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Web-Based Intervention for Disaster-Affected Adolescents and Families
Principal Investigator: Kenneth J. Ruggiero, Ph.D. <bio sketch> <e-mail>Funding Source: National Institutes of Health/National Institutes of Mental Health (NIH/NIMH)Award #: R01MH81056Dates of Project: 09/19/2008 - 06/30/2012
A single disaster, terrorist attack, or other large-scale incident can adversely affect thousands of youth and families. Immediate consequences may include unmet basic needs and high economic burden to families. Disasters also can dramatically affect family routines, marital stress, parent-child interactions, and, more broadly, family roles and relationships. Whereas most youth are resilient (i.e., do not develop serious mental or physical health problems) in the aftermath of disasters, various problems of public health significance are prevalent, such as PTSD, depression, and substance abuse. This underscores the need for effective, widely accessible, and cost-efficient interventions that foster resilience or rapid recovery secondary to the health effects of disasters. To date, few evidence-based early interventions have been developed. Children and adolescents are underrepresented in disaster research, and disaster-affected families have insufficient access to evidence-based resources. Few early interventions have undergone rigorous scientific evaluation; fewer have targeted youth. Further, many efficacious self-help and Web-based interventions exist for the general population, but none exist for disaster-affected youth and families. Recently, our research team developed and explored the feasibility of a Web-delivered, education-based intervention for adults designed to reduce risk for prevalent mental health and health-risk consequences of disasters. Results of our pilot study with 325 New York City-area adults two years after the September 11th terrorist attacks supported the feasibility and potential utility of Web-based educational approaches post-disaster. The primary aims of the proposed project are to (a) develop a Web-based intervention for disaster-affected adolescents and parents targeting health-related correlates of disasters (i.e., development phase), (b) conduct a randomized controlled population-based study to examine feasibility and preliminary efficacy of the intervention with 3,000 disaster-affected adolescents and their parents (i.e., RCT phase), (c) refine the intervention based on feasibility and efficacy data, and (d) prepare for larger-scale research in the acute post-disaster phase. Our strategy to target a wide range of symptom presentations, as well as both subthreshold and diagnostic levels, is consistent with public health recommendations based on findings indicating benefits in terms of reduced health costs and positive outcomes associated with evidence-informed early interventions.
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TRINITY — Since consolidation of several business groups during the mid 1990s, only West Pasco Chamber of Commerce has existed here to represent interests of business owners.
Trinity-Odessa Chamber of Commerce, however, incorporated last week.
Dan Sullivan, its executive director, said he enjoyed his time with the West Pasco Chamber, but after nearly nine years he wanted to pursue new challenges.
Plenty of room exists for two chambers, Sullivan believes. "Trinity wasn't even built at that point" when the three chambers merged in the 1990s, Sullivan said. "Trinity and Odessa want their own identity."
Pasco County's population has mushroomed during the past few decades, Sullivan noted. Census figures give the number of residents as 281,131 in 1990. An estimated 470,000 live in the county today.
Plus the Trinity and Odessa corridor could be ready to lead a resurgence in growth now that the Great Recession is loosening its grip, Sullivan notes. Several major housing projects are in the pipeline, including a project on Starkey Ranch land along S.R. 54.
"I think that area is getting ready to expand," Sullivan said. He polled some 40 people in recent months who expressed enthusiasm for the new chamber.
Sullivan would like to see 200 members for the Trinity-Odessa Chamber within its first year.
Sullivan is talking with former West Pasco Chamber President Joe Alpine about coming on board in some part-time, membership recruiter role. Alpine retired in late 2012 after 15 years leading the New Port Richey-based chamber.
In retirement, Alpine has followed the basketball career of his grandson, Justin, among many other pursuits. But Alpine expressed interest in helping to launch the new chamber.
Many other community leaders are working with Trinity-Odessa Chamber.
Michael Cox with Wells Fargo Advisors will serve as Trinity-Odessa Chamber board chairman through June 2015. Other charter members include Bob Memoli of Florida Luxury Realty, Jeff Lucas of law firm Lucas, Green, & Magazine, Stephen Ward of Allstate-Ward Insurance & Financial Services and James Milazzo of 72HRPrint.com.
The new chamber's first official event will be a breakfast meeting 7:30-9 a.m. Wednesday, March 5, at Fox Hollow Golf Club, 10050 Robert Trent Jones Parkway.
Speakers will be Mike Shumate, manager of Pasco County Animal Services, and Commissioner Pat Mulieri.
Breakfast costs $12 per person by check, cash, credit card at the door. Reservations are required by calling (727) 992-1491 or emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
The chamber office is at the Better Back Store, 4018 Little Road. "Our permanent (office) might not have even been built yet," Sullivan said.
The mailing address is 2107 Gunn Highway, #400, Odessa, FL 33556.
For more information go online to www.trinityodessachamberofcommerce.com.
Sullivan said the new chamber will strive to live up to its motto, "Where Community and Commerce Connect."


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Toro's the name, and I'm now officially a Trailblazer! I'll admit that I'm not like the other bulls in the Fort Worth Stockyards—which is what led me to strike out on my own in search of adventure. Finally, now that I've found TCC, I feel like I fit in.
I want to get out and about! Invite me to your event. I can't wait to meet you and your guests!
The Trailblazers is the mascot of Tarrant County College. The name symbolizes the hard-working, dedicated spirit of Tarrant County College students, alumni, faculty and staff who continue to blaze new trails.
All requests should align with the mission of Tarrant County College to provide 'affordable and open access to quality teaching and learning.'
TCC will host its 4th annual golf tournament, Toro On The Green, at Tierra Verde Golf Club on May 18, 2016. Tierra Verde is the first golf course in Texas and the first municipal course in the world to be certified as an Audubon Signature Sanctuary. Tierra Verde was named the top golf course in the DFW Metroplex in 2012 by Avid Golfer magazine (public rankings - premium category).
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Tierra Verde Golf Club
7005 Golf Club Drive
Arlington, TX 76001
6:45 a.m. Registration and breakfast
8:00 a.m. Shotgun Start, Four Person Scramble
The tournament will be followed by an awards ceremony, raffle and lunch buffet.
Registration fee $90 per player.
Registration is available online, and closes May 6, 2016.
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Saturday, November 5, 2016
Trinity Park at West 7th Street and Stayton, by the duck pond
Fort Worth, TX
8:00 a.m., 1 Mile Fun Walk/Run
8:30 a.m., 5K & 10K
9:45 a.m., Awards ceremony
*Start times subject to change.
Registration will be available beginning June 1, 2016.
Top three 5K and 10K male and female finishers will be awarded on stage
Top male and female finishers in each age group below will receive a medal (available for pick-up at the awards tent starting at approximately 9:45 a.m.):
Finisher's medal for 10k participants
Finisher's medal for participants aged 12 and under
Traveling trophy for top campus participation
Door Prizes
All registered participants will receive a goodie bag including our event t-shirt and offers from our sponsors.
Our courses start and finish in the same location and feature hydration stations for the 5K and 10K. The one mile fun run will start in the same location and turnaround at the half mile marker. The 5K and 10K are USATF certified.
Congratulations Southeast Campus for winning the 2015 Toro Dash Campus Competition!
The Toro Dash is seeking energetic, hardworking volunteers to assist with promotion, packet pick-up and race day events.
The Toro Dash is not possible without the help of all our amazing volunteers, so come out and join the fun and earn a Toro Dash t-shirt while you're at it. Race day volunteers will receive a special gift in addition to the participant shirt! No experience is required. For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Support the TCC Student Wellness Scholarship! Proceeds from the Toro Dash benefit the TCC Wellness fund and student Wellness Scholarship, helping students pursuing a degree in Health/Physical Education, Dietetics, Nutrition, or Kinesiology. You can also help by donating to our scholarship online.
We are seeking cash and or trade value contributions from our 2016 sponsors. The Toro Dash offers sponsors a unique combination of opportunities, which can be seen through our website, advertising, and value trade contributions to our participants.
Learn more about becoming a sponsor. (PDF will open in a new window) All proceeds from the Toro Dash will go to the TCC Foundation's Scholarship Fund and TCC's Wellness Fund. For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Tarrant County College welcomed me, Toro the Trailblazer, to the College family as the official College mascot in 2011. Chancellor Hadley invited me to the Employee Appreciation Breakfast and I had a blast! I have the photos to prove it.
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Selwyn Pearson has raised a excellent point about the upcoming Tri-Nations tournament, which many groups have looked over recently, what about the fans of Australia and New Zealand who like to go out to international Rugby League matches? Whilst crowds may not be huge for League test matches, the last few in Sydney alone have drawn crowds of over 30,000 which is larger than most NRL games, showing there is a market there.
Now whilst the prospect of an ANZAC test between Australia and New Zealand is being juggled around without much support from the NZRL, and with pretty good reason too, it is important that both organisations realise that now is the time for the formation of a Pacific Islands side.
Similar to how the International Cricket Council realised the only way the Caribbean could compete in the Test arena was to form a West Indies side, it is time for the RLIF, ARL and NZRL to take the initiative. The only reason a Pacific Islands side has never competed before on the international stage in League is because of player insurance, clubs invest large amounts into developing these players and of course want to ensure their investment is protected, we all remember how Stacey Jones? arm injury in 1999 unfortunately killed off the chance for the likes of Tonga, Fiji and Samoa to take on the major nations outside of the World Cup.
Now of course if the ARL and NZRL have to pay for the players to play against their national teams, it will eat into the revenue from the test matches, but if they don?t pay for it, that revenue no longer exists at all. Test Matches in League do make profits, and give players a chance to represent their nations, something I?m sure they would like the chance to do in front of their home crowds.
League test matches also rate well in the media, and the prospect of the Kangaroos and Kiwis taking on an unknown entity would be quite a refreshing watch.
There is no reason why a match between Australia and the Pacific Islanders couldn?t draw 35,000+ at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, or 20,000+ across in New Zealand, in fact the NZRL if they wanted to be truly ambitious could play their Kiwis against the Pacific side for a three test series during the same time the Australian?s are playing their State of Origin. A Wednesday night test match maybe a bit risky, but if the promotion was right, it could still draw crowds.


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Meet the New Jets Mascot: Ptrippy the Pterodactyl
Hey kids! Meet the brand-new mascot of the New York Jets: Ptrippy, the Ptesty Pterodactyl!
Ptrippy's cranky, but don't be scared. Ignore those discount cigarettes he's smoking, or the flask he's hiding under his wings as he circles morosely around the Meadowlands. Try not to listen to the foul language muttered under his heavy breath. It's been a rough couple of weeks for Ptrippy—and all Jets fans.
It was another ugly one on Sunday, as Rex ("Magic Khakis") Ryan's Magnificent Green Hype Balloon responded to its Patriots smackdown by flopping on the deck to the Miami Dolphins, 10-6. The Jets dropped to a respectable 9-4, but now they're two games behind hated New England, and their playoff future is suddenly foggy. But that's not the Big Story.
The Big Story is a bizarre new motivational technique being used by a Jets strength and conditioning coach named Sal Alosi. In the third quarter, as Dolphin Nolan Carroll raced down the sideline to cover a punt, a nearby Mr. Alosi inexplicably began to perform what any yoga student will recognize as the start of the "Warrior One" pose. On TV replays he appeared to extend his leg, bend his knee forward and— whammo—Mr. Carroll went tumbling to the ground, toppled by a coach.
Classy! Mr. Alosi apologized after the game, calling the trip a "total lapse in judgment." On Monday, the Jets fined him $25,000 and suspended him for the rest of the season.
The Very Bad Trip and the two brutal losses have caused the Jets to backslide from lovable Super Bowl contenders to, well, the Jets. For Jets fans, it's like putting on an ugly old sweater you thought you'd given to the thrift shop. November's Lombardi trophy dreams are a dusty memory.
That's why the Jets have introduced Ptrippy. (A distant cousin of Pee-Wee Herman's pal, Pterri.) He's here to do diversion and damage control. This is how Ptrippy can help:
Schools: Ptrippy will come to your child's school to host an Official Jets Pep Rally. He will regale the kids with tales of the Bad Old Days, including a scary four-hour monologue on the Kotite Years. Then he will explain how much better things under Mr. Ryan, and for the finale, he'll reveal all the R-rated locker room stuff that was "too hot for HBO." (Not suitable for children under 15, and Ptrippy prefers to work in an auditorium where he can smoke.)
Kids' parties: Ptrippy can be hired to perform at birthdays, bar mitzvahs and graduation bashes. He will do his Eric Mangini "banana dance" and make every child a balloon sculpture of Browning Nagle. (All ages. Ptrippy asks to be paid in spiced rum. When the bottle's gone, Ptrippy's gone.)
Corporate events: Ptrippy will golf with your staff, snorkel in the Maldives, or host a meats-and-cheeses tailgate in the frigid air before Jan. 2's home game against Buffalo. For an extra fee, he also will audit all your company accounts. (R ate is $1,000 a day; Ptrippy's mini bar bill gets comped.)
So there you go, Jets fans. It's not over yet. Remember, when the season looks bleak—and next week it might get bleaker, with a road game in Pittsburgh— don't trip.
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In this article
What Is Lung Cancer?
Lung cancer typically occurs after long-term exposure to cancer-causing chemicals. Smoking or asbestos damages lung cells, creating mutations in the cells' genetic code (DNA). After years of damage to their DNA, the cells veer out of control -- growing, multiplying, and traveling where they don't belong. Eventually, they interfere with normal bodily functions, in the lungs or elsewhere.
Studies now show that low-dose helical chest CT scans are useful in screening high-risk patients for lung cancer. In a study of more than 50,000 patients who were at high risk of developing lung cancer, the use of this type of CT scan reduced the mortality of lung cancer by 20%.
Guidelines recommend annual screening for lung cancer with low-dose CT in adults ages 55-80 years who have a 30 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or who have quit within the past 15 years.
Screening should be discontinued once a person has not smoked for 15 years or develops a health problem that substantially limits life expectancy or the ability or willingness to have curative lung surgery .
What Can I Do to Prevent Lung Cancer?
If you currently smoke, get serious about stopping. Studies show people who quit before age 50 reduce their risk of dying over the next 15 years by half compared with those who continue to smoke. While you commit yourself to quitting, it's also wise to avoid beta-carotene supplements. Studies show that it can increase the risk of lung cancer in smokers.
Obviously, kicking the habit isn't easy, or many more smokers would do it. Surveys show a large majority of smokers want to quit. The problem is nicotine is a highly addictive substance. Still, thousands of people do quit successfully -- substantially reducing their risk. Talk to your doctor or check out resources of the American Cancer Society.
Other ways to prevent lung cancer include:
- If you don't smoke, don't start. Try to avoid secondhand smoke by avoiding restaurants or bars where people smoke. If you live with smokers, insist that they light up outside only. And encourage them to quit.
- Whether you smoke or not, avoid exposure to radon. Radon can collect in homes, especially those that are highly insulated for cold weather and thus retain gas that may leak up through the foundation. An inexpensive and easy-to-use kit that accurately measures radon levels is available in most hardware stores.
- Exercise and eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables. These healthy habits will lower your risk of several forms of cancer, as well as heart disease and diabetes.


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Hotel Gets OK to Add Floors
Corliss Avenue neighbors opposed request
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WHEELING — The Board of Zoning Appeals on Thursday granted Hampton Inn permission to build two additional floors on its existing five-story hotel in the Woodsdale area....
What will the owner do when the bubble bursts???
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Does the nearest fire station have ladder trucks that can reach to the top of a 7 story hotel?
Seems to me to be an increased fire risk so they should be charged a higher fire service fee (tax) as well
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NBA coaches have taken their sideline antics to a new level. It used to be that coaches would simply stomp when a shooter was about to launch a three in front of them, attempting to make up for their team's poor defense with a bit of auditory distraction, but the days of such cheeky mischief seem to be behind us. First, there was Jason Kidd's sneaky ploy to purposely spill a beverage in order to draw up a final play for the Brooklyn Nets. Now, Houston Rockets coach Kevin McHale is trying his own hand at underhandedness.
In the waning moments of the first half in Saturday night's game between the Rockets and San Antonio Spurs, McHale stationed himself inside of Tim Duncan as Duncan attempted to inbound the ball from roughly three-quarter court. Ostensibly, McHale was attempting to either obscure Duncan's view or alter the inbound in some way; even after seemingly being warned once about his positioning by the official, McHale made his way back to the scorer's table and within several feet of Duncan.
And Spurs coach Gregg Popovich blew his lid at McHale's shenanigans, drawing a technical foul call and having to be held back from going after the officials any further as the halftime buzzer sounded.
So in the span of a week, we've had Cup-gate and now Sideline Shenanigans. I'm pretty well terrified of what a coach is going to try next. It's almost enough to make a person nostalgic for the days of Vinny Del Negro's sideline stomps.


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Silveus Insurance Group is the nation's leading crop insurer. They came to us requesting a series of direct mail pieces for a targeted geographic area. The only direction given was to make them stand out from the typical farm mailing, and to emphasize the difference between the typical crop insurance policy and Silveus' custom plans. What Image produced was a series of three stand-out, oversized postcards with arresting visuals that demonstrated major differences in other non-farm related areas. This helped to drive home the point of distinction from Silveus competition. The result was increased prospect calls and new sales in an area that previously had none.


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TWO committees of the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors – the Student Affairs & Athletics Committee and the Finance Committee – jointly met on Monday, June 4, to consider the recommendations contained in the recently released Virginia 2020 Strategic Planning Task Force Report on Athletics.
At the end of the meeting, the two committees unanimously approved a resolution directing the University's administration to develop options, including ones for fundraising, that would ensure the long-term financial stability of U.Va.'s athletics programs without creating tiers or eliminating any sports.
The proactive action by Virginia stands in marked contrast to the pathetic, transparent actions of the administrations of the Universities of Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa State, which cut men's swimming and other men's sports, either without considering other funding options or rejecting such options outright.
Gordon F. Rainey Jr., chairman of the board's Student Affairs & Athletics Committee at Virginia, commended the task force for alerting the University to the issues facing athletics programs across the nation.
"While the task force report contains a number of valuable recommendations, those relating to tiering or eliminating sports have been rejected by the two committees as not being in the best interests of the University," he said. "The committees' action today is intended to make crystal clear that the Board of Visitors does not support tiering or eliminating any sports."
William H. Goodwin, chairman of the board's Finance Committee, said, "I am confident that President Casteen, in coordination with the Virginia Student Aid Foundation, can develop financial resources to adequately fund and strengthen existing varsity sports."
"Combined with the 2020 Task Force's related recommendations on academic, support and other issues, the two committees' actions today really set our agenda for athletics for the long term," said U.Va. President John T. Casteen III. "We want the best for our students. We seek to accomplish that goal in many ways. Today's action is a major step. We look forward to the planning for new and enhanced programs, the focused fundraising and the successes that will follow."
The committees' action is consistent with statements made last month by University Rector John P. Ackerly III that the Board of Visitors should seek to build on the outstanding records of U.Va.'s athletic terms, and not cut back on programs, create tiers or eliminate any sports.
At its meeting in April, the BOV adopted a resolution assigning to the Finance Committee and the Student Affairs & Athletics Committee joint responsibility for evaluating the 2020 Task Force Report on Athletics.
The Chairs of the two Committees have developed the following plan of action, which has been approved by the Rector and the Executive Vice President:
* With staff support from Leonard Sandridge's office and the Athletics Department, the two Committees, jointly under direction of the two Chairs, will undertake an independent evaluation of the financial situation facing the two programs.
* The Finance Committee will be responsible for analyzing expense projections and potential efficiencies in the Athletics Department.
* The Student Affairs & Athletics Committee will perform an independent evaluation of (a) the opportunities for revenue enhancement over the next two to three years, and (b) the current level of scholarships and funding per sport. The revenue enhancement study will be led by Charlie Glazer under direction of the Chairs. Tim Robertson will be asked to assist in evaluating existing marketing programs and marketing and licensing opportunities. Gordon Rainey will take the lead on evaluating the current level of scholarships and funding per sport.
* The Chairs will meet with the leadership of the Virginia Student Aid Foundation to obtain their advice and verify their commitment to the longer term funding goals recommended by the Task Force.
* The University soon will be engaged in a national search for a new Athletic Director. The Chairs believe it is important for the BOV to set the objectives for Athletics and for those objectives to be implemented by the new AD.
* The foregoing evaluations will be completed in time to enable the Finance Committee and the Student Affairs & Athletics Committee to report to the BOV this summer.
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June 4, 2001
WHEREAS the Board of Visitors received the report of the Task Force on Athletics in April 2001 (the Report); and
WHEREAS the Student Affairs and Athletics and Finance Committees of the Board (the Joint Committees) express their appreciation for the outstanding and innovative work of the Task Force; and
WHEREAS the report has focused the attention of the University community on the important challenges facing intercollegiate athletics programs across the nation; and
WHEREAS the Joint Committees have developed a Joint Work Plan and have conducted a preliminary review of the findings and recommendations included in the Report; and
WHEREAS the Joint Committees conclude that they wish to preserve the Board's longstanding commitment to both academic excellence and excellence in all intercollegiate sports at the University;
RESOLVED, that the Joint Work Plan presented to the Joint Committees is hereby approved; and
RESOLVED FURTHER, that the Joint Committees ask the President to develop options to the recommendations in the Report including the establishment of endowments and other fundraising for non-revenue sports, that will ensure the long-term financial stability of the intercollegiate athletics programs at the University without tiering or eliminating any sports; and
RESOLVED FURTHER that the Joint Committees ask that the President provide on a regular basis reports to the Joint Committees on the Administration's progress in developing such options.
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Well maybe not quite professional, more like budget... But I have a couple painting questions, wasn't sure where to post them, and I was hoping one of the experts (Dr Deltron, please?) could help.
My main question: I plan to use standard DuPont paints and the epoxy primer, and the guy at the shop said that I could use a certain 50$ mask (as apposed to a respirator). Is this true, and will this be safe?
Next, the "room" I plan to build will just be a 8x8x8 box with walmart bed sheets for a roof and walls. Is this a really stupid idea, as the fumes are flammable? I will keep a fire extinguisher in the room.
Will the Husky touch up gun from Home Depot do the trick for a begginner?


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In short, affordable health care has never been more urgently needed. Yet most of the health reform proposals coming out of Washington these days won't get us there.
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) recently unveiled his proposals for incremental health reform, which largely mirror the ideas of President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.).
However well-intentioned, the Obama/Baucus/Kennedy approaches share a fatal flaw: they preserve a central role for the private health insurance industry.
To varying degrees, they would mandate that everyone buy private health insurance – the private insurance that is failing us today. Some of these plans offer a Medicare-like, public option that people could buy into, but experience with Medicare shows that the private plans refuse to compete on a level playing field. They cherry-pick healthier patients and insist on more than their share of payment.
Experience with mandate-based plans in Washington state (1993), Oregon (1992) and Massachusetts (1988 and today) shows that they simply don't work, achieving neither universal health care nor cost containment.
As long as we rely on private health insurers, universal coverage will be unaffordable. These companies generate immense overhead costs and force doctors and hospitals to spend heavily on billing and paperwork.
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Yeah, but talent is 0 in my case. And we all know what happens when anything is multiplied with 0, right...? :-/
I've never met anyone with 0 talent. Sure, there may be a whole lot of zeros to the right of the decimal point, but there's ways something out there somewhere...
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A trade to help unborn children
Thomas Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist, erupted in that newspaper's Sunday Review section this week. He wrote, "In my world, you don't get to call yourself 'pro-life' and be against common-sense gun control. … You don't get to call yourself 'pro-life' and want to shut down the Environmental Protection Agency … and oppose programs like Head Start."
Friedman went on in that vein and suggested an alternative to the "pro-life" designation: "You can call yourself a 'pro-conception-to-birth, indifferent-to-life conservative.'" My first reaction to that defamation is to look at the facts: Pro-life couples more frequently adopt children, provide foster care, start schools, etc., than do those who favor abortion on demand.
My second reaction, though, is to push Friedman on the type of grand bargain that could be made, if he and his allies want to be pro-life as he defines it. I've long told animal rights activists that, if they joined pro-lifers in protecting baby humans, I'd happily join them in efforts to protect baby seals. Now, I'd like to extend that offer. I'd join Friedman in supporting an AK-47 ban, keeping alive the EPA, and revising Head Start (so it truly helps) if he were to support protection for unborn children.
Wouldn't you? To be precise, should we say to Friedman and others on the liberal side, "If the reason you oppose pro-life positions is because you don't think they go far enough in protecting life, what would convince you otherwise?"
I'm opposed to general gun bans, EPA edicts that elevate animals over people, and federal programs that sound sweet but don't work, but I'm most opposed to the rampant killing of innocent unborn children. I'm skeptical about opportunities to find "common ground," because abortion often seems to be the key non-negotiable of contemporary liberalism—but we should always be willing to hope, pray, and ask.


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Google and Democrats deny that Google is helping Democrats
A couple weeks ago, I warned conservatives about Google's entanglement with the Left, and the possibility that Google could provide data intelligence to Democrats. Not the usual consumer data that everybody uses, but a level of real-time behavioral data far beyond what Republicans could ever achieve using available consumer data. That concern was dismissed as a conspiracy theory by some people. The question isn't whether | Read More »


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Wow, it has been almost two years since I checked in here... Time went fast.
Today, I went riding for the second time this spring, and I remembered this forum. I don't think I know anybody here anymore, but that's allright.
Nice to meet all of you.
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Applying the BES trick to QCD
Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute
I will discuss some preliminary results concerning the application of the Beisert, Eden, Staudacher (BES) "analytic continuation trick" to the two point function of gauge invariant operators in Minkowski space. I will start by briefly reviewing the status of integrability in large N QCD and showing that it necessarily fails at higher loops. The disappointment is somewhat mitigated by the fact that, for confining theories, the anomalous dimension is not the most interesting quantity entering the two point functions. Rather, they are controlled by an infinite sum of zero-width resonances that can be expanded at strong coupling. I will motivate the BES trick in this context and apply it to the correlation functions. After some "adventurous" mathematical manipulations, one is led to what looks like a new series of sum rules that might eventually allow one to make contact with perturbation theory.
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Olive-Cucumber Finger Sandwiches Recipe
Along with a refreshing beverage, I served these attractive hors d'oeuvres to guests at my Garden Party. The crisp cucumbers on these easy-to-fix finger sandwiches get their zip from being marinated for a short time. —Sara Laker Loda, Illinois
- 1 medium cucumber
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup cider vinegar
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon onion salt
- 1/8 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 36 thin slices bread
- Paprika
- 36 pimiento-stuffed olives
- 1. With a fork, score cucumber lengthwise; cut into thin slices. Place in a bowl; add water and vinegar. Let stand for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, beat cream cheese, mayonnaise, garlic powder, onion salt and Worcestershire sauce until smooth.
- 2. Cut bread into flower shapes with a 2-1/2-in. cookie cutter. Spread each with cream cheese mixture; sprinkle with paprika and top with a cucumber slice.
- 3. Remove pimientos from olives; place in center of cucumber. Cut olives into five wedges and arrange around pimiento in a pinwheel pattern. Yield: 3 dozen.
Nutritional Facts
1 serving (3 each) equals 335 calories, 16 g fat (5 g saturated fat), 23 mg cholesterol, 853 mg sodium, 41 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 8 g protein.
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Arul Menezes heads the Machine Translation team at Microsoft Research. Over the past 15 years, he has driven Machine Translation at Microsoft Research from a basic research project to a web-scale production service with a variety of offerings for consumers and businesses, and millions of users worldwide, including Bing Translator and the Microsoft Translator Hub customization service, as well as the upcoming Skype Translator product.
Machine Translation Research
The Microsoft MT system has a rich history. The first version, initially developed by Arul between 1999 and 2000 was based on shallow semantic predicate-argument structures known as logical forms that were produced by NLPWIN parser. This LF-based MT system aligned source and target language at the LF level, and learned LF-based tree transforms from a large corpus of parallel data derived from Microsoft software documentation. This system was eventually used to translate the entire Microsoft knowledge base, consisting of 150K+ articles into multiple languages (Spanish, French, German and Japanese) and the KB was published in these languages as raw unedited MT. Much to the surprise of skeptics, this proved wildly popular, and user surveys indicated that the MT content was just as useful for solving user problems as human translations.
Our experience with the LF-system led to a number of specific lessons learned, the most important of which were (1) It proved very difficult to incorporate a strong target language model directly in the search process when searching over semantic structures (2) The pipelined structure of [source parse to source LF to transfer to target LF to generate] enabled errors to compound.
These learnings led directly to our treelet translation developed jointly with Chris Quirk and Colin Cherry. We simplified our representation from LF to dependency trees. Since the trees retained all words, we were able to eliminate the need for a generation module, which enabled the search to operate directly over words, which in turn enabled the incorporation of a target language model directly in the search. The first version of this system, published in 2004, searched over all possible tree rotations, scored by a discriminative reordering model. This was the first syntactic MT system to show BLEU gains (2 BLEU points!) over phrasal SMT.
In 2007 we replaced the discriminative reordering model with an order template model estimated directly from the data, which speeded up decoding dramatically and improved generality. The unlexicalized templates generalized well and were unified at runtime with the lexicalized treelets. In 2008 we extended the templates to handle insertion and deletion of function words, in order to handle syntactic phenomena that are realized lexically in one language but not the other.
Machine Translation Product Development
In 2007 we launched the Windows Live translator (now Bing Translator), a live web service providing free translations on the web, and my personal focus shifted away from basic research and towards delivering our research innovations to users. Today the Bing Translator and Microsoft Translator family of products is used by millions of users and businesses and provides billions of translations daily. The system is still based on the treelet MT approach described above, though there have been many improvements and innovations over the years.
The Microsoft Translator product team integrates research and product development in a single team, covering everything from MT modeling and algorithms to data gathering and delivery of the live web service. This eliminates the traditional "tech transfer" from research to product, and enables the team to get research breakthroughs into customer hands without delay.
A big focus of the team today is the Skype Translator project. In this project we set ourselves an ambitious goal – to enable successful open-domain conversations between Skype users in different parts of the world, speaking different languages. As one might imagine, putting together two error-prone technologies such as speech recognition and machine translation raises some unique challenges.
NLP Interests
I have a strong interest in using syntactic and semantic information to address problems in machine understanding of language. Prior to my work in Machine Translation, I worked on Mindnet, a knowledge graph built automatically from text data, including dictionary definitions and example sentences, Encarta articles etc, and the application of Mindnet to questions answering and information retrieval tasks. I have also worked using semantic representations for summarization and recognizing textual entailment.
Other Interests
Prior to joining MSR, I worked for 8 years on several Microsoft products, including Windows CE, Windows 95, MSN, Microsoft Site Server, Microsoft Commercial Internet Server, Windows 3.11 and the Microsoft At Work Fax project. I was educated at the Indian Institute of Technology at Bombay and at Stanford University, where my focus was on programming languages and parallel processing. During this period I developed an efficient Prolog interpreter and co-developed a set of parallel processing extensions to C++ known as COOL. I retain a keen interest in parallel programming and large scale distributed systems, which are, not surprisingly, very useful in training MT systems at web-scale. Early versions of our MT system were trained on a home-brew distributed processing engine I co-developed, though today we use off-the-shelf infrastructure such as Cosmos, MPI, Dryad-Linq and Hadoop.
- Lucy Vanderwende, Arul Menezes, and Chris Quirk, An AMR parser for English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese and a new AMR-annotated corpus, Proceedings of NAACL 2015, June 2015.
- Hany Hassan and Arul Menezes, Social Text Normalization using Contextual Graph Random Walks, in The 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013) , Association for Computational Linguistics, 4 August 2013.
- Arul Menezes and Chris Quirk, Syntactic Models for Structural Word Insertion and Deletion during Translation, in Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Association for Computational Linguistics, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 2008.
- Xiaodong He, Jianfeng Gao, Chris Quirk, Patrick Nguyen, Arul Menezes, Robert Moore, Kristina Toutanova, Mei Yang, Bill dolan, Mu Li, Chi-Ho Li, Dongdong Zhang, Long Jiang, and Ming Zhou, The MSR-MSRA MT System for NIST Open Machine Translation 2008 Evaluation, in The 2008 NIST Open Machine Translation Evaluation Workshop, 2008.
- Xiaodong He, Jianfeng Gao, Chris Quirk, Patrick Nguyen, Arul Menezes, Robert Moore, Kristina Toutanova, Mei Yang, Bill dolan, Mu Li, Chi-Ho Li, Dongdong Zhang, Long Jiang, Ming Zhou, George Foster, Roland Kuhn, Jing Zheng, Wen Wang, Necip Fazil Ayan, Dimitra Vergyri, Nicolas Scheffer, and Andreas Stolcke, The MSR-NRC-SRI MT System for NIST Open Machine Translation 2008 Evaluation, in The 2008 NIST Open Machine Translation Evaluation Workshop, 2008.
- Chris Quirk, Raghavendra Udupa, and Arul Menezes, Generative Models of Noisy Translations with Applications to Parallel Fragment Extraction, in Proceedings of MT Summit XI, European Association for Machine Translation, September 2007.
- Arul Menezes and Chris Quirk, Using Dependency Order Templates to Improve Generality in Translation, in Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation at ACL 2007, Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2007.
- Chris Quirk and Arul Menezes, Do we need phrases? Challenging the conventional wisdom in Statistical Machine Translation, in Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2006, ACL/SIGPARSE, May 2006.
- Rion Snow, Lucy Vanderwende, and Arul Menezes, Effectively using syntax for recognizing false entailment, Association for Computational Linguistics, May 2006.
- Chris Quirk and Arul Menezes, Dependency Treelet Translation: The convergence of statistical and example-based machine translation?, in Machine Translation, vol. 20, pp. 43–65, March 2006.
- Xiaodong He, Arul Menezes, Chris Quirk, Anthony Aue, Simon Corston-Oliver, Jianfeng Gao, and Patrick Nguyen, Microsoft Research Treelet Translation System: NIST MT Evaluation 06, National Institute of Standards and Technology , March 2006.
- Arul Menezes, Kristina Toutanova, and Chris Quirk, Microsoft research treelet translation system: NAACL 2006 Europarl evaluation, in WMT 2006, 2006.
- Lucy Vanderwende, Arul Menezes, and Rion Snow, Microsoft Research at RTE-2: Syntactic Contributions in the Entailment Task: an implementation, in Proceedings of the Second PASCAL Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge Workshop, 2006.
- Arul Menezes and Chris Quirk, Microsoft Research Treelet Translation System: IWSLT Evaluation, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, October 2005.
- Lucy Vanderwende, Gary Kacmarcik, Hisami Suzuki, and Arul Menezes, MindNet: an automatically-created lexical resource, in HLT/EMNLP Interactive Demonstrations Proceedings, October 2005.
- Chris Quirk, Arul Menezes, and Colin Cherry, Dependency Treelet Translation: Syntactically Informed Phrasal SMT, in Proceedings of ACL, Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2005.
- 鈴木久美, Gary Kacmarcik, Lucy Vanderwende, and Arul Menezes, Mindnet/mnex: Tools for automatic construction and analysis of semantic relations database (意味関係データベースの自動構築と解析のためのツール), in 言語処理学会第11回全国大会論文集, March 2005.
- Arul Menezes and Chris Quirk, Dependency treelet translation: the convergence of statistical and example-based machine-translation, in Proceedings of the 10th Machine Translation Summit Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, pp. 99–108, 2005.
- Chris Quirk, Arul Menezes, and Colin Cherry, Dependency Tree Translation: Syntactically Informed Phrasal SMT, no. MSR-TR-2004-113, November 2004.
- Anthony Aue, Arul Menezes, Robert Moore, Chris Quirk, and Eric Ringger, Statistical Machine Translation Using Labeled Semantic Dependency Graphs, ACL/SIGPARSE, October 2004.
- Lucy Vanderwende, Michele Banko, and Arul Menezes, Event-centric summary generation, in Working notes of the Document Understanding Conference 2004, ACL, 2004.
- Chris Brockett, Takako Aikawa, Anthony Aue, Arul Menezes, Chris Quirk, and Hisami Suzuki, English-Japanese Example-Based Machine Translation Using Abstract Semantic Representations, International Conference on Computational Linguistics, October 2002.
- Arul Menezes, Better contextual translation using machine learning, Springer-Verlag, October 2002.
- William B. Dolan, Jessie Pinkham, Stephen D. Richardson, and Arul Menezes, Achieving commercial-quality translation with example-based methods, European Association for Machine Translation, September 2001.
- William Dolan, Stephen D. Richardson, Arul Menezes, and Monica Corston-Oliver, Overcoming the customization bottleneck using example-based MT, Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2001.
- Arul Menezes and Stephen D. Richardson, A best-first alignment algorithm for automatic extraction of transfer mappings from bilingual corpora, Association for Computational Linguistics, January 2001.
- William Dolan, Stephen D. Richardson, Arul Menezes, and Monica Corston-Oliver, Overcoming the customization bottleneck using example-based MT , Workshop on Data-Driven Methods in Machine Translation, 2001.


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When will a pregnancy test come out positive.
I am 8 days late for my period I have been taking a at home test and still coming negative. WIth my first child i didn't find out until i was 5 1/2 months. Me and my fiance our trying to have another one but my cycle is not regular. What should I do? How long should I wait?
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04/02/2012, Vineland
Here is a close up of the AC panel
I have to order new labels as I do not have a Dishwasher, vacuum, stove, icemaker, etc., but the Admiral might wish we had them.
04/02/2012, Vineland
Sewage system
I have given some thought to the sewage system on Ocean Dove. I would like to flush the heads with fresh water only. On the Great Lakes that is not a problem. I am considering piping the fwd. drinking water tanks to the heads. Removing the Y-valve and overboard connections from the heads and pipe the heads only to the holding tank. The holding tank will only be pumped out through the deck pump out connection or through the grinder pump and overboard. A lockable Y-valve would be in place between the holding tank, deck pump out connection and the grinder pump. The weak links are the grinder pump and the volume of water carried in the fwd. tank. A spare grinder pump and spare parts could be carried aboard and with a water maker hopeful fresh water would not be a problem.
I am open to debate on these ideals, so please comment and don't be afraid to say I am stupid, just say why.
Marine heads are not designed to be connected to potable water systems.
Thanks for picking up the blog again - love it!
04/02/2012, Vineland
I had three must stops on my drive back to home (Canada) from Miami in February The Swap Shop Flea market, Sailor Man (both in Fort Laurdale), and The Sailors Exchange in St. Augustine. I was interested in finding R.O. water maker in need of TLC at good prices. The Flea Market was good for a walk around and a arm full of T-shirts for family and friends at home. Sailor Man's cheapest water maker was $1800.
I day later I was at Sailor Exchange eyes wide open at all the boat bits new and used.
They had a old HRO System 9 with an HP Cat pump and AC motor, electrical control box, 40" membrane housing. The unit was rated for 500 gals per day. Price $200. I thought it might be a bit more of a project than I wanted. As I was about to leave I spotted a complete Profurl roller furling unit, 44 ft. of foil, and manuals. Profurl units are completely re-buildable the bearings and seals are off the shelf items. I spoke with the owner and he wanted $500 for the Profurl and for additional $150 I could have the water maker too. SOLD!!!!!
I have rebuilt the Proful (cost $60 for 2 bearings and 4 lip seals) I will install it this spring on Ocean Dove's inner forestay for the jib stay sail.
The water maker is at the re-design and parts accruement stage.
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04/02/2012, Vineland
The Generator 240/120 volts and two shore power connections pass through a Blue Sea transfer switch 4-pole, 3-position, Generator, Off, Shore Power, before going to the AC panel. The AC panel is divided into two sections either for each 120 volts legs from the generator or each shore power connection depending on the position of the transfer switch. There is a paralleling interlocking switch if you have only one shore connection.
I will divide the AC load between the two 120 volts section, one air conditioning unit on each section (12000 btu in main salon, 7000 btu in aft cabin), port and stbd side wall plugs, and so on.
There is also a interlocking shore power or ship power switch, this was originally for the a ships 120 volts generator. I will use it to connect the Ship's 2 KW invertor.
I will post more info and photos later.
The photo is the Blue sea transfer switch wiring diagram.
04/02/2012, Vineland
Three weeks ago on a cloudy weekend I had the hull buffed.
04/02/2012, Vineland
Two years ago I replaced the DC side of the electrical panel. After rethinking my AC system I replaced the AC panel this winter. The new AC panel can accommodate two 30 amp shore power and generator. I will go into details later but Gerry asked for photos along time ago.


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Toni Braxton Reveals She Had a Secret Abortion (VIDEO)
Toni Braxton is gearing up to let it all hang out these days, thanks to her soon-to-be released memoir, Unbreak My Heart. Of course, we expect to learn intimate details about Toni's upbringing, business relationships with her relatives, somewhat sudden divorce, and shocking bankruptcy. But there's something else she reveals — a secret abortion!
According to The Daily News, Toni pens that more than 10 years ago, she learned that she was pregnant for her then boyfriend, Keri Lewis (who she later married). At the time, Toni writes that she was in the middle of a six-month prescription of Accutane, a heavy duty acne medication which could cause serious problems for her pregnancy. Toni ultimately made the decision to terminate the pregnancy, not for fear of the baby, but for her own well-being.
Toni admits that for weeks after the procedure, she had been filled with guilt — especially being the daughter of a preacher and having a deeply religious upbringing. However, she admits that had she not been on the medication, she still would've gone through with her decision.
Years later, Toni was still haunted by the abortion, and even started to wonder if some of the unfortunate circumstances in her life — her second son, Diezel, being diagnosed with autism, and her own Lupus diagnosis — were punishments from God for her decision all those years ago.
"Is God punishing me for that abortion?" she writes, wonder if her parent's messy divorce could've also been "God's payback" for what she had done.
"I am more ashamed of myself for doing that," Toni says of her abortion in her exclusive interview with Entertainment Tonight which airs tonight, Monday, May 19.
Of course, we're not here to judge Toni's decision, but we commend her for opening up to the world about a shocking moment in her past.
Unbreak My Heart: A Memoir by Toni Braxton goes on sale Tuesday, May 20 and her exclusive Entertainment Tonight interview airs tonight, Monday, May 19 at 7:30 p.m. ET on CBS.
What do you think of Toni Braxton's secret abortion revelation? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below!
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Things Texans should be losing sleep over instead of same-sex marriage
OK, maybe it bothers you that same-sex couples might be allowed to marry in Texas some day. Buck up. As a Texan, you've got a lot of other things you should be worrying about besides what's going on behind someone else's closed door.
By John Boyd
on February 27, 2014 6:02 PM
We're running out of water.
Our baseball teams stink.
Willie Nelson is getting older.
We don't empower our female Texans.
We all have jacked up teeth.
Pretty soon, politicians are going to ruin tubing.
Our school kids are getting lost.
People still assume we're racist.
We stink at taking tests.
You can't spell.
Our kids are poor and hungry.
We're killing our beautiful state.
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Travel & City Guide
Business Class to Bucharest
It is the capital city of Romania and the cultural, industrial, and financial center of Romania. Bucharest has been dated back since the year of 1459, with its architecture resembling its past history. Being the largest city in Romania and the financial institute of Romania, business travelers may feel at home, being that there is so much to learn in a new atmosphere. That is not all that Bucharest has to offer there are business class hotels, shopping centers, and restaurants for the entire family.
If you are interested in Romania architecture, be sure to visit Village Museum, also known as Muzuel Satului. This includes more than 300 buildings that represent the historic rural of Romania's architecture. The best way to truly see the city is to take a bike ride around the city. With Cycling Romania you and a guide along with other tourist take a journey around the city while on bikes. You can go by wheels of by feet with Guided Bucharest Free Walking Tours. You, your guide, and other tourist take a walk along the city looking around at the wonderful architecture. During you stay be sure to enjoy a nice meal at Bucharest luxury restaurants that can be found around the city.
Bucharest Business Travel Tips
There are two major airports in Bucharest, Bucharest Henri Coanda International and Bucharest Baneasa International. Bucharest Henri Coanda international is well adapted for those looking into business class flights to Bucharest and business travelers. During your stay take into mind the many 5 star luxury hotels the Bucharest has to offer such as Radisson Blu Hotel.


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Family Law
Family Law Questions? Ask a Family Lawyer Online.
DearCustomer- There is really no way to tell you when a will needs to be updated since everyone's situation is different. A will is valid until a person dies so if it is never updated it still is a valid will regardless of when it was executed.
The general rule is that a will should be updated when there is a significant change in the life of the testator. Marriage, divorce, childbirth, tax laws, and family member's deaths are some of the more obvious reasons that a will should be reviewed. Whenever one of these events occur there may be a need to review but not necessarily change a will.
If a small change is needed the testator can have a codicil added to the will without having the entire will rewritten. The best way to know if a will needs to be updated is to be aware of significant changes in you family situation. It certainly doesn't hurt to have the will reviewed every few years even without significant changes. Sometimes the tax laws are changed that can affect an estate so that is something that can happen that you may not be aware of as easily as a change in your immediate family.
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I know, there are millions of variations of the which components care what speed your set up is. I still don't get this one, though. Here's the deal--I bought a used bike, it's running 7sp casette with a triple. It's just about time to get a new wheelset, and I'm thinking it makes sense to build on new 9 sp hubs in case I want to upgrade the whole drivetrain. I know I can use a spacer to run my 7 sp cassette on my hub until I upgrade.
Here's my question--when I upgrade to 9 sp, I know I need to change casette, chain and RD. Do I need to chain my crank or chainrings?
Also, I'm using barcons. I'm not sure what speed they are. How can I tell what speed they are. They're Shimano "light duty" bar ends.
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Today's Daily Dickhead honors are shared by every employee of an organization known as Personhood Mississippi; who single handedly make me want to vomit simply by placing the word 'personhood' with that of, the mental midget capital of the US, 'Mississippi.'
Thanks to Personhood Mississippi, the state will be voting in the 2011 general election on whether or not abortion should be criminalized in their state; by including the following question on their ballot:
"Should the term 'person' be defined to include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the equivalent thereof?"
(Is it me or can you imagine some one-toothed hillbilly asking people at the voting station "Ummm, exx-cuuuuuze mayyy…ummm, what does 'thayyy-errrr uhhhvvvv' mean?')
And for those of you wondering how this question would impact victims of rape and sexual abuse, fear not! Personhood Mississippi has your back! Last week, they held a week long workshop entitled the "Conceived In Rape Lecture Series" and, aside from having a name which brings to mind the absolute LAST subject I'd ever want to hear a lecture about, was led by Personhood Mississippi spokesperson Rebecca Kiessling, who told her story of being conceived during rape and put up for adoption. She located her birth mother who told her that, if abortion had been legal at the time, she would've aborted Rebecca instead of putting her up for adoption.
Rachel Maddow caught wind of Personhood Mississippi's pleasantly named tour and criticized them heavily, saying that the organization is 'forcing women who are victims in rape to bear the rapist's child'. To which Kiessling replied:
"I am not the rapist's child! He doesn't even know of my existence, as in most rape cases. And what an insult to the majority of rape victims who not only choose life for their child, but choose to raise their child. After everything they've been through, Maddow has the audacity to refer to the rape victim's child as being 'the rapist's child'?! She does not speak for the majority of rape victims who express that their child has brought them healing, helping them to overcome the rape. The ones who abort are four times more likely to die within the next year. If you truly have compassion for a rape victim, you'd want to protect her from the abortion and not the baby! A baby is not the worst thing that could ever happen to a rape victim — an abortion is."
Look, this is a really really touchy subject. But, as a survivor of rape and sexual abuse, I feel as though I can speak on the matter a little by simply saying that ALL people should have the choice to do what they want to with their own bodies. This is not a religious issue, nor should it be the issue of ANY other human being OTHER than the victims, themselves. PERIOD.
My stance is firm that whether we're talking about gay rights or abortion rights or any other kind of rights that have to do with what OTHER people do with THEIR OWN LIVES, the law should butt-out and let people do whatever makes them comfortable. Ugh. I fucking HATE this issue and I'm so sick of people turning it into anything other than an issue between a woman and HER body.
Why anyone would WANT to live in Mississippi is beyond me, but regardless, everybody should be free to choose to do anything with their own bodies and lives that they wish to (as long as it's not harming anyone else).
Watch Maddow's story below.
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Watch The Fight Between 50 Cent And Gunplay Get Out Of Hand Quickly
By Mack Rawden 4 years ago
The skirmish between Rick Ross and Young Jeezy may have gotten the lions share of the headlines following the BET Hip Hop Awards, but new footage makes it clear the undercard between Gunplay and 50 Cents posse was pretty intense too. The clip shows the Candy Shop hitmaker and four or five of his buddies including Mike Knox get approached by Gunplay right before all hell breaks loose. Punches are thrown. Heads are slammed into guard rails, and security guards sprint to try to and break the whole thing up.
Not surprisingly, the footage is extremely NSFW. There is violence, swearing and adult themes. If your boss is around, hold off on watching. Otherwise, take a look, courtesy of World Star Hip Hop
I have no idea what the hell Gunplay said to trigger the brawl, but according to TMZ, Mike Knox told a radio station this morning the rapper wasnt behaving in the best fashion and got his ass kicked because of it. Regardless of the reason, the evening should have been about celebrating the best hip hop has to offer. Instead, because of this incident and the Ross/ Jeezy brawl, its turned into a violent scandal.
Heres to hoping everyone involved works their issues out verbally next time.


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Discovering Medieval History: Museum of the Middle Ages
It seems Paris is a most beautiful picture painted by a most talented artist who not only most accurately picked the colors, but also paid a most careful attention to every detail. Everything in this city is so harmonious that even the garbage can seem a masterpiece. To be honest, sometimes it even seems the city has combined most popular historical wonders. One such ancient venue is the National Museum of the Middle Ages, where you will appear face to face with the rich middle-age heritage of France and get a unique experience exploring the thousands of paintings, sculptures and items the museum houses. So let's together discover medieval Paris!
The National Museum of the Middle Ages is located in the center of gorgeous Paris, on the left bank of the Seine. The museum represents two periods: Antiquity and the Medieval Period. Consequently, you will learn the history of France dating from the 6th century BC to the early 16th century AD. The museum boasts of one of the biggest medieval collections in the world. It has a beautiful garden to have a rest and enjoy artistic atmosphere. If offers an incredible collection of items representing Gothic sculptures and paintings, illuminated manuscripts and stained glass windows, tapestries and fabrics from the Middle Ages.
The Museum was founded in 1843 by a man who was passionate about the Middle Ages: Alexandre Du Sommerard. Since then the collection has been enlarged with new valuable items. The Museum of the Middle Ages features the Cluny thermal baths, which are the best preserved of the three Gallo-Roman baths built in Paris in the 1st and 3rd centuries AD. Centuries ago these baths made from stone and brick were meant for the public. Still three rooms are visible. They are the frigidarium (cold room) and two caldaria (hot room). You will also find jewelry and coins, Gallo-Roman remains like the Pillar of the Boatmen and sculpted ivories from the Eastern Roman Empire.
There is another part in the museum called Abbots of Cluny, more popular as Hotel de Cluny. It dates back to the 15th century and is the largest Parisian Manson built between courtyard and garden. The Medieval garden of the museum of the of truly relaxing and intriguing spaces including the vegetable garden, the celestial garden and the garden of love is inspired by the medieval collections inside.
Don't miss the first-floor room full of back-lit stained-glass, which you can see closer than you could ever hope to in a church. The second-floor room of reliquaries is fabulous as well. Where else could you see something built to hold Christ's umbilical cord or a Pope's ring?
And lastly, a tip for families with kids (or adults) who are Harry Potter fans — near the top of the stairs taking up to the Unicorn tapestries, Nicholas Flamel's tombstone (which he himself designed before he died) is displayed on the wall. Anyone who has read the first Harry Potter book and was inspired by it like once I did, will love it!


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Queen's Grant High School principal, Dr. Mike Smith, presented a talk to the Mint Hill Chamber of Commerce last Thursday entitled "Queen's Grant High School: Our legacy, past, present, and future." Queen's Grant is a local public charter school founded in 2006. Its doors opened to students in the fall of 2007, and it moved from the Garr Christian Academy to its current location on Idlewild Road in 2009.
Smith clarified that a charter school is a school of choice, and it does not raise taxes. Charter schools exist on the same money allocated to other public schools, and Queen's Grant does not receive money for buildings.
Before coming to Mint Hill, Smith was the founding principal of the Greensboro Academy. Mayor Ted Biggers and a group of about 25 parents visited Greensboro to learn more about building a school for Mint Hill. What resulted was a partnership with National Heritage Academies and the founding of Queen's Grant Community School, offering kindergarten through eighth grade. The success of that institution inspired the establishment of Queen's Grant High School. Smith joined the staff as principal last fall.
Presently, Queen's Grant proudly offers 10 advanced placement courses. It is a no-nonsense campus that holds students accountable.
"If you can remember what school was like in the late '50s, early '60s, that's what ours is like. We don't tolerate anything," said Smith. "Expectations are extremely high."
In the next few years, Smith wants to see 18 AP courses offered. He wants an enrollment of 750 students and another campus.
"Sports are not our focus," he said, but he does want sports to be available to students. Volunteers are assisting with athletic fields. The school is adding soccer, baseball, and lacrosse.
As Queen's Grant looks to the future, it will continue to hold students accountable and prepare them for college.
"We will not lower the bar. You have to rise to our expectations," said Smith.
A large majority of last year's graduating class of 88 students said they intended to further their academic careers – 95 percent. As a whole, the class had been accepted to over 50 colleges, including William and Mary, UNC Chapel Hill, NC State, the Citadel, Virginia Tech, Clemson, and Baylor.


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Skyla Rain Renner - February 09, 2011
Amanda Renner of Denver is proud to announce the birth of her daughter, Skyla Rain Renner, born Feb. 9, 2011 at 11:44 a.m. Skyla weighed 6 pounds, 5 ounces and was 19 inches long.
Grandparents are Joe and Kellee Renner of Holyoke. Great-grandparents are Graeme and Dolly Smith of Holyoke and the late Grant Salyers.


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The Bone Marrow Registry in Nigeria, with help from the National Marrow
Donor Program, is organizing a pilot HLA population frequency analysis in
sub-regions of Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana. This is a feasibility study for a
subsequent HLA population analysis on a larger scale.
The pilot study will take HLA samples from bone marrow donors and correlate
their genetic information with geography and ancestry informative markers
to create an "HLA map" of a certain region and/or ethnic group.
Most major donor registries use search algorithms that rely HLA population
data; and that data is largely missing for Africa. This pilot data will
begin to gather than missing information, and hopefully secure funding to
do more donor drives and gather more data.
So far we have identified three potential collection sites in Nigeria, and
are researching two more: one in Ghana, the other in Kenya. Ideally, the
site will be based at an academic medical institution with has a focus on
hematology, sickle cell or cancer care.
We are seeking around 50 participants for each site. In addition to joining
the bone marrow registry, we will ask permission from the donors to use
their ancestry information to help analyze the HLA frequencies in the
general population.
If you are located in either Kenya and Ghana, and are interested in being
part of this project, please send me an email at with
your CV. You will be asked to help identify potential collection
sites, organize participants, obtain informed consent, etc.
Thanks for the mail.I will put you in contact with someone who will be of immense help.
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Hugh Grant's Warhol fortuneHugh Grant is set to make £15 million from the sale of his Andy Warhol portrait of Elizabeth Taylor.
The 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' actor bought the iconic work from Sotheby's auction house in New York for £2 million six years ago and it is now expected to fetch £17 million when it goes under the hammer next month.
The turquoise 'Liz' - which is one of 13 images of the 'Cleopatra' actress that Warhol made from a publicity photograph in 1963 - will head Christie's Post War and Contemporary Art Sale at New York's Rockefeller Centre on November 13.
The sale comes at a time when the international art market is struggling because of financial uncertainty owing to the collapse of the US housing market.
However, insiders say Hugh has made sure his investment will be well looked after as he has managed to secure a £10 million sale guarantee with Christie's.
Critics of the work have complained it is "heavy-handed" and not as sharp as the other 12 'Liz' portraits in the series.
Hugh's representative has refused to comment on why the actor has decided to sell the piece.
In 2005, the scarlet 'Liz' sold for £6.7million at Sotheby's in New York.
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Calxeda, the company that pioneered the concept of making corporate data center computers run on the same low-power chips that power your smartphone, has closed its doors, executives told Business Insider. "We have not filed for bankruptcy. We are restructuring and will know more as that process progresses. In the meantime, we are closing the office to preserve cash," Karl Freund, vice president of marketing for Calxeda told Business Insider. We have pressed Freund for details on how many employees are affected and if any are being laid off. We will update when he responds. Calxeda, based in
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To all folks, Merry Christmas! While it has been 25 December like 12 hours ago (for me), I know bluesnow is still at December 24, hence the reason for the late post :3.
So what are you doing on Christmas? Celebration with friends, family? Or spending your time at home, doing nothing? For me it's nothing! But I decided to clean my room during this period, hence I have something to keep me occupied. ^^"
I don't celebrate Christmas at all, so no presents for me. I'm sure bluesnow celebrates, so I'm expecting a Christmas post from her :P.
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USS HARRY S. TRUMAN, At Sea (NNS) -- Ships from the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (HST CSG), along with 13 foreign ships from nine nations, began Joint Task Force Exercise (JTFEX) 09-4 Sept. 14.
JTFEX is a scenario-driven tactical exercise that focuses on major combat operations for the HST CSG, which will provide necessary training for the strike group to proceed into a Fleet Synthetic Training - Joint (FST-J) exercise for final deployment certification.
JTFEX provides a "graduate-level" exercise to ensure U.S. and coalition forces are interoperable, capable and ready to execute the six core capabilities of the Maritime Strategy - forward presence, deterrence, sea control, power projection, maritime security and humanitarian assistance/disaster response.
"JTFEX 09-4 will present the strike group with challenging, dynamic exercise threats. This scenario, and the opportunity to work with our coalition partners will prepare our strike group for the varied missions we will be assigned when we deploy," said Rear Adm. Patrick Driscoll, commander, Carrier Strike Group 10.
Leadership on board HST is looking forward to the challenge.
"Like all exercises, JTFEX is a great learning opportunity. It's also a chance to show the rest of the Navy the hard work and dedication the Sailors and Marines aboard USS Harry S. Truman put forth every day," said Capt. Joe Clarkson, the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) commanding officer.
Participating countries include Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, The United Kingdom and The United States. Some of the participating units include the Canadian ship HMCS Fredericton (FFG 337), Brazilian ship BNS Liberale (F43), Italian submarine ITS Scire (S527), and Royal Netherland ships HNLMS Tromp (F803) and HNLMS Van Speijk (F828).
JTFEX 09-4 also marks the first ever inclusion of the Standing NATO Mine Counter Measures Group 1, which includes the Danish ocean patrol vessel HDMS Thetis (F357), the Belgian coastal minehunter BNS Lobelia (M 921), the Royal Netherland minehunter HNLMS Urk (M861), the Estonian minehunter ENS Sakala (M314), the British minesweeper HMS Quorn, and the Royal Norwegian minesweeper KNM Rauma (M352). In addition to the foreign ships and units, HST CSG has embarked several foreign naval liaison officers to incorporate into its training.
"The Royal Navy participates in the exercise with two frigates and we're looking forward to the exercise," said Royal Netherlands Navy Commander Bud Boots. "I think the exercise is a perfect training opportunity for us to practice real coalition cooperaion."
"This exercise is a great opportunity for the Brazilian Navy to learn and interact with other Navies," said Brazilian Navy Lt. Cezar Santos.
The HST CSG is made up of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), with its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3 and embarked Destroyer Squadron 26 staff, the guided-missile cruiser USS Hue City (CG 66); the guided-missile destroyers USS Carney (DDG 64), USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79) and USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81).
CVW-3 consists of Strike Fighter Squadrons VFA-32, VFA-37, VFA-105 and VMFA-312; Tactical Electronics Warfare Squadron VAQ-130; Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron VAW-126; and Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron HS-7.
For more news from USS Harry S. Truman, visit www.navy.mil/local/cvn75/.


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Shepherd's Youth Ministry
The Shepherd Youth Ministry commits itself to service to others while having a lot of fun. With service, study, fun and games, Shepherd Youth Ministry provides opportunities for discovery and friendship for 3rd - 5th grade, Junior and Senior High Youth.
Junior and Senior High Youth enjoy many activities such as movie nights, games, minature golf, etc.
Youth Groups
Both youth groups are under the direction of Stacey Roeder and Caitlin Garcia. Open to all youth, grades 6 and up.
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Baby Name Poll Results
Julia Wylie vs. Kristina Wylie vs. Allison Wylie
Hi, I would appreciate help with my daughters firat name. I am open to first name suggestions but Wylie is going to stay as her middle name. Thank yall, Brooke
The Top Baby Name is...
|Julia Wylie
|25% (2 votes)
|Kristina Wylie
|50% (4 votes)
|Allison Wylie
|25% (2 votes)
Love Kristina spelled this way.
posted by guest :: 2013-07-24 16:39:22 | report
That was supposed to say First.
Thank yall, Brooke
Thank yall, Brooke
posted by guest :: 2013-07-24 16:39:46 | report
Wylie is horrible! Why not use Willow or something?!
I vote for Julia Willow, Kristina Willow or Allison Willow but NOT Wylie!
I vote for Julia Willow, Kristina Willow or Allison Willow but NOT Wylie!
posted by guest: Kelly :: 2013-07-24 16:52:40 | report
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This file contains the raw sensor data used the ECCV 2014 paper, "SRA: Fast Removal of General Multipath for ToF Sensors" by D. Freedman, Y. Smolin, E. Krupka, I. Leichter, and M. Schmidt. This includes data for 3 separate scenes, see Section 5.4 of the paper. All files are binaries, whose formats are explained in the README.txt.
Date: 26 November 2014
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This download represents the source code supporting the 2012 SIGGRAPH paper, "Foveated 3D Graphics", available at http://research.microsoft.com. Dependencies on any specific gaze tracker have been removed, and replaced by function stubs which track the mouse cursor. The stubs may be filled in with calls to any high speed low latency gaze tracker. In particular, the key anti-aliasing techniques as described in the paper are demonstrated. The source code implementing the foveated rendering techniques is...
Date: 17 September 2014
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Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer is a open-source toolkit for rapid prototyping of small electronic gadgets and embedded hardware devices
Date: 26 July 2013
Version: 2.43.800
Type: CodePlex project
This is a bus-mastering PCIe FPGA design for the Xilinx ML605 development board that acts as an interface between a PC host's main memory and the DDR3 SODIMM on the ML605 board. An accompanying WDM driver and test application demonstrate how to access the hardware and provide speed and memory tests running at up to 1.5 gigabytes per second. The accompanying paper may be found in the proceedings of FPL 2012.
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This API provides users with a standard FPGA communication interface from C++ code. It is intended to encourage more widespread adoption of FPGAs and reconfigurable computing platforms — particularly among Windows application developers. In addition to a few bug fixes, this version adds two new features: 1)compatibility with the Windows 7 Virtual PC network driver and 2) provides fully plug-compatible Modelsim simulation of the hardware.
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The "extensible MIPS" is a dynamically extensible processor that offers application-specific hardware in a general-purpose, multiuser system environment. It enables multiple secure extensions to load dynamically and extend the core instruction set of the microprocessor. Extended instructions can speed application programs dramatically just by patching their binaries. The eMIPS prototype is built out of a Xilinx FPGA using the XUP board. Source and software tests are included in this download.
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Giano is a framework for the full-system simulation of arbitrary computer systems, with special emphasis on the hardware-software co-development of system software and Real-Time embedded applications. Giano includes both software models for CPU, I/O, busses and memories, and HDL simulators. Full source and a number of full-systems examples are included.
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A customizable image viewer for use with the SenseCam or the Vicon Revue, providing facilities for reviewing a sequence of SenseCam images, as well as for tagging and exporting them.
Date: 20 December 2010
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This is a compiler for the Bulk-Synchronous GPU Programming (BSGP) language. BSGP is a new language for general-purpose computation on a graphics processing unit (GPU). BSGP programs look similar to sequential C programs, and programmers need to supply only a bare minimum of extra information to describe parallel processing on GPUs. As a result, BSGP programs are easy to read, write, and maintain, and the ease of programming does not come at the cost of performance.
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The PSL-to-Verilog compiler (P2V) generates hardware checkers for assertions made on a software program, using the Property Specification Language (PSL). The compiler is written in Python and compiles for the eMIPS dynamically extensible processor.
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Heartland lessons
When has economic prosperity made us better people?
I became a truck driver for five days last week, chugging 2,600 miles in a huge diesel Freightliner up, across, and then back down the nation's heartland. It was an exhilarating and depressing trip. My assignment was to pick up, from four different sites, more than four tons of old printing equipment. WORLD readers had responded generously to my earlier columns about my dream of establishing here at our offices an operating museum featuring historic tools of the printing craft. In addition to the Linotype I described before, I found two wonderful platen presses (one from the 1800s), several dozen cases of foundry type, a huge imposing table, and dozens of odds and ends. Also offered to us as a gift-but not yet picked up-are two Washington hand presses, whose design dates back to colonial days. I'll mention them again, but they were in the wrong direction for this trip. Instead, I crossed the mountains from Asheville, heading west through Tennessee and Kentucky, and then realized that the fall harvest in southern Illinois and central Missouri was in full swing. As I rumbled into Council Bluffs, Iowa, right across the Missouri River from Omaha, Neb., an unusual single-vehicle accident had stalled all traffic on the northbound interstate. The truck was three times as big as my own, carrying a load of freshly picked and shelled corn to market. But the load was so heavy the truck had split completely across its overladen middle, and the golden grain poured richly across three lanes of traffic. Slightly delayed and then rerouted, I headed on up the Missouri River valley to Tea, S.D., a burgeoning suburb of Sioux Falls, where WORLD reader Mel Hartman had stayed past quitting time to help me load my first press. Then it was back east across my home state of Iowa (including a quick visit in the small town of Holland to my father's gravesite, just a few hundred yards from the grain elevator he once owned), and south along the Mississippi River to St. Louis and then to Vandalia, Ill., for three more equipment pickups. The itinerary left some enduring impressions:
- God has made this an incredibly productive nation. Our breadbasket is bursting. Neither human beings nor animals can gobble corn and soybeans as fast as these ever more efficient farmers can grow them. Scientists at the big Midwestern universities and in the mega-corporations are working on new uses for agricultural products-like fueling the big truck I was driving, or maybe using cornstalks as a substitute for wood in the manufacture of paper for WORLD magazine. But for now, the surpluses are still enormous.
- Along with its productivity, our society has been blessed with a remarkable infrastructure. Experts claim that Russia's natural resources are easily equal to those of the United States. But Russian farmers suffer the perpetual frustration of growing good crops only to see them rot in the fields. Throughout our own farm belt, however, gigantic trucks thunder down tens of thousands of miles of modern hard-surface roads, speeding crops to market. Railroads, gas lines, and electrical grids crisscross the countryside. Almost all this infrastructure is modern as can be, put in place for the most part since World War II.
- Yet for all these wonders, the surpluses are leading, as they have in so many previous cycles, to economic crisis in the farmlands. Grain is being dumped on the ground and covered with plastic sheeting. So what if the fields are producing 120 bushels an acre? If you have 500 acres of corn, you might have 60,000 bushels to sell-but at $2.10 a bushel, you'll barely cover your costs. A hog farmer was inviting anyone who wanted free bacon or pork chops to stop by and pick up one or two pigs; he got more satisfaction from that, he said, than from selling them at less than his cost. Hogs last week had dropped to $21-which means those pork chops and bacon were bringing farmers just 21¢ a pound. After several prosperous years in the Midwest, the coming months will bring new bankruptcies and foreclosures. It's an old story in modern dress.
- All this tends to leave the middle part of our nation politically confused. After decades of overinvolvement by Uncle Sam in clumsy and heavy-handed agricultural welfare, the 1990s brought adoption of the so-called "Freedom to Farm Act"-a free-market measure designed to cleanse the landscape of the clutter of federal control. It doesn't take many months of low farm prices, though, to send even conservatives in Congress scurrying back to billion-dollar bailout packages like the one included in the October budget. Last week's elections produced Iowa's first Democratic governor in 50 years, but there's not really a dime's worth of difference between the two parties these days in terms of farm policy.
- And even if free-market economics were carrying the day in our farm belt-which it probably isn't-good thinking on other issues is equally hard to come by.
Surprisingly, the big radio stations like KMOX in St. Louis and WHO in Des Moines (where Ronald Reagan used to announce baseball games) have taken on a strong conservative cast. Their schedules are full of Rush Limbaugh, Michael Reagan, and Dr. Laura. But it's an ornery kind of conservatism; too many of Rush's jokes aren't even printable in WORLD. So you have to ask: Why has it been so rare in human history that prosperity has made us better people?


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May 25, 2016
Turnout was an issue during Tuesday's Mississippi primaries.
There are no official turnout totals for the state, but all indications are that it was dismal.
One large precinct in Lauderdale County, the Martin precinct, with almost 800 registered voters, didn't see a single voter all day.
Only 350 people voted in Lauderdale County.
Statewide, there were only congressional primaries on the ballot. Those primaries did not involve incumbents, who will be on the November ballot.
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