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RAJBIRAJ, Oct 14: Youth activists of CPN UML have greeted Prime Baburam Bhattarai with black flags in protest near Rupani buspark of Saptari, while he was on his way to Rajbiraj to inaugurate a co-operative fair, on Sunday afternoon. PM Bhattarai has arrived in Rajbiraj to inaugurate Krishna Krishi Sahakari Ramailo Mela, an entertainment fair being organized to collect funds for setting up a cold store at Madhupura-1, Janamuni of the district. Security has been tightened in the city considering possible protests by opposition parties and their sister organizations. A total of 130 stalls have been kept at the fair being organized in association with 24 different local co-operatives. It is estimated that Rs 140 million will require to set up the cold store. The government would provide Rs 70 million, while the remaining sum will be collected from the fair, the organizers said.
All About Me What everyone should know about me Business woman, wife, and mom of two kids, 2 and 4 years of age (who are the sweetest angels in the whole world):) Things I sell Things I collect English, Spanish, Toddler Combined shipping available in most circumstances, please refer to individual listings. $1 each additional qualifying item (must not need its own packaging) Returns are normally accepted, however, due to the nature of the product, it must be in original sealed condition upon return.
This page is under construction. To learn how to participate in emergency communications and public service events in San Joaquin County, please contact David Coursey, N5FDL. Amateur Radio emergency communications in San Joaquin County is organized in multiple ways. There is no longer an ARES group in the county, it’s function has been taken over by California Emergency Volunteers, a not-for-profit founded by N5FDL, K6VZT and N6TMA. CEVOL works with county agencies, hospitals, clinics and other organizations to provide for their emergency communications needs. The group also works with Ripon Fire and the County’s Joint Radio Users Group, comprised of all fire departments in the county except Stockton, Lodi and Manteca. The group also installs and maintains multiple repeater systems, with the ultimate goal of providing handie-talkie coverage on at least one repeater everywhere in the county. CEVOL also organizes HamCram licensing events and will soon begin offering the Oregon ACES emcomm training in Northern California.
"B-but the Marai... Did I... failed?" Thanks to fellow champion Leona, Nami found the one who has the Moonstone: a follower of the moon called Diana. However, although her reasons were pure, the heretic didn't trust the tidecaller, and thought Nami was an ally to the Solari, silencing her like the elders did with her time ago. Diana just didn't knew that Nami's destiny was tied to an entire race... and ran away after her attack. "No... Nami!!" I was linked to Nami in case something happened, but never expected to see her on the verge of death... I needed to do something: healing her wounds, stop her bleeding... but it was useless... "Stay calm... I can go there and heal you!" "Summoner... Thanks, but your powers will have little effect now..." was her answer. Tears were running down her cheek, but not from sadness... "At least... my beloved ones will be with me forever... Just remember this: We are all tied... to the ocean... cough I'll always remember... our times together..." With those words, Nami closed her eyes, and died peacefully... "Nami, the Tidecaller... Thanks for your aid and company... You'll never be forgotten..." Originally Posted by Rot Shesho Looking towards the heavens, Teemo whispers: "I'll scout ahead." I HATE Teemo with all my soul, but this... makes me respect him D:
These desperate times for Greece, when you are forced to fire sale everything. Makes you wonder what lead Greece to this unenviable position. It all began with something called Greed, and the dream of becoming the financial center of the world overnight. The Greek government, in the midst of a major fiscal crisis, is unable to pay its bills. Roughly $228 billion in bailout loans have been provided to the country.
SportsWorld reported on the recent M Countdown performance of Lunafly and referred to the group as a “3-member co-ed group.” Teo himself saw the report and tweeted saying “Mr. Reporter.. We’re not a co-ed group… I’m not girl…..” Oh, Teo. You are adorable. grabby hands [MV] GI(지아이) - BEATLES(비틀즈) (by Sim Tong) I was hesitant about this new girl group prior to their debut if only because the whole schtick of “tomboy” as a concept sounds like a weird gimmick to me. Regardless, it’s good to know they’re actually quite kick ass and are probably really talented (I will have to check out live performances before I pass actual judgment). The girls sure can dance and have mastered smirking and swagging at the camera. This song has a good beat and the m/v looks cool. I’m looking forward to their k-pop journey. “One of the most memorable stages from the concert was Wooyoung‘s stage of “Tong Tong Tong Tong Pakitong-Kitong“, a children’s song in Tagalog.” WHAAAAAAT???? NEED TO FIND VIDEO. OMG 20130302_222344 (by shortybabygurl03) Fanvid from the 2PM in Manila concert. This view is from the tickets I was supposed to have but had to sell to my friends instead. Look how near that is!!! Still depressed over missing out on this. P.S. Turn your volume way down. The audio quality of this video is not good… 라쿤보이즈 (Raccoon Boys) [Like This] @KPOPSTAR Season 2 (by KPOPSTAR) The JYP whisper in the end just slayed it. These guys are awesome. So between this group, Andrew Choi and Akdong Musician, this season has been proving to be a winner. My sister bought a local magazine that contained posters of 100 of the cutest celebrities… And it contained a couple of k-pop guys, so I called dibs. Too bad SHINee is right behind BigBang. I don’t want to make Onew face the wall, but what can I do when they’re on the flipside of my number 1 boy group bias?
May 23: Comics delayed on account of new nephew News last updated 03.25.2013 Isabel Marks - I want to post photos of the baby, but I'll need to ask my sis first. He is such a cutie who looks like his dad and mom mixed in one. Eeee!! 11:55am 24 May Isabel Marks - Comic delayed on account of bebe- not mine, but you know. 3:08am 23 May Terrence Marks - And who's that rabbit in the graduation ceremony? Go read Namir Deiter at http://namirdeiter.com! 3:03am 22 May Terrence Marks - #testing an issue with our twitter #parser. 10:32am 21 May Isabel Marks - And ND is up! Sorry for the delay! Don't forget, WonderKittens! also got updated as well! :D 9:46am 21 May Where our story is now: Whats better than a date at the Skrivbord furniture store? Not much, really. ND Unlimited News\| ND Unlimited - our comics hub Wonder Kittens - Isabel's new comic You Say it First - Terrence and Isabel's comic, ended Spare Parts - our other comic, ended Kevin & Kell - which we color FBAO Blog - thought experiment in game design
Spotted in the window of GNC: Buff, ripped, and … ravaged? Serious question: Does “ravage” have a positive meaning known only to bodybuilders (and unknown to me)? I mean, I get that sports-nutrition branding favors aggressive metaphors, but Ravage doesn’t say “power”; it says “grievous damage.” Here are the other products in GNC’s Beyond RAW lineup: Re-Feed, Re-Grow, Re-Power. Not pictured: Re-Forge, Rebuilt, Refine. Which of these names doesn’t belong? (On an unrelated note, how cute is it that these products come in flavors like Fruit Punch, Chocolate Brownie, and Vanilla Cake Batter?) Maybe I’m overthinking it. Maybe you’re just supposed to relish the growling, roaring sound of “Ravage.” Certainly the product copy—larded with ballistic language—promises a superheroic outcome: Within minutes of taking Ravage, you’ll experience the blitz of ingredients designed specifically to create blazing energy as you strive to achieve bare-knuckle intensity, chiseled vascularity, muscle hardness and sustained strength. … To stimulate mental focus and intensity, Ravage adds a cascade of metabolic intensifiers that ignite calorie burning and fatty acid metabolism to intensify your neural drive, so you can shatter records and punch through sticking points.* The results? Ferocious workouts, superior muscularity, and dominating athletic performance.* As much as I love me some chiseled vascularity, I doubt that I’m in the target market for Ravage. Still, I can’t help wondering whether the product might be better served by a name that didn’t evoke rack and ruin. Maybe “Revenge”—as in “living well is the best”—would have been more, um, fit. * “These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.”
Theory of Nanostructured Materials Facility The Molecular Foundry Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory B.A. in Physics, UC Berkeley (2010) Ph.D. in Applied Physics, Columbia University (In Progress) I am currently a member of the theory facility at the Molecular Foundry working under the supervision of Jeffrey Neaton. I am interested in the electronic structure of novel electronic materials for organic photovoltaic devices (OPVs), a promising candidate for low-cost solar energy conversion. I use first-principles methods based on density functional theory to calculate the ground- and excited-state properties of organic molecules to understand trends in OPV device performance. My general interests include the computational prediction and design of high-performance materials for renewable energy technologies such as photovoltaics and thermoelectrics. Relating Trends in First-Principles Electronic Structure and Open-Circuit Voltage in Organic Photovoltaics E. B. Isaacs, S. Sharifzadeh, B. Ma, and J. B. Neaton, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2, 2531 (2011). - E. B. Isaacs, S. Sharifzadeh, B. Ma, and J. B. Neaton, “Correlating First-Principles Electronic Structure to Device Performance of Organic Photovoltaic Cells,” oral presentation, APS March Meeting (2011). - E. B. Isaacs, S. Sharifzadeh, B. Ma, and J. B. Neaton, “Electronic Structure Insights into the Eﬃciency of Organic Photovoltaic Cells,” poster presentation, UC Berkeley Science and Engineering Poster Session (2010). - E. B. Isaacs and F. Wang, “Optical Study of Thermal Transport in Suspended Silicon Nanowires,” poster presentation, UC Berkeley Physics Department Undergraduate Poster Session (2009).
The members of the Rebuild Hi-Tor effort are ready to ramp up their fundraising efforts, and they did so at a meeting Tuesday night while discussing the various committees group members will split into. The committees are fundraising, grants, events, political action, public relations and correspondence. At the meeting, a design and social media committee was also started. Members also volunteered to be committee chairs. “Now that we have chairs, I’m feeling more comfortable we will populate these committees,” said Chair of Fundraising Donald Franchino. Franchino called the night a “kickoff” for the group’s big push to fund a new animal shelter to replace the current one in Pomona. The committee members had different reasons for joining the different committees, such as planning around their normal schedule. Suffern’s Catherine Planeta joined the grants committee and volunteered to chair it. “I work full time, but I still wanted to help,” she said. “Because of work, I’m not really around during the day too much, so I wanted something I could do at night.” Planeta said that at Tuesday’s meeting, after she volunteered as chair, a woman came up to her and said she was going to join the grants committee and had a lot of experience writing grants. Planeta said the plan is that after the committee is formed, she wants everyone to meet and go over each person’s experience in writing grants. She added she hopes those more experienced in grant writing, like the woman who reached out Tuesday, will help the others. During the meeting, Franchino said they’ve found about 200 grants they want to apply for to help build a new shelter. Planeta said the committee will divvy up the grants. Planeta said because of her business background, she feels she’s a good organizer and she can sort through the minutia to do a good job leading the committee. She wanted to join the Rebuild Hi-Tor efforts because she feels strongly that the shelter needs to be rebuilt. “I’ve lived in Rockland my whole life,” she said. “I remember the shelter as a kid, and it’s exactly the same now as it was back then. It needs to be updated. You can’t just keep things exactly the same.” She also volunteers at the shelter on weekends, washing dishes and walking dogs. “This is how I choose to spend my free time,” she said. Claudia Rothman, of West Nyack, volunteered to be the chair of the correspondence committee because she’s retired and said she wanted to help and thought that particular committee was one she could do during the day at home in front of her computer. The correspondence committee she said is in charge or answering emails and inquires, as well as sending out thank you’s to donors. “Over the years, my experience has been that I feel I work better from behind the scenes,” she said. “I think I’m organized and work well on the administrative side of any project.” Rothman said she also wanted to help the effort because she’s an animal rights supporter. “This just seemed like a good way of giving back to this wonderful cause,” she said.
\|Stories from Ancient India\| Panchatantra is the oldest extant collection of fables in Sanskrit literature. Dating probably from the 4th century AD, it is based on still earlier collections of folk tales. The Panchatantra is sometimes attributed to an Indian sage, Bidpai (fl. about 300). The fables, primarily about animals, are organized into five books on such topics as winning friends, losing property, and waging war. They were originally intended to instruct a young prince in the conduct that would ensure his worldly success. The Sanskrit original is lost, but the Panchatantra was translated into the major languages of Europe and Southeast Asia and has influenced the folktales of those regions. Panchatantra is a collection of fables with five (pancha) main tenets (tantra). It is in prose, with occasional verses, especially for maxims or morals. The prose is lucid but not artistic. It begins by saying that the King Amarshakti of Mahilaropya in South India had four mischievous sons badly in need of being disciplined. The king put them in charge of Pandit Vishnusharma, who taught them all about politics, administration and morals through a series of stories or fables. The stories are so constructed that one leads to another but the unity of theme is never lost. It is a novel educational experiment, and one that had worked well with the four naughty princes. Animals with all sorts of human traits, situations that remain relevant to date, and its overall vitality have kept the Panchatantra popular even today. Hitopadesha (Good Advice) is an independent version of Panchatantra for books of a more elegant style than the Panchatantra. Jataka stories have always been recognized in Buddhist literature and occurred in the canonical Pitakas (literally basket of knowledge) as well as frescoes at Ajanta and railings at Sanchi. Buddhists monks used them in their religious discourses. The Pali work Jataka contains 550 Jataka-stories in 22 nipatas or books. Each story opens with a preface called the `paccuppannavatthu' or `story of the present' which relates the particular circumstances in the Buddha's life which led him to narrate this particular Jataka-story or birth-story, and so reveals some event in the long series of his previous existences as a bodhisattva (One Destined to be a Buddha). There is always a short summary at the end where the Buddha identifies the different actors in the story in their present births at the time of his discourse. Every story bears one or more gathas or verses uttered by the Buddha while still a bodhisattva and so with a part in the narrative, only sometimes are they put into his mouth as the Buddha. Although much of their matter related to Buddhism, the Jataka stories are also folklore. They are full of interesting information about early Buddhist times. of Panchatantra for books of a more elegant style than the Panchatantra.
CoreLogic has crunched July home-price numbers from around the country and found that, on the whole, they haven't changed since the summer of 2009. Nashville's prices, though, have fallen 4.2 percent when you include distressed sales. Take out those market-distorting deals and the year-over-year drop is trimmed to 1.25 percent. That's in line with Tennessee's numbers over that time... ...but worse than many of the country's largest metro areas. The three-point gap caused by distressed sales is far bigger than in the cities listed here. - ALEX B FRUIN INHERITANCE TRUST; CANDACE F STEFANSIC INHERITANCE TRUST; CANDANCE F STEFANSIC INHERITANCE TRUST; FRUIN, ALEX B TRUSTEE; FRUIN ALEX B INHERITANCE TRUST; STEFANSIC, CANDACE F TRUSTEE; STEFANSIC CANDACE F INHERITANCE TRUST; STEFANSIC CANDANCE F INHERITANCE TRUST - ROSS, BRIDGETT D - COOKE, ETHEN LANYARD TRUSTEE; COOKE, ETHEN LEWIS ESTATE - JACOBS, JESSICA ALEXANDRA; JACOBS, ERIKA BESS
Christmas Card, Christmas Cards and More Christmas Cards! December Challenge I'm not one to write Christmas letters. I don't always like reading about people and things that I don't know. But I didn't send out Christmas Cards last year and felt that there were a lot of things that people needed to know. We moved, Jim's mom passed away, I changed companies and Jim's Dad finally moved to assisted living. The letter was short and sweet. But dang if I didn't have problems first printing the address list and then the letters. How hard can these things be? Finally printed, I've spent 2 days hand addressing envelopes, adding notes and licking envelopes! I've also been going down my list of Active Rain Subscribers and wishing them a Merry Christmas. That's taking a lot longer than I thought it would!
Here's just a brief idea of what I've been up to: - Preparing to make video reviews for my video game blog. Getting Final Cut Pro and a tutorial and starting tinkering around. - Submitting Half to everything that moves. Had a few decent bites! (woo woo) - Editing Quarter, doing my second minor edit of Half, and going back to Death's Aria - NOT writing my middle grade book. I've written almost four books this year already, each on a deadline (all three of them took less than a month each) and I need a breather. Priming the pump or whatever. I'll start writing it once I feel the creative spark to write punch me in the face. - Watched The Dark Knight Rises. Didn't like it. I'd promise a review, but I promise those all the time and then don't pull through. But I do want to write one. - Enjoying taking a break from my hobbies. Sometimes I treat them with even more seriousness than my actual job (read: I do this all the time) and the stress is getting to me. A breather was necessary. - I bought a Dreamcast (actually two Dreamcasts; one of the ones I bought was a model I didn't want...anybody want a Dreamcast?) and am enjoying playing games on that. Also bought like 50 NES games, so I have to burn through those. - Considering writing scripts for previously mentioned movie reviews. They're gonna be crazy. Crazy AWESOME, or at least I hope. That's it; just enjoying some laid-back summerness. I'll keep updating the Video Game Blog, but aside from that I'm on hiatus. I hope you are all having good summers as well!
- "The Blazing Realm is not too different from this place, just watch out for the spurts of fire Blaze likes to create." - ―Magma-Man on the Blazing Realm The Blazing Realm is one of the segments of the Nazi Zombies Plus Forest. It is a forest eternally assaulted by flames, although it's trees are immune to fire. The realm is ran by EternalBlaze, who caused the fires in grief after the Elders went their separate ways. The Blazing Realm surprisingly has the most amount of Zombies in the forest, it is also the house of all fire-related Zombies. Act 1: Infiltration • The Chase • Blazing Realm • Lava Lash • Steam \|Playable Characters\|\|Tribellium • Bird • Waffle • ZH115\| \|Elders\|\|900 • Dead • Ebon • EternalBlaze • Magma-Man\| \|Elder's Realms\|\|Home of Magma • Blazing Realm • Techno Realm • Crystal Forest • The Dead Raiser's Land\| \|Perk-A-Colas\|\|Toxic Red Wine • Speed Cola • Quick Revive • PhD Flopper • Stamin-Up\| \|Enemies\|\|Zombies • Hellhounds • Infiltrators\| \|Musical Easter Egg\|\|See Here • New, Unknown Songs\|
Who would you rather take? Personally its not even a question for me I would take Tyreke Evans Based on potential i'll pick derozan..but on who's better right now..i'll take Reke Havoc Reke hands down Reke because he could play PG and SG. Tyreke is just so much more skilled than Demar. Demar might have more explosiveness, but Tyreke is more versatile and brings much more to the table than Demar. Thats a toss up. It really depends on what the team needs. Tyreke W/O question. If you already have a pg like some teams, you take Derozan right. Yeah that is what I was thinking. Not so true, stop basing all of your choices in Derozan discussons on his hype out of high school. For all the hateon Holiday, Derozan had WAYYYYYY worse season than he was supposed to have. Tyreke has shined at every level he's beenasked. And it's no problem him being a pg or sg because heis the type of player who's gonna have the ball in his hands most of the time either way similar to Wade,Crawford,Johnson. If not then he's ateast a little Larry Hughes, with MUCH better decision making. TYREKE all day, not even a question. DeRozan will be Gerald Green. Evans will be... Rodney Stuckey. I didn't see it till I was looking through the past drafts, but I think Evans reminds me a lot of Stuckey. Just talented getting north and south and finishing, 6-5 combo guard. Not the best shot and if he ever gets one LOOK OUT. DeRozan is not mentally ready to compete at a high level for 82 games. I was going to say he's young, but so is Evans. I think both have potentially bright futures. I don't think any team should take Tyreke Evans over Demar DeRozan. I like Reke's point guard skills and I think he will be a good pro. However, I've seen Demar Rozan play in person before. He has an NBA smoothness to his game that is hard to describe. The Gerald Green comparisons make sense, but I can't really see DeRozan not being a good NBA player. Tyreke will probably have a better rookie year though. ^^^ The same way Qyntel Woods was a surefire NBA player? Or Shawne Williams? Asside from everything I've pointed outabout Derozan, is the fact he doesn't have a stars mindset. He's too content with doing what he's asked. Never going that extra mile to be the best. Derozan has such a ways to go to even be a consistent rotation player. Doesn't even have the Lateral quickness to be a Dahntay Jones yet. Derozanis SOOOO raw. Mayo was consdered to hav a por season at USC last year at like 18 4 and 3..Derozan avg what? like 12 pts?....very underachieving if you ask me. So why the hate on Holiday for underperforming when he was NEVER as highly touted as Derozan Was and still is. Bad thing is, I'm aDerozan fan. I'm just tryin be honest and not ri the banwagon of a guy who is only being talked about b/c of allthe hype. Which again, he never lived upto. Had he gone back to school this would b a worthwhile argument, but he chose to come out aftr just one year , having several MAJOR flaws in is game, therefore, he'll have to work his ass off like Outlaw did (which up to this point he hasn't put in the effort to do) or he's gonna end u just like Gerald. or even a personal fav of mine James White. How can we say a guy who's only played High School ball, and in a lower-level conference and never had the ball put in his hands in an NBA game has better decision making then Larry Hughes. Smh, crazy. This guy made many poor decisions at times, when I watched him, taking shots from long-range destroying the rhythm of the offense, and just forcing his way when things just weren't there and picking up a considerable # of offensive fouls. I still like him though as a talent, but we're yet to know if he can adapt to being a 3rd, 4th or 5th option and not having the ball in his hands if his put solely at the 2. But yea, its not really an argument though, clearly u take him over gerald green. Oh! excuse me, demar derozan. I'm sorry, I tried to find the good in this guy, but I'm sorry, its just extremely hard. If we watched a USC game and didn't know who anyone was and what hype they came in with, we wouldn't think anything of this guy...raw in every aspect of the game, even just getting in a mere defensive stance and understanding rotations (lets not even bring up ball handling).
We are now in Week 10 of the 2010-11 NBA season, which means some of those huge injuries that rained down on your fantasy basketball lineup earlier in the season are either forgotten, or their turning around. Quite a few big names are hitting the court now or will be soon, so now is the perfect time to scour the waiver wire to be sure you don’t let a waiver wire gem slip through your hands. Here are this week’s top players to be had, while available in at least 51% of all standard Yahoo! fantasy basketball leagues: Mike Miller, G/F, Miami Heat (Available in 58% of all standard leagues) Miller is flying off the waiver wire at a fast rate, and even though he went 0-for-4 in his 2010-11 debut on Monday night, he brings so much to the table, you have to pull the trigger and grab him. Once fully healthy, there’s little doubt Miller will fulfill his usual role as his team’s 6th man, grabbing rebounds, hitting three’s, and dishing assists. He’s the fourth wheel latched to the “new big three”, but he still brings solid fantasy value. Nick Young, G/F, Washington Wizards We know this isn’t the first time we’ve hyped up Young, but people need to take more notice. Gilbert Arenas is out the door, and Young is coming off of an extremely hot week that saw him averaging over 23 points per game. Get him while he’s hot. Martell Webster, G/F, Minnesota Timberwolves (82%) Everyone is talking about Kevin Love and Michael Beasley (as they should), but it’s also time Webster got some attention. He’s been absolutely on fire over the past week, as he’s hit 8 three’s and scored in double figures since making his 2010-11 debut five games ago. With solid, consistent production, it doesn’t appear Webster will go away quietly. Luke Babbitt, SF, Portland Trail Blazers (99%) This is an ultra deep fantasy sleeper, here, but he’s worth noting and considering in deep leagues, or even leagues where a lot of injuries are impacting your lineup. With so many injuries rocking the Blazers, it’s only a matter of time before the Nevada product starts to make a name for himself. After a brief stint in the NBA Developmental League, where he averaged over 18 points per game, Babbitt could be in line for increased minutes and a spike in fantasy value. Mehmet Okur, C, Utah Jazz (61%) Okur lasted two games back from an achilles tear before spraining his ankle, but now’s the time to bite on this sharp-shooting big man. The Jazz will definitely welcome him back again once he’s fully healthy, so stash him to gain an edge in points, rebounds, blocks, and shooting percentages. The Wild Card: Ben Gordon, G, Detroit Pistons (48%) He doesn’t make our usual list, as he comes in at just under 50% available, but he’s still not owned in way too many leagues. With Richard Hamilton reportedly becoming a distraction to the team, Gordon will get another crack as a full-time starting guard with Detroit. In his first start on Sunday night, he wasted no time in proving his value, as he dropped 25 points, seven rebounds, and three assists on the Hornets. Go get him.
Karma is the cosmic principle according to which someone is rewarded or punished according to that person’s deeds. It can also be a distinctive aura, atmosphere, or feeling. So when you step inside Karma, you instantly get greeted by an elegant almost Zen like atmosphere. The dining room is separated by a tranquil pond complete with a gentle waterfall and cool salt cone replicas. Now that we’ve established good karma in the dining room, let’s see if we are rewarded or punished with the menu. Start your good vibes with a couple of solid appetizers. Crisp chicken spring rolls are loaded with chunks of chicken and served with honey mustard. A must try are the Shiitake mushroom pot stickers, which are meaty, tasty, pockets of deliciousness. Hold on! What’s the rush? It’s not time for the entrées yet, not when the star of the meal is on next. The Vietnamese coconut shrimp soup is a dish worth the trip to Mundelein alone! This velvety soup has large pieces of shrimp swimming in a slightly sweet /spicy broth that is meant to be experienced and not merely consumed. Would it be wrong to lick the bowl? For some, nothing gives them more pleasure than biting into a tender juicy steak. And while simple is often enough, sometimes a little pizzazz is in order. The macadamia and blue cheese crusted filet is for the person who loves the tenderness of a filet, but wants a more robust flavor. Creamy and sharp blue cheese is complimented by the crunch of the toasted macadamias, to help turn this mellow piece of meat into a sassy rock star! If something more traditional is up your alley, then opt for the orange peel chicken. Large strips of tempura chicken are covered in a yuzu orange glaze that helps this dish go beyond your average orange chicken. A meal feels incomplete without dessert and this is the last leg of your dining experience. For chocoholics, the chocolate Moelleux cake is a rich soufflé accented with minted cream and a red currant coulis. The fresh ginger crème Brule offers sweet ginger custard and of course some fresh berries. Dinner for two with wine should run right around $100, which is actually reasonable for an upscale dinner and a pinch of good karma. Overall, Karma offers a harmonious blend of tranquil atmosphere, creative dishes, and fair prices. It appears the cosmos are listening. 510 E. Route 83
Edited by Matthew M. Brown and Michael W. Coffey The Junior Reserves were 17-year-old boys drafted in the last year of the Civil War, as the Confederacy faced a disastrous shortfall in manpower. Between the spring and fall of 1864, North Carolina raised eight battalions of Junior Reserves that were later consolidated into three regiments and one independent battalion. These young men were originally intended to guard bridges and depots in North Carolina, but the exigencies of the war drew them into combat. The Junior Reserves saw action in a number of minor clashes in eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, as well as in the battles of Fort Fisher and Bentonville. An authoritative 120-page history of the Junior Reserves begins the volume. The history is followed by a complete roster and service records of the officers and men that served in the Junior Reserves. A thorough index completes the volume. Hardbound. Pp. xvi, 509. Illus. Index. (2009)
Contributed by Doug Rader 15 Dec 2010 Doug acquired this “burned deed period” legal document related to the Lassiter, WHitfield and Waters families of Lenoir County, NC. It is dated 4 March 1845, and is an agreement by George Whitfield to sell to Jesse Lassiter (“Lasitter”; both of Lenoir County) half of his lands on the Meadow and Brushy Arm Pocosin, adjacent to Jesse Waters, Haywood Waters, Josh (?) Waters, Charles Fuller and Richard Sutton. The rate was to be $3.75 per acre, paid in three equal installments; the acreage and payment schedule are not given. Witnesses are William Fields and N.W. (?) Blount. This copy does not reflect the registration of that agreement, but probably pertains to the deed registered in burned Lenoir County Deed Book 31, page 248 (as listed in the extant cross-index to those deeds) from George Whitfield to Jesse Lassiter. (That burned deed book is reported to have covered deed registered between 1 July 1846 and December 1849, and so is consistent with the date of the agreement.) Doug notes that there are others deeds reported among these parties in the grantor and grantee indices, including from Whitfield to Needham Waters (Book 30:11), and from Jesse Warters to Haywood Warters (Book 31:314). Click on the image to see the details (PDF file).
I feel like I’m classifying this episode wrong, but this episode really felt like the set-up episode for the finale. But there’s still three episodes left and then the finale. Am I wrong or is this going to get crazy fast? These episodes aren’t my favorites. In Season 4 it was the first part of There’s No Place Like Home, in Season 5 it was Follow the Leader. I get the necessity of the episode, but I find this kind of episode to be unmemorable. No one will ever say this was their favorite episode. It’s as if the writers had a chalkboard with all the characters and where they are in the beginning of this episode and where they need them to be at the end, and then they write an episode where they get everyone where they need to go. This happened in both timelines. I actually find the flashsideways more interesting right now because I have no idea how they’re going to get everyone together. The Island story is fun, but I’m out for blood at the moment, people need to start dropping soon. Without deaths it feels like whatever happens on the Island is just procrastination. I did enjoy most of this episode, it’s not that I didn’t like it. Ilana’s return was nice. The business with Claire was interesting. On the Island I enjoyed Jack and Locke’s conversation. I like Kate’s talk with Claire. It was all good. But after three awesome episodes almost in a row it’s hard to sit back and watch this kind of episode. 5.0/10.0 By the way, who’s “The Last Recruit”? Jack? Really? The title was a little confusing. -I’m wondering about Locke’s “Hello Jack” line. I wonder if it’s as significant as Claire thinks. Was that Jack’s final mistake? Will we look back and wish that he had stayed away from “Locke”? -”Locke” tells Jack that all he’s ever been interested in was helping him. Like that time when he chased Jack, Kate and Charlie through the jungle in the Pilot, or when he chased Jack, Kate and Locke through the jungle in Exodus. Good times, he was probably just trying to get them to do more cardio. -I really enjoyed Jack’s line, “John Locke was the only one of us who ever believed in this place.” That made me really happy, and very proud of Jack. I do miss Locke, but it’s nice to see that his legacy is still there. -For a second there it looked like Jack was going to put his son up for adoption. Hahaha. -Some slight hints as to who Jack’s ex-wife is. Here’s his conversation with her: “Hey… Yeah, we just got here… Thank you… Uh, I don’t know. I’ll have him home as soon as I can. Maybe, like, 5:00?.. Actually we might grab a bite to eat afterwards. So maybe more like 7:00?… Alright… Yeah… I’ll drop him off.” Well that narrows it down. My money’s still on Juliet. Now we just have to wait until evening in the next episode… well, hopefully the next episode. -As crazy as Jack was for turning back and going to the Island, I think he was right. It’s not that I have any reason for thinking he’s right, I just can’t imagine how Sawyer’s plan could be right. So anything against his plan must be in the general direction of rightness. I wish Jack had had a talk with Hurley before he went back. Hurley and Jack should probably stay together, I like that dynamic they were developing. -I see Jack’s plan as just do everything contrary to what “Locke” wants. All he wants to do is the opposite of what “Locke” says. That sounds like a good idea. Of course it will be pretty hard to go against the tide like that, but at least he’s trying. -Jack apologized again for getting Juliet killed. I still don’t blame him, but at least he feels some responsibility for that. -This kid is suddenly ridiculously easy-going. -David’s got quite the strut. What does a kid aged 5-15 have to strut about. That’s a bit of an inside joke. A friend of mine asked how old I thought David was, and I guessed about 7. Apparently I’m not great at gauging ages. -”Locke” and Jack’s conversation in the jungle is very similar to the one back in White Rabbit. Except last time Locke was trying to inspire Jack’s faith in the Island, this time “Locke”‘s trying to destroy Jack’s faith. Back in that original scene Jack asks Locke what would happen when he caught up with Christian. Now we know. That was the same scene that had Locke’s “everything happens for a reason” line and his thing about seeing the eye of the Island and it “was beautiful”. I still don’t think he was talking about Smokey. -It’s really not fair for “Locke” to make fun of the Locke. He said “He was stupid enough to believe he’d been brought here for a reason, because he pursued that belief until it got him killed.” He might have been brought to the Island for a reason, but “Locke” misled him, he got him killed, he told him that he had to die. It’s not like Jacob got him killed. -Our theory about “Locke”‘s cadaver rule was right. “Locke” needs an actual body in order to possess them. It was really obvious, but at least it was said out loud. -Wait a second. “Locke” tells Jack that he was trapped on this Island because Jacob chose him. Then he continues on, “But now Jacob’s dead. We don’t have to be trapped anymore.” It was pretty subtle but he implies, slightly, that he was trapped on the Island just like Jack, so that might mean that he was chosen by Jacob too. Maybe “Locke”, or rather Esau, was the first Candidate. …Or perhaps “Locke” is Cain! oh yeah, I just brought Adam and Eve back into the discussion. (See below for a fun Adam & Eve discussion.) -Ooooh, so that’s what that stick was for, crushing the walkie-talkie. How could he have known to carve that thing!? Amazing! (Sarcasm. I can see why people choose to have podcasts. Don’t get excited, I’m never making a podcast, I hate the sound of my voice.) -Locke’s only line in this episode was “Helen…Norwood. I was gonna marry her. John… my name is John.” They’re playing with us. That was an extremely ambiguous line. Sure he could be talking about his current life in this timeline, but he could also be talking about his life in the other timeline. We can’t know for sure whether or not he’s flashed between the timelines. -Uh, “Late forties?” I might guess David’s age wrong, but I think I’d be a bit better at guessing Locke’s age. That guy’s a sixty (I looked it up, he’s 57. I was close). Oh I just remembered, they cast Anthony Cooper wrong, that actor is pretty close to the same age as Terry O’Quinn. -I was a little disappointed that Christian was Smokey all along. I was hoping it would be a fun thing, like Christian was a third spirit on the Island. I know it was stupid of me to believe that for so long, but I was hoping that he would be able to talk to Jack one last time. -So there’s no explanation for the time that Jack saw his dad in the hospital during the Oceanic 6 time-period. I guess that was just a hallucination or his conscience. -Kate’s not as dumb as everyone hopes that she is. She could figure out Sawyer’s game pretty easily. -I really liked Kate’s conversation with Claire. I thought her little session with Claire in the other episode was pretty good too. But this time I think Kate actually kinda got through to her. And Kate said she shouldn’t have raised Aaron. (I still think it was good that she raised him, but I might be alone there.) Kate’s speech was very moving, and some of the best acting Evangeline Lilly has ever done. -I think “Locke” knew Sawyer was going to turn on him. I don’t think he’s stupid enough to trust Sawyer with something like that. Maybe he knew how Widmore would react to everyone just showing up. Then again, it would be nice to think that “Locke” can get conned by Sawyer. -Sawyer seems to choose the worst swimming routes to and from the boat. there’s always some land closer to the boat but they choose to go the long way. -Sawyer was on fire in this episode. Frank looking like he came off a Burt Reynolds movie, Claire drinking “Locke”‘s Kool-Aid. (What the what? Why isn’t Kool-aid spelled like Kool-ade? I have no problem with the K, but that aid is just annoying.) -Couldn’t Sawyer have had his talk with Jack a little earlier in the trip across the ocean? -Aww, Sawyer had a really hard time watching Sun and Jin’s reunion. -This refers more to the last episode, but whatever. Desmond was more than willing to talk to Ben and then hit Locke. I think he has nothing to lose. He must have a deadline or something that really matters. -Desmond’s little Claire steering wasn’t very smooth. Pretty creepy. I see what he was doing, and in the end it was all for the best, but his plan was pretty flawed. If Claire wasn’t such a pushover he would have had a hard time. -Ugh, Desmond’s just sitting down that well with one foot completely in the water. That’s just awful. -I don’t think Desmond had a very strong argument for Sayid. “What will you tell her?” I think it’s pretty obvious that it worked but I think Sayid could have easily overcame that reasoning. After all, he had no problem getting all the Others killed. -I always forget that when you die in Lost you usually show up in the next episode. It’s a tradition (almost). -Verdansky? That’s the best they could come up with. He was some kind of scientist or something. I’m always quite disappointed with the surname references. Except for Charlotte’s, that was fun. -I love Hurley’s Anakin line. The best line of the episode, in my opinion. And of course Sawyer’s not even slightly a Star Wars geek. I mean he was 9 when A New Hope came out and 15 when Return of the Jedi came out, there’s no way that he’s watched it. (You can tell what generation I’m from, I call Star Wars, A New Hope.) -Hurley and Claire had more of history that Jack and Claire. He tried his best to replace Charlie after he died. But those two didn’t get a special scene or anything. -Claire and Jack’s reunion on the Island was pretty awkward. Those two were never really close before he left. It was more of a doctor/patient relationship. -Most hilarious part of the episode, seeing Claire stuff mangoes into a tube sock. -I like that little lawyer trick they pulled on us, “we’ve been looking for her”. At first I panicked, but once Jack showed up at the building it was pretty exciting. -Poor Sayid is so lost. I can’t believe that he doesn’t understand that what he’s feeling are feelings. “I just shot an unarmed man, I needed a moment.” uh… A lack of facial expressions isn’t a lack of emotions, it’s just simple dullness. -When Sayid was walking up to the lip of the well with his gun ready I scoffed and said, “yeah, like he’s going to be right there- oh.” It was perfect timing. But that well was surprisingly shallow. -Sayid thinks that “Locke” brought him back to life. I don’t think so, but I don’t have any other explanation. The Infection is a mystery to me. -Sayid tripping over the hose was quite a hilarious sight. -Sun is pretty afraid when she sees Locke. I think we all thought the same thing at that point. She’s crossed over and she remembers “Locke”. There’s no other reason why she would be afraid of Locke. -Isn’t it a little crazy that Sun’s unborn baby survived? -I figured that Sun’s English would have transferred over to the other timeline. So far we haven’t seen any proof of that. -Frank’s Disney character, “it looks like someone got their voice back.” That’s right Sebastian! And now it’s time for a song! -Holy Hannah! Zoe’s extremely brave. Can you imagine walking into the enemy’s camp and showing off their weapons and then threatening them. -Widmore must know whether or not that missile thing could kill “Locke”. I wouldn’t suspect that it wouldn’t kill him, but whatever. Widmore’s welcome to try. “Locke” didn’t even seem slightly fazed by the missile shooting over his head at the end of the episode. He was still standing there calmly after it blew up. -I think this is an exception to the rule, ‘your enemies enemy is your friend’. If there’s anyone on the Island who would double cross you it would be Charles Widmore. I guess first Ben, then Widmore. I guess I can understand why he did it. If he’s a Candidate, or if he even thinks he is, then he’ll want to get rid of the competition. I can imagine he’s pretty paranoid of people usurping his leadership. It’s happened before. -Remember the Other that Sun shot way back in season 3? I was wondering if her body was still on that ship. That would have been a fun surprise. “Hey Sun, remember that day?” Yeah, good times.” Oh yeah, and that episode, the Glass Ballerina, it’s on my list as one of the worst episodes ever. Flashes (what we know now): Adam & Eve and their son Cain Surely someone else has come up with this same theory. But I’ve removed myself from the general Lost community in order to completely avoid spoilers so I don’t know any better. Here goes nothing. What if my nickname for Jacob’s nemesis, Esau, is themed correctly, but wrong by a few generations? So we have two very dead bodies on the Island. They were jokingly referred to as Adam & Eve. Of course my primary theory about these two is that they are Rose and Bernard (not respectively). But here’s another theory. What if they are Adam & Eve, like… you know, the real Adam & Eve. Jacob of course is God. And here’s the fun part, “Locke” is Cain. Except instead of being banished like the biblical Cain, he was imprisoned in Eden. That would be pretty epic. I don’t really believe this theory, but I really enjoyed writing it. Has anyone not talked to “Locke” yet? Maybe Miles. I don’t know if “Locke” has ever directly talked to Frank, but he’s been around when he’s talked. The overwhelming theory is that if you talk to “Locke” then you’re powerless against him. If that’s right then we need to find a loophole. That loophole could be someone he’s never talked to, or maybe there’s some other way. So far all we have to go on is the no talking rule. But everyone’s talked to him except Miles. Maybe that’s why he’s survived for so long, to take “Locke” down… that would be weird. The ending with all our favorite survivors on their knees with a bunch of guns pointed at them seems pretty hopeless, but I don’t think it’s too terrible. For a brief second I was hoping that “Locke” could come over and save them. But then I suddenly remembered, there aren’t just two groups anymore. There’s still a third, pretty effective group out there. Richard, Miles and Ben are wandering around the jungle, hopefully making their way towards the Ajira plane. Who knows where they are, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they show up pretty soon.
Both Pennsylvania and New York will have an uphill battle to get any legislation dealing with the sexual abuse of children discussed, let alone signed into law, regardless of what has been happening lately at Penn State, Syracuse or any other educational, religious, public or private institution. This is especially true if Philadelphia's Archbishop Charles Chaput and New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan have anything to do with it. Both churchmen, along with their respective state Catholic conferences, have drawn lines in the sand in their continued attempts to avoid the accountability and transparency the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops agreed to in 2002 to say nothing of the right everyone has to access justice through this country's judicial process. Especially significant are the remarks Dolan made to reporters during the November meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. Dolan, who heads the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, compared the widening sex abuse scandal at Penn State University to the decades-long crisis in the Roman Catholic Church as if the latter were a thing of the past. Actually, the archbishop misspoke when he said the present Penn State sexual abuse scandal "over a former football coach accused of sexually abusing young boys reopens a wound for the U.S. Roman Catholic Church." The "wound" Dolan refers to never closed. It is a "wound" that has continued to fester since the Archdiocese of Boston imploded in 2002, revealing a massive cover-up by the hierarchy. It is an open, festering wound in places like the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, where the criminal trial of Msgr. William Lynn and four others begins in March 2012. It festers, too, in Missouri, where Bishop Robert Finn has been criminally charged for not reporting the pornography found on a priest's computer as required by law. It festers in New York, where individuals like State Assemblywoman Marge Markey continue to press for legislation that gives some recourse to the justice that has long been denied to all older victims of childhood sexual abuse. Even though investigators said charges against Syracuse University Coach Bernie Fine were credible, he could not be charged because of arbitrary and discriminatory statutes of limitation. Why does this "wound" remain open 10 years after the U.S. bishops mandated accountability and transparency? Well, for one thing, the bishops of the United States have never really admitted, individually or collectively, to their part in covering up for clergymen known to have sexually exploited children, young people and vulnerable adults while failing miserably to protect the most precious of their charges -- the children. Yes, the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church has "a long way to go," to use Dolan's words, in making up for the egregious crimes and mortal sins that have been committed against children, but "failures" and "mistakes" are words that do not begin to describe the agony thousands of children were left to go through while the few adults who dared to confront pastors or bishops over the behavior of rogue priests were bullied, harassed and intimidated into silence, often with threats of eternal damnation and, of course, counter-suits. These were crimes against the very humanity of children for whom there was no recourse to justice in the majority of cases because of the arbitrary, discriminatory and grossly inadequate statutes of limitation that exist in most states. Dolan offered to work with "Penn State administrators on a national education campaign to stop abuse." Does Dolan actually believe that the Roman Catholic Church has set some kind of a gold standard, either in regard to confronting the incidence of sexual abuse by clerics or in taking responsibility for the orchestrated cover-up by church leadership that followed? It has not. In a recent conversation with Cathy Lynn Grossman of USA Today, Dolan offered to share the supposed wealth of experience the bishops have in successfully dealing with the church's problems. On Monday, Pennsylvania state Representative Dennis O'Brien convened an informational meeting of the House Children and Youth Committee, of which he is the majority chair. Along with Rep. Louise Bishop, who made public her own sexual abuse some weeks ago, O'Brien heard from eight individuals, including victims, a deceased victim's parent, advocates, the former deputy district attorney from Philadelphia who is now a senior prosecutor in Lehigh County and a constitutional lawyer and author from New York. O'Brien made known his intentions to introduce a package of five bills to protect children -- House Bills 2046 through 2050 -- some sections of which repeat portions of House Bills 832 and 878, which were introduced March 1, before revelations of sexual abuse at Penn State became public. What the scandals at Penn State, Syracuse and elsewhere make clear is that while the cover-up of sexual abuse by the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church was, and to a great extent continues to be, widespread, systemic and endemic, the sexual abuse and exploitation of children is not peculiar to this one organization. That having been said, the question remains, How can the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church ethically or morally justify its opposition to legislation that would better protect all children while holding all sexual predators and their enablers accountable, regardless of religious affiliation? Through its bishops and state Catholic conferences, the Roman Catholic Church is the most powerful institution opposing better child protection legislation in this country, bar none. Dolan has been very vocal in his opposition to any proposed legislation in the state of New York that has sought to hold either sexual predators or enablers accountable. In seeking to shield the Roman Catholic Church from the accountability and transparency it was forced to promise in 2002, such opposition now gives more protection to sexual predators -- whether they are parents, ministers, priests, imams, rabbis, doctors, teachers or coaches at universities like Syracuse or Penn State -- than to the victims themselves. In opposing legislative reform in New York, Dolan is not unlike Philadelphia's Archbishop Charles Chaput in Pennsylvania, who has united with the Commonwealth's bishops and the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference in opposing any legislation that would enable victim/survivors of childhood sexual abuse to access justice, no matter when they were sexually exploited or by whom. Archbishops Dolan and Chaput, along with most of their fellow bishops, haven't a clue as to the suffering that the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church's has caused and continues to inflict on sexual abuse victims because they have never been truly accountable or transparent. No one in the Catholic community has suffered more than the innocent children whose minds, hearts and souls were torn asunder by those who stood in the place of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Baltimore's former archbishop, Cardinal William Keeler, correctly described such horrific sexual abuse by a trusted minister of God when he used the term "soul murder," for it truly is that. Dolan, as president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, should be at the head of the parade in advocating for the removal of all criminal and civil statutes of limitation in regard to the sexual abuse of children, but he is not heading up that parade, and neither is Chaput. Such behavior can only signal an insidious moral and ethical bankruptcy that should be repugnant to all. [Maureen Paul Turlish is a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur, an educator and an advocate for legislative reform. She is a founding member of the National Survivor Advocates Coalition and a member of the Justice 4 PA Kids Coalition.]
the heartbeat of Benedictine spirituality is always about the presence of God in time -- this time, our time, my time. Benedictine prayer is not mindless repetition of endless formulas. It is about the immersion in the mind of God that living the God-life requires, if we are to be faithful to it all our living days. Prayer restores the soul that is dry and dulled by years of trying to create a world that never completely comes. It heals the wounds of the day and reminds us who we want to be at the deepest, truest part of us. Prayer lightens the load. It gives fresh direction and new energy. It fixes the eye of the soul on the real ends of life, when the real goals of real time It feeds the streams of silence and sacred reading, public and private prayer, that are the pulse of Benedictine life. Benedictine prayer is steeped in the psalms -- the cry of the poor throughout time. It immerses us in the fullness of the scriptures and their history of salvation. It fills us with the Gospel accounts of the life and message of Jesus. As regular as the movement of the clock, Benedictine prayer becomes for us the pulse of the day, the rhythm of a life that might otherwise be caught in the drumbeat of ambition or profit or self-centeredness. Prayer is the sustaining force of a Monastery of the Heart in a demanding world. Prayer in the Benedictine tradition, and so in a Monastery of the Heart, springs from the reflection and soul-wrestling that brings us to the bar of our deepest selves, seeking forgiveness, pleading for strength. It is said in concert with monastics of the heart everywhere, with those for whom care for the soul and care for the world are always equal concerns. In a Monastery of the Heart, we do not pray merely to pray. We pray to become more a sign of the mind of God today than we were yesterday. The Benedictine prays to put on the mind of God more and more and forever more. [This reflection comes from Sr. Joan Chittister's book The Monastery of the Heart: An Invitation to a Meaningful Life (BlueBridge).] SIGN UP NOW to receive an e-email alert each week directing you to NCR's Spiritual Reflections column. Throughout 2011, We will be offering reflections from a variety of voices. Want to know more about the Benedictine sister's The Monastery of the Heart project? Visit the website . Visit BlueBridge Press for a full selection of thoughtful books for the mind and spirit.
Thanks to all for attending the tryouts for the 2010-2011 Mite travel teams. All of the kids did a great job and made the selection process difficult because of all of the hard work and effort that they put into the tryouts. Please remember that the “A” and “B” teams will each have the roster finalized in the fall. Any parent that has a concern over the selection process should contact the level director first and not the head coach. John Stahl firstname.lastname@example.org Mite A team- Coach Rob Edward Mite B Team- Coach Andy Dickinson Mite C- Coaches TBD Kevin Barry Thomas Rocco Joseph Rocco Noah Leys Caleb Leys Nicholas Flanigan Ellee Kopecky William Walsh Margret MacGillivray Christian Berluti Matthew Walsh Collin Walsh Sean McGannon Alec Darmino Emma Alexander Mary Kate Boyle Mark Roberts Kyle Radimer Alex Ripa Diana Poland Daniel Sullivan Nathaniel Harris Aidan Toner Elizabeth Healey
Do you see an uncanny physical resemblance between these two scientists? The one on the left, is of course, Isaac Newton. Among other things, he is known for creating calculus (independently along with Liebniz), but not telling anyone about it for 30 years (because no one asked). He changed modern physics as most of us know it today; his theories hold for all but the smallest subatomic particles. On the right, is Brian May,chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University and PhD in astrophysics. Dr. May had a slight detour in his career. He began his PhD in the early 70s, only to complete it in 2008. Through the 70s-90s, he was more well known as the lead guitarist and vocalist of the famous rock band “Queen”. He wrote numerous songs for the band, including the hit “We Will Rock You” and the haunting theme of some of the Highlander movies “Who Want’s to Live Forever?”. He was ranked at #39 on the Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”. My hat is off to Brian May, renaissance man.
April 29, 2008 What we learned at spring practice It was difficult to learn too much about the 2008 Wildcats this spring. Northwestern's new coordinators were focused on assessing their squad's talent and installing their systems in practices. And in the spring game, there were so many players sidelined with injuries or held out to prevent injuries that you couldn't tell very much about how strong or weak different areas of the team were. Still, some nuggets about this Wildcats squad were unearthed over the last four weeks, and WildcatReport takes a look at the top five. ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now for a FREE Trial
The Academy Sports + Outdoors store in Hiram was filled with about 500 people in line for autographs and more walking through the store to get a glimpse of outfielders Jason Heyward and B.J. Upton, pitchers Mike Minor and Eric O’Flaherty, General Manager Frank Wren and Coach Carlos Tosca. Wren said his favorite part of the caravan is the interaction with the young fans. “The goal of the caravan is to go to where our fans live,” Wren said. O’Flaherty said it is a great time of year when they are not playing to meet the fans and interact with them. The annual event travels around 3,000 miles of “Braves country,” which is considered to be Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina, from Jan. 22 through Feb. 2. It is held right before the team gets ready to head to spring training. “It energizes us leading into spring training,” Wren said. O’Flaherty has participated in eight days of the caravan during his four years with the team, he said. “There is no better way to get ready for the season than the caravan,” O’Flaherty said. Bill and Jinger Hudalla of Dallas and their sons Cade, 9, and Tyler, 7, arrived at Academy at 5:45 a.m. to stand in line until the event started at 3:30 p.m. They were number 35 in line, Bill Hudalla said. “We are pretty regular with doing the autograph signing with the Braves caravan,” he said. They have been coming to the event for the past three years, and Hudalla has been collecting autographs for the past 20 years, he said. “This one has the bigger names with Heyward and Upton, so it is a little bit more intense,” Hudalla said. The players were able to sign autographs and meet 387 fans while at the store. Their record is 445 in Greenville, S.C.
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Anonymous wrote: mainly not getting the coal mixed with dirt and building a chute that will work with the front loader. A little dirt won't hurt, rocks will though. I'd suggest a tarp but that won't work. Have the coal delivered while you have the loader there, they can just dump it into the loader bucket. I've done that before, wouldn't have time for that now though. How steep would a chute have to be to get nut coal to pour down? Depends on a lot of things. Coal size... larger sizes run easier with less pitch. Cleanliness.... cleaner coal runs easier. The quality of the coal... good coal runs easier too. Genrally not much, rice the samllest needs about a 40 degree angle less even. That's across a aluminum chute though.
Nursing Aide Charged For Brattleboro Insulin Injection Murder A nursing aide is being charged with second degree murder for allegedly killing a Brattleboro nursing home resident by injecting her with insulin. Thirty-seven-year old Jodi LaClaire was arrested Saturday in connection with a 2009 death at the Thompson House nursing home, where she was a nursing assistant. Vermont attorney general William Sorrell alleges that LaClaire injected 83-year-old Nita Lowery, who was not diabetic, with insulin, putting her into a fatal coma. LaClaire was initially charged with using Lowery's credit card over a ten-day period after the coma began. Dane Rank, the administrator of Thompson House, says the facility follows all state and federal guidelines in screening caregivers and other employees. "Thomson House takes the welfare of our residents very, very seriously. Every employee here, including caregivers, are put through a thorough vetting process, that includes multiple criminal background checks both state and federal, verification of Vermont licensure and a referral process," he says. Rank says as a potential witness in the case he could not comment on whether enhanced screening procedures were implemented following Lowery's death. LaClaire, who was arrested in New Hampshire, now faces extradition to Vermont to face the new charges. A lawyer representing her could not be reached for this story. The second-degree murder charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Laclaire also faces a charge of abuse of a vulnerable adult, which is is punishable by up to twenty years in prison.
STAR TREK 2 Poster!Posted 11:03 am on Saturday, November 6th, 2010 by Steve Ahmad Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub over at Collider was given this poster image from a no named friend whose source of employment also remains a mystery. Apparently this friend works somewhere in the deep trenches of Hollywood’s vast marketing firms and was handed this poster on his desk a few days ago. Now the report is that this is not from Paramount or J.J. Abrams Bad Robot, but more likely some early stage planning for a marketing firm, concept artwork, or some other product oriented reason. Regardless, with the internet the way that it is, special use of viral marketing by Bad Robot, and hype of the sequel to the first Star Trek, this poster sill is reason to be very excited! Star Trek 2 comes out in theaters June 29th, 2012 and stars Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Karl Urban, and Anton Yelchin. Steve Ahmad is a writer dedicated in bringing you every angle of every story in the most transparent way . Meet the Nerd Reactor Team
It should probably also be unsurprising that the Redskins rookie quarterback was supposedly the target of some extra-physical football this past weekend in St. Louis. Griffin has accused the Rams of playing dirty and taking shots at the quarterback. While the rookie wasn't willing to say the Rams had a bounty on him, he wasn't shy about pointing fingers. "There was some extracurricular stuff going on after the plays," Griffin told reporters at a news conference Thursday. "They were doing a lot of dirty things. I still think they have an extremely good team, that doesn't take anything away from them, but the game was unprofessional. Who am I to talk? I've barely been a pro for very long, but from what I experienced against the Saints compared to that game, it was definitely unprofessional and it does need to be cleaned up." Welcome to the NFL, kid. While there is no place in the NFL for Saints-like bounty programs, it should surprise no one that a team like the Rams — with a veteran NFL head coach in Jeff Fisher and a known agitator like Cortland Finnegan — would get a little physical with Griffin. If you go back and watch the tape, there are a few instances when Griffin gets roughed up with hits that definitely toe the line of physical and dirty. Griffin himself even gets a little hot under the collar a couple of times with what he perceives to be excessive punishment. However, that's life in the NFL, and that's life as one of the NFL's marquee draws. It hasn't gotten to the point where Griffin needs to accuse another team of playing dirty. It should be expected. It should be a sign of respect, even. Griffin was able to do what he wanted in Week 1 against, ironically, the Saints. He tore up a depleted New Orleans organization, and told the rest of the football world that he had arrived, and he is here to win football games. The St. Louis Rams watched tape of that for a week straight. Of course they were going to try to make life miserable for Griffin. "I don't want to tip-toe the lines of anything that's happened with bounties or anything like that," Griffin added, "but they were definitely going after me. They made it a point, obviously, all week to hit me. Some of the shots were cheap of that nature." Some of the shots may have been "cheap," but there is a fine line between "cheap" and "threatening." Griffin is going to have to get used to teams "going after" him. He's already one of the league's most exciting players, and he's one of the most dynamic as well. He's also not doing himself any favors by commenting on it, either. By essentially complaining about the Rams' tactics, Griffin is at least giving off the perception that he'll be rattled by such play. Here he is, a few days later, and it's still on his mind. He could have just as easily stepped around any such questions, electing to say that he's moved on to this week, and that the Rams didn't do anything any other team would do. Every other team, starting with the Bengals this week, is going to be looking for a new way to slow him down. That comes with the territory. How Griffin responds to this type of adversity going forward will be what defines him as an NFL quarterback for years to come.
Garnett, who completely ignored Allen's attempt to exchange some pleasantries upon checking into Tuesday's game, said he was just focused on the task at hand. Then again, the jersey Allen was wearing had a little something to do with Garnett's demeanor, too. "You know what man, I was just trying to stay as neutral as I could but obviously I'm an intense person," Garnett said, according to The Boston Globe. "Other than it was blank, I just saw the Heat uniforms and obviously he's on the other side and I just tried to play the game, man." Garnett's postgame comment does nothing to stoke the fire that apparently now exists since Allen left Boston for Miami. But it isn't exactly a compliment either. In other words, KG's explanation was rather "neutral." With that in mind, Garnett's side mission was accomplished, even if the result of Tuesday's game wasn't what he was hoping for.
When a new browser enters the market, people generally split up into two categories. The first group thinks, “Great! Anything that moves us towards a more standards oriented environment is a good thing!” The other group, neither better nor worse, thinks to themselves, “Ohh gee. Yet another browser that I’ll have to test my sites in. Enter Chrome. Today, Google officially entered the browser wars. No matter which group you fall into, you’ll inevitably find yourself downloading this new browser. If you compare the browsers of 1996 to the browsers of today, you’ll find that, truthfully, they haven’t evolved that much. Sure, they’re more standards aware. But generally speaking, they’ve essentially remained unchanged over the last decade. Google is hoping to change that. The Start Up If you haven’t already, pay a quick visit to Chrome’s site and download the browser. *Note – at this time, Chrome is only available for Windows. A mac browser will emerge within the next few months. Google is one of the pioneers of the concept “Less is more”. Their home page is laughably simple – but it works beautifully. Keeping in line with this branding, Chrome is deceptively plain, in reference to its UI. Open Firefox or Explorer and you’ll find enough options to bury your grandmother with: File, Edit, History, etc. Chrome, on the other hand, simply has an “Options” and “Tools” menu, which can be accessed via the icons on the far right side of the browser window. Not only did Google borrow webkit as its rendering engine, but it also adopted the concept of a home page specifically tailored to you. Many users prefer Opera’s “speed dial” home page – which allows the user to quickly access their favorite sites. However, Chrome has taken it one step further. The “speed dial” links on your home page will dynamically change depending on the most frequently accessed sites. Pretty nifty, eh? You know the drill. You have eight tabs open in your browser – all serving a purpose – but suddenly, a plugin goes into destroy mode and you find yourself having to “force quit” the program. This is because when a plugin combines with an html document, they both run in the same process. So if one “shuts down”, they all suffer. To compensate for this shortcoming, the creators of Chrome created a separate process specifically for plugins. Imagine this: In one tab, you’re running an app that is extremely memory heavy. Rather than slowing down the entire browser, the processes in one tab will have zero effect on the others. This is because each web application is run in its own environment. Easily, this is the most appealing feature of Chrome. Other Important Features - Gears. This essentially adds an API that will allow the browser to be extended. - Sandboxing. This will allow for greater protection against malware. Constantly, Chrome will update its list of “dangerous” sites. If you happen to access one of these sites, you’ll receive a warning. - Omnibox. Each tab will have its own address bar, called the “Omnibox”. Not only will you be able to enter addresses, but it also offers searching, and search suggestions – based upon site ranking. How Will This Affect My Web Developing? The answer to that question still remains to be known. As when any new browser is released/updated, I spent twenty minutes this afternoon checking all of my clients’ sites. Everything worked perfectly! Keep in mind that Chrome is still using the webkit engine. At least for the time being, the main differences that this browser will bring are UI related. Even so, I look forward to the developer extensions that will surely be released in the coming months. Will you have to completely scrap all of your knowledge because of what this browser represents? Absolutely not. If anything, Google is working to allow you to be even more creative when developing. So What’s the Verdict? Though it’s hard to decide in just a day, Google’s Chrome is a fast, beautiful, and simple browser. Honesty, would you want anything else? - Subscribe to the NETTUTS RSS Feed for more daily web development tuts and articles.
Oil & Natural Gas Projects Exploration and Production Technologies Center for Petroleum Asset Risk Management (PARM) This project was selected as a small purchase to provide DOE with state-of-the-art information on Asset Risk Management in the petroleum industry. The goal of the project is to develop and apply methods that will improve the ability of the hydrocarbon industry to improve capital efficiency. University of Texas at Austin Chevron Producing Company Oklahoma City, OK Buenos Aires, Argentina This ongoing project has revealed new ways to evaluate options in reserve estimation, in value of information, and in evaluating asset portfolios. Hydrocarbon evaluation has been done historically in a deterministic manner. That is, even though it is widely acknowledged that there are substantial uncertainties in prediction, decisions are made on the basis of fixed information. This work will show whether the operators' decision-making can be improved if this uncertainty is accounted for. The primary incentives for the work are the following observations: - Until the recent price increase, the exploration and production (E&P) underperformed all other major business sectors in efficiency of capital use. - Estimates of recovery are pervasively too small. In the case of reserve underprediction has led to some notorious cases involving major oil companies. - Techniques exist for making decisions under uncertainty. For the most part, not been brought into the E&P industry. - The worth of many types of E&P information is not quantitatively established. The project has two main objectives: - Validation of alternative approach for evaluating real options. Brandao, et al. have shown that the formalism in incorporating the value of choice into decisions can be represented by a binary lattice. This supplants the far more complicated Black-Scholes approach with one that is more transparent and easier to use with other decision-making tools. - Forecasting hydrocarbon prices. Hahn and Dyer have applied a mean-reverting stochastic process to oil prices. Because it is statistical, it is well suited for the evaluation of projects under certainty. The project is ongoing. DOE supported the initial stages of the project. The current work is completely industry-supported. A calculated trade-off between risk (horizontal axis) and profitability (vertical) from the work of Faya. This is based on a hypothetical portfolio of oil-producing projects. Such a plot is useful in determining the amount of uncertainty associated with a given rate of return. The project does not require annual reports. The following are theses or dissertations that are completed or are nearing completion: Hahn, Warren, Dyer, Jim, Incorporating Mean-Reverting Price Forecasts into Exploration and Production Valuation, April 2005. Brandao, Luis, Dyer, Jim, Hahn, Warren, Using binomial decision trees to solve real option valuation problems, May 2005. D'Addosio, Pierangaela, Analysis of risk cultures, August 2005 Portillo, Maria, Optimizing gas production under uncertainty, August 2005 Lawal, Azeez, A sensitivity analysis of the uncertainties of oil production, Hultszch, Paul, Estimating the benefits of options in reserve estimation, December Faya, Luis, Using portfolio optimization for oil field assets, May 2006. Min, Namhon, The value of oil field information, May 2007. Project Start: October 2003 Project End: April 2005 Anticipated DOE Contribution: $95,000 Performer Contribution: $230,000 (67% of total) NETL - Rhonda Jacobs (Rhonda.email@example.com or 918-699-2037) UT, Austin - Larry W. Lake (Larry_Lake@mail.utexas.edu or 512-471-8233)
Featuring: * Mark Pauline: Founder of machine-mangling Survival Research Laboratories recounts giant billboard "improvements" done in his misspent youth. * Karen Finley: Provocative performance artist: sex, food, death, and butt hairs... * Joe Coleman: New York madman crashes parties with explosives wired to his chest...you guess the rest! * Boyd Rice: Presents the First Lady of the United States, Betty Ford, with a skinned sheep's head on a silver platter! * Frank Discussion: Intense leader of seminal punk band the Feederz throws a dead dog into the audience, causes a big stink! See everything at a glance or browse through the categories on the left. PRANKS ValuPak: two Deluxe Autographed books for $50 PRANKS limited edition HARDBACK reprint (sixty dollars on amazon) autographed by editor V. Vale; and PRANKS 2 autographed by V. Vale – save some bucks … The 2 PRANKS books always make a great gift for friends! Order now! 1001 ways to have fun. The original PRANKS book featured in-depth interviews with Abbie Hoffman, John Waters, Mark Pauline, Joe Coleman, Bruce Conner and many more. This limited edition HARDBACK edition (only 500 copies made) is printed on Superior Glossy Art Paper -- supersedes all previous editions for sale on Internet -- for sharper photo reproduction. Pranks 2 continues the conversation (on Superior Glossy Art Paper), also adding six essays on pranks by V. Vale, and a section on Internet pranks with interviews with the redoubtable Frank Discussion, and culture-hackers like Marc Powell. Other interviews include John Waters, Ron English, Jello Biafra, monochrom, SRL's Karen Marcelo, John Law, and the Suicide Club, Cacophony Society, Billboard Liberation Front, Paul Krassner, Julia Solis, and more.
Today at the D: Dive Into Media conference, representatives from Microsoft provided more details on its new video production studio, which will provide a whole new level of interactivity for viewers. Nancy Tellem, Corporate VP of Microsoft’s L.A. Studios, said that the company has already hired 150 employees in its Santa Monica studio in L.A. That’s a huge commitment to creating a whole new type of content for its Xbox game console. Tellem joined Microsoft last year to head up its new content efforts. In addition to the usual broadcast-like TV content, Tellem said that the company will be investing heavily in interactive content, as it can leverage products like Xbox Kinect to allow users to provide new ways for viewers to play with stuff on the screen. “We’re in a unique position to produce content with a much higher level of interactivity,” Tellem said. Yusuf Mehdi, SVP of Interactive Entertainment at Microsoft, said the company has sold well over 75 million consoles worldwide, and Xbox Live has more than 46 million subscribers. Users spend an average of 87 hours on the Xbox per month, with the majority of that being non-game content. While the user base is still primarily male, Mehdi said 38 percent of its users are women, and 51 percent are people with kids. Tellem sees that type of content being particularly attractive to younger viewers using the console. “Everyone is very different, particularly when you look at the younger demo,” Tellem said. “Interactivity is a natural extension of what they do.” While the company plans to make its content available through its Xbox Live service, it will also look to monetize that content through ads. One thing that Microsoft is not interested in doing is becoming a cable competitor by building bundles of content. Part of that is about being friendly to content companies and distributors that deliver video over its devices. Part of it is also not feeling like it can provide real value by being a virtual cable provider. The news comes as rumors have swirled around the next-generation Xbox, which is expected to be called the Xbox 720. Those include the belief that the new Xbox will have always-on DRM, which will destroy the used-game market. Also, the revelation that the next-gen game console will require Xbox Kinect to work. But Mehdi wouldn’t comment on the company’s plans for the next-gen box. Skype just announced that it will now begin to show some of its users ads during 1:1 audio calls. These so-called “conversation ads” will only appear for users who don’t have Skype credit or a subscription and, for the time being, these ads will only appear on Skype for Windows, though chances are the company, which is now owned by Microsoft, will also bring these ads to its OS X client in the future. The company stresses that these ads will “be silent, non-expanding and run after we’ve completed our regular detailed quality checks on your connection.” Marketers will be able to purchase these ads in 55 markets where Skype is available. Ads will be targeted based on “non-personally identifiable” demographic information like location, gender and age. Users will have the option to opt out of Skype using their demographic information. Skype is obviously quite excited about this launch, though it remains to be seen how users will react. The announcement today argues that Skype is a place where users can “have meaningful conversations about brands in a highly engaging environment.” That’s obviously the stuff marketers dream of, but in reality, users probably won’t think of these ads as generating “fun interactivity between your circle of friends and family and the brands you care about” (hence the name, “conversation ads,” I guess). This is Skype’s second major push into advertising after launching ads on its Home tab last year. Stilla is an iPhone/iPad app by Maybe It’s The Lighting that feels like an entirely new way to capture moments — going far beyond the traditional photo. With Stilla you take not one, but 2 or 3 pictures that intersect in an overlaid 3D space, and the result is something magical, thanks to the gyroscopic camera. We first covered Stilla back in December, and now the team is back with Stilla 1.5 and the ability to embed 3D WebGL images. To be honest, I haven’t been this excited about a photography app since I started using Instagram. H: How has Stilla evolved since it was first released? P: Stilla was released in late December 2011. This is the first update and it’s focused on sharing interactive Stillas with everyone by simply using a browser. H: How does Stilla’s WebGL sharing work? P: First, you actively choose to share a Stilla. None of your photos are uploaded automatically behind your back. If you do so, your Stilla will be uploaded to a server and will become accessible through a short link. This link can then be shared through Twitter, Facebook or E-Mail, much like other photo apps do. Unlike most other photo apps, your uploaded Stillas will be treated as private by default. They won’t be shown as part of a public feed for example. H: What does Stilla offer that other apps can’t? P: Stilla hits a sweet spot between a photograph and a movie. A single photo is an abstract thing. It’s taken out of context, time has been frozen, things seem much more powerful or catchy as they actually have been. Reality looks different on a photo. You can observe that easily when taking a movie of the same moment: The same scene will seem much more complex and fragile. It’s a lot harder to stage something in a movie (without music) than on a photo. But watching a movie is more passive than holding a simple photograph in your hand. Watching a single photo involves your own imagination much more. You may be drifting off while remembering a scene, imagining something else or simply take as much time as you like. Stilla keeps this strength of photography but offers additional facets, views to a single moment. The interaction while viewing a Stilla is key. Today, we’re looking at photos mostly on screens. There, they look basically the same like old printed photos except that they’re missing the interactivity or say the haptic quality of a printed photo. Most of these screens could offer interactivity, be it through touch or through a mouse. But this stays unused, interactivity is for navigating, selecting, organizing – none of those has an emotional quality of any kind. Instead of taking the interactive medium seriously, most Apps resort to polaroid frames and film filters. Stilla offers a fresh perspective on what it means “to hold something in your hand,” or “to touch a moment” without imitating old media or just simulating a photo to be rotated in space. Stilla creates a magical quality, it actively supports the gaps between the single facets with a beautiful, special blending based on how light is distributed in the photos. And light is what photography was always about. Stilla invites you to rediscover this in a whole new context. Stilla offers a quick, versatile and creative way to capture a moment in 3D. A Stilla can be made out of only 2 pictures or as many as you like. You can choose to capture spatial details – coherent or not – or create something like a zoetrope to build a story. Take a picture of a friend and add a second one of something that reminds you of the place you were. In a group of people, hand your iPhone around and everybody adds a facet looking from their viewpoint. Combine abstract shots of light and color. There are so many ways to play with this camera while the basic concept is easy to understand. It’s not a clever technical black-box, it’s hands-on. Stilla is an App designed to keep your own moments with you. It’s a modern interpretation of the photos in your wallet. Everything has been developed and designed with a lot of attention to detail for a specific reason. Everything revolves quite literally around your pictures. Your photos, your world, your friends are always in the center of the app and there are almost no graphical UI elements. Moving around the App feels light, snappy and focused without losing that magical quality. When did you look at a photo for longer than 5 seconds the last time? Stilla is designed to enjoy your pictures. For those special moments you want to remember. Of course, WebGL is a developing technology and only functions in the latest of browsers. In other words, you’ll need to keep an open mind. What’s special about this, though, is that the team is actually trying to break the mold. The world doesn’t need another group photo sharing app. Exploring new ways to capture a moment and playing with the space between photos and video, on the other hand, feels much more compelling. ➤ Stilla, via the App Store for $1.99
Posts Tagged ‘skull base’ Background: Jugular foramen tumors are rare and challenging lesions for skull base surgeons due to their difficult operative accessibility. Various surgical approaches to the jugular foramen have been described to overcome the morbidity of standard petrosectomy. Objective: To describe the surgical anatomy of a novel route to the jugular foramen without opening the fallopian canal: the navigated tailored presigmoidal suprabulbar infralabyrinthine approach. Methods: Ten cadaver heads were dissected under navigational guidance on both sides to examine the advantages and limitations of the presigmoidal suprabulbar infralabyrinthine approach without opening the fallopian canal. Mastoidectomy was performed using a high-speed drill. Under navigation guidance, the sigmoid sinus, jugular bulb, posterior semicircular canal, and fallopian canal were located and preserved. The jugular foramen with the extradural part of the IXth, Xth, and XIth nerve were identified. Background: The facial nerve has a short intracranial course but crosses critical and frequently accessed surgical structures during skull base surgery. When performing approaches to complex intracranial regions, it is essential to understand the nerve’s conventional and topographical anatomy from different surgical perspectives as well as its relationship with surrounding structures. Objective: To describe the entire intracranial course of the facial nerve as observed through different neurosurgical approaches and to provide an analytical evaluation of the degree of nerve exposure achieved with each approach. Methods: Anterior petrosectomies (middle fossa, extended middle fossa), posterior petrosectomies (translabyrinthine, retrolabyrinthine, transcochlear), a retrosigmoid, a far lateral, and anterior transfacial (extended maxillectomy, mandibular swing) approaches were performed on 10 adult cadaveric heads (20 sides). The degree of facial nerve exposure achieved per segment for each approach was assessed and graded independently by three surgeons. Background: Endoscopic skull base surgery is now the preferred treatment option to remove skull base tumors. Objective: To evaluate the patient’s sense of smell and mucociliary clearance time (MCT) after skull base surgery. Methods: Patients with pituitary adenoma underwent a Transnasal Transphenoidal Endoscopic Approach (TTEA Group, N=36), while patients with other benign parasellar tumors underwent an Expanded Endonasal Approach (EEA Group, N=14) with a vascularized septal flap (VSF). Assessment of symptoms (Visual Analogue Scale, VAS), olfactometry (Barcelona Smell Test, BAST-24), and MCT (Saccharin test) were performed before and 3 months after surgery. Background: Cholesterol granulomas (CG) of the petrous apex (PA) are rare, benign expanding lesions. Surgical treatment is recommended for patients with symptomatic disease; however, the optimal surgical procedure is still controversial due to high recurrence rates. The main treatment strategy is divided into drainage and complete resection. Objective: We advocate radical resection of the lesion by the middle fossa approach and reconstruction with a vascularized galeofascial flap. Methods: A 10-year retrospective case review of 17 patients undergoing surgical treatment of PA CGs between 2000 and 2010 was undertaken. Operative outcomes and surgical complications were analyzed. In addition, our operative method and the related anatomy are described from cadaveric dissections. Background: Suprasellar meningiomas often invade the optic canals (OC). The feasibility of removing these tumors through a minimal access endonasal route has been demonstrated but the importance, safety, and timing of OC exploration and decompression is not well-described. Objective: To create a simple decision-tree algorithm for OC exploration and decompression in the endonasal, endoscopic surgery for planum sphenoidale (PS) and tuberculum sella (TS) meningiomas. Methods: We identified a consecutive series of 8 PS and TS meningiomas resected endonasally. ‘Late” OC exploration and decompression was performed in 4/8 patients. Extent of resection, visual outcome, and complications were recorded.
When I came bopping in the doctor's office, he grinned from ear to ear and told me to slow down because my legs were weak. I had to repeat myself several times before he "got it" that there was NO nerve pain. It's been out several hours now and the pain is back. Boy, I got spoiled fast. I see the psychologist the first of the month when my check comes in as there is a hefty co-pay. He said he can get me into the surgeon quickly after that and rush the implant. Blessing to all and thanks for the support.
We found 2 additional articles filed under Cuba. They're listed below, most recent first. - Latina Theologian and Justice-Seeker Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz Dies 05/16/2012 -- Professor Emerita at Drew University, she fought for justice in the context of "Mujerista" liberation theology. Read her obituary and watch a video of her at National Seminar 2011. - From Cuba, By Faith 05/01/2012 -- Nelida Mora-Morales wanted to serve. She became a teacher in central Cuba and the Woman’s Society district president. Then she came to United States as a refugee. Return to the original article.
The new look Cardiff Airport Rail/Bus link service has been extended to serve the Enterprise Zone at St Athan during travel to work times between Monday – Friday, whilst maintaining the connection with the train service at Rhoose Station. As a result the extended shuttle bus route, which is funded by the Welsh Government, will now stop at: Rhoose Railway Station – Cardiff Airport – St Athan Enterprise Zone – Cardiff Airport – Rhoose Railway Station. A modest fare of £1 single for adults and 50p for children, students and apprentices will be introduced to help offset the running costs of the service. Concessionary bus pass holders will still be able to use the service free of charge. The Minister with responsibility for Transport, Carl Sargeant said: "Cardiff Airport and the nearby enterprise zone at St Athan have the potential to play a vital role in the future success of the Welsh economy. "Ensuring that we continue to improve links to both are vital and the extended Cardiff Airport shuttle bus route that will now also stop at the new enterprise zone will play a part in improving these links for both travellers and commuters that use this service." Steve Hodgetts, Cardiff Airport’s Planning and Commercial Director added, "We welcome the continued commitment by the partners to continue this valuable service, which will benefit Cardiff Airport passengers as well as other members of the community. "The service will greatly aid the work of the St Athan and Cardiff Airport Enterprise Zone in developing the region." Vale of Glamorgan Councillor Liz Burnett, Cabinet Member for Planning and Transportation stated: "The Council is pleased to continue its support in collaboration with the Welsh Government to fund the Rail Link Shuttle Bus Service 905 (Rhoose Cardiff Airport) and trusts that the extended service will continue to provide a vital link for many public transport users, which in turn will not only benefit business at Cardiff Airport and the new St Athan Enterprise Zone, but for Wales in general." Around 4,500 passenger journeys are made on the Cardiff Airport Rail/Bus link every month by people travelling to and from Cardiff Airport as well as by employees, apprentices and students based at nearby premises specialising in aeronautical engineering and the aviation supply chain.
The stories and memorabilia of one of Australia’s renowned campaigners of feminism has been collected and preserved for the first time. ‘Archiving Australian Feminism’ is a living history project built around Merle Thornton, a well-known activist of the 1960s who famously chained herself to Brisbane’s Regatta Hotel to protest the exclusion of women from public bars. This event has been widely recognised as one of the most defining moments of the feminist movement in Australia. The project preserves Ms Thornton’s personal archive of records, letters, petitions, film scripts and press clippings. The collection will be handed over to the National Library of Australia. Associate Professor Maryanne Dever from the University of Newcastle and Dr Margaret Henderson from the University of Queensland have been interviewing Ms Thornton to record her story and address the gaps in the formal records that detail women’s grass-roots activism in Australia. A/Professor Dever said one of the most striking parts of Ms Thornton’s personal archive was the hate mail she and her friend Rosalie Bognor received in the wake of the Regatta Protest. “These letters clearly demonstrate the depth of fear and outrage their actions generated in the conservative climate of the day,” she said. “We forget how much of a challenge these protests posed to the gender order of the day that dictated that nice women stayed home with their children.” Dr Henderson said Ms Thornton was pivotal in establishing the basic human rights that women in Australia enjoy today. “After her Regatta Hotel protest, Ms Thornton went on to form the Equal Opportunities Association for Women that successfully campaigned to introduce paid maternity leave for women and provide better crèches and kindergartens,” Dr Henderson said. The research is supported by grants from the Sidney Myer Foundation and the Queensland Premier’s Department. For interviews: Associate Professor Maryanne Dever or Dr Margaret Henderson are available for interview by calling Media and Public Relations officer Megan Cunneen on 4921 5351 or 0448 369871. Interviews with Merle Thornton can be organised upon request.
Vernon worked for the American Social History Project’s Young America project. For this project he looked into the activities and behaviors of youths during the 1950′s. He is primarily interested in the role both elementary and secondary school students played in helping to desegregate public high schools not only in Southern schools but across the entire nation. Of particular interest is the student strike, which took place in Farmville, Virginia during the spring of 1951. Vernon believes that integrating new media technology into history classroom instruction will not only familiarize students with the various types of resources available to them, but will also widen the depth and breadth of their knowledge. While he is originally from Northern California, he is currently a proud resident of Manhattan’s Spanish Harlem.
Lou Gehrig Collection brings nearly $1 million to fuel record-setting $4.95+ million Heritage Sports Cy Young’s 1908 Red Sox jersey, “Shoeless Joe” Jackson’s baseball bat and Bobby Jones’ 1937 Green Jacket show spectacular strength in Vintage Sports Collectibles auction, Aug. 4 in Chicago Heritage further secured its status as the premier destination for consignors of rare single signed baseballs as Christy Mathewson and Eddie Plank set a flurry of bidder paddles into motion. The premier hurlers of the Dead Ball Era battled to a stalemate, each achieving a price of $83,650 at the conclusion of bidding. Though baseball shows no signs of surrendering its auction dominance in the foreseeable future, other sports made their presence known as the event unfolded. Most notable was the original Augusta Green Jacket owned and worn by course founder and Golden Age links legend Bobby Jones, which fueled an international bidding battles of wills which found the last man standing at a mark of $310,700. The cold Green Bay gridiron turned red hot for birders battling for Hall of Fame receiver Don Hutson's rare game worn jersey, which soared to $80,662 before the hammer fell, while the most comprehensive aggregation of St. Lawrence Starch Beehive photos ever assembled thrilled hockey collectors to the tune of $65,725. Other highlights from this groundbreaking event include: 1914-15 Honus Wagner Game Used Bat: Realized: $89,625. 1949 Jackie Robinson All-Star Game Used Bat from Robinson Estate: Realized: $83,650. 1887 Sam Wise Boston Beaneaters Batting Championship Sterling Silver Presentational Bat: Realized: $71,700. 1919-1920 Urban "Red" Faber Game Worn Chicago White Sox Uniform: Realized: $68,713. 1978 Muhammad Ali's Personal "Three Times World Champion" Ring: Realized: $59,750. 1911 D304 Brunners Butter Krust Ty Cobb PSA EX 5 - A Newly Discovered Example: Realized: $33,460. 1982 NCAA Basketball Championship Game Net from Michael Jordan's Game-Winning Shot: Realized: $30,700. Heritage Auctions, headed by Steve Ivy, Jim Halperin and Greg Rohan, is the world’s third largest auction house, with annual sales more than $700 million, and 600,000+ online bidder members. For more information about Heritage Auctions, and to join and gain access to a complete record of prices realized, along with full-color, enlargeable photos of each lot, please visit HA.com. Want to get the up-to-the-minute updates and breaking news stories about Heritage Auctions? Get them as they happen at: www.Twitter.com/HeritageAuction; Facebook: www.HA.com/Facebook.To view a compete archive of Heritage press releases go to: HA.com/PR. To link to this press release on your blog or Website: HA.com/PR-2064. Hi-Res Images available Noah Fleisher, Public Relations Director
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Aug. 24, 2007 CONTACT: Eric Snyder Gallery, gallery assistant, 615-898-5653. FALL FACULTY ART EXHIBIT NOW ON DISPLAY AT TODD GALLERY MTSU’s Studio Faculty Artists Showcase Wide Array of Media Styles (MURFREESBORO)—A variety of faculty-created works—from mixed-media installations, printmaking and sculptures to paintings and graphic-design imagery—are on display now through Sept. 4 in the Todd Gallery as part of the annual fall faculty art exhibition. Each year, one-half of the university’s art faculty members are invited to present new work to the MTSU campus and community at large. The fall 2007 show features works by faculty members Barry Buxkamper, Kim Dummons, Sisavanh Phouthavong-Houghton, J. Seth Johnson, Christie Nuell, Marisa Recchia and Cindy Rehm, all of whom are members of the department’s studio faculty. “The works to be seen represent a range of styles and media,” says Lon Nuell, gallery curator,”(including) digital imagery, printmaking, sculpture and painting, collographs and monoprints, and graphic design imagery.” This year’s faculty exhibit contains from 24 to 30 pieces, said Nuell, who added that a reception for the participating artists will be held in the gallery lobby 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Aug. 29. The public is invited and encouraged to attend. “The teaching faculty in the art department is made up of a highly talented group of professional artist-teachers who work in a wide range of media and whose expressive styles range from the representational to abstraction, with many exciting and challenging variations in between,” he noted. • GALLERY HOURS: Located on the first floor of MTSU’s Todd Building, the Todd Gallery is open 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. weekdays. Admission is free and the exhibit is open to the public. Please note that the gallery will be closed on Labor Day, Sept. 3. For more information regarding the current exhibit, please contact Eric Snyder Gallery, gallery assistant, 615-898-5653. ATTENTION, MEDIA: To obtain jpeg images of some of the artwork now on display at the Todd Gallery for editorial use, please contact Gina Fann at 615-898-2919 or send your request via e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.org To request an interview with any of the exhibit’s participating artists, please contact Lisa L. Rollins at 615-898-2919 or via e-mail at email@example.com
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into the proposed acquisition of Goodrich Corporation by United Technology Corporation (UTC), both US aviation equipment makers, the European Union's executive said on Tuesday. The Commission said preliminary investigations showed potential competition concerns regarding the markets for engine controls and AC power generators. The parties would have very high combined market shares in these areas, the EU's competition watchdog said. The Commission said it also had concerns about the removal of Goodrich as an independent supplier of fuel nozzles and engine controls, as well as in the area of aftermarket services. The Commission now has 90 working days, until 9 August 2012, to take a final decision on whether the proposed transaction would reduce effective competition in the European Economic Area, it said. "The aviation equipment industry is already concentrated and is characterized by high barriers to entry," said Joaquín Almunia, the EU's competition regulator. "We need to make sure that competition is preserved and incentives to innovate remain," he said in a statement. "We must also prevent a rise in input prices for aircraft and engine manufacturers as well as other aviation equipment suppliers." UTC intends to acquire the whole of Goodrich for a purchase price of USD$18.4 billion, in one of the largest transactions in the aerospace industry in recent years, the Commission said.
The new system calls for a new rocket, Ares 1 The US Obama administration is taking a fresh look at what humans do in space and how they get there. The White House has asked Norman Augustine, a former aerospace industry executive, to lead a review of Nasa's manned activities and report by August. The US space agency is due to retire its shuttles next year and is working on a new crew transportation system, to be introduced in about 2014-15. The replacement looks much like the old Apollo system in its architecture. Work on the Orion capsule and its Ares launcher was initiated in 2005, following a directive the previous year from President Bush in his Vision for Space Exploration. The intention was to give the US a crew-carrier and rocket technology that could go beyond low-Earth orbit to more distant targets, back to the Moon and further. The Augustine panel will now assess whether this is the correct strategy. The White House's chief scientist, John Holdren, said "it would be only prudent" to review the human spaceflight programme given the scale of its ambition and "the significant investment of both funds and scientific capital". Nasa is currently spending more than $250m (190m euros; £170m) a month on replacement activities, which go under the heading of the Constellation programme. The expenditure will continue through the review. The agency is preparing to launch a test rocket that incorporates key features of the new Ares vehicle. In a statement, the agency said: "The Review of United States Human Spaceflight Plans will examine Nasa development programmes and possible alternatives. President Bush called for a return to the Moon "The goal is to provide options that will ensure the nation's human spaceflight programme remains safe, innovative and affordable in the years following the space shuttle's retirement." Critics have asked questions about the technical scope of Constellation and Nasa's ability to manage its cost. Some have called for the Ares launchers to be scrapped in favour of adapting existing rockets. The announcement of the review came as Nasa's proposed budget for the financial year 2010 was given as $18.69bn. This represents a $903.6m, or 5%, increase on the 2009 budget request. All up, President Obama is looking to add an additional to $2bn to Nasa's budget line for 2009 and 2010. By way of comparison, the European Space Agency spends just over 3bn euros ($4bn; £2.7bn) a year on its activities. President Obama has yet to name a Nasa administrator. Christopher Scolese continues to lead the agency in an acting capacity. Speaking about the human spaceflight review, Mr Scolese told the Associated Press: "Clearly if we are on the wrong path, we should change. If you are asking me if I think we're on the wrong path, no, I don't."
NB: THIS TRANSCRIPT WAS TYPED FROM A TRANSCRIPTION UNIT RECORDING AND NOT COPIED FROM AN ORIGINAL SCRIPT: BECAUSE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF MIS-HEARING AND THE DIFFICULTY, IN SOME CASES OF IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL SPEAKERS, THE BBC CANNOT VOUCH FOR ITS ACCURACY. Sex Crimes and the Vatican RECORDED FROM TRANSMISSION: BBC ONE Q: Can you show the camera how you think you look when you abuse. When you're actually doing the physical sexual act. Q: Can you go to that person Oliver? O'GRADY: That's that person now. PAUL KENYON: This is Father Oliver O'Grady, a former Catholic priest. The church knew he was a child abuser. Q: How about how you would greet that little girl you were grooming? Just use the name Sally. O'GRADY: Hi Sally, how you doing? Come here, I wanna give you a hug. You're a sweetheart, you know that. You're very special to me. I like you a lot. KENYON: Instead of reporting O'Grady the church hid him from the authorities. No mistake, but part of a secret church directive. The man responsible for enforcing it was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI.. County Wexford in Ireland. The diocese of Ferns is a strip of towns and villages sprinkled along the rugged coastline. Four years ago this priest, Father Sean Fortune, was at the centre of Ireland's biggest child abuse enquiry. The scandal exposed details of a secret Vatican decree which seemed to shelter the perpetrators, and silence the victims of abuse. Colm O'Gorman was one of its victims. He returned to his home town in Ferns to try to come to terms with his past. When he was 14 years old Colm was raped by Father Sean Fortune. On Sunday mornings, after Fortune had abused me, he'd leave me in his bed, in the bedroom in the house there, and come down and say first mass. And I remember that he used to come back after saying first mass, and... sometimes abuse me again. And then I'd have to go downstairs with him and have breakfast, and then come down here for the second mass, and sit and watch him say mass. KENYON: The church knew Father Fortune was a paedophile, but failed to inform the police. Instead it moved him from Parish to Parish. He was finally exposed, and killed himself on the eve of his criminal trial. Along with the BBC, Colm began investigating who'd been responsible for helping him evade detection. It turned out to be the most senior church figure in the diocese, the Bishop of Ferns Doctor Brendan Comiskey. We confronted him. SARAH MacDONALD: Bishop Comiskey. COMISKEY: [singing to himself as he steps out of car] We will survive.... How are you? McDONALD: I'm fine thanks. Sarah McDonald, BBC television. You're looking very well. Dr BRENDAN COMISKEY Bishop of Ferns (smiling warmly) Sarah, how are you? MacDONALD: I'm very well thank you. I've just come to ask you just a question about Sean Fortune. We just wanted to know.... COMISKEY: (smile gone he turns his back instantly and rapidly retreats) I'm going to have mass at half past.. MacDONALD: (calling after the retreating figure) Why didn't you stop Sean Fortune.... COMISKEY: I.. I.. I moved... MacDONALD: ..abusing young boys? Bishop Comiskey? COMISKEY: ... when it was brought to my attention I moved him out of the Parish, and sent him on treatment... MacDONALD: Not for 6 years.. COMISKEY: ...for 2 years. MacDONALD: Not for 6 years you didn't move him out of the Parish. Why didn't you stop him? COMISKEY: Thank you very much. MacDONALD: Why didn't you stop him Bishop Comiskey? COMISKEY: (enters building and firmly shuts door) KENYON: Within weeks of that denial Bishop Comiskey was summoned to Rome. COMISKEY: (making public statement) On Thursday last I tendered my resignation as Bishop of Ferns to Pope John Paul. I travelled to Rome later this week in the furthers of that process. KENYON: Bishop Comiskey had gone, but in Ferns more stories of abuse followed. Colm is now Director of one of Ireland's largest charities supporting victims of child abuse. He campaigned for a government inquiry, and got it. In October last year, when the Ferns report was published, it exposed a cover up involving more than just one priest. The Ferns report makes disturbing reading. It details allegations of the rape and abuse of over 100 girls and boys, made against 26 priests from this small, rural diocese. It says that there was a culture of secrecy, and a fear of scandal, that led Bishops to place the interests of the Catholic church ahead of the safety of children. KENYON: The report was the first to link the churches behaviour to a secret Vatican decree for dealing with paedophile priests. The more Colm meets other Ferns victims the more convinced he's become that the decree has been used to silence their allegations of abuse. I'm looking here at the room that I was in 40... nearly 41 years ago. That's four decades, and I'm still remembering what happened inside, under that roof, in the peace and quiet of a Saturday afternoon in that room, behind that window. KENYON: Aidan Doyle was educated at a Catholic school run by priests. DOYLE: Terror struck at approximately 10 past 3 in the afternoon, when he decided to come in and, as he put it, help me with the practicing of my music. Then a moment later everything changes. I was hauled back down onto the bed, I was told to lie down on the bed with him, on the bed where I was made to grope his private area. I was then... oh... (struggling and distressed) I was then mauled really. It was: "You're going to be intimate with me, you're going to get closer to me, you're going to be my special person." I think all my hopes and dreams went then. It was just a question of when, how, will it ever stop. KENYON: After the sexual assault Aidan ran from the room. He told another priest what had happened. But instead of going to the authorities the priests invoked one of the most powerful tenets of the Catholic faith - To bar Aidan or his abuser from ever speaking out. DOYLE: He said to me 'I'm going to apply the seal of confession to you, so that you must never talk about this, and it will be kept secret.' And I remember saying that that evening. That why should I have to keep quiet about something that I hadn't initiated? KENYON: Aidan didn't know it, but an oath of silence was part of the secret church decree called 'crimen sollicitationis' (crime of solicitation). The directive was written in 1962, and Catholic bishops worldwide are ordered to keep it locked away in the church safe. It instructs them on how to deal with priests who solicit sex from the confessional. But it also deals with any obscene external acts with youths of either sex. Child abuse. Originally written in Latin it imposes the strictest oath of secrecy on the child victim, the priest dealing with the allegation, and any witnesses. Breaking that oath means instant banishment from the Catholic Church - excommunication. I was told that.. simply told you don't talk about this again. It's over, you'll get over it, it'll fade away in time, it'll go away, you've nothing to worry about. You know it's all about forgiveness, it's all about forgiving your offender as well as the offender forgiving me. They were judge, jury and everything else. I didn't have any opportunity to receive understanding. There was no understanding brought about. I didn't know what this meant other than that I must never talk about it again. KENYON: Aidan was so intimidated he hasn't spoken of what happened for 40 years, until now. His abuser has never been punished. To uncover the significance of crimen sollicitationis Colm goes to meet Father Tom Doyle, a canon lawyer. Once a Vatican high flyer, then he criticised the church's handling of child abuse and was sacked. Father TOM DOYLE Crimen sollicitationis is indicative of a world-wide policy of absolute secrecy and control of all cases of sexual abuse by the clergy. But what you really have here is an explicit written policy to cover up cases of child sexual abuse by the clergy, to punish those who would call attention to these crimes by churchmen. You've got a written policy that says the Vatican will control these situations, and you also have, I think, clear written evidence of the fact that all they're concerned about is containing and controlling the problem. Nowhere in any of these documents does it say anything about helping the victims. The only thing it does is say that they can impose fear on the victims, and punish the victims, for discussing or disclosing what had happened to them. KENYON: The procedure was intended to protect a priests reputation until the church had investigated. But in practice it can offer a blueprint for cover-ups. The man in charge of enforcing it for 20 years was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the man made Pope last year. In 2001 he created the successor to the decree. In spirit it was the same, overarching secrecy with a threat of excommunication. He sent a copy to every Bishop in the world. But now he ordered that the Vatican must have what it calls 'exclusive competence'. In other words, all child abuse allegations must go exclusively to Rome. FR. DOYLE: It's all controlled by the Vatican, and at the top of the Vatican is the Pope. So Joseph Ratzinger was at the middle of this for most of the years the crimen was enforced. He created the successor to crimen, and now he's the Pope. This all says that the policy and the systematic approach has not changed. KENYON: Cardinal Ratzinger's new decree was a missed opportunity to modernise the church's approach just as its biggest scandal was about to break in America. Colm travelled there to discover whether these were isolated cases sadly mishandled, or a Vatican policy of cover up. COLM: At the same time as the scandals were erupting in Ireland in 2002, hundreds of cases were emerging here in the United States. A US report tells us that almost four and a half thousand US priests have been accused of raping or sexually abusing children. KENYON: Its epicentre was Boston. The same stories repeated time and again. The church quietly shifting accused priests from parish to parish. Allegations of a systematic cover-up. Colm tracks down Patrick Wall, a former Benedictine monk who became the Vatican approved enforcer of crimen sollicitationis in his Minnesota diocese. Former Benedictine Monk I was part of the system that was getting chewed up and being used deceptively, and it was a real dark night of the soul. Everything that I had trained for, you know, well over a decade to do, I found out that I wasn't working for a holy institution but an institution that was wholly concentrated on protecting itself. KENYON: When a priest was accused of sexual abuse, the abuser was slipped quietly away, and Father Patrick was moved in. WALL: Cos most of the cases never saw the light of the day, hence we were successful. That is really the ultimate definition of success for the church, when it comes to a case of sexual abuse of a minor, that no one ever finds out about it, that it gets shut down, that it's kept quiet. If a pay off is needed, or if some kind of a settlement is needed, it's done. We had a $7 million budget in 1996 to do such things. And.. but the thing that we had to have was a confidentiality order where it absolutely had to be agreed that everything was quiet. And you work with the victims as best you can, but the ultimate desire is to maintain stability, peace and calm, and the biggest thing you have to do is absolutely shut down the scandal. KENYON: Disillusioned, Father Patrick left the priesthood and joined lawyers acting for victims. One of its first cases was against prolific abuser Father Oliver O'Grady, ordained in Ireland but working in California. O'GRADY: I swear by Almighty God that the evidence that I shall give in this deposition will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.... KENYON: He gave this deposition last year in a civil law suit where he was accused of sodomizing a child over a hundred times. Former Catholic Priest [giving evidence in court] If the boy was tall or fat, that wouldn't attract me. I tended to take boys that were rather slim built. I tended to be attracted to the genital area, and there was a part of me would kind of want to be in touch with that, or to discover that, to see that in this particular boy. KENYON: He admits to at least 30 victims, both boys and girls, over 2 decades. Q: What is it.. what about the little girls did you find attractive? O'GRADY: If she had a short dress or something like that I might have been tempted to, and often did, maybe raise her dress in a kind of subconscious way, or should I say in a way that she's not aware that I'm doing that. But checking her out at the same time, you know. You'd get a glimpse of her underwear. Q: And did you find that arousing? O'GRADY: I did, yes. The viewing was more attractive actually than the touching in the girl's case. Q: How about how you would greet the little girl you were grooming? Just use the name Sally. O'GRADY: Hi Sally, how you doing? Come here, I wanna give you a hug. You're a sweetheart, you know that. You're very special to me. I like you a lot. She might respond 'I like you too'. And that would allow me to give a better hug to you. KENYON: O'Grady was jailed for 7 years. He's now been deported and lives in Ireland. His victims have now set their sights on his Bishop, the Cardinal of Los Angeles, Roger Mahoney. He now stands accused of shifting O'Grady from parish to parish to avoid scandal. Q: Well, the bishop knew that you had abused in '76, correct? Q: And abused earlier, correct? Q: So, knowing that, would you have appointed yourself a pastor? O'GRADY: No, I would not. KENYON: In 2002 the American Catholic church responded to mounting scandal by setting up an independent body called the National Review Board. Its first job was to study the scale of the problem. Judge ANNE BURKE National Review Board 2002-2005 One of the interesting pieces that the study found was that it wasn't epidemic in nature. It wasn't one diocese found to have more cases than another. It was endemic, in which from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean the same percentages of criminal sexual assault against minors occurred in every diocese. KENYON: But the review board quickly hit problems, with its Chairman comparing the church's secrecy with that of the mafia. CBS June 2003 Former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating has resigned as head of a National Review Board looking into the Catholic church sex scandal after serving only one year in that capacity. The contentious departure followed Keating's interview with the LA Times, where he compared some church leaders to La Casa Nostra. In his resignation letter Keating said, quote: "To resist grand jury subpoenas, to suppress the names of offending clerics, that is the model of a criminal organisation, not my church". KENYON: The review board carried on, and drew up a child protection charter for the American Catholic church. Around the Western world similar allegations were prompting similar responses. In Britain the Catholic church has introduced a comprehensive regime of child protection guidelines. But such national policies have been piecemeal, and the Vatican has no global child protection charter in relation to abuse by priests. In America, despite the push for transparency, when media attention shifted away the church continued investigating allegations in secret, marginalizing the victims. BURKE: We haven't seen sufficient evidence to show that we are satisfied with what has been done, and I think we're not able to trust. And that's getting reinforced periodically with the watering down of the charter, the failure of some diocese' to remove priests when there's an allegation. So I think we cannot trust at this point. We would have thought that the last four years would have taught us enough, and would have taught the Bishops enough to handle the situation. But we see every week, every month, something new happening that would lead you to believe that perhaps they didn't learn from the past mistakes. KENYON: There's clearly a tension between the rule of law and the rule of the church, between child protection and the orders of Cardinal Ratzinger. Father TOM DOYLE There's no policy to help the victims, there's absolutely no policy to help those who are trying to help the victims, and there's an unwritten policy to lie about the existence of the problem. Then, as far as the perpetrators, the priests, when they're discovered, the systemic response has been not to investigate and prosecute, but to move them. To move them from one place to another in a secret way, and not reveal why they're being moved. So there's total disregard for the victims, total disregard for the fact that you're gonna have a whole new crop of victims in the next place. Now this is just... this is not in the United States where this is happening. This is all over the world. You see the same pattern and practice no matter what country you go to. KENYON: In some countries the Catholic church has little or no child protection procedures, and, as Colm discovers, the Vatican sex crime decree it all but fills the vacuums for some of its most trusting followers. I'm in Brazil, the largest Catholic country on the planet, home to 125 million faithful. It may look like paradise, but scratch beneath the surface and you'll find extreme poverty, illiteracy, sex tourism, and enormous child protection concerns. The Catholic church may have been forced to learn hard lessons in the Western world, but is it applying those lessons here? KENYON: Six years ago a new priest arrived in the small rural community of Annapolis in Central Brazil. His new congregation didn't know it, but Father Tarcisio Tadeu Spricigo had been charged with child abuse by police in Sao Paolo. COLM: The priest was first accused of sexual abuse in 1991. He was moved at least 4 times following that first allegation, and continued to abuse in each parish to which he was appointed. He finally ended up here in this tiny, and very, very impoverished community. The Bishop who appointed him to this parish knew that he was facing charges of sexual abuse in Sao Paolo. He has explained since that he felt, or believed, that the priest had been cured. But he hadn't. The abuse continued. KENYON: The priest moved 3 doors away from Donna Elza and her 5 year old grandson Warley. He offered to give Warley guitar lessons. ELZA DA SILVA Early one Sunday morning he woke me up and said: "Granny, I know how to make love". I asked him: "What do you mean? You are so small, you're only 5, what are you talking about?" And he said: "If I try to tell Mummy and Daddy they will beat me, and I'm scared". And I said: "They won't beat you, tell me what has happened." And that's how I learned it was Father Tarcisio. We let the boy take guitar lessons with him because we thought he was in safe hands, with a good person, with a person who speaks the word of God every day in church. I trusted the Father because I have been Catholic all my life, and I never expected that this could have happened. When the kids accost him in the streets they call him "the priests little wife" and he feels so angry, so angry that he cries and cries. He tells me often that he just wants to die. KENYON: This was during the period when Cardinal Ratzinger instructed all allegations of child abuse to be sent to the Vatican. So if it knew about the criminal charges against Father Tarcisio why did it allow him to continue working as a priest in close contact with young children? COLM: We may be thousands of miles away from Rome, but this place is directly linked to the Vatican. What gets me is it's the same story every time and every place. Bishops appoint priests, who they know have abused children in the past, to new parishes and new communities, and more abuse happens. This boy was abused in 2002, think about that, 2002, at exactly the same time as the scandals are kicking off in Boston, in the United States, and in Ireland, at exactly the same time that bishops and the Vatican are giving us excuses for why it happened, and for what they're going to do to put it right. At exactly that time this boy is being raped here in Brazil. So now this boy talks about wanting to die, he doesn't want to stay alive any more. He can't handle it, he's being bullied at school. They tell him that he's the "priests little girl." And the church have done nothing. No therapy, no support, no connection, no outreach, nothing! I'm fed up of saying it's not okay. (emotional) It's not okay. KENYON: Despite evidence that the priest had already abused a 13 year old boy in Sao Paolo, Donna Elza claims she was pressured by both the church and the community to drop the allegations over her 5 year old grandson. ELZA: The church was angry with me, and people in the church, people in the street were running. They were running away from me. It felt like I was excommunicated from my own community. But I wanted them to believe, like I did, in my grandson. COLM: That's the thing people don't understand. This family didn't have much, but they had their faith. Now they don't have that. ELZA: There's such a great sadness inside us. (pause - struggling to retain composure but eyes full of tears) I fear my boy will grow with that sadness in his mind, the boy growing with problems in his mind. COLM: It looked like the priest might get away with it again, and then this was found. It's his diary. In it he details the kind of child that he targets, and how to abuse them without getting caught. I'll read you a section. Age: 7, 8, 9, 10. Sex: masculine. Social condition: poor. Family condition: preferably a son without a father, only a lonely mother or a sister. Where to look: on the streets, in schools and in families. How to attract them: guitar lessons, choir, altar boy. Very important, ingratiate yourself with the family. Possibilities: a boy who's affectionate, calm, and is appreciative. Needy of a father, and has no sexual scruples. My attitudes: see what the boy's like, then ask the boy to give himself to me as payment for receiving a present. KENYON: Father Tarcisio's decades of abuse were finally brought to an end. Not because of any action by Cardinal Ratzinger's Vatican office, but by the police. Last year Father Tarcisio was jailed for 15 years. The Catholic church has 50 million children within its world-wide congregation. Father TOM DOYLE The Vatican has no child protection policy. The only policy they have is to protect the perpetrators, protect the.. to protect the Vatican, to cover this up, to keep it as deeply buried in secrecy as possible, and to prevent as much damage to the institution as possible. So it's damage control. KENYON: Cardinal Ratzinger's instruction to send all allegations of child abuse to the Vatican is proving frustrating for police and social workers trying to catch and jail priests suspected of abuse. This is Father Joseph Henn, a choir master. The picture was taken during his first assignment as a young priest in Phoenix, Arizona. It was around the time he met 14 year old altar boy Rick Rivezo. My parents knew that I was spending time with him, and we went.. he would come to our house a lot. I remember my father telling me that he had an open door policy with Jo, he can come over any time he wanted. He was part of the family. KENYON: Once the relationship with Rick's family was secure, Father Henn's abuse began. RIVEZO: What he would do with us is he would take us out, and we'd go to these different things. Whether it would be a funeral, or a wedding, or that kind of thing. And there were times when he would take us swimming. After swimming we would go into the rectory and he would ask me to.. he would ask me to remove my trunks so that he can put them in the dryer. And he would take his and put them in the dryer. And he'd give me a towel, and same for him. And he'd tell me to lay on the bed. So now he's sitting on me, facing me, and I'm facing up, and he would massage me on my chest. And when he would go down is when he would stroke me, and go back up and down again. And he just did that over and over again. I wouldn't want to look at him, I didn't want to see him, I didn't want to see anything below his stomach. I didn't want to feel anything that he was doing, so my concentration was constantly my eyes closed, and I would have my hands out cos I knew his legs were there and I didn't want to touch them. And I'd just turn my head and close my eyes and put myself somewhere else and wait for him to be done. KENYON: The man who dealt with his case was Rick Romley, a high profile district attorney in Phoenix. Before retiring this year he convicted 8 paedophile priests in his diocese and, uniquely, forced a written confession from the local bishop admitting that he knowingly hid child sexual abuse from the police. Former Phoenix District Attorney I will tell you that the secrecy, the... I mean the obstruction that I saw during my investigation was unparalleled in my entire career as a DA here in Phoenix Arizona. It was so difficult to obtain any information from the church at all. In fact we knew of certain meetings that had taken place, and yet no documentation was ever produced to be able to, you know, show that that meeting had even occurred. KENYON: The Vatican's official line is that it's sex crime code is purely for internal use, and not intended to hinder civil investigations. ROMLEY: You know, when we started looking at it I mean it was really interesting. I mean we came across, in the canons for the church, that there are supposed to be secret archives to where this type of material is to provided and not given to civil authorities no matter what the circumstances. We had information that there is an instruction from the Nuncio, who is Ambassador status, to shift all this, you know, incriminating type of information to him because under our.. under the law we could not subpoena that material because he would have protected status as an Ambassador from the Vatican. I think that that's really what the story is. Is that the church.. the church's failure to acknowledge such a serious problem. But more than that, it is not a passiveness. It is a.. it was an openly obstructive way of not allowing civil authorities to try to stop the abuse within the church. I mean they fought us every step of the way. KENYON: His toughest battle involved Father Henn and two other priests who fled abroad to escape American prosecutors. I knew that these priests owed a vow of obedience to Rome, to the Vatican. And so I decided to write Rome and ask them, now that formal charges had been brought, to instruct them to follow their orders and to come back and surrender themselves so that the court system could take the case as we wanted it to. And I've got to tell you, I was very surprised. I'd written to Cardinal Sodano, who is the Secretariat of State, and I basically asked him could he instruct these priests to come back, and they just basically returned it, and they said they item's been returned because the sender has refused to accept the correspondence. They did not even open it, they didn't even acknowledge or give me any type of response. They just refused to accept it. A church with supposedly the moral authority to do what is right had miserably failed, you know, one of the most fundamental things, and that's to stop the abuse of children. And they had a real opportunity here to make a.. I mean to make a powerful statement to the world. To say 'everybody is accountable, to protect our children is important'. And they didn't even open the envelope. KENYON: Father Henn, the priest whose outings to the swimming pool with Rick Rivezo ended in abuse, is now wanted on 13 molestation charges brought by a grand jury in the United States. But he's no longer there. He's here in Rome, sheltered by the Vatican, and fighting extradition from the headquarters of his religious order, the Salvatorians. The Vatican has not compelled him to return to America to face the charges. COLM: The most extraordinary thing about this story is that Father Henn isn't alone. A US newspaper did a series of investigative reports recently called 'Runaway Priests', and it discovered that there are over 7 US priests who face allegations of child sexual abuse living with the support of the church here, in and around the Vatican. KENYON: The Vatican, the moral compass of the Catholic church, may well be holding evidence of other child abusing priests from around the world. But instead of cooperation and transparency, many feel the church's directives create obstruction and cover up in practice. There's one man who has the power to change that. FR. DOYLE: Cardinal Ratzinger, who now is Pope, could tomorrow get up and say 'here's the policy for throughout the church. Full disclosure to the civil authorities. Absolute isolation and dismissal of any convicted cleric. Complete openness and transparency. Complete openness of all financial situations. Stop all barriers to the legal process. Completely cooperate with the civil authorities everywhere.' He could do that. KENYON: The Vatican has failed to respond to repeated requests for an interview about the cases featured in this film. Father Joseph Henn has lost his fight against extradition to the US. He's since fled the Salvatorian headquarters in Rome where he was under house arrest, and is believed to be hiding somewhere in Italy. There's an international warrant out for his arrest. Former Catholic priest Oliver O'Grady served 7 years in an American prison for child sex abuse. Despite American psychiatrists labelling him a serial abuser who needed lifelong monitoring he was deported to his native Ireland in 2001. Because he offended in the US O'Grady does not appear on the Irish Sex Offenders' Register, and there are no restrictions on his access to children. Q: So the abuse and the molestation was almost a full time avocation during your entire priesthood. O'GRADY: I would say it was a significant part of the early priesthood. Q: Of the victims you did molest what percentage do you think were boys, and what were girls? O'GRADY: I think I'd say three quarters boys, one quarter girls. Q: What else happened to you as a consequence of abusing? O'GRADY: Actually nothing happened. Life continued.
By having her eggs frozen before she begins cancer treatments, a woman can preserve the hope of one day having a baby. Freezing eggs is one thing; thawing them safely so they can lead to pregnancy is the challenge. In the past, efforts to freeze a woman's eggs, or oocytes, have not worked well because the cells are large. When the egg is thawed, ice crystals cause damage that prevents the egg from being fertilized. U-M researchers looked beyond traditional techniques to a method of freezing cells called vitrification. This cryopreservation technique allows the eggs to be cooled fast enough that the transformation from liquid to solid is instantaneous. No ice crystals form and the consistency resembles a viscous glassy state. Research so far has used mouse oocytes but U-M expects to make the technology available in the clinic soon. "With traditional slow-freeze techniques, just over half the eggs survive the thawing process. Using vitrification, we are getting 98 percent survival. For a woman with cancer, these are the only eggs she's ever going to have, so it's important that as many as possible remain viable," says Gary D. Smith, Ph.D., associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, urology, and molecular and integrative physiology at the U-M Medical School, and director of the Fertility Counseling and Gamete Cryopreservation Program at the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center. Smith will present results of his research on Sunday, May 29, at the World Congress on In Vitro Fertilization, Assisted Reproduction and Genetics in Istanbul, Turkey. Cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy can cause damage to a woman's reproductive system and leave h
The National Institutes of Mental Health has launched the largest psychiatric genetic study ever attempted to investigate how recurrent depression is passed along through families. While depression is known to be genetically transmitted, discovery of the specific genetic sequence would offer new hope for more accurate diagnoses, better treatment, and the possibility for prevention of the disease. Studies have proven that the parents, siblings and children of a person with major depression, which began before age 30, are more likely to have it themselves. Researchers at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, the only participating center in Chicago, are currently seeking 245 pairs of adult siblings with symptoms of unipolar major depressive disorder (major depression) to participate. Major depression is a common and disabling illness affecting more than 17 million Americans each year. Symptoms of major depression may include a persistent sad mood, loss of interest or pleasure, decreased energy and fatigue, sleep problems, difficulty concentrating or making decisions, hopelessness or pessimism, feeling guilty or worthless, irritability and/or excessive crying. Those with the illness may experience episodes consisting of three or four of the above symptoms nearly every day for two weeks or more. Rush is seeking individuals and siblings with symptoms of major depression for this research study. The depression must be recurrent and one sibling must have had an episode between the ages of 18 and 30, and the other sibling must have had an episode between the ages of 18 and 40. Qualified participants will be interviewed about their history and their family's history, and have a blood sample drawn. Phone interviews and local lab work can be arranged for out-of-town participants. Confidentiality is guaranteed for all those involved, even between family members. Data and blood obtained are identified only by identification number and not Contact: Julie Smoller Rush University Medical Center
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 14, 2005) - The University of Kentucky's College of Public Health has received full accreditation this week from the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH). The college earned this honor on its first attempt and was granted a five year accreditation, the maximum term possible for a first accreditation. The UK College of Public Health was designated as the 37th accredited college of public health in the United States by the council. CEPH is an independent agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit schools of public health. Stephen Wyatt, dean, UK College of Public Health said, "Reaching this goal has been paramount to the college and the university, and attaining it will only strengthen our efforts in education, research and service to make Kentucky, the nation and the world a healthier place to live. To have received full accreditation status on the initial attempt, by-passing pre-accreditation, is certainly a significant achievement and is indeed an honor." Jim Applegate, Vice President for Academic Affairs of the Kentucky Council for Postsecondary Education said, "Reaching this goal was part of a statewide strategy that included several of the state's educational institutions with the singular goal of addressing the public health issues facing our state. This sort of statewide effort is relatively unique and UK's commitment to reaching this goal only made it that much easier." This decision comes after intensive planning and development. CEPH's accreditation procedures required that the UK College of Public Health undertake a self-evaluation, submit a self-study document and host a team of qualified peer reviewers who validate the self-study during an on-site visit to the campus. While on site, the team interviewed university officials, administrators, faculty, staff, students, alumni, community leaders and other important constituents, inspected facilities and resources, and examined supPage: 1 2 Related medicine news :1 Contact: Louise DuPont University of Kentucky . Test project of patient-centered medical home model endorsed by American College of Physicians2 . Award winning book co-edited by Rutgers College of Nursing Dean updated with new information3 . New nutritional research: College students face obesity, high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome4 . College students who pull all-nighters and get no sleep more likely to have a lower GPA5 . Weill Cornell Medical College announces gifts totaling $400M6 . High-Need Physician Workforce Incentives Act endorsed by American College of Physicians7 . Dyson Foundation gives $5 Million for ophthalmology research at Weill Cornell Medical College8 . American College of Physicians commends introduction of Bipartisan Health CARE Act9 . $2.6M grant awarded to New York University College of Nursing10 . Rutgers presents Susman award to College of Nursing faculty member Marlene Rankin11 . Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member co-edits book for teens with special needs
q&a Jimmy Wales is best known for evangelizing Wikipedia, the open-source, nonprofit encyclopedia he co-founded in 2001. On Tuesday his for-profit venture, Wikia, in its fourth year, unveiled a community for all things "green." Anyone can edit Wikia, just like Wikipedia, which is built to attract people passionate about a given topic rather than to provide a general reference. For example, a Wikipedia article about ExxonMobil provides an overview of corporate history, while Wikia Green might zero in on the company's environmental record, with special emphasis on the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989. To … Read more
Square is well-known in the payments business. Now it wants to replace a retailer's register. The payments company has launched a new iPad application, called Square Register. Available for free in the App Store, the app is designed to replace a brick-and-mortar retailer's register, and can accept everything from credit card to cash payments. According to Square, the application lets users input the many products they sell in their stores and assign prices to them. Those items can also be placed into a "favorites" list for easy access when customers buy a product. As with any … Read more
The lovely thing about technology is that it helps you control children. They need to be controlled. Otherwise, they will run amok and do all sorts of dreadful things, like go to the restroom, smoke cigarettes, or kiss each other. Hanging IDs with RFID chips around students' necks isn't exactly new. Some Texas schools have been enjoying it for some time. However, recently, the Northside Independent Schools District in San Antonio encountered a little consternation when it announced its foray into the idea -- one that is reportedly being instituted to combat truancy (and therefore make the schools more money). Now that the IDs are in force, a counter-force has emerged: civil disobedience. I would like to identify MySanAntonio.com as suggesting that most kids happily accept the new tags, as their path through school (if they show up) is made simpler and quicker. For example, in the lunch queue. However, it does report that one parent, Steven Hernandez, object to his daughter wearing any type of badge on religious grounds. Her school, John Jay High School, reportedly offered to take the RFID chip out, but Hernandez still believes that the words of the Book of Revelation don't allow for such a blasphemous thing. Specifically -- an objection that was also raised by a Louisiana parent to school palm scanners -- it's the "mark of the beast" aspect that concerns him. More Technically Incorrect What some might find truly beastly, though, is that his daughter, Andrea, claims that she was told by a teacher that without the ID badge, she couldn't vote for homecoming king and queen. At least that's what Catholic Online reports. Some might find it odd that Hernandez also reportedly claimed that the school only wanted to co-operate with his feelings if he stopped publicly criticizing the tagging. His daughter told The Alex Jones Channel that the tags don't make her feel safer. "I feel completely unsafe knowing that this can be hacked by pedophiles and dangerous offenders," she said. She added: "I walk home. Dangerous offenders can pick up on my signal." Perhaps this is a mere skirmish. Perhaps, like so many who now expose most of themselves through one form of technology or another, everyone will just get used to it. Until something really bad happens, that is.
Monday's news that social giant Facebook is acquiring the less than two-year old FriendFeed included an important postscript: "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being as the teams determine the longer term plans for the product." But for FriendFeed users, the future seems unclear. Will development on the service be discontinued as the now Facebook-employed FriendFeed creators have been tapped to work on a bigger, and more popular social-networking site? Probably. What is likely to happen is that many of FriendFeed's killer features become features on Facebook, with FriendFeed eventually shutting its doors to focus on Facebook development. So what are those FriendFeed features Facebook doesn't have, or that FriendFeed simply does better? Search: One of the most important features FriendFeed has (that Facebook doesn't) is a really solid search engine. On FriendFeed you can search for content from your friends, or the entire world. The best part is, you can save any search you've made and keep an eye on it for updates. Facebook's search is currently focused more on finding people, along with navigating to various parts of its site like events, pages, and applications. Update: Scratch this one off the list. Hours after this post went live, Facebook began pushing an updated version of its search engine that indexes updates and other content. At least for the past 30 days, which is a good start. Real real time. FriendFeed's real time is a constant flow of information that comes in as soon as the service can get it to you. On Facebook, you get a little reminder to refresh the stream when there are updates. FriendFeed's way of letting users avoid an overload is to simply put the stream on pause--something Facebook could soon adopt. Content aggregation. Facebook's "highlights" section of its home page does its best to show you new or otherwise interesting things from your friends if they've liked something. It feels like an afterthought though. FriendFeed's solution is to create a "best of the day" which shows the most popular and fresh content that your friends like. It can also be filtered by day, week and month, which lets you get a quick digest of content without having to keep your eyeballs glued to the news feed. IM integration. I've knocked this feature in the past for being noisy, but for some it's useful. FriendFeed's IM integration can give you the heads up when someone likes one of your posts, or simply posts new content. It's also got a deep list of commands that let you interact with content on the site, all without actually having to go there. For instance, if you see someone has commented on something you just posted, you get that notification in an IM, and can leave a retort. This is great for continuing to use the service in places where the site itself may be blocked like work or school. Discussion tracking. FriendFeed lets you keep an eye on anything you've commented on. This means that if you dropped in to leave a comment it makes a note of that and gives you a very simple way to get back to that conversation. Facebook does this to a degree, but it's via e-mail, and there's no quick return path to get back to those conversations. Not to mention, you can use the aforementioned IM integration to get a quick update on a reply, without filling up your in-box, and without having to go back to the site to add another reply. Themes. Facebook has long been the king of vanilla. You don't like blue on white? Tough luck, go download a browser add-on. FriendFeed on the other hand, recently embraced themes that can skin the entire experience. It was also opened up to third parties to design their own, letting anyone browse the site with a visual style of their preference. Is Facebook likely to embrace this right away? Probably not, but FriendFeed sure did a great job of adding it to its own site, and with other big products from Google like Gmail and Calendar getting themes, it's a big trend to ignore. File sharing. To share files on Facebook, you have to use one of Facebook's granular applications like photos, or videos. You can use third party tools for items that fall outside of that, but that puts the hosting and control outside of Facebook's realm. On FriendFeed you can upload all sorts of file types just for sharing purposes. Users then download them to view, listen, or watch on their own machines. Admittedly file sharing is probably not something Facebook would have too hard a time cooking up on its own, but after seeing all the internal data on how FriendFeeders have been using it, Facebook will have something to work with if it chooses to expand how it handles posting or sending media. Any we left off? Leave them in the comments.
NEW YORK--Apple hopes to grow its market share with an increasingly aggressive retail strategy that includes opening bigger stores in more locations. At a media preview of its fourth store here, which is located on the Upper West Side, Ron Johnson, Apple's senior vice president of retail, said Apple's retail strategy is all about getting consumers to switch from PCs to Macs. "Our Apple stores are a magnet for switchers," he said. "About half the people who come into our retail locations are first-time Mac buyers." Johnson said that Apple's Genius Bar, which provides face-to-face customer service and support, and other services, allow people to switch from a PC to a Mac with confidence. For example, Apple offers its One-to-One service, which allows new Mac users to drop off their old computer so that files can be transferred from the older computer to a new Mac. The service, which costs $99 for one year, then allows users to meet one-on-one with an Apple representative to discover where the new content is on the computer and to learn how to use more advanced features. Customers can use the one-on-one instruction service as much as they like for that one-year period. Johnson also said that the Apple stores provide a good way for customers to test out and play with new products before they buy them. Even if customers don't buy their Mac, iPhone, or iPod in the Apple store, the experience they get from looking at it in the store is often enough to help them make a purchasing decision. The strategy seems to be working. Apple has been increasing its overall sales and market share for its products over the past year, particularly for its Macs. In the third quarter of 2009, the company sold about 3 million new Macs, which was a 17 percent increase compared to a year earlier, according to IDC. This was well ahead of the overall global PC market, which grew by only about 2 percent, according to IDC. For 19 of the last 20 quarters, Apple has outpaced the market in terms of sales. Even though overall sales have increased, Apple hasn't made huge gains in market share. But it has made modest improvements. Over the past year, the company has managed to bump its market share up to 9.4 percent in the third quarter of 2009 from about 8.6 percent in the third quarter of 2008. Apple is in fourth place in the overall computer market, lagging PC makers Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Acer. In 2001 when Apple opened its first store, plenty of people questioned whether Apple's retail strategy would even work. But eight years and 279 stores later, the retail business has become a big revenue driver for the company. In fiscal 2009, Apple generated $6.6 billion of the company's $29.9 billion in revenue from its retail stores, Johnson said. Some of the stores, such as the Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan, which sits below a glass cube across the street from the Plaza Hotel, have become tourist destinations. Apple takes a bite out of the Upper West Side Apple purposely puts stores in high-traffic areas to attract customers, Johnson said. And in the case of big stores like the ones in Manhattan, it's also important to put them where people visit. Worldwide some 170 million visitors entered an Apple store in fiscal 2009. Apple's flagship stores, or as the company calls them "significant stores," are especially designed to draw in visitors with eye-catching design and architecture. And the new Upper West Side store at Broadway and 67th Street is no exception. The new store features a glass roof, the first ever for an Apple store. And it also features 45-foot-tall stone walls, a large ground floor to showcase products, and a glass spiral staircase that leads to the lower level of the store where Apple provides service. Apple plans to open between 40 and 50 new retail stores in 2010. More than half of these new stores are expected to be outside the U.S. Some of the countries where Apple will open new stores include the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, and China, Johnson said. Apple's main competitor, Microsoft, is trying to emulate Apple's retail success by opening up stores of its own. Recently, the software maker opened locations in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Mission Viejo, Calif. Apple's latest Manhattan store on Broadway at West 67th Street will open to the public at 10 a.m. EST on Saturday.
Anderson Cooper (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key) A number of celebrities, politicians and other officials came out during 2012. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper publicly acknowledged being gay for the first time in a statement gay commentator Andrew Sullivan posted to his blog on July 2. Sam Champion, weather anchor for “Good Morning America,” announced on-air in October that he was engaged to his long-time partner, photographer Rubem Robierb. (The couple attended a Freedom to Marry fundraiser in Miami Beach, Fla., a few days later.) Gay singer Ricky Martin was among those who applauded Puerto Rican boxer Orlando Cruz after he came out on Oct. 3. R&B singer Frank Ocean in July acknowledged his homosexuality, while Jamaican singer Diana King came out on her Facebook page in June. British singer Mika told Instinct Magazine in August he is gay. Pennsylvania state Rep. Mike Fleck, a Republican who attended Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., earlier this month came out during an interview with a local newspaper. Stefany Hoyer Hemmer, daughter of House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.,) came out as a lesbian during an exclusive interview with the Washington Blade in June. “My father, as you know, just came out in support of gay marriage,” she said. “The momentum in Maryland right now for the adoption of the gay marriage law is fast-paced. I’m 43 years of age, and I’ve been gay my whole life and I just figured this is a good time to lend my name to the cause.” DC Comics in June announced the Green Lantern is gay as part of its effort to reinvigorate the “Earth 2” series.
Athletes at their not-so-best The Olympics. The pinnacle of any sports person's career. Or, in the case of these athletes, perhaps something they'd rather just forget. Here's a selection of the best fails of the first week of the London 2012 games. Egypt's Eslam Ramadan attempts to tackle Brazil's Rafael at shoulder height. This may have resulted in a foul.
Protected areas must be adapted to survive global warming Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com April 3, 2007 "Extinctions due to climate change are not inevitable — this research shows that new protected areas can greatly reduce the risk faced by species that help sustain us," said Lee Hannah, a Conservation International (CI) climate scientist and the study's lead author. "Areas set aside for nature are an important tool to combat climate change extinctions, and one that is well-tested and can be deployed immediately." Applying species distribution modeling and conservation planning tools in Mexico, the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, and Western Europe, the international team of researchers forecast "the need for additional protected areas in light of anticipated species range shifts caused by climate change." They found that existing protected areas will cover the ranges of many species as climate changes, but that additional area will be required to cover the ranges of most species. Photo by Rhett Butler "Conserving biodiversity as climate changes is a two-pronged challenge, requiring both adaptation — improved conservation strategies — and mitigation — stabilization of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere," they continue. The researchers said that since conservation efforts will become increasingly difficult the more climate changes, limiting climate change should be a top priority. "Protected area additions will eventually be overwhelmed unless they are coupled with limitation of atmospheric greenhouse gases," they wrote. "By the 2050s, many species in some regions may be unable to meet even the modest representation target used in this study, indicating that greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere of as little as double pre-industrial CO2 might already exceed the capacity of improved conservation systems to maintain biodiversity." "Stopping climate change and dealing with the impacts that are now inevitable must go hand-in-hand," Hannah added. "No conservation strategy can cope with the levels of change that will be experienced if we continue at the current pace of climate change." CITATION: Lee Hannah, Guy Midgley, Sandy Andelman, Miguel Araújo, Greg Hughes, Enrique Martinez-Meyer, Richard Pearson, and Paul Williams (2007) Protected area needs in a changing climate. Front Ecol Environ 2007; 5(3): 131—138 More on the impact of climate change on biodiversity Extinction, like climate change, is complicated (03/27/2007) Extinction is a hotly debated, but poorly understood topic in science. The same goes for climate change. When scientists try to forecast the impact of global change on future biodiversity levels, the results are contentious, to say the least. While some argue that species have managed to survive worse climate change in the past and that current threats to biodiversity are overstated, many biologists say the impacts of climate change and resulting shifts in rainfall, temperature, sea levels, ecosystem composition, and food availability will have significant effects on global species richness. Climate change will cause biomes to shift and disappear (3/21/2007) Many of the world's local climates could be radically changed if global warming trends continue, reports a new study published in the early online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The authors warn that current climates may shift and disappear, increasing the risk of biodiversity extinction and other ecological changes. Biodiversity extinction crisis looms says renowned biologist (3/12/2007) While there is considerable debate over the scale at which biodiversity extinction is occurring, there is little doubt we are presently in an age where species loss is well above the established biological norm. Extinction has certainly occurred in the past, and in fact, it is the fate of all species, but today the rate appears to be at least 100 times the background rate of one species per million per year and may be headed towards a magnitude thousands of times greater. Few people know more about extinction than Dr. Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden. He is the author of hundreds of scientific papers and books, and has an encyclopedic list of achievements and accolades from a lifetime of biological research. These make him one of the world's preeminent biodiversity experts. He is also extremely worried about the present biodiversity crisis, one that has been termed the sixth great extinction. This article uses quotes and information from a Conservation International (CI) news release and the FREE paper. News options Liquid error: Template not found languages/english/includes/x/_77.liquid
He reports the finding in tomorrow's issue of the journal Nature. Mary Lou Zoback is a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California. She said Fialko "really exploits the true power" of modern satellite radar and GPS equipment to reach a conclusion with a familiar message. "The conclusion seems to concur with previous interpretations that the southern San Andreas Fault is in a late stage of its earthquake cyclemeaning it's likely to go," she said. San Andreas Fault Fialko used a technique called interferometric aperture radar (InSAR), a set of satellite-based radar systems that are able to detect 1-millimeter (0.04-inch) displacements in the Earth's crust. The satellite data, combined with ground-based GPS measurements, allowed Fialko to calculate how much the North American and Pacific plates slip past each other on the San Andreas Faultabout 1 inch (25 millimeters) a year. But the plates are locked together along the southern section of the fault. As a result, the plate motion builds up underneath the crust as stress. (See an interactive feature on how earthquakes form.) Over the past 300 years, energy equivalent to 20 to 26 feet (6 to 8 meters) of slip has accumulated below the locked part of the southern San Andreas Fault, according to Fialko. "This is an indication the fault is storing significant elastic strain, and the amount of strain is equivalent to a major earthquake," he said. According to Zoback, the amount of strain Fialko's calculations show is at the high end of estimates obtained from other research using different methods. "That's like being ten months pregnantpast all reasonable estimates of when it should go," she said. Zoback adds that an increase in earthquake activity in southern California over the past several decades may indicate the main fault is ready to rupture. A similar increase in earthquake activity occurred on the northern section of the fault in the 70 years prior to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, she notes. "We may be seeing something similar," she said. Moderate temblorsincluding 1994's magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake in Los Angelesmay be a sign that tectonic stress in the region is reaching a breaking point, according to Zoback. And if the Big One hits, what are the consequences? Unlike the northern section of the San Andreas Fault, which slices through the middle of the heavily populated San Francisco Bay Area, the southern section of the fault passes through mostly uninhabited desert, Zoback says. However, computer simulations show that a southern California earthquake that ruptures toward the north could be devastating. The energy from an earthquake is focused in the direction of the rupture, Fialko explains. For an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 to 8 that ruptures east of San Diego toward San Bernardino, the "shaking in Los Angeles would be extremely strong and extensive," he said. Free Email News Updates Sign up for our Inside National Geographic newsletter. Every two weeks we'll send you our top stories and pictures (see sample). SOURCES AND RELATED WEB SITES
TrendingLondon attack \| Tim Bosma \| Rob Ford \| Mike Duffy \| Xbox One \| NHL Playoffs \| Lotto Max results \| Andrew Coyne \| Christie Blatchford \| Oklahoma \| Trudeau \| Bieber \| Mulcair \| Jays \| North Korea Lynden Dorval tried to talk himself out of it. He understood the stakes. You push back against school administrators, swim against school policy and you become a marked man, an “insubordinate” problem teacher with a bull’s eye on your back. But the problem was the more he thought about it, the more Mr. Dorval, a physics teacher at Ross Sheppard High School in Edmonton with 35 years’ experience, became convinced of what he had to do — even if it cost him his job. “I knew it was going to be a lot of stress,” he says. “But I just couldn’t talk myself out of it. It was the right thing to do.” What he did, over the past 18 months, was what he had done for over three decades when a student didn’t submit an assignment, skipped a test or missed an exam: he pulled out his red marking pen and gave them a zero. It was a lesson in consequences, one contrary to the school’s no-zero policy, an official dictum Mr. Dorval willfully ignored. After repeated warnings from the principal to toe the line, the renegade was hauled before a school board hearing. Three days later, on May 18, he received a letter informing him he had been suspended indefinitely. He suffered the consequences. Mr. Dorval fully expects to be fired in the coming months. “It was against my principles not to give zeros,” the 61-year-old says. “Through experience, I found that giving a zero — a temporary zero; the students could come to me to make arrangements to do something to erase that mark — was the most effective way to get students to do the work. “It put the onus on them. I could see some other method working with younger kids. But these are high school students. They are becoming adults. They are getting ready to step out into the real world and it is time for them to start taking responsibility for their own actions.” The anti-zero argument goes something like this: Getting a goose egg discourages students. Zeros are not a measure of intelligence but a matter of behaviour. Kids should only be graded for what they do — not for what they don’t do. So … why do anything? Mr. Dorval gives the example of a student who transferred to his class from a non-zero class. The student completed six of 15 assignments for his previous teacher and, since he was only graded for what he did, had a 63% average. Mr. Dorval made it clear to the boy that missed work meant zeros on his watch. “With me, he did seven of seven assignments,” he says. “It is right there in black and white.” Other teachers at Ross Sheppard expressed support for Captain Zero, telling him they wished they had the courage to do what he did. And he understood why they didn’t. Being younger, they had a career to think about. After 35 years, his career was nearing its end. Ron Bradley, principal of Ross Sheppard and the man responsible for adopting the No Zero Rule, declined to take my phone call Friday. A school secretary directed me to the local school board. The board did not return messages. In the vacuum, however, is the voice of common sense. We all have it, those of us who somehow survived high school. And we all know the voice speaks the truth: Life is about consequences. It is a series of tests. Don’t submit the job application and you won’t get the job. You get a zero. Skip work, tell the boss to shove it, neglect to file your taxes, miss a mortgage payment, bounce a cheque or get a speeding ticket, and what happens? You pay for it. It is Newton’s Law: for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. Unless, of course, you are a student at Ross Sheppard high or some other institution where every missed assignment is met with an excuse. And not from the kids, but from an apologist administration that encourages serial irresponsibility by offering second, third, fourth — and 10th chances — but not zeroes, never a zero. Lynden Dorval knew it was wrong. He had had enough. So he picked up his red marking pen and stayed true to his conscience. It is a choice, he says, he would make again. “When I was a student it never occurred to me that if you did not do something that you wouldn’t get a zero,” he says. “Things like exams — I would never think about not writing an exam. I would never think about asking a teacher to write it later. “It was just assumed, even if you were sick, that you went to school and wrote the exam. You went to school and you did the work.” Big Data is now being used by advertisers to test the efficacy of traditional and digital media campaigns, but can it be considered a panacea? Powered by WordPress.com VIP
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Alex Williams writes in the NY Times that the idea that a college diploma is an all-but-mandatory ticket to a successful career is showing fissures. Inspired by role models like the billionaire drop-outs who founded Microsoft, Facebook, Dell, Twitter, Tumblr, and Apple, and empowered by online college courses, a groundswell of university-age heretics consider themselves a DIY vanguard, committed to changing the perception of dropping out from a personal failure to a sensible option, at least for a certain breed of risk-embracing maverick. 'Here in Silicon Valley, it's almost a badge of honor,' says Mick Hagen, 28, who dropped out of Princeton in 2006 and moved to San Francisco, where he started Undrip, a mobile app. 'College puts a lot of constraints, a lot of limitations around what you can and can't do. Some people, they want to stretch their arms, get out and create more, do more.' Perhaps most famously, Peter A. Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, in 2010 started his Thiel Fellowship program, which pays students under 20 years old $100,000 apiece to bag college and pursue their own ventures. 'People are being conned into thinking that this credential is the one thing you need to do better in life. They typically are worse off, because they have amassed all this debt.' UnCollege advocates a DIY approach to higher education and spreads the message through informational 'hackademic camps.' 'Hacking,' in the group's parlance, can involve any manner of self-directed learning: travel, volunteer work, organizing collaborative learning groups with friends. Students who want to avoid $200,000 in student-loan debt might consider enrolling in a technology boot camp, where you can learn to write code in 8 to 10 weeks for about $10,000. 'I think kids with a five-year head start on equally ambitious peers will be ahead in both education and income,' says James Altucher, a prominent investor, entrepreneur and pundit who self-published a book called '40 Alternatives to College.' 'They could go to a library, read a book a day, take courses online. There are thousands of ways.'"
May. 4th, 2011 5:48 pm Word has come down from Bioware via their Forums and Facebook account that the highly anticipated conclusion to the Mass Effect trilogy has been delayed until “the first three months of 2012”. This comes as a little bit of a surprise for RPG fans who were expecting to defend earth during the upcoming Christmas season. Executive producer Chris Hudson broke the news on the official Bioware forums this morning. He explained that the development team needs a little more time to polish the game and make it the best experience in the franchise. "Mass Effect 3 will be released in the first three months of 2012. The development team is laser focused on making sure Mass Effect 3 is the biggest, boldest and best game in the series, ensuring that it exceeds everyone's expectations." - Chris Hudon, Producer @ Bioware The last entry in the series, Mass Effect 2, was released in the Spring of 2010 and won a large number of accolades including several from us here at TeamXbox. Do you have high hopes for the third installment in the franchise? Will this delay cause you to seek out other RPG fixes over the year? Let us know by sounding off in the comments. Source: PC World
Social not-working behemoth Facebook has been up to its old tricks again. The company decided to ban ads for Just Say Now's pro-use marijuana campaign, as well as blocking web platform Power.com from being mentioned by users. In a commentary, Richard Esguerra of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) rightly reminds users that "social networks like Facebook — while useful, interesting, and pretty — are "walled gardens" with overseers whose interests can overwrite free speech, open communication, and in this case, essential political debate." And he is rather right. Despite Facebook currently losing in court to Power Ventures, the company providing Power.com, and the EFF, it should not hinder users posting a link to the website. Neither should it nonsensically bar ads from a political campaign group, especially in light of California's upcoming Proposition 19 vote, which will allow voters to decide if dope should be legalised in the USA once again. A site like Power.com which allows people to use various social networking sites certainly doesn't have Facebook's well-being at heart, in contrast to its users. Proactively censoring links to such a service and trashing a political campaign however is thoroughly bad behaviour and reeks of the ancient block-out practices companies such as Microsoft and Intel were once known for. Perhaps Facebook ought to add a clause for the surrender of first amendment rights to its terms of service.
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If you want quality entertainment accessible through the touch of a button, reproducing cinema quality video and audio right in your own home, then thereâ€™s no more affordable way than to do it than a Yamaha HTR-6130BL Home Theater Receiver. For one thing, the Yamaha HTR-6130BL does more than just interpret and amplify signals from input devices and send them directly to your television and sound system. This receiver actually utilizes advanced technology to provide you with the best entertainment system you and your family have ever experienced. The 5.1 channel surround sound allows you to create a surround-sound setup that has left, center, and right front speakers, as well as left and right rear ones to reel you in to a movie every time you watch it. Naturally Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic II and DTS 5.1 are all able to support surround sound formatting. Specially designed to allow you to enjoy audio from just about any audio source, the Yamaha HTR-6130BL Home Theater Receiver is also Bluetooth and iPod compatible. To enjoy music or videos from a Bluetooth device, all youâ€™d have to do is connect the receiver with a Yamaha Bluetooth Wireless Audio Dock. Apart from this feature, this budget-friendly receiver has 2 HDMI inputs and one output, and can digitally upconvert analog video to HDMI, proividing improved picture quality and a seamless single-cable solution for your High Definition television. That simply means that you can have up to two devices, a Blu-ray player and a PS3, for example, hooked up to the receiver via HDMI and have the audio/video play back normally. The number of input ports just completely eliminates the need for you to connect and disconnect your input devices just to enjoy surround-sound. The Yamaha HTR-6130BL Home Theater Receiver also features the SILENT CINEMA mode which allows private listening enjoyment of multi-channel music or movie sound, including Dolby Digital and DTS Digital Surround, through ordinary headphones. All you have to do is connect a pair of headphones to the receiver and you can enjoy an accurate simulation of 5.1-channel surround sound in complete privacy. This is pretty ideal for late night listening when you donâ€™t want to disturb others, or if other noises are disturbing you. Enjoy all these cool features and more, when you buy the ultra-affordable Yamaha HTR-6130BL Home Theater Receiver. Current state-of-the-art technology is jam-packed into this ultimate equipment for quality home entertainment! Contributed by Ethel Kay Merioles
Wendy Long ran as a staunch conservative to win New York's Republican Senate Primary and now faces a broader and more liberal electorate as she takes on Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand. Long, a New York City attorney, defeated U.S. Representative Bob Turner and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos in a primary election Tuesday notable for low turnout. With nearly every precinct reporting, Long had 51 percent of the vote, compared to 36 percent for Turner and 13 for Maragos. Long now must raise millions of dollars and build statewide name recognition. Gillibrand, a three-year incumbent, already has about $10 million in campaign cash. View the discussion thread.
A Buffalo Bills fan who went missing from last night's game has been found dead. A search, that included an Erie County Sheriff helicopter Air One, for a 26-year-old man ended around 7:20 a.m. Friday. That's when authorities discovered the man, who late Friday was identified as 26-year-old David Gerken Jr., of the Rochester suburb of Palmyra. Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz says the man became separated from the group he was with but had made plans to meet at a nearby establishment after the game. Benz says when the man did not show up, a search was launched. "We ended up learning, through a cell phone company, the general area where his cell phone was located. So we concentrated the search in that vicinity behind the stadium. He was located there," Benz told WBFO News. Other authorities say a relative told police Gerken had been ejected from the game. He was found face down in Smoke’s Creek near Shadow Lane. Police investigators believed Gerken drowned and may have enduring hypothermia from below-freezing temperatures overnight. The formal cause of death has not been determined.
Visiting UN-Arab League special representative Lakhdar Brahimi speaks during a press conference following a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, Syria, on Sept. 15, 2012. Brahimi arrived in Syria Thursday for a three-day visit to meet with officials for the Syrian administration and the opposition alike. (Xinhua/Hazim) DAMASCUS, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Visiting UN-Arab League (AL) special representative Lakhdar Brahimi said Saturday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad realizes the dimensions of the current crisis and its gravity. "We spoke and I think President Assad realizes more than me the dimensions of the crisis and its gravity," Brahimi told reporters during a briefing after a meeting with the Syrian president. Brahimi reiterated in the briefing that the "Syrian crisis is very dangerous and it's exacerbated and poses a danger on the Syrian people, the region and the world." He said he had told Assad that he will bring forward all the thoughts and possibilities to help the Syrian people out of the ordeal. He said there is no clear plan yet, but added that he will meet and visit all the countries that have interests in Syria in order to come up with a plan that would help ending the crisis. Brahimi also said he will pay another visit soon to Syria to continue "talks and work." Tasked with brokering a diplomatic solution to the Syrian conflict, Brahimi arrived in Syria Thursday for a three-day visit and met with officials for the Syrian administration and the opposition alike. DAMASCUS, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Visiting UN-Arab League special representative Lakhdar Brahimi said here upon arrival that there is a "big crisis" in Syria and it is "exacerbating" as the violence went on in several hotspots nationwide claiming the lives of many people. "I think no one would disagree on the necessity to stop the bleeding and restore harmony among the sons of the country and I hope we could do that," he said. Full story
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) — Tool maker Stanley Black & Decker Inc. is selling its hardware and home improvement business to Spectrum Brands Holdings Inc. for $1.4 billion in cash. The hardware and home improvement unit makes locksets, hardware and faucets for residential use and includes brands such as Pfister, Baldwin and Kwikset. The deal announced Tuesday also includes certain assets of Taiwan's Tong Lung Metal Industry Co., which makes residential and commercial locksets. Spectrum Brands, based in Madison, Wis., said that the acquisition will broaden its product offerings which include the Rayovac, Remington and Toastmaster brands. Stanley Black & Decker, which is based in New Britain Conn., says the sale is part of its ongoing strategy to diversify its revenue and geographic reach. The hardware and home improvement unit gets 90 percent of its revenue from North America and more than 50 percent of its revenue from U.S. home improvement stores. Both companies' boards have approved the transaction. Stanley Black & Decker anticipates the transaction will result in $1.3 billion in proceeds after taxes. It plans to use a majority of the proceeds to buy back shares and a smaller portion to reduce debt. The remaining proceeds, along with offshore capital, will be used to pay for its previously announced acquisition of Infastech. Stanley Black & Decker says that the deal with Spectrum is not expected to change its financial outlook for 2012. Spectrum says the acquisition of the hardware and home improvement business should add 75 cents to 80 cents per share in fiscal 2013 and add more than $1 per share in fiscal 2014, excluding one-time transaction and integration costs. The hardware and home improvement business will operate as a separate unit once the deal closes, which is expected during Spectrum's first quarter in fiscal 2013. It will be run by Greg Gluchowski, who currently serves as the unit's president at Stanley Black & Decker. Gluchowski will report to Spectrum CEO David Lumley. The Tong Lung buyout is anticipated to close in the second quarter.
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Azelle Witte Arnold passed away on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, at The Heritage at Lowman, Chapin, S.C. She was blessed with 97 years. Ms. Arnold was born Aug. 6, 1915, to the late Homer and Florence Witte in Calhoun County, W.Va. A memorial service celebrating Ms. Arnold's life was held at the chapel on The Heritage at Lowman campus on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. A private burial will be held at the Minnora Cemetery in Minnora, W.Va. Ms. Arnold graduated from Glenville State College in Glenville, W.Va. She had a very successful career as a school teacher. She spent 30 years in Okinawa, Japan, teaching at the Zukeran Elementary School. She had a great love for her fourth graders, both military and Japanese children. She had many stories to tell about her fourth graders, and enjoyed talking about their Friday afternoon ball games. After retirement, Ms. Arnold lived for a number of years in Spring Hill, Fla. In 2008, she moved to Columbia, S.C., to be near her nephew, Mike Witte. She is survived by her family; nephew, Mike (Lynn) Witte of Chapin, S.C.; nephew, David (Cindy) Suttle of Boiling Springs, S.C.; and niece, Debbie (Jim) Robertson of Irmo, S.C. She is also survived by great-nieces and nephews, Kim Haley of Chapin, S.C., Jeff Suttle of New Port Richey, Fla., Maggie Robertson of Malta, Ohio, Greg Witte of Tampa, Fla., and Erin Robertson of Irmo, S.C.; great-great-nephew, Christopher Haley of Chapin, S.C.; great-great-nieces, Molly Suttle of Moore, S.C., and McKinley Witte of Tampa, Fla. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her sister, Jeanne Witte Suttle; brother, Paul Witte; and great-nephews, Chris Witte and Steve Suttle. The family expresses appreciation to the staff at The Heritage at Lowman and Lutheran Hospice for their care and services to Ms. Arnold during her final days. The family requests that donations be made to Palmetto Missions, 7000 Nursery Road, Irmo, SC 29063, for school scholarships to educate children in Mololola, Honduras. Stump Funeral Home in Grantsville is in charge of arrangements in West Virginia.
Bozell Column: No Passion Against the 'Da Vinci Code' When Mel Gibson introduced "The Passion of the Christ" into the public conversation, Hollywood had a lot to say about it. Now Hollywood is offering its response with the upcoming release of "The DaVinci Code," inviting commentary not on that movie, but on Hollywood itself. Three years ago, Mel Gibson gambled his own personal fortune on a great creative risk, going completely outside the established Tinseltown system to produce a horrifyingly realistic reenactment of Our Lord’s crucifixion, and resurrection. It took not just sacrifice but also real courage to make this. The studios all scoffed at the idea. The reviews were horrible – before anyone had seen a frame of it. Film critics and political commentators didn’t just pass judgment on the film’s subject, but on the craziness of the director (and even his father). Gibson’s devout Catholicism, so foreign to sybaritic Hollywood, was described as a crutch for a man with an addictive personality. The media assembled a stable of professors of religion (not religious professors) to insist that Gibson’s film was not historically accurate, that his Pontius Pilate was too meek and his Jewish Sanhedrin was wildly exaggerated by prejudice, and that the Gospel writers were not reliable historical guides to the life of Jesus, since they wrote their works decades after his death. But perhaps harshest of all, these pundits claimed "The Passion" would cause hatred in the land and violence in the streets. The "experts" strenuously connected Gibson’s film to the notion that passion plays were traditional tinder boxes for anti-Jewish pogroms and inquisitions, that Adolf Hitler praised passion plays. Allegedly, Christians would see the film and head for the exits to deface synagogues and assault rabbis. It was even called an "ecumenical suicide bomb. Now forget for a moment that exactly none of that violence occurred. When the film succeeded, and people attended in droves, and left in silence and prayerfulness, then the "Passion" critics complained that Gibson was "marketing Jesus," that he was going to make millions by cynically stirring the sheep out of their churches and into the theaters, exploiting their devotion for personal gain. Now witness the coming of the movie version of "The DaVinci Code." Think of it as the anti-"Passion." In one film, Jesus was Lord; in the other, Jesus was not only merely mortal, he was the center of an elaborate fraud. In one film, Jesus founded his Church at the Last Supper; in the other, the Catholic Church unfolds as a secretive, murderous, thoroughly evil conspiracy. So what’s Hollywood’s take? The reaction to this movie is almost the exact opposite of what Gibson received. The studios reacted quickly, with Sony lapping up the film. The network news divisions have acted like devoted puppies, with Matt Lauer planning to go "On the Road with the Code" for NBC. ABC has held "DaVinci Code" contests on its morning show. Denying the divinity of Jesus – the central tenet of Christianity – is just fun and games, grins and giggles. No one has singled out "DaVinci Code" author Dan Brown for his anti-religious and anti-Catholic bigotry. No one put him in amateur therapy. Since he was Sony’s hired gun, no one assaulted director Ron Howard for his religious beliefs – even if (or especially because) his acceptance of this job suggests he has no problem directing a film smearing Jesus or the Catholic Church. Film critics and political commentators have been largely silent, in part because Sony has been so secretive with the film. When Gibson was slow to show his film to non-Christian audiences before its release, critics railed, but Sony is receiving no guff for anything it does with this film. Where is Frank Rich? The New York Times columnist was a major mudslinger on Mel Gibson’s path, but try to find a word he’s written on "The DaVinci Code." The media assembled no stable of professors to question the historical authenticity of "The DaVinci Code," which is ironic, since its claims to non-fiction absolutely collapse within minutes of exploration. Instead, ABC News devoted an hour a few years ago to the show’s shoddy claims and "legends," focusing almost exclusively on the experts trying to support it. No one has predicted mass violence from the Christian faithful for this film’s denial of the Christ, which is odd. If they were willing to riot for "The Passion," shouldn’t they be much readier to rumble after this flick finishes smearing Jesus and his Church? Unlike Gibson’s film, this movie took no courage to make. Certainly, no one accused Dan Brown or Sony of "marketing Jesus," since they’re going to be making millions by pouring mud on Our Lord. Hostility or indifference to Christianity is just another day at the office for today’s titans of popular culture.
Re: PRN's WA State Class Action Summary - From: "LoriB.o.B." <banjobabe@xxxxxxxxxxx> - Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 13:39:11 -0800 (PST) Well said (((Puddin')))! I'm in total agreement w/ya & 2nd it! Like your sig line here too! I can hardly wait for more news re: Wa state's reply!! Meanwhile, the damned idjits here "running'crap like the "guidelines" are prob. still in shock! Hope so! On Feb 27, 12:20 pm, Puddin' Man <puddingDOT...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: I've long felt that the best legal defenses against the sensationalism and demonization of opiod therapies lie in challenges based on certain elements of Yours is the only serious legal challenge that I am aware of. The work that you, Siobian, and the PRN legal staff are doing is potentially very important to all chronic pain patients in the US, and is very much Y'all fight "The Good Fight", and I salute you. Keep us posted re any/all new On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:14:16 -0800 (PST), tamara.str...@xxxxxxxxx wrote: "We filed our mammoth first complaint in June; we essentially gave them “everything but the kitchen sink.” Then, to top it off, we gave them the entire case in briefed format for the state tort filing in The Defendants normally get 20 DAYS to answer a complaint. In light of the enormity of the effort, and wanting to give them plenty of time to digest it, I offered up a VERY long extension for their answer Lo and behold, in September they filed a motion to dismiss the ENTIRE complaint for “failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.” They argued that the claims were so confusing they couldn’t understand them, and it was obvious they barely tried. The judge denied their motion, but ordered us to amend our complaint. The obvious message is “keep it short and simple.” Well, this isn’t about short and simple, but I did the best I could and refiled an amended complaint on November 3. The original order gave the defendants the right to renew their motion to dismiss (but if they had done that, they would have had to state GROUNDS for dismissal). Following the amendment, Instead of filing a motion to dismiss, the defendant chose to ANSWER the complaint. Now, the rules state that they are supposed to provide a MEANINGFUL response to each and every allegation in our complaint in their answer. The other critical thing about an answer is it is the ONLY opportunity defendants have to assert what are called “affirmative defenses.” If they aren’t raised in the answer they are lost forever. Here is how “pleadings” are supposed to work: the plaintiff states the elements of all of their claims in the “complaint.” The defendant admits or denies each one, one at a time, paragraph by paragraph in the “answer.” What they agree on gets set aside, and trial is then limited to factual issues in dispute. After the complaint and answer are filed, a technical analysis of the two is done. The lawyer determines which issues are issues of law, and which ones are issues of fact. For disputed issues of fact, a discovery plan is created to prepare for trial. For issues of law, these are presented to the court during motions practice for ruling so that there can be a “narrowing” of issues for trial. When discovery is complete – assuming no settlement – then a trial is had on the issues of fact that are in dispute and a jury decides those (unless it is a bench trial before the judge alone). Given that their answer was completely insufficient, we moved to strike it outright. We have proposed as alternative relief that the court simply order a more definite statement. Reflexively, the state opposed our motion with the statement that “a more definite statement is inappropriate for an answer lacking counterclaims.” While this is technically true, we offered the alternative as an effort to help THEM because if their answer was struck it would pose an enormous legal bar to THEM. But, in light of their own opposition, in our reply, we withdrew the request for the alternative relief in accordance with their OWN desire to limit remedies available to THEM and instead asked the court to simply strike it outright. We also asked the court to strike EVERY ONE of the affirmative defenses they proposed. The briefing on our motion to strike is complete, and it is now ready for a ruling by the court. This could be enormously important for us In the meantime, I have also filed a motion for partial summary judgment on the Dosing Guidelines. And, tomorrow, we will file an additional motion for partial summary judgment on the MQAC Licensing Regime. Here is the summary of those: a partial summary judgment motion is a request for the court to recognize that one or more of the claims in the case can be decided without any factual disputes – that there are no “genuine issues of material fact” for which a trial needs to be held. In other words, one party can win simply on the law. Our first motion for partial summary judgment asked the court to declare that the Dosing Guidelines constitute a state conflict with pharmaceutical drug labels. In other words, the claim is that if the Dosing Guidelines had been offered by a manufacturer instead of a state, they would have been actionable as violations of the drug labels for opioids. However, since they were drafted by a state as a form of “law” they violate the Supremacy clause which grants the FDA exclusive jurisdiction to label approved pharmaceuticals. If the Washington officials think that the drug labels need to limit dosing in an arbitrary way, they can take it up with the FDA instead of publishing spurious “guidelines” for Washington officials. The state, again reflexively and without thinking, tried to defend the Dosing Guidelines by writing about “opioid deaths.” Gee, sounds like DRUG SAFETY doesn’t it? Impeached by their own brief! A hearing before the judge on that motion is scheduled for February 10 in the tri- cities in Washington. I am VERY hopeful. If we win, the Dosing Guidelines will be struck down. The second partial summary judgment motion should really cause the state’s eyes to pop out! The state challenged the plaintiffs in the closing paragraph of the opposition to the motion to strike to produce evidence of an “outright prohibition” on opioid prescribing in Washington. They categorically denied such a thing existed. Well, normally I don’t “bite” where I am told to, but in this the temptation was just too great. I filed a partial summary judgment motion doing exactly that: this one demonstrates that a decision of the Washington medical licensing authority in May 2008 [about a month before we filed our case] issued an adjudicatory decision in which they deprived a physician of his license and in doing so created the following RULE of medical practice: NO PHYSICIAN CAN PRESCRIBE OPIOIDS FOR ANY CHRONIC CONDITION – PERIOD. Failure to abide by the limitation threatens the license. Well, this was so bad it is legally fabulous. This constitutes what is known as “per se” or “facial” discrimination.. Under the law of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court [that is our Circuit] such a categorical exclusion gets you an unequivocal ADA violation. Not only that, it entitles a plaintiff to damages as a matter of law unless there is an affirmative defense. And, the defendants asserted NO statutory affirmative defenses against our ADA claims! So, what that means is that, if the court grants our motion, then as a matter of law, we know RIGHT NOW that the plaintiffs will be entitled to DAMAGES upon proof of just two things: 1) that they are “disabled” within the definition of the law and 2) that they can prove they were harmed by the MQAC in some manner. Good luck with that, eh? In the meantime, I’m working on a number of other “offensive” maneuvers as well and also working with the criminal teams on various other matters. This could shape up to be a banner year for PRN and chronic pain patients.' Laura Cooper, Esq. Pain Relief Network Pain Relief Network "Law Without Equity Is No Law At All. It Is A Form Of Jungle Rule." - Re: PRN's WA State Class Action Summary - From: Puddin' Man - Re: PRN's WA State Class Action Summary - Prev by Date: Re: Lori - Next by Date: can't use the chat room - Previous by thread: General dosage question - Next by thread: Re: PRN's WA State Class Action Summary
Palace also suspends work in private firms in flood-affected areasBy Kate Evangelista MANILA, Philppines — Malacanang on Tuesday suspended work in private companies in Metro Manila and in provinces affected by heavy rains due to the prevailing southwest monsoon. The affected provinces are: Zambales, Bataan, Pampanga, Pangasinan, Tarlac, Laguna, Cavite, Rizal and Bulacan. The announcement, posted on the Department of National Defense official facebook account, was signed by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr.. The Palace also suspended work in all government offices and classes in all levels due to inclement weather.
Olympic Trials: OSU basketball standout Toni Young might be an Olympian — in the high jump Young, who starred in track and field at Del City High School, will be competing in the Olympic Trials on Thursday in Eugene, Ore. With each passing year, the two-sport athlete fades closer to extinction. Gone are the days of Deion Sanders and Bo Jackson, scoring touchdowns in the NFL and hitting homers in the major leagues. Long forgotten is Julius Peppers, who dominated offensive lines for the North Carolina football team while getting significant minutes for its legendary basketball squad. Facing increased pressure, advanced technology and specialized coaching, young athletes continue to get pushed toward one sport, often encouraged to master a specific position. But sometimes, like in the examples above, talent trumps trends. Such is the case for Oklahoma State's Toni Young, an All-Big 12 scholarship basketball player turned All-American walk-on high jumper. “Basketball is my real love,” Young said. “But I like them both.” Months after completing her junior season for the Cowgirl hoops team, a successful one that ended with an NIT title and MVP (she averaged 20.7 points and 8.7 rebounds in six games), Young walked into the OSU track office to meet with head coach Dave Smith and jumping coach Zivile Pukstiene. Neither had seen her jump — Young hadn't competed in three years — but both had heard the high school legend and seen the famed video. The one where Young, as a senior at Del City, shattered previous high school records with a 6-foot-4 high jump, which was more than two inches higher than the current OSU record. “I saw the YouTube video of her jumping six-four,” Pukstiene said. “That's basically all I knew about her. I knew she was capable of going to dunk and jumping 37.5 vertical.” In reality, the sell was easy. Coming out of high school, Young could have hand-picked any school for a track scholarship. “Some coaches, big coaches in the United States said, ‘Wow, she is talented, she could be the best high jumper probably in the United States,'” said Pukstiene. But while Young liked track, it was always going to be basketball. Sports Photo Galleriesview all - 11235Oklahoma tornadoes: Cost, custom keep basements scarce - 11138Oklahoma tornadoes: Plaza Towers Elementary School teacher shoved students into bathroom as wall collapsed - 5575Downtown wish list includes Super Target - 5081Oklahoma tornadoes: The 'Big Dog,' the little boy and the hug that triumphs over tragedy - 4332OU softball: Sooners inspired by Casey Angle, run-rule Texas A&M - 4278Oklahoma City pastor will face trial in fatal shooting of son-in law - 4021How to help tornado victims
For years, I worked as a teacher in the New York City school system. While I teached a bunch of young school children in the South Bronx, what I learned most about my position was that teachers are some of the most moral and ethical people I’ve ever met in any profession. Who else would sacrifice a decent living to help the youth of America? Still, I’ve seen how the stress, workload and low-pay have turned teachers from idealistic young people trying to help the community and change the world — into cynical drones who feel they can’t make a difference — and whose only satisfaction is their paycheck. So it doesn’t surprise me that there have been numerous cheating scandals popping up all over the country. In Atlanta, 178 principals and teachers were accused of cheating, almost half of them half admitting to it. In Philadelphia, 28 schools are being investigated for irregular testing scores. There has also been speculation about cheating in Baltimore and Washington D.C. While many parents are disgusted with the idea of teachers helping their children cheat, they don’t understand the full story on why teachers help students cheat on state-standardized tests. The first is their own survival. If students don’t perform well on tests, then teachers can lose their bonuses, a shot at a rate, and in some cases — their jobs. Despite popular theories to the contrary, individual teachers don’t have that much control over test scores. Students from wealthy backgrounds with educated parents are more likely to perform well on tests regardless of what teacher they had. Teachers in good schools with other good teachers will have the benefit of students coming in already prepared for tests. Many people become teachers because they are passionate about the subject they teach and enjoy teaching those subjects. All this passion is taken away when teachers are forced to teach to tests rather than teach to their passions and strengths. Teaching to tests becomes a chore, a mundane duty for both teachers and students. As we saw on “The Wire,” in the new world of numbers-based success ratings, not only in schools but in businesses, organizations and government services, it is common for people to “fudge the numbers” to keep their jobs or achieve success. As a teacher, I saw supervisors harass and threaten to terminate teachers to provide some improvement via test scores. I’ve heard teachers complain about how boring and tedious teaching to tests are. I’ve seen teachers fill out tests to fulfill the demands of their superior’s who didn’t seem to care where the improved test scores were coming from. What we should learn from the recent teaching scandals is not to demonize our teachers, especially those brave enough to work in urban schools, but rather to change the culture of stress and test-based ratings. When people believe the game is fixed, they cheat. Administrators and politicians have fixed the game with their test based environment, where are all they see of teachers and students is test numbers. Teachers cheat to help their students, their schools and themselves. Teachers have become cynical and demoralized by the challenges they face and the pressure from politicians and administrators. Can you blame them? The problem with teachers isn’t teachers cheating the system, but the system cheating them.
Americans sent more than $30 million to this Caribbean island last year to claim winnings in a Jamaican lottery. The trouble is there was no such contest. Scam artists are making Jamaica a new center for internationally known lottery schemes, aiding a network of violent gangs that authorities say are putting the money into drug and gun trafficking. The U.S. and Jamaica are now teaming up for a task force dedicated to breaking up the cross-border schemes. A formal announcement of the project is planned for Wednesday. “It’s just an incredible amount of money that’s coming down here,” said Vance Callender, an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement attache at the U.S. Embassy in Kingston. “We’ve got cases from Honolulu to Maine.” The scams were made famous by criminals in Nigeria: A caller says you have won millions in an overseas lottery, but he needs you to wire a few hundred dollars to cover the taxes. Payments only lead to other requests for money. As victims try to recover losses, scammers even pose as police and say they need cash to aid the investigation. The schemes prey on compulsive impulses of victims who are often elderly. “Some of these victims are just like gamblers,” said Terrill Caplan, a Houston-based security officer for Fraud Aid, a nonprofit advocacy group. “They chase good money after bad, thinking the next one is going to be it.” Some have lost their life savings — including Ann Mowle, a 72-year-old retired bookkeeper from Monroe, New Jersey, who committed suicide in 2007 after reportedly losing $248,000 to a Jamaican lottery scam. Callender said his office is working with more than a dozen people who each have lost more than a half million dollars. The Jamaican scams, which target the U.S. more than any other country, have grown dramatically over the last two years. Leslie Green, an assistant police commissioner, said gangs appear to be seeking new sources of revenue in response to a crackdown on drug trafficking. Green said the rackets are contributing to a dramatic rise in violence in Montego Bay, a resort city where many of the scams are based. The violence flares between gangs that discover they have purchased the same phone lists from brokers in the United States, according to Callender. “They’re targeting each other and killing each other to keep their lists virgin, basically,” Callender said. In the northwestern parish of St. James, which includes Montego Bay, murders have risen from 139 in 2005 to 214 last year while violence has held steady elsewhere in the Caribbean nation of 2.8 million people. The millions of untraceable dollars also appear to have a corrupting influence on police. Last month, authorities suspended 19 officers in St. James who allegedly recruited a civilian to pose as a police officer in the service of a lottery scam. Green said other officers are under investigation for involvement in the schemes. The new task force will seek the extradition of key suspects for trial in the U.S., Callender said. It will also try to return money to victims from cash seized as it comes into Jamaica and by liquidating criminal assets. Already, U.S. agents have started intercepting payments from victims, according to Callender. He said $30 million is a conservative estimate of how much Jamaican scammers took from Americans last year. For the victims, the losses have severe consequences. Caplan said he met earlier this month with a Houston man in his 80s whose wife threatened to divorce him unless he stops wiring money to Jamaica. The man, who did not want to be identified, has lost $121,000 — nearly all of the couple’s savings — and they are now getting by on his wife’s meager salary and his Social Security benefits.
Contact: John Lisle at (202) 671-2004 The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) is advising motorists that multiple lanes on inbound I-395 and the SE/SW Freeway will be temporarily blocked today so that crews can remove snow from the roadways. 2-3 eastbound lanes will be closed at a time from the 14th Street Bridge to Barney Circle. These will be rolling closures as the crews will be working on approximately 1,000 feet of roadway at a time using heavy equipment to load and haul snow away. Drivers should use extreme caution when travelling through the area.
By Zachary Swickey The charming singer revealed the juicy tidbit on her Twitter account, writing, “In the studio with Sir @CalvinHarris,” to which he responded on his account, “YAAS!” It wasn’t long ago that Goulding was also in the studio working on a new song with boyfriend Skrillex and members of Swedish House Mafia, which could also end up on her upcoming effort. SHM member Sebastian Ingrosso discussed the collab with Billboard, saying, “We made a demo and it was amazing. We had a blast. Ellie is a great artist … her voice is amazing. Skillex, enough said, he is Skrillex.” Goulding also recently celebrated a notable milestone: selling over a million copies of her first US single, “Lights" (below). Scottish producer Calvin Harris also has plenty to celebrate. He recently produced and was featured on Rihanna smash hit “We Found Love” and Cheryl Cole’s “Call My Name,” in addition to working on Tinie Tempah’s upcoming single. Ri even showed her loved by making a surprise appearance at Harris’s set during the Coachella Music Festival earlier this year. The DJ’s third studio album is expected to drop in the states on October 30. The album will feature his catchy singles “Bounce,” “Feel So Close” and “Let’s Go,” as well as “We’ll Be Coming Back,” which features British rapper, Example.
Talk of the County November 27, 2012 7:06PM Updated: December 29, 2012 6:11AM Jails or schools I’m a school teacher in Lake County and I think it’s absolutely disgusting that Lake County can come up with millions of dollars to build jails and courtrooms, but they have no money to put into the school system and into the future of these children. They have no arts or sports until they get into high school, and at that point sometimes they’re lost. Why don’t we have more money going into the arts to support the children? You won’t need so many courtrooms and jails if children had a brighter future to look forward to. Antioch fire, rescue I was beyond happy to read that Antioch is looking into combining rescue and fire operations. With the communications recently of misconduct with the rescue squad, I continue to pray to never need their services, afraid of what treatment that I would be receiving. Adding more oversight and including the fire operations team, I feel a bit more at ease that appropriate behaviors will be in place. I pray this goes forward as an improvement. Your cartoons are great and I love “Crankshaft.” The one about Thanksgiving Day was a humdinger. Keep up the good work and I’ll keep buying the paper. Take care guys. It appears that the national media is going to continue their brown-nosing of the Democratic Party. They continue their attacks on any Republican that might show their worth and want to run for president in four years. Now the national media is trying to attack Marco Rubio just because he may be a front-runner in four years. It’s really sad that this country doesn’t have a free, open and independent media. I’m truly disgusted by the Nov. 22 article regarding the basketball game at the Warren Township High School. The fights that broke out and the behavior of the North Chicago and Waukegan students was despicable. It’s a shame something like a tournament has to be ruined by these thoughtless people. The “Out of touch” article in the TOTC was right. The Republicans are out of touch with the freeloaders who want more freebies from the government. Where will it end? Way to go North Chicago and Waukegan fans at the Warren and Mundelein basketball holiday tournament. If you can’t act right, then just stay home. The Lake County Board has voted to fund new additions to the county criminal courts and renovations for the jail and juvenile courts. Be aware when the projects are completed there will be a need to fill new additional positions to hire more support staff including bailiffs, maintenance, personal and maybe even another judge or two. This will translate into higher property taxes for more salaries, pensions and medical expenses. Beware, people. Keep it up People keep voting for politicians who want to take away our liberties. Wake up before it’s too late. Or, is it already too late? America is changing for the worst. People used to work for anything they wanted to have. Today, people are no longer ashamed to receive handouts. The military has a code of justice where everyone is accountable for their actions. There isn’t any handouts in the military — you have to earn your own way. Civilians should also earn their own way. Hard work never hurt anyone. So, America, let’s all start working for what we get. Why does the village of Beach Park do everything backward? I’m talking about the new four-way stop at North Avenue and Beach Road. A four-way stop would be better utilized at North Avenue and Yorkhouse Road. Come on, Beach Park mayor and trustees, think things through before you make any more of your decisions. Open your eyes, News-Sun. It is just not a pension crisis, it’s more of a taxation crisis. Illinois homeowners and working people are being taxed out of existence. Every week you report that another business has crossed over and is doing business now in Pleasant Prairie. Everyday you print dozens and dozens of homes that are in foreclosure or have been sold for taxes. Do you think after it shifted over to the homeowner and the property owners it’s going to get any better? These pensions need to be cut and that’s why the Republicans are not offering an alternative. Their stance is the giveaways stop here. That’s the way it has to be to protect the taxpayer, not the public workers who’ve got all the benefits in the world and just sit on their butts. You want the truth about Benghazi? It’s very simple. It was a secret CIA station, so the initial reports were less than full disclosure. Everything else, starting with the very day our ambassador was murdered, has been a shameful effort by Republicans to turn a tragedy into a political issue for their own gain. When Rome sacked Jerusalem the Romans changed the name to Palestine. It was called Israel for 1,000 years before it was called Palestine. The Palestinians have no right to that land. They should sweep those people right off the Gaza Strip and tell them that it’s our property.
(Tehran, December '79 - amping up the noise machine) With the situation regarding the American hostages in Iran at a standstill, now it was the UN's turn to get involved. An emergency session of the Security Council was called On December 2nd, with a universal condemnation of the situation in Iran. Donald McHenry (U.S. Ambassador to the UN): “Governments, of course retain the right to require that foreign diplomatic personnel leave their soil. But every standard of International behavior, whether established by practice, by ethics, by treaty or by common humanity supports the principle that the personnel of a diplomatic mission and diplomatic property are inviolate. Even in the darkest moments of relations between countries, the security and well-being of diplomatic personnel has been respected.” Iran however, decided its Ambassador would skip the session - so basically it turned into a sermon to the choir. It's interesting the Soviet Union stayed reasonably mum about the goings on, preferring the old "we don't dabble in others affairs" line of reasoning. Of course, nobody knew the Russians were going to be sending troops into Afghanistan two weeks later. But that's another story. And 1979 just kept rolling along.
Jamie would go mental if I dressed like a wife, says Kate Moss Melbourne, June 14 (ANI): Kate Moss has revealed that marrying the Kills rocker Jamie Hince last year had not changed her wardrobe, but the guitarist did tell her when she had gone too far. The British model confessed that her husband 'likes me when I'm a rock 'n' roll kind of girl'. "He would go mental if I started dressing like a wife! No! He likes me when I'm a rock'n'roll kind of girl," the Age quoted her as telling the British edition of Grazia. Moss, who is one of the most trend-setting stars around, sees people copying her look as a big compliment. "People try and tempt me to do that. They're like, 'Everyone will be copying it and it will be hilarious. Do it!' But I'm not tempted," she said. "Are they gonna put it in all the magazines? Ha! But no. I haven't done it on purpose anyway," she said. But she said that she had been forced to compromise on her fashion choices ever since she got a pet dog. "It's a nightmare... I'm having to rethink everything. You can't walk a dog in a heel. You look ridiculous"... Course (I've tried)," she added. (ANI) Read More: Jamie Pandit \| June Pargaon \| Kate Bhogaon \| June Mohide \| June Belgaum \| Bakrachak \| Barida \| Tilaboni Mahisamunda \| Saluka \| Amdan \| Saharda \| Pindrui \| Dangalsa \| Gobardhanpur \| Hour So \| Kalidan \| Reserve Bank Nm Ltd. \| Rautarapur \| June Belda \| Bhasra SONIA GANDHI DEPLORES NAXAL ATTACK ON CONGRESS LEADERS May 26, 2013 at 12:20 AM SHIKARA TREK BEGINS IN J&K AFTER 30 YEARS (NNIS Exclusive) May 25, 2013 at 11:05 PM CONG LEADER KILLED, PARTY CHIEF ABDUCTED IN NAXAL ATTACK IN CG May 25, 2013 at 10:29 PM
SOCIALISM: RICH CLASS, POOR CLASS, NO MIDDLE CLASS By Betty Freauf In Luke 16: 19-31 there is this story in the King James Bible about Lazarus the beggar and the rich man. This parable suggests it has to do with the way the rich man spends his money. He enjoyed life. He lived it up while Lazarus for some reason not explained in scripture was placed at the rich man’s gate. Apparently feeling responsible for this beggar in some way, the rich man let the beggar have the crumbs from his table. We read the dogs licked the beggar’s sores while the rich man “fared sumptuously” How many rich men today would have taken the “crumbs” off as a deductible to charity on their income tax? A cartoon back in January 1994 showed Bill and Hillary Clinton appearing before the I.R.S. agent who asked, “Let me get this straight, you neglected to deduct a sixty-nine thousand dollar business loss, but you’re claiming a two dollar donation of used underwear?” The ghost of Vincent Foster, the Clinton’s personal lawyer who had allegedly put a bullet through his head the summer before just seemed to hang around. William Safire wrote on January 7, 1994 when he questioned Clinton aides they blamed Foster’s state of mind on the cruel, mean-spirited Washington press corps. Questions about a lawyer with a guilty conscience were denounced as ghoulish, the product of a conspiratorial mind-set. Safire said we subsequently learned that there was indeed a scandal brewing that involved the Clintons, a go-go banker crony who financed their Whitewater real estate deal and an S&L failure that cost taxpayers $60 million. Foster improperly kept the potentially damaging records of that deal in his White House office and when the existence of the hidden file came to light, the Clintons stonewalled and, of course, Clinton’s Attorney General Janet Reno, who gave the order to incinerate the 17 little children and adults at the Branch Davidian, was conveniently neglecting to appoint an independent counsel to investigate President Clinton’s possible links to a failed savings and loan firm in Arkansas. How quickly people forget. That was also the time the bimbos started coming forward and Hillary had a “travelgate” problem. In June 1994 the New York Times said the White House was asking Americans to help with Clintons’ mounting legal costs. Today we are finding panhandlers at many intersections in our city and probably in yours as well. I often wonder if they are begging because they spent money on drugs, did they lose their job due to no fault of their own, disillusioned vets, did some unexpected high hospital costs cause bankruptcy for them because they didn’t have any insurance or do they find pandhandling more lucrative and no taxes to pay? They situate themselves at stop signs. I try to have some green stuff in a salvation Bible tract to hand to them and I pray the money won’t be used for drugs. Some day I’d like to take the time to talk to them. We also support a homeless shelter and in the past have had elderly parents live with us. Income tax was due recently. We’re hearing that 47% of U.S. households will pay no taxes to the federal government this year so why did our 19-year-old grand daughter have to pay $51 to the feds and $18 to the state of Oregon from her all-expense paid trip for two to Los Angeles last November to the American Music Award which she won from a Portland radio station? She also cashed a few savings bonds. The radio station sent her a 1099 and the bank sent her a 1099 for the interest on the bonds. This was “unearned income.” Maybe we should start handing a 1099 to the panhandlers. She graduated last year from high school. She still has not found any meaningful regular employment. She lives at home. Our tax preparer says in Oregon many Indian casinos send checks to Indians of all ages that must be reported. It’s a “Casino” tax write off. Since the government relies heavily on the cooperation of a trusting public to calculate and submit a specified portion of its income in the form of taxes, I.R.S. is concerned millions of people have refused to file. Could it be many people are finally recognizing that the graduated income tax is the second plank of the Communist Manifesto or are people simply following the reputation of our elected leaders and becoming more corrupt? Like so many others states, Oregon is broke and its Secretary of State Kate Brown, a Democrat, is announcing tax collections could be increased by adding 15 more positions in the Department of Revenue to boost collection of taxes. (More government workers). She believes “We should all be playing by the same rules. In a fair tax system, everyone pays their fair share.” So Oregon state auditors are going to compare Oregon tax records with IRS records of about 223,000 federal filers with Oregon addresses and adjusted gross income of at least $12,000. (Source: 4/13/2010 Statesman Journal) Why did the wealthiest Americans support the Sixteenth Amendment? Well, initially they were told the taxes would be very small and some of the super rich promoted the income tax out of altruism but there were others who supported the Sixteenth Amendment because they knew they could permanently avoid both the income taxes and subsequent inheritance taxes by what the accountants call “pre-tax planning.” Many have tried to challenge this amendment that was never ratified by the required number of states. Most of them end up in jail or see all their assets forfeited while billionaire George Soros uses his “pre-tax planning” to support left-wing causes with a goal of reducing America to third-world status and making more and more people dependent upon Big Brother. A caller to a radio station recently was having a “Crisis of Conscience.” He said he and his wife sold their New York home when the price was high and they paid cash for another home in Pennsylvania and were out of debt at age 42. His wife works part time as a nurse. They filed their income tax early showing they had $900 in withholding but the federal government sent them a check for $2800 and he was feeling guilty for taking it. He is on his second round of unemployment checks. They had a catastrophic medical policy and then some bureaucrat contacted them and told them their daughter was eligible through CHIP (Pennsylvania Children’s Health Insurance Program). The guy came from a European family and believed in the work ethic, which was causing him a “Crisis of Conscience.” The government is now reporting that tax breaks enacted last year are causing confusion for taxpayers and enforcement problems at the I.R.S. The treasury inspector says, “If anyone received an erroneous tax credit from the I.R.S. they shouldn’t even think about keeping it. The I.R.S. is being extraordinarily thorough in terms of addressing many of the Recovery Act dollars to ensure that the money that is being wasted is accounted for.” The I.R.S. erroneously gave out $24.2 million. The Tennessee caller can sleep well now. Which brings me back to the rich man and Lazarus. A cursory reading of James 5 might give the impression that James is teaching a socialistic doctrine of “soak the rich” or “let’s divide the wealth” like President Obama told Joe the Plumber when the he was a candidate for the presidency and, of course, this is what we later learned was Marxist Liberation Theology and which President Obama’s current “spiritual leader” Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners, supports. But a careful reading of these verses reveals that James is not teaching socialism. He was instructing believers about their attitude and action in a world that was going to the dogs, a world filled with injustice, where freedom was only a dream. J. Vernon McGee in his Through the Bible sermons says the Roman world of James’ day was not like the modern world in which we lived at the time of the sermon. (McGee died in 1988). The life-styles were entirely different. There was no middle class in the days of James. There were the very rich, the filthy rich, and the very poor, the filthy poor. The majority of the Christians of that day came from the very poor and slave classes. But please let it be known that James was not condemning riches. Riches in themselves are not immoral; they are not moral, either. They are just amoral. The problem is not in the coin; the problem is in the hearts of men and women, said McGee. I was once a treasurer in a tax-exempt ecumenical church. The biggest checks came in near the end of the year for income tax purposes. The rest of the time I found mostly tightly folded $1 bills. During the period of James there was no middle class in Rome; today we are seeing this developing in America. We have been seeing unprecedented, unsustainable growth in government and unsupportable consumer debt. Even the well-paid professionals over-leveraged themselves during the Federal Reserve created credit glut. Maybe we should be asking, “Is the Federal Reserve preparing to reduce the middle class to utter serfdom as was the case in Rome before it fell? Ron and Anil Hira, internationally recognized experts on economic policy, in their 236 page book Outsourcing America: What’s Behind Our National Crisis and How We Can Reclaim American Jobs said even before the creation of our constitutional republic, America was recognized in Europe as the incubator of a new kind of society built on what is now called the “Middle Class.” It was the aspiration and realistic hope of every American that he could become self-sufficient, improve his economic standing and provide his children the means to enjoy an even better standard of living. For decades the American elite determined to undermine its moral foundation and a political ruling class bent on destroying the economic base that sustains it. The strip mining of America’s manufacturing and hi-tech sectors through “outsourcing” is the most visible front of that ongoing war against the middle class. Because government schools were no longer teaching the Constitution and so-called Christians already had one foot in Egypt they were easily deceived. The October 2001 Media Bypass had an article entitled The Great Betrayal and described how churches agreed to the New World Order on March 16, 1942 when 375 appointed representatives of 30-odd denominational churches met at Ohio Wesley University and among other things they voted to approve the following: A world government of delegated power • Complete abandonment of U.S. isolationism • Strong immediate limitations on national sovereignty • International control of all armies and navies • A universal system of money • Elimination of tariffs and quota restrictions on world trade • Worldwide freedom on immigration Many of the attending conferees didn’t realize the Federal Council of Churches and its acting Board of Directors were actually talking treason when they suggested, “duties now performed by local and national governments can now be effectively carried out only by international authority” or when they held that, “a new order of economic life is both imminent and imperative…a new order that is sure to come either through voluntary cooperation within the framework of democracy or through explosive political revolution” or when they declared their ultimate goal was, “A duty constituted world government of delegated power, an international legislative body, an international court with adequate jurisdiction, international administrative bodies with necessary powers and an adequate international police force with provision for enforcing its worldwide economic authority” and the 1942 conferees were urged to cooperate as “Christian citizens.” These United Nations administrative bodies of unelected officials at every level in government now completely control us. A church in a small town wanted to install a community reader board hoping to have it completed by Easter. They are still waiting for a county permit. A Salem, Oregon owner of a cigar and wine shop is still waiting for a renewal of his license because someone doesn’t like people smoking. Subscribe to the NewsWithViews Daily News Alerts! Is it possible someone doesn’t like Christians and is holding up the church permit and why does a church need a permit in the first place except, of course, if it is tax exempt? When the churches in 1942 got in bed with dogs, sooner or later they were bound to get fleas. After the church gave its approval in 1942, the United Nations was created in 1945 to be mankind’s best hope for peace and Utopia but it has turned into a nightmare and putting Christianity at risk. While God will always have a remnant, we see persecution beginning to lift its ugly head. © 2010 Betty Freauf - All Rights Reserved
November 30th, The Feast of St. Andrew “We should remember that St. Andrew is the apostle of the cross. To Peter, Jesus had given firmness of faith; to John, warmth of love; the mission of Andrew is to represent the cross of his divine Master. Now it is by these three, faith, love, and the cross, that the Church renders herself worthy of her Spouse. Everything she has or is bears this threefold character. Hence it is that after the two apostles just named, there is none who holds such a prominent place in the universal liturgy as St. Andrew.” (from The Liturgical Year by Abbot Guéranger) St. Andrew is known as the apostle of the Cross on account of his martyrdom: like his brother Peter, Andrew suffered crucifixion, not in the same manner as Christ, but upon an x-shaped cross where he hung for two days before his death. It is not merely the manner of his death, however, that makes St. Andrew to be the apostle of the Cross – The Acts of the Martyrdom of St. Andrew tell of how Andrew cried out with joy when he saw the cross upon which he was to be hung. “Andrew was brought before the tribunal (of the city of Patrae in Achaia), where he began to extol the mystery of the Cross, and rebute the judge for his impiety. Aegeas (the proconsul of the city), no longer able to contain himself on hearing these words, ordered him to be hoisted on a cross, and so to die like Christ. Andrew having been brought to the place of execution, seeing the cross at some distance, began to cry out: “O good cross, made beautiful by the body of my Lord! So long desired, so anxiously loved, so unceasingly sought after, and now at last ready for my soul to enjoy! Take me from amidst men, and restore me to my Master, that by thee he may receive me, who by thee redeemed me.” The image of the Cross and the true Cross Itself What is particularly interesting about St. Andrew’s joyful cry to the cross upon which he would hang is that he speaks to his cross as though it were the very Cross upon which Christ himself had hung. There is no distinction in Andrew’s mind between the true Cross of Christ and this particular cross in Patrae. The ancient principle of Catholic theology and iconography is at work here: The honor given to an image does not remain with the image but passes to the archetype. Thus, as Andrew’s cross was fashioned by the pagan fiend Aegeas to be an effigy of the Cross – for the proconsul desired Andrew to be humiliated with the same death as was Christ – there is an identity between the cross of Patrae and the Cross of Jerusalem. Moreover, Andrew speaks to his cross as though it were the Cross of Christ. He gives no hesitation. He does not qualify his statements. He does not offer a lower veneration to his cross than he would to the Cross of Christ. Rather, he knows that the image is so united to the archetype that, when he speaks to his own cross, he truly speaks to the Cross of our Lord. To the wood of Patrae, image of the true Cross, St. Andrew says, “You have been made beautiful by the body of my Lord! By you Christ has redeemed me.” Such words can only be said to the true Cross, but Andrew knows it is the Cross he addresses as he venerates his own cross. St. Thomas Aquinas, following the Tradition, affirms that the veneration due an icon is equal to that which is due the archetype. Hence, if an icon is an image of the Cross, we speak to the icon as we would speak to the Cross. If the icon is an image of a saint, we venerate the icon as we would venerate the saint. If the icon is an image of Christ, we worship the icon, as we would worship Christ. St. Thomas himself develops the tradition regarding the veneration of the Cross. The Common Doctor tells us that, as the Cross is an image of Christ himself (who is the Crucified One), we must worship the relic of the true Cross. This is well attested in the Church’s liturgy – we say, “O Cross of Christ, our only hope!” We look to the Cross as though it were our Savior, for it is the image of Jesus whom it bore. Moreover, we genuflect to a relic of the true Cross, offering the same adoration which we offer to the Eucharistic species. In the traditional usage of the Latin Rite, the servers and other ministers even genuflect to the image of the Cross, the crucifix which is above the altar. It is very clear from the Church’s liturgical tradition: We worship the true Cross as though it were Christ, we worship the effigy of the Cross (a crucifix) as though it were the true Cross and Christ himself. How well does St. Andrew attest to the fundamental truth which is the foundation of the Church’s veneration of icons! The effigy of the Cross – though it was created by a pagan proconsul to mock our Lord and torture the Apostle – is worshiped by Andrew as though it were the very Cross of which it is an icon. God alone is good, and Andrew cried out: “O good cross, made beautiful by the body of my Lord!”
The debate over the mayor's override proposal seems to have devolved into the mayor and his supporters saying that anyone who opposes the proposal is somehow against students, police, teachers, and better schools and roads. That is oversimplifing the issue and misses the point. Most people in Newton would agree that we all want things to be better, but there are differences of opinion over what we collective can afford and how to pay for them. The issue boils down to whether there are better ways to address these needs other than significantly increasing our property taxes and piling more debt onto the Newton government ledger as Mayor Warren wants to do. Under his plan, our property taxes would double within ten years and increase the city's debt load by an estimated $90 million to build two new schools. This override proposal does nothing more than plug the city's structural deficit and allow him to "kick the can" down the road to future Newton generations. Rather than a broad property tax increase and more debt, we believe there is a solution to addressing the city's staffing and infrastructure needs by fixing our current deficit issues and more targeted revenue measures. We think this solution and views others may have should be part of the debate rather than labeling everyone who opposes the current override as someone who either doesn't care about Newton's future or who is absolutely opposed to new taxes. Unfortunately, the mayor has not allowed that debate to take place as he is already pushing his pre-packaged solution in a rushed election. As informed citizens, we shouldn't just blindly accept the only option Mayor Warren has given us. That is why we at Moving Newton Forward urge you to vote "no."
Earlier this week, Yossi Chajes, author and senior lecturer in the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa, was asked to lead a mini series at the University of Florida’s Hillel called “The Kabbalah Unveiled: A Mini Course on Jewish Mysticism.” Not your typical Hillel crowd, the audience was mostly comprised of older men and women with the exception of a few college students, me being one of them. Not knowing much about the background of Kabbalah, I decided to test my knowledge at the first of four lectures called “Key Concepts in Kabbalah.” But the concepts were anything but simple. While I anticipated a lecture based on understanding the popular symbols like the ten Sefirot, Chajes stated that the simpler questions could be answered on Wikipedia. His lecture would dig even deeper. From discussing the history of Kabbalah to understanding its levels, he explained that Kabbalah was more than just a practice in Judaism but a different form of spirituality. Purposefully making people think beyond the literal text in the Torah, Chajes explained that the study of Kabbalah essentially allows the individual to examine its figurative meaning, to question the stories that have been passed down from one generation to the next, and to take into mind the different forces in life that draw us to make good and bad decisions. While a click to the Google search engine might have answered a few of my questions, it was eye opening to witness a guest speaker who has no hesitancy in discussing the controversial form of Jewish mysticism.
“The ambiance isn't luxurious, but it is quite pleasant, and the service is warm and courteous.” “It is BYOB - which we didn't know until we arrived but you can walk in with your own six pack of Bud and enjoy a beer with dinner.” “best thai food in the city” “realize that this place has a huge menu and, therefore, will have some not-so-good things, but it's the rudeness of the service that gets to me.” “Think twice before going here, there are plenty of good thai places within 20 feet of this place.” “The anchovies are not the pungent Italian kind which some people do not like (I actually love them!)” “So for a good deal price when you feel like want to eat a Thai strong taste is not bad to try but don't order the ones I just mention about.” “Nice service-can be a long wait when busy and take out takes a while some nights!” We have been to this restaurant many times and last night was the first time it disappointed. The pad Thai was gloppy and and overly sweet and the portion was too big. Also, the Som Tum (Papaya salad) was also too sweet, too much sauce and had absolutely no heat (spice kick). Clearly Pam is no longer in the kitchen. This was our Thai sure bet for years...sadly no more. great, fresh experience. Good menu for all tastes with fresh and generous portions. We were there on a Tues night and service was good. Adequate decor and comfort, so go for authentic food. Great option for Hell's Kitchen. This is an easy one- really good Thai food. We love Thai but sometimes it could be a hit and miss... but not in this place (at least for now for us) we went there a few times and everyone at the table were happy with their meal. salty food bad waitress!!!. We went to Pam Thai Restaurant (20/03/10) First time it was very nice place. After that we ordered food : appertize Grilled calamari it was good and oxtailed soup too. Then entree coming we ordered panang curry with chicken and kao pad kra paw with squid, both of food are very salty. Panang curry have just only salty taste, they mixed not too much a coconut milk. This is like a soup. I went here with my friends. They are Thai's people but they said "this is not panang: soup very clear". Then we asked the waitress, she said this is panang for foreigner eat but why you said this is a real Thai. Then kao pad kra paw squid too. Very salty. About the sevice waitress one very nice and another one she very horrible. My friends feel like a she look down us. Becareful if you want to try a real thai food...!!! Very bad food and horrid service. We went to this place since I moved only a street away, but it was a horrid experience! The food is very salty, and they charged me extra money for a veggie curry and then only put bamboo shoots in it! Their online menu is also old, so beware, the prices the much higher than stated in the menus (a nasty shock for my friend who ordered online and the bill came for almost twice the amount stated online) Think twice before going here, there are plenty of good thai places within 20 feet of this place.... NEVER AGAIN. I went to Real Pam on 10/31/2008 with my brother and his wife. We ordered 3 different dinners and there was hardly any chicken or for that matter any food in the dinners. I complained to the owner who stated to me that times are tough and his prices are low. He was very rude and disengenious. Well i was looking for a nice meal, and to have an attitude like that i was dismayed. I wasn't asking for a lowering of the check i was just trying to help him since im a loyal customer. Then the cook came out of the kitchen and was even ruder to me than the owner himself. Please check out your meal portions if you ever go there. I will never go back given the treatment i recieved. In my opinion these people are out to make money and do not care about their customers. I would rather pay more for a good meal than get screwed out of a good night. Remember check out your dinner portions. Consistently Great Food and Service. Consistently excellent food and service. The duck curry is fabulous! The salads are also delicious. Always seated and served promptly, and the prices are great. The only downside is that they don't take credit cards..so make sure to bring cash. The ginger candy you get on the way out is also a treat. Good Price, Taste OK but not really delicious on some menu. This Thai place got a very good deal among all the Thai places in Manhattan. I have tried a couple of menus. By the way I'm Thai so I really know what taste good or not. Most of the Fried Noodle like Pad Thai and others are not that good. They cook it very juicy. Like Rad Nah noodle is not good as well. I order Pork Nam Tok today. The port is very hard and dry. They should use the B.B.Q. Pork to make it then it will taste better. If anybody has a chance should tell them about it. Som Tum is good. So for a good deal price when you feel like want to eat a Thai strong taste is not bad to try but don't order the ones I just mention about. Absolutely amazing and cheap (cash only). I was extremely impressed by this place, I eat Thai food fairly often and this is one of the best! It is also incredibly affordable and the service was great! Not impressed. My husband and I decided to give this place a go based on all the great reviews. We went one evening last week and while we were seated immediately, it took our waiter a good five minutes or so before he actually came over and greeted us. We ordered drinks, appetizers and dinner. I had the Rama Shrimp, which was okay, but nothing special, and it was lukewarm when it arrived. The shrimp were also slightly limp and I didn't finish them. My husband wasn't impressed with his meal either. The one thing that really annoyed me was when the waiter did not bring us change and assumed it was for him. It was only a few dollars over what we would have normally given, but I found that extremely rude. We have eaten at several Thai restaurants in Manhattan and the Bronx, while this definitely was not the worst, it is not worth a second trip. If all you want is cheap prices, then go here, because it is definitely when of the cheapest places around. Sign in with Facebook Sign in with Facebook to see what your friends are up to!
I highly recommend this Law Firm. Not only a very knowledgeable person with regards to the laws he's also a very compassionate person. You can't that about many Lawyers these days. He and his staff are true professionals. Thank you for all you are doing for me. ANTHONY MARINO. I needing a lawyer Mr. poznanski was highly recommended me and my wife who ending up passing away from this accident was in a shelter we had nothing because I was sick and unable to work we loss everything it took Mr. p to get me what was coming to me it was a work relater accident..........I still need 3 or more surgery which we are waiting for which I am confident we will come out right it work relater I am very sick and I miss my Annemarie very much.MR POZNANSKI is a very capable lawyer which I respect.. he always was prepar;e for court PS talk is cheap. I am upset what people are saying yes maybe they wear not really hurt and MR P was unable to lie for them it all in the doctor report. I wish I was able to work.................MR MARINO. I HIGHLY RECOMMMED Save yourself from this firm... It has been a nightmare experience dealing with him and the firm......my family, are attempting to keep things together since the hurricane and now, news came unfavorable for us. Well, we have transferred our case to a much more professional firm, and they stated the reasoning of the decision (which this firm is appealing)...was a cause of Jonathan poznansky lack of interest to the case.......for another firm to speak in this tone about another firm- is UNHEARD of.......The look on the attorney's face was priceless....wish i took a picture of her- when she was reading his initial report he prepared.. If you have a family- have bills- and the head of your household is injured in a work related environment....WE all beg of you to chooose anyone but this firm-- ! This attorney is by far the worst experienced attorney we have come accross...he is lazy-Confused-Selfish- and non understanding to his clients needs... During the course of being under his serrvices...we have endured cancelled coverage......Insurance companies bullying us.....bills not being paid and services denied....BECAUSE of him and his staff IRRESPONSIBILITIES! If you want inexperience and prefer to LOSE your case...AND HAVE A FEELING OF HELPLESSNESS then go to this firm.... IT IS CONSIDERED THE SLUGHTER HOUSE OF WORKERS COMP.....he prefers quantities not quality! we have now changed to another firm in which are cariing-responsible-professional-accurate-thorough.....BUT NOT THIS OFFICE! HIS STAFF ARE RUN BY DIZZY WOMEN...unprofessional....people that talk down to you.....and really DO NOT CARE..for your well being.. HIS OFFICE IS DISGUSTING! HIS PERSONNEL IS UNPROFESSIONAL! HIS IS THE WORST BY FAR IN REGARDS TO ATTORNEYS REPRESENTING YOU! I BEG OF YOU TO AVOID THIS PERSON! Competent and professional!. My husband transferred his already established workman's compensation case to Mr. Poznansky after poor performance by his prior law firm. He rescued a case that was hanging by a thread and was able to get my husband the payments we so desperately needed. Mr. Poznansky handled the initial court dates himself and then handed the case over to an equally competent associate named Mr. Schwartz. I am no longer a bundle of nerves at each court date because I know that I have the best representation for my husband. Sign in with Facebook Sign in with Facebook to see what your friends are up to!
New York, NY Metro > 100 Main Street, “The food is consistently good, the staff is friendly and unassuming and the atmosphere is always comfortable.” “The food is always fresh and the prices are very fair.” “Reality Bites has a awesome variety of food and sandwiches.” “Reality Bites Cafe is a warm and friendly place to dine with terrific entertainment and a warm atmosphere.” “Food is affordable and the service is very good.” Sign in with Facebook Sign in with Facebook to see what your friends are up to! Get the Citysearch Mobile app so you can spend less time searching for great places, and more time enjoying them. Get it Now
Dancing and a freaking Tweet cave! Last night some of the best and brightest in NYC's underground art scene came together for the latest BANZAI! party at the hush-hush Red Lotus Room in Crown Heights. Hosted by two of our favorite party people, Muffinhead and Eric Schmalenberger—with a cameo appearance by Lady Miss Kier on the turntables as party people explored the exhibits and danced. There was a Tweet cave (cool!) and creepy creatures in a creepy darkroom, creating creepy things from always fabulous Zazoo Satori. We ducked out of the celebrations around 3 a.m. while a carload of costumed fun-seekers spilled out in front of the remote warehouse. "Things are winding down inside, you guys are late!" someone shouted. "We're not late, honey, the party is just getting started now that we're here."
After one half in Tampa, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights trail USF, 6-3. The Bulls drove into Rutgers territory on consecutive possessions in the first quarter but came up with only three points on each trip. In the second quarter, B.J. Daniels hit Terence Mitchell wide open down the left sideline for a big 58-yard pick-up, but once again, the Rutgers defense would hold and force a turnover. Brandon Jones came up with an interception of Daniels to stall the drive at the 23-yard line. It was an incredible pick by Jones, who went down to the ground to scoop and then control it against his body as he rolled over. An animated gif of the play: The Rutgers offense hasn't fared any better, however, as a Kyle Federico 51-yard field goal provided the only points of the night so far for the Scarlet Knights. Quarterback Gary Nova is 12 of 21 for 132 yards. On the ground, Jawan Jamison has carried the ball 18 times for 69 yards. But Rutgers could not get on the board until their final possession of the half, when the freshman kicker impressively split the uprights from 50-plus yards.
You’ve reached the official website for the Grammy award-winning jazz vocal ensemble New York Voices! We’re very excited about our new website and hope you’ll take a look around. Make sure and check out our new online store featuring over thirty of our vocal arrangements, our video page, and don’t forget to check out our Facebook fan wall before you go. There’s also a new page about our vocal jazz camp offered each summer at BGSU in Bowling Green, Ohio for aspiring vocalists of all ages. CLICK HERE to view The New York Voices Electronic Press Kit. Enjoy!
See new exhibitions for free! Creation & Transformation: Defining Moments in Inuit Art Free Public Opening Friday, January 25 from 7pm to 10pm Creation and Transformation: Defining Moments in Inuit Art Over 250 artworks drawn from the WAG's Inuit art collection, the largest in the world, constitute an exhibition that offers insight into the defining moments that have shaped and transformed this art form over the past 60 years. The exhibition includes sculpture, prints, drawings, and textile art from all areas of the Arctic. Tuesday through Sunday 11am - 5pm Friday 11am - 9pm Closed Easter Monday, Labour Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Day
Boat rentals within the park are available only through Aramark and Antelope Point Marina. Prices range from $816 for a basic boat for three days during low season to $9,995 for seven days on a deluxe boat in the summer. Boats rented from outside communities cannot be delivered inside the park. Visitors must transport these boats themselves. Currently, the prolonged drought as well as the increasing demand on Glen Canyon Dam for power are resulting in extremely low lake levels, and a number of Lake Powell facilities have been affected. Hite Marina is closed for the foreseeable future. Call ahead for a report on conditions before finalizing plans at Lake Powell facilities and marinas. Hiking From the Water Just because you're on water doesn't mean you can't dock your boat and explore the canyons. "Some of the most rewarding experiences come from wandering around the canyons," says Kevin Schneider, management assistant at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. "There isn't much overgrown vegetation like in the forest, so you can explore off-trail. You really get the feeling of being in the wilderness." Visited by 300,000 people a year, Rainbow Bridge is a sacred site to the Navajo and other Native Americans. It is also the world's largest natural bridge. The U.S. Capitol building could fit beneath its archway, which stands 290 feet (88 meters) high and 275 feet (84 meters) wide. Some avid hikers choose to trek 14 miles (23 kilometers) around Navajo Mountain to Rainbow Bridge. This route requires a lot of endurance, excellent map-reading skills, and a tribal permit from the Navajo Nation. Others can take a boat tour leaving from the Wahweap Marina. For more information, call Wahweap Marina at 928-645-2433. Glen Canyon Dam Don't pass up the free 45-minute tour of Glen Canyon Dam to learn how it can generate more than one million kilowatts of electric energy a day at peak capacity. From 1960 through 1963, construction workers poured 5.37 million cubic yards (4.11 million cubic meters) of concrete to build the dam and the power plant. The tour also covers various water issues and information on how the dam has affected the Colorado River. For details, call the Carl Hayden Visitor Center at 928-608-6404.
At midnight on February 17, 2009, all full-power television stations in the US will stop broadcasting in analog and switch to 100% digital broadcasting. Digital broadcasting promises to provide a clearer picture and more programming options and will free up airwaves for use by emergency responders. Congress created the TV Converter Box Coupon Program for households wishing to keep using their analog TV sets after February 17, 2009. The Program allows U.S. households to obtain up to two coupons, each worth $40, that can be applied toward the cost of eligible converter boxes. A TV connected to cable, satellite or other pay TV service does not require a TV converter box from this program. Details and options are available at www.dtv2009.gov.
Niagara, where have you been all my life? October 31, 2011 by Crystal Lorenzo I can’t quite wrap my mind around the fact that about eight weeks ago I was sitting at home dreading coming to college, crying and trying to do anything to make the time go by slower. I wouldn’t pack, wouldn’t even think about packing or the fact that I was about to enter a brand new chapter in my life. I wasn’t excited, wasn’t looking forward to it and didn’t quite feel as ready as I thought everyone else felt, but after being here for half a semester already, it’s hard to get me to actually go home to visit. I feel so much at home, and I can honestly say without trying to sound cheesy that I honestly love my life here and am so happy that I chose Niagara. First of all, let’s start with the fact that I’m in five clubs...FIVE. In high school, I wasn’t the super-involved type. I actually didn’t do any clubs involved with school; all I did was all-star cheerleading and basketball cheerleading, which took up 95 percent of my time. The other 5 percent was spent working at the wonderful Timmy Ho’s, doing homework (which was a lot since I was an exchange student to The Netherlands during my junior year of high school, and thus had to do my junior year and senior year in one when I got back), not to mention trying to have a social life between cheerleading practices, games and competitions. So, needless to say, I wasn’t quite in the loop with the whole club thing. Once I got to Niagara, I knew I wanted to get involved in some, seeing as I’m not allowed to do athletics anymore because of a combination of about 100 different back issues. I went to the activities fair and signed up for pretty much every club there. I decided to at least get a taste of everything that was offered, and then I could decide what to stick with. I opted for: - Campus Planning Board - I’m on the Late Nite Niagara committee, which plans and runs all the events that are held every Friday night from 10 p.m. - 2 a.m. These events consist of things like indoor paintball, late night movies, a black light dance party, bingo, comedians, open skate, open gym, "Minute to Win It," and basically just awesome things to do. - NU Alliance is a group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender students and their allies. It’s an awesome group of people and probably what I look forward to most during the week. - N-Zone is a student cheering section at all hockey and basketball games that is crazy. People in N-Zone are the loudest at the games and they have a whole bunch of cheers to do, including one where they act like they’re riding a roller coaster and the person in front directs which way the roller coaster is going and you have to follow him by leaning your whole body in whichever direction he directs. Fun stuff! Let me tell you, that’s what I’m looking forward to most about the games. - EAGLE, which stands for Experience and Growth in Leadership Education. Its purpose is to help develop you as a better and more effective leader. Each year, you earn a different “certificate” and focus on some other aspect of leadership. The first year focuses on self development and finding, understanding and developing one's self as a leader. The people in the group are some of the most genuine and sweetest people I’ve met here and it’s so much fun being around people who actually care. It’s such a warm atmosphere and definitely something I’m really glad I got involved in. - BOLD is a business club. We’re working on a project that takes the sandals from Cave of the Winds in Niagara Falls, cleans them and sends them to third-world countries. To be a part of the project, I had to go through an interview and also score in the top half of my class on the Intro to Business midterm! I’ve already done so much here that it’s hard to believe it’s only been about two months. When we started at Niagara, we went on the Whirlpool Jet Boat, which takes you through Level 5 rapids in the gorge; we went through a corn maze; saw Lion King the musical; went to NU soccer and hockey games; saw a psychic, a ghost hunter and a mind reader; painted pumpkins; saw the most HILARIOUS hypnotist show where freshmen were being hypnotized, basically the most hilarious thing of my life; enjoyed team trivia; and played bingo, where I won a trash can full of school supplies and many other things that have kept me so busy that I never have a chance to be bored. On top of all of the activities, I still have all of my school work, which is a lot to keep up with but definitely manageable. I also work here, in the Office of Academic Affairs, which is an awesome place to work. I love the people I work with. They’re so sweet and make work enjoyable. My roommate is wonderful. I’ve known her since fourth grade but we weren’t exactly friends throughout school (except for in fourth grade) until senior year when we decided to room together. She also has been dating my step-brother for about two years (no big deal). It has definitely been nice to have someone who I know that I can just be myself around during an already-stressful first semester. It’s lovely being able to go back to the room and just be my normal, quirky self and not have to worry about my roommate judging me or thinking I’m weird, because she’s pretty much just as quirky as I am. I could probably go on forever about all the friends I've made here but instead I’ll just post a picture. If you haven’t lost interest already because of the length of this, I’m sure you’re headed in that direction! If you have made it this far, thanks, and keep reading because they will only get better from here...PROMISE!
DrupalCamp Lisbon 2011 Apache Solr Presentation Today I presented Apache Solr in Drupalcamp Lisbon 2011 (Twitter #dclx11) I'd like to share the example module I wrote to use the apache solr API more efficiently + the slides I used to support it. An example module for ApacheSolr Module does not exist yet but maybe this is a good start. Please comment on this to see if you have improvements. The module has been split up in different files serving different purposes (theme, functions, hooks). Note: I use some ugly menu_alter hacks to allow a custom apachesolr menu callback but this is not the main goal. Also I'd be more than happy to explain you any question you would have concerning this implementation/example What the slides can tell you is how Drupal search works and which alternatives you have for using search. Also it addresses a lot of technical issues like caching and customizing but I would like to forward you to the session page if you also want to have the audio (will be uploaded soon) Also included (see below, or if you are using RSS to read this click on this article to see it!) is the example module I used. The example site also had apachesolr_ubercart installed. More like this - Nick_vh: Slides + Module of #ApacheSolr #dclx11 #drupal now online http://www.nickveenhof.be/blog/drupalcamp-lisbon-2011-apache-solr-presentation - Nick_vh: RT @drupal_pt: Have you checked our brand new and beautiful website? Don't miss DrupalCamp Lisbon 2011! http://bit.ly/en3o2n #dclx11 - Nick_vh: RT @perusio: If you proposed a session for DrupalCamp Lisbon 2011. March 6th we'll notify you regarding acceptance of your session(s). #... - Nick_vh: Will also present at #drupalcamp Lisbon #dclx11 http://bit.ly/hMjLu1 All about #apachesolr and more! Stay tuned;-) #drupal - Nick_vh: Put my presentation from #drupalcampspain about Apache Solr online http://bit.ly/d8SbwD #drupal
It’s with great pride that I debut “Go Loko,” the insanely fun... Couldn’t make it? Or do you just want to relive the madness? Luckily, Vidding Around was there to capture those debaucherous shenanigans and insane dance moves that make every party the greatest party of the year! Check out our latest episode of Vidding Around, featuring DJ Keoki, DJ Scotto and Jen Lasher in the mix at the Girls & Boys party at Webster Hall in New York City! qiero ir a una rumba asi

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