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The latest round of cuts proposed by Gov. Chris Gregoire would increase public-school class sizes, eliminate subsidized health care for the working poor and release hundreds of inmates early.
OLYMPIA — For the fourth year in a row, Gov. Chris Gregoire on Thursday outlined more than $1.5 billion in state cuts to health care, social services, prisons and education.
The latest round would increase public-school class sizes, eliminate subsidized health care for the working poor and release hundreds of inmates early.
"These are pretty much the very shocking things we've been trying to avoid for the last three years," Senate Ways and Means Chairman Ed Murray, D-Seattle, said of the governor's proposal.
"There are no choices left," he added.
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The Legislature has already trimmed billions in spending over the past several years due to the struggling economy.
If Gregoire's recommendations are enacted, they'd roll back spending roughly to where it was in the 2005-07 budget.
Yet the governor isn't about to promise the worst is over.
"Are we done, are we at the bottom?" she said. "If Congress messes up royal again, no. If the debt crisis blows up in Europe, no. We're at that critical point now where we could pull out of this dramatically, or we could slip into another recession."
The Legislature is to convene in a special session Nov. 28 to start rewriting the $32.2 billion two-year budget adopted in May. It's now about $2 billion in the hole.
The governor has proposed more than 160 individual cuts ranging from $100,000 to more than $100 million. All told, they add up to $1.65 billion.
Gregoire also recommends delaying a state payment to public schools by one day, pushing $330 million of costs into the next budget cycle. It's an accounting trick that doesn't actually reduce spending.
The single largest cut is a $166 million hit to higher education — a 15 percent drop in state funding for public colleges and universities.
Gregoire also proposed reducing state levy-equalization payments to property-poor school districts by 50 percent overall, with the poorest districts getting more help than those better off. She also suggested increasing class size by two students in grades 4-12, saving $137 million.
Local governments would take a hit, with the state no longer sharing liquor profits and excise taxes with cities and counties. That would cost the city of Seattle $7.2 million a year and King County $1.85 million, city and county officials said.
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The state's Basic Health Plan would close, ending state-subsidized insurance for about 35,000 low-income people. Offenders considered at low or moderate risk to re-offend would be released from prison 150 days early.
The governor noted the cuts unveiled Thursday are just recommendations, and that she'll talk to the communities and groups that would be affected before releasing a full budget proposal after the Nov. 17 revenue forecast.
She said she has no choice but to cut deeper.
"I have to be honest with myself and the people of the state of Washington," she said. "While my heart is there, my pocketbook is empty."
In Seattle, school officials had braced for reductions but were surprised at Gregoire's proposals, which would cut $365 million in all from K-12 schools.
Seattle School Board President Steve Sundquist called the suggestions "devastating."
"We've made cuts now three years running," he said. "It's getting increasingly hard to keep those cuts from impacting our students, so I'm extraordinarily worried."
In a statement, Interim Superintendent Susan Enfield noted that class size in Seattle Public Schools is controlled by a contract with the teachers union, so the district would have to maintain current class sizes without support from the state.
She also said the governor's proposal would disproportionately hurt low-income students and increase the district's dropout rate.
Randy Dorn, the superintendent of the Office of Public Instruction, released a particularly blunt statement about Gregoire's suggestions.
"I understand why the governor must propose cuts and that this is just the beginning of the conversation, but these cuts can't happen," he said.
Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard called the proposed 15 percent cut to higher education "a disaster for Washington's economy and a disaster for Washington's families and children."
Gregoire also would suspend the state's work-study program, saving $8 million. That program was cut in half last year.
The state's six four-year colleges and universities have already seen their state funding slashed by about half over the past three years.
"The reality is, a cut of this nature is going to compromise the quality of what we do," said Washington State University President Elson Floyd. He said it would lead to larger class sizes and fewer staff members.
"I am going to put up a huge fight not to have this budget implemented as recommended," he said.
Many groups are urging lawmakers to ask voters to increase taxes or eliminate tax exemptions to avoid the deepest cuts.
Some Democrats, including Murray, have talked about doing just that.
"Personally I believe it demonstrates we ought to give voters an option," Murray said, but added, "That is not at all, at this point, the position of my caucus. I think it will be a struggle to find the votes in the Senate."
Gregoire on Thursday did not rule out seeking more tax money, but said she hasn't looked at the options yet and isn't ready to discuss it.
"This is what the cuts look like," she said. "We have to ask ourselves now: Do we want to look at alternatives of revenue — what might they be, and do we want to go there?"
Sen. Joe Zarelli, R-Ridgefield, the ranking Republican on the Senate Ways and Means Committee, said Senate Republicans remain opposed to any tax increase. "To go out and look for how we can raise taxes temporarily or permanently is not a solution to our problem," he said.
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Woah, it's been a long time! Work has been exhausting for sure, and I meant to write a post about the Winnipeg Slutwalk and whatnot. Sadly the organizers have not gotten back to me and I had some epic questions of doom (and I don't know what that says about the movement, though I may write about that too).
Two things that happened this week in the world really stuck out at me though, in a good news/bad news kind of way. As usual, I'm finding it difficult to start anywhere because these things always lead to some impressive high and lows emotionally. Is it really that healthy for me to be invested this much?! Anyway, here goes!
1. That Personhood Thing In Mississippi
Look, I would be lying through my teeth if I told you that the first words out of my mouth were not "IN YOUR FUCKING FACE ANTI-CHOICE DOUCHECANOES!!" followed by a dance the husband described as "eccentric with a side of 80s". I'm sorry, but I am not a graceful winner at all and in cases like these? I'm going to celebrate. An amendment like this being defeated in a red state like Mississippi gives me some hope. Hope that the general public has sent a loud enough message that they want the government to stop fooling around in a woman's uterus. Of course, the fight isn't even close to over since they are gearing up to have these type of amendments tabled in other states. Personally I will completely and totally relax once shit like this fails in a state like Kansas…..oh Kansas….let's not get started on the horrors of Kansas, I don't think there is enough space on the internet for it.
Of course, that does not mean we can't pause for a brief moment of celebration. Though I do have a serious case of the neener-neeners, I am grateful that the people themselves soundly voted against this. I mean, it's fucking ridiculous on so many levels beyond just abortion. Women flush out fertilized eggs all the time, we're going to investigate them for murder now? Are we going to rifle through the menstrual contents of every woman and investigate every miscarriage for criminal activity? The IVF angle has been well explored too, are doctors going to want to perform the procedure knowing that sometimes it doesn't work? I mean, seriously, DID YOU FIND ANY JOBS IN THE CONTENTS OF THAT LADY'S UTERUS WHILE YOU WERE POKING AROUND?? I'm guessing no. Women don't give birth to jobs, which is what y'all promised, and we don't birth better economies either.
I was riding high on this win and feeling slightly better about the world until…..
2. Penn State Students Protest Because a Coach Got Appropriately Fired
Hey, you know what's not cool in any way, shape, or form? Child rape. You know what's just as disgusting? Covering up for a child rapist for DECADES. Joe Paterno did just that and got canned. GOOD. I hope the victims throw a civil suit right in his face and I hope he is ruined. Doing nothing in the face of sexual assault to me is just as bad as the assault itself, and like I said I'm not an entirely gracious person so I hope this isn't the end of the bad karma. So this seems like it could be good news right?
But OH-HO-HO does humanity ever fail me once again! People marched, protested, and rioted not because this douche helped to cover up child rape. They did that because, duh Americans, FOOTBALL.
Oh dear me guys, what could be more important that dealing with child rape in a serious matter?? SOME MOTHERFUCKING FOOTBALL GUYS!!! People are ANGRY that they fired THIS GREAT MAN because OMG FOOTBALL AND LEGACIES AND SHIT! It's apparently such a tragedy against Joe Paterno! Like, I know it sucks for the victims but FOOTBALL! GREAT COACH! PILLAR OF THE COMMUNITY! FOOOOOOOOOOTBAAAAAAALL!!
Ugh, anyone reading this that defends this man….that's what you sound like to me. You fucking disgust me to the core and you are a terrible person. You thing it's wrong that he got fired for covering up rape. You think what happened to HIM was unfair and horrible. You have basically said "fuck the victims, I want my football heroes". You sent a message to the victims of child rape that football is more important than how Joe Paterno failed them by keeping a blind eye. That makes you a terrible person. Full stop. You are what's wrong with how we treat rape as a crime. You are an example of rape culture. Terrible person, just like your buddy Joe.
Joe Paterno is no better than the Catholic Church covering up child rape. In my own opinion, I don't think he's any better than the rapists themselves, neither is Mike McQueary, who sent the message to the rapist (his name doesn't deserve the page views) that he can keep on doing this. It also sent the message to the victim "no one will help me". Fuck you very much if that is less serious than your precious fucking football team.
I'm really astounded at the level of asshattery surrounding this case. I'm astounded at the asshattery revolving around the almighty uterus. More than anything, I am astounded that we all still wake up in the mornings and keep on fighting for a better world. With shit like this, what hope do we really have?

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I like nekkid people as much as anyone (possibly more), but Abercrombie & Fitch's newly resuscitated quarterly magazine, set to arrive July 17, is making me feel a little dirty.
Chris Hansen's night reading will cost you $10 (and a one-way trip to hell) and is available for pre-order online, or later in stores. The magazine has taken a bit of a hiatus since 2003. Ironically, the issue ties in with A&F's back-to-school campaign. Ew.
The issue, which includes everything in our naughty gallery, was photographed by Bruce Weber and has a Hollywood screen test theme. Frankly, it looks more like an underage orgy to me. Nary a chest hair in sight, ya'll!
Endeavor to feel the thrill of being a sexual predator by looking through the gallery. I dare you.


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LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Kings stepped out of the home dugout and filed onto the fresh sheet of ice. Instead of a roof over their heads, helicopters hovered in the cloudy sky above Chavez Ravine.
Dodger Stadium isn't a field of dreams for many hockey players, but the Kings and the Anaheim Ducks are thrilled by the chance to play the NHL's most unlikely outdoor game tonight.
"We were trying to figure out how we could shoot a puck over the left-field wall," Los Angeles defenseman Robyn Regehr said. "Too many people around, though."
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A hockey rink is ready at Dodger Stadium for the upcoming 2014 NHL Stadium Series hockey game in Los Angeles. Los Angeles and Anaheim will play outdoors tonight.
Southern California's NHL teams came away from Friday's practices fairly impressed with the ice sheet in place for the league's first warm-weather stadium game. The temperature was high enough to cause some slush and steaminess on the ice, but it was nothing two Sun Belt teams haven't seen in actual NHL arenas before.
"It's a different feeling playing outdoors," Kings defenseman Drew Doughty said. "There are so many different aspects in the game that are going to make it more challenging for both teams - getting your legs moving, getting used to the ice, getting used to the boards. So instead of a skilled, high-paced game, I think you're going to see a physical battle out there, and I think that's something a lot of real hockey fans will appreciate."
The teams skated with friends and family on the ice after practice while workers put the final touches on the unique accoutrements for California's outdoor game.
The beach volleyball court in left field is ready, and so is the performance stage in right. There's a ball hockey court between the mound and the backstop, and a cordon of palm trees just behind the open center-field fence.
"This is the crown jewel for hockey in Southern California," Ducks defenseman Ben Lovejoy said. "We both live in a great part of the world, and this will be a great showcase for how far hockey has come in this area."
The boards, benches and glass were trucked in from the Winter Classic in Ann Arbor, Mich., but the ice has been built up patiently over the last 10 days. The league's ice-making crew covered the sheet in a heat-reflecting blanket during the day and worked through the night to establish a game-worthy surface.
NHL facilities guru Dan Craig's improbable ice sheet actually has been among the smoothest aspects of this strange chapter in the league's expansion of its outdoor slate this season. While Southern California's growing hockey fan base embraced the novelty of the concept, the league overpriced tickets for the event, forcing reductions to avoid the embarrassment of a non-sellout.
But the hiccups likely will be forgotten when fans get a look at the ice in the middle of baseball's third-oldest active park.
"I've been asking for an outdoor game here for a long time," Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf said. "I'm just glad I don't have to go out and freeze my butt off at one of these."
Dodger Stadium took on a carnival atmosphere, but the event is more than a mere sideshow. The Kings - the home team in this scenario - realize they've got two points at stake after losing 2-1 to the NHL-leading Ducks in Anaheim on Thursday night.
The game has been looming since well before Christmas, with players on both teams routinely facing questions about how they'll adapt to the unusual atmosphere and unfamiliar ice. After talking about the game for weeks, players on both teams are grateful for the chance to play it.
"The lights are going to be different, and the glare is going to be a little different," said Kings center Anze Kopitar, who grew up playing indoors in Slovenia. "But come game time, I don't think we're going to be worried too much about that."


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Stage productions from Utah universities invited to prestigious festival
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A 1937 black-and-white film brought to life on stage, in black and white.
An avant-garde playwright's meditation on American life and art.
A Restoration-era comedy with characters writing blogs and text messages received in the audience.
An original play exploring attitudes toward Mexican migrants using golf as a metaphor.
These theater productions — all from Utah universities — are being staged this week at the prestigious Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Los Angeles. With the innovations and quality of these shows, it's a record-breaking year for the state in theater. The four productions in the 2011 regional competition are the largest number from the state in a single year.
The festival is Feb. 8-12 at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, and Brigham Young University, Utah State University, Utah Valley University and Weber State University are all represented.
"On a national level, we have an enormous amount of respect for the theater programs in Utah. The Utah productions have always been a tent pole at the festival," said Gregg Henry, national artistic director of the festival. "In fact, we're not surprised to see so many great productions come out of Utah; we have come to expect it."
Considering that all universities and colleges in Region 8 — schools located in central and southern California, Arizona, southern Nevada, Hawaii and Utah — are able to submit productions to be considered for the festival, the honor becomes resoundingly clear.
According to John H. Binkley, a regional festival chair, two Utah universities have consistently been able to achieve success.
"UVU and Weber State are the only two schools in our region that have such a strong record of successful productions," said Binkley, an associate professor at California State University Northridge.
"Being selected to participate is similar to when your basketball team is invited to the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament," said Thomas Priest, chair of WSU's department of performing arts. "(The festival) is an exciting and educational experience for our students."
James Arrington, UVU's theatrical arts department chair, explained there is a benefit for students when they compete with the "mega" theater departments from other states in the region.
"When the students see themselves excelling against stiff competition, it's a great feeling, a lift," he said. "Students go head-to-head with other students in their chosen field and many are already graduate students. We also see what other universities are doing, and our students audition for prestigious summer programs and scholarships."
The four Utah shows are competing in Los Angeles for a chance to be selected at the national festival, held from April 18-23 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing.
The following is a look at each production.
"Do Not Hit Golf Balls Into Mexico," Utah State; Shawn Fisher and Adrianne Moore, directors.
With fictional characters created after company members conducted interviews around the Arizona and Mexico borderlands, "Golf Balls" was written by Fisher.
"As Americans, we often look down on Mexican migrants because we think they're lazy, but we fail to see these people have walked hundreds of miles through scorching desert to go to work so they can feed their families," Fisher said.
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I wanted to try out my new mini loaf tins again so I made these really quick loaves using the same polenta mixture as the Jasmine Tea Polenta Cakes and Sloe Polenta Cakes.
You'll need
- 200g soft unsalted butter
- 200g caster sugar
- 200g ground almonds
- 100g polenta
- 1.5 tsp baking powder
- 3 large eggs
- 2 medium sized oranges
- 10 mini loaf tins
- KitchenAid or electric mixer
To make them
- Preheat the oven to 160C.
- Grease and line the base and long sides of the mini loaf tins. very important! I totally forgot to do this the first time I made these and it was incredibly, irritatingly fiddly to get them out!
- Beat the butter and sugar until it's light and fluffy.
- Meanwhile measure out the polenta, ground almonds and baking powder in a bowl and stir together well.
- Add a third of this dry mix to the fluffy creamed sugar and butter with one egg and mix til combined.
- Add another third and another egg and mix well.
- Add the final third and last egg and mix well.
- Stop the mixer and add the orange zest and stir in til well combined.
- Divide the mix between the loaf tins. Don't overfill more than half way otherwise they will spill over and/or sink in the middle.
- Bake for approx 30-40 minutes til the mix is coming away from the tins.
- Leave to cool in the tins and then lift out with the help of the paper!
You can make a simple drizzle to go with these. I like adding some cardamom to it but cinnamon or even some fresh thyme. Just take the juice of the oranges and add 2 tbsp of icing sugar per orange. Gently heat it til it is a syrupy consistency.


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Is That Ryan Reynolds? Who Did His Hair, Vidal Sassoon?
So, the cameras have started rolling on Zack Snyder's "Man Of Steel" and to beat the shitty, crappy cell phone camera snaps of obsessive nerds from revealing the "first look" at Supes, Warner Bros. ha (mostly) beaten everyone to the punch by releasing the first still of Henry Cavill in tights and in action. And, yeah, we're going to need more convincing.
Our sub-headline pretty much says it all -- Clark Kent looks a bit odd. We're not sure what's going on his helmet head of hair which looks stolen from Nic Cage's wig wardrobe, and the overall look has the kind of aesthetic that Zack Snyder made his name on with "300." A kind of hyper realistic, kind of phony looking set design that will either work in creating a very comic book-like feel, or fail miserably in painting a sterile, lifeless environment (please see "Watchmen" for evidence of that). Yeah, we'll just go back to those Pittsburgh "The Dark Knight Rises" set photos taken from ten blocks away which still have more life in them than this.
But before we take this too far, let's just remember: this is one picture from a film that is two years away from hitting screens. But that said, first impressions do mean something. Anyway, Snyder has a helluva cast to work with so hopefully they'll be kicking things up a notch. Amy Adams, Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Michael Shannon, Antje Traue, Russell Crowe, Julia Ormond Harry Lennix, Christopher Meloni and Laurence Fishburne co-star in the flick that hits on June 14, 2013.


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Then re-installed the system and then booted. had to do yum update as no kpackagekit access. All fine after yum update. all seems good so far now!. Have been playing with red-hat for 10 years now and have been waiting for this to be as good as it is now, just as well as was getting sick of windows. Live in Australia and Microsoft has dominated the market for so long!. Would like to get this software out to as many people as possible! Would like to become and agent and build up the fedora name in Australia. I am an ex-Telstra tech who has been building carrier systems for 20 year now for Telstra and they are forcing people to use Microsoft or mac and will not give any help to Linux users. Funny because Telstra uses red-hat to run their network! Steve! ==


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Five million McMuffins served by McDonald's in the region during its first National Breakfast Dayposted on Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:00 AM
McDonald's biggest breakfast activation – National Breakfast Day – proved to be a groundbreaking success as 5,000 stores across Asia, Middle East and South Africa joined together to serve 5 million free McMuffins in the morning of March 18.
McDonald's Philippines opened almost 300 breakfast stores nationwide at 5:00 AM for National Breakfast Day. For each participating store, the first 1000 customers via dine-in, take-out or drive-thru were treated to free McMuffins which were made from fresh ingredients, prepared and served with a smile by the store crew.
As early as 4:00 AM, many customers excitedly started lining up with their families and friends to receive their free breakfast treat. Netizens, including popular celebrities, gamely posted pictures and positive feedback on the event through the official hashtag, #nationalbreakfastday – which registered as the country's #1 trending topic on Twitter in the morning of March 18.
McDonald's Philippines President and CEO Kenneth Yang was joined by McDonald's APMEA President Dave Hoffmann as they ceremoniouisly served a McMuffin to the first National Breakfast Day customer in McDonald's Greenhills store.
Yang said, "This was a momentous event for McDonald's not only in the Philippines but for the whole region. We were very happy to see hundreds of thousands of Filipino customers arrive bright and early in our stores to celebrate National Breakfast Day with us. We hope that with this event, we have helped motivate more people to start their day right with a positive energy and delicious breakfast at McDonald's."
Being the most important meal of the day, McDonald's is dedicated in serving breakfast meals that are tasty, filling and convenient. The iconic Egg McMuffin is widely enjoyed all over the world because it is made with a freshly cracked Grade A egg, lightly grilled Canadian bacon and melty American-style cheese sandwiched between warm perfectly toasted English Muffins, and highly convenient to eat even for customers who are on-the-go.
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text: Cal Athletics No. 23 Cal Splits Saturday Games with Pair of Walk-Off Homers Danielle Henderson's walk-off homer gave Cal its victory By Cal Athletics on Sat, February 15, 2014 Related Links Texas State Box Score Fullerton Box Score SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Walk-off homers determined the outcome of both of No. 23 California's (5-3) Saturday games as the Golden Bears split their record with a 4-3 loss to Texas State (7-2) and a 5-4 win over Cal State Fullerton (8-3) at the Campbell/Cartier Classic in San Diego. In Cal's first game of the afternoon, Texas State's Katie Doerre homered at the bottom of the seventh to lead the Bobcats to their seventh win, and junior Danielle Henderson paid it forward in Cal's bout with Cal State Fullerton for the walk-off winner. It was Henderson's second homer of the day, and the third baseman finished with a .571 batting average (4-for-7) between the two games with a triple, six RBI and three runs scored to go along with her pair of long balls. Junior Cheyenne Cordes also scored three runs, aided by her two doubles and a triple. Against Texas State, a triple by Cordes at the top of the third paved the way for a Cal run when Henderson sent a ball up the middle for an RBI. The Bobcats took the lead at the bottom of the fourth when Courtney Harris drew a walk, then ran to third on a single by Delia Saucedo. Harris scored on a throwing error, and then the designated player Kortney Koroll tabbed a two-run homer to make the score 3-1. The score remained 3-1 until the top and the seventh when the Bears rallied with another extra-base hit from Cordes. The Bear shortstop doubled through the left side before Henderson homered to left field to tie the game up. Unfortunately, the tie was short lived when Doerre homered to left field for the walk-off winner. Freshman Stephanie Trzcinski (0-2) was charged with the loss with the walk-off homer after pitching two innings, allowing one hit and two walks while whiffing three. Freshman Katie Sutherland-Finch tossed the first four innings, allowing two earned runs and four walks while striking out two. Cordes, Henderson and freshman Kylie Reed all led at the plate with 2-for-4 performances. Cal brought its big bats against Fullerton, tallying three doubles, two triples and a homer despite the Titans outhitting the Bears 10-7. The Titans were first to get on the board when Missy Taukeiaho hit a leadoff single through the left side at the top of the first, and Ariel Tsuchiyama got on base after she was hit by a pitch. A sac bunt moved the runners over before Eliza Crawford hit an RBI single to score Taukeiaho, and Tsuchiyama came home on the next play with a single by Samantha Galarza. Cal tacked one run on at the bottom of the third starting with a leadoff walk from junior Breana Kostreba. A Fullerton fielding error and a walk added another two runners to load the bases and Kostreba was forced in when Henderson drew a walk. A double at the top of the fourth and another double at the top of the fifth were catalysts for another two runs from the Titans, and Cal found itself in a three-run deficit, 4-1. A fifth-inning rally started with another double by Cordes, who came in on an RBI triple from Henderson. The next batter in order, senior Victoria Jones, keyed another RBI triple to score Henderson, and then Jones scored on a sacrifice fly from sophomore Jasmin Mejia to tie the game up 4-4. Henderson's leadoff slam to right field at the bottom of the seventh sealed the win. Cal used three pitchers in its win over the Titans, with closer Nisa Ontiveros (3-1) taking the victory in a 4.2-inning effort, allowing four hits, one earned run and two walks while striking out two. Sutherland-Finch (1.1 IP, 3 hits, 2 earned runs) and freshman Taylor Cotton (1 IP, 3 hits, 1 walk) also pitched. Cal finishes up at the Campbell/Cartier Classic Sunday vs. St. Mary's at 11 a.m. Follow the Bears on social media for behind-the-scenes action leading up to the season at: · Facebook: Facebook.com/CalSoftball · Twitter: @CalSoftball · Instagram: @CalSoftball RECOMMENDED STORIES < Bears Close Season On Final Day Of Regional Bears Dig Deep To Keep Season Alive Bears Drop Close Contest To Alabama > OFFICIAL ONLINE STORE < Men's Nike Gray Cal Bears Team Stripe T-Shirt $25.95 Buy Now > Cal Bears Nike Navy Blue Medium Training Duffle Bag $60.00 Buy Now > > Left Promo SHOP NOW > Right Promo MORE INFO > Bears On Pac-12 Networks Full TV Schedule Get Pac-12 Networks


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I just wish that vibrator can be placed inside her, not just onto her.
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text: NEW DELHI: BJP may have welcomed home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's regret over his 'Hindu terror' remarks, but its mentor, RSS, seems unwilling to close the chapter saying he should have apologised. "Shinde's Jaipur comments were derogatory and defamatory. He merely regretted. He should have apologised. He should have also condemned Pak terrorists," RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav tweeted on Thursday.


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Let's see what are Rajshri's likes and dislikes...
Are you a foodie?
Yes I am a big time foodie, I love eating.
Which is your most preferred cuisine?
My most preferred cuisine is Indian.
Your favorite mouth-watering dish?
When I am hungry, I can eat anything but Veg because I am a vegetarian and if I am not hungry then my mouthwatering dish will be Kadi and Chana Ki Sabji which is usually prepared in the villages.
Which restaurant do you prefer the most?
I love going to dhabas which are situated on the highways where they serve green chillies and onion with the food apart from dhaba I love restaurants also which has a dim light and soft music. In Mumbai I have been to many restaurants and my preferred restaurants in Mumbai are where I get good food to eat.
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Which is your favorite quick cheap healthy meal?
Maggi which is made in 2 minutes I know its not much healthy but it is tasty.
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Aamir Khan he is my favorite actor.
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A great misunderstanding about intent of objections
Some of you may have read the article in West Hawaii Today published Aug 5, while some read only the headline. While I was properly quoted in the article, I did not create the headline. However, I do think the article was fair and balanced.
Since I am vice president of the Hawaiian Ranchos Road Maintenance Corporation and assigned to handle the matter addressed in the article I speak for myself and the board of directors of the corporation. There seems to be a great misunderstanding about the intent of the objections of Hawaiian Ranchos Road Maintenance to the operation of the swap meet.
For instance, I have been directly and threateningly accused of "… wanting to close the entire operation." Nothing I or the corporation's officers have said is even close to that. Yes, we have appealed the way the swap is operated meet to the Hawaii County Planning Commission, but only in the manner in which the swap meet is administered. In the above referenced article we are quoted "In the appeal, Ranchos residents said they do not have a problem with the swap meet itself, but rather the 'chaotic parking problems created by the event.'" This statement is absolutely true. Although many residents of Ranchos object to the very existence of the swap meet, that is not our position. About two and a half years ago, the corporation spent about $67,000 to have the entry to Ranchos, at the juncture of Highway 11 and Prince Kuhio, repaved and new shoulders installed. That is exactly where the weekly Saturday swap meet is now held. Now, we watch and weep about the rapid destruction of those roads by cars using our road shoulders as a parking lot.
Our appeal is that the county Planning Commission re-word or reconstruct the special permit to prohibit this damage and the danger parking on road shoulders creates. For those who do not understand, I will make an less complex analogy. Suppose some new enterprise opened a barbecue business on its property but used your barbeque pit. The county takes their word that such is not the case and proceeds with the permit. Would you be happy with that?
This swap meet business (which charges $15/per stall per Saturday) is not only a detriment to the roads belonging to corporation, but has created a dangerous condition that we feel is a bad traffic accident waiting to happen. We aver that it is not if, but when. This matter is under consideration countywide. There is a video of the last meeting of the county Planning commission where members discuss this issue rationally. I recommend it to those interested and especially to those who otherwise "think" with their emotions rather than with reason and logic.
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The Northwest Area School Board voted 5-3 Monday for a $18.7 million budget and a 6-percent increase in the property tax rate, board President Randy Tomasacci said.
The new tax rate is 9.871 mills. A mill is $1 for every $1,000 in property assessment.
The district's fund reserve is now estimated to drop under $300,000, and the board will have to approve more cuts if more state revenue is lost. The district estimate for state revenue has dropped $300,000 over the last several weeks during the state budget process, Tomasacci said.
Board members Gerald Conger, Alton Farver and Ralph Killian opposed the budget. Daryl Morgan was absent.
The following members approve the budget: Tomasacci, Albert Gordon, Michael Kreidler, Peter Lanza and Mark Lehnowsky.
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For foreign institutional investors (FIIs), currency hedging is risk management and a dynamic operation to defend returns. But FIIs are not permitted to hedge in the domestic foreign exchange market, and are instead expected to assume currency risks. This is because it is argued that hedges by portfolio investors could lead to high volatility in currency values and complicate domestic management of the economy. Besides, like the Chinese renminbi yuan, the rupee is not a fully convertible currency. While FIIs may not be too worried about the macroeconomic conditions, their primary concern is to maximise returns to their fund investors. Therefore, most of them create offshore non-deliverable forward market for hedging non-convertible currencies that include the yuan and the rupee. However, the NDF hedge is not exchange-traded, but an over-the-counter (OTC) product. Settlements in NDF markets are in US dollars, the price of which provides cues for the rupee's movements. A high price for the dollar in the NDF market indicates outflows and vice-versa. Will introduction of rupee derivatives result in displacing OTC trade in NDF markets? That appears unlikely since NDF markets serve FII hedging. However, there could be some arbitrage movements or taking advantage of different rates in various time zones. The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange that introduced rupee futures in 2008 had hoped to grab some share of the rupee trade. Yet the NDF markets have continued to grow. The DGCX rupee futures platform is almost entirely used by non-resident Indians in West Asia and very rarely FIIs. But the introduction of more platforms in rupee trade in Europe and the US serves those time zones, widening hedging opportunities for big-ticket deals. It also means that the rupee would become internationally liquid by default even without full convertibility. FII gains are from both asset value increases and domestic currency appreciation. What that means is that FIIs would be in a position to bring in large amounts of capital, driving up markets and exchange rates. If the hedging is at the highest exchange rate, their gains are maximised. On the flip side, it could mean that exchange rate volatility would substantially increase each time capital flows out. Capital movements have already increased volatility. Right now, two-way volatility in the domestic market is about 11 per cent against barely 5 per cent two years ago. So FIIs would be in a position to fully maximise trading opportunities. But large flows of capital from portfolio investors are fraught with risks, since it could strip exporters of their gains or inflate import costs and even escalate debt service payments. It also means that Indian companies that had hitherto left their foreign currency debt unhedged would also have to begin active risk management. It would also limit the ability of the RBI to intervene in the exchange markets, in view of its limited foreign currency reserves. At present, even small amounts of RBI intervention are sufficient to curb volatility. However, it is questionable if RBI would be able to respond effectively in an environment of large portfolio capital flows. Already RBI is faced with the three-fold problem of inflation, liquidity and exchange rate management with its low reserves. Therefore, more capital flows from foreign sources may appear good. Having said that, we need to remember the 1997 South East Asian currency crisis when speculators almost wiped out the foreign exchange reserves of Thailand and Malaysia. India was insulated then. That environment has changed since, and India could face a similar currency crisis if regulators and monetary authorities drop their guard.
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Levi's Stadium, the San Francisco 49ers' new stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., has been hailed as one of the most technologically advanced arenas in the NFL and cost $1.3 billion to construct. But apparently, those advances didn't make it as far as the field.
According to a report by Matt Maiocco of CSN Bay Area, 49ers Coach Jim Harbaugh abruptly pulled his team off the field during practice on Wednesday because the field was in rough shape.
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Basic plays provided huge divots, and there were patches of sod that were still discolored from the 49ers' game Sunday against the Denver Broncos.
General manager Trent Baalke, standing on the sideline, was clearly agitated by uneven turf, which has yet to take root. And when wide receiver Stevie Johnson fell hard after slipping on a simple out-pattern during a 7-on-7 drill, Harbaugh brought his team together near midfield to play it safe.
The 49ers abruptly left the stadium through the south tunnel to continue on the team's practice fields behind their training complex without acknowledging several thousand fans who showed up for the final open practice of training camp. …
The sod, known as Bandera Bermuda, was installed at $1.3 billion Levi's Stadium in mid-April.
The Niners have played all of one preseason game on the field, Sunday's 34-0 loss to the Denver Broncos. According to Matt Barrows of the Sacramento Bee, some players said "the grass had come up in places" after the game and that the field looked like "a well-used public [golf] course" on Wednesday.
Barrows also reported that the team chose Bandera Bermuda because of its ability to handle multiple events. That claim will be tested in the immediate future, starting Sunday afternoon when the 49ers host the Chargers. The stadium also will host a high school football doubleheader on Aug. 29 and a soccer friendly between Mexico and Chile on Sept. 6. San Francisco's first regular season game at home is Sept. 14 against the Chicago Bears.


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The faculty has approval to offer the following courses in the academic years 2001-2002 and 2002-2003; however, not all courses are taught each semester or summer session. Students should consult the Course Schedule to determine which courses and topics will be offered during a particular semester or summer session. The Course Schedule may also reflect changes made to the course inventory after the publication of this catalog.
Unless otherwise stated below, each course meets for three lecture hours a week for one semester.
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380E. Vision Systems.
380F. Biomedical Pharmacology I.
380N. Biomedical Pharmacology II.
382T. Principles of Neuroscience I.
383C. Functional Neuroanatomy.
383D. Neuropharmacology.
383T. Principles of Neuroscience II.
185D. Responsible Conduct of Science.
385L. Graduate Physiology and Biophysics.
Topic 1: Basic Processes of Nerve Cells.
Topic 2: Current Concepts on Neurobiology.
386S. Molecular Biology of the Nervous System.
687K. Methods in Neuropharmacology.
388D. Individual Differences.
390. Research.
390P. Experimental Design and Statistics in Pharmacology.
394P. Seminars in Behavioral Neuroscience and Biopsychology.
Topic 1: Current Topics in Biopsychology.
Topic 2: Clinical Psychopharmacology.
Topic 3: Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.
Topic 4: Advanced Topics in Neuroanatomy.
394U. Seminars in Human Experimental Psychology.
Topic 1: Psychoacoustics.
Topic 2: Topics in Vision and Hearing.
698. Thesis.
399R, 699R, 999R. Dissertation.
399W, 699W, 999W. Dissertation.
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Biology 381K. Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior: Physiology and Biophysics.
Biology 384K. Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior.
Biology 385K. Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior: Genetics.
Biology 392. Problems in Host-Parasite Biology.
Biology 397J. Advanced Genetics.
Communication Sciences and Disorders 394E. Electrophysiological Audiometry.
Communication Sciences and Disorders 396M. Instrumentation in Communication Sciences.
Communication Sciences and Disorders 396N. Speech Production and Perception.
Computer Sciences 394N. Neural Networks.
Electrical Engineering 385J, 685J. Topics in Biomedical Engineering.
Health Education 395. Advanced Topical Studies.
Kinesiology 382. Conference-Laboratory.
Kinesiology 395. Advanced Topical Studies.
Linguistics 393. Seminar in Linguistic Topics.
Mechanical Engineering 383Q. Analysis of Mechanical Systems.
Mechanical Engineering 385J. Topics in Biomedical Engineering.
Molecular Biology 695C. Molecular Biology I.
Molecular Biology 695D. Molecular Biology II.
Pharmacy 380F. Biomedical Pharmacology I.
Pharmacy 189Q. Seminar in Alcohol Studies.
Psychology 383C. Functional Neuroanatomy.
Psychology 383M. Fundamentals of Physiological Psychology.
Psychology 391N. Learning and Memory.
Psychology 394P. Seminars in Behavioral Neuroscience and Biopsychology.
Psychology 394U. Seminars in Cognition and Perception.
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How To Fight The Ex-Im Bank
Submitted by James E. Miller of Mises Canada,
In politics, words can be dangerous weapons. The terms we use can either accurately or inaccurately reflect what the government is up to. George Orwell understood this better than anyone, and his essay "Politics and the English Language" is a great denouncement of the abuse of words at the hands of the political class. Though he was writing at the end of World War II, Orwell's criticism still rings true today. In the age of around-the-clock news and easily digestible sound bites, political speech and writing have largely become "the defense of the indefensible."
The ongoing debate in the United States over the merits of the Export-Import Bank – a government institution that makes loans to governments and private companies abroad to boost domestic exports – exemplifies this tug-of-war between language. The D.C. lobbying cabal and its puppets in Congress are staunchly defending the institution as a job-creator and economic necessity. A handful of free market organizations are attacking the bank for being a deliberate form of crony capitalism. For years, the intrepid Tim Carney of the Washington Examiner has led the fight to dismantle the Ex-Im Bank, calling out the unfair advantage given to companies like Boeing through government-backed underwriting. His efforts finally appear to be gaining steam. Newly elected House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has indicated his support for allowing the charter of the Bank to expire come the end of September. All the lower chamber of Congress has to do is sit on their laurels and the relic of the New Deal era will finally begin to unravel.
Of course, special interests in Washington aren't going down without a fight. A well-financed lobbying effort is pulling levers behind the scenes to make sure the Bank remains functional. The goal is to convince the American people that the Ex-Im Bank promotes the national interest. Using buzz phrases like "investment at home" and "creating jobs," the strategy is to obfuscate their true agenda: preserving the trough from which they feed.
So here's my radical suggestion to help counter to the pro-crony forces: be upfront about the true sinister nature of organizations like the Ex-Im Bank. Let's call a spade a spade, and finally describe the Ex-Im Bank what it truly is: fascism. Such a word comes off as a boogey man term used to rile up emotions. But in the battle of ideas, sophistry always comes up short. Just as the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, precise words are better than vague words when it comes to making a point.
Fascism was best defined by Italian historian Gaetano Salvemini as an economic system where "profit is private and individual" and "loss is public and social." What's a better merger of government and business than a bank that makes loans to finance the purchase of private-made goods, all of which is backed by taxpayers?
The use of the word "fascism" is guaranteed to turn some people off. The economic system is seen as authoritarian and tyrannical. But calling things as they are penetrates the bubble of specious reasoning. It forces the hand of regime defenders; either they must defend the corrupt system they favor or back off.
Some more astute commentators may claim the tactic is too coarse for the mission. Politics, they say, should be a gentleman's game where rational discourse is paramount. I completely agree; hence I advocate using fascism to describe exactly what the Ex-Bank is: a government entity used to shore up the balance sheets of for-profit companies.
There is nothing unfair about using proper definitions. What lack fairness are the dishonest arguments being made in favor of the Bank. Robert Samuelson of the Washington Post argues that the Ex-Im Bank "turned a profit in 2013 and paid $1.1 billion to the Treasury." Not only that, but the Bank "helped support 205,000 jobs" last year, and should thus be allowed to survive given the weak economy.
These kind of arguments are typical of mainstream press reporters. Every government agency is somehow turning a profit. And all government personnel are desperately needed so as to not rock the economy into a recession. Lines of argument such as this take economics to be a straightforward science devoid of nuanced meaning. If something creates a job, then it's good. If a profit is recorded, that's also a sign of success. But economic prosperity is never that easy. If the world worked that way, then communism would be an unparalleled success instead of a disaster.
Just the same, the Ex-Im Bank appears to be a sound institution due to fraudulent accounting. According to the Congressional Budget Office, when the Bank is subject to fair-value accounting rules, it actually lost $2 billion over the past decade. In other words, if it were a private institution, the Bank would go the way of Pontiac cars or Circuit City.
If the Ex-Im Bank is a money-loser, then it doesn't matter how many jobs it creates. The labor and resources that make the Bank functional are being wasted. Proponents of the institution are therefore arguing that taxpayers throw their money away so that Boeing and other big manufacturers get a subsidy. Basically, they are making the case for fascism in the American economy. Is it so much to ask that they be up front about it?
The notion that fascism is somehow foreign to the U.S. is disproven by the very founding of the Ex-Im Bank. As the Franklin Roosevelt administration struggled to get the economy out of the Great Depression, they forthrightly acknowledged they borrowed policy from Mussolini and the fascists. Presidential adviser Rexford Tugwell noted in his private diary that the Italian dictator had done "many of the things which seem to me necessary." One report from the National Recovery Administration – a bureaucracy created by the National Recovery Act- declared the "Fascist Principles are very similar to those we have been evolving here in America." Roosevelt himself called Mussolini "admirable" in a letter to an American envoy. In another letter, the president told the addressee "I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with the admirable Italian gentleman."
If the father of the U.S. welfare state was brave enough to admire fascism in its day, why aren't the endorsers of a strong, centralized government today? The answer is that "fascism" is now a catch-all word for bigoted conservativism – not a genuine economic system. As Orwell wrote following the last World War, the word "Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'" If that's the working definition today, I see no reason to not use it. The economic merits of the Ex-Im Bank are in serious question. Arguments for its closure would be best helped with some more forceful language.
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Fascism, Crony-Capitalism.... 220, 221.... whatever it takes.
Tired of paying for it. Shut the bitch down.
I doubt anyone has even heard of the Ex-Im Bank and I don't know why they would bother trying to convince the public of anything because the public is largely irrelevant. It sounds like someone's ox is getting gored and they don't like it one bit.
Actually the "convince the public" narrative is a complete crock of shit, what ex-import is doing is bribing congress, (blowjobs, donations, threats) prediction they renew, because non-renewal means all the crooks in Congress who engineered "loans to cronies" that went bad get exposed, you can cover up any size losses if you can keep rolling over debt, not so much when you lose your charter.
There better be some titty play too. (Don't want the opposition to think we can be bought off THAT cheap.)
The more interesting question to me is, why is this happening now? Oh I know, Republicans have had a change of heart, they've been paying for this Export-Import Bank thing since FDR and now they've been struck by a sudden pang of conscience, hey we really ought to be standing on our principles instead of letting this thing slide for the sake of keeping Boeing and GE hiring and ourselves in office, let's do something now cause there's no time like the present right? Come on, what's the real story, why is this a thing right now?
'Cause the wind is starting to blow from a different direction.
Its not just the import export bank, the World Bank has issued bonds for a Carribean hurricane and earthquake insurance fund, and UK and EU banks have issued debt for a equatorial African flood insurance program, all these entities are tied to our federal reserve banks.
America's fascist bank liabilities don't end with the ex-import bank liabilities, they are just one of many public credit cards in private hands.
That scares me even more.
Laying the groundwork for a worldwide FSA-Crony Capitalist army.
yes the import export banks is another example of fascism and totalitarianism, but if that is all you can focus on when we have vast criminal enterprises such as the fed, bis, and imf, then i am afraid you have a knack for majoring in the minors.
if you have a yen for banks, why not expose the vampire squid and jp morgan whose ceo has faked throat cancer to exit his criminal organization before someone throws him over the side of 1 chase plaza. jamie dimon's throat cancer is as real as "michelle" Obama's" boobs. "she" is a man.
I don't eat the popcorn to see how this is gonna turn out now. I eat popcorn because that's all that's left.
Fuck ALL the god damn banks.
It's not ruining the world for those who operate the system.
It's owning the world for them.
How are we gonna give...er, I mean "sell" all those Abrams tanks to Egypt?
This is a profoundly bad idea as clearly it's time for some "blue on blue" action to see who really is the equal in the same American equipment. "Yes the contract does include the complete rebuild package for both sides...PLUS FREE SHIPPING! (but this is a limited time offer...SO ACT FAST!)
The shortest distance between two points is not a straight line...it's zero.
Our new national anthem....
The Pipkins - Gimme Dat Ding: http://youtu.be/YEEy615Jzg4
If the ExIm bank has "skeletons in the closet" it will be saved at the last hour by CONgress
The will puppets of the Oligarchs
Fascist oligarchy as I have said all along...
Mises Institute - Austrian school of economics - the strongest supporters of "free trade", the destruction of national borders and souvereignity, international banking, casino capitalism, that the market was solving everything (who cares about the costs for future generations).
As sick and deadly for the nations as the other side of the same medal of globalist Jewish materialism (Communism).
How do you "fight" ignorance? With Truth, of course.
But where can you find Clio? Oh that's a tough one because most of our history has been rewritten with hardly anyone noticing, the process being so subtle and nothing at alll authoritarian like in 1984. Someone quite brilliant must have come up with the idea of making the herd police itself ... and it was completely successful.
Why is so rare to find a person who understands that what passes for "History" is really just indoctrination and conditioning for social control?
You can find Clio in History of Social Intelligence, Harry Elmer Barnes, originally published 1926: http://bookator.net/?p=695441
Barnes in his essay "Globaloney and the Interventionist Chickens Come Home to Roost" explained how FDR in the early days of WWII issued a wartime order to melt all the bookplates being held at publishers to republish books that have not been recent best-sellers, or had huge press runs otherwise.
It seemed harmless at the time, but it was much more effective that burning books, because it was silent; the books were being aborted, not murdered, to use an analogy whose politics I disagree with.
P.S. Right now on government radio, a show called Fresh Aiir is talking about how there were airplance hijackings on almost a daily basis in the early 1970s and that the currentt RSIK is so low that TSA agents are constantly shown gruesome pictures of plane crashes and reminders about the Jindawi hijacking where a pregnant women concealed an explosive device on her body .... which is the reason why EVERYONE is subject to strip search, as in ASSUME THE POSITION of submission. Wll, of course that woman was prevented from boarding ... and her evil boyfriend languishes in prison to this day ... how can anyone but a child "believe" in these reverse fairy tales of imaginary bogeymen createed by the very same people who claim to be "fighting" them ... all to protect us ....and it;s obvious total nonsense?
P.P.S. Maybe the lie is so obvious to me because of my career in risk analysis. Even before that training and experience the fable of the Emperor's new Clothes always rang true for me.
Do a search for "Alain de Botton" and ask yourself: Is this a real person?
Barnes died in 1968 and I can't find anything he wrote about the JFK assasination ... did he? If you know what I'm talking about, drop me a line.
Agreed...mostly. Fascist oligarchy is the term we must use in describing the current system. Perhaps folks might even learn the meanings. Nope...I don't think so.
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Published: November 21, 2005
Everyone I spoke with at DUX seemed pleased by the quality and diversity of the tutorials presented on Day 1 of DUX2005. I really wanted to attend the Studio Tours that day, but was too busy launching this Web magazine, so missed them. Maybe next time…
The DUX Conference began brilliantly with an interactive performance by J.Walt Adamczyk and an opening plenary address by Bill Irwin. Beautiful ambient music accompanied J.Walt's live animation performance. He took us on an odyssey following a convoluted path through an evolving 3D landscape. It was mesmerizing. Next came Bill Irwin's performance, which was both very amusing and highly educational. Irwin, shown in Figure 2, is an actor, dancer, and clown who has made body language both an art and a science. He's a wonderful, versatile performer, and I enjoyed his performance immensely. Comedienne Heather Gold hosted the entire conference and added just the right amount of levity to the proceedings.
Following the opening plenary, a reception sponsored by BayDUX and its participating organizations concluded the events of World Usability Day around the world and provided a great opportunity for everyone attending DUX to get together and talk. The hall in which the reception took place was too small to accommodate everyone, so the overflow crowd was in a tent, shown in Figure 1, that was buffeted by a chill wind carrying a spray of raindrops. (Thanks Yahoo! for those umbrellas all attendees received! They came in handy.) The great company made up for being a bit cold, and it was wonderful to be part of this World Usability Day celebration.
Figure 1—The opening reception
The opening plenary set a standard of creativity that was difficult to uphold. The conference sessions on Days 2 and 3 of DUX comprised panels of speakers, each of whom had only five or six minutes to present papers covering often disparate topics. The emphasis was more on ethnography than design and on the practical techniques with which most people are already familiar rather than on envisioning new paradigms. Presentations ranged from great to ho-hum. Some speakers were very engaging and used their minutes effectively, making one wish they had more time; others were boring and seemed to go on interminably. The organizers of this event tried to cram too much content into too little time. As a consequence, coverage of topics was generally superficial, and there were few insights or revelations that might have stimulated thinking among the cognoscenti. I would have preferred to have heard the best speakers—for instance, the very amusing Jared Spool—talk for half an hour and read the rest of the papers on the "Proceedings" CD-ROM. Discussions with many other attendees both during and following DUX echoed this viewpoint.
Figure 2—Bill Irwin at the opening reception
While there's not a bad seat in the house at the Cowell Theater, there is nowhere comfortable to sit and talk or eat outside the theater—just long, cold, concrete hallways. San Francisco weather was at its most beautiful on Days 2 and 3 of DUX, so it felt good to spend some time outdoors when the conference broke for lunch. Fluffy clouds dotted bright blue skies and fresh breezes created whitecaps on the bay. I completely missed the poster sessions, which took place at lunchtime, when there seemed always to be conflicting events.
Though it took place at the very cool 111 Minna Gallery, the DUXBash was a bust. The art on exhibit was eclectic and interesting, and many enjoyed the gallery experience. However, while the blaring music made talking very difficult, it didn't inspire many to dance. The DJ wasn't right for the crowd. Since there are two rooms at the Gallery, it would have been so easy to disconnect the speakers in the bar, where people gathered to try to talk. There were a lot of people with hoarse voices the next day.
Edward Tenner, author of the book Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences, delivered the closing plenary. Considering he read from a prepared text, his talk was surprisingly engaging. His presentation focused on the progress of industrial design since the late 19th century. Heather Gold interviewed Tenner following his talk. I couldn't helping wishing that someone with great interviewer/moderator skills who actually works in UX—like Richard Anderson or Aaron Marcus—had taken on that role. Throughout DUX, I'd wanted to hear people talk about visionary design and innovation, and Tenner delivered. He left us with some great thoughts to take away from DUX:
- On innovation—"Innovation promotes unwelcome surprises, but also positive unintended consequences. … How do we make positive unintended consequences happen? … Design for unintended consequences by creating new opportunities for modification and innovation."
- On design idealism—"There's a tendency on designers' part to think that a well-designed world would be a perfect world, but great design can embody and promote the greatest social ideals."
- On intuition—"In a great client, there has to be a certain degree of irrationality. … Money is not the focus from the beginning. … [People like Steve Jobs] are intuitively brilliant. My sympathies lie with the intuitive person who hits on something users will love."
- On industrial-strength Zen—"When people calculate too much, they can close themselves to unintended consequences."
The DUX Conference attracts just the right mix of people, representing the diversity of UX professionals. With a format that encourages interaction and dialogue among attendees, DUX provides a great opportunity for meeting professional colleagues and online acquaintances face to face. Kudos to the organizers of DUX for the many things they're doing well. Next time, I hope they'll tweak the format of the conference sessions to allow presenters to explore their topics in more depth. DUX is definitely a worthwhile and unique conference.
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Just got it yesterday, and all I have to say is WOW! Been on it for all the in town riding and errands. Even sneeked over on the lake trail and ran around the 2.5 mile course twice.
It really does have all the pros of a bent and a DF bike.
It WILL NOT replace my bent for long rides, but way easier for the stop and go riding in town.


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The Planetarium, which is housed in the South African Museum building in Cape Town, is a celestial theatre in the round, utilising the complex Minolta star machine and multiple projectors to transport the audience through the wonders of the universe. The ultimate in armchair travel.
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I have only about ten or so days to do a stretch, and I believe it's either going to be Phoenix to San Diego or Phoenix to El Paso, following the Southern Tier route
Any opinions regarding these treks? Looking at mid-March. Haven't been out to that part of the country, so any advice is appreciated. Wind, for example. I know must Southern Tier folks head east.
Basically, I need a stretch of road from one major city (airport) to another major city that is ridable in March, so the Southern Tier seems like the ticket. Plus, I've never been to the desert, so I would like to try something very different from the woodlands of the north.


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cute cake lot of posts about getting the red color use wilton brand red it will work.
I made this cake last year and also carved it into a Mater look-alike. I carved another cake into Lightening McQueen and another one into Lightning McQueen's girlfriend. It was an all "Cars" theme. All the kids enjoyed it and the adults thought it was pretty cool too. The cake itself was too sweet, so I next time I will make my own cake instead of buying the Sara Lee lb. cake.
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|McCook man sentenced to 13 years for Palisade bank robbery
|Written by Wauneta Breeze
|Friday, 24 February 2012 18:49
A rural McCook man, Joel L. Witt, has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for robbing Palisade's Pioneer Community Federal Credit Union at gunpoint on April 18, 2011.
Witt has lived in the Palisade area during various times in his life as well as living in Wauneta for a short time.
In a Lincoln Journal Star article, Assistant U.S. Attorney William Mickle said Witt went into the Pioneer Community Federal Credit Union in Palisade at about 9:45 a.m. on April 18, wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt, mask and gloves and carrying an AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle. He told the teller, "I need money. Give me your money."
Witt then cocked the rifle. The two tellers emptied their cash drawers into a bag. Witt then went behind the counter into the vault before he left with $11,576 cash. No one was injured during the robbery.
An hour later near Grant, a Nebraska State Patrol trooper stopped Witt who was driving a dark green station wagon that matched the description of the robber's car and found the mask, sweatshirt, money and the loaded AR-15 in his car.
Senior U.S. District Judge Warren Urbom sentenced Witt to 13 years in federal prison last week in Lincoln.
Witt's attorney argued for a lessor sentence, saying Witt never had been convicted of anything beyond a traffic ticket prior to this robbery.
Hitchcock County Sheriff D. Bryan Leggott stated that he felt justice had been served. Pioneer CFU representatives were unable to comment on the incident or sentencing.
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I understand this is quite a common problem on bikepaths, but yesterday was the first time I've ever had anything like this happen on the road. Yesterday in the Brisbane River Ride, some guy had a go at me because he didn't think I was descending fast enough for his liking. Evidently he though I was "holding him up" (even though he had basically the entire road to pass if he so desired).
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Considering the price, this is a good deal. There is nothing to comment regarding component's quality. The CNC aluminum housing and the mirror finish is well made. The driver circuit is clean and all electronic parts are well fitted and welded. I didn't measured yet the full load current but I think there is room for tweaking.Cons:
Even if quality of the component is good, the quality of assembly is a totally mess.
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The Border Patrol agent and Arizona Department of Corrections officer indicted last week on suspicion of participating in a drug-smuggling conspiracy both pleaded not guilty to the allegations against them Thursday in U.S. District Court in Phoenix.
Agent Ivhan Herrera Chiang, 29, and Corrections Officer Michael Lopez Garcia, 28, were accused last week of conspiring to smuggle drugs from Mexico into the United States from September 2010 through January 2012.
Prosecutors allege that Herrera used sensitive information he learned through his position with a smuggling-interdiction group to coordinate drug runs and that Lopez personally smuggled drugs over the border and sold drugs to an undercover agent.
Most of Thursday's 30-minute hearing was spent discussing the prospects for Lopez's release after a pretrial report recommended Lopez be freed on bond.
Lopez lives in Mexico and commuted to work at the state prison complex near Yuma. U.S. Magistrate David Duncan said Lopez's lack of ties to the community and the ease with which he could assimilate in Mexico made it difficult to see how a bond would help guarantee his presence at trial. Duncan denied Lopez bond.
Herrera's detention hearing was delayed until next week to allow for a new attorney to be appointed.
Duncan set a trial date in March.
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Here is the poster design and illustration that I did for Port Tobacco Players' production of Into the Woods. Interestingly enough, this is the third time that I have illustrated a poster for this musical, the other two will remain in the vault and never shown again. Next up is the poster for PTP's production of the Sound of Music, another one of my favorite musicals. I'm thinking some crazy hand drawn type.
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Eye openers are flashes of insight. As an introduction to Visual Studies, this course will relate the historical and theoretical study of visual culture - from painting, photography, graphic design, architecture, and film - to contemporary life, popular culture, mass media, advertising, and communication. Topics we will discuss in class are the effect of consumer culture on our habits and surroundings (e.g. fast food; suburbia; the mall); the impact of communication technologies such as computer and television on our understanding of and approach towards the world; the question of identity in subcultures and as it is expressed in visual media such as zines and comics (e.g. Art Spiegelman's Maus); and the effect of the politics of art collecting, display, and the art market on contemporary artists. The goal of this class is to develop techniques of critical analysis and interpretation of visual phenomena and to learn to understand the complex social, cultural and political power structures that govern them.


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SS Jose Reyes
2B Luis Castillo
3B David Wright
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LF Moises Alou
1B Carlos Delgado
C Paul Lo Duca
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SS Jose Reyes
2B Luis Castillo
3B David Wright
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Who's the first reliever tonight?
if it rains, we are screwed….in fact if we get a rainout and any of these games and have to play a doubleheader, we are screwed. I pray Petey can go 7 solid tonight. That's the only way I will feel comfortable. And if its 3-2 in the top of the 9th, I'm going freak!
DG: Take your pick: Muniz, Schoenweiss, Smith (they should let him go home already), Mota, Feliciano, El Duque?
Like I said, if we need someone use a bench player….ROFL
Tonight is the last night I will have the pleasure of listening to Gary, Ron and Keith. Tomorrow through Sunday, all the games I will get will have the Marlin's "announcers"—who are at best TERRIBLE.
I'll enjoy the call of the game and the intelligent and insightful commentary from Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez and then I'll just watch the series with the Marlins with no sound.
If Marlon had not lost the appeal, he should pitch.
BTW, according to Glavine of WFAN yesterday, Marlon was one of the main guys behind having a team meeting. I never pictured him as a leader, but we'll take anything, huh?
The playoffs start TONITE! IMO it is do or die. Yes, this team has flaws, but so does every team out there. I don't think it's a question of heart. I think each player is trying to win the game himself, creating that pressure with each guy, and collectively creating this problem. The pitchers are aiming, and the batters are grinding their bats. as Tom Selleck said in Mr. Baseball "Baseball's a game, and games are supposed to be fun". If each player remembers that there is someone else there to pick him up, and go out there loose and have fun, the score WILL take care of itself.
I know alot of you guys out there will beat me for this analysis. Some of you who have given up but have kept one eye open, just in case, will tell me I live in a dream world, or that I don't know baseball, or that I'm just "blind to all their problems". That's fine…go ahead. I not only know baseball, but I also know that when things are getting tough, and even the perception that your back's to the wall, the best thing you can do is step back, take a deep breath, and go back to the basics. There can be no greater pressure cooker than playing pro sports in NYC. It's just time to get back to basics and have fun! The talent and the determination is there, it just needs to relax.
Oh Well…fire away..I'm a big boy.
By the way…win or lose, they are still MY Mets! I'll NEVER kick 'em to the curb ( well, not too hard anyway)especially after a good, granted not great, season where we still control our playoff destiny with only a handful left to play.
I'll say my goodbyes again until Monday, but I stand by my prediction earlier:
Mets win tonight, Phillies lose, Mets get to spray the Champagne on Saturday around 4:15 pm!
Talk to you all again Monday and Let's Go Mets!
We ♥ the Mets!
Why is Green bating 8th? He is clutch. Bating around 300. I have more confidence in him then Lo Duca.
Green is batting 8th because Eandolph doesn't want lefties batting back to back.
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