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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's political organization is forming an outside, nonprofit group to support the president's legislative agenda.
The unprecedented move gives Obama a way to promote his agenda outside the confines of the White House and seeks to harness the energy from his re-election campaign into support for legislation.
Democratic officials say the group, Organizing for Action, will be announced Friday. The nonprofit will work on key legislative battles, train future leaders and local issues around the country.
Obama campaign manager Jim Messina will be national chairman of the nonprofit, which will be separate from the Democratic National Committee.
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To promote the work of the FAI/CIA and develop the sport of aerostation amongst balloonists and the general public.
The duties specifically include:
1. Media
To establish and maintain relationships with event organisers, pilots and the media to promote sport aerostation.
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What can be achieved in a few weeks of hacking
I'd say eight weeks of hacking, for an average student.
And yes, eight weeks of full time hacking. Given that Google are (generously) paying at a rate equivalent to $27,000 per year, my non-humble opinion is that any student not giving their full time attention is slacking. How many other student summer jobs pay $14/hour?
Actually, turns out I'm about a year out of date. SoC runs for 3 months [google.com] this year, so that's more like twelve weeks
I really don't feel that the suggestions are sufficiently epic in scale. I believe we need to think bigger, such as:
What could existing Perl projects such as DateTime, Module::Build or bioperl achieve with a 3 months of full time work?


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Kotobukiya's Armored Core kits, now with over 40 different models available, require easy snap fit assembly (made simple by included pictorial instructions), and do not need to be painted, although you may choose to customize or detail the weapons as you see fit. All of the kits in the Infinity Series feature interchangeable weapons, bodies, and heads for the ultimate in customization.
Koto's latest entry is the OMER TYPE-LAHIRE STASIS. Piloted by Otsdarva and the pinnacle of Omer Science's technology, the STASIS is a fearsome fighting unit on the battlefield of Armored Core For Answer. A powerful Next-type robot and one of the few to utilize aerial combat techniques, this unit is a perfect addition to the Variable Infinity Series.
The Stasis is tall and lean, with long thin legs and heavy shoulder armor. In fact, the unit's unique forward-bending legs are equipped with the "LG-LAHIRE" knee locking system allowing the model to stand up in a wide array of poses without external support. When it's time to attack, the MP-0901 missile system opens up just like in the game. Ready for battle, the Stasis comes with plenty of weaponry and the head, core, legs, arms, and rifles are all new parts. Standing 9 ½ inches tall, this fearsome unit is comprised of approximately 400 parts extreme poseability.
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A lot of exciting work has been happening in the recovery realm. On March 24-27, a Recovery Community Organization (RCO) Workshop was held in Boise and attended by about 50 individuals from across the state. The workshop was facilitated by Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) and was intended to help Idaho develop an RCO.
The goal of the RCO is to serve as the umbrella organization under which local activities, such as community recovery centers and other supportive services, can operate.
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Dulcinea Farms LLC, Ladera Ranch, Calif., offers several melon options, including cantaloupes, white netted honeydews, yellow-flesh watermelons and orange-flesh honeydews in addition to seeded, seedless and miniature watermelons.
The company's Tuscan cantaloupes are still popular, despite any challenges the category has seen over the last few years, according to John McGuigan, general manager and vice president of sales and marketing.
"This cantaloupe has such a great eating profile, retailers have seen consistent consumer demand for this product," McGuigan said.
Other companies also continue to see demand for cantaloupes, honeydews and other melons.
"We realized that mainstream America really does want flavor," said Jim Pandol, president of Pandol Associates Marketing, Delano, Calif.
Pandol Associates offers honeydew melons as part of their Sweet Babies product line, which focuses on providing great flavor instead of large fruit.
He said that despite the competition for a "share of stomach," specialty melons and other offerings still have a place in the market.
"Ultimately for us, as grower-shippers, we are competing for consumer attention, and we want to give them something special. We want to give them an experience," he said.
Tom Glenos, president of Kid's Choice Fresh Produce Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., sees specialty melons as an option to fill that need for a unique experience.
"There is a difference in flavor with the specialty melons," he said, specifically mentioning black melons.
"People like them because of the uniqueness of it," he said.
Kid's Choice also offers some yellow-flesh melons and seeded and seedless watermelons.
Feasterville, Pa.-based Abbott & Cobb Inc., made several advances in melon varieties before selling that portion of their business to Monheim, Germany-based Bayer CropScience.
Bayer has taken over the introduction of a new honeydew, called SummerDew, which is now being planted in about 95% of the productions in Central America, according to chief executive officer Art Abbott.
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Abbott also mentioned that netted melons have seen change over the past several years.
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Although I only worked there for around 3.5 years, being a Pre-Divestiture Bell System employee I can never pass up the purchase of an item that I believe could be from a period in time that pre-dates the break-up of AT&T and the Bell Operating Companies. I found this for sale on 11/17/2013 at a local flea market. The asking price that I hapily paid for this was 2.5 times the coin shown in the photo next to the pin. Yes, it is a 14K pin too. The backing has no precious metals markings on it so I doubt it is 14K too, but the pin itself weighs near 2 grams according to my digital scale. I am not sure if the stones are real diamonds because I do not own a diamond tester.
So, can anybody tell me if this is a 30 year pin, or some other award given to an employee for something else?


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text: Show Hide image Politics 18 December 2012 The F-word that backbench Tories use when talking about Cameron's Europe policy Cameron's hope of a fantastic compromise over Britain's EU membership is fantasy. Sign up for our weekly email * There is no stylish way to fetch awkward policy decisions from the long grass after they've been punted there. Early next year, David Cameron will make a speech on Britain's future relationship with the European Union. The intervention has been advertised for months and serially delayed. When it happens, Downing Street will pretend it is a stately stroll around the manicured lawn of prime ministerial strategy. No one will be fooled. Cameron is scrabbling around in the unruliest corner of the Westminster field, where rebellious nettles sting, because his party has ordered him there and told him not to come back without a referendum. It has to be the genuine article, too. Tory MPs won't be satisfied with some low-rent consultation offering a choice between different flavours of EU membership. Exit has to be on the menu. The Prime Minister has already blundered by allowing his Europe speech to acquire totemic significance. In a recent speech, he described the delay as a "tantric approach to policymaking . . . [It will be] even better when it does come." Such ribaldry tickled his audience but it broke a basic rule of political presentation: under-promise and over-deliver. Once billed as orgasmic, a statement of intent to withdraw from, say, the common fisheries policy is sure to be an anticlimax. Angry Albion Cameron has a sound reason for postponing decisions on Europe. It makes no sense to invite the British people to endorse EU membership when no one can say what the EU will look like after the crisis in the single currency has played itself out. The sceptics insist eurozone turmoil is an opportunity for the UK to muscle in and snatch back lost sovereignty. Cameron, they say, should withhold support for any new Brussels treaty until those demands are met. Setting a referendum date is vital to that plan because it would show fellow European leaders that angry Albion isn't bluffing. As well as being obnoxious as diplomacy, that strategy is wildly unrealistic. The powers that sceptics target for "repatriation" – the right to abandon swathes of social protection, for example – are locked up in treaty clauses that no other government wants to unpick. As eurozone members negotiate deeper integration to buttress the single currency, Britain's potency in EU decision-making is automatically diluted. As the centre consolidates, the UK drifts to the periphery. The challenge for Cameron is not to claw competences back from Brussels but to fight for the right to stay in the room when countries that use the single currency are making decisions affecting countries that don't. The hard-core sceptics know their repatriation demand cannot be satisfied within the EU; it is a euphemism for exit. Meanwhile, those Tory MPs who grasp the folly of Britain surrendering its seat on the board of the world's biggest trading bloc are getting nervous and starting to speak out. "There is a fantastic vision of an EU which remains a single market, including the UK but which in all other respects allows the UK to be outside," said the Home Office minister Damien Green in a speech on 11 December. "This is a fantastic vision precisely because it is a fantasy." On that point, Green agrees with Nick Clegg. The Deputy Prime Minister also describes the ambition to quit the EU without economic penalties as a "fantasy world". There are plenty of Conservative MPs who use the "f" word when talking about their colleagues' anti-Brussels zeal in private. They are reluctant to go public for fear of triggering civil war. The moderates find it maddening that their loyalty to the Prime Minister and their commitment to party unity cedes all the publicity to rebel wreckers. "Unlike them, we don't do blue-on-blue," says one pro-European Tory of the unilateral truce practiced by his dwindling faction. While one side of the party agitates for a populist arms race with the UK Independence Party, the less vocal wing doubts that the interests of the party or the British economy are best served by tinpot isolationism. The pragmatists talk a lot about "the Honda problem". This is a Downing Street coinage to describe the reluctance of big multinational companies – Japanese car manufacturers, for example – to invest in Britain if they think their factories might wind up on the wrong side of a European tariff barrier. Or they might at least delay investment until the situation is clearer. One way to achieve clarity would be to hold an in/out vote as soon as possible. The point has been made by Boris Johnson, ever attentive to Cameron wounds that might need salting. The Mayor of London knows there won't be a plebiscite this side of an election. Cameron can't campaign to stay in the EU on current terms without tearing his party in half and he isn't convinced that it is safe to leave – yet. No Fear Crew Tory ministers and aides increasingly talk about their euroscepticism not as a fixed view but as a journey. They say they are moving away from fear of what would happen if Britain opted out altogether. That mood is infecting the Prime Minister to judge by his latest rhetoric. When asked in parliament on 17 December whether he could imagine taking the UK out of the EU, Cameron replied: "All futures for Britain are imaginable. We are in charge of own destiny." The chief foil to the No Fear Crew in Downing Street is Jeremy Heywood, the Cabinet Secretary. His power has famously spread into the gaps left by Cameron's inattention to detail and his function in the Europe debate appears to be topping up depleted levels of prime ministerial anxiety about Britain being left out in the cold. That caution confirms some Tory suspicions that Whitehall and Brussels are part of one infernal bureaucratic brotherhood. Cameron has been holding out for a middle way. He wants a plan for changing the terms of Britain's EU membership that keeps all of the trade advantages of being inside the club while shedding the duty to honour its rules. That is the fantastic compromise that would unite his party; fantastic as in a fantasy. 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Title: Gustav Groeber collection, 1824-1930
Primary Creator: Groeber, Gustav
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Date Acquired: 00/00/1912
Languages: English, German, French, Greek,Modern(1453-), Greek,Ancient(to1453), Germanic(Other), Italian, , Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish;Castilian, Latin
Born 1844. Died 1911. World-recognized Romance scholar and a Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Strassburg. Celebrated for the encyclopedic breadth of his interests, which were clearly reflected in the titles of the 6,367 volumes and pamphlets comprising his library. Widely known as editor of the Zeitschrift fuer romanische Philologie and of the Grundriss der romanischen Philologie.
While his library was strong in general linguistics and classical literatures, it was particularly rich in Provencal and Italian literature and linguistics. Because of Professor Groeber's recognized position as a leading Romance scholar, he received nearly every brochure published in Germany relating to Romance topics over a course of more than thirty years. It would be almost impossible to duplicate the body of dissertations and other studies thus accumulated. This unique collection nearly doubled the number of books in the University's Romance Library at the time, making it an important center of Romance material.
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Retirement looming for long-time Penticton school district administrator
Faced with the unenviable task of guiding the school district through years of budget cuts, Ron Shongrunden regrets he won't be there to see the day when finances finally stabilize.
The Okanagan Skaha School District announced Wednesday that Shongrunden, its secretary-treasurer, will retire this spring.
"I would have liked to have seen us eliminate all our structural deficits before I left. I don't know if that's even possible, but it would have been nice to one year… go back to the board and say we have a few extra dollars to spend," Shongrunden said.
Nonetheless, the 58-year-old is proud of what he's accomplished during his career in the education sector, which began in 1980 when he was hired as an accountant with the then-Penticton School District. He rose through the ranks and was appointed to his current position in 2010.
In addition to his financial duties, he also helped plan the sprawling fibre-optic network that now provides phone and data service to school facilities, local government buildings and other community centres in Penticton and Summerland.
"He's certainly a leader in the province, if not North America, in the technology world for the innovations that have happened here, said Ginny Manning, chair of the school board. "What's been built here is second to none in terms of technology."
Manning said Shongrunden, whose total compensation package totalled $131,537 for the 2011 fiscal year, phoned her to deliver the news of his retirement, then made it official with a letter to the board last week.
The district has already begun advertising the position and Manning is uncertain if the search will include any internal candidates. She said Shongrunden is a "highly valued leader" who will leave behind a ""very fiscally responsible district."
Leslea Pryde, president of the Okanagan Skaha Teachers' Union, said her members will also be sorry to see Shongrunden go.
"The teachers respect him, so he's leaving big shoes to fill," she said.
Pryde added that she hopes his replacement will focus on the big picture and not just the numbers.
"I hope there's not somebody who's just worried about the almighty dollar, but is worried about the people who are in the system," she said.
Shongrunden said he's proud of the way the district has put people first as it grappled with budget challenges.
"We're still hard on the issues but we're trying to be softer on the people and make it easier for the cuts to happen," he said.
Shongrunden, who has three adult sons with his wife, Kit, said once he does leave work, he hopes to spend time renovating their home, travelling and developing an early literacy project, all while he's still young enough and healthy enough to do so.
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Calle_SWE wrote:Okay, I think that i am going to try The Spider, seems like a nice disc..
Do they still make the Pro line gremlin?
babyshades wrote:The Spider flies very similar to the ROC it is just smaller in diameter for tighter shots. A lot of people say it is a small ROC.
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Residents recall fateful day in Dallas
Some were in school. Some were in Dallas. Some were simply going about their lives when word came down 50 years ago today that President John F. Kennedy had been shot and killed by an assassin's bullet in Dallas.
It's a day that many Denton County residents will never forget.
Here are their recollections of the day that changed America.
Shock on the university campus
Denton lawyer William Trantham had planned on going back home to Dallas to see the parade on Nov. 22, 1963, but decided to stay in Denton. He was a student majoring in history and government at what was then North Texas State University. And as he headed into an English class, he heard from other students that Kennedy had been shot.
"I was thinking, this was just crazy, these rumors going on," Trantham said.
Then the English teacher came out to announce the news and class was adjourned for the day. Classes were canceled the following day as well, so Trantham met some friends at the student union. Someone had parked a car nearby, leaving the doors and windows open and playing the radio so everyone could hear the newscast about the transport of President Kennedy's body.
"It was just eerie, very eerie," Trantham said.
He went home that weekend to visit his family. His father was a member of the Dallas police force and had filed a report of witnesses he'd interviewed that day. Trantham still has a carbon copy of the document his father typed. His aunt was an emergency room nurse who had seen the president's wound as they wheeled him in.
He went by the site where Kennedy was assassinated and it was filled with crowds of people. Elm Street was packed, too, with cars streaming past Dealey Plaza.
"There were thousands of flowers on the hill," he recalled recently.
Nuns, students in tears
Betsy Nelson, a school registrar and data clerk at Brockett Elementary School in Aubrey, grew up in the Chicago area and was a high school student attending an all-girls Catholic school on Nov. 22, 1963. The classes were primarily taught by nuns.
"Needless to say, they all loved our first Catholic president," she wrote in an e-mail to the Denton Record-Chronicle.
While she was in study hall, news came over the loudspeakers that the president had been shot.
"We were stunned and many of us started crying," Nelson wrote. "When the bell rang to change classes, I went to my music class (Glee Club) and the next announcement was the most unexpected and devastating one: the President was dead. All the girls and nuns were crying."
Nelson recalls staying glued to her television the next three days and the shock she felt seeing Lee Harvey Oswald being shot on live TV.
"It was surreal," she wrote.
She watched the president's funeral on television at a friend's house, and when the president's son saluted his casket, she recalls they "all lost it."
"Even then I knew the world was going to be a different place," Nelson wrote.
About 15 years ago, prior to moving to Texas, she said her family visited The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas.
"Watching the news footage of those days it was like NO time at all had passed," Nelson wrote. "I was back in high school and 16 years old again."
Downtown Dallas worker stunned by news
Denton resident Dianne Upchurch was 18 and working in downtown Dallas for the Liberty Mutual Insurance company typing insurance policies.
On the day the president's motorcade was to travel through Dallas, employees at the office were allowed to leave the building, go to the street and watch as the motorcade passed by, she said.
"We went and waved at the President as the car went by. Then we started back to work," Upchurch wrote. "By the time we arrived back to the office, he had been shot and everyone was upset and crying. I don't remember being upset, just shocked. But then, I was young."
A mother's tears
David McCall, a counselor at Butterfield Elementary in Sanger, was 7 years old at the time.
Playing in the backyard of his San Antonio home with his younger siblings, he remembers his mother coming out of the house crying.
"She called us over to her on the patio. She said, 'Someone just shot the president,'" he wrote in an e-mail. "We all just stood there for several minutes, crying. I think, being as young as we were, that we cried more because our mother was upset rather than the fact that the president had been killed.
"However, it is a memory that I can recall as if it had happened yesterday. It is an experience that has stuck with me that ranks right along with the Cuban missile crisis and the Apollo 11 moon landing."
Watching the transfer of power
Argyle school Superintendent Telena Wright was in the eighth grade at Ballinger Junior High in Ballinger in West Texas in November 1963.
Everyone paid attention when they were told what had happened in Dallas, she wrote in an e-mail.
"I do remember that even before the plane got back to D.C., Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the president of the U.S.," Wright wrote. "It taught me that anyone can be replaced very quickly. That stuck with me forever."
She remembers attending a church retreat in North Carolina two years later.
"Everyone there knew about Texas and Dallas. They were curious about us because of it," Wright wrote.
Police chief watched on black-and-white TV
Denton Police Chief Lee Howell was only 5 years old when he saw his mom get upset for the first time — it was Nov. 22, 1963.
"I remember the day pretty well," he said. "I was at home with my mom on Westchester Street here in Denton, watching coverage of the president in town on a little black-and-white television."
Howell remembered asking his mom about what was going on.
"I just remember her getting really upset all of a sudden and crying while saying, 'This can't be true.' ... It certainly left an impression on me even though I didn't quite understand the magnitude of it all at that time."
Too young to understand
Retired Denton County Sheriff's Sgt. Roger Griggs of Lewisville doesn't remember much about the day President Kennedy was assassinated, but he recalls that everyone was upset.
"I was in the sixth grade at University Park Elementary School," he said. "The principal announced JFK's assassination over the PA system and dismissed school early."
Griggs said he was too young at the time to realize the full impact of what had happened.
Toddler grew up with others' remembrances
Diane Forester, a kindergarten teacher at Brockett Elementary School in Aubrey, was 2 years old and living in Dallas when the president was assassinated.
Her family was Catholic, she said, and her mother intended to go downtown and assist the Catholic women who were providing a luncheon after the president's visit. But Forester was sick with a cold, so her mother stayed home to care for her.
The assassination was a big deal in her household, she said, and she still has the front pages from Dallas newspapers that her father saved, announcing the shooting and death of the president. Forester said she grew up hearing stories from her older brothers of watching the news and seeing Lee Harvey Oswald shot on live TV.
Remembering the details
David Stewart, a criminal justice teacher at Ryan High School, was 8 years old and a third-grader at Will Rogers Elementary School in Amarillo.
He remembers that the principal came over the school's public announcement system with important news.
"I remember him saying, 'Today the president of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.' I will never forget that day," Stewart wrote in an e-mail.
His teacher began to cry and so did all the girls in class. Students were released from school and sent home, he recalls.
"I remember watching on television the funeral procession and the one thing that stuck in my mind was the horse without a rider, the boots turned backwards in the stirrups, and the drums beating the death march the entire way," Stewart wrote. "I also remember watching on live television when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald in the stomach.
"It was a sad day for America."
A photographer's perspective
Resident Gene Gordon was a photographer with the Fort Worth Press during the president's visit. He snapped several photos that day of John and Jackie Kennedy in Fort Worth before the entourage departed for Dallas.
"Everyone was so happy that day," he said. "There were people lining the block to see a glimpse of the president."
Gordon also recalled an eerie conversation he had with a police officer that day. Gordon said at one point he decided to stand on a ladder to get in a better position for a picture. But shortly after, a police officer asked Gordon to step down.
"I told the officer, 'What's wrong? I'm not going to shoot the president,'" he said.
The president's visit was the talk of the region, Gordon said. And it was in a local sandwich shop during lunchtime in downtown Fort Worth when Gordon heard the news of the assassination.
"You don't forget where you were when something like that happens," he said. "The president was shot."
Sad for the children
Guyer High School Principal Barbara Fischer was 7 years old when President Kennedy was assassinated.
Nothing was said of what had taken place in Dallas at the small Oklahoma school where she was in the second grade, she recalls.
"When I got off the bus at my home, I could tell something was wrong," Fischer wrote in an e-mail. "My dad owned a horse sale barn and it was sale time so there were a lot of people at our house. Everyone was crying and watching the TV. My mom told me that the president had been shot.
"It scared me. I just sat and watched the TV with everyone."
She remembers how sorry she felt for the Kennedy children.
"I guess I related to them more than the president or first lady," she wrote. "I remember an overwhelming sense of sadness from everyone. The only thing I can compare it to is 9/11."
A college professor recalls
The fall of 1963 was the first semester Cecil Adkins had ever taught at North Texas State University — now known as the University of North Texas.
Every morning at 11 a.m., he taught a class in the College of Music, and when the students from his class distilled into the hall, the chatter centered on how President Kennedy had been shot.
"[Campus] was pretty stirred up, as I remember," he said. "I'm pretty sure that not much teaching got done the rest of the day. It was something no one wanted to believe, I think, or really could believe."
He navigated through the halls during lunchtime and headed home, immediately turning on the television to watch the news unfold. Adkins recalls being glued to the television screen and feeling shock.
"It was so sudden and unexpected," he said.
A sad Thanksgiving week
Denton resident Susan Keith was a 17-year-old North Dallas High School student in 1963.
"Many of my friends were excused from school that day to go to Love Field airport, or downtown or to line up along Turtle Creek in the Highland Park area of Dallas to see President Kennedy's motorcade travel from Dallas Love Field to downtown Dallas," she said.
Keith said she didn't attend the event because she didn't have a car, her parents were Republicans and because she had to tend to her yearbook editor duties.
"I do remember that I was in the library with several students after lunch that day instead of in class when the librarian hushed us and turned the radio up for all of us to hear the announcement that the president had been shot," she said. "She began to cry, and we were shocked, as were all Americans."
Keith said she watched the swearing in of Lyndon B. Johnson by Judge Sarah T. Hughes with Jackie Kennedy standing by, still in her pink suit. She said she also remembers watching TV when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald.
"Then we watched every minute of [Kennedy's] funeral the next week," she said. "And that week included Thanksgiving, which was a very sad holiday that year."
Staff writers Jenna Duncan, Megan Gray, John Harden, Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe, Bj Lewis and Britney Tabor contributed to this report.


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LINCOLN--Ernie Chambers of Omaha will reappear along with at least nine new faces when the Nebraska Legislature convenes in January.
The nine open seats also will bring some political newcomers to Lincoln, including rancher Al Davis of Hyannis.
With 77 percent of precincts reporting statewide, here is how races in Greater Nebraska stood:
District 43
Republican Al Davis of Hyannis will be the new senator of District 43, the seat vacated by Sen. Deb Fischer of Valentine.
With 80 percent of the precincts reporting, a close race had Davis with 52.6 percent of the vote. Davis is a rancher who graduated from the University of Denver with a degree in economics and history. He defeated Republican John W. Ravenscroft of Nenzel. Ravenscroft is a former Vietnam veteran and a rancher.
District 1
Republican Dan Watermeier won in a close race with 52 percent of the votes for Nebraskas First District. Watermeier beat out Democrat Jerry Joy of Stella, Neb., and is in favor of reducing property tax on agricultural land.
District 15
Incumbent Charlie Janssen of Fremont retains his District 15 seat with a 67 percent vote over recent college graduate Mike Peterson, with 62 percent of precincts reporting. Janssen pointed to his co-sponsoring of LB970, which lowered rates for the first three brackets of the state income tax schedule and LB959, under which Nebraska gives immunity from lawsuits to employers who give negative job references for former employees.
District 17
The incumbent, Republican Dave Bloomfield of Hoskins, has been re-elected to represent District 17. With 67 percent of precincts reporting, Bloomfield held 62 percent of the vote. Bloomfield served in the Army, was a farmer and served on the Jackson, Neb. school board. He beat out Van Phillips of South Sioux City. Phillips was a superintendent of schools for 31 years.
District 19
Jim Scheer of Norfolk takes District 19s empty seat left by Speaker Mike Flood, who was term-limited out, with a 79 percent lead with 77 percent of precincts reporting. Scheer was mayor of Norfolk for two years and spent two decades on the Norfolk board of education. Scheer said he would like to address ways to reverse the decline of population in rural areas and the important role education plays in that issue. Scheer competed against William Goodpasture, the former Stanton County commissioner who was arrested earlier this year for false candidate filing.
District 23
Republican Jerry Johnson of Wahoo will be the new senator for District 23, an open seat. With 64 percent of precincts reporting, Johnson held 53.8 percent of the vote. Johnson is the former Wahoo mayor and a retired farm co-op manager. He defeated Democrat Vern Barrett of Ceresco. Barrett taught at the University of Nebraska - Lincolns College of Agriculture where he was a UNL Leadership Extension Specialist.
District 33
Incumbent Les Seiler will keep his seat for District 33. Seiler, who is against voter I.D. bills, beat fellow Republican Marvin Butch Hughes, a retired farmer and contractor from Hastings. With 84 percent of the precincts counted, Seiler was ahead with 67 percent of the votes.
District 35
Incumbent Mike Gloor of Grand Island was unopposed.
District 37
Incumbent Republican Galen Hadley of Kearney will continue to represent District 37. With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, Hadley held 52.7 percent of the vote. Hadley is the former mayor of Kearney as well as the former Dean of the College of Business at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He defeated challenger Republican Josiah H. Woodward of Kearney who is the current Buffalo County assessor.
District 41
With 60 percent of precincts counted, District 41 has reelected incumbent Kate Sullivan of Cedar Rapids with 81 percent of the vote. Sullivan, who is on the board of directors for Cedar Rapids State Bank, ousted Brook Curtiss, owner and publisher of The Plainview News. Sullivan has had six introduced bills passed during her tenure, including the Oil Pipeline Reclamation Act, which mandates oil companies to take reparative measures to nature areas caused by construction of a pipeline.
District 47
Incumbent Ken Schilz of Ogallala was unopposed.
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WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. - After eating dinner at Leo's Coney Island Tuesday night Joel Zeidman and his 8-year-old son Aidan headed to their car. When they got in their car they noticed an envelope on the windshield.
Joel found a gift and a note that said: "Please accept this small gift as a way to honor the memory of a brave little boy named Pierce. today's gift is part of a commitment to make the world a nicer place and happier by practicing random acts of kindness."
The small gift was a $10 dollar Target gift card.
Joel said, "While you may buy anything you would like with this gift perhaps using it for something that makes you or someone else."
Joel wants to know who is behind this random act of kindness. "When I initially got this, i looked around and didn't see any envelopes on any other cars. So maybe they were just waiting for the right people."
He wonders who is Pierce? Joel wants to know his story.
"Something probably happened to him, probably not to good. And his parents or guardians want to get his name out to turn something tragic into something positive.
Joel says he is not going to keep the gift card, he is going to pay it forward in honor of Pierce. "It is important because someone reached out to me, I think it is important for me to reach out to everybody else."
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ENERGY STAR Change a Light Campaign
Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs
12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
Contact: Merni Fitzgerald, Director of Public Affairs
703-324-3187, TTY 711, Fax 703-324-2010
Media Pager: 703-324-NEWS (6397)
Dec. 21, 2007
Fairfax and Arlington Counties Win ENERGY STAR Change a Light Campaign
Named National Leaders in Promoting Energy Efficiency
Fairfax and Arlington Counties were recognized by the National Association of Counties (NACo) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for their leading efforts in promoting energy efficiency among residents.
NACo announced that Fairfax and Arlington Counties were the winners in the large and medium population categories, respectively, in the national campaign to encourage residents to pledge to replace one or more incandescent bulbs in their homes with compact fluorescent light bulbs that have earned the government's ENERGY STAR label.
"By simply committing to change the type of light bulbs we use in our homes, every resident has made a positive difference in the fight against global warming," said Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerald E. Connolly. "Lowering emissions requires collective action, and I am proud that the residents of Fairfax and Arlington have made this pledge. As we move into 2008, I hope that the federal government tackles this problem with as much creativity and dedication as the people of Northern Virginia."
Fairfax and Arlington Counties were among the nation's first jurisdictions to join the Cool Counties initiative, under which counties commit to achieving an 80 percent reduction in global warming emissions by 2050.
Both counties have launched environmental initiatives to reduce emissions from county operations. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has committed to a 30-year tree planting campaign, purchasing more wind power and expanding the use of green building practices. Under Arlington's Fresh AIRE (Arlington Initiative to Reduce Emissions) program, the county committed to reducing government greenhouse gas emissions 10 percent from 2000 levels by 2012. Arlington has also committed to releasing yearly progress reports; the 2007 report was issued on Dec. 11, 2007.
"If every household in Arlington replaced just one light bulb, Arlingtonians would save $500,000 each year and reduce CO2 emissions - the equivalent of removing 1,000 cars from our roads," commented Paul Ferguson, chairman of the Arlington County Board. "Localities like Arlington and Fairfax -- government, residents, and businesses -- have effectively pushed the federal government to adopt energy efficiency policies, such as phasing out the incandescent light bulb."
Winning counties were determined by the percentage of county population taking the pledge and were categorized in small (population less than 50,000), medium (population 50,000 to 500,000) and large (population more than 500,000) categories. This is the second year of the County ENERGY STAR Change a Light Campaign, sponsored by the National Association of Counties (NACo).
For more information, call the Office of Public Affairs at 703-324-3187, TTY 711.
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DETROIT - Super early birds encountered a messy Monday morning commute in the Detroit Area. Snow then sleet and freezing rain fell early, creating a slippery layer of snow and ice. The frozen precipitation caused a traffic nightmare in and around metro Detroit.
The thermometer will creep above 32 degrees after 8 a.m., but thawing will be slow and not occurring across all of Southeast Michigan simultaneously. Some neighborhoods will experience melting later than others. Therefore, people must drive defensively even if their thermometers have readings in the middle 30s.
Once the sunrises, periodic rain will fall the rest of the morning as temps rise into the 40s by lunchtime. Monday afternoon will have highs near 50.
Warm air remains over the Motown Area Monday night and Tuesday. Overnight lows will be near 40. Tuesday will have highs in the middle 50s. There is a good chance of tying or breaking the nearly one hundred year old record high of 58 degrees set in 1914. However, skies will be mostly gray with rain showers Monday night and Tuesday.
Tuesday night, Wednesday and the rest of the week will have a re-invasion of very cold air. Tuesday night and Wednesday will have falling temps from 40 into the 30s and scattered snow showers. Wednesday night into the weekend will have highs in the low and middle 20s and lows in the low teens and single digits with wind chills near zero.
Stay buckled in to Detroit's weather roller coaster on the Weather Page of ClickOnDetroit.com and on Local 4 News.
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The New School
Prototyping: An Exhibition in the Cloud at Berlin University of the Arts
Prototype: Exhibition in the Cloud is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Parsons The New School for Design and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) which seeks to challenge and reinvent received notions of prototyping, extending its design and industrial origin to encompass artistic imagination. The participating students come from a spectrum of disciplines including Design and Technology, Communication Design, Interactive Design, Fine Arts, Photography and Illustration. Prototyping is typically the foundation of any design-based practice; this workshop, however, seeks to subvert that tradition by means of a variety of artistic interventions. The project seeks to create a shared learning and production environment, a space for cross-pollination that is truly global, one not tied to a single geographic location. All research and outcomes produced during the project will be uploaded to the cloud and then later downloaded and produced for the exhibition using a variety of devices including rapid prototyping equipment, laser-cutters, hi-end photographic printers, and a variety of variety of other digital and analog means and methods. The content of the show will remain dynamic as the participants continue to upload new versions of their prototypes.Please visit http://cloud.parsons.edu/ for more information. The show is conceived in a way that transcends boundaries, borders, and customs and is meant to be a prototype itself, one that can be copied, reproduced on-demand anywhere in the world. The show has been downloaded and manifested in New York and plans are in the works to be reproduced in Shanghai and Paris later this year.
The opening reception will be held on Friday, January 25, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The exhibit runs from January 29-February 1, 2013.
Gallery HoursOpen daily 12:00 noon - 6:00 p.m. and late Thursday evenings until 8:00 p.m.; closed on all major holidays.
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Eleven ballot measures will appear on the 2012 ballot in the state of Florida.
All eleven measures are legislatively-referred constitutional amendment.
The eleven Amendments affect the following areas:
1—Education Amendment 12
2—Health care: Amendments 1 and 6
1—Judicial Reform: Amendment 5
1—Religion: Amendments 8
5—Local Taxes: Amendments 2,4,9,10 and 11
1—State Budget: Amendment 3
- All eleven amendments affecting the Florida Constitution will appear on the November 6, 2012 ballot.
- A legislatively-referred constitutional amendment is a proposed constitutional amendment that appears on a state's ballot as a ballot measure because the state legislature in that state voted to put it before the voters.
- A legislatively-referred constitutional amendment is a limited form of direct democracy with comparison to the initiated constitutional amendment. With the initiated constitutional amendment, voters can initiate the amendment and approve it, whereas with the legislatively-referred amendment, they can only approve or reject amendments initiated by their state's legislature.
- Florida: Section 1 of Article XI, Florida Constitution says that the Florida State Legislature can put a proposed amendment on the ballot if 60% or more of the legislators in each chamber agree to do so in a joint resolution.
- Florida Amendments need 60% of the vote in order to pass.


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A 21-YEAR-OLD woman had to call 999 after she set her oven on fire while cooking burgers.
Two fire engines from Bolton Central and Bolton North stations were called out to the incident in Jethro Street, Tonge Fold, after sparks from the fat in the beefburgers set the oven on fire.
The fire was out when firefighters arrived, but they inspected the cooker and carried out a fire safety check.


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Mental Health
Identifying Bipolar Children
My husband is bipolar and has had many problems with the disease, including believing there was nothing wrong with him. I have three young daughters (3, 5 and 7) and they have all exhibited signs of this horrible disease. More than average yelling or other childhood problems, they have begun being mean, screaming, disobeying me to the point of me giving up, blaming others for their problems, having tantrums, and other things that I just can`t think of right now. They are also all very bright. My oldest has been giving me the most trouble right now but they all have become little terrors at times. Other times they are the most loving, giving little girls you could find. They remind me so much of their father that I am afraid for them in the sense that they might have this disease too. My husbands whole family is plagued with this in some form or another, even his 15 yr old neice. What do I do to start now in helping my children ?
Thank you for your e-mail and excellent question. As you are discovering, bipolar disorder is highly genetic. However, keep in mind, "genes do not equal destiny." Just because other family members have a disease, it doesn't mean 100% that a child will have it, it just increases the probability. Even though the cause of bipolar disorder is probably biological, its course (or how it develops overtime) is influenced in positive and negative ways by environmental events (e.g., home life, school, friends, therapy, medications etc).
If you suspect your children have some sort of mood disorder, I would strongly encourage you to seek a psychological assessment of your children. The only way to find out if someone has bipolar or any psychiatric disorder is to get a comprehensive and detailed psychological assessment from a trained mental health professional. I would suggest calling your local un
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Mariners option Noesi to Triple-A; call up Farquhar
CLEVELAND -- Needing to bolster a worn-down bullpen, the Mariners selected right-hander Danny Farquhar from Triple-A Tacoma on Friday and optioned Hector Noesi back to Tacoma.
To make room for Farquhar on the 40-man Major League roster, reliever Stephen Pryor was transferred from the 15-day disabled list to the 60-day DL. Pryor, sidelined since April 15 with a torn latissimus dorsi muscle, is now eligible to be activated on June 14.
Farquhar, 26, has allowed just one earned run in his last 16 innings in Tacoma and provides Seattle some needed depth after the relief corps was spent in Thursday's 3-2 win over the Yankees.
Noesi made the spot start in that game in place of an injured Aaron Harang and allowed just one unearned run in 4 1/3 innings. Since he won't be able to pitch again for five days, the Mariners sent him down and brought up an available arm in Farquhar after using five relievers to finish up Thursday's win.
"We pretty much used everybody yesterday, so we have to stay on top of their workloads," manager Eric Wedge said. "Farquhar has been throwing well in Triple-A, so he was the guy."
Farquhar was acquired from the Yankees last July in the Ichiro Suzuki trade. He pitched three games for the Blue Jays in 2011, allowing three earned runs in two innings.
The 5-foot-9 Florida native was 0-1 with a 2.25 ERA in 15 games for Tacoma this season, allowing 17 hits with four walks and 30 strikeouts in 20 innings. Over his last 16 innings, he's held opponents to a .172 average with two walks and 24 strikeouts.
Noesi is scheduled to pitch Tuesday for Tacoma, but he would be available to return to the Mariners if Harang has to go on the disabled list. Harang is currently slated to pitch Tuesday in Anaheim, so Noesi could slide into that spot if needed.
"He was the odd-man out," Wedge said. "We're obviously thrilled with the way he threw the ball yesterday. [Pitching coach Carl Willis] and I talked to him today. That's what we're talking about. That aggressiveness with that stuff and the edge and focus he had out there, that's it. Now he's got to bottle it."
Pryor, meanwhile, has been a little slower to return than hoped, so it made sense to move him to the 60-day DL.
"He tried to play catch the other day and didn't feel great, so we backed him off that a little bit," Wedge said. "For a guy that size, with that injury and the way he throws, it's not the best scenario, let's put it that way. We knew when he started out it was going to be some time, but I don't think we knew how much time."
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada, and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 80,017, while the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, has a population of 344,615, making it the 15th most populous Canadian urban region.
Victoria is about from BC's largest city of Vancouver on the mainland. The city is about from Seattle by airplane, ferry, or the Victoria Clipper passenger-only ferry which operates daily, year round between Seattle and Victoria and from Port Angeles, Washington, by Coho ferry across the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Named after Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and, at the time, British North America, Victoria is one of the oldest cities in the Pacific Northwest, with British settlement beginning in 1843. The city has retained a large number of its historic buildings, in particular its two most famous landmarks, the British Columbia Parliament Buildings (finished in 1897 and home of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia) and the Empress hotel (opened in 1908). The city's Chinatown is the second oldest in North America after San Francisco's. The region's Coast Salish First Nations peoples established communities in the area long before non-native settlement, possibly several thousand years earlier, which had large populations at the time of European exploration. Victoria, like many Vancouver Island communities, continues to have a sizeable First Nations presence, composed of peoples from all over Vancouver Island and beyond.
Known as the "The Garden City", Victoria is an attractive city and a popular tourism destination with a thriving technology sector that has risen to be its largest revenue-generating private industry. Victoria is in the top twenty of world cities for quality-of-life, according to Numbeo.The city has a large non-local student population, who come to attend the University of Victoria, Camosun College, Royal Roads University, the Victoria College of Art, the Sooke Schools International Programme and the Canadian College of Performing Arts. Victoria is very popular with boaters with its beautiful and rugged shorelines and beaches. Victoria is also popular with retirees, who come to enjoy the temperate and usually snow-free climate of the area as well as the usually relaxed pace of the city.
Prior to the arrival of European navigators in the late 1700s, the Victoria area was home to several communities of Coast Salish peoples, including the Songhees. The Spanish and British took up the exploration of the northwest coast, beginning with the visits of Juan Pérez in 1774 and of James Cook in 1778 although the Victoria area of the Strait of Juan de Fuca was not penetrated until 1790. Spanish sailors visited Esquimalt Harbour (just west of Victoria proper) in 1790, 1791, and 1792.
In 1841 James Douglas was charged with the duty of setting up a trading post on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, upon the recommendation by George Simpson that a new more northerly post be built in case Fort Vancouver fell into American hands (see Oregon boundary dispute). Douglas founded Fort Victoria, on the site of present-day Victoria, British Columbia in anticipation of the outcome of the Oregon Treaty in 1846, extending the British North America/United States border along the 49th parallel from the Rockies to the Strait of Georgia.
In the latter half of the 19th century, the Port of Victoria became one of North America's largest importers of opium, serving the opium trade from Hong Kong and distribution into North America. Opium trade was legal and unregulated until 1865, then the legislature issued licences and levied duties on its import and sale. The opium trade was banned in 1908.
In 1886, with the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway terminus on Burrard Inlet, Victoria's position as the commercial centre of British Columbia was irrevocably lost to the City of Vancouver. The city subsequently began cultivating an image of genteel civility within its natural setting, aided by the impressions of visitors such as Rudyard Kipling, the opening of the popular Butchart Gardens in 1904 and the construction of the Empress Hotel by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1908. Robert Dunsmuir, a leading industrialist whose interests included coal mines and a railway on Vancouver Island, constructed Craigdarroch Castle in the Rockland area, near the official residence of the province's lieutenant-governor. His son James Dunsmuir became premier and subsequently lieutenant-governor of the province and built his own grand residence at Hatley Park (used for several decades as Royal Roads Military College, now civilian Royal Roads University) in the present City of Colwood.
A real estate and development boom ended just before World War I, leaving Victoria with a large stock of Edwardian public, commercial and residential buildings that have greatly contributed to the city's character. Victoria was the home of Sir Arthur Currie. He had been a high school teacher and real estate agent prior to the war, and before the end of the war he would command the Canadian Corps. A number of municipalities surrounding Victoria were incorporated during this period, including the Township of Esquimalt, the District of Oak Bay, and several municipalities on the Saanich Peninsula. Since World War II the Victoria area has seen relatively steady growth, becoming home to two major universities. Since the 1980s the western suburbs have been incorporated as new municipalities, such as Colwood and Langford, which are known collectively as the Western Communities.
Greater Victoria periodically experiences calls for the amalgamation of the thirteen municipal governments within the Capital Regional District. The opponents of amalgamation state that separate governance affords residents a greater deal of local autonomy. The proponents of amalgamation argue that it would reduce duplication of services, while allowing for more efficient use of resources and the ability to better handle broad, regional issues and long-term planning.
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I am afraid he is at his home with a remote in one hand and the mouse in the other, in total shock. Maybe his big old heart couldn't stand this kind of a team after all. Should the Pacers lose a game to just get him to snap out of it? If anyone has any news let us know if he is ok. Should someone call the mental health facilities or the nervous breakdown ward of local hospitals.
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Anyone else see that? WOW
If you didn't, they aired live the guy running from a police down a hill, then he stopped and shot himself right in the head, live on TV, they cut away but it was too late.
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Anyone else see that? WOW
If you didn't, they aired live the guy running from a police down a hill, then he stopped and shot himself right in the head, live on TV, they cut away but it was too late.
The anchor wasn't pleased that's for sure.
I know it's morbid as hell but here it is... http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...e-delay-375061 Welcome to the real world i guess.
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You know how hippos are made out to be sweet and silly, like big cows, but are actually extremely dangerous and can kill you with stunning brutality? The Pacers are the NBA's hippos....Matt Moore CBS Sports....
The first big deal here is that they had it on 5 second delay and still screwed it up.
The second big deal here is that Fox News will probably air an asinine segment on one of their shows tonight about violence in video games ruining America's youth.
The third big deal, and the harsh truth of the matter, is that we as Americans watch way more graphic stuff than that on an almost daily basis.
News organizations.... If you're going to take a situation live like that then take it and live with it. You've already made the choice that it is news... so let it play out. Let the pictures tell the story.
I'm more offended by the apology than the coverage. If you didn't want anyone to see something like that happen live, then don't take an out of control event like that and broadcast it as news... whether live or on 5 sec delay.
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
-John Wooden
Somewhere there was a mixup, the anchor seemed like he was seeing the delay feed while the viewer was seeing the live feed. I don't know who that's on, I assume the director.
Regardless, that's a miniscule question compared to why a random car chase needs to be deemed "Breaking News" that gets live coverage. It's not like the president's limo got hijacked.
The problem with 24/7 news is that there isn't enough real news to report. In this case, the only unusual thing was the suicide and the screener was asleep at the wheel. I would find it hard to stay awake too given the interest level of the "news". Internet news is the worst. Don't get me started on Yahoo.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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2.) Let's face it, people like to watch high speed car chases on TV. How else would World's Wildest Police Videos succeed without chase video?
3.) On the "shock" factor for live news coverage that still rates kind of low for me.
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tiltbillings wrote:Freawaru wrote:
two years ago I attended the Dalai Lama event in Hamburg and one of the speakers in the framework program, Prof. Dr. Th. Metzinger, held this lecture http://www.dalailama-hamburg.de/index.php?id=70&L=1The lecture of Thomas Metzinger will pursue the question how the sensation of I myself arises, which is the basis of all feeling and thought. How is it possible to imagine, that in an information processing system like the human brain a "phenomenal self" arises, a consciously experienced self? Metzinger will argue that there is no such thing like a substantial self but only a "transparent model of self". Then he will show that it is just as wrong to allege that the self is an illusion.
It was basically about that statement of mine and how that kind of image of the physical body arises in the mind. Our consciousness is - during normal conditions - just aware of that image, not the physical body itself. If you are interested in this topic from a theoretical point of view I suggest reading the various books of Metzinger.
That still does not support your claim that "what we consider to be awareness of our physical body is not truely awareness of the physical body."
You might want to consider how the khandhas actually function, which is something that is accessible via vipassana/mindfulness practice.
Hi Tilt,
I do not understand your claim. What exactly do you think I mean by that statement?


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Chacin's injury not an oblique issue
DENVER -- Right-hander Jhoulys Chacin will not make his next scheduled start, but said Saturday he felt "way better than yesterday" and believed the injury that forced him to leave Friday's start was not to his left oblique.
Chacin was examined Saturday by Dr. Tom Noonan, the Rockies' medical director, who gave Chacin the good news and confirmed that he does not have an oblique issue. Chacin's pain is related to his back, but he will still have an MRI taken on Monday to determine a more specific diagnosis.
Chacin pitched 6 1/3 scoreless innings against the D-backs on Friday and left the game after throwing his 100th pitch. The Rockies' Opening Day starter, Chacin is 3-0 with a 1.46 ERA in four starts.
Chacin suffered spasms in his lower back during Spring Training while doing squats and said he felt pain in the "same area" Friday. Chacin was encouraged by how how he felt Saturday.
"I was able to do some exercise, and if it was an oblique, I couldn't do it," Chacin said. "I feel quite better today."
Chacin's next scheduled start is Wednesday against the Braves at Coors Field. The Rockies don't have a scheduled off-day until May 2, so a pitcher from Triple-A Colorado Springs will need to be called up to face the Braves.
Left-hander Drew Pomeranz pitched for Colorado Springs on Thursday and could start in Chacin's place. But the Rockies may be reluctant to disrupt the routines and development process of Pomeranz and Tyler Chatwood, who has been Colorado Springs' best starter recently, by calling them up to pitch once or twice in Chacin's absence.
"Of course, I've thought about that scenario," Weiss said, referring to filling Chacin's spot. "I don't exactly know who that would be, at this point. There's a few different candidates down there. So, we'll cross that bridge, I guess, when we get to it."
The weather forecast calls for rain on Monday afternoon, turning to snow at night with some rain and snow on Tuesday. If a game with the Braves is postponed, the Rockies could push their starters back and not have to fill Chacin's slot.
Jack Etkin is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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RECIPES: Recipe Details
Tuscan Lamb Burgers with Buffalo Mozzarella, Rocket & Salsa Verde
2 lbs. ground lamb
½ cup grated yellow onion
1/3 cup minced sundried tomatoes
3 cloves minced garlic
1 ½ teaspoons kosher salt
¾ teaspoon black pepper
Salsa Verde:
1 cup fresh Italian parsley
1 cup fresh mint
1 cup fresh Italian basil
3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
2 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon capers
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
½ teaspoon kosher salt
¼ teaspoon black pepper
½ cup EVOO
Balsamic Glazed Red Onions:
1 cup good quality balsamic vinegar
2 large red onions, sliced into 1/3-inch rings
2 tablespoons olive oil
Vegetable oil for brushing grill rack
12 ounces buffalo mozzarella cheese, sliced (can substitute cow's milk mozzarella)
6 ciabatta rolls, split
1 cup loosely packed baby rocket (baby arugula) leaves
Prepare a medium-hot fire on a charcoal grill with a cover, or preheat a gas grill to medium high.
To make the patties, combine the ground lamb, onion, sundried tomatoes, garlic, salt, and pepper in a large bowl. Form into 6 patties, being careful not to overwork the meat. Make a slight indentation in the center of the patties so that they will cook evenly. Cover and refrigerate.
To make the salsa verde, place the parsley, mint, basil, vinegar, garlic, capers, mustard, red pepper flakes, salt, and pepper together in a mini food processor or blender. Pulse until chopped. Add the olive oil and process until blended. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Heat the balsamic vinegar in a small, fireproof, heavy saucepan on the grill. Bring to a boil then reduce heat. Let vinegar simmer until it is reduced by half, approximately 10 minutes. Remove from heat. Return heat to medium high. Brush the onion slices with the olive oil and place them on the grill. Grill 2-3 minutes on each side until slightly softened. Remove from grill and place on a plate. Separate the rings and brush them with the balsamic reduction. Set aside.
Brush the grill rack with vegetable oil. Place the burger patties on the rack, cover, and cook 4-6 minutes on each side for medium doneness. Place a slice of buffalo mozzarella on each patty during the last 3 minutes of grilling. Place the ciabatta rolls, cut side down, on the outer edges of the rack to toast lightly during the last 2 minutes of grilling.
To assemble the burgers, place an equal amount of baby rocket leaves on each bun bottom and place the cheese-topped patties on top. Arrange some balsamic glazed onions on the patties. Spread some salsa verde on each bun top. Add bun tops and serve.
This recipe makes 6 burgers.
My name is Sonali Ruder and I'm an Emergency Room doctor in New York City, but in my free time, I love to cook and develop new recipes. Finishing as second runner-up at last year's Build a Better Burger cook-off was an amazing experience, but this year, I would love the chance to compete again and bring home the top prize. This recipe was inspired by a trip to Italy that my husband and I took. We loved the use of simple, fresh ingredients to create delicious, rustic dishes. The richness of the lamb in this burger is nicely complemented by the bright salsa verde, creamy buffalo mozzarella, sweet balsamic glazed onions, and peppery rocket. Mangia!


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Topic: mini triathalon
I *might* be participating in a mini triatholon at the end of July in Kalmar Sweden where I live. It is all dependent on recent scans and whether I get on chemo and if so how is it going.
I have talked to my best friend who is an oncologist, though not mine as she works with babies, but she thinks it is a good thing for me to do so I thought why not.
Anyway, I am going to try to raise money for charity...cc of course! Does anyone know how I go about this? Is the cholangiocarcinoma foundation all organised and set up as a non profit charity? Or does anyone know if you can earmark donation money for cc at the larger cancer research charities?
ANy thoughts?
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Crews contain destructive wildfire in S. Colorado
October 29, 2012
WETMORE – Firefighters have fully contained a wildfire that scorched 2,000 acres and destroyed 15 homes near the small southern Colorado town of Wetmore.
The Wetmore Fire is burning in grass and timber about 25 miles west of Pueblo. It was reported Tuesday and at one point 380 people were forced from their homes. Recent snowfall helped crews get the upper hand on the fire.
Meanwhile, the Fern Lake Fire reported in Rocky Mountain National Park on Oct. 9 is holding steady at about 1,000 acres and is 17 percent contained.
The cause of both fires is under investigation.


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Beet Juice
The latest in ergogenic aids is beet juice. This super tonic can improve your oxygen efficiency, a true breakthrough in endurance sports. Go the same distance on less oxygen. Nothing else has ever been able to do this, and it's the Tour de France's best-kept secret.
Several studies have now confirmed the effects of nitrates on athletic performance including a study done at the University of Exeter's School of Sport and Health Sciences. The study looked at eight male cyclists consuming half a liter of beet juice, containing nearly 700 mg of naturally occurring nitrates for six days. The beet juice group was able to cycle an average of 16 percent longer. The time-to-exhaustion in the "severe test" was significantly extended when beetroot juice was taken compared to placebo (675 seconds vs. 583 seconds, a 16 percent improvement.)
The timing is not yet set in stone. Beet juice ingestion has been proven to work both 2.5 hours pre-event up to 30 minutes pre-event. Some studies have shown performance improvement with no loading phase while others have used a loading phase of up to six days. The bottom line is athletes are noticing the performance improvements from beet juice. I've noticed it and believe that it's the real deal.
The recommended dose is 500 ml of beet juice pre-event or 70 ml of the Beetit Sport Shot which is very convenient and doesn't create a mess in the kitchen. Some athletes experience GI upset taking 500ml close to their event, so be sure to experiment with 500 ml in training, before race day. In this case I would recommend taking 250 ml pre event and loading with 500 ml the days leading in. Loading 2-3 days before the event is a good idea based on some study protocols.
So there you have it. What to do as the seconds tick down before your event starts? Make a plan! Have everything prepared for the morning of your event. One of the biggest gifts you can give yourself as a competitor is to reduce drama, which is generally done by good preparation. Have your meal planned and your snacks, hydration, caffeine and beet juice planned. Now all you need to do is execute and perform.Search for a cycling event.
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Gen. David Petraeus resigns as CIA Director under the Obama Administration over "extramarital affair," US News reports.
Petraeus visited the White House on Thursday to ask President Barack Obama to accept his resignation "for personal reasons," he said in a statement to CIA staff. "After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours."
In a statement, Obama said he accepted Petraeus's resignation and is "completely confident that the CIA will continue to thrive and carry out its essential mission, and I have the utmost confidence in Acting Director Michael Morell and the men and women of the CIA who work every day to keep our nation safe. Going forward, my thoughts and prayers are with Dave and Holly Petraeus, who has done so much to help military families through her own work. I wish them the very best at this difficult time." Source: Politico
Gen. David Petraeus has been married to Holly Petraeus for 37 years. Men in power and sex, a dangerous combination.
Here is the full text of Petraeus' letter from NBC News:
HEADQUARTERS Central Intelligence Agency
9 November 2012
Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position as D/CIA. After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours. This afternoon, the President graciously accepted my resignation.
As I depart Langley, I want you to know that it has been the greatest of privileges to have served with you, the officers of our Nation's Silent Service, a work force that is truly exceptional in every regard. Indeed, you did extraordinary work on a host of critical missions during my time as director, and I am deeply grateful to you for that.
Teddy Roosevelt once observed that life's greatest gift is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing. I will always treasure my opportunity to have done that with you and I will always regret the circumstances that brought that work with you to an end.
Thank you for your extraordinary service to our country, and best wishes for continued success in the important endeavors that lie ahead for our country and our Agency.
With admiration and appreciation,
David H. Petraeus


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Coalition Launches Texas Natural Resource/Environmental Literacy Plan
First Lady Laura Bush To Speak, Experts Gather Jan. 25-26 in San Antonio
SAN ANTONIO – For the generation of the great indoors, when most Texans don't know where their drinking water comes from and may struggle to navigate similar environmental issues , a broad coalition of statewide natural resource and education leaders is gathering here Friday, Jan. 25 to start implementing the Texas Natural Resource/Environmental Literacy Plan. The plan provides a framework for natural resource teaching through education, recreation and life-long learning.
The Texas Natural Resource/Environmental Literacy Summit runs 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25 and 8:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 26 at the TriPoint Conference Center, 3233 N. St. Mary's Street in San Antonio.
Former First Lady Laura Bush will deliver the summit keynote address at 11:30 a.m. Friday. In 2011, Mrs. Bush and a board of scientific experts, private landowners, conservationists, and businesspeople founded Taking Care of Texas, a nonprofit organization which recognizes the many benefits of conservation literacy, especially for its vital role in the future of Texas's land and water resources.
"As the trend away from outdoor experiences, upbringing, and learning deepens, we face sobering consequences for our health and well-being," said Carter Smith, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department executive director, who will introduce Mrs. Bush at the summit. "But we can reverse this trend. We can restore our children's well-being and their relationship with Texas's rich natural and cultural heritage."
Smith and other summit leaders emphasized that environmental literacy is a non-partisan effort.
"It's not a process of advancing any one agenda," Smith said. "It's about building science-based knowledge and experiences to help people make informed choices. With the long-term challenges our state faces, such as how to provide water for people and the environment, we can't afford an illiterate citizenry when it comes to our natural resources."
Environmental literacy connects with a companion issue: the problem of increasingly urban families and children growing up disconnected from nature and the outdoors. The literacy plan is backed by the more than 60 organizations that launched the Texas Partnership for Children and Nature in late 2010. It also arises in part from the federal No Child Left Inside Act (HR 2054).
The effort is motivated by some sobering statistics:
- Children ages 8-to-18 spend an average of 7.5 hours a day, over 50 hours per week, connected to a television, computer, video games and other electronic media.
- A child is six times more likely to play a video game than ride a bike.
- According to the Texas Education Agency's Fitnessgram©, less a third of Texas youth are physically fit, and fitness levels decline in the upper grades. There is a strong correlation between a student's fitness and scholastic success.
The good news is studies show the problems are solvable. Families can reconnect with nature, children who play in nature are healthier, happier and smarter, and literacy can be improved by common-sense steps called for in the plan.
Although the No Child Left Inside Act focuses on grades PreK-12, the Texas environmental literacy plan is broader, involving adults and communities as well as young people and schools. The plan has six main components: Lifelong Learning and Community Connections, Formal Education, Informal Education, Professional Development, Assessment and Funding and Support.
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DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreens' February sales fell short of analyst projections due to a sharper impact from generic drug introductions. Walgreens on Tuesday reported sales in total comparable stores decreased by 0.6% in February. Generic drug introductions negatively impacted total pharmacy comparable sales, which were flat, by 600 basis points, Walgreens reported.
Prescriptions filled at comparable stores increased by 6.5% in February. Prescriptions filled at comparable stores were positively impacted by 10 basis points due to the higher incidence of flu in this year's February. However, neither flu shots nor flu incidence had an impact on comparable store sales.
Credit Suisse research analyst Ed Kelly had projected Walgreens would realize growth of 10% in prescriptions filled, fueling a 2% lift in total same-store sales for the month of February, vs. the 6.5% growth in prescriptions filled and a 0.6% drop in total comp sales that Walgreens reported. "We expect script growth to be driven by an estimated 450 basis points positive impact from returning [Express Scripts] customers and 200 basis points of benefit from flu," Kelly shared in a Feb. 26 research note. "[Net] generics/pricing is expected to have a negative 550 basis points impact on dollar comps."
Walgreens did not identify the specific lift in pharmacy same-store sales attributed to returning Express Scripts patients, only noting that the number of Express Scripts patients "continued to increase in February on a flu-adjusted basis." Walgreens reported there was no impact on comparable pharmacy sales or total same-store sales, positive or negative, resulting from the flu in February. And the Chicago retailer reported a negative 600 basis point impact from generic drug introductions.
February sales for Walgreens totaled $5.6 billion, a decrease of 2.2% as compared to the same month in fiscal 2012. However, excluding last year's February leap day, February sales increased 1.5%, Walgreens reported. Comparable store sales are not impacted by the extra day in February 2012.
February pharmacy sales decreased by 2.1%, but when excluding last February's leap day pharmacy sales were actually up 2%, Walgreens noted.
Flu shots administered at pharmacies and clinics season-to-date were nearly 7 million versus 5.5 million last year. Pharmacy sales accounted for 61.9% of total sales for the month.
Total front-end sales decreased 3.1% and were flat when excluding the 2012 leap day. "Drug store front-end sales continue to be pressured by a weak consumer, facing headwinds from increased fuel prices and the payroll tax cut," Kelly suggested. Walgreens' comparable store front-end sales decreased 1.4%, while customer traffic in comparable stores decreased 4.9% and basket size increased 3.5%.
Registrations for Walgreens Balance Rewards loyalty program, which launched in September, totaled nearly 60 million through February.
Walgreens reported total sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2013 ended Feb. 28 totaled $18.6 billion, down 0.1% the second quarter of fiscal 2012. Fiscal 2013 year-to-date sales for the first six months were $36 billion, down 2.3%, while calendar year-to-date sales totaled $11.9 billion, an increase of 2.2%.
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**UPDATED from 01/17/14 - 07:44 PM EST with the latest, including correspondence from the man who discovered the vulnerability, on Page Two.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- This will be quick and to the point.
I get accused of "sensationalizing" stuff all the time so I can't let this pass. Another case of the "tech media" needing to get over itself.
Here's the headline of a recent ReadWrite article:
Starbucks App Exposed: 10 Million Customers At Risk
And, after a description of the non-situation segments of the media have been hysterical about all week, comes this more even-toned subheading:
Unsafe But Unlikely
Because, yeah, the hacker would A) have to get your phone in his or possession, B) get past the lock screen and C) know how to execute what is a pretty high-tech hack.
Of course, any security vulnerability is a concern and should get addressed by Starbucks (SBUX), however, the media hype on this has been overdone.
If somebody gets your phone, pulling off the Starbucks hack would be the least of my worries. We put so much other personal data that's within relatively easy reach on our devices that most criminals would likely look past this apparent SBUX hole if they even knew how to expose it in the first place.
This is just another example of the pretentious and self-righteous tech media getting all worked up over nothing. It's an opportunity to take shots at Starbucks and throw a monkey wrench into the emergence of mobile payments.
I wonder if any of these guys have ever been hacked. If they have, they might stop sensationalizing and speak rationally about what happens in most situations.
I recall stepping into a BART station at San Francisco International Airport a couple years ago to discover my debit card wasn't working. I called ING Direct at the time and, apparently, hackers stole my card number after I had used it at a CVS. It was either an inside job or one of those semi-sophisticated operations where your card number gets lifted out of thin air.
In any event, when I called they knew what was up. They asked me if I was tying to make a large purchase at a CVS in Texas. I said no. They said good, it wasn't going to go through anyway. And my new card was in the mail.
Not fun. Somewhat unsettling, but part of the cost of doing business in this increasingly convenient world we live in. We have somehow survived pick pockets. We'll manage in the age of the digital pick pocket.
Layers exist externally to defend oneself against this type of thing -- at your bank for instance. But, more than anything, defend yourself. Keep an eye on your stuff. Check it several times daily. If you're on top of it, you're unlikely to get hurt beyond a relatively minor inconvenience.
On Page Two -- the latest, including correspondence from Daniel Wood, the man who discovered the vulnerability.


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A woman who passed out on the side of Highway 101 north of Alexander Avenue was revived through CPR and taken to the hospital, where she was in stable condition, police said Saturday.
The woman, who was visiting the area from Wisconsin with her husband, got out of the car around 1:45 p.m. Friday and fell to the ground, CHP spokesman Andrew Barclay said. Her husband called for help and Marin CHP Officer Oscar Franco arrived minutes later to find the woman with no pulse in what Barclay described as an apparent heart attack.
Franco and the woman's husband did two-person CPR on the woman and restored her pulse. Southern Marin Fire Protection District paramedics arrived and took over, and the woman was taken to Marin General, Barclay said.
Barclay noted that Marin CHP officers have successfully used CPR to revive unconscious people with apparent heart attacks three times since October 2012. On Saturday, at 20 Marin sites from Vista Point to Tomales, Marin County Emergency Medical Services personnel trained volunteers in CPR.
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The ENT Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO will be held September 9 -12 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in downtown DC. What an amazing opportunity for community leaders committed to making the world a better place to offer their insight and expertise.
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