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MIAMI (Reuters) - President Barack Obama walked into the mouth of a giant tunnel in Miami on Friday to highlight proposals to boost investment in U.S. infrastructure, a move designed to show a leader still focused on the economy in the midst of broader policy battles in Washington.
Obama's tour of the Port of Miami tunnel project and a subsequent speech were aimed at convincing members of the U.S. Congress to back proposals that would leverage taxpayer dollars into funds to rebuild American roads, bridges and other infrastructure.
"My main message is, let's get this done," he said. "Let's rebuild this country that we love."
Obama, as he has in the past, said he wanted to develop a national infrastructure bank and capitalize it with $10 billion. The idea is to pull in private-sector funding and pick projects based on merit.
He would also create "America Fast Forward Bonds" that would help state and local governments attract money for infrastructure projects. These would be direct subsidy bonds in which the issuer would receive a 28 percent subsidy of the borrowing cost as a way of attracting a wider set of investors.
In addition, Obama would add $4 billion to support two programs that are used to provide grants for infrastructure projects like the Miami tunnel.
It is unclear how far the proposals will go in Congress. Republicans are reluctant to support what they consider government stimulus spending after a much criticized $787 billion stimulus plan that Obama managed to push through Congress in 2009.
Florida's Republican governor, Rick Scott, said his state has been able to improve the Florida economy without Washington's assistance.
"In Florida, we've managed to grow jobs by cutting taxes, paying down debt and balancing the budget - a stark contrast to the ways of Washington," he said.
Obama noted that some people on both sides of the political spectrum, such as labor unions and the Chamber of Commerce, had supported his infrastructure ideas.
"Building bridges and schools, that's not a partisan idea," he said.
Obama was criticized in his first term for focusing too much on his signature policy goal of revamping the U.S. healthcare system, which critics said resulted in him giving less attention to the slow economic recovery.
The White House rejects that charge.
Since his re-election in November and his January inauguration, Obama has steered a policy push focused primarily on passing both immigration reform and tighter gun control measures.
However, his State of the Union address in February included a series of measures to boost the economy, and the Florida trip fleshed out some of those ideas.
Alan Krueger, Obama's chief economist, told reporters traveling with the president on Air Force One that the three main proposals outlined by Obama would cost some $21 billion but that cuts would be made elsewhere to avoid increasing the budget deficit.
Obama's fiscal 2014 budget proposal, which will be released on April 10, would spell out how they are paid for, he said. All of the proposals require congressional approval.
Although Obama will not run for re-election again, Florida is still important for him and his fellow Democrats. The political swing state backed the president in 2012 and will be critical to determining whether a Democrat holds on to the White House or whether a Republican recaptures it in 2016.
The White House believes an increase in infrastructure investment would make the United States more competitive while providing a boost to the construction industry, which is still suffering high levels of unemployment.
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St. Joseph Native Receives American Academy of Family Physicians Award
Karli Echterling Urban, MD, a physician from St. Joseph, is one of 10 award recipients.
Urban, a resident physician in family and community medicine at the University of Missouri School of Medicine, has been selected as one of 10 recipients nationwide to receive the American Academy of Family Physicians/Bristol-Meyers Squibb Award for Excellence in Education. The award recognizes second-year family medicine residents for leadership, civic involvement, social commitment, patient care skills and interest and aptitude in family medicine. It comes with a financial award of $1,000, as well as special recognition during the group's annual meeting in September.
Steven Zweig, MD, chair and Paul Revare Family Endowed Professor in Family Medicine, helped nominate Urban for the award. He has known Urban since she was an undergraduate at MU, when as part of a service learning project, she developed the Lasting Intergenerational Fellowship Experience (LIFE) program to link middle school students with local nursing home residents. Zweig said he has seen her interest and aptitude in geriatric medicine progress throughout medical school and residency.
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"It's not that easy bein' green; Having to spend each day the color of the leaves. When I think it could be nicer being red, or yellow or gold - or something much more colorful like that.
"But green's the color of Spring. And green can be cool and friendly-like. And green can be big like an ocean, or important like a mountain, or tall like a tree."
Green is fine for identifying Kermit the Frog because after all he is a frog.
However, green may not be best way to identify a cotton variety's resistance to verticillium wilt, an old nemesis that made an unwelcome return to certain areas of the San Joaquin Valley in 2004.
The soil-borne disease created quite a stir last fall when some varieties in at least two University of California or San Joaquin Valley Cotton Board Acala cotton variety trials exhibited striking, seemingly yield-robbing signs of verticillium wilt compared to other varieties in trials.
"Vert" was a big issue in the valley 30 years ago when it had a major impact of cotton yields, especially on the east side of the valley. New verticillium-resistance variety development solved the problem and since then cotton breeders have made sure there was enough verticillium resistance to withstand major wipeouts. Apparently that worked last year because even though some varieties looked like verticillium had significant hurt yields in the variety trials, the final yield results proved otherwise.
University of California Extension cotton specialist Bob Hutmacher says if verticillium wilt leaf symptoms appear too early and attack a low resistance variety, it can significantly affect yields. Last year, symptoms appeared too late to have a major impact.
Verticillium looked worse that it was last season. Nevertheless, it may have had a negative impact on key varieties. However, there were no wipeouts, emphasized the cotton specialist.
When verticillium symptoms appear too early, the disease can discolor leaves, reduce leaf canopy and reduce photosynthesis, thereby reducing yields.
Cut and inspect
However, Hutmacher said at a UC Cooperative Extension meeting in Visalia, Calif., recently, a better way to detect verticillium early is by cutting stems to see if there is brownish discoloration of stems and leaf veins.
Hutmacher added the intensity or extent of vascular staining is not a good indicator of eventual severity of damage to leaf area or yield. However, it may give an early clue to the potential of the problem, allowing growers and consultants to take mitigating measures.
Last year, Phytogen 78 had the highest level of vascular staining of any other variety in one variety trial. It has vascular symptoms in 40 percent of the plants, he said, but verticillium did not have a dramatic effect on yields.
High-yielding Phytogen 72, one of the most popular varieties in the valley, also exhibited leaf and vascular signs of verticillium yet recorded excellent yields.
However, verticillium may have had an impact on Phytogen 72 yields, according to Hutmacher. In past years, Phytogen 72 has outyielded Maxxa, the valley standard, by an average about 15 percent in side-by-side comparisons. In 2004, this was reduced to about 7 percent overall, said Hutmacher. That change may have been a result of verticillium.
"However, there certainly were no wipeouts due to verticillium in 2004," he added.
Visual impact
Probably the most visually dramatic visual impact of verticillium wilt was in a San Joaquin Valley Cotton Board first year screening trial where high levels of verticillium were readily evident in an experimental Phytogen Roundup Ready Flex variety. "You could see it from the pickup. It was the worst looking variety in the trial — hands down," said Hutmacher. "And yet the variety topped the trial in yields."
In the Merced County trial where stem sampling indicated as many as 40 percent of the Phytogen 78 had vascular staining, the variety finished third in yields. This was the highest yielding of the seven UC approved Acala trials with an average yield of 2,142 pounds across all varieties. Phytogen 78 yielded 2,212 pound per acre. Phytogen 72 finished eighth in the trial at 2,090 pounds. However, only 14 pounds separated positions seven, eight and nine in the trial and only 108 pounds separated fourth through eighth place.
The lowest rated verticillium in this trial was for Ultima EF, which topped the trial at 2,320 pounds per acre and Ultima, which finished fifth at 2,195 pounds per acre.
Verticillium can infect cotton as early as seedling development. The extent of damage to the growth and yield is more impacted by the degree of tolerance in the variety as well as the weather and cultural conditions favorable for development of verticillium.
Weather and cultural conditions that generally favor more severe verticillium symptoms include prolonged periods of cool, wet weather, cool weather with frequent irrigations and excessive fertilization or irrigation. The extent and timing of foliar symptoms is strongly impacted by those factors as well as the verticillium inoculum levels in the soil.
Defies conditions
In some years, Hutmacher said conditions are right for verticillium development, but it does not happen. He acknowledged that the reason why verticillium does not cause problems is not totally clear, but he believes it may be partly because soils levels of the more virulent verticillium inoculum in many cotton fields may be relatively low after many years of growing rotation crops or verticillium-resistant cotton varieties.
Hutmacher said verticillium's appearance after several years of anonymity is a wake-up call.
In the wake of last year's reappearance of verticillium, he suggested growers and consultants "consider any potential cultural controls and keep an eye out for possible varietal differences in disease susceptibility in choosing the mix of cotton varieties planted and crop rotations used.
"However, I to not believe there is great cause for concern. Seed companies are on this and are screening for verticillium as part of their operations," he said.
Another thing learned about the verticillium red flat that went up in 2004 was "don't pick a variety just because it looks green. It may look green because it does not have a boll load," he said. Verticillium wilt is a "much more complicated issue that just picking green varieties."
You can tell a frog by its green color. You cannot identify a high yielding cotton variety by the same criteria.
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Cartoons are maybe the only way you can make the sort of cloying, slimy sexual aggression in characters like Pepé Le Pew funny. Anywhere else (and even sometimes in animation) and it would just make your skin crawl.
This list from Ranker.com has 13 of the funniest and creepiest characters from animated history. Here are just a few of the best entries:
1. Pepé Le Pew
The premise of each and every one of Pepe Le Pew's cartoons (although hilarious) is that the poor guy has perpetual emotional blue balls throughout his entire Skunk life. There are no other skunks around (which brings me to the conclusion that he's probably just not going to the right places), so whenever he sees someone that he thinks is a skunk (most often a black cat who accidentally gets white paint on them via walking under a fence or car that has just been painted white), he just up and goes for it.
6. Glenn Quagmire
Of course Quagmire is on this freaking list.
Glenn Quagmire is the resident sexual pervert of Quahog, the fictional Rhode Island town where the fictional cast of Family Guy lives. He basically takes the role of that guy in college who always used to get laid even though his hair was weird, and brings it to a whole new level.
Quagmire will do just about anything to get laid, as you'll see in the embedded video compilation, and has absolutely no shame about anything he does — which is why he's awesome.
9. Jafar
The villain in the movie Aladdin, Jafar spends the entire movie trying to marry Princess Jasmine (who, after watching this video, actually kind of looks like a Kardashian) against her will. As one of the most iconic villains of animated film, Jafar commands a presence of high sorcery and extreme power… until he's foiled by our heroes. But before then, he dresses Jasmine up in an almost Slave-Leia-esque outfit that showcases her body and makes her take up a little bit of Stockholm Syndrome to trick him into letting Aladdin take back the power (the lamp) and save the day.
For the complete list, head over to Ranker.com. They've got the full list of the 13 most sexually aggressive cartoon characters, including a video clip for each entry. While you're there, check out some of their other content. It's pretty funny stuff.
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Quid-a-day nosh challenge hack in bullet-hard chickpea drama
Obstinate legume resists force of steaming cauldron
Day two of my "Live Below the Line" challenge has kicked off with another two fried egg sarnies and a couple of cuppas, following a long, hungry cooking slog yesterday thanks to some particularly obstinate chickpeas.
To recap, I'm subsisting until for five days on just £1 a day for nosh as part of "an innovative awareness and fundraising campaign that's making a huge difference in the fight against extreme poverty".
This budget translates into a total of €6 here in
sunny bloody freezing Spain*, and here are the dietary bangs I secured for my bucks before waving a temporary adiós to bacon, coffee and ... <gasp> ... beer:
All you can eat for €6
The tempting range of ingredients available for the challenge breaks down as follows:
- Loaf of bread: €1
- Dozen eggs: €1
- Kilo of chickpeas: €1
- Kilo of rice: €1
- Litre of milk: 70 cents
- 30 teabags: 30 cents
- Bones, onion, garlic, paprika and herbs: €1
So, the basic plan was to throw the chickpeas, bones, garlic, paprika and herbs into an enormous pan and boil the living daylights out of them, thereby creating a steaming enormity of goodness which would see me through the whole week.
As we all know, chickpeas have to be soaked overnight before boiling. Once that's done, they should take around 2-3 hours to cook in the magic cauldron:
Throw ingredients in pan, boil for six months
In this case, they actually required six hours, indicating they'd spent quite some time on the shelf undergoing a transformation from legume to bullet. Such are the pitfalls of buying cheap grub.
Of course, were I not living below the line, this wouldn't be a problem; I'd just cook something else while peering occasionally into the bubbling broth.
It wasn't until well past 10pm, and with a audibly protesting stomach, that I could finally use some of the stew broth to boil up my 200g rice allowance for the day, and get stuck in:
Dinner is served. Who needs steak, eh?
The verdict? Not too bad. The meat bones and other bits and pieces certainly made a big difference to the flavour, so this low-budget concoction is palatable enough.
The question is how long before the monotony of the diet provokes dreams of a quick fried chorizo on the plate, or something equally sinful? I have a cunning plan to address this problem, which I'll reveal tomorrow.
In the meantime, I'll offer a big ta very much to all those who've shown their support for my chosen charity, Malaria No More UK. As you can see from my fundraising page, it's going swimmingly, so let's see if we can't pass my fundraising goal...®
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I'm teaching three classes, one of which I've never taught before. They are Currents in Global Literature, Introduction to Film, and Outlaws, Delinquents, and Other "Deviants" in Film & Society. Let's look at them one by one...
|Zero for Conduct
I may be overly optimistic or utterly blind, but my view of contemporary American fiction is that it is as rich as ever. Some of the best work is being written in what until recently was considered, at least among the conventional literati, genre fiction. Horror, gothic, mystery, fantasy, fabulism. There are so many stunningly original and serious writers working these fields. I have to think that anybody reading this interview would agree. Just one example, though there are many, would be Elizabeth Hand. She composes sentences of ravishing beauty. She is capable of creating metaphor systems that are so dynamic and provocative. She can turn a fictive moment that seems deeply rooted in the everyday into something that, in fact, touches upon the sublime, the miraculous. Just read her novella Cleopatra Brimstone and tell me that American fiction isn't pulsing with life. Like I say, I could list dozens of authors here whose work I admire and follow with care and excitement. That said, I do think that much contemporary criticism is stuck in the past and that too many reviewers want those who are exploring ways to revolutionize genre to stick to the rules. I think of them as genre police. They make too many false arrests and lead potential readers astray, keep them caged away from renegades whose work they might well dig reading.
Over the past 15 years and more specifically the past ten years or so, Kenyan writing has been shaped by NGO demands: the "report" has become the dominant aesthetic foundation. Whether personal and confessional or empirical and factual or creative and imaginative, report-based writing privileges donors' desires: to help, but not too much; to save, but not too fast; to uplift, but never to foster equality. One can imagine how these aims meld with traditional modes of realism and naturalism and also speak to modernist truncations and postmodern undecidability. However, report realism names a more historically accurate way to name a genre indebted (very literally) to NGOS in Kenya.I cannot comment on the specific accuracy of Keguro's observations, because I'm not in Kenya reading aspiring writers' work. But I was interested in the observations because when I was in Kenya (over five years ago, now) and talked with some young writers there, the sorts of contemporary writers they cited as inspiring them were people like Stephen King and J.K. Rowling. Indeed, that's mostly what was available for fiction in the bookstores, with most stores putting Kenyan and African fiction, if they stocked it at all, in dusty corners. Yet the writers who cited these inspirations to me were, with one exception that I can think of (someone who'd spent quite a bit of time in the U.S., in fact), writing in a very realistic, documentary manner. That can happen anywhere, though, if you only talk to a limited sample of people; I hoped (and assumed) that there were other writers out there aspiring to different sorts of writing, whether fantastical in its content or experimental in its form, because aesthetic diversity makes for healthy reading-writing ecosystems. And there is some such work being written (heck, Ngugi's Wizard of the Crow is a good example); it just seems hard for it to get attention or to be celebrated in the way documentary realism is.
The report aesthetic goes beyond citing NGO facts and figures. It is concerned, above all, with a search for truth and accuracy and is threatened by imaginative labor.
The 21 stories that made it to the final round this year are of a generally higher standard than the finalists for the last award, which suggests that the standard of entries as a whole may be higher. If so, this is a promising development. On the other hand, the kind of short-story writer we are all hoping that an award of this magnitude will attract, recognize, reward, foster, and perhaps even launch into the wider world — the newcomer with naked talent, a feel for language, and a fresh vision of the world —stubbornly fails to arive.Ouch.
I want to advocate for wild imaginations—wild forms of writing, non-linear narratives, an obsessive attention to detail, writing that strains at the edges, reaches beyond itself. I'm interested in writing that lives in secret folders on computers, scurries under beds and into drawers when friends visit, worries that it will be deemed obscene, crazy, impossible. I'm interested in writing that dares truth-the truth of feeling, the truth of form, the truth of seeking, the truth of language seeking byways and creating paths. I'm interested in writing beyond report realism.
We are united in our hatred of war and our abhorrence of violence. But a hatred of war is not enough, and when employed to conjure away history, it is a cynical vanity which posits that one is, somehow, in possession of a prophetic insight and supernatural morality which evaded our forefathers. It is all fine to speak of how history "should have been." It takes something more to ask why it wasn't, and then to confront what it actually was.For more, see his first post in this series.
...I'm tremendously optimistic about the future of the book as an object. I think the worst years of the book as an object have been the last 50 years. [...]And much more about publishing, reading, Cursor, communities, etc.
Basically, when you've got an industry that is pushing out $25 billion worth of physical products into a supply chain, the vast majority of businesses are going to try to cut costs and increase revenues. And the simplest way to cut costs is going to be on the production side. So if the core of the business is no longer a supply chain, but rather the orchestration of writing and reading communities, the book is freed of its obligation to be the sole means for the broad mass dissemination of the word, and instead become a thing where the intrinsic qualities of the book itself can be explored.
Why We Oppose Pockets for Women
by Alice Duer Miller
1. Because pockets are not a natural right.
2. Because the great majority of women do not want pockets. If they did they would have them.
3. Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used them.
4. Because women are required to carry enough things as it is, without the additional burden of pockets.
5. Because it would make dissension between husband and wife as to whose pockets were to be filled.
6. Because it would destroy man's chivalry toward woman, if he did not have to carry all her things in his pockets.
7. Because men are men, and women are women. We must not fly in the face of nature.
8. Because pockets have been used by men to carry tobacco, pipes, whiskey flasks, chewing gum and compromising letters. We see no reason to suppose that women would use them more wisely.
Often, whenever we point out flaws in the DMCA's safe harbor provisions, we hear a reluctance among those who rely upon it to "open it up" for amendment and improvement. The fear, apparently, is that engaging in that discussion will give the record labels and movie studios an opportunity to lobby for themselves and move the goalposts further. The problem with that caution is that those goalposts are being moved today. Even if section 512 of Title 17 doesn't feel Congress's red pen anytime soon, the actual conditions under which Internet companies and users will have to operate are being changed right now. The structure of the Internet itself, and the premises upon which it is based are being negotiated in Congress, and not by those bodies concerned with its structure as a whole, but by those that see the Internet as merely a means of serving up product, or stealing it.
But the Internet is more than just another TV channel or some sort of digital magazine. Not only in what it does—connecting individuals and communities across the world—but how it does it. It relies upon technological consensus among a wide variety of actors to remain a global, unified system, but we're seeing that consensus eroding rapidly as more and more political factions come to understand its power and where the levers are. And no matter how good the intentions of the United States government may be, they will be taken as a model for governments everywhere that seek to cut off from their citizens content and speech they'd rather not have available. This bill accelerates the Internet down that path.
Have you bid farewell to the realism of your first features for good?
I don't agree with this. After 15 years in Italy, they finally showed Accattone on TV. We realized it is not a realist film at all. It's a dream, it's an oneiric movie.
Didn't they consider it a realistic film in Italy?
Yes, but it was a misunderstanding. When I made it, I knew I was doing a very lyrical film, not oneiric as it now seems, but deeply lyrical. I used that soundtrack and shot it in a certain way for a reason. Then what happened was that the realistic world I drew inspiration from for Accattone disappeared; it is no longer there, so the film is a dream of that world.
Mamma Roma is realist…
Mamma Roma is more realistic than Accattone, maybe. I should watch it again. It is less accomplished, less beautiful and that's because it is less dream-like.
|Frankenstein by Lynd Ward
Baskerville decided to become a monster because he had chewed his way far into the Earth, and he lived now in the space he had chewed for himself, a musty cavern beneath a knoll in an unnamed wilderness in northern Maine. He had been on vacation, alone, hiking and camping, trying to forget his latest failed encounter with something resembling love, when he was seized with the desire to devour some soil. His friend Cal the Freudian would have said this desire was fueled by a need to consume and obliterate his mother—the Earth, of course, being the biggest mother of them all—but Baskerville thought this was bullshit, because Freud was bullshit, and if Cal had been there with him, Baskerville would have accused him of being a coprophiliac for all the bullshit he ate, and that would have set Cal a-thinking for so long that he might have shut up for a while.The story was inspired by a few things -- some random passages from Frankenstein, The Hound of the Baskervilles, some stray bits of Kafka, original newspaper reports of Kaspar Hauser, and Tolstoy's essay "What is Art?" (Also, I stole the title from Tolstoy.) Some of those things I used directly, some I stuck into Microsoft Word and pureéd with the summarize feature, reducing, for instance, the entire text of The Hound of the Baskervilles to something like 250 words. The challenge then was to take all this random matter and try to weave a story between it.


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damn it.. I don't know how.. (it could of been that my son visited some site.. haven't gathered all info yet) I believe my sygate firewall was running and doing it's job but possibly my son allowed the connection he won't admit a thing.. no more internet for him unless I'm right there..
but I got this worm and it bugged me out for hours today.
When I rebooted the computer this afternoon I found a dialer that wanted to dial out.
It was called "innocent virgins" and I used dialguard to capture what connection username
and password and phone number..
u/n was PZBPA03YUS@dialco
p/w was ZPBPA03
phone number 1-900-226-3768
now this pissed me off.. I looked in my running processes and found rdvs.exe running.
reg key in the ...\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ..
a scan with trojanhunter and tauscan and norton av corporate edition (with defs from last week) showed nada...
I did a search on google's usegroups for this innocent virgins dialer and found this posting
I'll show just a single response (sorry I didn't save the link)
A friend of mine had this dialer123.exe labeled "Innocent Virgins" on
het PC 3 weeks ago. It reappeared last Friday. When I cleaned her PC
*again* I found two trojans running on it. One was
c:\windows\system\wnmngm1.exe, that left a patch log called
wnmngm1.lgc claiming to have altered a shockingly long list of Windows
urlmon.dll, shlwapi.dll, user.exe, mpr.exe, ole32.dll, ver.dll,
shell32.dll, msvcrt.dll, wsock32.dll, ws2_32.dll, tapi32.dll,
secur32.dll, rpcrt4.dll, svrapi.dll, msnet32.dll, rasapi32.dll,
mswsock.dll, icmp.dll, dhcpsvc.dll, rnaapp.exe
Furthermore -and even more worrying to her- I found a thing called
c:\windows\command\top\rundll32.exe that appeared to be a modified
version of the Serv-U ftp server masquerading as the rundll32 Windows
component. This thing had left a very similar patch log rundll32.lgc,
it seems to have modified the original rundll32 component among
My friend also had Norton Antivirus with current virus definition
files. I have posted this same information at a symantec tech support
newsgroup, hopefully they will take action.
so then I found the dialer123.exe file and the two wnmngm files.. (i'll zip and attach here)
and i see that I didn't have a wnmngm1.lgc file but a wnmngm1.dll instead.
i haven't yet looked within the dll to see any reference to affecting the above mentioned files
but I'm suspecting that they weren't altered as stated.. one more thing to check.
and found that symantec just released a new definition file (no wonder i couldn't see it)
as far as i can see/tell... no files were downloaded..and installed last nite so I'm
assuming it was a malious site or popup..
this is the FIRST virus/worm I actually let infect me in all the years of surfing I've done.
now I know that one can never be sure.. even if you think you have protection.
edit: btw, I did not find any c:\windows\command\top\rundll32.exe file like mentioned in the thread i found on the usenet.. I'm thinking that either this guy was getting mixed up (to put it nicely) or that this worm has other versions out there..


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After slipping by without notice, my little piece 'Against Reception History' over at Bible and Interpretation has put the wind up both Christopher Heard and John Hobbins. Heard, webmaster for the Blackwell Bible Commentaries (and hailing from that toothpaste-sounding university, Pepperdine) has penned a longish piece on the actual Blackwell site called 'In Defense of Reception History'. Hobbins, meanwhile, reckons Heard has 'corrected' my little misunderstandings – here at Ancient Hebrew Poetry.
The criticism boils down to saying that I created the proverbial straw man – reception history – whom I then cut down. But reading the posts by these worthy gentlemen, it seems that the straw men have come out to play. Except that the straw men disagree with one another.
After trying a weak encirclement movement – 'but you too are doing reception history, my dear Roland, but you simply don't realise it' – Heard's singular criticism is that I misrepresent what all those worthy reception critics are doing. How so? Do they give priority to determining the meaning of the text in its original setting (whatever the fuck that might be)? No, no, no, says Heard: they simply allow every interpretation equal validity. In fact, to quote that lovable fossil, John Sawyer, the text doesn't really 'exist' without a reader.
What is also new is the notion that the reception of a text is more important than the text itself, and even that a text doesn't really exist until somebody reads it.
Um, Chris, my dear smiling man: that used to be called reader-response criticism. But does that mean we are all caught in that dreadful mush sometimes called 'post-modern' (so Hobbins)? No, no, no, says Heard:
To be sure, reception history treats biblical texts as 'originary' with respect to later uses thereof, but only in the undeniable and rather uninteresting sense that a biblical book must exist before it can have any effects or influence precisely as a book, just as you can't use a dictionary or be affected by a sentimental love song until those textual objects exist.
Now Heard simply refuses to see the philosophical issues at stake in the very use of the terms Rezeptionsgeschichte and Wirkungsgeschichte, issues that were at the core of Gadamer's method and the very meanings of those terms. While Heard bends over backwards, forewards and sideways to show that reception history is really just as postmodern as the rest of us, that those dreadful German biblical critics no longer call the shots, Hobbins is less than impressed with Heard's gymnastics.
For Hobbins, reception does indeed refer to everything that comes after that beautiful, glistening original moment of the text itself. And you should indeed aim to find out what a text meant in its original context:
I defend the right of an ancient text to have a meaning specific to its time and place, a meaning that deserves to be understood as primary even if we can only seek to recover it, as opposed to know it for certain down to the last detail.
I might defend the right of animals to become clergy, or perhaps for amoeba to vote, but that doesn't mean it is realistic. Come on, John, do you really believe that crap? Citing the old Renaissance slogan, ad fontes, betrays your hand: the very possibility of imagining an originary text in its time and place, and the desire to understand it as such, is itself enabled by the conditions that assumption denies in its universalist pitch. In other words, the very method Hobbins espouses is itself anachronistic and alien to the text's 'original' situation. So we are back with that old, worn and highly suspect search for pristine origins – the bane of biblical scholars, theologians … and Renaissance men. It is a nice interpretive fiction, but dangerous if you believe it.
All of which leaves me with one last question for Heard-Hobbins (sounds like Bilbo Baggins), wtf is reception history?


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Phil Everly Dead at 74
He was the younger half of the Everly Brothers.
Phil Everly, the younger half of the Everly Brothers, died in Burbank, California on Friday. His wife, Patti, told the Los Angeles Times that the cause was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. During the late fifties and early sixties, Phil and his older brother Don produced dozens of hits, including "Wake Up Little Susie," "Bye Bye Love," "Cathy's Clown," "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and "When Will I Be Loved?," most of which you have probably heard, even if you don't realize it. Their harmonies were cited as influences by the Beatles, Linda Ronstadt, Simon and Garfunkel, and, later Green Day and Bonnie "Prince" Billie, among many, many others. The duo broke up onstage in 1973 and reunited ten years later, making two more albums before becoming mostly estranged again. Phil is the one on the left in this video of them performing "All I Have to Do Is Dream."


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7621 The Lost Tomb 9.98
baby_yoda wrote:Hmmmmm.....
On [email protected] they removed the Motorcycle Chase and The Lost Tomb sets.....
Is this a retirement i smell??? Or is it just a mistake??
Draykov wrote:Given the proximity this disappearance has to the slew of new Indy sets at similar price-points being released this summer, I'd say you can count on retirement. The "2-year-rule" has become more and more unpredictable in recent years. Given the increased licensing and large volume of selection across themes, that's not too surprising. My recommendation to anyone who doesn't have these sets and wants them is to start hitting up Bricklink or retail sources ASAP.
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LOVE this shirt! Would probably have to get one for each member of the family.
Re: Beware of Fluffy
Looks cute on the outside but takes his job very seriously!
Re: Listening to Who?
By far the best design of this derby. A shame it did not fog....
Re: Dojo Chores
So close twice now...quit toying with my emotions, i really wanted this one
Re: Who's next?
For the record,I voted for this design the first time and was excited to vote for it again,sigh;I guess we're stuck with all the goofy cartoons...fyi the perspective on this is off;a problem you may wish to fix next time you work up a design featuring a linear element.
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I would like to buy this right now!! Definitely voting.
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Love this shirt. Wish I could buy it now.
I really really need this shirt! So bummed, this is my favorite of all the entries.
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Thanks to everyone who voted and thanks for all the kind words! Now we can just hope for an editors choice, or last resort would be to try somewhere else. I'll keep everyone informed... Thanks again!
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I've never wanted a Derby shirt this badly before. The two tri-colors look exactly like our two Corgis. Really hope it gets picked up as an Editor's Choice.
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Big time like!
Totally buying this for my ex. He's incredibly cat-like (hates water, being cuddled, etc) and he's quite the master baker! (he baked fresh bread in his restaurant nearly every day)
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I really love this design but since it seems like it lost the doubletake derby do you intend to sell this at redbubble or somewhere else?
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OCH! MISTLETOE FRENCHING? GROSS! I love it, I must have it or I will die a slow, painful kitty tshirt less death.
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Good work!
Is there any chance I could purchase a print of this? I would love to frame it and have it in my kitchen!
How do we vote? My brain froze and I can't seem to locate a Vote button.
I *need* this shirt to win.
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nimrond wrote:so how do I find out where this is available?
It's not... it was disqualified. but it looks like the creator listed it somewhere else
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Please let us know if you sell this shirt on another web site
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My heart is sad. I had such hopes.
If this prints on Sunday, my goal is to be the first sucker. haha. I love this shirt :3
There is seriously no accounting for taste in this comm, huh? My disappointment that this shirt didn't print knows no bounds.
Dear designer, please, please let me know if this goes for sale somewhere else. I must have this shirt. I must have it or my shirt collection will forever be incomplete knowing this design was made and never printed.
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OCH! MISTLETOE FRENCHING? GROSS! I love this shirt! It would be such an injustice if they didn't make this shirt. I can't figure out how to vote (yes I'm stupid but please be nice). Love it!
Editor's Choice!!!
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Crossing my fingers this gets an EC!
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kevins87 wrote:I really love this design but since it seems like it lost the doubletake derby do you intend to sell this at redbubble or somewhere else?
its actually up at my redbubble store right now. Just added today.
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Thank You, Midgerock!! I've not seen that site before and I was SO happy to see that I can choose the shirt color and style. I wanted this in the derby so badly and now it will be MINE! Just have to decide on color and style for me and perhaps more than one as gifts. Yippee and thanks again for an awesome and hilarious design!
petecadmus wrote:Really Great. I will buy multiples.
I just clicked "I'D WANT ONE"
Is that all i have to do to vote.
Really great t-shirt.
Despite having several woot shirts and buying several as gifts for others i apparently have not purchased enough shirts to vote.
I was not able to support you as i hoped.
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TIGERVILLE, S.C. – Following their win on Tuesday, the King University men's tennis team tried to keep the momentum rolling when the faced Conference Carolinas foe North Greenville University on Wednesday. However, the home standing Crusaders jumped ahead with two doubles wins and escaped with three wins in singles to take the dual 5-4.
The Tornado No. 1 doubles team of Rodrigo Avila and Leo Brigato got King (3-5, 0-2 CC) on the board early with an emphatic 8-0 win over Jose Gomez and Rafael Gonzalez. Nevertheless, North Greenville (3-6, 2-0 CC) bounced back by winning the No. 2 and No. 3 doubles matches.
Pablo Vidal and Avila tried to bring the Tornado back as they both their singles matches at the No. 1 and No. 2 flights, respectively. Vidal topped Gomez 2-6, 6-2, 6-2 while Avila defeated Juan Vargas 6-1, 6-0. Moritz Poswiat also took his singles match, defeating Sergio Araujo 6-4, 7-5 at No. 5 singles. However, King couldn't get one last win as the Crusaders took the dual 5-4.
King will be in action at home again this weekend when they host Belmont Abbey College on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. The Tornado then host Bluefield State College on Sunday at 10:00 a.m.


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Two new additions to the Black History collection. The first is a matted and framed cover of a childs coloring book. I have four copies of Little Black Sambo and this is the first for me where the artist has changed Sambo from an Indian boy to an African American boy. Great find for $5!
The news paper cartoon is from 1926.


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Youngster celebrating 12th birthday on December 12, 2012
URRAWEEN'S Elyse Wallace is turning 12 today - on the 12th day of the 12th month in 2012.
Her mum Anne said the family had not realised the special date of Elyse's 12th birthday until about six months ago.
Since then they have been planning ways to make the celebration extra special.
The celebrations started yesterday when eight friends joined her for a special birthday party and sleepover.
That included a scavenger hunt that would see the 12-year-old girls visit Santa at Stocklands shopping centre in Hervey Bay, sing Old MacDonald under the big M at Hervey Bay McDonald's and dance Gangnam-style at Enzo's cafe at Scarness.
The Xavier Catholic College student, who loves touch football and hip hop, said it was pretty cool to celebrate turning 12 on the auspicious date.
Anne said there was also an added bonus to her daughter being born in 2000 - there will never be an excuse for forgetting how old Elyse is turning because it will be the same as the last two digits of the year.


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Time for a summer-party with BBQ
Because parties are fun, and because FooBar is celebrating his 7th lustrum on planet earth, and the 3rd year of his company.
- BBQ (please let us know you will be coming, so we can buy enough food, costs devided by participants)
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- Music (live band, looking for DJ's ....)
Facebook has the large invite/guest list... but you can also post an update here if you don't like facebook.
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Reds ruled the day during the second annual Great Northwest Wine Competition held in early April at the Columbia Gorge Hotel in Hood River, Ore.
Of the 86 wines awarded gold medals, 60 of them were reds. Here are a few of our favorites. Find the full results at www.greatnorthwestwine.com.
AniChe Cellars 2011 Moth Love, Rattlesnake Hills, $34: Columbia Gorge winemaker Rachel Horn crafted this blend of Syrah, Grenache and Mourvdre from Elephant Mountain Vineyard in Washington's Rattlesnake Hills. Aromas feature red currant, hibiscusand hints of a humidor. A pour releases flavors of president plum, boysenberry and pomegranate with blueberry skin tannin, which ease into a finish of black licorice.
Bitner Vineyards 2009 Cab-Shiraz, Snake River Valley, $28: Longtime Idaho grower Ron Bitner puts his grapes and trust in the hands of talented friend Greg Koenig, and the results in this presentation of Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah are stunning. It's a noseful of blackberry, black currant, thyme and tar. On the attack, it's Marionberry cobbler with pomegranate acidity and black cherry skin in the finish.
Gamache Vintners 2010 Syrah, Columbia Valley, $30: Brothers Roger and Bob Gamache planted their estate vineyard in 1982 and now have a successful tasting room at the Vintners Village in the Yakima Valley town of Prosser. This is a beautiful Syrah with aromas of bacon fat and blackberry, followed by rich flavors of blackberry, plum and a sprinkling of coffee.
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(Reuters) - Northern California will get a break on Monday from severe weather that dumped more than 2 feet of snow in mountains before another storm arrives by Tuesday, the National Weather Service forecast.
A cold front that had brought heavy rain and snow and high winds that gusted to 150 mph at Mammoth Mountain in California had moved overnight into the central Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains, the weather service said.
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In the Rockies, 46 inches of snow were recorded at Deadwood Summit, Idaho.
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David Rank, the acting US ambassador to China, resigned from his post in Beijing over President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, according to sources cited in multiple reports.
Trump's pick for the position, former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, resigned as governor and was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to China position on May 24.
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Written by Elizabeth Barrett Thursday, 07 February 2013 14:56
Nolan Golter chosen as 2012 city employee of year
He's willing to help out in any department when needed and is competent, courteous, dependable, cheerful, loyal and prompt."I never hear him complaining about whichever employee happens to be gone that day. He does his job and minds his own."
Described as easy to get along with, Nolan Golter can also "build anything."
A hard worker who takes pride in his work, Golter doesn't complain about anything or anyone.
With such accolades voiced by city employees, it's no wonder Golter was chosen as the 2012 city employee of the year.
Golter said he was excited when he heard of the honor through a text message.
On the evening of the Jan. 25 banquet, Golter was in Lincoln.
"When I got the message, I was wishing I'd waited a day to go to Lincoln," he said.
As city mechanic, Golter keeps all the equipment maintained and in operation.
"Anything comes up," he explained, "from simple service work like changing oil to something that completely breaks down."
Last summer, an engine blew on one of the city tractors that needed to be rebuilt.
His job is becoming more challenging, he said, as equipment becomes more computerized and some parts can only be accessed through dealers.
In addition to fixing equipment, Golter helps out in other departments which keeps his job from getting monotonous, he said.
"It could be anything from snow removal to patching streets," he said.
After graduating from Gothenburg High School in 1997, Golter attended Mid-Plains Community College in North Platte and received an associate's degree in automotive technology.
Golter then moved to Lincoln where he worked as a mechanic for T.O. Haas Tire & Auto for five years before moving back to Gothenburg to help his brother-in-law, Keith Maline, through a harvest season.
"I didn't care for city life," Golter said.
The 34-year-old was then hired as a mechanic at Dawson Tire & Service where worked until 2006 when he was hired by the city.
Each day, Golter said he tries to bring a positive attitude to his job.
Asked what he would like the public to know about him or his job, he said residents need to be mindful of city workers when they are doing street work.
"They need to stay out of the way, be more aware and proceed slowly," he said.
Golter is married to Traci Golter, a stay-at-home mom who mows the city cemetery in the summer.
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HSLDA Back in Court to Defend Parental Rights
- Michael P. Farris, JD, LLM Hslda.org
- 2012 11 Jul
Home School Legal Defense Association is preparing for our second round of court battles as we defend the rights of Ken and Erin Stieler to direct the medical care of their 8-year-old son, Jacob.
As you may recall, Jacob was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, a dangerous bone cancer, in March of 2011. His parents took him to a highly rated children's oncology center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he had surgery to remove a tumor followed by several rounds of chemotherapy. The treatment was incredibly difficult for Jacob, but at its completion, Jacob's PET scan came back totally clear, showing no evidence of cancer in Jacob's body.
"Standard of Care"
Jacob's doctors wanted to give Jacob several more rounds of chemotherapy and radiation, because they said this was "the standard of care" for his illness—even though his PET scan results were completely clear. Jacob's parents did extensive study of the side effects of the five different chemotherapy drugs that the doctors wanted to administer, and decided that the risk of the drugs was far greater than the risk of recurrent cancer. When the Stielers refused, the Department of Human Services hired a special prosecutor to charge the Stielers with medical neglect, and sought a court order which would force Jacob to undergo further chemotherapy.
HSLDA agreed to defend the Stielers from the Department's blatant disregard for parental rights, which was based on the flimsiest of evidence. At a pre-trial motion hearing, HSLDA vigorously defended the Stielers' fundamental constitutional right to direct Jacob's medical care. HSLDA also argued that the Stielers had not "neglected" Jacob because there was no evidence that Jacob had cancer, or that the Department's treatment plan was safe and effective for children with Jacob's medical condition. The Stielers also presented evidence that Jacob had had two clear PET scans since stopping chemotherapy, and that the Stielers had developed an alternative treatment plan in case Jacob's cancer resurfaced in the future.
Insufficient Evidence
On December 21, 2011, the trial judge granted HSLDA's pre-trial motion and dismissed the medical neglect case against Ken and Erin Stieler. The trial judge determined that the Department's evidence wasn't sufficient to override the Stielers' fundamental right to direct Jacob's medical care. The Department then filed a motion for rehearing on the very last day that such a request could be filed, which the trial judge also denied.
The Department has now appealed the trial judge's decision, hauling the Stielers before the Michigan Court of Appeals. In their appellate brief, the Department raised two challenges to the procedure that the lower court followed, while renewing their assertion that Jacob needs more chemotherapy even though there is no medical evidence that Jacob has cancer.
HSLDA was surprised and disappointed to learn that the Department's brief contained many inaccuracies. Specifically, the Department failed to inform the court that Jacob has had three clear PET scans, which have yielded no evidence of cancer. Even more surprising, the Department's brief failed to address the Stielers' principal argument in this case: parents, not the state or its doctors, have the fundamental, God-given right to choose and direct the medical care that their children receive.
HSLDA filed a reply brief on behalf of the Stielers, in order to correct these errors and set the record straight. For those of you who are interested, you can read the Department's brief, as well as our response (both documents require Adobe Acrobat Reader).
HSLDA Founder and Chairman Mike Farris is traveling to Lansing to represent the Stielers before the Michigan Court of Appeals, which will hear oral arguments on Wednesday morning, July 11. Please pray for the Stielers as we prepare for this next challenge in the battle to defend their fundamental parental rights. We would also appreciate your ongoing support as the expenses for this case continue. You can donate to the Home School Freedom Fund online.
In the meantime, the Stielers continue to monitor Jacob's condition closely. We rejoice with the Stielers that Jacob had a fourth consecutive clear PET scan in May.
Courtesy HSLDA. Used with permission.
Since founding HSLDA in 1983, Michael Farris has used his extensive experience in both politics and appellate litigation to defend parental rights and help grow the organization to over 80,000 member families. He is also the founding president and current Chancellor of Patrick Henry College, a Christian institution with the mission of training students through a classical liberal arts curriculum and apprenticeship methodology to impact the world "for Christ and for Liberty."
Farris has written over a dozen books, including three novels, a constitutional law textbook, and works on marriage, parenting, homeschooling, political advocacy, and religious liberty. His daily radio program, Home School Heartbeat, airs on several hundred stations nationwide.
In recognition of his work in home education, Education Week has named Farris one of the "Top 100 Faces in Education of the 20th Century." Heritage Foundation awarded him its Salvatori Award for American Citizenship in 2002.
Mike and Vickie Farris live in Purcellville, Virginia, and have 10 children and 10 grandchildren.
Home School Legal Defense Association is a nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms. Through annual memberships, HSLDA is tens of thousands of families united in service together, providing a strong voice when and where needed.
Publication date: July 11, 2012


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Racine County hit hard by latest snowstorm
STURTEVANT, Wis. —
Racine County was hit by the heaviest snowfall, leaving sloppy roads and forcing the Regency Mall to shut down.
Some people abandoned their vehicles and opted for snowmobiles. Bill Wright of Kenosha said he could go between 40 and 50 mph in the vehicle.
The snow piled up along sidewalks, on trees and stuck to the utilities wires throughout the Village of Sturtevant.
Bob Lange tried to wait until the last flake fell before he ventured out to snow blow his driveway -- but the snow never seemed to stop.
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Garry Rayno's State House DomeBy GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
April 07. 2013 12:14AM
Battle On
As the state budget leaves the House and the action switches to the Senate, the heat is being turned up under the House over gambling.
After the House passed the budget, Gov. Maggie Hassan and Senate Finance Committee Chair Chuck Morse, R-Salem, both released statements urging the House to approve Senate Bill 152 which would allow one "high-end, highly-regulated" casino with up to 5,000 video slot machines and 150 table games.
Several traditional opponents of expanded gaming have switched course and backed the bill including the National Education Association New Hampshire which held a press conference last week to say the gambling money is needed to pay for essential services like higher education and catastrophic special education aid for school districts.
"Given how education has come to rely on gaming in New Hampshire, and how the methods of gaming have changed in the state," said NEA-NH president Scott McGilvray, "it is difficult for an education association to claim that one form of gaming is morally superior to another."
He noted much has changed in the last decade since the organization's board of director opposed expanded gambling.
Over the past half dozen years, the NH Lodging and Restaurant Association has not taken a position on the gambling proposals before lawmakers. The individual business owners often checked in, but the organization did not.
A decade ago the organization opposed expanded gambling and last week, with more and more organizations and industry representatives weighing in, the NHLRA board of directors voted "overwhelmingly" to oppose the proposal before lawmakers.
The organization cited concerns about lost business, the state's family-friendly image and proliferation once a casino has a foothold in the Granite State.
But as the organization's president Mike Somers noted, the membership is divided on the issue.
Long-time Manchester area restaurateur Chuck Rolecek, along with Shorty's president and COO Jay DelMonte, Joe Faro, owner of Salem's Tuscan Kitchen, Jim Makris, owner of Concord's Makris Restaurant and others all endorsed SB 152.
They also took the opposite view of the lodging and restaurant group, saying a casino would help their businesses.
"Projects of this size don't come often," said Rolecek "Casino gambling would provide significant economic development to southern New Hampshire. The thousands of jobs that would come to a casino speak for themselves. So do the thousands of construction jobs a project of this magnitude would bring."
Delmonte questioned what would happen if the state did nothing as casinos open in Massachusetts.
"What if we don't move forward as a state?" Delmonte said. "The answer is clear. The casinos that are going to open in Massachusetts will most certainly draw away business from New Hampshire. That is millions of dollars that could be spent here, but will be lost to our south."
Earlier two police unions backed the Senate-passed plan breaking with much of law enforcement which has consistently argued expanded gambling would produce more crime and wreck families and individual lives.
Representatives of the New Hampshire Troopers Association and the New Hampshire Police Association said last month a casino would bring no more crime than a large shopping mall.
They touted the benefits of the additional revenues allowing the state to add troopers and other law enforcement personnel and fund programs eliminated the past two years like Children in Need of Service aimed at rehabilitating at-risk kids before they become criminals.
The New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police has long opposed expanded gambling and has not changed its mind.
Association Second Vice President Richard Crate, chief of the Enfield Police Department, took issue with the statement a casino would not create any more crime than a new shopping mall. That's ludicrous, he said.
The issues, he said, are increased crime, addiction, "the breakup of the family" and potential financial damage to the existing hospitality industry.
Others organizations or constituencies coming out for gambling revenues in recent weeks are the State Employees Association, and the mental health and developmentally disabled communities.
The Granite State Coalition Against Expanded Gambling has also been active contacting House members and meeting with editorial boards and organizations to make its case.
Last week the coalition's chairman, former State Sen. Jim Rubens sent an email to lawmakers and the media questioning claims by casino supporters that the New Hampshire facility would be "high end," or stimulate development. He also noted the winning bidder would have a monopoly.
"Watchword for New Hampshire Legislators? Eyes Open!" Rubens wrote.
Lobbyists for the various proposals for the casino were also working House members one at a time.
The House Ways and Means Committee has yet to schedule a public hearing on SB 152. The bill has little chance of winning the committee's endorsement some of its members are the staunchest anti-gambling members of the House.
Once the public hearing is done and the committee makes it recommendation, the emails and calls will really begin for House members.
Charter Schools
Charter schools and their supporters took one of the biggest hits in the House approved budget package. They haven't taken that kind of hit in a long time.
Not only did the House strip out the $2.5 million in funding for new charter schools Hassan included in her budget proposal, the House added a moratorium on any new charter schools.
While the state board suspended applications for new schools, it did not officially declare a moratorium.
The House did follow Hassan's lead and give the state Board of Education, which has to approve new charter school applications, more authority and oversight to determine if a new facility is needed in a geographic area or in a subject area like math and science or the arts.
The House beat back attempts to reverse those changes along with another requiring state audits every three years.
Charter schools are public schools and they receive state aid of about $5,200 per student which is about $1,200 more per student than regular public schools.
Charter school supporters have to hope they have a more sympathetic ear in the Republican controlled -- 13-11 – Senate, which in the past has been supportive.
"It seems as though public charter schools are once again a bargaining chip in political negotiations. The house cut out money for news charter schools but the state will lose more than twice that in federal grant funds if the senate lets this stand," said Matt Southerton, director of the New Hampshire Center for Innovative Schools. "There are at least a half dozen lobbyists in Concord whose job is to protect the status quo and they are trying to circumvent the democratic process by using HB 2 instead of going through a policy committee where we can all witness them testify.
"I honestly don't know why they perceive charter schools as some great threat, they represent only about 1.5 percent of all public school students. Their behavior is grotesque," he said.
Senate Jumps
It did not take the Senate long to begin running out House bills that are important to the lower chamber.
This week there are hearings on some key bills that House members hold dear such as re-instituting the state's minimum wage law that was eliminated by lawmakers during the last legislative term. House Bill 501has a public hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee at 2:20 p.m. Tuesday in Room 101 of the Legislative Office Building.
Another bill that received a lot of attention, House 573, which would legalize medical marijuana or "cannabis for therapeutic purposes," has a hearing at 1 p.m. Thursday in Room 100 of the State House.
The same day and in the same room, House bill 621, decriminalizing marijuana, and House Bill 153, legalizing industrial hemp as an agricultural product, have hearings Thursday beginning at 9 a.m.
The Senate Finance Committee will hear House Bill 443, which would prohibit the privatization of state prisons Tuesday at 1 p.m. in Room 103 of the State House.
Taking these bills up early when the full Senate meets in session again April 18 should be the official start of the legislative war between the Senate and House.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Casey DeSmith stopped 33 shots but go no offensive support as the University of New Hampshire men's hockey team fell 1-0 at Providence on Wednesday night.
UNH fells to 16-8-3, 11-7-2 in Hockey East, while PC improved to 11-10-6, 9-6-5 in the league.
DeSmith made 24 saves over the first two periods including a penalty shot and nine saves in the third, falling to 15-6-3. Jon Gillies stopped all 37 shots he faced earning the shutout and win to improve to 11-8-5.
Stefan Demopoulos scored with just 2:48 left in regulation to lift the Friars to the win and the series win at 2-0-1. Mark Jankowski spun and slid the puck across ice hoping to find a teammate and Demopoulos was there to put away the wrister. Tim Schaller also assisted on the game's lone goal. The Wildcats would have several chances in the period including the final 1:25 when the team controlled play with an empty net, but could not net the equalizer. The Wildcats also went 0-3 on the power play in the period.
In a scoreless first period, both teams had chances with the Friars holding a 13-9 shot advantage. PC's best chance came on its three power play opportunities, while UNH put great pressure on the Friars during and immediately following its two power play opportunities in the frame.
The game remained scoreless through two periods despite scoring chances from each side. The Wildcats had a pair of great bids just seconds apart as Kevin Goumas deflected a John Henrion slapshot off the near post with just over five minutes left in the period. Dalton Speelman was on the doorstep on the next shift, but had a bouncing puck jump over his stick to keep the game scoreless.
UNH put some pressure on during a late power play, but just as the penalty expired the Friars' Ross Mauermann escaped the box with the puck and was pulled down setting up a penalty shot. Mauermann made a nifty move, but DeSmith sprawled out to made a high glove save with 1:06 left in the period. UNH outshot PC 14-11, while both teams were 0-1 on the power play in the stanza.
The Wildcats held a 37-34 shot advantage for the game. UNH was 0 for 6 on the power play while Providence was 0 for 4.
UNH is at Boston College on Sunday.
UNH men's hoop wins in OT
DURHAM — Patrick Konan scored a career-high 22 points and pulled down 10 rebounds to lead the University of New Hampshire men's basketball team over Maryland-Baltimore County, 92-86, in overtime on Wednesday night at Lundholm Gymnasium.
UNH improved to 7-16 overall and 3-8 in America East play, while UMBC fell to 6-19 on the season and 4-8 in conference.
Ferg Myrick scored 15 points with 10 rebounds for UNH, while Chandler Rhoads scored 20. Scott Morris and Chris Pelcher added 13 points apiece.
UNH is at BU on Sunday.
UNH women lose at UMBC
BALTIMORE — The UNH women's basketball team fell 59-50 at Maryland-Baltimore County on Wednesday night.
Kelsey Hogan scored 20 points for UNH, which fell to 9-14 overall and 4-7 in America East. UMBC is 9-16, 5-7.
UNH is at BU on Saturday.
UNH track fifth at AE championships
BOSTON — The University of New Hampshier men's and women's indoor track teams finished fifth at the America East Championships on Tuesday at the Reggie Lewis Center.
Kevin Greene won the mile in four minutes, 13.93 seconds. John Prizzi was first in the 3,000-meter run in 8:23.74.
On the women's side, Keely Maguire was second in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 9:29.49. Elise Beattie was second in the 5,000 in 17:15.62.


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Alexander Skarsgard is effortlessly gorgeous as he steps out for a stroll on Monday (June 11) in New York City.
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|Spring Term 2018 Environmental Science - 3797 - GEOL 150
Prerequisites/Notes: Freshman or sophomore standing; consent of instructor required for juniors and seniors
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There are 6000+ hospitals in the United States. Some perform a broad range of medical procedures, from emergency rooms to surgery to diagnostic care. Others focus on a single medical specialty - for instance, MedCath (MDTH) focuses exclusively on cardiology, while Dynacq Healthcare (DYII) operates specialty surgical hospitals. All hospitals receive revenues from government programs Medicare and Medicaid, private insurers, and directly from uninsured patients. Hospital operators vary in size - Dynacq Healthcare (DYII) one of the smallest, runs only 3 hospitals, while the largest hospital operator in America, Community Health Systems (CYH), operates 116 facilities.
Though the hospital industry has traditionally been quite profitable, with many hospitals remaining virtual monopolies in their geographic areas, a host of new challenges has emerged over the past few years. The numbers of uninsured patients are growing, reaching 47 million in 2006;[1] historically, hospitals collect only 10% of total amounts billed to such patients.[2] Since hospitals are required by law to provide emergency care to all patients,[3] bad debt expense has been rising throughout the industry. Additionally, the strain put on the Medicare system by the swift increase in beneficiaries has caused Congress to consider cutting back on reimbursements to healthcare providers. Even hospitals' monopoly positions are threatened by new competition from independent and physician-owned surgical and diagnostic centers.[4]
Historically, the hospital industry has been characterized by low levels of competition, with most communities home to only a few hospitals. However, the number of new facilities for delivering hospital services, such as physician-run outpatient surgery centers, specialty hospitals, and diagnostic centers, has grown rapidly. For instance, in 2007, there were 4900 registered outpatient surgery centers[19], accounting for 31% of the 50 million surgeries performed each year.[20] As a result of this jump in supply, for-profit hospitals are left with an excess of beds and not enough patients.[21] Furthermore, because independent competitors frequently have lower costs due to their smaller size and simpler infrastructure, they can provide the same services at lower prices than traditional hospitals.[22] Because hospitals use the income provided by high-margin operations to finance certain unprofitable services and procedures, the increased competition can completely erase profits by eliminating these margins.[23]In fact, only 500-1000 of the nation's more than 6000 hospitals remain consistently profitable.[24]
The number of uninsured patients has been rising throughout the nation, growing nearly 5% in 2006 to reach 47 million.[25] Since all hospitals are legally required to provide emergency care to anyone who needs it, whether they are insured or not, they face high expenses (specifically bad debt expense) from this trend.[26] Historically, hospitals have collected only 10% of total amounts billed to uninsured patients.[27] While hospitals have attempted to combat these losses by charging uninsured patients more for procedures with hopes of thus recovering greater amounts, this strategy has not proved effective.[28]
In order to increase or even maintain the breadth of specialized services available to its patients, hospitals have to hire qualified physicians and nurses. This has become an industry-wide challenge as the nation faces a shortage in both professions.
The retirement of the baby boomers, who make up slightly over a quarter of America's population, has had an economic as well as demographic impact on the nation as a whole.[36] A rapid increase in the number of elderly Americans provides an opportunity for hospital owners, since people older than 65 generally need more medical care.[37] People 65 and over account for 40-50% of total spending on healthcare; the per capita healthcare spending in this age group is 3-5 times higher than for people under 65.[38] As a result, total healthcare expenditures are already growing swiftly, rising 6.7% in 2006 to reach $2.1 trillion.[39] At the same time, the aging of the population will indirectly hurt the hospital industry through its effect on the Medicare system, which is becoming saturated as more baby boomers become eligible to participate. Medicare expenditures already comprised 5.3% of U.S. GDP in 2006[40] and existing reimbursement levels are not sustainable, suggesting that per-patient Medicare revenues for hospitals will decrease in the near future.[41]
The US government limits the amount that hospitals will be reimbursed for treating Medicare and Medicaid patients, putting a ceiling on the prices hospitals can charge for services it provides to such patients.[42] These limits have an especially significant effect on revenues because anywhere from 30% to over 40% of a typical hospital's patients are on Medicaid and Medicare.[43] As the number of patients using Medicare and Medicaid grows in future years, stretching federal resources, the government considering making changes to these programs to cap reimbursements further. For example, Medicare reimbursement rates were cut 10.6% on July 1, 2008; though the move was reversed two weeks later, the current rates have been for 2008, thus making it impossible for hospitals to raise prices.[44]
The hospital industry is fragmented, with hundreds of providers of various sizes spread throughout the country. Competition is limited by geographic constraints (there are never more than a few hospitals in one geographic area). Community Health Systems (CYH) is the largest for-profit national hospital operator, accounting for about 2% of the market (the chart below breaks down the market share of national for-profit hospital operators by revenues). The firm also holds the largest market share by number of hospitals - its facilities account for 2% of the 6013 total hospitals in America. [45]