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It's a big year for corn. With the booming ethanol industry driving up demand and prices, 2007 acres climbed to a size not seen in recent history. Corn is almost 30 million acres ahead of the soybeans, the next most planted commodity. And Congress is working on a new farm bill.
Although the Senate bill won't start moving until September, the House could start debating the Agriculture Committee's farm bill as soon as Thursday, and is aiming to vote before the August recess.
The National Corn Growers Association outlines some of the key provisions for corn growers:
Commodity Title
- Reducing Adjusted Gross Income limits for commodity and conservation payments from $2.5 million to a three-year average AGI income greater than $1 million a year, with no exceptions. Individuals with a three-year average AGI between $500,000 and $1 million would be ineligible for farm program payments (commodity and conservation) unless 66.66 percent of income is agriculturally related in which case the limit does not apply.
- An increase in the limit on direct payments for each producer from $40,000 to $60,000
- Advanced direct payments would be limited to 22 percent for 2008-2011 crop years. Advanced direct payments are terminated with 2012 crop year.
Energy Title
- Nearly $2.5 billion is designated for programs to advance renewable fuels and on-farm energy technologies.
Research Title
- $200 million in mandatory funding toward National Institute of Food and Agriculture, which will support competitive grants within USDA.
Conservation Title
- A payment limitation of $60,000 for any single program; $125,000 for more than one program
- Environmental Quality Incentive Program: Increase in funding for Conservation Innovation grants with specific allocations for air quality improvement and state incentives to help producers meet air quality regulatory requirements.
- Wetlands Reserve Program: A decrease in maximum enrollment from 3.8 million acres to 3.6 million acres
- Conservation Security Program: Authorization to the secretary of agriculture to make additional considerations when allocating funds to states in order to achieve equitable geographic distribution of funds.
- Grassland Reserve Program: Requirement that the secretary of agriculture enroll an additional 1 million acres during fiscal years 2008-2012.


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Every year at the Spring Cluster Meetings we have a discussion about saying good-bye to the internship congregation. This is the advice given to interns at that time. Supervisors hear all of this, but lay committees might find this advice helpful.
1. Talk openly about leaving and your feelings about it.
2. Accept invitations out, even if they were not offered before.
3. Pay outstanding debts in the community.
4. Have a farewell celebration -- accept gifts graciously.
5. Take time to say individual good-byes to special people, one-on-one, before the last day.
6. Say thank you -- especially to your supervisor and lay committee.
7. Attempt to reconcile your broken and damaged relationships before leaving.
8. Be sad if you feel like it; be glad if you feel like it; but try to avoid leaving mad.
9. Avoid illusions about coming back.
10. Complete all written evaluations early enough so as to allow for feedback face-to-face (no parting shots).
11. Recognize there is an element of incompleteness in every internship.
12. Do all you can to ease the beginnings of the next intern.
13. Be thoughtful about your future involvement in the congregation's on-line social networks, particularly if you have had major responsibilities with youth.
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Vanderbilt University Law School recently conducted a study examining the relationship between weight class and jobs. Minnesota Public Radio reported on the study, which showed that heavier women are more likely to work lower-compensated jobs as they gain weight. The reason for this phenomenon is not actually clear, but it is evident that perceived beauty or attractiveness is related to better pay for both sexes.The study's author has suggested that a sixth category should be added to the prohibited discrimination under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. She believes that the research study is highly indicative of discrimination against obese people.
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Testing Eight Street/Strip Mopars At The Strip In Las Vegas
In years past, our group of gearheads would assemble by the main gate of the Mopars at the Strip show in Vegas on Friday morning to have a meeting, and we, the staff of Mopar Muscle, would meet with the car owners, judge each car on its appearance, and then we would take the group of them out on the streets of Las Vegas. This has become increasingly more dangerous as the years have passed, and to be honest, isn't something we were comfortable doing again. Once our street passes were taken care of, we would then hit the track.
After Randy and I discussed the great level of discomfort each of us had taking eight nice Mopars onto the Interstate, and frequently pulling over onto the side of the highway while I jumped into the next car, it was decided we would alter this part. We feel the change that was made actually gave us a better feeling for the cars if we took them out one-by-one. And, best of all, it was much safer than pulling off onto the side of the highway with its barely existent safety shoulder.
Everything else in the competition stays the same because nothing was immediately dangerous. We still judge each of the selected competitors in the same three categories and score them on how well they perform in all of them. At the end of the day, the winner should be a car that displays a terrific balance of performance, comfort, and appearance.
This year's winner was Marc Vieu in his '72 Demon. His car embodies the goals of the True Street Challenge and was compliant on the road, consistent at the track, and had an outstanding fit and finish that kept him in the top ranks in every category we test in. This gave him the clean victory. Each participant's cars excel in their own way, and there isn't a loser in the group. That's why the cars will be organized by their elapsed time, rather than randomly or by score, as in years past. Check out which cars were up for the challenge this year.
Marc Viau
|'72 Dodge Demon
Marc's '72 Demon stood out from the group, with its sinister tuxedo black paint. A quick lap around the car had us amazed at the details more than anything else. Yes, some of the chrome was painted black, but it fit the look and feel of the car. Behind the modern 17-inch front Coy's wheels were Viper RT-10 calipers chomping down on 11 3/4-inch Cordoba rotors. The rear 18-inch Coy's were covering a nice set of disc brakes as well. When Marc presses the brake pedal, this thing yields from whatever to zero in a hurry.
The gas-fill cap and side marker lights were removed and the areas smoothed out, while fiberglass bumpers replaced the original, heavy chromed units. The body was sprayed in PPG black paint and the Demon side stripes were painted in a ghost effect in House of Kolor Platinum Sparkle Pearl paint. For power, the 340 was bored .060-inch over and treated to iron Mopar Swirl-port heads, KB pistons, Comp roller rockers, and a .237/.242 cam with .547/.555 lift. Sitting atop the small-block is an Edelbrock Performer RPM Air Gap intake manifold, port-matched to the cylinder heads and fueled by a Demon 750 carb. Behind the engine rests an A-833 four-speed manual. Marc says that a 340-based 416 is still under construction.
On the street, the ride was the best in the group. It had a modern suspension feel, yet still retained the simplicity that we've come to appreciate with these cars. Inside, the custom upholstery was made by Henry of The Upholsters, in Riverside, California, with race-inspired front seats and a rear seat delete. In the trunk, a custom toolbox was painted just like the exterior of the car and houses a spare tire that will clear the large Viper brakes. The trunk also houses the 20-gallon fuel cell, floor jack, and an Optima battery.
Rick Hunt
|'68 Dodge Coronet
Rick is a reader of Mopar Muscle and read last year's coverage and decided he would try and enter in 2010. "I knew I didn't have the prettiest car, but it's fast and I thought I would have a chance at winning." Sure enough, he was easily the fastest car in the competition. With what the car didn't have in look-at-me paint, it made up for tenfold on the street and going down the strip.
11s come easy, thanks to a powerful combination 440 that was built by Performance Machine in Idaho Falls, Idaho. The short-block was bored .030-inch over and sports a .560-lift cam with 267-degrees duration. The thump emitting from Rick's Hooker headers and Flowmaster mufflers is rather menacing, and this RB draws in air through a Quick Fuel Holley 850 carb attached to a Holley Street Dominator intake manifold and Edelbrock heads. Rick converted the car over to a Mopar Performance electronic ignition for more efficient power and spark. The power is sent through a 727 that was rebuilt by Ultimate Transmission in Boise, Idaho, which holds up to the endless beating that Rick subjects this B-Body to on the street and strip.
To put the road manners of this Coronet into perspective, we had to really understand that this was a legitimate mid 11-second car that felt no different than any of the other well-behaved cars on the street. Rick even managed to pull the front tire off the ground under his ferocious 1.57-second 60-foot short time. This car is every bit as easy-going on the street as it was to cruise into the 11s.
Julie Reynolds
|'70 Plymouth Duster
The only real casualty of this year's event-seems like there is one every year-was Julie Reynolds' '70 Duster. Before we had a chance to enjoy a ride in this 11-second Plymouth, Julie was out competing in one of the many drag classes at the MATS. On her second pass of the weekend, her transmission went out, leaving the car on the starting line. After Julie limped the car back to the trailer with the help of her family, she was bummed about the entire weekend.
Still, in spite of this setback, her car scored high in every category we were able to judge it on. The car was painted Firethorn Red, which makes this Duster special and a little dare-to-be-different. It's an original 340 car with the Rallye Sport package and front discs. The suspension is all stock, and the rear Super Stock leafs were moved inboard to make more room for the slicks. Inside is an original, unrestored interior with working gauges. Powering the A-Body is a rebuilt 340 with Eagle rods, Ross pistons, and a factory crankshaft. A 246-duration Steve Long camshaft and port-matched heads generate enough power to motivate this light-weight into the high 11s. The Holley intake and 780 carburetor provide the LA mill with air and fuel, and an MSD ignition ignites the mixture. She wanted to thank her friend, Kevin Briles, in addition to her daughter and crew chief, Nichole, for helping her with the car.
John Godshalk
|'69 Dodge Super Bee
John Godshalk tells us that this was his first car, and over the years the two have been through a lot together. John's Super Bee is dressed in an immaculate coat of B5 Blue paint that catches every bit of sunlight. It faired quite well in the looks department, but that's not all that's important to us.
After John lifted off his original A12's flat black hood, it revealed a healthy 500 cubic inch RB with a rotating assembly from 440Source, 440Source aluminum heads, and an original Six Pack intake manifold and Holley Six Pack carburetors. TTI headers and a 3-inch exhaust with Dynomax mufflers control the sound of the big-block as John maneuvers his rebuilt factory Hurst shifter into the next gear.
The A12's road manners were amongst the best in the competition, and to top things off, it was one of the most comfortable and well-appointed. The suspension has been completely rebuilt with parts from Just Suspension, and it now sports Mopar Performance torsion bars and KYB shocks. A set of Billet Specialties wheels with BFG Radial T/A tires on the street and Mickey Thompson drag radials on the strip helped John achieve a great balance of street manners and track supremacy.
Buddy Marshall
|'68 Dodge Dart
When talking with Buddy Marshall, you quickly realize what a fun-loving guy he is. His spirits are up, and he was very enthusiastic about competing in the challenge. His '68 Dart was equally as impressive, too. As one of his more than 40 Mopars, it's great to see that his appreciation for the 360-powered A-Body is so deep. He was constantly cleaning it up and was eager to get the car on the road for the street portion of our testing.
When asked what was under the hood, Buddy replied back that it was "a mystery 360." He found the car on Craigslist in excellent shape but the engine was blown up. That's when he got a sweet deal on the trusty LA that's in the car now. Buddy tells us that he hasn't even opened up since he's owned it. What he can tell you is that he and his friends Mile Williams and Paul Harrison installed an Edelbrock Torker intake manifold, Holley 850, and upgraded the ignition system with some MSD parts. They also upgraded the exhaust with tti headers and a Flowmaster exhaust system. Inside the transmission they installed a Cheetah valve body and swapped the rear gears out for a set of 3.55s.
Once we exited the MATS show field in the Dart and made our way onto the highway, we were pleased to hear the lull of a low-spun small-block as his Gear Vendors overdrive kicked in. His option for super stock springs and PST restoration parts made the car a joy on the roads. Inside the factory seats were comfortable, and the ride wasn't harsh at all.
Chad Demler
|'70 Plymouth Cuda
It seemed like every time we tracked down Chad during the event, he was either behind the wheel of his marvelously restored '70 'Cuda, or he was just getting out of the car after making a pass down the track. His 'Cuda had all the details right, and the paint was smooth and clean. Inside, a set of custom floor mats help Chad keep his pristine carpeting in nice shape as he shifts the gears going down the street or strip.
When Chad popped the hood, it was like going back in time. Everything was there, and the addition of some aftermarket dress-up items didn't hurt it one bit. He cleverly disguised an Edelbrock intake manifold and carburetor. Everything inside the RB is stock, and so is the ignition system. The only other aftermarket additions are the Hooker headers and a 3-inch Magnaflow exhaust that round out this well-optioned 440.
On the road, the stock restored suspension was very comfortable. The 3.90 gears kept the rpm a little high, but Magnaflow exhaust kept the sound levels to a delightful and manageable level. At the track, Chad was getting the hang of sending the big-block power to the Radial T/A tires without causing a smoke show. He and his daughter are true car people, and even spent the weekend camping at the show with their Mopar.
John Copage
|'70 Dodge Challenger
John and Barbara Copage own this Dodge that originally came with a 383 engine and was a retired drag car. Over the past few years, John has worked on getting the car into excellent shape so that he could enjoy it on the street and show off his hard work at the show circuit. As a red-on-red Hemi Challenger, of course it was cool.
While a 383 is a terrific performance platform, we can all agree that the Hemi is "where it's at." John digressed from his back-to-stock restoration for one small non-original alteration, a 472-cubic inch Hemi crate engine. It's supported by stock exhaust and electronics. John even sourced an original Hemi intake and carburetors. Behind the engine is a factory four-speed manual and a Dana 60 filled with 4.10 gears and a SureGrip diff.
Out on the sun-battered streets of Nevada, the Challenger scored high marks. John's smooth shifting combined with the smooth-riding suspension and entirely stock exhaust was the recipe for the perfect cruiser. With little motivation, John rolled into the throttle and unleashed some Hemi power, pinning passengers in their seat. Out on the track, John was another unfortunate one this year when his water pump belt decided it no longer wanted to stay together and caused the Challenger to puke some coolant. Thankfully, he caught it early and no damage was done. But that meant he only was able to make one pass before calling it a day.
Stephanie Williams
|'70 Plymouth Cuda
What were you doing when you were 16 years old? Stephanie Williams was doing burnouts, autocrossing, and cruising around in her fresh '72 'Cuda at the 2010 Mopars at the Strip event in Las Vegas. Her uncle, Mike, and her father, Steve, conspired to build the car for her 16th birthday-which was last November. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to complete the car in time, so a new date was set: the 2010 Mopars at the Strip.
Stephanie came out with her family and a camcorder to document the lifetime experience for a school project. We hope she scores high marks like we gave her 'Cuda. The first thing you'll notice is the brand-new Moulin Rouge PPG paint and the photo-luminescent flake strobe stripe down that side that glows in the dark. Under the hood is a mild 340 with stock internals, a Hughes Racing cam, and an Edelbrock Air Gap intake manifold with a Holley 650 on top. The small-block sends its exhaust through a pair of Doug's headers with 3-inch collectors, a 2 1/2-inch Pypes X-pipe with cutouts, and two Flowmaster 40-series mufflers. Inside is a freshly restored white interior that is almost blinding.
On the road, you could just tell that Stephanie was excited to be behind the wheel. Her car dealt with the Vegas roads with ease with its mostly stock suspension, and thanks to the thick front and rear sway bars, the E-Body was smooth through the corners. At the track, Stephanie made her first ever passes down the strip. She didn't even stage with her back tires like most first timers!


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NEW YORK -- At the start of Monday night's IFP Gotham Independent Awards, host Nick Kroll made an inside "Inside Llewyn Davis" joke. "A common theme in this year's movies," the comedian said, "are the horrors we inflict upon one another -- slavery, war, folk music."
A few hours later, Kroll's quip proved surprisingly prescient: "Davis," the Coen brothers' fictionalized look at Dave Van Ronk and the '60's folk revival, won the night's top prize, best feature.
It was something of an upset for the CBS Films release, which has been on few forecasters' best-picture shortlists. And while the movie's New York setting might have been part of what worked in its favor at the Gotham-friendly Gothams -- star Oscar Isaac, accepting the prize on behalf of the Coens, noted the connection -- it nonetheless offered the film a much-needed boost at the dawn of nomination season.
PHOTOS: Gotham Awards 2013 | Red carpet arrivals
The post-Thanksgiving Gothams are a coastal counterpoint of sorts to Los Angeles' Independent Spirit Awards, held a distant three months later. By going this early, the show hopes to set the tone for the flurry of prizes to come, or at least solidify a few favorites.
That seemed to be the case for Matthew McConaughey, who won the first of what could well be multiple acting wins for his role as an unlikely AIDS crusader in "The Dallas Buyers Club"; the prize gave him an early-season edge over "12 Years A Slave's" Chiwetel Ejiofor and other contenders. McConaughey costar Jared Leto accepted the prize, thanking the audience by holding a phone to his ear that -- he said -- had McConaughey on the other end.
On the actress side, Brie Larson was the winner over favorite Cate Blanchett for her role as a troubled foster-care counselor in "Short Term 12," the indie darling that is likely to have a tougher climb at the Oscars (as in, it unfortunately won't land any major noms). Larson took note of the moment, saying in her speech that "it may be the only time I accept an award, so going to try to get everyone in." And she did.
"Fruitvale Station," the tale of the BART shooting of Oscar Grant III, was also a big winner at the confab, with the film's Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan winning breakthrough director and breakthrough actor, respectively — and presaging good things at the Spirit Awards, if not the Oscars.
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The documentary prize went to Joshua Oppenheimer's "The Act of Killing," about an elderly band of former thugs in Indonesia, as that film emerges as an early Oscar front-runner.
The annual event has an enthusiastic quality, but room acoustics and indie-film restlessness make for a lot of talking, particularly during speeches.
That prompted Leto and "The Butler" director Lee Daniels to chastise the audience.
Daniels' speech, as he introduced his film's star, Forest Whitaker, for a lifetime achievement award, was one of the more notable of the evening. In it, he noted that "when I did the research for 'The Butler' I became really angry at white people." When the room started to laugh anxiously, Daniels said he wasn't joking and noted, "My grandmother got her teeth knocked out. My mother got her teeth knocked out."
Whitaker was able to bring the crowd to a hush as he spoke mystically about his journey, the foundation of truth and universe-expansion. (Daniels called Whitaker "an angel from God.")
Kroll struggled with his material for much of the night, particularly with industry digs at the likes of IFC, prompting him to improvise a number of jokes about his own bombing.
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Outgoing New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg then made sure the point was driven home. Introducing a lifetime achievement award for New York film commissioner Katherine Oliver, who received a strong ovation for her efforts to bring production to the city, Bloomberg said, "Nick Kroll should have mentioned Katherine Oliver's name. He would have gotten more applause." (Bloomberg also made a Rob Ford joke. "The mayor of Toronto and the mayor of New York do NOT have a lot in common.")
"Before Midnight" director Richard Linklater received a lifetime achievement award too, and if the talk from presenters Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy wasn't up to their sizzling patter from the films, it did justice to their director, whose clip reel demonstrated just what an influence he's been over independent cinema over the last two decades. The introduction also included this Delpy line, "I can actually immolate myself on stage. Not that anyone would know because no one is listening. But I'm not gonna do it. Because we might do a fourth film one day."
The most touching part of the evening came when James Gandolfini was given a posthumous lifetime achievement award, with his family taking the stage after a moving series of clips. It provided a template for how to do a tribute properly (here's hoping the Oscars take note).
In presenting the award to Gandolfini's family, frequent "Sopranos" collaborator Steve Buscemi, who directed and starred in episodes of the HBO show, said that "to be accepted by Jimmy as a director was the best feeling in the world," adding, "I can't imagine any actor out there who could make us care about someone who inflicted so much pain on everyone around him."
Coen Bros' 'inside Lleyn Davis' wins best picture at Gotham Awards
African American Film Critics Assn. announces special honorees
'Frozen' and 'The Croods' are among nominees for Annie Awards
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Favorites and new faces join in on the fun of Day Out with Thomas 2014 in Grapevine (March 28-30 & April 4-6)! The Museum of the American Railroad and the Grapevine Vintage Railroad pride themselves in bringing guests topnotch performances and entertainment each year, and this year we have expanded!
Day Out with Thomas 2014 will feature main stage acts Mister David and Jerry the Magician. Mister David blends unique, original songs with puppetry and interactive dancing for a show-stopping good time. Jerry the Magician dazzles youngsters in his brilliant magic shows which rely upon audience participation. He's a crowd-pleaser, but we still can't figure out how he makes those magic tricks work!
Boocoos the Clown is back by popular demand. Not only is he Boocoos of Fun, he's an experienced performer who wants to make all of our guests feel special with an energetic giggle! Boocoos has performed all over Texas and we are delighted to welcome him back to our wonderful entertainment lineup.
Also returning to the event is the Choo Choo Express – a miniature train ride experience! This trackless train can accommodate children and adults alike, so Mom, Dad, Grandma, and Grandpa, you won't be left out. Engineer Skip looks forward to meeting you and introducing your family to this exciting experience. Another major attraction this year is the Island of Sodor Sandbox FunDig! We will bring the fun of the Island of Sodor to you with sand castle building activities and just plain fun under the sun.
And for the little kids and kids at heart, there's a huge professionally built model train layout by the Lone Star Hi-Railers. Among the many special things about this layout, Thomas & Friends characters will run around the miniature rails right in front of you.
Ponies, and bunnies, and ducks! Oh my! A One of a Kind Pony Party brings their deluxe petting zoo for an interactive safari into the animal world.
Also featured are the Imagination Station, story time and video viewing, Sir Topham Hatt, and more! Purchase your tickets for the date and train ride time that best fit your schedule and plan to stay for the day to enjoy all of these fantastic activities with Thomas!
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(Big Leaf Hydrangea) Edgy® Hearts Hydrangea has large, intense blooms with dark pinkish-red flowers accentuated with a thin, pure white line on the margin. It's a small to medium sized shrub with strong stems and glossy foliage. The flower color can be pushed to blue with the addition of aluminum sulfate. Edgy® Hearts grows best in well-drained soil that has been amended with peat moss, leaf mold or compost. Fertilize in early spring by applying a slow release fertilizer specialized for trees & shrubs. Follow the label for recommended rate of application. Flower color is affected by pH. For blue flowers, the soil must be more acidic and for pinkish-red flowers, the soil must be more alkaline. Edgy as in pushing the envelope to be way out there, we are excited to bring you the most extensive line of Hydrangea with artistic bi-colored flowers. These beauties will stand out in the garden. Each selection is strong growing and holds its large blooms in elegant fashion. As a young plant it is best to prune or pinch your plant in order to build a full-bodied, well-branched plant. If the plant is leggy when you purchased it, shear the plant back hard by 1/3 to 1/2 its original size. Once it puts on an inch or two of growth, pinch the branch tips to remove just the growing tips, these tips control branching. Once growing tips are removed the buds below it will turn into stems. Once these new branches grow an inch or two, pinch the tips out again. You can repeat this throughout the first growing season as you are tending your garden. Although you will sacrifice blooms, this technique results in a well-branched, full-bodied plant that will have more flowers in subsequent years. During the second and subsequence seasons, prune or pinch as necessary after flowering and before buds set in mid-August. Do not be afraid to prune or shear your plant harder if you wish to maintain a shorter size
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An emergency contraception pill has been given federal approval to be sold over-the-counter with no age restrictions, but it won't immediately be available on store shelves.
"We plan to have it in stores by Aug. 1," said Denise Bradley, spokeswoman for the manufacturer, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries.
Changes have to be made in labeling by the manufacturer to allow the emergency contraception pill, called Plan B One-Step, to be widely available.
It's currently available over-the-counter to those 17 and older and to younger teens with a prescription.
The pill generally is effective in preventing pregnancy if taken within 72 hours of birth control failure or unprotected sex.
At Group Health, a committee will meet next week to talk about how they'll manage over-the-counter sales, said Katie McCarthy, a Group Health spokeswoman.
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I am a lover of hip hop. I fell in love with the music form when I was 10, and I've never been the same since. As a child and a teenager, when I wasn't in class or …Read More
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In the modern era, beauty is unavoidably tied to the simplistic concept of "prettiness," like that found in greeting card poems or velvet paintings of lighthouses. In truth, beauty is far more. Beauty reveals the gamut of human experience. True …Read More
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The church growth movement mandates "contemporary worship" styles, which means, in practice, replacing hymns with "praise songs." These consist of simple lyrical phrases, often repeated, set to a simple tune in the style of pop music. The problem with such …Read More
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table event used to manipulate tables.
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macro symbols with function symbols, so that macro names may be used
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entries from the table with ease, see remove-macro-alias.
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fact, this table does indeed associate many of the macros provided
by the ACL2 system, including
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|Dev: Gearbox Software
|Release: February 12, 2013
|Players: 1-2
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|Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language
The multiplayer is, to be fair, a far better experience than the campaign. Depending on the mode, players are typically split into two teams: aliens and Marines. Aliens have the ability to track the humans through walls via their handy infrared vision. The Marines, of course, are equipped with the motion sensor that anyone who's seen an alien movie is familiar with. The sides are surprisingly well-balanced and gameplay is fast-paced.
Though, the same problems that exist in the game's single-player campaign are apparent on the multiplayer side as well. Animations are choppy and/or missing, textures are flat and broken, and the game's gun mechanics are frustratingly unintuitive. Plus, there's a latency issue that feels like an extra slap in the face.
Players can play through the campaign in the game's co-op mode, but I'm not going to sell it here. There's no reason for it to exist. Your friends will like you even less if you trick them into playing it with you, so just avoid it altogether.
Even though I have a terribly high tolerance for bad monster movies, I still couldn't find an excuse for Aliens: Colonial Marines. The game has been in development for over five years, and nearly every single component has some major flaw.
It's yet another black eye on a franchise that's already taken a heavy beating.
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I recently purchased this watch (first JLC) and wanted to know a little more about it:
1. Is the watch original?
1. How would you date the watch? My guess is 1940's
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Molly Michelmore Associate Professor of History, Department Head
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Curriculum Vitae
- Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2006
- B.A., Amherst College, summa cum laude –– Degree in History with Highest Honors
Fiscal Policy and Welfare State Formation (National and Cross-National Perspectives), American Political Development, Late 20th Century U.S. Political, Cultural and Social History
U.S. history, 20th century U.S. political, cultural and social history
Selected Publications
"Why the income tax is worth celebrating" Washington Post Opinions, February 17, 2013
Tax and Spend: The Welfare State, Tax Politics and the Limits of American Liberalism, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
"'What Have You Done for Me Lately': The Welfare State, Tax Politics and the Search for a New Majority, 1968-1980" Journal of Policy History, Fall 2012.
"Tax-Day Tangle," University of Pennsylvania Press On-Line.
"Don't Just Blame the Republicans for the No-Tax Pledge -- Democrats are Allergic to Tax Hikes, Too," History News Network, 7-9-'12
Professor Michelmore has also published in the Christian Science Monitor, The Richmond Times Dispatch and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and has often been an invited guest on public and talk radio.
Current Research
Professor Michelmore's research interests lie in 20th century American politics, and specifically in the relationship between fiscal policy, the politics of taxing and spending, and content of post-New Deal liberalism. She explored these concepts in her first book Tax and Spend: The Welfare State, Tax Politics and the Limits of American Liberalism.
Her current research project, As a Taxpayer and a Citizen: Rights, Obligations and Democracy in Modern America, builds on this work by examining how various groups, including women, African Americans, property owners, pacifists and anti-war activists, immigrants and anti-immigration activists, the poor, and gay men and women have used their political and legal identities as taxpayers to effect policy changes and to expand (or defend existing) boundaries of citizenship.


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了解并抵御现代DDoS的威胁(网络犯罪与执法) - Understanding and Defending Against the Modern DDoS Threat (Cybercrime and Law Enforcement)
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During high school, Cara rowed for the Steel City Rowing Club. She competed at Junior World Championships in both 2003 and 2004 in a 2x finishing 12th and 15th respectively. She has won three gold medals at US Rowing National Championships: one in 2002 (2x) and two in 2003 (2x and 4x). At Youth Invites, she won a 2x gold in 2003, a 2x silver in 2004 and a 4x bronze in 2005. During her freshman season, Cara won a gold in the Youth Eights division at the Head of the Charles. During the spring of 2006, she rowed in the Yale V8, winning a bronze medal at Eastern Sprints and finishing 10th at NCAAs. She also rowed in the V8 at the 2006 HOCR, finishing 5th in the Championship Eights division. Cara is a member of Ezra Stiles College. Inspriational quotes: "Clear eyes, full heart, can't lose." -Stephen M. Carden '07
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DURHAM , N.C. – Measurement, Inc., a Durham-based educational company, discriminated against a former employee by failing to accommodate her religious beliefs and then discharging her because of her religion, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
According to the EEOC's complaint, Jacqueline Dukes, who worked as a team leader in the scanning department at the company's Durham facility, is a member of a Christian denomination called Children of Yisrael. As such, Dukes observes her Sabbath from sunset on Friday until sunset on Saturday. The complaint alleges that in September 2008, Measurement told Dukes that starting in October, she would have to work on Saturdays on a new project. Dukes, who had previously informed the company that she could not work Saturdays because of her Sabbath, reminded Measurement officials that she observed her Sabbath on Saturday, and therefore could not work on Saturdays as requested. Around October 24, 2008, Measurement discharged Dukes.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires employers to attempt to make reasonable accommodations to sincerely held religious beliefs of employees as long as this poses no undue hardship. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, Durham Division (EEOC v. Measurement, Inc., Civil Action No. 1:10-cv-00623 ) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The EEOC seeks back pay, reinstatement, compensatory damages and punitive damages for Dukes, as well as injunctive relief.
"In this case, the employer refused to allow Ms. Dukes a simple accommodation to enable her to practice her sincerely held religious belief and keep her job," said Lynette A. Barnes, regional attorney for the EEOC's Charlotte District, which includes the agency's Raleigh Area Office, where the charge was filed. "For example, the EEOC contends that the company could have scheduled Ms. Dukes to be off on Saturdays or could have allowed her to switch shifts with another employee so that she could observe her Sabbath and yet continue her employment. This case demonstrates the EEOC's commitment to fighting religious discrimination in the workplace."
Measurement, Inc., headquartered in Durham, North Carolina is a full-service educational company that provides achievement tests and scoring services for state and local departments of education as well as private businesses. It has 13 offices in nine states and employs over 300 full-time employees and over 3,000 seasonal employees.
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws against employment discrimination. Further information is available at www.eeoc.gov.


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Dultz, Canaries Walk-Off On Trois-Rivières
SIOUX FALLS, SD -- On the night that veteran big leaguer Reggie Abercrombie returned to Sioux Falls, rookie Kevin Dultz stole the spotlight.
With the game tied at 5-5 and a runner at third base, Trois-Rivières Aigles closer Nick Sarianides walked J.P. Ramirez to face Dultz, who lined an 0-1 pitch off the top of the left field wall to plate Jake Taylor and give the Canaries a 6-5 win on Tuesday night.
It was the first walkoff win of the season for the Canaries (30-39), who improved to 17-10 in the month of July with the series-opening interleague victory.
Trois-Rivières (27-40) came back three times on deficits of 1-0, 2-1 and 4-2, overtaking the Birds for the first time in the top of the ninth on a bases-loaded walk by Jordan Whatcott. But the Canaries responded in the bottom of the ninth when Abercrombie and Tim Pahuta led off with back-to-back infield hits. Pahuta was replaced by Taylor, and both advanced on Jared Clark's sacrifice. Abercrombie scored on a wild pitch while Sarianides (0-3) was intentionally walking Ramirez in order to face Dultz.
Dultz finished 2-for-5 with a double and the game-winning RBI, bolstering his season average to .291. Initially released from Canaries spring training, the rookie catcher has made 37 starts this year and is hitting .333 in July.
The Canaries got a quality start from Kyle Ruwe, who gave up four runs, two earned, on four hits in seven innings. He walked one and struck out two.
Chris Allen (1-0) was a lucky winner after striking out Jon Smith, the only batter he faced, to end the ninth inning with the bases loaded.
Pahuta and Marcos Rodriguez each had run-scoring doubles, and Abercrombie was 1-for-5 in his season debut.
The three-game series against the Trois-Rivieres Aigles continues at 7:05 p.m. on Wednesday at Sioux Falls Stadium.
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This year's 15 biggest gifts to charitable causes by American billionaires added up to more than last year's, but of that total more than half came from one man.
Wealthy Americans gave $5.1 billion dollars in the 15 biggest charitable donations of 2012, according to the "Chronicle of Philanthropy." But subtract the $3 billion pledged by Warren Buffett, and the total would be far less than last year's $2.6 billion.
(Read more: Are Brits Less Charitable Than Americans?)
The top givers were:
- Warren Buffett: $3.09 billion in stock to be divided equally among three foundations run by his children
- Mark Zuckerberg: $498.8 million to Silicon Valley Community Foundation to support education and health
- Paul Allen: $300 million pledge to the Allen Institute for Brain Science
- Mortimer Zuckerman: $200 million pledge to the Columbia University's Mind Brain Behavior Initiative
- Fred Fields: $150 million bequest to Oregon Community Foundation to support art and education
- Carl Icahn: $150 million pledge to Mount Sinai School of Medicine for medical research
Three of those top gifts were announced in December – either a good sign for 2013, or an effort to avoid the effects of the fiscal cliff.


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Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
My dog Max is around 7-8 yrs old. He is a very active Labrador mix. For about 6-7 months he has been biting at his back leg. He developed a lump in the area, so we took him to the vet. They removed the lump and the toe, checked his lymph nodes, and said it had spread there. We are taking him to an oncologist. They said the type of cancer was a round cell sarcoma. I am trying to do research on it and I can't find much. Though we are already getting help I would still like to research what I can. If you have any information on this I would really appreciate it.
Lili Duda, VMD, Section Editor of the OncoLink Veterinary Oncology Menu, responds:
Round cell tumors are usually considered the third major category of cancers alongside carcinomas and sarcomas. Round cell tumors include lymphoma, plasma cell tumor/multiple myeloma, mast cell tumor, histiocytoma, histiocytic tumors, transmissible venereal tumor, and sometimes melanoma. It is important to determine which particular type of round cell a tumor consists of, as the treatment recommendations and prognosis can vary widely. There are a variety of special stains and immunohistochemical techniques that can be used to help determine the specific tumor type. The veterinarian needs to work in conjunction with the veterinary histopathologist to help arrive at a final diagnosis.


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First Week of Class3 comments
It's almost the end of the first week of school. I feel really good to be in my second year of college. So many Freshman feeling lost and wondering where to go and where to eat. So far my classes are easy and the teachers are cool. I have my Psychology professor who was told that he sound like Ben Stein from the Clear Eye commercial. The whole auditorium started laughing. That was very funny. Imagine listening to him for three days a week. Yikes! I'm totally ready for the weekend and being able to relax and just get some rest from all the ripping and running I've done this week. Believe, I think it is just getting started. Hopefully this will be a good semester and I can ace it all with grades of excellency.
I spent like $600 on books this semester. Agree with me that you may have spent not have spent that much on books outside of college. Though the lines were long, they moved pretty quickly. Well, at least the line I was in. And that the end of the semester the campus bookstore will be seeing by face as I return them all for some money back. In Oral Communication class we have to watch Obama's speech and critique/analyze it for class next week. I really don't want to watch it, but I am sure that I can also find it on YouTube this weekend. That's apart of homework that I have among others. [update: I ended up watching his speech so that I could have been easier for me to critique. Sometimes situations end up where we are tired of hearing about it or ready to move on and it gets tiring. So I'm anxious to get everything over with and for him to win president. I am not really big into politics, but I believe things turn out according to the majority]. I guess this is my week's update on the first of week of being back in school.
Synchroblogging: College Style!
What such an amount of people that are signing up. I was not expecting so many; however it is good to see people are interested in synchroblogging. The first session is September 14-19, 2008. The topic is: This Really Bugs Me. You can go and run with the topic. There's nothing stopping you from freely writing. This should be a good topic whether serious or funny, it should be all fun! I'm sure there is something or someone that bugs the heck out of you. You may have more than one person or little pet-peeve, but whatever it is we want to hear. Be sure to keep everything at the appropriate level. This is an advance note about the first topic. Also, you can be reminded by e-mail or on your comment section of your blog. For future reference, any questions or comments or suggestions for topics, feel free to contact me in any form.
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Calling all bloggers to participate in a event of Synchroblogging: College Style! It's similar to those blog carnivals that you may have seen throughout the blogosphere. Though this is set up for those who are students in college that blog, Synchroblogging: College Style is open for those who are students that actually blog, bloggers who write about university and college in general. Whether you are in college or not, you are invited to participate. You don't have to be a student blogger, but as long as it relates to college on any level you would like. There's no limit to anyone that can join in on the fun. The first session is scheduled to take place in mid-September.
Now ask yourself what do I get out of this Synchroblogging? I'll answer that for you! You will gain more hints on your blog, more readers, discover other bloggers of the same niche or another background, more comments and just the fact of having fun and doing something different.
If you would like to participate, have any questions or anything else, feel free to e-mail, leave a comment, or even IM me.
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I believe that it is a good effort for anyone who, especially college students, to reflect back on previous writing assignments to find the minor and major mistakes in order to enhance their skills. I remember taking English 1010 Composition class for Freshman and we had to write a letter that demonstrated Student Learning Outcomes. Each student had to write an evaluation in a letter form with specific instructions. (I forgot how it happened, but from my class, my letter was chosen to be read from the pool of others written from my classmates). After I have survived different assignments from a year's writing assignment, all the skills I gained from the course will be very helpful in the future. Rather you are in college or still in high school, you should be able to sit and think how you will approach the different types of writing assignments that are given to you by your instructors.
Sometimes after we realize what we have learned from different course, especially those of English, we can use them in every ability possible. With everything said, I would like to my letter to sum of the purpose or point of this me writing this post.
November 3, 2007
Dear Portfolio Evaluator:
This semester I have demonstrated the Learning Outcomes for this English course that helped me developed a foundation of improving and developing reading and writing skills to a higher level.
Analyzing and critiquing a writer's essay is something that is usually done on a simple basis. For example, in high school I remember reading novels in the eleventh grade where the teacher wanted us to think about the purpose that the writer was trying to send to the readers, or the class would have to write an essay about the novel using a rubric. In this English course, I have demonstrated the goal of analyzing an author's essay and discovering the purpose of his or her rhetorical choices. In the essay the "Fourth of July," I have discovered the purpose of why the author uses a word several times and why the author uses an ironic title to talk about her vacation. To help me understand the text I was reading, I highlighted certain words to be used as context in different sections of the essay so that I could dissect everything to find the author's message. After noticing different colors of highlighters, style, and choice of words, tone, and all other elements used in Audre Lorde's essay just popped out of the book. This method really helped me to meet the ability to analyze a writer's essay.
The ability to comprehend the essays which we had to write about was a learning outcome that I felt I met. Taking the quizzes over different essays after reading them helped me with comprehending a college-level text because I found out what I needed to know and what I already knew that could help me understand the essays. To help meet this reading outcome, I believe that my Reader Response essay was something I enjoyed writing since I actually got to be objective and disagree with what the author in one way or another. My essay response to the essay "Real Men Don't: Anti-Male Bias in English" helped me to comprehend the author's purpose of writing the essay. In other words, the dialogue journal with quotes helped me to get a general idea of what I will use for rebuttal. Once I wrote the essay, I reread it to discover the writer's message and what he was trying to tell the audience. The peer review groups allowed another student to evaluate my essay for certain standards. Since the student gave a critique and understood what I was saying in my essay, I concluded that I comprehended the writer's essay through effective method.
From this first-year course, I have demonstrated the skill of thinking of my own ideas and responses and ideas of other authors to quote, summarize, and synthesize their work to respond to their works to prove a point. In my essay, about whether or not to make English the official language in the United States, I used several quotes from the selections to prove my point that I was for the government to make English official. I have never written a synthesis essay until it was explained and assigned to me by my teacher. As a prewriting activity, I read every essay from the book twice and highlighted quotes that were similar to each other among the group of essays discussed. I can use my work as evidence because throughout the essay, there are several quotes to help me develop an idea of explaining my point in forming disagreement with the topic given. Taking ten minutes to read and respond to a reason by using a quote also helped me to complete this learning skill.
Using the writing process has helped me develop and construct essays. Participating in peer review groups allowed me to see what my classmates thought of my writing and if they were able to comprehend what I had written throughout this course. Being able to see what my classmates thought of my ideas and using supporting quotes helped me to revise and edit sentences that contradicted myself or might be unclear. The strategies given to help proofread were used in the case of correcting grammar, spelling mistakes, and other errors allowed me to see what I need to improve in those different areas of writing. I have demonstrated the ability to organize an essay to prove a point, explain an authors purpose, and organize ideas to form an essay to respond to a selection.
I have been familiar with using MLA and incorporating it into essays from high school writing. The ability to continue using MLA is very important that allows me to get better familiar with it on the college level. In ever core essay, I have correctly used MLA to use quotes as a foundation and source to explain formulated ideas. As evidence, I have shown my ability to write a works cited page with the synthesis essay. Cross-reference is another method that I have learned to use versus the regular way of documenting a resource.
The learning outcomes that I developed and have shown as evidence helped me to evaluate my own writing skills. I think I have done a good job in this course.
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Awesome bg, KGH. And yea some of the bg art is just insane.
One word: Majestic
very nice tree. props for being patient enough to finish it, I would've probably quit halfway through
Great details and shading on this piece, it was awesome watching you work,, an amazing talent, a collector for me,, collector for me
excellent job!!
amazing bg :)
I agree, has great bg.but didnt find the movie disturbing.


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Summit Series is a popular, annual startup conference among a younger set of entrepreneurs who like to work hard and play hard.
It was founded in 2008 by four 20-somethings, and the first gathering had 19 people. Now it attracts hundreds of attendees. Events have been held in Mexico, on a Caribbean cruise ship, and in Squaw Valley, California.
The conference, which is usually three or four days, has a reputation for being an amazing networking experience, full of non-stop partying paired with an stellar guest list. Past attendees have included Richard Branson, Bill Clinton, and Russell Simmons.
Today, Summit Series announced a new home for their annual "conference" ragers: Powder Mountain. The founders raised roughly $40 million to buy the new 10,000 acre spot in Eden, Utah.
$40 million was just the price tag for the mountain, though. They'll have to raise even more to build on top of the land. Still, there's a lake, skiing, and even a giant bird nest that sits in a tree for humans.
"It's a new kind of neighborhood, where friends, family, and the leaders of today and tomorrow gather in an environment created to catalyze personal and collective growth," the founders write on their site.


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Boffins mount campaign against France's official kilogramme
'Eet cannot be changing. Eet weighs exactly 1 kg - sacré vache'
International boffins are mounting a determined diplomatic push to end the practice of measuring mass by reference to a 130-year-old metal cylinder kept in France, saying that the French ingot is no longer up to the job.
The Consultative Committee for Units, whose chairman is Blighty's Professor I M Mills FRS, and which counts among its members the UK National Physical Laboratory and the US National Institute for Standards and Technology, has recommended that the Système International d'Unités (SI Units system) move to define the unit of mass - the kilogramme - more accurately.
At the moment, the official SI definition of a kilogramme is a mass equal to that of the international prototype kilogramme, a cylinder of platinum and iridium kept inside several nested glass cases in an environmentally monitored vault in France at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures outside Paris. The kilogramme was made in 1879.
Elaborate precautions are taken to ensure that the kilogramme doesn't change mass - a complicated official cleaning procedure is carried out to remove atmospheric oxidants from the surface. Officially, of course, it can't change - it will always mass exactly one kilogramme, by definition. But it is compared from time to time with other exact copies held by other nations, and it is known that in reality slight changes on the order of microgrammes - a billionth of a kilo - do occur.
All this simply won't do, according to the boffins of the Consultative Committee for Units. They have now proposed to the Comité International des Poids et Mesures (CIPM - the body in charge of SI units) that the kilo should instead be defined in terms of the Planck constant - a well-known physical constant expressed in kilogramme square-metres per second.
All the other base units of the SI system have already been moved off physical artifacts - there's no official metre any more - so this would remove the last of the unsatisfactoriness from measurement.
It seems that the CIPM approved of substituting a quantum Planck for a platinum-iridium chamfered cylinder, and has now passed the matter on for action by international diplomats at the General Conference on Weights and Measures, which will meet in October 2011.
All the signs are that the Planck mass plan will become official at that point, and by the middle of the decade the French official kilogramme can be retired. ®


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Major Section: TUTORIAL-EXAMPLES
To see a statement of the problem solved below, see tutorial-examples.
Here is a sequence of ACL2 events that illustrates the use of ACL2 to make definitions and prove theorems. We will introduce the notion of the fringe of a tree, as well as the notion of a leaf of a tree, and then prove that the members of the fringe are exactly the leaves.
We begin by defining the fringe of a tree, where we identify
trees simply as cons structures, with atoms at the leaves. The
definition is recursive, breaking into two cases. If
x is a cons,
then the
fringe of
x is obtained by appending together the
of the
car and
cdr (left and right child) of
x. Otherwise,
x is an
atom and its
fringe is the one-element list containing only
Now that
(defun fringe (x) (if (consp x) (append (fringe (car x)) (fringe (cdr x))) (list x)))
fringe has been defined, let us proceed by defining the
notion of an atom appearing as a ``leaf'', with the goal of proving
that the leaves of a tree are exactly the members of its
The main theorem is now as follows. Note that the rewrite rule below uses the equivalence relation
(defun leaf-p (atm x) (if (consp x) (or (leaf-p atm (car x)) (leaf-p atm (cdr x))) (equal atm x)))
iff (see equivalence)
rather than
equal, since
member returns the tail of the given
list that begins with the indicated member, rather than returning a
Boolean. (Use
:pe member to see the definition of
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Demi Moore and Bruce Willis's youngest daughter takes a Beverly Hills stroll with Lucas Vercetti
Demi Moore is single, but she and Bruce Willis's youngest daughter Tallulah is apparently blooming in the romance department.
Willis, 18, stepped out on Thursday afternoon with Lucas Vercetti, the bleach blonde manager of the Odd Future pop-up shop in Los Angeles.
The duo showed some PDA while strolling arm-in-arm through Beverly Hills, with Willis at one point hiding behind her man and giggling when caught by paparazzi.
Vercetti, on the other hand, had no problem being recognized. Rocking a pair of old-school Vans and a T-shirt, he was photographed raising his hands in the air like he didn't have a care. – Dahvi Shira


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There they are. My pride and joy. My friends who have been reading my blog for a long time will note that my sproutlings have blossomed :) That image was taken over our Easter Vacation time at our beloved Halls Gap in The Grampians region of Victoria. It still holds a very special place in our hearts. Each year, and each trip to Halls Gap brings with it new adventures. We get to see Australia's, and indeed Victoria's, unique flora and fauna,. Not only that, it is just the absolute relaxation and the "feel" of the place that makes us so happy.
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Providence Medical Group Northwest Washington is our physician-led network of more than 30 primary and specialty care clinics in diverse locations in the greater Everett area. PMG providers offer superior, coordinated patient care thanks to a shared EMR system and other state-of-the-art technology. PMG partners with one of the regions most advanced full-spectrum hospitals: Providence Regional Medical Center Everett.
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Pinstriped child's story 'Henry & Me' to be released as animated movie, voiceover cast includes Richard Gere as Lou Gehrig, Chazz Palminteri as Babe Ruth, Paul Simon as Thurman Munson, and Arod as himself
"On the fourth floor at Steinbrenner Field yesterday afternoon, while the Yankees visited the Phillies in nearby Clearwater, chieftains Hal and Hank Steinbrenner and resident legend Reggie Jackson convened with a handful of others in a dark conference room and took in a movie.
animated film called "Henry & Me" that has been a long time in the making and serves as homage to the Yankees' history.
It has been so long in the making, in fact — about six years now — that the film's producers face a potential dilemma: Alex Rodriguez plays a small but important role in the film, hitting a big home run with the help of the film's protagonist, Jack, a boy battling cancer.
Is it OK to keep portraying A-Rod in such a positive light, given the Biogenesis story?
Upon viewing the near-completed project yesterday, Hank Steinbrenner, who contributes his voice to the role of his late father, George, said that would be just fine. "I think it doesn't matter," Steinbrenner, the Yankees' co-chairperson with his brother, told The Post. "The movie is about a child with cancer and his love of the Yankees. Everybody else is in it, too, Ruth and Gehrig and everybody else, so it's really a small part of it.
"The focus really needs to be on what the movie is about. It's really sad at the beginning and luckily a happy ending. It's not about whether Alex is in it or not. Maybe it is to the baseball press, but it's not going to be to anybody else."
The film's producers, Joseph Avallone and Joe Castellano, and director Barrett Esposito presented the movie along with executive producer Ray Negron, the longtime Yankees adviser whose pinstripe-centric children's books are the foundation of the story.
Said Negron: "This is my tribute to The Boss and the Steinbrenner family and [team president] Randy Levine for all the things they've done for me."
The intention of yesterday's screening was to run it by the Steinbrenners, because the Yankees insignia and brand name are being used significantly, before continuing to pursue their goal of releasing the movie in tri-state area theaters sometime around Father's Day.
Though Hal Steinbrenner and Jackson declined comment, the producers departed the meeting with the organization's green light, as expressed by Hank Steinbrenner.
Negron helped secure a star-studded voiceover cast featuring Richard Gere as Lou Gehrig, Chazz Palminteri as Babe Ruth and singer Paul Simon as Thurman Munson. Myriad Yankees dignitaries such as Jackson, Yogi Berra, Bernie Williams, CC Sabathia, Joe Girardi and Brian Cashman play themselves, and public address announcer Bob Sheppard taped a few lines from his Long Island home in January 2010, less than six months before he died.
In exchange for a $1,500 donation to a charity of his choosing, A-Rod met with the producers for two recordings — first in Manhattan in June 2009, just months after he confessed to using illegal performance-enhancing drugs, and then in Miami during the 2009-10 offseason, following his fantastic October 2009.
The film carries the vibe of those 2009 Yankees. There's a trademark come-from-behind victory as well as A-Rod getting a pie in the face, though you won't see pie-master A.J. Burnett.
"Alex hit a lot of big home runs for us in '09," Hank Steinbrenner said. "Realism-wise, it's fine." Of course, allegations now have emerged that A-Rod continued to use illegal PEDs through last year, creating another cloud of controversy over him. It's not ideal for the film. But for anyone to get caught up in that and miss the greater meaning of the film — about not giving up — well, that would be pretty silly.
"We could change it," Avallone said. "Give me another million, give me another year, we could change it. We don't have a million. We don't have a year. And you know what? It's really bigger than Alex. It's about giving back. It's about the children."
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Pine tar, Vaseline, spit all part of baseball
It's fair to suspect that Michael Pineda isn't the only pitcher trying a few tricks on the mound from time to time.
The Yankees pitcher was suspended for 10 games for having a glob of pine tar on his neck to rub on his hands to grip the ball on a chilly night.
Here are five reasons it's not that easy to crack down on pitchers willing to bend Rule 8.02(b), which bars them from having "any foreign substance" in their possession or on their body during a game:
Saliva, soap, Vaseline – and yes, pine tar – are all readily available. Pine tar is actually legal in baseball, but for hitters. According to the game's official rules, the bat handle can be covered with any material to improve a hitter's grip – as long as the substance doesn't extend past 18 inches.
Pine tar has rarely caused much of a stir unless its use is unusually blatant. Pineda was spotted with a brown gooey substance on his right hand in a game against the Red Sox on April 10. It was only after he took the mound Wednesday with an odd-looking streak on his neck – again against Boston – that the Red Sox asked an umpire to check him. Detroit Tigers manager Brad Ausmus, a former catcher, said Thursday: "I do think pitchers using pine tar isn't as big a deal as it's being made out to be. It's more about getting a grip."
Aside from constant, airport-style searches by umpires, it's hard to think of a foolproof way to prevent doctoring the ball.
In 1987, Philadelphia pitcher Kevin Gross was suspended 10 days after he was caught with sandpaper in his glove. That same year, Minnesota's Joe Niekro got 10 days for carrying an emery board and sandpaper in his pocket. But instances like that are rare – and even with all the cameras at major league games now, hiding a tiny object used to scuff the ball wouldn't be impossible.
Baseball players aren't the only ones willing to go to creative lengths to get a grip.
England cricket captain Mike Atherton was caught on television using dry soil from his pocket to rub into the ball during a 1994 international between England and South Africa. He was fined and insisted he had been using the soil to dry his hands on a humid day, but acknowledged he had not admitted to having soil in his pocket when questioned by a referee.
Several international teams have also admitted to using candy to change the ball. Fielders suck on sugary candy and rub the saliva into the ball, creating a smooth and shiny surface. A shiny-scuffed ball would not behave the same as an untouched ball and in theory be harder for the batters to hit.
Pitchers – and batters, too – have been trying to get an edge for decades, but in terms of long suspensions and public shame, doctoring a ball or corking a bat doesn't seem to resonate in the same way as the use of performance-enhancing drugs. Some pitchers may still feel they have little to lose by trying an illegal substance on the mound. Pineda was suspended for 10 games while drug suspensions can be far longer.