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The Calgary Flames dealt defenseman Robyn Regehr to the Buffalo Sabres yesterday after he waived his no-trade clause, clearing space under the salary cap for the Flames to re-sign left wing Alex Tanguay to a five-year, $17.5 million contract.
Regehr had spent his entire 12-year career with the Flames, serving as an alternate captain who didn't do much offensively but brought plenty of grit to the blue line. Calgary general manager Jay Feaster said Regehr expressed a willingness to waive his no-trade during his exit interview after the season.
"He said, 'If you feel that I'm part of your solution here, that moving me out helps the organization, then I'm willing to work with you,' '' Feaster said at the draft in St. Paul. "Again, that just speaks to his character and his professionalism.''
Feaster experienced the same situation with Brad Richards in Tampa Bay.
"When you have a warrior like Robyn is, a guy who has been there as long as he has been there, who has done as much for the franchise as he has, that's a very difficult phone call to make,'' Feaster said.
The Flames sent Regehr, right wing Ales Kotalik, and their second-round draft pick in 2012 to the Sabres for defenseman Chris Butler and center Paul Byron. Perhaps the most excited person by the day's events was Flames captain Jarome Iginla, who lobbied his team hard to re-sign Tanguay.
"The chemistry between the two of them is pretty impressive,'' Feaster said.
The front office decided that the 32-year-old Tanguay — who has 686 points over 818 NHL games — was a better option at his position than any of the available unrestricted free agents who will hit the market next week.
"We didn't see a player who was going to be as productive as he can and will be,'' Feaster said. "So it's good to have him back.''
The Flames now can continue to be aggressive in free agency to fill Regehr's spot on the blue line.
"We've been in salary-cap jail for some time,'' Feaster said, "and this gives us an opportunity to have some breathing room.''
Kotalik, who three times reached the 20-goal mark over five full seasons with the Sabres, returns to his original team.
Senators acquire Filatov The Blue Jackets traded forward Nikita Filatov to the Senators for a third-round pick, No. 66 overall, which they used on center Thomas Tynan of Des Moines of the USHL. Filatov, the No. 6 selection in the 2008 draft, had seven assists in 23 games with Columbus last season. His NHL career has started slowly, with six goals and seven assists in 44 games. Filatov has also played in Russia's Kontinental Hockey League . . . The Rangers moved prospect forward Evgeny Grachev to the Blues for a third-round choice, which New York used to select 18-year-old American high school forward Steven Fogarty No. 72 overall. The 21-year-old Grachev had 16 goals, 22 assists, and a plus-21 rating in 73 games last season with the Connecticut Whale, the Rangers' AHL affiliate . . . The Islanders dealt defenseman Bruno Gervais to the Lightning for future considerations. The 26-year-old Gervais had six assists in 53 games last season with the Islanders. In 331 NHL games, all with New York, he has nine goals and 59 assists.
Blood sport The Hurricanes picked up two players with hockey in their genes during Day 2 of the draft, selecting the son of Oilers executive Kevin Lowe in the third round and yet another Sutter four rounds later. "We have more than one Staal, and more than one Sutter, and now we have Kevin Lowe's son,'' GM Jim Rutherford said. "So, we do have a lot of hockey people in our organization.'' Carolina selected defenseman Keegan Lowe with the 73d selection, then spent the 193d pick on center Brody Sutter — the son of former NHL player Duane Sutter and the younger cousin of two players in the organization: Carolina forward Brandon Sutter and minor league forward Brett Sutter . . . Among the players taken on Day 2 were three Boston University Terriers: defenseman Adam Clendening (36th, Blackhawks), left wing Matt Nieto (47th, Sharks), and defenseman Garrett Noonan (112th, Predators) . . . Twenty-eight Swedes were selected in the seven-round draft, trailing only Canada (79) and the US (64). There were a record four Swedish players taken in the top 10.


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Sean and Joice Curry arrived early on the morning of May 21 to see furniture nearly escaping from their Carmel Valley massage business, pushed by hundreds of gallons of water as it flowed through a computer monitor-sized hole from a burst pipe.
"It was like someone dumped a giant swimming pool in the building," Joice Curry said. Nearly all of the furniture, including the massage tables, were destroyed.
After two months of repair and spending about $200,000 of their own money on fixing and refurnishing the business, the Currys reopened their Massage Envy franchise Friday, with free food and a bounce house.
The pipe began pumping water into the building when a gasket on a water service line broke. Hours earlier, a water main about a mile away ruptured, creating a sinkhole about 12 feet in diameter and six feet deep.
The Currys' business filled with water — up to four feet in 45 minutes, Joice Curry said. A spokesman for the city of San Diego Public Utilities Department said the gasket break cause was never determined, and could not be directly linked to the water main.
Affected businesses speculated that, when water was turned back on to the repaired main, the pressure built so quickly that it caused the gasket to rupture.
The flood caused by the busted gasket damaged three businesses on Ocean Air Drive and forced them to close while the bottom four feet of particle board, drywall and insulation were replaced.
Joice Curry said the business was insured and the couple hope to recover the money spent on repairs and new furnishings, but it could be a while given the number of insurance agencies — from the city, the business and the landlord — in the mix.
Other businesses, such as Little Locks next door, reached for their own wallets to make repairs, too.
Several inches of water flooded Little Locks, a toy store and children's hair salon, causing about $50,000 in damage. Only $6,200 will be covered by insurance, Little Locks owner Lesley Webb said.
"We didn't have flood coverage," Webb said. "Why would we have a flood here? We're on a hill." Webb plans to file a complaint against the city.
The Currys also own and operate a public relations firm and another Massage Envy, located in Solana Beach. They were able to relocate Carmel Valley employees to Solana Beach without cutting anyone's hours, the owners said.
Another Little Locks is in La Jolla, where employees were relocated for more than a month and had to work reduced hours.

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OTTAWA — The owner of Delilah's in the Parc, the Chelsea boutique accused last week of violating Quebec's language laws by posting in only English on its Facebook page, says the province's language watchdog has softened its position.
In February, Eva Cooper received a letter from Quebec's language office demanding she translate the English postings into French by March 10 or face legal consequences.
On Monday, Cooper said she has come to an agreement with the language office's director Martin Bergeron, who said she could post messages in any language she wanted, as long as it was of a social nature. Section 52 of Quebec's Charter says that if any communication is of a commercial nature, it has to be written in French.
Cooper asked Bergeron to send her their agreement in writing in both English and French.


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Everyone told Ellis Jacob he was nuts when he decided to get into the theatre business 25 years ago.
The movie industry was brutally competitive and notoriously volatile. And VCRs were a sure sign that moviegoers would stay home to watch their favourite flicks.
Today, though, the president and chief executive officer of Cineplex Inc. is presiding over an unlikely success story.
After a record-breaking 2011, this year looks to be another blockbuster for the movie chain as box office receipts across North America push toward yet another high on the strength of movies such as The Hunger Games and hits such as The Hobbit and Skyfall playing through the important holiday season.
And Cineplex's business momentum seems impervious to an economy that remains stubbornly stuck in neutral.
"Movies are just a great social experience," explains Mr. Jacob. "And when times get tough, this is really affordable escapism."
Profit is flying at the country's largest theatre chain, which has battled its way to a 70-per-cent market share, an astonishing achievement for an old business that is open to foreign competition. Through a carefully honed strategy to maximize revenue from every customer, Cineplex has made itself the marquee theatre chain in the industry.
Now, Cineplex is entering an evolving era of movie-watching that brings a host of new challenges. The company is about to launch a new online offering called Ultraviolet that will put it on a competitive footing against a whole new slate of global rivals. You can imagine the skeptics raising their eyebrows once again as Mr. Jacob proclaims that there are no companies in the world better placed than Cineplex when it comes to delivering online movies to Canadians – including Apple Inc. and Amazon Inc.
"The concerns people tend to raise are about us competing with some big giants," says Mr. Jacob, as he picks at a plate of French fries that he guiltily orders with his lunch in a small bistro beside the company's Toronto headquarters. "The big difference is we are in the movie business. We can communicate with you – if you're in our loyalty program, we know your likes and dislikes in a way that nobody else does. Apple is excellent, but it's not their main business. Movies are our main business."
There's no doubt business has been good. Operating profits have been on an upward swing for years, as Cineplex masters the art of upselling at the ticket booth by offering customers enhanced services such as reserved seating and VIP lounges, and finds better ways to pull money out of their wallets at concession stands.
The company is certainly capitalizing on a strong slate of films at its 134 theatres with 1,449 screens. A portion of any theatre company's success (or failure) is engineered by the Hollywood studios, which have a huge effect on ticket sales through the movies they release.
"I like to say we just set the table – the studios serve the steak," Mr. Jacob says.
But that's only half of the story – Mr. Jacob has built the company into a multilayered powerhouse by branching into related businesses, and nowhere is that more clear than in the company's concession lines. One of his main areas of focus in recent years has been improving and speeding up the chain's service, because when people see long lineups they go to their seats rather than spend money on popcorn, pop and licorice, where profit margins are mouth-watering.
"One of our analysts went to one of our theatres and saw there were no lineups," Mr. Jacob says. "He said to me 'things must be really bad if nobody is lining up at the concessions.' But that was music to my ears – it's exactly what I wanted to happen. We have incentivized employees, they are motivated to sell. And what's good is they compete against each other."
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A good mystery series has to fit like a well-worn glove. It's that utilitarian undertone of familiarity that sucks the most loyal readers in -- that sense of time, place and enduring character that pulls all the plots together again and again. Once you really know Philip Marlowe or Spencer or Dave Robicheaux, you can field whatever fly balls the fiction bats your way. Denver author Manuel Ramos, who is also a respected legal-aid attorney, got the concept early, as a boy growing up in Florence, where, he says, he may possibly have read every book available in the public library before moving to Colorado Springs at age fourteen.
A devotee of noir fiction, Ramos studied the masters -- Chandler, Hammett, James M. Cain -- and it shows in the slow fruition of his own dark confection, burned-out Chicano lawyer Luis Móntez, the believably low-key star of Brown-on-Brown. The book is fifth in a series that began ten years ago with the Edgar nominee The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz. And for Denverites, the comfort zone is that much wider: When the reluctant gumshoe drives through town at night, it's the streets of Denver he traverses, moving through familiar places and windows on history and culture that we can relate to on a personal level. Locals can get some of that flavor when Ramos reads from Brown-on-Brown Thursday night at the Tattered Cover.
Even Ramos professes affection for the Móntez character. "He's the kind of guy I'd actually like to sit down with and have a beer or two and a conversation," he says. Like his creator, the fictional man is a Chicano lawyer with politicized roots who lives on the north side. They're both getting older; both like jazz and conjunto music. It's just that Móntez has, shall we say, better adventures, riddled with murder and mayhem. And in Brown-on-Brown, that would include mysteries surrounding a San Luis Valley water war complicated by the area's culture-clashing demographics.
Manuel Ramos reads from Brown-on-Brown
7:30 p.m. Thursday, October
Tattered Cover Book Store, 2955 East First Avenue
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It's a plot made for contemporary Coloradans, set in a place where, Ramos notes, "water is life. When somebody's taking away your water, they're challenging something you think is your entitlement. It's more than a natural resource. It's a way of life." Bring it on.


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Gallery: How to Make a Vegetable Puree
Start by stripping your vegetable
In this case, I peeled the carrots and trimmed off the ends.
Chop the vegetables into small, even pieces
Choose your cooking method
I prefer boiling whenever possible, because it's quick and kills two birds with one stone: if you flavor the cooking liquid, you can later use it for the blending.
My favorite formula is one part cream to three parts chicken stock. I love the balance of flavor and creaminess it gives.
Add enough liquid
If baking or sauteeing instead, try not to use excessive amounts of fat, which could make for an oily emulsion if you plan to add liquid or cream later.
Season as you wish
Here I brought the carrots to a simmer and cooked them fully, until a fork passed through with no resistance.
Drain the vegetables, reserving the cooking liquid
Start ladling the warm cooking liquid into the blender. (If you used water here or plain stock, have some extra liquid and heavy cream warm on the stove for this step.) Add enough cream and liquid to cover the vegetables by about half. You will most likely need more, but it's easier to add liquid than take it away.
If you have a Vita Prep or other high-powered blender, yay for you—whip that bad boy out, cover it carefully, and turn the speed from low to high as the puree breaks down.
Puree away
Test it by spooning a bit onto a plate. I like mine thin enough to run a bit, but not so thin that it doesn't hold shape—sort of like a melty, soft-serve ice cream.
If you were working with a tough or fibrous veggie, or one with skins or shells like tomatoes or peas, this would be the point at which to run the puree through a medium-mesh sieve to smooth.
Adjust seasonings. Stir in any additional cream or liquid. Garnish, Serve!


text: Home > LifeStyle > Fashion & Beauty B'wood Actress Turn Models at IBFW 2013 MensXP August 01, 2013 Bollywood Actress Turn Models at Indian Bridal Fashion Week 2013 Image 1 / 11 X < PREVIOUS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NEXT > UP NEXT 10 Pictures Which Show How Sonam Kapoor Went From A Cute Kid To A Hot Fashionista! Cancel https://www.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/10-pictures-which-show-how-sonam-kapoor-went-from-a-cute-kid-to-a-hot-fashionista-233420.html Image 1 of 11 FULLSCREEN MensXP August 01, 2013 The Indian Bridal Fashion Week 2013 ended on a high note, and if you missed it, don't worry. We have the best moments from the event. From Sonam Kapoor to Kangna Ranaut – Bollywood actresses graced the ramp as models and showstoppers for some of the biggest names in the Indian fashion industry. The Indian Bridal Fashion Week 2013 ended on a high note, and if you missed it, don't worry. We have the best moments from the event. From Sonam Kapoor to Kangna Ranaut – Bollywood actresses graced the ramp as models and showstoppers for some of the biggest names in the Indian fashion industry. Kangna Ranaut - The 'Fashion' star walked the ramp as the showstopper for JJ Valaya on the opening day of the IBFW '13 in Delhi. She looked regal in a gold lehenga with matching headgear and a blue choli. Sophie Choudry - Sophie is back in not one, but two significant movies after a long time – 'Shootout at Wadala' and 'Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai Dobaara!' And she is making the right waves – walking the ramp for Rina Dhaka on Day 2 of IBFW being one of them. She looked just like a bride – all done up in an orange and green bridal lehenga. Amyra Dastur - The girl in the ads who made it to Bollywood – Amyra Dastur also walked for Rina Dhaka along with her 'Issaq' co-star Prateik Babbar. Dressed in an ornate shararas with a golden headgear, Amyra looked quite comfortable sashaying the ramp with Babbar, dressed in a black velvet sherwani. Jacqueline Fernandez - Sri Lankan beauty was also seen on Day 2 of IBFW as the showstopper for Jyostna Tiwari. She looked resplendent in a slit pink strapless dress with intricate gold embroidery and teamed with pencil-fit pants. Wild hair and minimalist jewelry completed Jacqueline's look. Neha Dhupia - Walking the ramp for Falguni and Shane Peacock, Neha Dhupia was a class apart from the other IBFW showstoppers with her going Goth. A black and red full-length peplum dress with wavy black hair and kohl-lined eyes – she was quite the gothic bride next to the bright pinks and oranges. Nargis Fakhri - On the fourth day, Ashima Leena showcased her bridal collection, and her showstopper was the 'Rockstar' actress Nargis Fakhri. She was dressed in a red and gold lehenga and a full-sleeved koti, with her wavy hair flowing down her right shoulder, as a huge maang-tika adorned the left side of her head. Sonam Kapoor - The same day, Sonam Kapoor walked the ramp for Rohit Bal. The actress' flab was quite noticeable, albeit in a very attractive gold and cream lehenga with matching jewelry. Even though, she looked quite confident and had a ball shaking a leg at the finale of Bal's show. Esha Gupta - Day 5 saw 'Jannat 2' star Esha Gupta sashaying down the ramp for Adarsh Gill in a gold and red lehenga. She looked every bit the bride – the intricate work of the lehenga and choli glimmering through a red net dupatta. Chitrangda Singh - The same day 'Desi Boyz' star Chitrangada graced the ramp as Suneet Verma's showstopper. She looked pretty graceful even dressed in what seemed like quite a heavy embroidered red, gold and silver lehenga. Her beautiful tresses with bangs and a confident smile completed this actress' on-ramp persona. Lisa Haydon - Cut to the final day of IBFW 2013, and 'Aisha' star Lisa Haydon wrapped up Tarun Tahliani's show in a stunning beige sari that was apparently light as air, although it looked quite embellished. She topped it off with some pretty Swarovski jewelry and the sheer confidence that Haydon exudes on the ramp. Elegant, gothic or traditional – these actresses can give the models a run for their money when it comes to ramp-walks! DON'T MISS 10 Pictures To Prove Sonam Kapoor Went From A Cute Kid To Fashionista! Bollywood Attends KJo's Fashion Show 213 SHARES Vanity Insanity! Bollywood Actors Snapped While Taking Selfies 813 SHARES HOT Or NOT? Bollywood Babes This Week The Name Is Khan...Fawad Khan 232 SHARES Arjun-Deepika Go Shop Shop Shop 7 Pictures of Salman Khan Which Will Make Your Jaw Drop! 4.8K SHARES 12 Pictures That Prove Priyanka Chopra Is A Self Made Women! 141 SHARES 10 Pictures That Will Prove Alia Bhatt is Cute And Classy! 4.5K SHARES View more featured galleries


text: Professor Robert Kyle, M.D - Current Management of Multiple Myeloma LocationLeonard Deacon Lecture Theatre Medical School Edgbaston CampusCategoryMedical and Dental Sciences DatesThursday 10th July 2014 (13:00-15:00) Download the date to your calendar (.ics file) ContactFor further information contact Yvonne Dawson (firstname.lastname@example.com/0121 414 4054) THIS LECTURE IS OPEN TO ALL, PRE-REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED The College of Medical and Dental Sciences is proud to host Robert Kyle M.D. of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. During his time in the UK, Professor Kyle will present two lectures: Monoclonal Gammopathy and Smouldering Multiple Myeloma - Tuesday 8 July 2014 at 5.00 pm Current Management of Multiple Myeloma - Thursday 10 July 2014 at 1.00 pm Both lectures will be held in the Leonard Deacon Lecture Theatre, Medical School Building Robert Kyle is one of the world's leading pioneers in the field of plasma cell malignancy. He has played a major role in the development of the Mayo Clinic as a global centre of excellence within Haematology. Professor Kyle is a leading authority on monoclonal gammapathy, a condition that precedes almost every case of multiple myeloma. In his first lecture, on Tuesday 8th July, Professor Kyle will review work that has defined determinants of disease pathogenesis and clinical progression. His second lecture, on Thursday 10th July, Professor Kyle will address some of the exciting recent developments in the treatment of multiple myeloma.


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Texas has been ranked the top state for job growth and business development for the eighth year in a row in Chief Executive Magazine's annual survey of CEOs. The survey asked 650 CEOs to rank the best states for business based on a wide range of criteria, from taxation and regulation to workforce quality and living environment.
"Texas' number one ranking as the best state for business for the past eight years by CEOs across the nation is a testament to our successful model for economic prosperity and job creation," Gov. Perry said. "I am proud of our state's accomplishments and remain committed to upholding principles, like low taxes, restrained spending, reasonable regulations and a fair legal system, that have made Texas the best state in the nation to live, work, raise a family and start a business."
The survey gave Texas high marks in all areas important for business creation and highlighted the state's business-friendly tax and regulatory environment compared to other states. As one CEO noted, "The state attracts top-level talent across the income divisions. Laws and taxation are creating opportunities that benefit expansion and job growth."
Texas' economy continues to receive national recognition. The state added more new jobs over the past year than anywhere else in the country, with Texas' unemployment rate remaining more than a full point below the national average and continuing to decline. According to USA Today, Texas has moved past New York as the nation's second largest economy, and the Wall Street Journal has credited the state's low taxes and employer-friendly environment with helping make Texas the job creation capital of the nation. Additionally, Texas consistently ranks among the top states for Fortune 500 headquarters.


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I am not creating a poll because i simply can't list all the office suites here - too many.
My favourite one at the moment is office xp. ANd i love its dictation and voice command functions.
By the way do you know of any other office packages that have these functions? Anyway jus list your favourite office suite below, regardless of the platform.


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The latest housing data in the United Kingdom sees home prices heading a little bit higher. However, there are worries that housing prices could be heading into bubble, and that is weighing on the pound a bit. Additionally, there might be some correction in the works, since the pound has performed quite well over the past six months.
UK housing prices are showing some degree of strength, but that might be the result of a bubble. Adam Posen, a former policymaker with the Bank of England, has publicly expressed his concern that a bubble is forming with regard to home prices. The UK government has been propping up the housing market with its Help to Buy program, and there are now worries that it could lead to a housing bubble.
Another thing to think about is the fact that the pound has been doing well in the last few months. The UK pound has gained against the US dollar, performing well, and there are expectations that the pound could correct lower as a result. For now, the pound is pulling back, but a bigger drop could be coming.
At 16:38 GMT GBP/USD is down to 1.6141 from the open at 1.6227. EUR/GBP is up to 0.8362 from the open at 0.8350. GBP/JPY is down to 164.1200 from the open at 163.3550.
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Hello freesound developers,
First, thanks for such a valuable resource! I have a web-based live coding environment ( http://www.charlie-roberts.com/gibber ) and I'd like people to be able to read in freesound samples using XMLHttpRequests. This thread in Google Groups from last year discusses the issue:
Has any progress been made on this? Right now I'm getting some errors when I try to load sounds via xhr...
Thanks for any info!!! - Charlie
Hello Charlie,
We've done some tests and it seems that both preview files and served sounds have the correct headers. As an example:
-> for previews:
curl -v -O "http://www.freesound.org/data/previews/106/106018_1799321-lq.ogg"
< Server: nginx/1.0.15
< Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 10:51:51 GMT
< Content-Type: audio/ogg
< Content-Length: 134314
< Last-Modified: Fri, 20 May 2011 22:41:48 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
-> when serving original files
curl -v -O "http://freesound.org/api/sounds/106018/serve/?api_key=XXX"
< Server: nginx/1.0.15
< Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 10:51:10 GMT
< Content-Type: application/octet-stream
< Content-Length: 1278052
< Last-Modified: Fri, 20 May 2011 22:41:46 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="106018__christoff45__purring-cat.wav"
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
So this should work in your application right?
Maybe you can share with us some code for testing it.
Great! Thanks for the quick response. Let me play around with the API a little more and see if I can figure out what I'm doing wrong before I bug you with code.
Thanks again - Charlie
Got it working, thanks!
One question, should I be worried about the security of the api key? I will try to obscure it but seeing as how I'm creating a web application I have a feeling there is only so much I'll be able to do.
Thanks again! - Charlie
Hi again Charlie,
for the moment as you say there is not much you can do to obscure the key. We reserve the right to cancel an api key if the usage does not follow the terms of use for the api (http://www.freesound.org/help/tos_api/), but this should not happen and in any case we log the api activity and could identify requests not comming from your domain.
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Fast forward nearly a year and there is more to the story! I've finally gotten around to assembling my Espadita and found some new information that can explain the lighter figure quoted by SMM. Cody states the best CG is not at 74mm as recommended, but at 87, which is over 1/2" farther aft than recommended. This requires moving the ballast case back so the tow hook comes out about 85. 1/2" is a long way back. I'll know in a couple of days what the flying weight will be at 85-87mm. I have to finish installing the left wing servos and then I can balance the plane. I'll keep everyone posted.
I'm using the 809 servos and they are pressing on the skins. There is a notable outline on the skin. I even sanded the servo sides as much as possible but the aluminum cooling band doesn't sand well and I don't know how thick it is. It's frustrating to get a $1400 airplane with bumps in the skin. I doubt anyone would have noticed if the airfoil was .5mm thicker to allow the servos to fit without a shoe horn or having stress marks in the skin. This is too nice of a plane for stuff like that! YMMV
Finally (for now anyway), why didn't he just make the nose 1" longer? This would have brought the plane into a much more acceptable weight, the 35 ounces quoted by SMM. I doubt any competitor would have even thought of a Sprite if they knew they could get the Espadita at 35 ounces w/o any form of magic. I know plane design is a series of compromises. When you pick up the individual parts of the Espadita, they are very light and strong. Would it have hurt to extend the nose a bit to get the overall weight down? I don't think so. So it's back to the drawing board to come up with a nice, mid-30's molded 2M for US TD pilots.
I hope to get my hands on a Sprite to do some comparison. I know assembly takes longer and more thought and skill is needed to do a nice job, and you get a bagged tail set which isn't as dent resistant as a molded stab and that for me is a turn off. For an $1150 finished plane, I'd like to have molded parts please. Also, I'd be concerned about the stab halves at slope and DS speeds. You have to buy the "Hot" if you want slope speeds at higher ballast weights. It's too bad you need 2 sets of wings for the Sprite to do both thermal and slope. Surely a compromise of dihedral and extra carbon for the "regular" version to make it as strong as the "Hot". Choices, choices!
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Servo check! Ok, I looked at the differences between the Airtronics servo and the Futaba. You can see the #'s below. The Airtronics is .5mm thicker, weighs less than 1/2 of the Futaba, has 11 ounces less torque at 6V and is over 2x as fast as the Futaba. The Futaba can't be run at 6V.
I based my choice on SMM recommendation so I guess it's my fault for not looking at the servo thickness. Still, I am really hoping that I can get close to the 35 ounce weight called out by SMM. I hope that explains it.
Airtronics 809
Weight: 0.38 oz (10.8 g)
Dimensions: 0.93x0.45x0.83" (23.5x11.5x21mm)
Torque: 35 in/oz @ 4.8v, 39 in/oz @ 6.0v
Speed: 0.12S/60° @ 4.8v, 0.10S/60° @ 6.0v
Futaba 3150
Speed: .24 sec/60° @ 4.8V
Torque: 51.4 oz-in @ 4.8V
Dimensions: 1.2 x 0.4 x 1.1" (30 x 11 x 29mm)
Weight: .81oz (23g)
Power Supply: 4.8V (Futaba does NOT recommend using 6V)
Servos are all in place. I only lack soldering up the plugs for the wings and it;s ready for balance.
Like many, I always look back and think of what I would have done differently on the next install. If you use the factory hardware, there isn't much you can do in the fuse. On the other hand, if you make your own servo tray from CG-lined light ply, you can kill 2 birds with one stone by having a lighter tray and strengthening the fuse at the same time. This strengthening is needed ONLY for US contest type landings. The plane is fine as is for non-dork landings.
For the wings, I'd do what Lenny recommends and sand the servos more judiciously. I did sand the servos on the left wing and they went in much easier. I would also look around to see if I could find another servo with similar torque and speed as the Airtronics 809's that is .5mm thinner and could take 6V.
Other than that, there really isn't much else to do as the engineering is there to make install very simple. I'm sure I could do another in a few hours, like 2! There is some pucker factor sliding the servos into the wings as there is no easy way to go back short of pulling on the servo wire but the 2nd wing goes together really easily. I'll have plenty of hints in the full review coming up here on RCG. George
OK, now for the bad news. I weighed everything today and here is what I came up with:
Wings: 290g each or 580g total
Fuse with servos, wing rod, wires, RX, and ballast box: 338g
Stabs: 31g
Battery pack: 127g
Total ready to balance is 1076g or a hair short of 38 ounces
I expect to have to add at least 3 ounces to get the CG at 84mm which will make the plane fly at 41 ounces.
I don't see any way to get it any lighter. George
this Model exits 5 years and people still complain over the weight and discussion GC's and write a review to make a few bucks?
Sure they want a durable, but realy light Allrounder that can win 2m TD competion and excels on the slope.
In addition the Price has to be low as well.
Futaba is the one that states the 3150 shouldn't be used at 6V. I guess they don't know their own product, right?
As for the Espadita's weight, there is no way anyone is going to get a production model down to 35 ounces. I'm over that with just the servos and RX installed. Does that make the plane bad? No it doesn't. But it does keep it from being the ultimate 2M tool for US contests. We went through this with SuperV's. A 33-36 ounce SuperV 2M was the perfect 2M at that time. Those with over 40 ounce planes were getting whipped in the early morning rounds. When the wind came up it didn't matter as much, but any contest pilot knows, drop one round and you are just fun flying.
For some, fun flying is fine and that's where the Espadita is. I don't know how Cody got one to 35 ounces. I'm using the same equipment he did and I"m at 38 ounces ready to balance. Figure at least 3 ounces in the nose to get 84-84mm and I'm at 41, not 35 as advertised. If one buys an Espadita he should know up front he's not going to get a finished 35 ounce plane. If the plane is bought for fun flying and slope, this might be the right plane, but for serious US 2M competition, it's too heavy for early morning rounds.
As for the reviews I write, lots of times I buy the plane, like I did with the Espadita and I get infinitely more money with each review I write on RCG...that's zip, nada, ninte, NOTHING. Nothing but the joy I get from helping modelers see a product in its true light. I don't fluff them up, I tell it like it is, but nicely. The point is, if you expect to get an Espadita at a flying weight of 35 ounces, you'll be disappointed. George
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I almost got to fly the espadita at torrey pines untill this happened.
2m on a big slope flying fare out...
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FOX News February 25, 2014 11:00pm-12:01am PST
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that is all the time we have left tonight. before we go, set your dvr ask record "hannity" and we'll see h.h.s. secretary sebelius picking a fight with governors of southern states accusing them of playing politics with peements' lives. >> unfortunately i think what we have in a large case is governors playing politics with people's lives and with people's health. we have 31 governors who are interested in actually moving forward but we need to put some pressure on some of the others to say, you know, this is just -- this is about people's health. this is the law of the land it's not going to go away. >> who is really playing politics here. oklahoma governor mary fallon shared the national governor's association. she joins us. nice to see you, governor. >> nice to see you, too greta. >> governor, are you one of those playing politics with
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people's lives that kathleen sebelius is talking about. you are a sovereign governor. >> i am a southern governor. let me kind of frame this issue, greta. we're talking about costs rising for businesses, for health insurance premiums. we are talking about individuals losing coverage. we're talking about 11 million individuals who know their interest premiums are going to go up and two thirds of small businesses know their insurance premiums are going to group. we know that people are losing jobs because of obamacare. we know that states are going to be hit with billions of dollars of new costs with medicaid expansion and other costs associated with this program. so, what's the politics about that? it's just not good pluck policy. and that's why when the vote occurred on the affordable healthcare act in congress when i was a member of congress bill rolled out and voted on and you saw all the republicans voted against it we believe now and we
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believed then it's unworkable and unaffordable. that he was why you see so many time delays on the legislation right now. i don't know if you met with secretary sebelius. why do you think. >> i did. >> okay. so why suddenly the -- you know, it's a crack calling you playing politics, southern governors, what provoked that do you think? >> you know, i'm not really sure. did i see secretary sebelius. and i know she has got a really hard job and i have talked to her many, many times as the chair of the national governor's association. each governor has it to do what they think is best for their own state. we all have unique circumstances. we all have our own political philosophy. and i choose, as governor of oklahoma, and as a republican conservative governor to do one thing. others choose to do other things. but, you know, i think you have to put the blame back to where it belongs. and that is who is it that is administering this program? >> are they helping you at all to the extent your state needs help from the federal government in trying to
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implement this law? i know that you are probably not in favor the law. it wasn't your choice. but, are they helpful and receptive or are they just sort of slapping you around with a crack? >> well, that was a little slap around, i guess last night. but, i will say that they have helped us on, we have had a program in oklahoma since 2008 called insure oklahoma. which is a three way match. where small businesses and low income people are able health insurance. a firm where we set up individual pays a small business. business pays a portion and then there is matching funds for that and it's worked very well for oklahoma. we got notice last year they were going to continue it last december. i asked for extension of the program. i said it's working. it's providing health insurance low income people helping small businesses let me keep that. so he i did get an extension on that. and for that i am very grateful. one of the things that we heard at the national governor's association meeting this weekend is states are laboratories of
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innovation. there are some great programs. being able to cover more people with healthcare, being able to help lower costs. let's say have those waivers. have the flexibility so they can innovate, create, and certainly to improve access to health care in the nation. >> is obamacare going to be -- can it be a success in your state as you sort of look down the road or do you see it as a disaster as you look down the road? >> well, it hasn't had a rollout that's been very good. i mean, we saw time delay after time delay. i saw a story in oklahoma just recently to where a gentleman had a company and it was a small business, he grew it, and it got up to about 70 employees. and because of the mandates with the new obamacare program, he reduced his number of employees back down to 50 because he just said he couldn't afford the increase and insurance premium costs. and then all of a sudden it gets delayed again, so he let's people go, let their jobs go. and so now they have no job and no insurance. so, you know, we have seen a lot of problems with the
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implementation of the law itself. a lot of delays which, to me, is an admission that it's just not working the way it was intended to work. >> governor, nice to see you. i hope things are okay after that oklahoma tornado. i hope they are getting your state back up on its feet because i know you got hit pretty hard. thank you, governor. >> thank you, i appreciate it. and again is secretary sebelius moving the goal posts again? last september she described obamacare's success this way. >> what does success look like? >> well, i think success looks like at least 7 million people having signed up by the end of march 2014. >> you heard her 7 million people by the end of march. now it sounds like secretary sebelius has changed her mind. >> first of all, 7 million was not the administration. that was a cbo congressional budget office prediction when the bill was first signed. i'm not quite sure where they even got their numbers. their numbers are all over the board. >> joining us our political
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panel the hill's elise viebeck and rick klein and chief political correspondent byron york. i suspect that one of the places they may have got 7 million was actually from the secretary herself. >> they have moved the goal post off the field. every number we get cannot really be trusted. and the new number today is that 4 million have, quote: signed up for obamacare. >> approximately. >> approximately. >> private coverage since the whole process began on october 1st. well, that's mind what they were looking for. but there is two big issues with that. one is, we know they count people who just put a policy in their shopping basket on the web. so how many people have actually purchased it? we have some antidotal data to suggest maybe 20% have not purchased it, so 4 million becomes 3.2 million. the bigger issue is how many were previously uninsured? we know of millions of people have had their coverage cancelled due to obamacare and they have gone back to the exchanges to try to get new coverage.
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that's just kind of a churning operation. >> well, if you have 6 million who lost prior to the end of the year and now 2.2. still a negative number. >> still behind on private coverage. >> rick your thoughts on. this the administration only likes numbers when they fit with the narrative they are trying to push around the success of this. look, i think the cbo tends to do great work and it gets cited by the administration when it's something in their favor. they like to to down play the impact of those numbers when it doesn't fit exactly. this, throughout -- byron is right. there has been so much spin throughout the process. >> that's embarrassing though. >> yeah. because there is actually a tape of it to say it directly. it really is not possible to trust the administration's numbers on this. because they haven't had any transparency around. they have put out numbers when it fits their story that they want to tell at a particular time. so, yes, the goal posts have moved rather consistently now. we won't know for a long time in part because there is not a lot of transparency and in part because the
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insurance marketplace is very difficult if this is working. >> at least if they're putting a spin on this 3 million or 4.2 if you take into consideration the ones that haven't paid as byron just said, that's the spin. that's even horrible. if that's the best they can do. they are not even getting over their own goal posts. >> that's all right. we have seen that in october and before october that the white house and h.h.s. were grasping at straws how to sell this healthcare law and how to cope with their own failures. we see that in sebelius' about face. nobody can trust what she says anymore about the enrollment numbers, particularly when you know her previous statements are just a quick google search away and they are contradictory. >> other thing too, not just secretary sebelius. the report that came out tonight from marilyn tavenner. centers for medicare and medicaid services in announcing these 4 million, she says we continue to see strong demand nationwide from consumers who want access to quality affordable coverage. number one it's not affordable for a lot of people. and number two continue to
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see strong demand when they haven't even met any of their sliding goal posts. that's pathetic. >> what else are they going to say? >> they can eliminate that message and just say 4 million. they don't have to embarrass themselves. >> they are not going to issue a press release saying things are not going as well. >> just say 4 million. >> they could. one more issue with this. we are talking about private coverage. there is also the expansion of medicaid, which the administration cites as one of the big successes of this. we know that a large percentage of those, probably a majority of those people were people who already qualified for medicaid. they may have been reuping their medicaid coverage. again, it's not reaching huge numbers of people who were previously uninsured. >> all right. one other thing talked about tonight, rick, it says that their call centers bragging about working 24/7 to assist customers in english, spanish, 150 languages. spanish is bad. >> google translate. let's put it in there right
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now. >> that's one of the toicious get ironed out. >> panel stay with us. more alarming news tonight about the botched obamacare rollout. emails exposing hh frustrations with the white house. a senior h.h.s. official writing that the white house was in disarray in months before the launch. susan cab tree broke the story. she joins us. nice to see you. >> nice to see you. >> first, how did you get these emails? >> i i submitted a foia request and six months later i submitted it? n. june and six months later i received them back, 257 emails. >> that wasn't exactly the fastest work i have ever seen six months to get you these emails. what do the emails tell you? >> well, there has been a the love focus and people think that kathleen sebelius did not inform president obama enough about the problems that could have come out in the healthcare.gov web site. that -- but actually the emails show that the reverse is also true. that h.h.s. harbored deep frustrations about how the white house was preparing for the rollout in the fall. >> so basically a lot of
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finger pointing. kathleen sebelius not telling the president and the president, of course, has denied that he knew anything about the poor perform hans until after it happened. now this email shows that even h.h.s. is deeply frustrated and i think in may with how the white house has handled it there is a lot of finger pointing both ways. >> nature. may 1st there was email from the head much external affairs. public engagement. he was saying that the white house is in disarray. the email was to enroll america's heads -- the white house is in disarray, we don't know who is in charge on healthcare and we need to have a come-to-jesus meeting. >> that was his term come to jesus. >> friends over there. >> is there anything in the email toind indicate upon this warning from h.h.s. or the complaint about the white house that anybody did anything to sort of accelerate inspection or test the web site or anything or was it just like they were complaining about each other. >> the larger story i'm getting at here is the fundraising issue.
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did sebelius shake down corporations as ethics watchdogs have complained that she did by raising money on behalf of enroll america which is an outside group. >> to pay what though not to line her own pocket. >> of course not. >> to pay what. >> to promote enrollment in obamacare. enroll america. outside group that's formed from obama white house aides and campaign aids it's going to is to try to pump the numbers up. that's my larger goal. i'm doing a series of stories on that. but, the emails i have a glimpse into the frustrations. so this email was included in the larger. >> the eye reason of the story if this were true back in may she is trying to get the enrollment up which started six months later, four months later in october. if anyone had paid attention to the web site. it wouldn't have been a disaster and had better enrollment numbers. never dull. susan, thank you. >> thanks for having me.
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>> all right. let's go all go off-the-record for a minute. do you know what we need? whistle blowers. we need more americans on the inside of our government who just can't stand deception and lack of transparency anymore. we need to you speak up so that we can get the straight story. the complete story and the truth about important matters. we in the media can ask lots of questions but the government often refuses to answer questions or dodge and then we have to file freedom of information act requests and the government takes forever to comply. they game us. when they do answer i'm not confident we get all the answers. i believe the government hides its mistakes classify documents that should never no way be classified. i think that's dirty. there is a a way to get information. that's you. you work for the government. and you know he something about obamacare or any other important issue that's being deliberately hidden from the americans that americans should know about, speak up. whistle blowers make a big difference. case in point. fcc commissioner pai blue the whistle to put spies in
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numerous and require the media to answer dangerous questions. if commissioner pai had not spoken up. if you know something hiding from americans you know where to find us. he we are not afraid. that's my off-the-record comment tonight. if you have an important story or issue you think i should take off the record go to gretawire.com and tell us about it straight ahead, you are not going to believe this one, it is a first, sean hannity defending former secretary of state hillary clinton. can that possibly be true? it absolutely is defending hillary clinton about what? find out. sean will tell you next. also, toronto mayor rob ford still smoking crack. mayor ford has news about his drug and alcohol use. you will hear from him coming up. ♪ feel all
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did vice president joe biden just change his view and announce it on "the view." today barbara walters pressing the president about running 2016 and whether or not he would run against former secretary of state hillary clinton. if he she does not run. have you said if she does not run for vice president you won't. >> the only reason to run for president of the united states if you truly believe you are better positioned to do what you think is most needed in the country. i think my knowledge of foreign policy, my engagement with world leaders, my experience is uniquely positions me to be -- to it follow through on the agenda barack and i have of bringing up world peace in a way that is real and substantive. i also think the middle class is the single foggy cuss what we should be looking at how to grow it
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whether she runs or not will not effect my decision. >> my colleague sean hannity joins us. nice to see you, sean. >> good how are you? >> i think it sounds like the vice president is running. >> he wants the plane. that's all spin. he wants the plane and helicopter and this really cool house i don't care about the house but i gold for the plane. >> the person we probably need. do you remember the movie gladiator? i love that movie. general maximus, he bestows that honor, that he will restore rome to great glory and general maximus says with all my heart no. that's why it must be you. i'm looking for the guy that doesn't want the job. he probably would be the right person at this time. >> what do you make of the fact that there is a lot of sort of chatter about the fact that secretary of state hillary clinton is older woman and may be particularly older at the time of the election but you don't hear anything about vice president biden's age
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and is he even older? >> you know what? looks, age, they said the same thing about ronald reagan whether he would have the energy. it became a big issue if you recall in his re-election campaign. especially that second debate. america needed to see that he was still engaged and then he had the line that ended the election. look, i don't like to get into the age issue. if she is up for the job. >> how about the spirit. how about talking about the for the woman but not the guy? >> well, you know, i think you are probably right. i think you would probably write in your observation in that i think they might talk more about a woman's looks than a man's looks at that age. and i think it's unfair. >> all right. >> i'm sticking up for hillary. mark that down on your calendar. >> i'm already marking it down. sean hannity sticking up for secretary of state hillary clinton everyone said it was auto agood meeting. that's the transparency we get from both of them.
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good meeting. what do you make of that. >> they are never going to tell us what really happened there i'm dispointed in speaker boehner. there have been times that i feel, greta, that he has done the right thing. i think more often than not, i think he has adopted a political strategy just to keep the republicans in power. i think this moment calls in american history for something bigger. if i was there. if i was the speaker. what i would have said to the president is why don't you join with me and let's stop robbing our kids and putting $17 trillion of debt on their heads. mr. president, are you aware the unemployment rate in north dakota is 2%? mr. president, if you haven't noticed your healthcare bill isn't working. is there anything you would be willing to do to get people controlled medical savings accounts. are you willing to open your mind at all? i'm not sure that speaker boehner would do that. i suspect that he went in there. they had a cordial lunch. he smoked and obama' chewed on nicorette and i think
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nothing got accomplished. >> sean we have 30 seconds left. last night you had a big interview with former vice president dick cheney. big interview talking about the military cuts. i'm curious, what do you have tonight? >> we're going to go back to that i thought what he said especially about the administration, i think speaks volumes about the left in general is that they spend all this money and they will take on all this debt on social programs but, yet, our military, lowest level since world war ii. 1940. even the pentagon admitted it puts our troops in jeopardy. so we are going to examine that question tonight and ask whether or not american dominance in the terms of the military power is wayneing under obama which would be very dangerous to the world. that void will be filled by somebody else. >> all right. 10:00 p.m. if you can't watch it live, everybody should set the dvr and watch it as soon thereafter. >> thanks, greta. >> good to he see you, sean. >> always good to see you. thank you. now it's time to show you what we are watching. we put together the most fantastic videos out there tonight. take a look. u.s. olympic figure skater
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gracy gold may not have won a medal but winning the hearts of fans. 17-year-old california teen taking to youtube prom date. >> watching you skate made me realize how perfect we are for each other. let me show you why. >> you are gorgeous. my mom thinks i'm pretty. >> you are olympic athlete. i made varsity. >> i live at the beach. you live at the beach. as you may have guessed. i am single. that's not the only thing we have in common. we are both blonde. a foot something and great form on the ice. >> will greas gold go to the prom? the skater tweeting saying this melted my heart. so far no decision on the prom. and now to the sport of frisbee. check out these trick shots caught on camera with dubai as a back drop. >> i'm just going to wing
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this one. that was on the work of trick shot specialist brode smith. amazing animal moment for the san diego zoo. mila the elephant had not seen another elephant for 30 years until now. look what happens when myla meets mary. they seem to share elephant hug. mila was surprised to see another animal as big as she is after being alone for decades. the new pals will hang out together. looks like the start of a beautiful elephant friendship. that is what we are watching tonight. if you want to see more of the videos we just showed you. you know where to go. gretawire.com. strippers, liquor, gambling, you heard of welfare money being spent on those things. that was really annoyed you. you will never guess where that food stamp money is going now. start guessing, i will tell you though after the break. also, big news tonight for president bush 43. he has a new career. that's coming up. honestly? i wanted a smartphone that shoots great video.
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a special message for house minority leader nancy pelosi. if she is watching. she needs to turn up the volume for this one. you may have heard leader pelosi insisting there is nothing left to cut from the budget. >> there is no more cuts to make. it's really important that people understand that. >> really? nothing to cut? how about starting with government waste and fraud? there is news just in the federal government misspent more than 100 billion-dollar that's a b, taxpayer funds in 2012. we are back with our panel. okay. elise, what's the worst example of waste and fraud of which there are many candidates? >> oh boy going off that article i chose one little bit controversial which is medicare advantage. private medicare which on average per patient receives
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more money from the government than traditional medicare. this is why very controversially obamacare chose to cut that program by $200 billion over 10 years because they consider it to be too wasteful, too fraudulent and too generous in terms of traditional medicare in terms of what americans were getting. >> 13.1 billion actually wasted. rick? >> it's hard to beat medicare in the pure volume of payments. i was struck by the un unnumber. $10 billion wasted improperly sent out. >> paid to people who aren't entitled it it. >> that's right. what's damaging about it lifeline to some people in the country. economic stimulus as well and the people that depend on it the fact that there are so many fraudulent examples out there. it has undermined the case for extending it. that's a major reason that you hear the calls now for cutting it off as this happened for long-time unemployed. >> the earned income tax credit, which is an income boost for low income americans, who are working, it has bipartisan support in
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congress. very solid support. but, various audits that we have seen, especially one from the internal revenue service which administers it has it losing between 110 and $130 billion over the next 10 years. everybody at every level of government has tried to stop this sending out money to unqualified people. president obama signed an executive order trying to stop it hasn't worked. >> all right. a billion dollars. people are so used to throwing that number around. that is 1 billion. that's a lot of money. a thousand million. 35 billion. incredible. $35 billion. i hate to use the word delusional, but why in the world is leader pelosi saying the cupboard is bare? perfect place to cut, rick? >> here is the thing waste, fraud and abuse, politicians from the beginning of time and end of time will wail against waste fraud and abuse. it takes money to cover that
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money. we will never be rid of it entirely. speaker pelosi's point is when you look at the programs already spending money they have already taken big cuts. inside those programs there is so much money that is wasteful and fraudulent and abusive and constant rebel every government in the history of time. >> i don't think it's a struggle. you know why i don't think it's a struggle? because i don't see any effort to do it. i think they have all just given up or they don't care. >> i think there is various types of waste. we are talking about the f-35. insanely expensive fighter plane that is still being developed for the pentagon. that's one thing. now we are talking about social welfare programs. i think a lot of democrats support those even if there is a large amount of waste because they feel that cutting them would actually hurt people who need them. >> my favorite, of course, is the-million-dollar will vegas conference with the guy in the bathtub. we paid for that and couldn't even get two wine glasses that match in the background. >> that's right. >> anyways, i don't -- you know, i hear all this thing about how there is nothing
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to cut. and i don't see a huge effort by people to really dedicate themselves to try to do it? >> that's right. because it would take a new effort on the part of congress to create a regime to root out this waste fraud and abuse in the agencies. >> start penalize people who waste and spend money giving it away wrong. there are ways to do it. i don't see anyone with any idea trying. panel, i'm taking the last word on that. thank you. brace yourself for this one. if you know your tax dollars could be going to pot literally? just one month after colorado legalized marijuana, welfare recipients withdrew thousands of dollars in public assistance cash from atms at colorado weed shops. national review investigation uncovering that information. jillian writes for the national review fellow he franklin center independence williams forum she joins us. jillian, there are atms at these weed shops in colorado? >> there sure are within the first month of legalization at more than 60 times i found people withdrawing cash benefits. now, it's impossible to know
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how much of that money actually went to weed, but i sure it sure points out potential for abuse. >> is there any -- okay, so what percentage overall the food stamp benefits for colorado, we figured thatwe talr something less? is it, you know, i mean it's appalling the number that i did read, but, i mean, any of it might be appalling. do you have any sense of the numbers? the magnitude? >> yeah, well i mean it's only about 60 out of more than 42,000 transactions. i think the point here is not how many or how few. it's that it is happening at all. i mean really welfare money is not intended for marijuana. and the fact that people can go and withdraw cash benefits at marijuana shops is just incomprehensible. >> is colorado, are the politicians in colorado, are they least bit distressed by this? any attention on this at all. >> there have been. there was actually an effort a couple weeks ago to pass a bill that would have regulated ebt withdrawals in marijuana stores and strip clubs. it failed to pass. and that's interesting. because throughout the
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debate on legalization of marijuana, people are saying regulate it like alcohol. colorado law prohibits the use of ebt cards at bars, liquor stores and gambling places but marijuana is really a loophole. that is something that needs to be legally reconciled. >> how could it fail? colorado i can't imagine that politicians think food stamps should be used to buy weed. how does that fail when it comes up for a vote? >> i heard it failed completely along party lines. and i think that's really interesting. another problem that that creates is when i was talking to the basically the administrators of the program, they were saying that even if they know that abuse is going on, they don't have the legal authority to act on it. so i think as other states look at colorado's marijuana legalization experiment, this something that stands out as a place for regulatory improvement. >> i guess it falls under the headline never dull. jillian, thank you. >> thank you. >> coming up, another new spat, senator lindsey graham taking on national security advisor susan rice. what did rice do to outrage senator graham now.
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senator lindsey graham blasting susan rice on twitter. rice still sticking by the talking points she delivered on five different sunday morning shows in the days right after the benghazi attack when four americans were murdered in that attack. but the obama administration insisted it was all about a video. senator lindsey graham tweeting susan rice may be comfortable about the role she played in benghazi debacle but no one else outside of president obama's inner circle is. senator graham joins us. nice to see you, sir. >> what a very smart thing to have said if i say so myself. >> what is going on with this? i mean, at least -- i mean -- >> getting away with it. >> secretary of state hillary clinton says said this was the most regrettable incident of the
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time she was there susan rice acts like it's still fine. >> well, from her point of view, her job was to turn a terrorist attack into a protest because they are seven weeks from an election. all of the intelligence coming out of libya, from the station chief, the cia station chief says this was not a protest. fox has done a marvelous job of detailing how people reported a terrorist attack, named who was involved and this protest story was politically hatched out of the white house and why was susan rice picked? she the u.n. ambassador. she has absolutely no control over the conflict in libya. that's not her portfolio. i think they picked her and not hillary because she would say anything i think it's disturbing these years out she is still sticking to it instead of i made a mistake whatever, something. but still sticking to it and acting like we are so stupid that we still believe it number one. and number two is that i dent -- i'm always
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suspicious of someone who will never admit a mistake when backed into the corner with the facts. >> well, number one if she really believes what she said is still accurate god help us all. >> that's scary. >> she said the consulate was substantially, strongly and significantly secured. who in the world -- thats with never the talking points she was making things up. al qaeda has been diminished they are on the run. no evidence of a terrorist attack. what we think was a protest was caused by hateful video we had nothing to do with. she was marginalizing the blame of the obama administration. trying to hide from the american people that auto died was coming back. they did attack us. and the obama narrative wasn't holding water. if congress doesn't call her before an appropriate committee to answer questions that she has never going to get asked on television, then how can we tell family members we got to the truth because she was the person who told the world on 16 september a lie. and if she is not called before congress, how can any of us say we done a good
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job. >> i know you are in the minority of the senate so you cannot -- you don't have the authority to issue. we are a couple years out and everybody at home is thinking to themselves. >> where is the house? >> where the house of representatives? i mean, why aren't they doing something? this is a little bit absurd we are now in the year 2014. >> can i suggest what we should do? this looking at committees separately not working. dod looks at the dod. cia. looks at the state department. you need to have a single committee for everybody. >> you have been saying that for two and a half years it's still not happening. >> can can i suggest to your viewers hold republican house accountable for not having a joint select committee to get to the truth. >> how do they do that? >> just start calling trey gowdy and others have a resolution calling for joint select committee. he has been a great speaker but why we have not in the house formed a joint select
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committee with subpoena power. >> why haven't we? >> i know this, two people i would call. susan rice to see. >> as a witness? >> as a witness and mike morrell the number two at the it cia who actually changed the talking points. >> and do you know what i would do? i would issue. >> he. >> i would issue a subpoena and i would demand that documents that are classified, because i think we overclassify. >> overclassify. >> i would demand all those classified documents be reviewed so see if they're really classified or hide things from the american people. >> mike morrell lied about changing the talking points on two different occasions. to me, senator mccain. and he blamed the fbi. and later in may of 2013, in november of 2012. >> there is no consequence. >> none. >> james clapper lied to senator biden in the u.s. senate and there is nothing on that. do you know what happens if you lie in traffic court? can you get in trouble. you can go up on capitol hill. senator, nice to see you, sir. >> thank you.
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it is a plan that will not add to our deficit over the next decade. it brings down our deficit by more than $1 trillion over the next two decades. >> which will go a long way towards controlling these costs. that costs are going down. >> president obama promised you that the affordable care act would cut healthcare costs.
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we now know, that's not true. the most recent cbo estimate is that obamacare will cost more than 2 trillion over the next decade. a new report by senator tom coburn shows it will be even more than that way more. maybe even 31,000% more. how does he know? senator coburn joins us. nice to see you, sir. >> good to see you hard to understand. >> that's the history how good we are at estimating costs. you just take what the cbo said this year versus what they said when the bill was passed. we are now twice as much as what they said. >> you go back to 1966? >> no. i'm talking just about the affordable care act. a trillion dollars. >> that's 31,000%? >> no. well, that's a doubling of what they thought it was going to cost over the life of the program. the point is we are not any good at estimating costs and that's the study that we just put out that's up on our web site. it's showing here is what we
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said weather he we started the program and here is what it costs today's. in cases of medicaid 31,000 percent from the time it started in 1966 to 2012. in other words, they missed it by 310 times. >> i guess in looking at your study, i would feel a little bit better if sometime we estimated it wrong in our favor. you know, where we actually saved money. or we got some extra money. but when i look at the numbers here. they are incredible how poor the estimates were. and they were always hugely more costly. >> well, but to be fair, some of the increase, greta, is because politicians to enhance their own careers have expanded the programs with either richer benefits or are wider pursue of people. i mean, just think. that's medicaid. 31,000%. we're going to essentially almost double the number of people on medicaid if the affordable care act was totally implemented? and knowing that the medicaid is a substandard system that doesn't give as
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good of care and denies access when it promises access. that's the kind of healthcare we are going into. and then the cost for it is going to be far higher than what we say it's going to cost. >> is there anything from your report, from your study of the cost that should make anyone feel better? >> yes. >> what? >> if you look at the medicare part d, if you look at what it was estimated to cost, it came in far below cost. >> there is one. >> there is a couple reasons for that number one, it was based on the way we allocate scarce resources everywhere else in our economy when the government isn't involved, which is markets and access. and so had you had a healthcare plan that used market forces and consumer choice, and, you know, cost you more if you want more. cost you less if you want less, what you would see is costs would markedly go down. >> that was a little bit about the early thoughts of obamacare the first discussion that it would be market exchange never happened. >> well, but they -- there
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is no real free market in obamacare. here is what you must buy. >> the menu? >> yeah. you have three choices. if you are in washington and work for the federal government and are in the exchange, you have no choice. you get one plan. and it's a captive audience so that's the only place you can can buy it. we he will tell you what you can't. so there is no consumer choice. and there is very little transparency. and that's the first year only. we don't have any idea what's going to happen when they see the experience ratios, the loss ratios. >> give me your estimate a year from now if we are having a conversation about this. what would we be saying about obamacare? >> i think number one, everybody agrees the system we had wasn't working well. number two, this is much worse than even the harshest critics have said it's going to be in terms of disrupting healthcare, denying people access. i mean report out today by the u.s. national association of manufacturers. 60 million people employed in manufacturing are going to lose their insurance in the next year. think about that 60 million
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who are happy with what they have today are going to lose their insurance. they are going to go on to an exchange and buy -- they have three choices. and they are going to have to buy one of those plea choices. not what they want. not what they need and not necessarily with their doctor. you don't get to keep what you had. you don't necessarily get to keep the doc you have. and oh by the way the deductibles and costs is going up. >> senator, thank you. always nice to see you sir. >> thank you. >> thank you. toronto mayor rob ford is talking drugs and drinking. from the looks this video you may be surprised what he has it to say. has it to say. that's next. hungry for the best? it's eb. want to give your family the very best in taste, freshness, and nutrition? it's eb. want to give them more vitamins, omega 3s, and less saturated fat? it's eb. eggland's best eggs. eb's. the only eggs that make better taste and better nutrition... easy. eggland's best eggs. better taste. better nutrition.
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SOUTH JORDAN — Police officer Stevan Gerber is back in a patrol car doing what he loves.
It's a major milestone for the South Jordan officer who almost lost his life while working with the Joint Criminal Apprehension Team two years ago.
On Aug. 26, 2010, Gerber was shot in the leg while serving an arrest warrant for Troy Cabibi, 29, who had violated his parole. The shooting happened at a small apartment complex, 3064 S. 300 East, just before 1 a.m. JCAT officers could see Cabibi was inside the apartment, along with other people.
After failing to answer the door when JCAT members announced their presence, the officers forced open the door with a battering ram. The team was just outside the doorway when the shooting started. Officers pulled Gerber from the gunfire, keeping him alive.
"It is kind of crazy to think that it's been two years. There are days when it feels a lot longer than that and days where you go, 'Really? We're already there?'" Gerber said.
He has gone through the events of that night over and over, and says it was just a bad situation. "It wasn't because anybody did anything wrong. Everybody did everything right. It's just that's the dangerous part of the job," he said.
The road to recovery hasn't been easy. Gerber has made numerous doctor visits, undergone four surgeries and hundreds of hours of physical therapy. "I went through a period of being bed ridden, to being in a wheelchair, to crutches and a cane, to getting my sea legs back and walking again," Gerber said.
When the officer had enough strength, he went back to work behind a desk. Between surgeries, he helped with training and speaking assignments.
He had a goal to get back on patrol before the two-year anniversary of the shooting. He accomplished that on Aug. 13.
"It was kind of emotional leading up to it," Gerber said. "I was getting ready, trying to remember where everything went, make sure that I still fit in my uniform and that it looked good."
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Going back on patrol wasn't an easy decision to make. "I thought, 'I don't think I should ever have to work that day again, it's like my second birthday. I should just get it off.' But then I decided against that, because it's just finding an excuse not to work on a day where something bad happened to me," he said.
Gerber also doesn't want to let the man who shot him take away another minute of what he loves to do. "You shot me and you messed me up, but I'm still out here doing it," he said.
He credits two things for keeping him motivated: his family and the determination that nobody will take him away from the job he loves.
His ultimate goal is to return to SWAT and JCAT, which he hopes to accomplish in six to eight months.
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Well, the New York Times has finally noticed that Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence is just the teensiest bit out of sync with his past history. Adam Liptak presents a pretty good roundup of Bush's near-total lack of mercy as a governor and a president, but towards the end he apparently realizes that he's making Dubya look like a heartless jerk, and that would be bad.
Read the two penultimate paragraphs back-to-back and see if you don't get whiplash:
Mr. Burwell, who was appointed to the board by Mr. Bush, voted for clemency. "He didn't commit the crime we executed him for," Mr. Burwell said of Mr. Graham. As for Mr. Bush, "I thought he was harder on crime than he needed to be," Mr. Burwell said.
In his memoir, Mr. Bush wrote about agonizing over the case of Karla Faye Tucker, who in 1998 became the first woman executed in Texas since the Civil War. Ms. Tucker, who was convicted in the ax murders of two people during a robbery in 1983, had become a born-again Christian while in prison, and her case drew support from across the political spectrum. Mr. Bush described feeling "like a huge piece of concrete was crushing me" as he waited with aides for Ms. Tucker's execution. It was, he said, "the longest 20 minutes of my tenure as governor."
Wow, I guess Dubya was just misunderstood. He really wanted to pardon all of those poor doomed souls, but his own personal integrity and high ethical standards just wouldn't let him give in to his bottomless human compassion.
Um, or not. For those of you who don't remember it, here's how Dubya really felt about Karla Faye Tucker, encapsulated in a charming little Dubya Moment which Liptak completely neglects to mention in his last-minute turd-polishing:
In the week before [Karla Faye Tucker's] execution, Bush says, Bianca Jagger and a number of other protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Tucker. "Did you meet with any of them?" I ask.
Bush whips around and stares at me. "No, I didn't meet with any of them," he snaps, as though I've just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. "I didn't meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with [Tucker], though. He asked her real difficult questions, like 'What would you say to Governor Bush?' "
"What was her answer?" I wonder.
"Please," Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, "don't kill me."
Ladies and gentlemen, your agonizer-in-chief.
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Sorry if this is posted twice as the first one i posted seems to have got lost.
I have just installed Windows 7 on a new hard drive.
If i click on My Computer i see a C drive (Windows 7) with just the one partition as i expected.
But if i right click on My Computer and go to manage then go to disk managment is see that the hard drive with Windows 7 on has two partitions one called System Reserved and is 100Mb and then the C Drive with Windows 7 on.
Is this ok or is this a problem please
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