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Autumn QIGONG SCHEDULE
Monday afternoons: 3:30-5pm
Friday mornings: 9-10:15am
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$15 per class - student/senior rates - punch cards available below
all classes held at FloorSpace Studio • 1510 Zamia Ave. Boulder, CO 80304
Nancy first came to yoga in the 1970's in high school. She continued her own yoga practice and in naturopathic school also studied with a Tai Chi master. While in Acupuncture school she took her first qigong classes. Nancy has completed Ashtanga yoga teacher training with Richard Freeman in Boulder, CO in 2001. Since 2002 she has been studying with the Liu family through Ling Gui International Healing Qigong School, and is a certified Ling Gui instructor.
Nancy brings her extensive background of these disciplines, as well as her experience as a practicing Naturopathic doctor and Acupuncturist to her teaching of qigong. She thoroughly enjoys teaching and feels it is through group teaching and practice that her own life is healed and enriched. Teaching and experiencing qigong is a co-creational process, benefiting all practitioners of qigong, yoga or tai chi-whether it is your first time experiencing qigong or you are a seasoned practitioner. Qigong is the ultimate self-healing practice.
Qigong encompasses series of forms designed to heal the various systems in the body. These are ancient and modern Chinese and Taoist/Buddhist exercises developed to move the energy, or qi and blood in the body to prevent disease and discomfort. It is said that the exercises were specifically born out of a need for monks in monasteries, to help them be able to sit in meditation for hours. Although we may not be using them for the same purpose, research shows that we can benefit from their effects on mind and body.
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Community Involvement
Our mission, "we improve health every day," applies not only to the care provided inside our facilities but outside our walls as well. We are committed to the many communities and individuals we serve, and we strive to achieve our mission in several ways.
Our community engagement extends far and wide. We offer a variety of initiatives and invest in partner programs designed to prevent illness and empower individuals. These include educational classes and materials, scholarships and tuition grants, health screenings, and other services. We understand that an investment in wellness is the best investment for our shared future. For individuals needing financial assistance with health care expenses, we have a number of programs for low income, uninsured and/or underinsured individuals.
Community Health Needs Assessments
To identify the health needs of our communities, we conduct community health needs assessments. These assessments provide us with a picture of the health status of the residents in our communities and help to direct us in developing and providing health services. Through collaboration with our community partners, such as health departments, free clinics, community health centers and others, we can bolster the physical, mental, emotional and social well-being of our friends and neighbors. And, we work to make sure they are cared for in a compassionate, culturally sensitive and patient-focused manner.


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Mayor Bloomberg yesterday called council members who voted against the 7 percent property-tax hike "gutless" – and urged that they be booted.
"Those that didn't [vote for it] are really trying to slap our uniformed services and other employees in the face. They sit there and say, 'I want more cops. I want our cops to get better pay,' and then they don't vote for 'em. It's just gutless," he said on his weekly radio show.
He spoke less than 24 hours after the council approved his request for the increase. Eighteen council members voted no.
Bloomberg said voters should "come to understand that's not good government and [the 18 legislators] shouldn't be there."
The attack was surprising in its timing and ferocity – after all, the tax hike passed by a comfortable 33-18 margin, wider than the votes on extending term limits.
And despite extracting some concessions, the council basically gave Bloomberg what he wanted.
"It's lucky he didn't say that a day earlier or this wouldn't have gotten through," grumbled one supporter of the hike.
Councilman Jimmy Vacca (D-Bronx) shot back: "I think It took guts to say this type of tax falls on seniors . . . on people facing foreclosure . . . on new immigrants having a hard time making ends meet. I'm proud of my vote."


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How Can We Help the Mandaeans Survive?
What is the Mandaean Emergency Campaign?
Some Successes to Report
Professor Bolender starts "Mandaean Crisis International
Help for the Mandaeans
Mandaeans and the Sixth Stage of Genocide
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You probably think this Valentine is for you...
I started celebrating earlier this week by eating endless bags of cinnamon hearts for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Consequently it required a very hefty pair of spanx to fit into these printed pants that I am completely obsessing over! I found this outfit at The Rack last week and spent a whopping $23 - including the fuchsia top. The Hat is from Target and carrying it around makes me feel like belting "You're so vain" from the top of my lungs.... (if only my hat were strategically dipped below one eye.)
Shoes and jewelry are Cents of Style - and I am completely obsessed with wearing long necklaces lately.
I highly recommend walking into parties this weekend, like you are walking onto a yacht....
And if you do opt for a scarf....I recommend apricot.
Happy Valentines Day! Remember not to give away the things you love. Especially if one of them is me!
xoxo Christy
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The MedStar system is governed by the ten members of the board of directors of the Metropolitan Area EMS Authority (MAEMSA).
The ten-member board of directors includes six voting members, four members representing the City of Fort Worth, one member representing the suburban member cites and a physician representative of the Emergency Physicians Advisory Board (EPAB).
Two appointed members of the First Responder Advisory Board (FRAB), the system Medical Director and the EMS Authority's CEO serve as ex-officio (non-voting) members of the Board.
EMS Authority Board Meetings are generally held the fourth Wednesday of each month starting at 10:00am at MedStar's HQ facility at 2900 Alta Mere Drive, Fort Worth, TX 76116
Board of Directors
Brian Byrd, M.D., Chairman
Rajesh R. Gandhi, M.D., PhD, MBA
Janice Knebl, D.O.
Paul Harral
Matt Aiken
John Geesbreght, M.D.
Fort Worth Fire Chief Jim Davis (ex-officio)
Haslet Fire Chief Kirt Mays (ex-officio)
Veer Vithalani, MD, FACEP, FAEMS, Interim Medical Director (ex-officio)
Doug Hooten, MBA, CEO (ex-officio)
Brian Byrd, M.D.
Raj Gandhi, M.D., PhD, MBA
Doug Hooten
Chief Kirt Mays
Fort Worth Fire Chief Jim Davis
Veer Vithalani, MD
Dr. John Geesbreght, In Memoriam
The Metropolitan Area EMS Authority Board of Directors meet at 10 a.m. on the fourth Wednesday of each month at the MedStar Headquarters at 2900 Alta Mere Drive, Fort Worth.
Meeting agendas and supporting materials can be accessed under each meeting date listed below.
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Crime - Sacto 911
Did mental break cause man to hit 3 cyclists near W. Sacramento?
The three bicyclists were riding along South River Road between Clarksburg and West Sacramento early on a June evening last year when the sport-utility vehicle sped toward them.
The first cyclist tumbled in a heap as the driver shoved him off the road. The two other riders – teens training for a race that weekend – took the brunt of the speeding vehicle, their bodies smashing into the SUV's hood and then the windshield before landing, in one prosecutor's words Friday, wherever physics took them. One of the boys suffered a major head injury in the collision. He later lapsed into a coma, but survived the wreck.
Alamar Cyril Houston "basically mowed them down," Yolo County Deputy District Attorney Garrett Hamilton told jurors Friday. "He rode right through them."
The trial for Houston, 39, began Friday in Yolo Superior Court in Woodland. He faces 19 counts, including three counts of attempted murder, along with charges of felony hit and run and assault with a deadly weapon connected to the violent spree June 30, 2015.
An attack on a cashier at a West Sacramento Walgreens drugstore that followed the collision led West Sacramento police to chase the stolen Hyundai Tucson said to have been driven by Houston into downtown Sacramento.
Witnesses testified Friday that a man identified as Houston zigzagged in a stolen truck through traffic on southbound Interstate 5 across Yolo County on the morning of June 30, 2015, splitting a path at one point between a tractor-trailer and a pickup truck before sliding to a stop in the center median near Sacramento International Airport. The man then jumped out of the truck and bolted across northbound I-5 toward the airport and a car rental lot, where he drove off in the Hyundai.
That evening, the prosecutor said, Houston plowed into the cyclists. The head injury suffered by the teen cyclist was so severe, Hamilton said, that doctors were forced to open the boy's skull so his rapidly swelling brain wouldn't crush itself against bone.
The methamphetamine-stoked rampage ended with Houston's arrest by a West Sacramento police officer and his canine partner on a Sacramento side street, Hamilton said.
Houston's attorney, Yolo County Deputy Public Defender Dean Johansson, told jurors that mental illness, not methamphetamine, gripped Houston that June day. He pointed to blood tests after Houston's arrest that showed no signs of alcohol or drugs in his system and said Houston did not possess the mental state required to commit the list of crimes he faces.
"This is a different man," Johansson said, as a hulking Houston sat hunched at the defense table. "He wasn't medicated. His back story isn't June 30, it's before that."
Johansson said Houston had been released days earlier from the Glenn County jail in Willows and walked 17 miles into tiny Maxwell in Colusa County, where he later drove off with a mini-truck parked near a diner under the effect of what Johansson called a "psychotic break."
"This was a different person. He's thinking with a psychotic brain," Johansson said. "What we're seeing here is a mental health disorder."
Houston's prison stays for crimes in Sacramento, San Joaquin and Solano counties stretch back to the late 1990s, Hamilton said.
The trial continues Monday before Yolo Superior Court Judge David Rosenberg.
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Past Prize Winners & Award Recipients
MACLAS 2009 Prize & Award Committees and Prize Winners & Award Recipients
Arthur P. Whitaker Prize
The Arthur P. Whitaker Prize is awarded for the best book published in the previous two years by a MACLAS member who has been a member in good standing for the past two years.
Arthur P. Whitaker Prize Winner: Jack Child for Miniature Messages: The Semiotics and Politics of Latin American Postage Stamps. Durham, Duke University Press. 2008
James Street Prize
The James Street Prize is awarded for the best article published in Latin American Essays.
James Street Prize Winner: David Shienen for "Sport and Nation in Proceso Argentina: Dictatorship Ideologies, Media Representations, and the Rise of Guillermo Vilas and Carlos Reutemann"
Juan Espadas Prize
The Juan Espadas Prize is awarded for the best paper submitted to the conference by an undergraduate student.
Juan Espadas Prize Winner: Stephanie Demaree for "Macondo versus McOndo: realismo mágico y el peso de la memoria histórica en The Brief Wondrous Life Oscar Wao"


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A7 - Voigtlander 40/1.4IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/268zdUj *** by Lee, on Flickr
I want to give this lens a test with the 35/2.8 over the weekend.
The above shot was probably f/2
The 40mm is obviously f/1.4 but it's a bit iffy (unless close distance) & the corners are 'crap' & it's best used at f/2 or smaller for sharpness but, it does have some character & look to it. Which brings me to the thought that if I shoot it at f/2-2.8 had I may as well just use the FE35 wide open....?!?
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Tactical Nuclear Weapons Replace WMD
"Hello, I'm Dr. Sandra Yong. How are you today?"
"Certainly better than I was over the weekend. This eye infection started in the early hours of Saturday morning. The pain I was experiencing has subsided, thankfully. The profuse tearing up has too and while I can now see your facial features, my vision is still blurred in both eyes, which wasn't the case prior to the infection. My eyes have become hypersensitive to light too."
"OK, let's see what they look like through the microscope," she said and then after the examination, "Well, here's the good news; while you do have some lesions on your right eye cornea, there are none on your left eye. I'll prescribe some eye drops to help you combat the infection and to stop further development of the lesions, lest they become perforations."
"And the bad news?"
"There's a lesion sitting right smack in your right eye's line of vision, where it can cause the most damage. Its going to take weeks to heal, I'm afraid and even then, you may need a cornea transplant in that eye. Not every one does in a situation like this though, but I won't be able to tell until your eyes have healed completely. Either way, we will make progress from where things stand now, alright?"
"Mmm hmm." Well, just what on God's earth happened?
"What medications are you using for your eyes at the moment?"
"None. I used to apply a drop of Symbrinza to my left eye twice a day prior to the infection. It was prescribed to help me regulate the pressure in that eye after I'd had surgery to ameliorate the exfoliation syndrome in it, but I stopped using Symbrinza after Saturday morning, because it aggravated the pain."
"I see. I doubt that it'll cause you any more pain, so you can start using it again. Here," she said, pushing the completed prescription form into my hand, "You need to purchase and apply these three drops immediately. They include a broadspectrum antibiotic which is compounded by a particular pharmacy in the next block, so you're better off going to them first. I'll have you booked to see me again on Friday, the fifteenth, so I can assess how well you're responding to the drops. Will that work for you?"
"You bet it will."
"Good, if you give this slip to my assistant, she'll appoint a time for you to come back on the fifteenth. See you then."
"Do I need to continue on the intravenous therapy started by the Burnaby Hospital's ER?"
"No, absolutely not."
A Decoy
My son and I walked over to the pharmacy Dr. Yong had directed us to and after purchasing the prescribed drops, drove to the ER at Burnaby Hospital. I presented my Care Card to the receptionist on arrival there and started to explain that I'd just seen the ophthalmologist and her opinion was that I wouldn't need additional intravenous therapy, but I was interrupted by a young doctor standing nearby.
"What's your name again?" She asked.
I introduced myself and related Dr. Yong's opinion to her, knowing as I did, that her colleague Dr. Morton had indicated the previous day that the therapy sessions would be repeated for up to five days, depending on the opinion of the ophthlamologist.
"Do come in, so we don't have to discuss this matter out here." She led us to an isolation chamber, offered me the seat there and said, "I'll be back shortly."
After quite a few minutes had passed, Dr. Morton joined us in the chamber, all suited up to attend to a patient in quarantine, which I found odd, since my son was standing in the same chamber without any protection, but whatsoever.
"Hi, you're somewhat early today," he said.
"I know," I responded. "We drove here after seeing Dr. Dubois this morning and, by his referral, Dr. Sandra Yong, who's a cornea specialist. She prescribed three different eye drops for me, including two antibiotics. She says I don't need to continue the intravenous therapy."
"Really? Do you have a followup appointment with her?"
"Indeed, I do. I'm due to see her again at a quarter to twelve on Friday the fifteenth."
"Oh? Well in that case, I'll have to remove the peripheral line on your arm," which is exactly what he proceeded to do after pulling off his face mask. "When did you say you're due to see Dr. Yong again?"
"About noon on Friday."
"Well, there's no point detaining you any further then. You have a good one," he said, as he walked us out of the isolation chamber.
"And you," I replied.
"Are you letting them go this soon?" the young female colleague asked him, as we made our exit from ER.
"They know what they're doing," Dr. Morton replied.
There's a book-long young medic, I thought. It appeared to me, by her inflexible adherence to the rule book, that she may be a newbie to a vocation she'd chosen, but may lack the flair for. On the other hand, I just may have succumbed to a bit of uninformed conceit, as I sometimes do.
My eyesight had improved significantly by Friday and I could feel little pain in the eyes, though they remained hypersensitive to light. We arrived in the block where Dr. Yong's clinic is somewhat early, on my request. As a result, we had time to scout for a cheaper street parking slot. It was worth our while. I directed my son to a lane where parking slots cost five Dollars an hour; a bargain which felt good to gain at the cost of the walk past two blocks.
Dr. Yong thought I was responding satisfactorily to the medications she'd prescribed, when she examined my eyes in the microscope. "Let me see you again next week, OK? Do give this slip to my assistant and she'll let you know the date and time for your next visit. Enjoy your weekend."
"And you."
Our next visit was during the morning of December 19th, by which time my eyesight had improved some more and our anxiety over the vicious neisseria meningitidis had subsided. In large part, the war against the pathogen was over, with just a few holdouts left to be mopped up. To our surprise, Dr. Yong's clinic was virtually empty when we arrived. It turned out that in preparation for the Christmas break, they'd retained only the most urgent cases on their calendar for that week. She again examined my eyes under the microscope after dilating the pupils, as they always do prior to such scrutinies.
"Your eyes are looking much better now. The lesion in the bull's eye of your right cornea is healing. Now, as I mentioned earlier, some people experience a complete regeneration of tissue after such damage, but that isn't always the case. If you do experience full regeneration, there'll be no need for further intervention from us. Otherwise, you may need a cornea transplant. So, I'm going to have my assistant set up an appointment for you to see Dr. Morrison early next year, for a possible cornea transplant. In the mean time, the progress you've made so far means we can begin to tapper off your use of the medications.
"Here's how I want you to proceed for the next month. Continue using the antibiotic eye drops twice a day for the next week and then cease using them altogether. Use the steroid drops four times a day during the same period, then three times a day during the ensuing week. Reduce it further to twice a day in the third week, once a day in the fourth and cease using it altogether in the fifth week. Let me write it all out for you." She wrote and handed me three slips for the routine she'd just described, for notifying her assistant of my next appointment in January 2018 and for the ensuing appointment with Dr. Morrison. "Merry Christmas to you both."
There then; the UN's Secretary General, acting on behalf of the Security Council, had issued the predictable statement calling for an immediate ceasation of hostilities, the return of all parties to pre-existing borders and the commencement of talks leading to the exchange of prisoners, the safe evacuation of wounded combatants and a lasting peace, with regard to the brief war over my eyes. Christmas would still be possible, howbeit I'd missed deadlines for the dispatch of greeting cards, etc because of the unseasonable outbreak of war.
I walked to the neighbourhood pharmacy that afternoon for two purposes. "I'd like to return these reading glasses which I purchased four days ago."
"Ow, is there anything wrong with them?" the Sales Associate asked.
"Nothing whatsover, but my eyesight has been changing progressively, so I no longer find these suitable."
After that transaction was completed, I stepped up to the prescriptions counter, presented my identifying Care Card and asked the assistant, "Could you send a fax to my family doctor to ask for a renewal of the prescription for my blood pressure medication? I've a day's supply only at the moment and I can't get an appointment to see him before December 22nd, which is, you know, three days away."
"We will and we'll give you a call as soon as we hear from him," she replied.
"Thanks and Merry Christmas."
It was cold but sunny that afternoon. I took off my sunglasses momentarily and looked up at the leaves of one of the trees which shade the walkway, as I made my way home. Thank God I can see the yellow leaves fluttering in the gentle afternoon breeze again.
Its a simple pleasure I treasure, because of an association and more. One of my cherished childhood memories is of warm afternoons spent outdoors, sitting under a tree as we listened to our first grade teacher read, or tell us stories about heroic figures. The fluttering leaves mean much more to me these days, because I also view them through the prism of just what it took to build a planet which supports organic life in this vast expanse we call the Universe; an expanse in which our solar system hardly qualifies as a speck of dust, let alone its planet which serves as our home. Yet this delicate, infinitesimal Earth presents us with such stunning glimpses of beauty and always, in the offhanded manner of a masterpiece.
[To be continued …]


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My name is Alisa Starr. I make Snarky Cards: Brutally Honest Greeting Cards. I sell them in bars from a box that hangs beneath my boobs. And I have them in 35 different stores. And while I make Snarky Cards, I watch television. I watch a lot of fucking television. I'm fond of saying that television is my favorite boyfriend. And every once in a while, I write about television. This is going to be one of those times.
I probably watch about 60 hours of tv a week. Some of it is really good, and some of it is mediocre. I like to say that I watch a lot of tv, so you don't have to, but the truth is, the characters on tv are my friends. And I think of tv writers as my colleagues. I've watched every major drama that's been on tv in the last 20 years. Even Canadian ones. I've seen every cop show that's been on in the last 40 years, and I watch a lot of Science Fiction. I love action, adventure and sex, and occasionally magic.
Grey's Anatomy -or as my friend KT calls it "Doctors Who Cry in Seattle"- and I broke up a long time ago, when the characters on it started repeating every line 3 times, almost as if their repetition was an incantation that would get them out of each conversation they stumbled into. They were repeating their lines because Shonda Rhimes, who produces and writes that show, was producing and writing another show, Private Practice, or "Doctors Who Have Sex in LA".
Doctors who Have Sex In LA is just as silly a show as you would expect it to be. It takes place in a private clinic in LA, full of rich doctors, within which entertaining drama happens. Sexual partners are traded, patients have life threatening diseases, or sometimes just want the doctors to do weird medical things to their bodies. Occasionally the system is fought, but with money, and so, the system is often thwarted. There is a sexy office boy, who shows up wet and beautiful to the office after lunch. Some of the lady doctors are old, but want babies. It'sa silly show about people with money and education whose problems are almost negligible. Shonda has a flair for writing insane plot twists so once a season, there's a real trauma, and someone dies, or almost dies, or is assaulted, or something. But even the actual drama is a little silly, so I have a hard time taking it seriously.
But the writing is good, and the actors are excellent. In fact, I started watching it because Amy Brenneman (Judging Amy) is one of my favorite actresses of all time and Tim Daly (Wings) was a huge star in my teenage sex fantasies. In fact, I think that Shonda learned an important lesson from the McSteamy and McDreamy phenomenon. Most of the cast is man-candy. Taye Diggs keeps giving everyone steamy looks, and wearing sensitive sweaters (which somehow get me creamin' every time, despite the fact that sweaters are clothes), Chris Lowell (who stole my heart as Veronica Mars' last bf) is the wet, after-lunch show. And Paul Adelstein is frustrated, and often shirtless. Doctors who Have Sex in LA is entertaining, but not compelling.
The show itself is not Important to the world. No-one is going to learn a life lesson while watching it, it's just as silly as Doctors Who Cry In Seattle. Except that it is sorta important. Mostly because Shonda Rhimes is important. She's the only visible, black female producer and writer. And that's important because white people, when left to their own devices, are boring. I know. I'm white. I've been around a lot of white people in my time. And a show about white people who only hang out with other white people is boring. And I hate boring tv. Shonda is eliminating boring tv.
Because she's a woman of color, she remembers that people of color and women are important, and considers them for roles, and hires them. And in the last decade, black actors have found themselves getting edged out of television. I don't know if you have noticed it, but the black friend of the 90's has been eliminated. And until Grey's Anatomy started up, we had not found a black main character to replace him/her. More often than not, we've just found more white people as main characters. White people who don't have close black friends, or friends of color. In the early 2000's, there were very few main characters of any show that were black, brown or any color in between. She has created two shows, which have main characters of color, who are not simply there as foils to white characters. She may create/write overwrought monologues for said charcters, but she has also put them front and center back into the mainstream of tv, once again. For a few years, Grey's Anatomy was the only show where you saw a diverse cast, being the same kind of spazzes regardless of race and gender. I personally believe that if Shonda hadn't showed up we'd still be backtracking as far as race goes. Because when we eliminated the black friend, and didn't replace him with a main character of color, we lost ground.
And that is my justification for watching Doctors Who Have Sex in LA. Also, I like the sex. And people having sex in their offices. Because I've never been able to maintain any kind of job where I had an office, and I like the idea that people really just create white collar careers so that they can have sex in their offices. And Shonda definitely reinforces that false belief that I so enjoy.And she brings the man-candy.
Anyway. So, this year marks the fourth season of the show. In the beginning of the season, Dell (Veronica Mars' boyfriend) is in a car accident, while taking his daughter, and Taye Diggs' daughter home. He dies. Since they killed off his junkie ex-wife in the previous season, this leaves his child an orphan. She's nine years old, and the people that her Dad has worked with for her whole life are faced with a decision. Can any of them take her in?
The answer is, yes, of course they can take her in. They're all doctors, who work 40 hours a week in a private practice, which performs expensive procedures, for people with money. They can all take care of their friend's orphaned child. These people have professed to be this guy's best friend since the show started. And yet, none of them want to take care of his orphaned daughter. They have the means, they have the time, they just kinda don't give a shit. I mean, literally, at some point in the episode, every single main character -save Judging Amy- says that they don't want to take this adorable, nice, little girl. And they say it like they're annoyed. And, they are annoyed. They're annoyed that Judging Amy is asking them to consider inconveniencing themselves. They're annoyed that this adorable little orphan girl hasn't just disappeared into the system. A system which gives adorable orphan Betsy, whom they all profess to love, a chance of getting raped, beaten, bullied and guarantees that she will grow up feeling alone and unloved.And each character has a moment with Judging Amy, who is pleading with them to adopt their dead friend's child, where they're like "Is this because that crazy lady cut the baby out of your belly and left you for dead last year? Because this can't be about the fact that I just don't give a shit about this orphan." And they all treated Judging Amy like she was mentally deficient because she wanted to adopt Betsy.
In the end, she couldn't adopt the little girl, because she was stupid enough to marry one of the people in the Practice with her. And he was also a selfish dick, like everyone else on the show, who didn't care about his dead friend's kid. And she had to do what her husband said. because racial equality or not, America is still very sure that a girl who goes against her husband/boyfriend/love interest's wishes will end up alone. And being alone is the worst thing that can happen to a woman.
It's the first time, in my love affair with television. that I have ever been so horrified by the morality of a show that I have abandoned it. I have abstained from shows because they were morally icky; like The Shield, which was basically about this murdering, drug-dealing, bully, whom everyone hated, and who performed shoddy police work for years, with no consequence. It was gross. So I didn't watch it. But I've never gotten involved with a show, liked the characters, and then have them all magically turn into raging assholes. I mean, ever. But I was so horrified by their indifference, that I have not been able to bring myself to watch it since.
The break-up has been hard on me. I know it makes my job sound even more cushy, I paint and watch tv. However, the tv serves a very real function; it helps me with a realistic sense of time. The 45 minutes of each show help me parcel out my tasks. I give myself 4 episodes to paint 50 elephants, or to write one blog entry. If I've watched 5 episodes, and still haven't finished the fucking elephants, than I'm not going fast enough. Maybe it's the elephants, maybe I need to throw some balloons in between sets of ten elephants. Without this little system, I'm kind of screwed. Mostly because my internal clock no longer works. I will literally look around in the middle of the day and try to figure out what day of the week it is. The date is even more elusive. Sometimes it's ten minutes after I've been conscious of time, but sometimes it's ten days. Time speeds up and slows down for me, not in direct relation to the amount of fun I'm having, but just sort of randomly. And tv helps me regulate time, and keeps me on task. Also, I think I have ADD. Because it's really hard for me to do one thing at a time.
OK, so actually, I just re-read that bit about time. And while that's true, eliminating one show from my repatoire of 20, probably is as silly a problem as most of the things that Doctors Who Have Sex in LA have had to deal with. It's not actually that big of a hardship. My problem is more like this: I used to hang out with these people, and I forgave them for being silly and a little overwrought, because I still thought they were funny and hot and kinda harmless. But then it turned out that they are actually horrible people, and I want to tell everyone what dicks they are.
So, that is the story of why I had to break-up with Doctors Who Have Sex in LA. And how it was totally traumatizing. In other news, Grey's Anatomy has stopped making it's characters repeat every sentence 3 times, like they have OCD. They're back to having interesting problems, and the show is watchable again. And Nikita is a Vietnamese Chick, who is also a bad-ass action star, and Coby Bell has joined the cast of Burn Notice (maybe that was my problem, I just missed Coby Bell all these years), Blair Underwood is the president on The Event, Undercovers mentions that their main characters are cooks more than that they're black spies, and the interracial relationship on Parenthood is probably the sweetest relationship I've seen on tv in a long time. So, I don't mind if one of Shonda's shows goes to shit. Since I think we have to credit her with reminding America that people of color are important in our television dramas.
But I'm still pissed that those dick doctors in LA haven't been karmically punished for their inability to care for their dead friend's orphaned daughter. Fucking assholes.
There's more stuff that has happened to me than this travesty in mediocre but racially relevant television. But I will tell you about it in my next posting.


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Kashmir had a very rich secular,peaceful and Tolerant culture in the past. emperor Ashoka is often credited with having founded the city of Srinagar.Kashmir was once a Buddhist seat of learning, perhaps with the "Sarvastivada" school dominating. East and Central Asian Buddhist monks are recorded as having visited the kingdom. After the advent of Islam into Kashmir a traditional centre of Buddhist and Hindu religions conversion of Hindus to Islam has resulted in numerically significant population of the Kashmiri Muslims being descendents of Hindus . The prevalence of common Kashmiri Pandit family names among contemporary Kashmiri Muslims is indicative of Hindu lineage. Kashmiri Pandit family names Common family names among Kashmiri Pandits include: Handoo,Aga, Atal, Bandhu, Bhan, Bagati, Bhat/Butt/Bhatt,Budki(Burki), Chowdhury,Dhar(Dar), Dass(Das), Dassi, Dulloo, Ganju(Ganjoo), Kaw,Gurtu,Hak, Haksar, Hangal, Hangoo,Hoon, Jaju,Jalali, Kachru(Kachroo), Kak, Kar, Kappu, Katju, Kaul(Koul), Kaw, Kemmu, Khar,Kasid Kher, Khosa, Kitchlu(Kitchlew), Kunzru, Langoo,Malla, Mantoo, Mattoo, Muthoo, Misri, Natu, Nehru,Ogra,\ Pandit, Pandita, Parimoo,Qasba, Raina, Rayu, Razdan, Reu, Sadhu, Sapru, Shah, Shivpuri, Shrunglu, Shunglu,Tangnu, Thusoo,Tikoo,Wakhlu, Wanchoo/Wanchu, Wantoo/Wantu,Warikoo, Wattal, Wattoo, Zalpuri, Zaroo and Zutshi.Many of these names are also shared by Kashmiri Muslims.Handoo,Bagati,Bhan,Bhat,Burki,Dhar(Dar),Sapru,Kitchlew,Sheikh are some surnames which are shared by converted kashmiri hindus.The ancestors of most of the kashmiri are common, Syeds are not kashmiri blood,They had come from West Asia and Middle east with the then religious groups to share their knowledge about islam with hindus of kashmir.Some world famous kashmiris are Pt. Jawahar lal nehru,Sir Iqbal and yes Nawaz shareif is also a kashmiri. There is a saying that blood is thicker than water.But I fell religion is thicker than blood.The proof is the killing of kashmiri pundits by Kashmiri Muslims .Some famous lines which were used at that time are as under:· Kashmir main rahna hai, Allah-ho-Akbar Kahna hoga. (If you choose to live in Kashmir, you will have to say Allah-o- Akbar).· Asi gachi Pakistan, Bata ros ta batanev san. (We want Pakistan, with Kashmiri Hindu women and without their men-folk).· Allah-o-Akbar, Musalmano jago Kafiro bhago, jehad aa raha hai. (Allah-o-Akbar, arise and awake Muslims, buzz off infidels, jehad is approaching.)· Kashmir kya banega – Pakistan (What will Kashmir be – Pakistan)· Zalimo O, Kafiro, Kashmir hamara chhod do (Ye cruel Kafirs (infidels) vacate our Kashmir)· Yahan kya chalega, Nizam – e – Mustafa (What will have sway here – Prophet's governance)· Arise ye, fearless Momins, For Russia has lost the race, Now the sword hangs on India's neck Now it is Kashmir's turn.· Islam hamara maksad hai Kuran hamara dastur hai Jehad hamara rasta hai. (Islam is our destinationKoran is our constitution Jehad is our way.)· Hamein kya chahye, Nizame Mustafa Kashmere main kya chalaiga, Nizame Mustafa Hindustan mein kya chalaiga, Nizame Mustafa (What do we need – Prophet's governance. What will have sway in Kashmir – Prophet's governance. What will have sway in India – Prophet's governance.· Ganga-Jamuna mein aag lagayenge (We will destroy Ganga and Yamuna)
I often wonder how powerful is religion? People across world are ready to kill anyone for their religions?How can anyone forget Crusades- Battle between Christians and Muslims? Christians say Muslims were aggressors and they killed devout Christians who were sure that world will come to an end at the beginning of 1000 years .But nothing happened. Humiliated by the Muslims they approached the pope and pope ordered crusades after many years from the date of the incident! On the other hand Muslims say Christians were the real Culprits.Christians, Muslims and Jews have common prophets up till Abraham. Abraham had two sons Ismail/Ishmael and Isaac. Arabs and Europeans had a common belief till Abraham.Division started from Ismail and Isaac. Ishmael, his firstborn son, is considered the Father of the Arabised Arabs, and Isaac is considered the Father of the Hebrews. It is widely believed in Islam, that Ishmael was the son whom Abraham almost sacrificed. Muslims use various proofs among others the fact that Ishmael was at one time his only son. Abraham is revered by Muslims as one of the Prophets of Islam, and is commonly termed Khalil Ullah, "Friend of God". Abraham is considered a "Hanif" that is, a discoverer of Monotheism .Who created Sunni and Shia Muslims? Abu Bakr,Ayesha or Ali?Ali was the first cousinof Prophet Mohammed and Husband of his only surving child Fatima.There is a controversy as to who was the first male muslim? Was it Ali or Abu Bakr?Sunni muslims say Abu Bakr was the first male while Shia muslims say Ali was the first male. Aisha is acontroversial figure because of differing portrayals of her in "Shia Islam" Shia versions of Islamic history and her role in the "First Fitna" (first Islamic civil war) at the head of an army against "Ali" in the Battle of Bassorah" Well the controversies in the religions is very-2 complex..Religions have lost their basic values which is love,peace,harmony and they are just intruments in the hands of politicians and religion has been used by politicians to bind people to common beleifs and customs, so that ruling the masses becomes easy. I believe that Religions are purposely made complex so that common man may take lifetime to understand and another lifetime to practise thus giving no time to analayse politics and power. God, Allah,paramatma,waheguru are different names of same entity.But see the terminology has already killed Millions across world and It still is killing.All religious heads should come together and bridge the gaps of terminology of God,Allah,Paramatma,Waheguru—–.Intercaste,intercultural and international marriages should be made compulsory, thereby giving chances to different people and cultures to understand new cultures and religions.there should be tolerance as well as love for all human beings.
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text: Historical Centre Overijssel, The Netherlands - Constructor Group Archive Reference The Historical Centre Overijssel wished to improve accessibility of her collection to a wider public. They started the construction of new housing. At the same time the depositories would be refurbished. The archives of the Historical Centre Overijssel date from the 12th till 20st century. The archive keeps well over 170,000 ancient maps, drawings and photos of Zwolle and other villages in Overijssel, her residents, daily life and historic events. The solution The archive, spread over 3 depositories is refurbished with Compactus® mobile shelving combined with Compact shelving. These mobile storage systems were selected as the best solution for accommodating customer's demands for compact, well organised and accessible storage. The Compactus® systems were placed on an emission free aluminium floor, which fully complies with Dutch archive law for the advancement of conservation of state archives.


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Julian Stratenschulte is a 33-year-old photo- and videojournalist from Germany.
Since 2009 Julian has been a staff-photographer with the German Press Agency dpa (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) - Germany's leading news wire. dpa is a trusted, accurate and independent provider of news with the digital and multimedia content to power the media at home and abroad.
Julian began his career at the age of 17, as he started working as a journalist for the local newspaper Westfälische-Rundschau in his hometown Arnsberg. Fascinated by photojournalism, he has never left home without a camera since then. After finishing school with an university-entrance diploma, Julian was an intern for Associated Press (AP) in Berlin and Frankfurt.
In fall 2005 he started a B.A. degree in film production in Dortmund. He finished his studies in 2008, concentrating primarily on documentary films. During his studies Julian worked continuously as a photojournalist.
In April 2009 Julian started a two-year training as a photojournalist with German press agency dpa. Since 2011 he has been a staff-photographer with dpa based in Hanover. Julian covers a great variety of news topics - from breaking news, sports, politics to feature photography.
Julian has covered all general elections in Germany since 2005, the Eurovision Song Contest (Vienna 2015, Kiev 2017), major sport events such as Euro and World Championships or the Paralympic Games (Vancouver 2010, London 2012, Sochi 2014). Julian took pictures of the most famous protagonists of our time like Barack Obama, Wladimir Putin or the Dalai Lama. Julian was Pool-Photographer for Queen Elizabeth II. first visit to a German concentration camp.
Julian`s work has been published in German magazines such as Stern, Spiegel and Focus, German newspapers - and also in international publications such as TIME, New York Times, L.A. Times, Wall Street Journal and The Guardian.
Julian's photos are published by dpa as well as many partner agencies like Associated Press (AP), Agence France Press (AFP) and Getty Images.
In search of new perspectives Julian has developed an interest in aerial photography. Julian uses drones as well as different kinds of aircrafts.
Julian also works as a videojournalist for dpa - especially producing short documentaries or covering breaking news. Julian's video-material has been aired by many German TV-stations like ARD, ZDF, NDR, MDR, RTL, n-tv.
In 2013 Julian was listed by German "Medium Magazin" in the "Top 30" of talents in journalism under the age of 30. Julian's portfolio was published by German magazines "Photographie" and "c't Digitale Fotografie" and also on TV in a short documentary of NDR (Northern German Broadcasting). Petapixel.com reports about a drone picture by Julian, which became viral in social media in 2017.
Julian's work has been awarded several prizes and was part of different exhibitions:
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The Peter-C.-Schlueschen-Foundation prize for sports photography 2006
dpa - picture of the year 2007 (3. Place Breaking News)
The Peter-C.-Schlueschen-Foundation prize for sports photography 2007 (2. Place)
The Peter-C.-Schlueschen-Foundation prize for sports photography 2009 (3. Place)
dpa - picture of the year 2009 (3. Place Feature)
Sven-Simon-Preis prize for sports photography 2009 (6. Place)
dpa - picture of the year 2011 (2. Place Arts & Entertainment)
dpa - picture of the year 2012 (2. Place Feature)
3. LUMIX-Festival for young photojournalism in Hanover 2012 - "Hurricane Festival"
dpa - picture of the year 2013 (2. Place Arts & Entertainment)
"Top 30 bis 30" young talents in journalism by Medium Magazine
dpa - picture of the year 2014 (2. Place Feature)
In his spare time he enjoys different kind of sports and spending time with his wife and son.


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I did a quick photo shoot with Jena in her Valentine t-shirt my mom made. The girls are also going tomorrow to get portraits in the full outfit, including skirts my mom made them but I thought I would share these a little early.
When Jill saw I was taking pictures of Jena she tried moving in on her photo shoot. Here you can see a lock of Jill's hair as she was hoisting herself on the couch to sit in front of Jena.
So, of course, I had to get a pic of Jill even though she's not dressed for the occasion and doesn't have her hair done. She was happy to oblige me with a smile!
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This book is scarce as first edition. Millions of Cats first edition, 1st Printing / 1st issue 1928 Wanda Gag in very good condition.
Written and Illustrated by Wanda Gag. Published by Coward-McCann, New York, 1928. First Edition (all points present). First edition, first issue with Jersey City Printing Co. on bottom of copyright page in a first issue Facsimile dust wrapper / Jacket
Bright VERY fresh Boards with minimal rubbing; interior is fresh and bright. Pages are crisp and clean. PO bookplate on front inner boards. and 3144 stamped on top inner edge of first page. An Outstanding copy of a 20th century classic, very rare in the first issue, more so in such nice condition. This book was a 1929 Newbery Honor Book. If it had the original dust jacket it would command much, much more. I have wrapped jacket in mylar for protection.
EX LIBRIS NOTE: The bookplate is from Hiram Edmund Deats library .... (1870–1963), of Flemington, New Jersey, was a philatelist especially acclaimed for his collection of revenue stamps Deats formed one of the finest libraries of philatelic books and literature in the United States, which, in 1952, he donated to the Free Library of Philadelphia. This adds
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*NOTE: Millions Of Cats is considered the first true picture book. (please see Children's Picture book Price Guide, Chapter 1, Today's Golden Era Of Picture books; Development And Evolution of the Picture book Market; Beginning of the Modern Picture book.)
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America Ferrera is sounding the alarms on her sisterhood.
The actress, who rose to major fame as one of the four spunky stars of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and its sequel, sat down on James Corden's late-night couch to dish on her virtual reunion with the gals on New Year's Eve.
As fans rang in the new year, Blake Lively shared a screenshot of a FaceTime chat between her, Ferrera and their fellow co-star Amber Tamblyn.
"This year has taught us a lot. But it's reminded us to practice something we've always known...'Love your pals. Love yourself,'" the mother of two captioned with a sweet reference to one of the fictional sisterhood's rules.
While the moment was picture perfect, Ferrera shattered the illusion when she claimed it was really a ploy to make her jealous.


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text: Yun Fan oversees Chinese language publications in all fields of music and related subjects at RILM. She holds degrees in ethnomusicology (M.A. from Xiamen University, 2008 and M.A. from Wesleyan University, 2011) and in information and library science (MLIS from University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, 2013). She has given presentations at national and international conferences on traditional music, music librarianship, digital library, ontology, and translation in the U.S., U.K., and China. Her most recent publication is "Music information seeking via social Q&A: An analysis of questions in music StackExchange community" (Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE-CS on Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2016). She is also a visiting librarian at Shanghai Conservatory of Music and a consultant on the music programs at Chinese Culture Translation and Studies Support (CCTSS).


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Facts: The parties divorced after a 12-year marriage. Mother was designated the primary residential parent for the parties' seven children. Father remained a very active parent. A year later, Mother met a Canadian man on a dating website and became engaged four months later. Mother notified Father of her intention to relocate to Canada with the children, to which Father objected. Mother married just before the hearing. At the conclusion of the hearing, the trial court denied Mother's request to relocate, finding that the move had no reasonable purpose, that it posed a threat of specific and serious harm to the children, and that it was not in the children's best interests. Mother appealed.
On Appeal: The Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court.
When a divorced parent seeks to relocate with the parties' minor children more than 100 miles from the other parent, Tennessee Code Annotated § 36-6-108(a) requires that the relocating parent shall give written notice of the proposed move.
If the relocating parent spends more time with the children than the other parent, the relocating parent is presumed to be entitled to relocate unless the other parent can establish one of the three grounds listed under Tennessee Code Annotated § 36-6-108(d)(1), to wit:
(A) The relocation does not have a reasonable purpose;
(B) The relocation would pose a threat of specific and serious harm to the child that outweighs the threat of harm to the child of a change of custody; or
(C) The parent's motive for relocating with the child is vindictive in that it is intended to deter visitation rights of the non-custodial parent or the parent spending less time with the child.
If the trial court finds that none of the three grounds have been established, no further inquiry is required and the court "shall" grant the request to relocate. However, if any of the three grounds is established, the court shall determine whether relocation is in the children's best interests. If the court finds it is, the request for relocation must be granted. If the court finds it is not in the best interests of the children to relocate, then the requested relocation must be denied. If the parent elects to relocate without the children, the trial court must modify the parenting plan after considering all relevant factors. Accordingly, relocation cases are fact intensive and require an examination of the specific facts related to the rationale and motives for moving.
Once the parent seeking to relocate states the reasons for the proposed relocation, the burden is on the parent opposing the relocation to prove that the proposed relocation does not have a reasonable purpose. In the context of relocating minor children, the reasonable purpose must be a significant purpose, substantial when weighed against the gravity of the loss of the non-custodial parent's ability to participate fully in their children's lives in a more meaningful way.
While Tennessee law is clear that it is reasonable for a husband and wife to want to live together, a parent's proposed relocation based solely on a new marriage does not always mean that it is reasonable for the child to relocate with the parent. Parental relocation cases considering similar issues — that is, whether relocating to live with a new spouse is a reasonable purpose — generally focus on whether it is more reasonable for the new spouse to relocate.
After examining the relevant case law in detail, the Court concluded that the Mother's new husband's responsibilities in Canada
are not sufficient to render it unreasonable for [him] to relocate to Tennessee to live with his new wife. To the contrary, as the trial court found, it is more reasonable for him to move to Tennessee than for Mother to relocate a distance of 2,700 miles with seven minor children to live with him in Canada.
Furthermore, these considerations must also be weighed against "the gravity of the loss" of Father's ability to participate fully and meaningfully in the lives of his seven minor children, the youngest of which was less than three years old at the time of the hearing in this matter. Given the distance to [Canada] from [Tennessee], the difficulties and time and expense to travel to and from [Canada], and the number of children and their ages, we find Father's loss would be grave.
For the foregoing reasons, we affirm the trial court's determination that Mother's proposed relocation to Canada with the seven minor children has no reasonable purpose.
Carman v. Carman (Tennessee Court of Appeals, Middle Section, March 26, 2012).
Information provided by K.O. Herston: Knoxville, Tennessee Matrimonial, Divorce and Family Law Attorney.


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My class wrote what we added to the Venn on their wipe boards while one student wrote the idea on a sentence strip to add to the Venn itself. This keeps everyone busy, learning, and engaged.
I placed paper plates of gold paint and glitter in the middle of each table. Students painted the entire piece of paper gold. After the paper dried, they drew a star on the back of it and cut it out.


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I'm entirely sure, you're entirely sure, what I'm suggesting.
Yet another of the million reasons I cannot wait to vote again for my President, Barack Obama -- I'll let Mr. Gleemonex take this one:
Which teen would you rather have grow up to be president? A guy who peacefully hangs with his friends hotboxing pakalolo or a dick who pins a guy down and forcefully cuts his hair off cuz he looks different and is probably gay?
On a slightly different but related note: We watched Obama on Fallon (finally), and it was awesome. But I wanna take a moment to discuss the futon that was in the cool-ass photo they discussed on air -- a young Barry, looking cool as shit with a small fro and a nice smile, sitting on a futon covered in (probably) a sheet, with a plant in the background (Fallon was like, "Lookit you, tryna be all grown up, class up the place with a plant!" Heh.). And I'm thinking: I will bet you one hundred dollars, cash American, that Mitt "Entitled Motherfuckin Gay-bashing Asstard" Romney has no fucking idea what a futon is. I mean that if you asked him to define the word, he could not get anywhere close; he would not even know that it belongs in the category "furniture." It works in reverse, too: If you showed him a photo, he absolutely could not come up with the word "futon." Why would he? He's never seen one in his entire life. Futons are for Poors, and he's never even met one of those.
The craw -- in which this is stuck -- is getting crowded
So also (you'll notice a theme here) we're always like two or three weeks behind on SNL episodes (the fact that we are awakened at the very tippy-top of the asscrack of dawn every morning -- even weekends and holidays! -- by the four-year-old bursting through our door with a book has much to do with this), and we only just watched the one with Kristen Wiig's big send-off a few days ago, and I have not been able to get over it.
I don't like her much -- at least, not unalloyed. When she's allowed to hog up all the airtime with her awful maybe-funny-the-first-time-but-certainly-not-the-forty-third-time recurring sketches as she's done the last couple of years, it's goddamn near unbearable (not as bad as the dull, stupid horrorshow that is Armisen, but still, not good). (Quick note about Bridesmaids, if I may -- I laughed a LOT more than I thought I would, which is entirely attributable to the Feig/Apatow influence, but both Wiig and Rudolph were about five to seven years too old for their characters; it took me out of the story a little.)
And but so whatever, I'm only one person. Other people dig her flavor. BUT: Why the big sendoff? Did I miss how she's so deeply, universally beloved and revered as both person and sketch comic that her FINALLY leaving is such a notable event -- the Passing of an Era, the Exit of a True Icon, the worth and weight of her presence so enormous that her departure demands tribute from All Who Came Before Her, to be noted by All Present and All Who Shall Ever Follow?
Fucking Cocksnacking Shatner, what a load that was. There've been a few sendoffs of note, but nobody who's ever been on that show has ever had anything like this one. Ugh. Well, silver lining: No more Wiig on SNL! Yay! Now -- can we get rid of Armisen? Please? PLEASE. I beg.
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S&K reducing stock, not closing
The signs plastered across the windows of the S&K menswear stores in Middle Georgia do not mean the stores are closing.
The signs proclaim an "inventory reduction sale."
In fact, the stores in Macon and Warner Robins will remain open, even though the Richmond, Va.-based company is closing some of its stores in Georgia and nationwide, said Bryan Kipp vice president of marketing.
As part of a restructuring plan, the company plans to close by the end of January, 37 stores including the ones in Dalton, Lake Park and Commerce, Kipp said.
The move was necessary in light of the economy and the credit crisis, he said.
"We selected a group of 21 stores (including the Macon and Warner Robins sites) that we are moving merchandise into to run an inventory reduction event," he said.
"We are not closing those stores anytime in the near future."
According to the company's Web site, it operates 220 stores in 26 states.


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The New Age of Journalism
(As part of my first class in my Masters in New Media Journalism, we had to answer a few questions…thought I'd share.) What is Journalism? This is a really interesting question… In my mind, Journalism is, quite simply…storytelling. Put a fancy wrapper on it all you want. Talk about objectivity and hard facts…but tabloids also …
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Kristina - posted on 06/23/2010 ( 195 moms have responded )
Im not sure what to do. For the last 3 months I havent had any comunnication with my mother. There have been a few reasons why for it. Mostly because on Mothers Day / my wedding day she started a bunch of drama on my facebook about me marrying my husband. She doesnt like him in the slightest shape or form. But I am very much in love with him, you'd think she would respect that. A few months before Mothers day we got into another fight because she hates my husband. She is also very selfish person. All she ever thinks about is money.
She always always needs to be in the middle of everyones business and she always is stirring up trouble for me and the rest of the family. Like currently she has my whole family against me. Even family memebers whom I have never met are emailing me rude things and saying rude things to me. All because my mother cant grow up and get over who I married.
She has always been a really negative and depressing person to be around. She is practically addicted to pain pills that shes perscribed. Ive always been the so called "black sheep" in my family and have never really been close to any of them anyways. Especially not my mother we didnt get along growing up. So I dont really have a problem keeping him away.
Now my problem is that I dont want my son to be around that kind of person. Grandmother or not. I think her influence in his life would be more harmful than benificial. She talks all sorts of drama about me my husband and I know that given the chance she would do it around my son. Shes done it before and even when I said soemthing about it she told me he was to young to understand. That was when he was 7 months old he is 18 months now. So am I in the wrong for doing this or should I have her around anyway?
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Talking to the many parents of hard working families on the Northern Beaches, and from my own experience raising my daughter, I know that the cost of childcare is prohibitively high. The cost of childcare is often higher than what a parent earns working, making the choice between going back to work and staying at home with your child a difficult one.
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At the July election, the Coalition promised Australians that the issue of same-sex marriage would be put to a public vote as soon as practicable. The Government developed a fair and transparent plan that would allow all Australians to resolve this issue for themselves in February 2017.
The Government offered to work with the Labor Party to bring about a public vote. In response, the Labor Party has rejected the wishes of the Australian people to resolve this issue by plebiscite, and refused to deal with the Government in good faith.
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