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At San Joaquin Pest Control, we know not all pest or insect problems are the same. That is why we employ what is known as IPM or integrated pest management strategies to make sure the treatment plan you use is designed to manage and eliminate unwanted pests. To do pest control right requires great attention to detail. San Joaquin Pest Control Technicians are highly skilled and trained technicians to get the job done right the first time. When you select San Joaquin Pest Control as your company for bug extermination, termite control and overall varmint elimination, you are selecting the best experts in the valley. Here is just a few of the things you can expect from San Joaquin Pest Control:
1. Integrated pest management, We will never treat your home or business without a complete understanding of the issues. Our technician will inspect your home or business thoroughly to determine exactly what the type of pests or bugs are causing the issue. After making that determination your technician will administer the most effective treatment plan need for proper and complete extermination.
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Brad Keselowski clinches first Cup title after Johnson exits
- Jimmie Johnson's crew botches stop, rear gear fails
- No. 48 goes to garage with 39 laps left in race
- NASCAR gets fresh-freshed champion in Keselowski at 28
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — NASCAR has a new champion and he embodies everything that the sport's sanctioning body is not.
Brad Keselowski, 28, is a fresh-faced social media savvy driver who has shown this year — his third in Sprint Cup — that he isn't afraid to ruffle feathers among the sport's elite.
From tweeting from his car during red-flag stops (which earned him a $25,000 fine from NASCAR last week) to challenging other, more well-heeled drivers, Keselowski represents a changing of the guard in the sport.
The driver of the No. 2 brings the first Cup championship for Penske Racing after Jimmie Johnson experienced mechanical problems with 40 laps left Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
As he was welcomed to the post-race celebration and hugged by team owner Roger Penske and Hendrick Motorsports owner Rick Hendrick, Keselowski said he drew inspiration for the title duel from a Ray Lewis video.
"Always, throughout my whole life, I've been told I'm not big enough, not fast enough, not strong enough and I don't have what it takes. I've used that as a chip on my shoulder to carry me through my whole career," he said.
"It took until this year for me to realize that that was right, man, they were right. I'm not big enough, fast enough, strong enough. No person is. Only a team can do that.
"These guys up here, they make me fast enough. They make me strong enough to do anything we want to do. It's because of these guys. I can't be here without them. I really can't. This isn't a one-man effort. I might get the glory, but it's about these guys, it's about my family."
For Keselowski, the moment crowned a transcendent season that he kicked off by tweeting photos from the Daytona 500 when Juan Pablo Montoya crashed with a jet fuel dryer, igniting a blaze. Keselowski gained more than 100,000 followers on Twitter that night and his fan base grew as the season wore on.
Some connected with the outspoken, affable kid from Michigan because he showed a willingness to connect with them, some because, well, he wasn't Johnson. He constantly showed during the 36-race season that he could beat the five-time champion.
Not long after his celebratory burnout, he tweeted a picture from inside his car with this message: ''We did it!''
Keselowski also was quick to praise Johnson.
"He's the best. He proved it here today," Keselowski said. "He was going to win the damn race. And I knew that. We were not as fast as we wanted to be, I'll be the first to admit that.
"But my guys never gave up, kept working and at the end we were capable of getting back up enough to where it wouldn't have mattered if (Johnson) won, which made me feel a lot better. (laughs) … My guys just did a great job all year along, especially in this Chase. I'm lucky to have them."
Johnson needed to finish at least 20 points ahead of Keselowski to win his sixth championship, but he pitted under green on lap 227 after smoke filled the cockpit of his No. 48 Chevrolet. It was diagnosed as a drive-line problem, and the crew pushed the car to the garage with Johnson in 36th place.
With 24 laps remaining, NASCAR confirmed that Keselowski had won the championship. As he crossed the finish line, he radioed his crew: "Great job. We did it boys. What an awesome season."
Keselowski finished 15th. Johnson came in 36th.
"Pretty heartbreaking, you know?" Johnson said. "We were doing what we needed to and certainly were putting pressure on that 2 car. But that's racing.Stuff happens. It's out of my control, certainly.
"We didn't get the result, but that's life. We'll come back next year and try again."
Jeff Gordon, who was fined $100,000 last week for intentionally wrecking Clint Bowyer at Phoenix International Raceway, won the race by beating -- Bowyer. It was just his second victory of a star-crossed season. He also won the rain-shortened event at Pocono Raceway on Aug. 5.
At one point, Gordon and Bowyer were battling for track position after a restart.
"Can you believe that? That thing is going to work itself out some way through racing," Gordon said. "I still regret the way I went about it ... but I can't take it back. This year's been real up and down."
Gordon's teammate seemed poised to steal the title from Keselowski after crew chief Chad Knaus made a shrewd call for two tires to take the lead on lap 145 while Keselowski opted for four.
Johnson pitted again under a caution 13 laps later while Keselowski stayed on the track. That briefly put Johnson in the catbird seat needing only one more pit stop while Keselowski likely would need two.
But the wheels began coming off for Johnson when he made his final scheduled stop on lap 213. A lug nut was left off his left-rear tire and he was forced to pit again.
When relayed the news, Keselowski responded on the radio: "We're back in the game! I got it!"
Johnson then headed to the garage for repairs 15 laps later, sewing up the championship for his rival.
Team owner Roger Penske also earned his first Cup title, in Dodge's last year as engine supplier for the series.
"Not one failure all year long in the Dodge engine," Penske said. " ... I think the competition is just so super. It's just something you have to work on, and these guys are the best."


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Law enforcement cracking down on fraudulent opiate prescribing trends
ATLANTA, Ga. — If a pain clinic is advertising physician openings on CraigList, odds are that clinic is engaged in illegal activity.
"They're no better than street-corner drug slingers," said Joseph T. Rannazzisi, a deputy assistant administrator for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Office of Diversion Control.
Rannazzisi told an audience of law enforcement professionals at the National Rx Drug Abuse Summit that they should look at physicians and prescribers who use fraud and deception to flood the streets with addictive opiate medications as drug traffickers.
For example, Rannazzisi explained how customers in one state can order opiate prescription drugs online, and how that order can be approved by physicians and filled by pharmacists in different states.
"All this is a conspiracy and it's a totally illegal act," Rannazzisi said. "It's drug trafficking."
Rannazzisi also showed his audience an undercover DEA surveillance video of dozens of people walking into a Florida pain clinic — a notorious "pill mill" that was later shut down — at the exact same time the clinic opened its doors one morning.
"Think of this as a modern-day crack house," Rannazzisi said.
Prescription medicine abuse has been around "for a long time," but it was not until OxyContin hit the market in the mid-1990s that law enforcement and emergency responders across the country began seeing a dramatic spike in overdoses.
"As the drugs got more potent, we started seeing more deaths," Rannazzisi said.
As more people got addicted to opiate painkillers, many of them eventually transferred to heroin — which is cheaper and molecularly almost identical to Percocets and Oxycontin — when they no longer had access to prescription drugs. As the market for heroin grew, so did the criminal organizations that distribute it.
"We've seen heroin organizations moving into areas that they were never in before, " Rannazzisi said. "And they bring increased crime, burglaries, robberies. These organizations are now in counties in Middle America, not just the big cities like New York and L.A."
In recent years, the DEA has partnered with local, state and other federal law enforcement agencies in targeting "pill mills," unscrupulous physicians, pharmacists and other individuals responsible for distributing opiate medications to the streets.
"We've put a lot of rogue actors out of business," said Regina Labelle, chief of staff of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Rannazzisi advised law enforcement officials to look for "red flags" in opiate prescribing trends, and said treatment providers, prescription drug monitoring programs, pharmacists and medical practitioners are often great sources of information. He suggested using undercover investigations and surveillance to build cases. He also said to grant physicians the benefit of the doubt until they prove to be rogue.
"There are a lot of good physicians are out there," Rannazzisi said. "But the damage done by a small percentage of bad apples is pretty large."
The enforcement efforts are also not just restricted to street-level efforts. At least nine states have passed laws to regulate pain management clinics, with stricter physician certification requirements and mandates that the clinics participate in prescription drug monitoring programs.
In Kentucky, the state has gone after pharmaceutical companies for alleged unlawful marketing practices, according to Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway.
In January, the Kentucky Attorney General's Office reached a $40 million settlement with pharmaceutical companies Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation, which produces Vioxx, and GlaxoSmithKline, which produces Avandia, a diabetes drug. The Kentucky attorney general's office said the companies failed to disclose important health risk information about the drugs to customers.
Conway said his office used the settlement money to establish drug-free homes for people transferring out of residential treatment programs and the construction of a new Kentucky Recovery Center, among other initiatives. Conway said his office has a pending lawsuit against Purdue Pharma for how it marketed OxyContin.
Conway said his office's actions show that state's attorneys general can fight opiate prescription drug abuse if they have the political will.
"I think we're making strides," Conway said. "Albeit, it's one step at a time, but we are making strides."


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Sports update: Duke's Parker hasn't decided whether to stay or go pro
DURHAM, N.C. — This could be it for Jabari Parker at Duke.
His final game at Cameron Indoor Stadium could come Saturday night when No. 4 Duke hosts rival North Carolina — if the freshman phenom jumps to the NBA after the season, as most outsiders always assumed he would do.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Parker insists he still hasn't made up his mind.
"If I feel like there are things I could improve on or things I left, like during the season, then I will probably come back," Parker said.
The Wooden Award finalist has been the most consistent player for Duke (23-7, 12-5 Atlantic Coast Conference).
He's the ACC's top rebounder, its No. 2 scorer and the highest-scoring freshman in school history with averages of 18.8 points and nine rebounds.
He could become the first Duke freshman to lead the team in scoring and rebounds.
"He's been a willing learner, and he's accepted coaching extremely well," coach Mike Krzyzewski said. "And so he's worked in concert with his coaching staff to become better. For any kid, that's the key to success. For a lot of guys who are really talented, they never learn that, and he has that."
Duke senior Tyler Thornton was part of the same 2010 recruiting class as NBA All-Star game MVP Kyrie Irving of Cleveland and as a sophomore shared the backcourt with Austin Rivers, now with the New Orleans Pelicans.
Those two one-and-dones have plenty in common with Parker, he says.
"They have a natural feel for the game that the average player doesn't have," Thornton said. "Their instincts and the things that they're able to do pretty much aren't things that you're able to work on during drills or just during the summertime. ... Their willingness to learn and just be great teammates and all those things come together, and it shows on the court. They've been able to be spectacular as well as be within the team."
That's been one of Parker's challenges: balancing his position as the most visible player at a program that's always one of the nation's most polarizing, and his desire to fit into the team.
"He's pretty much our best player so everything he does is magnified," Thornton said. "But in the locker room, in practice, within our team, he just wants to be one of the guys."
Of course, not everyone received scholarship offers as a sixth grader, or appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated while in high school.
"I really wasn't a guy that idolizes fame and self-glorification," Parker said. "Really, what drives me is the team goal and my responsibility (to teammates), so I guess being grounded really helps me, and the friendships that I have with these guys on the team kind of blinds a lot of things that come my way."
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Phil Jackson mulling New York Knicks front-office job
Johnny Manziel inks deal with Nike


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Roubini said that "problems are global, but policies are national" and that "coordinating among different countries is going to become increasingly difficult. Political tensions, economic and financial tensions, like currency wars, can lead eventually to protectionism."
On the definition of a G-0 world:
Roubini: It was never G-7. We pretend it's G-10. It was always G-1. The leader, Germany, was to provide the global public goods, security, free trade. Now this power is declining in terms of relative terms of the United States. We have rising powers like China, Brazil, India and so on. We live in a balance of power. The balance of power with conflicts of interest with goals being very different, you cannot reach agreement on fundamental economic and geopolitical issues. It is a more fragile economy because interdependence implies that problems are global, but policies are national. Coordinating among different countries will be increasingly difficult. It leads to political, economic and financial tensions like currency wars that can lead eventually into protectionism.
Roubini: I say they are less worse than last summer in euro zone. Tail risk has been reduced…The fundamental problem is, look at look at the unemployment numbers in Spain today, rising even further. They are really shocking numbers. The fundamental problems in the euro zone is the lack of grown, continued recession, of debt sustainability, lack of competitiveness, remain.
On the political risk in the United States:
Bremmer: The political risk in The U.S. is that unlike the fiscal cliff that we weren't going to go over by virtue of removing the debt limit and kicking that down the road, you have actually made it more likely you have a real smaller crisis on sequester.
On the American attitude to what is going on in the world right now:
Bremmer: We want to do less.
Roubini: We have less fiscal resources. We cannot do more.
Bremmer: We want to show the flag to ourselves, and nation building at home, develop more patriotism about doing things in the U.S. like getting jobs back, making unemployment lower, getting jobs back, making America feel good about itself again. That's an important message…We're sitting at the world economic forum. it is not global. It is global as the World Series and the World Bank and we need to understand the fact that values are becoming more localized.
On Secretary Clinton's testimony yesterday and how we should look at North Africa:
Bremmer: It is a new war on terror. You saw with Obama's inauguration speech at the beginning of the week that he made very clear we are ending our war on terror and moving the troops out…This was the "I Have a Drone" speech, so on Martin Luther King Day. We will definitely still be engaged, but we're not going to have our troops and our footprint will be smaller. But there is a new war on terror. It is also impacting Al Qaeda. It's against political Islamists. Very radical, across North Africa. It's not the Americans. It's the French…The real risk here is to Hollande who is not going to be able to maintain the support and the impact on his economic reforms are going to hurt.
On whether they're worried about outside forces or whether a G-0 or G-7 world will get things done:
Roubini: We have been talking about a G-0 world because there are all these global economic issues in which there is disagreement between provincial powers on monetary policy, fiscal policies, exchange rates, currency wars, global imbalances, how to reform the international system of surveillance of the banks, reforming international financial systems, energy, food security and all the geopolitical issues. On all of these issues we need more coordination and cooperation within the great powers. There is a division of views not just between U.S. and China, but Japan and Europe on fundamental currency issues.
Bremmer: The point we have a lack of global coordination that is hurting us on issues like climate and trade and security is clear, but interestingly in Europe, the economics remain bad. the politics are what have gotten us to a better place. The fact that there was political will in Germany, in the ECB, in the Italian government. The new Italian government will maintain the political will. And the Spanish government. That is why we're in a better place. Nouriel said that is less worse. Less bad. That's Nouriel grinning ear to ear. You don't hear that kind of optimism from him.
On what he'd like to see in the U.S. and Europe over the next 90 days:
Roubini: For the U.S., we have kicked the cliff down the road. we have the debt ceiling issue. We have a sequester issue. We have a continued resolution issue. I think they're going to kick the can further down the road. There's not going to be a grand bargain on spending cuts and revenue increases. They will decide to cut spending by $40 billion and then push the problem another three months. And then every three months they are gong to disagree and have another commission. Until there is market pressure, and there is no market pressure in the U.S., they will kick the can down the road.
Bremmer: For the next three months, the economics in Europe. are bad, but politics are better for the next three months. In the U.S., the economics are better but the politics are bad. We need to focus on strengths. The Europeans have to focus on maintaining political strengths even with the German election coming up. They have to stay consistent. The Americans have to focus on the economy.
Roubini: The politics of Europe could worsen. Berlusconi is not going to win the senate in Italy…He already said we're going to have guerrilla warfare against the government and Monti. We're going to make the country ungovernable. That's a risk. The coalition in Greece could still collapse…Greece could still exit out of the euro zone.
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This week as holiday breaks from school and winter weather keep the kids indoors, parents are looking for ways to keep them entertained–and educated– at the same time.
Fortunately, many Federal agencies this year provide the perfect solution with publications that are both fun AND educational, and with which the kids might actually learn something besides how to shoot down some "Angry Birds" on their new tablet! 😉 From dinosaurs to fossils, freedom runners to astronauts, these fun facts will prove more fascinating than fiction.
Here are a few that I (and my eight and six year-old nephews) particularly enjoy:
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- Find it in a federal depository library.
Hopefully, these books will help our readers beat the winter blahs as families have to stay indoors due to the weather.
After all, as this famous (albeit anonymous) quote says: "Education is the best gift you could ever receive, because once you have it, no one can ever take it from you."
About the Author: Michele Bartram is Promotions Manager for GPO's Publication and Information Sales Division in Washington, DC, and is responsible for online and offline marketing of the US Government Online Bookstore (http://bookstore.gpo.gov) and promoting Federal government content to the public.


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Among everything in your restaurant, purchasing your dinnerware might be one of the most difficult tasks you face. The shape, size, and style of your dinnerware says a lot about your restaurant and the type of food you serve; in many ways it completes the picture of your brand for your customers. Are you a fast casual eatery or do you want to cultivate a fine dining experience? Do you like simple silhouettes or do you prefer mixing and matching interesting styles? And we haven't even touched upon durability yet!
Lucky for you, most china dinnerware is made with strength and durability in mind. Still, broken plates are prone to happen, and they will happen to you. Certain types of chinaware are designed to be more durable, such as those with a high alumina content, which is a component that helps to stiffen melted glaze and hardens and stabilizes the fire glaze. Other dinnerware might be promoted as being "fully vitrified," which indicates that this ceramic will absorb less than .2% of its own weight and will not absorb odors or moisture—this is key for keeping your plates looking like new!
There are also ways you can maximize the life of your investment. Train your staff to avoid pouring cold beverages into hot and fresh-from-the-washer mugs;the sharp change in temperature may cause a stress fracture that will increase your chance of breakage. You can protect your investment from scratches and other metal markings by limiting its exposure to metal trays, metal utensils, etc. Properly care for your dinnerware by following these practices:
Additionally, teach your staff to address dishes with care during washing—a chipped plate might as well be a broken plate, because it reflects your brand just as poorly in front of the customer.
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Melamine has been around for several decades, but it wasn't until recently that more manufacturers are creating melamine plates and serveware with styles that convincingly pass for wood, stone and even stoneware. Melamine is not only virtually indestructible, but it's also dishwasher safe and extremely lightweight, making it perfect for outdoor patios and catered events.
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UPDATE: The specials below are NO LONGER in effect!
It is certainly good news when a great restaurant has some nice specials. It is especially good news when those specials include some great culinary creations.
Chanuka at T-Fusion
Hot Butternut Squash Soup
Sweet Potato Fries
Fresh Apple Sauce
T-Fusion Brisket of Beef in Wine Sauces
Warm Jelly & Custard Doughnuts
Special Chocolate Holiday
Treats for Kids
With every regular entree there will be free donuts!
There is also a new Prix Fixe Menu:
(Please select one of each course)
1st Course
Beef Empanada (Deep fried Argentinean style beef pastry)
House Salad (Mixed greens, tomatoes, Julienne cucumber, carrots, onions topped with balsamic vinaigrette)
Minestrone Soup (Clear chicken broth with fresh garden vegetables, chicken, and homemade pasta)
2nd Course
Cowboy Steak (Bone in prime rib cut with cowboy seasoning served with roasted garlic, house fries, and pepper salsa)
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Ennahda's Non-response to the Salafist Offensive
How has the transition Tunisian government responded to this wave of attacks? Virtually not at all. While calling for 'dialogue' between Salafists and more moderate Islamic elements and secularists, Ennahda, the key political force in the ruling coalition, has let the Salafists run amok, attacking cultural events, political rallies calling for democracy and protection of women's rights. To make matters worse, despite the fact that religious-based political parties are illegal by Tunisian law, a Salafist party has been certified.
On March 29 of this year, an openly Salafist political party was granted legal status by the Ministry of Interior. 'Insah' — as it is called in Arabic, 'The Reform Front' openly pushes for the establishment of an Islamic state, the imposition of sharia law and a return to the 'purified' Islam of the time of the prophet Mohammed (630 A.D).
Salafists did not play any role in the mass movement that overthrew Zine Ben Ali's government in January, 2011; a Salafist ran in Tunisia's October 2011 elections for a constituent assembly as an independent list but came up empty, not winning any seats — an indication of how isolated and irrelevant Salafist themes are to the Tunisian body politic. That election did result in the Ennahda Party — an openly Islamic based political party — pulling down some 42% of the vote. Insah will be eligible to field candidates in the parliamentary elections scheduled to take place next year. The legalization of Insah would not have been possible without the firm support of Ennahda and particularly its leadership, Rachid Ghannouchi and Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali.
In public statements Insah spokesman and founder Mohamed Khouja was careful to emphasize that "the party's platform does not impose anything, such as dress or other personal conduct concerning Tunisian daily life." Khouja insists that Insah is committed to "the civil values of the State" and that it respects the particulars of the democratic experiment in a peaceful framework removed from all forms of violence and hatred across the political spectrum"1 At the same time, as if his movement represents the whole of Islam, rather than a minor splinter group, Khouja pompously comments: "We will not accept any assault on our religious sacraments and we will seek to express the demands of the Muslim people." But then who is this representative of a splinter group to be speaking for 'the Muslim people'?
Islamophobia at Home, Alliances With Islamic Fundamentalists Abroad
While a wave of Islamophobia poisons the political atmosphere here in the United States, in the Middle East, the Obama Administration finds itself lining up with and making alliances with, to one degree or another, the same forces it criticizes so vociferously at home. It has been going on for more than a century. Funny thing that the 'enemy at home' turns out to be an ally abroad and a consistent and tried and true one at that! On the surface it certainly appears that different U.S. administrations oppose Islamic fundamentalism — isn't that what the war on terrorism is all about? Opposing — nay — wiping out Al Qaeda and like groups? No question that anti-Islamic hysteria — Islamophobia — has been whipped up since 9/11 (and even before).
But appearances can be deceptive. First the British and later the U.S. have had longstanding histories of cooperation with Islamic fundamentalist elements whom they use as a foil against more secular Arab nationalism. These continue and remain important today. Bizarre as it might seem to American audiences, Salafists are playing key roles in support of U.S. Middle East policy.
1. They represent nothing short of the counter-revolution on the ground — meant to defuse the democratic upsurge and turn back the Arab Spring from resulting any new political developments that might challenge U.S. economic priorities (neo-liberal access to the region) or strategic concerns.
2. Their actions in Tunisia and Egypt accomplish something else, rarely discussed these days: in tandem with Israel's campaign against Iran — takes the focus off of the Israeli occupation. Thus they will be tolerated and encouraged — albeit from a distance and through Saudi and Qatari proxies.
While claiming to oppose Salafist brownshirt tactics, once again, the U.S. is playing what appears to be Salafist card and not just in Tunisia. Supporting Salafists throughout the region are two key U.S. allies — Saudi Arabia and Qatar, who work in tandem with the United States to secure U.S. strategic interests and neoliberal economic policies throughout the region, policies more and more being closely coordinated with NATO. Arms shipments from Qatar and Saudi Arabia to Salafist elements in the Syrian opposition have been intercepted in Lebanon recently. There are reports of Iraqi jihadists also working with the Syrian opposition, their activities coordinated by the Saudis and Qataris, in some form of coordination with the U.S. as was done in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Several weeks ago, reinforcing Syrian government claims, a Tunisian human rights group exposed the open recruiting of Tunisian Salafist elements to also fight in Syria, calling for an investigation, suggesting that the Tunisian Ennahda-led government is coordinating its Middle East policies rather closely with Saudi and Qatari religious conservatives.
U.S. Playing the Salafist Card Throughout the Middle East
The British and the U.S. prefer the more placid and 'west-oriented' face of 'moderate Islamic parties' like Tunisia's Ennahda which claims to respect democratic processes. But when necessary, London and Washington have not hesitated to cooperate with more fanatical elements — be they Saudi Wahhabists or now Syrian jihadists. Besides the anti-Arab secular nationalist bond that unites U.S. foreign policy with Islamists, there is a bond of another kind: they see eye to eye economically. The Moslem Brotherhoods in Egypt, Ennahda in Tunisia, and Salafists throughout the region are all comfortable with and support the kind of neoliberal economic policies the United States and Europe pursue. They have opposed trade union rights, strong state-directed economic policies. When it comes to neoliberal economics, openness to foreign corporate and financial penetration, the Islamists and U.S. policymakers are in complete harmony.
As Ennahda in Tunisia cozies up to its Salafist brethren to neutralize the Tunisian Arab Spring from turning into anything that might substantially shift the country's neoliberal economy policies and its strategic alliance with the United States, Washington calmly looks on with virtually no critical comments from the State Department, no sense of criticism — to say outrage — from the country's media as the Islamic fundamentalist wave takes hold in the country. Most of the dirty work, the political support and financial flows are in the hands of the Saudis and Qataris, neither of which can even go to the bathroom without U.S. approval. The idea that the Obama Administration is not aware of the Tunisian developments is not credible.


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Four Big Questions About Josh Elliott's Departure From GMA
Another member of morning television's top rated family is leaving home. Josh Elliott, who joined ABC's Good Morning America in 2011 and helped ride it ahead of NBC's Today, is leaving for a high profile role at NBC Sports. He'll be replaced as news anchor by Amy Robach. But is it the last we'll see of Elliott in the morning? It's one of several questions TV news people are asking.
Will Elliott eventually replace Matt Lauer on Today?
An executive at NBC says Elliott's new deal is with the sports division and does not stipulate any role at NBC News. But never say never. NBC does not have a clear succession plan if Lauer exercises an option to leave at the end of this year. Lauer could stay. But having Elliott at NBC gives Today another option if executives decide current family members Willie Geist and Carson Daly are not the future. "There's no doubt that's one of the reasons they brought Elliott in," says one news industry insider familiar with the talks. "It gives them a safety net and leverage with Matt."
Why wouldn't ABC give Elliott a bigger raise to keep him?
Robin Roberts received a major salary increase to $12 to $14 million a year because she is seen as indispensible to keeping Good Morning America No. 1. Clearly, network executives did not believe letting Elliott walk would have much of a negative impact on ratings especially when they have Robach, whose courageous battle with breast cancer became a national story and made her a sympathetic figure to the audience.
Don't cast changes on morning shows usually hurt the ratings?
Morning TV viewers don't like change once they've settled on a team they like. But GMA has not seen any major fallout from the defection of Sam Champion earlier this year.
What does this mean for George Stephanopoulos, whose deal with ABC is up later this year?
Elliott's departure gives GMA (and This Week) anchor Stephanopoulos some leverage in his next negotiation, as he provides the most of the news calories left on the program. "There would be consequences but not huge," the news insider said. "But not the same consequences as Robin."
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Harvick benefits from Vickers' wreck
RICHMOND, Va. — It's been a season of bad breaks for Juan Pablo Montoya, so it was only fitting when things again didn't go his way.
Montoya was sailing toward his first victory since 2010, on an oval no less, when an ill-timed caution ruined everything. He had led 67 laps Saturday night at Richmond International Raceway and needed to complete just four more when Brian Vickers hit the wall.
Montoya screamed into his radio, pounded his fist against the steering wheel, then quickly collected himself to consider the big picture: He'd come into Richmond ranked 27th in the Sprint Cup standings with absolutely nothing to show for the improvement Chip Ganassi Racing has made this season.
"I know we want to win, but we need the points," Montoya radioed crew chief Chris Heroy as they debated strategy.
was decided Montoya would pit from the lead, take four new tires and try to win in a frantic two-lap overtime sprint to the finish. But he restarted sixth in the outside lane that was clogged by cars on old tires. Kevin Harvick restarted seventh, behind Montoya but in the inside lane, and he darted his way around the traffic to the win.
Montoya settled for fourth, his best finish since he was fifth at Martinsville in 2011.
"We got that caution at the end and it was a no-brainer to take tires," Montoya said. "I think what hurt us is we restarted on the outside and when you restart on the outside and people got really bad tires, everything packs up. And when you're on the outside, where are you going to jump? When you are on the inside, you can just jump to the guys."
Disappointed? Sure. But Montoya was able to see the silver lining, even in those frantic final seconds when Harvick snatched his victory.
"When Harvick went by I tried to get to the bottom and then (Joey Logano) was there and I said 'We've just got to get a finish,"' he said. "Remember, before this we had six really bad weeks."
Terrible weeks, in fact, in a season that started with so much promise and so much pressure. In his seventh season with Ganassi since leaving Formula One for NASCAR, Montoya has no more time left on his contract unless Ganassi picks up the option the team owner holds.
But keeping his seat in the No. 42 Chevrolet could depend on performance in an organization desperately trying to turn a corner.
With so many expectations to take NASCAR by storm, Montoya instead has just two road course victories and a lone appearance, in 2009, in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. But the team struggled mightily, Ganassi has made numerous personnel changes — including a revolving door of crew chiefs for Montoya — and no amount of talent could get Montoya out of the rut.
He recommitted himself to his fitness, focused on his racing and opened the year driving the final stint in Ganassi's victory in the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona. It was his third win in the prestigious sports car race, but first driving the final leg.
The momentum from that win never materialized, even though the Ganassi organization appears to be the most improved group in the garage. Montoya went to Richmond with six finishes of 20th or worse in eight races, while teammate Jamie McMurray had three top-10s and was 10th in the standings.
The difference between Montoya and McMurray appears to be bad luck. Montoya has been plagued by loose wheels, flat tires, a fuel pump problem, a gearbox issue — the list goes on and on. And when management stepped in and replaced his front tire changer before Kansas, Montoya was stymied in that race by another loose wheel.
So to have the chance to run out front Saturday night, and to show his No. 42 team is far better than the results indicate, was a small victory for Montoya and his crew. Coming oh-so-close drew sympathy from second-place finisher Clint Bowyer, who said he was rooting for Montoya to win once it became clear Bowyer and his Michael Waltrip Racing teammates would not.
"I do feel bad for Juan, he has struggled the last two or three years," Bowyer said. "I really thought he was going to win that race. ... That was his race. When you see a guy getting beat up and having an opportunity like that — we're all human. If you don't have a shot at it, you'd just as soon see somebody that hadn't won in a long time win it."
Montoya was OK in the end. He was smiling on pit road, able to shrug off the caution that cost him the race.
"We had a great car. Same as last week, we had a great car," Montoya said. "The pit crew redeemed themselves. They did a great job all day, no mistakes. That is what we needed. We needed to come out of here and be smart."


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Friday, September 2, 2011
Open Friday: Beyond D&D
So, for today's topic: what's the strangest example you've seen of D&D's pervasive pop cultural influence beyond our little hobby? I'm not talking about specific references to D&D in pop culture, like an episode of a TV show or a movie where some of the characters actually play the game or talk about it. What I'm interested in are times when you've seen or heard something in pop culture that is clearly derived from D&D but is presented without its original D&D context, like calling a generic dark elf a "drow."
I'll be very curious to see what people have to offer.
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Gaining experience to gain levels in games utterly unrelated to D&D, that probably have zero overlap in audiences.ReplyDelete
I recently read a tweet where someone referred to failing at something as "rolled a natural 1", but they were probably a gamer so I'm not quite sure if it fits the criteria or not.ReplyDelete
In Napoleon Dynamite, the titular character's obsession with the "liger" and his drawings of said beast always struck me as D&D-inspired monster creation. His doodles reminded me of a manticore.ReplyDelete
I don't think there were any direct references to D&D in Napoleon Dynamite, so I think I am safe.
The first thing that comes to my mind is an example of what Zzarchov cites. I have an iOS game in which you raise and breed frogs. In doing so, you earn experience points and levels.ReplyDelete
A competitor to the Sidewinder missle is one called the Magic.ReplyDelete
Magic Missle. I don't believe there is any overt or known history tracing its naming to D&D, but it absolutely has to be influenced by the trope. I can't imagine that it got through the missle marketing department without someone going..."hey, wait a minute..."
Here's some picture of the real live Magic Missle.
While hardly recent, Lords Of The Underground (a 90's hip hop band) had a track called Sleep For Dinner where the rapper complains that his stomach was growling "like a dungeon dragon".ReplyDelete
The notion that orcs are bestial humanoids, which other than in a strictly figurative sense, does not originate with Tolkien, but with the "pig-faced" Sutherland orc?ReplyDelete
The obvious one is every MUD/MUSH/MMORPG has D&D somewhere in it's DNA.ReplyDelete
This is an easy one, but the cartoon Adventure Time is basically one endless D&D reference. The most recent episode had 8 schools of magic and a cantrip as plot elements.ReplyDelete
If it counts: the Adventure Time cartoon on CN has lots of allusions to D&D (and possibly Gamma World) without specific mentions of the game. Characters explore dungeons, encounter unmistakably D&D monsters (a gelatinous cube, a Trapper!), one of the characters casts a spell that's probably derived from D&D...The creator is a gamer, so there.ReplyDelete
I sometimes think that the whole concept of "Health" or "Hit Points" as found in many many (video)games even today is derived from D&D.
Scroll down to the section marked "OH REALLY".ReplyDelete
Those things do seem to be making the rounds....
Oh right, some people above mentioned Adventure Time! Yeah, there are a lot of obviously D&D-inspired themes, plots, characters, and events in that cartoon. It's a bit out there for my kids, who are a bit young for it, but on the few occasions I've taken a look at it (or commercials for it), I definitely saw a lot of indirect references/homages/etc.ReplyDelete
While I'm on the subject, there's another show on Cartoon Network called Regular Show, and there was one episode where they played a game called The Realm of Darthon that seemed pretty D&D-ish. Check it out:
I work at Adobe. We had a training program for novice Photoshop users called "Level Up". When I spoke with the marketing people behind the project about its roots, they hadn't heard of D&D but they did relate it to computer games' concept of fighting bad guys to get experience and eventually increase in level.ReplyDelete
So professional photography training used a basic D&D concept. :^)
I'm almost completely stumped. I agree that the long-lasting influences of the game are levels, XP, and HP.ReplyDelete
Wait, now that I think of it: Microsoft Windows XP -- XP abbreviation for "experience" -- is surely a legacy.
- AnonymousSeptember 2, 2011 at 2:02 PM
Fitocracy is a website that takes the leveling mechanics of D&D and applies them to workout programs. From one of the developers' blog:ReplyDelete
"Fitocracy turns fitness into a fun, addictive game to help motivate users to improve their fitness. You earn points, level up, and unlock achievements, all for tracking what you're already doing in the gym. As you level up in Fitocracy, you get harder challenges and need to lift more/do more challenging cardio to keep leveling. Throughout the game, users can complete special quests, unlock bonus features, and compete with their friends in order to get them to the next level. "
Computer games are the wind that blows the D&D Dandylion of Culture. Cultureal references to D&D stat names, XP, GP, Armor, +#, level up, and failed saves are entering the language of the culture through exposure to video games- on which D&D is probably the single greatest influence.ReplyDelete
As with "Law" and "Chaos," although people are pretty attached to their side of the american two-party system, they have trouble explaining what either one stands for and instead fall back on "good" and "evil." That one might pre-date D&D.ReplyDelete
better one . . .ReplyDelete
One of my law professors published an article with the following sentence: "The theory of value implicit in Posner's celebration of legal authority is perfectly suited to precisely this comforting, accommodating, psychic response to the chaotic evil of internal and external nature."
Law, Literature, and Authority, by Robin West (83 Nw. U.L. Rev. 977, 991)
I asked her about it, and she responded that she had never heard of "chaotic evil."
Is there any peculiar about that word combination? There are so many words that I first encountered through D&D.
There is this cartoon on cable called "Adventure Time" that has a ton of obviously D&D inspired type situations and things, without being obvious references to it. Dungeons as creature habitats, Very weird monsters that remind one of D&D abberations and the like.ReplyDelete
Wait, have you heard about this show called Adventure Time? ; )ReplyDelete
D&D probably has much to do or more than Tolkien for spawning any number of knock-off fantasy novels. Leaving aside the swarm of directly tied in to official settings novels, I am thinking of all the books that had dwarves, elves, orcs, etc.
One of my favorite Adventure Time sequences has Finn saying that he can't do something because it would be "against [his] alignment".
There's a Beholder in an episode of Futurama. I'm not sure if that counts.ReplyDelete
References to "law" and "chaos" as cosmic forces which in some way guide or inspire the actions of conscious agents antedate D&D, since D&D borrowed the concept from Moorcock, who borrowed it from Three Hearts and Three Lions.ReplyDelete
Here in Japan, roleplaying game terminology became widespread due to the immense popularity of the console RPG. So you have people who will use the phrase "leveling up" when they mean improving a skill. And they have no idea what D&D is.ReplyDelete
The idea of the critical hit. There are hundreds of games that use the term, everything from shooters to fighting games to good ol' RPG's.ReplyDelete
Also, in the old TV series Big Wolf on Campus that aired on YTV, one of the main characters was a super nerd. In this episode he is playing a role-playing game called "Serpent Quest."
I have met a couple of people who wouldn't play dnd and refused too learn and then when they finally admitted they didn't know what it was, it occurred to me they were the type that usually follow pop culture. So, I said "It's like world of warcraft except you can do anything you want because I will keep track of the calculations on paper."ReplyDelete
At least one of them still plays dnd to this day.
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Sorry I got nothing to add. I'm glad I'm not the only one who enjoys Adventure Time! :DReplyDelete
Eh, LOTR didn't invent Orcs, just popularized them a bit. Not hard to get the same basic critters after a few days in a folklore book or two.ReplyDelete
Ironically you can get drow by doing the opposite, reading a few lines that shows they were "dark fey" according to some scandanavian traditions, and not sticking around long enough to get the dwarf-like appearance. Probably what Gary did, actually...
- AnonymousSeptember 3, 2011 at 2:52 AM
The Dark Elf is in pre-D&D dictionaries described as 'elves who dwell in Caves, Forests and Sea'.ReplyDelete
As opposed to the Light Elf (Elves of Air and Sky).
In board and computer games 'dungeon' usually means 'underground complexes filled with monsters, treasures and traps' - and such complexes are the standard fantasy environment, when they don't really exist in anything before D&D (the Mines of Moria are, in D&D terms, more like a single location in a wilderness adventure).ReplyDelete
Years ago, a friend's mother surprised us all when she asked him about a girl he had a crush on, "What's her charisma score?"ReplyDelete
An interesting related link:ReplyDelete
Every time I see "+1" on an internet forum.ReplyDelete
Two things spring to mind, one pop cultural, one less so:ReplyDelete
1. The recent movie 'Sucker Punch' is clearly influenced by Japanese console RPGs, and so ultimately D&D.
2. There was an Svengali-like Australian Senator in the 1980s and 1990s called Graham Richardson who briefly had the nickname 'Dungeon Master' (as in an all-powerful, behind the scenes puppetmaster). RPGs were still very 'niche' in Australia when he was active so many in the media didn't understand the reference. The episode seems to have vanished into obscurity though (I can't find any info via Google) which is a shame, would be interesting to see if there were any D&D fans in the Australian Parliament!
Yesterday, I was conducting a training at my school. I asked the teachers to discuss and define the concept of instructional rigor at their tables and then report out. One table--comprised entirely of teachers too old to be likely video gamers or RPG veterans--defined instructional rigor as facilitating learning that helps kids "level up." This puzzled some of the other older teachers, requiring a definition of the term, but I think everyone under 45 immediately understood what they meant.ReplyDelete
In the Small World: Underground board game there are, among other allusions, Drows (complete with ink-black/blueish skin & white hair) and Gelatinous Cubes (as monsters). Besides, both the Keep on the Motherland and the illustration of the Altar of Souls do seem familiar.ReplyDelete
The phrase 'Zero Charisma' has taken on a life of its own (through the gamers in the scene in E.T) which was the first thing I thought of; I've heard it used by non-gamers on a number of occasions. Also, I've read a couple of album reviews in which the reviewer (who may or may not be a gamer) has referred to the sound of the guitars 'feeding back on themselves for double damage' which I thought was kind of cool.ReplyDelete
At a carnival in the early '90s, I saw a haunted house ride with 6-foot-high copies of creatures from the Monster Manual painted into its scenes. In a dreadful sci-fi film called "Recon 2020" or something like that, space marines creeping through caves on an alien planet encounter a CGI beholder that they refer to as a "watcher." The notion of a dungeon as a complex underground environment filled with monsters and treasures is probably more widespread now than its origin as a shallow basement beneath a fortification. Even the presence of "A Game of Thrones" on HBO indicates a wider acceptance of fantasy as mainstream entertainment than would have been possible 30 years ago.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 6, 2011 at 10:43 AM
Also, the presence of D&D is reflected on the covers of Fantasy fiction. Think other than Gor and Conan covers what were fantasy covers before D&D - especially before Dragonlance. Elmore and D&D & TSR redefined fantasy toward realism and away from the idyllic.ReplyDelete
I watched Disney's "Tangled" with my daughter, and thought... hmm, okay, here's the latest D&D movie. You've got thieves, fighters, assassins, clerics with their own hair as a holy symbol, paladin's mounts...ReplyDelete


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What is analgesic nephropathy?
An analgesic is any medicine intended to alleviate pain. Over-the-counter (OTC) analgesics, among others, include the following:
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Taking one or a combination of these drugs regularly over a long period of time may increase the risk of kidney problems.
Analgesic nephropathy is a chronic kidney disease that gradually leads to end-stage renal disease and the need for permanent dialysis or a kidney transplant to restore renal function. It can result from taking painkillers every day for several years. And, the painkillers that combine two or more analgesics (for example, aspirin and acetaminophen together) with caffeine or codeine are the most likely to damage the kidneys.
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