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Steve Grossman on Welfare & Poverty
Former Chair of DNC; Democratic Challenger MA Governor
This is a complex problem that will require a significant commitment and a lot of creativity to address. Steve believes we must start by strongly supporting successful programs, such as the state's affordable housing trust fund and low-income housing tax credit.
Our governor's reply is, "A hot economy comes at a price.. The free market got us into this situation, and it will be the free market that gets us out of it."
An imaginative strategy might include the market-based initiatives supported by a coalition of business, civic and religious leaders: a state tax credit for developers of affordable housing, mirroring the federal credit; an increase in funding for the "soft second" mortgage program; enabling communities to set aside tax proceeds for housing programs; and refinancing and renegotiating terms on expiring subsidized housing projects.
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MA Gubernatorial:
Bill Weld
Charlie Baker
Dan Wolf
Deval Patrick
Don Berwick
Karyn Polito
Martha Coakley
Marty Walsh
Richard Tisei
Tom Menino
Warren Tolman
MA Senatorial:
Brian Herr
Bruce Skarin
Ed Markey
Elizabeth Warren
Gabriel Gomez
John Kerry
Martha Coakley
Mo Cowan
Gubernatorial Debates 2014:
AL: Bentley(R) vs.Griffith(D)
AR: Ross(D) vs.Hutchinson(R) vs.Griffin(R,Lt.Gov.)
AZ: Ducey(R) vs.DuVal(D) vs.Mealer(AE) vs.Gilbert(L) vs.
CA: Brown(D) vs.Kashkari(R)
CO: Hickenlooper(D) vs.Beauprez(R) vs.
CT: Malloy(D) vs.Foley(R) vs.Walker(R,Lt.Gov.)
FL: Scott(R) vs.Crist(D) vs.Snitker(L,Lt.Gov.)
GA: Deal(R) vs.Carter(D) vs.Hunt(L)
HI: Ige(D) vs.Aiona(R) vs.
IA: Branstad(R) vs.Hatch(D) vs.
MA: Coakley(D) vs.Baker(R) &Polito(R,Lt.Gov.) vs.
ME: LePage(R) vs.Michaud(D) vs.Cutler(I)
MI: Snyder(R) vs.Schauer(D)
NM: Martinez(R) vs.King(D)
NY: Cuomo(D) &Hochul(D,Lt.Gov.) vs.Astorino(R) vs.Hawkins(G) vs.
OK: Fallin(R) vs.Dorman(D)
PA: Corbett(R) vs.Wolf(D) vs.
Newly-elected 2014:
AK-I: Bill Walker
AR-R: Asa Hutchinson
AZ-R: Doug Ducey
IL-R: Bruce Rauner
MA-R: Charlie Baker
MD-R: Larry Hogan
NE-R: Pete Ricketts
PA-D: Tom Wolf
RI-D: Gina Raimondo
TX-R: Greg Abbott
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AK-R: Sean Parnell
AL-R: Robert Bentley
CA-D: Jerry Brown
CO-D: John Hickenlooper
CT-D: Dan Malloy
FL-R: Rick Scott
GA-R: Nathan Deal
HI-D: Neil Abercrombie
IA-R: Terry Branstad
ID-R: Butch Otter
IL-D: Pat Quinn
KS-R: Sam Brownback
ME-R: Paul LePage
MI-R: Rick Snyder
MN-D: Mark Dayton
NH-D: Maggie Hassan
NM-R: Susana Martinez
NV-R: Brian Sandoval
NY-D: Andrew Cuomo
OH-R: John Kasich
OK-R: Mary Fallin
OR-D: John Kitzhaber
PA-R: Tom Corbett
SC-R: Nikki Haley
SD-R: Dennis Daugaard
TN-R: Bill Haslam
VT-D: Peter Shumlin
WI-R: Scott Walker
WY-R: Matt Mead
Civil Rights
Foreign Policy
Free Trade
Govt. Reform
Gun Control
Health Care
Homeland Security
Local Issues
Social Security
Tax Reform
Term-Limited or Retiring 2014:
AR-D: Mike Beebe
AZ-R: Jan Brewer
MA-D: Deval Patrick
MD-D: Martin O'Malley
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Middle-aged men -- Fiction.
Personal space -- Fiction.
Social interaction -- Fiction.
Dinners and dining -- Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Greenwich (London, England)
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At a dinner party in the posh London suburb of Greenwich, Miles Garth suddenly leaves the table midway through the meal, locks himself in an upstairs room, and refuses to leave. An eclectic group of neighbors and friends slowly gathers around the house, and Miles' story is told from the points of view of four of them: Anna, a woman in her forties; Mark, a man in his sixties; May, a woman in her eighties; and a ten-year-old named Brooke. The thing is, none of these people knows Miles more than slightly. How much is it possible for us to know about a stranger? And what are the consequences of even the most casual, fleeting moments we share every day with one another?
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This collection contains tracings, linens, and blueprints of the landscape architectural firm that was important in shaping Houston's public image. Hare and Hare worked with Houston's Parks Department and City Planning Department which resulted in this collection containing plans for most of the city's parks including Memorial Park and Hermann Park. Plans for the proposed 1928 civic center are included. Also included are plans for the improvements along Buffalo Bayou from 1914-1949. The collection reflects the firm's work in school landscaping including plans for the University of Houston, Texas Southern University, and various public schools in the Houston area. While acting as private landscaping consultants, Hare and Hare executed plans for several landmark Houston residences and plat plans for several subdivisions. This primary source of information would be of particular interest to scholars of urban history, architectural history, and landscape history.
This collection is arranged alphabetically behind major headings: Parks, Private Residences, Public Buildings, Schools, Subdivisions, and Miscellaneous.
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As other Bomber athletes and their families gathered along with friends, teammates, coaches and media, James and his fellow classmates entered with the smiles you'd expect from young people getting ready to commit to their future.
Following all the pomp and circumstance, family keepsakes (photos) were taken with family and coaches. It is this moment that is etched into my mind as I think back to all of the times I spoke with Matt James during his high school career.
On that day Matt James was set free and allowed to declare his passion to play and attend Notre Dame.
The recruiting process was over and now questions would be only about his future in South Bend and the Irish football program. But what made Matt so special was he was looking at far more than Saturdays inside a stadium with so much history.
Notre Dame was where Matt felt like he belonged. As a man-child standing 6-6 and over 290-pounds, Matt had gotten use to eyes following him. Now, just like at St. Xavier High School, Matt found a place to be himself and relax.
Yes, football would still be there, but Matt knew Notre Dame would allow him a chance to be the same person he'd become while in high school, a humble caring person who had a sense of humor but also a sense of what really was important in life.
While those who got the chance to read about Matt James on the many recruiting websites that followed him, Matt knew their thirst for the latest news on him was over.
All was right with the world for Matt James that day.
As news spread on Friday night that we lost Matt at such a young age, I sat at my computer looking for the words to express the many thoughts going through my head. As a father of four we never prepare ourselves for such terrible news. But there I was sitting and staring at several photos I'd taken over the past few years.
When I got to the file of photos from the last time I saw Matt my heart pained and the tears fell. There was Matt sitting at a table just two months ago with his mother standing over one shoulder and his coach the other.
While this photo became the one I continued to look at, I found my hands frozen unable to type out anything that made sense.
Friday, we learned how vulnerable life is. A person full of life with such a bright future was taken from us way too soon.
For me, the past three years gave me a chance to know Matt James on a personal level. I watched Matt just like I've watched the many young athletes I've covered over the years grow from a shy, reserved child to a self confident man. For that I'm grateful. I was given a chance to know a young man full of life who was getting comfortable in his own skin.
By this past season Matt had gotten to understand people had questions about his college future. And while he spoke with members of the media he also never allowed the recruiting frenzy to take him away from his teammates, family or friends. Matt loved being a St. X Bomber and knew he'd never get these moments after a win or loss back. It was here those who paid attention learned about the real Matt James.
After home games Matt would be walking around the field from interview to interview as small children raced to talk with him. While others in his shoes would pay small attention Matt knew many of these kids would soon be walking the same halls that he loved at St. Xavier. He gave them quality time in those moments and the kids loved it.
While his loss comes as a complete shock to me and the many that had the chance to know Matt, each of us will remember Matt not as a football player, but as a human being.
While some may look at Matt's passing as a tremendous loss to the Notre Dame Football program, I know the real loss is for what Matt would have done on campus as a member of the Notre Dame student body. Matt was a special person who just happened to be built to play football at the highest amateur level it can be played at.
Saturday I spoke with several coaches who recruited Matt over the past couple of years. Their hearts were broken with the news as they also felt the game of football loss a player of such promise. But each of them also spoke about the loss of the person and not the athlete.
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Miroslav Volf, Professor at Yale, on the dedication page of his new book — Allah: A Christian Response, says this:
To my father, a Pentecostal minister who admired Muslims, and taught me as a boy that they worship the same God as we do.
Volf's quest is to build a theological basis for peaceful co-existence and peaceful cooperation among Muslims and Christians, and his quest is to contend that the God of the Christians and the God of the Muslims is the "same" God. What he means by "same" is not "identical" but "sufficient similarity."
What about evangelism? mission? proselytism? How can we evangelize Muslims? Anyone have some wisdom from experience?
He begins by examining minarets in non-Muslim majority countries, which makes Christians nervous, and church steeples in majority Muslim countries, which makes Muslims nervous. They symbolize colonialism and dominance and persuasion and the presence of that which threatens. What can we do?
It begins by dispelling prejudice. Volf is at his best in discussing prejudice, as he is one of the world's best scholars in this subject. Prejudices are born of ignorance, self-absorption, resentment and fear. His proposal is his famous one: we need "double vision." The ability to see ourselves from the angle of others. But Volf develops this into seven people present in a conversation between Christians and Muslims. I and present, you are present, my view of myself and your view of yourself, my view of you and your view of me, and the One, True God.
This leads him to construct how Muslims — not all but many — see Western Christians:
They see it as war by another means. The fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 unleashed the end of the crusades, decolonization after WWII, support of secularizing leaders in Muslim countries, proppping up Israel, and globalization … all these are war by another means. Christian mission is therefore war.
Of course, the whole story can be reversed on how Christians perceive Muslims. I was talking to a man the other day, a businessman I bumped into when I was reading Volf's book, and he said it, "They're out to kill us."
Volf proposes a Common Code of Conduct in missions:
1. Witness to others only if you are willing to be witnessed to by them.
2. Witness in a way you would want them to witness to you.
3. Coercion is always wrong.
4. Bribery and seduction are wrong.
5. Don't compare our best with their worst. [This is what I tried to do with the man I met; he would have none of it. All Muslims were terrorists to him.]
His final section advocates collaboration in common projects to help the poor.


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Threefifty.ca re-launchedNov 8, 2012 by Yuriy Sklyar
Today we are re-launching our company website – a long overdue update that brings all-new content, more work samples and a better optimized website.
Canonbie's website goes live!Nov 5, 2012 by Yuriy Sklyar
Very excited about this one. We tried to give the website a less corporate/industrial look, which would be more inviting and engaging. Visit the website here: www.canonbie.com
San Francisco Business ExpansionAug 27, 2012 by Yuriy Sklyar
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If you've been following us for a while, you probably know that our prolonged absence/silence can mean only one thing: big things are on the horizon. Well, this couldn't be any more true in this case. Some of the things that will be happening within next few months:


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Anne Coxon, Ph.D., will present a seminar on "The Impact of Methamphetamine Laboratories in New Zealand" on Tuesday at noon in Dunlap Auditorium. The seminar is free and open to the public.
Methamphetamine is the only illegal stimulant commonly manufactured in New Zealand. The presentation will provide insight in the development of the methamphetamine problem in New Zealand and the prevalence of clandestine drug laboratories manufacturing the drug. The risks these laboratories pose to society and the environment will be presented, along with a review of current legislation and controls.
Coxon is a researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Research Mt. Albert Science Center in Auckland, New Zealand. She has been employed in the Drugs and Clandestine Laboratories Teams at ESR since 1994 and has taken a lead role in the establishment and development of clandestine laboratory response in New Zealand.
Lynette Dittus, director of the Eugene Field Elementary Foundation, will present an information session on the Eugene Field Mentor/Lunch Buddy Program on Wednesday at 2 p.m. in D-007.
"The program pairs a volunteer with a student for a 30-minute lunch period once a week," said Bria Taylor, who coordinates OSU-CHS activities with Eugene Field. "The goal is to give the students positive adult interactions and 30 minutes a week can make a huge difference in their lives."
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But Williams, originally from Lytham St Annes, is keen to stress that reports of an imminent takeover are incorrect.
"We are at the very, very early stages of any kind of process," Williams told the Lancashire Evening Telegraph.
"The whole thing about a deal being imminent and a price being agreed just isn't the case."
Williams is fronting a consortium interested in taking over at Ewood Park and has been involved in the proposal since March.
"A guy I know was looking at Premier League clubs that might be for sale and Blackburn came up, so that's when I became interested," added the 30-year-old.
"However, when he later pulled out, I remained interested and I've since got other people interested in coming on board."
But he ruled out making sweeping changes to a club that has finished in the top half of the Premiership the last two seasons.
Williams added: "The people who are already running Blackburn seem to be doing a damn good job of it.
"The notion that we would come into the club with no other football experience other than being fans and be chairman, chief executive officer and vice chairman is nonsensical.
"If we bought the club then we wouldn't be putting (Roman) Abramovich money into it, but we would make funds available.
"The way you make a club valuable is by getting it in the top seven and Europe every year.
"The one thing I think it's important to stress is there would be no debt going on the club as part of this deal.
"I will be putting a significant amount of money into funding it, but it won't be the whole £50m.
"The institutions we have who are interested in doing this deal are very, very large investment institutions.
"You don't make an investment in a Premiership club without being willing to dig into your pockets and make money available to ensure the club does well."
He follows the fortunes of Rovers from the United States and attended three Blackburn games last season, including the FA Cup semi-final defeat by Chelsea in April.
But he added of the talks with Blackburn that they are "very much at the conversational stage at the moment".
He insisted: "We've had a very good dialogue with chairman John Williams and his vice-chairman David Brown but a lot of what has been written is exceptionally premature.
"I certainly haven't seen anything in the way of due diligence and we haven't formally made an approach."
Rovers chairman John Williams admitted on 13 June that talks had taken place with a potential investor.
"We've made some progress with a third party but it is very difficult because of all of the formalities involved," he said.
US investors are currently clamouring for a piece of lucrative Premiership action following the respective takeovers of Manchester United, Liverpool and Aston Villa and also the interest in the likes of Arsenal and Manchester City.
Any potential deal at Ewood Park hinges on whether the trustees of the late Jack Walker, the former owner and chairman, approve the sale.


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Virtual Debate tonight
GREEN CANDIDATE for GOVERNOR WILL"DEBATE" - REAL TIME, ONLINE
Iowa Green Party candidate for governor Wendy Barth will take part -
virtually - even if not present in person for tonight's gubernatorial
debate sponsored by KCRG-TV.
Iowa's debate sponsors have held with the 15% rule - if a candidate is
polling 15% or more, they will be invited to take part in the major
debates. However, Barth notes that, "without the same kinds of
financial resources the major party candidates have, it's 'virtually'
impossible for third party candidates to achieve enough awareness
among the general public to gain 15% in the polls."
It's a good thing access to the internet is less cost-prohibitive.
The former software engineer plans to view tonight's debate and answer
the questions by uploading her responses to her campaign website:
The "Debates" page should automatically refresh every 30 seconds, with
the latest - and perhaps the most "refreshing" - responses.
The Virtual Debate was originally created by Iowa Greens in 2002 and
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There's a Daniel Paul Haseltine in Jars of Clay...
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Muslim President: "Shana Tova"
This doesn't happen often.
And by "often," I mean, "never."
The president of a Shi'ite Muslim nation reached out to his country's and the world's Jews to wish them a happy new year, or "shana tova" in Hebrew.
President Ilham Aliyev sent a message of greetings to the Jewish community of Azerbaijan on the Rosh Hashanah holiday (Jewish New Year), then pinged it via e-mail to the rest of the world. The message reads:
We consider ethnic and religious diversity a historical achievement of the modern Azerbaijani society, in which traditional friendship, brotherhood and tolerance among different nations have always reigned.
Guaranteeing human rights and freedoms for everybody – irrespective of their language, religion and ethnicity – is one of the key priorities of our policy aimed at ensuring stability, peace and civil solidarity.
The independent State of Azerbaijan have always attached a particular emphasis to this issue and necessary democratic and legal basis had been created in the country to ensure that all national minorities, including the Jewish community, safeguard their national and cultural originality and traditions and develop their language and culture.
It is with great pleasure that I would like to note that our Jewish citizens are actively involved in the socio-political life of our country and the process of building democratic statehood.
Dear friends,
The Rosh Hashanah is a holiday of renewal, repentance and moral purity. May this dear day bring good news, joy and happiness to you and your families."
It's possible that other Muslim rulers went through the motions of wishing their Jews a happy holiday. But what makes Aliyev's pronouncement so meaningful is he seems to mean it. Azerbeijan is a small nation with a history of tolerance and an active engegemnt with israel and world Jewry. As I wrote in a column several years ago:
It is a majority Shi'ite country—70 percent Sh'ite, the rest mostly Sunni. It is a democratic secular state whose religious and ethnic minorities are embraced. Azerbaijan gave women the right to vote in 1919—one year before the United States did.
"My teachers were Jews. My doctors were Jews," [Azerbaijan Consul General] Suleymanov said. "They have lived with us through good and bad times." (Azerbaijan's most famous Jew? Chess grand master Garry Kasparov.)
When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held his Holocaust denial conference earlier this winter, the Azerbaijani television station aired a debate on it featuring Arthur Lenk, Israel's Ambassador to Azerbaijan (yes, the same man who was Israel's deputy consul general in Los Angeles in the mid-'90s).
"He got one full hour," Suleymanov said. "There was a feeling he won the debate."
It's not just about tolerance. One-sixth of Israel's oil supply comes from Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan is an economically thriving, moderate and tolerant majority-Islamic nation with great oil wealth—like the real Kazakhstan, in a way.
Of course, Azerbaijan is small—8 million people to Iran's 75 million. But Azeris, the ethnic group that makes up the majority of Azerbaijanis, account for some 20 million Iranians. Mullahs who have tried to gain traction for fundamentalist teachings in Baku have met with little success, and Azeris in Iran have had a liberalizing influence.
This is no shallow PR effort. The Jewish Journal's contributor Gabriel Lerner traveled to Azerbaijan in 2008 and reported on a country where coexistence is a centuries-old value.
"Not unlike the Jews of Sefarad (Spain) during the First Caliphate," Lerner writes, "Azerbaijan's Jewry is interwoven into the fabric of this state, which emerged in August 1991 from the Soviet Union. And despite their minuscule numbers—maybe 12,000 in a population of 8 million—their presence is known and acknowledged…"
So, President Aliyev: Shana Tova right back at you. A year of peace for Muslims and Jews in Azerbaijan, and everywhere else too.


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Android Gaming Consoles
Mashable has a roundup of Android gaming consoles. I have to admit that I was surprised to find out that there are five of them available already. Five? Wow. Who'd have thought we'd even have one?
What's the appeal of the Android console? As developers create games more prolifically and cheaply for mobile phones, hardware manufacturers seek to bridge the gap between mobile and living room. Android-powered platforms could turn these mobile titles into games with longer shelf-lives, accessible from the comfort of the couch. They could also unlock the eager indie developer community, which is eager to reach more players.
Android also offers an easy, open platform to build upon, as we've seen from the plethora of 'droid-friendly phones and tablets. While more popular and profitable games are iOS exclusives, Apple's walled garden means third parties can't access its ecosystem. Ultimately, console fragmentation may soon resemble the Android phone and tablet markets, as games must be modified to work with external controllers for every console.More at Mashable
Here are the models listed in Mashable's roundup:
Green Throttle
Nvdia's Shield
Who's the Market for Android Consoles?
Yes, I'm somewhat of a cynic on Android console gaming. We already have popular consoles from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. Who is going to buy an Android gaming console instead of an Xbox, Playstation or Nintendo system? How many consumers even know that Android consoles are available in the first place?
You have to figure that most serious gamers already have an XBox, Playstation or Nintendo system. So why would they shell out money for new hardware just to play mobile games on their TVs? I can't see the market for these things.
Cost of Android Consoles versus Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo
The cost of these consoles seems to run from $49 to $299. I suppose there's a cost advantage here for some of them compared to what Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo offer. But let's remember that these cheaper Android console products seem to be offering mobile games and not games designed for a large screen TV.
Is the cost difference enough to lure gamers away from the big three? I doubt it.
Mobile Gaming Experience on TVs
If you're a serious gamer, I doubt very much that you'll enjoy playing a mobile game on your TV. Mobile games are...well...they are designed for mobile devices. Sure, they can be very enjoyable. I have some on my mobile devices.
But do they stand up well to consoles games that were designed to run on more powerful hardware, and designed to be displayed on an HDTV screen? I can't really see these mobile games cutting it for serious gamers. The experience just isn't going to be the same.
How many serious gamers will keep on buying games for Android gaming consoles once the initial novelty wears off? I can see game sales plunging once the boredom factor sets in and the mobile-experience-on-a-TV becomes tedious.
Buying Games Twice?
Another issue that comes up here is duplicate game purchases. If you already own a game on an Android mobile device, are you going to want to pay for it again on a home console system?
From what I read in the article, some games will have to be tweaked to run on these Android consoles. But will those changes add enough value to get somebody to buy the same game twice, for two different Android devices?
I suppose it might be worth it if the console version had spruced up graphics and other value adds. If not then people will be paying twice to play the same game, just on a larger screen.


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Epsom and St Helier hospitals welcomed more than a dozen New Year babies.
Midwives, doctors and maternity staff delivered 13 babies at the hospitals on the first day of 2013 – a trio of baby boys at Epsom and five boys and five girls at St Helier.
Gina Brockwell, one of the hospital trust's lead midwives, said: "It was a very busy day for everyone on Tuesday and we are absolutely delighted to have helped bring 13 very special people into the world on New Year's Day.
"Having a baby is always very special for parents and their loved ones, and it's always an honour to be involved in their care and delivery.
"But welcoming a new addition to the family on New Year's Day is a very special way of kicking off the year."
Figures from the trust show that between January and October last year, Epsom and St Helier welcomed 4,539 babies into the world – the busiest 12 months ever for the hospitals' maternity departments.
Ms Brockwell added: "We are incredibly pleased to see more and more people choosing to give birth at our hospitals, and believe these increasing numbers reflect the hard work, dedication and compassion of our staff.
"We help parents-to-be from across the local area, including neighbouring towns such as Croydon and Leatherhead.
"Parents-to-be often hear very positive stories from their friends and family about our services and choose to deliver their babies with our maternity team."


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Gas pricies moving up again.
Eureka: Humboldt County gas prices continue to rise with the average price at $4.14 per gallon.
According to GasBuddy.com, the average price for unleaded in California today is $3.99 per gallon. That's the highest average gas price in California since September of 2013. Typically, prices start creeping up as refineries begin switching to more expensive blends of summer gasoline. The switch often hits California earlier than the rest of the country, which is enjoying an average price of $3.62 per gallon for unleaded fuel.
Authorities are predicting gas prices in California could remain at $4.00 per gallon through much of the summer.


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E-Cigarettes Are Now Banned In Western Australia
Kicking the habit just got a bit trickier in Western Australia, and it's got implications that could affect the rest of the nation. The WA Supreme Court has just ruled that E-Cigarettes - those fancy glowing nicotine vaporisers that are supposedly safe to use indoors - are illegal under the state's Tobacco Products Control Act. The case allegedly sets legal precedent that could flow on to other states and threaten the legal status of the battery powered lung darts.
This particular case has been ongoing since around 2011, and involves the WA Health Department and a gentleman by the name of Vincent Van Heerden, who at the time ran a small business known as HeavenlyVapours.
The products fall afoul of the law because the WA Tobacco Act prohibits the sale of any product that looks like a cigarette, is shaped like a cigarette, produces smoke (or in this case vapour) that resembles that of a cigarette, but isn't actually a cigarette. So whilst the purchase of actual cigarettes remains perfectly legal, purchasing products that look like them, but aren't, is not.
The legislation is in place mainly as a safe guard against marketing smoking to the youth. But the legislation in Western Australia, along with New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria, doesn't necessarily reflect the spirit of that, and takes a hardline against imitation products. The laws in Tasmania, the ACT and the Northern Territory, however, make specific reference to the manufacture of toys, confectionary, or any product directly marketed to children.
This is combined with the fact that nicotine, as a standalone product, is a Schedule 2 drug that is only available through pharmacies.
All research for the benefits of e-cigarettes as a quit aid have returned modest results at best.
So if you're not in Western Australia and have been toying with the idea of purchasing an e-cigarette, now might be the time to do it. Otherwise you may just have to be content to munch regular ciggies - all day, all night ciggies - and run the risk of becoming, as the kids say these days, a ciggy-butt brain.
Photo: Andrew Burton via Getty Images.
via Business Insider.


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Originally Posted by booboo
Having browsed some reviews, it seems that the GPU compute performance (GPGPU applications, CUDA and the like) is significantly worse than a GTX580. I was thinking of upgrading my GTX480, but I need both double prec. GPU compute perf (for CUDA simulations) and a good gaming experience (for me . Anandtech pretty much confirms the sacrifice of GPU compute perf for gaming performance in Kepler. Although they (or someone…can't remember where I say that) hint that there may be a later generational update which adds some back? Also, the drivers could be optimized somewhat more. I'll wait to see what happens….


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January 30, 2013 at 04:45:05 Jan 30, 2013 @ 04:45
So the college i go to is very dull and dead. It'll prolly be better if i networked more with people so i can actually hit up parties. thing is parties are off campus and i dont have a hook up for rides any shit. Im usually an awkward person i never know what to say in conversations w/ girls or even guys. idk how to be more outgoing. and this all leads to my depression. makes me even nt wana do my hw and shit. i know cliche thread


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Selected Community Events
Kids' Free Day
Nov 17, 2012 10:30am - 12pm
Challenger Learning Center
Kids Free Day – Perfect Little Planet: November 17, 2012
On the third Saturday of each month, 10:30 a.m., catch a Chemistry Magic Show presented by members of Alpha Chi Sigma, FSU's professional chemistry fraternity. The show is saturated with cool chemical compounds and exciting explosions that are sure to get a reaction out of kids and adults, alike! After the show children 12 and younger, accompanied by an adult, receive free admission to the 11 a.m. show of Perfect Little Planet in the IMAX Theatre.
Chelsea Bundschuh


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