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IOW fudging the numbers.. only faster and easier
only faster and easier
Since when has python ever been faster at something? *ducks*
This proposed requirement is designed to make it easier for
an investor to conduct a thorough investment analysis of the ABS offering at the time of
its initial investment decision. In addition, an investor may monitor ongoing performance
of purchased ABS by updating its investment analysis from time to time to reflect
updated asset performance.338 In this way, market participants would be able to conduct
their own evaluations of ABS and may be less dependent on the analysis of third parties
such as credit rating agencies.
The waterfall is a critical component of an ABS. Currently investors receive only a textual description of this information in the prospectus, which may make it difficult for them to perform a rigorous quantitative analysis of the ABS.339
It does not really matter. You can still execute it and do a lot of useful analysis. Simply sweeping over the input space and plotting the output will help. If the output is really crazy (chaotic, whatever), then you can conclude that the asset is too complex and risky to buy.
What the hell is ActivePython and why the hell would anyone use it?
I've been using Python, numpy, scipy and matplotlib, and I know of absolutely no issue on any platform. How does this "news" affect me (or anyone)?
What the hell is ActivePython and why the hell would anyone use it?
Although now available for multiple platforms, originally ActivePerl/Python/Tcl's main attraction is that they were a commercial port of popular UNIX scripting languages to Windows with the added feature of being able to interact with ActiveX components. This made them attractive alternatives to VBScript.
ActivePython is just another CPython Distribution. Previously, the SciPy and NumPy libraries were modules were only found 'pre-compiled' in the Enthough Python Distribution. Now when I download ActivePython I have two fewer modules to hunt down. In the windows world, it is a pain to try and build scipy and numpy. It's not enough to have the correct version of C and C++, you need a Fortran compiler as well.
here [activestate.com]
ActiveState has left a bad taste in my mouth in the past. My quick research just now may have dug up some reasons to re-evaluate them.
You need to either write COM component in Python and interface with Visual Basic that way, or use IronPython and call it from
The shitty end of the stick finally comes around and slaps em in the face. Bought into Microsoft? Sure it was painless. At first. It takes a good while to set in, but like a burn you feel the fucker nice and good.
>> I'm a pretty talented hacker (MSCD and everything) and this just goes to show how crappy open source can be.
You need to replace Visual with Vim, Microsoft with a Unix flavour, drag-and-drop with shell, unzipped with untarred or unbzipped2, WIN32 with BIN, Basic with Python or C before you will be recognised here as a hacker
Isn't that bunzip2?
Just goes to show the value of a MSCD now doesn't it. You may wish to start with a little trip through the Win32 API.
The funny thing is, anyone who can type "easy_install" on the command line doesn't really need Activestate's distribution and has been happily using Numpy, Scipy and Matlotlib for years.
In some ways, ActivePython is like the VB of the Python world.
While we're on the topic, here's something that confused me about the SEC / Python idea.
Python is Turing complete, which means some Python programs may never terminate*. Has the SEC taken this into consideration in its plans to use them?
Or is the SEC planning to impose limitations such as, "These Python programs must complete within 1 hour when run on an Intel Pentiun IV 2.8 GHz with 4 GB RAM and Windows XP SP 3"?
(* Of course, real computers have finite memories, so it's actually theoretically possible to
It seems fairly likely that the implementation of the regulation would require the models to be useful.
But maybe not.
Oops - that's embarassing. I just realized that the Python program must be those used to produce the actual filings. So the programs' fitness to purpose must have been already established. Presumably they don't loop forever, or at least only do so after producing the filings.
Or the loop was part of the design.
I leave my machine on overnight and lots of things are looping "endlessly" - and that's not a problem.
While we're on the topic, here's something that confused me about the SEC / Python idea.
Python is Turing complete, which means some Python programs may never terminate*. Has the SEC taken this into consideration in its plans to use them?
Or is the SEC planning to impose limitations such as, "These Python programs must complete within 1 hour when run on an Intel Pentiun IV 2.8 GHz with 4 GB RAM and Windows XP SP 3"?
(* Of course, real computers have finite memories, so it's actually theoretically possible to detect looping on such a computer. But at this point we get back to specifying a particular memory size I think, which kind of goes to my question about the SEC specifying the particular hardware on which the program must run.)
Gag, I hate Python; it has to be the most annoying language to code in since COBOL. White-space blocked languages needed to die with the Hollerith card.
If you think Python's syntax has anything to do with COBOL or Hollerith cards, I doubt you've ever even looked at any Python code.
Those packages are fantastic and really 90% of what I use in python are in those packages. I have been using enthought edition python rather than active-state (many reasons), and this tips the scales a bit more toward recommending active-state to others.
FYI: Matplotlib makes 2D and 3D presentation quality plots of data (even an absurd quantity of data). Numpy and scipy provide scientific and matrix functions that pretty much cut matlab off at the knees unless you are a simulink user. Matlab is many thousands of dollars, python is free, and they are both remarkable similar, except matlab chokes on large data sets where python doesn't.
What he said! I love numpy+scipy+matplotlib. Makes my life soooo much easier.
I would be very interested in what matlab is choking on that Python wouldn't. The only data I've had matlab give me errors on is stuff that starts breaking 32-bit memory addressing. (In 32-bit Windows).
I'm a hardcore matlab user and while there is no chance in hell my company would ever give it up for python, I'd consider it for some of my personal projects.
And as limited as it is, there is one feature of the Matlab Editor that I don't think my lazy self could live without. Ctrl-A Ctrl-I, select all and aut
Auto-indenting for Python? Are you serious?
Yes, I am. I know absolutely nothing about Python. I earn my keep with Matlab. I know C (which is quite useful for CANape scripts) and use PHP in my free time.
I just asked a simple question. Rather than answering, you respond with a jackass comment of "ha, are you serious?". Which now just makes me want to disregard Python and all this crap and I'll just stick with my Matlab and short PHP script for doing repetitive stuff.
It's a little less forward than RTFM but just as condescending. And you wonder why com
Grandparent thought you were joking because one of the special features of python is that it doesn't use brackets for statement grouping and instead uses indenting. Thus all working python programs must be properly indented. I guess you could still complain if someone doesn't use the number of indent spaces you like for each block, but I assume your big issue is the confusion of various indenting styles rather than just the size of the indent.
"Is there any python IDE with this built in... anything that mimics the 'desktop' of Matlab?"
TextMate. If you're not on a Mac you have a choice of all the other Python editors, one of which must surely have those basic functions.
Is there any python IDE with this built in... anything that mimics the 'desktop' of Matlab?
Why not have a look at Geany [geany.org]? It's small, free and sweet (i.e. very usable), and it assists with editing code in a lot of programming languages.
By the way, the key sequence you gave as example nicely increases indent one level in Geany. For Python, Geany will auto-indent some obvious things: indent after a line ending with ':', dedent after 'return', etc.
TFA and TFS fail to mention that SciPy, Numpy and Matplotlib have been added only to the Business, Enterprise, and OEM Editions of ActivePython. The Community Edition (the only one that's free) doesn't contain these libraries.
http://www.activestate.com/activepython [activestate.com]
wow. these people pay to install a python distribution? check the umpteenth proof that the economy went bad because stupid people are in charge.
seriously now... I use all these, and they're free, and in ubuntu I just had to click install to get them.
And what, exactly, prevents you from installing SciPy, Numpy, and Matplotlib into an already existing ActivePython community edition installation?
Hint: Nothing. You download the libraries and install with the canonical 'setup.py install'
Does this mean one less reason (scientific field) to use commercial Matlab and prefer free Sage/ActionPython/NumPy/SciPy/matplotlib?
Just asking, but since Sage can offer so much functionality, I wonder if now the community gets one more extra boost.
Does this mean one less reason (scientific field) to use commercial Matlab and prefer free Sage/ActionPython/NumPy/SciPy/matplotlib?
I'm not sure about ActionPython -- why pay for a bundle of free components? But I for one am a long-time Matlab user, and I am slowly migrating towards Python (using numpy, scipy, matplotlib, ipython, etc.). Migration is slow mainly because I have to recode some of my own Matlab tools, but so far it's been succesful. Not painless mind you, as the differences in numpy and Matlab can cause really subtle bugs.
So while it's great that ActivePython now gets numpy and matplotlib, I wouldn't say there is one less
That's one reply I was looking for. Indeed I agree that the situation is as you describe it.
Nevertheless, for the frugal scientist, Sage and there rest of Python toolkits seem like nice alternatives.
Or you can use Octave which is about the same performance as python + SciPy/NumPy/matplotlib, but has the added benefit of being largely compatible with Matlab.
I've been using Python + SciPy / NumPy / matplotlib / IPython at work recently and it's awesome. I don't have a MATLAB license, so whereas some of my colleagues are using MATLAB, I've been doing my plotting and analysis work with just Open Source tools. I played with Octave (albeit the Cygwin port) and SciLab but in the end, the Python-based solution gave me access to a core programming language that's very neat and that I like, plus it's really fast and proficient at dealing with large datasets. It's no
Unless Macports supports Aqua now, don't do it.
1. Install Python (available as a double click install from python.org).
2. Install Matplotlib (available as a double click install form matplotlib.sourceforge.net
2 (alternate). At the command line type easy_install matplotlib
I hate to essentially troll, and I hate to burst your bubbles, but these math packages aren't really doing anything all that wonderanomous. The guy I learned numerical analysis from in college used to use Excel to do a lot of his numerical techniques - and used to do a lot of them on a TI-80. Numerical analysis is all about knowing a lot to write an efficient algorithm to get the answer.
I've done Q/R decomposition in VB6 (for a real honest to god client! for money!)
I'm glad these tools are around for peo
Except that NumPy will use LAPACK and BLAS for it's linear algebra making it far more efficient. Try a QR decomposition on a matrix of any significant size in VB, then do the same decomposition using LAPACK and you'll see a huge difference. As for numerical analysis being about writing efficient algorithms, sure, that's true, but why would you want to rewrite those algorithms when highly optimized versions come by default?
Disclaimer: Yes, I'm sure you could get VB to use LAPACK and BLAS but python will do i
You're comparing apples and cadillacs. Excel doesn't use LAPACK either, but Prof used to dig it because of it's profound recursive capabilties. I didn't write the Vb6 code from scratch - it was originally written in Fortran using LAPACK there, and for some reason the guy wanted it in VB6 (I guess so he could enter the parameters from a database using a form.) It was a simulation of some complexity and ran well enough for his purposes. The same calculations were being done, on ordinary PCs.
It's a distinc
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MADISON, Wis. — Newly declassified documents show the FBI kept close tabs on Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's only daughter after her high-profile defection to the United States in 1967, gathering details from informants about how her arrival was affecting international relations.
The documents were released Monday to the Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act after Lana Peters's death last year at age 85 in a Wisconsin nursing home. Her defection to the West during the Cold War embarrassed the ruling communists and made her a best-selling author. And her move was a public relations coup for the United States.
One April 28, 1967, memo details a conversation with a confidential source who said the defection would have a ''profound effect'' for anyone else thinking of trying to leave the Soviet Union.
The source claimed to have discussed the defection with a Czechoslovak journalist covering the UN and a member of the Czechoslovakia ''Mission staff.''
When she defected, Peters was known as Svetlana Alliluyeva, but she went by Lana Peters after her 1970 marriage to William Wesley Peters, an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Peters said her defection was partly motivated by the Soviet authorities' poor treatment of her late husband, Brijesh Singh, a prominent figure in the Indian Communist Party.
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Someone in another thread aske me to post a picture of my cat. It wasn't wasn't really appropriate for that thread so I thougt I would start one so anyone who has a pet(s) could post a picture of their cat,dog,rabbit,rat,fish,monkey,goat or whatever pet they have.
This our cat. It is a Bengal cat. We got her at the local animal shelter two years July 2nd. She came with the name of Austin. But we thought that was a terrible name for a female cat so we named her Snooki. Very loving cat. She wants her belly rubbed everytime we come in the front door and will jump in your lap nearly every time you sit down. She is very dog like. She gets very excited to see us when we have been out a while. We have learned not to feed her for a while because we know what will happen next. One of the best cats I have ever had and I have had a cat as pets nearly all my life.


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Doctor: Would you like to be awake for this procedure?
Patient: WTF???
Patient: WTF???
My thoughts exactly.
I'm sure there's probably some valid medical reason for doing this -- I just have no idea of what it is. I don't want to be awake when the heart-rate monitor goes to a flat tone. Well, I guess you'd no longer be awake at that point, so it's moot.
Patient: WTF???
My thoughts exactly.
I'm sure there's probably some valid medical reason for doing this
It makes the patient sound like a BAMF.
"Yeah I had open heart surgery. Got to watch the whole thing. In fact, the Doctor and I made jokes throughout the whole procedure.
'That's not a tumour, thats my wife!' "
Dr.: WTF?
Paitent: Huh?
Nurse: Ohh...that's isn't good.
Patient: WT.......
It's likely because there are greater risks involved in general anesthetic. Where possible, it's seen as safer for the patient to use only locals.
Plus, a conscious patient can tell you if something starts going wrong.
And in worst case, a patient who doesn't want to follow and pay attention to the whole procedure, can be given a mild sedative.
The patient will be calmly dozing during the procedure, but it's still not a general anesthetic (= which is controlled coma), only a patient having a nap during a locals (= can be wakened up, or will wake up in case of something hapening).
Commonly done in orthopaedic surgery (= epidural or nervous bloc + mild sedative).
Yup, my friend had a stent placed in a carotid artery while awake for precisely this reason. They apparently like to assess your mental state while it is going on to detect strokes immediately.
They do tend to dope you up quite a bit though, mainly to avoid anxiety and they don't want you squirming while they put a 2mm piece of tubing in a largely-clogged artery servicing your brain via a catheter that extends from your leg to your neck...
It just sucks for them a little bit!
It's likely because there are greater risks involved in general anesthetic. Where possible, it's seen as safer for the patient to use only locals.
And the patient is far from normally conscious under procedures like this. They are sedated, whereby it's generally meant the patient is socked to the gills with drugs like benzodiazepines.
As a gross generalization, I find that the medical profession (and I'm on the fringes of it) tends to overmedicate when it comes to sedation. As one example, my father was going to have a small bone spur removed from a toe. Yes, that can be painful, but a good circumdigit block with lidocaine will fix that. But he was supposed to be sedated for the procedure sufficiently that he would not be able to drive himself home. He called me to arrange for a ride before the fact, more than a little annoyed that a 10 minute procedure would entail such an ordeal, and I replied, "well, just refuse the sedative." He did, and was fine.
Now fixing a toe is very different from open heart surgery. The so-called awake patient during open heart surgery likely will be only slightly topside of conscious. However, there's a big difference between that and the deep general anesthesia that would be required without local anesthetics to block the pain. One of the big reasons for using less anesthesia is basic danger, as other posters have commented. But as we learn more about general anesthesia, and specifically in relation to open heart surgery, there's a significant toll it seems to take on the mind. It's considered a dirty little secret that patients are waking up after major surgery a little dumber than they were before. And, by "dirty little secret," I mean, it's an area ripe for significant research into the improvement of health care. In any case, combining a good epidural block with sedation to achieve the same surgical plane (that's the term used to describe depth of anesthesia) as previously achieved with general anesthesia is going to be a good step forward.
"I've had (nominally) adult patients who were upset that they were going to have to be conscious when their IV was placed."
I would be one of those patients. I really hate needles and tend to get nervous to the point of having panic attacks. When I had my wisdom teeth removed (under general anesthesia), the oral surgeon prescribed me an EMLA patch to apply to my arm so that I wouldn't feel the general anesthetic IV go in my arm.
Yep, I noticed the "dirty little secret" with my father after a heart bypass. He was a retired mathematician, learned in the old days with slide rules. He could do sums in his head faster than most people with a calculator. After the surgery, not so much. It took weeks and months before he got close to being as sharp as before. He's still very good, but not at the top pitch he was before the surgery.
The two of you are crowding out the kids posting from their mom's basement. Please, get off the Internet.
I only hope you don't use your nickname on the job.
I'd be a little worried if I was strapped down to an operating table and heard, "The patient is prepped for surgery... bring in the Demon Rabbit."
Now, IAAA (I am an anesthesiologist) and...
Oh come on now. We all knew what you meant by IAAA. No need to talk down to us.
It's safer unless you are me and imagine all kinds of strange things going on... and manage to pass yourself out.
I have a very low tolerance for blood, stories about it, and other detailed info on accidents, etc. I blacked out in a college speech class a few years back because someone explained his motorcycle accident. I once volunteered for a blood drive and couldn't even carry the blood pouch back to the receiving table without having to sit down in the middle of the room and handing it off to someone e
You'd think a reverse vampire would put blood into people, though.
Well he did say he volunteered at a blood drive. Doesn't that count?
I bet you'd be useless in a knife-fight
How do you feel about gore in video games (such as F.E.A.R. and Prey)?
I bet you'd be useless in a knife-fight
As would likely 95% + of the populace I'm betting.
> As would likely 95% + of the populace I'm betting.
What I meant was, even if OP wins, he still loses. It was not really intended to be interesting, insightful, or informative, nor did I intend for it to become the subject of a discussion (it was merely an observation I considered to be 'funny'). I am however genuinely interested in his (or others who have a similar 'blood-phobia' thing) answer to the gore-question.
Now that we've ventured this far into offtopicness, what's up with the 'Cheers' thing?
I would want to be awake honestly; the anesthesia disturbs me more than the thought of being sliced open and possibly killed. It really is a personal preference.
Also keep in mind that, while not for open heart surgery, for many operations the anesthesia is the riskiest part of the procedure; the brain isn't built to be turned on and off at will.
I would want to be awake honestly; the anesthesia disturbs me more than the thought of being sliced open and possibly killed.
You'd want to be awake while someone slices open your chest and cracks your ribs apart?
You're either really brave, or a liar.
I think my squealing would be rather distracting to the medical staff.
Well I'm assuming powerful painkillers here, and a screen so I don't have to see it. But honestly yes.
Again, would I like to be cut open? No. But given it must happen, I'd rather be around for it.
I'm sure there's probably some valid medical reason for doing this
General anesthesia is generally more hazardous than local. I recently had surgery. It wasn't open heart surgery, but nevertheless, they wanted to do exactly what this doctor did. In the end, they decided that in my particular case (because I take blood thinners), the epidural carried more risk than general anesthesia, so they knocked me out. But were it not for that, I would have had this same experience.
When it was described to me, it was not that I would be "awake" for it, but that I'd be rousable - unlik
I'd do it in a second, but I'm betting they put up a screen or something below your head so you can't watch, much less put a monitor/camera above my head so I can easily see what they're doing. Which kinda defeats the purpose, from my end at least.
I've been given the option to be awake for several procedures, and I always say yes, but then they always change their minds at the last minute and knock me out. Maybe they're put off by how eager I sound. Kinda like when the phlebotomist is about to draw blood and sees me staring at vein on my arm, and she says "Do you want to look away?" and I go "nope!", their look changes from one of sympathy to one of being a little weirded out.
This text only interface for communication doesn't sufficiently deliver the same weird look I'm giving you right now.
I wish I had a webcam and photobucket available right now.
I wish I had a webcam and photobucket available right now.
How interesting, the rest of us are thankful you do not.
This text only interface for communication doesn't sufficiently deliver the same weird look I'm giving you right now.
I wish I had a webcam and photobucket available right now.
I also wish I had some kind of bucket available.
Yes, they most likely put up a screen. But more importantly, unless they put up a mirror, you aren't going to be able to watch the whole procedure anyway unless they prop your head up so that it would be in the surgeon's way. When someone has your heart in your hand, you don't want them to have to worry about bumping your nose.
If they wouldn't put up a mirror so I could watch my vasectomy, they sure aren't going to for a heart operation. And yes, I was awake and chatting with everyone in the room during
I've been given the option to be awake for several procedures, and I always say yes, but then they always change their minds at the last minute and knock me out.
Are you sure they actually put you under? For many procedures, instead of full general anaesthesia, the patient will be administered a sedative (hypnotic?) that keeps them awake, but without any memory of the procedure. I've had that done a couple of times, and from my perspective it was just like general anaesthetic (a discontinuity of consciousnes
Are you sure they actually put you under?
Well that's what the anesthetist told me they were doing in each of these cases, so I'm guessing yeah.
Doctor: Would you like to be awake for this procedure?
Patient: WTF???
Doctor: We'll put up a screen so you can watch Spongebob and give you a bunch of morphine and a spinal epidural so you can't feel shiat, but if we put you completely under, your blood pressure may drop due to different autonomous reactions, and since we're doing heart surgery, that could be bad... So this improves the chances that you're awake after the operation, rather than on a slab in the morgue. Got it?
I bet Spongebob is awesome on morphine.
A sponge is pretty small.
Morphine might work, I guess; nothing less. Otherwise I suspect the trauma of fully knowing what is happening, feeling with the part of the body that can feel anything the mere mechanical stresses, movements from opening your ribcage/etc., might be not helpful too.
I didn't want to be awake for getting my wisdom teeth taken out. Why would you? So you can learn about recent movements in your doctor's mutual fund account?
Could be worse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVFstSSUm1w [youtube.com]
Because it barely hurts, it's an interesting experience, and it only takes a few minutes (YMMV, but I'm sure they can give you a good estimate before they begin)? Because it's cheaper?
I had a wisdom tooth pulled. The anesthetic shots(all 6 of them) were terribly painful, extracting just a couple of precious tears from my eyes.
About 15 minutes later, I couldn't feel the right lower half of my face and talking to the incredibly attractive assistant was becoming amusing. Oral surgeon walks in, sticks a prybar looking thing between a couple teeth, yanks it a couple times, puts funny looking pliars in my mouth and picks up my tooth. Good fucking god it's amazing how long the roots are for wis
I had open-heart surgery. General & deep anesthesia is a wonderful thing. "Lie here
Now, given what happened in the recovery room, wouldn't want to extrapolate back to the idea of being awake for the procedure.
"Waking up" consisted of returning consciousness, but with no vision or hearing, and the totality of my existence being devoted to getting the breathing tube out, engaging enough self-control to know it's supposed to be there and to not panic (!!!!!), and discover that my hands were restrained to prevent acting on exactly that reaction. Then I was aware that something horrible had been done to my chest. And then
Now, if awake thru the whole procedure, that would mean not only being aware of the chit-chat ("scalpel
My wife didn't take it well in the waiting room when told "your husband is doing fine
There are not enough mod points to elevate the parent post to where I'd like to see it. I'm like, "Crack my chest? I'm dead to the world, bub. I don't want to know a thing about it."
As a recipient of an open-heart surgery, the only thing I have to say about being awake during such a procedure is:
Why would that ever even cross somebody's mind?!
The odds are 100%, as this has always been the ACTUAL method used by woo-woo, acupuncture, "complementary alternative" medicine peddlers who to this day are still selling the laughable fraud of "acupuncture-only [csicop.org] anesthesia" surgery.
Being awake for a cardiac catheterization is a different story. Since there are no apparent after-effects, and no slicing-and-dicing of organs, it really was fascinating to watch a live x-ray of my heart in action while feeling only a faint strange tickling in my chest. Nothing showed up wrong save the expected valve regurgitation.
Never dawned on me to ask for a copy of the video
My friend had a Cardiac Cath examination and got to watch the whole thing on the same monitors that the cardiologists were working from.
Oh hell yeah. That's what I'm talking about.
Have you never heard of Job Security through Obscurity?
If me and my roomates can learn to preform open heart surgery on each other - why on Earth will we need to go to a surgeon!!!
(This is a pre-emptive woosh for those of you who are about to point out the obvious)
If me and my roomates can learn to preform open heart surgery on each other - why on Earth will we need to go to a surgeon!!!
Oh, I can foresee a whole new category of Darwin awards being handed out for that one.
I'd be all for it as long as all amateur surgeries were required to be filmed and posted on youtube.
Well, yeah, dude!
Why wouldn't you??
If me and my roomates can learn to preform open heart surgery on each other - why on Earth will we need to go to a surgeon!!!
Unions? ~
Doesn anyone have the torrent link to this tutorial?
is it DIY?
There are many different surgeries done now where the patient is not rendered unconscious. Advances in technique and in local anesthetics have made the precision nerve blocks required possible. However, make no mistake, you aren't wide awake and cracking jokes while the surgeon does his thing; you are doped to the gills with tranquilizers. It would be very bad if you panicked or tried to move around during the surgery. Keeping you awake is done because it is easier to keep you from not dying when they aren't trying to put you to sleep, shut down sensation of pain, and cut your memory. They don't do it because it's really cool, or to educate the patient.
From what a nurse told me, it's just that the narcotics have a very small area between "doesn't do anything" and "kills you instantly". So it's very hard to get it right.
Which is why still so many people die in the process!
Especially older people often simply go crazy from it. And die more often too.
She told me, from her experience, that whenever you can, avoid full narcosis at any cost! It's very far from the convenient trick to get around experiencing it. The one deciding on the dose sweats blood and tears because every time, he makes a decision that can kill you.
Now, there is a problem with postoperative cognitive dysfunction in the elderly, one that is currently a very hot topic of research, but the elderly don't have a lot of plastic surgery - if they're in for surgery, they usually need it to continue living.
Finally, very few people die - the risk is somewhere less than 1 in 150k for elective surgery, with risks rising for those who are having risky surgeries or who are very ill to start with. Anesthesiologists made a conscious decision in the early 1980s to reduce the risks of anesthesia, and created the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation [apsf.org] to review all closed claims - that's lawsuits, settled in or out of court - and to look for common factors. We have been enormously successful at this task. Drugs have been pulled off the market because the APSF identified them in series of deaths. Safety equipment has been mandated - for example, the size of the connectors for breathing masks, breathing tubes, and ventilators is specified so that all of it interoperates, regardless of manufacturer.
If you prefer to be unconscious for surgery, it can usually be done safely. Of course, if you want to be awake, that can usually be done safely as well. Ask your anesthesiologist [lifelineto...dicine.com].
Keeping you awake is done because it is easier to keep you from not dying when they aren't trying to put you to sleep
What if I don't want to be kept from not dying?
You have a duty to your fellow man to continue paying taxes.
Ya I also don't want to hear the doctors talking about the game last night while cutting on me...
Subject says it all, DVD has had this feature for a long time, yet there aren't really a lot of people using it.
So what if I had these extra angles? I think the whole thing is probably one giant director's commentary so that is a given.
Deleted scenes? probably not
Alternate Endings? stay with me here, I don't necessarily mean the patient dies. But since they have 10 years of experience with this procedure, what are some of the complications they've seen, what are some things to avoid.
And yes, when can I add
Yup. Multiple angles are real. But they share the 9.8Mbps data stream. So in order to add a second angle, it lowers the quality of the primary angle. And with MPEG-2, you need all the bandwidth you can get. That's why Hollywood isn't doing it.
When does the book come out?
The reason why this is big news is that some people (mostly old people) who get knocked out, never wake up again, and it has little to do with the surgery itself but with the drug induced unconsciousness. Having a method or ability to do this without knocking someone completely out would reduce risk for those in the high risk to die while under. This is why you always have to sign a consent form when getting a general. I had some oral surgery a couple of years ago in my late 20's and I still had to sign a bunch of stuff that says I am aware of the risks and that I might die from being knocked out, and please do not have your relations sue us if that is the case. Now if your in your 80's and have the same procedure, it might be better to keep you awake during the procedure.
(I was awake for the "tooth extraction" which translates to the most horrific medieval hammer and fscking chisel, and horrible horrible sounds and pressures you do not want to remember. So when it came time for the "tooth implant" I decided to get knocked the heck out. It cost me an extra 300$ bucks I think, but I was not going through that nightmare again. Not sure if it was as bad, but I wasn't taking any chances. If I had to do it again, I would have had them knocked me out for the "extraction" and would recommend anyone who has to get a tooth implant in this fashion do the same.)
However when I read the title I envisioned the surgeon performing open heart surgery on himself while awake... now that would take some balls!
"I was awake for the "tooth extraction" which translates to the most horrific medieval hammer and fscking chisel, and horrible horrible sounds and pressures you do not want to remember."
Try tooth extraction without anesthesia someday. Now that's an experience (yes, I know it firsthand).
Well there is extraction and extraction.
Technically I could "extract" some teeth by punching someone in the mouth or a similar traumatic impact or accident.
The best as I can describe it (and this one all of one tooth), was that the had me lie down, and froze the bajesus out of my face.
They then put a cloth over my eyes (so as to not get tooth chunks in them? I suspect simply so I could not see and panic), but I could still see out at a hard angle looking straight down.
The dentist kept saying "your going to
I had a molar extraction without anesthesia when I was a kid. The doctor injected several doses of novocaine but without any effect.
So the doctor had to extract tooth with me fully conscious and two nurses holding my hands
I would say if the Novocaine isn't working, to screw off.
At least give me whatever drugs are in your desk, and the bottle of whiskey in your filing cabinet!
I had both my lower wisdom teeth taken out with just a local anesthetic (since it was cheaper and I didn't need a ride afterwards). It really wasn't bad (except for when I had the second one done, they didn't give me enough anesthetic at first which hurt like a motherfucker). They took what sounded like a small rotary saw and used it to cut the tooth in half, and then pulled it out. It feels pretty damn weird to have someone tugging on your jaw that hard, simply because your brain is going "this should hurt
Mod parent up! I'll second his story. When I was a teenager, I went to the dentist thinking I was just getting a cleaning, when he started extracting a wisdom tooth! Not only did I not know he was going to do it, but by the time he started and I figured out what was up, there was no turning back. I had them knock me out to get the other three. Never again!
Putting in implants is unpleasant (makes a lot of noise when they are splitting your jaw bone to make it wider) but not really painful (needed about 20 injections against pain). Rode back home on my bike after which the injections wore out. After that I wanted to die for about 2 days before the pain become a lot less.
OK I didn't need to hear about the splitting of my jaw bone. I was blissfully unaware and asleep during that part.
I do remember that I only had significant pain for a couple of days after, as opposed to the extraction where it hurt for like a whole week.
Oh and to top it all off, the antibiotics that they gave me for the implants, caused me to get C Diff, which was like the worst 3-4 days of my life.
C Diff is like a really bad flu, except you have live angry stinging scorpions in your gut, and they really ha
Sedation is a pretty decent middle ground, on price, risk and not noticing what they're doing.
It's about $100, or a bit less, and generally something along the lines of taking one pill (nothing I was familiar with) the night before and then an Ambien an hour or so before the procedure. I like to combine it with music on headphones, and very little sleep; I had two root canals that way, and have almost no memory of them.
I would HOPE the doctors would be conscious during this kind of surgery.
Oh, wait, what?
1: Ignore the screaming patient on the table.
2: Use leather restraints on the patient. The web ones are too easily snapped by someone in a full fight-or-flight frenzy.
3: Avoid the use of the word "oops"
4: Avoid the use of the phrase "uh oh"
5: NEVER use "oh shit", "oh crap" or any other variants thereof.
6: Have a mallet ready for "topical anesthesia" if necessary. If the need exists, apply to patient's forehead both vigorously and repeatedly.
7: Use surgical drapes, most patients freak (hard!) if they can see their own inside pieces and parts.
8: Avoid calling your surgical assistant "Igor", even if that is his name.
9: Refrain from cackling maniacally.
And it wasn't 100%. I think that either way, effective or not, you'd want to say "Ow! That hurts!"
I THINK MAN INVENTED THE CAR by instinct. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.


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by John Calvin (compiled by John H. Kromminga)
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Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto Peter, Art not thou also one of this man's disciples? He saith, I am not. —John 18:17
"Then the maid that kept the door said to Peter...." Peter is introduced into the high priest's hall; but it cost him very dear, for as soon as he sets his foot within it, he is constrained to deny Christ.
When he stumbles so shamefully at the first step, the foolishness of his boasting is exposed. He had boasted that he would prove to be a valiant champion, and able to meet death with firmness; and now at the voice of a single maid, and that voice without threatening, he is confounded and throws down his arms. Such is a demonstration of the power of man.
Certainly all the strength that appears to be in men is smoke, which a breath immediately drives away. When we are out of the battle, we are too courageous; but experience shows that our lofty talk is foolish and groundless; and even when Satan makes no attacks, we contrive for ourselves idle alarms which disturb us before the time.
The voice of a feeble woman terrified Peter; and what is the case with us? Do we not continually tremble at the rustling of a falling leaf? A false appearance of danger, which was still distant, made Peter tremble; and are we not every day led away from Christ by childish absurdities?
In short, our courage is of such a nature that of its own accord it gives way where there is no enemy; and thus does God revenge the arrogance of men by reducing fierce minds to a state of weakness.
A man filled not with fortitude but with wind, promises that he will obtain an easy victory over the whole world; and yet no sooner does he see the shadow of a thistle than he immediately trembles. Let us therefore learn not to be brave in any other than the Lord. —Commentaries
John Calvin was the premier theologian of the Reformation, but also a pious and godly Christian pastor who endeavored throughout his life to point men and women to Christ. We are grateful to Reformation Heritage Books for permission to use John Calvin's Thine Is My Heart as our daily devotional for 2013 on the OPC Web site. You can currently obtain a printed copy of that book from Reformation Heritage Books.
Dr. Joel Beeke, who is editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, has this to say:
"Calvin shows us the piety of a Reformed theologian who speaks from the heart. Having tasted the goodness and grace of God in Jesus Christ, he pursued piety by seeking to know and do God's will every day. He communed with Christ, practicing repentance, self-denial, and cross-bearing. Moreover, his theology worked itself out in heart-felt, Christ-honoring piety. The selections of this devotional bear this out, and hopefully will be used by God to direct pious hearts in our own day."
These devotional readings from John Calvin were compiled by John H. Kromminga. Be sure to read his "Introduction" to John Calvin's Thine Is My Heart.


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Brie and Prosciutto Tart Recipe
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- 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
- 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1/2 cup cold butter, cubed
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 3 shallots, thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 cups fresh baby spinach
- 4 thin slices prosciutto or deli ham
- 3 eggs
- 2/3 cup 2% milk
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 4 ounces Brie cheese, rind removed and cubed
- 1/4 teaspoon minced fresh thyme
- Preheat oven to 350°. In a food processor, process pecans until finely chopped. Add flour and sugar; cover and pulse until blended. Add butter; cover and pulse until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. In a small bowl, whisk egg yolk, water and mustard. While processing, gradually add egg yolk mixture until dough forms a ball.
- Press onto the bottom and up the sides of an ungreased 14x4-in. fluted tart pan with removable bottom. Bake 18-22 minutes or until crust is lightly browned. Cool on a wire rack.
- In a large skillet, saute shallots in oil until tender. Add spinach; cook 1-2 minutes longer or until wilted. Remove and set aside to cool.
- Meanwhile, in the same skillet, cook prosciutto over medium heat until slightly crisp. Remove to paper towels; drain. In a large bowl, whisk the eggs, milk and seasonings. Spoon spinach mixture into crust; pour egg mixture over top. Top with prosciutto and cheese.
Bake 30-35 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Sprinkle with thyme. Serve warm.
Freeze option: Before topping with thyme, securely wrap and freeze cooled tart in plastic wrap and foil. To use, partially thaw in refrigerator overnight. Remove from refrigerator 30 minutes before baking. Preheat oven to 350°. Unwrap quiche; reheat in oven until heated through and a thermometer inserted in center reads 165°. Sprinkle with thyme. Yield: 12 servings.
Editor's Note: You may use an ungreased 9-in. round fluted tart pan with removable bottom instead of a 14x4-in. pan. Bake as directed.
Originally published as Brie and Prosciutto Tart in Country Woman April/May 2012
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The Jets will find a way to f*ck things up. They always do.
WHy do people get sucked in to this. The Jets have beaten the bottom feeders of the AFC, 3 of them. They have lost to two good AFC teams and one good NFC team. We all knew going into the season this was an average team. Most on this board, the football analysts,etc. Its an average team which means 7-9 to 9-7.
Sorry, even at 3-3 the Pats are an above average team - not elite - but above average. The Jets roster is not as good as the Pats, especially on offense - we lose.
Plus when is the last time the Jets put together back to back complete performances from all three phases of the game?
Everyone on the Jetworks bus!
Jets provided the blueprint for the Packers to blow up Houston....Only diff is Packers are healthy. Would have been us dealing 42 on the Texans if we had Keller/S. Hill last week.


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A recent news article appearing in the Mercury, "School Reform Group (StudentsFirst) Gives Pennsylvania Passing Grade – Barely," reported a dismal grade of D+ for our state, implying that students are not being very well served by the state's educational establishment. However, a review of StudentsFirst own web page, demonstrates that there is little relationship between the factors they choose to measure and how well students actually achieve.
Along with its own report card that shows how well states measure up to its recommended education policies, StudentsFirst also posts data on student achievement based on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) that uses standardized testing to rank states by student achievement. StudentsFirst awards Louisiana first place on its test, crowing that "Louisiana has established itself as a national leader in putting students first in its education policies." However, NAEP testing shows that Louisiana school students rank only 49th out of the 50 states in academic achievement.
The District of Columbia earns 4th place under StudentsFirst calculations, and is promoted as a "national leader in terms of elevating the teaching profession," but ranks dead last in measures of student progress according to NAEP.
Ironically, Massachusetts that ranks number one in the nation academically, is only granted a D+ by StudentsFirst, which concludes that Massachusetts "must do more to retain excellent teachers and principals…and create more high-quality public charter schools."
New Hampshire in 41st place, and Vermont in 47th, both earn 'F's' on the StudentsFirst scale, but rank 3rd and 4th highest in the nation when it comes to student grades. New Hampshire is marked down for "not spending wisely" when it keeps class sizes small, and Vermont loses out because it does not encourage public charter schools.
State Rep. Brandon Boyle is quoted as supporting StudentsFirst analysis of "some of the most important measures in education today." However, according to StudentsFirst, those measures do not include "student achievement, school quality, or teacher performance." Rather, StudentsFirst rewards states that adopt policy initiatives that encourage reducing costs by expanding class sizes, and creating public charter schools. StudentsFirst wants us to believe that such state mandated policies are the key to promoting student achievement, going so far as to chastise high achieving states that have not adopted their philosophy.
StudentsFirst has spent millions of dollars in Pennsylvania supporting the election of state representatives who are intent on 'reforming' education in line with its recommendations. Pennsylvanians should beware of modeling our schools after states like Louisiana who make the grade with a political interest group, but whose children's grades are the lowest in the nation.
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Petraeus was involved in a risky extramarital affair while he was the nation's top spy.
The issue of the extramarital affair involving former CIA Director David Petraeus did not end with his Friday resignation and it won't end until the full truth of this sensitive matter is known.
That is not because of the affair itself, although the titillating details of Petraeus' involvement with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, will surely fill tabloids for weeks to come.
No, the scandal will demand a full airing of related facts because Petraeus was involved in a risky extramarital affair while he was the nation's top spy. The old line that affairs can expose government officials to the risks of blackmail no longer sounds like a clich� or a plot from a spy movie.
That concern has become a very real issue as the White House and Congress try to find out whether the affair has major implications for national security. And Petraeus' resignation comes at a crucial time in the investigation of the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya, when the U.S. ambassador was killed.
There are possibly even more complications. If the extramarital affair began when Petraeus was serving as commander in Afghanistan, he can be brought up on military charges, as unlikely as that is.
Further, members of congressional intelligence committees, including U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., are wondering why they were not informed that the FBI was investigating a possible security breach at the CIA.
The FBI investigation began in May, after Broadwell allegedly sent harassing emails to a married Tampa woman, Jill Kelley. Broadwell, who is married, suspected Kelley was having an affair with Petraeus. At that point, Petraeus allegedly broke off his affair with Broadwell.
Surely at some point in this past year — after June 1 and before Election Day — someone at the FBI should have notified the White House and the congressional intelligence committees that Broadwell may have been accessing Petraeus' personal email account, as has been reported.
Also, it has been reported that Broadwell had classified information in her possession. The FBI is not pursuing criminal charges against anyone in the matter, but congressional leaders such as Feinstein, known as a stalwart congressional overseer of intelligence matters, need to find out how Broadwell accessed such data.
As if to prove just how formidable this scandal has become, on Tuesday it was reported that Marine Gen. John R. Allen, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, had also been in personal communication with Kelley. The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Allen may have sent 20,000 to 30,000 pages of potentially inappropriate emails to Kelley, who volunteers at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.
The scandal has distracted the nation from an ongoing look into what happened at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Then, a mob attacked the consulate and killed three workers and the U.S. ambassador to Libya in an apparent act of terrorism and assassination.
After his resignation on Friday, it was announced Petraeus would not testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, when it will discuss the Benghazi attack.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a moderate Republican from Maine, said it is "absolutely imperative" that Petraeus eventually testify. Petraeus visited Libya after the attack. Petraeus also clung to the initial talking points of the White House that the attack was the work of an angry mob worked up over an anti-Islamic film.
At the very least, the American people need to know if Petraeus was distracted by his affair, especially as U.S. intelligence communication with the White House appears to have broken down during the Benghazi attack.
The downfall of Petraeus serves as a reminder that federal security procedures and policies are in place for a reason — to protect the United States and to inform the congressional oversight committees. The CIA and FBI look bad now, and communication between various federal agencies looks broken. Worse, perhaps, that communication may have been affected by Election Day politics.
This must be corrected by Congress and the White House with a full airing of the relevant facts.


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the videos doesn't work whta can i do it says connection problem i tried alot
well I think I allready saw it on MBH once, but again, this is some awesome stuff, thanks, I'm a fan
Why no xbox 360? Hot video!!
so damn hot dude
Kris you're really an amazing guy!
I'm fan of your pix and video!
Continue like this
Seeing it come out is totally hot... after that, I'm through haha. But it does get me off to see a cute guy really getting off, even if its off of something that doesn't quite ticle my fancy. Big props though!
Hey I discovered ur posts today, and I'm a fan!
I'd love to see ur scat vids, but did u know about megaupload.com being closed at the moment? (A court has ordered it due to copyright infringement etc...)
I got so hard looking at the pics of ur scat fun! But boy I'd LOVE to see it in 'motion' pictures! Lol
Are ur vids available elsewhere please?
I agree, it would be great to see these videos and it sucks that megaupload is down. Are they available anywhere else?
there are 25 clips from krishawk uploaded to the my.brownhanky site.
Master makes me do scatplay now and then because He loves it. Especially when i have to show of tell people about the vids that can be seen at my blog at www.dirtypigsdog.blogspot.com
Thanks man! ;-D
Send me messages sorry to all those that sent before. If you want me to get to it faster make the title simply INVITE
I want to be the one who fucks the shit outta you!
Great pics, man! Big fan, here!
BTW I would greatly appreciate feedback from various people. Yeah half the reason is vanity but I am a modest person. But the main reason I want feedback from various people is to know which are best, and how I should take future photo shoots. Krishawk in the porn industry is retiring. Almost all of these photos were taken for my own Skateboard Studios Via Flirt4Free and LJasmin. Some of my fans have followed me, I've met one person at a major gay club in Chicago. He said he was a fan and asked for an autograph. I can't keep working in porn, I want to have a respectable career being in college now. It was a fun phase but I will always remember the fun times. I have had many memories of being Kris Hawk, but I have to be who I really am, Kristopher R.
Kris, I have known and loved you through all of your incarnations!
Sir Ron simply adores you.
The Three Musketeers... Bashful, Chrisglass, and Ronboy!
I have to admit...everytime I see a thread from you, my pulse rises. I don't care for the scat pics, but I have to say, you are one really sexy guy. You have a cock that I would dive down on in a heartbeat, and an ass I just want to eat out! (provided you prepare it for me! }
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing
Kris, you have kept us entertained for a long time and your final collection is amazing. Best wishes for the future and every success in all you do
It takes big balls to post all the pics.
I notice you have big balls.
Always enjoy your pics Kris, especially love this one
Sultan, you're an asshole.
You know that, right?


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Texas music legends, including Will Sexton, Denny Freeman, Jimmie Vaughan and Billy F. Gibbons, talk about songwriter Bill Carter on KLRU's Arts In Context.
Bill Carter and his wife Ruth Ellsworth have written some of the biggest hits by The Fabulous Thunderbirds and Stevie Ray Vaughan. In addition to writing songs, Bill Carter & The Blame is a Texas supergroup with a rotating all-star lineup that has been performing Bill and Ruth's songs for decades. Arts In Context combines Bill Carter & The Blame footage from a 2012 live performance in KLRU's legendary Studio 6A with interviews of Bill, Ruth and a wide selection of the musicians and people they have worked with over the years.
Airing on KLRU-TV, Austin PBS, July 26 at 7:30 pm and July 29 at 1 pm, this episode features interviews with or appearances by Will Sexton, Denny Freeman, Dony Wynn, Johnny Depp, Jimmie Vaughan, Billy F. Gibbons, Chris Layton, Charlie Sexton, Cindy Cashdollar, Glover Gill, Andy Salmon, David Holt, Susan Antone, Wayne Nagel and Andy Langer.
The complete show will be available for viewing online at klru.org/artsincontext and through the PBS App after July 26th.


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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO)-- Sean Mulvey will remember Friday's win over Grand Junction very fondly.
Not only the was 20-14 victory his first against the Tigers as the Wildcats head coach, but Mulvey earned statewide recognition as well.
The Wildcats head coach is the Denver Broncos High School Coach of the Week for week five of prep football in the state of Colorado.
Along with the honor, Fruita Monument's football program will receive a $1,000 donation from the NFL Youth Fund.
Mulvey is also in the running for the Coach of the Year award, which will be announced in December at the Broncos vs. Chiefs game at Sports Authority Field. If he wins that award, Fruita will receive another $2,000 donation.


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Not finding fish? Head to the Gulf
August 9, 2013
As I poled along searching for a flash, a fin, a swirl, any sign of life my client fresh from Ontario was struggling to maintain his focus in the sweltering stillness of this early morning inferno....
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2014-15 SCYSL Soccer Registration
The Santa Clara Youth Soccer League provides both Online Registration for:
2014-15 SCYSL Soccer Registration
The Santa Clara Youth Soccer League provides both Online Registration and Walk-up Registration for:
Online Registration Instructions - Cal-North changed their online registration system again, so EVERYONE mustcreate a NEW account.
1) Follow the steps below to Create a New Account.
2) If your son/daughter was registered last year in Cal-North/CYSA, the system will recognize your family members after an account has been created and take you through the registration process.
3) The SCYSL Parent Code of Conduct is now an electronic document to read and agree prior to completing registration. You have the option to print that document.
4) The Cal-North/CYSA Medical Release 1601 Form is a now an electronic document to read and agree prior to completing registration.
5) The "Out of County" registration fee selection = Non-Santa Clara residents.
6) "Playing-Up" - if you would like to request for your child to "play-up" an age group, please submit your request during the registration process. If you child is born between August 1-December 1, and not held back in school, your child will need to "Play-up" 1 year in age to play with classmates who are born before Aug 1st of the same year.
7) "Buddy Request" - complete the buddy request form during registration to submit a request for your child to play on a soccer team with a specific player/adult.
8) New Player Registration Requirement - If your son/daughter is playing in the U11 and older age group, and registering to play in the Santa Clara Youth Soccer League or a Santa Clara Sporting Team for the first time, you are required to finish the two items below to complete registration.
a) upload a player photo (head shot without hat or sunglasses, and file size less then 2MB)
b) upload a copy of your child's birth certificate to complete registration.
* You may go back and complete these steps if you created an account but did not finish registration.
Step 1 - click the "Registration" button to get started.
Step 2 - Click the "Create New Account" button to create a new Affinity Network registration account. Then follow the simple steps to register one or many members of your household. You can always return later to register another player or adult by logging into your account.
Register at Walk-up Registration
Walk-up Registration Location: Maywood Park Building, 3300 Prunridge Avenue, Santa Clara, 95055
- Saturday, May 24th from 4pm-7pm
- Saturday, June 7th from 1pm-4pm
- Download Registration Flyer if you are not using Online Registration
A parent or guardian MUST attend one of these registration dates. It is not necessary for the player to attend. There will be NO DROP-OFF OR MAIL-IN REGISTRATION!
1. COPY of player's BIRTH CERTIFICATE or PASSPORT (we will keep this copy). This copy must be the official recorded document. Hospital and Baptismal certificates ARE NOT acceptable. Birth certificate not required for coaches. Only returning players within the past three years may forego submitting a birth certificate. However, one may be requested later if the Registrar cannot verify the information.
2. Current PHOTO to be used for player passes. PHOTO HEADSHOT MUST BE APPROXIMATELY 1 inch x 1.5 inches! Larger photos, Polaroid, poor quality printed, or any previously laminated pictures will be rejected. The player must NOT be wearing any type of hat, scarf or sunglasses. Only players in our U10 and younger groups may forgo submitting a picture.
3. FEES: Fees for recreational players include: Registration, uniform shirt, shorts and socks, trophy and picture package. Any registration completed after June 9th will be assessed a $20 late fee. Also, a $40.00 refundable Volunteer Participation Fee will be collected from each family. Persons submitting a coach's application at the time of registration are exempt from this volunteer fee. See our web page for further details and volunteer opportunities.
Age Groups
Fees for Santa Clara Residents
All Other Players
Volunteer Fee Per Family
Under 5 & 6
Under 7 & up
Refer to the Age Group Chart if you are unsure which age group to register your child.
New Player Registration Requirement
If your son/daughter is Under 12 and registering to play in the Santa Clara Youth Soccer League or for a Santa Clara Sporting Team for the first time, you are required to upload a copy of your child's birth certificate to complete registration.
Save $40 and Volunteer in the League
The league is looking for some volunteers to work at the Walk-Up Registration Events. By working just one of the 4-hour shifts your $40 Volunteer Participation Program (VPP) fee will be waived. If you are interested or would like to forward this to any friends please let me know. Volunteers are needed to arrive 45 minutes prior for training, and 15 minutes after for stragglers and to help clean-up. Let me know which date works for you if you plan to volunteer.
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Bonifay- Organizers said there were at least 300, and up to 500, in Bonifay this weekend- and that was just counting the horses. City officials didn't know how many people were in town, they were just glad they came.
People from across the country have been filing in for the fun. Bonifay Mayor, Lawrence Cloud said the three day event was not only a long standing tradition, but also good for the economy."
"Motels benefit from it, restaurants benefit from it, even I benefit from it in the parts business" said Cloud. "It just helps everybody- drug stores, everybody benefits from it. Everybody in town."
Sheetal Patel's family owns the Economy Lodge in Bonifay. She said they were just a few rooms shy of being booked. "Every year for rodeo we get packed- every year."
Those who brought their own accommodations parked at the rodeo arena. Cloud explained the city prepared the area for campers. "They've got electricity there for them and they bring their campers, and their tents and their horses. They stay all week" he said.
Which meant, not only would the campers need to eat, so would their faithful steeds."For the farm stores and the feed stores, places like that- it is a big boost [financially]" Cloud told us.
"If you have to wait in line a little longer at the local store then that's OK" said Bonifay native, Sunny Tinsley. "We try to find out where everyone is from. It's definitely an outside source of income that comes from others."
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After weeks of heated campaigning, only one Republican was left standing Tuesday night to continue on in the race for the District 19 seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Curt Clawson earned 38.25 percent of the votes in the special primary election, with ballots cast in Collier County and Lee County. Lizbeth Benacquisto and Paige Kreegel pulled up a close second and third with 25.68 percent and 25.30 percent, respectively. Michael John Dreikorn took 10.77 percent.
In Lee, 50,082 out of the 150,068 registered voters turned out - about 33 percent.
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Candidate Curt Clawson, left, talks with a supporter Tuesday night at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point in Bonita.
Within Collier, 20,257 of the 54,140 voters within the district cast a ballot, or approximately 37 percent.
The special primary election was only open to voters registered as Republican.
Kreegel congratulated Clawson on the win in a prepared statement.
"This was a very competitive race," he said. "The voters of District 19 have spoken, and I'm hopeful that, when elected, he will closely consider the values of Southwest Florida with every vote he casts."
On Tuesday night, Clawson spoke about the need to unite Southwest Florida.
"All is forgiven," he said. "I want you on the team."
Clawson explained why he is running for the House seat.
"I got into this race because I felt like we needed more outsiders in Congress," he said. "The career politicians aren't getting the job done, and I don't see a whole lot of people in Washington with the experience as a CEO in making the tough decisions to save our country."
He touched on the Economic Growth Plan and former U.S. Rep. Connie Mack's Penny Plan.
"We need to cut spending in addition to economic growth," Clawson said. "And I will continue to promote the Penny Plan in Washington and across the country."
Dreikorn also offered his congratulations Tuesday night, but set his sights on the near future.
"We have another campaign that starts tomorrow for the August primary," he said, confirming that he would run again for the seat at that time. "We've already collected some signatures."
The District 19 seat was vacated by former U.S. Rep. Trey Radel after he resigned following his arrest for the possession of cocaine. The current term for the vacated seat runs out at the end of the year.
"When this thing started, I was the one that was fed up and decided to do something," Dreikorn said, explaining that he had little funding and had to start from scratch through building trust.
"I'm no longer the anonymous guy standing up," he said. "Most people have heard my name now."
Asked about the primary election results, Dreikorn pointed to the voter turnout.
"We have to look at the low voter turnout. It's abysmal," he said. "Voting is important, that's the only power that we as citizens have."
Benacquisto did not return messages Tuesday night seeking comment.
Clawson will move on to the special general election on June 24. He will face Democrat April Freeman, Libertarian Ray Netherwood and Timothy J. Rossano, a non-partisan write-in candidate.
Election results are not official until certified by the supervisors of elections.


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Director of Track and Field / Cross Country Michelle Eisenreich announced Tuesday that Marc Mangiacotti has been promoted to Associate Head Coach of Track and Field.
"Coach Mangiacotti has done an outstanding job and seen tremendous results with the sprints and hurdles group in his short time at Brown," said Eisenreich. "I'm very pleased to announce his promotion. This new title reflects the many assets Marc brings to our program: outstanding work with athletes, significant recruiting success, and superlative administrative abilities and work ethic. I am excited about the future of Brown Track and Field."
Mangiacotti's brief tenure at Brown has been highly eventful. Last spring, he coached freshman John Spooney to double Heptagonal championships in the 100m and 200m. His men's 4x400m relay team also broke a 31-year-old school indoor record. Coaching both men's and women's sprints and hurdles, Mangiacotti's event groups were key contributors to strong Brown teams that finished 3rd at the 2011 Heptagonals.
On the recruiting front, Mangiacotti is bringing in the most accomplished sprints and hurdles recruiting class that Brown has seen in years.
"I'm excited to be named Associate Head Coach, "said Mangiacotti. "In this new role, I look forward to continuing to help build our program towards further success at the conference and national levels. We have an outstanding staff in place and I'm confident that the future is very bright at Brown."
Prior to coming to Brown, Coach Mangiacotti coached at Wheaton College, where his athletes garnered eight Div. III NCAA National Championships and earned 53 All-America accolades. The men's 4 x 100m and 4 x 400m relays were the 2010 DIII National Champions, and his athletes established 31 school record performances in the sprints, hurdles, and relay events. In 2008, Mangiacotti was voted the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division III national and regional women's assistant coach of the year.
Mangiacotti also coached for five years at the University of Houston., where he was mentored by legendary coaches Mike Takaha and Tom Tellez. Mangiacotti began his coaching career at Bridgewater State College.
A 1998 graduate of Bridgewater State, Mangiacotti earned a dual bachelor's degree in elementary and physical education.


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|Menomonee Falls, Wis.
|High School:
|Catholic Memorial
US National Team member and FC Gold Pride player Leslie Osborne
returns to her alma mater as an assistant coach under her former
head coach Jerry Smith and his coaching staff.
AS A SENIOR IN 2004: The 2004 Honda Award winner... named a semifinalist for the 2004 Missouri Athletic Club's Hermann Trophy... also a finalist for Soccer Buzz's Player of the Year... an NSCAA and Soccer Buzz First-Team All-American... a Soccer Buzz, Soccer America and CSTV preseason All-American... a Soccer Buzz and NSCAA/adidas first team All-West Region honoree... the WCC Defender of the Year... a first-team All-WCC selection... named to the College Cup All-Tournament Team... named Player of the Year and Most Inspirational by teammates... started all 25 contests as a holding midfielder... one of three players who started every match... posted nine goals and one assist for 19 points... ranked third in the WCC for goals scored and ninth in points... converted all three penalty kick attempts and led the team with six game-winning goals, ranked second best in the league... scored at Cal Poly early in the second half to tie game... finished the night with five shots on goal... earned All-Tournament honors at Notre Dame Classic... scored game-winner in double overtime against SMU and followed with a goal and an assist against Notre Dame... finished weekend with six shots on goal... earned All-Tournament honors at Rutgers Classic... converted penalty kicks against Yale and CS Fullerton to record game-winning goals in both contests at the Stanford Nike Classic... named the WCC's Player of the Week for Sept. 20 for those efforts... also earned Soccer Buzz Elite Team of the Week honors... added All-Tournament honors at the SCU adidas Classic... converted penalty kick in seventh minute against California... injured right ankle late in match vs. California... has torn two ligaments and is scheduled to undergo surgery Dec. 14... posted fourth game-winner against San Jose State in the eighth minute... opened the NCAA Tournament with the game-winner against Cal in the 53rd minute... headed in a goal off a set piece... headed in second goal of tournament in quarterfinal against Illinois.
AS A JUNIOR IN 2003: An MVP by Soccer America, a second team All-America Soccer Buzz selection and a first team CSTV All-America honoree... named to the Soccer Buzz West Region first team...the West Coast Conference Player of the Year... marked the sixth time in the last seven years that the honor has been received by a Bronco... also named to All-WCC first team, becoming only 10th player in the league to earn the honor three times... a team captain... named a preseason All-America candidate by Soccer America and Soccer Buzz magazines... named to the Virginia Nike Soccer Classic and SCU adidas Classic All-Tournament Teams... honored by teammates as the squad's Player of the Year and Offensive MVP... one of three players that started all 24 contests... played mostly at holding midfielder, but also saw time at forward.. netted11 goals and six assists for a team-leading 28 points... had stitches on right temple for first two matches after a collision in practice... earned an assist at San Jose State... posted a goal and two assists against Pacific, including the game-winner... posted four shots against Penn State, including one in overtime that almost scored... scored two goals and netted one assist against Georgia... scored twice at CS Fullerton... earned first career hat trick against No. 7 Pepperdine... two of the goals were converted penalty kicks... named the WCC Player of the Week and a spot on the Soccer America Team of the Week for October 20 for those performances... netted a goal and an assist at San Francisco... scored in the 24th minute against Portland, becoming only the second opponent to notch a first-half goal against the Pilots... marked the 100th point of her career... netted a goal and an assist to close the regular season at Gonzaga to secure team's third straight WCC crown... moved to attacking midfielder in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Stanford... made the team's first PK in a shoot-out against Portland in the NCAA Third Round.
AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2002: A second-team NSCAA All-West Region honoree... earned second team All-West Region honors from Soccer Buzz... a first-team All-WCC selection... named SCU's Offensive MVP... missed the match against Stanford while with the U.S. U19 National Team, winning the first-ever FIFA U19 World Championship in Canada... did not miss a minute on the field since, starting and playing all 90 minutes of the 25 matches since returning... played all field positions... had a hand in all four goals against Oklahoma, scoring twice and netting one assist... started the drive that scored the second Bronco goal... named the WCC Player of the Week for those efforts... repeated conference honor the following week while also being named to the adidas Classic All-tournament team... scored both goals against Tennessee... scored two goals against San Diego to open the WCC season... also marked her third multi-goal game of the season... finished with 11 goals and 10 assists for a team-leading 32 points... added the game-winner against San Jose State... scored twice and added two assists against Gonzaga... earned player of the week honors from the league for the third time this season... added a goal and an assist in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament... added the equalizer against Arizona State in the second round.
AS A FRESHMAN IN 2001: Named to Soccer America's All-Freshmen team and is a Soccer Buzz freshman second team All-American... a second-team NSCAA and Soccer Buzz All-West Region Team member... also a Soccer Buzz West Regional All-Freshman Team honoree... earned first-team All-WCC honors... named to the College Cup All-Tournament Team... honored as SCU's Rookie of the Year... registered first collegiate assist against Cal Poly in the team's season opener, passing to fellow freshman Bree Horvath... beat the keeper and three defenders against San Jose State for her first collegiate goal... scored goals in three straight games, against Cal, Dayton and SMU, on the same play: a header off a corner kick from Aly Wagner... posted one goal and two assists en route to all-adidas Classic honors... scored the program's sixth fastest goal all-time against Fresno State, heading in a ball just 37 seconds into the contest... added three goals and three assists against USF and Gonzaga en route to earning WCC Player of the Week, while also being named to Soccer Buzz and Soccer America Elite team of the week... added two goals and an assist against Colorado College... was one of two freshmen that started all 25 contests... finished second on the team in points, with 43 on 13 goals and 17 assists... added one goal and two assists in the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament... scored the Broncos second goal against Florida and assisted on the game-winner in the Championship match against North Carolina... ranked third in the WCC in points (43), third in goals (13) and second in assists (17).
NATIONAL TEAM EXPERIENCE: Is currently a member of the U.S. National Team, and has been a part of the National Team programs for the last five years... received first call-up to the full National Team in July 2003 for training in Louisiana, in preparation for a match against Brazil ... made final roster but did not receive playing time... a finalist for U.S. Soccer's 2003 Chevrolet Young Female Athlete of the Year... a starter on the U21 team that won the 2003 Nordic Cup in Denmark... has eight caps with the U.S. U21 Team... ... scored a goal against England and Australia at the first-ever FIFA Under-19 Women's World Championship... played a part in the golden goal that beat Canada in the title game, slipping the pass behind the defense, starting the movement that led to the goal... helped the U.S. capture a berth in the World Championship as a starter at the 2002 CONCACAF Qualifying Tournament in Tobago, with wins over Suriname, Haiti and Costa Rica... registered one goal and three assists against Suriname... did not play against Coast Rica after suffering a mild concussion against Haiti... scored against Jamaica in a tune-up for CONCACAF... participated with the U19 team for two matches vs. Canada during the 2001 summer... finished U19 career with 21 caps and four goals... competed with the U18 U.S. National Team at the 2001 adidas Cup in Houston... scored one goal in the championship game.
HIGH SCHOOL: Played for head coach John Burke at Catholic Memorial High School in Waukesha, Wis... earned Parade and NSCAA All-American honors as a senior... also named the Wisconsin Gatorade Player of the Year, and was named the Wisconsin Player of the Year as a sophomore and senior... led Catholic Memorial to a No. 1 national ranking as two state championships... recorded 97 goals and 79 assists while leading her prep squad to a 83-5-6 record... played club for the FC Milwaukee Nationals.
PERSONAL: Full name is Leslie Marie Osborne... born May 27, 1983 in Milwaukee, Wis... daughter of John and Catherine Osborne... sister Danielle plays soccer for Whitewater, a Division III school in Wisconsin... major is communications.
Osborne's Career Statistics
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Osborne's Career Honors
WCC Player of the Year, 2003
All-WCC First Team, 2003
WCC Player of the Week 10/20/03
Soccer America Team of the Week 10/20/03
Soccer America Preseason All-America, 2003
Soccer Buzz Preseason All-America, 2003
adidas Classic All-Tournament Team, 2003
Virginia Classic All-Tournament Team, 2003
NSCAA All-West Region Second Team, 2002
All-WCC First Team, 2002
WCC Player of the Week 9/23/02, 2002
WCC Player of the Week 9/30/02, 2002
WCC Player of the Week 11/12/02, 2002
SCU adidas Classic All-Tournament Team, 2002
SCU MVP Offense, 2002
Soccer America's All-Freshmen Team, 2001
NSCAA Second Team All-West Region, 2001
Soccer Buzz Second Team All-West Region, 2001
Soccer Buzz Freshmen Second Team All-America, 2001
Soccer Buzz West Region All-Freshmen Team, 2001
First Team All-WCC, 2001
College Cup All-Tournament Team, 2001
SCU Rookie of the Year, 2001
adidas Classic All-Tournament Team, 2001
WCC Player of the Week 10/16/01
Soccer America's Elite Team of the Week 10/16/01
Soccer Buzz Elite Team of the Week 10/16/01


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@ llli*petersmommyjessi
my 4 mos old girl start STTN at 2 mos. i had a very bad issue before, she was a good sleeper from birth til 2 weeks. i changed her diaper without waking, she just suck her hands but no cry when she's hungry. but when we transfer to another apartment when she was 2 weeks old, her sleep pattern was chnaged. at first we thought she just find strange to the new environment but we were absolutely wrong. she wanted us to play with her at night, cried aloud when we close the lights. she wanted to nurse often though she's full until she vomits.there are even times when she doesn't want to stay at our room, she want in the kitchen. at age 2 months i search it on internet, even post here and one mom told me to establish a night pattern. i did try it- night bath, i read book for her( she likes it when i read Bible aloud), nurse and pacifier instead of nursing often and end up vomitting. it was not so easy, she still wakes up when i put her to bed though we co-sleep.until i discover that holding her on my arms and we sleep both is comfortable for her. that's how i establish a night pattern,at 3 mos she STTN 5 hrs stretch sucks her hands when hungry but eyes are close which is a sign for me to nurse her and we fall back to sleep i just let her latch as long as she wants.


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Exclusive Discounted Tickets Available Online Now for Cirque Club Members
Tickets for General Public On Sale from September 7
September 4, 2012: After 20 years performing around the world, Saltimbanco will make its final curtain call in December in Montreal, Canada, the international home of Cirque du Soleil. From October 25 - 27, 2012, Reading will have its final opportunity to experience this classic and colorful Cirque du Soleil production that has performed in more than 45 countries. Saltimbanco will be presented at the Sovereign Center for four performances only.
Advance tickets for Saltimbanco are available now online exclusively to Cirque Club members through September 6. Cirque Club membership is free and benefits includes access to advance tickets, special offers and exclusive behind the scenes information. To join, go to www.cirqueclub.com.
Tickets for the general public will be available starting September 7 at www.cirquedusoleil.com/saltimbanco or by calling 1-800-745-3000.
Saltimbanco is Cirque du Soleil's longest-running touring show and has performed since 1992 to wide-spread acclaim to sell-out audiences in Europe, North and South America, Australia, Japan, and New Zealand for more than 11.5 million enthusiastic fans.
Classic Cirque du Soleil at its best, Saltimbanco is a thrilling and kaleidoscopic celebration of awe inspiring artistry and agility. With a cast of 50 high-caliber artists hailing from 20 different countries, Saltimbanco features breathtaking acrobatics and unbelievable athleticism during solo spotlights and epic ensembles. From the seemingly impossible balancing, jumping and spinning during the Chinese Poles or the Russian Swing to the gravity-defying Bungees and Trapeze, the crowd pleasing Juggling and Acrobatic Bicycle, to the celebrated and very unique Clowns. Technical expertise and extravagant design are woven together by uplifting spectacular costumes, amazing lighting, humor and enchanting music and magic. Full of colour, amusement and amazement, Saltimbanco is a fun show for the whole family to enjoy.
Saltimbanco —from the Italian "saltare in banco," which literally means "to jump on a bench"—explores the urban experience in all its myriad forms: the people who live there, their idiosyncrasies and likenesses, families and groups, the hustle and bustle of the street and the towering heights of skyscrapers. A signature show, it is inspired by the urban fabric of the metropolis and its colourful inhabitants. Decidedly baroque in its visual vocabulary, the show's eclectic cast of characters draws spectators into a fanciful, dreamlike world, an imaginary city where diversity is a cause for hope.
Praise for Saltimbanco:
"Gracefully athletic theatre" - The London Times
"Human exuberance and physicality" - Variety Magazine (USA)
"Myth meets magic…An unearthly mixture of commedia dell'arte and rock-concert razzle" - The New York Times
Show Schedule (October 25 - 27, 2012):
• Thursday, October 25 at 7:30pm
• Friday, October 26 at 7:30pm
• Saturday, October 27 at 3:30pm and 7:30pm
Ticket Information (Categories 1, 2, 3):
• Adults: From $30 to $65
• Children (12 & under): From $24 to $53
• Military, Seniors & Students: From $27 to $54
Through September 6 only, special discounts on tickets in Category 1, 2 and 3 are available online to Cirque Club members. Join now at www.cirqueclub.com.
A limited number of Premium tickets are also available for all performances.
For show and ticket information, please visit www.cirquedusoleil.com/saltimbanco.
About Cirque du Soleil:
From a group of 20 street performers at its beginnings in 1984, Cirque du Soleil is a major Québec-based organization providing high-quality artistic entertainment. The company has 5,000 employees, including more than 1,300 artists from more than 50 different countries.
Cirque du Soleil has brought wonder and delight to more than 100 million spectators in more than 300 cities in over forty countries on six continents. Cirque du Soleil International Headquarters are in Montreal, Canada. For more information about Cirque du Soleil, visit www.cirquedusoleil.com.
Jennifer Dietz
Jennifer Dietz Public Relations


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LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, GA. — Celebrate St. Patrick's Day in greenified style at Shamrock City, Saturday and Sunday March 16th, 17th, 23rd and 24th! Rock City hosts this 6th annual Irish festival with Irish food, drinks, bands, Jig lessons, activities for kids and much more!
Find the luck of the Irish where all you see is green! Wear your favorite green gear and come see the green waterfall cascade down Lookout Mountain! Watch how our green fudge is made during the all new fudge demonstrations in our famous Fudge Kitchen! Also new this year is Rocky's Haus! Visit Rocky in his new home along the Enchanted Trail.
Make sure to get decked out with Lucky Clover Makeovers on your visit, and enjoy green kettle corn and green peppermint lattes or frappuccinos from Starbucks. Take your picture with a costume character or the Easter Bunny, eat some Mulligan Stew, pan for gold and journey with the kids on a Shamrock Quest. Or venture to the Climbing Wall and "kiss the Blarney Stone"!
Shamrock City has been declared a Top 20 Event by Southeast Tourism Society for the past four years! Go to www.seerockcity.com/shamrockcity
Shamrock City is once again participating in the Shamrocks for Dystrophy Program in partnership with the Chattanooga district of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). Guests have already started purchasing green shamrocks for $1 and gold shamrocks for $5. This opportunity continues through the last weekend of the event and helps supply needed funds to aid local families with MD.
Rock City strives to serve as a leading cultural entertainment innovator. By partnering with local artisans, along with the growing festival and event calendar at the attraction, Rock City Gardens provides high level quality and variety to the hundreds of thousands of guests annually.
Located only six miles from downtown Chattanooga, Tenn., Rock City is a 14-acre natural and scenic attraction with unique rock formations and gardens atop Lookout Mountain.


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The La. 1 Coalition is pleased to report that the state of Louisiana is moving forward with final design and specifications for the 8.3-mile elevated highway from Golden Meadow to Leeville.
The La. 1 Coalition is pleased to report that the state of Louisiana is moving forward with final design and specifications for the 8.3-mile elevated highway from Golden Meadow to Leeville.
That is encouraging news after many of us saw press reports of the vast damage struck by Hurricane Isaac to sections of the old, at-grade La. 1.
The majority of that damage happened on La. 1 south of Port Fourchon on the road to our cherished barrier island of Grand Isle.
The vast washing out of an entire lane for large areas was stunning.
For me, Hurricane Isaac brought a realization as to how vulnerable we are from even the mildest of hurricanes.
Economically, our state and nation need to take note there was some significant shoulder washout of La. 1 north of Leeville.
Think about this: Had Hurricane Isaac delayed its already-slow landfall in and around lower Jefferson, Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, our region, state and nation could be suffering the projected massive economic impacts which a federal study projected last year in looking at the vulnerability and potential washout of La. 1 in between Golden Meadow and Leeville.
I say massive because those impacts could be upward of $7.8 billion dollars, with the majority of it suffered in Lafourche and surrounding parishes.
For the sustainability of the 2,000-plus jobs at Port Fourchon, for the economic security of our regional economy as the base supporting 90 percent of outer continental shelf activities right out of Port Fourchon, it is critical that our state make steady progress in completing this 19-mile elevated structure.
Over half of the span is built.
To fully realize the benefits of the investment to date, the next segment tying in the new Tomey Doucet Bridge at Leeville to the levee-protected four-lane highway in Golden Meadow must be completed.
I feel hopeful for several reasons that we will get this done.
There are funding sources forthcoming that will finally be able to provide significant monies to the needed large-scale restoration projects and infrastructure projects like La. 1 and the Morganza-to-the-Gulf hurricane-protection system; Restore Act money and OCS revenue-sharing money are two of these sources.
Utilizing this money in part on the critical infrastructure needs we have alongside the prioritized restoration projects in the state's Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast provides a road map to achieve the sustainability measures we need to live, work and preserve some sense of community in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.
While it is true that those funding measures are not real immediate for 2012, they are indeed imbedded in federal law now, and we must look ahead positively at that.
As our region makes continued progress on all of our coastal challenges, I would like to offer a sincere thank you to the Greater Lafourche Port Commission, the South Lafourche Levee District, the Lafourche Parish Council, the state of Louisiana with all involved departments, our federal agency partners and the business community, who have collectively been vital in achieving a $370 million investment in improved La. 1 to date.
The LA 1 Coalition pledges to continue to keep you informed about the progress of our highway improvement efforts, and we invite you to take a ride on the beautiful new highway rising from the marsh south of Leeville now that it is open.
Henri Boulet is executive director of the La. 1 Coalition.


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67 WALL STREET, New York - March 22, 2013 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Oil & Gas: Master Limited Partnerships Report offering a timely review of the sector to serious investors and industry executives. This special feature contains expert industry commentary through in-depth interviews with public company CEOs and Equity Analysts. The full issue is available by calling (212) 952-7433 or via The Wall Street Transcript Online.
Topics covered: Increasing Demand for Midstream Assets - U.S. Energy Infrastructure Build Out - Emerging Shale Plays - Oil and Gas Transportation Infrastructure Demand - Master Limited Partnerships Distribution Growth - Outlook for Natural Gas Liquids - Low Treasury Yields and MLP Dividends
Companies include: SandRidge Energy, Inc. (SD), Plains All American Pipeline L (PAA), Breitburn Energy Partners LP (BBEP), Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, L (BWP), Enbridge Energy Partners LP (EEP), Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP) and many more.
In the following excerpt from the Oil & Gas: Master Limited Partnerships Report, an expert analyst discusses the outlook for the sector for investors:
TWST: Were there any other themes or trends that stick out for you?
Mr. Katzenberg: The one other theme of note was the expansion of rail capacity. I know with MLPs most people think pipeline, but a lot of these MLPs have been building out rail capacity over the last couple of years.
Initially when this started, it was viewed as a short-term answer to the big increase in volumes that were coming on in all these shale plays. However, over this fourth-quarter conference call season, what stood out was that a lot of these companies are looking at rail as being a longer-term option, and something that we'll continue to see over the next 10 years.
That was a surprise to me and to a lot of the investors I've spoken with. The obvious reason for it is that instead of having to sign long-term contracts with a pipeline, the producers can enter into short-term contracts and move their crude to whatever regions are price advantaged. So we're seeing companies like Enbridge (EEP); Plains I mentioned made an acquisition recently; and Kinder (KMP) focus more on the upside from these rail projects.
TWST: You mentioned the large backlog of organic projects. How much M&A activity do you expect this year?
Mr. Katzenberg: With respect to the midstream companies, I really do not expect to see that much M&A. I think, because of the organic growth opportunities, there's not a need to go out and buy other companies, so I don't expect to see much on that side.
I think the one area where you may see it is if there is a new region or a new basin that a company is interested in moving into. The Marcellus and Utica shales on the East Coast come to mind; a lot of companies talk about how they wish they had...
For more of this interview and many others visit the Wall Street Transcript - a unique service for investors and industry researchers - providing fresh commentary and insight through verbatim interviews with CEOs, portfolio managers and research analysts. This special issue is available by calling (212) 952-7433 or via The Wall Street Transcript Online.


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betiko wrote:Swifte wrote:Looks like there are 21 games active... (aka, games standing between the awesome people and their medals ).
Active Official Olympic Games
seems like 14 left now.
I bet we will get our olympic medal before the wack a mod one, as these ones all have round limits!
2 games left here and just 1 wack a mod! we will definitely get our olympic medal before the wack one!