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So does he hate the Wii or like it? In some other reviews he gives it lots of praise but in others suck as this he digs on it.
I think he likes the concept, but hates what (all, even Nintendo) developers are doing with the concept of the Wii. It cóuld be great, but according to him the games spoil it for the Wii. I thínk.
A pirate i was meant to be, trim the sails and roam the seas.
When Ninjas get an equally awesome song then the discussion can start.
Well if thats the case i agree with him. Even though i think Nintendo does a great job, the Zelda "Apple sauce" gets better after a couple od hours.
Hate to go off topic, but ninjas don't have songs. You want to know why? Because singing would rather defeat the point of being a ninja. That's why there's no 'Talk like a ninja day'. Everyone would have to be completely silent.
lol the japanese at the end was in romaji and inacurate
I loved the video, but the ending seemed a bit.. unnecessary?
I was really enjoying this review until a totally unexpected betrayal bit me in the ass...
ie, anata wa kirei desu.
his voice hurts my ears.... why arent there subtitles...
The jokes and the criticised elements of gameplay were a tad on the unoriginal side, Yahtz. Slow week?
However, anti-George Lucasism is never to be dismissed!
Good review as always. I do miss the music though.
one wonders if the fuax-leather clad Mr Hayabusa splashes lots of soya milk on his morning cornflakes before taking the commuter train to his hacking job in the city of soon-to-be-corpses - maybe every soya cloud has a milky lining.
This is why I never liked the Ninja Gaiden series after its 8 and 16-bit counter parts.
The games got very hard all of a sudden with the recent incarnation and Team Ninjas penchant to port the same game to every other console with a different name, but with the same gameplay and story.
The first level on Ninja Gaiden Black acted like a training mode for the first half, then all of a sudden, I'm getting gang raped by 10 different very strong bad ninjas that stream in out of nowhere. Oh, and I like the fact that I already have a list of 20, 6-button combo moves in the pause menu when I barely have learned to use block.
For God's sake, I thought I was playing something similar to God Of War, with the gradual, but challenging difficulty curve. Not one of those "Hardcore" games where you immediately get killed if you haven't already mastered all the moves before the end of the 3rd level.
Every one knows that pirates are best anyway. Now I'm off to play a good game, Sid Meier's Pirates. :D
This is the third in a trend of bad videos by Yahtzee. Im starting to become disappointed S(. Comon Yahtzee, get back in the game.
I'm a long time viewer of Zero Punctuation and I agree with this. Yahtzee's style has changed over time and, to be honest, I prefer his old style.
Sure, he didn't speak as fast, but he sounded more professional while still pointing out flaws that no other game reviewer dared to talk about.
I still think he's one of the best, if not the best, reviewer out there...just...don't turn into another angry video gaming nerd.
I thought it got off quite lightly. Spot-on review: a deeply, DEEPLY flawed but enjoyable game.
He may be the best reviewer out there but I don't watch his videos for the review. I want a good laugh every Wednesday and lately he just hasn't been delivering.
Excellent Review. Almost every criticism was right, however, I seem to be one of the few gamers who did not have trouble with NG2's camera. Eh, guess I didn't mind.
The review was...passable, not your best, but not the worst. The gay CIA and boob jokes were pretty funny. However, pirates? Come on now, do you really think pirates are better than ninjas. Lets think about it. Ninjas are silent, stealthy killing machines. Pirates are guys who dress up in flamboyant cloths, and sail around with a bunch of other colourfully dressed men singing show tunes and shouting Yarrr while stroking large phallic symbols...errr I mean cannons. If your into that kind of thing you can sign up for that at http://www.gaycruisevacations.com/. This is the 21st century and if thats the way you swing thats cool, but I personally like girls, so I think ninjas rock.
Is that really how Britzelandstralians pronounce "Ritalin"?
A picture says more then a thousand words:
Yahtzee has officially ended the ninja vs pirate debate. Go pirates!
Sorry if this has been answered, I'm new here, but is the "new themesong" for the reviews something Yazee approved, or was it something the escapist had made for him? I liked it better when it was a song chosen specifically for the review...
... ah yes, I'm a critic too ;)
The claws are the only useful weapon in the game? Obviously, Yahtzee didn't get very far in the game or he'd know that the scythe makes all the other weapons obsolete once you have leveled it up to the max. It's also very satisfying against the exploding shruiken ninjas, too.
As for the rest of the review, it was good, but I just didn't get the simlie at the end.
Oh, and cyborgs pwn everyone else by definition alone, since cyborg -anything is better than the original (cyborg ninja, cyborg pirate, cyborg Viking, etc.).
The phrase "kill they ass" made me laugh so hard that I had to pause the video because I couldn't hear anything else that was going on after that.
I found the scythe way to slow, for a long-reach weapon I rather get the mini-scythe on the chain, thát one is kick-ass against hordes of ninja's, especially when you do a charge-up attack <3
Oh, and as far as the weapons go, I love the vigorian flail or whatever it is called, you get it right before the double dragon bosses.
I don't agree. Ninjas are much better than pirates.
haven't we had enough of scantily clad FAKE women?
i mean they are only really 0's and 1's
im probably on my own here
Yes Yahtzee, you are cute!
Glad Yahtzee shares my views on Ninjas vs. Pirates. Ninjas are very overrated. I don't even see how Ryu could be considered a ninja since his idea of stealth is kill everything with eyes...
the one review of his i am looking forward to is where he alienates the RTS gamers, partly because some RTS are truly bad, but partly because he will probably take the opportunity to rag on table top war gamers and pen and paper role playing game enthusiasts.
I agree largely with what you said, particularly about the difficulty (I can't even do it on easy) which is why I laughed my backside off when I read the back of the box and it talked about having varied difficulties for 'casual players and hardcore gamers'.
Points where I disagree are:
Although blood and tits do appeal to me as a proud member of the target audience I wouldn't say that I'd like to be typified by that love.
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Wednesday, 03 April, 2019
Mev Puleo was an educator, photojournalist and social change activist. A 1985 graduate of Saint Louis University, she used photographs and interviews to draw attention to the struggles and aspirations of the poor. Mev had a special love for the people of Latin America and traveled extensively to Brazil, El Salvador, Mexico and Haiti. Mev's vocation of advocacy, education and art was tragically cut short by a malignant brain tumor; she died in January 1996 at the age of 32. Her parents, Peter and Evelyn Puleo, established the Mev Puleo Scholarship in Latin American Theology in her honor.
The Mev Puleo Scholarship combines formal study and experiential learning to foster awareness and understanding of the people, religion, and culture of Latin American countries. It is the hope of Mr. and Mrs. Puleo that, like Mev, the recipients will become advocates for social justice.
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Knowledge is power – and having an understanding of what's going on inside your dive computer will help you dive more safely and with peace of mind. Here's what you need to know on Suunto's algorithm that keeps you safe:
Think of dive algorithms as you do the Internet: Few of us can actually explain how email works, but we all agree that life is infinitely better with it. The algorithms powering your dive computer are much the same: You need only appreciate how you benefit. Algorithms are ever-adapting formulas that constantly measure how much nitrogen is accumulating in your body as you remain underwater.
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When you first started diving, relying on the tables was fine because, most likely, your air consumption wasn't efficient for you to stay down long enough to complicate things. Then, at some point, you noticed everyone with a dive computer was enjoying longer dives. They could duck down a few meters to swim nearer a shark or turtle, and this didn't significantly shorten that dive or subsequent dives. Simply put, they were carefree. They knew their computers were factoring in these depth changes to keep them safe.
When we dive, inert gases—such as nitrogen, which our body doesn't need—are dissolving into the bloodstream. At any given point, even when you're on dry land, your veins and arteries have microbubbles filled with these inert gases. When small, they're of no consequence. But when they expand, say, from time at depth, they begin to limit off-gassing—that is, your body's ability to expel nitrogen.
Only Suunto factors microbubbles into their algorithms. The deeper you dive, the greater a risk factor they potentially become. Their dive computers will force you to decrease your ascent rate when microbubbles are starting to become an issue.
Suunto's Reduced Gradient Bubble Model, or RGBM, is the industry's most accurate representation of what's happening in your body when you dive. It automatically adjusts to what you're doing underwater. After you've told it you are diving air or a particular Nitrox blend, it requires no further manual input, leaving you free to enjoy your dive.


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Despite the fact that the sight of numbers makes my brain go numb, at twenty-years-old I had a brief stint as a bank teller. I was, admittedly, horrible at this job – habitually out of balance, a known tripper of silent burglar alarms, and often guilty of handing out more cash than requested due to crisp new bills and their tendency to stick together. And although I would sweat through my day, always antsy and second guessing myself, there were a few aspects about the position that didn't make me nauseous: slow and early mornings at the drive-through window, rarely needing to work past 3:00 pm, and occasionally having reason to use the change counter.
One afternoon, a five-year-old boy walked into our bank with his dad. Refusing help, he staggered toward me carrying an enormous glass jar filled to the brim with coins. I could tell this was a special event, a momentous event that had taken months to come to fruition. With all of his dwindling strength the little boy raised the jar over his head and placed it in my hands.
"Wow," I asked appropriately, "did you save all this by yourself?"
"Well, mostly" he admitted.
"It's going towards his savings account," added the father.
"Let's see what you've got," I said … "any guesses?" While some outrageous suggestions were being thrown at me ("twenty-two thousand, hundred, million!") I opened the jar and turned on the change counter. The rumbling, sucking noise, much like that of a vacuum cleaner, muted my young customer mid-prediction. Tilting the jar, I turned to face him with a smile as the first quarters and nickels rolled out of his sight and into the hungry mouth of this coin-chomping monster. Like a slow motion movie sequence, his eyes grew wide, his lips parted in horror, his arms reached out helplessly, and then "No-o-o-o-o!" came the cry of dismay. By this time the jar was nearly empty and my smile had been flattened by his obvious grief and the sudden realization that this process had not been carefully explained to him.
"Here you are," I said meekly, after every last penny had been swallowed up, after scribbling down the actual and rather impressive figure on a deposit slip, after offering back a now vacant jar and the lousy piece of paper.
"That's great buddy!" attempted his father, also realizing (a bit too late in my opinion) that to his son, a written dollar amount would mean absolutely nothing.
The boy was livid and inconsolable. I was the enemy, a thief, a dirty rotten cheater. No matter how hard I tried to explain that all of that cumbersome and virtually useless change had been replaced with something of actual value, his distain for me only intensified. What he loved, much more than the padding of his savings account, were the coins themselves – how they clinked together, how cool and solid they felt when gripped in his sweaty fist, how they were tangible and visible – unmistakably present. What he desired was the freedom to retain his self-perceived treasure without his parents, or me the evil bank teller, trying to convince him that by letting go he'd become a wealthier man. What he couldn't wrap his mind around was the enigma of nothing being something, of less being more in the end.
"For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it," said Jesus in the eighth chapter of Mark. This verse has made me uncomfortable since the first time I heard it, since I first grasped the gravity of its message. I, too, prefer my treasures to be visible, tangible, unmistakably present. With all my dwindling strength I protect them – my things, my health, my family. I've lost years of sleep, wasted millions of moments, imagined countless horrific scenarios due to my anxiousness about possibilities outside of my control. I've retained just a sliver of a barrier between God and myself, a buffer between me and a reckless abandon to follow Christ at any cost, to lose the life I know and love in order to ultimately save it.
But see, here's the thing, I'm miserable. Withholding even a fraction of my heart from Christ, praying "Thy Will Be Done" while simultaneously begging that nothing too difficult be asked of me, cherishing the blessings themselves over union with the Originator of every sweet thing I wake up to, is the opposite of peace and freedom. Fear and faith are like oil and water, like square pegs and round holes, like wet kindling trying to catch a flame. From this side of eternity I can't possibly understand the enigma of how losing is really finding, I can't imagine the grace that infuses those more willing to empty their jars until I hand mine over and accept that my vision is limited, my desires corruptible, and that my best bet for obtaining anything of actual value is trusting, truly trusting, in my Savior.
Change, on a daily basis, can feel heavy in our pockets, unwieldy in our wallets, inconvenient when counted out and used to purchase goods. But change in the long-term, when stored for future spending, can make us richer. Change is inevitable; change is an impetus for either giving up or going forth. Through change, push comes to shove, rubber meets the road, and I, of little faith, (God willing) begin to think beyond the grave and live accordingly. So here I go …plink, plink, plink, one little possession at a time, exchanging earth for heaven, trepidation for confidence, and spilling my doubts like dulled copper pennies transformed into a weightless fortune, padding my soul with wealth that never dwindles, gaining by forfeiting it all.
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"Twilight: Eclipse" is everything you'd expect from the third installment of the vampire-werewolf love triangle.
For those willfully ignorant of the "Twilight" phenomenon, the film finds Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) caught in a romantic tug-of-war between Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a brooding, pasty vampire, and Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), a smoldering, shirtless hunk of werewolf. And while all this is going on, some mysterious force is marshaling an army to hunt down Bella. Trying to avoid spoiling the plot seems silly when you consider that 97% of the people who will see this have already read the book, but still, we have standards.
The film's major success, and likely the secret to its popularity within a certain demographic, is that it captures perfectly how self-absorbed and melodramatic teenagers are. For generations, parents have been deflecting their children's complaints with declarations/warnings that your teens are the best years of your life. "Eclipse" is an unwavering reminder that the opposite is true.
"I love you!" "Kiss me!" "Marry me!" "Change me!""You have feelings for me!" "I've always felt different..."
Good lord, it's exhausting.
Making all the angst even more painful is how long and drawn out each encounter is. The pacing is glacial until the very end, when we have to resolve all these things we've been talking about (in very earnest tones).
Still, on the rare occasions when the movie and the kids stop taking themselves so seriously, there are some genuinely funny and entertaining moments. And there are interesting storylines -- like how Jasper and Rosalie each became vampires -- buried beneath the mountain of longing that dominates the film. But we're never really allowed to get invested in them, because heaven forbid we spend one more minute away from Bella and Jacob and Edward.
Having seen Stewart in "Welcome to the Rileys," in which she plays a foul-mouthed teenage hooker in New Orleans, one has to wonder how much more of Bella the poor woman's career can take. She's made a staggering 14 films since 2007, and yet it's only getting harder and harder for her to get out from under "Twilight's" shadow. With the franchise steadily constricting her audience, this "Saga" can't end soon enough for the sake of her career.
As for her co-stars Pattinson and Lautner, it's almost impossible to imagine them sticking around in the zeitgeist much beyond "Twilight." Even without the make-up, Pattinson is kinda weird looking, somewhat flat in his delivery and struggles to suppress his English accent.
Lautner, for his part, is positively wooden, despite an easy smile. He is the very essence of mimbo. Keep his shirt off and his mouth closed and everything is fine, but it's hard to make career out of such roles. Who knows, maybe "Stretch Armstrong" will prove to be a wildly successful franchise.
The film has other issues as well: the music is wretched; there's some sloppy, artless camera work; the end result of the battle at the end is implausible -- even for a movie about vampires and werewolves.
But let's give the film it's due, the "Twi-Hards" -- who made up a large part of the audience -- clearly loved "Eclipse," applauding the opening credits and then cheering and sighing right up to the very end.


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Expenses of Trip for rescuing Dr. Doy
Author: No authors specified.
Date: July 23, 1859
Expense list, including supplies and cash advances, for the rescue of John Doy, who was arrested January 25, 1859 by Missouri authorities for abducting slaves. He was sprung from his cell in a St. Joseph, Missouri, jail by a rescue party that included James Abbott.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: James Abbott Collection, Box 2, Folder 12
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Keywords: Abbott, James Burnett; Doy rescue and trial, 1859; Doy, John; Financial statements; Free state cause; Horses; Weapons (see also Guns)
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In just six months, itelligence helped us to accelerate our entire budget cycle. Now we have more time to analyze financial data and take actions that bring the company forward.
Etem Kavak, IT Enterprise Solutions and Business Intelligence Manager, Turkcell Global Bilgi
Turkcell Global Bilgi was established as a Turkcell Group company in 1999 and provides services with a total of 18 locations, including 14 in Turkey, 4 in Ukraine with over 12.000 employees with a seat capacity of 8000.
In addition to Turkcell Global Bilgi's extensive experience in the telecom industry, the company provides services with its expertise in the public sector, finance, energy and retail industries and for a wide customer portfolio. With customer experience focused industrial solutions, the company creates value in the fields of customer services, customer acquisition, telesales, technical support, customers retention and loyalty, collections, customer information management and analysis.
Challenges and Benefits
- Manual budget process
- Financial data dispersed across different systems and locations, creating complexity and slowing down the budgeting process
- Lack of modern analytics tools
- One secure, state-of-the-art system for all financial processes
- Ability to run simulations and scenarios based on different parameters
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- Ability to monitor and audit financial processes centrally
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- Application Management Services, SAP HANA Hosting and Maintenance
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Finding a Home for the Mass of Manual Data
At Turkcell Global Bilgi, the customer is king. This subsidiary of the largest GSM provider in Turkey delivers back-office support and customer care management services on behalf of hundreds of global companies, with 250 million customer contacts per year.
Given such vibrant business activity, it's no surprise the finance department of Turkcell Global Bilgi is a busy place. But there was a clear need to simplify and streamline its financial processes. Most of the budgeting processes were performed manually. Financial information was located in different systems and locations, which were not integrated.
As a result, it was difficult to track key processes, slowing down the whole budgeting process. "With our existing system, it was hard to control and track data—and easy to lose it," said Selçuk Şimşek, head of the finance department.
Turkcell Global Bilgi sought a partner to speed up its financial processes and turned to itelligence. A project team was formed, which analyzed all the processes in scope, including planning, budgeting, expenses, forecasting and financial consolidation. After a successful proof of concept, itelligence was mandated to implement the full project over a six-month period.
itelligence introduced SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) 10 on the SAP HANA in-memory platform, creating a secure environment for all budgeting and planning processes. Financial data from 18 locations is now fed automatically into one system, reducing the need for manual data entry. And when manual data entry does occur, it is based on clear role-based authorizations. This ensures a clear audit trail.
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Today the employees in the financial department can deliver budget information and KPIs in no time, allowing senior management to take necessary action much faster. For example, instead of needing a day and a half to model scenarios, the budget department can now do it in 30 minutes. And the amount of time needed to produce the annual operating plan (AOP) has fallen by 30%.
The best-estimate process has been fully automated. The high volume of expense items can be booked much faster. Allocating costs is also quicker. The increased speed and efficiency of the budgeting and planning process has boosted the credibility of the financial reports.
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If you listen closely you can still hear the sounds of faraway snare drums and marching bands. Occasionally a cymbal crashes. Those sounds are the remnants of the Protease Parade that high-stepped its way through the AIDS community over the last year.
As we pack up our folding lawn chairs, though, we are left with some unfortunate truths about AIDS. They litter the streets like stubborn debris, while we turn away and leave the job to street cleaners that never arrive.
Here are a few pieces of refuse that haven't been swept away.
- There's an elephant in the bars that few people will talk about.
In bar parking lots at closing, or about that time on the gay phone lines or in the ubiquitous "men 4 men" chat rooms on the Internet, one question repeats as incessantly as a Donna Summer beat.
"Are you partying?"
Many of us are drowning our grief or masking our wounds -- or just making up time from the frightening last decade -- through weekend evenings that begin with lines of white powder, or a joint, or the first in a long round of drinks.
Our service providers are dumbfounded. Substance abuse agencies and AIDS care organizations look across the fence at each other, warily, sometimes just to muse that at least their own battle isn't as tough as the other. We've all got our hands full and yet the two issues are inextricably bound.
And make no mistake about it, gay men who sit in judgment of drug addicts with AIDS -- their transmission route is illegal in every state, we think to ourselves -- are ignoring the powder-laced sty in our own eyes.
- Viralcentricity sucks! And you shouldn't have to be positive to get away with saying that.
I'm tired of the contention that you have to have HIV to know "what it's like." If you're not positive, your integrity as an activist or an AIDS professional or as your basic battle-scarred, freaked-out member of our community is somehow suspect -- or at least less "worthy." Tell that to my HIV negative, widowed brother.
I don't really care if my AIDS leaders are positive or not. I only care that they fight to alleviate and then end this epidemic. To suggest that certain people haven't been "washed in the blood" and cannot adequately advocate for us is absurd and viralcentric. It's also led to worthless token appointments for groups that deserve better.
I'm HIV positive so you have permission to agree with me. Now can we take care of our HIV negative brothers and sisters and order up fresh helpings of those HIV negative support groups?
- Nobody wants to know your HIV status after midnight, Thursday through Sunday.
There's more grass-roots support for "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" than anyone would believe. Which would be perfectly fine with me if we were all having sex as if our partners were positive. But we're not.
Thoughtful writers are battling for our sexual souls at this very moment. Gabriel Rotello's book "Sexual Ecology" argues that the party is over and gay men need to examine our need for multiple partners and then cut it the hell out. Eric Rofes, in "Reviving the Tribe," confronts the shaming attitude of HIV prevention education, contending that younger gay men aren't capable of continuing a "state of crisis" and want their sex lives back within the context of AIDS.
In a recent Advocate editorial, Queer visionary Larry Kramer bemoaned gay men's fascination with All Things Penis and wished gay writers could get their minds out of the gutter. The confusing cacophony of voices leads me to believe strongly in... whomever I read most recently. But I do wish Larry would discover the literary, thoughtful delights of authors such as Fenton Johnson, Chris Glaser and Peter Gomes.
- Romanticizing a gruesome death is harder than it looks. As in, "it'll get better," "time heals all wounds," and "try to remember him as he was."
A few nights ago my late, great best friend Lesley appeared to me in a dream, the first such visit in months. I knew he was dead, but was thrilled to see him. I hugged his body close and it responded like cold rubber. He gamely answered my questions about what it felt like to be dead and how he had gotten out of the ground, and then he shared a secret. He leaned into me conspiratorially, and said, "you don't know how to get out of the coffin at first. But the bodies around you have already figured it out, you see? So they come callin' on you, and reach in to tickle your toes."
I reacted to him with only mild surprise. "Really? That must be awful."
"Scary as shit," he said, and nodded his head slowly in agreement with himself. "Sometimes they even poke their heads in. That's when you better learn to get out yourself. But..." he whispered closer to me, "you figure out how. You figure it out..."
My old friend then offered to demonstrate by digging a hole in the dirt floor of my basement. I declined, shortly before running screaming from the room.
Even my dreams of Lesley are horror shows, like the last six months of his life.
- AIDS is not a gift. A Mercedes is a gift.
It used to be that only people with AIDS viewed their disease as some sort of gift from above that pulled their life together. Now even HIV negative folks -- wannabe's -- are taking higher risks, believing either the virus is the key to inner peace or the crisis is over. All of these scenarios give me the willies.
An AIDS culture has been created and I am part of it. But that is not to say that I give power to the disease or to the stubborn, evil virus which does its footwork. I credit myself and my community.
AIDS did not break my drug habit. I did that. AIDS did not re-organize my priorities and my values. It did not create a sense of integrity in me that I hadn't possessed before. AIDS did not change my attitudes and behavior about sexuality or recreational drugs.
AIDS is not an opportunity to re-assess, a chance to reconsider, an occasion to reflect, an excuse to display real emotion, a time for forgiveness, or a shot at redemption.
Life is.
Mark S. King is Director of Education for AID Atlanta, the largest AIDS service agency in the southeast United States, and also serves as Chair of the Mayor's AIDS Advisory Board. He is currently completing his first book, A Place Like This, about his experiences as an HIV positive gay man.


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People with insurance and people without insurance should be relieved that the process of reform can now move forward and make health care more secure. All of them have spent sleepless hours worried about the cost, lack of control, lack of choice, and absence of peace of mind associated with our current system. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has tools to address all of these issues, although much still depends on decisions made at the state and local level, where officials must now continue implementing this important work.
The Court's decision means that the benefits of the Affordable Care Act that are already in place will not have to be reversed.
- Health insurers will have to make their policies easier for customers to comprehend.
- Insurance companies will have to spend a higher portion of your premiums actually providing health care.
- Young adults up to age 26 can now remain on their parents' insurance policies.
- Over 60,000 "uninsurable" people have health insurance through the ACA's Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Program.
- No child can be denied coverage by an insurance company due to a pre-existing health condition. Adults will win that protection in 2014.
- Every Medicare beneficiary who hits the prescription drug "donut hole" receives a 50% discount on their brand name and generic prescription drugs. As of March, Illinois Medicare beneficiaries who had triggered into this benefit were getting about $636 a month in savings.
- States receive significant federal grants to help them hold insurance companies accountable for unreasonable rate increases.
- Preventive services are free under all types of public or private health insurance. Thus, last year 18.9 million Medicare recipients received free annual checkups and preventative services.
- Women no longer need a referral from a primary care physician before seeing a gynecologist.
- Medicare premiums are lower than they would have been without the law.
Looking down the road a bit, the Court's decision means that the full benefits of the law will be implemented on schedule:
- In 2014, 30 million Americans will gain coverage and no longer be uninsured.
- In consumer-friendly marketplaces, insurers will have to disclose all of their information in uniform and comprehensible language, so consumers can compare and make choices.
- No one will be denied coverage or charged a discriminatory rate due to a preexisting condition.
- Starting in 2014, all health plans will have to include maternity care.
- Seniors will have even more help paying for their prescriptions, eventually closing the Medicare doughnut hole.
Starting in 2014, the Affordable Care Act expands Medicaid to cover all 16 million Americans with incomes under 138% of the federal poverty level who are not currently eligible for Medicaid. The Act provides 100% federal funding to cover the costs of this expansion for the first years, and then settles in at 90% funding after five years. The Supreme Court's decision today upholds Congress's power to enact this expansion, and we encourage all the states to take full advantage of this wonderful opportunity.
The decision, however, also says that the federal government may not take away all of a state's existing Medicaid funding if it decides not to participate in the expansion. Medicaid law has always provided that, if states disobey the conditions Congress has imposed on the receipt of Medicaid funding, the federal government has several different remedies, one of which is to withdraw all federal funds. That remedy has never actually been used by the federal government, even though there have been many disputes involving state noncompliance with Medicaid conditions. So the threat that the federal government might deploy that remedy if a state failed to carry out the ACA's Medicaid expansion was highly theoretical. In today's decision, however, the Court ruled that a state's refusal to adopt the ACA's Medicaid expansion cannot trigger the removal from a state of all of its existing Medicaid funding. The ruling is unclear about exactly what the states' options are and what other remedies the federal government may have in those circumstances. As we study the decision further, we will address these Medicaid issues more in depth in future blogs. Of course, we urge all states to take advantage of the federally funded Medicaid expansion to bring coverage to their lowest income uninsured.
Tonight, people all over the country, men and women, of all ages, socioeconomic statuses, and political beliefs, can breathe a bit easier knowing that the reforms launched in March 2010 will continue and that America is moving toward quality, affordable, comprehensive health care for all.
John Bouman, President
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
(This post was co-authored by Caitlin Padula and originally appeared in the Shriver Brief on June 28, 2012)


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Recognizing that many of the victims of 9/11 continued to suffer in the aftermath of the attacks, I, and a number of my colleagues in the New York congressional delegation, authored the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. The Zadroga Act provides health care and economic compensation to first responders and survivors.
However, time is running out to apply for economic benefits under the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (VCF). If you are a 9/11 survivor or first responder and discovered as of Oct. 3, 2011 that you have an injury or became sick as a result of the 9/11 attacks, you must register for economic compensation by Oct. 3, 2013.
If you lost a loved one, compensation may also be available to the family members of first responders and survivors. You can find out more information about the VCF and apply by visiting www.vcf.gov.
Research has shown that first responders and survivors who were exposed to dangerous toxins that entered the air at Ground Zero have significantly higher cancer risks, respiratory problems and other medical concerns.
While the World Trade Center Health Program portion of the Zadroga Act provides health coverage for eligible first responders and survivors - and recently coverage was extended to additional types of cancer that have been linked to toxins from Ground Zero - there are likely many out there who are eligible for economic compensation as a result of lost productivity, pain and suffering, etc. That is where the VCF comes in.
I and my New York Congressional colleagues worked hard to pass the Zadroga Act and will continue to fight for strong funding. I encourage anyone who became sick or injured as a result of the 9/11 attacks and suffered economic losses to apply for compensation. Please don't wait.
Carolyn Maloney represents portions of Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan in the House of Representatives.


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The US Postal Service is famous for their creed "neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."
Apparently we can also add "fiery vehicle" to the list of things that won't stop the mail.
Mail carrier Crystal Castor from Woodward, OK was delivering Christmas letters and packages when she noticed her newish Jeep was starting to smoke. When she opened the hood, she realized that the truck was on fire.
But instead of leaving the truck, packages, and $10 checks from grandma to burn, Crystal rescued as much of the mail as she possibly could. Some packages got singed or wet, but almost all of them were saved.
Crystal said it was all just a part of the job she loves. Also, was this truck under the Jeep Wranger fire recall? Someone should probably look into that.
(Belated Hat Tip to caughtNthecrowd!)
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I cannot find his death certificate or an obituary.
I was recently in White Plains, so I headed over to Bedford and Pound Ridge. Stephen's 1870 census had him in Pound Ridge, post office Bedford; while his last census entry in 1880 had him in Pound Ridge. I ended up at the Pound Ridge Library. They were quite helpful and directed me to a book called God's County, A History of Pound Ridge, New York by Jay Harris.
There was mention of Stephen C. Duryea owning property. I found his parcel on a map from the 1870s. I knew that he had purchased land in Pound Ridge from his probate records and from deed conveyances online at the Office of the Westchester County Clerk.
A search of this website does not show that Stephen C. Duryea sold these lands. A map in God's Country from 1908 showed Mrs. Eyres on this plot. Stephen's widow, Mary, had remarried Alfred D. Eyre. So she owned the land at least until 1908. I drove to the area, but without house numbers, I could not definitely find the correct piece of land. I did find a lovely seen that I'd like to imagine they saw every summer.
Back home on the computer, I researched the deed conveyances again, this time for Eyre. She sold the land in 1910. Although the name was Eyre, formerly Duryea, the online index only picked up Eyre.
That explains what happened to the property in Pound Ridge. I still need to find Stephen's death certificate.


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Northern Thailand villagers held a Google Street View driver hostage and made him swear to Buddha that he wasn't spying for the Thai government.
Sa-eab villagers in the Phrae Province took the driver to a nearby temple to swear on a Buddha statue that he wasn't scouting for an unwanted dam project, according to the Associated Press. Google confirmed the report that 20 villagers blocked the Google Street View car and took the driver to a local office for questioning before making him swear on Buddha.
After the Buddha swearing, the villagers released the driver and apologized to both him and the tech company. Sa-eab is a village 385 miles north of Bangkok and is a battleground for dam protests.
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"[We] apologize to the official, to Google, as well as to the Thai people throughout the nation and to the citizens of the world," the villagers said in a statement. The villagers said that there had been so many similar instances that it "convinced the villagers to believe someone was trying to survey the area in disguise."
Google seemed to take the incident in stride. "Embarking on new projects, we sometimes encounter unexpected challenges, and Street View has been no exception," Google spokesman Taj Meadows told the Associated Press.
Google's Street View cars seem to always garner some attention, either from angry subjects in embarrassing situations or people accusing Google of running over a donkey in Africa (it didn't.) No one said that mapping and photographing the world would be easy.


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Most Valuable Player awards were named for Morenci Area High School spring sports.
MVPs are Phoenix Duncan, girls track; Zach Phillips, boys track; Jade Pfund, softball; Anthony Barron and Steven Pontious, baseball; and Gavin Vanderpool, golf.
Adam Barnett earned the coach's award from golf coach Jamie DeVoe.
In softball, coach Kay Johnson named Tess Ramsey as the Rookie of the Year; Nicolette Swimmer as the top offensive player; Mariah Bovee as the top defensive player; Rachael Rutkowski as the Most Improved Player; Megan Smith as the Golden Arm; and Salena Martinez as the winner of the Old Faithful award. That final award goes to the player who is steady but not flashy, Johnson said, and just gets the job done day in and day out.
TRACK—Track coach Brad Brown gave the Most Improved field events honors to Lucas Johnson and Nichole Elarton. Winning the sprints award were Chas Frey and Kate Gallup. The top field events competitors were Johnson and Duncan. The top distance runners were Phillips and Leslie Montijo.
Season-best times and distances are listed in the charts on this page.
BASEBALL—Baseball coach Roger Pontious named Steven Pontious as the Defensive Player of the Year and Anthony Barron as the Offensive Player of the Year. Barron was also chosen the top pitcher.
Isaac Jeffers was named Most Improved Player and Devin Martinez was given the Coach's Award. Nick Wilson earned the Bulldog Award.
Barron was the top hitter with a .408 average, followed by Pontious at .392. Pontious made the least fielding errors.
On offense, Pontious had a .511 on-base average and 15 RBIs. Barron finished with a .500 on-base average. He and Nick Wilson each finished with a home run.
The young Bulldog squad averaged three fielding errors a game, a number Coach Pontious wants to see reduced next season.
Pontious is looking forward to the 2009 season when his younger players will have a year experience, plus some playing time from summer ball.
"I'm excited about next year," he said.
SOFTBALL—Nicolette Swimmer finished the season at the top of Morenci's batters with a .402 average. She was followed by Brooke Barrett at .370 and Jade Pfund at .357.
Swimmer was tops in hits with 41, ahead of Barrett with 40 and Pfund with 35. She had the most triples (10), while Megan Smith and Jade Pfund followed with six each. Pfund and Swimmer each pounded 11 doubles. Barrett and Smith each finished with a pair of home runs.
The RBI statistics were led by a pair of freshmen: Tess Ramsey with 29 and Smith with 24. Swimmer also finished with 24. Swimmer led in runs scored with 38, just ahead of pinch runner Chelsea Tompkins with 37. Ramsey score 29 and Barrett scored 27.
On the mound, Pfund put together an 18-6 record with 179 strikeouts and 22 walks in 179 innings.


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Susan Mendez Prins '86
A major in East Asian Studies with a dance concentration while at Middlebury. Her senior thesis was a comparative study of contemporary dance in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, based largely on her field work and personal interviews there in her junior and senior years. In 1990 she was part of an international butoh performance project in Tokyo.


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Early Voting for 2nd Congressional Special Election
--- Candidates Forum in Kankakee Tonight ----
Early voting is underway for the Special Congressional / Consolidated Primary Election in Illinois. Kankakee County Clerk Bruce Clark informs early voters can cast ballots prior to February 26th. Early voting can be completed at the County Clerk's Office at 189 E. Court Street, Kankakee. Monday thru Friday hours are 8:30 AM 'til 4:30 PM.
The Clerk's office is closed today (Feb 12th) in observance of Lincoln's Birthday.
Additional early Voting hours are offered on consectutive Saturdays, Feb 16 and 23, from 8:30 AM 'til 12 Noon.
Republican and Democratic candidates vying for the Congressional seat of former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. are invited to a candidates' forum in Kankakee tonight.
The Kankakee Chamber of Commerce and the Kankakee branch of the NAACP is sponsoring the event at the Kankakee Public Library. The program begins at 6 pm.


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The Hope College Concert Series will feature Sondre Lerche, with special guests Fancy Colorsto, on Thursday, Sept. 13, at 8 p.m. in the DeWitt Center main theatre.
Sondre Lerche will headline the show with a full band, highlighting his extensive skill as a songwriter and the widely-varied influences found in his sound. Hailing from Norway, Lerche caused a great amount of excitement in both America and Europe with his 2001 debut album. Since then, he has released six highly-acclaimed albums, as well as the soundtrack to the movie "Dan in Real Life."
He is recognized for his ability to draw a balance between the thoughtful and unique style of his sound and the immediate catchiness of the songwriting. "Paste Magazine" called his music "methodically infectious."
Lerche has retained the interest and appreciation of fans and critics alike throughout his career. "Rolling Stone Magazine" commented on his growth as an artist, noting, "The man has grown since his early-2000s days as an indie-pop prodigy: Now a dependably intriguing wordsmith, he still shows no shortage of unusually intelligent quirks."
AllMusic has said of him, "Lerche's songwriting is tricky but light on its feet, emotionally nuanced and quick-witted too. His voice is rich and sweet, the musicians he plays with are always good, and his musical taste is always spot-on."
The band Fancy Colors, from New York City, will open the night. The band consists of four musicians who have also been members of various bands such as Of Montreal and Jupiter One.
Tickets for the concert are $15 for the general public, $10 for members of the college's faculty and staff, and $5 for Hope students, and are available at the ticket office in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and can be called at (616) 395-7890. Public tickets are also available for purchase online at https://tickets.hope.edu/ticketing. Any remaining tickets will be sold at the door.
The DeVos Fieldhouse is located at 222 Fairbanks Avenue, between Ninth and 11th streets. The DeWitt Center is located at 141 E. 12th St., on Columbia Avenue at 12th Street.
The doors will open on the night of the concert at 7:30 p.m.


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An Ancestral Journey through the winds of time
planting seeds in Harrison and Grimes County Texas
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Texas Tradition Arizona Style: Honoring Juneteenth
Several years later, a lady by the name of Vernell Coleman started Juneteenth up again over at a school by the name of Dunbar. Eventually, the gathering was moved to Eastlake Park where the very first event was held.
Ms. Coleman was born August 28,1918 in Henderson Texas to Robert and Berta McLemore Myers.
As a Texan, she knew about the 19th of June and the significance of why it was so important for blacks who finally heard that they were granted their freedom after years of being slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation drafted on September 22,1862 was to take affect January 1st 1863. A Union General by the name of Gordon Granger and his troops did not give the news to slaves in Texas until they reached Galveston on June 19th 1865.
Ms Myers-Coleman's mission and goal was to bring that celebration back to the fore-front. And that she did!
The crowds began to grow and grow into the thousands. Booths were set up and people could sell food, companies/venues would have a booth for causes like health care, child welfare, domestic violence help, voter registration drives or anything else involving the community.
There were marches,parades,talent shows basketball tournaments and the awarding of Scholarship's to deserving students. Other awards were presented to those in the community who contributed their time working with youth or the elderly through-out the year. One was the Spirit Award of which I am very proud of.
Ms Coleman was later honored for her many years of work not only for Juneteenth but for being a tireless leader in civil rights. I am proud to have known her and several members of her family. In fact her mother Ms Bryant was one of my lifelines in taking care of my daughter Latisha and Nephew Anthony when they were toddlers.
Ms Coleman, an inductee into the Arizona Women's Hall Of Fame passed away March 27, 1990 leaving a legacy all Arizonans should be proud of.
Geraldine McDonald, another warrior took over the helm as did others in the ensuing years.
9 comments:
- Angela Y. Walton-Raji said...
This is a great story! I love hearing how various communities embrace the spirit of Juneteeth an fully understand our need to celebrate who we are and what we have endured and overcome!
- May 28, 2010 at 9:04 AM
- Ms Vicky said...
Thanks Angela! If you noticed Spirit Award I received, your cousin Geraldine McDonald sighed it. Small World after all.
- May 28, 2010 at 10:40 AM
- sjtaliaferro said...
Great post!! Thanksfor sharing.
- June 19, 2010 at 1:31 PM
- Ms Vicky said...
Thank you Sandra,and many thanks for reading it.
- June 19, 2010 at 8:12 PM
- J said...
I'm a little late, just catching up on things. Thanks for sharing your post.
- June 27, 2010 at 5:34 PM
- Ms Vicky said...
no problemo! I appreciate ya looking.
- June 29, 2010 at 11:17 PM
- Unknown said...
Vicky, thanks so much for enlightening us on this important part of our Arizona Black Heritage. You know we all think we know a lot about our Arizona Black History - but you do the nuts and bolts, you document when others speculate - and I really appreciate you. Please don't stop.
- July 8, 2013 at 6:15 PM
- Unknown said...
Thanks Ms Vicky. Thanks for enlightening us on this important part of our Arizona Black Heritage. You know we all think we know a lot about Arizona Black History, but you do the heavy lifting, you document when others speculate. An then you play it out so we all can understand. I (we) appreciate you very much!
- July 8, 2013 at 6:23 PM
- Ms Vicky said...
Thank you so much Rod!!!
- July 9, 2013 at 3:03 PM


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Raelle Tucker, Sera Gamble
Philip Sgriccia
First aired
Tuesday February 07, 2006
Sam (Jared Padalecki) has a premonition in which a man is killed, but the murder is made to look like a suicide. Sam convinces Dean (Jensen Ackles) that they must investigate the case, but the two are puzzled when they fail to find anything that indicates that the death was supernatural in nature. That is, until they find out that Max (Brendan Fletcher), the reclusive son of the first victim, has been using his recently acquired power of telekinesis to kill the family members that once abused him. Sam also discovers Max's mother was killed by the same fiery demon that took his own mom.


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I have a new web app coming out soon. I have an IRC channel for it and would also like to have a forum for my site. I like the idea of SO's reputation system and such and thought I had seen somewhere you could make your own mini SO forum for your website.
Does such a thing exist?
Are there any similar forums to SO?


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It's not completely clear in his latest post whether Phil Birnbaum is aware that George Steinbrenner died a month ago. Why else the strange, repeated use of present tense with his thoughts or actions? That doesn't speak well of a true SABR. He may be flirting with severe avoidance of sound sabermetric principles here.
Nevertheless, Birnbaum's Sabermetric Research blog remains the preeminent place on the internet to watch shoddy academic work go up in flames. And my Burn-Baums page is the first and only compilation of his greatest hits. Though it'll likely remain forever a work in progress.


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The two latest grim stories come from Texas. In Weslaco, three illegals kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 23-year-old student at South Texas College. In Lubbock last week, a judge sentenced another illegal to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.
These crimes, however, are relatively mild. In New City, N.Y., in 2006, for instance, housewife and mother Mary Nagle fell victim to an illegal Guatemalan. Prosecutors said the scene resembled "something from a horror movie," and as this writer reported in The New American in 2007, "he beat her to a pulp with a lamp, and slashed her with a razor, nearly amputating one of her fingers in the attack. Investigators found a piece of her ear lobe and clumps of hair on the floor. After he finished raping, sodomizing, and mutilating Mrs. Nagle, he used her cellphone to call her sisters and friends and describe his unspeakable deed in pornographic detail."
The shocking number of illegal-alien sex criminals in the United States came to light about three years ago, thanks to Deborah Schurman-Kauflin and her Violent Crimes Institute. When she looked at the data for 1,500 illegal-alien sex criminals, Schurman-Kauflin concluded that tens of thousands of sex offenders stream across the border and commit their ghastly crimes here. Over the eight-year period that she studied, she concluded that some quarter-million sex criminals had crossed. That's about 100 per day.
The 1,500 illegal-alien sex criminals she investigated in detail victimized 5,999 people, about four victims each. Of those crimes studied, Schurman-Kauflin reported, "525 (35%) were child molestations, 358 (24%) were rapes, and 617 (41%) were sexual homicides and serial murders." Schurman-Kauflin scrutinized 88 months of crime data and concluded that illegal aliens victimized nearly 1 million people.
While this mayhem continues, politicians fret about something else: the alleged flow of American guns to Mexican drug traffickers. Peddling a bogus statistic suggesting that 90 percent of the guns confiscated at crime scenes in Mexico come from the United States, leftist Sen. Diane Feinsten (D-Calif.) and her ilk would eliminate the right of an American to protect himself with a gun.
The chain of illogic runs this like: forget about illegal alien sex criminals. Rather, adopt anti-gun laws to staunch the trickle of American guns into Mexico. That, in turn, would impede American women from using guns to defend themselves against the very sex criminals the gun-grabbing politicians permit to run across the border.
Yet the formula is completely logical within the framework of anarcho-tyranny. Anarcho-tyranny, columnist Francis wrote, is "a kind of Hegelian synthesis of what appear to be dialectical opposites, the combination of oppressive government power against the innocent and the law-abiding, and simultaneously, a grotesque paralysis of the ability of the will to use that power to carry out basic public duties such as protection of public safety."
Under anarcho-tyranny, he wrote, politicians "avoid performing such basic functions as stopping real crime and think up purely fictitious functions that will raise revenue, enhance the power of the police or bureaucrats, and foster the illusion that the state is doing its job. The victims of these new functions and law are precisely otherwise law-abiding and innocent citizens." In other words, "government swells in power, criminals are not controlled, and law-abiding citizens wind up being repressed by the state and attacked by thugs."
If that doesn't describe modern America, nothing does. Just ask the victim of an illegal-alien rapist.
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R. Cort Kirkwood, managing editor of the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, Va., has been writing about American politics and culture for more than 20 years. Mr. Kirkwood has written for Chronicles, The New American, National Review, The Remnant, The Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal, The Baltimore Sun, The Orange County Register, Taki's Top Drawer online magazine, and LewRockwell.com. For several years, he syndicated a column, "The Hard Line." Mr. Kirkwood is the author of the nonfiction title, Real Men: Ten Courageous Americans To Know And Admire, published by Cumberland House.


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AP Launches its First Spanish-Lanuage Stylebook
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The Associated Press will launch a new Spanish-language Stylebook for universal use by publishers, broadcasters and readers from all Spanish-speaking countries, with an emphasis on Latin America and the United States.
A small number of AP clients are beta testing Manual de Estilo Online de la AP, a Web-based, searchable, customizable stylebook with a comprehensive list of thousands of the most common standardized Spanish terms, some translated from the well-established English AP Stylebook and the majority written especially for Spanish writers and editors.
AP will begin selling Manual de Estilo Online de la AP to customers of its Spanish news services beginning Nov. 19, and will mark the launch that same evening with a panel discussion in New York about Spanish writing style.
The 6 p.m. event — at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, 2950 Broadway (at 116th Street), in Manhattan – will feature as panelists: Isaac Lee, president of news for Univision Communications Inc.; Edward Schumacher-Matos, ombudsman for NPR and founder of Rumbo Newspapers/Meximerica Media, a chain of four Spanish-language dailies in Texas; Sigal Ratner-Arias, entertainment editor, AP Spanish Service, and Tom Kent, AP's deputy managing editor for standards and production.
Serving as moderator will be Alejandro Manrique, AP deputy editor for Latin America and director of the AP Spanish Service.
To reserve a seat for the discussion, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
The new manual includes extensive chapters on sports, and arts and entertainment vocabulary, as well as a pronunciation guide with audio files of hundreds of place names and terms.
The section on Social Media Guidelines lays out AP standards for tweeting, retweeting others' tweets and sourcing and attribution from social media. It also includes frequently used Internet terms and social media language used by the AP such as blog, hashtag, emoticon, metadata and tuitear (tweet).
Also included in the Manual de Estilo are words that come from Spanish-language communities in the U.S., such as chicano, Marines, parquear (to park, estacionarse in formal Spanish) and suspensión temporal de deportaciones (deferred action).
AP will update the Manual de Estilo throughout the year, adding new entries and modifying existing entries. As AP updates its style, users can get email updates. The Stylebook already includes words that will appear in the 2013 edition of the Diccionario Panhispánico de Dudas and the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española, considered to be the highest authorities on the Spanish language.
Subscribers can submit questions via Ask the Editor and search previously answered questions.
AP's customers will receive an email with details about how to subscribe to the password-protected Manual de Estilo, either as an individual user or via a site license with multiple users. AP expects to make Manual de Estilo widely available in early 2013. Prices start at $26 for one user's yearlong subscription and $210 for a one-year subscription for a 10-user site license. AP is offering introductory rates at about one-third off regular prices.


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Something stinks in Southwest Alaska.
By now you've probably heard about the weak king salmon runs around the state causing widespread closures to subsistence, sport and commercial fishermen.
You also may have heard about the "Kuskokwim Rebellion" on June 20 when fishermen took to the waters in defiance of an extended subsistence closure by setting their nets at the end of the original seven-day period agreed upon in the preseason.
Alaska Department of Fish and Game enforcement seized 1,800 pounds of fish and 21 nets, and when it did allow fishing it required six-inch mesh gear that isn't widely possessed in the region.
Into this desperate need stepped Coastal Villages Region Fund, the Community Development Quota group for the Kuskokwim region. CDQ groups are six tax-exempt organizations in Western Alaska representing 65 villages that receive 10 percent of the Bering Sea fishing quotas annually, including pollock, crab and halibut.
Coastal Villages handed out 100 legal nets a week after the Rebellion at the request of the Association of Village Council Presidents, which includes all 20 CVRF communities and the 56 federally recognized tribes in the Kuskokwim region.
But the nets were far from free.
In order to receive a net from CVRF, fishermen had to sign an "acceptance statement" acknowledging the nets were being provided at the request of AVCP and paid for by revenue from the pollock fishery where bycatch of king and chum salmon has caused controversy for decades.
The one-page statement included two paragraphs on salmon bycatch in the pollock fishery, including the claim that "the best available science shows that the pollock fishery is not a significant contributor to our salmon problems."
This statement authored by CVRF Chief Operations Officer and former pollock industry lobbyist Trevor McCabe is at best misleading, and forcing fishermen to sign it amid a disastrously weak king salmon run with their lives on the line is contemptible.
We know the outrage would be off the charts if the Department of Fish and Game required anyone who wanted a king salmon stamp to sign a piece of paper saying that bycatch has nothing to do with poor returns around the state.
What Coastal Villages is doing is no different, and the anger should be no less at the coercive action it has taken to extract supportive statements of the pollock fishery from the people it is supposed to be serving who are seeking to fulfill the most basic human right of subsistence.
One thing is certain: the residents of Coastal Villages communities already own those nets, and they shouldn't have to prove anything other than where they live to receive one.
Neil Rodriguez of CVRF, who didn't want his interview with Bethel radio KYUK to be recorded, told the station the claims about bycatch not being a significant contributor to salmon issues was based on an environmental impact statement, presumably the one prepared for the 2009 federal action to cap king salmon bycatch in the Bering Sea at 60,000.
In fact, that EIS contains no such claim, and actually states that salmon bycatch "may be a contributing factor to the decline of chinook salmon" in Western Alaska but that the science is incomplete and prevents any definitive conclusions.
While recognizing that cutting bycatch would not rebuild salmon runs, the EIS stated that every additional fish in-river would still benefit all users and aid managers in hitting escapement goals as well as meeting our treaty obligations on the Yukon with Canada.
That same EIS also states that half or more of the Bering Sea king salmon bycatch is of Alaska origin, and genetic stock composition analysis released this past January based on 2010 sampling suggests it could be even higher.
We caution that the 2010 sampling cannot be extrapolated to the entire bycatch. However, 94 percent of the 702 king salmon tested from the winter "A" season were of Alaska origin. Coastal western Alaska stocks represented 41 percent, and middle and upper Yukon stocks another 36 percent. For all 2010 samples, 87 percent were of Alaska origin.
As of 2011, there is 100-percent observer coverage and full retention in the Bering Sea allowing for a rigorous sampling protocol that will more definitively establish origins for salmon bycatch. But until then, the stock composition released in January is the "best available science," and it shows Western Alaska salmon are a significant portion of the bycatch, if not the majority of it.
The CVRF "acceptance statement" then goes from misleading to flat-out dishonesty. It states that CVRF caught only 320 kings in the pollock fishery in 2011 and that "many were not from Western Alaska."
As we just discussed, nobody yet knows the composition of 2011 bycatch, so that CVRF claim holds less water than the nets it is distributing.
Further, CVRF did not count the king salmon bycatch from five pollock trawlers it acquired along with the Norton Sound CDQ group in February 2011.
According to 2011 cooperative reports, the CVRF 341-foot catcher processor Northern Hawk and the five other trawlers took 599 king salmon in addition to 13,121 chum salmon.
The six CVRF vessels also spent a total of 19 weeks on the "dirty 20" list in 2011 for posting the highest rates of chum salmon bycatch.
By volume, the Bering Sea pollock fishery is one of the cleanest on the planet, but that does not change the fact that Alaskans will never value pollock more than they do salmon.
What is also indisputable is that the CVRF position on salmon bycatch that it required its residents to sign in exchange for a fishing net is in direct opposition to that held by the Alaska Federation of Natives, AVCP, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Department of State, the Alaska Board of Fisheries, the Tanana Chiefs Conference, the Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association, the Yukon River Panel and the Federal Subsistence Board.
The CVRF statement also contradicts Calista Corp., the Alaska Native regional corporation for the Kuskokwim region.
In a commentary published July 9 in the Tundra Drums, Calista President and CEO Andrew Guy wrote, "Perhaps the largest concern we share with the region is the bycatch from commercial fishing. The tremendous scale of bycatch is a major issue for the region, and our people feel that more attention and scrutiny is warranted."
CVRF, in the acceptance statement, reiterated its official slogan that "Pollock provides."
Pollock provides all right. It provided for CVRF President and CEO Morgen Crow to receive a salary of $832,000 in 2010 and to buy a 3,476-square foot, five-bedroom house in Anchorage worth about $1 million in 2009.
Between Crow, McCabe ($504,000) and Chief Financial Officer Richard Monroe ($477,000), the top three employees of CVRF in Anchorage made a combined $1.8 million in 2010.
These salaries paid to executives at a tax-exempt organization with a humanitarian mission are outlandish on their face, and become even more so when put in the context of the CVRF statements that pollock revenue subsidizes its crab, salmon and halibut operations.
We have a hard time seeing how Crow, McCabe and Monroe can justify their lavish salaries based on the fact only one segment of their business manages to turn a profit.
We also aren't buying the claim that the acceptance statements are for education purposes. If the effort were purely educational, CVRF can hand out the information on bycatch or mail it to every resident in the region. By trading the net for a signature, CVRF gives every indication it is up to something else.
A 10-year review of the CDQ program by the State of Alaska is under way right now. Whether CVRF is meeting its obligations or abusing its power is a question the review must answer.
Related Story: http://www.alaskajournal.com/Alaska-Journal-of-Commerce/July-Issue-3-2012/CDQ-group-ties-nets-to-bycatch-reallocation-statement/
This article appears in the July Issue 3 2012 issue of Alaska Journal of Commerce. Used with permission.
The views expressed here are the writer's own and are not necessarily endorsed by Alaska Dispatch. Alaska Dispatch welcomes a broad range of viewpoints. To submit a piece for consideration, e-mail commentary(at)alaskadispatch.com.


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DES MOINES- The Iowa Senate has approved budget legislation giving more funding to the judicial branch.
The Democratic-controlled Senate approved the plan Monday on a 26-24 party line vote. The budget gives the judiciary a $167.7 million budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1, an increase of nearly $6 million over the current year. The judicial branch requested this funding level.
Democratic Sen. Robert Hogg, of Cedar Rapids, said the budget will help the judicial system restore some services that have been reduced due to cuts.
In January, Chief Justice Mark Cady said the court needs to increase staffing in juvenile courts, keep clerk of court offices open full-time and provide more support workers to justices.
The legislation now moves to the Republican-majority House for review.


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Who among us hasn't experienced the trepidation of your first time? You agonize about where you should go and what you'll say once you get there. Then, when you finally go through with it, you're so nervous that you're shaking and you do something goofy like get confused about which part goes in which hole. No, we're not talking losing your virginity—we're talking about the first time you shop for sex toys!
And what about your first foray into sensual shopping? Did you have a funny or ridiculous experience as you attempted to casually peruse the shelves of some erotic emporium? We want to hear your tales of blush-worthy blunders, dropped dildos, strange salespeople, gift shopping gone wrong, battery-powered bloopers, and general X-rated excellence. Share your stories in the comments, or more anonymously via email. We'll collect the ten most pleasurable moments and award them with oohs and aahs and lots of penis-shaped confetti.
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We will be in Central Philadelphia on August 10th to showcase our latest and coolest software, and will be offering a 2 hours workshop on Cross-platform application development in eC with the Ecere SDK. FOSSCON registration is either free or voluntary 25$ donation, and likewise our workshop is free but donations are appreciated!
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Tombstone Tuesday - John Johnston and his wife, Jane and daughter Mary
4 comments:
- Carole said...
Hi again Janet - I have been drawn to you site because it's Grey County, where some of my ancestors have lived and died.
This is an interesting coincidence, my Great Great Grandfather was also John JOHNSTON. He was born in Ireland in about 1799 and married Catherine RUTLEDGE. They emigrated to Canada in about 1838.
I don't know when they died or where they are buried.
Curious eh?!
- Saturday, May 22, 2010
- Janet Iles said...
Thanks Carole for visiting my site and leaving a comment. I hopped over to your blog and read about your Irish Johnston's who came to Canada.
- Tuesday, May 25, 2010
- Unknown said...
Hi Janet,
Thanks for posting this picture. John and Jane were my great-great-great-grandparents. My grandmother was the daughter of Hugh David MacDonald and Annie Jessie Johnston, Annie Jessie was the daughter of John Johnston and Ruth Annie Hilborn and John's parents were John and Jane.
- Tuesday, October 29, 2013
- Janet Iles said...
Thanks Jen for stopping by and sharing your connection to John and Jane. I am a descendant of his brother David Johnston who married Hannah Hemingway in Unionville, Ontario.
- Thursday, October 31, 2013


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Amplifier power is a series of electronics that is used to strengthen the power (or energy in general). In the field of audio, amplifier will amplify the sound signal (which has been expressed in the form of electric current) on the input it into electric current is stronger at the output. The amount of strengthening is often known by the term gain. Value of the gain is expressed as a function of frequency is called the transfer function.
So the gain is the result of the power output (Pout) and power at the input to its function in the form of frequency. The size of the gain, (G) is usually the Decibel (dB).
So the gain is the result of the power output (Pout) and power at the input to its function in the form of frequency. The size of the gain, (G) is usually the Decibel (dB).
2N3055 Power Amplifier
Skema 2N3055 Power Amplifier. The optimal supply voltage is around 30V, but this amp work from 24 to 32V. The maximal input voltage is around 0.8 - 1V. As you can see, in this design the components have a big tolerance, so you can build it almost of the components, which you find at home. The and transistors can be any NPN type power transistor, but do not use Darlington types. The output power is around 150 Watt.
Amplifier schematic:
Skema Rangkaian 2N3055 Power Amplifier
capacitor C1 regulates the low frequencies (bass), as the capacitance grows, the low frequncies are getting louder.
capacitor C2 regulates the higher frequencies (treble), as the capacitance grows, the higher frequencies are getting quiter.
this is a class B amplifier, this means, that a current must flow through the end transistors, even if there is no signal on the input. This current can be regulated with the 500Ω trimmer resistor. As this current incrases, the sound of the amplifier gets better, but the end transistors are more heating. But if this current decrases, the transistors are not heating so much, but the sound gets worse.


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No one in the Big Ten makes as much money as Jim Tressel, and that's the first time the Ohio State head football coach has held that distinction.
No one in the Big Ten makes as much money as Jim Tressel, and that's the first time the Ohio State head football coach has held that distinction.
Ohio State Athletics Director Gene Smith announced a new contract for his football coach Friday, one that will set up Tressel well beyond his coaching years.
Tressel's pay increase will be phased in this year and will reach $3.5 million next year. That's a $1 million annual raise over the previous agreement. Tressel, under contract now through Jan. 31, 2013, will receive 3 to 4-percent raises each year.
Making Tressel the conference's highest paid coach has been something Smith has mentioned in the past. He feels OSU's coach should lead the conference and be among the country's top-paid coaches.
"Because of our overwhelming regard for Coach Tressel's contributions to Ohio State and our football program, we made a commitment toward keeping him No. 1 in the Big Ten and among the top ranks of coaches nationally," Smith said. "Based upon known compensation figures, this agreement will place him in the top-10 nationally among collegiate coaches."
The new contract updates language in other areas, including the amount of hours Tressel can use the school's jet each year and youth summer camps. Tressel's salary is paid by the athletic department. No public funds are used.
Iowa's Kirk Ferentz was the conference's top-paid coach at almost $3 million a season.
Tressel will make more than USC's Pete Carroll and close to Oklahoma's Bob Stoops.
"There is no place in the world we would rather be, and we will work very hard to serve Ohio State," Tressel said. "The goal that Ellen and I have is to make sure these blessings make a difference to others."
Tressel begins his eighth season as head coach of the Buckeyes today against Youngstown State. He is 73-16, and is one of only four active coaches to have more than 200 career wins (208-73-2). He has taken OSU to three national title games, winning the 2002 national championship. He's won four Big Ten titles.
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Lost Weekend
This being the second Sunday of the month, I had planned to
continue my not-very-well-established second-Sunday routine of
writing on the subject of music. My subject was to have been the
music, or rather say the work, or rather say the post-1982 work,
of Tom Waits…. But I'm not writing about music tonight because I
don't feel like it. (read the whole thing)
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Ever wanted to eat yourself for breakfast? Now you can.
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That's right. For a mere $75, you can put your face on a piece of bread and eat it for breakfast every morning.
The process takes about a week.
And you even get a full-color decal of yourself to put on the front of your toaster when it arrives.
Hypothetically speaking, this means you could take a selfie while eating a piece of selfie toast from your selfie toaster. Pretty deep.
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ESPN day one
Pretty typical day for a spring training game in Clearwater even with ESPN here to televise the game as well as tomorrow's 1:05 game against Atlanta.
Three ESPN trailers and a big satellite uplink vehicle were located in the parking lot on the third base side of Bright House Networks Field.
For the first time, fans throughout the country got a first-hand look at the four-year-old park, which was sold out for the sixth time this spring. Fans began lining up as early as 7:30 a.m. for berm and standing room tickets.
Buck Martinez, one of the three ESPN announcers, called the park the finest he's seen.
An alarm sounded last night in Dunedin when catcher Carlos Ruiz was scratched from the starting lineup and starting pitcher Freddy Garcia was lifted after one inning because of injuries. Assistant GM Ruben Amaro handled a medical update with the media this morning while seated in the Phillies' third base dugout. Ken Mandel has all the details on this site.
If you haven't had a chance, voting for the Phillies Wall of Fame ends on this website at 12:01 p.m. tomorrow. The top five vote getters then are submitted to a special Wall of Fame Selection Committee that will choose the 2007 winner.


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