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I have been thinking lately about my business in terms of strategy and where it's headed and taking into account industry trends. It's very clear as a small business web site designer that competition is stiff and the market for web designers is getting saturated in some markets. If you don't know me already, visit my previous post (link)
I'm planning on launching a self-serve web site soon where my clients (and maybe yours too?) can purchase customization services for their existing site. It's going to be a place where customers can browse various web site "schwag" like image galleries, video logo reveals, flash galleries, and themes. I'm planning on demoing the stuff I purchased here already and giving customers the ability to purchase items. On the money making side, I would buy a file license, modify the file, and (optionally) update the user's site for them.
I'm going with visualparade.com. What do you think?
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I know, and ... wait. Please don't call the European continent "europe". This continent does not have a centralized goverment like that yet. However, many european countries have been involved in many of the more... questionable stuff going on, such as Vietnam (However, there quite a few countries that were not).Quote:
As for the cold war, Europe was involved in that as well.
That does not mean they shouldn't be called out on it, and that does not mean that the USA should not be called out on their questionable ethics when it comes to foreign policy.
I'd like to thank my fellow Americans who helped pass initiatives to legalize marijuana and gay marriage in select states, and who opposed extremist candidates like Akin and Mourdock. Now if only old white guys would stop voting for old white guys en masse...
holy shit, that video was amazing Squirrel!
The reality of war means that targetting will never be done by the pilot, so whether or not you use drones only matters in quantity. At least for me, it has no worse moral implications than bombing, for instance.
Edit: I should probably add that I'd like to see bombing of places with "suspected terrorists" not happening at all.
I am still unsure whether it is our politicians which do too little, or the American politicians which do too much. I am, however, leaning towards the latter.Quote:
Says somebody from a region that's grown complacent with letting their collective defense and international intervention largely be handled by... us.
Is there no difference between the Taliban and the American forces?
I m sorry if US foreign policy is unpopular outside of the US, but well it is. However this was not an attack on all Americans, it's just something that I was genuinely thinking about during the elections.
@Hypernetic: what human right? Maybe this: 'Everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person.' I know in war people die, but this is not a normal war, it's government-sanctioned assassination. My problem is that Obama has made it 'cool', it's not a covert op anymore, it's something mainstream now and you can read about it in the papers.
My primary problem with all this though (apart from the collateral damage etc), is why someone should have the right to decide who lives and who dies (whether by cruise missile/drone/helicopter attack or whatever) and that his person and his staff are accountable to no one basically. We don't know how they make the decisions, how they compile their lists etc etc. For a country that has gone to war so many times 'to spread democracy and human rights', I think it's hugely problematic.
@Kadayi: who funded the Taliban in the '80's when they were fighting against Russia?
Just a heads up, I can't say if it's the same worldwide, but hardly anyone that I know here in Brazil believes in the rhetoric that the US is invading other countries to "liberate" them or to "spread democracy, fight injustice and be a paladin of love and rainbows to make the world a better place". I'm quite surprised whenever I see an American who believes that, really. This bravado of acting like they're the world police really harms the country's image.
That said, I'm glad Obama won. He's far from perfect, the democratic party in general is a band of wussies who get slapped around by the crazy extremists on the republican side... but they're still the lesser of two evils. And if the republicans had won, our own presidential elections in 2014 would be that much worse. Our conservative candidates mimicked much of the worst parts of the 2008 republican campaign in 2010, leading to one of the most despicable campaigns in our recent history. If Mitt "I am the 1%" Romney's tactics had worked, this would be even worse the next time.
Both sides always say if the other is elected, it will be the end of the world. Though I do think if Romney had come to power, it would have been a big step backwards.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of getting a pass on the subject from his rivals, Mitt Romney was challenged in the Republican presidential debate Saturday night on his frequent claims that he created great numbers of jobs in the private sector. Newt Gingrich, for one, said Romney's record as a venture capitalist was one of flipping companies, taking out all the money and "leaving behind the workers."
Who's right?
The bottom line remains unknown about how many jobs were gained or lost from Romney's work at the Bain Capital private equity company. But this much is clear: His accounting behind the assertion that he created more than 100,000 jobs at companies he helped start up or turn around has been flawed.
A look at some of the claims in the latest GOP debate and how they compare with the facts:
ROMNEY: "But in the business I had, we invested in over 100 different businesses and net ... net, taking out the ones where we lost jobs and those that we added, those businesses have now added over 100,000 jobs.."
GINGRICH: "I'm not nearly as enamored of a Wall Street model where you can flip companies, you can go in and have leveraged buyouts, you can basically take out all the money, leaving behind the workers."
THE FACTS: Romney has never substantiated his frequent claim that he was a creator of more than 100,000 jobs while leading the Bain Capital private equity company. His campaign merely cites success stories without laying out the other side of the ledger — jobs lost at Bain-acquired or Bain-supported firms that closed, trimmed their workforce or shifted employment overseas.
Moreover, his campaign bases its claims on recent employment figures at three companies — Staples, Domino's and Sports Authority — even though Romney's involvement with them ceased years ago.
By that sort of charitable math, President Barack Obama could be credited with creating over 1 million jobs even though employment overall is down about 2 million since he came to office. But Romney accuses Obama of destroying jobs while using a different standard to judge his own performance — cherry-picked examples that leave everything else out.
By its nature, venture capitalism often results in lost jobs because profitability and efficiency are key to investors, not how many people are on the payroll. Bain Capital profited in cases where employment went both up and down.
Staples, now with close to 90,000 employees, and Sports Authority, with about 15,000, were startups supported by Romney. The direct work force at Domino's has grown by nearly 8,000 since Romney's intervention. But Romney got out of the game in 1999, which has not stopped his campaign from crediting him with jobs created at those companies since then.
Romney toned down the braggadocio in the latest debate, saying that of the Bain-supported companies that grew, "we're only a small part of that, by the way." But he insisted his claim of more than 100,000 jobs was a "net net" figure that takes into account job losses elsewhere, even though his campaign has defended the assertion only by reporting on the performance of Sports Authority, Domino's and Staples.
No one has been able to produce a full accounting of job gains and losses from the scores of companies Romney dealt with at Bain. But a Los Angeles Times review of Bain's 10 largest investments under Romney found that four of the big companies declared bankruptcy within a few years, costing thousands of jobs and often pension and severance benefits.
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KENTVILLE - A Kentville man has been charged with attempted murder after three people were stabbed overnight June 20 in the downtown area.
"We have laid charges and remanded Paul Eldon Lake, 53, of Prospect Ave., Kentville, with three counts of attempted murder, three counts of aggravated assault," Kentville Police Chief Mark Mander.
Two 911 calls from the area of Prospect Road and Main Street reported the stabbings around 1 a.m.,
Police allege Lake injured three people: two men, ages 24 and 26, who remained in hospital late Friday afternoon, and a 36-year-old female victim who was treated and released.
Lake is in hospital recovering from injuries, the police chief said, but is in the custody of sheriffs. Lake is scheduled to appear in court June 24 and has not yet entered a plea to the charges.
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Obama and Dilma Agree on Bourbon and Cachaca, but Not Much ElseDominic Phillips
For Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, this week's two-day American visit was a big one. She had already been to China, India and Germany, and had even hosted President Barack Obama in Brazil last year.
But in world-diplomatic terms, nothing rates quite as high as the White House.
Rousseff was also following in the footsteps of her popular predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a president with natural charisma who made his presence felt on the world stage, and who was memorably described by Obama as "my man."
Consequently, the Brazilian media were following her every move, and while it was observed that Dilma, as she's known, didn't get the full state dinner recently awarded to U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, many noted approvingly that the 90-minute meeting the presidents conducted was double the allotted time.
They made some notable progress. Rousseff discreetly supported Obama's re-election in hoping for a better economic situation under his leadership "in the next years." Obama called the Brazilian leader "my good friend" and praised her "incredible" leadership. They discussed easing visa requirements, gave much emphasis to a science program that could send thousands of Brazilian students to the U.S., and made plans to expand energy cooperation.
But the Brazilian press quickly focused on the things that were not said. Veteran journalist Ricardo Setti, in a post for the weekly news magazine Veja, noted that, for one thing, the two never mentioned some long-simmering arms-sales disputes.
They didn't include the sensitive area that is the purchase of supersonic jets for the Brazilian Air Force, which Boeing is competing for and in which the Americans have great interest, nor the cancellation, by the United States Air Force, of the purchase of a big lot of training aircraft and Tucano planes, made by the Brazilian company Embraer.
Nor was Brazil's long-standing ambition of a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council even touched on, Setti wrote. "Brazilian diplomacy, on this crucial point, did not advance one millimeter."
Throughout the coverage of the visit, there was a sense that the only reason the U.S. is paying attention to Brazil these days is because there's more money here. Brazil offers relatively stable growth, substantial oil reserves and a vast potential market for American goods in its booming lower-middle class -- but the economic relationship remains unequal.
Dilma, for instance, once again attacked U.S. monetary policy, which she blames for flooding the Brazilian economy with dollars.
The influential economics journalist Miriam Leitao, writing in O Globo, noted the large trade imbalance between the two countries. Brazil's 2011 trade deficit with the U.S. reached a record $8.2 billion. Much of this is because Brazil is increasingly importing American ethanol, gasoline and diesel because of a shortage of domestic refining capacity and falling ethanol production. Even though the U.S. ended a tariff on ethanol in December, Brazil still lacks the capacity to meet its internal demand, never mind export.
Brazil has struggled for decades to break down the commercial barriers imposed by the United States on ethanol, but when the barriers fell, instead of us having the product and exploring the opportunity, we began to import. The United States began to buy more of our oil, not because of a sales effort by Brazil but more by their choice ... The United States is a country with a high trade deficit, because even during crisis it is still a major importer. Because of this, it's strange for Brazil to maintain a growing trade deficit with them.
Luiz Augusto Neves, president of the Brazilian Center for International Relations, told O Globo: "The relations between Brazil and the U.S. are far below what they could be. It is a relationship without enthusiasm."
Obama was big on generalized praise of Brazil, but ended up giving away very little in practical terms -- compounding the sense of an unequal relationship. As business daily Valor noted in an editorial, Dilma didn't look particularly content in the official photo:
Obama didn't just evade giving his visitor the honor of a state dinner at the White House, but also didn't give support for a permanent seat for Brazil on the United Nations Security Council ... or even good news about the purchase of Embraer planes and the imports of beef.
In the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper, journalist Clovis Rossi pointed out a related "great omission" of the meeting: the uprising in Syria. He quoted from a joint statement the leaders released, then gave his take:
`The presidents stressed the importance of cooperative efforts to produce conflict resolutions that are sustainable and contribute to peace and stability' … My God in heaven, not even the biggest expert in cliche, in talking loud and saying nothing, in producing hollow platitudes, would be capable of so much emptiness.
This silence on Syria seemed to typify the current relationship. The U.S. wants access to the Brazilian market. It wants Brazil's oil when it starts flowing properly. It just doesn't think Brazil is grown-up enough to start playing international politics with the big boys.
Perhaps that attitude was best encapsulated in a little commercial present Obama offered Brazil: After about 40 years of discussions, the U.S. officially recognized the sugar-cane spirit cachaca -- used to make caipirinha cocktails -- as a genuine Brazilian product, which means it can be sold in American liquor stores as "cachaca" and not just "Brazilian rum." Brazil, in turn, pledged to recognize American bourbon and Tennessee whiskey.
Distillers cheered. But booze can only do so much to improve a "relationship without enthusiasm."
(Dom Phillips is the Rio de Janeiro correspondent for World View. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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Upon entering the stone floored foyer of this lovely home, you have three separate paths you may follow. One leads upstairs, another leads to the rear of the house, and yet another leads to the dining area and the great room. The great room features a vaulted ceiling that rises to a soaring 24' at the centerline of the house, a large fireplace, a bay window, and a built–in bookcase. A glass door leads to a covered porch with an exposed deck. The well–designed kitchen has a movable island, a peninsula counter for quick meals, and a good–sized pantry. It's next to a sun filled breakfast nook that leads to a screened porch.
The master bedroom suite is located on this lower level. The large walk–in closet provides direct access to the laundry room (which can also be accessed from the foyer), and the bath area includes a private toilet room, and two separate sinks. A rear foyer leads to the optional carport or garage, and is flanked by a half bath and a laundry room that can also function as a mudroom. All of the interior doors on this level are 3' wide to allow access by someone in a wheelchair or a walker.
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The entire upstairs is vaulted, rising from 8' at the outer walls to 14'6" at the centerline. The upstairs study nook overlooks the large great room below, and provides access to a large balcony. There are two more bedrooms on this floor that share a full bath, and there's a large walk–in attic storage space off the hallway.
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Cannibal! The Musical
1993/1996 (2000) - Troma
review by Todd Doogan of
The Digital Bits
Film Rating: A
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): C+/B/A+
Specs and Features
96 mins, NR, full frame (1.33:1), single-sided, dual-layered (extra layer for special edition material), Amaray keep case packaging, trailers for
Cannibal! The Musical
and the pitch trailer for
Alfred Packer
, previews for
Killer Condom
Citizen Toxie
Terror Firmer
The Rowdy Girls
, audio commentary (with director Trey Parker, producer Jason McHugh and stars Matt Stone, Dian Bachar, Andy Kemler getting all liquored up), Lloyd Kaufman's original introduction for the video release, Lloyd's new intro for the DVD release, behind-the-scenes footage, Troma's H.U.M.M.U.S. PSA (featuring Trey and Matt from a scene in
Terror Firmer
), interview with Trey, Matt and Jason in their beach front home, footage from a live stage performance of
, song access, Tour of Troma, T.I.T. 2,
Tragedy of Billy
short, other assorted Troma propaganda, film-themed menu screens with animation and sounds, scene access (9 chapters), languages: English (DD 2.0), subtitles: none
"Excuse me. I've been doing some thinking... uhm -- just kind of looking at our situation here -- and I've come to the conclusion that we're completely f%@&#d! Has anybody else made this discovery?"
God bless the good folks at Troma. If anything can be said about them, it's that they try. If there is one studio out there that tries to completely satisfy it's fan base, it's Troma. Look at the above specs and you're going to see a tweaked to hell and back DVD. Just about everything that could legally be put on (read: stuff that wouldn't piss Trey and his lawyers off) was stacked onto this disc. As a special edition,
Cannibal! The Musical
shines as a standard other studios should continually try and achieve. But in terms of overall DVD performance, Lloyd and company have a ways to go to actually compete as a DVD powerhouse. The fact of the matter is, if you want to make a kick-ass disc, you have to follow three basic rules. Just call me the Aristotle of the DVD world. Why I'm referencing Aristotle and Troma in the same paragraph, I have no idea.
Rule One: Is the film even worth having on DVD? In this case -- hell yeah.
Cannibal! The Musical
is a cult movie if there ever was one. The wacky meshing of 1950s musicals with splatter movies and Farrelly Brothers/Zucker/Abrams-style comedies is simply perfect. It helps that Trey has real talent behind the music in this film. You don't get Oscar nominated for nothing these days. The film's plot follows the true story (with some hilarious liberties taken here and there) of Alfred Packer. Played by Parker (using an alias), he offers up to play guide to a group of men searching for gold in the Colorado territory. Of course, he gets them terribly lost while also searching for his beloved horse, and everyone dies. The horse by the way, was taken by a gang of ruthless trappers (to bang this ruthless part home, the trappers are clad in gang vests with "Trappers" emblazoned on the back. Nice little homage to
West Side Story
.). The songs themselves are hilarious. Starting with
It's a Shpadoinkle Day
, continuing with
Let's Build a Snowman
and climaxing with
Hang the Bastard
, each and every one of these songs will leave you out of your chair and on the floor. All in all, there are 7 songs and each one of them is comically perfect. Let's not also forget that the script itself is hilarious. The dialogue is funny as hell, the characters are all well drawn for what this movie is (a film made by a college kid, picked up by Troma) and the continuity even follows the true facts of Alfred Packer (believe it or not). Sure the Japanese Indians and Cyclops are made up, but most everything else is true. So with a worthwhile project, you can move forward to the second rule...
Rule Two: What kind of extras do you have? Making a DVD special edition requires that you put special stuff on board. Trailers, cast and crew info and fun menu screens aren't enough anymore. They're almost standard fare for DVD today. Troma recognizes this with
to the nth degree. They surely do put in fun animated menus. There's trailers for this film and four other Troma-fests, along with interviews with Trey, Matt and star/producer Jason McHugh. All that is great - but they keep going. The commentary track (featuring a progressively drinking-to-unconsciousness crew) is damn funny. It's interesting to listen to, but there could have been more information. It's one thing to be entertaining, but a good track should be informative as well. Mostly here, we are privy to a bunch of inside jokes that are funny, but have little to do with us. Also on board is some footage from a live performance by a theater troupe based in Atlanta. This is a very original extra, but there's very little impact. You'll watch it once, and never think of it again. You get to access the songs from the film, some of the usual Troma fare like the Troma Intelligence Test (version 2.0) and the tour of Troma. This thing's as full as a baked potato. All of it is great. All of it is funny. All of it makes for a damn fine special edition. But is this a damn fine disc? That brings us to the last portion of the rules...
Rule Three: How does it look on DVD? In this case, not all that great. It's serviceable, don't get me wrong. But video-wise, Troma DVDs aren't up to a very high standard. They are very digital looking, grainy and show preservation damage. That may not be a problem for most of you Troma fans, but it slightly bothers this one. Will this disc replace my video? You're damn skippy. But, that's a given. I'd like to see Troma work to improve their video quality. They can be a little bit better in my opinion (and most others too) . Now, that isn't saying this disc looks like crap, because it certainly does not. It's very watchable. I just feel like Troma should rethink how they transfer to digital. Sound-wise, the disc is fine. The source material was never anything to crow about, so this represents the film fine. I would have liked some captions or English subs, mostly because it would be fun to sing along with the lyrics.
Troma has a great team working on DVD and they're improving with every release. I just feel that if they spent as much time on the quality of the presentation as they do on the special edition stuff, they would rock our collective worlds. Better video quality from Troma is all I'm asking for. But, for what this is, I'd highly recommend this disc to all fans of Trey and Matt. If you have just one Troma disc in your collection, this one should be it. I would suggest having more - but that's just me.
Cannibal! The Musical
is a funny flick, and this DVD makes it even funnier. Check it out for yourself, and have a Shpadoinkle day.
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Queens park officials last year were scheduled to begin phase one of renovating the former Ridgewood Reservoir, but more than a year later no construction has begun and those same officials Tuesday said that is not going to change anytime soon.
The city Parks Department and Ridgewood residents have battled for years over what to do with the former reservoir, located in Highland Park, which was built in 1856 and used until 1989 to store a back-up water supply for Brooklyn and Queens.
Presently, the site, three wooded basins totaling at least 58 acres, is filled with wildlife, including 100 bird species, according to Gary Giordano, district manager of Community Board 5, which wants the city to leave the reservoir alone.
"Why take a natural place and make it into ballfields when you have ballfields that aren't being taken care of right nearby in the same park?" he asked. "Thankfully, the mayor had a vision five years ago for a nature preserve and got this project funded with millions of dollars .... If the mayor didn't have the vision environmentally to do something with the reservoir, that project would never have gotten done."
But the project has not been completed. Years later, in fact, it has not even begun.
The Queens Parks Department last year hosted a series of meetings with community residents in Ridgewood and Glendale to find out what they want to happen with the reservoir and it became apparent the communities were divided over whether to make it into park space, a natural reserve or a combination of the two.
"None of that stuff has been decided yet," Queens Parks spokeswoman Trish Bertuccio said.
But the department did decide to move forward with phase one of the project, improving safety measures, which includes repairing concrete stairs in the reservoir, widening turns in the perimeter path, installing or repairing lighting along the path and building an observation path on a causeway between two of the three basins.
Phase one also included building a perimeter fence around the basin, but city officials and the community board disagree on how tall the fence should be.
"We've had issues as far as phase one of the project goes with regards to the Parks Department only wanting a 4-foot fence for a good portion of the reservoir perimeter," Giordano said. "We don't think a 4-foot fence is tall enough to keep out the vandals."
Indecision aside, a Parks official said the phase one proposal first must be approved by city Comptroller John Liu before the project can move forward and that has not happened yet.
"I think it's safe to say a minimum of six months before anything actually gets on the ground, but that all depends on if the comptroller actually signs off on it and other things," the official said Tuesday.
After the plan is signed, it must go up for a construction bid.
"Usually the bid cycle lasts about three months. Then we will approve them and that might take another three months," the official said.
That means the project proposed no later than 2005 is not likely to begin until around December or later, but Giordano said that is not a problem.
"Sometimes it's worth waiting a little longer to do a better job as opposed to doing something wrong and having to redo it," he said. "It's usually better to have it done the first time."
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Tom Epperson-written drama "The Kind One" may have found its leading man on Casey Affleck. Variety reported that the acclaimed 32-year-old actor has been attached to star in the period nior drama project.
Based on Epperson's novel published on January 22, 2008, "One" sees the story of an amnesiac who finds out that he is working for a mobster and falling in love to the girlfriend of the gangster. The film is said to be set in Los Angeles in 1930. According to Variety, the script will be penned by Epperson himself when the writers' strike is over.
If Affleck indeed joins the project, he will once again work with producer Sean Bailey. Previously, he has teamed up with the producer in his brother, Ben Affleck, directed-crime drama "Gone Baby Gone". The youngest of the Affleck brothers has nailed various awards nods, including Academy Award and Golden Globe, for his performance as Robert Ford in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford".


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Organizations charged with helping Vermonters navigate the state's new health insurance market say its information technology (IT) systems are improving. But they are concerned about how ongoing IT hiccups and delays could affect Vermonters' ability to enroll in new plans before their current ones expire.
This summer, the Shumlin administration doled out $2 million in federal funds to 18 organizations. These so-called navigator groups and their 200-plus navigators are responsible for raising awareness and providing in-person help to Vermonters enrolling in the new health insurance market, called Vermont Health Connect. Navigator groups target different populations, from the uninsured to women to business owners and their employees.
While many of these organizations note success on the outreach and education fronts, their effort to enroll Vermonters on new insurance plans has been far less fruitful.
Lynn Raymond-Empey runs the Vermont Coalition of Clinics for the Uninsured. The organization supports 10 free clinics across the state and received about $205,000 in navigator funds to target uninsured and underinsured populations.
The organization has helped more than 8,000 Vermonters understand the new market and subsidies. The market got off to a rocky start on Oct. 1, and in 2014 the state is requiring all Vermonters buying insurance independently or via businesses with 50 or fewer employees to buy plans on Vermont Health Connect.
Part of the coalition's education campaign includes sitting down individually with the roughly 1,500 Vermonters who seek treatment at its clinics every month.
Raymond-Empey said that although the organization surpassed its projections for outreach, its enrollment numbers are far behind schedule due to IT issues.
"In the last week, we began seeing enrollments going through all the way to plan selection," she said. "The problem is: We're still having people where we go through the process with them and something happens with the IT in the middle of the application. We lose all of the data and information and end up having to reschedule with that person again."
The payment mechanism that would allow Vermonters to buy plans on the market is not yet functioning, and the state system is not fully connected to the two health insurers that are selling a total of 18 plans on the market — Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont and MVP Health Care.
"Everybody had been so focused on this being an online application system and this is the way to go that they hadn't really put in place a good system for going back to paper applications," she said. "There wasn't a good plan B in place. I think they expected to have some issues, but I don't think they expected the size and the amount of the difficulties just with logging in."
Raymond-Empey's chief concern is that thousands of lower income, working Vermonters will lose their current plans at the end of the year because the subsidized Catamount and VHAP programs are set to expire on the new year.
"We want this to work," she said. "We want to have more people insured. We're doing everything we can to work with the state to problem solve because VHAP and Catamount go away on Jan. 1, and each week or day that goes by that we can't successfully enroll people, it backs up and makes the demand for our work that much greater."
Raymond-Empey is not alone in her concerns.
The Vermont Chamber of Commerce
The Vermont Chamber of Commerce received the largest navigator grant in the state, worth $260,000. It is teaming up with some of the other 34 chambers across the state to target employers and employees who are required to buy health insurance on Vermont Health Connect.
The chamber has an experienced team of health insurance experts that is very familiar with the enrollment and billing systems.
For decades, the Vermont chamber has administered a health insurance program for the members of all chambers in the state. The program, VACE Insurance, currently covers about 4,000 small businesses and 18,000 lives. At the end of 2013, it will no longer exist, and those businesses and their employees must buy coverage on Vermont Health Connect.
Shannon Wilson, director of finance and insurance for the chamber, said that navigators "all along were being told that on Oct. 1, we'd be able to enroll people. There's only so much time, and the demand has been huge from the business community."
Wilson and the four navigators that work with her are booked solid through the end of November, and they had expected to enroll employers and employees during this time. But the market hasn't launched as planned.
The chamber struggled to even get its navigators logged in to Vermont Health Connect for the first two weeks, let alone enroll businesses. Wilson said the system has improved, but it is still ridden with errors, and one error can cause a business to restart a tedious process from the beginning.
Jan. 1 is when the plans of roughly 75,000 Vermonters are set to expire. Wilson and Vermont Chamber President Betsy Bishop say they were already concerned about the short time frame to enroll Vermonters in a completely new market. Add a constant stream of IT blips to the radar, and they say they doubt it is feasible to enroll all of the Vermonters who need insurance by that date.
"The math doesn't work," Bishop said, looking at her navigators' schedules. The navigators generally meet with employers for four to six hours, and many parts of the enrollment process that were supposed to be automatic are being done manually, she said.
"The math of the days and hours is what's of concern to us," Bishop continued. "The initial thought was that many of these folks would be able to go into the system on their own without a navigator. Since the website is not working, we're getting an increasing workload to help them, but there's not enough people to do that."
Bishop has consistently advocated in recent years to make enrollment in the market voluntary and provide plans outside of the market. She has thus far been unsuccessful in that push.
"The reason we thought it was really important to be voluntary is because anytime you move a big database, it's prudent to continue the existing database in the event things don't go as smoothly as you think," she said.
She also notes that the Legislature voted for and the governor signed off on a recent bill that included contingency language, which would allow Vermonters to keep their current plans in the event that the market is not functional. She said that language was included for an extraordinary circumstance like the one the state is now experiencing.
Republican legislative leaders called on the Shumlin administration to use this measure if the site was not fully functional by Dec. 1, but Gov. Peter Shumlin kept mum on any and all contingency plans at a Thursday press conference.
A different take on being a navigator
Peter Sterling, director of the Vermont Campaign for Health Care Security, says he and his group's two other navigators aren't as concerned about enrolling Vermonters on Vermont Health Connect.
At the present, they are more focused on raising awareness about the new market and its products than they are about trying to help people actually buy the plans.
"In this first month, 99 percent of the people I've talked to are really more interested in information gathering than they are enrolling," Sterling said. "This is a lot for people to process. Nobody has called me up saying, 'I need to be enrolled today, why isn't this happening?'"
Sterling said that he tells those who want to enroll to wait a few weeks for the state to iron out the kinks.
"I want consumers to have a good experience enrolling," he said. "I don't want to take the chance of the site crashing."
Sterling and his team are focusing on lower and middle income Vermonters earning up to 300 percent of the federal poverty line. Many of the Vermonters in that group are 18 to 30 years of age.
"The main challenge I encounter is that young people under 30 do not seem interested in receiving information about the exchange," he said. "Basically, they walk past me. Older people are much more interested."
Sterling says that most people have a low "health insurance literacy," and he finds that groups of fewer than 10 people are easiest to educate. He spends many days sitting by the Montpelier Department of Motor Vehicles and outside of public libraries.
He regularly zigzags the state to meet with Vermonters one-on-one, and he regularly follows up with these residents.
"I would never view it as a waste of time to drive an hour to talk to four or five people," he said.


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Best Of :: Bars & Clubs
As frenetically fun and fashionable as indie dance nights like Electrostatic are to attend, the haute hipster hangouts can seem a bit blasé and predictable after a while. (If you've seen one 20-something dressed in American Apparel dropping Laidback Luke and La Roux remixes, you've seen 'em all.) Thank God, then, that our city has the Rock&RollDancePatrol around to liven things up and save us from tedium with outrageous exploits. A quintet of well-coiffed local scenesters, the RRDP bill themselves as "26th-century DJ superstars" and have appeared at such weeklies as Jared Alan's fauxShow and the Retro Hi-Fi at SideBar — and they tend to steal the show. Though true identities of this foxy five are top secret (they go by such nutty nom de guerres as Dance Armstrong, The Royal Ruffian, and Dude Huge), their off-the-wall antics are a matter of public record. RRDP members Honey Bear and Disco Tex integrate sweet guitar licks with laptop-driven electro, indie, and pop tracks as the rest of the team performs spastically choreographed dance moves. And they do it all whilst dressed in kooky or coordinated costumes, ranging from sleek business suits to a mix of ski masks and gym wear. DJ William Reed, whose defunct Shake! affair at the Rogue hosted the debut of the patrol in March 2009, describes them as a "fun and campy" experience. "It's a little corny but definitely entertaining," he says.
So you've had a couple of drinks and someone hands you a microphone while a canned instrumental track of your favorite '80s song starts to play. You're ready to tear it up, but it's hard to feel like a rock star when you're following a bouncing dot across a TV screen. If you really want to feel like a superstar (or just a glorified drunk), get onstage at Blue Martini Lounge on a Monday night, when local cover band The Instant Classics will back you up. This solid, seven-piece band has an extensive repertoire of songs, from Lady Ga Ga and Pat Benatar to Bob Seger and Snoop Dogg. They even have a keytar player with a mohawk, so you can rock that Flock of Seagulls song. The audience at Blue Martini is generally very enthusiastic and supportive, and they'll cheer for you whether you burp into the microphone or not. And if you get up there to croon Sinatra's "My Way" and find yourself frozen with stage fright, never fear — there are three singers in The Instant Classics who'll be happy to make it sound like you're just, uh, harmonizing.
Before its unveiling in January, Revolver Lounge was hyped as one of the hottest new clubs to hit Old Town. Thanks to an air-conditioning eff-up on opening night, that literally was the case. The sheer number of tanned and toned bodies crammed inside the Western-themed Stetson Drive swanketeria caused things to get steamy. (Guess everyone had to cowboy up.) While the snafu was fixed double-quick, the place hasn't cooled off since. Formerly home to the similarly stylish SIX, it's just as in vogue as its predecessor. Conceived by owner Steve McDonald as an upscale dancehall with a Scottsdale twist (hence, antique chandeliers sharing space with posh couches), it's had packed weekends all year, hosted a SMoCA shindig in the spring, and welcomed pop star Rhianna on her 22nd birthday. Revolver's proved so popular, in fact, that Southern-style Shotgun Betty's opened up down the block mere months later. Those copycat cowboys!
There are plenty of delish cocktails we could recommend at Sens, Johnny Chu's always-fabulous Asian tapas hot spot, and we're delighted that they've finally built a bigger bar to accommodate our cravings. But if you're looking for a new twist on an old favorite, we humbly suggest the Hot and Dirty. It's got all the dirty martini basics — olive juice, vodka, ice, and a big, fat olive — but it's also got a nifty lil' addition that will blow your mind. Namely, shochu, which is ostensibly the Japanese version of vodka. At Sens, they infuse this liquor with the hottest of Thai chilis, so you get both hot and cold in every sip. If you're not a fan of hot and spicy, don't order this drink. But if you're willing to give the heat a try, just ask the bartender: He or she'll be happy to work with you by adding more vodka and less shochu. They may push the envelope at Sens, but they're not sadists.
These days, everybody wants to prettify the martini with rose petals or gold flecks or God knows what else. But what the hell is a martini except a way to convey the maximum amount of gin? And that's why we've been increasingly enjoying martinis at bars that would never dream of listing a martini as a house specialty. At an old-school watering hole like downtown's Seamus McCaffrey's, the focus may be on the Scotch, but we guarantee they'll pour you a perfect martini should you order one: icy cold, slightly dirty, and with at least three shots of gin. God bless Seamus McCaffrey.
During our probably-too-long drinking career, the bloody Mary had ranked near the bottom of our desired beverage list, hovering somewhere around a Smoker's Phlegm (Jägermeister and mayonnaise) in the gross department. That's until we hit up Carly's Bistro during its weekend brunch and ordered the eatery's version of the drink, which includes V8, vodka, balsamic vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, pickle and olive juices, various spices, horseradish, and hot sauce. And, wow, Carly's version of this hair-of-the-dog remedy actually rocks, especially when a lovely bartender by the name of Ann makes the beverage.


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HAS Herefordshire Council's policy to cut the grass three times a year become no grass cutting?
The grass verges around Ledbury are so long now that a child waiting to cross the road cannot be seen by drivers.
Is it going to take a fatal accident for the council to wake up and see sense?
When they do eventually get out into our towns I assume they will use combine harvesters to gather the hay, otherwise the cuttings will rot and add 'smelly' to unsightly.
I notice the latest saving is fortnightly bin collections. Yes, it works in other counties because they have separate arrangements for food waste collection. Clearly, our council has taken the saving without looking at the other side of the coin.
Councillor Harry Bramer is quoted as saying, "this enables us to focus on the key priorities of investing in services designed to make sure the children and adults live healthy and happy lives".
I would suggest that healthy and happy might include not having food waste sitting around for a minimum of two weeks and not having dangerous driving conditions on our roads.
Sadly, saving money in one area will lead to cost in another.
Might I suggest a 10 per cent reduction in council tax to compensate us all for the awful state of our market towns, and the establishment of food waste containers at the town hall. Finally, a serious look at the huge salaries paid to some of the senior council employees would appear appropriate if we are serious about these cuts.
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 12:52 am
Post subject: Merchant Services
Merchant Accounts are for people who do a large volume of transactions and need a monthly service. This is equivalent to a store front business having a credit card and banking service.
They have NO application fee, NO setup fee, $.05 per check for checks by web, 2.39% plus $.25 fee for credit cards, fast approvals, and seems ideally tailored to small and individual businesses.
Past credit problems not a problem. Users of this site have reported excellent success rate getting a merchant account there. Does not accept international or adult merchants at this time. When you close down your account, they charge you $75.00. They don't tell you this until you signup.
Paybyweb.com has been online since 1998 (in business since 1992) and provides merchant accounts set up in one business day for most business type, including online pharmacies, adult, merchants on TMF, and other high risk merchants. Low risk accounts begin at 2.19% and .30 per transaction with no set up fee! High risk accounts have a $60 setup fee (refundable if you are not approved) and rates comparable to the market. Also provides online checks, EFT's, bank verification, IVR, etc.
Intelli-Collect: is trying very hard to setup people with their own merchant accounts. They do e-checks and credit cards. Credit Cards: Swipe rate of 1.59% + .19 and MOTO/Internet rate of 2.17% + .24, E-checks flat rate of .25-.50 per transaction.
The above three sites where recommended by our friends from paypalsucks.com. Make sure to do your research before signing up with any merchant account service. Powersellersunite.com does not endorse any of the above sites.
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Location: lamps.LDGifts.com
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 12:46 am
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I started to sign up for Charge.com, but stopped when I saw they will charge you $75 to close your account. I had problems with one merchant account, and don't need to be charged if I have another.
Thanks for the links, though.
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:31 am
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Does that information become available during the sign up process? Is there a termination fee if you close within a certain time frame or do they charge you that regardless? What is your experience with other Merchant Services?
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 11:27 am
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That info does not come available until the very end of the sign up process on the actual application. I didn't like that, either. I like to know all costs up front, and feel I am being lied to if they don't show me beforehand.
I was with GoEmerchant in the past. Not only did I have to wait 2 weeks for my money to hit my bank account, that they set up. When I tried closing it down, they sent me an email to fax something to them, but it got sent back to them because I did not have enough space in my email box. Instead of them calling me, or writing a short email to let me know, they just continued to charge my credit card for monthly fees. Not only that, but they never gave me info on the actual bank...or told me I had to close that account separately. They never faxed my info to the bank. I was very displeased...they were out to get money.
Well, that is my experience with a merchant account. I think my bank uses wells fargo, and since they are our mortgage company also, I may try them. I will look into it.
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Location: Maple Ridge BC
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:45 pm
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Hi greedygert,
Thanks for the information, I will checking a them out this week.
I really need to get a new service for my website as I have no intent to keep with an ebay afilaite paypal for too much longer.
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Location: Monterey Bay California
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:33 pm
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I use www.paymenow.com but if you only have a few transactions to process I would suggest www.propay.com it's basically $40 a year then a transaction fee per transaction. That way there is no termination fee. If you choose not to renew you're already paid for the current year.
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Location: Big Moose Lodge
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:56 am
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If your looking for a true Merchant Account for accepting credit cards without paying the price of a third party service, contact your local Wholesale Club, eg: Sams Club, Costco. They all have financial departments that cater to small and large businesses.
We dropped paypal fees altogether and are paying LESS now with our own Merchant account.
Plus the fact that you are in control of any potential fraudulent charge backs instead of having the 3rd party fight on your behalf.
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Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:31 pm
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bigmooselodge wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")If your looking for a true Merchant Account for accepting credit cards without paying the price of a third party service, contact your local Wholesale Club, eg: Sams Club, Costco. They all have financial departments that cater to small and large businesses.
We dropped paypal fees altogether and are paying LESS now with our own Merchant account.
Plus the fact that you are in control of any potential fraudulent charge backs instead of having the 3rd party fight on your behalf.
I looked into Costco merchant accounts (via Nova), and they are the cheapest I've seen, so far. http://www.novainfo.com/costco/index.asp
They also provide a gateway, via "viaKLIX"
Any one have any experience with either of them? And can they be used to process payments through Ebay?
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Also you can check with ChronoPay.com they have no monthly or annual fees, they provides everything you need to accept and process payments by credit and (some) debit cards online. They are reputed and reliable payment processor with intelligent fraud protection system.
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Watch out your credit card processor, don't matter they are big or small, they can do more harm to your business than the credit card fraud itself.
I have a web site selling printer supplies as well as some office supplies. I was using Elavon, formerly call Nova, affiliated with Costco and a subsidiary of US Bank, as my credit card processor for last 2 years. Last October, they suddenly withhold my account before even notice me there was a inquiry request. The inquiry request was issued because the accounting department of my customer fail to recognize the transaction but later their boss clarified the transaction was totally legitimate. However, even with all document and explanation sent to Elavon, they ignored the fact and making up their own explanation. Elavon kept withholding money from my account, and later cancel my account without any reason provided. I even could not get access to contact the department took the action against me.
Later, it got worse, Elavon went into my bank account tried to withdraw $23000 ($23000 is an unknown amount, even the transaction with inquiry was about $9000). Even they did not took all $23000 but successful took all the cash in my account including the overdraft. Certainly, I made complaint to Elavon as well as the Federal agencies. Elavon not only provide no explanation but insisted they have all the right to do so.
At this moment, my business had almost immediately shut down. With no cash, and credit card processing account canceled, I even do not have the money to pay tax. Fortunately, I got some corporation accounts and they just paid in time to ease the problem.
After I brought my complaint to OCC (Comptroller office of Currency) and FTC, Elavon finally provided some reply in writing and they said they took the money because of "future obligation." The explanation is totally ridiculous, I did not have any chargeback or complaint, the only inquiry request was settled a month ago, the future obligation is not exist. Furthermore, In November, Elavon tried again to withdraw money from my bank account and this time in the name of service charge. However, the charge they tried to withdraw was more than the statement stated and again no explanation provided.
I was forced to close my account then and Elavon used it as a reason to withhold my money for 2 more months.
Not until January, 3 months after, I finally got my money back but Elavon already deducted some unknown charges without any explanation.
Credit card processing is basically a un-regulated industry. As the banking system in turmoil, credit card processors associated with banks can easily using any excuse to steal money from merchant to cover up they financial problem. Unfortunately,merchants' money is totally unprotected, not by FDIC or any specific agency. And even if you have complaint, the federal agencies are reluctant to take care.
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Can drooping of the lower eyelid be repaired as a result of recent upper & lower eyelid surgery? I am a 65 year old woman. I had upper and lower eyelid blepharoplasty with laser of the lower eyelids a little over a week ago. My lower right eyelid is drooping, it's away from the eye. Can this be corrected, how will it look, and how long should I wait to have a procedure done and how can I find a good doctor. Thank you for your help.
How Long Should I Wait to Fix Lower Eyelid Drooping After Blepharoplasty?
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Your eyelid may come back on its own without need for additional surgey. In the mean time, you need to protect the eye. Contact your doctor, see him. He may prescribe taping, drops, patches. Be patient, you need to give this time to heal.
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Change is Gunna Come
Posted By Alex Belth On March 16, 2012 @ 8:16 am In 1: Featured,Spring Training,Yankees | Comments Disabled
Here's Chad Jennings on Michael Pineda's outing yesterda [2]y:
"That's my baby," Pineda said. "I threw a very good slider today, but I'm very excited because my changeup was great. I threw a lot of changeups today and felt comfortable. … Last year, I didn't throw a lot of changeups, so this year, I'm focused a little more on my changeup and making a good pitch all the time. I'm not worried about my fastball. I don't know how my fastball is right now, but it feels good."
That's the progress the Yankees were hoping to see.
"It's nice to have success when you're working at something," Girardi said. "If you're making a change or you're trying to learn a new pitch, it's nice to have success because I think if you don't, you're going to get frustrated, and you're going to question, do I use it or not? But he's had some success."
And more, from Russell Martin [3]:
"I think he was like 88-90 in Clearwater, so it's coming along. I'm not worried about it. I just want to see the guy pitch. He's a pitcher like anybody else out there. I just wanted to see him execute pitches. His velocity, he has it in him, it's just a matter of time. As soon as you put on your uniform, you're in New York and you get the juices flowing, the velocity is going to pick up no matter what."
…And if you're looking for more fastball specifics: "(Pineda) was a little inconsistent trying to throw his fastball away to right-handers. It looked like he was pulling off a little bit." Martin said it's an easy thing to correct and could be fixed in a single bullpen.
I'm really looking forward to seeing this kid pitch.
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Like your world records on the shady side? Then you might enjoy a few more of the most notable "records" we've seen.
Mystery of the Nile
Do you pack a rod and reel with you when you vacation? If you're like a lot of anglers, you try to schedule your vacations near great bass fishing destinations like Orlando, Fla., Birmingham, Ala., or Cairo, Egypt.
Well, according to the tabloid Weekly World News, Fred Crellon, an insurance salesman from Atlanta, Ga., was ready for any fishing opportunities when his tourist group went to visit the Great Pyramid at Cheops.
"And while everybody else was gawking at the pyramid, I sneaked down to the bank of a little lake that formed when the Nile flooded a few weeks earlier," Crellon was quoted as saying. "I had a plastic worm on the end of the line and flicked it out about 35 yards. [That's a pretty healthy "flick," Fred!] As God as my witness, the lure had not even hit the water when that bass came up like a rocket."
"That bass," which Crellon said "fought like nobody's business," weighed 24 pounds, 8 ounces and cost the angler $75 — the fine for fishing without a license.
Although the wildlife officer who ticketed Crellon was there to witness the catch (he also forced him to release the fish) and a British tourist snapped a photo of the leaping largemouth, no other images of the catch exist, and Crellon's application for world record status apparently never made it to the IGFA.
April Fools!
Here at B.A.S.S. we take pride in staying on the leading edge of all things bass fishing, but it was Sporting Classics that broke the story of Roy "Peg" Greer in their March/April 1997 issue. According to the article, the one-legged 68-year-old South Carolinian caught a 22-pound, 7-ounce largemouth from Walker's Slough in the Palmetto State on a homemade crankbait that he cast with a Zebco 33 spincast reel.
As the story goes, Greer walked right into the offices of Sporting Classics to show off the fish and there learned he might make some money on a new world record. According to the article, Greer's nephew — who had carved and painted the lure — was the first to cash in, selling the rights to the bait to Norman Lures for a tidy $25,000. It was to be catalog number 419-7, but another way of looking at the number would be 4/1/97 — April Fool's Day, 1997.
Though the magazine story never actually lets readers off the hook by telling them it was a joke, there was at least one other clue that Sporting Classics was having a laugh. If you rearrange the letters in Roy "Peg" Greer, you get "G-e-o-r-g-e P-e-r-r-y," the lone record holder at the time.
My Kingdom for a Scale
Unlike "Peg," Paul Duclos had both of his legs. What he lacked was a scale. So when he cast a Castaic Trout swimbait into 74-acre Spring Lake (Calif.) in March of 1997 and pulled out a mammoth bass, he had a problem. How do you find out what a bass weighs if you don't have a scale and aren't willing to keep the fish out of the water long enough to get to one?
Duclos' first effort was to call a nearby tackle shop and ask the owner to bring a certified scale down to the water. No luck. Then he called his wife and asked her to bring the couple's bathroom scale to the lake.
When she arrived and set the scale on the dock, Duclos stepped aboard. One hundred and eighty pounds. Next, he lifted the fish out of the water and stepped on the scale again.
This time it read 204 pounds — a 24-pound difference!
The weighing was witnessed by Duclos' wife and a Coast Guard commander who was also on the water that day. Several photos were taken.
At first, reports of the fish were confused and confusing. Did Duclos know that the existing world record was 22 pounds, 4 ounces? (Yes, he did.) What were the fish's measurements? (Wild reports said it had a 39-inch girth.) Was the fish a cross between a Florida largemouth and the northern strain?
We'll never know the answers to some of these questions because Duclos released the bass right after he weighed it.
The speculation started a feeding frenzy among the media and record hunters. Duclos was accused of everything from using a mounted bass in the photos to stuffing the fish with lead to fishing with live trout (illegal in California). He and his wife were harassed by disbelieving anglers for months after the catch.
"I'm happy I let the fish go," Duclos said in the June/July 1997 issue of Outdoor Life. "If I had kept it, my life would have been a living hell."


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JPEF's 2012 Youth Writing Contest has been extended until May 10th! Please visit our contest page for more information, including best practices for students and teacher tips with useful ideas for using the contest in the classroom.
Devon Day of Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, CA recently sent us some of their own suggestions to help students choose a focus for the contest. This year's topic centers on how the stories and life lessons of women partisans can inspire people today to make the world a better place.
Devon teaches Film Analysis to 150 students and is incorporating the contest into her curriculum. She asked a think tank of women activists to help her brainstorm resources and examples her students could use as inspiration in connecting the experiences of women partisans to contemporary subjects. Here are some key contemporary issues that the think tank came up with:
- Modern resistance movements, particularly people resisting and fighting back against genocide
- Contemporary women's struggles for rights and civil liberties
- Overcoming traditional gender roles (particularly women in the military)
- Resisting/surviving sexual harassment and assault
- Standing up to bullies and bullying
- Risking your safety to helping others in need
Specific examples of such stories include Sunitha Krishnan who saved 11,000 children and women in India's sex trafficking market and Dolores Huerta who worked with Cesar Chavez to bring rights to farm laborers and their families, and has expanded her foundation to work for gay rights, women's rights and other causes.
Resources that could help inspire essayists include:
- CNN heroes list — everyday people who stepped up to make a difference
- Includes a profile of three impressive projects started by young people
- President Obama's anti-bullying initiative
- Education as a form of resistance, such as Finland's school reforms
The Youth Writing Contest is a fantastic way to connect teens to the pivotal role the partisans played in history. When learning about the stories of the partisans, educators should encourage students to identify the main ideas and lessons from what they have researched through JPEF's films and study guides. Then, educators can have their students relate these ideas and lessons to one of the ideas listed above, or other relevant issues in their lives.
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Thread: Is having a great LT overrated?
I can do that too.
How many SB victories does Joe Thomas, Russell Okung, Jake Long, Trent Williams, Ryan Kalil, Jason Peters, Jared Veldheer, or D'Brickashaw Ferguson have?
I think our two perspectives indicate one truth: the QB is the most important position and in today's NFL it is impossible to get to and win a SB without great QB play.
Everything else matters, but in varying degrees and they are all dependent on the QB being capable.
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Also, the three LT prospects in this draft are by and large considered some of the best overall players, so that doesnt necessarily prove or disprove that LT's are vital for the success of an offense.
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Re: Is having a great LT overrated?
It's the speed in footwork. Either you have it or you don't. You can teach the techniques but not the speed.
The thing that makes Suggs great is he gets by his blocker in 1 step - that's all. That's speed.
JJ always said he doesn't have the speed or natural skills that Suggs had and he had to work for everything.
Same with JO. He had the natural speed for footwork. He had natural abilities in all the techniques. He didn't have to work like JJ. It just came natural to him - that and his
great size with the long 36" arms, wing span and size.
You can go over footwork techniques like they do with CB drills but the speed is what
makes it go. You gotta beat those great pass rushers with footwork speed and techniques.
KO didn't have it on the end and that's why they moved him back.
You either got it or you don't and neither Oher or KO had the footwork speed. Look
how KO improved after moving back to his natural position. He had less area to cover
and had Mac and Birk covering for him on both sides. Despite his great size he was
a LG in college.
He was asked about that when he was drafted. He said I was always a LG but will play
wherever the put me. He tried it at RT and failed but excelled back at his natural
KO and Mac looked like Mount Rushmore on the left side. That's when we started winning.
I really hope they don't tamper with that but they might have to.
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Suggs was a bad example. He ran a slower 40-time than Upshaw and Suggs has never been a speed guy. Suggs knows how to set up linemen with outstanding strength and pass rushing moves.
KO played LT at Iowa State...not LG.
If the Ravens bring McKinnie back for one more season then they could leave KO at guard and he would stand a good chance at making the pro-bowl. However, I dont think the Ravens really want McKinnie back. Sure, they have acknowledged to the media that there is some interest, but at this point I dont think it is substantial interest. Based on last season - if you dont buy the "McKinnie was hurt until Jah Reid got hurt" scenario - I think it was pretty obvious that McKinnie had worn out his welcome with the organization. Simply stated, McKinnie on an average day is a better LT than Oher on his best day. The fact that they weren't playing McKinnie and were basically experimenting with the OL all season leads me to believe that there is probably a very very very small chance that they actually bring McKinnie back.
Considering that, their best bet will likely be to move KO to left tackle, leave Oher on the right, and draft one of the many talented guard prospects in this draft and look at project LT candidates in the mid round.
Barrett Jones, Larry Warford, Travis Frederick, Justing Pugh, Dallas Thomas, Brian Winters, Jordan Mills and several others could be day-1 starters at LG.
Then look at Chris Faulk, Luke Marquardt, Roger Gaines, etc as project LTs in the mid rounds.
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Re: Is having a great LT overrated?
I said you can't teach the speed in footwork. You can go over the techniques but you have to have the natural speed to succeed on the ends. Oher and KO don't have that natural speed and failed miserably on the ends.
Suggs was a perfect example on speed. Its his natural first step that beats his opponents to the backfield. That's what the players say. I'm going by them not you.
The 40 time has nothing to do with it.
Suggs dropped to us because of his poor 40 time and Phil Savage who was at his workout at
ASU phoned Oz and said Suggs just dropped to us.
Yet, it's that first step that makes him the greatest on the outside. Nobody knew that except Phil and Ozzie. The rest were like you relying on his 40 time.
Re: Is having a great LT overrated?
And Suggs' quote about being a football player and not a track star is exactly what I was eluding to. He isnt fast. He never was. He is strong as hell, knows how to set up linemen, and he has an outstanding repertoire of pass rushing moves.
LaMarr Woodley is kind of a similar player. So was Joey Porter and IIRC, Mike McCrary. Outstanding pass rushers because of their ability to set linemen up, but not necessarily the most explosive player on the field. Hopefully Upshaw can develop those skills like Suggs did.
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Longer arms means pass rushers have a harder time getting into the body of a tackle and steering the tackle around. Tackles with long arms have the ability to use greater leverage. As athletic as Oher is, he will never have that leverage capability.
KO, btw, has 35"+ arma iirc.
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Re: Is having a great LT overrated?
That's why he dropped to begin with. The word "stupid" is plastered all over the book starting
at about p. 37 and on. Ozzie never read the book.
That's what I said all season about his hands. Doesn't use his hands well.
He wrestles his opponents and gets his hands up under the arm pits. Just pull out some old
tapes on him, especially at LT.
He doesn't use his hands as a stun gun hitting his man in the chest. Even I did that at my lowly level and we weren't allowed to use hands back in the 60s and 70s. We used our fists and
fore arms but I loved whacking my opponent in the chest and stomach when he jumped up
and raised his arms to block a pass. He lost his wind every time.
The arm pit hold goes back to his high school days as the book says and he never got rid
of it in college or the pros.
Re: Is having a great LT overrated?
linemen. Hell I loved it even though the shoulders hurt like hell after a while.
Yea, KO is perfectly built as a LT but played LG. That's why he was so cool to look at back at
LG along with the mammoth Big Mac next to him.
You're right about teaching footwork technique and if KO loses weight he'll add speed to that
footwork but he better get on the track every day in the offseason to do it and get one of
Ray's juicers drinking only carrot and broccoli juice-lol.
Considering Oher's life before meeting the Touhy family, I'd say the man has overcome some major obstacles regarding measured intelligence. I dont think the guy is ever going to win a Nobel prize or become a neurosurgeon, but you guys are acting like he cant even read. He's not Dexter Manley.
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I know I am in the minority, but I think under Castillo Oher could end up having his best season.
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Boxing is a risky injury-prone sport in which two individuals physically assault each other. It is therefore critically important that the boxers are equipped with proper boxing accessories not only to enhance their performance but to ensure safety. In fact, during earlier times there were not many sportsmen who took to boxing because safety boxing equipments for boxing were not available except for some boxing gloves.
Of course, today things are different and due to the ever advancing technology, the market is flooded with a plethora of boxing accessories. These accessories are designed to protect the boxer from likely injuries to various parts of the body.
If you aspire to be a boxer and want to enjoy playing the game of boxing without sustaining any devastating injuries, it is essential that you buy proper safety boxing equipments. When engaged in a boxing activity in which two players are fiercely hitting each other with their fists, it is crucial that the athletes are equipped with the proper accessories for safety as well as performance enhancement.
When appropriate safety gear is worn, boxing becomes as safe as any other contact sports like soccer, rugby or wrestling. The standard safety boxing accessories include head gear, groin guards, hand gear, shin guard, chest protector, boxing mouthpieces etc.
When buying boxing headgears, make sure they are well-padded as they are supposed to absorb the punches thrown at your head and also prevent from possible eye and ear injuries. An effective headgear is one that fits in comfortably, does not interfere with the eyesight and remains intact even when you are hit hard by the opponent.
It is equally important to wear a heavily padded groin protector to ensure that your groin or hips are not injured by a misplaced punch which quite often will land below the belt. A mouth guard is yet another critical boxing accessory as it protects the teeth from getting broken and also prevents possible damages and swelling of the lips. Mouth guards are usually worn inside the mouth, holding it perfectly in place with the teeth.
Boxing gloves are essential safe boxing accessories and they are needed even when you are training to box. But training boxing gloves and boxing competition gloves are different. A wrist protection is also of paramount importance to avoid getting hurt when you throw a punch at the opponent. Hand wraps are equally indispensable as they are for protecting the boxer's hand from injury, both during the training phase as well as in an actual boxing match.
From a safety prospective boxing is an intense sport; it is taxing on the body and requires much training and workout regiments. To assure total safety, it is not enough if you alone use safety accessories. It is necessary that your opponent must also wear the proper safety accessories designed specifically for boxing. Every boxer must understand and appreciate that the essential ingredient to success is not only practice, perseverance and confidence but also safety accessories.


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In the following post from OnSugar blog Live and Love, UrbanChicaLuv shares what's on her party playlist. Read her list, and then share yours in the comments!
Have you ever sat in your car listening to your local radio stations and wondered, "What is up with this music? And why do they keep playing the same songs?!" If you answered no, congrats. You must live in Florida. If you answered yes, I'm here to help . . . or at least try to help. My local radio stations lack . . . well, they just lack. This past Summer my boyfriend and I took a vacation to Florida, and on the drive there, I was amazed at the radio stations. It was as if my iPod was playing the entire time. I fell IN LOVE. Fast and hard. Back to my point, though; my radio stations don't play what I want to hear. And because of this, I search a variety of techno-like songs on the Internet. So, here are songs that bring out the party in me.
"Deja Vu" - Inna ft. Bob Taylor
"Miami 2 Ibiza" - Swedish House Mafia vs. Tinie Tempah
"The Time (Dirty Bit)" - Black Eyed Peas
"Patron Tequila" - Paradiso Girls
"Falling Down" - Space Cowboys ft. Paradiso Girls
"Bass Down Low"- Dev ft. The Cataracs
"Hey Baby" (Drop it to the Floor) - Pitbull ft. T-Pain
"One (Your Name)" - Swedish House Mafia ft. Pharrell
"I'm in the House" - Steve Aoki ft. Zuper Blahq
"Higher" - Taio Cruz ft. Travie McCoy
What are your go-to party songs? Let us know in the comments, and if you'd like to be featured on BuzzSugar too, start your own OnSugar blog!