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Where's the Baby? Forgotten in the Hot Car
On these hot days, the temperature inside your car can climb above 120 degrees in as little as 30 minutes. That's why you should never leave children or pets in the car, not even for a moment.
A child's body temperature rises three to five times more quickly than an adult's. Still, deadly accidents happen each year. Parents forget their child is in the car with them.
An Atlanta father is charged with leaving his one-year-old son to die in a hot car. But was the child's death accidental or intentional? Police are investigating after the parents searched hot car deaths on the internet before the child died.
It's a tragedy either way, and one thing is certain: too many children are mistakenly left to die in hot cars in the summer. But there are measures to take to prevent it from happening.
It often happens to responsible parents who have a momentary lapse in memory, which psychologists say is possible if the child can't be seen or heard, and if the parent is distracted, tired, or stressed-out.
Unforgettable Tragedy
This happened to an Austin, Texas, couple, who are now committed to educating the public about ways to prevent their tragedy from happening to anyone else.
May 25, 2011. Although they didn't know it, it would be the last morning Brett and Kristie Cavaliero would see their little girl, nicknamed Ray-Ray.
The morning started off hectic because the three of them slept in much later than usual. After hurrying around, they were ready to go.
Kristie recalled the last time she waved goodbye to her daughter.
"I took her to the truck with Brett and we both put her in her car seat together," she said.
While in the truck, Ray-Ray fell asleep. Brett forgot she was there.
"Daycare is only about 300 yards to the left, and and I drop her off, and circle back this way," Brett explained. "Well, I took a right instead."
"And so our tragedy revolves around one wrong turn," Kristie lamented.
Brett tries to understand how he forgot his daughter was with him in the truck.
"My best guess is that when I made that right-hand turn, my mind was on auto pilot, and I was on my way to work," he said.
Brett parked in his usual parking spot and went in to work just like any other day, still forgetting his daughter was asleep in his truck.
Kristie met Brett for lunch. They drove her car. She recalled how they talked about Ray-Ray.
"It wasn't until I picked up Brett for our lunch date that he remembered, he couldn't remember, dropping her off at school that day," she said.
Then reality hit Brett like a ton of bricks.
"And I said to my wife, 'I think Ray's in my truck,'" he said.
By that time it was too late. Ray-Ray had become one of nearly 300 children to die of heat stroke, also called hyperthermia, after being forgotten in a hot car. Her body temperature had reached the fatal level of 107 degrees.
It Can Happen to Anyone
Many people think those who forget their children in a car are bad parents. But experts say that's not true.
"The sad truth is, any of us could do that," psychologist Dr. David Mitchell said.
Mitchell explained that our short-term memory only holds about seven items of information at a time. If we keep trying to put more information into our short-term memory, some items will be forgotten.
"And if you can picture a glass, my short term memory is a glass. And I pour my seven items in there. And in order for me to add more, some has to come out." Mitchell explained.
He said things like being distracted can actually create false memories.
"In the short-term memory [is] the check list, if you will, of the things that we have to do," Mitchell explained. "If we are going through our mental check list and something distracts us, then our check list, we may have actually gone through and checked off something we haven't done."
Kids and Cars
Add to all of that the fact that many of the children forgotten in cars are neither heard nor seen. Most of them have fallen asleep and are situated behind the driver in rear-facing car seats.
Despite being at risk for being forgotten, placing a baby in a rear-facing car seat in the back seat is actually the safest place for them.
When the government began requiring air bags in the front of all vehicles, hundreds of infants died when the air bags were deployed, even if what caused their deployment was a simple fender-bender.
Safety experts realized the force of a deployed air bag could be deadly when it struck a tiny body.
Janette Fennell is the president and founder of KidsAndCars.org, an organization dedicated to educating the public about the ways to avoid forgetting kids in cars.
She said rear-facing car seats placed in the back seat pose a real challenge.
"If anyone's ever seen that in a car, if you're the driver, you can't really tell if there's a baby in that car seat or not," she explained.
"It's not like their head sticks above the top, because if it does, they're in the wrong car seat," she said.
Safety Tips
In addition to KidsAndCars.org, Ray-Ray's parents are also dedicated to making sure what happened to them doesn't happen to anyone else.
Even the U.S. Department of Transportation launched a campaign to educate people on ways to avoid this tragedy. Here are a few tips:
- Make a habit of just simply looking in your child's car seat every time you exit your vehicle, regardless of whether your child is in it at the time.
- Put your purse, your briefcase, your computer, anything you are sure to take with you as you exit the car, in the back seat near the car seat.
- Keep one of your child's toys, such as a stuffed animal, in the car seat at all times. However, when your child is in the car seat, put the toy up front with you to remind you that your child is in his or her car seat.
Since many of the children who are forgotten in cars were on their way to daycare, Brett and Kristie Cavaliero came up with what's known as Ray-Ray's Pledge for parents and daycare providers.
An estimated 20 percent of all children who perish in hot cars were on their way to daycare. However, so far this year, that number is 50 percent.
Most daycares do not make any inquiries when a child does not show up in the morning. They simply assume the child is sick or out of town.
In other words, there is usually no accountability for child absences in the daycare community.
Brett and Kristie want to change that. If there had been accountability, Ray-Ray and other children would be alive today. If the daycare had called them when Ray-Ray didn't show up that day, she could have been saved.
The idea behind Ray-Ray's Pledge is for parents and daycare providers to establish a pact whereby the daycare knows whether the child is supposed to be there or not, and to act quickly if the child isn't there when they are supposed to be there.
"Should the child not arrive by his or her usual arrival time and a planned absence has not already been communicated," Kristie explained, "They will call one or both parents until they find out where that child's whereabouts are."
Sounding the Alarm
Car seat alarms are also a viable option. Manufacturers such as Suddenly Safe 'N' Secure Systems, Inc., and Baby Alert International sell their products online. Even NASA got into the act when engineer Chris Edwards invented a car seat alarm.
Edwards admitted it was a departure from what he normally does.
"Well, we had a local incident where a child died, and this was my way of dealing with it," he said.
The alarms consist of a car seat sensor that is placed in the car seat and is activated by the weight of your baby in the seat. Another sensor with an alarm goes on your key chain. If you walk away from the car with your baby still in the car seat, the alarm goes off.
Edwards called his invention a simple way to save lives.
"So the parts in it are pretty inexpensive. They're readily available. It should be easy for a manufacturer to make a product out of them," he said.
Parents need to realize there are a number of safety nets they can put into place to lessen the chance of forgetting their child is in the car.
Thanks to the efforts of KidsAndCars.org, there's a push in Congress to pass legislation aimed at preventing parents from leaving kids behind in cars.
One portion of the bill mandates seat belt alarms in the back seat of vehicles, and the other portion is to study technology such as car seat alarms to determine whether car seat or auto manufacturers require them.
"If our vehicles can tell us if we've let our headlights on, so we don't get a dead battery, I think it's equally, of course, more important, to have a reminder so we don't have a dead baby," Fennell said.
--Originally aired July 17, 2012.


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Last week the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board flatly rejected the the Iowa Democratic Party's (IDP) June 9th ethics complaint against Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz for his alleged 'use of public resources to campaign against Jon Huntsman." Though the mainstream media was all too eager to report the allegations without any fact-checking of their own, they have been strangely silent now that the charges have been summarily dismissed.
Republican presidential contender Jon Huntsman, former governor of Utah and U.S. ambassador to China under President Obama, announced in early June that he would not compete in the Iowa caucuses. According to the Des Moines Register:
Iowa's lead-off caucuses are out for him, Huntsman said, because of his opposition to subsidies for corn-based ethanol. Why waste time trying to court Iowa voters who see that support as a way of life and a deal-breaker, he said. "I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason," he said.
This prompted Secretary of State Schultz to issue the following statement on June 6th:
…In my opinion, this excuse seems to have as much credibility as "the dog ate my homework."
It is apparent that Mr. Huntsman is in need of a lesson in Iowa politics. Iowa is a bellwether state. We care about our families, our faith and our freedom. We are not single-issue voters. We just want to know how presidential candidates are going to make our country better. Hopefully Mr. Huntsman will change his mind and come to Iowa and explain how he plans on fixing the problems facing our country.
Iowans look forward to the opportunity to hear Mr. Huntsman's vision for America. We will listen to him explain his support for Cap and Trade. We will listen to him explain why he took more than one billion dollars in federal stimulus money. We will listen to him explain why he wants to replace his former boss, Barack Obama. We will listen to him explain why he is distancing himself from his Mormon faith. Mr. Huntsman should know that Iowans elected me as their Secretary of State and my Mormon faith was never an issue.
Is Jon Huntsman not coming to Iowa because he opposes ethanol subsidies or because he is afraid to explain his positions on other issues? Iowa Congressman Steve King opposes ethanol subsidies and he continues to get reelected with large margins of victory. If Mr. Huntsman refuses to compete in a bellwether state like Iowa, he is not ready for the big dance. After all, our last two presidents won the Iowa Caucus before they went to the White House.
This was apparently a line too far for the Iowa Democratic Party. According to Sam Roecker, spokesman for the IDP, "Secretary Schultz has gone beyond just talking about the caucuses, he used an official press release to single out and attack a candidate in the caucus process." "By attacking specific policy positions held by Huntsman," the ethic's complaint reads, "the Iowa Democratic Party believes this is in violation of section 68A.505 of the Iowa Code."
But as The Iowa Republican (TIR) alone reported, Schultz's letter clearly did not violate Iowa Code Section 68A.505, which reads that the "state and the governing body of a county, city, or other political subdivision of the state shall not expend or permit the expenditure of public moneys for political purposes, including expressly advocating the passage or defeat of a ballot issue."
The IDP's complaint was entirely meritless, and the Ethics Board promptly dismissed the complaint at their next board meeting on July 19th. Pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA), TIR obtained a copy of the Ethics Board's letter to Sue Dvorsky, the Chair of the IDP, which reads, in pertinent part:
The Board determined Secretary Schultz's press release did not violate Iowa Code section 68A.505 and dismissed your complaint…
While Schultz is obviously critical of Jon Huntsman in his press release, he does not use "explicit words that unambiguously indicate the [press release] is recommending or supporting a particular outcome in the election." He neither explicitly advocates against voting for Huntsman nor does he advocate for, much less mention, any of Huntsman's likely opponents in the Iowa caucuses.
Moreover, Huntsman does not fall within the definition of "candidate."…In other words, the term "candidates" as used in Chapter 68A does not include an individual running for federal office.
Though the obvious outcome, it appears that this news must have come as a surprise to the Iowa Democratic Party, who had eagerly written the Ethics Board on July 19th in hopes of learning that at their meeting the Board had decided to pursue the Schultz ethics complaint. Perhaps they need to hire a new attorney.
But the point of the ethics complaint was not to be legally valid, but rather to score political points against a rising star in the Iowa Republican Party. And as TIR predicted, the mainstream media let them get away with it by not reporting on "the eventual dismissal of the complaint by the ethics board for being legally insufficient. And doubtless the IDP will make sure to include the 'ethics charges' in campaign ads against Schultz when he runs for reelection in 2014" without fear of being called out by the media.
In the end, the IDP will have gotten away with a smear campaign, aided and abetted as always by their stenographers in the mainstream media.
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No. 1 Georgia Tech (45-16)
23rd appearance, at-large, Atlantic Coast, No. 8 national seed
No. 2 Vanderbilt (36-25)
Fifth appearance, at-large, Southeastern
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19th appearance, automatic, won Big 10 regular season and tournament
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14th appearance, automatic, won Atlantic Sun tournament
The bats still work in Atlanta, as Georgia Tech again ranked among the nation's most explosive offenses with only Troy scoring more than its 546 runs (nine per game). It did so despite injuries to Danny Payne, the team's offensive sparkplug until suffering a dislocated shoulder, cracked ribs and concussion in an outfield collision at the end of April, and third baseman Wes Hodges, the team's RBI leader despite being limited to DH late in the year with an early stress fracture in his left leg. Hodges will play when healthy, while Payne and closer Tim Gustafson (arm troubles) are doubtful for regionals. Junior Whit Robbins has moved to third base and leads the team with a .362 average and 12 homers. But, as always, Tech will travel as far as a pitching staff with a 4.49 ERA can carry it. Starters Blake Wood and Lee Hyde turned in strong performances in the ACC tournament, and Brad Rulon and John Goodman have thrown well in relief.
Vanderbilt shows up as the exact opposite of Georgia Tech. It features all kinds of pitching, ranking fifth nationally with 8.9 strikeouts per nine innings, but offers little power past freshman third baseman Pedro Alvarez. Alvarez cranked 19 home runs, while the rest of the team combined for 30. Vandy's .311 average still ranked second in the SEC, but it can struggle to put up runs if teams pitch around Alvarez. If senior Matt Buschmann (5-4, 4.15) continues starting the first game of the Commodores' series, it puts sophomore lefty David Price in line to face Tech's offense. Price, a top candidate to be the No. 1 overall pick in 2007, would prove a great test with his 9-4, 3.81 record and 147 strikeouts in 104 innings. Vandy won a regional at Virginia in 2004, though this freshman-and-sophomore dependent club doesn't feature too many holdovers from that bunch.
A veteran pitching staff led Michigan to the Atlanta regional a year ago, and it's back again in something of a surprise with a much more callow club that was expected to be a year away from postseason contention. But these kids were too young to realize they weren't supposed to win the school's first Big 10 regular season title since 1999 and become the first Michigan team ever to win both the regular season and tournament titles. But freshmen Chris Fetter (5-1, 1.89), Zach Putnam (6-1, 2.10), Ben Jenzen (2-0, 3.00 with six saves), Michael Powers (4-0, 3.05) and Adam Abraham (5-3, 3.86 with three saves) helped turn the pitching staff from a preseason question mark to an exclamation point. Fetter ranked 15th in the country in ERA.
Stetson finished the year on a 26-8 run, with ace Chris Ingoglia going 4-0, 3.76 in Atlantic Sun games to help the Hatters make regionals for the sixth time in seven years. Ingoglia and closer Robbie Elsemiller (7-3, 2.57 with 14 saves) could team up to put a scare in Georgia Tech. But Stetson probably doesn't have the offense to out-slug the Yellow Jackets on the road. Junior first baseman Chris Johnson led the conference with 64 RBIs and added a .371 average and 11 homers, but the rest of the team hit just 20 longballs.


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There was some pretty grim news on the carbon emissions front last week. According to the US Dept. of Energy, emissions for the year 2010 jumped considerably over the previous year, and that is in spite of the economic downturn. The 564 million ton jump, the largest ever, put more carbon into than atmosphere than the IPCC's worst case scenario which predicts a 7.5 degree Fahrenheit increase in global average temperature by the end of this century. Most of the emissions increase came from the US and China.
Travel rose significantly in 2010, as did manufacturing and the use of fossil fuels. Coal burning increased 8 percent for the year. The year 2010 was also recorded by NOAA and NASA as the warmest on record.
Zark Anderson provided a breakdown of the 3.9 percent increase in the US. Roughly 1 percent came from population increase, 2 percent from increased productivity (which I assume increased production), 0.7 percent came from products requiring increased energy for production, and 0.2 percent is from the use of more carbon intensive fuel such as coal instead of natural gas. Emission in China rose by 10 percent.
The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center showed increases globally in every segment. In the US, this reverses a trend which showed a pronounced decrease since 2007, which is still the record year for CO2 emissions in this country. According to Lester Brown, coal use dropped 10 percent and oil use 11 percent over that four-year period, which even considering the increase in natural gas use, resulting in a net carbon emission decrease of 7 percent. But that was a much bigger decrease at the end of 2009.
Brown attributes most of the decrease to the reduction in coal burning, and gives credit to the Sierra Club for their aggressive campaigning to shut down existing coal plants and block construction of any new ones. There are currently 492 coal plants in the US, 68 of which are currently slated to be closed. Stricter clean air regulations that are forthcoming will force many others to close rather than face costly retrofits.
It's the right direction but is it fast enough?
Brown says that with incandescent bulbs being phased out and giving way to much more efficient CFL and LED's, and with automobile fuel economy increasing and fleet size decreasing (it peaked in 2008), that 7 percent decline could become a 20 percent decline by the year 2020. That is certainly good news.
Other good news includes the fact that the developed countries that ratified the Kyoto Protocol have reduced their emissions overall since then and have achieved their target of reducing their emission by 8 percent below 1990 levels.
It's really the developing countries that are the biggest concern now. It's great that they are ramping up their economies and providing better quality of life for their people. But if they continue to use coal as their primary fuel, then we are all in trouble.
Only a multi-national effort can adequately address this issue by providing alternatives to these economies, while protecting carbon-absorbing forests at the same time. The US needs to get off the sidelines and stop propping up what Annie Leonard calls the "dinosaur economy" in her new video, The Story of Broke, and take the lead before we are left behind in a very warm and very broken world.
What to do about China and their voracious appetite for dirty coal? Despite some scientist's theory that their widespread use of coal may have actually slowed global warming (because of the particulates that block the sun from coming through), I would much rather see them, working in cooperation with partners around the world, commit to phasing in renewables as quickly as possible. If we have to resort to geo-engineering, I would think we could find something more benign than coal dust to do it with.
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Volunteers with the Tamaqua-Carbon Chapter of the American Cancer Society will be hosting three multi-fundraiser and awareness events tomorrow in Tamaqua to help raise donations for Relay For Life and promote cancer awareness.
In the first-ever photo-scavenger hunt, people of all ages can bring their digital cameras or cell phone cameras to take photos of scavenger-listed items in Tamaqua. Teams, consisting of 2 to 4 people, should meet at the Depot Square Park, Five Points, by 4 p.m.
All scavenger items are within walking distance. Any team interested in participating is encouraged to simply show up or call Marsha Resch at (570) 778-8082 to register. Each team requires a registration fee.
There will also be an ice cream social starting at 8 p.m. Guest singer Emily Zanzosky, 16, of Tamaqua will entertain guests as trophies are given.
The annual "Light the Town Purple" event, in which the fountain is showered with purple lighting in memory of cancer victims and survivors, begins at 9 p.m.


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with Cathy Hronek, Dan Horn, Adrienne Paulson and "Dave".
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Andrey Summers, James Simpson and Fiona Revill
Original Music
Gord Myren (with "Santa Klau-au-auss" lyrics written and performed by Andrey Summers)


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Helios Tattoo is proud to sponsor this TAM Artist Spotlight interview with Halo Jankowski. Easily one of the most recognizable tattoo artists in the world today (following his stint on Spike TV's long-running Ink Master tv show in season 4),Halo transcends the typical tv-personality status usually associated with artists who have 'been on tv' because he's actually a really GOOD tattooer! And that matters a LOT more than people realize. It's way more important to get a tattoo from someone who's good than from someone who's 'famous'. Halo Jankowski just happens to be both! Featured Artist: Halo Jankowski Follow him here: http://www.blacklotustattoos.com https://www.facebook.com/BlackLotusTattooGallery https://www.instagram.com/blacklotustat2gallery https://twitter.com/BlackLotusTat2s We caught up with Halo recently and asked him some questions about his time on Ink Master, how he got into tattooing, his life, career and plans for the future: First off, thanks to Helios for making this interview happen. It's really refreshing to see this new symbiosis in the tattoo world- there are so many artists out there on social media every day showing support & sharing the companies they believe in, but it's even more refreshing to find the good, quality companies who are doing the same thing- showcasing and promoting the artists who actually buy and use their products. So, real quick- I know you use their needles and the Helios Rotary Pen tattoo machine; how are these tools affecting your art & would you recommend them to other professionals? Absolutely! When it comes to needle cartridges, I've tried them all, and ...Read More »
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Jack Rudy – Photo Gallery of Black & Grey Masterpieces
Jack Rudy is an American tattoo artist notable for his reinvention of the 'Black and Gray' style of tattooing, realistic portraits, and single-needle use. He is considered to be one of the top tattoo artists in the world. After leaving the Marines in 1975, Rudy began his career as an apprentice at Goodtime Charlie's Tattooland, in East Los Angeles. Under the watch of Charlie Cartwright, a friend of his he had met while visiting the Old Long Beach pike while on leave from the USMC Logistics Base in Barstow CA, Rudy and Cartwright began to hone their craft of single-needle, Black and Gray style tattoos. Simultaneously creating a whole new subgenre of modern tattooing and raising the proverbial bar for many new emerging tattoo artists and artists in general. His very distinct and distinguishable style is renowned for its masterful use of light and dark shades of varying degrees of black and grey. In addition to creating a softer and more realistic style of tattooing, with the advent of the new single needle tattoo technology artists were now able to use a much greater level of detail than previously attainable utilizing older and more readily accepted tattoo machine and needle configurations. As the client base of East Los Angeles began requesting this 'penitentiary-style', the pair decided to create a single-needle configured tattoo machine. Jack Rudy can be found at Good Time Charlie's Tattooland in Anaheim, CA. (From the full article as seen in Tattoo Artist Magazine #25) Get it HERE for $14.99 OR ...Read More »
Ink Master s6/e9 review – 8/18/15
As the competition continues true colors are revealed. This week featured underhanded schemes and motives to strategically eliminate the competition on this episode of 'Ink Master', Composed and Exposed which aired Tuesday, August 18, 2015. The plotting progressed as the remaining artists formed new alliances. Only 11 artists were left to compete after Saint Marq was sent home last week. Returning from elimination Chris Blinston exposed himself as a wolf in sheep's clothing determined to do whatever it takes to win, which sends the other contestants scrambling to find a way to send him packing. For this week's challenge, the artists were individually tasked with creating a composition piece in the form of a post card. The elements needed to make sense and move at the same time. The artists were paired with a canvas to create permanent souvenirs to commemorate their travel experiences and "living mas". Challenges were met immediately as each artist searched for authenticity in their presentation. After judging the challenge Matt O'Baugh was declared the winner. This gave him the power to assign canvases for the elimination tattoo. As things heated up Craig Foster persuaded Matt unknowingly to do his dirty work by going after Chris's followers, Dave and Tyler. For the elimination challenge each artist created a piece in the European art form of Trash Polka. Composition and dynamics are a must in the art form that only uses black, gray and red ink. Immediately, the difficult canvases, and those with scattered ideas were used ...Read More »
Top Six Tattoo Influencers of All Time
Tattoos have been around for centuries and there have been numerous tattoo artists that have made their mark in the industry. Some of them have been so good that they inspired entire generations into the tattoo culture and undoubtedly deserve their name to be mentioned in the list of the most influential tattoo artists of all time. Tattoo culture has definitely risen in popularity recently and therefore, we have decided to create the list of the most influential tattoo artists of all time. Nick Baxter is another tattoo artist who has shot to fame due to his incredible large scale tattoos. His consistent attention to detail and his willingness to push his limits and test his artistic boundaries is what has made him into one of the best tattoo artists today. Aaron Cain has been flying the flag for biochemical tattoo artist for the past 20 years. His art and skill is recognized due to his penchant for hard edges and thick lines. Cain has been an inspiration for numerous tattoo artists with his jaw-dropping tattoo creations. Paul Booth is one of the most recognized and famous tattoo artists on the planet today. His name is revered around anything that is dark and evil and his portrayals of the dark side have shot to him to international superstardom. He has also made appearances on national television and stations like CNN, Discovery, MTV, MSNBC, TLC, and A&E. Nikko Hurtado is well known due to his specialization in colored portraiture. He has ...Read More »
Victor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II Season Finale (Episode 10)
By Victor Farinelli In the words of the dead, drug addled rock star Jim Morrison, "This is the end, beautiful friend, the end." Yes folks, this pop-culture game show dubbed "Best Ink Season II" has reached its final episode. What started off as a study in mediocrity, slowly digressed into a judge's vehicle in auto-fellatio pseudo-fame. If the item that is to be fellatioed could be found, that is… Read More »
Victor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II (Episode 9)
By Victor Farinelli It is down to the wire, folks. Four contestants are left in the game show of extreme skill and ability to see who is going to be named Best Ink. They must pay income tax on $100,000, and appear on the cover of Tattoo Magazine. HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA, "extreme skill!" I crack myself up sometimes! And Tattoo Magazine? I haven't picked up this rag in a long time, but when I did, it had some of the crappiest tattoos out there. Back in the day, this wonderfully professional publication contained construction paper pages of black and white photos of color tattoos. Apparently, it has improved somewhat over the years, relying more on artists' submissions than submissions by people with their own homemade tats…Read More »
Victor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II (Episode 8)
By Victor Farinelli This week's show was humdrum and tiresome. It is a chore to watch this poorly produced, sadly directed piece of shit. I could edit better in iMovie than these cats can with their high-dollar editing studio. This week's focus was on realism. For the flash challenge, the troupe was taken to a side-street where, out of nowhere, this clearly staged accident-slash-gun fight happened right in front of them. The contestants were supposed to draw a "hyper-photo-realistic" rendition of it. It was just a big advertisement for the new Fast and Furious 6 movie. Lame…Read More »
Victor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II (Episode 7)
By Victor Farinelli This is not gonna be a long post because, frankly, this show is just becoming sad… Just sad. I thought this show would give me some great ammunition to vent the fury in my head. But alas, no. I have to take that out on my last place Brewers who, as I write this, beat the first place Cards. So I can't even take it out on them. Fuck! I guess there are always the Astros… Read More »
Victor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II (Episode 6)
By Victor Farinelli Let me start by reminding y'all that the views expressed in these here ramblings are my own and do not represent the views of TAM. With that out of the way, I wanted to touch on some action going on at the TAM Facebook page. There have been some posts that have criticized TAM for allowing me to even acknowledge that Best Ink, and other tattoo shows, even exist… One: See the first sentence. Two: Face it folks; ever since MTV's The Real World (maybe even The Dating Game),TV has become one "reality" show after another. COPS, Survivor, Idol, Top Chef; the list goes on and on. Tattoo shows are no different. I don't think they are going to go away anytime soon, either. Look at how many seasons American Chopper has been on. Those goofballs still get huge ratings. True "outlaw bikers" probably hate that show, just like many passionate tattoo artists hate tattoo shows… Read More »
Victor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II (Episode 5)
By Victor Farinelli Howdy folks. It's me again here to bring you yet another exciting and death-defying episode of Best Ink Season II. This episode demonstrates to me that I am absolutely no judge of what a decent tattoo should be. I thought that most of the work that came out of this episode was pretty good. However, walking heart-attack Joe Capobianco hated most of them. I never had good taste… Read More »
Victor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II (Episode 4)
By Victor Farinelli My fellow cynic "johndotcom" asked me the other day if this show is painful to watch. Yes it is. It makes me wish for the zombie apocalypse. I think it has to do with the real egotistical ass-hats that are on this show, including the host, Pete Wentz. I guess that is why they were picked in the first place. Some of the douchingtons are so egotistical that they don't even realize that they are fucking up someone's life with a shitty tattoo. Well, I guess that is why the laser removal industry is so big now…Read More »
Victor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II (Episode 3)
By Victor Farinelli Hello Folks. This is your resident dickhead back again to bring you a recap of this week's episode from one of the most asinine shows on TV. Week three of Best Ink is pretty much like week two. For the flash challenge, the guest judges were Vanessa and Angela Simmons, founders of Pastry Brand fashionable footwear and apparel. The Simmons are daughters of Rev. Run from Run-DMC and nieces of Russell Simmons, co-founder of Def Jam records. The flash challenge was all about branding. So now tattoo artists have to brand themselves? What the fuck is that all about? Oh, I forgot, the last challenge was all about branding too. Kids; don't do tattoos at home. But if you're going to, use my Easy Glow Tattoo Pigment and custom "Brickhouse" coil tattoo machine… Read More »
Victor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II (Episode 2)
By Victor Farinelli Hello, my name is Victor, and I am an asshole (Hi,Victor). I am officially in asshole relapse mode. I don't know what has come over me. Everytime I try not to be an asshole, the compulsion takes over. So, I have accepted my assholism and will embrace it. Today is a new day. I feel like a butterfly emerging from the cocoon. I am going to spread my wings and fly! *grin* *single tear* *sunbeam and rainbows*Read More »
Victor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II (Episode 1)
By Victor Farinelli Hello friends and neighbors! It's me again, here to give you the scoop on this shitstorm called Best Ink. First off, during the show, these little pop-up windows come up giving "industry slang." One was "Skin- Tattoo Client." What the fuck. The only time I have heard a customer called skin is never. Great. Now all these white trash wannabe scratchers are going to be calling their customers and clients "skins." (Screen fades into dream sequence like a '70's sitcom…) Read More »
Victor Farinelli: Best Ink Season II Prologue
By Victor Farinelli So… I was sitting with remote control in hand, watching reruns of Cops, surfing the Internet, and thinking about how depressed I have been ever since Ink Master Season 2 ended. There has been nothing to fill my gawking freak show void left by Ink Master, since it ended. I tried watching Black Ink Crew, but it just didn't catch my attention. It reminded me too much of all the scratcher shops in Austin. There was no real point behind it either… Read More »


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|[gentoo-project] Gentoo <--> Sabayon Relation by "René 'Necoro' Neumann"
Sabayon is considered 'close' to Gentoo, but not necessarily 'very close' (atleast in my view). The reason for this is because Sabayon uses its own versions of some pretty major packages (browsing through their overlay, I see packages like grub, xorg-x11 and xorg-server to name just a few). The problem is not that we (the Gentoo community) don't want to provide official support, it's that we can't (beyond a certain point). Sabayon provides its own version of many packages and these seem to (sometimes) lag behind the official Gentoo tree. A case in example: The other day someone came into #gentoo complaining that nvidia-drivers wouldn't install with glibc-2.6. Glibc-2.6 no longer includes the nptl and nptl-only USE flags, but the Sabayon package was still looking for them. There's nothing the Gentoo developers can do about this - it would require commit access to Sabayon's overlay. There's nothing much most users can do about this - The only suggestion I could make was "ask in #sabayon or use the package from the official tree". This is a simple, obvious example of a change that caused problems. There could easily be many much more subtle problems that break systems in a much more subtle way. Most people in #gentoo will happily provide support for Sabayon users, but if it becomes suspect that the problem lies in using Sabayons packages, then there's frankly nothing we can do as we don't know how Sabayon's packages differ, with most of us being Gentoo users, not Sabayon users. As for providing official support on Bugzilla, a Sabayon users first point of call must be the Sabayon developers (via their Bugzilla). If the Sabayon developers then determine that the problem lies in Gentoo's tree, they should report it to the Gentoo developers (via Gentoo's Bugzilla). This is the same way things work with Gentoo vs upstream. Users report bugs on Gentoo's Bugzilla, if the developers determine that the problem lies with the program itself, the problem will then be reported to the packages developers (AKA upstream). There's a hierarchy of responsability here, the model of which is generally followed throughout the open source world. (To take the hierarchy further, the packages developers may determine that the problem lies with a library that they use, in which case they may report the bug to the library's developers (further upstream)). There are two seperate questions here, with seperate answers: 1) Can Gentoo's developers provide official support for Sabayon. The answer is no - Sabayon users should report problems to Sabayon's developers, who will then report the problem upstream if necessary. 2) Can Gentoo's community provide unofficial support for Sabayon. The answer is yes - up until the problem is determined to be (possibly) Sabayon specific - and it does. To translate this on to the Debian vs Ubuntu example: If an Ubuntu user asks for help in #debian, they'll get it, but if the Debian community determines the problem is possibly Ubuntu specific, they'll tell the user to go back to the Ubuntu community as there's nothing they can do. If an Ubuntu user reports a problem to Debians bugzilla, the Debian devs will tell them to go talk to the Ubuntu devs because there's nothing they can do - they have no influence over the Ubuntu packages. Beso: Gentoo doesn't have kicker, an essential part of KDE in it's repository. Right... This is exactly the problem... it does, and the differences may cause bugs that manifest themselves outside of Kicker in subtle ways. The Gentoo developers have looked at the differences between the repositories, and they aren't closed minded, but they haven't got the time to run through every problem from Sabayon users to determine themselves if it's a problem with Gentoo or Sabayon. There is a chain of responsability here and for Sabayon users it starts with the Sabayon developers, just as with Ubuntu users it starts with the Ubuntu developers. In summary: * Sabayon is NOT Gentoo. Sabayon is CLOSE TO Gentoo. * The Gentoo community does provide unofficial support for Sabayon users. * Sabayon users should report problems to Sabayons developers, who will then report the problem upstream (which may or may not be the Gentoo developers) if necessary. * If it's a Sabayon specific problem, then only people who know Sabayon (ie. the Sabayon community) are going to be able to help solve it. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-541789-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-sabayon-start-100.html On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 21:22 -0700, René 'Necoro' Neumann wrote:> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hey guys, > > I'd like to discuss a topic that I know much people will use for > trolling/flaming or similar. If you feel like this - get you a weapon > and cool down, but please do not answer :) > > I start this discussion as I'm inspired by some posts at drobbin's blog. > > The first thing: > What is the actual (official) attitude towards Sabayon? > > If it is as I think it is (negative) - why is it like this? Why isn't > Sabayon treated as an official "child project"? Why is support denied > for Sabayon Users? - I know that they have a global ~$ARCH and some > not-so-nice hacks ;), but this shouldn't be a reason, as problems > related to this shouldn't be the major part... > > I want just to propose, that the devs should be more open for Sabayon - > and see it as a source of ideas and software. If lxnay will finish > Entropy (and it helds what it is supposed ;)) - it will add a feature > that is often asked for and always declined as "not possible". (And > there may be other stuff ...) > > > Hmm ... I had several other thoughts but forgot them during the day :/. > So again: Only serious, constructive answers :) > > - -- Nec > > P.S.: Nope - I'm not a Sabayon User :) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFGsVwP4UOg/zhYFuARAgJ7AJ4ly6n/vGhKxFby7HpvFdNyEGw96ACdF6VV > kHM9MZIKcpQrtDS6zb37IGs= > =JwcP > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


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New Library of Birmingham website costs council £1.2m
The website for the new Library of Birmingham has cost the council £1.2m to set up and launch.
It is part of the authority's contract involving Service Birmingham, a joint venture partnership between Capita and the council. The website will also cost £190,000 a year to run.
Birmingham blogger Maz Snape said it did not "need to spend that much money".
But the council said it needed to ensure the website was "robust".
The library opened on 3 September, cost £189m to build and houses about one million books.
'Wing and a prayer'
Ms Snape, who promotes arts and music events in the city free of charge, acknowledged the library website needed a sophisticated computer program.
But she added: "I understand that there's going to be costs involved in the content and I would be really interested if there was some way that they could kind of publicly show the breakdown of what's involved in that cost."
The council said there were "various different elements of the specification for the website" which made it "a highly complex project".
It said one of the most complicated elements of the website design was "the extent of integration with other library systems" and another essential feature was "the sophisticated process of publishing and moderating content".
In a statement, it said: "Since the library opened page views of the website have increased tenfold, so it is vital that the performance of the system is robust."
Former council deputy leader, Liberal Democrat Paul Tilsley, who drew up the original contract with Service Birmingham, said he did not draw up the contract for the library website.
He said: "Websites are very, very complicated things... and we went through this argument about five years ago about the city website.
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Women Starring in 2011 Fall TV Shows
New Female-Centric Fall TV Show Premises: Good or Bad For Women?
It's all about the women this Fall, as the new TV shows that will be filling our DVRs in the coming months are chock-full of leading ladies. There are one-woman crime dramas, dynamic comedy duos, retro bunnies and stewardesses, a modern fairytale, and everything in between. But as we've seen with female politicians and products geared toward the fairer sex, labeling something "for women," and even about women, is more than skin deep. And some people don't get it quite right.
Let's look at the previews of this diverse group of new female-centric shows on the horizon and examine how their premises portray women. Then tell us, based on their premises, do you think these new shows will be a win or a fail for the ladies? And are you more likely to tune into a show with a woman as its headliner?


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CALGARY — Security experts with Calgary's Police Service broke provincial privacy legislation by snooping in a civilian employee's personal email account and copying topless photos of the woman as part of an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct in the workplace.
Alberta's Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner has ordered the police service to stop collecting personal information in this fashion and has directed that staff receive training to ensure they don't overstep the law again.
"Logging into the complainant's personal email is exceptionally invasive and patently unreasonable in the circumstances," said adjudicator Amanda Swanek.
According to the order that was released Monday, the IT security manager at CPS began monitoring the woman's corporate email in March, 2010, after co-workers told her manager about alleged inappropriate conduct with a police officer while on the job.
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Experience country music in Queensland
If you love the sound of twanging banjos and guitars, or love the sight of cowboy hats and boots, the Broadbeach Country Musical Festival should be on your calendar this year.
From June 20 to 22, Broadbeach on the Gold Coast will be visited by all things country and the fantastic music from both local and international acts is bound to be a highlight.
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Stay right amongst the heart of the action with Mantra Broadbeach on the Park, just a short stroll from all your favourite country acts rocking the stages. There are one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments on offer, making it the perfect place for families, couples or singles heading to the festival. In case you need to need to wind down from a busy weekend of music and fun, you can always relax at the spa, sauna or steam room within the apartment complex.
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The BOA constrictor is putting the squeeze on the banking public again, and it will be interesting to see if its fee-based checking accounts will have the same impact on business as its debit-card fees did last fall.
The BOA constrictor is Bank of America, which claims to do business with half of all banked Americans. And it is rolling out nationwide a tiered fee structure for checking accounts.
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Prospects for regulated competition in the health care system: What can China learn from Russia's experience?
As China explores new directions to reform its health care system, regulated competition among both insurers and providers of care might be one potential model. The Russian Federation in 1993 implemented legislation intended to stimulate such regulated competition in the health care sector. The subsequent progress and lessons learned over these 17 years can shed light on and inform the future evolution of the Chinese system. In this paper, we list the necessary pre-conditions for reaping the benefits of regulated competition in the health care sector. We indicate to what extent these conditions are being fulfilled in the post-reform Russian and current Chinese health care systems. We draw lessons from the Russian experience for the Chinese health care system, which shares a similar economic and political background with the pre-reform Russian health care system in terms of the starting point of the reform, and analyse the prospects for regulated competition in China.
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Xu, W, Sheiman, I, van de Ven, W.P.M.M, & Zhang, W. (2011). Prospects for regulated competition in the health care system: What can China learn from Russia's experience?. Health Policy and Planning, 26(3), 199–209. doi:10.1093/heapol/czq044


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Pensioners face losing up to half of their income under planned rule changes
THE impact of radical changes to pension rules is far more severe than previously thought – as retirees could face losing up to half their payments out of private sector schemes.
Calculations by actuaries done for this newspaper show how someone with a pension of €36,000 – the same as the average industrial wage – could end up with an €18,000 cut.
These calculations, based on information provided by the Government so far, are much worse than was originally realised.
Elderly support groups said they would fight to get an official mechanism to appeal moves by pension fund trustees to impose severe pension cuts.
The Cabinet has signed off on new rules to allow existing pension payments to be hit in schemes that go bust or have to be restructured.
The new rules are part of an attempt to share out losses in troubled pension schemes between pensioners and those yet to retire.
Once the law takes effect, schemes that are in trouble will be able to cut pensions when the schemes are being restructured or wound up. This will mean more money for those yet to retire, when a defined-benefit scheme is underfunded.
But it is the first time that pensioners will have been hit – people who have no ability to make up the lost income.
Up to now, pensioners in private schemes had their pensions fully protected in the vast majority of cases, even when schemes had to slash pensions benefits to those who were still working.
One of the leading groups representing older people is set to seek a right of appeal to decisions that lead to them taking heavy cuts to existing pension payments.
Chief executive of the Senior Citizens Parliament Mairead Hayes said her members would fight to get an official mechanism to appeal moves by pension fund trustees to impose severe pension cuts.
"Pensioners are former workers who are now in receipt of a benefit for which they and their employer paid during their working lives," she said.
Ms Hayes said membership of defined benefit schemes was compulsory for most workers.
It came as actuaries in Mercer worked out that some pensioners could lose half their payments, in a doomsday scenario where both the pension scheme and the sponsoring company go bust.
The new rules mean the €36,000 pension could be cut by up to €18,000 in this worst-case scenario.
The State will guarantee paying at least €12,000 of such a "doubly insolvent" defined benefit pension.
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State contributory pensions payments will be unaffected.
A person on a pension of €36,000 whose pension scheme is wound up, or restructured – but where the employer is still in business – faces lower cuts.
But this person could still see such a pension reduced to €32,400.
At the moment, if a defined benefit scheme does not have sufficient funds to meet its pension promises to all members, the pensioners still get 100pc of their pension.
But most defined benefit schemes are under-funded.
Social Protection Minister Joan Burton expects to have an amendment to pensions legislation enacted by the end of year to allow trustees to force cuts on pensioners paid out from private sector schemes.
Pensioners will be guaranteed that they will get up to €12,000 from their private pension fund.
But if both the scheme and the company are wound up, then the pensioners face cuts of up to 50pc on their total pension.
This would see someone on a €20,000 pension facing a cut of up to €8,000 in their retirement income. Where the scheme is insolvent, but the employer is still operating, the pensioners will lose 10pc of their total retirement income from the scheme for amounts up to €60,000.
The same will apply to schemes that are being restructured.
This would mean a person on a defined benefit pension of €20,000 could lose up to €2,000.
The majority of schemes are now in trouble because people are living so long that it is impossible to deliver the pensions people expected.
Chief investment officer at IFG Pensions Samantha McConnell said that the majority of pensioners being paid out of defined benefit schemes were on €12,000 or less. Some 45pc were getting more than €12,000 a year.
People in the public sector, those with annuities, and those with defined contribution schemes, will be unaffected by the proposed changes.
Charlie Weston Personal Finance Editor
Irish Independent