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Now, I only have one question - what tax implications are there for her to accept that money, in the US? Will it just be treated as straight, untaxed income?
Winnings are still taxed income. It's just that most winnings (like a great night at the casino) are so small that there is no specific requirement for those paying out to report them.
Taxes on gifts are paid by the giver not the receiver and the first $13,000 per person per year is exempt.
Sorry, I should have included in the quote where he equated it to a lottery win. That's why I mentioned winnings and not gifts.

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Progress on Medicaid Means Real Coverage for Real Families—Roadblocks Remain
In Arizona, 300,000 people will get the health care coverage they need, thanks to Gov. Jan Brewer's change of heart on a key program of the Affordable Care Act. Brewer signed a bill into law accepting federal funds to cover low-income families under Medicaid—a bill that she had to fight against members of her own party in the state legislature to get passed in a special session she called.
It was a hard fight, but one we're glad to see turned out the right way. The Medicaid provision was one of the key components of the ACA, but it was put at risk by a Supreme Court decision that left it up to the states to accept or decline the funds. Many states have—but others, like Texas, are refusing, leaving millions without coverage.
In other states, the process is still unfolding:
- About half a million people are waiting on the Michigan state Senate, who should vote this week on a state House-passed proposal to accept expanded Medicaid funds. Gov. Rick Snyder has promised to sign the bill into law.
- As the state legislature in Ohio debates accepting expanded funds, a new poll shows 63 percent of Ohioans want the expansion, which would cover an estimated 275,000 people.
- In Virginia, a commission to study accepting expanded Medicaid funds had its first meeting this week. The next meeting will take place in August.
- In New Hampshire, the state House—which supports accepting expanded funds—is working to craft a measure that will be able to get through the Republican-controlled Senate. This may mean a commission will be created to review the issue.
- Unfortunately, in Maine, Gov. Paul LePage vetoed a measure to accept expanded funds. The bill, which would cover 60,000 people, passed by strong but not quite veto-proof margins, so the fate of Medicaid in Maine remains unclear.
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"Someone close to Dakota Fanning had better warn her about the Twi-hards before she admits her ignorance of Twilight again. Seriously. I once misspelled Robert Pattinson's name and now I fear for my family's safety..."
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Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing new long-lasting power cells that they say will be capable of charging to full power in a matter of seconds.
Using nanotechnology, MIT's Professor Joel E. Schindall has laid the groundwork for what he calls a "synthetic battery," a power cell that, instead of the chemical reactions used in standard units, stores charge in a forest of tiny carbon "nanotubes."
Elsewhere, some innovators are experimenting with devices that draw power from the human body's kinetic energy. Such technology is already used to power watches, but scaling this up to the level required by smartphones is difficult.
But one team from the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a new technique that uses bodily movement, such as footfalls, to generate static electricity that can then be harnessed in quantities that could viably charge larger devices.
Such solutions are clearly some way off commercial development, but with Apple rumored to be designing its hotly-anticipated iWatch around a power source based on kinetic and solar power, a battery-free world isn't such a distant dream.


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A college education is necessary for the wildlife officer position. There are particular major fields of study that are acceptable. Other knowledge and experience that may benefit the applicant include agricultural, forestry, public speaking, and writing experience. Knowledge of the life histories, habitat, and conservation practices for fish and wildlife species common to Ohio is highly desirable. It is also helpful to have a thorough understanding of the methods used in hunting, fishing, and trapping, and the tools employed. The ability to develop and maintain working relationships with local law enforcement agencies and to work with conservation groups is essential. An applicant must be able to write and prepare records and reports clearly and work independently with limited supervision. Experience in using and maintaining firearms, boats, four-wheel drive trucks, and ATVs is helpful.
Individuals hired as wildlife officers will enter service as a wildlife officer cadet. Cadets will complete 16 weeks of peace officer training for state law enforcement certification then complete approximately eight to nine weeks of advanced training in wildlife officer- specific instruction where they learn duties, skills, and situations common to the job. During this entire training period, cadets will reside at the training academy. Upon successful completion of the academy program and graduation, cadets are promoted to wildlife officers and may be assigned anywhere in the state. They will complete a six-month field training program working with experienced officers while they continue to learn the knowledge, skills, and duties of the job in their area of assignment. There are excellent promotional and advancement opportunities to the supervisor, investigator, and administrative ranks as well as opportunities to be a part of special groups or teams of officers such as the honor guard, training unit, and as a field training officer.
Salary and benefits are commensurate with being a state of Ohio law enforcement employee. Wildlife officers are members of the Fraternal Order of Police and salary is set by a labor contract agreement with the state of Ohio. Cadets in training earn approximately $17.00 per hour and upon graduation, new officers will earn over $40,000 annually to start as the base pay. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision care, insurance, paid holidays, sick, vacation, and personal leave, an in-home office allowance, physical fitness supplement option, uniforms, longevity pay, and all other benefits relating to state employees.
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-Or 60 mos. exp. as wildlife officer 2, 22292.
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Seattle-based coffee giant Starbucks has announced it's going to expand to Colombia.
The country is known for its Arabica beans and for the mythical coffee farmer Juan Valdez. He's helped sell Colombia's coffee for 50 years. Starbucks has cafes in 50 countries. And now, it's coming to perhaps the country most associated with coffee.
Howard Schultz, the company's chief executive, announced that the first shop will open in Bogota in 2014, followed by 50 more cafes and in other cities over five years.
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As often as they can, Kelly Woodward and her fiance hop on Skype at 3:05 in the afternoon.
The Chicago native is now in Miami full-time leading Miami Food Tours. Her Colombian husband-to-be is in grad school at Notre Dame.
Their 3:05 chats are a excuse to catch up, but it's mostly about Cuban coffee.
A movement began to make 3:05 p.m. the official Cuban coffee time of Miami. What started organically by a Miami PR rep Jenny Lee Molina has now been officially recognized by the city.
Each day begins the same. It is want mixed with laziness. Which strikes me as why a café con leche is so perfect. The 'want' is the café. It is strong, primal, dark and concentrated. The 'lazy' is the leche, (the milk)…relaxing, passive, pure-white and life-giving. In the right ratio you can find the way to enter the day and go forth!
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At the Center for Tropical Agricultural Research and Education (CATIE) in Turrialba, Costa Rica, you can touch the history of coffee — and also, if the optimists have their way, part of its future.
Here, spread across 25 acres, are coffee trees that take you back to coffee's origins.
"The story starts in Africa, no? East Africa," says Eduardo Somarriba, a researcher at CATIE, as we walk through long rows of small coffee trees.
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The inspiration for NPR's Coffee Week arrived in an email last summer. I had just reported on the growing Third-Wave Movement in Coffee, and the burgeoning interest in coffee cuppings.
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Coffee is a powerful beverage. On a personal level, it helps keep us awake and active. On a much broader level, it has helped shape our history and continues to shape our culture.
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What does it take to find guilt-free coffee?
Much of our coffee comes from places where the environment is endangered and workers earn very little — sometimes, just a few dollars for a whole day's work. Coffee farmers have helped cut down tropical forests, and most of them use pesticides.
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When we wanted to know how the growth of the specialty coffee movement is influencing the lives of farmers, we took a trip to the mountainous region of Huehuetenango in Guatemala.
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Coffee is more than a drink. For many of us — OK, for me — it's woven into the fabric of every day.
It also connects us to far corners of the globe.
For instance, every Friday, a truck pulls up to the warehouse of Counter Culture Coffee, a small roaster and coffee distributor in Durham, N.C., and unloads a bunch of heavy burlap sacks.
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During pregnancy you may have been mindful of drinking enough milk and eating the recommended servings of cheese and yogurt throughout the day. Now that you're a mom, there is no need to decrease your calcium intake. The March of Dimes website states, "the amount of calcium you need each day remains the same before, during, and after pregnancy."
Again, most women are not getting the recommended daily servings of calcium, which according to Somer is 1,000 mg for a woman 20 years or older. A serving could be three glasses of milk, three cups of yogurt, or three glasses of vitamin-D fortified soy milk or orange juice.
Vitamin is fat soluable and is found in certain foods, historically though, it has been obtained by adequate sun exposure. Today, vitamin D deficiency is much more common than it once was. Decreasing exposure to sunlight due to all the risks of too much sun exposure, in addition to more people living in urban areas, has led to the recommendation of fortifying certain foods with vitamin D to ensure adequate intake. (Vitamin D is an important partner to calcium; it helps calcium to be absorbed properly and efficiently.)
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Every week day during EatLafayette, the popular initiative to get more diners into locally owned restaurants, The Independent will spotlight a Dish of the Day; on Wednesdays, our Dish of the Day also becomes the Dish of the Week and is published in the print edition. The campaign runs June 18 to Aug. 15.
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Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. says the number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased to 1,782.
September's $509 million in sales pushed Lafayette Parish's nine-month total to $4.4 billion.
The New Orleans architect behind the 1984 World's Fair also left his mark on Lafayette.
Fort Worth company's new facility at Lafayette Regional Airport will build helicopters primarily for the export market.
Could River Ranch restaurant be the next star?
Move over Hooters — there's a new breastaurant coming to town.
Funds will expand Early College Academy from 250 to 1,000 students
Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. says the number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by 12 this week to 1,775.
The state labor department figures released Friday show the initial claims decreased to 1,850 from the previous week's total of 2,854. For the comparable week a year earlier, there were 4,048.
Get a map to your doctor's office, check the status of a claim and more with Blue Cross' new iPhone/Ipad app.
"Shell's abrupt decision to cancel its North American GTL project just 10 weeks after concluding a multi-year site-selection process is obviously very disappointing news," LED Secretary Stephen Moret tells Daily Report.
New York Times best-selling author talks Hollywood, the death penalty and the pitfalls of runaway campaign spending.
A majority of the blocks in Proposed Sale 225 are subject to revenue sharing under the Domenici-Landrieu Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act, which provides that the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas share in 37.5 percent of the bonus payments.
President of The Lemoine Company and chairman of the nonprofit overseeing the conversion of the Horse Farm property into Lafayette's central park will be profiled in the December-January issue.
Leadership Institute of Acadiana and the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce announced the newly-selected Leadership Lafayette class for 2014.
A new statewide poll released before the holiday break shows U.S. Sen. David Vitter of Metairie atop a gubernatorial field dominated by Republicans.
Margaret Trahan elected to serve on UW Worldwide's National Professional Council, and Bryant DeLoach joins MidSouth Bank as commercial lender in Lafayette.
A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a judge must reconsider BP PLC's arguments that the settlement shouldn't compensate businesses if their losses can't be directly traced to the nation's worst offshore oil spill.
Half of voters surveyed think the coastal damages lawsuit by the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East against 97 oil and gas companies should continue.
The state labor department figures released Monday show the initial claims increased to 2,854 from the previous week's total of 2,363. Initial claims were above the comparable week a year earlier at 2,705.
Nonprofit says Louisiana has a once-in-a-generation opportunity, but is the state ready for it?
In the works for five years, new system reduces cockpit workload by 60 percent and allows for more consistent operations under challenging weather and operating conditions.
Erica Geoffroy named marketing director at Allison Marine, Scott Ridley joins Home Bank, and Darren Guidry moves up to chief credit officer at Home Bank
The deadline to purchase tickets for the last installment of IND Media's 2013 Lecture Series featuring best-selling author Scott Turow is Monday, Dec. 2, at noon.
Subscribers of The Daily Advertiser received notice earlier this month that the Gannett-owned paper would be charging an extra $1.34 to deliver its Thanksgiving edition.


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AUSTIN, Texas – Lance Armstrong ended a decade of denial by confessing to Oprah Winfrey that he used performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France, a person familiar with the situation told the Associated Press.
The admission Monday came hours after an emotional apology by Armstrong to the Livestrong Foundation charity that he founded and turned into a global institution on the strength of his celebrity as a cancer survivor.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the interview is to be broadcast Thursday on Winfrey's network, OWN.
Winfrey tweeted afterward, "Just wrapped with (at)lancearmstrong More than 2 1/2 hours. He came READY!" She was scheduled to appear on "CBS This Morning" today to discuss the interview.
The confession was a stunning reversal for Armstrong after years of public statements, interviews and court battles in which he denied doping and zealously protected his reputation.
Even before the taping session with Winfrey began at about 2 p.m., EST, Armstrong's apology suggested he would carry through on promises over the weekend to answer her questions "directly, honestly and candidly." The cyclist was stripped of his Tour de France titles, lost most of his endorsements and was forced to leave the foundation last year after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency issued a damning, 1,000-page report that accused him of masterminding a long-running doping scheme.
About 100 staff members of Livestrong, the charity Armstrong founded in 1997, gathered in a conference room as Armstrong arrived with a simple message: "I'm sorry."
He choked up during a 20-minute talk, expressing regret for the long-running controversy over performance-enhancers had caused but stopped short of admitting he used them.
Before he was done, several members were in tears when he urged them to continue the charity's mission of helping cancer patients and their families.
"Heartfelt and sincere," is how Livestrong spokeswoman Katherine McLane described his speech.
Armstrong later huddled with almost a dozen people before stepping into a room set up in a downtown Austin hotel. The group included close friends and advisers, two of his lawyers and Bill Stapleton, his agent, manager and business partner.
No further details about the interview were available immediately because of confidentiality agreements signed by both camps. But Winfrey promoted it as a "no-holds barred" session, and after the voluminous USADA report – which included testimony from 11 former teammates – she had plenty of material for questions.
USADA chief executive Travis Tygart, a longtime critic of Armstrong, called the drug regimen practiced while Armstrong led the U.S. Postal Service team, "The most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."
Armstrong also went after his critics ruthlessly during his reign as cycling champion, scolding some in public and waging legal battles against others in court.
Betsy Andreu, the wife of former Armstrong teammate Frankie Andreu, was one of the first to publicly accuse Armstrong of using performance-enhancing drugs. She called news of Armstrong's confession "very emotional and very sad," and got choked up when asked to comment.
"He used to be one of my husband's best friends and because he wouldn't go along with the doping, he got kicked to the side. Lance could have a positive impact if he tells the truth on everything. He's got to be completely honest," she said.
At least one of his opponents, the London-based Sunday Times, has already filed a lawsuit to recover about $500,000 it paid him to settle a libel lawsuit, and Dallas-based SCA Promotions, which tried to deny Armstrong a promised bonus for a Tour de France win, has threatened to bring yet another lawsuit seeking to recover more than $7.5 million an arbitration panel awarded the cyclist in that dispute.
In addition, former teammate Floyd Landis, who was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title for doping, has filed a federal whistle-blower lawsuit that accused Armstrong of defrauding the U.S. Postal Service. The Justice Department has yet to decide whether it will join the lawsuit as a plaintiff.
Armstrong is said to be worth around $100 million. But most sponsors dropped him after USADA's scathing report – at the cost of tens of millions of dollars – and soon after, he left the board of Livestrong.
After the USADA findings, he was also barred from competing in the elite triathlon or running events he participated in after his cycling career.
Diagnosed with testicular cancer in October 1996, the disease soon spread to his lungs and brains. Armstrong's doctors gave him a 40 percent chance of survival at the time and never expected he'd compete at anything more strenuous than gin rummy. Winning the world's most grueling sporting event less than three years later made Armstrong a hero.


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Friday, April 14, 2006
Long Time, No Post!
I leave for Lucy's one week from TOMORROW!! Have I packed? NO! I'm quilting customer quilts like crazy so that no one is waiting on me when I get back.
I bought a new camera, would you believe I haven't even had time to load the software in my computer? I took the following pics with my old camera because I didn't want to stop and do all that with the new one yet. I've got a week to learn to use it! *LOL*
I'm posting a pic of a customer quilt...there were two identical ones. I thought this was a GREAT pattern for signature blocks! She used 5" squares of red prints, all different red prints...and then the signature blocks were 5" X 2.5" I believe, she put it all together basket weave fashion. I thought it might look fun scrappy too, if anyone needs an idea for a signature quilt...This one has ease of construction, and definately possibilities.
These belong to an "older" (Oh I hope she doesn't read my blog) gal, and she still does not use rotory cutters! I showed her how I used mine, and she said "This old gal is too old to learn new tricks". She learned to quilt with scissors, and scissors it is. When she brought me the tops they didn't have borders on them...I offered to add the borders for her because she didn't know exactly how she was going to cut 2" strips with scissors and have them straight, and her tops were a bit wibbly wobbly. Adding the borders squared them up and stabilized them a bit better.
The quilt also has a musical theme, being centered around black gospel quartets and their members, promoters, church members, too...so the outside border (and backing fabric) is that fun sheet music print you've probably all seen before. It just doesn't photograph very well. I had fun reading all the signatures and quotes and imagining the great southern black gospel music ringing through these churches. I've always wanted to go hear that. I love quartet music!
The only dang thing I still need to do is add hanging sleeves to the back. I FORGOT! Which means that I don't have the ease of sewing one edge into the binding...and only having to stitch one side to the back...I'm going to have to stitch both sides to the back and not into the binding because the binding is DONE! It's machine topstitched binding, and I'm not picking it out to insert a hanging sleeve under it.
So that's the kind of stuff that is going on here! Nothing really super exciting in the way of my own quilts, but sometimes life just goes on day by day in it's own normal routine, and that is okay too. Can't have excitement every day, right?
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Excitement or not, it's GOOD to see a post from you again..*VBS* I know life keeps happening while we are making other plans...the quilt is really neat. And I suppose if she hasn't given in to rotary cutting in the almost 20 years it's been around, she probably won't....but you gave it a good try!
ReplyDeleteI was going to write you and make sure everything was ok! I'm glad it is. I figured you were just busy getting ready for your trip by getting things done. So then I decided filling your mailbox with more mail didn't help!
That signature quilt is a wonderful idea! I"m so glad you shared it. I always have to do those signature quilts for charities so this is a wonderful idea.
I'm so jealous you are going to see Lucy! I"m getting a ruler for the string star quilt and then she is going to teach me how to make it! Have fun!
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BARDWELL, Ky. - Holly Burgess has a talent that can pull her through tough times.
It helps the Carlisle County High School senior when she feels the stress of being a three-sport athlete.
It comes in handy again while she strives to maintain her 3.4 grade-point average.
Even when a small rift ripples through her tight-knit friends, her skill is there to help.
Her talent: Baking a mean batch of brownies.
"Baking brownies, definitely," Burgess said from under thick red curls. "That's what I'm really good at."
Burgess hopes to turn her skills in the kitchen into a career as a pastry and cake chef, and possibly own her own business.
Judging from her achievements in high school nothing will stand in Burgess' way.
Burgess, daughter of Chadd and Jada Burgess, is the Murray State University Teen of the Week. Each Monday, the Sun features a different MSU Teen of the Week selected from nominees submitted by high school guidance counselors in western Kentucky and southern Illinois.
In May, a Teen of the Year will be chosen from the weekly winners, earning a $5,000 scholarship to Murray State.
Teen of the Week is part of the Sun's Newspaper in Education program.
Burgess applied to Sullivan University, which has three Kentucky campuses, to pursue a culinary arts degree.
"Holly is very dedicated and strives to do her best," said Julie Hook, Burgess' cheerleading coach.
"She sets very high goals for herself, and the squad, and does her best to reach them."
Between cheerleading, softball and volleyball, Burgess said she enjoys the latter the most. As proud as she is of becoming class president this year, and of being a four-year BETA Club member, Burgess covets her volleyball achievements.
"We just won districts," Burgess said with pride.
And whether it's in an athletic setting or in the community, Burgess exudes a quality close to impossible to teach: unprompted caring and generosity.
"She is the type of person everyone in the class wants to work with," said Miranda Wilson, Burgess' English teacher.
"She is patient and diligent in everything she tries to accomplish."
Burgess is in her school's Pals program, which has older high school students mentor and tutor preschool-age kids.
Carlisle County High School is small (63 seniors), and all grades and ages roam the campus, including preschoolers.
When they see Burgess in the hall a few light up like a Christmas tree. "It's a lot of fun seeing them comes out of their shells," Burgess said.
It's that sense of care that led to her volunteering with kids and her town's Christmas and Halloween parades.
It'll also let her blaze a trail while baking a lot of brownies.
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The Big Anime Sex Talk
You knew this was coming. After all, you've reached the age where you've become curious about what kind of entertainment anime can provide you with beyond mech battles and robot ninjas. And it's far better you learn about this kind of thing from someone you trust instead of a mainstream news soucre, most of which don't tend to scrape far below the surface when compiling information about strange hobbies from Japan...
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To Nadia: I have to wonder why you brought up moe - as you even pasted, moe has nothing to do with sex at all. That's like trying to imply that someone who likes pictures of puppies is into bestiality sex.
If you want to go after pedophiles, you might want to aim at lolicon hentai anime and manga instead, as that's where the real issue lies.
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I find a lot of good points to be made on this.
Personally I've always found it to be a bit disturbing that a surprising amount of people associate anime with porn, almost exclusively and "they" aren't anime fans. They get all bleary eyed and confused when they gather the courage to ask me about porn and how much of it permeates my anime collection, and I tell them the truth. Out over 850 DVDs I have one anime-porno. They they ask why or tell me that I must be lying . . . I then explain to them, "Sex is just not a spectator sport." The concept of porn is kind of more about frustration from my point of view. The way I think of it, you take a perfectly good looking woman or in the case of anime "female character", you get her out of her clothes. Being your average kind of guy, This is the part of the concept I like. Then they send some half naked guy in there to screw her brains out, and at this point I loose interest. I guess I have an aversion to seeing a guy's ass and penis hanging out, regardless of where he ends up sticking it. I have this idea in my head that this is some kind of throw-back to the days of the primal man, some kind of wolf-pack mentality that the guys further down the pecking order seem to be happy to watch the big dog banging away. I guess I am too much of a tiger to "get it", it just seems stupid to me. After I tell people this they just seem kind of lost, like I'm from some other world, I almost feel kind of like I took a dump on their BBQ, like they were expecting something hideously evil and they got Opey from the Andy Griffith Show. I tend to think that illustrated or animated porn is less of "sin" or detriment to society. After all anime, whether it's porn or not is still an illustration. I believe I was reading an article not too long ago about Japan's lower abuse and rape rates in spite of the prevalence of porn in their society. Although I could not confirm such a statement at this time. Live-action porn is still someone's daughter, You just can't get around that, no matter how you rationalize it. There is still the personal matter of just "what is porn". I know some people that would peruse a website like mine and say there is nothing pornographic about it and others that would say it is all porn. As for deeper thoughts about it . . . I cannot speak from a woman's point of view, nature has made that kind of hard to do. I can say this, I find an interestingly large number of girls that hot link some rather provocative images off of my website and others, for their blog-page backgrounds and signatures . . . I'm not too sure what to think of that, good or bad. Getting deeper into ethics of this might prove to be going against the posting codes, so I think I'll stop here . . . for now. |
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Tentacle rape and moe fetishism are all she covered... how is this any more relevant than the MSNBC article? Fail.
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Jessica Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) or Holly (Cool World) are better modern cartoon characters. Back further I guess females in the anime shows adapted & edited for kids might qualify. Quote:
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Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles is her best-known play. It was first produced Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, December 11, 1988, running for three sold-out months, before moving to the Plymouth Theater on Broadway on March 9, 1989. The play averaged 90% full houses during its run and, in 1989, garnered numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for drama as well as the Antoinette Perry (Tony) and New York Drama Critics' Circle awards for best play. Other honors include the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Dramatists Guild's Hull-Warriner Award, and the Susan Smith Blackburn Award for women playwrights.
Following its debut, critical reaction to The Heidi Chronicles was mixed. Many praised Wasserstein for her unflinching portrayal of the Baby Boom generation's coming of age. Heidi is a character typical of many women born in the post- World War II era: she is intelligent, well-educated, and attempting to make it in a society dominated by men. While many critics admired the events Wasserstein depicts, some faulted her for undermining the play's serious issues with sitcom humor, half-baked characters like the indecisive Susan Johnston, and a contrived ending.
Many feminists also found fault with The Heidi Chronicles. While some were happy that a play with strong feminist themes was a mainstream success, they were displeased with Wasserstein's negative comments (primarily through the voices of her male characters) on the woman's movement. The title character Heidi is often a mute observer, dominated by her two male friends, Scoop and Peter. Feminists believed that Wasserstein blames the women's movement for the fact that women are trivial and men more serious.
Despite such complaints, The Heidi Chronicles is largely seen as a success in the subgenre of feminist theatre. The play distinguished Wasserstein as a significant dramatic voice of the Baby Boom generation. Political/gender issues aside, most critics and viewers found the play to be entertaining and few could deny Wasserstein's facility with comedic dialogue. Moreover, many women did relate to Heidi's search for her own identity and the anguish she suffers as a woman in modern society.
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Doran's Blade
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Availability | |
Tier | Basic |
Stats |
+80 health +8 attack damage |
Passive | Basic Attacks restore 3 health for ranged, and 5 health for melee champions |
Menu |
Attack > Damage Defense > Health |
Item cost | 440g |
Sell value | 176g |
Item Code | 1055 |
Doran's Blade is a basic item in League of Legends.[1] It is a useful starting item for any champion going for a DPS build.
Notes Edit
- Doran's Blade's Dominion counterpart is Prospector's Blade.
- Doron means gift in Old Greek.
Cost Efficiency Edit
- 80 health = 211g
- 8 attack damage = 288g
- Total Gold Value = 499g
Gold Efficiency
Strategy Edit
Stacking Doran's Blades is a viable tactic for champions who need survivability. This is because Doran's items have a very low cost for the stats they give, balanced by the fact that they cannot be upgraded. Getting 2 Doran's Blades can also be useful to get an early lane advantage over your opponent, in particular if going against the enemy carry. In this situation however, you should press that advantage, as he will complete his core build sooner.
The on-hit heal from multiple Doran's Blades WILL stack.
The stat per gold of Doran's Blade (when excluding health and mana regeneration) is the worst among the three Doran's items. Doran's Blade falls off as the game progresses, due to the heal amount being fixed, so it does not scale with increasing damage output.
Similar items Edit
Background Edit
They say Effrem E. Doran was born with a hammer in his hands and a forge in his heart. Every object he touched, he found ways to improve, and he knew that he was destined to be a brilliant artificer. At the age of 15, he was invited to the League with an offer to assume the role of Master Artificer, a dream come true and an unprecedented honor for one so young. However, fate had other plans. En route, his carriage broke an axle. When he leaned down to inspect it, he was kicked in the head by his donkey, a stern blow. He stumbled back onto the wagon, but when he arrived at the Institute of War he was a different boy. The kick had rendered his mind soft, but it hadn't robbed him of his passion. He still wanted nothing other than to craft, but where once he may have created singular masterpieces, he now crafted…somewhat simpler items, and many of them. He is a kind, goofy, good-hearted soul, and he takes pride in the work he does. His items are daily selected by champions on the Fields of Justice, and he has a permanent home at the Institute of War.
Doran's Blade, Doran's Shield and Doran's Ring are some of the more famous crafts.
Patch history Edit
- NEW Passive: Your basic attacks restore 3 health for ranged, and 5 health for melee champion.
- Attack Damage reduced to 8 from 10
- Cost reduced to 440 from 475
V18.104.22.168: Rework
- No longer grants life steal.
- NEW Passive: Your basic attacks restore 5 health each time they hit an enemy.
- Health reduced to 80 from 100.
- Damage increased to 10 from 9.
- Fixed a bug where it was providing an unintended effect. (It was giving 1 gold per 10)
- Cost increased to 475 gold from 435.
- Damage increased to 9 from 8.
- Increased the damage granted to 8 from 6.
- Health reduced to 100 from 120.
- Life steal reduced to 3% from 4%.
V18.104.22.168: Remade.
- 120 health.
- 6 attack damage.
- 4% lifesteal.
- Now sells back for 50% gold from 70%.
- Updated tooltip.
- Gold per 10 sec reduced to 1 from 2.
- Removed attack speed bonus.
- Added +2 gold per 10 sec.
- Health reduced to 130 from 150.
- Cost reduced to 435 gold from 475.
May 9, 2009 Patch: Added
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Summoner's Rift | Twisted Treeline | Dominion | Howling Abyss | Common | |
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Trinkets |
Basic | Maps | Summoner's Rift | Twisted Treeline | Dominion | Howling Abyss |
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Advanced | Maps | Summoner's Rift | Twisted Treeline | Dominion | Howling Abyss |
Common | |||||
Champion |
Legendary | Maps | Summoner's Rift | Twisted Treeline | Dominion | Howling Abyss |
Common |
Mythical | Maps | Summoner's Rift | Twisted Treeline | Dominion | Howling Abyss |
Common |
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Kate Schermerhorn's quirky, funny and moving personal quest for the secret to a happy marriage, and for answers regarding a traditional institution that's been quickly evolving. The documentary features an eclectic mix of long-married couples revealing their secret to making their own unions succeed. Along the way, Schermerhorn chronicles the joys and heartbreaks of her own marriage and finds that even the best advice can't always guarantee a Happily Ever After. (LC)
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Stephanie Albertson began making jewelry as a young girl in her native Florida. She sold her first necklace at the age of 12, and has been designing and making jewelry ever since. A lifelong love of vintage beads leads her to create a line of art-to-wear and one-of-a-kind pieces that have been showcased in many jewelry galleries across the United States. In college, Stephanie studied music, fine art and art history, embarking on a career path that would combine her three loves- music, painting and jewelry design. Today she balances her time between the three, but it is her jewelry that takes center stage. Inspired by vibrant colors, luxurious textures, and irresistible-to-the-touch materials, Albertson's designs combine her appreciation of the classical principles of jewelry making with a strong sense of elegant and timeless fashion. Stephanie hand crafts each piece in her collection using 22k gold, and an assortment of precious and semi-precious gemstones and beads. Because each piece is handmade, and each bead or stone carefully chosen, no two pieces in the line will ever be exactly the same. Each piece in the collection is unique, with a personality and life of its own.


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GLEN ELLYN – Celebrating Glen Ellyn's history while promoting its present will be a key part of new signage plans for the village.
After the completion of a wayfinding study that found residents strongly favored a more traditional style of sign, consultant Zac McConnell of The Lakota Group took the firm's ideas to the village's Architectural Review Commission, whose members also said they'd like to see signs that incorporate Glen Ellyn's history.
The wayfinding study began earlier this year as a recommendation of Glen Ellyn's 2009 Downtown Strategic Plan. The Architectural Review Commission was charged with providing feedback on the proposed designs at its Sept. 11 meeting so that changes could be made before they are ultimately brought to the Glen Ellyn Village Board for approval.
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Rumor: D-backs talking Upton for Lee trade with Philly
With the Winter Meetings going on in Nashville, there seems to be a new rumor concerning Arizona Diamondbacks right fielder Justin Upton, whom Arizona has shopped in some capacity in each of the last three offseasons.
But ESPN's Pedro Gomez may have dropped the juiciest of rumors on Twitter:
Phillies and Diamondbacks are discussing Justin Upton for Cliff Lee. Money coming to AZ would also be involved.
— Pedro Gomez (@pedrogomezESPN) December 4, 2012
As word of that idea spread, though, many sources chimed in to refute it.
Ruben Amaro with a strong denial of the Lee-Upton report. "I don't comment on rumors but that one is Absolutely and unequivocally false."
— High Cheese (@HighCheese) December 4, 2012
Dbacks source tells me the Upton/Lee stuff "hasn't been discussed" and is "off base."
— Nick Piecoro (@nickpiecoro) December 4, 2012
Gibson on that Upton/Lee rumor: "I can tell you that's not going to happen."
— Nick Piecoro (@nickpiecoro) December 4, 2012
Lee, 34, is coming off of a frustrating season with Philadelphia in which he went 6-9 with a 3.16 ERA in 30 starts. The 2008 American League Cy Young Award winner didn't earn his first victory until July 31.
Lee is owed $87.5 million over the next three seasons, so presumably, a ton of money would need to come back to Diamondbacks in any deal with Philadelphia.
Upton, 25, had a down season in 2012 as well, hitting .280 with 17 home runs and 67 RBI. The former first overall draft pick has three years and approximately $38.5 million left on his contract.
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- Report: Arizona Diamondbacks have not signed reliever Jose Valverde to minor-league deal
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- Brad Ziegler, D-backs Pitcher - Wednesday December 18D-backs trying to win now, Ziggy talks about what that means for the clubhouse.
- Tim Kurkjian, ESPN MLB analyst - Thursday December 12Did the D-backs pick up a true power hitter?
- Mark Trumbo, Diamondbacks Outfielder - Wednesday December 11Mark Trumbo joins the show to discuss being traded to the Diamondbacks.
- Kevin Towers, D-backs GM - Wednesday December 11Why did the D-backs add Mark Trumbo and will they make more moves?
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-- -- Right -- -- our first story tonight our top story in addition to being energy capital of the US.
He is also a big sports lover town home to some of the country's favorite -- Those teens are big part of what keeps the local economy booming.
And here to talk about just what makes Houston -- home.
For all stars is rockets general manager Daryl Morey and the CEO of the Astros George -- -- thank you so much for being here to listen it's great to be here welcome Houston they hear a face you so much.
You're starting -- TV network what -- you doing.
Well we all of the most successful teams in baseball have affiliated regional sports networks the New York franchises the Chicago franchises.
The Red Sox and Boston and we thought that was good enough for us and we wanted to do the same thing so we're in partnership with the the rockets.
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A wonderful player underrated but not Myanmar and he's going to be big for -- What it's used -- special I mean we have been here for the past two days.
Talking to people about the spirit of the city -- what makes it really an entrepreneurial capital what do you think it's special.
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I think it's a great open community anybody can make it here they respect hard work.
There's a great place to call home.
But that's exactly what almost everybody had spoken to is that anyone can make it they respect hard work you make your own mark do you agree with that I mean it seems to really sincerely -- universal spirit of the city.
Yeah I think I think -- -- Nobody is that I think if you watch our team we have.
We've been expectations the past few years I think what makes.
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The other sports facilities I've lived in many cities have worked in many cities in sports than by far the best facilities in the country.
You're hosting the all star game.
What -- gonna do to make it different this time it's obviously not the first any -- three other times but -- -- -- before the for the fans they're the largest scoreboard and in the country and I think people are going to be sad about that so why -- -- -- -- You're gonna see Jeremy -- larger than it ever seen before on on the scoreboard and I think you're really enhances the -- experience and we're competing.
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To have both the on -- experience and out of -- -- -- Your business channel obviously we like to talk business heat up some interesting moves -- recently changes -- -- stadium fans to bring in their own food and drink which I think it's pretty funny because obviously that didn't -- it seems like that's one of the biggest revenue drivers trying to get people -- -- -- advised that you reduce the price of tickets you have five dollar Beers rebates for season tickets.
Why do you do this I mean do you think overall it drives more revenue.
That all of those that are driven by you know spending time with customers and talking -- -- about the changes that like of course you want thirty cheaper stopped it hadn't had a dollar for your business well when your news when your need you when your new you wanna make a good first impression and I think.
The owner -- -- Jim Crane and me and and and I spent a lot of time with season ticket holders early on and we just ask them what changes we thought.
They thought we needed to make in order to improve the business and example would be the food and beverage policy -- -- getting a little more flexibility.
Really lined us up with a fan friendly nature of Major League Baseball it's on this permitted in other venues and our fans are really appreciated it and they really they probably spent more money for cap this year really they did last year so it's helped this image wise and -- revenue -- -- Fans in -- city like right now army -- do something like that because it's tougher times people have less money to -- in your trading seen your season ticket holders.
You know with their tickets rather than dropping out during rough times that -- is so what about.
And our and our case it's really about to strengthening that relationship showing that we're listening.
They wanted to see some changes and we made a few changes were -- -- enough in Houston where people are doing well they actually have some money really been.
And they've proven that they're willing to spend.
-- using the same -- to sell it to be pretty unique vs the rest of the country and you feel like your customers have this kind of recreational dollar to spend.
Yeah when we have a very strong economy and our fans of partisan than unbelievable we're gonna.
-- the most season tickets over this here since we opened since you know from the building and and that's through a period where we're we're trying to reestablish our team back to being -- title -- -- the Astros and our support through that I think because people see a plan and where we're going has been tremendous yeah.
You really do listen your fans I read I read that you are changing your mascot.
In your team colors is that true.
It is true it is true and part of that is just about a fresh start and when you've got a new regime coming and we're actually changing leaves this year so we're going to the American League.
And that was something that's a little bit of an adjustment for cancer because we've been in the nationally for fifty years.
And in addition that we've got new faces in the front office it would -- general manager new ownership.
New president.
New players -- so a new uniform.
Seems like an appropriate time to do it to give people that sense that things are changing some -- you think.
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Massachusetts Marriage certificates have been maintained by the Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics for individuals married in the state of Massachusetts since 1916. Vital Records have been registered in Massachusetts since 1635. Statewide collection began in 1841. Records for events that occurred from 1841-1915 are available at the State Archives (617) 727-2816. Earlier records may be available at the City or Town of Occurrence. Massachusetts Marriage Certificate Authorized Persons By Massachusetts state law, Massachusetts Marriage certificates are confidential records and can only be obtained by the following authorized individuals:
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