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Hensarling says CFPB funding may be illegal - Ryan rolls out plan - The banking debate too big to die - Brown, Warren uncertain on White
FIRST LOOK: HENSARLING SAYS CFPB FUNDING MAY BE ILLEGAL — House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling wrote to the Federal Reserve seeking clarification on the CFPB's funding stream in light of the recent court decision invalidating Obama administration recess appointments to the NLRB. The letter notes that according to Dodd-Frank, the Fed can only transfer funds to the CFPB at the request of the agency's director: "Because it appears there is not presently a validly-appointed director of the CFPB, I question the circumstances under which the board may lawfully fund the CFPB's operations." Letter: http://bit.ly/ZELThz
M.M. HEARS … that JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon may not testify at Friday's Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing into the bank's disastrous "London Whale" trades. A JPM spokesman and a spokeswoman for Sen. Carl Levin did not return emails for comment on who would testify at the hearing. It would surprising if Dimon did not appear given that Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein showed up for Levin's hearing examining the Abacus CDO.
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CORDRAY DRAMA AHEAD — Public Citizen's Bart Naylor emails: "A special drama awaits the Senate Banking confirmation hearing of Richard Cordray. That classic proverb — beware of what you wish for — may come true at this hearing. Committee Republicans derailed the bid of consumer-champion Elizabeth Warren to head the agency she conceived. Forty four Republican senators pledged to block Warren or any nominee unless the president agreed to eviscerate consumer protection powers of the agency.
"Because of that, she sought and won election to the Senate, and membership on this committee. Having sharply questioned Obama-appointed bank regulators for failing to bring justice to Wall Street … in previous hearings, look for commensurate, er, zest, from Sen. Warren with her Republican peers on the committee."
MARY JO WHITE WATCH — Better Markets today, in coordination with the confirmation hearing for SEC nominee Mary Jo White, launches "SEC Watch." http://bit.ly/Y77NbH
CORDRAY, WHITE TESTIMONY IS HERE: http://1.usa.gov/15J2On7
RYAN ROLLS OUT PLAN — House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan began his rollout with a WSJ op-ed: "[Today], we're introducing a budget that balances in 10 years — without raising taxes. How do we do it? We stop spending money the government doesn't have. … Under our proposal, the government spends no more than it collects in revenue — or 19.1 percent of gross domestic product each year. As a result, we'll spend $4.6 trillion less over the next decade. … By giving families stability and protecting them from tax hikes, our budget will promote a healthier economy and help create jobs. … [A] balanced budget is a reasonable goal, because it returns government to its proper limits and focus. …
"Smaller deficits will keep interest rates low … Our budget repeals the president's health care law and replaces it with patient-centered reforms. Starting in 2024, we'll offer eligible seniors a range of insurance plans from which they can choose — including traditional Medicare — and help them pay the premiums. The other side will demagogue this issue. But remember: Anyone who attacks our Medicare proposal without offering a credible alternative is complicit in the program's demise." http://on.wsj.com/ZvnrxR
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DRIVING THE DAY — Ryan officially releases his budget at 10:30 a.m. with a committee markup on Wednesday … Senate banking confirmation hearing on Richard Cordray and Mary Jo White begins at 10 a.m. … Obama heads to the Capitol to meet with the Senate Democratic caucus … ABC's George Stephanopoulos interviews Obama today with excerpts to air tonight on "World News" and tomorrow on "Good Morning America" and "Nightline" … U.S. Chamber holds a forum at 9:30 a.m. on the use of cost-benefit analyses in regulating capital markets … NFIB small business survey at 7:30 a.m. expected to rise slightly to 90.0 from 88.9 … Independent Community Bankers of America continue its convention at the Wynn Las Vegas … Papal conclave begins inside the Sistine Chapel.
BIG GULP FOR BLOOMBERG — NYT's Michael Grynbaum on Page A1: "A judge struck down New York's limits on large sugary drinks on Monday, one day before they were to take effect, in a significant blow to one of the most ambitious and divisive initiatives of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's tenure. In an unusually critical opinion, Justice Milton A. Tingling Jr. of State Supreme Court in Manhattan called the limits 'arbitrary and capricious,' echoing the complaints of city business owners and consumers who had deemed the rules unworkable and unenforceable. …
"The decision comes at a sensitive time for Mr. Bloomberg, who is determined to burnish his legacy as he enters the final months of his career in City Hall, and his administration seemed caught off guard by the decision. Before the judge ruled, the mayor had called for the soda limits to be adopted by cities around the globe; he now faces the possibility that one of his most cherished endeavors will not come to fruition before he leaves office, if ever." http://nyti.ms/13QqrLX
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INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY BANKERS' CEO Cam Fine on the banking trade group letter in Monday's M.M.: "Ben, in regard to the press release issued by the five trade associations who carry water for the TBTF banks, you can imagine how relieved I was to learn from them that their subsidy is 'only 20 basis points'! Wake up call! I was a community bank CEO for over 20 years, and I know that .20 basis points can mean the difference between a community bank's survival and a Friday night failure on Main Street America.
SMALL POINT — The letter actually cited studies suggesting markets now demand a 35 basis point funding premium on big banks.
BROWN, VITTER RESPOND — Per release: "U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and David Vitter (R-La.) today addressed a statement by members of the financial services industry that challenges the existence of the subsidy that 'too big to fail' megabanks [enjoy]. … 'It comes as no great surprise that the megabanks' trade associations think the too-big-to-fail problem is behind us,' Brown said. 'But experts who are not paid by the megabanks, from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to Treasury Secretary Lew Jack Lew to Attorney General Eric Holder, have all concluded that a subsidy remains.' …
"'Despite the claims made by the paid cheerleaders of the megabanks, too big to fail is alive and well, and the banks receive taxpayer subsidies,' Vitter said. 'Chairman Bernanke knows it, the market knows it, and the taxpayers know it. This is exactly what we believe our GAO study we got will get to the bottom of — the facts.'"
BANKERS' RESPONSE: WHERE ARE THE FACTS? — Bankers crowed yesterday that while Brown and Vitter ripped the trade association paper, they did not actually even attempt to rebut any of the numbers included the paper.
DOES TOO BIG TO JAIL EVEN EXIST? — AEI's Peter J. Wallison: "Attorney General Eric Holder's statement that some U.S. banks have grown so large that they cannot be prosecuted was apparently an exciting moment for proponents of breaking up the big banks. … Unfortunately, like most of the chatter in this area, it is ill-informed and reeks of ideological motivations instead of common sense.
"Corporations or banks do not violate the law. Their officers, employees — sometimes even their boards of directors — violate the law. … That means the proper defendants when an institution of any kind has violated the law are those who conspired to direct it in that path, not the firm itself. … Indicting the firm rather than those who engaged in the wrongful acts cost a lot of other Arthur Andersen employees their jobs."
HOLDER EMBARASSES WHITE HOUSE — NYT's Andrew Ross Sorkin: "At a minimum, Mr. Holder's comments are embarrassingly at odds with the Obama administration's view that too big to fail was fixed by … Dodd-Frank. … Here's Timothy Geithner, the former Treasury secretary, with the administration's official line at a hearing in 2010 right before the Dodd-Frank bill passed: 'The reforms will end too big to fail,' he said unequivocally. 'The federal government will have the authority to close large failing financial firms in an orderly and fair way, without putting taxpayers and the economy at risk.' … Putting aside the important matter of whether our banks are too big to fail, there is a more pressing and difficult question that needs to be answered here and now: Do we want to indict corporations? And is it effective?" http://nyti.ms/14Q8Lwh
PROGRESSIVES STILL LOVE WARREN — Per a little birdy: "This weekend the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) emailed their members video of the latest Elizabeth Warren Banking Committee hearing, and asked members to join our petition asking the SEC to end 'too big for trial.' … Over the weekend, more than 10,000 more signers have signed on to demand more accountability from the SEC -- bringing total signers to almost 40,000."
SENATE FILES ITS CONTINUING RESOLUTION — POLITICO's David Rogers: "Caught between a diffident president and hostile House speaker, Senate Democrats took a page from Irish politics Monday night — and swung back at both. That's the true bottom line to a stopgap spending bill filed by the Appropriations Committee leadership late in the evening — a 587-page measure designed to avert any shutdown March 27 and map a six-month path forward for agencies in the wake of sequestration. … [T]he Senate bill greatly expands on the hybrid continuing resolution (CR) passed by the House last week. Full-year budgets for four Cabinet departments are added, together with provisions impacting everything from hundreds of millions in highway funding to Head Start." http://bit.ly/10FRXeu
RYAN'S SONG REMAINS THE SAME — WSJ's Damian Paletta and Kristina Peterson: "The next few weeks could determine whether the politics of the 2012 election will spill over into the budget talks of 2013. … Ryan plans … to introduce a proposal to overhaul Medicare and Medicaid that is almost identical to the Republican presidential platform in 2012. He will propose letting seniors buy private insurance or remain in Medicare, with premiums subsidized by the federal government, and turning Medicaid into a block-grant program. The moves would save hundreds of billions of dollars over 10 years, while potentially raising costs for Medicare beneficiaries and sharply cutting the number of Medicaid recipients. His budget would also repeal the White House's 2010 health-care law.
"All three planks have been offered before and have won widespread Republican backing. The measures have never advanced in the Senate amid opposition. … Democrats believe these ideas were repudiated by voters, and that indeed their attacks on Mr. Ryan's plans helped secure Democratic victories in the White House and Senate. They are committed to using his platform again to try to defeat Republican candidates in 2014." http://on.wsj.com/12Kgv7D
AT LEAST WE ARE MAKING BUDGETS — NYT's Jeremy W. Peters: "Congress this week will begin taking the first steps toward a more structured and orderly budget process, beginning what both parties hope is a move away from the vicious cycle of deadline-driven quick fixes. … The two proposals, which would set spending targets for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, will be miles apart ideologically and difficult to merge. … But the fact that both houses of Congress are working on their budgets simultaneously after years of impasse raised some measure of hope … that Democrats and Republicans might be able to work out some sort of compromise.
"Compromise between the two parties, however, is only half of a more complicated bargain. Democrats also have to bridge the divide among a politically diverse group of Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee. … That diversity is one of the major reasons Senate Democrats have not written a spending plan of their own since 2009, given the challenge of bringing together senators from Oregon to Virginia to Vermont who do not always agree on issues like whether cuts should fall more heavily on military or nonmilitary programs, and which tax loopholes to eliminate." http://nyti.ms/ZvOTvm
CITI EXEC WINS RISK MANAGER OF THE YEAR — Per a little birdy: "The Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) will announce at its 14th annual convention in New York that Citi's Brian Leach has been nominated and selected by his peers to be 2012 'Risk Manager of the Year.' Recently appointed head of franchise risk and strategy at Citi, Brian joined Citi in 2008, where he led a complete overhaul of risk management."
IS FACEBOOK SHARING TOO MANY SECRETS? — FT's Bede McCarthy and Robert Cookson: "The increasing amount of personal information that can been gleaned by computer programs that track how people use Facebook has been revealed by an extensive academic study. Such programmes can discern undisclosed private information, such as Facebook users' sexuality, drug-use habits and even whether their parents separated when they were young, according to the study by Cambridge University academics. In one of the biggest studies of its kind, scientists from the university's psychometrics team and a Microsoft-funded research centre analysed data from 58,000 Facebook users to predict traits and other information that were not provided in their profiles. The algorithms were 88 percent accurate in predicting male sexual orientation, 95 percent for race and 80 percent for religion and political leanings.
"Personality types and emotional stability were also predicted with accuracy ranging from 62-75 percent. Facebook declined to comment. … Michal Kosinksi, one of the report's authors, told the Financial Times that the university's techniques could easily be replicated by companies to infer personal attributes a person did not wish to share, such as sexual orientation or political views." http://on.ft.com/Y6a9e7
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BVI Yacht Charter – Virgin Islands Sailing – USVI Vacations
Drumbeat1 is a 72′ sailing yacht designed specifically for the ultimate luxury bvi yacht charter in the Virgin Islands. Her modern hull provides stability and comfort while her sturdy ketch rig makes her a superior vessel on all points of sail.
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ARTS, BRIEFLY; 'Priscilla' Cast Joins It Gets Better Campaign
By PATRICK HEALY
Published: February 22, 2011
The It Gets Better Project, an online video campaign to cheer up gay teenagers who have been victims of bullies, has joined with the stars of the new Broadway musical ''Priscilla Queen of the Desert'' to produce the project's first public service announcement, which will begin airing on Tuesday on the CBS affiliate in the New York region.
In the 30-second spot, the actors Nick Adams, Tony Sheldon, and Will Swenson take turns offering encouraging words - ''All the greats were ahead of their time,'' Mr. Sheldon says - and urging viewers to sign on to a pledge on the project's the website. The pledge asks people to spread the message that ''everyone deserves to be respected for who they are'' and promise to ''speak up against hate and intolerance whenever I see it, at school and at work.''
''Priscilla,'' which begins preview performances on Monday at Broadway's Palace Theater, centers on two drag queens and a transsexual whose trek across Australia includes comical moments and performance numbers as well as encounters with prejudice and ignorance (which, for the most part, end on uplifting notes). The show, based on a 1994 film, has had popular runs in Sydney, London, and Toronto.
The marketing team for ''Priscilla'' proposed the idea of the public service announcement to CBS and the It Gets Better Project, which the writer Dan Savage and his partner Terry Miller began last year amid a spate of suicides by gay students who had faced bullying or harassment at school.
The endeavor includes thousands of videos, both homemade and professionally produced, featuring President Obama and other famous and average Americans telling young gay people that life will get better in adulthood. Dutton will be publishing a book next month containing transcripts of the videos, as well as essays by the writers David Sedaris, Michael Cunningham and others.
While actors and crew members in many Broadway shows have appeared in videos for the project, the ''Priscilla'' segment is the first public service announcement for It Gets Better, Mr. Savage said in a statement.
''We've been honored and humbled by the theater community's commitment to standing up for tolerance and lending their voices to this vital cause,'' he said. ''The show 'Priscilla' could not be a better fit, thematically, with the message of the It Gets Better Project.''
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i actually do like venus doom, and i thought they'd get way shittier after having heard dark light
haven't thought of this band in years
Venus Doom was awesome
so is this worth checking
cool thnx
Album Rating: 3.0Not really gwynbleidd, only a couple of songs (All Lips Go Blue and W.L.S.T.D.). Those are better than anything on Screamworks.
I will check this out but I had hoped for something better than what the review makes it out to be. but I haven't even really listen to him in years
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D.I.Y. Bootcamp
11.29.2011 / Blog Posts Health and Wellness
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What better way to burn off those Thanksgiving calories than a do it yourself boot camp routine? WOW's contributing personal trainer and boot camp afficionado, Becky Johnson, breaks down the fundamentals and provides a routine that you can try out anywhere. Enjoy!
Fitness boot camps never go out of style - and for good reason! The military inspired workouts burn serious calories. Boot camps are usually built on three fundamentals of training cardio, strength and agility. They require little more than your body weight to get results. Fitness boot camp workouts can be more intense than other fitness classes and more fun than traditional gym workouts.
The boot camp that I teach is different each week and challenging for my campers. For our exercises, I vary the equipment or sometimes use no equipment at all. Short rest periods and cardio blasting moves add to the fun! I like to push participants to do a little more than they thought they could. This is where strength and fitness gains happen. I enjoy my class because they work so hard and their hard work shows in their sweat!
Not everyone has access to boot camp classes however, but luckily its very easy to create an at home boot camp of your own. Follow these simple guidelines and you will become your own drill sergeant:
Put aside your dumbbells and stability balls; boot camps are all about the bare essentials, starting with the moves. By stringing together exercises - jumping jacks, pushups and squats - into circuits with little or no rest in between, these workouts turn your body into a super-efficient resistance machine. The moves target muscles throughout your entire body. Theyre much more effective than equipment-based exercises that isolate one single muscle group at a time.
Set a time limit for each exercise, maybe 20-60 seconds. It keeps you from pushing too hard and also from slacking off. Also, since you wont have an instructor telling you when to stop, this gives you a time frame where you can work your hardest and give 100%. Adjust the time according to your fitness level.
Without fancy equipment or complicated moves, you can do a boot camp workout anywhere; a park, playground or even a parking lot. Taking your sweat session outside has some serious perks: plenty of room to move, sunshine (an instant mood lifter) and fresh air. Also take advantage of benches, playground equipment or trees and hills to expand your workouts.
One key to success is camaraderie. A group makes you accountable to show up and the support helps push you through an intense workout. When it comes to fitness, peer pressure can be a good thing. Enlist a small group of friends who have similar fitness goals and pick a time and place. If youre a no-show, next time theyll make you drop and do 20!
Start with the first exercise in Round 1. Do as many reps as you can in 30 seconds; rest 10 seconds, then continue until youve done each move in that round. Rest for a minute; and then do the exercises in Round 2. Rest for another minute, and then repeat the entire sequence so that youve done two complete sets of each round.
Round 1
Bicycle crunches
Jumping Jacks
Back extensions
Round 2
Walking lunges
Squat jumps
Bent-over rows
Standing high knees
Mountain climbers
Remember last week I talked about fitting in short interval style workouts during the holidays? This is a perfect example to get the most out of your time. So bring out that inner drill sergeant and put yourself through your own fat burning, power-building, boot camp workout!
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There are defenetly many ways to process the data that a user submits through a form.In modern web development form binding enables you to save form filed values directly at domain objects and this article discusses how this can be done with the Apache Wicket framework
Form binding is the process of binding the properties of a domain object with the fields of a form.In modern web development form binding can be very useful since there is no need to manually process the submitted values and update the domain objects with them. In Apache Wicket framework domain objects can be bounded to form fields mainly using PropertyModel and CompoundPropertyModel and in this tutorial we will see how they are used.
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It was an extraspecial weekend for Anna Paquin and her family since it was her first time celebrating Mother's Day! They got a head start on the fun on Saturday, when they met up with friends for a party at a Malibu park. Anna and her husband, Stephen Moyer, took turns holding onto their boy and girl twins, whose names have not been revealed, and mingling with guests. The babies were born in September and since then have joined their parents for shopping trips and strolls along Venice Beach, though their sweet faces have been kept mostly under wraps. It hasn't been all about parenthood for Anna and Stephen, though, since they've also been working on the sixth season of True Blood. The series doesn't return until June 16, but you can check out pictures from True Blood season six now to gear up for the next installment!
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Nishita is a great theme, but the header is a massive 295px tall. I have custom css to change it, but I cannot figure out what the right code is - custom css used to be organized so nicely that it was easy to find.
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TEHRAN, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Iranian officials said crude oil sales to Britain and France had been cut off amid a dispute over economic sanctions.
A spokesman for the Oil Ministry said Tehran didn't need the business and had new customers lined up for the barrels.
"Exporting crude to British and French companies has been stopped," the unidentified spokesman said on the ministry Web site. "We will sell our oil to new customers."
Iran has warned several European nations they would also be cut off in retaliation for new international sanctions aimed at Iran's nuclear program. The European Union had pledged to stop importing Iranian oil starting July 1.
The British newspaper The Guardian said the move could push up the price of Brent crude, a blend of North Sea oils that is used a benchmark for crude futures.
China, India, Japan and Italy are considered the biggest customers for Iranian crude, which accounts for the lion's share of Iran's export revenues.


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Shoepie: Updating your pool team is this week only so relax, you haven't missed anything. I like to give people a chance to update their team midway in case they lost some of their picks early on. It gives them incentive to stay interested in the pool. It's easier for me to make all changes at once than to allow people to change their pool at anytime. I was reminded of that the hard way recently by allowing people in the Amazing Race pool to make changes at any time. Whew, makes it tough to keep the scoresheet up to date!
You aren't required to make any changes so if you're happy with your team, you can leave them as they are.
There's no cost or penalty to make changes, since you're only given a limited amount of time to make changes. And you can't replace your whole team.
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From Omarosa - the reality star, global television personality, and prime-time villainess you love to hate - comes The Bitch Switch, the smart and bitingly honest must-read for every woman who aspires to succeed in relationships, in business, and at home.
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"Reality television mainstay Omarosa, best known for her caustic behavior as a contestant on The Apprentice, has embraced her identity as on-screen reality villain and turned it into a genuinely insightful, thorough self-help guide for women looking to strengthen themselves, especially in work environments." (Publishers Weekly)
"Totally awful"
This is an awful book but her voice is worse. It's like she is trying to make her self help book sound like porn. Really annoying. Don't bother.
"Solid Advice, Woman To Woman"
I've listened to this book 3 times so far. it gets better with every passing.
Omarosa teaches the modern woman what it takes to have others respect you at work and in your personal life.
It's not about being mean. It's about being firm with your personal boundaries and teaching others to honor them. Some people will always test you. that's when you flip the switch.
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Batavia Police have made an arrest in connection to a burglary reported last week.
18-year-old Robert D. Wright of 149 Ross Street is in jail without bail this evening. He is charged with 2nd-Degree Burglary.
Additional charges are pending.
Wright is allegedly one of two men who broke into a home at 20 Vine Street in Batavia last Thursday. The two men wore bandanas over their faces, demanding drugs and threatening the use of a gun.
Reportedly, a physical altercation took place following the break-in. One of the intruders, a black male, was injured in the altercation and fled the scene shortly after. Wright is a black male.
The investigation continues as police search for the 2nd perpetrator, described only as a white male.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Police Department at 345-6350. You can also report any information by following this link.


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- Published: 14 July 2014
A ZIMBABWEAN asylum-seeker appeared before a South African court last Tuesday to answer a charge of armed robbery.
Poslet Mapuranga, 26, who owns a car mechanic business in Kimberly, is accused of robbing Hudaj Supermarket in the city on June 28.
Mapuranga's bakkie was allegedly used as a getaway car in the robbery, according to the prosecution. Two other suspects who are alleged to have taken part in the robbery are still at large.
The investigating officer in the case, Patrick Dibaba, testified in court that the incident happened at around 12.30pm on June 28.
"The owner of the business was inside with his wife and other employees when a male, wearing a balaclava and carrying a gun, entered the premises and robbed the employees of their cellphones at gunpoint," Dibaba told the court.
He said while the suspect was in the building, another suspect who was carrying a black bag entered and jumped over the counter.
Both men spoke in broken English.
"The second suspect stole an undisclosed amount of cash which was behind the counter, and both suspects then fled on foot, running through the veld," he said.
The robbers were then chased leading to their arrest.
"When I arrived on the scene, the accused, Mapuranga, had already been handcuffed by one of the security officers and was handed over to the police and arrested," Dibaba said.
He asked the court not to grant bail to the accused arguing he was a flight risk and it would be very difficult to extradite him from Zimbabwe to face trial.
But Mapuranga's defence lawyer, Pierre Visagie, said his client only knew one of suspects and that he would be prepared to assist the police in his arrest.
"If it was a case of him wanting to cover for his mates, he would not have given the name to the police," he said.
Visagie said his client had "assets in South Africa, including a bakkie and a business which is worth R15,000, which he needs to run".
"He doesn't have anything in Zimbabwe. His wife is also in court today. They are not planning to leave the country. The suspects also did not get away with any money, so there is no financial benefit waiting for Mapuranga," Visagie stated.
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|29th March 2013, 04:32 PM
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400w high fidelity diy amp, where can I find them? Pics of Leach superamp test pg.2
the only one i know of ist the Leach Superamp. I am about to make a gerber file for that amp as thats the only one i know of.. It is 300w 8R but i would like even more, 4-500w class AB amp.
Is there any out there that can compete with the Leach in soundquality?
I have a thread about raising the power of the Leach superamp, but i am not experienced enough to do that on my own and i havent got any help in that thread so what..
So, i try to ask if there are any other designs in same class but with more power?
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|29th March 2013, 04:38 PM
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Or, maybe an amp that is bridgeable to 8R and leave 400w.. I dont know.
I am a strong believer of headroom. Thats why I need an amp with this high output.
I normally listen in quite high levels, maybe 30w ca, and with a good recording, that have trasients 10-20 times higher, I need this kind of power to listen to the recording as it is meant to be.
Please, i need no warning about my hearing, i know, high levels are dangerous bla bla..
|29th March 2013, 05:03 PM
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Here you can read about what i mean, and what i believe adn many other.
"Music is capable of a 60dB (1,000,000:1) dynamic range. The transients in music are very small in energy but are approx 20dB above the RMS music level. The average RMS power of fully dynamic music can not go above -20dB of the amplifiers full power capacity without the transients clipping the rail supplies. 20dB is 100:1 so therefore a 100 Watt amplifier should not be driven above 1 Watt of RMS music level (over approx 1 minute of time) to avoid transients being driven into rail clipping. A 100 Watt amplifier can only be used at an average of 1 Watt with fully dynamic music. For this reason amplifiers less than 60 Watts should not be considered as audiophile status, but unfortunately many are."
|29th March 2013, 08:51 PM
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All the trouble I've ever been in started out as fun......
|29th March 2013, 09:18 PM
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|29th March 2013, 09:50 PM
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Completely DIY, kit, or complete? Class-A, or some A/B? or D, or a mix? Biamped, triamped, or passive crosover? How many ampilfier channels? Need to know more about your particular idiocycratic pursuit. We are each unique, and so is our journey... There are hundreds of high-quality high-powered amps, so you'd have to say more about your criteria. Most amps scale up to what common drivers can handle (then you can use multiple amps) just add parallel output devices for current and bridge for voltage. The Leach you site, with 12 output devices per channel, could certainly use 14 or 16. An F5 turbo can have parallel output devices added and get into your territory.
I have over 18,000 watts for my front 2 channels, because I also believe the last watt is important. Conversely, Nelson Pass makes a very strong case that the first watt carries more information that the human brain appreciates and its qualities are more important. My commercial FET amps are bone-stock except for one coupling cap in each, strictly class-B, no magic, all 20 channels = 320 high-powered FETs. But I push incredibly inefficient sealed-enclosure isobarics. Each of my ten amps probably does average 2 watts with headroom for a 1000 watt peak.
Talking about electrical absolute watts is irrelevant without consideration of the speakers, room, etc. Very efficient speakers will impress you with their handling of peaks much easier than a big amp. If you really want to handle those transients, use a 3-way active crossover and multiple smaller amps with efficient speakers. You never really need an amp bigger than a single driver will handle.
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|29th March 2013, 10:56 PM
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2-channel amp, class A is freferred but not economical or possible in this instance, so class A/B is my preferred choico of class.
Passive X/O.
cyclecamper: Nice to have a friend in the believings..
Iam building a pair of efficient speakers, ca 93db but i still want that ammount of power in the amp i am going to build bcause i never know if i build another pair of speakers.
I started a thread about getting more power from the leach superamp, i am a novice so i thought it would just be to put more output devices in series as Prof. Leach did when he made the superamp. IT is a Leach amp with more Out. devices in series. Cascoded might it be called?
cyclecamper, you seem to be the guy on this forum that i need to get in contact with.
I would like to use the leach amp as it is a well known well sounding amp, but i would like it to put out 4-500w. Can you help me with this? I need someone who can tell me, this is what you have to do, this is what you should be vary about.
My idea was to use another 4 pair of output devices on the superamp.
I am even ready to pay for consultant help in making this amp work.
There exists no gerber files for it, i am slowly getting one done, but, i dont know what more has to be added than just 4 pairs of devices..
|30th March 2013, 12:42 AM
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You could bridge a pair of leach (non superamp) amps. That would give you some decent power. I have done this running a peerless xls10 in sealed enclosure with EQing down to 17hz. You could hear the poor xls bottoming out but the leaches weren't struggling. The price being paid bridging amps is an increase in distortion.
You idea of adding output transistors to a superamp is definitely possible.
|30th March 2013, 01:10 AM
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Yeah, i know its possible. But in which way? Just adding more? Make it another form av topology?
IF you know, please share..
My novice thougt was doing it the same way as Prof. Leach made the superamp, adding more in series.
But is it possible doing just that? I know some of you guys know..
|30th March 2013, 01:13 AM
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What happens with slew rate when bridged?
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Good news: Japanese toy maker Medicom Toy produced this handsome 12″ Mickey Mouse vinyl toy based on the 1995 short Runaway Brain.
Bad news: It costs $194 .
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Good news: Japanese toy maker Medicom Toy produced this handsome 12″ Mickey Mouse vinyl toy based on the 1995 short Runaway Brain.
Bad news: It costs $194 .
(Thanks, C.C.)
Nah, besides the price, Runaway Brain is one of the worst cartoons I've ever seen in my entire life, ever. Even Steve Martin couldn't save it.
I have the original (and smaller) version of this figure that Medicom released a few years ago, and love it. They make some really fantastic Mickey figures.
I though that cartoon was one of the best recent Disney shorts. Nice figure.
What were these guys on when producing this short? It was like a sour thumb sticking out of the tamer Disney line of animated projects all the way back to the Silly Symphonies! And I was enjoying it thoroughly!!
But the price of this figure isn't quite worth examining.
I'd call Runaway Braisn a cool experiment at being cool. Good thing Mickey didn't took this path (action and fast pace), but as a stand alone short it's pretty good and refreshing for Mickey.
I wouldn't pay 200$ for a toy you can't even touch. I can't even dare to pay the 90$ required for some out of print Walt Disney Treasures…
Steve Martin?
I assume you mean Kelsey Grammar (Voice of Dr. Frankenollie)
unless Steve Martin had something to do with it that I don't know about.
And if so, what could you expect? What has Steve Martin ever really saved? :)
I happened to enjoy Runaway Brain. But then again, I still laugh hysterically just thinking about The Band Concert, every time I hear William Tell I start whistling Turkey in the Straw.
OMG. i saw this when i was really young in 95 and it scared me so much and when i got older convinced myself i hallucinated. thank you disney for traumatizing me, and thank you cartoon brew for finally letting me know what it was
Ryan says: "Hmm…Nah, besides the price, Runaway Brain is one of the worst cartoons I've ever seen in my entire life, ever. Even Steve Martin couldn't save it."
Really? I thought it was a great short, showing Disney has a edge to their work.
What do you mean Steve Martin? Kelsey Grammer was in the short, not "the wild and crazy guy".
Cool figure but it's not worth the price mark.
That would make a damn awesome nightlight for a 4 year old.
Wow… I saw that figure and it clicked. For YEARS, I've been thinking I dreamed up that short. And then I realized one more thing, It's part of why I love animation and why I want to do Animation audio production now. Took a look at it online while I could, and I have to say, I absolutely still love it, to this day. If I weren't a poor college student, I'd be tempted to buy that, but alas, I'm said student. Thank you for the memory though!
(sigh) So is the way of the otaku, slow and painful!
You know how many shares of Disney stock you could buy with that money?
"Runaway Brain" was the best Mickey Mouse short EVER. I wish Disney would make more shorts with that kind of zany humor. Mickey finally made the leap into modern times with that superior cartoon. He proved he can hold his own with Daffy Duck and Roger Rabbit, given the right script. Hopefully any new shorts with the Mouse will have the same energy and wit.
As for the figure…I'm not in the habit of buying maquettes, or Disneyana, or I'd consider it. Pretty pricey though…
With a little effort you can get the original version of this figure for less than half the price of this larger version. To me, the smaller version is better, same quality, but it takes up less space, I bought mine less than 2 years ago for $40.
The real expensive ones are Span of Sunset's Runaway Brain Mickey's. They made 4 version, Red Chrome (which can still be had for the original retail price of $150), Silver Chrome, Green Tint (painted to look like a green light is shining on the figure from below) and original color. The original color version has commanded upwards of $400! All 4 versions came packaged in a faux cereal box, and came with stickers and a t-shirt, the t-shirt was blind packaged and had 3 different designs.
Then… there's the Julius (Peg Leg Pete's monster name in the short) made by Bounty Hunter X. A stunningly beautiful vinyl figure, and very limited. If you want it, make it a saved ebay search (I suggest "Runaway Brain Julius") and take advantage of the current economy. This figure had an original retail of $175, I've seen it go for over $500, but I just saw one end on ebay for $155!!
I love Runaway Brain, it's a whole lot of fun, creativity, and parody fit into 7 minutes. Thank goodness the "urban vinyl" community has seen fit to produce product based on this short.
Runaway Brain is one of personal favourites, in Mickey Shorts Next to SteamBoat Willie, The Band Concert, the Brave Little Tailor, The Sorceror's Apprentice and Symphony Hour. Still that's a lot of money.
Most 90's-era cartoon revivals weren't that great, but I found Runaway Brain to be really well done. Not only did they dare to give Mickey a personality, they made him a well-meaning-but-naive immature slacker and cheap boyfriend. Pretty ballsy to give a classic character such interesting faults.
Also the "dark" nature of the short isn't too out there, it's just cribbing the mood and action from cartoons like The Mad Doctor and Brave Little Tailor. It's the delicious Disney Paris animation that puts it over the top.
Ryan says: "Hmm…Nah, besides the price, Runaway Brain is one of the worst cartoons I've ever seen in my entire life, ever. Even Steve Martin couldn't save it."
Roman, Richard, I thought he was referring to the Steve Martin picture "Man With Two Brains." FWIW I thought "Runaway Brain" was much better than that. (Merv Griffin still at large!)
Ick, I admit, I got mixed up with Kelsey Grammar. I'd been up all night and that was the last thing I did before I went to bed. Sorry for the confusion there. I still don't like it though – thinking the last good thing Mickey did was Mickey's Christmas Carol, and even that's all just down to nostalgia (the first VHS we ever got, ahhh…).
I did development work on RUNAWAY BRAIN, so it's nice to hear there're some fans out there. I believe it was director Chris Bailey's baby all the way—Chris has a very dark sense of humor, and really wanted to see a more ballsy and assertive Mickey up on the screen. I find it to be a cartoon with some very fun moments.
Count me as another fan. I liked it more than How to Hook Up Your Home Theatre, which was great too. But this one seemed more fresh and a little more entertaining (I've never been a big fan of Goofy's How To-shorts).
Runaway Brain is the only Mickey anything that ever made me laugh. Mickey's a little calcified for my tastes. I'm a Donald Duck man, with a Goofy chaser. Those characters can get angry, act foolishly, do stupid, dangerous things, and still be the cash cows we know them to be. Mickey and Minnie are ciphers, and I don't turn to ciphers for my entertainment.
I liked Runaway Brain for its twist on the blank Mickey-the-icon. I love this toy (and the Clash London Calling Mickey) for this exact reason.


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I think it's awesome but I have to agree with Slygirl; it does look more like a fox because the muzzle is too long and pointy but otherwise, great job! I can't wait 'till you finish it! ;)
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Judith Light, Other Desert Cities ***WINNER***
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
Phillip Boykin, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
Matt Cavenaugh, Death Takes a Holiday
Michael Cerveris, Evita
Michael McGrath, Nice Work If You Can Get It ***WINNER***
Patrick Page, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
Andrew Samonsky, Queen of the Mist
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Judy Kaye, Nice Work If You Can Get It ***WINNER***
Marin Mazzie, Carrie
Jessie Mueller, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Elaine Paige, Follies
Sarah Sokolovic, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World
Melissa van Der Schyff, Bonnie & Clyde
Outstanding Director of a Play
Jo Bonney, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
David Cromer, Tribes
Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, These Seven Sicknesses
Sam Mendes, Richard III
Mike Nichols, Death of a Salesman ***WINNER***
Tony Speciale, Unnatural Acts
Outstanding Director of a Musical
Christopher Ashley, Leap of Faith
Jack Cummings III, Queen of the Mist
Doug Hughes, Death Takes a Holiday
Kathleen Marshall, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Eric Schaeffer, Follies
John Tiffany, Once ***WINNER***
Outstanding Choreography
Rob Ashford, Evita
Warren Carlyle, Follies
Breandan de Gallal, Noctu
Christopher Gattelli, Newsies The Musical ***WINNER***
Kathleen Marshall, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Sergio Trujillo, Leap of Faith
Outstanding Music
Glen Hansard and Marketa lrqlova, Once
Michael John LaChiusa, Queen of the Mist
Alan Menken, Leap of Faith
Alan Menken, Newsies The Musical ***WINNER***
Frank Wildhorn, Bonnie & Clyde
Maury Yeston, Death Takes a Holiday
Outstanding Lyrics
Don Black, Bonnie & Clyde
Jack Feldman, Newsies The Musical
Joy Gregory and Gunnar Madsen, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World
Glen Hansard and Marketa lrqlova, Once ***WINNER***
Michael John LaChiusa, Queen of the Mist
Maury Yeston, Death Takes a Holiday
Outstanding Book of a Musical
Douglas Carter Beane, Lysistrata Jones
Janus Cercone and Warren Leight, Leap of Faith
Joe DiPietro, Nice Work If You Can Get It ***WINNER***
Joy Gregory, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World
Michael John LaChiusa, Queen of the Mist
Thomas Meehan and Peter Stone, Death Takes a Holiday
Outstanding Music in a Play
Mark Bennett, An Iliad
Mark Bennett, Richard III
Tom Kitt, Ail's Well That Ends Well
Gina Leishman, Septimus and Clarissa
Grant Olding, One Man, Two Guvnors ***WINNER***
Suzanne Vega and Duncan Sheik, Carson McCullers Talks About Love
Outstanding Orchestrations
Bill Elliott, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Larry Hochman, Death Takes a Holiday
Martin Lowe, Once ***WINNER***
John McDaniel, Bonnie & Clyde
Michael Starobin, Queen of the Mist
Danny Troob, Newsies
Outstanding Revue
Newsical the Musical: End of the World Edition
The Best Is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman ***WINNER***
Outstanding Set Design
Jon Driscoll, Rob Howell and Paul Kieve, Ghost The Musical ***WINNER***
David Gallo, The Mountaintop
Roger Hanna, A Little Journey
David Korins, Assistance
David Korins, Chinglish
Derek McLane, Follies
Outstanding Costume Design
Gregg Barnes, Follies ***WINNER***
ESosa, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
William Ivey Long, Lucky Guy
Jessica Pabst, She Kills Monsters
Martin Pakledinaz, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Catherine Zuber, Death Takes a Holiday
Outstanding Lighting Design
Kevin Adams, Carrie
Neil Austin, Evita
David Lander, One Arm
Brian MacDeviU, Death of a Salesman ***WINNER***
Kenneth Posner, Death Takes a Holiday
Paul Pyant, Richard III
Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical
ACME Sound Partners, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess ***WINNER***
Jonathan Deans, Carrie
Clive Goodwin, Once
Kai Harada, Follies
Steve Canyon Kennedy, Jesus Christ Superstar
Jon Weston, Death Takes a Holiday
Outstanding Sound Design in a Play
Quentin Chiappetta/mediaNoise, The Navigator
Gregory Clarke, Misterman
Gareth Fry, Richard III
John Gromada, Gore Vidal's The Best Man ***WINNER***
Stowe Nelson, Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War
Shane Rettig, She Kills Monsters
Outstanding Solo Performance
Baba Brinkman, The Rap Guide to Evolution
Suli Holum, Chimera
Jeff Key, The Eyes of Babylon
Cillian Murphy, Misterman ***WINNER***
Denis O'Hare, An Iliad
Stephen Spinella, An Iliad
Unique Theatrical Experience
Give Me Your Hand
Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good) ***WINNER***
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Outstanding Ensemble Performance
This year the nominators chose to bestow a special ensemble award for acting to the cast of Sweet and Sad. Jon Devries, Shuler Hensley, Maryann Plunkett, Laila Robins, Jay O. Sanders, and J. Smith-Cameron are among New York's best actors, who came together as one unforgettable stage family. Therefore, the individual cast members were not eligible for acting awards in the competitive categories. members were not eligible for acting awards in the competitive categories.
Special Awards
Each year, the Drama Desk votes special awards to recognize excellence and significant contributions to the theater. For 2011-2012, these awards are:
• To Mary Testa: For over three decades, she has dazzled audiences with consistently outstanding work, including her tour-de-force performance in this season's Queen of the Mist.
• To Nick Westrate: His versatility in Unnatural Acts, Love's Labor's Lost, and Galileo was a highlight of the season.
• To New Victory Theatre: For providing enchanting, sophisticated children's theater that appeals to the child in all of us, and for nurturing a love of theater in young people.
• To Stephen Karam, the newly created Sam Norkin Off Broadway Award: The profoundly moving Sons of the Prophet confirmed his status as one of the most promising playwrights of his generation.
This year's award show was written by cast album producer, playwright, and two-time Drama Desk Award winner Bill Rosenfield and directed by multi-award winning director Mark Waldrop (Divine Miss Millennium Tour, When Pigs Fly, Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends). Executive Producer Gretchen Shugart, CEO of TheaterMania, presented the awards ceremony with Robert R. Blume and David S. Stone in association with Renee McCurry. Joey Parnes Productions produced and managed the event.
The Drama Desk was founded in 1949 to explore key issues in the theater and to bring together critics and writers in an organization to support the ongoing development of theater in New York. For more information, visit www.dramadeskawards.com.


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Yesterday it was the Dallas Fed confirming our assumption that the US economy in Q2 has hit stalled speed. Today, it is the Richmond Fed which plunged compared to expectations and the March print of 20, instead dropping to 10, and indicative of a major slowdown in the manufacturing sector. From the index: "In April, the seasonally adjusted composite index of manufacturing activity – our broadest measure of manufacturing – fell ten points to 10 from March's reading of 20. Among the index's components, shipments decreased seventeen points to 6, new orders dropped ten points to finish at 10, and the jobs index eased two points to 14....All broad indicators – including shipments, new orders and employment – continued to grow but at a rate below March's pace. Other indicators were mixed. Fifth District contacts reported that capacity utilization continued to grow more slowly, while backlogs turned slightly negative. Vendor delivery times edged higher and raw materials inventories grew at a somewhat higher rate." Now "Below March's pace" means trending Q2 GDP is now at or below 2%. But that's fine: somehow the economy will really hockeystick in Q3. And if not, there is QE3, 4 and 5. And the kicker, as usual, Prices Paid jumped as Prices Received plunged: which is always bullish for (collapsing) margins. Elsewhere the CON board called 7 Wall Street CEOs who told it that their butlers were happy with how much they paid for gas, but could pay a little more.
From the Richmond Fed:
Current Activity
In April, the seasonally adjusted composite index of manufacturing activity – our broadest measure of manufacturing – fell ten points to 10 from March's reading of 20. Among the index's components, shipments decreased seventeen points to 6, new orders dropped ten points to finish at 10, and the jobs index eased two points to 14.
Other indicators varied. The index for capacity utilization moved down twelve points to 2, and the backlogs of orders turned negative, losing nine points to -1. The delivery times index edged up two points to end at 18, while our gauges for inventories were mixed in April. The finished goods inventory index trimmed four points in April to end at 10, while the raw materials inventories index added nine points to 18.
Hiring conditions at Fifth District plants changed little in April from their March pace. The manufacturing employment index slipped two points to end at 14 and the average workweek measure eased three points to 7. In contrast, wage growth added three points to 22.
Respondents in the current survey were generally optimistic about their business prospects over the next six months. The index of expected shipments decreased eleven points to end at 31, and the volume of new orders index dropped seven points to 38. Backlogs edged up two points to end at 27, while the capacity utilization and vendor lead time indexes both lost six points to finish at 28 and 12, respectively. Readings for planned capital expenditures registered a one-point gain to 29.
District manufacturers' intentions to expand hiring held steady in April. The expected manufacturing employment index was unchanged at 17 and the average workweek indicator remained at 12. In addition, the expected wages index posted an eight-point loss to 30.
District manufacturers reported that raw materials prices increased at an average annual rate of 4.81 percent from March's reading of 4.61 percent. Finished goods prices rose at a 2.60 percent pace from March's reading of 3.01 percent last month.
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The benefits of quitting smoking are pretty intuitive, but the American Cancer Society would like you to be aware of just how many benefits there are. And while scientific research technically can't prove that smoking causes cancer and overall bad health, everybody knows that it's true because it's a matter of common sense and more than just mere coincidence that smoking is strongly associated with developing cancer. But even if we know that it's better to quit smoking, that doesn't mean that it's so easy to.
The reason it's so hard to quit smoking is because of the addictive properties of nicotine. People can develop a physical or a psychological addiction to a drug, and with tobacco, they find themselves craving nicotine and developing an emotional dependence on it. At first, smoking gives people a high as the brain responds to the nicotine, but over time the body becomes accustomed to it and it needs higher and higher levels to achieve the same high that it used to at a lower level. They may also experience negative effects of withdrawal like headaches, shaking and insomnia, so smokers start to increase the amount that they smoke and it eventually becomes an addiction. The consequences of nicotine addiction are an increased risk of developing cancer, but there are many other consequences that are subtle but significant. You might find it harder to breathe, the smell of smoke surrounding you and pervading everywhere you go, your teeth becoming stained, impaired ability to think, less stamina, more anxiety, and less money due to spending it on cigarettes. And as you smoke, you're also putting the people around you at risk, because other people can inhale the carcinogens and it can also be passed to an infant during pregnancy. Thus some of the benefits of quitting smoking are less risk of developing cancer, being able to breathe fresh air, your teeth looking whiter, the ability to think more clearly, more stamina, less anxiety, and money saved. When you stop abusing nicotine, you'll realize that the benefits of quitting smoking extend to all areas of life, in terms of health, intelligence, social life and economics.
You can learn more about the benefits of quitting smoking by taking the Great American Smokeout Challenge, an event organized by the American Cancer Society which takes place on the 3rd Thursday of November. During this day, smokers quit smoking for 24 hours and participate in many activities like bonfires, rallies, athletic events, and talking with other people who are trying to quit smoking. It's a time during which smokers can receive support and know that they're not alone in trying to kick nicotine addiction.


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Holy smokes, Donald really spun her at the end! How do they defy friction so well?
Holy smokes, Donald really spun her at the end! How do they defy friction so well?
Donald looks good without a shirt on and he def played up the whole "rock week" theme.
Keep your feet on the ground, when your heads in the clouds!
CA is back in her happy place.
Len gave a pretty entertaining critique of Donald's dance
Show us your tatts, Len!
Can I put in a request for DD to be shirtless every week?
Awesome job by him. I don't know about the technical stuff but man that was fun to watch.
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." ~Elbert Hubbard
"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product." ~Eleanor Roosevelt
~R.I.P. Grandma 6/22/33 - 10/5/10~
Donald: DANGEROUS!!! Spectacular Ebony Beauty!!! Major YUM!!!
"...each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one." - Mitch Albom, one helluva writer.
When you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, you know which one you hit by the one that yelps!
OK...don't like the head thing but that was very good overall. Strong, confident and his feet were good for the most part. 8's perhaps a 9 thrown in = 24 or 25.
CA is raving a little too much...it wasn't great, but good. It's about more than how good they look without a shirt, you need to also judge the footwork and holds.
You could be the juiciest, most ripe peach, but there is still going to be someone who doesn't like peaches.
Poor Donald...that man will never be happy til he gets those darn 10's...hahaha....I just can't help but like the guy!!! Def in my top 3!!!!
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Law enforcement and the public coming together over coffee
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 19:29:03 GMT —
Bringing law enforcement and the public together one cup of coffee at a time; that's the idea behind Coffee with a Cop.
On Friday, officers with the Albany Police Department will be at the McDonald's on North Slappey Boulevard relaxing and having coffee with Albany residents.
Officials with the APD say it's a great way for residents to see officers out from behind their patrol vehicles and in a more neutral environment.
APD Public Relations & Media Manager Phyllis Banks says, "this will give citizens the opportunity to discuss any issues or bring forth any questions that they've been dying to ask the Albany Police Department."
This is the first Coffee with a Cop event in Georgia and the first of three scheduled for Albany police.
The next one will be held July 26th at the South Albany McDonald's, and the third one will be on August the second at the East Albany location on Oglethorpe.
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Cleistogamous spikelets in sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] form when the inner glume is rolled, clasping the internal flower structures and preventing normal opening of the glumes. Cleistogamy is controlled by two independently-inherited genes. Indurate (hard) glume is dominant to papery glume. The rolled glume condition is dominant to unrolled. Indurate glume is epistatic to rolling, and only papery glumes can exhibit rolling. The F2 ratios from the cross (indurate glume × cleistagamous) show a good fit to a 12:3:1 ratio of induratercleistogamous (papery-rolled): papery-unrolled. This cleistogamy cannot be used to breed hybrids resistent to sorghum midge because one parent would be cleistogamous and prevent production of hybrid seed.Please view the pdf by using the Full Text (PDF) link under 'View' to the left.
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Dr. Shroud Follow Dr. Shroud in these serials as he tries to find his missing daughter in the vampire-ridden city of Necropolis!
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Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
Well, itz a subject which I love and the your take on vampire hunting was interesting. however I have a couple of things to say and I hope you will forgive me if i am too ahrsh:
a) The guy (dr. shroud) looks gay. im sorry but itz true. He needs a better costume. a long leather coat, although cliche, looks alot better on hunters than a skin-tight body suit.
b) im not sure about the VOD shroud thing. Kinda stupid way to kill it. the main concept (a burrowing machine which kills from the inside) is great but it looks like a clockwork toy.
it can all be summed up by saying:
wonderful animation, great music (voices might be nice).
the concepts are wonderful and original. however, the way they are visualized is slightly off subject.
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
Doesn't live up to the hype, but tolerable.
Though the style isn't one I particularly like personally, it's well done and it holds together well. The graphics quality is also very good. Sound was kind of cheesy, but not too bad, again, good quality. Violence was a bit cartoony considering the slight atempt at realism, but I suppose if that's what you like... Interactivity and humor is obvious, so, over all, you get a 7. (Mostly because Pt. 1 didn't live up to the hype which it has been given.) Here's to hoping the next few are better.
Rated 2.5 / 5 stars
nudity is not for these creaters!
he should have filled the wall with garlic
(even if it didn't kill him , just to piss it off)
and the last reviewer was right
with bordum,,,,,,sigh,,,,,,,
Rated 4 / 5 stars
yes lets all fight for the good!
sorry........ lol XD
i liked it, the black and white pics are nicly done
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Pretty cool
I liked the black and white style because it made it look just a cartoon strip with the speech buubles but I would rther have it so there is speaking in it but anyway good job


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Blackhawks' road run gets extended
Patrick Kane's goal in the second round of a shootout clinched the Chicago Blackhawks' fifth straight victory on the road, 4-3, over the Minnesota Wild last night in a matchup of the top two teams in the Western Conference.
Jonathan Toews also scored in the shootout after giving Chicago a lead with a goal in the third period that Mikko Koivu matched a few minutes later.
Marian Hossa and Michael Frolik gave the Blackhawks a 2-0 lead with second-period goals 89 seconds apart, but Kyle Brodziak and Matt Cullen answered for the Wild later in the period to tie the game.
Wild left wing Guillaume Latendresse, who returned from a 15-game absence because of a concussion Tuesday night, didn't play after the first period. The team gave no update on his condition.
Ducks 4, Coyotes 1 - Niklas Hagman scored two goals, Jonas Hiller made 19 saves and host Anaheim earned its second win in six games under new coach Bruce Boudreau.
Rod Pelley scored in his Ducks debut and Kyle Palmieri added his first goal of the season for the Ducks.
Martin Hanzal scored for Phoenix's NHL-worst power-play unit and Mike Smith stopped 24 shots for the Coyotes, who have lost three straight and five of seven.