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Well I am finally back to WBB. It's been a little over a year since I stopped posting here, and this was largely due to my knee reconstruction. I am currently going to school at Rowan University, and hopefully within 3-5 months my knee will be completely healed. To make a long story short, I was sprinting towards the ball, goalie came out cleats first into my locked leg, my kneecap dislocated and tore all the tendons off the bone, and my ACL. So the surgery was six hours for them to reconstruct the ACL and put two screws into the bone to re-attach all the tendons. Right around the end of July I had my knee scoped from all the scar tissue, and hopefully that will be the end of me going under the knife So the rest is history, I'm on the soccer team here at Rowan and have been rehabbing and strength training.
I'm not going to go into the history of my supplementation as this is just not necessary so we'll cut down to what I'm currently taking
- Iron-Tek Cookies&Cream
- Iron-Tek Banana Cream
- NOW Adam
- NOW Fish Oils
- Vit C 500mg
- Athletic Edge Nutrition - IntraXCell
- Athletic Edge Nutrition - SteelEdge
- Athletic Edge Nutrition - IntrAbolic
- Controlled Labs - Green MAGnitude
- Bulk L-Leucine
- Bulk Glycerol Monostearate
- Melatonin 3mg (night time)
As you may know, I am a rep for Athletic Edge Nutrition so I am fortunate enough to get to use all of our products. IntraXcell was the first ever capped beta-alanine product, SteelEdge is a basic pre-workout without creatine, and IntrAbolic is our brand new product that you drink while working out with Leucine (as well as all the other necessary amino acids), Electrolytes, Beta-alanine, and Hydrolyzed Whey Protein (with a high degree of hydrolysis over 30%). So I got everything covered.
I've never taken anything hormonal, and the only thing I plan on trying soon is Designer Supplements ActivaTe Xtreme. This basically allows your body to free up test from SHBG (sex hormone binding globulin) and take advantage of already existing test.
Also my source of whey protein is always changing, Iron-Tek unfortunately is a very cheap whey and clumbs. However it was $21 for 5lbs and I am tight on cash at the moment, but I think my next few purchases will be a much higher quality blend. (yes I know about Nitrean, no need for plugs )
Mostly clean foods, pasta, chicken, beef, grilled cheese, omelettes, and a lot of other typical college cafeteria food.
This past January I was 163lbs after I lost about 17lbs from being in bed for so many months from the surgery. I'm now up to about 190lbs at roughly %11 BF (rough gestimate). I would like to bulk as cleanly as possible to 210, and then just work on strength from there.
For years I have been seriously considering boxing or some form of MMA, and I think after soccer season is over I'm going to finally follow through with this. I will be most likely signing up to a Muay Thai gym (It's called Daddis Training, MMA in Philly).
I've tried everything from high volume, HIT, Bill Starr 5x5, chest/tri back/bi split, push/pull.
Currently using a push/pull routine:
- Day 1 - Chest / Back
- Day 2 - Shoulders / Calves
- Day 3 - Biceps / Triceps
- Day 4 - Legs
Always focusing on compounds first, and finishing with some isolation exercises. I keep strict form, good negatives, and always make sure my ego doesn't prevent me from training effectively.
I will probably start this journal up on Monday when my routine is back on Chest/Back day. I just got so excited from visiting again that I had to start up a journal today!! Feels great to be back and I am looking forward to sharing ideas and experiences with everyone again. Here are two pictures to give you guys an idea of what's happened. The first one is what I looked like roughly in January, and the second is a more current pic (a week ago or so).

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'Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America'
By Walter R. Borneman
Chapter One: Old Hickory's Boy
…If James K. Polk came of age intellectually during his two and a half years at Chapel Hill, Tennessee in the interim had also come of age. In fact, the state was booming. Even in Columbia, its population just over three hundred, Sam Polk and his new son-in-law, James Walker, were busy chartering a bank, building a Masonic Hall, and organizing a steamboat company for the Tennessee River.
James Polk might have applied his new education and his meticulous attention to detail to these kinds of business ventures.
But the give-and-take of the Dialectic Society had more than whetted his appetite for the public arena, and the most obvious route into it led through admission to the bar. Determined to become a lawyer, James Polk promptly headed fifty miles north to Nashville.
The little frontier settlement that had welcomed Andrew Jackson thirty years before was now a thriving city with three thousand inhabitants and paved streets. It was the commercial hub of Middle Tennessee and was quickly becoming the political center of the entire state.
Jackson had just returned to Nashville from exploits in Spanish-held Florida. His nickname, Old Hickory—as in "tough as hickory"—had been won in the early days of the War of 1812 and his national fame secured by his lopsided defeat of the British at New Orleans at the war's end. Most recently, Jackson had led U.S. army regulars, Tennessee volunteers, and Georgia militia into Florida during the First Seminole War. Largely on his own initiative, he had forced the Spanish to abandon West Florida to the United States.
Now Jackson was building a mansion he called the Hermitage, east of Nashville. Whether Jackson or Sam Polk provided James with an introduction to Felix Grundy is uncertain but probable, and James was soon clerking for one of Nashville's most celebrated lawyers.
Felix Grundy quickly became James Polk's first mentor. Grundy grew up in Kentucky, helped that territory become a state, represented it in the U.S. House of Representatives, and ultimately became the state's chief justice. But Tennessee beckoned, and Grundy climbed a similar legal and political ladder there, representing the state in Congress and achieving some notoriety as one of the war hawks who urged war with Great Britain and then cheered Andy Jackson's every military move.
By the time James Polk came calling in 1819, Grundy was known far and wide across Tennessee for his mastery of juries as well as his wide circle of political connections. Polk readily immersed himself in both Grundy's law library and his school of personal experience.
Polk's fellow clerk was a young man named Francis B. Fogg, who was so studious as to make even the scholarly Polk look like a legal slacker. That year, Grundy was elected to the state legislature, and he suggested that Fogg accompany him to the upcoming legislative session and seek election as clerk of the state senate. Fogg thought a moment and then pronounced himself far too busy with a mountain of legal minutiae to do so. Polk, however, jumped at the chance. After all, to him the law was the vehicle, not the destination.
So, with Grundy's endorsements, Polk accompanied him to Murfreesboro, where the legislature was to meet. On September 20, 1819, the Tennessee senate elected the young man from Columbia as its clerk and proceeded to pay him the then-princely sum of six dollars per day to manage its paperwork. (The legislators themselves were paid only four dollars per diem.) That Polk performed his job effectively and with precision was evidenced by his reelection without opposition when the next legislature convened in 1821. In the process, he learned the full gamut of parliamentary procedure and legislative routine.
Meanwhile, because the legislature rarely met for longer than a month, Polk was able to complete his legal studies with Grundy and gain admission to the state bar when the circuit court convened at Columbia in June 1820. The Polk clan surely celebrated, and Sam Polk even provided his son with his first case by managing to be arrested for public fighting. James secured his father's release with a fine of one dollar plus costs, and Sam was instrumental in paying for the construction of a one-room law office and library for his son's practice.
That young Polk was a stickler for detail became apparent early. When Jackson protégé Sam Houston, who was then practicing law in Nashville and who would later achieve enduring fame in Texas, sent Polk a judgment from a North Carolina court for execution in Tennessee, Polk rejected it. Finding the paperwork "incomplete, and not authenticated in the manner required," Polk advised Houston not "to commence an action on this record" until it was corrected. (In their demeanor, Polk and Houston were polar opposites, and Houston is supposed to have once observed that Polk was "a victim of the use of water as a beverage.")
But Sam Houston wasn't the only one destined for fame who crossed paths with Polk in those early years. Riding to Murfreesboro for the September 1821 session of the legislature, Polk fell in with a newly elected state representative from Lawrence County. His name was David Crockett, and while he, too, was the opposite of Polk in almost every way, Crockett had honed a knack for stump speaking that got him elected by a two-to-one majority.
Some years later, after their political views had diverged, Crockett poked a little fun at Polk and perhaps himself by recounting how in the course of that ride Polk had expressed to Crockett his opinion that the legislature was likely to enact changes in the state's judiciary. "Now so help me God," Crockett later wrote in his autobiography, "I knew no more what a 'radical change' and a 'judiciary' meant than my horse, but looking straight into Mr. Polk's face as though I understood all about it, I replied, 'I presume so.' "
Just when James Polk became close to Andrew Jackson is uncertain. Most likely, it was a relationship begun in passing at Polk's father's house and nurtured by time and Jackson's connections with the extended Polk family. Having no natural children of their own, Old Hickory and his wife, Rachel, were always taking young men of promise under their wings. Similarly, it can't be said with absolute certainty when Polk met the only person to hold more sway over him than Old Hickory. Her name was Sarah Childress.
Sarah was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, within a few miles of Murfreesboro, on September 4, 1803. Her parents, Joel and Elizabeth (Whitsett) Childress, were members of Tennessee's old guard, having also emigrated from North Carolina. They were close friends with Andrew and Rachel Jackson, and anecdotal evidence suggests that Sarah and her siblings addressed the Jacksons as "Uncle Andrew" and "Aunt Rachel." Joel Childress was well established as a merchant, planter, and land speculator, and one wellworn tale avows that Childress personally paid more than five hundred dollars for the full-dress military uniform that Jackson would take with him to New Orleans in 1814.
Certainly, Joel Childress could afford the best that the Tennessee frontier had to offer. His daughters, Sarah and Susan, were schooled at private academies in Murfreesboro and Nashville and then sent east to the Moravian Female Academy in Salem, North Carolina, in 1817, when Sarah was just turning fourteen.
Numerous Polk biographies have attempted—all unconvincingly—to link James and Sarah at an early age, either meeting in passing at an academy in Murfreesboro or while Sarah was in Salem and James nearby in Chapel Hill. It is possible, and indeed Sarah's older brother, Anderson, was enrolled with Polk at the University of North Carolina. But any formal introduction is much more likely to have occurred while James was in Murfreesboro serving as clerk of the state senate and Sarah had just returned home from North Carolina after the death of her father. James was almost twenty-four that fall of 1819, and Sarah had just turned sixteen.
Excerpted from "Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America" by Walter R. Borneman. Copyright © 2008 by Walter R. Borneman. Reprinted with permission by Random House Group. All rights reserved.


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For e.g. say object1 is having values as
String one = "abcd"; //length 4
String two = "efghij"; //length 6
String three = "klmnop"; //length 6
String four = "qrs"; //length 3
I want to output above data in to a fixed format file.
The format would be: one is 10 characters, two is 8 characters, three is 9 characters, four is 10 characters.
So above example will be as: 6spaces+abcd+2spaces+efghij+3spaces+klmnop+6spaces+qrs
Thus what I want to achieve is convert each strings to the appropriate length as required by the file and then push those to the file.
How to achieve this most efficiently ??


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Yesterday Michigan authorities found the body of a nine-year-old quadriplegic in a garbage bag stuffed in a garbage bin, covered with mothballs and locked away in a storage space. Until she died, Shylea Thomas lived with a guardian who was possibly also her aunt in a run-down house in Flint, along with seven other children ranging in age from three months to fifteen years. No one seems to know what happened to her mother. She had been taken out of school in January; police began to look into her whereabouts this week when relatives alerted them to her disappearance.
Yeah. I know.
Not very much will be known about this case, I guess, for some time, if we ever hear about it again. There isn't much reason to expect we will. Shylea isn't blonde or from an affluent community, there is no prurient sexual element to her death that can keep us titillated as in the Sandra Cantu murder in California,. Moreover, Shylea seems to have had very little by way of advocates and allies in her small universe. Apparently one can stop appearing in public in the middle of January and no one will raise an eyebrow before April. No one wants to meddle in the affairs of others, no one wants to invade privacy, and beyond shaking their heads at the television when "these things happen," no one does much of anything. And so it goes, when you are a Shylea.
She isn't the first and she won't be the last of these stories of actual human beings just falling through the cracks, of course, and there's a hypocrisy that goes along with my writing this at all, which is to say: what have I done for the marginalized and poor children of colour (the bottom of the pyramid, as far as patriarchy goes) lately? I got PhDork's point a few weeks ago that small acts can nonetheless be called activism, and I do agree with that for the most part, but on days where I check my Harpy feeds and find stories like Shylea's, I am reminded of how very small my acts are.
There is an element here of what I might call sheer exhaustion, of course, among the kind of people who might have been able to help Shylea out. I have known social workers, and from them I know that very few people ever deliberately ignore cases like Shylea's. But there is little time to spare for a speculative social worker visit and even less energy to keep track of people who seemed fine, last you saw them, and who you just plumb forgot to ask about again.
And as for me, well, I don't do well with children, or, really, people frankly. I prefer books and cats. And so I have not really spent as much time in the trenches actually helping the marginalized as I probably should have. My being bothered by this fact comes and goes – hell, I think, looking around my peers at my place of employment, I'm not doing too shabby – but I have been feeling it heavily lately.
What I do best is write, and advocate for people, but as with the Angie Zapata case, there's always a sense of being too late to the party, of being able to talk about horrifying things only after they happen. And today, just today, because of Shylea, I'm not sure it's enough.


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- Roommate of mine got me into the art of brewing beer, 3 years later I have a draft system and am now getting into other home brewed concoctions, such as cider and mead.
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Posted in thread: Northern Brewer all-grain kits are cheap! on 10-02-2008 at 12:09 AM
I've always had good luck with them.My last catalog they didn't include yeast in the kits,
probably to combat rising shipping cost.
Posted in thread: Resipes for Wyeast 1007 German ale? on 10-01-2008 at 09:30 PM
BierMuncher's Helles Belles. I love that beer. 1007 is perfect for it.The Alt will make an
American hefe if you really want to try a wheat.Appreciate the response
Posted in thread: Resipes for Wyeast 1007 German ale? on 10-01-2008 at 08:12 PM
So in short I have Wyeast 1007 yeast, smacked and ready to go but I dont have any malt extract
or anything else.So I know I could do a German Alt or Oktoberfest, but could I do a wheat beer?
I'm not a...
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My first brewers fest, can't wait.x2 :ban: :ban: :ban:
Posted in thread: Maine Brewers Festival on 09-27-2008 at 11:58 PM
I too will be at the evening session, I think that's all they have left for tickets.
Posted in thread: Maine Brewers Festival on 09-25-2008 at 10:46 PM
Almost out of tickets boys, get them while they last!I had to have the GF pick up a few tickets
at RSVP, can't get them on line anymore.Oh ya screw the 8hr exam....
Posted in thread: Maine Brewers Festival on 09-10-2008 at 06:43 PM
Was going to attend but unfortunately I have an 8hr exam that day:(I have a few buddies that
are going tho.
Posted in thread: Bad Wyeast, What can I do? on 09-06-2008 at 10:46 PM
cool thanks!
Posted in thread: Bad Wyeast, What can I do? on 09-06-2008 at 10:27 PM
So I smacked my Wyeast pack several hours before I planned on using it, about 5hrs. When I went
to check on it 5hrs later it hadn't inflated at all. I checked to make sure that I did break
the thing i...
Posted in thread: Is it possible to over Pitch yeast? on 09-06-2008 at 10:11 PM
Three things.It's virtually impossible to over pitch yeast.Do not make starters with dried
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Poodles and purpose: Pets create quality of life we live for
My grandmother recently made the transition from living alone to a nursing home. She will be 93 years old this month. My family credits her toy poodle, Mittzy, with helping her remain in her home as long as she did. After my grandpa died, Mittzy became my grandma's single responsibility, and more importantly her purpose. …
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Statement from Joe Sanchez, AARP Texas Associate State Director for Advocacy, on the Senate Committee on Business and Commerce's passage of Senate Bill 1247: "The Senate Committee on Business and Commerce took a step backwards today that will leave tens of thousands of Texans exposed to abusive payday and auto title loans. SB 1247, by …
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really good might want to add a sauce but very delicious will make it again,
This is a great recipe, and my husband loved it too. As lurlene_tx1505 said back in September: This is not the same as the book's version, which is 4 Points Plus. The book's recipe calls for FOUR 5-oz. chicken breasts, 2 sun-dried tomatoes packed in water, and fat-free feta. Everything else is the same including the directions.
The "Ready Set, To!" cookbook lists this as 4 points per serving....why is it listed here as 8?
Fantastic. My husband and I tried this for the first time and really enjoyed our meal. We made the spinach and mushrooms as a side and it really complimented the chicken. Cook time was a bit longer than was stated.


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I Hereby Uncopyright My TechTheBest.com – Jay Thadeshwar
Jay ThadeshwarJanuary 25, 2013 0
Yesterday I saw Aaron Swartz's pic on my facebook newsfeed which was a post from TheRodinhoods. I clicked on the link, read the article and I was really touched. Mr. Vishal Khandelwal of SafalNiveshak had posted this article on his blog as well as on TheRodinhoods. The soul of the article was the ideology which advocates the concept of a boundary free, open, friendly and free information flow on world wide web. One guy, whose work is being used by all of us in some or the other way on web had to commit suicide at the age of 26 as he was under severe pressure of copyright infringement case against him. The one who had been the pioneer in the movement of free & open web revolution had to die because he didn't follow so called copyright laws. That prodigy was Aaron Swartz, who had revolutionized the way we get information on web at the age of 14 by creating RSS and his subsequent ventures.
Since Mr. Khandelwal has uncopyrighted his blog, I am utilizing this opportunity in a positive way by copying whatever he has to say. I didn't find it appropriate to re-write it in my words as Mr. Khandelwal has written it in a very effective manner. The following article belongs to Mr. Khandelwal which says a lot and every internet user should have a read at least once to understand how much does it cost to make a difference. With this post, I hereby uncopyright TechTheBest.com, all my articles and blogs. We've created enough boundaries on the land, now let the web be open, free and boundary-less.
January 11, 2013 was a sad day for the Internet world. That day, Internet pioneer and open information activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide at a young age of 26.
Swartz's "crime" – he had logged into JSTOR (Journal Storage), a database of scholarly articles, and rapidly downloaded those articles with the intent to make them public.
He didn't "hack" the network to secure those downloads. MIT is anyways an open network.
He didn't crack any special password system to get behind JSTOR's digital walls. All he did was figure out how JSTOR was filing the articles that he wanted, and wrote a simple script to quickly gather those articles and then copy them to his computer.
If Swartz had lived to be convicted of the charges against him, he either had to accept the label of a criminal and go to jail for 50 years, or fight a million-dollar lawsuit.
Aaron decided to take a third option. He hanged himself!
And with that we have lost an incredible soul, one who had literally spent half of his 26-year-old life doing nothing except working for the public good as far as Internet and learning are concerned.
It was he who helped develop RSS, revolutionizing how people use the Internet, and went on to co-own Reddit, now one of the world's most popular sites. He was also a key architect of Creative Commons, an organization that helps people share their knowledge and creativity with the world.
It is ironical that the punishment Aaron was supposed to face for downloading academic articles in an effort to make knowledge widely available to the public was harsher than what is accorded in the US to any of these…
- Manslaughter (10 years in prison)
- Bank robbery (20-25 years)
- Selling slaves (20 years)
- Aiding terrorists (20 years)
- Threatening the President (5 years)
In other words, Aaron's punishment would have been same if he had robbed a bank, then slaughtered people, and then helped al-Qaeda develop nuclear bombs!
Just downloading and distributing academic papers brought him to face such a severe punishment!
This is in a world where the big banks and financial institutions (and their top men) that have destroyed trillions of dollars in investors' wealth over the past five years have gone away scot-free (and with billions in bonuses)!
Anyways, Aaron's death and the protests that have followed have prompted the insanely powerful US government to fix some important flaws in the law regulating the Internet so that others can be protected from legal abuse.
But that won't bring this genius to life again. It won't restore his shattered family, or bring peace to his bewildered friends.
My ode to Aaron Swartz
I did not hear much about Aaron Swartz over the past few years till I heard about his death. But the stupid reason of Internet privacy that destroyed this precious life has pained me.
Here's something I'm doing as an ode to Aaron Swartz.
Today onwards, Safal Niveshak will be "uncopyrighted".
Come, use my content for free
Mark Twain said, "Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet."
To free God from this impossibility, I now release all claims on copyright and put all the content of Safal Niveshak into the public domain.
You don't need any permission to copy, distribute, or modify the content of this site. Credit is appreciated but not required.
Here are some of the things you can do now with the content I've created (and will create) if you so desire:
- Repost it on your own website as much as you want
- Transfer it to different media (articles, audio, video, book, etc.)
- Translate it into other languages
- Make money from what you create (sell it in ebook form, post it on your website and make money from advertising)
- Include my articles in your company newsletters
- Develop a workshop or seminar based on my investing content
There is no need to email me for permission — use my content however you want.
My reasoning here is that if I am going to give something to someone, it should not come with restrictions.
If I gift you a diary, I won't tell you to use it to write a novel — if you want to let your kid tear it up and make paper airplanes and boats out of it, that's your choice.
So yes, people may use my work without attribution (and some have done so in the past). But actually this won't hurt me a bit, not any more.
Usually, people are grateful for the gift and give credit where it's due anyway, without me requiring it.
Of course, if I write a book or an ebook or launch a paid service in the future, I probably won't be able to share it freely with everyone.
But then, I would love anyone who's paid for that work to share it freely with friends. That won't hurt me. In fact, I will be happy as my work will spread to many more people than I could do myself.
I'm not taking plagiarism seriously (anymore)
I have seen bloggers take plagiarism very seriously. I have been guilty of doing my bit in the past as well (though I was amused more by someone accusing me of plagiarism!).
But then, as I have realized over time, thanks to the time I've spent in introspection, all of this content that I write on Safal Niveshak isn't really mine.
We are living in a world of dreams, and anything here belongs to the dreamer (the ultimate power that runs this Universe), not to the individual projection known as Vishal Khandelwal.
At best I am a translator and a custodian of that dreamer's work, but I can't really be an owner, not in the strictest sense.
In Safal Niveshak's case, the original dreamers also take the form of Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger and the likes.
So I'm just sharing what I've learned from them. How can I claim it as my own?
Also, while Safal Niveshak has started getting a lot of traffic and currently reaches out to around 4,500 tribesmen, there are still thousands of small investors who haven't been exposed to some of the most basic and prudent investing concepts.
So if you can help expose more people to ideas and information that will benefit them, I'll be immensely thankful to you.
But please be nice with me
While I'd love when you use my ideas and content and do something creative and generous, please exercise good judgment.
Don't create headaches for me by doing something sketchy or deceptive.
For example, don't make it look like I'm recommending or endorsing a stock or a financial product when I didn't explicitly do so.
Please don't quote me inaccurately. Please don't get me a ban from the SEBI.
In case you want to make money from my work, there's no obligation to pay me a portion of what you earn. However, if you feel good about doing so, I'd be open to discussions. You're free to decide what feels right to you.
Why am I doing this?
Mahatma Gandhi said, "Be the change you want to see in the world."
I like helping people. I like when people remove all barriers to sharing.
By uncopyrighting my content and ideas, I am trying to do just that – remove all barriers to share my knowledge and ideas freely with the world.
This is something I want to experience as part of my own path of growth, and my wish to let go…to liberate myself.
This is what Aaron Swartz had worked for a large part of his small life. And I could not think of a better way to give my respect to this boy who braved to be a man in a world of cowards.
So come, use or alter my content in any manner for the betterment of the world, with or without credit or notice to me.
In case you give me some credit, I will appreciate it.
By the way, if you think my idea of "uncopyright" is original, let me tell you that it isn't a new concept, and I'm freely ripping someone's idea off here. So I'm literally living the idea here!
I've got inspiration from Leo Babauta, whom I respect a lot for his amazing work at Zen Habits.
Leo himself got his inspiration from Free Culture, by Lawrence Lessig, and GNU by Richard Stallman.
I can't think of a better tribute to Aaron and many others who are trying to remove all barriers to sharing knowledge, and thus making our world brighter and better.
Ultimately, this is what I've also learned from Bhagvad Gita…
Whatever has happened, has happened for good.
Whatever is happening, is happening for good.
Whatever will happen, will happen for good.
What did you lose that you are crying?
What did you bring with yourself that you have lost?
What did you give birth to that got destroyed?
Whatever you took, you took from here.
Whatever you gave, you gave here.
What belongs to you today,
Belonged to someone else yesterday,
Will belong to someone else tomorrow.
Change is an established rule of this world.
What do you say?
What are you uncopyrighting?


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Maryland Tries for a Fourth Time to Pass Debt Settlement Regulation
Maryland legislators for the fourth year in a row will consider regulating debt settlements, and new recommendations in a report out this month may be the charm. In Maryland, legislators have tried three times to regulate the industry. Sen. Thomas "Mac" Middleton, chairman of the Finance Committee, says his committee requested a study before the next session begins in January. ... Read More »
Why Do TASC Member Debt Settlement Companies Appear to Fail Their Own TASC Audit?
I don't know how in the world I landed on this press release from The Association of Settlement Companies (TASC, but I did and I wasn't looking for it. The press release contained a very interesting statement. – Source The audit process is investigating and confirming member compliance with organization bylaws which dictate business practices and ethics standards. In addition ... Read More »
Beware of Offers to Help Settle Debt Says Wisconsin State Journal
An excellent article by Chris Rickert out of Wisconsin exposed a very interesting bit of news from The Association of Settlement Companies (TASC) reveling how ineffective debt settlement is for most people. When I first wrote my article "The Truth About The Failure Rates and Completion Rates of Credit Counseling, Debt Settlement, and Bankruptcy", TASC was officially saying that 45-50% ... Read More »
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In a press release sent out today the Executive Director of TASC, The Association of Settlement Companies, is quoted as saying the following about attending an upcoming debt collections conference. "I'm looking forward to talking about how debt settlement continues to be a reliable option for consumers in debt as well as for creditors," Leuthold said. "Having representatives from the ... Read More »
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The Johnson Law Group of Nevada, not to be confused with the Johnson Law Group of Florida, are apparently having a bit of a tiff with their debt settlement marketing agent, Elimadebt of Florida and New York. Actually that would be Elimadebt USA, LLC from Florida and Elimadebt, LLC from New York. From this point out let's just please consider ... Read More »


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How he fits: Irvin is a pure speed edge rusher, and though some would look at his 6-3, 245-pound build and assume he needs to bulk up, coach Pete Carroll said he wants Irvin just as lean and fast as possible. He will play a role as a pass-rushing defensive end, which is referred to as the LEO in the Seahawks' scheme. That scheme has one end who's a run-stuffer and more like a third defensive tackle than a traditional 4-3 end. At the other edge of the line is a speed rusher, a role currently held by Chris Clemons and a role Irvin will be groomed to play.
— See all the Seahawks draft news, plus 2012 schedule and more
When he'll play: Clemons remains the starting pass-rush end after totaling 22 sacks the past two seasons, but Irvin will immediately be part of Seattle's nickel, pass-rush package, where he'll play opposite Clemons. He will get some chances to develop at linebacker, too. Eventually, Irvin will fill the pass-rush specialist's role that Clemons, 30, has filled so ably the past two seasons.
"He's got extraordinary speed and tremendous flexibility and great instincts and a great motor. He has all of the things that make up a great pass rusher. He's 6-3 with long arms, and incredible get off is something that we cherish playing here at our stadium." — coach Pete Carroll
Round-overall: 2-43, 3-75, 4-106, 4-114, 6-172, 6-181, 7-225
1. Linebacker. The Seahawks still need a middle linebacker after losing David Hawthorne, their leading tackler the past three years, in free agency. Seattle signed veteran Barrett Ruud, but he's recovering from injuries.
2. Tight end. Seattle has a starter in Zach Miller, but he had a career low in receptions last year. The free-agent loss of John Carlson leaves the team looking for some depth at the position.
3. Running back. The Seahawks have an alpha back in Marshawn Lynch, but they could use either a big bruiser— which is why they were interested in Michael Bush in free agency—or a quick-burst home run threat.
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"Vouchsafe us, O Lord, to live this day without sin." We pray thus in the morning. But only the gentle presence of the Divine Spirit within us affords us the possibility of continuing sober in spirit…. If our prayers are to lead to results like those of which our Fathers and teachers spoke so rapturously, it is essential that we follow their teaching. The first condition is belief in Christ. The second, to acknowledge ourselves as sinners. This perception can reach such depths that one feels oneself worse than all other men; and this is obvious to us not because of our outer behavior but because we see how distanced we are from God…. The more we humble ourselves in painful repentance, the more rapidly our prayer reaches God. When, though, we lose humility, no ascetic striving will help us. The action in us of pride, criticism of our brethren, self-exalting and hostility towards our neighbor, thrusts us away from the Lord.
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Receiver Trey Metoyer maintains a good attitude while learning behind veterans
He started the season's first few games, but became primarily a reserve after the NCAA granted transfer Jalen Saunders immediate eligibility.
Another transfer, senior Justin Brown, has also taken playing time that might've otherwise been Metoyer's.
But co-offensive coordinator Jay Norvell, who coaches receivers, said Metoyer has kept a good attitude through the season.
"Everybody realizes that if we don't have those two kids that are eligible, his world is different right now," Norvell said. "But we do have experienced guys, and that's the biggest reality of the whole situation for Trey, and that he can learn from that is important."
Metoyer was a five-star recruit from Whitehouse, Texas, and originally part of OU's 2011 signing class. But academic issues forced him to spend a semester last fall at Virginia's Hargrave Military Academy.
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I've been a self taught PS'er for a while now but i never learned how to outline Letters. i.e. a small 1 to 2 black pixel outline to lettering to make it stand out.
It must be real simple besides the obviousl and tedious way of doing it manually.
Here's my latest project (basically a fun inside humor project for a relative) that could really benefit with a small black outline to the letters in the magazines' name (vs. shadowing).
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in subsidies, he could achieve significant savings in the remaining part of the year in Plan capital expenditure where the growth in the first seven months has been about 34% as against the budgeted 27%.
So Chidambaram could try and restrict the fiscal deficit to around Rs 5.4 lakh crore, as against the budgeted Rs 5.14 lakh crore. That means the deficit in the final five months should be restricted to Rs 1.7 lakh crore. That is a tough task but not an impossible one. The slowdown in GDP growth will have an adverse effect on the fiscal deficit when expressed as percentage of the GDP. Yet, a figure of 5.3-5.4% doesn't seem to be beyond reach.
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PALM BEACH GARDENS — U.S. Rep. Allen West told a town hall audience today that Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann made "an incredible faux pas" when she said she is open to allowing drilling for oil and natural gas in the Everglades if it can be done safely.
"When I see her next week, I'll straighten her out about that," West said of the Minnesota congresswoman.
West is a member of the House Tea Party Caucus, which Bachmann chairs.
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IRS Letters and Visits - Letter 5097
Note: The following is the text of Letter 5097 the IRS sent out to 700 tax return preparers nationwide in December 2012.
We reviewed the income tax returns you prepared in the past year. We found that many weren't electronically filed and that you don't have an approved waiver from the electronic filing requirement (Revenue Procedure2011-25 and Section 6011(e)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code).
The IRS is taking steps to ensure that paid tax return preparers are aware of their obligations and responsibilities regarding the electronic filing of tax returns. We'd like to schedule an educational visit to review your responsibilities in this area.
An IRS employee will contact you soon to schedule an appointment. This is not an audit of you or your clients. We won't review any tax returns with you but we will review the electronic filing regulations with you.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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URI's Providence Campus, through its many centers, programs, and through the Alan Shawn Feinstein College of Continuing Education, has been making a difference in the lives of Rhode Islanders for many years. From partnerships with cities and towns to address the issues of urban life to educating students enabling them to live a better life, we have changed the landscape of Rhode Island.
Together we can continue to make a difference for Rhode Islanders through our giving program.
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Gifts may be established as endowments or as a one-time donation. Endowments may be named for, in memory of, or in honor of an individual or recognize and honor a corporation or a business. The level of giving depends on the nature and scope of the donor's interest. Specific giving opportunities include:
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Nontraditional, at-risk, and learning disabled students are served by the Academic Skills Center, which provides assessment, referral, study skills and strategies workshops, tutorial assistance, and other forms of academic support.
- Dean's Fund For Excellence
Gifts to this fund provide discretionary funds to the Dean for special needs, such as conference travel or staff training and may cover emergency expenditures as well.
- Endowed Chair For Urban Programs
An endowment for a renowned faculty chair will help to support and retain an expert in urban studies who would serve to further strengthen existing programs and attract outstanding students, distinguished lecturers and eminent scholars.
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A donation or an establishment of an endowment would provide support for a series of individual lectures or a visiting lecturer of national prominence.
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Contributions support ASFCCE's Marketing Department in continuing to publicize URI's Providence Campus as the regional leader in adult education. Establishment of an endowment would help to underwrite an internship position—a positive development for both a student and the department.
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Provides students with tuition and/or book support based on academic achievement and/or financial need.
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Funding supports urban initiatives, which include research into Urban Affairs, efforts to influence the development of community policies and programs, and quarterly forums focused on current urban issues.
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Hi everyone
I have finally taken the plunge towards clipless pedals. I own an 05 Specialized Dolce Vita Sport (came with regular pedals and a harness that fits over shoes). I purchased Shimano clipless pedals today. For the life of me I can not figure out how to get the original regular pedals off my bike. It looks like it needs a wrench but my husband and I both tried to get the pedal off with the correct size wrench and it would not even budge. Is there a secret to removing Specialized pedals? There is no place for an allen wrench to losen it that I can see...just the wrench area.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Damian Lillard scored 23 points and LaMarcus Aldridge added 20 to lead the Portland Trail Blazers to their first win of the preseason, 96-86 over the Utah Jazz on Friday night.
Lillard, the NBA Rookie of the Year last season, had 15 points in the first half. Aldridge, who finished 8 of 9 from the field, scored 10 points in the third quarter for Portland (1-2).
Gordon Hayward led Utah (1-1) with 20 points and Enes Kanter added 11.
The matchup was the first between Lillard and Utah point guard Trey Burke, the consensus college player of the year last season at Michigan. Burke had seven points on 3-of-10 shooting.
Aldridge scored eight points in the first 3 minutes of the third quarter as Portland turned a nine-point halftime lead into a 63-45 advantage.
It was the first preseason game played in Boise since 2003.
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401(k) open enrollment season at work? 3 things you need to know
Posted By Miranda Marquit On 11/05/2013 @ 8:30 am In Retirement | 3 Comments
During fall benefits enrollment season, many employees focus mainly on health care. This makes sense because, most of the time, you only get one chance each year to make changes to your health plan.
"When it comes to 401(k) plans, most companies try to allow employees to enroll whenever they can," says Andrew Meadows, consumer and brand ambassador at The Online 401(k). "But some companies only do it on an annual basis, either in the fall or the spring."
Even if your company allows you to make changes to your 401(k) at any time, and doesn't have a set 401(k) open enrollment period, it's always a good time to make sure you're saving and investing your retirement dollars as intelligently as possible.
As you make decisions about your 401(k), there are a few important things to make sure you get clear on before the open enrollment window closes.
1. What you gain by being enrolled in your employer's 401(k).
"The best advice is just to get started," says Meadows. "Something like 86 percent of small businesses don't have a way to save at work at all, so if your company offers you a plan, you should take advantage of it."
One of the first things to understand is whether or not your company offers a match, and how that match works.
"A match is free money," says Meadows. He says that many companies offer a 4 percent match, which means that your company will match 100 percent of what you put in, up to 4 percent of your income. "You can put in more than that, but your company will only match up to the maximum. If you can, it makes sense to get the full match," he continues.
2. How soon until you're vested.
Meadows suggests that you pay attention to the vesting schedule.
"The money you contribute is always yours, no matter what," he says. "But the money the company puts in on your behalf may not be yours immediately."
Companies can require that you work for a set number of years, such as three or five, in order to be fully vested. If you leave before you are fully vested, you might not get to keep all of the money in your account, since some of it was put in by the company.
3. What investment choices are available.
"How are investments handled?" says Meadows. "Do you pick them yourself? Is there an asset allocation quiz?"
Find out whether or not there is guidance available from experts. Because a retirement portfolio is long term, getting help with asset allocation can be a big help, especially if you are unsure of how to proceed.
Don't forget to look for low cost investments in a variety of asset classes. Your plan should offer you the chance to invest in low-cost funds that provide you with the ability to meet your long-term goals and risk tolerance.
Meadows also points out that you need to pay attention to fees.
"If your 401(k) plan charges more than 1.5 percent, consider looking at other options, such as IRAs," he says.
However, even if your 401(k) plan isn't the best, it still might be worth investing. "You just can't put away as much with an IRA as you can with a 401(k)," Meadows says. "Sometimes the amount you can put in makes up for some of the costs."
What do you think? Do you have an open enrollment period for your 401(k)?
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Step Road Shiraz 2006
Posted in Australia, Closure, Langhorne Creek, Red Wine Varieties, Region, Screw Cap, Shiraz, Wine Reviews by Wining Pom with No Comments
Step Road Shiraz is another bruising number on the nose you'll find dark fruit, licorice, spice and the same sweet vanilla signature as the Cabernet and the stereotypical creek mintiness. The palate is generously weighted with fruit and leather while spicy persistence regional mint finish the picture. Good wine at the price.
Region: Langhorne Creek, Australia
Closure: Screwcap
Alcohol: 14.5%
Source: Sample
Price: $21.50
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I just purchased an Ortlieb Compact Bar Bag display model from my LBS. The bag was on the display rack mounted on an Ortlieb mount I did not recognize.
At my request, the shop offered me the option of buying the odd mount or the standard Ortlieb mount. I chose the odd mount since since I don't like the Ortlieb key-lock functionality, AND the cable system on this mount looks like it could last many many handlebar changes.
This mount tightens using just the two screws on the front of the mount. There are no screws on the bottom of the mount.
Anybody seen one of these before? Is it an old-style or a beta style that never went public?
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Tenor viol bow in pernambuco based on historic patterns by David van Edwards. 67cm, 45-55gm
** On Sale ** Was £400 Now £200
This bow forms part of our Bargain Basement and Clearance Sale. The bow is new, but is either old stock, ex-display or where we've simply over stocked. It may have marks on the hairs. However, the bow is in full working order and is supplied with our full 12 month warranty. For further information, please ask for details. Only available whilst stock lasts. This offer can not be used in conjunction with any other promotional offer or promotional vouchers.


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Used games. Love'em or hate'em, you've probably got some opinion on the furor surrounding how we'll buy, sell, and borrow video games in the future.
Microsoft has already revealed plans to restrict used games in some way for Xbox One, and Sony has been murky about how the PS4 will handle them. Tons and tons of gamers are still campaigning for pro-consumer policies on the PS4, and at least a few Sony execs are paying attention. But the company has yet to say anything official.
So being the relentlessly-pestering reporters we are, we've reached out to Sony several times over the past few days with questions about their policies. Here's what we asked:
1) Sony has previously said that the PS4 does not require an online connection. To be clear, is this true perpetually, or will the console need to occasionally connect online? If so, how often?
2) Will games need to be registered online in order to use them the first time out?
3) Will the PS4 games be able to be bought and sold used? Or will there be an online activation fee that essentially causes a used game to cost as much as a new game, thereby eliminating the relevance of used games?
Last night, a Sony representative finally got back to us. His response:
I looked into this, and at this point we're not providing any additional clarification beyond what we stated around the PS4 announcement. If anything changes, I'll be sure to keep you posted.


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can i mix a sram chain with dura ace 9 successfully? which model should i get? thnks
can i mix a sram chain with dura ace 9 successfully? which model should i get? thnks
Yes. However, the shifting is a little rougher than with Shimano chains. OTOH, you do get the advantage of having the PowerLink. You can also use the SRAM PowerLink on a Shimano chain. I find SRAM chains to be stronger than Shimano chains though. SRAM 9-speed chains (6.9mm) are slightly wider than Shimano 9-speed chains (6.6mm) which accounts for the slightly rougher shifting. Personally, I would recommend the Wippermann-Connex 9-speed chains. They measure 6.5mm, come with a quick-disconnect link (ConneXlink) like the SRAM PowerLink and shift as smooth if not smoother than Shimano chains. They are however slightly pricier. For Shimano 9-speed drivetrains, the following SRAM and Wippermann chains will work:
- PC-951 - Standard steel, no nickel-plating, bulged sideplates for improved shifting and durability, hardened pins
- PC-971 - Nickel-plated bulged outer plates, no nickel-plating on chamfered inner plates, hardened pins
- PC-99 - Nickel-plated inner and outer plates, Cross Step reinforced and hardened pins, my "best-buy" SRAM recommendation for budget chains
- PC-99HP - Nickel-plated inner and outer plates, hardened hollow pins (lighter)
- PC-991 - Nickel-plated chamfered inner and bulged outer plates for improved shifting and durability, hardened pins
- PC-991HP - Nickel-plated chamfered inner and bulged outer plates for improved shifting, hardened hollow pins (lighter), my personal SRAM recommendation for high-end
- PC-991CS - Nickel-plated chamfered inner and bulged outer plates for improved shifting and durability, Cross Step reinforced and hardened pins
- Wippermann-Connex
- 900 - Unplated steel
- 904 - Nickel plated outer-link, unplated inner
- 908 - Full nickel plated, my "best-buy" recommendation if on a budget
- 909 - "Gold" brass-plated for that extra bling
- 9C{1,2** - Color-painted in a variety of colours, 9C1 is blue amd 9C2 is red... other colours are available I think and can also be custom-ordered with special colours, fully nickel-plated, same quality as 908
- 910 - "Champagne" tint for classy-bling, fully nickel-plated, same quality as 908
- 911 - Lightweight version of the 908, hollow-pins, slotted sideplates, full-nickel plating, my personal recommendation for high-end drivetrains, about 50% more expensive than 908
- 920 - Teflon coated version of the 908, recommended for extremely corrosive environments such as riding near saltwater or for those who don't like to regularly lube/clean their chains
- 9X1 - Stainlesss steel, extra strong, anti-rust, expensive
- 9TR - Titanium-Roller version of the 911, very expensive (~$300), hollow-pins, slotted sideplate, comes draped like a necklace inside a jewelry case
Note that there are other chainmakers such as KMC. I have had the best experiences with SRAM and Wippermann though.
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After an impressive campaign which included a Europa League semi-final, the Austrian defender has revealed one of his compatriots has persuaded him to consider a switch to EnglandSeveral Premier League clubs have been put on red alert after highly-rated Basel defender Aleksandar Dragovic hinted at a possible summer switch to the top flight of English football.
|Chelsea are 13/10 with Paddy Power to win the Europa League
And now Dragovic, who suffered Europa League heartbreak in the semi-finals against Chelsea, revealed he has been in contact with compatriot and Aston Villa midfielder Andreas Weimann, who has made a move to England sound hugely appealing.
"I regularly speak to Andreas, who has told me a lot about how much he enjoys playing in England," the 22-year-old told The Sun.
"It's competition at the highest level, which is what I'm looking for."
Sporting director Georg Heitz has suggested, however, that anyone in the Premier League looking to capture the defender's signature faces "a tough fight" to ensnare him.
Dragovic, though, seems keen on a move away from Basel and appears eager to test himself in the Premier League, which he believes is one of the most reputable in the world.
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Could iOS's strengths lead to vulnerability?
It seems almost every week another federal agency reveals plans to ditch their BlackBerry devices in favor of Apple devices.
The reason so many federal agencies are turning to iOS is because, they say, it provides a better user experience than BlackBerry and consistency that is lacking on the Android platform. According to their logic, BlackBerry is clunky and outdated, while Android varies significantly by version and manufacturer, making security a challenge.
But iOS's increasing popularity could lead to vulnerability.
The mobile platform's security claims in many ways mirror its arguments in the traditional enterprise computing realm. Apple has historically held that Mac devices have superior security in part because Windows devices proliferate in the enterprise. Because Windows dominates enterprise IT, there's more incentive for attackers.
As more enterprises gravitate toward Mac and Apple's market share increases, the tide could be turning. Just this week, security company Intego uncovered a new malware package for OS X--a key-logging Trojan horse called OSX/Dockster.A. And earlier this year, security firm Sophos noted the growth in Mac malware as well, finding that one in five Macs now harbor some form of malware.
The changes in the Mac landscape beg the question: Could the same shift happen to iOS?
As more and more agencies make iOS their preferred platform, it could very well become the new preferred target for malicious actors. Although for the time being, it appears iOS can do no wrong in the eyes of federal IT, Mac's changing threat environment reminds us that no one platform is impervious forever. - Molly


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BMW drivers in the Evans area know that the automaker continues to update new BMW models with technology as market demands change. What you may not know is that designers work hard to update that technology as well. Take ConnectedDrive for example. Starting in 2009, the in-vehicle connectivity service wowed consumers with the integration of BMW Search. Over the following years, the service grew to include even more information systems and provide drivers with the latest weather reports, fuel prices, vehicle assistance programs and more. Right now, Taylor BMW would like to take a minute to go over what's new in the realm of BMW Online.
Available under ConnectedDrive and in conjunction with BMW Assist, the Online service supplies drivers with information regarding news, weather, travel and office while on the road. Thanks to recent updates, all that information comes under a stylish new program look and feel. Most importantly, BMW designers created the next-gen BMW Online system to bundle applications into one personalized menu. This streamlined layout also allows users to easily add future features immediately upon release.
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If you don't already have these convenience systems and would like to get ahold of them, be sure to contact Taylor BMW and we'll fill you in on all the particulars including which models and years are compliable. Also, our automotive experts are always happy to talk in person so feel free to swing by our location at 4180 Washington Rd. Evans, GA 30809-3086 during regular business hours.


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Army Sgt. Daniel Clampitt, an artilleryman assigned to 3rd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team "Rakkasans," 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), is a member of the partnership team to train the Afghan National Army Artilleryman at Camp Parsa, Afghanistan, March 30, 2013. Clampitt has worked with the 203rd Afghan Army Corps, 1st Infantry Brigade, 4th Kandak, D-30 Heavy Koy throughout the deployment to improve their efficiency with the D-30 Howitzer Cannon. (U.S. Army Photo by Spc. Brian Smith-Dutton TF 3/101 Public Affairs)
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Facebook has unveiled a national awareness campaign to prevent bullying. In the wake of Amanda Todd's suicide, "Be Bold, Stop Bullying Canada," is a welcome step. But it doesn't go far enough. Facebook needs to do more than just raise … Continue reading
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2 dead after they were hit by light rail train
GRESHAM, Ore. (AP) — A light-rail train in Gresham struck and killed two people, one of whom was in a wheelchair, authorities said.
A person in a motorized mobility device exited the train with a companion at the Gresham City Hall station, the TriMet transportation agency said. The companion jumped on the lap of the person in the wheelchair and hit the controls, propelling both of them into the gap between two train cars just as the train was leaving the station, officials said.
The blue line train was moving at the time the two fell into the right of way, TriMet spokeswoman Angela Murphy told the Oregonian (http://bit.ly/1rFYxed). "They think he hopped into her lap, pushing it forward into the path" of the train, Murphy said.
The platform has a three-foot drop into the tracks.
The train operator did not see the incident and was not aware until a short time later, TriMet said.
"This is an extremely traumatic event for an operator," Murphy told the newspaper.
One person died at the scene, and the other died at a local hospital.
The victims were a 66-year-old woman and a 48-year-old man, the Oregonian reported.
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Joe Jenkins
From BR Bullpen
Joseph Daniel Jenkins
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 5' 11", Weight 170 lb.
- Debut April 30, 1914
- Final Game September 27, 1919
- Born October 12, 1890 in Shelbyville, TN USA
- Died June 21, 1974 in Fresno, CA USA
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Though Joe Jenkins' big league career was over after 1919, he toiled in the minor leagues until 1930, when he was 39 years old. He spent seven of those years in the Pacific Coast League. In 1923, with the Salt Lake City Bees, he hit .350 with 23 doubles and nine home runs.
Following his death, he was interred at Belmont Memorial Park in Fresno.
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- Won a World Series with the Chicago White Sox in 1917 (he did not play in the World Series)


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Lookout Crowns "The Pig in a Wig" on Sunday: A Warm Up to the EndHIV Drag Ball
One thing we've learned while playing in the Castro: there are few things better to combat the chilly fog than a good wig—fellas, can we get an amen?!—so what better way to warm the cockles of your heart than with a drag fundraiser! This Sunday afternoon in the heart of the gayborhood, Lookout wants you to slap on a lacefront and pose for the camera with your best pretty lady face to win tickets to one of the season's most raucous events.
On the LookOut for a Different Pub Quiz?
If you like pub quizzes but are tired of the usual format, swing by the LookOut on a Monday night for Brain Farts. The lovely Pollo Del Mar—that's right, Chicken of the Sea—hosts the two hour, 2 to 3 round quiz and selects a "Six Degrees of..." theme every week, posted to the Facebook page by Monday afternoon. Last week's theme was Six Degrees of Dixie Carter (best known as Julia Sugarbaker on "Designing Women") and even though we'd prepared by reading and half-memorizing Dixie's Wikipedia page, we were simply outmatched by some serious Dixie lovers.


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Davidson Community Players' the Connie Company is seeking youth, ages 12-18, for its annual Shakespeare Unplugged Workshop Production. Auditions for an adaptation of "King Lear" will be held 4:30-6:30 p.m. at Armour Street Theatre, 307 Armour St., Davidson. Callbacks will be held 10 a.m.-noon July 20. Details: 704-892-7953.
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Celebrating the 'simply everpresent' Beatles
Music | Fifty years ago, four lads from Liverpool arrived in America, leaving a lasting impression on music and culture
Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of The Beatles explosion onto the American cultural scene, when 74 million television viewers tuned in to see the band perform on The Ed Sullivan Show. CBS—the network on which the show aired—will be celebrating the day with a live multimedia event at the site of program, the Ed Sullivan Theater, followed by a two-hour special taped earlier this month that includes an array of past stars and modern day icons, including Stevie Wonder, Jeff Lynne, Eurythmics, Alicia Keys, John Mayer, Brad Paisley, and the two surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. New York's JFK International Airport, where The Beatles first touched down on U.S. soil, is celebrating the occasion with concerts and other festivities, libraries are holding exhibits, and countless venues are hosting parties in New York City and across the nation. Which all raises the important question: Why all the fuss over four lads from Liverpool who made music five decades ago?
There can be little doubt of their ongoing appeal: Their music continues to sell amazingly well and their songs are still in heavy rotation on U.S. radio stations. Contemporary artists in every genre continue to cover—or sample—their songs. The Los Angeles Times described how their music has "entered into the ether; it is something we live in; it has achieved something of the quality of folk music, a thing we know from childhood, and our children and their children will know as well. It isn't nostalgia that colors these songs; they are simply everpresent."
So what is it about The Beatles' music and myth that continues to inspire fans and musicians from every age, background, and musical genre? After consideration, several reasons emerge.
Pleasant revolutionaries
The Beatles arrived in the United States during winter, when the country was still caught in the gloom of President John F. Kennedy's assassination 77 days prior, in addition to a Cold War that was getting colder all the time. McCartney, Starr, John Lennon, and George Harrison offered a striking contrast with their youthful exuberance and quick wit. They played a fiery brand of new music and sported (what was considered at the time) long hair. Yet their pressed suits and playful demeanor made them an intriguing combination of safe and edgy. A whole generation of young men emulated their look and fashion—whether it was "mop-tops," the later facial hair, or the iconic clothing—while a generation of young women experienced the emotion of "Beatlemania"—intense bouts of hysteria and shrieking caused by their music or their mere appearance. The history of rock and roll is filled with musicians striking a revolutionary pose, but few have been so, well, pleasant about it.
But there were notable exceptions. In 1966 Lennon sparked a huge controversy when he told the London Evening Standard, "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now." After the comments caused severe backlash in the American Bible Belt, Lennon issued a retraction, claiming his words were taken out of context and misunderstood.
Original songs
While most artists of the time recorded songs penned by others, The Beatles boldly engaged in original songwriting, and with a flair not previously seen. Lennon and McCartney were masters of the clever lyric. And the band delivered those lyrics with gutsy singing and inventive harmonies, all undergirded by forceful, guitar-driven arrangements. The Beatles metabolized the best of early rock and roll and rhythm and blues, and brought it all together in a fresh and vital way. Thanks to the band's legacy, writing one's own material is taken for granted these days, or at least aspired to.
Stylistic diversity
The Beatles also demonstrated an uncanny ability to grow and evolve. While the band's first pop hits showed originality, they clearly carried traditional boy/girl themes. Later albums saw the group singlehandedly rewrite the rules of what rock and roll could be, bringing together string-quartet character pieces like "Eleanor Rigby" with imaginative whimsy like "Yellow Submarine" and non-Western instrumentation on "Tomorrow Never Knows." The Beatles breadth of style broadened its audience in a way unparalleled since.
Relentless creativity
In a quest for discovery The Beatles left no stone unturned, boosting the bass up to unheard of levels and experimenting with distortion and multi-track recording in ways that no one had imagined. Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick, in his book Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles, remembered the group's insistence on massive musical experimentation: "We had microphones right down in the bells of brass instruments … headphones turned into microphones attached to violins. We used giant primitive oscillators to vary the speed of instruments and vocals and had tapes chopped to pieces and stuck together upside down and the wrong way around."
The experiments in sound wonderfully complemented the growing abstraction of the group's lyrics to create impressionistic dreamscapes like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band—credited as the first-ever concept album and lauded by Allmusic as a transformation of pop music into "Art with a capital A." Every artist today that pursues a unified vision on the edge of musical boundaries is walking in The Beatles' footsteps.
In one band, then, there exists a microcosm of rock and roll from then to now—expert at so many things, from catchy pop melodies to avant-garde experimentation. The songs meet listeners on familiar terrain but also stretch and challenge—sometimes all at the same time. That's why the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl can proclaim that The Beatles "are my mom's favorite band, my favorite band, and now my daughter's favorite band."


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A fashionable disdain for middle-class values animates liberalism
John Edwards claims that this country is made up of "two Americas," the rich and the poor, contending against each other. Conservatives criticize this quasi-Marxist rhetoric as "class warfare," but there is another kind of class warfare in this campaign.
First, the old stereotype of Republicans representing "the rich," with Democrats representing "the little guy," is no longer accurate. Evangelicals, ethnics, veterans, rural and small-town Americans-most of whom have moderate incomes-have been pouring into the Republican Party due largely to their concern for moral and cultural issues. Also, high-income people have been pouring into the Democratic Party, removing it culturally from its old blue-collar base.
A study of county-by-county election returns from the last presidential election by the Ipsos-Reid pollsters shows that in counties that went strongly for George W. Bush, only 7 percent of voters earned at least $100,000 annually, while 38 percent earned less than $30,000. In pro-Gore counties, 14 percent of the voters earned more than $100,000, with 29 percent earning less than $30,000.
The "old money" of inherited wealth has been Democratic for decades (think of the Kennedys and the Kerrys), but now super-wealthy financiers (Warren Buffet, George Soros) and millionaires from the computer industry and Hollywood (two of the nation's biggest industries) are throwing their wealth and clout into the liberal cause. "It's not as if the Democrats have taken over the top of the socioeconomic ladder and the Republicans the bottom," says Karl Zinsmeister, writing on the phenomenon in The Wall Street Journal. "Rather, Democrats dominate at the very upper and lowest rungs, while Republicans find their following in the middle."
This pattern, he notes, is borne out not just in economics but in education. "At the bottom, school dropouts and unskilled workers are heavily Democratic, but so are grad students and professors on the other end of the educational spectrum. (College faculty groups are the very top financial contributors to John Kerry, according to Federal Election Commission data.) Meanwhile, high-school graduates and individuals with bachelor's degrees (the middle) are predominantly Republican."
Historically, the upper crust and the proletariat have had one thing in common: a despising of the middle class. Marxists hated the "bourgeoisie," to the point of attempting to wipe them out by murder, confiscation, and prison camps. But despising "bourgeois" values has a long history, with both aristocrats and peasants mocking their preoccupation with work, religion, virtue, and respectability. Artists, in particular, have cultivated the "bohemian" pose, in which they consider themselves creative, nonconforming individualists who exist on a higher plane and live by different rules than the boring, moralistic middle class.
And yet, America is largely middle-class, and the parties are still evenly balanced. Why don't Republicans have the middle class sewn up? Certainly, some Democrats, including some Christians, are proudly middle-class and liberal by conviction. But disdain for bourgeois values can be found even among members of the middle class, because according to contemporary sociologists, social class is no longer based solely on wealth.
According to "New Class theory," professions that deal largely with information-the media (journalists, entertainers), education (professors, teachers), the helping professions (lawyers, counselors, social workers, mainline clergy), information technologists (computer programmers, software engineers)-tend to be liberal politically. Those whose professions are grounded in solid reality (manufacturing, farming, small businesses) tend to be conservative. The New Class liberals tend to be affluent, at least middle-class economically, and yet they tend to despise "middle-class" values.
Another factor is what David Brooks documents in his book Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There. By "bobos," he means the "bohemian bourgeois." The '60s counterculture brought bohemian values-nonconformity, a self-conscious concern for coolness, looking down on what is merely normal-into the mainstream. The children of the '60s despise "middle-class" values, even though they are middle-class. They scorn the "establishment," even though they have become the establishment.
For some, the stereotype of middle-class normality-marriage, two kids, a dog, a house in the suburbs, a station wagon-is their dream. For others, being accused of having these things, even when they do, is an insult.
This is why liberals not only hate President Bush, the standard-bearer for the bourgeoisie, they insult him as being stupid. They not only disagree with conservatives, they look down on them. They resist Christianity not so much because they think it is untrue, but because they think it is uncool.


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