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I hate to say it but there was absolutely nothing perfect about "Perfect Life". I will take that back. It was the perfect aid I needed to help me fall asleep. Maybe I would even go out on a limb and call it a perfect mess. Or maybe it is just the perfect example of the type of film that I just don't like. I admit that certain types of films don't appeal to me. On the rare occasion, one has been known to win me over but not this time. I never went to a big university so my only exposure to the college lifestyle has been through film. When I see these films I get pissed that I may have missed out on something, but they are just movies so maybe I didn't and things are just exaggerated. "Perfect Life" is a well-acted film with a strong and convincing cast, it just falls in to the category of film that I just don't like.
Jack (Jesse Bradford) is pledging for the most important fraternity at his college with his childhood pal Freddy (Scot Williams). While Freddy was born into money, Jack was dirt poor. Freddy helped his friend through life and both harbor feelings for Anne (Sienna Guillory). Freddy doesn't know about Jack and Anne. Jack lives his life in excess, that includes booze, drugs, and random sex. Anne can't shake her feelings for Jack even though he is completely messed up, while Freddy has loved Anne since the first moment he had seen her. While pledging the fraternity, the boys must partake in several challenges and humiliations. Things escalate and secrets are revealed. The story jumps around in time to show how Jack tends to keep blacking out and forgetting the things he has done. But what exactly is it that he did that was so horrible Jack repressed the memory?
"Perfect Life" isn't a bad movie. There were a few entertaining moments and the cast is good, especially Bradford. This is just one of those movies that bounces around so much that it made my head hurt. Usually I don't mind it so much but in this film all the jumping, flashing, and different perspectives did nothing to hold my interest and I couldn't wait for that final credit roll. The characters are never really fleshed out and frankly, they're not very likable. Both Jack and Freddy are after Anne but I never understood what it was about her that attracted them both. There are flashbacks to Freddy and Jack's childhood that kind of plants the seed but it was always more about them than Anne.
When the action shifts to the UK, things get interesting, even a bit bizarre. I just didn't feel like it all came together. The ending was neat but by that time I was just excited that the film was over. Nothing jumped out at me and I doubt that I will remember much about this film in the morning. From what I read, the film was shot in 2005 and just now receiving a release. I'm not sure what the reason was but I have an idea. The film felt like it was trying to be a cracked out "Less than Zero" and never fully succeeds. Hell, I never really liked "Less than Zero" very much and it paled in comparison to the novel it was based upon.
"Perfect Life" is a perfectly forgettable thriller though I have a feeling that everyone has moved on and will remain unscathed. Not a bad film, just not for me. I'm going to give it ** out of 5 stars. If it weren't for the fact that the acting was solid, I would have given it much less. "Rules of Attraction" is the only film in recent memory that was similar in tone that I felt was really terrific. Maybe you would be better off watching that again (or if you haven't, I think you should).
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Two weeks have went by since me & Twist started secretly dating . He was outside playing basketball w/ his boys . I was walking outside when I saw him kissing Paige . I dropped the basketball & imediately ran to Wayne's Rm . I knocked lightly ...
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B&N should be getting out of the hardware business completely and focus on its software and on selling e-books and digital magazines.
In its quarterly earnings report Tuesday, Barnes & Noble (BKS) announced that it would stop manufacturing its line of Nook eReaders in-house. Instead, it will farm out the production of new tablets to third parties, which it will maintain through branded content deals. In reality, B&N should go further, relinquishing just about any pretense at hardware and focusing on translating what it does best in the print space to the digital space: books.
B&N's Nook business is unquestionably deteriorating as cheaper tablets from manufacturers like Apple (AAPL) and Samsung have become more popular. Revenues from that division fell 34% in the most recent quarter from a year ago. But there's hope for digital book sales; revenues there rose 16% in B&N's 2013 fiscal year, which concluded with the last quarter.
Even if B&N ditched the Nook entirely, it still offers more e-books than any of its competitors (more than three million, compared with "over a million" titles on Amazon's Kindle), and it has consistently produced some of the best-rated software for reading books. Despite Amazon's (AMZN) success in the last few years, B&N has carved out about 25% of the e-book market, and a higher market share in the number of digital magazines sold.
Nook's software is already available on Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows and Blackberry. It's also pre-loaded on non-traditional devices like nabi tablets and E FUN Android Nextbook tablets. Its software also handles multiple kinds of reading documents, like PDFs and ePub files.
And the growing size of the digital book market makes it an attractive place to be, especially without the brutal competitive pressures of the hardware business. PricewaterhouseCoopers projects that the US digital consumer book publishing market will exceed the size of the print book publishing market by 2017. In 2012, the market was already $3.35 billion. There is even more growth to be found in the developing world, where smartphones and tablets will dominate -- yet another reason for B&N to stick to having its software on every platform imaginable, rather than trying to make money selling flashy hardware.
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Amid the overall downturn, leading church figures point to other positive trends. The archbishop of Canterbury, the most senior cleric of Britain's Church of England, has said that cathedral congregations have grown over the past few years.
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LONDON — The number of Christians in England and Wales declined by 13 percent over the past decade, while the non-religious population grew from 15 percent to 25 percent, the most recent national census shows.
Christianity remains by far the largest religion in the country, with more than 33 million adherents among Britain's 61 million population, but more than 14 million people professed to have no religion at all.
Despite the decline, church leaders welcomed the Office of National Statistics' findings.
"These results confirm that we remain a faithful nation," said the Rev. Arun Arora, director of communications for the Archbishop of Canterbury's Council.
But with a significant rise in the number of those identifying themselves as non-religious, secular commentators also saw the results as positive.
"This is a really significant cultural shift. To see such an increase in the non-religious and such a decrease in those reporting themselves as Christian is astounding," said Andrew Copson, chief executive of the British Humanist Association.
Amid the overall downturn, leading church figures point to other positive trends.
The archbishop of Canterbury, the most senior cleric of Britain's Church of England, has said that cathedral congregations have grown over the past few years. At the same time, many individual city churches have seen their congregations expand massively.
Even those situated within the sparsely populated streets of London's financial district have reported signs of growth.
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Supposedly, only "accredited journalists" will cover the ongoing protest demonstration organized by the Public Assembly near the building of the Public Broadcasting.
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On May 22, in the morning, the situation about the protest demonstration organized by the Public Assembly escalated in front of the Public Broadcasting building. The demonstrators attacked the car of the law enforcement officers and started to drub it.
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Since the SSA list came out and I'm bored, let's play a game! Using your initials, find the name that falls on the place that letter holds in the alphabet. The list is here, and we'll be looking at the top 26 names.
For instance, my first and middle initials are J.D. J is the tenth letter of the alphabet, and D is the fourth, so my popular name is Elizabeth Olivia.
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Social Security isn't looking so bad anymore, says the OECD
The notion that the U.S. is stingy about government benefits in comparison with the rest of the wealthy world is widely held, and is mostly backed up by the data. But in the case of retirement benefits, it's getting less true by the day. Yet few here in the States have caught on.
Consider what Chicago lawyer/rabblerouser Tom Geoghegan …
New column: Yes, I am obsessed with Dutch people's pensions
My latest column is in the issue of Time with Mike and Arnie on the cover and online here. It begins:
In early June, the Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)–the club of the world's wealthy and almost wealthy nations–released a 208-page document perversely titled Pensions at a Glance. Inside is a rundown of how
Second graders circling Manhattan and taking pictures
Curious Capitalist Jr. took the photo above. He and all the rest of the second graders at his school did a Circle Line field trip today. I was one of the chaperones. Nobody fell out of the boat. And nobody got lost in the subway on the way back. A spectacular success.
One of CC Jr.'s classmates took this cool shot (with my camera) of …
Be grateful for bad airline customer service, because it inspires great art
Blogger/law professor Stephen Bainbridge, trolling for similar sob stories after a bad United Airlines experience, has found one of the great blog posts of our age, by one Brianna, who was stranded by United in Denver twice in one weekend last month. I was going to paste a sample here, but none of the ones I came up with did the thing …
A declining currency and declining national power
A friend asks, apropos of my post about the dollar's future as reserve currency:
As a currency becomes weaker and less sought after by central banks doesn't it take a toll on the issuing nation's economic standing in other ways? Did the pound's decline as a reserve currency coincide with the decline of England's power and influence?
The U.S. dollar still has a few fans among central bankers
Early last week, UBS hosted its 13th annual Reserve Management Seminar in Thun, Switzerland. In attendance were the people whose job it is to figure out what to do with the foreign currency reserves held by their country's central banks. They came from 78 nations, representing institutions with reserves totaling $4.8 trillion.
In other …
London is the world's most economically important city (sorry, New York)
MasterCard released a report today ranking the 50 most important "centers of commerce" around the world. Here's the top ten:
1. London
2. New York
3. Tokyo
4. Chicago
5. Hong Kong
6. Singapore
7. Frankfurt
8. Paris
9. Seoul
10. Los Angeles
I had breakfast this morning with Yuwa Hedrick-Wong, the Singapore-based MasterCard economic …
Fred Thompson, foreign agent
A while back, Karen Tumulty linked on Swampland to a Washington Post article about John Edwards' ties to hedge fund operator Fortress Investment Group and asked me to comment on whether we should care. I said we should, although I couldn't really tell how much, and both Karen and I got some grief from commenters for purportedly flogging …
Are there really enough rural Americans left to pay attention to?
The latest guest blogger over on Swampland, Democratic political consultant Dave "Mudcat" Saunders, has been stirring things up bigtime with his condemnation of the "Metropolitan Opera Wing" of the Democratic Party. I initially thought this was because his loyalties lay with the party's notoriously combative Lyric Opera of Chicago Wing. …
Elizabeth Warren's Financial Product Safety Commission
Harvard Law professor and bankruptcy guru Elizabeth Warren has a really interesting proposal out today in the journal Democracy (I first heard about yesterday in Gretchen Morgenson's column in the NYT):
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ExxonMobil's investing choices and peak oil
A reader named Greg from Sunnyvale, Calif., writes, regarding my column about how ExxonMobil is devoting a significantly smaller share of its resources to developing new sources of oil than it did back in the late 1970s and early 1980s:
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BMW's bread and butter can be a little rancid if you don't spec it CNET Style.
A marvelous video fully expresses the contrast between an engineer's rational mind and the others he sometimes must encounter at work for whom words are the wind that powers sales.
In a fascinating survey, IT managers reveal some of the dubious activities they view being perpetrated by employees on work computers. These cause the IT managers extra stress and work (as well as, no doubt, the occasional fascination).
The sheer embarrassment of last night's Seattle-Green Bay game, where replacement refs needed their eyes replaced, causes players to express open hostility to their bosses on Twitter.
In a scholarly analysis of tech blogging, the great Republican commentator offers that 9 out of 10 blogs hate Apple. Because Apple is like the Republican Party. Oddly, though, Limbaugh last year was himself mad at Apple.
If you like your technology to sound like a feminine hygiene product (anyone?), Fujitsu has cooked up a real treat for you.
Kenley Bradstreet and Mark Licea join the show today because Justin Yu is still battling with SARS. We wish him a speedy recovery, but in the meantime, we welcome the presence of two beautiful people.
Facebook flexes its anti-nipple muscles yet again by banning the New Yorker from its own Facebook page for a cartoon of Adam and Eve. Eventually, it apologizes.
The veteran from the Who, famous for songs such as "Won't Get Fooled Again", says Apple should help artists with their businesses.
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The art of analysing people's personalities by blood type still amazes me nowadays.
But in no way it is a scientific proven fact nor a way of showing the superiority of a particular blood type over the other.
It is just amazing how we can relate to their behaviors to past events and anecdotes we have.
This is my first blog project, I hope you guys enjoy it.
If you want to know about the stereotype personalities by blood, I invite you to go to archives and check the first four posts.
And just in case you are wondering, I am not the artist of the comics, just a huge fan that wants to translate them into english so more people can read them. The name of the author is Park Dong Seon.
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Evanston aldermen delay introduction of ETHS safety zone ordinance
Patrick Svitek, Summer Editor
August 13, 2013
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City Council on Monday night held off formally discussing a safety zone around Evanston Township High School amid growing concerns that the proposal would unfairly target black neighbors. In a rare response during citizen comment,... Read more »
Alds. Delores Holmes, Mark Tendam re-elected in landslides
April 9, 2013
Filed under City, Latest Stories, Local, Politics
Alds. Delores Holmes (5th) and Mark Tendam (6th) beat back challengers Tuesday, handily winning re-election to the Evanston City Council. Holmes, who was challenged by write-in candidate Carlis... Read more »
Election Guide 2013: Q&A with 5th Ward candidates Ald. Delores Holmes and Carlis Sutton
Jia You, City Editor
April 7, 2013
Filed under City, Local, Politics
Residents in Evanston's 5th Ward, including many NU students living off campus, will decide Tuesday between Ald. Delores Holmes and write-in candidate Carlis Sutton for the City Council race. Holmes is seeking re-election for... Read more »


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College Football Nation: How Do the Gators Do It and Penn State Tweets
With the NCAA trial all finished up and media days about to begin, the news was a little slow this week. The news in the college football world might be slow but it is never dull. It will really pick up when you put a …Read More →


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PLAYERS: RA Dickey, Johan Santana, Jon Niese, Matt Harvey, Dillon Gee, Chris Young, Joe Saunders, Aaron Laffey, Jenrry Mejia, Collin McHugh, Jeremy Hefner, Zack Wheeler, Carl Pavano, Shaun Marcum, Javier Vazquez
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TEAMS: Toronto Blue Jays, New York Mets, Baltimore Orioles, Minnesota Twins, Milwaukee Brewers, Miami Marlins, New York Yankees
Trading away reigning NL Cy Young award winner R.A. Dickey to the Toronto Blue Jays has left the New York Mets with a hole in their rotation to start 2013. If the year were to kickoff today we'd likely see a rotation consisting of Johan Santana, Jonathon Niese, Matt Harvey, Dillon Gee, and ummm, uhhhh, well there's……perhaps….maybe….????? The point is that the team is still looking at several options to fill the gap that currently exists and while names like Chris Young and Joe Saunders have recently been mentioned, in house candidates such as Aaron Laffey, Jenrry Mejia, Collin McHugh, Jeremy Hefner, and Zack Wheeler are also options. According to Andy McCullough of the Star Ledger, we can now add Carl Pavano, Shaun Marcum, and Javier Vazquez to the list of players the team has checked in on. Photo by Michael G. Baron During the winter, the team has been in contact with both Shaun Marcum and Carl Pavano. Their scouts in the Puerto Rico winter league have watched one-time All Star Javier Vazquez, who is making a comeback after sitting out 2012. And there was also some interest in bringing back Chris Young, who posted a 4.15 ERA in 115 innings last season. "Those are the types of starting pitchers with whom we've had conversations," Alderson said. Discussions between the Mets and Pavano have been "very preliminary," said David Pepe, Pavano's agent. "We're definitely interested in that situation," Pepe said. "Or any situation where he's going to take the ball every fifth day, and take a team deep into games." The Mets are one of several clubs to check in on Pavano, the 37-year-old right-hander. He garnered infamy during his four-year tenure with the Yankees from 2005 to 2008. The Yankees paid him $39.95 million to pitch just 145 2/3 innings. His time there was fraught with calamity — various ailments for his right shoulder, Tommy John surgery on his elbow, broken ribs in a car crash, teammates questioning his commitment. Pavano rehabilitated his career during the subsequent three seasons, averaging 214 innings and a 4.36 ERA with Cleveland and Minnesota. He signed a two-year, $16 million deal with the Twins heading into 2011. But he suffered from weakness in his shoulder throughout 2012. His velocity dropped. He did not pitch after June 1. Marcum is certainly an intriguing option as the 31-year-old put up a 3.62 ERA from 2010 to 2012, but those numbers will likely mean other teams will be in on the bidding. That is, as we've all come to know, a recipe for the Mets backing out. The team simply seems unwilling to pay market value for free agents if they deem that the market is inflated. Their thinking may payoff in the long term but for now, it leaves them unable to do anything to help the team in 2013. At some point I think the front office needs to realize that this is the price for doing business. I'm not saying they should shell out ridiculous multi-year contracts, but overpaying on a one or two year deal for a player that will help the team right away should be tolerable in a big market. I don't stop putting gas in my car just because I think the prices are too high, I still need to find a way to get to work.
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Amid Chaos, Rescuers Worked with Precision
Drills helped prepare agencies, hospitals for explosion at plant
"I've never been in a war and I've never seen a bombing, but this was the closet thing to a bombing that I've ever seen," Glassel said.
By now, "a wave of humanity" was trudging from the wreckage to a fleet of Fire Department and private ambulances staged outside the plant. At its peak, the exodus was six to eight people wide and extended more than 200 yards, said fire Lt. Carter Hunnicutt, a supervisor in the bureau of special operations.
"We had a huge number of people," Hunnicutt said. "I saw 300 to 400 people move past me. They were all shook up. It was a cold Wisconsin morning with fire and smoke in the background. There were people hanging on to each other."
Paramedics waited at the west gate of the plant.
"We corralled them all and got to them around the gate area," said special operations Battalion Chief Pepie Du De Voire. "They kind of migrated to us."
Unknown to Falk workers and many of the emergency medical personnel, firefighters had another urgent concern: a two-story liquid oxygen tank in a different part of the building. Firefighters kept water on it to make sure it did not overheat and explode, Glassel said.
"We just kept pounding water on it," he said, explaining that if the tank had exploded, "that would have been bigger than the propane explosion."
Paramedics ultimately examined injured workers at three locations: Miller Park, the west end of the Falk plant and the Palermo's Pizza production facility at 3301 W. Canal St.
More than 40 were then sent on to area hospitals. Private ambulances transported all but one of the injured. That one had more serious injuries and was taken by a Fire Department ambulance.
Fire officials said the emergency medical treatment operation went smoothly, in part, because they regularly train for such events, coordinating activities between police, the Fire Department and private ambulance firms.
At the crisis center
Training was key, too, at City Hall, where Daniel Alexander, homeland security director for Milwaukee, sat reading and catching up on e-mails when the Fire Department called just two minutes after the explosion. Within minutes, Alexander was on the phone with the mayor, police chief and fire chief, assessing the situation as dispatches relayed news of the unfolding disaster.
Government responders were aided by an emergency drill nine months earlier that had envisioned a scenario similar to the one they now faced: an explosion at a private company.
By 8:26 a.m. Wednesday, less than 20 minutes after the Falk blast, Mayor Tom Barrett had called for a citywide emergency response. All agency directors were immediately informed of the explosion and told that the city had set up the Emergency Operations Center, a crisis room at the Police District 3 building.
At about 8:30 a.m., Alexander was in his car and on his way to the District 3 building on N. 49th St.
"All we really needed to do to get the room ready was basically turn on the lights," he said.
Soon, the room filled with city, county and state agency directors and representatives; the mayor; and officials from the FBI, We Energies, the American Red Cross and Rexnord, all working phones and computers. Every hour, the mayor would stop for a briefing that lasted about 15 minutes, to make sure everyone was up to speed.
"Luckily, we had rehearsed a situation very similar to this one in March," said Alexander, referring to an emergency response drill that took place March 2, in which city officials responded to a mock explosion at Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.
The drill allowed them to think about how they would deal with an incident at a private company and an explosion in an urban area that could spread particulates into the air and shake the structural integrity of buildings, roads and bridges.
At the hospitals
Wisconsin Heart Hospital in Wauwatosa had gone through a drill of its own just the day before the blast, though it was only to prepare for a snowstorm in which it lost power. Rapidly, the hospital was plunged into an emergency of a different kind.
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A Short History of APA
APA — The Engineered Wood Association is the nonprofit trade association of the U.S. and Canadian engineered wood products industry. Based in Tacoma, Washington, the Association is comprised of and represents manufacturers of structural plywood, oriented strand board (OSB), structural composite panels, glued laminated (glulam) timber, wood I-joists, and laminated veneer lumber (LVL). (See the glossary backgrounder for explanation of these products.)
APA was founded in 1933 as the Douglas Fir Plywood Association to advance the interests of the burgeoning Pacific Northwest plywood industry. Adhesive and technology improvements eventually led to the manufacture of structural plywood from Southern pine and other species, and in 1964 the Association changed its name to American Plywood Association (APA) to reflect the national scope of its growing membership.
The Association's membership expanded again in the early 1980s with the introduction of oriented strand board (OSB), a product the Association helped bring to market through development of new panel performance standards. A decade later, APA accommodated manufacturers of non-panel engineered wood products, such as glulam timber, wood I-joists and laminated veneer lumber.
To better reflect the broadening product mix and geographic range of its membership, the Association changed its name again in 1994 to APA—The Engineered Wood Association. The acronym "APA" was retained in the name because it was so widely known and respected in the marketplace.
Today, APA represents approximately 156 engineered wood product mills in the U.S., Canada and abroad. The Association's mandate, among other activities, includes:
- Third-party quality auditing and testing.
- New product qualification.
- Product and systems research.
- Development and maintenance of product and performance standards.
- Design and engineering data.
- Product installation recommendations.
- Code and regulatory body liaison.
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- Industry statistics.
- Product application literature.
- Product publicity, advertising and other promotion.
- Educational trade seminars and meetings.
- User and specifier field assistance.
- Annual mill safety competition.
- Annual industry supplier exposition (Info Fair).
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APA members are comprised of well-known industry leaders, whose mills produce the majority of the structural wood panel products manufactured in North America, plus a host of other products, including glulam, wood I-joists, Rim Board and laminated veneer lumber.


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"Droopy drawers" Jarrod Schulz, is a cholo enthusiast/storage hunter/cuckhold extraordinaire/mandingo party victim who runs a stoe with his wife/daughter/sister/cousin/girlfriend Brandy "Tits Galore" Passante. Altho married/girlfriended Schulz gets no action from those knockers, but what he does get tho are invites to the best mandingo parties accross california and as well Barry Weissdingo parties and their spinoffs Jewdingo parties where Barry and Mo Prigoff bang the shit out of Brandy and feed her classic Jewish cuisine like latkes/gilfelte fish and "everyone's favorite kreplach all catered from Barry's new deli/restaurant "Jewish Barry's Motzalot Buffet".
Jarrod has portraits of Barry Weiss' well endowed cockmatter and prays to them every night hoping that he may be blessed with the "Weisswurt of Barry" as its known in many swinger circles.
Jarrod challenged Jerry "Duty" Simpson and Dave Hester to a "fuck my wife" 3 man tournament round robin and suffice to say, Jarrod lost and it ended up being a tie between Jerry Duty and Dave whereby they had a iron man threesome, 3 hours of expert hate fucking while Jarrod sat in a corner taking notes and pondering human evolution and how he many further the human race to evolve into a race of Dave Hesters.
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A recall on state Sen. Patrick Colbeck (R-Canton) cleared its first hurdle when petition wording was approved in August by the Wayne County Clerk's office. Colbeck represents Plymouth, Canton and Northville, among other cities.
To place a recall on the ballot, petitioners would have to gather 27,300 valid signatures of 7th District voters by early February - 180 days from when the wording was approved.
Recall organizer Mary Kelley, a Northville resident, said that more than 4,000 petitions are in circulation and her group hopes to gain "more than 50,000" signatures.
Signatures are ruled invalid for a number of reasons ranging from false addresses to signers living outside the specified election district.
An election date would depend on when - and whether - a sufficient number of signatures are validated, according to Wayne County Elections Division Director Delphine Oden.
Petitioners might not be in a hurry to complete the task, however.
"There could be recalls filed against Democrats, too," said Bill Ballenger, publisher of Inside Michigan Politics. "And then those recalls could end up on the February presidential primary ballot. I don't think Democrats would want their folks up for recall in a election that would lean so heavily Republican."
Michigan is one of 18 states which allow recalls against elected state officials, according to information provided through the National Conference of State Legislatures which tracks the history of recall elections throughout the U.S.
Wisconsin – where recall elections were held this summer involving a record-setting nine state senators – is another such state. According to NCLS records, all but two of the targeted Wisconsin legislators retained their seats.
In Michigan, recall elections were held in 1983 against Democratic senators Phil Mastin and David Serotkin for their votes supporting an increase in the state income tax to offset a recesssion-fueled
budget crisis.
Mastin, whose Oakland County district was divided between Republican- and Democratic-leaning communities and Serotkin, whose Macomb County district was home to the now-famous Reagan Democrats, were both recalled. Serotkin, however, resigned
his seat before the vote total became official according to information provided on the NCSL Web site.
In 2008, State Speaker of the House Andy Dillon, a Redford Township Democrat, survived a recall election, by a near 2-1 margin. Dillon, who ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party's gubernatorial nomination in 2010, was appointed by Snyder as state treasurer.
For more information on recalls visit the State of Michigan website.


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Sanriku-Kanto-Erdbeben – Update VI: Aftershocks / media
Too much there is to update V does not add – This day began with a lot of stress, and although the heavy, for me but for now the only correct decision: My wife, her sister and her mother to say in the morning, that they should pack up the kids and head south. Difficult in terms of risky: You will certainly be good for a few days without me, because they are not alone and with relatives, but difficult in the sense of "what happens, when suddenly hundreds of thousands have the same idea and want to ship her family.
But it worked. Although there were probably already long queues at the ticket counter, but they could quickly get hold of tickets, and even seats and arrived safely in Kobe. Surely, say one or the other "Wrong time, was the last really severe earthquake in Kobe not?" Right. And yet it is safer there definitely.
When it comes to nuclear power, the feelings fluctuate from minute to minute. First, there is reassuring news, then bad. A friend attended a press conference at the British Embassy, where also the technical advisor to the British Government (Unfortunately, name unknown) occurred: He was convinced, that it is simply impossible, that there would be serious consequences, such as Chernobyl. die Bauart sei grundsätzlich verschieden und selbst eine Kernschmelze würde nicht den gesamten Laden in die Luft sprengen und alles in der weiteren Umgebung verstrahlen.
On the other hand, the German media: The evening news longs already caused the meltdown. By the way, is an absolute taboo word, for the "G" is in meltdown for "largest" – known as a superlative, you can not increase the. Damage, that even the nightly news of "Picture"-Sprache bedient.
Just as I wrote this there was a severe aftershock….in Kanagawa…a strong six in Kamakura / Yoshida on the Japanese intensity scale. It seems, The quake migrate further south. I hope, Denis in Kamakura ist ok. Has just been announced, that the Shinkansen is stationary – that is the line, is with my family today went to Kobe …. Just before that I had a lot of concern). The quake seemed to be very close to the surface.
I think, ranging in terms of updates today. The quake started, to gnaw at the nerves. The fact, that the main Honshu quake quite a few meters (I have read 4 m) has moved, has no doubt left in the ground voltages, Remove the now gradually).
More likely tomorrow after a – I hope – relativ ruhigen Nacht.


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Economic Growth and the Role of Taxation-Theory
AbstractEconomic growth is the basis of increased prosperity. This makes the attainment of growth a key objective for governments across the world. The rate of growth can be affected by policy choices through the effect that taxation has upon economic decisions and through productive public expenditures. This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the economic modelling of growth and reviews the theoretical evidence on the extent of the link between taxation and growth. La croissance économique et le rôle de la fiscalité - Théorie La croissance économique est au fondement du progrès de la prospérité. Ceci fait de la croissance un objectif majeur pour les gouvernements du monde entier. Le taux de croissance peut être influencé par des choix de politique économique relatifs à la fiscalité, laquelle a un effet sur les décisions économiques des agents et est liée aux dépenses publiques productives. Cette étude fournit une introduction autonome à la modélisation économique de la croissance et résume les résultats empiriques traitant du lien entre la fiscalité et la croissance.
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When you think of Maine, usually lobster or moose come to mind. Elephants are probably a little more unlikely.
But the New England state is now home to two retired and injured circus elephants, which are being cared for at Hope Elephants, a newly built rehab facility.
The non-profit is run in part by veterinarian Jim Laurita, who was a handler for Opal and Rosie years ago, when he worked with a traveling circus. The Asian elephants, which are now in their 40s, are being treated for nerve damage, leg and foot problems.
"Our goal is rehabilitation for the elephants, education for the local school kids, with the kind of greater goal of bringing the conservation message to the kids," Laurita said.
Photo: AP via USA Today // Circus elephants Opal and Rosie are spending their retirement at a rehabilitation facility in Maine.
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Sudip Majumder obtained his undergraduate and masters degree in Physics from Vidyasagar University, India. Later Sudip participated in a one year teachers training program (B.Ed) and began his career as a high school physics teacher (March, 2004 - December, 2007) in India wherein he demonstrated experiments and taught various courses such as Classical Mechanics, Heat and Thermodynamics, Waves and Optics, Modern Physics, Elementary electro-magnetic theory, Elementary fluid dynamics and Electronics.
Sudip obtained his second master degree in Physics from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2009 (concentrating mainly on Physical Oceanography) and currently pursuing his PhD in Physical Oceanography.
Current Research
Sudip's research interests include near-inertial and sub-inertial upper ocean dynamics. Currently, he is working on mooring data sets to estimate the transition-layer thickness in the upper ocean. Using data for the Arabian Sea, Sudip has estimated various terms in the mixed-layer energy budget in response to the near-inertial surface forcing.
In parallel work, Sudip is also working on estimating the subsurface fields from the satellite altimetry. He is using mooring data and satellite measurements to help understand the relationship between interior and surface dynamics by utilizing surface-quasigeostrophic (SQG) theory as well as conventional normal-mode decomposition.
Conferences and Poster Presentations
Majumder, S., A. Tandon, D. L. Rudnick, A. Mahadevan, Feb. 22. 2012. Near-Inertial Kinetic Energy Distribution at the Arabian Sea Mooring. AGU Ocean Sciences, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Majumder, S., A. Tandon, D. L. Rudnick, Sept. 22. 2010. Near-Inertial Transition Layer Dynamics at the Arabian Sea Mooring. Physical Oceanography Student Meet, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Majumder, S., A. Tandon, D. L. Rudnick, Feb. 24. 2010. Hourly to Weekly Transition Layer Variations at the Arabian Sea Mooring. AGU Ocean Sciences, Portland, Oregon.
Majumder, S., A. Tandon, June. 8. 2009. Transition Layer Characteristics at the Arabian Sea Mooring. GRC (Coastal Ocean Circulation), Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH.
Majumder, S., A. Tandon, D. L. Rudnick, Dec. 17. 2008. Probability density distributions and event based analyses of transition layers from Arabian Sea and Marine-Light Mixed Layer Mooring. AGU Fall Meeting, Sanfransisco, California.
Majumder S, A. Tandon, D. L. Rudnick, T. J. Farrar 2012. Transition Layer Characteristics and the Mixed Layer Near-Inertial Kinetic Energy Budget for the Arabian Sea Monsoon. To be submitted to the Journal of Physical Oceanography. (In preparation)


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The first stop on my tour was the MIAC runner-up St. Olaf baseball team, who I joined just as they were gearing up for this weekends MIAC tournament. After a little stretching and throwing to warm we began daily fielding drills. I initially sought to join the outfielders, but quickly switched to shortstop after learning from infield coach Sean Goldsworthy that infielders are much more popular with the ladies than their outfield counterparts.
We fielded ground balls, turned double plays and executed several drills designed for specific game situations, such as responding to sacrifice bunts. Despite my tendency to cast errant throws, team members were gracious and supportive. It all went relatively well until the drills became contingent upon the catcher giving complex signals to direct infielders movements; these were as foreign to me as Chinese algebra, so I switched back to the outfield.
After inclement weather forced practice indoors, the team shifted their focus to hitting, working through technique drills and taking multiple rounds of batting practice. During my own foray into the batting cage I worked to level out my pop fly-inducing swing, which served me well in Little League but simply wouldnt cut it at the collegiate level. However, I quickly realized batting practice was more hazardous than I had originally thought, as a bout of wildness by the pitcher left me with three black-and-blue reminders of my day at baseball practice.
Again, despite my tendency toward hitting ground balls (or missing the ball completely), team members were supportive and even offered batting advice.
Clearly, the physical rigors of college baseball prohibit casual participation in the sport. However, even more impressive than the baseball skills exhibited by the Oles was the cohesiveness displayed by both players and coaches. This team is good because theyre a collection of talented ballplayers and natural athletes, but what makes them great and perennial contenders for the MIAC title is that every player is committed to and supportive of his teammates (or in my case, even pseudo-teammates).
Having never played volleyball beyond middle school gym class, I decided to avoid a full-blown volleyball practice. Instead, I enlisted the help of volleyball all-stars Andrea Otteman 07 and Audrey Volstad 07, who agreed to design and participate in an informal offseason workout. Despite being out-of-season, Volstad, Otteman and their volleyball teammates work out together three days a week, lifting weights, running plyometric circuits and scrimmaging mens teams.
After stretching and jogging to warm up, Andrea, Audrey and I worked on a continuous drill called pepper designed to help players improve their digging, setting, passing and spiking skills. I did my best to keep up with the experts, but ended up sending volleyballs all over Tostrud Center (although my partners generously insisted that I had excellent control for a first-timer). Im sure I would have fared much better if I had been courageous enough to don volleyball shorts, but to the good fortune of all present, I decided to sacrifice journalistic integrity by sticking with my basketball shorts. After thirty minutes of digging, setting, passing and spiking, I was worn out, and Andrea and Audrey had to compete in an intramural volleyball match.
In parting, I asked what more I should do to finish the workout. Lift for two hours, then run, Otteman said.
Womens Swimming
For this component of my research, I made my way down to Skoglund Pool for an off-season womens swimming workout, specially designed by Ole swimmer Brooke Walper 07. I was a stellar member of the local swim club throughout my youth and, by all accounts, should have been well prepared to handle the exercise.
Instead, I floundered. The workout began with a 900-yard warm-up swim and only got tougher from there. The main workout consisted of 2500 yards of interval laps with varying strokes and culminated with four 25-yard sprints. Altogether, the workout included more than two miles of butterfly, freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke, interspersed with various kicking and stroke drills.
Despite my initial confidence, I missed every single interval and gave up a little early. Let it be known: anyone who says womens swimming isnt an intense sport is sorely, sorely mistaken.
Mens Track and Field
Im not much of a distance runner these days, nor have I ever thrown the discus or put the shot. But there is a track and field event for every physical build and athletic type, so I quickly found my niche: horizontal jumping (long and triple jump). With the MIAC conference meet approaching, the jumpers were working on their approaches, and head coach Bill Thornton was focusing his attention on the jumpers. It was a perfect time to begin my jumping career.
Jumping is not an incredibly complicated sport. Half of the battle is mastering the basics, which are all oriented about the first three steps of the jumpers approach. Push, push, push, reiterated Thornton, You need to have good rhythm on your approach.
Surprisingly, I found I have a decent intuitive sense of said approach rhythm, and I was able to make two near-perfect approaches.
Upon discovering my natural jumping ability, I commented to a fellow jumper that perhaps I should join the team.
Jumping is all about setting goals, the jumper suggestively replied.
Perhaps that is the track equivalent of Better luck next year.


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—Come All Ye Fair and Tender Girls
The musical bow is a simple string musical instrument present in most archaic cultures as well as many in the present day. It consists of a string supported by a flexible stick 1.5 to 10 feet (0.5 to 3 m) long, and strung end to end with a taut cord. Usually made out of wood. Often, it is a normal archery bow used for music rather than as a weapon.
Although the bow is now thought of as a weapon, it is not clear whether it was used in this way originally. Cave paintings in southern France dated to around 15,000 BCE, show a bow being used as a musical instrument, so this use certainly has a long history. Musical bows are still used in a number of cultures today, almost all over the world. The berimbau, a musical bow from Brazil, is quickly gaining players worldwide as a result of its association with the game of capoeira. In the United States, the musical bow was apparently introduced by African slaves. Today, it is primarily found in the Appalachian Mountains, where it is called a mouthbow or mouth bow.
The usual way to make the bow sound is to pluck the string, although sometimes a subsidiary bow is used to scrape the string, much as on a violin. The Onavillu of Karnataka sounds when struck with a thin stick. Unlike string instruments used in classical music, however, they do not have a built-in resonator, although resonators may be made to work with the bow in a number of ways.
The most usual type of resonator consists of a gourd attached to the back of the string bearer. The bow may also be stood in a pit or gourd on the ground, or one end of it may be partially placed in the mouth. This last method allows the size of the resonator to be varied as the instrument is played, thus allowing a melody to be heard consisting of the notes resonating in the player's mouth. As well as these various forms of resonators, the bow is frequently played without a resonator at all.
The musical bow is generally played on its own, as a solo instrument, although it is sometimes played, amplified, as part of an ensemble in Appalachian old-time music.
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