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Mike Caro looks like he's either been drunk three days or just had sex with a German aerobics instructor, I don't know which.
He's wearing a sports jacket but he's . . . well . . . disheveled. Yet he's right where you would expect to find him, hunched slightly forward at a poker table, one hand idly toying with his chips, hair mussed like Detective Columbo, one eyebrow arched like Groucho Marx.
Is that a glass eye, I wonder, as I watch his glance dart around the table. Naw, he's just a little cock-eyed, part of his claim to be "the mad genius of poker."
"The mad genius thing is an act," he tells me later as we have a bite in the Citation Restaurant at Hollywood Park Casino, where his Einsteinian white hair has settled down a little. "It's better for your poker if people think you're a little wild."
Mike Caro is one of those guys who can smell a big poker game anywhere within 500 miles of L.A., and he knows how to cadge a seat when the fish come to town. Recently, at the nearby Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, Calif., he played lowball for 96 solid hours, because he believed the table was full of inferior opponents and he couldn't stand to leave. "Not bad for a 56-year- old man who takes no drugs!" he boasts. "But my average session is only about six hours, and I play about five times a month."
For the last six years he's played most of those games at the cavernous Hollywood Park Casino, which is the only major casino attached to a race track and pretty much Mecca for the world's serious poker players. Far from being a mere card club, Hollywood Park features such amenities as a 24-hour health club, massage center, VIP lounge, concierge, beauty salon, barber shop, banquet facilities seating 2000, and night club. More important, the casino offers 24-hour action on every legal card game in the universe--including "Tonk," which I haven't seen since my grandparents played it in neighborhood games in Dallas years ago- -and it's one of the big three home bases for poker pros. (The other two are the Commerce Club in Commerce, yet another small Los Angeles suburb, and the aforementioned Bicycle Club. There are also older-generation players who still prefer Binion's Horseshoe in Las Vegas, site of the famous World Series of Poker, but most poker action has moved to L.A.)
Why anyone would play lowball at all, much less play it with Mike Caro, is a mystery to me. Lowball is a version of five-card draw that is so slow and boring that it's not often seen anymore except in informal home games. It was a game favored by Old West cowboys, but since it only has two rounds of betting, it rarely attracts the big pots you find in games like stud, Hold 'Em, or Omaha. But what makes that 96-hour game so crazy is that before 1987--when lowball was one of the few legal card games in California--Mike Caro was the best draw player in the world. In fact, for his 52nd birthday--the key birthday in a poker player's life, for obvious numeric reasons--Hollywood Park hosted a special five-card-draw tournament to acknowledge his lost art.
The poker capital of the world just might be located at the huge card casino attached to, but not owned by, Hollywood Park race track in Inglewood, California. Actually Caro was instrumental in his own demise. In 1983 the Huntington Park Casino--located in what was a virtual ghetto- -went to the Huntington Park City Council and asked the town to take its side against the California Attorney General to challenge the state's gambling statute. Since the forties that law had been interpreted to mean that only two card games were legal--five-card draw and lowball--because only those two games were games of skill, not chance. If the more popular "skill" games, like Texas Hold 'Em and Pai Gow, could be legalized, it would be a boon for the Southern California casino economy.
Eventually the city of Huntington Park did agree to take on the state, and Caro was enlisted as a witness for the legal challenge.
"Statute 330S is a very strange law," he says. "It says, 'These specific games are not legal,' and then it lists them. And among them are 21, Red Dog and 'studhorse poker.' Only draw poker was considered a game of skill, presumably because all the cards are concealed." (Actually, the probable reason is more mundane. In 1871, when the law was passed, California legislators were avid draw poker players and didn't want their private games interfered with.)
It took four years, but finally the casinos prevailed on the skill-vs.-chance argument. "So I did myself in," says Caro. "I was known as the best draw poker player in the world, but there was no more draw poker. It all became Hold 'Em, seven-card stud, and Asian games."
It also created a new era of card-casino "superclubs" that replaced the old poker palaces based in seedy Gardena, which had been the only place to legally gamble in Southern California since the thirties. Hollywood Park is the youngest of those clubs, born just seven years ago when Inglewood city planners were considering card casinos as a way to beef up the economy. Hollywood Park complained that poker competed directly with horse racing, and like all tracks, they were steadily losing daily attendance already. The city officials suggested that Hollywood Park itself operate a card casino, and quickly the track changed its tune. The one obstacle--a law that says corporations can't own casinos in California--was changed to exempt race track ownership only. Then two years ago Hollywood Park was bought by Churchill Downs, and the new owners needed to divest the casino due to laws in other states. At that point the casino was acquired by Leo Chu, a millionaire Chinese immigrant who had sold his family textile business to indulge his avocations of model railroad collecting, antique car collecting, and card games. He also owns the Crystal Park Hotel and Casino in nearby Compton.
By that time Caro had already been hired as Hollywood Park's official spokesman, despite his lack of enthusiasm for horse racing. "I don't have a lot of patience for that sport," he says. "For me it's like waiting 30 minutes between hands." But he plunged into promoting the casino, pushing his lifelong dream of establishing there the world's first "Poker University."
"People laugh when I say it, but I'm serious about having a full curriculum of poker teaching," he says. "It doesn't exist yet, but we have beginner classes every day and an intermediate class once a week. There is no other class like this. The beginner class is eight weeks, once a week, for two hours a week. And it starts at the very beginning. The first lesson: what a deck of cards is.
"I think the time is right for this, because today there are thousands of professional players. And the sport has gone from the homespun wisdom of 20 years ago to now computers everywhere. You don't have to be able to run the computer simulations yourself--you do need to know what the results are. But poker isn't just stats. It's psychology. It's a game that forces you to lie. And so it requires patience and training."
Lying is, in fact, Caro's specialty within the limited world of poker instruction. Twenty years ago he started a cheater monitoring service, recently extended to Internet on-line casinos where poker cheating is fairly common. (The simplest way to cheat is simply to be connected by phone to another player in the same game, so that you have knowledge of all the cards and discards in both hands. Caro's company has developed a computer program that can monitor discords and detect collusion.) At Hollywood Park, says Caro, there is no cheating at all. "The security room here is massive. There are more than 200 video cameras watching every game."
But legal chicanery is another matter entirely, and Caro is an expert on that, too. "Caro's Book of Tells," published in 1984 and recently reissued, is the definitive work on the body language signals ("tells") that good players use to determine the strength of their opponents' hands. And it's the result of a lifetime of study.
A Denver native, Caro played his first poker game in junior high school. "I had just enough bus money to visit some relatives in Austin, Texas," he recalls, "and while I was there I got into a dollar-limit home game. My uncle and aunt took all my bus money! I had to go back home to Denver with no cash at all. No candy on the bus, no food at all. They wouldn't give me even a dollar--I suppose to teach me a lesson. By high school I was a player."
At the age of 22 he moved to Los Angeles, lured by the six legendary "poker palaces" of Gardena. It was at those now vanished card clubs--the Horseshoe, the Rainbow, the Monterey-- that he became an expert at the psychology of the game. He played in Las Vegas for a short period in the eighties, then returned in 1984 to run the poker operation at the Bicycle Club.
"When I opened my office at the Bicycle Club, the games were clean as clean can be," he says. "But people would come into my office and confess to me what they had done in Gardena. They knew I had played there and so they assumed I knew they had cheated me. And they all said, 'I promise I'm playing on the square now.' But I had never known they were cheating! I learned all kinds of ways to cheat that I had scarcely been aware of.
"It was much easier to cheat at the round tables they had in the older clubs. They would write out their code words. Words for king, queen, jack, etc., and they would mention these words at the table so that their partners would know what they had. I once confiscated a schedule that had been developed for a team of 20 people! I realized I had been cheated severely for 14 years. I probably personally lost $100,000 a year to cheaters."
Most of the recent poker champions have been aggressive, if not arrogant, in their tournament play, believing that that style intimidate other players. But Caro is an old school player. "I always talk to the losing player and make him feel like it could happen to anybody," he says. "I'll say, 'I made the same play last week.' Because my philosophy is to always give the other player permission to play poorly. Never make it painful for somebody to lose."
Debbie Parks, the public relations director for Hollywood Park Casino, knows something about that, too. Her first job in the business was as a poker shill for Johnny Moss, the famous Texas pro who ran the poker room at Binion's Horseshoe in Vegas. She was paid $40 a day to look pretty and attract action, playing with the house's money.
"Johnny taught me how to do it," she says now. "He taught me how to play for hours without losing."
But there are no shills at Hollywood Park. Walk inside on any weekday morning and listen to the buzz. With an average of 3,000 gamblers a day, they don't need them.
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Theme: Jetsons Basketball Arena
Opened: 1994
Total Investment: $40 million
Known For: Muay Thai kickboxing championships, in which the top fighters of Thailand take on the top fighters of Armenia
Marketing niche: Locals, poker pros, horse players
Gambler's Intensity: High
Cocktail speed: Medium
Dealers: Friendly
Bosses: Invisible
Tables: 65 (Texas Hold 'em, 7-Card Stud, Omaha, Stud Hi-Lo Split, Pot Limit Hold'em, Super Pan 9, Pai Gow Poker, Pai Gow Tiles, L.A. Blackjack, California Blackjack, Century 21 Blackjack, Tonk).
Slots: 0
Rooms: 0
Surrounding area: Two miles east of Los Angeles
International Airport, next to the Great Western Forum and Hollywood Park race track
Overall rating: 90
Joe Bob's bankroll: Up $45 after an hour of seven-card stud: total to date: -$111


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According to the latest report released by the United States Department of Labor, the overall unemployment in America was 8.2 percent for the month of May. For the African American community the news is even bleaker. The report revealed that unemployment in the African American community sits at 13.6 percent, substantially higher than any other ethnic group.
Everyone wants to point the finger at President Obama. It seems that Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West have made it their life's mission over the past four years to blame President Obama for all of the ills in the black community. But before I throw my President under the bus, I want to offer a little food for thought and hopefully get a good conversation going.
When you point the finger at someone else it always seems to be pointing back at you. So, if the African American community is pointing the finger at President Obama for not getting jobs, notice that that thumb is pointing back at us. While we're blaming the President we should really start looking at ourselves. The reality is that unemployment in the black community has been an issue since Lincoln freed the slaves. But I digress.
A fellow writer and I were talking one day and she pointed something out to me. She said, "have you noticed that all of the black elected officials (in the Los Angeles area) have white communication's/ press deputies." After she said this to me I began to pay attention.
When Karen Bass was first elected to the California State Assembly she had a black communications/press deputy. I can't remember her name, but after about a year this young black woman left and went to work for a hospital. Bass did not replace her with another African American, although there were qualified Black writers out there. Bass replaced her with a white female. This white female press deputy stayed with her until Bass won her Congressional seat. Of course, this young white lady had no problems finding another position because immediately after leaving Bass she surfaced several months later as the press deputy for L.A. City Controller Wendy Greuel. After Bass won her congressional seat her first hire for the Los Angeles communications/press deputy position was a young Caucasian man.
I telephoned L.A. Councilman Bernard Park's office, one day, to obtain some information and I was referred to the communications/press deputy who was also a Caucasian male. A position he held up until several weeks ago when he was replaced by a young girl who, from my knowledge, is not African American. Both Caucasian males, like the Caucasian female who worked for Bass, did not miss a beat and have since moved on to greener pastures.
The reason I point this out is because I know several qualified black writers who could serve as press deputies who are unemployed and have been for a while, have excellent writing skills, the professionalism, the media contacts and are familiar with the districts of these politicians to have filled the positions from the onset.
One day, I was speaking with the publisher of one of the local black newspapers in Los Angeles and learned that his office manager is Hispanic and the person who distributes his newspaper is Hispanic. While driving down the streets of Los Angeles one afternoon I looked over to find a Hispanic male driving the van for the Los Angeles Sentinel, which touts itself as being the largest black-owned newspaper in the west.
Let's take a look at the Los Angeles fast food industry for example. Visit any McDonalds, Carl's Jr., or Jack-In-the-Box, even the one's owned by African Americans and you will find the managers are generally Hispanic. Once a Hispanic manager is in place the majority of the employees suddenly all become Hispanic, even at the black-owned fast food franchises.
I ask you to think and think hard on the next few questions. Have you ever seen a black bank teller at an Asian-owned bank? Have you ever seen a black cook in a Mexican or Asian restaurant? Have you ever seen a Hispanic waiter or cook in a soul food restaurant? Have you ever seen a Caucasian bank teller at a black-owned bank?
I'm aware that there are supposed to be laws against employment discrimination due to race, but do you mean to tell me that in the majority of fast food restaurants in Los Angeles, where over 90 percent of the workforce is Hispanic, the owner or manager cannot find one black person qualified to flip a burger? Do you mean to tell me that Black fast food restaurant owners cannot find or hire one black manager or ensure that the workforce at their restaurants are 50-50? There is not one Chinese restaurant that can find a black cook who can prepare Chinese food or a Mexican restaurant that can find a black cook to make Mexican food?
Let's go a step further. Almost none of the top black professional athletes have black agents. I must give kudos to Matt Kemp of the Los Angeles Dodgers because his agent is former Los Angeles Dodgers' pitcher Dave Stewart, who is black and played in the 1980's and went on to work in management as assistant general manager with the Blue Jays , before becoming an agent. Stewart negotiated Kemp's eight-year, $160 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the biggest in franchise history. According to an ESPN article, in the 2007 NFL draft 14 out of the first 15 players selected were African-Americans, but only one — Gaines Adams of Clemson — selected an African-American agent. I guess it's true what my friend the late Howard Ransom use to say, "the white man's ice is always colder." But I digress again.
So, what is my point? The point is Blacks won't even hire blacks, so how can we blame the president or expect someone else to hire us when our own kind won't hire us.
The bottom line is that integration has proven to be a double-edged sword for the Black community. We relinquished everything to assimilate into white America. During the times of segregation and Jim Crow, as ironic as it may seem, we thrived in business because we had no choice. We had black banks (St. Luke Penny Savings, etc) black-owned pharmacies, black-owned insurance companies, cleaners, markets, etc., and we hired each other. Today, in this day and age of "diversity," which I call "new age acceptable segregation," the black community owns nothing while other ethnic groups thrive because they support each other in their business endeavors. They hire each other, they do business with each other, they recycle their dollars into their communities and take our money out of our community; while, we are still slaves on the white man's plantation looking for him to hire or take care of us; still looking for someone else to be responsible for us. But why should the white man or anyone else hire us, when we won't even hire each other.
I wish Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West would revise their agendas and begin to focus on black business owners, black professional athletes, entertainers, etc ., who have the resources to help put black Americans to work but choose to hire Whites, Asians and others to do the same job that an African American could do. If Caucasians, Asians, Hispanics, and Middle Easterners do not have to follow the rules when it comes to hiring, then why should Black folks. It's time we started holding our own accountable and taking care of our own.

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Unfortunately, it seems like not all people in this world share the same passion for dogs that I do. Hundreds upon thousands of dogs are abandoned each year and end up either dead or in shelters, and many more suffer at the hands of neglectful or abusive owners. Fortunately, we have organizations such as the SPCA around to speak out and help these animals. However, it's recently come to my attention that not all shelters treat certain breeds of dogs the same.
As an animal lover, I watch Animal Planet a lot. Two of my favorite shows are their series Pit Boss and Pit Bulls and Parolees, both shows focusing on various groups dedicated to rescuing and saving American Pit Bull Terriers, one of the country's most misunderstood dog breeds. I've heard it mentioned several times in both shows that animal control shelters will not hold Pit Bulls for more than three days before euthanizing them to make room for other rescued dogs.
It struck me as both cruel and unnecessary. It seemed unfair that these dogs weren't even given a fair chance at adoption simply because of the negative attention the mass media seems to give them.
Yes, I realize Pit Bulls are commonly used in dog fighting rings, and that fighting dogs are highly aggressive and dangerous. However it isn't the breed's fault. It's the fault of the abusive and neglectful owners, not the dogs themselves. It's been proven time and time again that when properly trained and socialized, Pit Bulls make excellent pets and are actually amongst the most human-friendly breeds around.
The SPCA Cincinnati didn't respond to my requests for information, so I did a bit of digging on my own.
Buy why are Pit Bulls classified as dangerous dogs in the first place? Surely dog fighting rings are partially to blame, however there is another reason I've seen being argued here and there. People claim that Pit Bulls, unlike other dog breeds, are capable of locking their jaws. This, however, is a myth. While Pit Bulls do have extraordinary jaw strength, there is no evidence to suggest that their jaws have a locking mechanism. Dr. I. I. Lerh Brisbin, a researcher from the University of Georgia wrote on the subject: "The few studies which have been conducted of the structure of the skulls, mandibles and teeth of Pit Bulls show that, in proportion to their size, their jaw structure…is no different than that of any [other] breed of dog. There is absolutely no evidence for the existence of any kind of 'locking mechanism' unique to the structure of the jaw and/or teeth of the American Pit Bull Terrier." There you have it. Myth busted.
And yet the ban has yet to be repealed — if anything, things have just gotten worse since 2003. According to the KC Dog Blog, an web journal dedicated to following animal welfare issues, in 2007 more than 1,000 pit bulls were euthanized in shelters within Cincinnati, and an estimated $86,000 were spent prosecuting Pit Bull owners who had their dogs taken from their homes for being illegal.
In 2008 an additional law was passed, allowing police officers to undergo training to "identify" Pit Bulls and Pit Bull mixes. The problem is many of the dogs taken in were misidentified as Pit Bulls. One such case resulted in a woman suing the SPCA after her American bulldog was taken from her and killed after being mistaken as a Pit.
It's outrageous to say the least. We're wasting time and money punishing the responsible dog owners when what we really should be doing is going after the people who illegally train and breed these dogs to fight. And in the end it's not only the owners that suffer, but their pets as well — pets that are taken and killed simply because they are a specific breed, pets which may have had no history of violence or viciousness towards humans or other animals, and yet were still killed just because the law classifies them as "vicious dogs."
Fortunately, not everything is looking grim for pit bull lovers in Cincinnati. In 2011 Ohio legislators passed a bill the changed the way the state classifies Pit Bulls. Before, Pits were automatically classified by state law as "vicious" dogs, regardless of the behavior an individual dog might have exhibited. However, now that it has passed, the bill has made the term "vicious" or "dangerous dog" non-breed specific. While this hasn't overturned the ban in Cincinnati, it's certainly good news for Pit Bulls, as now an individual dog must be tested and proven vicious before state law can label it as such.
Now all we have to do is convince Cincinnati lawmakers to repeal the ban. It's not going to be easy, however. Unfortunately the media still has a habit of portraying Pit Bulls as vicious dogs, and the city ordinance of Cincinnati still classifies them as such despite state law. It's an uphill battle, but ask any responsible owner who has had the pleasure of having a Pit as a pet and they'll all tell you the same thing. They're wonderful dogs when placed in the right home. All you have to do is give them a chance.


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15km from Montpellier, L'Castries has succeeded in retaining its village character. Close to a castle dating from 1495, the historic centre has not lost its soul. The hotel is close to all facilities.
This hotel offers 30 rooms with all facilities (air-conditioning, kitchen, terrace...) in a ethnic-chic style. The hotel is 15 minutes away from the city centre of Montpellier and from the airport.
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cancer that occurs due to abnormal and uncontrolled cell growth in the ovaries. Many people with early ovarian cancer have no signs or symptoms of the condition. When present, symptoms are often nonspecific and blamed on other, more common conditions. Most cases of ovarian cancer occur sporadically in people with little to no family history of the condition; however, approximately 10-25% of ovarian cancers are thought to be "hereditary." Although the underlying genetic cause of some hereditary cases is unknown, many are part of a hereditary cancer syndrome (such as BRCA1 or BRCA2 hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome, Lynch syndrome and Peutz-Jeghers syndrome) and are inherited in an autosomal dominant manner.[1][2] The best treatment options for ovarian cancer depend on many factors including the subtype and stage of the condition, but may include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and/or targeted therapy (such as monoclonal antibody therapy).[3][4][5]Ovarian cancer is a form of
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- Andrew E Green, MD. Ovarian Cancer. Medscape Reference. November 2014; http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/255771-overview.
- Ovarian Epithelial, Fallopian Tube, and Primary Peritoneal Cancer Treatment. National Cancer Institute. February 2015; http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/ovarianepithelial/HealthProfessional.
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The AR stands for for Augmented Reality and the system comprises a Pico-projector, camera and a wireless connection to a computer that can project interactive images onto any surface. The key bit, though, is that is small enough to fit into a standard light fixture.
To be precise, the team is the Fluid Interfaces Group and is led by Natan Linder, and GizMag is covering its work.
Jason Falconer writes:
Besides tracking your hands and fingers, the camera and image processing software could detect objects in the work space, such as a canned soft drink, and automatically display targeted advertising around it. One potential application would be projecting rich media, including product information, in a retail setting. In effect, browsing a store's display could incorporate the same media and interactivity as a product web site.
Apparently, it can also scan and share your work area to multiple devices, and it also lets you move around and optimise the layouts of the functionality…
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This self-contained system enables users with just-in-time projected information and a gestural user interface, and it can be screwed into standard light fixtures everywhere. The LuminAR Lamp is an articulated robotic arm, designed to interface with the LuminAR Bulb. Both LuminAR form factors dynamically augment their environments with media and information, while seamlessly connecting with laptops, mobile phones, and other electronic devices. LuminAR transforms surfaces and objects into interactive spaces that blend digital media and information with the physical space. The project radically rethinks the design of traditional lighting objects, and explores how we can endow them with novel augmented-reality interfaces.


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A former Collier County jail inmate whose baby died while she was behind bars is suing the jail's medical provider and the sheriff.
Joan Laurel Small, now known as Joan Graeber, says her civil
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Wizards of the Coast has teamed up with 14 video game luminaries to create special cards for the upcoming collectible trading card game Magic 2015 – Duels of the Planeswalkers and the Magic 2015 – Core. The specially designed cards are from George Fan (Plants vs. Zombies), Notch (Minecraft), and Rob Pardo (World of Warcraft), Richard Garriott (Ultima series), and others.
These playable cards were conceived by such notable developers as George Fan (Plants vs. Zombies), Notch (Minecraft), and Rob Pardo (World of Warcraft), with each infusing their own personal style into the cards' designs.
The designers and their cards include "Spirit Bonds" by Justin Gary; "Wall of Essence" by Isaiah Cartwright; "Chasm Skulker" by Mike Neumann; "Master of Predicaments" by David Sirlin; "Cruel Sadist" by Edmund McMillen; "Ob Nixilis, Unshackled" by Brad Muir; "Xathrid Slyblade" by Rob Pardo "Aggressive Mining" by Notch; "Goblin Kaboomist" by Stone Librande; "Genesis Hydra" by George Fan; "Yisan, the Wanderer Bard" by Brian Fargo; "Avarice Amulet" by Penny Arcade; "Hot Soup" by James Ernst; "Shield of the Avatar" by Richard Garriott; and the Magic community-developed "Waste Not."
"Chasm Skulker," "Cruel Sadist," "Xathrid Slyblade," "Aggressive Mining," "Goblin Kaboomist," "Genesis Hydra," and "Hot Soup" will also appear in Magic 2015 – Duels of the Planeswalkers.
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Hello 'green mamas'! Did you know it's National Tree Week between 24th November and 2nd December and to kick-start it, The Lorax UK Facebook page has teamed-up with the lovely Woodland Trust to get us all planting new trees! For every 10 new LIKES on The Lorax UK page until 25th November, they'll plant a tree!
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The Trust's Nature Detectives website is bursting with ideas for outdoor adventures and was created to inspire children about nature, woods and trees.
And if you're a fan of The Lorax, you'd live this: The Lorax will be released on 3D Blu-ray, Triple Play Blu-ray with Ultraviolet™, DVD and Digital Download from 19th November 2012, available for pre-order now. The discs are also jam packed with bonus features, including exclusive mini-movies and games. Just perfect for the Xmas break when you'd be wondering what to do with the kids at home.
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Colorado Issues Regulations On Cannabis Edibles And Concentrates
Category: Culture | Posted on Wed, June, 18th 2014 by THCFinder
There are many ways to consume cannabis. Long gone are the days when everyone just smoked joints or used small metal pipes. The cannabis consumer is getting more sophisticated every day, especially in Colorado. More and more people in Colorado are consuming cannabis edibles and concentrates. This has led to the need for regulations specific to edibles and concentrates.
Edibles and concentrates are trickier to regulate than flower. Edibles and concentrates involve flower, but also require additional processes. Dosage levels are stronger than flower, which creates even more issues. Getting the right regulations is important to minimize issues as Colorado continues to implement cannabis legalization. Of course, Maureen Dowd illustrated the need for both proper labeling and responsible use in her recent column detailing her experience when eating too much of edible, particularly for a novice.
Two new bills have been signed that will hopefully get solid and fair regulations in place. Per High Times:
Last week, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed a pair of bills intended to establish tighter regulations for cannabis edibles and concentrates throughout the state. The edible legislation creates a task force to design packaging and labeling to ensure pot-edible products are clearly distinguishable from regular food products, especially critical for cannabis-laced items like cookies and candy that can potentially appeal to children.
The concentrate legislation authorizes a scientific study to guide the State Licensing Authority in establishing the equivalency of one ounce of pot in cannabis retail products, such as hash oil. Some lawmakers have expressed concern that an ounce of cannabis concentrate is considerably more potent than an ounce of flowers.
Colorado and Washington are doing something that no other state in America has ever done before – implement cannabis legalization. Creating regulations from scratch is no easy task, for any industry. There is no playbook for how to implement cannabis legalization properly. The rules are being written and re-written as the process goes along. However, I think Colorado is doing a stellar job at navigating the uncharted territory.
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Georgia man invites cop to watch his marijuana videos on YouTube, gets arrested
Category: News | Posted on Wed, June, 18th 2014 by THCFinder
Note to self: Don't show police video of pot garden.
A Georgia man was allegedly swimming naked at Glenloch Recreation Center in Peachtree City when police showed up to arrest him for indecent exposure last Friday — but it didn't stop there.
Zach Peak, 29, shot his exchange with the officer for his YouTube channel. Then he inexplicably invited the arresting officer to watch his other videos online.
"The officer didn't think anything of it at first," Lt. Mark Brown told WXIA-TV. "He eventually got around to find some time to look up the gentleman's YouTube page."
One video featured quite the elaborate grow operation in his parents' home — and it appears someone might have gotten high on his own supply.
"Neglected, neglected," Peak says in the video as he waters the pot plants, according to WSB Radio.
Another video shows Peak lighting and smoking from a bong.
Authorities obtained a search warrant based on this evidence and wound up confiscating 33 illegal plants and related paraphernalia.
On top of indecent exposure, Peak now faces charges for manufacturing and possessing marijuana.
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Sensi Star is a great indoor plant, producing powerful, resinous, and very compact buds. Although mostly indica, she retains a complex high that affects the mind as well as the body. This headstrong indica produces rock hard colas that have a lemony scent and taste. Some smokers find the buzz to be a very strong body stone, while others report a high with more energetic, cerebral properties as well as a body sensation. THC levels have been reported at 20 percent for this variety, making it a one-hitter quitter. CBD has been measured at .9 percent.
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Have you ever dreamed of getting your genitals high? Well, that dream is now a reality. California medical marijuana provider Aphrodite Group recently introduced "Foria," a marijuana-infused lubricant that promises heightened sexual pleasure and multiple orgasms.
"For most women, relaxation is a key attribute in the experience of pleasure and arousal," Foria creator Matthew Gerson told Shape magazine. "We live in the time and era where we have a lot of residual stresses coursing through our bodies because of modern technology and the pace we're all living. The body's been around a lot longer than our iPhones have."
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The experience may vary from time to time. Some women have experienced feelings of enhanced warmth, increased blood flow, tingling, and relaxation. Others have found it easier to reach orgasm or to have multiple orgasms, or that their climaxes are longer and/or more intense. For other women it has helped with relaxation and sleeping.
Still, the lube is not cheap. A one-ounce bottle will set you back $88, although a smaller, 5ml bottle is available for $24 on the product website. Like all products infused with marijuana, only California residents with valid medical marijuana licenses are allowed to purchase the lubricant, although the company is working to bring the product to Colorado and Washington, where marijuana is recreationally legal.
For those worried about tipping off their sexual proclivities to drug-sniffing dogs at airports, have no fear: according to the website, the lube is "virtually scent-free."
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Harang went to bed with a stiff lower back on Wednesday night and it was no better Thursday, leading the Mariners to scratch him from his start in favor of Hector Noesi.
NEW YORK — Aaron Harang had been looking forward to finally facing the New York Yankees after a decade in the big leagues.
The Yankees would have been the 30th club opposed by Harang over the years, but it became apparent on Thursday morning that it was not to be. Harang went to bed with a stiff lower back on Wednesday night and it was no better Thursday, leading the Mariners to scratch him from his start in favor of Hector Noesi.
Harang first informed the Mariners of the problem Wednesday afternoon and said he has had a few similar episodes over the years.
"Just from it getting out of alignment," said the 6-foot-7, 260-pound hurler. "I've had regular chiropractor treatments. Just with all the flying, you're on the plane and sitting — I've got my legs spread out and can't put them straight forward because of how long my legs are — it's just the little stuff I've got to keep doing.
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"Obviously, with the last long trip and then a couple of days at home and we turn around and go on another long trip. Changing hotels … I spent the whole first month of the season in a hotel pretty much too. It's just been hard to stay on that stuff."
The last time Harang was scratched from a start came on the Fourth of July in 2010 here in New York. He was pitching for the Reds and was to have faced the New York Mets that day.
Instead, he was sidelined for a month.
"It was tough," he said. "We couldn't even find a chiropractor in the city because everybody took off for the long weekend."
• Franklin Gutierrez began his injury rehabilitation assignment with Class AAA Tacoma on Thursday, just over three weeks after being sidelined by a hamstring injury.
Mariners manager Eric Wedge wouldn't put a timetable on Gutierrez's return, but seemed to indicate he'd wait the full 20-day maximum if need be. Wedge will remain in constant contact with Tacoma coaches and trainers to see how full-out Gutierrez is able to play on a daily basis.
"He has to play, but I'm not looking for him just to be to the point where he can play up here," Wedge said. "He's got to be further than that so we can count on him. You now what I mean? 100 percent? I don't know what 100 percent is any more. I don't think there is 100 percent. But I know he's got to be further along than he has been in the past before he comes back."
• According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the two homers and six runs batted in by Raul Ibanez on Wednesday night made him the oldest player to do that since Barry Bonds in 2007. At age 40 and 347 days, Ibanez was also the oldest player to hit a grand slam at either the old or new Yankee Stadium.
• The solo home run by Michael Morse in the sixth inning was his 10th of the year and the MLB-best 27th struck by a Mariners outfielder.
• Wedge was ejected for the first time this season and the 33rd time in his career. He was tossed between innings in the second by first-base umpire Hunter Wendelstedt after going out to argue a call that had occurred in the top of the frame.


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Russia has climbed 4 places to 38th in the World Competitiveness Rankings, published by Swiss business school IMD, its highest ranking this decade.
The rankings are based on more than 300 criteria, two thirds of which are based on statistical indicators and one-third on a survey of 4,300 executives from around the world.
Russia is second among the BRIC countries, ahead of India and Brazil (44th and 54th) but behind China (23rd). However, it is the only BRIC country to improve its position. China dropped two places, India four (taking it below Russia) and Brazil three.
Among CIS countries Russia is below the Baltic states and Kazakhstan, but ahead of Ukraine.
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Black Crowe Robinson lands on 'Mountain Stage'
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Black Crowes guitarist Rich Robinson hasn't heard anything from his brother Chris or any of the other guys in the band since the release of his latest solo album, "Through A Crooked Sun."
"No, nothing," Robinson said, sounding not at all perturbed. "I don't think I will. We're on a break and all just doing our own thing."
On break and on his own, Robinson will play "Mountain Stage" Sunday night, performing his own material, which doesn't sound completely dissimilar to the music he's made with the Crowes.
The Black Crowes have a bluesy rock sound inspired by bands like The Rolling Stones and Humble Pie. "Through A Crooked Sun" sounds an awful lot like a Black Crowes album, but without Chris' swaggering vocals.
Robinson's solo album is perhaps more plainspoken than a Black Crowes record, but it also seems more personal.
"Well, the Black Crowes, it's its own kind of thing," Robinson said. "It's a little more restrictive in a sense. Going out on my own, doing my own thing lets me touch the ground on things I normally don't do."
Mostly, he said, that's lyrics. Robinson has typically been the driving force musically behind the Black Crowes, while his brother wrote the lyrics and sang lead vocals.
"Doing the album represents a whole other side of creativity I don't really get a chance to deal with much," he said.
Robinson called "Through A Crooked Sun" a cathartic experience.
"I know journalists focus on the negative," he said. "It's a big selling point. But it's really about the positive. That's my take on it. I did go through some things. I did go through a divorce. There were tumultuous times."
Robinson split from his wife, former model Emma Snowball, in 2005, but he came out on the other side and remarried. He said he's in a better place than he used to be.
Some of the ideas for the songs on the album came from dealing with the negative, but a lot of it is about learning from his mistakes, growing.
"I think you can write when you're going through a tough time, and you can write when things are good," he said. "Both, I think, have their place.
"Sadness and struggle can be a kind of springboard for creativity, but you get that through struggle," he said. "Positivity is an amazing force. It can spark a creative period in one's life and it can be unfettered."
Lately, life is pretty good. Robinson just got back from a tour in Europe and is looking forward to taking the record out on the road in United States.
"I love the band," he said. "We're really kind of gelling. It's really great."
As far as the Black Crowes, he's not thinking a lot about them right now.
"We're on a break," he repeated.
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Video game developers receive such a rich assortment of incentives that even oil companies have questioned why the government should subsidize such a mature and profitable industry whose main contribution is to create amusing and sometimes antisocial entertainment. - theNew York Times.
AUDITOR: Name?
DOOM: Doom.
AUDITOR: First name or last?
DOOM: Just Doom. And it's pronounced DOOM.
AUDITOR: Alright, Mister, uh, DOOM. Social security number?
AUDITOR: Occupation?
DOOM: Video game.
AUDITOR: I see, video game.
DOOM: Not just any video game! I'm the most popular first-person shooter of all time! I created the whole category! I've crashed entire networks with my death matches and caused millions of dollars in lost productivity!
AUDITOR: I see. They don't allow us to play video games here at the IRS.
DOOM: What about when you're off duty?
AUDITOR (eyes glowing malevolently): A good IRS agent is never off duty. Maybe if you could describe what you do in a little more detail.
DOOM: Sure. You're a nameless Marine assigned to guard a research facility on Mars. Some egghead scientists are experimenting with teleportation. Something goes wrong and they accidentally open a gateway to Hell. Your task is to fight your way to the gateway and shut it down before first Mars, then Earth, are overrun by demons from Hell. There was a bad movie based on me starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in 2005.
AUDITOR: I see. So basically you're in toxic waste management.
DOOM: Uh, not exactly. Although exploding barrels of toxic waste are part of the game. If you get good, you can learn to use them to blow s*** up.
AUDITOR: Why would I want to "blow s*** up?"
DOOM: Well, you can use them offensively to kill monsters. Or you can just blow s*** up for the hell of it.
AUDITOR: I thought you were trying to shut down this gateway to Hell.
DOOM: Poor choice of words. Anyway, you've got a lot of other weapons to choose from -- shotguns, rocket launchers, chainsaws...
AUDITOR: I'm glad you brought that up. Some of your deductions for business expenses here are a little unusual. What do you need so many chainsaws for -- do you also run a logging operation?
DOOM: Nothing better for cutting a bloody swathe through a horde of flesh-eating zombies.
AUDITOR: I see. What's a "BFG 9000?"
DOOM: It's a big f***ing gun. It's the most powerful weapon in my arsenal. You could kill a Boss cyberdemon with that thing! One shot, no problem!
AUDITOR: What's the "BFG" stand for?
DOOM: Big F***ing Gun.
AUDITOR: Isn't it a little redundant to call a "big f***ing gun" a "Big F***ing Gun?"
DOOM: Not if you're fourteen. Believe me, that's a laugh riot.
AUDITOR: Perhaps we should move on. Your medical deductions are also a little unusual. It says here you consumed 365 million stimpacks, 858 million medikits, and 563 million supercharges.
DOOM: I try to provide my players the best possible healthcare at a reasonable cost.
AUDITOR: What is "berserker mode?"
DOOM: That's great! Not only does it restore a player's health to 100%, but it temporarily multiplies his strength ten times. He can kill a demon with one brass-knuckled punch!
AUDITOR: So you provide your players with artificial stimulants that increase violent tendencies -- like crystal meth, or "crank."
DOOM: Not exactly. You see...
AUDITOR: You were banned until recently in Germany.
DOOM: Those krauts have no sense of humor. They never forgave me for Wolfenstein 3D.
AUDITOR: What's Wolfenstein 3D?
DOOM: My immediate precursor. You're an American soldier of Polish descent named William "B.J." Blazkowicz during World War II. Some Nazi scientists are experimenting with genetics. Something goes right and they deliberately breed super-powered monsters. Your task is to fight your way through Castle Wolfenstein and shut down their laboratory before Earth is overrun by mutants from Nazi Germany. Plus kill Hitler.
AUDITOR: Sounds fascinating. You were also implicated in Columbine...
DOOM: That was a bum rap! Adults are always trying to blame pop culture for juvenile delinquency. You might as well blame Hamlet for teen suicide.
AUDITOR: That's an interesting theory. Although I don't recall Hamlet including any chainsaws. I couldn't say for sure -- I wasn't an English major. But like Shakespeare, these days you're considered something of a has-been, are you not? You've been supplanted by other, gorier first person shooters like Dead Space 2, haven't you?
DOOM: That's a damn lie! I'll eviscerate the first imp who says so! I'll frag him with rockets, then ventilate him with my plasma rifle. I'll --
AUDITOR: Settle down, Mr. DOOM.
DOOM: At least I don't have T & A like Duke Nukem.
AUDITOR: I think that's enough for this initial interview.
DOOM: Initial interview?
AUDITOR: I'm sorry. Reviewing your responses, I'm afraid I have no choice but to recommend a full audit.
DOOM: You mean... ?
AUDITOR: That's right (removes glasses, stands up). There's no escape (transforms into a giant, flaming, one-eyed skull dripping blood from its severed spine). From the IRS (swallows DOOM in one gulp)!
The End...Or Is It?


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world news
- Reports of Ethiopian troops in Somalia
Eyewitnesses say Ethiopian soldiers have crossed the border into Somalia in significant numbers… 19/11/11 23:53 CET
- Syrian army defies Arab League deadline
An Arab League deadline for an end to violence appears to have changed nothing. As… 19/11/11 22:33 CET
- Police and protesters clash in Cairo's Tahrir Square
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- Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam is arrested in Libya
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- The two faces of Saif al-Islam
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Ah so this is what made Francesca Schiavone say she "feels like Angelina Jolie." Well it certainly looks like fun, and sometime soon there better be a video on You Tube from the WTA of the elite eight ladies taking part in this fun activity. At first glance of these pictures, I thought Jada should have come along, she would have really liked getting her hands dirty. This just didn't seen like something an adult woman would want to do.
Oh, who am I kidding?
I wonder who has the biggest hands.
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Public companies have four things they can do with free cash: pay dividends, buyback shares, repay debt and make acquisitions. How efficient they are in each of these areas determines their long-term success. BusinessWeek ran an article in 2007 about the worst deals of all time. One of the examples used was Quaker Oats purchase of Snapple for $1.7 billion in 1994. Quaker Oats, now part of Pepsi (NYSE:PEP), felt combining its Gatorade division with the iced-tea maker would generate savings between $300 million and $600 million from operational synergies alone. These savings failed to materialize and sales tumbled. In 1997, the company sold Snapple to Nelson Peltz's Triarc Companies for the bargain basement price of $300 million. Read on and I'll explain why acquisitions can be both good and bad depending on your side of the table.
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The actual deal made by Triarc was for $311.9 million including fees and expenses. The company turned Snapple around by repairing the relationship with convenience store owners, promoting the brand like crazy and creating innovative new products to go alongside its existing ones. The plan worked. Business picked up and in 2000, it made the decision to go the IPO route. Before it could, Cadbury Schweppes Plc swooped in buying Snapple from Triarc for $910 million in cash, the assumption of $420 million in debt and the payout of $120 million in options held by Snapple employees. Quaker Oats took three years to lose $1.4 billion, the same amount of time it took Triarc to make $600 million. Whose shareholders do you think were happier with the acquisition?
Snapple Today
In May 2008, Cadbury (NYSE:CBY) spun-off its drink business, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group (NYSE:DPS). It's been nine years since the Snapple acquisition by its former parent. In 1999, Snapple's total revenues were $772 million. Today, I'd estimate the iced tea products generate approximately $500 million in annual revenue. However, because the company doesn't break out the sales numbers of its individual brands, I have no way of knowing what the total amount is including juices and water. Since Snapple has always been a sore spot in its drinks business, I'd bet they're under $700 million. That's only a guess. Triarc used an EBITDA margin of 10% when assessing its purchase back in 1997. I'll be more generous and apply the company's EBITDA margin of 22%. Based on $700 million in revenue, it would have generated $154 million in EBITDA profits in 2008. Multiply that by nine (the number of years since the acquisition) and you get $1.4 billion, the exact amount it paid for Snapple. However, that's being entirely generous.
Back to Mr. Peltz
In April 2008, Peltz's Triarc Cos. bought Wendy's (NYSE:WEN) for $2.4 billion, merging it with his Atlanta-based Arby's chain, creating a business with the potential of taking on McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) and Burger King (NYSE:BKC). Wendy's shareholders got 4.25 shares in the newly combined company for each share owned. The deal valued one old share at $27.92 or $6.57 for a new one. Today, those shares are worth $4.63, a loss of 29.5% in just 20 months. It seems that bad deals can even happen to the best of them.
Bottom Line
Of the four options available to executives of public companies with free cash, the trickiest to evaluate in terms of success or failure is the acquisition. Snapple is going on 10 years since it was sold by Triarc, and yet to this day it's still difficult to tell if the deal was worth it for Dr. Pepper Snapple. (Read about other M&A flops in Biggest Merger and Acquisition Disasters.)
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One-third of the 15 spots on our inaugural list of the sporting events with the biggest prizes are occupied by soccer tournaments. Only horse racing, with three races, comes close. But soccer dominates the big money, taking the top three spots on the list. To construct the list of the highest-paying sporting events in the world, we focused on the prize money paid out to the winner of either a single event or a tournament. We did not include an event's total prize money or any season-long competitions that do not end in a playoff tournament, like the English Premier League.
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Firefighters rescue 10 Eritreans from burning apartment; four suffer mild injuries. Jerusalem Police forms special taskforce to investigate
Omri Efraim
Published: 06.04.12, 07:45 / Israel News
Omri Efraim
A Jerusalem apartment housing foreign workers
was torched overnight.
Firefighters rescued 10 people, four of whom needed medical attention. They were rushed to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in the city.
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The Fire Department said that their initial investigation indicated arson.
Investigators also found the words "Get out of the neighborhood" sprayed on one of the walls.
The scene (Photo courtesy of the Fire and Rescue Services)
Emergency services were informed of the fire shortly after 3 am. Three fire trucks were scrambled to the scene along with Magen David Adom emergency services.
Fire Department Captain Assaf Abres said that "Whoever set this fire knew they were setting up a death trap. The point of origin was by the door, making it impossible for the tenants to escape."
"This looks like an arson attempt on an apartment which housed Eritrean migrants.
"The police it treating this will all due seriousness and will employ all means at its disposal to apprehend those responsible," a police statement said.
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat denounced the act as well.


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The video on this site didn't work at the time of my comment. Here's a link to the original song and lyrics I found. http://tidido.com/a35184372109582/al5601ab0ce7c622686ad384df/t5601ab0de7c622686ad38544
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Great story on Bob Dylan. Loved him in the sixties. Still do. Happy Birthday Mr. Dylan.
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I never see so much talk about the displacement of any people as though Palestinians are the only ones that this happened to.No one ever talks in the media about the displacement of Native Americans. Neither do we see Native Americans who experienced far worse then the Palestinians promote suicide bombings against civilians.
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New National Guard, Army Reserve center opens in Scranton
A new center for the Pennsylvania National Guard and Army Reserve has opened on Olyphant Avenue, completing the rebirth of a landscape once scarred by mine waste.
The Scranton Armed Forces Reserve Center opened about three weeks ago, a little more than a year after a groundbreaking was held at the site. Even though military personnel were not fully moved in, the center became the site for the state active-duty mission that managed the response to Hurricane Irene for the area.
"We made history in the new building," Master Sgt. John Paul Karpovich, a senior human resources sergeant with the guard's 55th Brigade, said on Wednesday.
Sgt. Karpovich recalls he unpacked binders between sending out reports for the storm.
The move-in is expected to be completed by Thursday, Sept. 15, he said.
Guard units at the Scranton Armed Forces Reserve Center include the 55th Brigade, 109th Infantry, Company B of the 228th Brigade Support Battalion and the 55th Brigade Special Troops Battalion.
The center consolidates soldiers who have been stationed at the Watres Armory and Serrenti Memorial Army Reserve Center in Scranton and the Wilkes-Barre Army Reserve Center in Plains Twp.
The U.S. Department of Defense's Base Realignment and Closure Commission targeted the Serrenti and Wilkes-Barre centers for closure.
Troy Thompson, spokesman for the state Department of General Services, said the Watres Armory in Scranton is up for sale.
Meanwhile, Scranton intends to turn the Serrenti building into a backup site for City Hall, Mayor Chris Doherty said.
The new site provides greater space, which will allow for more types of training to be held, Sgt. Karpovich said. The site is home to a 72,000-square-foot reserve center, a 7,400-square-foot vehicle maintenance shop and a 45,000-square-foot storage building.
The center has an auditorium, a gym and lockers, a kitchen and a drill floor. There is a running track around the property. It also has an office known as the Family Action Center that provides support to military personnel and their families. There's also a National Guard recruiting office.
Garfield McFarlane, family assistant specialist, said having a centralized location greatly benefits military personnel.
"I think its tremendous," Mr. McFarlane said, referring to the center.
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Trouble in Mind
Race Relations in Black and White: 'Trouble in Mind' at the Aurora Theatre
By Amber Adrian on September 22, 2010 11:00 AM
In the days of constantly streaming Twitter and Facebook, it's amazing anything stays relevant for a month, much less decades. But Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress - the first African-American woman to win an Obie award - remains an insightful exploration of racial inequality, even half a century later.
Written during the Civil Rights movement, this play-within-a-play follows a cast of black and white actors mounting a script about anti-lynching (by a white dude, naturally) on Broadway, a premise which opens the proverbial stage door to all manner of cultural side-stepping and socially mandated diffidence. Early in the play, an older black actor advises a younger one to "Laugh, laugh at everything they say." Where "they" are white people in general, and white theater people in particular.


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This tutorial is in sequence to my previous tutorial on servlets (here). This goes one step further to explain the things.
Lets get started.
The javax.servlet package contains the servlets related classes. The more specific are one level further down this package like all the classes that help in dealing with http requests are present in javax.servlet.http package. Here we will be creating a http based servlet and will understand.
First of all you need to import the related classes which are :
import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.* ; import java.io.PrintWriter; import java.io.IOException;
Then declare the class as usual but extend HttpServlet class to make this class a servlet.
public class CheckServlet extends HttpServlet { }
We will be checking the multithreaded behaviour of servlets so lets declare a static variable as:
public class CheckServlet extends HttpServlet { static int count=0; }
The HttpServlet class extends GenericServlet class (a abstract class) which in turn implements servlet interface.
There is a init() method declared in GenericServlet class (fully implemented) which saves a reference to ServletConfig (just remember it). Our servlet will be overriding this method to do some initializations as:
public class CheckServlet extends HttpServlet { static int count=0; public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException { super.init(config); } }
The above method first calls the GenericServlets init to allow it what it does (saving a reference to ServletConfig object to implicit config reference) and then does the initialization of a local variable.
One more point to notice about init() method is that init() is called once per initialization of servlet and not for every request (i.e. first time the url for servlet is hit).
The method which is called every time a browser (though not same) hits the servlet url is the service(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response). Our servlet declares this method as:
public class CheckServlet extends HttpServlet { static int count=0; public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException { super.init(config); } public void service (HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException { PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter(); writer.println(++count); writer.println("The name as specified in web.xml :" + getServletName() ); } }
Here we are sending the value of our count variable to the servlet. Since the variable is static, each servlet will receive the incremented value as updated by the previous invocations of the servlet.
One more thing that we are doing here is that we are getting the name of servlet using the getServletName() method which is again implemented in GenericServlet class. This method gets us the name of servlet as declared in the web.xml file.
As in the previous tutorial, the web.xml is as:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd"> <web-app> <servlet> <servlet-name>MyServlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>CheckServlet</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>MyServlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/newServlet</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app>
Just to recap what we learnt from this tutorial:
1)Servlets are multithreaded (our static variable uses the value as updated by previous servlet hit)
2)init() method is called for the first servlet hit after starting the web server and it saves a reference to ServletConfig object in implicit config reference.
3)service() method is called for each servlet hit.
The source code for this tutorial is attached alongwith.


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