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Use these contacts for correspondence, complaint responses, penalty waiver requests, monthly reports, service fee payments, driver numbers, truck inspections, insurance papers, bond certificate, etc.
Drivers must make sure they get the correct information about who to bill.
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P.O. Box 8572
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Amie Hoodenpyl
1111 SW 2nd Avenue, Room 1406
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Dan Uhl
2835 N Kerby
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(503) 823-1834
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2929 N Kerby
Portland OR 97227
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Carol Cooper, Office Manager
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Portland OR 97209
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Best described as "SimCity-meets-Tetris", City Rain produces buildings that fall from the sky, which must be quickly place on a grid. Players are challenged to master the art of urban planning on the fly, requiring quick reflexes and a logical building placement that ultimately helps the community thrive and the ecology survive.
Created as an initial student concept project, City Rain is a puzzle and simulation game based on urban planning and sustainability. Players must rescue cities that are being 'black listed' from the World Environment Protection Agency (WEPA) by quickly making decisions to establish and re-organize urban developments that will make cities more sustainable and 'green'. City Rain is available now as a free trial and for purchase at: www.ovologames.com/cityrain. The game sells for US $9.95 as a PC download, and will be available in December 2009 for Xbox Live Indie Games.
© 2009 Ovolo Corporation, Inc. SimCity and The Sims are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries, and/or its subsidiaries. Tetris is a registered trademark of Tetris Holding, LLC. The Tetris trade dress is owned by Tetris Holding, LLC, licensed to The Tetris Company. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

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This little girl...well... she makes her tolerable. Beagle puppy! As you know, I have a beagle. My beagle is prick. Like, all beagles are naughty – and this one looks pretty naughty – but my beagle redefines Attitude Problem. While Jacek and I were away recently, Marcus stayed with Fiona. He knows Fiona very well. And Fiona was at her parents. Her parents have dogs too. So the dogs went out separately. Marcus wasn't invited on one of the outings. He wanted to go.
You know what that little f-cker did?
He waited til they all came home, when they were on the couch watching tv and, facing them, to make sure they could all see him, my asshole dog lifted his leg to piss on their satellite receiver. ON PURPOSE.
This is Carrie Underwood today with a beagle puppy at the 6th Annual Pedigree Adoption Drive at Bideawee Manhattan Shelter. Puppies smell. So good. Also... click here. The most adorable thing you will see all day.
Oh wait...
Maybe not...
Wendy sent this video a while back. Rottweiler vs Beagle Puppy. Dying.
Photos from Wenn.com


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Crochet Snowflake Corfu
This free snowflake crochet motif is very easy and quick to make. You can certainly crochet a bunch while watching TV. Crochet snowflakes are great for decorating a tree or making garlands.
I used cotton thread size 10 and a 2 mm crochet hook for this snowflake. Its final size is 7,5 cm (3 inches) in diameter. You can use heavier thread and bigger hook or thinner thread and smaller hook and you will have a bigger or smaller motif. You will also need a needle to weave in loose ends and a pair of scissors.
If you want to block your snowflakes you will need white pva glue or your favorite starch, stainless steel pins or toothpicks, plastic wrap and some kind of foam/blocking board.
AD-Free, Print Ready PDF version of this pattern is available here.
Make a magic ring.
- Round 1: Ch 1, 12 sc in the ring, pull the thread end to tighten the ring and join with sl st in first sc.
- Round 2: Ch 6 (counts as dc and ch 3), * skip next sc, 1 dc in next sc, ch 3; repeat from * 5 times, join with sl st in 3rd ch of first ch6.
- Round 3: Sl st in next ch-3 sp, ch 3 (counts as dc), 3 dc in same ch-3 sp, ch 4, * 4 dc in next ch-3 sp, ch 4; repeat from * 5 times, join with sl st in 3rd ch of first ch3.
- Round 4: Sl st in next 2 dc, ch 1, sc in same dc, * ch 2, in next ch-4 sp work (dc, ch 1, dc, ch 1, dc, ch 3, dc, ch 1, dc, ch 1, dc), ch 2 **, sc in 3rd dc; repeat from * 5 times and from * to ** once more. Join with sl st in first sc.
Fasten off and weave in loose ends.
You will need white pva glue (school glue) or your favorite starch, stainless steel pins or toothpicks, plastic wrap and some kind of foam/blocking board.
Print out this blocking template. It will help you make your snowflakes symmetrical. Tape it on your blocking board and then cover it with plastic wrap.
Prepare a mix of equal amounts of white craft glue and water or use your preferred stiffening solution.
Soak the snowflake in the solution, squeeze out the excess and spread out the snowflake on the plastic wrap-covered pinning board, having right side facing up. Use stainless steel pins and start by pinning the center. Work your way out pinning as you go until you reach the desired look. While it is still wet, you can sprinkle glitter and make it sparkly. Let dry completely. Remove from the board.
To hang the snowflake, attach a piece of thread, yarn, ribbon, invisible thread or wire.
The stiffening solution will permanently damage your pins, so it's best to set the used ones aside for use in future starching projects.
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Shane Warne plays grinch with absence from crucial BBL game
HE gets around in a distinctive green outfit, and his no-show tonight will disappoint many cricket fans at this festive time of the year.
No, he isn't one of Santa's elves, instead, a slimmed down Melbourne Stars captain Shane Warne will play the Christmas Grinch by skipping tonight's crucial BBL clash between the Adelaide Strikers and the Stars at the Adelaide Oval.
The drawcard leg-spinner has instead opted to spend Christmas in England with glamour fiancée Elizabeth Hurley and her family.
Warne will earn a cool $500,000 by the end of this Big Bash campaign, but rubbed some salt into the wounds of South Australian cricket fans when he tweeted the following on Tuesday: "Merry Christmas to everyone in Australia &
NZ, I'm sure you're all up, checking your stocking & seeing what the big guy has got you".
Cricket fans from the city of churches are still likely to turn up in droves though, as they did for games against the Heat and Sixers.
The match is expected to be a close one, with the Strikers second and the Stars third on the ladder with four rounds remaining before the semi-finals. Both teams have lost just one game.
The experienced Cameron White will captain the Stars in Warne's absence, while all-rounder John Hastings is likely to return from a back injury.
Warne will return to Australia in time for next Thursday's match against the Brisbane Heat at the Gabba.
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Kurt Nimmo
June 11, 2010
The FTC is running for cover in the wake of reports it plans to tax websites and electronic devices in order to rescue dead tree dinosaur corporate media. FTC head honcho Jon Leibowitz nixed the proposals during testimony before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, reports the Washington Times. "I think that's a terrible idea," said Leibowitz when asked about the taxes on Wednesday.
|FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz.
Earlier in the week a Rasmussen Reports poll revealed overwhelming opposition to the scheme. Three out of four of respondents opposed taxing electronic devices and approximately the same amount opposed the so-called Drudge tax on popular alternative news websites.
"The American people have absolutely no interest in taxing new media or consumer electronics to prop up an industry that's clearly on its way out," Rasmussen noted. "Just 19% think the government should get actively involved in steps to save the newspaper industry and other forms of traditional journalism. Sixty percent (60%) oppose government involvement in such activities. Twenty-one percent (21%) aren't sure if it's a good idea or not."
The number of Americans opposed to a government "bailout" of the dying newspaper industry has increased since early last year. "Seventy-one percent (71%) oppose a government bailout of the newspaper industry like the ones for the financial sector and the automobile industry, up from 65% in March of last year. Only 14% say a government bailout of the newspaper business is a good idea."
After the Washington Times reported on the scheme on June 4, the FTC denied it is pushing for new taxes on media. "It's merely trying to decide if — not when or how — it should ever take regulatory action as part of its mission to protect consumers and competition," explained Ed O'Keefe writing for the Washington Post.
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Lepore writes: "In her new book, Elizabeth Warren tells the story of her life in order to make an argument about America (the middle class is trapped in a vise of debt), which is the sort of thing politicians do when they're running for office."
She says she is not running, but... (photo: Getty Images)
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n her new book, Elizabeth Warren tells the story of her life in order to make an argument about America (the middle class is trapped in a vise of debt), which is the sort of thing politicians do when they're running for office. Warren, who spent most of her career as a law-school professor, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012; she's not up for reëlection until 2018. "I am not running for President," she insisted at a press conference in Boston in December, pledging that she will finish her term. But the publication, this month, of her autobiography, "A Fighting Chance" (Metropolitan), ahead of a memoir by Hillary Clinton that is due out this summer, only adds to the speculation that Warren is considering challenging Clinton for the Democratic nomination in 2016. And, even if Warren doesn't run, this book is part of that race.
Warren's book was originally called "Rigged," a reference to her contention that the American political system places power in the hands of plutocrats and bankers at the expense of ordinary, middle-class Americans. "Big corporations hire armies of lobbyists to get billion-dollar loopholes into the tax system and persuade their friends in Congress to support laws that keep the playing field tilted in their favor," Warren writes. "Meanwhile, hardworking families are told that they'll just have to live with smaller dreams for their children."
"A Fighting Chance" is in many ways heir to a book published a century ago. "Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It," by Louis Brandeis, appeared in the spring of 1914. Brandeis believed that the country was being run by plutocrats and, especially, by investment bankers, who, by combining, consolidating, and aggregating the functions of banks, trusts, and corporations, controlled both the nation's credit and the majority of its resources—including the railroads—and yet had not the least accountability to the public or any sense that the functions they had adopted were essentially those of a public utility. "The power and the growth of power of our financial oligarchs comes from wielding the savings and quick capital of others," Brandeis wrote. "The fetters which bind the people are forged from the people's own gold."
Brandeis was concerned with Gilded Age plutocrats' use of people's bank savings to build giant, monopolistic conglomerates answerable not to the people but to shareholders. "Other People's Money," which originally appeared as a series of essays in Harper's, is a polemic, but it's also a huge compilation of facts and figures. Brandeis pointed out, for instance, that J. P. Morgan and the First National and the National City Bank together held "341 directorships in 112 corporations having aggregate resources or capitalization of $22,245,000,000," a sum that is "nearly three times the assessed value of all the real estate in the City of New York" and "more than the assessed value of all the property in the twenty-two states, north and south, lying west of the Mississippi River." (Brandeis's ability to enlist data in the service of a legal argument, a statement known as a "Brandeis brief," is among his many legacies.) In 1933, Brandeis arranged to have "Other People's Money" republished—in an edition that cost only fifteen cents—so that it could exert the same influence on F.D.R.'s Administration that it had exerted on Woodrow Wilson's. In the first decades of the twentieth century, arguments made by writers like Brandeis led to a series of antitrust reforms and financial-industry regulations that, in the middle decades of the century, made possible the growth of the middle class.
Warren is concerned not with saving but with borrowing, not with monopoly but with debt. Since the nineteen-eighties, many Progressive-era and New Deal reforms have been repealed, including a cap on interest rates and a wall, erected in 1933, separating commercial and savings banking from investment banking. In the second gilded age, the fetters that bind the people were forged first from the people's own credit cards and then from their mortgages. Credit-card companies lured borrowers in with "teaser rates." Rates of consumer bankruptcy skyrocketed. Eying the profits made by credit-card companies, mortgage companies began selling an entirely new inventory of "mortgage products," with low down payments, ballooning rates, and prepayment penalties. Home prices shot up, and then they collapsed. "When the housing market sank," Warren writes, "so did America's middle class."
Warren speaks Brandeis's language. "There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own," Warren said at a campaign stop in 2011, in remarks that defined her candidacy. "Nobody. You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate." You used other people's money. "You built a factory, and it turned into something terrific or a great idea—God bless! Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along." It's the Brandeis in Warren that got her elected. What she does next will have to do with the many ways in which 2014 is not 1914.
"A Fighting Chance" begins this way: "I'm Elizabeth Warren. I'm a wife, a mother, and a grandmother." Nowhere in "Other People's Money" did Brandeis mention his life or his family; no doubt, these matters did not strike him as relevant to his discussion of financial oligarchy. Also, Brandeis wasn't running for office. He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1916, but, even if he had run for office, and had been required to write the necessary campaign autobiography, its first words would not have been "I'm Louis Brandeis. I'm a husband and a father."
Warren, like Brandeis, is a lawyer and a scholar. She was born in Oklahoma in 1949, the youngest of four children. When she was twelve years old, her father, a salesman for Montgomery Ward, had a heart attack and lost his job. The family lost a car and might have lost their house if Warren's mother hadn't managed to get a job at Sears. Warren went to college on a debating-society scholarship but dropped out when she was nineteen to marry an old high-school boyfriend, Jim Warren. She later finished college and moved with her husband to New Jersey; he'd been transferred there by his employer, I.B.M. Warren started work as a schoolteacher; by the end of her first year teaching, when she was twenty-one, she was pregnant. "Somewhere in between diapers and breast-feeding, I hatched the idea of going to school," she writes. Her husband didn't want her to work full time, but agreed that it would be O.K. if she took classes. She decided on law school, because she liked the lawyers on TV. Every day, she brought her daughter, Amelia, to a woman who took care of half a dozen kids, and went to class at Rutgers Law School. By the end of her third year, she was pregnant again; she had a boy named Alex. Much of Warren's book is about her children and grandchildren. She writes about a moment in 1978: "It was early evening, the cranky time of day. I was jostling Alex on my hip and frying pork chops. Amelia was on the floor with crayons scattered all around. I kept an eye on the clock, knowing Jim would come through the door in about twenty minutes." The phone rang. It was a professor at the University of Houston Law Center, asking her about a job inquiry she'd sent because her husband might be transferred to Houston. Warren writes, "I tried to sound smooth and relaxed, even as I jiggled Alex furiously in the hope that he wouldn't start crying. And I kept looking at those damn pork chops."
Warren got a teaching position at the law school (where she was routinely mistaken for a secretary), and the family moved to Houston. One day in 1979 when she picked up Alex from a day-care center in a strip mall, he held on to her and cried and cried and cried. She took him out of the day-care center. "I was so tired that my bones hurt," Warren writes. She was about to quit. Then her aunt Bee volunteered to move to Houston from Oklahoma, to help take care of the children. "Nearly eighty years old and so needed," Bee said. Not long afterward, when Warren's marriage fell apart, her parents moved to Houston to help out, too. In 1980, Warren remarried.
Warren's interest in debt, she says, is partly personal. "My daddy and I were both afraid of being poor, really poor. His response was never to talk about money or what might happen if it ran out—never ever ever. My response was to study contracts, finance, and, most of all, economic failure, to learn everything I could." Her research led her to conclude that the bankruptcy rate is a canary in the economy's coal mine and that, sometime during the Reagan Administration, the canary died.
The argument Warren offers in "A Fighting Chance" is one that she began to make in "As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America," a monograph written with Teresa A. Sullivan and Jay Lawrence Westbrook and published by Oxford in 1989. Sullivan, a sociologist, is now president of the University of Virginia; Westbrook teaches bankruptcy law at the University of Texas School of Law, where Warren taught from 1981 to 1987. (In 1986, Warren and Westbrook wrote a textbook, "The Law of Debtors and Creditors," currently in its seventh edition.) In "As We Forgive Our Debtors," Sullivan, Warren, and Westbrook reported the results of a study they made of twenty-four hundred bankruptcy petitions filed in 1981. Bankruptcy rates had risen because of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform Act, which made filing for bankruptcy easier, but also because, by the nineteen-seventies, consumer spending had become the engine of the American economy. Sullivan, Warren, and Westbrook found that most filers weren't cheats or frauds and they also weren't poor; they were members of the middle class, undone by the volatility of the economy and by a six-hundred-billion-dollar consumer-credit industry. More than half were homeowners, and many were women rearing children.
In 1987, Warren began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In 1995, she moved to Harvard. In "The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt," published by Yale in 2000, Sullivan, Warren, and Westbrook reported the results of a follow-up study of another twenty-four hundred bankruptcy filings, these from 1991. Even more Americans were drowning in debt. Between 1979 and 1997, the number of personal-bankruptcy filings rose by four hundred per cent.
In an age of debt, an unexpected loss can drive almost anyone to ruin. "Divorce, an unhappy second marriage, a serious illness, no job," Warren writes. "A turn here, a turn there, and my life might have been very different, too."
Louis Brandeis had a knack for making himself an expert on just about anything, but the original "Brandeis brief" was a hundred-and-thirteen-page document that he submitted to the Supreme Court in 1908, in Muller v. Oregon, a case concerning a law limiting the workday for women in laundries and factories to ten hours. "The decision in this case will, in effect, determine the constitutionality of nearly all the statutes in force in the United States, limiting the hours of labor of adult women," Brandeis explained in his brief. He proceeded to cite and summarize the findings of hundreds of reports and studies by physicians, municipal health boards, public-health departments, medical societies, factory inspectors, and bureaus of labor, demonstrating the harm done to women who worked long hours, an argument that relied on ideas about women's weakness relative to men. The Oregon law was upheld.
The efforts of a generation of Progressive reformers, including Brandeis, lies behind the abolition of child labor and the establishment of maximum-hour and minimum-wage laws for both men and women. A century later, Warren's brief, too, has to do with the long hours that women work. She's interested in the unintended economic consequences that arise when women rearing children enter the paid labor force. Warren's counterintuitive argument is that, for all the public and private good that has come from gains made by women in education and employment, earning money has made women who are mothers more economically vulnerable, not less.
Warren believes that the two-income family has contributed to the bankruptcy rate. "For middle-class families, the most important part of the safety net for generations has been the stay-at-home mother," Warren and her daughter, Amelia Warren Tyagi, wrote in "The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke" (2003), a book aimed at a wider audience than Warren's earlier, academic work. ("Mom, you are boring," Tyagi told Warren. "Collaborating with my daughter is not for sissies," Warren says.) It used to be that when a middle-class family was faced with a financial crisis the woman in the house could get a job, to tide things over, which is what happened when Warren's father had a heart attack and her mother got a job at Sears. This cushion doesn't exist in the two-income family, which, in its short history—it has its origins, as a middle-class phenomenon, in the nineteen-seventies—has also taken on a great deal more housing debt. The 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act required lenders to count a wife's income when evaluating borrowers; the deregulation of the mortgage lending industry began in 1980. With two wage earners and low down payments, middle-class families took on bigger mortgages and contributed to an increase in the cost of housing, especially when families with children paid a premium for property in school districts with high test scores. Financial crisis, for a two-income family, usually means having to live, quite suddenly, on one income. In these straits, families with children tend to totter on the edge of ruin. "Having a child is now the single best predictor that a woman will end up in financial collapse," Warren and Tyagi reported. Between 1981 and 2001, the number of women filing for bankruptcy rose more than six hundred per cent.
Warren entered the world of policymaking when, in 1995, she was appointed to serve on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, during the Clinton Administration. She found the work thrilling and the results maddening. She describes a report, sponsored by the banking industry, alleging that bankruptcy protection amounted to a five-hundred-and-fifty-dollar "hidden tax" levied on every hardworking American family: "I'd spent nearly twenty years sweating over every detail in a string of serious academic studies, agonizing over sample sizes and statistical significance to make certain that whatever I reported was exactly right. Now the banks just wrote a check, commissioned a friendly study, and purchased their own facts." Warren's frustration was part of what led her to seek a broader audience for her research by writing "The Two-Income Trap," which led to appearances on the "Today" show and "Dr. Phil," where she spoke with a family struggling with debt. "Year in and year out, I'd been fighting as hard as I could," Warren writes. "But by spending a few minutes talking to that family on Dr. Phil's show—and to about six million other people who were looking on—I might have done more good than in an entire year as a professor."
Nevertheless, the solutions that Warren has proposed often fail to convince. To counter both the crisis in public education and the high cost of housing, Warren and Tyagi recommend a universal public-school voucher system in which parents could send their kids to any public school: "An all-voucher system would be a shock to the educational system, but the shakeout might be just what the system needs." Yes, that would be a shock. It would also be reckless.
In 2008, Warren joined a five-person congressional-oversight panel whose creation was mandated by the seven-hundred-billion-dollar bailout. She found that thrilling and maddening, too. In the spring of 2009, after the panel issued its third report, critical of the bailout, Larry Summers took Warren out to dinner in Washington and, she recalls, told her that she had a choice to make. She could be an insider or an outsider, but if she was going to be an insider she needed to understand one unbreakable rule about insiders: "They don't criticize other insiders." That's about when Warren went on the Jon Stewart show, and you get the sense that, over that dinner, she decided to run for office.
Elizabeth Warren has a case to make about what bankers do with other people's money; she's been making it for twenty-five years. It's hardly uncontested, but it rests on collaborative, peer-reviewed, empirical research. Getting that argument across to voters in 2012 required a great deal of compression and simplification, even more than was required to write "The Two-Income Trap," but Warren's expertise—her authority as an intellectual—also helped get her elected. Running against Scott Brown, she had to tell a stump-size story about her life, a story that includes this fact: for a time, she was a single mother. That story helped get her elected.
My life explains my fight has been the argument of every American political biography for a long time. When you're grafting a life story onto a political argument, there will always be places where the grain runs in different directions. (An argument that the system is rigged tends to be somewhat undermined, for instance, by the success of the person pointing that out.) And, particularly for women with children, campaign biography can be a snare. When Wendy Davis decided to run for governor of Texas, her consultants advised her to tell the story of how she started out as a single mother before becoming a lawyer; conservatives accused her of having abandoned her children. This snare exists because political biography as a genre follows conventions whose origins lie with Andrew Jackson, in the early nineteenth century, long before women gained the right to vote or to hold office. Discrimination is the afterlife of discredited ideas. By the standards applied to Davis, who left her two young daughters with their father so that she could go to law school, most candidates elected to office in the United States in the past two centuries abandoned their children.
But there's another snare here: the danger of adopting, in place of the conventions of the Andrew Jackson's-bootstraps political biography, the newer conventions of diaper-pin Girl Jacksonianism. Political consultants appear to be eager to advise their female candidates to include, when telling the story of their lives, gauzy intimacies, silly-little-me confessions of domestic ineptitude, stagy performances of maternal devotion, and the shameless trotting out of twinkle-eyed tots. In "A Fighting Chance," Warren argues that the federal government has allowed an unregulated financial industry to prey on the middle class; she also writes no small amount about peach cobbler and burned frying pans. Still, she is not adorable; instead, she's fierce in her affections. "Sometimes, late at night, when the house was quiet, I'd scoop Lavinia out of her crib and hold her," she writes, referring to one of her grandchildren. "Not because she needed it but because I did."
Warren is also smart enough to use the conventions of political biography, old and new, to insist on the existence of a relationship between caring for other people and caring about politics. Her brief is really about the abandonment of children, not by women who go to school or to work but by legislatures and courts that have allowed the nation's social and economic policies to be made by corporations and bankers. Writing about her children and grandchildren—rocking that baby—is more than the place where Warren leaves Brandeis behind. It's an argument about where our real debts lie.


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South West Trains expects to restore a limited service on the Waterloo to Exeter line tomorrow (Tuesday)
South West Trains expects to restore a limited service on the London to Exeter line tomorrow (Tuesday, November 27) after engineers worked around the clock to repair track damage caused by extreme weather conditions.
As a result, from the start of service in the morning, a two-hourly train service will operate between London Waterloo and Exeter St Davids. A separate two-hourly service will also operate between London Waterloo and Yeovil Junction.
Passengers are, however, advised that journeys will take longer than usual as a result of speed restrictions in place on some sections of the track. Trains are also expected to be very busy as other train operators in the region are operating extremely limited services only. For that reason, a replacement bus service will continue to operate between Yeovil Junction and Exeter St Davids throughout the day to supplement the train service.
In addition, a number of South West Trains services will not call at Feniton, Whimple and Pinhoe Stations tomorrow. However, these stations will be served by the replacement bus service.
Further details of the train service and bus timetable are available at http://www.southwesttrains.co.uk/alerts.aspx
Jake Kelly, Customer Service Director for the South West Trains/Network Rail alliance said: "The weather conditions over the past week in the south west have been very challenging and we would like to thank our customers for their patience during this time. Despite suffering a setback to our work schedule as a result of heavy flooding on Saturday night, we expect to be able to re-open the line for passengers tomorrow provided the weather does not cause any further setbacks overnight tonight.
"Our staff have worked very hard to repair the track damage as well as keeping customers informed of the changes to their normal train service. We've had extra staff at stations and have posted regular service updates through our Twitter account and on our website. While there is still more engineering work to be carried out over the coming days and weeks, the most important thing is that we should now be in a position to run train services once again for our passengers."
Engineers have been working since Wednesday to repair damage caused by flooding between Honiton and Axminster as well as on the embankment at Broom Level Crossing near Axminster. More bad weather overnight on Saturday caused further damage to the track. However, engineers worked throughout the night on Sunday to re-open the line as quickly as possible.
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Rina Cametti will be biting her nails today as she waits to learn if her new company will be one of the winners out of 180 other competitors vying for one of the state's new medical marijuana distribution licenses.
"I'm anxious to see the final decision," said Cametti, who started Baystate Medical Enterprises in Franklin to take advantage of the new law allowing limited distribution of medical pot. "I'm trying to be positive, but there are a lot of great applicants."
Cametti's new venture is among 10 MetroWest-area candidates for distribution licenses being considered by the state Department of Public Health.
Between 14 and 35 licenses will be distributed, with a least one in each county. Dispensaries will be chosen based on the appropriateness of the site, geography, local support and the applicant's ability to meet the overall needs of patients while ensuring patient health, said DPH spokeswoman Anne Roach.
With 10 applicants still in the running, Framingham, Franklin, Milford and Shrewsbury could soon be home to some of the state's first medical marijuana dispensaries.
"The community has been really welcoming. Framingham has a very business-friendly nature and is a progressive area," said David Safaii, who found inspiration to open Releaf, Inc., from his brother, who suffers from Crohn's disease and relies on medical marijuana to combat the pain.
For Armand Riendeau, the decision to open in Milford was partly strategic.
"No one else has applied in Milford in the time, and the people and location just fit nicely together. Folks were just easy to talk to," he said.
MetroWest applicants said the year-long licensing process is fitting for the new industry, which submitted more than 180 applications.
After the sale of medical marijuana was approved in a 2012 statewide vote, the DPH held public meetings and conducted a two-round application process beginning last August. DPH also is developing a database to track patient and physician registrations, which will be available to law enforcement.
Cametti said the health department has handled its assignment well.
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Given that the "seed to sale" time for marijuana plants is about six months, the earliest potential dispensaries expect to open is fall 2014.
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Our special collection of FIVE shoot interviews with some of the hottest women in wrestling!Features shoot interviews withLollipop, Christy Hemme, TracyBrooks, SoCal Kim and Gail Kim! You'll never find a better deal than this to get these five shoots!!!
You think this girl is just a pretty facewith akick ass body? Lollipop takes you beyond the blonde and into the real life world of a girl just trying to make it in the wrestling business.
- Working in a very famous adult entertainment establishment
- Find out which Diva she is living with now
- She tells us all about her decision to be the first girl fully & deliberately naked on a wrestling PPV and who's idea it was
- What happens when she dates another wrestler and things don't go well
- The story behind hermost embarrassing moment in the ring
- If you like a "shoot", wait till you see how see tears into another female wrestler after we show her the footage of what was said about her
- Plus Two Bonus Matches
Gail Kim
Gail Kim provided a no holds barred interview to give insight to wrestling fans about her career and thoughts on women's wrestling. Gail takes you from her beginnings, including what superstar wrestlers influenced her decision to pursue professional wrestling. You'll be very surprised to learn how she paid for her training to start her career!
Gail provides a lot of information about her early career, much of which has not ever been acurately portrayed before, including her feud with Traci Brooks and why Gail was forced to wear a mask. Gail also covers why it was such a difficult decision to branch out into other areas of Canada from her home.
She gives indepth information about Ohio Valley and why she dislikes the city of Louisville. Gail also tells why getting sent there a second time almost made her ready to quit wrestling.
Gail tells all about how she got the call up to the WWE, the real story behind her winning the WWE Women's Title in her first big match, Fit Finley's training with the women's division along with much more information about life in the WWE and the wrestlers she had to deal with including a shocking reason her "Matrix" gimmick was doomed for failure. When you hear this you'll realize just how much the WWE has changed!
Gail then covers life after getting released to how she ended up in TNA Wrestling. She also covers why she's so hard to book for indy dates, how TNA is better than WWE and why she thinks womens wrestling has a much better chance of success there, plus thoughts on "T&A" and what she is and isn't willing to do for wrestling.
Oh and we can't forget the story of her topless photos in Korea. You'll be very surprised to hear how this happened and Gail's feelings about the story when it exploded on the internet in the United States. All this and so much more!
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So Cal Val is one of the youngest new talents to enter the world of Professional Wrestling. Watch as she discusses her humble beginnings in the business as well as the people who influenced her from the start of her career. As a manager, ring announcer, wrestler, and ring girl she describes what its like working in the indies, TNA, and the WWE. Listen in on her opinions on such stars as: John Cena, Shawn Michaels, Steve Corino, Frankie Kazarian, and Danny Doring.
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Tracy Brooks
Well, Highspots just completed a shoot interview with TNA MegaBabe Tracy Brooks at the Women's Justice Cup (which is also available here at Highspots). Tracy is such an attractive and down to earth girl, and I know it comes across well in this interview. She talks about
- her background training with both Trish Stratus and Gail Kim in Canada
- who ultimately got her into TNA
- dating other wrestlers
- being one of two girls that are part of the TNA family
- how she uses her body and being a women to her advantage and how she finally grew comfortable with this.
- road stories with the GIRLS
- and what she thinks of ALL the other girls she competes with on the indy scene and what she even thinks of the WWE Divas.
This shoot interview also has bonus footageincluding some incredibly sexy pictures and backstage footage of Tracy at the Justice Cup!
Christy Hemme
The former WWE Diva Search winner, Playboy cover model, and newest TNA Knockout, Christy Hemme met us for a one-on-one interview that uncovers the secrets you've always wanted to know about this heart-stopping beauty.
- Were you a fan of wrestling before the Diva Search
- What did you know about the WWE beforehand
- Who did you enjoy watching if so
- How did you find out about the contest
- What were your objectives going into contest? Was it to win and have a career in WWE or win and parlay it into other opportunities
- Did you train or diet or study wrestling going into the contest
- What were the tryouts like
- First impressions of Coach
- Did any of the guys try and flirt or insinuate that you would go further if you went on a date with them, etc
- Who was your favorite judge
- What surprised you most about the contest
- How did you find out you were going to the next round live on Raw
- How did the whole process go, were the divas kept separate from the WWE talent, etc
- Were you approached by any talent
- Did you have a boyfriend at the time
- Did anyone hit on you at the Raws
- Initial impressions of Vince
- How were you treated by the current WWE divas at that time
- What was your favorite contest
- Did you bond with any of the other girls
- Thoughts on Carmella
- When did you think you had the contest in the bag
- What happened before the pillow fight, was it changed
- Thoughts on how the skit with Kimala went down
- Did you know who he was
- Did it bother you when people would boo the contest portions live on Raw
- Did it bother you after the contest when some girls got hired that didn't win, like Carmella
- Were you surprised you won
- How quickly did your life change and how
- Did anyone mentor you after you won
- Who did you travel with
- Were you outcast from the locker room at all
- Were you ribbed
- How were you treated by the other girls
- Thoughts on working with the Rock during the Diva Search
- What were your thoughts the following week when you were initiated by being stripped down
- Did the pressures early on of ribbing and just being looked down upon ever make you want to quit
- How soon did you realize you were going to wrestle
- Was there anything ever said to you during the contest or after about dating the boys
- What were your thoughts on that
- Who taught you
- Thoughts on Fit Finley (agent in charge of women's matches)
- Was it easy for you to pick up
- What was the hardest thing about it
- Thoughts on Eric Bischoff and working with him
- Randy Orton has a rap for being horrible to women, did you notice it and did it happen to you
- Thoughts on Amy Webber's claims that he would rib her constantly
- Thoughts on Molly Holly
- Thoughts on Gail Kim
- Thoughts on Lita
- Thoughts on working with Edge and Shawn Michaels
- Did anyone do anything inappropriate that you would have to say something about
- How did the Playboy deal come about
- How did that change your life
- Was it hard to stay level-headed during your success
- When you were told you were wrestling Trish at Wrestlemania, what did you think
- Do you think Trish was too stiff with slaps early on
- How well did you and Lita get along off camera
- Was Trish helpful in getting you through the match
- Were you nervous
- What was it like for you to be wrestling at Wrestlemania
- At what point did you feel if ever accepted by the locker room
- Was the traveling hard
- How did Vince treat you during this time
- Thoughts on writers like Brian Gerwitz
- Thoughts on doing the Howard Stern show
- Thoughts on Stacy Keibler
- Are you surprised at her success
- Did you like becoming a full-time wrestler
- Thoughts on doing those skits with Tajiri and Regal
- Thoughts on Victoria
- Thoughts on Candice
- How did you wind up managing Eugene
- Did you like it
- What was the drug and party scene like at the time
- Was it hard to stay in shape being on the road so much
- Why do you think you were transferred to Smackdown
- How different was the locker room and the atmosphere
- Were you treated better, worse, or indifferent
- Did you ask why you were being switched
- What was it like being a judge in the second Diva contest
- Do you think Ashley should have won
- How do you think she will do
- Thoughts on Melina
- Thoughts on Jillian Hall
- Thoughts on JBL
- How did you wind up managing the LOD
- Thoughts on Animal
- Thoughts on Heidenreich
- How did your relationship evolve with Joey Matthews
- Do you think that was a good or bad thing in hindsight
- Lately it has come out by some that Melina has a bad attitude, did you sense that towards the end
- When did you find out you were going to OVW
- What was the reason you were told
- What did you think about that
- How did you like it down there
- What were they going to do with you
- Thoughts on Paul Heyman
- How did you find out you were being let go
- What was the reason
- There has been a rumor since that time in a lot of places that it had to do with you hitting on HHH, what are your comments on that
- How well did you get along with Stephanie and thoughts on her
- Do you think the Diva contest is a scam since you were released
- How hard did you take it
- Did you find it harder or easier to get work in the entertainment business after your release
- Did you ever call Vince after
- How come you didn't do a lot of independents
- Do you think it is a good thing to learn about the independents and do some now
- Did you plan on retiring from wrestling
- Thoughts on the Lingerie Bowl
- How did your life change after the WWE
- You were advertised for an indy show, Big Time Wrestling back in January and didn't appear, what happened
- How did you wind up in TNA
- Who called you
- What are your expectations
- Do you find it odd that your first few appearances were non speaking
- You are doing more television stuff, is that where you want to take your career
- Are you treated any different in TNA than WWE now that you are coming in as an established wrestling star
- Has Gail Kim treated you differently
- Who do you enjoy riding with in TNA
- Any good road stories from your career
- Have politics affected your career and if so, how
- Where do you want to see your career in 5 years
- Did you really lose a lot of weight on TrimSpa
- Do you have any good diet or nutrition tips
- Advice for women that want to get into the wrestling business
- Do you actually have a MySpace account
- What's been your biggest wrestling highlight
- You recently said in an interview you would never go back to the WWE, why
- Thoughts on the Carters (owners of TNA)
- Thoughts on Jeff Jarrett
- Do you think TNA has a future
- Have you watched TNA since you started here
- Do you think TNA at its current state will be able to succeed
- How have things gone for you so far in TNA
- What are your current goals
- Do you want to wrestle in TNA or just be a talent/personality
- Favorite girls to work with and why
- Least favorite and why
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Statement from Donald Remy, NCAA chief legal officer:
"Despite their attempt to shoehorn their rhetoric into the framework of an antitrust case, the plaintiffs have failed to establish that the NCAA's rules violate the law. Instead, the evidence presented at trial showed that the NCAA's rules are essential to preserving college sports in the United States -- a unique model that provides opportunities for academic and athletic achievement to more than 460,000 student-athletes each year. If the plaintiffs succeed in changing the system to disproportionately benefit a few student-athletes, they will do so at the expense of opportunities for education and advancement for hundreds of thousands of student-athletes each year. The plaintiffs' claims are wrong on the facts and unsupported by the law, and the Court should reject them."


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From RS Pro a range of high quality, easy to use general purpose heat shrink tubing made from flexible, flame retardant Polyolefin. This heat shrinkable tubing has a low shrink temperature of just 70°C (minimum) and a shrink ratio of 2:1 which means it shrinks to half of its original diameter
Heat shrink tubing is a type of extruded plastic tubing that can be cut to size and fitted over a wire or cable joint to protect and insulate the connection. When heated is applied the tubing shrinks permanently providing a protective seal. The amount it shrinks depends on its shrink ratio. When you buy the tubing it is in its expanded state, this expanded tubing has memory so when it is heated it returns to its original state. Larger shrink ratios are required to cover materials with a greater size variation.
The diameter of the wire or cable is measured and the correct sized heat shrink tubing selected. A piece of the tube is cut to size which is long enough to cover the connection or joint after heating. This then slides onto the wire. After the cable or wire has been joined the piece of heat shrink shrinkable tube is moved over the joint and heated with a heat gun until it shrinks and forms a tight wrapping around the joint
Flexible Polyolefin is a material derived from polyethylene and is one of the most commonly used insulating materials being both highly flexible, fast shrinking and durable. When heated this polyolefin tubing shrinks radially to half its original diameter hence the ratio of 2:1. Flexible Polyolefin tubing has the following properties:
Very flexible
2:1 shrinkage ratio, shrinks to half its original diameter
Flame retardant (apart from transparent version)
Operating temperature range of -55 to +125°C
Low heat shrink temperature of 70°C (minimum)
Minimum full recovery temperature: 100°C
Excellent electrical insulation properties
Resistant to common fluids and solvents
Excellent abrasion resistance
This polyolefin heat shrink is very versatile and is used in both commercial and industrial applications for protecting and sealing cable joints and in-line components such as disconnect terminals and wire splices. It can also be used to carry out repairs on existing worn or torn cable or wiring insulation Applications include the following:
Electrical insulation
Environmental protection against moisture, dust, and chemicals.
Mechanical protection to wires and small parts from abrasion
Mechanical strain relief on cable and connector joints to prevent damage caused by flexing or bending
Bundling and organizing harness wires, cable, and tubing
Colour coded identification of cables, wires, and components
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|Shrunk Diameter
|Sleeve Type
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NuGet Package of Week #11 - ImageResizer enables clean, clear image resizing in ASP.NET
The Backstory: I was thinking since the NuGet .NET package management site is starting to fill up that I should start looking for gems (no pun intended) in there. You know, really useful stuff that folks might otherwise not find. I'll look for mostly open source projects, ones I think are really useful. I'll look at how they built their NuGet packages, if there's anything interesting about the way the designed the out of the box experience (and anything they could do to make it better) as well as what the package itself does. Today, it's imageresizer.
Bertrand Le Roy has long been an advocate of doing image resizing correctly on .NET and particularly on ASP.NET. Last week he posted a great post on a new library to choose from; a library that is pure .NET and works in medium trust. It's "imageresizer." What a creative name! ;)
Seriously, though, it couldn't be easier. Here's a nice sample from Bertrand's blog showing how to do resizing of a JPEG as stream of bytes using the imageresizer library directly:
var settings = new ResizeSettings {
MaxWidth = thumbnailSize,
MaxHeight = thumbnailSize,
Format = "jpg"
settings.Add("quality", quality.ToString());
ImageBuilder.Current.Build(inStream, outStream, settings);
resized = outStream.ToArray();
There's a complete API with lots of flexibility. However, how quickly can I get from File | New Project to something cool?
Well, make a new ASP.NET (MVC or WebForms) project and put an image in a folder.
Their default NuGet package is called ImageResizer, and their ASP.NET preconfigured web.config package is "ImageResizer.WebConfig" which includes a default intercepting module to get you the instant gratification you crave. I used NuGet to install-package imageresizer.webconfig.
I've got an image of my giant head that I can, of course, visit in any browser.
And now with the intercepting HttpModule installed with imageresizer.webconfig I can add ?width=100 to the end of the query string and I get a nice resized image that fits into the constraints of "100 wide." It's a trivial example, but it's a nice touch to have them do the "figure out how tall this should be" work for me.
Of course, I'm sure you could DoS (Denial of Service) someone's system with resizing request, but for
small sites their intercepting module is a quick fix and a great example. DoS problems aren't unique to CPU intensive requests and a problem solved elsewhere.
UPDATE: Please read the comment from the author below. He points out a correction and some useful stuff.
I'd like to clarify that it's not just for small sites. It's been running large social networking sites for years, and there are at least 6 companies using it with 10-20TB image collections (it powers a lot of photo album systems). It's designed for web farms, Amazon EC2 clusters, and even..... Microsoft Azure.
"Performance-wise, it's just as fast as GDI (despite Bertrand's article, which he'll be updating soon). Default behavior is to favor quality over performance (since it's never more than a 40% difference even with the worst settings), but that IS adjustable."
He also tells me in email:
"All the cropping, flipping, rotation, and format conversion can be done from the URL syntax also. Everything you can do from the Managed API you can also do from the URL."
For more sophisticated use they include a separate API dll where you can do even more like cropping, rotating, flipping, watermarking and even conversion. Bertrand has a chart that explores their speed issues, as they are slower than straight GDI and Windows Imaging Components, but as I said, they are pure managed code and work in Medium Trust which is a huge win. Their quality is also top notch.
ImageResizer also includes plugin support that you can buy. Genius, seriously, I tip my hat to these guys. The most popular and useful features are free, and crazy easy to use. If you want to do even more you buy plugins like DiskCache for huge performance wins, S3Reader or AzureReader for Amazon or Azure support, and lots of free plugins for 404 handling, DropShadows and more. So polished. Kudos to Nathanael Jones and team for a really nice use of ASP.NET, .NET, NuGet and a clever open source library with a plugin model for profit.
Related Links
- Bertrand's Blog
- Nathanael's Blog
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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.
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High on the list of things you should definitely read today is this piece by Automotive News' Mark Rechtin detailing just how Honda managed to turn the much maligned 2012 Honda Civic into the it-could-have-been-worse-because-it-was-worse 2013 Honda Civic, which has Honda execs explaining the way its efficient system allows it to unfuck itself so quickly.
I'm more interested in why they fucked themselves and their most important product (which remained popular despite being hated by the press). Here's the money quote:
"We read the market wrong," admitted Vicki Poponi, American Honda assistant vice president of product planning and a former executive at Honeywell's Garrett turbocharging division.
"After the Lehman shock, we thought there would be different consumer behaviors. We knew that unemployment would last a long time and that there would be recessional trends. We thought consumers would be more sparse in their needs and be tightening their belts. The Civic was going to reflect that world," Poponi said.
That didn't happen. Instead, everyone else made their cars better, added more content, and left the Civic looking like an airport rental Sebring.
A lot of this has to do with expectation. People expect the Civic to be fully contented at a reasonable price. Volkswagen did exactly the same thing they did with the 2012 Civic with the new Jetta, but they shrugged off the bad press, and started minting money. Same with the Passat. People still think paying way less for a VW is a good deal because they don't think they're getting less, whereas people will eventually figure out paying more for a Honda and getting less than you'd get from Ford is a bad deal.