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1. KIND Bars– Can you believe I am just trying these for the first time this week? They aren't as chewy as I had expected but still tasty.
2.Chili Sweet Potato Fries Salad– so easy! I started with Alexia sweet potato fries as the base, topped that with veggie chili, then topped that with shredded cabbage, thinly sliced avocado, tahini dressing (tahini, lemon juice, chickpea miso, nutritional yeast and water to thin) and thinly sliced scallions. A ranch dressing would also be good.
3. Wild Mushrooms in this case with soba noodles and asparagus. We found a stand at the market that sells yummy wild mushrooms and I am addicted.
4. Lemon Raspberry Mineral Water– I bought this yesterday when I really wanted coffee and now I may have a new habit. Oh why do we live so close to Whole Foods.
5. Nuttzo– I received this as a sample a few weeks ago and it went as fast. My husband is addicted to it and wants me to buy him a life time supply for his birthday.
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I thought of this question and quickly realized that I already knew a possible example. Japanese band ZONE's most popular song is called 「secret base~君【きみ】がくれたもの~」. The lyrics can be read here or at another lyrics site of your choice. There is also a fairly new "answer/reply" song called 「約束【やくそく】~August, 10years later~」. You can find these lyrics here.
In the original song,
もの is only used in the title, but I think reading the lyrics should give a sense of what the title means. However, in the answer song, there is a line (referencing the title of the original song) that does use もの:
今【いま】もこの胸【むね】には 君【きみ】がくれた
ものが 10年【ねん】たってもかわらずに
But I don't think these songs are talking about physical things that the supposed 君【きみ】 gave to the speaker, as the actual definition of
もの would imply. Rather, this 君【きみ】 gave the speaker things abstract things, such as wonderful memories (
最高【さいこう】の思【おも】い出【で】を… from the original song) and companionship (
一緒【いっしょ】にいたかった 一人【ひとり】で泣【な】かないで from the answer song) So, could
もの be used in a figurative/poetic sense to imply that something abstract (a
こと) has great value? Or have I greatly misinterpreted the song?
Bonus: Could the reverse be done as well? Could
こと be used to imply the insignificance/worthlessness of something that is physical, something that is a


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NPD October: More Sports, Less Profit
The NPD Group has released their October US retail report, with yet another and rather significant Year-On-Year decline in overall sales.
NPD October
Overall spend down 25% to $755.5 million.
Software down 25% to $432.6 million.
Hardware down 37% to $187.3 million.
Accessories up 5% to $135.6 million.
NBA 2K13 is king of the charts with Resident Evil 6 placing second.
From the previous $1 billion year mark in October 2011, overall sales for this month witnessed a near 25 per cent drop, coming in at $755.5m. Having declared such, the group has also made note that this figure equates to only 50 per cent of the total consumer spend. Plans for a full Q4 US Games Market Dynamic report will include digital and other non-retail figures, providing a more rounded set of data.
Whilst these figures are less an ideal, the group do believe that month to month data remain strong and end of year figures will continue to climb.
Liam Callahan from NPD has stated, "While we saw declines in hardware unit sales across all platforms year-over-year, when looking at average sales per week versus September, several consoles realized higher sales: The 360, PS3, NDS and 3DS. This is a sign of increasing momentum as we move into the holiday season."
Overall, software sales were down by 25 per cent, $432.6m compared to $576.8m in October 2011. A noticeable point being that portable software sales demonstrated a figure of 37 per cent growth.
Callahan made specific mention to NBA 2K13, which "outsold last year's 2K12 by over 60 per cent in both dollars and units."
The top 10 selling games were:
- NBA 2K13 (360, PS3, Wii, PSP, PC)
- Resident Evil 6 (360, PS3)
- Pokémon Black Version 2 (NDS)
- Dishonored (360, PS3, PC)
- Pokémon White Version 2 (NDS)
- Madden NFL 13 (360, PS3, Wii, PSV)
- FIFA Soccer 13 (360, PS3, Wii, PSV, 3DS, PSP)
- Medal of Honor: Warfighter (360, PS3, PC)
- Borderlands 2 (360, PS3, PC)
- Skylander Giants (Wii, 360, PS3, 3DS)
Comparative to software, hardware sales faced a stronger decline and accounted for $187.3m during the month, which equates to a decrease of 37 per cent compared to the $295.9m earned in the same period last year.
Once again, the XBOX 360 came out ahead of the competition selling 270,000 units during the period and claiming over 40 per cent of the market in its division for the 20th consecutive month.
An interesting sign of hope comes with accessories, as they continue to be a key feature demonstrated by Skylanders; a five per cent increase over October 2011 with $135.6m this month compared to $129.6m.


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Though Switzerland's UBS and other major banks also have revealed they are cooperating in the investigation, the bank's disclosure that authorities are looking into currency trading in multiple markets will be seen as a setback for Chief Executive Antony Jenkins' efforts to change the culture of the scandal-plagued company.
Jenkins took over this year pledging to lead a bank devoted to ethical behavior after Barclays was rocked by a $453 million fine for manipulating a key global interest rate and other scandals.
But the past keeps coming back to haunt the bottom line. The bank also said that the Financial Conduct Authority warned Barclays it faces a 50 million pound fine ($80 million) fine for failing to disclose it had entered into advisory agreements with Qatar Holdings LLC before it raised money from Qatari investors in 2008.
The bank is contesting the authority's finding that the primary purpose of the agreements, which totaled 332 million pounds over five years, was to make additional payments for the Qatari investment. Barclays turned to Qatari investors to bolster its capital at the height of the financial crisis. That gave it an advantage over British rivals Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland, which were bailed out by the government.
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating whether the group's relationships with third parties, including the Qatari investors, violated the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices act. The Federal Reserve has asked to be kept informed.
"It is not possible to estimate the full impact on the Group if the final conclusion of these matters is adverse," Barclays said in its third-quarter earnings statement.
Barclays reported that net income fell 26 percent to 2.8 billion pounds for the 9-month period ending in September. The bank attributed the decline to its "Transform," program, which aims to reduce risk after the financial crisis and change the culture of the bank.
"The FX review is something of a concern and adds to the ongoing investigations," said Richard Hunter of Hargreaves Lansdown, a London-based stockbroker and asset manager. "In addition, the costs of transforming the bank have impacted negatively on both operating expenses and therefore the cost income ratio."
Barclays has been troubled by scandal in recent years, having been fined by regulators in the U.S. and Britain for manipulating the London interbank offered rate, or LIBOR, the benchmark for trillions of dollars in loans – including some home mortgages
The brash American CEO, Bob Diamond, was forced to resign in the scandal. Other troubles included the mis-selling of insurance and interest rate products to consumers and small businesses.


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She didn't have the performance she had hoped for, but nonetheless Dwyer's Kai James can always say she played in the girls' McDonald's High School All-American Game.
The 6-foot-5 senior, who's signed with Florida State, started at center for the East squad in Wednesday night's nationally televised all-star game at the United Center in Chicago, which the West won 92-64.
She finished with four rebounds, one point (0-for-5 from the field, 1-2 from the foul line), one assist, one block and one steal in 18 minutes. She also committed three turnovers.
James is the second girls McDonald's All-American from Palm Beach County. Benjamin grad Erlana Larkins, who went on to star at North Carolina and now plays for the WNBA's Indiana Fever, played in the 2004 game.
James, whose older brother Joel James just finished his freshman season at UNC, was rated the third-best center in the 2012 signing class by ESPN HoopGurlz. She won a gold medal playing for USA at the 2012 World Under-17 Championship.


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Analysis of epidemiologic data showed the rise in neurologic disability in India is fueled by increases in traumatic brain injury (TBI), age-related dementia, and stroke. Together, these three account for more than 3.5 million new cases of disability each year. That is 11,000 each day, or 7 people every minute who acquire a neurologic disability, emphasized Dr. Radhakrishnan. "Because of the uneven distribution of wealth and health care, the rural poor are disproportionately affected. Lack of awareness and stigma associated with disability contribute to the problem," he noted. "To combat the immense implications for India, urgent changes are needed in health policy, education, research and delivery of care." The authors identified four areas where urgent action can help stem this epidemic—enforcement of traffic safety measures to reduce TBI, development of standardized data tools for assessment and accurate statistics, training of more professionals in neurorehabilitative care, and expanded research in neurorehabilitation.
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After spending 3 hours on this today I have some disappointing results. I still like my idea, and will pursue this later, but ran into so many problems it just wasn't going to happen. The first was a very weak battery in the bike, despite being on a battery tender, so I couldn't start the bike to even get it out of the garage. It went downhill from there... brisk temperatures, high winds, clouds changing the natural lighting by the minute, no means to properly support the wreath (and not a neighbor was home), camera batteries dying, etc etc etc. Boots soaked through, and pants drenched from the knees down, I finally just gave up to return another day. These seem to be my better submissions... wreath held at arms length in one hand, camera in the other - it was quite a juggling act in the winds and arms ached something fierce... (reduced in size from originals)
Some Photoshop level adjustment ought to make this an OK shot, but I wanted greater depth of field:
Needs a little level adjustment also, but in full size you can read the "BMW motorcycles" on the top ring of the ornament:
A last ditch effort to get something worthwhile, I kinda like it, but needs to be cropped tighter and levels adjusted:
John A. Brown - Kalamazoo MI
'09 K1300S 'Zoot' (Wicked, bad, naughty, evil, Zoot!)
'94 K1100LT 'Desert' (the horse with no name)
Nice shots, keep em coming.
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Have you considered having the wreath out of focus? Add some lights and/or a red ribbon for some interest, and the wreath might glow like a halo around the motorcycle.
If cropping were ÔÇ£legalÔÇØ this might be a good example of when to use it. If you have a large enough image, you could back off a bit for the right focus, and then crop for effect.
(Tom, Ben, Am I on the right track with this one?)
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John A. Brown - Kalamazoo MI
'09 K1300S 'Zoot' (Wicked, bad, naughty, evil, Zoot!)
'94 K1100LT 'Desert' (the horse with no name)
John A. Brown - Kalamazoo MI
'09 K1300S 'Zoot' (Wicked, bad, naughty, evil, Zoot!)
'94 K1100LT 'Desert' (the horse with no name)
John A. Brown - Kalamazoo MI
'09 K1300S 'Zoot' (Wicked, bad, naughty, evil, Zoot!)
'94 K1100LT 'Desert' (the horse with no name)
I think your comments have a lot of merit. The wreath is out of focus, though slightly. It's noticeable, but you are suggesting maybe a bit more? Same could be said for throwing the bike out of focus, as he has done so well with the ornament shot. I like that one, too. I particularly like the inclusion of the gold ribbon.
I have to echo all of Bricci's points. He's an astute observer of detail. I also agree with him that these are great, creative shots.
I've enjoyed our lively discussion in this thread, and I'm glad to be seeing such fine submissions.
The EXIF:
Exposure Time 0.05s (1/20)
Aperture f/4.5
Focal Length 40mm (60mm 35mm)
The flames. . . . Try underexposing slightly. You could set your exposure compensation [+/-] -1.3 EV to start, or if you had your camera set to manual, you might decrease the aperture to 5.0 or 5.6. As an alternative, you could increase the shutter speed to 1/30.
Clearly you're using a tripod? Available light clearly the way to go here. Can you shoot it at a lower ISO? Or would that make the shutter speeds to long to render the fire the way you want. Hmmmm, might be more visually interesting. Might be worth a try.
Have you considered spraying water on the face shield? I don't know if it would work, but it might add a sense of drama and possibly conceal the windows visible in the background.
The vertical orientation of the image mates the helmet and the tree in a vertical orientation. The image of the tree is far less abstract in this image. The decal on your helmet (a distraction) is not fighting as hard for my attention.
The fire looks more like a fire, the glowing coals (visible but abstract in the upper image), and a bit darker than the image above.
Exposure Time 0.25s (1/4)
Aperture f/4.5
Focal Length 60mm (90mm 35mm)
The background and the gloves are in sharper focus here (a result of being farther from the point-of-focus, the helmet). Speaking of the helmet, in the upper image it comprises 50% of the image space, In the shot below, 25%. This photo is just a bit more compressed, having been shot at a slightly greater telephoto setting (90mm).
The large space at the top of this image needs to contain something which is both visually interesting but not in competition with the subject. Your chosen background, a fire, is a wonderful choice. Move around a bit, slightly, and see what you can come up with. Imagine two or three small flames wrapping that log (there's one on your site!). Manipulate your environment by stoking the fire and shooting it as it wanes. Perhaps your lovely wife would assist you? How is she by the way?
Many photographers would call this done. I commend you on wanting to try to improve a really successful image. Worst case scenario is your left with this effort, a really good picture.
Oh, nice photo by the way, I like the way the wreath is slightly out of focus brings the bike more into the shot as the main subject.
John A. Brown - Kalamazoo MI
'09 K1300S 'Zoot' (Wicked, bad, naughty, evil, Zoot!)
'94 K1100LT 'Desert' (the horse with no name)
What I can say is you've all sure raised the bar this time - John and lamble and grossjohann!
You're a tough act to follow . . .
Thank goodness we have more time.
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Think about shooting this at twilight. There's often a really nice cast to the sky, it prevent your background from being entirely dark. Try pointing a not-too-bright light source directly into a lower corner away from the window and see how that illuminates. String of colored lights around the inside along the top of the walls? I don't know. . . . maybe.
Take a shot every 20 or 30 seconds for ten or fifteen minutes (or less if it's freezing and more if a chronic over-achiever).
You want to take this without a flash, for sure. The reflections on the saddle bags: interesting but maybe too much?


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Camp Invention Underway at SUNY CantonMonday, July 18th, 2011
More than 80 children from across New York State are letting their creative sides run wild at SUNY Canton as part of a week-long day camp focused on innovation and hands-on learning.
Camp Invention, a program of Invent Now, is underway on the College's campus and will conclude on Friday, July 22. The camp is being held in the North Country for the first time and is for students entering grades one through six.
The program includes themed modules where they will work in teams and explore, discover and create solutions to certain problems. Participants will have a chance to present their findings and inventions to family and friends at an Inventors' Showcase at the end of the week.
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"We have a wonderful team of enthusiastic educators who will help teach the children math and science in an innovative and a hands-on way," Barnes said. "We are just as excited as the kids are about the week."
Interested parents and students made sure to keep this week open in their busy summer plans. "We decided to return home from our vacation early so our son could attend," said Melanie Sauer of Potsdam. "This is such a high quality and amazing program that we did not want to miss it."
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Nobody has written a review of this popular light so I'll do it
Sorry for any possible errors or weird spelling - english is not my native language. Feel free to ask me any questions about this light, I'll try to answer them all.
You can buy it here and on other websites. I'm writing a review of this custom version with XM-L2 neutral white leds:
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«Lights reviews - Yinding 2xU2 (Gemini Duo Clone)» all pictures are available here, you can also view high-res originals (click on any picture, bottom-right corner will list all resolutions, use google translate if needed)
Cardboard "gift box", used for many chinese bike lights:
You'll get the light, battery, charger, headstrap mount, 2 rubber rings for handlebar mount and the box.
This light is a direct copy of Gemini Duo and probably the smallest 2 XML light that you can buy atm.
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You can read reviews of the original at the links above, most of the info there can be applied to this clone. Main differences between the original and the clone are much worse battery and 3 fixed brightness levels on clone vs 3 programmable levels on original.
Light's head is very small with 2 plastic TIR lenses over the leds. Weight of the head is only 59g, dimensions are 44x23x34mm without plastic mount.
There is a single button on the back with model name engraved near it.
Yinding compared to SolarStorm X2 and Fandyfire D99 (another simular light with TIR lenses, but a bit larger and heavier).
It has a magicshine-style connector, mount with piece of rubber glued on it (thats a sign of good quality light, cheaper lights don't use rubber there) and waterproof o-ring on the power cable.
You can also rotate the mount, another rare feature for chinese lights.
Mounting area is flat without any cable holes so you can use/make your own mount, see post #11 for example:
Usual cheap chinese battery, 4x18650 2S2P cells in shrinkwrap, 7.4v voltage. Not waterproof! You have to cover it in plastic bags/rubber balloon/gloves or something to protect it from water or it'll short-circuit like this:
Battery capacity is kinda ok for chinese batteries but still horrible. I have 2 lights and here are the discharge graphs for them:
Battery 1, 3600mAh with very weird unstable voltage on discharge cycle.
Battery 2, 3200mAh with good stable voltage.
Both of these batteries will work for about 2 hours on high mode and imo you should replace them with something better from Xeccon/Magicshine/Gemini.
4 modes, switched with single click in this sequence: off-low-mid-high-off and repeat. Strobe on hold, high frequency, not very usable imo.
Lets open it up and see how its made
Starting from the mount:
3mm hex screw, plastic mount, 2 rubber o-rings between the screw, mount and the case.
O-rings removed. These o-rings will hold the mount at any angle so you can turn it and leave at specific angle that you need.
Nothing else on the bottom so lets move to the front.
2 small hex screws (about 1.5mm) hold the front part of the case. Removing the screws and front part gives us access to the 2 plastic TIR lenses and XM-L2 leds. Both lenses and the front part of the case have rubber o-rings under them so this light should be competely waterproof.
Leds are mounted on aluminium backplate and connected in series. You can also see that this specific version has XM-L2 leds (silver color of the led, 2 bounding wires instead of 3 on 1st gen) which the seller replaced himself...and it wasn't a very good job - there are fingerprints all over the plate and wires soldering is not very good.
Moving on, next we have to remove 2 screws on the sides of led's backplate:
These long screws are connected to the back side of the case.
With screws removed we can also lift up led's backplate to discover proper amount of good thermal paste underneath - everything is ok here. And here is an important part - led's backplate is mounted directly on the outer case, there is no additional pills here so thermal transfer is excellent (unlike D99 where leds were basically handing in air).
Moving on to the back, another view of the case inside and metal wall in the middle. There is a small hole in the center for led's wires and a hole on the side for power wire. Power wire doesn't have any pull-out protection so be careful with it.
2 pics of the driver and we're done. Soldering looks good everywhere, driver is marked "HX-1343". There are 2 smd leds for battery charge level indication, R110 current sense resistor that you can replace to increase current on leds (not recommended though, case can't really handle any additional heat).
This time I'll use a picture with every measurement:
A few addional notes about it:
Current from battery is measured on external PSU set at 7.5v, thats the average voltage on discharge cycle. You can divide your battery capacity on current to get estimated runtime in hours (for the included battery at high mode its 3200/1700 = 1.88 hours, a good quality battery like Xeccon 5200mAh will give you 3.06 hours).
There are 2 values for current on leds because driver is a bit weird...it usually outputs 1.7A on high, BUT when input voltage is 6.9-7.2v it jumps to 2A. I have no idea why this is happening, but I double checked everything and it just works like this.
Driver will go out of regulation at 6.4v on input = leds will start to dim. This is a good feature as you'll notice that even if your light is mounted on helmet and you can't see the battery indicator on it. At about 5v it will turn off competely.
Lumens output is a very rough estimation (I don't have integrated sphere to properly measure lumens output) based on this calculator:
And with 20% reduction for losses in optics to calculate estimated OTF lumens. Still it should be close to real output, I verified that by calculating and comparing results for other lights/flashlights.
This light is very small and very lightweight so it will heat up VERY FAST. While moving it will be cooled by air so its not a problem, but don't run it on high mode for a long time when standing still - it can and will overheat very easily.
Some users have reported that it has overheat protection that will dim/turn off the light but I haven't tested that and I don't recommend to rely on such protections - overheating is bad for leds and electronics.
Originally Posted by znomit
Compared to D99 on the right:
D99 uses the same type of lenses with wider angle (probably 22-30 degrees compared to 15 on Yinding) so the beam is almost the same. Its wider on D99 but its hard to notice on that picture.
Compared to SolarStorm X2 on the right:
Here you can see the difference between TIR lens and reflector. Reflectors on SSX2 have noticable sidespill and tight hotspot in the center while TIR on Yinding gives just one wide hotspot.
You can also see the difference in color temperature in both pictures. Neutral-white XM-L2 leds have more natural-looking slightly yellow color vs blue-white color of typical cheap chinese cool white XM-L leds.
2 simple beamshots on the ceiling:
This light uses TIR lenses (probably 15 degree wide like these ones 15 Degree Angle LED Optical Lens - Black - Free Shipping - DealExtreme) that give it a wide and floody hotspot with gradual fade at the edges, which is less tiring on the trail than usual high contrast reflector lights. Not a very good thrower though but should be an excellent light for the bars.
Its not a pure flood light and not a thrower, its somewhere in between and works great as a single light for low and medium speed riding on the roads/trails.
And a beamshot on the road, sorry for cellphone quality:
And here are some beamshots stolen from another threads and sites
Very small, very light.
Good mount.
Good wide-hotspot beam.
Excellent thermal transfer from leds to outer case.
XM-L2 neutral white leds in this version, better color rendition and easier on eyes compared to cool white.
Bad batteries.
Overheats very easily.
No brightness levels adjustment like on original Gemini Duo.
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Sony Pictures has cancelled the December release of "The Interview," about an attempt on the life of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in the wake of a cyberattack on the company and threats of terrorism. Last July, the film's director and star Seth Rogen weighed in on the simmering controversy.
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Two members of the medical team on duty when Michael Jackson arrived at the hospital on the day he died testified Monday that Dr. Conrad Murray never told them he had given the superstar the powerful anesthetic propofol.
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Dr. Richelle Cooper, who said Jackson was already dead by the time he arrived at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, also told the jury about trying to speak with the superstar's children after their father was pronounced dead at 2:26 p.m. on June 25, 2009.
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"They were crying,'' Cooper said. "They were fairly hysterical.''
The testimony came on Day 5 of the involuntary manslaughter trial of Jackson's personal physician. Cooper, Cardiologist Thao Nguyen and paramedics, who testified last week, insisted that Jackson died in the bedroom of his rented Holmby Hills mansion, but said his personal physician demanded that life-saving efforts continue at the hospital.
"Mr. Jackson had already been dead for some time when he became my patient," Dr. Cooper said Monday under cross-examination from the defense. "I made a call based on the radio information I had (from paramedics). I felt comfortable pronouncing him (dead).''
Cooper was on the phone with paramedics when she advised them to pronounce Jackson dead about 30 minutes after paramedics began life-saving efforts.
Murray told the paramedics Jackson was being treated for exhaustion and dehydration, paramedic Richard Senneff testified Friday. The only drug Murray mentioned was the sedative lorazepam, and Murray never indicated he was administering propofol, several members of the medical team testified.
Defense attorney J. Michael Flanagan asked Cooper whether that would have made a difference in her treatment. She said it would not have, nor would it have changed the outcome after the ER team worked on Jackson for more than an hour.
When Flanagan asked Nguyen whether she had ever heard of propofol being used outside of a hospital, Nguyen responded, "I don't ask what other doctors use for their procedures."
Deputy DA David Walgren immediately asked Nguyen, "Have you ever heard of someone using propofol in a bedroom?"
"That would be a first," Nguyen said.
Nguyen was in the emergency room when Jackson arrived at 1:13 p.m. During her testimony Monday, Nguyen said she asked Murray whether there were other narcotics or sedatives besides lorazepam that had been given to Jackson.
Murray said he had not administered any other drugs, Nguyen testified. When asked whether he mentioned the anesthetic propofol, Nguyen said, "Absolutely not."
"From the brief conversation I had with Dr. Murray, I had concerns," said Nguyen. "In Dr. Murray's mind, if we called (Michael Jackson's death) it at that time, it would be giving up easily."
Edward Dixon, an AT&T engineer, took the stand Monday morning after Cooper. Jeff Strohn, a Sprint-Nextel employee, also testified about Murray's phone records.
Phone records played a key role in the prosecution's case during the preliminary hearing in January. Prosecutors showed that Murray was engaged in three phone calls in the hour before he emerged from the bedroom and asked a chef to seek help.
Dr. Joanne Prashad, an internal medicine doctor from Houston, who shared a patient with Murray testified she spoke with Murray the morning Jackson died.
Late Monday afternoon, Consuelo Ng took the stand. Ng testified she did volunteer work for Murray in his Las Vegas office. Ng testified Murray called his Las Vegas office shortly before 11:30 a.m. and stayed on the phone for longer than 30 minutes that morning.
One of Murray's former girlfriends, Bridgette Morgan, was the last witness on the stand Monday. When she called Murray's cell phone on the morning of June 25, 2009, she testified Murray did not answer.
Prosecutors have attempted to prove that Murray gave Jackson a lethal dose of the anesthetic propofol, then failed to properly monitor his patient. A medical equipment company executive testified last week that the equipment used to monitor Jackson was not adequate.
But Murray's attorneys argue that Jackson self-administered the fatal dose when Murray left the room. In their opening statement, they claimed Jackson created "a perfect storm" inside his own body.
First Week Concludes With Paramedics' Testimony
Two paramedics testified last week about their interactions with Murray, who was described as "frantic" and "flustered." When asked to describe Murray's demeanor, Cooper said she was too busy tending to Jackson to notice his demeanor.
Paramedic Senneff testified that Murray's statements "didn't add up." Senneff said he repeatedly asked Murray, "What's his underlying health condition?"
The doctor responded, "There is none," Senneff said.
"That did not add up to me," said Senneff. "Doctor's in the house. IV pole, IV hooked up to the patient -- it didn't seem normal."
Two members of the team that promoted Jackson's upcoming "This Is It" concerts, a former patient of Murray's and several of Jackson's staff members, including the first security guard who responded to Jackson's bedroom, also testified during the first week. One of the prosecution's most important witnesses, Alberto Alvarez, testified that Murray told him to call 911 after he asked him to hide several bottles of drugs and remove Jackson's eldest children from the room.
"There's always a tendency to rush to judgement when listening to impressive district attorney arguments, but there's a long way to go," said NBC4 legal analyst Royal Oakes. "There's a lot of scientific evidence that the defense has promised to establish that whatever happened to Michael Jackson's life it really wasn't Dr. Murray's actions that caused his death."
Jurors also heard a recording of Jackson, his speech slow and slurred, in which told Murray of his dedication to the upcoming series of London concerts and his goal of building a children's hospital. The message was recorded on Murray's phone about a month before Jackson's death.
The order of upcoming witnesses remains unclear. Judge Michael Pastor prohibited attorneys and staff members from speaking about the case outside court last week after a defense team spokesman conducted a live television interview.
Murray, 58, faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical license if convicted.
Related: The Final Trial of Michael Jackson
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Film Noir File: Summer of Darkness keeps dealing out winners
By Mr E Man and Mark Harrington
The Film Noir File is FNB's guide to classic film noir, neo-noir and pre-noir on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). The times are Eastern Standard and (Pacific Standard). All films without a new review have been covered previously in Mr E Man and can be searched in the FNB archives (at right).
Pick of the Week: Another Friday Full of Darkness
It's Chapter Four of TCM's film noir binge-fest. As Bogie once said, "It's the stuff that dreams are made of." Each Friday, throughout June and July, running from dawn to dusk and back again, TCM is serving some deluxe stuff: practically every classic film noir you can think of, from "The Maltese Falcon" to "Born to Kill," and (this Friday) from "Out of the Past" to "The Third Man."
Curated and hosted by the Czar of Noir himself, Eddie Muller of the Film Noir Foundation and the Noir City film festivals in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and other big bad towns where people prowl around after midnight, TCM's Summer of Darkness is one season in Hell, and one festival of dreams and nightmares, you won't want to miss. Wise up. Don't let the Postman have to Ring Twice.
Friday, June 5
6 a.m. (3 a.m.): "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (Tay Garnett, 1946).
8 a.m. (5 a.m.): "They Won't Believe Me" (Irving Pichel, 1947). Robert Young is accused of adultery (he did), and murder (he didn't). With Susan Hayward.
9:45 a.m. (6:45 a.m.): "The Woman on the Beach" (Jean Renoir, 1947).
11 a.m. (8 a.m.): "Lady in the Lake" (Robert Montgomery, 1947).
1 p.m. (10 a.m.): "Out of the Past" (Jacques Tourneur, 1947).
2:45 p.m. (11:45 a.m.): "Possessed" (Curtis Bernhardt, 1947).
4:45 p.m. (1:45 p.m.): "Act of Violence" (Fred Zinnemann, 1948).
6:30 p.m. (3:30 p.m.): "The Set-Up" (Robert Wise, 1949).
8 p.m. (5 p.m.): "The Mask of Dimitrios" (Jean Negulesco, 1944).
9:45 p.m. (6: 45 p.m.): "Berlin Express" (Jacques Tourneur, 1948).
11:30 p.m. (8:30 p.m.): "The Stranger" (Orson Welles, 1946).
1:15 a.m. (10:15 p.m.): "The Third Man" (Carol Reed, 1949).
3 a.m. (12 a.m.): "Point Blank" (John Boorman, 1967).
Saturday, June 27
8 p.m. (5 p.m.): "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (Albert Lewin, 1945).
Sunday, June 28
2 p.m. (11 a.m.): "Dial M for Murder" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954).
4 p.m. (1 p.m.): "The Birds" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963).
2 a.m. (11 p.m.): "Band of Outsiders" ("Bande a Part") (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964). Three amoral and amateurish Parisian movie fans and would-be burglars (played with delightfully offhand bravado by Anna Karina, Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur) bungle their way though one of the most amusingly eccentric, self-indulgent and utterly foolish of all film neo-noir heists. One of almost everybody's favorite Godards, this is the one with the stunningly inept bar-room dance routine by the three musically challenged co-stars to that finger-snapping dance step "The Madison." Based on Dolores Hitchens' American crime novel "Fool's Gold," it's like "Rififi" gone frou-frou. In French, with subtitles.


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Holding a $50 gift card for the new Hobby Lobby store in North Port, Charlene Harris was excited.
"I can't believe I won," said Charlene, a sixth-grader at Imagine Schools of North Port, who received the gift card for her pencil drawing "A Fruitful Fantasy" that placed first in the North Port City Commission-sponsored Student Art Show.
Part of the rotating art gallery on all three floors of City Hall, artwork by students is hung on the second floor. The first floor features local artists, and the third floor is for artwork by City Hall employees.
The current student art show features work by both elementary and upper school art students at Imagine Schools in North Port. A public reception in honor of the Imagine art students on Jan. 7 was hosted by the North Port Art Advisory Board.
Each student whose artwork was chosen by Imagine art instructors Lauren Almarode and Charlie Coddington earned a Merit of Excellence certificate from Doris Soto.
Judged by the advisory board, the creators of the top three submissions were recognized with ribbons and a gift card.
Third place went to sixth-grade student Kylie Murry for her oil pastel "3 Dimensional Fall." Second place went to eighth-grade art student Taylor McGoldrick for her pen and watercolor "Candycane Lane."
First place went to Charlene, who said she was very surprised her piece won.
"Mr. Coddington showed us some fruit and asked us to draw," Charlene said as she looked up at her piece hanging near the elevator. "This is what I saw. It is called a still life. I have done a few others, one as a present for my family that I really like."
Each of the 12 art pieces were framed for the students courtesy of the City of North Port before being displayed.
Take Stock in Children plans gala fundraiser
Take Stock in Children of Sarasota County will host its first "Sailors & Sandals" event to raise money and awareness for the organization and its mission of providing scholarships and mentors to 250 deserving youths.
The event will begin at 6 p.m. Feb. 23 at the Sarasota Yacht Club, 1100 John Ringling Blvd., Sarasota.
The theme is meant to encourage guests to kick back, dance and enjoy a fun evening. Those attending are invited to wear cocktail attire with their "most stylish" sandals or flip-flops.
The evening includes a cocktail hour and silent auction. During dinner, each table will celebrate a graduating Take Stock senior.
For people who buy sandals or flip-flops at T. Georgiano's on First Street or Shore on St. Armands Circle, 15 percent of the price will be donated to Take Stock.
Sponsors include the Sarasota Yacht Club, Gulf Coast Community Foundation, Hooters, Publix Charity Foundation, T.Georgiano's and Shore.
Take Stock in Children of Sarasota County will soon graduate 65 seniors, its largest class to date. As sixth-graders, each student signed an agreement to remain drug- and crime-free, to maintain at least a 2.5 GPA and to meet with an assigned mentor once a week.
When the students successfully graduate high school, they will have earned four years of tuition to the college, university or vocational school of their choice.
The gala chairwoman is Courtney Noel-Edbrooke. Committee members are Dana Bakich, Martha Bandinel, Heather Clark, Brandon Daniels, Brittany Lamont, Marge McKeever and Jean DeLynn.
To buy tickets or become a sponsor, call 358-4407 or visit www.takestocksarasota.org.
North Port Walk-A-Thon needs teams to participate
The United Way of South Sarasota County is seeking teams to participate in the third annual North Port Community Walk-A-Thon.
The event will be March 23 at Dallas White Park in North Port.
United Way also needs business sponsors for the event. Sponsorships are available at these levels: Gold, $500; Silver, $250; and Bronze, $100.
Sponsors will receive recognition at the event, space to hang a banner, and their name and logo mentioned in advertising. Teams participating have the option of donating 100 percent of the money raised to the United Way or the charity of their choice.
The South Sarasota County United Way currently funds 27 agencies and 37 programs in the North Port, Venice, Englewood, Laurel, Nokomis and Osprey.
For information, contact Esther Bird at 484-4811 or email@example.com.
Bank hosts free seminar about power of attorney
Power of attorney is the focus of a free seminar hosted by Charlotte State Bank & Trust.
The session will begin at 10 a.m. Jan. 23 at the bank's Charlotte Harbor office, 23112 Harborview Road, Charlotte Harbor.
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Cut peel and white pith from grapefruit. Working over bowl to catch juices, cut between membranes to release segments. Squeeze membranes to extract juice. Place segments in medium bowl. Transfer 1/2 cup grapefruit juice to heavy small saucepan. Reserve remaining juice. Add 1 cup sugar to juice in saucepan. Gently simmer until syrup thickens, stirring until sugar dissolves, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in mint leaves. Cover and let steep 10 minutes. Strain syrup into bowl. DO AHEAD Grapefruit segments, juice and syrup can be made 1 day ahead. Chill separately.
Preheat oven to 325°F. Combine 1/2 cup sugar and 2 tablespoons water in heavy small saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Increase heat and boil without stirring until deep amber, occasionally brushing down sides of pan with wet brush and swirling pan, about 8 minutes. Immediately divide caramel between six 3/4-cup custard cups. Transfer cups to 13x9x2-inch metal baking pan.
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Kent State Professor Dr. Melissa Zullo Receives Award
Kent State University Professor Dr. Melissa Zullo was presented the Beginning Investigator Award by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR). Dr. Zullo is an assistant professor of epidemiology in Kent State's new College of Public Health. Her research was presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the AACVPR on Oct. 1, 2009.
The mission of the AACVPR is to reduce morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular and pulmonary disease and to improve the quality of life in people with established disease. The AACVPR represents healthcare professionals and researchers in the area of cardiovascular and pulmonary rehabilitation, publishes guidelines for the field and accredits rehabilitation programs.
Dr. Zullo's research, conducted in collaboration with Drs. Leila Jackson and Mary Dolansky from Case Western Reserve University, examined cardiac rehabilitation programs' practices and interventions related to modifying metabolic syndrome, and cardiac rehabilitation staffs' knowledge and beliefs related to metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a clustering of metabolic risk factors including abdominal obesity, atherogenic dyslipidemia, increased blood pressure, and insulin resistance. People with metabolic syndrome are at high risk for diseases such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke and certain types of cancers. The prevalence of this syndrome nationally is 24 percent and in cardiac rehabilitation approximately 50 percent; however, it is increasing worldwide due in part to its close ties with the obesity epidemic.
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A resident of Solon, Ohio, Dr. Zullo joined the Kent State faculty in August 2009 and is a Kent State alumna (BA 1994, MA 1998, MPH 2004). Her research is in primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease and associated risk factors through modification of biobehavioral, environmental and system-level factors.
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Lie No. 1: Lois Lerner's apology last Friday was a spontaneous reaction to an unexpected question from an unknown audience member. In fact, the question came from tax lawyer and lobbyist Celia Roady. Ms. Roady has some interesting career highlights: She was part of the 1997 ethics investigation of Newt Gingrich, but, more to the point, she was appointed to the IRS's Advisory Council on Tax-Exempt and Government Entities by IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman. She is a longtime colleague of Lerner, who is director of tax-exempt organizations. Ms. Roady has declined to comment on whether her question was planted, but it obviously was. The IRS had contacted reporters and encouraged them beforehand to attend the otherwise un-newsworthy event, and it had an entire team of press handlers on hand. So what we have is the staged rollout of what turns out to be — given the rest of this list — a disinformation campaign.
Lie No. 2: Lerner said about 280 organizations were given extra scrutiny, about 75 of them tea-party groups or similar organizations. The actual number of organizations that were targeted is closer to 500.
Lie No. 3: This was the work of low-level grunts in Cincinnati. In truth, very senior people within the IRS, including its top lawyer, were aware of the situation, and had been since at least 2011. The home office in Washington was very much involved in the process.
Lie No. 4: Lerner says that the situation came to her attention through allegations from tea-party groups carried in media reports. In fact, the matter has been under both internal and external investigation for some time.
Lie No. 5: Lerner says she put an end to the practice as soon as she found out about it. In fact, the IRS continued to do precisely the same thing, only monkeying a little bit with the language: Instead of targeting "tea party" groups explicitly, it targeted those groups with an interest in such esoterica as limited government, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, etc.
Lie No. 6: She says that the commissioner of the IRS didn't know about the targeting project. While the targeting was going on, Ms. Lerner's boss was being asked some very pointed questions by Congress on the subject of targeting tea-party groups. He enthusiastically denied that any such thing was going on, in direct contravention of the facts. Ms. Lerner says he didn't know about the situation, because it was confined to those aforementioned plebs in Cincinnati. But given that this was not the case, her explaining away the commissioner's untrue statements to Congress is a lie based on another lie — a compound lie, if you will. And acting commissioner Steven Miller was briefed on the situation in May of 2012 — and then declined to share his knowledge of it with Congress when asked about it during a hearing in July.
Lie No. 7: Lerner says she came forward with her apology unprompted by any special consideration. In fact, an inspector general's report was about to be released, making the matter public.
Lie No. 8: When Congress was investigating complaints from conservative groups, Lerner told them that she could not release information about organizations with pending applications. But her group was in fact releasing such information — to the left-leaning news organization ProPublica, rather than to congressional investigators.
Lie No. 9: Lerner says that there was no political pressure to investigate tea-party groups. In fact, Senator Carl Levin (D., Mich.) repeatedly pressed the agency to investigate conservative groups falling under Lerner's jurisdiction. What we have, then, is this: Under a Democratic administration, the IRS was under pressure from Democratic elected officials to investigate political enemies of the Democratic party. The agency did so. Its commissioner lied to Congress about its doing so. When the inspector general's report was about to make these abuses public, the agency staged a classic Washington Friday news rollout at a sleepy American Bar Association tax-law conference, hoping to minimize the bad publicity. Lerner lied to the public about the nature, scope, and extent of the IRS intimidation campaign.
That she has a job today is a scandal in itself. She'll be receiving an award — for public service! — from the Western New England University School of Law on May 18. An orange jumpsuit would suit her better than academic robes.
— Kevin D. Williamson is a roving correspondent for National Review. His new book, The End Is Near and It's Going To Be Awesome, was recently published.


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Martins Creek Mennonite Church (Millersburg, Ohio)
Martins Creek Mennonite Church, located north of Berlin, Holmes County, Ohio, a member of the Ohio Conference of Mennonite Church USA, was organized in 1860 by former members of the Old Order Amish in this community, the first settlers having come in 1824.
The first meetinghouse, 25 x 48 ft, was erected in 1875, its second in 1906, when the membership was about 200, which was remodeled in 1955 to seat 550. The first bishop was Fred Hague, who was followed by Jonathan Zook, Fred Mast, and Joseph Mast. After a period of nonresident bishops, D. D. Miller, who was serving in 1956, was installed as bishop-pastor. He was assisted by Warren Miller. The membership in 1955 was 357. The membership in 2005 was 255; the pastor was Carl Wiebe.
The congregations at Berlin (1939) and Millersburg (1956) were organized out of Martins Creek. In addition the Flat Ridge Mission Church, 10 miles (16 km) south of Newcomerstown, was sponsored by the Martin's Creek congregation.
The congregation's address is: 6111 CR 203, Millersburg, Ohio.
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I have a web page, which loads all the phone numbers (mobile/landlines) registered by the user and these numbers get displayed as radio buttons. There is a "Call" button just below these radio button.
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1.If we identify two schemes $X$ and $Y$ as two presheaves of set on category of affine schemes.($Aff:=\text{CRing}^{op}$) If there is a morphism as natural transformations $f:X\to Y$, then, how to give the definition of the affine morphism?
2.If we identify two schemes $X$ and $Y$ as two category of quasi coherent sheaves $QCoh_{X}$ and $QCoh_{Y}$. Then morphism between this two schemes is a functor $f: Qcoh_{X}\to Qcoh_{Y}$, how to give the definition of affine morpshim ?
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Ready For Spring
For two Thursday nights in a row, it has snowed. And for two Thursday nights in a row, I've had the wonderful privilege of getting stuck in traffic on 315N. My once modest 15 min drive to OSU campus has now turned into 40+ mins, with 20 min of that drive being the last 2 miles. I don't know if its just me, but sometimes I feel like I'm the only one in Columbus who knows how to drive in the snow. Now that might sound like a really bold statement. And it is. Because growing up in South Dakota, it was a prerequisite to drive in snow - and lots of it. After living in Ohio for the past year, I almost afraid of venturing out on the roads after a light dusting of snow. It seems as if people in Ohio go into panic mode. The most dangerous thing about it is people completely "underdrive" the road conditions. To me, driving 5 mph is totally unacceptable - even with 2 in of snow on the ground.
Since I cannot change the weather, I decided to cure my winter weather blues and compile a 'things I'm going to do when Spring gets here' list.
1. Ride my bike. I cannot wait to get out and hit the roads and bike trails.
2. Go hiking at Hocking Hills. This is a great place to get away for the day and enjoy the great outdoors.
3. This may seem random, but I miss washing my car. Maybe its just the idea of getting outside that makes me feel that way.
4. PACK UP MY WINTER COAT. And scarves. And gloves.
5. FLIP FLOP TIME! I cannot wait to rock the flip flops for 8-9+ months.
I've officially decided I'm ready for Spring. And not for any other reason except that I am tired of the 'white stuff'. (I refuse to 'type' the word). I hope that Punxsutawney Phil doesn't see his shadow because I need some sunshine and 60 deg weather.
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Ken Beam and myself have been inundated with a lot of marketing material concerning Facebook Geo-targeting Ads.
We've been told they work great for dealerships. When we had a conference call with Facebook to discuss these ads in particular, they
couldn't give us one case study of a dealership utilizing these geo-targeting ads. Manufacturers using them yes. Dealerships, no.
So my question is, does anyone have any case studies of dealerships utilizing Facebook geo-targeting ads to generate business?
Specifically, a suburban dealership that has had success with these Facebook ads. I say that because our two dealerships are modest size dealerships
in a suburban setting. A 500,000 sq/ft monolith wouldn't be an accurate comparison. Any proof via dealership case studies would be greatly appreciated.
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Good luck with your search on case studies for dealerships, I don't think I've ever seen a paid ad from a dealership.
Actual facts in regards to Auto Dealers I should have said............
Ketty......... take it easy now~~
I appreciate you responding to the question,.......... just not the answer I`m looking for..... that`s all.
I need actual facts......
I didn't just google an answer, I've read this e-book and found the information in it to be helpful as your FB Rep thought it would be.
Hey Ketty............ appreciate it but that`s exactly the answer I`m not looking for...
Not interested in those type of generic stats as to how popular this type of advertising is amongst of businesses other than Auto Dealers......period.
"Does anyone have any case studies of dealerships utilizing Facebook geo-targeting ads to generate business?" >>>>>>>>>>> A case study or example of a dealer that is utilizing these ads.
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House Approves Bill To Spy On Americans By Misrepresenting Or Lying About What's In The Bill
from the they're-just-lying deptWe recently talked about how the House voted to approve the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) by a pretty wide margin, and noted some of the more bizarre and inaccurate statements that Representatives made in support of the renewal. Julian Sanchez has put together a nice summary of some of the more outrageous claims. The key here is that many Reps. seemed to take the FISA Amendments Act at face value, that it would only be used to target foreigners in foreign lands -- in other words, those with no 4th Amendment protections. But, as Sanchez has pointed out repeatedly, former Deputy Attorney General, David Kris, more or less revealed the Act is interpreted to mean that as long as the information they get might be useful in targeting foreigners in foreign lands, it's fair game. That means -- contrary to the direct claims of many FAA supporters -- the law is used to spy on Americans.
Sanchez also highlights another sneaky interpretation. The law claims that it prohibits the interception of "purely domestic" communications. But there's an additional clause with one hell of a loophole: "Known at the time of acquisition." As Sanchez notes, you can drive quite a large truck through that loophole, because if you're, say, scooping up all email communications, you don't know -- at the time of acquisition -- if it's purely domestic... and therefore, you're good to go. Basically, ignorance is bliss for the NSA.
But these two massive loopholes and sketchy interpretations seem to be totally ignored by the Congressional reps who spoke out most strongly in favor of renewing the FAA:
The most common refrain from FAA supporters was that the law only concerned surveillance targeting "foreigners in foreign lands"—meaning it could not possibly affect the rights of Americans. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), in an impressive display of lung power, delivered a five minute floor shout to this effect. "This bill has nothing to do with Americans on American soil," Gowdy thundered, "This bill doesn't implicate the Bill of Rights, any more than it implicates any other part of our Constitution, unless you think that foreign nationals who are on foreign land fall within the protections of the United States Constitution." But Gowdy has to know that this is false, because the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has already ruled on at least one occasion that surveillance authorized by the FAA did violate the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on "unreasonable searches and seizures."Similarly, we've seen how the NSA absolutely refuses to say how many Americans have been spied upon using these tools, claiming that it's impossible to know (or that it would violate their privacy to find out -- seriously). But, Sanchez notes that, despite the NSA insisting it's impossible to know, that didn't stop Representatives from claiming they just knew.
Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) was slightly more equivocal, seemingly acknowledging that the law might permit surveillance of Americans, but that this would happen only very rarely. The mystery here is how he could possibly know that. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) has repeatedly asked the NSA for a rough ballpark estimate of how many Americans—100? 1,000? 100,000?—have had their communications caught up in the agency's FAA dragnets. If Rep. Rogers were correct, you'd expect the answer to be "almost none"—but instead the agency has repeatedly insisted that it is unable to provide even an approximate figure. Unless Rep. Rogers somehow knows things about the NSA's databases that the NSA does not know, he can't have any real basis for this claim.And then there's Rep. Dan Lungren. Earlier, we had noted that when there were discussions during hearings about the FAA, he brushed off concerns about spying on Americans by saying he hadn't seen any such evidence so it couldn't be true. Of course, he didn't bother to seek out any such evidence by asking the NSA to provide the data. And here he was even worse, making bizarre claims in support of expanding the FISA Amendments Act that seem to go completely against reality.
Finally, Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA) suggested that the necessity of the FAA was demonstrated by the failures of intelligence leading up to 9/11. After all, the 9/11 Commission had again and again emphasized the central failure to "connect the dots" that would have revealed an imminent attack before it occurred—and to "connect the dots," Lungren asserted, intelligence agencies would need still more expansive power to first "collect the dots." This is, in a way, the most breathtakingly erroneous statements heard during Wednesday's floor debates, because turns the 9/11 Commission's findings completely on their head. Their report conspicuously did not identify a lack of legal authority to conduct surveillance as a serious problem: If anything, the trouble was that agencies were drowning in information they lacked the capacity to analyze and put to use. Perversely, Lungren trades on a familiar phrase—"connect the dots"—to utterly invert the Commission's diagnosis of the causes of 9/11.So... if you're keeping track at home, the reasons the House approved this horrible bit of legislation with massive loopholes that allows the NSA to spy on us is because it can't be used to spy on us (even though it can), it bars the collection of domestic communication (except in nearly every case that it does not), it's barely been used on Americans (except that the NSA claims it's impossible to tell how many Americans it's been used on) and we need it to "connect the dots" on terrorism (even though it doesn't help connect the dots, but merely to provide even more dots, many of which will distract from the important dots).
How do these people get elected?
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By Judy Reed
A man found guilty of killing a Cedar Springs woman has been given a chance to escape his death sentence.
Marvin Gabrion, 57, was convicted in 2002 for the 1997 kidnapping and drowning death of Rachel Timmerman, 19, of Cedar Springs. Although Michigan does not have the death penalty, Gabrion was sentenced to death by lethal injection, because Rachel's body was found on federal land, in the Manistee National Forest.
On Wednesday, August 3, a federal appeals court upheld his conviction but overturned the death penalty on the grounds that the trial judge, Robert Holmes Bell, should have allowed lawyers to tell the jury during the sentencing phase in 2002 that Gabrion would not have faced death if he had been tried in a state court.
The opinion also noted that Bell dismissed three jurors who were against capital punishment but had said they could put that aside and apply the law.
Rachel and her 11-month-old daughter Shannon disappeared on June 3, 1997, when an unidentified man picked them up at Rachel's father's home in Cedar Springs. She said she would be home in a couple of hours, but was not seen again until her body was found weighted down by cinder blocks at the bottom of Oxford Lake, in Newaygo County, on July 5, 1997. The baby was never found.
Prosecutors believe Gabrion murdered Rachel to keep her from testifying that he raped her the previous fall. The rape trial was set to begin within days of her disappearance.
According to Wednesday's ruling, the sentencing phase must start again from scratch unless the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the appeal.
Rachel's father, L.C. "Tim" Timmerman, was not surprised by Wednesday's turn of events. "I think this kind of thing takes forever," he said, referring to the years of appeals the family has faced. "But I do think the jury did the right thing."
Timmerman and his brother, John, have written a book that tells the story of Rachel and Shannon's disappearance and Gabrion's subsequent arrest called The Color of Night. The book can be bought at Schulers, or ordered from either Amazon or Barnes and Noble. He will be doing a book signing in September at the library in Howard City. Watch the Post for more details.


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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Wordless Wednesday - Maze of Leaves and a Praying Mantis
Leaves, leaves everywhere (and still falling)! This spiral of leaves took a little while to make but my kids really enjoyed helping construct it. In fact, when I ran out of steam they continued to enlarge it by adding more leaves themselves. Great outdoor activity for the fall if you have the time!
My husband noticed this big bug on our downspout while grilling supper last week. This was the first time either of us had seen praying mantis in person. What an exciting find! Of course, the kids and a couple of neighbor friends had to take a peek as well. Upon closer inspection we noticed the mantis was injured. The end feeler portion of one of the middle legs was missing.
Find more of this week's Wordless Wednesday (or Wordful) posts at 5 Minutes for Mom.
10 comments:
- Ticia said...
Pictures like that make me wish we had leaves that fell in abundance.
The thought of raking it all makes me glad we don't.
- November 2, 2011 at 10:02 AM
- Kristie said...
What a creative way to play in the leaves! We only pile them up and jump in them-lol!
I saw a Praying Mantis this year too! I hadn't seen one since I was a kid.
- November 2, 2011 at 11:22 AM
- Amy Clary said...
Oh goodness. My kids would love to run around in a leaf maze like that. What a fun idea. :)
- November 2, 2011 at 12:12 PM
- Cascia Talbert said...
That is a cool maze. I bet they had fun with it. I never saw a praying mantis when we lived in Wisconsin but they were all over the place in California. Cool photos!
- November 2, 2011 at 1:45 PM
- MaryAnne said...
Your leaf maze looks awesome! Praying mantises are cool!
- November 2, 2011 at 5:21 PM
- Stacey said...
What a fun idea! I can't wait to try it...
- November 2, 2011 at 8:45 PM
- Anonymous said...
Making the spiral of leaves had to be relaxing and fun for all of you.
- November 2, 2011 at 9:07 PM
- Jen said...
love the spiral and the find! :)
- November 2, 2011 at 9:15 PM
- Unknown said...
The maze looks like so much fun! Totally worth the time and effort.
- November 3, 2011 at 5:36 AM
- Little Wonders' Days said...
I love the leaf maze! I've never thought about doing one.
- November 8, 2011 at 7:49 PM


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