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Les Bernal: Why don't casino advocates and executives patronize casinos?BY LES BERNAL
March 11. 2014 5:47PM
If you learned there was a financial advisor in your community who never invested his own money in any of the financial products he offered, would you encourage your friends and neighbors to give him their money? Would you trust the future of your own family with a guy like that? Of course not.
So if you knew casino operators, slot machine makers and the politicians they partner with don't use slot machines or gamble, why would you allow them to target your family and the citizens of your community, luring them to gamble away their savings, often turning their lives totally upside down? Because that's exactly what you will be doing if you allow New Hampshire state government to sponsor casinos.
While many state leaders say that they are committed to fighting unfairness and inequality, their policy of sponsoring casinos is actually intensifying the very unfairness and inequality that they decry. And the most perfect example of it is this: a casino is the only product or service where the people who profit from it and promote it don't use it.
Despite reaping billions of dollars from the have-nots in America, nearly every major casino operator, including Steve Wynn, Gary Loveman, CEO of Caesars, and Jim Murren, CEO of MGM, does not gamble, which they have confirmed in media interviews.
What about the guys who make the slot machines? In 2004, New York Times reporter Gary Rivlin toured the headquarters of International Gaming Technology (IGT), America's biggest maker of electronic slot machines. Rivlin tells the story of his visit to IGT: "Most of the people I met inside I.G.T. told me they never played slot machines on their own time. When I asked one I.G.T. artist if he ever plays, he acted as if I had insulted him. 'Slots are for losers,' he spat, and then, coming to his senses, begged me to consider that an off-the-record comment."
Slots are for losers, he said. Many of those losers will come from your family, your friends and your community.
But casino operators and slot makers are not the only ones who don't gamble. Nearly all of the politicians who sponsor casino legislation and promote this public policy across their states don't gamble either.
Let's look right here in New Hampshire. Gov. Maggie Hassan has made partnering with casinos a top priority. Yet despite being a relentless advocate for casinos, she admitted she has never even visited a casino.
How about the state's leading advocate for casinos for the last 15 years, State Sen. Lou D'Allesandro? Remarkably, but not surprisingly, D'Allesandro confessed to an Associated Press reporter in January 2014 that "I don't gamble." After all, according to our friend the IGT slot machine designer, it's for losers.
Often described as "predatory gambling," government sponsorship of casinos (and lotteries) is based on cheating and exploiting citizens. It is a mathematical certainty that the more citizens spend on gambling sponsored by the government, the more money they lose.
Most indefensibly of all, a mounting pile of independent evidence further confirms that government's public policy of promoting casinos is contributing to the unfairness and inequality in our nation. It is harming health, draining wealth from people in the lower ranks of the income distribution, and contributing to economic inequality. These are among the findings of "Why Casinos Matter: Thirty-One Evidence-Based Propositions from the Health and Social Sciences," a report released from the Council on Casinos in September 2013, an independent group of scholars and public policy leaders convened by the Institute for American Values, a nonpartisan New York City-based think tank.
A vote against casinos is a vote for fairness and equality. A vote for casinos is a vote for unfairness and inequality. Or echoing the unforgettable words of the IGT slot designer, it's another way of saying New Hampshire citizens are losers.
Les Bernal is the national director of Stop Predatory Gambling, based in Washington, DC.


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Expand the appropriate installation files
Since I am installing in a 64 bit Windows VM, I use the 64 bit launch pad
IBM Integration Designer for IBM Business Monitor
Windows only, this installation configuration includes IBM Business
Monitor, the Monitor Model editor (a feature in IBM Integration
Designer), and a IBM Business Monitor test environment. The following
packages are selected for installation:
- WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment
- Business Monitor
- IBM Cognos
- DB2 Express
- Integration Designer
default stand-alone profile for Business Monitor is selected on the
Features page. This profile enables you to begin using the test
environment immediately.
IBM Integration Designer for WebSphere DataPower
installation configuration works directly with the WebSphere DataPower
Appliance, and does not include a test environment. Only the Integration
Designer package is selected for installation.
IBM Integration Designer
installation configuration does not include a test environment. Only
the Integration Designer package is selected for installation.
I chose the option to install the Process Server Test Environment and start working with the IBM Process Center first, all this check box does is auto prompt to connect to an existing Process Center. This is covered in another separate article.
Click "install Selected" and the IBM installation manager will start.
As the IIM (IBM Installation manager) loads it will validate the local install repository.
As you can see above the installer has already pre-selected the individual component. We are installing WAS 220.127.116.11 ND, IID, IBM Process Server Advanced (Both Process Server and ESB) DB2 Express to fulfill a complete developer environment.
Click Next
You will see the repository already contains several fix packs.
Read and Accept License
I choose to install in was8nd as it is not a protected folder.
Click Next and the wizard will prompt for some profile & DB/2 settings
We use profile settings as administrative security will be turned on for this profile. Click Next
Review the installation summary and click Install
At this point the IIM is asking you to create a Process Center, we do this using a Process Center profile. But since I want to verify that the process server profile has installed let's look at that first. Later we will create the Process Center server (Process Center Profile).
When the install is completed, select none as seen below. We do not need to create a profile because we are going to use the WTE (WebSphere Test Environment) from within IBM Integration Designer.
Click finish to and close the Launchpad installer.
Since I have installed on Windows, there is a new entry in the IBM program group
OR: C:\IBM\IntegrationDesigner\v8.0\wid.exe -product com.ibm.wbit.feature.ide
Once the IID is started, it will prompt for a location for the workspace.
I have chosen: C:\workspaces\iid80\
When we start-up click cancel as we do not yet now the URL of the process center server as we have not yet created that profile. We will do so later on.
Below is the default Business Integration perspective
If we click the server's view as seen below and use a right-mouse click we can find out the profile that was created by the installer.
We can see that the Process Center is installed in a profile called qbpmaps
To start eh process server we can type
C:\wasnd8\profiles\qbpmaps\bin\startserver.bat server1
Or use the right-mouse stat option
To find your admin console port: look for the stanza that contains WC_adminhost
|<specialEndpoints xmi:id="NamedEndPoint_1183121908098" endPointName="WC_adminhost">
<endPoint xmi:id="EndPoint_1183121908098" host="*" port="9060"/>
Note we will also see that we are using port 9060, so the URL is:
Process Center
We need to create a Process Center Server. We cannot do this with the same media that was used to install IID. You see Process Server Center comes with the full version of IBM BPM and is designed to be an actual server. You would not have a local dev IDE and a local Process Center on the same machine. Reason is resources locally and what is the point. A Process center is supposed to be shared.
Search my site for the article on how to create a Process Center.
Once the Process Center server is available we can switch to the Process Center perspective and connect.
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You may recall the to-do occasioned two winters past by a certain shift in the mise-en-scène at the United Nations. New blue drapes appeared to conceal the grisaille tapestry hung in the corridor outside the Security Council chamber in which then-Secretary of State Colin Powell had come to make the case for war against Iraq, and where the secretary was scheduled to hold a press conference. Some newspapers reported that Powell's staff demanded that the offending artwork be concealed. The Internet was aflame; some weeks later The Weekly Standard attempted damage control by explaining that TV crews had only requested that a distractingly busy backdrop be simplified.
The latter was closer to the truth. Powell would have shared the screen with a horse's rear. Still, Pablo Picasso's Guernica was back in circulation–and not just as the tapestry that, unable to purchase the thing itself, Nelson Rockefeller commissioned and his widow donated to the UN. Guernica's shrieking horse, dead children and terrorized wraiths were held aloft on placards at antiwar demonstrations in the streets of New York and plastered across a Hollywood Boulevard billboard. Sophie Matisse, great-granddaughter of the French painter, exhibited her colorized appropriation of Picasso's most famous painting–inspired, she explained, by the destruction of the twin towers. As war approached, The New Yorker and Harper's had a public spat over which first had the idea to emblazon its cover with the image that Gijs van Hensbergen considers the modern equivalent of the Crucifixion.
Hensbergen's "biography" is the eleventh book (in English) devoted to Picasso's mural. As such, it's more interested in the work's career than its quality, less concerned with Guernica's iconography than with its iconic status. For, something heavier than a painting, Guernica symbolizes both the horror of war and the idea that a masterpiece might have a political significance; it promotes the hope that modern art could even be progressive. At the same time, however, Guernica represents something recently demonstrated in this year's passionate torrent of anti-Bush agitprop, namely art's ineffectuality in the production of concrete political results. Ubiquitous and universal, an antifascist altarpiece that even a fascist might covet, Guernica–as Andy Warhol once said of the Empire State Building–is a star.
Is Guernica defined by a specific historical moment or by the artist's personal mythology? In January 1937 Picasso–already producing satiric anti-Franco graphics to benefit the beleaguered Spanish Republic–was commissioned to provide a mural for the Spanish pavilion at the upcoming Paris International Exposition. Whatever his original idea may have been, it was obliterated on the afternoon of April 26, when the German Luftwaffe reduced the Basque city of Gernika to rubble. This aerial attack, which lasted only three hours, was unprecedented in Europe. It was intended as a demonstration and, thanks largely to the dispatches filed by British war correspondent George Lowther Steer, became instantly synonymous with the mass destruction of innocent civilians–an exposition before the Exposition, a little twentieth-century horror presaging the inconceivable ones of Auschwitz and Hiroshima.


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John DiStaso's Granite Status: Another NH-NJ tie: Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer, Christie accuser, is UNH gradBy JOHN DiSTASO
January 18. 2014 11:12PM
MONDAY, JAN. 20: HOBOKEN MAYOR, UNH ALUM. There is another New Hampshire connection to potential 2016 GOP presidential hopeful New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and his troubles in his home state.
Dawn Zimmer, the Democratic mayor of Hoboken, N.J., was brought up in Laconia and is a 1990 graduate of the University of New Hampshire.
Zimmer, 45, is embroiled in the latest Christie controversy. She told CNN on Sunday she is prepared to testify under oath that Christie administration Lieutenant Gov. Kim Guadagno threatened to withhold Superstorm Sandy relief funds from her community unless she supported a real estate project he favored.
Christie spokesman Colin Reed, who, by the way, is a former spokesman for Rye resident and former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, denied Zimmer's allegations. But Zimmer held fast.
In a statement Sunday, Zimmer said she had met with the U.S. Attorney's Office in the region, and, "As they pursue this investigation, I will provide any requested information and testify under oath about the facts of what happened when the Lieutenant Governor came to Hoboken and told me that Sandy aid would be contingent on moving forward with a private development project," she said.
Zimmer said the Christie administration wanted her to approve a project by The Rockefeller Group, a real estate developer with ties to Christie's administration.
Ironically, Zimmer was recently featured in UNH Magazine, and her photograph appeared on the cover, for her efforts in leading Hoboken's recovery from Sandy. In the piece she recalled when Christie, after the storm, helicoptered in to Hoboken, which is directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan, and praised its residents as "tough, gritty, no-nonsense people."
Also in the UNH Magazine piece, Zimmer said she moved with her family to Hoboken from New York City because she it had the "small-town feel" of Laconia.
Zimmer is the second person with New Hampshire ties to be involved in Christie controversies.
Last week, New Hampshire Republican Party executive director Matt Mowers, a former regional aide in Christie's reelection campaign and, previously, in his administration, was subpoenaed to provide documents, texts and emails for a legisaltive probe of the George Washington Bridge lane closure"Bridgegate" scandal.
Mowers was the aide who initially approached the Fort Lee, N.J. Mark Sokolich about supporting Christie's reelection bid.
Hoboken is about eight miles south of Fort Lee on the west bank of the Hudson River.
(Our full Sunday, Jan. 19, Granite Status follows.)
SUNDAY, JAN. 19: CHRISTIE UPS AND DOWNS. When we last left New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and "Bridgegate" last Sunday, top political experts in the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state were saying the potential Republican candidate would not be hurt by the scandal unless a smoking gun linked him to the George Washington Bridge lane closures.
And a poll of New Hampshire Republican presidential primary voters taken directly after his lengthy "apology" news conference showed support has grown since last September.
But that poll was taken before last week's developments:
-- A Democratic-led New Jersey legislative committee opened a probe by issuing subpoenas for current and former Christie staffers, among others. That was in addition to a probe announced earlier by the state's U.S. Attorney.
The subpoenas for 17 individuals and three organizations seek documents for now, the chairman of the legislative panel said. Christie's office immediately hired its own outside legal team headed by a longtime associate of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
-- The executive director of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee, 24-year-old Matt Mowers, was among those subpoenaed. We confirmed Friday that his subpoena at this point also involves only texts and emails, but sources also said it is possible Mowers will be called later to testify.
Mowers, before joining the New Hampshire GOP in November, was a regional campaign director for Christie's successful reelection effort and was identified as the one who approached Democratic Fort Lee, N.J., Mayor Mark Sokolich last spring about endorsing Christie.
Mowers previously served in Christie's governor's office as regional government relations director, and for at least part of that time, his boss was Bridget Anne Kelly, the deputy chief of staff Christie fired.
Mowers has not been accused so far of involvement in the decision to close the approach lanes to the busy bridge, but while refusing to comment, he, too, as of Friday, was in the process of hiring an attorney.
State GOP Chairman Jennifer Horn noted Mowers has not been accused of any wrongdoing, and in a vote of confidence said, "I look forward to his continued service to our party." Another top party official insisted Friday that Mowers "will be fine."
We'll see.
The pre-subpoena poll, taken Jan. 9 to 12 of 528 Republican primary voters by Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling, had Christie, with 24 percent, ahead of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, each with 12 percent.
When PPP last polled Granite State GOP primary voters, last September, moderate Christie and conservative Paul were in a virtual tie at 19 percent and 20 percent, respectively.
PPP said 89 percent of New Hampshire GOP primary voters said they had heard about the scandal, and 64 percent said their opinion of Christie was the same as it had been before he admitted his administration (though not him personally) ordered the lane closures. Eighteen percent said their opinion of him had gone down, while 14 percent said they actually felt better about him than before.
Christie's favorable/unfavorable rating among GOP primary voters was an impressive 57/27 percent.
Democrats, meanwhile, love Hillary Clinton more than ever. Her support jumped from 57 percent last September to 65 percent, with Vice President Joe Biden a distant second at 10 percent.
But in a head-to-head potential 2016 general election matchup, Clinton leads Christie by only 43 percent to 39 percent, nearly within the 2.7 percent margin of error. The 1,354-voter sample comprised 44 percent independents, 28 percent Democrats and 27 percent Republicans, PPP said.
That's not to say that Christie would not face challenges in the first-primary state should he run, as we pointed out last week, with the help of a few top political experts. That's especially so if any direct Christie links to scandal emerge.
Top Democratic National Committee spokesman Mo Elliethee noted our Jan. 12 report in a nationally circulated memo Friday, adding, "Needless to say, (Bridgegate) is not how Governor Christie wants to be introduced to Granite Staters."
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THE HOWARD DEAN PLAYBOOK. Republicans don't like Howard Dean's liberal view of the world, but they sure respect the former Democratic National Committee chairman's party-building abilities.
When Dean headed the DNC from 2005 to 2009, his 50-state strategy revolutionized how the national party applied its resources. Dean recognized the campaign season never truly ends and continued to pour money into state party organizations continually, rather than waiting until the height of an election cycle.
The Republican National Committee is finally catching up.
A wire report last week said the RNC was "getting out of the business of underwriting" state party organizations and doing television ads. The reference to "underwriting" was later removed after the RNC complained that the opposite was true.
Steve Duprey, veteran New Hampshire RNC member and former state party chair, said the RNC intends to dole out dollars differently.
"We learned a lot from 2012," he said. "You can't have these (RNC-funded) 'Victory' efforts, opening eight or 10 offices around the state, start in the final three months of a campaign and be as effective as you need to be. And you can't leave it to the candidates to build their own data bases" identifying voters.
At a meeting of the full 168-member RNC this week, the party budget for 2014 will be reviewed, Duprey said, "and we're going to put a heck of a lot less into these 'Victory' office pushes and campaign pushes in the last three or four months and instead invest the money on an ongoing basis."
He said the RNC has already begun the new approach here and in other states.
Duprey, a confidante of Chairman Reince Priebus, said the RNC began last summer sending the NHGOP $12,000 to $14,000 monthly, which has funded two of the party's four staffers. The two are working exclusively on developing data bases and "strengthening our field operations," he said.
"That had been unheard of in the recent past," Duprey said.
The state Democratic Party, by the way, has 11 staffers; two funded by the DNC.
"Two or three more people doing this for two years in New Hampshire is a lot more effective than having 10 or even 20 people come in for three months," Duprey maintained.
The back-loaded 2012 approach "was too little, too late."
The RNC sent about $1.3 million to its state party in 2012. The state Democratic Party had received $3.2 million from the DNC.
Duprey also said that much of the 2012 funding the NHGOP and other state party organizations received was to support television advertising, but now, he said, "you'll see less of an emphasis on that and more on strengthening and building that database and using it the right way."
Broadcast advertising will be left to the outside advocacy groups, PACS and SuperPACs.
Duprey said Dean's approach to building state party organizations was "how the Democrats turned this from a red to a purple state. The Republicans have now come full circle and we're going back to that. We lost our way."
Today, Dean emailed Democracy for America supporters: "When I said we were heading to New Hampshire and South Carolina and Oklahoma... and to Washington, DC to take back the White House... it turns out I wasn't kidding.
"In a funny way, that moment was the launch of the 50 State Strategy -- a leave-no-community-behind framework for change that transformed the Democratic Party in the years to come, fueling my campaign to become DNC Chair in 2005 and the fight to take back Congress in 2006 and the presidency in 2008."
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DEMOCRATIC GRASSROOTS TRAINING. The Democrats have their own association for the chairs of state committees. The Association of State Democratic Chairs has been headed for several years now by New Hampshire's Raymond Buckley.
Ramping up for 2014, ASDC will focus on "communications and digital" organizing at its winter meeting on Feb. 26 in Washington. State chairs and vice chairs will train in the DNC's Media Facility, where Obama prepares for political speeches and debates.
For the next three weeks, the ASDC is hosting weekly webinars focusing on showing state party officials how to effectively coordinate campaigns.
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SEEING PURPLE. Last month, we reported first that veteran political pros Republican Pat Griffin and Democrat Jim Demers were about to head a new Boston office of the nationwide strategic communications and consulting firm Purple Strategies.
With the office in the process of opening, the company's first Granite State event is slated for Jan. 30 at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics. A panel discussion will focus on "the political mood of New Hampshire" looking ahead to the 2014 and 2016 elections.
Joining Griffin and Demers will be Purple Strategies' co-founders, Republican Alex Castellanos and Democrat Steve McMahon, and public opinion research expert Doug Usher.
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RUBENS, TOO. Potential GOP U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown last week penned his second email in two weeks soliciting donations for the state GOP.
Announced candidate Jim Rubens will soon do the same.
Brown, in a possible further hint of his political plans, cited "legendary statesmen like Senators Styles Bridges, Norris Cotton and Warren Rudman" as evidence of the state's "proud tradition of sending independent and fiscally responsible leaders to Washington."
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-- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen's camp, after reportedly raising $4.5 million in 2013 and $5.8 million since being elected in 2008, announced Friday her Senate office state director, Mike Vlachich, is moving over to manage her campaign. He'll be replaced by Sarah Holmes, a longtime adviser and current special assistant for policy and projects.
-- Shaheen, Sen. Kelly Ayotte and Rep. Carol Shea-Porter will speak Monday at the New Hampshire Cultural Diversity Awareness Council's 12th annual "Keeping the Dream Alive" Martin Luther King dinner. Shaheen in 1999 signed into law legislation adding King's name to the pre-existing "Civil Right's Day."
-- The conservative issues group Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire has a new office ready to officially open in downtown Manchester on Wednesday.
-- With a special GOP primary for the District 1 Executive Council seat on tap Tuesday, former state Sen. Joe Kenney said he has won the backing of 14 sitting state House members in the district and plans to air three television ads in the coming days. Former Belknap County Commissioner Christopher Boothby recently unveiled 11 House members and 15 county officials backing him.
-- If you can't get enough of Bridgegate, see Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Fallon mock Gov. Christie's predicament by singing altered lyrics to "Born to Run.'' Springsteen made an appearance on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," and with the host doing his best Boss impersonation, the pair belted out the revised song. Check it out below:
John DiStaso is senior political reporter of the New Hampshire Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com; Twitter: @jdistaso.


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Health Career Connection (HCC) provides a summer internship to undergraduate students interested in careers in public health and healthcare.
Health Career Connection serves to increase the diversity of the health care workforce; to develop the next generation of health care and public health leaders; and to increase opportunities for people who are from, or want to serve, underserved communities.
HCC does not offer clinical or research related internships.
Internships are full-time (8 hours/day, 40 hours/week) educational opportunities that last 10 continuous weeks, from June through August. Candidates must be able to commit to this time frame. Health Career Connection will not accommodate summer school, vacationing, or studying for any standardized test for graduate or professional school during the internship.
Internships take place at prominent healthcare/public health organizations such as hospitals, academic medical centers, community clinics, medical groups, health plans, health departments, & advocacy groups. Each year, these placement sites may change.
During the course of the internship, students will work on meaningful projects and develop professional skills that will strengthen their preparation and qualifications for health careers that are aligned with their interests.
Through an apprenticeship model, each student is paired with a preceptor at the placement site who will serve as a mentor and guide, sharing his/her experience and wisdom.
Interns will also have the invaluable opportunity to participate in Health Career Connection seminars and workshops, which are incorporated into the summer schedule.
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Applicants from ALL fields, including but not limited to Health Sciences, Public Health, Healthcare Policy, Administration/Management, Community Health, Business, Political Science, Sociology, Biology, Biochemistry, Business, Health Communications, Anthropology, and Pre-Medicine (with a strong interest in public health or administration) are welcome to apply.
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Based on applicant's interests and skills set, selected finalists will be placed into the internship program. This process may take a few months, but it is worth it! Health Career Connection internships are life changing and career rewarding experiences.
Final placement decisions are made by Health Career Connection staff and are based on intern interests, qualifications, and placement site availability at the time of final selection.
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Say goodbye to Java Joe's
The name may be changing, but the music will go on
Ken Leighton 5 p.m., Oct. 18
I hate birthdays.
Nobody knows that about me. Well, I suppose they do now.
I have one of those mothers that never forgets to do something special every year. On my first birthday, she baked a cake in the shape of a giant Humpty Dumpty, topped with fluffy white frosting and a detailed face made from food coloring. On my third birthday, I got a giant chocolate kitty-cake. My childhood birthdays were filled with skating rinks, sleepovers, and once I got older, nice birthday dinners with a candle in tiramisu. When I moved to California, like clockwork I received money, gift certificates, cards, and happy-birthday phone calls every May 28. My mother is not the reason I dread the day; the voices of family members have brought a smile to my face in the midst of muffled sobs. This is why I feel a stab of guilt every time I'm sad on my birthday.
No, my resentment toward birthdays has everything to do with my friends, each passing year a reminder of the crappy people I end up so desperately seeking approval from.
My obsession in middle school was the popularity I'd never obtain. By eighth grade, I thought I had all the qualities necessary to escalate to the top of the social ladder of my cliquey school. I was prettier than a good hunk of the elite, and although I still had prepubescent Kate Hudson tits, I'd returned from the summer with sun-kissed blond hair, tan skin, and a braces-free smile. I was even so bold as to sit at the semi-popular-girls' table at lunch. But I found myself on edge, petrified of saying the wrong thing. Every time a girl left the table for a while, the others would make snide remarks behind her back, then greet her with sweet, Southern smiles upon her return. I wasn't kicked out of that table, but I was never warmly welcomed. The girls didn't accompany me to the front of the cafeteria to throw out my tray, even though the rest of them went in pairs. Determined, I persisted. When Christmas came, I spent hours individually wrapping incense sticks in red and green tissue paper, tying the ends with curly gold strings to place in the cards I would distribute the following day. Writing the names of cheerleaders and beloved yearbook superlatives on the cards, I knew they would not be returning the Christmas spirit.
But handing out Christmas cards was not nearly as tortuous as my birthday-party invitations.
"Sorry I couldn't make it, Maggie," they all said. "I was busy."
It was a fantastic party anyway. Four or five of my real friends spent the day with my dad and me on his boat and swimming in the lake. That night, after cutting birthday cake, the girls and I lounged in the hot tub. We squirted water guns filled with Dad's liquor into each other's mouths. Still, my insecure, teenage self could not laugh off the fact that the other girls — those stuck-up bitches — had missed out. I was engrossed in the rejection. Instead of focusing on the family and friends who wanted to celebrate, I sulked over the ones who didn't. And, every May, I braced myself for disappointment: my birthday would reveal that my friendships weren't real.
There is no place on the planet more desolate of real friendships than Pacific Beach.
The one birthday I did not dread was my 21st. Turning this age dramatically affects the lives of young, bar-hungry San Diegans. At 18, I'd moved to a very 21-and-over city. San Diego's nightlife is packed with concerts, clubs, bars, and stage venues that all require one to be of drinking age to pass through their bouncer-guarded gateways. And when it came to fake IDs, all the bars I encountered were ruthless. As a 20-year-old Pacific Beach resident, my age inflicted a harsh blow to my social life. Sure, I could go to house parties, but it seemed as if they were often interrupted by some 24-year-old prick shouting, "PUB CRAWL!" My coked-out friends would stumble toward the bar like a herd of fat people rushing to a buffet, leaving me behind.
I moved to P.B. in February, and from that time on, I awaited May 28, 2006, as anxiously as a pregnant woman does her delivery date.
Two months! I squealed to myself. One month! Twenty-nine days and 12 hours!
I was convinced that my life would be changed once that date rolled around. I could join other gallant young adults in the quest to drink the entire Garnet Avenue strip dry, starting at a sketchy dive bar called the Silver Fox, which opened at 6:00 a.m. for the most dedicated alcoholics. Then the other 21-and-up warriors and I would depart, headed west for a mimosa breakfast that ended with tequila and Coronas at Cabo Cantina; this was a gringo bar imitating a Mexican tourist trap, decked out with fake palm trees, mini umbrellas, and salty tortilla chips. It later became one of my favorite bars because of its outdoor patio area. Instead of an ocean view, Cabo's had white boys in wife-beaters shouting obscenities and glitter-coated skanks tripping on their hooker heels. At 21, I would be able to freely frolic through the strip and enter any building I chose. I felt that this must've been what it was like to be black after the Civil Rights Movement.
My excitement for entering the realm of the legally drunk went beyond bars and the booze — I really hadn't changed since my 14th birthday party. Deep down, my one true aspiration was to be cool. This time, I was among a whole new league of popular kids.
All those people back in my hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee, were now nothing to me. The popular girls there desperately tried to be Californian, bleaching their hair and baking in tanning beds until their skin fried orange. But they could have their country music, premature marriages, and hometown drama. I lived in a heavenly beach town. I had palm trees. I had beer bongs on the sand. I had the wildness of youth. My friends were thin, pretty, and naturally bronzed. They slurped vodka from the bottle while they drove. They roamed the streets in bikinis by day; by night, they wore skimpy dresses short enough to bare their ass cheeks when they bent over. They pushed up their breasts and snorted coke in the bathrooms of clubs before grinding their crotches into strangers until last call. And when the night came to an end, they romped through the filthy, gum-stained streets barefoot, too hammered to feel the broken glass. P.B. girls were wild, edgy, and dangerously carefree. I wanted to be exactly like them.
Great article! Takes me back to my own PB days. Good luck with finding yourself.
Hey everyone! Thank you for reading! This is Maggie (the writer of this article). I'm also an author/ blogger. Feel free to check out my website www.themaggieyoung.com if you want to read more stuff or add me on facebook at www.facebook.com/themaggieyoung. :)
This was very, very interesting. I'm from the East Coast, so I understand the flakiness inherent in SoCal natives all too well.
However, what I found most interesting is something that could be very controversial. Near the end, you describe what can only be called female-on-male rape.
"As I maneuvered myself on top of him, I watched him slip in and out of consciousness. I continued anyway." This is the exact situation in which many men get arrested, when the roles are reversed.
I understand this was a tell-all, but you seriously just admitted to committing a rape. Despite that, I'm not here to criticize you (again, honoring the spirit of the story as a tell-all).
This was the most fascinating part of the story to me. I've never read about that kind of situation before, although I've assumed that theoretically it could happen with a woman as the aggressor. I look forward to your next story, in all sincerity.
Gotta agree... a male who "maneuvered himself on top of" a semi-conscious woman and proceeded to get it on would be pilloried. Nobody would rest until he was hunted down, locked in a cage for years, and branded with his scarlet A.
Thanks so much John! Yes, this was years ago and it was a very bizarre time in my life (This took place years ago). This story was definitely meant to document a disturbing experience. Thank you for reading and there will be more in the future.
Nice to see another first-person autobiographical cover feature from Maggie Young - been quite awhile since your (excellent) "Phony Navy Wife" cover story!
Writing is not bad, still with the limited outlets for writers in this town it's a shame to give voice to someone who has nothing remotely profound to say.
I really enjoyed this tale, too. Thanks for writing.
The problem with this article is that it negatively stereotypes women who frequent the bars in Pacific Beach as "skanks," drug users, drunk drivers, and people who are incapable of having "real friendship." I'm a female, white collar professional (think: accountant, dentist, whatever) who goes out in Pacific Beach regularly because (1) it's walkable, (2) it's affordable due to several great happy hours, and (3) there are plenty of taxis to hail at the end of the night. I've met some interesting, successful, intelligent friends at bars in Pacific Beach (yes, they were women!). Perhaps it's just that the author couldn't see through the tunnel vision of her stereotypes, and her obsession with coolness, to notice that the crowd and the neighborhood can't be so easily pigeonholed.
I am also a white collar professional who has resided in Pacific Beach for over 8 years. While I do admit that many of the senarios described do exist, they are not the norm and are easy to avoid. Pacific Beach is a wonderful place to live and stories like this one only perpetuate the negative stereotypes of this community.
What I don't comprehend is the writer's lack of insight into how she became so stupefyingly shallow. I have no patience for women that are hung up on their looks, then blame society for making them that way. Perhaps if she admitted to being caught up in this dangerously empty lifestyle only because she was an alcoholic and it kinda went with the territory. . .or that as a child, she was told relentlessly she was worthless. . .that would explain embracing this vacuous lifestyle.
There are plenty of places you can go where people won't judge you by your looks and you can make connections that are meaningful and substantive. This writer is not dumb. . why didn't she pick better places to hang out? And has she had any kind of epiphany about the utter lack of importance being hot is in the big picture of life?
I think going through a "wild youth" stage is OK and can be fun (although I can't say I would condone slurping vodka while driving).
What surprises me in PB is that there are people in their 30's and 40's still living that kind of lifestyle - I don't think that can last forever.
I read the article and thought it was great and well written, I was hooked and wanted to know what happened. I also wanted to give an opinion about Pacific Beach and your constant reference to Southern Californians and their supposed flakiness and superficiality.
I was born and raised in San Diego, though I grew up in a humble, small beach town. I HATED Pacific Beach and hung out there very few times, and I will tell you why- it did not feel like San Diego. I realized more and more that it was actually a place full of Americans from other states running away from and wanting to find themselves in a party beach environment that they themselves have made larger. This story is emblematic of what I am talking about- you arrived with insecurities and like thousands of others, drank away your problems and issues, acting out to find yourself. The few times I saw girls/men acting like you, I felt embarrassed for you and it also made me never want to return to PB, and I love the beach! You immersed yourself in a superficial microcosm with others just like you, and immediately pegged it as Southern California lifestyle.
PB does not represent San Diegans, nor Californians, nor the San Diego lifestyle. Some may agree or disagree, but that is my opinion.
Coming from the writer, to answer a lot of questions and comments, this story took place when I was 21. It's actually based on a piece of a book that I wrote with a much larger/deeper story. But in a nutshell, I was 21 when this took place. I was a baby. Remember how important being pretty and cool was back then? By no means am I condoning that mind frame. I'm just bringing attention to its reality. Thanks for reading, everyone! :)
Thanx for explaining...i also agree with some of the other comments: your writing shoes a lot of promise...like your use of analogies. other than your lack of insight into physical appearance, your other insights are really quite excellent..
thank you, maria!
Maggie, I think you need to be more careful about your historical comparisons: "I felt that this must've been what it was like to be black after the Civil Rights Movement." You have no idea what it was like or what it is like to be of color or assume what it feels like. I think rather than use a comparison like this, you might want to examine your white privilege and perhaps use a narrative that better describes yourself in the context of your own life as a young, white woman. I think the comment is a poor choice and rather insulting in conjunction with your story. I understand the hyperbole and your frame of reference, but it is worth investigating alternatives and reading some Richard Wright, Dorothy Cotton, and bell hooks on white privilege.
Great read. Those comments about you "raping" that Navy Seal are ridiculous. They are not looking at the context of the evening. Everyone knows that P.B. is the place for hook-ups. You can get me drunk and take advantage of me anytime! u is fine!


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1. Re: Intel 82579V issue (Only 10 Mb/s works)mark_h_@intel May 8, 2012 2:21 PM (in response to tensor9)
Sorry to hear you are getting stuck with only a 10 Mbps connection. As to why, I can only speculate.You already have the latest driver, so there is no upgrade available that might help. I have a couple of things you can try based on what has happened to other posters who could not negotiate the best speed.
I know you have tried several cables already. Were they all the same length? A shorter cable might help (or not.)
Do you know if the router on your apartment's Ethernet jack is a gigabit or a 10/100 link? If the partner has a 10/100 link, you might be able to use a utility that changes the way the link is negotiated to force 10/100. You should read my answer at http://communities.intel.com/message/148594#148594 and try the utility. However, I do not have a lot of confidence in this particular change helping your issue. This does not sound like the scenario where the utility has helped.
Let me know if either of these suggestions helps.
Mark H
2. Re: Intel 82579V issue (Only 10 Mb/s works)tensor9 May 8, 2012 6:34 PM (in response to mark_h_@intel)
I'm not sure if the link is 10/100 or 1000. Getting this information out of them would be near impossible. I would be willing to bet that it is 10/100.
I changed the registry key entry to 2 as you suggested. It didn't resolve the issue, but it did make it to where when I force it to 100 it simply registers no connection as opposed to a series and connects, disconnects, and lockups.
All of the cables are approximately the same length, 6-7 feet.
3. Re: Intel 82579V issue (Only 10 Mb/s works)mark_h_@intel May 8, 2012 6:51 PM (in response to tensor9)
You could running the cable diagnostics that are installed with Intel PROSet.
- Open windows device manager (run devmgmt.msc).
- Select the Link Speed tab
- Click the Diagnostics button
- Select the Cable tab
- Run the tests (2 tests to select, one is offline and one is an online test.)
Do you have a friendly neighbor that might let you connect to their jack for a test? You could test over a different set of wires.
Neither of these tests would fix the slow connection, but at least you might have some idea about the wiring.
Mark H
- Open windows device manager (run devmgmt.msc).
4. Re: Intel 82579V issue (Only 10 Mb/s works)tensor9 May 8, 2012 7:26 PM (in response to mark_h_@intel)
The signal quality test passes just fine. The other test is greyed out. I just tried two really long cables as well with the same results.
I don't really have another jack to plug it into, except for the two routers that I've tried. One worked, one didn't.
5. Re: Intel 82579V issue (Only 10 Mb/s works)mark_h_@intel May 9, 2012 9:14 AM (in response to tensor9)
Have you tried the drivers from ASUS? I'm not confident that a driver change will help, but you might be better off using the drivers ASUS posts instead of getting the latest generic drivers. http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=P8Z77-V&p=1&s=39.
Mark H
6. Re: Intel 82579V issue (Only 10 Mb/s works)tensor9 May 9, 2012 9:45 AM (in response to mark_h_@intel)
I was originally using the ASUS drivers. I tried the Intel ones only after the ASUS ones didn't work. I also tried uninstalling the drivers, clearing the CMOS, draining the power, and reinstalling the drivers. No go.
I emailed ASUS, and they recommended I do I fresh install (of everything I assume), and if that doesn't work, contact the RMA department. I don't think a fresh install of the OS, etc., will help anything. It seems like it just doesn't like negotiating with 10/100 switches/routers. So it's either a problem with the drivers or an issue inherent with this NIC. I really do not feel like installing a new motherboard, and further, is it even a hardware problem? If I was very confident that it was defective hardware, I might bother, but buying a stand alone NIC seems easier.
7. Re: Intel 82579V issue (Only 10 Mb/s works)tensor9 May 9, 2012 10:18 AM (in response to tensor9)
And I should add one thing. The router I tried that works, it's a Gb/s router.
8. Re: Intel 82579V issue (Only 10 Mb/s works)mark_h_@intel May 9, 2012 10:39 AM (in response to tensor9)
I can understand why you might not want to go through the hassle of replacing the motherboard without knowing for sure. Unfortunately I cannot tell for sure if you have a hardware issue. I did look at the bug database and did not see any open bugs or unreleased bug fixes that seem similar to your report. So I am leaning towards some sort of hardware issue. But that doesn't mean that replacing your motherboard will fix the problem.
In the original post you said, "A connection with a D-Link router seemed to work fine." If you have that router, maybe you could plug the router into the wall jack and then plug your LAN into the router. Maybe you are already doing that. Obviously your idea to add-in a NIC should work too.
I hate not being able to come up with a sure fix , but I can't think of anything else to do that hasn't been covered.
Mark H
9. Re: Intel 82579V issue (Only 10 Mb/s works)erlewis Nov 28, 2015 5:39 PM (in response to mark_h_@intel)
Hi Mark:
I went to Device Manager and selected the Intel LAN device and clicked properties where I do not find the tabs you refer to. Is there an Intel diagnostic tool that actually does test the Ethernet cable? How do I run the program? Windows 8.1.
I pasted "run devmgmt.msc" into a command prompt and it did not recognize the run command.
My router says the link to the workstation is 100/10 but it should be 1000. I did order a new cable but would like to verify if this particular cable is not capable of 1000.
10. Re: Intel 82579V issue (Only 10 Mb/s works)JFFulcrum Nov 29, 2015 6:05 AM (in response to erlewis)
You need to install Intel drivers first, Download Network Adapter Driver for Windows 8.1*


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HSAA: Rosslyn Park Day Two
The USA Rugby High School All-Americans, sponsored by Aircraft Charter Solutions, followed up their undefeated Rosslyn Park Sevens day one performance with a hard-fought 15-5 loss to Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr in the first match of day two. With the loss, the HSAAs are dropped into the Plate competition.
Freezing cold, thick mud awaited the HSAAs on the field--unfamiliar conditions for the HSAAs but normal for the opposition. The HSAAs were on their heels from the start and Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr raised its game to take advantage.
The HSAAs defended well, but the consistency in mental toughness from day one was not there for every player and little mistakes proved the difference. The HSAAs will have to improve for the Plate competition with the standard of play rising as the tournament progresses.
Bicton College and The King's School, Macclesfield, await the HSAAs in the Plate Quarterfinals group stage.
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The HSAAs win against Bicton College 21-10
Billy Maggs
Jesse Mander
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Conversions: Mitchel Gusman (3)
The HSAAs were knocked out of Rosslyn Park Sevens Friday in the Plate Semifinal by Oaklands College (Saracens Academy). Head Coach Salty Thompson's team defeated Bicton College 21-10 and The King's School, Macclesfield, 27-7 in the Plate Quarterfinals group stage before the 15-10 Semifinal loss.
After the HSAAs' first loss of the tournament against Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr in the play-off match Friday morning pushing the HSAAs to the Plate competition, they got back on track against Bicton College with a comprehensive win. Billy Maggs, Jesse Mader and James Viafale each scored a try and Mitchel Gusman converted all three for the 21-10 win.
The HSAAs showed their strengths against The King's School, Macclesfield, in the final group match, getting tries from Zach Webber, Niall Barry and Maggs, with David Todd scoring twice. Gusman added another conversion for his 17th of the tournament.
Close in all departments, the HSAAs' heartbreaking Plate Semifinal match against Oaklands College (Saracens Academy) went down to the wire, but Oaklands came out on top 15-10 to send the HSAAs home for the second consecutive year before they could win silverware.
At last year's Rosslyn Park Sevens, the HSAAs were eliminated from competition in the Round of 16. The improvement is thanks to the coaching of Thompson and his staff, the boys' development and hard work, and the sponsorship of Aircraft Charter Solutions, which allows the HSAAs to travel around the world competing against the best young rugby teams.
The U17 High School All-Americans are in action next at the Wellington College Tournament in England on March 30 against Wales U16s. The Belgium U17s and England South U16s are also in the HSAAs group.
Match Day Two Results
Plate Group Stage | vs. Bicton College
Tries: Maggs, Mader, Viafale; Conversions: Gusman (3)
Plate Group Stage | vs. The King's School, Macclesfield
Tries: Todd (2), Webber, Barry, Maggs; Conversions: Gusman


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Firearms and legal experts in South Africa believe that Oscar Pistorius violated basic gun-handling regulations.
JOHANNESBURG — Even if Oscar Pistorius is acquitted of murder, firearms and legal experts in South Africa believe that, by his own account, the star athlete violated basic gun-handling regulations and exposed himself to a homicide charge by shooting into a closed door without knowing who was behind it.
Particularly jarring for firearms instructors and legal experts is that Pistorius testified that he shot at a closed toilet door, fearing but not knowing for certain that a nighttime intruder was on the other side. Instead of an intruder, Pistorius' girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was in the toilet cubicle. Struck by three of four shots that Pistorius fired from a 9 mm pistol, she died within minutes. Prosecutors charged Pistorius with premeditated murder, saying the shooting followed an argument between the two. Pistorius said it was an accident.
South Africa has stringent laws regulating the use of lethal force for self-protection. In order to get a permit to own a firearm, applicants must not only know those rules but must demonstrate proficiency with the weapon and knowledge of its safe handling, making it far tougher to legally own a gun in South Africa than many other countries where a mere background check suffices.
Pistorius took such a competency test for his 9 mm pistol and passed it, according to the South African Police Service's National Firearms Center. Pistorius' license for the 9 mm pistol was issued in September 2010.
The Olympic athlete and Paralympic medalist should have known that firing blindly, instead of at a clearly identified target, violates basic gun-handling rules, firearms and legal experts said.
"You can't shoot through a closed door," said Andre Pretorius, president of the Professional Firearm Trainers Council, a regulatory body for South African firearms instructors. "People who own guns and have been through the training, they know that shooting through a door is not going to go through South African law as an accident."
"There is no situation in South Africa that allows a person to shoot at a threat that is not identified," Pretorius added. "Firing multiple shots, it makes it that much worse. ...It could have been a minor — a 15-year-old kid, a 12-year-old kid — breaking in to get food."
In an affidavit to the magistrate who Friday freed him on bail, Pistorius said he believed an intruder or intruders had gotten into his US$560,000 ((euro) 430,000) two-story house, in a guarded and gated community with walls topped by electrified fencing east of the capital, Pretoria, and were inside the toilet cubicle in his bathroom.
Believing he and Steenkamp "would be in grave danger" if they came out, "I fired shots at the toilet door" with the pistol that he slept with under his bed, he testified.


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Ex-nursing home worker to plead guilty to drug chargesBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
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February 26. 2013 8:54PM
BRENTWOOD - A former Rockingham County Nursing Home employee will plead guilty to charges that he tried to buy oxycodone pills for inmates at the county jail, according to court records.
Scott Martin, 26, of Plaistow is expected to appear before a judge on April 30 to enter his guilty plea and be sentenced on drug charges. Martin, who is free on bail, worked in the nursing home's laundry room until he was arrested Sept. 13 by undercover sheriff's deputies.
The Rockingham County Sheriff's Drug Task Force learned of Martin's alleged plans to smuggle drugs into the jail. A deputy working undercover posed as a potential seller during the investigation.
Exact terms of Martin's plea deal are still unclear. Prosecutors said in court papers they offered to recommend a 12-month jail term, and a 2- to 4-year suspended prison term in exchange for Martin pleading guilty.
Martin was indicted in December on charges of attempted possession of a controlled drug with intent to sell and conspiracy to sale of a controlled drug - charges that punishable by up to 3 ½ to 7 years in prison.
Deputies first learned of Martin's alleged drug business on Sept. 6. A confidential informant told Corrections Lt. David Consentino how drugs were being smuggled into the county jail.
"An employee working over in the laundry room at the nursing home was meeting with outside people and getting the drugs," Sgt. Jay Murphy said in a sworn affidavit. "This person would then give the drug to one of the inmates that works in the laundry room."
Martin called an undercover deputy, who posed as a drug seller, on Sept. 12, according to Murphy.
Martin met the deputy behind the nursing home during his break the next day to buy a dozen pills of what he thought was oxycodone pills, according to Murphy. Instead, deputies used placebo capsules filled with corn starch to resemble the narcotic.
An arrest team took Martin into custody without incident. Martin had regular contact with inmate "trustees" who are allowed to work in the nursing home, according to the sheriff's department.


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I had posted a couple of weeks back about doing some maintenance on my log home. I wanted to get some info on stains. I used an acrylic stain last year to do some touch up jobs and was quite pleased with it and plan on refinishing my home with it. I plan on doing 2 sides of my house this year then the other two next year. I know this is not the optimal way to do it but with time constraints and work I really don't have any other option. I want to go the grinder route as I have heard nothing but good things and last year I had attempted to sand with a rotor sander and enjoyed the results just not the amount of labor that came with it. I basically just want something that I can maneuver better and has a bit more power. On a previous post that I listed below you had recommended the grinder, disc, and backing pad. I was really intrigued by this but found out grainger only deals with business to business transactions. On another note I also live in Canada. I plan on checking out some hardware stores this week in hopes to find someone who can lead me in the right direction with the same tools you recommended. But I am hoping that maybe I can spark some ideas that may help me down this road from other people since I am a novice when it comes to this area and want to make the right decision.
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I just use a 4 1/2" angle grinder. Its smaller, but a lot easier to use for extended periods then some of the heavier grinders(the heavier grinders are hard on fatigue after a time). I bought a ryobi, for $39 at HD, came with a 2 year warranty, and had it back twice for service and they covered it. Put many many hours on it, from sanding hand hewn beams, my logs, and a lot of angle iron cutting. I like the trigger switch much better than the rocker switch. It out lasted the dewalt which I paid more for and broke in less then a weeks time.
If you guys have Harbor freight, they have cheap backer pad kit ($3.00), and also a $10 grinder which is light weight. Its cheap so if it breaks, just buy another one.
I also bought the 3 1/2 cu ft harborfreight cement mixer, and my wife and I mixed over 10 yards of concrete in it for slip form stem walls, and its still running.
I bought the harborfreight carbide 36 grit grinding disk, and it removes a lot of material very quickly. I used it mostly for stubborn bark removal and for making rough tenons on railings (getting them down to size).
We are hard on equipment :).....HD people think of us as their testing people. I bought a used Hitachi coil framing nailer through ebay, and its still going stong (bostich stapler, constantly breaks). Like the Ridgid fuego framing circular saw (much lighter weight than my mikita), the ridgid planer, had nothing but problems.
Also, if you are going to use an orbital palm sander at all, get one that fits your hand well and has less vibration (after an hour or so of sanding it makes a big difference). We like our dewalt a lot. Try it on, hold it etc.
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|A BIG Merci to Ooh La La Confectionary for educating my palate both sweet and savory!
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That's a great shot of the 3 girls:)ReplyDelete
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No harpist worth her strings could let something so unpoetic pass her lips!
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The plates are like little sculptures - works of art truly
This dinner looks good... I remember of a strange dessert there : a chocolate sponge cake with bacon !ReplyDeleteReplies
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I want to say what a pleasure it was to see the little girl eating so nicely with her knife and fork. I say this because my son, who was taught, has not bothered to teach his children how to use their cutlery properly nor how to use their knives never mind about how to place them when they've finished eating.ReplyDelete


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- November 6, 2012
- Elyria, Ohio
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Joy Elizabeth Kidd (nee Exline), age 52, of Elyria, died suddenly on Tuesday morning, November 6, 2012 at EMH Regional Medical Center.
Joy was born May 29, 1960 in Berea. She married her loving husband of 22 years, Robert Kidd, on January 17, 1991 and he survives.
Also left to cherish her memory is her father, James Exline, Grafton; son, Jeremy David Jason, Columbus; granddaughter, Chanthy Helen Jason; and sister, Heidi Exline, Grafton.
Joy was preceded in death by her mother, Marilynn (nee Ayster) Exline; brother, Eric Exline; grandparents, John and Dorothy Ayster; and aunt, Suzanne Ayster.
She was a trainer for the past 15 years with Progressive Insurance in Mayfield. A member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Elyria, Joy was very artistic, enjoyed making jewelry and traveling with her husband.
Friends may call Saturday from 5 PM until the time of Memorial service to celebrate her life at 6 PM at the Bogner Family Funeral Home, 36625 Center Ridge Road, North Ridgeville. Rev. Melanie Sunderland, Interim Rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, will officiate.


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Ravens outside linebacker Terrell Suggs joked that rookie cornerback Jimmy Smith finally earned the Ravens emblem on his helmet.
Smith, the team's first-round pick in April, finished with three tackles, one pass breakup and one interception that led to a Ray Rice touchdown in the Ravens' 31-24 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals at M&T Bank Stadium Sunday.
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85156 - Crockery Cooker, 6 Qt. Round
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Experience Points (or XP for short) are a measurement of character progress. The player character can earn experience points for killing creatures and solving quests. They are used to determine when a character should gain a new level. Different amounts of experience points are awarded for killing more dangerous creatures. For example, in Fallout 3, killing a deathclaw nets 50 experience points while killing a radroach gives only 1. Experience points can also be gained for disarming mines and traps, picking locks, hacking computers, passing speech challenges, doing sections of a quest and, in Fallout: New Vegas, completing passive challenges like killing a set amount of an enemy. The number of experience points earned for an accomplishment are not dependent on character level.
XP in Fallout is a conventional type similar to Dungeons and Dragons where levels are separated by a large amount of experience. For example, it takes 1,000 XP to reach level 2, 3,000 for level 3, 6,000 for level 4, and so on.
Fallout 2Edit
Fallout 2's XP system is similar to Fallout's. The only major difference is that leveling requires more XP than in Fallout.
Fallout 3Edit
Fallout 3 difficulty modifierEdit
Changing the difficulty level will also change the experience gained from killing enemies. Playing on Very Hard instead of Normal makes a kill worth 50% more experience, while playing on Very Easy makes it worth 50% less. For example, a deathclaw is worth 25 XP on Very Easy, 50 XP on Normal and 75 XP on Very Hard.
The additional experience from fights on Very Hard compared to Very Easy is somewhat compensated by the enemies being much tougher. In the end, the player's skills and play style determine which difficulty setting allows for optimal leveling.
XP caps at level 20 on all difficulties without the Broken Steel add-on, which increases the cap to level 30.
Fallout: New VegasEdit
Fallout: New Vegas does not reward XP based on the level of difficulty selected, despite the manual (PC and X360 version) stating otherwise. This somewhat alleviates the stress encountered while playing the game simultaneously on Hardcore, as it is not necessary to play it on Very Hard.
Unlike Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas awards XP for kills made by followers. This increases the usefulness of followers and significantly reduces the hassle of having to compete with them for XP.
Fallout 4Edit
The higher the Sole Survivor's Intelligence, the more experience points they earn.
The Idiot Savant perk offers significant XP increases. The higher the Intelligence, the lower the chance of activating the perk.
Similar to Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4 also awards experience points for kills made by a follower. However, the player character must damage the target for at least 25% of its Hit Points before the follower makes the kill in order for the experience points to count. If the player character is soloing, XP is awarded for enemies that kill each other within sight of the player character, as though they were companions.
In Survival mode, enemies that are killed by the Sole Survivor yield twice as much experience. This is the first time since Fallout 3 where a higher difficulty means more experience gain.
Fallout ShelterEdit
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Fallout TacticsEdit
XP in Fallout Tactics are given to all party members, regardless of the number of members. The game does not feature difficulty modifiers; however the Tough Guy game mode can provide 100% XP bonus (30% in versions prior to 1.27).
- ps3 xbox360 Earning experience points and dying or loading an older save right before they register yields the points in the older save.
- This appears to only be a display issue as the points are not added to the total on either platforms, this is easily realized if the player would have gone up a level.
- xbox360 It is possible to earn XP past where a level-up should happen without the game registering the level-up. This results in being stuck at level one. The XP counter may end up reading something like 600/200, indicating that a level-up should have happened 400 XP "ago". This may happen at any level or only from the start of the game. If it happens at the start of the game, beginning a new game fixes this bug, so watching the XP meter closely is a good idea.
- Upon starting a new character, the game will recognize the level 1 character as a continuation of the most recent save (typically a level 30 character). This will make the player unable to level up at some point. This can be fixed by deleting all the save files and starting a new game.
- This can also be solved by following these steps:
- Start a new game on a different profile that has no save file from the game.
- Go to memory under system settings and delete the most recent auto save from the bugged profile.
- Start a new game, and the bug should not occur. If it does, try the same process but exit the town before 200 XP is reached.
- ps3 If a single accomplishment results in enough experience to level up twice, the game will register two level-ups but will not award additional skill points. E.g., if the 1000 XP for completing the quest "Ring-a-Ding-Ding!" would result in going from level 6 to level 8, the skill points that would result from attaining level 7 are lost.
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Can it really be 30 years since Blade Runner? Since the original anyway–there have been so many different "director's cuts" now that I've lost track of the thing. I remember being, as the cliche goes, "blown away" by it when seeing it in the theater on opening night, and being not quite sure what to make of it.
It is standard operating procedure for most writers to disdain the film treatments of their books, so it came as an interesting surprise to see the letter below from Philip Dick, author of the story on which the film was based "(Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?") approving wholeheartedly of the film adaptation.
Hat tip: Glenn Reynolds.
P.S. Through one of my oldest friends–can I tell this story, Rich?– I met the person who got the Oscar for best special effects that year, but for a different film, who said privately that he didn't deserve it–Blade Runner deserved it.


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The October 15 calls really stood out, with most of the large prints purchased for $0.50 to $0.65 as almost 12,000 contracts changed hands, according to OptionMonster's real-time tracking systems. There was also heavy buying in the Weekly 15 calls that expire next Friday, which saw more than 20,000 contracts go for $0.04 to $0.14.
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By: Ryan Jaroncyk, THL Contributor
There's an epidemic in the U.S. military. Repeated deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq are leading to record suicide rates and an explosive rise in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Here are some sobering facts and figures:
- CNN reported that the military suicide rate for 2008 was the highest level among soldiers since the Pentagon began tracking it twenty eight years ago.
- A Pentagon study revealed that 10% of the returning soldiers met the military's criteria for PTSD.
- The New England Journal of Medicine studied four combat units and found that 17% of Iraq war veterans and 11% of Afghanistan war veterans suffered from PTSD. In addition, 25% of returning soldiers were drinking excessively.
- A study by the RAND Corporation revealed that 20% of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan will suffer from PTSD or severe depression; sadly, only about 50% of these veterans will get the treatment they need.
- An older study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) discovered that only 20% of Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans who test positive for combat related stress disorders are actually referred by the Pentagon for mental health treatment.
One of the RAND project leaders, Lisa Jaycox, stated, "If PTSD and depression go untreated... there is a cascading set of consequences... drug abuse, suicide, marital problems and unemployment are some of the consequences..."
The evidence is pretty clear. Repeated deployments to the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are resulting in crippling psychological and emotional effects for our men and women in uniform. These numbers are likely to rise, especially in Afghanistan, where the first "surge" is underway, and a second "surge" is already being discussed.
Such are the consequences of protracted wars. So, how can we resolve this urgent dilemma? Here are some potential solutions. These solutions can be divided into two categories: near-term and long-term.
Near-term solutions to PTSD:
1. Make PTSD a top priority in the Defense Department. It's pretty simple. You send our men and women to war zones, 2, 3, or 4 times, you better start providing them and their families with the best medical and psychiatric care.
2. Hold the VA accountable. Despite a 16% to 17% increase in funding for the 2009-2010 fiscal year, the VA failed to address treatment of PTSD, record suicide rates, or severe depression. Simply stated, if they won't allocate funds to this growing epidemic, the increase in funding should be revoked.
3. Get the 2010 liberty candidates to make PTSD a top priority in their foreign policy discussions. Dr. Rand Paul, Peter Schiff, Adam Kokesh, RJ Harris, Dr. Vasovski, and other like-minded candidates need to step up to the plate on this vital, national security issue. Kokesh, Harris, and Vasovski can especially speak to this issue with a high degree of credibility based on their extensive military records. If our liberty candidates want to make a real impact in the foreign policy arena, then providing solutions to the PTSD epidemic should be a critical objective.
Long-term solutions to PTSD:
1. Revisit our foreign policy. If the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are so vital to the War on Terror, as many claim, then why are we stationing troops and personnel in nearly 130 other nations? By reducing our overseas presence to only the most strategic locations, we could utilize a significant portion of the savings to care for our men and women suffering from PTSD, not to mention pay down trillions of dollars of national debt.
2. Improve our intelligence. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq weren't supposed to last so long. The wars weren't supposed to be this costly. The casualty counts weren't supposed to be this high. And the psychological epidemic wasn't supposed to be this severe. Our nation's budget, and more importantly, our nation's families, can't afford repeated mistakes in pre-war estimates and predictions. The cost in blood and treasure is too high.
3. Redefine our war policy. If victory can't be precisely defined, then victory can never be achieved. We need to start defining what victory actually means in these war theaters. Vague rhetoric is meaningless. We need to establish specific benchmarks, from the start, so that specific objectives are achieved in a timely manner. We need to start establishing precise budgetary limits so that national debt doesn't keep growing. We need to adopt specific timelines to achieve swift and decisive victory. Timelines don't encourage enemies, they create focus and discipline. America possesses the most powerful military in the world. We shouldn't be bogged down in 6 and 8 years wars. Finally, we need to start officially declaring war, as the Constitution demands, before we go to war. We haven't declared war since World War II. U.N. resolutions or loose, congressional "authorizations" haven't been getting the job done.
These are some of my ideas and solutions. Now, what are some of yours?


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Young Rye fisherman reels in National Geographic viewersBy GRETYL MACALASTER
Union Leader Correspondent
February 24. 2013 11:00PM
RYE -- FANS OF THE National Geographic show "Wicked Tuna" are already making plans to visit Rye Harbor this summer to spend a day at sea with one of the show's local stars.
Tyler McLaughlin, 25, has been fishing out of Rye Harbor during the summers since he was a child. Two years ago, after graduating from Nichols College, he purchased his own boat, the Pin Wheel, and began a career as a tuna fisherman.
Last year, a crew from National Geographic interviewed McLaughlin and two high school friends as they unloaded tuna in Maine and invited them to participate in the show. McLaughlin and his Pin Wheel crew compete with other, older tuna fishermen out of Gloucester, Mass. for the season's biggest payday. They all fish the old-fashioned way, catching one massive tuna at a time.
His fearless, young attitude is not always received well by the other captains, but McLaughlin has been winning over fans, who have consistently given him high votes through the show's website.
Those fans will have a chance to fish with McLaughlin beginning in April through charter trips out of Rye Harbor and Gloucester.
He said he hopes the attention draws people to Rye Harbor, bringing revenue and awareness to New Hampshire's small fleet of fishermen.
Recently, McLaughlin spoke to the New Hampshire Union Leader by phone from Miami about issues facing fishermen - from poor overseas regulations, to the negative consequences of small boat fisheries being swallowed up by large conglomerates not always using best practices.
He said there are nations, including Japan, that use huge boats to scoop up entire schools of bluefin tuna; airplanes are used to spot the fish. McLaughlin said this affects spawning rates - and American fisheries - because bluefin tuna are migratory.
"We are the only country that does abide by our quota allocated by the international committee and it saddens us when we see what goes on in other countries and I am concerned that other countries might wipe out my fishery," McLaughlin said.
McLaughlin said he hopes "Wicked Tuna" demonstrates the value of local small boat fisheries.
"It was something I definitely wanted to take part in," McLaughlin said. "Being one of the youngest captains out there, I really wanted to be able to show what tuna fishing is - we fish every day, around the clock - and how hard it is to do it and make a living."
McLaughlin fished and filmed from late July through the first week of November, and then spent the first half of the winter fishing commercially in North Carolina.
Now, he plans to spend some time shredding snow up north before charters begin in April.
"Wicked Tuna" airs on the National Geographic Channel every Sunday at 9 p.m. through the season finale in May. A representative from Nat Geo said there has not yet been a confirmation on whether there will be a third season.