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Terms of the agreement were not disclosed in the club announcement, other than to say the contract runs through 2016 and includes a mutual option for 2017.
"Cameron has certainly emerged as a core player," said Byrnes. "During his time with the Padres, he has impressed us with his play and with his character. He has shown us that he is committed to the Padres, and we are happy to secure his rights through 2017."Maybin, 24, enjoyed a breakout year in his first season with the Padres, establishing new career highs in nearly every offensive category, including games, runs, hits, doubles, triples, home runs, RBI and stolen bases, en route to being unanimously chosen as the Padres 2011 MVP by the San Diego Chapter of the BBWAA. He started 132 games in center field and led the team in runs, triples, stolen bases and multi-hit games.
Thoughts: Maybin is seen as a core Padre going forward, and with good reason. He plays a premium defensive position well in a ballpark that requires athletic outfielders to cover it's spacious facilities. Last season Maybin's defense saved 11 runs (Dewan plus/minus) and placed him third amongst all MLB CF in that category. Not burdened by fear of management holding a quick hook if he didn't produce, he enjoyed his finest season at the plate, and became the 8th Padre to ever steal 40 bases in a season.
The deal buys out all of Maybin's arbitration years, plus the first (and probably second) year he'd be eligible for free agency. Interestingly he's currently the lone player under contract for 2014, much less 2016. That piece of trivia notwithstanding this is an excellent move by the Padres. Now we an put whoever we want in LF and RF because Maybin can cover center from gap to gap.
Update: The SDUT is reporting the deal as 5 years/$25 million, with the option year being worth $7 million if he returns in 2017. Maybin was worth 4.7 WAR (Fangraphs) in 2011 which equated to ~$21.1 million. If he plays at that level during this contract, Padres got him at a bargain price.


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If ever there was a Monster Hunter gesture that deserved a dance-party video, it was the Prance. And so the guys at Explosive Alan have given us this excellent montage of pitch-perfect prancing, taking their MH characters on a tour through the world of games, cinema, television and beyond. They even stop off at the Xbox One announcement. Prance away, you prancing fools.
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Nature Adventures Season 9
Are you looking for an adventure of your own? Do you want to learn more about snakes, fish, or other animals found in South Dakota? How about an afternoon of birding? The resources found on this website accompany the Nature Adventures television series airing on South Dakota Public Broadcasting. On this site you will find photos, birding books, field guides and more. Start your adventure today!
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I have been going to Dr. Dave for over 25 years. I don't want to go anywhere else. He and his staff are awesome!
I will like to echo the previous writer in regards to Dr. Dave. My daughter began going to him at 6 years of age. Dr. Dave was so fantastic with her, that I started going to him also. My daughter is now 21 years old and she STILL enjoys going to see him. I thought my daughter was the only person that I know who enjoys going to the dentist...Dr. Dave. Thanks!
My 14 year old son LOVES going to the dentist. TOP THAT. Seriously...anyone who is a parent of a teenager knows one thing for sure. It's nearly impossible to please them. Make them smile? Rarely. Make them laugh? r-i-i-i-g-h-t. Watch them gleefully run to the car to visit the dentist? NEVER. Unless your dentist is "Dr. Dave" :) I know that at least twice a year my teenager is reminded that I know a thing or two about something. I selected a PHENOMENAL DENTIST. Dr. David Weiss and his entire staff of fabulous people make you WANT TO GO to the dentist. It's like visiting a family of friends-who happen to do something good for you and your mouth. This is the truth: I've referred at least 5 friends to Dr. Weiss and they all AGREE. --------------------The office of Dr. David Weiss OUTSHINES all others!----------------------
You'll enjoy going to the dentist
Dr. Dave has been my family's dentist for over 30 years—first my parents and then us. I don't currently live in Phoenix, but I have legitimately scheduled my dental work around my visits home. He's that good, and that funny. Dr. Dave, Daphne and the whole crew make going to the dentist enjoyable. And you'll leave with a funny travel toothbrush, too!
Dental Oasis in the Desert
I never thought I'd use the term 'dental oasis' (?) uh, ever. I'm not one to gush, but Dr. Dave and his staff are truly special. I've only had two appointments thus far, but I can see why he has patients that have been returning for decades. 'Welcoming, comforting, hilarious' are not terms typically associated with dentistry, but they are at his practice! Skilled dentistry, wonderful staff and bad jokes will forever keep me coming back.
Outstanding dental care and wonderful office staff!
We love Dr. Dave and his wife Daphne. Such compassionate care and attention to my husband's dental needs during cancer. I can't recommend Dr Dave and his office enough.
we LOVE our dentist!
My 14 year old son LOVES going to the dentist. TOP THAT. Seriously...anyone who is a parent of a teenager knows one thing for sure. It's nearly impossible to please them. Make them smile? Rarely. Make them laugh? r-i-i-i-g-h-t. Watch them gleefully run to the car to visit the dentist? NEVER. Unless your dentist is "Dr. Dave" :) I know that at least twice a year my teenager is reminded that I know a thing or two about something. I selected a PHENOMENAL DENTIST. Dr. David Weiss and his entire staff of fabulous people make you WANT TO GO to the dentist. It's like visiting a family of friends-who happen to do something good for you and your mouth. This is the truth: I've referred at least 5 friends to Dr. Weiss and they all AGREE. --------------------The office of Dr. David Weiss OUTSHINES all others!----------------------
Honest & Skilled Dentist
Dr. Weiss (or "Dr. Dave" as he is often known) is a skilled dentist and very honest. He has never tried to sell me on some procedure that I don't need, but is instead more interested in how my teeth are actually doing and any concerns I have. He also has a really good sense of humor, which certainly makes going to the dentist a lot more fun!
Emergency visit
Dr. Dave was there when I really needed him in an emergency situation when my sister was visiting from out of town and had a terrible toothache. Dr. Dave said to bring her into the office that same day I called the office and helped her with her pain until she was ready to return home. Needless to say, it turned out to be an excellent "visit to the dentist". I have been going to Dr. Dave for nearly 20 years and he has the same enthusiasm now as he did 20 years ago. Keep up the good work, Dr. Dave. Dana
Best dentist ever!
Dr. Dave is my all time favorite dentist. Always funny and upbeat. Found a problem with my son's tooth before it was obvious to anyone else. What could have become a major issue was easily corrected early on. If you want a great dentist, go see Dr. Dave!
Fantastic Dentist!
Funny, smart, actually cares about your teeth! Not quick to engage in costly procedures but instead logically finds the best solution to keep your teeth in good shape. Highly recommended.
Like a family
I have been a patient of Dr. Dave's for over 10 years. He and his staff are like family. It says a lot about a practice when the staff does not turn over. You are comfortable in the knowledge that everyone is familiar with your dental needs. When you arrive you are attended to promptly and always made to feel like you are the only patient in the office.
Good Down to Earth Dentist
Dr. Weiss is very down to earth. He is personable, gentle and does all his own work. His is a good family dentist who was recommended to us by our family doctor. His staff is very nice and polite. I told him my only complaint is he needs to come up with new jokes.
A dentist you'll look forward to seeing!
Dr. Weiss is a hands on dentist - he does all of the cleanings himself rather than having his hygienist perform them. I'm am in and out in about 1/2 hour!! He also likes to take the most conservative approach when dealing with more extensive issues. Very comforting!
Personal touch
Dr Weiss is envolved with your dental care in all aspects. It's a great practice that takes total care of your needs. Great dentist, great staff and wonderful service.
Always a pleasure
It is always a pleasure to visit the office of Dr. Weiss. The staff has been there long term, so we are all on a first name basis when I visit. The dental care is excellent, the chatter fun and light hearted, putting the nervous patient at ease. Refer all to who are interested in dental care for which there can be no criticism, and staff/patient interaction which is family-style. Highly recommend.
Highest recommendation -- Dr. Weiss is the best!!
Dr. Dave is amazing! I agree with all the other reviewers -- he's smart, caring, attentive to detail, personable, entertaining, innovative, and extremely competent. I have been going to Dr. Dave since 1987 and was impressed right away with his concern for patient comfort. I have always had bad teeth and hated going to the dentist but all that changed when Dr. Dave sat me in the chair and handed me a walkman. He told me to crank up the volume if I felt any discomfort. I only had to do it once or twice but, amazingly, with the volume that high, my brain didn't have any room to register any discomfort. Over the years, the audio technology changed -- those sound canceling earphones are fabulous -- but the principle remained the same. Dr. Dave thinks outside the box to meet the needs of his patients. He has been there for me when I have had emergencies and has also inspired me to take better care of my teeth. Thank you, Dr. Dave.
A Caring Dentist You Can Count On
Having had Dr. Weiss as my dentist for about 30 years, I've had a lot of good experiences. As a patient, you always feel that he puts you first. When I have had emergencies, he has always fitted me in and taken good care of me. He is also smart, funny and interesting, which is a bonus. The staff members he has had over the years are kind and helpful,which I have not always found with other medical practices. I referred both my sister and my husband of 16 years to Dr. Weiss and he is still their dentist.
Best Dentist Ever
Dr. Dave and all of his staff make going to the dentist as painless as can be. Never before have I been to a dentist who does your cleaning and spends your whole visit with you. His sense of humor tops off the experience. I have been to dentists who have recommended unnecessary and expensive procedures, I don't believe this would ever happen here.
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Dr Weiss is down to earth and does the work himself so you always know who you are dealing with. He was recommended by my physician.
Looking foward to a wonderful experience at the dentists office
My name is Mia. I am 26 year old Nursing student and Full time CNA. I have been a patient of Dr. Dave's for 16 years. When i was 10 years old i was in an accident that left my two front teeth shattered, It is Dr. Dave who has in essence and in form put me back together again; who has given me the best restorative care. I smile bigger today than ever and i feel more capable now than ever. Now when i go in and the staff is having a laugh i join in with my beautiful smile! (p.s. The view from the ninth floor window is amazing)
The BEST dentist ever!!!
I've been seeing Dr. Dave since I was little (I'm now 32) and over the years I've had to see other dentists based on my insurance at the time. My husband had fillings done by Dr. Dave and said that it was the first time he didn't experience pain during that procedure. He is currently our family dentist and our 4 and 6 year olds love him and have no reservations about going to the dentist. Dr. Dave is very thorough and knowledgable and he has a great sense of humor. He's also had the same staff for as long as I can remember, which adds to the experience.
Love Dr Dave
Dr Dave and his staff have provided me with the utmost professional and personalized care for the past 11 years. I would recommend him to anyone. He and his wonderful staff are always increadibly welcoming. Dr Dave is always ready with a pocket full of jokes for you. If you have an emergancy, they are always willing to find a way to work you in asap.
Best Dentist Ever!
Dr. Dave is the best Dentist ever!!!! I have been going to him for 30 years and I can't say enough nice things about him. He puts his patients at ease and spends the time to make sure all your questions and dental needs are taken care of. He is a master at crowns. He gave my son a crown after his front tooth was broken in half and it looks so natural nobody has ever even noticed. He cleans his patients teeth himself rather then a tech so you know it is done right. He is great with children as well as adults. His office is clean and homey and has a beautiful 9th floor view of downtown. His staff is friendly and professional. I get a postcard in the mail to remind me when it is time to get my teeth cleaned so I don't need to keep track of when it is time. Scheduling is a snap. He is such a great dentist I actually look forward to going to the dentist. And when your appointment is over you go home with a beautiful smile and a new toothbrush.
Dr. David Weiss and staff are amazing! Very friendly, courteous, and professional. The process is very smooth and efficient. Waiting room times have always been just a few minutes. Dr. Weiss has rendered me extensive dental care with painless and perfect results. I highly recommend Dr. Weiss and staff for all dental needs...
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I have to admit it I was born with terrible teeth.I have 8 crowns and one root amputation & God know what else. 40 years of a steady diet of candy, cake and ice cream didnt help matters. then I met Dr Dave Weiss. he was the first dentist who didnt guilt trip me about the way I didnt take care of my teeth. he was extremely sthical. I need to have my teeth cleaned 3-4 times a year. rather than have me see him for those cleanings, he wanted me to alternate with cleanings by a periodontist. Finally, Dr Dave is really funny. have you ever met a funny, skilled dentist? Run dont walk to see Dr Dave.
Absolutely Outstanding!!!
Dr. David Weiss is a rare and truly outstanding dentist, combining exceptional clinical skills with a genuine sense of caring for his patients. Due to some negative experiences at the dentist's office as a child, for many years I had an aversion to going to the dentist--until the positive experiences, pain-free procedures, and overall excellence of care at Dave's office eliminated that aversion. Dave's easygoing style and great sense of humor quickly puts patients at their ease. He takes plenty of time to discuss his findings with patients, carefully reviews the pros and cons of each treatment option, then works with the patient to choose the treatment that best fits with that person's individual circumstances and needs. And besides (in my opinion) the best dentist in town, you'll also find a highly professional, warm, and welcoming staff who make you feel like one of the family! Highly recommended!!!
Best Dentist Ever!
Doctor David is a great dentist. Is smart, thorough, and has excellent chair side manner. He doesn't ever recommend procedures you don't need, and makes himself readily available in case of emergency, and – to tell the truth, maybe it's best character trait is his sense of humor. What other dentist's office can you leave thinking you had a good time?
Dave is a brilliant, personable and innovative dentist who has on a number of occasions saved me from disaster, given I've had serious dental problems over the years. He has always been there for me, day or night, when I've had urgent dental issues and there have been quite a few. He has great skill and genuinely cares for his patients. And that is an understatement.
Can't wipe the smile off my face!
Visiting Dr. Dave not at all like a trip to the dentist office. It's more like starring in a one act play. You're the star and there's music, comedy, interesting dialogue (though sometimes its one way) and a cast of beautiful talented women. Most important, the co-star, Dr. Dave, has technical competence second to none. I would trust no other. Thanks.
A dentist who cares
Dr. Dave has been our family dentist since my children were small, and he is terrific. He cleans patients' teeth himself (so he can really see what is going on), doesn't push unnecessary "cosmetic" procedures, and if you have an emergency, he is there for you. He is also affordable and takes most dental plans. On a personal note, when my daughter was getting ready for braces and had to have teeth pulled, he delivered a quart of ice cream for her on his way home from work. Can you say that about your dentist?
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STOCKTON - A Lodi man will stand trial for murder in the May shooting death of his roommate, a San Joaquin County Superior Court judge ruled Thursday.
STOCKTON - A Lodi man will stand trial for murder in the May shooting death of his roommate, a San Joaquin County Superior Court judge ruled Thursday.
The defense for Richard Welker, 33, maintains the shooting of his roommate Arlie Druen was the result of an accidental discharge of a Colt .380-caliber handgun. Welker and Druen were at their home and with other friends "checking out" some of Welker's guns when the incident occurred.
During two days of testimony in a preliminary hearing, an expert gun analyst with the Department of Justice reported his inspection of the gun and said it does have a rare defect. When its slide is pulled back and released, the gun will fire all of the rounds it has in its clip in rapid succession, like an automatic pistol.
Defense attorney Victoria Bossi argued that Welker and Druen were close friends with no ill will between them and the shooting was a tragic accident, a misfire of the volatile gun.
Deputy District Attorney Jeff Conley argued that Welker knew how the gun worked and tried to cover up the shooting before another witness called 911 to help Druen. Conley also presented a theory in court on Wednesday that an affair between Druen and Welker's ex-girfriend is a potential motive.
Judge Elizabeth Humphreys ruled Thursday that the prosecution presented probable cause for a murder charge. She made three key points in her ruling:
� Welker has a felony record, and by law he is not allowed to own or be in possession of a gun.
� Testimony indicated Welker knew the gun was unstable, yet he did not handle the gun with care and allowed it to be handled, with ammunition loaded, in a room full of people.
� Welker made efforts to cover up the shooting immediately after the fact.
Conley said the judge's ruling means his job is to prove the murder charge, and a jury will decide if it was first- or second-degree murder, voluntary or involuntary manslaughter, or if he is not guilty on any of those counts.
The suspect's father, Rick Welker, responded to the case overall as "a sad situation for everybody involved."
Richard Welker will appear in court for arraignment Oct. 31. He faces one murder charge and three counts of weapons possession.
Contact reporter Keith Reid at (209) 546-8257 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/lodiblog.


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Thursday, December 20, 2007
The Great Debaters
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I'm the former editor of High Times magazine. I currently write for Relix, Skunk, Heeb and The L Magazine. I publish the website Celebstoner.com. I'm the author of three books: Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language & Life (2008), co-written with Shirley Halperin; Video Invaders (1982), a history of the video game industry; and Watch Out for the Little Guys (1987), about professional basketball's smallest players. For more info on Pot Culture, go to Potculturebook.com. I produced the benefit albums Hempilation: Freedom Is NORML (1995) and Hempilation 2: Free the Weed (1998). I'm commissioner of the New York Media Softball League. I was born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx, NY. I reside in Brooklyn, NY.


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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Is he gonna touch me?
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Sunday, July 26, 2009
What are those things called friends?
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Working at the car wash
Are you singing yet?
I am, and tapping my foot and bobbing my head. Quite an upbeat song I would say.
But I digress. After getting on the road on Tuesday morning leaving Fort Worth, TX headed for Nashville, TN the skies got really really dark and stayed dark. I thought oh boy, we are going to have to drive through the rain, this is going to be interesting. I got about 18 miles down the road and the beautiful rain started. I say beautiful because Texas is as dry as the desert right now. And to them, TEXANS, this was a beautiful thing, but to me it was all negative. I don't panic and figure, oh its just a storm and it will pass. 100 miles later I am starting to think a little more, hmmm this sure is A LOT of rain. Rain is not bad to drive in usually, that is if you are not attempting to drive 700 miles all in one day. By this time, I have threatened the kids in the back to not talk to me or argue with each other. I needed total silence to concentrate on this interesting part of the drive. Then I start to pass a 18-wheeler and I am freaking out literally because the windshield wipers are on full blast and I still can not see the hood even. I stick by the yellow line because I could make that out since the road and the sky were exactly the same color by this point and the truck is spraying more damn water than a stinking car wash. I hear a little voice in the back seat say, "Mom, this is the coolest car wash ever." I giggled and held on to the wheel for dear life praying hard that God will protect us and guide us safely through this rain.
Truck after truck, more water, more car washes and mommy is still wondering what happened to the 3 weeks of sun. I look down at the mileage and we are at 350 miles of pure rain. Not light rain, not mist, I'm talking torrential down pour like a full blown Hurricane. This is a nightmare. Hubby calls to check in a little later and I tell him to check the weather radar. He so graciously checks it and tells me it will not clear all the way through Arkansas and the first city that is clear is Memphis. Are you freaking kidding me? I am thinking we are going to stop and that is when he tells me the storm is chasing us. OMG, seriously I can not continue or my arms are going to fall off and my eyes will start bleeding. Finally at 526 miles the rain stops. The clouds clear and God and all his Glory allowed the sun to shine. I have never been more excited to see a dry road in all my life. OH man, my biceps will never forget that 525 miles. I am pretty sure my arms are bigger today after that mind blowing drive. The kids were a little scared but totally thought it was cool to get to go through that many car washes in one day. WOW, aren't they lucky.
Praise the Lord we made it to the hotel and Nashville was clear for the rest of the evening.
So Tuesday was my first day of working at the car wash and I never want to do back.
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Tiny Bubbles
Friday, July 17, 2009
a couple of honest taggers
I was tagged by Toby and Charisse to do this Honest Scrap here in my blog. So here goes nothing. Thanks Ladies.....
The Rules:
(1) Thank the person who nominated you for this award {that would be me}
(2) Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
(3) Link to the person who nominated you for this award.
(4) Name 10 things about yourself that people might find interesting.
(5) Nominate 10 Honest Scrap Bloggers.
(6) Post links to the 10 blogs you nominate.
(7) Leave a comment on each of the blogs, letting them know they have been nominated.******************************************************************
1. I am the worst person when it comes to stubbing my toes. Seriously, if I do not have socks or shoes on of some kind I WILL stub my toes within an hour or so. Yes, Hubby just laughs now cause it is that common.
2. When it comes to potty training our children I am terrible, Praise the Lord for a patient and steadfast husband. He gets all the credit for potty trained children, I take none. Although I am really working with Ziggy, #4.
3. I am very stubborn in my ways and to my opinion on things and I RUN our house. I like things to be done the minute I ask them to be done not whenever or 5 minutes from now. I get very agitated if there is any lollygagging going on. I do not like people sitting around while I am cleaning either. You will have a job and then when that one is done there will be another.
4. I do not keep my car very clean. I like to have lots of emergency, just in case items lying around and that is usually in the floorboard. You know, clothes for everyone, directions, maps, extra pens(10), a whole package of maxi pads, empty water bottles, napkins, trash bags and the list goes on. Imagine what you could make or create with lots of random things, think Apollo 13 or Armageddon.
5. I get overwhelmed very easily and refuse to share the load because I want things done my way and can not be happy when someone helps me and it is done halfa$$. And trying to explain it my way is just wasting time. I just have to redo it.
6. I absolutely despise cleaning bathrooms. I have to clean them weekly and one bathroom(the kids) gets done 3 times a week because well my little boys have tendency to yuck it up. Husband probably has not cleaned a bathroom in a good year or more.
7. I am very much a "what's mine is mine" kind of girl. I protect my children, my family, my friends and my property like a dog. You start attacking or threaten and my teeth and claws come out. You will not walk away unscathed. It is something I take very seriously. I can not sit idly by and watch someone I love get hurt.
8. I do not lie to my children. I am honest even when the HARD questions come up. Hiding things from them is not done unless it is a special surprise for them like Christmas and birthday presents. I want to be the one they learn the birds and the bees from, I want to be the one that they come to when they are heart broken, I want them to ask my opinion on a decision or I want to help them make a choice, not a random neighbor or teacher or coach. I want them to trust me and know that Zeus and I are there for them through and through.
9. I love to follow other peoples lives finding new ways to do things with my family and learning how people do things. It is fun to try new things and look at life through different people's eyes. I learn a lot of "what not to do or what not to wear" too.
10. I believe whole-heartedly that the most important thing in life is your family. Nothing, I mean nothing will get you through life without your family. We all need help from the beginning and we will all need help in the end. Cherish your family, even extended relatives. Keep them close and stay in touch and always support them.
My ten winners, Tag you're it!!
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Sweet reminders
Today I got to have a wonderful visit with my BIG little brother and his pregnant wife. It was awesome. Having moved away from home while J was still in high school I missed much of his adult years and all of his dating days. Talking with them about baby names and baby gear and telling stories from my pros and cons of Pregnancy brought back a hilarious story I posted about 8 months ago. MOst embarrassing moment. I thought I would give you the opportunity to read it again or if you are fairly new to my blog and need a good laugh just hop on over. Click here
I have several people(more than 5) in my life around my either pregnant or thinking about getting pregnant. I seriously am jealous but not for the outcome. Zeus and I both agreed upon 4 and are so lucky to have gone 4 for 4. Zeus was a sweet hubby and had surgery to keep us from having any more. I am greatful to him and proud of him for making this huge family decision. I truly loved being pregnant. I had so much energy. I had a reason to nap. I loved the looks and I really loved the random belly rubs. It was fun to sit in a room with other women and hear all the birth stories, they really are like war stories military men tell, just a female version. That was nifty. Pregnancy is so truly awesome. It is one of those times when you know God is Great. To create that little being inside your belly whew, WOW.
I do not want any more children but I have a desire to get pregnant one more time as a surrogate for someone less fortunate and after the birth continue to pump my breast milk and use it for milk banks and NICU babies. Sound weird. Well you see those are a few things that I do very well, carry babies and create milk. We all have talents so why not use it. I would love to be able to help a preemie baby and love to help that couple who is desperate to have their own child. I know I am totally gonna get flack from this so please be kind when you do voice your opinion. But it really is how I truly feel deep in my soul. I enjoy helping people. I love babies. I love being pregnant and I really did enjoy nursing. Why not kill several birds with one stone? It would be a great calling to duty for many persons. I do not want anymore biological children either so egg donation is OUT. I think it will be a little while before I attempt to do this and I am really going to have to find the right people to do this for before I commit but I am pretty sure this is what I want to do. Now, Zeus probably does not know all this and I am sure his mouth is wide open while reading this, Sorry Honey, but after serious thought I am going to start my research as soon as I arrive back in D.C. I believe children are a blessing and I also believe that having a biological connection is amazing. Trust me, I am an adopted child and completely understand that biological connection between a parent and child. It is weird but it is so amazing and if I can help 2 people feel that way than I will have accomplished something great. What are your thoughts, be honest just be kind? I would love to hear from all of you on what you think about reproduction and birth control.
Come back soon to hear more from the Haskins House.
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Labels: children, motherhood, pregnancy, surrogacy
Monday, July 13, 2009
Motorcycles & Munchkins
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Ahh, the life with Grandparents
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Much ado about a Lawnmower
We are visiting my extended family in Texas for the time being. So down here we have things that are pretty RARE in D.C. Like Full size pick-ups, 5 acres of land or Riding lawnmowers.
Grammy and Grampy needed to mow the lawn so off they went while the kids and I were finishing up some laundry. Well Grammy and Grampy are known for letting the kids get away with stuff not normally allowed. I guess that is what good grandparents do, right.
Check this out, what is lawnmower fun without a few kids and more than one
race car mower.
How about when the lawnmowers are finished working and are used to play. Please do not try this at home, it really is quite dangerous.
The joys of visiting grandparents that these babies will add to their little memory banks. I love seeing all the smiles and laughs, thats what makes all of it worth the worrying.
Looko forward to seeing you again until then have a fantastic day
Sunday, July 5, 2009
America, our home
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
Friends Forever
Just 3 short years ago this summer a strange man and woman and their kids and Mother walk up to my front door asking questions about the "trash" that was left on my curb. We live in a neighborhood that just puts stuff on the curb, even usable stuff. This night we did the same after cleaning out the garage. The strange man and woman wanted to take something and asked us first, how nice. It was a wonderful way to meet the new neighbors too. From that point on we became instant friends. Well these friends moved away last summer because the Gov't said it was time to move, gotta love this military life. We stayed in close contact making calls and emailing several times a week. This friend knows me well and is very honest with me and is very dear to my heart. This friend has been right there beside me through it ALL. So after deciding to go to Texas I thought it would be great to stop and see my friend who also just happens to have a daughter that was my daughters best friend. Lovely how that works out. They live in Florida for the moment and I figured it would be wonderful to see them. I miss our chats and her amazing Mexican food, she is an awesome cook. So off we went, a little out of our way but so worth the drive. How I wish I would have scheduled more time with them!!
Between the 2 of us we have 7 kids with another on the way. We had loads of fun.
I love how best friends can not see each other for 11 months and pick up right where they left off. Our sweet daughters having a blast together.
My beautiful Friend and her absolutely adorable baby girl, hubby would not mind having another one if we could get a little girl this precious.
My babies and I living it up at the beach
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So, I've got PME here. I have the instructions to make this wonderful OM box. But I can't find an actual box that's appropriate for it - as in, I can't find a box with long enough sides. I've been looking for what seems like forever and I just can't find anything.
I'd like to construct my own, and the type of candy box that was suggested in the book hardly seems large enough, according to what I've found (although candy research made me a very happy and well-fed magic girl). Does anyone have any resources for proper boxes and where to find them? I've shopped boxes for so long they don't look like actual objects anymore.


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Options include giving up, working with city and going to court. History shows walking away is unlikely.
The City Commission's rejection of Walmart's plans to develop a supercenter on Ringling Boulevard may end up being but a small episode in a prolonged effort that could involve litigation by the Arkansas-based merchant.
"They have three options now," said city attorney Robert Fournier. "Walk away, try a different approach to see if they could work with the city on rezoning, or litigate."
For Walmart, the aging Ringling Shopping Center offers a choice 10-acre tract and the ability to better blanket Southwest Florida. The supercenters closest to the Ringling site are on Lockwood Ridge Road in southern Manatee County and on Cattlemen Road.
While Walmart supercenters — totaling 200,000 square feet in many cases — stretch from Parrish to Osprey, the company's coverage in the city of Sarasota has been lacking.
"This is exactly what they do," said Dale Scott, a vice president of Deerfield Beach-based Sikon Construction, which has built some 20 Walmart stores.
"They draw these radiuses around their stores," Scott said. "They see where there are gaps and they ask, 'What are the demographics of that gap?'"
Analysts said that because the Ringling site may be strategically important to Walmart, the company might be more likely to take the issue to court, the next step in any appeal under Sarasota zoning rules.
"They don't hesitate to litigate," said Jeff Green, a retail analyst based in Phoenix.
Green believes a dearth of other sites may prompt the retailer to battle opponents further, even though Walmart's contract to acquire the Ringling property remains contingent upon obtaining necessary approvals.
Local commercial real estate analysts concur.
"That is one of the few 10-acre sites in the city," John Harshman, president of Harshman & Co. Inc., a commercial real estate brokerage firm.
For his part, Harshman believes Walmart would mesh with the city's Downtown Master Plan 2020 and provide shopping for tens of thousands.
Green adds that the comparatively small size of the proposed supercenter — 98,000 square feet — speaks volumes.
"It really means to me that there are probably not a lot of other places they can go," Green said. "It's right where they want to go."
"They tailored the prototype to that site," he said. "If they had their druthers they would not have gone that small. So I think they were already making concessions to make the site work."
Pitched battles
Though Walmart became accustomed to pitched battles over store sites some 20 years ago, when residents of small towns often protested the retailer's impact on everything from traffic to the environment to small business, such skirmishes are no longer the norm.
Whether a result of the Great Recession or more general acceptance, the scenario has changed: Typically, Walmart no longer must go to court to open its stores.
But the chain's track record in Southwest Florida is mixed when it comes to fighting. In the case of Lockwood Ridge, Cattlemen Road, Venice and another store in Manatee County, it battled opponents — and won.
"Walmart has staying power," said Scott, the Deerfield Beach developer. "They are used to going around the country, getting opposition they have to overcome, and they're experts at it. If they really want a site, they will dig in, fight it out and get that site. They are as good as any company I have seen at that."
There are exceptions here: In September 2007, Walmart quietly abandoned plans for a store on U.S. 301 and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard after residents — and then-Commissioner Fredd Atkins — opposed the idea.
Walmart had contracted to acquire about a half-dozen businesses and a city brownfield site to build its store, but disagreements arose over staff wages and city remediation dollars.
The retailer's plans in 2004 and 2006 met a similar fate at Fruitville Road near Interstate 75, where Walmart bought land to build a store near its existing Sam's Club members' outlet.
That deal met with opposition from residents and a neighboring shopping center over traffic access and other issues.
Despite offers of traffic and other improvements, Walmart ultimately chose to walked away and later sold the 30-acre site, which today remains pasture.
Residents get ready
Residents who live around the Ringling center say they are bracing for Walmart's next move.
"They are going to come back with something," said Candice Spaulding, president of the Alta Vista Neighborhood Association, the community that surrounds the Ringling site, which turned nearly empty in mid-2011 when Publix shuttered its store there.
"Either sue the city or come back with a new plan."
Spaulding is not waiting.
"Now we are trying to get better organized so that we can have what is pleasing to everybody," she said. "Whatever goes in there is going to be there for 50 or 60 years, and we want to be able to live with it."
Kelly Kirschner, an Alta Vista association member and former Sarasota mayor swept into office opposing a planned condominium complex near the same shopping Center, agrees.
"Probably right now, the only way Walmart gets their supercenter is if they try to shove this down our throats and go through the courts to do it," Kirschner said. "Walmart came in saying we have all these entitlements and can do whatever we want. But they are going to have to dramatically rethink the size, scale and design of the store."
But some analysts expect Walmart will fashion a new hybrid design that might mollify residents and assuage city officials alike.
For now, both sides will simmer in anticipation of a draft resolution from Fournier, the city attorney, that will officially repeal approvals that Walmart had obtained. He will likely present his resolution to the commission on March 18.
"I would anticipate some discussion, confined to those reasons that they found persuasive," Fournier said.


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U.S. can't handle influx
Assuming that our citizens were compassionate enough to allow all the children from Central America who have come here illegally to remain, what then?
We constantly hear from the media about U.S. children of all races in need of foster homes or adoption which apparently can never be met. How would the U.S. cope with children who don't even speak English; how can homes be possibly found for so many?
As for those who are old enough to be considered adults, I find it hard to believe that our criminal justice system will be able to determine whether they are members of gangs, fronts for drug and gun pushers or "coyotes." Why import more crime?
Congress should stop dithering and change the law so that all these children can be sent back immediately to their country of origin. If necessary, send some financial support to the countries involved but make it clear it will not continue.
Helen B. Streeter
Show some compassion
I recently was in New York City and had the opportunity to visit the Tenement Museum. The museum focuses on the hardships of many of the immigrants who came to America, Irish, Jewish, etc., during the 1800s.
Being of Irish decent I was interested in the plight of my ancestors. They left Ireland because they were being persecuted and it was not an easy life for them in America; indeed, Irish were considered the lowest of the low. Help wanted signs included the caption "Irish Need Not Apply."
This brings me to the point of this letter. Monday's Herald Tribune included three letters that tore at my heart.
First, all politicians are fair game for criticism, but it has to be fair criticism. Conspiracy theories are unacceptable as fair criticism; they are just hogwash being spewed by a bunch of so called news anchors to attract and audience. Apparently, the letter writers fell for that scam.
Second and more important, it grieves me that these three writers have absolutely not one iota of compassion for these children, and shame on them. The 2008 law signed by George W. Bush to help end human trafficking is the root of these children immigrating to the United States.
Finally, these are kids, for God's sake, and those of us who choose to embrace a civilized society have an obligation to care for them in the absence of their parents.
Bart Coyle
Lakewood Ranch
Where does it all stop?
The huge influx across our southern border of tens of thousands of children illegally entering the U.S. from Central America is a major topic.
How do we choose the "right" thing, the "ethical" thing, to do?
One option is to let them stay. They're from poor countries and we're a rich country. Their countries are, for the most part, crime-infested, with little safety or security. Our country is relatively safe, with all forms of government which protect and serve our citizens.
Of course the families of these kids want them to be here. Who wouldn't?
And there's the rub. If we choose to let them stay, we will be responsible to house, feed, clothe, educate and provide health care for them. Do our tax-paying, law-abiding American citizens want to take on that burden?
If so, consider: What do we do when the word gets out and boatloads of children from China, Somalia, Nigeria or wherever start to beach themselves in New York Harbor or San Francisco? Now it's 52,000 kids, but why not 520,000?
The second option is to change our law that allows court hearings and lawyers to be involved, delaying or preventing deportation.
Then we send all 52,000 back south, while telling the world there are no free trips to the United States and all illegal entrants will be sent packing immediately.
As a pretty liberal individual, I consider myself to be as ethical and moral as anybody, but let's be honest: This has to stop!
Dan Awalt
Help their homelands
Illegal immigrants: Some say they are taking away jobs and depleting social services, or that they bring crime and maybe a few could be terrorists.
Others say they fill jobs no one else wants and they should be treated as citizens with services, especially the kids.
All will march for or against illegal immigrants, depending on their view.
And yet what are the conditions in these countries, especially south of the border, that they are trying to escape? Could we do something to help change these conditions and show what a great country we are?
We created the big drug appetite that fuels the cartels and the crime in those countries. We created the need for cheap labor with few rights.
Some see them as the enemy; some see them as people we can feel good about helping.
It is always all about "us."
Cornelius Hassell
War and children
This is in response to the report on CNN a few days ago about a little boy in Gaza being decapitated in front of his playmates by a shrapnel from an Israeli missile:
War spreads a horrible, foul smell which weaves above and through blooming meadows, swaying trees, small and large abodes.
Its long hairy arms do not have hands, but long and dirty claws which can scrape along ... enjoying with a curdling laugh to inflict bloody, destructive damage wherever the claws touch.
War can kill half or totally, listening with joy to the victims' cries for mercy.
War loves most of all the sounds of screams of helpless, innocent children.
Ilselore Alvarez
Wednesday's letters
U.S. can't handle influx


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For some reason, my inboxes have reset themselves seemingly, so Barca is downloading EVERYTHING off my mail server.
I tend to keep mail on the server so I can access it remotely, as often I work away from the office. Seem to recall it doing this before, but can't remember how I sorted it?
I generally have two or three mailboxes on my domain, and then move incoming mail (once read/actioned) into subfolders. So, my inbox is now filling up - several thousand! - with copies of old mail.
Any ideas please?
With thanks


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S9 E16 This Is Why We Fight
The race is on to save Seattle Grace! The place is hemorrhaging workers. There are too many surgeries and not enough staff. Even Bailey is going on job interviews until Owen convinces her to hang in there. After all, she's the heart of the hospital. Stan the financial man sets up a meeting with a billionaire named Julian Crest. Cristina, Meredith, Derek, Callie and Arizona make a case to his underlings as to why Crest should invest. Their pitch is impressive enough to warrant a 15-minute meeting with the big guy. Woo hoo!
Bailey takes over one of Meredith's patients who will likely die. Her heart breaks when the sick woman's daughter cries that her mommy won't wake up. Heather mentions an article that could save the patient. She hears about it from Meredith, who has been keeping tabs on things through her mousey mole. In other news, Owen is thrilled when Alana gives him the news that Pegasus Horizons is going to buy the hospital. What she doesn't mention is the fact that the place is then going to be liquidated.
Eavesdropping Heather relays the Pegasus Horizons scoop to Meredith. She also blabs to Bailey and her intern pals. Catherine Avery wants her son to come back to Boston before Pegasus takes over the hospital. Jackson is reluctantly considering this option. This bums out Stephanie, who has fallen hard for him. Jackson changes his tune somewhat when he learns from Richard that the docs who quit are planning something big. But will they be able to come through in time?
Alex plans on cutting Phil out of the body of his young patient, Bobby. Phil, by the way, is the name that's been given to the boy's tumor. Alex promises to yank out Phil and put him through a meat grinder. Bobby thinks this sounds totally cool. Jo realizes that she'll truly miss working at Seattle Grace if it goes under. She can get a job anywhere, but she'll never find a teacher like the one she has now. Alex tries to comfort his teary intern, but he still isn't quite sure how to act around Jo.
Owen mentions the Pegasus Horizons deal during a surgery. Shane thinks he's lying about the fact that the hospital won't be sold for parts and layoffs are on the way. April realizes Owen didn't know about the plan. He also doesn't know about the other attempt to save the hospital. Cristina finally clues him in. Meredith also gives Richard the scoop. She rushes him off to meet with Crest to prove that they have an administrative mind as part of their team. Richard and Derek make one last pitch during the billionaire's helicopter ride to the airport.
Owen bursts into a board meeting to convince them to hold off on the Pegasus deal for a day. It's a risk. If the Pegasus deal goes away again, it won't come back. The board agrees to wait, but the news from Derek and Richard is devastating. The billionaire isn't feeling good about investing in the hospital. He's not going to save them. It's a punch in the gut to everyone. The only bright news of the moment is that the article Meredith mentioned helps Bailey save her patient. The little girl's mom finally wakes up.
Cristina and Owen give Alex the details of all that's happening over some 40-year-old scotch. Derek and Meredith write letters of recommendations for their interns. Catherine wonders how much money was needed to buy the hospital. She assembles all interested parties to make a grand announcement. The Harper Avery Foundation is investing in Seattle Grace. Everyone is stunned and thrilled. Then they're just stunned, as Catherine announces that her son will be the board's representative. In other words, Jackson is now in charge.


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HAYWARD — At least one person was injured Friday in a single-vehicle rollover crash involving an SUV on Interstate 880, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Officers were called just before noon to I-880 just south of A Street for a report of a white 1997 Nissan Pathfinder on its roof in the HOV lane, said Officer James Evans.
At least one person was taken to a local hospital to be treated for unknown injuries, according to the CHP.
The crash shut down two lanes of traffic for about 10 minutes. Officers reopened all lanes at 12:15 p.m.
Contact Natalie Neysa Alund at 510-293-2469. Follow her at Twitter.com/nataliealund.


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WSJ's John Fund Spreads Falsehoods About Indiana Law Defunding Planned Parenthood
On the June 6 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom, Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund spread falsehoods to defend a recent Indiana law that bans state Medicaid money from going to non-abortion services provided by Planned Parenthood. Fund falsely claimed that Indiana "has the right to decide" whether to contract with Planned Parenthood for Medicaid services and that Planned Parenthood "counselors advis[ed] underage teenage girls who were supposedly sex workers on how to have an abortion."
Fund Defends Indiana Law Banning State Funding For Planned Parenthood
Fund: "Indiana Has The Right" To Decide "Who The State ... Wants To Contract With" For Medicaid. During a May 6 interview on Fox News' America's Newsroom, Fund defended an Indiana statute forbidding state money -- including money appropriated by the state as part of the Medicaid program -- to clinics that perform abortions, such as Planned Parenthood. From the interview:
BILL HEMMER (co-host): So you say this should not even be an issue, why not?
FUND: Well, look, this is Medicaid. It's a state-run program with federal dollars thrown into it. As far as I'm concerned, the state of Indiana has the right to decide. You know, Planned Parenthood has had some scandals recently. They had ACORN-style sting videos that were released last year, where in several Planned Parenthood offices in New Jersey and other places you had Planned Parenthood counselors advising underage teenage girls who were supposedly sex workers on how to have an abortion. So Planned Parenthood is under some scrutiny here, so Indiana has decided we don't want anything to do with this. My view is the federal government wants to fund Planned Parenthood, it can do so through a separate appropriation. When it partnered with the state of Indiana it left the running of the Medicaid program with the state of Indiana and that includes who the state of Indian wants to contract with, I think. [Fox News, America's Newsroom, 6/6/11]
Indiana Does Not Have "The Right To Decide" Whether To Give Medicaid Funds To Planned Parenthood
Federal Medicaid Law Allows Beneficiaries To Obtain Care At "Any Institution ... Qualified To Perform The Service Or Services Required." Contrary to Fund's assertion that Indiana "has the right to decide" whether to contract with Planned Parenthood for Medicaid services, the federal law that created Medicaid specifies that states cannot restrict beneficiaries choice of health care providers:
A State plan for medical assistance must --
(23) provide that
(A) any individual eligible for medical assistance (including drugs) may obtain such assistance from any institution, agency, community pharmacy, or person, qualified to perform the service or services required (including an organization which provides such services, or arranges for their availability, on a prepayment basis), who undertakes to provide him such services, and
(B) an enrollment of an individual eligible for medical assistance in a primary care case-management system (described in section 1396n (b)(1) of this title), a medicaid managed care organization, or a similar entity shall not restrict the choice of the qualified person from whom the individual may receive services under section 1396d (a)(4)(C) of this title, except as provided in subsection (g) of this section, in section 1396n of this title, and in section 1396u-2 (a) of this title, except that this paragraph shall not apply in the case of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam, and except that nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as requiring a State to provide medical assistance for such services furnished by a person or entity convicted of a felony under Federal or State law for an offense which the State agency determines is inconsistent with the best interests of beneficiaries under the State plan. [42 U.S.C. § 1396a, accessed 6/7/11, via Law.Cornell.edu]
CMS Administrator Berwick: Indiana Law Defunding Planned Parenthood "Does Not Comply With The Requirements" Of Medicaid Law. In a June 1 letter to Patricia Casanova, the director of the Office of Medicaid Policy and Planning in Indiana, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Donald Berwick noted that the Indiana law's attempt to bar residents from receiving care from Planned Parenthood through Medicaid violated federal law. Berwick explained that "Medicaid programs may not exclude qualified health care providers from providing services that are funded under the program because of a provider's scope of practice." [Letter from CMS administrator Donald Berwick, 6/1/11, via The Huffington Post]
Federal Government Provides More Than 70 Percent Of Funding For Indiana's Medicaid Program
Kaiser Family Foundation: Federal Government Provided 73.5 Percent Of Indiana's Medicaid Funding In Fiscal Year 2009. Fund characterized the Medicaid program as "a state-run program with federal dollars thrown into it." In fact, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's StateHealthFacts.org website, in fiscal year 2009, the federal share of Indiana's Medicaid spending was 73.5 percent, with the federal government spending more than $4.3 billion on Indiana's Medicaid program while the state of Indiana spent more than $1.5 billion. [Kaiser Family Foundation, accessed 6/7/11]
Fund Cites Discredited Live Action Planned Parenthood Sex Worker Sting Videos
Fund Suggest Planned Parenthood Counselors Are "Advising" Supposed "Underage, Teenage" "Sex Workers" On Having Abortions. Fund claimed that Planned Parenthood is "under scrutiny" because "ACORN-style sting videos" were released showing "Planned Parenthood counselors advising underage teenage girls who were supposedly sex workers on how to have an abortion." [Fox News, America's Newsroom, 6/6/11]
In Fact, The Videos In Question Have Been Widely Discredited. The videos in question -- which involved a fake pimp and prostitute going to Planned Parenthood clinics to discuss medical care for the supposed underage prostitutes under their control -- have been widely discredited. The vast majority of the videos showed no wrongdoing, and all were selectively edited. Furthermore, Planned Parenthood fired the one employee acting improperly in one of the videos upon reviewing the full version of the footage. [Media Matters, 2/4/11, 2/4/11]
Before Videos Were Even Released, Planned Parenthood Asked Justice Department To Investigate The Incidents. Fund did not note that before any of the videos in question were released, Planned Parenthood Federation of America contacted Attorney General Eric Holder to report a possible multistate sex trafficking scheme based on visits by a person purporting to be a pimp of underage girls to several Planned Parenthood clinics. From a Planned Parenthood Federation of America press release:
Last week, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) alerted federal authorities to a potential multistate sex trafficking ring. Over a five day period, visitors to Planned Parenthood health centers in six states said they were seeking information from Planned Parenthood about health services Planned Parenthood could provide to underage girls who were part of a sex trafficking ring. Subsequent to alerting U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Planned Parenthood learned the identify of one of those involved and believes these visits are likely a hoax by opponents of legal abortion seeking to discredit Planned Parenthood, which delivers preventive health care and abortion services to three million women each year.
Men, sometimes accompanied by a woman, have visited at least 11 Planned Parenthood health centers in six states within a one-week time frame. During their visits, they claimed to be involved in sex trafficking of teens, some of whom are in the United States illegally. These men appeared at health centers without appointments and said that they were seeking health services for themselves, but they quickly turned the conversation to the sex ring they said they were managing.
"When Planned Parenthood learns of an operation that exploits young women, we vigilantly work with law enforcement authorities to uncover and stop this abhorrent activity," said Stuart Schear, PPFA vice president for communications. "Planned Parenthood's top priority is the health and safety of our patients and the health and well-being of women and teens across the country, and we have been in contact with federal and local authorities to identify the persons involved in these visits." [PlannedParenthood.org, 1/24/11, emphasis original]
Planned Parenthood Fired Person In Video Who Acted Unprofessionally. Planned Parenthood has not condoned employees who appeared willing to help the fake pimp in his purported scheme. Rather, Planned Parenthood has done precisely the opposite. As The New York Times reported, Planned Parenthood fired the one employee who actually appeared to give business advice to a fake pimp. [The New York Times, 2/8/11]
Other Than The One Employee Who Was Fired, Planned Parenthood Employees Acted Appropriately. As Media Matters has noted, apart from the one Planned Parenthood employee who was fired, the employees in the videos in question acted responsibly. Indeed, in one of the videos, an employee at a Planned Parenthood in Falls Church, Virginia, tells the fake pimp that clinics are required to report incidents of suspected statutory rape. [Media Matters, 3/3/11]


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Canonical's decision to go with Unity for the default Ubuntu Linux desktop interface was hardly met with universal acclaim. Likewise, GNOME 3 has been the target of criticism by some due to its interface changes. So where is one to go for an operating system with a classic desktop UI that just works out of the box?
Luckily the key strength of free software is, as you would expect, the freedom to innovate and tweak until you come up with something that suits your needs. Of course sometimes this can tend to be a illusory — it can be hard to gather a strong community to support Feline Fanciers Linux (sadly) — but it's not as though upsets are impossible when someone takes on the big guns of the Linux world.
However, there is a strong, vibrant community surrounding the Ubuntu derivatives, and it's a lot less intimidating to alter an existing distribution rather than rolling your own from scratch. The new(ish) kid on the block is Lubuntu: A distro that employs LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) for its desktop environment.
It's designed to be a lightweight alternative to 'vanilla' Ubuntu, with, for those who care, a far more conventional desktop metaphor. The system made its official premiere as part of the Ubuntu family in 11.10 ("Oneiric Ocelot").
I've been wanting to spend some quality time with the distribution; lightweight distros hold a lot of appeal for me, plus I get to spend time at my test machine in a delightfully journalist-free corner of the office.
Lubuntu installation is what you'd expect: The usual straightforward graphical installer that requires very little mental energy to be expended. Instead of wasting a full paragraph banging on about it, here's a video of a dog cleaning a rabbit.
Once the rabbit is thoroughly clean, you're left with a rather unexceptional desktop environment. However, that's what you signed on for, and naturally you can tweak it to your liking (and I advise it, since by default it looks rather horrible; Xubuntu's Xfce-based setup is far more aesthetically pleasing).
By default, you have a range of apps that will suffice for most everyday needs. Naturally, they are often lightweight alternatives to what you find in standard Ubuntu — Abiword and Gnumeric rather than LibreOffice, Google's Chrome browser instead of Firefox, LXTerminal (LXDE's default terminal emulator), mtPaint for graphics editing, the Leafpad text editor, Sylpheed for email, and the PCManFM file manager. After my compulsive post install apt-get dist-upgrade, uname reported the kernel as "Linux 3.0.0-13-generic".
The Lubuntu wiki page cites minimum recommended specs as a "Pentium II or Celeron system with 128 MB of RAM is probably a bottom-line configuration that may yield slow yet usable system with Lubuntu". We tested it on an aging Dell Optiplex GX620 desktop PC, equipped with a 3GHz Pentium 4 CPU, 512MB of RAM and a thick layer of dust.
I didn't encounter any stability problems while using the system, and Web browsing, MP3 playing (through the included Audacious media player, word processing (Abiword's inclusion as the default word processor instead of LibreOffice/OpenOffice is something I'm a fan of) were all conducted without a hitch.
The look and feel of the OS is easy to tweak (though we wish there were different mouse cursor themes included, because the defaults are awful), and all the usual tools you'd expect from an Ubuntu derivative, such as Synaptic for package management, are included and accessible from the menu on the task bar ⁚ provided by LXPanel. Naturally you can use LXPanel to create further launcher/menu/task bars to your heart's content.
Lubuntu was fairly snappy, but quite frankly given the hardware this is no surprise. In fact in some respects I was a little disappointed given that a fully fledged Ubuntu derivative like Ubuntu Linux Satanic Edition can run so breezily on the same machine. And it in no way competes with a super-light distro like CrunchBang.
All in all, I think Lubuntu is a great candidate for "mum and dad" Linux if you want to resurrect some older hardware for simple tasks like internet banking or sending emails. It combines the out-of-the-box ease of Ubuntu with a stripped down interface the makes it great for a desktop system. It's not pretty and it's really, really unexciting (Satanic Edition may have spoiled me a little on that front) but it's workmanlike* and usable. In terms of lightweight, general purpose desktop distros, I would still probably go for CrunchBang personally — it's even lighter and snappier, though it lacks the user friendliness of Lubuntu and is really designed for those who want to tweak their system until everything is Just Right.
Lubuntu gets a lot of things right, especially given it's a relatively new addition to the Ubuntu family. It's just really hard to get excited about it and it's a distro I'd be unlikely to use personally.
* Feel free to suggest a gender neutral version of this. "Workpersonlike" really doesn't work.
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The configure utility provides a flexible way to specify any configuration of CAM. The best way to communicate to another user how you built CAM is to simply supply them with the configure commandline that was used (along with the source code version).
configure has two distinct operating modes which correspond to the two distinct ways of building CAM, i.e., either using the CESM scripts, or using CAM standalone scripts. By default configure runs in the mode used by the standalone scripts. In this mode configure is responsible for setting the filepaths and CPP macros needed to build not only CAM, but all the components of the standalone configuration including the land, sea ice, data ocean, and driver. In the mode used when building CAM from the CESM scripts configure is only responsible for setting the filepaths and CPP macros needed to build a library containing just the CAM component.
When configuring a build of standalone CAM, configure produces the files
Filepath and Makefile. In addition, a configuration cache file
(config_cache.xml by default) is written which contains the values of all the
configuration parameters set by configure. The files produced by
configure are written to the directory where CAM will be built, which
by default is the directory from which configure is executed, but can be
specified to be elsewhere (see
-cam_bld option).
When configuring CAM for a build using the CESM scripts, configure doesn't write a Makefile, but instead writes a file CCSM_cppdefs which is used by the CESM Makefile. Also, the Filepath file only contains paths for the CAM component.
In both modes configure is responsible for setting the correct filepaths and CPP macros to produce the desired configuration of CAM's dynamical core, physics parameterizations and chemistry scheme. The options that are involved in making these choices are described in the Section called CAM configuration below. The subsequent sections describe options used by the CAM standalone scripts.
configure will optionally perform tests to validate that the Fortran
compiler is operational and Fortran 90 compliant, and that the linker can
resolve references to required external libraries (NetCDF and possibly
MPI). These tests will point out problems with the user environment in a
way that is much easier to understand than looking at the output from a
failed build of CAM. We strongly recommend that the first time CAM is
built on any new machine, configure should be invoked to execute these
tests (see the
-test option).
The CESM scripts access CAM's configure via the script $CAM_ROOT/models/atm/cam/bld/cam.cpl7.template. The cam.cpl7.template script acts as the interface between the CESM scripts and CAM's configure and build-namelist utilities.


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Feinstein quits committee under war-profiteer cloud
Report documents military contracts
for firms owned by senator's husband
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has abruptly walked away from her responsibilities with the Senate Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee after a report linked her votes to the financial well-being of her husband's companies, which received billions of dollars worth of military construction contracts she approved.
As reported in Metroactive, an online report from the Silicon Valley, Feinstein's resignation followed six years of subcommittee work during which time her alleged conflict of interest stemmed from her husband Richard C. Blum's ownership of Perini Corp. and URS Corp.
Feinstein, chairman and ranking member of the subcommittee, regularly reviewed and accepted contracts from her husband's companies for not only construction work for military bases, but also addressing "quality of life" issues for the veterans of the United States military services.
"As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the details of military construction, even micromanaging one project at the level of its sewer design," wrote Peter Byrne in the report. "She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects, some of which were contracted to her husband's companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp."
He suggested perhaps Feinstein resigned "because she could not take the heat generated by metro's expose of her ethics… Or was her work on the subcommittee finished because Blum divested ownership of his military construction and advanced weapons manufacturing firms in late 2005?"
The writer also noted another reason could be that since that subcommittee is responsible for veterans' "quality of life" issues, perhaps she was trying to distance herself from the military's failure to provide decent medical care for wounded servicemembers.
"Feinstein abandoned MILCON as her ethical problems were surfacing in the media, and as it was becoming clear that her subcommittee left grievously wounded veterans to rot while her family was profiting from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. It turns out that Blum also holds large investments in companies that were selling medical equipment and supplies and real estate leases – often without the benefit of competitive bidding – to the Department of Veterans Affairs, even as the system of medical care for veterans collapsed on his wife's watch," he wrote.
The Metroactive report, based on research partly funded by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute, noted that as of the end of 2006, federal documents showed three companies in which Blum's financial entities owned a total of $1 billion in stock got $17.8 million for medical equipment and supplies (Boston Scientific Corp.), $12 million for medical supplies and equipment (Kinetic Concepts Inc.), and additional funding through lease contracts (CB Richard Ellis).
"You would think that, considering all the money Feinstein's family has pocketed by waging global warfare while ignoring the plight of wounded American soldiers, she would show a smidgeon of shame and resign from the entire Senate, not just a subcommittee," Byrne wrote. "Conversely, you'd think she might stick around MILCON to try and fix the medical-care disaster she helped to engineer for the vets who were suckered into fighting her and Bush's panoply of unjust wars."
Byrne earlier had documented the connections between the dollars Feinstein voted on and the revenue for Blum's companies.
From 1997 through 2005 Blum, with Feinstein's knowledge, was a majority owner in both URS Corp. and Perini Corp., both of which were regularly among the companies awarded major military contracts proposed by the Department of Defense.
According to those reports, from 2001 to 2005, URS earned $792 million from military construction and environmental cleanup work approved by MILCON, while Perini collected $759 million for the same.
Feinstein's annual Public Financial Disclosure Reports record sizeable family income from investments in the Framingham, Mass.-based Perini and the San Francisco-located URS. But there was no acknowledgment of any conflict of interest, according to Metroactive, a "Northern California meta-site" that specializes in arts and entertainment information from area publications: Metro, Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper; Metro Santa Cruz; and the North Bay Bohemian.
Byrne also reported Michael R. Klein, an adviser to Feinstein and business partner with Blum, said that starting in 1997 he routinely told Feinstein about federal projects coming before her in which Perini had a stake, in order for her to avoid those votes and as such, a conflict of interest.
However, instead of withholding a vote, she did act on those pieces of legislation, Byrne reported. Ultimately, "the Congressional Record shows that as chairperson and ranking member of MILCON, Feinstein was often involved in supervising the legislative details of military construction projects that directly affected Blum's defense-contracting firms," Byrne's report said.
"Sen. Feinstein has had a serious conflict of interest, a serious insensitivity to ethical considerations," Wendell Rawls, of the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, told Metroactive. "The very least she should have done is to recuse herself from having conversations, debates, voting or any other kind of legislative activity that involved either Perini Corp. or URS Corp. or any other business activity where her husband's financial were involved."
One example was that in 2005, MILCON approved a Pentagon plan to fund "overhead coverage force protection" for Iraq to reinforce the roofs of U.S. Army barracks. About three months later, Perini announced an award of a $185 million contract to provide "overhead coverage force protection to the Army in Iraq."
Byrne noted when Blum divested ownership of URS and Perini in 2005, the conflict of interest was resolved. "But Feinstein's ethical dilemma arose from the fact that, for five years, the interests of Perini and URS and CB Richard Ellis were inextricably entwined with her leadership of MILCON … ."
The investigation examined thousands of pages of documents, including transcripts of hearings in Congress, filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and reports and government audits as well as corporate press releases.
The result? "The paper trails showing Sen. Feinstein's conflict of interest is irrefutable," according to Danielle Brian, of the Project on Government Oversight.
"Because of the amount of money involved," said Melanie Sloan, of the Citizens for Responsible Ethics in Washington, "Feinstein's conflict of interest is an order of magnitude greater than [other] conflicts [involving U.S. Rep. John T. Doolittle, former Speaker Dennis Hastert and others]."
In 2005, Roll Call calculated Feinstein's wealth at $40 million, up $10 million from just a year earlier. Reports show her family earned between $500,000 and $5 million from capital gains on URS and Perini stock. From CB Richard Ellis, her husband earned from $1.3 million to $4 million.
Public records show Blum's company paid $4 a share for controlling interest in Perini, and later sold about three million shares for $23.75 each.
The report also showed URS' military construction work in 2000 was only $24 million, but the next year, when Feinstein took over as MILCON chair, military construction earned URS $185 million. Additionally, its military construction architectural and engineering revenue rose from $108,000 in 2000 to $142 million in 2001, a thousand-fold increase.
In late 2005, Blum sold 5.5 million URS shares, worth $220 million, the report said.
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We blipped about this Sunday and it bears repeating: Aaron Rodgers is friends with Boyz II Men. Such good friends in fact, that he entered into a friendly (see?) wager with the balladeers concerning the outcome when the Packers
visit played host to San Francisco. Packers win, Boyz II Men's Nathan Morris would have to wear a Packers jersey for a week. Niners win, Rodgers would be forced to wear a Niners jersey for a week. Apparently Rodgers can't get around the bet by only wearing the jersey in his house, either.
Morris would have had to wear a Packers jersey through this week had Green Bay won, but he's not a professional football player — he doesn't have to go to team meetings and film room and all other game-prep functions wearing the colors of the opposing team.
Welp. We'll surely keep our eyes out for any proof that Rodgers is honoring the bet. Frankly, it's a much more palatable Aaron Rodgers-related bet than that other one floating around out there.
Aaron Rodgers loses bet with Boyz II Men, will have to wear a 49ers jersey [Shutdown Corner]


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ICView 2010/2
A gallery of photographs by Janice Levy
Meet some of our newest alumni.
At Commencement 2010, the number of IC alumni increased by about 1,300. Finding space for that many stories is a stretch, so ICView decided to introduce the class of 2010 by offering profiles of six new grads, one from each school. The deans recommended them based on...
Looking through photographer Janice Levy's lens By Doug McInnis
In 1992, Janice Levy spun a globe of the world. The professor of photography in the Department of Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts in the Roy H. Park School of...
IC biologists make big breakthroughs by studying small animals. ...
Vision and optimism drive indie filmmaker Marlene Rhein '92. By Brenna Fitzgerald


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