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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's proposal that the federal government grant 50,000 visas to immigrants willing to settle and work in Detroit shows, once again, that some of the most innovative and creative ideas about immigration are coming from the state and local levels, according to SUNY Buffalo Law immigration law expert Rick T. Su.
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Snyder's recommendation, seen as a relatively open and accepting policy in the immigration debate, proves the federal government's current "one-size-fits-all" approach to immigration policy-making is a mistake, says Su, associate professor in the UB Law School.
"Immigration policy is established at the federal level," Su says. "But the impact of those policies — and immigration more generally — vary from state to state, locality to locality.
"The current, uniform, national immigration policy simply does not account for this reality."
Because all of the nation's immigration policy is centralized in Washington, D.C., there is not much room for state and local input, Su explains. And this ignores the valuable creativity and innovation coming from state and local municipalities closely aware of their particular immigration situation. The Detroit proposal is an excellent example of how these local governments can offer valuable suggestions and solutions, based on individual needs and circumstances.
"Countries like Canada are already starting to decentralize immigration policy-making by allowing for a greater provincial role," says Su. "Instead of continuing to exclude states and localities from the political negotiation over immigration, federal policymakers would do well to formally include them in the process."
The Michigan governor's proposal asks President Obama to set aside 50,000 work visas over the next five years to attract talented immigrants to live and work in bankrupt Detroit. Snyder says his immigration proposal sends the message that "Detroit is open to the world."
The proposal follows two other pro-immigration plans Snyder proposed last week. He opened an Office for New Americans to attract and help immigrants better adjust to life in Michigan, and then designated his state as a center to expedite visas and permits for immigrants who want to open businesses in the state with investments of at least $500,000 and 10 employees.
These proposals are exactly the kind of local, innovative thinking that addresses immigration according to regional needs rather than a blanket policy set in Washington that ignores specific circumstances, Su notes.
He has been interviewed extensively on immigration in recent years, often expressing his views that the most important changes in immigration follow state laws and local reaction to national mandates, not comprehensive national law.
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Knickerbocker Special Cocktail
1 Teaspoonful Raspberry Syrup. (Monin Raspberry Syrup)
1 Teaspoonful Lemon Juice.
1 Teaspoonful Orange Juice.
1 Chunk of Pineapple.
2/3 Rum. (1 1/2 oz Inner Circle Green Rum)
2 Dashes of Curacao. (2/3 tsp. Luxardo Triplum)
(Muddle pineapple in juices and spirits. Ice, shake, and double strain into a cocktail glass.)
According to Mr. Wondrich's book, "Imbibe!" The Knickerbocker was a popular cocktail in the mid to late 19th Century.
Jerry Thomas included a version of the drink in his 1862 book, which went like so:
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1/2 a lime or lemon, squeeze out the juice, and put rind and juice in the glass.
2 tea-spoonsfuls of Raspberry Syrup.
1 Wine-Glass Santa Cruz Rum.
1/2 Teaspoonful of Curacao.
Cool with shaved ice; shake up well, and ornament with berries in season. If this is not sweet enough, put in a little more raspberry Syrup
Uh, oops. Well, if I had known that when I was making it, I would have given this drink the same controversial treatment I gave the King Cole!
Wondrich goes on to add about the Knickerbocker, "With its rum and its lime juice, its syrups and liqueurs, the Knickerbocker is the spiritual progenitor of the Tiki Drink. Think of it as an 1850s Mai Tai–similar drink, different island."
Even in its, "somewhat bastardized form," here in the Savoy Cocktail Book it is a very good drink for a hot day. A tad girly with the raspberry syrup, but with a pleasing and harmonious flavor that belies the seriousness of the rum lurking in the background.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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AVENTURA, Fla. (AP) -- According to Guinness World Records, the largest chocolate mousse was created in Florida.
Records show that the new world record mousse was prepared during Aventura Mall's annual Chocolate Festival on Oct. 6th. The mall announced the record title on Monday. Two chefs, along with culinary students, endured five hours of non-stop pastry preparation to create the mousse that weighed in at 496 pounds. The previous record of 313 pounds was set in France in 2010.
What's in the world's largest chocolate mousse? Sixty-six pounds of butter, 108 pounds of chocolate, 24 pounds of egg yolk, 20 pounds of sugar, 50 quarts of heavy cream and five gallons of milk.
The goal was also to raise funds for the non-profit organization, Children's Craniofacial Association.


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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari to quit an Arab summit in protest at a meeting earlier this week between Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi and Iraqi opposition figures, a top Arab diplomat told AFP on Thursday. But Zebari, who is in the Libyan Mediterranean city of Sirte to attend a meeting of Arab foreign ministers and to represent Iraq at a summit on Saturday and Sunday, told AFP he had not decided on his next move.
According to the diplomat, Maliki ordered Zebari to pack up and go home as the foreign ministers started meetings to prepare for the weekend summit. "Maliki instructed Zebari to leave by the end of the day Thursday in protest at a meeting granted by Kadhafi to a delegation of Iraqi opposition figures," the diplomat said.
He ordered that the Iraqi delegation to the Arab summit be scaled back, leaving behind in Sirte Iraq's permanent representative to the Arab League.
Arab League chief Amr Mussa met privately with Zebari over breakfast on Thursday to try to contain the diplomatic spat between Libya and Iraq, and convince the Iraqi foreign minister to remain for the summit. Several Arab foreign ministers also tried to persuade Iraq's top diplomat to stay.
Libya's official JANA news agency said that Kadhafi received a high-ranking delegation of Iraqi opposition leaders on Sunday, including former members of the outlawed Baath party of now executed dictator Saddam Hussein.


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Roll-Rite has released the new 10900 electric kit that features a heavy-duty relay. Customers may purchase the kit to retrofit their tarp systems for more efficient operation. The new relay features silver alloy versus copper contacts to increase resistance to corrosion and exceed the 30-amp rating required to run Roll-Rite tarp systems.
"Customers wanted to use our electric kit to run an existing tarp system on their vehicle that utilized a motor that pulled up to 100 amps," explained Steven Searfoss, customer service manager at Roll-Rite.
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Mudbloods and the Dangers They Pose to a Peaceful Pure-Blood Society is a pamphlet that was printed and distributed enmasse by the Ministry of Magic while it was under Lord Voldemort's control during the height of the Second Wizarding War. It was written by Dolores Umbridge, head of the Muggle-Born Registration Commission, and contained propaganda against Muggle-borns, disparagingly referred to as "Mudbloods".
Content and purpose
The pamphlets were pink, with the title in orange letters. Beneath the title was a picture of "a red rose with a simpering face in the middle of its petals, being strangled by a green weed with fangs and a scowl".[1] Evidently, this was the metaphor the Death Eater-controlled Ministry wanted to make regarding Muggle-borns being allowed into the wizarding world, which they believed should be reserved for pure-bloods. Presumably, the pamphlet also perpetrated the bigoted belief that Muggle-borns are inferior to those with wizarding heritage.
Known contents included: "Mudbloods & the Dangers They Post to the Wizarding World", "How to Recognise a Mudblood", "What to Do When Faced with Mudbloods", "The Importance of a Pure-Blood Society", details on the Mudbloods Relocation Program, and copies of Ministerial Decree Number 184 and Number 188.[2]
Production and dissemination
Harry Potter came across a dozen wizards and witches creating hundreds of the pamphlets when he, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger infiltrated the Ministry in September of 1997. Harry suspected that Umbridge was the author. This was partly because one of the manufacturers asked a fellow employee if "the old hag" would be "interrogating Mudbloods all day", and partly because the scars on the back of his hand, caused by his many punishments by Umbridge in his fifth year, "seemed to tingle" as he read the front of the pamphlet.
Its dissemination was part of a larger effort to discriminate against Muggle-borns, which included requiring them to register with the Muggle-Born Registration Commission, stripping them of their wands and jobs, imprisoning them in Azkaban for supposedly stealing magic, and teaching anti-Muggle and Muggle-born propaganda at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which also did not allow any Muggle-born students.[1]
Presumably, this propaganda was no longer produced after Lord Voldemort's defeat and the reform of the Ministry of Magic in 1998.
Behind the scenes
- In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, the pamphlet is subtitled "The Dangers They Pose to a Perfect Pure-Blood Society". The image described as appearing on the cover in the novel is also absent from the pamphlet in the film. Props from the film, however, show that the images showcasing the rose and weeds symbolism were moved to the interior content instead.[2]
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Pottermore
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 13 (The Muggle-Born Registration Commission)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (see these images)


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The Flash has Captain Cold and Gorilla Grodd. Batman has the Joker and Two-Face. Superman has Lex Luthor and...the terrible Toyman? Take a look inside the mind of one of Superman's strangest and most twisted adversaries as the original Toyman, Winslow Schott, returns to Metropolis. Plus, an alien who is everything Superman isn't is heading towards Earth. And he's not alone.
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Johnny Depp to kick off Film Independent's LACMA movie series
Johnny Depp will kick off the new Film Independent at LACMA Film Series on Oct. 13 with the premiere of "The Rum Diary," starring the Oscar-nominated actor. Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art made the announcement Tuesday.
The series replaces LACMA's longstanding weekend film series, whose curators included the late Ron Haver and more recently, Ian Birnie. Film Independent at LACMA is curated by film critic Elvis Mitchell in collaboration with LACMA film coordinator Bernardo Rondeau and Film Independent's programming team.
The series' weekly schedule officially begins Oct. 27, but there will be four earlier events, starting with the world premiere of Bruce Robinson's "The Rum Diary." In addition to Depp, the film stars Amber Heard and Aaron Eckhart, all of whom will be in attendance.
Writer-director Sean Durkin and actress Elizabeth Olsen will be on hand on Oct. 16 for the screening of the Sundance Film Festival hit "Martha Marcy May Marlene. " Two days later, LACMA will screen Charlie Chaplin's 1936 masterpiece, "Modern Times," with his 1922 short "Pay Day."
Jason Reitman will present a live read of John Hughes' script for the 1985 teen classic "The Breakfast Club" on Oct. 20. LACMA promises a surprise cast.
The official weekly series begins with Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1961 drama "Accatone!"
For more information go to www.lacma.org/film
LACMA to stage fundraising gala for its film program
Elvis Mitchell will head new LACMA film series
-- Susan King
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The current Lotus F1 team and the historic Team Lotus have basically nothing to do with each other. But that doesn't matter when cars like the 350 horsepower Lotus Exige LF1 exist in all their black and gold glory.
Lotus will be building 81 of these semi-F1 liveried badasses, none of which will be making their way to the USA. That's not really surprising, considering we only get the Exige as a track day special right now anyway.
So why are they building 81 of them? Apparently it's to commemorate Lotus's 81 GP victories, the last being Kimi Raikkonen's triumph at the Australian GP in 2013. Each car will have a plaque so you know just what win you're remembering when you're in the car. Of course, Lotus is counting all 79 wins under the Team Lotus banner as well as the two that have been achieved by the Lotus F1 team.
These cars will be equipped with the Exige Race Pack and dynamic performance management system. That means it has launch control and Pirelli Trofeo R tires. If you want to get in on this sweet F1-inspired action, you just need £62,900. You also need to live anywhere Lotus sells cars.
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What causes ringworm in kids and how is it treated?
Q. What causes ringworm in kids and how is it treated?
A. Ringworm is not a worm at all but a rash caused by a skin infection with a fungus called tinea. Tinea can infect the feet (athlete's foot), the groin (jock itch), the scalp, or other parts of the body. The infection is often spread through skin-to-skin contact, but it can also be spread through clothing, hair combs, sports equipment, towels, or a locker room floor. You can also be infected from touching infected cats, dogs, or pet birds.
Dr. Bianca Shagrin, a pediatrician at Cambridge Health Alliance, says that while ringworm can occur in people of all ages, children are more susceptible to certain kinds "because their immune systems are less developed, and also because they often have close contact with their peers." She says that on the body it usually looks like a red, raised, scaly circle, and the middle gradually lightens to form a ring. A circular rash at the infected site may spread or multiply.
"Usually it responds well to the daily application of an antifungal cream," she says. An over-the-counter cream or ointment with clotrimazole is usually enough, but a doctor can prescribe other topical or oral antifungal medications for extensive or severe rashes. It's also worth seeing a doctor if symptoms are not obvious. "Sometimes ringworm can be confused with other common rashes like eczema or psoriasis," Shagrin says. Avoid direct contact with the rash when it's active, and wash clothes, sheets, and towels that might carry the fungus.
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This must be not a new attack (I've found an almost year old article that mentions gcounter iframes) but I started to notice it this past weekend. First, on the Google's Webmaster Forums, then in the Unmask Parasites logs. So I guess it's a new wave of the attack.
When I first encountered a site infected by gcounter, I checked it with Unmask Parasites. Nothing suspicious was found except for the fact that the domain name was blacklisted by Google. I checked the diagnostic page and found this clue:
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I was out shopping, looking for mascara, and noticed that a lot of products say "hypoallergenic" on them. It got me thinking, what does hypoallergenic really mean? Is it a material that's used? Is there a certification for it? Less allergic than what? I was surprised at some of the answers I found.
As it turns out, our President Walt knows about this topic.
"Hypoallergenic is a word that was created by a small cosmetic company in the early 1960s, and was quickly adopted by the advertising industry to describe products that produce fewer allergic reactions.
The Greek prefix HYPO literally means "less" or "below," so when a product is designated as hypoallergenic it means that it will conceivably trigger fewer allergic reactions in people who suffer from allergies.
The term does not relate to chemical exposures. The expression has no medical definition, and there is no certification process or organization that reviews whether a product using the word "hypoallergenic" can prove any lessening of allergic reactions." – "Sleep Safe in a Toxic World" page 22.
With some further research, I found that the use of the word "hypoallergenic" certainly doesn't stop at cosmetics. It's evolved with everything from bedding, cleaning supplies, shampoo even to pets. What a wide array of t items that can potentially be labeled "hypoallergenic"!
The frustrating thin, is that it allows companies to make you believe that you are buying a product that will reduce the severity of allergies or even prevent the chance of having an allergic reaction, when in fact there are no certifications for it. It can be used in any way by companies to market their products, and is one of the most commonly used greenwashing terms out there. (For more information on greenwashing, check out our blog HERE.)What does "hypoallergenic" mean?
"Hypoallergenic" is used to represent synthetic products and materials in a flattering light. For example, a polyester dust-mite cover may be of use in keeping dust mites at bay for allergy sufferer, but that's only part of the story. Such products can also expose users to chemical offgassing and other hazards. Choose certified materials and products for relief from allergy symptoms and chemical exposure. –Lifekind website (http://www.lifekind.com/index.php/site_organic_products?sub=site_organic_ask)
Next time you see the word"hypoallergenic" on a product, ask yourself, "What makes this product hypoallergenic?" You may find that no measures are actually taken to make this loosely used marketing word true.


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|2008-11-23, 12:13
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MC Breed died today... Shame... Here's some good joints for y'all.
Ain't No Future In Yo Frontin'
Gotta Get Mine (feat TUPAC)
And here's a badass compilation video that has some of the best songs EVER.
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|2008-11-24, 14:29
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: London, England
Age: 29
I have a huge liking for Eazy E's music, I'm abit more old school as I use to listen to Ice T, public enemy and NWA, alot of gangster rap but now I just listen to Nas, Jay z and afew old tracks from Big L and Tupac.
The villian is back, MC Ren bringing out a new album soon, I listened to the first two songs and there good. Mc ren will always go with lyrics over beat.
|2008-11-25, 16:45
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Thank god most stations still play old school during lunchtime.
I used to live in LA, and the radio stations there play better old school mix!
|2008-12-04, 22:55
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: North Carolina, USA
Age: 29
Are there any J Dilla (see the screenname) fans around here? He wasn't really a rapper, though he was a member of Slum Village back in the day. He could rap, but he specialized in making beats, which were very much awesome. Could listen to his Donuts instumental album without break, and it has 31 tracks on it.
Immortal Technique is raw and a great lyricist, but there are times when I need to take a break from the conspiracy theories...on occasion.
Tech N9ne? Yep.
Madvillian & Stones Throw? Uh huh.
Guilty Simpson? Look him up, he's pretty mint when he's with Dilla at least.
Tupac? Is a given. And this is so true.
Kanye West? I have his all albums but the new one (808s & Heartbreak), the Auto-tune is nice for one song, but after an entire album of it, I doubt I could take it.
I just stopped after a while, though, not really worth it.
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|2009-02-14, 17:45
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I like what the OP is trying to do so I will actually put up an effort to break it down a little bit for people who actually wanted to give rap a chance but don't know where to look because all they hear and see is the bullshit the radio stations and music video channels shove in our ears Heres a very small guide to help point you in the right direction.
Rap is brand new compared to a genre like rock n roll, and its not as wide but there still are a decent amount of niches in it. This is no official categorization, but this is how I view it and I don't think you can go wrong with it. (and btw, this list is only a quick run down for anyone looking to get into it, its about the current people and its in NO WAY complete. There are a lot of people I didn't mention that are really good):
Real Rap: okay everyone in this category has lyrical skill, even if they only concentrate on one subject or style of word play. These people actually worked hard at their craft, went to the studio, and basically it takes a lot of skill to do what they've done.
Culture/Politics/self-improvement/righteousness: These guys mainly focus on the bolded text above. They rap about current events, fucked up laws, and about struggles in life. Now I put emphasis on "mainly" because they sometimes dabble in the other below from time to time, but its still good.
Talib Kwali – this guy is really good. This is his genre all the way, and even though he rarely dabbles in other niche genres, you wont be bored.
Mos Def – One of the greats (in my book). My favorite album by him is "Black on Both Sides". He really mixes it up in terms of style, and the majority of it is contained in this category. You'll have fun listening to this album, and he sounds like he had fun creating it.
Lupe Fiasco – a new guy on the scene but with a refreshing sound, especially compared to all the trash that's playing on the radio. If you can, check out "The Cool". My favorite track is "Dumb it Down", in a nutshell, he explains why theres so much shit out there right now, and affirms that he wont turn his music into shit just to sell a few more records. He's pretty good and is definitely worth a listen.
Canibus** – Okay, this guy is one of the greatest lyricists to ever hold a microphone. His career is a tragedy, he really should have gone way farther than he did. He fits in this category and gangster rap, and you will be blown away by a lot of his work. His beats are pretty bad, but many people feel that was done intentionally to ruin his career – and it is ruined. Either way, listen to any of his freestyles, and on his albums check out "Channel Zero", "Buckingham Palace", or really almost anything. His lyrical skill and word play are insane. Please come back and comment if you do.
Nas**– My personal favorite MC. I put him in this category but really he could fit in just about anywhere because his content touches all bases and he can still be among the best in any genre. He has interesting metaphors and his song content can REALLY make you think about your life. His latest album is "Untitled" and it was excellent. Many people don't like gangster rap, but this guy can still make it meaningful. "I gave you Power" is one of his most creative songs where he raps from the point of view of a gun that is tired of killing… This guy is extremely creative; the worst thing about him is his production/beats, but with his creative style, you most likely wont even mind.
Jay-z** – the best for last. When he says hes the master of all flows, hes not joking. I put him in this category, but he can really fit anywhere he wants, he talks about EVERYTHING. He is the most consistent, and he can come into anyone's category and beat them at their game. His worst album imo was "Kingdom Come" and "Dynasty" but you really can't go wrong with any of his albums they're still really good. Listen to "Meet the Parents", "Where you from", "You Must Love Me", omg theres so much. Please come back and post your opinion on those. Imo he is the best ever (nas is still my fav. Though), because he is the most complete.
Gangster Rap: okay, I know I know, this is the genre that gets the most hate. But its really not as bad as people make it seem. It can be fun to listen to and they still make good use of metaphors. These guys are still pretty damn good, and mostly everyone knows that its just music… MOST normal people anyways.
Jadakiss: This guy is fuckin' nice. His metaphors and slick comments are really fun to listen to and he has some funny skits. His voice is also a big asset – and even though hes mostly a gangster rapper he'll dabble a bit into Nas' genre, and you wont get bored with his albums.
Beanie Sigel: He's a beast, really aggressive, hardcore shit. You can tell hes not just making shit up either. Fun fact for those of you who don't know, he battled Jadakiss twice and won both times. But, I still like Jadakiss better, his albums keep me more interested.
DMX: yeah, hes long gone and his career is over. BUT.. listen to his first two albums, they are incredible. And, he dropped them both in the same year – they both went over platinum. Hes definetly one of the best gangster rappers ever, and he probably has more content and substance than anyone else in here. Please, listen to the song "Damien" on his first album… (and the 2nd part of that is on his second album btw, excellent shit)
Fabolous: Yeah that's how he spells his name lol. But hes also a beast. Hes quick and drops punchlines at you really fast, sometimes you'll get a delayed reaction and realize what he just said and laugh about it. Sometimes the punch lines can get a bit old though.
Club music: This is the stuff that gets a lot of air time. I don't listen to it much but when you're in a club, yeah you'll have fun with it. Im not even going to mention many of these guys here because you're probably tired of hearing this shit on the radio anyway. I know I am, which is why I don't waste my time listening to the stupid radio.
T.I. : Hes one of the few southern rappers that I take seriously. He has a good flow and his lyrics are on point. He dabbles between ganster rap and club music.
Ludacris: He used to be just a club song type of rapper but hes gotten WAY better. Hes been moving away from this category actually.
BULLSHIT RAP: Okay this stuff is straight up trash. I don't even really want to even call it rap music. But, guess what? Its what these assholes are playing on the radio the majority of the time and its really what gives the entire rap genre a bad name. It takes little to no skill to be like these guys, most of them are really just gimics, or they came up because of their image (or both). I HATE THIS SHIT. Its like a rap version of bullshit pop music, stuff that people listen to for shits n giggles.
"soulja boi" – hopefully hes about to crash, I heard when he actually made an album it sold like 30k copies… What really gets to me is that he actually thinks hes good, and talks shit about Nas (of all people) and other REAL RAPPERS.
"chingy" – this guy is already done, but when he was around omg. They played his video all fuckin day. Talk about dumbing down society.
"TPain" – This guy is trash. He has no real talent, he just makes decent beats and uses voice distortion. Zero substance, no real lyrical skill, just trash.
You know what , fuck it pretty much ALL (Southern Crunk Music): most of this stuff is trash. Its just one chorous for the entire song over a beat with ridiculous bass. Its mostly played in clubs, but for some reason its been getting crazy radio play for the passed few years. Theres really no lyrical content and ZERO substance. Honestly, anyone can do this stuff.
This list was just a brief intro, theres way more than this, but if you didn't know where to go or you didn't know if this stuff had any real substance there you go. Please don't base your opinion on the trash you hear on the radio, that stuff doesn't give it its justice AT ALL. This genre can be really fun and a great genre to listen to if you give it a chance and know where to look. Hope you have fun - Scorpian
Oh, and in case anyone was wondering heres my top 5 (alive):
1. Jay-Z
2. Nas
3. Jadakiss (yeah, he got beat by Seigel but hes more of a complete rapper, and better overall)
4. Eminem
5. Beanie Siegel
|2009-03-11, 21:15
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Yukio Sumadera Fan
Join Date: Aug 2006
Never really dug Jay-Z enough to place him on my top 5 rappers list.
Now I respect Jay-Z as an artist and all, don't get me wrong, but the whole paying tribute to BIG by using a bajillion of his lines didn't float well with me.
Eminem? Whack. He had moderate skill back in the days of Infinite and the Slim Shady LP, but seriously, nowadays he's just purely trash.
Rakim is at the top of my favorite rappers, always has been and always will be. Beyond Rakim, my other favorites are kinda just lumped together in a random list.
A nice little website for the skeptics to check out is artofrhyme.com
A good selection of songs to check out on the AOR Radio, most of them reviewed relatively comprehensively under the New Joints category.
If anything, on the current playlist I'd recommend the skeptics to check out:
Atmosphere - Guarantees
C-Rayz Walz - In Your Soul
Cy Yung - Hip Hop's Forever
k-os - Zambony
Novel - Mad World (nice spin-off of Gary Jules' original)
Now On - Party Like A Politician (really deep song)
Tonedeff - Warden
On a different note, People Under The Stairs is a pretty production heavy group worth checking out.
Guilty pleasures at the moment: Estell and Kanye - American Boy
Ya Boy - We Run LA (lol, this dude's from the bay, NorCal, but here he is repping LA)
|2009-03-15, 12:44
|Link #214
She's a Genius I swear it
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Far away from Hinamizawa
Nice to see you posting again SilentKnight. Been getting into some old school stuff like Rakim, KMD, A tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, etc. Just wondering around what year did Rakim really become popular? Also on Skate they labeled the song "know the ledge" as "Juice" which is correct?
|2009-03-17, 20:02
|Link #215
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Age: 30
Dr.dre and Snoop dogg? Don't these heavy hitters deserve some mention? They brought out the era of rap that I will never forget, same goes to Tupac. Still one of my favorites to this day is Still D.R.E, no sticks, no stem, no seeds oo that sticky icky. Also from the "new guard" im digging the game, especially after breaking out of fiddies circle. Most hip hop on the radio is pretty bad, because you'd never hear lupe on stations that play chris brown and his like.
|2009-03-17, 20:48
|Link #216
Graphic Designer
Wait. I don't really understand the title of this. And.... there's intelligent hip hop/rap? O.o
In all honesty, I love classic hip hop, rather than the pure crap that plays now. Especially 90s things. Call me crazy, but I think those were the best beats of any songs. ^^ I really have to say this. I can't see intelligent rap because of everything I see now:
and Stanky Legg, just to name a few. It's songs like these that make me disrespect hip hop all together, which is mainly the reason why I can't stand it. Other things I hate is the way they materialize women, and treat them badly, pure crap IMO, is all I can say.
My favorite rapper of all time has to be Eminem, sure he made some pretty stupid songs at times like Smack Dat. But he also had a lot of meaningful, and helpful songs, with a very nice flow, and some hot rhymes as well.
Hip Hop is pretty much dead as everyone says, I don't see why people try to "ressurect" it with stupid songs that get them no respect, with the exception of the people stupid enough to buy the CDs and put money in these rapper's pockets, honestly.
Also, I feel I have to say this. I am African American. I come to expect some kind of stupid comment like "Oh, you a cracker." or something like that from time to time. I just had to put that out there.
|2009-03-18, 04:12
|Link #218
Yukio Sumadera Fan
Join Date: Aug 2006
I actually don't see anything wrong with backpackers. If anything it's like, the reason why someone would adhere to being a backpacker so strongly is because he/she fails to see anything of true quality in the mainstream. If anything it makes you come to grips with the current state of hip hop and how much the culture has changed since the days of Kool Herc, EPMD, etc.
Hip Hop is like any genre out there in that you have to make an effort to find quality material.
For skeptical listeners, the underground hip hop scene is definitely a good gateway as it presents a dense collection of unique artists without having to sift through the T-Pain's and Soulja Boys.
Listening in to some of the better acts of the mainstream sometimes requires somewhat of a aesthetic appreciation of hip hop culture and the street life.
If you're looking to just drop by the local record store and pick up a record at random though:
Talib Kweli
Gym Class Heroes
Lupe Fiasco
Pharoahe Monch
The Roots
|2009-03-18, 17:26
|Link #220
Yukio Sumadera Fan
Join Date: Aug 2006
In context it usually refers to a collective of people who act like they have touched upon everything there is to hip hop culture simply by delving into the independent labels, when in fact they haven't even gone so far as to trace rap music back to its roots and humble beginnings.
Either way, it's not a term for newcomers to worry about. Just listen to what you find appealing (be it Sage Francis, Deltron, etc.) and move on to mainstream or whatever when you're ready. Keep an open mind to suggestions and don't dismiss them before you've given them a shot.
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NO POCKETS OF POLIO — The pockets of polio left in this country can be wiped out if every newborn baby is immunized. "We need a door-bell ringing campaign in the poorer sections where vaccination is ignored," Dr. Donald A. Henderson, surveillance chief of the U.S. Public Health Service's Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta, Ga., told SCIENCE SERVICE…. Dr. Albert B. Sabin, University of Cincinnati Medical Center scientist who developed the Sabin oral live-virus polio vaccine that in three years has been used for more than 250 million persons, ... says that "systematic ongoing programs" with oral vaccines must be kept in operation for the new generations of children if polio is to be eliminated. — Science News Letter


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Roman Catholic priest convicted of strangling, stabbing nun in hospital chapel dies in prison
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Roman Catholic priest convicted of killing a nun in an Ohio hospital chapel 34 years ago has died. The Rev. Gerald Robinson was 76.
Robinson was serving 15 years to life in prison. His attorney, Richard Kerger, says the family told him Robinson died Friday morning at a Columbus prison hospice unit.
A federal court had refused Thursday to release Robinson so he could die in his hometown, Toledo.
Robinson was convicted in 2006 of strangling and stabbing Sister Margaret Ann Pahl during Easter weekend in 1980. Church historians have said it's the only documented case of a priest killing a nun.
Prosecutors say Pahl's domineering ways angered Robinson. They say he tried to humiliate Pahl in her death. Her wounds formed an upside-down cross. Robinson maintained his innocence.


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Emily Variation 1
Added May 19, 2008
By burdastyle
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Here is a fun variation of our classic Emily blouse. With wide bell sleeves and a sweet flat collar, this is a great addition to any wardrobe. The BS-021 Emily Variation 1 PDF pattern contains the collar, sleeve, and sleeve cuff variations. You will also need to download the original Emily pattern for the rest of the blouse pieces.
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light woven cotton
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May 2, 2011, 08.29 AMby tasallison
whoa brown vinyl shorts and weird socks….. love the top though!
Jun 1, 2009, 06.15 AMby difazio
so, you guys are still selling the emily variation for $3.00 yet it comes with no additional instructions – i assumed to attach the collar i'd make the collar stand as included in the original pattern. but alas, i now have a ridiculous looking collar faux pas and no idea how to fix it. there's been some talk on here, and many people referencing a long-vanished site which had a tutorial, but surely burda should be providing even just a basic peter pan collar tutorial, particularly as it is in one of their patterns?!? please burdastyle – sort this glaring omission out!! (or alternatively, someone post their own guide to pp collars?)
Mar 7, 2009, 06.56 PMby stylinlilmiss826
nice this shud be in Vogue and those shorts are really haute too<3
Jan 7, 2009, 08.30 AMby ginko
absolutely fabulous silhouette! I will put it on my to-do list.
Nov 21, 2008, 12.39 AMby minniemaew
geezz this is so cute
May 25, 2008, 11.24 AMby theonly1iknow
this is v cute indeed! i love the collar, thinking of adding short sleeves :-) ooh i feel another project coming on
May 21, 2008, 02.29 AMby lybu
omg, this is a cool one. I want to have it.
May 20, 2008, 05.54 AMby carottesauvage
Super fun!
May 20, 2008, 05.53 AMby jj1
I love the way you play with fabrics. I like the collar alot but I'm not so crazy about the sleeves because I think I'm too old for this type of sleeves. Anyhow, I'll make this shirt with your collar and come up with other sleeve variation. Thank you so much Burdastyle team members.
May 20, 2008, 05.27 AMby staticstasy
This is so amazing! Exactly what I wanted!!! Thanks a lot! I will be making it soon… :)
May 20, 2008, 02.32 AMby naughtylittlepony
Super cute!
May 20, 2008, 02.00 AMby polychromatin
I also saw it before on a german website and it is sooo cool! I'll definitely make this, so sweet :)
May 20, 2008, 12.49 AMby christinesarah
oh so cute – i love the collar….
May 19, 2008, 10.40 PMby fashion1
really fun and cool variation! I will make it!
May 19, 2008, 10.39 PMby luzie
so cute – i love the sleeves and the collar!
May 19, 2008, 07.40 PMby shiba
i have got to make this…..
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weeeee… my wish came true! I saw the emily variation at the page in facebook, i like it so much! yeaa
May 19, 2008, 03.33 PMby nuiwida23
oooh, very nice. i LOVE the fabric!
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College sued for 'free speech zone' requiring advance notice of content
"A college in Ohio has decided that students' constitutional rights are available on a whopping 1 percent of its campus, and it has ended up in court because of the decision.
In a lawsuit brought by the Alliance Defending Freedom, it is alleged a student was prohibited from exercising his speech by passing out pro-life fliers anywhere on campus except for a small "speech zone."
"Colleges should be the marketplace of ideas," said David Hacker, a senior legal counsel for the organization. "Free speech should not be censored or limited to a ridiculously small area on campus, nor should students need permission to hand out flyers.
"The First Amendment protects freedom of speech for all students in the outdoor areas of campus, regardless of their religious or political beliefs," he continued.
The organization said Columbus State Community College, which has campuses in several areas of Columbus, limits student speech to two small speech zones that occupy less than 1 percent of the college's main campus.
And students are required to get permission for their speech in advance.
According to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the case was brought on behalf of student Spencer Anderson
The organization said the colleges solicitation policy governs the "dissemination or posting of any verbal, written, or pictorial material such as flyers, notices, requests to pledge or join any organization."
Under a subheading titled "Assembly," it describes the college's two "designated areas for public speech and assembly" and demands "all organizations and individuals must request to use this space for public speech and solicitation and must do so in writing at least one business day in advance."
"Policies like CSCC's that grant administrators broad discretion give them ample opportunity to allow or disallow expression based on the content or viewpoint that the speaker wishes to share, and CSCC administrators may very well have taken advantage of that opportunity," The FIRE report said.
"CSCC students, it would seem, are not mean to be active, are not meant to challenge each others' views or share information with each other in the hopes of sparking a discussion or changing someone's mind," the report said. "But this idea is anathema to the purpose of college and, needless to say, in terrible conflict with the principles of the First Amendment."
According to the ADF, it was in June when Anderson, a Christian student at Columbus State Community College, was required by college officials to get a permit 48 hours in advance to distribute fliers about his new pro-life student group.
"Officials assigned him to one of the two speech zones and forbade him from exiting the zone to speak with people or hand out his fliers," the organization said.
According to the complaint, the speech zones comprise less than 1 percent of the college's 80-acre campus. In April, Anderson was involved in another pro-life display on campus subjected to similar restrictions.
Meanwhile, college officials have approved other groups, such as students associated with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, to distribute flyers and speak to students outside the speech zones.
The lawsuit explains that the college's speech policy prohibits students from speaking spontaneously in reaction to news and current events on the public sidewalks and open spaces of the campus.
"Free, spontaneous discourse on college campuses is supposed to be a hallmark of higher education rather than the exception to the rule," added Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot. "We hope that Columbus State Community College will revise its policy so that its students can exercise their constitutionally protected freedoms." -- Bob Unruh


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Guest Post by Steve Gold, General Counsel for ActBlue
Stemming the growing tide of money in politics has become a fool's errand. Recent opinions out of the Supreme Court have made it clear that the entrenched conservative majority have every intention of expanding the scope of constitutionally protected spending in campaigns, which means even more advertising by independent groups. And the Court's attitude towards political money has now trickled down to the FEC, which is effectively on strike. Commissioner Donald McGahn, the ideological leader of the deregulating Republican commissioners, recently spent 45 pages (.pdf) excoriating what he considers his Democratic colleagues' overzealous regulation of political activity going back years. Bolstered by opinions from the Roberts Court, McGahn principally argued one overarching point: The FEC is not permitted to exercise their judgment.
Under the law, the FEC may regulate campaign advertising only if the ad expressly advocates the election or defeat of a federal candidate. The statement issued by McGahn — and by extension the other Republican commissioners, who so often follow his lead — makes it clear that he (and they) will block the enforcement of rules on the books which instruct the Commission to consider contextual factors when trying to determine whether it contains express advocacy, not just the words or images within the four corners of an advertisement. McGahn believes that the rule should be that, unless a special interest runs an advertisement containing the "magic words" listed in Buckley v. Valeo (vote for, elect, support, etc.) or their "functional equivalent," then the FEC has no business regulating it. Insert advertisement; check for magic words; out pops regulation. Or not.
The problem with this approach is that IBM recently demonstrated (although they may not know it) that the vast majority of political spending will fall outside the rule, and thus, regulation. Some very smart engineers at IBM worked for years developing a very smart computer named Watson that could compete with the very smartest Jeopardy contestants. Like McGahn's "four corners" rule, initially the engineers programmed Watson to rely on millions and millions of "rules" in order to reason out the answers to questions: water is wet; parents love their children; you smile when you're happy. They quickly found that, unlike the best Jeopardy players who answer correctly 90% of the time, Watson could only find the right answer 10% of the time by relying on matching the magic words with the rules. It wasn't until the engineers allowed Watson to look for patterns in multitudes of old Jeopardy questions, providing the context needed to decode a Jeopardy clue, that Watson managed to perform like a real contestant and defeat two of the greatest ever to play the game. No simple rule could ever have provided Watson with the key to that lock.
The essence of a Jeopardy clue, and of political advertising, is complex language: puns, double meanings, allusions. Candidates and their surrogates campaign in poetry, but the Supreme Court and the FEC have said campaigns must be regulated in prose. The inevitable result is that campaign finance reform will only ever be able to restrict a very small portion of the spending done by forces which distort our political discourse, at least until there is a significant change in personnel on the Court. The obvious answer, as Yale Law professor Heather Gerken argues, is to focus on "leveling up" and "using politics to fix politics." Rather than attempting to keep corrupting money out of the system, we should increase the amount of productive money in the system to neutralize that unproductive money. Exciting new approaches in this vein have been suggested and even introduced in Congress, such as four-to-one matches of small-dollar contributions to publicly financed candidates.
But the potential also exists today — without a federal program that would have to get through a Republican-controlled House and survive future attempts at legislative defunding or dismantling (such as the Presidential public financing system now faces) — to achieve this leveling up through greater engagement and smarter fundraising within the existing private system. For example, in the past few weeks activists and organizers fighting to preserve collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin have taken to the Internet and used the tools we offer at ActBlue to generate twenty-five thousands plus contributions, totaling more than half a million dollars. These contributions came from ordinary people using the existing campaign finance rules to stand up to the Koch brothers' back room plot to hijack Wisconsin public policy. That is a force that neither requires government approval nor is at the government's mercy; in fact, it's protected by the Supreme Court! It's democracy in its purest form, and it can save our political system.
There are many different approaches to using politics to fix politics, and there will certainly be many more great ideas to come. For decades, conservatives have been working diligently to chip away at the lines drawn by campaign finance reformers to keep money from corrupting our democratic system. Clearly, this conservative effort has gained considerable momentum on the Supreme Court and at the FEC of late, and their momentum is not likely to be reversed anytime soon. That is why now is the perfect time to harness that very momentum and use it to usher in the next big thing in campaign finance reform.


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DENVER—The freezing cold didn't bother Peyton Manning and it certainly was no problem for Matt Prater.
The Broncos kicker lashed a record-setting 64-yard field goal through the icy air Sunday to highlight a 51-28 victory over the Tennessee Titans.
The Broncos (11-2) wrapped up a playoff berth, putting Manning in the post-season for the 13th time.
Manning, whose ability in the cold has been a topic of debate all month in Denver, showed very few signs of distress in clear, chilly weather. It hardly was like the snowy, wacky day all across the NFL.
Denver's quarterback completed a team-record 39 passes and matched the franchise high with 59 attempts. He finished with 397 yards, and led the Broncos past the 50-point mark for the third time this year.
But Manning and Prater were about the only Broncos clicking on all cylinders on the day coach John Fox rejoined the team and coached from the sideline after missing four games because of heart surgery.
The special teams gave up a 95-yard kickoff return — the second return of 90-plus it has allowed in the last two games.
The Titans (5-8) burned the Denver defence frequently, most notably when Ryan Fitzpatrick (13-for-24, 172 yards) picked on rookie cornerback Kayvon Webster on the first drive for a 57-yard completion to Justin Hunter that set up the game's first touchdown.
There were about a half-dozen dropped passes and the Broncos had a whale of a time punching the ball in from the one-yard line. They snapped the ball 11 times from that distance in order to get two touchdowns and a field goal.
It turned Prater's record-setting attempt into much more than a theatrical flourish, which is what most field goals are for a team that has now put up 515 points through 13 games.
Denver had cut a 21-10 deficit to 21-17 before halftime and a penalty forced Manning to start from his 15 with 52 seconds left. An 18-yard pass to Demaryius Thomas got the ball near midfield with seven seconds left. Then Manning completed a quick seven-yard pass to Jacob Tamme, who went out of bounds with three seconds to go.
On came Prater. With the mercury at 14 degrees, he lined up on the right hash mark at his 46, just a few steps over from the eye of the Broncos logo at midfield. The kick cleared the crossbar with a bit of room to spare, and holder Britton Colquitt jumped piggyback onto the kicker to celebrate.
Prater broke a record held by four kickers, set first in 1970 by Tom Dempsey and most recently by David Akers, whose kick last season in Green Bay bounced on the crossbar before going over.
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MEMPHIS, Tennessee - A few months ago, a diverse group of the cotton industry's most successful companies launched the world's first truly online, real-time neutral exchange for trading cotton. Today, The Seam is recognized as the world's largest online marketplace.
More than 150,000 bales have been traded through The Seam's system since its first trade on December 8, 2000. The company expects the volume to be in the 2-3-million-bale range by next year. That rate of growth would fit into projections from Forrester Research, an independent research firm that analyzes the future of technology change and its impact on businesses, consumers and society. Forrester projected that business-to-business and business-to-consumer businesses will grow to $6.8 trillion in 2004, with e-marketplaces fueling most of the growth, reaching 53 percent of all online business trade in five years.
The Seam's grower-to-business platform provides an exchange for producers to list their cotton for sale as a firm offer. Growers are then able to entertain bids from a nationwide network of buyers. Selling cotton on The Seam gives growers the most up-to-date price discovery tools in the industry. And, they are able to quickly adjust offers and re-submit their recaps to the largest possible pool of buyers. Currently, The Seam has more than 60 firms buying cotton through the system.
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Providing a secure online experience is a priority at The Seam. The company's secured servers behind state-of-the-art firewalls safeguard personal information. In addition, transactions are supported by industry-standard data encryption. The Seam uses certificate services to provide customers with an integrated public key infrastructure that enables the secure exchange of information across the Internet. This feature authenticates the identity of each party involved in an electronic transaction.
The Seam's robust e-business infrastructure also enables the delivery of a powerful, reliable, flexible and scalable system that will meet the needs of its customers for years to come.
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In a previous post I discussed my great-great grandfather, Green Berry Barnes (1838-1891), and his wife Missouri Beasley Barnes (1843-1925). Widowed at the age of 47, she led a long life full of challenges. She died just a couple of months shy of her eighty-second birthday, in the process outliving at least four of her eleven children and caring for her blind youngest son* for decades.
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Missouri Beasley was born on 25 July 1843 in Bulloch County, Georgia, the eldest child of John R Beasley (1813-1899) and Nancy Parrish Beasley (1821-1860). The 1850 and 1860 censuses show her living in Bulloch County with her parents and siblings. In 1850, in an area identified only as "Subdivision 6" they are John R (37), Nancy (29), Missouri (6), America (4), Henry (3) and James (1). In 1860, near the Bengal post office, they are John R (48), Nancy (39), Missouri (16), America (14), Henry (13), James (12), Mary (7) and Eli (4). I can't find definitive proof yet, but my belief is that John and Family didn't move, and they were living in the area west of Statesboro, near the present-day border of or possibly in Candler County. This is partially based on the 1890 Bulloch County Tax Digest, which places John Beasley in the Club House district (Militia District 45), which surrounds the modern town of Register.
As a side note, the 1850 census form lists the value of John's real estate as $150. By 1860 his real estate is worth $400, and his personal estate is valued at $716. To Do Item: check property records to see if John purchased additional land, or possibly the increased value was strictly due to inflation.
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Missouri Beasley married Green Berry Barnes in March 1865. This is according to her Widows Pension Applications of 1908 and 1910 (she appears to have been denied a pension both times). Even though the pension application asks that the marriage license be attached to it, there is no indication that it ever was, or that it survives if it was. So far, a search of the Marriage Books of Bulloch County for the marriage registration has proved fruitless (using the microfilms available through the Family History Library as well as the incomplete digital copies available through Georgia's Virtual Vault). The accepted date on Ancestry.com seems to be 21 March 1865, but without further proof I can't state that definitively. Hopefully someone, somewhere, has the marriage license or family bible and will share it with the rest of us!
I covered the period of her marriage to Green in the previous post. To summarize, in 1870 the family consisted of Green (27), Missouri (23), Ella (4), James (3) and Thomas (6/12). In 1880 the household included Green B. (41), "Masoria" [sic] (37), Ellen C. (13), James H. (11), Willis R. (10), Rosa (7), Molly A. E. (5), Magga M. (4) and John G (1), plus Green's sister Sarah (44) and a white servant, John Jones (18). Green B. Barnes also appears on the 1890 Bulloch County Tax Digest, owning 408 acres in the Court House District (1209th Military District), which is the area around Statesboro.
|Image courtesy of Family History Library (microfilm # 2105)
In any case, the 1900 census shows Missouri as the widowed head of household with 5 of her 10 children, living in Blitch, Bulloch County, where she owned her own farm. Blitch is the name for Georgia Military District 1575, situated north of Statesboro. The residents of the farm are Missouri (56), Millie A (25), John G (21), William B (18), Eli W (16), Robert C (12) and her sister-in-law Sarah (65). I can't find her listed anywhere on the 1910 census, but in 1920 she appears to be living on the farm of her son-in-law Welcome Akins. The census shows the family as Welcome A Akins (42), Maggie [Barnes, her daughter] (42), Floyd (17), Day (15), Fred (14), Clyde (12), Datus (10), Wilmur (8), Irene (7), Roy (5), Inmon (3) an Ernest (1) Akins, with Robert C Barnes (33) and Missouri Barnes (75). I do not yet know if this Welcome Akins farm was the Barnes farm before. The two Military Districts are adjacent, so the borders
|Image courtesy of Georgia Archives
Digital Collection (Death Certificates,
Vital Records, Public Health, RG 26-5-95)
Missouri died on 31 May 1925, at the age of 81. This date is shown on her grave stone (at least according to the cemetery survey cited above) and on her death certificate, a digital copy of which I was able to obtain from the Georgia'sVirtual Vault web site.
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When she votes to end local control over gas drilling and then votes to exempt wealthy Philadelphia suburbia from the same law, we should question her loyalty to her district.
When she supports mandatory ultrasounds for women, we should strongly question her judgment.
When she votes to slash funding for Pocono schools and then votes for financial incentives for private schools in order to pay back the GOP's largest political donor — a Philadelphian charter-school owner — we should question her motives.
Finally, when she votes to increase her own taxpayer-funded prescription and dental coverage while voting to cut health care funding for children and the poor, we should question how she ever got elected in the first place.


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Single-payer health care remains the only way to meet public health needs, and demand for it will reignite as changes brought by the Affordable Care Act fail to make health care cheaper and continue to leave tens of millions uninsured, the head of a national physicians organization said Thursday.
Dr. Andy Coates, president of Physicians for a National Health Program, which represents more than 18,000 members, spoke to The Buffalo News Editorial Board. He later spoke at a forum sponsored by Partnership for the Public Good.
Coates, who practices in a community hospital in Albany and teaches in the departments of medicine and psychiatry at the University at Albany, said he constantly sees rising premiums and deductibles force low-income patients to choose between critical health needs and basic survival.
"I had a man [recently] who bled half of his blood volume, and he insisted on discharge because he had a day-by-day hospital co-pay of over $200, had no savings and hadn't been able to pay his bills because it hadn't snowed enough to plow snow like he usually does. He just absolutely insisted on going home when our advice was that he should be in a hospital making sure he didn't continue to bleed," Coates said.
"This kind of thing is unbelievably common."
He predicted changes under way in health care will fall far short.
"The data we've seen most recently suggests that even in 2019, with the [Affordable Care Act] fully implemented, there would still be 36 million people without health insurance. It's not fundamental reform, and the proven cost savings are none."
Coates, who compared doctors to "lawyers for the poor," said the country eventually will have to turn to single payer because "nothing else will work."
He said studies and polls have shown a majority of the public and physicians would support single payer, but the idea remains outside mainstream acceptability among the political class.
He also promotes a more holistic approach to health care and was joined by Dr. Kathleen Grimm and Jessica Bauer Walker of the Community Health Worker Network of Buffalo.
Members of the 2-year-old network of health care and public health advocates operate as community educators and organizers who, through social networks, help people underserved by traditional health systems.
"Our way of working is based on trust, which is a very different framework for those who are providing and receiving services," said Walker, the group's executive director.
Grimm, co-chairwoman of the health network, noted the U.S. ranked 17th in a 2007 study by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council of life expectancy among high-income countries.
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Dallas-based Baylor Health Care System and Temple-based Scott & White Healthcare announced late Friday afternoon that both systems have signed a letter of intent to merge.
The new organization will be known as Baylor Scott & White Health, said Joel Allison, president and CEO of Baylor, who will also be CEO of the new organization. Scott & White's CEO, Robert Pryor, MD, will be COO of Baylor Scott & White Health.
Citing the future of healthcare, Allison said in a teleconference that the merger represents "two strong partners coming together truly creating a new model of healthcare delivery that really focuses on the patient, [on] population health management."
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Services Directive: good progress on implementation, but more needs to be done
The European Commission has today taken a new step to ensure that work is speeded up in the twelve Member States that have not yet finalised implementation of the Services Directive. The Directive (Directive 2006/123/EC) was adopted end 2006 and it had to be implemented in all EU countries by 28 December 2009. It covers a large variety of economic activities – such as retail, construction services, tourism services and the services of many regulated professions – representing around 40% of EU GDP and employment. The Directive commits Member States to carry out an ambitious reform programme, combining the lifting of unjustified regulatory barriers and administrative simplification. It is expected to significantly contribute to boosting growth and job creation. Overall, the preliminary results of the Directive's complex implementation process are encouraging. The large majority of Member States have already adopted "horizontal" implementing legislation and in most countries a number of changes to specific regulations have also already been made. The Commission has today sent a reasoned opinion to those Member States who have not yet notified to the Commission the adoption of all the regulatory changes required by the Directive – namely Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Luxemburg, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and the United Kingdom.
What is the aim of the EU rule in question?
The Services Directive aims to improve the functioning of the Single Market for services, which is the EU's major source of growth and job creation. The Directive requires EU countries to remove unjustified or disproportionate legal and administrative barriers to the setting-up of a business or the provision of cross-border services in the EU. It also aims to dismantle barriers affecting service recipients (whether consumers or businesses) wanting to have access to services from other Member States. Proper implementation of the Directive will help make the freedom of establishment and the freedom to provide services, enshrined respectively in Articles 49 and 56 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, a reality for European businesses and consumers.
The challenge of implementing the Services Directive
Implementing the Services Directive has proved to be a particularly challenging endeavour for Member States, as it concerns a wide range of laws and regulations that can be found at all administrative levels. Beyond legislative work, the Directive also required Member States to put in place large practical projects, such as the setting up of "Points of Single Contact" for businesses.
To fully implement the Directive, Member States had to dedicate unprecedented efforts and resources at all administrative levels. This proved particularly challenging for Member States with a regional/decentralised structure. Due to this complexity, the Commission dedicated significant resources to closely assist Member States throughout the implementation process. Some of the twelve Member States concerned have already communicated a number of measures to implement the Services Directive but they still need to adapt at least some aspects of their legislation.
How are EU citizens and/or businesses suffering as a result?
Today, unjustified or disproportionate requirements put a major brake on the development of service activities. Businesses, in particular small ones, are being deprived to make use of their opportunities, whether they want to do business at home or abroad. Citizens, in particular consumers, are as a result denied access to a wider and better range of services. According to conservative estimates, the potential economic benefits of the Services Directive could range between 60-140 billion euros, representing a growth potential of 0.6-1.5% of EU GDP1.
What are the next steps?
The Commission's action takes the form of a reasoned opinion, the second stage of the EU infringement procedure. If Member States do not reply satisfactorily within two months, the Commission may refer them to the EU's Court of Justice.
The three year implementation period ended on 28 December 2009. The Member States concerned received a first letter from the Commission at the end of January 2010 asking them to communicate the measures already adopted in order to implement the Services Directive.
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