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Abrahamson: "I am here with a greater sense of urgency than ever before."
During Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson's budget testimony before the Joint Finance Committee, some Republican lawmakers took the opportunity to ask politically motivated questions that strayed from the subject at hand.
Rep. Dale Kooyenga (R-Brookfield), for instance, implied that the courts had taken unjustified steps to act as a legislative body and asked Abrahamson to cite cases that were affected by funding gaps in the court's budget. Several Republican initiatives of the last legislative session, including the elimination of collective bargaining for most public employees, Voter ID and redistricting, have been shot down in part by the courts.
Abrahamson responded that the Supreme Court's job was to settle disputes with the law and that, at times, some in the legislature would disagree with the court.
And Rep. Dean Knudson (R-Hudson) said he'd like to discuss with the chief justice the mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices. The legislature has the ability to set the maximum age, as laid out in the state constitution, but has neglected to do so thus far.
Should the legislature move to set the maximum age, Abrahamson, 79, indicated that she would like to remain on the bench. "I hope you'll grandmother me in," said Abrahamson, who is considered part of the liberal bloc on the Supreme Court and is up for reelection in 2019.
Abrahamson told the Joint Finance Committee Thursday that Gov. Scott Walker's proposed 2013-15 budget would have a devastating effect on the state's court system.
"I am here with a greater sense of urgency than ever before," Abrahamson said in her opening remarks (PDF). The panel is holding agency briefings on Gov. Scott Walker's proposed 2013-2015 budget, which was introduced to the Legislature Wednesday as Assembly Bill 40.
At the heart of Abrahamson's concerns: a $17 million budget cut originally put in place in the governor's 2011-2013 budget. Language from that budget applied the same cuts to the 2013-2015 budget, and Abrahamson said that if this 'lapse' stays in place, the court system would suffer. "This double whammy doesn't make sense to us."
Abrahamson said the court system has plans to absorb $6.7 million of the lapse, but had requested that $10.3 million be restored in the new budget.
Without those additional funds, Abrahamson argued that the court system would experience delays stemming from reductions in court staff.
At the county level, trial courts handle roughly a million filings every year. Abrahamson said courts would have a harder time collecting fees, as well as maintaining court information technology efforts. Transparency and court revenue would suffer as a result. The court collects $150.5 million annually, said Abrahamson, much of which is returned to the state to fund programs in other departments.
The court system is also struggling with judicial pay and access to legal representation in civil cases. Walker did not include any salary increases for judges in his budget. Abrahamson told lawmakers Thursday that judicial compensation hasn't increased since 2009, and that courts are having more trouble attracting high-quality lawyers and keeping the ones who are there.
Abrahamson also stressed a growing need for state funding for indigent individuals who are involved in civil litigation. (The state Public Defender's Office provides lawyers for poor defendants in criminal cases.) Though she did not request such funding, Abrahamson said that it would reduce court delays and allow for more fairness in the justice system.


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After a three-year delay, Boeing's 787 Dreamliner has finally completed its maiden commercial flight.
The Breaking Travel News website reported that All Nippon Airways (ANA) launched Dreamliner's first commercial flight, from Tokyo to Hong Kong on Wednesday.
As passengers boarded the plane in Tokyo, they were handed glasses of celebratory sake broken from a barrel by ANA's chief, Shinichiro Ito, and Boeing vice-president, Scott Fancher.
The project had been scheduled for delivery in 2008, but was struck by a series of setbacks – including an onboard fire during test flights last November.
Read more on GlobalPost: Boeing finally delivers first 787 Dreamliner to Japan's ANA
Dreamliner's maiden voyage was a special charter, and normal services are expected to begin in November.
According to the BBC, Boeing says the "twin-aisle, mid-size plane" has the largest windows in the industry. Boeing also says Dreamliner has higher cabin humidity and cleaner air.
The BBC reports:
"Because of the materials used in construction – carbon fibre rather than aluminum – as well as new engines and aerodynamics, Boeing says the Dreamliner is about 20 percent more fuel efficient than similarly-sized models flying today."
It is understood that Boeing plans to make ten of the planes a month from 2013.
Breaking Travel News said that rival Airbus has stepped up manufacturing of the A350 aircraft, opening a new base in Wales, Britain.

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- Experiences with a combined residency in internal and preventive medicineDorothea M G Wild
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Am J Prev Med 35:393-7. 2008..Griffin Hospital in Derby CT has offered a 4-year integrated internal medicine and preventive medicine residency program since 1997. This article reports the outcomes of that program...
- Who's behind an HCAHPS score?Dorothea M G Wild
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Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 37:461-8. 2011..Such summary reports may obscure differences among the types of physicians involved. A study was conducted to examine the association between ratings for different physician types and the overall HCAHPS rating of physicians...
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For $3.50 (about £2) and you can pick your flavour on the ATM's snazzy touch screen and your snack will be dispensed on the spot. But before you worry about supplies failing to meet demand, a single machine has the capacity to disperse over a 1,000 cupcakes a day. Wow.
But cupcakes isn't all the machine - which is attached to a Sprinkles bakery - can do. Oh no, it does cookies too.
Delivered to the customer via a mechanical arm and produced in a candy floss pink colour this invention wouldn't look out of place in Malibu Barbie's beach house.
While you can only stumble across the Sprinkles ATM in America, rumour has it the company is thinking about installing a vending machine in London.
And that's great news because we're aching to try the chocolate marshmallow, peanut butter chip and cinnamon sugar... All at once.
Source: Metro
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These Chocolate Roses from Zucker's Bakery are the perfect size when you need just a little sweet, something to satisfy the craving. Like a cross between cinnamon rolls and babka, each "rose" measures about two inches in diameter. Six or so blissful bites; unwind your way from outside in. The first layer is both eggy and buttery, slightly crisp at the outmost exterior. The center is soft, borderline gooey, and melting with chocolate when still warm. A drizzle of just enough icing to leave sweet memories. They come in three flavors and chocolate is the most popular; easy to understand after that first bite. But the other two flavors are no slackers. The Date & Halva Rose features crumbled halva, held in place by the chopped, soft and sticky dates spread on the dough. And on the weekends you'll find roses dressed up in Almonds & Brown Sugar. Best part? They're only $2 apiece.
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About the author: Originally from Honolulu, Kathy YL Chan blogs at Kathy YL Chan, where she chronicles her eats and travel adventures between Hawai'i, New York and beyond. She firmly believes that there is always room for dessert.


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NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. ( NYSE: BKS), a leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced a limited time free book and magazine offer on the NOOK app for Windows 8, available for download on any Windows 8 device. The perfect way to experience all that NOOK for Windows 8 has to offer, this exclusive offer enables customers who download the app to choose up to five free popular books and five free top magazines from a select list, which features bestselling titles Best American Series 2012, Blue Bloods, Hello, Cupcake!, Life of Pi and The Enemy, along with current issues of top selling magazines Food Network Magazine, GQ, HGTV Magazine, Real Simple and TIME. To find and download the free NOOK Books and magazines, NOOK for Windows 8 users can simply scroll to the Popular Lists section in the app and find the "Welcome Offer" list. Customers will have to act fast to get their free copy of the modern classic, Life of Pi, which is only available to the first 100,000 customers who download the book on the NOOK app for Windows 8. "NOOK is the highest-rated reading and digital bookstore app for Windows 8, and by providing bestselling books and top magazines for free, new NOOK customers can start their digital libraries with some of the best content in the expansive NOOK Store™," said Jamie Iannone, President of Digital Products at NOOK Media LLC. "With the NOOK app for Windows 8, customers get an incredible reading experience and can choose from over 3 million NOOK Books, including 1 million free titles, as well as magazines, newspapers and comics on any Windows 8 device." The new NOOK app for Windows 8 enables customers to sign in and shop using their Microsoft Account, dramatically simplifying the reading and shopping experience. By eliminating the need to sign in with separate credentials or create an account in advance, the NOOK App for Windows 8 provides customers easy access to NOOK's vast selection of digital books, magazines, newspapers and comics on Windows 8.
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MY 14-month-old toddler, Florence, is in childcare; I am in a mothers' group and when the two of us are not with that group, we are tripping off to other friends' houses.
I make it a priority that we spend as much time as possible socialising, playing and exploring the world with other little people: this is vital for her social and physical development.
And that is one of the reasons that I send to her childcare one day a week when I go to work, instead of keeping her at home in the care of her willing grandmothers.
There is a minor downside to this - last year, I lost count of the number of colds she caught. Our local medical clinic knows us so well, they joke that Florence should move in.
But doctors reassure me that all this sickness is building her immunity and if it doesn't happen now, it will happen when she starts school.
Me not working until Florence starts school is not an option. And so, every Tuesday, I drop her off at her centre with a bit of shrug of my shoulders.
I know that she is going to get sick. I know that she is going to play with children who are snotty, slimy, dirty and drooly.
But I also know that these germy cesspits are her friends - I see the delight in her eyes each time I drop her off.
Children are the ultimate spreaders of germs: they suck their thumbs and then poke each other in the eyes. They hug and kiss each other after they've picked their noses. They grab whichever water bottle is nearest to them.
Sickness is an inevitablity.
So preventing them from participating in the lovely ritual of blowing out candles on a cake seems to fly in the face of letting them enjoy the simple pleasures of life.
So too, Florence - unfortunately - enjoys eating sand. Making her wash her hands after she's played in it seems pointless, especially since she'll be hugging her snotty friend as soon as she's done.
I must admit that I do like some of these recommendations: daily washing of toys, floors, bathrooms and cushion covers makes absolute sense to me.
And I'd hope my childcare centre would like to be as clean as possible regardless of guidelines.
But it is more important to me that my baby has fun, explores her world, makes friends and gets as messy as possible than it is to me that she never gets sick.
You can't stop the inevitable. And why would you want to?
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The Haub School of Business and its Dean Leadership Program is partnering with The World Affairs Council of Philadelphia to host an event with award-winning journalist and bestselling author Tom Brokaw on Tuesday, Sept. 18, at 6:30 p.m. at the Michael J. Hagan Arena on Saint Joseph's campus. Brokaw will discuss his latest book, The Time of Our Lives: A Conversation about America.
A Totem to Compassion: "Kinde" Opens at Boland Hall Gallery
PHILADELPHIA (August 28, 2012) - The creatures that populate Kaitlyn Coppola's ceramic sculptures twist and turn and pile up on one another in an explosion of ambiguity. The fantasy figures in "Kinde," which could be animals in distress, trapped by their partner's limbs, or could be mutants comforted by their intertwined connection, will be exhibited at Saint Joseph's University's Boland Hall Gallery Sept. 2-28. An artist's reception will be held on Thursday, Sept. 6, from 6-8 p.m.
Holiday Season Could Cause Problems at the Workplace
The holiday season, with its heavy focus on religion, can spark awkward situations at the work place. This festive time of year has many workers wishing to spruce up their offices with holiday decorations, leaving employers to figure out how to regulate such religious expression.
In History Classes, the Play is the Thing
This fall, Jeffrey Hyson, Ph.D., assistant professor of history at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, will transform his freshman Western Civilization I classes into fascinating games. Hyson will use an innovative pedagogy developed at Barnard College called Reacting to the Past (RTTP).
Personal Connectors and Coaches for First-Year Students
A program connecting first-year students with non-academic advisors offers a personal connection at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. The Connectors Program is a two-year old program at the university partnering incoming students (connectees) with a staff member or administrator (connectors) for the duration of the student's first academic year.
A dorm room is a limited space. So while the flat screen, couch and love seat fit comfortably in the U-Haul, students may encounter challenges cramming all of that stuff into the new dorm.
Kim Allen-Stuck, Ph.D., is an administrator at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, where she counsels students on practical strategies for adjusting to college life.
Here are the list of items Allen-Stuck advises students NOT to bring to college this fall:
Photo Gallery: Congressman Visits SJU Stormwater Management Program
Earlier this month, twenty-four pre-K through 8th grade teachers from GeoKids LINKS partner schools (Meade, Kearney, Reynolds, Gesu and Gompers) participated in three days of interactive sessions to increase their science content knowledge.
Preview Ads Dominate Water Cooler Discussion Before Big Game
A handful of Super Bowl commercials have already been released online, with more to come in the next few days. This is all part of a growing trend by advertisers to pre-release commercials to build social media buzz and drive consumers to channels devoted to the product.
"It's like opening your Christmas presents on Christmas Eve," says David Allan, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
Love on the Air: 'The Bachelor's' Medieval Romantic Roots
The music swells as a luxury limo whirrs up to an exotic location at dusk. A beautiful woman emerges from the vehicle and is met by many hopeful, dashing suitors who will vie for her hand in marriage. The winner will be chosen on the season finale, but along the way there will be sun-drenched, sparkling days and romantic, moonlit nights that will alternately thrill or disappoint the contestants and their audience.
Princeton Review: SJU Among Nation's Best Colleges in the Northeast Region
PHILADELPHIA (August 21, 2012) - Saint Joseph's University is one of the best colleges in the Northeast according to The Princeton Review. It is one of 222 institutions the company recommends in its "Best in the Northeast" section of its website feature, "2013 Best Colleges: Region by Region," that posted August 20, 2012 on PrincetonReview.com.


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SPRING HILL — Paul Warren stood in the rain next to two fire trucks hoisting an American flag high above the intersection of Spring Hill Drive and Barclay Avenue.
"Just paying my respects to a hero," he said, needing no other reason to brave the wind and rain on a melancholy Friday.
He and dozens of others waited, soaked and hushed, for the funeral procession for Deputy John Mecklenburg to arrive.
The crowds braved the inclement weather to line the streets between St. Frances Cabrini Church on Mariner Boulevard and Florida Hills Memorial Park to bid farewell to the deputy who died Sunday when his car hit a tree during a high-speed chase.
James Bransfield, standing in soaked jean shorts and a red polo, held an American flag and smoked Marlboro cigarettes to stay warm. Having just moved to Spring Hill from Maine a week ago, he read about the deputy's death in Monday's newspaper.
The Army veteran and former firefighter had heard Mecklenburg was a good man, and he wanted to show his support.
"I'm sure," Bransfield said, "he would have done the same for me."
At the cemetery, bagpipe players practiced their notes as deputies who had arrived in advance of the procession stood about with an air of somber anticipation. A riderless horse waited calmly for its deployment.
A gaggle of Hernando County Explorers helped park cars, grabbing hats to shield themselves from the rain. Deputy Jason Deso, their adviser, crossed his arms as he supervised the young men and women.
Raindrops clung to his eyebrows like the pall of the day's occasion as he glanced at the burial site. He noted the number of funerals recently for fallen officers in the Tampa Bay area.
"We've had too many of these recently," he said.
Nearby, the sodden American flag flapped wetly in the wind. Shortly before the procession reached the intersection, a wind gust snagged the flag on a ladder.
A firefighter clambered up the ladder to untangle it, and the crowd responded with a hearty cheer.
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I have never written a letter to a newspaper before, but the Wednesday editorial and the three letters to the editor concerning the Oct. 3 automobile crash in Greene County could not be ignored.
I offer my prayers to those families personally involved in the accident, and I am not sure how I would react if my son were ever involved in such an accident. However, as the father of an eighth-grade student at Margaret Bell Miller Middle School, and a person who works with a lot of kids in Greene, Washington and Fayette counties, I am very glad the article appeared in the Observer-Reporter.
If any reader who also is the parent of a school child hasn't taken this chance to talk about the crash, its cause and the aftermath, shame on you. There are very few truly �teachable moments� we have as parents to get through to our kids. This is one of them. My wife and I did that with our son. Do your friends or kids at school ever talk about huffing? Is it something that you think is prevalent around the county? Do you really understand what �huffing� is and what it can do? These are just a few of the questions we asked. Hopefully, such a conversation happened in many homes last week.
If anything, I'm concerned that not enough has been discussed or reported on this issue. I also am concerned that the �huffing� part of the story wasn't reported in the days following the accident. Issues such as this get pushed under the rug and forgotten if not talked about when they happen.
One of the people who wrote the critical letters said, "What does this piece hope to accomplish, besides lecturing dead teenagers?"� My hope is that it kicks a few school administrators, public officials and parents in the rump and gets the community addressing important subjects such as this. As I said earlier, very few times in our life does a truly teachable moment present itself. We have been presented such a moment. Let's not waste it.
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"Jason Doller" <rjd(at)intekom(dot)co(dot)za> writes: > I'm not sure where this error belongs. I get it when I use pgsql under > 6.5.3 and try to do a \d. Here is the error: > Unable to locate type oid 0 in catalog. That's a fairly low-level backend error. At a guess, your system catalogs are corrupted somehow, but with so little information to go on it's hard to say more. regards, tom lane
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IPS displays use an advanced technology which gives you extra wide viewing angles of 178/178 degree, making it possible to view the display from almost any angle - even in 90 degree Pivot mode! Unlike standard TN panels, IPS displays gives you remarkably crisp images with vivid colors, making it ideal not only for Photos, movies and web browsing, but also for professional applications which demand color accuracy and consistent brightness at all times.
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Announcing pg_blockinfo first public release 0.1 About pg_blockinfo: ------------------- pg_blockinfo is a tool to examine your PostgreSQL heap data files, written in Perl. Similar in purpose to pg_filedump, it is used to display (and soon validate) buffer-page-level information for PostgreSQL page/heap files. pg_blockinfo aims to work in a portable and non-destructive way, using read-only mmap, sys-level IO functions, and "unpack" in order to minimize any Perl overhead. What we buy for the compromise of writing this in Perl instead of C is two-fold: 1) portability of basic Perl :: pg_blockinfo has no other dependencies than Perl and several core Perl modules and will work in environments where you can't or won't easily install other packages or compile based on specific headers. 2) expressibility :: while not currently supported in full, one of pg_blockinfo's future goals is to allow you to specify criteria for display of both page-level and tuple-level info. It will allow you to define arbitrary Perl expressions to filter the objects you're looking at (i.e., pages, tuples, etc; think "grep" but on a tuple level). It will support a DSL for querying based off of the named fields as well as allow you to supply arbitrary Perl for scanning for any criteria. Requirements: ------------- We require a perl version with PerlIO ":mmap" support, which basically means any perl >= 5.8. We do not require any non-core perl modules; currently we only use Data::Dumper and Getopt::Long for debugging and option parsing respectively, the former only when requested. Getting pg_blockinfo: --------------------- The canonical git repo for development for pg_blockinfo is located at github: http://github.com/machack666/pg_blockinfo/ Simply run: git clone git://github.com/machack666/pg_blockinfo.git Copy the pg_blockinfo whereever you would like it to live. Using pg_blockinfo: ------------------- To get help including available options, canonical and alternate/abbreviated names of recognized fields, range syntax: $ pg_blockinfo -h To dump all fields for all page headers for all pages in a relation: $ pg_blockinfo /path/to/relfile To include only specific fields in the output you can specify multiple -f options and/or include multiple options per -f argument by comma delimiting. Field specifiers are processed in order, so only the final logical set will be included. "all" is a special shorthand type which will expand to all known columns. pg_blockinfo may support other shorthand groups in the future. When no fields are provided explicitly, "all" is implicitly assumed. There are both positive and negative field inclusions. An example of a positive inclusion is: $ pg_blockinfo /path/to/relfile -f prune_xid,tli This will display only the indicated fields in question for all blocks in relfile. To include all fields *except* certain ones, prefix their name with a '-' sign: $ pg_blockinfo -f -pagesize_version /path/to/relfile This will display all page header fields in all blocks with the exception of the pagesize_version header field. One consequence of the way these field display options are designed (particularly going forward with additional field/tuple display options) that you could define a "view" of the column data using a shell alias, then add/remove columns/criteria by passing additional -f options to it: # using this as a shorthand to display just those fields $ alias lsn='pg_blockinfo -f lsn_seq,lsn_off,tli' $ lsn -f -tli /path/to/foo # remove fields from the display $ lsn -f prune_xid /path/to/foo # or add to the list as well Similar functionality is available for selecting the specific blocks available using the range option (-r or -b), which lets you specify a range of blocks to look at instead of the entire file. $ pg_blockinfo -r 2-49 /path/to/relfile $ pg_blockinfo -r -100 /path/to/relfile $ pg_blockinfo -r 2,4,120-140,0xFF-0x1100 /path/to/relfile Range options can be provided multiple times, each with one or more comma-delimited block-range specifications. Blocks are numbered from 0, can be provided in decimal or hexadecimal (when prefixed via 0x), and can appear singly or in a range (unbounded or unbounded) when separated by a hyphen. Planned future features/TODO: ----------------------------- In no particular order: * dump tuples/tuple headers. * better output/interpretation of bitflags. * support alternate structures to allow detection/specification of different target versions of the page/tuple headers. * allow querying/filtering pages/tuples. * validation/sanity checking of various pages. * actual extraction of ranges in the heap file. * extract/dump tuples by raw ctid. * allow arbitrary expressions to define powerful filtering options when querying/displaying information about the tuples/data files. * detections of invalid toast tuple pointers/corrupted lz_compressed data (will require connection to theactive system catalog). * detect relfile type? * mvcc queries against tuples at a given arbitrarily-constructed snapshot * detect xids that are invalid (i.e. map to non-existent pages in the pg_clog directory). * better/shorter name? :-) Initial git release July 14, 2011 Patches/improvements welcome! -- David Christensen End Point Corporation david(at)endpoint(dot)com
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A good way to recycle an old broom that will give it a second life, rather than throwing it away.
1Tie a piece of felt or flannel cloth around the head of the worn-out broom. Use a rubber band or similar item to tie the cloth on the broom head.
2Tip the broom over to check the cloth is sitting fast and firm.
3Use the rejuvenated polishing broom on linoleum and wooden floors that need gentle polishing. This will make polishing a lot easier and you can keep washing the cloth to replace it rather than having to keep purchasing disposable equivalents on the market.
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- This polishing broom will keep linoleum in good condition.
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- If wished, experiment with more modern cleaning cloths than the one suggested in this article. For example, micro-fibre cloths. Experiment to see what works best for your floors.
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SPRINGFIELD – Free counseling assistance is available to help educate Medicare-eligible individuals and their caregivers regarding their Medicare insurance
options, according to a news release from the Illinois Department on Aging.
Medicare Open Enrollment started Tuesday and runs through Dec. 7. The IDoA's Senior Health Insurance Program, (SHIP), provides free counseling for Medicare beneficiaries and their caregivers.
SHIP counselors can explain the drug, health and supplemental plans available to help seniors and people with disabilities. Call 800-548-9034 or visit www.state.il.us/aging/SHIP/SiteSponsorListByCountyAll.pdf for information.
SHIP is a year-round program, not affiliated with any insurance company, and counselors do not sell or solicit any type of insurance. Counselors educate and answer questions about Medicare A, B, D and Medicare Advantage plans, Medicare Supplement
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Thursday's 'Doonesbury' comic strip
This week the Doonesbury comic strip by Garry Trudeau has been a provocative commentary on a Texas law requiring invasive sonograms for women contemplating abortions. Of the 40 sentences in the weeklong strip, one contains language that fails to meet Times' standards for taste and appropriateness. Because Universal, the syndicate that distributes Doonesbury, does not allow us to delete or edit any wording -- in the same way we may choose to edit our own writers and other syndicated columnists -- we made the decision not to publish the March 15 installment in print.
For our readers who choose to view this installment and weigh in on Doonesbury, we begin the conversation by offering it here online. The Texas storyline resumes with the March 16 installment in print on the Times comic pages. -- The Editors


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Make these cute kitchen helpers out of empty spice tins to "spice up" your space.
With all the cooking that goes on in our household, we're always stocking up on kitchen spices. Hungarian Paprika is an all-time favorite around here, given both Mary's and my Hungarian heritage — it's incorporated into all sorts of dishes including Hungarian goulash, chicken paprika, even as a way to add a spicy kick to kale chips. Old Bay is another one of our staples, going on or in everything from peel and eat shrimp, cheesy crab artichoke dip, to a Chesapeake style omelette. I guess you could say Hungarian Paprika and Old Bay seasoning would be the spices of choice if we could only pick two to survive on a deserted island with.
When the final sprinkles have been used, we hate to throw these empty graphic tins away, so we transform them into magnetic organizers to help wrangle the kitchen clutter that inevitably stacks up. It's a really simple way to repurpose the tins and add a little spice to our space (pun intended).
Things You'll Need
- Metal spice tins
- 1-inch ceramic disc magnets
- Metal magnet clips
- Craft glue
Remove the spice tin caps and thoroughly rinse out to clean and dry. Adhere two 1-inch ceramic magnets to the backs of the tins using an all-purpose craft glue suitable for both ceramic and metal, such as e6000.
After the glue has dried, the basic magnetic storage storage tin is made and it's time to get creative. Store everything from your go-to pens and sticky notepads, to postage stamps, scissors and rubber bands. You could even nestle fresh blooms inside to add a pop of color in the kitchen or make succulent planters from several tins to create the look of a living wall.
To make them work even harder, we added a magnetic clip to the side of one tin that holds little reminders or odds and ends that have lost their way from around the house.
With the addition of a drilled 1/8" hole near the base of the other tin, we're also able to use them as kitchen twine dispensers, having at arm's reach the ability to pull what we need to snip.
These recycled storage tins save those favorites from cooking and add a little graphic interest to your space. The same concept works with and can be applied to tea tins, mint tins and more — so give those metal containers a second look before throwing them in the recycling bin.
Looking for more organizational ideas? Learn how to make this simple leather catchall tray and check out our 5 favorite ways to decorate with ladders, each from eHow's Home series.
Tim & Mary
DIY Outdoor Hanging Mason Jar Lights
DIY Jeweled Crystal Wine Stoppers
5 No-Fail Steps to Restoring and Seasoning Rusty Cast Iron Skillets
Keep up with Mary and Tim's adventures in DIY, home and gardening on their collaborative lifestyle blog, 17Apart. Find them on Instagram (@17Apart) and page through delicious recipes on Tim's food blog, E.A.T.
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Landlord to the Bulls? Why Pax, Why?
I don't think drafting Shelden Williams, especially at the #2 spot is a smart move by Paxson and the Bulls. I can see the rationale though; Williams is as NBA-ready as you can get with a blue-collar workmanlike attitude that Scott Skiles loves. But at 2 with potential stars Aldridge and Thomas likely on the board? I don't know. Comments?
I would be surprised if they took Williams.
0.00% chance this happens. I don't think Shelden worked out for the Bulls. Just more "smoke"..
Chicago needs a good big man down low and Williams is the most NBA ready/proven big man in the Draft. Makes sense. He's a proven winner too. Just like John Paxson's track record indicates....HE WILL TAKE WINNERS BABY! :banana:
I love how the Bulls are able to take advantage of poor management decisions by other organizations (New York, Portland). The ONLY reason that Portland traded spots with Chicago was probably because Chicago was fielding offers from teams who were also interested in moving up for LaMarcus. There was no way that Charlotte would have taken Aldridge, and the Bulls don't believe that Aldridge fits their hard-nosed scheme. A freak athlete with unbelievable potential, an enigmatic European who was a former first-rounder, and cash considerations. This was an absolute steal for the Bulls. Who do you target at 16? Does Tyrus play the 3 or the 4- I know they said 3 on ESPN, but I don't know- he has room to fill out his body and play the four.
...and how did Da Bulls convince Philly to swat picks with them to get Thabo Sefolosha at #13 for #16? Excellent power move.
Well, it wasn't 13 straight up for 16, I think the Bulls tossed in either cash considerations or a future second rounder.
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By Nate Adcock on Sat, 02/12/2011
If you are looking for a great Valentine's day deal, SEGA is offering up some great titles for 99 cents (ChuChu Rocket, Super Monkey Ball 2, Phantasy Star, etc.), and the Sonic series for as low as $2.99. You can check out the full list here at their blog. You can click on the linked image on this post to go right to SEGA games in the App store (or simply do a search for SEGA in iTunes).


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The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 3316 Logged by: Florian Wunderlich Email address: fwunderlich(at)factor3(dot)de PostgreSQL version: 8.2.4 Operating system: Linux 184.108.40.206 (debian) Description: upper() does not convert to upper case on database with encoding utf-8 and locale de_DE Details: The database cluster has been initialized with locale=de_DE. SHOW ALL shows all lc_ variables as "de_DE". There are two databases: temp which has been created with encoding='utf-8', and temp2 with encoding='iso-8859-1'. Both databases are completely empty. The console is running with encoding iso-8859-1. The following commands are used in a file encoded in iso-8859-1: set client_encoding='utf-8'; select upper(''); In case the argument to upper() does not come out as expected: it is an a-umlaut, o-umlaut and u-umlaut. The following command is then used: iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 | psql temp | iconv -f utf-8 -t iso-8859-1 This converts the iso-8859-1 encoded file from above to utf-8 and converts the psql output back to iso-8859-1. For database temp, this yields "" (lower case letters), while for temp2, it yields "" (upper case letters), which is correct. I did not find a bug report for this problem on pgsql-bugs or with Google. It seems that there have been problems in the past with multibyte database, but for 8.1, they have been fixed and using a multibyte database should work fine.
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MATTHEW Mitcham's reign as Olympic champion has ended in tears after he sensationally bowed out in the semi-final of the men's individual 10-metre platform event at the London Olympics.
Mitcham was 11th heading into his sixth and last dive, knowing the top 12 of the 18 semi-finalists advanced into Saturday night's decider.
But his score for his final dive was not enough and he agonisingly finished 13th.
The 24-year-old wept on the pool deck but had regained his composure by the time he faced the media and spoke with pride of his diving achievements.
''I could never have done more,'' Mitcham said.
''That's what I have to say to make myself feel better . . . [and] no one can take that [gold medal] away from me, and that's another thing that I can use as consolation, that I'm always going to be an Olympic champion.
''So there.''
Ahead of his sixth dive, Mitcham - the only non-Chinese diver to win a gold medal at Beijing - was 13.80 points clear of 13th-placed Canadian Riley McCormick.
But he scored only 70.20 after tipping over his back 2 1/2 somersault with 2 1/2 twist, while McCormick nailed his back 3 1/2 somersault pike to score a round-high 97.20 to leapfrog the Australian in to the final.
McCormick finished with 495.60 points, Mitcham 482.40.
As was the case for Mitcham in Beijing, it came down to one last dive.
Four years ago, it earned him a gold medal. On Saturday morning, it proved to be his downfall.
Before London Mitcham had said he had resolved to retire after these Olympics, but he had enjoyed the experience so much he now felt inclined to continue, possibly on the three-metre springboard, which is less arduous on the body. The 24-year-old said he was quite calm heading into his final dive because he was ignoring the scoreboard.
He said it was ''always a possibility'' he would struggle in London because he has spent the past two years battling injuries, such as a torn abdominal muscle and stress fractures in his spine.
''All I can say is my performance was a product of my preparations, because that was so interrupted with injuries,'' he said.
''I didn't have enough time to get the dives consistent . . . I was always playing catch-up.''
He said he felt like he was ''on my way back'' after receiving a perfect 10 score from one judge for his fourth dive.
The narrow margin of his elimination made it more painful for him to accept.
''I think coming 13th and missing out by one spot was just the hardest thing,'' he said.
''If I'd come 18th, well it was like I never had a chance really.''
Mitcham started slowly with a 75.00 for his opening forward 3 1/2 somersault, which had him in 15th place. But he soon started climbing the leaderboard with scores of 85.80 and 86.40.
With his fourth dive, a classical reverse 3 1/2 somersault tuck, he scored 90.75 - including the perfect 10 and a host a 9.5s, prompting him to celebrate with clenched fists. But his fifth dive, an armstand back triple somersault, scored only 74.25, leaving him 11th and in the death seat.
He appeared likely to scrape through before producing his worst score of the semi.
Judging on form in London and in the two years leading into these Games, the other 10 finalists are diving for bronze behind China's Qiu Bo and Lin Yue.
Qiu, after starting slowly, soon found his groove and grew in confidence with each dive. He qualified first (563.55) and Lin (541.80) second.
Great Britain's teenage heart-throb Tom Daley (521.10), urged on by a parochial home crowd, placed fourth.
A great friend of Mitcham's, Daley said it was a ''real sad moment'' to see the champion bow out.
Mexicans Ivan Garcia Navarro and German Sanchez Sanchez both produced the dive regarded as the most difficult in the world, the inwards 4 1/2 somersault.
But despite having the highest degree-of-difficulty score weighting of 4.1, both earned only 86.10 for their efforts - well shy of many other scores in the semi.


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Hello! I'm adding a few things to the meeting agenda -- 1) Meeting day As it turns out, FreeGeek has their monthly meeting at 7pm on the third Wednesday of the month. We have to change our meeting day, unfortunately. We will pick a new day at the meeting. 2) OSCON meetup Lots of folks from PostgreSQL will be in town for the conference. We could host a get together at a local bar/restaurant near the conference and invite all the out-of-towners. And, by host, I mean that we'll get there first and reserve some table space. If you have a suggestion for a place, email me so that I can check availability! 3) Propaganda I will be helping staff the PostgreSQL booth at OSCON. We could have some cards or fliers available. Any ideas for what to put on them? Thanks and have a great week! -selena -- PL/pgSQL presented by David Wheeler, Kineticode July 19, 2006 - 7pm Location: FreeGeek Classroom 1731 SE 10th Ave, 97214 (directions) Thank you David for offering to give a talk! After the presentation, I invite you all over to the Lucky Lab (within walking distance) for socializing. The Tour de France party is at the NW Lucky Lab location this year, so I think the bar will be less crowded this year. I've put up details about the meeting, and republished David's introduction on the pdxpug blog -- http://pugs.postgresql.org/pdx/ Welcome new subscribers! -selena
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Copper Mountain, Colorado – April 5th- 10th , 2009
Steamboat Springs, CO (April 2, 2009) — Chaos Headwear is the official headwear supplier for the this week's events at the USASA Nationals held at Copper Mountain, Co April 5th – 10th 2009. All participants and staff will receive a Chaos Nationals beanie, the largest single event sponsored by Chaos.
This is the fourth year for Chaos as the official USASA headwear supplier. The Energy and demographics are a perfect match. Close to 1600 snowboarders from all over the country and 10,000 spectators will descend on Copper Mountain this week for the 2009 USASA National Championships.
There they can expect to see the most elite group of riders in the US face off for National Title honors. With top winners earning $1,000 in cash purses. The USASA regional season begins November 2009 and consists of 500 events at over 100 resorts in 33 regions throughout the United States. The efforts of the USASA and its regions have enabled men and women, and boys and girls, of all ages to participate in its organized events.
The USASA National Championships has been called the World's Largest Snowboard Competition. In 2009, it can now lay claim to the World's Best Snowboard Competition. "USASA Open Class has always been the stepping-stone for many of the sport's top professional competitors. In order to step up the level of competition, the 2009 USASA Open Class Halfpipe and Slopestyle Events will be 3 Star TTR (Ticket to Ride) events. TTR is the premiere international competition series in the world featuring hundreds of events across the globe culminating in a final TTR World Champion." explains Jon Casson, Vice President, of the Executive Board of USASA. Because this event is a corner stone for young riders nationwide, this is an ideal venue for Chaos, the leader in headwear and innovation.
"To partner with the TTR and the World Snowboard Federation is just another way to show the world that the USASA is one of the strongest organizations in snowboarding. We have some really talented kids in our regions and this is a great opportunity for them to compete with the best in the business." Said Jason Toutolmin, USASA Executive Director. The USASA will be inviting riders from around the globe and from premiere US events to compete in USASA Open Class events at Nationals. "Our goal is for this event to be the marquee event of the year for the young, up and coming snowboarder not only in the US, but from around the world." says USASA President Bill Van Gilder.
Not to miss this week is the USASA Foundation Dance, Wednesday April 8th, 7:30pm to 10:30pm, At Jack's which is in the main base lodge of Copper. Admission is free. Raffle tickets will be sold at the dance and at the Windell's tent during the week. Tickets are $5.00/each or 5 for $20.00. Tons of cool prizes will be raffled off and there will be a silent auction. All proceeds go to the USASA Foundation, which will award thousands of dollars to USASA athletes for education, training and travel to the annual National Championship.
The USASA is a grassroots snowboard organization with over 5000 members who compete in more than 500 events in 36 regional series across the US. Competitors range in age from 7 to 70 and represent a group of riders passionate about the sport of snowboarding. The USASA National Championships have been the final event of the season for these riders for close to 20 years. 2008 will mark the 19th Annual USASA Nationals and promises to be the biggest and best yet.
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David Aaron Carpenter Launches New London Series Tonight
David Aaron Carpenter To Launch Central Synagogue's International Concerts Series, tonight, July 8th- London debut for 'the hottest violist of the 21st century' and his Salomé Chamber Orchestra soloists, with Music Of The Jewish Diaspora.
The details:
What: "Music of the Jewish Diaspora", featuring David Aaron Carpenter (viola) and soloists of the Salomé Chamber Orchestra. Works include Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words in G Minor; Hatikvah (traditional); Kreisler's Liebeslied, Caprice Viennois and Hora Staccato; Gershwin's Summertime; Oran Eldor's Sephardic Prayer; Alexey Shor's 740 Samba, Chicken Tarantella, Semi Canonical Great Feud and Murka Variations (by Shor and Eldor); Monti's Czardas; "Ljova" Lev Zhurbin's Budget Bulgar.
Where: Central Synagogue, 36 Hallam Street entrance (behind Great Portland Street), London W1W 6NW
When: Tuesday 8th July, 7pm
Booking: Tel 020 75801355 / email email@example.com. All tickets £20.
"Whoever has heard, will never forget Israel's melodies, breaking forth into rejoicing, then cast down with sadness: bringing out their notes to the skies, then sinking into the abyss of grief...they convey the whole of Judah's history - his glorious past, his mournful present. His exalted future promised by God." Gustav Karpeles, "Jewish Literature and Other Essays", 1895
How does one define music of the Jewish Diaspora? All of the above, and more. In it you can hear the cries of exile, the joys of community, the assumption of other cultures and folk traditions, and the serious quest to advance an art form. The star American (and Jewish) violist David Aaron Carpenter - whose own family travelled from Iraq to Israel to the United States, where he was born - brings soloists from his New York Salomé Chamber Orchestra to explore the highs, and high emotions, of "Music of the Jewish Diaspora". Just as the Jewish people roamed for millennia, so this high-energy concert will freely tour across countries and continents and across time periods - from Mendelssohn to Heifetz to Gershwin, to dazzling new workings of ancient Sephardic prayers and Russian dances by Salomé's composers-in-residence Alexey Shor and Oran Eldor.
It is a fitting launch concert for the new International Concerts Series at Central Synagogue. Given that the idea of the family sits at the heart of Jewish culture, it is also apt that two of the soloists are David's brother, Sean, and his sister, Lauren, violinists both. This concert marks their London debuts.
David Aaron Carpenter is one of the most charismatic and admired young musicians of his generation. Called "stunningly talented" by The New Yorker, and "the hottest violist of the 21st Century" by cultural commentator Norman Lebrecht, Carpenter's great mentor Pinchas Zukerman has said, "It's like Pele with a football, or Federer with a tennis racket - that's David Aaron Carpenter with a viola". A Rolex Protégé, Carpenter regularly performs and records with leading orchestras and colleagues, among them the Berlin Philharmonic, the Philharmonia, the Philaldephia Orchestra, Christophe Eschenbach, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yo Yo Ma, Yuja Wang and Leonidas Kavakos (as well as pop artists such as Natasha Bedingfield, Rufus Wainwright and John Legend). He has played Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Berlin Philharmonie, Salle Pleyel and many other top venues. In 2014 he made worldwide news headlines by being selected by Sotheby's to play a series of concerts on the $45+ million Stradivarius "MacDonald" viola - about to be sold as the most expensive instrument in history.
The Salomé Chamber Orchestra is recognised as one of the most exciting young ensembles in New York and were recently resident at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Comprised of postgraduates from five of the top American music schools, they perform regularly with Carpenter, as well as other classical and pop stars such as Daniel Hope, Sharon Isbin, Michelle Williams and John Legend (with whom they played the opening night of Yahoo!'s recent "On The Road" tour, webcast live on the Yahoo!Music homepage). They have performed at venues as diverse as the Verbier Festival and Milk Studios in New York and have their own annual music festival in the East Hamptons.
"This concert feels very dear to me for all sorts of reasons," says Carpenter, "To make my London debut by reclaiming this iconic Jewish venue in this city that I love is very close to my heart, the more so because I feel this music. In many ways, my family and I are this music. It's our story. And you know what else? The music is great."
Details of the complete 2014/15 International Concerts Series will also be announced at the event.


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Nearly a whole year has passed since London was lit up with the 2012 Olympics. Since then, the London Legacy Development Corporation has been hard at work transforming the Games' Stratford venue into the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – efforts that have very nearly reached fruition.
The north part of the new park will finally open to the public on July 27th – a date that coincides with the first anniversary of the Games. To commemorate the occasion, the park will spend the weekend playing host to the Open East Festival.
Comprising music, theatrical performances, food, drink and a few more surprises besides, the festival programme is packed with entertainment and activities that ought to cater to all tastes.
The Open East Festival has secured the attendance of bands and musicians from around the world, including celtic rockers The Waterboys, afrobeat pioneers Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 and Malian duo Amadou and Mariam.
Meanwhile, visitors are promised a profusion of pop-up participatory performances around the park. There's even a specially erected festival theatre tent, where they'll be able to enjoy dance or "maybe even an East End sing-a-long", according to organisers.
Finally, those looking for something a little more unusual should check out Sacrilege. This is a life-sized inflatable replica of Stonehenge designed by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller, which has toured the world since it first appeared at the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. Essentially a giant bouncy castle, Sacrilege is both a celebration of Britain's unique culture and an irresistible fairground attraction.
Even London mayor Boris Johnson has revealed that he's a fan. He commented: "[Sacrilege] will add to the fun and magic of this delightful festival, which along with the other events taking place over the next few weeks shows the amazing potential the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park has to become one of our greatest destinations, for visitors and Londoners alike."
A day ticket to the Open East Festival costs £9.50 for adults and £6 for under-16s.
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The words reverberated throughout Sierra Canyon's gymnasium Thursday and they turned out to be a bad omen for Brentwood's girls basketball team.
"Every time" were the instructions shouted in the second quarter by Trailblazers coach Alicia Komaki, referring to getting the ball to junior forward Cheyanne Wallace on each possession until the Eagles found a defense to stop her.
Wallace was galvanized by Komaki's confidence and her teammates fed off the energy, as Sierra Canyon closed the first half on an 11-point run, with Wallace scoring six points.
Wallace finished with 26 points and 13 rebounds, to go along with nine points, 15 rebounds and seven assists from Kennedy Burke, leading Sierra Canyon — the top-ranked team in Southern Section Division IV-A — to a 66-43 Alpha League victory over No. 2 Brentwood.
"I thought Sierra Canyon did a great job tonight. Alicia is a fantastic coach and puts her team in positions to be successful," Brentwood coach Charles Solomon said. "Kennedy and Cheyanne were excellent. We had no answer inside for Cheyanne. She got loose on the block and had a fantastic game. We need to do a better job next time realizing where she is at all times."
Brentwood faced an 11-point second-quarter deficit, but closed the gap to 22-19 with 2:30 remaining in the first half, before the Trailblazers responded.
In addition to scoring 13 first-half points, Wallace continued to attack early in the second half, helping Sierra Canyon (19-1, 4-0) — ranked No. 10 in the state by Cal-Hi Sports and 23rd nationally by ESPN-W — extend the lead to 48-22 midway through the third quarter.
"Whether Gabi (Nevill) is hitting 3s, or it's Kennedy or Zoe (Goss) driving and making layups, we do a good job of recognizing that and coach (Komaki) always puts emphasis on getting that person the ball," Wallace said. "It's exciting when you're hot like that and you're teammates want to get you involved because you're playing well."
Wallace scored the first two baskets for Sierra Canyon in the fourth, before Komaki cleared the bench.
"Cheyanne was amazing. She had such a huge impact," Burke said. "We realized they weren't guarding her, so we just kept giving it to her and she did her thing."
Nevill added eight points, Goss had seven points and Alexis Griggsby scored six points for the Trailblazers, who next face Windward (16-2, 3-0), ranked No. 3 in the state by Cal-Hi Sports and ninth nationally by USA Today, in Tuesday's first-place showdown. Drew Cabral had 11 points for Brentwood (16-5, 1-2).


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Hundreds of millions of dollars have poured into political campaigns in Washington state and nationwide this year. A rising share of those dollars are being funneled through super PACs and other outside groups. KUOW's John Ryan takes a look at just where all the campaign cash is coming from in Washington state.
Each election season, little-known political action committees assume a central role in American politics. Their vaguely patriotic names often disguise their true purpose: spending lots of money to get certain candidates into power. So here's a little quiz.
See if you can tell which of these super PACs are conservative, which are liberal, and which one is satirical.
* Priorities USA Action * America Shining * Restore Our Future * American Crossroads * Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow
The first two super PACs were liberal; the next two conservative.
"Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow" was created by comedian Stephen Colbert to draw attention to the role of these little-known groups in American democracy.
One thing all those super PACs have in common. Thanks to a Supreme Court ruling, they can all funnel unlimited money into campaign advertising. That means people and organizations with lots of cash can influence elections more easily than before. And that means certain places here in Washington state may have more power than they used to.
To get at the heart of our system of campaign finance, I've come to Cozy Cove. It's a little finger of water on the east side of Lake Washington, in between the wealthy peninsulas of Hunts Point and Yarrow Point and just north of Bellevue.
Here in my kayak, I'm a little out of place. Multimillion-dollar mansions line both sides of the cove. Private docks big enough for yachts are as common here as mailboxes in other neighborhoods.
The area around Cozy Cove, and just to its south in Bellevue, is ZIP code 98004. This ZIP has given more money to influence this year's federal elections than any other ZIP code in Washington state: about $3 million, according to the Federal Elections Commission.
No place even comes close to the 98004. It's outpaced every other ZIP code, including the big spenders in Mercer Island, Medina and Seattle's Capitol Hill, by nearly a million dollars or more.
The biggest donor in the 98004 is Michael Darland of Bellevue. The retired tech entrepreneur now owns high-end fly-fishing lodges in Chile. He and his wife have given $250,000 to Freedomworks for America. That's a super PAC associated with the Tea Party movement.
"I believe right now more than ever in my life, and I just turned 70, that my freedoms and liberty's being threatened," Darland says, "by a government that doesn't seem to believe the same sorts of things that I believe the Constitution says."
Darland is like most big donors on the east side of Lake Washington: he's putting his money behind conservative causes. To the west, the big-money ZIP codes in Mercer Island, Seattle and Shoreline favor liberal campaigns by wide margins.
Darland is the biggest donor in the state's biggest-spending ZIP code. But he's not the state's biggest campaign donor.
Microsoft co-founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates have each spent more than $3 million to get charter schools legalized through a state ballot measure.
The biggest infusion of personal wealth aimed at getting a candidate elected has come from Ann Wyckoff. She lives in a gated community of multimillion-dollar homes in Shoreline called The Highlands. Since August, the 85-year-old philanthropist has given $1 million to Priorities USA Action, the pro-Obama super PAC.
Wyckoff says she likes to stay under the radar; she declined to speak on tape. But she says that she's always supported Democrats.
"If you can, you should give to things you really believe in," Wyckoff says.
In 2008, super PACs and other outside groups spent about $300 million nationwide on advertising and other types of campaigning.
"Now we're expecting a billion dollars to be spent," says Sheila Krumholz, director of the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics in Washington, D.C.
Krumholz says billion from the outside is on top of the $5 billion spent by candidates and their parties.
"We are seeing a lot more advertising," she says. "It's more negative, and there's a lot more deception. That's perhaps not surprising, given that these are independent groups. They're less accountable than nearly all other actors in politics in America today because so little is known about how they operate."
Krumholz' group tracks all the money flowing into American politics on its website, opensecrets.org. Or at least all the money that's possible to track.
While super PACs are required to disclose their donors, they often set up separate nonprofit organizations that don't have to say where they got their money.
"There are some problems with super PACs, but on the whole, they are not the concern here," says Sheila Krumholz. "The concern really is their nonprofit arms, which are entirely hidden from the public view in terms of where that money is coming from."
The nonprofit groups' spending nationwide has favored Republicans over Democrats by an 8-to-1 margin.
Michael Darland of Bellevue says he has given money to the nonprofit arm of the Freedomworks for America super PAC, but he declined to say how much.
"I don't disclose what I don't have to," Darland says.
Some critics of the role of big money in politics blame the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision for opening the floodgates of special-interest spending. But political scientist Mark Smith of the University of Washington says something else is behind the rising tide of money into political campaigns.
"If you look over a 30-year period, the biggest thing that I think is driving this is just inequality," Smith says. "There's more money at the top, and so there's more money that can slosh around."
With huge sums of money going to both Democrats and Republicans, a lot of the donations may just cancel each other out. The net effect, according to some political scientists, is to tilt the political system toward wealthy donors as a whole.
A Northwestern University survey last year of very wealthy Americans found they were much more concerned about the federal deficit than the rest of the country was.
"The general population at this point is much more concerned about jobs and growth," Mark Smith of UW says. "If you look at the national dialogue in the last couple of years, the deficit has kind of dominated the national conversation. The issue priorities get pushed more toward what people at the top want."
Smith says it's hard to know whether campaign donations themselves tilt the playing field toward the wealthy. He says it could just be that elected officials also tend to be wealthy and they move in the same social circles as their big donors.
"Having said that, if you make money count for more, that makes everything else count for less. So, that is a threat to democracy," Smith says.
Bellevue big donor Michael Darland doesn't buy the criticism that unlimited campaign contributions might have unhealthy effects on our democracy.
"I find it amusing that most of the critics and people who worry about these sorts of things, would probably, if they had the money, given other things they say and write about, they would be giving it, too," he says. "What they're griping about is they didn't get busy and figure out how to take advantage of this country and its freedoms to also earn great amounts of money."
One irony of all this campaign cash? The money tends to go where it's least effective: high-stakes races where the candidates are already well-known to the public.
In Washington state, Democrats have raised nearly twice as much cash as Republicans for this year's federal elections ($33.7 million vs. $18.6 million), a pattern that goes against the grain. Nationwide, Republicans have raised about 8 percent more than Democrats. According to opensecrets.org, this year's election is the most expensive in the nation's history.
Copyright 2012 Northwest Public Radio


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text: AboutMenus & SpecialsOn TapBeer To Go!History23rd Avenue Bottle Shop The name says it all Bring your whole family in for a weekend lunch, meet with co-workers for drinks or stop by before a show for a beer and a burger. Cozy up next to the woodstove or grab a heated outdoor table so you can enjoy a pint while watching the comings and goings of the neighborhood. Take a spin at one of our pool tables for your 8-ball enjoyment, or try one of our two 22 ft. shuffleboard tables — while you wait your turn, head to the bar for McMenamins handcrafted ales, wines and spirits, along with an assortment of other beverages. And don't miss the artwork, compliments of our dedicated McMenamins artists — who knows what they'll come up with next? Tavern & Pool allows pets at our sidewalk seating only. Menus Menu Kids Happy Hour & Specials Beverage Dietary Restrictions Happy Hour served daily 3-6 p.m. & 10 p.m.-close Drink specials 3-6 p.m. & 10 p.m.-12 midnight No substitutions, additions, or to-go orders Minimum drink purchase of $2 We offer Northwest-style pub fare that incorporates the freshest seasonal ingredients from local and regional growers and producers (including Tillamook Cheese and Ice Cream, Pleasant Valley Pickles, Sheridan Fruit Company, Country Natural Beef and many others). We make everything onsite, including pizza, soups and more. Weekly specials round out our menus – ask your server for details. Gluten-free buns available! These light, crisp, locally made products are available for an additional charge with hamburgers and sandwiches – just ask your server. Please note: Although the bun is gluten-free, our kitchens are not. All Ales Wine Cider Guest Taps Cider Guest Taps Alambic "13" Brandy Aval Pota Whiskey Billy Whiskey Black Rabbit Porter Black Rabbit Red Blackberry Cider Cabernet Sauvignon Chardonnay Coffee Liqueur Cuvée De L'Abri Rouge Duskbringer Pumpkin Ale Edgefield Apple Cider Edgefield Extra Two Year Barrel-Aged Barleywine Frank High Proof Rum Gables Gin Hammerhead Herbal Liqueur No. 7 Hogshead Whiskey Jam Session ISA Joe Penney's Gin Longshot Brandy Magnifique Saison McMenamins Irish Stout Merlot Miami Weisse Monkey Puzzle Whiskey Morning Dew Brandy Needles and Pins IPA Pear Brandy Phil Hazelnut Liqueur Pinot Gris Pinot Noir Pinot Noir, Vintage Select Poolside Double IPA Pot Still Brandy Riesling Ruby Syrah Terminator Stout Three Rocks Rum Three Rocks Spiced Rum Thundercone Fresh Hop Ale Tropic Heat Sour Viognier White Rabbit Zinfandel Atlas Apricot (OR) 7.00 pint Big Bad Baptist $8.25 (10oz) Cider Flight $6.50 Coors Light Dry Revival Jester & Judge Sharp Cherry (Oregon) 7.00 pint Pabst Blue Ribbon Pfriem IPA $5.75 pint Pilsner Urquell, Czech Republic $5.75 pint Prickle Me Pink Swift Dank Hop (OR) 8.75 pint Wild Craft Pioneer Perry (Oregon) 7.75 pint $8 Growler Mondays Head to any of our pubs, bring your 2-quart growler and have it filled with any regular McMenamins beer for $8 every Monday! You can also fill your growler with any McMenamins high gravity beer for $10. We don't offer a special on growler fills of Brewmasters Reserve beer or cider at this time. $12 Cider Wednesdays Clean out your growler and bring it in on a Wednesday for a fill of your choice of Edgefield Cider – regular apple or seasonal, both gluten-free – for the new lower price of $12! Regular price $14 - $17. Note: This special does not apply to cider or brewmasters reserves. Check out what's ON TAP on the free McMenamins app. On Tap To Go (not including growler or jar) Hard Cider To Go (not including growler or jar) 1 quart $7.00-$8.50 1 quart $8.80 2 quarts $14.00-$17.00 2 quarts $17.60 Half-Gallon Growlers We're offering these special 64-ounce growlers (think a glass moonshine jug) that are now engraved with many different company seasonal logos and other assorted graphics! Use it time and time again, or keep it as a memento from your visit. Available at all locations Cans To Go Our 16-ounce cans of our signature Ruby and Hammerhead are available to-go at all locations. Crack 'em open and enjoy on the beach, in a backyard....bottle openers are no longer required. Crowlers Offered at our 23rd Avenue Bottle Shop Prices vary We're now offering Crowlers - a mashup of can and growler - in a 32-ounce vessel that we fill fresh from a tap of your choice and seal up to-go. Choose from our 20 rotating taps of McMenamins' and guest breweries handcrafted offerings, including cider and high-gravity selections. Kegs/Cornelius Cans $150/15.5 gallon plus refundable keg and equipment deposits At select breweries we can also fill Cornelius canisters. Call the brewery to make arrangements. You will need to bring your clean canister and leave it with the brewer for filling. You cannot just drop in and get a canister filled unannounced. Current pricing on Cornelius canisters is $75 for 5 gallons, $45 for 3 gallons. 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June 1, 2011, 09:31 PM
I just got a Daniel Defense and I need a strap! Suggestions? Sources would be great too.
June 1, 2011, 10:18 PM
for rifle competition or to just to carry it?
June 2, 2011, 01:08 AM
If your patrol rifle/firearm is meant for duty or defense, I'd suggest these resources;
www.5.11tactical.com www.Blackhawk.com www.Galcogunleather.com www.Brownells.com www.Mesatactical.com www.Policehq.com .
Blackhawk & 5.11 sell practical 3 pt designs you can deploy with either hand.
That should keep you & your "main ax" safe & secure... ;) .
June 2, 2011, 02:21 AM
Just to carry it
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June 2, 2011, 05:51 AM
After several trips to the sandboxes, I am still using the Mark 1, Mod 1 GI issue sling. It does everything well, not as perfect as a "purpose-designed" one, but it works for everything. If you are like me, and favor utility over 'gee-whizz,' there is nothing wrong with the GI issue sling. I have rigged it as a one-point, two-point, three-point (thank you 550 cord), a hasty and a loop sling. It is durable, easy to take care of, and works.
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June 2, 2011, 12:35 PM
Warrior poet, that actually sounds great. Where would I go about getting one?
June 2, 2011, 01:07 PM
Get the Vicker's Combat sling: http://vickerstactical.com/larry-vickers-products/vickers-combat-sling/
June 2, 2011, 03:20 PM
The vickers is a little more than I want to spend on a sling, I was thinking $30-40 as opposed to ~$70
June 2, 2011, 03:48 PM
Shouldn't be that much. I think I paid $45 for mine (don't recall where though): http://www.nettac.com/BFG-Vickers-VCAS-Sling_p_116.html
warrior poet
June 2, 2011, 08:29 PM
Try an Army/Navy store. I've seen GI slings at "Saigon Sam's" before.
June 2, 2011, 10:27 PM
Larry Vickers is a retired US Army spec ops soldier(CAG/Delta Force/SFOD-Delta). He is also a well known pistolsmith(1911a1 .45acp).
His tactical rifle sling is a tad pricey but I like the pad type design. ;)
Im not a huge fan of bungee or elastic anything on a weapon. Tropic or humid environments with high temps seem to warp/wear out these materials quickly.
As I stated, if speed/tactical applications are a main concern, look for a rig you can draw quickly or switch firing hands with rapidly.
If you just want a basic rifle sling or something milspec that shouldn't be difficult to buy either.
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6 in race for 2 BOE seats; McCarty and Brown face commission opposition
Adjusting to district voting is proving to be a challenge for both political parties in Fayette County.
By rule of a U.S. District Judge last May, the county was split up into 5 districts for voting purposes. Residents can only vote for one member each for the county commission and board of education instead of the previous shot at all five seats.
The change was approved after a successful lawsuit from the Fayette County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People arguing that no black person had ever been elected to either governing body. To remedy that, the court approved a majority-minority Post 5 district with a population of black voting age residents greater than 50 percent.
But only one black candidate qualified for election in the 5th district: Democrat Pota Coston, who is challenging incumbent Republican County Commissioner Allen McCarty.
No black resident qualified to run against school board Post 5 incumbent Democrat Leonard Presberg, who is white, though he will face a challenge in November from last-minute Republican qualifier Dean Dutton who filed his paperwork right at the noon deadline Friday.
The BoE Post 4 races are sure to be lively ones as well. Four Republicans and one Democrat qualified for the seat being vacated by incumbent Bob Todd. The four Republicans include Jane Owens, Diane Basham, John Kimbell and Mindy Fredrikson. The winner will face Democratic challenger Ogechi Oparah in the November general election since she is unopposed in the primary.
Oparah, 23, is a tutor and educational consultant who said she wants to build a platform of support to "build morale and strong relationships between the school system, business community and housing sector."
A graduate of the school system, Oparah graduated from Princeton University recently.
"Making the best decisions for our school system is key to the economic health of our whole community," Oparah said, adding that she wants to make sure the opportunities she had as a Fayette student are "preserved and expanded for future generations."
There is another wrinkle to the five-member BoE in play, and that's due to the resignation of Post 2 incumbent Mary Kay Bacallao, who is running for the state school superintendent's position. Her vacant post will be appointed by the remaining four board members to fill the seat for the rest of her unexpired term.
Fayette County Post 3 Commissioner Steve Brown will seek re-election and is facing two challengers with a similar pedigree since all three were previously elected mayor in Peachtree City. Harold Logsdon and Don Haddix are seeking to oust Brown, who is in his second year as commission chairman, a position voted on by all five board members. This race will be settled in the May primary as no Democrats qualified for office.
The trio has an electoral history. Logsdon beat Brown for the Peachtree City mayor's slot eight years ago, and both Logsdon and Haddix were losers in the most recent Peachtree City mayor's race.
Incumbent Superior Court Judge Chris Edwards will be re-elected to a new four-year term as no candidates qualified to run against him in the four-county Griffin Judicial Circuit, which includes Fayette, Spalding, Pike and Upson counties.
At the state level, seven Republicans are seeking the 16th District Senate seat being vacated by Tyrone resident Ronnie Chance. Local homebuilder Bob Barnard, attorney David Studdard, project manager Erik Manning, pilot Gil Williams, attorney James Clifton, insurance agent Marty Harbin and attorney Bill Johnston have qualified for the seat. No Democrats qualified for the post so the winner will be determined in the May primary.
Studdard, an attorney and former police officer for the City of Atlanta, said his top priority is fighting Obamacare.
"My position is to repeal it, and I will work with our congressmen and senators to move in that direction," Studdard said. "Anything less would be a disservice to my voters."
Studdard said he is a pro-life, pro-second amendment conservative.
Manning is a project manager in the telecommunications and information technology field. He said he will draw on his experience in the Navy, where he spent six years as a nuclear reactor operator.
"I wish to continue my service to protect and defend our Constitution as a state senator, representing the people of the 16th district," Manning said.
Manning has been active in the local Republican Party, the American Legion Post 105 and is the past president of the Kiwanis Club of Fayette County.
Williams is a Delta pilot and also serves as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. He also served as a Presidential airlift pilot and as the Joint Chiefs of Staff Liaison to the United Nations.
"I believe this is a critical time for our state and our nation," Williams said, adding that he brings proven leadership experience and a commitment to service, honor and conservative family values.
Incumbents District 64 Democrat Virgil Fludd and District 63 Democrat Ronnie Mabra are unopposed, as are District 72 Republican Matt Ramsey and District 73 Republican John Yates.
A name familiar to some residents has qualified to oppose sitting Attorney General Sam Olens. Jonesboro attorney Greg Hecht represented a portion of Fayette County during the 1990s and qualified as a Democrat.
Hecht, who served four years as an assistant district attorney in Clayton County and also served in the Georgia legislature, said he wants to address problems with the Department of Family and Children Services since the attorney general's office is responsible for preparing DFCS workers to testify in court to protect children from abuse.
"The Attorney General needs to be an experienced prosecutor committed to leading the charge against public corruption, regardless of party. We have to take politics out of the office, roll up our sleeves, and provide the checks and balances for all Georgians to be protected from corruption and abuse," Hecht said.
At the federal level, two-term District 3 Representative Lynn Westmoreland will face a primary challenge from fellow Republican C.E. "Chip" Flanegan, who came in third four years ago in an attempt to unseat the congressman. No Democrat qualified for this race so the winner will be determined in the May primary.
District 13 Congressman David A. Scott drew a Democratic challenger in Michael C. Owens, a senior program manager from Mableton. No Republican qualified for office so the race will be settled in the May primary.
Candidates who have not yet submitted their candidacy information are asked to email their information to email@example.com for a brief summary to be included in an upcoming story. All candidates are also urged to email their contact information and a recent high-resolution photo to us also.
[CORRECTION: The name of Post 4 Board of Education candidate Mindy Fredrikson was misspelled in the above story. The correct spelling is now in the story.]


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I'm working on a prop gun that I am putting LEDS in. Due to size constraints and because the LEDs do not need to be individually controllable instead of using 12mm RGB strands I opted to solder leads onto 5mm RGB LEDS (http://www.adafruit.com/products/302). Ideally they are going to be hooked up and controlled by an Arduino but since there are quite a few LEDs (38) I was wondering how to wire them without frying anything.
Is it ok to wire them in parallel? (red to red blue to blue) I know I will need resistors but will I need a transistor to run them with an Arduino?


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text: Report says EPA rules not cause of upsurge in coal closures By Ken Ward Jr. October 9, 2012 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- More coal-fired power plants are expected to close over the next four years, but low-priced natural gas -- not tougher environmental rules -- are the cause, according to a recent report by an international economics and regulatory consulting firm.The Brattle Group increased its projection of the number of coal plants that utilities will retire by 2016, and its conclusions have added to the industry campaign critical of the Obama administration's regulatory policies.But in a 13-page report issued last week, the Brattle Group offers a much more measured analysis than the "war on coal" rhetoric that continues to be tossed around in the presidential race and regional political campaigns."The questions concerning what impact the new air quality regulations will have on power prices and resource adequacy continue to be important and difficult to answer definitively," the report said."This 2012 reassessment indicates that somewhat more retirements are likely (about 25 [gigawatts]) than we foresaw in late 2010," it said. "However, that change is primarily due to changing market conditions, not environmental rule revisions, which have trended towards more lenient requirements and schedules."Especially in Appalachia, the coal industry is struggling in the face of cheap natural gas, competition from other coal basins, declining reserves of quality coal and the finalization of long-mandated reductions in toxic air pollution from coal-fired power plants. Coal's share of U.S. electricity generation dropped to about 36 percent earlier this year, far below the 50 percent still often cited by industry supporters. The U.S. Department of Energy projects that annual Central Appalachian coal production will be cut in half by 2035.Coal company officials and regional politicians have tried to blame the industry's woes on the Obama administration, but the number of miners working in Appalachian mines actually rose during the first three years of the administration.But a string of layoffs has come since the first of the year, and coal-mining employment in West Virginia dropped by about 1,300 jobs in the second quarter of 2012, according to data from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration.West Virginia's major utilities -- American Electric Power and FirstEnergy -- have both moved up the dates for closing some of their oldest power plants, smaller facilities without the most modern pollution control equipment.Nationally, the new Brattle Group report projected that between 59 gigawatts and 77 gigawatts of coal generation would be retired between 2012 and 2016. That's about 25 gigawatts more than the projection in the firm's 2010 report for the same time period.The earlier Brattle Group report noted that most of the coal plant retirements involved older and smaller plants where power companies felt it was not economical to spend money on modern pollution controls. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD 2 New company planning $73M synthetic fuel plant in Greenbrier County 3 WVU law professor announces run for Congress 4 Morgantown coal operator Laurita indicted in alleged campaign finance scheme 5 Richwood mayor on leave amid investigation of purchases Protea Biosciences finds new global partners Previous Story Woman trapped in van, in critical condition after accident Next Story