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Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) launched a one-man filibuster late Thursday night against a bill with several popular provisions aimed at people hit hardest by the recession. So far, he is succeeding.
The bill would extend expanded unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless, among other provisions, many of which expire Sunday.
Although Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill) is expected to resume attempts to pass the extensions Friday morning, Bunning has said he will continue to object, and with lawmakers gone for the weekend, there is little chance the bill will pass before Sunday.
Bunning refused to allow the bill to pass unless Democrats agreed to pay for it with unused stimulus funds. Although Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had worked out a deal to vote on Bunning's funding plan, Bunning refused to go along with it.
Bunning's filibuster angered Democrats, most notably Durbin, who organized a group of the chamber's younger Democrats Thursday night to man the floor for a potential all-night session.
But after three hours of often heated debate — during which Bunning could be heard yelling obscenities at other lawmakers — Durbin dropped his efforts for the evening shortly before midnight.
While several Democrats took to the floor to try to defeat the filibuster, Bunning manned the GOP side of the chamber largely himself. Toward the end of the evening, a clearly frustrated Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) came to the Senate floor to offer a quasi-defense of Bunning.
While explicitly avoiding siding with Bunning's position, Corker complained that Democrats had sandbagged Bunning with their efforts to break the filibuster. Corker also suggested that given Bunning's age, Democrats were treating him unfairly.
"If the attempt tonight is going to be to keep a man 20 years my senior here without the knowledge that this was going to happen ... this in my opinion is beneath the Senate. And while I might be weary, I will stay here the entire night to defend the Senate and defend the fact that the Senator from Kentucky did not know this was going to happen," Corker said.


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When he was just 16-years-old, Josh Krajcik schemed his way onto the stage of a bar near his hometown of Wooster, Ohio. Earning $100 for his four-hour debut gig, the singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist decided that night to devote his life to making music. Over the next 14 years, Krajcik fronted a host of musical projects and eventually founded the Josh Krajcik Band, a three-piece blues-rock outfit that toured with the likes of Corinne Bailey Rae and The Fray and appeared on the Bonnaroo Music Festival's 2006 lineup. But by 2011 Krajcik was fighting to sustain his music career, and ended up taking a job at a burrito joint to make ends meet. On a whim, Krajcik then auditioned for The X Factor USA—and soon found himself wowing audiences with his gravelly-rich voice and stirring delivery on the show's premiere season. Now, Krajcik is set to release his full-length album Blindly, Lonely, Lovely that pair his powerful vocals with intensely passionate, soul-infused songwriting.
"More than anything, I wanted this music to be honest," says Krajcik of his debut releases. Instinct has also played a key role in guiding Krajcik through the ups and downs of his early career. "Over the years I definitely had a few of those moments where you're doubting yourself and you wonder, 'Should I just give it all up?'" Krajcik admits. "But at the same, I really don't know what else I could have tried to be." So while holding to the promise he made himself at sixteen yielded its share of struggle, Krajcik asserts that those tough times have more than paid off. "The day after I finished the sessions for 'Nothing' and 'Don't Make Me Hopeful,' I was walking around Hammersmith, just sort smiling to myself and thinking about the songs and my music in general," he recalls. "After a while I looked up and realized I didn't know where I was. I'd gotten so caught up in thinking about where I was now—compared to just about a year before, when I was jumping from couch to couch and making burritos to pay rent—that I'd ended up completely lost in the middle of London. It was a great moment." Still, Krajcik asserts that his ultimate goal is to continue expanding his sound and delving more deeply into his songwriting. "The most important thing for me is to just keep on pushing myself as a singer and songwriter and musician," says Krajcik, "since I know that this is what I'm going to be doing forever."
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One in ten children across Scotland are vulnerable to emotional, physical or verbal abuse because of the way their parents drink.
Research published late last year suggested more than 90,000 young people could be at risk of harm.
Over £1m has been awarded to three organisations who work with families dealing with the consequences of substance misuse and addiction.
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Ahead of the movie's Hall H panel in Comic-Con on Saturday morning, Warner Bros. has shared a new still from Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity with EW.com showing astronauts George Clooney and Sandra Bullock enjoying a quiet moment. Call it the calm before the storm that's soon to terrorize both of their lives.
Gravity, on the surface, seems to be an odd choice for a Comic-Con panel, let alone a massive Hall H pitch. Then again, maybe this says more to us about what kind of movie Cuaron has crafted. Prior to this, I was wondering if Gravity could contend for multiple Oscars, what with the prestigious director pushing two Oscar-winning talents through a rigorous, emotional science-fiction thriller.
And that's not to say Gravity won't be competing come Academy Award season. Heck, Neill Blomkamp's District 9 was a well-deserved Best Picture nominee in 2009, as was James Cameron's Avatar that same year (and both had been a part of Comic-Con prior to their release). No one is saying intelligent sci-fi can't break the Academy's boundaries, but a Hall H panel suggests Gravity might lean a little closer to genre thrills, of which Cuaron certainly is capable. We'll learn more when the director brings footage and analysis to San Diego later this week.
The EW story says that Cuaron and Bullock are "unconfirmed, but expected" during the event. The Warner/Legendary panel is the first one out of the gate on Saturday, and is expected to also include footage and conversations on the Godzilla reboot, 300: Rise of an Empire, Seventh Son an The LEGO Movie. Personally, I would have loved to see how Bullock's co-star, George Clooney, could charm the Hall H masses … but the Gravity panel can pull out all of the stop and claim most of the day's headlines by simply showing off a trailer or footage that rivals the spine-tingling chills of this clip:
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Take a look at the CRN article on Windows Embedded for Point of Service - I gave a demo of WEPOS at last weeks MGB conference, it's really neat to be able to show a RPOS device using a barcode scanner and showing failover by unplugging one barcode scanner and replacing it with another manufacturers scanner all without taking down the POS terminal or restarting any application or drivers - very cool.
The other really interesting thing about Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS) is the fact that it's based on Windows XP Pro SP2, this means that all Windows XP (desktop) management tools/utilities can be used with WEPOS, this includes Windows Update, SMS, SUS etc... - this means that the underlying O/S footprint is perhaps larger than a componentized operating system based on Windows XP Embedded SP2, and the boot options are typically limited (no support for EWF, booting from CD-ROM, Flash etc...), but you do get the advantage of simple install and management.
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O Bodhisattvas!
One thing in every Bodhisattva's practice these days stands out: no matter how hard
we practice--so that all beings (without an exception) benefit--the conditions for life in
this world continue to deteriorate at ever increasing pace.
What can be going wrong? Why isn't the quality of life for all beings here and now
No matter what explanations there might be offered, none satisfies, no matter how
authoritative those explanations might be.
I would like to offer an explanation that, perhaps, will make sense:
The reason that things in this world are going from bad to worse, generally, is that we
don't have a clear idea, a clear thought in our minds, of how the affairs in this world
should be conducted in order to create the optimal conditions for existence for all
beings here and now. Or, perhaps, we, individually, do have ideas of how this should
be done, but not a single one of our ideas is identical with each other, and we might
even not know it, since there is no proper way to compare our ideas that we might
have on the subject with each other, and therefore we all direct our efforts towards,
sometimes even fundamentally, divergent objectives; in the end, due to our working
for different objectives, because there is no clearly defined idea of what this world
should be like at its optimum, there is no chance for conditions for all life here and now
to become optimal ever.
What needs to be done is that we all agree (by what-so-ever expedient and skillful
means) on what actually the optimal conditions for all life on Earth should be. Without
our harmonizing and unifying of all such ideas of what the ideal state of things in this
world should be, we shall continue to see the situation in this world to deteriorate,
wondering all the time how come our various practices meant to benefit all beings
optimally bear no results here and now.
That all beings (with no exception) benefit optimally, fully here and now is very
important, because here and now is forever in all three times and all directions of
space. If all beings don't benefit by our actions here and now, they never will. Here and
now is all we have ever. All beings have to benefit here and now!
Bodhisattvas! What kind of a world should the Earth be to accommodate all life
How shall we unify, harmonize all our individual ideas about what this world should be
like ideally so that we all work towards one clearly defined objective?
May all differences, all controversies, all conflicts, all complaints that there are in this
world among all beings be resolved peacefully without any delays by the power of all
Bodhisattvas ever merit!
May humans become fully and truly forever transparently sustainable for their own
good and for the benefit of all beings!
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Asshole who need to go fuck himself
just started reading the comic…kinda excited 🙂
Heh, I still remember when the comic changed sites.
Well, let's do this. LEEERO- *shot*
Re-reading the comic again, starting now. I feel I need a refresher, and I look forward to it!
Re-reading again!
Cute! And quite predictable when I saw something go into a frying pan..
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A Huntington business owner says his place has the best selection of Octoberfest beers in the area.
The Jug and Kilt, a traditional British/Irish pub opened its doors earlier this year and workers say business continues to grow. Pub managers say they offer at least 11 different specialty fall beers on tap for customers to enjoy.
The pub also offers a wide selection of authentic dishes including fish and chips, meat pies and pastries.
"Normally traditional Octoberfest is 17 days and its a celebration of your harvest that you gather throughout the year," pub manager Chris Levinsay said.
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Giants close to one game back of Dodgers
Giants close to one game back of Dodgers
SAN FRANCISCO -- As long as Ryan Vogelsong wears a San Francisco uniform, the Giants-Dodgers rivalry remains alive. His role in the Giants' 2-0 victory Tuesday night over Los Angeles confirmed this. Vogelsong pitched with what he called a "chip on his shoulder," resulting from the self-motivation he maintained to escape the mediocrity that engulfed him for 13 professional seasons. His resolute seven-inning performance led to the Giants' first back-to-back shutouts of the Dodgers at home since Aug. 15-16, 1987, when Dave Dravecky bested Fernando Valenzuela and Mike LaCoss edged Tim Leary. Vogelsong led an effort that left the Giants one game behind the reeling Dodgers, who have lost seven of their last eight games, in the National League West. That reflects some ambitious climbing by the Giants, who trailed the Dodgers by 7 1/2 games as recently as May 27.
Still goading himself to remain on the All-Star level he reached last year, Vogelsong needed no extra drive as he confronted the division leaders before a lively AT&T Park audience. But Vogelsong admitted that staring at his opponents in blue got his blood boiling -- just as generations of his predecessors, as well as the Dodgers' forefathers, felt as they faced each other from Coogan's Bluff to Candlestick. His fury, though controlled, was almost visceral. It took root within him after the Giants drafted him in 1998. "It's not something that was really explained to me," he said. "... No one tells you you have to not like the Dodgers or anything like that. It just rubs off on you. When you're standing on the mound or in the dugout or anywhere in the stadium and you hear the fans chant 'Beat L.A.', and you go to L.A. and hear their fans cheering for them, it just kind of rubs off on you." San Francisco scored both of its runs in the fourth inning off nemesis Clayton Kershaw (5-4), who yielded Melky Cabrera's homer and Pablo Sandoval's RBI single. Their deeds complemented the labor of the Giants' front office, which accelerated efforts to urge fans to cast All-Star Game votes for them. Cabrera ranks fourth in the balloting among NL outfielders and must finish in the top three to be assured of a starting spot in Kansas City on July 10; Sandoval is second to New York's David Wright among NL third basemen. Dodgers manager Don Mattingly was especially impressed with Cabrera, with whom he worked in 2005-06 when Cabrera was a New York Yankees prospect. Mattingly was the Yankees' hitting coach at that time. "He's a lot better now. It's his confidence," Mattingly said. "To think, Atlanta released Melky Cabrera. Anybody could have signed him. He seems like a confident guy right now. I'm not sure he's this guy [a .352 hitter], but he's swinging good." Vogelsong (7-3) prevented the Dodgers from swinging effectively. He allowed seven hits but walked only one. Of the six runners he left on base, three were marooned in scoring position as he extended his streak of starts in which he lasted at least six innings to 14. "It's pretty amazing what he has done and how consistent he's been," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. Vogelsong won't let himself slip. After losing to the Angels and their ace, Jered Weaver, last Wednesday, Vogelsong sternly insisted that he needed to defeat pitchers such as Weaver and Kershaw consistently to prove that his breakout 2011 campaign was no fluke. Yet Vogelsong didn't feel validated by his second victory of the season over Kershaw, whose streak of 35 2/3 innings without allowing an earned run at AT&T Park vanished along with Cabrera's homer. "It's a step in the right direction," Vogelsong said grudgingly. "I told you multiple times this year that I feel like I have something to prove every game. Just because I came out on the right side in two games with [Kershaw], that doesn't change." Vogelsong credited his defense, particularly shortstop Joaquin Arias and third baseman Sandoval, for preventing rallies. He also praised catcher Buster Posey for steering him through the Dodgers' lineup, which lacked injured star Matt Kemp. "I shook him off once in the first inning and [Andre] Ethier hit that double off of me," Vogelsong said. "I kind of said after that I'm not going to shake him unless I'm 100 percent sure. I basically stuck with him the rest of the way." Having recorded a 2.23 ERA on the heels of his 13-7, 2.71 finish last year, Vogelsong is widely regarded as a legitimately above-average starting pitcher. But he won't let himself believe that he can cruise through his job. "I never did anything close to good on the Major League level until last year," said Vogelsong, 34. "I heard all the questions in the offseason of whether it was a fluke and I could do it again. I told you in Spring Training that that my job this offseason was to make sure I had another solid year to prove to people and myself that it wasn't a fluke. ... I kind of like the way it is. This drives me. It really does."
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This is the 37th article that I have written in this space. Reviewing previous articles printed by The Standard, I recall that the first one was entitled, "It's a Four-Way Fight in 2016".
And indeed, now that the deadline for filing certificates of candidacy for the presidency is just nine days away, there will be four, namely: Vice President Jejomar Binay y Cabauatan of Batangas, Isabela and his political base of Makati City where he and his family have held sway since 1986, when President Corazon C. Aquino named him officer-in-charge of the country's then and now richest though area-small local government unit. Because Makati is host to headquarters of the nation's biggest corporations who pay the biggest amount of taxes, Mayor Binay has been able to fund so many privileges to its less than a million citizens, from quality health care to free birthday cakes to senior citizens. Binay was orphaned early of lower middle-class parents, and had to work his way to law school at the State University. But he has become famously rich, the provenance of his wealth now under microscopic scrutiny;
Secretary Manuel Roxas y Araneta, who apart from being a senator of the realm for six years (2004-2010), was congressman of Capiz, then Secretary of Trade and Industry under Presidents Estrada and Arroyo, and Secretary of Transportation and later, Secretary of Interior and Local Governments under President Benigno S. Aquino III, with whom he ran as vice-presidential candidate in 2010, but lost by a whisker to Binay. Roxas is from landed gentry, to the manor born. His paternal grandfather and namesake Manuel Sr. was the first President of the Third Republic who married Dona Trinidad de Leon of Bulacan and Manila, and sired Mar's father, Gerardo Roxas who also topped the senatorial elections in 1963. Gerry ran for vice president under the LP with Diosdado Macapagal in 1965, but lost to fellow Ilonggo, Fernando Lopez who teamed up with Marcos. On his maternal side, Mar's mother Judy Araneta is one of three children of Negrense sugar baron and owner of the Cubao shopping district, J. Amado Araneta, whose Araneta Coliseum was once touted an architectural marvel and the world's biggest dome in 1960 when it was opened. Schooled in the Ateneo and Wharton in the US East Coast, Roxas is old ultra-rich, "ilustrado" to the core;
Senator Grace Poe y Sonora, married to Neil Llamanzares, was, as her narrative goes, a foundling abandoned in the baptismal font of Jaro Cathedral in Iloilo, of yet unknown biological parents, and after a series of informal adoptions, was legally adopted by the King and Queen of Philippine Movies, Fernando Poe Jr. of San Carlos City, Pangasinan and Susan Roces of the Sonora-Locsin clan in Negros Occidental. She was schooled at exclusive Catholic schools, St. Paul's and Assumption, later took her freshman undergraduate courses in U.P. Manila, and transferred to Boston College in Massachusetts where she finished A.B. Political Science. After a two-year stint as chairperson of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board as an appointee of President Noynoy Aquino, she ran and topped the senatorial elections of 2013, and now, after a little more than two years as senator of the realm, seeks to be President of the Republic;
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte y Roa, was born in Maasin of the then-undivided Leyte, his father being lawyer Vicente Duterte of Danao in the 5th district of Cebu, his mother a public school teacher, Soledad Roa, of Cabadbaran in the then-undivided Agusan province. The Dutertes moved from Cebu to Leyte and thence to Davao City, capital of the then-undivided province of Davao. After a legal practice followed by public service in the provincial capitol, while his wife remained a public school teacher, Vicente was elected governor of Davao, which was later gerrymandered into Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur and Davao Oriental, and lately further divided with the addition of Compostela Valley. Rodrigo's early education was in various schools in Davao City, later at the Lyceum in Intramuros, Manila, where he finished A.B. Political Science, after which he finished law at San Beda College. He practiced law in his city, after which he was appointed fiscal and rose to Assistant City Prosecutor, before being appointed by President Cory Aquino OIC vice mayor after the fall of Marcos in 1986. In 1988, he became mayor of the largest city in land area in the country, in fact, one of the top three largest cities in the world. He tamed what was once the "wild, wild South" of the country, infested with crime and various rebel groups, into what is now ranked the 5th Safest City in the World, in the same exclusive company as Singapore, Osaka, Munich, among others. Davao's progress since Duterte took over has been phenomenal, and its unemployment rate of a little over 4 percent is lower than the country's 7 percent.
So there you are. The list of four may be surprisingly increased in the next nine days if Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago suddenly takes another leap and declares her candidacy. Former president and Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada told this writer that he will seek reelection as city mayor. The latest news from Senator Ping Lacson is that he will return to his Senate seat, where the surveys rank him either at the top or safely in second spot.
What is rather weird about the present political circus is that there will be more vice-presidential than presidential candidates.
Senator Grace Poe Llamanzares will have Senator Francis Escudero as her "official" teammate, but running as independents. She has an "un-official" VP candidate as well, Senator Antonio Trillanes, whose formal declaration last Saturday was even attended by her son, Brian Llamanzares.
Secretary Mar Roxas finally got the nod of Rep. Maria Leonor Gerona vda. de Robredo. This space predicted in a previous column that it would be a Mar-Leni ticket, after Grace Poe became intransigent to the Liberal entreaties. The yellows want to call it a "Ro-Ro" ticket, forgetting that the roll-on, roll-off naval highway project was started by PNoy's nemesis, the suffering Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
VP Jojo will have Senator Gregorio Honasan, thus giving rise to what media wags have called a "Bi-Hon" ticket. But the new pair prefers to be called the Bin-Go tandem, as the senator's nickname is Gringo.
As for Duterte, there are two senators who have declared their vice-presidential candidacies along with open declarations of support for the reluctant mayor, namely Senator Alan Peter Cayetano of Taguig-Pateros and Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of Ilocos Norte and Tacloban. Whom Duterte will choose between the two should come after he formally declares that he will run for president to begin with. As predicted in this space several columns ago, Duterte's candidacy will be a cliffhanger.
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Regulatory Arbitrage and International Bank Flows
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We study whether cross‐country differences in regulations have affected international bank flows. We find strong evidence that banks have transferred funds to markets with fewer regulations. This form of regulatory arbitrage suggests there may be a destructive "race to the bottom" in global regulations, which restricts domestic regulators' ability to limit bank risk‐taking. However, we also find that the links between regulation differences and bank flows are significantly stronger if the recipient country is a developed country with strong property rights and creditor rights. This suggests that, while differences in regulations have important influences, without a strong institutional environment, lax regulations are not enough to encourage massive capital flows.


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|17 May 2011
How do I get USB thumb drives to show a taskbar icon when inserted?
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isnt this feature offered as default in win7? I thought icons of usb were supposed to appear on taskbar by default. I mistaken?
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Monday Morning Water Cooler: Redskins Fall To Rams, 31-28
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Yesterdays game began on a very promising note for the Redskins, but a frustrating second half performance against the St. Louis Rams led to the teams first loss of the year, 31-28, at the Edward Jones Dome in the shadow of the St. Louis Arch.
The Rams received the opening kickoff of the game and began from their own 20-yard line. On their first offensive play of the game, St. Louis quarterback Sam Bradford found wide receiver Danny Amendola for a 13-yard gain, but as he was being tackled, Redskins linebacker Perry Riley stripped the ball from Amendolas hands. Rileys teammate, Chris Wilson, scooped up the ball and ran 30 yards into the end zone for a touchdown to give the Redskins an early 7-0 lead.
It was a smart defensive play by Riley. Oftentimes, when a ball carrier is being tackled by multiple defenders, at least one defensive player will try to take the football away by reaching in and attempting to rip it from his hands. This was what happened for Riley and the Redskins.
The Redskins led the game by as many as 15 points at 21-6 with 6:28 remaining in the second quarter before the Rams began their comeback, scoring the next 17 points and taking a 23-21 lead halfway into the third quarter.
The Redskins answered with a seven-yard rushing touchdown by rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III to make it 28-23, but the Rams answered right back with a touchdown pass by Bradford. After the Rams converted on a two-point conversion a successful 2-yard run by Daryl Richardson they took their 31-28 lead that would become the final score.
["Two-point conversion: A team can either attempt a one-point kick or a two-point run or pass completion from the opponents two-yard line immediately after scoring a touchdown. The one-point kick is the most commonly-used and simplest way to earn an extra point.]
Yesterdays game also featured lots of back-and-forth banter and shoving between the two teams. In turn, both teams were given multiple unsportsmanlike conduct penalties some of which turned out to be costly.
[Unsportsmanlike conduct: An illegal action in football where, after a play is over and when the ball is not in play, a player makes inappropriate contact, gestures or says something inappropriate to an opposing player or official. The common penalty is 15 yards.]
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can a 21 year old male marry a 17 year old anywhere in the united states? and yes he would have parental consent..?
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As most attorneys, like me. are only licensed to practice in one state, I can tell you that, with parental consent, a 17 year old can marry in Georgia.
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Looks such as these are often called "editorial" because they are created to catch the eyes of fashion editors. But these days, many of the actual clothes are being snapped up by boutiques in Dubai and Moscow or by online retailers such as Net-a-Porter. Much of the ultra-luxe action is aimed at new wealth from Russia and Asia, where some consumers are buying singular looks with little regard to price.
Mr. Atwood's sales team is holding a contest to see who can sell the most pairs of $22,000 crocodile boots. "I'm personally going to sell four myself," said Riley Viall, the company's chief executive, at the Milan showroom. She said she's offering the winning salesperson a spa day.
Even in less expensive materials—tweeds and bonded wools—a curvaceous silhouette set a new shape for coats and dresses. Recalling looks that originated in Paris haute couture in the 1950s, rounded drop shoulders emerged on New York's runways and were confirmed as a trend in Milan.
Outstanding collections included Bottega Veneta, where designer Tomas Maier folded fabric to create pleats and space around the shoulders. By achieving volume without reference to 1950s couture, Mr. Maier was in sync with the trend without looking remotely trendy. That's exactly what the label is all about.
Prada's Shetland-wool sweaters and gingham-patterned coats and dresses of stiff wool created a nostalgic feel. It wasn't one of the label's mode-setting collections, but it was resonant days later.
Dolce & Gabbana's collection was one of its most notable after several seasons of inspiration from Sicily, where Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana vacation. While the mosaic dresses will be priced to the stratosphere, prints based on them should be more affordable and enjoy a long life.
Some consumers may welcome the return of the Pucci print to the runways. Peter Dundas, the designer since 2008, has showed army fatigues and sequined lingerie but not the label's signature psychedelic prints. Having established Pucci as a go-to label for the red-carpet set, the designer took a left turn and opened his show with the zany swirls.
Dramatic shapes and materials are invigorating to avid fashion lovers, but not every retailer is looking for sudden change. The new volume is a sharp turn from the flattering wasp waists and tight shoulders of recent seasons.
"I'm a little concerned about that," said Saks vice chairman Ron Frasch on the way out of Dolce & Gabbana's show on Sunday. But he said his buyers were finding plenty of less-extreme looks in showrooms. "Extremes are never great," he said. "But there's always room for both."
Over-the-Top Opulence
One Dolce & Gabbana mosaic dress, whose price is estimated at $14,400, was worked on by 10 tailors. A pair of Brian Atwood crocodile boots is priced at $22,000. And Prada did a whole suit—price not yet available—in crocodile. A double-face wool Galitzine jacket used mink, astrakhan and couture-like piping at the neck, bringing its price to roughly €3,750 ($4,926).
Fetish Fever
Milan isn't known for clothes that look like they come with a whip. But fetish-style looks appeared in a number of collections, from Gucci's python body suit and weapon-like spike heels to Ferragamo's black patent trench with corset-lace sandal-boots. Versace, one luxury label where a red leather dress looks perfectly in order, showed a playful mix of preppy plaid, punk pins and studs, and patent leather dresses and coats.
Sleepwear to Streetwear
Galitzine and Missoni included pajama looks, a smaller trend that is likely to grow, especially since Marc Jacobs showed pajamas in New York. On the streets, the tops will work better than the bottoms, and at designer prices, shoppers may want to think twice before sleeping in these satiny confections. "I think they are for daywear," said Sergio Zambon, Galitzine's designer. "But if you get drunk, you can come home and sleep in them."
Gucci Loafer Flashback
It's 1953 again on some runways, so how appropriate that Gucci would bring back its horse-bit loafer, which debuted that year. It's the 60th anniversary of the loafer, which has defined luxury men's shoes for generations. Clark Gable and Fred Astaire wore the leather loafers. But, it being 2013, the anniversary edition now comes in crocodile and python, too.


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Insurers and trade groups objected to a planned National Association of Insurance Commissioners' (NAIC) data call on credit-based insurance scoring during a recent NAIC committee hearing.
At the NAIC Property and Casualty Committee public hearing held today, Neil Alldredge, senior vice president for state at political affairs at the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC), said his association "is completely opposed to this data collection exercise developed by the NAIC. Simply, it is too expansive, costly and misguided to justify."
The NAIC has said that the information gathered will be used for public policymaking but the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) said that kind of repository already exists in various private and public studies on the use of credit scoring in underwriting. The trade association also has confidentiality concerns.
"We do not feel the information garnered from this data call--even if it could be accurately aggregated--adds in an appreciable way to the existing body of studies," said Alex Hageli, PCI's director of personal lines.
The data call "certainly does not add enough to justify the massive expense insurers will incur in replying to the data call, which ultimately harms consumers," Mr. Hageli added.
NAMIC said there have been 19 studies on the different uses of credit scoring and each came to a similar conclusion--that credit-based insurance scoring is a valuable and fair tool in underwriting.
The Heartland Institute submitted testimony written by policy advisor Lawrence S. Powell to point out that credit scores "are clearly indicative of risk," adding that he thinks the data call is "more extensive than necessary for achieving its objectives."
The National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) has urged the NAIC to get behind its credit-based insurance scoring model law, which has been adopted in 27 states.


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Hippocampus subelongatus
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Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Hippocampus subelongatus Castelnau, 1873
Common Name(s):
Hippocampus elongatus Castelnau, 1873
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. and Van der Laan, R. (eds). 2017. Catalog of Fishes: genera, species, references. Updated 30 March 2017. Available at: http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp. (Accessed: 06 April 2017).
|Taxonomic Notes:
|The 1996 and 2000 IUCN Red Lists included H. angustus. This was a misidentification and should actually have referred to H. subelongatus.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Data Deficient ver 3.1
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|Lafrance, P., Lourie, S., Marsden, D. & Vincent, A.C.J. (Syngnathid Red List Authority)
H. subelongatus is collected for the aquarium trade, but the effects of this collection on the persistence of the population is debated. Glenn Moore (cited in Lourie et al. 1999) reported that numbers recently declined substantially in the Swan River near Perth due to over-collecting for aquaria. However, Kuiter (2000) believes that the number of specimens collected for the aquarium trade is "minuscule compared to the wild population" and that fluctuation in the Swan River is due to seasonal conditions and not to collecting.
Recent research on H. subelongatus focuses mainly on reproductive behaviour (Jones et al. 1998, Kvarnemo et al. 2000) and aquaculture (Payne and Rippingale 2000). Appropriate data on distribution and abundance in the wild, and on fishing mortality, are not yet available. Further research is needed in order to evaluate the status of the species.
In addition to exploitation for the aquarium trade, habitat degeneration is a potential threat to the species.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|H. subelongatus is known from Freemantle, Perth, Swan River, and Houtman Abrolhos Islands in Western Australia (Lourie et al. 1999).
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Native:Australia (Western Australia)
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|The species is found on the edge of rocky areas, muddy bottoms, and areas of high sediment load; jetty piles and mooring; and it is often associated with sponges or sea squirts or attached to man-made objects. They have been reported to occur at depths of 1 to 25 m and to move to deeper waters in winter (Lourie et al. 1999).
This species may be particularly susceptible to decline. All seahorse species have vital parental care and many species studied to date have high site fidelity (Perante et al. 2002, Vincent et al. in review), highly structured social behaviour (Vincent and Sadler 1995), and relatively sparse distributions (Lourie et al. 1999). The importance of life history parameters in determining response to exploitation has been demonstrated for a number of species (Jennings et al. 1998).
|Major Threat(s):
|H. subelongatus is collected for the aquarium trade, but the effects of this collection on the persistence of populations is debated. In addition to exploitation for the aquarium trade, habitat degeneration is a potential threat to the species.
|Conservation Actions:
|This species was moved under the Australian Wildlife Protection Act in 1998. Further research on this species is needed. It is listed on CITES Appendix II.
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Before we blame one more teacher or one more school for failing our students and being responsible for the dropout rate, I want everyone to stop and think back.
If you are an educated person you can probably remember having to finish your homework before you could watch TV or play outside. Did the school make you do this? No, your parents did. Do we really think schools have changed? Have teachers, who have to be up to date on the newest methods of teaching, really gotten worse? No. So, what has changed? Well, let's look at the family structure. With over 50 percent of marriages ending in divorce and parents not being home due to two jobs and children not being the best self-motivators, we can see why they are failing. Would any of us really have done our school work if our parents didn't make us? So let's point the finger where it belongs, and this may be hard for some of us, let's point to the declining family structure.
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What's A "Stay-At-Home Girlfriend"?
Linkbait — (noun), an article written online for the sole purpose of trying to draw traffic.
You've heard of stay-at-home-moms — now it's time to meet a "stay-at-home-girlfriend." Writing on the Brooklyn-based blog Brokelyn, blogger Quiana Stokes described how she recently lost her job and is now a "stay-at-home-girlfriend" in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, playing house and having the roast ready for her boyfriend when he comes home. Feminist bloggers are abuzz with Quiana's "stereotypically Stepfordish rules," like picking up after her boyfriend when he gets dressed in the morning, cooking dinner every night, keeping up her hair and nails, and fixing his favorite cocktails when he comes home from a hard day's work.
Now, I'm going to say something that might surprise you about this proto-Betty Draper: frankly, I don't think the article is that offensive.First of all, I don't think there's any shame in being a "stay-at-home"-anything, so long as it works for both partners. A homemaker can still be a feminist. My mother stayed at home and raised five children; she quit her job when she married my widower father, adopted his three daughters from a previous marriage, and stayed at home to raise them so they no longer had to be taken care of by babysitters and relatives. Although Quiana Stokes does not mention any children in her piece, she does a lot of tasks during the day that my mom and other stay-at-home-moms I know (like my two older sisters) do: cooking, cleaning, and running errands. It's important work. And yes, being a homemaker is work. While I can't say I particularly respect Quiana Stokes' midday drinking rituals, hey, I get bored at work and screw around on Bluefly.com (sorry, Amelia!), so who am I to judge how other people let off steam?
Second of all, even if we were to begrudge Quiana Stokes for being "unfeminist" (or lazy, or both) for staying at home, the woman had a "corporate job," as she calls it, which she was laid off from. A quick Google search reveals a LinkedIn profile for someone named Quiana Stokes who attended Wesleyan University, graduated in 2006, and worked at JP Morgan. She is educated. She worked in the corporate world. She got laid off. She's extremely fortunate that even though she and her boyfriend had to cut back on expenses — for example, she gets manicures from friends now, rather than a weekly professional appointment — but they're apparently not so hard up that she has to take any part-time job that she can find just to make ends meet. For those who gripe about Stokes' "stay-at-home-girlfriend" status, do I smell a little class resentment?
Third of all — and this is where the linkbaiting stuff comes in — it doesn't sound like Quiana Stokes is doing anything she doesn't actually want to do. Actually, it sounds like she is doing things she already did, only more so. She loves to cook and used to prepare dinner four nights a week; now she does it every night. She used to get her hair and nails done weekly; now she still does it, but on a budget. Presumably she did not start doing things to "keep him happy," like fix him drinks, upon losing her job. Obviously this woman did certain things for herself and for her boyfriend and she is only devoting more time to them now that she's got it. It's not as if she's doing these things as part of a transactional relationship with her boyfriend: he supports her, so she looks sexy, has a hot dinner ready when he gets home, and is always up for sex. I know that we do not know what Quiana Stokes' boyfriend does for her and that's what everyone wants to know. But that brings me to my next point …
Lastly, and most importantly, I don't think it's anyone else's business what individual couples do as long as it is safe, sane and consensual. So they have a more traditional relationship? So what? We don't know what each partner really contributes to a relationship, ever. And it sounds like she is happy serving him in this way. Only the two of them know what he does, or doesn't do, in return, but honestly I don't really care if she says that she's happy. I trust her. It's just plain judgey-wudgey to bitch about this other woman's relationship when we don't know her, or him, or how they function together.
At the risk of being uber-defensive, I want to share a story: When I was in a relationship, I was pretty upfront about my financial situation with my then-boyfriend: I made more money than he did. Although I didn't financially support him, I definitely paid for my share or slightly-more-than-my-share of home expenses. I'm a modern girl and I was fine with that. However, it wasn't something I wanted for the future. It's really important to me, if I can, to be a stay-at-home-mom someday when my kids are young. The ex-boyfriend had much more earning potential than I do and when we still thought we were going to do the marriage-and-making-babies thing, we agreed that I would stay home when the kiddies were young while he kept working. At least, that was the notion we had in our heads — obviously, we never got so far as to work out the specifics and who knows whether it would have actually shaken out that way. I may have gotten a swanky job editing a magazine or something and decided I wanted to work and we would have hired a nanny, or maybe he would have stayed at home, which he had mentioned being willing to do. I got torn a new a-hole for writing about this on The Frisky, not once but twice, yet at the end of the day, it's still how I feel.
Could I live like Quiana Stokes? Probably not. I'd get bored. But is her post on Brokelyn offensive to me, or anti-feminist, even? Sorry, but not particularly.
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I'll never understand what drives some women to pluck their poor eyebrows into oblivion.
She looks like Holly, last year's winner.
Wanna give yourself nightmares? Take Jillian's photo and cover up everything below the bridge of her nose.
She told Ramsey that her eyebrows were tattooed on. So are mine, but I still HAVE eyebrows, and a much more natural look than this poor girl. Hopefully she didn't have her regular brows removed via electrolysis or laser. She needs to find a new tattoo artist.Quote:
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You can't see any of her facial features except the eyebrows. Ehh, it was funnier on paper I guess.Quote:
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Still, her cooking ability looks the business. Based on the last 2 episodes, I predict Jillian will win.
I'm with you. I figured the the editors left in the eyebrow mocking piece during the first episode, so we would notice her, and think she might be flaky, and thus, not a threat. I believe she has real potential. However, now that I say that, she'll prove me wrong next week.
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As the trees begin to change color, the days get cooler and daylight is shorter, it's time to think about our feathered friends. Some fly south and leave us until the spring, but some little birds stay and tough it out through our icy, cold Kansas City winters. It is such a pleasure to watch them come to our feeders and fill up with food to keep them warm on blustery winter nights. Just remember, if you begin to feed them, they will count on that food you are supplying. So once you begin putting out seed, you should continue at least until the spring arrives and they have others sources of nourishment.
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