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(By Delegate J. Miller)
[Introduced January 12, 2011; referred to the
Committee on Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §16-2I-11, relating to reporting requirements for physicians and the Department of Health and Human Resources when it is suspected that a woman has suffered injury or death due to an induced abortion; contents of the reports; duties of the department; and providing criminal penalties.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §16-2I-11, to read as follows:
§16-2I-11. Reporting requirements when it is suspected that a woman suffered injury or death due to induced abortion; contents; physician duties; department duties; criminal penalties.
(a) A physician shall file a written report with the Department of Health and Human Resources regarding each patient who comes under the physician's professional care and requires physical medical treatment or suffers death the physician has a reasonable basis to believe is a primary, secondary or tertiary result of an induced abortion.
(b) The report shall be submitted within thirty days of the discharge or death of the patient treated for the complication, and shall contain the following information available to the physician:
(1) The patient's age and race;
(2) The patient's residency status, including city and county of residence;
(3) The patient's marital status, education, number of previous pregnancies, number of stillbirths, number of living children and number of previous abortions;
(4) The date the abortion was performed and method used;
(5) The approximate gestational age, in weeks, of the aborted fetus;
(6) The date the abortion complication was diagnosed;
(7) The name and type of facility where the abortion was performed;
(8) Whether the physician performing an induced abortion has ever been subject to professional sanction;
(9) The condition of the patient that led to treatment of, but not limited to, pelvic infection, hemorrhage, damage to pelvic organs, renal failure, metabolic disorder, shock, embolism, coma or death;
(10) The type of anesthetic, if any, used for each induced abortion; and
(11) The amount billed to cover the treatment of the complication, including whether under: (A) A fee-for-service insurance company; (B) a managed care company; or (C) another type of health benefit.
(c) The physician report may not contain the name of the woman, common identifiers such as her social security number or motor vehicle operator's license number, or other information that would make it possible to identify in any manner a woman who has obtained or seeks to obtain an abortion.
(d) The department has the following duties with respect to these reports:
(1) Summarizing aggregate data from the physician reports required under this section for inclusion in an annual report;
(2) Developing and distributing or making available online in a downloadable format a standardized form for the physician report;
(3) Communicating this reporting requirement to all medical professional organizations, licensed physicians, hospitals, emergency rooms, abortion facilities, department clinics and ambulatory surgical facilities operating in the state; and
(4) Maintaining each physician report for five years from the date of its receipt, and then destroying the report.
(e) The department or any department employee may neither maintain statistical data that may reveal the identity of a woman who has obtained or seeks to obtain an abortion, nor disclose to a person or entity outside the department the contents of the physician or annual reports required under this section to permit the person or entity to identify the woman.
(f) A state agency or employee may not compare the data collected under this section with data in another electronic or other information system to reveal in any manner the identity of a woman who has obtained or seeks to obtain an abortion.
(g) Nothing in this section is an instruction to discontinue collecting data currently being collected.
(h) Except as provided in subsection (i), a person who willfully violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be confined in jail not more than one year nor less than six months or fined not more than $1000 nor less than $500, or both fined and confined.
(i) A person who willfully discloses confidential identifying information in violation of this section is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned in a state correctional facility not less than one year nor more than three years or fined not more than $5,000, or both fined and imprisoned.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require physicians to report to the Department of Health and Human Resources when he or she believes that a woman has suffered injury or death due to an induced abortion, to impose duties on the Department of Health and Human Resources regarding these reports and to outline penalties for violations.
This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.


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Freedom of Expression Is Not Welcome
The basis for the suit against him stems from an incident that occurred months ago: In February 2005 in an interview with a Swiss newspaper Orhan Pamuk spoke about Turkey's past.
Pamuk said that we must live with past atrocities, but we should also talk about them. In this context he mentioned that thirty thousand Kurds and one million Armenians had been killed in Turkey.
Defamed as a traitor
At the time his statements inspired insults and threats against him from nationalist circles and the media. He canceled a reading tour in Germany and hung low in the United States for a few months.
Then in June he heard the news that the German Book Industry had awarded him their peace prize, the country's most important cultural honor.
So why has he only now been hit with a law suit, months later? Poet and translator Joachim Sartorius says this has to do with the rather slow moving bureaucracy in Turkey. Sartorius, who has worked for Germany's Foreign Service in Turkey as well as in other countries, will give the oration for Pamuk in October at the Frankfurt Book Faire.
"Narrow-minded and nationalist circles"
When asked to what extent the internationally recognized author is currently in danger, Sartorius replied: "If you asking if his life is in danger, I think it is really hard to say. There are fanatics everywhere in the world."
He continued: "Don't forget that Pamuk is incredibly popular among the learned society in Istanbul. When he walks through the streets there he is greeted with the highest respect. One should not take a skewed view of this and imagine that there is a large Front against him. It is only a few nationalist and narrow-minded circles."
Pamuk himself is from a well-to-do middle class family in Istanbul that is familiar with both Western European modernity and Oriental traditions.
He is a cosmopolitan who always brings these two different cultures together in his literature - exposing all the conflicts that arise between them, but also showing great respect for both.
This has brought him international fame, as mentioned in the German Book Industry's reasoning for granting him the peace prize.
New controversy in Turkey's bid for the EU
Joachim Sartorius believes that Pamuk's case will once again expose the problems involved with Turkey's attempt to join the EU:
"I think that Orhan Pamuk has taken a very differentiated stance on entering the EU, saying on the one hand that this country, which is still only half-democratic, really has to do a lot of homework before it comes knocking on the EU's door. And on the other hand, he has always wanted to join the EU because he thinks that would force the government to follow through on all the rule of law reforms."
The Istanbul public prosecutor's suit against Pamuk for "public defamation of the Turkish people" has sent a different message. The case against him will begin on December 16.
In its statement the German writer's association PEN has said that this constitutes a "brutal attack on freedom of expression and unworthy of a country that wants to join the EU."
Gabriela Schaaf
Translation from German: Christina White
Portrait Orhan Pamuk
Bestselling Author and Avantgarde Writer
Orhan Pamuk is one of Turkey's most significant authors. By winning this year's IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Pamuk has become the recipient of one of the world's most generously endowed literary prizes. Such success always has political implications. A portrait by Lewis Gropp
Interview Orhan Pamuk
Struggling with the Elements of a Complicated History
The prominent Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk is under a barrage of threats in his homeland – for speaking out on sensitive issues. In this interview with Jörg Lau he talks about freedom in Turkey, the trauma suffered by its people and their waning enthusiasm for the EU.


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SEATTLE (AP) — Jonathon Niese was back on the mound and felt no discomfort in his left shoulder. David Wright hit an RBI single on the 10th anniversary of his major league debut.
That was about it for New York Mets highlights as they struggled again to score in a 5-2 defeat to the Seattle Mariners on Monday night.
The Mets dropped their third straight after winning eight of nine and have managed a total of three runs in the losses.
"We got a hit every inning, but you need a bunch of them. Unless you're walking, those singles don't do much if you don't bunch them together," manager Terry Collins said. "They got a couple guys on and they'd get a big hit. But we'd get a guy on and we just couldn't get an extra-base hit or anything to get a guy in."
Kyle Seager drove in two runs, Mike Zunino homered into the second deck at Safeco Field and Dustin Ackley stole a home run with a leaping catch at the wall as Seattle improved to 8-2 all-time against the Mets.
Roenis Elias (8-8) threw 5 1-3 innings before leaving with cramping in his left forearm. Seattle's bullpen was stellar the rest of the way, helped by Ackley's outstanding grab to rob Travis d'Arnaud of a home run in the sixth.
Ackley didn't know he made the catch until hitting the ground.
"I knew I felt something. I didn't know if I felt it hit off my glove or go in the web, but when I came down is when I knew I had it," he said. "I was like, 'Well something is in there.'"
Seager had RBI singles in his first two at-bats and Zunino hit his 14th homer of the season, an estimated 415-foot shot off Niese (5-5) into the second deck in left field.
Ackley added an RBI double in the eighth, part of a three-hit night.
Niese was activated from the disabled list before the game. He hadn't pitched since leaving in the first inning July 4 against Texas when he was struck in the back by Alex Rios' line drive. He was placed on the DL two days later with a left shoulder strain.
Niese's streak of 21 straight starts giving up three earned runs or less was snapped when Willie Bloomquist collected his third hit, an RBI double in the fourth inning for a 4-1 Seattle lead. Niese allowed 11 hits and struck out six in six innings.
"I knew you guys were going to ask about that. It's great, but I really wasn't thinking about it. It really doesn't matter," Niese said. "I was just trying to hit my spots today and I really didn't on a consistent basis. Maybe I can start another streak."
Wright had an RBI single, but the Mets' only other run came on second baseman Robinson Cano's error in the ninth that allowed Juan Lagares to score.
The other chance New York had was in the sixth after Elias left with cramping in his arm. Dominic Leone took over and was immediately greeted by a deep drive from d'Arnaud. Ackley found the left-field fence, got just enough elevation to get his glove over the wall and made the catch in the webbing of his glove.
"I mean, that ball gets out of the ballpark, it changes the momentum completely," Collins said. "So it was a great catch."
NOTES: Wright's debut came on July 21, 2004, at Shea Stadium against Montreal. He went 0 for 4 while batting seventh in a 5-4 Mets win. Wright said the memories of being at Triple-A Norfolk the night before, getting notified of his call-up and arriving at the stadium remain vivid. His teammates treated Wright to dinner on Sunday night when they arrived in Seattle. Wright said the dinner became more of a roast. … Seattle picked up its 22nd win vs. left-handed starters, most in baseball. … Niese last allowed more than three earned runs Sept. 7, 2013, at Cleveland. … New York OF Chris Young left in the eighth with a cramp in his calf. … Seattle optioned 1B Justin Smoak after the game to clear a roster spot for Tuesday's starter, Erasmo Ramirez.
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Les, I probably was not clear on this. That is also my assumption for mode-UV since there are unknown factors like sat power and antenna gain at this point. Since there does exist (hopefully not all have dissembled their stations) a lot of mode-UV stations from the AO-13/AO-40 era designing to that capability would make sense to me. For the HT orientation, the mw digital mode-SC (CC-rider update) is probably the correct approach. If this disappoints the HT - Leo crowd, I would point out that there ARE some physical realities to consider that may not make P4 as accommodating as a Leo (400km vs 37,600km range). But my intuition tells me that mode-LS is probably a better main comm frequency for satellite users. That will require gain antennas (20-dB) and moderate power (5-10w). Just my two cents at this early what-if stage. Ed - KL7UW At 06:04 AM 12/15/2007, email@example.com wrote: >if I could work AO40 with a small S band dish and 7.5 ft 70cm >crossed yagi at 40,000 km why can't i work P4 much easier? P4 will >not move and from what i read it will have how many times as much >power as AO40? ... 4x, 6x, 8x? > >is the "problem" here the fact that some want to engineer a sat so >users on the ground can use a handheld HT as a sat phone? If that >is the real reason then the solution seems simple. FORGET that idea. >The antenna setup I describe for AO40 minus the tracking (since it >won't be required) seems more than adequate and could be setup >within 20 minutes for emergency use. If AO40 could hear me with >50-100 watts of power (from the ground station) why can't P4? if we >could put antennas on AO40 to hear me why can't we do that on P4? or >are we again trying to build a sat that can hear a 5 watt HT >(groundstation)? if so forget it. > >with a fixed GEO location to aim at, with high power for the >downlink, with no need to worry about station keeping, what is the >"real" problem in designing a sat that will work wonderfully? > >Ground station: Ft-847, preamps, M2 crossed yagis and small dish(s) >and computer. If we can't design a sat to work on P4 to work with >that given the resources on (the sat host) then there is something >wrong. That is my opinion. > >Les W4SCO > > >>I would guess that at 145 and 435 MHz the satellite antennas will not >>be large enough to produce 20 dB* of gain, so only a percentage of >>their signal will hit earth with a larger amount radiating uselessly >>into space. The reverse issue for the satellite Rx antenna; only a >>small percent of the beam will see earth signals. This means mode UV >>(old Mode-B) will require larger ground station >>antennas. Calculating this is straight forward path-link >>calculations. One can plug in the range and Tx power (say 50w) and >>receiver sensitivity (-145 dBm) to come up with antenna gain requirements. >>No I will not do that for you this time - hint I have a calculator on >>my webpage that a clever person could modify - check out >>Mar's Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Radio Test at the bottom of: >> >> http://www.kl7uw.com/raseti.htm >> >>How does the range to Geostationary orbit compare with apogee on >>AO-13 or AO-40? I think you will find that a standard AO-13 mode-B >>antenna system will be adequate (depending on the power and antennas on P4). >> >>73 Ed - KL7UW >>*Note: on 144 MHz my eme array produces 21.3 dBi gain (a bit large >>to install on a satellite) >> >>At 12:00 PM 12/14/2007, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote: >> >> >> >> >>Probably a good pointing spot would be where XM and Sirius Point their >> >>antennas - just about on the Canadian Border close to Winnipeg- Manitoba >> >>73 >> >>Robin VE3FRH. >> > >> >Probably not if we care about covering the Southern Hemisphere. We >> >really don't know enough even to speculate, but this likely won't be >> >a spot beam like the Ku and C band transponders use. Range will be >> >less than AO-40, so the earth is a fairly big target still. >> > >> >73, Drew KO4MA >> >>73, >>Ed - KL7UW >>====================================== >> BP40IQ 50-MHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com >>144-EME: FT-847, mgf-1801, 4x-xpol-20, 185w >>DUBUS Magazine USA Rep email@example.com >>====================================== >>_______________________________________________ >>Sent via firstname.lastname@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >>Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >>Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb 73, Ed - KL7UW ====================================== BP40IQ 50-MHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com 144-EME: FT-847, mgf-1801, 4x-xpol-20, 185w DUBUS Magazine USA Rep email@example.com ====================================== _______________________________________________ Sent via email@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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House Committee on Energy and Commerce Approves H.R. 3046, the Medicare Regulatory, Appeals, Contracting and Education Reform Act of 2001
On October 31, 2001, the Committee on Energy and Commerce approved by voice vote and cleared (as amended) for floor action H.R. 3046, the Medicare Regulatory and Contract Reform Act of 2001. The provisions requiring the transfer of Administrative Law Judge functions and the creation of the Medicare specialist position are similar to the provisions found in H.R. 2768, which was reported by the Committee on Ways and Means on October 11, 2001.
As reported by the Committee, H.R. 3046 includes the following provisions of interest to SSA.
Provider Appeals
Transfer of Administrative Law Judges from SSA to DHHS
- Requires SSA and DHHS to develop a plan under which the functions of Administrative Law Judges for hearing Medicare cases will be transferred from SSA to DHHS.
- SSA and DHHS must develop and transmit this plan to Congress and the Comptroller General by October 1, 2002. The Comptroller General must submit to Congress a report evaluating this plan by April 1, 2003. SSA and DHHS shall implement this plan no sooner than July 1, 2003, and no later than October 1, 2003.
Beneficiary Outreach Demonstration Program
Medicare Specialists
- Requires DHHS to create a Medicare specialist position. The Medicare specialist will provide assistance and advice Medicare beneficiaries. These specialists will be located in at least six offices or areas. This demonstration project will last three years.
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NEW YORK -- New York Yankees captain and shortstop Derek Jeter hosted his 16th Annual Turn 2 Foundation Dinner at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers on June 21.
The evening was a huge success, raising money for the Turn 2 Foundation through sponsorship sales, auctions and donations. Proceeds from the event will help further the Foundation's mission of promoting healthy lifestyles among today's youth in New York, West Michigan and Tampa, Fla.
Many of Jeter's teammates and other celebrity guests joined the sponsors and supporters at the event including Dominique Dawes, Harry Carson, Greg Jennings, Tino Martinez, John Starks, Gerald Williams, Robinson Cano, Curtis Granderson, Andruw Jones, Jayson Nix, Mike Harkey, Mick Kelleher, Kevin Long, CC Sabathia, Rob Thompson and Larry Rothschild. A highlight of the evening was the special performance by biggest-selling R&B group of all time Boyz II Men.
The evening was fast-paced as emcee Bruce Beck (WNBC-TV) kept the program moving with his trademark wit and poise. Honorees included two Turn 2 MVP award recipients: Dennis Walcott, chancellor for New York City Public Schools and Simona Vareikaite, a graduate of Turn 2's premier leadership development program, the Jeter's Leaders Program. Eleven high school graduates from the New York City and Kalamazoo Jeter's Leaders Programs were celebrated for their academic achievement. The evening also included exciting silent and live auctions featuring unique memorabilia donated by Steiner Sports Memorabilia.
In a red carpet interview before the event, Derek said, "My favorite part about having a Foundation is when the parents tell me what a positive impact participating in our programs has been for their children."
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I guess the headline really sums it up. Santa and Moses have, apparently, had a longstanding beef that can only be settled one way: Rap-off. Also, Moses is actually Snoop Lion, whose name I will let slide into this article with absolutely no sidelong glance, K-9 reference, or anything.
Good times. How's everyone doing? Getting geared up for the Holidays? A bunch of us at Kotaku are descending on New York for a big staff get-together. It should be a lot of fun, starting with how on earth we're going to fit everyone into our sector of the Gawker mothership.
So! Feel free to discuss anything you like, here or over in the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum. Have a wonderful time chatting, and a good rest of your Tuesday.


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The second half of my 4,500-mile, cross-country drive with photographer Barb Gonzalez was markedly different from the first leg.
Having agreed to deliver his 2006 Toyota Camry to her son, who had moved to Orlando, Fla., we set out from Bend on April 1. Within 10 days we had made it as far as Kansas City, Mo., traveling more than 2,000 miles across the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains on interstate highways and country roads. That part of our travel was documented in these pages a week ago.
We broke the second section of the journey into two parts. Leaving Kansas City on April 11, we traveled via Memphis and New Orleans to Orlando, arriving in the entertainment capital — best known as the home of the Walt Disney World theme parks — on April 18. After a stay of five nights, we proceeded to Miami and Key West, Fla., the farthest point to which we could drive in the mainland United States. We flew back to Central Oregon from Fort Lauderdale on April 29.
En route, we had our senses assaulted by the American South — our eyes, our ears and our taste buds. Winding through the Ozark hill country to the lower Mississippi Delta, we spent nearly a week in the cradle of American blues and jazz music, venturing from Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion to the Dixieland clubs of New Orleans.
But far more than that, we embraced a new understanding and appreciation of the trials of our country's African American culture. From the National Civil Rights Museum, on the site of the Martin Luther King assassination in Memphis, to the former slave quarters on the Oak Alley Plantation near New Orleans; from Kansas City to Key West, with all the stops in between; we found ourselves immersed in one lesson about black history after another.
Ozarks to Memphis
Our first day's drive from Kansas City was a long one — about 450 miles through Missouri and Arkansas to Memphis, Tenn., on the Mississippi River. We made a short visit to Branson, Mo., which has a reputation as a country-music capital filled with theaters and music halls. We found it to be a heavily commercial, disjointed strip, extending for more than five miles west from the original town to manmade Table Rock Lake. We acknowledged Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede and the Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Happy Trails Theater, nodded at the God and Country Theatre and the Lawrence Welk Resort, and left just as quickly as we had arrived.
Far more charming was the Ozark Folk Center, an Arkansas state park just outside the small hill town of Mountain View.
Craftsman Sherman Anderson prepares to throw several handmade spinning tops at the Ozark Folk Center near Mountain View, Ark. The craft village here has 24 separate buildings where volunteers demonstrate everything from weaving to dulcimer making.
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Founded more than a half-century ago to preserve the traditional heritage of the Ozark Mountain region, the Folk Center includes a crafts village of 24 separate buildings, where volunteers demonstrate everything from spinning to candlemaking, and an auditorium where people dance to the sound of banjos, mandolins and dulcimers. We enjoyed a lengthy conversation with Sherman Anderson, a semi-retired craftsman who demonstrated his skill in making spinning tops with a foot lathe. Then we were back on the road.
Two nights in Memphis were really not enough, but we made the most of our visit. Number one on our list of places to go was Graceland mansion, the erstwhile home of Elvis Presley (1935-77), whom many fans consider the greatest popular singer of the 20th century.
Studded stage costumes, worn by the late Elvis Presley, share display cases with video concert footage in an exhibition hall at the singer's Graceland mansion in Memphis. Shuttle buses whisk visitors to the mansion every few minutes for guided tours.
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So popular is the 13.8-acre estate, we saw license plates from across the country in the stadium-sized parking lot. Shuttle buses whisk visitors to the mansion every few minutes for the start of guided tours that include Presley's fabled "Jungle Room"; the trophy building, where scores of gold and platinum records are displayed; and the graves of the singer and his parents. Then they return to a commercial complex that features a half-dozen gift shops, the singer's private automobile collection, and exhibits about his life and career.
We were far more impressed by the National Civil Rights Museum. Encompassing the historic Lorraine Hotel, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed in 1968, the museum opened in 1991 but completed a $28 million renovation only a week before our arrival. And it held us spellbound.
A contemporary visitor stands with clay models in front of a historical photograph of a 1960s-era protest at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. Multimedia exhibits describe the violence that many African Americans encountered well into the 20th century.
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Beginning with a history of the European colonial slave trade in Africa, it related the early history of slavery in the United States and the century of blatant discrimination that followed the Civil War. Multimedia exhibits told of the violence to which African Americans were subjected well into the 20th century, the courage that so many displayed in nonviolent protests, and the inspiration their efforts lent to civil-rights movements in other countries.
Blues country
We spent our second night in Memphis on Beale Street, its wall-to-wall nightclub scene extending for several blocks. From B.B. King's Blues Club to the Rum Boogie Cafe, and including the historic Orpheum Theatre, Beale is lined with neon-lighted music clubs, restaurants and bars where the booze flows freely, long into the night.
Throngs of party goers pack Beale Street in downtown Memphis, its central blocks barricaded for pedestrian-only use during evening hours. Music clubs, restaurants and bars line the fabled thoroughfare, and booze flows freely long into the night.
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King was born and raised in Mississippi's Delta Country. So, too, were other famed blues musicians who made their marks in Memphis and elsewhere around the country — artists like Robert Johnson, Sam Cooke and Johnny Winter. When we left Memphis, we headed down U.S. Highway 61, made famous by Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" album, and down Mississippi's designated "Blues Trail." More than 150 roadside markers introduce travelers to the people, places and events that shaped the blues artists' lives.
Little more than an hour's drive southwest of Memphis, these signs led us into Clarksdale, a town of about 20,000 where, serendipity awaited: We found a blues festival in progress. On sidewalks and street corners throughout the otherwise quiet community, impromptu concerts inspired foot stomping, hand clapping and shouts of approval from people who had the foresight to bring their own lawn chairs. Cherokee tamales were the snack of choice. And just down the street, in the old train depot, the Delta Blues Museum recalled the careers of Clarksdale natives Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and Big Mama Thornton, among many others.
That night we made it as far as Vicksburg, Miss., a strategic Mississippi River town with a rich Civil War history and a floating casino in an old paddle-wheeler along Catfish Row. We took time the next morning to drive slowly through Vicksburg National Military Park, learning about an 1863 siege that helped Union forces to gain control of traffic on the lower Mississippi, and thus turn the tide of war in their favor.
Scores of antique cannon and memorial headstones, honoring the Civil War battalions of various Union states, are seen on a drive of several miles through Vicksburg National Military Park. The park commemorates an 1863 siege that turned the tide of the Civil War.
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Caught in a severe thunderstorm between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, we detoured into Louisiana's Oak Alley Plantation, an antebellum estate and national historic landmark on 25 acres. It was raining so hard, we weren't certain if the Mississippi River levees were holding the water in or out of the grounds. A guided tour of the Greek Revival-style "big house," framed by rows of graceful Virginia oak trees, introduced us to the pre-Civil War lifestyle of the Jacques Roman family. Their main cash crop was sugar cane, the farming of which relied upon slave labor; exhibits in the reconstructed slave quarters now describe the day-to-day lives of these men and women, who are remembered only by their first names.
New Orleans
Thunder and lightning greeted us to New Orleans. "NOLA," as it is known to residents and visitors alike, is one of this country's truly distinctive cities, its unique geographical location and history having bestowed upon it a rich Creole-Cajun culture unlike any other city.
We stayed in the French Quarter at the ornate Maison Dupuy, a delightful boutique hotel comprised of five adjacent townhouses — one of which once housed the nation's first cotton press. Located midway between Bourbon and Basin streets, and a mere six blocks from the broad Mississippi, the hotel is central to many of the city's leading attractions.
We spent two full days in New Orleans, mainly exploring our fabled neighborhood. We took in the singular architecture of colorful facades, arched windows and wrought-iron railings. We visited St. Louis Cathedral overlooking Jackson Square, where jazz musicians perform day and night. We stopped by Preservation Hall, whose nightly jazz concerts are legendary. We wandered into the district cemeteries, its lavish crypts rising high above the ground so that flood waters will never carry the bodies away, and through shops devoted to voodoo religious artifacts and Mardi Gras masquerade attire.
In New Orleans' French Quarter are several shops, like Rev. Zombie's, that sell artifacts used in voodoo rituals along with tourist souvenirs. Other unique stores sell the masks and costumes made famous in the city's annual late-winter Mardi Gras celebration.
Barb Gonzalez / For The Bulletin
And then there was the food. Me-oh-my-oh — jambalaya, crawfish pie, filé gumbo. Beignets with espresso in the morning. Oyster po' boys or red beans and rice at midday. Etoufée and alligator sausage. New Orleans' culinary universe extends far beyond the flavors that chefs Paul Prudhomme and Emeril Lagasse have made famous.
We had our best meal of the entire trip at the Commander's Palace, where chef Tory McPhail, born and raised in Washington state, was honored by the James Beard Foundation as the best chef in the American South just a year ago. The Garden District restaurant is no less spectacular, a colorful and sprawling 1880 Victorian landmark with turrets, columns and gingerbread trim surrounding a central courtyard. McPhail served us an amazing contemporary Creole repast that featured farmed turtle soup, shrimp with pickled okra, seared fois gras and spicy veal tenderloin.
We ventured out of the city once on a half-day "swamp and bayou" tour of the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve.
A full-grown alligator wallows in the muddy waters of the Barataria Preserve, a bayou section of the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve south of New Orleans. Numerous gators, along with many birds and other mammals, may be seen on boat tours of the park.
Barb Gonzalez / For The Bulletin
Traveling through the Barataria Preserve on a flat-bottomed boat, we saw at least a dozen alligators — some of them nestled in tall grasses or on muddy banks, others swimming through the bayou channel — as well as wild pigs, nutria and a score of herons and other swamp birds. The excursion served to remind us that the natural environment is not far from NOLA's urban frenzy.
Across Florida
There were fewer travel highlights as we continued east from New Orleans, sticking close to Interstate 10 as we followed the Gulf Coast through the southern legs of Mississippi and Alabama and into the Florida Panhandle. The white sandy beaches of Biloxi and Pascagoula, Miss., were beautiful indeed, but with the skies overcast and spring break looming, we pushed onward, overnighting in Tallahassee en route to Orlando.
We found no manatees at Manatee Springs State Park — days later, we finally sighted a trio of the ancient water mammals in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge — but we were impressed by the raw beauty of the flooded woodland along the Suwannee River, which flows through the state park. It was quite a contrast to the thoroughbred horse ranches of the Ocala area, second only to the bluegrass country of Kentucky.
Then we were in Orlando, where Barb reunited with her son, Evan, for five days. I relaxed at the Wyndham Orlando Resort on International Drive, a quiet oasis amidst the frenzied activity of one of the country's busiest family vacationlands. Surrounded by amusement parks and franchise restaurants, I enjoyed a brief respite from travel. Disney World didn't move me on an afternoon visit; even EPCOT Center seemed stale and in need of an upgrade or renovation.
Universal Studios Florida was a better investment. Barb and I were joined there one day by Evan and his girlfriend, Ashley Naranjo, and we wound up spending hours in the theme park's Islands of Adventure section. At "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter," we wandered the lanes of Hogsmeade village, rode through Hogwarts Castle, and even experienced the sensation of the sport of quidditch.
The magical village of Hogsmeade has been recreated in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, a popular section of the Islands of Adventure theme park at Universal Studios in Orlando. Two rides, neither for the timid, carry visitors through Hogwarts Castle.
Barb Gonzalez / For The Bulletin
Toon Lagoon and Seuss Landing helped me to recall some favorite comic characters from my youth, while the kids reveled in Marvel Super Hero Island. When I was done with the rides, I retired to Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville for a cheeseburger in paradise.
We visited another of Barb's relatives in Hallandale, a north Miami suburb, and said our goodbyes to Evan and Ash, who gratefully returned to Orlando in Evan's car. Then we borrowed another vehicle for a final excursion to the Florida Keys.
Into the Keys
The Keys are an archipelago of coral islets that arc southwesterly for more than 150 miles from the tip of the mainland Florida peninsula. Dividing the Atlantic Ocean from the Gulf of Mexico, they are linked by a single four-lane road, U.S. Highway 1, which crosses the fringe of Everglades National Park before spanning a causeway to Key Largo. Here, it's known as the Overseas Highway, as extensive sections are built above the ocean waters.
At Lower Matecumbe Key in Islamorada, we stopped over at Robbie's Marina, where we hand-fed bait fish to hungry wild tarpon and joined a 2½-hour snorkeling excursion. The world's third-longest living coral reef (after those of Australia and Belize) lies a few miles offshore the Atlantic side of the Keys. Our catamaran made two stops above the reef, and we enjoyed swimming among a wide variety of tropical fishes and coral formations.
We could also have stopped to explore a sea-turtle rehabilitation hospital or to swim with dolphins. But we were anxious to reach Key West, certainly one of the mainland United States' most isolated communities. And the town of 25,000 lived up to our expectations.
This was, after all, the town where author Ernest Hemingway lived during the 1930s and wrote several of his most famous novels, including "A Farewell to Arms" and "To Have and Have Not." His legacy lives on at the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum, where descendants of his six-toed cats maintain a constant presence.
Key West also was the place where President Harry S Truman maintained the "Little White House," where he came to escape the pressures of life in the nation's capital in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Visitors gather on the grounds of the "Little White House," where U.S. President Harry S Truman came to escape the pressures of political life from 1945 to 1952. Today, guided tours include video footage on the man who succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt to the presidency.
Barb Gonzalez / For The Bulletin
The residence today is open to tours. It's just down the block from the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum, which preserves the shipwreck bounty rescued from Spanish galleons by the noted treasure hunter of the 1980s and '90s.
Tall ships take visitors on sunset tours from the Historic Seaport at Key West Bight, where seaside saloons complement the less atmospheric bars along Duval Street.
Pedicabs transport visitors down Duval Street, whose bars and restaurants are the center of Key West's entertainment district. A half-dozen blocks south of here, the Ernest Hemingway House and Museum preserve memories of the great 20th-century American novelist.
Barb Gonzalez / For The Bulletin
We preferred the seafood at The Stoned Crab, a wonderful restaurant at the Ibis Bay Beach Resort. At the urging of the hotel's Australian immigrant owner, Chris Holland, we spent a couple of evening hours paddling illuminated glass-bottom kayaks over shallow sea waters. The wealth of nocturnal ocean life, from unusual sponges to lobsters and barracudas, was amazing.
Final thoughts
What a trip! We'd do it again in a heartbeat — after sufficient recovery time, of course. We would probably select a different route next time, although both of us would love to spend more time in several cities, such as Memphis and New Orleans.
A cross-country trip is a great way to experience the diversity of the United States. From the high mountains and wide-open spaces of the West, through the vast farmlands of the Great Plains and Midwest, and into the lush woodlands and waterways of the Mississippi Delta and Gulf Coast region, we had a memorable month.
Our encounters with man and nature will remain with us for a lifetime. While we are happier than ever to call Central Oregon home, we learned a great deal about places and regional cultures, helping us to better understand the needs and desires of Americans from parts of the country different than our own. These were things we never learned in a classroom.
I understand now what the well-traveled Mark Twain meant when he wrote: "I never let my schooling interfere with my education."
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Used Car - 2001 Chevrolet Monte Carlo LS in Williamston, Sc
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NASCAR fans rejoice!.
Shaped in the wind tunnel for minimal drag and maximum stability, the Chevrolet Monte Carlo was designed to win NASCAR Winston Cup races. It would be no exaggeration to say Chevrolet and Monte Carlo have dominated NASCAR racing since the 'Modern Era' began in 1972. Since its reintroduction to NASCAR's high-banked ovals in 1995, the Monte Carlo has won four consecutive Winston Cup Series Driver's Championships as well as Manufacturer's Cup Championships in '95, '96 and '98. Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr., the late and lamented Dale Earnhardt, and a long list of other Monte Carlo drivers have become household names in recent years as the sport has exploded in popularity.
While the Monte Carlo at the dealerships doesn't have the top end of a tube-frame Winston Cup car, the SS model does provide spirited performance. And its wild styling does attract attention. Just don't expect people to line up for your autograph until you've won the Daytona 500.
Two trim levels are offered: LS ($19,570) is powered by a 3.4-liter V6; SS ($22,400) uses a more powerful 3.8-liter V6, plus upgraded wheels, tires, and suspension. Both come only with a four-speed automatic transmission.
SS packs more standard equipment, but Chevrolet has narrowed the distance between the two models a bit for 2001. Electronic traction control is now standard on both models. A driver's side-impact air bag and OnStar communications, both standard on SS, are offered optionally on LS. There's even a Sport Appearance Package for the LS, with five-spoke aluminum wheels and a rear spoiler.
At the same time, Chevrolet has added a High Sport Appearance Package for the SS, with unique wheels, spoiler, and ground effects, plus stainless steel exhaust tips.
As slick as it is aerodynamically, from an esthetic standpoint the Monte Carlo looks as if it were designed by a committee. Individual elements are quite attractive, but we're not quite satisfied with how they hang together as a whole. It's probably just how the final product came out when the engineers and designers emerged from the last wind-tunnel session.
It may also be because this latest Monte Carlo tries to integrate elements from the model's past with an overall shape that's like nothing else on the road. Some will love it. But the droopy nose, the flat flanks, the bump in the deck lid and the radical roofline may not appeal to everyone.
What you can't see is just as important to the integrity of the Monte Carlo and, in that respect, we have to give Chevrolet high marks. Compared to pre-2000 Monte Carlos, this one has been strengthened in the roof, doors, and floor pan. An aluminum front cradle isolates the engine, transmission, steering, and suspension from the main structure of the car. The interior features a cast magnesium beam, called a MagBeam, that fits behind the instrument panel to further increase chassis rigidity and provide a stiff mounting for the dashboard systems. As a result, the latest Monte Carlo is much quieter than any previous generation. Increased chassis stiffness also makes the car less prone to squeaks and rattles over time.
Overall, the interior is a nice design with a sporty flavor that reminds us of Corvettes and Camaros.
One of the best things about Chevrolet design in recent years is the uniformly functional instrument layout that has been wrought throughout the product line, from the Corvette to the Silverado pickup. With black backgrounds, white markings and red needles, the look is not only racy in flavor, but also easy to read and scan, with the major and minor gauges placed on slightly different planes to add visual interest.
Another really nice touch inside the new Monte Carlo is its cockpit-style dashboard/console that houses those new gauges and controls. It separates the driver completely from the front passenger and provides fingertip access to every system in the array. It's a nicely styled package, and it works.
Monte Carlo comes with bucket seats, and we found them quite comfortable for around-town driving. Their shape makes it easy to get in and out of the car. Front-seat passengers appreciate the shotgun-side power seat option. Both seats are easy to adjust, and there's plenty of range for short and tall drivers. The ignition switch is conveniently located right on the dash, well to the right of the steering wheel; this makes it easy to quickly get in the car and get going, or quickly get out of the car after shutting it off. The tall center console is a bit intrusive for drivers who like to shift the automatic transmission manually, however, and the shifter itself looks dated.
The stereo is easy to operate, but it doesn't take a lot of volume before the amplifier starts clipping.
The trunk is large, but the opening is small, making it difficult to load big boxes.
Driving Impression
The SS version of the new Monte Carlo features a thoroughly proven V6 that delivers 200 horsepower and 225 pound-feet of torque. It may not hold a candle to some of the old V8-powered, rear-wheel-drive Monte Carlos, but it's more than enough to break the tires loose on this new front-wheel-drive model. Punch the throttle and there's instant power and lots of it.
GM's popular 3800 engine is probably the most highly developed overhead-valve V6 in the world. With all the refinements that have been baked into it over the years, in terms of valvetrain friction, bottom-end strength and friction, and electronic engine management and fuel injection, this is about as good as it gets for an overhead-valve V6. Couple this engine to GM's excellent four-speed automatic, add all-speed traction control, and you've got yourself a really solid power unit that offers fun as well as decent fuel economy.
The 3400 V6, on the other hand, is a solid unit, but this car isn't quite the same with the smaller engine. In fact, it seems to miss the point entirely. If you're after practicality, maybe you should look at the Impala.
But the SS model's Sport suspension works with fat P225/60R16 Goodyear Eagle RSA tires to provide really surprising levels of grip. As a tradeoff for the bite they yield, the tires are a little noisy. The steering is over-assisted in a lot of situations and does not provide as much feedback from the front tires as we would like, but it is tight and accurate. The Monte Carlo has the widest front and rear track in its segment. (The track is the distance between the left right wheels.) Coupled with the tires and suspension, this makes for a platform that is good fun to drive through the backwoods as well as on the boulevard or Interstate. In short, the Monte Carlo is stable and responsive.
If you're gonna run with the fast guys, you'd better have good brakes. Larger, more powerful antilock brakes were fitted to this new Monte Carlo and they are up to the job. They have the largest calipers and rotors in the class, and we punished them mightily on one of our favorite stretches of twisty road, without a whisper of fade or grabbiness.
This latest Monte Carlo is the most attractive yet, to a wind tunnel that is. It's offbeat styling may not appeal to everyone. The current model does represent a major step forward in terms of strength, stiffness, weight, and suspension performance.
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IN PHOTOS: The MCV Pacific Awards
Following on from our gallery of All Interactive Entertainment Red Carpet shots, we now present photos from the main event itself.
Our sincere thanks goes out to our esteemed hosts for the evening, Steven 'Bajo' O'Donnell and Stephanie 'Hex' Bendixsen from the ABCs Good Game.
Sadly (or joyously, for a lot of you) we don't have any shots of the afterparty at the Ivy Pool Bar, or any subsequent dancing therein.
But I suppose we've learned our lesson for next year.
See you all at next year's awards.
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I'm glad you're fighting for animal rights but I hope you realize that some people are never going to agree with you. They just are not coming from a humane place and really don't care to be. Sometimes it is best to finally say that everybody is entitled to his or her opinion and enough has been said about it.
Saw your comment - "No one 'needs' animal protein, so lets leave those animals alone". Very nice to read that.I am a huge animal lover.
Thanks Pamela! I got your request and accepted it.
Heh heh heh. Yeah, the place was freaking dead before Bruce showed up.
He responded to Asharu's post, calling her out on details, such as only 2% of all convicted rapists serving jail time ... and then she went ballistic, engaging in personal attacks and long, emotional diatribes, rather than arguing back rationally and conceding points where she may have been wrong.
... and then I get labeled a troll-enabler, for supporting rational discourse. What a freaking madhouse.
Without Bruce's contribution, Asharu's post would have prompted a few pats on the back and responses of, "Amen, sing it, sister," and the group would be completely dead again, right now.
Thanks. I was contemplating saying something similar, but I hadn't yet. Good to hear the same thing from someone else. The women outnumber the men vastly, and yet some of them are whining about being dominated, or some such. Freaking unbelievable. Feminists are supposed to have a pair of their own.
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A bad case of the Mondays.
If you've ever seen Snatch or Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, then you know there's a huge difference between speaking English and speaking whatever the hell it is they speak over in England. They might come off as quite intelligent thanks to their fancy pants accents and proper grammar, but you know if you ran into the Queen herself on the street, she'd say something insane like "My man in a boat's all packed up from too much kit kat shuffle!" Maybe.
The latest British export to utterly confound the rest of the English-speaking world is Sony's The Getaway: Black Monday. Developed by Team Soho for the PS2, this sequel is another futile attempt at capturing the attitude and style of films like Snatch, although to an extent, the developers succeeded – every cut-scene is well directed and stylish and the dialogue is vulgar and opaque. Unfortunately, the rest of this set piece is drearier than the back alleys of London.
Once you develop an ear for the accent, though, you'll become aware of an interesting plot. Initially, it revolves around Sergeant Mitchell, who is just returning to the force after a two-year suspension for shooting an armed teen in the back. Mitchell is short, looks constipated and is quite awkward around women. When you take control of him, he's attempting to rescue a sassy journalist from the clutches of a Russian crime syndicate.
Meanwhile, a ragtag group of crooks is planning the heist of their lives. Composed of two aging boxers, a 16-year-old girl, an undertaker and a geek, this motley crew unwittingly breaks into the headquarters of the same Russian crime syndicate and steals one of its most cherished religious icons.
It makes sense on paper, but thanks to the game's proclivity to use British slang, it's pretty hard to follow. It can be quite funny, though – the dialogue between some of the characters, especially Sam and Eddie, is almost enough to carry this shambling wreck of a game.
The game's main Story mode is divided up into action sequences, stealth sequences and driving sequences. In all three cases, the action in Black Monday is difficult to describe without using obscenities, but I'll try.
As Mitchell or Eddie, you can lock-on to bad guys using R1 or aim manually using R2. Since you have almost no control over the camera, you'll need to use R1 just to orient yourself. Once you're facing an enemy, you can either hold R1 and fire away or switch to R2 and aim. You can strafe if you're holding the R1 button, but not if you're holding the R2 button.
This entire aiming system is ridiculous. You should be able to auto-aim with the R1 button, manually enhance your aim with the R-stick, fire with R2, and strafe with the L-stick if you want to. Instead of actively dodging behind obstructions and feeling like you're really in a firefight, you'll flip through all the nearby enemies using auto-aim, and then finish off the ones in the distance with manual. That is, unless they're about 100 meters away, because bullets in Black Monday don't travel that far.
Manual aiming isn't quite as simple as it sounds either, because instead of a reticule, you have to line up the tip of your gun with your opponent's body. It seems like the developers were trying to avoid what they felt was an unsightly convention, but if they wanted to do that, then they should have pulled the player into a first-person perspective where they were actually looking down the gun-barrel through the sight. Instead, they replaced one unsightly convention with another.
If this system sounds a little bit stiff, you should see it in action. Actually, you shouldn't. Suffice to say, your combat maneuverability is nixed by the wonky camera, obtuse targeting system, and generally wooden controls.
Unsurprisingly, the enemies in Black Monday are governed by heinous A.I. The bad guys are planted throughout missions and merely peek out from cover and take shots on a timer, although they're usually more than half exposed even when they're trying to hide. No wonder Russia lost the Cold War.
Both Mitchell and Eddie can respectively perform arrests and grappling moves, and Eddie can throw punches when unarmed. However, melee fighting makes all other enemies stop attacking until you finish off the guy you're beating up. If there are four enemies right in front of you, you can arrest or grapple all of them to death, one after the other, and sustain almost no damage. It's just like a Bruce Lee movie, but awful.
To make matters worse, you're nigh invincible. You can take a couple clips before dying; damage is manifested by blood-stains that appear on your clothing. To heal, you simply walk up to a wall and your guy leans against it. After about five seconds, he'll be fit as a fiddle. He only gets about ten seconds worth of rest per mission, though, so watch out. We know it seems silly to take a breather after getting shot, but it isn't any worse than picking up health icons or first aid kits. It's just kinda weird that the developers would identify health packs as unrealistic, and then replace it with something equally unbelievable.
Sam, the thief, is the woeful harbinger of stealth missions. All of her levels basically come down to navigating through a maze of security guards by trial and error, because the enemies never move. They don't yawn, or stretch, and they certainly don't look around. "Hm, I go left, and the game sucks. I go right, and the game sucks. Maybe I'll stop playing." Bingo!
Mitchell and Eddie's driving missions are the best the game has to offer, but still suffer from ubiquity and tedium. Mitchell's can do anything he wants, including run over cops and pedestrians, and never gets heat for it. Eddie, on the other hand, gets chased by the cops if he runs a street light, drives too fast or even swerves a little. The physics engine actually shines during the driving sequences, because ramming other cars is extremely effective. Flying down the freeway at high speeds while a car full of enemies speeds alongside you and then nudging them into oncoming traffic is effective, even if it doesn't result in an explosion.
Good luck figuring out where to go, though, since Black Monday fails to fix one of the biggest problems with the first game: the stupid blinkers. Rather than use a mini-map to navigate through the city, you'll either have to follow the totally unreliable blinkers or pause and check the citywide map. Most blinkers are meant to prevent accidents; these only cause them.
Too bad cars aren't the only thing that crash in Black Monday. The game streams data to avoid loading times, but every once in a while you'll walk through what's obviously a loading tunnel, and when you emerge on the other side everything will be broken. No matter what direction you press, your character will move forward and the controller will stop working. While this puts a damper on the gameplay, we have to applaud the game's artificial intelligence for simply refusing to go on.
The character animations are very stiff and the environmental textures could use'anything, really. They're flat and drab. The camera is fixed behind you and completely flips out if you become obscured by the environment. Even though the cut-scenes are well directed, the character's faces lack definition, spoiling any dramatic tension.
That isn't the case with the voice-acting, however, which is always spot on. Black Monday has some very distinct characters, and this is almost entirely attributed to the excellent voice work. The music loops heavily but is nice and understated. While the sound effects aren't great, other things will bother you much more.
Black Monday offers play options other than the main Story mode, but these are thin and and hardly worthwhile. In "Race," you race against CPU drivers, "Black Cab" makes you take people places, "Chase" makes you wreck CPU drivers, and "Free Roaming" lets you get to cruise around Black Monday's janky version of London. None of these are any fun and were clearly tossed in as an afterthought.
British culture is certainly responsible for some fine works, like Shakespeare, David Bowie and Elizabeth Hurley. But as The Getaway: Black Monday proves, it's also capable of some very bad ones, like the Spice Girls, blood sausage, Prince Harry's Nazi costume, and now Black Monday. Despite the name, we're pretty sure this game sucks every day of the week.


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We're pretty open and honest with our kids. Andrew and I don't hesitate to tell our kids how we feel about things (me, probably more than him) and as a result, they sometimes pick up on our strong opinions about certain issues. Like smoking.
Yesterday, while dangerously running after school errands with all three kids in tow (you never know how 4:00pm errands are going to go after a long day of school, play, etc.) we pulled into the grocery store parking lot to finish up our requisite tasks. As we steered into our parking spot, our four-year-old son (Mr. "Dilvrums") started saying out loud, "uh-oh. Uh-oh, Mommy. Look at that man! Look what he's doing!"
The man in the truck next to us had his hand hanging out the driver's side window; a burning cigarette in his index-middle finger clutch. As he intermittently took a pull from the cigarette, our son kept proclaiming the same warning: "Uh-oh…uh-oh…he's doing something bad!'
After unbuckling our two-year-old, the older two kids proceeded to climb over the middle seat from their third-row positions. Oldest child now exited the car, our middle son awkwardly completed his over-the-seat self extrication, elastic waist band pants slipping to half mast in the process. As he turned to join the other three of us outside the car, he effectively mooned the smoking man who was watching the whole circus act with great intrigue and entertainment.
I, of course, started laughing at the beautiful irony of the whole thing: an accidental exposure of a four-year-old's back side in mockery of the dirty habit he'd just been noticing.


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Hey you! Reader! Want to be a part of the GREATEST COMIC BOOK AND GEEK COMMUNITY on the web?! Well, they're not accepting new members, but we'll take anyone here, so why not sign up for a free acount? It's fast and it's easy, like your mom! Sign up today! Membership spots are limited!*
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by SuperginraiX » Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:36 amStraight to the current topic: http://www.theouthousers.com/forum/view ... &start=395
The rules? We have no rules!
Except we do.
Anyone wishing to participate, post your related artwork and I'll throw it in a nice article next monday. Make sure to include any information that you want put up on the frontpage such as Deviant Art home or Outhouse Art Thread.
If you don't want your art to appear on the frontpage but you still want to post it in THIS thread, just tell me you don't want it on the frontpage and we're cool.
Any offtopic artwork is welcome. It just won't make it in any article unless it's on topic. This should be a good thread to get advise on how to improve your art so feel free to fill it up with any art you want!
If you officially want IN, let me know, I'll add you to the list! You can let me know your topic whenever you think it up and it will also be added. Membership is pretty easy: just show up in the thread once a month. Preferably with art but we know how art is. Still, the more active you are, the better your art will become. I've seen MAJOR improvement by every member of the Newsarama Art Group so it's totally worth it.
OK, that's enough rules. He's our...
Art Group Members
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ziza- The Eternals (topic starts June 22-- Deadline is June 28)
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So let's see what you've got! I'll hopefully have my work done by wednesday. Weekend was full of illness.
by Timbales » Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:12 amholla!
by John Q. » Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:41 amI've never read The Authority, so i did some wiki-diving and settled on The Engineer because she had a pretty cool look.
by SuperginraiX » Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:45 amWhat's the color medium? I like how that turned out!
by John Q. » Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:54 am
Cheers man.
Coloured by hand, using inks and brushes. I prefer to do just about everything by hand.
And then the white was tidied up in (to my mild shame) MS Paint, as i'm on a new computer, and haven't gotten around to find a version of photoshop for it yet.
by Doc Jon » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:34 amHey, john. You did the Engineer justice. Nice job.
by John Q. » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:36 am
Thanks man
by Timbales » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:36 amNice, I like how you did the 'hair' and crown.
by Doc Jon » Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:03 amThe girl would have to go first. She was too unpredictable. But despite her myriad abilities, she was still human, and therefore vulnerable. He would probably have to use the staff to keep his distance, but with the proper application of force, he could sever her vertebrae at the 3rd cervical level and take out Jenny.
Swift and the Engineer would have to be next. The Engineer may be a brilliant woman, but she was no expert in combat, regardless of what wetware she may be employing. In 3,500 of the 3,892 scenarios he ran, the Engineer preferred to use high caliber weapons in trying to take him out. It would be a simple matter of positioning Swift in the line of fire and letting the Engineer do the rest. Despite that technology running through her veins, killing Swift will most certainly make Angie pause, if only for a moment, but it would be enough. The nano-edge dagger he carried could pierce her shell in that moment.
His lover would come next. Apollo, his beautiful husband, would want to talk. He would try to understand these actions. He would hesitate. He felt for the capsule on his belt with just the smallest twinge of guilt. Apollo didn't know about it, but it was developed by Bendix. It would rob the sun god of his abilities for 15 minutes. The Midnighter lost count of the number of ways he could kill a normal man in 15 minutes.
The Doctor would be difficult. In the proper frame of mind, the Doctor might easily be the most powerful being on the planet, but he was soft, easily distracted. Any number of sonic weapons or even something as simple as a flashbang could distract the Doctor from using his abilities.
Hawksmoor was a different story. The man knew how to fight, and would certainly not hesitate to kill. His alien-enhanced form made him difficult to read. There was no scenario he could run that guaranteed him victory, and the Midnighter smiled.
The girl walked into the room from the door that was 15 feet from him. This was not a good position for him, and he would be hard-pressed to close that distance and get into effective combat range. He cursed himself silently for making such a tactical mistake.
"Hey, dad. What chu doing?" Jenny said.
"Nothing, honey. Just thinking."
"Still trying to figure out how to take us all out?" Jenny said casually.
The Midnighter smiled, "You know me so well."
by eltopo » Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:28 pmI guess I should draw something
by eltopo » Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:29 pm
very cool
you did a great job with the texture of the metal
by John Q. » Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:11 pmCheers guys.
Kinda waiting for someone else to put sommet up.
by Doc Jon » Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:12 pmI put something up.
by Mark-G. » Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:50 pmAs I mentioned elsewhere, I don't know anything about the Authority... but after looking into the cast I'll probably end up doing Midnighter. He's seems the closest to my style of drawing.
by misac » Mon Apr 06, 2009 3:26 pmI found out my sister's printer has a scanner so I might join if I can do something half decent.
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F. Vincent Vernuccio is a senior fellow at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He served as the Mackinac Center's director of labor policy between 2012 and 2017.
Vernuccio is a graduate of the Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Mich. Under President George W. Bush he served as special assistant to the assistant secretary for administration and management in the Department of Labor.
Vernuccio has published articles and op-eds in such newspapers and magazines as The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Investor's Business Daily, The Washington Times, National Review, Forbes and The American Spectator. He has been cited in several books, and he is a frequent contributor on national television and radio shows, such as "Your World" with Neil Cavuto and Varney and Company.
Vernuccio is a sought-after voice on labor panels nationally and in Washington, D.C. and as a regular guest on Fox News channels.
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Thanks to everyone for all of the tips on pumping. I'm new to this pumping at work thing (yesterday was my first day).
I seem to be fullest in the morning at 10 AM. I usually feed the baby at 7AM. He is almost five months now and is VERY distracted all the time. I try to nurse him again before I leave since he seems so distracted.
I am going to be home on Mondays and Fridays so will have four days home with the baby. Since he is super distracted these days, should I pump to keep up the supply? He seems to eat a TON around 3-4 AM. I know that some babies will get a big portion of their calories in their night feeding but is that good for supply too? Just getting ahead of myself and worried about not producing enough.
And last question: I have the Medela PISA and I am thinking about getting a second one to keep at my office. Should I hold off on that given that I hear that supply dips at 9 months and think about getting a hospital grade rental instead? Thanks everyone!


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So today I'm going to show you my home office because there are a lot of RED things there.
Here's the collage I made:
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My office has a lot of books. That's an understatement, eh? There are so many books I have to double shelve them, ones in front and in back. I also have a TV in my office and it's ON ALL THE TIME! It's background noise and keeps me company while I work.
Why don't you look around your office. Do you see a lot of RED? Why don't you post photos of your office for our next Ruby Tuesday.
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