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CINCINNATI -- Pirates second baseman Neil Walker began the last step in his return from right side soreness on Friday, when he started a rehab assignment with Triple-A Indianapolis.
Manager Clint Hurdle said there's a very specific plan for Walker, who went on the 15-day disabled list on July 9, retroactive to July 7. On Friday, Walker was scheduled to play five innings and get two or three at-bats. Assuming all went well Friday night, Hurdle said Walker would then play seven innings Saturday and a full nine innings on Sunday.
"We'll evaluate after that," Hurdle said.
Walker is eligible to come off the DL on Monday, and the Pirates hope he'll be able to join them when they begin a four-game road series against the Nationals that same day.
Currently at the tail end of his second DL stint this season, having previously missed 14 games in late April and early May after getting his right index finger cut by a spike, Walker owns a .244/.347/.384 slash line in 72 games. Jordy Mercer and Brandon Inge have manned second base with Walker out of the lineup, going a combined 4-for-30 (.133) entering Friday.


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ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — Minnesota set a record last year for the number of gun background checks the FBI conducted in the state.
More people are carrying guns than ever before, but the crime rate remains relatively low. WCCO's Pat Kessler is looking at the numbers, and giving them a Reality Check.
We took a hard look at the numbers, and found: Minnesota has a high rate of gun ownership, and a relatively low rate of violent crime.
Minnesota's violent crime rate hit a 50-year low in 2016, according to the FBI.
And in 2017, the state set a new record for firearms background checks.
The National Instant Criminal Background Check System reports it processed nearly 683,544 checks on gun buyers in 2017. That includes: 473,975 permits, 94,383 handguns and 125,516 long guns.
Minnesota set another 2017 record, too.
The State Department of Public Safety reports 283,188 Minnesotans now have permits to legally carry firearms in public.
In 2017, the state issued 57,651 permits to carry a weapon in public. That's down from a record 71,156 permits issued in 2016.
There's still a lot we don't know about guns in Minnesota. An estimated 36.7 percent of Minnesotans own at least one firearm.
But we don't know how many total guns there are in the state, or exactly how many gun owners there are, or how much ammunition is sold every year.
Somebody wrote a book about it called"More guns less crime"
6% of the population commit 52% of all murders. Can you guess which group? Hint: they 'matter'.
It Used to be that Family was important, Christ was important, and Crime was Low..
No problem. It is blacks followed closely my illegals
More Guns, Less Crime by John R Lott, Jr.
Good going Minnesotans! Now watch, dopey Pat Kesslar will come up with some phoney numbers trying to make you look bad. After all, he is a liberal. Damn near called him a liar. Wait a second, he's that too.
Whites are a fairly civilized bunch.
yeah?? Most mass shootings are white males.. Care to explain that????
There is a benefit to our policy of having armed citizens that ole Pat Kessler has never (and I mean NEVER) thought of. America has the oldest government on the planet (or second oldest depending on how you define changes to UK governance). The American government has been extremely stable. The most common form of overthrow is the coup. America has never had one because the people will not stand for it and the people are armed. It is a shame how people like Pat cannot conceive of this huge benefit we all enjoy. Please note: the price does not come cheap. Guns are used to kill and sometimes people use them to kill people who didn't need it.
"The most common form of overthrow is the coup. America has never had one because the people will not stand for it and the people are armed."
I am surprised that this fake news has gone unnoticed this long. That would be JFK.
I will. You are WRONG!
Google: "Are mass shootings a white man's problem?" https : // theconversationDOTcom/are-mass-shootings-a-white-mans-problem-85286
Google: "Are Most Mass Murderers Really White?" https : // wwwDOTamericanthinkerDOTcom/articles/2014/06/are_most_mass_murderers_really_whiteDEOThtml
You can't fix stupid or crazy. You can add up all of the mass murders committed by young whites and it will still be fewer than young black men kill in Chicago and Baltimore every year.
It's very simple, really. When some people are severely mentally ill, they can commit horrendous violent crimes. Other people commit horrific violent crimes because it is their ingrained culture.
Glad that you asked. It's because white still make up the majority of the population. So it stands to reason that by the numbers there will be more crazy people involved in mass shootings. Now if we break it down by demographics it indicates that more of blacks and Hispanics are involved in gun related violence of all kinds and not just focusing our attention on mass shooting.
This validates the comment that generally whites are fairly civilized when it comes to overall violence, mass shooting and all forms of gun related violence.
If we examine the races strictly on percentages versus gun related crime, instead of the raw numbers, its quite easy to determine which race of humans are the least civilized when it comes to gun related violence.
Now this is not saying that this observation is made as a comment against genetics, which is a factor all be it a small one. No it's more a comment on overall social conditions and a feeling of worth or worthlessness and false pride based on one's ethnicity coupled with social beliefs of superiority or inferiority based on ethnicity that causes this. I hope that you were able to comprehend this. If you have other questions about it feel free to ask.
Kesslar says:
"But we don't know how many total guns there are in the state, or exactly how many gun owners there are, or how much ammunition is sold every year." And you will never find out.
What hypocrisy! Minnesotans love their guns, yet they vote for the gun grabbing democrats. It looks like they want to control "other peoples" guns.
Voting Democrat has sold more guns than any amount of advertising could ever achieve.
adorabledplorable, that book was written by John Lott I believe.
Amazing Kessler reported this. But I have this question. Why are all those stats he wishes we had relevant anyway? Switzerland has more guns per capita than anywhere on earth and very little gun violence.
Minnesota women will feel REAL LIBERATION, not phony liberation, when they learn to pack a defensive weapon like women do in Oregon. Lots of the ladies here pack weapons and the men are exceedingly polite because men don't know which ones do, and which ones don't.
you could tell the reporter wasn't happy….thats why he ened with more qiestions
This state is full of demoncrat socialists. Somebodys not being consistent.
Legal gun ownership reduces "gun violence", but the deranged left will never understand or accept that fact.
So what you're saying is, if there are background checks, it helps prevent gun violence?
Every one of these reporters who refers to an AR-15 as an assault rifle is either ignorant or a liar. Americans cannot buy assault rifles without a special permit from the government.
You should tell that to the stupid little people on late night tv
All theses guns doesn't sound safe to me, if I break in someones house I don't want to get shot. Guns should be banned.
@ Dave Allen – I agree…..you should be able to break into people's houses without worrying about being the victim of violent crime.
We must do something to reduce the threat to criminal lives from law abiding citizens!
— Democrats
Pat, if 36.7 percent of Minnesotans own guns, and you know how many people live in Minnesota, how can you say we do not know how many gun owners there are? And who cares how much ammunition is sold every year? You are truly a dolt.
And just why would you want to know about how much ammunition was purchased, how many people own guns and how many total guns there are in the state? Do you want a record to be able to confiscate them, why else would you want this information?
Pat also does not have a clue about guns. Why is there a need to know how much ammo or how many guns are owned? It's time you get some education about guns. Can you do that without needing to find a safe place?
How did Minnesota change into an alt-Left anti-white state that willfully imports Muslims?? Was it the white liberal Californians that fled the cesspool they created in the West?
I expect a lot of people aren't going to like the demographic research results. I bet the population skews WHITE and SKEWS OLDER and SKEWS RURAL. Anybody living in urban cities knows who's committing the crimes and who's being victimized by them. If true, then we just have to decide what to do about it!
Thirty-nine percent gun ownership is in line with other places, a bit high maybe, but the percent of households with guns hasn't changed much. People with guns are getting more guns, which is why the numbers of guns seems to have no influence on gun incidents. You can only use one at a time, generally.
It seems they didn't want to explore the relationship between many guns and less crime. Also, I would suggest the high permit numbers for 2016 were due to people afraid of what a Clinton presidency would do to gun ownership.
"but the crime rate remains relatively low." Sounds like he wanted it to be higher?
Someday Minnesota will annex Minneapolis and we Minnesotans can take the bags of our heads, live free again and carry openly
Boy, this about had to kill ol Pat Kessler to report.
"…carrying guns than ever before, BUT the crime rate remains relatively low. .." indicates once again the bias of liberal journalists in the Mainstream Media. The "but" shows how incredulous the reporter is that crime went down when the inescapable truth stares him the face, that an armed citizenry lowers crime.
What did that article about gun control say? Taking away the right to have guns from the law abiding citizens is like cutting off the horns of a Gazelle to protect it from attacking lions.
If any anti-gun laws are past, the only people affected will be the law abiding citizens.
Criminals will always have their guns because they do not obey laws to begin with.
If you got linked in from Drudge, you'll immediately figure out the reporter Pat Kessler is a long time liberal liar and fraud working for WCCO Minnesota. He's refused to be interviewed by conservative radio hosts for 20+ years. We catch him in a lie, absurd distortions and left wing political bias every time he opens up his sewer drain pipe mouth. How did we get conceal carry and recently obtain sound suppressor legality in MN? We got CCW through before the massive import of illegals and Muslim voters during the Obama-Gov Dayton reign of terror. Suppressors got through, even we were the very last couple of states who hadn't legalized it. A hearing loss prevention device saving taxpayers millions. Medical related. Gov Dayton's drug fried brain and porky pig speech pattern couldn't compete against MN gun owners.
Once again no one talks about second shooter in Florida High school massacre.
Years ago town in So. Utah passed law for mandatory open carry of fine. Crime rate dropped 50% first year, 35%, second, and today have to look. When all knew the crime rate went in the toilet.. People who scream for more gun control, clean up Chicago`s mess of highest murder and crime rate w/ highest gun control laws. So all leftists clean up the mess before screaming for controls i.e. total gun confiscation…..telling us what is best, clear you don`t…
What is the racial break down of Minnesota. I'm guessing mostly White.
Thats terrible news if youre a lib. must be a bunch of white supremacists acting like vigilantes.
Guess our national leaders didn't expect this. On Thursday, Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful.
They were not prepared for what he was to say, nor was it received well. It needs to be heard by every parent, every teacher, every politician, every sociologist, every psychologist, and every so-called expert! These courageous words spoken by Darrell Scott are powerful, penetrating, and deeply personal. There is no doubt that God sent this man as a voice crying in the wilderness.. The following is a portion of the transcript:
"Since the dawn of creation there has been both good & evil in the hearts of men and women. We all contain the seeds of kindness or the seeds of violence. The death of my wonderful daughter, Rachel Joy Scott, and the deaths of that heroic teacher, and the other eleven children who died must not be in vain. Their blood cries out for answers.
"The first recorded act of violence was when Cain slew his brother Abel out in the field. The villain was not the club he used.. Neither was it the NCA, the National Club Association. The true killer was Cain, and the reason for the murder could only be found in Cain's heart.
"In the days that followed the Columbine tragedy, I was amazed at how quickly fingers began to be pointed at groups such as the NRA. I am not a member of the NRA. I am not a hunter. I do not even own a gun. I am not here to represent or defend the NRA – because I don't believe that they are responsible for my daughter's death.
Therefore I do not believe that they need to be defended. If I believed they had anything to do with Rachel's murder I would be their strongest opponent.
I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy — it was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies! Much of the blame lies here in this room. Much of the blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the accusers themselves. I wrote a poem just four nights ago that expresses my feelings best.
Your laws ignore our deepest needs,
Your words are empty air.
You've stripped away our heritage,
You've outlawed simple prayer.
Now gunshots fill our classrooms,
And precious children die.
You seek for answers everywhere,
And ask the question "Why?"
You regulate restrictive laws,
Through legislative creed.
And yet you fail to understand,
That God is what we need!
"Men and women are three-part beings. We all consist of body, mind, and spirit. When we refuse to acknowledge a third part of our make-up, we create a void that allows evil, prejudice, and hatred to rush in and wreak havoc. Spiritual presences were present within our educational systems for most of our nation's history. Many of our major colleges began as theological seminaries. This is a historical fact. What has happened to us as a nation? We have refused to honor God, and in so doing, we open the doors to hatred and violence. And when something as terrible as Columbine's tragedy occurs — politicians immediately look for a scapegoat such as the NRA. They immediately seek to pass more restrictive laws that contribute to erode away our personal and private liberties. We do not need more restrictive laws. Eric and Dylan would not have been stopped by metal detectors. No amount of gun laws can stop someone who spends months planning this type of massacre. The real villain lies within our own hearts.
"As my son Craig lay under that table in the school library and saw his two friends murdered before his very eyes, he did not hesitate to pray in school. I defy any law or politician to deny him that right! I challenge every young person in America , and around the world, to realize that on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School prayer was brought back to our schools. Do not let the many prayers offered by those students be in vain. Dare to move into the new millennium with a sacred disregard for legislation that violates your God-given right to communicate with Him. To those of you who would point your finger at the NRA — I give to you a sincere challenge.. Dare to examine your own heart before casting the first stone!
My daughter's death will not be in vain! The young people of this country will not allow that to happen!"
– Darrell Scott
Do what the media did not – – let the nation hear this man's speech. Please send this out to everyone you can.
God Bless
Inverse Correlation = As number of gun owners increases, the number of crimes decreases
I am all in favor of conceal and carry. Because criminals can get guns just as easy as drugs, and drugs are illegal. I would feel better there are trained gun carriers at some gathering than there not being any.
As far as Minnesota's claim for more guns and low crime, I do believe demographics play a big part in this. Or is that not allowed to say?
Kennasaw, Ga. is trying to get everyone to have, or carry guns. And if you look overseas to Sweden, you will find that they want everyone to go through basic training on guns and have them in their homes. As a consequence, the crime is very low in both places.
"More people are carrying guns than ever before, but the crime rate remains relatively low."
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
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Following tonight's season finale of "The Ultimate Fighter 13," two new fights are set for the main card of Saturday's live finale.
In the "TUF 13" championship bout, welterweight finalists Ramsey Nijem (4-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) and Tony Ferguson (10-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) square off.
Additionally, semifinalists Chris Cope (4-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) and Chuck O'Neil (8-3 MMA, 0-0 UFC) meet in a televised bout, MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) has confirmed with sources close to the event.
The Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale takes place at at The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. The night's main card, including a Clay Guida vs. Anthony Pettis lightweight bout, airs on Spike TV.
Nijem, the father of a Palestinian refugee who is a veteran of the Utah fight circuit, punched his ticket to the finale with wins over Charlie Rader, Clay Harvison and Cope. As Team Dos Santos' fourth-round pick, he was one of the show's surprises. Following that string of exhibition victories, he now looks for his fourth straight pro victory.
Ferguson, an NCWA national champion wrestler from California, got to the finals by defeating Justin Edwards, Ryan McGillivray and O'Neil. Prior to "TUF," the Team Lesnar third-round pick had won six of his previous seven pro MMA bouts, five via knockout. In fact, of the hard-hitting fighter's 10 career wins, nine have come via stoppage.
Cope, meanwhile, is a former junior-college basketball player and longtime martial artist from California. Currently based at The Arena in San Diego, the UC-Santa Barbara graduate currently works for a law firm. On the side, Team Lesnar's fourth-round pick has posted a 4-1 pro record, which included a second-round head-kick TKO of Ron Keslar on the preliminary card of "Strikeforce and M-1 Global: Fedor vs. Werdum." On "TUF," he defeated Javier Torres and Shamar Bailey before the loss to Nijem in the semifinals.
O'Neil, a onetime Bellator fighter based in Massachusetts, was a late addition to "TUF 13" and joined the cast as an injury replacement for Myles Jury on Team Lesnar. Although he was submitted by Zach Davis in an opening-round matchup, he got second life as a wild-card pick and then defeated Javier Torres and Davis before the loss to Ferguson in the semifinals.
For the latest on The Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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LITTLE ROCK — Pro or con about the Razorbacks' upcoming season, Arkansas fans can use the coaches preseason All-SEC teams to support their argument.
Whether the ammunition is recent history or sheer numbers, there is ample data to back up those who believe Tyler Wilson, Knile Davis, and others can get Arkansas to Atlanta for the SEC championship game and an equal amount of info available for those who debunk the idea that a Western Division title is in store for the Razorbacks. The advocate simply has to be selective about use of the available material.
A debate would go something like this:
Pro-pig: Arkansas has 10 players on the three units of the All-SEC team, only one less than Alabama and LSU, so the Razorbacks should be toe to toe with those opponents.
Con: Arkansas led the league with 14 players on the All-SEC team last year, one more than Alabama, and was no match for the Crimson Tide last September in Tuscaloosa.
Pro: The 13 players Alabama had on the All-SEC team last year were a hint that the Crimson Tide would make a run at the national championship and Georgia, the Eastern Division champion, had six on the first team — more than Alabama or anybody else. So, 10 Razorbacks bodes well.
Con: A year ago, LSU only had seven players total, including one on the first team, was 13-0, and played for the national championship.
Pro: With Wilson, Davis, and wide receiver Cobi Hamilton, Arkansas has half of the first-team playmakers on offense so the Razorbacks should be prolific on offense.
Con: Defense wins championships in the SEC and senior linebacker Alonzo Highsmith is the only Razorback among 38 defensive players on the first three units.
Pro: But, the number of selections from Arkansas says the talent levels are very close.
Con: Three of those 10 are involved in the kicking game. Dylan Breeding punted a total of 13 times last year against Alabama and LSU and Zach Hocker only tried 27 field goals all year. Including kickoffs, they might not be on the field a dozen times total in either of the games in Fayetteville. All 11 of Alabama's All-SEC representatives are every-down players and both of LSU's kickers are ahead of the Razorbacks' specialists.
As time expires, the moderator awards a slight edge to those who still believe there is a discrepancy in talent between Arkansas and the best in the West.
Like any other preseason team, the coaches' selections for All-SEC are based on past production, expectations, and familiarity. Injuries do not compute. When the 2011 All-SEC team was announced, to the victors went the spoils — 10 players each for Alabama and LSU and seven for Arkansas.
Realistically, both Arkansas and Alabama were going to fall short because, for some reason — maybe to tease fans — the coaches go three units deep in the preseason, but only pick a first and second team after the season.
Usually, the coaches hit about .500 on the first team. Last year, the coaches' backfield included Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray, plus running backs Marcus Lattimore, and Trent Richardson. After the season, the coaches went for Wilson, Auburn's Michael Dyer, and Richardson. Georgia tight end Charles Olson won both times and so did three of the five offensive linemen. Nowhere to be found in July, Will Blackwell of LSU was a first teamer in December. A year ago, wide receivers Alshon Jeffery of South Carolina and Greg Childs of Arkansas were on the preseason first team. In December, it was Arkansas' Jarius Wright and LSU's Rueben Randle.
On defense, the coaches got two of the four linemen correct, one of three linebackers, and two of four defensive backs.
The preseason team was a bridge to this week's gabfest called SEC Media Days where the participants will provide the fodder to navigate the two weeks until fall practice.
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How to Master a Headstand
5 Reasons You Haven't Mastered Headstand Yet
Do you have a mini panic attack when your yoga instructor says it's time to work on Headstands? Whether you've tried inversions a hundred times and can't stay balanced for more than half a second or are too intimidated to even try, here are five reasons Headstands aren't happening for you and how to get started hanging upside down.
You're Scared of Falling
This is a very real fear and a valid reason for not even attempting Headstand, but how will you know whether or not you can balance upside down if you never give it a chance? There are many ways you can do a Headstand and avoid the risk of falling. Try one of these: do Headstand in front of a wall, have someone spot you, slowly lift into Headstand instead of kicking up, or start with a Bound Headstand Prep where your feet never leave the ground (it's still a Headstand if you're balancing on your head!).
Your Base Is Unstable
Whether you're doing Bound Headstand (shown in the photo above) or Tripod Headstand with your palms on the ground, your base needs to be strong and stable in order to support the weight of the rest of your body. In Bound Headstand, make sure the heels of your palms are pressed against the back of your head, and your elbows are a few inches away from your ears. In Tripod Headstand, keep your elbows at 90-degree angles. A strong base is the first step in building up to Headstand.
Your Upper Body Is Weak
Although Headstand takes a strong sense of balance, a strong upper body is also essential. If you feel like your upper body is weak, you won't be able to create and hold your stable base. Tone up those biceps, triceps, shoulders, and the muscles in your upper back by doing these upper-body sculpting poses, and throw in some of these push-up variations.
Your Core Is Weak
Slowly lifting into Headstand rather than jumping into it will help prevent falling, since the momentum of your flailing legs tends to make you lose your balance. And although getting into Headstand this way is much safer, since you're moving slowly, it takes a whole lot of core strength. Start in the Bound Headstand Prep position, with your legs straight and your feet on the floor. Try bending your knees into your chest in the Tuck position, and eventually you will be able to lift your legs straight into the air. If your midsection isn't strong enough yet, practise Boat pose and scissor abs to target your core.
You're Alignment Is Off
From the photo above, you can see that your hips should be stacked over your shoulders, and your feet stacked over your hips. If your torso isn't in a straight line with your abs engaged, it will be impossible to balance, even with a strong base. Ask your yoga instructor to watch you do Headstand so they can help you get your alignment right.


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VANCOUVER -- Amid all the anger and accusations of gentrification swirling around Pidgin, the latest trendy eatery to set up shop in the Downtown Eastside, there runs a distinct undercurrent of support for its owners.
Long-time local entrepreneurs like Sally Joe, whose family owns and operates the Sunrise Market on Powell Street, are quietly welcoming Pidgin and the changes chic shops, cafes and pubs like it are bringing to the neighbourhood.
That the new digs are also bringing with them a previously unheard-of price point hasn't gone unnoticed.
But these are business people.
They do what they do to make money, and that's a whole lot easier to accomplish when there are people around who've got some to spend.
"Across the street there is ... a high-end butcher shop. I can't even shop there — the beef tenderloin is about $20 a pound — but I don't mind. I like to see the area improve so that it is not just all social services," said Joe.
Pidgin has been the target of community activists ever since opening its doors on Feb. 1 at 350 Abbott Street. Demonstrators have been picketing outside the restaurant to draw attention to what they say is gentrification and encroachment on the only remaining Vancouver community where low-income people feel accepted.
Jean Swanson of the poverty-advocacy group Carnegie Community Action Project said the business, and others like it, have no place in a neighbourhood where hundreds of residents are struggling, and in many cases failing, to keep a roof over their heads.
Rather, businesses like Sunrise Market, known as the cheapest grocery store in the city, are what the community needs, she said.
"Community members can get things that they need and afford, and they are treated with respect and not trailed by security guards, which happens a lot," she said.
Efforts by some business owners, including those at Pidgin, to integrate into the community by shopping locally and contributing to food and social programs may be well-intentioned, but aren't the solution, said Swanson.
"People here don't want charity," she said.
"If I were (the business owners), I would get it together and hold a news conference and call on (B.C. Housing Minister) Rich Coleman and (Prime Minister) Stephen Harper to build 5,000 units of self-contained social housing. I would ask they raise welfare rates. I would stop trying to make it seem that the situation in the Downtown Eastside can be solved by charity, and get onboard and start working for actual policy changes," she said.
Pidgin co-owner Brandon Grossutti told The Vancouver Sun in an earlier interview that his restaurant has tried to fit in with the community by hiring local residents, using local laundromat services and buying local art.
Others, like Mark Brand of the high-profile Save On Meats butcher shop and deli, sells sandwich tokens to customers at his Hastings Street business. The tokens are designed to be given to homeless people in the area who can then redeem them for food at the restaurant.
Ruth Meta, a small-business owner and self-described "entrepreneur with a social conscience", said Grossutti and his business partners should be congratulated for their business venture, not criticized.
"I think that man has done wonders," she said of the efforts to stimulate economic vibrancy in the Downtown Eastside.
Meta firmly believes the health of a community can be measured by the health of its local business scene.
That was the philosophy behind her successful push to open a laundromat around the corner from Pidgeon Park in 2001. At the time, it was among a handful of "legitimate" businesses operating locally.
"Everything else there was a front for something else," she said.
Meta isn't without feeling for the anti-gentrification cause. She raised her daughter in neighbourhood social housing, eking out a living as she struggled to balance her responsibilities as a single mom with her efforts to go back to school and retrain.
"The place really does have a sense of community," she said.
But the solution to gentrification is not ghettoization, she added. There has to be some middle ground.
"Now there are the condos and new people coming into the neighbourhood who have jobs and they buy locally. Money is circulating more reasonably than it did," she said.
Wendy de Kruyff said she, too, sympathizes with those fighting against neighbourhood gentrification.
De Kruyff has been operating her independent clothing shop, Dream, on West Cordova for 20 years.
She's seen the community shift from one filled with artists and non-conformists — people she could count on to shop at her store — to darker periods where crack cocaine and crystal meth ruled the streets, prompting many neighbouring business owners to relocate elsewhere.
She appreciates many of the most-recent changes brought on by the redevelopment of Woodwards and other condo projects.
Yet, at the same time, her rent "just keeps going up and up and up," while her income hasn't budged much.
"I don't know where the people are (shopping) sometimes," de Kruyff said. "Maybe they are at H&M."
At the Sunrise Market, Sally Joe said the secret to her family's business success rests firmly in her father's philosophy: "He doesn't like to mark up (prices) very high. He would rather have more people come for lower prices."
Leslie Joe opened the market about 50 years ago. Over the years, the small business has built up a strong client base that includes everyone from low-income locals to the Real Housewives of Vancouver, said Sally Joe.
Beyond the prices, the store's relaxed attitude in the midst of sometimes chaotic crowds is key to its enduring popularity.
"Most of our employees, they are pretty much new immigrants. They don't have any attitude or prejudice against one person or another," said Sally Joe.
"They just do their jobs."


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On Legacy iPhones and Cannibalization
By continuing to sell legacy iPhones after the debut of the device's latest iteration, Apple, which has long catered to the higher end of the markets it plays in, is extending its reach to price-sensitive consumers. That's a great way to spur iPhone adoption, but is it a source of cannibalization as well?
As I noted here earlier this week, Apple sold more iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S units during the launch of the iPhone 5 than it sold iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS units during the launch of the iPhone 4S (as a percentage of total iPhone sales). To some, that suggests Apple might be losing a number of full-price iPhone sales to consumers who opt to purchase a cheaper legacy iPhone when given the option. And while there's likely some truth to that, there is plenty of evidence that legacy models are winning Apple new iPhone customers.
Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP), the source of the data we reported on earlier this week, has circled back today with some new numbers that suggest older iPhone models have a lot of appeal with folks looking to upgrade to a smartphone from a feature phone or that nebulous pool of "Other Smartphones." According to CIRP, 70 percent of iPhone 5 buyers they surveyed traded up from another iPhone. But just 25 percent of iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S buyers had previously owned an iPhone. The remaining 75 percent had previously owned a feature phone (39 percent), an Android phone (20 percent) or some "other" smartphone (16 percent).
"For those trading up from standard phones and non-Android smartphones, the less expensive 4 and 4S models were especially appealing — actually outselling the new iPhone 5," CIRP co-founder Josh Lowitz told AllThingsD. "A surprise benefit of the evolutionary changes in the iPhone 5 is that the legacy 4 and 4S models are not being perceived as horribly out of date. … It looks like having a range of offerings, with some directed at price-conscious buyers, has opened up the iPhone market to a larger set of phone buyers."
So while offering consumers legacy iPhones for lower prices might limit the number of full-priced iPhones Apple can sell, it's pretty clear that it is also bringing customers that might not have otherwise purchased an iPhone into Apple's ecosystem. And presumably a few will stay there — assuming the iPhone retains its current appeal or isn't surpassed by another device and platform.
Better to have consumers buy legacy iPhones at cheaper prices than competing smartphones on rival platforms.


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About this download
This program will update VAIO Care Recovery to version 126.96.36.19930 and will have the following:
- Update help file for USB3.0 support
Available Downloads:
VAIO Care Recovery Update version 22.214.171.12430
File name: EP0000321148.msi
File size: 42.2 MB (44,343,296 bytes)
File Info
File Name
- VAIO Care Recovery Update version 126.96.36.19930
File Version
- 220.127.116.1130
File Size
Release Date
- 2014-03-27
System Requirements
- Windows 8 64bit
1. Download the file to a temporary or download directory (Please note this directory for reference later).
2. Go to the directory where the file was downloaded and double-click EP0000321148.msi.
3. Follow the instructions displayed in the installation wizard.
4. After installation is completed, please restart the computer.
To check if installation is successful:
1. Go to C:\ProgramFiles\Sony\VAIO Care Recovery\Version.txt
2. Version should indicate 184.108.40.20630.


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VANCOUVER - A new golf year that wasn't scheduled to begin until late next month in South America will start early for Abbotsford's Adam Hadwin, who on Monday went on a birdie binge that earned him a spot in this week's PGA Tour stop at Torrey Pines near San Diego.
Hadwin fired an eight-under 64 that included 11 birdies in Monday's qualifier for the $6.1-million Farmers' Insurance Open and earned one of four spots into the event.
He'll join a field that includes Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and defending champion Brandt Snedeker.
"It's huge," Hadwin said over the phone after his round. "I did the same thing last year and tried to Monday qualify for this event and I shot 78, so I am 14 shots ahead of last year already.
"With all the big names teeing it up this week it's kind of just a nice little kick-start to my year. I wasn't really expecting to start my season until I went down to Colombia. I went out there, played well and now I get a chance to tee it up with the PGA guys this week."
Hadwin, who will begin his Web.com Tour season in Colombia, really didn't have high expectations heading into Monday's qualifier. He hasn't played any competitive golf since narrowly missing his PGA Tour card at qualifying school in early December.
He recently returned from a week-long vacation in Mexico and spent some time in Abbotsford, where the recent weather wasn't exactly ideal for practising.
"We were fortunate in that we had some nice days to hit some balls, but obviously not exactly the kind of preparation I would do before the week of the start of the Web.com Tour," he said.
But after some work on the range on Saturday and a round Sunday at El Camino Country Club — the site of Monday's qualifier — Hadwin felt like his game was coming around.
"Toward the end of my practice round I started to hit it a little better. I actually started hitting the centre of the fairway instead of the centre of the trees... I kind of went out today with a no-worries kind of attitude because I knew I hadn't played much and really had no expectations. I kind of just went out and free-wheeled it and that is usually when you play your best golf."
His 11 birdies were a personal best.
"I had 10 in a Future Links event when I was younger at Cordova Bay (in Victoria). But I'm pretty sure 11 is the most that I have ever done."
His 64 was matched by American Mark Baker and topped a qualifying field that was loaded with past PGA Tour winners including Lee Janzen, Billy Mayfair, Chris Riley, Duffy Waldorf, Rich Beem and Rod Pampling.
"I made some good putts," Hadwin said of Monday's round, which also included a bogey and a double-bogey. "You don't make 11 birdies without making a couple good ones. But I hit a lot of good iron shots. It was a little bit of everything. I didn't hit it great off the tee, but I kept it in play. I birided all four par 5s and played the par 3s really well and almost had a hole--in-one today as well. Hit it to within about seven inches."
Hadwin finished his round with five straight birdies to shoot 29 on his back nine.
This week's tournament will be Hadwin's eighth PGA Tour event as a pro. He has made the cut in six of seven previous PGA Tour events and recorded two top 10s. His best finish came in 2011 when he thrilled hometown fans and tied for fourth at the RBC Canadian Open at Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club.
Hadwin must now get familiar with Torrey Pines, which sits perched above the Pacific Ocean and consists of the North Course and the more difficult South Course, which played host to the 2008 U.S. Open.
"I have seen it and I have been there, but I have never played it," Hadwin said of Torrey Pines. "I know it can be quite the challenge."
A challenge that Hadwin said he's more than prepared for. He's heading to La Jolla oozing with confidence.
"I just came off 11 birdies and shooting 64, so obviously I am doing something right," he said. "I just relish the opportunity I have had to compete against the best in the world and this is just another opportuniyt to do that this week. I get to go out there and prove myself again."
CHIP SHOTS: Victoria's Cory Renfrew narrowly missed qualifying after shooting a 67. . .Other Canadians in the field include Brad Fritsch, Graham DeLaet, David Hearn and Stephen Ames. . .Tiger Woods has won six times at Torrey Pines. Phil Mickelson has three wins there.


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Dutch citizen Joran Van der Sloot apologized in court on Wednesday for killing a young Peruvian woman in 2010 and accepted murder charges against him in a plea that could lighten his sentence.
Van der Sloot, who was arrested but never charged in the 2005 disappearance of 18-year-old Alabama native Natalee Holloway on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba, killed 21-year-old business student Stephany Flores after meeting her in a casino in Lima.
"I am sorry. The truth is I feel very bad," he told the panel of three judges. He said "yes, yes" when asked if he was guilty and if he was accepting the charges in exchange for the chance of receiving a shorter jail term.
By asking for a "forestalled conclusion" to the murder trial, the equivalent of pleading "no contest" in other countries, the judges could swiftly sentence him on Friday.
His lawyer, Jose Jimenez, said earlier this week that Van der Sloot's plea could reduce his sentence to 10 years from 25-35 years.
Jimenez said that at the time of Flores's death, Van der Sloot was suffering from "post-traumatic stress" caused by inquiries into his possible ties to Holloway's disappearance.
Van der Sloot, reportedly 24 years old, smiled and appeared relaxed on Wednesday as he chatted with his lawyer after the judges suspended the trial until Friday.
Peruvian police said Flores, a highly-skilled poker player and the daughter of a wealthy businessman, was robbed and killed on May 30, 2010, exactly five years after Holloway disappeared.
Van der Sloot has told police he strangled Flores after he found her looking at his laptop computer in his hotel room. The laptop contained emails about Holloway's death.
Van der Sloot fled to Chile after Flores' death but was arrested there and returned to Peru for questioning.
The murder probe brought renewed attention to the case of Holloway, who vanished during a high school graduation trip to Aruba, where Van der Sloot was living.
Van der Sloot was arrested twice in the Holloway case but he was never charged due to a lack of evidence as they never found her body. Holloway's family has criticized Dutch authorities for not making more progress in the case.
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White Sox pound Yankees, halt 10-game losing streak
Chicago scores seven early runs to support Quintana's strong outing
CHICAGO -- All of Monday's talk before the White Sox 8-1 victory over the Yankees at U.S. Cellular Field dealt with Alex Rodriguez, from early in the morning right up to the 7:10 p.m. CT first pitch.
Some of the game's focus naturally fell upon Rodriguez, who finished 1-for-4 while playing through an appeal of a 211-game ban as a result of Major League Baseball's Biogenesis investigation. But while the 27,948 in attendance booed Rodriguez's every move, from his first run on the field to get loose to the final called third strike taken from Matt Lindstrom in the eighth, the White Sox (41-69) quietly put together one of their best games of an otherwise forgettable season.
Maybe the attention placed upon Rodriguez and the Yankees (57-54) took the bright lights away from the White Sox 10-game losing streak entering the start of this 10-game homestand.
"I would say we are probably the only team in the league that could have benefited from this," said White Sox manager Robin Ventura of the Rodriguez sideshow.
"It was all around good baseball, and Q [Jose Quintana] threw a great game. That's winning baseball," White Sox second baseman Gordon Beckham said. "We just have to try to do that as many times as we possibly can the last two months."
Thanks to 14 hits and seven walks issued by four Yankees pitchers, a team that had scored four runs in its last 40 innings pushed across seven runs in the first three innings. Andy Pettitte (7-9) didn't get hit hard, but he did get hit often, allowing those seven runs on 11 hits over 2 2/3 innings.
Alexei Ramirez, Jeff Keppinger, Alex Rios and Beckham finished with multi-hit efforts, topped by four hits from the White Sox shortstop and leadoff man to equal his career high. Every White Sox position player reached base at least once, except for Dayan Viciedo, who departed in the bottom of the first due to a jammed left thumb he suffered by diving for a Robinson Cano single in the top of the inning. X-rays were negative and Viciedo is listed as day to day.
Quintana, who became a free agent and left the Yankees in November 2011, improved to 6-3 for his current team that picked him up one month later. The southpaw gave up just one run over 6 2/3 innings, striking out five and walking one. The White Sox provided six runs of support over Quintana's last four starts combined, with Quintana's 14 no-decisions leading the Majors, but the offense topped that total by two Monday.
"We were due to play a game like this. It's been a while since we have swung the bats so well," said Rios, who drove in four over his first three at-bats. "It's one of those days where everything goes good for you. People are having good at-bats and good swings on balls."
"That was nice today to get good run support," said Quintana through translator and White Sox coach Lino Diaz. "I tried to think the game was 0-0."
Twelve of the 14 White Sox hits were singles, with Keppinger and Ramirez chipping in one double apiece. Unlike the previous 10 games, one hit morphed into a second hit and then even a third.
"To be able to play a game like this and win the way we did, it's refreshing," Rios said. "It's been tough."
"Guys are swinging, they are taking ball four," Ventura said. "It was just a good night offensively."
How long had it been since the White Sox won a game?
Jake Peavy was the last White Sox pitcher to get a victory on July 25, and he just picked up a victory for Boston on Saturday. The White Sox were 15 games out of first place in the American League Central 10 days ago, and now they sit 24 back of the Tigers.
For one night, the White Sox played like a team much closer to the division top spot with help from the Rodriguez effect.
"There's no other way I can say it: it's frustrating," Pettitte said. "We're trying to win series and for me to go out there and to give up three in the first and just not be able to get through the game with us struggling [Sunday] as far as a starter not going deep, it's just so disappointing."
"You're facing their ace [Chris Sale on Tuesday]," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "It's a bad way, but we gotta win a game [Tuesday] and we've got to start playing better, there's no doubt about it."
As for the venomous booing of the Yankees' third baseman, White Sox players featured the same general postgame reaction as they did pregame.
They stayed away from the topic.
"Chicago fans have booed before and so have New York fans," Beckham said. "It's not out of the question for anybody. It is what it is."
"You expect [the boos]," said Rios of the Rodriguez reaction. "You're going to expect that from the crowd."


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Two weekends ago our little town had a big Craw ish festival! The adults got to do a 5K or 10K and after that it was time for the Andy Allison Kids Run! My girls LOVE this race and look forward to it every year!
LOVE the serious and intense look on Kinley's face! She was all about that race!
She gave it her ALL!
LOVE LOVE LOVE her form!
He did wake up in time to take a selfie with Taylor and Sadie!
After race and lunch it was time to hit the rides! I mean.....these two no more got on here and the bottom fell out! I mean it poured rain while they were on there and they enjoyed every second of it! They thought it was hilarious!


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WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House official says President Barack Obama will name former aide Samantha Power as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Power will replace Susan Rice, who will take over as Obama's national security adviser. The official says Obama will announce both appointments from the White House Wednesday afternoon.
RELATED: Husband is Harvard Professor Cass Sunstein, a Long-Time Obama Pal
Power is a longtime Obama adviser who worked on his 2008 presidential campaign and ran the human rights office in the White House. She left the administration in February but was considered the favorite to replace Rice at the U.N.
The official insisted on anonymity in order to confirm the appointment before it was publicly announced.


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Police capture armed robbers inside Lawrence market
Men captured after standoff with police
Police arrested three armed men Friday night after a robbery and standoff at a Lawrence market.
Store surveillance video captured the men entering the South Union Market at 280 S. Union St. at about 10 p.m. The last man who entered was seen locking the door behind him.
Police said the men ransacked the store with their guns drawn while a clerk, the owner and his wife were inside.
"When you look at the video, you can see that they terrorize the owner's wife -- and the clerk as well -- by pointing the gun at them," Lawrence Police Chief John Romero said. "At one point they drag the clerk, manhandling him, through the aisle. It was a very traumatic experience for all three of them."
The men were later identified as Michael Alicea, 19, Richard Mora, and Ruben Saldana, both 18.
After noticing one of several police officers who had surrounded the store, the men ran to the rear of the building where they tried unsuccessfully to shoot their way out.
Authorities said the men surrendered shortly before 11 p.m. when they realized they were trapped inside the store with local and state police all around them.
"We asked them to come out with their hands up," Romero said. "One by one they came out with their hands up, walking backwards towards us."
Police are still seeking a fourth suspect who fled the scene in a car. Authorities are also investigating whether the men may be connected to similar robberies in the area within the last month.
"We're looking at this group to see if we can connect them to 6 or 7 robberies that took place in Lawrence -- armed robberies," Romero said.


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PWS growth charts during Growth Hormone treatment
To generate and report standardized growth curves for weight, length, head circumference, weight/length, and BMI for non– growth hormone–treated white infants (boys and girls) with PraderWilli syndrome (PWS) between 0 and 36 months of age. The goal was to monitor growth and compare data with other infants with PWS.
The purpose of the current study was to develop syndrome-specific standardized growth curves for growth hormone–treated Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) individuals aged 0 to 18 years. Anthropometric growth-related measures were obtained on 171 subjects with PWS who were treated with growth hormone for at least 40% of their lifespan. They had no history of scoliosis. PWS standardized growth curves were developed for 7 percentile ranges using the LMS method for weight, height, head circumference, weight/length, and BMI along with normative 3rd, 50th, and 97th percentiles plotted using control data from the literature and growth databases. Percentiles were plotted on growth charts for comparison purposes. Growth hormone treatment appears to normalize stature and markedly improves weight in PWS compared with standardized curves for non–growth hormone–treated PWS individuals. Growth chart implications and recommended usage are discussed.
The goal of this study was to generate and report standardized growth curves for abstract weight, height, head circumference, and BMI for non–growth hormone–treated white male and female US subjects with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) between 3 and 18 years of age and develop standardized growth charts.
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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
A little background: in these days I'm preparing sessions for some upcoming conferences in Italy (despite the English titles, most of the sessions will be in Italian: Microsoft SharePoint & Office Conference 2010 next week and Microsoft SQL Server & Business Intelligence Conference 2010 on April 20-22) and of course PowerPivot will be an hot topic. However, an important part of the puzzle is Excel Services, which makes the rendering on the web for this new self-service reporting environment. You know, a good picture worth a thousand words and for this reason I tried to push the rendering engine. And from here we start the discussion of this post…
Well, what is the state-of-the art of a dashboard? Is it a page full of gauges? Is it a thermometer? Is it a mix of pie charts, 3-d histograms and colored arts? Absolutely not. They don't have value. They are good just for a demo, but in everyday work you want to examine correlations between data and having control of a large number of parameters and indicators.
Thus, a good collection of dashboards is available on the Excel Competition Dashboards page on BonaVista website (now acquired by XlCubed). Yes, they use a little component called Microcharts to do that, and in fact Excel 2010 has its own Sparklines but even with older versions of Excel you can get Sparklines for Excel for free using a free library written by Fabrice Rimlinger.
Well, it seems easy, the sexiest dashboard today strictly follows Stephen Few's rules, which includes many important ideas of Edward Tufte. Now your dashboard is cool, life is good but… wait, you still have to publish it. Well, devil is in detail.
The most important feature I learnt of Excel when I started composing dashboard is the Paste Picture Link, which is illustrated in a short video you can find in this page. This feature is fundamental to get the desired layout without the alignment constraints of rows and columns typical of Excel. Just consider the dashboard published in this XlCubed demo and look at the following detail: how do you manage the different column alignment of the two bands in this picture?
Blue lines highlight the required alignment for some objects in the upper zone and orange lines highlight the alignment for the bottom part. Of course, you might spend hours of your life trying to merge columns in a way that match the requirements, but every time you want to move some object or insert something new in the middle, the nightmare begins! However, using Paste Picture Link feature, you simply design single components (having he same column/rows organization) of the dashboard in different (hidden) places of your Excel sheet and "paste" these components on your dashboard sheet, without worrying about alignment compatibility! And, as you can imagine, using the XlCubed Web Edition you can publish it on the web. But I don't want to promote XlCubed, it's just a good product that I want to use as a reference before someone says that doing this rendering is too complex. Someone else, smaller than Microsoft, already did it.
Well, you probably already know my point now. Excel Services 2010 has been improved, it has much more features than the previous edition, in the long term I understand that 90% of the reports will be Excel sheets published on SharePoint. It's only a matter of time. But, today, the Paste Picture Link feature is not supported by Excel Services. That's it.
Uh, before someone with a good sense of humor tries to suggest that PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer should be used to create dashboards, I want to underline that my initial reference to the dashboard gallery is not casual. But I will completely change my opinion about a dashboard product the day I will be able to create and publish the kind of dashboard that I can create since 2007 using Excel and XlCubed.Just to make an example of how you can do more (dashboards) with less (components).
PS: I like Excel and SharePoint 2010 – it's a big improvement over previous version, but still far from competition if you consider more vertical products.
Hi Marco
Agree about PerformancePoint. It is so far from being a dashboard building tool but it is useful as a wrapper for Excel Services reports in Sharepoint (the filters are far nicer than the built-in SharePoint functionality)
This is SharePoint - you can use multiple web-parts to generate your dashboard w/o having to go through all this - have each WP show a different named object and you will get there.
This only scales so far though - I am not sure how many linked images you use in Excel for a single dashboard, but SharePoint/Excel Services will have limitations when you start having a lot of them.
"Well, what is the state-of-the art of a dashboard? Is it a page full of gauges? Is it a thermometer? Is it a mix of pie charts, 3-d histograms and colored arts? Absolutely not. They don't have value. They are good just for a demo, but in everyday work you want to examine correlations between data and having control of a large number of parameters and indicators."
I couldn't have said it any better. Yet 99% of the products out there provide all this useless garbage. I don't see BI improving unless there's a fundamental change in visual tools (and good visual tools are critical for any insightful analysis).
"Excel Services 2010 has been improved, it has much more features than the previous edition, in the long term I understand that 90% of the reports will be Excel sheets published on SharePoint. It's only a matter of time. But, today, the Paste Picture Link feature is not supported by Excel Services."
If Paste Picture Link was the only issue with Excel Services, I could live with it. However, Excel Services is a young developing product with the same three-year development cycle as mature Office products. It lacks VBA support, lacks data validation sopport, form control support etc. Yes, you can build some of this functionality using JavaScript and REST on the server side, but I'd like to be able to develop a complete solution in the Excel client that I can simply publish to the server - without having to re-invent elements on the server.
Colin, I agree that publishing Excel with 100% of feature would be great!
In my priority scale, just for designing purposes, Paste Picture Link is probably the first feature. But there are many others, like Sparklines working on PivotTable, for example...
Marco, I've been using Paste Picture Link for a long time, but since Excel 2007 shipped with the new charting engine, I've not used it much at all. I might use it if I have a table in a dashboard, but sometimes I prefer to use the worksheet grid. Fonts appear better on the worksheet than in the picture. True, you can't move a range around as easily as a picture, but in practice, it's not been an issue.
Colin, we could discuss very long, but the point is that we are in 2010 now, and the best way to publish a dashboard with MS Technologies is using Excel. And Excel is not 100% ready to publish dashboards. And here we are :)
"And Excel is not 100% ready to publish dashboards."
On this point I think we are in total agreement :)
I agree with Colin.
In many projects where Excel + Excel Services was pitched, the business users didn't like it. Reasons?
1. No Edit support via browser. (you need to have Excel Client for editing/customization/personalization). In my case, business users resented this.
2. No VBA. this cripples the ability to do validation and little other changes.


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Any time a debt is discharged via bankruptcy the issuer of the debt sustains a loss. Of course knowing that you may sustain a loss would make you more cautious with whom you lend your money to, right? So from my perspective these types of changes not only don't protect the people, they cement risk into place. They also fail to allow for swift removal of debt, and that means an anchor will continue to pull down the economy for quite some time should laws like this be enacted in this debt saturated environment.
Once again the banks can't seem to take a loss, that is a systemic problem that ultimately ensures the debts don't get cleared out and that is exactly why the debt money system is destined to fail. This type of law is not congruent with the nature of math. If you follow the supporters of this legislation you will find people who have relationships with the bankers.


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