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Deregulation of Accident and Health Forms
[27 Pa.B. 1893]
The Insurance Commissioner hereby deregulates certain group policy forms for commercial products offered by Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) and Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs), as authorized by Sections 3(A) and 3(B) of the Accident and Health Filing Reform Act, Act 159 of 1996 (Act 159), as set forth in Annex A.
Statutory Authority
Section 3(A) of Act 159, the Accident and Health Filing Reform Act, requires that each insurer (including PPOs) and HMO file with the Pennsylvania Insurance Department (the Department) any policy form which it proposes to issue in the Commonwealth, except forms of a type or kind which, in the opinion of the Commissioner, do not require filing. Section 3(B) of Act 159 expressly authorizes and describes the method for the Commissioner to exempt forms from the filing process. Accordingly, the Commissioner hereby exempts from filing the forms for the lines of business listed in Annex A.
HMOs and Insurers Eligible for Exemption
This deregulation applies only to the following entities that offer group insurance policies and products in the Commonwealth:
* Licensed HMOs organized and operating under the HMO Act, 40 P. S. §§ 1551 et seq.
* Licensed PPOs organized and operating under section 630 of the Act of May 17, 1921, P. L. 682, No. 284, as amended, known as the Insurance Company Law of 1921, 40 P. S. § 764a.
Forms Which are Not Deregulated
The Commissioner's action extends to group policy forms used by HMOs and PPOs. The Commissioner has not deregulated policy forms used in the individual HMO and PPO markets. Thus, individual policies offered by HMOs and PPOs are not deregulated hereunder.
Policy forms which are required to be submitted by an HMO or PPO during the application process to obtain a Certificate of Authority are not exempted from filing requirements by this notice.
This deregulation shall not apply to any filing required by the Department of Health.
This notice does not extend to group policy forms used by insurance companies, associations and exchanges, as defined by section 101 of the Insurance Company Law (40 P. S. § 361). Policy forms for those insurers were deregulated by separate notice. See 26 Pa.B. 1453 (March 30, 1996).
Continuing Authority of the Commissioner
Notwithstanding the implementation of this proposal, the Commissioner will retain complete authority to request and be provided a copy of any form being issued in this Commonwealth, as provided by section 10 of Act 159.
Under section 3(B) of Act 159, the Commissioner also will retain complete authority to reassume regulatory authority over the types of forms deregulated hereunder at her discretion. Notice of intent to resume regulatory authority shall be published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
Notwithstanding the deregulation of the forms specified herein, all such forms must continue to comply with applicable Pennsylvania law including, but not limited to:
Childhood Immunization Insurance, Act 35 of 1992 (40 P. S. §§ 3501 et seq)
Coverage for Mammographic Examinations (40 P. S. § 764c)
Women's Preventative Health Services Act (40 P. S. §§ 1571 et seq)
Effective Date
This deregulation action is effective upon its publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
Questions concerning this notice may be directed to Gregory S. Martino, Deputy Insurance Commissioner, Office of Rate and Policy Regulation, 1311 Strawberry Square, Harrisburg, PA 17120, (717) 783-5079.
Annex A
Insurance Department
Deregulated HMO and PPO Forms
The Insurance Commissioner, by this notice, hereby deregulates the following lines of business under the authority of Sections 3(A) and 3(B) of Act 159 of 1996, effective upon its publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
1) Group HMO policy forms issued by HMOs under the Health Maintenance Organization Act, 40 P. S. §§ 1551 et seq. Regulations: 31 Pa. Code Chapter 301.
2) Group PPO policy forms issued under section 630 the Insurance Company Law of 1921, P. L. 682, No. 284, 40 P. S. § 764a. Regulations: 31 Pa. Code Chapter 152.
3) Riders, amendments and endorsements used with the above lines of business.
Insurance Commissioner
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 97-574. Filed for public inspection April 11, 1997, 9:00 a.m.]
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As Cheyne Dougan rounded the corner at Clarksville High School, he saw three students on the floor moaning and crying. In a split-second, two more ran out of a nearby classroom.
"He's got a gun," one of them shouted as Dougan approached with his pistol drawn. Inside, he found one student holding another at gunpoint. Dougan aimed and fired three rounds at the gunman.
Preparing for such scenarios has become common for police after a school shooting in Connecticut last December left 20 children and six teachers dead. But Dougan is no policeman. He's the assistant principal of this school in Arkansas, and when classes resume in August, he will walk the halls with a 9 mm handgun.
Dougan is among more than 20 teachers, administrators and other school employees in this town who will carry concealed weapons throughout the school day, making use of a little-known Arkansas law that allows licensed, armed security guards on campus. After undergoing 53 hours of training, Dougan and other teachers at the school will be considered guards.
"The plan we've been given in the past is `Well, lock your doors, turn off your lights and hope for the best,'" Superintendent David Hopkins said. But as deadly incidents continued to happen in schools, he explained, the district decided, "That's not a plan."
Participants in the program are given a one-time $1,100 stipend to purchase a handgun and holster. Hopkins said the district is paying about $50,000 for ammunition and for training by Nighthawk Custom Training Academy, a private training facility in northwest Arkansas.

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[Date Index]
[Thread Index]
[Author Index]
Re: Sorting problem
I don't want to sound rude but I do not think this problem is really so
interesting or very relevant to this group. Or rather, more precisely, this
kind of questions surface here from time to time but usually lead to
anything fruitful. The reasons are as follows.
There is nothing at all mysterious about the theoretical question itself. It
is very well known and discussed in detail in Section 5.3.3 of Volume 3 of
Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" (1973 edition). The method is
described in Section 5.2.3 and called "tree selection". (the algorithm
itself is on page 142). This can be easily implemented in Mathematica but it
seems to me that is not much point doing so. The reason is that the actual
function you will get will almost certainly perform worse in real life than
something constructed using built in functions, even if it's theoretical
running time of the algorithm is worse. For example, here is one obvious
secondlargest[l_] := Max[DeleteCases[l, Max[l]]]
It seems to me that this should have the worst case running time of 3n-3,
but most likely will beat a user defined implementation of the best
algorithm. And if not than probably something similar will. It may be mildly
interesting to check this hypothesis but I have seen already enough evidence
that this sort of thing is true in general. Of course there is another
possible question here: would it be useful to have a built in implementation
of a (generalized) algorithm of this type? I guess it probably just wouldn't
be useful enough.
In my opinion Mathematica has to be treated as a separate computing paradigm
and efficiency comparisons only make sense between different Mathematica
functions based on actual performance (which in any case may be platform
Andrzej Kozlowski
Toyama International University
>From: Cheng Tsz Hei <s986001 at mailserv.cuhk.edu.hk>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>Subject: [mg20112] [mg20071] Sorting problem
>Date: Wed, Sep 29, 1999, 16:33
> Dear everybody,
> Here I have some interesting problem want to share with everyone.
> The problem is :
> there are n elements in the arrays and we would like to find the
> second smallest
> one in at most n + lgn - 2 comparsion in the worest case.
> anyone know the answer?
> Maths


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Madison Scholarly News — January 2008
Brad Jenkins (General Manager, The Breeze) received the Outstanding Public Service in the Media Award from the Public Relations Council of the Shenandoah Valley in November 2007 for his work at the Daily News-Record, The Breeze and Shenandoah Living.
Dr. Laura Lewis (Professor, Anthropology) was awarded a 2008 Rockefeller Foundation Scholarly Residency at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center near Milan, Italy. Lewis will finish her second book, the ethnography "History, Race and Place in the Making of Black Mexico," during her one-month residency, which begins in March. Lewis is currently on academic leave, having received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for 2007-08 to support her book project.
Dr. Dolores L. Flamiano (Associate Professor, Media Arts and Design) has been elected to the board of the American Journalism Historians Association.
Dr. Mohamed S. Aboutabl (Assistant Professor, Computer Science; Researcher, Institute for Infrastructure and Information Assurance) received $2,500 from Engedi Technologies Inc. for laboratory testing of the Secure Remote Management Drive.
Dr. Young B. Choi (Assistant Professor, Computer Information Systems and Management Science) received $20,000 from the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute to investigate the effects of Mobile Web 2.0 on the American telecommunication market in the context of social network services.
C. Scott Coverstone (Major, Police and Safety) and Patricia A. Layman (Administrative Assistant, Public Safety) received $8,552 from Rockingham County to improve the quality of criminal justice records in the regional central repository.
Dr. J. Christine Harmes (Assistant Assessment Specialist and Assistant Coordinator of the Institute for Computer-Based Assessment, Center for Assessment and Research Studies; Assistant Professor, Graduate Psychology) received $53,000 from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing to investigate the levels of cognitive processing required for various types of innovative items and the degree to which examinees are able to remember various types of items, both text and innovative.
Dr. Gregg Henriques (Associate Professor, Graduate Psychology; Director, Combined-Integrated Doctoral Program in Clinical and School Psychology) received $2,000 from the Great Ape Trust to convene scholars from across the academic spectrum to discuss the latest research in primatology and perspectives on human distinctiveness at the Visions of Integration II conference.
Dr. Stephen A. Leslie (Professor and Head, Geology and Environmental Science) received $15,264 from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund to collect geological samples for microfossils, make species identifications and conduct biostratigraphic analyses.
Dr. Kevin P. Minbiole, (Assistant Professor, Chemistry) received $25,000 from the Jeffress Memorial Trust for "Amphibian Protection: The Antifungal Agents of Beneficial Bacteria on Salamander Skins" to expand the knowledge and understanding of the complex relationship of mutualistic symbionts and microbial ecology as well as to develop new strategies in amphibian conservation.
Dr. Jonathan D. Monroe (Professor, Biology) received $25,000 from the Jeffress Memorial Trust to determine the subcellular localization and tissue distribution of all nine Arabidopsis thaliana B-amylases and to understand the role of B-amylase in starch degradation throughout plants.
Christopher B. Nye (Executive Director, Blue Ridge Area Health Education Center) received $68,333 from Virginia Commonwealth University for center support in fiscal year 2008 to promote health careers and access to primary care for medically underserved populations through community-academic partnerships. Nye received $26,935 from VCU to serve the Medicaid population by supporting the placement of medical residents in community-based clinical rotations within rural healthcare settings. He also received $500 from Giant Food Stores, LLC to focus on hunger eradication.
Dr. Cynthia R. O'Donoghue (Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders) received $30,475 from the Virginia Department of Education to coordinate a seminar, "Dysphagia Management: Team Treatment and Collaboration with Medical Providers," to discuss the importance of team collaboration within school settings to assist students with swallowing difficulties.
Dr. Amy L. Paugh (Assistant Professor, Anthropology) was awarded a $50,400 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for 2008-09 to write a book, "Playing with Language: Language Socialization, Children's Agency, and Language Shift in Dominica, West Indies," based on her research on linguistic practices, language ideologies, children's play and agency, and social reproduction and change in Dominica.
Dr. Brianna S. Quinn (Assistant Professor, Exceptional Education) received $24,405 from the Virginia Department of Education for "Consortium of Institutions of Higher Education in Virginia in Visual Impairments" to develop and implement a statewide program to meet the initial and continuing education needs for teachers of students with visual impairments.
Henry A. Reeves (Director, Small Business Development Center) received $2,500 from the U.S. Small Business Administration to provide technical advice and guidance and for the center to serve as a business and economic information focal point for small businesses.
Dr. Terrie K. Rife(Assistant Professor, Biology) and Dr. Jonathan D. Monroe (Professor, Biology) received $95,387 from the National Science Foundation to provide 12 students with research experiences as they work one-on-one with faculty who are experienced undergraduate research mentors and to expose the students to ethical issues in science and give them practice in communicating scientific ideas.
Dr. Judith T. Rocchiccioli (Professor, Nursing) received $24,448 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for "Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship Stipends for Underserved Rural Virginia" to support full- and part-time, current and future graduate students in the nurse practitioner and nurse educator tracks in JMU's nursing department graduate program.
Dr. Lee G. Sternberger (Executive Director International Programs; Associate Provost, Academic Affairs) received $1,000 from the University of Minnesota to assist with a survey.
Dr. Steven J. Whitmeyer (Assistant Professor, Geology and Environmental Science) received $27,696 from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative Research: Geological and Geophysical Data Analysis Using a Virtual Globe" to establish a methodology for embedding digital mapping data, geophysical survey results and tectonic data from existing paper maps in innovative four-dimensional virtual globe models.
Dr. Dolores L. Flamiano (Associate Professor, Media Arts and Design) co-wrote an article, "Diversity in Mainstream Newspapers from the Standpoint of Journalists of Color," which was published in the Howard Journal of Communication, Vol. 18, Issue 2, 2007.
Dr. Carol D. Harllee (Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures) wrote "Duran, Agustin (1789-1862)," an article which was published in "Two Hundred Literary Critics in Nineteenth-Century Spain" during fall semester 2007.
Dr. Nancy Nusser (Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Design) co-authored "An Evaluation of Press Freedom Indicators," a study of global press freedom indicators that was published in the International Communication Gazette 69 (1):5-28. The article was the topic of presentations at a November 2007 conference on media freedom that was organized by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communications.
Dr. Dorothy J. Sluss (Associate Professor, Early, Elementary and Reading Education) was the lead editor for "Play Investigations in the 21st Century," which was published by University Press New York.
Greg Werner (Head Strength and Conditioning Coach) wrote three articles that have been published in Real Fighter magazine within the past three months: "Attack of the Killer Knees: Six Simple Moves to Help Prevent ACL Injuries" (Issue 15), "Legal Juice: Ten Proven Ways to Boost Your Testosterone Naturally" (Issue 16) and "Fists and 'Cuffs: Fight Off Painful Shoulder Problems with These Moves" (Issue 17).
Dr. Laura Zarrugh (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Women's Studies and Cross-Disciplinary Studies) wrote a paper, "The Latinization of the Central Shenandoah Valley," which was published in International Migration, Vol. 46, No. 1, 2008, pp. 19-58.
Mike Grundmann (Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Design) critiqued two student newspapers at the College Media Advisers conference in Washington, D.C., in October 2007.
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: A Roadmap to Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,
or a Mere Pipe Dream?
April 4, 2003
By Brian Kupfer
Oppressive nationalism must be conquered... I can see
a future for Palestine only on the basis of peaceful cooperation
between the two peoples who are at home in the country...
come together they must in spite of all. - Albert Einstein,
January 8, 1930.
George W. Bush recently announced a "road map for peace"
in the Israeli/ Palestinian conflict. Drawing a roadmap for
peace in there is like charting a course through a minefield
for a blindfolded sap on roller blades. Whether or not something
as intricate and convoluted as this horrific tragedy can be
understood, let alone solved by Mr. Bush is anyone's guess.
The bitter reality of the Bush "roadmap" is that if it does
what it is designed to do, it will only bring the parties
back to the same point they were in the summer of 2000. Will
Ariel Sharon be better equipped to cut a deal than the dovish
Ehud Barak? The most polite name most Palestinians have for
the man is to call him "The Tank." Furthermore, if George
W. Bush was not able to get France on board for a war against
an evil tyrant, how in the world will he ever get the Palestinians
to surrender their request for a right of return?
As a guess, I would place the chances of the Bush "roadmap"
succeeding at slightly less than that of Dick Cheney entering
and winning the New York, Los Angeles, and Boston marathons
for 10 consecutive years. It is not even a pipe dream. It
is more like an intellectual pipe bomb designed to suppress
any effort to alter the preferred status quo. Sharon needs
the Intifada. It is his powerbase and has served to minimize
his pro-peace opposition into political paperweights, thus
paving the way for what has always been his goal: settlement
expansion as a means of territorial maximization.
The Bush Administration has proven to be more than willing
to feed the Israeli war machine the capital that serves as
its lifeblood. It has weakened a United Nations body that
could have been extremely helpful in the peace making arena.
Then there is the vacuum that is the Palestinian "leadership."
The Palestinian Authority is the "Emperor's New Clothes" of
governance. Hamas serves as a defacto government-like institution,
but sadly holds the baggage of being a terrorist organization
that has a peculiar craving for littering streets with destroyed
civilian buses and charred children.
These problems are mere semantics in the face of negotiating
Jerusalem, the granddaddy of divisive issues. But that's another
story for another day. For now, the outcome of the al-Aqsa
Intifada is that hundreds of Israelis and thousands of Palestinians
that were alive during the Camp David II negotiations are
now dead because of its failure.
The new reality is that the Oslo peace process is as now
as dead as the dismembered Palestinian and Israeli children
who flood both peoples' streets. Oslo's death means the idea
of a two-state solution is buried with it. With its funeral
should come a reappraisal of goals by both camps. Both peoples
desire, and deserve, independence and peace. But the lesson
of Oslo may be that these goals are not compatible. Ehud Barak
offered the best deal any Israeli Prime Minister is going
to offer, yet he did not move far enough to satisfy the Palestinians'
desire for a just solution to this conflict.
It may be that the only way out of the current state of
affairs is through a democratic binational state that unites
greater Israel. The logistics of constructing and implementing
such an entity would be maddening, yet there may be no alternative.
How can two peoples with such deep-rooted contempt for one
another ever live as a single nation?
For a model I offer the example of Switzerland. Yes, you
did read the name Switzerland. This may sound silly on the
surface, considering that the Swiss comprise a nation that
enjoys both peace and order, two attributes that are painfully
absent in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. However,
there are a few important similarities. Take into account
that Switzerland is approximately 41,000 km has a population
of nearly 6 million, just like Israel. Additionally, the two
nations have similar systems of military mobilization and
reserve service.
Switzerland was born through an extensive period of war
that lasted hundreds of years. They have a highly diverse
population that, like Israel, has 3 national languages. They
come from diverse backgrounds as well. According the 2002
CIA World Fact Book, 65% of the Swiss people are German, 18%
are French, 10% are Italian, 1% is Romansch, and another 6%
are listed as "other." To further complicate things, the same
source states that 46.1% are Roman Catholic, another 40% Protestant,
8.9% are Atheist and 5% belong to another religious affiliation.
In order to effectively deal with their diversity, the Swiss
constructed a strong and effective form of Federalism. They
have a system of 26 cantons that have full sovereignty, their
own constitution as well as legislature. These cantons are
able to achieve a satisfactory level of effectiveness through
local control and the system runs fairly smoothly.
Were Israel to annex the occupied territories and create
a binational federation of cantons that takes into effect
the variety of ethnicities, it might look something like this.
The nation would have a reasonably even split between Jews
and Muslims, with a small Christian minority. There also would
be a nationality division between Israelis, Palestinians,
Druze, and Bedouin. A strong Federal system could take this
diversity into account and perhaps make it manageable.
The dream of a Jewish state is very reasonable following
the horrible fate of 6 million Jews during the 1940's. Some
Jewish people wanted to control their own destinies so that
an event like the Holocaust would never occur again. But have
they been successful in preventing the meaningless death of
Jews? The body bags that lined the streets of Haifa filled
with the Jewish children killed when Egged bus No. 37 blew
up on March 5, 2003 illustrate that Jews are no safer in their
assessorial homeland than they have been anywhere else throughout
their troubled history.
The Palestinians' desire to return to their homeland is
reasonable as well. After all, they had been living there
until they were removed from their homes, some forcibly, by
a foreign and permanently occupying army. The country is littered
with evidence of their residence in the forms of mosques,
churches, and the more than 1,000,000 people that remains
citizens of Israel. There are millions of Palestinian refugees
that were displaced as a result of Israel's 1948 drive toward
statehood. A number of these people and their descendents
are living under curfew in refugee camps, while holding onto
the keys for their apartments in Haifa, Nazareth, and Jerusalem.
The Israelis cannot grant this right because the end goal
of Zionism is a Jewish majority. The influx of millions of
non-Jewish Arabs would cause a demographic unbalance that
would destroy the current Jewish majority. There are roughly
5 million Jewish citizens in Israel today, and 1.2 million
non-Jewish citizens, most of whom are Muslim. Any increase
in its Palestinian population takes away from Israel's interests
of maintaining a Jewish majority.
There are essentially two conceivable alternatives. The
first is the two-state solution, which, due to the strategic
placement of settlements, incredible birth rate disparities,
and an ever-failing sense of compromise, looks less and less
likely everyday. It may still come to be, but it is almost
inconceivable at the moment. If Mr. Bush's "roadmap" is implemented
to its utmost potential, they will only be as close as they
were in the summer of 2000 at Camp David. The same "redlines"
will be drawn in the sand.
The second alternative is the status quo. This entails the
continued Israeli occupation and suppression of the West Bank
and Gaza Strip, leading to Palestinian militancy and suicide
attacks against scores of innocent civilians, in turn causing
Israeli over-retaliation and continued occupation of these
territories. It is a cycle that has no conceivable end besides
complete annihilation.
The notion of a binational state is, at the moment, a pipe
dream. Then again, so are hopes for peace. The essence of
what both parties are looking for is a just end to the conflict
that brings territorial autonomy and a cessation of bloodshed.
Jerusalem could be a united capital to be enjoyed by everyone.
Refugees could return to their homes. Jews could live in peace
on their ancestral homeland, with a good degree of self rule.
This idea may be the only true roadmap that doesn't end in
an overabundance of funerals.


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Connie Schultz, a Pulitzer prize-winning columnist and wife of Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, posted an E-mail exchange between herself and an unnamed, unwitting conservative blogger to her Facebook page Tuesday night.
The blogger emailed Schultz on July 9 to say, smugly: "Dear Ms. Shultz, We are doing an expose on journalists in the elite media who socialize with elected officials they are assigned to cover. We have found numerous photos of you with Sen. Sherrod Brown. In one of them, you appear to be hugging him. Care to comment?"
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Schultz, of course, is married to Brown. She wrote back a day later: "Dear Mr. [Name Deleted]: I am surprised you did not find a photo of me kissing U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown so hard he passes out from lack of oxygen. He's really cute. He's also my husband. You know that, right?"
A week has passed, but Schultz says she's received no response from the blogger. "Waiting, I'm waiting...." the columnist wrote on her Facebook page Tuesday.
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#FridayFlashback – No Doubt's 'Just a Girl' Official Music Video
Last week for #FridayFlashback I share the music video for Blind Melon's "No Rain." This week, it's all about girl power with No Doubt's "Just a Girl."
Before Taylor Swift was singing about her break-ups and before we had Pink to bring out our inner tough-girl (think "You and Your Hand" and "Blow Me") there was One, and her name is Gwen Stefani. She is/was the front-woman for No Doubt, and she is the queen of angsty-relationship-gone-wrong songs! I was in a Sophomore in high school (see my yearbook photo) when No Doubt dropped "Just a Girl," and I fell in love! I always enjoyed how un-afraid Gwen Stefani was to be different – to not be the typical girly-girl. She was the epitome of glam and punk all rolled into one!
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Long ago, the Internet was just a tool used by people to find out information, talk to old friends, and play games. But lately, it has turned into a war zone.
On the Internet nowadays, a person can do almost anything. They can sing the praises of that pathetic cyber-terrorism group that has the sole hobby of being trolls and attacking the wealthy, the successful, and the happy percentage of the population--Anonymous. They can personally attack a woman who poses no threat to them, a woman with a couple horrific medical conditions, a woman who was and always will be stronger, braver, smarter, and more sane than the attacker could ever hope to be--a woman such as Patricia Nicklaus. Heck, a person can easily create a false e-mail address and a second and also false Newsvine account.
What some people fail to realize, however, is that there is a barrier between real life and the Internet. Some people perceive the Internet in such a way that they wholeheartedly believe the person they are attacking is their next door neighbor. However, this perception is a false sense of security. But why should that matter to them? They'll probably never meet the person anyway.
Sometimes, I even want to meet the person who attacked Pat N over the Internet face to face.
I do not like using the Vine to send messages to people. After all, the purpose of the Vine is to discuss news and put information out to the public. Stuff like that. Not for carrying out personal grudges.
However, my message is a clear one: Please end this game. It is not helping you, and in the end, Karma will come back to haunt you. What goes around comes around. In the end, nothing is gained except for the slight swelling of an injured ego. Nothing is gained at all. Those words and those posts...eventually time will just erase them all and they will be worth less than nothing, which is what they are worth right now. So what's the point of doing all this? Is it fun? Is that all life has to offer on your end of the screen?
I don't believe for a second that life can be so dull as to create a hobby out of attacking somebody you have never seen. I believe the person who attacked her can still turn over a new leaf and see the beauty in life, and be grateful for other human beings despite all of our little flaws. I believe the person who attacked her isn't an evil person, but rather a lost and lonely person trying to find a friend but has no idea how to do so.
I believe you can actually be a good person, if you really tried.
So enough of this war. Right now, there are more important things to think about. Right now, there is a life to live. So please, go live life away from holding a grudge against a woman you will never meet. It will only accomplish nothing.
I've put my sword back in the sheathe. Please don't prove to me that I am the only mature person in this so called "game." After all...do you live in Real Life, or have you been hopelessly sucked into Internet Life?


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The way Utah selects candidates for state and federal office is perhaps the most undemocratic nominating process in the United States. That's why a public-spirited group is launching what promises to be a long and difficult attempt to change the system.
The powers that be have made the initiative process even more difficult than it used to be, requiring more signatures in a narrower time frame. But it is an effort that everyone who cares about good government in Utah should get behind.
As it stands, ballot slots belonging to the Republican and Democratic parties in November elections are filled by a caucus-and-convention system that gives virtually all power to a handful of party activists. The amount of time and energy necessary to truly participate in the process will only be found in a very small portion of the populace, predictably those with extreme ideological agendas, either right or left.
Because the Republican Party is so dominant in Utah, and because that party's nominees are chosen by a small cadre of ideological purists, our office-holders often are, or pretend to be, far to the right of even Utah's conservative mainstream.
The situation was so bad that, for the 2012 election cycle, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints openly encouraged a wider participation, canceling any church-related activities that might conflict with either party's caucus night.
A group of Utah Republicans who are hardly strangers to the political system, including former Gov. Michael Leavitt, openly worries about the effect the process has had. They are particularly stung that the convention system ended the careers of such generally popular Republican office-holders as former Sen. Bob Bennett and former Gov. Olene Walker.
So the idea hit upon by a group that is about to begin circulating an initiative petition around the state is to make true primary elections part of the process.
Each party could still have its caucuses and its conventions, with that elite corps of activists still naming the candidate they would prefer to carry their party's standard. But the new system would allow any candidate who could gather sufficient signatures on a petition to use that route to a slot on a primary election ballot, squaring off against the convention's choice in an election open to all voters who are registered as affiliated with that party.
Such a process would include tens of thousands more Utah voters, boosting the fortunes of candidates who, as legislators, would be much more likely to open up the legislative process, put an end to secret caucuses and be less brazen about gerrymandering congressional and legislative districts.
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M. Marengo Barolo Brunate 2007
Nebbiolo from Barolo, Piedmont, Italy
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Garnet red. Typical, fruity, black cherries, dried rose, spicy notes. Dry, warm, full-bodied, soft, clean, sweet and well-integrated tannins, quite persistent.
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James Suckling - "What a nose to this wine. Wonderful aromas of fresh strawberries, flowers and sandalwood. Full body, with ultra-fine tannins and a beautiful balance of acidity and fruit. This is a clean, focused and chic wine. Hard not to drink now but will be better in 2013."
International Wine Cellar - "Moderately saturated medium red. Sexy red fruits, dried rose, brown spices and a hint of menthol. Velvety, ripe and deep, with bright acidity framing the flavors of red berries and spices. Wonderful Brunate perfume accentuated by the vibrancy of the vintage. Finishes fine-grained, subtle and very long, with noble tannins. Offers great early appeal but this has the balance for a slow and positive evolution in bottle."
The Wine Advocate - "The 2007 Barolo Brunate comes across as somewhat clenched and inexpressive in this vintage, while at the same showing less vineyard character than is typically the case. The 2007 is a reticent Brunate that only reveals its personality over a long period of time. I miss the delineation and nuance that informs the finest vintages yet there is enough perfume and inner sweetness to make me think the wine will find its balance with further bottle age. Anticipated maturity: 2015-2027.
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Marengo is one of the smallest estates in La Morra, but Marco Marengo has no inferiority complex. Marengo is privileged to be among the many more famous names who own vineyards in the "Brunate" cru, an immaculately positioned parcel of land that is considered to be one of the grand crus of the Langhe. The estate makes tiny quantities of modern-style Barolo from old vines in their tiny cellar on La Morra's main street; in great years, these particularly well-balanced, ample, intense, tannic wines hint at truffles; they are perfectly rich and complete Baroli. 1999 is the third release of the Barolo "Bricco Viole", from a tiny cru in the Barolo township named for the violets that bloom there in springtime; the 1998 was rated 92 pts by the Wine Spectator. Elio Altare once told Marco that Marengo's vineyards were the "finest he had ever seen!" The slopes around Brunate are also particularly noted for superb Dolcetto View all M. Marengo Wines
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If Carl Sandburg crafted his ode to Chicago today, he might replace "stacker of wheat" with "developer of real estate." But it's hard to imagine him busting out the symphony of beats, breaks, songs and sound effects that Yuri Lane weaves together in his new one-man, multicharacter beatbox play, "Soundtrack City Chicago."
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AL-QAEDA fanatics are plotting a deadly cyanide poison attack on the London
Olympics, a Sun investigation has found.
Extremists on a website with links to the terror group have posted detailed
instructions on how to cause carnage at this summer's Games.
The chilling online plot was uncovered as two convicted al-Qaeda terrorists
were released early from jail and put back on the streets ahead of the
And the specific nature of the "cyanide slaughter" web posts suggest
they should be taken seriously by the security services.
An extremist who called himself Abu Hija Ansari said the poison should be
mixed with a handcream that would enable it to be absorbed through the skin.
He wrote in Arabic: "Through skin: 1 — cyanide, 2 — skin cream. Mix the
ingredients. The skin cream will open the pores in the skin and speed up the
absorption and effectiveness of the poison."
He said plotters should wear "medical gloves" when producing the lethal
A second extremist said on the website: "It is a good idea and you need to
plan well."
She added chillingly under a logo of the 2012 Games: "It's time to prepare for
the event, as once again they are interfering with innocent Muslims."
Our investigator used a false identity to access the website which has 17,000
members worldwide and known links to six al—Qaeda terrorists.
He said: "There is a contingent using this site who want to strike at the
Games. The explicit nature of what is being said would indicate more than
just sabre-rattling but a wish to do real harm to the event and the people
at it."
Tory MP Bernard Jenkin, chairman of the all-party homeland security group,
said: "I hope the individuals are identified so action can be taken. Those
who believe there is no terrorist threat are living in cloud cuckoo land."
Britain's security services are on high alert to counter any attack on the
Olympics, which start on July 27 in the main stadium.
They will not be helped by the early release of fanatics Nabeel Hussain and
Tariq al-Daour.
Hussain, 28, was given eight years in 2009 for being part of a plot to bomb 19
jets flying from Heathrow to America. Al-Daour, 26, got ten years after he
was found guilty of inciting murder online in 2007. They have both been
freed to London bail hostels.
Their release boosts to more than 100 the number of convicted terrorists
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Manchester United's Robin Van Persie out up to six weeks with sprained knee
Manchester United striker Robin van Persie will miss up to six weeks after suffering a sprained knee against Olympiacos, the club announced.
He was carried off on a stretcher after scoring a hat-trick during United's 3-0 victory over Olympiacos.
Van Persie was originally supposed to miss one game -- Saturday's game against West Ham -- but will now also miss the team's Champions League double header against Bayern Munich in addition to several Premier League matches.
Van Persie missed about three months of action earlier in the season with a thigh injury.
"We're getting Robin re-scanned again today,"manager David Moyes said, via the Daily Mail. "We're just not quite conclusive on everything we've seen yet. We want to just check that out and be sure. He won't be available for (Saturday's) game (against West Ham). But we'll try to give you some update when we can on the outcome of it."CREDITOR: Champions League draw: Bayern, Real Madrid, PSG, Barca avoid each other in quarters


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African American voters want Congress to enact legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, even if it means higher energy bills, a just-released survey by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies has found.
The Washington-based think tank, which tracks voting trends in the black community, also found that African American voters are following this year's congressional races closely and plan to vote in large numbers.
The findings are the result of a survey conducted during the last three weeks of November. The Joint Center contacted 500 African American adults in each of
four states: Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri, and South Carolina. President Obama got sky-high approval ratings from black voters in all four states.
Large majorities of African Americans in all four states said they are willing to pay an extra $10 per month for electricity to combat global warming, the survey found. But the numbers drop off sharply if the hypothetical energy bills rise: Only about one in six of those surveyed said they would be willing to pay as much as $50 extra a month to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
While a majority of African Americans in all four states believe global warming is a problem, the Joint Center survey found a generation gap when it comes to Congress' proposed solution: Older black voters opposed the "cap and trade" system proposed in a House-passed bill. It would require companies that exceed government-set levels of greenhouse gas emissions to pay fines or buy credits from other companies. The youngest black voters -- those under 25 -- supported the plan.
The black voters surveyed said they are likely to vote in the fall midterm elections, a forecast that could bode well for Democrats running in some key Senate races. African Americans gave high marks to Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln, a top GOP target this year, and to Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, running against Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., to take the place of retiring Sen. Kit Bond, a Republican.
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Catalina Camia leads the OnPolitics online community and has been at USA TODAY since 2005. She has been a reporter or editor covering politics and Congress for two decades, including stints at The Dallas Morning News and Congressional Quarterly. Follow her at @USATOnPolitics.
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Justin Martin is coming into town tonight with fellow Dirtybird artist Claude VonStroke, kicking off an insane night and fabulous weekend with DJ ESP (aka Woody McBride), Jonn Hawley and more. Page down to see what else is on this weekend's Dance Card.
City Hall will be on fire tonight with the heat of the feet on the dance floor for Dirtybird impresarios Claude Von Stroke and Justin Martin (the latter of whom just released Ghettoes and Gardens). And when two Dirtybird artists play together, things are bound to get wild. (9 p.m., 18+, $17-$25)
Electric Pony is bringing Woody McBride (aka DJ ESP) back to the Appaloosa Grill tonight for some old-school goodness; Sound Advice, Garret and Greg Campbell will also provide tunes. There will be drink specials (including a late-night happy hour), a VJ and live spray art. (9 p.m., 21+, $5-$10 suggested donation)
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Martin Roth's minimal sounds will fill the main floor at Beta on Saturday night, accompanied by Funhouse residents, of course. (9 p.m., 18+, $10)
On Saturday night at NORAD, Boogie Boutique (a collaboration among Colorado House Community and Spellbound Music) hosts Tony Rodelli's birthday party with guest Jonn Hawley, Ejay and Rodelli himself. (9 p.m., 21+)
Still going late on Saturday night? Pitch Black hosts nightwalkers Hipp-E, Greg Eversoul, Bones and special guest (and aforementioned birthday boy) Tony Rodelli, too. Keep posted on the Facebook page for details. (1 a.m., 21+)
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- The word "AIDS" was seen on screen in the temporal database scene as part of Bush's State of the Union speech. --Jörg 20:35, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
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Here's an interview I did with Jaison Abel from the Federal Reserve Bank... his research shows a college education is still worth the expense.
And then there was reaction... like this from Dave.
The gentleman talking about college costs on your show was trying to put lipstick on a pig. Compared to ten years ago the cost of college is going up but the value of the education is going down; that's a negative any way you put it. The only "positive" is relative to the value of a high school education, which is dropping even faster. The real problem is that our government gives money to ANYBODY to go to college, often ruining their lives for years to come, or forever. The only winners are the universities, who get richer and still keep raising their costs, because the students, via the government, via the taxpayer, will continue to pay. And OSU still has the nerve to have students call me and ask for money because I graduated from there. I always say no and try to educate the student caller. It's all just ridiculous. The only fix is to make students qualify for a college loan, just like you have to qualify for a mortgage.


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Brooke Burke and David Charvet continued their St. Barts vacation with a day at the beach alongside their kids yesterday. The family getaway has turned into a celebration since Brooke Burke and David Charvet got married in an intimate ceremony on a boat in the Caribbean on Friday. Brooke wore a dress by Mark Zunino and had the help of stylist Justin Ducoty in planning her wedding look. Brooke and David were engaged for five years before finally tying the knot in front of their children. Brooke flaunted her newlywed glow and diamond band on the sand following the nuptials, while David got shirtless again to pose for pictures and play in the waves.


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Trent Bridge is on course to host a sold out Ashes Test in July 2013.
More than 22,000 tickets were sold in the first six hours of general sale today with unprecedented demand registered online where a peak of 9500 users logged on to the official ticket page simultaneously.
"We have a great tradition of selling out Test matches at Trent Bridge and we are extremely pleased to have handled so many transactions in a single day," said Nottinghamshire Chief Executive Lisa Pursehouse.
"We wish to thank all of the ticket buyers for their patience in waiting in line to have their call answered or to get through to our online sales page.
"Our system prioritises those who have been in the queue for the longest and we have processed more transactions today than ever before.
"We have set a new record for the number of tickets sold in a single day and that is testament to the passion of England fans in the East Midlands and the dedication of our ticket office staff."
Tickets for days one (Wednesday 10 July), two (Thursday 11 July), three (Friday 12 July) and four (Saturday 13 July) are now sold out although there is still good availability for day 5 (Sunday 14 July) .
Nottinghamshire members had enjoyed a two-week priority window to secure their preferred seats ahead of the general sale. The planned in-person general sale release scheduled for Monday 22 October is unlikely to feature much availability.
"There is a tremendous sense of anticipation for Nottinghamshire's Ashes Test and we are delighted that so many supporters will share in the experience," said Lisa.
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(CNSNews.com) - Two airlines "down under" are under fire after acknowledging their policy of not allowing an unaccompanied child passenger to sit next to a man.
The policy emerged when a New Zealand man said he was asked by airline staff to move because an unaccompanied minor had been assigned the seat next to him.
Mark Worsley was told to swap seats with a woman sitting nearby, who then moved into the seat next to the boy, about eight years old, for the 80-minute flight.
"I was pretty shocked -- I think most people would be," the 37-year-old shipping manager and father of two said Tuesday.
"I complied straight away and moved seats. But as I sat on the plane during the flight I got more and more angry about it."
Part of the problem, Worsley said, was that the plane was full. When the flight attendant arranged the seat swap, "certainly there was enough disruption that people in the immediate vicinity would have heard what was going on. I felt totally embarrassed."
He had later confronted the airline staff, who confirmed the company policy.
Worsley said someone asked him after the event why he had not simply refused to move. "But these days you can't really do that. With [fears of] terrorism, if you cause any fuss on the plane you're out walking."
"Most males in the world, I'm sure, are perfectly law-abiding, good parents, good fathers, brothers, whatever," he said. "They're basically accusing half the population of the world of being a potential pedophile."
Worsley had been traveling on a flight operated by Qantas, the Australian national carrier. Both Qantas and Air New Zealand have now confirmed that they would not seat a child traveling alone next to an adult male passenger.
Worsley came forward following the recent decision by New Zealand's opposition National Party to name one of its lawmakers, Wayne Mapp, as a spokesman on eradicating "political correctness."
Mapp, whose appointment to the post drew ridicule from the left, has invited New Zealanders to come forward with information about practices they perceive to be "PC," primarily those carried out by the Labor government.
Worsley was one of those who had approached him.
Mapp said the airline policy implied that children were not safe sitting next to men.
He found rare common ground with a left-leaning lawmaker, Keith Locke of the Green Party, who said Tuesday that airlines should recognize that "men are people too."
Decrying what he called "the moral panic about men being a potential threat to children," Locke said it was "prejudicial to presume that men can't be trusted to have contact with children unless they are related to them or are specially trained."
He said the incident clearly is a breach of New Zealand's Human Rights Act -- which prohibits discrimination on the grounds of gender -- and he asked a government human rights commissioner to investigate.
Some of the Green Party's policies occasionally have been labeled "politically correct" by conservative critics.
Locke said he was glad the National Party's "PC eradicator" had come out against the airline policy, but he argued that it was wrong to call it political correctness.
"The anti-PC brigade usually criticize what they see as an overemphasis on equal rights, including between the genders. The Greens are sometimes the target of their attacks, so I'm glad to see them supporting equal rights in this case," he said.
The airlines did win support from one quarter. Children's Commissioner Cindy Kiro, a government appointee, commended Qantas and Air New Zealand for their efforts to keep child passengers safe.
Kiro said she doubted the policy was meant as a slur against men.
But her intervention drew a strong response from the Men's Coalition, whose spokesman Kerry Bevin said Tuesday the commissioner was not fit for her post and should resign.
"Kiro is telling our children that men are dangerous to children," Bevin charged. He also called for the airlines to make a public apology.
For Worsley, the incident was part of a far broader problem, which seemed to affect Western countries in general, he said.
"Men are being demonized in the media for a long time now. I think probably this is just society's reaction -- they think, 'We'd better start tightening up on everything.' It's getting to the stage when all men are viewed with distrust," he said.
"They've already chased men out of the teaching profession, especially for young children. I wouldn't want to be a Scoutmaster now. I wouldn't want to be a Catholic priest ..."
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Off topic a bit, but yesterday David Stern called into Dan Patrick's show on ESPN. The discussion centered around the Suns/Spurs game....
Patrick "This series is going to be decided by Robert Horry's Hip Check on Steve Nash."
Stern "No.. this series is going to be decided by two Phoenix Suns who broke the rules."
Today on Mike and Mike, Dan Patrick brought up a good point...Why is there regular season basketball and Playoff basketball? Why is there a difference in the interpretation and enforcement of the rules during Playoff basketball?
Were the suspensions just?
I thought the same thing after hearing Lebron on sportscenter. WHen a family member is sick and you have to miss a game like Derrick Fisher, that's when you say "this is just a game, family is more important."
You don't say it when you're trying to act like a loss doesn't matter to you. For the money he's being paid, and for the fans that came out to see that game... it damn well better bother you that you lost.
The suspensions were by the rules, but the rule is ridiculous.
The Spurs got rewarded for Horry's dirty play, and the Suns players didn't even retaliate. A lot of times in sports, it's the second guy that gets caught. In baseball, it's the second pitcher to bean someone who gets suspended, in football it's the second guy to take a swing at someone that gets the flag.
In this case, Stoudemire and Diaw got up off the bench, but they didn't even get over to Horry, they didn't throw a punch, they didn't shove anyone. What if they jumped up to go see if Nash was OK? Would they be suspended for that? I guess David Stern's answer is yes.
To answer Dan Patrick's question, NBA playoff games are played differently (a greater percentage of the players actually care, so the games are more physical) so they have to be officiated differently. We can't have Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobli fouling out, now can we?
Bleed Green,
You hit the nail on the head. Things like this drive me crazy coming from athletes, especially "superstars" another example is Tiki Barber announcing his retirement at the beginning of the year, then using the entire Giants season as PR campaign to land a broadcasting job.
Do these guys even realize that there are fans out there who REALLY CARE if they win or lose? Fans who spend hundreds of dollars, sometimes thousands just to see them play? I guess they realize it, they just don't care.
I think LeBron is more likely to become the next Vince Carter than the next Michael Jordan.
What bothered me is that the rules are loosely interpreted for everything else BUT the leaving the bench rule. Like you said...what if Stoudemire left the bench to check on Nash? Did he deserved to be thrown out? Meanwhile Bowen knees Nash in the nuts and trips him, yet that's overlooked!
Charles Barkley had the right attitude... he said on Mike and Mike that if he were a Sun, he's set an illegal pick and foul Tony Parker into the second row. Players policing themselves... it happens in every sport. Refs shouldn't determine the game with calls, plain and simple.
As for LeBron, remember he's still 22. While it was a boneheaded and careless comment and he should care more of the outcome, he may be tentative at his age in stepping forward and being a leader. Let's see if he steps it up a notch and earns his pay with his play the next game.
Yeah i was big on Lebron when he came into the league because it looked like he wanted to dominate everyone. Now that he has all this money and wants to be the richest athlete in the world it seems as if he doesn't care about the sport anymore. He rarely takes it to the hole and relies on his pull up 3 pointer which he shoots at a crappy clip. I don't even know who to root for in the nba playoffs. Either the Suns or Jazz I guess. Luckily on Tuesday the 22nd the NBA will pull the sixers card and they will have the number one pick. Here is my new sixers lineup after draft. Nothing to do with free agency.
PG-Andre Miller, L. Williams
SG-Marco Belinelli or Rudy Fernandez/Green (but hopefully not Green)
SF-Iggy, Korver
"When a family member is sick and you have to miss a game like Derrick Fisher, that's when you say "this is just a game, family is more important."
Well, for those who didn't know, LeBron's pregnant girlfriend was taking out of the game in the 3rd quarter in a stretcher. So maybe James was putting this game in the proper context, okay? I'm not James fan, but he's right - it is just basketball. Sorry if he doesn't use metaphors like "war", "battle" and the such, to make it seem like it's much bigger than it is. Then, of course, you can shoot him down for not appreciating what real war is about....
But I agree with Brian that LBJ is likely to become the next Vince Carter than Jordan.
As for the suspensions: obviously they were just, except for Horry's (which was tacked on to appease the angry Suns' fan base). The rule is pretty clear, and has always been black and white in enforcement; if you are dumb enough to get off that bench, you know the outcome is an automatic suspension. Ask Pat Ewing.
As for the rule itself: yeah, it could be more flexible, but I don't see how. Making it a judgment call instead of a black and white thing opens it up to second guessing. The point of the rule is to prevent incidents from getting out of hand... and it works. That "altercation" the other day was pretty tame, right? But if Amare wonders over, and someone cracks him in the face, well... you got a real black eye on the league there. People need to stop whiny about this rule. Amare and Diaw know better, and they f*cked up....
I hadn't heard about his girlfriend being taken out on a stretcher, although it kinda makes me wonder (a) why he was upbeat after losing the playoff game AND having his pregnant girlfriend in some kind of distress and (b) what the hell was he doing there and not at the hospital? I doubt David Stern would've levied a fine for skipping the interviews if there was a medical emergency, but you never know, that rule may be black and white too.
As for the rule, it's debatable whether Amare and Diaw knew it, but the coaches definitely did. It just happened too quickly, and too close for anyone to stop them. By the letter of the law, yes they should've been suspended. It's just such a shame that a dirty play (and poor decisions, I'll give you that) decided this series.
The league still makes it a judgement call. Bowen and Duncan go on the court after a tangle up which could have lead to an altercation. To say it wasn't an altercation and you can't suspend someone for that is dumb. Also what constitutes the bench? Where does the bench end? I saw like one of Amare's legs even touch the court and will have to watch it again to see if Diaw's foot hits the playing court. Also why only two games for throwing an elbow/forearm. After watching UFC i'd rather get hit with a fist then an elbow.
I really didn't care who won this series. Now i'm pulling for the Suns and hopefully the league will smarten up because every year the talent and the fan base drops off. This from a kid who loves hoops.
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WOW... the more that comes out about LeBron, the bigger a jerk he now seems. If hearing about his pregnant GF isn't enough, here's another one...
Little used Cavs PF Ira Newbie drafted a letter to the Chinese government protesting the killings in Darfur. China is hosting the 2008 Olympics, and the letter calls on NBA players to boycott the US team until the Chinese government stops the killings. Ten of the Cavs signed it, but LeBron and Damon Jones both refused given their ties to Nike.
I was wrong to defend LeBron for his age. At 22, you know right from wrong, and when your mere signature would make a difference and you won't bother to help, that makes you, LBJ, a first-class ASS. It's all about the money, and you'll never be the next Jordan, just the highest paid mercenary.
Hold it right there. I don't believe for a second that Damon Jones has ties to Nike. That guy is horrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Walking home one evening; it was summertime, so I'd say it looked more of a late afternoon. The sun was at its peak and cast its orangey glow over its subjects. I make my way casually to the tatty council flat in which I called "home".
When I get there, I expect to see youths in hoodies and on bikes surrounding the entrance, hitting strangers with glares with their harsh eyes and the loud yet distorted sounding ruckus they created. However, it was empty. I figured this was a good thing, as they always caused trouble around the estate anyways. But that was of another matter.
I skim the top of my pocket to get my key, but then notice the door was half open. I figured somebody could have just forgotten to close it properly, so I head into the flat regardless. I shut the heavy metal door behind me. On cue, as the heavy door shuts with a magnificent slam which fills the dirty grey corridor to the brim, blackout. There I was, in pitch darkness.
I reached into my pocket to get my phone, so I could use it as a source of light. It was just perhaps another power cut; power cuts happen pretty often in the flat as it's so old, so the electrics must be wearing thin. As I shone the light down the narrow corridor, I see a corpse which had all three layers of skin torn from it with precision, nailed to the wall upside down, crucifixion style.
In reaction to this, I fell to the floor and let out a piercing scream, with tears trailing out of my eyes and my heart pounding against my rib cage. At the point, the power had flickered on. In addition to the shock of seeing the skinned corpse, I notice the whole corridor was filled with corpses of all different shapes and sizes. The corpses belonged to males, females, children, even babies. All of them had been through the same unsettling fate as the first I saw. Skinned and nailed. They covered the grey walls, which were no longer grey, but in fact painted blood. I rose from that spot from the floor and ran down the corridor to the exit of the building, crying heavily uncontrollably.
I began to feel inside that the further I ran towards the door I ran, the further away I became. But I managed to overcome this and reached the door. I stabbed the button to release the door repeatedly and intensely, yet no matter what, it remained bolted shut. "Hello? I'm stuck! Help!"
I screamed and screamed relentlessly, hoping somebody would help, but obviously nobody could hear my screams, as the streets were empty. I tried to break the door down, slamming my whole body against it with all my strength, not caring that my muscles ached. All efforts fail. I needed a break; time to breathe and collect myself.
Although, it was hard to breath with the sickening stench of blood that contaminated the air. I try dialling the police, no signal. I scourged around trying to find signal. In the distance, I hear faint music playing… it sounded like some sort of nursery rhyme playing on one of those children's toys. The music becomes more distinguishable over time; I hear slow, evenly paced footsteps.
Mary had a little lamb; that's the nursery rhyme. However, it was a slow, perverse and fuzzy sounding version from what I knew. The footsteps became more amplified with every step; the person is heading for me. Out of fear, I retried opening the door, throwing all my fear and strength at it. I feel heat against me; it belongs to him, it even.
I turned around to look upon the person whom may bear the task of ridding me of my life, but of course I could be exaggerating when I say that. My eyes scanned his face, of which he didn't have. He had no flesh. He was a skeleton. A fire burned ferociously in his empty sockets, blood flowed from every opening. He wore a pitch rugged velvet hooded cloak that covered as area of his body, apart from his "skull". Tension built up in my throat, and then collapsed, making me release a piercing scream. He grabbed my neck with immense force and strangled me.
I choked on my breath. Whilst I felt all life being forced out of me, the lights flickered on and off repeatedly. When the lights turned back on and stable, he let go. He was nowhere in sight. I panted heavily and the door swung open. The stench had disappeared.
The corpses were no longer there when I looked down the hallway, behind me, the streets where filled with pedestrians and traffic, the hooded youths where outside going along with their daily routine of screaming and chaotic sounding conversations. Within a few moments everything was back to normal again. Yet the red imprint of the skeletons hand was still visible and embossed in my neck. I couldn't tell anybody of this. Nobody would believe me. I have no evidence other than the mark on my neck, which probably fade once anybody saw it. Only a story to tell.
That night I lay in my bed, staring at the ceiling. I didn't feel safe here. If I fall asleep, something might happen. I still continually question myself how I built up courage to even sleep in the same building in which all the grim events took place only a few hours ago… I look out the window. Light shines through the shutters of the blinds, right in my eyes. My eyes water and squint to prevent excessive light blinding me. I see a dark figure a familiar looking red fiery glow present in its eyes. I felt as if the figure was looking over me. I don't feel safe, because I'm not.


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There is a wide range of ways to get support for your development efforts – which of course, leads to a wide range of confusion. Here's a summary of support options, and a description of why you might not be able to get there…
FREE – Adobe support forumsThis page is the index to the Adobe support forums, and includes developer support areas for products. You'll find "Illustrator SDK", "InDesign SDK", "InCopy Scripting" and others. Questions posted in these areas will be viewed by other developers, and they may even post an answer. Adobe developer support engineers browse this area, but probably won't answer any questions. Look out! Please don't use this area to discuss confidential issues such as pre-release SDK's.
MEMBERSHIP – Official discussion of support optionsThis is a useful page with direct links into Formal Developer Support. You'll need an ASN (Adobe Solutions Network) membership, and once you have a login and password, you will be able to see "Submit your Support Case Online."After you submit your case, you will receive a tracking number that looks something like "DCN345678." This indicates that you successfully submitted a case, and it is in the queue. If you didn't receive a "DCN" number, then you weren't successful – either the system wasn't working correctly, or the internet communication was broken.If you received a number that looks like "KMM7215413I6774L0KM" then you have written to ASN contract support (probably via email@example.com). ASN is helpful, but this particular group cannot help you with technical questions.Click here to see a registered developer logonIf your logon screen doesn't look like the above popup, here might be some reasons:
- "I don't see any of the options when I log on!" – This is a screenshot of a web membershipBefore you can enroll in a registered ASN membership, you need to have a web membership. These are free, and don't provide you with access to any of the benefits of an ASN membership. To get access to developer support, you'll need to enroll in an ASN membership.
- "I can see the options – but when I try to submit a support case, it says I don't have any cases available." – This is either because you have a basic membership, or your premium membership is out of cases. In either case, you'll need to buy a support case. Contact ASN
PRE-RELEASE AREA – If you were in one of the product testing cycles, you were given access to the pre-release site. This is a great place to post questions about pre-release software – but a bad place to post support questions about products that have already been released. Likewise, if you filed a support case as a bug, you may be waiting a long time for an answer. Any time-critical questions should be sent in as a support question using the ASN website as described above.
PHONE – We rarely set up phone conferences. In the few instances we have done them, we first insist that developers have submitted support cases via the online site, and we have exhausted that method of discussion.
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ModernMom.com (full page article here) has a great write up from a couple of parents and their children that took a tour of the pawn shop recently.
The World Famous Gold & SIlver Pawn Shop
Visiting the Pawn Stars in Las Vegas, Nevada is a real treat. Besides the obvious cool factor of visiting the set of a working television show, you get chance to take a stroll through history. It's almost like shopping in a museum, every little bit of history that you see is yours to take home… for the right price.
In 2011, we were first introduced to the Pawn Stars show by Andy's parents. They raved about the show and how interesting it was. Our first reaction was, why would anyone want to watch a show about a pawn shop?
We reluctantly watched an episode, hoping it wouldn't be too painful. How wrong we were! It was the episode where someone asked about the infamous, "Death Clock." Rick Harrison came on the screen and explained that so much mercury was used in the making of the clock that the person making it would have died, but not before going mad from the lethal exposure. We were hooked, but then sad that the 30-minute show was over. The History Channel had apparently anticipated our disappointment and aired another episode immediately after. History usually plays 4 to 8 episodes per week (check your local listings for time/date) so your DVR will never be wanting for something to record.
Besides the history lesson, you also learn about what it takes to run a business. As Rick, Mr. H (The Old Man), Cory (Big Hoss) and Chumlee negotiate sellers down from their lofty prices, they frequently remind us they can't pay retail because they have rent, payroll, electricity and all the other bills it takes to keep their business running.
If you've watched the show at all you know that Rick and his father Richard Sr. started the shop in 1981 as a Gold and Silver Store and in 1988 it changed to the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop. It's called the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop because the Mr. H loves, well, gold and silver. Cory has been hanging around the shop since he was a kid and eventually went to work there full time in 2003. Chumlee, Cory's best friend since grade school, soon followed in 2004. But it wasn't until Rick decided to take the shop on the aire that things really took off. Today they employ 49 people and do more business than all the other Las Vegas pawn shops combined.
Naturally, we were excited when we got our invitation to have a VIP tour of the store and a chance to meet the cast. Our trip started Sunday as we pulled out of our home in Toluca Lake, CA. Kennedy had decided to chronicle the entire trip in her notebook. She also took notes during the tour and asked her best reporter questions to our tour guide. On Monday morning, we were met up with Pawn Stars publicist, Laura Herlavich, who introduced us to our tour guide Andy Spyer. Andy also serves as their chief of security, but he takes time off his busy schedule to escort the special guests around the shop and probably to make sure we stay out of the restricted areas.
As we stepped into the back area we ran immediately into Chumlee and Mr. Harrison Sr. After a quick photo op, Andy took us around the shop showing us some if the more interesting items. We saw a medal from the Civil War, swords, antique guns, canned water from the Cold War and a Navy issue copper dive knife. Kennedy chimed in with exactly the question you're thinking about. Why would the Navy make a dive knife out of copper? Answer, copper isn't magnetic and it comes in handy if you need to pull a magnetic mine off the hull of your ship. Of course, why didn't we think of that? It makes perfect sense. There were also a few more… "modern" items for sale too. Alex made sure he got a gold plated NASCAR model – just because it's a racecar and cool, not because he really knows who the driver is! What's not to love?
Andy Spyer explains the history of some items in the shop
"Just my size," says Bella as she tries on the most expensive item in the shop.
Alex with one of the less historical items in the shop
Continuing on, we were amazed how item after item came with it's own little history lesson.
Andy explained,
Rick Harrison, the shop's co-owner, insists that it's not enough to know what something is: you have to know the who, where, when, why and how in order to understand it's value.
Some items were obvious, like the diamond encrusted Patriots Super Bowl ring (currently the most expensive item in the shop valued at over $100,000 dollars), while others required more understanding. Regardless of what it was, Andy was able to tell us everything you'd want to know.
After we finished looking around the shop we headed to the best part of the tour, the warehouse.
Walking through the warehouse at The Pawn Stars
Like the Louvre, the real show is in the back – because what's on the shelves is only a fraction of what they have that's for sale right now. What lay in the back is the result of the shop's combined 1,000 sales and pawns each and every week.
We saw uniforms from every conflict since the Civil War, a personal hovercraft, (yes, the one we all watched Chumlee play with on the show), beautiful watches, an ornate dowry chest from India and one heck of beautiful vintage 1916 Buick. Sorry folks, this one belongs to the Old Man. Some of it you can read about on their website at http://www.gspawn.com.
When we were done, it was back the front and time to say thank you and goodbye. The kids autographed a copy of our book and presented it to Andy, which he really appreciated. Andy had been a special education teacher back east for years before returning to security work.
Each of the kids signed a copy of our book for our tour guide Andy
As we left, the shop we noticed just how long the line had gotten. Yes, there is a line – at a pawn shop – to even get in the door. Don't let it turn you off, it moves very quickly, and it's not like an amusement park where you get to the front and the ride breaks down. We guarantee that everyone you speak to will be ready to tell you all about any little trinket you pick up. Now, we are hooked on the show – and honestly, so are most of our co-workers in the entertainment industry. Go on any film set and we are talking about what happened on the show last week.
We'll leave you with a story of the final episode we watched with Andy's parents that first day. A woman came in to the shop to sell her father's WWII bomber jacket. The lady explained that she had no kids and no one to pass it down to so she wanted someone to be able to buy it and appreciate it. This pawn shop was something special. It was a place we can pass along our treasures to someone who will appreciate them, we know they appreciate them because they are willing to spend their hard earned money on them. To us that's a better prospect than winding up in a landfill. This was a fantastic experience for our kids – usually autism kind of prevents them from focusing too long on over-stimulating things. Not here! They absolutely loved history they could see and touch – and let's be honest – so were we. Although on the minus side, it does get rather expensive by the time the kids are finished. No, Bella didn't get her one hundred thousand dollar ring, Kennedy didn't get the samurai sword and Alex did not get a classic Buick. Me first.But it sure was nice to have a look around.
Melissa and Andrew Areffi, authors of the new book "Navigating Autism: The Essential How-To By Parents For Parents", have been married 16 years and have three children. The Los Angeles-based Areffis are both professionals in the entertainment industry: Melissa as a location manager/scout; and Andrew in project development. Together, they're a feature-film writing team. They wrote "Navigating Autism" because they could not find a book to guide them when daughter Kennedy (10) was diagnosed with autism in 2005. They were still struggling to get assistance when Alex (9) was diagnosed on the spectrum in 2006 and Bella (7) in 2008. The Areffis decided to write their own "how-to" book to make it easier and quicker for other parents to find their way through the medical and educational systems.