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The Automated ScoreBook
Ohio Valley at Marshall
Oct 06, 2013 at Huntington, W.Va. (Dot Hicks Field)
Score by Innings R H E
Ohio Valley......... 100 000 0 - 1 1 3
Marshall............ 000 122 X - 5 7 1
Umpires -
Start: 1:25 Time: 1:50 Attendance: 53
Weather: Sunny
The Automated ScoreBook
Ohio Valley at Marshall
Oct 06, 2013 at Huntington, W.Va. (Dot Hicks Field)
Ohio Valley starters: 13/cf Wilson, M.; 5/2b Schroeder, K; 10/1b Thomas, B.;
4/lf O' Bryant, D; 3/ss Doeling, K.; 12/3b Smith, A.; 2/p Brown, K.; 7/rf
Vinesett, C.; 9/c Page, D.;
Marshall starters: 21/cf Greene, K.; 18/lf Zerkle, M.; 44/3b Braxton, S.; 92/c
Lucas, K.; 59/ss Escareno, R.; 27/2b Myslenski, R; 13/1b Winton, T.; 33/dh
Cook, A.; 12/rf Cooper, E.; 16/p Fadnek, L.;
Ohio Valley 1st - Wilson, M. walked. Schroeder, K
lined out to 2b. Thomas, B. walked; Wilson, M. advanced to second. O' Bryant, D
struck out looking. Doeling, K. hit by pitch; Thomas, B. advanced to second;
Wilson, M. advanced to third. Smith, A. hit by pitch, RBI; Doeling, K. advanced
to second; Thomas, B. advanced to third; Wilson, M. scored. Brown, K. struck
out looking. 1 run, 0 hits, 0 errors, 3 LOB.
Marshall 1st - Greene, K. struck out swinging.
Zerkle, M. struck out swinging. Braxton, S. struck out. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0
errors, 0 LOB.
Ohio Valley 2nd - Vinesett, C. walked. Vinesett, C.
out at second c to ss. Page, D. hit by pitch. Wilson, M. struck out swinging.
Page, D. stole second. Schroeder, K struck out looking. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0
errors, 1 LOB.
Marshall 2nd - Wilson, M. to 1b. Thomas, B. to c. O'
Bryant, D to cf. Murphy, L. to lf for Page, D.. Lucas, K. flied out to lf.
Escareno, R. grounded out to ss. Myslenski, R grounded out to 3b. 0 runs,
0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Ohio Valley 3rd - Thomas, B. singled to right field.
O' Bryant, D popped up to 1b. Doeling, K. flied out to lf. Smith, A. struck out
looking. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Marshall 3rd - Cook, A. to dh for Winton, T..
Winton, T. to 1b for Cook, A.. Cook, A. grounded out to ss. Winton, T. grounded
out to 3b. Cooper, E. grounded out to ss. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0
Ohio Valley 4th - Brown, K. walked. Brown, K. out at
second c to ss. Vinesett, C. reached on an error by 3b. Murphy, L. struck out
looking. Wilson, M. struck out looking. 0 runs, 0 hits, 1 error, 1
Marshall 4th - Greene, K. fouled out to c. Zerkle,
M. grounded out to p. Braxton, S. singled to left center. Lucas, K. singled
through the left side; Braxton, S. advanced to third, scored on the throw
scored on an error by lf, unearned. Escareno, R. grounded out to 3b. 1
run, 2 hits, 1 error, 1 LOB.
Ohio Valley 5th - Fowler, B. to p for Fadnek, L..
Schroeder, K flied out to lf. Thomas, B. struck out swinging. O' Bryant, D
flied out to ss. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Marshall 5th - Myslenski, R reached on a throwing
error by 3b. Watts, J. pinch ran for Myslenski, R. Cook, A. flied out to cf.
Watts, J. stole second. Winton, T. homered, 2 RBI; Watts, J. scored. Cooper, E.
lined out to ss. Greene, K. singled to shortstop. Zerkle, M. singled, bunt;
Greene, K. advanced to second. Zerkle, M. stole second; Greene, K. stole third,
out at home lf to 3b to c to ss to 1b. 2 runs, 3 hits, 1 error, 1
Ohio Valley 6th - Myslenski, R to 2b for Watts, J..
Doeling, K. fouled out to 3b. Smith, A. flied out to 2b. Brown, K. grounded out
to 3b. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Marshall 6th - Braxton, S. flied out to rf. Lucas,
K. doubled to left center. Escareno, R. doubled to right center, RBI; Lucas, K.
scored. Brumfield, J pinch ran for Escareno, R.. Myslenski, R struck out
looking. Cook, A. reached on an error by 3b; Brumfield, J scored, unearned.
Winton, T. grounded out to 3b. Ross, C. pinch hit for Cooper, E.. 2 runs,
2 hits, 1 error, 1 LOB.
Ohio Valley 7th - Escareno, R. to ss for Brumfield,
J. Cooper, E. to rf. Vinesett, C. struck out swinging. Murphy, L. grounded out
to p. Wilson, M. grounded out to 3b. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0
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Hornchurch's Alex Day hits #25 in Christmas singles chart
PUBLISHED: 09:46 24 December 2012 | UPDATED: 11:22 24 December 2012
It was another chart smash for internet music sensation Alex Day on Sunday, but he missed out on beating his world record success of last year.
The 23-year-old, who grew up in Hornchurch, holds the record for the highest ever charting single by an unsigned artist, from last year, number four, from last year.
But while 2012's single Stupid Stupid didn't equal the success of Forever Yours, it did chart at a respectable number 25.
It marks another feat for the unsigned artist who achieved a third top 40 hit in 12 months – without any mainstream radio airplay or concert performances.
He joked in an online message to fans on Sunday: "You know what I always say: "If you're going to get in the charts always get ten places lower than the last time you tried."
"We tried our best and I've had a cracking year, we've had three songs in the top 40, and I got to keep all the money - well I didn't, I gave it all to charity."
He donated half of his profits from the single to charity Save the Children.
The former Emerson Park school pupil also announced he will be releasing a full length album next year.

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makes about 8 sliders or 4 burgers
1/2 yellow onion, peeled and roughly chopped
1 large clove garlic
2 tablespoons fresh dill, loosely packed
2 tablespoons tablespoons fresh parsley, loosely packed
1/4 cup shredded carrots
1 (15 oz.) can or 2 1/2 cups cooked garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed
tahini (available at Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, etc.)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 large egg
1/4 cup panko breadcrumbs
8 slider buns, toasted
1 Persian cucumber, sliced
2 tomatoes, sliced
1 small yellow onion, thinly sliced (optional)
1-2 ripe avocados, halved, pitted and sprinkled with a pinch of sea salt
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Coat a cookie sheet with cooking spray.
Place onion, garlic, herbs, and carrots in a food processor. Pulse until all ingredients are chopped. Add beans, 1 tablespoon tahini, salt, egg, and breadcrumbs and pulse until combined and beans are just slightly chunky. If mixture is too dry to form patties, add a little more tahini or water. Form patties and place on prepared cookie sheet. Bake 15 minutes, carefully flipping once.
Spread about 1/2 tablespoon of tahini over each bottom bun. Place patties on top. Top patties with cucumber, tomatoes, and onion slices. The cucumber adds crunch to the softer patties, so don't skip them. Slightly mash avocado flesh with a spoon and then spread it on the top buns.


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This 11 minute audio record includes a rally against evictions and foreclosures in front of BofA Regional Headquarters in SF, a street theater performance in front of Wells Fargo, and a teach-in in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, making the connection between predatory evictions and foreclosures, detention and deportation to break up immigrant families and communities under the guise of national security and big bank's investment in for-profit criminalization.
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Gathered at the Bank of America Regional Headquarters entrance is a rally of five to six hundred people. We hear the story of one family's house foreclosure after an admitted BofA error that the now-mortgage-holder Fannie Mae will not reconcile. Lost homes in San Francisco neighborhoods are enumerated, including 979 in the Bernal Heights area, 1022 in Portola and Visitation Valley, 465 family homes in the Bayview, 1918 including the Excelsior District, and an additional 9976 family homes in other areas of the city. Clergy and religious leaders blow horns of Jericho as the rally cries "We raise up human need. We bring down Wall Street greed."
En mass we move to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On the way we pass Iraq Veterans Against the War on their way to their own street theatre detaining fellow protestors per the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a provision permitting the arrest and indefinite detention of US citizens anywhere in the world, including the US. ICE uses detention and deportation to break up immigrant families and communities under the guise of national security and is intimately linked to big bank's investment in for-profit criminalization. A street theatre performance and teach-in makes this point abundantly clear.
The seven people blockading the Bank of America branch since eight o'clock this morning need their own blockade between them and an impeding arrival of riot police. Several hundred from the ICE protest rally work our way through Chinatown as residents wave from storefronts and windows above. As we pass by the Wells Fargo headquarters I see wooden barriers going up in front of the building effectively self-blockading access to ATMs and the building entrances. Way to go, Wells Fargo! Others also converge at the BofA blockaded branch and the riot police disperse. On the sidewalk across the street I hold my sign. People in business attire walk past. Some look straight ahead. But some read my pizza box sign "Human Need not Corporate Greed" on one side and "Compassion is in our genes Human need NOT corporate greed"on the other. They look at me for the briefest of moments. This recognition happens more consistently than I expect. I see a twitch in one man's eye as he catches my gaze. A slight raise of an eyebrow in a woman. A light nod by another. The eye-twitcher walks by a second time. It is 3:00 and raining quite hard now. By six o'clock, those seven people had stayed chained together for ten hours to successfully shut down this bank.


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USDA stands for the United States Department of Agriculture. It plays an important role in the development of housing across the United States in many different ways, including the guarantee of home loans. When talking about USDA homes, we are referring to a part of the USDA called Rural Development.
The USDA has many different financial programs that help to support services such as telephone, electric, public facilities, water and sewer systems, health clinics, housing and more. They do this by supporting loans to specific kinds of businesses using credit unions, banks and community managed lending pools. The organization has a portfolio of loans equal to $155 billion. They currently provide about $20 billion in loans, grants and loan guarantees during a typical fiscal year. By doing so, they assist rural communities, businesses and people in a great way.
In order to purchase a USDA home, a person must qualify. However, where the property is located also makes a difference in whether or not it qualifies for a USDA home loan. When you're talking about USDA homes, you are really referencing two different things. First, you can purchase a home using USDA home loan funding. This kind of financing can be used on a variety of different properties in different areas whether they are foreclosures or not.
On the other hand, you might be talking about USDA foreclosures. These government foreclosures are similar to VA homes or FHA foreclosures in that the government takes them back if the borrower defaults. Just like HUD foreclosures, these USDA foreclosure homes need to be sold off in order to allow the government to recoup their investment.
In order to buy one of these properties, you must first look for USDA approved homes. These are houses for sale that meet the guidelines for USDA home loan requirements. Many times, they are in the rural areas, as the name implies.
These kinds of loans used to be called "farmer's loans" because of the location of many of the houses. However, metropolitan areas have gotten a lot broader over the years making more homes in the suburbs available for USDA loans. In fact, some properties become eligible simply because of the county and zip code wherer the home is located. Of course, the person also has to go through the normal qualification procedures related to their credit score and income.
So what are the perks of looking at USDA government home loans rather than other kinds of financing?
Here is additional information about what the USDA offers when it comes to home loans:
There are several other options available for unique USDA loan programs that apply to more specific situations such as water and waste.
The great thing about USDA loans is that many people qualify and don't even know it. If a home is located in an approved USDA area, many people will qualify to purchase it. Of course, the person must have sufficient income and a credit history in order to prove that they can pay the monthly payments. The person must also be of legal age to own property in the United States. He or she cannot own another home at the same time.
The first step is to check to see where eligible properties are located in the USDA database. Then, the person must go through an income eligibility check through the USDA site. Just as with any other mortgage loan process, a person must show sufficient income and credit history in order to qualify. Only certain lenders are approved to handle USDA loans, so it's also important to make sure that you choose a specific lender who understands and is approved to handle the process.


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Get an overview of this hotelBeaux Arts hotel with free breakfast and coffee shop/café
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Simply enter your Nectar card number when you check out. Your points will be credited 35 days after you return from your trip.
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Popular property highlights
Located in the heart of Pitesti, this hotel is within a 10-minute walk of Republic Park and Pitesti City Hall. Parcul Expo is 0.6 mi (1 km) away.
Hotel Features
A coffee shop/café, coffee/tea in a common area, and a business center are available at this smoke-free hotel. Free buffet breakfast is provided, as well as free WiFi in public areas, free self parking, and free train station pick-up. Other amenities include a meeting room, dry cleaning, and laundry facilities.
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All 45 soundproofed rooms provide free WiFi, free wired Internet, and memory foam beds. Other amenities available to guests include balconies, cable TV, and minibars.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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The hotel offers a coffee shop/café. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. This 3-star property offers access to a business center and a meeting room. Event facilities measure 355 square feet (33 square meters). For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) is offered to guests. This Beaux Arts hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and coffee/tea in a common area. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Hotel Arges is a smoke-free property.
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- 24-hour front desk
- Business center
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Total number of rooms - 45
- Laundry facilities
- Number of floors - 4
- ATM/banking
- Conference space size (feet) - 355
- Free self parking
- Free parking nearby
- Conference space size (meters) - 33
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Coffee shop or café
- Free breakfast
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- One meeting room
- Multilingual staff
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Free train station pickup
- Year Built 1961
- Smoke-free property
- Television in common areas
Family Friendly Amenities
- Free Wi-Fi
- Soundproofed rooms
- Laundry facilities
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
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Free self parking, Free parking nearby
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Premium TV channels
- Minibar
- Private bathroom
- Premium bedding
- Balcony
- Soundproofed rooms
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Cable TV service
- Free WiFi
- Daily housekeeping
- Hair dryer
- Shower only
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Desk
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Free wired Internet
- Room service (limited hours)
- Memory foam mattress
Where to Eat
A complimentary buffet breakfast is served each morning between 6:00 AM and 10:00 AM.
Arges - This buffet restaurant serves breakfast only.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 12:30 PM
Check-in time ends at 6:30 AM
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Check-out time is 10 AM
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Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for RON 25 per night.
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
- Pets allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- A 3 percent city/local tax will be charged
- Resort fee
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- Rollaway bed fee: RON 25 per night
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This property offers transfers from the train station (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. A resort fee is included in the total price displayed.


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Jim Isermann (blue), by agency Hoop, 2007
- Published by Trransport for London, 2007
- Commissioned by Platform for Art
- Format: Double royal
- Dimensions: Width: 635mm, Height: 1016mm
- Reference number: 2007/4620
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London's calendar has always been full of public events. These range from large scale annual events and one-off festivals, for which thousands of Londoners take to the streets, to smaller exhibitions held at a variety of specific venues. Transport companies have always taken the opportunity to promote travel to such events through their posters. On public holidays, when there were no scheduled events to promote, posters encouraged Londoners to travel out into the countryside or to explore the city.
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Posters were often issued to mark significant anniversaries in the history of London's transport. These include the opening of Underground lines and stations, as well as the start of London bus services. Occasionally, other historical anniversaries were remembered in posters, such as the Fire of London. From the late 1950s to the mid 1970s, centenary posters were issued annually to commemorate the lives of interesting people associated with London.
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Improving retirement outcomes
Global pensions report
Although the financial aspects of aging and longevity have been debated for decades, the global financial crisis significantly altered the discussion. Policymakers, plan providers and retirees alike face new challenges in the post-crisis world.
The challenges provide an opening to reshape retirement policy and pension regulations. They also offer substantial business opportunities and a chance to spur innovation. Our seven findings below address these issues—all with an eye toward building a better retirement world.
1. Rebalance benefit expectations with financial resources
Expectations of generous retirement and pension benefits that don't match financial reality, coupled with increasing customer longevity, are increasing retirement and pension fund deficits.
Providers and policymakers must use long-term vision and political discipline to drive tough but necessary pension and retirement reform, such as benefit reductions and "outsourcing" outcome responsibility.
2. Support concurrent evolution of local financial markets
Assets in many emerging market pension and retirement systems are increasing at a far greater rate than local capital markets are developing, which strains national financial systems in terms of operational risk, regulatory oversight, liquidity and infrastructure.
To maximize and balance pension outcomes, many levers in local markets will need to evolve and expand. This will require diverse experience and capabilities in the assessment, decision and implementation aspects of retirement and pension reform.
3. Accept a new level of regulation, oversight and transparency
The size of pension markets and their inherent risk to social and economic stability in the post-crisis world require higher levels of political and public scrutiny, regulation and transparency.
This comes with a cost. Providers must ensure their retirement solutions align across multiple jurisdictions and regulations while still supporting sustainable delivery of better retirement outcomes.
4. Increase focus on operational excellence
A holistic approach toward operational excellence (encompassing cost analysis, service delivery and risk management) is needed to drive meaningful reform and help industrialize the retirement and pension sector.
Industrialization has successfully transformed other mass-transaction markets, such as banking and securities processing, and the retirement and pension industry has an opportunity to leverage the experience and infrastructure of those markets.
5. Recalibrate investment functions and investment management
The post-crisis capital market is forcing retirement and pension providers to reevaluate their investment strategies, asset allocation policies and operating models.
Future retirement solutions need to align with the increasing size of pension and retirement assets. Robust systems and predictable outcomes are crucial to restoring public confidence in these solutions.
6. Find simplicity in complex systems
In most markets, pension and retirement systems are overly complicated. For beneficiaries, this complexity reduces confidence and engagement.
Few pension systems actively manage this dimension. Simplifying communication, product selection and operations can lead to increased customer confidence, buy-in and engagement.
7. Connect and become customer-centric
Policymakers aspire to increase voluntary retirement savings, but this is possible only when providers understand their customers' behavior and needs.
Social media and other digital solutions are vital tools to building effective interaction with stakeholders. In effect, policymakers and providers face the same risks and opportunities that the banking industry experienced a decade ago when it began handing information, and therefore power, to the customer.


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Brooks Running - Run Happy
Run Happy - It's a feeling, an attitude, a spirit that lives in the hearts and minds of all runners. Young and old, fast or slow, male or female, master or newbie. It's each runner's deep and meaningful love of running. It's powerful, peaceful, unstoppable, connected, free, passionate.
Brooks has been around since 1914. That's 100 years of creating high performance running shoes and apparel for runners all over the world. Let's just say they really know their stuff.
Brooks Running is the official footwear and apparel sponsor for the 2014 Shamrock'n Half Marathon & 5K. Run Happy.


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At Gemvara, we believe that the jewelry you wear should be one of a kind, like you. That's why we make each piece to order, one at a time, just the way you want it. Choose sapphire and white gold or garnet and platinum: it's your choice. Mix and match gems and precious metals for a look that's exactly you. It's jewelry for all life's occasions, from an engagement or graduation to your own personal milestones and celebrations. Celebrate her Quincenera with a brilliant gift of jewelry that will always remind her of you. Gemvara uses only the highest quality materials to craft your yellow gold march birthstone stackable jewelry design with meticulous attention to detail. Our precious metals are recycled or responsibly mined. March's birthstone is aquamarine, which has a pale beauty that will add elegance to your look. Yellow gold glows with a rich buttery golden color. Gemvara offers a choice of 14k yellow gold, the most popular gold alloy, or 18k yellow gold, a premium gold with a deeper color and higher gold content. Our wide selection of yellow gold march birthstone stackable jewelry by Damon Washington, Bijoux & Bijoux, Jessica Behzad, and other talented designers means you can find jewelry that's exactly your style. You can also shop by style, choosing our Streamlined, Celebrity Style, or Knot Collections. Day after day, you'll enjoy wearing a Gemvara stacking ring with every other ring you own. Each additional stack ring adds even more possibilities. Gemvara's fine quality yellow gold march birthstone stackable jewelry is designed to be passed down for generations to come, crafted by hand in the United States.
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A benefit for Doug DeMars will be held Sunday, Feb. 27, from noon to 5 p.m. at Jack & Jim's Bar, 11205 Duelm Road N.E., Duelm, Minn. (17 miles west of Princeton on Highway 95). The event will include a spaghetti dinner, bake sale and silent and live auction.
Doug moved to Zimmerman in 1974 and started washing windows for a living at that time. He is the father of seven and grandfather of 16, with two more on the way.
Doug was diagnosed with throat cancer in November 2010. He is going through radiation and chemotherapy. All proceeds will go towards his medical bills, medication and hospital stays.
Donations can be mailed to Doug DeMars, 12686 First Ave. S., Zimmerman, Minn. 55398.
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A registered sex offender in Los Angeles turned himself in Thursday during a live KTLA news report.
Valentino Rodriguez Jr., a 46-year-old parolee, went missing after removing a GPS tracking device from his ankle, but on Thursday he decided to end the police search with the aid of KTLA reporter Eric Spillman. (Video here)
On a sidewalk in East Los Angeles, Rodriguez told Spillman that he wanted to "do the appropriate thing" and turn himself in to police. He said that he was feeling "paranoid" and "suicidal" and mentioned the name of his parole officer. Spillman said that he'd wait on the sidewalk with him until authorities arrived.


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Report: Tanks deployed at the entrances of Damascus
Al Quds Al Arabi newspaper quoted eyewitnesses as saying that armored vehicles belonging to the Syrian Republican Guard were deployed at the entrances of Damascus, apparently in preparation to suppress possible protests demanding the fall of President Bashar al-Assad regime. The London-based newspaper quoted witnesses as saying by telephone that the armored vehicles belonging to the Republican Guard had been queuing at the entrances of Damascus and that security siege was imposed on the cities of Deir al-Zour, Deraa, Raqqa and Qamishli.
Witnesses spoke about the use of live bullets in Damascus and Aleppo. They said they had heard the sounds of sporadic gunfire in the area of al Muhajirin and Hay al Maydan. Witnesses also confirmed the existence of a tight security control in the Damascus hospital in order to identify the wounded. They also spoke about clashes in the vicinity of the Citadel of Aleppo.
On Wednesday, Syrian security forces dispersed a demonstration of 150 people gathered in downtown Damascus.
Since the beginning of the popular protest wave in the Arab world, the Syrian authorities have intensified their campaign against opposition activists and arrested several of them, including activists in the social networking websites. It is believed that there are about 4000 political prisoners who are being held without a trial in Syria. They include Kurds, Islamists and secular figures. There are also hundreds of detainees who were tried on charges of undermining public security and social order.


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Free Samples: Sheba Cat Food
I love cat food samples. I save them all and give them to my grandma's cat every holiday. It's great (well, great until I finally get my own cat and then no more samples for Hurricane).
Right now, you can get a free sample of Sheba cat food. Just click that link to get yours.


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Universal Buys DIE HARD Themed SPEEDING BULLET
Yippee Ki Yay, another Die Hard themed movie is headed into production. Deadline reports that Universal Pictures has picked up Speeding Bullet, based on a pitch by Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer. The project is described as "a throwback to the Die Hard-esque 90s buddy cop movie" and was also pursued by Paramount. It will be produced by KatzSmith Productions partners Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg.
This is the second similar movie in development in Hollywood. Last week Sony bought White House Down, a spec by Amazing Spider-Man scribe James Vanderbilt, which is being described "as Die Hard in the White House." I love the concept of Die Hard, so I will be happy to see this movie. Casting is everything on these pictures--Bruce Willis really made the Die Hard films.


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Video: Clive Owen and Liana Liberato Talk Trust, Playing Father and Daughter, and Working With Nicole Kidman
Video: Clive Owen Talks Trust and Facebook, Becoming an Onscreen Family, and Working With Nicole Kidman
In Trust, Clive Owen and Liana Liberato play a father and daughter struggling to mend their relationship after an online predator threatens to tear their family apart. We sat down with the actors at their recent Beverly Hills press day to talk about the weighty subject matter, building a believable parent-child relationship, and their upcoming projects. Clive was still sporting the mustache for his role as literary icon Ernest Hemingway in Hemingway and Gellhorn. The HBO movie tells the story of the writer's relationship with war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, played by Nicole Kidman, and Liana also talked about working with the Oscar-winning actress in Trespass. Plus, check back soon to see our chat with director David Schwimmer and catch Trust in theaters this Friday, April 1.


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Three weeks ago, I experienced a brief, troubled dream of being stabbed in the side with something sharp and pointed, like a barbecue skewer. When I woke up, the dream dissolved, but the pain was an awful reality.
It was scary and disorienting. It was also, without exaggeration, nauseating. I will never again make casual, euphemistic use of the verb "writhe," having performed this action in its most literal and transitive sense. On the bathroom floor.
At dawn on a Monday morning, the emergency room was blessedly empty. As quick as you can say "Blue Cross," they had fixed me up with an intravenous drip of pleasantly stupefying painkillers.
"I feel a lot better now," I remarked cheerfully, as a nurse wheeled me away for a CT scan. "I bet you do," she said.
The culprit was a kidney stone: a tiny thing, no bigger than the diamond chip in a mail-order engagement ring. I had envisioned something the size of a Crenshaw melon embellished with poisonous spikes and barbed wire.
Fortunately, the misery was finite. It persisted for six boring, wasted days, during which my only choices were enduring pain that made it impossible to read, sleep or just sit in a chair — or taking drugs that made me too foggy to work the TV remote.
It was a terrible, exhausting week. It made me wonder how people experiencing severe, chronic pain manage to lead anything approximating a normal life.
The scope of this problem is maddeningly difficult to quantify. One element of the Affordable Care Act is a federal legislative mandate "to increase the recognition of pain as a significant public health problem."
Supporters of increased funding and research for pain treatment cite a staggering statistic — 100 million — as an estimated number of Americans suffering from "severe, chronic pain." That's defined as constant or recurring pain that lasts longer than six months.
That's a huge number. It's more, as advocates point out, than the number of American citizens suffering from diabetes, heart disease, and cancer combined.
Yet some researchers insist that number is dramatically exaggerated. Americans, they point out, are already dangerously dependent on opioid painkillers, which are cheap and effective, but notoriously addictive.
A report published last month by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel cited experts who claim the legislative initiatives are being pushed by self-interested pharmaceutical companies and patient advocacy groups that can't substantiate their claims about the quantity and degree of unrelieved pain people are routinely enduring.
Of course, nobody can substantiate anybody else's claims about pain. It's an entirely subjective experience, one for which there's no test or objective appraisal.
Most of us are familiar with that ubiquitous pain-assessment chart with 10 cartoon faces, ranging from sunny and smiling to "Please, just shoot me now" that's supposed to describe our degree of suffering.
It's exactly as trustworthy as the person doing the reporting, probably as reliable as self-assessment can be.
There's a certain amount of pain, of course, that we just have to endure. When my husband asked how long he could postpone replacement of a beat-up shoulder, his surgeon advised: "Call me when you can't put up with the pain anymore."
But for some people, the pain is so constant and debilitating that it outlasts the underlying illness or event that caused it. One longtime health journalist recently described her ordeal in the online policy journal Health Affairs.
"Invisible pain is hard for others to understand," writes Janice Lynch Schuster, who has suffered daily as a result of nerve damage following routine oral surgery more than a year ago.
Schuster describes a harrowing search for permanent relief — and a medical culture that still persists in viewing chronic sufferers as whiners, malingerers or pill-shopping addicts.
Whether it's 100 million or fewer, that's a lot of people whose lives are being compromised by pain — and whose misery is less well-understood than sufferers of more easily diagnosed, more "sympathetic" ailments.
You can't feel somebody else's pain, not literally. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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Bangladesh should continue negotiation with the US Congress for a duty-free access of the country's main export items to the American market, Pascal Lamy, director general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), said yesterday.
At present, Bangladesh garment exporters pay 15.3 percent duty to enter the US market as the American government did not give duty-free access despite commitment for the same.
A negotiation is underway in the WTO to this end, Lamy told reporters after a meeting with Commerce Minister Ghulam Muhammed Quader at State Guest House Padma in Dhaka.
"It is true the US government is not yet providing duty-free access of Bangladeshi garment items to the US market. This is one of the areas where the WTO is yet to succeed. But the negotiation is going on,†said Lamy, who arrived in Dhaka on a two-day visit yesterday.
Bangladesh pays nearly $1 billion in duty charges a year to the US customs, he said, adding that the US was the only country where Bangladesh's garment items were not getting duty-free access.
"We are aware of the problem of duty-free access of Bangladesh's garment items to the US market. This has been under the negotiation of the WTO.
"This is my dream, but this is not like the real world. The whole game is to convince the US Congress,†Lamy said.
This is his second visit to Bangladesh in a year, and the main purpose of this trip is to visit Chittagong.
WTO's purpose is not only to deal with tariff and trade, but also to facilitate and make trade easier. "I will understand and listen from the businessmen in Chittagong tomorrow [today]. I will also see the expansion of the Chittagong port for future.â€
Regarding tariff and global trade, Lamy said tariff was certainly lower now than it was supposed to be. He said he was satisfied on the current tariff structure for global trade as the WTO member countries had subscribed the WTO disciplines.
"The countries have committed to lower the tariff. The trade is much easier today.
"Tariffs are sometimes obstacle to trade. This is an area which will be discussed this year in priority in the WTO under multilateral arrangement to streamline, simplify and eliminate tariff,†Lamy said.
Commerce Minister GM Quader said: "The WTO is assisting Bangladesh in expanding its trade globally. Lamy has a soft corner for Bangladesh.â€
Bangladesh should continue negotiation with the US Congress for a duty-free access of the country's main export items to the American market, Pascal Lamy, director general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), said yesterday.


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Lincoln County School s reported that they are above state proficiency in all areas Thursday. The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction released the results for the 2012-2013 READY Accountability report. According to a Lincoln County Schools press release, the new model "focuses on career and college readiness measures with assessments including more real-world applications and open-ended questions at the secondary level." The shift in focus from grade-level readiness to career and college readiness allows students to master more difficult material earlier in their education. North Carolina has had a school accountability program since 1996.
The district reported that 15 out of their 19 schools achieved expected growth, with eight of those schools exceeding expectations. West Lincoln Middle, North Lincoln Middle, East Lincoln High and West Lincoln High did not meet growth expectations. Iron Station, Northbrook, Pumpkin Center Intermediate, Rock Springs, St. James, Union, East Lincoln Middle and Lincolnton Middle exceeded growth expectations.
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GULFPORT — A trip to the Joy Food Mart where their father worked was a special treat for the Hoang brothers.
Their father would give them $5 to take out the trash and to stack bottles of water and soda.
But on Dec. 22, the brothers — Eric, 11, Andy, 10 and Thomas, 8 — were faced with an unexpected responsibility.
Three masked men barged into the store and shot their father and another employee. The brothers, who were behind the counter during the attack, called 911 and rushed to help the injured men.
For their courage, the Gulfport City Council and Police Department presented lifesaving medals to the boys Tuesday night. The children are the first non-police officers to be recognized with the award, the Police Department's highest honor.
"They didn't run, they didn't hide," said acting police Chief Robert Vincent. "They just did exactly what they needed to do to get help."
The brothers immediately pinned their medals to Oshkosh B'Gosh sweatshirts they each wore.
The boys were solemn during the ceremony, showing the maturity they displayed the night of the shootings. But they giggled as they left City Hall with their parents and grandparents.
The boys said they were honored by the award, but they downplayed their bravery.
"Anybody could do it," said Andy Hoang. "They just need to stay calm and call for help."
On the night of the robbery, the Hoang family was getting ready to close and go home for dinner when three men with bandanas covering their faces walked in. The men were laughing.
"This is a robbery," they said.
Customers had bared water guns and joked about robbing the store in the past, so the family wasn't immediately alarmed.
Thanh Hoang, 43, told the men to stop kidding around. That's when one of the masked men shot him in the arm.
The boys stood in stunned silence as the robbers turned their attention to the cash drawer.
Tien Tran, 25, their father's longtime friend, scrambled to gather the money from the register. He passed it over to the criminals. They shot him in the chest anyway.
"When the blood started coming we started crying," said Andy Hoang. "I didn't understand why they shot him. It's just money."
Eric Hoang, 11, pressed the alarm button behind the counter as his brothers scrambled to comfort Tran, who they consider an uncle.
"We said, 'come on, it's okay, keep breathing,' " said Andy Hoang, 10.
Eric Hoang dialed 911.
"My dad and my uncle just got shot," the frantic boy told the operator. "Oh, my God! Oh, my God!"
A police officer arrived minutes later, but to the boys it felt like half an hour.
"This action no doubt contributed to saving the life of their uncle, who was critically wounded and would only be saved by quick application of emergency medical assistance," said Vincent.
Tran and Thanh Hoang have since recovered.
The store has installed a new security system. From behind the counter, a clerk can push a button that automatically locks the door to keep suspicious people out. The store also closes an hour earlier, at 8 p.m.
Police have yet to catch the culprits, but the Hoang brothers aren't worried.
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SANA, Yemen — Yemen's political opposition on Saturday presented an outline of how it hopes to see power change hands after nearly two months of protests that have weakened the longtime president but failed to drive him from office.
Mohammed al-Sabri, a spokesman for Yemen's opposition parties, said they wanted a smooth transition. They presented a plan that asked President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down and hand over power to his vice president.
Al-Sabri said the vice president could oversee a national dialogue that would advise on reforming the constitution and planning for elections. Similar to Egypt, al-Sabri said Yemen should hold a referendum on a new constitution before any voting.
"We want to achieve political freedom and to build a modern country that is federalized and has parliamentary rule," said the statement sent by al-Sabri to the Associated Press.
The plan also called for leaders of the security apparatuses to step down and for investigations of those responsible for the killing and wounding of protesters. Security forces have killed 92 protesters since the unrest began on Feb. 12, according to the Shiqayiq Forum for Human Rights.
There was no immediate comment from Saleh's spokespeople.
Reflecting the standoff between Saleh's government and the protesters, both sides held demonstrations Saturday in the capital, Sana.
In another demonstration, tens of thousands of antigovernment protesters hurled stones at riot police backed by tanks in the southern province of Aden.
Daily protests demanding Saleh's ouster have failed to bring an end to his 32-year rule over Yemen, a corner of the Arabian peninsula beset by poverty, conflict and a long list of other woes.
Yemen's unrest is of great concern to the United States, in particular, because the country is home to al-Qaida's most active franchise. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has been behind several nearly successful plots to attack international targets, including sending bombs hidden in printer cartridges onto cargo planes and getting a would-be suicide bomber onto a Detroit-bound flight in December 2009.
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Memories of Malcolm
Monday, March 17, 2014 (permalink)
A year ago today Malcolm Tredinnick, core contributor to Django suddenly passed away. He was a mentor, and more importantly, a good friend.
Here are some of my memories of Malcolm.
DjangoCon US: September 2010
This is where Audrey and I first met Malcolm. We ended up spending a good ...
Travel Tips for Geeks: Preventing Theft
Thursday, July 18, 2013 (permalink)
This is the first in a set of blog posts based on my experiences traveling in various places around the world. This particular safety-related post is about theft, not scams, which I may cover in another article.
For this first article, I'm hoping this gets on various technical RSS ...Read more ...
Off to Europe!
Saturday, April 20, 2013 (permalink)
I feel like I'm dreaming, but we're on our way to Europe!
A few weeks Audrey and I decided to move. While looking at possible rentals or even mortgages, we were idly (dreaming really... still paying off debts incurred from last year) looking at how much a room ...Read more ...
Two Scoops of Django FAQ
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The launch of the Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for Django 1.5 book has gone pretty well. The response has been almost entirely positive and sales have been pretty brisk. We've gotten a ton of great, constructive editorial feedback, which we're sorting through as we race ...Read more ...
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Thursday, August 02, 2012 (permalink)
For 2012, DjangoCon US has moved to Washington, DC, and everyone is invited! If you need financial support to get there, the Django Software Foundation and PyLadies have paired with a number of forward thinking sponsors to help get you there. All genders are eligible for assistance, so don't ...Read more ...
10 reasons to go to DjangoCon Europe
Monday, May 14, 2012 (permalink)
You should go to DjangoCon Europe in lovely Zurich, Switzerland. Here are 10 reasons why:
1. Chocolate
So much of what we like about chocolate comes from Switzerland. For example, Milk Chocolate was invented in Switzerland.
2. Keynote speaker: Jacob Kaplan-Moss
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 (permalink)
This year in June, the European edition of DjangoCon is going to be held in lovely Zurich, Switzerland. It is my great fortune and delight to announce that Audrey and I will be attending. Hooray!
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California Gun Confiscation Bill Passes, Approves $24 Million To Expedite Illegal Gun Seizure
California Gun Confiscation Bill Passes, Approves $24 Million To Expedite Illegal Gun Seizure
The California state legislature passed a bill Thursday approving $24 million to expedite the confiscation of the estimated 40,000 handguns and assault weapons illegally owned by Californians.
SB 140, authored by Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), seeks to remedy the gun-confiscation backlog that has left thousands of illegal guns on the streets, including those owned by those with criminal convictions or serious mental illness.
We are fortunate in California to have the first and only system in the nation that tracks and identifies individuals who at one time made legal purchases of firearms but are now barred from possessing them, Leno said in a statement. However, due to a lack of resources, only a few of these illegally possessed weapons have been confiscated, and the mountain of firearms continues to grow each day."
The measure will take $24 million from the Dealer Record of Sale (DROS) surplus funds and give it to the California Department of Justice, which is in charge of confiscating illegal guns. The DROS account holds fees that are imposed upon every transfer or sale of a firearm in California.
Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/19/california-gun-confiscation-bill_n_3117238.html
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Sat Apr 20, 2013, 03:47 AM
Eleanors38 (18,318 posts)
1. No problem. Finally, a funded mandate. nt
Response to Tx4obama (Original post)
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 04:43 AM
Ash_F (5,861 posts)
2. DU rec.
Finally, some sanity in policy. Thank you to California from Texas.
Response to Tx4obama (Original post)
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 04:52 AM
ReRe (10,593 posts)
3. There they go again...
.... California, the laboratory of democracy and justice in America. Go CA!
Response to Tx4obama (Original post)
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 06:14 AM
bowens43 (16,064 posts)
4. Take this nation wide....l.;
Response to Tx4obama (Original post)
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 09:05 AM
geckosfeet (9,644 posts)
5. Ahhh. Sanctioned confiscation of firearms based on sales records.
"We are fortunate in California to have the first and only system in the nation that tracks and identifies individuals who at one time made legal purchases of firearms but are now barred from possessing them," Leno said in a statement. "However, due to a lack of resources, only a few of these illegally possessed weapons have been confiscated, and the mountain of firearms continues to grow each day."
So,,, all we have to do is pass a law that makes a class of firearms illegal, or causes people to become ineligible to posses and we can "legally" start the confiscation.
Response to geckosfeet (Reply #5)
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 11:51 PM
krispos42 (47,735 posts)
8. "We will not confiscate legal firearms by people legally able to have them"
Definition of legal firearm? Arbitrary.
Currently, it's any gun that's not an "assault weapon".
Definition of "assault weapon"? Also arbitrary.
Response to krispos42 (Reply #8)
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 07:46 AM
geckosfeet (9,644 posts)
11. Arbitrary and fluid over time. This is the problem.
Response to krispos42 (Reply #8)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 10:00 AM
CreekDog (45,678 posts)
17. of course you're against this
of course.
Response to CreekDog (Reply #17)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 11:20 AM
krispos42 (47,735 posts)
20. And you're for it?
You're basically saying you're for the mandatory registration of firearms so that WHEN the laws become stiffer, particularly when the definition of banned guns expands, you can then go and collect them.
The idea is suppose to be about tracking down people that use guns in crimes (which doesn't happen), and to prevent criminals from buying guns from dealers or private individuals (which can be done without registration). But you're apparently looking forward to the point when an AWB or a handgun ban kicks in and you can start gathering up the guns.
If you keep proving RW conspiracy nuts true, then they stop being conspiracy nuts. Truth?
Once you have a list of firearms and their owners, it becomes very easy to start doing stuff.
For example, banning things based on caliber.
"Today, the Illinois Legislature voted to ban all rifles that shoot .223 Remington/5.56x45mm ammunition. The Governor announce his intention to sign the bill and use the gun registry to insure that owners of such guns have sold them to a licensed dealer by the time the bill takes effect next month."
Do you really think that, once such a list is compiled, it won't be used? Do you really think there won't be extensive creep?
That of all the thousands of politicians in the country, who are replaced on a regular, periodic basis, won't at some point in the near future, do something like this? And once it is done, do you think it will ever be undone?
Jeez, just look at the post-9/11 political environment!
The argument is about abuse of power. Obama still claims the same extraordinary executive powers that Bush did, but he chooses to not use some of them. Does that make it okay?
Everybody on DU I thought was on the side of "no executive should have this power, even if our current guy will use them only for goodness and rightness and apple pie.
Response to krispos42 (Reply #20)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 11:26 AM
CreekDog (45,678 posts)
21. it all comes out...you believe all the RW conspiracy theories related to guns
your post is false on what the California law would do.
and then you launch into something about Illinois, oh, what law did Illinois pass in the California legislature?
peddle that crap at FR. nobody's buying here, except for one group.
Response to CreekDog (Reply #21)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 08:53 PM
krispos42 (47,735 posts)
24. "Obama's waiting until after the election to go after guns!"
cried the paranoid lunatics. But even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
And I know I'm right lb this one.. I'm about 10 months behind in listening took my Sam Seder and Rachel Maddow podcasts, and they are in the middle of.mocking all those people that are saying that. This was during the "Fast and Furious" crap.
I think Bush proved quite handily the dangers of putting that kind of power in place... it WILL get used. If not now, after the next mass shooting or the next terrorist attack or whatever. Neither you nor I know who will be in elected office in 5 or ten or twenty years.
Gun registration is not about solving crimes. It never had been and it never will be. It's about knowing who to go after when the laws change or when a person or group of people can't own a gun anymore.
Like people on the terrorist watch list. you know, OWS activists and anti-whaling protestors and tree huggers and anybody named "Mohammad".
Look, the murder rate dropped in half starting in 1990 because 20 years prior to the we got liberal ideas passed. We took lead it off the gasoline, and thus out of the air that children and pregnant women breathed. We legalized abortion and birth control so that women could give birth at their convenience. And s generation later we had kids whose minds wetter not damaged by lead beginning adults, whose parents had waited until they're were able to properly raise s child before having them. And the crime rate dropped while at the same time making things better fur every body.
So, if we can get out liberal ideas on the economy and health care and prison reform and taxes and wealth equality and higher education in place, not only will the current crime rate drop, but everybody will have a vastly improved life on all levels.
But it's not going to happen by attacking hardware, and it certainly don't happen in the fucking Republicans are running things, now is it?
Response to krispos42 (Reply #24)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 09:01 PM
CreekDog (45,678 posts)
25. The 1st half of your post is gun-trolling --saying a California law is "obama going after your guns"
and saying that the statement, a right wing meme, is like a broken clock, meaning right twice per day.
you don't even know what you're talking about, you're so irrational and even right wing on this issue that:
1) you can't even keep track of the thing you are criticizing (a potential state law in California becomes a screen against Obama, accusing him of coming to take our guns)
2) you can't even talk about the California law without lying about its contents
you're losing your grip on this issue. completely. on guns, your words are as good as the worst NRA/Right wing lies about our president, our party and our gun legislation.
Response to CreekDog (Reply #25)
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 07:04 AM
krispos42 (47,735 posts)
33. I was talking about a new federal assault-weapons ban
Which California Senator Dianne Feinstein has been proposing annually for quite a while now, I believe, but became a serious topic of discussion with presidential backing about 6 weeks after he was elected. Which is what the right had been predicting for quite some time now. So...
And what guns are legal for sale and ownership in California (above and beyond federal laws) is routinely and arbitrarily redefined.
If what is legal changes and California moves to mandate gun owners divest themselves from now-illegal firearms, then my statement stands the test:
"We will not confiscate legal firearms by people legally able to have them".
What's an "assault weapon"? Depends on which state you live in, and which time period you're asking about. Connecticut's definition just expanded. Guns that were legal are no longer legal; that's what a "ban" means. Same thing with California and I think a few other states.
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Sat Apr 20, 2013, 09:37 AM
Jeff Murdoch (168 posts)
6. If you read the comments,
you will finally find where all the freepers went.
Mostly, "they can't have my precious!"
Reading comprehension is not a strong suit there.
HuffPo should hand out free tinfoil hats when you visit the site, just to fit in with all the CT wackos.
Response to Jeff Murdoch (Reply #6)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 10:00 AM
CreekDog (45,678 posts)
18. the freepers? look at the host of the Gungeon here? went the same place.
Response to CreekDog (Reply #18)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 09:38 PM
BlueCaliDem (15,379 posts)
29. Yep.
Response to Tx4obama (Original post)
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 12:12 PM
Wounded Bear (17,922 posts)
7. K & R for sanity...
Sorry, but having literally hundreds of millions of firearms out there is just insane. If this makes even a small dent in the firearms possessed illegally by dangerous people, it's a good thing.
Response to Tx4obama (Original post)
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 01:47 AM
SunSeeker (25,529 posts)
9. Just doing what the NRA said to do--enforce existing law..
But as the NRA well knows, the ability to enforce gun laws is rarely funded. This CA example is the exception, not the rule.
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Sun Apr 21, 2013, 03:49 AM
ellisonz (27,182 posts)
10. When the nation has gun laws like those in California, this country will be a safer place. n/t
Response to ellisonz (Reply #10)
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 07:48 AM
geckosfeet (9,644 posts)
12. Yes. We all see how safe LA and San Diego are compared to Burlington Vt.
Response to geckosfeet (Reply #12)
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 02:07 PM
ellisonz (27,182 posts)
13. Bahahhahahaha
That's some desperate logic. For starters, LA and San Diego are massive metropolitan complexes, Burlington, VT is not. Moreover, to many other metropolitan complexes LA and San Diego have substantially lower gun homicide and gun violence rates.
So keep making that incorrect, desperate gunner logic and yes I could post the maps and stats but you've seen them before so I'd just be wasting my time.
Response to ellisonz (Reply #13)
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 03:43 PM
geckosfeet (9,644 posts)
14. Oh. I hadn't noticed. And what exactly does population density have to do with crime rates?
Please enlighten me.
There is an apparent correlation?
You mean gun crime rates are not strictly proportional to gun laws?
You mean there is also apparent correlation to region, culture, economics and education?
I am glad you find it amusing. In fact it is very serious. And if gun grabbers continue to try and impose ignorant and uninformed regulation nothing is ever going to get done.
BTW - I'd say you have already wasted your time. Yours and lot of other peoples.
Response to geckosfeet (Reply #14)
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 04:01 PM
ellisonz (27,182 posts)
15. "I'd say you have already wasted your time. Yours and lot of other peoples."
Which is why you're responded to my post?
I'm sorry, but sociologically speaking, your argument is laughable at best.
Enlighten Yourself, Good Day.
Response to geckosfeet (Reply #12)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 09:21 AM
baldguy (36,649 posts)
16. The pop density of LA is 8 times higher than Burlington.
LA also has 3 times the unemployment rate, and 4 times the poverty rate. Give Burlington VT 1.5 million people with a similar economic profile as LA, and let's see how "safe" it is. (And I won't even go into the differences in demographic diversity between the two cities.)
Response to baldguy (Reply #16)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 10:18 AM
geckosfeet (9,644 posts)
19. Point. Gun laws are not the solution.
Response to geckosfeet (Reply #19)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 01:27 PM
baldguy (36,649 posts)
22. Guns exponentially exasperate the problems of urban violence that EVERY city has.
Just as population density and poverty do. By ignoring the dangers lax gun laws pose, you condemn thousands of people (tens of thousands, actually) to death needlessly.
What is not a solution is the situation we have now: gun laws which are promoted & proposed by the pro-death gun lobby and which are designed to fail. We need gun laws which the pro-death gun lobby hates, which they'll kill themselves trying to defeat - and which will make the rest of us sane people safe.
Response to baldguy (Reply #22)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 03:09 PM
geckosfeet (9,644 posts)
23. I am afaid I heartilly disagree.
Response to geckosfeet (Reply #23)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 09:01 PM
baldguy (36,649 posts)
26. Well, stupid is as stupid does.
As in disagreeing with self-evident truths.
Response to baldguy (Reply #26)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 09:24 PM
geckosfeet (9,644 posts)
27. And self righteous bigots who try to shove their ideology in other peoples
faces contrary to legal and constitutional precedent usually fail.
Response to geckosfeet (Reply #27)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 09:36 PM
baldguy (36,649 posts)
28. If anyone is shoving anything, it's the gun worshipers who oppose universal backgrounds checks,
oppose national gun registration, and oppose a new assault weapons ban - forcing communities to deal with a epidemic of murders caused by dangerous & unnecessary firearms. Self-righteous bigots indeed - who have no consideration or compassion for their fellow citizens - including children - that their ideology allows & requires to die.
Response to baldguy (Reply #28)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 09:39 PM
geckosfeet (9,644 posts)
30. That is just patently false and demonizing.
Please get a hold of yourself and calm the fuck down.
Have a nice life.
On edit: ignoring
Response to geckosfeet (Reply #30)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 09:49 PM
baldguy (36,649 posts)
31. This from someone who blatantly characterizes advocates of gun control as "bigots"
and deludes themselves into believing that gun owners are an oppressed minority?
Response to geckosfeet (Reply #12)
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 12:30 AM
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The principal bent his knees and got down to my level and looked in my eyes.
"Son, we've called your parents and they're on their way." I wanted to cry. I didn't know why but I was in trouble. My mom would be mad and I didn't want that. I don't remember anything. There is this feeling, a memory that I perhaps invented. I'm staring at this light blue wall and feeling for the first time in my life, that I am alone. I wanted to cry. I don't know if I did. I want to remember. I don't remember anything. I remember my hand shaking. I remember the faces of children, scared, or excited, or curious. I remember feeling alone. I remember eating the leaf like an ancient caveman and it tasted awful. I remember my father crying. I remember my grandfather smiling but I don't remember what he said. I remember seeing him the casket. It's okay to cry. Eat it. Your parents are on the way.
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August 6 2013
Tips from Travis: Tiger's accuracy
A number of factors go in to Tiger Woods hitting the ball straighter. (Franklin/Getty images)
By Travis Fulton, Director of Instruction, TOUR Academies
I spent most of my weekend situated near the 16th tee box at Firestone Country Club, analyzing swings on DIRECTV's Launchpad channel with fellow PGATOUR.COM contributor Mark Immelman. When Tiger Woods reached the tee on Firestone's signature par-5, 667-yard hole on Sunday, I was curious as to whether he'd play it conservatively and hit his customary squeeze cut, or try to draw it like he did on Friday when he flirted with a 59 at the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational. Woods, carrying an insurmountable seven-shot lead, had an emphatic answer, peeling off yet another bomb of a draw some 300-plus yards down the fairway.
That one drive told me all I need to know about the state of Tiger's swing today, and his chances of winning this week's PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester. Let's just say that when he's booming a draw on command like that, and hitting 63 percent of his fairways, the rest of the field is in trouble. Big trouble.
Just two years ago, Tiger hit an astonishingly low 48.9 percent of his fairways, which was good for 186th on the PGA TOUR. The paint job on his newly reconstructed swing was still very far from dry, and his drives were all over the map. Today, there's no question that the swing changes he and coach Sean Foley began implementing three summers ago are taking shape. He's not only hitting the ball better, but he's hitting it a lot straighter -- both off the tee and with his irons. For the second consecutive year his driving accuracy is hovering around 64 percent, and at Bridgestone he was first in the field in proximity to the hole (25 feet, 8 inches) and second in greens in regulation (73.6 percent).
Why is Woods hitting the ball straighter? I chalk it up to two key factors. No. 1, his clubface is more square at the top of the backswing, meaning that the angle of the face matches that of his lead (left) forearm. Whereas before it gravitated toward being more open (i.e., toe of clubhead pointing down toward the ground), now it's square, so he doesn't have to work so hard to rotate the face through impact. No. 2, the shaft is more on plane now whereas before it had a tendency to get too horizontal, or laid off, at the top of the swing, with the butt end of the club pointing outside the extended target line. The combination of the face being open and the shaft laid off made it difficult for Tiger to sync up his arms and club with his body on the downswing. His body pivot (i.e., rotational speed) would get too fast for his arms, causing the club to get "stuck" behind him. As a result, he'd often hit a big push to the right of the fairway.
Now that he's got the shaft more on plane (i.e., pointing to the extended target line at the top of the swing) and the face square, he has an easier time getting his arms back down in front of him on the downswing. He's better able to match up his arm swing with his very athletic body speed.
When Tiger first made these changes, it seemed he was aiming some 20 to 25 yards left of the target line with his driver. This moved his swing direction more to the left and perhaps gave him a better feel of keeping the club out in front of him on the downswing. By aiming and swinging more to the left, he was still able to keep his shots playable if he got a little stuck. In fact, it still appears Tiger with his driver hits a little inside path cut shot.
Now that the swing changes are more comfortable to him, he's able to bring his aim and swing direction back to the right a bit and hit a draw with the same swing that produces his patented squeeze cut. In fact with most of his clubs, it appears he has it down to the point that whichever way he swings the club, the ball will slightly curve in the opposite direction.
Woods is going to need to rely on both shots this week if he's to going to navigate Oak Hill's super-tight fairways and add a 15th major championship to his resume. After what I just witnessed this past week at Bridgestone, I wouldn't bet against it.
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Sunday, October 10, 2010
365 Project - Day 283 - "Self Portrait (Spiritual Suicide)"
October 10, 2010 - "Self Portrait (Spiritual Suicide)"
Another birthday...
Another year begins.
I find myself lamenting the past, and contemplating the future.
It's time to move on.
I need something symbolic to mark the transition. Something shocking to my soul.
And I find it in the bathroom at 12:32AM (the exact time of my birth)... with my head bent over the tub and a pair of electric clippers in my hand.
Spiritual Suicide.
A rebirth.
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Whew. I'm back at work after an extended break, which included four days in the middle of my vacation getting to and from and attending the RTDA convention. There were also 10 days on Martha's Vineyard, and three days getting my daughter off to college in Ohio. I'll need another three weeks to recover from the latter event. Giving you my calendar for the last three weeks is a preamble to letting you know that I have bunch of blogs coming about cigars I smoked, people I saw, thoughts I have about the cigar industry and a few anecdotes about cigars in general. I'm going to start with one of those stories.
My favorite cigar moment of the last month was on Martha's Vineyard, and it wasn't even a cigar that I was smoking. A good friend of mine, who shall remain anonymous to protect his privacy, owns one of the greatest pieces of real estate in the United States. He had been a long-time cigar smoker, but he had quit for a few years. He had told me last year that he had started smoking the occasional cigar, but I figured it was for celebratory events.
My family and I were invited to share the man's beach on our first weekend in Martha's Vineyard, but he warned me that he was going to be busy with a meeting so just head on down to the beach. I was sitting there on a one of the most beautiful stretches of beach on the island when I caught the unmistakable aroma of a fine, handrolled cigar. I stood up and started looking around and there was no one on the beach for more than half a mile in either direction. I turned around and scanned the top of the cliffs that tower about 50 feet above the beach. There, sitting in a three-seat glider, was my friend puffing away on a cigar with the intermittent cloud of smoke coming out over the Cliffside. His gaze was fixed on the view out over the ocean, lost in a private moment of reverie.
I gave him a few more minutes of privacy, then I climbed up the wooden stairs to his perch, and spoke briefly with him. He waxed poetically about his cigar, which I had commented on, and he admitted that he had started smoking again. I didn't ask how frequently, but he had another one lit when we finally left the beach a couple of hours later.
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'Imperfection' and 'Drive' NewsBy Amy
October 7, 2000 - 10:41 AM
UPN has posted both new photos and a synopsis for each of the next two upcoming Voyager episodes, 'Imperfection', in which Seven's cortical implant begins to fail and Icheb (oddly reffered to only as 'the Borg') attempts to save her, and 'Drive' where the rumors of an upcoming Paris/Torres marriage are confirmed.
Seven's imminent core disintegration opens the door for another Borg to calculate the only possible solution - the transference of his Borg core to her. When Seven realizes the potential danger to his physiology she summarily rejects the proposal. But the Borg secretly disconnects his own cortical node so that his theory can be proved and Seven's life saved.
An impromptu space race leads to foul play, danger, and a wedding when Tom Paris enters the Delta Flyer in a good-natured space race between former enemy factions. While his relationship with B'Elanna Torres endures a rough ride, Paris realizes that hardlined dissidents plan to explode the Flyer as it crosses the finish line. His only way out may be to take the reigns of both the ship and his personal life, executing a flawless evasive maneuver and a marriage proposal, simultaneously.
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Welcome to the Wright Challenge. It's getting busy - 3 barnstars so far! Feel free to ask questions here or here, or ask Andrew or I. Victuallers 22:30, 7 Май (Һабанай) 2011 (UTC)
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Hi we added your score to the "Wright Challenge" page. Hope you are enjoying the challenge Victuallers 11:41, 18 Май (Һабанай) 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you for all your contributions to the Wright Challenge. I added some categories -- I hope I did it right! You and Comp1089 have easily attained Challenge 1 and you will get your barnstars -- just as soon as you add a page in any other language. I'm sure this won't be a problem for you.
- Notice that there's a new barnstar being awarded to those Wikipedians or teams who reach 72 points. I hope you'll work on with us. But we need your help. We'd like to spread this challenge to some other languages. Would you be able to go to the main talk page of any other language Wikipedia (maybe Tatar, maybe other languages of Russia?) and add a one-line message and link to the challenge page. It would be really good to get some more participants. Hope you can help. Andrew Dalby 19:17, 3 Июнь (Һөтай) 2011 (UTC)
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Do add yourself here ... at least approximately - Bashkir has quite a few articles. Well done. We now have 45 editors and some recent additions in French and Estonian. Victuallers 18:31, 20 Июнь (Һөтай) 2011 (UTC)
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Hope you are going to watch the prize giving at 10 on Saturday which should be shown here. You can log in with a Twitter account and type comments about the winners, etc. Could you send me your name, a picture and a skype address? A small bio would be useful too. Victuallers (talk) 21:02, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
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- Curvymomma
- Last updated: 4 years ago
So I'm 28 years old and I have always been curvy and actually people say I have a big butt but its really more hips than butt. I have been doing research and I want to get a BBL but I've heard that if you have cellulite then the results can be a let down because the BBL gets more desirable results with those that don't have cellulite. I've always been an active person and I've always had to deal with the ugly cottage cheese look on my things and on booty. Can anyone help me?!! Ahhhhh!