text: wow, it is amazing, i have stayed in GF before in suite. but this time i want to save money, and i got the rate of 49.00 in pop. i was in room 1270, this is in the lady and the tramp building, facing the pool with fridge in the room, since this is handicap room. the room is clean, our roomkeeper always cleaned the room before 10am. she used our toy to decorate our room. the pool is a bit crowd though, and sicne we were near the pool, we could listen to the music from the pool. one thing that i don't really appreciated is the noise from the other room. i can tell you that i can listen every single word of their conversation. i was there during hurricane frances, on sat, they had to close everything, theme park, even everything pop... we were so boring in the room, but disney resort channel kept playing different disney movie including brother bear, and the new mickey film, nemo, monster inc.. . and the guest service from POP would leave us up-to-date info regardings hurricane, reopening of parks and everything pop to our voicemail and they also send us some letters regarding security measures. overall, i felt very safe staying in disney hotel, on that night (hurricane),i had no difficult to sleep at all, i did n't hear any window cracking or antyhign like that. and pop also offered us hurricane special price since our flight got cancelled. the staff in everything pop is also super nice, the food offering is good, espcially the frozen coke in the food court. (don't forget to get urself a mug for 11.95) the parking lot, no problem for me at all, i think i was in 50s building, something i might need to park a car a bit further, but comparing to parking the car in MGM, i think pop parking is closer too. in conclusion, the only thing that i dislike is really the noise from our roomate. and i will come back to pop, you pay cheap but you never feel like value


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Your scores would've increased more if you hadn't done couple things... You refinanced, that's one new account open with high balance, you closed couple credit cards after you paid them off. You can't do much or avoid the refinancing, it benefits you in other ways than just credit scores, i.e.. lower interest rate, able to pay off other debts. But you can avoid closing your credit cards once it's paid, unless it has high annual/monthly fees and fees is due very soon. it might not a big deal if you have 8 other credit cards still open/active, but from your post, you currently only have two credit/charge cards, that takes away some of the potential score gain, to some extent your overall available credit limit and number of open/active accounts matters, if for nothing else, leave them open just for utilizations padding, and you do get bit of scoring boost if you have more accounts reporting zero balance. Other thing to consider before closing a credit cards, are you able to get by with whatever number of cards you have for next few years, as it might be bit counterproductive if you close two, then 6 months later you need add couple because the "what ifs" pops up.
Paying off a car loan tend to drop your scores as well, I know it's odd, less debt, low the scores, it usualy due to account type mixture, but that's going to happen whenever you pay it off. Of course the recent late payment(s) is holding your scores down as well. Your score just need time to let all the activities settle a bit and you should see your score creeping up.
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The Uniform Securities Act specifies a number of transactions by which non-exempt securities may be legally traded without registration. The following is not a comprehensive list but touches on those most likely to be on the Series 63 exam.
Isolated Non-Issuer Transactions
The states define what "isolated" means on a local basis but it is specifically non-recurring. For example: An individual brought stock certificates for PDQ stock to Idaho when he moved from Tennessee. The stock is not registered in Idaho, but he may sell it to his neighbor and the transaction is exempt because the individual is not the issuer and the transaction is "isolated".
Non-Issuer Transactions in Outstanding Securities
This is often called the "manual exemption". If the security being traded is from an issuer that is currently up-to-date on all financial reporting with the SEC, is not experiencing financial difficulties, and is not a "blind pool", or "shell corporation", the transaction is exempt from registration. The securities involved in the transaction must have been in the hands of the public for at least 90 days.
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"Shell Corporations" are businesses without active operations or significant assets. These companies are often formed before commencing operations to obtain financing. Sometimes, they may be used as a front in tax evasion.
"Blind Pools" occur when securities are sold to investors with no specific indication as to what the monies raised will be used for.
If you would like to learn more about blind pools, click here for an investor alert from the NASAA:
Unsolicited Transactions
These transactions may be effected by, or through, a broker-dealer but are only exempt if they are truly unsolicited. The broker-dealer may be required by the Administrator to provide proof - a statement by the customer, for example - demonstrating the nature of the transaction.
Fiduciary Transactions
These include sales by executors, Administrators, trustees, receivers, etc. For example, if an executor of an estate liquidates securities of a deceased person in accordance with the person's will, it is an exempt transaction.
Transactions with Financial Institutions
This includes sales to banks, savings institutions, and insurance companies. This exemption goes back to the ideas discussed earlier. The Uniform Securities Act does not place as much emphasis on the protection of institutions as it does for individual investors.
Private Placement Transactions
Private placements, as the name implies, are not "public" offerings and are not examined as closely by the SEC as a public offering.A private placement may be made to an unlimited number of accredited investors. However, If a private placement offering is to be exempt from registration under the Uniform Securities Act, there are additional requirements.relating to offers to non accredited investors. Any offer to non accredited investors must follow these guidlines:
- No more than 10 offers may be made in a twelve-month period.
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Institutional and acrredited investors are exempt purchasers for the purpose of these rules.
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In all cases where an exemption for a security or a transaction is claimed, the burden of proof is on the person requesting the exemption.
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Eurogamer re-review WoW calling it a masterpiece 10/10.
WOW doesn't just dominate the MMO landscape because it's the proverbial goose's golden egg. WOW dominates because, in pure quality terms, it's in a class of its own. Blizzard is constantly working to keep it that way, to improve not just on its weaknesses (the grind, the endgame) but its strengths (the interface, the world-building). It's made huge leaps forward on all those fronts in the last few months alone, and as a result, WOW is an even more inviting prospect for new or returning players than it ever was. It is, in short, a masterpiece.
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On a bitterly cold night in December, comedian Paula Poundstone takes the stage at La Zona Rosa, seven blocks south of the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin where George W. Bush waits -- like most everyone else in the country -- for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether he will be the next president of the United States.
Poundstone is headlining a fund-raiser for the Texas Freedom Network, a group that sees itself as a counterbalance to the religious right in the state. The moment is not lost on the politically savvy comedian: Here she is, performing in front of 200 or so of Austin's liberal elite, in the capital city of the state governed by the man mostly likely to succeed Bill Clinton. She's definitely behind enemy lines.
Early in her act, Poundstone mentions that she's going to miss President Clinton -- and that she doesn't understand why people are so hard on him. She notes that while the two presidents before Clinton had managed to run the economy into the ground, the nation has enjoyed unprecedented prosperity during the Clinton years. What's not to like? asks Poundstone, wearing her trademark long jacket and necktie. Well, of course, she acknowledges, there was all that trouble over Monica Lewinsky.
"But I don't know," says Poundstone wryly, looking down at her feet and sliding one foot in front of the other, "I just thought she was being patriotic."
The punch line hits its mark, and the crowd erupts into laughter. The joke even brings a brief smile to the face of Will Harrell, the new executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas who, for much of the evening, has sported a wistful look while gauging the turnout for the TFN benefit.
"I wish all these people would support the ACLU like this," Harrell says.
Harrell's envy is understandable. It is, after all, his job to attract supporters to the ACLU. Last April Harrell was handed the reins to the Texas chapter of the constitutional watchdog with the mandate of returning it to its glory days of the 1970s and 1980s when the ACLU, especially the Houston chapter, developed a reputation as an aggressive defender of an individual's constitutional rights when threatened by overzealous governments or abusive law enforcement agencies. The organization's work earned it a reputation unlike any other's: a group both revered and loathed.
But for most of the past decade, the Texas ACLU has experienced its own constitutional crisis (see "The Life and Death of Houston's ACLU," by Steve McVicker, December 23, 1993). In 1992 the national ACLU board wrestled fund-raising control away from the Houston and Texas chapters, and a civil war ensued. Divisions between former allies became so deep that the former staff attorney for the Houston office branded the national ACLU as nothing more than "a direct-mail fund-raising scam." Membership declined, as did the ACLU's involvement in controversial issues. The local chapter became a shell of its former self.
Then three years ago Houston criminal defense attorney Greg Gladden, who was as bitter as any of the locals after the rift with the national office, decided enough was enough. He ran for, and was elected to, board president of the Texas ACLU. Since then, he has been planting the seeds for the rebirth of the organization. He began by mending political fences and convincing old friends to come back. Last spring he made what he considers his most important move to date: the hiring of Will Harrell, an activist with impressive liberal credentials, to direct the day-to-day operations -- and bring about the comeback -- of the Texas ACLU.
Harrell has wasted no time in his new position. In the past six months he has launched or renewed or co-opted a series of progressive initiatives, which include an effort to abolish the death penalty, a police accountability project, state-supported indigent defense programs and a defense of homeowners' rights. But Harrell knows the obstacles he faces, obstacles that even his considerable abilities and charm may not be able to knock down.
Meeting Will Harrell in person for the first time is a bit startling. On the phone, Harrell's gravelly voice conjures up the mental image of a civil liberties cowboy who has just gotten into several dustups over the Bill of Rights. Instead, a visitor entering the Texas ACLU office on West Oltorf in south Austin is greeted by a man in a T-shirt and jeans, sporting a braided black ponytail and dark male-model looks. But don't be fooled; when it comes to work, he is no pretty boy.
The 35-year-old Harrell is a native Texan who grew up in Katy, where he was an all-district linebacker. His progressive leanings surfaced while he was at the University of Texas in Austin, where he organized the first student chapter of the ACLU and became a protégé of former ACLU staff attorney Jim Harrington, who now heads the Texas Civil Rights Project.
After graduating from UT, Harrell attended law school at American University in Washington, D.C. Armed with his law degree, he worked for a time with the ACLU's national prison project, which monitors conditions at correctional institutions around the country. Later he served as an aide to U.S. Representative Mickey Leland, who Harrell says taught him to be blunt. After the Houston congressman's fatal plane crash in 1989, Harrell took a job teaching at Catholic University in Quito, Ecuador. He then prosecuted human rights cases for the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unit during the last four years of the 36-year civil war in Guatemala, which ended with a peace accord in December 1996. It was an experience, he says, that helped him learn what tactics to use when you are outresourced.
"When you're outnumbered and outgunned," says Harrell, "you've got to hit with everything you've got right up front. Hope that the enemy recoils, and then come again."
Burned out by the time the war was over, Harrell obtained a fellowship to return to American University. After that, he spent a year in Colorado doing legal services for farmworkers but became disenchanted by all the congressional restrictions he faced.
"You can't represent undocumented workers that make up the majority of the workforce," says Harrell. "You can't bring class actions, can't sue for attorney's fees. So essentially you're just running around the state putting out fires. And all you ultimately get is what the farmworker was owed in the first place."
Harrell went on to work for the National Lawyers Guild and the Center for Constitutional Rights police accountability project in New York City, where he was working when the Texas ACLU job opened up. Early on in the search, state board president Gladden knew he wanted Harrell as his point man.
"He comes from a very rich background of civil and human rights," says Gladden. With Harrell in place, Gladden became more excited about the ACLU than at any other time since he first got involved in the late 1970s. He points out that the Texas ACLU has been in the doldrums for quite some time. During that period, Gladden himself was one of the group's harshest critics.
In 1992 the national ACLU board rewrote the guidelines that governed the relationship between the national office and the affiliates. The policy called for only one ACLU affiliate per state; other offices in the state would serve as satellites of the main state chapter. That meant that the Houston chapter, which had long been more active and more financially solvent, suddenly faced having its money and legal agenda controlled by the state office in Austin, which was run by Jay Jacobson, the new executive director handpicked by the national board. Houston board members like Gladden were bitter about the changes. It didn't help that, at the time, conservatives like former president George Herbert Walker Bush were railing about "card-carrying members" of the ACLU. Jacobson, in Gladden's mind, didn't do enough to fight that propaganda. "George Bush," he says, "could not have picked a better person to nullify the ACLU in Texas."
Despite those harsh words, or maybe because of them, Gladden now finds himself a major force in trying to turn around the organization. "I thought the ACLU was important and worth saving," he says.
When he took over as board president, Gladden knew what his top priority would be: to oust Jacobson as executive director. He also knew it would be a drawn-out battle, nearly three years in duration, since the state board did not yet have the authority to hire and fire. So more immediately, Gladden devoted his energy to bringing back former members and activists and retiring a substantial portion of the state affiliate's debt. A couple of breach-of-contract lawsuits filed by former employees and a slander suit filed by a couple of East Texas cops who had been called murderers by the then-director of the Dallas chapter cost the national office around $250,000 to settle. Then there were back dues owed to the folks in the national office, dues that they were not about to forgive.
Before granting Texas some autonomy, national ACLU officials wanted at least a partial reduction of that debt. Through a few sizable donations and bequeathals from longtime loyalists, Gladden managed to reduce the amount owed by more than half. In return, Texas got the power to choose its own executive director.
Last spring, when the state board voted to replace Jacobson with Harrell, Gladden says, Jacobson was offered the opportunity to stay on as legal director. Jacobson could not be reached for comment, but given the less than amicable history between himself and Gladden, it is not surprising that he refused the offer. In a gracious farewell letter, Jacobson did wish the organization well and pledged his continued support while in private practice in Austin. Speaking from firsthand experience, he also warned the board against saddling Harrell with too many responsibilities, suggesting instead that board members take over such tasks as fund-raising.
On this one issue, Gladden agrees with Jacobson; the board president has even set a goal to triple the state ACLU's budget to $750,000 within the next three years. It's a figure he believes will make the organization a force to be reckoned with.
Considering that just five years ago the Texas ACLU didn't even have a board of directors, the mere suggestion of such a turnaround is encouraging to new board member David Kahne. Kahne, a tall, slender man with an unruly beard, is the former staff attorney for the Clark Read Foundation, which previously served as the fund-raising arm of the ACLU's Houston chapter, which was formed in the 1950s. (The first ACLU chapter in Texas was established in San Antonio in the 1930s and was one of the first outside New York.) After the trouble with the national office, several disgruntled members of the Houston chapter attempted to continue their work through Clark Read, but the effort never matured. While Gladden credits Harrell with putting the Texas ACLU in a position for a comeback, Kahne believes the credit belongs to Gladden, a Fort Worth native whose father was a force in the ACLU chapter there.
"I think Greg has minimized some of the really huge problems that he and the rest of the board had to overcome," says Kahne, who adds that he joined the board because Gladden told him it was a chance to make a difference. "But it's a tribute to Greg's leadership. It's hard enough to raise money when you have a program you want to support. It's even harder when you are trying to come out of debt. Greg and the other board members have solved that problem. But there has to be some reason for members to give."
Gladden and Harrell believe those reasons are, once again, in place.
In the six months he has been executive director, Will Harrell reports that the ACLU of Texas has attracted more than 500 new or renewed memberships, 90 of them in the Houston area, bringing the number of dues-paying members to about 9,000 statewide. The renewed interest in civil liberties in Texas, Harrell says, can be traced back to the ACLU's recent involvement in a number of controversial cases.
Arguably, the Texas ACLU's most important recent action was its decision to join the legal battles in Tulia, a small town of 4,500 predominantly white residents located 75 miles south of Amarillo. The trouble in Tulia began in January 1998 when the Swisher County sheriff's office hired veteran lawman Tom Coleman, the son of a Texas Ranger. The deputy, who had been working as a welder before he got the job, was assigned to oversee an antidrug operation in Tulia, a rather puritanical place where students are subjected to random drug tests. Eighteen months later, 43 alleged drug dealers, including 41 African-Americans -- 10 percent of Tulia's black population -- were rounded up. However, Coleman, a white man, apparently had little physical evidence to support his contention that he was able to purchase small amounts of cocaine from the suspects. As one black Tulia resident told The New York Times, "Can you see 43 dealers surviving in this small town? There would be murders and everything. Everybody would have to be doing it."
Questions about the propriety of the arrests were first raised by Amarillo lawyer Van Williamson, a court-appointed attorney, who began looking into Coleman's history. According to reports first published in the Texas Observer, Coleman had suddenly departed from the sheriff's office in Cochran County after running up more than $6,000 in debts to area merchants. He eventually was charged with misdemeanor theft. In a letter to state police officials, Cochran County Sheriff Ken Burke wrote that "Mr. Coleman should not be in law enforcement, if he is going to do people the way he did this town." Former co-workers in the Pecos County sheriff's department, where Coleman worked earlier in his career, told Williamson that Coleman was hot-tempered and a compulsive liar. Nevertheless, in all but one of the Tulia drug trials, the disturbing information about Coleman, who now works as an undercover officer in North Texas, was not allowed into evidence. So Williamson turned to Jeff Blackburn, a fellow Amarillo attorney who volunteers his time to the ACLU.
"What we're doing," says Blackburn, "is putting together a group of lawyers that we could never have [put together] without the ACLU involved. No small mom-and-pop organization could get this done. We've made some good linkage with the ACLU national groups that are studying drug testing and drug policies around the country. And by doing that, we have muscled up the defense effort.
"Because if you look at this thing, it's a war that has about 132 separate battles in it. That's a big damn war. And it's going to take a long time to fight. And there's got to be a lot of strategic thinking involved. You can't just approach it like a headless samurai and just attack without thinking. So the ACLU has wound up becoming both the brains and the muscle on the legal end of this thing. We couldn't be doing it without them."
In addition to appealing the convictions in Tulia, Blackburn and the ACLU, in coordination with the NAACP, have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of one of the defendants. Blackburn says more are on the way. The ACLU also has filed an administrative complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice, urging federal prosecutors to investigate the Tulia arrests for possible criminal violations by law officers. Additionally, two Tulia defendants have yet to go to trial, and Blackburn says major defenses will be mounted on their behalf -- the first time, he says, that any of the alleged drug-dealing cases will have been seriously tested in court.
"And that's pretty cool," says Blackburn, "because the ACLU usually doesn't do criminal cases."
Blackburn is a criminal-defense and civil rights attorney by trade. In 1997 he won a $36 million judgment for his client against Texas State Technical College, the largest award in the history of the Texas Whistleblower Act. For a time, Blackburn ran the High Plains Center for Constitutional Rights in Amarillo and claims that Texas Lawyer once described him as "the trouble-makingist lawyer in West Texas." He credits Harrell with convincing him, and other attorneys like him, to return to the ACLU family.
"This sounds like enthusiastic booster bullshit," says Blackburn, "but it's not. But we are going to build a model of how you resist something like this. You get the community organized and mobilized. You keep the story in the news. You keep it moving, and you sue the shit out of everybody."
It is an attitude shared by many in the new Texas ACLU. Together, they are behind several aggressive legal initiatives around the state, including:
" The Police Accountability Project: Civil liberties activists in Austin are hopeful that the Austin City Council will approve the creation a Civilian Monitor's Office, which will field and investigate allegations of police brutality and wrongdoing. The office would have full access to the Austin Police Department's internal affairs files and have the right to interview volunteer witnesses. The head of the office would earn a salary of $111,000 and oversee an annual budget of up to $500,000. However, the office would not have subpoena and enforcement power, and all disciplinary decisions would still be made by the chief of police.
State ACLU board member Ann del Llano has been instrumental in the negotiations with the city and the Austin police union over the creation of a civilian monitor. The push, says del Llano, came about after several controversial deaths of civilians at the hands of Austin police officers. As she told the Austin American-Statesman in October, "We think most cops are great, but we need to get rid of those stinkers."
In addition to the monitor's office in Austin, as well as others in Texas cities, the Police Accountability Project is pushing for state legislation to make police disciplinary files open to public records requests, and for a bill requiring all Texas police departments to keep racial profiling statistics, something that is already being done in Houston and Arlington. (Representatives of the Austin Police Association did not return calls from the Houston Press.)
" Prison guard brutality lawsuits: Through volunteer attorneys such as Yolanda Torres of Dallas (see "Unnecessary Roughness," by Steve McVicker, October 12, 2000) and Robert Rosenberg of Houston (see "What Really Happened to Rodney Hulin?" by Michael Berryhill, August 7, 1997), the ACLU is aggressively investigating the alleged abuse of inmates by Texas Department of Criminal Justice guards. Both trials got under way this month.
" School prayer in the Santa Fe Independent School District: Last June, in a 6-3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court widened the separation of church and state by deciding not to allow school-sponsored prayers before football games in Santa Fe. The winning argument was presented to the high court by Galveston attorney Anthony Griffin on behalf of the ACLU, which had agreed to represent four families opposed to school-sponsored prayer. Despite the high court's ruling, however, this fall's gridiron battles in Santa Fe were marked by so-called spontaneous group prayers. Obviously, say ACLU officials, the school prayer battle is far from over in Santa Fe and other cities around the state.
"We are seeing in Texas explicit attempts to bring the clergy into the classroom," says state board member Kahne. "Even after the Supreme Court has said you can't bring church onto the football field, we are still seeing attempts to bring the clergy into the classroom. We are going to be fighting this for the next decade. It's not going to go away easily. But what is important is that we are making that fight."
" The Texas Stand Down Project: In August Harrell announced the formation of the ACLU's anti-death-penalty group, headed by Steve Hall, once a spokesman for former Texas attorney general Jim Mattox, who oversaw numerous executions. In addition to seeking a moratorium on the death penalty, the project will push for legislation that gives juries the option of sentencing convicted killers to life without parole. The project also is seeking to abolish executions of the mentally retarded and will scrutinize the court-appointed legal representation of indigent defendants across the state.
"I believe if we had something called life without parole, and as a criminal defense lawyer I could tell a jury that that was an option, there would be less people getting the death penalty," says Gladden. "There would be no need for it. There are some who fear that there will be just a bunch of people getting life without parole, and there will still be just as many people getting the death penalty. I don't believe that."
" Banned and challenged books in Texas public schools: The ACLU continues to bring attention to books barred or questioned by school districts across the state. There are some surprising volumes on the list: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is outlawed by both the Houston and Fort Worth ISDs. Joshua school officials will not allow students to read One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Snow Falling on Cedars is outlawed in the Boerne ISD.
" Homeowners' rights: In perhaps one of the oddest alliances in some time, ACLU board member Kahne is representing longtime Houston activist and gadfly Geneva Kirk Brooks in her fight to rein in the power of homeowners associations. Brooks is perhaps best remembered as a leader, in the late 1970s, of a group known as Citizens Against Pornography. Although her position then probably would have put her at odds with the ACLU, these days she and Kahne see eye-to-eye about the evils that allegedly can be wrought by homeowners groups.
"Community associations are a foreclosure racket," says the always quotable and colorful Brooks. Her attorney agrees.
"It's just a real scam, for a lack of a better word," says Kahne. "The homeowners associations are little nonprofit corporations that sometimes are headed up by petty tyrants that use their positions to take people's property. They not only control what the owners can and can't do with their property and how tall their grass is and what color their front door is, they also indulge in nonjudicial foreclosures."
In November state District Judge Patrick Mizell of Houston ruled that the Northglen Association had acted improperly in some of its dealings with Brooks, who owns a rent house in the Northglen subdivision. However, the judge refused to rule on her and Kahne's contention that the Texas Property Code, which gives homeowners associations their power, is unconstitutional.
"The Court believes," wrote the judge, "that any such decision should be made by the Court of Appeals or the Texas Supreme Court." Which is exactly where Brooks and Kahne are headed, in addition to the Texas legislature.
And when they get there, they will likely find Will Harrell.
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On the day before Al Gore concedes the presidential election -- for the second and final time -- to George W. Bush, the Texas state capitol resembles an academy for Secret Service agents. They give longhaired Will Harrell the fish-eye treatment as he makes his way to the office of State Senator Mike Moncrief of Fort Worth. Moncrief has agreed to sponsor an ACLU-backed bill that would prevent law officers from jailing citizens for crimes that do not carry a penalty of jail time. Later Harrell meets in the capitol's basement cafeteria with Stetson-wearing Gary Bledsoe, president of the Texas chapter of the NAACP. The two activists agree to work in tandem on numerous pieces of legislation, including the proposed moratorium on the death penalty, a bill on racial profiling -- which they refer to as government-mandated racism -- and funding the legal representation of indigents.
Although Bledsoe has just returned from Florida, where he helped file lawsuits on behalf of African-American voters who claim their constitutional rights were violated by being denied access to the polls, both he and Harrell seem to sense that another Bush presidency is imminent. In Harrell's opinion, this is both good and bad for the civil liberties business. Obviously, he opines, Bush will likely have the opportunity to appoint U.S. Supreme Court justices who do not have the same interpretation of the constitution as the ACLU does. But Harrell also believes there is reason for optimism.
"I think he will make an absolute buffoonery of his political party and his political movement," says Harrell with a smile. "And it will be a whole lot easier to attack and demonstrate what's wrong with him at the helm. The international spotlight will really bring world and national attention on the issues of Texas, the death penalty being No. 1 among them. His record in Texas will follow him to the White House. And that will add fuel to our fire."
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Will they be celecrating being the most anti-choice state in the nation?
Under the direction of Governor Jan Brewer, Arizona has become the state most hostile to women's health and reproductive rights, as illustrated in part by the ongoing lawsuit against the 18-week post-conception abortion ban, the earliest so-called "fetal pain" ban in the country.
So how does an anti-choice activist group celebrate that achievement? They bring religious right crusader and former presidential candidate Rick Santorum to host their gala.
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"Our great state is gaining exciting momentum in its effort to protect the unborn," the event flyer says. "With the strongest pro-life legislature in Arizona history, with a Governor and County Attorney who have worked tirelessly to advance the pro-life cause, and with our pain-based abortion ban now under appeal before the 9th Circuit, we are positioned like never before to pioneer the pro-life trail.
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It looks like most of the big-name Arizona Republicans are going to be there, including all five of the state's GOP members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Some state- and county-level players will be there too, including the aforementioned Maricopa County Attorney, Bill Montgomery.
The event, which is sold out is an "evening dedicated to the respect, love and protection of all human life." The respect for the woman or girl facing an unwanted or complicated pregnancy seems to have, unfortunately been lost somewhere in the mix.


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The latest marketing ruse used by Chinese luxury car hawkers is a "car companion," a naked lady provided for the purposes of attracting customers, or at least fascinated onlookers and opportunistic photographers.
With strict but spottily enforced bans on pornography and raunchy advertising, Chinese promoters are having to resort to hiring naked girls for "artistic displays," conveniently skirting the bans in proper Chinese fashion.
However, Chinese net users who are slower on the uptake are complaining that such displays are purely prurient, as compared to "artistic" displays of bodypainting for the same purposes…


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POMONA >> A Whittier man faces seven years in prison for stabbing to death another man during a fight outside a 2011 Halloween party in West Covina.
Authorities said the fight involved several people.
Andrew Meza, 38, was supposed to be sentenced Thursday at Pomona Superior Court, but it was continued to April 25. The issue of restitution will be addressed then. The prosecution is asking for $56,000 in restitution to cover funeral, lost wages and other expenses.
While Judge George Genesta continued the sentencing, he told both sides he would impose a total of seven years for Meza.
A jury convicted Meza of the Oct. 30, 2011, voluntary manslaughter of Nicholas Botiller, 26, of Baldwin Park. They also found true the allegation that Meza used a knife to commit the fatal stabbing in the 1000 block of South Meeker Avenue.
The jury acquitted him of assault with a deadly weapon. The charge refers to a second man who he allegedly punched.
Meza was first tried in June 2013, but it ended in a hung jury. He was tried again in January. He claimed the stabbing was in self defense.
Botiller's mother, Joanie Hernandez, spoke in court Thursday. She described being taken to the hospital where she was told her son was brought in suffering from multiple stab wounds. He didn't survive. She didn't get to see him that day or for the next several days.
"It was incredibly painful to see my son in a casket," she said.
Hernandez said she was later diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder and now takes medications and sees a psychiatrist. As a family, they attended counseling and joined a support group for murder victims' families.
"Mr. Meza will be separated from the ones he loves as he has separated Nicholas from us," Hernandez said. She said she saw no signs of remorse from Meza, who she called a monster.
Botiller's girlfriend, Bernice Dominguez, also spoke in court. She couldn't believe what happened when she found out what befell him.
"It was as if I were in a nightmare, and I just wanted to wake up," Dominguez said.
She described Botiller as an all-around gentleman, a good guy and a hard worker who never took any handouts.
"Everything he had, he worked for it," she said. "He was not out partying. He was not a thug. … We would give anything to get him back."
Botiller was a graduate of St. Paul High School in Santa Fe Springs. He managed an EZ Lube store in West Covina and liked to go off-roading. He was studying to be an emergency medical technician, relatives said.
His mother said Botiller was close to his two younger siblings, Brittany and Brandon. None of her children have a gang affiliation or drug addiction, she added.
On Oct. 29, 2011, he attended a birthday party on Meeker Avenue for the mother of his friend, Dario Guzman. Deputy District Attorney Duke Chau described it as a small gathering of family and friends.
Botiller and some friends later went to a Halloween party a few houses down, which was being held by Meza's brother, Steven, and a neighbor, according to Chau.
Botiller had a run-in with Steven Meza and another Meza brother, Marcus, while at the party.
The prosecution said Marcus Meza testified at the preliminary hearing and first trial to shoving Botiller when the other man got too close to him and asked. "Where are you from?"
"They said they were scared because that is what gang members say," Chau said. But he pointed out there is no evidence Botiller was linked to gangs.
Botiller fell down after being shoved. He left.
He and other friends returned to the party to retrieve Dario Guzman. Steven Meza reportedly yelled at Botiller to get out.
Guzman's brother, Vicente, said Andrew Meza threw the first punch and hit him, Chau said.
But Andrew Meza denied instigating the fight and claimed he wasn't within striking distance.
Authorities said the melee involved several people.
Botiller was seen fighting one on one with a man dressed as a cowboy, Chau said.
The man, later identified as Andrew Meza, stabbed Botiller in the heart, in the back which hit a lung and four times in the side.
Afterward, Chau said Andrew Meza walked about a mile and discarded the knife and his clothing. He called a friend to pick him up.
The slaying remained unsolved for about six months.
The judge said the paramount factor he saw was alcohol on both sides.
"It was running freely that evening, and it was a long evening," Genesta said. "I would characterize that evening as good people behaving badly. … No one exercised a de-escalating behavior that evening. It was simply a fuse and everyone pointing fingers on who lit it."
While there was testimony that Andrew Meza was being pummeled, the judge said the Whittier man wasn't innocent.
"The defendant introduced a knife in the confrontation," he said.
Genesta said he viewed Andrew Meza's conduct in the case as akin to a hit-and-run driver. The driver can choose to return to the scene to render aid and take responsibility or leave and try to go on with his life as if it never happened, he said.
"That is a choice Mr. Meza had," Genesta said. "Going about your life doesn't make you a better person. It only highlights your moral failings."
He also said Meza's family didn't tell him to turn himself in and take responsibility.


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Volunteers carried out the National Audubon Society's annual Christmas Bird Count from Dec. 14 to Jan. 5. As is my custom, I will devote a couple of columns to highlights of the counts in Maine. Today we will consider some representative inland counts.
Let's start with the Misery Township count, held in the vicinity of the Forks, south of Jackman. This count usually has the most severe winter conditions of any in Maine and the lowest species diversity. That pattern held this year, with only 18 species tallied.
However, the quality of those birds was high. Sixteen gray jays were found, almost outnumbering the 19 blue jays on the count. One intrepid mourning dove was found and a single ruffed grouse.
Red-breasted nuthatches outnumbered white-breasted nuthatches, 31 to 5. This result was not unexpected, as red-breasted nuthatches prefer the coniferous habitat that dominates this region.
So far this winter, relatively few of the northern finches have moved south into New England. The only ones in the Misery Township count were 19 pine grosbeaks and 44 common redpolls.
The Waterville count produced 56 species. Most still water was frozen over, but the Kennebec River and some tributaries produced nine species of waterfowl, including an American wigeon, four ring-necked ducks and a Barrow's goldeneye. An American coot was the first ever reported for the Waterville count.
An American kestrel, five American robins, a Savannah sparrow, a Carolina wren, three brown-headed cowbirds and two common grackles were lingering in central Maine later than usual. Counters found 63 common redpolls and three pine siskins. A red-bellied woodpecker was a nice find.
A mere 30 miles west of Waterville, the Farmington count usually produces fewer species than the Waterville or Augusta counts. The 30 miles results in a slight but significant change in the severity of the winter for the Farmington area. This year, 37 species were counted.
With all the water frozen over, no waterfowl were found in the Farmington count. Lingering individuals included two American robins, three rusty blackbirds, one common grackle and most surprisingly, one northern flicker.
The count of 146 common redpolls was a nice but not surprising total; Farmington regularly is a stronghold of redpolls. Thirty-eight Bohemian waxwings made a nice addition to the count.
The Bangor count produced 54 species. Nine species of waterfowl were impressive, with the highlights being a wood duck and seven red-breasted mergansers.
Perhaps even more impressive were six species of diurnal raptors, including an osprey, a merlin and a peregrine falcon among the more expected bald eagles, red-tailed hawks and Cooper's hawks.
Since ospreys are absolutely dependent on open water to fish, we can presume that this daring osprey has moved on or perished now that winter has a firm hold on our state.
Species that were seemingly overstaying their welcome included a northern flicker, an eastern bluebird and nine northern mockingbirds.
Bohemian waxwings were well represented, with 189 of these crested beauties counted.
Eighty-three northern cardinals made for an impressive total.
Six species of finches were found, including five pine grosbeaks, eight purple finches (scarce this winter in Maine), 186 common redpolls and 10 pine siskins.
Just 8 miles to the north, the Orono-Old Town count yielded just 43 species. Nothing on the list jumps out to me as unusual, although the 130 wild turkeys and three gray jays were nice totals for this area.
Moving to the south, the Lewiston-Auburn count resulted in a final tally of 52 species. Without a doubt, the highlight of the count was a lark sparrow.
The seven species of waterfowl included an American wigeon and 40 greater scaup. Four common loons and a pied-billed grebe were excellent finds for this time of year in inland waters.
The L/A counters hit the trifecta with the accipiters: one sharp-shinned hawk, two Cooper's hawks and a northern goshawk. Half-hardy species included 19 American robins, five northern mockingbirds and three rusty blackbirds.
Two cedar waxwings were found among the 250 Bohemian waxwings.
Fifty common redpolls and two pine siskins were good discoveries.
Finally, the Sweden count produced 32 species. Bohemian waxwings were scarce, with 11 found. A single house finch was counted along with 88 American goldfinches and 102 common redpolls.
Fifteen crossbills were found but could not be identified to species (either red crossbills or white-winged crossbills).
This winter so far is shaping up as a poor crossbill winter, so these 15 birds were excellent finds.
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We have had several vendors of bully sticks approach us and offer to "add" ingredients to our bully sticks to make them odor free, but frankly we are proud to only offer an all natural free range South American product; just the way it is supposed to be. Companies use everything from bleach, to heavy enzyme regiments, to potassium to achieve a bully stick or other meat based treat which doesn't smell like anything. We think that you and your pooch will enjoy our product offering more knowing that it is truly all natural.
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Reebok once again has one of the largest and most impressive booths at Bread & Butter Berlin. A giant Pump cushion acts as a tent and showcases an archive exhibition, as well as an entire wall of collaborations that the brand did in recent years. We took a detailed look at their Spring/Summer 2010 Collection and concentrated mostly on their popular Pump Omni Lite's, Dual Pum Runners, Court Victory's, as well as the Jam Mid and some more unique new lifestyle sneakers in the preppy area.
We pretty much caught all the highlights for you. Take a look at the Reebok Spring/Summer 2010 Footwear after the jump.
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MeritCare CEO plans to retire
FARGO - Dr. Roger Gilbertson announced Tuesday that he will retire by the end of 2009 after 16 years as MeritCare's chief executive officer.
Gilbertson, 72, became MeritCare's top executive in 1992 and is the only person to hold that position.
"This decision is bittersweet for me, but I leave confident that MeritCare is well-poised for the future," Gilbertson said in a statement released Tuesday evening.
A neuroradiologist, Gilbertson practiced medicine for 30 years. He once owned a medical imaging company in Fargo and was affiliated with The Neuropsychiatric Institute and Fargo Clinic.
He said the creation of a coordinated health system, MeritCare Health System, with a regional network covering an area the size of the state of New York, stands as one of his most notable accomplishments.
"I take great pride in the work being done throughout the organization, across departments and locations, to ensure patient-focused care is delivered all day, every day." Gilbertson said in the statement.
Gilbertson, a native of Lake Park, graduated from Concordia College and the University of Minnesota Medical School.


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State attorney general settles case against head of arts collective for $30,000
The operator of a health-insurance collective for members of the Buffalo region's arts and cultural community has agreed to pay $30,000 to settle accusations that he misused some of the fees he took in and allowed the members' coverage to lapse, the state Attorney General's Office announced this week.
Gerald Burgin, a well-known member of the arts and restaurant scene in Buffalo, created the Arts and Culturals Collaborative to give artists, actors and others a chance to obtain affordable health insurance.
Burgin collected premiums, and an administrative fee, from the members and passed the premium payments onto the collaborative's health insurer.
However, the Attorney General's Office said Burgin didn't make the required premium payments in November, December and January, and the insurer cut off coverage on Dec. 1.
Burgin and the collaborative did not notify members that coverage had lapsed, and some ended up with medical expenses that they will have to pay themselves.
The Attorney General's Office reported that an investigation found Burgin used the administrative fees for his own needs and ate into members' premium payments after spending more than he collected for the administrative fees. This left him unable to make the premium payments to the insurer.
Under the terms of the settlement, Burgin will pay $30,000 that partly will cover members' unreimbursed medical expenses and partly will reimburse them for premium payments that weren't used for that purpose.
Burgin also agreed to never accept from consumers advanced payments for a product or service.
The case was handled by Assistant Attorney General James Morrissey and Karen Davis, senior consumer fraud representative, in the Attorney General's Buffalo regional office.
Burgin has served as part-time business manager for the Arts Council in Buffalo and Erie County, as chair of Curtain Up! and as a member of the board of directors of the Theatre District Association.
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Exclusive: Scary Spice to Surpise Eddie Murphy at Shrek 3 Premiere
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Sources exclusively tell Bossip that Melanie Brown AKA Scary Spice is telling friends she wants to surprise Eddie Murphy at the Shrek 3 premiere on May 18nth in Hollyweird. According to the entertainment insider who works at a major entertainment outlet in Hollyweird, Scary Spice is down to publicly confront Eddie about being the father of her her child, Murphy Brown.
Scary Spice stepped out with her Spice girl friends last night in London. She is trying to ride this publicity until the wheels fall off. Did Scary Spice set Eddie up? Why would someone worth over $100 million with a big family go and hita broke Scary Spice raw. A better question is why would Scary Spice let a dude who was caught with a tranny in Hollyweird hit raw? Click here for the answer to the second question.


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i think someone should start a thread of funny pet photos. not just sitting around looking sweet. they all do that. out and out silly, goofy, funny. you all know what i mean. they don't have to be yours. we don't all have one. but we all enjoy seeing them. even the website ones. how about no comments from us? they should be funny all by themselves. all you do is post. no explanations. no replies. just funny. it will be one photo after another.
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ALL MY CHILDREN: Ryan resisted making love to Greenlee as they spent the night in the same bed. Maggie planned a day of fun, hoping it would distract Bianca from dwelling on the anniversary of her rape. JR came up with a cruel plan designed to make Babe believe Bess is missing. Krystal helped Anita look at her situation with Bobby in a new light. Meanwhile, Bobby said no to Kendall's offer to pay him to seduce Greenlee. Greenlee, in the meantime, tried to get Jonathan to tell her about his past.
AS THE WORLD TURNS: Alison's wedding plans helped bring Emily and Chris closer. Rosanna realized James was deadly serious. Dusty let his feelings for Lucy persuade him to protect her from the truth. Margo discovered Jessica's betrayal. Barbara and her dinner guests were left in the dark.
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Massimo refused Jackie's plea for another chance and ordered her to leave. At Brooke and Ridge's wedding reception, a drunken Stephanie got into another argument with Brooke. Nick was intrigued by Felicia's flirtations until he learned she's Ridge's sister. Amber kissed Rick, but his thoughts were on Caitlin. Bridget suggested Oscar accompany her to Copenhagen if she gets her internship.
DAYS OF OUR LIVES: A horrified Tek and Bo watched on the minicam as Patrick and Hope unknowingly flew into restricted military airspace and were shot down. Bo jumped into the churning waters to search for Hope and was circled by a shark. Patrick and Hope later washed ashore on the island and were stunned to see that Roman and Marlena are still alive. They were then taken to faux Brady's Pub, located in Faux Salem.
GENERAL HOSPITAL: Jason saw Sam embrace a mystery man. After paying off Courtney's bet with a $1 million check for her foundation, Jax said she no longer had a reason not to spend the night with him. Dillon looked on the Internet for a medication that would "cure" his inability to function in bed. Everyone at the Quartermaine mansion tried to come to terms with Lila's death, with Lucky comforting Emily in her grief.
GUIDING LIGHT: Michelle experienced a reawakened interest in her old life. Lizzie once again interrupted Tammy and Joey's reunion. Alex set out to do whatever is necessary to protect her family's name. Cassie made a discovery about "Princess Cassie's" accomplice.
ONE LIFE TO LIVE: John detained Sonia but allowed Antonio to make his escape. Later, Tico insisted to Antonio that he didn't want any part of his father's criminal empire. Kevin offered a devastated Kelly to leave the mansion, and then he proceeded with the divorce. Margaret kidnapped Ace under the delusion that he was her and Todd's baby. Antonio learned that Tico is Sonia's adopted brother. Carlotta took to Tico as soon as she met him.
PASSIONS: Tabitha told Charity she caused a great deal of suffering in Harmony and should leave town. Luis comforted Sheridan as she tried to cope with her frightening "dreams" of that terrible night in the Crane mansion years earlier when she might have killed Luis' father, Martin. Meanwhile, in Mexico, Martin berated himself for not killing Alistair on that same night. Theresa's pregnancy was jeopardized by news of Antonio's death.
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS: Bobby prepared to propose to Brittany. After stopping Devon from stealing a sandwich, Dru told him how Nathan helped her make a life for herself. At the construction site, JT saw an earring near the mystery child's skeleton that matched the one Cassie found earlier. Jack and Jill were curious about the unknown woman dining with John. Jack later got into an argument with Brad over the way Brad spoke to Jill. Grace asked Nick to protect her from the murderous Cameron.
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Leyden Energy, a developer of consumer electronics batteries that operate at temperatures as high as 60°C, announced today that it has raised $20 million in its second round of funding led by New Enterprise Associates.
The company makes lithium-ion batteries that work in high-heat environments, such as on a laptop that generates a lot of heat when doing a lot of work. The Macbook Pro, for example, heats up quickly when doing video editing or playing video games. The company is also developing large-scale batteries that can hold a lot of power.
"We're not a 1 megawatt player today, but we will be," Leyden Energy CEO Aakar Patel told VentureBeat. "We will have similar customers to those that are buying batteries for Macbook Pros in the next two to four months."
Batteries like those produced by Leyden Energy are useful because they can store electricity generated by non-conventional sources — such as wind turbines or solar panels — and release the electricity gradually. That helps alleviate strain on a power grid that might be overloaded if too many sources of energy feed electricity into the grid all at once. The batteries can also release additional electricity in peak-demand times, such as hot days or in the future when there are thousands of electric car chargers on the grid.
Rather than manufacture the batteries personally, the company has partnered with two original equipment manufacturers to build the batteries. That's kept costs down for the company, ensuring each of its seven batteries available commercially are not being produced at a loss, Patel said.
"We started with the premise that we would partner, we had our manufacturing partner about a week after we started the company," he said. "We might move to manufacturing internally, but the market is so positive at this point that joint ventures, partnerships and acquisitions, they happen very quickly."
The company did not disclose the amount of money it raised in its first round of funding. It will spend the funding on acquiring new engineers and adding a third equipment manufacturer for the batteries, Patel said. Lightspeed Ventures, Sigma Partners and Walden Capital also participated in the round.


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UCLA makes strides but falls 45-19 at Stanford
STANFORD, Calif.—As UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel walked through the tunnel at Stanford Stadium, he patted his players on the back and gave them some words of encouragement to take home.
That's about all they can take with them.
While the Bruins made strides from last season's thorny Rose Bowl rout, a 45-19 loss to Andrew Luck and No. 6 Stanford on Saturday night only exposed the gap still lingering between the California schools.
"We have to learn we can be a great team," Neuheisel said.
At least the Bruins know what to aim for.
Luck threw for 227 yards and three touchdowns and padded his Heisman Trophy resume with the spectacular one-handed catch to keep Stanford perfect. He completed 23 of 27 passes and had the Cardinal (4-0, 2-0 Pac-12) in cruise control to extend the nation's longest winning streak to 12 games.
"There's about five positions the guy can play," Stanford coach David Shaw said. "We kind of like what he does at quarterback."
Shaw even allowed Luck to go up to the line of scrimmage in a hurry-up offense at one point and call his own plays.
No script. No questions. Just Luck.
"He called better plays than me," Shaw said.
Stepfan Taylor ran for 112 yards and two scores and Coby Fleener caught two touchdown passes in front of a rare sellout crowd of 50,360 at Stanford Stadium.
Richard Brehaut threw for 202 yards and had two touchdown passes to Joseph Fauria for the Bruins (2-2, 1-1), who had a better showing than a 35-0 loss to Stanford last year but still fell apart with a pair of fumbles.
"We have to keep our heads up. We played our butts off," Brehaut said. "There was just a couple things that made the difference. And in a close game, you can't let the other team pull away like that."
The Bruins' Pistol offense flexed its muscles marching down to the goal line on the game's opening drive. But the strong start hit a a wall when David Parry stuffed Brehaut on a quarterback sneak just inches from the end zone on fourth-and-goal from the 2, leaving Luck the length of the field on his first drive.
No problem.
The strong-armed and quick-footed quarterback added another highlight for Heisman voters to consider this season.
Luck handed the ball off to Tyler Gaffney and sprinted out to the right side between the cornerbacks and safeties. Gaffney ran left and flipped the ball to Drew Terrell on a reverse, and the receiver threw to Luck along the far sideline.
Luck made a one-handed catch and tiptoed the sideline with his left foot for a 13-yard reception that officials initially ruled incomplete. After a review, Luck had only the second reception of his career and first since a loss at Arizona on Oct. 17, 2009.
"I'm sure it was incomplete at the next level," said Luck, the projected No. 1 overall pick in April's NFL draft. "Glad we're playing with the one-foot in rule."
The one-handed catch might not have even been the most impressive on the drive.
Coby Fleener snatched a one-handed, 18-yard touchdown pass from Luck to put the Cardinal ahead 7-0 late in the first quarter. That capped a 16-play, 99-yard drive that spanned more than 8 minutes and actually gained 119 total yards because of penalties.
"I knew I had to one-up him," Fleener joked.
Every time the Bruins started to threaten, they imploded with mistakes.
Chase Thomas jarred the ball loose from Brehaut on UCLA's next possession. After a 15-yard personal foul penalty, Stanford only had to go 28 yards for another score, ending with Taylor's 2-yard touchdown run for a 14-0 lead.
The Bruins finally found their rhythm just before halftime. Brehaut showed poise in the pocket and connected with Fauria on a 12-yard TD catch with 8 seconds remaining to trim Stanford's lead to 17-7.
Any hope UCLA had for a second-half comeback ended in a hurry.
Taylor Embree fumbled a punt return late in the third quarter when Ty Montgomery popped the ball loose and recovered it. The Cardinal took over and punched it in the end zone again on Gaffney's 16-yard run out of a wildcat formation to go ahead 31-13.
The Bruins defense also picked the worst week of the season to be short-handed. Starting cornerback Sheldon Price and backup safeties Dalton Hilliard and Alex Mascarenas were held out with injuries.
The Cardinal had a key member sidelined, too.
Stanford linebackers spread eye black liberally across their faces to honor the signature look by leading tackler Shayne Skov, who's out for the season after tearing a ligament in his left knee in the previous game at Arizona. Jarek Lancaster and A.J. Tarpley split time in Skov's place.
Not that the injuries would have likely changed the outcome.
"Yeah," Brehaut said, "that's the best team we've played as far as physicality and getting after us."
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For me, a classic PS1-era JRPG such as Star Ocean: The Second Story provides warmth and escape from the elements like no other. Even if my backlog is outrageous, it's hard to turn away from my "cuddle-up" RPGs of choice this time of year (which is why we have Four in February, people). While you contemplate your preferred cuddle-up game, check out last week's webcomics below and vote for your favorite after the break!
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Hi! I am planning to do the CELTA course in Berlin (the one month intensive course) in August. I have a question for those who have done the CELTA course - will it take 100% of your time work-wise? or will you have at least 15 hours a week to be able to work in something non-related? and a more general question. What are the chances / opportunities for non-EU members to find a position with the CELTA certificate around the world? Is it harder than for EU-members? Just base the answer on personal experiences or what you know from what people have told you! Thanks!!
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TORRATI, Fernanda Gaspar y DANTAS, Rosana Ap. Spadoti. Extracorporeal circulation and complications during the immediate postoperative period for cardiac surgery. Acta paul. enferm. [online]. 2012, vol.25, n.3, pp.340-345. ISSN 1982-0194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-21002012000300004.
OBJECTIVE: To compare the frequency of complications presented by patients during the immediate postoperative period (IPP) for cardiac surgery, based on the time of extracorporeal circulation (ECC). METHODS: A quantitative, descriptive and correlational study with 83 adult patients, divided into two groups according to the time of ECC. RESULTS: Of the total patients, 44 (53%) had an ECC duration of up to 85 minutes, and 39 (47%) had a time of over 85 minutes. Complications were common in both groups, with the most frequent being pain and oliguria. However, hemothorax, pneumothorax, and acute myocardial infarction occurred only in the group with the longer duration of ECC. CONCLUSION: The majority of IPP complications presented in similar frequency for patients, independent of ECC time.
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ANGLIAN Water will have to pay out nearly £100,000 in fines after a contaminated brook killed more than 1,500 fish.
All three pumps at Ingrave Pumping Station, near Brentwood, failed on the morning of April 10, 2011, meaning sewage was released through an emergency overflow pipe.
No alarms sounded to alert engineers, meaning more than three miles of Haverings Grove Brook became contaminated.
The Environmental Agency brought the prosecution against Anglian Water, who entered a guilty plea, to breaching two conditions of their environmental permit at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court yesterday (Thursday 19th).
The company were fined £50,000 for the contamination, ordered to pay a contribution towards the Environment Agency's costs of £44,736, and a victim surcharge of £15.
Fish including bullhead, stoneloach and minnow were killed. Many would have been spawning at the time, so the impact on reproduction could have been significant.
The permit authorises Anglian Water to discharge sewage to the brook via the overflow pipe in the event of emergency. However two conditions were not complied with – failure to provide and maintain a 24-hour alarm system and failure to return the station back to working order following the incident.
Environment Agency officer Peter Cooke said: "It had a catastrophic impact on fish and was distressing for local residents who value the brook for its diverse wildlife.
"After the incident Environment Agency officers were faced with the unpleasant task of removing over 1,500 dead fish from the brook, including a significant number of bullhead, a Biodiversity Action Plan species and important food fish for kingfishers and herons.''


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It was made from all 2 and 1 half inch strips. I chose the pieces randomly.
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New AC Songs, Mixtapes & Videos
J.A.E x Ali Vegas x AC - The Walking Dead [Stream & Download]
I haven't watched a single episode of The Walking Dead but, based simply on the devotion of its fanbase, I have to assume it's some good sh*t. The Musical partners-in-rhyme J.A.E., Ali Vegas and AC are clearly... Read More
AC ft. Uness - Can You Imagine [Stream]
Staten Island, New York native AC may be more well-known for his lyrical side than his imaginative side, but he doesn't hesitate in putting his imagination to work on his Courtesy of a Nightmare record Can You Imagine... Read More
AC - Still Breathing [Stream]
I Killed the Future President, the inaugural song release off AC's next street album, offered a harrowing glimpse into the artist's guilt-stricken psyche following the abortion of what would have been his... Read More
AC - I Killed The Future President [Stream]
The DJBooth is proud to premiere a song whose title may catch you off guard at first, but dig deeper and you'll find something much different than a jab at November's eventual victor. New York emcee AC goes deep... Read More
Ali Vegas x AC x J.A.E - The Musical [Stream & Download]
As far as I know, no rapper has ever won a Tony Award. That, however, might change once the judges catch wind of The Musical, a newly-released promo single which finds Big Apple rhymesayers Ali Vegas, A.C. and J.A.E. (the... Read More
AC ft. Lina Morgana - Angel [Stream & Download]
Damn, talk about a back story. AC, the Staten Island emcee and infamous DJBooth Freestyle alum we last heard hard rhyming on About No One, strikes a much more melancholy tone on his new single Angel, a record that serves as a... Read More
AC - Send the Scouts Out [Album]
AC, Staten Island's front man, is back with a brand new buzztape hosted by infamous mixtape organization The Empire and the 'strongest team in the streets,' Tapemasters Inc. This project comes in the wake of the... Read More
AC ft. TekNeek - About No One [Stream]
Most of us can probably make an educated guess about what commonly-used phrase precedes the title of AC's latest "buzztape" leak but, for those who have never heard a rap record before, I'll spell it out: the... Read More
AC - Little Did We Know [Stream]
Back in '98, Big Pun crafted one of the finest collisions of alliteration (OK, consonance) and assonance in the history of hip-hop: "Dead in the middle of Little Italy, Little Did We Know that we riddled a middleman... Read More
Inspectah Deck ft. Raekwon & AC - The Big Game [Stream]
Wu-Tang forever! Sorry, anytime I see more than one Wu alumnus on a track I'm legally obligated to make a killer bees reference. My Wu-related Tourettes aside, today we're being blasted with the latest leak off Inspectah... Read More
Emilio Sparks ft. Donny Goines, AC, & A. Pinks - Don't Let Me Down [Stream]
With the amount of disposable hip-hop that gets churned out every day it's hard not to get discouraged about the state of the game, and DJBooth newcomer Emilio Sparks feels the same way, demanding simply that rappers... Read More
9/11 In Retrospect: AC's Memoirs [Download EP] [Feature ]
New York, NY -- Today marks the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. In remembrance of those who were lost and in support of the troops protecting our freedom at home and abroad, Staten... Read More
AC to Release 6-Song "9/11 Retrospective" on Twitter [Feature ]
New York, NY -- Tomorrow, Staten Island emcee AC will be releasing a "9/11 Retrospective" entitled AC's Memoirs. Six exclusive songs, each set to premiere at the exact time of a tragic event on 9/11/2001, will be made... Read More
AC Presents "Attack of the Blogs Part 2" in Full-Mixtape Form [Download] [Feature ]
New York, NY -- On Friday, May 29th, underground emcee AC embarked upon his second Attack of the Blogs contest, premiering new tracks at 20 prominent hip-hop blogs and sites and offering exciting prizes to fans who managed... Read More
AC ft. XV - Crush [Stream]
Psst—over here! Looking for that Attack of the Blogs Part 2 cut? If you've got your eye on that $1,000 Karmaloop.com gift card, it's a good bet you bookmarked all 20 participating sites last night... Read More
AC Releases Third and Final PSA Video; "Attack of the Blogs Part 2" Set to Hit the Net Tomorrow! [Feature ]
New York, NY -- With his Attack of the Blogs Part 2 mixtape/contest set to hit the 'net tomorrow (Friday, the 29th), underground rapper AC has released the third and final installment of his "Get Familiar with Attack of the... Read More
Get Familiar with AC's "Attack of the Blogs" PSA #2 [Video] [Feature ]
New York, NY -- On May 29th, underground emcee AC will be embarking on the second round of his Attack of the Blogs mixtape/contest. Sponsored by Karmaloop.com and Orisue and hosted by DJ Clinton Sparks, Attack of the Blogs... Read More
Get Familiar with AC's "Attack of the Blogs" [Video] [Feature ]
New York, NY -- On Friday, May 29th, underground emcee AC will be dropping the second go-round in his Attack of the Blogs mixtape series. Sponsored by Karmaloop.com and Orisue and hosted by DJ Clinton Sparks, Attack of the... Read More
AC's "Attack of the Blogs Part 2" Set to Drop May 29th; DJBooth.net to Premiere Exclusive Record [Feature ]
New York, NY -- On Friday, May 29th, underground emcee AC will be dropping the second go-round in his Attack of the Blogs mixtape series. Sponsored by Karmaloop.com and Orisue and hosted by DJ Clinton Sparks, Attack of the... Read More
Jeff Chery ft. AC - Drivin' [Stream]
If you thought you had Pay$0z pegged, think again—though the gritty punchline-fest that was Frame It, the Weezy-sampling Go Hard, and his Booth-exclusive Industry Life freestyle all achieved nearly unanimous reader acclaim,... Read More
AC - I Got Head In The DJ Booth [Stream & Download]
The 14th entry in our exclusive freestyle series comes courtesy of AC, the underground emcee last seen in the Booth with Michael Aubertine collabo Light Up The Night. The Staten Island rapper, who spits over Swizz... Read More
AC Spits "Head In The DJ Booth" for DJBooth.net Freestyle Series [Feature ]
New York, NY -- AC, the underground emcee readers may remember from L Does It collabo "So Cold" and the Michael Aubertine-featuring "Light up the Night," has stepped into the Booth to bring us the 14th entry in our... Read More
AC ft. Michel Aubertine - Light up the Night [Stream]
After rapping about everything from the Eliot Spitzer scandal to the life of Big Punisher, AC has gained a reputation as one of the industry's most creative newcomers. At 22, he has received props from the game's biggest... Read More
DJBooth Regulars AC, A. Pinks & Donny Goines Record "Midnight Cypher" Part 1 [Video] [Feature ]
New York, NY -- In a new video, DJBooth.net members AC, A. Pinks, and Donny Goines, along with crew members Esso and Panama, drop a hot freestyle in front of a listening session for Donny Goines' forthcoming LP, Minute After... Read More
AC ft. ft. L Does It - So Cold [Stream]
Even though everyone is aware of the serious issues plaguing today's music industry, the only artists willing to address them with brutal honesty are the unsigned, independent emcees. Such is the case with Staten... Read More
AC ft. The Senate - I Engineer [Stream]
New York rapper AC is going for dolo delf with his rock-infused track, I Engineer. Not yet on par with notable names like Jim Jonsin or Rick Rubin, the up-and-coming young MC is letting it be known that he is studying the... Read More
XV ft. AC - A Girl Named Destiny [Stream]
Last week, we featured Kansas emcee XV and his new song, High Five; one of the first releases from his creative, new series entitled 40 Days, 40 Nights. To kick off week number two of two-a-day online-only exclusive... Read More
AC - On My Way [Stream]
Antonio Charneco III says what he means and means what he says. On his new track, On My Way, the Latino rapper better known as AC attacks everyone from record executives to internet geeks with unapologetic vehemence. Boasting... Read More
AC - New Soul [Stream]
"Yo, these dudes is doing a lot of commercial tracks, but they ain't doin' tracks from commercials!" Confused? Don't be, that's just Staten Island representative AC letting the... Read More
Britney Spears ft. AC - What You Sippin' On? [Stream]
For months people were asking, "What is Britney Spears drinking?" Now, Britney is asking the same question. On a possible inclusion to her yet-to-be-titled comeback album (dropping this November),... Read More


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Online retailer, AngieAvenue.Com, reveals their incredible $12 Black Friday sale. Every item in the entire store will be on sale for $12 on Friday, November 23rd, 2012.
November 21, 2012 (Newswire.com) - AngieAvenue.Com is excited to reveal their Black Friday sale which offers consumers deep discounts on women's designer footwear and apparel. The online boutique's sale will begin on Friday, November 23rd, 2012 at 12 AM and run until Monday, November 26th, 2012 at 12 AM. In honor of Black Friday 2012, items will be sold at twelve dollars each and will include everything on the site. There are no exclusions on boots or other premium footwear. As opposed to retailers that have exclusions on newer merchandise or more pricey items, the sale is all inclusive and is expected to run through the weekend as quantities last. Consumers will, however, be responsible for their own shipping costs and can also expect the expedient delivery AngieAvenue.Com has become known for.
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As the collection basket passes through the crowd, Jerry Brown delivers a 45- minute homily on reclaiming the soul of the Democratic Party and bringing an end to "the whole stinking mess in Washington." His audience is 1,500 students, professors and supporters gathered at the college in Kalamazoo, Mich., where the student center is attached to a shopping mall. He blasts those at the top for prospering at the expense of those at the bottom, and condemns those he claims would send American jobs to low-wage Mexico. He says, "Thomas Jefferson said we need a revolution every 20 years. Well, it's...
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Texas Rangers designated hitter Vladimir Guerrero was taken to the hospital after he was hit in the face with a ball during batting practice.
Guerrero was scratched from the lineup after a ball he hit ricocheted off the top of the cage and struck him above the left eye, resulting in heavy swelling. He is day-to-day after X-rays taken at a hospital showed no structural damage, and the eight-time All-Star insisted through an interpreter after the Rangers' 9-5 win over Chicago that he could have pinch-hit if needed, no matter how bad he looked.
He said his vision is fine.
With Guerrero out, left fielder Josh Hamilton moved into the cleanup spot, Michael Young went from third base to DH and Andres Blanco started at third and batting eighth.
An eight-time All-Star and 2004 AL MVP, Guerrero joined the Rangers after spending six seasons with Anaheim. Texas was a percentage point ahead of Oakland in the AL West heading into Wednesday's game.
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Deputy Coleman was shot and killed as he and other deputies attempted to take a suspect into custody. The suspect was wanted in the murder of Constable Dallas Hodges, of the Grayson County Constable's Office - Precinct 7, two months earlier.
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Meditation, Transformation, and Dream Yoga (Paperback)
The three traditional Nyingma texts and Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche's commentary included in this book were selected by him for their relevance to the modern-day spiritual aspirant who must combine and balance quality practice time, work time, and rest time in the course of a busy day. Guidelines for formal sitting are presented here from the Dzogchen perspective in the teachings on quiescence meditation. Practices for bringing the experiences of daily life into the spiritual path are presented in the section on transformation. Finally, the teachings on dream yoga guide the practitioner in the conscious control of the dream state as well as the bardo state at the end of life. Ven. Gyatrul Rinpoche's dynamic and practical commentaries on each section are specially tailored to the needs of Western students. The result is an indispensable handbook for practitioners at all levels of experience. When the Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche arrived in the West many decades ago, he was already a receptacle for an abundance of transmissions received from many of the foremost and authentic masters of our times. Since then, his noble disposition and advanced level of meditation practice has assisted innumerable people, and he has established many Dharma centers.
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Ven. Gyatrul Rinpoche was appointed as spiritual representative for H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche in America in 1976. With His Holiness, he founded the Pacific Region Yeshe Nyingpo centers on the West Coast. During his thirty years of teaching experience in the West, Rinpoche has traveled extensively, touching the hearts of thousands. He is the author of Meditation, Transformation, and Dream Yoga.
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"I feel confident that the readers who take this book to heart and apply its meaning will benefit greatly."—Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, author of Present Fresh Wakefulness
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"It is an honor to have an opportunity to praise the words of some of Vajrayana Buddhism's greatest teachers. The texts chosen here are so beneficial for practice. Gyatrul Rinpoche has dedicated himself to the propagation of these pure lineages of precious teachings in the West, and Sangye Khandro and B. Alan Wallace are both longtime practitioners, translators, and students of Gyatrul Rinpoche. Many auspicious circumstances have united to bring these wonderful teachings into English."—Lama Chöying Namgyel, The Light of Berotsana Translation Group


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PARIS (Reuters) - It is up to each euro zone government to take the right steps internally for growth while monetary policy should not aim at weakening the euro to improve competitiveness, ECB policymaker Jens Weidmann said on Tuesday, rebuffing French calls for more efforts from Germany and the currency area's central bank.
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