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Radio host feared arrest for taking photo of incident
Paul Joseph Watson
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Radio host Laura Ingraham spoke this morning about the "heartbreaking" scene she witnessed at BWI Airport in Baltimore this past weekend during which a double-amputee war veteran was subjected to an invasive pat down by TSA screeners.
Appearing on Fox and Friends, the same show that featured Geraldo Rivera's story on Friday about how he was "manually raped" by a TSA agent, Ingraham revealed how she witnessed a severely disabled Afghanistan war veteran treated like a potential terrorist by the widely loathed federal agency.
"It just seemed to me very sad that they're lifting him up on each side to move him – I guess – to look under his torso to see if there is anything there. They actually took something out of his luggage. And I believe they took it from him – I don't know what it was, it looked like a long, wooden artifact of some sort. And it looked like they were taking it from him. He had a smile on his face – I don't know if he had a traumatic brain injury," said Ingraham.
The radio host added that she thought about taking a photo of the incident, "but I was afraid I was going to be arrested at that point."
Ingraham said the treatment of the veteran underscored the fact that airport security should be tailored to deal with different people in different ways.
"Something seems to be wrong here," Ingraham continued. "These men should get red carpet treatment at TSA. To me, it seems like that shouldn't be something we see."
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As we have documented, far from being forgiven from undergoing the most invasive screening procedures, it seems as though TSA screeners actually seek to target the most weak and vulnerable members of the traveling public for the most intense harassment.
Last month, a family missed their flight because the TSA demanded to subject a 7-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who walks with crutches and leg braces to extra screening after she had already passed through security.
"They make our lives completely difficult," said her father, Dr. Joshua Frank, a Long Island pediatrician. "She's not a threat to national security."
Back in March a video clip also emerged of a 3-year-old boy with a broken leg in a wheelchair being harassed by a TSA worker.
The story also emerged last month of how wheelchair-bound 95-year-old veteran Omer Petti and his 85-year-old partner Madge Woodward were treated like terrorists by TSA agents at San Diego International airport, ostensibly so TSA workers could separate them from $300 dollars in cash which subsequently went missing.
The elderly are also routinely targeted for TSA abuse. Back in December, numerous elderly women came forward to reveal they had been strip-searched by the TSA. In one incident, 85-year-old Lenore Zimmerman was forced to remove her clothes and let TSA agents inspect her colostomy bag.
The TSA initially lied about the incident, claiming it had followed proper procedure but later had to apologize when it turned out the agency had violated their own protocol.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.


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The Wabasso Economic Development Association (EDA) held a joint meeting with the Wabasso City Council Friday evening, Jan. 18, to set a timeline for their assisted living project.
The Wabasso Economic Development Association (EDA) held a joint meeting with the Wabasso City Council Friday evening, Jan. 18, to set a timeline for their assisted living project.
"We (EDA) usually do all the legwork, but its good to get the council members together with the facilitator, engineer and architect to ask questions directly," Jim Salfer said in an interview this past Friday.
Jim is the president of the Wabasso EDA and has had a vested interest in the assisted living project the EDA has been working on for the past year.
Friday night's meeting was of the sort to introduce key players in the project. Salfer stated facilitator John Detloff was on hand as well as the engineer and the architect. "It's a good way to find out what everybody needs.
"The main reason for the meeting, though, was to set a timeline for the construction of the facility," he said.
Both Salfer and city clerk Mary Smith were optimistic about the building process to get under way this summer.
"We hope to begin building by June and finish in 2014," the city clerk said.
"This has been my pet project," Salfer said. "I've been working on it for ten years." Salfer said he's been a member of the EDA for that long, but things only started rolling about a year ago.
"The EDA has been doing studies and visiting other assisted living places in the area," Salfer said. "I also sent out several letters to various companies, trying to generate interest in coming to Wabasso to build one, but the response wasn't there.
"Finally, ElderCare stepped up and said they were interested," Salfer continued. "We would build it, they would manage it, and eventually they would buy it. If they bought it out after three years, that would make the EDA happy."
Mary gave the buy-out time of seven to ten years.
Both the city clerk and the EDA president had copies of the platte print for the building.
It appears to be a nearly-rectangular building, totally accessible, with off-street parking and a Memory Garden in the back. It will house two 5-unit sections, one for memory care and one for assisted living. The building is designed to be easily doubled in size in the future, as need arises.
Salfer said the building would be constructed on the plot of land across the highway from the ball fields on the northeast end of town.
"There's twice as much acreage as we need, allowing for expansion in the future," he said. "In fact, our surveys indicated we could use a bigger facility than we're building, but the EDA wants to start small and gradually build up.
"This project has been a priority for the EDA for over a year, now," Salfer reiterated. "We have a 5-plex and a nursing home, but were missing a link. This assisted living building is the part of senior care we've been missing."
The next EDA meeting will be Tuesday, February 5 beginning at 6 p.m. Salfer stated that community members are invited to attend and voice their opinions.
"It is better for any objections to come out before the construction is done," Salfer said. "And, if anyone is disinclined to attend the meeting, they are welcome to come to my store to speak with me."


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So with the NDA on the Mists of Pandaria expansion lifted, a LOT of information is floating around out there on the net for the hungry masses.
So what's out ther that we should be concerned about?
As mentioned in a previous article, one of the big questions facing a lot of us with the upcoming expansion is the question of whether or not we'll stay with our current classes or will we potentially be switching out to another tanking class, perhaps taking a gander at the pandaren brewmaster that'll be popping out for a completely different look at tanking altogether.
Well, with some of the information out there, that decision won't have to be made completely in the dark.
From the looks of things, the pandaren will be operating off of a dual resource system much like the death knights. The close range pandaren talent specializations will be using energy as well as an alternate resource called Chi which presumably builds up along side it in much the same way that combo points and runes built up.
The Brewmaster's skills will operate off of both energy and chi, which will cause the player to think hard about their choice of abilities and create many decision points during a fight where you may prefer to spend that chi early versus hanging onti it a few moments longer to be sure of having the resources available to pop a potentially life-saving cooldown at the opportune moment.
The Brewmaster actually has much of the look of a combination between a tank situational buffing class with a host of abilities that interact in fun and interesting ways. These abilities include ones like "Summon Black Ox Statue" which is a Lightwell style ability that allies can click on to gain a bubble or "Avert Harm" which functions like the 'raidwall' already in the game which will reduce the amount of damage that nearby allies will take by X%.
There are also interesting baseline skills that play upon this theme with things like "Meditation" which is a channelled spell that reduces all damage you take by 99% and redirects all harmful spell damage cast against your nearby allies to you but including the factor that being hit by melee range would break the channel.
Interestingly, they seem to be trying to apply the indirect playstyle in regards to the tanking aspect of the class as well, including things like Provoke which functions as a taunt but modifying it if you have a black ox statue down by turning it into an aoe taunt if you provoke the statue instead of a specific enemy.
All in all, it's looking a lot like the new tanking class is going to be an attempt to introduce a new type of tanking style altogether. The only real question now is: With four tanking classes already in existence, does this new one have enough of a niche to not feel like a copy of one of the other ones?
Only time will tell.


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First published on Sept. 25, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012.
You're an outsider heading to the Westside of Los Angeles -- not the beach cities, but Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Westwood and the nearby well-heeled neighborhoods south of the Santa Monica Mountains. This means you'll be well-fed, well-rested and perhaps more closely watched by the issuers of your credit cards. Only the sultan of Brunei, it seems, can afford to splurge in these precincts without looking at price tags. But you need not spend liberally to learn a little about wealth, fame, geography and Persian desserts.
For instance, you'll realize that Beverly Hills, like the "Mona Lisa" and certain leading men, is smaller than you might expect (5.7 square miles). You'll recognize Culver City's connections to Oz and the old Soviet space program. You'll be reminded that there's a big Santa Monica Boulevard and a little one (a.k.a. South Santa Monica Boulevard), which perplex the uninitiated by running parallel for more than a mile. In Westwood, you'll see how death has united Marilyn Monroe and Rodney Dangerfield, among others. The details await in these 12 Westside stories.
1. Big screen, small
If Alex Trebek makes you swoon, you'll want to check out Sony Studios (10000 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City; www.sonypicturesstudiostours.com) in Culver City. Its two-hour guided weekday walking tour costs $33 (no children younger than 12) and can include stops at soundstages where "The Wizard of Oz" was filmed in 1938 and where "Jeopardy!" has been shot since 1984. If neither Alex nor Judy Garland makes your world go 'round, think twice about this tour. For a more engrossing (and affordable) experience in the same neighborhood, get thee to the Museum of Jurassic Technology (9341 Venice Blvd., Culver City; www.mjt.org). This odd little spot, open 2-8 p.m. Thursdays and noon-6 p.m. Friday-Sunday, is all about the joy of weird stuff, presented with great museological pomp. Shuffle through the tiny dark rooms, your jaw slackening at the sight of the trailer-park dioramas, Soviet space-dog oil portraits, a tiny sculpted pope in a needle's eye and two dead mice on toast (the consumption of which is described as an old bed-wetting cure). Don't miss the tearoom upstairs. Next door stands the Center for Land Use Interpretation (9331 Venice Blvd., Culver City; www.clui.org), whose exhibits and publications have probed the underwater towns of America, the helipads of downtown L.A. and other notable human interactions with the landscape. It's open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in the afternoons. Then, to dramatize your evening, head to the Kirk Douglas Theatre (9820 Washington Blvd., Culver City; www.centertheatregroup.org), a satellite operation of downtown's Center Theatre Group that's been putting on shows in this 317-seat venue since 2004.
2. Beloved burgers and newfangled photos
Since 1947, the Apple Pan (10801 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles) has been offering Angelenos burgers and desserts. No reservations, no alcohol, no air conditioning. Order the Hickory burger (about $7) and maybe a big slice of apple pie for dessert. Then head two miles northeast to Century City, where you'll park beneath the soaring cold metal and glass of the Creative Artists Agency building. You have not scored a meeting with CAA's deal makers, but they will let you in next door at the Annenberg Space for Photography (2000 Avenue of the Stars, No. 10), a nonprofit exhibition space with a video-friendly layout and sophisticated digital technology. It's free and open Wednesdays-Sundays. (Be sure to get your parking validated, or it will cost a fortune.)
3. Shopping on Rodeo
The Rodeo Drive shopping experience (www.rodeodrive-bh.com) boils down to about three blocks. Start at South Santa Monica Boulevard and make your way southeast, past Brighton and Dayton ways, to Wilshire Boulevard. See the impeccable salesman wiping fingerprints off the Cartier shop window? The strange staircase that architect Rem Koolhaas placed at the front of the Prada shop? The beckoning faux-European side street of the Two Rodeo shops? At the far end of your stroll, you'll find the Beverly Wilshire (9500 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills; www.fourseasons.com/beverlywilshire). This hotel, run by Four Seasons, is where Warren Beatty once lived, where Esther Williams taught 14-year-old Elizabeth Taylor how to swim and where Richard Gere brought Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman." It's not perfect; an ungraceful '70s addition lurks behind the original 1928 building. But it has location, a Wolfgang Puck steakhouse called Cut and Four Seasons service. Rooms for two usually start north of $500.
Now take a breath. If you're a true retail warrior, you're not done shopping yet. Clustered nearby along Wilshire from 9560 to 9700, you'll find Barneys New York (9570 Wilshire Blvd.; www.barneys.com), Neiman Marcus (9700 Wilshire Blvd.; www.neimanmarcus.com), Niketown (9560 Wilshire Blvd.; www.nike.com) and Saks Fifth Avenue (9600 Wilshire Blvd.; www.saksfifthavenue.com).
4. Cuisine on Canon
You can try La Cienega Boulevard, the official Restaurant Row of Beverly Hills, some other night. For now, scope out the high style and smaller scale of the eateries on Canon Drive between Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards. At 225 N. Canon, glass windows reveal the steamy kitchen of Scarpetta, one of the region's most highly rated Italian restaurants. There's Wolfgang Puck's flagship, Spago Beverly Hills, at 176 N. Canon Drive; and Mastro's Steakhouse at 246 N. Canon Drive, with its 48-ounce double-cut porterhouse steaks. But tonight you're trying Thomas Keller's Bouchon Bistro (235 N. Canon Drive, Beverly Hills; www.bouchonbistro.com) and choosing between the fancier upstairs dining room of the little Bar Bouchon downstairs and its steak salad for around $21. Later on, there may be dessert or a nightcap at Nic's (453 N. Canon Drive, Beverly Hills; www.nicsbeverlyhills.com), with its lively bar and walk-in, drink-in vodka freezer (the Vodbox). And after that? If you've recently won a lottery or sold a screenplay, take a few steps across Beverly Canon Gardens (241 N. Canon Drive; www.beverlyhills.org/services/rec/parks/beverly_canon_gardens.asp) to the Montage Beverly Hills Hotel (225 N. Canon Drive, Beverly Hills; www.montagebeverlyhills.com) and see whether there's a vacancy. Montage, opened in late 2008, sports a Spanish Colonial-Revival look, with dashes of Morocco and Italy, and plenty of space in its 201 luxury-laden rooms. Rates usually start at around $595 a night.
5. A stroll in the park and a cubicle seat
Grab a parking spot at the Beverly Hills Civic Center (455 N. Rexford Drive; first two hours free) and walk or jog on the 1.9-mile greenbelt (a.k.a. Beverly Gardens Park) along Santa Monica Boulevard. At Beverly Drive, if not before, you'll realize you have company: That's where the big, gold "Beverly Hills" sign is, and tourists arrive day and night to pose by the letters. If it's Sunday morning, head next to the weekly farmers market at 9300 Civic Center Drive. If it's noon-5 p.m. Wednesdays-Sundays, step into the Paley Center for Media (465 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills; www.paleycenter.org/visit-visitla), because, as crazy as it sounds, some of the best things in life still aren't on YouTube. Here you can watch or listen to any of 150,000 old TV and radio shows. Yes, it has the 1962 black-and-white first episode of "The Beverly Hillbillies," in which the Clampetts strike oil and come to town. It also has the 1955"I Love Lucy" episode in which Lucy and Ethel go rogue on a tour of the stars' homes. The Paley Center also has sets, costumes and props that span television history, including Linda Carter's "Wonder Woman" costume and the Monk's Diner set from "Seinfeld."
6. Nate, Al, Ali and Vanessa
Nate 'n Al (414 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills; www.natenal.com) is a deli that dates to the 1940s. You can count on ample supplies of matzo ball soup and perhaps some schmoozing by talk-show icon Larry King, who's been a breakfast regular for years. When you're full, stroll down the block and boldly step into the Taschen store (354 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills; www.taschen.com). But leave the young ones at home. This elegantly arranged shop, which feels more like a gallery, is full of pricey, arty, lavish and often naughty books. It might be $70 for a copy of "Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs," $15,000 for a "champ's edition" of the Muhammad Ali tribute volume "GOAT" (Greatest of All Time) or $700 for an appreciation of porn star Vanessa del Rio, promiscuously illustrated.
7. Hotel haven
Beverly Hills and environs have plenty of famous hotels, including the luxury-laden Peninsula Beverly Hills (9882 S. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills; www.peninsula.com/BeverlyHills) and L'Ermitage (9291 Burton Way, Beverly Hills; www.lermitagebh.com), the celebrity-heavy Four Seasons Hotel (just outside Beverly Hills at 300 S. Doheny Drive, Los Angeles; www.fourseasons.com/losangeles) and the massive Beverly Hilton (9876 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills; www.beverlyhilton.com). But the elder statesman is the 210-room Beverly Hills Hotel (9641 Sunset Blvd., Beverly Hills; www.beverlyhillshotel.com), which opened in 1912. Just a glimpse of the lobby's golden glow and artful palm fronds hints that fame and fortune are concentrated here, and the rack rates confirm it: about $500 a night and up. So maybe you'll settle for breakfast in its Polo Lounge instead. Or perhaps, like Grace Kelly, Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe before you, you can pay just about anything but prefer a place to hide. In that case, the Beverly Hills Hotel's slightly pricier sibling, Hotel Bel Air (701 Stone Canyon Road, Beverly Hills; www.hotelbelair.com), reopened in late 2011 after a two-year-closure for additions and improvements. In case you've lost track of who owns both of these lodgings, they are part of Dorchester Collection, a subsidiary of the Brunei Investment Agency -- in other words, the sultan of Brunei.
8. SoBev and beyond
First, fuel up in SoBev (Beverly Drive south of Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills) with breakfast or lunch at the affordable, busy Urth Caffe (267 S. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills; www.urthcaffe.com). Now, slowly drive past Heath Avenue and Olympic Boulevard, where you'll spy the backside of Beverly Hills High School (241 Moreno Drive; www.bhhs.bhusd.org) and the campus oil well, wrapped in what looks like an enormous floral-patterned oven mitt. Three blocks east of the oil well, on Olympic, pause at Roxbury Memorial Park (471 S. Roxbury Drive, Beverly Hills; www.beverlyhills.org/services/rec/parks/roxbury.asp), where there are tennis, soccer, baseball and play structures. Now ready yourself for a sobering look at multiculturalism, history and the Holocaust, tailored for children and adults. That's the mission of the Museum of Tolerance (9786 W. Pico Blvd.; adult admission $15.50). After all that, surely you'll be wrung out, so consider the 49-room Mosaic Hotel (125 S. Spalding Drive, Beverly Hills; www.mosaichotel.com), which sometimes has discount rates as low as $199 nightly.
9. The Bruins' Den
Maybe it will help you feel young to see those UCLA (405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles; www.ucla.edu) freshmen kicking a ball around on the lawn between Royce Hall and Powell Library. Or maybe, recalling that these kids were born in the 1990s, you'll feel otherwise. Either way, with its 420 acres and nearly 40,000 students, the UCLA campus in Westwood will stretch your legs and brain. Wander on your own, or join one of the free student-led tours for prospective students and their parents most weekdays and Saturdays (www.admissions.ucla.edu/tours.htm). At Royce Hall, the 2011-12 season's 36 gigs included violinist Itzhak Perlman, author David Sedaris and banjo master Earl Scruggs. In neighboring Westwood Village, you have the Hammer Museum (10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles; www.hammer.ucla.edu), which spotlights cutting-edge contemporary art; and later, there's the Geffen Playhouse (10886 Le Conte Ave., Los Angeles; www.geffenplayhouse.com), which often features big names.
10. The stars at rest and a Persian dessert
Just south of Wilshire Boulevard, hidden behind a clutch of tall buildings, you'll find the Pierce Bros. Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary (1218 Glendon Ave., Los Angeles; www.pbwvmortuary.com), a grassy territory covering about 2 1/2 acres, open 8 a.m.-dusk. Marilyn Monroe rests in a crypt, her name often surrounded by lipstick kisses. (The people at Pierce Bros. wipe them away regularly, but they keep coming back.) near the northern corner of the property. The graves of Jack Lemmon, Karl Malden and Walter Matthau are nearby, along with others who couldn't resist one more punch line. Rodney Dangerfield's headstone: "There goes the neighborhood." You'll also notice a lot of Persian names and writing in the neighborhood; thousands of Persians, many of them Jewish, arrived when Islamic fundamentalists took over Iran in the late 1970s. About five blocks south of the cemetery, step into modest Saffron & Rose Ice Cream (1387 Westwood Blvd., Los Angeles; www.golobolbol.org), a family business that specializes in Persian flavors. The top seller is an explosion of sweetness known as saffron-pistachio.
11. Brentwood's Barn and Ark
The Brentwood Country Mart (225 26th St., Santa Monica; www.brentwoodcountrymart.com) looks like a bad idea. In one of California's elite neighborhoods, a low-rise fake barn? Really? Yet locals love it. The Country Mart, which opened in 1948 as a smaller version of the Farmers Market in the Fairfax area, has more than 25 boutiques and stalls, a handful of casual eateries, one stylish bookshop (Diesel, Suite 33; www.dieselbookstore.com) and two little courtyards. Next, hop on Interstate 405 and head north to the Skirball Cultural Center (2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles; www.skirball.org), whose exhibits and performances aim to connect Jewish culture with American history. If you're younger than 10, the highlight is Noah's Ark, an 8,000-square-foot interactive Old Testament playground. You'll want time-certain reservations ($5 a kid ages 2-12, $10 per adult, $7 per senior (65 and older) for visits on weekends, Thursdays or holidays. Crowds are lighter on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
12. Culture castle
When Southern California devolves into feudalism, the sensible place for the new king will be atop Brentwood in the gleaming, sprawling Getty Center (1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles; www.getty.edu). This museum, backed by billions from late oil man J. Paul Getty, opened in 1997, its campus covering 110 acres. Park underground. (The museum is free, but parking costs $15.) Take the monorail up the hill and head for the West Pavilion, which houses photography below and Impressionists above, including Van Gogh's vibrant "Irises," the museum's biggest star. Before long you'll want to snack at one of the center's two cafes, or maybe a fancy lunch farther upstairs at the Restaurant, which has a mountain view. Then, like one of David Hockney's figures disappearing into a deep blue pool, you dive back into the art.
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Announcing the Poplar Molecular Network The Poplar Molecular Network (PMN) is an effort to encourage collaboration and facilitiate inclusion of the molecular approach in research on poplar (Populus spp.). Poplar has long played a significant role in human culture as an ornamental, a shade tree, and windbreak, as well as a source of fuel, fiber, lumber, plywood and specialty products. Poplar is also an excellent model tree for experimental work: a diversity of species, crossability between species, ease of sexual and asexual propagation, rapid growth and differentiation, and a small genome, among others. One part of the Poplar Molecular Network is it's Internet host, poplar1. Communicating With the Poplar Molecular Network's Internet Host, or, How Do You Get Here From There? How to Reach Poplar1 You can send electronic mail with questions and comments about the PMN newsletter to editor at poplar1.cfr.washington.edu. This is an Internet address--different systems will want to see the address differently. Examples: %>mail editor at poplar1.cfr.washington.edu send mail from a Unix computer $ mail MAIL> send send mail from a VAX/VMS computer To: IN%"editor at poplar1.cfr.washington.edu" Subj: Information Available on Poplar1 Information on a wide variety of topics of interest to the Populus community is becoming available via anonymous ftp from poplar1.cfr.washington.edu. (The ftp program is a way of transferring files across the Internet.) The main file of interest to everyone is 00-README, which describes the directory structure of the anonymous ftp site. 00-README is a plain ASCII text file. Toby Bradshaw is making his laboratory protocols available on the anonymous ftp site. These documents are in the directory /pub/protocols/toby and are plain ASCII text. A copy of this newsletter can be found in the directory /pub/newsletter. Future issues of this newsletter will also be placed in this directory. Other information is welcome. Please place submissions in /pub/tmp and send mail to editor at poplar1.cfr.washington.edu with a description of the submission (including the submission's file name). Submissions without an accompanying letter to the editor will not be considered for inclusion in the anonymous ftp site. Do the following steps to access the anonymous ftp site: - ftp to poplar1.cfr.washington.edu - use anonymous as your username - use your e-mail address as your password get the file 00-README, which has important information about the use of the ftp site


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Brand, 37, was linked to the Ghost star, 50, last month (Jan13), but he is adamant there is no romance between them.
He tells The Sun newspaper, "Demi Moore, as far as anything more physical goes - she's just at yoga. I really like her, she's really lovely. I just see her at yoga. She's an older lady, she's incredibly beautiful but that's that."
The comedian admits he is a big fan of yoga, and even invited his classmates into his house in Los Angeles for a group session.
He adds, "It's full of amazing women. That's a fact. They are all filled with sexual energy. It has been brilliant.
"The yoga centre I had been going to sacked our instructor, so I have moved everyone into my house. I had 30 people doing it in my house.
"I had all the crew on my TV show doing yoga in the studio the other day too. There were 100 people doing it. It's not your normal yoga. It's like proper chanting, full-on stuff - not for the faint-hearted. I like the yoga thing, it's the dawning of a wonderful new era. It's proving to be an interesting new phase for me - yoga, transcendental consciousness, meditation, good-looking people. It's the dawning of a new Sixties."


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At the Frankfurt Motor Show a few weeks ago, Lamborghini introduced the fastest Gallardo ever. Monday, it posted this video of the car on the track.
The Squadra Corse has the same 5.2-liter V10 engine as the Blancpain Super Trofeo race car from which it's derived. And it's street-legal.
So it's no shocker that it looks better in motion than sitting still on a stage.
Watch, drool, and envy the few people who'll get their hands on one:
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Judith-ismsMarch 28th, 2011 by Jane
The weather keeps springing back on us, doesn't it? My husband and I spent a long time working in the garden this weekend, as I'm sure many of you did. The above photo is of my rose tree that is about to explode in crimson blooms.
In an earlier post, I mentioned that I attended a conference a few weeks ago, led by one of my favorite yoga writers, Judith Hanson Lasater. She was so generous in sharing her knowledge about yoga and about life. I'm still digesting and absorbing many of her aphorisms. She beautifully articulated, sometimes in a funny or moving way, that life is yoga and how we practice both is up to us.
I thought I would share a few of my favorites with you:
Awareness in Tadasana (basic standing pose) is a life skill.
You can only be yoga, you can't do yoga.
We have a tyranny of choice in our lives.
Stability is the first rule of yoga.
Relaxation helps everything.
There is no ease in the edges of anything. Happiness and ease live in the middle.
You can't be compassionate when you're exhausted.
Yoga is a support group for people who can't do yoga.
Give yourself 30 seconds of conscious whining everyday.
How do you define "enough?" The answer will define your life.
Yoga is a strategy for remembering your true self.
Breath is always in the present. You can't breathe for last week or to get ahead for tomorrow.
Svasana (relaxation pose at the end of practice) is coming home. The post-svasana state is who you are.
Even if you don't practice yoga, these are interesting to think about. I wrote down many more, and I'll continue to share them with you. Which is your favorite?
For more of Judith's wisdom and humor, follow her on Twitter @JudithYoga.


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PANAMA CITY � A local judge threw out a case against a man caught with 13 pounds of marijuana, ruling Bay County sheriff�s deputies used an illegally placed GPS unit to track his movements, violated his due process rights and then misled attorneys about it and destroyed evidence.
PANAMA CITY � A local judge threw out a case against a man caught with 13 pounds of marijuana, ruling Bay County sheriff�s deputies used an illegally placed GPS unit to track his movements, violated his due process rights and then misled attorneys about it and destroyed evidence.
In the order filed Friday, Judge James Fensom called the investigative tactics used by deputies �outrageous.�
�Law enforcement�s conduct during the � investigation and case is shocking, disturbing, and simply cannot stand,� Fensom wrote in a 10-page order dismissing two felony counts of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and transporting controlled substances into the state.
BayCountySheriff Frank McKeithen said Wednesday he respectfully disagreed with Fensom�s order, which he described as a �malicious� and �unwarranted attack.�
On July 15, 2011, defendant Jeffery Gage and his attorney, Lisa Anderson, were in Fensom�s court arguing a motion to suppress evidence in a separate case against Gage. (Those charges were ultimately dismissed, as well.) Gage�s truck was in the courthouse parking lot, where Sgt. Chad King, who was the investigator in that case, concealed a GPS transmitter on his vehicle.
King was able to monitor Gage�s truck wherever it went via computers and a smartphone.
But, in an interview Wednesday and testimony Fensom found was not credible, King said the GPS data didn�t produce any intelligence relevant to the investigation and was not used to track Gage on Aug. 25, 2011, when Gage ultimately was arrested.
Instead, King said, he was informed by a contact at UPS that a package destined for Gage�s home was at the processing center. A BCSO K-9 went to the processing center and alerted to the presence of drugs in the package. King opened it, found 13 pounds of marijuana and seized it.
Then, posing as a UPS package carrier, King personally brought the package to Gage�s residence and left it on the doorstop while other members of the Special Investigations Division watched from nearby, King said in an interview Wednesday.
Investigator Jamie Young testified in a deposition that he saw King conducting surveillance on Gage, but in a separate deposition King said he was meeting with a Walton County deputy near the Walton County line, which Fensom cited as one of the �numerous inconsistencies in the testimony given by law enforcement in the � case.�
BCSO Capt. Faith Bell, who had just returned from being out of town, arrived at the storage locker just as Gage was about to lock the unit with the marijuana inside. As she approached him and told him not to shut the door, he locked the unit and Bell took his keys and reopened it without a warrant, the order said. Gage was arrested while other deputies got a warrant to search his storage locker and property.
Gage pleaded not guilty. Six months after his arrest, the officers involved in the operation were deposed at the State Attorney�s Office. King told the attorneys an informant told him Gage was selling pot and described Gage�s vehicle and residence to him.
Bellalso was deposed. During an interview Wednesday, she showed a photograph of a text message to Tracy Smith, who was assigned to prosecute Gage at that time, notifying her that King had used a tracking device during the investigation and that Smith should notify Anderson.
Andersonhad to schedule a second round of depositions, which is highly unusual, she said Wednesday.
�You only get one deposition normally,� Anderson said. �If you want a second one, you need to have a good reason.�
A court order is required to use GPS devices to track someone. The BCSO case file Anderson got from the state during the discovery made no mention of GPS tracking.
Bill Lewis, the in-house attorney for the BCSO, attended the second round of depositions, which Anderson said she was unable to attend. Attorney Rusty Shepard handled the second round of depositions.
Shepard limited his comments for this report to those depositions.
Lewis �objected to questions I was asking about GPS,� Shepard said.
Andersonsaid it was very uncommon for Lewis to attend depositions.
�In all the years I�ve been doing this, I�ve never been to a deposition where the sheriff�s department�s counsel was present,� she said.
In the second round of depositions, King admitted to planting the device on Gage�s truck and, on two occasions, going onto Gage�s property to change the batteries on the device. It was discovered later that the GPS data from Aug. 24 and Aug. 25 had been destroyed. According to King, it was erased accidentally when he upgraded the device�s software.
�All other data was downloaded and backed up prior to the erasing of the only data relevant in the instant case,� Fensom wrote. �The Court finds that the testimony and explanation put forth by law enforcement is not credible and that the destruction of the evidence was in bad faith. ��
When officers testify in depositions or in court, they give pointed answers to pointed questions, McKeithen said. He denied anyone tried to conceal evidence; no one asked King if GPS trackers were used in the first round of depositions.
�Because you don�t volunteer something doesn�t mean you�re trying to hide it,� McKeithen said.
Bell and King explained that their understanding of the law at the time �before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled GPS tracking constitutes a search and therefore requires a warrant �was they did not need a court order to magnetically attach a GPS unit, a practice she called a �slap on� to a vehicle if it was in a public place.
Fensom also took issue with that. He wrote that Florida had �even before the 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling �a specific statutory requirement in place for law enforcement use of GPS.
�Thus, it cannot be said that law enforcement was unaware that a court order was necessary to install GPS,� he wrote.
Fensom�s order acknowledged law enforcement officers make mistakes, which McKeithen reiterated. His deputies don�t like losing cases, but they should know it will happen, he said.
�You�re going to win cases; you�re going to lose cases,� McKeithen said. �But, no matter what happens, you have to do it right, and we try to always do it right.�
An earlier version of this story appears below:
PANAMA CITY � A judge threw out a major drug case after Bay County Sheriff's deputies broke laws to obtain evidence, destroyed evidence and attempted to cover it up, a local judge wrote in a court ruling.
In an order dismissing felony charges against Jeffery Gage filed Friday, Judge James Fensom called police conduct "outrageous" and found that deputies "acted in bad faith" with "an ulterior motive."
This is a developing story. Check back tonight for more details.


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The largest on-going national study of women's health called "The Women's Health Initiative" (WHI), recently found that women who took aspirin or ibuprofen an average of 3 times week for the last 10 years had a significant lower incidence breast cancer. Those taking aspirin had a 28% lower incidence and the women who took ibuprofen had a 50% lower incidence. But aspirin and ibuprofen have potential serious side effects. For instance, 16,000 people in the US die each year from bleeding complications from these medications. So I recommend you take a safe herbal anti-inflammatory, like "Zyflamend", instead. Research shows herbal anti-inflammatories works just as well. And rather than side effects, they have a multitude of wonderful side benefits.
Inflammation is a normal and important process created naturally by our bodies and serves an important role. It helps to get rid of unwanted bacteria, and other invaders. It also assists our bodies in cleaning up dead cells from trauma or infections. When inflammation rises to assist our inner healing intelligence during these special circumstances and then quietly quells when it is no longer needed, no harm is done. But, if the inflammation remains beyond its useful purpose and becomes "chronic" -- meaning it stays as an ongoing process in our body over time -- it turns into a lethal firestorm, breaking down cells and destroying the natural architectural boundaries of the body's tissues which makes it easier for tumors to invade and grow. Researchers have found that chronic inflammation not only plays a key role in the commencement and progression of many types of cancers, but it also fuels a wide variety of chronic disorders, including heart disease, arthritis and Alzheimer's disease.
One main reason why chronic inflammation can be so devastating to our health is because it doesn't act alone. It creates additional destructive ammunition: oxygen free radicals. The cells in our immune system use oxygen free radicals like cosmic ray guns to shoot bacteria and other offenders. In the presence of inflammation, these cells release showers of oxygen free radicals and excess oxygen free radicals can cause damage to DNA that can lead to cancer.
Certain foods and stress promote inflammation. Refined carbohydrates, sugar and certain fats (especially trans-fats) are some of the worst offenders. On the other hand, a diet rich in antioxidants found in fresh organically grown fruits and vegetables and omega-3 fatty acids reduces inflammation. Taking supplemental antioxidants and practicing stress reduction techniques are also very beneficial in preventing and reducing inflammation.
There's another way to reduce inflammation. It involves blocking the activity of a key enzyme essential to the process of inflammation. The enzyme is called cyclo-oxygenase 2 or COX-2. A relatively new class of pharmaceutical anti-inflammatories targets the COX-2 enzyme and blocks it or inhibits it. Celebrex and Vioxx are two examples. But pharmaceutical medications, as you are probably aware, are hard on the body and create imbalances that result in potentially serious side effects. When reaching for COX-2 anti-inflammatories, the wisest choice is to choose those made by Nature. Herbal COX-2 inhibitors not only block the "evil" enzyme with equal force, but they also import a fantastic amount of extraordinary intelligence and balance into the body.


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A $29 Pinion-Depth Tool That Really Works
The biggest hassle with setting up rear end gears is setting pinion depth. It's critical to the life of the parts and, until now, has required an expensive pinion setting tools to do the job properly. We know because we bought that T&D pinion depth tool several years ago to help set up the Ford 9-inch, GM 12-bolts, and Dana 60s we've used over the years. But now, Ratech has come up with pinion setting tools that are based on a simple concept. Pinion depth is the location of the pinion-gear teeth relative to the ring-gear teeth. This placement is established when the gears are machined, precisely matching the pinion to that particular ring gear. Aftermarket gear manufacturers assist the setup process by scribing the pinion depth number on the end of the pinion gear. The number is the distance from the machined end of the pinion gear to the ring-gear centerline. In the past, measuring this distance required a dial indicator on a mandrel that rides on adapters in the carrier bearing housings. Measuring the distance from the pinion face with a dial indicator produced a number that, once calculated using some simple subtraction, established the pinion depth. The procedure's only downside is the pinion setting tools cost around $400. For the typical car crafter who may only set up a rear end once every five years, a the pinion depth tool price is difficult to justify.
Most rear axlehousings are designed to use a shim to locate the pinion at the precise distance to the ring gear. In the case of a GM 12-bolt, Ford 8.8, or Dana 60, for example, the shim is placed between the head of the pinion gear and the bearing. The hassle with this method is that you need a hydraulic press to remove and install the bearing when changing shim thickness. A common trick is to create a setup bearing using a flapper wheel on a die grinder to hone the inside diameter of the bearing so it will easily slide over the pinion gear. This makes checking the pinion depth and changing the shim much easier. Of course, you should press on a new pinion bearing once the proper depth has been established.
The Ratech pinion depth tool is unlike the cheaper models you may have seen in the past. One such pinion depth gauge used the carrier bearing cap centerline as a reference point for measuring pinion depth. The problem with that idea is the parting line is usually not the true bearing centerline, introducing major errors into the measurement process. In contrast, the Ratech tool measures from the bottom of the carrier bearing saddle, and with some simple math (dividing the carrier bearing diameter in half to establish true ring gear centerline), it allows you to determine actual pinion depth.
We decided to test this pinion depth gauge to see if it really worked. As you will see, it was within 0.006 inch of the pinion depth we measured using the more expensive T&D tool. And since the ultimate final judgment of pinion depth is based on the gear-tooth pattern, the Ratech tool is certainly accurate enough to get you very close to a final pinion depth at a very reasonable cost. The tool runs $29 and is available for all the popular performance rear-axle assemblies such as the Ford 9-inch and 8.8, the Dana 60, and most of the GM rear ends.
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|Ratech 8-inch Mopar
|Ratech Dana 60
|Ratech install kit
|T&D tool
|Yukon 3.73 gear
|Summit Racing
|Eaton Truetrac
|Summit Racing
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This is the budget Ratech pinion depth tool for a 12-bolt, but there are similar tools for all the popular rear-axle assemblies like the Ford 9-inch, Ford 8.8, Dana 60, and the other GM rear ends. Each Ratech tool has a different number etched into its face. This makes each pinion depth gauge more accurate. Our tool's specific reference number is 3.391. We will use that number to help establish the actual pinion depth.
Moore placed the Ratech tool in the housing as shown, using his left hand to hold the tool in place over the pinion while it rested on the carrier bearing saddle. Then, with his right hand, he used a dial caliper to measure from the tool face through to the bottom of the carrier saddle. This requires some finesse because the end of the caliper is flat but placed against a round saddle. Greater accuracy can be obtained by chamfering the square edges of the dial caliper plunger. The depth measured with the dial caliper was 0.596 inch. Using the Ratech reference 3.391 number stamped in the face of the tool, we subtracted the 0.596 from the 3.391 and came up with a pinion depth of 2.795. The T&D tool established the pinion depth at 2.801, which means the Ratech tool was only 0.006 inch off the T&D measurement—close enough to make it a good working number.
Before we assembled our pinion in the housing, we used an abrasive flapper wheel mounted on a die grinder to increase the inside diameter (id) of a used pinion bearing to eliminate the press fit. Once the bearing easily fit over the pinion, we placed a shim over the pinion (arrow) and then slid the bearing in place. Moore then installed the pinion in the housing along with the second bearing and tightened the U-joint flange to zero the endplay.
This is the Yukon 3.73:1 gear set we ordered from Randy's Ring & Pinion along with an Eaton Truetrac limited-slip differential and a complete installation kit from Ratech.
GM gears are designed to fit a specific carrier for the ratio. For example, all 3-series gears (3.08:1–3.90:1) must be used on a 3-series carrier. Curries can be identified by the thickness of the ring gear flange.
Here's a final installation of the gears and limited-slip in the housing. If the pattern is good, all that's required is installing the cover and filling the housing with a couple quarts of Amsoil Severe Gear 75W-90 lube. The gear design of the Truetrac limited-slip does not require a friction-modifier additive.


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Report: Miami-Dade lawyers cause headaches for Citizens Property Insurance
Citizens Property Insurance spent $100 million in the past two years in legal fees and says its legal bills are rising because a handful of aggressive South Florida law firms — most in Miami-Dade County — have targeted the insurance giant with water-damage claims in a hurricane-free year.
According to a report the insurer released Monday, while Miami-Dade residents have 19 percent of all Citizens policies in force, the county "accounts for 33 percent of all reported claims and 60 percent of all litigated claims statewide," with the bulk of those claims coming from water-damage losses.
In addition, 84 percent of all claims in the past five years have originated in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, the report said. Ten law firms are responsible for 50 percent of the lawsuits against the company and 60 percent of those suits come from Miami-Dade.
"Claims are increasing because Citizens is a target,'' Barry Gilway, CEO of Citizens, said in an interview last week.
The report serves as a counterpoint to legislators and law firms who have accused the company of using delay tactics as its principal legal strategy in an effort to make the state-run insurer appear to be more profitable.
Those lawyers say Florida policyholders are paying millions in unnecessary legal expenses because of Citizens' practice of refusing to pay many claims without a lawsuit.
"I love it when insurers treat their insureds like they are asking for 'handouts' when they file claims,'' said Ted Corless, a Tampa attorney who won a $15 million judgment against Citizens last week. "If they get claims that are owed, pay them, and you won't be a target."
The 44-page report, a litigation analysis, found that Citizens spent $64 million in defense fees in 2012 and has already spent $46 million on defense lawyers and fees this year.
By contrast, the company spent at least $16 million between January 2011 and June 2013 on legal fees paid out to plaintiffs' lawyers — those representing policyholders who won their cases, according to a public records request of the company.
The report does not say how much the company could have saved had it paid its claims rather than waiting until it was sued. It does not analyze how many lawsuits are pending and what the potential cost of those claims, plus legal costs, might be.
But rather than focus on the cost of the company's legal strategy, the Citizens report instead depicted how aggressive lawyers, mostly from Miami, have filed numerous lawsuits in the last couple of years against the company.
Several lawyers involved in the claims have told the Herald/Times that the lawsuits were filed because Citizen's failed to pay for water damage from leaking or broken pipes, forcing homeowners to take them to court.
"Do I think there are aggressive attorneys litigating against Citizens? Yes,'' said state Rep. Carlos Trujillo, a Miami Republican whose law firm is one of the top 10 companies responsible for the rise in litigation against Citizens. "But it's also their hard-line tactics. If it's a water claim, it's denied. They'll win some and lose some but when you spend $60,000 in attorneys fees litigating a $20,000 claim, it's not the wisest use of resources."
The report shows that, since 2009, 23,510 lawsuits were filed against the company and, since 2010, only 42 of those cases have made it to trial.
Of the small fraction of cases that made it to trial, Citizens won 59 percent. Of the cases in which the court ruled in favor of the policyholders, 10 percent were for amounts less than what the policyholder wanted.
The analysis does not take into account the number of cases Citizens agreed to settle after years of litigation.
Citizen's General Counsel Dan Sumner said the goal of the report was not to determine the cause of the spike in lawsuits but to provide a comprehensive look at the trends.
Citizens lost one of the biggest cases in its history last week — a $15 million award for a 2008 sinkhole claim filed by Windtree Apartments in Tampa. Documents show that Citizens could be responsible for more than $800,000 in legal fees because the company spent so much time fighting the case.
The main focus of Citizens' litigation analysis is to highlight what the company perceives is a growing threat from Miami-based law firms against the company.
"We want to pay every dime that we owe and we want to pay it as rapidly as we can," Gilway said last week. "That's the fundamental premise that we operate under. However, we should not pay any more than what we owe."
But lawyers representing many policyholders say that Citizens has cut its claims staff, tells policyholders a claim is covered and then ignores a claim for months or years and, when they get sued, deny liability.
"If you have 40 percent of the market, and you cut your claims staff and tell lawyers to spend years to defend payment to claims, you are going to get sued — a lot, and it's your fault," Corless said, noting that Citizens frequently switches law firms in the middle of a case, further delaying it, as lawyers rack up attorneys fees before claims are paid.
Gilway said the company is working to change the way it handles its litigation and is focusing on improving the quality of its defense counsel and accelerating resolutions.
"There were performance issues on the part of defense counsel,'' Gilway said. "They weren't getting adequately prepared for trial. If they weren't applying a consistent standard, a Citizens standard, for claims management, then that was an issue. It was a significant issue."
The report does not provide any details on the number of cases settled versus those that went to trial.
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10 Resilient Ideas
As the planet heat ups, oil becomes increasingly hard to reach, and the global economy continues to plummet, individuals and communities are faced with an uncertain future. The Fall 2010 issue of YES! Magazine showcases communities that are improvising new ways of living in an unpredictable world.
Here are 10 creative ways to build resilience for what's ahead.
No fortune? No skills? No problem. How a novice builder used mud–and teamwork–to make a house from scratch.
The challenges of creating urban ecovillages can also be great advantages.
Whether it's in lycra or heels, the emerging movement of "come as you are" cycling proves that anyone can bike–anytime, anywhere.
How a small town in Wyoming replaced a dying downtown with a community-owned shopping hub.
Processing Food Where the Food Is
Helping farmers process their produce builds local food security.
Urban hives allow landless city dwellers to create their own honey–and may even provide solutions to colony collapse.
Reclaim, Repair, Rebuild
How the rebuilding boom improves communities, benefits the environment, and even creates jobs.
Making Fruit Public
Art-infused activism to bring city fruit to the public.
Get Off The Grid
A pioneering town in Germany pulls off clean, reliable energy with stable prices.
Come for the food, stay for the art at New York City's first solar-powered restaurant.
- More profiles, stories, and ideas for resilience from our Fall 2010 issue, A Resilient Community
- Why Build Resilience?
Cheap oil, a stable climate, and other things we can't rely on.
- Kindness Trumps Chaos:
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John Singleton Copley's famous painting Watson and the Shark was commissioned by Brook Watson to document a harrowing event at age 14 as a maritime sailor. While swimming alone off Havana Cuba in 1749, Watson was repeatedly attacked by a shark. The shark first removed some flesh from Watson's right calf, then bit off his entire left foot at the ankle. Rescued by his shipmates, the teenager subsequently had to have his left leg amputated below the knee. In the painting Copley has depicted Watson as a romanticized ghostly, nude figure on his back, woefully vulnerable to the more powerful beast acting on animal instinct. One seldom sees a more graphic vision of the classic theme Man versus Nature.
In Los Angeles we have made an art form of controlling our environment: manicured palm trees, diverted river water, flood channels, fire breaks. However, once in a while Angelenos are starkly reminded of natural threats in our midst—say, by this Los Angeles Times photo last October of a shark breaching in Santa Monica Bay near Gladstone's restaurant.
As a regular ocean swimmer in this area, such photos are of immense interest to me. In chatting with the photographer, Randy Wright, I found he has recorded several more shark sightings there. On the Shark Research Committee website, local surfers have posted dozens of similar accounts, including some nibbles by smaller sharks. I hide from my swim buddies the fact that a sea lion pup with head cleanly sheared off was discovered in our Redondo Beach training area.
Of course, such photos and reports generate countless theories within the swim/surf community of what provokes a shark attack, or doesn't. For instance, "they will attack if attracted by sparkly jewelry, or by wetsuits resembling seals." "They won't savagely attack humans because we're not blubbery enough." "They'll only strike in deep water because they spring up from below." Almost 250 years since Copley's painting, shark tales continue to ignite the imagination. It seems there are only three facts everyone can agree on: 1) Sharks are an important part of the ecosystem unfairly maligned and overhunted. 2) Swimmers must respect the ocean for what it is—the wild—and acknowledge one's limitations, even a few yards off Gladstone's. And 3) One's chances of being attacked or being fatally wounded are extremely rare, aggravated by swimming alone—Watson's mistake.
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Onboard, space and privacy are hard commodites to come by, so promptly resolving conflicts becomes even more pertinent.
One time early in our cruising I remember her being at the bowsprit trying to get as far away from me as she possibly could. Being so frustrated by the confines of the lifelinesand apparently by meshe was screaming into the wind at the top of her lungs. Do we now remember what that argument was about? Of course not. It was something silly and, as always, we both got over it.
Fortunately, this is not a frequent occurrence on Serengetti. In fact, living on a boat can bring two people closer together than ever beforeand I don't mean just physically. It's the rare moment in your life when with the luxury of time, you can just sit, talk, and discover the inner thoughts of your spouse, without the distractions of your former lifestyle. This is very preciousand hopefully what you uncover will please you.
In a conventional life you have separate jobs, and sometimes different hobbies and interests. You probably spend less than one-third of your waking hours with your spouse. But on a boat, you're together 24 hours a day, every day, rain or shine, and in very close confines.
Once cruising, you'll leave behind most of the usual causes of conflict between couples. Job stress will be gone and if you've organized your finances correctly, money won't be a source of anxiety any more. Even other family-related pressures might be lessened since children are often out of college and running households themselves.
This is where the importance of respect for each other comes strongly into play. Nobody likes to be yelled at or told that they're wrong, especially in the presence of other sailors. Naturally, once under way, there will be a strong learning curve for both partners, regardless of previous sailing experience. Things will happen and it's easy to react by raising voices or pointing fingers, but that's not going to be the best solution for solving the problem and continuing the cruise in harmony.
Yes, once you cast off adjustments usually need to be made by both parties. Full-time cruising is not like any weekend sail or a charter you've done in the past. Every day will not be a picnic. There will be storms and there will be equipment failures. There will also be times when one of you feels you're contributing more than the other, be it boathandling and cleaning up, or standing watches and cooking. But all these things can be worked out and accomplished better as a team. As a result, your relationship will be strengthened.
You won't find a better vehicle than a cruising boat to guide you closer to the wonders nature has to offer. Rocky starts sometimes occur but with a little effort, you'll find your own rhythm and create your own harmony. And, I believe, you'll gain a special insight into the most important person in your lifeso that, hopefully, there'll be very little time spent by either of you alone at the bow.
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David Reviews
UNIT have described post-producer Duncan Cook as "the obvious choice" to help expand the TV & Film department at their new Berners Mews headquarters.
Sam Pilling is a director with a great future, having already set out his stall with a number of brilliant films.
Up-and-coming filmmaker Bethan Seller has joined Sweet Media for representation in Ireland.
Director Matt Baron targets world domination as he joins the roster at Partizan.
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Ever felt the overwhelming urge to yank the door open on an aircraft? Here's what would happen.
It's one of the nervous flier's (numerous) nightmare scenarios.
A potty fellow passenger makes a beeline for the emergency exit and yanks the door open, sending themselves, and any unsecured trolley dollies and holidaymakers, spinning into the stratosphere.
Should such a lunatic actually manage to open the door of a large passenger aircraft at high altitude, the cabin would lose pressure - extremely rapidly - and chaos would ensue.
Even instances of slow decompression can be fatal. In 2005 a Boeing 737 operated by Helios Airways crashed, killing all 121 passengers and crew (the deadliest air disaster in Greek history), after a gradual loss of cabin pressure. The lack of oxygen at 30,000 feet left the crew incapacitated, and the plane - on auto-pilot - slowly ran out of fuel, before plunging to the ground.
In such instances, oxygen masks (with enough oxygen to last several minutes) should drop from the ceiling to stave off hypoxia (a lack of oxygen, which leads to sluggish thinking, dimmed visions, unconsciousness and then death). In the cockpit, the flight crew will don their rubber masks and begin a rapid descent to a safe altitude - anything below 10,000ft (mountainous obstacles notwithstanding).
Sudden decompression, which would occur if a plane door was suddenly thrust open, is another matter. Anyone standing near the exit would be ejected into the sky; the cabin temperature would quickly plummet to frostbite-inducing levels, and the plane itself might even begin to break apart. In 1988, an Aloha Airlines flight (also a Boeing 737) with 90 people on board was en route to Honolulu, cruising at an altitude of 24,000 feet, when a small section of the roof ruptured.
The resulting "explosive" decompression tore off a larger section of the roof, and a 57-year-old flight attendant called Clarabelle Lansing was swept from her seat and out of the hole in the aircraft. Luckily, all other passengers were belted up, and the pilot managed to land 13 minutes later, avoiding further loss of life. Dozens of other examples of explosive decompression have been recorded, and it often doesn't end well. And let's not forget the demise of James Bond's nemesis Goldfinger (see video below).
Fortunately, while decompression can be dangerous, it is not going to happen because a fellow flier fancied a bit of fresh air for one simple reason: it is simply impossible to open a plane door during a flight.
"Cabin pressure won't allow it," explains Patrick Smith, an airline pilot and author of Cockpit Confidential, a book about air travel. "Think of an aircraft door as a drain plug, fixed in place by the interior pressure. Almost all aircraft exits open inward. Some retract upward into the ceiling; others swing outward; but they open inward first.
"At a typical cruising altitude, up to eight pounds of pressure are pushing against every square inch of interior fuselage. That's over 1,100 pounds against each square foot of door."
So even Chuck Norris couldn't open it. But what about at lower altitudes, when cabin pressure is reduced?
"A meager two pounds per square inch is still more than anyone can displace — even after six cups of coffee and the aggravation that comes with sitting behind a shrieking baby," says Smith. "The doors are further secured by a series of electrical and/or mechanical latches. You would need a hydraulic jack, and airport security doesn't allow those."
But there has been at least one incident when a passenger did manage to open the door of an aircraft while it was in the sky. In 1971 "Dan Cooper" hijacked a Boeing 727, extorted a $200,000 ransom, and then leapt from the rear exit with a parachute, never to be seen again. However, he had the pilot depressurize the plane in order to do so, while a year later "Cooper vanes" were installed to completely disable aircraft doors while the landing gear is up.
Incidentally, the reason skydivers or military personnel can regularly leap from aircraft doors is because those planes are not pressurized.
On the ground, however, the situation changes — as one would hope, with the possibility of an evacuation in mind.
Smith explains: "While the plane is taxiing, you will get the door to open. You will also activate the door's emergency escape slide. As an aircraft approaches the gate, you will sometimes hear the cabin crew calling out 'doors to manual'. This has to do with overriding the automatic deployment function of the slides. Those slides can unfurl with enough force to kill a person, and you don't want them billowing onto the jet bridge or into a catering truck."
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Buying a new home can be one of the single largest investments you make during your lifetime. In order to minimize unexpected difficulties that may arise after you purchase your new home, you need to find a qualified home inspector and engage his services to learn as much as possible about the newly constructed home you intend buying. This will help identify builder oversights and point out any repairs needed and suggest preventive measures that will help to avoid any costly repairs in future. An experienced and qualified home inspector has the ability to detect the defects existing in any newly constructed home, irrespective of how well it appears to have been built.
There are many ways through which you can find a good home inspector. You can call the estate offices in your area for details and references of home inspectors. You can also ask your friends and acquaintances for recommendations as they may have used the services of a home inspector at some time. You can also use a search tool found on the website of the ASHI (American Society of Home Inspectors) to find one. Additionally, you can have a list of home inspectors in your area mailed to you just by putting in a request over the phone by calling 1-800-743-ASHI (2744)
Once you have had an inspection carried out on your new home, you can go ahead with confidence to make an informed decision on the purchase. A standard home inspection report is made to cover all the vital aspects of your home i.e. the roof, attic and visible insulation including walls, ceilings, floors, foundation, basement, structural components, doors, windows and the home's plumbing, electrical system, heating system, and central air-conditioning system.
Remember a home inspector makes an examination of the existing condition of a house. It is not to be taken as an appraisal to determine the market value of the property or equated with a municipal inspection, which is conducted for verification of compliance with local codes. His report will just describe the visual physical condition of the house and indicate whether any components/systems stand in need of any major repair or require replacement.
You must also know that there are no 'specialist' home inspectors for new homes or old homes as such. Home inspectors are qualified to inspect any home, regardless of its age, condition or type. Therefore, if you're interested in finding a good home inspector for inspecting your new home, what you really need to look for is a qualified and seasoned individual who has the necessary experience to spot the not-so-obvious imperfections lying beneath the visible surface of the house that displays the glitter and gloss meant to project unflawed newness.
In your search for a home inspector, you must ask around for an individual whose work is the most thorough and scrupulously meticulous. Judge the person on the basis of his qualifications, training, experience, compliance with the regulations of the state of your residence, and his professional affiliations, if any. A good choice would be an ASHI Certified Inspector. An ASHI Certified Inspector receives his certification only after going thorough comprehensive technical examinations and conducts home inspections in accordance with strict ASHI Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics.


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We're invited to do a post about containers (archives count) and submit it by leaving a comment on Nan's post before the end of this month.
But my window boxes are a standard of my summer planting. I've been using many of the same plants for years, because they work so well. I use different varieties and color combinations each year, and sometimes add a different plant, but I basically stick to the same old faithfuls.
I love to use a combination of ivy geraniums, petunias, alyssum and vinca major. There are some pretty variegated cultivars of vinca available, which add interest. This is my favorite ivy geranium, Marimba, mainly because it grows so prolifically, but I also love the color.
I buy regular potting soil from our local hardware store and add peat moss to it, mixing it up in a wheelbarrow.
In this box are 2 ivy geraniums, 3 petunias, one vinca, with 3 alyssum planted along the front edge. They bloom well all summer. The petunias and geraniums need deadheading, and it's good to cut the petunias back a little when they begin to get a bit leggy. That way they'll bush out and continue to bloom nicely. I don't always get this done, but I should!
Two of these ivy geraniums were in the same box (they weren't blooming in the first picture) but I can't remember their name.
Here's the whole box
This is the same as the first box, but just around the corner from it. You can see how profusely the Marimba geranium blooms. There are 2 of them planted in here.
This 'Amethyst' ivy geranium hangs in a basket outside our back door.
You may have guessed I'm partial to pink :)
Here's what it looks like in the early morning sunshine.
I feed them with liquid fertilizer..the 'bloom booster' variety..... about once a week.
In this basket is a mixture of 'Rasberry blast' petunias, and I think the other might be 'Royal Magenta'. I bought this one already planted, and the blooms lasted amazingly well all summer. Sometimes we get lucky!
Fuchsias are another favorite of mine. This one is Southgate. I tried overwintering it, but unfortunately it didn't make it.


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Many of the details of a private-public partnership that aims to keep Houma's Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center open in the face of state budget woes remain unknown.
Many of the details of a private-public partnership that aims to keep Houma's Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center open in the face of state budget woes remain unknown.
But the unprecedented reforms raise mixed reactions among health care experts. Some welcome reform of the troubled state charity hospital system. Others question the transparency of the reforms, undertaken outside the state legislative session and without another safety net for the state's indigent residents in place.
The partnership between Ochsner Health System, Terrebonne General Medical Center and Chabert was announced in December.
The partnership was made necessary because of federal Medicaid reimbursement cuts that followed state cuts totaling about $152 million among the seven state charity hospitals.
Chabert's share is $14.3 million, which officials said would result in 245 layoffs — about a quarter of its staff — and decimate services to the hospital's mostly poor or uninsured patients.
As a part of the deal, Ochsner and TGMC agreed to chip in millions of dollars to help offset that cut. LSU System Executive Vice President Dr. Frank Opelka said Ochsner and TGMC will lease the 80-bed hospital from the state. Chabert employees will work for the partner hospitals and must reapply for their jobs.
Many other details of the partnership remain to be worked out, including how the state will ensure that Chabert continues to care for the state's indigent and uninsured patients when it is being operated by a private entity.
"Those details will come down in the definitive agreements. There are still a lot of questions," Opelka said. "What kind of expectations do you lay down, and how do you have that accountability?"
The plan is to get a partnership agreement between the three hospitals signed in March, so the deal can go before the Legislature for review. The actual process of transitioning hospital leadership to the private partners probably won't happen until June or July, Opelka said.
"We're excited that we've got a great partner that has a long-standing relationship with Chabert," Opelka said. "We think this will secure the future of that hospital in the community."
Charity hospital systems have been criticized for providing inefficient care for large populations of needy patients.
With only 10 hospitals in the state providing care to the poor, it meant difficult access and sometimes long waits. That can cause problems for patients with chronic illnesses that need regular monitoring, like heart disease or diabetes.
"We are unique in our charity system," said Milton Bourgeois, CEO of Ochsner St. Anne General Hospital in Raceland and immediate past chairman of the Louisiana Hospital Association. "In other systems, the dollars follow the patient. In Louisiana, the money goes to the facility, and the patients must follow."
Benjamin Sachs, senior vice president and dean of the Tulane University School of Medicine, said many states have moved away from charity systems. The missions of charity hospitals — caring for the poor and uninsured — have been taken up by not-for-profit hospitals.
Sachs said that reform of the charity system would have been inevitable because they pay for uncompensated patient care by accepting federal disproportionate-share hospital payments, which reimburse hospitals that care of a large number of uninsured and poor patients. These DSH payments will be phased out as the Affordable Care Act expands Medicaid coverage and health-insurance requirements.
The charity hospital system carries a large burden when it comes to indigent care.
Louisiana has one of the highest rates of uninsured residents in the nation, at about 20 percent. It also has some of the strictest income thresholds to qualify for Medicaid.
In Louisiana, an individual making more than $1,200 a year or a family of three making more than $5,000 annually make too much to qualify for Medicaid.
While not a perfect model, the charity-hospital system has ensured that these people are taken care of, said David Hood, secretary of Health and Hospitals under former Gov. Mike Foster.
Gov. Bobby Jindal is refusing to expand Medicaid in the state in 2014 as part of the Affordable Care Act, often referred to as Obamacare, saying the program is too costly and intrusive.
He is also refusing to set up an insurance exchange in the state for private individuals who will have to buy insurance or be fined. Residents will have access to federal exchanges.
Expanding Medicaid in Louisiana would have insured an additional 400,000 people. The federal government would have covered the cost of that expansion for up to three years, a deal that Hood said is mistaken to bypass. Critics have argued that the long-term cost of Medicaid expansion is unknown.
Experts say that there's still a lot to learn about the partnerships.
Opelka said the key issue for the state in choosing the reforms is ensuring optimal care is provided to patients. But the details of the agreements are still being hammered out, and all may not be known until contracts are signed.
"There are more questions than answers right now," said Mollye Demosthenidy, an assistant professor at Tulane University and health care reform expert.
Hood is critical of the partnerships, saying the deals sound more like a form of privatization, with the state turning over management of its charity hospitals to private companies.
Hood also criticized state officials for making major reforms to Louisiana's indigent-care system behind closed doors.
Normally big overhauls like what's being done to the charity system would be taken before the Legislature and addressed by a committee of experts and lawmakers. Instead, the reforms, prompted by Medicaid shortfalls, were taken up suddenly and outside the regular legislative session. The partnership deals that will eventually determine how the hospitals are run are being negotiated in secret.
Hood said he too called for reform of the state charity system in a 2007 report he authored for the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, a state watchdog group. He proposed maintaining a few of the teaching hospitals within the charity system while transitioning to community-based care in other markets.
But he stressed that health care coverage for the uninsured needed to be expanded before undertaking any reform of the charity system, an option that the state is turning down by refusing the Medicaid expansion.
Sachs said that the right public-private partnerships can bring a lot of expertise and resources to the table.
He added that there are other provisions under the Affordable Health Care Act that could help ensure that uninsured patients still get the care they need. Provisions aim to better monitor hospitals that claim not-for-profit status and receive tax breaks to ensure that they are actually undertaking a charity mission and caring for the uninsured.
"The state cannot afford the system as it stands now. It is a very expensive system," Bourgeois said.
"The alliance between those facilities is a good thing if the details all work out. But there's still a ball up in the air, and no one has caught it yet," Bourgeois said.
Keeping Chabert open was a main goal of the partnership, and it will ensure that the care it provides is still available, jobs stay in the community and its valuable medical education program continues to operate, he said.
"All the communities affected are feeling pressured," Sachs said. "But change is occurring rapidly across the country in health care. Out of this disruption, I hope we will see a much better approach."
Staff Wrtier Nikki Buskey can be reached at 857-2205 or email@example.com.


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Twins hang on in slugfest to capture rubber match
ST. PETERSBURG -- Tropicana Field has served as an indoor house of horrors for the Twins in recent years, but they were finally able to put that behind them and capture their first series win there since 2006.
Minnesota sealed the series win on Thursday, as the offense erupted for nine runs, including three RBIs from both Kurt Suzuki and Aaron Hicks, to help lead the Twins to a 9-7 victory over the Rays in the series finale.View Full Game Coverage
ST. PETERSBURG -- Tropicana Field has served as an indoor house of horrors for the Twins in recent years, but they were finally able to put that behind them and capture their first series win there since 2006.
Minnesota sealed the series win on Thursday, as the offense erupted for nine runs, including three RBIs from both Kurt Suzuki and Aaron Hicks, to help lead the Twins to a 9-7 victory over the Rays in the series finale.View Full Game Coverage
It marked the fifth time in 21 games the Twins have scored at least nine runs after reaching that mark just seven times all of last year. It also put them back above .500 at 11-10 after going 3-3 on their road trip against the Royals and Rays.
"In this ballpark you never feel safe," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "The way they swing the bat and the way the ball bounces around, you just never feel safe. But we basically threw everything at them that we had. The guys came out and scored some runs and we were able to hold on."
The Twins struck early against left-hander Erik Bedard, scoring three times in the first inning after Brian Dozier, Joe Mauer and Josmil Pinto all walked to load the bases with one out. Suzuki came through with a two-run single to left before Sam Fuld added an RBI double to right.
Minnesota added another run in the second on an RBI single from Trevor Plouffe to score Dozier, who led off with a walk before Mauer singled him to second.
"We knew coming in that he hadn't been on the mound all that much," Dozier said about Bedard, who was making just his second start of the year. "He's always pumped the zone pretty good, but he couldn't throw his fastball for a strike early. We've been drawing a lot of walks, and not just ones of four straight pitches. So we're just putting together good at-bats."
The Rays made it a one-run game with a three-run second inning against right-hander Ricky Nolasco, but the Twins answered with a four-run fifth inning keyed by a three-run blast from Hicks.
Bedard lasted just four innings, so the Rays went to reliever Heath Bell for the fifth, but the right-hander struggled. After Pinto was hit by a pitch and Suzuki singled, Fuld added his second RBI double of the game with nobody out. Hicks then followed with a three-run shot to right field for his first homer of the year.
"Put it this way: it didn't go exactly where I wanted," Bell said. "And it just hung and spun there, and he hit it pretty far. Hopefully that doesn't happen again."
Minnesota made it a six-run lead with another run against Bell in the sixth after Plouffe led off the inning with a double. Suzuki picked up his third RBI with a two-out infield single that deflected off of Bell.
The offense helped bail out Nolasco, who gave up six runs on 10 hits and two walks over six-plus innings. He picked up his second win and was hurt by some bad luck in his final inning, but he has a 6.67 ERA in five starts this season.
"I thought I did a decent job, but once again you look at the line, and it's a lot worse than it should be," Nolasco said. "It's unbelievable. But what can you do?"
The Rays scored three times against Nolasco in the second, as James Loney brought home a run with a double before David DeJesus connected on a two-run shot. But they didn't score again until the sixth on a one-out RBI single from Loney.
Tampa Bay made it interesting in the seventh, when Yunel Escobar singled on a pop fly to right field that glanced off Dozier's glove before Jose Molina reached on a ground-ball single that went off shortstop Pedro Florimon's glove.
Left-hander Caleb Thielbar came in and gave up a bunt single to Ben Zobrist to load the bases with nobody out. The Rays scored two runs on a pair of sacrifice flies from Desmond Jennings and Matt Joyce before Michael Tonkin came in to retire Evan Longoria on a popup to end the inning.
Jared Burton gave up a run in the eighth on a bloop RBI single to pinch-hitter Logan Forsythe before loading the bases with two outs. But he got of the jam and handed it over to closer Glen Perkins, who recorded his fifth save of the season with a scoreless ninth.
"It's good to win the series," Dozier said. "It's tough to do, especially against a good team like they are. We got ahead early and they made it close, but that's part of it. So going 3-3 on the road against two pretty good teams and a bunch of good arms -- I'll take it."
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger.