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Stephenie Meyer's Forks-based saga of teen vampire love is now a global hit
When we last spoke with Stephenie Meyer, the Arizona mom who hit paydirt with a lush, teen novel of vampire love, she was puzzling over the irrational zeal she'd unleashed among adolescent girls.
No one could get over it, the way besotted girls would flock from as far away as Hawaii and New Brunswick to attend signings or pay homage to Forks, Wash., where "Twilight" and its sequel, "New Moon," unfold.
"They're not the largest group of fans out there," Meyer said last summer, "but they seem to be the most fanatical."
Today, that's only half-true. The fanaticism hasn't died, it has gone global. And Meyer's profile is expected to soar with Tuesday's release of "Eclipse" (Little, Brown, $18.99), book three in the series about star-crossed lovers Bella and Edward.
"Eclipse" arrives with a first printing of 1 million copies -- 10 times the initial run of "New Moon" -- and a "Good Morning America" appearance by Meyer, who is learning to take the demands of success in stride.
"I've gotten a little more confident; I'm better able to handle events," she said from her home in the desert of Cave Creek, Ariz.
"On that first tour, when I had to go to school events, I was throwing up before all of them. I was so scared -- I was terrified of everything I had to do."
Meyer, 33, is coming to Seattle later this month for two ticketed events that are expected to draw, collectively, up to 1,600 fans. Meyer may not have the name recognition of J.K. Rowling, but among teen girls -- and their moms -- she's a literary pop star.
"In teen circles, she's bigger than 'Harry Potter,'" said Rene Kirkpatrick, buyer at All for Kids. "Teenage girls, 12 and up -- you mention Stephenie Meyer, they all know her. I don't think it's going to be long before everybody knows who she is."
"On a scale of 1 to 10," said Cheryl McKeon of Third Place Books, "she'd be about a 12 -- in enthusiasm among our readers, in sales."
Still, Meyer's everyday life remains largely unchanged, apart from the heavier demands of writing and travel. She shleps her sons -- now ages 10, 7 and 5 -- to lessons and play dates and finds her success "hard to process."
"In my everyday, normal life, it's just something I don't think about very much," she said, "because it seems very unlikely."
Meyer was deep into hands-on motherhood when "Twilight" had its genesis: an arresting dream about two teen lovers in a rainy woods. The problem: He was a vampire, she was human.
Three months later, Meyer had turned her vision into a manuscript that landed her a $750,000 advance and a film option.
It chronicled the travails of Bella Swan and courtly Edward Cullen, a "vegetarian vampire" who hunts wildlife, not people. They're in love but there's a problem: He's immortal and Bella isn't -- unless she decides to join his afflicted family. Throw in a blood feud with local werewolves and a few near-death experiences, and passions reach fever pitch.
"Twilight," published in fall 2005, spent a year on The New York Times best-seller list, including four weeks in the top spot.
"New Moon," released last August, was No. 1 for 29 weeks in the U.S. and hit No. 1 in Spain and Germany.
"People are realizing that this is becoming a very big phenomenon," said Little, Brown publicist Elizabeth Eulberg, who was promoted to the newly created position of "director of global publicity for Stephenie Meyer."
In May, Meyer's visit to the remote Italian town of Voltarre -- one of the settings for "New Moon" -- drew more than 600 European fans. Some came by bus after learning of the event on the Web.
"The people of Voltarre were fantastic," Meyer said. "Everybody in the town got involved. I went into the square, and they had an 8-foot poster of 'New Moon' on the clock tower."
The Italy tour followed a book-signing "prom" for Meyer at an Arizona State University gym. Tickets sold out in a day, so a second prom was added. Together they drew 1,000 fans, including one who flew in from London.
Meyer, a self-described "girlie girl" who was crushed to discover that no one dresses up in the publishing world, smoked into the prom in a burgundy, sequined wedding dress (after lopping off the nine-foot train) and hired models to portray Edward and his werewolf rival in prom pictures.
Seattle's All for Kids has picked up on the prom theme and is encouraging fans to dress up for Meyer's Aug. 21 signing. Prom photos will be offered for a $5 donation to charity.
With her long, dark hair and pale good looks, Meyer looks the part of a vampire romance writer, but she has a wholesome, grounded quality that's anything but ethereal.
Brimming with energy, she's a fast talker whose rapid delivery makes it hard to tell where one sentence ends and the next begins.
Deeply fond of her fans, she's nonetheless bemused at their devotion to Edward and Bella, who have their own fan-generated MySpace pages filled with wistful musings.
Like this posting from "Faith": "I don't think it's so bad that I'm in love with a character from a book, since most everyone I know loves you too. XOXOXO."
Or this from "Raisa": "It's so sad that I've become so wrapped up and in love with a fictional character. It's like I really want an Edward in my life."
"They want them to be real," Meyer said, "and I can't blame them. So do I."
Writing about teen passion poses a challenge for Meyer, a devout Mormon who disapproves of premarital sex. She said Bella and Edward will talk about consummating their love, but whatever happens -- and she won't reveal the outcome -- will be tasteful.
Spoilers are a particular hazard for "Eclipse," which is being released, a la "Harry Potter," with a stern embargo date. Meyer had her own J.K. Rowling moment when Barnes & Noble jumped the gun on 1,000 copies destined for home delivery. Ironically, it was a fan who sounded the alarm.
Meyer said the retail giant tracked down about 700 copies that had not yet been loaded onto UPS trucks, "so they worked really hard to clean up the mess."
Meyer, meanwhile, is working hard on book four -- the Bella-Edward finale -- and growing increasingly fond of Forks, where she and her family hope to create a permanent hot-weather retreat.
"We have a little house we love to rent," she said. "There's bald eagles' nests in the backyard. For us, that's a big deal."
She's also preparing for next year's release of her first adult novel -- a science-fiction tale about an alien body snatcher who covets her host's love interest.
"It's sort of the first romantic triangle with only two bodies involved," Meyer said.
Less than two years after "Twilight" plucked her from suburban obscurity, Meyer admits she's enjoying the recognition, but said it hasn't gone to her head.
"I'm still a mom above all else. I'm glad that I still get to have my normal life. I get to have it all."


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Ford has introduced inflatable rear seat belts on the 2012 Explorer and Flex as a $200 option, and has plans to introduce the belts on a couple of Lincoln models.
The system includes a conventional web belt over the lap and an inflatable shoulder belt, which, in the event of a crash, inflates via cold compressed gas in 40 milliseconds. The inflatable rear seat belts spread crash forces over five times more area of the body than conventional seat belts, Ford reports, and this helps reduce pressure on the chest and helps control head and neck motion for rear seat passengers. In the event of a frontal or side crash, the inflatable belt's increased diameter more effectively holds the occupant in the appropriate seating position.
According to Ford research, more than 90 percent of those who tested the inflatable seat belts found them to be similar to or more comfortable than a conventional belt because they feel padded and softer. That comfort factor could help improve the 61 percent rear belt usage rate in the U.S., Ford claims, which compares to 82 percent usage by front-seat passengers.
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In this month Shriya comment me like this...
Preparation Time: 30 minutes
Cooking Time: 30 minutes
Serve about 8 people
Ingredients for Muthiya (or gatta):
2 cup wash and chopped fenugreek (methi) leaves
1 cup whole wheat flour (gehun ka atta)
¼ cup besan (
3 tbsp sugar powder
1 tbsp coriander powder
2 tbsp red chilli powder
½ tbsp turmeric powder
1 big size lemon
¼ tbsp fruit salt
Salt to test
Oil for deep fry
Method of making Muthiya:
Step 1: Mix all the dry ingredients for muthiya.
Step 2: Add little oil and ¼ tbsp fruit salt for making Muthiya soft. Add lemon juice and mix together.
Step 3: Add wash and chopped green methi in it.
Step 4: Make stiff dough.
Step 5: Form into small oval dumplings.
Step 6: Heat the oil for fry Muthiya.
Step 7: Sauté the muthiya in heat oil for about 2 minutes.
Step 8: Remove from oil and keep aside.
Ingredients for green masala:
50 gm wash and chopped green coriander leaves
12-15 garlic (use green garlic if available)
6-7 green chillies
Big size ginger piece
100 gm roasted skinless peanuts
3 tbsp sesame seeds
2 tbsp sugar powder
1 big size lemonSalt to taste
Making green masala:
Step 1: Cut green chillies , garlic and ginger and crush into mixer not a smooth paste.
Step 2: Half crush the roasted skinless peanuts into the mixer.
Step 3: Mix the coriander leaves with green chilli past, sesame seeds, crush peanuts, salt, sugar and lemon juice.
Step 4: here you don't required oil or water anything for these green masala.
Ingredients for Undhiya:
250 gms surti Papdi
100 gms yum chunks peeled (suran)
100 gms purple yum chunked peeled (Ratalu)
100 gms sweet potato chunks
100 gms small brinjal (began or eggplant)
50 gms small potatoes
½ gup green peas
1\2 gup green tuver (green lentil)
1 tbsp turmeric powder (Haldi)
½ tbsp asafetida (hing)6-7 big spoon oil
Salt to taste
Step 3: Take half of green masala and rube the chunky veggies (yum, sweet potato & purple yum).
Step 4: Marinate for 15 minutes.
Step 5: Take a small peeled potatoes and brinjal and slit into 4 parts as bottom alone.
Step 6: Stuffed green masala inside the brinjal (began).
Step 8: In a pressure cooker heat the reaming oil form deep fry muthiyabecause it contains aroma of methi leaves so use that oil and add asafetida.
Step 10: Add green lentil ( fresh tuvar ke dane) and mix well.
Step 12: Add all the chunky vegetables with green masala. Add 1/4 cup water but don't stir here.
Step 14: Last add the Fry muthiya in it.
Step 18: Open the cooker after 4-5 minutes.
Step 19: Undhiyu is ready to serve hot as is it.
Step 20: Sprinkle some begangarm sev on the top, if you wish and serve hot with chapattis or paratha.
I made this Undhiya for My PAPA birthday on 14th January for our Uttrayan festival in Gujarat...i made another lot's of things with it....is as below...
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The Scottish SPCA is advising people not to buy rabbits as Easter gifts for fear of a surge in abandoned bunnies.
Scotland's animal welfare charity is warning that a rabbit is for life, not just for Easter.
Mike Flynn, Scottish SPCA Chief Superintendent, said: "Last year we rescued a staggering 670 pet rabbits across Scotland and this year is proving to be challenging as well, with 112 rabbits already taken in.
"There are lots of loving rabbit owners who treat their pets like one of the family and give them all the care and attention they need but sadly this isn't true in all cases.
"The biggest issue is rabbits being put in a hutch and left at the bottom of the garden, with many enduring a life of solitude and boredom.
"We have come across many cases where rabbits have been left with horrifically overgrown teeth and nails. Rabbits need hay to gnaw on to keep their teeth in good condition, as well as regular nail trimming.
"They also need plenty of toys and tunnels to keep them occupied and ideally, rabbits should be bonded with a companion but where this isn't possible they'll need enough human contact to keep them stimulated.
"Rabbits are highly intelligent and sociable animals who can make fantastic family pets, though we strongly advise parents that they and not their children need to take responsibility for their welfare.
"Anyone thinking of rehoming a rabbit should ensure they have the time, commitment and financial ability to provide a happy and healthy life.
"People should not buy rabbits on impulse and should make an informed decision by learning about rabbit care first."
He added: "Pets are not toys and should never be given on a whim or as a gift."


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Denver Mayor Michael Hancock heads to Africa for airport conference, visit to Kenya
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock is heading to Africa next week to participate in the Airport Cities World Conference in South Africa and for a goodwill trip to Nairobi, Kenya, with Denver Councilman Albus Brooks.
The Mayor's Office says "no taxpayer money will be spent" on the trip.
Seventy-five percent of the Nairobi visit will be funded by a grant from Sister Cities International with the rest being paid for from private funders. And the South Africa visit will be primarily funded by Denver International Airport — an enterprise agency within the city that generates its own revenues.
The Airport Cities World Conference will be in the City of Ekurhuleni near Johannesburg. Hancock will attend two days of the conference and will deliver a keynote on global competitiveness. The Mayor and airport officials will also be hosted by the Premier and Mayor of Durban on a tour of that region's airport, trade hub and airport city under development.
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I don't think I've ever seen the Avatar write so much o.O. I'll do a commentary of reading his commentary, it's tense and awesome!
There is 2 gold under each statue not 1. I think.
I think they walled the altar in so people don't get stuck with pacts. This is actually a good thing.
And the "never forget quest requirements" thing - the devs really, and I mean really really really need to implement the damn in dungeon quest refference feature. Maybe in the character portrait or wherever, but it simply has to be there.
Also, Avatar - don't ride the poor guy so hard on mentality - it's a game not a job I know taking it seriously has enormous benefits once the margin of error starts getting lower because of the rising difficulty, but I'm much sloppier at gameplay than you and I've managed things that made you go O.O every so often (@Jay - do listen to Avatar, good habits in the game pay off imensly, and bad habits lead to frustration. )
Also, there's meme material in there PICK THE MEATMAN! It's like listening to a radio broadcast of an old-school Balkan soccer commentator with an incredible emotional investment in his team :_D The tension!
Gods are scaring the crap out of people - why, why doesn't anyone important listen when I say they need an god friendly class among the intro bunch? "No, no, design decision, having indulgences on a priest would confuse newbies, yadda, yadda". Well guess what, now the priest doesn't confuse anyone but gods do -.- Crap, it took me half a year to consider touching GG with a 10 foot pole after the initial bad experience and they plop his altar down where you're most likely to encounter him with a potion spiker -.-
Also the belief that you need high levels to fight the boss makes way more sense than what we're doing. The high-end gameplay, at least the important bits of it, are completely unintuitive and pretty much the opposite of what makes sense. I'm not sure exactly where and when it really became that way, but the "mid-fight lvlup full heal" mechanic itself looks more like an ascended glitch than a natural feature that you're supposed to weaponize. And if you level up you can't use it, you only level up to the point where you can tank a hit (or do a bit more damage), and ding to victory.
But it makes no sense, it looks more like a gimmick than the cornerstone of strategy that it is. It's also why slowing stuff for XP and popcorn bowling aren't intuitive.


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Sadly, I used to live a couple miles from where this story takes place. Prior to moving to South Carolina, I lived just off Main Road in Hampden, a suburb of Bangor, Maine.
The following article is lifted from The Bangor Daily News, written by Renee Ordway.
Hammocks? Yep.
Wreaths? Sure. Pick your size and shape.
Christmas trees? You bet.
Lawn chairs? That's fine.
Welcome signs? Why not?
Flower pots? Of course.
Those are many of the things that one may find on any front porch.
Perhaps an American flag?
Not so fast.
"You've got to be kidding me!" That was Darla Coombs' response when she was told that the Highland Ridge Condominium Association wanted her American flag removed from its mount on the front of her condo.
"They told me if I felt I needed to fly the flag that I could do so as long as I put it in the back where it can't be seen," Coombs said during a recent telephone interview.
The Highland Ridge condos are located on Main Road South in Hampden.
The 16 or so units are all alike. Beige with white trim and white mailboxes lined up ever so neatly along the main access road.
And that, Coombs was told at a condo meeting, is how it shall stay.
With the obvious exceptions, of course.
A quick trip through the development this week showed that some of the condo owners like big wreaths. Some like small ones. Some like bows on their doors or garland on their banisters. Some like welcome signs on their porches and some don't.
Individuality is allowed for flowers in the summer, Coombs said.
But there shall be no flags, and it says so right in the condo bylaws.
Coombs put the flag up, with the blessing of her immediate neighbor, when her son enlisted in the Army last spring.
The grumbling soon began, and by late summer a survey had been passed around. At a meeting last month, the American flag received the official Highland Ridge Condo Association heave-ho.
If you have a flag, then we all have to have a flag, the members argued.
"Fine. I'll pay to have a flag mounted on each and every condo," Coombs replied.
But I want an Irish flag, argued one member.
I'd like to fly a California state flag, argued another.
There can be no flags, they told her again.
"But it's an American flag," she pleaded.
Aware that she did sign the lease and in an attempt to reason with the board members, Coombs asked whether they would agree to have a flagpole put up somewhere in the development if she paid for the pole, the cement pad and a light.
That idea got nixed as well because the Highland Ridge Condo Association didn't want to get stuck with the additional electricity fees that the light would generate.
"I'm not a rebellious person by nature," Coombs explained to me apologetically, "but it's an American flag."
Coombs herself is a veteran. Her father is a veteran. Her sister and her brother-in-law are both veterans. Her uncle is a veteran, and her son is in the Army.
"I never play the veteran card," she said. "It's not something I talk about to a lot of people, but I got angry enough at that condo meeting that I did, and then I was angry at myself for doing that,"
Venise Bard is the property manager for Highland Ridge Condos. When I asked her about the reason for the concern with the American flag hanging on Coombs' condo, she said only that the rule is clearly written in the condo bylaws in the lease that Coombs willingly signed.
She's absolutely right about that.
Coombs held her ground for a while and left the flag up, but knew what she had to do in order to avoid any further controversy.
So on Friday, she dutifully went home on her lunch hour, removed the flag and tucked it away.
I'm sure the place looks a hell of a lot neater now and I'm sure that the members of the Highland Ridge Condo Association will sleep better tonight knowing it is gone.
That's surely not a battle they want to have to fight again. They won and they can take their Saturday morning stroll through their impeccable development this morning and stand taller for it.
I strongly encourage all of my readers to contact the Highland Ridge Hampden Luxury Condominiums...and make your feelings well-known.
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Webroot Software, Inc., the leading provider of Internet security for the consumer, enterprise and SMB markets, today urged everyone preparing taxes on computers connected to the Internet this year to protect personal and financial information from a new wave of keyloggers, system monitors and viruses. Deploying an antivirus and antispyware solution during tax season will help safeguard taxpayers' information from these dangerous Internet threats.
"The year over year growth in online tax filings has made this season one of the most critical times for Internet users to protect their valuable personal and financial information," said Peter Watkins, CEO of Webroot. "Because of the sheer volume of tax preparers placing social security numbers, bank account information and payroll records on their computers and sending some of this data over the Internet, cyber criminals are specifically targeting them with keyloggers and system monitors that can easily capture this information and lead to costly identity fraud."
According to recent data from Webroot's Threat Research Team, more than 1200 new key-logging and 336 system monitoring spyware and variations have been found and defined in the past month alone. This spike in malicious spyware is even more alarming when combined with the fact that last year's tax season set a new record for number of electronic filings, according to the IRS. Up 8.9 percent from 2006, more than 76.7 million people electronically filed their returns with a majority completed in March and April. Additionally, a record 22 million taxpayers filed from their home computer, up 11 percent from the previous year.
Malware threats such as keyloggers and system monitors are typically a cause for concern since they can be used to monitor Internet usage and behavior for malicious purposes. Even if users are just preparing their taxes on a computer connected to the Internet they can be at risk. Because they are created to be non-intrusive and are disguised as legitimate system files malware can be especially hard to detect without an installed desktop security solution.
Webroot has developed a simple list of recommendations for Internet users to follow during the tax season to avoid malware threats and infections:
- Even if they are not going to file online, users preparing taxes on computers connected to the Internet should be sure they are running updated versions of a proven best of breed antispyware and antivirus software and should scan their entire system at least once a week, but definitely before preparing and/or filing taxes;
- For Federal electronic filings, make sure to use services directly linked to www.irs.gov
- Do not respond to email inquiries regarding your taxes;
- If you plan to file your state taxes online be sure to only use links directly from your official state homepage. Links to the official websites for all 50 states are available at us.gov/Agencies/State_and_Territories.shtml
- When finished filing taxes and using security passwords, users should also use privacy software for erasing important data from their systems.
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ESA Business Incubator at ESRIN for Italy
ESA Business Incubation at ESRIN for Italy (EBI Italy) is the Italian branch of the ESA-wide Business Incubation initiative. It hosts entrepreneurs and start-up companies that use space technology and systems in non-space sectors at BIC Lazio's ITech Business Incubator in Rome. BIC Lazio is coordinated by the public company Sviluppo Lazio SpA and is part of a network of development offices in the region of Latium. Since its creation in 1990, BIC Lazio has created and managed a number of specialised business incubation centres.
The cooperation between ESA and BIC Lazio is based on a support contract signed on 3 March 2009, by Volker Liebig, ESA's Director of Earth Observation Programmes and Head of ESRIN, ESA's establishment in Italy, and Enrico D'Agostino, President of BIC Lazio.
"With this agreement between ESA and BIC Lazio, we have the operational tool to support start-up companies with our space technology and expertise from ESRIN," said Volker Liebig, ESA's Director of Earth Observation Programmes and Head of Establishment for ESRIN, and explained that "ESA's international expertise encompasses in fact a vast network of business contacts in the space and non-space industry, as well as know-how from experienced ESA engineers and access to ESA laboratories and test facilities."
"The innovative aspect of this agreement is that on the one hand, the companies can benefit from ESA's technical expertise, and on the other hand get business support from BIC Lazio," said Enrico D' Agostino, President of BIC Lazio. "Our ITech Business Incubator in Rome will host the start-up companies and help them develop business plans, identify partners, execute market promotion and will provide them with economical and financial know-how."
"This follows ESA's common approach to business incubation already in place at our two other business incubation centres in the Netherlands and Germany, where ESA's international expertise is combined with local business support," explained Frank M. Salzgeber, Head of the ESA Technology Transfer Programme Office at ESTEC, who is responsible for the ESA Business Incubation Initiative.
The aim of the ESA Business Incubation initiative is to support the creation of start-up companies, whose business ideas derive from space technologies or systems, by supporting the companies up to an early state of their development. This includes assistance in operation and business development, giving them access to ESA expertise and a full network of support sources, and also initial funding. The initiative will help to bridge the gap between an idea and an actual business by helping a technology transfer project get off the ground and by assisting its development into a viable business. It is equally aimed at entrepreneurs who have an innovative idea or business plan based on using space technology or systems in a non-space environment; at space companies who intend to outsource the spin-off initiatives of their employees; and at research centres and universities who are interested in encouraging their staff and students to set up their own companies.
Luigi Fusco, who is responsible for ESA Business Incubation at ESRIN for Italy (EBI Italy), is convinced that "ESA's Business Incubation at ITech in Rome will provide technology start-up companies with an ideal launch pad for their businesses. The presence of other start-up companies at ITech constitutes an ideal foundation for cross-fertilisation of ideas and business opportunities." Fusco indicates that EBI-Italy plans to select up to ten start-up companies for incubation at the ITech Business Incubator during 2009 and explains the basic conditions that candidates for incubation must fulfil to be selected: "They must be a Small or Medium Enterprise, should not have existed for more than five years and must be willing to register with one of the Chambers of Commerce located in Latium."
Interested candidates are requested to reply to an Open Call for Proposals, which means that applications can be submitted at any time. The application procedure is the same for all projects under the ESA Business Incubation Initiative. It can be downloaded in Italian or English from the Documentation section on the right navigation bar.
For more information on ESA's Business Incubation in Italy, please contact:
Luigi Fusco
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Roberto Giuliani
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BIC Lazio SpA, Incubatore ITech
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Sales of million-dollar homes in the Denver metro area dipped slightly last month, while the median sale price was up fractionally month-over-month, according to an analysis by Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage.
A total of 34 homes sold for more than $1 million in March, down from 37 in February and 36 during the same period a year ago. Meanwhile, the median sale price of luxury homes was $1.35 million up slightly from $1.32 million the previous month but down 2.7 percent from $1.39 million a year ago.
Although volume is leveling off, million-dollar homes are selling faster, with properties taking an average of 101 days to sell compared to 184 the previous month and 130 a year ago.


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I have been driving past this former Hardee's location for a few years...it was a Mexican place for a little while...and this summer it started to change again. I could only wonder what it would become?
Finally - signs all up - and cars in the lot - it's a BBQ place! Q's Raxx has been open about 6 weeks now and according to Quentin (the Q in Q's) - it's going pretty well!
I swear - it had to have been a Hardee's - we have them in Iowa - I just know a Hardees when I see one.
Not sure which incarnation remodeled - but the "copper" ceiling is quite eye-catching...
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Larry got the baby back ribs, baked beans and red beans & rice (oh joy for me later that evening).
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But again - the ribs - I was only able to snag one bite from him - but that bite was really great! He ate every bite and was talking about coming back the whole time.
I went for the pulled pork, mac & cheese with side of cornbread. The pork was okay - not the best I've ever had - maybe a little dry. The sauce - loved it! The mac & cheese - LOVED IT! I'm not usually a baked mac & cheese fan - but this was some good stuff.
The let down for me was the cornbread - it was like a pancake made out of cornbread mix. It wasn't what I was hoping for - but hey - I like the cheap-ass Jiffy stuff. I'm sure it's true Southern or something like that - I'm just not "in the know" for it.
The other awesome thing about Q's is the smell when you get out of your car! The smoker is behind the restaurant and it just smells freakin awesome! So you get out and the smell smacks you in the face like a cheap hooker when you ask her for change for a $10. YOWZA!
The other thing is the price - it's definitely affordable - it was like $17 for the two of us (sodas are 20 oz bottles). We will definitely be back to Q's Raxx and I'm urging you all to go there - NOW!
It's in an odd location - places haven't done well there - let's help make this place stick around for a while! It's right off 75 at Galbraith and Reading.


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New data released by National Nurses United revealed that not only do a handful of hospitals charge patients more than 10 times the actual cost of treatment but that prices have been steadily increasing for nearly two decades.
As reported by UK-based BMJ Journals, skimping on care, patients often pay for it with their health, said Joan Ross, co-president of National Nurses United. "If you are presented with a bill, and you know that bill is something you can't afford, you're not going to go in," Ross said. "You're just not going to."
The union compiled Medicare Cost Reports from 4,328 short-term acute care hospitals of the 4,655 that filed mandatory annual cost reports with Medicare, according to National Nurses United spokesman Chuck Idelson. Criteria included that the hospitals' revenue be greater than zero, and that the hospitals have discharged at least 100 patients.
The union has analysed these reports for the past 16 years, and it saw the biggest overall jump between fiscal year 2011 and fiscal year 2012, when hospitals charged 7% more than they had the previous year. Fourteen hospitals charged more than $1,000 for every $100 of their total costs, according to the union's analysis.
Ross, who's been a registered nurse in Minnesota for 40 years, said she's watched as rising hospital prices have played a larger and larger role in patient care decisions.
"The first question — instead of triaging their physical and mental state — is not, how ill you are, but what kind of insurance you have," Ross said. "That never was asked before, not when I started nursing. That didn't come up as a question, nor should it."
Ross said steep hospital prices often drive patients to put their pocketbook before their health when it comes time to make medical decisions. She remembers a terminal cancer patient whose lack of insurance pushed her toward a cheaper option at first, but ultimately cost her family more money by the time she died. The patient needed an intravenous catheter to deliver medications because the usable veins in her arm would eventually close up. But because the patient didn't have insurance, and having the catheter put in would be expensive, Ross said, the patient decided not to get it. She hoped that she'd die before doctors could no longer find usable veins in her arms.
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The American Hospital Association said bills were higher than the cost of treatment because the hospital has to cover the cost of patients who can't pay, and other expenses.
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Then from any part of the code I can write:Code:class TheNumber { public int number; public int Number {get; set;} }
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November 15, 2012 in Medical research Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), are a newly emerging cellular therapy being tested in approximately 250 clinical trials worldwide to help repair damaged tissues, such as injured heart muscle following a heart attack. The problem is that when culture-expanded MSCs are injected into the circulation, they have trouble gaining access to the inflamed tissues—exactly where their help is needed.
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Given the systemic nature of many diseases and the desire for minimally invasive therapies, systemic infusion of MSCs holds considerable promise as an effective treatment in many conditions. But, as senior author Christopher Carman, PhD, explains, in order for MSCs circulating in the bloodstream to have any therapeutic effect, they must first cross the vascular endothelium, the layer of cells that line blood vessels and serve as the primary barrier between the blood and the tissues. Carman and co-corresponding author Jeffrey Karp, PhD, set out to answer the question, "How do MSCs interact with this layer?" "Our basic approach was to grow isolated endothelial monolayers in the lab in ways that mimic the vascular barrier structure in the body and conduct dynamic high-resolution imaging studies of MSCs interacting with the endothelium under normal or inflamed conditions," explains Carman, an investigator in BIDMC's Center for Vascular Biology Research and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Ads by Google Email Hosting Service – Powerful & Ads-Free Email Service At $2/User/Month Only. Try Now! – www.zoho.com/mail Their experiments revealed that, similar to white blood cells that act during an immune response, MSCs use inflammation-specific adhesion molecules called vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) to stick to the endothelium at sites of inflammation. "But," says Carman, "whereas white cells very efficiently crawl over the endothelial surface, apparently searching out weak spots to breach and migrate across this barrier, we discovered that MSCs are unable to mediate such crawling and are about 10 times slower to cross the endothelium." And that, he adds, may explain why MSCs are not efficient at entering inflamed tissues. "This work suggests that the initial phase of the homing cascade—cell rolling—is the rate limiting step to achieve effective homing for MSCs," says Karp, Co-Director of the Center for Regenerative Therapeutics at BWH, and Associate Professor of Medicine at HMS. (Homing occurs when circulating MSCs target areas of injury in response to signals of cellular damage; cell rolling refers to the way that MSCs "decelerate" on this target tissue.) "Clinically this would be a good place to focus efforts to enhance MSC homing—to improve the ability to roll on inflamed endothelium, since we showed that MSCs can efficiently adhere under static conditions and transmigrate on the endothelium in inflamed tissues," adds Karp, who is also a principal faculty member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. The scientists further discovered that when MSCs do eventually cross the endothelium, they often do so through "membrane blebbing." During this unique process, an MSC uses hydrostatic pressure to create a bulge or bleb in the cell's outer membrane that exerts mechanical force against the endothelium, leading to the initial break in its barrier that initiates transmigration. "We demonstrated that MSCs can transmigrate between endothelial cells—called paracellular transmigration—and directly through a single endothelial cell—called transcellular migration," says Karp. "This is an exciting finding as it provides a new axis that potentially can be modulated for developing next-generation MSC therapy." During transcelluar migration, an MSC doesn't actually enter an endothelial cell, but rather forms a pore through which it then migrates. Interestingly, say the researchers, these findings may also provide insights on how some tumor cells spread or metastasize, as migratory blebbing has been observed in a number of embryonic germ cells and in some tumor cells. "Our finding shows for the first time that blebbing may function in the critical barrier-breaching event of MSC migration through endothelial cells," says Carman. "This suggests that blebs could similarly function in cancer invasiveness." For now, however, Carman and his colleagues will focus on MSCs. Among their next steps is to verify that the results generated in the lab hold true within the body. "From there, we wish to iterate back and forth between our in vitro and in vivo systems to explore a range of bioengineering approaches that build on the new knowledge from this study to design improved delivery and efficacy of MSC therapeutics," says Carman, adding that as the understanding of the mechanisms of MSC movement grows, researchers' abilities to enhance homing to specific tissues through engineered approaches should help bring MSC therapy closer to the clinic. More information: Teo GS et al. Mesenchymal Stem Cells Transmigrate Between and Directly Through Tumor Necrosis Factor-α-Activated Endothelial Cells Via Both Leukocyte-Like and Novel Mechanisms. Stem Cells. 2012 Nov;30(11):2472-86. doi: 10.1002/stem.1198 Journal reference: Stem Cells Provided by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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Continuing with the practical exercise from the previous MxMo LIX post.
I've experimented with compounded beer flavored beverages before, as in my Modernist Punch, but this is a more a la minute preparation.
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But when Frederic called for "Beer Cocktails", I knew I had to step it up a notch. First I infused California Single Grain vodka with roasted barley and Rye for 24 hours.
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I strained out the barley and hops.
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Combined 1 1/2 oz infused vodka with 1 1/2 tablespoons Malted Barley Syrup. Man that stuff is sticky. Added a tiny squeeze of lemon juice and an egg white. Dry shook it for a few seconds. Added Ice and shook the crap out of it.
Strained it into a pint glass and topped up with soda water.
Hey, it's kind of neat, the bubbles in the carbonation are forming little waves of froth floating up the liquid, almost like Guinness.
Uh right, what is that?
It is remotely beer-like, but maybe reminds me a bit more of an Egg Cream than a beer.
First you get the roasty taste of the grains, then the sweetness of the barley malt. Finishes with a nice touch of hop bitterness and then the annoying aftertaste of highly distilled alcohol from the vodka.
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Jimi Hendrix passed away 40 years ago, and his timeless sense of style, swagger and so-ridiculously-awesome-it-needs-a-better-word-than-awesome electric gee-tar skills live on. When you're rocking out to Rock Band or strumming the air guitar, remember who did it best.
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Taunton is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts that has a history dating back to 1637. Founded by members of the Plymouth Colony, Taunton is one of the oldest cities in the country and has officially been a city since 1864.
Taunton is known as the "Silver City" for being the center of the silver industry starting with Taunton Iron Works, which operated until 1876. In the 19th century, many silversmithing operations were located in the city such as Poole Silver Co, Reed & Barton and F. B. Rogers Silver Co. Today, Taunton's mall, Silver City Galleria, is named after the city's nickname.
"Silver City" is not the only nickname the city has. Since 1914, the city has had a large light display each December on the Taunton Green, giving the city the nickname the "Christmas City."
Taunton's history can be further explored at the city's Old Colony Historical Society Museum Library as well as areas around the city. The Gertrude M. Boyden Wildlife Refuge—spanning over 50 acres—was established in 1968. The refuge was originally used primarily for bird watching, but is now the headquarters for the Taunton Conservation Commission which has transformed the land into a learning environment. The refuge now has picnic areas, nature trails, fishing and bird watching.
This historical city offers a variety of real estate locations from rural landscapes with large yards and waterfront views to more urban locations near the city center. Popular architectural styles in the city include Cape, Colonial and Ranch. The city has many homes for sale including single and multifamily homes and townhouses.
Taunton is a classic New England city, rich in history and tradition. Nicknamed "The Silver City," Taunton is one of the oldest towns in the nation (founded in 1639) and stood as the center of the silver industry in the 19th century. Situated within the hub of Southeastern Massachusetts, the city serves as the government seat for Bristol County.
Taunton's time-honored community is comprised of a multitude of architectural structures dating anywhere from the colonial period to the present day. Countless Pre-Revolutionary War homes are found throughout the city, including the Joseph Willis House which dates back to 1688. In all, Taunton has over 100 homes listed on the National Register of Historic Places. However, its most impressive structure may be the Bristol County Superior Statehouse, with its tall copper dome remaining visible for miles. In addition to being nicknamed "The Silver City", Taunton is also known as "Christmas City" due to its annual holiday display which has been held at the city's central square, Taunton Green, every year since 1914. Revered as a business and family friendly community, the city provides an abundance of resources to support both. Commuters will love the convenience of the Taunton Railway which connects the city to Boston, Providence, Cape Cod, and Newport. Family life is enhanced by a myriad of parks, highlighted by the Gertrude Boyden Wildlife Sanctuary, a scenic wildlife preserve bordering Three Mile River offering hiking trails, botanical gardens, and picnic areas. The convenience of shopping, dining and entertainment in a single location can be provided by The Silver City Galleria, a two-floor complex containing hundreds of stores, a movie cinema, and a food court. As one of the oldest towns in the United States, Taunton remains a desirable New England location today.
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This makes perfect sense...but what about the pleasure involved in the act of meditation? The 1st jhana, for example, is described as a profound state of bliss and ecstasy:
"There is the case where a monk — quite withdrawn from sensuality, withdrawn from unskillful qualities — enters and remains in the first jhana: rapture and pleasure born from withdrawal, accompanied by directed thought and evaluation. He permeates and pervades, suffuses and fills this very body with the rapture and pleasure born from withdrawal. There is nothing of his entire body unpervaded by rapture and pleasure born from withdrawal. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dham ... jhana.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
What exactly is the difference between this meditative pleasure and say, the pleasure between two lovers during sex?
I ask this, because, i feel in a way, that I have almost developed an attachment to the pleasurable and detached state of meditation. If i enter a state of meditation for 30 minutes before i go to work, for example, I realize how much less pleasurable the act of "work" is in comparison to the relaxed, detached, and empty mind of meditation. Now theoretically, my meditation should ALLOW me to get in better touch with my feelings TOWARDS work, but this doesn't always occur. It's almost like i enjoy meditation so much that i just want MORE of it, just like any pleasure.
So once again, what exactly IS the difference between the pleasure of meditation and any other sort of sensual pleasure? Or is there none?


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The town of Frisco has its eye on a revitalized Main Street in the near future and is inviting the public to an open house at town hall Wednesday to view the plans and provide input.The Step Up Main Street Project aims to revitalize the Main Street area by making a number of improvements, both technical and aesthetic. The project went through a planning process and was approved by the town council. Local businesses Martin & Martin Engineering and Norris Design were involved in creating the design. Included in the improvements are additional street benches, updated street lighting, expanding the north-side sidewalk by 2 feet and updating the paver design. The street's drainage will be improved, along with several other safety and functional aspects. The current parking configuration will not change; none of the improvements will affect location or number of parking spaces on Main Street."The aim is to enhance Main Street character and charm and draw people to Frisco Main Street," said Jocelyn Mills, Frisco's community development director.The project is still in its beginning stages, with a budget of $3.5 million. The start date will be determined based on the town's revenues and will begin in the fall of 2014 at the earliest. Implementation of the project will occur only during the fall and spring off-seasons.This will mark the first improvements to Main Street planned by the town since it was built nearly 30 years ago. "As we looked at fixing Main Street … there was a lot of interest in improving the drainage, improving lighting, creating some public space," said Frisco Mayor Gary Wilkinson.At the open house, the public is invited to weigh in on the style of the proposed street light fixtures and paver designs, as well as other project details. The design will be laid out for everyone to see. Staff will be on hand to answer questions.
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Suppose $R$ is an ordered field. Call a continuous map $f: R \rightarrow R$ a contraction if there exists $r < 1$ (in $R$) such that $|f(x)-f(y)| \leq r |x-y|$ for all $x,y \in R$ (where $|x| := \max(x,-x)$). Suppose that every contraction from $R$ to $R$ has a unique fixed point. Must $R$ be the field of real numbers?
For a related question, see Converse to Banach's fixed point theorem? .
Jacek Jachymski's article "A discrete fixed point theorem of Eilenberg as a particular case of the contraction principle" ( http://emis.impa.br/EMIS/journals/HOA/FPTA/2004/131.pdf ) and the references it contains may be relevant. However, the non-Archimedean metric spaces that the article considers are bounded, which non-Archimedean ordered fields certainly are not. Also, my question is not about metric spaces, since my notion of distance lives in $R$ itself, not the real numbers.


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Difficult question. I have lots of mangaka that I highly respect. Some of them include (in alphabetical order):
Kishimoto Masashi (岸本 斉史) – Naruto
Ōba Tsugumi (大場 つぐみ) & Obata Takeshi (小畑 健) – Death Note, Bakuman.
Oda Eiichiro (尾田 栄一郎) – ONE PIECE
Togashi Yoshihiro (冨樫 義博) – HUNTERxHUNTER,Yū Yū Hakusho <– I respect you very much, Togashi-sensei, but if you would just please focus on continuing and finishing HxH? That would be awesome.
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Hybrid vs. compact
Is there an environmental advantage to driving a hybrid as opposed to a high-mileage compact car? In other words, if Hybrid A gets 40 mpg and Compact B gets 40 mpg, is there any difference in the carbon dioxide emissions?
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Hybrid vs. compact
I can't tell you for sure other than my 04 HCH is rated ULEV.
But I can tell you that my car emits zero emissions while stopped at a light and the Civic (And other vehciles) next to me continue to run and contribute to the aura of smog which seems to envelop the intersection. (Which flows downwind)
Hybrid vs. compact
There's a lot of confusion about this issue because it is fairly complex.
If you're just talking about going from Point A to Point B, you'll burn the same amount of fuel for both vehicles and the same amount of CO2 (global warming gas) will be put into the atmosphere.
As HotGeorgia says, the hybrid will put out fewer emissions or pollutants (CO, SOx, NOx, particulates), since they are generally cleaner-burning than non-hybrid vehicles. (the Prius is SULEV)
The confusion can come in because emissions are measured as "milligrams of pollutant" PER gram of fuel burned, e.g., mg CO/gm fuel. This is not the same as per mile travelled. That's why it is possible to have two vehicles with the same mileage, but one of them puts out more pollutants. Since CO2 is not considered a pollutant, people tend to forget it is still a global warming gas, so it is still important.
The only way to reduce CO2 is to get more mpgs because CO2 is directly proportional to how much fuel you burn. Pollutants are also proportional to how much fuel is burned, but that constant can vary from vehicle to vehicle.
Driving a diesel would be good in reducing fuel use and also global warming gas, but they put out more particulates, which adversely affects children and the elderly and health care costs.
I think the bottom line is to get a vehicle with the best gas mileage you can, so that you will save money and help reduce health care costs and global warming. I know people with Honda hybrids and Priuses, and they are getting the published gas mileage. I don't know anyone with the hybrid SUVs, so I don't know how well they're doing--but there are some threads on this website for that info.
Hope this helps........?
Hybrid vs. compact
Probably compact
Here's why:
Hybroids' demand is so high that there are long waiting lists to buy them for well over msrp (priuses can go for ~27k).
Even VW diesels are in so high demand that they are excluded from VW's Leasefurnaughten, that traditional Mexican (they say German) holiday where everyone gets a great deal on VW's. (of course, most VW's are made in Mexico, not Germany)
Regular small cars (like Honda Fit, Nissan Versa, Scions, and Toyota Yaris) are about half of that, and they usually aren't sold over msrp, let alone 7k over. There shouldn't be a waiting list for these kind of cars. Of course, there are also a bunch of Korean cars that are even cheaper and should get almost asw good mpg (and they have that 10-year warranty!)
Yet another alternative is the not-quite-as-famous Civic HX. It has a lean-burn VTEC-E engine that gets almost as good mpg as the hybrids from the epa, they come even closer in the real world. Best of all, they have been offering it for about 10 years, and it is available with a 5-speed manual or CVT. This means you can find used ones kind of easily, and they won't be too expensive.
Hybrids have not been out as long, so there are few used ones on the market, and their demand is also high like the gas prices. The same goes for used VW diesels. However, the later has been around longer, so there are more of them on the market.
Any of them will save at the pump, but my vote goes to the HX or Yaris
Hybrid vs. compact
There could be an emissions advantage with hybrid over a compact with the same mpg, were they designed correctly. This is because the gasoline (or diesel) engine could be tuned to only operate in its cleanest/most economical performance band. The electric motor could then do all the surge activities (startup or hill climbing). The ICE could shut off completely during low-demand times.
This would very likely reduce most emission problems but probably wouldn't affect CO2 or H20 (greenhouse gas) emissions much since they are natural combustion products.
Unfortunately, today's hybrids still have the primary propulsion coming from the ICE so they rev the ICE to accelerate and climb hills. They also don't completely shut down the ICE whenever the battery is full, but instead, throttle it down. This forces the ICE to have to vary it's load and RPM's so it probably doesn't always have optimal emissions.
A serial hybrid would be one candidate to take advantage of this potential emissions benefit for hybrids.
Overall though, mpg generally is proportional to greenhouse gas emissions.
I, of course, prefer the hybrid because it enables better mpg with a larger car that I may actually fit in - of course, the GEO Metro had really good interior space for a small car and had awesome mpg.
Hybrid vs. compact
As Vince says, there is no difference between a hybrid's and a conventional cars CO2 emissions if they get the same mpg.
Nothing complicated about it unless one gets into tiny things...
Hybrids are generally much cleaner in terms of other pollutants, though.
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I just did some research on automobiles, and while hybrids do offer lower levels of particulate pollution such as nitrogen oxides, they still cause the saem amount of greenhouse gasses; 20lbs of co2 for every gallon burned. To make matters worse, the reduction in emissions only comes in traffic and at idol, not on the open road. As for fuel milage, there is a fleet of compact cars from 1979 to 1981 that get as good or better mpg than even the Prius, and they are all carborated......
so, how effective is hybrib technology? short answer, it's not.


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Riffling through my memory on another question, I was reminded of a series that aired in the States on broadcast (NBC, I think, though it may have been syndicated), probably Saturday mornings. I seem to remember it being called "Rock TV" or "Wolfgang Rock TV". However, I can find nothing on Wikipedia or IMDB about such a series.
It had an animated portion where the characters went to "The Flip Side" with the help of a DJ. Interspersed between the animated portion, they would play current music videos (the era of the videos was 1983-84 and featured Madonna and The Police, etc.).
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Fans have been eagerly awaiting the highly anticipated interview between Lindsay Lohan and Oprah Winfrey, and after a couple teases throughout the past couple of weeks, viewers were finally able to see the star's first post-rehab sit-down.
On Sunday's episode of Oprah's Next Chapter, LiLo (who was teary-eyed for most of the interview) seemed genuine, answering all of the hard-hitting questions about her addiction and family troubles honestly, and even offering some eyebrow-raising explanations for her actions.
When discussing her sentence to jail time a few years back, Lohan admitted she felt that subconsciously she was acting out so that she would be put behind bars, "I think it was just to find some peace and just have no choice but to just sit and be."
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However, it was clear that even time in the slammer didn't make Lindsay change her troublesome ways, and she said that she didn't realize at the time that she should just "shut up and listen." But this time around was different, and she finally surrendered to the process.
"In this case, I wasn't fighting at all. I just let go and was able to just be like, 'OK you probably do know what's best, because my idea of doing what's best for me has not worked in the past," Lohan told Oprah.
"I came into it just really willing, really craving more spirituality. Really open and ready to get really honest."
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When asked if she was an addict, Lindsay simply said "yeah," and added that alcohol was her drug of choice.
"Alcohol. That, in the past, was a gateway to other things for me," Lohan said, adding that she did cocaine 10-15 times in her life even though she hated it, but "it allowed me to drink more, I think that's why I did it."
But how did the addiction begin?
Lindsay said, "A lot of stuff went on with my family when I was young and I grew up in a very chaotic home and then there were moments of everything being wonderful and perfect and then things being so uncontrollable and chaotic that--it's something people go through and unfortunately i waited too long to face it."
And even LiLo had to admit that she was addicted to chaos, too. "It was a comfortable chaos for me. So what was chaotic for some people from the outside looking in was normal."
However, the actress is ready to turn a new leaf and is well aware that she has lost a lot of people's trust in the process, but is willing to do what is necessary to get that back.
Lohan tells Winfrey that she's ready "get the thing that's made me the happiest my whole life back, which is just work really hard and stay focused and prove myself in the way that I did before in the past that I lost. I have to regain the trust of people in my career that have their doubts and I fully respect that on their behalf."
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Lindsay, who "hates" being the example of a child-star-gone-wrong, says that she's just "tired. I've lived so many lifetimes at this point and it's not interesting to me anymore."
"It's a process of growing up and recognizing and being just so tired and exhausted by the chaos...I have had no right in my past to complain about being followed by cameras and people making up stories, but there's something to be said about me moving forward that if i'm going to put myself in a public situation--that's open season for people to say what they're gonna say. I can't control that but I can control not putting myself there."
The celeb had a trip to Europe planned, which Oprah brought up and shared her concern since Lohan was fresh out of rehab, and the host asked Lindsay to reconsider her trip.
Although Lohan insisted "I'm different. I'm in a different headspace. I don't want those things that I wanted before," she canceled her getaway two days after taping the interview.
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The biggest question Bostonians have about the bombing in their city on Patriot Day is the one they've had since right after suspected terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested in April: What turns a kid who was not just loved but beloved — the favorite of multiple teachers and coaches, and of many classmates — into someone who could look his victims in the eye before blowing them up, then head off to the gym?
Janet Reitman's Rolling Stone piece about Jahar, as the younger Tsarnaev brother was known to his American friends, is an earnest attempt to answer that question. Some critics insist that it's mostly the glam photo on the cover that offends them; it does look like a PR shot for a member of a boy band.
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Is terrorizing her standing up against terrorism, or becoming what you hate? The magazine writer isn't giving interviews but said on her Facebook page that she is surprised and scared by the reaction.
Saying that Boston is protective of its own is like saying that Washington summers are on the warm side; Bostonians want the feelings of the bombing victims put first, second and third, and who can blame them? One of the women who lost a leg in the blasts told me she didn't want to talk about the Rolling Stone piece, and it's not hard to understand why.
Although Reitman's profile does not romanticize Tsarnaev, the profile is an inherently friendly form, by which I mean that hostility is a barrier to figuring out what makes any story subject tick. Even if the result is withering, a writer has to feel some empathy for the subject to make such a piece work.
Previous Rolling Stone covers featured Charles Manson and O.J. Simpson, yet the fact that most covers go to music stars made the decision to put Tsarnaev there controversial. As understandable and predictable as the pushback is, however, I'm still glad Rolling Stone has the piece — and continued work on a puzzle we'll spend years trying to fit together.
Jeff Seglin, who writes a weekly ethics column called the Right Thing and is a public policy lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School, says the negative reaction is a little like that of the Polish peasant in Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Enemies, a Love Story," who after coming through the Holocaust is shocked that there are books on the subject of Hitler: "They write books about such swine?"
Seglin thinks that the Rolling Stone cover photo is journalistically defensible — and, in fact, that it is perfectly in keeping with the article's point that this was an ordinary kid gone terribly wrong. Defensible if, that is, the magazine's editors at least grappled with the ethical issue of how using the photo might upset bombing victims and others.
The magazine isn't answering questions about the piece, beyond a statement of sympathy for the victims posted on its website. I'm guessing Boston Mayor Tom Menino was right when he said the controversy was part of the magazine's marketing strategy — but is it wrong to want work you're proud of to be widely read?
At the time of the bombing, I was living in Cambridge, Mass., where my son was enrolled in the high school that Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, attended, and I know how much pain was inflicted on a city I came to care about in my few months there.
But if publishing the photo was so outrageous, why was it okay for critics to share it all over social media?
And isn't the corporate censorship by the stores that have elected not to carry this issue of the Rolling Stone in a sense scoring one for the terrorists by undermining free speech?
They shouldn't sell Boston so short. Because, ultimately, as Boston Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham wrote, her city is way too tough to be knocked around by a picture on a magazine.
Melinda Henneberger is a columnist for The Washington Post.