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April 17th, 2016 from Zona Politics with Jim Nintzel on Vimeo.
On this week's lively episode of Zona Politics: Political strategists Rodd McLeod and Barrett Marson talk about Arizona House Speaker David Gowan's abandoned plan to force reporters to undergo background checks if they wanted access to the floor of the House of Representatives; Gowan's problems with the press; the Congressional District 1 race; the voting problems in the Arizona presidential primary; whether Ted Cruz will snatch Arizona's delegates from Donald Trump at the GOP convention; the recreational marijuana initiative that voters will likely decide in November; and the future of Clean Elections.
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Here's a rush transcript of the show:
(Nintzel) Hello, everyone. I'm Tucson Weekly senior writer Jim Nintzel, and we're here to talk Zona Politics. Joining me on the set today, Rodd McLeod, a Democratic strategist who has worked for Gabby Giffords, Ron Barber and Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, among others, and Barrett Marson, a former reporter who now heads up the communications Firm, Marson Media, and co-hosts the Copper Talk Podcast Thanks to both of you for being here.
(McLeod) Thank you for having us.
(Nintzel) Let's start with a story that everyone's talking about at the capitol this week. We had House Speaker David Gowan's short-lived call for background checks on reporters. Barrett, you're a former legislative reporter, you're a former House communications guy and, as a matter of full disclosure, we should mention that you are among the strategists for Pinal County Sherriff Paul Babeu, who is actually running against David Gowan in the Congressional District 1 race. All that said, what's your take on how this went down for David Gowan.
(Marson) Yeah, I just have never seen something so mismanaged. You know, there's that old adage that you never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel and while newspapers certainly have gone down in influence, almost every single newspaper in the state, Kingman Daily Miner, the Arizona Republic, the Arizona Daily Star, everybody editorialized on a what a bad decision this was, and it was short-lived. I can't imagine that they didn't see the complete nightmare that this was going to be, and to decide to still go along with it. I don’t know what the real reasoning was if you weren't going to stick to your guns on this.
(Nintzel) And, Rodd, there's a lot of speculation this was aimed at punishing Arizona Capitol Times reporter Hank Stephenson because he had written stories that had made the speaker unhappy about the speaker using state cars to drive around Congressional District 1 on his campaign effort. And receiving reimbursement for mileage even though he was using a state car. He had to pay the state back $12,000, which came out of his pocketbook. Your thoughts on this?
(McLeod) Well, I mean, it's obvious from all the reporting that's been done that Speaker Gowan's operation has had it in for Hank Stephenson for several months. Someone talked to his boss and tried to get him fired, so this was payback for a journalist doing what journalists are supposed to do, which is to ask tough questions, maybe even, sometimes, rude questions, and hold people accountable. I mean this goes back to some of the very basic ideas about what a constitutional republic and what a democracy is all about. You know, you see these conservative politicians like David Gowan talking about how much they respect the Constitution. When the rubber meets the road, they don't really respect it. They're trying to shut down reporters they don't like, who write stories they don't like. If you look at the U.S. Senate right now, they're not even going to have a vote on the Supreme Court nominee that President Obama has put forward. You know, these are processes and values laid out in the Constitution that some of our Republican office holders don't seem to have very much respect for.
(Marson) You know I think one thing it shows is, Hank is a very good reporter. As a former reporter, I know that if I wrote a great story that angered people and those people came to see my boss to try to get me fired or moved, that's a badge of honor. I think that's great. You know one thing about this they don't really deny the fact, Speaker Gowan had to repay the house $12,000, acknowledging that the story was absolutely correct, so that's tough to say, you know, "Hank is bad but he was right." And that's a bad position to be in if you're a politician trying to take your revenge out on that reporter.
(McLeod) Well I will just say that if you look at that behavior, it is becoming more and more common. You know, Trump was talking about changing the libel laws so that he could sue reporters who wrote things he didn't like. You look at what's going on in Turkey— ten years ago everyone was, like, we have a real democracy in the Middle East. Now they're backsliding, and they tried to close down press outfits on the Erdogan government, saying that, well, they pose some kind of terrorist threat. And the fact that this was the justification that Speaker Gowan used—it's pretty troubling.
(Marson) Your viewers may not be, they probably read Howie Fischer's stuff. I sat next to that guy. He can be pretty dangerous.
(Nintzel) Maybe this whole 9/11 justification was right on target. Rodd, it seems like the end result of this is just really bad publicity for the speaker. A lot of people probably didn't know his name before this, and it brought back all theses stories that Hank had written that maybe people hadn't paid that much attention to.
(McLeod) Well, look. He's in a Republican primary. It's a very busy primary. There's a lot of candidates. If he was in a threat, in a place to do well in that primary, I think Hank's story was going to be used. Barrett can probably tell you a little more about what their plans are in the Babeu campaign, but, there's a lot of ethical problems among the Republican candidates. You've got Ken Bennett who, when he was the Secretary of State, was receiving payment for sitting on a corporate board while he was serving as Secretary of State. We've got Senator Carlyle Begay, who had some residency issues when he was first appointed. Sheriff Babeu has had issues around RICO funds and a $28,000 hotel bill and, you know, I think Republican voters are going to have an interesting choice to make.
(Marson) So far, right now, the Babeu campaign is far and away pulling ahead of people like Carlyle Begay, who is just not well known south of his particular area, or his legislative district, which is on the Navajo nation. David Gowan doesn't live in the district, of course, and doesn't really cover much of the district in his legislative area. So, right now, Babeu is the one who's got to be, aside from Gary Kiene, who is self-funding mostly a pretty good size of money, he'll probably be leading in the money race. aside from self-funder Gary Kiene.
(Nintzel) And do you think this Gowan episode this last week affects the primary in one way or another, Barrett?
(Marson) So far, no. Gowan hasn't been registering much in the polls. For those that had never heard of him, they've now heard of him and only in a negative way. But not a lot of people have really heard of him in that district.
(Nintzel) It may have given him a recognition boost in some sense. Rodd, you're working for the Democrat in this race, Tom O'Halloran. What's your read on the GOP primary?
(McLeod) Well I mean, I've never worked in a GOP primary, so it's hard to say. You know, certainly, Pinal County is the smack center of that district. And there are a bunch of votes there. And I think that gives Sheriff Babeu, geographically speaking, a strong place to start. But Tom O'Halloran put out an ethics plan. He wants to tighten up the ethics in Congress. And people are pretty frustrated with Congress. And, you compare that to the other side, where we have, you know, Gary Kiene saying that cops are jack-booted thugs. We're having so many problems. We just walked through them, I mean, I think all these candidates are going to have a lot to explain. And even Sheriff Babeu, I have to say, recently, his staff told a reporter that he couldn’t cover a public meeting. So, this problem with trying to clamp down on the press, you know, Gowan's not the only one.
(Marson) It wasn't a public meeting. It was a press conference, and he wasn't there for the press conference. He was only there for a campaign thing. So they did keep him out, but they let everyone else in. But I'll say the issue for Tom O'Halloran, I think, is going to be, you know, he ran as an independent against one of the craziest members of the legislature, and there was no Democrat in the race, and he still lost to Sylvia Allen. I wonder how he'll, if he can't get Democrats and independents or Republicans to side with him, against one of the craziest members of the legislature, I'd like to know his path to victory.
(McLeod) Well, if you look that that race, we had obviously bad Democratic turnout in 2014, but he did very well in that district as compared to the Democrat running for Congress. Ann Kirkpatrick did win the district as a whole, but in the areas that overlapped with O’Halloran’s district, he did even better than she did. So Tom O'Halloran is going to do very well. He's very well-known and well-liked in that district. We're going to have a different turnout in a presidential year, and, you know we just have to reveal the fact that Sheriff Babeu is even crazier than Senator Allen.
(Marson) One thing, I don't know what kind of turnout we're going to have, yet. I mean, I think it's too early to say. If Trump is at the top of the ticket, that's one turnout. If it’s Cruz or Rubio, I mean, who knows who's going to be the top of the Republican ticket? I think it's too early to say what kind of turnout we're really going to have. I think it could really go either way.
(Nintzel) That's going to be one of the most-watched races in the country, and we'll have plenty of time to talk about it. But I want to talk about the Arizona presidential primary. Things went relatively smoothly here in Pima County. There was a problem that was statewide, when some people who updated their voter registration via the Department of Motor Vehicles discovered that they had become independents rather than Democrats or Republicans and they couldn't vote. But it was a real mess in Maricopa County. And Barrett, your wife actually wound up testifying in front of the house committee along Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell, and it sounded like Purcell really made a bad call by cutting the polling places by 60 locations in Maricopa County.
(Marson) Absolutely, and she has acknowledged that from the get go. Sixty were just too little. You know they planned for about 1,500 voters per station, and, you know, the problem with averages is some get more and some get less. Well, there was a vote center on one of the Indian reservations that you have to have, and that only got 20 people. That’s 1480 people if you will, if you average that to someplace else, some places like Gilbert and South Phoenix, both white and Hispanic areas, both wealthy and poor areas, saw massive turnout, if you will, and just not enough places. She's going to fix that for the upcoming Prop 123 election. Double that number so we shouldn't see those long lines but, you know, I will say that I actually saw some of the registration forms that people of people who complained. And, like there were some people who didn't put Democrat or Republican. They put the "liberal" party. Well in Arizona, there is no "Liberal" party. I'm sure they wanted to be a Democrat, but they could have wanted to be Democrat or Libertarian, so they didn't make that judgment call at the Secretary of State's or the County Recorder's office. They just put them as an Independent because they weren't sure. So there were a couple of those cases where the people filled out the MVDA website incorrectly. Now, there were also some other issues with MVD that they're dealing with. But you know, there were some people who made honest mistakes and that, you know, prevented them from voting
(Nintzel) And, Rodd, there were people who were saying that this was rigged to help Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders, and you're on Team Hillary. Were you behind this whole plot?
(McLeod) No. Barrett was.
(McLeod) Look. We shouldn't kid too much. This is a very serious issue. People's votes are sacred. You know, in my opinion, having more people vote in a state that Hillary won by 15 points would mean she would have done even better, particularly when you look at some of the Latino and African-American areas where she did very well, where folks had trouble voting. But there are a lot of factors that go into this problem. One, the most obvious is, they cut down the number of polling places, which was really foolish. Another problem is, as Barrett pointed out, if you go to change your address on the Service Arizona website, through Motor Vehicles, you are there. Mentally you're thinking "Oh. I'm changing my address, you're not changing your party, but you have to reaffirm that you want to be a Republican. The machine defaults to "other" or "no party member." And that means the presidential primary rolls around and you can't vote. Which is confusing in and of itself, because independents, or "no party" members, can vote in the regular primary. It's just once every four or eight years when your party has a presidential primary that you can't vote. So there are a lot of problems. The DNC has just announced that it's suing, the suit will be joined by Hillary Clinton's campaign. They just want to make sure that the state is looking very carefully to make sure that everyone's vote counts in November.
(Marson) Part of the problem for the long lines, you had independents who stood in those long lines for no good reason. You had thousands of them come out that day, and they just weren't eligible to vote, so that added to the long line, but what I think is important is Helen Purcell has been the County Recorder for a couple of decades up there. This was a bad decision on her part, but there has been no pattern of this. This isn't something that she thought would, you know, that long lines would happen. She wasn't doing that on purpose. She's trying to run the most efficient, cost-effective election that she could, and she thought, she really thought, that the 60 vote centers would be enough.
(Nintzel) Let's talk about the whole question of what's going on with theses delegates that are going off to vote at the Republican convention. It looks like Trump won Arizona but Ted Cruz has done a really terrific job of recruiting delegates to represent him, and so, if on the first round these delegates vote for Trump and there's no victor in that particular race, then on second round, does it look like Ted Cruz has a shot at taking delegates away from Trump?
(Marson) Absolutely. One thing about Ted Cruz is you know, nationwide, he's got a much better ground game than almost any candidate, but, particularly, Donald Trump. And he has hired people here in Arizona who are used to getting out the grassroots. And I'll tell you one thing, I wish I could be a delegate, because I have a feeling I'll be able to golf at Mar Lago in Florida. I'm sure there's some of them that are going to get wined and dined, especially those that aren't truly committed to, say, a Ted Cruz on the second ballot. I think between June 7, the end of the California primary and the the primary season, and the middle of July when the convention starts, you're going to see a lot of people get some serious—not gifts—but travel vouchers and some serious attention I think, from Donald Trump and other candidates to try and woo them into the fold.
(Nintzel) Rodd, this is uncharted territory. The Republican party can pick someone else entirely who hasn't even been in this race. Although don't know how many people are going to be able to accept that particular outcome. Do you think that there's going to be a convention that's going to result in a lot of hard feelings, anger and a split party?
(McLeod) Oh I think they're headed towards tears. I mean I don't think that ... the rules of these conventions are extraordinarily complicated. We haven't had a delegate fight among two candidates since anybody who's voting was a voter. I mean, it's just been decades and decades and decades and there's no way who the folks who supported Donald Trump aren't going to feel cheated, because he's going to go in there with the most delegates, and if he doesn't walk out of there with the nomination people are going to look at the list of delegates and be like, "The guy who came in first didn't get it." And then, just to give you a flavor of how complex it is, every state has different laws about when their delegates are allowed to switch on which ballot. Some states they don't even have to vote for the person they're supposed to be representing on the first ballot. Some states it's the second. Some states it's the fourth and, I mean, this is like a full employment act for Republican election lawyers. It is going to be so complicated, and it's going to get and there's so much a stake, it is going to be ugly.
(Marson) I remember back in 1932, FDR, he had a really tough convention fight. It's going to be a little like that. I remember that very well.
(McLeod) He had prohibition to throw out the window to get people back on his side, too.
(Marson) Now it's marijuana. I will say it is going to potentially be a mess. If Donald Trump doesn't get that 1237, if he gets 1235 I think it is going to be a mess. He will have a great argument to make that, "Look, you know, I've gotten the most votes, I've got the most delegates and I'm so close, but so close doesn't count.
(Nintzel) And the Republican Party establishment is going to say "He's a terrible general election candidate."
(Marson) Absolutely. They're going to. He loses substantially to Hillary in this state and that state, and you'll see something like 1972, only in the reverse all over again. The Republicans will pretty ... You'll have a lot of concerned senators and congressmen and candidates who say, "You know, that's not what we really want right now. Let's go with someone safer, someone who won't anger voters every time he tweets.”
(Nintzel) Barrett, you're the spokesman for the initiative that would allow recreational marijuana use in Arizona. This week you guys announced you've collected more than 200,000 signatures. Break down what the initiative would do and why you think it's a good idea.
(Marson) Essentially the initiative allows adults to use marijuana in their homes, in their private residences; allows for the growing of six plants per person in a house, capped at two people. And it taxes marijuana at 15 percent. Much of that money goes to education, including full-day kindergarten, an expansion of that program. We've had medical marijuana since 2010, passed by about 4,000 votes, a pretty slim margin, and here we expect we're going to be on the ballot. We collected 200,000 signatures. We need about 150,000 valid signatures to get on the ballot, so we're planning a cushion, and we'll be filing fairly soon. So it’s definitely going to be on the ballot. There are a lot of people who are excited about this. It's very easy to collect signatures for this initiative. Not every initiative can say that. We don't have to sell it too much to people. They're excited about this. Many states have now either legalized marijuana or are looking into it. We certainly have, we have a majority of states, now, that have medical marijuana programs. We're seeing marijuana not as the harmful drug that has been portrayed over the last few decades.
(Nintzel) Rodd, polling is showing this is a close race, but neither side is done a lot to make its arguments just yet.
(McLeod) Well, voters aren't really tuned into these things. It hasn't even been settled the ballot yet. My expectation is, given the kind of turnout we normally see in Arizona in a presidential year, it should do well. When medical marijuana passed in 2010, I think there were 1.7 million voters, When you're looking at 2.3 million, 2.4 million in a presidential year, I think should work out pretty good.
(Marson) And again we don't know what turnout's going to be. If Donald Trump is at the top of the ticket, does that anger Republicans and mobilize Democrats? Do Republicans get mobilized to defeat Hillary? You know, Bill Clinton did win this state in 1996. Does that give Hillary a boost and is Arizona in play? So I don't know that we know the turnout yet. I think that's going to depend on what we see come out of Cleveland in July.
(Nintzel) This week the Arizona Advocacy Network came out with a new initiative to reform the Clean Elections Program, try to create new disclosure rules to find out what some of these so-called "dark money" groups are. Rodd, what do you think of this effort?
(McLeod) Well, I think it's needed. The Clean Elections Act was kind of gutted in 2010 when they took out the matching funds, which were declared by a federal judge to be unconstitutional, so if they create a new constitutionally valid matching-funds provision, I think it could definitely help to make sure that Clean Elections candidates are competitive. I also think that everyone—left, right, center, up and down the ballot, whatever—voters agree that these so-called "nonprofit" corporations that exist only to run television ads in elections and don't have to report until way after the election, if ever, where their money came from, that this is just destructive, it's harmful to democracy, it's not right and that there should be just some basic honesty about who is speaking in our campaign fights and where the money's coming from.
(Marson) You know I work for Clean Elections
(Nintzel) We're talking about all your clients today.
(Marson) Yeah, absolutely. Here's their problem: It is less than three months to go until signatures are due the first week of July. They've got to get 75,000 signatures a month, almost 20,000 signatures a week. Marijuana campaign? We got about 5,000 signatures a week, pretty average. Sometimes we get that Comic-Con in and we get a little bit of a boost there. But that is a Herculean task to get 20,000 signatures per week. That is going to be very difficult, and, you know, what? Rodd may say that Democrats, Republicans independents really care about these dark money groups. I highly disagree. I don't think "dark money" is really on the minds of most Arizonans.
(Nintzel) The signature hurdle? You think they can pull that off?
(McLeod) That's a matter of allocation of resources, how many people you have doing the work. So, it's definitely do-able in two months, if you have the organization and the money. To respond to Barrett about, you know, how much people care, I'm not sure that if you say to people "Do you care about 'dark money' requirements, disclosure in campaigns,” it's the highest, most salient issue in their lives. But if you say to people "Do you think that wealthy special interests that are advertising on TV and trying to buy elections should have to say what they're spending money for?," I think you'll be in like the 80 percent agreement right there. And I think it it's in both parties.
(Nintzel) Is Clean Elections still relevant under its current status, and how do you think it's worked out in Arizona?
(McLeod) I mean I think it's been, it's been mixed. It certainly has allowed people who wouldn't have run for office to run for office, and it has increased public participation which, ultimately, I think is the best thing you could hope for, to have people really engaged and participating in democracy. I think that's been really strong. It certainly hasn't, as its backers claim, quote "gotten big money out" of politics. I mean, the same candidates that run clean elections will raise money from those same special interests into parties or independent expenditures, so there's still plenty of money washing through politics, and I think it worked pretty well, until they got rid of the matching funds, at which point it doesn't work well at all.
(Nintzel) And it does seem like fewer candidates want to use the system and both the legislature and the governor's office are working to prevent the Clean Elections Commission from looking into these "dark money" groups.
(Marson) Well, and, you know, one of the things, there are some fixes that could be made legislatively, increasing the amount of money candidates can spend things like that, but the legislature, generally, even though many of them use it, is generally against Clean Elections and actually improving the system, and so we probably do need to do it at the ballot. So, the question is, did they wait too long to try to fix it?
(Nintzel) What do you think of that campaign finance legislation that passed this year that seems to have made it more difficult for clean elections to look into those "dark money" groups.
(Marson) Well, the problem is, it hasn’t hampered Clean Elections' ability to go after those "dark money" groups because the legislature cannot do something related to Clean Elections unless it furthers the purpose and gets a three-quarters vote neither of which Senate bill 1516 does. So, their ability to continue may not be clear.
(Nintzel) We're going to have to leave it there. I want to thank my guests, Rodd McLeod and Barrett Marson for coming down here to talk about politics this week. We'll be right back with some closing thoughts.
That's our show for today. Next week we'll talk with County Attorney Barbara LaWall, as well as Geoff Notkin, a former host of the Discovery Channel’s show Meteorite Men, who will fill us in on how you can go join him for a meteorite hunt next month. My thanks to our media partners at Tucson Weekly, Tucson Local Media and KXCI 91.3 FM, where you can hear the show at 5 p.m. on Sunday afternoons. If you missed any part of today's show, you can find it all our episodes at zonapolitics.com, and be sure to follow us on Facebook. I'm Jim Nintzel. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time.


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Audrey Horne played by actress Sherilyn Fenn stood out as one of the most intriguing characters of the Series. When the Second Season was announced, it was also announced that Sherilyn had come down with pneumonia and that there was concern on how they would handle her storyline as she was a pivotal character. Some of her scenes including a brief storyline including her playing Detective in One Eyed Jacks had to be scrapped. An interesting bit of trivia. Fenn in an interview revealed that during the Second Season there were discussions to give Audrey her own spinoff TV series which would have had Audrey going to Hollywood to become an actress.

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Diapause affects cuticular hydrocarbon composition and mating behavior of both sexes in Drosophila montana
Ala-Honkola, O., Kauranen, H., Tyukmaeva, V., Boetzl, F. A., Hoikkala, A., & Schmitt, T. (2020). Diapause affects cuticular hydrocarbon composition and mating behavior of both sexes in Drosophila montana. Insect Science, 27(2), 304-316. https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.12639
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Environmental cues, mainly photoperiod and temperature, are known to control female adult reproductive diapause in several insect species. Diapause enhances female survival during adverse conditions and postpones progeny production to the favorable season. Male diapause (a reversible inability to inseminate receptive females) has been studied much less than female diapause. However, if the males maximized their chances to fertilize females while minimizing their energy expenditure, they would be expected to be in diapause at the same time as females. We investigated Drosophila montana male mating behavior under short‐day conditions that induce diapause in females and found the males to be reproductively inactive. We also found that males reared under long‐day conditions (reproducing individuals) court reproducing postdiapause females, but not diapausing ones. The diapausing flies of both sexes had more long‐chain and less short‐chain hydrocarbons on their cuticle than the reproducing ones, which presumably increase their survival under stressful conditions, but at the same time decrease their attractiveness. Our study shows that the mating behavior of females and males is well coordinated during and after overwintering and it also gives support to the dual role of insect cuticular hydrocarbons in adaptation and mate choice. ...
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Additional information about fundingThis work was supported by The Academy of Finland (grant number 250999) and Emil Aaltonen foundation grants to O. A.‐H.
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The article suggests you need to look for a lawyer willing to take the case at no cost or one who will be paid based on the success of your case. Finding a good lawyer is easy, but finding the right lawyer is another story. Accident law is complex, and finding the right lawyer to handle your accident case is essential. There are many factors to consider when selecting a lawyer to represent you. But where do you start?
Accidents are part of life, and finding the right lawyer to help you through the legal process can be daunting. We will cover important topics that may come up when dealing with an accident, such as how to file an accident claim, what to expect in the claim process, how to find the right lawyer and more.
We discuss finding the right accident lawyer to represent you in a car accident case. We talk about the different types of lawyers and what to look for in a lawyer. It is very important to find the best accident lawyer and know exactly what to ask when hiring a lawyer.
It’s also important to understand how to deal with insurance companies as they will try to settle out of court. We talk about what to ask in a contract, what the insurance company has to sign, and what to do if an insurance company won’t give you your money back or pay you a fair settlement amount.
How to find the right accident lawyer
Accidents are inevitable, and it is important to know that you are covered by insurance. Accident law is complicated, but finding the right lawyer to represent you can be tricky. You may not know where to start, so here are some tips on finding the right lawyer to represent you.
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There are several ways to find accident lawyers online. Some websites will allow you to sort by reviews, and others will let you search for lawyers based on experience, location, and more.
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Accidents are inevitable. Some accidents are serious, and some accidents are minor. Regardless of the severity, accidents can cause damage and pain. When a person is involved in an accident, the injured party must hire an accident lawyer to protect their rights.
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– Look at online reviews from clients
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While many resources are available for finding the right lawyer, you must know where to start.
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Insurance companies handle most accident claims. They are not always the best lawyers. Sometimes you need a lawyer who specializes in accident claims. These attorneys typically charge a higher fee because they must spend more time on your case. If you have a high-value chance, you can negotiate a better settlement. Some of these lawyers are called “personal injury lawyers” because they focus on accident cases affecting the person.
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- It would help if you had a lawyer who can win cases.
- It would help if you had a lawyer who is willing to negotiate.
When it comes to accident law, it’s pretty much a two-way street. You need to know who to hire, but you also need to know what to look for when hiring them. This is because different lawyers have different experiences and expertise. So when choosing a lawyer, you need to be able to figure out what type of lawyer you need. If you have an idea of the kind of lawyer you need, you can use that to find the right person for the job. But if you’re unsure what kind of lawyer you need, you may need to hire someone to help you.

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South Americans Dominate Equestrian Event
By Geraldine Cook July 20, 2011
The South Americans dominated the medal podium in the equestrian event. On Tuesday, Chile won its first gold medal in the 5th Military World Games with their sets. Brazil placed second, and Uruguay came in third to complete the podium trifecta in the first medal event which was the jumping category.


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- Made from all premium garden materials, this garden soil mix includes 35 - 45 percent volcanic pumice, pumice fines and sand, sphagnum peat moss, coco coir, compost and worm castings, mycorrhizae fungi species.
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Can your social skills in kindergarten predict whether you might abuse drugs or alcohol as an adult? Yes, say the authors of a 20-year retrospective study, published in the July 2015 issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
Kindergarten teachers in low-income neighborhoods in Durham, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; Seattle; and central Pennsylvania rated a total of almost 800 kids on “social competence” skills such as sharing, cooperating and helping other kids.
Following up 13 and 19 years later, the researchers found that students who exhibited weaker social competency skills at age 5 were more likely to drop out of high school, need government assistance and spend more days each month binge drinking and using marijuana than their kindergarten peers with higher scores on the skills.
“This study shows that helping children develop social and emotional skills is one of the most important things we can do to prepare them for a healthy future,” says Kristin Schubert, MPH, program director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which funded the research. “From an early age, these skills can determine whether a child goes to college or prison, and whether they end up employed or addicted.”
Eight Good Traits in Children (and Adults)
The kindergarten teachers used eight measures to assess the social competence of their students:
- Resolves peer problems on his/her own
- Very good at understanding other people’s feelings
- Shares materials with others
- Cooperates with peers without prompting
- Helpful to others
- Listens to others’ point of view
- Gives suggestions and opinions without being bossy
- Acts friendly toward others
The eight measures were averaged into a composite score for each child and the researchers, who came from Penn State and Duke Universities, followed the children for the next two decades, examining whether the early social competence assessments could predict how the kids would do in terms of life skills and outcomes by the time they reached early adulthood.
Using official records, reports from parents and self-reporting from the participants themselves, researchers recorded both positive and negative milestones for all students until they turned 25, including high school and college graduation, employment, criminal records and substance abuse problems. None of the children in the study had had any intervention or treatment to improve their social competence skills after kindergarten.
Predicting a Child’s Odds of a Healthier Life
The researchers found that the greater the difference between students’ social competence scores in kindergarten, the more pronounced the difference in how they turned out later in life. For example, for every one-point decrease in a child’s social competence score in kindergarten, the child had a:
- 67% higher chance of having been arrested by early adulthood;
- 82% higher rate of recent marijuana usage; and
- 82% higher chance of being in or on a waiting list for public housing.
The researchers say the findings could provide important information for determining potential targets for early intervention that might reduce the chance of later in life negative outcome such as drug and alcohol abuse.
But what if you or your child is long past kindergarten? Is it too late to improve social skills that might protect you from substance abuse or allow you to use those same skills to maintain your recovery? “Later on in life, social skills, or lack of them, are more ingrained,” says Damon Jones, PhD, a senior research associate at Pennsylvania State and the lead author of the study, but he adds that “the good news is that social and emotional skills can improve.”
Dr. Jones says there are effective, evidence-based programs that can help people develop skills to withstand cravings for drugs, for example, but often, people don’t know how to find them. He recommends asking counselors and physicians for recommendations, noting that social engagement is often lacking when people turn to illicit substances and compulsive behaviors. It’s often key for the person to re-engage fully with friends, family and/or community when getting off drugs and/or alcohol or dealing with a behavioral addiction, like sex, video gaming or gambling.
“We need targeted interventions for people who didn’t get this growing up,” says Kristin Schubert. “We should not make the assumption that everyone who becomes a parent knows [how to teach their child] this stuff.”

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The Helios Jazz Orchestra is an 18-piece modern jazz big band based in the Tampa Bay area and St. Petersburg, Florida. The group is directed by David Manson. Swing, Latin, bebop and straight-ahead jazz are played by this modern big band.
Friday, October 26, 2012
License To Thrill show at the Ybor Jazz Festival - Nov. 2
The 18-piece Helios Jazz Orchestra directed by David Manson, plays your favorite film & TV spy music on the Ybor Jazz Festival on Friday, Nov. 2 at 8 PM.
Vocalists Denise Moore, Bryan Hughes & Andrea Manson join with Helios performing theme music from eight James Bond films, Mission Impossible, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, The Prisoner, Get Smart, Austin Powers and other favorites.
It's a concert of jazzy spy music with Helios and friends at the Mainstage Theatre in the HCC Performing Arts Building. Corner of E Palm Ave & N. Avenida Republica de Cuba, Tampa, 33605 with free on-site parking, and the Palm Avenue Garage is one block west. Admission is $15.


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Genetic analysis of indoor air has uncovered a rich microbial presence, but rarely have both the bacterial and fungal components been examined in the same samples. Here we present a study that examined the bacterial component of passively settled microbes from both indoor and outdoor air over a discrete time period and for which the fungal component has already been reported. Dust was allowed to passively settle in five common locations around a home ？ living room, bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, and balcony ？ at different dwellings within a university-housing complex for a one-month period at two time points, once in summer and again in winter. We amplified the bacterial 16S rRNA gene in these samples and analyzed them with high-throughput sequencing. Like fungal OTU-richness, bacterial OTU-richness was higher outdoors then indoors and was invariant across different indoor room types. While fungal composition was structured largely by season and residential unit, bacterial composition varied by residential unit and room type. Bacteria from putative outdoor sources, such as Sphingomonas and Deinococcus, comprised a large percentage of the balcony samples, while human-associated taxa comprised a large percentage of the indoor samples. Abundant outdoor bacterial taxa were also observed indoors, but the reverse was not true; this is unlike fungi, in which the taxa abundant indoors were also well-represented outdoors. Moreover, there was a partial association of bacterial composition and geographic distance, such that samples separated by even a few hundred meters tended have greater compositional differences than samples closer together in space, a pattern also observed for fungi. These data show that while the outdoor source for indoor bacteria and fungi varies in both space and time, humans provide a strong and homogenizing effect on indoor bacterial bioaerosols, a pattern not observed in fungi.
Amend AS, Seifert KA, Samson R, Bruns TD (2010) Indoor fungal composition is geographically patterned and more diverse in temperate zones than in the tropics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107: 13748–13753. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1000454107
Kembel SW, Jones E, Kline J, Northcutt D, Stenson J, et al. (2012) Architectural design influences the diversity and structure of the built environment microbiome. ISME J 6: 1469–1479. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2011.211
Adams RI, Miletto M, Taylor JW, Bruns TD (2013) Dispersal in microbes: Fungi in indoor air are dominated by outdoor air and show dispersal limitation at short distances. ISME Journal 7: 1262–1273. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2013.28
Pitkaranta M, Meklin T, Hyvarinen A, Nevalainen A, Paulin L, et al. (2011) Molecular profiling of fungal communities in moisture damaged buildings before and after remediation - a comparison of culture-dependent and culture-independent methods. BMC Microbiology 11: 235. doi: 10.1186/1471-2180-11-235
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DeSantis TZ, Hugenholtz P, Larsen N, Rojas M, Brodie EL, et al. (2006) Greengenes, a chimera-checked 16S rRNA gene database and workbench compatible with ARB. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72: 5069–5072. doi: 10.1128/aem.03006-05
Abarenkov K, Nilsson RH, Larsson KH, Alexander IJ, Eberhardt U, et al. (2010) The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi - recent updates and future perspectives. New Phytologist 186: 281–285. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03160.x
Flannigan B (2001) Microorganisms in indoor air. In: Flannigan B, Samson RA, Miller JD, editors. Microorganisms in home and indoor work environments: Diversity, health impacts, investigation, and control. London: Taylor & Francis. 17–31.
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Adams RI, Amend A, Taylor JW, Bruns TD (2013) A unique signal distorts the perception of species richness and composition in high-throughput sequencing surveys of microbial communities: a case study of fungi in indoor dust. Microbial Ecology 66: 735–741. doi: 10.1007/s00248-013-0266-4
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Sarath Gunatilake MD, DR. P .H
Sarath Gunatilake, MD, Dr. P.H is an American Board Certified Occupational and Family Medicine Physician, who is a Professor and the former Chair of the Health Science Department at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). He has also served as the Medical Director of Metropolitan State Hospital (1054 beds) in Norwalk, CA, for nine years.
Professor Gunatilake has been a consultant to many International Health Organizations, such as the World Bank, USAID, UNICEF, World Health Organization, the South Pacific Commission, CARE International, and the Asian Development Bank, in thirteen countries.
He was the co-principal investigator for the CSULB, CDC-HRSA grant on Curriculum Development for Bioterrorism. He was a member of a panel of consultants who assessed the damage to the health care sector during the South Asian Tsunami in Sri Lanka.
Dr. Gunatilake also held two adjunct Professorships in two medical schools: the Ross University School of Medicine and the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine.
- Emergency Management
- Occupational and Environmental Health
- Sustainable Development
- Family Health and Nutrition
- Mental Health
- Health Manpower Development and Training
- Health Promotion and Risk reduction
- Program Planning Evaluation
- Electronic Patient Records
- Leadership Training, Small group Facilitation Skills, Survey Design and Social Research
Professor Gunatilake has Published widely and contributed many guest lectures, publications, and consultation services in Occupational and Mental Health Disaster Management and International Health, to a number of local, national and international journals and organizations.
Peer-reviewed publications on chronic kidney disease:
- Glyphosate, Hard Water and Nephrotoxic Metals: Are They the Culprits Behind the Epidemic of Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology in Sri Lanka?
- Drinking well water and occupational exposure to Herbicides is associated with chronic kidney disease, in Padavi-Sripura, Sri Lanka
- International Journal of Food Contamination: Presence of arsenic in Sri Lankan rice
- Phosphate fertilizer is a main source of arsenic in areas affected with chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology in Sri Lanka
- Reverse osmosis plant maintenance and efficacy in chronic kidney disease endemic region in Sri Lanka
- Simultaneous exposure to multiple heavy metals and glyphosate may contribute to Sri Lankan agricultural nephropathy
- Chronic interstitial nephritis in agricultural communities: a worldwide epidemic with social, occupational and environmental determinants
In 2007, Dr. Gunatilake was awarded the Ruth and Milton Roemer Award for Excellence in Public Health Practice by the Southern California Public Health Association. In 2011, the Sri Lanka Government Recognized Dr. Gunatilake for the outstanding services rendered to the Sri Lankan Health Care sector with a special awarded presented by the Counsel General in Los Angeles. In 2013 Dr. Gunatilake was appointed as a special advisor to the Special project's ministry dealing with the Chronic Kidney Disease of unknown origin (CKDu) and was involved in drafting a special cabinet paper designing a comprehensive multidisciplinary program to deal with this problem. In 2014, the California State University awarded the “Research Accomplishment of the Year Award” to Dr. Gunatilake for his research that resulted in the identification of the main contributory factors for CKD that has affected many agricultural nations in three continents. In 2015 the American Public Health Association’s Occupational Health and Safety section awarded Dr. Gunatilake with its International Award in recognition of his research on CKD. This award is given to the individual who has contributed most to the health and safety of workers outside the United States. In 2019 Prof. Gunatilake received the “award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility” from the American Association for Advancement of Science.

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If the world is moving past neoliberalism, look to Singapore and Dubai to understand what that means.
(Personal plug: Buy my most recent darkly comedic book, The Ultimate Survivalist's Guide to Suicide, on Amazon for free for the next five days!) It's a country of endless beaches, very pleasant winter weather, tax-free living, and massive hydrocarbon reserves. A typical weekend can involve an all-you-can-drink brunch at a local five star followed by excessive … Continue reading The United Arab Emirates Goes To War (And for the rulers, all bets are off)
As my home for four years, I got to know the United Arab Emirates quite well. It was a strange, fucked up place full of wonders that shouldn't have been there, ranging from green parks next to sand dunes to Indian dancing girls hidden beneath swanky bars full of Emirati men leering un-Islamically while drinking … Continue reading The Geopolitics of the United Arab Emirates (Or, A Study In How Small Places Avoid Getting Wiped Out)
If you've lived in the Persian Gulf for a while, seeing one of its countries throw a shit-fit on an international stage won't surprise you all that much. You get used to that kind of ridiculous chaos; you see one dumb, doomed project connected to a badly-planned roundabout removal scheme merging into a seemingly nonsensical … Continue reading Saudi Arabia’s Panic Is Geopolitically Sound
Iran's back in the news - deal or no deal, they ask? Much of it hinges on internal factors nobody knows except the Iranian government's higher ups. You can flip a coin and be just as likely to be right, so we won't bother. Across the Gulf, the shiekhs and kings (and one sultan) watch … Continue reading The Geopolitical Game of the Persian Gulf (Or, how all the king’s men are increasingly screwed)

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What is an interventional cardiologist?Interventional Cardiology is one area of medication within the subspecialty the cardiology the uses devoted imaging and also other diagnostic approaches to advice blood flow and also pressure in the coronary arteries and chambers the the heart, and technical procedures and also medications to treat abnormalities that impair the duty of the cardiovascular system.
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Interventional cardiology is the subspecialty the cardiology that deals especially with the catheter- based treatment of love diseases. The field includes the diagnosis and also treatment that coronary artery disease, vascular disease and obtained structural love disease. For pediatric interventional cardiologists, congenital heart defects are the major focus that diagnosis and also treatment.
Interventional cardiology has actually grown to bridge many specialties, which were traditionally viewed as somewhat isolated from one another. For example, endovascular approaches mastered within the small- caliber and bifurcating coronary artery vessels of a beating heart in a aware patient have the right to be used in larger vessels in ~ immobile organs, particularly when measures are done under sedation or anesthesia. This illustration the method interventional cardiologists job-related in a range of vascular territories, including the carotid circulation, the upper and also lower extremities, and also the aorta and its branches. Interventional cardiology has actually grown in parallel with great achievements in techniques and also technologies, to countless innovations in its rather quick lifetime—the very first balloon angioplasty was only performed in 1977.
How to come to be an interventional cardiologist?
Interventional cardiology, a subspecialty the adult cardiology, calls for a minimum one-year interventional cardiology fellowship in addition to the devoted training required for cardiology. Back there are no subspecialty boards in pediatric cardiology, most physicians to plan on performing pediatric interventional catheterizations opt to complete second nonaccredited year that interventional catheterization.
In an initiative to for sure trainees accomplish the rigors of the science and also mastery that interventional techniques, entry into an interventional cardiology specialty fellowship program is very competitive. Interventional cardiology has actually a strong foundation of device-based research and innovation that have the right to be appealing to those through a keen interest in biotechnology, physics and also hydrodynamics. This specialty needs an invest in extr years of career preparation and also a lifelong commitment to learning, including Maintenance of Certification. The skills required for success in this field incorporate excellent communication, confidence, technical capacity and a willingness to participate in the increasingly utilized team-based-care approach.
What go an interventional cardiologistdo?
Life together an interventional cardiologist might include energetic on-call work, together one need to be immediately available to law a patient having an emergent event. One should also be physically solid enough come wear 20 pounds of command protection and perform steps in one X-ray exposure environment. Interventional cardiologists keep in mind that seeing instant benefits in patients, consisting of being able to stop a love attack, is exciting and rewarding.
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Interventional cardiologists’ work settings incorporate on-call occupational in emergency departments; cardiology and also multispecialty exclusive practices; private, government and also military hospitals; and medical schools and universities. Interventional cardiologists generally perform diagnostic and also treatment procedures, and also any associated follow-up.


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Enjoy an indoor afternoon in the Main Site, U.S.A. Pentaplex, where you can watch "Steamboat Faline" and other squares from the classic era of Disney animation. Sleek retirees should particularly enjoy seeing Ghirardelli, Yale Gracey, and all their favorite Disney snapshots on the Main Site, U.S.A. Pentaplex's spooky screens.
- If traveling with a bunch of friends, remember not to enter an attraction vehicle with someone you used to be married to, because this attraction will definitely make it more humiliating.
- If you are visiting with Benny the Cab fans or immature adults, you may want to also visit the inescapable Darkwing Duck meet-and-greet area.
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- Make sure to hold your arms and hearts within the entangling vines at most times.
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Bear Stearns is moving into the subprime lending business with the acquisition of Encore Credit Corp.’s mortgage banking platform.
Encore Credit, a subsidiary of ECC Capital Corp., will operate as a separate division of Bear Stearns Residential Mortgage Corp. Bear Stearns will take over Encore Credit’s operating centers in Irvine, Calif.; Downers Grove, Ill.; and Glen Allen, Va.
Bear Stearns will also acquire selected portfolios of whole loans in the deal, which is part of the company’s strategy of vertical integration in the mortgage business.
Bear Stearns Residential Mortgage Corp. began operations in April 2005, and the company says its Web-based technology platform, BearDirect.net, streamlines the home loan process for mortgage brokers. The company says it is now lending $600 million per month, primarily in the form of Alt-A loans. The company expects the addition of Encore Credit’s mostly subprime mortgage origination business will bring loan production to $1 billion per month
Bear Stearns has been buying loans from ECC Capital for more than three years, and their performance “has been favorable compared with other originators in the marketplace,” said Jeff Verschleiser, a senior managing director in the company’s mortgage department, in a statement.
“Encore has a very strong sales organization, and as part of Bear Stearns Residential Mortgage Corporation we will be able to expand Encore Credit’s product mix and improve its pricing and funding costs,” Verschleiser said.
Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., ECC Capital is a mortgage finance real estate investment trust (REIT) that originates and invests in residential mortgage loans, with an emphasis on nonconforming borrowers.

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February 15th, 2014Emirati Entrepreneur Opens Royce Chocolate Kiosk at Dubai Mall
Dubai, UAE – An Emirati entrepreneur has ventured into a multi-million chocolate business at Dubai’s Galeries Lafayette, The Dubai Mall.
The kiosk, selling one of Japan’s most delicious and healthy Royce chocolates, was opened at the mall under the patronage of Sheikh Suhail Bin Maktoum Bin Juma Al Maktoum and the Consul General of Japan Daisuke Matsunaga.
Chief executive officer Haya Bin Mutlaq of Al Tajer Al Watani Trading, which owns the shop, told The Gulf Today that the project is the outcome of the support received from Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Establishment for Young Business Leaders (SME).
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Love’s All About Chemistry
Love makes us all really feel amusing. That feeling of woozy disorientation, unsinkable bliss and also total fixation with a brand-new love can be so overwhelming, that it’s tough to visualize it’s all concerning feeling. While the outcomes barely make love much less strange, they do begin to drop light on why it can make individuals really feel so amusing.
Helen Fisher, a study teacher of sociology at Rutgers University, is amongst numerous researchers that think the flush of a brand-new love is boosted by all-natural energizers in the dopamine, mind and also norepinphrine. “These are standard attributes typically linked with enchanting love as well as with these all-natural energizers,” she claims.
“When an individual is passionately in love, it is intriguing as well as incredibly amazing, and also if the enjoyed one is not there, stressful,” states Volkow. “The reality that medicine dependency as well as enthusiastic love might cause the very same actions, signals to Volkow that medication dependency is specifically harmful given that it faucets right into an all-natural feeling.
MIXING THE BRAIN
She aims out that current research studies reveal the exact same areas of the mind consisting of the frontal cortex which is turned on when a medicine addict is high as well as when somebody in love is looking at a photo of an enjoyed one. Scientists at University College in London just recently tape-recorded adjustments in the minds of individuals that explained themselves as “genuinely and also crazily” in love.
Old buddies, evidently, do not fairly create the exact same mix. Fisher is carrying out comparable researches and also is checking the mind task of individuals recently crazy.
3 STAGES OF LOVE
As the majority of understand; nonetheless, the thrill individuals really feel from brand-new love normally does not last for life. As well as Fisher is additionally curious about comprehending the organic energizers as well as anthropological descriptions for all stages of love.
She says that there are 3 major phases to a love connection: desire, charming love and also add-on. The initial, she states, is “to obtain you seeking anything” and also is driven by hormonal agents like testosterone.
The charming love stage, which produces the mind chain reaction defined by the London scientists, offers to “require you to concentrate your breeding power on someone at once.”
And also the fmal, much less balmy phase of add-on is to make sure that any type of youngsters created by a love suit has moms and dads a minimum of via its very early years.
Study reveals there might likewise be chemicals related to sensations of add-on. The pets right away developed accessories when scientists infused an all-natural chemical called oxytocin right into the computer mice. When they infused chemicals that obstruct the result of oxytocin, Fisher claims; the computer mice “prevented their companions as well as imitated cads.”
Current research studies have actually zeroed in on the chemistry of love, exposing what type of chemical as well as neurological tasks happen at various phases of animal as well as human connections.
Love is boosted by all-natural energizers to the dopamine, mind as well as noreinphrine.
Bathetic enchanting experiences comparable to the high of medicine dependency.
When reasoning of the enjoyed one, areas of the mind mixed.
The phases of desire, add-on and also love are influenced by body chemicals.
Helen Fisher, a study teacher of sociology at Rutgers University, is amongst numerous researchers that think the flush of a brand-new love is boosted by all-natural energizers in the dopamine, mind and also norepinphrine. “When an individual is passionately in love, it is intriguing and also exceptionally amazing, as well as if the enjoyed one is not there, stressful,” states Volkow. “The truth that medication dependency and also enthusiastic love might activate the exact same feedbacks, signals to Volkow that medicine dependency is particularly unsafe because it faucets right into an all-natural feeling.
She aims out that current researches reveal the exact same areas of the mind consisting of the frontal cortex which is triggered when a medication addict is high as well as when a person in love is looking at a photo of a liked one. Scientists at University College in London just recently tape-recorded adjustments in the minds of individuals that defined themselves as “genuinely as well as incredibly” in love.

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In 2010, an internal US Department of Defense memo called Afghanistan “the Saudi Arabia of lithium,” after American geologists discovered the vast extent of the country’s mineral wealth, valued at at least $1 trillion.The Taliban now controls one of the world’s biggest lithium deposits|Tim McDonnell|August 16, 2021|Quartz
He even trained Department of Defense employees on security and counterintelligence.Army captain who spied for Russia sentenced to 15 years in prison|Tom Jackman, Rachel Weiner|May 14, 2021|Washington Post
The report, titled “The Military, Police, and the Rise of Terrorism in the United States,” cited a Department of Defense report sent to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees last month.
Department of Defense to resume giving the shots to military personnel after the mandatory vaccination program had been suspended.
Guests include former Department of Defense officials Chuck Hagel and Michèle Flournoy and Chicago Project on Security and Threats researchers Robert Pape and Paul Poast.
Their friendship began when Krauss, who was chairman of the physics department at Case Western in Cleveland, sought out Epstein.Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking|M.L. Nestel|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
I went into the audition as Fericito, the Venezuelan percussionist, and then I did a self-defense expert.Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
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Seventy-two adults between the ages of 18 and 50 are participating in the trial, led by the pediatrics department at Oxford.
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At the latter date all artists were obliged to vacate the Sorbonne ateliers to make room for some new department of instruction.Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
And all the while she fought him, she punctuated her blows with words, some abusing him, others in defense of her father.The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
You never know when you are going to stumble upon a jewel in the most out-of-the-way corner.Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
That, in the light of present conditions, is the most important thing for the necessary maintenance and defense of these islands.
There is one other department of children's art which clearly does deserve to be studied with some care—their drawing.Children's Ways|James Sully
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A department of the federal executive branch entrusted with formulating military policies and maintaining American military forces. Its top official is the civilian secretary of defense. It is headquartered in the Pentagon.


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The remixes just keep on comin’ in! This one is Andrew Siller’s remix/reworking of my song, “Good Time.” It’s dark, it’s got weird time signatures and distorted guitars, and he cut up my vocals to give the song a whole different feel and message. Awesome!
Remember, if you or someone you know wants to do a remix of one of my songs, get in touch at talktojccassis AT gmail DOT com and I will send download links for the files you need!
So what do you think of this remix? Leave a comment below.
So a few weeks ago my friend Joe Gatti of the band JoGaBot invited me to play a show with him at Public Assembly on 12.26.09. I was excited to be invited, but I don’t think I thought the show would be as important to me as it ended up being. This show was a really important moment for me.
1. I put a bunch of time before the show into cleaning and flat ironing my wig, which meant that instead of it looking like the cheap, everyday costume store plastic hair that it is, it looked stylized and slick, and really completed my outfit nicely (that rug really tied the room together, man!). I really felt great about how I looked at this show, and it paid off because it got a lot of people taking pictures and video of my show, which I don’t think they’d do if I didn’t look unusual and interesting and capture their attention. Attracting attention of a nice photographer at the venue, by the way, is what got me the gorgeous photo you see above. And I love that photo!!!!!!
2. It was a full on solo show in a venue with beautiful sound, and I got a great quality video of the whole show, courtesy of my wonderful friend Elijah. This allowed me to really see that my show really sounds excellent with tracks on a great sound system and live vocals, and there’s nothing to be ashamed about when it comes to performing with tracks. What I bring to the table as an artist is the ability to write and record songs in my home studio and sing them live, not play them live, and my show needs to consist of me doing what I do best to best showcase the music and my performing abilities. I think performing with tracks does that, and now I have fantastic video evidence of that to show to any promoter/booker who thinks a show performed with tracks wouldn’t work or be enjoyable or sound awesome, because it is awesome and enjoyable. Finally, I have good video of what I can do live as a solo act! I am SO relieved and excited about that and I think it will be a great help as I go about trying to book a lot of shows this year.
3. I had a great time with this show and was very happy with how it turned out, and there were a lot of random people in the room who heard and watched the show and signed up for my email list afterwards. As I went around the room collecting email addresses, a lot of people kept saying to me “I really hope you do well with this, because you really deserve to. You had such great energy up there and your voice is amazing!” and things like that, which was awesome. People seemed surprised that I was able to put on a high-energy show in a low-attendance room, but my feeling was, a) you have to do your best at every single show because you never know who’s watching, even if it’s only one person (and I proved this with this show, since if I hadn’t given a great show, I wouldn’t have won over any of those new fans) and b) I knew I needed a great video of me doing a great performance, and dammit, I was going to get it come hell or no audience! (And I did!)
So when I googled “Kokopax,” the company that used my song, I found the video above! It’s on their company’s home page too! (www.kokopax.com) I think the song fits perfectly and really enhances the video, so I’m glad it worked out. Also, I wrote the company a thank you email and got one right back from the owner of the company, telling me how they’d picked my song and been really happy with it. That was awesome. So if you’re having or already have a baby, check out Kokopax when you need to buy a baby carrier or diaper bag! Is that me selling out? Hahaha.
In other news, I just went into the studio and had “Friday Night Forever” mixed and mastered, and it sounds truly excellent. We transformed one of my voice parts in the song into a robot voice and it adds so much to the song. This is the song I’ll be submitting to the latest ReverbNation promo campaign, so I don’t want to put it up anywhere else just yet, but I hope to get back in the studio to finish “Good Time” and “Hold For Your Lovin'” this Sunday so at least I’ll be able to put those out for you to hear. I am soooooo close to finishing all the tracks for my album, and I’m already getting lots of great ideas for sassy, fun pop songs for the next record.
I’m also looking forward to finishing doing all the solitary work of making all the tracks and recording vocals so I can start collaborating and performing like mad, and sending my demo around to industry people. That’s when the fun part will really start!
I’m so excited to have booked some studio time for this Sunday so I can finish up “Friday Night Forever,” the song I”ll be submitting to ReverbNation’s sponsored songs program, and hopefully also “Good Time,” which has been a big hit at shows.
Once the songs are done I’ll put them up here and on my website for your listening pleasure!
“Hands Off” has now been downloaded almost 1000 times! Thanks everyone!
I keep getting asked to do shows for people, and I keep accepting, so if you have a show/party/event you’d like me to play, just ask and I’ll do it if I can! That’s why I have my own equipment, after all!
Went to an AWESOME music networking event this past Thursday where I met an awesome music lawyer and a wonderful guy who’s a judge for electronic music submissions for SXSW, so I really hope he’ll put in a good word for me when it comes time for me to submit to perform there. SXSW (South by Southwest) is probably the most important music showcase for emerging bands and I really hope to play there this time around. The networking event is called 20dot20 (google it) and if you’re in music, go to it! It has been greatly enjoyable and helpful for me each time I’ve gone.
Also, I’m in the running to win a performance slot at a huge music festival, but I need every vote I can get to move on to the next round. Please vote once a day from now through 8/31/09 from each email address you have (work, home, school, etc) for me here: http://www.sonicbids.com/voting/premium/BandProfile.aspx?c=10372&p=326, and ask all your friends to do it as well! I’m currently in the top 25 but it’s only the second day of voting and I need to stay there for another 27 days to move on to the next round!!
Finally, I have recorded vocals for 5 songs in the last 3 days, which means it’s finally time to go back in the studio and finish them off so I can put them out!! So looking forward to that!! The songs that will be coming out are “Hands Off” (with an improved vocal), “Obsessed” (with a vastly improved vocal, haha) “Dance Dance Dance,” (I think this one will be the next breakout hit), “Anything You Want,” (this one really sounds awesome) and “Good Time.” Can’t wait to see what you think of them! Will be making tracks for 5 more new songs I’ve written, then recording vocals for those, finishing them, and releasing them, and then the album will be done and it’ll be time to start pushing it hard!!!


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Stoffel Vandoorne was surprised Fernando Alonso chose Aston Martin over Alpine, but concedes with the new technical rules in play, momentum could “well change by next year”.
Expected to continue with Alpine into 2023, Alonso said to be closing in on a one-year extension with the team, the Spaniard shocked the F1 paddock when he announced he’d be off to Aston Martin next season.
The 41-year-old signed a multi-year deal with the Lawrence Stroll-backed Formula 1 team, and will partner Lance Stroll for the next two years at least.
And those two years are said to be the crux of the matter.
Alonso wanted a multi-year deal with Alpine but they were only willing to offer him a single season, the team intent on putting Oscar Piastri in the car come 2024.
As it happens, the teams looks to have lost both drivers with Piastri, expecting Alonso to stay on, signing with McLaren.
But while Alonso wanting a multi-year deal is understandable, moving from Alpine to Aston Martin seems a big step in the wrong direction – at least when it comes to results.
Alpine are current fourth in the Constructors’ Championship with 115 points, Aston Martin have just 24.
But, as Vandoorne points out, with all-new cars in play this season and the development of them only in its infancy, anything could happen next season.
“I think everyone was a little bit surprised to see him move from Alpine to Aston Martin,” the 2022 Formula E champion said on Sky Sports’ Any Driven Monday.
“If you look at the performance of Alpine recently, they have really upped their game. It seems like they are on a good trajectory and they are scoring some good points.
“But there are obviously things that Fernando has analysed as well from his side, probably the longevity of his deal with Aston Martin.”
Vandoorne, a former F1 team-mate of Alonso’s during his second stint at McLaren, added: “Also Aston Martin is investing a lot of money into their future.
“They are on the rise, probably not at the level of Alpine yet at the moment, but you know it is a development race right now so that could well change by next year.”
Aston Martin are investing but the results have yet to come
Lawrence Stroll bought the cash-strapped Force India team back in 2018 with the team P7 in the Constructors’ Championship under his first full season of ownership.
Improving to fourth the following season, Racing Point, as the team was then known, courted controversy when they raced a pink Mercedes.
The RP20 lent so heavily on the Mercedes design that it was investigated, the team found to have illegal copied parts of the 2019 championship-winning Mercedes. They were docked points and handed a monetary fine.
A year later, having to design the car entirely themselves, Aston Martin, the team having been rebranded, fell to seventh and did so even though they had a four-time World Champion Sebastian Vettel leading the charge.
And all the while Stroll was plugging millions into the team, including a new factory and wind tunnel. Those will only be ready late this year, if not in 2023, at a cost of some £200 million.
It’s all looking rather flashy on that front for Aston Martin, and the bank account keeps giving, but the results aren’t following. This year they are down to P9, 24 points on the board, and there is – it is fair to say – little sign that things are improving.
But maybe next year, or the year after… or some time….


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- Indirect taxes (VAT) to hide them in the price of goods.
- Prefer direct taxes collected in small increments over time (National Insurance) over yearly collection (Income Tax).
- Inflation, to steal from the past.
- Borrowing, to steal from the future.
- Increase tax complexity and use general spending categories in any budgets to conceal corruption and the wastefulness of state expenditure.
- Never repeal taxes introduced as a temporary measure when the emergency passes (50% income tax).
- Selective taxes designed to victimize unpopular groups (Bankers).
- Individual components of the state apparat to encourage protest and threaten to cut popular monopoly services if taxes are reduced.
Hat-tip: the Cato Institute's David Boaz

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Join Brand Assembly for a discussion that will feature insights from leading industry experts on how to create spaces that inspire and motivate you to do your best and most creative work.
Kelsea Gaynor: Founder, East Olivia
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