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Washington (CNN) - House Republicans are calling out the president for missing Monday's deadline to submit his budget to Congress, and they plan on holding a vote Tuesday to draw attention to the lapse.
By law the president is required to deliver his budget for the upcoming fiscal year to Capitol Hill the first Monday in February. This year marks the fourth time in five years this administration's submission will be late.
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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney suggested that reporters should focus on "substance over deadlines" when asked Monday why the president failed to meet the deadline.
Carney argued that the House GOP budgets were "highly partisan" and maintained that the president "has put forward consistently budgets that achieve what the American people overwhelmingly support."
Continuing their longstanding offensive to label the White House and Senate Democrats as not serious about reining in record budget deficits, House GOP leaders scheduled a vote for Tuesday on a bill to drive their message home and force the administration to give Congress more details about its fiscal plans.
The "Require a PLAN" Act, sponsored by Georgia Republican Rep Tom Price, instructs the president to produce a budget that brings the federal budget into balance within ten years or submit a plan to Congress by April 1st explaining what year the administration's budget would do that.
House Republican leaders released statements Monday, one after the other, criticizing the administration for ignoring the law.
"For the fourth time in five years this White House has proven it does not take trillion-dollar deficits seriously enough to submit a budget on time," House Speaker John Boehner said in his statement.
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said, "Every time the President and Senate Democrats shirk their duty, they delay choices we need to make. We've still got time, but it's dwindling. Every missed deadline is a missed opportunity. We need to get serious about spending now."
Carney did not say whether the president would submit his budget before his State of the Union address, which is scheduled for February 12th.
Boehner recently told House Republicans that he supports Ryan's goal of drafting a bill that will balance the budget in ten years - a move that would require significant spending cuts and dramatic changes to entitlement programs.
In contrast, the budget the GOP-led House passed last year that was drafted by Ryan took more than 25 years to balance. Democrats held up Ryan's budget and its proposal to overhaul Medicare as a major political issue in the 2012 elections, and would likely zero in on the changes in this year's version to argue the GOP plan could hurt seniors and slash popular federal programs.
Last week the Democratic-led Senate passed the House GOP's bill to suspend the nation's debt ceiling through May. It also included a provision requiring each chamber to approve a budget by April or members' paychecks would be withheld. Senate Democratic leaders claimed they already had plans to pass their own budget, even though they haven't held a vote on one in four years.
Is this SOMETHING NEW? I think NOT...Senate hasn't passed a bill in 4 1/2 years !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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"Getting his budget shot down for no other reason than the fact that HE submitted it has stopped being a presidential priority.
Live with it. You'll get it when he's good and damn ready to give it to you. Capisce?"
Sorry, this a not a third-world banana republic. We have laws and rules. Obama was elected President, not king or emperor.
Why bother submitting an annual budget when the House is running the country with Continuing Resolutions? Wouldn't it be a moot point? We have had CR's ever since TARP was passed.
Ryan clearly needs a Civics class. The fedral budget begins in the U.S. House of Representatives. You know, the place that is STILL trying to vote down the ACA, and take away a woman's legal right to choose. They have NO interest in a budget. Thay can't even do basic math!
Obama should put out his budget with all the budget cuts that will go into effect in 2 months, and watch the war mongering Republicans start crying about the defence spending cuts!
And the followers of the bamman continue with thier excuses and blaming bush. its ok we need fodder also.
Since there was always a budget presented all 8 years, there would not have been any issues.
This President is just lazy
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Should have included the WH in the no budget, no pay clause..but make it no budget, no use of air force one.
Yes, if they had done that back when W was President, think of all the trips to Crawford that would have been prevented.
So when the Redumblicans say their main concerns is jobs, jobs, jobs in 2010 and it is 2013 and we still have not heard what they propose to produce more jobs--Quit your complaining and get on to solving the business of the country. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF THE BICKERING AND CONGRESS NOT GETTING ANYTHING DONE....
Would it be too much to ask for the GOP to actually make an actual, meaningful proposal, rather than just being a bunch of worthless, do-nothing, whining crybabies? Let's recap – shall we? Number one goal of the GOP during Obama's first term (recall when he inherited the worst economy in 70 years?) – "make Obama a one-term President." That was number one. Their success rate on their agenda? Epic fail. I guess even Bobby Jindal can't persuade the Party of Dumb to "smartin' up." And it's clear that they just plain lack the competence to lead anyone anywhere – celebrating stupidity and reinforcing ignorance. These House clowns would be comical, if it weren;t for the fact that they are inflicting great harm.
Look at greece thats what obama is getting the u.s.a into. Wake up middle class!!! When he
Says more revenues that means mortgage deductions and child credits. He will never have enoug
Ummm.. Last time I checked the Republicans have passed a budget out of the House for the last two years. You might not like their proposal, but it is a meaningful one.
Also, governing isn't the art of the opposition shutting up and doing what the President says. Apparently, this is what the leftist posters feel it is, but since we don't live in a one-party dictatorship.. sorry. The Republicans have ever right to oppose what they feel is bad policy.
Let's see -the the article states "BY LAW the president is required......." Must be nice to pick and choose what laws to obey and what to ignore.
Ummm.. Last time I checked the Republicans have passed a budget out of the House for the last two years. You might not like their proposal, but it is a meaningful one.
Also, governing isn't the art of the opposition shutting up and doing what the President says. Apparently, this is what the leftist posters feel it is, but since we don't live in a one-party dictatorship.. sorry. The Republicans have ever right to oppose what they feel is bad policy.
And it was their duty to compromise: did the House try to compormise? Not once. There is opposition, and obstructionism. U don't know the difference.


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Once the cuts start to take effect, both the president and the GOP could face blowback.
President Obama and congressional Republicans have been trading blame for the failure to avoid automatic budget cuts known as sequestration, but once the reductions start to take effect, both sides could face blowback.
Here are four areas where cuts are the most politically sensitive.
1) Traveling: From Airports to National Parks
Americans planning to travel in the next year should prepare for longer lines and flight delays, as some of the sequestration cuts will hit the air travel system. This is happening because Transportation Security Administration screeners and Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control operators will be put on unpaid leave, called furloughs, to meet hundreds of millions of dollars in budget cuts.
Tourists visiting national parks will also see the impact of these cuts. To reduce its budget by $110 million, the National Park Service will close certain parks at times, or open just parts of some parks. If someone gets lost in the wilderness, rescue missions could become longer because of fewer park rangers, as well.
2) Public Safety: From Food Inspection to Border Security
Most public-safety operations are invisible to most consumers, who buy products such as meat and milk at the supermarket without much thought. But the Obama administration has warned that cuts will mean fewer inspections for meat, milk, and poultry products. If an outbreak of E. coli or some other contamination occurs, or if there's less meat or milk available at the store, this could become a big issue, warned Stan Collender, a budget expert at Qorvis Communications.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees are also expected to be placed on furloughs for 12 to 14 days, while 5,000 border-patrol agents and 2,750 customs officers will get cut. Earlier this week, hundreds of detained illegal immigrants were released from custody due to budget concerns in some areas.
"Those kinds of activities are very high profile," said Mackenzie Eaglen, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Initiative. "They capture the attention of the American people."
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned that border security could be weakened because of the reduction in her department's funding.
3) Education: From Head Start to Teachers
Education Secretary Arne Duncan said that $406 million will have to get cut from Head Start, which provides early childhood education. Because of the cut, 70,000 children will lose access to the program. The cuts will also mean layoffs of 14,000 teachers, teacher aides, and staff emembers in those programs.
"Most everyone agrees that a time when oftentimes schools are overcrowded, the last thing this country needs is to lay off teachers," said Jim Manley, a longtime aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
Additionally, Obama warned on Friday that teachers on military bases are subject to furloughs since they are civilians. Although military members are not at risk of losing their jobs, many could be concerned about the effects of the cuts on their children's schools.
4) Defense: From Manufacturing to Public Shows
The president traveled to Virginia this week to highlight the cuts that will hit the defense sector. The reductions won't hit members of the military as severely as civilians working for the Defense Department. From the civilian employees of the Pentagon to the defense manufacturing communities—such as aerospace manufactures in Missouri and Indiana or shipbuilders in Mississippi and Maine—the cuts are likely to grab a lot of attention.
"Most folks highly object to any cuts that would potentially have an impact on our national security and the troops that are serving this country," said Manley, the senior director of QGA Public Affairs.
In addition to furloughs for civilian defense employees and the delays in deployments of certain ships across the globe, the cuts from sequestration also mean halting some of the little things that connect the military to the public: Fleet Week, port visit, and flyovers for sporting events.
"Even though they're not personally going to miss the flyover, [Americans] don't like the way that sounds," Eaglen said. "Voters just don't like to think they lose that patriotic connection to the military."
As the Obama administration prepares for a drawdown of troops in Afghanistan and continue a renewed effort in Asia, these cuts could affect the nation's defense strategy. With only one aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, flight time cut severely, and maintenance cut drastically for ships and bases, the nation's national security, officials warn, could be at risk.
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The man only known by the moniker of MyNameIsIRL steps up and makes a compelling argument as to why the IRL and Champ Car shouldn't merge. He posits that a merger would tilt the series in favor of Cosworth (which Champ Car maven Kevin Kalkhoven controls), that Champ Car fans won't watch oval races anyway, (which is likely true, besides the Indy 500), and that Americans prefer watching three-wide oval action.
We're not so sure about that. Open-wheel racing was the deal in America for years. Stock-car racing was what you watched when Indy wasn't on TV. And that's back when stock-car racing was actually cool. It's where the top-flight heroes of American motor racing competed. Sure, guys like Andretti and Gurney would run F1 on a bit more than a lark, and Europeans like Colin Chapman would send a Jim Clark over to change the game. But honestly, the only breakout hero we really see in a faceless mass of American open-wheel drivers is Marco Andretti. Danica scores the attention, and she was a smart marketing move for AGR. But Marco seems to have a bit of his granda' in him. And Mario was a guy who knew how to build a brand, speak his mind, make the ladies swoon, kick Burt Reynolds' ass in a street fight and drive the living snot out of pretty much anything with a steering wheel.
Then again, we don't know if all of this pontificating really matters. The mass-sponsorship and driver-grooming classes of top-level motorsport have sucked the life out of almost all of it. Even the lengendarily tell-it-like-it-is-in-too-many-words John Force has been reduced to a televised buffoon. So what if Champ Car and the Indy Racing League merge? It might help them take on NASCAR in terms of TV deals and sponsorship dollars, but it won't bring back the "Let's just try this, motherfucker!" spirit that ran though motorsport from its lowest rungs to the top levels.
Still, we like the road races. More Sears Point and Laguna Seca, less Talladega and Daytona. We won't say that effectively turning left at 200 mph doesn't require some driving skill that most don't have, but we'd rather watch people turn both directions at around 120. That said, we can totally get behind half-mile oval and dirt-track action. There should be at least one Cup race run on dirt as an homage to the sport's roots. If you want some Jalopnik love, France family, get that in the hopper, stat. It's a way better idea than the "Chase for the Jehosephat" or whatever you guys call that new-fangled points thingy you've got going. Maybe the mandate should just be for everyone to give up the corporate teat and let the asses that fill the seats pay your way. And that? Well, that'll happen right about the time Rush Limbaugh starts a Bikini Kill cover band.
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Posted 06 May 2016 - 01:05 PM
What are you cooking today or what do you love to make?
We eat a ton of vegetarian Indian food around here. The vegetable resistant boy will eat any vegetables I put in front of him if they're in Indian food.
It's unseasonably warm here today so I made ranch pasta salad. It's the Suddenly Salad kit only I actually make it instead of buying the box kits.
Ranch Pasta Salad :
Shaped pasta of your choice (I used fusilli today, but it should be shells to be proper)
Frozen or fresh baby peas
Frozen or fresh carrots, diced or julienned
Other vegetables as you see fit (broccoli, tomatoes, sun dried tomatoes, cauliflower all go well in this)
Hidden Valley Ranch packet (or homemade ranch mix you c get anywhere on the Internet)
Mayonnaise or vegannaise
Crumbled bacon or bacon bits
Shredded cheddar if you like it in it (I don't)
Mix the dressing mix and mayo, set aside (I just put mayonnaise, about a cup to a packet). Meanwhile, cook the pasta and harder vegetables to "done" (crisp/tender on the veg). Drain and rinse under cold water until cool. Mix everything together, reserving the bacon bits and cheese until just before serving. Keep in refrigerator until serving. If you make it the day before moisten it with a little more mayo just before serving if it absorbs everything.
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Tortellini Soup
2 T olive oil
1/2c carrots, diced small
1/2c onions, diced small
1/2c green peppers, diced small
1 T garlic, minced
4 scallions, sliced, divide whites from greens
10 oz can diced fire roasted tomatoes
1 tsp dried basil/ 2 tsp fresh
1 tsp dried oregano/ 2 tsp fresh
1 T dried parsley/ 2 tsp fresh, divided in half
1/2c zucchini, diced small
1 qt chicken/beef broth
1 lb chicken/beef tortellini
Salt & pepper
Parmesan cheese
Saute carrots, onions, peppers, garlic and scallion whites in olive oil, until onions are soft and translucent, but not brown. Add tomatoes, basil, oregano and half of parsley; saute for 5 minutes. Add broth, zucchini and tortellini; cook until tortellini is done, according to package directions. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Remove from heat, add remaining parsley and serve garnished with Parmesan cheese.
Tomato Cheddar Soup
4 c tomatoes, cooked
1 red sweet bell pepper, chopped
2 c water
2 tablespoons butter
1 onion, chopped
1 bay leaf
1 carrot, grated fine
1-1/2 tsp salt
3 T flour
1/8 tsp pepper
1 c extra sharp cheddar cheese, grated
Combine tomatoes with water, carrot, bay leaf, onion and pepper. Simmer slowly for twenty minutes. Add salt and pepper; then strain.
Make a paste of butter and flour. Pour the strained tomatoes into the paste. Cook five minutes, stirring constantly; add cheese. Cook ten minutes more; stirring occasionally. Top with whipped or sour cream.
Gumbo for Two
2 (5- to 7-ounce) bone-in chicken thighs, skin removed, trimmed
Salt and pepper
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 small onion, chopped fine
1/2 cup finely chopped green bell pepper
1/4 cup minced celery
1 tablespoon tomato paste
2 garlic cloves, minced
Pinch cayenne pepper
1 3/4 cups chicken broth
1 bay leaf
4 ounces andouille sausage, halved lengthwise and sliced thin
1 tomato, cored, seeded, and chopped
3/4 cup frozen sliced okra
Season chicken with salt and pepper; set aside. Toast flour in medium saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly, until lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Transfer flour to bowl and whisk in oil. Microwave, covered, until roux is dark brown, about 2 minutes, stirring halfway through microwaving.
Transfer brown roux to now-empty pan. Stir in onion, bell pepper, and celery and cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until softened, about 5 minutes. Stir in tomato paste, garlic, and cayenne and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. Slowly whisk in broth, scraping up any browned bits. Add chicken and bay leaf to pan and bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, covered, until chicken is tender, 20 to 25 minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent scorching.
Transfer chicken to plate and remove pan from heat. Skim fat from surface of gumbo with large spoon. When chicken is cool enough to handle, cut or shred into bite-size pieces and return to pan; discard bones.
Stir sausage, tomato, and okra into gumbo. Bring to simmer over medium heat and cook until heated through, about 7 minutes. Discard bay leaf, season with salt and pepper to taste, and serve. (Gumbo can be refrigerated for up to 3 days.)
Salmon Chowder
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 onions, cut into 1/2-inch dice
4 ounces salt pork, rind removed, rinsed, and cut into 2 pieces
1 1/2 teaspoons minced fresh thyme
Salt and pepper
1 bay leaf
5 cups water
2 pounds skinless salmon fillets, sliced crosswise into 6 equal pieces
1 1/2 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch dice
2 cups whole milk
1 tablespoon cornstarch
Melt butter in Dutch oven over medium heat. Add onions, salt pork, thyme, ¾ teaspoon salt, and bay leaf; cook, stirring occasionally, until onions are softened but not browned, 3 to 5 minutes. Add water and bring to simmer. Remove pot from heat, gently place cod fillets in water, cover, and let fish stand until opaque and nearly cooked through, about 5 minutes. Using metal spatula, transfer cod to bowl.
Return pot to medium-high heat, add potatoes, and bring to simmer. Cook until potatoes are tender and beginning to break apart, about 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, whisk milk, cornstarch, and ½ teaspoon pepper together in bowl. Stir milk mixture into chowder and return to simmer. Return fish and any accumulated juices to pot. Remove pot from heat, cover, and let stand for 5 minutes. Remove and discard salt pork and bay leaf. Stir gently with wooden spoon to break fish into large pieces. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve immediately.
Aquène kah nahonnushagk(Peace and farewell),
WaûtuckquesSóchepo (SnowRabbit)
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Posted 07 May 2016 - 01:13 AM
I like Miracle Soup if it's made right. I like it with lot's of cabbage. You can look it up on the web.
Carrot's aren't shown much in this illustration but it needs several of them!
Posted 07 May 2016 - 06:55 AM
Posted 07 May 2016 - 09:38 AM
I'm not sure what I'm going to do today for supper. I have a bunch of random stuff I'll probably throw together for hotdish (casserole). I should probably use the potatoes I have so that'll probably be the starchy base, then the husband grilled hamburgers to go with the salad and didn't use all of it so that'll go in and I got a bunch of frozen vegetables the other night so a package of probably the ones with the peppers and water chestnuts... and maybe American Chinese flavors (soy sauce). Or I could make a biryani... I have a bunch of yogurt that's been hanging around for a while.
Now that I thought of it I think biryani is happening.
This is a really yummy recipe for it: http://indianhealthy...biryani-recipe/
Posted 08 May 2016 - 06:03 PM
Corn Casserole
- 15oz. whole kernel corn canned, drained or fresh or frozen
- 15oz. can cream corn
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup melted butter
- 8oz. box Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix* (for less fat you can make your own version of mix, see below)
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 9x9-inch baking dish and set aside. Mix all ingredients together and pour into the prepared baking dish. Bake 45-50 minutes or until set in the middle.
Corn Muffin Mix* (This recipe equals one box of Jiffy Mix)
- 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup cornmeal
- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
Combine first 5 ingredients in a bowl, mix well.
Whisk in vegetable oil and mix until dry mixture is smooth and lumps are gone.
Aquène kah nahonnushagk(Peace and farewell),
WaûtuckquesSóchepo (SnowRabbit)
The Official GhostStudy Easter Bunny
Posted 08 May 2016 - 06:21 PM
Monday: Cereal for Breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, steak, potatoes, a salad and milk for Dinner.
Tuesday: Same as Monday.
Wednesday: Cereal for Breakfast, a salad for Lunch, a Hamburger for Dinner
Thursday: Cereal for Breakfast, Soup for Lunch, a sandwich for Dinner
Friday: Fruit bowl for Breakfast, Salad for Lunch, PIZZA for Dinner!
Saturday: A 2 egg cheese omelet, sausage patty, milk, orange juice, croissant roll for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner same as Monday.
Posted 08 May 2016 - 07:10 PM
Posted 08 May 2016 - 07:14 PM
Posted 08 May 2016 - 07:59 PM
Jim@GhostStudy, on 08 May 2016 - 07:10 PM, said:
A Pepsi Cola and a candy bar.
Posted 09 May 2016 - 03:04 AM
Posted 09 May 2016 - 04:52 AM
Hangover Recipe
Posted 09 May 2016 - 09:34 AM
CK: is that what you always eat? People who eat the same thing over and over fascinate me. I have regulars but I rarely even make those more than once a month. I couldn't eat the same thing every day.
Vave, one of my favorite things is a riff on aloo gobi. Instead of cauliflower (the gobi part) I'll use a bunch of kale or mustard greens or collard greens. It reminds me of when Auntie (my friend from India's mom) used to feed me random things in front of visiting relatives to laugh at me. The mustard greens horrified me at the time... I was trying to figure out how to politely make them leave my mouth because they refused to be swallowed... but now I crave them.
I riff off of Aarti Sequera's recipe on the food network. I use amchur powder for the bitter and add garam masala because it's not quite rounded as written for American kitchens.
Posted 09 May 2016 - 09:39 AM
Posted 10 May 2016 - 01:10 AM
I'm not the best eater - I skip breakfast and lunch sometimes (bad I know...) but at the moment I'm sticking with an apple for breakfast, and some cruskits with cottage cheese, pesto and tomatoes for lunch
Posted 10 May 2016 - 01:36 AM
Ham cheese and tomato on crusty brown bread.
Posted 10 May 2016 - 07:07 AM
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Ragu Pasta Sauce
Sargento cheese (your choice of mozzarella or provolone)
Italian bread crumbs
Italian spices
Three eggs
Hoagie buns
Pan-fry the chicken in the bread crumbs. After it is fried to your liking, pour some pasta sauce over it. Let that simmer for 10 minutes. After that, put some cheese of your choice on there and let that simmer for around 5 minutes. Toast up some hoagie buns, and put the chicken in between them.
Posted 11 May 2016 - 09:46 AM
And that made me think of schnitzel. I will do that occasionally. Pound a pork (or chicken or veal) cutlet out very thin, dip in flour that's been heavily seasoned with salt and pepper and maybe a little chili powder or paprika, then into beaten egg, then into either fine bread crumbs or back into the flour, shallow fry (so more oil than sautéing but not enough to float it) until browned, serve with gravy or, properly, a German sauer sauce and noodles.
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The 2015 Acura NSX! Honda swears up and down that the much-teased successor to the greatest Japanese car ever made will be a real thing next year. For serious. Really!
I sure hope for Acura's sake that it will be real, but until we all get to drive one for real, Sketchfab user Xelus put together this sweet 3D model of the car that you can spin around and play with for hours — even days, maybe — on end.
Plus, it embeds properly in Kinja, and I'm as amazed about that as you are.
Check out the rest of the renders on Xelus' page. He's got some neat vehicle-related stuff there.
Honda NSX Concept 2013/14 from Xelus on Sketchfab.


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Yuengling Is Now America's Largest Brewery
Yuengling, a beer simply known as "lager" in parts of Pennsylvania (and some television commercials) now has two crowns to wear atop its hoppy head. It is America's oldest brewery, something to brag about, but now it can boast to being America's largest brewery.
Last week, word came down that Yuengling expansion from Pennsylvania into Ohio helped the brand overtake Sam Adams to become America's biggest brewer. Forget about Miller, Busch and Bud – they're all foreign owned, so they don't count.
Congrats to the Yuengling family. Hopefully we can someday soon walk into a bar in California, ask for a lager, and be handed a Yuengling instead of the bartender looking at us like we were drunk. Oh, wait.
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By Teachers, For Teachers
It's Google's world, we're just teaching in it.
Now, we can use it a little more easily. With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for all teachers, so why not take advantage of the wide world that Google for teachers has to offer?
From super-effective search tricks to Google for teachers tools to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these Google for teacherstricks will surely save you some precious time when using technology in the classroom.
These search tricks can save you time when researching online for your next project or just to find out what time it is across the world, so start using these right away.
From Google Scholar that returns only results from scholarly literature to learning more about computer science, these Google items will help you at school.
Google Docs is a great replacement for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, so learn how to use this product even more efficiently.
22. Use premade templates. Use these 50 pre-made templates to track spending, keep up with your health, and much more.
23. Collaborate on group projects. Google Docs allows for real-time collaboration, so make easy work for everyone next time you have a group project due.
24. Use keyboard shortcuts. Use this handy list of keyboard shortcuts to save lots of time while using Google Docs.
25. Create online surveys for research projects. Quickly and easily create online surveys for any research project that requires feedback from others. The answers are saved to your Google Docs account.
26. Add video to your presentation. Learn how to seamlessly add video to your Google Docs page to really give your presentation or project a boost.
27. Use the school year calendar template. Have an easy to use school year calendar through Google Docs by following these instructions.
28. Create graphs from spreadsheets. Once you have populated a spreadsheet with data, you can easily create a graph. Google Docs allows for pie, bar, line, and scatter graphs.
29. Create a new document with shortcuts. Learn two ways to open a new Google Docs page with these tricks.
30. Send invitations. School shouldn't be all about work. Find out how to send party invitations using Google Docs.
The super-popular Gmail is full of fun and fast ways to make your life and communications easier.
32. Use the Tasks as a to-do list. Use the Tasks available in Gmail as a way to stay on top of assignments, exams, and project due dates.
33. Use the Archive feature. One of the great features of Gmail is that it allows you to archive emails to get them out of your inbox, then you can use the search feature to find them if you need them again.
34. Highlight mail with labels. Use labels to mark your messages. You can find them easily while in your inbox and do a search for all the messages with that label after you archive them.
35. Never forget to attach a file. By signing up for the Labs, you can select to have the Forgotten Attachment Detector. This feature notices if you have typed something about an attachment in the body, but are sending without actually attaching anything–a great tool to save time and embarrassment.
36. Use keyboard shortcuts. Go to Settings and enable keyboard shortcuts so you can perform common tasks at the touch of just one or two keys.
37. Add multiple attachments. Use the Control (or Cmd on Macs) and Shift keys to select more than one file to attach to your email at one time.
38. Use the https option. Google recommends using this option if you use your Gmail in public places like a dorm or coffee shop to add an extra bit of protection to your Internet activities.
39. Incorporate Google Calendar and Docs on your Gmail page. Have access to recent documents used in Google Docs and get an agenda of upcoming activities you have on Google Calendar with small boxes added to your Gmail page. Go to Labs to select this option.
40. Add a "Waiting for Response" label. If you have emails in your inbox that you are holding until someone gets back to you, creating this label keeps you from forgetting to follow up on it later.
41. Use Canned Responses. If you find yourself writing the same type of email over and over, use the Canned Responses feature in the Labs to create a template that you you can use without having to type out the entire email every time.
42. Consolidate email accounts. If you have a Gmail account, an account through school, and any other account you are juggling separately, combine them all into Gmail to cut down on time spent checking all those accounts.
43. Use AIM in Gmail. If you use AIM to IM friends or partners on projects, add it to the chat feature already in Gmail to have access to both.
Save yourself some time by keeping track of appointments, assignments, and more with Google Calendar.
44. Sync up with others using iCal or Sunbird. Google lets you sync your calendar with others using Apple iCal or Mozilla Sunbird.
45. Customize reminders. Set reminders in your Google Calendar so that you never forget an appointment again. Choose from email, pop-up, or SMS reminders and even set when the reminder comes.
46. Learn some basic keyboard shortcuts. Change from daily to weekly to monthly view, compose a new event, and more with these simple shortcuts.
47. Use Quick Add. Click on Quick Add and type the day and time and what you are doing to have the calendar create the event with the correct time and date.
48. Use multiple calendars. Create separate calendars for school work, personal information, important due dates, and more to stay ultra-organized.
49. Get a text message with your daily agenda. Keep up with all that you need to do for the day without ever having to log on to your Google Calendar.
50. Set weekly repeats for any day. The drop-down menu only offers M/W/F or T/Th options for repeating events. Go to "Every Week" and customize which days you want the event to repeat.
51. Get upcoming events while away from the computer. Check out #8 in this list to learn how to access your upcoming events via your phone.
52. Add events from Gmail. If you receive an email with event time and date information, you can easily add this event to your calendar by clicking "Add to calendar."
53. Invite others. If you have events on your calendar that you want to invite others to join, just add their email address under Add Guests within the event.
Whether riding the bus or walking to class, use Google Mobile to stay productive while away from your computer.
54. Sync your calendar. Never be far from your Google Calendar when you sync it to your phone.
55. Check your email. Keep your email right at your fingertips with Gmail for mobile.
56. Access your blog subscriptions. Keep up with your blogs and news feeds that you subscribe to through Reader right on your phone.\
If you are using the Google Chrome browser, then you will love these time-saving tips and extensions.
Learn how Google Books can save you time and trips to the library with these tricks.
These other Google products will help you save time by offering you everything from alerts to online collaboration to help working with data sets.
How do you use Google in the classroom? O\How tdo you use other technology in the classroom? How are you integrating technology in the classroom? Share in the comments section!
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DIY: Repurposing an Old Sink for the Garden
October 20, 2013
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Training camp is finally almost here. They allow tackling there and everything. Around the League will count down the top 30 position battles to watch throughout the preseason.
• Both players eye one last run after long careers. Both players know the Patriot Way. We suspect there is only room for one of them.
•Wes Welker, Brandon Lloyd and Jabar Gaffney should be roster locks. Special teamers Matthew Slater and Julian Edelman are likely to make the team. That leaves Branch and Stallworth fighting it out for the role of "well-known veteran" looking for a ring.
• Branch topped 700 yards last year in New England on craftiness alone. He struggles to separate and seemed to gain most of his yards when Brady extended the play and the two longtime friends improvised. He's only 32, but he plays older.
• Stallworth has greater speed and special teams ability. The Patriots prize versatility, which would seem to give Stallworth an edge.
Projected winner: Branch. The New England Patriots occasionally keep old trusty favorites around an extra year on scholarship. (Think Kevin Faulk last year.) Brady loves Branch. This should be Branch's farewell tour.


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- 5 Beds
- 5 Full, 2 Half
- 6,486 +/- Sqft
Property TypeResidential – Single Family
SubdivisionLions Ridge 3
Listing Date06/07/18
Year Built1991
AreaThe Valley
Lot Size0.93 Acres (40,337 SqFt)
Parking3 Car Garage
Property Description
Perched atop the prestigious Buffehr Creek neighborhood, this 5-bedroom home offers commanding views of the Gore Range, Vail Mountain, and valley below. Featuring an open and spacious floorplan, this property is perfect for entertaining with its inviting great room, gourmet kitchen, and extensive patio space for outdoor living. Flexible living includes a 3-car garage, study, den and caretaker's suite. This large, ridgetop parcel offers a dramatic and private setting unlike any other in Vail.
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- Ski Slopes
- South Facing
- Valley
- Woods
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- Air Conditioning
- Cable Available
- Fireplace - Gas
- Fireplace - Wood
- Hot Tub / Spa
- Multi-Level
- Patio
- Steam
- Vaulted Ceilings
- Cable TV
- District Sewer
- District Water
- Electricity Avail.
- Natural Gas Avail.
- Phone Available
- Forced Air
- Natural Gas
- Radiant
- Zoned AC
- Dryer - Gas
- Washer
Financial Information
About West Vail
Occupying a wider swath of the Valley than the Villages and East Vail, West Vail offers distinctly different environments on its northern and southern hillsides. The south side features lush wooded alpine terrain interspersed with meadows while the more exposed north side offers dramatic views and an abundance of sunshine year round. Divided into several neighborhoods, the area has a commercial center with groceries, shops, and restaurants and a close knit mix of locals and second home owners. Properties in West Vail range from simple condominiums to elegant single-family homes, all of which are a quick 5-10 minute Town shuttle away from the heart of the Village.
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Anyone of a certain age will remember 1990's Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe fondly. Yeah, it may have come out in the year that Margaret Thatcher's reign over Britain ended, The Crystal Maze began on Channel 4, and the first US/UK war in Iraq started, but most will tell you that the Atari ST launch of the Bitmap Brothers' Speedball 2 eclipsed all of those.
It took the original violent future sports idea from the first game, slapped on a none-too-complicated management element and an extensive career mode, bundled in a load of power ups and ways to earn extra points, and delivered them all like a good hard kick in the nether regions. It was, and still is, considered the Brothers' finest game, and now it's here for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
Speedball 2: Evolution, so called because it takes on the original game, tarts it up and adds unique features that only a modern device can offer, is the brainchild of Sensible Soccer-supremo Jon Hare and his Tower Studios. His team and he have been tasked with converting several of the Bitmaps' former titles, with this being the first. And it's a glorious example of how to take a 21-year-old game and give it a new lease of life.
For starters, unlike many rehashes of old titles, it doesn't change its core gameplay too much, rather adding new elements to make it easier to play without a joystick (the favoured control method of old). Still resident are the career mode, team customisation and raw action of the original, along with the traditional sound effects ("ice cream, ice cream") and slightly polished graphics.
Instead, the grandstanding addition this time around is in the cunning use of the accelerometer in each device. You can now control your main character by tilting the iPad or iPhone, much like controlling a marble in a wooden maze. Ball-throwing or tackling is then enacted by tapping anywhere on the screen, keeping the method as simple as can be. A directional pad mode is available for those with less arm room, but once you've tried the tilting option, it's unlikely you'll want to use anything else.
The touchscreen is also new to this generation of the game, and it's most employed to navigate through menu screens, to scroll through your team line-up, for example.
Other than these, though, it's pure Brutal Deluxe all the way; top-down 2D future sports with a tinge of Croydon on a Saturday night. Aim? Simple: Get ball, pass ball, score goals. Along the way, you can score points by throwing it at stars and other illuminable obstacles, give yourself multipliers through cunning accuracy, and pick up a variety of bonuses and power-ups, but it's a very basic premise.
That's not to say it's easy though. It is, in fact, fiendish, but as it's more addictive than mini Toblerones, you should soon find yourself zooming up the leagues.
There's local multiplayer modes (through Wi-Fi or Bluetooth), should you need to vent your pent-up anger on a family member or friend, and as the one version fully compatible with both iPad and iPhone (iPod touch), a two iOS-owning bunch have everything they need.
Speedball 2: Evolution is available on iTunes now for the weirdly unique price of £2.39.
Xenon 2 Megablast next please...
Tried it yet? What do you think? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below, and also tell us what old classic you'd like to see updated for modern devices...


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Jurors in Flint, Michigan deliberated less one hour before reaching a guilty verdict in the first murder trial for Elias Abuelazam, accused of a horrific stabbing spree in the summer of 2010. Abuelazam is believed to have targeted at least 18 men in three state, including five fatal stabbings. All but one of the victims were Black or dark skinned men.
Abuelazam, 35, faced a first degree murder charge in the Aug. 2, 2010, stabbing death of Arnold Minor, 49. Today is just two days shy of the two-year anniversary of the first alleged attack, although Abuelazam is not charged in the case. David Motley, 31, died from stab wounds suffered on May, 24, 2010.
Prosecutors say Abuelazam went on to attack 13 others, including four fatally. Jurors also heard testimony from four of the surviving victims who identified Abuelazam as his attacker.The survivors talked about how Abuelazam asked for directions or help with his vehicle before attacking them.
Abuelazam is suspected in a high-profile series of stabbings in Michigan, Virginia and Ohio in the summer of 2010. He was arrested 12 August 2010 at Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport as he tried to board a plane bound for his native country of Israel. Abuelazam was traveling on an expired Israeli passport and was later identified as an Israeli Arab citizen who lived near Flint.
The stabbings and murders of Black men around Flint initially "drew little attention", reported the AP. Residents slammed the Flint Police Department, Genessee County Sheriff and Michigan State Police for taking up to three months to link the attacks ... and not warning them that a serial killer was on the loose. One 17-year-old stabbing victim says police "never" questioned him the night he was attacked and "waited days" to ask any questions.
The Justice Department and FBI tried to determine if the stabbings were racially motivated but could not prove so. Abuelazam faces life in prison without parole.
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Position Summary:
Health is everything. At CVS Health we are committed to increasing access, lowering costs and improving quality of care. Millions of times a day, we're helping people on their path to better health— from advising on prescriptions to helping manage chronic and specialty conditions. Because we're present in so many moments, big and small, we have an active, supportive role in shaping the future of health care. Pharmacy Technicians are at the forefront of our purpose as they deliver compassionate care to our millions of patients every day.
The Pharmacy Technician Trainee is a training position where you can move to a Pharmacy Technician upon successful completion of CVS Pharmacy Technician Training Program and per local state pharmacy guidelines. This position provides an opportunity, in a leading retail pharmacy setting, to excel in a complex, high impact patient focused role and to positively impact the lives of others. The ideal candidate must be able to triage pharmacy tasks, balance efficiency with accuracy, work both independently and as a team in a fast-paced environment, and achieve excellence in customer service through compassion and genuine care for all patients while ensuring all medication needs and regulatory compliance standards are met. Pharmacy Technicians must demonstrate ethical conduct and maintain patient confidentiality at all times.
• Promotes a path to better health by engaging customers to learn about their health and medications; educates customers about CVS services and products appropriately positioning CVS as a partner in customers' path to better health.
• Focuses on the customer, keeping the customer top of mind at all times, prioritizing customer needs, displaying genuine care and empathy in all interactions, and ensuring complete customer satisfaction.
• Understands and follows applicable Federal and State laws (e.g., HIPAA), regulations (e.g., OSHA), professional standards, and ethical principles; complies with CVS policies and procedures to ensure patient safety and protect patient privacy and security.
• Effectively follows workflow procedures with an in-depth understanding of each workstation (i.e., Pick- Up, Drop-Off, Drive-Thru, Production) for day-to-day coordination and processing of patient medication orders; manages own responsibilities while shifting to help the team where needed.
• Delivers results while balancing quality and efficiency in all tasks, maintains accuracy while consistently meeting workflow and inventory management goals.
• Demonstrates compassion and care by proactively identifying and resolving potential problems to ensure customers have their medications when needed; collaborates with immediate and extended pharmacy teams, medical staff, insurance companies, and customers alike to resolve issues, ensure accuracy, and deliver timely resolution of any medication or insurance related concerns.
• Actively seeks opportunities to expand clinical, technical and insurance knowledge, leveraging available tools and training resources, to develop the basic drug understanding and technical expertise needed to accurately and more effectively assist customers.
• Contributes to high-performing teams by looking for opportunities to contribute to individual and broader team goals, remains flexible for both schedule and business needs while easily adapting to changes at work to enables supportive, collaborative, and challenging work environment.
-Please note in select markets the collective bargaining agreement rules regarding the Pharmacy Technician would apply.
The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
Required Qualifications:
• Must be at least 16 years of age
• Licensure requirements vary by state
• Attention and Focus
o The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted
• Customer Service Orientation
o Actively look for ways to help people, and do so in a friendly manner
o Notice and understand customers' reactions, and respond appropriately
• Communication Skills
o Use and understand verbal and written communication to interact with customers and colleagues
o Actively listening by giving full attention to what others are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times
• Mathematical Reasoning
o The ability to use math to solve a problem, such as calculating day's supply of a prescription
• Problem Resolution
o Is able to judge when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong; recognizing there is a problem
o Choosing the best course of action when faced with a complex situation with several available options
• Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time
• Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for moving from one work area to another
• Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than whole hand or arm
• Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction
• Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist
• Stooping to a considerable degree and requiring full use of the lower extremities and back muscles
• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed accurately
• Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication
• Visual Acuity:
o The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform activities such as: transcribing, viewing a computer terminal, reading, visual inspection involving small parts
• Occasional lifting of up to 30 lbs; exerting up to 30 lbs of force occasionally and/or up to 10 lbs of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects
Preferred Qualifications:
• Previous experience in a pharmacy, retail, medical, or customer service setting
• Previous experience as a Pharmacy Technician
• PTCB National Certification
• High School diploma or equivalent (preferred)
Business Overview:
CVS Health, through our unmatched breadth of service offerings, is transforming the delivery of health care services in the U.S. We are an innovative, fast-growing company guided by values that focus on teamwork, integrity and respect for our colleagues and customers. What are we looking for in our colleagues? We seek fresh ideas, new perspectives, a diversity of experiences, and a dedication to service that will help us better meet the needs of the many people and businesses that rely on us each day. As the nation's largest pharmacy health care provider, we offer a wide range of exciting and fulfilling career opportunities across our three business units – MinuteClinic, pharmacy benefit management (PBM) and retail pharmacy. Our energetic and service-oriented colleagues work hard every day to make a positive difference in the lives of our customers.
CVS Health (Company) is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity. CVS Health prohibits discrimination and/or harassment against persons on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex/gender (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, age, veteran status, military status, marital status, genetic information, citizenship status, unemployment status, political affiliation, or on any other basis or characteristic prohibited by applicable federal, state or local law. EEO IS THE LAWEEO IS THE LAW POSTER GINA SUPPLEMENT
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Metering nipples above 0,03 cm³ are exchangeable to yield different output quantities
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Quote from: Joey Porsche on November 02, 2009, 10:01:12 PMThis plan has fail written all over it.Thanks for piping in, Joey. Appreciate it.
This plan has fail written all over it.
Bump. I am in the same quandry. I just got told by my brother-in-law that an associate position is mine at the firm he worked with if I wanted it. However, it is 150 miles away, so I would need to live away from my husband for awhile until it was economically feasible for him to move (he has a job where we live now). Also my brother-in-law would be my supervisor. And finally, the firm he works for is one of those with an attorney that appears on TV. I am worried that once the economy picks up, it would be hard for me to move back into what I want to do with that on my resume. Thoughts? P.S. - my husband is making enough for us to survive on while I defer my loans...but it is tight. I am working for a government office, who still hasn't heard whether they have the funds to hire any attorneys or not. Help!
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|System: Xbox 360, PS3
|Dev: Q Entertainment
|Pub: Ubisoft
|Release: June 14, 2011
|Players: 1-2
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Mild Fantasy Violence
by Angelo M. D'Argenio
Do you have any idea how beautiful the world is? If not, then you aren't opening your mind, man. You need to broaden your horizons, expand your spiritual world. Don't worry. I got something that will send you on a two-hour trip, and after you come down you'll feel like all is right with your life. It's called Child of Eden for the Xbox 360, and it's the good stuff.
Seriously, this game is so trippy I'm flashing back to all the sketchy stuff I did in college—like when I played Rez for twenty-four hours straight. (Wait, what were you thinking I did in college?) The comparison to Rez is actually quite appropriate, because Child of Eden is Rez's spiritual sequel (and some theorize it's an actual sequel, although the fact that it is published by a different company complicates that theory). It's made by the same designer, Tetsuya Mizuguchi, and it provides the same psychedelic experience that Rez did, minus the Trance Vibrator.
For the uninitiated, Rez and its successor Child of Eden are both on-rails shooters that take you through abstract multi-colored landscapes while ambient music plays in the background. Every bullet you fire creates a new sound that is appropriate to the music you are listening to. Doing well raises the music to a wonderful symphony of sounds and beats and instruments, while doing poorly reduces the music to nothing more than a drum line. As you fire at your "enemies" (I'll explain why I put that in quotes later) the landscape around you changes, as fractal patterns open up before your eyes. It's supposed to be an experience that speaks to all of your senses. You see the colors, hear the music, and feel the vibration of your controller or the movement of your limbs through Kinect controls. Heck, all that's left is to add smell-and-taste-o-vision to the mix.
Child of Eden has a plot that is as trippy as its gameplay. It's the future, and we are attempting to recreate human intelligence in the digital world—in space! Project Lumi, as it is called, is mere steps away from recreating the first human personality born in space (Lumi) inside a massive computer network called Eden. Suddenly, Eden is hacked and a virus attack corrupts Lumi's data. (Personally, I blame Anonymous.) It's up to you to traverse Eden's digital space and "purify" all the corrupted data in order to save Lumi.
So there aren't really "enemies" in Child of Eden as much as there is corrupted data that you have to heal. Sure, this corrupted data still tries to kill you, and you still shoot at it, but you are shooting healing lasers which cause strange viral creatures to blossom into flowers and butterflies. In gameplay terms it's all the same thing, but in concept it's far more peaceful.
In terms of mechanics, the game is actually very simple. You have a health bar, which is represented by a five petal flower at the bottom right of the screen, and a stock of bombs, or "euphoria" in this case, which purify everything on the screen at once. You gain more health and euphoria by doing well in the game and shooting what are essentially item pick-ups as you go through the stages.
You only have two weapons: a homing laser that can lock on to up to eight targets at once before releasing a volley of laser blasts, or a rapid fire laser which continuously shoots wherever your reticle is pointed. Your lock-on weapon is the weapon you will be using throughout most of the game. Not only does it do more damage and hit more reliably, but locking on to eight enemies at once and releasing your lasers to the beat of the music gives you massive point bonuses. Unfortunately, your homing lasers can't hit enemy attacks, nor can they hit enemies that flash purple. So to handle these, you must switch to the rapid-fire weapon in order to intercept enemy shot and take out swarms of purple viruses.
With the controller, this is all handled with the analog stick and buttons, and the music thumps back to a beat that is translated to you through the controller's vibration. Oddly enough, this is the inferior way to play Child of Eden. Though the vibration feedback is kind of cool, the reticle is just not fast enough for the multiple waves of enemies that come at you in the game's later levels. For a truly immersive experience, hook up your Kinect.


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Childhood's Soul. I grew up in a beautiful small town. There were rivers, mountains and waterfalls all around and I am the happiest when I am there. I moved to the city when I was a teen and now I'm in my twenties and am planning a move back to Bellingen. I hate the city and all I think of is getting out of this repetitive and clinical life I've been leading -- where work and the daily grind control my life. . . So this was my inspiration for the photograph: photo by Sian Grahl, 28 April 2013
Certainly the city is relevant, and specifically the city as a metropolis. It is a very striking feature of many Modernist and avant-garde movements that they were not only located in the great metropolitan centres but that so many of their members were immigrants into those centres, where in some new ways all were strangers. Language, in such situations, could appear as a new kind of fact: either simply as 'medium', aesthetic or instrumental, since its naturalized continuity with a persistent social settlement was unavailable; or, of course, as system: the distanced, even the alien fact. Moreover, these cities had become the capitals of imperialism. The old hegemony of capital over its provinces was extended over a new range of disparate, often wholly alien and exotic, cultures and languages. The evolutionary and family versions of language which were the basis of language studies in the period of nation-states and confederacies were then replaced by studies of universal systems within which specificities were either, as in much literary practice, exotica, or were the local, momentary and superficial features of more fundamental structures.
There was then both gain and loss... an old language had been marginalized or suppressed, or else simply left behind, and the now dominant language either interacted with its subordinate for new language effects or was seen as, in new ways, both plastic and arbitrary: an alien but accessible system which had both power and potential but was not, as in most earlier formations, however experimental, the language or the possible language of a people but now the material of groups, agencies, fractions, specific works, its actual society and complex of writers and game-players, translators and signwriters, interpreters and makers of paradoxes, cross-cultural innovators and jokers.
...The cultural forms of the 'old, settled' language (always, in practice, never settled, however old) were indeed, at one level, the imposed forms of a dominant class and its discourse. But this was never the only level. Uses of a language of connection and of forms of intended communication remained an emphasis and an intention of other social groups, in both class and gender, whose specific existence had been blurred or contained within the imposed, 'national' forms. Similarly the cultural forms of the 'new, dynamic' language were never only experimental or liberating. Within the real historical dynamics they could be, and were, notably and deliberately manipulative and exploiting. The widespread dilution and adoption of avant-garde visual and linguistic modes by advertising and publicity agencies is only the most evident example; overtly commercial paranational art includes many more interesting, if less obvious, cases. There is then a practical linkage of the asymmetries of political and economic domination and subordination. This cannot be rendered back to isolated formal or technical levels.
Raymond Williams: from Language and the Avant-Garde, in N. Fabb, D. Attridge, A. Durant and C. McCabe (eds.): The Linguistics of Writing: Arguments Between Language and Literature, 1988
Shibuya shopping district, Tokyo, night: photo by Bantosh, 2006
View from Tokyo Shiodome Rooftop: photo by Thomas Birke, 2009
Hong Kong #11: photo by Thomas Birke, 2009
Hong Kong #09: photo by Thomas Birke, 2009
Plaster cast showing the nest architecture of the Florida harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius, an advanced structure emergent from ant behavior: photo by Shaners Becker, 2 June 2006
Flock of Red-billed Quelea (Quelea quelea) swarming around a waterhole, Namibia: photo by Alastair Rae, 6 December 2006
ESCAPE and SWEF: photo by NW Graffiti, 17 April 2013
Escape! Unmistakable emergency exit in Stockholm's underground station "Universitetet": photo by <Benoît> (Benoit Derrier), 22 June 2008
Red-character Emergency Exit sign in English and French, Canadian War Museum, Ottawa: photo by Ian Muttoo, 1 September 2008
Tokyo Ginza in night rain: photo by Thomas Birke, 2008


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Catching up over dinner in Brentwood, Lakers assistant development coach Mark Madsen remained struck on how physically fit Jason Collins looked.
Collins, a former Harvard-Westlake standout who announced in a Sports Illustrated article last April that he's gay, still hadn't attracted an offer from an NBA team. Perhaps because of the extra media attention the acquisition would spark. Perhaps because of an uncomfortable locker room. Perhaps because Collins' 11-year NBA career has entailed a journeyman role where he's served as mostly a backup interior defender.
But Madsen, Collins' former teammate at Stanford, marveled at Collins' refusal to allow his NBA uncertainty to compromise his preparation.
"It looked like Jason had been out running 400s and in the weight room for three hours a day and on the court," Madsen recalled. "He looked ready to go. He looked like he could go into an NBA playoff game."
That work paid off.
Collins signed a 10-day contract Sunday with the Brooklyn Nets, becoming the first openly gay athlete both to be on an NBA roster and to appear among the four major American professional sports. He appeared in the Lakers' game against Brooklyn at Staples Center albeit with a limited role with zero points, one rebound and two fouls in four minutes.
"He always just believed his job was to stay ready, stay prepared and stay in shape," Madsen said. "We all know how the NBA works, when you get closer to the playoffs, teams have a need for a skilled big man that can go in and play against a Birdman, that can play against a Roy Hibbert. Someone that knows the defensive rotations that can go in and help a team right away."
Collins downplayed whether his situation marks him as a "crusader" for the gay and lesbian community. But Madsen believes Collins remains suited to handle the spotlight.
"I never got the sense that he felt any type of pressure or any type of media scrutiny," Madsen said. "To me, he was the same Jason Collins that I've known since our days together at Stanford. And that's a Jason Collins that's professional, that's committed and that wants to be involved in his chosen vocation and profession."
Injury update
Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni estimated forward Xavier Henry will advance to full-court five-on-five drills within the next week after practicing this weekend to test out the bone bruise in his right knee.


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The board shall propose rules for legislative approval, in accordance with article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, to implement the provisions of this article, including:
(1) Standards and requirements for licenses, permits, certificates and registrations;
(2) Procedures for examinations and reexaminations: Provided, That the board shall offer examinations in all languages other than English if available to the board and requested by the applicant;
(3) Requirements for third parties to prepare and/or administer examinations and reexaminations;
(4) Educational and experience requirements;
(5) The passing grade on the examinations;
(6) Standards for approval of courses and curriculum;
(7) Procedures for the issuance and renewal of licenses, permits, certificates and registrations;
(8) A fee schedule;
(9) Continuing education requirements for professional licensees and certificate holders;
(10) The procedures for denying, suspending, revoking, reinstating or limiting the practice of licensees, permitees, certificate holders and registrants;
(11) Designating the regions for investigators/inspectors;
(12) Criteria for the training of investigators/inspectors;
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I've done it. I've put Concorde up for sale. Concorde? Well, yeah, because an E30 in this condition is a borderline one-off; well certainly on my budget anyway. Why have I done it? I'm still not sure. I guess it's a mixture of the constant worry of running a car this clean and possibly, now I have the Herald for general retro play, I want something a bit more mundane for the daily grind… No, I'm not convinced either and will probably end up with something less suitable if it goes through.
I took some pics to make me feel better though. This has only helped to talk me out of it.
Please don't buy my car.


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A Romantic Garden Wedding at Hotel Albuquerque in Albuquerque, New Mexico
With a venue exuding Southwestern charm and a color palette of pink, ivory and gold hues, Allison Anderson and James Wenzel's spring wedding was the picture of elegance and romance.
After a traditional Catholic ceremony in Albuquerque's Old Town, the pair headed to Hotel Albuquerque for dinner and dancing. The historic venue's Spanish-style gardens played host to the festivities, its wisteria-trimmed pergolas and lush blooms filling the air with a fresh floral fragrance. Crisp white linens gave way to low arrangements of silver dollar eucalyptus, mums and ivory pillar candles that made it easy for guests to chat while keeping the focus on the striking surroundings.
"What really made our décor special was the beautiful handwritten calligraphy on all of our signage," Allison says. "It filled the space with our personality and added a classy touch." In lieu of more traditional options like wood or paper, acrylic was used for the signage for a cool, modern touch.
As a play on their last names—Anderson and Wenzel—the couple swapped out the traditional champagne for their toast in favor of A&W root beer floats. "It was a huge hit and right up our alley as, naturally, we are ice cream lovers!" Allison says. Other sweet treats that went over big were pink frosted doughnuts from local shop Rebel Donuts.
After dinner, Allison hit the dance floor with her dad, where they wowed onlookers with their choreographed moves to a medley of upbeat tunes. "It incorporated everything from the handshake from 'The Parent Trap' to a shot of tequila with pops following the iconic tequila dance. It was definitely one for the books!" Allison says. When guests needed to rest their dancing feet, they could strike a pose in a photo booth. To keep the party going, the newlyweds treated guests to a late-night snack of quesadillas and empanadas.
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Dr. Agarwal's Eye Hospital is one of the major chain of eye specialty hospitals in the country, with headquarters at Chennai in the state of Tamil Nadu. The hospital, which was founded by Dr.Jaiveer Agarwal along with his wife Tahira Agarwal in Chennai, started as an eye care centre. Today, it has grown into the world-famous Dr. Agarwal's Eye Hospitals Limited, which has more than 40 centres in the country and 4 overseas.
The hospital is reputed to be the-state-of-the-art world-class one-stop Super Specialty Hospital for complete eye care solutions. It has been recognized as one of the major eye centers of the world at the XXVI International Congress of Ophthalmology, Singapore - 1990.
Dr. Agarwal's Eye Hospital Limited has always been at the forefront of every medical advancement in the field of ophthalmic care and has several firsts to its credit. The hospital is involved in continuous training, research, and advancement programs, and has created an excellent team of highly skilled ophthalmic specialists and surgeons, to assist in its developmental plans.
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