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Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s homes named in forfeiture motion
Government prosecutors Friday filed a forfeiture motion naming the homes of former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, Sandi, in a move legal observers said could result in them losing one or both homes.
The motion filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., comes just days before Jackson and his wife are scheduled to be sentenced on charges related to Jackson's misuse of $750,000 in campaign funds.
Later Friday, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington issued a statement insisting it was not seeking "to take over" or seize the Jacksons' two homes -- one in the nation's capital and the other in Chicago.
"The motion filed by the government today seeks to forfeit the defendant's interest in the two properties in the event that they are sold," it said. "This is a standard filing in cases in which a defendant has a significant money judgment and equity in property that could be used to satisfy the money judgment."
A message seeking comment from Jackson's attorney, Reid Weingarten, was not returned.
But legal observers who read through Friday's motion said that, for all practical purposes, the Jacksons' homes are now in jeopardy.
"The government statement is soft-pedaling a bitter reality," said Joe Lopez, a defense attorney in Chicago who practices in both state and federal court. "This filing is a big deal -- to the Jacksons."
The Washington home, a Victorian-style townhouse, is valued at more than $2 million. The Chicago home is on the southeast side of the city hugging Lake Michigan
If a judge approves the forfeiture motion, the government could act quickly to force the sale of the homes, said Lopez, who has no connection to the Jackson cases.
"The government will be in the driver's seat about when the houses are sold," he said. "And they are not going to let the Jacksons live in the homes for 20 years."
Earlier this year, Jackson, the son of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson Sr., pleaded guilty to charges he spent $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items, from a gold-plated Rolex watch to mounted elk heads.
Jackson's plea agreement requires he pay the $750,000 back and indicates he will be subject to a host of other financial penalties. But prosecutors said in their Friday motion that they have recovered only half of 24 items Jackson bought with the campaign funds that he agreed to hand over -- with the 12 items worth about $21,000 combined. That leaves the government far short of the $750,000 Jackson agreed to pay, triggering the latest forfeiture motion, the filing says.
At Wednesday's sentencing, prosecutors will seek a four-year prison term for Jackson, 48, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, mail fraud and false statements. Jackson's wife, a 49-year-old former Chicago alderman, pleaded guilty to filing false joint tax returns; prosecutors want a year-and-a-half prison term for her.
The Jacksons have two school-aged children, and one issue the sentencing judge will have to decide is whether to stagger their sentences so both mother and father aren't imprisoned at the same time.


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The STAR WARS: EPISODE VII news and speculation is going to keep coming. Right after our first official casting confirmation, Harry reported what he has been hearing the title might be, and now Entertainment Weekly's latest issue (via Jedi News) has a six-page spread on EPISODE VII.
The most interesting bit of news in it is that Han Solo is going to reportedly be the co-lead of the film with three of the younger characters. We had been hearing rumblings that (at least in EPISODE VII) Ford's role was going to be larger than any of the other returning characters and this seems to line up with that.
Now assuming that is true, I am going to connect the dots a little bit here, so take it all with a grain of salt and know that I am not actually reporting this as news, I am just speculating. With that in mind, there was some speculation that the big overhaul Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan made with Michael Arndt's original script was that they made EPISODE VII a big sendoff for some of the original trilogy characters.
In that new EW report mentioned above, they also state that the deals for the return of Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford were finalized before the sale to Disney was completed. That was when Arndt's script was the one that was going to be used, and in it Hamill, Fisher and Ford had more supporting roles than lead roles.
So, if Abrams overhauled the script and made at least Han Solo a lead role, then Ford's original deal was likely changed to reflect that. There had been some unconfirmed rumors that securing Ford a new deal was one of the main reasons it took a while for casting to begin.
Meanwhile, there were separate rumors that Ford had been really pushing Disney to make a new Indiana Jones film (his only blockbuster hit in the last decade+ as a lead actor was INDY IV). We then got word in December, that Disney had worked out a deal with Paramount and could now officially release new INDIANA JONES films, while Paramount still held the rights to the original four films.
Back to today's EW report, the rest of the casting for EPISODE VII reportedly then began officially in January. So my guess is that not only is Han Solo going to lead the next STAR WARS film, it will probably be the only film Solo will have a big role in with the next trilogy and Ford will instead be reprising his role as Indiana Jones while EPISODE(s) VIII and IX are being filmed and released.
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REPEAT-Global Family Trees: BMO Study Shows Canadians with Family and Investments Abroad Unfamiliar with Tax and Estate Laws
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Dec. 15, 2012 06:00 AM
TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 12/15/12 -- Canadians are finalizing their travel plans for the upcoming winter holidays, with many travelling abroad to visit family and friends. But while more than one-quarter (26 per cent) of Canadians have either family members or assets outside of Canada, a study issued today by BMO Harris Private Banking found that more than one-third (36 per cent) of international asset holders are not familiar with the taxes and laws pertaining to wills that include assets or properties outside of Canada.
"Those fortunate enough to own assets or property outside of Canada - or those thinking about it - need to do their due diligence to ensure their estate will be settled as they have planned," said Sara Plant, Vice President and National Director, BMO Harris Private Banking. "If your beneficiaries live abroad, it is critical to be aware of tax issues, inheritance laws and other legalities to avoid any potential issues with your estate plan."
According to the study, one-in-five (19 per cent) Canadians have assets abroad, including:
-- Vacation home/second property -- Bank account -- Investments -- Other real estate holdings -- Business holdings
Family abroad
Statistics Canada predicts that the Canadian population will grow 0.7 per cent in each of the next two years, with 82 per cent of that growth expected to come from immigration.
An increase in immigration could contribute to the proliferation of global families with relatives staying behind in home countries, noted Ms. Plant.
The BMO study found that 16 per cent of Canadians currently have family members living outside of Canada whom they have named or plan to name as beneficiaries in their will, including children, parents and other relatives.
"Today's families are becoming much more global, with children heading to the United States or overseas for school and work, and many adults purchasing property for family vacations or retirement," said Ms. Plant. "From an estate planning perspective, there are many important considerations that Canadians must keep in mind to ensure that their assets and property will be easily transferred to their beneficiaries down the road."
Ms. Plant offers the following tips for Canadians for creating a will that incorporates global components:
-- Seek Guidance Early: Be sure to obtain professional advice from lawyers and tax advisors - both in Canada and in the country where the assets are situated - before signing on the dotted line. Investigate the inheritance rules in that country to see how they may affect your estate and beneficiaries. -- Communicate: Have discussions with your immediate family about foreign holdings. This lets those who will be impacted by your passing know the plan and avoids surprises later on. -- Consider a Corporate Executor: Settling an estate can be complicated and require knowledge of tax, inheritance and family property laws. When global assets are included, one of the challenges is finding the best people to administer those assets at the time of need and protect the interests of beneficiaries. A corporate executor provides peace of mind knowing that the estate will be settled efficiently and impartially. -- Review Regularly: While it is a best practice to review your will every time you file taxes, most people revisit theirs every seven to 10 years. This typically occurs when there is a life change, new assets are purchased (whether held in Canada or abroad) or when there are additions to the family that might impact estate planning. Take that time to make sure your wishes are in place and to make any necessary amendments.
"You have built your wealth - why not safeguard your prosperity for the future?" added Ms. Plant. "All Canadians should have a well-structured estate plan that takes into account their beneficiaries' unique circumstances and any associated inheritance and tax implications. Having a corporate executor in place can help make the transfer of assets go smoothly."
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West 186th Street Basketball Court
Once the site of useless rubble, this small urban lot has been transformed into much needed recreational space.
The West 186th Street Basketball Court lies between Audubon and Saint Nicholas Avenues in Washington Heights, a neighborhood bounded by Dyckman Street, the Harlem River, 155th Street, and the Hudson River. During the American Revolution (1775-1783), this area housed several colonial forts, including the neighborhood's namesake, Fort Washington. In 1889, the Washington Bridge was completed over the Harlem River, linking Manhattan and the Bronx. The area was still largely rural when the Broadway subway line extended through the southern portion of the neighborhood in 1904 and subsequently extended northward during 1906.
The transportation improvement led to the exponential growth of the area. Several institutions were built at that time, including the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Audubon Terrace, Yeshiva University, and the Polo Grounds stadium. During the 1980s, Washington Heights attracted the largest number of immigrants of any neighborhood in New York City, and by 1990, the neighborhood's Dominican community was the largest in the United States. The following year, residents elected Guillermo Linares to the City Council, making him the first individual of Dominican ancestry to hold political office in New York.
An apartment building once stood on this site. Demolished in the 1970s, it left behind a single empty lot in a heavily urbanized area. The City of New York acquired the abandoned property in 1978, but it remained undeveloped until the 1990s, when the Association of Progressive Dominicans (ACDP) received permission from the City to build a basketball court here. The ACDP maintained the court during the 1990s, and in 1997, the property was assigned to Parks by the Department of Citywide Administrative Services. The City installed fencing, lighting, and new basketball hoops that same year. In 1998, Bio Nicer painted the large mural seen on the western wall of the court in memory of Rudy Frias, a local resident who died in an alcohol-related automobile accident in 1998. The painting contains the names of many local residents who have played in the basketball games held here in the warmer months of the year.


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The Cable TV industry offers various pay-TV, high-speed data, phone, and broadband services, nationwide. These services also span other parts of the globe through satellite operations, specifically, Latin America – a pocket of high growth, yet high customer turnover.
While the industry may seem fairly competitive, the majority of pressures stem from external sources looking to take market share, such as telecom companies, who offer television and internet services, as well as internet-based video streaming services. The latter has come to the forefront recently, as some consumers have begun to cut the proverbial cord, in lieu of unenticing channel bundling and increased package premiums. To dissuade customers from switching services, cable and satellite companies are focusing on further developing their wireless network capabilities for mobile viewing, alongside supporting greater individuality among program selection through on-demand platforms. A more personable approach to programming will probably take shape further out.
Still, much of the industry's core operations (pay-TV and broadband) continue to prove effective, churning out strong financial performances, year after year, most notably in the form of earnings growth and elevated operating margins. To that end, companies in the space have built up their balance sheets by generating substantial amounts of free cash flow. That added flexibility from stable cash flow growth is likely one of the main reasons for the industry's general survival and success of late. Indeed, strong cash positions will be vital, going forward, to keep pace with the evolving entertainment landscape. Two companies that we see most fit to maintain a high level of cash production over the coming years are Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) and DIRECTV (DTV).
Comcast Corp.
Comcast Corp. is the nation's largest cable TV provider, with over 21 million video subscribers, 20 million Internet subscribers, and 10 million phone customers. Additionally, the company is now the sole owner of NBCUniversal, after acquiring the outstanding 49% equity interest held by General Electric in 2013. In total, NBCUniversal comprised nearly 37% of 2013 revenues. Comcast serves the majority of the United States, with the exception of the Midwest. Much of its footprint, however, is concentrated in large cities along the east and west coasts, namely New York City, Boston, Washington DC, Seattle, and San Francisco, to name a few.
Comcast has been a cash-generating giant over the past few years, even with relatively higher-than-normal capital spending. The company's annualized cash flow growth rate for the last 5 years was a stellar 17%, well above the industry average of 11.5%. Looking forward, we expect cash flows to increase at a reasonable clip of 8.5%, on an annual basis. This outlook is further supported by our favorable share-net projections of $2.80 and $3.35 in 2014 and 2015, respectively. Although the company is somewhat leveraged (47% of capital), interest payments and debt reduction should not be a concern.
In fact, Comcast has put its abundant cash to good use, recently closing the acquisition of cable TV rival, Time Warner Cable (TWC). The all-stock deal, still awaiting shareholder and regulatory approval, is worth approximately $45 billion. Comcast was the preferred buyer for Time Warner, as opposed to Charter Communications (CHTR), which was unable to meet the price requirement. All in all, the deal is expected to close within the year, providing an abundance of synergies, ranging from a wider subscriber footprint to significant costs savings.
On the programming front, Comcast has taken a contrary perspective in its dealings with Internet-based streaming service, Netflix (NFLX), offering the use of its broadband network in return for an elevated payment price for usage. This ought to provide a financial benefit to Comcast, granted subscribers do not directly substitute Netflix for Comcast's services.
DIRECTV operates through two geographic segments, DIRECTV U.S., which represents 77% of revenues, as of 2013, and DIRECTV Latin America, 23%. The satellite-based pay-TV service provider has more than 20 million subscribers in the U.S. and approximately 18 million LATAM subscribers, through its full ownership of PanAmericana and partial interest in Sky Brazil and Sky Mexico. Although, customer growth in the Latin American region is usually more volatile compared to the relatively stable U.S. The company provides a plethora of services, including hundreds of digital-quality channels, video-on-demand, digital video recorders for instant viewing, and mobile applications for viewing outside the home on accessible devices. In addition, DTV delivers customers access to premium sports programming, such as the NFL Sunday Ticket package.
The company's financials have stood out of late. It ended 2013 with record top- and bottom-line results of $31.8 billion and $5.19 a share, respectively, and we do not think DTV will take its foot off the pedal anytime soon. Indeed, our bullish earnings forecasts of $6.25 a share in 2014 and $6.90 a share in 2015 paint a pretty picture for the next few years. In conjunction with solid net income growth, cash flow generation should follow suit. All told, we look for annual cash flow expansion of 11.5% over the pull to 2017-2019.
True, good free cash flow generation should clear a nice path for share repurchases to persist, new product and network upgrades to emerge, or potential acquisition activity to commence. The idea of a merger between DISH Network and DTV, the two largest satellite players, has resurfaced, amidst the Comcast/Time Warner deal. Although there have been no formal statements made by either party, the concept has not been dismissed, either. Nevertheless, DIRECTV's solid cash flow generation should provide flexibility to pursue value-adding strategic opportunities, further out.
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not hold positions in any of the companies mentioned


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It is hard to believe that the day has come. We have been looking forward to America's 100th anniversary for several years and planning for the event for three years. During the past year, we have been re-publishing a sampler of contributions from some of our more famous authors and a series of historical pieces about some of our more colorful predecessors to share with you.
In this issue we bring that historical retrospective to its conclusion. The historian Charles Morris, author of American Catholic, reviews the changing currents of editorial opinion through the decades of America's publication. James T. Keane, S.J., and Jim McDermott, S.J., who have been responsible for much archival work over the last couple of years, each adds a final note. With an ironic eye, Mr. Keane exposes to view some of our "hits and misses."
Conscious of the lacunae in our archives, Father McDermott has assembled a selection of reminiscences by former editors. Years from now historians will be praising his name for filling in gaps in our records. (You can hear current editors share their stories with Tim Reidy on our weekly podcast at www.americamagazine.org/podcast.)
In his essay on the shape of the church to come,Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., asks, "What sort of dynamic interaction with the world would let the church flourish?" "Like a tree confined in the angle of a rock," he writes, the church has found itself "cramped" into ideological positions that have prevented it from flourishing. Ironically, much of the cramping in the church comes from an unexamined Enlightenment mentality. The Enlightenment set teachers over the unenlightened. In the 21st century, Father Radcliffe points out, learning is dialogical, so preaching and teaching will be conversational.
In surveying the last 50 years of ecumenical encounters, the Rev. Martin E. Marty sees conversation among different denominations of Christians to be privileged moments where we have learned to take responsibility for one another. In the 21st century, he argues, Christians must be prepared to see the face of the other in the Muslim and the secularist as well. Catholics and Protestants must also come face to face with spiritual seekers. They have to reckon too how they can overcome the fact that they still remain "as distant as ever from each other in separate gatherings at the Lord's Table, the Eucharist."
One of the fields in which Protestants and Catholics, Jews and Muslims, often come together with spiritual seekers is care for the Earth. In her essay on Christology, Elizabeth Johnson, C.S.J., argues that our heightened awareness of the natural world allows theology "to play melodies about the cosmos that have not been heard for centuries." She points out how "earthy" Jesus' ministry was and how his death released "an earthy hope" because the resurrection embraces all creation.
Helen Prejean, C.S.J., reflects on how her own personal vocation as an activist against the death penalty and for reconciliation of victims and offenders has expanded in the current of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, which joins the stream of all Christians who follow, imitate and embody Christ. She invites us all to take the ride when we hear "the cry of Christ" calling us on. "If it is not scary and surprising and an adventure all at the same time," she writes, "it is not the call of the Gospel of Jesus."
This small anthology is our thanks to you our readers, authors and benefactors. We hope that like the blossoms of spring, it offers you an anticipation of the rich offerings to come in America's second century.


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Still Swiping Rocks
As you saw in the video from my last post, the adelie penguins are pretty good at stealing rocks when the nest's owner isn't looking. But sometimes they can get into some nasty little spats over the rocks too. I'll try and share some video footage of that next time. It's kind of entertaining, especially this one technique…


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The sun's rays are responsible for aging skin, sun spots, freckles, even cancer. But did you know that UVA and UVB each cause different issues if you don't protect yourself from both of them? That's why it's vital to use a broad spectrum which protects against both UVA and UVB. Here's a breakdown of what UVA and UVB rays are responsible for.
UVB Rays
If you've ever had a sunburn, you've been blasted by UVB rays. Unlike UVA rays, these rays are stronger in the summer months, especially mid-day, which is why we see so many sunburns in the summer versus other months. But note that UVB rays do reflect off of snow and water, so it's important to protect yourself year-round. UVB rays are also most commonly to blame for causing many types of skin cancers. The best advice is to stay out of the sun during the hottest times of the day, typically 11:00 to 3:00.
UVA Rays
UVA rays are constantly present, no matter the season or the weather. They penetrate clouds, clothing, even the glass windows of your house and car if they don't have a UV protection coating on them. That's why it's important to be diligent with sunscreen even when it's not a hot, sunny summer day. UVA rays penetrate deeper into your skin's layers than UVB rays, so they are more responsible for the early signs of aging. Indoor tanning booths use UVA rays and while you may feel healthy with a summer glow, those UVA rays are causing your skin irreversible aging signs. We recommend avoiding indoor tanning booths.
What to look for in a Sunscreen
Look for a sunscreen that specifically says UVA/UVB or "broad spectrum coverage" on the bottle. Soon you'll see many labels using + signs to show how well they protect against UVA rays and a number rating for the UVB rays. Per the Skin Cancer Foundation, use a minimum of SPF 15 and reapply every two hours or less. Use a full ounce on your body and about 1 teaspoon on your face each time you apply. Know that even if the labels says "all day protection", it does not, and you are not protected all day. Reapplying is vital.
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In his New York Post column today Eric Fettman draws attention to a new book that unmasks the lies behind the successful campaign to release Kathy Boudin from prison for her role in the Brinks robbery that resulted in the murder of three law enforcement officers: "Kathy Boudin's lies." Warning: Don't read this one if you have high blood pressure.
On a related note, Fettman also has a review of the new book by John Haynes and Harvey Klehr on how historians have dealt with Communist espionage. The book is In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage and the review is "Historians deny the past."
SUPPLEMENTARY READING: The Rocket Prof has forwarded us a link to Alan Wolfe's long New Republic review of the book on the Boudin family, via Powell's Review-A-Day. As the Rocket Prof rightly states, "It's a good — and chilling — companion to the NY Post piece."
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text: For Patients & Visitors For patients and visitors at Legacy Emanuel We want your stay — or your visit — with us to be as pleasant and comfortable as possible. If you have further questions, please call 503-413-2200. The information below is specific to Legacy Emanuel Medical Center. Here's more information that applies to all Legacy hospitals. Courtesy services Bank machines: A U.S. Bank and cash machine is located on the first floor of the Legacy Emanuel Medical Center East Wing (up the ramp/stairs from the main lobby). Gifts can be purchased at two locations: Emanuel Hospital Gift Shop, (503-413-4272) on the first floor by the hospital's main entrance of the hospital. Open 7 days a week. The Gallery in the Atrium, 503-413-4338 (501 N. Graham) offers gifts and other small items. Located on the first floor of the Medical Office Building Atrium. Open M - F. Healing gardens are spread about the Legacy Emanuel campus: outside the Legacy Oregon Burn Center, outside the Atrium, on the terrace at Randall Children's Hospital and between Legacy Emanuel and Randall Children's Hospital. Interpreter services: The hospital has access to interpreters for a number of foreign languages. Your nurse will be happy to provide more information this free service. Lost and Found items can be inquired about by calling Safety/Security Services at 503-413-7911. Mail, flowers and balloons will be delivered to the patient's room or forwarded to a home address if the patient has been discharged. (No flowers or plants in critical care areas.) Because many patients are allergic to latex balloons, please don't bring them to the hospital. (Mylar balloons are allowed.) Newspapers are available in the front lobby outside the main entrance. Notary services are available to patients free of charge upon availability. Ask your nurse for more information. Prescriptions can be filled at The Apothecary, an outpatient pharmacy in the Medical Office Building Atrium. Open: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Phone: 503-413-4225, fax: 503-413-4515 Televisions are provided in each patient room. Wireless Internet service is available in specific areas of the hospital; please ask your nurse. Dining -- Legacy Room Service Patients can select what they want, when they want. Patients can call the kitchen to order food daily between 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Hosts and hostesses are assigned to every floor. All patients receive nutritionally balanced meals, including those with special dietary needs: Breakfast, 7 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Lunch/dinner, 11 a.m.–7:30 p.m. Guest trays may be ordered for visitors from a special guest tray menu for $5; just ask your host/hostess. Payment will be collected on delivery — Visa or MasterCard only. No cash, please. The Courtyard Café, the hospital's cafeteria, is on the first floor of the East Wing, East of the lobby. It features light snacks, hot entrees, grill items, salad bar and more. Open Monday–Friday, 6:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. The Heartbeat Café is west of the main lobby in the Medical Office Building Atrium. Open 24 hours a day seven days a week. Breakfast is served from 5 a.m.–9:45 a.m. Lunch and dinner are served from 11 a.m.–2 a.m. The grill is closed from 2 a.m.–5 a.m.; espresso and limited menu items available. The Kite Café is located in the lobby of Randall Children's Hospital at Legacy Emanuel and is open Monday–Friday, 6:30 a.m.–4 p.m. The Kite Café offers hot and cold espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, soft serve frozen yogurt and ice cream, as well as a variety of grab and go items. Coffee Care Unit (CCU), in the main admitting area, the CCU is open Monday–Friday, 6 a.m.–12:30 p.m. The CCU offers a variety of hot and iced espresso drinks, smoothies, drip coffee, pastries and more. Vending machines: Basement — down the hall from the main surgical waiting area and at the opposite end of the basement. First floor — just inside the Atrium. Second floor — around the corner from Lactation Services. Lodging Please see this page of information about lodging for patients and families. Parking/Transportation Free parking is available on the Legacy Emanuel campus, with free valet parking for patients 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the entrance to Medical Office Building 2, 501 N. Graham St. That entrance also takes you into the hospital's Atrium. To retrieve your vehicle after 6 p.m., please call Legacy Security, 503-413-7911 or the switchboard operator at "0." If you self-park, please use the lighted parking garages instead of parking on the street. See a campus map. Security escorts are available around the clock to escort you to your car in hospital parking lots. Call extension "0" from inside the hospital or 503-413-7911 and we'll be happy to assist you. Bus schedules are available in the hospital lobby, by calling TriMet at 503-238-7433, or by consulting the TriMet website. Legacy Emanuel is served by Routes 4, 24 and 44. Taxis can be called via direct line from the main lobby desk: Broadway Cab, 503-227-1234 Radio Cab, 503-227-1212 Safety Electrical equipment - Due to government safety codes, the only items you may use in patient rooms are battery-operated shavers, radios, clocks and laptop computers. Please leave all other electrical equipment at home. Tobacco-free policy - Legacy Health is now entirely tobacco-free. (If you're trying to quit, we can help!) Spiritual services Chaplains are available 24/7 and may be contacted by calling 503-413-4111. Your pastor, rabbi, priest or other faith representative is welcome to visit during your hospital stay. The Chapel of the Incarnation on the first floor across from the gift shop, is open at all times. Our clinical ethics program can help you with difficult medical decisions. To speak with someone in the program, ask your nurse or call 'O' from any hospital phone and ask for the ethics representative. Visiting hours Visiting hours are generally between 11 a.m. and 9 p.m., but can vary according to patient needs. Please keep in mind: Patients need care. Mornings and early afternoons are busy times for patients, doctors and nurses. Treatments, personal care and consultations usually happen between 7 a.m. - 3 p.m. Patients need rest. Please keep visits brief and limit the number of visitors. On the day of surgery, check with the nursing staff before entering a patient's room. If you'd like to call a patient's room phone, please do it before 9 p.m. Patients need privacy. You may be asked to leave briefly during procedures, treatments or other care activities. Kids who are visiting must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Visiting round the clock is exhausting, and it's important to stay rested so you can help your loved one recover. 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July 05. 2013 8:51PM
This is New Hampshire Audubon's Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday, July 2.
A fish crow was reported from Laconia on June 28.
An evening grosbeak was seen along Eaton Road in Swanzey on June 29, and two were reported from Freedom on the 24.
Six whippoorwills, a common nighthawk, and a vesper sparrow were all reported from the Ossipee Pine Barrens on June 24.
A pair of merlins nesting in Ashland appears to be feeding at least one chick.
A pair of nesting American kestrels feeding chicks was reported from along Route 113 in North Chatham on June 28.
At least 10 black-billed cuckoos were reported during the past week from several locations, including Lisbon, Orford, Rumney, Freedom, Effingham, Madison, Ashland, and Peterborough, and at least five yellow-billed cuckoos were reported during the past week from several locations, including Conway, Freedom, and Eaton.
A yellow-bellied flycatcher was reported from Elbow Pond in Woodstock on July 1.
An immature double-crested cormorant was seen on Lily Lake in Piermont on July 1.
This information is also available by phone recording: call 224-9909 and press 2 as directed or ask to be transferred. If you have seen any interesting birds recently, you can leave a message at the end of the recording or send your sightings to the RBA via e-mail at: email@example.com. Please put either "bird sighting" or "Rare Bird Alert" in the subject line and be sure to include your mailing address and phone number. The RBA is also available on-line at the New Hampshire Audubon web site, www.nhaudubon.org.


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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Spaghetti Carbonara
Remember the chocolate angel food cake yesterday? The problem with making that cake is that you're left with at least 9 egg yolks. What to do with them? I was going to make pudding, or custard, or something along those lines, but we didn't have a lot of milk. We also had no cream. I looked up things to do with egg yolks, and pasta carbonara kept coming up. I'm not sure if I've ever had it before, but in theory it sounded good.
All you do is cook some pasta, save a little bit of the pasta water, mix it together with some cooked bacon, egg yolks, Parmesan cheese, and pepper, and voila! Pasta carbonara. The hot pasta cooks the egg yolks a bit, if you're worried about raw eggs. You can add things like peas for color, or mushrooms, or cream instead of pasta water, but that's more alfredo-y to me. This was delicious as it was, the only crazy thing I did was add a few cloves of garlic. This is a super simple meal, that takes only the amount of time it takes to cook pasta. Maybe not the healthiest, but we balanced it out with a big bowl of sauteed vegetables.
gluten-free pasta of your choice
6 slices bacon, chopped into bits
4 cloves garlic, chopped
4-10 egg yolks
1/2 c Parmesan cheese
1/2 c pasta water
pepper, to taste
Start the pasta cooking according to the directions for whichever kind of pasta you're using. Cook the bacon until crispy, then drain, saving a few tablespoons of the fat. Cook the garlic in the fat until fragrant, and let cool a little. Mix together in a large bowl with the cooked bacon, garlic, egg yolks, and cheese. Once the pasta is cooked to your liking, add to the bowl with everything else, along with the pasta water. stir everything together, and serve immediately, sprinkling with as much pepper as you'd like.
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This story appears in the October 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Not long ago a young Mongolian livestock herder named Ochkhuu Genen loaded what was left of his life into a borrowed Chinese pickup truck and moved it to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia's sprawling capital. Slender and dignified, Ochkhuu gave no outward sign of turmoil as he buried himself in the mechanics of packing, lifting, unpacking, and assembling. He may have been disappointed in himself, even shaken, but outwardly he was as smooth and focused as a socket wrench.
Within hours of arriving, Ochkhuu had pitched his ger—the nomad's traditional round dwelling—on a small, fenced plot of bare ground he'd rented on the outskirts of the city. Around it were thousands of other plots, each with a ger in the middle, jammed together on the slopes overlooking Ulaanbaatar. Once his stovepipe was raised and the stakes driven in, he opened the low wooden door for his wife, Norvoo; their baby boy, Ulaka; and their six-year-old daughter, Anuka.
Norvoo also took comfort in the task at hand. She put aside her worries long enough to make sure their ger was as cozy as it had been in the countryside: linoleum floor, cast-iron stove, and cots around the edges, with family pictures neatly pinned to the wall and a small television on a wooden table.
Outside their door, however, the view was starkly different from what it had been on the steppe an hour southwest of the capital, where they'd raised their livestock next to the ger of Norvoo's parents. Here, in place of rolling grasslands, there was a seven-foot-high wooden fence a few feet away. And in place of Ochkhuu's cherished livestock—the horses and cattle and sheep—there was only the landlord's dog, a black and brown mongrel staked in the yard, who barked himself hoarse at the least provocation.
There was plenty of provocation just beyond the fence, in the ramshackle slums, or ger districts, where about 60 percent of Ulaanbaatar's 1.2 million people live without paved roads, sanitation, or running water. As in other urban slums, the ger districts are high in crime, alcoholism, poverty, and despair, which is why many people here do the unthinkable, for a herder: They lock their gates at night.
"We step outside the ger and all we can see is that fence," Ochkhuu said. "It's like living in a box."
Nomads were never meant to live in a box, but Ochkhuu and Norvoo weren't there by choice. During the winter of 2009-2010, most of the couple's livestock either froze or starved to death during a white dzud, a devastating period of snow, ice, and bitter cold that follows a summer drought; it lasted more than four months. By the time the weather broke, the couple's herd of 350 animals had been cut to 90. Across Mongolia some eight million animals—cows, yaks, camels, horses, goats, and sheep—died that winter.
"After that, I just couldn't see our future in the countryside any more," Ochkhuu said quietly. "So we decided to sell what was left of our herd and make a new life."
It was also a clear-eyed calculation to improve the lives of their children. Ochkhuu and Norvoo feel no great affinity for city life, but they see its advantages. In the countryside they were far removed from nurses and schools, but here they can get free medical care for their infant son, and Anuka can attend a public school.
There are more than half a million Ochkhuus and Norvoos living these days in UB, as Mongolians call Ulaanbaatar. Many have been driven from the steppe by bad winters, bad luck, and bad prospects. And now that Mongolia's coal, gold, and copper mines are attracting billions in foreign investment, they also have flooded into UB in search of job prospects created by the economic upsurge from mining money.
Beyond the downtown high-rises, UB often feels like a frontier town run amok, strewn lengthwise along a river valley like gravel left behind by a flash flood. Founded in 1639 as a movable Buddhist monastic center and trading post, the settlement took root in its present location in 1778. The town was laid out along one major thoroughfare, which runs along the base of a low mountain. Today that road goes by the name Peace Avenue, and it's still the only direct way to get from one side of town to the other. From daybreak to nightfall, it's jammed with traffic. Driving it is like getting on a conveyor belt that inches past crumbling Soviet-era apartment blocks, side streets that run promisingly for 50 yards and then end at a barricade, unexplained piles of rusted iron and concrete, and office buildings so clumsily situated and hidden from view that no taxi driver can find them.
Add to this a flood of nomads, many of them recent arrivals whose skill set doesn't include city driving, crossing a busy road, or the subtleties of social interaction in an urban environment, and you've got a heady mix. It's not unusual to be waiting in line at a kiosk and have some gnarled tree trunk of a man in herder clothes—steppe boots, felt hat, and the traditional wraparound del—stomp to the front of the line, shouldering customers out of the way like a hockey player, just to see what the place is selling. If there are other herders in line, he gets pushed back just as hard. There are no fights, no hard feelings. That's just the way it goes.
"These people are completely free," says Baabar, a prominent publisher and historian who writes often about Mongolia's national character. "Even if they've been in UB for years, their mentality is still nomadic. They do exactly what they want to do, when they want to do it. Watch people crossing the road. They just lurch out into traffic without batting an eye. It doesn't occur to them to compromise, even with a speeding automobile. We're a nation of rugged individuals, with no regard for rules."
Early one Saturday morning Ochkhuu, Norvoo, and their kids returned to the country for a weekend at Norvoo's parents' home to prepare their farm for winter. Ochkhuu helped Norvoo's father, Jaya, cut hay for eight hours, and by Sunday night they had moved enough hay to the barn to keep his animals alive through the winter, even a dzud. Jaya too had lost huge numbers of animals during the last dzud—his herd had dropped from more than a thousand to 300 animals—but he was determined to make a comeback, banking on decades of experience as a herder both during and after communism, which he rather misses.
"There were bad things, of course. I hated being told what to do by bureaucrats. But communism protected us from disasters like last winter," he said. "Even if you lost all your animals, you wouldn't starve to death."
Although they supported Ochkhuu and Norvoo's decision to move, Jaya and his wife, Chantsal, often said how lonely they were without them next door. But moving to UB was out of the question. "I wouldn't last a week in that city," Jaya scowled. "Too much noise, too much jangling and banging. I'd get sick and die."
Men like Jaya and Ochkhuu are authentic livestock herders, unlike others who failed during the dzud, said historian Baabar. After the collapse of communism, when many Soviet-era factories closed down, thousands of people left UB to reclaim their pastoral roots. But "they'd forgotten everything they knew about being nomads, how to raise livestock, how to survive these tough winters," he said. The pity, says Baabar, is that they are also not fit to compete in the city.
All this comes at a time when Mongolia, communist until 1990, is seeking to reassert itself between the two powers next door, Russia and China, that have pushed it around for centuries. Nationalism—even xenophobia—is on the rise, and foreigners are increasingly blamed for Mongolia's problems in the same breath as local and national politicians, who are widely considered, with justification, as deeply corrupt.
Visiting Chinese businessmen, accused of enriching themselves at Mongolia's expense, no longer venture out after dark on the streets of the capital for fear of being attacked by young guys in black leather channeling Genghis Khan, who is back in vogue as a symbol of Mongolian pride. Banned during Soviet times, images of Genghis are everywhere you look today, from vodka labels and playing cards to the colossal, 131-foot steel statue of the conqueror on horseback that rises from the steppe an hour east of UB to cast the mother of all dirty looks toward China.
He's not the only one looking in that direction. By many estimates, Mongolia is sitting on a trillion dollars' worth of recoverable coal, copper, and gold, much of it concentrated near the Chinese border around Oyu Tolgoi, or Turquoise Hill. There Ivanhoe Mines, the Canadian mining giant, is tapping the world's largest undeveloped copper and gold deposit in partnership with Rio Tinto, an Anglo-Australian company, and the Mongolian government, which holds a 34 percent share of the project, potentially adding billions of dollars to the national economy.
How much of that will migrate 340 miles north and into the pockets of ordinary people such as Ochkhuu is an open question. Experts at the World Bank and the United Nations are urging Mongolia to invest that money in infrastructure, training, and growing the economy, although the current government, led by Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold, took a more direct approach, pledging to grant every man, woman, and child a payment of about $1,200 from the mining windfall.
Ochkhuu doesn't believe he'll ever see that money. But in the meantime, he needs to work. At first he tried his hand as an entrepreneur, having identified what he thought was a need in the community. He and a partner rented a room at a local hotel and then marketed it to ger dwellers, who lack running water, as a place to take a shower or a bath. He went door-to-door looking for customers. There were very few takers. Ochkhuu lost more than $200 on the deal, a sizable chunk of his savings.
Now he's thinking of buying a used car and turning it into a taxi. He'd need to borrow the money, but he'd make a pretty good living, and the freedom of driving and being his own boss appeals to him. More important, he'd be able to drive his daughter to and from school.
"We may not be able to raise our animals in UB," he went on. "But it's a good place to raise our children."
Passing through the fence into his yard, Ochkhuu drags the wooden gate behind him until the latch clicks.
"God, I miss my horses," he says.


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CSI: Miami - The Complete Third Season (US - DVD R1)
Gabe Powers braves more crime scene investigation, this time set on the beach
CSI: Miami concerns the adventures of Lt. Horatio Caine (the ever stoic David Caruso), and his merry band of Florida State Crime Scene Investigators. They investigate crime, as one may've imagined. Like the series predecessor, CSI, or Regular CSI, maybe even CSI: Las Vegas, the investigations filmed highlight the scientific aspects of catching the bad guys.
I was not a huge fan of the original CSI, though I respected the storytelling an actors enough to give season five an above average grade in my review. While writing that review I caught a few episodes of CSI: Miami, as the series was next on my review slate. The Orange State series was so much worse than the Sin City series that I was obligated to change my initial views on the original series, grading it on a new found curve—the CSI: Miami Curve. All my complaints about CSI—the lack of depth, the similarity of the storylines, the blindingly over-stylized filmmaking, the questionable logic—were multiplied ten-fold with the new series.
CSI: Miami's newsprint-thin characters are downright laughable. One advantage of the original series was that it lacked star power, allowing every character similar levels of importance, and similar story lead possibilities. CSI: Miami has one big star, Caruso, who isn't interesting enough to carry a single episode, let alone an entire show. The ridiculously named lead mumbles his way through a series of lines that'd make George Lucas blush, and begins and ends nearly every episode laughably glaring just off-camera through his oh-so-chic sunshades. The supporting staff consists of characters so clichéd they might as well come with specific theme music (the Latin Guy, the Tough Girl, the Tough Cop, the Sexy Smart Girl, the Bombshell of Undetermined Racial Origin), and I'd be damned to remember most of them by name or face, even after twenty four consecutive episodes. I've a feeling it's not the actors who are to blame, and the performances themselves are, for the most part, not any flatter than the dialogue dictates.
I honestly use to like Caruso in his heyday, and have always enjoyed Khandi Alexander (who portrays Dr. Alexx Woods), but in this context I kind of hate them. Does Horatio Caine really have to threaten every single person he comes across? He warns just about every suspect that he's specifically keeping an eye on them, and if they're lying, they'll have to answer to him. Is this what real detectives sound like? As if the criminals had just assumed he was going to delegate the responsibilities to someone else. The only character, and in turn, actor I really liked in the series was second episode newbie Jonathan Togo, who replaced Rory Cochrane after he was shockingly shot and killed in the first episode of the season (oops, spoiler). It seems Rory had the good sense to jump this particular sinking ship, but Togo is a breath of fresh air, exuding humility and humour through some of the series finest dialogue.
The writing is substandard and unoriginal. It's not that I think that the writers are actively ripping off other, better shows, as much as I believe that they are so uninspired that they aren't questioning their originality, as a good writer probably should. Caine precedes every cut with some remark so trivial, and so stereotyped to the detective genre that it will make even the most uncultured viewer wince. 'Underneath all that make-up, she's just a little girl', indeed, now excuse me while I vomit. Yes, the same could be said for the original series, but when Gil Grissom does it, it's more charming than surly.
I understand that this is entertainment, not real life, but some of the required suspensions of disbelieve are pretty shifty. Apparently, every time someone gets in a scuffle in Miami, a sizable chunk of traceable clothing is torn off, area specific fish like to leap into undelivered loot bags, and DNA and fingerprint analysis can take a matter of seconds. Ironically enough, it is these silly contrivances that bestow CSI: Miami with what little watchability it has. The fact that every other episode seems to feature an unnecessary alligator cameo was one of the only things that kept me from throwing the set out the window. The shark attack in episode two was a particularly inspired bit of lunacy, though no matter what I've heard, I can't believe that sharks hunt humans in those particularly murky, shallow waters. These over-the-top touches put CSI: Miami on par with some of our worst soap operas, and had they gone just a little bit further, it may have redeemed the show entirely.
The funniest feature of the show is the 'science montages', as I dubbed them in my previous review. In CSI these smoothly edited musical interludes are silly, but maintain a certain level of credibility. In CSI: Miami they play out more like sex scenes than scenes of scientific detection, the sensual music and loving close-ups caused some uncontrolled giggling in this viewer. Seriously, the actors might as well have filmed the scenes in tight-fitting swimwear, which again, would've bumped the series into the realm of memorable television.
My biggest problem with regular CSI is the infusion of that Jerry Bruckheimer protégé style. CSI: Miami cranks this up to eleven. There are about twenty unnecessary edits per sequence, zero long-angle lenses to speak of, and a guarantee of at least one bikini clad woman per minute of film. Seeing as this series takes place on the coast of Florida, rather than the depths of Nevada, every thing is coated in bright, warm colours. This would be a creative stylistic decision in 1982, but in the wake of Brian DePalma's seminal Miami crime flick, Scarface, CSI: Miami is just another neo-noir, a once ironic genre that lost it's cool two decades ago. If this wasn't enough, the characters regularly reference the film and its characters, as if to point out how boring and trite their show really is.
Like its sister show, CSI: Miami is presented in a nearly flawless 1.78:1 anamorphic frame. As I said in my previous CSI review, this is pretty close to true high definition television, maybe the closest we'll get on the current DVD format. Detail level is very high, with edge enhancement being pretty much non-existent. The biggest flaw to be found on the set is, again, the lack of true black levels. CSI takes place in the seedy nightclubs and back alleys of Las Vegas at night, and it fairs worse than this series, which takes place in the intense glow of the Miami sunshine. Grain and the lack of black are less obvious, due to the overall brightness of the image.
Also like its sister series, CSI: Miami is presented in a rather aggressive Dolby Digital 5.1 surround. Most of the surround effects are delegated to music, but there are some nice instances of water sound effects during sea barring sequences that give the honest feeling of being with the crew, floating in a boat. CSI: Miami's budget is obviously lower than that of the original, and the creativity of the flashback sound effects suffer a bit. A crisp, if not slightly weak, presentation.
What I'd really like to be included on the special features disc is some kind of past season summary. Perhaps if I'd known anything more about these characters and their plights going into the show, I may have cared a smidgen more about them. Apparently, Speedle's death in the season's first episode was shocking. I didn't even know he was a regular character. Alas, I was only given snippets of back-story in the set's extras, which mirror those of CSI: Season Five.
The commentaries are really boring. Again, as I said before, it's hard to care about even decent commentary tracks when they are the last thing between you and a finished review. Even so, the directors, writers, and producers are too technically minded for my taste, and are very good at stating the obvious, especially the writers, who seem to think they're teaching a seminar.
The featurettes are slightly more interesting, and thankfully, for my sake, were only about twelve minutes long apiece. They are split into four categories, making it easy for viewers who don't care about a given subject to simply skip it. 'Delivering the Goods' is kind of a backslapping catchall, featuring the talent congratulating themselves and each other. 'Visualizing Season 3' was more interesting to me as a non-viewer because it revealed a bit about past seasons, and revealed why Rory Cochrane left the show (it was, wait for it, to pursue a film career). 'Locations Coast to Coast' reveals the great lengths the crew will go to not have to actually film in Miami, Florida. It seems L.A. is cheaper, and more efficient. 'Deep Blue Sea' was not about the second episodes bravado shark attack, as I'd hoped, but about the difficulties of filming on water, and what the crew does to overcome them. The special features are capped off with an eight-part 'Medical Examiner School', which can also be seen on the CSI: Season 5 set. These featurettes cover the real life science behind some of the shows more entertaining crimes.
I don't mean any offence to those who enjoy CSI: Miami's, but I really hated it. Its redeeming qualities can be found in its occasional fondness for over-the-top moments, but even these aren't pushed far enough to make me care. In the end, it is the dullness of the series that hurts it the most. Fans who can't get enough cable TV reruns will be happy to know that the season three set comes complete with very solid audio and video presentations, and an average sized pile of extras.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Chris Gould Editor Join Date: May 2001 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,171
Ouch! I probably wouldn't have been this harsh, but I agree that the show is vastly inferior to the original. I'm also very glad that someone else picked up on the uber-annoying way in which Caine slow-motion stares into space at the end of every episode. For some reason I really hate David Caruso in this role. It should have been Caine who was shot, rather than one of the generic nobodies...
Tony DeFrancisco Senior Member Join Date: July 2005 Location: United States Posts: 2,652
Well, I guess this answers my question.
DocMartigan Member Join Date: December 2005 Location: United States Posts: 48
If I was rich, I would pre-order every copy of every CSI release, and burn them so that others would not have to suffer. Would that make me a philanthropist?
Worst Nightmare Senior Member Join Date: July 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 6,716
hmmm - just out of interest Gabe, have you seen any of the CSI: New York episodes and if so what did you think? Miami is definatley the weakest of the franchise....
My 2400th post - what a new years - need drugs...working out why I am here....zambucca good
My 2400th post - what a new years - need drugs...working out why I am here....zambucca good
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,718
I've never seen it actually. These DVDs were first exposure to the series, though I did catch one episode of Miami on a plan from Hawaii. It was a long flight.
Tony DeFrancisco Senior Member Join Date: July 2005 Location: United States Posts: 2,652
Worst Nightmare wrote: My 2400th post - what a new years - need drugs...working out why I am here....zambucca good Great job, Nightmare.
Kaya Savas Member Join Date: April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 1,254
Too many CSI's and Law & Orders, getting tired of it.
DocMartigan Member Join Date: December 2005 Location: United States Posts: 48
Anyone see the Mind of Mencia where he did 3 spoofs of CSI?
He Did CSI: China (a knock on how they never catch anyone because they all look alike), CSI: San Francisco (the lab workers were all short hair lesbians), and CSI: Kentucky (everyone had the same DNA and no dental records because no ones goes to the dentist)
The sad thing is, I would much rather watch a CSI like that where it was humorous, because I usually end up laughing at the current CSIs when they are trying to be serious.
He Did CSI: China (a knock on how they never catch anyone because they all look alike), CSI: San Francisco (the lab workers were all short hair lesbians), and CSI: Kentucky (everyone had the same DNA and no dental records because no ones goes to the dentist)
The sad thing is, I would much rather watch a CSI like that where it was humorous, because I usually end up laughing at the current CSIs when they are trying to be serious.
David Blackwell Senior Member Join Date: February 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,825
Harsh review. I laughed when I read it. Entertaining review indeed, but count me as a fan of CSI and CSI: Miami. I love those two shows. However, CSI: NY is a show that bores me.
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,718
Thanks David, I'll make sure to stay FAR away from CSI: NY if even a fan of the other series doesn't like it.
Darren Russell Member Join Date: June 2004 Location: United States Posts: 208
Gabe Powers wrote: I've never seen it actually. These DVDs were first exposure to the series, though I did catch one episode of Miami on a plan from Hawaii. It was a long flight.
I'm curious as to why you'd review a series during the third season, when you've never seen any of the others? Honestly, you'd have been better off watching the show from the first season as opposed to the third. At least you would've had the chance to get to know the characters from jump as opposed instead of two seasons later. And even more interesting, you'd pick the most annoying character on the show, Ryan (Jonathan Togo), as the one you like. Go figure. LOL
It's a great show, along with the original, but NY is the weakest of the bunch.
I'm curious as to why you'd review a series during the third season, when you've never seen any of the others? Honestly, you'd have been better off watching the show from the first season as opposed to the third. At least you would've had the chance to get to know the characters from jump as opposed instead of two seasons later. And even more interesting, you'd pick the most annoying character on the show, Ryan (Jonathan Togo), as the one you like. Go figure. LOL
It's a great show, along with the original, but NY is the weakest of the bunch.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 22nd November 2005
Discs: 7
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digtial 5.1 English , Dolby Digital 2.0 Spanish
Subtitles: English
Extras: Commentary on Six Episodes, Featurettes: Delivering the Goods, Visualizing Season 3, Locations Coast to Coast, Deep Blue Sea, Medical Examiner School (Eight-Part Featurette)
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Daniel Attias, Norberto Barba
Cast: David Caruso, Emily Procter, Adam Rodriguez, Rory Cochrane, Khandi Alexander
Genre: Crime and Drama
Length: 1093 minutes
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That's a pretty tenacious kid you've got their Otterpop. We talked about this frankly with our son, I think, right around 6. Same kind of situation - trapped in a car with the wife and him pestering us for the details.
Up to this point, we had used "anatomically correct" terminology for the critical body parts involved, so that was helpful. I went the "flower pollinating" analogy route and this worked out well in terms of talking about how pollen gets into the flower, combines with its other half and starts cooking a seed. Only in this case, you were the seed and instead of growing inside a fruit or some such, you were inside mom. When you were ready to "sprout," you came out and starting growing on your own. Or something like that. He was pretty disinterested in the whole emotional element of things and more focused on the "mechanics" if you will. More of an intellectual exercise at this point in their development, I think.
Anyway, it went more smoothly than I would have expected. Occasionally he explains the process out loud to us and that is a little weird to listen through when he is saying words like "penis" and "vagina" (which was much cuter when it came out "pagina" but those days are over). Did I say all that?! Yikes!
But its all good. I would rather have him be informed than not. Not long after this conversation, I overheard him on the playground with some friends (boys and girls) and they were all talking about how people get pregant (must be a developmental thing). Some were saying that "the boys stick their pee pee in your belly button" and someone even said it went into their butt, so I was pleased that he at least had the facts straight...


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CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - Judge overrules Elmwood Place's motion requesting to keep controversial speed cameras running while drivers await a decision on the village's appeal.
The decision comes as an Attorney representing drivers files two new motions in Hamilton County court.
Attorney Mike Allen is now seeking a class action lawsuit.
"We're attempting to recover money for those people who shelled out $105 to pay the village of Elmwood and Optotraffic," Attorney Mike Allen explained.
Allen says they will also be going after damages, penalties and interest.
The village's police chief, however, is standing firm.
"We're not really concerned about the class action lawsuit," Chief William Peskin told FOX19 Thursday.
Peskin says he is confident in the village's appeal.
"Ohio Supreme Court rulings have upheld what we're trying to do here," he argued.
"I expect that if we win our appeal at the state, which I fully expect we will do, that class action lawsuit will disappear," village council member Jerald Robertson said.
The second issue being debated is whether the village is ignoring the judge's order.
"Optotraffic, the vendor that Elmwood is using, is still sending out notices for court hearings," attorney Mike Allen alleged.
Allen showed FOX19 a letter dated March 11th supporting his allegation. Chief Peskin maintains they've been one hundred percent compliant with the judge's March 7th injunction.
"Anything that anybody's received after that date was prior to," he said. "There's just a delay in mail. We have not issued anything after the judge's ruling."
Allen believes the judge's injunction keeps the cameras from being turned on at all, even if they are not spitting out tickets.
"If Optotraffic and the Village of Elmwood still have those cameras going, in my opinion, it's a violation of judge [Robert] Ruehlman's order," Allen argued. "They don't get it. He said 'Stop it Elmwood, shut it down'."
On the other hand, Peskin argues they are not issuing citations, just monitoring traffic.
"The cameras are out there. They're currently tracking the speeds and the count of the traffic travel," Peskin said. "We want to see if there's a difference after the cameras were turned off."
Allen's office says they received over 300 calls and emails Thursday alone from people who have already paid tickets.
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Of all the recent tech IPOs, none garnered the attention that Facebook got -- and for good reason. It was the biggest Internet IPO in history. Everyone knew the company. Heck, there'd been a Hollywood version made of the company's early story.
People had hoped the Facebook IPO would mark a 1999-like return to IPO mania. Instead, the blockbuster IPO led to lawsuits, losses, and accusations of wrongdoing. Sure, the shares have been doing well of late as the company has won over some skeptics and begun making money from mobile. But Facebook -- coupled with IPO duds from Zynga and Groupon -- has had a ripple effect: Venture capitalists are cutting fewer checks, especially to consumer Internet companies. Why? Facebook has shown that a big IPO isn't easy to pull off, so the big "exits" that backers hope for aren't going to happen anytime soon.


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Latinos Back Obama's Handling of Health Care and his Affordable Care Act, Poll Says
New York – While his health care plan may be a contentious issue among some voters, Latinos substantially favor President Barack Obama's handling of health care and his landmark legislation, the Affordable Care Act, a Fox News Latino poll shows.
The poll, which surveyed 887 likely Latino voters, shows that 62 percent of respondents approve of the overall job Obama has done with health care while in office, including his creation of the controversial plan for comprehensive health care reform. The poll was conducted the Sept. 11-13 and the margin of sampling error is +/- three percentage points.
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The poll was conducted between the 11th and 13th of September among a random sample of 887 likely Latino voters across the country. The margin of sampling error is three percentage points.
Not only do Latinos approve of Obama's health care policies, those polled also gave Obama a substantial advantage on the issue over GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, favoring Obama by 38 points.
Those who labeled themselves as Democrats viewed health care as being a more important matter than those who identified themselves as Republicans. When it came to age, however, the issue had a relatively universal level of significance, although those ages 65 and above valued it slightly more.
As a group, Latinos have the highest uninsured rates of any racial or ethnic group within the United States, according to the Office of Minority Health.
The White House stated early this year that 32 percent of Latinos were uninsured in 2009.
"Latinos are choosing between health care , medical debt, and putting food on the table."
Jennifer M. Ng'andu, a health policy specialist at the Hispanic rights group the National Council of La Raza, or NCLR, is not surprised with the findings, since Latinos stand to gain the most from Obama's health care plan.
"I think there is a lot of praise due for what the Affordable Care Act does," Ng'andu told Fox News Latino.
In a speech on Monday before the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Romney said that while Americans need health care reform, "Obamacare is the wrong way to go about it."
"I will repeal and replace Obamacare with reforms that increase choice, slow down the runaway growth of insurance costs, and open the door to more new jobs," the former Massachusetts governor said.
"President Obama took us in the wrong direction on health care with Obamacare," Yohana de la Torre, a spokeswoman for the Romney campaign told Fox News Latino. "It is a massive government takeover of health care that is too expensive, cuts Medicare by $716 billion, and increases taxes on everyone from middle class families to medical device manufacturers. Mitt Romney's plan for health care will empower individuals, lower costs, improve care, and put Medicare on a sustainable path."
While Romney has said he will repeal only parts of the Affordable Care Act, he has not made clear which policies will stay and which will go.
"I think ambiguity has sort of defined Romney's health care proposal," Ng'andu added. "That uncertainty is not favorable in a time when people need more access to affordable health care."
"Latinos are choosing between health care, medical debt, and putting food on the table."
In an article in USA Today, Latino Decisions' Matt Barreto said that from the beginning of the Romney campaign "the most obvious miscue" between Romney and Latino voters has been his continued denouncement of the Affordable Care Act.
Arizona state House Minority Whip Anna Tovar and state Rep. Ruben Gallego harped upon this disconnect between Romney's desire to attract Latino votes and his continued stance on the health care reform.
"Our community would suffer disproportionately," the Arizona lawmakers said in a press release following Romney's Hispanic Chamber of Commerce address. "Up to 9 million Latinos could be denied the chance to gain health coverage under his misguided proposal."
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Wow – have you ever had one of those mornings when you need coffee just to make the coffee? First I forgot to put the coffee in the maker – so I was just heating up water. Then I put in too much (I guess – it's REALLY strong). Then I poured it on my cereal. Sigh.
Well, at least my cane making has been going better than that – WAY better! Long ago, I tried making a rose cane that, well, looked cool, but was not very rose-like. So, last Sunday I spent some time studying the lovely roses that Marcia Tzigelnik makes. It took a bit of concentration for me to get the idea of how to make these flowers look 3D, but I really like how they came out.
I used the scrap from my purple rose experiment to make some nice springy filigree pins:
And then, yesterday, I suddenly HAD to work on something I've wanted to try for a long while. The Kuna people (the women, anyway) of Panama wear beautifully vibrant reverse-appliqued fabric panels on their blouses. Here's an example:
Check here for more fabulous examples!
Since I was introduced to this lovely craft (in a Piecework magazine article, years ago), I've wanted to make one. Thing is, although I love needlework of all kinds, I've never had the patience to try it in fabric. Somehow, I have more patience for fiddly stuff in polymer clay, so here's my first pc mola (I decided to try one a bit less complex than the example above):
The small picture in the upper right is the image I was copying. Needs some work, but I'm really happy with it. Can't wait to start the next one…but I have to go get some more clay first!! 🙂


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WEAVERVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Jim Hurst has doted on his trees, arranged in three "families" on a bluff high above the rushing French Broad River.
He installed a drip irrigation system to help rejuvenate this former hayfield's powdery, depleted soil. To protect against browsing deer, he girded the delicate sprouts in plastic sleeving and wire mesh. In the four years since planting the fuzzy, deep-brown nuts, he nursed the seedlings — through back-to-back droughts, a killing frost, even an infestation of 17-year locust — applying herbicides and mowing between the rows to knock down anything that might compete.
Then, on a hot day this past June, Hurst moved methodically along the steep hillside, a petri dish in his left hand, and infected the young saplings with the fungus that will almost certainly kill them.
It wasn't malice, but science — and hope — that led him to take such an action against these special trees.
"My mother's family never stopped grieving for the (American) chestnuts," the 51-year-old software engineer and father of two said as a stiff breeze rustled through the 110 or so surviving trees, many already bearing angry, orange-black cankers around the inoculation sites.
"Her generation viewed chestnuts as paradise lost."
Hurst hopes the trees on his hillside farm — part of a vast experiment in forest plots where this "linchpin" species thrived before the onslaught of an imported parasite — might hold the key to regaining that Eden.
The American chestnut once towered over everything else in the forest. It was called the "redwood of the East." Dominating the landscape from Georgia to Maine, Castanea dentata provided the raw materials that fueled the young nation's westward expansion, and inspired the words of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Henry David Thoreau.
Then, the blight struck. By the 1950s, this mightiest of trees was all but extinct — "gone down like a slaughtered army," in the words of naturalist Donald Culross Peattie.
Now, after 30 years of breeding and crossbreeding, The American Chestnut Foundation believes it has developed a potentially blight-resistant tree, dubbed hopefully, the "Restoration Chestnut 1.0."
At a national summit in Asheville in mid-October, the group's board adopted a master plan for planting millions of trees in the 19 states of the chestnut's original range.
This year, volunteers in state chapters established seed orchards that will soon begin producing regionally adapted nuts for transplanting into the wild. But as those who attended the recent summit heard, much hard work remains — and much uncertainty.
The restoration tree is being introduced onto a physical and economic landscape that has long since learned to do without the once-indispensable American chestnut. Will it crowd out other trees and plants that we have come to value in the past century? How do you convince landowners and government agencies that it's worth the money and effort?
And there are those who will question the wisdom of trying to bring back something that could not survive on its own or, worse yet, "engineering" a replacement that can. But Hurst and the others at the summit are confident there is no obstacle they can't overcome in the effort to restore the East's "cathedral forests."
"I think that's something worth fighting for," he said. "To fix something that's broken."
In the spring of 1540, Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's quest for silver and gold brought him to the Blue Ridge Mountains, in what is now western North Carolina. A survivor of the expedition would later record: "Where there be mountains, there be chestnuts."
More than 500 years later, Peattie conjured that virgin landscape in full flower: "the great forest below waving with creamy white Chestnut blossoms in the crowns of the ancient trees, so that it looked like a sea with white combers plowing across its surface."
With trunks measuring 10, 12, even 17 feet in diameter, the trees' branches soared up to 120 feet above the forest floor.
Along the continent's Appalachian spine, chestnuts covered some 200 million acres — comprising fully a quarter and, in some places as much as two-thirds, of the upland forest. It is difficult to overstate the tree's importance.
Settlers built cabins, rail fences and barns out of its light, strong, even-grained wood. They hunted deer, turkeys and squirrels made fat on its mast — and themselves feasted on the sweet, starchy nuts.
Thoreau wrote lovingly of going "a-chestnutting" in the New England woods. In an 1857 journal entry contemplating the chestnut's spiny bur, he rhapsodized on the wonderful care with which nature "has secluded and defended these nuts, as if they were her most precious fruits, while diamonds are left to take care of themselves."
Tannins from the tree's bark cured the leather for belts that powered machines that drove the Industrial Revolution. The chestnut's naturally rot-resistant wood supplied most of the railroad ties and telegraph poles that knitted together the rapidly expanding United States.
"At last when the tree can no longer serve us in any other way," forest economist P.L. Buttrick observed, "it forms the basic wood onto which oak and other woods are veneered to make our coffins."
But by the time he wrote those words in 1915, a death knell had already sounded for the American chestnut.
It is unclear exactly when or how the blight arrived here, though most agree it came on chestnut trees imported from China or Japan. The fungus — Cryphonectria parasitica — was first identified in 1904 by employees of the New York Zoological Park and was soon detected in chestnuts as far south as Virginia.
Entering through wounds in the bark, the fungus threads its way through the straw-like vessels that carry water and nutrients from the ground to the tree's crown. As the tree responds to plug these holes, the blight works its way around the trunk "until it is completely girdled," William A. Murrill, the botanical garden's assistant curator, wrote in 1906.
"The tree essentially commits suicide," said geoscientist Frederick Paillet, an emeritus professor at the University of Arkansas who has studied chestnuts for nearly a half century.
Carried by insects and on the wind, the blight cut through the forests like an invisible scythe. By the mid-20th century, it had spread throughout the entire range — killing an estimated 4 billion trees in one of the worst ecological calamities in U.S. history.
But the American chestnut has not disappeared altogether. Millions of seedlings still sprout each year from old stumps or long-buried nuts. Most reach just a few feet in height before the blight — which persists in the soil and on the bark of surrounding trees — ultimately finds and kills them.
Occasionally, someone will stumble across a tree that has managed to live long enough to flower. Such specimens are referred to as LSA's — "large surviving Americans."
Last year, Traylor Renfro was clearing trails at his mountaintop retreat in Grassy Creek, near the Virginia border, when something pricked his finger. At first, he thought he'd been stung.
"And then when I looked at it, I realized that it was a bur," he said.
He was aware of the blight, and so his prime suspect was one of the bushlike chinquapins scattered about. His search for more burs led him to a nearby tree, its long, feather-like leaves edged with teeth that resemble breaking ocean waves.
It was an American chestnut — about 37 inches around and at least 50 feet tall.
Nearby, Renfro found several young chestnuts that had sprouted from a desiccated, diseased stump. Examining the larger tree with a ladder, he could see no signs of blight — giving him hope that his tree had somehow developed a defense against the fungus.
"I'm not in denial," he said, cradling a brown bur in his palm as he stared upward. "But show me one that big."
All claims of a naturally resistant American are "baloney," said Paul Sisco, a retired American Chestnut Foundation staff geneticist. This and other LSA's, he said, have just somehow managed to hang on a bit longer.
"These trees often die within a year or two of 'discovery,'" said Sisco, past president of the foundation's Carolinas chapter.
But these survivors are playing an important role in the restoration effort.
Soon after the blight was discovered, the U.S. Department of Agriculture began trying to develop a hybrid that was resistant and would grow tall enough to produce marketable timber. Because Chinese and Japanese trees, unlike the American ones, had evolved along with the blight, the emphasis was on crossing native trees with the foreign ones.
"It didn't matter whether it looked like an American chestnut," said Kim Steiner, a professor of forest biology at Pennsylvania State University. The goal was simply "some sort of a timber tree."
After decades and millions of dollars, the government gave up. To be honest, purists weren't interested in what the government was after, said Steiner.
"We're not talking about replacing American chestnut," he said. "We're talking about restoring American chestnut."
Enter Charles Burnham.
A corn geneticist by training, Burnham was retired from the University of Minnesota when he read about the government's failed efforts. He began thinking about ways in which his own successful work with food crops might be applied to the chestnut conundrum.
In 1983, Burnham and several other plant scientists formed The American Chestnut Foundation — built on his program of "backcross breeding."
Burnham started out with a hybrid between an American and a Chinese chestnut, then backcrossed it with a "pure American." The progeny of that pairing were then backcrossed to American chestnut a second time; the offspring from that coupling were then crossed a third time back to American stock.
(The American Chestnut Cooperators Foundation — a smaller, but no less dedicated sister organization — is focused on grafting and intercrossing large native survivors to achieve a blight-resistant, all-American chestnut.)
Since an American chestnut parent always passes some of the blight-susceptible genes to its progeny, the backcross — or B3 — trees are then intercrossed among themselves so their progeny have a chance of inheriting resistant genes from both parents, said Fred Hebard, chief scientist at the organization's main research farms near Abingdon, Va.
The resulting B3F3 trees — third backcross, third filial generation — are, genetically, up to 94 percent American.
"The approach was a population of near-American chestnuts that would breed true for resistance," said Steiner.
The product of all that crossing, backcrossing and intercrossing is being put to the test at Hurst's and hundreds of other breeding orchards around the country.
The chestnuts on Hurst's property — some of which have grown to an impressive 20 feet in height — contain genetic material from three North Carolina "mother trees." Scattered among the "families," as a scientific control, are several offspring of a Chinese chestnut.
The trees that show the most resistance after inoculation will be used at the seed orchards to produce the next generation. All the rest — about 99 percent — will be destroyed, said Steiner.
"The quality of that seed coming out of that orchard will get better and better and better as more and more of the poor trees are removed," he said.
But as he told attendees at the Asheville summit, developing the tree is only half the battle.
At a resort overlooking the French Broad, the air was thick with hope and excitement as more than 300 scientists and lay people — young women in Crocs and Gore-Tex and gray-bearded men in plaid flannel shirts and hiking boots — gathered to swap stories and hear the latest news.
Hebard told the gathering that the orchards should be producing trees with "stable resistance" by 2023, nearly two decades sooner than originally projected.
But there were also sobering words.
In the past several years, the Forest Service has been planting test plots of chestnut in areas where it has allowed commercial logging. The results have been both promising and "disconcerting," said Stacy Clark, a forester at the agency's Southern Research Station in Asheville.
Seedlings are up to 30 percent shorter than pure Americans, Clark told the gathering. And some of the hybrids have also flowered earlier than the pure Americans, meaning they might be susceptible to frosts, Clark said.
Even if they can resist the blight, the trees will have to contend with threats from imported insects and other diseases.
"You're not going to get chestnut back through natural regeneration," Clark said. "We all know that. So you have to put it back in the woods."
Dr. Scott Merkle of the University of Georgia went a step further, broaching the touchy topic of cloning.
Currently, the organization produces backcrosses to American chestnut by time-consuming hand pollination. Hebard said the organization harvested 80,000 B3F3 seeds this year.
Using various advanced cloning techniques, commercial timber companies can generate enough seeds to plant 1 billion trees a year, Merkle said.
"Your progeny are all great. In fact, they're not even progeny. They're the same trees you started with — just a lot more of them," he said.
Even without cloning, there are those who will consider anything but a pure American an abomination, said Research Station Director Rob Doudrick, who was among the first to map the tree's genes.
"It conjures up all kinds of things in people's minds," he told the gathering. "The brakes go on. 'Frankentree.' You know? ALL that kind of stuff."
But it was the hand of man that pushed this species to the brink, said Paillet, the Arkansas professor. And he said it's up to humans to try to restore some balance.
"We can't just let things go their natural course," he said. "Because we've disrupted things beyond the tipping point."
Regardless of how the trees are produced, they will need places to grow, mainly on privately-held forest land. Landowners, Steiner said, will have to be convinced that it's in their best interests to plant chestnuts. And though people at the conference hated to hear it, he said, "The world doesn't NEED chestnut timber."
"The restoration of American chestnut is a really impractical idea. Some people might say it's a nutty idea," Steiner acknowledged. But, he said, it is "a compelling idea..., a romantic idea..., an emotional idea. And that's where the motive comes from. That's where it has to come from to sustain this program."
Before his death, Peattie, the naturalist, was aware of work toward a blight-resistant hybrid. But he held out little hope for its success.
"All words about the American Chestnut are now but an elegy for it," he lamented. "... never again will those proud forests rise."
Jim Hurst and legions of others are on a mission to prove him wrong.
The American Chestnut Foundation www.acf.org
The American Chestnut Cooperators Foundation http://www.accf-online.org/
Allen G. Breed is a national writer, based in Raleigh, N.C. He can be reached at features(at)ap.org. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/(hash)!/AllenGBreed


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