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The season of watermelons brings so many grins to beat the summer quest. The summer assails adhere to the beat of thirst quenchers indeed this season.
Watermelons are one best juicy fruit naturally packed with antioxidants. It is the best known juicy fruits to beat the summer.
Watermelon is the best juicy fruit, a well known fact!! But, how many people know that they are rich in Vitamins and nutrients.
As per the research, watermelons serve good for diseases like cardiovascular, diabetes and colon cancer. Another benefit is that they are of course rich in Vitamins like A, B and Vitamin C.
Watermelon is a perfect health drink which contains 92% of water. It has no cholesterol or fat.
How to choose the right Watermelon:
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Allegheny County environmental chief Zappa takes job with nonprofit
Allegheny County's environmental chief is leaving her position halfway toward a goal of reducing the county's greenhouse gas footprint by 20 percent.
Jeaneen Zappa, 47, of Shaler will step down as sustainability manager to become the executive director of Conservation Consultants Inc., a South Side nonprofit that helps low-income families reduce their natural gas and electric usage and lower their bills.
"We have momentum," Zappa said of the county's efforts to reduce energy usage. "We are progressing steadily to do things that have less of an environmental footprint and that will save us money."
Appointed by former County Executive Dan Onorato in 2009, Zappa started a recycling program and worked on projects to better manage carbon emissions and water usage.
In 2010, Onorato set a goal of reducing the county's greenhouse gas footprint 20 percent by 2015. Looking at a report on Thursday, she said the county had lowered its footprint by about 10 percent.
"I had hope we would be further ahead," she said. "Initially, we thought we would be able to do more things at the beginning."
The first phase of lowering emissions focused on the jail and the John J. Kane Regional Center in Ross. The county is wrapping up phase two, which involved making improvements to the Shuman Juvenile Detention Center, the remaining Kane centers and the courthouse, Zappa said.
Her latest project with the county was to encourage employees to participate in energy-saving efforts. This year she urged employees to turn off lights, unplug devices not in use and use shared printers.
Andrew Butcher, CEO of GTECH, a nonprofit conservation group that worked closely with Zappa, said he hopes her successor will continue to build on her work, but also collaborate with the community.
"The county, as a regional leader, has a great potential to convene stakeholders, businesses and organizations to advance sustainability priorities outside the county assets and facilities," Butcher said.
Zappa earned $84,999.48. Spokeswoman Amie Downs said the county has not yet started to search for Zappa's replacement.
She replaces Ann Gerace at Conservation Consultants. Gerace co-founded the organization in 1988.
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If you've got a small or medium-sized network and you need to manage it yourself, you're not alone. I've rounded up six great free network tools that make it much easier to handle and troubleshoot your network.
This freebie turns you into an instant IT staff. It inventories your network and provides information about each device, including including free and used disk space, antivirus software being used, problems on the device (such as server connection errors), and more. It can even help you set up your own IT help desk. For a free program, this is exceptionally powerful.
Is your network bedeviled by bandwidth hoggers --- devices or applications that suck up too much bandwidth? Here's the solution. This application shows every application communicating over your network, and shows information, including the bandwith they're using. That way you can identify the bandwith hoggers and shut them down or limit their use.
There are three versions of the software, a free one, and two paid ones. The paid ones are more powerful than the free version. The Lite version lets you set limits on bandwidth apps can use, and the Pro version adds even more features.
Changing your PCs' DNS settings from the default can be a good idea, both to speed up the speed with which they access Web sites, and for security reasons. But actually making those changes in Windows can be frustrating and confounding. That's where this tool comes it. Install it on any PC whose DNS you want to change, run the software, and choose from a list of DNS alternatives. Then click and you're done. The program also backs up your original settings if you want to revert to them.
This excellent all-in-one network suite offers just what its name says -- a series of advanced network tools that will do many tasks, including conducting ports scans, DNS lookups and pings, and scanning for network shares, and checking on routing tables. It's all presented in a compact application. You'll need some network knowledge to use it, of course, but otherwise it's quite straightforward.
Here's a free way to put your network through a basic security check. It's made up of three tools that look for potentially insecurities such as shared resources and open ports. You can also test the security of any Web servers on your network. It also examines the Web servers on your network and tried to break into them using a "dictionary attack" by trying combinations of usernames and passwords.
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I missed this dish, My father used to cook this before, thanks for sharing it
October 24, 2009
1/2 kilo chicken (cut into parts)
1/2 kilo pork (cut into cubes)
1/2 kilo beef (for stewing, cut into chunk cubes)
4 pieces chorizo bilbao
8 cups water
1 teaspoon salt
1 bundle onion leeks
6 cloves garlic (minced)
2 tablespoons oil
5 pieces Saba banana
5 pieces boiled potatoes (quartered)
5 pieces boiled sweet potatoes (quartered)
1 cup chickpeas
1 bundle cabbage (sliced)
1 Pinch salt & pepper
1. Boil pork, chicken, beef, chorizo in salted water with
onion leeks.
2. Lower fire and let simmer until all meat is tender.
3. Take out all the meat, set aside, keep stock.
4. In a casserole, saute garlic, onion, then pour in
the stock.
5. Bring to a boil, add all meat, banana, potatoes, sweet potatoes and chickpeas.
6. Season with salt and patis.
7. Add in the cabbage.
8. Serve hot.
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yeah it's my father who used to cook this for us.i had the same sentiment


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Dr. Javanmard's research exploits emerging micro and nanotechnologies, electronic, photonic, and microelectromechanical technologies to develop biomarker based diagnostic platforms. In particular his aim is to develop sensing platforms which will decrease cost, increase assay speed, and improve limit of detection, thus enabling point-of-care disease diagnosis.
Wade Trappe elected SPS Regional Director-at-Large (1-6), IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors
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More than a backchannel : Twitter and television
Harrington, Stephen, Highfield, Tim, & Bruns, Axel (2013) More than a backchannel : Twitter and television. Participations : Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 10(1), pp. 405-409.
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Twitter is a social media service that has managed very successfully to embed itself deeply in the daily lives of its users. Its short message length (140 characters), and one-way connections ('following' rather than 'friending'), lead themselves effectively to random and regular updates on almost any form of personal or professional activity. Thus, it has found uses from the interpersonal (e.g. Boyd et al., 2010) through crisis communication (e.g. Bruns et al., 2012), to political debate (e.g. Burgess & Bruns, 2012). In such uses, Twitter does not necessarily replace existing media channels, such as broadcasting or online mainstream media, but often complements them, providing its users with alternative opportunities to contribute more actively to the wider media sphere. This is true especially where Twitter is used alongside television, as a simple backchannel to live programming or for more sophisticated uses. In this article, we outline four aspects and dimensions, of the way that the old medium of television intersects, and in some cases, interacts with the new medium of Twitter. Tweeting about the television has always been a social media form. It has also consistently provided key 'talking points' for western societies...
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We would like to print excerpts of the speech Robert Kennedy gave in 1968 on the night that Martin Luther King was murdered. This speech was made off the top of his head.
"I have some very sad news for all of you, and I think, sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace and all over the world; and that is, that Martin Luther King was shot and killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort….For those of you who are black–considering the evidence evidently is that there were white people who were responsible–you can be filled with bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge…..
For those of you who are black and are tempted to fill with–be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.;;;
What we need in the United State is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they are white or whether they are black.
So I ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King-yeah, it's true–but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country, which all of us love– a prayer for understanding and compassion of which I spoke.
We can do well for this country. We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past, but we– and we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; and it is not the end of disorder.
But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land.
And, let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago; to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.
Thank you very much.


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Zinke names Greg Sheehan Deputy Director of USFWS
Chairman Conaway speaks at DU National Convention
DU helps educate Congress on wildlife refuges
DU representative testifies at Farm Bill hearing
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Key programs receive increase in 2017 Omnibus
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Looking to get a jump on the iPhone 6, Huawei has confirmed that it will launch a Sapphire screen hosting Huawei Ascend P7 in the near future.
Having previously been teased by the Chinese manufacturer's CEO, the Huawei Ascend P7 Sapphire Edition has been confirmed for launch in the company's homeland.
There is currently no word on a precise release date, pricing or wider availability.
"The first 4G sapphire glass touchscreen smartphone, the Huawei Ascend P7 Sapphire Edition, will soon be available in China," an official Huawei spokesperson has confirmed.
They added: "Details will be announced by Huawei Consumer Business Group shortly."
Sapphire glass is an extremely toughened material which has been pegged as being "virtually scratch free". Heavily backed by Apple, the glass – which is roughly two and half times tougher than Corning's Gorilla Glass – is widely expected to be implemented on the iPhone 6.
Huawei, however, has beaten Apple to the jump, at least in announcing plans for a sapphire screen device.
Sadly for us Brits it does not appear that the P7 Sapphire Edition will be heading to our humble shores.
Questioned on the device, James Powell, Huawei's Product Director told TrustedReviews: "From time to time variants get made of products for different markets.
"There is certainly nothing coming to Europe."
The Sapphire screen equipped model will become the third edition of the P7 after the standard handset was followed up by the football-themed Huawei Ascend P7 Arsenal Edition.
The existing handsets boast a 5-inch, 1080p Full HD display alongside a 1.8GHz Cortex-A9 processor, 2GB of RAM and a camera package which sees a 13-megapixel primary snapper partnered with an 8-megapixel offering up front.
It is not believed that the P7 Sapphire Edition will differ on this front.
Read More: Huawei Ascend G6 review


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"The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster."
Related quotes
"I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad."
"I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines."
"It's like I, Robot , when Will Smith had that iron on one side of his body. I know I'm protected, ... I'm not going out there timid. God forbid it to happen again, but if it does it'll be when I'm running 110 miles an hour."
"Our goal was to compete with a working robot. We were already victorious when we got there, and we ended up taking it all."


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|A regular hamburger and fries from Five Guys Burgers & Fries.
In a recent national survey, the burger chain, Five Guys Burgers & Fries, won the number one spot for best burger. When ordered to go, this tasty man's meal comes in a plain brown bag. (See previous post.) This is just a regular burger with ketchup (lots of it) only - just the way I like it. My tastes are simple - I simply like the best. The photo of the burger really doesn't do it justice. It's actually 2 burgers stacked on a lightly grilled bun. Fresh ground beef, grilled while you wait. Check out the healthy portion of fries. The cup they serve them in is full, the rest they just toss in the bag for good measure. The meat is never frozen, just kept in a cooler. Much fresher. Fries are cooked in peanut oil. The chain started in Arlington, Virginia.


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From Kay Slay's Redemption mixtape, which is out now.
DOWNLOAD: Nina B – You Know Who I Am | Mediafire
PREVIOUS: DJ Kay Slay – Redemption f. Trae Tha Truth, Jon Connor, Tone Trump & Papoose
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From Kay Slay's Redemption mixtape, which is out now.
DOWNLOAD: Nina B – You Know Who I Am | Mediafire
PREVIOUS: DJ Kay Slay – Redemption f. Trae Tha Truth, Jon Connor, Tone Trump & Papoose
Always thought Nina B was type sexy.
Around The Way Girl sexy.
I know she slept with someone to get a record deal. This bitch needs to try again.
Was that Paula Perry sitting on the step with her?
yo meka i dare u to post something bad about 50…i really want to know if he will shut ur website down too like he did worldstar hahahahha
@Nina B
Can you please put some clothes on so that I can respect you and take you seriously? Oh, and if you could add some substance to your music that would help me to REMEMBER you better and discern you from all the sluts that permeate rap music.. If you cant do that, then please sit yo azz down! Hip Hop has to many Hoe's, Whores, and Degenerates. Hip Hop needs more Black Queens and Ladies
Sincerely a concerned Black Man.
Peace 7
DAT ASS! time to go masturbate.
Wack Rhymes.. nice ass lmao
just awful
This song is like cover screen -> asssssss.
stfu stop rapping and throw that ass back
I didn't know they still made female rappers like this.
In the words of Bill Walton, "That was the worst song/video in the history of songs and videos"
wow, she's nice. Keep it real gurl
her ass is fake watch the video… she comes out the papi store with no ass
You aint neva lied. I dont remember her having an ass like that though, lol.
It doesn't pass the OJ Test, though.
We'll all know what all of this means come June 30th.
Piggybacking off his Famerican Gangster 2 album released in February, Ralo is…
We should get the Culture follow-up by the end of the year.
Free smoke, free smoke.
In honor of Hov's new album and "22 Two's."
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Sad story breaking out of Boston:
The brother of ice skating star Nancy Kerrigan is in court today facing assault charges, reports The Boston Globe. According to police, Mark Kerrigan, 45, is charged with assaulting their father, Daniel Kerrigan, 70, who was found unresponsive in his Stoneham, Mass., home early Sunday morning and later died.
Mark "stated that he wanted to use the phone and his father would not let him,'' reports the Globe from police documents filed in court. "He said that he struggled with his father and put his hands around his father's neck and his father fell to the floor. He said that his father was faking it.''
TMZ reports that Mark, who cried during his arraignment, entered a "not guilty" plea in court today. His bail was set at $10,000.
The death is under investigation, and the cause of death for the Daniel Kerrigan is pending an autopsy by the state medical examiner's office.
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Following up on my post about the preventable death of Savita Halappanavar due to anti-choice theology, three Catholic blogs at Patheos have weighed in: "Savita's tragic death could have been avoided", "Savita's Death and Common Sense", "and Savita Halappanavar's Death". All three of them take the same position: that Savita's death was an avoidable and tragic accident, that her life could have been saved in a way consistent with Catholic law. Here's how one of them puts it:Even if you are … [Read more...]
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Savita Halappanavar is dead, and she shouldn't be. That has to be the beginning and end of anything anyone writes about this. Savita was 31 years old, married, four months pregnant with her first child, a dentist who lived near Galway in Ireland. Last month, she went to the hospital with what she thought were back pains, but the doctors soon determined she was having a miscarriage. In these cases, there's no chance of the fetus surviving, but the mother is at grave risk of infection the longer … [Read more...]
Skepticon V Impressions
This past weekend, I was in Springfield, Missouri for Skepticon V ("the fifth most annual Skepticon yet"). I had such a fantastic time at Skepticon IV in 2011, it was a foregone conclusion that I'd go back this year, and I wasn't disappointed. Skepticon is one of the largest atheist conventions in the country (1500+ people this time around), while managing the remarkable feat of being completely free, and still draws a top-notch speaker slate. And yes, I was on stage this year! I was privileged … [Read more...]
Piercing the Republican Epistemic Bubble
I've written some overarching thoughts about last week's presidential election, but I wanted to dwell on one of its more fascinating aspects: the extent to which the Republican party was blindsided by the outcome. Going into Tuesday, countless Republicans had predicted a solid victory for Mitt Romney, and it's clear that this wasn't just a political ploy to sway media coverage. On the contrary, Republicans at every level sincerely believed this - ordinary voters, professional pundits, and … [Read more...]
Putting an End to Pulpit Politicking
Now that the election is over, it's time for American freethinkers to turn our attention to some unfinished business. And here's one thing that should be at the top of the list. Churches in America receive a broad array of special tax privileges and exemptions, in exchange for which they have just one meaningful restriction: namely, that they can't tell their members to vote for or against a specific candidate. This is a narrowly drawn and easily evaded rule, but for a long time now, right-wing … [Read more...]
Open Thread: Four More Years!
The 2012 election is officially over, and it was glorious. Barack Obama and the Democrats have delivered what one of our elder statesmen once referred to as "a thumping" to Romney and the Republicans. Here are some of my thoughts: • The sweeping electoral college victory. I'm glad to admit that President Obama surpassed my most optimistic expectations. I was confident he would win reelection - he could have done it just by winning Ohio, Wisconsin and Nevada, three swing states where the … [Read more...]
Open Thread: Election Speculation
Tomorrow is Election Day for all us Americans. And while I normally try to base my arguments on solid evidence, far be it from me to deny everyone the chance to speculate wildly about the future every few years. So, let's have it: What do you think is going to happen tomorrow? I'll start off: Given his small but stable lead in almost all the crucial swing states, I'm confident that Obama will be reelected, although the race will probably be closer than it was in 2008. I also think the Democrats … [Read more...]
Weekend Coffee: November 3
• The big news, of course, is that the U.S. presidential election is on Tuesday. Take heart, progressives: although the media and the Republicans are straining mightily to pretend that the race is a dead heat, the state-by-state polls make Obama a clear favorite for reelection. • Skepticon 5, the amazing free conference for atheists and skeptics of all stripes, is coming up next weekend - but they haven't raised enough money to cover all their costs yet, and they need your help to … [Read more...]
Why You Should Be a Voter
In my earlier post about whether to vote for third parties, there were some commenters who asserted that there's no good reason to vote at all. Since we're now right on the verge of Election Day, I thought it was worthwhile to address this argument. Putting aside the inevitable paranoid conspiracy theories, the most common argument I've seen for the no-vote position is that the time and effort required to cast one's vote can be significant, whereas the probability of a single vote playing the … [Read more...]
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When a group of Christian educators viewed Free the Horses, they were immediately impressed with the values expressed in the program. Belonging, learning, contributing, courage, responsibility and cooperationthe building blocks of characterare ideas compatible with Christian teaching. The educators sought way to reinforce those concepts with Biblical references in order to build a theological base for a "character education adventure" to be used in church-oriented study.
A writing team consisting of two professional church educators and two ordained ministers set to work creating supplements for the 20 lesson plans in the Free the Horses Teacher's Guide. The result of their efforts is this guide, which suggests biblical and theological insights for each session, adapts some activities, substitutes others and adds questions suitable for the church environment. The guide is an excellent supplement to the Teacher's Guide and contains suggestions on how to adapt the course for use in Sunday School, church retreats, midweek programs, and vacation programs. See Program Description for more information about this program.(88 pp.)
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HOLY MOLY!! I had the most amazing experience a couple of weeks ago - a real, live pick!
My friend Suze has a friend in Milwaukee who recently purchased a building in Milwaukee's trendy Third Ward. This area used to be known as Commerce Row, and there were many wholesale grocers and produce warehouses there. The building we were in just so happened to house one of these wholesalers for over 100 years!
And some of the items we found were almost 100 years old. Oh my goodness gracious me. You can see us picking through one of the ENORMOUS boxes in the warehouse, here:
I can honestly say that I've never been so filthy in my whole life. There was also 100 years of dirt in that warehouse! :D
Alright, enough talk - onto the actual ephemera we picked!!
Some of the items we found were in bulk, like these fantastic new-old stock cellophane celery wrappers:
Most of the ones we found were in packages that have never been opened, even though they appear to be 60-70 years old! Here is the package, with a FANTASTIC Du Pont label on its side! We must have about 1500 of these! :D
We also found a couple thousand of these Schmidt-Gaertner tags.....
....also in their original boxes! We have THREE full boxes of these! :D
I also have enough checks for every ephemera collage that could ever be created from now until Rapture. :) These are only 25 years old, but they'll be cut up or shredded anyway. Plus - three colors! :D
We also found TONS of these old Western Union and Chicago, Milwaukee and Lake Superior Telegraph Co. telegraphs!! SO cool, and some of them even have those fantastic cinderella stamps still affixed! :D
The most varied thing we found were dozens and dozens of these envelopes from the '20s and '30s....
....and each of them has different ephemera! Here is what was in the above envelope - check out that AWESOME thermograph!!
There were also HUNDREDS of fruit crates. The crates themselves were not in the best of shape, but we managed to salvage the side with the labels. Here is the container with the best of them:
As you've probably figured out, I got that "I'm on crack" feeling when doing this pick. The three of us kept saying over, and over, "Look at this!", or "OMG! Check this out!!". It was SO fun. And it was so nice of Suze's friend to let us have first dibs on this incredible ephemera!! WOO HOO!!!
As soon as I create any collages with this amazing stuff, I will post it. Now, I'm off to the studio! :D


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MASSILLON It definitely wasn't a rain dance, but Hillsdale's pregame high-stepping ritual may have had something to do with the Falcons putting a damper on Youngstown Ursuline's state tournament softball hopes.
Hillsdale shuffled past Ursuline's Fighting Irish ever so slightly, 1-0, Wednesday afternoon in Div. III regional semifinal play at Genshaft Park.
The Falcons (22-7) captivated a good showing of Hillsdale faithful in their pregame dance number, and the short ditty may have given the Jeromesville squad a mental edge against a staunch Ursuline (20-11) club.
"We said ladies, you're always fooling around in the gymnasium on a rain night doing a little dance, an Irish jig, and they did it before the Loudonville (district championship) game and then before we left, before we had batting practice and I just said, 'Oh my goodness,'" said Falcon boss Ray Dickerhoof. "They asked if they could do it and I told them if it made them play better, so be it.
"They did it, and now they have to do it again and it's just their way of saying, 'We're the Hillsdale bunch,'" he added. "You know what? It's cute, it's neat, it doesn't hurt anybody. Sometimes you have to put things in perspective. This is still a game, and you have to make it fun."
A few of the players having the most fun in the game were sophomore Tiffany Uhler and junior Kelly Mowry, who had a say in the contest's lone run.
In the top of the sixth inning, Mowry led off with a bunt single that Ursuline pitcher Maureen Cearfoss fielded, but the ball slipped out of her grasp as she also grabbed a handful of dirt on the play. After freshman Whitney Dropsey advanced Mowry to second on a fine sacrifice bunt, Uhler, faced with two outs but having a 3-1 pitch count in her favor, bashed a liner just out of the grasp of Ursuline centerfielder Mariah Snyder to plate Mowry with a run-scoring double.
"The biggest plays were the bunt, getting Kelly on, moving her over with another bunt and then having Tiffany come up with two outs that was huge," said Dickerhoof. "Earlier, she said she wasn't going to let me down again, because the other time she was up with a runner in scoring position (first inning), she was swinging too hard at a pitch around her head.
"Tiffany was cool tonight and it was just a huge, huge hit," added Dickerhoof. "Working the count to 3-1, she had the count in her favor and made them pay."
Hillsdale's junior pitcher Jamie Echelberger made the run stand, as she teamed with freshman catcher Carlee Hiltner on a three-hit shutout. Echelberger fanned seven and did not walk a batter. And her defense was flawless behind her, as the Falcons (and Irish as well) did not commit an error.
Echelberger now is 19-3 on the season.
"She said she felt good, but I wasn't so sure," said Dickerhoof. "Their leadoff batter (Ali Vitello) ripped her first pitch of the game for a hit, so she was seeing red all the way. But she had seven strikeouts and didn't walk a batter, and things like that are real important.
"We stressed playing good defense (Tuesday) night in practice, make the play first, get the ball in your glove and then make the throw," added Dickerhoof.
Hillsdale stranded five runners, with Echelberger, Mandy Stoner and Niki Spreng also tagging hits off Cearfoss, who struck out three and walked just one.
Ursuline coach Michael Kernan not only got a fine performance from Cearfoss, but from Vitello, his lone senior who catches. She went 2-for-3 at the plate with a pair of singles.
"I expected a tight game, our pitcher has pitched well, we play good defense and we have a good batting lineup that's kind of got us here," he said. "I expected us to produce a couple of runs, I'm sure every coach does, but I give credit to their pitcher and our pitcher. They both pitched their hearts out and (played) their best games and they made the big, solid contact hit when it counted, and we didn't."
Hillsdale now plays in the regional championship game at 1 p.m. Saturday at Genshaft, taking on today's winner of the Independence (21-2) vs. Rootstown (20-9) regional semifinal.


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Francis Marion University will host "Earth Day Celebration 2000" on Tuesday, April 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. All events are free and open to the public. Sierra Club is co-sponsoring the event
The day will showcase what Florence is doing to keep our environment clean, safe and healthy. There will be live music by Florence musician Melanie McMillan from 2-4 p.m. and a variety of other fun and educational exhibits including the new Honda Insight (the 70 mpg electric hybrid car). Also featured are raffles and prizes, an earth day poster contest, and local vendors selling earth friendly "stuff." There will also be educational displays from Sierra Club, SCDNR, Woods Bay State Park, USDA - ARS (Coastal Plains Soil and Water Research Center), DHEC, EPA, Wildlife Action, Ecology Club, Ars Medica, FMU sororities and fraternities and other environmental groups. Classic rock station 102.1 "The Fox" will broadcast live from noon to 2 p.m.
Inspired by the campus activism promoted by Harvard student Denis Hayes, who organized the first Earth Day, students on campuses around the country will spearhead a series of "Teach-Outs for the Environment." Teach-Outs involve students educating the community instead of the more traditional scenario of students learning inside a classroom from a teacher. Students all across America will create opportunities for dialogue with local candidates, elected officials, businesses, schools and other members of the community. Francis Marion University and the Pee Dee Group of Sierra Club will sponsor a Teach Out in Florence.
Saturday, April 22 is the 30th anniversary of Earth Day (ED2K). Earth Day started on April 22, 1970 as more than 20 million Americans launched the modern environmental movement, generating support that led to the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act and more. Now thousands of activities take place worldwide including demonstrations, tree plantings and lobbying Congress. This year more than a half billion people will gather together to usher in a new millennium of environmental awareness.
For more information about this event, contact Lisa Pike (firstname.lastname@example.com), Francis Marion University Biology Department, 661-1411.


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The Seasteading Institute's position on the recent Details article
Seasteading has recently received a lot of media attention after an article published in Details on August 13 has been picked up by numerous media outlets, including the front page of Yahoo! News.
While we enjoy the publicity, we would also like to point out that the following two paragraphs aren't exactly accurate, and have been misinterpreted by other media outlets who ran stories without seeking verification from us:
"The ultimate goal," Friedman says, "is to open a frontier for experimenting with new ideas for government." This translates into the founding of ideologically oriented micro-states on the high seas, a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons.
The later part of this paragraph is the author's interpretation, not ours. For one thing, while seasteads might not have the same building codes that one would find in a highly regulated city, there is a minimum of naval engineering that will have to be implemented in order to survive the ocean. For some reason all these other media outlets have picked up this paragraph and are quoting it as if that's what Peter Thiel or The Seasteading Institute think.
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There are flaws in every newsreport and Yahoo is no exception (though they should have checked with TSI of course before putting the article on their web site). The good news is: the Yahoo article got more than 16,000 comments which even for Yahoo is huge! In 2008 any news story about Seasteading had 85% "Bioshock", "will never work", "tax haven", "the rich" etc. comments which were obviously beside the point.
I've spent quite some time reading thousands of the comments on Yahoo (until my browser couldn't handle it any longer), and things have improved tremendously! Many more people already seemed to know about the concept and have clearly thought about it. They didn't have a poll, but my guess is that a majority would either vote for "I want to be part of it", or "Let them". Which is precisely the public support Seasteading will inevitably need.
Over the three day period of Tuesday, 16-August, through Thursday, 18-August, we had 250+ new user registrations on the TSI website.
For comparison, the same period in the prior week we had six.
That was a nice spike indeed. I know banks won't buy "if only 1% of the 6000 would be paying such and such" as Seasteading certainly won't fit their Excel sheet designed for mom-and-pop stores. Which is different for investors of course, who have to choose between formerly safe havens now like US or EU bonds yielding less than inflation and only slightly more adventurous investments for which almost 6000 potential clients (not counting the ones that just didn't feel like registering, etc) do count. If only 1% would pledge to move for let's say 200k , provided another 59 people will too, I think there is a perfect (and pretty safe) business case for any investor to refurnish an old cruise ship and actually start the whole thing!
I think your 6000 is referring to the approximate number of registered users. If not, please ignore the rest of this.
First, among the older user profiles, there are still a lot of spammer profiles. I've deleted several hundred, but there are a lot more to go. So the number of legitimate users is a LOT lower than 6000.
Second, there are a lot of users who register but never actually log in.
Third, there are a lot of users who log in right after registration, but never again after that.
Others are around for a week or two or a month or two and then kind of fade away, perhaps to return later, perhaps not.
I don't have any way to tell who many different users are visiting the site while not logged in.
But as far as the numbers of registered users who have a regular visible presence as a logged-in user (even if they never post), unfortunately I'd have to say that it's just a few dozen.
Most of those never make even the lowest level of membership donation.


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Denilson showed cast-iron nerve to fire his penalty past Alexander Doni to keep Arsenal level in the shoot-out at the Stadio Olimpico.
After the game, the Brazilian told Arsenal TV Online that it was not something he had done before.
In an exclusive interview he discussed:
- going through to the Quarter-Finals
- the wild celebrations after the penalty shoot-out win
- the nerves before his penalty
- the importance of the victory
- getting a little luck on the night
Subscribers can watch this video now.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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SL.CCS.1/2/3/4 Grades 6-12: An essay of a current news event is provided for discussion to encourage participation, but also inspire the use of evidence to support logical claims using the main ideas of the article. Students must analyze background information provided about a current event within the news, draw out the main ideas and key details, and review different opinions on the issue. Then, students should present their own claims using facts and analysis for support.
Presidential campaign gets an early, crowded start
Newspapers try to help readers understand the importance behind political news and learn how developments affect them or their communities. Invite the classroom of future voters to see how well this paper does in explaining any recent news report from city hall, the state capital or Washington, D.C. Are various sides explained clearly? Is the language used easy to grasp? Are there comments from people affected by an issue?
Just because politics is serious stuff doesn't mean all coverage is dry and dull. Challenge students to find an article, photo or cartoon about an elected official or presidential candidate that shows something about the politician's personality, interests or casual side.
The print edition isn't the only source for presidential campaign coverage and other politics news. See how many related features pupils can find on the paper's website, such as blogs, polls, coverage archives and perhaps lists of current local elected officials.
The calendar says February 2007, but politicians who want to succeed President Bush act as though it's already the 2008 election year. And plenty of them are jostling for early positions in a campaign race that's a long marathon.
At least 20 declared and preparing-to-declare candidates from both major parties have web sites, campaign staffs, fund-raisers and are hustling for donations, endorsements, news coverage and voter interest – though most normal Americans are not focusing closely yet on a decision that's 21 months away.
The field is jammed with nine Democrats and 11 Republicans mainly because President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney are not running, so each party's nomination is wide open for the first time since 1928 – the last time no sitting president or vice-president sought the top job. (Bush is finishing his second term, the maximum allowed. Cheney is 66 and doesn't want to run.) Recent weeks have brought candidacy announcements by three senators -- Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on the Democratic side, Sam Brownback on the Republican -- and one Governor, Democrat Bill Richardson of New Mexico.
Historic prospect: For the first time, credible contenders give voters a chance to make history by electing the first woman President (Clinton) or the first African American (Obama) or the first Latino (Richardson) or the first Mormon (Mitt Romney, a Republican ex-governor of Massachusetts.)
YouTube impact: Candidates know that any verbal slip, unwise remark or stray aside could wind up in an online video. "The margin for rhetorical errors is quite small today. Any slight misstep can be distributed in all 50 states simultaneously," says John Kerrey, a Democratic senator who ran against President Bush in 2004. "There will be less creativity in talking -- and in thinking."
What to expect: Debates over the Iraq war already dominate the campaign. Cal Thomas, a leading conservative columnist, says: "The focus should not be on gender or any other side issue, but on who is best qualified to defend the country against its many enemies, foreign and domestic. Look for the dirtiest, meanest and most costly presidential campaign in history."
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Harbert Realty Services Breaks Ground On New Publix Anchored Shopping Center In Enterprise, AL
Harbert Realty Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the groundbreaking on May 18, 2011 of Park Place shopping center, to be located in Enterprise, Alabama. Park Place will be a Publix Super Market-anchored shopping center at the intersection of Boll Weevil Circle (US Hwy 84) and Lee Street (AL Rte 27). In addition to Publix, the project will include approximately 15,400 square feet of small shop space. Harbert has been successful in pre-leasing approximately 40% of the project prior to groundbreaking. Tenants include: Cheeburger Cheeburger, Sugga Berries Frozen Yogurt, Cuts by Us and Nail Boutique and Spa. There are approximately 9,220 square feet remaining available for lease
The Enterprise market is part of one of Alabama's strongest areas, and yet has been underserved in the grocery arena. Publix strives to be the premier quality food retailer in the world, and the Enterprise market will be a strong one, following on the recent entry into the Dothan, Alabama market. Founded in 1930, Publix Super Markets is the largest and fastest-growing employee-owned supermarket chain in the United States. Publix and its associates excel in community involvement, volunteerism and a commitment to its market areas and beyond.
For further information on the project, please contact Parrish Taylor of Harbert Realty Services at email@example.com 205.458.8134.
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Harbert Realty Services is one of the largest privately held, full service commercial real estate firms in Alabama. Headquartered in Birmingham, the company offers clients expertise in a full range of commercial real estate services honed over 50 years of property ownership, development and management across the state and in Florida. Harbert Realty Services is a majority owned subsidiary of Harbert Management Corporation. Harbert Realty's mix of experience, resources and global reach allows it to offer clients one of the most comprehensive arrays of customized services in the commercial real estate market. For more information, visit www.harbertrealty.com.
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Lakai Rolan Skate Shoe Men's Red Leather Size 9.5
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Get movin' and kill the ramps and rails when you wear the Lakai Rolan skate shoe. It's made with a durable leather and suede upper for sweet looks and durability, it features a formfitting upper that's designed for increased board feel. The perforated panels are made for increased ventilation and maximum breathability. It also features a blind-seam toe-panel accent with reinforced stitching so you can get more rides out of it compared to your old shoes. The full-length, shock-absorbing insole and flexible vulcanized construction give you the extra support and cushion you need whether you're catching some air or rockin' the ollies. The tacky gum-rubber outsole is designed to give you a better grip on your board so your sweet tricks can only get better.


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The Canon-McMillan School District wants to move 24 children from Cecil Elementary School, along with others in the district who live less than half-a-mile from the school to Hills Henderson Elementary School, which is at least a 20-minute bus ride away.
Then to make it better, they plan to move students from Muse Elementary School into Cecil Elementary School to fill the open spots. This means more bus transportation will be needed.
On what planet does this make any sense? The students they are looking to move can walk to school. Why on earth would you move kids who are so close to a school and let all of the new developments push them out? This is something that should be considered when a new housing development is being considered, not once it is in full swing.
The worst part of the whole thing is how it was very quietly approached and did not come to light until rumors leaked out. It is amazing that school board members elected by the public can then turn around and completely go against the same voting public.
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I am going to create an interface named ReusablePool, this is considered to be implemented as an object pool
now because our application may deploy in any application server such as Glassfish or Websphere etc, depend on what our customer requires to be. so I have to desgn it in a way so we can use the features of the application servers.
this is the issue for using Thread pools as well. since we have an interface for using thread pools and we need to use application servers features.
I want to know the best design that we can set some configuration in a config xml file, say, maximum pool size, jndi name to look it up, etc and the developer does not worry about the implementation and just think of his code.
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This post is the first in a series on Civil War sites in and around the historic city of St. Augustine, Florida.
Founded in 1565, St. Augustine is the oldest continually occupied city in the United States. Rich in Spanish influences, it was also a community of importance during the early days of the War Between the States.
This photograph shows an iron Civil War period cannon in the water battery of the Castillo de San Marcos, a centuries old fort in St. Augustine. Although the main fortress (called Fort Marion at the time of the Civil War) remains in remarkable condition, it was considered antiquated by the time of the Civil War.
To augment the old Spanish defenses, the U.S. government had constructed a large water battery at the Castillo. The east moat of the fort was filled and guns mounted en barbette along the shore of Matanzas Bay. This battery with its 20 cannon was seized by state forces on January 7, 1861.
Confederate forces held St. Augustine and the Castillo de San Marcos for the rest of the year 1861.
Our series will continue, but to learn more before the next post please visit www.exploresouthernhistory.com and look for the St. Augustine heading.


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Surprise snowstorm taxes Central Oregonians
Sisters reports six inches, other areas also blanketed
BEND, Ore. - Central Oregon was somewhat taken by surprise Monday morning as a winter storm moved in. From Sisters to Bend to Prineville, the snow piled up.
In Sisters, the readerboard told drivers to carry chains or traction tires headed over Santiam Pass. It was all shovels on deck to clear the sidewalks from the nearly six inches of snow.
By midday Monday -- the tax filing deadline, by the way -- the snow also started to pile up in downtown Bend, catching many people off-guard.
"I'm in my dress shoes and unprepared," said Chuck Arnold, president of the Downtown Bend Business Association. "We are just going to plow through it and make it nice for people to come downtown."
Arnold says this is what is great about Central Oregon's weather -- you never know what you are going to get.
"Everybody has been saying, 'Your snow budget has probably saved this year -- not a lot of snow.' It's not over yet," said Arnold.
For others, it's time for Old Man Winter to leave.
"Kind of upsetting," one woman said. "I would rather the snow stay in the mountains than in town."
No matter where you are from, the beauty of Central Oregon can't be beat -- even if winter decides to stick around just a little bit longer.
"Last time I was here, there was sunny days and snow as well," another woman said. "It's like a winter wonderland all over again."


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We save lives by preparing for, and responding to, humanitarian emergencies caused by natural disasters, disease outbreaks and armed conflict. In 2015, Save the Children reached 5.7 million children affected by 99 emergencies, across 59 countries.
In any crisis, children are always the most vulnerable. We make sure that children affected by floods, famines, earthquakes, diseases outbreaks and armed conflict get life-saving medical aid, shelter, food and water – fast. We safeguard children and help reunite separated families. And we help children recover from crises by providing emotional support and safe places to learn and play.
We prepare ourselves and at-risk communities, so we can act rapidly and reduce disaster risks for children. After large-scale emergencies such as Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, and the Haitian and Nepal earthquakes we remain on the ground to help children and their families rebuild their lives.
A special caretaker in dressed in full protective equipment carries Mary*, with Ebola-like symptoms, to the ambulance.
Our latest emergency operations
- In Ebola affected Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia we reached over 867,000 people with life-saving care, awareness-raising and hygiene kits.
- On April 25th an earthquake measuring magnitude 7.8 struck Nepal. We launched an immediate response collaborating with the government of Nepal and reached the most inaccessible places like Gorkha which were the hardest hit and in dire need of aid. We airlifted 1,6000 emergency shelters and kitchen items to these places and have set up four mobile health clinics to provide primary care to some of the most affected communities.
- Since fighting first broke out in Syria in March 2011, the crisis has unfolded to become a large-scale civil war, affecting more than 16 million people across the region, including millions of children. So far, the fighting has tragically claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people.
- Save the Children is working with Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt, providing families with the basics they need, including food, clothing and shelter for children and families who are facing extremely difficult conditions. We are working to ensure children now living as refugees still have access to school, emotional support and recreational activities. We have so far reached more than 2.5 million people, including 1.6 million children.
- We prepare children and their communities to reduce the impact of extreme weather. And we have relief supplies ready in vulnerable areas. Across South East and East Asia we are currently responding to 16 emergencies.
- In West and Central Africa we are responding to 16 emergencies reaching over 5 million people.
Save the children distributes shelter kits in Sindhupalchowk district, Nepal, where 80% of homes were totally destroyed.


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The movie starts off in the woods of Louisiana. We see an old black woman trying to dig something up in the ground. She digs up a large brown suitcase and throws it in her car. Sounds are coming from inside the suitcase. The black woman gets in her car and speeds down the road.
We cut to a diner and meet the characters: Eden (Agnes Bruckner), Eric (Jonathan Jackson), Rachel (Laura Ramsey), Cece (Meagan Good), Ricky (Pawel Szajda), Sean (DJ Cotrona), Tammy (Bijou Phillips) and her friend Patty (Davetta Sherwood). Eden, Rachel and Cece work at the diner. An old truck pulls up in the parking lot, and out steps the town creep, Ray Sawyer (Rick Cramer). Eden gives Ray his food order in a bag to go and Ray takes off in his truck. As Ray leaves, Tammy flashes her boobs at Ray while the rest of the kids laugh. Eric talks to Sean about how Eden recently dumped him and she hates him for no reason.
Later on that night, Rachel and Eden close the diner and go home. Eden rides her bike through the small hick town of Backwater. She rides passed Ray's gas station called Happy Times. She comes across a bridge and Eric pulls up in his jeep. Eric parks his jeep on the side of the road and gets out to talk to Eden. They start to argue about why they broke up and Ray comes along in his truck. Ray asks Eden if Eric is harassing her, but Eden says everything is fine.
Out of nowhere, we see the black women's car come driving up and Ray's truck's headlights blind her. This causes the women's car to spin out of control and nearly hit Eric. This sends her car rocking on the edge of the bridge and is about to fall down into the water. Ray, Eden and Eric come to help. Eric tries to open the women's car door, but Ray steps up and says he should help her. Ray gets inside the car and the women panics and tells Ray to get the suitcase from the backseat. Ray pulls her out and Eden and Eric bring her to the middle of the road. Ray goes back into the car to get the suitcase. Suddenly, the suitcase snaps open and snakes come lunging at Ray. The car door slams shut and the car falls down into the water. Eric calls out for him, but the car sinks underwater.
Paramedics arrive and the black woman passes away in the ambulance. The paramedics take Ray's body. Cece pulls up to the crime scene and we find out that the black woman was Cece's grandmother. A cop shows up named Turner (Method Man). Cece asks Turner if there was a suitcase in the car. Turner says he found the suitcase but it was empty. Cece freaks out and says she has to go home.
Later on, we cut to a morgue where a doctor is examining Ray's body. We see that Ray's flesh has turned all green and pale. The doctor goes to answer a phone call. When he comes back, Ray's body is gone. The doctor wanders around the hallway and Ray comes out and kills the doctor.
Even later that night, we see Turner at the Happy Times gas station. He looks around the station and finds nothing. He goes back to his car but hears a noise. He checks it out and Ray comes popping out and slits Turner's throat as blood sprays everywhere. Ray paints a small 'S' symbol on Turner's forehead.
The next morning we see Eden at a cemetery. She goes up to her father's grave and stares at it. As she is leaving, she hears a noise by the road. She checks it out and sees Ray driving his truck down the road. Eden gets freaked out. Later that day, we see Rachel and Eden at the diner. They talk about how Cece didn't show up for work today because she is still freaked out over her grandmother's death and that mysterious suitcase. Rachel adds that she is going down by the lake later and wants Eden to come. Eden agrees.
Next we see Eric and Sean outside of the diner. Eric mentions that the whole town is talking about Ray's death. Sean says that he could care less about Ray because apparently Ray is Sean's father that he never speaks to.
Cut to Tammy and Patty driving down the road. They come across the Happy Times gas station. Patty goes inside to take some money from the cash register. Tammy says it's wrong because Ray is dead, but in the end they really don't care. Patty goes to find a bathroom. Minutes pass and Patty still isn't back yet. Tammy goes to look for Patty. She checks the bathroom and finds nothing. Tammy wanders into the garage and slips on blood. She looks up and finds Patty's dead body hanging from chains.
Ray pops out and automatically shuts the garage door. Tammy crawls under a car, which is up on a lift. Ray presses a button and the lift goes down, sending the car to crush Tammy. As Tammy is pinned down, Ray goes over to his sand blaster machine and hooks a hose up to it. He takes the hose, and sandblasts Tammy's face killing her.
We cut to all the friends hanging out at the lake. Sean is drunk and decides he wants to leave. He gets on his motorcycle and Eric walks over. Sean says that he is going to the Happy Times garage because he technically owns it since Ray was his father. Sean drives off. Eric gets in his car and follows him.
Rachel, Eden and Ricky get in a car and drive to Cece's house to talk to her. They approach the house, which is rundown in the middle of the woods. The three go inside and find all freaky voodoo items. Cece comes in and they all talk. Eden asks Cece what was in the suitcase and why it's so important. Cece says that the souls of evil men such as murderers, rapists, etc, were inside of snakes, which were in that suitcase. Cece adds that the snakes killed Ray, and Ray is now possessed with the evil souls which has turned him into a killing machine. Ray will try and take the souls of everyone he kills.
Cut to the Happy Times gas station, Sean is wrecking the place and breaking windows. Eric pulls up and tries to calm him down. The two walk into the garage and find a large 'S' painted in blood on the floor. Apparently Ray has set up some type of voodoo ritual, the ritual of Ray taking his victims souls. Eric and Sean get into Eric's jeep and take off.
Back at Cece's house, Eden says she doesn't believe in all the voodoo crap and says Cece is completely insane. Eden goes up to Ricky and Rachel, and tells them to find help because Cece has lost it. Ricky and Rachel go back to Rachel's car, only to find it flipped over. Rachel flips out, and we hear some moving in the bushes. Ray pops out with a crowbar. The two run back to the house. Ray throws his crowbar, which hits Rachel in the shoulder. Rachel gets up and runs in the house. Ricky goes to run into the house, but slips on the stairs. Cece slams the door shut. Rachel yells that Ricky is still outside. Ray goes up to Ricky and stabs him in the leg. Ray then cuts Ricky's arm off and paints another large 'S' symbol on the front door.
Eric and Sean pull up and run inside the house. Ray chases after them but cannot enter, because Cece put a protection spell around the house. Ray goes back out to his truck and waits. The group has no idea what to do now. Out of nowhere, a chain is flung through the window and wraps around Sean's neck; Ray pulls the chain, which pulls Sean out the window. Sean is dragged along the ground. Eric runs out to help Sean. Ray stabs Sean in the back. Eden grabs a shotgun from Cece's house and shoots Ray. Eric picks up Sean's body and brings it in the house.
Sean dies and Rachel freaks out. Cece says that she has an idea on how to hurt Ray. She says that she can make a voodoo doll out of Sean's body, but she needs something of Ray's. Eric says that Sean was Ray's son so they can use the blood of Sean to help make the voodoo doll. Cece sets up the ritual. She takes a voodoo necklace that her grandma had and puts it around her neck. The voodoo necklace has a snake symbol on it, and can be used against Ray.
Ray hooks his chain up to the front of the house, and backs his truck up. This causes the front of the house to be ripped off and dragged by Ray's truck. Ray goes up the group and Eric and Rachel run. Cece gets the voodoo doll ready AKA Sean's dead body, and stabs it in the leg, this causes Ray to feel the pain and fall to the ground.
However, this is no use, Ray slices Cece's throat. Eden runs over and takes the voodoo necklace, she then runs to meet up with Eric and Rachel. The three get into Eric's jeep as he drives off. Ray comes up from behind in his truck. After a few minutes of intense chasing, Ray takes his chain and whips it out at Rachel. The chain goes around Rachel's neck and Ray pulls Rachel toward his truck. Eden grabs onto Rachel's feet. This is like a tug of war situation to best explain it. As the two cars are driving, and Rachel is being held in between them, they come across a tree in the middle of the road. Ray turns his truck right and Eric turns his jeep left. Rachel screams and she gets impaled onto the tree.
Eric and Eden get out of the jeep and make a run for it. They run through the swamps. Ray chases after them. They eventually hide behind some trees in the swamp. They spot Ray, but Ray doesn't see them. Ray goes underwater and swims underwater, therefore Eden and Eric can't see where Ray is.
They come towards the end of the swamp and onto dry land. The two run, but Eden gets ahead of Eric and the two loose each other. Eden calls out for Eric. We go to Eric and we see Ray pop up behind him. Eric yells. Eden hears this and runs through the woods. She comes across an underground temple. She looks around and finds a large coffin filled with dead bodies. She hears Ray coming, so Eden's only choice is to hide in the pit of bodies. Ray comes up to the pit and dumps Eric's body. Eden tries her best not to scream.
Ray sets up his ritual; the ritual to grab the souls of all his victims. Eric's eyes open in the body pit and Eden is relieved that Eric is still alive. However Eden makes a noise, which gets Ray's attention. Ray goes over to the body pit and looks down. Eric starts to make noises. Ray picks up Eric's body and stabs him in the head with his crowbar. Eric made noises in order to save Eden, to sacrifice himself instead of her. Ray walks away from the body bit and continues his ritual. Eden climbs out of the pit, and takes the knife out of Eric's head. She talks over and goes to stab Ray, but Ray dodges the knife. Ray picks her up and throws her down onto the ground; this causes a secret underground passageway to open up.
Ray and Eden are in a small pit. Eden thinks it's the end, but she finds a gate attached to the wall of the pit and seals herself shut. She takes out the voodoo necklace that has the snake symbol, which can be used against Ray. She throws it at Ray and the snakes start to come out of Ray's body. Eden climbs out of the pit and runs out of the voodoo temple.
She's back in the swamps and she comes across Ray's truck. She climbs in, but Ray pops out and chases her through the woods. Eden hides in some bushes. Ray looks around but can't find her. All of a sudden, we hear Ray's truck start up and Eden drives right into Ray. This causes Ray's body to break into a million pieces. Ray is dead. Eden climbs out of the truck and walks away.
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HHS Publishes Final Rule Regarding Essential Health Benefits and Actuarial Values Applicable to Certain Individual, Small Group and Medicaid Plans – Beginning in 2014, all non-grandfathered health insurance coverage in the individual and small group markets, Medicaid benchmark and benchmark-equivalent plans, and Basic Health Programs (if applicable) must cover essential health benefits (EHB), which include items and services in 10 statutory benefit categories, such as hospitalization, prescription drugs, and maternity and newborn care, and are equal in scope to a typical employer health plan. In addition to offering EHB, non-grandfathered health insurance plans must meet specific actuarial values (AVs): 60 percent for a bronze plan, 70 percent for a silver plan, 80 percent for a gold plan, and 90 percent for a platinum plan. These AVs, called "metal levels," should assist consumers in comparing and selecting health plans by allowing a potential enrollee to compare the relative payment generosity of available plans. Taken together, EHB and AV are intended to increase consumers' ability to compare and make an informed choice about health plans.
HHS has provided information on EHB and AV standards in several phases. Most recently, HHS issued a final rule last week that outlines Exchange and issuer standards related to coverage of EHB and AV. The rule also finalizes a timeline for qualified health plans to be accredited in Federally-facilitated Exchanges and amends regulations providing an application process for the recognition of additional accrediting entities for purposes of certification of qualified health plans.
The final rule provides little in the way of guidance to insurance issuers regarding the nature of required health benefits and instead gives substantial authority to states to make those determinations. Indeed, although HHS recognized that "[s]everal commenters recommended that HHS have a single, uniform federal [essential health benefits] package because they are concerned that the proposed benchmark options have a large degree of variation in covered benefits which may lead to inconsistent [essential health benefits] packages from state to state," HHS declined to provide detailed guidance about the necessary contours of essential health benefits packages. As HHS explained, "[t]he benchmark approach for defining EHB sought to balance the statutory ten benefit categories and affordability while providing states—the primary regulators of health insurance markets—with flexibility."
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OIG Reports that Millions of Medicaid Overpayments Remain Uncollected – On February 19, 2013, the OIG published a report detailing the collection status of Medicaid overpayments. The Secretary of HHS requires CMS to collect overpayments, defined as "the amount paid by a Medicaid agency to a provider which is in excess of the amount that is allowed for services furnished" through a state's plan for medical assistance. 42 C.F.R. § 433.304. In accordance with its authority granted under the Inspector General Act of 1978, the OIG routinely audits CMS and reports findings of unallowable expenditures and the collection status of overpayments.
The OIG recently selected 147 audit reports to determine whether CMS had collected previously identified overpayments. The audit reports, covering fiscal years 2000 through 2009, were chosen based on the high total dollar amount of overpayments. Eleven states were represented: Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, New Jersey, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. Overpayments reflected in the audit reports totaled $1.2 billion. As of December 2012, over $225 million remained to be collected. In addition, CMS could not document over $7 million that reportedly had been collected.
The uncollected $225 million resulted from ten outstanding audit reports for which states did not agree to refund the overpayments. Based on the OIG's findings, CMS did not collect the overpayments in a timely manner, letting them remain uncollected for up to 86 months at the close of the OIG's initial audit. CMS has indicated that it has resolved three of the outstanding audits and is close to reaching a resolution for the remaining seven. Regarding the $7 million in collected overpayments that CMS could not document, the OIG concluded that CMS had not ensured that states properly reported overpayments on the appropriate form, CMS-64. The OIG has recommended that CMS collect the remaining overpayments, review and improve its collection process, maintain adequate documentation regarding collection, and educate states on the proper use of CMS forms.
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22nd Annual Health Law & Policy Forum on March 18, 2013 – King & Spalding LLP will host the annual Health Law & Policy Forum on March 18, 2013 in the Atlanta office from 8:15 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. The one-day conference focuses on the latest developments in the healthcare and life sciences industry and featured speakers will include: Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI); Lew Morris, the former Chief Counsel to the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services; and Brent Henry, Vice President and General Counsel of Partners Healthcare, the largest healthcare provider in Massachusetts. For more information about the forum including registration details, please click here.
King & Spalding LLP to Host Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Roundtable Series Throughout March 2013 – King & Spalding LLP will host a multi-city roundtable series on executive compensation, benefits, and employment law throughout the month of March. For more information regarding the series including registration information and dates of the program across various cities, click here.
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Edward Snowden's Long Flight
Posted on Jul 2, 2013
By Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch
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I Don't Hate the U.S., I Love It Deeply, But Believe It Has Strayed
On that flight, Snowden took his love of America with him. It's what all of us whistleblowers share: a love of country, if not necessarily its government, its military, or its intelligence services. We care what happens to us the people. That may have been his anchor on his unsettling journey. It would have been mine.
Remember, if we were working in the government in the first place, like every federal employee, soldier, and many government contractors, we had taken an oath that stated: "I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same." We didn't pledge fealty to the government or a president or party, only—as the Constitution makes clear—to the ultimate source of legitimacy in our nation, "the people."
In an interview, Snowden indicated that he held off on making his disclosures for some time, in hopes that Barack Obama might look into the abyss and decide to become the bravest president in our history by reversing the country's course. Only when Obama's courage or intelligence failed was it time to become a whistleblower.
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In that sense, whatever the fear and anxiety about his life and his future, he must have felt easy with his actions. He had not betrayed his country, he had sought to inform it.
As with Bradley Manning, Obama administration officials are now claiming that Snowden has blood on his hands. Typically, Secretary of State John Kerry claimed: "People may die as a consequence to what this man did. It is possible that the United States would be attacked because terrorists may now know how to protect themselves in some way or another that they didn't know before." Snowden had heard the same slurs circling around Bradley Manning: that he had put people in danger. After the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, not to speak of the war on terror, there is irony too obvious to dwell upon in such charges.
Flying into the unknown, Snowden had to feel secure in having risked everything to show Americans how their government and the NSA bend or break laws to collect information on us in direct conflict with the Fourth Amendment's protections. Amnesty International pointed out that blood-on-hands wasn't at issue. "It appears he is being charged primarily for revealing U.S. and other governments' unlawful actions that violate human rights." Those whispers of support are something to take into the dark with you.
I Believe in Things Bigger Than Myself
Some of the charges against Snowden would make anyone pause: that, for instance, he did what he did for the thrill of publicity, out of narcissism, or for his own selfish reasons. To any of the members of the post-9/11 club of whistleblowers, the idea that we acted primarily for our own benefit has a theater of the absurd quality to it. Having been there, the negative sentiments expressed do not read or ring true.
Snowden himself laughed off the notion that he had acted for his own benefit. If he had wanted money, any number of foreign governments would have paid handsomely for the information he handed out to journalists for free and he would never have had to embark on that plane flight from Hong Kong. (No one ever called Aldrich Ames a whistleblower.) If he wanted fame, there were potential book contracts and film deals to be had.
No, it was conscience. I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere along the line Snowden had read the Declaration of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal: "Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring."
Edward Snowden undoubtedly took comfort knowing that a growing group of Americans are outraged enough to resist a government turning against its own people. His thoughts were mirrored by Julian Assange, who said, "In the Obama administration's attempt to crush these young whistleblowers with espionage charges, the U.S. government is taking on a generation, a young generation of people who find the mass violation of the rights of privacy and open process unacceptable. In taking on the generation, the Obama administration can only lose." Snowden surely hoped President Obama would ask himself why he has pursued more than double the number of Espionage Act cases of all his presidential predecessors combined, and why almost all of those prosecutions failed.
On that flight, Edward Snowden must have reflected on what he had lost, including the high salary, the sweet life in Hawaii and Switzerland, the personal relationships, and the excitement of being on the inside, as well as the coolness of knowing tomorrow's news today. He has already lost much that matters in an individual life, but not everything that matters. Sometimes—and any whistleblower comes to know this in a deep way—you have to believe that something other, more, deeper, better than yourself matters. You have to believe that one courageous act of conscience might make a difference in an America gone astray or simply that, matter or not, you did the right thing for your country.
Peter Van Buren blew the whistle on State Department waste and mismanagement in his book We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People. A TomDispatch regular, he writes about current events at his blog, We Meant Well. Van Buren's next book, Ghosts of Tom Joad, A Story of the #99Percent, is due out in March 2014.
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There was an op-ed in the New York Times recently by the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections about the 23 hours he chose to spent in solitary confinement (ad seg, I think is what our forensic friends call it) --- see "My Night in Solitary Confinement."
In a similar experiment, psychiatrist-blogger Simple Citizen spent a day going through the motions of being a patient on a Residential Treatment Unit where he is the psychiatrist. He details his experiences in "My Day as a Patient."
I don't believe these experiences are anything like the real thing, nor do I believe they are meant to be. For one thing, the person having them has not gone through the lifetime of events, traumas, distresses that led the inmate or patient to be in those places. Or in the case of the patient, the doctor also is not experiencing both the internal discomfort that comes with the mental illness, or the side effects which come with the medications, or the emotional upheaval that comes from having been left there by their family, and the insecurities that come with being a teenager or any brand. And they both get to go home. Why, Dr. Simple Citizen, do the kids have to stand on line facing straight ahead without talking while they wait for breakfast? What's wrong with talking?
Still, I like that these people did this, it's good that they want to try to understand what their charges are going through. Even if it's not a complete understanding, it still acknowledges that the condition is different with a willingness to see and understand what the other is going through, for better or for worse.
On a completely different note, Simple Citizen pointed me to his post by mentioning in our comment section that he used to work at an involuntary state hospital. What's an involuntary hospital? I ask because Clink has pointed out to me that the rates of patients in public facilities varies greatly, state by state, for involuntary hospitalization. Wait, so there are facilities that only take involuntary patients? In our state hospitals in Maryland, at this point, the vast majority of beds are for forensic patients-- you get there by way of a judge. If you have a chronic, severe psychiatric disorder requiring long term treatment which you'd like to get voluntarily, you're out of luck, we don't do that. Or if you have a chronic, severe, intractable condition which makes it so you can't live in the community, you may have no where to go. But when we did have state hospitals, many of the patients were there voluntarily, and some got better and discharged in a matter of weeks. So I'm perplexed about a hospital that only has involuntary patients, what if they want to sign in? Help me out here, Simple Citizen and others.


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