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While the legislature remains deadlocked over the state budget, voters may play a role in settling the impasse on Nov. 2.
Two competing ballot propositions would point the state in radically different directions from the status quo. The only question remains is which, if either, will pass the voters' muster.
Proposition 25, the "On-Time Budget Act," would deny pay to the legislature for every day the budget is late. But the meat of the proposal centers on lowering the threshold for budget passage from the current two-thirds to a simple majority.
Supporters say that a reduced requirement will end control of the majority by a small minority.
Opponents counter that passage will make it easier for the state to spend money it doesn't have. In fact, Proposition 25 says nothing about changing the vote for raising new revenues, considered by many to be the crux of the state's budget problem.
Still, for people worried about the possibility of runaway spending, voting "no" is the safest way to go.
Proposition 26, "Stop the Hidden Taxes" initiative, goes in the other direction. It would require the legislature to garner a two-thirds vote on any revenue raising effort, including fees.
Currently, when the state raises fees for hunting licenses, state park admissions, or other services, those efforts are often done administratively. The proposition would also require votes on all revenue raising proposals at the local levels, including parking meter rates, business licenses and home improvement fees.
Supporters believe that elected officials have done an "end around" number on the voters through imposing fees over taxes; fees often don't require votes, and new taxes do.
Opponents believe that passage of the proposition will further cripple the ability of governments at the state and local levels to do jobs the voters have elected them to do.
Clearly, Propositions 25 and 26 represent two different visions for California -- one making it easier to enact budgets, the other placing new constraints on governments.
Passage of one or the other will be a powerful message to the state legislature and, no doubt, charter a new course for California in the years to come.
Of course, the voters may well defeat both propositions which will the leave the state's budget process without any direction whatsoever.
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New Guy Onboard- New Perspective on a Passage
Greetings, last week I met one of your colleagues in NC and learned more about your ministry.
I am a retired Navy Chief, and have a son who spent 3 years at war in Afghanistan. He has been struggling for over a year, so I am learning more about combat trauma healing and hoping to help him.
Recently I noticed the passage from Paul's experience II Corinthians 1:3-11, and am amazed at the parallels:
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
4 who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
5 For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.
6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer;
7 and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.
8 For we do not want you to be undaware, brethren, of our affliction which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life;
9 indeed, we had the sentence of death withing ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;
10 who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us,
11 you also joining in helping us through your prayers, so that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the favor bestowed on us through the prayers of many.
May the Lord bless each of you with His peace, presence, power, and perseverance to be comforted from your afflictions and to comfort many other warriors and their families who currently are afflicted.
Thanks for being a blessing (Psalm 67), Kevin
Thank you for your insights and reminding us that God is greater than our afflictions! Blessings to you and your son. Be sure to welcome him home and thank him for giving of himself for the cause of liberty and his comrades, in spite of the politicians who may take his sacrifices lightly.
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Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Allston gets a personal gift from Taylor Swift
The local public school made national news in August when internet trolls on 4chan and Reddit began nominating Horace Mann to win a Papa John's and Chegg-sponsored contest that would send pop singer Taylor Swift to perform at the school with the …
You have to admit that the inet trolls have a sense of humor!
That's "my" girl. She' to savvy. (Or her marketing team is?) To let this "challenge" go unanswered.
I'd still suggest that she do the concert. What better way to insure she's "america's sweetheart".
I wouldn't make a big deal of it. Maybe a "surprise one" like the one at Auburn.
And it's is close to Conor?
(What do you want from a fat old white guy injineer with no life?)
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Suspect in Bangor car fire deaths moved to different jail
Randall Daluz is charged with 3 counts of murder, arson
One of the men charged in the deaths of three Maine residents who were shot then left in a burning car in Bangor has been moved from the Penobscot County Jail to the lockup in neighboring Hancock County.
Penobscot Sheriff Glenn Ross did not say why Randall Daluz was moved, but had previously said he was being held under maximum security, because he was experiencing harassment by friends and family of the victims.
Daluz and Nicholas Sexton face murder charges. Ross tells the Bangor Daily News that Sexton is being held in administrative segregation.
Sexton and Daluz are charged with fatally shooting Daniel Borders of Hermon, Nicolle Lugdon of Eddington, and Lucas Tuscano of Bradford, then setting fire to a rental car with the bodies inside in August.
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Epic failure. No PP goals and only 2 goals in 4 games. Time to clean house, we traded away our future for slow old men and it caught up to us in the third round.
The Pens stars didn't show up and only two goals scored in the series is really pathetic..........
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I'm trying to get my head around using PuTTY to tunnel FTP between two computers (connected via a cross-over cable) at home. I can connect using PuTTY and interrogate the remote PC and I can use "ordinary" (insecure) ftp.exe to access the reomte FTP folder but I'm having trouble setting up the FTP to go through the tunnel.
Here are the settings in PuTTY:
In the Session, I have set the Host IP address to be the remote PC (169.254.17.175) and Port 22. The connection type is SSH.
In the SSH Tunnels, I have set the Source Port to be 9999 and the Destination to be 169.254.17.175:21 with Local, Remote and Dynamic (I have tried using just one of these but it didn't work either). I added each of these to the list of forwarded ports and saved the session.
I opened PuTTY and connected to the remote PC using a login User and Password on that PC (Win2000). I tried using ftp.exe on the local PC (XP Pro) by issuing the commands:
open 127.0.0.1 9999 (I also tried open localhost 9999)
It asked for a user and password and I gave one of several on the remote PC. It confirmed the connection and, when I checked the remote PCs FTP site's Current Sessions, it confirmed that the correct user was connected to the FTP site, apparantly from itself (169.254.17.175) and that, as far as I'm aware, is as it should be.
I issued the commands dir or ls from the ftp.exe and it stalled. I issued CTRL-C and it reported back:
500 Invalid PORT Command
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls
I wondered if the problem was the fact that I was using ftp.exe so I tried using IE7. I entered ftp://127.0.0.1:9999 in the address bar and it asked me for the username and password which I entered correctly. It attempted to retrieve the data but nothing was displayed in IE7 ("Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage"). When I checked the FTP site Current Sessions, it confirmed that I was connected.
It seems that I can connect to the FTP directory on the remote PC but data can't be retrieved and displayed on the local PC, using either the Command Screen or Web Browser. I've tried having c:\Inetpub\ftproot sharing on and off but the doesn't make any difference. I have also disabled ZoneAlarm and I don't have Windows Firewall enabled in any case.
I hope I've explained everything. Any ideas? I know that there are better ways to access FTP securely (WinSCP etc.) but I just want to be able to get this simple (pah!) setup working to make sure that I can, before I move on to more complicated tunnels, such as getting my e-mail.
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Should gold be represented in an investment portfolio? I believe it should, for a number of reasons.
In the short run, gold can be a safe haven in a time of crisis. We don't know what the next crisis will be, but we have seen plenty of "black swan" events over the past two years alone; our markets and our world seem increasingly hard-wired to experience periods of crisis and calm. In this sense, gold can be seen as a short-term hedge, or a short-term speculative play on volatility.
Some may say that we're heading for a period of stability, but that's hard to believe. The Fed is desperately trying to stimulate the economy. Housing prices remain weak. Unemployment remains high. On the political side, the Middle East has been far from stable in recent weeks. We have learned from the past three years that events can move extremely quickly in our increasingly interconnected world. Stability will be more and more fleeting—perhaps permanently.
In the longer term, gold is a good way to invest in expectation of higher inflation—a growing possibility. As governments battle debt problems and central banks intervene on their behalf, we could very well see deliberate weakening of currencies in many developed countries. Why use gold, rather than some other inflation hedge? Simplicity. Gold can be easily held in most portfolios, particularly with the advent of gold-bullion ETFs.
Another consideration for the long term is that gold may partially regain its status as a reserve currency. Individual investors hedging against inflation with gold is one thing, but central banks doing the same is another matter entirely.
If central banks start buying gold in earnest, it will create extra demand. Even if central banks simply hold onto their stockpiles of the metal, they will limit supply. Either scenario gives some support to the gold price.
The reasons for owning gold are not all pessimistic, however. Unprecedented numbers of people are entering the middle class across the globe. As these newly minted members of the middle class continue to save, they will continue to be a growing source of demand for gold—even if gold jewelry starts losing its luster in the U.S. This is actually the reason I started investing in gold for clients back in 2003.
Some may not agree philosophically with the value we place on gold, a metal with few industrial applications that produces no income. But, like anything, its price is determined by supply and demand. Supply has always been limited, and demand has always been high.
Valuable in All Cultures
Throughout history, gold has been valuable to humans of all cultures. Consider how the Spanish conquistadors encountered cultures that also treasured gold. These were two independent civilizations, on what then were completely opposite ends of the Earth, yet both valued this same shiny yellow metal.
In other words, gold was treasured long before the invention of stocks, bonds, fiat currencies, credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligations and the like. When part of a portfolio of income-producing assets, gold gives some protection against that income being eroded by inflation.
Naysayers raise questions about the ethics of owning gold, but debating the ethics of one type of economic activity over another will rarely yield satisfactory answers for everyone. Is mining exploitative to the people in the mines? To the environment? Does it bring prosperity to the producing countries? Or does it foster corruption and poorly diversified economies? These questions have been asked about nearly every product imported into the U.S. If we set our sights on gold for this scrutiny, we should do the same for other products.
To be sure, gold comes with caveats, and investors should incorporate it into their portfolios only with an understanding of the risks. It can be volatile, for one thing, and prices certainly look more frothy than they did a decade ago.
But they're far from bubble territory. Gold, which is currently above $1,400 an ounce, would need to top $2,000 to match its all-time high, adjusted for inflation. Indeed, gold is still something of a contrarian investment. Ten years ago, gold was almost universally hated as an investment. I know firsthand because people thought I was crazy for buying it. Today, gold is still eyed with suspicion by most.
For instance, the GLD exchange-traded fund holds over $53 billion in its vaults; that may sound like a lot, but it is less than 0.1% of the financial assets owned by households and non-financial businesses in the U.S.
It's also true that you may pay a markup for buying gold; the cost of buying a security should be factored in any investment decision. However, there are plenty of popular vehicles that, in my view, charge reasonable prices for exposure to gold: GLD, for instance, costs 40 basis points annually.
Another complaint is that some ways of buying gold come with extra risks. I agree that investors should take those risks into consideration. Gold-mining shares, for one, are definitely more volatile and can be correlated with the stock market especially in sharp declines—so buyer beware.
As for the argument that gold will make lower returns than an investment with dividends and interest—that's simply not knowable. If we look at the past 11 years, the S&P 500, which has dividends, has delivered no returns.
A Modest Allocation
I do not advocate an enormous percentage allocation to gold, but I do think a responsible investor should allocate at least a portion of the portfolio (5% to 10%) to the metal.
In the near term, it offers some protection from the next "Black Swan" event. More long term, it offers a hedge against the threat of inflation. In the meantime, it offers a unique way to invest in the prosperity spreading to the billions who inhabit South and East Asia. These reasons are every bit as applicable now as they were 10 years ago, when gold was worth a quarter of what it is today.
Ref: The Wall Street Journal March 14, 2011 by Janet Briaud.
Ms. Briaud is a certified financial planner and a partner at Briaud Financial Advisors in Bryan, Texas. She can be reached at email@example.com.
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Baltimore has been the backdrop for so many historic moments: the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner," Edgar Allan Poe's last bar crawl. Now, we can add another to the list.
It was here, in 2005, that the love triangle among British actors Daniel Craig, Jude Law and Sienna Miller came to a head.
Craig was in Baltimore to shoot "The Invasion," a forgettable reworking of "The Body Snatchers," when he received an unforgettable call from Law.
Law wanted to know why Craig was hooking up with his then-girlfriend, Miller.
To make it all the more unsavory, the call was apparently being tapped by staffers from the now-defunct, Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid, News of the World.
The revelation came during Law's testimony last week in the British phone-hacking case.
Law told the court that he and Craig "had known each other for many, many years, so the conversation took all sorts of turns," the London Evening Standard reports.
Law's call was not Craig's only dramatic phone conversation during his stint in Baltimore.
Craig was at the Whole Foods in Harbor East when he received the call informing him he had been chosen to be the new James Bond, according to the Daily Mail.


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President Obama is right now flying in the stratosphere of personal popularity. The NBC/Wall St. Journal poll has 68 percent of Americans reporting a favorable view of Obama. It took Bill Clinton getting impeached to reach numbers like that!
Still, the poll shows that Obama is more popular than individual policies (only 54 percent think Obama has the right policies for the country). This demonstrates two things: 1) There is a deep reservoir of good will for the president and, 2) the public likes and trusts Obama to do the right thing.
That last part is key. Trust was a major factor in the last two presidencies. Clinton, of course, had all sorts of problems with the truth -- and ended up being, as mentioned, impeached because of it. Fairly or not, the American people also thought that the Bush administration stretched the truth -- at best -- in getting the country into Iraq. This explains why the so-called "character" issue is still an important element in public life
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Obama had best do all he can to keep his administration's credibility high in the public mind. Unfortunately, some of Obama's nominees are not doing their boss much of a favor. For example, which administration member was sent up to Congress to urge that it pass a law designed to crack down on off-shore tax havens?
Who else could it be but -- Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner!?!? The guy who paid off a delinquent $40,000 tax debt -- acquired when he was working for the International Monetary Fund -- before taking the job?
Yep, that guy:
"We fully support the legislation ... on offshore tax centers, and we look forward to working with you as part of the broader effort to address international tax evasion," Geithner told the House Ways and Means Committee.
The administration's support greatly improves the chances of offshore tax legislation becoming law this year, said Michigan Senator Carl Levin, chief sponsor of the Senate bill.
Well, as the old saying goes, it takes a thief to catch a thief.
Of course, the administration had to send Geithner: They couldn't have its trade representative arguing the case for cracking down on overseas tax cheaters, right?
Well, no -- because that is an office that hasn't been confirmed yet. Why not? Well, of course, the nominee -- former Dallas mayor and one-time U.S. Senate candidate Ron Kirk -- has to pay off a $10,000 tax bill!
He'll also have to amend his tax returns for the last three years.
Again, the polls show that the public currently believes in Barack Obama. But considering what the new president and his team are asking of the public to accept -- outrageous amounts of spending and a fair bit of increased taxes as the answer to economic turmoil -- this perpetual nominating of agency heads delinquent in their taxes will take its toll over time.
The cost will be the president's credibility. Once that starts to erode, getting through the rest of his program immediately becomes that much more difficult -- even with his own party running Congress.
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Finding the perfect boat can be difficult, but there is nothing like seeing the right tool for a job. Getting into shallow water and finding more fish is exactly what Sea Chaser Boats from leading manufacture Carolina Skiff had in mind when developing the "Flats Series,"
Offered in three sizes (160F, 180F and 200F feet in length) the "Flats Series" provides the perfect combination of performance, stability, and options whether you are chasing permit on the flats or snook in the mangroves. With these three great boat length options and manufactured by one of the most trusted name in boat building, the Sea Chaser Flats is the right boat for you if fishing "skinny" is your passion.
Designed with a wide beam and displacement, the Sea Chaser Flats Series draws as little as 7 inches of water (depending on size and load.) Perfect for the shallow water fishing enthusiasts! Plus, great thought went into the design providing a wide range of flats-specific features including insulated bait wells with a Maxi-Air aerator system to keep your bait fresh on the way out and an insulated fish box to keep your catch cold all the way back home.
Additional standard options include lockable rod storages and integrated tackle boxes with pull out trays. Each model comes with push pole holders and is pre-rigged for 12- or 24-volt trolling motors if this is a more favorable way to move along slowly while fishing. Other standard features include a center console with rod holders, seat cushions, quick-disconnect windshield, separate grab rail, flush mount lifting eye, stainless steel pull up cleats, no-feedback steering, lockable dry storage, LED running lights, electric trim tabs with indicator panel and much more. With more standard features provided than most other manufacturers, the Flats Series is ready to fish from the very first moment on the water.
Sea Chaser recognizes anglers desire choices and beyond the standard features, there are many upgradable options you may choose to outfit your own "Flats" model to best suit your needs as well. Upgrades include a 6-inch Atlas hydraulic jack-plate, raw-water washdown, an additional forward live-well with high-speed pick-up, poling platform as well as hydraulic steering with a tilt helm. In addition, boaters have a choice of a canvas T-top or Bimini top (depending on the model.) The T-top option also includes storage as well as LED lighting.
Like all members of the Carolina Skiff lineup, the Sea Chaser Flats Series features all-composite, no-wood construction, the highest level of rigging and best components. And like the rest of the Carolina Skiff family of boats, the Sea Skiff Flats Series is covered by an industry- leading manufacturers' limited warranty. Plus, there is a wide range of power options from today's best manufacturers providing reliable, quiet four-stroke power.
Whether prowling shallow mangrove shorelines for snook, grass flats for spotted seatrout and redfish, deeper channels and flats for tarpon and bonefish or the bright sandflats of the northeast for stripers and bluefish, the Sea Chaser Boats Flats Series by Carolina Skiff is the perfect tool for the job.
There are plenty of options for learning more about Sea Chaser and the entire Carolina Skiff family of boats. Check out their website and get started designing your new dreamboat, with Carolina Skiff's Boat Builder Program at carolinaskiff.com. You can also find a dealer near you and learn more about the brand legacy or follow them on Facebook and Twitter.
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What is the community service sector?
The social service sector provides the community with services that meet a broad range of needs. The delivery of services aims to promote physical, social, emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing. Groups in the community that are marginalised or disadvantaged, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) families and people with a disability, are supported by government and non-government providers of community services. Non-government services are delivered by commercial and not-for-profit organisations.
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Workers in the social service sector are expected to display sensitivity, a concern for others, good communication skills, and a non-judgmental approach to issues faced by individuals and communities. Those who work with children in a regulated sector (as defined by the Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian Act 2000) are required to undergo a suitability check for working with children and be the holder of a current Blue Card. Refer to the Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian Act 2000 for information.
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Rydberg Excitons in Cuprous Oxide:
Excitants determine the optical properties of semiconductors and insulators. Their description as hydrogen atom-like complexes has turned out to be an extremely successful concept.
Excitants determine the optical properties of semiconductors and insulators. Their description as hydrogen atom-like complexes has turned out to be an extremely successful concept. In Rydberg atoms an electron is promoted into a state with very high principal quantum number. Thereby the atom may become a mesoscopic quantum object with dimensions in the micrometer-range. Recently it was shown that also an exciton can be highly excited by observing states with principal quantum number up to n=25 in natural cuprous oxide crystals [1].
This corresponds to an average radius of more than 1 µm so that the exciton wave function covers more than 10 billion crystal unit cells. In the talk similarities to and differences from atoms will be addressed for these Rydberg excitons. Examples are their level splitting in electric and magnetic fields [2], quantum chaos in magnetic field [3], many-body interactions with other carriers as well as quantum optical effects like the Rydberg blockade or dressed state formation [4].
[1] T. Kazimierczuk, D. Fröhlich, S.Scheel, H. Stolz, and M. Bayer, Nature 514, 343 (2014).
[2] J. Thewes, J. Heckötter, T. Kazimierczuk, M. Aßmann, D. Fröhlich, M. Bayer, M. A. Semina, and M. M. Glazov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 027402 (2015).
[3] M. Assmann, J. Thewes, D. Fröhlich, and M. Bayer, Nature Materials 15, 741 (2016).
[4] P. Grünwald, M. Aßmann, J. Heckötter, D. Fröhlich, M. Bayer, H. Stolz, and S. Scheel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 133003 (2016).
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But what is there to say about draining the water that you, a professional, have worked so diligently to put on? Plenty, according to Mike Fallon, vice president of sales for NDS, Inc., a manufacturer of drainage systems and materials based in Lindsay, California.
"Drainage isn't an irrigation item," notes Fallon. "Once you get more involved in landscaping, you get more adept in your understanding of drainage, because with landscaping if you don't have proper drainage you're going to have real problems."
"Water conservation is the buzz word today. More municipalities are mandating that proper drainage be installed in residential homes," says George Shackelford, president of Turf-Tek, a manufacturer of drainage systems in Riverside, California. "Without some form of drainage, there is the chance for future property damage."
There's no doubt that water can cause damage. Consider the drowning of plants, a more imminent threat to plant life than the slow death of drought, which can be rectified if quickly discovered and addressed with hydration. Silt and clay can also be introduced in areas with excess water. But for many in the green industry, water has always been the good guy, thus the reason for the boom in the irrigation business.
"You're putting on water, then you're taking it off," says Fallon. "You're talking about both sides of the street. But if you?re involved in landscaping, in turf and plant life, drainage becomes very critical. And the more you?re involved in poor soils, the more critical drainage becomes. We always stress water management. Water management includes, as a farmer would understand it, putting water on properly and taking it off properly."
There has always been an effort to divert runoff and excess moisture, by properly grading new lawns, installing downspouts, and raising planting areas. For low-lying areas to which these standard fixes do not apply, French drains have been installed, acting as subsurface drains. Basically, these subsurface drains are installed as gravel-filled trenches with perforated pipe in its bottom, allowing water to drain from the surface that surrounds it.
For some landscape contractors, an in-depth drainage project only comes around from time to time, especially in areas where the awareness of the importance of efficient drainage hasn't quite hit home, as in David Cundiff's market in the Ohio Valley. In these areas, traditional solutions are the mainstay, where perforated pipe is run after trenching, either to the street or connected to storm drains.
"Usually the builder installs the drainage system," says Cundiff, owner of Cundiff's Lawn and Landscape Inc. in Jeffersonville, Indiana. "It needs to be fixed if there's a problem they're going to have a mess in their yard if they don't. Usually builders will run all the corners, and if they miss something it'll be in the middle, like from an overhang, that needs to be picked up."
"Drainage is bigger on the West Coast, which is odd because it doesn't rain out here much," says Fallon. "But we've been out here longer. In the southern regions it's a little bigger, but in the Midwest and the Northeast it's not as big. But it's growing, like irrigation."
"The need for drainage products keep growing," says Shackelford. "We keep adding new items to our line to make the contractor's job easier." Like irrigation, the materials and products that make drainage a specialty niche in the green industry, will take time to find their way onto contractor's trucks.
"Traditional methods are still used," says Jim Sabraw, director of marketing for Grass Valley, California-based Permacorp. "Systems such as Perma Panel, (a proprietary subsurface drainage system) part of a more complex drainage solution, are relatively new. As with any new technology, early users will pave the way for the next wave of users until the masses can see the benefit of using these systems."
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As with Cundiff's customers who hear his warning of what too much water, inadequately drained, can do to their lawn and newly planted greenery, many will disregard the issue until it becomes a problem. The challenge is making the public aware of the need for drainage systems, an item that is not often mentioned to win the low bid.
"Unfortunately, landscaping in this area seems to be done mostly by the lowest bidder, and usually without any plan other than the description provided by the owner to the landscaper," says George Wooster of Wooster & Wooster, general engineering contractors specializing in water intrusion in homes. Geotechnical engineering in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties in California means dealing with drainage issues that arise due to poorly draining clay and clay loam.
"If drainage is not considered when landscaping a property, I can virtually guarantee that I shall be visiting the property sometime in the future because of a water intrusion problem," says Wooster. "The cost of intercepting and diverting the water is bad enough, the cost of foundation repairs is astronomical. Nevertheless, homeowners still seem to purchase their landscaping by price. I shouldn't complain; it gives me much more business than I can handle?but what a shame!"
Unless a homeowner wishes to have wetland for property, the stakes should be set high for not installing adequate drainage. Compared to what repair costs may be, running into the several thousand when dealing with foundation repair, installation costs pale in comparison.
For the homeowner, it's a logical service, especially when the facts are laid bare about inadequate drainage: Aside from a plethora of landscape problems, poor drainage leads to weakened foundations, loose facing materials, rotted supporting wall studs and base plates, and structural damage from pests that thrive in wet conditions. But don't assume homeowners know the risks of improper drainage -- it's up to you to educate them.
"We, as landscape contractors, know what's on the market because we see it in the trade publications," says John Allin of Allin Companies in Erie, Pennsylvania. "We have to educate customers most of the time, what's on the market and what?s available."
Homeowners aren't the only ones wet behind the ears; contractors unaware of the best drainage methods for specific jobs are losing out to fast-talking low bidders on their heels.
"One of the things we run up against when we recommend a drainage system that works well, is that these people will also talk with Joe Tailgate Landscaper down the street," notes Allin." And he says, "we can do that with 4-inch drain pipe and sewer pipe and do it for half of what Allin Companies quoted." The customer doesn't realize that they're getting an inferior product that's outdated and antiquated."
Considered the granddaddy of drainage, Shackelford remembers the early development of drainage systems. His introduction began in 1980 when he started a company called Associated Products. He developed and introduced the 9' and 12'" catch basin, which today is the standard of the industry. Over the years, Shackelford has been instrumental in developing additional products. Last year, he introduced the first 18' and 24' one-piece constructed catch basin with steel reinforced grate.
NDS also, has taken the drainage business seriously, and for over 20 years has provided the green and construction industries with solutions. Of the company's newest strategies, discharging the water a drainage system collects is a hot topic, primarily because of the cost factors associated with obtaining permits needed for certain areas of discharge. For example, in some localities, a permit is needed for coring a curb, the norm for drainage to streets. To avoid this, NDS has unveiled a dry well that can be buried with connecting pipes. Once the well fills with runoff, holes in the well allow the excess water to discharge into the existing water table.
Another device is the pop-up emitter, which is opened by the hydrostatic pressure of water flowing through the drainpipe, and is located away from structures and erosion-prone landscapes. Such items allow contractors to lower their quotes by negating the need for special permits.
In many areas of the country, few contractors offer drainage service. And simple economics dictate that offering the rare service spells sales. Contractors who install drainage see it as a more profitable project for them, because they're not getting three other bids from people that are as adept in putting in drainage as they are in installing irrigation. So it's an opportunity for a contractor to sell up. You're setting yourself apart, creating awareness.
Some distributors are helping contractors (their end users) by providing seminars on how to install the systems, and informing them of the costs of installation, to make them more comfortable about the whole matter of drainage. "Once they're comfortable with it, maybe they'll go the next step to promote it," says Fallon. "Then you've really got someone who generates a more profitable position for themselves when they go to a property."
Sabraw agrees: "From the contractor's point-of-view, he needs to think about how he can do the best job possible in dealing with drainage -- not just sticking something in the ground and hope it works. Good work and effective solutions lead to very satisfied customers, which leads to more business, which leads to increased profitability. Presented properly, these more modern and more efficient drainage systems can become a new profit center for the contractor and can set him apart from the run-of-the-mill contractors."


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Jason Sudeikis Is Idiot Soccer Coach Ted Lasso in Hilarious Video
Americans may still be behind the rest of the world when it comes to embracing soccer. never has that been truer than in this rather funny video.
Jason Sudeikis plays Ted Lasso, a former coach with Tottenham Hostspur who's returned stateside to launch his broadcasting career. He's not exactly the most inflated soccer ball on the pitch, though, if you catch our drift.
Soccer will most definitely never be the same.


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Sweet potatoes are one of my personal favorite vegetable. Since my childhood and even till today I always wait for winters so that I could enjoy my favorite veggie because in India sweet potatoes hit the market in winters only. Their irresistible sweet taste makes them often very popular in children and even grown-ups including aged people are fan of this veggie around the world. These sweet potatoes are often mistaken to be like potatoes…Read More


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Power rankings. You hate them. They're so arbitrary and pointless, especially when they include all 32 NFL teams. All you want to know after a good week of NFL action is who the bestest team in the NFL right now, and which one is the absolute worst. The one so awful, it could be left out of college football conference realignment. That's why we have TOP AND BOTTOM OF THE NFL, where we go to great lengths to tell you who's the top dog in football right now, this very minute. LET'S GO!
THE TOP: Detroit Lions
Guess which NFL team currently has the best point differential. What's that? You know it's the Lions because they've already been mentioned above and doing that whole "I bet I can surprise you with this little fact/stat" routine is a hallmark of hacky sportswriting? Ah. Yes, that's true. Still, LOOGIT ALL THOSE POINTS!
And I love that people have already done the whole "Lions lifting up a downtrodden city" thing, as if the only future bright spots for the state of Michigan will come when a sports team does well. Even Bob Costas got in on it the other night in his little halftime verbal essay (there will be a quiz), saying essentially, "Obviously, a football team can't cure a ruined city, BUT THE LIONS TOTALLY WILL!" It's great when people apologize up front for their own clichés.
Anyway, the Lions are terrifying. They're going to the playoffs, and I would not want to be the team facing them.
THE BOTTOM: Kansas City Chiefs
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Everyone's injured. The quarterback has regressed into nothingness. The coach is insufferable. I knew the Chiefs would come back to Earth a bit this season, but I didn't expect them to crater down into the molten core of the Earth.
This team is already a walking corpse, just like the Panthers last season. A brutal, brutal team.


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As children from across Maryland head back to school, students from 32 schools are welcoming baby turtles to their classrooms!
Through the National Aquarium's Terrapins in the Classroom program, hatchling diamondback turtles are collected from Poplar Island and placed in schools across the state. This year's terrapins hatched in late July and early August. Aquarium staff cared for them until they began to eat regularly. This week and next week, the terrapins are being delivered to their new schools!
Students are charged with collecting growth data on the terrapins, observing their behavior, and researching their natural history. Along the way, they learn basic husbandry (animal care) skills and gain a unique connection to the Chesapeake Bay. At the end of the school year, students will release their terrapin back on Poplar Island.
Last school year, Matthew Floyd, an eighth grader from Lime Kiln Middle School, made a special connection with the terrapin at his school. Nicknamed "Leo" by the students, the terrapin was a key component of the school's special education program. Every day Matt made sure to stop by to check on Leo and feed him. Matt's experience with Leo taught him about how his actions can impact the environment. "We humans are finally learning from our mistakes, and that means everyone's happy, including our animal friends," he said.
This school year, hundreds of students, just like Matt, will develop a meaningful connection with their terrapin. Through this hands-on approach to conservation, the Terrapins in the Classroom program hopes to inspire life-long environmental stewardship.
The good news is there are many ways that you, too, can help diamondback terrapins! You can do your part by protecting wetlands, helping to ensure trash does not end up in our waterways, and practicing terrapin-safe crabbing!


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May 25, 2009
And Now The Time Has Come
Each day I found myself counting on my fingers how many days I had left of the vacation. I know that sounds kind of weird because I really should have just been enjoying myself rather than participating in my own personal count-down , but I couldn't help it. Perhaps I place far too much emphasis on vacations?
Spencer tells me that I have to stop thinking of my vacation like it's an all or nothing event. Of course he's right. Before the vacation I wrote down lists of things to get done since I had all that time off. I was going to get my car detailed, visit Walden Pond and hang up mini-blinds and balance the check book. Instead I had a very nice and relaxing vacation.
We stayed overnight in Freeport, Maine. I got the Mazda 3 inspected. I got caught up on all my RSS feeds and cleaned out my in box. We saw Penn & Teller at the MGM Theater at Foxwood Casino this past Thursday night. I went clothes shopping and had lunch at Red Robin. We took Minnie to the park and I cooked up some burgers. And how can I forget this past Saturday when I finally got around to organizing all my office supplies down in the basement. You may not think this would have been a big deal, but it was office supplies and anyone who knows me can attest that I love me some office supplies. Everything is finally organized and has a place. It feels pretty good.
I read a little bit this afternoon and took my last long nap of the vacation. But it's OK. I know there are more fun things to come my way. I'm looking forward to the start of Summer and soft serve ice cream although I'm not sure in which order.
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MONTREAL — Emergency room doctors helped implement seatbelt use, lung specialists led the charge to reduce cigarette smoking. Now, a group of sleep specialists meeting in Montreal is agitating for a sleep policy.
That's right. A good night sleep is so important for physical and mental well-being that its lack poses a grave risk to public health, experts say.
If science has yet to unravel the mystery of why we need to sleep, the toll of inadequate slumber is well-documented in studies linking bad sleep to obesity, cancer, cardiovascular diseases and metabolic disorders. Lack of sleep weakens the immune system.
Look at the numbers: 25 per cent of adults don't get enough sleep or have chronic insomnia, said psychologist Reut Gruber, director of the attention, behaviour and sleep lab at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute in Montreal.
But the worst group for sleeplessness is adolescents: up to 80 per cent of Canadian students come to school extremely sleep-deprived, while the portrait of school age children "isn't pretty . . . 43 per cent are going to bed at a very, very late time."
Robust evidence on sleep deprivation and health consequences led most medical schools in North America, including Montreal's McGill University, to abolish 24-hour shifts for medical residents. Not only do sleepless nights impede students' ability to learn, they can lead to medical errors that put patients at risk.
Fatigue is cumulative, and crashing on weekends to play catch-up doesn't work, said Gruber, who is bringing together about 40 sleep scientists from across Canada and the United States to discuss how to translate sleep medicine research, specifically pediatric sleep, into educational and public policies and lifestyle changes.
Some people suffer from sleep apnea or other medical problems that interfere with slumber, but for many, the chief culprit is the mistaken belief that sleep is a waste of time.
"Sleep feels like it's something we can give up when we have other competing priorities," said Gruber, who is chair of the pediatric interest group, Canadian Sleep Society. "Our choices are going to affect many things that are important to us."
In fact, sleep should be a high health priority, along with eating well and exercising, she said.
Children, for example, need at least nine hours of sleep, Gruber said. Among other functions, sleep allows the brain to do its "executive actions", consolidating learning and memory, something that is imperative for academic performance, she said.
Working guidelines on good sleep hygiene would mean, for example, that sports and cultural activities would not be scheduled late on school nights.
"I'm very excited to hear presentations from the (Quebec) institute of public health on this topic. It's a great step forward," Gruber said. "My request to each presenter was to identify barriers to integrating pediatric sleep into public health and the education systems.
"We have the knowledge. We have the evidence. Why can't we integrate it and overcome the barriers?"
Five common myths about sleep.
- Sleep is a time when your body and brain shut down for rest and relaxation.
False. Our bodies and brains actually do a lot of work while we sleep, which helps us to refuel and to stay healthy and happy. Sleep also plays an important role in memory and learning; as we sleep, we consolidate all the information we learned during the day.
- Sleep is less important than some of our other important basic needs, such as eating.
False. Even cutting our sleep by one hour one night has a serious impact on our health, mood, and behaviour the following day. Furthermore, a single night of partial sleep deprivation is enough to impair our immune functioning, which heightens our risk for acquiring a virus or illness.
- Adolescents need less sleep than younger children.
False. While it is true that adolescents tend to get less sleep than younger children and may have a harder time falling asleep, getting an adequate amount of sleep is still just as important for their development and well-being as it is for younger people.
- Sleeping in on weekends compensates for lack of sleep throughout the week.
False. Having a consistent bedtime and wake time throughout the week is important to ensure we maintain healthy sleep habits. Waking up early throughout the week and then sleeping in on the weekends creates an irregular sleeping schedule and confuses our bodies. If we do not get enough sleep one night, a better way to compensate for this is a short nap in the afternoon.
- Alcohol and other sedatives help us to sleep.
False. While alcohol may help us to fall asleep easily and quickly, it actually disrupts our sleep and prevents us from achieving a deep, restful sleep. Sleeping pills can be problematic. If we use them regularly and then stop, it becomes difficult to fall asleep without their use, thus starting a vicious cycle of dependence.
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SIMON, Francisco. Towards the Representation of an Epic-Queer City: Diego Ramírez Gajardo. Aisthesis [online]. 2012, n.51, pp.203-215. ISSN 0718-7181. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-71812012000100013.
The following article aims to install the work El baile de los niños, by Chilean poet Diego Ramírez Gajardo, into the context of a homosexual enunciation preceded at least since the seventies. Thus, I will think about two vocal registers that, fused, will develop a metaphor where dance will reveal the impostures of a national culture placed in the urban space. The first register refers to the intertextual relation with Pablo Neruda's Canto General; the second, symbolizes the transvestite constitution of the poetic voice. Then, the conjugation of both discourses will shape a queer epic, that is, a type of discursive intersection marked by a bidirectional flow between the sublimation and the degradation of the represented world; an appropriation of the national history by the sexual dissidence.
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TRENTON (AP) - A new poll finds the race for U.S. Senate in New Jersey has tightened.
The Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday shows 53 percent back Democratic Newark Mayor Booker, while 41 percent support former Bogota Mayor Lonegan. The special election is scheduled for Oct. 16.
A poll of registered votes in August showed Booker with a 25-percentage-point lead over the conservative Republican.
Booker gets the majority of his backing from women, who support him 60-34. Men and independents are split.
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Youth today increasingly live in a world in which they often see unethical choices rewarded. Whether it is television, movies, music, or what they see with their own eyes in their own neighborhoods, they see a world which seems to encourage being dishonest.
The facts reflect the sorry state of affairs among America's youth. Over half of youth have cheated on a test in the last year. A quarter of underage youth have drunk alcohol in the past year. Sixteen percent have smoked marijuana at least 5 times. Violence has increased even in communities which formerly have seemed immune to it.
However, youth who have participated in the Scout Movement, while not perfect, have fewer incidences of drug use, truancy, and violence. Eighty three percent of former Scouts report that their Scout experience helped them to be better leaders. Those who have participated in the Scout Movement are more likely to graduate from both high school and college.
While the Scout Movement is not a cure for all social problems, youth who have participated have a better chance for a brighter future.
The Scout Programs of Adventure Scouts USA are part of the solution. Our Scouts are not only participating in the Scout Movement, but participating in a Scout Program in which our Scouts acquire the knowledge of being even-handed, caring, responsible, and fully nondiscriminatory. Because our Scout Programs are based on Scout choice, our Scouts develop real knowledge of solutions to problems, and gain experience making good choices. They recognize that their choices determine their future.
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Harajuku Suicide —— Suicide Girl of the Day
Harajuku Suicide is a 21-year-old SuicideGirl from Canada. She's also proof that all punky girls from Canada don't marry the guy from Nickleback.
In addition to being a film student and a feminist, Harajuku Suicide fancies herself a Sith apprentice. In accordance with her Sith-dom, she claims to be a 'proficient lightsaber duelist,' as well as to have ESP (meaning Extra-Sensory Perception, not that channel that shows SportsCenter all.the.time.).
Harajuku Suicide also has six tattoos and five piercings, including her nose, navel, septum, nipple and the VCH, which sounds like more of an OUCH to us. That means Harajuku Suicide has 11 body mods, which seems like a lot.
We're pretty sure that Darth Vader's body mods were a lot more extreme.
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OCCUPATION: Sith Apprentice. Feminist hellraiser. Film student. Future undersea colonizer.
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The following is a guest blog post by Cliff McClintick, chief operating officer of Doc Halo. Cincinnati-based Doc Halo sets the professional standard for health care communication offering secure messaging for physicians, medical practices, hospitals and healthcare organizations. The Doc Halo secure messaging solution is designed to streamline HIPAA-compliant physician and medical clinician sharing of critical patient information within a secure environment.
For many physicians, the days of manila folders and paper charts are a distant memory.
For many others, they never existed.
But patient records are only one area where technology is redefining how doctors work. Newer tools, especially mobile apps, are taking the place of 3,000-page reference books, phone-tag inducing pagers and even plastic anatomical models.
About 78 percent of physicians in a Kantar Media survey released in January said they used smartphones for both professional and personal tasks. They had downloaded an average of seven apps in the last six months.
Here are a few app categories that can make any doctor's life easier:
- Drug database. The old way to find out about a drug — what it does, proper dosing, potential interactions — was to flip through a rather large tome. Web-based drug databases eliminated much of the page-turning, and now mobile apps are making the process even handier.
- Journal reference. Doctors are increasingly relying on mobile devices to help them keep up with research in their field. About 21 percent of physicians use smartphones to read medical journals, according to Kantar Media, and 28 percent use tablets to read them. The New England Journal of Medicine makes recent articles, along with images, audio and video, available through its free NEJM This Week app for iPhone and iPod Touch. Many other medical publishers have similar offerings.
- Secure texting. Physicians text as much as anybody. Regular SMS text messages, however, are not HIPAA-compliant. Physician messaging platforms developed by companies such as Doc Halo allow doctors to text about work while keeping their patients' health information safe. Features to look for include encryption with federally validated standards, limited data life for messages and a remote mobile wipe option in case the phone is lost. Secure texting eliminates the games of phone tag caused by the pagers that are still in use at many hospitals.
- EMR. Records are going mobile, too, with large and small EMR vendors alike releasing mobile apps. In a survey last year, Black Book Rankings found that only 8 percent of doctors used a mobile device for accessing patients records, ordering tests, viewing results or ordering medications. But 83 percent said they would do so if their current EMR had the capability.
- Image viewer. Several apps now let doctors view X-ray, CT, MRI and other diagnostic images on their mobile devices. Physicians get an initial impression based on the app and then take a closer look when they get to a full imaging workstation with higher resolution. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulates these apps as medical devices.
- Billing. These apps help physicians capture diagnoses and billing codes on the go, such as when seeing patients in the hospital. Doctors can instantly transmit the data to their front desk or a billing company, speeding up payment and reducing the chance of lost charges.
- Patient education. These apps, which are often specialty-specific, allow doctors to call up images and even videos of body parts and their functions — and malfunctions. For example, a cardiologist might use a video showing what mitral valve prolapse looks like. Plastic models look nice, and they're a great way for patients to get a hands-on sense of certain conditions and treatments. But they'll never match the number of structures and processes these apps can illustrate.
No app can replace the knowledge and skill that a physician develops through years of training and experience. These mobile tools provide convenience and remove barriers to efficient practice, allowing doctors to spend more time on patient care.
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Yul Kwon, winner of 2006's Survivor, is now deputy chief of the FCC's consumer and gov't affairs bureau, according to the Washington Post.
Kwon, a Yale grad who's also co-hosted Shark Week and had his wedding covered by the TV Guide Channel, said the show "happened at a good time in my life."
"I feel like this country is in a critical time right now," he told us. "If there's one place you can have an impact, it's here."
In the new job Kwon said he'll be tasked with making the commission more consumer-friendly and educating the public on "why telecom issues are relevant to their lives."


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In: International Journal of Dream Research, 4 (2011), Nr. 1. pp. 3-7
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The discussion between J. Allan Hobson and Michael Schredl covers a broad variety of topics that are still"hot" in dream research. The starting point is the continuity hypothesis of dreaming which is complemented by AllanHobson's theory of protoconsciousness. Whereas there is no disagreement that waking life is reflected in dreams, thediscussion evolves around discontinuity, i.e., how dream activities are explained that the dreamer never experienced inhis/her waking life, and possible functions of dreaming. These functions might include preparation for waking life or personalgrowth. The aim of this paper is to stimulate a discussion among the researchers in the field on these topics whichare of fundamental importance for neurophysiological and psychological dream research.
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Kurt Nimmo
December 23, 2009
Israel now shares a monstrous distinction with China. It illegally harvests organs from the dead. The former head of Israel's Abu Kabir forensic institute has admitted the ghoulish practice, according to a reported published by The New Zealand Herald. Abu Kabir's forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, primarily Palestinians, without the permission of their families.
|Palestinians have feared for many years that Israeli Occupation Forces in the West Bank and Gaza have targeted them for organ harvest.
In August it was reported by Aftonbladet, Sweden's largest circulation daily, that Israeli troops killed Palestinians specifically to harvest their organs. The report appeared after an American Jew was arrested in the United States for illicit organ trafficking. The story made news in Israel, where some commentators compared it to medieval libels that Jews killed Christian children for their blood. Daniel Seaman, who heads Israel's government press office, said the article played on "vile anti-Semitic themes," according to the Associated Press.
The Swedish newspaper reported that Israeli soldiers targeted Palestinians specifically in order to harvest their organs.
Journalist Donald Bostrom wrote in the article that Palestinians "harbor strong suspicions against Israel for seizing young men and having them serve as the country's organ reserve – a very serious accusation, with enough question marks to motivate the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to start an investigation about possible war crimes."
An Israeli official called Bostrom's story "hate porn" and the American magazine Commentary wrote that the story was "merely the tip of the iceberg in terms of European funded and promoted anti-Israel hate."
"The fact is, however, that substantiated evidence of public and private organ trafficking and theft, and allegations of worse, have been widely reported for many years. Given such context, the Swedish charges become far more plausible than might otherwise be the case and suggest that an investigation could well turn up significant information," writes Alison Weir, executive director of If Americans Knew.
The latest accusation was revealed in connection to the Swedish report. The former head of Abu Kabir forensic institute, Dr Jehuda Hiss, was interviewed in 2000 by an American academic who released the interview because of the report in Aftonbladet and the denials of the Israeli government. "We started to harvest corneas," Hiss told the academic. "Whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family."
"We'd glue the eyelid shut," Hiss added. "We wouldn't take corneas from families we knew would open the eyelids."
Israel's Channel 2 TV aired parts of the interview over the weekend.
In addition to corneas, skin, heart valves, and bones were taken from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without permission from relatives.
Hiss also said skin was taken from the backs of dead Palestinians and the families of the dead never discovered the theft because they did not examine the bodies before burial. Muslim custom dictates that the deceased be buried as soon as possible after death, avoiding the need for embalming or otherwise disturbing the body.
After the interview aired on television, the Israeli military admitted the macabre practice.
Palestinians have feared for many years that Israeli Occupation Forces in the West Bank and Gaza have targeted them for organ harvest.
In an article published in the Washington Report on Middle East Affair, Mary Barrett reports on the killings of young Palestinians. Her report contains an interview with Dr. Hatem Abu Ghazalch, the former chief health official for the West Bank under Jordanian administration and director of forensic medicine and autopsies. Barrett asks Ghazalch about "the widespread anxiety over organ thefts which has gripped Gaza and the West Bank since the intifada began in December of 1987."
"There are indications that for one reason or another, organs, especially eyes and kidneys, were removed from the bodies during the first year or year and a half," Ghazalch responded. "There were just too many reports by credible people for there to be nothing happening. If someone is shot in the head and comes home in a plastic bag without internal organs, what will people assume?"
In 2000, Nancy Scheper-Huges characterized organ harvesting as a form of modern cannibalism. "Today, China stands alone in continuing the use of organs of executed prisoners for transplant surgery," she wrote.
Now Israel joins China as an international outlaw in this gruesome practice.
Organ harvesting will now be added to the list of Israel's war crimes and human rights violations in the Occupied Territories.
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The Imp is a rare monster type that only appears in select dungeons. It has low stats, but blinks to a random tile every time you strike it, which can deny you an easy kill if you haven't reached the place it blinks to.
You can prevent Imp from blinking if you
- knock the enemy into a wall (with PISORF, Bear Mace or any other source of knockback)
- push another enemy into it via PISORF (it will still teleport if you push the Imp into another monster)
- make monster Slowed with WONAFYT, WEYTWUT or Entanglement.
They also don't teleport when you ignite burning stacks by attacking something else, but that fact generally works against you.
If you can pump both your health and mana into hurting it you can easily kill imps 1-2 levels above you. It may be worth the gamble to attack them even if you can't prevent the teleport, especially if you can poison it first. You can tell where imps teleport to by watching the animation after you hit it, so you might be able to chase it down to finish it off.


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#ManicureMonday: Guess This Celeb Mani
So, Coachella-loving Vanessa Hudgens had one of the coolest manis we've seen at the festival thus far! She was spotted rocking a floral maxi with henna-covered hands and nails adorned with tons of crystals. V took a beverage break from the intense desert sun with Activate Fruit Punch, where we got a good close up of thse tips—love them!
Follow these steps to copy V's look from celebrity manicurist Patricia Yankee:
- Shape nails into a tapered almond style.
- Polish the nails with two coats of nude polish, such as Clay or Earth from Patricia Nail Lacquer. Let dry completely.
- Using a white nail art pen such as Sally Hansen's, draw thin line designs in swirl patterns and lines to duplicate henna nail art patterns. Don't be afraid to change up the looks from finger to finger!
- Once you have formed the lines into your desired patterns, apply a top coat to one nail at a time, then use a toothpick to add Swarovski crystals into the wet top coat accenting the henna nail detail.
- Once you have your desired patterns, finish all nails with a top coat to seal. Note: if you want a longer nail length or a temporary look because your lifestyle doesn't allow for long nails all the time, try decorating pre-glued nails before applying and then press on for your special event or night out.
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This morning we conclude our previews of the new (Summer) issue of the Claremont Review of Books (subscribe here). The issue is up to the CRB's usual standards and full of good stuff. Even the ads are good. Hillsdale College announces that it is republishing the multivolume authorized biography of Churchill (including the companion document volumes) by Martin Gilbert. The CRB itself announces that it is looking for an assistant editor (text more here).
One of the premier essay/reviews in the issue is Diana Schaub's review of the two-volumne Library of America set American Speeches. In her review, Professor Schaub notes the decline in American oratory represented in the transition from the first to the second volume and asks what accounts for it:
Juxtaposing the two volumes reveals striking changes in the locus and character of American political rhetoric. The cover art epitomizes the shift. Volume I has a painting of a robed Patrick Henry declaiming before the Virginia House of Burgesses. It is clear he is speaking to a body of distinguished equals, men who will have their own thoughts on the matter at hand, and one suspects, rather high standards for persuasive speech. The second volume has a photo of President Kennedy speaking in front of three microphones to an undepicted, but one assumes mass, audience. In the first volume there are only seven speeches by sitting presidents, including three from Lincoln. In the second volume, there are 34. Even more telling is that from the Revolution through World War I, there are 19 congressional floor speeches, mostly by senators. After Henry Cabot Lodge's speech in opposition to the League of Nations, there is not a single floor speech (though there are two brief statements made in committee). Oratory and Congress have declined in tandem. The erudite Lodge was the last to employ extensive Latin in a speech; there is one simple Latin phrase in Kennedy's "ich bin ein Berliner" speech, but nothing like the full sentences from men steeped in literature and history.
The only compensation for the decline is that as the speeches get worse, they mostly get shorter. When all you have are bullet-points, your ammunition is pretty quickly spent. Modern presidential speeches are composed of dry, detailed lists of promised programs sandwiched between warmed-over boilerplate. It's the very combination that Tocqueville predicted: the boring particulars and the vapid generalizations; "the intermediate space is empty." The richness of earlier rhetoric, particularly in the Senate, is on display in the great triumvirate of Clay, Calhoun, and Webster. Volume I contains the speech each made in the Senate on the Compromise of 1850. Clay's speech alone is 67 pages long and must have taken at least six hours to deliver. This is not filibustering where a senator reads aloud names from the phone book. This is closely reasoned argumentation on the constitutional powers of the federal government with respect to slavery. Seeing the length of these speeches, I intended to skim them but couldn't. They were gripping precisely because they made demands on the listener.
We will have many occasions over the coming days to behold the decline on which Professor Schaub meditates in her thoughtful essay: "The greatness and decline of American oratory."
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Following yet another abridged start by Kevin Slowey on Monday in Toronto, Ron Gardenhire implored his marksman to throw to contact more. "That's how he will get away from those 100-pitch, five inning performances," Gardenhire said Monday night, "by making guys swing the bat." In truth, opponents have been swinging just fine against the Twins righty. Slowey's opposition is swinging at 48.8 percent of his pitches, well-above the 44.7 percent league-average.
Gardenhire continued by saying "[He needs to] pitch to contact better because he's got great stuff and he can move the ball in and out. [He] just has to not try and be so fine and get them to hit the ball." Likewise, contact does not see to be a problem for opposing batters either. According to Fangraphs.com, since '08, Slowey's swinging strike percentage has dropped from 8.6 to 7.7 to just 5.8 this year. His contact rate has jumped from 82.3 percent to 83.5 percent in '09 to his current 87.7 percent.
The Twins manager is correct in assuming Slowey has been too fine at his approach at the plate. As he has nibbled outside the zone more frequently this season, the right-hander has found himself behind hitters more often. In '08 and '09, opponents were in favorable counts 26 and 25 percent of the total plate appearances. This season, that percentage has increased to 32 percent. Seeing more favorable counts has led to more hittable pitches thus the higher contact rate.
But there's more. Slowey's not getting nearly the same movement on his pitches this year as he had up to this point in his career. Here is a view from above on Slowey's pitch mix in 2010:
Compare that to what his assortment looked like in 2009:
Or to 2008:
In comparison to the two prior years, it is obvious that Slowey's pitches in 2010 are flat and not experiencing the same type of movement. Furthermore, there is a glaring difference between several pitches in his repertoire, the most notable being his slider. In the previous two seasons, Slowey's slider cut through the space in front of the plate from right-to-left and on average wound up outside of the strike zone.
Without the movement of the slider, Slowey has taken on heavy fire from right-handed opponents:
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Aside from his fastball, Slowey turns to his slider nearly 20 percent of the time when dealing to righties. Whereas in past seasons when he was able to avoid hard contact and occasionally rack up a strikeout, same-sided opponents have feasted on his assortment.
Perhaps this is lingering effects of his off-season wrist injury. After all, in February Slowey remarked that his throwing wrist had a new sensation and wasn't certain if it would ever feel the same again. The wrist is heavily utilized in pitching to put various spin on the ball hence moving it in different directions in the zone. Without spin and deflection, Slowey's margin for error decreases that much more.
Without question, Slowey deserves several more starts to find the right track. However, if he continues to exit in the fifth inning and further tax the bullpen, Brian Duensing is always available as a potential replacement.


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1. In the beginning, the author describes events and objects as belonging to either an "Inside" or "Outside" world. What do these divisions represent? Do the two halves ever change or overlap?
2. Leigh's childhood is split between two very different worlds. How do you think her life would have been different if she had only grown up in Alaska, or only in Baltimore? What did the combination of these experiences give her?
3. Leigh begins Part II "The Middle of the Woods" with the memory of swimming with a dolphin family. Why do you think she chose this story as a transition to the adult part of her memoir?
4. Acquiring Leonard the dog and a more homelike new apartment represent an important life change for Leigh. What do they signify? Have you had any similar markers of transitional moments in your life?
5. Despite the belief that opposites attract, Leigh and Lawrence seem to get along because of their similarities. What does Lawrence provide for Leigh and vice versa? How does their relationship change over time?
6. Leigh insists on catching a king salmon despite her admitted indifference to the fish. Why do you think this is? What does catching a king salmon mean for Leigh and her Great Alaskan life? Have you ever done something like this?
7. Leigh and her mother have a complex relationship. What does her mom's commitment to finding the wedding dress help Leigh understand?
8. Why is the scene in the Parisian flower shop an important moment for Leigh? What does she learn?
9. On page 125 Leigh realizes, "That's the thing about parents…you don't have to see them all that much to imitate them." In what ways do the characters in this memoir imitate their parents?
10. How does Leigh's relationship with her father transform over the course of her life? What were the most influential moments? What has she learned about her father and herself by their conversation in Chapter 15?
11. Why is Nana such an important character to Leigh? How does she compare to Leigh's other grandmother, Maybelle? Why are both important in shaping the author's development?
12. On page 220, Leigh wonders "how long do you have to live somewhere for it to be home?" How would you answer her question?
13. Of all the themes in the memoir—wanderlust, travel, family, home, and love in all its permutations—which did you find the most compelling? Why?


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WASHINGTON (SBG) - Looking for love isn't easy and the cost of dating can add up depending on where you live.
The average cost of a date is approximately $102.32, according to Wallet Hub. Things to do, cost of living, things to do and places to eat can influence whether a city is best for singles. Opportunities for matches on popular dating apps and online dating websites also factor into a cities' s "dating-friendliness."
Wallet Hub compared more than 180 cities from around the nation to determine which are best for singles.
The city that took the top spot as the best city for singles, Atlanta, Georgia. The worst city is Brownsville, Texas.
However, Detroit, Michigan has the highest share of singles at 73.77 percent according to the report, while Fremont California has the lowest with 37.71 percent.
If you are taking your date to dinner, Garden Grove California had the least costly restaurant-meal cost averaging at $12.78. The most expensive is Dover, Delaware costing approximately $120.00.
Port St. Lucie, Florida is best for taking your date to the movies. The average ticket price averages to $6.63. Atlanta has ranked as the most expensive costing moviegoers an average of 14.93.
Here is a list of the top ten best and worst cities for singles around the nation.
Best Cities for Singles
- Atlanta, Georgia (Best)
- Denver, Colorado
- San Francisco, California
- Portland, Oregon
- Los Angeles, California
- Seattle, Washington
- Chicago, Illinois
- San Diego, California
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Portland, Maine
Worst Cities for Singles
- Laredo, Texas
- Yonkers, New York
- Lewiston, Maine
- Glendale, California
- Warwick, Rhode Island
- South Burlington, Vermont
- Pearl City, Hawaii
- Hialeah, Florida
- Pembroke Pines, Florida
- Brownsville, Texas (Worst)
Didn't see your city on the list? Click here to read the full report.


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Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon are still going strong, a rep for Jake told Access Hollywood on Sunday.
"No split!" the rep told Access.
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Similarly, a rep for Reese told Us Weekly that the couple was still together.
Earlier on Sunday, People reported that the couple had called it quits, citing a source close to Reese.
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The couple, thought to have linked up on the set of 2007's "Rendition," have been photographed in recent months out hiking in Los Angeles and enjoying the performances at the Coachella Music Festival earlier this year. The couple moved in together last year, according to several reports.
"He's fabulous," Reese said about Jake in the April 2009 issue of ELLE. "He really is a fantastic guy."
Jake appeared happy and animated to Access Hollywood producers at the press junket for his latest film, "Brothers," at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York last Saturday, joking with members of the press and showing no signs that any split was imminent.
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