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The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) is flying high once again. The world's second-largest commercial jet and military weapons manufacturer, Boeing had floundered in the wake of scandal and ever-increasing pressure from rival Airbus S.A.S throughout much of the new millennium. Beginning in 2005, however, the turbulence cleared and Boeing's prospects have soared.
During the first quarter of 2006, airplane deliveries were up 40%, producing $7.1 billion in revenue. In addition, persistent strong demand for the 787 Dreamliner - scheduled for service in 2008 - has helped pilot Boeing's contractual backlog to a record $213 billion, providing job security and stability for years to come. Not surprisingly, investors have taken notice-- driving BA stock to its highest levels since pre-9/11.
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Will the ascent continue? Boeing's management seems to think so. Boeing Co. is delivering 395 airplanes this year and will deliver 10 more next year, the aerospace company's chief executive said Wednesday, affirming Boeing's earlier forecasts.
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Boeing Commercial Airplanes [BCA] [49% of revenues in the first quarter of 2006]. Boeing and Airbus are the only makers of 100-plus seat commercial airliners in the world. According to analysts, Airbus holds a slight edge in market share, but Boeing is rapidly closing the gap [especially since the sales debut of the Dreamliner]. Based on data provided by Avitas, Inc., an independent research firm, and the International Air Transport Association [IATA], the world airline fleet grew by an average of 2.4% per year from 1992 to 2003.
Integrated Defense Systems [IDS] [50% of revenues in the first quarter of 2006]. IDS is divided into three newly-reorganized segments: Precision Engagement and Mobility Systems (primarily producing military hardware such as the F/A-18 Super Hornet and the AH-64 Apache helicopter); Network and Space Systems [devoted to enhancing U.S. defense and intelligence through programs such as FCS, GMD, and the Delta rocket and BSS Satellite systems] and Support Systems [offering a wide variety of weaponry assistance]. IDS revenues have increased by over 25% since 2002, and are primarily driven by growth in the Procurement and Research & Development portions of the U.S. defense budget. From fiscal year [FY] 1993 to FY 2004, those sectors grew by approximately 1.5% and 1.8% per year respectively.
Boeing Capital Corporation [BCC] ]1% of revenues in the first quarter of 2006]. BCC chiefly generates revenue via interest payments derived from financing receivables and notes, lease income, investment income, etc. BCC currently leases aircraft to Hawaiian Airlines and is expected to maintain that arrangement when Hawaiian emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Boeing's "Other" segment, primarily consisting of Connexion by BoeingSM, has yet to turn a profit. Connexion by BoeingSM provides high-speed Internet access to passengers and will soon be expanded to include wireless phone service.
With this business model in mind, it is easy to understand how The Boeing Company has managed to take flight despite rising fuel costs and uncertain economic times for commercial airlines. As noted above, BCA represents just 49% of the company's revenues. Thus, concerns of a "disconnect between airline profits and aircraft orders" that first surfaced in a June 2005 report by Goldman Sachs have been largely offset by the perpetual demand for defense and military hardware-- which is beneficial to IDS! True, those on blood pressure medication may wish to avoid BA stock. During the past 10 years, it has seen more highs and lows than Kirstie Alley's bathroom scale. From January 2, 1996 to January 3, 2000, equity value in BA rose just 7.8% [adjusted for dividends and splits]-- despite yearly gains of better than 25% in both 1996 and 1999! Furthermore, BA stock is already trading at a premium to its traditional P/E ratio and currently exceeds the industry norm as well.
Nonetheless, the company has adapted splendidly to the present political and economic uncertainty and appears well-poised to do so in the future.
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Three more local golf courses are set to open this week.
Glen Lea Golf Course is set to swing into the season today, while the Shilo Country Club is planning to open its 18 holes on Thursday, with Northern Pines planning to open this week as well. Meanwhile, the city-owned Wheat City Golf Course is also opening earlier than ever before, albeit with a shortended seven-hole course to start the season. Wheat City course manager Bryce Wilson hopes to have a full nine holes in operation by late April, with the full 18-hole course likely open by August once fairways have been re-seeded. Sunnyside Golf Course is also expected to open shortly, although no one could be reached for confirmation on Tuesday.
For Shilo, it is the earliest opening ever for the course and 35 days earlier than last season. The Deer Ridge Golf Course was the first local course to open last weekend.
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A ranked selection of February's most notable new recordings.
1. Eric Church, "The Outsiders"
What does it take to punch through Nashville's bro-zone layer? Trombones? Synthesizers? Songs about sex, mortality and stolen beers? Church throws it all into his fourth album and comes out sounding like country's new leading man.
2. Shy Glizzy, "Young Jefe"
When this Washington rapper looks in the mirror he sees a lover, a fighter, a nuisance, a menace, a hot head, a cool breeze, a dude crazy in love with the sound of his own trash talk. Accordingly, the highlight of Glizzy's new mixtape reads more like a daily affirmation than a brag: "I'm so awesome!" Absolutely.
3. Katy B, "Little Red"
On her second album, Katy B continues spelunking London's dance music underground, feels big feelings in the high-decibel darkness, and sings them back out in the shape of a pop song.
4. Temples, "Sun Structures"
The old-school psych-rock on this young Brit band's debut sounds highly studied and is polished just so. But if your air guitar has been collecting dust, it's a lovely solution.
5. Vtgnike, "Dubna"
It's silly to romanticize human beings for making music on computers in faraway cities, but this Russian way-outsider's adventurous post-techno evokes fantastic weather on an alien planet.
6. Angel Olsen, "Burn Your Fire For No Witness"
Everything burns slowly on Olsen's new album, where the 26-year-old singer channels older voices (Leonard Cohen, Hope Sandoval) to describe ancient feelings (love, longing) in ways that feel new.
7. Toni Braxton and Babyface, "Love, Marriage & Divorce"
This one had huge promise, but came up a feeling a little lightweight. Still, "Love, Marriage & Divorce" features two of the silkiest voices in American R&B navigating the path from spite to forgiveness. On the way, Braxton spits out a razz for the ages: "I hope she gives you a disease."
8. Schoolboy Q, "Oxymoron"
The rising L.A. rapper has friends in the highest places — he's a member of Kendrick Lamar's Black Hippy cadre — but Q doesn't need much help on his third studio album. He's a big mouth capable of telling tremendous stories. Rap music can never have enough of either.
9. Dierks Bentley, "Riser"
He can do feel-good, down-low and everywhere in-between, but on his new album, the country mainstay is at his best on "Bourbon in Kentucky," soaking his mangled heart in Jim Beam. "There ain't enough bourbon in Kentucky for me to forget you," he sings. "So forget you."
10. Natural Child, "Dancin' With Wolves"
Imagine a garage-rock-country band stumbling out of the garage and wandering off into the country, occasionally losing its way, but nobody's worried because this might be the same trail the Meat Puppets blazed back in the '80s, heh-heh, "blazed," hey, where are we?
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Fashion outlook for fall is warm and cozy
By Ellen Wulfhorst
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fashion consumers buffeted by recession's blows and chilled by bleak news may find welcome warmth and comfort in styles emerging for the fall season.
From edgy newcomers to traditionalists, designers showing fall 2009 collections this week in New York went heavily with cozy sweaters, soft cowl necks, leggings and snugly scarves.
The looks were straight-forward, if not downright sensible, for an era when lavish spending is clearly out of style.
"These are not clothes meant for Park Avenue lunches. They are meant for cozy nights by the fire," said James Aguiar, former fashion director for Bergdorf Goodman. "We're in a safe phase. We're not seeing outrageous."
Thick, oversized sweaters -- as coats, dresses, vests and capes -- were omnipresent at the semi-annual string of shows by such designers as Carolina Herrera, Max Azria, Luca Orlandi, Adrienne Vittadini, Victoria Bartlett and Tracy Reese.
Designers didn't stop at just one. Layers of sweaters upon sweaters showed up at Yigal Azrouel, Akiko Ogawa and Generra.
Loose coats came in plaid at Adam and Monarchy, jackets sported hoods and scarves were tied casually like bibs.
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The Black Eyed Peas are back. After four years since their last group effort, B.E.P. will be releasing their new album The E.N.D. this June.
Following up the 9x platinum selling Monkey Business, The Peas are prepping the release of their fifth disc The E.N.D. – which is short for "The Energy Never Dies" on June 9th via Interscope Records. The first single, "Boom Boom Pow" is set to hit radio soon.
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However this may not fix your issue as I tried to update and couldnt get it to work once I did a dist-upgrade from R1-R2 (using my method or the script). For my particular situation I found it quicker and easier to re-download the latest VM image and installation of guest additions worked straight away with a clean image.
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The company's assembly lines in Japan will go offline for a week beginning February 8 because of a lack of components from Aichi Steel.
TOKYO—Toyota said Monday that it would temporarily stop its vehicle production in Japan due to a parts shortage following an explosion at a supplier.
The world's top automaker said assembly lines in its home market would go offline for a week from February 8 owing to a lack of components from affiliate Aichi Steel.
Overseas production would not be suspended, it added.
Toyota publishes its nine-month financial results this week. It did not say if the temporary production shutdown would affect its results in the current quarter.
"Operations are scheduled to recommence on February 15, and vehicle production on lines outside Japan will not be suspended," the company said.
"Toyota will continue to take any measures necessary to minimize the impact of this incident on vehicle production."
Toyota said it may get parts made on alternate production lines operated by Aichi Steel and also could procure components from other steelmakers to meet its needs.
Aichi Steel, which produces specialty steel products among other items, was hit by an explosion on January 8 which badly damaged parts of its production site.
Aichi Steel is expected to return to full operation in March.
Toyota said it does not disclose its daily production plans, but the firm has said it produced 14,000 units a day in 2015.
The company, which surpassed Volkswagen in 2015 to keep the title of world's top-selling automaker, produced more than four million cars in Japan last year and over 10 million worldwide.
At the Tokyo Stocks Exchange, Toyota shares rose 1.31% to 7,294 in early trade, mirroring the headline Nikkei index, which added 1.27%.
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Here is a video that I just had to share. It is a bit sarcastic, but that is the point of this comical genius. Check it out and then come back and give me your thoughts!
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Here is a video that I just had to share. It is a bit sarcastic, but that is the point of this comical genius. Check it out and then come back and give me your thoughts!
|The Colbert Report
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Kurt, first of all I can appreciate the satire by Colbert against conservatives in America holding a strong belief in Christianity, yet acting opposite to the true gospel. In which, I completely agree with him on this point. I am completely disgusted by conservatives who hold a belief in Christianity and yet justify war/violence and not take care of the poor. When one looks through history, this is completely opposite of how the earliest Christians acted.
Yet, I draw hesitation when anyone tries to make Jesus a liberal or a democrat. Liberalism is an 18th century movement that was in a reaction against Christianity and the political establishment. Any kind of -ism, even pacifism are all secular desires to built a Utopian world in this world, which is ultimately bound to fail. I also feel this idea of labeling Jesus as a Liberal or Conservative is a peculiar american thing, by which our current culture wars tends to bring whole groups of subjects into these two categories.
Is it really right to say that the God-man Jesus Christ, who sits at the right hand of the blessed Father is an adherent of an ideological political movement starting from the 18th century and which was changed with the progressive movement of the 20th century and holds a political party which tends to justify the killing of unborn babies?
This is not to say that certain aspects of liberalism like the state helping the poor is not justified by Christianity or Jesus himself.
Not at all, if you look at Saint Basil the Great, he build some of the first great hospices and poor houses offering free services to all in the 4th century. Also some of the great orphanages, leprous houses, hospitals of the Eastern roman empire ( Byzantium) were built by and sustained by the state and offered for free and the Bishops/Monks were in charge of these institutions. There was a symbiotic relationship with the State/Christianity is caring for the poor.
I posted this to fb the day after it aired because it is perhaps one of Colbert's best satires I have ever heard. You could hear the uncomfortable silence of the crowd when Colbert cuts to the heart of who Jesus really was/is. This one shows the disparity between Pax Americana and real discipleship.
First, I love this bit of commentary. It is funny and poigniant. Sadly, it is also to the Church's shame, and an example of Paul's repeated concern that the Church not lose face (by our own design) in the eyes of the surrounding culture. If we are ashamed, it should only be because we are following Jesus, not because of our failure to follow.
Second, I agree that we can't put Jesus into a contemporary political camp. Trying to do so is an absurd exercise. I don't actually think Colbert is trying to do that. I think he's using irony to highlight the absurdity of any political camp laying claim to Jesus' membership.
LOL loved it! I'm not sure where Colbert's religious views lie… but he hit the nail square on the head, with a precision that honestly shocked me in how well he actually understood what Jesus actually preached. I Particularly liked when he took the shot at "God helps those who help themselves", that phrase has always made me mad, so ungodly…
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Each year, Witten hosts a free football camp in his hometown of Elizabethton, TN.
Witten's foundation started the SCORE program, which places male mentors in domestic violence shelters.
Cowboys tight end Jason Witten is a finalist for the Walter Payton Man of the Year for the second time in his career. Witten also was a finalist in 2007 when Jason Taylor won.
Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald and Browns tackle Joe Thomas are the other finalists, announced at halftime of the AFC Championship. The NFL will announce the winner Feb. 2, the night before Super Bowl XLVII, during its NFL Honors prime-time special.
Witten is involved in a number of charities, but his passion is The Jason Witten SCORE Foundation. SCORE, which stands for Support, Community, Overcome, Rebuild, Educate, supports families affected by domestic violence.
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Witten set two NFL records this season for most catches by a tight end in a game (18) and most catches by a tight end in a season (110).
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Re: please solve
Maybe I should define t. t is just time 1,2,3..,n and t^2 is
1,4,9,...n^2 like that.
I didn't think about singularity as this is a simple regression problem
that works when one uses actual values. I'm trying to get simple
formulas for beta instead of the usual ones.Sorry about that. Maybe I
can take usual formulas and try to get a simple solution thru that.
Thanks for all the effort
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> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:20:22 +0000 (UTC), rcmcll at yahoo.com wrote:
> >Greetings:
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> >Could someone please solve this symbolically?
> >This is just the ols formula for beta-hat but I need a symbolic
> >solution for this special case.
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> >b = inv(x'x)x'y
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> >and simplify simplify simplify!!
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> >Thanks,
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> >Bob
> If I understand the notation, x is a matrix. Yes? If so, x is
> singular and doesn't have an inverse. Hence neither does x'x, so the
> problem has no solution. Or, better put, the problem is ill posed.
> A dsifferent Bob


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Henry, I went back thru the thread to see where it was that I said something that I would need to come back and apologize for. The only thing I can come up with is where I said "with a perfect butt you don't need it". Henry, you don't, if you have a perfect butt you don't need a backing. It can help, but I have never done it like that. Saying this doesn't mean I am all knowing, it doesn't mean I am grand standing, it doesn't mean any of that. It means that I have another way to do it. I would have used about 10 C clamp vice grips, I have them all the way from 6" to 24" and I would hold that whole thing with them, then tack weld in between them and remove the clamps. It's just another way to do it. There is no need to apologize for something I didn't do. You did it different, cool. Because I would have done it with the clamps doesn't mean I think you are wrong or not qualified or what ever. It only means I do it a different way. You can bet I won't bother you again with my suggestions.
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While Montana's wildfire season has been relatively minor thus far, the wildfire blame game started early this year.
In 2000 then-Gov. Marc Racicot waited until after the wildfire season was over to blame those fires on policies of the Clinton administration.
But in June of 2002, Gov. Martz branded environmentalists "terrorists" during her address to the Western Governor's Association, just as wildfires were burning across Colorado and Arizona.
Then last week, the U.S. Forest Service released a report suggesting that half of the hazardous fuel reduction projects across the country are being delayed by environmental appeals. In particular, the reports claims that 100 percent of the projects in Montana to make forests less likely to burn were appealed in the past two years. A day after politicians and pundits championed the Forest Service report in Congress and in newspapers around the country, representatives of two of the environmental groups singled out fired salvos in return.
Chris Mehl of the Bozemen office of the Wilderness Society disputed the Forest Service numbers and cited a 2001 report from the General Accounting Office (GAO) which found that fewer than one percent of the projects aimed at reducing the likelihood of wildfires were delayed by appeals or lawsuits.
"The Forest Service is coming up with their own skewed report [because] their house is not in order," says Mehl. "They're using this tragedy to promote their agenda. This is the worst time, and the Forest Service is deliberately trying to shift blame."
Jennifer Ferenstein, president of the Sierra Club, chalked up the Forest Service report to the political machinations of Undersecretary Mark Rey, a former timber industry lobbyist and Bush administration appointee. As Undersecretary for Natural Resources and Environment, Rey was scheduled to speak before Congress the day after the report was released.
"You can connect the dots and see this is a cynical ploy," says Ferenstein. "They should be looking for real solutions instead of pointing fingers. What we need to focus on is restoration and defensible space around homes."
Meanwhile, Steve Kratville, spokesman for the Forest Service Region One headquarters in Missoula, explained the apparent contradiction between the two reports. First, he says, they each look at different time frames. The GAO examined the second half of the 1990s, while the Forest Service report only looked at fiscal years 2001 and 2002.
Second, the reports address different information. The GAO looked at all proposals that would reduce fuel loads on national forests, regardless of the method or the size of the trees. Thus it included small thinning projects conducted in the urban-wildland interface which are rarely, if ever, controversial. Although subject to litigation, such projects are called "categorical exemptions" and are not eligible for administrative appeal.
The Forest Service report, however, didn't include these categorical exemptions or other proposals such as prescribed burns. Instead, it addressed "mechanical fuel treatments" such as "tree removal in overstocked forests," which, environmentalists say, is industry lingo for logging.
"These are really timber sales, good old timber sales, that the Forest Service has dressed up as some fuel reduction project," says Ferenstein. "These are big projects with potentially big environmental impacts."
"They [the GAO] included projects that will not reduce fire risk, like logging out in the middle of nowhere," counters Mehl. "We have limited resources [so] we should prioritize protecting homes."
In 2001, the Forest Service proposed 33 projects in Montana that included fuel reduction activities. Of those, 30 were appealed. Subsequently, 25 of the appealed decisions were affirmed as proposed.
Meantime, one appeal was dismissed and another was withdrawn. In the end, three appeals successfully reversed Forest Service proposals.
Two of the projects ended in litigation after the appeals process failed to produce a generally agreeable decision. One was upheld while another, in the Helena National Forest, is still in court.
Another notable Forest Service proposal ended in litigation last year. In response to the wildfires of 2000, the Bitterroot National Forest proposed the Burned Area Recovery Project, which included plans to conduct salvage logging on 40,000 acres.
Rey declared the project immune to administrative appeal due to the urgency of the project. In response, environmentalists filed suit. Although the settlement endorsed the logging of 15,000 acres, District Judge Don Molloy ruled that environmental groups won in spirit and ordered the Forest Service to pay their legal expenses.
While there has been no proposal, appeal or lawsuit on the scale of the Bitterroot Burned Area Recovery Project in 2002, the pattern remains the same.
Thus far this year, the Forest Service has proposed 25 projects in Montana that included fuel reduction activities. Of those, 24 were appealed. Subsequently, 16 of the appealed decisions were affirmed as proposed.
Meantime, one appeal was withdrawn. In the end, two proposals were withdrawn from consideration, one was reversed and another was partially reversed. Additionally, three appeals are still pending.
But those are Forest Service numbers, based on logging-style projects. And appeals alone don't add much time to projects, argues Ferenstein, especially if the Forest Service anticipates them and the two-week review that usually follows.
"It's a 45-day process," Ferenstein says. "It's not going to cause massive forest fires across the West. If they've done their homework and followed the law, they come out with stronger projects."
While the Forest Service disagrees with this philosophy and faults "excessive analysis" for the delay in planning, deciding and implementing projects, local foresters acknowledge the basic dynamic exists.
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Alpha way to handle this situation....
Relationship has been going great, I have no doubts on how she feels towards me. I feel confident in the relationship. But here is the recent odd twist.
She has a few guy friends from her college years that she occasoinally keeps in touch with. They all are planning to get together this weekend to catch up and have dinner / drinks. She invited me along and two of the other guys will be bringing their dates as well. I asked her last night if there is history with any of these guys....turns out there is.
I get that...heck I have my own crazy past, BUT I would never take my current gf out with my past girls. It just seems very awkward to be in that sort of a face-to-face situation.
How would you deal?
1. Chalk it up as the past, go along with it, take it in stride and try to have fun.
2. Back out of it tactfully, but let her go.
First option. No question.
Alpha way to handle it?
Come up with a baddass thing for you two to go do as a couple.
Neither of your options are "Alpha" unless you plan on dominating them after a few drinks and they hit on your girl.
Go with plan one to be civil, it's the past is past. Now if someone gets smart alpha thing to do is prove a point.
If someone gets out of line with her, you put them in there place...
Or be a true bau5 steal there women, convoke current lady to have 3som or 4som with other girls. That's alpha as fvck
1st option
I wouldn't go and subject myself to it. She clearly knows of the possibility of awkwardness, and plans to do it anyways. I would show my ability to trust her and do what I want to do instead of most guys that will go and try to protect their "property."
I'm leaning the same direction Collin.
The old me of a few years ago kept past girls around as friends and even talked to them occasionally if I was in a new relationship. At the time I was selfish and didn't see anything wrong with it, but in reality, it is a bit disrespectful to the current partner / relationship.
New me has learned a bit and plans on keeping my past, in my past and would not subject a girl to that. Plus if I went along, I can't help but wonder would that send a signal to her that I condone it. Whereas if I don't go I am showing my disapproval with it.
I trust her and know she is totally into me, I don't feel threatened. It is just the principal here that gets me. To me it should not be ok to still meet up with past partners when you are in a new relationship even if you are all good friends.
Or am I being a beotch here and overthinking all this crap?
It sounds to me like she is doing this for her own selfish reasons. Maybe she doesn't want to go alone to a place where an ex will have a date. Maybe she wants to make the ex jealous. But there is no reason for you to meet an ex that has nothing to do with you. Unless she has kids with him or something. If she gets angry that you don't want to go, she is counting on you to go for the aforementioned reasons. If she just wants to catch up with the guy and is literally just a friend, she won't be mad that you turned it down.
If you have to ask, you aren't alpha.
Tell her she's not going.
If said like an true alpha, she'll remain in the kitchen
Problem solved itself!
She got very ill Saturday morning, stabbing abdomen pain. She was sick all weekend. First instinct was apendicitis. Went to the ER Sat evening for tests, X ray and CT scan showed nothing abnormal. Doc felt it could be a weird GI tract strain.
Regardless nothing happened this weekend, problem averted.
You didn't avoid the problem. It's simply been postponed. So with that said, let me give you a little insight based on my personal experience.
I know that my fiance engaged in "relationships" in the past before we met. Nothing I can do about that. I explicitly told her I did not want to who they were because I did not feel it was relevant. Needless to say, she felt guilty in situations where I would interact/socialize with said individuals. And over a year into our relationship it reached a point where she could no longer bare it. As a result, in the middle of dinner at a nice restaurant, out of no where... she divulged who those individuals were. I was furious. Not because she had relations with them, but that she explicitly ignored my request.
It was embarrassing. I felt like an utter fool. And that feeling continued for a couple of days. Then on the third day... no ****s were given. Those individuals still remain my acquaintances. I still see them and speak to them from time-to-time. If you are confident in yourself and your relationship you will have no problems.
Might be awkward at first, but you quickly get over that.
So my advice to you... don't avoid it. Conquer it.
hopefully the guys with a past with her do the alpha thing and when you're in the middle of dinner he goes "hey, remember that time we piitb?" ha the look on your face will be priceless!
The alpha move is to go and be confident that she is with you.
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Anthony Hubbard picks Iowa
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Iowa picked up its third recruit for the 2011 class when junior-college All-American Anthony Hubbard selected the Hawkeyes over NebraskaĀin an announcement Saturday morning at the Hylton Boys and Girls Club outside of Washington D.C.
Hubbard, a 6-foot-5 sophomore, averaged nearly 20.7 points and 10.1 rebounds a game for Frederick (Md.) Community College. He shot nearly 65 percent from the floor.
"HeÆs far from refined, andĀhe is getting better," Frederick Coach Dave Miller said. "Wherever he goes next year, he will be much better than he was for us. Senior year, heÆs going to be much better than his junior year. HeÆs getting by the moment. HeÆs like a sponge. He soaks it all in."Hubbard joins guard Josh Oglesby of Cedar Rapids Washington and forward Aaron White of Strongsville, Ohio as Iowa recruits.
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The White House Promises There Will Be No Obamacare BailoutBy
Yesterday, Bloomberg News health-care reporter Alex Wayne noticed that the new White House budget includes $5.5 billion in potential payments to insurance companies that suffer losses under Obamacare—a scenario that Republicans such as Florida Senator Marco Rubio have branded a "bailout."
Last November, Rubio introduced legislation to abolish "risk corridors" contained in the Affordable Care Act, which are essentially temporary shock absorbers that help insurers transition to the new system by limiting the risk they'll face in setting prices for a new market. As I've explained, risk corridors function a lot like Major League Baseball's profit sharing: Insurers that wind up with a healthier-than-anticipated applicant pool and lower costs will turn over some profits to the government, which in turn will pay money to insurers that end up saddled with costlier-than-expected applicants.
Given the law's rocky rollout and Obama's decision to let young, healthy people temporarily keep their bare-bones plans (a decision he extended on Wednesday for another two years), it stands to reason that there may be more "losers" among insurers than previously anticipated—and that this might warrant a net payout from the government. "I do think both factors tilt the odds toward the government sending more money to insurers under risk corridors than they're taking in," says Larry Levitt, a health-care expert at the Kaiser Family Foundation. Given the political potency of the "bailout" label, Rubio looked to be onto something, and the many Republicans who repeated the charge seemed to agree.
The White House seems to agree, too. In a call with reporters late Wednesday, senior administration officials announced that they're adjusting the risk corridor program to be "budget neutral." But they haven't made clear how they'll make sure enough money will come in from insurers to avoid taxpayer-funded payments. White House officials presented this change as just another minor adjustment to help insurers and customers adapt to the new law. Nothing to see here, folks! What this change really does is blunt Rubio's attack by apparently guaranteeing that an "Obamacare bailout" cannot occur.
That didn't stop Rubio from offering a parting shot. "The Obama administration all but acknowledged today that Obamacare's risk corridors are open-ended and needlessly expose taxpayers to bailing out health insurance companies," he said in a statement. "Given the Obama administration's track record of bending, breaking, and rewriting Obamacare, they should make this move permanent through the legislative process." Whether or not rejiggering the risk corridors helps insurers or their customers, it should go a long way toward helping embattled Democrats.


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|Annie joins the rest of the study group in the student lounge and asks them about their weekend plans. As they are talking, Garrett and three students are loudly playing a game of foosball in the corner. Abed mentions that he and Troy will be spending Saturday repeatedly watching his newly arrived special edition DVD of "The Dark Knight". Meanwhile, the three students beat Garrett and loudly celebrate their victory. Ignoring Shirley's pleas, Jeff goes to confront them and gets challenged to a game. They agree to never use the foosball table again if he is able to score once. Jeff feigns disinterest and pretends to leave but then quickly attempts to score a point. After he fails and is mocked by the foreign students, Britta tries to snap a photo of his humiliating defeat with her knock-off brand cell phone.
|Later at Troy and Abed's apartment, Annie is doing some light house cleaning when she accidentally steps on and destroys Abed's new "Dark Knight" DVD which had been lying on the ground. Troy emerges from his blanket fort room and after noticing Annie's mood displays a similar mortified reaction when shown the remains of the DVD. He insists that Annie just tell Abed what happened since there's no way they hide this from him. Back at school, Jeff has stayed overnight in the student lounge practicing his game at the foosball table. Shirley approaches him concerned he's getting too obsessed with beating the Germans. Jeff then reveals that as a kid he used to love the game but had to give it up because of bullies like the exchange students. He tells her she wouldn't understand as it's a guy thing he needs to resolve. Shirley then shows off her skill at the game which leaves Jeff awestruck.
|Elsewhere, Troy and Abed arrive home with snacks for their "Dark Knight" marathon but enter and see that the apartment has apparently been ransacked. Annie rushes towards them claiming they had been robbed and Troy reluctantly goes along with her fictitious account. Meanwhile at Greendale, Jeff catches up with Shirley and begs her to teach him how to play foosball as well as she does. She refuses saying that it's an evil game that brings out the worst in people. Jeff angrily ridicules her piousness but quickly regrets his words and apologizes. He turns to go when Shirley stops him and resignedly agrees to help train him. They meet the next morning, and Shirley reveals to Jeff that an all-or-nothing kill-or-be-killed attitude is the most important skill needed to dominate the game. She illustrates this by aggressively taunting and berating him as they play the game until he finally gets angry enough to score a point against her.
|Over at Troy and Abed's apartment, Officer Cackowski is going over the details of the crime with the roommates. Annie further embellishes her story insisting it was a break in and theft as not only the DVD was stolen but also some of her jewelry. Before Cackowski leaves he tells them he'll be in touch but in circumstances like this the stolen goods are never recovered. Abed tells Annie and Troy his suspicions that it was an inside job since there were no signs of forced entry and concludes that it was the landlord, Rick. Back at Greendale, Jeff and Shirley are still training when they are interrupted by the Germans. A heated exchange occurs and another challenge is issued. Both sides agree to play each other on Monday with the stipulation that the losing team never use the foosball table again.
|Meanwhile at casa de Trobed, Abed exits The Dreamatorium dressed in his Batman outfit. Assuming the Batman persona he tells his roommates he will see justice done. He begins to leave the apartment via the fire escape and Annie finally confesses everything. Abed doesn't believe her because if she was guilty she would have come forward earlier. He then uses a grappling hook Troy gave him last Christmas to rapel down to the landlord's apartment, with his roommates following close behind. At the same time, Shirley and Jeff are enjoying a meal over at Señor Kevin's and he asks her how she came to be so good at foosball. Shirley reveals that she played the game as a kid as it gave her an outlet for all the anger she had at the time. She then recalls an incident which had a profound affect on her.
|At a YMCA she beat a boy at the game and jabbed the kid with a foosball rod which caused him to pee his pants. She further humiliated by naming him "Tinkletown". A horrified Jeff calls Shirley by her childhood nickname "Big Cheddar" which makes her realize he was that boy she bullied years ago. Jeff calls her a fraud and angrily leaves the restaurant. Meanwhile back at Trobed's apartment complex, Abed manages to make it to the fire escape of his landlord's apartment in one piece. Still channeling Batman, he interrogates Rick only to find out that his only crime is his collection of stolen women shoes. Officer Cackowski later arrives on the scene and warns Abed to stay out of Rick's apartment. Annie confesses what she did and Abed forgives her.
|The following Monday, Jeff and Shirley go up against the two Germans. Jeff and Shirley juggle the ball between one another before leaving it in the center, which causes infighting between the two German players. Jeff and Shirley then decide to quit and walk out hand in hand in front of the other members of the study group, with Pierce wondering when the two became close. The two are then seen walking away as little kids, thus showing a truce between Big Cheddar and Tinkletown.
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Leonard reviews frozen pizza for his YouTube channel.
Recurring themesEdit
- Previously:
- In the Season One episode "Communication Studies", Britta is knitting an eyepatch for her new handicapped cat she got to replace the one that had just died, Suzie B. In this episode the cat's name is revealed to be Daniel and it just had eye surgery.
- Jeff recalls the time he and Shirley made fun of Britta's ex-boyfriend's tiny nipples in "Social Psychology".
- Officer Cackowski recalls teaching Annie a lesson on gun safety.
- The foosball table has stickers for Some Worries, Vaughn's band from Season One and Hot & Brown.
- That just happened: Annie is now living with Troy and Abed in their apartment since the episode "Studies in Modern Movement".
- History Lesson: Jeff and Shirley's shared past history is explored.
- Familiar face: Officer Cackowski returns in this episode with his first appearance of Season Three.
- First appearance:
- The Germans make their first appearance in this episode. They returned the following year with a new member in the Season Four "Alternative History of the German Invasion".
- I'm Batman!: Abed resurrects his Christian Bale inspired Batman persona from "Introduction to Statistics".
- School uniform: Abed dons his Batman Halloween costume.
- School song: Troy hums the song "Daybreak", it's second time it's heard on the show in Season Three.
- School supplies:
- Britta's Toterola and the student lounge's Foosball table are prominently featured.
- Abed reminds Annie of a buttered noodle incident, in which she apparently threw away his noodles before he was done.
- This must be the place:
Running gags:Edit
- A dollop of whipped irony: Juergen says "I wish there was a word to describe the happiness I feel at your misfortune!" referring to the German word Schadenfreude, which means exactly that.
- Shut up Leonard!: Shirley tells Leonard to shut up and then says she's seen his YouTube videos where he reviews frozen pizza.
- Catchphrase: Juergen says a misphrasing of the popular phrase "It's on like Donkey Kong!".
- Sexy Voice: Shirley gets very into the zone when playing foosball.
- Annie's Boobs: Annie hides a piece of Abed's DVD in her bra when they go to the landlord's apartment.
Pop culture references:Edit
- Alert nerd!: The Batman franchise is referenced and featured prominently in this episode.
- Shout out: Batman star actor Christian Bale is referenced.
- IMDB: the German film "Das Boot" is mentioned by Jeff.
Meta references:Edit
- Use your allusion:
- Jeff mocks The Germans by mentioning their country is known for their well-engineered cars.
- Rick the apartment manager appears to be watching a "Quantum Leap" porn parody before Abed interrupts him. Rick even says the main character Sam Beckett's catchphrase "Oh boy!".
- Parody: During Jeff and Shirley's intense over the top foosball showdown, the scene shifts to an anime inspired cartoon which is known for not only having many such confrontations but also overly dramatizing them which this scene is also doing.
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Pappy's Moonshine Madness BBQ Sauce Review
There are several important things going on with Pappy's Moonshine Madness ingredient wise that result in a barbecue sauce far and away above any barbecue sauce I have ever had the pleasure of tasting. First things first, though. Pappy's little concoction may be billed as a barbecue sauce, but this sauce does double duty as a hot sauce alone, useable in any situation you might use a traditional hot sauce. It also makes a fine wing sauce.
Now let me talk about the ingredients. Pappy's has sugar, vinegar, fresh onions and garlic, anchovies, Worcestershire sauce, tomato sauce and tomato paste, paprika, black pepper, lemon powder, lemon juice, lemon oil, and natural hickory flavoring.
The label proclaims Moonshine Madness to be "so friggin' hot, you'll go blind." Pappy ain't lyin'. The sauce is hot, and here's why: In addition to the ingredients I've already mentioned, Pappy's includes chili and habanero peppers as well as oil of capsicum; the latter ingredient needs no introduction to chili heads. These key ingredients take Pappy's Moonshine Madness to a heat level that will please anyone who likes it hot and flavorful.
There's one more ingredient that absolutely has to be mentioned. It's the ingredient that balances it all out and puts the shine in moonshine. Pappy's Moonshine Madness contains genuine Kentucky Bourbon. This ingredient gives Pappy's a smooth, satisfying taste that can quickly become a fan favorite among heat seekers. The combination of bourbon and hickory work well together and play against the other ingredients in a masterful turn that brings out a hot barbecue flavor unlike any you have ever tried.
Close your eyes, take a sip (taste, I mean), and feel yourself transported to a shack in the mountains somewhere, just you, a thick cut of steak or a slab of ribs, and your Pappy's Moonshine Madness. My mouth waters just thinking about it. All I have to look at right now, until I replenish my stock, is an empty bottle. That bottle brings back memories.
I tried Pappy's fine sauce on ribs. It did something to those ribs that should be almost illegal, it was that good. Not only did I cook the sauce onto the ribs, I dipped the ribs in extra sauce. The more my lips burned, the more I ate. Yeah, the heat is there, but the flavor is so addictive that you don't have time to stop and put out the fire. I made chicken wings with Pappy's Moonshine Madness with nothing more than a little butter added; I had to grab a few slices of bread to sop up the sauce. I wasn't about to leave it behind.
If you're looking to try the best barbecue sauce you've ever tasted, Pappy's Moonshine Madness is the way to go. With Pappy's Moonshine Madness, you'll soon find yourself drunk on the artistic combination of smooth bourbon, smoky hickory, and hot chilis.
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Stevens in 4th Place at Thompson Invitational
March 12, 2013
Led by junior Sammi Stevens, the University of New Mexico women's golf team is tied for fifth place after two rounds of the Dr. Donnis Thompson Invitational in Kane'ohe, Hawai'i. The Lobos have a 36-hole total of 30-over 606 (298-308) at the Kane'ohe Klipper course.
Stevens is in fourth place entering Wednesday's final round after shooting an even par 144 (71-73). She is three shots out of the individual lead held by Arizona's Manon Gidali (141). Ohio State's Amy Meier and Ole Miss' Abby Newton are tied for second at 143.
The Lobos' top finisher in the team's past four tournaments, Stevens had her share of ups and downs, making 10 birdies on the day, but she gave those 10 shots back on another eight holes.
In the team competition, No. 7 Arizona (582) holds a commanding 14-shot lead over second place Ohio State (596). However, the race for second place could be interesting as only 10 shots separate the Buckeyes, Louisville, Gonzaga, New Mexico and Ole Miss.
The Lobos started slowly, sitting at 9 over after the first five holes of the tournament. However, they played the last 13 holes of the first round in 1 over for a team total of 298.
UNM does hope to play better on the back nine tomorrow. As a team, the Lobos lost 24 strokes on holes 10 through 18 compared to just 6 over on the front side.
The 16-team field begins final round action Wednesday with a shotgun start at 12 noon MT.
Lobo junior Sofia Hoglund easily posted her best 36-hole score of the season at 149 (73-76). She is tied for 15th. Hoglund entered the tournament with a scoring average of 79.12.
Junior Manon De Roey is tied for 28th at 154 (77-77).
Senior Beth Buchner is at 159 (77-82), tied for 51st. In the first round, she strung together four birdies over five holes to get to 2 over with three holes left, but finished bogey, double bogey for a 77.
Freshman Ira Knopf is tied for 77th at 165 (83-82). Freshman Xenia Knopf, playing as an individual, is at 162 (83-79) and in a tie for 65th. The 79 is a season low.


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When that big collection of Bishop's drafts and scraps came out five years ago, I was unfavorably disposed towards it, though not as unfavorably as some: I didn't like the omnium-gatherum feel, the every-scrap-of-paper-is-as-precious-as-any-other-because-the-Great-Poet-touched-it sense that its reception (not so much the edition as the reception) gave, and I was tired of reading poets younger than she, but older than me, who had spent most of the years since her death imitating and imitating and grinding all the life out of her style.
But now I've had occasion to take a long look at the Library of America version of Bishop, edited by Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz, with all the poems she published in her lifetime, judicious culls from the posthumous haul, and most of her published prose– more than we got in the old blue-green collection– and you know what? none of the posthumously published verse is as good as "The Armadillo" or "Song for the Rainy Season" or "Poem" or "The End of March," and none of the new-to-most-people, not-previously-collected prose is as good as the best letters or "The U.S.A. School of Writing," but they can be amazing anyway.
For example, the indirect bitterness and the very cautious observations in "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator," which looks finished to me (Bishop may have had political reasons never to print it); and "Keaton," which is obviously unfinished as a poem but has plenty of complete and resonant lines, among them "I will be good; I will be good" (shades of Aiken's Senlin!) and "If the machinery goes I will repair it./ If it goes again I will repair it again."
And "Apartment in Leme," whose opening is a rehearsal for "North Haven"; and "Brasil, 1959," whose "fairy palace small, impractical" is the missing imaginative link between "Jeronimo's House" and "Song for the Rainy Season." And my favorite surprise this year (I mean that it surprised me), "Salem Willows," whose rotating carousel inspires the girl who rides the animals, but not the animals themselves: "It was as if that music,/ coarse, mechanical, loud,/ discouraged them from trying." The animals are like the maidens on Keats's urn, but the child is like the maidens too; as long as they go round and round, they don't have to grow up. (I was happy to see, as I composed this post, that Gillian White singled out the same few poems.)
You can see in these poems– some of which sound hesitant, "unfinished," in just the way that Bishop's most finished poems ("Filling Station," say, or "Poem") sound "unfinished"– what it is to seek lack of finish as an aesthetic effect: what it means, and how hard Bishop worked, to fashion the poem that sounds made-up on the spot (by a very careful speaker), the poem whose speaker revises in the direction of accuracy as you read or hear it. How different that is from a really unfinished poem.
And speaking of finish: when you read an assortment of drafts from a poet like Bishop, meticulous almost to a fault, you can not only see how good "not good enough" was; you can also see the difference between a finished line, sentence or stanzas, and a wholly finished poem. There are plenty of the former, if not many of the latter, in the unpublished/ posthumous/ Poe-Jukebox material selected for that Library of America book.
There's also terrific, heretofore hard-to-find prose, some from short reviews some from a long essay about the then-less-than-half-built new city of Brasilia. There's Bishop's gift for bitterly terse irony, shown in just a few poems ("Pink Dog") but audible in her treatment of Brasilia and its declaredly left-wing architect, Oscar Niemeyer, whose "solution to practical problems… seems to have been… put them underneath, or underground, like a lazy housewife shoving household gear out of sight."
It's audible too when she reviews a staid memoir by the translator and critic Wallace Fowlie, comparing his recollection of Boston's swan boats in his youth to her own, from hers: "one of the live swans paddling around us bit my mother's finger when she offered it a peanut. I remember the hole in the black kid glove and a drop of blood. I do not want to set myself up as a model of facing the sterner realities of swan boat rides in order to discredit Mr. Fowlie's idealization– but there is remarkably little of blood, sweat, or tears in Mr. Fowlie's book."
There's also more prose (not put in the blue-green book) about Bishop's early model and mentor Marianne Moore, prose that says much about Bishop's working methods, as well as about her taste: "how does Miss Moore reconcile pleasure with the fatigue and drudgery that must go into writing?" There are period bits, what must have been virtually house style for Bishop but could strike us as fastidiously odd: "I should like to add a few complaints about this Viking Reader, complaints that really amount to why isn't there more of it?" And there is her note that "young students and poets" whom she has met in the 1970s don't really know Auden; they "seem to know only a few of his anthology pieces… One reason for this may be that Auden… has been, or was, so much imitated that his style, his details and vocabulary, the whole atmosphere of his poetry, seems over-familiar, old hat."
Let's hope that doesn't happen to the author of "The Bight." By the time I got more than halfway through this volume I was almost pushed out of whatever else I wanted to do: why write, I felt, when I can read these? I feel that way more intensely about this book than about Bishop's earlier collections, because this one puts the verse and the prose together, so that if you're too tired to appreciate the former entirely, the latter waits for you right there.
I had thought tonight that I might write some sort of polite answer to Kenneth Goldsmith's point about the endless proliferation, sometime in the near future, of procedurally generated, recombinant digital books. I had thought that I might; now I think I just have.
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'Liberty Kids' shake up L.A. Republican Party, look to other states
By Sharon Bernstein
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amir Zendehnam passionately supports marijuana legalization, same-sex marriage, abortion rights and the Republican Party.
He is not alone. The 26-year-old aspiring restaurateur and chairman of the party's West Los Angeles central committee, is one of a raft of ethnically diverse young libertarians who hold seats in L.A. County's huge GOP apparatus, injecting youthful energy into its operations at a time when the state's Republican Party is nearly moribund.
After winning control the executive board of the Los Angeles County Republican Party in December 2012, the "Liberty Kids," as they call themselves, are seeing the fruits of their activism. This year one of their own is running as the Republican nominee for Congress from the San Gabriel Valley, with Zendehnam serving as policy adviser.
The Liberty Kids are challenging the party's social conservatives and are drawing the attention of Democrats, who see liberal youth as part of their base. And in what could be a harbinger for the GOP, they have begun campaigning in other states, aiming to increase their influence beyond California.
"I want you to look around the room," Zendehnam said at a meeting last week, "because this is what the face of the Republican Party is going to look like."
The Liberty Kids hold four of seven seats on the local party's governing board and dozens of spots on its 200-person central committee, representing a county that is home to 10 million people.
Raised during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and excited by the non-interventionist philosophy of Ron Paul, the former Texas congressman and presidential contender, many registered as Republicans to vote for Paul in the 2008 and 2012 presidential primaries and then stayed on in the party.
The group is making its presence felt as the GOP struggles to reinvent itself in California, where Republicans make up 29 percent of registered voters and Democrats control both houses of the legislature and all statewide offices. Continued...


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