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Posted by Peter Himmelman
You plan and you dream and you wait. It's as though you're on a conveyor belt that's slowly bringing you nearer, imperceptibly nearer, to the time you must eventually deliver. I feel like I'm in a factory with a batch of Lay's potato chips that's ready to roll off the belt and into the bag.
Tomorrow my Big Muse team and I leave for Breckenridge, Colorado to work with wounded veterans from some of the nastiest conflicts in Iraq, to help them heal, to help them become more expressive – I just found out this morning that some of them haven't left their bedrooms in years. These are guys with serious emotional and physical challenges. They're coming with their wives and kids too. Whole families who've found themselves adrift on a sea of challenges that are unknowable to most of us.
There's an organization called Wounded Warriors Family Adventures that hosts different kinds of events for the vets and their families. In this case, the WWFA have planned a ski week in the mountains. After four days of winter sports and counseling sessions I'm going to come in and get the families to write songs about their experiences. Am I ready? Confident? I wish I were.
The thing about writing songs is that it acts like a duck blind, behind which you can hide and feel safer to express yourself. I was watching Mike Tyson on TV last night, he's got a one man theatrical show about his life. When asked how he was able to talk about himself in such depth and detail without breaking down emotionally – in particular, about the incident when his four year old daughter was tragically killed in a freak accident he said, "it's not really me up there, it's a guy playing me."
I can relate to that. Expressing ourselves through music or poetry is safe. Because there's a barrier to shield us when we sing a song or recite a poem – like Mike Tyson's cloaking-device of "playing himself," it makes the often-unbearable task of telling our stories easier. When we have this sense of being concealed from our listeners (and we always need a listener) our feelings of vulnerability are lessened and we feel safe to reveal what needs expression. The idea that our revelations are poetic or imagistic, that they're not necessarily journalistically accurate, makes no difference at all. It doesn't lessen the catharsis. Some feelings are so deep that they can only be expressed through abstractions and metaphors.
I've wanted to do this work with returning veterans for years. Maybe it's because my Dad was a Marine and I've always idealized that aspect of him. It's taken me about eight months of phone conversations, meetings and emails to garner the trust of the WWFA. It doesn't really matter to them that I've made this or that recording or received this or that award. What they want to know is whether I've got the ability to become empathic enough to gain the trust of the soldiers and their families.
I wish I could say that I'm leaving for Colorado with full confidence, that I knew exactly what I was going to do or say. Even though you always hear that you need it, in some situations – perhaps like this one, confidence isn't always the most important asset. Maybe a desire to help is what's most needed. I think I've got that at least.
Sure, I have a vague sense that I'll be successful in some way, but the "way," the manner of just how this will get done, is completely unknown to me. That's scary as hell and I've been losing sleep over it. But here's one thing I do know and I've learned this from experience: we humans do our best work when we come well prepared for something that's beyond all preparation.
Letting go of overly-rehearsed ways of communicating, a willingness to improvise, and a true (to the extent that we can be true) desire to bring joy to others are the best tools we can bring to any problem.
The conveyor belt is humming, the Lay's are salted, the bag is waiting.
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February 1, 2013 | 2:11 pm
Posted Rabbi Mordechai Grossfeller aka: Peter Himmelman
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My name is Rabbi Mordechai Grossfeller and I've asked you to come gather in this Beis Midrash tonight to speak about a very troubling phenomenon that is plaguing the Jewish educational system, and by extension, the future of the Mosaic tradition itself. That is, specifically, the tendency of our young people to imitate the customs and mores of ghetto society. Surely, none of us has not seen incidences of our yeshiva buchurim emulating the dubious fashion trend known as "sagging"; whereby, a youth's trousers are worn below the hipline, oftentimes so low as to reveal the underwear, or heaven forefend, the actual buttocks themselves.
We in leadership roles shake our heads in consternation. We daven for answers and get none. Why...why, we ask ourselves. Haven't our children been given the best of everything? The best yeshivas, the best teachers, the best chulent -veys z'meir!
It's time we pull our heads out of the sand. Just as our forefathers coming out of Egypt had to pull their heads up - and out of slavery, so we too need to look coldly and bravely at this plague as well.
What is it that is so appealing about this - urban culture? What is it that is perceived as so lacking in our own? Let me be the first here to put forth a hypothesis.
The disenfranchisement of our youth is caused by a sense of powerlessness. We are a nation that has been living in exile, without a sovereign homeland for over two thousand years; existing as guests in host nations that have been at best, grudgingly accommodating, and at worst, the perpetrators of the most insidious mass murders to ever take place of the face of this earth.
The powerlessness that this "outsider" status conveys is too much for our boys. Look at the aggressive nature of so-called urban culture. It's a marvelous thing in its way. To be feared and to rise up with loud garish music, threats of mortal danger and a masculine sexuality that says beware! What then does our holy Torah have to say on the matter?
In the Pirke Avos, the Ethics of our Fathers we read: Who is strong? The answer we get is shocking in it's simplicity and it's astute appraisal of human nature. He who controls his passions is strong we are told and only he who has attempted to contradict the will of his base nature knows how true this is.
My answer to the youth of today is to confront this dictum head-on. To look at the control of one's selfish impulse as the "hood" and to imagine that the taming of one's unchecked sexuality is akin to a "gang war".
As educators, I ask each of you to consider telling the struggling youngsters that the mitzvah of respecting parents and teachers requires as much skill and bravado as "free style rapping". Why not compare the beauty and intensity of Gemmarah study with the dreamlike sensations of smoking an "eight ball". And shall we not suggest to our youngsters that the laying of Teffilin is as exciting as "hooking up" with "shortie."
In other words, let's indulge our children's passion for the urban man's culture of strength by applying it to Judaism. Perhaps we can refer to Shabbos observance itself as an opportunity to "sag" one's trousers and to metaphorically reveal one's buttocks as a meshal of strength and rebellion. It's the selfsame strength and rebellion that the chosen people must endeavor to do on a daily basis when they rise up each morning before Hakadosh Barchu and declare before the entire world:
Hashem elokakanu Hashem echad!
And with that I wish you a Git Shabbis.
Rabbi M. Grossfeller
January 31, 2013 | 3:09 pm
Posted by Peter Himmelman
Creativity isn't a skill. It isn't a tool to be marketed or capitalized upon, although it's often highly prized. Think of it like breathing or blood pumping through your veins. It's more like the movement of planets or waves on the ocean then something peripheral to our collective human experience. It exists in all of us, it is a part of all of us. Of course if creativity is so native to human experience why is it in evidence in some much more than others and why does it often feel so distant?
From a neurological point of view the brain is an apparatus that's way more of a filter than a open door. Rather then take in information, it's main function is to be selective about where we focus our attention. In doing so, there is far more sensory input that is deselected or left behind than is absorbed. How else would we function if we were bombarded with the millions of sense perceptions we were given at any moment? That said, in order to foster a greater grasp of our own native creativity, we need a method to decrease the over-active filtration system that the brain provides us. We need techniques that allow a greater degree of willingness on the part of the brain to admit stimuli it might normally reject.
For instance, if you're sitting at your computer trying to write a business proposal and you've come up against a wall, and you're drawing a blank, it might be helpful to focus momentarily on things that the brain had deselected. The sound of the rain outside. The smell of the coffee in your cup. A glint of sunlight hitting your desk from a nearby window. It's not that there's any direct correlation to what you're working on. That's not the important thing. What is important, and you can consider this whole slightly odd way of looking at problem solving as an exercise, is that for a fleeting moment, by noticing things your mind has filtered out, you allow your brain to relax its propensity to stop the flow of information, to decrease its natural selective tendency and provide a brief window of increased acceptance of ideas. That's why so many of us have our most powerful revelations in the shower. The warm water on our naked skin, the smell of the soap and the sound of the water cause our analytical minds to take a break and our sensory perceptions become predominant.
The Inner Critic
The brain has another astounding function. The limbic brain, (specifically the amygdala) which has been called the primitive brain or the emotional brain is on a constant lookout for life threatening danger. If we were walking down the street and a angry dog suddenly growled at us from behind a fence, the amygdala would cause us to breathe in involuntarily. That inhalation would provide a quick burst of oxygen so we could run like hell. Interestingly, the limbic brain, reacts in a similar way to non- physical threats as well, such as criticism of our ideas or even the perception of criticism, because it perceives criticism as another life threatening danger. Here's why:
As infants and young children our capacity for absorbing knowledge and information was arguably at its peak. No one could say that our native intelligence as adults has increased since infancy and let's not confuse the accumulation of information - of which we surely have more than we did as children - as intelligence. Given that we were highly intelligent even as infants, we must have been cognizant in some way of our own fragility, our need to be taken care of, nurtured, and guarded. If there were a suspicion or a sense that we would somehow be rejected by our parents, that suspicion would lead to increased anxiety because rejection at that early stage in our lives meant death. Now whether we as infants had this reason systematicaly thought out is highly unlikely, but what is likely is that the amygdala had (and still does have) a way of intuiting this kind of danger; no different from the reaction it would have at the growling of the angry dog; both are instinctual, primal, mortal fear.
This fear of rejection is another way the brain deselects options. Out of fear, (note: as adults, this fear has refined itself into concepts of shame, humiliation, ignominy) but its all the same; there is a limiting factor which occurs when we feel we are going to be judged.
1. Judgement means possible rejection,
2. Rejection means abandonment and...
3. Abandonment means death
4. Fearing death, we limit our innate capacity toward creativity as a life saving mechanism.
Even when the actual threat of abandonment is in no way present (we'll feel embarrassment perhaps, but be sure of this - embarrassment will never lead to death) we continue to harbor the same primitive fears. So goes our limbic brain. It's there to help us but it just doesn't know when to shut up.
We at Big Muse never tell the limbic brain to shut up. We've even given it a name: Marv, and we treat it with respect. After all, Marv is our protector. We show Marv great respect. We give him a cup of coffee and a New York Times and tell him to take a break. While he's away, comfortably sipping his coffee and reading the paper, we can do our best work.
1. We express vulnerability
2. That expression creates stronger teams
3. Stronger teams create more acceptance
4. More acceptance creates less fear
5. Less fear allows natural creativity to be unleashed
I had a discussion with a friend of mine yesterday. I presented him with what I felt might be (in its most ideal sense) an axiom: Creativity is freedom - Freedom is abundance
He didn't believe that creative freedom necessarily brought about abundance. I disagreed and not only being I was being slightly disagreeable. I feel strongly that creativity surrounds us like air and it's only fear that prevents us from accessing it. The freedom I am expressing is freedom from our own perceived limitations, our own Marvs if you will. I believe (I didn't say "know" that type of certainty is annoying) that our ability to create is commensurate with our ability to overcome our fear. Once we become fully "creative" that is, in our personal lives, our spiritual lives and our occupational lives, we will naturallyl find unbounded abundance.
November 2, 2012 | 5:10 pm
Posted by Peter Himmelman
I never attended Columbia, Stanford or Yale; hell, I never even attended college, not even for a day. Imagine how many times I've been assailed with the thought that I have no right to sit down to write anything. How many times I've been struck by some inner voice calling me an uneducated fraud. (By the way, if you're looking for a blog from an academic scholar now's a good time to put this one down.) What is that negative voice? Where does it come from? Where does it live and what's its function? It must have an important one because everyone I've ever met has got the same voice inside.
My firm belief is that the negative voice is not an enemy as some writers have suggested or some evil demon meant to do us harm. Rather, it's a very real and integral part of us that cares strongly about our own survival. In that sense, it's not something to be eradicated or pushed away (as if it could be pushed away.) It's a part of us that needs to be valued and understood. It's funny how the needs of this internal critic are so similar to our own needs.
The similarity exists because "it" is "us."
To humanize this internal critic, I'm going to give it a name, I'll call it Marv. Marv is what my wife and I would call our oldest son whenever we were traveling and he would start complaining or asking ridiculous questions of the "are we there yet" variety. We'd say, "who let Marv in the car?'
Marv will give you space and allow your dreams to manifest themselves itself if you have these three ideas in mind:
Specific – Dream as big as you like but then make sure your dream is specified - broken down into small actionable pieces. Don't think, I want to become a baseball star without also thinking: I'm going to the ballpark now to practice my swing for thirty minutes.
Present – Don't think, I'll start practicing sometime mid-week. Think: I'll go to the ballpark at 10:35 this morning and then actually go.
True - Don't pursue the dream of being a baseball star because your dad pressured you to dream of being a baseball star. He may have pressured you because he always wanted to be one –and failed. The dream itself must be self-generated and it must be something that you want to pursue for your own sake and of your own volition.
When I consider the many times my work was devalued but I moved forward anyway, I get a certain amount of pride, not necessarily for the things I'd eventually made, but for the very fact of having overcome my own critical voices. External criticism, like bad reviews or people not buying tickets to your show always generates internal criticism. People's negative comments are like rocket fuel for Marv. He becomes hyper energized and he'll make you feel like quitting whenever he hears other people criticizing you.
You see, Marv fears for your safety. He fears for your well being. When we were infants and dependent upon our parents for our very survival, Marv was there. If a hungry lion were running after to us to devour our flesh Marv would be the force that compelled us to flee for our lives. He's got his hand on the lever the squirts the adrenaline into our bloodstreams and the anxiety into our brains. He's got such a one-track mind about helping us that he simply hasn't heard the news:
Marv, our lives are not in danger any more so please fu&^ing relax!
I know there are people who insist that they're impervious to criticism and to Marv's warnings but please, for your own good, don't believe them, they're just plain lying. The image of this undaunted warrior of creativity, trudging through life unaffected by anything but his own invariably positive muse does not correlate with reality. Everyone hates rejection. The problem isn't so much that these folks are lying -which they are- it's that we tend to believe that such people exist and then feel horrible that we're not like them, that we're somehow deficient. Let me assure you again: everybody is affected by criticism. We love it when people praise our work and we abhor it when they dismiss our work. That's human nature and it's unchanging. The only difference is that some of us are stopped in our tracks by the critical voices and others of us keep going.
If you remember the formula: specific, present, and true - you'll have a much better chance of getting Marv to take a coffee break. When he's settled into a chair and reading the NYT, that's the time to create.
October 24, 2012 | 8:14 pm
Posted by Peter Himmelman
The stories we tell ourselves to deflect from doing the things we dream of doing are wonderfully written. They've got nuance, detail and incredible dialogue. In fact they're masterworks of searing influence. Marv, (that's the name I give to the internal critic - that voice in our heads that keeps us afraid and unwilling to take risks) works with our imaginations and together, they're like a team of brilliant filmmakers in our minds. They are the very crew that makes all our creativity possible - let's call them Dreamators Ltd., except in this case, they are working against our dreams. Marv get's them riled up and says:
"Look Dreamators, I'm afraid Peter's going to get himself into some serious trouble with these ideas of his. I need you guys to get busy coming up with a movie that we can put up on the screen of his consciousness to stop him, hell, we can even play the thing as he sleeps, but it's got to be convincing, it's got to make him understand that he will fail and when he does he needs to see how much harm the failure's gonna bring him. He's gotta understand that failure means death. There's no other way to convince him. Peter's a smart guy so we've got to put him in touch with some of his most vulnerable emotions. You know, the ones he's carried around since childhood. He's got to be made to feel that if he fails and makes himself look bad, he'll be cast out, shut out, cut off, rejected, friendless, loveless, hopeless and alone. Make it look tragic. You can do it guys I know you can."
The thing to remember is that the stories we tell ourselves are as powerful as the creativity we muster up to pursue our dreams. In truth, they are one and the same. The more creative we are, the more creative the Dreamators are. The one thing that breaks the cycle is when we recognize just what's taking place in our minds. When we understand that the negative feelings that crop up to quell our dreams are really the products of our own fruitful imaginations, we need only begin to take the specific small actions towards our goals. When we do that, we change the Dreamators directives. Instead of working for Marv, they immediately begin working for us.
October 17, 2012 | 4:58 pm
Posted by Peter Himmelman
1 - Feel, don't intellectualize
2 - Don't try to be good- just be
3 - The goal is to finish within the form
4 - It doesn't have to mean anything, it just has to make you feel everything
5 - The world seems like disconnected pieces, show its unity
6 - Find freedom in structure
7 - There is no wrong answer here
8 - There's no need to be correct
9 - If what you create baffles you, that's a good thing
10 - Don't stop to analyze
11 - If you're stuck try something new
12 - Say the first thing that pops into your mind
13 - There is nothing to fear
14 - No one fails here
15 - Be brave enough to laugh at yourself
16 - You're not a bad person or a good person, you just …are
17 - Stop judgment for now
18 - You can fly here
19 - You can breath under water here
20 - You are invisible here
21 - You are- indefatigable, invulnerable, immeasurable, invincible
22 - Laugh at yourself, cry for others
23 - We are all exiles here
24 - You can't create anything new, only new combinations of pre-existing things
25 - Don't overthink
October 12, 2012 | 4:54 pm
Posted by Peter Himmelman
Imagine that our boundless joy, the kind we get when we're walking around with the sense that our lives are full of endless possibilities is a gigantic Milky Way bar. I don't care if you don't like candy or even if you don't like Milky Way bars -just for the moment imagine that you do. Picture that sucker. It's huge, maybe twelve feet long, three feet wide and two feet tall. It's laid out on some enormous picnic table and it represents the kind of joy I just described, all chocolate, caramel and pure unfettered creativity. That's what you get immediately after you start taking the kind of small actions towards fulfilling your dreams. Not sitting around dreaming: I want to be a baseball star, but - I'm going to the ballpark to practice my swing for forty minutes.
Imagine that beside that enormous Milky Way bar is a tiny blade of grass. It's dried up and skinny. Now take that blade of grass, which is around an inch long and cut it into ten pieces with an exacto knife. You should have ten pieces of skinny dry grass that are about a tenth of an inch long. Take nine of them and throw them away. In the palm of your hand you've got one tiny bit of grass. That represents the amount of pleasure you get from keeping your dream safe inside your head. It's not a lot. In fact it's hardly any at all but the complicating factor is that the dream-in-hiding does provide a modicum of… well, I wouldn't, couldn't call it joy. That would be way overstating it. It's more like some wan, pathetic, vaguely pleasant sensation about which Marv (the nagging internal critic) says:
"Hey why risk the benefits of this great piece of grass. I know what you're thinking, you're saying to yourself there must be more but in fact, for you, there really isn't more and why risk losing this? Besides, this grass is yours, no one can criticize it or take it from you. You can accomplish anything you want but just not today ok? Oh, and here's a good thing… there's no way you'll ever run the potentially tragic chance of failing. Forget about the Milky Way bar alright? It's not for you, it's for someone else. Someone you know… better than you. You're a grass person right? Yeah, now you're talking!"
And that's where most of us stay. Safe and sound with a piece of dry grass no bigger then a tenth of an inch in the palm of our hands. No possibilities, no joy, just a vague sensation that barely passes for pleasant. Oh, and here's another thing you can do with that blade of grass:
Take the piece you have and divide it again by ten. Throw the nine other pieces away and you can do this wonderful thing that people with a nearly microscopic piece of dry grass always do- you can sit around and criticize the people who are eating the Milky Way bars. You can comment on how, if you had a chance to write a song, or act in a movie, or start a business, or get up and dance- how much better you'd be at it then them. Now it would be a lie to say that this kind of thing yields no joy at all. The truth is that it does. It gives the person a pleasure that is perfectly commensurate with a piece of thin dry grass that is exactly one twentieth of an inch long. Not a Milky Way bar, but something right?
October 4, 2012 | 10:46 am
Posted by Peter Himmelman
Why do we humans have such a strong need to create? Might identifying that need help us when we're having trouble making a dream manifest? Perhaps our need to innovate is tied to our need to generate money for ourselves and our families. But then what about the nine-year old kid who sits and draws for hours on end like I used to do? I can tell you for sure, I never thought about making money when I was nine; my dad was doing that. I was making what was in my head come alive through crayolas and paper. At that time it was a gang of monsters called Glirches -who of course, lived in Glirchville.
There was something so fulfilling about creating this town of Glirchville. A special place wrested from my own imagination where I could be the mayor, the policeman, the banker and the jailer all in one. Even as I was busy drawing away, there was often this thought in the back of my mind that the pictures I was making might get noticed for their brilliance by someone special, most likely my mom.
That brings us two more possible motivators for creativity: One is the joy of the actual immersion in the drawing itself. The process of getting the Glirches out of our imaginations and quickly down on paper. There are no thoughts of outcomes or judgments or expectations fulfilled. It's a much more pure process of allowing the thoughts to be made immediately manifest on the page. This is the place where we get lost for hours, where time flows freely and imperceptibly. Being in that creative space, with its freedom and possibilities is a truly magical part of our life experience.
The other side Glirch-making is being aware of outcomes even as we create. To be drawing while being simultaneously aware that our Mothers could soon be complimenting us, scotch-taping an original Glirchville on the refrigerator, or talking about how creative her son or daughter is. It's not to say that this kind of motivation, this praised-based impetus, is without merit. Doing something for a reward does have the ability to motivate. It's just that it's far inferior to creating without any expectations at all. Once there's an external factor looming in your thoughts, like a refrigerator exhibition, there's also a corresponding:
What if it's not good enough to go on the refrigerator?
While it's noble to strive for the ideal of creating Glirches with no expectations, the reality is more complex. There will always be a blend of the two motivators. In our efforts to create we will continue to find ourselves going back and forth between the two. First, we'll be drawing a scene of a Glirch swimming in the Glirch Sea, adding some glirch-birds and maybe even coloring the water Burnt Umber –just because it looks cool. Then suddenly, without us even noticing, the idea that our mothers will come in to our bedrooms and shower us with praise will come to us -followed shortly by the frightening thought that our mothers won't shower us with praise.
The benefit of motivation number one, the purer of the two, is that it has the potential to enrich our lives in a deeper way than praise ever can. Praise after all, is contingent on outside forces. Something that is bubbling up from the wellsprings of our own imaginations and curiosity is far likelier to make us happy.


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A: No. It was inside Sandy Hook Elementary School, where it had been used to kill 20 children and six women.
The Connecticut State Police have confirmed this time and again since the horrific events of Dec. 14.
Some pro-gun groups have claimed otherwise in the wake of the shootings and a proposed federal ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
On Jan. 24, Lt. J. Paul Vance of the Connecticut State Police told Hearst Connecticut Newspapers that conspiracy theorists were "trying to mucky up the waters" with claims that the shootings were done with handguns, not a semi-automatic rifle.
According to the Greenwich Time newspaper, Vance said there is "no doubt" that the slayings were done with a Bushmaster XM-15, which is a type of AR-15 rifle that is currently legal. The rifle had a magazine capable of firing 30 rounds.
Lanza also took a Glock 10 mm handgun and a Sig-Sauer P226 9 mm handgun into the school. He used one of the handguns to commit suicide there.
A 12-gauge shotgun was found in the trunk of his car.
The Connecticut State Police continues to investigate the case and has no target date for when the investigation will be concluded.
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A: State law says a marriage officiant must be an ordained minister of any religious denomination, a minister authorized by a church, or a magistrate.
Magistrates, appointed by the senior resident Superior Court judge in their district, are the only civil officials who can perform marriages.
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If the basketball goal is on a state-maintained road, call the N.C. Department of Transportation's highway maintenance office in Scotland County. Its number is 910-369-2645. If it's on a road maintained by the city of Laurinburg, call the local police at 910-276-3211.
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Why It's Important
Why It's Important
Recycling helps protect our resources, our environment, our quality of life.
As stewards of the environment, we are responsible for preserving and protecting our resources for ourselves and for future generations.
Getting Back To Basics.
Recycling is really just common sense, and until the "modern era," it was a common household activity. Before the 1920s, 70% of U.S. cities ran programs to recycle certain materials. During World War II, industry recycled and reused about 25% of the waste stream. Because of concern for the environment, recycling is again on the upswing. The nation's composting and recycling rate rose from 7.7% of the waste stream in 1960 to 17% in 1990. It's currently up to around 30%.
The Garbage Crisis.
The world has changed a lot in the past century. From individually packaged food servings to disposable diapers, more garbage is generated now than ever before. The average American discards seven and a half pounds of garbage every day. This garbage, the solid waste stream, goes mostly to landfills, where it's compacted and buried. As the waste stream continues to grow, so will the pressures on our landfills, our resources, and our environment.
Recycling – An Important Part Of The Solution.
The more we recycle, the less garbage winds up in our landfills and incineration plants. By reusing aluminum, paper, glass, plastics, and other materials, we can save production and energy costs, and reduce the negative impacts that the extraction and processing of virgin materials has on the environment.
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How do I know what materials are recyclable in my community, and where can I take these materials to be recycled?
Your local recycling program should be able to provide you with a list of materials that can be collected for recycling in your community. Following is a short list of the most common materials that are recycled in many communities:
Paper: Newspaper is almost always recovered in community recycling programs. Some communities also collect white and colored paper (sometimes combined as "mixed paper") and used cardboard boxes, such as cereal boxes.
Plastics: Not all communities recycle all types of plastic. Investigate your community's plastic collection through the resources listed above. Most communities recycle plastic items such as detergent bottles, beverage containers (e.g., soda, milk and juice), and containers for various household products.
Aluminum: Almost all recycling programs include aluminum beverage cans. These cans, one of the most highly recycled-products, are made into new cans in as few as 90 days after they are collected. Some communities also collect aluminum foil for recycling.
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I'm glad I was finally able to play the Minerva's Den it was truly great.
So thanks for changing your minds and releasing it for PC, also never ever use GFWL again. =)
I'm glad I was finally able to play the Minerva's Den it was truly great.
So thanks for changing your minds and releasing it for PC, also never ever use GFWL again. =)
I wonder if any game company has ever gotten positive feedback for using GFWL?
From PC gamers? No. The only time I hear praise is from people how primarily play on the Xbox 360 who like to up their gamer score and that is one of the reasons they say that they like it uping their gamer score and achievements then showing that off to friends...
Correct me if I am out of bounds, but I have been playing with the Ion Laser. Attempting to increase the output, I have put "addweaponstatupgrade Laser damage" into my user.ini folder. No success yet. If any of you have tried any variant that has worked, I would like to hear more.
Dear, Elizabeth, tell us please, when Patch (and DLC) for Russian version of Bioshock 2 will be released?
1c says what it completly depends from 2k.
Well - typically modding isn't a good thing to discuss on forums (at least as far as I know) - and I can't really answer this because I didn't do it. My question is - What's wrong with the power? The thing annihilates enemies. My only complain with Minervas Den was that it was too easy...
Just a final note from me. Just finished Minerva's Den (I'm a bit behind on things...), and I wanted to give some positive feedback.
I waited a long time to get to BS2, because of waiting for things to be fixed up right. I was surprised at how good it actually was, and it beat my lowered expectations by far after all that waiting. Minerva's Den is excellent. It's everything that BS2 got right, but also "fixes" the few things BS2 stumbled on.
Why do this kind of thing to pc gamers is it because of people pirating games?
I have bought minerva's den launch day but for time problem I'm playing it only now.
Am I wrong or it have really really bad texture?
another question, is there a resume of the story of minerva's den?
I like to read resume after played it to see if I catched all from the story.
Well, I don't know of a detailed summary, but the BioShock Wikia has info on the DLC's story, as well as the audio diaries.
Well the textures in BioShock 2 and Minerva's Den weren't as good as BioShock in my opinion, relative to when they were released, but also BioShock 2 (and MD) suffered more from how the levels were built in terms of poorer textures are more noticeable.
Especially on PC when you are sitting close to the screen not like sitting 10 feet away or whatever from a TV, the textures don't always look great when you consider the PC's processing power and how good some other games look.
Overall though, I let myself enjoy the experience and looked past any textures that were distracting.
thank relight.
just finished the DLC, great addition, quite short (I finished it in 5 hours without any speed run) but ok for a DLC.
Hate to resurrect a dead thread, but I've not had a chance to download or play the DLC yet or convey my thanks to Elizabeth and 2K for the effort of development and putting up with the fan base.
So thanks Elizabeth and 2K, I'll get around to playing the DLC in the next few weeks.
The DLC turned out really nice imo, it fits into the lore of Rapture brilliantly. 2K did a very nice job and I am extremely grateful they stuck to their guns and offered the DLC across all platforms.
Hey, People! Official Russian edition still has not DLC. It has not even a patch! And not even release date of Patch & DLC! Where is support for CIS gamers? Shame on you 2k!
this is cool, but can yall fix bioshock to where it wont say cant connect on the download so people wont get mad and quit playing bioshock or any 2K games? I like what yall are doing its just that my friends dont.
Nice job,kinda late but still nice
So all the DLC is on PC? I might pick up a copy of BS2 on Steam some time.
Hi all at 2k have really enjoyed md thank you so much. On my third play through now. I notice on the loading screen the game makes reference to gravity well 2 or 3. Does anyone know if you buy it at a gatherers garden or find it some where in the game?. Would love to splash a bit of acid on the spider splicers
So this game's seen how many patches now? Yet, the HUD issue STILL persists! This is ridiculous. Such a simple problem; yet, no solution... still.
When is the HUD issue going to be rectified? It still happens... when you walk through the ocean for the first time and get into the flood/drain chamber, the HUD just disappears - for good it seems.
Edit: the specific HUD issue I am regarding is the helmet disappearing from the edges of your screen.
Minerva's Den was well worth the money, excellent DLC, very pleased it was eventually released for the PC
Do not believe to this words. CIS customert does`t have even a patch yet! And there is no dlc for us! I bought CIS Collector`s edition and i can`t even have a patch! 2K forget about their customers and even 2K Elizabeth can`t say anything about patch/dlc release! Shame on you.
Hey there -
You might be in a territory that has a different structure for patches - can you PM or email me at firstname.lastname@example.com and let me know what region you are in, what platform you are playing on, and what issues you are having? I'll investigate for you.
Hello, 2K Elizabeth.
I e-mailed to you 2 times.
1 - you forgret about my question (4 month ago)
2 - still no answer (3,5 month ago).
Ok, I will try again.
Last edited by Alex Belarus; 09-28-2011 at 11:52 AM.
Hello, 2K Elizabeth.
I e-mailed to you again 28 sept. 2011.
So, why you do not answered to me?
Hey there,
If you didn't get a reply, there's a chance it didn't get to me. Can you resend to firstname.lastname@example.com? I'll let you know next week if I don't see it still.
found that I am happy with my multi-monitor setup using fov hack in the user.ini file by binding the keys ala:
Left= ResetFOV
Up= SetFOV 100
Right= SetFOV 90
Down= SetFOV 110
However is there a fix/workaround documented for the firstperson weapon and hand views? ( they dissapear vertically from the screen )
Also seems to be a lot lacking when viewing the game in 3D.
Otherwise, I like the game very much and feel it deserves what experience state of the art hardware could give the immersion level. ( story certainly deserves it ).
First post here.. although I have followed along since the beginning. There has ben a lot of negative energy. So much so that it was a while until I discovered that Minerva's den had been released after all.
Nice Job on the DLC.
Funny thing is...
If you think about it. If the trials and den were in fact released on the PC in a timely manner. The quality after market experience would have probably been considered the DLC gold standard for the industry to emulate. Really feel sorry that what should have been a feather in yer cap, turned into a festering wound for so long.
Definitely postmortem material?
Definitely think liz deserves a raise for the experience.
Back to the widescreen issues... It's really nice that forums like widescreengamingforum exist to provide workaround solutions and tools for multi-monitor enthusiasts when we support the industry with our wallets to an extreme degree.
( a burger flipper who has the sli to run 3 27 inch acers 3d monitors chooses to support the technical frontiers of gaming rather than pay rent )
How bout a little return love before my eviction with a config hack for the first person misenscene?
I'm sad that there will be no patches to accomplish this. But if yo have Ken's irrational ear perhaps it is not to late for an Infinite solution?
( ps. how bout an image tag for fan art submision? )
We're actually testing images in a couple forums currently - and in the interim, links are always welcome (or you can PM me). There's never censorship here - and we love fan art.
In the early days, we had some issues with porn and spam images, which is why we cut the tag - but they are making a come back. If you guys want them in BioShock, that can be arranged!
Hello, 2K Elizabeth.
I e-mailed to you once again. Classical answer - i`ll check thats for you. One again after all of this time.
So, why you do not answered to me? I think that answer is - NO. There are no patch & DLC for CIS Bioshock 2.
This is awful unacceptable customer support. Please, say to me only one reason why me and all CIS customers need to buy 2k products if it do not even receive patches?
... and after that all of you (game developers) will say what level of piracy is very high in CIS? Wonder why?
I payed my money for Collector`s edition and what now? I want my money back, because if i knew what for this version will never be even a patch, i will never bought it!
Do you think that me and my friends will buy Bioshock Infinite?
I just want to say, that there are no news from 2k!
I just want to say again, that there are no news from 2k about patch or dlc for CIS editions!
Hi Alex - If I've missed your messages since we last spoke, you have my apologies, and please email me again so we can sort this out. We are not updating the game anymore, however I will help you with whatever support you still need.


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Well, we shamefully neglected to recognize our own birthday... again. Two years ago on August 2nd this site was started with a shoddy blogger template and a dream. Yada yada nostalgia.
A huge thank you though to all of you who come and read, and post feedback, and email the site and play in the tournaments and give us fodder for discussion. I truly enjoy doing this as do the other contributors, and we appreciate you stopping by to read every once and a while.
Over the past two years more than 120,000 of you have come to interact at rates between 300 and 500 a day, pouring over the almost 400 posts to date.
A little recap of where we've been....
A few months ago we released PlayUltimate.us a place where anyone can submit ultimate-related news, content, links, videos, pictures. Then the community of readers decide what is cool, there is the possibility to comment on everything thats added (with nested comments, so beautiful). It has been a huge success, and without much publicity at all has grown to 70 registered users and more than 100 submitted entries in just a few months. I strongly encourage you to check it out, register and submit a few stories and comment on the ones other people submit. The more who use it the more useful it will become to everyone.
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As a result of the scope of PlayUltimate expanding I decided to give a name to all the enterprises as a whole - PlayUltimateMedia, which you can check out at http://playultimatemedia.com. In addition to eventually holding information about the "company" you can also see the latest updates from all the different sites in one place.
And a look at where we are headed...
Since the beginning ive had no intention of keeping things small. As ultimate grows, so will we. We've added wonderful contributors over the years to the blog and now everyone can contribute on PlayUltimate.us. But stlil we remained primarily focused on the United States.
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- Anonymous said...
any thoughts on what teams in the east are going to be competetive next year?
- Anonymous said...
north hills, paideia, amherst
- Anonymous said...
paidiea is gonna suck balls
- Anonymous said...
A couple of estimates on the best teams in each state/region from north to south.
Maine- Greely High School
Vermont- St. Johnsbury, Vermont Commons school
Massachusetes- Northfield Mount hermon, Longmeadow, and of course Amherst
Conneticut- Chase Collegate School
New York- John Jay, Stuyvesant, Beacon
New Jersey- Columbia, Watchung?
Pennsylvania- North Hills, Pennsbury
Tennese- University School of Nashville, Mcallie school
Georgia- Paideia School, Woodward Academy
Kentucky- Lexington Catholic
Virginia- LC Bird, Woodside, Yorktown
These are based upon knowledge of the teams having strong programs, past results, and the size of the graduating class. One will have to see results as the ability of teams fluctuates throughout the year to determine who will do well at easterns. Ie: columbia looked weak in the fall and early spring than surprised everyone at easterns. - 8/25/2007 6:54 PM
- Anonymous said...
who is the most spirited team?
- The Pulse said...
The best-spirited elite juniors games I've played have been against Pennsbury.
- Anonymous said...
you must not have played many junior teams then....
- Anonymous said...
geese guys stop being so mean to Ryan. There have been like 40 comments hating on him.
- Anonymous said...
Nah, everyone just hates on him for loving Pennsbury, which everyone hates when people do.
on that note...
PENNSBURY HOSTED FALL BRAWL OCTOBER 6TH AND 7TH, its up on score reporter. It will be hosted in the West Windsor New Jersey area, at Mercer County Park, make a bid to myself at firstname.lastname@example.com.. This is going to be a very competitive tournament in the Varsity Division, and we're also featuring a JV division for B-teams or young new teams. It is the third annual Fall Brawl.
Isaac Saul #19
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Fall Brawl has been changed to November 3rd and 4th!!


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Papal intentions for November: That priests who experience difficulties may find comfort in their suffering, support in their doubts, and confirmation in their fidelity. That as fruit of the continental mission, Latin American Churches may send missionaries to other Churches.Papal intentions for December: That children who are victims of abandonment or violence may find the love and protection they need. That Christians, enlightened by the Word incarnate, may prepare humanity for the Savior's coming.


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Our tour with The Devil Wears Prada kicks off in February.
For Today (2/22 - 3/5 and 3/8 - 4/4)
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The Chariot (3/8 - 4/4)Tickets on sale Friday Dec. 21st
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Roy Hodgson is asked the perfect question, Mr Grumpypants is back, Jamie...
ne Mailboxer may have spent lunch in the pub in suggesting Van Persie could go back...
oy Hodgson is asked the perfect question, Mr Grumpypants is back, Jamie Redknapp...
Sky Bet are paying 1/4 the odds on all each-way bets on the top four Premier League goalscorers this season. Robin van Persie, Luis Suarez, Daniel Sturridge and Sergio Aguero are front-runners in the betting market.
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Cristiano Ronaldo missed a third-minute penalty as Manchester United drew 0-0 in Barcelona in their Champions League semi-final first leg.
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Aaron Ramsey insists he never doubted he could prove people wrong and become an integral part of the Arsenal side.
One Mailboxer may have spent lunch in the pub in suggesting Van Persie could go back to Arsenal. Also, some Premier League meh-ing and a fine Acewatch suggestion...
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Cool and wet conditions will continue over the UK and Spain Thursday.
Much needed rainfall, albeit light and spotty, is falling in Southern California.
A twister in Mellott last month caused the family to go missing. Their four legged and it's family were reunited.
State Police in Rhode Island have already issued tickets for snow this season.
Snow will streak northward from the Texas Panhandle Saturday night and into the Plains and Midwest Sunday. Meanwhile, Bernie Rayno explains the threat for ice from Ontario to Maine
College Football Bowls kickoff this weekend on a chilly note for the northern states.
Residents in New England continue to dig out on Wednesday. Warmer conditions this weekend will help melt the snow across New England.
A storm blanketed New England Tuesday. Plus, the criteria used to define a blizzard and more. These are the stories at this moment.
Severe weather will erupt late Saturday into Sunday across the central Gulf Coast states. Farther north, 3-5 inches of rain will cause flooding. Bernie Rayno has all the details.
A warmup is coming along with a big storm. Evan Myers and Elliot Abrams have details.
A storm that intensified throughout the day Tuesday reached New England with excessive force and spread several inches of disruptive snow across the region.


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The Grassic Gibbon Centre is found in the heart of the Mearns countryside, nearby the farm where this famous novelist grew up and the churchyard where his ashes were laid to rest.
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4 StarsSanjo-Agaru Kawaramachi Nakagyo-ku Kyoto 604-8005
Royal Hotel & Spa is situated on the vibrant Kawaramachi Street in Kyoto city centre, two blocks to to Kyotoshiyakushomae Subway Station and Sanjo Train Station. Vacationers view the collections at Kyoto International Manga Museum and National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto.
All 443 spacious smoke-free rooms and suites come equipped with LCD TV, Wi-Fi access, air conditioning, working desk, refrigerator, tea-making facilities and hairdryer. Jacuzzi and separate living and dining areas are available in some units.
At Kyoto Royal, guests savour a wide array of scrumptious dishes at Prandia Restaurant. Unwind with drinks at in-house Haven Library Lounge and Bar.
Kyoto Royal Hotel & Spa provides business centre, Wi-Fi access in the lobby and event venues that can hold up to 500 people. Parking (fees apply), Wi-Fi access at the lobby and dry cleaning are also on offer. During free time, patrons wander around Kyoto Botanical Garden, less than six kilometres from the hotel.
Hotel Facilities
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Kyoto Royal Hotel & Spa Guest Reviews (30)
Convenient location. Walking distance to most places. Great 130yen sushi train shop only 3mins walk away and other eateries and shopping. Nishiki market close by too. Wifi in lobby was not too good - kept crashing and needed to move in different places to get coverage. Staff say its the network system but seems to have been like this for a while reading the previous reviews so they really should rectify this issue as it would boost up their ratings for sure! Would definitely stay in a heartbeat next time if this was rectified.
Travelbugger wrote on January 25, 2013
adequate sized hotel... free wifi available in the lobby... housekeeping is up to standard. Quite a few buses from Kyoto station to the hotel.
Biggie Wu wrote on December 7, 2012
For the price I paid for the two nights at Kyoto Royal Hotel, which was even below the normal price of a 3-star hotel, the room I was given was certainly way into the 4-Star category ! Reasonably large, cosily and aesthetically appointed, woody and warm in colours, we had a twin-bedded room on the 9th Floor. Didnt have time to visit the Spa, which, I was told, closes at 8pm daily. Which is too early -- for guests who have busy and long working days while staying there. Hotel location is perfect. Hardly 5 minutes away are lots of shopping and food shops. Also very nearby are several "shopping alleys" that are almost half a mile long for each one of them! I will most definitely return to Kyoto Royal again in my next few visits ( next year itself, I will likely be in Kyoto at least 5 to 6 times)
LeoLim wrote on September 8, 2012
Great price for this hotel. It's located right near a giant mall. Outside the hotel are bus stops that can take to all of the tourist attractions. Free wifi in lobby, free wired in the room. Breakfast seems a bit on the pricey side. Walk outside the hotel and there are loads of cheaper options.
Neil M. wrote on June 22, 2012
Since we went to the hotel by public transport, it's not as easy for us to locate the exact entrance especially when we were there near dinner time. However, we were satisfied with the hotel staff, friendly and helpful, the hotel's location. The room rate is really a good bargain cos the hotel had offered us a room with a sitting area. What we think the hotel needs to improve is the lighting in the room, it's too dim.
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"...every body's working for the weekend..." Right?
If you are already thinking ahead and planning outdoor activities for the weekend -- you may want to keep a secondary idea in the back of your mind as well. As we briefly touched on in Tuesday's Blog, rain chances are looking pretty decent as we head into most of our day's off ... especially on Saturday. Not saying that the entire weekend will be a washout, but you may want to find that foreign object known as an umbrella, dust it off and keep it near the door for future use.
Change in the Pattern
As high pressure shifts and amplifies over the Western United States, a deep trough of low pressure will take over most of the Eastern half of the country. This will drive a cold front through most of Texas starting on Friday.
Cold front?! No, no...don't get too excited. An August cold front normally doesn't mean that temperatures will be coming back down to comfortable levels -- but it can help stir up the atmosphere and provide a bit of much needed rain around these parts.
As our cold front slides in from the north, providing "lift" to the sky above to help initiate and focus thunderstorm development, we'll also be working in deeper tropical moisture from the south. (Let's call it the ol' one, two, punch)
Ghost of a Tropical Depression
The remnants of Tropical Depression Seven will cross over the Yucatan and enter the Western Gulf of Mexico and then slowly travel towards the Brownsville region through the rest of the work week. While the GFS computer model suggest that this system could turn into a tropical depression (at the least) again, that scenario shouldn't have a direct impact on us here in the Brazos Valley. What it will do, however, is add plenty of good moisture to work with to see decent downpours should the rain chance pan out.
Rain Chances
Put the scenario together and we'll hold a 30% chance for scattered showers (especially in the afternoon) For Sunday and Monday and have a 40% chance for widespread rain on Saturday.
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Protesters rallied for better wages at a Wendy's in Detroit on Dec. 5, 2013. Demonstrations planned in 100 cities were part of a push by labor unions, worker advocacy groups and Democrats to raise the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
A look at claims about minimum wage
Increasingly, state Sen. Nikiya Harris is making a push to raise the minimum wage in Wisconsin.
Here is a recent look at claims related to the minimum wage from elsewhere, and how they fared on the Truth-O-Meter.
Barbara Lee
"60 percent of people on food assistance are working."
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Heritage Foundation
"FACT: Repealing Obamacare would be easier than repealing Prohibition."
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Rob Portman
"About 2 percent of Americans get paid the minimum wage."
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Barack Obama
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Facebook posts
Says Vladimir Putin said, "President Obama and his fellow Democrats are either idiots or ...
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Barack Obama
The minimum wage "in real terms right now is below where it was when ...
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Facebook posts
"44% of homeless people are employed."
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Timothy Dolan
"We, the bishops of the United States -- can you believe it -- in ...
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Bob Corker
"The administration was kicking and screaming all the way with these sanctions being put ...
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Chain email
If the Trans-Pacific Partnership "is fast-tracked through the Senate, it won't receive a committee ...
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Marco Rubio
"Just days ago, Iran's Supreme Leader (Ali) Khamenei, who will oversee implementation of this ...
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Ron Johnson
"Republicans have proposed dozens of (health care) solutions designed to help control costs and ...
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President Barack Obama has the "power to stop deportation for all undocumented immigrants in ...
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Barack Obama
On changing the rules for filibusters on presidential nominees
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Mitch McConnell
On changing the rules for filibusters on presidential nominees
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A scorecard separating fact from fiction
"We are experiencing the worst economic recovery America has ever had."
Even after collective bargaining reforms, most Wisconsin public employees "are still paying about 12 to 13 percent" of their health insurance premiums, while most state residents who work in the private sector "pay 20 to 25 percent."
"The Walton family, which owns Wal-Mart, controls a fortune equal to the wealth of the bottom 42 percent of Americans combined."
"The nine-day deer hunt contributes more than $1.3 billion in revenue to the state of Wisconsin."
Says Gov. Scott Walker has dropped Wisconsin "to 45th in the nation in job growth prospects while campaigning for president out of state."
In Wisconsin, more than 300,000 people have "some kind of addictive gambling problem, whether it's pathological or what we'd categorize as a problem gambler."
"The state budget has actually grown by $4.6 billion under" Gov. Scott Walker's actions.
"You've seen where we're now going from a $700 million surplus to getting into the next biennium with almost a $750 million deficit."
"The $3.6 billion deficit we inherited has turned into more than a half-billion-dollar surplus."
"During my eight years as county executive, we cut the number of county workers by 20 percent."
"The national debt is on track to double during Obama's presidency."
Promise: Review all tax policy to lighten burden on farmers
Update: Analysis assesses taxation of farmers
Promise: Change to hunter-friendly chronic wasting disease strategy
Update: That push is poised to come to fruition
Promise: Appoint "Whitetail Deer trustee" to review deer counting system
Update: Appointment came earlier, new system is poised for introduction
Promise: Create new panel to provide advice on hunting and environmental matters
Update: The group is in place and has been meeting
With a bill bringing $100 million in property tax relief, "the typical Wisconsin homeowner will save approximately $680 over four years."
Promise: Streamline teacher licensing process; allow those with "real world" experience.
Update: New program is in place, new teachers on the way
"The Legislature passed Gov. Walker's so-called property tax relief bill," but the Republicans "are still raising your property taxes."
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Every day, reporters and researchers from the Journal Sentinel examine statements by Wisconsin elected officials and candidates and anyone else who speaks up on matters of public importance. We research their statements and then rate the accuracy on our Truth-O-Meter:
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Tracking the promises of Scott Walker
The latest from the Walk-O-Meter
- Common Core panel wants limits on school use of fingerprints, retinal scans
- Wisconsin bill on police custody deaths gets public hearing
- Wisconsin panel approves $10.6 million for domestic violence center
- House overwhelmingly approves Paul Ryan's two-year budget plan
- Scott Walker wants sustainable highway funding, but options controversial
- Tommy Thompson helping launch advocacy group for Midwest
- Scott Walker signs bill hiking tax credits for renovating historic buildings
- PolitiFact: Checking Scott Walker claim on economic recovery as worst in US history
- Oops! Shorewood says lower property tax bills were in error
- Paul Ryan calls bipartisan budget pact a 'step in the right direction'
- Mark Green to lead pro-democracy group
- Paul Ryan, the pragmatist -- surprised?
- Gov. Scott Walker: 'Growing interest' in Kenosha casino, decision months away
- Gov. Scott Walker undecided on U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan's budget deal
- PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it"
- Group holds virtual public hearing on gun bill on lawmaker's web page
- Abele backs Adams over Dimitrijevic in Assembly race
- Kapenga helps lay groundwork for convention on constitution
- Democrats seek hike in minimum wage
- Vinehout to undergo surgery for arm fracture
- "60 percent of people on food assistance are working." — Barbara Lee
- "FACT: Repealing Obamacare would be easier than repealing Prohibition." — Heritage Foundation
- "About 2 percent of Americans get paid the minimum wage." — Rob Portman
- "By the time she turns 3 years old, a child born into a low-income home hears 30 million fewer words than a child from a well-off family." — Barack Obama
- Says Vladimir Putin said, "President Obama and his fellow Democrats are either idiots or deliberately trying to destroy their own economy." — Facebook posts


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Drink all the sugar you want!
The world's biggest soft-drink maker is responding to a controversial proposal by New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.
He wants to limit the size of sugary drinks at restaurants, theaters, and street carts.
Coca-cola argues there isn't a scientific link between obesity and sugary drinks.
They claim the intake of sugar from drinks fell 39-percent from 1999 to 2010.
During the same time, coke says the percentage of obese kids rose 13-percent and the percentage of obese adults rose 7-percent.
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