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Due to the suspension of fundraising activities by some party committees after the
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within 60 days of when the committee pays the allocable expenses for which those funds
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between August 27, 2001 and November 1, 2001, if the transfer is made no later than
December 31, 2001, and is fully disclosed on the party committees year-end
report. Alternatively, the Commission would not pursue an untimely party committee
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The public is invited to comment on any aspect of the policy being considered by the
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Comments must be submitted on or before November 14, 2001. All comments
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close of the comment period.
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Apartment completely renovated (bathrooms, kitchen, floor...) with modern lift/elevator
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OH YES!! I loved this place... very organized... very clean... very cozy... AND MY NAME ON THE DOOR! I rarely felt so much welcomed and happy to have found it... for sure I will be back and thank Xavier very very very much. And Ramon!
We rate our stay very well - the placement of the appartment within the city is excellent. The host provided us with very good accomodation and even a good advice to get around. The appartment description from the offer was absolutely correct.
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Good value for money! The room is part of a fully renovated apartment which is very well positioned in the center of Barcelona. The owner was very kind and we had all necessary facilities.
Our stay was perfect!
The appartement by Xavier was very clean. its is in very central street (5minutes to las ramblas). We would join again. He gave us perfects tips for metro and tourist places.
We stayed at this place for the weekend. Ramon is a very friendly host. He can tell you everything about his beautyful city Barcelona. He takes time to invite you at his place and show you all the things you can visit in Barcelona. The bedroom, bathroom and kitchen are all clean. Your in the middle of the city centre but during the night you don't notice, it was very quit and we had a good sleep during the whole weekend, no noise at all. We had a very pleasant time at this place. We really recommend it!!
Room oke, little to much colars, but the bathroom and kitchen good. Location super.
Hi, we were at this apartment for a weekend. Nice place for discovering Barcelona. Nearby center, beach and metro! House is clean and quiet. Breakfast is included and good.
We really enjoyed our staying. The appartment is very comfortable and nicely located, close to the most important sights of Barcelona.The price is also very reasonable. And finally, many thanks to Ramon for being really helpful!
A very fine place to live. We enjoyed our 4 day stay at Xavier's place even though we never met him. Ramon, our contact, was very helpful and informative. After showing us our room and the rest of the apartment he spent time explaining where the sights in Barcelona were and the best way to get to then. We found the area around the apartment to be good for eating and the location was within walking distance of everywhere we wanted to visit. All in all a very enjoyable and enriching stay. But...Xavier, please fix the water supply in the toilet wash basin!
Xavier's appartment is in a very central place. 15 min. walk to the Gothic Quartier and to the sea shore. The price was very reasonable, the room was comfy and Ramon, the guy who covered up for the host Xavier, was always ready to respond on any question. I strongly recommend this appartment.
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RE:Life goes on... but it's a kick in the bass
Juro, and Ray, I was out on my son's new boat yesterday, There was some good size bass east of Watch Hill out about 1/4 mile. I did not have the rod setup, and they went down to the 17 foot level before I got a flyrod fishable. His boat went to the shipyard for removal. At Greenhaven Marina, which is up for sale, if anyone is interested, One fisherman was fileting bonita, and throwing the racks in the lobster bait boxes. I didn't ask, but I think they came from the Watch Hill area.
I got my RISAA Newsletter today, again a caution of using the breachways. Two 20 foot boats were wrecked at Charlestown with some injuries a couple of weeks ago. Anyone using them should use extra caution with the stormy seas this time of year.
RE:Life goes on... but it's a kick in the bass
Yeah! on both counts, Juro.
I'm surprise there have been that many Bonito around. Usually they're being caught on Long Island to New Jersey shoreline this time of year.
The migration continues regardless of the storms. They might move a little offshore to get away from the flotsam and hanging debris in the water. Bait will move to quieter deeper waters.
My Polish father once educated me on the "fall migration of fish" He once said that, "Fish migration was like a leaky bathtub, there's more water going out, than coming in."
Being a young brash 20 year old at the time, I said to my dad, " Does this mean that the principle of depreciating deficit of diminished returns of fish, verus the casting implementations apply here?"
My wise dad reply was, "No my son, what I meant was for you to put down the fly rod and get on to other chores, like fixing the tub!"
Seems there are always lessons to learn in life.
RE:Life goes on... but it's a kick in the bass
Great report Ray, thanks. Good to know there are still some monsters pushing south down your way, not to mention packs of school fish. Makes me wish I had a business trip down there or something to give me an excuse.
Do you think this storm will accelerate their departure? Wonder if the bonito are history...
RE:Life goes on... but it's a kick in the bass
Friday, Nov. 10 th.
Grego, a friend and myself have moved our fishing trip in Rhode Island to Sunday. BobP expressed in interest in only Saturday. Marine forecast doesn't look good for tomorrow. Winds as high as 30 kts. Everything is on hold for Sunday.
There's been some good reports of fish catches along the Rhody coast. Report of a 48 lb bass from Charlestown have been circulating. Still a few Bonito's being caught. School bass were located at Matunuck yesterday. A few acres of small bass were blasting bait off the mouth of the Wesport River in nearby MA. The breachways west to Watch Hill light have had small slugs of stripers move by rather quickly. Andrea Hotel is usually good spot for a few schoolies this time of year. The place is fairly well light up at night, attracting bait and birds. Sink lines and deceiver patterns will work.
Getting down to the final chapter in this book of "2000."
RE:Life goes on... but it's a kick in the bass
Ray -
Great fishing with you, good luck this weekend. I look forward to hearing the reports.
I am stuck locally (trout), time to pay the piper.
RE:Life goes on... but it's a kick in the bass
Gents: Thanks for the phone calls friday night as you headed for the cape. I was planning on going right to the last when I was reeled back into reality. I really wanted to be there to sign off on season 2000- a season where I fished more than any other, and made/strengthened many friendships. But wow, amazing what a difference a weekend at home (with my heart not diverted by fishing) can make. For someone who has as limited time budget as I do, there had to be some tough trade-offs to get to 6 or so claves and many one day events.
I feel I pretty much kept up with the pack throughout the season and now I must compensate a lot at home. I guess I'm saying it felt good to be caught up on sleep, rake the leaves, clean the basement, and mostly have the time with family.
Man, the time we spent away can really create a void at home. It was all worth it and I'm still trying to find a way to remember it well enough with picture words etc.
SO many memories like:
Seeing Roop go jump out of a guides boat into a blitz in waste high water at Barnstable, rods bending in the boat and out! The guy like to be close to the fish. Then as the blitzing fish are hitting his legs he remembers earlier the mixed in blues! "Uh, I like to come back in the boat now".
Gregg Estey's popper fish May 6, wow- defied the odds and got a fish to rise to a popper when everything was deep and cold! A beautiful surface take akin to trout fishing. First surface action in a new season, and Juro with the box seat view as he walked down the jetty behind us and about 8 feet above.
How about- the image of Al stepping off of Rip Ryders boat carrying an anchor and rope (the one Roop had landed after a protracted fight on an 8 weight at point rip). Talk about completeing the circle Al. That act did. You look like Macarthur coming ashore
Or- pulling up to the empty camp at Nickerson at 10:00 pm and finding a feast in progress- but nobody home?
There's a million of them- thanks- you guys rock!
RE:Life goes on... but it's a kick in the bass
Heck of a day Down Cape at "The Light". Warm with a light breeze, gulls diving on bait, & seals cruising the shoreline. Another great sunrise. Al, Ray & I first met up will Bill S. just before the sunrise, Bob P then Juro came a little later. It was another plus tide, so Big-Girl Bar never came out, but we said or goodbyes anyway & hope she survives the inevitable winter storms.
The Spring Clave, Hosted by Terry W., was capped off with a great meal & conversation at Clancey's; I ordered Fried Oysters. The season ended in Chatham with a great meal & conversation at Squires; I ordered Fried Oysters. Somethings just stay the same.
Al, Ray, Juro & I headed to "The Chatham Angler's HQ" to see the CEO. JohnM, thanks for your Hospitality. I had to bag-out early to trailer the boat back from Bourne to Tewksbury; that was it for me. Back in Bourne, my dad had just come back from 3 hours in the Yak; 1 school of bait, no fish, no birds, no bumps, no swirls.
Ray, it was a real pleasure doing some boat & shore fishing with you this season; looking forward to more in the future, Thanks. "Gitchey Gitchey Yaya YA-Ya!"
Life goes on... but it's a kick in the bass
Had the opportunity to wade the Cape Saturday. Weather wise, perfect day. Beach loaded with walkers, shell gathers and fisherman. Met fellow board contributors for the first time. All aquatic signs were there, except Mr. bass.
6:00 am. Chatham - Tide, high on the drop. One half dozen seals playing and bobbin in the inside surf. Outside bars loaded with terns and gull. Apparently they were there for the same reason. One last final gathering.
10:00 am. Ministers Point - Mid tide on the outgoing, nice current. Water clear. Some silversides, horseshoe crab, and believe it or not, a mature blue shell crab. No bass.
12:00 Break from all the casting and walking. Plenty of life, but the human kind. Squires was rock'in with festive conversation and people enjoying this great day. Onward to the Chatham Angler's Sociality.
4:00 pm. Herring River - Top of the tide, on the incoming. Plenty of bait, silversides, glass minnows, juvi pogy, and maybe some immature herring.
4:20 pm. Bass River - At the peak, Silversides along the bottom following the tide. No fish. Great sunset... kinda like the season. But it ain't over yet. Still chasing the fall migrations. Next stop - Rhode Island and points south.
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When I told my wife Lisa that I was writing a column supporting Mitt Romney for president, her reaction was both impressive and revealing:
Why dont you write about the infield fly rule?
It is impressive that anyone actually understands the infield fly rule, one of those arcane mysteries of life in baseball that became the subject of a riot in the St. Louis Cardinals 6-3 victory over the Atlanta Braves Friday in the first ever Wild Card One versus Wild Card Two playoff game. It is also true that my normal bailiwick is sports.
The revealing part is that she would suggest the infield fly rule as column fodder, a clear signal that support of Republican nominee Romney over President Obama is not something she looks forward to seeing in print and could well create a War of the Tates. We have already agreed to no longer discuss politics.
This is not a frivolous decision, nor is it an easy one. I grew up on the Upper West Side of New York, arguably the countrys nexus of liberalogy, where it wouldnt have surprised me in the least as a child to discover that my parents, along with all the other attendees in some garret reminiscent of the French Resistance, had thrown eggs at Abbie Hoffman at a political get-together because he wasnt liberal enough.
Voting for a president is based on a combination of factual and emotional perception. The tipping point was last weeks debate in Denver. Romney finally did what he should have done all along instead of his balky cha cha with the old white men of the conservative Republican wing: he acted as the moderate he is, for the first time running as himself, not against himself, embracing his record as governor of Massachusetts.
The Dish's Andrew Sullivan wasn't pleased with Obama's debate performance, either.
I have never seen a performance worse than Obamas, distracted, his head dipped into the podium as if avoiding the smell of something rotten, acting above the very idea that a debate does provide a pivotal referendum on his first term as it has for all incumbent presidents, whipsawed by the legion of usual advisers telling him to play defense when his own intuition should have told him that he needed to go on the offensive as Romney slapped him around.
But there was more than the entitlement of entitlement. He struck me as burnt out, tired of selling his message although he has always been terrible at selling his message when it veers from idealism into the practical.
By instinct I still cling to my Democrat roots. But I admit that as I get older, on the cusp of 58, I am moving more to the center or even tweaking right, or at least not tied to any ideology. Those making more than $250,000 should pay more taxes, and that does include me. But I also am tired of Obamas constant demonization, of those he spits out as millionaires and billionaires, as pariahs. Romneys comments at a fundraiser were stupid, but 47 percent of Americans do not pay federal income taxes. Yes, a majority are poor and seniors. But millions do not pay such taxes with incomes of more than $50,000, and whether its as little as $10, every American should contribute both as a patriotic obligation and skin in the game. This is our country, not our country club.
I dont see Obama spending much time running the country, unless you count his recent appearance on The View, where he was far more animated and charming than during the debate.
Lisa considers me a traitor to the very essence of America, providing a helping hand to those in genuine need. There is a part of me that feels like a traitor myself, having seen firsthand on a sustained basis the cesspool of crime and crack and teenage prostitution and sinking-house dilapidation in which 25 percent of my hometown, the city of Philadelphia, lives, in poverty. Of all the hopes I have for Romney, this is the most tenuous. But take a walk in neighboring Camden, said by some to be the poorest and most dangerous city in America, and ask yourself how urban policy has even been a part of the presidents agenda.
The tipping point toward a candidate is perhaps the greatest act of individuality in our unique democracy, although in this day and age of unprecedented political divide, telling somebody who you are voting for has no upside: There is no respect for your right as a citizen, but outright hatred from those who do not agree with you. I fear that I will lose friends, some of whom I hold inside my heart. Of course, I will also lose friends I really dont like anyway.
In my other life, as the afternoon talk show host for CBS WPHT-AM in Philadelphia, I have studied the issues assiduously, or as assiduously as I can given their complexities. I know that both candidates, while agreeing on health-care reform, have radically different ideas. I know that when Romney says people with preexisting conditions will be reinsured, he leaves out the gigantic footnote that first they had to have coverage through their jobs. But I also question the ability of Obamacare to control costs, given the administrative nightmare that exists when government is involved. One of the Obamacare methods of cutting those costs, the computerization of hospital records, has resulted in massive fraud by cheating doctors.
At the debate, Romney did not simply act like he wanted to be president. He wants to be president. He showed vigor, and enthusiasm, and excitement, a man who wants to lead. It may all be ephemeral, because most of politics is ephemeral, a cynical means to the end of getting elected. But he also revealed compassion that, during the entirety of this absurdly long march, had never been in evidence before. He recognized the needs of the poor. He recognized the need for regulation.
His tax plan was admittedly mystery meat. But the tag he has lied is unfair. To the contrary, he has recognized that his original proposal is more screwed up than the infield fly rule, not to mention mathematically impossible. So he is modifying it, coming up with a possible alternative in recent weeks that deductions should be capped at $17,000. Even the liberal party boys, like The Washington Posts Ezra Klein, reluctantly admitted in the typical liberal style that it might have merit one of these millennia. I think Romney realizes that lowering the rate to 20 percent will not fly if he is to lower the deficit and make the plan work. And he is hardly the only candidate to assert something during a campaign that will change once in his office. As I recall, Obama vowed to cut the deficit in half.
Democratic supporters offered the usual antidotes to Obamas debate performance: he was tired from running the country, the mile-high air got to him (which is why Al Gore is better off with the midlife crisis of a beard). But I dont see Obama spending much time running the country, unless you count his recent appearance on The View, where he was far more animated and charming than during the debate.
He has said nary a word about the debacle in Benghazi in Libya where ambassador Chris Stevens was killed amidst all sort of questions over adequate security. While getting a tongue bath from Whoopi, he rejected meeting with Middle East leaders during the UN General Assembly, so essential in dealing with a region where personal relationships make a profound difference. As Syria burns more fiercely than ever, now enveloping Turkey with its own use of military force, he purposely stays as far away from it as he can, presumably until after the election if at all.
Our engagement in politics is admittedly pathetic, one of the unforgivable shames of our society. But in the debate, more than 70 million were watching. It was a time for Obama to shine, not to mail in the same message, smooth and eloquent as always, but no longer connecting with an electorate that has been there done that (even the liberals will admit it behind the locked door of the bathroom after searching for bugs). I am not sure Obama really wants to be president in any practical way. He hates the rolling up of sleeves and schmoozing that is politics. I respect his principles, the way he does not veer from them, but politics is not principle whether we like it or not. It is friendliness and compromise.
I believe that Romneys move to the center is not yet another flip-flop sleight of hand, perhaps naively. I believe he will send to the political Guantanamo those dirty old white men of the party ready to bomb Iran (speaking of wars, are we out of Afghanistan yet, despite our so-called allies killing our soldiers? See Obama policy).
Four years ago, all Obama had to do was speak and everyone swooned. That was four years ago. It is now four years later. He is no longer the chosen one. He is just too cool for school in a country desperate for the infectiousness of rejuvenation.
Romney has it.
Our president no longer does.
Sorry, but how can you trust Mitt Romney's words or intentions? He's already proved to be a massive corporate pocket-shill who changes his views and stance to match majority voter preferences.
Romney is just another politician who says one thing and does another, same story different day.
No doubt do I see Romney being able to stimulate the economy and push consumer standards up; but at what long-term cost? The entire Republican outlet is thinking in short-term benefits at massive, irreversible long-term costs. Romney will set America up to crash like a motherfucker, it will just happen for your kids and not you - which is the biggest outlet of his voters - old people who don't give a fuck about future generations. Very few people in this country seem to care what the future is going to be like as long as they can have their 3,500 sq ft. houses in the desert full of shit they don't use, don't need, and will eventually throw away.
ANd Obama isn't just another typical politician lying out his ass? Screw both of them.
all i know is...
...that in-field fly rule call was bullshit!
both these nominees can suck goat nuts for all I care.
This is what I've come to believe: Other than voting for whoever I think will serve my needs the best, I have very limited control of the outside world. So I put most of my energy into controlling my own finances, and if/when the economy here goes for a header I may go to the next booming location. Is that selfish? Absolutely! But you have to ensure self survival before you can help anybody else... :D
I don't know why we even talk about this shit though because we all know presidents aren't elected by citizens anymore :confused:
Only difference is, the shortstop was out in short left field, running backwards, and was in not in a position as to purposely drop the ball and turn two.
Sorry for thread-hijacking, now, back on topic...
4 more years of Obama will suck. My take home pay hasn't increased a lick but every other major expense has gone up (gas, groceries, insurance, etc.). Not a lot of jobs in the aerospace industry for engineers right now unless you want to do contract work for 2 years and then be in job limbo.
on the flip-side, 4 years of Romney will suck too. I'll be lucky to still have a job when this money-grubbing slimeball ships my job to China or some other country.
I am completely hopeless for this election. I honestly think no matter who gets elected, the middle class is in for a royal fucking.
Obama could have and will do much better if the R stopped their obstructionism "by principle". If he appeared to loose the debate was because he was sick and tired of fighting flying bullshit (again) instead of having a serious political exchange with Romney.
Romney was lying out of his ears...if you think that means "winning the debate"....
The only winners are the media...now they have a race and they can sell their ads.
There are not 2 parties in US. there is one and then there are the CRAZIES.
Please turn your brain ON before voting.
Term limits in the house of reps and senate with no retirement. Now let's see who runs.
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- Rhapsody keeps kids active and moving, even when stuck indoors. No cabin fever here.
- You can design an indoor playset online on your own or via phone with a Design Expert.
- CedarWorks' ReCedaring program has donated more than 450,000 seedlings to small woodlot owners and environmental organizations.
- These playsets are plastic-free.
- CedarWorks donates 10% of profits to organizations and programs that benefit kids and the environment.
- CedarWorks indoor playset components are made locally in Maine and the people making them receive living wages, good benefits, and safe workplaces.
- Rhapsody playsets can be used by kids as early as 12 months of age with no upper age limit. In fact, Rhapsody playsets are designed to hold adult weights and the company was actually unable to break the product during weight testing.
- The average Rhapsody playset is fairly easy to assemble for two adults using common household tools.
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The government's mooted KiwiSaver mop-up operation poses some interesting questions for the current default provider system.
If the proposal to auto-enrol the million or so employed KiwiSaver doubters goes ahead without any corresponding change to the default system, it will effectively amount to a massive one-off boost to the bottom-lines of the six default schemes.
Let's say the auto-enrol trawl captures 600,000 in the KiwiSaver net, which, under the current rules, would result in each default scheme being gifted 100,000 fee-paying clients straight off the IRD carousel.
Assuming an average annual administration fee of $30 per member, that alone would translate to an extra $3 million in yearly revenue to each default scheme - not counting all the other stuff.
My figures are flexible, of course, but not that much of a stretch.
However, rather than giving the six defaults an unexpected, fillip (and fill-up) perhaps any government-sponsored recruitment drive should go hand-in-hand with a change to the system along the lines suggested by the Savings Working Group - ie, a single, government-run default fund with in-built age-appropriate investment options.
The KiwiSaver legislation allows for a review of the default providers in 2014 but much has already changed since the scheme launched in 2007.
For example, all six default providers have experienced major corporate and investment changes over the last few years:
• AMP finalised its buyout of rival AXA earlier this year;
• Mercer was divorced from its distribution partner, KiwiBank, in 2009;
• ING (now OnePath) was swallowed whole by ANZ, also in 2009;
• ASB revamped its investment reporting lines last year, giving more power to Australia;
• Tower replaced its funds management team late in 2010 and radically altered its investment style last month.
In the real investment industry, any one of those changes would've sparked a review. Why should the government treat our default providers any different?


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What are your favorite Star Wars novels?
I think the Han Solo Trilogy was awesome. The series does an excellent job with continuity leading up to ANH.
Tales from....was a good series. Jabba's palace and Mos Eisley Cantina were my 2 favorites.
Rogue Squadron: I've only read the first book, but it was pretty good. I plan on reading the next couple books.
Jedi Search: Wasn't all that great. I don't think I'll read the rest of the trilogy.
I'm currently reading The Phantom Menace. It isn't all that bad so far. I may pick up the classic trilogy novels again. I haven't read them since the early 80s.
I liked Zahn's trilogy, but it has been so long since I read it, I can't remember what happens. I may have to read it again.


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A forehead lift is a surgical procedure to correct sagging of the forehead skin, eyebrows, and upper eyelids. It may also improve the look of wrinkles in the forehead and between the eyes.
Endobrow lift; Open browlift; Temporal lift
A forehead lift removes or changes the muscles and skin that cause signs of aging as drooping eyebrows, "hooding" eyelids, forehead furrows, and frown lines.
The surgery may be done alone or with other procedures such as a
You will be awake, but will be given local anesthesia so that you will not feel pain. You might also get medicine to relieve anxiety. In some cases, general anesthesia will be used. During the procedure, you will feel some stretching of the forehead skin and possibly some discomfort. Some patients ask for general anesthesia so they will sleep through the procedure.
Sections of hair will be held away from the surgery area. Hair right in front of the cut line may need to be trimmed, but large areas of hair will not be shaved.
After removing excess tissue, skin, and muscle, the doctor will close the cut with stitches or staples. Before dressings are applied, your hair and face will be washed so the scalp skin does not get irritated.
This procedure is most often done on people in their 40s - 60s to slow the effects of aging. It can also help people with inherited conditions, such as furrowed lines above the nose or a droopy eyebrow.
In younger people, a forehead lift can raise low eyebrows that give the face a "sad" look. The procedure can also be done in people whose brows are so low that they block the upper part of their vision.
A good candidate for a forehead lift has one or more of the following:
Occasionally, forehead lifts will make it hard to raise the eyebrows or wrinkle the forehead on one or both sides. If this happens, you might need more surgery to make both sides even. If you have already had plastic surgery to lift your upper eyelids, a forehead lift may not be recommended because it could affect your ability to close your eyelids.
In most people, the cut for the forehead lift is under the hairline. If you have a high or receding hairline, you may be able to see a thin scar after surgery. You'll need to style your hair so that it partly covers your forehead.
If the forehead skin is pulled too tightly or there is a lot of
Medical conditions that could cause problems during or after surgery:
The area is wrapped with a sterile padding and an elastic bandage to prevent
You'll keep your head raised for 2 - 3 days after surgery to prevent swelling. Bruising and swelling will occur around the eyes and cheeks, but should begin to disappear in a few days or a week.
As nerves regrow, numbness of the forehead and scalp will be replaced with itching or tingling. It may take up to 6 months for these sensations to fully disappear. The bandages will be removed a day or two after surgery. Within 10 -14 days, the stitches or clips will be removed in two stages.
You will be able to walk around in 1 - 2 days, but you won't be able to work for at least 7 days after surgery. You can shampoo and shower 2 days after surgery, or as soon as the bandages are removed.
Within 10 days, you should be able to go back to work or school. You should limit vigorous physical activity (jogging, bending, heavy housework, sex, or any activity that increases your blood pressure) for several weeks. Avoid contact sports for 6 - 8 weeks. Limit exposure to heat or sun for several months.
Hair shafts will be a bit thinner around the cut for a few weeks or months, but the hair should start to grow normally again. Hair will not grow in the line of the actual scar. Wearing your hair down on your forehead will hide most scars.
Most signs of the surgery should fade completely within 2 - 3 months. Makeup can cover minor swelling and bruising. At first, you'll probably feel tired and let down, but that will pass as you begin to look and feel better.
Most patients are pleased with the results of a forehead lift. They appear much younger and more rested than they did before. The procedure reduces the look of aging for years. Even if you don't have the surgery repeated in later years, you will probably look better than if you had never had a forehead lift.
Codere F, Tucker N. Cosmetic blepharoplasty and browplasty. In: Yanoff M, Duker JS, eds. Ophthalmology. 3rd ed. St. Louis, Mo: Mosby Elsevier; 2008:chap 12.16.
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Choosing potato varieties to limit cyst nematode damage
An account of the use of tolerant and resistant varieties of potatoes to limit damage by the various cyst nematode species and pathotypes.
Year of Publication2009
Potato varieties tolerant of cyst nematode damage still support multiplication of the pest; resistant varieties may be damaged by the nematode but restrict multiplication. Resistant varieties select out populations that can overcome resistance so control strategies involving resistant varieties should be designed to limit selection of virulent species and pathotypes.
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Rather, many Apple employees have welcomed the promotions given to Ive, Cue, Mansfield and Federighi
recent split with Scott Forstall
seems to be a welcomed move by many who've worked with him at the Cupertino tech giant.
Apple announced yesterday that Forstall, the vice president of iOS software, would be leaving the company next year after
working there for 15 years
. Apple didn't go into much detail other than that, but new reports are shedding light on the situation.
According to
Giga OM
, Forstall's departure was "fairly last minute" and "not something he initiated." Many iOS and OS X teams as well as engineers were surprised by the news and found out only minutes after it was announced.
However, Forstall didn't seem to make many friends during his time with Apple. Giga OM mentioned that Forstall's exit was "met with a sense of quiet jubilation, especially among people who worked in the engineering groups." Forstall didn't get along with Apple executives either, such as industrial designer Jony Ive, Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue, or Senior Vice President of Mac and Devices Hardware Engineering Bob Mansfield.
Forstall was deeply criticized for the execution of Apple's latest maps app, which is the company's first in-house maps service application on iOS. It was released in September along with iOS 6, and mocked for its
geography and navigation issues
Reports have noted that Apple's time schedule for the maps launch was what led to the problems, insinuating that a quick launch was more important than a finished product.
The New York Times
reported that Forstall was asked to
submit an apology letter for the Apple Maps fiasco
, but he refused to do so.
Now, Apple is showing Forstall the door, and no one seems to be too upset about it. Rather, many Apple employees have welcomed the promotions given to Ive, Cue, Mansfield and Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering.
Ive will take over Human Interface (HI) for the company while Cue will take on Siri, Maps, the iTunes Store, the App Store, iCloud and the iBookstore. Furthermore, Mansfield will lead a new group called "Technologies" for all of Apple's wireless teams while Federighi will take over iOS and OS X.
In addition to Forstall, Apple fired its retail head John Browett as well. Browett, which only joined Apple in April of this year, was responsible for a
faulty hiring formula
that led to the reduction of part-time hours and several lay offs of retail employees. Some had only just finished their training.
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"Intel is investing heavily (think gazillions of dollars and bazillions of engineering man hours) in resources to create an Intel host controllers spec in order to speed time to market of the USB 3.0 technology." -- Intel blogger Nick Knupffer
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Mothers have always instructed their daughters not to talk about their "dirty laundry" in public, but that's exactly what I'm going to do today. Don't get too excited – I'm talking about la ropa sucia for real, not mi familia. (Besides, I already tell you plenty about Suegra!)
Remember when I blogged about the Mexican laundry detergent Foca? It seemed like a good bargain pero al fin, when the laundry comes out of the dryer, no huele a nada – and I like my laundry to have a nice, strong scent or I feel like I completely wasted my time.
Bueno, because of my blog post about Foca, I was contacted by the people at Gain, who apparently are confident enough in their product that they're not scared off by a little competition from south of the border. They assured me that their laundry products leave a great scent and offered to send me some to try.
Days later, a package arrived on my doorstep and let me just say that I could smell the Gain while it was inside the shipping box, which was heavily taped. That made me optimistic, but I didn't want to get my hopes up because as Foca proved, even if the detergent itself is strongly scented, that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to leave a scent on the laundry.
So, the only way to know is to give it a try. I did a load of laundry using all three Gain products, (detergent, fabric softener and dryer sheet), and it smelled amazing. It actually made the whole house smell fresh and clean. (They have many scents, but the one I was given is called "Original Fresh" or "Frescura Original".)
My nose is very sensitive, so I didn't know if anyone else in the house would notice, but Carlos took one whiff and begged me to wash the bed linens in it even though I had washed them just the day before and it was only hours from bed time. As much as I love sleeping in blankets that smell good, I was too tired, and Carlos ended up doing it himself.
(Note: If your husband isn't in the habit of doing laundry, I can't promise that Gain will make him more likely to randomly wash the linens. My macho just happens to like doing laundry.) – Anyhow, sleeping in blankets washed in Gain was sooo nice. I actually fell asleep smiling.
So, final verdict? Even though I love plenty of products que son hechos en México, this time around, Gain is the winner – hands down. I won't be buying Foca again, (as much as I love to say the word.)
Okay, you want to try Gain for yourself? Qué bien! I just happen to be having a GIVEAWAY!!! …
We have a winner! Felicidades to Melanie of ModernMami.com!
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One lucky winner will receive a prize pack valued at $20 containing:
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text: Yellow factored BLM. Marietta's Diesel Powered Supertanker, Tank, is available at Stud. 5 yrs old. (3.5X GMPR Ford's Full Bore Diesel MH X Moon River's Dixie Drifter). Tank achieved his AKC Master Hunter title at 30 months. He is an excellent marker and will work with any handler. He has plenty of bottom end to run larger set-ups or hunt in harsh conditions. He hunts everything; ducks, geese,and is an excellent pheasant hunter. He is as good in the house as in the field. CNM and EIC CLEAR. Eyes cerf'd. Hips OFA GOOD. Lots of dog for the money, and worth taking a look at. Trained by Todd Sterrett at Arrowhead Kennels in Cedar Falls, IA. View the full pedigree and pictures at arrowheadkennels.net. Stud Fee - $500/natural breedings


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Banded iron formation with ice-rafted debris. This deep ocean stratigraphic equivalent of Ghaub diamictites indicates highly anoxic oceanic chemistry. The grey is hematite, the red is jasper, and the buff is siderite.
The sample is from the Mackenzie Mountains in northwest Canada. Banded iron deposition requires that oceanic conditions be anoxic enough to allow for the precipitation of reduced iron (magnetite). Localized hematitic spotting is interpreted as the result of oxidation by dropstone deposition during the deep-freeze stage of a Snowball event. PFH-R is viewed as the stratigraphic equivalent of units like the Ghaub diamictite, but was deposited in a much deeeper oceanic basin during periods when ice cover prevented oceanic mixing and waters were highly anoxic.
Sample is 5.5 cm across at its widest point.
This sample is from the Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite, and comes courtesy of Paul Hoffman, Harvard University; Eugene Domack, Hamilton College; and Timothy Fox, Hamilton College.
For more information on the Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite, visit www.snowballearth.org/samples.html .
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- Francis Littlefield, born 1565 in Exeter, England. He died in October 1618 in Titchfield, Hampshire, England.
- Edmund Littlefield, born 1591 in Exeter, England. His wife's name was Annis (Agnes) Austin. They were married in England and had eight children. Edmund and Annis are thought to be my tenth great-grandparents.
- Elizabeth Littlefield, born in England. She married a John Wakefield. They are thought to be my ninth great-grandparents.
The first three books below were edited by William Richard Cutter. In the first, begin on page 1238, column 2:
Cutter, William Richard. New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial; A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co, 1913.
Below, start on page 833, bottom of column 1.
Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co, 1908.
Below, start on page 1596, bottom of column 1:
Cutter, William Richard. Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. New York: Lewis historical publishing company, 1908. (Volume 4)
I've opened The History of Wells and Kennebunk to page 73, where a good section about Edmund Littlefield begins, but you'll find much more Littlefield history throughout this book. Search term: Littlefield.
Bourne, Edward E., and E. E. Bourne. The History of Wells and Kennebunk from the Earliest Settlement to the Year 1820, At Which Time Kennebunk Was Set Off, and Incorporated. Portland: B. Thurston & Co, 1875.
Below, start at the bottom of column 1, page 101:
Little, George Thomas, Henry S. Burrage, and Albert Roscoe Stubbs. Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co, 1909.
Also well worth a visit are The Littlefield Family Research Page and Glenn Gohr's Littlefield Genealogy. At the first, I learned the name of Edmund Littlefield's father and the surname and parents of his wife Annis. This website, however, lists only one child, a son named William, for Elizabeth Littlefield and her husband John Wakefield. As I indicated in my previously posted Surname: Wakefield, Dr. Albert Wakefield is attributed to this couple also in the book Wakefield Memorial. On p. 136, William, who came over on the Bevis with Annis Littlefield, is "supposed to be a brother of John Wakefield, of Wells." My connection to the Littlefield surname is entirely dependent upon that being the case. I would be most happy to hear from anyone who has delved further into the Wakefield genealogy, especially with regard to Dr. Albert Wakefield's parentage and whether it has yet been proven or disproven.
At Glenn Gohr's webpage, I learned that both Millard Fillmore and Calvin Coolidge have Littlefield ancestry. I was already aware of Millard Fillmore's descent from another of my ancestral lines, Stephen Hopkins and Dorcas Bronson. Through that lineage, President Fillmore was my fourth cousin, five times removed. Through the Littlefield lineage, he would also be my sixth cousin, five times removed.
Well, readers, it just doesn't get any more exciting than that, so this session is hereby adjourned!


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By Gary Gibson
February 23, 2011
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
What's Madison Got to Do with Cairo?
Your Whiskey editor may spend all of his time bouncing between Baltimore and New York, but he is too close to Madison, Wisconsin, for comfort.
A very dear friend hails from Madison. Both her sister and brother-in-law still live in the Madison suburbs and work for the state. Both belong to the union and both have joined the protests.
One of her brothers also lives in suburban Madison. He was visiting her at her apartment in Brooklyn. "That [Wisconsin Governor] Scott Walker is a scumbag," he said to me with an expectation of agreement. Your editor stared blankly.
"He wants these people living at slave wages," the brother continued. "To show you what kind of jerk he is: He also wants to cut a state insurance program for young mothers. Those people are just going to keep having babies anyway, so you got to help them."
"I know how you probably feel about those protesters," my dear friend admitted later. "But these state employees really are people who really ought to be paid well. They do important work."
They would get paid properly according to their skill level and the market demand for their work, I thought. I began to say it, but then changed the topic.
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Robert Wenzel over at Economic Policy Journal says this about protest from Cairo to Madison:
When you hear talk that education and healthcare need to be returned to the free markets and that charity should be conducted by private sector charity organizations, you will know that the battle is for liberty. Right now, the battle is for who gets to control the shrinking, because of the recession, plunder.
But, of course, current upheaval in the world is not now limited to Wisconsin.
The world is exploding with protests, riots and in some cases revolutions. Behind this disruption of the status quo is the reaction against government attempts to force people against the natural order. In Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and the like, it is pure revolt against totalitarian control. In Greece, Ireland and Wisconsin it is protests against the fact that governments can't do the impossible, i.e. pay out more plunder than they take in (in one form or another). In Greece, Ireland and Wisconsin, the protesters clearly want the impossible. They want the plunder that isn't there.
But at the core, the fundamental problem with all these upheavals is there is no indication that the people in any of these situations understand what makes for a growing prosperous society. In Greece, Ireland and Wisconsin, the protesters are clearly self-centered, who have no clue that they would live in a much better society if the governments simply ended their positions and stopped taxing the people. This would result in the people hiring the government employees in the private sector, where the incentives would result in a growing society.
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Linda Schrock Taylor is a retired special education teacher and outspoken constitutionalist. She pulls no punches when she writes:
Intelligence...I mean a lack of intelligence...plays a very large role in unions and demonstrations. How else can uneducated, ineffective, unread teachers remain employed in a nation of crashing standards? Unions fight accountability. Most individuals choosing "teaching" as a career in this modern era – of non-readers; poorly educated; non-thinking; illogical high school graduates – have SAT scores that rank third (3rd!) from the bottom of the list of professions. Public school administrators score second (2nd) from the bottom. Try to sleep at night with those figures – and the consequences of them – rushing around in your head.
What is to be done? The question is on the mind of every rational, thinking, want-the-best-for-children individual. As far as I am concerned, we need to close all departments of education; withdraw all public financing; and let the public school system collapse. We need not fear such a process anymore than we fear tearing down a dangerous building in order to replace it with a safer and more efficient one. Americans, functioning within their communites are very resourceful and will devise better and more affordable ways to educate the local children. Education only becomes so complex and problematic when it is turned over to bureaucracies and politicians. Cut them out of the picture. Ignore them if they take to the streets to tantrum. There are other choices we can make. Furthermore, we should make them as soon as possible.
For more reading on this, please buy a copy of The Worm in the Apple by Peter Brimelow.
"It is no coincidence that the thirty-year decline in U.S. K-12 education and the simultaneous surge in education spending began at the same time the modern teacher unions were created. Today, the National Education Association has nearly three million members. Its agenda is not to provide better teaching in schools; it is to provide more money and benefits for teachers — and, above all, for itself. In this devastating critique, Peter Brimelow exposes the teacher unions for what they are: a political and economic monopoly that is choking the education system. It is time, Brimelow convincingly argues, to bust the Teacher Trust."
Gary Gibson
Managing Editor, Whiskey & Gunpowder
Please keep in mind that we're not making the state government the heroes here. But we can't help but nod approvingly when Wisconsin's governor admits that government can't afford to keep things going the way they have been.
The burden is on the taxpayer. The public carries the cost of government employees. They've always been told that it's worth it. But if it were worth it, then there would be no need for protests. There'd be no need for what Taylor describes as tantrum throwing.
But those controlling the purse strings still don't want to turn that purse over to the market. They still want their near monopoly on market goods like education.
Meanwhile the taxpayer is held hostage. They're getting goods of lower quality and paying top dollar for it. And they're told that there is no other way. The same economic laws that brings computers and cell phones to science fiction heights of wonder for lower and lower prices are suspended when it comes to education…or so we are led to believe.
The governments may be fighting their unionized employees a lot more because subsidizing monopoly and questionable quality is becoming increasingly unaffordable. Only the federal government can monetize their debts and kick the can a little further down the road with inflation. State and local governments can only watch helplessly as expenses climb higher than revenues year after year.
The pay, benefits and promises to public employees are proving unsustainable. Should we be worried? Would it really be so bad to see the guarantees of government employment no longer guaranteed? Can we have the market take a crack at providing more of the things are tax dollars have come to pay for?
"People don't want choice," my good friend claimed. "They want certain things simply to be taken care of." Some people may indeed feel this way, but some people also feel it's a good idea to turn control of the money supply over to a central governing body. Some people feeling that way doesn't make it so.


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Jason Bateman, star of Arrested Development and (sigh) this week's The Change-Up, has been hard at work in Hollywood for quite some time now. You probably know him as the guy whose career has gone slightly downhill since everyone's favorite cult hit was canceled, but he wasn't exactly Sidney Poitier before then, either. But it's okay! That's part of why we love him. Jason Bateman was born to play the dimply, caring, nice guy in rom-coms. Discover some facts about the teen idol turned grown-up movie star, after the jump. More


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There is no known way to spread cutaneous anthrax from person to person. People who live with someone who has cutaneous anthrax do not need antibiotics unless they have also been exposed to the same source of anthrax.
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Annie Sue and Betty Folds at Walton's Mill, 1942
Annie Sue and Betty Folds are shown in front of the dam at Walton's Mill, outside of Godfrey. The girls were the daughters of George Burris Folds and wife Cleo, who lived in the two story house next to the grist mill. Mr. Folds operated the original mill from 1934 until it burned in 1938. He then constructed a new mill and operated it until the family moved to Social Circle in 1942. The girls are standing near the corner of the second mill, which still has scaffolding attached. The dam and bridge may be seen in the background. Photo courtesy of Clyde Folds.


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This is the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. It is an amazing place - the architecture is just amazing. The view is also awesome ! I liked the place a lot - the walk around it is very nice. I envy the people who have houses just opposite the Palace of Fine Arts ! I wish I had a house there ! The houses there are a...


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I have a great feeling about this place. The people are so friendly, they have so much heart. There are lots of outdoorsy things to do like going to the lakes and Heritage Site such as Wanuskewin. The city puts on activities, there is a wonderful artist community, and the university campus is beautiful (limestone architecture which reminds me of home in Kingston).
Some quick linguistic tips if you are travelling in the rectangular province of Saskatchewan.
A bunny hug is what they call a hoodie.
Wobbly pop is beer.
Tire biters are people who are only interested in you because of your car or truck (maybe they have this term elsewhere but there's hundreds of them out here - ha ha!)
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I went to the Phillpsburg TRU and they had a TON of preview figures.
I went to the Phillpsburg TRU and they had a TON of preview figures.
You may know me as: Chuckles at joecustoms.com, Boshek at sirstevesguide.com and he-man.org and Eaglekiller at allspark.com.
Went back to K-mart in West Long Branch today and they not only put out more of the deluxe figures, but there was a whole endcap of the Lego sets. The Republic Gunship was absent however.
While this doesn't have anything to do with figures I did see some candy related to Episode 2 at Target in Milltown. They were lipops with plastic casings over them that are in the shape of different Star wars characters. There was Darth Vader, Anakin, Clone trooper, and Stormtrooper. Really cool looking, but I'm waiting for the Pez.
Went back to K-mart this morning and they had an electronic Battle Droid rifle, and the three new 12 inch figs (Anakin, Obi-Wan, and the Clonetrooper)!!!
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Found the Lego sets including the Gunship the other night. I bought one and left the other. There were also AOTC MB puzzles. No action figs though.
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I saw and bought the only Snowspeeder (that I saw) at the Old Bridge Wal-Mart. I didn't see any at the Piscataway or Manville stores.
Went on a run today:
Piscataway Wal-Mart: I got the last Anakin HD and Snowspeeder. Nothing else HTF.
Manville Wal-Mart: Picked up a Yoda and left a Yoda. They had plenty of Annakin HDs but no Dookus to be found.
Anyone found TIE Bombers in Jersey?
They just got a new case of preview figures.
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Walmart in North Brunswick had one TIE Bomber and Snowspeeder on the shelves. I think someone put them aside because they were hidden behind some of the Lego Sets on the upper shelf.
Looking for CW 2010 Sidious and TX-20...if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. thanks
Got the last Tie Bomber and crashed Snowspeeder yesterday. There's tons of AOTC figs but no sign of any Dookus or Mace Windu.
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One that's more accurate, more to scale, has a pack-in of Zam that can fit perfectly how she's supposed to, and has an on/off switch for LED lights. The battery could be a 9V battery that would go in the passenger side of the speeder near the back. Also the rubber would definitely go since with the lights it couldn't use the crunch effect.
It could also come with a place to put her rifle from the preview Zam.
Truly out of the two speeders I think Zam's was the coolest one and really deserves this kind of treatment.
If you can make a new Slave 1 for $25-30 price tag and let it have some quite cool features plus a 3-figure cockpit along with accurate detailing and painting, surely you could make the Zam speeder for not much. Might also interest kids a bit - if it has lights that'll stay on from an on/off switch, perfect for dark room play!
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In this drawing Lambert depicted a moment from everyday life in his Randwick studio. The figures are Amy Lambert, carrying a cup of tea, with Lambert's two studio assistants: Mr Gordon seated with his head resting on his hand in the centre and the tall, long-limbed Mr (Sten) Snekker wearing the uniform of a Light Horseman standing on the right. (Lambert always addressed his assistants as 'Mr'.)
In the early 1900s Lambert had painted portrait groups of women and children, including his wife as one of the models. This drawing is a dramatic contrast to those paintings in its depiction of people in everyday dress, and in its representation of Amy. In his earlier images Lambert showed Amy as an attractive woman. Here, she has become, as the Sydney Morning Heraldreviewer wrote on 29 November 1927, 'a kindly matron'. At this time she would have been only fifty-five but, with her unflattering hairstyle and blowsy pinafore, she looks a little older.
In arranging the poses of the two assistants, Lambert may have been playing with the composition for the Henry Lawson sculpture, as Mr Gordon is seated in a variation of the pose of the swagman in the group and Mr Snekker is standing in a similar pose to that of Lawson (see cat.121).
Lambert included this drawing, along with Tulips and other stimulants (cat.110) in the modernist exhibition 'A group of contemporary painters' in 1927.


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The bus left at 10 o'clock at night, so after spending the day carefully not getting hot and sweaty we passed the last couple of hours with a gin and tonic in the Shangri-La bar, just round the corner from the bus station and then found our bus just before departure. 10 minutes later we were on our way, and I was reminiscing fondly about night buses in China – some of them had flat beds, at the very least they had a sort of hammock contraption – we were consigned to a night going up and down the central mountains of Malaysia in reclining chairs
It seemed surprising that there was a caf� open at that time of day, but as we sat there a few more buses disgorged bleary eyed travellers and we realised that the owner had a pretty much captive breakfast market of foreign travellers and the boat ticket sellers who gathered to greet them each day. Having tracked down the right man to claim our tickets from we were then shepherded from caf� to office to jetty for the 7 a.m. boat flotilla that would actually leave, en masse and uniformly late at 8.
After a quick speed over the water we were dropped on Perhentian Kecil at Coral Bay while the remainder of the passengers went round to the busier part of the island Long Beach. We were reliably informed a few weeks ago that the Shari-La Resort on Coral Bay is really good and discounts heavily on their advertised prices – so had opted for this as our starting point for where to stay
As desert islands go I imagine there are worse ones to be stuck on. There isn't a great deal to do at the resort beyond sit on the beach, snorkel and go diving – and since we're not diving that leaves us with the first two options. Liz has been very pleased that we have finally found Nemo, hiding amongst the anemone that gather on the reef by our hotel – in fact, we've found Nemo, his father, mother and entire extended family by the look of it – along with a collection of other tropical sea life that has included a shoal of large parrot fish and a possible sighting of a shark that Liz saw swim past me very quickly and that I missed entirely because I was distracted by a rock
The most exciting incident of our first day's snorkelling actually occurred when I had left the beach to return the snorkels and Liz encountered a large monitor lizard – not that unusual for this island, but this one appeared from the palm tree above her as it fell from its perch and landed, slightly winded, on the beach by her side. I'm not sure who was more surprised – Liz that a 3 foot lizard appeared from the sky or the lizard that he was now 30 foot lower than he started the day.
Although the Perhentian Islands were described to us as the Malaysian version of the Gili Islands, they are far more developed than the previous desert island we spent a week on. Each night there is a choice of barbecue to attend at the various hotels and cafes along the beach, and there certainly isn't the sense of remoteness that we had while we stayed on Gili Meno. Having said that, after the last 6 weeks travelling across Borneo and the rest of Malaysia, a few days relaxing on the beach have been very welcome. Our next challenge will be to get off the island – despite having return tickets we've yet to figure out how the return crossing works – although departure time is allegedly at 8 am, we've yet to see anybody actually leave. Maybe it isn't fish on the BBQ each night?


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IN THE FREE WORLD: Young's "Lookin' for a Leader" rocks as hard as it rants.
To Neil Young — a sometime folksinger who was there at the first Woodstock, and who stood proudly with his peers against Vietnam — "déjà vu" may not be a strong enough description. Yet Young, like so many other artists who'd addressed socio-political issues, has been remarkably quiet over the past few years. His first reaction to September 11 was "Let's Roll," a proud if somewhat hamhanded tribute to the passengers who brought down United Flight 93. But he followed that with the strange concept album Greendale, and then last year's celebrated Prairie Wind, a return to Harvest-era folk and introspective songwriting that addressed the death of his father and his own brush with mortality and was, aside from a quick mention of 9/11 in "No Wonder," devoid of any suggestions that military, social, or political conflict had overtaken our fair nation.
If Young was relying on a new generation of protest rockers to speak out, he was mistaken. Even the Rock Against Bush campaign to get out the vote in 2004, on two compilation CDs, yielded precious few songs that addressed the war in Iraq or any of the administration's other policies. Doesn't anyone remember the Reagan-era Let Them Eat Jellybeans?
Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised by the relative silence. The Bush administration has confused important issues with doublespeak and manipulative language. (When "No Child Left Behind" actually means less funding for schools, we're beyond the Orwellian looking glass.) But cracks have begun to appear in the façade. When six decorated generals feel compelled to say that Iraq is a poorly planned disaster and a setback in the war on terror, people listen. And some of us still can't dispel that image of Condoleeza Rice casually admitting she'd had a report of a terrorist plot to fly commercial airliners into the World Trade Center on her desk months before 9/11. The entire Iraq scam seems to be unraveling. There are just too many inconsistencies, too many questions about human-rights violations abroad, the erosion of civil rights on the homefront, the bungled response to Katrina.
And, finally, the music troops appear to be mobilizing. In different circumstances, Springsteen's Seeger Sessions album might be considered just a tribute to a musical hero; in the current climate, it's a wake-up call. "We Shall Overcome" — which is so much a part of our cultural fabric, it's hard to believe that someone wrote it, that it wasn't just handed down from on high — means something to anyone whose lost a loved one to the war on terrorism or the wrath of Katrina. It brings to mind past struggles that have mobilized regular folks to stand up and fight for the greater good.
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The structural formulae for amlodipine besylate and atorvastatin calcium are shown below.
CADUET contains amlodipine besylate, a white to off-white crystalline powder, and atorvastatin calcium, also a white to off-white crystalline powder. Amlodipine besylate has a molecular weight of 567.1 and atorvastatin calcium has a molecular weight of 1209.42. Amlodipine besylate is slightly soluble in water and sparingly soluble in ethanol. Atorvastatin calcium is insoluble in aqueous solutions of pH 4 and below. Atorvastatin calcium is very slightly soluble in distilled water, pH 7.4 phosphate buffer, and acetonitrile; slightly soluble in ethanol; and freely soluble in methanol.
Each film-coated tablet also contains calcium carbonate, croscarmellose sodium, microcrystalline cellulose, pregelatinized starch, polysorbate 80, hydroxypropyl cellulose, purified water, colloidal silicon dioxide (anhydrous), magnesium stearate, Opadry® II White 85F28751 (polyvinyl alcohol, titanium dioxide, PEG 3000, and talc) or Opadry® II Blue 85F10919 (polyvinyl alcohol, titanium dioxide, PEG 3000, talc, and FD&C blue #2).
What are the possible side effects of amlodipine and atorvastatin (Caduet)?
Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Stop using amlodipine and atorvastatin and call your doctor at once if you have:
- unexplained muscle pain, tenderness, or weakness;
- fever, unusual tiredness, and dark colored urine;
- swelling, weight gain, urinating less than usual or not at all;
- severe drowsiness, feeling like you might pass out;
- pounding heartbeats or fluttering in your chest;
- worsening...
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What are the precautions when taking amlodipine besylate, atorvastatin calcium (Caduet)?
Before taking this product, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to amlodipine or atorvastatin; or to other calcium channel blockers (such as nifedipine); or if you have any other allergies. This product may contain inactive ingredients, which can cause allergic reactions or other problems. Talk to your pharmacist for more details.
Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of: liver disease, kidney disease, alcohol use, certain structural heart problems (aortic/mitral stenosis).
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Last reviewed on RxList: 2/9/2017
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