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Chinese consumers can now get their hands on the Nokia Lumia Icon, a handset that's supposed to be exclusive to Verizon in the US and hasn't even been officially announced yet.
The phone is available from retailer Taobao in China under the Lumia 929 moniker, with handsets being imported from the States. Acting as proof that the unannounced device is really available is a short video and multiple pictures showing the handset in action. As expected, the phone isn't fully compatible with local networks, with only 2G working on China Mobile and 2/3G on China Unicom (while a modified SIM is needed for China Telecom), and is selling for as low as 3,800 Yuan ($630), which might be enough for some folks to place an order despite the network incompatibility.
At this point, it's unclear what's holding Verizon back from launching the device, especially after it appeared on the carrier's website recently and is now available for importing in to the world's largest smartphone market. With top-of-the-line hardware (Snapdragon 800 processor, 2GB of RAM, 1080p display, and a 20-megapixel PureView camera) packed inside a 5-inch body, the Lumia Icon is most definitively a Windows Phone handset that many want to get their hands on, so here's hoping Verizon can make it official as soon as possible.
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Lorelei James
Hillbilly Rockstar (Blacktop Cowboys)
NAL Trade / August 5, 2014 / $15.00 print, $9.99 digital
She's protecting his body and guarding her heart....
Country music star Devin McClain understands there's a downside to life in the public eye, but the laidback Wyoming cowboy has never imagined he'd attract crazed fans who would do anything to garner his attention. When veiled threats become real, he agrees to hire a discreet security detail. But Devin is shocked when that bodyguard is a hard-bodied woman. He's even more stunned to be attracted to the steely-eyed stunner.
Former soldier Liberty Masterson's return to civilian life has been fraught with challenges until she lands a job with a prestigious security firm. But when she agrees to provide personal protection during a cross-country tour, she doesn't realize she has signed up to masquerade as the playboy star's girlfriend. Though she's more comfortable in combat boots than high heels, she has no choice but to appear to be the sexy groupie Devin prefers.
Living in close quarters causes the chemistry between them to ignite, and Devin realizes he wants to turn their charade of a romance into reality. Although Liberty surrenders to his every whim behind closed doors, she fears the sexy country star doesn't see the real her; and Devin can't help but worry when the tour ends that there might not be enough between them to build something that won't fade away....
With Hillbilly Rockstar, Lorelei James doesn't just return to her Blacktop Cowboys series, she takes it on the blacktop in a new way, with country rockstar Devin McClain, and in doing so, creates an erotic western/rockstar romance hybrid that features the best of both genres. Because although book six steps outside of the ranching setting of Muddy Gap, Wyoming, it still fits right in with the heart, family, and sense of community we've come to love about this series that's light-hearted and fun yet manages to pack a punch. And all this takes place on the Heroes and Heartbreakers tour!
Devin McClain is learning all about the ugly side of fame. As his stardom builds, so do increasing threats against him from rabid fans, overexcited zealots, and a whole lot of crazies. When his label and touring promotion company decide he needs to up his personal security and acquire a bodyguard, Devin scoffs. When he finds out it's a woman who doesn't look like much and certainly isn't the hottie he's usually surrounded by, he's up in arms. As for Liberty, she can more than hold her own. A rocky home life and years in the army on multiple tours of duty have given her a thick skin. Soon enough, the two of them come to terms with the fact they'll be spending four months side-by-side on the road.
The pairing may seem unconventional, but in Devin, the small-town cowboy he once was shines through frequently, lending a necessary likeability. He is a hero, not a puffed up musician. And Liberty's bodyguard status doesn't make her masculine, but fierce. Her tough side as a soldier is tempered with an unexpected vulnerability. Devin and Liberty are more similar than it might appear at first meeting; before long, their close quarters has Devin eating his original words that Liberty isn't the type of woman he's used to, much less attracted to, and they work out an arrangement that suits them just fine.
"Outside this bus you are in charge. I respect that. I respect you. But when we're alone like this? With the world shut out and the bedroom door closed? It's all me." He brushed his mouth across her temptingly full lips.
Those silvery blue eyes of hers didn't waver. "So this isn't a onetime thing between us? We're not scratching the itch, satisfying our curiosity and moving on?"
"Fuck no. I want this for the long haul."
"You mean for the duration of the tour."
Sugar, I'd have you running scared for sure if you figured out how much more I want from you. "That too."
"Then you need to understand that if you're with me, there's no one else for you. No groupies. Not a single one. Yes, fan meet and greets are part of your job, but having those fans blowing you isn't part of it. You want your cock in someone's mouth? It'll be in mine. Ditto for this monster dick of yours. Giving you a fast, hard fuck before or after the show to take that edge off? That right belongs to me. Only to me."
Sexy as hell, seeing the determination shining in her eyes. "Agreed." Devin kissed her again, letting his lips linger on hers. "I want this one-on-one more than you know."
They come back to their mutually beneficial, agreed-upon situation several times: in public, she takes the lead when it comes to work she takes very seriously as Devin's bodyguard, but when they step on that tour bus—or anywhere away from prying eyes and behind closed doors—all bets are off. At the same time, Liberty is an especially sexually uninhibited heroine, a freeing quality, and just one of many that balances the character so well. She's up for anything, but happy to hand over the reins, and the many locations and surfaces where they capitalize on life on the road spices things up very well.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?"
"Takin' you back where you belong. In my goddamn room and in my goddamn bed."
"Let me go, you fucking psycho!"
"Not a chance."
Liberty tried to jerk away from him, but he held fast.
When the security guards started toward him, he said, "She's fine. Me'n her are havin' a private chat in my room."
When his bandmates started to open their doors to check out the action, Devin yelled, "Go back in your rooms. This doesn't concern any of you, so butt the fuck out."
"You are such an ass," she hissed.
"Yep. And, sweetheart, I'm just getting started." He unlocked the suite and didn't break his stride until he'd brought her into his bedroom and kicked the door shut. He crowded her against the post on the four-poster bed. "Remember our deal?"
Her eyes said she remembered, but her mouth remained closed.
"Determined to show me that stubborn side, are you? Fine. I'll remind you of our deal. In public, you're in charge. In private, I am."
Devin's bandmates also come alive and revisiting Harper and Bran's cozy little homestead is always a treat. There's even a cryptic suspense storyline that keeps cropping up to remind us that the whole set-up of bodyguard and superstar isn't frivolous and instead adds to the intensity, not only of Devin's safety but how they really feel about each other besides just the job. But the greater issue between Liberty and Devin always lurks in the wings: it's a temporary situation between two people who could never last day in and day out in the real world. Yet sometimes when a blurry, clouded future is brought into clarity and suddenly isn't what you pictured, those are the detours that make life worth it.
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A Free ESP board game
The Basic Idea
In this game, the sender mentally focuses on one of the six items on a "card strip" and the receiver tries to guess what it is. There are 50 card strips in the deck. Here is a sample:
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Fun! Paradigm Shift!
ESP means Extra Sensory Perception or something beyond the five physical senses such as telepathic or mind-to-mind contact.
We all know the five physical senses: seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling. But is the physical world the "totality of reality" or is it just "part of the picture?" Are we all connected? Let's see if we can find out!
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Could God and creation be the same reality in different forms,
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You are not simply connected to God;
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God is not just deep within you at a special place;
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WASHINGTON — Beware legislative behemoths. Beware "comprehensive immigration reform." Any bill that is 380 pages long is bound to have nooks and crannies reflecting private deals, quiet paybacks and ad hoc arrangements that you often don't learn about until it's too late.
The main provisions of the immigration reform monster are well known. But how many knew, before reading last Saturday's Washington Post, that if Einstein were trying to get a green card, he would have to get in line with Argentine plumbers and Taiwanese accountants to qualify under the new "point system," which gives credit for such things as English proficiency and reliable work history? Good thing that Albert was a patent office clerk and that grooming isn't part of the new point system.


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As a burger obsessive living in Australia, I get really sick of hearing people talk about Martin's Potato Rolls and telling us to make burgers using them when we can't get a decent burger bun AT ALL. So I've devised this recipe, I don't know if it's anything like a Martin's, but I do know it's damn fine. I'll be using metric here, I'm sure you can convert to rods & hogsheads yourselves :)


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since it's my first post, I guess you can figure out I'm completely new to modding. My question is this:
Should I get the Drive Key or should I get a D29Pro v2 chip with a clip? In the opinion of those who have had either or both.
According to this site: Wii Drive Chip Database - Serial Number Estimation There is a 100% chance I have GC2-D2E drive covered in black glue (LU630650262). I can't open it up to really look without the proper screwdriver.
I fiddle around with computers, so I don't have any problem doing delicate work installing pins without bending them, though I don't want to do any soldering myself. The Drive Key seems the easiest, fool-proof one to install, but how many problems are people having? I've gone through several posts and saw some people having lots of trouble with burned games and some not. I admit I am also nervous about removing the glue. I've read the how-to's but would you recommend someone who has never done any modding (ever) attempt to do this? As far as I know, there are no wii modders near me.
Thanks for any advice and opinions.


text: Human Rights Observatory Australia Slams Russia's 'Retaliatory' Sanctions Australia has issued a stern statement following Russia's decision to impose sanctions on a range of western countries. In Canberra, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop called it "disappointing" that Russia has not addressed international concerns over its support of rebels in eastern Ukraine and its annexation of Crimea. Moscow's sanctions on agricultural products are targeting mainly the United States and the European Union, but the punitive measures also affect other nations, including...Read complete article© Voice of America - Friday, August 8, 2014


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Grand Forks schools to consider retirement payments
The Grand Forks School Board will consider approving $229,867 in early retirement payments at its meeting Monday, according to the agenda.
Nineteen employees, mostly teachers, chose to retire this year and will receive the payments, which the district will provide annually for the next four years. The amount has already been budgeted for next year, said Business Manager Vicky Schwartz.
Professional staff members can receive the incentive if they choose to retire early. Employees must be age 55 or older and have completed a decade of full-time employment to be eligible, according to district policy.
If employees retire the year they are eligible, they can receive 100 percent of the incentive. But for each year they delay their retirement, the amount offered by the district declines.
The incentive payment is based on a proportion of the staff member's current annual salary and separate from the district's contribution to the state retirement fund.
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Singer Huh Gak recently unveiled a mysterious track list for his upcoming 1st full-length album 'Little Giant'.
A Cube Entertainment posted on its official Twitter page, "Hello. Solve the puzzle~ Will you participate? ^-^, and attached a photo of a crossword puzzle, with different combinations of hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs, which seemed to be used as some kind of code to represent the track list of Huh Gak's upcoming album.
Huh Gak will release first full-length studio album 'Little Giant' on February 5. He recently unveiled his preview track "Monodrama" which features Superstar K4's Yoo Seung Woo.


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The debt statement primary
Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker, wins the debt statement primary within the GOP 2012 field, as the candidate with the longest personal experience on congressional deal-making, and for the longest statement on the agreement that was struck:
"Avoiding default is not a solution to America's jobs and debt crisis. This agreement only sets the stage for an enormous amount of work going forward – well beyond the next two years - on how to create jobs, reduce government spending, return to balanced budgets and pay off our debt.
"If the ultimate result of this deal is a tax increase and/or debilitative cuts in our investment in national security, it will be a destructive failure. With so much work remaining to be done, this deal is yet another reminder of the urgent need to replace President Obama and his radical commitment to big government and higher taxes.
"As President, I will approach solving America's debt crisis by adhering to three principles.
Job creation must be job one. The most pressing challenge facing America is the crisis of the Obama depression. Therefore, all deficit reduction efforts must be made in the context of what would best return America to robust, long-term economic growth and job creation. This means that raising taxes must be off the table. Raising taxes in the middle of the current economic climate could permanently cripple the American economy. Tax revenues should be increased through economic growth, not by further burdening America's job creators and killing more jobs.
Keep politics out of national security. America's national security budgets must be based on fact-based assessments of what is needed to keep Americans safe, not on arbitrary political considerations. Our enemies and competitors will not cease being aggressive while we sort out our fiscal problems.
Cut spending by reforming and restructuring government. Trying to find enough savings within the framework of our current bloated, bureaucratic big government is impossible. Real, sustainable savings can only come from a fundamental overhaul of the way government works, including its arcane civil service rules. We want a smaller but also much more modern and effective government. For instance, Strong America Now, led by Michael George, believes that $500 billion per year can be saved by applying Lean Six Sigma to the federal government.


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Croft ready to fight for England place
ESPN Staff
July 2, 2012
A neck injury means that Tom Croft won't be back in time for the start of the season with Leicester Tigers © Getty Images
England flanker Tom Croft is well aware that he will face an uphill task to win back his place in the starting team in time for the autumn internationals.
The flanker injured his neck during Leicester's win away to Harlequins in April and is unlikely to return to action before October. The injury meant he had to sit and watch from the sidelines as first the Tigers lost the Premiership final to Quins and then England lost twice and drew once on their tour to South Africa. In his absence Exeter's Tom Johnson wore the number 6 jersey in all three tests, while another rival for the backrow positions, James Haskell returned to England colours for the first time since the World Cup last year.
"Playing for your country is the biggest honour you can get so to miss out on that is never nice and down in South Africa it was always going to be hard," Croft told The Rugby Paper. "No-one likes to see someone else wearing your shirt but my focus has to be club rugby and getting myself back fit as soon as feasibly possible. At the moment I don't know when I'll be coming back from the injury. I'm definitely not going to be back in time for the start of the season with Leicester. I'm back in the weights room which is good, but in terms of full practice and then getting back to competitive rugby, it's hard to put a time frame on it."
Aside from Johnson, England head coach Stuart Lancaster was able to further strengthen his backrow options by handing a debut to number 8 Thomas Waldrom in the second Test in Johannesburg. With captain Chris Robshaw and Northampton's Tom Wood also set to return from injury in time for the autumn internationals and Ben Morgan and Phil Dowson firmly established in the squad, Croft faces stiff competition to return to the starting team.
England face Fiji, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand in the autumn and go into the series with a record of four wins, one draw and three losses since Lancaster took over. The failure to return from South Africa without a Test victory will mean that England's most recent win was the 30-9 win over Ireland on March 17.
"It's all about learning from this experience and building on it because we have a very hard set of autumn internationals coming up, and with experience of the Boks on their turf under our belt we will be a much better side come those games," Croft said. "Of course we want to be winning games, but if you're not winning and we were close at times, then at the very least you need to make sure you are improving and I think we are doing that."
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Hurdle helps Rockies handle hurdles
Struggling players happy to have manager's support
By Cheng Sio / MLB.com
"From time to time when we meet up as a team, it's always a staple of any conversation I have," Hurdle said. "Then individually, when I get guys one-on-one, I tell them the easiest thing for me to do is to stay with you as long as you're staying with yourself. The easiest thing for anybody is to get off if you're not on it."
The support Hurdle gives his players will last as long as they believe in themselves.
"If you see a player losing confidence and the body language gets bad, how can you have faith in somebody when they are not carrying it out with them?" Hurdle said. "They got to have an air about themselves when they play and the level of confidence that's secure and consistent."
Shortstop Troy Tulowitzki received a pep talk from Hurdle when he was struggling.
"He had a meeting with me in his office and sat me down," Tulowitzki said. "He said a couple of things, words of encouragement. He told me he's going to keep throwing me out there and give me a day off here and there, but for the most part, he's stuck behind me."
Hurdle's support has helped Tulowitzki bounce back. The shortstop has at least two hits in each of the past four games, and he has raised his batting average 81 points to .248 since April 25. Tulowitzki said Hurdle's support shows the manager has his and the team's back.
"It definitely gives us a boost when we know he's behind us," Tulowitzki said.
Cheng Sio is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A pickup truck veered off a Mojave Desert interstate and crashed into the bedroom of a home, seriously injuring a sleeping elderly woman and her son.
San Bernardino County fire spokeswoman Tracey Martinez says the pickup plunged over the side of Interstate 15 in Victorville at 1:44 a.m. Tuesday and crashed through chain and wooden fences before hitting a parked car and stopping in a bedroom of the two-story home. The house is 100 feet from the highway.
A woman in her 70s and her son, who is in his 50s, were sleeping inside the bedroom and they were seriously hurt. They are hospitalized.
The pickup driver had minor injuries.
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I can't take aspirin because it upsets my stomach.
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The fact is there are a lot of over the counter drugs that can be harmful to your health, but you have to read the small print to find out why. Many people make the assumption that if it's non prescription it must be safe. Well nothing could be further from the truth as this article will bear out:
Aspirin and other anti-inflammatory drugs taken for pain relief may reduce the effectiveness of anti-depressants such as Prozac, a US study suggested on Monday.
As many as one in five people are affected by major depressive disorders but about one-third of them are resistant to anti-depressant drugs, said the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Researchers at Rockefeller University in New York examined the most widely used type of anti-depressants, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, when taken in combination with ibuprofen, aspirin and naproxen.
Some well-known drugs included in the family of SSRIs include Prozac, Paxil, Lexapro and Zoloft.
In experiments on mice, researchers tracked brain levels of cell-signaling protein molecules called cytokines, which are boosted by SSRIs, and found they were counteracted by anti-inflammatory drugs.
Then, they analyzed data collected from the largest US study on anti-depressant use in humans, the STAR*D study of 4,000 adults taken over seven years and published in 2006.
The Rockefeller researchers found that 54 percent of patients not using pain relievers responded to anti-depressant therapy, but only 40 percent did among those using anti-inflammatory agents.
"The mechanism underlying these effects is not yet clear. Nevertheless, our results may have profound implications for patients, given the very high treatment resistance rates for depressed individuals taking SSRIs," said co-author Jennifer Warner-Schmidt.
The findings may have particular relevance to patients who are trying to manage both chronic pain and depression.
"Many elderly individuals suffering from depression also have arthritic or related diseases and as a consequence are taking both anti-depressant and anti-inflammatory medications," said co-author Paul Greengard.
"Our results suggest that physicians should carefully balance the advantages and disadvantages of continuing anti-inflammatory therapy in patients being treated with anti-depressant medications."
Previous studies have suggested that anti-inflammatories may actually boost the potency of two other but less common types of anti-depressants, known as tricyclic or noradrenergic anti-depressants.
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Apologies for not actually updating a lot for this month, with the Summer Olympics that happened, and having spent my time off not drawing and writing much, and all other kinds of stuff...
...but then again, this is the summer holiday, so it's not surprising that I was having a bit too much fun.
-The two new oneshots that I mentioned earlier for The Lemon Stories, they are going to be released soon, since I am nearly done with the second oneshot I'm writing.
-I have thought about this over several times, but I might consider rewriting Roses in the Wild (an M-rated Beyblade fanfiction mainly featuring the Kai/Hilary pairing) completely, because I thought that there should have been more to the story--in terms of dialogue, descriptions, and even the plot too! I'll try and think about what changes should be made for each chapter that was already written and released, and by then, I'll figure the rest out later.
-If you're wondering about what happened to all of the new and upcoming fanfictions that were listed at the bottom of my FF.net profile, there's no need for concern; I am in the process of writing the new fanfics, but not without having to focus on the current works at hand. Eventually, the new stories will be released, but for now...
-So, after all that criticism regarding the lack of official DICE-run servers on the console versions, it seems that players (like me) will see more of those official servers in the search function. Actually, four times more. According to various sources, the very notable developer has responded to this criticism by adding more ranked servers for those playing the PS3 or 360 versions of BF3. Just so one knows, enter "DICE" as a search term on the server browser's search feature to find all of them.
-It looks like the Limited Edition of the game wasn't enough; there's going to be another edition of Battlefield 3 coming out. That's right, the "Premium Edition" of BF3 will be out on 9/11 for the North American release, and two days after for the European market. For $70, this edition will come with the base game, with the addition of all Premium content (custom camos and the five DLCs), and on top of that, a "head-start" addition that includes unlocks for 15 different weapons, gadgets, and vehicle upgrades for multiplayer use.
-The upcoming Armored Kill expansion pack will come out on the 4th of September for Premium subscribers on the PS3, and the 11th for Premium users on the PC and 360. For those who are non-Premium subscribers, it comes out on the 18th for the PS3, and the 25th for the PC and 360.
-After Armored Kill, the next upcoming DLC, Aftermath, will come out this December. This will take place in earthquake-ravaged Tehran (as mentioned in the SP), and will include four new maps and addition weapons and vehicles--some of the vehicles will also be of the civilian type (as seen in BF2).
-Not to mention that the final DLC pack, End Game, will come out in the March of next year. In fact, this will be the very DLC that will introduce driveable motorcycles for the first time in the history of Battlefield.
-Well, this summer is about to come to a close, and some interesting things have happened in my daily life. The 2012 Summer Olympics had happened in London, and although I was impressed that Canada had matched the total to that of their performance in the last Summer Olympics, I was kinda let down by the fact that the home country I cheered on had only one gold medal. However, I still do have good feelings that the country will improve and gain more than what they can from the previous games, when 2016 comes.
-The other day, I was out watching The Expendables 2 at a theatre with someone else on the day it came out. Having seen the first movie on Blu-Ray (the Director's Cut Edition, to be exact), it was an awesome action movie ever to have come out with an all-star cast from the action movies they were in, back in the past few decades or so. With the sequel coming out, I expected more that is being delivered compared to the first one. And it did. To me, The Expendables 2 is even more awesome than the last one, and I do hope that a third movie does come out after this one.
-On a sad note, I found out most recently that an iconic person had passed away, and that is the first man who had ever set his foot on the Moon. Neil Armstrong, one of the astronauts who set out on the moon for the first time during the so-called "Space Race" had passed away at the age of 82. May he rest in peace.
And that's all it for the latest updates and developments. Normally, I would have the updates and developments for the Fanarts and the dedicated CM:TR section, but I'm just a bit too busy working on them and other things elsewhere. If I actually do have something to share about what's happening with both lately, it'll be mentioned in a future entry of updates. Stay tuned for more, 'though.
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PLEASANTON — An orientation for Firehouse Arts Center volunteers will be held from 6:30-8 p.m. March 28 at Firehouse Theater, 4444 Railraod Ave.
Volunteers must be 16 or older, and are needed to be greeters, ushers and gallery docents.
Attending the orientation is mandatory for any volunteers. For details, or to pre-register
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The Firehouse Arts Center includes the 227-seat Firehouse Theater, the 2,000-square-foot Harrington Gallery, classrooms and rehearsal space,
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Ownership of land alloted for hospital disputed
Ownership of land alloted for hospital disputed
JALALABAD (PAN): Residents of the Rodat district in eastern Nangarhar province claim ownership of a piece of land that Governor Gul Agha Sherzai has allotted for the construction of a mega hospital.
The claim came days after Deputy Public Health Minister Najia Tariq announced the construction of a 1,000-bed hospital in Nangarhar.
She told a graduation ceremony for midwives in Jalalabad the proposed hospital would be built in the Hesar-i-Shahi desert. Sherzai said his administration had allotted 200 acres of land for the project.
But Maulvi Saifur Rahman, a tribal elder from the Baro area of Rodat, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Sherzai had talked about the land that belonged to residents.
"People have bought 4,000 plots in the desert and so far the government has distributed 2,000 to buyers," he claimed, explaining the land for hospital was a residential property owned by locals.
The elder said residents had purchased plots, but the government was yet to distribute them, threatening to resume protests if their plots were used for government projects.
"We will once again stage protests if the government fails to address our concerns," he said.
Another resident, Yahya, said some residents had lost their lives as result of a dispute over the land they had purchased. "We will not allow anybody to usurp our rights," the resident vowed.
But the governor's spokesman, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, said the hospital project was a mega scheme that would cover most of Nangarhar's population, saying that Sherzai would do all he could to implement the plan.
He said if Rodat residents had any ownership documents, they should share them with the provincial administration.
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Rockland budget cuts could signal end of mounted police unit
Public safety -- especially among Rockland County's nightlife areas -- is becoming one of the sheriff's growing concerns as his office faces a 15 percent reduction in staff and the closure of his mounted unit, cuts laid out in County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef's proposed 2013 budget.
Nine officers -- along with six horses -- may be facing their last days as law enforcers. But Sheriff Louis Falco, who submitted his budget proposal with $3.5 million already shaved off in July, was blindsided by the last-minute slashes.
"We thought everything was OK," Falco told Newsday. "Vanderhoef's staff indicated that I was being reasonable since I cut that much out of my budget. Then he called me on Monday and said he was doing cuts."
In addition to football games and parades, the mounties head to crowded nightlife areas on the weekends in Nyack, Haverstraw and Spring Valley at the request of local departments to help control rowdy crowds.
"It's a crime deterrent, we call it a '10-foot cop,' " Falco said. "The animal is dominant. When people know that the cops can see them, everything moves off the street. They know that these horses and these cops completely mean business. You're not moving that 2,000 pound animal, you're not winning that fight."
Eric Petersen, a manager at O'Donoghue's Tavern on Main Street in Nyack, says large crowds can get unruly on the weekends when restaurants and bars start closing between 2 and 4 a.m.
"You see people, you even see just conversations stop when they come around," Petersen said. "They look at these gigantic horses and even just from that, they most certainly will keep people behaving and at bay."
The mounted unit began in the 1960s as a part-time effort, then expanded in 1998 under then-Sheriff James Kralik. In 2010, when Westchester County dispersed its mounted unit, they donated three of their horses to Rockland County.
The six horses, named after fallen officers, live at Hasty Hills Farm in Suffern. It is not yet clear where the horses would go if the unit is disbanded.
During the winter months, when the horses are not in service, the mounted officers serve orders of protection, conduct radiological detection in Rockland County with New York City's Secure the Cities initiative and random court-ordered drug testing.
"I don't know if those programs will continue to exist or not if we don't get these positions restored," Falco said.
Although a recent Civil Service Employees of America contract was recently approved, Falco said his officers did not agree to the "no layoffs clause" that other county employees had signed off on.
"My officers are in shock," Falco said. "I have to let them know the extreme possibilities of what may happen and hopefully we can restore these positions through the legislators."
At 8 p.m. Nov. 8, Falco will go before the legislature to try and save his officers, whose annual salaries total $750,000. The horses cost about $1,000 per month each in upkeep.
"We've shifted everything," Falco said. "I have nowhere else to go, but we need these officers. We need this unit."


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WASHINGTON — Frank's skeleton looks like it was made in a bike shop, his arms and hands operate on batteries and a computer program lets him have an "almost human-like conversation."
Frank is a bionic man, built for a Smithsonian Channel special about state-of-the-art man-made body parts gathered from around the globe.
Bertolt Meyer, host of the documentary, was at the National Air and Space Museum with Frank last week to tout the documentary. Frank will remain on display at the museum through December, when he will be dismantled and his parts returned to the organizations that donated them for the project.
But the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart that pumps plastic blood through his plastic veins was made in Tucson, Ariz., and it is the only one of Frank's internal organs that is more than a prototype.
"All the other bits that we see here, like the artificial pancreas here, the first prototype of an artificial kidney, spleen and lung — they're all still prototypes and still have a very long way to go," said Meyer. "Whereas the heart is already being used in patients."
Michael Garippa, chief executive officer of Tucson-based SynCardia Systems Inc., which manufactured Frank's heart, said the opportunity to work with the Smithsonian was "too good to say no to."
"I think this was a real honor for us and a great chance for technology that's largely been kept under a rock to get a lot of extra attention," Garippa said.
Meyer, a social psychologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, said the documentary was "first and foremost an educational project," meant to show viewers the latest developments in the field. But it was also an education for him.
"I was absolutely stunned," he said of the progress in prosthetics and artificial body parts.
Meyer, who was born without the lower part of his left arm and uses a prosthetic himself, said he hopes the program will also spark a conversation about what continuing development in this area could mean for society.
"What if an artificial heart can buy us more lifespan — what will a society like that look like?" Meyer asked. "These (questions) kind of alter the ethical implications of this technology."
While some of the developments may seem like science fiction, much of it is closer to science fact, said Dr. Daniel Tang, a surgeon at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, who is featured in the documentary.
"Have we gotten to the point where mechanical pumps can replace a heart transplant?" Tang asked. "It's close."
The Total Artificial Heart is used to temporarily replace a human heart for a patient awaiting a transplant, sometimes for years, Tang said. Though it has been around largely in the same form since 1981, he said, the man-made heart like that in Frank is a "miracle of medicine" at a time when there are not enough human hearts available for transplant.
"The amount of donor hearts that are available is far overshadowed by the number of people on the waitlist," Tang said. "That kind of discrepancy only continues to grow."
The SynCardia heart has been implanted in about 1,200 patients worldwide since the 1980s, pumping real blood through real veins — unlike the plastic blood it pumps for Frank. Garippa said it is the only device approved in the U.S., Canada and the European Union for treatment of heart failure involving both ventricles.
In the past, patients with the device had to stay in the hospital "tethered" to a 500-pound console, Tang said, driving up costs and limiting how many people could get the man-made heart. But a relatively new 13.5-pound portable device makes is possible for patients to go home.
Garippa said the portable device has passed Food and Drug Administration trials and he hopes it will get full FDA approval in November. If approved, the new device would reduce costs and hardships associated with protracted hospital stays, he said.
The SynCardia heart is also becoming more widely available, with the number of centers certified to implant it soon to increase from nearly 90 to 125 worldwide, a number that Garippa said will ultimately reach about 400.
Tang sees a day when artificial organs may be made of synthetic tissue instead of metal and plastic.
"It's an amazing time we're living in," Tang said.
"Frank," an exhibit at the Smithsonian, gives a glimpse at some technologies that could save lives in the future.
The body eclectic
"Frank" is not a complete person — he is missing key parts like a brain, digestive system and skin — but he brings together in one "body" more than a dozen man-made parts. In addition to the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart, Frank's parts list includes:
• Skull implants printed with a 3-D printer.
• The Argus II system that turns video into electrical impulses the brain can "see."
• NeoSpeech software and a chatbot computer program that turns text into speech and lets Frank have "almost human-like conversation."
• A cochlear implant that turns sound into electrical impulses.
• A 3-D-printed synthetic windpipe that can use a patient's stem cells to prevent rejection.
• An artificial lung that filters air and oxygenates blood.
• An artificial pancreas that helps regulate blood-sugar in diabetics without insulin injections.
• A blood substitute made of plastic molecules with an iron atom at their core that carries oxygen, but does not fully replace human blood.
• A manmade spleen, still under development, that filters toxins from the bloodstream.
• Battery-powered prosthetic arms.
• Touch Bionic i-Limb prosthetic hands.
• Prosthetic hips that rotate up to 130 degrees.
• Knees that adjust to different environments with the help of gyroscopes, accelerometers and microprocessors.
• BiOM ankles invented by a rock-climbing biophysicist and engineer.
• The Rex exoskeleton that helps Frank "walk" and may one day replace wheelchairs.


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Aug. 3, 2013
Waiting for My Clothes
The day the doctors and nurses are having
their weekly patient interviews, I sit waiting
my turn outside the office, my back to the wall,
legs curled up under my chin, playing
with the hem of my white hospital gown.
They have taken everything they thought
should be taken — my clothes, my books
my music, as if being stripped of these
were part of the cure, like removing the sheath
from a blade that has slaughtered.
They said, Wait a few days, and if you're good
you can have your things back. They'd taken
my journal, my word made flesh, and I think
of those doctors knowing me naked
holding me by my spine, two fingers
under my neck, the way you would hold a baby,
taking my soul from between my ribs
and leafing through the pages of my thoughts,
as if they were reading my palms,
and my name beneath them like a confession,
owning this girl, claiming this world
of blackness and lightness and death
and birth. It lies in their hands like a life-line,
and I feel myself fall open or apart.
They hear my voice as they read
and think, Who is this girl that is speaking?
I know the end, she tells them.
It is the last line, both source and closing.
It is what oceans sing to, how the sun moves,
a place for the map-maker to begin.
Behind the door, nothing is said.
Like dreams, my clothes come out of their boxes.
It's the birthday of mystery author P(hyllis) D(orothy) James (books by this author), born in Oxford, England (1920). She is known for her detective novels and said, "The classical detective story affirms our belief that we live in a rational and generally benevolent universe."
She gets ideas for her novels from places she visits — communities or beaches or old houses — and begins with the setting. Her main character is Detective Inspector Adam Dalgliesh.
James says, "One reason why women are good at writing detective stories may be our feminine eye for detail; clue-making demands attention to the detail of everyday life."
It's the birthday of one of America's first embedded reporters, Ernie Pyle (books by this author), born Ernest Taylor Pyle in a little white farmhouse near Dana, Indiana (1900).
In the fall of 1940, Pyle went to London to travel around with Yank troops, and they went to Africa, Italy, and France. He wrote for newspapers about World War II in the form of daily letters home from the war front. When he covered the war, he never made it look glamorous. He hated it, and described all the horror and agony around him. He included the names and hometown addresses of all the soldiers he wrote about.
His letters entered about 14,000,000 homes. He wrote, "For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit."
On April 18, 1945, he and a colonel were in a jeep riding to the command post on an Island just west of Okinawa when they were shot at by Japanese machine guns. They dove into a ditch, where a second shot hit Pyle in the left temple, killing him instantly.
People all over the country mourned Pyle's death. President Truman said, "No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told."
It's the birthday of the poet Diane Wakoski (books by this author), born in Whittier, California, in 1937. She has written more than 40 books of poetry, including The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems (1971), which she dedicates to "all those men who betrayed me at one time or another."
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Over half of the 1,250 satellite TV channels broadcasting in Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands originate from either Eutelsat's 36 degrees East or 16 degrees East video neighbourhoods, the satellite operator has announced at SatCom Africa.
This equates to 15% of the 4,000 plus TV channels broadcasting around the globe via Eutelsat satellites.
Currently, Eutelsat 36A and 36B, located in orbit at 36 degrees East, host 300 TV channels, including the MultiChoice DStv pay-TV platform and ZAP, which is owned by the Portuguese operator ZON.
Eutelsat 16A, which was launched to 16 degrees East in October 2011, now hosts 150 channels, including Canal+ Overseas, Orange, Parabole Réunion and France Télévisions.
The roll-out across the continent of digital terrestrial transmission is also drawing on satellite capacity. The StarTimes platform, for example, uses two Eutelsat satellites to transmit to terrestrial retransmitters in 10 African countries and recently announced sales of over one million set top boxes, says the satellite operator.
The number of satellite homes in Africa will rise from 4.5 million in 2010 to 8.7 million in 2015 (+ 13% compound annual growth rate), according to Datixis.
Over the coming two years, Eutelsat is planning to launch two more satellites to connect Africa with Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. Eutelsat 70B is scheduled for launch at the end of this year, with Eutelsat 3B to be launched in early 2014. The operator is showcasing these new satellites at the show at Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg until 24 May.
The operator is also using SatCom Africa to unveil a high speed internet access platform called IP Easy – aimed at residential users, and small to medium businesses across sub-Saharan Africa. Combined with Newtec's Sat3Play technology it delivers downlink speeds of up to 4Mbit/s and supports the reception of TV channels in triple play mode.


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SAN FRANCISCO --- Netflix is raising its prices by as much as 60 percent for millions of subscribers who want to rent DVDs by mail and also watch video on the Internet.
The company is separating the two options so subscribers who want both will have to buy separate plans totaling at least $16 per month. Netflix Inc. had been bundling both options in a single package, available for as low as $10 per month.
New subscribers will have to pay the new prices immediately. The changes take effect Sept. 1 for current customers.
Netflix isn't changing the $8 monthly price for an Internet streaming-only option, which the company began offering late last year. But instead of charging $2 more for a plan that also offers one DVD at a time by mail, the company will charge $8 for a comparable DVD-only plan. That brings the total to $16.
Those who want to rent up to two DVDs at a time with streaming will pay $20 per month. Those wanting three DVDs at a time with streaming will pay $24 per month.
When Netflix unveiled the streaming-only option, it also raised the rates for its most popular DVD rental plans by $1 to $3 per month. Those plans included unlimited online streaming, too, as had been the case since Netflix began sending video over high-speed Internet connections in 2007. That means longtime subscribers who want both options will get their second price increase in eight months.
Netflix's willingness to risk alienating subscribers signals that it needs to bring in more money to cover its rising costs.
The company's earnings would likely be squeezed if it continued to cover the overhead for buying and shipping the discs while also spending heavily to license more video for its streaming library. In the first three months of this year, Netflix spent $192 million on streaming rights after pouring $406 million into the library last year.
Jessie Becker, Netflix's vice president of marketing, wrote Tuesday on Netflix's blog that charging just $2 more for a bundled plan "neither makes great financial sense nor satisfies people who just want DVDs."
Investors seemed to welcome the higher prices. Netflix's stock rose 53 cents to close Tuesday at $291.27.
Netflix's market value has increased by seven-fold and created about $13 billion in shareholder wealth during the past two years, largely because its total subscribers have more than doubled during the same stretch.
As of March, Netflix had 22.8 million subscribers in the U.S. -- about 34,000 more than the number of households subscribing to Comcast Corp.'s cable-TV service.


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Looking to lift my ZJ
Hi there, Im new to the forum and pretty new to ZJ's. I purchased a ZJ about a year ago and I'm now wanting to lift it. Im wanting to go between 3.5-4.5 and im pretty sure im going with iron rock.
I have a couple questions though,
This things going to be a daily driver for the most part besides some light puddle jumping and maybe seeing the snow with the kids, so do i?
1: Do I really need adjustable control arms for a daily driver?
2: how long can i get away with not having a slip yoke eliminator kit installed?
I plan on getting one eventually but im at a 800-1000 budget and id like to get a decent set of tires on it so as of now im holding off on the driveline area.
Im up for alternate suggestions on lifts too, this is going to be a pretty truck for the most part until i get around to working on my dedicated wheeler.
And for reference my absolute budget is 1164 but im trying not to spend all that just on lift id like to have a couple hundered left for some tires.
I have 5.5" of lift and no SYE.
IRO 3.5 with new rear coils and add the trackbars. Trim a bit and run wheel adaptors and JK takeoffs.
No SYE or transfer case drop needed.
What's the back spacing on JK rims?
Are they 15x7 or 15x8 ?
17x7.5, 6" BS
The adaptors bring it down to 4.75" BS which will work with the JK tire width.
No sye needed I'm at 6" and perfect Adj control arms are defiantly needed
what size tire do you want to run?
31s? 2" budget boost. cheap.
32s? 3.5" at minimum and some trimming of fenders/bumpers
33s" 4.5" at least and lots of trimming.
figure out tires and lift it around that.
good luck getting a decent 3.5-4.5" lift AND decent all terrain tires for under $1100. My 30x9.5r15 firestone destination A/Ts from tirerack.com cost me $720 alone. wouldve been another like $100 on top of that if i had to pay a tire shop to mount them, luckily i have access to the mounting and balancing equipment in auto shop at school.
That said, If you're just planning on light trails and some snow, I would go with a 2" budget boost and a good set of shocks. You can pick up a set of pucks on ebay for around 75 bucks, maybe a little cheaper. You can get a nice set of Bilstein shocks from Kolak for around $300.
Thats what I did, and I have no problem keeping up with my uncle in his JK on 32s.
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I've been going over this same idea for the past month and finally decided the best look and bang for the buck if you are doing light offroad on a daily driver is a 2" BB with Cragar soft 8's and 30x9.5x15 BFG all Terrain TA's. I have the BB istalled (actually just 1" that I had laying around) and got the wheels yestrerday. Soon will buy tires. Final cost with just that will be around $1100. I considered the IRO 3.5" kit too but put the money into the wheels instead. This is my starting point. I'll post another pic if I get the tires soon.
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Thanks so very much Jill, it's so very exciting!!
Thank you, Hanne. I'm happy you think they are fine. It won't be long until you'll be celebrating holidays with a precious little one. I'm SO happy for the parents and grandparents!.... :-)))
Orbs/Eggs - it doesn't really matter!! They are just fine!! Thanks so very much Jill, and Happy Easter to you!!


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Dynam Sky Trainer 4CH RTF
Ok, so I just purchased it from NitroPlanes Yesterday. Hoping that my experience from Microsoft Flight Simulator (Landing Boeing 747 and ETC.) and from a 2ch Boeing 737 (God, Had NO control). I would crash with that 737 because the Radio was horrible and would just die when flying plus since the turning ability was horrible I crashed straight into a Pine Tree, but it didn't even crack.
I think i can handle this one because it seems like it can fly at a low throttle to save battery. I watched it in 20+ MPH winds (Here:
Only $109.00
Very Realistic
Slow and fast
Good in wind
15+ Flight Time
It says Crash Resistance, but theres some cause none are.
No Free Flight Sim
Thoughts? I will add to list! Thanks
The lack of wing area and virtually no dihedral in the wing makes me wonder how good a trainer this would really be.
Maybe as a 2nd plane or a first aileron ship, but it looks twitchy and it doesn't look like it has the self-rightening characteristics you'd want in a trainer.
It sure does look good tho.
I'd recommend the Hobbyzone Supercub or the Multiplex Easystar as a trainer. From there, sky's the limit.
i started back in may with one of these, but first practiced with FMS (sim) for a week. it helped alot , that is to say i could keep it high enough to not crash it.
after a bit of bad landings i put it on a shelf and got a hawksky , its a very good beginner plane and easy to land
then i went back to the dynam sky trainer for learning to land. its stable if you know what your doing.
recently ive gotten the sapac t-34 mentor and its the only one ive had so far that hasnt been crashed, few rough landings yes but no 5 minute epoxy needed so far.
its a progression of skills
all foamies are crash resistant but 5 minute epoxy is your friend along with toothpicks , popcycle sticks and wooden dowls
a month ago my sky trainer had a 50ft vertical crash, split the wing back to front 3/4 of the way across, crumpled the nose like a beer can, broke the elevator, sheered the spot where the wing attaches at the leading edge off and tore the nose gear clean off.
heres yestedays flight
My 2 cents, being new to this.
I had to crunch it back to imperial units. I'm not a metric guy. I understand them, I can convert them, I just don't like to think in them, since I make my money in imperial, and I'm stubborn.
So as a fairly newbie, I've found that there is a certain wing loading that makes things crappy, especially when landing. About 1lb per square foot of wing area. That brings you in a little faster than you want. More than that sucks, a bit less than that seems to make it a lot easier, by being able to go slower.
That plane is about 10oz per sqft. Chunking the #s through webocalc, you should be around a 15mph stall, which should give you a decent landing speed of around 15 mph. At first that may seem like you are doing warp 9, but with practice, it will seem very slow, and much slower than I started with.
I don't get the freak out with a 4 channel plane... Ailerons, they're scary. Odds are in flight, you aren't even going to use the rudder most of the time, so essentially a 4 channel plane is a 3 channel plane. Bank it, yank it, same as with a rudder/elevator plane.
FMS is FREE, I didn't like it much and was blown away trying Clearview at $40. Either way, they both taught me the basics, orientations and all that good stuff.
Play with the simulator for a week or so, go out and toss the plane, crash it once or twice or thrice, and go back to the simulator.
If you have half a brain in your head, and have been thinking about how a plane flies, your second trip out with that plane will be mildly successful. You may break a few props, (order some more now, you'll need 'em).
My biggest problem, panic and dumb thumbs. I panic and make wild corrections and I end up drilling into the ground. Small moves.
Actually, the hardest at the get go, was trim, getting that pig to fly steady and straight. Get it up (not the TSA style get it up, where they are rubbing your nuts), but get the plane up, slow and easy on the sticks, grandma like. You should have the rudder already centered visually. Throttle her back to maybe 5/8 throttle or so, and trim your ailerons to keep her level.
You should be high enough that you are uncomfortable with the height, scared of the height, a football field high, you're safer there, let the sticks go, trim your ailerons, so its not rolling. Then trim out your elevator so its flying level. I didn't do that, I just crashed, I was afraid of altitude. Put that sucker to the moon, and then granny stick it, tiny tiny little movements on the sticks.
Remember, throttle controls altitude, not elevator. When you need to get back down, just ease back on the throttle, that was very hard for me.
I still suck, but I'm getting much much better. I don't think you will have to revert to a 3 channel. Practice on the sim, be easy on the sticks, don't be afraid of altitude. Don't fly full throttle, don't be afraid to trim. Real air movement will knock that thing around like no simulator could, just let it ride, you aren't going to correct it, you're just going to crash it, it may need a small granny stick correction, not full stick anywhere.
Good luck, but if you are planning on staying in a budget, you're screwed, you are going to want to make mods and buy new planes and all kinds of good stuff. I think I would be better off taking up full size airplanes, at least one of those fills a hangar.
this plane will land slow, get the CG correct and you shouldnt have any problems. on your first few flights just try to keep it in the air. and like the other guy said fly high and "small movements" on the sticks.
i used to get alot of glitchs with the stock radio that comes with it. be sure you disconnect the servos wires to the reciever and twist them a bit and then replug them back in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted_pair
ive never had a glitch since i started doing that
Me of course (I didn't pull up antenna) took off, about 20 ft in air, got stuck nose up (Hovering) and stalled, spun and nose dived. There goes $20 in 3 minutes.... Any motor recommendations that I can use the same battery and ESC? People said the original stock motor on here isn't to great anyway and the shaft was not strong (Broke on somebody else).
I think i'm just going to get a Hobbyzone Champ, FMS, Practice and then fly this
at the moment id go with a stock motor, its not that powerful for a reason
and is up to the job atm.
each flight youll make mistakes, and not repeat em in the next, hence youll get better and better, myself i dont start to modify any untill i begin to get bored of it, thats when it really gets interesting
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Changes at the Crazy Shepherd
The Shepherd Express has lost one of their columnists, Dave Berkman, over a dispute over one of his columns. Charlie Sykes has a bit on his site, and Berkman's column is here. This follows the departure of Doug Hissom from the Milwaukee Eastside weekly.
I'm not going to pretend I have any love for Berkman. I confess that if he were about to step in front of a moving bus, by the time I struggled with my Christian conscience* he'd be a chalk outline in the road. That said, I wonder how many more "credible" people the Shepherd Express has to lose before they become just another classified ad shopper. At the same time, I wonder how long Berkman will be a fixture of the public radio airwaves.
If it was the quality of the column that so offended Fortis that he decided not to run it, I gotta ask, why now? Surely there were worse columns. If it was the race question and Fortis was embarrassed because the Shepherd Express supposedly does not have any minorities working or writing for it, doesn't Joel McNally count?
Casper of Ask Me Later also comments on Berkman's departure, and talks about Casper's time as a an employee of the Shepherd Express.
Update! Mike Mathias at Pundit Nation takes a look at the Shepherd Express to say he's not sorry to see Dave Berkman go, and to express what a disappointment the Shepherd Express has been over the years.
I'm waiting for Michael Horne to weigh in, since I stopped reading the Shepherd Express on a regular basis when he left.
What's really interesting to me about the changes at the Shepherd Express is where the most interesting commentary is coming from: blogs, a talk radio website, and a community organization website. Today's alternative media.
Update 2! Here's Rick Esenberg's take on the Berkman controversy. And here's what Michael Horne wrote when Doug Hissom was let go in April.
*note to self: remember bad thought about Berkman in Confession. "He always wanted to go by mass transit."


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ALAMEDA — Richard Seymour ended his five-day sit out and joined the Oakland Raiders yesterday, saying he was initially "blindsided" by the trade from the New England Patriots.
"Since I got the call that I was being traded, my life's really been a whirlwind," Seymour said at a news conference at the Raiders facilities. "I've really been blindsided by the events that took place. I didn't expect it."
Seymour was acquired Sunday for a 2011 first-round pick but did not report to the Raiders, raising speculation he did not want to join Oakland.
Owner Al Davis and Seymour both brushed off reports the Raiders had sent Seymour a five-day letter requiring him to report or face possible suspension.
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Emergency Medical Services didn't have enough staff early this week to keep all the ambulances in the city running.
And EMS officials say it could happen again this month because the system's resources are stressed.
For two consecutive days, ambulance service was cut for Southwest Lubbock. On Monday and Tuesday, the EMS station at 64th Street and Genoa Avenue - which receives the fewest calls of the six stations in the city - didn't have ambulance service for four or five hours, said Greg Bruce, University Medical Center spokesman. UMC operates the ambulance service.
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Seven ambulances generally operate in the city at all times.
In addition, two of the three first-responder trucks were cut on the same days. It happened again Thursday, when all three trucks were out of service, though no ambulances had to be cut.
"We had some staffing issues,"
Bruce said. Several people called in sick both days, and there was no one to take their place. Resources were already stressed because about 11 employees are on extended leave, either out sick or on vacation, which may continue to contribute to problems in coming weeks.
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Paramedic Staci Laymon types up a report on a call they ran at station 12, Thursday evening. Station 12 is being closed due to staffing problems.
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John Geist, vice president of safety services, said cutting ambulance service is rare but it has happened before this week for similar reasons.
He said the absent ambulance didn't have a significant impact on service, despite response times on both days being higher than the usual average four minutes and 54 seconds.
The average time for each call in the city was five minutes and 14 seconds on Monday, according to EMS records. The next day, it was five minutes and 40 seconds. On Wednesday, when no ambulances or first-responder trucks were out of service, the average time was back down to 4.9 minutes.
EMS status report
One ambulance out of service.
Two of three first-responder trucks out of service.
Average response time: five minutes, 14 seconds.
One ambulance out of service.
Two of three first-responder trucks out of service.
Average response time: five minutes, 45 seconds.
No ambulances or first-responder trucks out of service.
Average response time: four minutes, 54 seconds.
No ambulances out of service.
All three first-responder trucks out of service.
No information available on average response time.
Source: University Medical Center Health System
"Every second does matter," Bruce said, though no deaths this week were attributed to the limited services.
Geist said slower response times early this week could be due in part to the missing ambulance, though other factors like traffic also determine response time.
A first-responder truck was used in place of the ambulance Monday and Tuesday. The truck needs only one person to operate it, unlike an ambulance, which needs two, but the truck can't transport patients to the hospital.
The Lubbock Fire Department also responds to medical calls from its 15 stations. Its average response time ranges from four to four and a half minutes, said Fire Chief Rhea Cooper, attributing the quicker time to a larger number of fire stations than EMS stations.
The department's first-responder program was designed several years back to aid EMS. A majority of the city's firefighters are trained as emergency medical technicians on the basic level and several are certified as paramedics.
Cooper said he doesn't believe the problems with EMS this week necessarily have had a negative impact on Lubbock residents, but if they continue they could lead to a reduced level of service.
The fire department has never had to cut service, he added.
Hospital officials said they believe they have a solution to the staffing problem.
Starting Aug. 1, EMS plans to utilize a "resource pool," in which three EMTs will work each shift, going where they are needed. Essentially the extra staff would help fill in the gaps if another staffing problem arises.
"We're real excited about that," Bruce said. "This will give us a lot more flexibility."
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However, EMTs have not been trained in some of the advanced life-saving procedures that paramedics can perform. Currently all EMS personnel are licensed paramedics.
The already-hired "resource pool" is a mixture of EMT-basics and EMT-intermediates, Geist said. It takes a minimum of 140 hours of training to be certified as an EMT-basic and at least 624 hours to become a paramedic in Texas.
Geist said all the new employees are working to become certified as paramedics and are expected to be licensed by the end of the year.
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Starring Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, Paul Gleason, John Kapelos, Perry Crawford, Mary Christian, Ron Dean, Kelly LeBrock, Ian Mitchell-Smith, Bill Paxton, Judie Aronson, Ivor Barry, Michael Berryman, Anne Coyle, Robert Downey Jr, Barbara Lang, Britt Leach, Robert Rusler, Suzanne Snyder, Vernon Wells
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Pair of classic 1980s teen flicks. In 'The Breakfast Club' (1985), five very different teenagers are stuck with each other for the day when they are forced to spend Saturday at school on detention.
Gradually, unlikely friendships form. John Hughes' seminal high school comedy set the template for a number of '80s teen movies, while Simple Minds scored a huge hit with their theme song, 'Don't You Forget About Me'. 'Weird Science' (1985) is another Hughes vehicle mixing sci-fi, teen-fantasies and comedy.
A couple of nerdy schoolboys hook a Barbie doll to their computer and scan in magazine pictures of perfect parts of the female anatomy as part of an experiment.
The result is the woman of their dreams - Lisa (Kelly Le Brock), a curvaceous and house proud beauty - whose mission it is to help them get the girls.
They soon find themselves the most popular boys at school after Lisa manages to loosen them up a bit.
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Video: WH Spokesman Jay Carney Forgets the Terry Family's Name
White House spokesman Jay Carney held his first press briefing since President Obama invoked executive privilege regarding the Department of Justice's withholding of subpoenaed Fast and Furious documents. Fox News Channel's Ed Henry peppered Carney with questions that Carney attempted to deflect by blaming Bush for the operation which led to the death of US Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, probably ICE agent Jaime Zapata, and probably hundreds of Mexican citizens.
Carney is simply incorrect that Fast and Furious began under the Bush administration, and Henry corrects him, leading Carney to retreat to asserting that "the tactic (of gunwalking) began under the previous operation." There was a gunwalking operation, but it did not involve allowing firearms to cross the border into Mexico as Fast and Furious did. Fast and Furious began in 2009. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered by Mexican drug runners in December 2010, and guns founds at the scene were connected to Fast and Furious. Holder's own office knew both of Terry's murder and its connection to Fast and Furious the night he was killed.
Carney also says that the February 2011 DOJ letter, retracted a few months later due to serious factual inaccuracies, has been "thoroughly discussed" in congressional testimony and the "7,600" documents that DOJ has provided. Those documents concern the Fast and Furious operation itself, not the retracted DOJ letter.
Carney also addressed a reporter's question about hypocrisy: As a presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama criticized President Bush's invocation of executive privilege:
That clip is a bit shorter than I would have preferred, but Carney's spin grew no more convincing the longer he spoke.
Neither of those passages were the worst of Carney's day. This next one was. Pay close attention at the end, when Carney momentarily forgets a very important name.
"The family that you referred to..."?
Carney also coined a new phrase that we're sure to hear from the White House and its allies in the legacy media going forward: "election year political fishing expedition." He used the phrase or variants of it several times to describe the Fast and Furious investigation, which has been going on for 18 months now. The perpetual Obama campaign now seems to regard every single year as an election year, and thus every single issue as merely political, and "election year political fishing expedition" seems to be the phrase they hope NBC and its ilk will run with going forward as the executive privilege war forces them to start covering the bloody scandal.


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Actor Lance Henriksen--as Charles Bishop Weyland--who represents an important casting connection with the "Aliens" film franchise, battles the iconic monster from the thriller franchise "Predator," in a scene from "Alien vs. Predator," in this undated promotional photo. Henriksen, who played the android Bishop in the "Aliens" and "Alien 3" films, plays a present-day flesh and blood human in the new film that fuses the thrillers together.
AP Photo The PG-13 rating of "Alien vs. Predator" alone tells the story of this grudge match between space beasties.
Before the lights go down, you know this will be a defanged resurrection of two venerable action franchises, crassly fashioned to bait the broadest opening-weekend audience possible before word spreads about how dumb the movie is.
Its six predecessors -- two great "Alien" movies and two inferior sequels, one decent "Predator" flick and one so-so sequel -- had hard R ratings for graphic gore, violence and terror.
Bringing this hybrid in at PG-13, the studio and filmmakers are sending a cynical message to viewers: We want your money, but don't expect to see anything new. In fact, we're going to show you less than any of the half-dozen previous movies did.
Less is precisely what you get with "Alien vs. Predator." Lots less.
The movie did not screen for critics until opening day Friday, a sure sign that a stinker is at hand.
The skimpy story is about as clever as anything two teenage gamers might dream up over down time during a minor power outage. The human characters are little more than munchies for one space species and shooting-gallery targets for the other. Seriously censored by the PG-13 rating, the action is tepid, more a kitten fight than a to-the-death alien smackdown.
And there's simply no suspense. The weakest of the "Alien" and "Predator" movies packed chills in triplicate compared to "Alien vs. Predator."
The movie is written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, maker of such sci-fi twaddle as "Resident Evil" and "Mortal Kombat." Like those video-game adaptations, "Alien vs. Predator" plays out like a linear joystick pastime: Kill this creature, move up one level, vanquish that foe, advance to the next round.
A prequel to the "Alien" films and a sequel to the "Predator" movies, "Alien vs. Predator" is set in Antarctica, where scientists are scoping out an ancient pyramid discovered below the ice.
The gang stumbles onto two extraterrestrial races duking it out under the tundra (why they couldn't have chosen a more hospitable climate, like the French Riviera, is never explained).
In this corner is the hissing, acid-slobbering alien race introduced in Ridley Scott's 1979 classic "Alien," which made a star of Sigourney Weaver. In that corner are the clicking, clacking creatures that debuted in 1987's "Predator," starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a commando whose unit is being stalked by a space hunter seeking human trophies. Computer animation to create some creature effects looks cheesy, particularly in a flashback to an ancient Predator-Alien battle.
The movie's tag line, "Whoever wins, we lose," could not be more appropriate. Any member of the human race who buys a ticket to "Alien vs. Predator" ends up losing. One and a half stars out of four.
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Hell's Kitchen is a reality competition series in which cooks and chefs from all different culinary backgrounds compete against each other to win the approval of Chef Gordon Ramsey. Each week they perform a number of cooking challenges and work together in teams to prove that they're capable of taking whatever Ramsey dishes out. If you're familiar with Ramsey's persona, then you know what he dishes out usually involves a lot of swearing.
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CP World Report: Obamacare, Christian Persecution, Syria
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Barack Obama's healthcare reform act, ruling it constitutional. By a 5-4 decision, the Court's nine justices said that even though the mandate was not justified under the US Constitution's Commerce Clause, it was legitimate under the government's ability to levy taxes. Obama-care "mandates" all Americans to buy health insurance, or face hundreds of dollars of fines. This was a mandate fiercely contested by 28 Republican-controlled states. They sued the Obama administration all the way to the Supreme Court, claiming that it had no right to force people into insurance programs.
The Affordable Care Act also includes a mandate that all institutions--including religious schools and hospitals-- provide their employees and students with health care coverage for contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs. This has upset pro-life and religious groups who previously held protest rallies, declaring that Obamacare violates the Constitution's First Amendment right of freedom of religion.
Canada and the U.S. have jointly released a border deal to bolster security on the Continent. It's intended to smooth the passage of people and cargo across the Canada-U.S. border. The plan calls for joint, integrated assessments about security threats and improved intelligence sharing. The countries have pledged to create common privacy principles to guide such information exchanges. Other components include more comprehensive advance screening of: travellers from other countries heading to North America and of cargo arriving from offshore.
We see lots of coverage of Christian anti-abortion efforts but many Christian organizations also offer help for moms-to-be. One sign in front of a Texas church invited moms-to-be to come for help if needed and one woman really took it to heart. She left her newborn baby outside the church in a shoebox with a hole cut in it for the infant to breathe. The baby girl is now being cared for at a hospital in the city of Alice. A doctor named her Angel. A woman attending mass discovered the infant. A neighbor says he didn't see anything suspicious, and police have urged the mom the come forward….
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Persecution Watchdog and Rights group "Release International" has called upon British Foreign Secretary William Hague to speak up for human and religious rights in talks with Egyptian and Syrian authorities. Although welcoming assurances by new Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi that religious freedom will be safeguarded, Release International says Christians in Egypt still fear an increase in persecution . 100-thousand of them have left since the uprising. Extremist groups pose an additional threat with their goals to implement strict Sharia law across Egypt.
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Should food stamps be harder to get? Some conservative members of the Unites States House believe say yes. That's why they're supporting cuts to a wide-ranging farm bill that would cut food stamps by two billion dollars a year, and make it more difficult for some people to qualify for the domestic food aid program. The proposed cuts are three percent of the food stamp program, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Passage of the five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill could depend on the level of cuts to the $80 billion dollars a year program. Many house conservatives have said the cuts don't go far enough, while liberals have argued against the cuts. The House is expected to begin voting on 103 amendments to the farm legislation today.


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Paul McGowan knows Dundee have been tipped for the drop before a ball is even kicked - but he believes the Scottish Premiership new boys need not worry about relegation.
Paul Hartley's outfit begin their eagerly-awaited return to top-flight action at home to Kilmarnock today, when they'll unfurl the Championship flag after last season's title triumph.
The Taysiders have been busy strengthening their squad during the summer, bringing in 12 summer signings to steel themselves for the step up.
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McGowan, one of the many recent arrivals, knows some cynics will still look upon them as candidates to go straight back down but believes his new team are good enough to be challenging for a top-six slot.
McGowan said: "Nobody is too good to go down perhaps with the exception of Celtic. But I look at our squad and think that we have enough to push on and not fight for relegation.
"We will be one of the favourites for relegation. That's normally the case when you come up but I feel we have a team that could push into the top-six.
"We have been really positive all pre-season and have looked great but this is when it really matters.
"What I would say is that I am quietly confident that, if we can reproduce some of the performances we have had in pre-season, we can go on and have a great season."
Dundee's final-day win over Dumbarton at the end of last season means they'll be honoured when the flag is officially raised in front of a crowd expected to exceed 7,000.
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He said: "The supporters will obviously be looking forward to the unfurling of the flag which is only right.
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