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A spokeswoman for Duke Energy projects 2:30 this afternoon will the time that all service is restored in the West Union area. A traffic accident that broke a pole late this morning at West Union Road and Old S.C. 28 was one thing, but strands of electric lines left sagging was another. And that's why, according to Duke's Sandra McGee, that it became necessary for the power company to take down the circuit. That resulted in a number of scattered outages that are affecting certain businesses and other customers this afternoon. No one reported hurt in the 11:07 a-m accident of a car and a transfer truck.


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Yeah, and up in such thin atmosphere, it makes sense that the two falling components stayed relatively close to one another until atmospheric drag provided a force to separate them based on drag.

I'm _really_ interested by this tendency to stabilize during descent. ĀPerhaps my mucking around with exotic statically stable supersonic aerodynamics is a bit excessive- but even a basic finned teardrop shape could provide a nice stable camera platform for a hella cool return video, (Say, Flip HD video of the stabilized dive-bomb from burst altitude to 10k, followed by an arduino-based parachute release?)

Just thinking out loud.

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On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Christie Dudley <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:

That next frame also raises an interesting question. ĀDid we stop spinning and oscillating wildly on the descent? ĀIt seems likely, considering the images. ĀThis suggests we omit all theories for the destabilization that don't explicitly include the balloon.

Sounds like descent pics are likely to be, on the whole, better than ascent pics.

Also, thinking on it, it might not be as lucky as you'd think. ĀCorrect me if I'm wrong but if the box stabilized out, it would likely do so with the greatest weight towards the back, which would mean the camera, since not much else was nailed down. ĀSince we're shooting with a wide angle, we'll get quite a lot of area in the shot. ĀIt would seem to me rather probable that we'd manage to get a shot with ourĀdetritusĀin it.

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On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Ozzy Satori <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:

It does appear as though there is some line or rope attached to the balloon fragment, trailing behind it, that line or rope bridges the fragment to the cloud layer below visually, to make it appear as though they're connected. Ā If you look at the next frame, however, you can see the 'vapor trail' is still there (this time clearly attached the the marine layer below), even after the balloon fragement has fallen well out of frame.

One hell of a lucky capture though, in any case.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Christie Dudley <email@example.com> wrote:

That would be... odd. ĀI imagine correction for the fisheye is in order to get a better understanding of the geometry. Ā

The reason I concluded it was an aircraft is it has a rather visible vapor trail. ĀI imagine the balloon very well could leave a trail, but not the shard of the balloon. ĀThe trail seems to be completely aligned with the object, not above as you'd expect for something that is in free fall.Ā

Do you think the trail could be powder from the interior of the balloon or condensation on the rapidly expanded helium? ĀIt would have to be something generated or released rather slowly after the burst, due to the alignment and trail that appears to be just over the clouds.

But you're right, it does kind of neatly follow the line that our balloon took. ĀCurious.

Did anyone happen to take any calibration images so the fisheye could be corrected? ĀI'd really love to see that image cleaned up and enhanced.

Christie
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Mikolaj Habryn <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:

 I think we just got even more remarkably lucky.

 Our best guess for the burst time of the balloon, based on
 accelerometer data, is 17:02:05. This picture is time-stamped
 17:02:54, however I set the clock on the camera by hand the day
 before, and only to the nearest minute. I think we managed to capture
 a shard of the balloon flying off into the distance seconds after the
 burst.

 m.

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 > What kind of aircraft do you think that is? ĀIt's so small to make out.
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NASA downplayed Wednesday talk of a major discovery by its Martian rover after remarks by the mission chief raised hopes it may have unearthed evidence life once existed on the Red Planet.
Excitement is building over soon-to-be-released results from NASA's Curiosity rover, which is three months into a two-year mission to determine if Mars has ever been capable of supporting microbial life.
Its Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instruments have been sending back information as it hunts for compounds such as methane, as well as hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, that would mean life could once have existed there.
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"People's lives are at stake. We should pay several hundred million dollars and design a system that would prevent a collision, rather than sit and wait for it to happen and kill hundreds of thousands of people," Perminov says, according to RIA Novosti news agency.
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# 87 - MILITARY - SBP-DIC Offset No Longer Applies If Remarriage Occurs at Age 57 or Older
© Lawrence D. Gorin, Attorney at Law, Beaverton, Oregon
or a slap in the face to widows who choose not to remarry?
For qualifying and eligible surviving spouses of deceased military servicemembers and retirees, there are two principal long-term financial benefit programs offered through the federal government.
First, the Department of Defense administers the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP), which is a government-subsidized insurance plan that provides a deceased servicemember's or retiree's qualifying surviving spouse with a monthly annuity payment, commencing upon the death of the servicemember or retiree. SBP coverage is provided at no cost to all servicemembers while on active duty. Upon retirement, the servicemember may "elect" to continue SBP participation, with the retiree's portion of the premium cost then being paid by way of a reduced monthly retirement benefit during the retiree's lifetime. Upon the retiree's death, a monthly annuity, the maximum amount being 55% of the amount of retired pay, is then paid to the retiree's surviving spouse.
Second, the Department of Veterans Affairs (the VA) administers a program, funded entirely by the government, that provides monthly Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) payments for the surviving spouse of a servicemember in the event the servicemember dies as a result of service-connected causes as well as for the surviving spouse of a retiree if the retiree's death is due to injury or disease contracted while on active duty.
While each program is independent of the other and each is administrated by a different agency (SBP by the Department of Defense; DIC by the Department of Veterans Affairs), there are several situations in which eligibility for benefits under one program may affect eligibility under the other.
Eligibility restrictions based on age and marital status
Prior to January 1, 2004, eligibility of a deceased veteran's surviving spouse to receive benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs under the VA's Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) program was suspended in the event of the surviving spouse's remarriage, regardless of age at time of remarriage (but subject to reinstatementif the remarriage ended in death or divorce).
Concerned about the "marriage penalty," at least for "older" women, Congress changed the law through the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003, Pub L 108-183. Under the revised law, codified as 38 USC § 103(d)(2)(B), eligibility for receipt of DIC benefits would no longer be lost in the event of the surviving spouse's remarriage, provided, however, that the remarriage occurred at age 57 or thereafter.
But a surviving spouse who is eligible to receive both DIC benefits and SBP annuity payments, often referred to as a "dual-eligible" surviving spouse, suffers an economic set-back in the amount of the SBP benefit if the spouse opts to receive both the DIC benefit as well the SBP payment. Specifically, under 10 USC § 1450(c)(1), the federal law applicable to this class of surviving spouses, DOD is required to reduce ("offset") the amount of the surviving spouse's SBP payment on a dollar-for-dollar basis by the amount of the DIC benefit (regardless of the surviving spouse's age or marital status). Consequently, the dual-eligible spouse is precluded from simultaneously receiving both the DIC benefit as well as the full amount of the SBP payment that would otherwise be payable. In essence, the DIC dollars simply replace the SBP dollars. Of course, there is a tax advantage to receiving DIC dollars in place of SBP dollars, since the SBP dollars are taxable whereas the DIC dollars are not. But the "offset" still results the spouse not receiving the full amount of both benefits to which the spouse would otherwise be eligible.
For example, if a veteran's surviving widow is eligible for receipt of a DIC benefit of $1,195 per month (the basic monthly rate as of December 1, 2011, for eligible surviving spouses of qualifying veterans who died on or after January 1, 1993) and an SBP benefit of $1,500 per month, the SBP payment would be reduced by $1,195 (the amount of the DIC benefit). Thus, instead of receiving a total of $2,695 per month (the full amount both DIC and SBP payments), the surviving spouse would receive only $1,500 (being the $1,195 DIC benefit and a reduced SBP payment of $305).
Change in the law
However, as a result of an August 26, 2009, decision of the US Court of Appeals, DOD has changed its policy. Under the revised policy, the dollar-for-dollar SPB-DIC "offset" no longer applies to surviving spouses who otherwise qualify for both DIC and SBP benefits AND who remarry at age 57 or later. Consequently, for an unremarried eligible surviving spouse whose SBP annuity previously would have been reduced due to receipt of DIC benefits, getting married at age 57 or later now results in a financial reward from DOD -- receipt of both the DIC benefit and the full unreduced SBP benefit -- but only if such spouse remarries at age 57 or older.
In sum, for surviving spouses in this particular group, it literally pays to get married. Indeed, using the DIC payment rate as of December 1, 2011, the eligible surviving spouse who remarries at age 57 or older will be effectively paid $1,195 per month by DOD for doing so.
But the financial reward accorded to dual-eligible surviving spouses who remarry at age 57 or older (and thus retain their DIC benefit and regain their full and unreduced SBP benefit) is not accorded to dual-eligible surviving spouses who choose, perhaps for moral, religious, ethical or other personal reasons, not to remarry and who thus continue to be subjected to the SBP-DIC offset. In effect, the financial boon for the former class (surviving spouses who remarry at age 57 or older) is a financial bust of the latter class (those who choose not to remarry). In practical terms, although the servicemember paid for both benefits (SBP with premiums and DIC with his life), the only way his widow can collect the full amount of both benefits is to remarry at age 57 or thereafter, an act that many widows view as disloyal to their original vows of marriage and to the memory of the deceased spouse. The law that allows this to occur is arguably unfair, unreasonable, illogical and irrational, but nonetheless perfectly legal.
The "rest of the story"........
On August 26, 2009, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in the case of Sharp v. United States, 580 F3d 1234 (DC Cir, 2009), held that the SBP-DIC "offset" as applied by the Department of Defense, effectively reducing SBP benefits for surviving spouses who also qualify for DIC benefits, is in fact not authorized by the controlling congressional enactments, at least not as to otherwise eligible surviving spouses who remarry at age 57 or later.
The lead plaintiff in the case, Patricia Sharp, was the surviving spouse of Brig. Gen. Richard H. Sharp (USA), who died in 1983 while on active duty. At the time of Gen. Sharp's death, he and Mrs. Sharp had been married for 23 years, and she was her husband's designated beneficiary for SBP suviving spouse annuity payments. Mrs. Sharp thus became eligible to receive both SBP benefits and DIC benefits, with the former (SBP) being reduced ("offset") to the extent of the latter (DIC). Subsequently, on November 25, 2000, at the age of 60, Mrs. Sharp remarried. As a result of her remarriage, her continued receipt of DIC benefits was suspended (but she did regain the full amount of her SBP entitlement). This was in accord with the law in effect at the time of her remarriage in 2000 that barred surviving spouses from continued receipt of DIC benefits if and when they remarried, regardless of age at time of remarriage.
But 38 USC § 103(d)(2)(B), the statute that mandated the "DIC marriage penalty" (suspension of DIC eligibility due to remarriage), was amended by Congress through the enactment of the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003, Pub L 108-183. Specifically, section 101(a) of the Act amended 38 USC § 103(d)(2)(B) so as to declare that "The remarriage after age 57 of the surviving spouse of a veteran shall not bar the furnishing of [DIC] benefits * * *."
Further --- and this is the important part --- while section 101(a) of the Veteran Benefits Act of 2003 removed remarriage as a DIC eligibility disqualification factor, at least if the remarriage occurs at age 57 or later, section 101(b) of the Act created a new provision declaring, in essence, that "In the case of an individual who is eligible for dependency and indemnity compensation under this section * * * [and] who is also eligible for benefits under another provision of law by reason of such individual's status as the surviving spouse of a veteran, then, notwithstanding any other provision of law * * *, no reduction in benefits under such other provision of law shall be made by reason of such individual's eligibility for [DIC] benefits." (Emphasis supplied.)
Lastly, section 101(e) of the act included a "grandmother provision" that restored DIC eligibility to those qualifying surviving spouses (such as Mrs. Sharp) who had remarried at age 57 or older prior to December 16, 2003 (the enactment date the new law) and had thereby had their DIC eligibility suspended.
Thus, under the revised law, Mrs. Sharp was entitled to restoration of her eligibility for receipt of DIC benefits from the VA, which is what then occurred. But when that happened, DOD then applied the "SBP-DIC offset" and reduced Mrs. Sharp's SBP benefit by the amount of her restored DIC benefit. DOD's action was taken pursuant to 10 USC § 1450(c)(1), the provision of the SBP law that mandated the dollar-for-dollar reduction of SBP payments for a surviving spouse who is also eligible for DIC benefits. It was DOD's position that 10 USC § 1450(c)(1) was applicable and controlling in Mrs. Sharp's circumstances.
Not being happy with DOD's reduction of her SBP annuity amount, Mrs. Sharp (along with two other similarly situated widows) then sued the government in 2007. According to Mrs. Sharp, the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003, at section 101(a), not only removed remarriage as a DIC eligibility disqualification factor, at least if the remarriage occurs at age 57 or later, but also provided, in section 101(b), that "notwithstanding any other provision of law * * *, no reduction in benefits under such other provision of law shall be made by reason of such individual's eligibility for [DIC] benefits."
Mrs. Sharp correctly pointed out that 10 USC § 1450(c)(1), the provision of law that mandates the dollar-for-dollar offset of the SBP annuity payments for surviving spouses who also qualify for DIC payments, is a "provision of law" that, if applied to surviving spouses in her situation (being eligible for DIC benefits even though remarried at age 57 or older), would result in a reduction of her SBP annuity. Mrs. Sharp argued that the plain language used in section 101(b) of the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003 ("notwithstanding any other provision of law * * *, no reduction in benefits under such other provision of law shall be made by reason of such individual's eligibility for [DIC] benefits") means exactly what it says and effectively bars DOD from reducing her SBP annuity as otherwise required by 10 USC § 1450(c)(1).
Consequently, said Mrs. Sharp, dual-eligible widows who remarry after age 57 are entitled to receive BOTH Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuity payments from DOD and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) benefits from the VA, in full and without any offset between the two.
In response, DOD argued that Congress never intended the law to have the result as advocated by Mrs. Sharp. DOD urged the Court of Appeals to construe the law and determine the intent of Congress by considering the legislative history leading up to the enactment of the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003. The court rejected DOD's "unconvincing argument," noting that the text of 38 USC § 1311(e) is clear and unambiguous. Said the Court of Appeals:
Net result: DOD was ordered by the court to commence acting in conformance with the law as enacted by Congress (which DOD had erroneously not been doing), thereby restoring to Mrs. Sharp the SBP reduction that it had been applying in her case. Mrs. Sharp, having remarried after attaining age 57, was thus allowed to retain her full DIC benefit (notwithstanding her remarriage) and also receive her full and unreduced SBP benefit (notwithstanding her receipt of the DIC benefit).
See entire court decision at:
Follow-up note. Following the court's decision in Sharp v. US, DOD decided not to further appeal the decision. Thus, the SBP-DIC offset that applies to surviving spouses who are eligible for both SBP and DIC benefits will NOT apply to those surviving spouses who remarry at age 57 or thereafter. For that particular group, they will get their full unreduced SBP benefit AND the full DIC benefit. However, surviving spouses who are eligible for both SBP and DIC benefits but who remain unmarried will continue to have their SBP benefit reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis by the amount of the DIC benefit.
See DOD Memorandum for DFAS Director at:
See DFAS webpage explaining the change in the law:
But -- surprise, surprise -- DOD demands repayment
The situation for some "dual-eligible widows" who remarry at age 57 or older (and who thus become entitled to receive both DIC benefits together with full unreduced SBP payments) is not as rosy as may appear at first blush. This is particularly true when the surviving spouse's DIC eligibility stems from the servicemember's death due to service-connected causes following retirement rather than death occurring while on active duty.
For married servicemembers on active duty, DOD automatically provides SBP life insurance for the benefit of the servicemember's spouse at no cost to the servicemember. Upon retirement after 20 or more years of active duty, the servicemember may elect to continue the SBP coverage. To do so, however, DOD requires that the servicemember commence paying for the cost of the insurance coverage, doing so by way of a reduction of the monthly amount of retired pay to which the servicemember would otherwise be entitled to receive.
Thus, during the years of retirement, the amount of the veteran's monthly retired pay is reduced by the cost of the SBP coverage (the premiums). In the event of the retiree's death due to service-connected disability, the surviving spouse will generally become eligible for the DIC benefit as provided by the Veterans Administration, and this would be in addition to the SBP payment from DOD. However, when that occurs, DOD will apply the "SBP-DIC offset," thereby reducing the SBP payment on a dollar-for-dollar basis against the DIC benefit. If the amount of the DIC benefit equals or exceeds the amount of the SBP entitlement, it will result in the total elimination of the SBP entitlement. And when that occurs, DOD refunds to the surviving spouse all of the SBP premium payments that the deceased veteran had previously paid during the veteran's retirement years.
However, under present law, if the surviving spouse who is otherwise eligible for DIC then remarries on or after attaining age 57, the spouse's entitlement to the full SBP annuity will be reinstated without regard of the SBP-DIC "offset" that would otherwise apply. But in order to qualify for the reinstatement of the full SBP annuity following remarriage at age 57 or older, the remarried spouse must repay any SBP premiums that had been previously refunded following commencement of receipt of DIC payments, which often amounts to thousands of dollars. The remarried spouse may repay the premiums in a lump sum or in monthly installments. If the remarried spouse elects to make repayment in installments, DFAS will deduct installment payments from the amount of the reinstated SBP annuity. The deductions will be in the amount of 50% of the DIC amount or 50% of the gross SBP annuity, whichever is less. No interest will accrue until the date of the first readjusted annuity payment. Thereafter, interest accumulates on any unpaid balance until the full amount has been repaid. If the surviving spouse's marriage later terminates by death or divorce, the SBP-DIC offset will again be applied and the SBP annuity will again be reduced by the amount of the DIC, but no refund of SBP premiums will be paid.
More info available at the Air Force Retiree Services website at:
The case of Freda Green of Brooksville, Florida, is illustrative of the dilemma. Upon her Air Force husband's retirement after 33 years of active duty, he elected to provide SBP life insurance coverage for Freda. DOD, through the Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), then commenced deducting the SBP costs (the "premiums" for the insurance coverage) from her husband's monthly military retired pay. Freda's husband subsequently died in 2003 due to service-connected disabilities, resulting in Freda becoming eligible for the DIC benefit as provided by the Veterans Administration. However, the amount of the DIC benefit exceeded the amount of the SBP life insurance benefit to which she was also entitled to receive from DOD. Application of the SBP-DIC offset thus resulted in the total elimination of the SBP benefit to which she would have otherwise been entitled. Since she would not be receiving the SBP benefit (due to the SBP-DIC offset), DFAS then refunded to Freda all of the SBP premiums that her deceased husband had paid throughout his retirement years. DFAS sent Freda a check for $41,000.
See News story re Freda Green in Tampa Bay Times.
After widowed military wife remarries, government asks for $41,000 benefit back
Also see CNN video news story about Freda. (News story follows the commercial)
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In an alley hidden in the heart of Kwun Tong, the future of about 30 small businesses facing redevelopment is up in the air, with owners feeling that they have been deprived of the compensation they deserve.
While hundreds of licensed hawkers and shop owners in the neighbourhood have been promised relocation or cash compensation by the Urban Renewal Authority, the businesses in Yan Shun Lane complain that the URA has forgotten them - even though they are also affected by what is the largest redevelopment project planned by the authority.
Officials said these makeshift shops - which had existed for more than three decades - occupied government land and were therefore not entitled to compensation. But the businesses said the shops were built with their own hands and money.
Leung Kam-hung runs one of the few, if not the only, pigeon shops in the city since he bought the store with his family for HK$200,000 in 1979. The shop, built with bricks and metal sheets, sells pigeons that Leung imports from Europe, with some cross-bred by himself. He has patrons interested in pigeon racing on the mainland.
'I've played with pigeons here since I was 14. Now I'm almost 50. Now this place is going to be cleared and no one has told me what to do. I feel really lost.' He said he would prefer continuing his business in another place rather than receiving cash.
According to the shopkeepers in the lane, the cluster was formed in the 1960s and '70s, when hawkers dotted the streets in Kwun Tong as well as the rest of the city.
The government then cracked down on hawkers to improve streetscapes. Some vendors escaping the raids moved into this back alley and built makeshift shops.
While other hawkers moved into two government-designated marketplaces nearby, the people in Yan Shun Lane were not granted hawker licences, since they were not regarded as mobile vendors.
But officials, tending to see them as squatters, tolerated them for years, until a redevelopment plan came up.
Now these 30 businesses have become an unresolved problem for the renewal project.
The URA project has to relocate 1,788 families and will yield 2,000 new flats by 2019. The URA has so far acquired 88 per cent of property ownerships in the redevelopment area.
While those on the two government marketplaces will be relocated to a bazaar in the future development, which was a URA initiative to preserve local character, the Yan Shun Lane stalls will be excluded.
Lau Chun-mui, 83, who has runs his one-man hair salon in Yan Shun Lane since the 1970s, said: 'I know from the news there have been court cases in which a person has the right to stay on a piece of land if the owner has not used it for a long time. Don't think I'm stupid.'
A URA spokesman said it had not offered compensation for Yan Shun Lane businesses as they were occupants without legal status.
'We are in discussions with the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department and Lands Department in the hope of finding a solution for the businesses,' he said, adding that there would be no clearance action in the lane for the time being.
Nelson Chan Wah-yu, leading an urban-renewal task force under the Kwun Tong District Council, said people in Yan Shun Lane had all their living tied to the place and the URA should take care of them.


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Mike Stefanik came out on top of a fast and crazy Titan Roof 150 at Bristol Motor Speedway on Wednesday evening to win his 74th career NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour race. Stefanik, who started in 18th, passed Todd Szegedy when Szegedy got loose late in the race and then held him off in a green-white-checkered finish.
"This is just a fantastic day for our team," the 55-year-old Stefanik said in victory lane. "Todd Szegedy ran me really clean and hard. I'm just elated."
The race was a combination race between the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour which runs in the northeast and the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour which runs in the southeast. A Southern driver has never won the combination race at Bristol and that continued as the highest finisher for the Southern Tour was Burt Myers in ninth. Myers was credited with a Southern Tour win which was the second of the 2013 season for him.
Donny Lia set a new track record in qualifying to start on the pole. Bryon Chew started alongside in second and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Ryan Newman started in 19th.
The first caution flew on lap 2 as there were two spins of drivers working lap 1. Rowan Pennink spun with a flat tire in Turn 1 and Geroge Brunnhoelzl III spun off Turn 4.
Lia led the field back to green on lap 7 and still led a few laps later when the second caution came out when Eric Goodale got into Bryon Chew in Turn 2 in a battle for fourth. Chew slammed the outside wall and Doug Coby hit the back of Goodale and Chew to sustain damage. Andy Seuss also spun in the aftermath. Chew finished in last place which was 36th. Coby finished in 23rd and Seuss and Goodale remained in contention. Todd Szegedy had a flat tire and pitted to make a change which put him to the back after he started in fifth.
The race restarted on lap 18 this time with Lia and Ryan Preece pulling away from the rest of the field. The third caution came out on lap 31 when JR Bertuccio got into Ed Flemke off Turn 2 and then lost control and spun up into the path of Jason Myers and Rowan Pennink where they slammed into him and the outside wall of the backstretch. Pennink finished 33rd, Jason Myers 34th, and Bertuccio 35th.
Lia still led for the lap 41 restart. Ryan Newman worked his way up to fourth on lap 55 and was behind Lia, Preece, and Justin Bonsignore who has separated themselves from Newman's battle.
The fourth caution flew on lap 75 for the midway break in the scheduled 150 lap race. The race went back green with the running order staying the same. Donny Lia once again pulled away and looked dominant. The fifth caution then came out on lap 86 when Tim Brown spun off of Turn 2, he finished in 16th.
The race then took a dramatic turn when on the lap 92 restart Justin Bonsignore got into the back off Lia who was bringing the field to the green slow. The two cars locked together and spun before even getting to the start-finish line. The contact and spin broke something in the back of Lia's car and he was done for the rest of the race. After leading the first 91 laps he finished in 30th. Bonsignore would continue and fight back to finish in eighth.
That gave the lead to Ryan Preece for the lap 96 restart. He outran Newman off Turn 2 on the high side to maintain the lead. The seventh caution then flew on lap 98 when Jeremy Gerstner hit the inside wall on the backstretch. He finished 27th.
On the lap 102 restart Todd Szegedy took his first lead by passing Preece into Turn 1 on the low side. The eighth caution then flew on lap 106 when Luke Fleming spun and Rob Fuller ran into him. Fuller finished 28th and Fleming 29th.
For the lap 110 restart it was Szegedy alongside Mike Stefanik who had worked his way to second. The ninth caution then flew on lap 114 for a spin by George Brunnhoelzl III. He would finish 14th. NASCAR officials then enacted a time limit to the race because of the scheduled NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start time at Bristol Motor Speedway. They said on the restart at lap 119 there would be only 10 laps to go instead of 31.
Szegedy got a good restart and Stefanik settled in second. On lap 124 of the now scheduled 129 Szegedy got loose and Stefanik took advantage by diving to the low side and passing him for the lead. The two battled side-by-side when the tenth caution flew on lap 126 when Ted Christopher made contact with Woody Pitkat as they were battling for fifth. Christopher spun out right into the path of Andy Seuss and Eric Berndt. Christopher finished in 17th, Berndt 24th, and Seuss 25th.
That set up a green-white-checkered finish where Stefanik got a great restart on now lap 134 on the outside and was able to clear Szegedy in Turn 1. Szegedy fought back and was on Stefanik's bumper in Turn 2 on the final lap but did not use the bumper to move Stefanik for the win.
It was the second win of the season for Stefanik, who is a seven time Modified Tour champion. It was the second straight year that Szegedy settled for second at Bristol.
Ron Yuhas Jr finished third which was tied for his best career Modified Tour finish. Finishing fourth was Ryan Preece and Ryan Newman finished fifth. Sixth went to Woody Pitkat, Eric Goodale was seventh, Justin Bonsignore eighth, Burt Myers was the best finishing Southern Tour driver in ninth, and Jimmy Zacharias rounded out the top 10.
Ryan Preece extended his points lead in the Whelen Modified Tour to 28 points over Doug Coby. Mike Stefanik is third 48 points back. Rowan Pennink is fourth and Ron Silk fifth.
George Brunnhoelzl III leads the Whelen Southern Modified Tour points by 20 over Kyle Ebersole. Burt Myers is 21 back in third and Tim Brown is fourth 35 points back even though he has competed in one less race. Andy Seuss if fifth.
There are four races left in the Whelen Modified Tour's season. Next up is Riverhead Raceway on September 14th for the Green Earth Technologies 200. The Whelen Southern Modified Tour has five races left, the next being on August 31st at Langley Speedway.
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The hospitalization, however, was so expensive it forced Jeannette into bankruptcy.
After the bankruptcy of Mt. Gox, the Japanese police opened an investigation into this case.
Often, bankruptcy or the threat of it is the only way these nasty tectonic-shifting changes can be pushed through.
Blondin is a bankruptcy lawyer, like Warren, and has known her for decades.
And if for some reason they needed some government help, that should have come getting them out of bankruptcy.
Hence it comes that no newspaper is trusted now, no books are bought, and the booksellers are on the eve of bankruptcy.
The slaves of an estate in bankruptcy must be sold publicly to the highest bidder.
From a safe covert he watched the redskins plunge him into bankruptcy.
It was at the suit of Gayarre the bankruptcy was declared, was it not?
Men will carry off curiosity with various kinds of laughter and bravado, just as they will carry off drunkenness or bankruptcy.
1700, from bankrupt, "probably on the analogy of insolvency, but with -t erroneously retained in spelling, instead of being merged in the suffix ...." [OED]. Figurative use from 1761.
Legally declared insolvency, or inability to pay creditors.
Note: If an individual or a corporation declares bankruptcy, a court will appoint an official to make an inventory of the individual's or corporation's assets and to establish a schedule by which creditors can be partially repaid what is owed them.
Note: An individual who is lacking a specific resource or quality is sometimes said to be bankrupt, as in intellectually bankrupt or morally bankrupt.


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Chef AJ wants you to stop eating junk! The chef and cooking instructor battled her own body, and the food she was putting in it, until illness finally forced her to take her health into her own hands. In addition to teaching Los Angelenos how to prepare healthy food, she puts out weekly recipe videos with Julieanna Hever, called The Chef and the Dietitian. Chef AJ took a few minutes out of her busy schedule to give me the skinny on her cookbook, Unprocessed.
Chef AJ, health-wise, you've had more than your fair share of challenges: You were overweight, then anorexic, then obese; you developed adult onset asthma; your spine was crushed in an accident and you were paralyzed and in a body cast for a year; you contracted a life-threatening lung and liver infection on your honeymoon; you suffered from panic disorder and agoraphobia and didn't leave the house for over a year; you had several miscarriages, and the first pregnancy resulted in complications that required surgery; and you had several large, bleeding colon polyps. You were a hot mess! But you turned it all around by changing your diet. How difficult was it to go from having 32 oz. Coke Slurpees with eight pumps of vanilla for breakfast and 48 oz. Big Gulp Dr. Peppers for lunch to eating unprocessed, whole, plant-based foods?
While it was difficult initially, I'm quite sure that if I'd let the polyps progress into full-blown cancer, it would have been far more difficult. Also, I had help. I went to the Optimum Health Institute [in San Diego], where I was able to detox without having the pressure of being at work at the same time. So while I did go through some withdrawal, I was in an environment where I was actively learning about what foods caused disease and being nourished with the foods that could reverse the disease.
How did you find the Optimum Health Institute?
I had a magazine of discount vacations, and it was the cheapest place I could find to go ($875 for a whole week). I had no idea it was a healing center and that I would have to put wheatgrass up my butt!!
Sounds like fun!
You say you'd rather see people eat 90% vegan and 90% unprocessed than 100% vegan and 10% unprocessed. Living in New York, it's easy to be a junk food vegan; there are so many restaurants, bakeries and other goodies at our fingertips. What do you think poses the biggest challenge for people, eating plant-based or eating unprocessed?
Let me first clarify that I'm also an ethical vegan and would prefer that people not even eat 10% of their calories from animal products. But from purely a health standpoint, one would be better off doing that if the other 90% of their diet was truly unprocessed. The problem with many vegans is that they're just as addicted to processed foods in general, and sugar, oil and salt specifically, as carnivores are. I think it's easier for people to eat plant-based than unprocessed. There are many foods that are vegan, and even organic, that aren't health-promoting, like agave, coconut oil and all of the fake vegan meats and cheeses. Eating these fake and processed foods may earn you a place in animal heaven, but it doesn't make you bulletproof against Western lifestyle diseases. I cannot tell you how many vegans I know who have cancer and diabetes from eating a VegJUNKtarian diet. Sure, these foods may be okay as transition foods and an occasional treat, but some vegans never transition and just eat crap!
Chef AJ's Hail to the Kale Salad features a nutty dressing that makes even the most salad-averse gobble their greens. I used sunflower butter and seeds instead of almonds, and it was delish!
Your aunt's mother Memé studied at the Cordon Bleu and made gourmet, whole-food meals for you while you lived with that part of your family; my mother shoved me in front of the TV with chicken TV dinners every night. For me, food wasn't a joy; it had to be fast and convenient and filling, and that's where my interest stopped. Do you think you would have made it to the other side if you hadn't had experienced Memé's cooking?
If I hadn't experienced eating real food as a child, I would probably be like so many other people I know who eat only processed foods and animal products: fat, sick and nearly dead (which, by the way, is the name of a wonderful movie!).
You talk about addictions to hyper-palatable foods: sugar, fat and salt. Why are these foods so hard to kick if they're so bad for us?
To really answer that question scientifically would take me an hour. (I actually do a presentation called "How to Avoid The Evil Trinity," where I cover this in-depth.) But one can gain all of the understanding on why processed food, vegan or not, is addictive by reading the books The Pleasure Trap and The End of Overeating. In a nutshell, sugar, fat and salt work together to make food damn near irresistible. The perfect combination of sugar, fat and salt addicts most people's brain chemistry, and the more sugar, fat and salt one eats, the more one craves. In addition, the more highly concentrated the calories, the more dopamine—a feel-good brain chemical—is released. People are stressed and looking for that hit of dopamine, which they get from eating processed food. Most people are just like rats pressing the bar for their next fix of something sweet, fatty or salty. They're so addicted that even the thought of giving up these foods causes discomfort. If you look at some of the research done with rats, when given a choice of cocaine or sugar, 94% of the rats chose sugar!!! And once they were addicted and the sugar was withdrawn and healthy rat chow was given, all of the rats chose to starve themselves to death rather than eat the healthy food when they couldn't get sugar. Does this sound like anyone you know?
I'll take the Fifth on that one.
In your book, you say that Louise Hay's You Can Heal Your Life helped turn you around. What in particular did you take away from the book?
That our thoughts and words are powerful, and that what we think about we bring about—if we want to create health, we have to think healthy thoughts—and that there's a "probable mental thought pattern" associated with all diseases.
Your father died from coronary artery disease, your mom suffered from dementia and heart failure, your grandmother died of colon cancer, your mom and other grandmother had bowel obstructions, and your uncle had 80% of his colon removed. But for many people, like you, a road map of what's probably going to kill them often isn't enough to convince them to make life-saving changes. You yourself had polyps that were so advanced they couldn't be removed. If you hadn't been so afraid of drugs and surgery, would you have made the changes you did, changes that ultimately sent your polyps packing, and within just six months?
No, I probably would have just had them surgically removed and gone on eating my disease-promoting diet. I have friends who've had cancer for the second time, and they still won't change their diet. Doctors are given almost no training in nutrition in medical school, and people believe that diet has nothing to do with whether or not we get a disease. That is why books like The China Study and movies like Forks Over Knives are so great; they're bringing this information to the masses. The information has been around a very long time. Even Hippocrates said, "Let food be thy medicine."
The pineapple juice sweetness of AJ's Sweet and Sour Tempeh is balanced by the coolness and crunch of the green peppers.
You recommend eating a diet that's organic, raw and plant-based, and free of sugar, oil and salt. But that's not easy when you're on the go. How can busy people with stressful jobs working long hours eat well?
Well, here's the thing: You have to make it a priority. And in my opinion, your health should be your number-one priority. Everyone has enough time to tweet and check their Facebook account and play Angry Birds; people always make time for what they truly value. So first you need to make it a priority. Then there are things you can do, like putting all of the ingredients in your blender for your green smoothie the night before or putting everything in the crock pot before going to work. But remember, if you're stressed, you're looking for that hit of dopamine you get from eating crap. You're not going to get it from eating fruit and veggies.
You said something that really caught my attention, being the sugar addict that I am: Sugar inhibits the absorption of other nutrients. How so?
Again, I'm not a scientist, so I can't explain the exact mechanism. But if you read Suicide by Sugar or Sugar Blues, these experts can tell you exactly how it works. Sugar, like oil and alcohol, is at best empty calories: It provides zero fiber and zero nutrients. And many experts will tell you that it feeds cancer. Disease can exist only if the body is in an acidic state or in a state of inflammation. And sugar, like all processed foods, is acidifying and causes inflammation in the body. It really is more like a drug than a food.
You quote Jack LaLanne as saying: "You wouldn't wake up your dog in the morning and give him a cup of coffee, a doughnut and a cigarette, so why would you do that to yourself?" I've never been a smoker, but I could definitely go for the coffee and the doughnut. What do you have to get yourself going in the morning?
Because I've been sugar-, caffeine- and chocolate-free for so long, I no longer need stimulation—I wake up every morning and literally jump out of bed with boundless energy that lasts all day. I also need very little sleep. Most people have to medicate themselves with coffee in the morning to wake up and alcohol at night to calm down; I get all the energy I need from my green smoothies in the morning. And it's sustained energy, not like the crash and burn you get from sugar and caffeine.
You say you eat lots of bananas and white potatoes, but from what I understand, they're both high on the glycemic index, and highly caloric. Why are they staples for you?
I rarely eat potatoes; I prefer sweet potatoes. I like bananas because they're great in smoothies, but really I eat all fruits and veggies. How can you say bananas are caloric at 300 calories a pound? And potatoes have 400 calories a pound. Sugar has 1, 800 calories a pound and oil 4,000 calories a pound!!! And we don't just eat foods based on the glycemic index alone; the glycemic load is more important. If the glycemic index were a health indicator, then we should all be eating Häagen-Dazs ice cream instead of carrots because it's lower on the glycemic index. And why not down a bottle of low-glycemic agave, which is the worst crap in the world—even worse than sugar!!!
AJ's Hockey Pucks—dates, cashew butter (I'm allergic to almonds), cocoa powder, vanilla extract, dates—are rich, creamy and delicious, yet healthy. My consistency might be a little off—we had to eat ours with utensils—but there was nothing wrong with the flavor!
What do you think about eating a completely raw diet?
Unless one is eating and chewing fruits and veggies all day, a raw diet is difficult to maintain unless one starts eating processed raw crap like olive oil, coconut oil, agave or too many nuts and seeds. I think people should eat high raw, as many raw fruits and veggies as they possibly can, but there's nothing wrong with eating some cooked foods, like lightly steamed veggies, beans, legumes and whole grains. There are micronutrients in some foods that actually become more bioavailable when cooked.
Most of your recipes can be prepped in minutes and cooked in less than 30—that's music to my ears! I made your Hail to the Kale Salad, Sweet and Sour Tempeh, and Hockey Pucks, all of which thrilled everyone in my house, including my two vegan chef housemates! The biggest shocker was that my husband couldn't eat the tempeh fast enough, and he typically hates tempeh. So in my eyes, you're a genius! One question: Why no serving sizes in the book? It made me a little batty.
Actually, almost all of my recipes have seven or fewer easy-to-find ingredients and can be prepared in less than 30 minutes. I chose not to include serving sizes because I don't know how much someone else eats. The beauty of an unprocessed, SOS-free diet is that unless you're gorging on nuts and seeds, you can pretty much eat all you want; you can eat to satiation and satisfaction. Eat when hungry, stop when full. No weighing, measuring or calorie counting necessary! So how much is that for you? I don't know. How can I dictate how much someone else can or should eat? It all depends on their activity level and how hungry they are!!!
When you put it like that it makes sense! Though when cooking for other people, serving sizes are helpful— (FYI, readers: The Tempeh and Kale dishes yielded about four servings each, and we ended up with 16 Hockey Pucks.)
What's your Unprocessed 30-Day Challenge?
It's a program I run in LA, where I live. Participants come to my home five Sunday nights in a row for meals and support. They pledge to eat unprocessed for 30 days, and they get daily e-mail support and weekly phone support. In this program, people have lost weight, lowered their cholesterol to within normal limits, gone off their statins and diabetes medications, refined their palates and lost tremendous amounts of weight. The "winner" of the challenge gets a front-row ticket to the annual event I produce called Healthy Taste of LA. This year, Dr. T. Colin Campbell is our keynote.
Support and competition—a little something to motivate everyone! Thanks for the chat, AJ, and for the healthy, delicious recipes!
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Andreaon #
This is a great article! Thanks for posting it on Budettes, Chef AJ. Also, I'm considering joining your 30-Day Challenge!
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Danyelleon #
I am happy to see more people attempting to change the way we think about food and what we are consuming? Consumers have the right to know where their food comes from and how animals are treated before they reach their plates. This is a good, short video to watch about this topic: MeatVideo.com. Or visit ChooseVeg.com for more information on adapting a more compassionate lifestyle.
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jeannetteon #
Totally new to reading blogs, but have become quite interested after attending a Whole Foods cooking class by Chef AJ.
Someone mentioned a Thai noodle receipe on the blog any one have any ideas


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Testing – Demos
After the benchmarking suites comes some effective gauging of real-world performance: benchmarking tools using real games, or at least, technology present in games.
First up, S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat and S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky. These two tools utilize DX11 and DX10 respectively, though Clear Sky, the DX10 version, is actually tougher on your video hardware than Call of Pripyat, it's DX11 counterpart.
For Call of Pripyat, we use the Ultra preset, DX11, 1920×1080 resolution, MSAA 4x, SSAO: HBAO, with Tessellation enabled.
For Clear Sky, we use the Ultra Preset, DX10.1, 1920×1080 resolution, MSAA 4x, with Alpha AA 10.1 (High).
Alien Vs. Predator
Our next demo benchmark is Alien Vs. Predator. Using DirectX11 and high quality textures, combined with ambient occlusion, tessellation and hardware-intensive anti-aliasing, it utilizes much of what your GPU can do in order to test your hardware effectively.
When configuring Alien Vs. Predator, we used the following settings: Resolution: 1920×1080, Textures: Very High, Shadows: High, Anisotropic Filtering: 16x, SSAO: On, Tessellation: On, DX11 Advanced Shadows: On, MSAA: 4x.
Unigine Heaven
Unigine Heaven is an extremely popular tool for measuring GPU performance. It's free and used in almost every hardware test you'll have seen in the last 2 years, omitting it simply isn't an option.
Using DX11, 8x Anti-Aliasing, 16x Anisotropy and Extreme Tessellation, we made sure we maxed Heaven out when it came to putting the 680 to the test.
Stone Giant
A tool similar to heaven but utilizing the DX11 technologies in a different manner is Stone Giant. Created to show that advanced geometry can be used to create mind-blowingly awesome creatures and landscapes, Stone Giant – much like heaven – utilizes your hardware effectively and pushes it, providing you with FPS information once the run finishes. The settings that were used were: Resolution: 1920×1080, Tessellation: High, Aspect Ratio: 16:9.
We put all 3 (Alien vs. Predator, Heaven and Stone Giant) in one easy to read graph.


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For those interested in the progress of our registered issue committee opposing Castle Creek hydro, this is an update. Five prominent locals known for their strong support of our environment serve as our advisors. Over 150 individual locals have endorsed us publicly. Endorsements also have been received from American Rivers, the Western Rivers Institute, Aspen Trout Guides, and Aspen Flyfishing. Over 50 individuals have contributed more than $7,000 to assist in our getting the message to the voters. More endorsements and more contributions are coming in daily.
We appreciate the strong public support for our efforts and take this opportunity to thank everyone who is helping us. Our website is www.2CVoteNo.org [1].
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Over the Halloween weekend, fourteen officers engaged in focused DUI/Drivers License enforcement patrols throughout the county. Personnel from the San Rafael, Novato, Tiburon, and San Anselmo Police Departments participated.
Apparently the message that Buzzed Driving is Drunk Driving was heeded over the weekend.
One hundred thirty seven traffic stops were made resulting in 18 field sobriety tests being administered. Only one driver was arrested for DUI.
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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (NNS) -- USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) saved $451,770 during her Docked Planned Incremental Availability (DPIA) period by using Harry S. Truman Sailors instead of Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) workers for shipboard lagging jobs.
Lagging is a fiberglass material applied to chill water pipes to prevent condensation and insulate steam pipes to keep Sailors from burning themselves, as well as to prevent a heat stress environment. It is also applied to the overheads and bulkheads throughout the ship as sound insulation.
"There is lagging everywhere throughout the ship," said Assistant Maintenance Manager, Lt. Doug Stanley. "You can walk into any space and find lagging."
Over time, lagging on the ship needs to be replaced due to normal wear and tear, or applied to piping where it has been replaced or newly installed.
The 20-person lagging team, made up of Sailors from various departments, completed 332 lagging jobs for a total of 8,883 man-hours. The cost of one of these Sailors lagging for an 8-hour day is $150. The same price to have a NNSY worker do the job is $557 per day.
"They (NNSY workers) are the experts, but as far as the basic lagging jobs, their (Harry S. Truman lagging team) work is top notch," said Harry S. Truman Lagging Team Leading Chief Petty Officer, Chief Operations Specialist (SW) Richard Sonnenberg.
To ensure the Harry S. Truman lagging team performed the work professionally, they went to a two-week Shipyard Insulators Course taught by NNSY.
"It (lagging) doesn't take a rocket scientist to do, but it's meticulous and tedious to get into the tight places and do a professional job," said Harry S. Truman's Lagging Team Leading Petty Officer, Air Traffic Controller 1st Class (AW/SW) Robert Harris.
Although the team was not trained to do extremely difficult lagging jobs, the work they completed was high quality.
"I can say with confidence these 20 people can take a basic lagging job and do it flawlessly," said Sonnenberg.
Sonnenberg believes one of the reasons the team did such great work is because of their positive attitudes toward their work.
"The one noticeable attribute of these 20 people is they all took pride in doing a good job the first time so they wouldn't have to go back and do it again," said Sonnenberg.
Throughout the DPIA period, more and more of the team's labor could be seen throughout the ship and the flawless work was definitely noticed.
"There were some good folks on [the lagging team] that learned the trade," said Stanley. "I walked around and inspected some of the spaces and work that was done, and it absolutely looked like it was done by a professional grade insulator."
That, along with the nearly half a million dollars saved by Harry S. Truman's lagging team, is just another reason they can be proud of the work they did while temporarily assigned to this small but vitally important DPIA team.
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Session of 2000
HOUSE BILL No. 2747
By Representative Klein
9 AN ACT relating to income taxation; providing a credit therefrom for
10 certain adoption placements; requiring notice of such tax credit to be
11 given under the woman's-right-to-know act; amending K.S.A. 1999
12 Supp. 65-6710 and repealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
15 New Section 1. For all taxable years commencing after December
16 31, 1999, there shall be allowed as a credit against the tax liability of a
17 residential individual: (a) Who is 18 years of age or younger who places
18 such individual's child of one year of age or younger for lawful adoption;
19 or (b) who is allowed pursuant to K.S.A. 79-32,121, and amendments
20 thereto, a Kansas personal exemption for an individual described by sub-
21 section (a). The amount of such credit shall be $5,000. If the amount of
22 such tax credit exceeds the individual's income tax liability for the taxable
23 year, the amount thereof which exceeds such tax liability may be carried
24 over for deduction from the individual's income tax liability in the next
25 succeeding taxable year or years until the total amount of the tax credit
26 has been deducted from tax liability, except that no such tax credit shall
27 be carried over for deduction after the fifth taxable year succeeding the
28 taxable year in which the credit was claimed.
29 Sec. 2. K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 65-6710 is hereby amended to read as
30 follows: 65-6710. (a) The department shall cause to be published and
31 distributed widely, within 30 days after the effective date of this act, and
32 shall update on an annual basis, the following easily comprehensible
33 printed materials:
34 (1) Geographically indexed materials designed to inform the woman
35 of public and private agencies and services available to assist a woman
36 through pregnancy, upon childbirth and while her child is dependent,
37 including but not limited to, adoption agencies. The materials shall in-
38 clude a comprehensive list of the agencies, a description of the services
39 they offer and the telephone numbers and addresses of the agencies; and
40 inform the woman about available medical assistance benefits for prenatal
41 care, childbirth and neonatal care and about the support obligations of
42 the father of a child who is born alive. The department shall ensure that
43 the materials described in this section are comprehensive and do not
1 directly or indirectly promote, exclude or discourage the use of any agency
2 or service described in this section. The materials shall also contain a toll-
3 free 24-hour a day telephone number which may be called to obtain,
4 orally, such a list and description of agencies in the locality of the caller
5 and of the services they offer. The materials shall state that it is unlawful
6 for any individual to coerce a woman to undergo an abortion, that any
7 physician who performs an abortion upon a woman without her informed
8 consent may be liable to her for damages. Kansas law permits adoptive
9 parents to pay costs of prenatal care, childbirth and neonatal care. The
10 materials shall include the following statement:
11 "Many public and private agencies exist to provide counseling and
12 information on available services. You are strongly urged to seek
13 their assistance to obtain guidance during your pregnancy. In ad-
14 dition, you are encouraged to seek information on abortion services,
15 alternatives to abortion, including adoption, and resources available
16 to post-partum mothers. The law requires that your physician or
17 the physician's agent provide the enclosed information."
18 (2) Materials that inform the pregnant woman of the probable ana-
19 tomical and physiological characteristics of the fetus at two-week gesta-
20 tional increments from fertilization to full term, including pictures or
21 drawings representing the development of a fetus at two-week gestational
22 increments, and any relevant information on the possibility of the fetus'
23 survival. Any such pictures or drawings shall contain the dimensions of
24 the fetus and shall be realistic. The materials shall be objective, nonjudg-
25 mental and designed to convey only accurate scientific information about
26 the fetus at the various gestational ages. The material shall also contain
27 objective information describing the methods of abortion procedures
28 commonly employed, the medical risks commonly associated with each
29 such procedure and the medical risks associated with carrying a fetus to
30 term.
31 (3) A certification form to be used by physicians or their agents under
32 subsection (e) of K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 65-6709
and amendments thereto,
33 which will list all the items of information which are to be given to women
34 by physicians or their agents under the woman's-right-to-know act.
(4) A notice of the income tax credit allowed under section 1, and
amendments thereto.
37 (b) The materials required under this section shall be printed in a
38 typeface large enough to be clearly legible. The materials shall be made
39 available in both English and Spanish language versions.
40 (c) The materials required under this section shall be available at no
41 cost from the department upon request and in appropriate number to
42 any person, facility or hospital.
43 Sec. 3. K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 65-6710 is hereby repealed.
1 Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
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|Chief Thomas MacDonald joins President Warren Harding during the dedication of the permanent Zero Milestone ("POINT FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF DISTANCES FROM WASHINGTON ON HIGHWAYS OF THE UNITED STATES") on the Ellipse south of the White House. A marching song, composed for the occasion ("Hail! Hail! The Caravan!"), is performed by the U.S. Army Band.
"As we shall extend and improve our highways and more and more adapt them to the methods of transportation, we shall strengthen year by year the ties of mutual interest and interdependence which united all our sections."
|Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis announces appointments to the National Motor Carrier Advisory Committee. He says the committee, which will develop reports and recommendations for FHWA, "represents a cross section of viewpoints concerning motor carrier policies." Thomas P. Holian of FHWA's Office of Chief Counsel is designated the committee's Executive Director.


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September 27, 2015
Match Day 10 roundup
Queretaro 3, Leon 0
Emanuel Villa led the way with a brace and the game-winning assist as 14th-place Queretaro (3-2-5, 11 pts) routed Leon 3-0 Friday at Estadio La Corregidora.
The result dropped the Esmeraldas (7-0-3) to second place in the Apertura standings.
William da Silva opened the scoring in the 17th minute, redirecting Villa's cross into the lower right corner. Villa closed things out with a blast from the top of the box in the 60th minute and closed things out in the 80th.
Mauro Boselli had the best chance to put the Esmeraldas on the board, but sent a 50th-minute penalty kick soaring over the goal.
Tijuana 1, Chiapas 1
Tijuana and Chiapas both came up with late goals on their way to a 1-1 draw Friday at Estadio Caliente.
Jose Alberto Garcia put Xolos on the board in the 83rd minute off Dayro Moreno's pass back from deep on the left side. Silvio Romero, who hit the post in the 15th minute, equalized for Jaguares from the penalty spot in the 90th, after a foul on Aviles Hurtado.
Xolos are tenth in the standings at 4-1-5 and 13 points. Jaguares (4-3-3, 15) are eighth.
Chivas 2, America 1
Omar Bravo scored two first-half goals and shorthanded Chivas held on for a 2-1 win over Club America Saturday in the Clasico de Clasicos at Estadio Azteca.
Bravo scored in the 15th and 39th minutes. He opened the scoring after picking off a bad backpass ahead of netminder Moises Munoz, and connected again with a nodding header set up by Raul Lopez. Seconds after he completed his brace, defender Carlos Salcido received a straight red card for taking Darwin Quintero down from behind, leaving the Herd to finish the match with ten men.
Osvaldo Martinez pulled one back for the Aguilas on the penalty kick after Salcido's foul, but the comeback ended there.
The Herd take over ninth place with 13 points (4-1-5). America are fifth on the table at 6-0-4 (18).
Monterrey 2, Morelia 2
Edwin Cardona's 85th-minute penalty kick lifted Monterrey (3-3-3, 12 pts) into a 2-2 draw with Morelia (4-1-5, 13) Saturday at Estadio BBVA Bancomer.
Pablo Barrera staked the Rayados to a 1-0 lead off Cardona's rebound in the 29th minute. Facundo Erpen equalized for Monarcas with a header two minutes later, and the deadlock held until Carlos Ochoa put Morelia up 2-1 on a 75th-minute counterattack.
Pachuca 0, Santos Laguna 0
Pachuca and Santos Laguna battled to a scoreless draw Saturday at Estadio Hidalgo.
Bryan Rabello threatened for Santos in the second minute, but hit the post. Before the intermission, Ruben Botta got off a dangerous shot for the Tuzos that netminder Augustine Marchesin parried off the post. Pachuca also had the best look of the second half, a late shot off the crossbar from Hirving Lozano.
Both teams remain near the bottom of the standings, Pachuca (3-2-5, 11 pts) in 15th place and the Guerreros two places below at 2-2-6 (8).
Veracruz 1, Atlas 0
Veracruz eked out a 1-0 win over Atlas on Daniel Villalva's 90th-minute goal Saturday at Estadio Jalisco.
Villalva's shorthanded tally, a left-footed volley, came ten minutes after defender Horacio Cervantes was sent off with a straight red card.
The fourth-place Tiburones Rojos improve to 6-1-3 and 19 points. The Zorros are in 12th place at 4-1-5 (13).
Toluca 2, Dorados de Sinaloa 1
Third-place Toluca (6-1-3, 19 pts) edged Dorados de Sinaloa 2-1 Saturday at Estadio Banorte.
Marcos Caicedo struck first for Dorados (2-2-6, 8 pts), in the 41st minute. Enrique Triverio equalized in the 61st, off an assist from Omar Arellano.
Carlos Rodriguez sealed the win in the 76th, off Dario Bottinelli's corner kick.
Pumas 1, Tigres 0
Ismael Sosa scored the only goal Pumas (7-0-3, 21 pts) needed to edge Tigres 1-0 Sunday at Estadio Olimpico Universitario and reclaim first place in the Apertura standings.
Sosa scored from 16 yards in the 53rd minute, after Eduardo Herrera stole the ball from Juninho upfield. Tigres' hopes of a comeback were effectively extinguished with twin red cards to Rafael Sobis in the 76th minute and Joffre Guerron in the 78th, leaving them to finish the match with nine men on the field.
Tigres fall to 5-1-4 (16), and are sixth in the standings.
Puebla 2, Cruz Azul 1
Early goals by Christian Bermudez and Luis Rey held up to give Puebla (5-0-4, 15 pts) a 2-1 win over Cruz Azul Sunday at Estadio Universitario BUAP.
Bermudez opened things up in the 28th minute, off a pass from David Toledo, and Rey won the game from the penalty spot four minutes later.
Lucas Silva put La Maquina (3-1-6, 10 pts) on the board seconds before halftime, redirecting Christian Gimenez's free kick into the net.


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Oscars Flashback '06: Amy Adams, in Technicolor
By ROBERT PACE
December 07, 2012
It's a benchmark in every actress' career to receive her first award nomination. Whether she loves or loathes awards show and what they represent, it's always a reassuring boost to know that the industry appreciates one's work. In 2006, Amy Adams reached that benchmark as she fittingly stood in the middle of Hollywood Boulevard.
In 2005, Adams appeared in the comedy-drama Junebug, which pulled in a modest $3 million at the box office and was generally unknown to the masses; however it was known to the critics, and well liked by them as well.
VIDEO: SAGs Flashback '98: Jolie Experiences the Reward
Adams was the recipient of most of the film's nominations for her supporting role as a woman who gives birth to a stillborn, whom she had planned to name "Junebug." On the red carpet for her first Oscars, Adams says she's stunned.
"I don't dream this big," she says, awed. "This is Technicolor, folks. This is crazy."
Her applauded performance would only receive a nomination that year and no tears of joy were patted with the tissues in Adams' clutch.
VIDEO: Oscars Flashback '94: Spielberg Wins His First
While her fate at the Oscars that year has proven replicated on each of her three succeeding nominations, the most recent of which was for The Fighter, an Oscar may be in line for her this year.
The 38-year-old actress had three movies premiere this year (Trouble with the Curve, On the Road, The Master) and recently received a Hollywood Film Festival Award for her work.
Those tissues may get some use this year.


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Change your rules to
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To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: [m0n0wall] monowall block internet- Help....
I have a network with:
192.168.1.1 - DC, DNS Server, DHCP server
192.168.1.2 - Database Server
192.168.1.64 to 192.168.1.253 - Desktops
192.168.1.254 - monowall box with 2 network cards
Wan ;
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On Lan interface i have this rule:
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Iraq 'failing to tackle death squads'
Senior US officials have accused the new Iraqi government - which they previously championed - of failing to deal with the scourge of sectarian death squads, which are dragging the country into civil war.
Fresh figures published yesterday show that more than 250,000 Iraqis have been displaced by the sectarian violence since February. The details emerged in a week which, say US officials, has seen the highest number of suicide bombings recorded - half of them aimed at US-led forces.
As thousands of Iraqi and US troops continued to conduct cordon-and-search operations across the capital, a senior US officer for the first time publicly questioned prime minister Nouri al-Maliki's tactics for quelling the sectarian violence.
"We have to fix this militia issue. We can't have armed militias competing with Iraq's security forces. But I have to trust the prime minister to decide when it is that we do that," said Lieutenant General Peter Chiarelli, the second-highest-ranking American military official in Baghdad.
His comments echoed those of Major General James Thurman, commander of US military forces in Baghdad, who said last week he believed the question of militias was "a problem that the [Iraqi] government must deal with immediately".
Other senior US officials have begun warning that if the Iraqi government does not take a lead in disarming the militias, the US military might have to do so.
Despite a massive military effort in Baghdad to clear no-go areas of militants, much of the effort has focused on strongholds of Sunni fighters, and has so far had no impact on the slaughter. Instead, a record 7,000 Iraqis have died in the last two months alone. To add to US gloom it was revealed yesterday that the Bush administration is spending $2bn (£1bn) a week on the campaign in Iraq.


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PHILADELPHIA – In case you haven't noticed, Iris Williamson is making quite a name for herself in the world of women's lacrosse. The freshman scored four goals for the third game in a row – her final two coming in overtime – as the Quakers defeated Vanderbilt, 14-13, on a snowy day at Franklin Field.
Williamson is now up to 17 goals to begin her collegiate career, none more important than the pair she netted in the final 46 seconds of the extra period.
After the first three minutes of overtime were scoreless, Vanderbilt took a 13-12 lead on a goal from Olivia Goodman with 2:42 left in the extra period. The next draw was important, and Meg Markham ensured the Quakers would have a chance to tie the game with her fifth draw control of the game. Just under one minute later, Williamson would go one-on-one and finish to knot proceedings at 13-13 with 1:46 to play.
One minute later, Williamson would score the eventual game-winner, again working on a 1v1 play to secure Penn's third consecutive victory.
The game was only in overtime thanks to some heroics from Tory Bensen late in regulation. After Vanderbilt rattled off six consecutive goals in the second half to turn what was an 11-6 Penn lead into a 12-11 Commodore advantage with 3:35 to play, Bensen connected on her third goal of the game with 0:25 left in regulation. Bensen was in perfect position to pick up a ground ball after a Caroline Bunting shot hit the post and deposit the rebound into an open cage.
The Quakers led, 7-3, after the first half, the beneficiaries of a 7-1 run to close the half. Bensen had two goals in the half, joined by Maddie Poplawski, Meredith Cain, Caroline Bunting, Nina Corcoran and Williamson who each scored once.
Cain would score 33 seconds into the second half to increase Penn's lead to five, a lead the Quakers would reach again via Williamson's second of the game with 21:38 left to make it 9-4 and Courtney Tomchik's second of the game with 19:10 left to make the score 11-6.
Tomchik scored twice in a span of 52 seconds in the second half, her first two goals of the season. She also added two assists, tying Williamson for the high point total of the day with four.
Cain led all players with six draw controls, joined by Markham's five draws to give Penn a 17-14 edge on the circle in the game. Both Cain and Markham each added two caused turnovers, part of a six caused turnover day for the Quakers. Lucy Ferguson made 11 saves, her second double-digit save day of the season.
The Red and Blue are back to .500, sitting at 3-3 heading into their third Ivy League game of the season. The matchup is a big one as the Quakers host the other Ivy team at 2-0 in the League, Cornell, Sunday at Franklin Field. First draw is scheduled for 1 p.m.
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