region will face as a result of climate change. The effects, detailed in an upcoming report focused on six western states including Arizona and New Mexico, go far beyond the well-known challenge to regional water supplies.
The report, Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwest United States, is part of an ongoing national effort to synthesize the state-of-the-art science of climate-related change and its impacts. The full Southwest assessment will be posted in coming weeks, but the summary for decision makers is currently available (see links below). *In the meantime, the Southwest chapter of the National Climate Assessment—which was informed by an earlier draft of the Southwest report—is available for viewing and public comment (see sidebar for link).
More heat-related woes
Arizona tops the list of states contributing to the 400 heat-related deaths that already occur across the nation in an average year, and that number is expected to rise as temperature does, noted Heidi Brown, lead author of the regional assessment's health chapter. For the six states in the region— Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California—the Southwest's average annual temperature is projected to climb by an average of 2°F to 6°F by mid-century. What's more, the biggest increases are expected to occur in summer (Figure 1).
"As we look to the future, heat waves are expected to become more humid, with higher overnight temperatures," Brown explained in one of several webinars about the report findings. Higher humidity translates into less opportunity for nighttime cooling.
Vulnerable populations
People living without air conditioning in inner city neighborhoods are more vulnerable to heat-related illnesses than people in climate-controlled homes surrounded by shade trees. At the same time, as the draft Southwest chapter points out, the 92.7 percent of the region's people who live in cities can expect to lose their cooling power from time to time, as all that electricity draw for AC can "trigger cascading energy system failures, resulting in blackouts or brownouts."
The general lack of air-conditioning, among many other reasons, makes the nearly 1 million people belonging to the 182 tribes in the six southwestern states among the more vulnerable of the region's residents to changing climate.
For instance, about 40 percent of Navajo Nation residents lack electricity and plumbing, said Margaret Hiza Redsteer, lead author of the regional assessment chapter on tribes. So they don't even have the option of cooling off with a cold drink or refreshing shower, much less with air-conditioning.
"We have conducted surveys of tribal elders on the Navajo Nation," said Redsteer, a hydrologist with U.S. Geological Survey. She learned that, in the past decade, "they have had a few elderly people die during the really hot months."
Age also influences susceptibility to heat, Brown said. She noted that some of the chapter's projected rise in heat-related deaths relates to the aging population, as more Baby Boomers reach their mid-60s—the age when vulnerability generally increases. Children under 4 years old also face higher risks. That doesn't mean, though, that older children and young adults have no worries.
"We see these things across the board, not just in the elderly," Brown said. Young, seemingly healthy athletes can also fall ill or worse to heat, she noted.
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The health effects of wildfires are a growing concern given the recent ramping up of large fires, noted Gregg Garfin, lead editor of the regional assessment. As reported in its chapter on natural resources, efforts to suppress wildfires have been failing more often in recent years in the six southwestern states. Researchers found that more than three times greater area burned from 1987 to 2003 (excluding prescribed burns) compared to the period 1970 -1986.
Future precipitation remains challenging to predict, but the report's detailed evaluations of climate models (Figure 1) found they generally agree on a likely precipitation decline during the spring season—right when diminishing snowpack in much of the Southwest is setting the stage for wildfires. Between existing forest conditions and projected climatic changes, researchers expect the number of acres burned to continue to increase—perhaps doubling in the southern Rockies.
The threat from these wildfires goes far beyond forest boundaries, as the smoke contains particles of a size that aggravates lungs. Garfin recalled witnessing the extent of the polluting haze from two record-breaking fires that burned simultaneously in the summer of 2011: a 156,000-acre fire in New Mexico's Jemez Mountains, and a 538,000-acre fire in Arizona's White Mountains.
"I remember I flew to Denver. It was a clear day, aside from that smoke. No clouds. And when you arrived in Denver," Garfin said, "you couldn't see the Rocky Mountains, there was so much smoke from those fires."
Dust also harms lungs
Along with lung-damaging smoke from wildfires, particles from dust storms are expected to taint southwestern air more often. As temperatures and evaporation rates rise, soils are projected to lose moisture overall, making soil particles more prone to becoming airborne dust. Soil disturbance, such as by farming or construction activity, also helps kick up dust.
Add a bit of wind to the mix, and driving conditions can lead to fatal accidents, as has been the case on numerous occasions in recent years on Interstate-10 between Tucson and Phoenix. Dust also darkens snow, making it less reflective and so quicker to melt, thus exacerbating droughts. Some researchers have likened conditions in the future Southwest to those of the 1930s Dust Bowl.
The Navajo Nation is already experiencing the impacts of excess dust caused by aridity. The reservation, located in northern Arizona, already was on the driest third of the tribe's traditional homeland, Redsteer said—and it's gotten drier since the 1950s.
Residents on the Navajo and neighboring Hopi reservations are finding it increasingly challenging to continue their ancient traditions of growing corn, and to support the sheep and cattle that have allowed them to be self-sufficient in more recent times. Formerly stable sand dunes have been mobilizing and, in some cases, creeping up to people's doorsteps, Redsteer explained. The shifting sands and drought are chasing young families off the Navajo reservation, as documented by the last census, she said. Meanwhile, the abundance of airborne dust has been prompting health warnings.
"During the Dust Bowl, when the conditions got severe, a lot of people died because of the particulate concentration of dust in their lungs. They would get pneumonia," Redsteer said. "There's no way of tracking those kinds of things on the reservation, but I do know that the Indian Health Service in Chinle has been very concerned about the dust level on windy days."
Climate and disease
Besides being unhealthy overall, dust particles can transport the fungus that causes Valley Fever, a lung infection that can be debilitating.
Shifts in diseases are challenging to predict but likely to occur. Even the bubonic plague might alter its range, according to the regional assessment's health chapter. Physicians reported about 40 cases of plague in the U.S. between 2005 and 2009—almost all in the six states covered by the regional assessment. The good news is the flea-carried bacteria Yersinia pestis, which killed off roughly a third of the population of Europe during Black Death epidemics, stops in its tracks once temperatures rise above 80 degrees, Brown said.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for West Nile virus. The mosquitoes that carry it generally can develop faster and survive longer as temperatures warm. As the report states, mosquitoes are likely to expand geographically, such as into the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, and in time, with longer seasons for potential outbreaks. Predicting overall incidence, though, remains challenging.
"Mosquitoes aren't flying syringes," Brown said. It takes time for the virus to build up enough to be passed along. West Nile virus tends to incubate in birds as well, so four different life forms – virus, mosquito, bird and human, all with their own responses to climate—can be involved in its spread.
Behavior and health
Individual behavior can also affect a person's likelihood of having health trouble as climate shifts. For instance, a study of health problems during the 2003 wildfires in southern California found asthmatic children actually suffered fewer respiratory problems than non-asthmatic children. The researchers found that the kids with asthma generally heeded the health warnings and wore masks or stayed inside, limiting their exposure to the smoke pollution.
People can limit their exposure to mosquitoes, to some extent, which can affect their chances of contracting West Nile disease and other mosquito-borne illnesses. And, as Brown pointed out, an improvement in personal hygiene and public sanitation since the Dark Ages has so far helped keep the plague in check.
"I think it's because we've changed the way we live," Brown said, when asked why the Black Death was no longer reaching epidemic proportions. Tongue-in-cheek, she added, "How many fleas do you have on you right now?"
Additional Information
View the Southwest Climate Assessment's Summary for Decision Makers: http://www.southwestclimatealliance.org/announcements/southwest-climate-assessment-summary-decision-makers-now-available
View summary webinars that cover six topics, including climate projects and energy impacts: http://www.southwestclimatealliance.org/media
Part Two of this series will be published in the February issue. It will consider some of the report's suggestions for adapting to climate change in the context of its impacts.
*A correction was made on January 24. "In addition, the Southwest chapter—an abbreviated version of the full Southwest report for the National Climate Assessment—is available for viewing and public comment (see related story in sidebar)" was removed and replaced with the more accurate current sentence.
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BALTIMORE (Stockpickr) -- Mr. Market is getting ready to bounce even harder this week -- and a new set of Rocket Stock names is primed to slingshot higher as a result.
Stocks are taking the next round of eurozone drama in stride to start the week, with EU markets looking flat this morning, while Asian markets blasting higher past the midpoint of Monday's session. It's all shaping up to extend the short snapback rally that shoved the S&P 500 1.74% higher last week. Stocks are still looking oversold right now, and for folks holding equities, that's a very good thing.
At this stage in the game, the technical and fundamental factors are lining up to support higher prices for equities, especially if U.S. equities can keep shrugging of the black clouds over Europe. We're turning to a new set of Rocket Stocks to take full advantage of the move.
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For the uninitiated, "Rocket Stocks" are our list of companies with short-term gain catalysts and longer-term growth potential. To find them, I run a weekly quantitative screen that seeks out stocks with a combination of analyst upgrades and positive earnings surprises to identify rising analyst expectations, a bullish signal for stocks in any market. After all, where analysts' expectations are increasing, institutional cash often follows.
In the last 152 weeks, our weekly list of five plays has outperformed the S&P 500 by 83.73%.
With that, here's a look at this week's Rocket Stocks.
PepsiCo (PEP) is giving investors something to drink to this quarter. In the trailing three months, shares of the $107 billion beverage and snack giant are up 8.4% over a time where the broad market has actually shed 4%. That's significant outperformance, and it could be getting even bigger as we approach June.
Pepsi is a lot bigger than just its namesake cola brand. The firm owns beverage labels like Gatorade and Mountain Dew, as well as a massive set of snack food names that includes Lay's, Doritos and Quaker. All told, Pepsi is the biggest snack food company in the world, a status that more than makes up for PEP's No. 2 status in the carbonated beverage business. North American snack sales alone accounted for more than 40% of Pepsi's operating profits last year, thanks in large part to established scale and hefty margins. Investors shouldn't underestimate the performance that PEP can churn out in muted economic conditions.
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The firm drastically changed its business in 2010, when it acquired its North American bottlers. While that move ramped up the firm's debt load, the move is also throwing off mountains of cash savings, which PEP is using to shovel cash to shareholders (and eventually pay down that debt load).
That yield, by the way, rings in at 3.13%, making Pepsi a strong choice for income investors looking for food stock exposure.
I also featured Pepsi in "7 Dividend Stocks You Can't Ignore Right Now."
Another name that's outperforming this year is Target (TGT). Shares of the $38 billion retailer have rallied more than 12.5% so far in 2012, besting the S&P by a wide margin. Target boasts a footprint of more than 1,800 stores, the majority of which are located in the U.S.
Here's why you should be paying attention to this Rocket Stock name this week.
In an increasingly competitive retail world, Target has done a good job carving out an attractive niche for itself. By focusing on a slightly more affluent demographic than its biggest rivals, Target is able to squeeze bigger net margins out of a product mix that's heavy on private labels and exclusive designer partnerships.
In the next year investors should expect those margins to decline -- but that's actually a good thing. Target's addition of more complete grocery offerings should do a good job of driving more traffic into its stores, even if they comes at the cost of diluting margins. By making Target a one-stop shop for customers who need grocery products, Target is betting that they'll be able to drive their top line numbers higher by osmosis.
Historically, that's been a good bet for major big box retailers, so investors should keep an eye out for this stock's performance in the near- to mid-term.
I also featured Target, one of 12 Highest-Rated Consumer Stocks Picked by S&P, in "5 Stocks Primed to Pay Bigger Dividends."
Motorola Solutions
Communications infrastructure firm Motorola Solutions (MSI) has been getting a lot less attention post-split up than its former mobile phone unit thanks to a high profile Google (GOOG) acquisition, but investors shouldn't ignore the less exciting corporate sibling right now. MSI has some major advantages that its rival firms don't.
MSI serves government and enterprise customers with hardware, software, and services to communicate better. Those offerings range from long-range two-way radios to barcode scanners, wireless LAN networking tools, and RFID chips. While that business doesn't have the consumer excitement of Motorola's spun-off mobile phone business, it's shown stair-step growth over the last few years and consistent profitability that investors should be valuing higher than they are.
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Motorola's market-leading position in the radio business is especially impressive. Radios are used in scores of business and government applications, and customers who opt for MSI's products have high switching costs if they decide to go with a seemingly lower-cost replacement unit. And because a large chunk of MSI's revenues are contract-based, it benefits from long-term customers and revenue streams that are predictable well in advance of when they're recognized on the income statement.
As enterprise IT spending ramps up, MSI's infrastructure products should get an increasing piece of the action. With rising analyst sentiment this week, we're betting on shares.
As of the most recently reported quarter, Motorola Solutions was one of George Soros' top holdings.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts
The hotel business hasn't looked especially attractively lately -- but that's changing. Just look at Starwood Hotels & Resorts (HOT), a $10.6 billion firm that weighs in as the world's biggest operator of luxury hotels and resorts. Starwood's sales turned the corner in 2009, and the firm has been fundamentally firing on all cylinders ever since, even if shares have been under pressure more recently.
Starwood owns an attractive portfolio of brands that includes Sheraton, St. Regis, and W in its growing portfolio of luxury and upscale names. While Starwood operates the properties, it only owns around 5% of them. Although that sort of positioning spares the firm from the sort of balance sheet leverage that got punished the most during the recession, it also keeps most of the profits flowing to the owners rather than HOT. The firm will need to continue to ramp up its owned property list if it wants to earn the kinds of returns that will attract investors in 2012.
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And so the firm has been doing just that. One of the biggest catalysts for new properties has been the roll-outs of newer hotel concepts such as Aloft, which provide a way for Starwood to add new rooms to its business without having to resort to less attractive hotel markets to do so. More exposure to international hotel demand is another way that HOT can grow its owned properties in the near-term without attempting to buy-out franchisees.
The analyst sentiment in this stock looks attractive this week.
Under Armour
If you're looking for exposure to a cheap stock, look again. Priced at 52 times earnings, shares of Under Armour (UA) are pricey by almost any standard. But don't think that means that there isn't potential for serious upside in shares in 2012.
Under Armour is a performance sports apparel and accessory brand that's taken the industry by storm in the past decade and change. The firm has grown to take a sizable share of the market from standard bearer Nike (NKE), and establish its interlocked "UA" logo as one of the most popular and recognizable icons in sports. That should help the firm continue to demand premium pricing (and bigger margins) from consumers.
It's impressive the UA has been able to carve out growth in the super-saturated U.S. sports apparel market, but that concentration has created a sales mix where just 10% of revenues are earned overseas. Under Armour will need to focus additional resources on marketing abroad, particularly in emerging markets where sports apparel trends tend to mirror those of the U.S. thanks to a burgeoning middle class population.
As a rising tide in stocks lifts all ships this week, this growth name should benefit better than most.
Under Armour is one of the top holdings at Steven Cohen's SAC Capital.
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-- Written by Jonas Elmerraji in Baltimore.
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Jonas Elmerraji, based out of Baltimore, is the editor and portfolio manager of the Rhino Stock Report, a free investment advisory that returned 15% in 2008. He is a contributor to numerous financial outlets, including Forbes and Investopedia, and has been featured in Investor's Business Daily, in Consumer's Digest and on MSNBC.com.


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|Inconsistency Will Continue For Bruins Unless A Change Is Made
On January 1st, 2014, Teddy Bridgewater decided to forego his junior season at Louisville, and declare for the NFL draft. When this story broke, writers from all over the country were writing that Bridgewater is not only the #1 quarterback prospect in the draft, but could very well be the #1 overall pick. It is now May 8th, 2014, and many of those writers now have Bridgewater as the #4 quarterback prospect, and a late first round pick. Some even have him out of the first round.
Bridgewater started to fall after he was on display at the NFL Combine. Bridgewater did not display great size, and his hands were measured to be (9.25 inches), which were the smallest of all the other quarterback prospects. Bridgewater stock started to fall fast after his pro-day. The pro-day for everyone is supposed to be an A performance, but Bridgewater came out of his pro-day with a C. After that day, Bridgewater's stock plummeted all the way to where it is presently.
Bridgewater has been passed on may mock drafts by quarterback Derek Carr out of Fresno State. Will NFL teams be making a mistake passing on Bridgewater, and taking the likes of Blake Bortles, Johnny Manziel or even Carr? The teams that pass on Bridgewater and take another quarterback will be making a big mistake.
In 2013, Bridgewater and Louisville was matched up against the #4 ranked Florida Gators in the Sugar Bowl. At this time there was a lot of chatter that Florida could very well be the best team in all of college football, with the best defense. Florida played the hardest schedule, and had the most wins against ranked opponents. Louisville came in as a 10 point underdog, and they shocked the world upsetting Florida 33-23. The final score was not indicative of how much the Cardinals dominated the Gators. Bridgewater finished the game going 20-32 for 266 yards and two touchdowns. No quarterback dominated a game like Bridgewater did against that Florida team.
Carr went up against USC in the Vegas Bowl this year. USC was the best defense Carr went up against all year and he had a dud of a game. Carr went 29-54, 216 yards, two touchdowns, one interception and a 95.8 rating, which was the lowest rating he recoded all season by 20 points. Carr had the worst game of his season against his most formidable opponent and Bridgewater had a great performance against the best defense in college football, yet Carr is ahead of him because he is taller and has bigger hands?
The good news is there is a really good chance that the New England Patriots may have a good shot of selecting Bridgewater late in the first round in tonight's draft. If available, the Patriots should pick Bridgewater to be the successor of Tom Brady. Bridgewater will be Aaron Rodgers 2.0, and the Patriots will make out better than every other NFL team that selects a quarterback in the 2014 draft.
Tags: 2014 NFL Draft, Blake Bortles, Derek Carr, Johnny Manziel, New England Pariots, Teddy Bridgewater
Did you notice how the patriots had zero problem bypassing Bridgewater for an impact defensive end? The vikings should have let houston screw up taking Bridgewater, so beyond dumb. They panicked yet again, gave away a second round pick they should have used on mettenberger(hands down the best and only franchise qb in this draft), and they also gave up a fifth. Bridgewater is not a franchise qb. He may not lose you a superbowl, but you're not winning multiples on his arm either. Terrible way for the vikings to end the first round. Prove me wrong teddy, really do want him to. I just don't think he's got "IT".


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The Baby, the Boss and the Banquet
There are 21 comments on the Farmington Daily Times story from Nov 30, 2010, titled The Baby, the Boss and the Banquet. In it, Farmington Daily Times reports that:K, so I go online this week to do my extensive research so that you, my readers and my fans will know what I know, which can be frightening, but exhilarating at the same time.
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#1 Dec 1, 2010
A crew chief does not a driver make.
Jr needs sumptin else....
sumptin else....
#2 Dec 1, 2010
Whaaa! Need A Nap? Catch A Race!
#3 Dec 1, 2010
Whaaa! oops! Apologies! Need
#4 Dec 1, 2010
NASCAR is for losers!!!!!!!!!!
#5 Dec 1, 2010
Has this woman totally lost her marbles? Her columns are nothing but the rantings of a crazy woman. Daily Times you can do better than this.
#6 Dec 1, 2010
Sorry Dorothy, I loved you on your morning radio show, but not so much in print.
#7 Dec 1, 2010
Well, i don't care what anyone else says. I am a NASCAR fan and I am your # 4 fan and you don't even have to pay me. Your rantings are the rantings of a true fan and I always enjoy!! I also agree with you!!
#8 Dec 2, 2010
Obviously your wife is a NASCAR fan and has control over the remote.
#9 Dec 2, 2010
Dang, when I read the caption, The Baby, The Boss and the Banquet I thought I was gonna read an article about Kyle Busch, Mike Helton, and the cookout the 48 team had after winning the championship 5 times in a dadgum row!! I was however, pleasantly surprized at what I did find, a real fan excited about the goins on as of late and really excited about going to the NASCAR Ball. You have a very HUGE time my friend!!!!!!! Be sure to say hello to Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCARS most popular driver for me. And you just keep writin whatever and however you want, always take a chance..........Columbus took a chance and look what he found!! Good read!!!!!!!
#10 Dec 2, 2010
nascar is for gayish and whimpy rednecks ,they should outlaw it look at them little boys always complanining get a mans sport like boxing or football ,when they going to have a the gay 500 this year
"Just quit jr."
Since: Aug 09
#11 Dec 2, 2010
Can't wait to see jr recieve his cup championship, his fifth in a row, and can't wait to see him outdrive Kyle Busch next season. Also I do hope to see jr's wife and children with him.
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#12 Dec 2, 2010
Honestly,.. What else can they do for "the boy"????? Rick Hendrick, along with his previous car owner, Theresa Earnhardt, has changed everything else for "the boy" but his Amp Energy stained underwear!!!
I simply can't understand the logic of making such a fuss, or even giving media attention to someone, who let's face it,.. has not shown the talent or the drive, to consistantly finish in the top 10!!
I've been to numerous races, & listened to Dale Jr.(the sports most popular looser) rant & rave over the radio, giving no constructive information to the crew about how to adjust the car. The only helpful information he convey's is "The car is a piece of $%*#!!!" or "The car is junk!!"
Get real Nobis, I hope next season, you pay a little more attention to other drivers & teams, who are worthy of media attention. I'd like to read about some of the teams running up front!! Some of the teams who finish in the top 10!! Maybe a new driver that is showing some talent & promise!!
I've said it before, & I will say it again.. the only CONSISTANCY that Dale Jr.(the sports most popular looser) has ever shown in the Cup Series, is his amazing inability to beat anything but his own rear tires to the start/finish line.
Hope you have a safe trip to Vegas..
#13 Dec 5, 2010
A man walks into a sports bar with his dog. A NASCAR Sprint Cup race is on a TV. He sits down and asks how Dale Earnhardt Jr. is doing. The bartender says "Dale Jr is in 35th, not doing so well". The man's dog jumps up, and runs around
the barstool 35 times.
A few laps later, the bartender says "Earnhardt is up to 15th!" The dog jumps up again and runs around the barstool 15 times. A couple laps later, the bartender excitedly says "Earnhardt is up to 2nd!" after which the dog again jumps up and runs around the barstool 2 more times...
The bartender says "WOW!! That dog is amazing!! What does he do if Dale Jr. wins?"
"I don't know", says the man, "I've only had him for 3 years!"
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#14 Dec 5, 2010
your telling on yourself. The old saying is it takes one to know one. Are you interested in a gay 500 ticket?....lol
#15 Dec 6, 2010
Mr H give Junior Chad Knaus, fat chance in Hell!
#16 Dec 6, 2010
By the way did Dale bring a date with him this year?
#17 Dec 6, 2010
LMAO...wouldn't u like to knw...
#18 Dec 8, 2010
Gee, wouldn't it be sweet if the media hype would focus on someone worthy of the spotlight, for a change?
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#19 Dec 8, 2010
Hello Lenny,
I agree,... exactly the point I was trying to make..
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
"How We Roll"
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Area 51, Nevada
#21 Dec 9, 2010
Sorry but your ignorance is not indicative of what makes men 'manly'. I submit that having 800+ Horses in a very masculine machine of speed and traction is QUITE manly. Unless you think it's a better idea to wrestle a polar bear with your bare hands, I think being in control of all that raw power a more than adequate example of NOT being wimpy at all.
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Police numbers reached a record high with 143,770 officers serving in the 43 forces in England and Wales in March, the Home Office said today .
The figure represents an increase of 1,911 in the number of officers compared with a year ago and includes an extra 1,224 constables. There are now more than 15,000 extra police officers than when Labour came to power in 1997.
The 2008 figure, when the size of the force dipped by 33, saw the first drop in overall police numbers for eight years. The official total for police service strength, which includes civilian staff, community support officers and some traffic wardens, is now close to 250,000 people. The number of community support officers has risen rapidly to 16,331 since their introduction six years ago.
Sir Ronnie Flanagan, the outgoing chief inspector of constabulary, said last year when police numbers hit 141,000 officers that such levels were "unsustainable" and were likely to fall over the next three years. He hoped politicians would recognise reality rather revert to "an unhelpful debate" over numbers.
The detailed figures for police numbers show that 27 forces increased their strength over the past year, with the largest increases taking place in the Metropolitan police (up 1,151) and the largest percentage increases in Norfolk, Leicestershire and Cambridgeshire (all up 5%). But 16 forces reported falling numbers including South Yorkshire, down 148 officers, Humberside, down 133 officers, and North Yorkshire, down 121 officers.
The figures also show continued progress in recruiting black and minority ethnic officers. There are now 6,290 minority ethnic officers in the 43 forces representing 4.4% of the total, but this is still short of the 7% race equality target set by the Home Office. The Met has the largest proportion at 8.8% followed by the West Midlands with 7.7%.
There has also been some progress in the gender balance of the police with the number of women officers rising to 36,187, but this represents only 27% of the total. Among the senior ranks of inspector and above, women only fill 13% of the jobs.
The home secretary, Alan Johnson, said he was encouraged police numbers had reached a record high. "But the fight against crime is not just a numbers game and that is why chief constables have more power than ever before to ensure they focus their resources on what matters to local people and what affects their communities," he said. While it was for chief constables to decide the size and mix of the police workforce, he said, it was important forces became more representative of the people they served.
Chris Grayling, shadow home secretary, highlighted the forces that had cut their numbers, saying: "This is the consequence of the massive damage that Gordon Brown has done to our public finances. It's made all the more absurd that so much police time is spent filling out forms."


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Chef Michael Stadtlander set to perform his next act
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TORONTO (Reuters Life!) - Sixteen years after leaving Toronto to open one of Canada's most celebrated dining spots on his farm north of the city, chef Michael Stadtlander is launching a new restaurant in a tiny nearby town.
The renowned German-born chef, farmer, artist and local food activist says rather than a "bistro" version of his iconic Eigensinn Farm, diners at Haisai, which he expects to open in late May, can look forward to the same quality and complexity of ingredients -- the majority of which he grows and raises himself.
Stadtlander, his Japanese wife Nobuyo, and seven live-in apprentices will oversee both Haisai and Eigensinn Farm, which only seats 12 guests in the dining room of the 19th-century brick house and has been named by Restaurant Magazine as one of the world's top 10 places to eat.
Stadtlander, 52, spoke to Reuters from his farm in Singhampton, Ontario, about living from the land, creative expression and his latest obsession.
Q: Can you describe the new restaurant?
A: "Eigensinn is not really a restaurant, it's a farm in the open, it's our house. Haisai will be like a real restaurant in a way. The way I look at it, it's more like a performance always. For me, the way I built the place, it's like a sculpture and you're actually sitting right inside the sculpture."
Q: What about the menu?
A: "It's going to change daily ... We grow and graze ourselves, we connect with the farmers and gardeners. Everything is organic and local. It's not a 100-mile diet, it's 50-mile. I can tell you where my chicken comes from, where my butter comes from, everything. It's really about transparency." Continued...


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The Theology of Adam Smith - Part II
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In part II of The Theology of Adam Smith, Professor Paul Oslington continues his study of the widely unknown theological underpinnings of the father of modern economics. Professor Oslington is author of Adam Smith as Theologian (2011) and is soon to release The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Economics (2014).
Eternal life in Adam Smith
There is a key passage that Adam Smith modified through different editions of Theory of Moral Sentiments before settling on the following:
"For it well deserves to be taken notice of, that we are so far from imagining that injustice ought to be punished in this life, merely on account of the order of society, which cannot otherwise be maintained, that Nature teaches us to hope, and religion, we suppose, authorises us to expect, that it will be punished, even in a life to come … in every religion, and in every superstition that the world has ever beheld, accordingly, there has been a Tartarus as well as an Elysium; a place provided for the punishment of the wicked, as well as one for the reward of the just."
Smith suggests that belief in justice in the life to come is taught by nature, reinforced by religion. If nature teaches largely by analogy then Smith is departing from Hume's position that such analogies are philosophically illegitimate, or at least suggesting that the fact that we learn about the afterlife by analogy is more important than a philosophical argument about the legitimacy of analogy. He also departs from Hume's view that the laws of justice arise from the need to maintain order in society.
The importance of the naturally formed sense of justice leading us to a future hope comes out in another passage where Smith discusses the famous case of Calas who was broken on the wheel in France for supposed murder of his son:
"To persons in such unfortunate circumstances, that humble philosophy which confines its views to this life, can afford, perhaps, but little consolation. Every thing that could render either life or death respectable is taken from them. They are condemned to death and to everlasting infamy. Religion can alone afford them any effectual comfort. She alone can tell them, that it is of little importance what man may think of their conduct, while the all-seeing Judge of the world approves of it. She alone can present to them the view of another world; a world of more candour, humanity, and justice, than the present; where their innocence is in due time to be declared, and their virtue to be finally rewarded: and the same great principle which can alone strike terror into triumphant vice, affords the only effectual consolation to disgraced and insulted innocence."
In a similar vein, Smith writes:
"When we thus despair of finding any force upon earth which can check the triumph of injustice, we naturally appeal to heaven, and hope, that the great Author of our nature will himself execute hereafter, what all the principles which he has given us for the direction of our conduct, prompt us to attempt even here; that he will complete the plan which he himself has thus taught us to begin; and will, in a life to come, render to every one according to the works which he has performed in this world. And thus we are led to the belief of a future state, not only by the weaknesses, by the hopes and fears of human nature, but by the noblest and best principles which belong to it, by the love of virtue, and by the abhorrence of vice and injustice."
And further:
"When the general rules which determine the merit and demerit of actions, come thus to be regarded as the laws of an All-powerful Being, who watches over our conduct, and who, in a life to come, will reward the observance, and punish the breach of them; they necessarily acquire a new sacredness from this consideration."
While Smith does not ground belief in future rewards and punishment in any calculation that individual or society benefits from such a belief, he is interested in the consequences of such a belief. Following the passage just quoted, he comments:
"It is in this manner that religion enforces the natural sense of duty and hence it is, that mankind are generally disposed to place great confidence in the probity of those who seem deeply impressed with religious sentiments."
The afterlife is important in Smith's system because the administration of justice in this present life is defective, and even if correct judgments are made, rewards and punishments in this life fall short of what justice demands. It is not just a philosophical or theological point, because Smith in both Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations sees justice is necessary to the proper functioning of economic system.
"If there is any society among robbers and murderers, they must at least, according to the trite observation, abstain from robbing and murdering one another. Beneficence, therefore, is less essential to the existence of society than justice. Society may subsist, though not in the most comfortable state, without beneficence; but the prevalence of injustice must utterly destroy it … Justice … is the main pillar that upholds the whole edifice."
We know that the imagination is important in Smith's account or scientific progress, and the spectator mechanisms of morality. For Smith, the future state also operates as an imaginative space where morality can be negotiated under the gaze of the author of nature. An example is Smith's recommendation of the active life and public engagement, as against quiet monkish life recommended by some of his religious contemporaries. Smith takes particular exception to the recommendation of monkish virtues by the French Catholic Bishop of Clermont, and his objection is developed in the imaginative space of the afterlife:
"To compare, in this manner, the futile mortifications of a monastery, to the ennobling hardships and hazards of war; to suppose that one day, or one hour, employed in the former should, in the eye of the great Judge of the world, have more merit than a whole life spent honourably in the latter, is surely contrary to all our moral sentiments; to all the principles by which nature has taught us to regulate our contempt or admiration. It is this spirit, however, which, while it has reserved the celestial regions for monks and friars, or for those whose conduct and conversation resembled those of monks and friars, has condemned to the infernal all the heroes, all the statesmen and lawgivers, all the poets and philosophers of former ages; all those who have invented, improved, or excelled in the arts which contribute to the subsistence, to the conveniency, or to the ornament of human life; all the great protectors, instructors, and benefactors of mankind; all those to whom our natural sense of praise-worthiness forces us to ascribe the highest merit and most exalted virtue. Can we wonder that so strange an application of this most respectable doctrine should sometimes have exposed it to contempt and derision; with those at least who had themselves, perhaps, no great taste or turn for the devout and contemplative virtues."
Overall, for Smith, the judgment and future hope operate as a court of appeal where wrongs of this world are righted and persons receive their just deserts. The justice of this divine court of appeal is continuous with and reinforces the natural sense of justice we have in this present life. There is no conflict between the two because for Smith the "great Director of nature" is providentially at work in both.
The continuity between the present and future life might suggest that Smith adheres to a version of eighteenth-century "cosmic utilitarianism," or is even a precursor of models in the contemporary economics of religion literature where heavenly and earthly utility are traded off against each other. While there doubtless are utilitarian elements in Smith - especially when he is giving policy advice, and he sometimes notes that behaviour driven by other forces promotes utility - his moral philosophy overall cannot be described as utilitarian.
For instance, he criticises utilitarian accounts of justice, and more generally accounts of justice which ground it in reason. There is a great distance between Smith and his utilitarian contemporaries Paley and Bentham. Furthermore, no passage in Smith's writings describes such tradeoffs an individual makes between earthly and heavenly utility.
Smith's teleology: The "end" of economics
If Smith resists the utilitarian flattening of moral discourse, and the equating of the present and future lives that make trading them off possible, then what sort of framework should we place Smith's eschatology in as we seek to understand its place in his system? I suggest that there is a teleological relationship between justice in the present life and justice in the future life. What happens in the future life is continuous with and completes the present life. That Smith operates in a teleological framework is perfectly consistent with his theological roots in the British tradition of scientific natural theology and the moderate Calvinism of the Scottish Enlightenment.
The teleological elements in his work have been emphasised in recent years by Smith scholars against a number of prominent detractors who made Smith part of their larger narratives bout the banishment of teleology from modern science: for instance, in the work of Alasdair MacIntyre (who located the abandonment of teleology in the eighteenth century) and Charles Taylor (who regarded the providential deism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as an intermediate stage between the old and modern worlds, as the idea that God was needed to achieve mutual beneficial ends was lost).
Examining Smith's writings closely it is pretty clear teleology is important, though final causes are separated carefully from efficient causes. Here is a key passage:
"In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, we admire how everything is contrived for advancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and the propagation of the species. But in these, and in all such objects, we still distinguish the efficient from the final cause of their several motions and organizations. The digestion of the food, the circulation of the blood, and the secretion of the several juices which are drawn from it, are operations all of them necessary for the great purposes of animal life. Yet we never endeavour to account for them from those purposes as from their efficient causes, nor imagine that the blood circulates, or that the food digests of its own accord, and with a view or intention to the purposes of circulation or digestion. The wheels of the watch are all admirably adjusted to the end for which it was made, the pointing of the hour. All their various motions conspire in the nicest manner to produce this effect. If they were endowed with a desire and intention to produce it, they could not do it better. Yet we never ascribe any such desire or intention to them, but to the watch-maker, and we know that they are put into motion by a spring, which intends the effect it produces as little as they do. But though, in accounting for the operations of bodies, we never fail to distinguish in this manner the efficient from the final cause, in accounting for those of the mind we are very apt to confound these two different things with one another. When by natural principles we are led to advance those ends, which a refined and enlightened reason would recommend to us, we are very apt to impute to that reason, as to their efficient cause, the sentiments and actions by which we advance those ends, and to imagine that to be the wisdom of man, which in reality is the wisdom of God. Upon a superficial view, this cause seems sufficient to produce the effects which are ascribed to it; and the system of human nature seems to be more simple and agreeable when all its different operations are in this manner deduced from a single principle."
Here for Smith, ends such as the propagation of the species clearly move the system, and the open question is the relationship between divine and human agency.
Contemporary economics is a long way from Adam Smith. MacIntyre and Taylor may have placed Smith wrongly on the modern side of the line dividing modern from older teleological approaches to scientific explanation and moral philosophy. This line for economics, in my view, runs through the middle of the nineteenth century in Britain, and the early decades of the twentieth century in America, although it is difficult to be precise. Contemporary economics is clearly on the modern side of the dividing line and has no place for teleology.
Banishing teleology (together with any meaningful discussion of eschatology) and narrowing the focus to efficient causes and has arguably assisted theoretical and empirical advance in economics over the past two centuries. But it has hindered capacity of economics to engage with the really big policy questions, those touch our deepest hopes and sense of justice. Hence, the future that economists take to their fellow human beings is the same as the present, just with further growth of income and consumption. As Paul Fiddes has recently put it, there is a "hopelessness of a future that is an inexorable extension of the present."
Smith could engage with these issues because his system had an end that was not just an extension of the present, and an imaginative space in which to re-conceive present possibilities.
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- From Inchope, you can take a local bus contact us in advance to arrange for the park shuttle to pick you up at the turnoff into the park.
- For an additional cost, you can arrange for the park shuttle will pick you up in Inchope when your bus arrives. You will have to contact us in advance to arrange this transfer. From there, it is a 1.5 hour drive from Inchope to Chitengo camp inside Gorongosa National Park.
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If Taker/HHH was indeed the plan since last year, I wonder if they were considering changing it to Punk/HHH once Punk's popularity blew up. I mean, with the way their feud ended and the way they were going with it, it looked like that was the way they were going. I mean why else have HHH pointlessly beat CM Punk when it was Punk who really could've used the win unless they were saving it for Mania? I don't know how long it was planned for Jericho to come back but if it was after NoC, then WWE probably figured they could do a whole "Best in the World" storyline and tie it in with the WWE Title in hopes that would boost the WWE Title's credibility in some people's eyes. Then they decided to just put back on the plan for Taker/HHH.
The only question is then what would've happened with Taker? Would he have indeed faced Mark Henry like it was rumored? Would he have faced someone like Wade Barrett or Cody Rhodes and get them over majorly by having them challenge the streak? I mean there's so many possibilities to all ends. I think if they really stress the fact to the casuals that the title "Best in the World" is synonymous with the WWE Title and that is what the whole Punk/Jericho feud revolves around, it could help the WWE Title's credibility to the casuals. But then the problem is the feud won't even be in the three biggest matches on the card if Show/Shaq does happen. So that makes it hard enough to take it as "Two of the best fighting to see who the best in the world at wrestling is!" I think it's possible, but it'll be very difficult with three bigger matches on the card. Maybe if it was just Rock/Cena as the only bigger match it could work, but Taker/HHH and now possibly Show/Shaq just makes it seem like a middle of the card match.
Punk/HHH would've obviously helped Punk out a lot more than Punk/Jericho, and plus if they did that and went with Taker/Jericho, those two matches are about equal in starpower, drawing, and importance so neither of them would look like a "middle of the card" match. It would be like there were four big matches, rather than just three, and the WWE Title match would be one of those big matches.
This all being said, I suspect match quality wise Punk/Jericho is the best option of the bunch, and Taker/HHH they could make another "drama-filled" match like last year. I couldn't see Punk/HHH or Taker/Jericho being as good or dramatic as the two they put on. So at least that's one thing good that came out of all of this.
Haha, true. Of course, the actual complex seedling of a storyline they had with Triple H as COO with the cryptic "Conspiracy" and Awesome Truth and Miz and Laurinaitis and who was pulling Johnny Ace's strings and who was really out to sabotage Punk and could Del Rio be the new Corporate Champion and when was Stephanie going to come back with a vengeance to derail Punk for what Punk did to her father and how he disrespected her and her husband and what was the Bigger Picture of Nexus and why did they bury The Undertaker and who the Anonymous GM was and how did that tie into Triple H as COO and why did Awesome Truth help both sides in the Triple H/Punk war at Night of Champions and why did they never develop the Punk/Trips relationship and why did Punk never get revenge on Nash and why did they have to have Nash and Triple H feud and did Nash really text himself and who brought Nash in and what kind of alliance did Laurinaitis create with Vickie Guerrero and was Dolph Ziggler being groomed all along to overthrow Punk and why was Laurinaitis so wishy-washy with Awesome Truth and are we all supposed to forgive the roster, the announcers and the cameramen for bailing on Triple H and was that leading anywhere and was there ever a "Conspiracy" in the first place and what could have happened if Triple H turned heel at some point this late fall/early winter or thereabouts and who is the girl in the Jericho videos and what kind of relationship does he have with Johnny Ace and is Jericho being deployed to take out Punk for a Higher Power and is Vince going to return and what if Stephanie were back so I could look at her was kind of all thrown in the fireplace, or so it seems.
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YA author Celia Rees serves up a history lesson and a bewitching tale of suspense with Witch Child, the story of a young woman's struggles to survive amidst the witch mania that besieged 17th-century civilizations on both sides of the Atlantic. The story unfolds from the pages of a centuries-old diary, purportedly found hidden inside an old quilt. In a lead-in to the tale, Rees provides just enough manufactured manifest for this diary to lend it a realistic feel. The diary's author, a 15-year-old Englishwoman named Mary Newbury, grabs her readers' attention with a vengeance from the very first page, where she details her grandmother's arrest and subsequent execution for the crime of witchcraft.
Unlike some of the innocents who fell victim to this 17th-century hysteria, Mary readily admits to being a witch -- at least within the confines of her diary -- and is rescued from suffering a fate similar to her grandmother's by a mysterious female benefactor who ushers her unto a ship sailing for the New World. Mary hopes the change of venue will provide an escape from the sort of rigid intolerance that caused her grandmother's death, but rumors of witchcraft seem to follow her wherever she goes. The horrific onboard conditions and several at-sea disasters trigger witch paranoia among Mary's fellow sea travelers and, when the surviving passengers finally arrive in Salem, Mary quickly discovers that the lifestyle and the settlers in this New World are even more rigid and intolerant than those she left behind.
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I got the oppertunity to run with a modded 300xztt. I was heading home from work today. I saw it getting gas and he turned his head and jumped in real fast. So i didnt really pay to much attention sence there were about 3 cars ahead of me.
I pass 2, and i see him in my rear view flying around the cars coming my way. I pass the other car because i hate being behind people. so im out in front and the guy flys around me 3 other cars . I see some a lot of smoke. I thought to my self i wanna see if i can make his engine pop.To show this kid. I see him drop gear and slow down. i wave to him turn into the left lane and double clutch into 3rd and drop hammer. i fly around him (about 1.5-2cars lengths) shift into 4th (1car length) still cant risk cutting into the right lane(i really thought i just blow around him ) . I glanced to see if i could pass , right before the blind spot. I forgot see if any cars were coming ( i was watching my RPMs) and let off for a split second. I saw the lane as clear for miles and stabbed it again by this time. hes side by side. I was going to fast for imaginary roads. So slowed down waved him down to see what he had. I turned out to be a lightly modded TT @ 16 psi he said its dynoed @ 296 probably CHP.
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Kathleen Sebelius: Contraception rule respects religion
One of the key benefits of the 2010 health care law is that many preventive services are now free for most Americans with insurance. Vaccinations for children, cancer screenings for adults and wellness visits for seniors are all now covered in most plans with no expensive co-pays or deductibles. So is the full range of preventive health services recommended for women by the highly respected Institute of Medicine, including contraception.
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Today, virtually all American women use contraception at some point in their lives. And we have a large body of medical evidence showing it has significant benefits for their health, as well as the health of their children. But birth control can also be quite expensive, costing an average of $600 a year, which puts it out of reach for many women whose health plans don't cover it.
The public health case for making sure insurance covers contraception is clear. But we also recognize that many religious organizations have deeply held beliefs opposing the use of birth control.
That's why in the rule we put forward, we specifically carved out from the policy religious organizations that primarily employ people of their own faith. This exemption includes churches and other houses of worship, and could also include other church-affiliated organizations.
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In choosing this exemption, we looked first at state laws already in place across the country. Of the 28 states that currently require contraception to be covered by insurance, eight have no religious exemption at all.
The religious exemption in the administration's rule is the same as the exemption in Oregon, New York and California.
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This is not an easy issue. But by carving out an exemption for religious organizations based on policies already in place, we are working to strike the right balance between respecting religious beliefs and increasing women's access to critical preventive health services.
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Run-down ex-council houses aren't exactly inspiring. But in 2009, this was exactly what Mikko and Joanna Laukkanen were looking for.
Both Finnish — though Mikko, 38, an architect, was raised in America and educated at Harvard — the pair first met in a London pub.
"He had an awful gash over his eyebrow," says Joanna, 44, who works with investors at BT. "I wondered if he was a bit rough, but it turned out he played rugby for Hammersmith and Fulham, and had been in a match."
When they first married, the couple lived in Joanna's house — a listed Georgian cottage, where their son, Dashiell, was born. When Ava, now seven, arrived, it was time to go house-hunting for more room.
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1/8 You wouldn't know the place these days
Architect Mikko Laukannen and his wife Joanna transformed their neglected former council terrace home in Richmond, extending up into the loft, out at the lower level and using plenty of floor-to-ceiling glass, doubling its value in the process. It's now worth £1.2 million.
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2/8 Meeting the challenge
Mikko and Joanna in their stunning kitchen/living room. Money for the work was super-tight but they decided on a really fast build, and set aside just four months to do a complete transformation that would add 60 per cent extra space.
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3/8 Keeping up the standards
Going out four metres at ground level allowed for the creation of the vast kitchen-living space with big bifold doors to the garden. But the couple didn't compromise on quality, especially in the envelope of the house — from windows to engineered oak floors.
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4/8 Bright ideas - big savings
Six Velux roof lights and those big, beautiful glass doors brighten the ground floor. Joanna wanted three particular pendant lights over the kitchen units, but each cost a thousand dollars, so Mikko took two lamps apart and built her something that looks identical, for £60 each.
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5/8 Cool good looks
For the kitchen, the couple tracked down a firm in Southampton that made wooden carcasses, which they topped with smooth white silestone.
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6/8 Heaps of storage and a new loo
The foot of the staircase was curved to make room for a big cupboard by the front door, while there's now a nifty loo in the old cupboard under the stairs.
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For the bathrooms, Mikko found bargain lavatories on eBay and then sourced basins to match. Down the garden - which was once a jungle - is a newly built double studio with loo.
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8/8 Loving the morning light
The loft now contains the master bedroom and en suite, which enjoys as much natural light as possible thanks to all that glass. Mikko hid all the services, so there are no drainpipes cluttering up the back façade.
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- The ex-council house cost £572,000 in 2010
- The couple spent: (without architect's fees) £215,000
- Value now: £1.2 million
Architects see things differently to most of us. For them, problems become opportunities. Even so, after the 2008 crash, the market had got tougher and the pair were gazumped.
Although North Sheen, just two minutes from Richmond, has lots of Thirties homes of the type they were looking for, it took more than a year to find a place they wanted — a three-bedroom, neglected ex-council terrace, ripe for renewal.
"It was in such a state," says Joanna. "Every tiny room was a different bright colour, with a matching carpet. There was one small bathroom upstairs, the kitchen was disgusting and the garden a jungle. But it was exactly what we wanted."
They put in an offer and were gazumped again, but this time, furious, they countered with more cash and got their house in 2010.
When they first moved in, they gave it a coat of whitewash to make it bearable, while Mikko put in applications to the council for a loft conversion, plus an extension and a studio in the garden. To his surprise, the planners rejected his "lawful development" application, so he went to appeal — which he won.
As with most Londoners, money was super-tight. Although they were finally given the green light in 2011, they saved up and didn't start works until 2013. The pre-prep to such a big project is lengthy and involves a lot of organisation.
Once they were ready, they decided on a really fast build, and set aside just four months to do a complete transformation that would add 60 per cent extra space. They created a master bedroom and en suite in the loft and extended out four metres at ground level to make a vast kitchen-living space with six Velux roof lights and big bi-fold doors. They also built a double studio, with a loo, at the end of the garden.
The whole house was refurbished, too — a loo was built in the old cupboard under the stairs, and the foot of the staircase was curved to make room for a big cupboard by the front door.
Joanna took the children away for a month during demolition. Mikko stayed on site — though once the entire back wall had come off, he was sliding down a scaffolding pole instead of taking the stairs. The family then moved into a flat while the work was completed.
"We had 10 builders working six days a week," says Mikko, who project-managed, as well as surfing the internet for bargains.
Every day, Joanna came home from work to find that Mikko had found lots of things online for her to choose between. From lamps and light sockets to lavatories and sinks, the pair left no stone unturned. But they didn't compromise on quality, especially in the envelope of the house, from windows to engineered oak floors.
Joanna wanted three particular pendant lights over the kitchen units, but each cost hundreds of pounds, so Mikko took two lamps apart and built her something that looks identical, for £60 each. He found bargain toilets on eBay and then sourced basins to match. For the kitchen, they tracked down a firm in Southampton that made wooden carcasses, which they topped with smooth white silestone.
Mikko hid all the pipework and cables, so there are no drainpipes cluttering up the back façade, and put in as much glass as possible. In the sunny main room, a smart trick was running a band of mirror all the way round the walls, a bit like a frame. This bounces light and foxes the eye, enlarging the sense of space. There is also concealed coving lighting, dimmable downlighters and pendants — and plenty of sunlight.
Finishing just two days before Christmas, they were laying the last bit of the floor when Joanna's parents arrived. "They just couldn't believe the transformation," she says. "Terraces can be quite deep and dark, and we wanted light. It's good for the children."
When you match light with a lot more space — all done on a tight budget — it doesn't get much better than that.
Mikko's tips:
Don't be afraid of bold structural changes — such as demolishing stairs, chimney breasts or walls — but take advice and get necessary consents first. It is better to pay £10,000-£20,000 extra and recover £100,000-£200,000 of useable area through better use of space than be burdened with poor room proportions.
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- Ceramic tiles in bathroom from Minoli
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What is a lawful development certificate?
If you think what you want to do falls within "permitted development rights" — alterations or extensions that can be done without planning permission — you can apply for a Lawful Development Certificate beforehand, which you can show subsequent buyers to prove that you acted lawfully. It's not obligatory, but it is good for peace of mind. Visit the Government planning portal for more information.
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ESPN legal analyst Lester Munson posted an extensive piece about the trial yesterday afternoon. He believes injuries will play a key role in the courtroom.
In many similar cases, known in the courts as "acquaintance rape" prosecutions, any injury to the victim proves to be the most important evidence. According to court filings made by the prosecution, the woman suffered "small abrasions," redness and swelling in the genital area as a result of the sexual encounter, as well as "marks on her chest and tenderness to the side of her head." It is expected that the prosecutors will argue that the vaginal abrasions are evidence of nonconsensual sex.
Johnson's lawyers will tell the jury that the injuries were the result of consensual sex and have hired at least two "independent medical providers" who will offer expert testimony in support of their assertion.
Munson goes on to say the prosecution faces "significant challenges on the issue of consent." It's worth a full read.
The New York Times also wrote a preview piece that published yesterday. The story mostly rehashed the issue of sexual assaults at UM and the three ongoing investigations into how administrators handled those assault claims, but also includes a strong quote from former Congressman Pat Williams.
"We've had sex assaults, vandalism, beatings by football players," said Pat Williams, a former congressman and a member of the Montana Board of Regents. "The university has recruited thugs for its football team, and this thuggery has got to stop."
Williams gave Munson a similar quote, adding football players acted like "arrogant marauders."
There's more, of course. ABC's "Good Morning America" ran a segment on the trial earlier today, and USA Today picked up the Associated Press account. As for local coverage, the Missoulian's Gwen Florio is tweeting live from jury selection and the Indy has a reporter on the scene, as well.


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