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I'm wondering if it is possible to see the quality of the edges in still photographs?
Or are photographs not good indicators?
I'm wondering if it is possible to see the quality of the edges in still photographs?
Or are photographs not good indicators?
depends on teh photograph... if it's in focus and crisp and clear then you can
Rarely. IMO one has to watch the skater SKATE in motion to judge his edge quality.
Agree what Shine said. I don't think a still picture will tell you anything about the edge quality. It may show you a snap shot when a skater hit the position, but don't really tell if the edge is wobling or scratching. The steady and smooth edge in a motion show the true control of the skater, not the snapshot in a stilled frame.
For the most part, I agree with Shine and mzheng. But there are exceptions. The one I'm thinking of specifically was of Rohene Ward doing a spiral. You could see how scratchy his edge was by the amount of ice flying all over. But for the most part, nope, you need to watch them skate.
Wasn't that one of Robin Cousins' trademarks where he would purposely make ice fly during a spiral? Maybe that's what Rohene was doing?Originally Posted by PrincessLeppard
This is really "food for thought"... the answer is yes & no. I have skating manuals with pictures of skaters showing the proper stance to execute a move, such as a 3 turn or outside/inside edges; however, edges are so finite, that judges actually used to get down on their hands and knees to examine them. It looked odd, but that was the way they did it way back when!!! However, if ones body line is exact the edges will be "textbook " quality. Poor edges are usually a result of wrong posture or lack of concentration and attention to detail.Originally Posted by lulu
Good question.
I agree that it depends on the photograph, and also what particular movement is being done while the photograph is being taken.
What I find interesting is that if you look at photos of skaters from the 50s and 60s, you very often can clearly see very high edge quality; many of them are tilting so far to one side that logically they should be on their butts, but they still manage to maintain that edge and stay upright -- that's extremely high edge quality, the likes of which you rarely see today.
Johnny Coop - Yes, indeed, those 50/60's skaters had the edges. Much because of the school figures right up to Hammil. Maybe the lutz was only a double in those days but it was a clear peerfect take off edge. Today I would give Yuka Sato with the best edging in figure skating.
Photography is tought, I agree with the poster who spoke of the lean and what the skater was doing with that lean. There is a lot of posing in photographs.

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By PATSY STODDARDEditor
The Emery County Fair goers were treated to the fun ideas presented by Dian Thomas. She did presentations on July 25 and 26 under the big top at the fairgrounds. Thomas has appeared on numerous television shows and is known throughout the nation for her creative and festive ideas.
Thomas specializes in ideas that are quick and inexpensive. At her presentation on July 25 she described all of the fun things you can do with dry ice. She made a pumpkin out of a plastic bottle and put a piece of dry ice inside. She covered the ice with hot water and the vapor from the dry ice came out the top of the pumpkin. She said you can also cut holes for the eyes and nose and the vapor will come out through those holes. She said one one her favorite things to do is to enter a Halloween party with a flowing pumpkin in her witches hat and cape.
Thomas also showed how a yard of muslin can quickly turn into a rag doll. She also enlightened the crowd on dutch oven cooking. One tip Thomas is famous for is her ice cream in a can. You put a smaller container with a lid and the ice cream custard inside of a coffee can. Fill the can with ice and rock salt and put on the lid. Kick the can around for a while and the ice cream freezes for an instant treat.
Thomas describes her special brand of ideas in her books: Holiday Fun-Year Round which gives tips on how to make holidays special year-round, Roughing it Easy, Fun at Home with Dian Thomas and Today's Tips for Easy Living contain plenty of suggestions.
County residents took the tips and ideas seriously, as the next day in the fair parade the Emery Telcom float; which is a train engine, had smoke coming out of the stack courtesy of the dry ice tip.


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Twitter Tuesday: Kanye Against the World
Here at Magick Sandwich, we enjoy Twitter but often wonder: what is it good for? Like a Twinkie, it's engineered to be tasty but goes right to our mental thighs. But its injudicious use by a journalist has just proven Twitter's intrinsic social value in our eyes.
It was the tweet heard 'round the world: Terry Moran of ABC reported that President Obama called Kanye West a "jackass" for his behavior at the MTV Video Music Awards. He deleted it minutes later but as any Twitterer who's written something regrettable knows, he couldn't delete it from the public cache. For now, the original can still be seen here. Even if the Twitter gods remove it, it's been retweeted so many times that it will live on in cyberspace forever.
Whether it was meant to be off the record or not, Obama's assessment was the cold, hard bitch slap that West so richly deserved. Most of the time, events are blown out of proportion and don't deserve our attention. (See Sacha Baron Cohen's bare-assed stunt with Eminem at the MTV Movie Awards if you feel like wasting a minute of your life.)
There are rumors swirling that Kanye's bad behavior was staged, too. But I'd be surprised if anyone, even the idiots at MTV, thought this would be funny. The video clip has already been pulled from youTube but is still on view at MTV's site: Kanye West being a jackass to Taylor Swift at the VMA Awards. It will make your jaw drop and your heart ache for Taylor Swift, whose moment in the spotlight was marred by this moron.
I don't know what possessed me to want to chide the hip hop douchebag for simply being himself. It turns out there are a lot of Kanye Wests on Twitter. (My favorite is Gay Fish Kanye.) So I wrote to him on FaceBook instead. You can, too.
There's only one way to know for sure if I reached the real Kanye. He won't be able to keep his mouth shut.
P.S. Check out Kanye Ruins Patrick Swayze's Last Goodbye at celebjihad.com. (Link courtesy of thinkinfu)
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I just couldn't bring myself to click on the links to Kanye or Sacha Cohen. I don't think they deserve my time, especially Kanye. It's bad enough that I watched the Serena Williams video the other day. I already feel dirty enough.ReplyDelete
Kanye is taking the art of being a spoiled, obnoxious, self-absorbed jerk to new lows.ReplyDelete
He'd better be careful. No matter how good he is at hip hopping, or whatever, he could lose a lot of sales...ReplyDelete
I love the South Park parody of Kanye. I just chalk what he did up to him being a gay fish!ReplyDelete
Have you seen this picture yet?ReplyDelete
@unfinished: You're right, of course. Serena makes me long for the days of John McEnroe. He was eloquent in his rage and not a potty mouth.ReplyDelete
@alapoet: He's such a jerk that I didn't consider for a second that it might have been staged. He really is that egotistical.
@Brian:Good point. But I think his sales are dropping based on his new delusion that he can carry a tune.
@thinkinfu: I didn't realize until I posted the Twitter link that it was a South Park reference. I'll have to look up that episode. The celebjihad photo is priceless! I have to link to it right now!
First of all let me say that I will guarantee anyone that his actions were not staged or a part of some underlying, sinister plot to keep white chicks from receiving music awards. When I saw his reaction to Jay Leno's question asking how he thought his mom would have reacted to his lunacy...nope. Not staged, but totally real. He couldn't fake that answer which was dead silence.ReplyDelete
Kanye is a flash in the pan who wrote one good song--"Jesus Walks"--and will eventually be remembered by music fans as a one-hit wonder. I actually feel bad for Swift. She's just a kid, and that little stunt had to hurt a lot. I probably would've kicked him or something.ReplyDelete
But here's what really caught my attention in your post: You're not a country music fan? Because you look like a country music fan in that hat. Albeit a strange one in that shirt. I suppose you don't like NASCAR, either? :)
@Don: I haven't seen him on Leno yet. I'll have to look that up. Good for Jay, putting him on the spot like that.ReplyDelete
@Mike: I should explain. That photo was taken on vacation in Tulsa. I was posing in front of the praying hands at Oral Roberts University, whicht should explain my ironic choice of t-shirt and devil horns. The cowboy hat was to help me blend in...and keep the sun off my pale NYC complexion . I guess it worked on both counts. ;)
I don't know if it's her age or her appearance, but Taylor Swift reminds me of a baby animal, like a little newborn bunny waking up from a nap and rubbing it's eyes. Ergo, Kanye now reminds me of the hunter that killed Bambi's mom.ReplyDelete
So sad, but she took it all with a dose of class well beyond her years.
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.ReplyDelete
I am sooo desperately waiting for the reply to that FaceBook message... ;)ReplyDelete
I saw this and couldn't believe that anyone would do that! Who does he think he is?ReplyDelete
Did you seriously click SEND to that Facebook Kanye?ReplyDelete
Even I got in on the act retweeting the first parody tweet I saw using Patrick Swayze.
And Beyonce gets kudos for giving Taylor back the microphone.
This guy really is about as dumb as they come. How in the world this no talent tool can prosper as much as he has is just beyond me.ReplyDelete
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I hate to say it but he was mos def showing his ghetto.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Are you kidding me? The @#$% you write on this page, YOU are actually condemning Kanye? People like you should be laughing until they choke on their own spit and die screaming.ReplyDelete
Can't have it both ways, spammy. Either you're a jerk, or not...
What does "morally selective" mean?
@We Took the Bait: She does look like an innocent woodland creature, doesn't she? I think I cringe for her most because I can see myself in her place, having her moment ruined. (not getting an mtv award, of course, but you know what I mean)ReplyDelete
@Susan/Margaret: Thanks for stopping by.
@Debbie: So far, no answer. At this point, I think he's apologized to everyone but the Pope. So I'm way down the list.
@Allie: I know. The guy's an idiot, in my opinion.
@NGIP: Of course I clicked SEND. I got a tweet from someone claiming to be Charles Manson and I tweeted him back about being a failed musician with bad grammar.
BTW,Eminem went to the show runners first and asked if he could bring her on stage but they told him no, Beyonce was going to do it.
@Wil: There's no accounting for taste. Now he claims he's the new King of Pop. Even with Autotune, he's offkey.
@ettarose: Mad props for your use of slang. I'm pretty sure that when white girls like us start saying it, black kids have long since moved on to new jargon.
@Anonymous: Thank you for your insightful critique of my article, my site and my worth as a human being. You must be a genius to have gleaned all that from one blog post.ReplyDelete
One thing I'd like to object to is your pet name for me. I would be "spammy" if I put Kanye's name into something unrelated and sent it out to people in a vain attempt to trick people into visiting my site.
Since I actually wrote a whole post about it and only my readers receive it via email or Google Reader, I am not "spammy." I have a small group of readers and I am not playing to the cheap seats. I write what I feel like writing about.
I like to be creative and do not for a moment think that my little blog will damage Kanye's career. Perhaps, instead of your holier-than-thou, anonymous attempts at derision, you could simply exit my site and go back to whatever sites you enjoy reading.
While you're looking up "morally selective" I would suggest you also look up "hypocrisy" and thank goodness your mother didn't practice "selective reduction."
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Topic: iPad 4
Two ways to get a $20 cash trade-in bonus on your old iPads (including iPad 2)
10/16/2014, 12:10 pm
Ahead of Apple's iPad media event on Thursday afternoon, AppleInsider has teamed up with the industry's two leading electronics trade-in & buyback services to offer readers an exclusive $20 cash bonus on the sale of their old iPad when they lock in a price quote today. The services are currently paying up to $405 for old iPads before the bonus.
Samsung once again Apple's top supplier of 9.7" iPad Retina displays
05/12/2014, 08:05 am
Despite being fierce competitors and opponents in the courtroom, Apple and Samsung remain important partners, with Samsung reportedly supplying more than half of all high-resolution Retina displays for Apple's full-size iPad last quarter.
8GB iPhone 5c, $399 'iPad 4' seen having 'slight positive' effect on Apple's March, June quarters
03/19/2014, 11:03 am
With Apple making slight adjustments to its iPhone and iPad lineups this week, the new, cheaper device offerings are projected by one analyst to have only a minor effect on the company's bottom line.
Apple boasts of improved cameras, enhanced performance in re-released 'iPad 4'
03/18/2014, 08:03 am
In re-launching the fourth-generation iPad with Retina display starting at $399 on Tuesday, Apple delivered a dramatic upgrade at that price point over the legacy iPad 2, with the company highlighting the improved cameras and enhanced performance it now offers at that price point.
Apple replaces iPad 2 with 4th-gen iPad, leaves original iPad mini as only non-Retina iOS device
03/18/2014, 04:03 am
Coming minutes after the 8GB iPhone 5c launched in the UK, Apple on Tuesday officially discontinued the iPad 2, replacing the long-standing entry-level tablet with a 16GB version of the fourth-generation iPad.
AT&T expands 4G LTE coverage to 16 new US markets
05/29/2013, 11:05 am
In another 16 markets, users of Apple's iPhone 5 and LTE-enabled iPads will now find that their devices are able to access much greater speeds, as AT&T has taken its 4G LTE coverage live in more areas across the U.S.
AT&T's 4G LTE network to hit 79 new markets by summer
04/10/2013, 03:04 pm
AT&T-based users of Apple's iPhone 5 and LTE-enabled iPads will soon find their data access speeds greatly increased in a number of markets, as the carrier announced on Tuesday the expansion of its 4G LTE network to 79 new areas.
128GB iPad with Retina display now available from Apple
02/05/2013, 07:02 am
Apple on Tuesday updated its online store to reflect availability of the new high-capacity 128-gigabyte iPad with Retina display.
Sharp cuts production of 9.7" iPad screens, demand may be shifting to Apple's iPad mini
01/18/2013, 08:01 am
Sharp is said to have "nearly halted" production of 9.7-inch panels for Apple's full-size iPad ��a change made as sales are predicted to shift to the 7.9-inch iPad mini.
Sprint's 4G LTE network expanding to 28 more cities in coming months
01/17/2013, 02:01 pm
U.S. carrier Sprint announced Thursday that its 4G LTE network, which offers faster connections to the iPhone 5 and Apple's latest iPads, will expand to 28 new cities in the coming months.
Rumor: Fifth-gen iPad, second-gen iPad mini to debut in March
01/11/2013, 10:01 am
Apple's iPad lineup is now on a twice-a-year refresh cycle, according to a new rumor, which pegs both the full-size iPad and iPad mini as due for updates in March.
TSMC contracted to build A6X chips for Apple this quarter, pushing out Samsung
01/02/2013, 07:01 am
After years of rumors, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is said to finally begin trial production of A6X chips for Apple's fourth-generation iPad this quarter, further marginalizing Samsung's role in Apple's supply chain.
AT&T rolls out 4G LTE network in 15 new US markets
12/21/2012, 08:12 am
AT&T this week announced that its high-speed 4G LTE network � compatible with Apple's latest iPhone 5, iPad and iPad mini � has launched in 15 new markets, and also expanded coverage in a handful of other locations.
47% of iPad mini sales to new customers, cannibalization concerns called 'overblown'
12/17/2012, 10:12 am
A new survey of iPad mini buyers has found that nearly half are new to the platform, suggesting the smaller form factor will help grow Apple's market share in a big way.
Apple's iPad mini already on pace to outsell Retina iPad
12/14/2012, 11:12 am
The iPad mini is an instant smash hit, set to quickly eclipse the full-size iPad with sales as high as 12 million units in its first quarter, according to a new report.
Apple suppliers say iPhone 5 demand still strong, iPad mini cannibalizing 9.7" iPad
12/12/2012, 08:12 am
Demand for the iPhone 5 remains strong as supply and yields continue to improve, but total iPad sales for the holiday quarter may prove lower than market watchers expect, as the iPad mini cannibalizes sales of the new fourth-generation iPad.
eBay Cyber Monday Sale: 13" MacBook Pro for $989, 5% off iPads, 56% off Nooks
11/26/2012, 10:11 am
eBay, which is currently undergoing a rebranding an strategical shift to pit itself in direct competition with Amazon via a push towards more direct sales, is hosting a Cyber Monday sale offering 5% off iPads with Retina display and 18% off the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro ($989), as well as significant discounts on other consumer electronics like cameras, game systems and more.
Skip the wait for an iPad mini, full lineup now shipping from Apple authorized resellers
11/25/2012, 01:11 pm
Shoppers still in the market for an iPad mini WiFi or iPad mini WiFi + Cellular can skip the two week wait from Apple's online store when ordering from the company's partner retailers, one of which says it's ready to ship all iPad mini configurations to customers this week.
Black Friday: Apple knocks up to $61 off 9.7-inch iPads, full stock of iPad minis at MacMall
11/23/2012, 04:11 am
As part of Apple's Black Friday sale, the company has cut between $41-$61 off the new iPad with Retina display and $31 off 16GB iPad 2s. Meanwhile, Mac minis remain regularly priced and won't ship for two weeks, but MacMall has virtually the entire iPad mini product line in stock and ready to ship immediately.
Target and Best Buy giving out $50 and $60 gift cards with iPad, iPod touch purchases
11/22/2012, 03:11 pm
Discount retailer Target is giving away $60 gift cards with each iPad with Retina display purchase, while Best Buy is offering up a $50 gift card of its own with each new iPod touch. You can also get a $100 iTunes Gift Card for $80.


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Canada shows improvement in loss to Dominican RepublicTIJUANA, Mexico – Canada lost 25-12, 27-25, 21-25, 25-15 to the Dominican Republic, the ninth ranked team in the world, on Monday night at the Olympic qualifying tournament in women's volleyball.
Canada, ranked 22nd, drops to 0-2 in round robin play and must beat Honduras on Tuesday to advance to the playoff round and keep its Olympic hopes alive. The tournament winner qualifies for the 2012 London Games.
''Today was a lot better,'' said Canadian Libero Julie Young of Red Deer, Alta. ''We still had some inconsistent moments but we played a much better team game. You could feel the support was there and therefore our passing, hitting and covering improved.''
Sarah Pavan of Kitchener, Ont., led the Canadians with 24 points while Tasha Holness of Calgary added 10.
As was the case in its opening match Sunday against Puerto Rico, the Canadians had a rough start as the Dominican Republic capitalized on a nine-point run to rout the Canadians.
The second set was the turning point as Canada led most of the way but squandered set point twice as the Dominicans completed a strong comeback. In the third set however the Canadians made sure they stayed far ahead building a seven-point lead at one point.
The score was close through the first official timeout of the fourth before the Dominicans went on a 10-2 spree to build an 18-10 lead.
''Tonight after the first set we stayed much calmer and didn't give in to frustration,'' said Canada's head coach Arnd Ludwig. ''Our reception control was strong through the second and third sets but in the fourth we stopped moving again.''
In the other Group A match, Puerto Rico hammered winless Honduras 25-4, 25-6, 25-4. Puerto Rico and the Dominican are both 2-0 and will face each other Tuesday for first spot in the group and a bye to the semifinal.
In Group B, Cuba is 2-0 after an easy win over Costa Rica 25-22, 25-15, 25-6. Mexico (1-0) faced Trinidad and Tobago (0-1) in the late match.
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Skip to comments.Shingles : Don't take chances
Posted on 09/04/2013 1:59:18 PM PDT by deputytess
Hey Folks, I recently recovered from shingles.Still have a bit of nerve pain. I was very lucky and managed to avoid the worst through early intervention. I just want to encourage anyone out there who's had chicken pox to talk to their doctor about the shingles shot. You don't want to go through what I went through. This especially goes for my fellow "Boomers". Stress is one of the main triggers for shingles and we 50 somethings have a lot of stress. God bless you all and stay healthy.
My mother got it and said the same thing.
If you lay down with roofers...
Thanks for the plug! As soon as I get the HSA debit card that my husband has been promising indefinitely, I plan to get the shingles shot. Our insurance doesn't cover it, but I'm willing to pay to avoid it.
Sorry you had to go thru it. My neighbor had it and she was a mess for months. And months.
Since I had HORRIBLE chicken pox at age 13, I got the shot, though basically, I avoid drugs or shots or medicine for anything.
I agree with you. My mom suffered through it, but I don't believe that you can get the shot until you are 60 years old.
I got it at our local Rite-Aid drugstore. REally inexpensive.
My PCP just told me to get that shot.
I asked him how on earth this has become such a huge issue.
Very, interesting reply: because a vaccine has been invented, that's how.
My om had shingles a few years ago, I had never seen her cry from physical pain.
Glad you are recovering.
I had it in my early 50's. My wife hasn't had it yet, but her employer is not covering it if you are under 60.
I've never known ANYONE who has or had the shingles. And just about everyone I know of has had the chickenpox.
Is it that prevalent that you need to worry about it?
My cousin got it and suffered for months. She said the pain was worse than childbirth. I went out and got the shot as soon as I could.
Been there, done that. Not fun. Plus, it can flare up repeatedly.
BTW, not everyone is a good candidate for the shot. At least they told me that I wouldn't be. Can't remember why; it's been a while.
I had full blown chickenpox three times.
Can't wait to see what happens if I got shingles.
You may wish to check with your County Health Dept. Some Counties filed for, and received grant $$ to provide Shingles Vaccinations to residents over 60. Free of charge. No income statements,etc. necessary. Just age 60.
Otherwise, it's $225-$300 around here at Walgreens/CVS. Not cheap. Some insurance companies will cover it.
My wife was 42 when she got the shingles.
I just had the vaccine..
"My wife hasn't had it yet, but her employer is not covering it if you are under 60. "
I got it at a store. I think it cost $15-25. For goodness sake, some things are worth spending the bucks for.
I was about seven when I got chickenpox all three times.
I'm now 38.
195 in Rhode Island without insurance. With insurance... $) if you get it a the clinics run by Blue Cross.
No side affects for me and I have an auto-immune disease called Polymyalgia Rhuematica. I was afraid I might have a bad reaction from the vaccine, but thank God I was OK.
I'm 47. It's not cheap, but I'll pay as opposed to taking the chance of catching it before I turn 60. I don't have time for shingles, or any other dmn thing that doesn't kill me quick.
Me. Several of my friends. And several of my wife's friends.
All were in their 50's, usually on the low side.
My brother had it a few years ago. He was in severe pain with it.
I decided to get the shot, so I got it at Walgreens early this year. It cost about $200, but insurance paid $150.
I actually had Shingles back in the '70s... don't remember much about it other than it was a pain.
Can I get it again? Just asking.
That must be after insurance, or some other form of reimbursement. It's $200, otherwise.
Makes me wonder,,,,, I never got the Pox. My Mom made me stay in my Sister's room and play with her for days,,,,yuck! Had the mumps though. I have a feeling that I might still need the shot?
Anyone ever heard of contraindications to getting the shot if you did not have the pox? Would not want her to get something unwanted.
Our 27 year old son had them 3 months ago.....
Hint: Get the shot.
Chances are you won't get it again, but you can. That's what a doctor told my mother so my mom got the shot after her attack just in case.
One of my friends had chicken pox as an infant and shingles before she was 10.
Get the shot. Sooner than later.
You can, but it's unlikely.
The probability of shingles goes down significantly after the first outbreak, then again after a second outbreak.
Since I've already had it, my doctor doesn't believe I need the vaccine. The possibility of having another outbreak is less than the effectiveness of the vaccine.
Your mileage may vary. Ask your doctor.
Ive never known ANYONE who has or had the shingles. And just about everyone I know of has had the chickenpox.
Is it that prevalent that you need to worry about it?
Perhaps when you, and your "peers", are a little older you'll start knowing folks who have had shingles. And it can be very painful and long lasting if you're unlucky. Luckier folks get it but, for them, it's more bearable and of shorter duration.
I also got the pneumonia shot the same day.
It cost zero with Medicare, because it was covered under Part B, IIRC.
Here is the link to Children of God For Life's vaccine chart that lists vaccines with aborted human baby cells, including the shingles vac: http://www.cogforlife.org/vaccineListOrigFormat.pdf
is this covered under obamacare? s/
It may have cost *you* zero, but there's no free lunch and there are no free medications.
Earlier this week, I called my husband at work so he could give the HSA payment information for our son's new glasses, and I reminded him (again) that he'd said he was going to get me the HSA payment card so I didn't have to call him all the time or bring home receipts that he never files for reimbursement. (He says he has ADD, yadda yadda yadda.)
Yesterday he told me the card should come in the mail within 14 days, so as soon as it does, I'll go into some drugstore with "We have the shingles vaccine!" on its sign and get it.
It is written.......
"...I dont have time for shingles, or any other dmn thing that doesnt kill me quick."
Not to worry, it's not likely that it would kill you barring unexpected and rare complication. But it may make you wish you were dead if you would be so unfortunate as to get one of the more painful cases.
Pain aside (and THAT is reason enough to get vaccine!) the illness can and does sometimes cause blindness. Patients become reclusive if Shingles spreads to face. Visualize the worst case of acne you've ever saw, times ten!
Silver Sol (ASAP, Guardian Silver, American Biotics) cures shingles. The ASAP gel does the trick. It also cures MRSA.
"It's $200, otherwise. "
Wow. I did it for cash several years ago. Of course, last year the cash price on my prescriptions averaged $80/month. This year, because, I'm told, of Obamacare, it's $230/each.
I'm in a prayer group with ladies who are mostly in their 60s and 70s. Several have had shingles, and all of them attest that it's very painful.
My mother had it on her back, but you can get it on your face & near your eyes which can case real trouble.
I've known three people that had shingles, including my younger brother and my mother. I had chicken pox when a child, then in my late 30s I got (of all things) German measles. Still don't know where they came from. I wonder if that makes me a bigger target for shingles? I'm still debating about getting the vaccine.
No chance taking here...Last Fall we did an entire ripe off and put down a pretty classy metal roof....Snow just slides right off!
I appreciate that, but in my wife's case, there are some complicating factors.
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The first item of business at the recent Emery Town Council meeting was to open a public hearing to amend the 2006 budget. Several items of additional revenue were added into the budget, and no public comments were voiced. The council closed the public hearing and approved to accept the amended budget.
A Ferron contractor was next to address the council. He reviewed the process by which he had submitted a bid for fencing work around the debris basins in Emery. Mayor Mike Williams explained that the dikes surrounding the debris basins will suffer extreme erosion problems if vehicles are allowed on them. The original concept of the fence was to keep motorized vehicles off of the dikes.
The contractor explained that he had been working through Johansen and Tuttle Engineering. He had submitted his bid to Emery Town and was the lone bid on the project. As Emery's council prepared to open the bids, it was discovered that other companies may be wanting to bid on the project. The bid opening was postponed to allow for other bids to come in.
During the process, the engineering firm informed the sole bidding contractor that he was the only bid and it was accepted. Four to five days later, the contractor was informed to stop all work toward the project because other bids were coming in to Emery. "I am not happy about losing this job and I want the job back," said the contractor. "During several telephone calls to Johansen and Tuttle, and also Mayor Williams, I was told that two other bids had come in and I would not be getting the project."
The contractor went on to say that the bidder who had been the lowest was eliminated because he did not have a contractor's license. "I am proposing that I be awarded the project and allowed to do the job. I will follow through with my quote with a slight increase due to the rising cost of materials. That's my proposal," said the contractor. "I have heard from others in this same position that they have been awarded the money for the job without doing the work, I want everything on the up and up." The contractor contends that the notice to proceed he received from Johansen and Tuttle is the same as an award of the job.
Mayor Williams responded, "We began the project with the idea of preserving the debris basins, and have since decided not to follow through with the project. We ordered the materials, but never received them. We talked the situation over with Craig Johansen and it was decided that this fencing project would not satisfy our objective. In the end, this council did not make any award of a contract for this project. We did not award the bid to anyone. We have all learned through this controversial project."
A meet the candidate event was held. The candidates for Emery Town Council are Eric Anderson, Corinne Dalton and Pat Sundstrom. Each resident, as they entered town hall for the council meeting was asked to write a question for the candidates to answer. As the questions were read, the candidates were each allowed two minutes to answer. Following the question and answer session, all Emery Town residents were encouraged to get to know each candidate and their views.
The subject of a recreation center for Emery was discussed. Carol Riddle, a resident of Emery, explained the tax exempt status of city owned property according to Utah State law. "Any ground that is owned by the city has a tax exempt status. If a building is constructed on that property, the use of that building must be scrutinized carefully. A building like that can be used for any purpose the city deems, such as meetings, socials, etc., but if a private citizen is allowed to use the building, and that citizen has a business license and is charging a fee for the activity that is taking place in the building, this puts the tax exempt status of that property in jeopardy," said Riddle.
"If a part-time business moves in, the city is required to pay a privilege tax. This results in the business owner having to pay property taxes on the facility. The tax exempt status of property has its limits. Be aware that if the process is not done correctly, you could lose your tax exempt status," Riddle added.
Pam Adams, a resident of Emery, has volunteered to coordinate the formation of an emergency preparedness plan for Emery. She asked for help from the council and residents to identify the needs of those residents in Emery that would need immediate help during a disaster. She is especially concerned with those Emery residents who have medical conditions, such as oxygen use, who would need immediate attention. "I would appreciate any input from the council concerning identifying the needs of Emery and its residents," said Adams.
Gary Petty added that most people think nothing will happen in Emery, but he reminded everyone of the controlled burns over the mountain several years ago, and the smoke that settled in the valley. "There were many people in town who use oxygen and during that time, they had trouble breathing," said Petty.
The council authorized the installation of a power pole near the ball park. The pole will provide a street light and also a power hookup for Christmas lights and a control box for a proposed sprinkling system. Another action approved by the council was to increase the mileage rate to 48.5 cents to stay in line with the rate paid by the federal government.
An encroachment issue by a resident of Emery onto city property was discussed. The dispute centers around the resident storing personal property on a portion of city property that adjoins his private property. Also a portion of a building that the resident has built is on that same city property. With two surveys of the property, a 12 foot differential has not been resolved. "We will get this issue resolved," said Mayor Williams. "We are working toward that resolution."
Marie Anderson, an Emery resident and member of the Emery County Recreation Board informed the councilof the opening of the new trap shoot facility. The range has been constructed on Des-Bee-Dove Road in Castle Dale near the Emery County Sheriff's facility. The grand opening of the trap range will be held Nov. 5.
During the citizens concerns portion of the meeting, Marian Mangum asked about Emery's property tax rates. She had heard that Emery has higher taxes than other cities in Emery County. Riddle, of the assessor's office, answered that because of the city tax, which is a small percentage higher than other cities, Emery does have a slightly higher tax rate. Another concern was raised by Petty. This concern was about the city being out of water during a day the past weekend. He was informed that a water line had broken that supplies Consol. The repair has been completed and the cost of the repair was made by Consol.
Mistie Christiansen gave the council an update concerning the proposal to build a recreation center in Emery. She has been researching different types of buildings, and what would be required with each one. She also noted that soil compaction tests will be required and possibly a geo-technical investigation. Christiansen also presented heating cost comparisons for buildings of the same size and type of heat. "Exact figures will be coming, and I have ordered brochures for different types of heating systems," said Christiansen.
The next Emery Town Council meeting will be Nov. 9 at 6 p.m. in Emery Town Hall.


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This weekend I was watching reruns of Alton Brown's Good Eats (one of my all time favorite cooking shows), and I caught an episode that was completely dedicated to cooking with alcohol…well, mainly wine and beer. Lately I have taken an even more increased interest in incorporating these flavors into my own cooking, so I quickly hit the record button on my DVR. Coincidentally, Alton proceeded to breakdown the science behind two specific recipes that I have been experimenting with extensively myself; wine marinated lamb steaks and beer bread. But that wasn't the nugget of information that piqued my interest.


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Skip to comments.GOP eyes new election laws
Posted on 01/18/2013 8:14:00 AM PST by Olog-hai
After back-to-back presidential losses, Republicans in key states want to change the rules to make it easier for them to win.
From Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, GOP officials who control legislatures in states that supported President Barack Obama are considering changing state laws that give the winner of a states popular vote all of its Electoral College votes, too. Instead, these officials want Electoral College votes to be divided proportionally, a move that could transform the way the country elects its president.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus endorsed the idea this week, and other Republican leaders support it, too, suggesting that the effort may be gaining momentum. There are other signs that Republican state legislators, governors and veteran political strategists are seriously considering making the shift as the GOP looks to rebound from presidential candidate Mitt Romneys Electoral College shellacking and the demographic changes that threaten the partys long-term political prospects.
Democrats are outraged at the potential change.
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I'd settle for eying a viable conservative candidate.
I've heard of burying the lead, but this presstitute seems to be burying the entire concept.
I want my state's electoral votes given according to number of congressional districts won.
That way if Detroit wants to cheat and produce 10 trillion votes for Obozo, they can and it won't make a bit of difference. They'll still pick up only the allotted number of electoral votes for the district.
All I know is that in the People's Repubic of Maryland O'Mally and the Democrats voted not to proportion the electoral vote and they are certainly Democrats.
Of course with AP we know whose side they are on.
The writing in this article is so bad no one can understand it, but what I believe upsets the Democrats is that they want all electoral votes in Democrat States to go for them, but they want proportion in Mixed states that could go majority Republican.
Of course they want to blame this on Republicans.
They want to blame everything on Republicans.
One day they will wake up and blame Obama on Republicans.
Expect lawsuits from the (in)Justice Dept fighting this, a la state sponsored voter id law.
This would be an absolute long term disaster for us and the last nail in the coffin. This is saying "we can't win so we rig the game". If the GOP is SO pathetic that it has to do this, it is dead.
How about some decent Conservative candidates?
Although naturally framed as a GOP ploy by AP, this makes sense and is based upon the idea of the Electoral College itself.
Why should cities like Madison, Chicago, Detroit, New York City and Philadelphia, et. al., have the luxury of carrying a disproportional weight and carrying an entire state to the exclusion of the entire rest of the state?
Talk about an obvious leftist hit piece posing as news.
As for changing the electoral law that is a very bad idea.
This is fine with me. The Dems are importing new voters by the millions and putting them on the dole so why shouldn't our side do more to help our chances?
The poor dears.
is this the same old same old proportional awarding or is it going to shift balance away from the heavily titled city zombies.
"Although naturally framed as a GOP ploy by AP, this makes sense and is based upon the idea of the Electoral College itself.
Why should cities like Madison, Chicago, Detroit, New York City and Philadelphia, et. al., have the luxury of carrying a disproportional weight and carrying an entire state to the exclusion of the entire rest of the state?"
Thanks to the usurper Federal employees in black robes back in the 1960's who abolished the States republican form of Government with their senate. Theses urban machines also control the state to the execution of the rights and liberties of everyone else.
Still going to a popular vote will allow theses same handful of corrupt urban machines to dominate Federal politics as well.
You have any idea the extent to which theses corrupt urban machine managed to squelch republican votes and inflate their own?
There is a dam good reason the popular vote is not the way we elect presidents. It is full of fraud!
Shhhhhhh. We can't let Californians know they could do this...
* How about closed Primaries?
* How about shunning the Lame-Stream-Media and doing your own events using our Talk Show Host as questioners and folks like Byron York, Mark Steyn, Huge Hewitt, Dennis Prager etc etc i.e. folks with a brain asking the questions?
* How about proportional delegate wins with no funny games a-la Michigan, i.e. consistant rules from State to State?
I don't think the city's are zombies so much as electorally high-jacked by their local machines. I don't believe that the urban vote is legitimately counted, nor do I believe it has been in many if not most city's for most of the last 50 years.
I'd settle for closed primaries. A little peace of mind on that point has become more and more appreciated.
The RNC Rule changes need to be understood, as grassroot conservatives seem to be more and more marginalized at convention.
Definite hat tip to Libertarians who stood up and fought the Establishment surrogates on some of these state and national committees.
This, plus fraud prevention (mainly voter ID), would go a long way towards defanging the Democrat machine. If EC votes were awarded on a district-by-district basis in the state of California, that could be enough to swing many presidential elections. Not all of California is full of moonbats.
Now THAT idea of yours, I actually understand. What could possibly the hold up with the pointy heads in the ongoing R Conference?
I'd throw right to work in there as another means of declawing the democrat vote fraud machine. Massive vote fraud ain't cheap and cutting off a primary source of funding is a good way to go.
Why is it a bad idea?
Check out number 4. It addresses the point of the post.
That way if Detroit wants to cheat and produce 10 trillion votes for Obozo, they can and it wont make a bit of difference. Theyll still pick up only the allotted number of electoral votes for the district.
Exactly why the GOP needs to push this in every state possible. The whole point of the electoral college is to prevent urban enclaves outvoting and ruling over agricultural regions.
The Founders weren't stupid, they were seeking a balance that would avoid the city elite / peasant farmer dichotomy that civilization tends to devolve toward.
Because the leftist are already trying to go to a popular vote to allow just the sort of electoral corruption and high-jacking that now dominates our city's to dominate presidential elections as well.
While this may benefit us in liberal dominated states it will kill us in Conservative States that still host high-jacked urban areas.
This is a two edge sword and the other edge is already well on its way to cutting our throats with their corruption.
Its the way we're "supposed" to do our GOP primaries in Michigan but they never expected a Romney/Santorum tie so they had to change the rules in the middle of the night. Its a bit more complicated but basically Romney took 3000 more total votes but they divided congressional districts evenly and were supposed to split the two remaining at large delegates but the GOP couldn't afford for Romney to tie in Michigan.
There would be no late night rule change in the general election between the parties.
""I want my states electoral votes given according to number of congressional districts won.
That way if Detroit wants to cheat and produce 10 trillion votes for Obozo, they can and it wont make a bit of difference. Theyll still pick up only the allotted number of electoral votes for the district."
Exactly why the GOP needs to push this in every state possible. The whole point of the electoral college is to prevent urban enclaves outvoting and ruling over agricultural regions.
I agree but do you really think bring it down to districting is a good idea? Suppose the corrupt democrats claim the State leglsators?
Presidential elections will go with the State leglsators, which on 2nd though might not be so bad.
I withdraw opposition, provided it follow the congressional district model.
"Id settle for eying a viable conservative candidate."
It doesn't make any difference who the candidates are as long as the left controls elections and is allowed voting "irregularities" as they see fit. The Supreme Court, earlier this week, left in place a ruling from 1982 that disallows Republicans from challenging ANY voter fraud on the part of democrats.
The problem (and the reason it is able to be easily framed as a GOP ploy) is that the GOP is ONLY considering making this change in states that have trended Democratic in Presidential elections. No solid (or even marginal) red states are considering this. That makes this look like a transparently partisan move.
Yeah, that was the booby prize offered by our Quisling State GOP Chairman Rob Gleason after he blocked an electoral vote allocation by congressional district bill in 2011.
The ID bill passed and, of course, the Democrats had a hissy fit and sued. They found one fudgepacker judge to issue an injunction to suspend in just in time for the 2012 election.
Screw ém. The cheating party will scream no matter what. Nebraska has had congressional district voting since 1970 and Maine since 1990. Since BO picked up one Nebraska electoral vote in 2008, they have no grounds to challenge such a law.
Enact it. Enact voter ID as well. Let the DemonRATS play defense on multiple fronts. They have too much time to play offense now.
And, while they are at it, the GOP should put some teeth in encouraging this type of thing to spread by allocating GOP delegates more on the basis of rewarding states which actually deliver electoral votes to the GOP ticket in November, including those who do it by congressional district voting. It makes no damn sense to give a state like California, who will never deliver GOP electoral votes in November, more primary delegates than Texas, which reliably does.
Well said. Hopefully the GOP will get that premise out there in the public, that voter fraud won't be such a threat if big cities can't sway the entire state, that liberal strongholds in cities won't rule the country.
Come on, GOP, get out there and fight for the people for a change.
Since we were formed as the United STATES and not the United Electoral Votes or United Congressional Districts do you think that the Founders were seeking a balance more at the individual state level rather than what you mention (the city elite vs. peasant farmer)?
This crap is exactly why I have always been so vehemently opposed to the 17th anti constitutional amendment.
It was popular vote snake oil sold under the banner of empowerment and all it did was strip power from the states. Here in Michigan the GOP holds a huge majority across all 3 branches of state government but Detroit, Flint, and Ann Arbor elect Levin and Stabenow over and over again.
Prior to the 17th a senator who attempted to override the desires of the state could be removed by the legislature. Today the state wants one thing but "our" senators do exactly the opposite.
Its also important to note that the GOP holds all 3 branches in 24 states. The democrats hold all 3 in 13 states. The senate should resemble the nation but it doesn't.
Anyone remember when democraps proposed this during the 2000s when Bush and Republicans were winning elections? It was "good idea" back then, but now that it has turned around, its a Republican play. The media in this country sucks.
This is a start. And keep the cities from overwhelming the entire state. Go for it.
ANd states with same day registration and crossover voting be the LAST to vote in the primaries.
The electoral college was established at the federal level for national elections, so I assume the founders meant what they did.
They also left the apportionment of electoral votes up to the states to decide for themselves.
Bingo. The freepers claiming it's a north vs. south battle in this country with "liberal yankeeland" have it wrong. States like Indiana certainly aren't "liberal". Rather, it's an urban vs. rural battle for the culture of this country.
If you live in El Paso, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Memphis, Detroit, Miami, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Denver, Las Vegas, St. Louis, Charlotte, Cleveland, Milwaukee, etc., the local government and electorate is overwhelmingly Democrat and liberal.
The cities have become over-representative in the representative assembly that is the Electoral College. This is the way to balance it. State by state.
Strangely it works for the Dims?
We will never win another election if we let them own the voting machines, which should be outlawed.
I think you're wrong on this. Here in Washington State, elections are won by the votes of King County, in spite of the fact that most of the state is conservative.
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Which literary genre is the author Ursula K. Le Guin best known for?
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Author Ursula K. Le Guin is best known for writing science fiction.
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When was Le Guin born?
Ursula K. Le Guin was born on Oct. 21, 1929. The Great Depression began on Black Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1929, just eight days after Le Guin's birthday.
Question 3 of 30
True or false: Le Guin's mother was a writer.
Theodora Kroeber, Ursula K. Le Guin's mother, was an accomplished writer and anthropologist. Kroeber was best known for her books about the last member of the Yahi tribe of California.
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In which city was Ursula K. Le Guin born?
Berkeley, California
Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California. Le Guin's father was the well-known anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber.
Portland, Oregon
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When did Ursula K. Le Guin receive a Bachelor of Arts from Radcliffe College?
She received her bachelor's in 1951. Radcliffe College was established by Harvard faculty in 1879 for the instruction of women.
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From which college did Ursula K. Le Guin receive a Master of Arts?
Columbia University
Le Guin received a master's in Romance Languages from Columbia University in 1952.
Yale University
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Which prestigious fellowship was Ursula K. Le Guin awarded?
Ursula K. Le Guin was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to study in France.
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Where did Ursula K. Le Guin meet her future husband?
on the Queen Mary
Ursula K. Le Guin met historian Charles Le Guin aboard the Queen Mary. The Queen Mary provided passenger service across the Atlantic from 1936 to 1967.
at the Eiffel Tower
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Where was Le Guin's first teaching job?
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Le Guin's first teaching job was at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. Le Guin began teaching at Mercer in 1954.
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Which subject did Le Guin teach at Mercer University?
She taught French at Mercer. Le Guin left the university in 1956.
American literature
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Which institution did Le Guin teach at from 1956 to 1958?
University of Idaho
From 1956 to 1958, Le Guin taught at the University of Idaho.
University of Washington
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Question 12 of 30
How many children did Le Guin have?
Ursula and Charles Le Guin had three children: Elisabeth, Caroline and Theodore.
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How old was Le Guin when she wrote her first science fiction story?
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Le Guin wrote her first science fiction story at age 11. She also received her first rejection letter at age 11.
Question 14 of 30
Which science fiction magazine published Le Guin's story "April in Paris"?
In 1962, Fantastic magazine published "April in Paris." Fantastic was a science fiction digest published in the U.S. from 1952 to 1980.
Weird Tales
Space and Time
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What is the title of Le Guin's first published novel?
"The Dispossessed"
"Rocannon's World"
"Rocannon's World" was published in 1964.
"The Telling"
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What is the name of the main character in the novel "A Wizard of Earthsea"?
Ged is the character's true name — in the series characters have many names.
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True or false: In the novel "A Wizard of Earthsea," Ged's use-name is Wolf.
Ged's use-name is Sparrowhawk. The character is also called Duny by his family.
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How many books are in the "Earthsea" series?
There are six books in the "Earthsea" series; the latest is "The Other Wind."
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Which 1969 Le Guin novel won the Hugo Award?
"Heart of Darkness"
"Rulers of Darkness"
"The Left Hand of Darkness"
Le Guin won the Hugo Award for the 1969 novel "The Left Hand of Darkness."
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Which novel was the first book in the "Hainish Cycle" series?
"Planet of Exile"
"Rocannon's World"
Le Guin's first novel, "Rocannon's World," was also the first book in the "Hainish Cycle" series. The series is based on beings from the planet Hain who have colonized distant parts of the universe in distinctly different ways.
"City of Illusions"
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Which novel is NOT in the "Hainish Cycle" series?
"The Lathe of Heaven"
"The Lathe of Heaven" is not part of the series. It's about a character whose dreams affect the real world.
"Planet of Exile"
"City of Illusions"
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True or false: "Rocannon's World" was originally published by Bantam Spectra.
"Rocannon's World" was originally published by Ace Books. Ace Books was founded by A.A. Wyn in 1953 and is one of the oldest continuously operating science fiction publishers in the U.S.
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The Shing rule through mind control and possess the ability to lie while communicating telepathically.
the Borg
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"City of Illusions was first published by Ace Books in 1967.
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Who is the main character of the book "The Dispossessed"?
Shevek is a physicist who travels to another planet in hopes of advancing science.
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Which Le Guin novel describes the culture of the Kesh people?
"Always Coming Home"
"Always Coming Home" was published in 1985 by Harper & Row.
"The Telling"
"The Lathe of Heaven"
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Who is locked in a closet in the story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"?
an elderly woman
a middle-aged man
a young child
In the short story, the prosperity and happiness of the city depends upon the misery of a child locked in a closet. The story originally appeared in "New Dimensions 3," a compilation of 11 short stories by different authors published in 1973 by Doubleday.
Question 28 of 30
Where does Le Guin live?
Portland, Oregon
Le Guin and her husband Charles first moved to Portland in 1958.
Eugene, Oregon
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True or false: Le Guin's agent submitted one of Le Guin's stories to Playboy magazine under the name U.K. Le Guin.
When Playboy publishers found out she was a woman, they asked to leave the byline as U.K. Le Guin for fear of offending male readers.
Question 30 of 30
How many novels has Le Guin published?
Le Guin has published 22 novels and more than 100 short stories in 11 volumes. Le Guin has also written seven books of poetry.


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If you live in an area where there's a lot of people and traffic, air quality may have crossed your mind at one point or another—and rightly so. In recent years, the health of people living, working or going to school near roads with high traffic volume has been a quickly rising national concern. All over the world, studies are finding air pollution levels especially elevated in these areas.
A multidisciplinary group of researchers, planners and policymakers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Forest Service and other organizations found that strategically planting trees near busy roadways may significantly enhance air quality. Their findings were published last year in the Transportation Research Board magazine. Read more »


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By Brendan Conway
From Commerzbank's strategists this morning:
Despite its significant use in industry, silver behaved less like an industrial metal and more like a currency metal in the past weeks. The correlation between gold and silver on the basis of weekly price changes in the past 52 weeks was recently stable at more than 0.8. Silver thus followed the price movements of gold to a disproportionately great extent. Between end-January and end-February, silver dropped by 11% to a six-month low at USD 28 per troy ounce before recovering slightly since then (chart 6). Short-term oriented speculative financial investors largely withdrew from silver over that period – similar to gold. Within five weeks, net long positions were reduced by 79% to 6,300 contracts, the lowest level since late July (chart 7). Since a contract comprises 5,000 ounces, this means the equivalent of 3,700 tons of silver was sold via the futures market over that period. This roughly corresponds to one and a half times the monthly silver mine production, or a good 40% of investment demand of 2011. In the past we often saw marked countermovements after such pronounced developments.
iShares Silver Trust (SLV) is ahead by 1.6% on the session and the closed-end fund Sprott Physical Silver Trust (PSLV) is up 1.5%.


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Earvin "Magic" Johnson Player
Inducted in 2006
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Inductee 2002
Magic dazzled fans with his skills as a passer, play-maker, shooter and rebounder. Johnson led the Michigan State Spartans to victory over Larry Bird and the previously-undefeated Indiana State Sycamores in the 1979 NCAA Championship game. He was a member of the 50th Anniversary NBA Team and a key member of 1992 U.S. Olympic "Dream Team".
Where They Are Now
CEO of Magic Johnson Enterprises and Magic Johnson Theaters
Where They Were
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Henrico's Top Teachers – Karen Bowles
Hermitage Tech Center, veterinary science
As a licensed veterinary technician who worked in animal hospitals for 17 years, Karen Bowles became increasingly frustrated with the lack of qualified, trained technicians in the field.
"I wished for a class that would teach people how to do the job, so that we wouldn't have to train them on the job," she recalls.
In 2003, Bowles got her wish when Hermitage Technical Center started a veterinary science program for juniors and seniors. She was, however surprised by the teacher hired to run the program: herself.
"I had no intention of teaching it," she says with a laugh. "I just wanted it to exist."
Nine years later, the 44-student program is flourishing under Bowles' leadership and has done exactly what she originally hoped it would – and then some. A number of current and former students hold jobs as veterinary technicians locally and elsewhere, while others have gone on to veterinary school. The program has been so successful that center officials recently added a second section because of high demand.
"It's so cool when I call a veterinary hospital and one of my former students will answer the phone," Bowles says. "That's such a great reward."
Bowles was a natural choice for the program because she had a teaching demeanor about her and had often been the one performing on-the-job training at the veterinary hospitals where she worked. She was encouraged to apply for the position and did so, thinking she'd be able to teach part time and remain in the working world part time.
That didn't happen – the program's demands are too rigorous – but Bowles doesn't seem to mind.
"I can help these students who had that same dream that I had to become a reality," she says. "The common thread is the love of animals. Every applicant lists that on their application. I always wanted to work with animals since I was 5, and most of these kids are the same way."
In addition to her teaching role, Bowles also heads up the newly formed Tech Ethics Society at the center, through which about 80 students perform fundraising and community service projects.
"When observing her, one notices how organized and structured her class is and how the students function as a unified team when completing assigned tasks such as animal grooming, project presentations and surgical preparation," a colleague wrote of Bowles in a nomination letter. "Her demeanor inside the classroom is the same as outside the classroom and the same with students and adults."
More than a dozen animals – a cat, a rabbit, two gerbils, three ferrets, three rats, a hamster, a guinea pig, a bearded dragon and a chinchilla – live in the center, and Bowles brings her dog each day, giving students a wide range of real-world experience interacting with them. It's not uncommon to see a student working on her laptop with a cat curled up in her lap, Bowles says.
The presence of the animals also serves as a calming influence for others in the center at the high school.
"Teachers will come visit the animals if they need the stress relief," Bowles says. "Special needs students can come too, or sometimes we visit them and let them feed the animals. Sometimes a student will be having a bad day, and being around the animals can help ease the tension."
One of the most tense moments Bowles herself experienced was during her first year of teaching, when the school was locked down because of a reported gunman in the building.
"I had 22 hysterical students that I had to pack into a small, dark room," she recalls. "One was hyperventilating. One was claustrophobic. Several were crying. We had been trained in how to handle a situation like that, so I kept talking to them in a calm voice, telling them what we were going to do, and that everything was going to be alright."
The scare turned out to be a false alarm, but it was an eye-opener for Bowles.
"That gave me the self-assurance that I could handle this, but it also made me realize that I'm a mom to 44 kids, besides my two at home. I probably see more of them most days than their parents do. It helped me to understand teenagers a little better."
Villa's Flagler Housing wins national NAEH award
St. Joseph's Villa's Flagler Housing & Homeless Services was one of three entities to earn the National Alliance to End Homelessness' Champion of Change Award. The awards were presented Nov. 17 during a ceremony at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
NAEH annually recognizes proven programs and significant achievements in ending child and family homelessness.
Flagler completed its transition from an on-campus shelter to the community-based model of rapid rehousing in 2013, and it was one of the nation's first rapid re-housing service providers to be certified by NAEH. > Read more.
RIR's Christmas tree lighting rescheduled for Dec. 12
Richmond International Raceway's 13th annual Community Christmas tree lighting has been rescheduled from Dec. 6 to Monday, Dec. 12, at 6:30 p.m., due to inclement weather expected on the original date.
Entertainment Dec. 12 will be provided by the Laburnum Elementary School choir and the Henrico High School Mighty Marching Warriors band. Tree decorations crafted by students from Laburnum Elementary School and L. Douglas Wilder Middle School will be on display. Hot chocolate and cookies will be supplied by the Henrico High School football boosters. > Read more.
Weekend Top 10
Given the warm weather lately, Saturday's RVA Polar Plunge Winter Fest, benefiting Special Olympics Virginia, might actually be enjoyable! Other weekend events you're sure to enjoy include the 14th annual Richmond Kids Expo at the Richmond Raceway Complex, the Richmond Symphony and The Taters in concert at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, and the Richmond Ballet Minds in Motion Team XXL performing at the Henrico Theatre. This is also the last weekend to check out HATTheatre's production of "Bill W. and Dr. Bob." For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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The Germans from Russia Heritage Collection is pleased to provide
the publication Leipzig 1905 - 1980. Leipzig was a member
of the St. Joseph colonies of west central Saskatchewan. German
Catholic settlers from South Russia and from the USA are considered
to be the original pioneers.
In April, 1905, the first German Catholic immigrants left the
USA and headed for Canada. After about twenty days of travel and
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The publication includes these sections: "The History of the Leipzig
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"St. Paschal's Parish;" "The Towns" including Cavell (Coblenz) and
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Family names of the Leipzig area include: Leidl, Franke, Hiebert,
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Top Executive Background and Financial Reporting Choice
Francois Brochet
Boston University - Department of Accounting
Kyle T. Welch
George Washington University - School of Business
November 18, 2011
Harvard Business School Research Paper No. 1765928
We study the role of executive functional background in explaining management discretion in financial reporting. Taking goodwill impairment as our reporting setting, we focus on top executives (CEOs and CFOs) whose employment history includes experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital or management consulting, as we expect these executives to have unique human capital and reputation concerns with respect to acquisitions and valuation modeling related to fair-value reporting. On average, we document that CFOs with prior transaction experience impair goodwill more frequently and in smaller amounts than other executives. Further investigation suggests that CFOs with prior transaction experience report goodwill that is more value relevant. This is consistent with CFO valuation expertise helping impair goodwill in a more informative manner. In contrast, CEOs with prior transaction experience appear to be subject to agency conflicts that affect their propensity to impair goodwill. Overall, our results not only suggest that executive functional background is a significant explanatory factor of financial reporting discretion, but also that a better understanding of its effect relies upon analyses of specific settings and predictions grounded in upper echelons theory and agency theory.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 39
Keywords: goodwill impairment, executive background
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CASTLE DALE-Roger A. Clark, age 85, passed away Feb. 26, 2014 at the VA Medical Center in Salt Lake City. He was born Jan. 8, 1929 in Emery, Utah to Adolphus Young and Nellie Elizabeth Anderson Clark.
Clark was a longtime resident of Emery County and graduate of Emery High where he was an all-star tennis player. In 1947, he enlisted in the Air Force and served as Sr. Air Operations Specialist during the Berlin Airlift while stationed in England. In 1951, he was honorably discharged at the rank of Staff Sergeant. While stationed in England, Roger met his future wife and soul mate Pauline Zekayouski of 63 years. They were married in England in 1951. After Pauline arrived in the United States they remarried in New York on Dec. 28, 1951.
Roger worked for the US Postal Service where he was the Postmaster in three separate offices. He worked at the Post Office by day and at the coal mine by night. During his life he worked hard and taught his kids and grandkids how to hunt, fish, repair cars, and the importance of savings. Roger enjoyed snow skiing, water skiing, or anything to do with the outdoors. From the time he was a small child he always wanted to be a pilot. He eventually received his pilot license and his own plane. Roger took great pride in his kids and grandkids in their accomplishments through life. He will be greatly missed.
"Dad, your back in the pilot seat."
Survived by his loving wife, Pauline Clark, Castle Dale; four sons and one daughter, Roger David Clark, Washington, Barry Lee (Brenda) Clark, Boise, ID, Scott Dwaine (Diane) Clark, Eagle, ID, Boe (Curtis) Taylor, Lawrence, Kevin Young (Tami) Clark, Kanab; brother, Glade (Norma) Clark, Leads; sister, Pat Anderson, Coalville.
Preceded in death by parents, infant sister, Evelyn Clark; brothers, John and David Clark; sister, Arlene Marinoni; and granddaughter, Misty Mead. Funeral service was held, Saturday, March 1, 2014, 2 p.m., at the Emery Community Center. Family received friends at the community center Saturday at 1:30 p.m. Interment, Emery City Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to Mitchell Funeral Home of Price where friends are always welcome daily and may share memories of Roger at www.mitchellfuneralhome.net. In remembrance of Roger, his family suggests donations to the Palliative Care and Acute Medicine at the VA Hospital, (550 Foothill Drive, SLC, UT 84518).


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Virgin Blue and Pacific Blue to Increase Fares Due to Fuel Costs29/04/2008
Virgin Blue Airlines has announced it will reluctantly implement a price increase across its network following the continued and unprecedented increase in jet fuel prices.
The airline will increase Virgin Blue one-way Australian domestic fares between AUD$5-$10, based upon flight sector length. Pacific Blue Trans-Tasman and short haul international fares will increase between $5-$15. New Zealand domestic fares currently remain under review.
In a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange on 11 April, 2008 after jet fuel prices escalated to in excess of US$135, the airline said that continuing to absorb excessive fuel costs was an untenable position should fuel prices remain at that level. Jet fuel has since continued to increase and has now reached US$144 per barrel.
The new fares will come into effect progressively from Tuesday 6 May 2008 giving travellers time to get in and make bookings at current pricing levels.


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Hey Guys,
I'm considering putting together an E-book on the "Rogue Lifestyle." Why is this here? This is something I have personally
been doing for over a year now. It was inspired by various MMO's and a need for a different kind of political activism coupled with a love for Urban Exploration, and various other activities designed to make one a better "rogue."
I have personally learned and gained a lot from weekly martial arts training from other "rogues" as well as urban exploration and political protest attendance (for your own consideration what we've done is not affiliated with any party but any can be affiliated with)
It can change things for people who have wondered what it would be like to live outside of the normal box that most folks are limited by.
Long story short, I'm still kicking this around, but if I were to do it, it would consist of an ebook and possibly weekly updates.
If you're interested in what has already been done the current site is www.rstealth.webs.com
I am not soliciting ANYTHING at this time. I just know this started for me when I played MMORPGS (DDO & WoW in particular)
Tell me what you would like to see if I were to put something like this together. Tell me if this is something that people are needing.
I know when I started it was EXACTLY what I was needing.
Thanks in advance.
If you need some sort of proof im legit,
you can MYDDO- Raiiu, Raissen, Raiphael, and Raiia on the Thelanis Server of DDO
Just because I'm out UEing constantly doesn't mean i dont still play. so please don't hate on this thread
Im just trying to make something out of nothing.
Originally posted by Starpower
I'm at a loss for words...
By the looks of it you managed to find at least 6...
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
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Originally posted by Starpower
I'm at a loss for words...
By the looks of it you managed to find at least 6...
Trade in material assumptions for spiritual facts and make permanent progress.
So seriously, what do you think?
This is something i take seriously! I've tried everything else i can think of to monetize my efforts....
everyone kept saying, what are you good at? what can you offer people?
Well, everything keeps coming back to this. I want to share it with people. so... ya know?
Why no words?
This actually isn't nearly as crazy as you think; the rogue lifestyle currently incorporates-- Skateboarders, Freerunners, picket line protestors, urban explorers, hackers, trolls the like. (YES i just said trolls- I am not one, [i actually urban explore a lot])
people are already doing it, we just added this look http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/s2/superhoodie1.jpg
Originally posted by renr06u3
Why no words?
You are going to play dress'up and label yourself as a rogue. I suspect you are not getting any replies because people are too polite to write something
Son, walking around in areas you shouldn't be wearing dark clothes with a large hunting knife is most likely going to get yourself or someone else hurt.
It's my experience that a restricted area is restricted for a reason, usually involving safety which requires proper personal protective equipment or knowledge of the area to survive or it's just a bunch of boring but expensive crap like a giant boiler or air conditioner. Take it from me - I worked security for a few years and work in an industrial zone now.
Even something as harmless as entering a recently abandoned house can put you into direct contact with animal waste that can cause you all sorts of health problems.
Also, the "limited by" comment you made above is a funny thought - just because you choose to creep around in a dusty old warehouse doesn't make you any more unlimited than the people that opt against it for obvious reasons mostly those I've stated above. Go meet up with friends or get my feet wet in a slimey sewer? Play with my son in the park or go trespassing in a boring old condo's boiler room. Spend a minute of my free time at my place of work without compensation? No thanks!
You want to make money from getting behind the velvet rope of a no trespassing sign? Get a super cool job like building maintenance , or security, or construction, or public works, or manufacturing - people will give you a decent wage to hang out in restricted areas until you've had you fill, except security, because it pays crap.
Hazelle has a point.
There are quite a few places I have to work that require me to wear quite a bit of persona protective equipment. A lot of those old buildings are laiden with Asbestos. That stuff has been found to cause cancer in lungs once it's been disturbed and become airborn for someone to inhale. I have to work in environments like this once in a while and I take tremendous amouts of effort to safeguard myself from dangerous or deadly environments. On a similar note, animal fecal matter once it's been sitting around for a while and dried up can also become airborne and carry all manner of mold and bacteria on it that once again will pose health hazards to you and those with you.
Do yourself a vavor and find a job that will take you to all the places you want to go. At least that way you'll have access to safety equipment or training and will gain experience that will help keep you relatively safe and you can get paid to do it.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-


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Upper GI Endoscopy
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- Health Information
- Upper GI Endoscopy
(Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy; Esophagogastroduodenoscopy [EGD])
|Upper GI Endoscopy
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Reasons for Test
- Abdominal pain
- Severe heartburn
- Persistent nausea and vomiting
- Difficulty swallowing
- Blood in stool or vomit
- Abnormal x-ray or other examinations of the gastrointestinal tract
- Ulcers
- Tumors
- Polyps
- Abnormal narrowing
- Inflammation
Possible Complications
- Bleeding
- Damage to the esophagus, stomach, or intestine, which may include perforation
- Infection
- Reduced breathing rate and/or depth
- Reaction to sedatives or anesthesia
- Increasing age, especially age 60 and older
- Pregnancy
- Obesity
- Smoking, alcohol use disorder, or drug use
- Malnutrition
- Recent illness
- Diabetes
- Heart or lung problems
- Bleeding disorders
- Use of certain medications
What to Expect
Prior to test
- Your doctor may instruct you to take antibiotics.
- Arrange for a ride home after the test. Also, arrange for help at home.
- The night before, eat a light meal. Do not eat or drink anything for 6-10 hours before the test.
- Talk to your doctor about your medications. You may be asked to stop taking some medications up to one week before the procedure.
Description of the Test
After Test
- Rest when you get home.
- Ask your doctor if you can resume your normal diet. In most cases, you will be able to.
- Sedatives can slow your reaction time. Do not drive or use machinery for the rest of the day.
- Avoid alcohol for the rest of the day.
How Long Will It Take?
Will It Hurt?
Call Your Doctor
- Signs of infection, including fever and chills
- Severe abdominal pain
- Hard, swollen abdomen
- Difficulty swallowing or breathing
- Any change or increase in your original symptoms
- Bloody or black tarry colored stools
- Nausea and/or vomiting
- Cough, shortness of breath, or chest pain
- Bleeding
American Gastroenterological Association http://www.gastro.org
American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy http://www.asge.org
Canadian Digestive Health Foundation http://www.cdhf.ca
Health Canada http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca
Davila M, Keeffe E. Complications of Upper Endoscopy. In: Feldman M, Friedman L, Sleisenger M. Sleisenger & Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 7th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders; 2002:539-543.
Pasricha PJ. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Cecil Textbook of Medicine. 21st ed. Philadelphia, PA: WB Saunders Company; 2000: 649-653.
Understanding upper endoscopy. American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy website. Available at: http://www.asge.org/patients/patients.aspx?id=378. Accessed September 30, 2014.
What is upper GI endoscopy? The American Gastroenterological Association website. Available at: http://www.gastro.org/info%5Ffor%5Fpatients/2015/2/9/upper-gi-endoscopy. Updated April 2014. Accessed September 30, 2014.
Revision Information
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