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The North Carolina Rate Bureau proposed a 4.4 percent average decrease in workers' compensation rates earlier this month after three years of higher rates.
Improved workplace safety and lower claims costs are the two main reasons for the proposed rate cut, said Ray Evans, managing director of the Rate Bureau.
The North Carolina Department of Insurance has 60 days to act on the proposal.
The proposed decrease comes after years of rate increases—9.3 percent in 2005, 7.3 percent in 2006 and 1.6 percent last year. Evans said that rates in North Carolina have always been higher than some other states for several reasons, including pharmacy costs.
"North Carolina has always been a little bit behind when it comes to workers' compensation insurance rates compared to other states," he said. "Our system works pretty well here and we feel comfortable with it. I think we're right where we ought to be now."
By industry group, the Rate Bureau proposed the following rate decreases: manufacturing, 3.5 percent; contracting, 4.1 percent; office and clerical, 7.8 percent; goods and services, 3 percent; and miscellaneous, 0.9 percent.
If the rate decrease is approved, it will take effect April 1, 2009.
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Vice President Dick Cheney, warning against impulsive U.S. action in Iraq, says that whether the struggling nation backslides into a cycle of violence partly depends on how President-elect Barack Obama decides to pull out American forces.
"An irresponsible withdrawal now is exactly the wrong medicine," Cheney said in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press.
During a wide-ranging discussion in his West Wing office, Cheney also said he sees no reason for President George W. Bush to pre-emptively pardon anyone at the CIA involved in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists.
"I don't have any reason to believe that anybody in the agency did anything illegal," he said.
Asked whether he believes the president needs to apologize for not foreseeing the nation's financial meltdown, Cheney said: "I don't think he needs to apologize. I think what he needed to do is take bold, aggressive action and he has. ... I don't think anybody saw it coming."
Cheney is leaving the White House after a government career spanning four decades, including stints as defense secretary, President Gerald R. Ford's chief of staff and a longtime congressman from Wyoming. In a broadcast interview earlier this week, the vice president dismissed as "urban legend" the notion that he played his role as second-in-command like a wizard, controlling the levers of the Bush presidency from behind the scenes.
Still, Cheney will be seen as one of if not the most influential vice presidents in U.S. history.
After Obama takes the oath of office on Jan. 20, the 67-year-old Cheney plans to possibly write a book and spend time with his wife, Lynne, their two daughters and six grandchildren. He and his wife will split their time between their house in Virginia and their hometown of Casper, Wyo.
An avid angler, Cheney said the first river he wants to fish is the South Fork of the Snake River on the Wyoming-Idaho state line.
Strong-willed to the end, Cheney defended the Iraq war against critics, saying that while there is much work left to do, much progress has been made. Obama has said he wants all combat troops out of Iraq by the spring of 2010, leaving behind a residual force of trainers, air controllers, advisers and logistics soldiers until the end of the mission.
"I hear a lot of people, among our critics, who keep saying `Iraq's a mess, pull out.' Well, that's not true. It's not a mess," Cheney said. "We have made major progress. We have come close to achieving a significant proportion of our objectives."
Cheney said Obama's decision to keep Robert Gates on as defense secretary makes "some of us cautiously optimistic that the new administration is going to be more reasoned and responsible in terms of how they proceed, and not take action that would undermine the basic fundamental system that we put in place."
Looking back to the contentious national debate over the war, Cheney said statements from people like Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., who in April 2007 said the "war is lost," had a big impact on the Iraqis because it reinforced a belief that the U.S. would bail out.
"If you look at it today, it doesn't look like we lost in Iraq," Cheney said. "Harry was wrong."
Cheney said Bush's decision to send in roughly 30,000 more troops sent a strong message, a reassurance, to the Iraqis that the U.S. was committed to stay the course. That, he said, dramatically changed the dynamics on the ground.
During the 24-minute interview, he vigorously defended the administration's terrorist-fighting policies.
Cheney said the administration rightly used programs to intercept communications of suspected terrorists and tough methods to interrogate high-value detainees. He also said he did not have any qualms about the reliability of intelligence obtained through waterboarding — an interrogation technique simulating drowning that was used on three top al-Qaida operatives in 2002 and 2003.
"It's been used with great discrimination by people who know what they're doing and has produced a lot of valuable information and intelligence," he said.
Obama has criticized interrogation practices he says amount to torture and also has promised to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
On Iran, a nation he called one of the prime sponsors of terror in the world, Cheney said more sanctions likely will be needed to get the Iranians to stop enriching uranium. Uranium enriched to a low level is used to produce nuclear fuel, but further enrichment makes it suitable for use in nuclear weapons.
"They have continued to aggressively pursue nuclear weapons, in terms of their efforts to enrich uranium to produce fissile materials so they can build a bomb," Cheney said. "One of the things I worry about most is that linkage between a government that supports terror and terrorists on the one hand, and on the other hand is developing a number of deadlier of weapons. And I think that's a combination that is a scary prospect, and ought to be."
North Korea also will be a trouble spot that Obama will have to watch and address, he said.
North Korea continues to be a problem partly because it hasn't kept its commitment to provide a complete declaration of its nuclear activities, he said. In addition, Cheney said: "It looks like they have a continuing, ongoing program to produce highly enriched uranium" and "they helped the Syrians build a nuclear reactor."
In 2007, Israel bombed the Syrian reactor.


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Polonius" days of raiding with his fellow Vikings had come to their end. Since he had escaped from the court at Elsinore, disguised as a deceased corpse, he had found renewal in pillage and brigandage. Each time he slew some British or Saxon churl, raped his wife or daughter, robbed and destroyed his chattels, he felt life had new meaning. Murder and mayhem assuaged him, as he imagined that each act of violence he performed was directed at his own special bane, the morosely insane Prince Hamlet of Denmark. He had coaxed the oaf, indulged him, submitted to his inconsistencies, his badly hidden schemes for parricide; his lewd designs on Polonius" daughter, and even on his own mother, Gertrude. But when Hamlet had skewered at him through an arras, and called out he was a rat, Polonius found he took intolerable umbrage. But he he found his appetite for blood and vengeance by proxy was spent. He even felt certain qualms of conscience, an urge to do good; even penance. Like his pinnace, Polonius saw he had grown old and tired, and wondered if his compunction were due to senescence; or would he ever revel again in savagery and debauchery. He was at once overcome by a horrid glimpse into the future, seeing himself living a life of endless sanctity, his virtue giving him some monstrous gift enabling him to talk with horses, forever shunning rapine as havoc as wrong. He cried out, "O! Has compunction brought me to this sorry pass? Am I doomed to an eternity in Heaven!"
When he docked at the jetty of a small speck of rocky land he recognised as Lindisfarne, he was distracted from his self-commiseration when he noted six monks holding a coffin high, up on their shoulders; others accompanied them chanting a pious dirge that Polonius found strangely soothing, and wondered if he could take up the tune himself. After all, having been a Chancellor, even a Danish one, he liked to think he had a fair grasp of Latin, and as a Viking marauder he had often sung boisterously while pulling on his oar rowing through the Baltic or over the North Sea. He was sure he would be up to the task of jointly carrying a dirge and a coffin.
He addressed the prior who walked at the head of the lugubrious procession, and asked him, "Monk, tell me the name of the corpse you carry there in your box? And the reason and the reason for this mournful polyphony." Having been a Viking for some years, and not as yet disposed entirely to ecclesiastical good manners in speech, Polonius addressed the cleric in a way he would never have done as a chancellor of a royal court.
Still, the monk answered him, "We are carrying the holy casket with venerable remains from Saint Cuthbert's cairn. Though our founder is in Paradise, at peace, his holy remains remain in struggle with the world about him," sighed the prior as he trudged along at the head of his brotherhood.
"O, bad luck!" said Polonius with a show of sympathy. "Of course, if you cremated corpses, as the Vikings do, you wouldn't have to cart them about chanting dirges."
"Your base practices are not of any value amongst us, uncouth lout; we will not burn our dead like pagans as if we consigned our saints and blessed dead to hell fire," said the prior, causing Polonius to turn about to see whom he addressed. Never before had it been suggested to him that he was an uncouth lout; largely because for a good two thirds of his life he had been well-regarded as a learned gentleman, or likely to become one; for the other third he had earned the good regard of uncouth louts who had no time for anyone who wasn't an uncouth lout, but who never saw any reason to say anything that sounded like a reproof to an uncouth lout. But as Polonius was still quick-witted he saw momentarily that he was in fact the uncouth lout being addressed. Courteously, he forbore from responding uncouthly.
The prior, having given Polonius time to digest his epithet, continued in his disapproving tone. He told the ageing Viking, "Never were bawds on our sacred island until your marauding wantons brought them here and sacked our monastery and desecrated our blessed sanctuary with loud carousing, lewd intercourse and mindless brawling; ripping up our revered brothers where we inhumed them."
"No doubt you suffered so from the longships of Tostig. I have sailing with Gunnar more to the north. We have engaged in no uncouth loutishness hereabouts, I do assure you. But I see Tostig's fellows have put you in no good humour," quipped Polonius, in a gauche attempt to lighten the mood of the conversation.
But the testy monk would have no truck with icebreaking puns. Instead he moaned, "Polonius, do you come to mock our grief, you who was born amongst Danish thieves? Your atavistic savagery came so readily to the fore, once you doffed the robes of your chancery. I hold you and your Gunnar and your Tostig all equally at fault and more so than the berserk churls who travel with you."
"My dear fellow, you cast harsh rebukes too readily, I'm sure," protested Polonius.
"Look about you and see the ruin your compatriots have done us here," urged the prior. Obeying, Polonius found he was empathising, something he had managed to avoid since Hamlet poked at him through the arras. He found that he was not being as true to himself as he had hoped. But he also saw that the monks who dwelled on the Holy Isle would be in no mood for particularities in their condemnation of Vikings, whether Danes or Norwegians or Varangians. He saw there was nothing left on any corner of the islet except smoking ruins; the destruction was, to Polonius' eye, quite shameful, bearing as it did neither commercial nor military profit. Of course the monks had obviously used more flammable materials than was sensible, and so they really should bear some of the blame; that was only fair.
On the other hand, Polonius had to acknowledge that the monks had assiduously prepared against the commoner forms of disaster. It was not entirely their fault that the masonry was charred and broken; the Viking raiders had apparently gone to considerable effort to harm the once sturdy buildings. But if the monks had housed some treasure for them to loot, they would not have been so peeved as they had been. It must have taken them a good many hours to have hacked the stones from the sacred chancel and to have strewn them, breaking each one from the glue of mortar that held it fixed to its fellows. Unfortunately, in dismantling the stone buildings, glass portraits of saints were now no more than a jigsaw of stained splinters, victims of a womanly weak form of sacking to which Polonius was sure no Viking would stoop, save that the windows were destroyed collaterally to the undoing of the buildings.
Having taken in the evidence of thorough havoc, Polonius smiled on seeing a sturdy Celtic cross still upright in the ground, surrounded by blackened turf, the charred sward encumbered by chapel stones. "I say, look here, monk. Your symbol yet remains. Is that not reason to rejoice. All is not lost."
The prior's soul boiled; he found himself close to uttering some unchristian, unkind remark. Instead, he restrained himself to stating facts: "Walls and columns; furnishings of the scriptorium; scrolls and sacramental are mixed with desecrated bones from the ossarium. Yet you suggest rejoicing. It seems to me you are a little unfeeling, Polonius. Are you so dissimilar to your violent compatriots?"
"Good father," he cried, "Think me no such Dane. I assure you, solemnly, I am not of that sort who raids and plunders such holy places. After all, in my youth, I even toyed with the idea of being baptised. Before my son was slain, it was my habit to advise him to abstain from bawds just as I prayed for strength to refrain from them myself. Though as an adherent of the Norse religion, it was difficult to find a god who would not scoff at such a prayer; so I gave it no particular address. But of late I have been enlightened. That is my reason for coming to the Holy Isle in my old, limp pinnace-not to pillage, but to join in vespers and receive monastic solace; and perhaps to enter holy orders."
"You are too late. Here only misfortunes reign. If you seek solace among us, I can only offer you a place among us as a mendicant, carrying this sacred, unearthed coffin, holding the remains of our founder, Cuthbert." Polonius was inclined to grimace; he had hoped to join some sister house where the monks would terminate their funereal procession. In fact, he decided the prior was testing his resolve, by keeping from him details of the holy corpse's final resting place.
"If you would join us, exchange your chain mail and sheepskin mantle for seared cassock you will find among the ruins. But we must go quickly; for the sea tide is jealous. Soon the causeway will be covered, and we will have to spend the night in this unhallowed place, vulnerable now to sea sprites, to the devil's fay who lurk beneath the waters, more vile than Viking Danes. More, we must hasten while the sky is light grey so we do not stray from the ridge, and sink beneath the water."
"I expect none of you can swim," said Polonius, on the verge of a sneer. But he checked himself, recollecting that sneering was deemed unchristian. He cast down his eyes and spoke penitently, saying, "Do forgive my glib words, my silly jibes. I am habituated to coarser company." The prior made the sign of the cross as if absolving the prodigal Polonius, but the stern expression on his countenance conveyed there was a limit to breaches of decorum the monks could abide.
Polonius began his novitiate leaving his worn and withered pinnace on the strand, another wasting hulk near the holier ruins close by the stony shore. His feet now shoed in crude sandals exchanged for his wonted warm boots of ox-hide lined with woollen fleece, he trudged along through the chill water that lapped over the causeway leading to the mainland, to the Durham road. Shouldering Cuthbert's coffin, he wondered if his toes would be frostbitten and need to be hacked from his feet by some sullen apothecary cleric.
As he had sailed in his old pinnace, he had expected a life of peace, in a cosy, contemplative cloister; to be soon ordained and allowed sacerdotal privileges. But his unworthiness manifested itself to Polonius as he walked with these monks newly turned friars, forced to walk apace to escape the rising tide, the waters of the surrounding sea quickly rising to their knees.
But as the twilight dimness shrouded them, and the cold waters rose, the monks' bore their need for solace stoically cheered inwardly by cuddy ducks that quacked with comic sympathy at their distress. For they had been closest of all the ducks along the coast to Cuthbert, the ducks he had always preferred to test his sermons; the ducks whose moulted feathers he had always chosen over others to fill his bedspread; the ducks that were his first choice for his Christmas meal. Though none of these favours were of particular benefit to the ducks in themselves, the cuddy ducks saw that they marked them out from other ducks. For this reason, Aethelred, the cuddy ducks' king, had urged his vassal ducks, "Lift up the spirits of the monks; help them so that they do not let the holy Cuthbert's casket drop into the sea. We must not let fish take our place in Cuthbert's hagiography."
The ducks took up Aethelred's cry, "Quack! Quack! Guard Cuthbert's hagiography from the fishes of the sea." Hearing the supportive squawking of the cuddy ducks, the monks supported the casket all the more manfully, for in the raucous applause they saw a miracle, that Cuthbert was uttering through the cuddy ducks.
The prior said, as the small procession neared the mainland, "I must remember to include the cuddy ducks in Cuthbert's hagiography." Yet as Cuthbert's coffin left Lindisfarne, it was not only the cuddy ducks sadly observed the passing of the corpse.
Warblers, geese, merlins, pintails, all mourned; they mourned anew as the Saint left them forlorn, having first raised a lugubrious cacophony when the old abbot's soul had left them.
The miserable choir of sanctimonious birdlife inspired a new level of self-commiseration among the monks to a degree most uncommon and even unacceptable to the doughty, martial Vikings Polonius was accustomed to at funereal rituals. In fact, given that Cuthbert had been dead for quite a while, he wondered if this revisitation of grief were not unbecoming in the context of Christian liturgical convention.
With the holy casket, the procession of pious misery went over the water, the Lindisfarne monks possibly even more concerned about leaving their cloistered home than they were about finding a new resting place idoneous for the inhumation of Cuthbert. Some of the monks were so put out by the selfishness of their anxieties that they moaned out loud. One, Kieran, cried, "O, prior, beat me; I yearn for a roof to shelter my wanton flesh from the wind and rain and cold." Others among the monks took up the refrain.
The prior saw he could not flagellate all the monks who confessed to desiring their own resting place more than one for Cuthbert, so he said, "Those of you who are not carrying the casket will take turns flagellating or being flagellated. It matters not whether you confess to improper priorities in your yearnings for shelter. I doubt there are many among us who are not given to inappropriate yearnings from time to time."
"O, how I suffer with inappropriate yearnings," muttered several of the monks in plainchant unison.
So half the monks who were not carrying the casket took bulrushes or pizzles out from the pockets in their cassocks and flagellated the other half. A few of them slipped off the causeway owing to their enthusiasm in administering blows, or due to lack of self-discipline that resulted excessive flinching. Some were able to regain the causeway, but one or two sank beneath the chilly water, where there fellows were sure they drowned. Still, the alternate flagellation was a novel pastime for Polonius who found it hard to choose between flagellating or being flagellated.
In any case, spurred on by chastisement it was not long before the monks crossed the causeway and began to find the skirts of their cassocks drying as they strolled along the dry road in the gloaming.
By now, Polonius along with the other monks, had had enough of whipping, so he sought to engage the atrabilious prior in conversation. "Tell me, good father, how long had your house stayed blessed and secure on the Holy Isle?"
"Two hundred and fifty years," repined the prior, looking at Polonius with no hint of approbation. "Our monastery was safe behind ocean foam, ever since the farsighted abbot, Saint Oswald sent Saint Aidan from icy Iona."
"A good many opportunities for canonisation in your order it seems," suggested Polonius agreeably.
"I doubt there would have been for you; and your ruffian friends have made it less likely for we who remain. Though we defer to the See of Rome, now we are wandering, homeless mendicants, displaced, saint-bearing, hungry penitents. Never have I heard of friars beatified, let alone canonised."
Polonius could see it was the dim setting sun inspiring the prior towards a lugubrious monologue, so he thought to cheer him with a silly pun, asking "Did Cuthbert invent cuthtard in Iona"s fog?"
As Polonius had come to see it was his wont The prior glared with a withering disdain, though the cleric could not disguise from the perspicacious penitent that he was inwardly cheered, and adopted a more cheerful tone. He almost grinned when he said, "Cuthbert had introduced a rigorous rule, That of Benedict, not of custard drool. But he did allow this simple pleasure to our brethren on certain holy days."
"Most indulgent, indeed, for Cuthbert to allow you custard. Who would not look forward to nine novenas of fasting if a he could celebrate his self-denial with a bowl of Cuthbert's custard?"
"Not an entire bowl, Polonius. All things in moderation, if you please. Cuthbert saw it politick to observe how austerely, how frugally, how earnestly and disciplined the monks accorded with the practice Benedict established first at Nursia when only slight deviations were condoned. But Cuthbert also saw that the more frequent were exceptions to the rule in a cloister, the more licentious became its inmates."
"Bad habits besmirched the clerics in habits," suggested Polonius, impishly.
This time, the prior would not deign to smile at the loutish jest. Instead, he continued, "But we lapsed under Cynewulf. He was a bad abbot, despite his habit. His rule allowed far too much latitude. We drained goblets of beer and mead in our leisure, which occurred far too often for my taste. During my leisure, I will have none of it. Instead of milk and water, which was our long established wont, we abandoned ourselves to wines long fermented and likely to raise our spirits impiously. But the Vikings slew Cynewulf, a crime I dare not call a blessing…"
"Though you sense his murder was God sent?" asked Polonius, mischievously.
The prior clapped his hand to his brow, crying, "O! Polonius, are you my nemesis, sent to plague me with compunction? Scourge me, do!" As he spoke, he stripped to the waist and presented his back to Polonius.
"No, my arm is already sore with scourging. Besides, it seems you delight too much in suffering."
"It is only a small delight. We monks have already been punished for our decadence,
for having shamed our votive, choral cadence, belching in the chancery. But surely I may yet be allowed to relish asceticism."
The prior struck Polonius as being quite peculiar. He was still of the view, as he had always been, that self-immolation was not a rightful cause for delight. He now doubted, as he took his turn lugging the coffin, if these sorry mendicants were good company for a fellow seeking redemption. He wondered if carrying a corpse in a corpse was not more akin to lunacy than sanctity.
Still he continued in the monks' company, baffled but heaving about the old corpse; he studied the monks' faces and judged their way of life was not one to envy. He found himself irritated as the long-faced prior read through Eadfriths gospel, ruffling the pages from time to time, in search of a salutary admonishment; on occasion he would urge the monks to chant the text with frenetic, pious energy.
He prayed he would replace it in gem and gold covers crafted by the holy Bilfrith; covers that the Norse marauders had so recently ripped from the covers of the tome he nestled now.
The tedious journey, wended through bogs, lochs, marshes, and soon wore out Polonius' socks. His cassock had become tattered; he was no longer courtly, even by the rough standards of a Norse marauder. And he grew more peeved as the prior"s tone grew harsher, droning on about some Synod at Whitby that mattered only to him; he spoke at length of enforcing changes concerning methods of tonsure; or dwelled on calendar traditions that schismatic churches may have shattered concerning the through dates of Easter; he grew heated in a long polemic on whether it was Rome or Iona that was dominant bishopric; all crucial to the prior. But matters Polonius was sure had little bearing on his quest for redemption.
To the novice, none of these were sound reason for worn socks, who recalled his old pinnace on the rocks, which he had left feeling his soul mortally sick. Though he continued with these trudging haliwerfolc, these dull people of the Saint, in soiled, torn cassocks, deflecting their eyes, half hidden by cowl borders, traipsing on in disconsolate, dishevelled order, Polonius wondered if he were not destroying rather than redeeming his marred spirit.
From time to time, they stopped a while to sew Cuthbert's corporax, or mend coffin panels, or pray, or beg for alms, a meagre scrap of food or two. At Whitby, they stopped to kneel in prayer by a pier. Wickedly, Polonius lifted his eyes and spied a dragon head ship drawing level. He leapt and bid adieu to the monks about to trudge, once done with prayer, Chester-le-Street. He ran in joy as to the devil, in quest of a less meagre strain of solace. Excess of penance had renewed his love for the pinnace.


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Impressed by the role APSEA was playing in educating its members on the Proposed Constitution of Kenya; the Kenya Medical Association organized a forum for its members on 29th July 2010 and invited APSEA to make presentation.
APSEA was privileged this month to have received the recognition of esteemed academician and constitutional lawyer Yash Pal Ghai in a mention within an article he wrote in the Sunday Standard on the 8th of August, 2010.
Anyone who was following the vote tallying proceedings at Bomas of Kenya on August 4 would have been hard- pressed not to have noticed the prominent position APSEA had been accorded in the midst of dignitaries and leading organizations.
In an increasingly technologically advanced world,
During the entire campaigning period for the constitution, it became increasingly clear that many Kenyans had not read the Proposed Constitution of Kenya and were merely making decisions based on the rhetoric of their leaders- political and religious.
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Exploring the Past: Courses
These highly innovative courses have been hand picked to open up new interests/perspectives, show-casing the quality of teaching and research from different disciplines within the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff: the school in which we hope you will eventually study for a degree. The courses have been specifically designed to develop your writing & research skills, giving you the confidence to approach, use and interpret a variety of different types of sources including historical texts, literature, images, artefacts, built heritage and archaeology.
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It's January 3, and you know what that means: New Year's Resolutions world-wide are starting to fail. The first day of sticking to your resolution was a cinch. The second day was a bit more painful. By day three, you're feeling like taking a little break might not be so bad.
If you're experiencing resolution fatigue, help is on the way. In fact, it's right at your fingertips. Your smartphone can do so much more than keep you connected to Facebook; it can actually help you stay motivated throughout the year. If you're veering off the path to New Year's Resolution success, here are some apps that will keep you on track all the way through 2013 and beyond.
Your resolution: Lose weight
This is certainly a tough resolution to keep, but if you're determined to make 2013 the year that you finally shed your love handles, you don't have to go it alone. To make healthy eating a breeze, download Lose It, a free app that aids weight loss by tracking your calorie consumption. After you set a weight loss goal, the app will help you determine just how many calories you should consume on a daily basis. The beauty of Lose It is in the ease with which you can record meals and snacks. The app draws nutrient and calorie information from a huge database of foods that even includes supermarket brands and restaurant dishes. By giving you greater insight into the healthfulness of your diet, Lose It will help you shed pounds faster than Apple fans shed the iPhone 4.
Your resolution: Exercise more
You might hate exercise as much as I do, but you'll instantly fall in love with Ease into 5K, an app which helps you become the runner you never thought you could be. If you can spare 30–40 minutes three times a week to go for a run, you can learn to run a 5K. The app takes you through an eight-week program of interval training to help you run for gradually longer periods of time. If you can spare just an hour and a half of your week, you'll be running a 5K in no time.
On the other hand, if you'd prefer to exercise apocalypse style, you'll enjoy Zombies, Run! Recommended by Zing blogger Amanda, Zombies, Run! is an "audio adventure" which motivates you to run via an audio recording and GPS tracking. It's like a real life video game, and the only way to avoid getting eaten by virtual zombies is to run – for real. Perfect for the gamer that needs a little help getting off the couch, Zombies, Run! is available for $3.99 in the Apple App Store.
Your resolution: Quit smoking
Highly rated by iPhone users, LIVESTRONG MyQuit Coach is a free app that motivates you to quit smoking. It creates a personalized quit plan and helps you set attainable goals. The app provides inspirational photos, motivational tips and progress charts to keep you away from tobacco. Another great part: It connects your stop-smoking efforts with the world of social media so that your friends and family can help cheer you on via Facebook and Twitter.
Your resolution: Pay off debt
Are you getting ready to buy a home in 2013? A good way to prepare for homeownership is to pay down your debt. I've said this before and I'll say it again: Mint.com is a must-have app for your phone. This free app tracks spending, creates budgets, and allows you to set goals for paying off debt. Find out more about Mint.com and other financial apps here.
Your resolution: Get organized
While your iPhone probably won't clean your closet or sort your laundry, it does have some useful tools for helping you stay organized. Check out Lauren's favorite grocery shopping list apps for some tools to help you zoom through the supermarket. And if you're looking for a do-it-all electronic calendar, check out Fantastical, an app that Business Insider calls the "best calendar app for your iPhone." Priced at $3.99, Fantastical makes entering new events easy and allows you to view your appointments with just a quick glance.
Your resolution: Help others
For the charitable resolution-maker, there's VolunteerMatch, a free app that helps you locate volunteer opportunities near you. Its comprehensive search tool offers a variety of criteria so you can easily find nearby charitable work that matches your skills and interests.
Your resolution: Learn something new
Learning has never been easier. If you're interested in foreign languages, check out any app by 24/7 Language Learning. These free apps will teach you all the basics for Spanish, French, Italian, German, Japanese and more. It's a great way to learn, and features entertaining games, quizzes and flashcards. If it's musical prowess you seek to gain, check out Guitar 101 – Learn to Play the Guitar. This freebie compiles the best of YouTube's instructional videos to help you understand guitar basics.
Smartphones are a wonderful asset. If you're lucky enough to own one, these apps can help you get the most out of your technology. What apps do you use the most? Let us know in the comments!
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Hannah Scott returns to headline The Barfly after the successful launch of her well-received EP 'Still Static'. Expect to hear a mix of old favourites, tracks from the EP and some new material from Hannah and her 5 piece band.
Praise for Hannah's distinctive voice, punchy hooks and sharp lyrics has arrived from publications such as MOJO Magazine, where she was shortlisted for the final of their 'New Voice' competition, and The Guardian, who handpicked her as their 'New Band of the Day'.
A well honed touring artist, Hannah has previously supported the likes of Ed Sheeran and Seth Lakeman.
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Patricia Mary Hearons, BA
Patricia attended Temple University studying philosophy and cognitive neuroscience. She also took courses in the arts and a strong interest in neuroaesthetics. Volunteered in the Labs of Peter J. Marshall Ph.D. investigating the mind-body relationship in children and Gerry Stefanatos D.Phil. investigating auditory processing.
Lab manager at the Georgia Institute of Technology under Paul Verhaeghen, Ph.D. and Audrey Duarte, Ph.D. investigating cognition and memory in aging, short-term visual memory, and the binding problem.
- Bachelors of Arts in Philosophy, Minor: Cognitive Neuroscience - Temple University
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Current Projects
- CONTE: Neurophysiology of social-emotional dysfunction in schizophrenia.
Recent Publications
- Duarte, A., Hearons, P.M., Jiang, Y, Delvin, M.C., Newsome, R.N., & Verhaeghen, P. (2013) Retrospective attention enhances visual working memory in the young but not the old: An ERP study. Psychophysiology, 50(5).
- Medical Illustration/Graphic Design in: Stefanatos, G. A., & DeMarco, A. (2012). Central Auditory Disorders. In V. S. Ramachandran (Ed.),Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (2nd ed.). Oxford: Elsevier.
Select Presented Research
- Sengupta, S., Verhaeghen, P., & Hearons, P., The disintegration of visual-short term memory capacity: The capacity of colored objects is most often determined by the number of features. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society 2011. Seattle, WA.
- Sengupta, S., Verhaeghen, P., & Hearons, P.M., Storing objects in visual short-term memory: Location is key. Cognitive Science Society 2011 Meeting, Boston, MA
- Stefanatos, G.A., DeMarco, A. , Hearons, P.M., & A. Parsons. Specialized Neural Responses to Onset Features of Auditory Objects. International Neuropsychological Society 2011 Meeting, Boston, MA


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Food is on the tip of everyone's tongue these days. It even came up during Elena Kagan's Supreme Court hearings today. You can watch the video below. Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma asked if the government could pass a law mandating that people eat three fruits and three vegetables a day.
The beauty of a system based more on individual responsibility is that people have the freedom to live as they please: healthy or unhealthy. Of course, then you have to let people face the consequences of their decisions, as if they were fully capable adults.
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What is funny to me however, is that our economy would seem to me, stronger because of all of these poor food guidelines and general poor health. It creates industries which spring up to "cure" these health problems. The healthcare industry has been the big growth industry for years now. I wonder what would happen to our economy if everybody was strong and healthy, and didn't eat the manufactured food that gets advertised endlessly on TV.
I wonder if our economy is stronger because we are unhealthy. It creates more product markets for corporations to monetize.
The flaw in your argument Larry is that that money we spend on health care would be spent on something else. If we didn't spend money on health care we would spend it on something else. The money would get into the economy one way or another. Where health care would affect us monetarily is in productivity. Sick days cost us billions of dollars in lost productivity. We would be wealthier if people were healthier.
" Of course, then you have to let people face the consequences of their decisions, as if they were fully capable adults."
I would generally agree. Unfortunately, we also have millions of Americans who, through a variety of circumstances beyond their control (The people of the Gulf Coast fishing communities currently come to mind), are unable to afford health care. I would prefer a more flexible system, one that lets people opt out to enjoy their individuality and personal freedom, while taking care of those who are unable to do so. Unfortunately, something like requires a great deal of care, regulation and control – both in what to put in and what to leave out. Right now, we live in the dichotomy of all or nothing with little room for compromise.
Hey Katt,
I am a gulf coast resident, and yet I would have to agree with the idea that all of us is in control of our decisions and must live with those consequences. No, it's not our fault that BP killed our foodsource, but here's a thought:
I choose to live in a precarious place because I have a love for the ocean. With that decision comes the risk of losing my home due to a hurricane. Should you have to pay for that? No! It's my fault. I could have just as easily chosen to live inland and given up the good parts of living near the water. Forcing you to pay for my decision without giving you the benefits I receive (gulf views, daily surfing, beach running, fresh seafood) is completely unfair and is not in line with the original intent of the founding fathers.
Our wise and benevolent leaders would do well to ask, before passing further legislation, whether any already-existing legislation is contributing to our health problems. I'm thinking of corn subsidies (and farm subsidies in general), for starters. This would help cut back on the amount of HFCS in our food and the amount of corn fed to our livestock. Of course, that wouldn't be a very sexy political move.
By the way, nice job pointing out the broken window fallacy. Did you know that today is Bastiat's birthday?
Michael Pollan has expressed some interesting ideas on the issue.
I remember hearing him talk about the problem with government subsidized corn — it is not nutritious for humans, and because of the subsidies, it is just about the only thing that poor people can afford.
His solution? Obviously the subsidies have to go, but he had another interesting idea: He suggested that the FDA create a legal definition of food. That way, frankenfoods like corndogs could not be purchased with foodstamps. The government already disallows the purchase of alcohol with foodstamps…why not extend that to "foods" with no nutritional value. Things that are purchased and consumed because they are affordable, but in the long run, are quite harmful to the health and cost a lot of money due to sickness, obesity, etc.


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I have written cron job to call a method(generate_invoice) written in my model called
Invoice,which in turn call a method from other application which gives an array of details and each detail has two ids which i use to create invoice following is my method defined in
Invoice model...
@ibtxn = Ibtxn.root_context_by_branch_id
@ibtxn.each do |t|
@inv = Invoice.new
@inv.number = "INV1810"
@inv.date = Date.today
@inv.customer = Customer.find(t.customer_id)
where "root_context_by_branch_id" is method defined on other application,
@inv.customer means
Invoice has relationship with
Customer which says Invoice has_one customer and
Customer is a model.
Now when cron job runs its not able to find
Customer using
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Tonight on NBC there are new episodes of America's Got Talent and ABC has Wipeout while FOX has Hell's Kitchen and Masterchef. A new season of Flipping Out starts on Bravo and a new show, Hair Battle Spectacular, begins on Oxygen. The rest of the cable channels have a bunch of different shows for you to watch! Take a look below and have a great week!
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SXSW 2011 hosted a phenomenal conference this year with interactive, film and music media seminars. As part of the interactive section there were a handful of financal seminars about the future of shopping, lending and banking. One particular session that caught my interest was one entitled "What's In Your Virtual Wallet?" featuring representatives from PayPal and eBay/RedLaser. This session focused ... Read More »
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Forget IoT: Get ready for the monitoring of things
Industry Insider
By Dirk Paessler
We love technology. It's what drives our developers. It's what drives our product. It's what drives our marketing.
We try to avoid jumping on the bandwagon of every new IT buzzword that's out there--at least if it isn't directly related to a possible application for our customers. That's why we've carefully kept an eye on the Internet of Things (IoT) trend and tried to determine if it's a topic that might offer substantial benefits for our customers in the years to come.
We don't know yet if IoT will live up to the hype, but we are convinced that it will have an impact on the way we experience IT--and the time to get prepared is now.
Internet of Things basically means everything is connected, with all its advantages and disadvantages. For the network administrator of the future, this rising complexity will come with a whole new set of challenges.
Forget about BYOD and start thinking about BYOT, or Bring Your Own Thing, and "thing" could be--if you follow recent IT media articles--everything from a coffee machine to a car that's parked in the underground parking lot of a company. Wearables seem to be one of the first trends within this almost infinite area of applications.
Who monitors the monitor?
Wearables are often intended to be used for extended healthcare purposes, for example: monitoring a patient's pulse or heart rate. If there's a sudden drop in the heart rate, an ambulance could automatically be informed, find the patient via GPS signal and hopefully save her life.
But what happens if the software crashes, the device gets disconnected or is simply turned off? The recipient of the body monitoring data also has to be informed about the status of the wearable. You have to monitor the device in order to being able to guarantee a constant flow of reliable body monitoring data.
For hospitals equipping their patients with these kinds of wearables, the integration into their IT environment is only a first step. They also have to think about updating their network monitoring strategy. Remember, everything will be connected.
One of the biggest challenges will be to integrate a very heterogeneous group of devices into an already existing network structure. This is even truer for companies in industries with a huge scope of possible "things" to integrate into their network.
Industrial Internet
In the manufacturing industry wearables could, for example, measure the noise exposure of factory workers. That is a very realistic scenario, but it's just the beginning. Imagine assembly lines that are never affected by unplanned downtimes, maintenance work that can be scheduled to an exact point in time and spare parts that arrive even before a replacement is necessary. No more warning lights that only flash after an error has occurred or after a part has exceeded its life cycle.
This development is known under different terms such as Smart Manufacturing or Industrial Internet. The goal is to create intelligent networks along the entire value chain, which can control each other autonomously.
While we might be only at the beginning of this revolution now, it's important to start planning for the future. The sensible integration with the existing IT infrastructure should especially not be taken lightly. What's happening to the data that gets picked up off the machines? It has to be added to the central IT system in order to enable further processing, useful display and a basis for maintenance workers to take action.
Monitoring things--in this case complex industrial machines--isn't so different from monitoring network devices. What matters is getting relevant data that can be analyzed and put to a purpose.
A challenge and a chance for IT
IT is an area that never stops evolving--and network monitoring is a big part of this development. When the concept first was introduced, the technology was mostly used to monitor physical IT devices, such as routers or switches.
With the ongoing virtualization of networks, new concepts and functionalities had to be found in order to gather and process new kinds of relevant data. The next logical step was to run applications in the cloud and even further extend the virtualization.
To enable users of SaaS, or Software as a Service, solutions and other cloud applications and constant access to their productive environment, the connection to the cloud has to be closely monitored--this includes the monitoring of services and resources from every perspective to guarantee the smooth operation of all systems and connections within the cloud.
Besides the necessity to continue monitoring all devices, virtual machines and cloud-based applications, the Internet of Things also launches a new era in network monitoring, or Monitoring of Things.
As with every new thing connected to the network, the amount of data that can and should be monitored is constantly growing. Due to the heterogeneous nature of "things" and applications--many of which we probably even can't think of today--it will be difficult to have an out-of-the-box solution that covers every possible scenario.
Applying custom sensors is a feasible solution, already used by many organizations. In the past we've seen users being on the forefront of creativity, using custom sensors to monitor prawn farms, pellet stokers or even the blood fridge of a hospital--all not being network devices, but "things".
We're learning about new applications almost every day and are excited about these developments. The goal is that, when the time does come, organizations will be able to monitor every "thing" they want.
About the author: Dirk Paessler, CEO of Paessler AG, describes himself as "an engineer, entrepreneur, computer networking professional and software guru." In addition to founding Paessler AG, Dirk has a long track record of co-founding successful internet platforms such as hotel.de.
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No longer the cream of the Windows Phone 8 crop, Nokia's Lumia 1020 has nonetheless aged rather gracefully, being today, exactly like when it first saw daylight, everyone's go-to camera phone. Launched at a prohibitive $299 with AT&T contracts, the 4.5-inch handheld has seen its price steadily drop over the months, now going for a hard to refuse $49.
The only catch? You still need to commit to a 24-month Ma Bell pact, which is fairly uncomfortable since WP 8 devices may well be obsolete next year, let alone in 2016. Oh, well, AT&T users can always upgrade, so don't let this small inconvenience impede such an awesome deal.
By the way, yes, the $49 discounted price tag is valid both for new AT&T customers and old ones seeking an upgrade. Also, the yellow, black and white coated variants are all part of Amazon's promotion, each packing 32 GB on-board storage.
To make matters even sweeter, the Lumia 1020 also qualifies for AT&T's ongoing new activation bill credit promo, meaning you cough up $50 for the device, but get $100 in return as credit. Bottom line, the carrier is essentially paying you.
Again, this beast's feature highlight is by far the 41 MP PureView camera with Carl Zeiss optics, optical image stabilization, Xenon and LED flash. But the AMOLED display is no pushover either, sporting 1,280 x 768 pixels resolution, whereas under the hood you're treated to a hardware show ran by a dual-core Snapdragon S4 chip and 2 GB RAM. Pretty solid spec sheet for -$50, eh?
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Seymour Hersh on Israel's 'Strike in the Dark'
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Seymour Hersh on Israel's 'Strike in the Dark'
In Sept. 2007, Israel bombed an alleged nuclear facility in Syria. Months after the attack, there remains much speculation about the facts and the motivations behind the raid. New Yorker staff writer Seymour Hersh spent months investigating the bombing. He discusses his article, "A Strike in the Dark: What did Israel bomb in Syria?"
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we just got a t-200 online and it came in boxes we are having trouble with the brakes as one side will not release spring seems to be good lubed cables and pivot on brakes same problem in front and back what am i doing wrong
we just got a t-200 online and it came in boxes we are having trouble with the brakes as one side will not release spring seems to be good lubed cables and pivot on brakes same problem in front and back what am i doing wrong
First off, get a keyboard, for your computer, with a period key. Without one, we cannot tell when one sentence ends and another begins, nor can we really dispense any accurate advice. I don't know what type of brake a T-200 is. See the word pivot, I assume it is a road brake caliper. You just need to center the brake over the rim or center the wheel in the frame or fork.
Best start looking for a new keyboard.
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Bikes use brakes to stop.
If your bike has breaks, don't ride it.
i guess i did not understand peoples academic level dot!!!! most all i know can understand a message online without any trouble period!!! you are the type that give bicyclists a bad name dot!!! i hope you can read this without interprertation period!!! see my keyboard works fine you just have to type according to a persons mental capacityDOT PERIOD!!!!!
Your post made no sense whatsoever, even discounting the fact that it contained grammatical and punctuation errors, leaving it unclear what a t-200 is, whether a type of brake or the model of an entire bike. Doing your job of searching for you by typing "t-200 bicycle" into a search engine brings up two Trek models on the first page, one a tandem, the other a comfort bike. Considering that these bikes are entirely different beasts altogether, they have entirely different equipment.
The lack of pertinent details in your first post is like asking, "My bike is broken, how do I fix it?" No one can help unless we have more information. Your second post would've been a good opportunity for that, instead you chose to have a hissy over someone asking you to use the common courtesy of punctuation.
To answer the only question with enough information provided (along with some deductive reasoning and perhaps assumption): The solution to,"What am I doing wrong?" is that you bought a bicycle online with no idea how to assemble it.
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With calls from some in Washington and across the country for reviving the assault-weapons ban, the experience of the early 1990s offers lessons that can inform the current debate.
More than two decades before Newtown, there was Stockton.
In January 1989, a troubled drifter in his 20s opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle in a California elementary schoolyard packed with students. Five children between the ages of 6 and 9 were killed in the fusillade of bullets; 29 others were wounded, along with one teacher.
The resulting national shock and outrage plunged Congress into a debate over whether to ban military-style assault weapons.
"The American people are fed up with the death and violence brought on by these assault weapons," Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, said on the Senate floor. "They demand action."
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Action, however, would take time. The gun lobby put up roadblocks. The politics, just as today, were fraught. It took five years of legislative slogging to pass a federal assault-weapons ban that finally took effect in 1994. But the price of passage was a host of compromises — most painfully for supporters, a sunset provision added late in the legislative wrangling that paved the way for the measure to expire in 2004.
Now, in the wake of another massacre at an elementary school by a gunman wielding a semiautomatic rifle, the Obama administration is working to develop a new set of gun-control proposals. With calls from some in Washington and across the country for reviving the assault-weapons ban, the experience of the early 1990s offers lessons that can inform the current debate.
Just as it was then, the most difficult terrain to navigate will most likely be political, as any new federal measure would have to overcome the opposition of pro-gun lawmakers and the gun lobby. But contours of the policy will be nettlesome as well. As states and the federal government have experimented with various kinds of assault-weapons bans, gun manufacturers have excelled at finding ways around the restrictions, tweaking their guns just enough to comply with new laws.
The federal ban also yielded mixed results in its decade of existence. A 2004 study by the University of Pennsylvania, financed by the Justice Department, found that the measure, which included a ban on ammunition magazines that could hold more than 10 rounds, had only a limited impact on gun crime.
The study explained that part of the issue was all the exceptions to the law. Assault weapons and large-capacity magazines manufactured before 1994 were exempted from the ban, meaning that more than 1.5 million assault weapons remained in circulation. In addition, the country's stock of large-capacity magazines actually continued to grow after the ban, because it remained legal to import them from abroad as long as they had been made before the ban.
Old federal standard
Another challenge for lawmakers was defining precisely what an assault weapon is, which allowed the industry to continue manufacturing guns similar to those that had been banned.
Connecticut, in fact, has an assault-weapons ban, similar to the old federal law. But law-enforcement officials have said they believe the guns Adam Lanza used in the Newtown shooting — including a .223 Bushmaster semiautomatic carbine, which is often described as a military-style assault weapon — were legally acquired and registered.
Connecticut's law adheres to the old federal standard, defining an assault weapon as one able to accept a detachable magazine and that includes at least two other combat-type features. In the case of a rifle, these might include a pistol grip, a flash suppressor or a grenade launcher. Guns that have just one of these additional accessories can comply with the law.
California, in contrast, has one of the strictest bans — forbidding semiautomatic rifles and pistols with easy-to-reload, detachable magazines, if they also have just one other military-style accessory. But gun manufacturers have been able to get around some of its strictures with a device known as the Bullet Button.
The device allows gun owners to pop out their magazines quickly by inserting the tip of a bullet or some other small tool into a button on the side of their weapons. Because the magazine requires a tool to release it — and cannot be released by hand — it is not considered "detachable" under California law.
Definitions vary
A little more than half a dozen states have laws banning assault weapons, but definitions vary.
Brian Malte, the director of network mobilization at the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said that assault weapons bans should be written "to give as little room as possible for unscrupulous gun manufacturers to evade such a law."
The National Rifle Association (NRA), which has kept a low profile since the Newtown shooting beyond expressing sympathy for the victims, called a news conference for Friday, promising to offer "meaningful contributions to make sure this never happens again."
Beyond the policy questions facing lawmakers, however, lie the tricky political calculations — just as they did two decades ago.
The chief protagonists then included three senators: Metzenbaum, a longtime liberal firebrand from Ohio; Dennis DeConcini, a moderate Democrat from Arizona; and Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat who was new to the Senate. (Feinstein vowed this week to introduce a bill to revive the ban in the wake of the Newtown shootings.) In the House, Rep. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., now a senator, was the workhorse.
The most surprising member of the group was DeConcini, who had consistently voted with the NRA and was once even named their "legislator of the month."
The Stockton shooting, however, was a galvanizing moment, he said in a telephone interview. He approached NRA officials to see if they would work with him in drafting a "responsible bill," he said. After conversations over several months, however, he said, NRA officials broke off talks, saying they feared they would lose members if they went along.
"I'll never forget that," DeConcini said.
Both Metzenbaum and DeConcini introduced bills to ban assault weapons after the Stockton shooting. A proposal passed the Senate that year but went nowhere in the House.
More shootings
In the years that followed, more mass shootings involving assault weapons made headlines. Gang violence involving high-powered weapons also escalated.
Crucial to how the ban finally moved forward in 1993, however, was the emergence of a large omnibus crime bill, filled with popular measures, like adding 100,000 police officers to the nation's streets, a top priority of the Clinton administration.
Through some nimble legislative footwork, the ban's supporters in the Senate, led by Feinstein, were able to get a version of the ban added to the crime bill and through the Senate in November 1993.
Although there was pressure from the White House to drop the ban for fear that it might scuttle the entire crime bill, former legislative staff members recalled, its proponents held fast.
"That was courage," said Michael Lenett, a former counsel to the Judiciary Committee, assigned to Metzenbaum, who died in 2008.
The quarterback of the crime bill was Joe Biden, who was then senator from Delaware and chairman of the Judiciary Committee. On Wednesday, President Obama tapped Vice President Biden to lead an interagency effort to develop new anti-violence proposals.
The ban narrowly survived, but the final version represented a series of compromises from what some gun-control proponents originally hoped for, including the sunset provision, a shorter list of explicitly banned guns and a more expansive category of exemptions.
David Yassky, who worked on the ban as chief counsel to the House subcommittee on crime under Schumer, said some compromises were needed just to pass the bill.
"A broader definition of assault weapons would have been safer, would have resulted in fewer highly dangerous weapons making their way through the ban — but there just were not the votes for it," he said.
Looking back, former staff members who worked on the bill recalled the long political slog, as well as how narrow their window of opportunity was.
"To me," Lenett said, "the lesson is you have to strike right now."


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Sussex County's Fund for Women to hold fashion show April 13At the Independence Hall Club House in Millsboro
The Fund for Women from Sussex County will hold its 4th Annual Fashion, Fun, and Philanthropy Show from 2 to 5 p.m., Sunday, April 13, at the Independence Hall Club House, 23767 Samuel Adams Circle in Millsboro.
Local women's boutiques including Azura, Candlelight Bridal, Coolspring Cottage, Crazy Ladyz, Deanna's, Josephine's Daughter, Lady Fenwick, Simply Dressed and Twila Farrell will feature spring and summer fashions for guests to enjoy. Hair styling and makeup for models will be contributed by Bad Hair Day and Bling.
Boutiques will display accessories for sale and contribute raffles and discount coupons. Light refreshments and specialty drinks will be served. Doors will open no earlier than 2 p.m.
The event, costing $25, is open to founders and women interested in having fun viewing fashions from local boutiques. This has been a sold-out event in the past so those wishing to attend are encouraged to obtain advance reservations at weblink.donorperfect.com/Sussex2014AprilFashionApril13. For information, contact Lynn Kokjohn at 302-841-4333.
The Fund for Women is an endowment at the Delaware Community Foundation whose mission is to provide funding to enhance the worth and potential of women and girls in Delaware by bringing together the collective philanthropic power of women. The endowment is funded when new founders pledge to give $1,000 over a five-year period.
The fund has awarded nearly $1.8 million in grants since 1993. In 2013, the fund awarded $128,904 to 12 agencies supporting projects that help women and girls avoid abuse and poverty, improve their physical and mental health, and gain financial independence.
The Delaware Community Foundation manages charitable funds for individuals, families, businesses and organizations, and distributes income from the funds as grants to humanitarian, educational, health, and cultural entities throughout the First State.
For 25 years, the foundation has been connecting people who care with causes they care about, helping make Delaware a better place to live. For more information, visit delcf.org/ffw.


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4. Shut your laptop. There's a whole world beyond Facebook, Twitter and Gawker. Turn off your computer, put down your iPhone and go outside. Spend one evening each week away from the glare of your glowing screens. Read a book, take that bath, paint your nails or have that sex … for the entire evening. No one will die if you can't check your Tumblr dashboard for new cat memes. Just think of all the cat videos you can watch at work the next morning!
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6. Turn on your oven. This advice isn't just for us ladies. It's important to learn how to cook something more substantial than milk and cereal. Sorry to insult your Food Network savvy, but that's not even cooking. Don't fret, I'm sure all those Barefoot Contessa episodes you DVRed will pay off one day when you want to make a Bearnaise sauce. When you're on the phone with your mom, ask for a few easy recipes. You would be surprised how easy it is to roast a chicken or make a fresh marinara sauce.
7. Eat breakfast. And while we're on the subject of food, you should try eating some in the morning. Eating a healthy breakfast is a surefire way to not go crazy on takeout pad thai for lunch. Stock up the pantry with granola and oatmeal. It is, after all, the most important meal of the day for a reason.
8. Drink better booze. Enough with the lite beer and plastic bottles of vodka. Ladies, let me introduce you to whiskey. Treat it right and it will be your best friend. Treat it badly and it will take you down. The king of whiskey is Scotch—which can taste like a smooth melted caramel. It can also taste like rocket fuel. I happen to like my scotch like I like my men: old and single.
9. Get more sleep. Studies show women sleep less than men. It's not surprising, but it is definitely depressing. Adults needs 7.5 to 9 hours of sleep each night, so you'd better turn those lights off early. Sleep makes us happy, healthy, smart and thin! With all those benefits, it's probably the best resolution you can make this year.


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The scene is still being cleared, but eastbound I-10 in the Baum Road area is now open. Traffic is still moving slow.
FHP says the driver of the Penske truck has been taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
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Florida Highway Patrol says a semi tractor trailer was going eastbound in the left lane on Interstate 10 early Tuesday, when it somehow lost control and crashed into a Penske truck that was pulling a Jeep Cherokee on a small trailer.
The Penske truck landed on its side in the median. The trailer from the semi is across both lanes of interstate, with the cab separated and crashed in the woods. Traffic is backed up, and vehicles are parked on the interstate due to the road being completely blocked.
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The Biggest Loser: Debbie Lounds Talks About The Drama On The Season Premiere!
September 21, 2011 06:39 PM by Lisa Princ
Last night we watched the season 12 premiere of The Biggest Loser on NBC, where Debbie Lounds was the first contestant to face elimination. In a post elimination press conference, Debbie Lounds talks about her time on the show, as well as the drama we saw last night! Keep reading for more…
The Biggest Loser kicked off season 12 with a dramatic start last night as we watched Debbie Lounds get into a dramatic argument with fellow contestant, Bonnie, and ultimately Debbie Lounds was sent home. In a post elimination press conference, Debbie shared some thoughts on the show, and the drama. Check out what Debbie wanted to share below!
Question: Why didn't you seem more upset to be sent home last night?
Debbie Lounds: All of the other contestants had health problems like sleep apnea, high blood pressure, and diabetes. I never anticipated being in that position. I didn't have any of those things. I think being in the position that we were in and with me having the support system at home, I knew I could be the sacrificial lamb and I would be okay.
Question: Were you really that irritated by Bonnie?
Debbie Lounds: Bonnie irritated me, but I wasn't coming from a place of meanness. I speak what is on my mind. I recognize that I came across as unsympathetic, but I didn't get much of a chance to defend myself. The scene was longer than they showed, and I think a lot of it has to do with how it was edited. I'm not upset about how I came across. I thought they were very fair in how they portrayed me. I just felt bad that I wasn't given an opportunity for people to get to know me. I wasn't there long enough for people to get to know me.
Question: Do you feel that Bonnie's tears got her the sympathy votes at the elimination table?
Debbie Lounds: I don't think she was getting the sympathy vote. I understand that it's very difficult when you lost someone. I just thought she could have controlled her tears a little bit better.
Question: Have you and Bonnie spoken since and resolved your issues?
Debbie Lounds: Yes, she and I get along fine, and we talked soon after, because I really wanted her to understand that I wasn't coming from a place of meanness. I'm a very straightforward person and I usually speak what is on my mind. And so, if I had stayed there, maybe it never would have come up. But that's just how it came across. I was sorry afterward, and I just wanted to make sure that she knew, and we did understand each other.
Question: What was it like working with Anna Kournikova?
Debbie Lounds: Anna Kournikova is a real task master who works you hard. I never doubted Anna's abilities. I had complete faith in the producers in their selection of the trainers.
Question: Do you think viewers got the wrong impression of you?
Debbie Lounds: Tuesday night my daughter organized a viewing party, and there were like 100 people there, and because they know me and they like me, we were laughing. When I was in the gym with Anna Kournikova and working out and stuff and I was saying, 'Oh can I have some water, please? I'm about to die of thirst,' they know me, and so they know how I am. But unfortunately, to those on the show and those who saw the show, I'm sure I came across as unsympathetic and however it is. And that's why I wanted to talk to Bonnie.
Question: What's in your future?
Debbie Lounds: A marathon, although it was never something I thought I would do. My position is going to be that, I'm just going to roll with everything. I'm telling people, if they want to buy me something, they can buy me some knee pads or they can buy me some roller skates, because if I have to crawl across the finish line, then that's what I'm going to do. Or if I can roller blade across the finish line, that's what I'm going to do. But I'm going to finish it, come hell or high water.
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2 Responses to "The Biggest Loser: Debbie Lounds Talks About The Drama On The Season Premiere!"
katie Says:
September 21st, 2011 at 7:24 pm
good lord! anna kournikova should pack her bags and go on a long trip after last nights humiliation!
Rick Says:
January 12th, 2012 at 9:21 am
They may have edited the hell out of the video…but that doesn't change the fact that at the time of that first episode airing, she only lost 9lbs. Then, at the final weigh in she had only lost 33lbs when everyone else pulling well over 60lbs. She was lazy and wanted to do it on her terms…well guess what Debbie, your terms is how you got to be overweight. Way to take that opportunity and waste it.


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The only problem with updating this blog everyday is that sometimes the previous day's post becomes, well, yesterday's news in a flash. Make that 34 days 'til Royals FanFest. Or 33 or 32, depending on when you're reading this over the weekend. We'll update this Monday with more Royals news. By the way, only ten more shopping days 'til Christmas. Or 9 or 8 if you're reading this…
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AHHH…Were are the Powder Blues? I want to buy but I can't find…
Dayton–deals to make:
a. B. Inge–German and move Inge to 1B. A powerful RH/LH balanced lineup.
b. Sign Matt Wise and T. Miller for the BP
c. Pick from these SP's:
a. Anthony Reyes
b. Noah Lowry
c. S. Marcum (Exclesior Springs)
d. Chris Capuano
e. Sign C. Silva only if can get his price down
Will cost you DeJesus and could include following: K. Davies, de la Rosa, Gload, Gaithright, M. Aviles and even someone like Hochevar. Make these moves, which should be win-win for all clubs, and the Royals' offense, SP, and BP will be much improved.


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If you thought sassy pants Dame Maggie Smith is a piece of work on Downton Abbey, wait – JUST wait – until Shirley MacLaine comes to North Yorkshire. Come season three (which will begin filming next week), which airs in September in Britain (later on for us Yanks. Thanks for shutting down, Megavideo), the Oscar winner will play Lady Grantham's mother, Martha Levinson.
MacLaine's character comes allll the way from the "colonies" to visit her daughter (played by Elizabeth McGovern), according to Gawker, and we can only imagine what the Dowager Countess will have to say when the American arrives.
I really hope MacLaine gives Thomas a good shake, that rat.
The first season of Downton Abbey is available on Netfix Instant Stream.