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Nadal one win from gold
Spaniard to face Gonzalez in Olympic final
Last Updated: 16/08/08 10:08am
Nadal celebrates victory
Rafael Nadal required three sets to overcome the challenge of Novak Djokovic in the semi-final of the Beijing Olympics.
"Fernando looked me square in the eye and didn't call it."
James Blake Quotes of the week
Nadal won 6-4 1-6 6-4 in two hours and 10 minutes and will face Fernando Gonzalez in Sunday's gold medal match after the Chilean saw off James Blake in the other semi-final.
The Spaniard, seeded second, claimed two early breaks on his way to taking the opening set 6-4.
And although third seed Djokovic hit back to race through the second set and level the match, it was Nadal who looked stronger once the deciding set got under way.
The left-hander sealed the result by breaking when Djokovic was serving at 4-5 to stay in the match.
Earlier on Friday, Gonzalez booked his spot in the final with an epic three-set triumph over Blake.
The 28-year-old, who took singles bronze and doubles gold in Athens four years ago, prevailed 4-6 7-5 11-9.
Blake, appearing at his first Olympics, wasted three match points after leading 40-0 on Gonzalez's serve at 5-6 in the decider.
But the 12th seed hit four consecutive winners to escape from that jam and went on subdue his American opponent in two hours and 51 minutes.
Afterwards, Blake expressed his displeasure over an umpiring call when he led 9-8 in the decider.
The New Yorker hit a forehand towards Gonzalez at the net - the ball landed out but Blake was convinced it touched his opponent's racket.
"Playing in the Olympics, in what's supposed to be considered a gentleman's sport, that's a time to call it on yourself," Blake said.
"Fernando looked me square in the eye and didn't call it. If it had happened the other way, I never would have finished the match because my father would have pulled me off the court.
"We know when it touches us. And he knew that. So that's where it comes into calling it on yourself. Should I expect him to do that? Maybe not.
"It's a disappointing way to exit the tournament when you not only lose the match, but you lose a little faith in your fellow competitor."
Jankovic beaten
Meanwhile, sixth seed Dinara Safina completed the women's semi-final line-up by dispatching Jelena Jankovic of Serbia in three sets.
Safina battled to a 6-2 5-7 6-3 lead over her second seeded opponent and will play home favourite Li Na in the last four.
The other semi-final is an all-Russian affair between Vera Zvonareva and Elena Dementieva.
In the men's doubles, Federer bounced back from his singles disappointment to reach the final in partnership with Stanislas Wawrinka.
The Swiss pair produced an impressive display to see off India's Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes 6-2 6-4 in their quarter-final and then returned to the court in the evening to beat top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan of the United States 6-2 6-4.
Federer, who will be deposed as world number one by Nadal next week, had crashed out of the singles to Blake at the quarter-final stage on Thursday.
Simon Aspelin and Thomas Johansson await in the final after the Swedish duo beat Arnaud Clement and Michael Llodra of France in the longest three-set men's match in Olympic history.
The eventual scoreline of 7-6 (8-6) 4-6 19-17 took four hours and 46 minutes and added up to 59 games plus a tie-break.
Sister acts were the order of the day in the women's doubles quarter-finals with wins for Venus and Serena Williams, as well as Alona and Kateryna Bondarenko.
Both Williams lost in the singles on Thursday but put that behind them to combine for a 6-4 6-0 win over Russians Elena Vesnina and Zvonareva.
And they will play the Bondarenkos in the last four after the Ukrainian siblings notched a 6-1 3-6 7-5 success over Italians Flavia Pennetta and Francesca Schiavone.


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PCS members have voted overwhelmingly to reject the government's proposed pension changes. We are taking strike action on May 10 with other trade unions across the public sector.
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17.00 Well that's it. A hugely impressive turnout and massive thanks to you all for the dedication and determination shown once more today, especially in the face of pretty terrible weather. Your updates, messages of support and pics have all been hugely appreciated.
If you have any further updates for the PCS Flickr page or messages of support, please remember to email firstname.lastname@example.com Thanks again, tremendous effort by all.
16.55 Marion O'Boyle, 51, works as a case officer with the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority.
She will lose £21,703.66 as a result of the switch from RPI to CPI. If she works until 65 she will lose £48,259.38.
"The proposed changes to the civil service pension scheme make dismal reading and will have a detrimental effect in the immediate and long-term future for myself and the majority of associated colleagues."
16.50 In Hull there were very few staff at the courts, with only two courts open at the magistrates' court. Other pickets at DWP and CPS around the city were very noisy, pickets at the local hospital did their bit, too.
16.45 Bob Wilden works as an employer compliance technical consultant. He will lose £44,817.95 as a result of the switch from RPI to CPI.
"The change in pensions is a disgrace. We are being told we are being unreasonable wanting to keep what we had.
"Most of us around my age (58) have planned for our retirement only to have the rug pulled from under our feet. What really rubs salt in the wounds is to bring this in during a period of pay freeze."
16.40 We now have more than 4,000 members of the PCS Union members' group on Facebook. Not a member? Join today.
16.35 PCS member Geraldine Metcalfe cannot hide her anger about the changes to her pension: "I am very angry. The rules have changed halfway through and I feel like the rug has been pulled out from beneath me."
16.30 There has never been a better time to join PCS and join the fight for pensions, jobs and services
16.28 If you think 68 is too late to retire do as hundreds of people already have and join the joint unions campaign
16.25 Lynn Leatherbarrow is an executive officer in the prison service. She said it is devastating to get to the age of 54 to find there is not going to be the outcome she was originally expecting.
"I will lose the equivalent of almost half a year's salary for my services. I have signed up to a pension contract and committed to it completely, so why should I be penalised for doing that, by a government that was not actually voted in by anyone?"
16.20 An old London bus led a procession of strikers to the Birmingham University Hospital where an impromptu rally was held with PCS, Unite and UCU capturing the interest of both local and national media. This was then followed by an indoor rally addressed by speakers of all three unions.
16.15 Ann a personal secretary in the information services of the Forestry Commission says her pensionable pay will be worth 13% less than at the start of the pay freeze. She will also lose £16,969.68 as a result of the switch from RPI to CPI.
16.12 Hundreds of people like PCS member Ann Bennett have been using the PCS pensions calculator today to find out how much they stand to lose because of the government's plans.
16.10 Nearly 200,000 PCS members took strike action today and some workplaces exceeded numbers striking on 30 November.
16.08 There is a general consensus that 400,000 workers were on strike today
16.06 Speeches at well-supported rallies across the UK were united in a call for further action.
16.02 There has been great news coverage from the early morning lead story on the BBC Radio4 flagship political programme, Today, right through to a continual presence on BBC News homepage and other news channels.
16.00 M10 was trending on Twitter all day.
15.58 Photos from PCS members are still coming in, see a selection on our Flickr site
15.55 Write to your MP to ask them to defend public sector pensions
15.45 Speaking after the public service pension rally today the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance general secretary, Brian Campfield said: "Our members have again shown today their determination to protect their hard-fought entitlement to decent pensions. They have also demonstrated their commitment to the defence of the public services.
"NIPSA in conjunction with other trade unions both public and private sector is determined to protect the interests of ordinary people against the onslaught from the coalition government on their pay, terms and conditions, job security and the vicious assault on the welfare state."
15.40 The Daily Telegraph is conducting a poll on the pensions strike, vote 'yes' now!
15.37 Metro ad shows why Police Federation members chose to march
15.34 In Brighton there was a well-represented march, followed up with a successful rally, finished off with a brilliant demo.
15.32 In the north west there are reports of UCU members supporting the strike to defend pensions from at Chester, MMU and Liverpool Hope universities.
15.21 PCS rebuts government's wildly inaccurate strike day figures, see our latest press release
15.18 BBC local radio link below to interview with Hereford & Worcester DWP branch from 02:24m.
15.11 Manchester MoJ samba band took the streets to protest over pension attacks
15.06 RMT speaker Steve Todd told the Liverpool rally that three ships were striking in Birkenhead. Another ship in the Falklands is preparing to take action when it arrived in port.
15.00 Most HMRC workplaces reporting very good support from the public.
14.55 Read and share our alternative to the cuts.
14.49 Prison officers have ended all their "protest meetings", a Prison Officers' Association spokesman has said. More than 80% of members supported the walkout and the action "has been a great success in raising the public's awareness to the inherent dangers that the coalition government's policy change will bring to the prison service in the future," he said.
14.41 Today at Peterborough Land Registry - 83% of members on strike. 6 members on picket line plus visitors from GMB, Unison, CWG, Prospect and POA. POA member was in Peterborough from Bedford delivering his daughter's passport application - he took the opportunity to show his support and come and stand with us for nearly an hour.
14.39 80% of staff out at HMRC Bathgate contact centre Edinburgh.
14.36 Author Owen Jones said "You give strength to all those who know this crisis was not of their making. Cameron has underestimated us. He is leading a right-wing government. Just look what they are doing to welfare. This is beyond anything Thatcher could have dreamt of and they have no mandate for what they are doing.
"They have also tried to turn brother against brother. It's the politics of divide and rule and we need a united response from the Labour movement. But there is hope and the winter of austerity might be drawing to an end."
14.30 So far 463 people have followed the '68 is too late ' campaign on twitter at @68_is_too_late - can we get to 500 today? Follow today.
14.30 Gail Cartmail, assistant general secretary of Unite. "One in five young people are unemployed, 400,000 will be born into poverty... 94% of our members emphatically said No to the gov's proposals. Unlike the gov we have a mandate. It is our duty to fight every inch of the way until we win. 68 is too late and 71 I'm done! Not only is the public with us...we are the public."
14.27 Lots of members of the public express their support for strikers at the passport office in Belfast.
14.26 Lisburn and Belfast trade union councils in Northern Ireland have sent messages of support to PCS strikers.
14.23 Norma Dudley, health visitor rep for Unite. "We are also here to defend the NHS. The pay cuts and pension reforms are to soften us up for privatisation of the NHS. We must fight these cuts. We feel we are now not able to give the service we have been trained for. We need the trade union movement to come together and escalate this campaign as the government is weak and we are gaining the public's support."
14.19 View the new images added to the gallery page. Also, check out our Flickr page and send us your pics so we can add to it at firstname.lastname@example.com.
14.17 Over 300 people at joint PCS/NIPSA rally in Belfast.
14.13 PCS NEC member Ian Albert addressed crowd in Norwich saying "PCS members in the Eastern Region, joining with our colleagues in Unite and UCU, have sent a clear message today to the Coalition... No country should leave its pensioners in poverty. We want Fair Pensions for All and decent standards of living in retirement whether you work in the public or private sector, whether you are now unemployed and on benefits or whether you already get a state pension."
14.10 Unite general secretary Len McCluskey tells pensions strikers "you represent the majority of ordinary working people opposed to government's."
14.07 At Leeds, PCS National vice president John McInally said "There is no done deal on pensions. We do not accept the government's attempt to impose on us a lifetime of low pay followed by an impoverished retirement. Today is not a protest strike - it is part of a programme of action. There will be more action on June, with even more workers on strike, if the government refuses to negotiate."
14.05 At Manchester, PCS vice president Sue Bond said "At the ballot box in the UK and in elections across Europe, austerity is being roundly rejected and alternatives proposed.
"Cameron and Clegg have wrapped around themselves an austerity agenda with no alternative - but that is now looking increasingly discredited. The emperors have no clothes."
14.03 More from Mark Serwotka. "Our strategy to win has to be to unite as many groups together. Francis Maude is the Minister for Chaos and has refused to talk to us. Today is an incredibly important step to get our strike back on the road. In one of our London courts today the jurors refused to cross the picket line. There's been brilliant support from PCS members today. Just look across the road at the great picket outside the Mother of Democracy, Parliament. It is inspiring and, with support from other unions, we can win.
"I am very proud how PCS members and organisations like UCU and Unite in the NHS and MoJ have responded today. 400,000 have been on strike today but I'll be going to the TUC next week to argue for more action. We should be striking again in June. Think what a blow it will be to the gov if we go out again with more unions. I want to tell my kids that when the going got tough we stood up and fought."
14.02 Singer Billy Bragg sent a message of solidarity: "Support public sector workers on strike. With no one in parliament to speak up for them, what else are they to do?"
13.57 Mark Serwotka calls for even bigger strike with more unions out next time. He paid tribute to UCU and Unite members on strike today.
13.52 Read or download our 'There is an Alternative booklet'
13.46 More from Methodist Central Hall as Toni Pearce. Vice President Further Education of National Union of Students speaks.
"Not looking forward to working into my 70s. Students are right behind this strike. Students are paying £9,000 a year fees. They haven't listened to us and they haven't listened to you. We want a fair wage and a fair pension."
13.46 You don't have to be a PCS member to sign up for our free campaigns newsletter. Sign up to get the latest today.
13.44 More from Methodist Central Hall as Dr Terry Hoad, president of the UCU condemns, "Government's vicious attack on pensions. How can this be fair when we're paying for the actions of the bankers?
"Average chief executive stands to gain £200,00 extra income from next year. Average UCU lecturer sees them lose £60,000 from their pensions over the course of a lifetime."
13.41 More from Bob Crow, general secretary of the RMT at Methodist Central Hall. "We salute every single worker on strike today. One of the most principled of strikes. Every Royal Fleet auxiliary member is on strike today. And finally the police are going out too, because they too are under attack.
"We should have voluntary retirement at 55 like they do on the continent. We have woken up today but the rest of the trade union must wake up too. We need a 24 hr strike involving everyone in October. We have to start building up this action and get the trade unions to build contacts with communities and act."
13.40 RMT general secretary Bob Crow called for a general strike at the rally in Methodist Central Hall.
13.39 In Cardiff, PCS assistant general secretary Chris Baugh delivered a strong message to union leaders who thought separate deals would benefit their members. "They were absolutely wrong. Join with our colleagues in unite and the private sector. Reject fatalism".
13.37 In Liverpool, PCS deputy general secretary Hugh Lanning tells of how impressed he was by the turnout and energy on the picket lines and says 'our job is to win pensions fight but also to stop the government destroying our welfare state'
13.34 PCS member? Make sure you are signed up to get the latest news direct to your personal email.
13.33 Christine Blower, general secretary of NUT "Congratulate you all on the strike action today. This is essential action. It's all part of the co-ordinated campaign against the onslaught on pensions. You pay 50% more, if you are a teacher, for a lot less. An awful lot of money has been paid to the Exchequr with nothing in return. These are policies made by two posh boys who don't know the cost of a pint of milk.
"The age of 68 is simply too late. To make the rich work harder we pay them more. But to make the poor work harder we pay them less. It's not working but it is hurting."
13.30 Follow the '68 is too late' state pension campaign on twitter at @68_is_too_late
13.29 Good turnout today in Bangor, Wales by allied health professionals.
13.27 In Glasgow, more than 200 people including Ian Davidson MP, Drew Smith MSP, both labour, and Patrick Harvie MSP, Green party, crammed into the Glasgow rally as the rain poured down outside.
They heard speeches from the stuc, the UCU, UNITE, PCS members from balfour beatty and PCS national president Janice Godrich who sent a warning to Westminster, "If the government refuses to negotiate we will strike again. We have no choice now but to stand and fight for our livelihoods and our communities."
13.26 Follow the '68 is too late' state pension campaign on Facebook
13.25 Steve Todd RMT national secretary tells Liverpool rally: "Seafarers are 100% behind the dispute. We will stand together and will have members out in support every time."
13.19 Watch and share the '68 is too late' pension age campaign animated video.
13.18 Liverpool rally between 400 and 500 people packed into hall. People having to stand outside too. Excellent turnout.
13.18 London Region National Pensioners' Convention at the London rally all wearing plastic policeman hats in support of Met police staff on strike today.
13.15 Message of support received from Julia MacGregor, Chair of GCG "While we cannot take industrial action, we are raising money for the PCS Hardship Fund and raising awareness of pensions issues, including the "68 is too late" campaign. We wish you all the best today, and hope this leads to the government coming back to the negotiating table."
13.12 85% members on strike at Bradford debt centre - the best supported strike in recent times. Plus singing on the picket line!
13.07 The latest PCS media release rounds up the action across the UK.
13.05 PCS north west officer Steve Farley is now addressing crowds at the Exeter rally about HMRC cuts.
13.03 At Northampton combined court 93% of members are on strike. A postman would not cross the picket. An NUT member visited the strikers.
13.01 Of 600 people just 60 crossed the picket line at the pension centre in Warrington.
12.59 There is 95% support for the strike at Wigan jobcentre.
12.58 Hundreds of people at the Liverpool pensions rally
12.56 Three reading rooms are closed at the British Library. NUT general secretary, Christine Blower, visited the picket line. A bag of cakes was delivered by a member of the public in solidarity.
12.55 There is hardly any traffic into the Welsh Assembly building in Cardiff. The Senedd and pierhead buildings are closed for visitors. No assembly business. Plaid and Labour assembly members are not crossing picket lines. Ministers not entering building.
12.51 "Wettest picket line in history. Thank God for PCS ponchos," said a striker at Durham Land Registry where the picket has gained fantastic support for the strike from members and the public.
12.48 Liverpool Ministry of Defence rep Aileen Ryan: "We are picketing to save our pensions and because we don't want to still have to go to work on our zimmer frames."
12.47 Preparing to go into the London rally PSC member Steve Tampling said: "I am protesting today because what the government is trying to do is disgusting. I will lose £130 a month and about £130,000 with the switch from RPI to CPI."
12.45 "We have not changed our stance but are more resilient than ever," said Met Group President Richard Rooney. "The recent elections in France gives us hope that this government will start listening to the people otherwise the coalition should prepare for a summer of discontent."
12.43 Unite, UCU and PCS march arrives at the Methodist Church Hall. Hundreds present. Lots of red Unite flags and placards.
12.41 Glasgow DVLA office closed because of PCS action.
12.39 Police Federation march heading past Methodist Central Hall now with an estimated 28,000 officers taking part.
12.35 Tax enquiry centre closed at Carnbane House, Newry, Northern Ireland.


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I love these cookies and make them every Christmas. I follow the recipe exactly as it is. Friends request I make these all the time.
Macaroon Cookies
Baking for 11 minutes will make soft, chewy cookies, while baking for 13 minutes will make crisper cookies.
Yield: Makes 4 dozen
- 1/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1 (3-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 teaspoons orange juice
- 1 to 2 teaspoons almond extract
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 5 cups sweetened flaked coconut, divided
- 1 (10-ounce) package HERSHEY'S KISSES Chocolates, unwrapped
- Beat first 3 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer until blended. Add egg yolk, orange juice, and almond extract, beating until mixture is blended.
- Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; gradually add to butter mixture, beating until blended. Stir in 3 cups coconut. Cover and chill 1 hour.
- Shape dough into 1-inch balls; roll balls in remaining 2 cups coconut, and place on ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake at 350° for 11 to 13 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned. Remove from oven, and press 1 chocolate into center of each warm cookie. Cool on baking sheets 1 minute. Remove to wire racks to cool completely.
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Nassau County Evictions
Knowing the venue where you are litigating your eviction is vital in several ways including the cost of the action. Nassau County in particular can be very costly due to some local town codes. In Nassau County, the Sheriff requires the landlord to pay for the moving expenses and first month's storage charges for the tenant's belongings. The reason for this cost is that Nassau County and the municipalities and townships inside Nassau County have ordinances and codes in place to protect the public health and welfare in their municipalities or towns. These town codes prevent garbage and discarded property from being left curbside. Faced with the dilemma of figuring out how to execute the warrant of eviction for landlords without leaving the tenant's belongings curbside, the Sheriff decided to employ the services of a moving company to remove the tenants belongings and acquire a storage unit to hold such belongings. It is the responsibility of the Sheriff to ensure that the municipality collects these funds and does not take a financial loss. The Sheriff therefore demands that the landlord pay the moving and storage expense upfront. For more information regarding this aspect of Nassau County eviction proceedings, read the decision of
Part of NY's Aggravated Harassment in the Second Degree ruled unconstitutional
On May 13, 2014, in People v. Golb, the NY Court of Appeals struck down Section 1 of NY's Aggravated Harassment in the Second Degree as unconstitutional. The Court found 240.30 (1) unconstitutionally vague and overbroad under both the New York and Federal Constitutions. The Court stated that "any proscription of pure speech must be sharply limited to words which, by their utterance alone, inflict injury or tend naturally to evoke immediate violence."
The NY Legislature has PROPOSED and PASSED an amended statute which contains major changes to section 1 of 240.30 – NY's Aggravated Harassment in the Second Degree:
- Section 1 now requires a threat of harm to person or property.
- additional changes were also made to sections 1-5, and
- section 6 has be eliminated
As of today, it does not appear that Gov. Cuomo has signed the bill into law.
The old statute (section 1 is no longer enforceable):
§ 240.30 Aggravated harassment in the second degree.
A person is guilty of aggravated harassment in the second degree when,
with intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm another person, he or
1. Either (a) communicates with a person, anonymously or otherwise, by
telephone, by telegraph, or by mail, or by transmitting or delivering
any other form of written communication, in a manner likely to cause
annoyance or alarm; or
(b) causes a communication to be initiated by mechanical or electronic
means or otherwise with a person, anonymously or otherwise, by
telephone, by telegraph, or by mail, or by transmitting or delivering
any other form of written communication, in a manner likely to cause
annoyance or alarm; or
2. Makes a telephone call, whether or not a conversation ensues, with
no purpose of legitimate communication; or
3. Strikes, shoves, kicks, or otherwise subjects another person to
physical contact, or attempts or threatens to do the same because of a
belief or perception regarding such person's race, color, national
origin, ancestry, gender, religion, religious practice, age, disability
or sexual orientation, regardless of whether the belief or perception is
correct; or
4. Strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise subjects another person to
physical contact thereby causing physical injury to such person or to a
family or household member of such person as defined in section 530.11
of the criminal procedure law.
5. Commits the crime of harassment in the first degree and has
previously been convicted of the crime of harassment in the first degree
as defined by section 240.25 of this article within the preceding ten
6. For the purposes of subdivision one of this section, "form of
written communication" shall include, but not be limited to, a recording
as defined in subdivision six of section 275.00 of this part.
Aggravated harassment in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.
Riley v. California – "The Cell Phone Case"
On June 25, 2014, the United States Supreme Court decided the case of Riley v. California. In a unanimous decision the Supreme Court held that "police generally may not, without a warrant, search digital information on a cell phone seized from an individual who has been arrested." Therefore, with some exceptions, officers must first secure a warrant before conducting a search of your cell phone incident to an arrest. The Court went on to explicitly state that "even though the search incident to arrest exception does not apply to cell phones, other case-specific exceptions may still justify a warrantless search of a particular phone."
One such exception that may justify a warrantless search of a cell phone is exigency. The Court stated that exigent circumstances "could include the need to prevent the imminent destruction of evidence in individual cases, to pursue a fleeing suspect, and to assist persons who are seriously injured or are threatened with imminent injury." The Court also stated that the exigent circumstances exception could be used to deal with "a suspect texting an accomplice who, it is feared, is preparing to detonate a bomb, or a child abductor who may have information about the child's location on his cell phone." Though not mentioned by the Court, the consent and abandonment exceptions may also apply under certain circumstances. I can also imagine a scenario where the plain view exception could be used to establish exigency or support a warrant application.
Additionally, the court stated that law enforcement officers "remain free to examine the physical aspects of a phone to ensure that it will not be used as a weapon—say, to determine whether there is a razor blade hidden between the phone and its case."
Often times in Personal Injury cases, the injury itself becomes an issue. Not all injuries are sufficiently damaging to be considered "serious" under New York Insurance Law, section 5102(d). The facts of each particular case will determine whether or not each claimed injury meets the threshold of a "serious injury" under this statute. In order to cross the threshold and satisfy the statute, the nature of the injury itself must be a "permanent consequential limitation of use of a body organ or member" or "significant limitation of use of a body function or system." These standards were interpreted by the Court in Toure v. Avis Rent a Car Systems, Inc., 98 N.Y.2d 345, 350, 746 N.Y.S.2d 865 (2002) and later strengthened by the Courts in Perl v. Meher, 18 N.Y.3d 208, 936 N.Y.S.2d 655 (2011) and Adler v. Bayer, 77 A.D.3d 692, 909 N.Y.S.2d 526 (2d Dep't 2010). Patrick Higgins, Esq. discusses the significance of these cases in great detail in The Plaintiff's Personal Injury Action in New York State.
Understanding the categories of injuries and the way in which the law views each type of injury can be a daunting task. It is in your best interest to consult with an attorney to help clarify any questions you may have about whether or not your injury will pass the threshold of a "serious injury" under New York Insurance Law, section 5102(d).
Just for informational purposes; there also exists a 90/180 rule. This rule includes injuries that cause an injured victim to miss 90 out of 180 days from work. This particular post is not directed towards explaining this category but it is important to be aware of.
As always, if you need assistance with any aspect of your Personal Injury case, including threshold questions, please call (516) 858-2620 to speak to a Personal Injury attorney today!


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This is my first drafted corset pattern. I used the fantastic resources on the Foundations Revealed website to learn how to draft a corset pattern as well as the techniques I needed to structure this corset.
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Good Question: How Do I Get Melted Plastic Off the Oven?
We've totally had this problem. Julie asks:
I've had a bad week when it comes to plasticware in the kitchen. First I forgot that a bunch of stuff—including some plastic food savers from Ikea—had been stored in the oven, and turned the oven on just long enough to melt one of them. Now there's a little bit of residue on the bottom plate of the oven, which is removable. I've taken it out but am not sure of the best way to get the residue off.
Then, while toasting some cumin powder, I forgot I was holding a plastic teaspoon and tried to scrape a spot that was about to scorch. A little bit of the plastic teaspoon melted onto my stainless steel frying pan.Can anyone tell this klutz the best way to get the plastic off these surfaces? I promise to keep the plastic away from the stove from now on.
Julie, on the *ahem* one or two occasions we've dealt with this problem, we've let the plastic cool completely, then chipped away at it with a spatula or screwdriver until it was mostly gone. In the case of the stainless steel pan, it seems like a little steel wool would be enough to remove it.
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i have no idea if this works, but an old trick for getting wax off of stuff is to put a towel or piece of cloth (that you are willing to sacrifice) over the dried gunk and then running a warm iron over it. as the gunk softens, press the towel into it and then lift it away.
melted plastic is very toxic, discard anything you can, replace the rack and clean your oven thoroughly, air out your kitchen.
I don't know about anyone else... but I'm wondering what exactly happened in the photo...
I would discard the rack, just because plastic is very toxic, as funstraw mentioned, and if there is even a little left on it after cleaning, it is going to smell terrible when heated and probably seep into your food.
I would try putting the pan in the freezer to get it really hard and it should chip right off. Maybe if you have a big freezer it will work for the rack, too.
that photo is amazing.
that photo is friggen hilarious!
I'm just really glad that I'm not the only clutz in the kitchen. I mean don't get me wrong, I can cook- and I'm usually neat too! but I have my spaced out moments such as these and it's very refreshing to hear I'm not the only one!
My mother has done this repeatedly as she too uses the oven for storage. We've usually been able to ship off the plastic and then use oven cleaner, there are several on the market that don't smell up the entire house. I wouldn't try to re-melt the plastic.
As for the picture, it reminds me of the large plastic container filled with Christmas cookies that were preheated one year in our house. Ah..., childhood memories.
Get out the hair dryer, and run hot air over the plastic to soften it back up. Then take a few paper towels and wipe up the soft plastic. You can place the rack back in a warm oven until the plastic softens back up and wipe it up too with a paper towel. Do not ruin your pan with harsh abrasives...the plastic melted onto the surface and can be warmed off. Automobile parts stores sell "gum out" and other engine cleaners...you might ask them for suggestions if the heat doesn't work. So far, i've had good luck rewarming the mess with a hairdryer and paper towels. (yes, this is one of the few places where paper towels are better than rags)
Throw it away. Plastic isn't wax. I'd probably replace the stainless steel pan, myself.
Also, don't store things in the oven. This has always struck me as an odd thing, and a bad habit.
Some people have to store things in the oven, due to limited space in cabinets or on counters, in my first apartment I had exactly 1 cabinet, and about 2x2 foot square of counter space. (Needless to say we ate a lot of frozen dinners that year, but anyways)
I don't have any help on the plastic issue, but I do have a preventative tip - if you store something in the oven, take a piece of blue painter's tape or masking tape, and tape the door shut (to the control knob if possible) as a visual reminder that "Oh yea, there is stuff in there!" I don't need to store things in the oven anymore, but I use the tape now for when I am rising bread dough in the oven and don't want to forget to get it out before cooking something. ;-)
i made the mistake of stiring toffee with a plastic spatula, i ended up with bits of plastic inside my candy.
@taraht: are you wondering how the plastic got like that or why there is sliced bread on top of it?
Cause it seems pretty clear that the plastic was sitting on the rack, melted and dripped down.
The only reason I can imagine the bread being there is that the plastic drips are strong enough to hold up the rack and it's being used as like an elevated platter on a buffet layout or something like that.
1. Pry off the plastic from the oven rack;
2. Create a Dali-esque sculpture for your home!
In regards to the picture... the person could have been using one of those "oven-safe" plastic baking dishes... I think Glad makes them? I had a similar incident in college trying to bake in the little dorm kitchen. Luckily, I smelled the plastic before it melted too badly.


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The irrelevance of blogs that say the 100-point system is irrelevant
Back in the 1990s I was supplementing my wine-writing income by doing a little healthcare reporting. As things turned out, I became known as something of an expert in the intersection of the U.S. healthcare industry–the nation's biggest–and the emerging Internet. Everyone from pharmaceutical manufacturers to insurers, hospital administrators and individual doctors wanted to know what would happen when these two gigantic forces met, and how they could incorporate this new-fangled World Wide Web into their businesses. I didn't have a clue, to tell you the truth, but I knew just enough more than most people (including my editors) to keep me gainfully employed and give my writing the semblance of expertise.
One memory stays with me of that period. Dot-com startups were as common in those days as the squirrels now gathering nuts in my neighborhood here in Oakland as Fall approaches. Here's how it typically worked (and this is a fascinating and useful glimpse into the troubled, and troubling, nexus of marketing and reporting, as well). Someone starts a dot-com company; let's say it purports to keep Internet-based communications between physicians secure. Somehow, that new business, which may not yet even exist (which would qualify it as "vaporware"), attracts the attention of one of the big investment banks. That bank would buy a piece of the company or otherwise associate itself with it. Then the bank would make its analysts available to journalists writing about that topic; the analysts would help the hapless reporters understand the finer points of whatever the topic was. If you've ever been a working reporter, you know how much we depend on the kindness of analysts whom we can quote with certain knowledge that the quotes are accurate, because after all, that analyst is an expert who works for an important investment bank.
Well, you see the obvious conflict of interest. The analyst talks up the new company, explaining how the product or service it provides is badly needed, and that this company (which he has analyzed in detail) is in a good position to succeed. The company is, according to the analyst, a sure thing. Meanwhile, the reporter–me–is typing all this down, to incorporate into the story. Next thing you know, a big, glossy healthcare magazine is running it, complete with the analyst's spin (but now in my words) about how great this new startup company is. It's a win-win-win for everybody: the startup's owner, the investment bank, the analyst, me, and the publisher of the magazine who's paying me.
Except for one little thing: in many cases, the analysts either lied or were entirely incorrect (for whatever reason) in their judgments. As we all know, the dot-com era crashed spectacularly in the early 2000s. A lot of "sure things" perished overnight; a lot of people lost everything. Many of the "sure thing" predictions turned out to be as premature as reports of Mark Twain's demise. That horrible era taught me some important lessons I've carried through in my journalism ever since: Be skeptical of claims, even by so-called "experts" who seem so self-assured. I developed a B.S. radar that to this day serves me well. That radar always asks these questions of anyone giving information or advice: Does this person have a hidden agenda? What does he or she have to gain (or lose)? Is there solid evidence of this person's claims?
When the dot-com collapse finally happened, I'd been out of healthcare writing for a few years. But I was shocked that my reporting had had something to do with instilling a sense of trust in these startup companies–trust that, as it turned out, they didn't deserve. People all over the country had read my articles and made decisions based upon facts provided to me, and by me to readers, that had turned out not to be true. I vowed never to let that happen again.
We come now, after this somewhat labored intro, to the subject of today's post. Over the last number of years, we've had many reports of the Death of the 100 Point System. These have mainly come from the wine blogosphere. We can now see that these reports have been characterized, not by critical judgment or factual data, but by wishful (and even magical) thinking. Typical of the genre is this blog post from last week that incorporates the standard memes:
- people, especially younger ones, don't care about point scores
- they would rather get a recco from a friend than from some famous [old] critic
- wine criticism is subjective anyway, so giving it a number is crazy
- the only way to judge a wine is to experience it yourself
The writer then offers examples from his own experience to "prove" the truth of each assertion.
Well, of course, each of these bullet points is true in its own way. But they're no truer now than they were pre-social media. Only a tiny percentage of wine consumers ever cared about point scores. But in fact, more people today are influenced by them than ever. More and more big retailers (Beverages & More, Costco) are using point scores (by people like me) to market their wines, so that more and more consumers are exposed to them. And believe me, these retailers wouldn't use point scores if they didn't know a high score moves SKUs.
And younger people, of course, always have been resistant to the advice of elders. That's what it means to be young: There's nothing inherently different about kids in their twenties today than at any other point in history. They've always been more inclined to respect the opinions of their friends than of their elders. Social media hasn't changed that. The point is that young people will someday be middle-aged people (that's the way it goes, kids), and when they have a little more money in their pockets, they'll do what people with disposable incomes have always done: seek the advice of experts when it comes to buying things, like autos, high tech devices and, yes, wine.
There's simply no evidence that the 100-point system is endangered or irrelevant. In fact it's at the height of its impact. Virtually every major critic in the world uses it (or some variation of it). The writer of the blog post I referenced understands this full well: in his concluding paragraph (which is where you always want to make an important point to leave with the reader), he writes: "Ultimately, the 100-point scale is here to stay." That disclaimer, you'd think, would nullify everything he'd said up to that point. After all, you can't be "here to stay" if you're irrelevant, can you?
The solution to Napa Valley traffic? Not social media!
Last Wednesday's public meeting of the Napa County Planning Commission, as reported by the Napa Valley Register, sounds like a typical exercise in broad-based bureaucratic eye-glazing bureaucracy.
Everyone got to say his two cents, and the rest of the audience had to sit through it and listen, no matter how rambling or opaque the remarks were. That is the essence, and the curse, of participatory democracy.
The main topic, so far as I could discern it, was the impact of growing winery infrastructure on traffic. This is a perennial concern in Napa Valley and a legitimate one. If you've driven Highway 29 lately, you know how awful it can be. Gridlock, sometimes stretching from north of St. Helena all the way through American Canyon down to the 101 Freeway, is the norm. It's why I advise visiting tourists to avoid Napa and stick to Sonoma County. No fun sitting in your car inhaling gas fumes.
I don't know what the answer to the traffic is, but I don't think it involves social media. And yet, there at the meeting was the ubiquitous Paul Mabray, singing the social media halleleujah chorus to a roomful of voters and county officials who must have wondered just who he was, and why he was there, lecturing them about "digital human beings" and the mean number of times per day the average winery posts on Twitter (2.2 times a day, in case you're wondering), when what they were there to talk about was traffic.
I mean, social media is very glorious and wonderful, and we all are grateful it exists and can hardly remember what life was like before it did. But social media has not yet turned into a deus ex machina–a miraculous intervention that solves all problems, like those quack nostrum peddlers used to claim when they sold horse linament to naïve uneducated people looking for a cure for their cancers, arthritis and venereal diseases.
I cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, see the relevance of "engag[ing] potential customers on social media networks" to local traffic conditions, unless Paul was trying to make the point that the more people who are buying wine online, the fewer people will be actually visiting Napa Valley. But I don't think that was his point. And even if it was, it was effectively rebutted by vintner Michael Honig, who stated the obvious truth that "People…come and see our valley. They…see our barrels. They…kick the dirt." That's how you get a lifetime customer, not through tweeting 80 times a day.
Once Paul had his say, it seems that things got back to the topic at hand. The problem of traffic is insoluble, short of draconian steps that wineries would oppose, tourists would hate and would probably be doomed to fail at any rate. (Back during the gas shortages of the 1970s, you could only fill up on certain days of the week, depending on the numbers on your license plate. Maybe they could drop a similar dictat on touring Napa.)
My own feeling for traffic in Napa is to widen Highway 29. Make it four lanes instead of two–and put a detour around St. Helena, or perhaps a bridge over it, so you don't have to drive through it. If four lanes is too much, make it three lanes, and have the directions change the way they used to at the Caldecott Tunnel before there were four bores: Two westbound lanes, one eastbound for morning commute, then switch it for the evening rush.
Of course, an elevated freeway over Highway 29, with on- and off-ramps for the townships, is the ideal solution. But it's probably too expensive, and I'm sure the enviros would object. They're against everything that makes our lives more efficient.
Is the future of journalism "advertiser-driven content"? The advertiser as publisher
The traditional firewall between editorial and advertising–a staple ethical and practical tenet of publishing for at least a century–is being breached, and Ground Zero for this incursion is online.
This leakage never, or only extremely rarely, would have happened in traditional print media, where the guardians of the firewall, including editorial staff but also ombudsmen and even publishers with a sense of moral rectitude, would not have permitted it.
However, online, the traditional rules are being dissolved. Experiments are taking place: website owners and online publications are seeing how much they can get away with (in breaching the firewall) before critical blowback goes nuclear.
But the question is, will it? Do the people accessing the digital world and getting the majority of their information from their smart phones and tablets–mainly younger people–know, or care, who writes the content they read? As long as they're getting [free] information they find useful and/or entertaining, are they fussy whom it comes from?
All indications are that the answer is no.
Will this integration of editoriai and advertising become the new reality? Have we reached that point on the slippery slope where the only way forward is down?
These questions need to be asked.
Experts in the field–usually consultants selling their services–suggest a win-win: content that helps readers and viewers, but that also fulfills advertisers' needs. Sounds good, but can this win-win actually be achieved? If it can, then why did generations of publishers and journalists labor so long and hard to create the firewall to begin with? Was their concern simply an unjustified fear that "truth" (that elusive quality) would be compromised by the profit motive of advertisers? Did they simply suffer from a phobia, like fear of flying, that had no basis in reality? Or did they know something that we're in danger of forgetting?
I can't answer these questions. But what concerns me–and should concern all writers who wish to make a living through journalism–is that the very nature and substance of journalism, as the West has understood it for 400 years, is under dire threat. It may be that what is in the best interests of consumers and providers of digital content is actually a death sentence for writers, who may be the gas lamp lighters and ice delivery truck drivers of the 21st century–anachronized out of existence. In fact, we already see this occurring now, with "customized content" delivered to your inbox by software whose creators or users have proprietary, for-profit relationships with advertisers whose "articles" are thinly disguised pitches that don't even bear the warning "advertorial" label. (If Facebook knows that you're into fly fishing, you may find yourself getting articles that look interesting but whose purpose is not only to inform, but to lure you to sponsoring resorts or fishing equipment.)
This revolution is happening faster than any layperson can possibly suspect. I mention all this not to point fingers, or to put things into blunt black-and-white terms when, in reality, things are more complicated. But we are entering a world in which discerning consumers of information must ask themselves a few questions:
1. Where is this information coming from?
2. Who wrote it?
3. Why is it being sent to me?
4. What was the motive of the person or organization who is sending it to me?
5. Has there been an attempt to influence my behavior?
6. Has this attempt been camouflaged in such a way as to suggest that the sender is not being transparent?
Informed consumers will demand these answers. There's some evidence that this demand for greater transparency already is occurring (e.g. the fears of government intrusion into our phone and online conversations; the resistence to Facebook ads popping up in our feeds). However there may be considerably more evidence that, in the end, consumers, and especially young ones, don't give a damn.
What this means for the world of wine writing is clear and ominous. Readers need to understand whether they're getting untrammeled information and opinion from reputable, reliable sources they know and trust. Or, they need to understand if those sources are picking and choosing the information they offer based on payment. It's that simple.
$ocial media bleedia?
My social media friends who think I hate the stuff will only receive confirmation of that misconception from today's post. But really, this is something they have to think about.
Yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle reported that there's been a sharp falloff in venture capital funding for social media companies, which received "only 2 percent of the venture capital headed to Internet enterprises last quarter."
That was down sharply from the 6 percent (at least) of all venture funding social media companies received in each of the quarters in 2010-2012, with the peak occurring in the third quarter of 2011, when Twitter launched.
Here's the interpretation from a tech investment guy quoted in the article: "We are certainly in another bubble." In fact, the article's reporter, who writes for Bloomberg, compares this slowdown with "the deflating of the Internet bubble of the late 1990s" which led to the dot-com collapse.
No one is saying this defunding of social "bleedia" is going to result in a stock market crash. But it does seem to me that it represents a turning point in the evolution of social media: the moment when the investment community realized that social media–big and important as it is–isn't as big, and won't be as big, as some people had hoped.
Where the smart money now is going is to business intelligence, analytics and performance management, advertising, sales and marketing, and anything to do with the cloud.
Having said all this, it's important to point out that the drop-off in social media funding applies only to new startup companies. It may simply be that the social media field is now mature, stocked with existing companies, leaving no room for new ones. But if use of social media was continuing to skyrocket as it did in 2008-2012, you'd think there would be continuing opportunities for savvy young entrepreneurs to enter the field. But apparently, that's not what investors think.
It's true that use of Twitter and of Facebook continues to rise. But both of these companies face revenue and earnings issues, and it's not clear that they'll be able to increase income without resorting to some kind of premium service that will turn off millions of current users (as YouTube is experiencing right now), or without getting deeper into advertising, which also is not without problems: Facebook, at the very least, is seriously annoying people with these new popup ads that appear in our feeds, and it's not clear to me how much more users will take before they revolt.
You would think that these existing problems and challenges confronting Facebook, Twitter and YouTube would encourage young entrepreneurs to come up with alternatives. But I think the venture capitalists have realized that these revenue and earnings problems are endemic to the Internet, and not specific weaknesses of individual companies. Any social media startup will face the same problems.
Which gets us back to where I started: the problems inherent in the social media model seem unsolvable, at least by any means that are now apparent, even to Silicon Valley's top angel investors. Social media companies can't figure out reliable ways to earn profits because end users can't figure out reliable ways to use social media to make money. The great investment bleedia is a clear sign that social media has hit its first significant speed bump, forcing it to slow down.
Friday fishwrap: Killer apps, an improved economy and tasting cult wines blind
What's the killer social media app for a winery?
I can remember back in the early 1990s when the Internet, or the World Wide Web as most of us called it, was so new that nobody knew precisely what it could be used for. The search was on for "the killer app," the thing that everybody would want to do, which would therefore earn its users a great deal of money.
As it turned out, some young guys, like Sergei Brim and Larry Page, realized that a search function–the ability to find anything amidst the vast (and growing vaster) hoard of information–was the classic example of a killer app: they created Google and got rich. A little while later, Mark Zuckerberg realized that social networking was the most natural thing in the world for a World Wide Web to do. He created Facebook and also got rich.
(A lot of porn site entrepreneurs also got rich. Enough said about that.)
So those were at least three things the Internet could do (aside from obvious B2B functions that are boring but crucial to companies, not to mention email). The question of the last 5 or 6 years has been, what is the killer app on the Internet for small businesses, and particularly for small wineries–the thing that will help them make money?
I'm not prepared to say, because I don't know; but yesterday I asked my Facebook friends how they use social media at their wineries, and the overwhelming response was typified by this: "As a tool, FB, Twitter, Pintrest, WEM , are all wonderful ways to connect to your clientele" and this: "I rarely use FB/Twitter for promo and sales. Mostly just to reinforce the simple 'voice' of [the winery] and stay in front of my 'likers'."
In other words, communication. Several people warned that, as soon as the winery is perceived as trying to sell stuff, it turns friends and followers off. This remains the irony and contradiction within social media.
Central Coast Wrap-up
The Central Coast wine industry seems to be booming, according to this report from the Pacific Coast Business Times. Indeed, you can feel this buzz everywhere you go in wine country. Such a contrast to a few years ago, when a gloomy atmosphere pervaded. I'll be heading down to Santa Barbara next week for the Chardonnay Symposium, and am stoked by the thought of seeing all the winemakers and tasting their wines.
Blind tasting the cults
Interesting article by my old editor and colleague, Jim Gordon, in Wines & Vines, where he writes of an event at the Culinary Institute of America in which winemakers tasted each other's wines blind, something they "rarely" get to do.
Winemakers really should do it more often. In fact, they should do it all the time. I know certain cult winemakers who've never tasted their own wines blind, much less tasted them against competitors. They might be surprised to find less expensive wines out-performing their own–according to their own palates! But then, that potential danger in blind tasting is probably why more winemakers don't do it. And anyhow, when it comes to sales, it's about image as much as it's about quality. Along these lines, yesterday my sister emailed to ask why some bottles of wine are so heavy. She wanted to know if they cost more than lighter bottles, and, if so, how do the wineries make up for the difference? I explained to her, of course, that some wineries package their wines in heavy bottles in order to make the consumer think the wines are more important. This works very well, and the consumer is willing to pay more for a heavy bottle than for a light one. My sister was surprised, but she needn't have been. P.T. Barnum spelled this out more than a century ago in his famous dictum about suckers.
DTC, SEO and loyalty
(This post was inspired by a "Viticulture Brief" that appeared in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat yesterday.)
My blog is just over five years old now, and what a crazy five years it's been. In 2008 the wineries-and-social media arena was like the Wild West, filled with danger, opportunity, chaos, confusion, rattlesnakes and gunslingers. It was a bold proprietor who dared to jump in. Most held back, unsure of what to do, not wanting to make blunders. Like good businessmen, they preferred to let others blaze a path into terra incognita they could then follow.
Now it's 2013. It would be sweet to say that the formula's been figured out, but unfortunately, it hasn't. There still is no template for wineries to trek the social media landscape–although social media consultants claim otherwise!
So what do we know now that we didn't know in 2008?
In a way, nothing. The only difference is that what we knew then was obscure. Today, the outlines are clearer. We know for sure that direct-to-consumer (DTC) is just as important as we thought it was, and even more so for small wineries who find it hard to get distributed post-Recession. Whether it's through a tasting room or a wine club, DTC remains the lifeline by which the family winery avoids being cast adrift and drowning.
We know, however, that DTC doesn't happen all by itself but must be developed. There are several elements to this. One is for the consumer who's Googling her way through the world wide web to come across your winery's website. And not just come across it as, for instance, being #37 on a search result, but being one of the first hits, and having a provocative headline that will prompt the searcher to click on it.
For example, I just Googled "best Napa Valley Cabernet" and two of the first three hits are from me. (Yes, I was surprised, but not entirely.) Number one is an article I wrote for Wine Enthusiast, number two is Schrader's website, and number three is a post from my blog.
Finding myself with such high visibility on such an important search topic is gratifying, of course; but the question for wineries is how they can do it. Schrader did; so did Robert Mondavi and Napa Cellars, albeit on page 2, and by the time we come to page 3, nobody's reading anymore. This tells me that Napa Valley wineries are not doing a good job at search engine optimization.
Let's suppose they were, through the usual tricks: Google+, key word use, extensive hyperlinks as well as linking all of your online presences to each other, and so on. But a key to landing in a top search result is frequency of online publishing. You can't update your blog or website once a month and expect anyone to find it. It's got to be everyday. That's why people come back to steveheimoff.com Monday through Friday. They know they'll always find something new (and not just some rehashed reviews).
This raises the issue of loyalty. Ask a brand manager what's the best thing a brand can have and she'll tell you customer loyalty. You can't buy it (although it often money to establish). You can't force the consumer to be loyal or do it with some gimmick. There's magic how it happens. Jordan and Silver Oak have earned customer loyalty; their examples stand as inspirations to other wineries. This blog has earned reader loyalty. My readers never feel pandered to, or spoken down to (I would hope). They don't get the feeling I slap-dashed some fast food together for them. Instead, they get something that appeals to their intelligence–they feel engaged. Engagement: that's the soul of social media. Don't talk at me, talk with me, and let me talk with you. Together, we'll have a conversation.
Admittedly, it's easier for me to have a conversation with readers than for a wine company. A company has too many levels of management. Everyone gets a veto; creativity is stifled in favor of white bread. But people don't want mush; they want something substantial. Give them something real to chew on, and they'll come back. Withhold it, and all the social media consultants in the world can't help you.


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I was finally able to open one of the Scrubbing Bubbles kits I got for FREE {plus overage} from Walmart last week, and was pleasantly surprised to find even more coupons in them! Since they don't expire until the end of next year, I will definitely be holding these ones in my coupon arsenal for some time and waiting for just the right deal!
Just in case you didn't get yours yet, here's the scenario:
Buy 1 Scrubbing Bubbles Start Kit {pictured above} – $3.98
Use – $4/1 Scrubbing Bubbles 1 Step Cleaning Starter Kit, exp. 10/22/11 (SS 09/11/11 #2)
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So if you got yours, how did you like it? My husband was actually the one who hooked ours up. He was watching a show and one of the commercials was for these toilet cleaners came on. I was in the kitchen, so he yells out, "Baby! Come here!"
I walked into the living room right in time to catch the end of the commercial. Daddy was all excited and said, "You see that? You need to see if you can find any coupons for THAT." I busted out laughing and he shockingly said, "What?! That thing is cool! I wonder how much it is."
I responded with, "You don't remember me showing you those the other day? That's the kit I got for FREE from Walmart the other day! There are a whole bunch of them in the bathroom, I just need to hook one up."
I tell you what, I've never seen Daddy get up so quickly!! He walked straight to the bathroom, grabbed a box from the shelf, and hooked it up in less than 5-minutes. Since I'd seen the commercial before, I knew what it was supposed to do and questioned how it was able to spray 360-degrees around the toilet. Surprisingly, it does just that! One quick step on the peddle and a foam spray comes out that really does reach the entire bowl and sends a nice "clean" smell through the entire bathroom. No, it doesn't come out of the bowl either – I tested! LOL Sorry to get all "review-y" on you, I just thought I should share how this awesome FREE item really was a GREAT find!


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You can now follow me in Instagram! (Yes, I finally caved in!) LOL leeanntweeden
You can now follow me in Instagram! (Yes, I finally caved in!) LOL leeanntweeden
Feeling this color for my live hit on Fox News tonight! @hannityshow @seanhannity Tune in at 6:40/9:40pm!!
Knockin' on Heaven's Door… @DjASHBA ;) @hardrockhotellv @gunsnroses
So I didn't make @thefaint show at the HOB, but I'm rockin' one of shirts at the @gunsnroses show tonight!!!!! ;)
With @DjASHBA & his new Marilyn guitar! @hardrockhotellv @gunsnroses
Hanging before the show with my boy @DjASHBA at the Center Bar!!! @hardrockhotellv @gunsnroses
Can't believe it's been 10 years since this USO tour was in Afghanistan for Thanksgiving! @katelinder @mrbelding
Only 2.52 miles today (sore knee) but I managed! Notice I'm finally smiling after a good run! ;)
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This location is in Carpentersville. Nearby parks include Randall Oaks Park, Salamander Springs and Raceway Woods Forest Preserve.
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Max Gomez – Rule The World 2013-404
The first thing that hits one while listening to Max Gomez's debut album Rule the World is his voice, which sounds much older than a 23-year-old's, which is how old Gomez was upon the album's release. Sounding calm, unassuming, weary, and wise, he sings with the kind of balance and unhurried phrasing of a Townes Van Zandt, say, and his songs, which at first seem like fairly ordinary singer/songwriter fare, have a dark edge to them at times, and a natural grace and flow that are rare at any age. Although there is some stylistic and instrumental variety in this playlist, from the swampy blues feel of "Ball and Chain" to the folky "What It Means" and the pop-like "Love Will Find a Way," Gomez's voice and singing don't really vary that much from track to track, which is a minor problem, although the songs have a sturdy and world-weary grace that makes them the real stars in this setting, and good songs will always find a voice. This is a promising debut.
01. Rule The World 3:45
02. Run From You 3:59
03. Ball And Chain 3:06
04. Black And white 3:47
05. Never Say Never 4:11
06. What It Means 4:10
07. True Blue 5:31
08. Love Will Find A Way 3:00
09. You Get Me High 3:37
10. Cherry Red wine 3:51
Release Name: Max_Gomez-Rule_The_World-2013-404
Size: 69.81 MB
Genre: Rock
Label: New West
Runtime: 38:57 min
Links: NFO – NTi – TPB
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Pronouncing the Word "Blessed"
We recently received inquiries from some of our readers regarding the proper way to pronounce blessed. The word blessed can be used and pronounced in two different ways.
Rule 1. When blessed is used as a verb, it is pronounced with one syllable (blest):
Example for the pronunciation blest:
Devon is blessed with amazing athletic ability.
Rule 2. When the word blessed is used as an adjective, adverb (blessedly), or noun (blessedness), blessed is pronounced with two syllables (bles-id).
Examples for the pronunciation bles-id:
Annie's baptism was a blessed moment, particularly for her devoted grandparents.
Blessed are the poor.
Pop Quiz
1. The priest blessed (pronounced blest or bles-id) the candles at the ceremony.
2. The couple was blessed (pronounced blest or bles-id) with a healthy baby girl.
3. I don't have a blessed (pronounced blest or bles-id) dime to my name.
1. The priest blessed (pronounced blest) the candles at the ceremony.
2. The couple was blessed (pronounced blest) with a healthy baby girl.
3. I don't have a blessed (pronounced bles-id) dime to my name.
Posted on Saturday, August 11, 2012, at 2:28 pm
7 Responses to "Pronouncing the Word "Blessed""
Can you give me the words "blessed" and "blest" in a sentence? I know one is a verb and one is an adjective. If one were to say "I have been blest," would that be correct? Can you use "blest" without the "have been" (such as "I was blest")?
So is the spelling "blest" gramatically correct?
Excellent and quick information
My Mother and I both write poems, we need to know how to spell Bless'ed, so that people will pronounce it that way and not blest.
Can you tell me how to spell Bless'ed or Bless'id in poems and prayers, etc?
And is it ok to put the ' in the word like I did above?
Thank you for your help,


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Division of Habitat and Resource Conservation
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Arlington, Virginia 22203
In 1972, Section 404 of the Clean Water Act established a program to regulate the discharge of dredged or fill material into waters of the United States, including wetlands. The program is jointly administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency. The Corps is responsible for the day-to-day administration and permit review and EPA provides program oversight. The program supports the Clean Water Act's overall objective "to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the Nation's waters."
Under the program, no discharge of dredged or fill material is permitted in regulated wetlands and waterways ('navigable waters') if there is a practicable alternative that would be less damaging to our aquatic resources or if significant degradation would occur to the nation's waters. Permit review and issuance follows a sequence process that encourages avoidance of impacts, followed by minimizing impacts and, finally, requiring mitigation for unavoidable impacts to the aquatic environment. This sequence is described in the guidelines at Section 404(b)(1) of the Clean Water Act.
The Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 defined navigable waters of the United States as "those waters that are subject to the ebb and flow of the tides and/or are presently used, or have been used in the past, or maybe susceptible to use to transport interstate or foreign commerce." The Clean Water Act expanded the definition to include tributaries to navigable waters, interstate wetlands, wetlands which could affect interstate or foreign commerce and wetlands adjacent to other waters of the United States. More information on the definition of 'navigable waters' may be found here.
Role of the Fish and Wildlife Service
Wetlands are vital for sustaining fish and wildlife populations in the United States. They provide important feeding, breeding, and migration habitat for a number of species. This includes 50 percent of our migratory bird species and over 30 percent of plants and animals listed under the Endangered Species Act.
The Service plays an important advisory role to protect wetlands under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. Section 404 identifies the Service as the lead federal agency for providing comments and recommendations to the Corps for the purpose of conserving fish and wildlife. The Service is authorized and directed to conserve fish and wildlife through the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956, Food Security Act, Anadromous Fish Conservation Act, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and Endangered Species Act.


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Guillermo Kuitca: Diarios
"Guillermo Kuitca: Diarios" will be the first U.S. museum exhibition of a selection of Guillermo Kuitca's paintings made from 2005 to the present. Since 1994, Kuitca has taken failed and discarded canvases, stretched them over an abandoned table from his parents' garden, and then spent periods of time ranging from three to six months creating intentional and accidental doodles, drawings, and recordings on their surfaces. The "Diarios," as the artist calls them, are the most transparently personal works in his oeuvre as they gather residue like phone numbers, titles of paintings, email addresses, blank spots where books sat, lists, and collaged elements that record the ebb and flow of life inside and outside the studio. In addition to the "Diarios," The Drawing Center will present a projection of the table in Kuitca's studio that will document the next "Diario" as it is being made.
The Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street
(between Broome and Grand Streets)
New York, NY 10013
(212) 219-2166
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The Drawing Center
The Drawing Center, located in SoHo's historic cast-iron district, exhibits contemporary and historic drawings.
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I don't trust anyone who supports vaginas as a symbol of feminism or feminist solidarity
#or ovaries
Yep, side-eye and speaking back to that bullshit! How many damn times do I have to say to essentialist, transphobic, conservative "feminists": my "vagina" is NOT what makes me a woman. (Half the time, these folks so essentialist, they don't know the difference between a vulva and a vagina, by the way.) For goodness sakes, we learn this in women/gender studies 101. And I'll teach it to you, too, if you take my class. 'Woman' is socially-constructed. Educate yourselves.
And by the way—no, you are NOT radical. You are conservative, actually. All of you biological essentialists who claim a "radical" feminism that is transphobic—you are FAR from radical. That is conservative rhetoric if I've ever heard it. And I need NO conservatism in my feminism. Do not dilute it with that conservative hateful nonsense; do not co-opt true radical progressive movement.
Better be anti-racist, intersectional, anti-transphobic feminism or not at all!
(via femmesuccess)
This quote seems particularly urgent at this present moment—within and without the repro rights fight. This plagues so many of our movements: the powerful use our most intimate issues to divide us and to make us think that our liberation is not bound to one another.
whatfreshhellisthis wrotean amazing post about trans* people being excluded from the reproductive rights movement (scarlip then added amazing commentary on to it and h/t to one of my most favorite Tumblrs, prolongedeyecontact for posting both).
I am so incredibly guilty of saying, "While this may be directed at cis women (or that cis women may be the main targets of this anti-choice legislation), it affects more people than just them." I will never say that again. (via keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus)


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Wolves Sunday: Rubio working on conditioning
DEC 09, 2012 1:36p ET
Adelman attended the dedication of a basketball court at Chemeketa Community College in Oregon. Adelman was the head coach at Chemeketa from 1977 to 1983, and the dedication, combined with Sunday's snowstorm, explained his absence. Terry Porter served as acting head coach in his place.
Although Roy was lifting weights and working out on an elliptical machine once practice wrapped up, he did not actually participate. Everyone else, though, participated fully, Porter said, including Andrei Kirilenko, who returned Friday after missing four games with back spasms.
Kirilenko said that he doesn't feel like his conditioning suffered during the time off; it's just a matter of getting his lungs back in shape. Conditioning is also a concern for Ricky Rubio, who Porter said has looked good throughout this first week of practice.
"He seems to be playing with good confidence and moving at a good pace, so that's good," Porter said.
"He can do whatever he wants."
That said, Porter offered the most candid assessment of Rubio's return date since he was cleared to practice: "We've got a long way before that happens. I think he's, there's a lot more, I think (there are more) practices he's got to get under his belt, some more evaluations, I think, before he gets clearance."
Porter stressed, of course, that it's a medical decision, not in the hands of the coaching staff. It isn't that Rubio isn't doing what he needs to be doing (and more); rather, Porter and the rest of the team are simply being cautious when it comes to the return, letting him get his game legs and get comfortable with everything that's going on in that left knee.
Even so, Porter's comments didn't offer too much more insight into Rubio's debut, only that if the team were playing Sunday, he'd be in his street clothes. He needs additional practices, yes, and there will be two more before the team plays again against Denver on Wednesday, perhaps another on Thursday before a back-to-back in New Orleans and at home against Dallas.
So really, there's no more clarity to Rickywatch than there was Friday. But as of Sunday, the point guard is not quite in game shape.
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