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Mobile computing is the future -- just ignore the battery life.
The latest Intel chip will help considerably with x86 battery life.
It is strange he talks about things being "integrated" when they've announced SEPARATE x86 and ARM tablets. And neither is binary compatible with their gaming platform (PPC).
Except for Intel probably costing more, why should they need ARM at all? If Intel is now viable for mobile, it would have made more sense to switch the phone to Intel.
Their eco-system is incredibly fragmented.
The gaming thing is very deliberately a separate device designed to be a simplified streamlined experience. I'm sort of surprised they aren't doing a 'Windows Xbox' that's actually a fixed spec 86 PC that will then be guaranteed to play particular games.
The ARM thing doesn't seem to make any sense other than to try and coax Intel into believing there is some serious competition from a different direction than AMD, and hoping they'll innovate (or at least use their fabs to overpower ARM).
Seriously what COULD the man say "Hey Ballmer is a dumbass but I'm not running the show anymore, sorry?" because if the guy honestly thinks the millions of people that use Windows for something other than tweeting twitting FB shitting social crap is gonna want their desktops to feel like giant smartphones he is seriously fricking stoned! Can you imagine trying to do photoshop, quickbooks, solidworks in that damned social tweety metro crap UI? Hell even MS Office isn't going metro!
What he doesn't want to admit is what we retailers have known for years, that PCs passed "good enough" at dual cores and when quads, not to mention hexa and Octocores became affordable it went straight to insanely overpowered. The truth of the matter is even businesses don't replace units until they fail simply because, unlike the MHz wars when a 2 year old desktop would struggle to run the latest software, there just isn't a "killer app" that can stress the insane amount of power the average user has. Hell even bottom of the line netbooks like the E350 EEE I have can play L4D and Crysis, its just crazy how much power we have with X86 right now.
Whether old Bill likes it or not wintel is a mature market and nobody wants WOA so he is just gonna have to suck it up and accept his fate. PCs will still be sold by the millions, they simply won't be bought by most until their last one dies. Their retarded Win 8 strategy is gonna bomb HARD because this is what I have been seeing at the shop [youtube.com] only with more frustration and cursing. originally i thought they were going for the teener/tweener crowd but those that played with it in the shop said "I already HAVE a cell phone, this is lame" so if that's the market he's going for it a failwhale.
Accept it Bill, MSFT will NEVER be king of the hill again. You left the sweaty monkey in charge, who sat on his ass until mobile passed you by, now you have nothing to offer that folks can't get better from Google and Apple. Maybe after Win 8 goes over like a turd in a punchbowl he'll get the clue and get Ballmer to split off the mobile division because frankly that is the only chance they have at mobile, just cut them loose from the Windows name and X86 legacy and hope they can carve a niche like the X360.
Because if Bill honestly thinks the public is gonna accept some giant icon, touch UI designed flip screening mess on their non touch desktops and laptops I have a magic bean factory he might be interested in, only $20 million Billy!
> there just isn't a "killer app" that can stress the insane amount of power the average user has
Sure there is. There's Plex, AirPlay, and Handbrake.
These are the things you use when you have to accomodate the pisspoor performance of an ARM tablet. I am using one of these tools right now to transfer some TV recordings to a mobile device.
People don't realize just how pathetic ARM is, or they try to shout you down when you bring it up. ARM is like going back to the 90s and that's before people thought "it
Mobile computing is the future
You say that like it's a bad thing.
It's not. You just gotta look at it right.
First, the rise of tablets and the decline of the traditional PC will if not kill Microsoft, at least knock it down to a shadow of its former self. They exist solely because of their monopoly in Windows, and Windows is rapidly becoming irrelevant.
Second, it's a Star Trek future! Your mobile device will fit in a shirt pocket. It will be able to feed you information through a glasses or even contact-lens HUD. When you need to enter a lot of information or use a large display, it will talk wirelessly to a keyboard and monitor... all from your shirt pocket! Voice commands will also improve beyond where Siri is now.
The very near future beings shirt-pocket computing more powerful than Star Trek tricorders and communicators. It frees us all from being bound to one spot in order to compute and game and browse.
The future is bright. Don't sound so glum bro! It's a true integration of computing and life, in a way we've never seen before. The next 10 years during this transition will be exciting indeed.
The very near future beings shirt-pocket computing more powerful than Star Trek tricorders and communicators. It frees us all from being bound to one spot in order to compute and game and browse.
One thing I don't see very often on shirt-pocket computers is a keyboard for entering large amounts of text or a gamepad for controlling a video game character. A completely flat touch screen is no substitute, as Intellivision II owners learned in 1983 [wikipedia.org].
One thing I don't see very often on shirt-pocket computers is a keyboard for entering large amounts of text or a gamepad for controlling a video game character.
One thing you often see on shirt-pocket computers is bluetooth.
One thing I don't see very often on shirt-pocket computers is a keyboard for entering large amounts of text or a gamepad for controlling a video game character.
One thing you often see on shirt-pocket computers is bluetooth.
Sweet, battery vendors will be making a killing.
It's all part of the game to KILL PC's. Everyone wants part of the action of devices locked to a captive audience. Metro, Markets... no thanks. I'll retain control of my own devices. If anyone ever creates a tablet device that I don't have to hack to make it mine, then I'll buy into the hype. I just wish more people understood what they are losing with these types of devices.
The first generation GSM phones also lasted barely a day (and being a phone, for them battery life was even more critical than for tablets/laptops).
Later generations lasted for weeks - and subsequently battery life disappeared from advertising. Now current-generation smartphones take a serious step back on those battery lives, it's still generally good enough to not be an issue.
Tablets and laptops now have the battery life issue, but there are plenty of devices already on the market that advertise to last 8-12 hour on battery power alone. Even if in practice it's 6-8 hours, it means we're getting close to full day battery life (12-16 hours is enough for most purposes).
The display is the biggest obstacle; we need a fast-refreshing reflective colour screen, doing away with the backlight saves heaps of power.
I don't see Apple shoving a grand unified UI down the throats of its tablet, laptop, and desktop users. And I don't see Apple users complaining or getting confused by tablet gestures vs keyboard/mouse operations.
How about we just standardize on the iPod? Put one wheel on the front of everything and be done with it.
I don't see Apple shoving a grand unified UI down the throats of its tablet, laptop, and desktop users.
Really? Every time they update OSX it becomes more like iOS.
Can't see that.
They port individual features across the OSes, true. But I've owned iPhones ever since the original iPhone 2007, that's almost 5 years now. My desktop OS X experience hasn't changed all that much. A few features, yes. A few changes to common apps such as address book and iCal, not all of them I applaud. Launchpad is new, but I never use it (Alfred does a better job on an iMac) and it's not forced on you in the least.
In fact, the main common feature seems to be that the Mac has an App Store to
Really? Every time they update OSX it becomes more like iOS.
They are pulling over individual features that (mostly) make sense on laptops with small-ish screens and large, multitouch trackpads, plus some cosmetic/layout changes that are not really tablet specific. Most of these features can either be ignored or turned off in Preferences.
What they're not doing - unlike Microsoft and some Linux distros - is forcing everybody to use the iOS "desktop" with the traditional desktop a second-class citizen. Yes, they've added "launchpad" and "Full Screen" mode (which would be better described as "tablet mode") but you can just ignore them if you have a huge monitor. On an 11" Air, they make sense.
Plus, Macs are uniquely set up for using gesture-based interfaces - all their laptops have, for some time, featured the biggest, nicest trackpads in the busines (the first time I've not felt the need to carry a mouse around) and, for the desktop, there is the Magic Trackpad (which, provided you turn on the three-fingers-to-drag option, I find excellent for everything short of gaming and graphics work).
I don't see Apple shoving a grand unified UI down the throats of its tablet, laptop, and desktop users.
Some Apple Mac applications are being switched to the iOS version (like the Airport utility) and previously iOS only applications are being added to Mac OS (like iMessage in Mountain Lion). The direction is there, but not yet a unified UI.
And I don't see Apple users complaining or getting confused by tablet gestures vs keyboard/mouse operations.
With the magic pad and mouse, Mac users already are familiar with gestures on a desktop OS.
With the magic pad and mouse, Mac users already are familiar with gestures on a desktop OS.
Yes, we are. And it's taking something that works pretty well on a tablet, and trying to port it over to a larger device. Some times it works, others, not so much. My Magic mouse has features that are kind of cool, but some, like the swipe between pages can be very frustrating, and have to be turned off
But it's a weird sort of logic that some people think that what works and looks good on a 4 inch screen is going to be the same as what looks good on a large monitor. For years, computer people have fixated on a monocultural universe. And I dare say it is mostly the Windows people - no insult intended there, but as the largest user base, it's not surprising they think that way. But here we have Gates saying in essence, "Fuck you and how you think it should run! We say it is going to be like this and you will use it!
I love my pad, and I love my desktop and laptops too. But I sure as anything do not want the Pad and the other devices to have the same look and feel.
And I feel strongly enough about it that Windows 8 will not be on any of my computers. The Preview edition was enough to tell me that.
My parents have a Magic Mouse, and it's kind of nice. Most of the features are turned off, so it's hard to say how great it is.
But when I got a new iMac at work last year I asked for a Magic Trackpad, and I think it's amazing. I don't think it would work well for running Photoshop, but for non-image work it's great. Over the last few years I've gotten so used to using the gestures on my MacBook Pro to go forward/back in Safari, trigger Expose, and show the desktop. I use the forward/back gesture constantly.
Being able to do that on my desktop has been such an improvement. When I'm surfing I don't need to reposition the mouse to click on the back button, I can just swipe. When I want to change programs I can just swipe and then click on the window I want. It really is nice.
Some people browse the web on iPads now. This is approximately the only piece of evidence I've seen that the PC is "dying".
We all still have a PC in our office to do real work. People write code, write papers, design things, run simulations, SSH into servers, work with complicated spreadsheets and databases, run custom software applications, etc. When there's any sign at all that most of that work is moving onto tablets, then it'll be reasonable to start saying the PC is dying.
The basic problem is that the screwheads in sales and marketing are looking at Apple's sales figures for iPads and comparing them to their own PC sales. But they're not realizing that tablets are a new market, or they think that they can tap that market by making the PC more like a tablet.
The basic issue is this:
1. Everybody who wants a computer and can afford a computer already has a computer. Additionally, computers have been Good Enough(TM) for about the past 5 years, so you're only going to sell a new
It's like that time in the 1990s when Bill Gates discovered the Internet several years later than everyone else...
But it's Bill Gates, so some people listen and think he's said something profound!
If the PC is dead [...]
I think this is what you call a figure of speech. It encapsulates in a few words what will probably take a paragraph or more of explanation. Perhaps it's better phrased as "the PC is dying" or more prosaically: "The phenomenal growth in the market for personal computers is levelling off and is expected to go down. It's even possible that the total number of PCs will go down in the near future."
So is the PC dying? What we have are a few indisputable trends. There are now more cellphones in the planet than there are PCs. The percentage of cellphones that can somehow connect to the Net are increasing. Smartphones today are more powerful than the typical desktop from the Windows 95 era, arguably the turning point when the PC migrated from the office to colonize the home market.
The only thing missing for the smartphone to replace the PC is the consistent ability to connect to input-output devices that are taken for granted in the PC world. Support for keyboards and external pointing devices is iffy at best. Support for printers and large monitors is even more dismal. But these issues are being addressed (some of the pricier smartphones now have HDMI output).
Developers and hardcore gamers don't count in the post-PC world. Developers weren't a large breed to begin with. For them the PC will become a niche product, just like mainframes. Hardcore gamers will always have their consoles.
Yes, the tablet is no substitute for a real PC. But superior technology don't always win out. Microsoft should know this better than any other gigantic tech company.
This all comes down to what you define a PC as. If you're talking about the form factor of the hardware that humans don't need to interact with then, sure, maybe it will become the size of a grain of sand one day. However, I think it's a pretty safe bet that if you're talking about a PC as consisting of certain human interface devices (a real keyboard, a real mouse, a good sized monitor), they're *never ever* going to be replaced by a tablet because they're fundamentally more human-ergonomic for many comp
they pry the last one from my cold, dead fingers.
Or nuke me in my bunker. Same diff.
The premise that Metro is a forgone conclusion for the way a tablet/phone experience succeeds is a poor one. The market has not shown that to be true. I figure Win8 is their move to try to force the issue and gain some traction by effectively throwing the desktop market under the bus, since they don't have to worry about losing those to competitors by and large (Vista proved that in relatively modern history).
I've always hated hot corners, and Windows 8 demands they be used a lot. Both in the annoying 'mouse happened to go to a corner of a screen, do something without user 'clicking' anything' and the somewhat more forgiveable hidden UI element to click on and do things. The hotcorners aren't as bad as the 'activities' hot corner of Gnome 3, but I find it a questionable choice, *particularly* in the context of touch interfaces where hot corners don't even have their 'auto-find' aspect that people like so much.
The jarring difference between 'Metro UI' and Desktop applications is unfortunate. It's especially bad where you have two 'Internet Explorers" that behave very differently. OSX full-screen really did this right, the full-screen app management pretty much let's the apps be the same in windowed and fullscreen mode, and just tweak the navigation/task switching.
The search feature is 'hidden' (a common theme in the Metro interface) as there is no visual indication of it's availability. For a keyboard user, I consider this minor, but wonder how it plays in a tablet UI, where typically a text field is a cue for virtual keyboard. More annoying is that the search by default hides all but 'Apps' results, meaning you have to note the non-Apps categories count when searching. Worse yet, that summary will auto-hide, leading you with no UI indication of actual results that you actually want.
All that said, conceptually there is one thing I think is nice about Metro and Gnome 3, the general concept that when you do 'Start' or 'Activities', that the entire screen real estate is dedicated to the action. I kind of prefer Gnome 3's view over the Metro start (the former giving better consideration for task switching rather than just launching).
I get it now. He says the PC is changing. Because he (well, Microsoft) is going to MAKE it change. Change to a locked down environment that can only run Microsoft approved OSes. And do things the Microsoft way. And you are going to like it because they will spend bazillions in marketing dollars making everyone think it is the best thing since sliced bread.
Count me out.
Through it all we persevered. A few of us were preaching separating "GUI from kernel" "event driven code from procedural code". And we pulled extra hours to practice what we preached. Fellow developers from MS world randomly included afxwin.h deep inside non graphical kernel library code to add a one line debug statement, broke the linux builds and threw tantrums when called to fix the offending code, "it is working in Windows, so it can't be my problem. You fix it in Linux". We suffered all these indignities and got our product to build and run in Linux all the time. We no longer have a 3 month delay in releasing linux version.
Now this. Good riddance. Let the windows and its market dominance and its subsidizing the computing platform go chasing the tablets or whatever. Before Wintel monopoly we had 90% revenue fro unix sales, it dropped to 10% at the height, now linux is back up to 40%. If they cram the win-8 interface down the throat or make our software to be sold through appstore or something, our windows version sales will have no place to go but down. Finally sanity will return. We will separate content from presentation. We will separate gui code from non-graphical code. We will separate event driven code from procedure libraries. Vindication at last.
Now this. Good riddance. Let the windows and its market dominance and its subsidizing the computing platform go chasing the tablets or whatever.
I suddenly realized that Microsoft actually has a useful purpose: they keep PC hardware cheap so I can install Linux on it. Maybe we need them just a little while longer.
Dear Apple :
Microsoft believes that the PC is dead.
Would you please go ahead and release your OS for generic hardware?
Or simply release a mid-tower box. Good enough for me.
Signed : A Lover of PCs
We have to put out our own tablet, because our OEMs can't build a competitor to the Kindle Fire and sell it for 199.00 if 80.00 dollars out of that 199.00 is for our OS.
Microsoft can't release a 700.00 tablet. Anyone going to spend that much money would go for an Apple product. The logical entry point to sell a lot of them is on the low end, and guess what...the OEMs can't meet the low end price point and use Windows 8.
This may not be the year of Linux, but it could be the year it backed MS into a corner.
This may not be the year of Linux, but it could be the year it backed MS into a corner.
How could this not be the year of Linux with a million Linux phones hitting the streets a day?
Where the hell is everyone going that the personal computer has to suddenly become "mobile computing"? I move around more than most people and despite my best efforts, I still can't find anything so freaking important that requires a computer while I'm going from point A to point B. I mean, I really want to justify the price of these tablets, but besides playing a few not-so-good games and watching some movies, it's just shopping and reading. Are any of those things so crucial that the entire world of personal computing has to be transformed into "mobile computing"? The reading thing is nice, but how "mobile" can you be when your battery doesn't even last half a day?
I hear a lot about how "mobile computing is the future" but I still don't understand the "I'm always on the move" part and I need that computer while I'm moving" part. I mean, I understand it, but not enough that the entire world of personal computing has to change.
I think what Mr Gates really means is "computers are for shopping, instead of making". I have yet to meet someone who has produced anything meaningful on a smartphone or tablet.
And does it matter to Mr Gates and the Zombie Steve Jobs that there are still a lot of us who actually want to make things with our computers and would actually like a nice powerful machine with a big screen and full-size keyboard? Maybe a couple of cool interfaces and controllers? A desk full of control surfaces, a variety of interface devices, good sound reproduction and display technology?
Why is it that whenever one of the god-kings makes a pronouncement like this I seldom feel that the actual desires and needs of consumers are being taken into consideration? It's all about what they want for us - what they think we should have.
Remember how we were all going to have netbooks? How tablets are the new black? Well, couple years have gone by and they're still just shopping interfaces and metered toys.
I don't care if the marketoids think it's the future
Have I made myself clear?
Gates isn't saying that we'll all be using tablets, but that for the vast majority of users, convergent devices are more convenient and suitable.
Workstations will become niche as per servers, but they will remain. The trend started half a decade ago when notebooks started outselling desktop PCs.
Gates isn't saying that we'll all be using tablets, but that for the vast majority of users, convergent devices are more convenient and suitable.
Bill Gates' predictions have an illustrious history of nearly perfect negative correlation with actual trends since the mid nineties.
*sigh* Another "IS THE PC DEAD?!?!?!" headline, another dollar. People who try to view tablets as "desktop replacements" are consistently missing the fact that tablets are not PCs, are not intended to be PCs, and aren't going to replace PCs.
For many people, they may even totally replace the need to have a typical computer at home. If anything, it is only for this group of people that the PC will be "dead".
But for anyone wishing to do serious work, so long as the PC remains exponentially more powerful, expandable and capable than tablets, it won't be going anywhere. Go try using Photoshop Express on the iPad, then use CS6 on the desktop. Use any of the multitude of word processors for tablets, then go use Word. Use a mobile browser, then use Firefox or Chrome. Play the popular games on a tablet, then play the popular games on a PC. Do you see where I'm going with this?
Tablets have created, and filled, an entirely new niche in computing, and done so very well, but they aren't PCs.
I see Microsoft today, and I see a company that has no idea what it's doing. Well, I don't claim to know what is best to do, but I'd at least aim for consistency.
I'd thought about making an Ask Slashdot based on this premise, but I probably will never actually do it. So here's what *I* would do if I ran Microsoft.
Windows. Still a good product, at least on the desktop, but the brand keeps getting diluted, and attempts to "re-imagine" it or "re-invent" it simply will not work. On the desktop side, you really don't NEED to change much. Just keep focusing on making the existing experience incrementally better. Try to get boot times down to under a second, make it more stable, little improvements like that.
Windows Server? Can it. Windows Server is so far behind *technically* that it's not even funny. The only reason it's used is because a) it's far easier than Linux, and b) Microsoft. (B) won't last forever, so you know what? Give up. Give up a bit of control. Make the next Windows Server a Linux distro.
Don't do it like every other Linux distro.
The theme should be "it all works together seamlessly". Port Active Directory, port Exchange, port Microsoft SQL, port ASP.NET and everything (make sure it runs as Apache or nginx modules, though. IIS itself is a "maybe"). Wrap it all up in a GUI that makes things easy to figure out - your goal should be that you don't even need a manual. But don't ignore the command line and config files. Make the best damn Linux distro you can, and *sell* it.
Yes, sell. Obviously, anything open-source should stay open-source. Maybe even open-source the stuff that lets others integrate with you - AD stuff,
In fact, hedge your bets on the desktop side as well. Port the Windows desktop environment over to Linux, because trust me, KDE and GNOME are fucking things up right now, and the Windows desktop experience is actually *better*. You don't even have to make it natively X11, just include an X11 library so all the old apps still work (like how OS X does it). And release for free tools that make Linux integrate well with Windows, stuff to EASILY integrate with AD and such. Yes, open-source stuff can do most of this already, but those are both a pain, and not supported by Microsoft.
Windows Phone? Drop it. You aren't going to win unless you have the apps. And WP7 does not have the apps. It does have some good ideas, though, some very good things. So you know what you should do? Take Android, and mod the shit out of it. Put Office on it. Make it integrate with Active Directory and Exchange and all that shit, so businesses will love it. Make it work with the Xbox and whatever else you've got. And license it out to whoever wants it. Make it "Android, but with ___, ____ and ___". Still compatible with the millions of Android apps, but it has several that, at best, you'd have to buy on the marketplace; at worst, simply not available.
The Xbox is one of the few things Microsoft's not just doing well, but is recognized as doing well. This is your new Big Brand. Make a new Xbox, price target $400-$500. It should be a powerful core-gamer machine. Let Nintendo have the low-end market with the Wii U. And make it more than a game console - you're doing well already, having Netflix and all that on there. Keep that up. Make it work with your WinDroid phone systems, both as a Wii U-like display for the console, and as a remote for Netflix and such. This way, you aren't just fighting Sony - you're also fighting Apple TV and whatever that Google thing is called. Keep backwards compatibility, maybe add a Blu-Ray drive (even if the movies aren't selling so well, it is good for games). But don't do anything crazy. Just... incremental improvements. Make one device that does the task of many others, well enough that it isn't a compromise, and cheaply enough that it's an option if you only actually want one part of it. Yes, that's
...stop trying to be a visionary - you aren't. Your record on future predictions equals that of the world cup animal oracles.
Sure the PC will change - it always does. But the world isn't "moving to" tablets, it is adopting tablets. Most tablet owners also own a PC and for that reason alone don't want the two to be identical. One tool for the one job, another tool for a different job. Some people are happy with just one of the two, that's fine, too. Yes, some people now use a tablet instead of a PC because what they used to use the PC for is better done by a tablet, there just weren't any.
MS more than anyone should know this. Their second cash cow is MS Office, after all - something that nobody really wants on a tablet for any serious work. Sure, the iPad office apps (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) are bestsellers - because people want to read and update their documents on the road. But it is not only my own opinion that serious office work doesn't get done on a tablet. And if you need business numbers, look at the sales figures for notebooks and netbooks. Not exactly dead in the waters, are they? So even in the mobile computing market, there's still an interest in real computers in addition to tablets.
MS is missing the boat - again - because they are so out of touch with what the users want. That's the true secret of the Apple success - the give people something they want, sometimes something they didn't even know they wanted. Sure, it's a "our way or the highway" offering, but MS still thinks they dominate computing so much that they can get people to follow them anywhere - and that hasn't been true for a decade.
Your record on future predictions equals that of the world cup animal oracles.
If Bill Gates was as good as that squid it would be a massive improvement.
Sure, it's good that you can take it everywhere. But the problems are:
* Small screen is hard to see.
* Input is difficult for large amounts of text, and there isn't the precision for doing things like graphics & photo editing.
* Poor battery life.
The solution would be to mount good quality peripherals to some kind of frame or harness that you leave at home or the office (maybe have one at each) and you plug your tiny portable into it. It'd be almost like a proper computer!
If you think of the portable as like a ship sailing from port to port, then the harness could be called a "mooring terminal" or something like that.
Nah, it'll never catch on.
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April 8, 2012
photo by Paul Levy
NASHVILLE - Despite seven goals off the bench, the No. 15 Vanderbilt women's lacrosse team dropped an American Lacrosse Conference matchup with No. 11 Ohio State, 13-11, Sunday at the VU Lacrosse Complex.
Senior Alex Priddy led the Commodores with four goals and an assist. Priddy scored three consecutive goals in a 78-second span of the second half to bring the Commodores within striking distance at 12-9, but the Buckeyes held on over the final 11 minutes to get the win. Sophomore Katie Mastropieri had her second straight hat-trick for Vanderbilt.
"Certainly we had the kind of push we needed at the end of the game, but that needs to happen for 60 minutes," VU Head Coach Cathy Swezey said. "It was extremely physical and we knew it would be that way. Our conference is so competitive, and we definitely have teams that are going to go after each other. We had players step up off the bench and score some good goals for us, and I thought Natalie stepped up in the goal as well."
Senior goalkeeper Natalie Wills made a season-high 11 saves for the Commodores. The Buckeyes' Tori DeScenza also stopped 11 shots. Ohio State's Alayna Markwordt led all players with 10 points, scoring all five of her goals in the first half as the Buckeyes built an 8-4 lead before Vanderbilt scored twice to cut the deficit to two at the break.
Ohio State scored the first four goals of the second stanza to build its lead up to six at 12-6 before Priddy's natural hat-trick narrowed the margin. Senior Kacie Connors and junior Carly Linthicum notched goals in the final five minutes, as the Commodores scored five of the game's final six.
The Buckeyes held a 16-11 advantage on draw controls despite four from VU senior Ally Carey. Sophomore Alyssa Dunlap led the Commodores with four ground balls, while three defenders--seniors Catherine Carr and Taylor Lange, and sophomore Brandi Byner--each caused two Buckeye turnovers.
The Commodores take to the road next weekend to close out their ALC regular season schedule on Saturday, April 14, at Florida. Vanderbilt then travels to Notre Dame for its final road game of the season on Wednesday, April 18. The Dores will end their 2012 regular season on Sunday, April 22, when Jacksonville visits Nashville for a 1 p.m. CT contest. The nine members of Vanderbilt's graduating senior class will be honored prior to the game (12:50 p.m.)
The 2012 ALC Tournament is scheduled for the first week of May in Gainesville, Fla.


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Bias Complaint Filed Against Pride
LGBT unrest over the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee's controversial selection and retraction of imprisoned Army Private First Class Bradley Manning as a Pride grand marshal has now escalated to the legal arena with a complaint to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission.
In a six-page filing prepared by local gay attorney and District 8 resident David Waggoner, 38, nearly 30 signatories initiated a Complaint of Unlawful Discrimination against the San Francisco Pride board of directors with the HRC on May 7.
Former parade grand marshals Gabriel Haaland and Gary Virginia, and Swords to Ploughshares staff attorney Becca Von Behren were among the 21 individuals who signed on to the complaint. [Full disclosure: attorney Paul Melbostad, who serves as the Bay Area Reporter 's legal counsel, also signed the complaint.]
Among the five organizations to endorse the complaint are the Bay Area Military Law Panel and the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild.
The complaint said the board had "repudiated San Francisco Pride's electoral college's selection of Bradley Manning as a 2013 grand marshal for the Pride parade." This action violated city administrative codes, arts funding guidelines, board marshal selection policy, and board non-discrimination policy, the complaint charged.
"Pride is subject to the city's non-discrimination laws because it receives city funding," Waggoner said in an email. He confirmed to the B.A.R. that the complaint had been officially filed with the HRC with copies emailed to Pride officials.
"If SF Pride reverses its decision [on Manning], the complaint will be withdrawn," said Waggoner, a former president of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club.
He is not planning any actions or charges against any individual on the SF Pride board. He said he did not ask any local LGBT elected officials to sign on to the complaint.
The complaint states, "Bradley Manning is a gay and possibly transgender soldier who is currently facing court-martial for his role in giving classified [government] documents to WikiLeaks." It stated the materials leaked exposed "war crimes committed by U.S. service members in Iraq, as well as embarrassing diplomatic cables."
The complaint also states "the Pentagon's treatment of Manning has amounted to torture under international law."
"SF Pride received $58,400 from the City and County of San Francisco's Grants for the Arts program in fiscal year 2012-2013," the complaint stated. The complaint includes some of the inflammatory language of Pride board President Lisa Williams used in an April 26 statement when she clumsily explained the Manning selection decision was a "mistake" by a rogue employee who she said was "disciplined."
In a May 7 statement, SF Pride acknowledged it received the complaint.
"SF Pride will be responding to that complaint in the proper forum, not in the press and/or at board meetings," the board said.
"The next step in the process," said Waggoner, "is that HRC will decide if they have jurisdiction to investigate." Meantime, he said, "I would hope that Pride will simply do the right thing and reinstate Manning and save everyone the hassle of further conflict."


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Provocative anti-McDonald's ad to run in WPB market
UPDATE: PCRM has just said that WPEC will, in fact, not be airing the commercial because it wanted references to McDonald's taken out of the ad, which PCRM has refused to do.
Other West Palm Beach area affiliates who rejected the commercial earlier are WPBF-TV, WPTV-TV, and WFLX-TV.
Here are the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale stations who refused to air it: WPLG-TV, WFOR-TV, WTVJ-TV, and WSVN-TV.
A controversial commercial that links eating McDonald's food …


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Though the days of plain old WoW-alike subscription MMORPGs seem numbered, Guild Wars 2 is proving you don't need to go fully free-to-play to find an audience. ArenaNet's subscription-free MMORPG has sold over two million physical and digital copies, publisher NCsoft announced today, and hit a peak of over 400,000 concurrent players.
NCsoft has confirmed to Shacknews that it's two million actual sales, not that cheeky 'sold-in' stat publishers often use to puff up their figures.
Guild Wars 2 hit the honking great 2M mark shortly after digital sales in its own store resumed on Monday, NCsoft said. They were suspended 10 days earlier while ArenaNet beefed up its servers to support the flood of players.
"Reactions from around the world justified the time and care we put into developing Guild Wars 2 and making it into the game it is today," ArenaNet president Mike O'Brien said in today's announcement. "And this is only the beginning. We're continually fine-tuning the game to deliver the polished experience that our players expect, and we're already working on new adventures and experiences to introduce into this truly dynamic online world."
Our Ozzie is having a ball adventuring in Tyria, so do check out his diaries.


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auburn hills >> With all the offseason moves the Pistons made, it's easy to forget Detroit is still a young team.
Andre Drummond is in just his second season, his first as a full-time starter and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is a rookie. That's two-fifths of the starting lineup that are experiencing many firsts in the NBA.
Drummond started just 10 games last season and averaged 20.7 minutes per game on the season. He's averaging 32.5 minutes a game this season and has started all 33 games.
Drummond also missed 22 games starting in early February with a stress fracture in his back.
Playing the type of minutes he is this season is completely new to him.
"I'm competing," Drummond said. "I'm 20 years old. I take care of my body each and every day. After practice I make sure I get the proper treatment so I feel good the next day. The minutes are not a factor and I feel real good.
"Some games where I play like 38, sometimes I play a lot more than usual, an overtime game, I think, 'Alright I had a big workload today.' I know what I have to do to go inside the arena and take care of my body and get ready for the next day. Am I ever tired? No."
Drummond averaged 13.8 points and 13.0 rebounds in 32.1 minutes per game in the month of December. Those numbers are up for the 12 points and 12 rebounds in 33.5 minutes he averaged in November. Still the Pistons are making sure to keep close tabs on his minutes.
"It depends on how he's playing," Pistons coach Mo Cheeks said when asked if he plans to cut Drummond's minutes. "Sometimes it's hard to cut his minutes and certain guys minutes. It's hard to do that. We don't want to take it for granted for him to go out play 35-plus minutes and think it's easy to do because it's hard playing 35, 36 minutes a night. People leaning on you and you're trying to do all these things, it's hard, but I think he's capable of doing it. He's only going to get better the more he plays.
"You gotta get used to playing those kind of minutes. I think for the most part he's been good at it. I said there is some merit to guys playing lots of minutes and then slowing down. There is a lot of merit to it, but we've had days off. There was that one stretch where we played all those games. We just gotta be conscious of guys playing tons of minutes."
Caldwell-Pope played just 32 games in each of his two seasons at Georgia. He's already played 31 for the Pistons (14-19) this season. He averaged nearly 34 minutes a game at Georgia and is averaging 23.5 with the Pistons, but the season is not even halfway over yet.
The Pistons don't expect Caldwell-Pope to supply a ton of offense, but he plays a huge role defensively guarding the opposing team's starting shooting guard.
"We are asking a lot of him," Cheeks said. "To be able to guard certain 2s in the league. There's some high-level 2s. For him to be able to do it, night-in and night-out, that's a tough task for him. I think he's capable of doing it. Hopefully he's going to just keep getting better at it. There is such a thing as a guy hitting a wall, playing a lot of games. Guys playing lots of games, lots of minutes. It has some merit to it.
"He's got to be able to challenge those guys. I think that's most important. If you're not challenging somebody like (Arron) Afflalo, Joe Johnson, those kind of guys they are going to have big nights. ... But if he's challenging him that's all you can ask. I want them to know that he's there. That's the biggest part. You have to know that they're there."
Entering Saturday night the Pistons are in sixth place in the East, but six teams are within 2 1/2 games of them and eight are within 3 1/2 games.
The Pistons play just 13 games in the month of January after playing 17 in a busy month of December. The extra rest could help the young team make a run or the young players could really start to hit a wall.
Even a small winning streak could give the Pistons some breathing room in the Eastern Conference. How Detroit's young players respond will go a long way in determining if the Pistons go up or down in the standings.


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sooooo...you get toes shortened to wear shoes. Won't the toes look all messed up if you're wearing sandals and open toe shoes?
Its bad enough some people already have feet that should never be seen in public...
Women are by nature creatures of vanity. Mrs. B, for example, lives for attention and praise. It drives much or most of what she does.
Another - botox. WLF?
Let me inject poison in my face.
And what when it wears off? Gotta do it over and over and over? Or do you look twice as creepy when it wears off?


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The length of time churches can hold tent revivals and other large outdoor services would be expanded under a proposed code change that county commissioners will take up Feb. 20.
At the request of several local pastors, the Henderson County Planning Board voted 4-2 last month to recommend that commissioners change the length of time allowed for such services under a temporary use permit from 8 days to 12 weeks.
Currently, the county's land development code reads, "temporary circuses, fairs, religious services and similar types of events may be operated for no longer than eight days."
Under the amended rule supported by the planning board, circuses, fairs and carnivals will still be limited to eight days, but religious services such as tent revivals could "operate for up to 12 weeks."
Interim Planning Director Autumn Radcliff said a group of pastors approached the county, concerned that the code didn't allow temporary use permits to remain valid long enough for some services. The pastors said some revivals and Bible camps can last up to nine weeks.
After discussing their concerns, planning staff and pastors agreed to the 12-week period. Radcliff said the longest known revival held in Henderson County, back in the 1990s in Fletcher, went nine weeks.
"Most of them probably won't go more than three weeks," said Radcliff. "It would only be those extreme instances when it could go nine weeks or more."
While universally supportive of revivals, some planning board members questioned the proposed change. The two dissenting votes, Marilyn Gordon and Steve Dozier, worried that allowing large religious events in residential areas for up to 12 weeks might create conflicts.
"We certainly have had concerns in the past from neighborhoods about similar impacts from other (outdoor) events," Gordon said, citing traffic congestion and noise. "We should follow the same principles with any temporary event."
Particularly since the code allows two temporary use permits within a 12-month period, Dozier said the proposed time extension was too liberal.
"I'm mainly concerned about residential (zonings), not commercial," he said. "There are empty lots, where if they've got an extension, they could be sitting there for nearly half a year. I like a good revival as much as the next person, but 12 weeks just seemed excessive."
When held in residentially zoned areas or within 500 feet of them, the county's code dictates that all temporary events such as fairs and revivals operate only from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. and must be further than 50 feet from nearby dwellings.
Other planning board members expressed concern about the county infringing on the rights of religious groups to operate freely. That sentiment was echoed by Dr. Sandy Beck III, director of missions at the Carolina Baptist Association on Hebron Road, when asked about the proposed code change.
"I think it's none of the county's business how long a religious group wants to hold meetings," Beck said, adding that churches should be allowed to hold revivals "year-round, if they need it."
Asked to weigh in on the matter, Deputy County Attorney Sarah Zambon advised the planning board that temporary use permits for revivals don't violate the First Amendment's protection of religious freedoms.
"There are instances where there are laws applied to religious institutions," Zambon explained Monday. "We can't single them out, but they have to play by the same rules as everyone else. For instance, churches have to meet the same building codes as other structures, to protect the public's safety."
Zambon said the change suggested by pastors is a good example of why the county's land development code was designed to be an evolving document.
"We keep trying to improve it as we get new information," she said. "We heard from the pastors the timeframe we have in there won't work, so we've modified it to suit the actual timeframe of their services."
Commissioners will hold a public hearing on the proposed code amendment at 9 a.m. Feb. 20 on the second floor of the Historic Courthouse.
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The length of time churches can hold tent revivals and other large outdoor services would be expanded under a proposed code change that county commissioners will take up Feb. 20.


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Four children, ranging in age from 8 months to 9 years old, were killed in a house fire in Conyers late Tuesday night.
Investigators have determined the fire started in the second-floor bathroom and hallway area of the two-story duplex on Pinedale Circle.
Neighbor Lamonta Stroud, 18, tried to save them, but he said the fire was too intense.
"I really wasn't focused on that. I was just trying to get the kids. My brother is the one who pulled me down. He didn't want me going in there," Stroud said.
The children's mother, Reeba Glass, suffered second- and third-degree burns on 40 percent of her body as she tried to save her children, said authorities.
"She was able to save one of the children," said Maj. Mike Waters of the Conyers Police Department. "Witnesses advised that she actually threw that child from a second-story window."
"She loves her kids," said Cynnethia Wright, a cousin. "If she could have saved the rest of them, I believe she probably would. She would lay her life on the line for her kids."
Glass's son Darnell, 6, was hospitalized with a shoulder injury, but later released, Waters said.
Darnell is currently recovering at home with his grandmother. He turned 6 on Wednesday.
The initial call to 911 came at 11:05 p.m., Waters said. Four officers from a nearby police precinct were on the scene within 30 seconds.
"They found that the home was fully involved upstairs, and they could hear noises coming from up there," Waters said. "They tried to use a fire extinguisher, and it didn't phase the fire at all."
After knocking down the flames from the outside, firefighters finally were able to enter the duplex.
They found three boys and a girl deceased, including Ah'Dariya Glass, 9, Dar'Shawn Glass, 7, Armoni Roberts, 3, and Deon Glass, 8 months.
The children's grandmother, Rosetta Mitchell, was in the home at the time of the fire. She was not hurt.
"I'm devastated," said neighbor Leslie Slater. "They're like my children. They come to my house every day all day. They're my daughter's best friend."
"You know, you go through a shock, and it really hasn't worn off," said neighbor Jan Dennis. "When you think about losing children, that's really bad."
"It just makes my heart drop," said neighbor Tiffany Tillmon, who said she was at the side of Darnell as paramedics tended to his injury. "When he left on the stretcher going out, he was saying bye to everybody. He was like, 'I'll see y'all later.' He wasn't crying, but he doesn't know yet what happened."
The official cause of the fire has not yet been determined and is still under investigation.
Tillmon said Darnell gave police a theory about how the fire might have started. He blamed the father of one of his younger brothers.
"He was just telling them that he was knocking on his door that night and his mom wouldn't come outside," Tillmon said. "So his dad got mad and went around the back and threw something through the back window. That's what he thinks caused the fire."
Investigators have taken samples from multiple locations inside the home trying to find the cause.
A representative with Levett & Sons Funeral Home in Conyers has offered to handle the funeral arrangements for the family at no cost. A memorial service for the children will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 19 at Springfield Baptist Church in Conyers.
A Glass Family Memorial Fund has been set up with Wells Fargo, Account No. 1009683226.
Pastor Billie Cox of Macedonia Baptist Church in Conyers also is working to help coordinate support and donations to the family from the public.
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So they call it an addiction so they can give you drugs...
Now there's a wonderful irony of modern society.
The distinction is fairly simple, really: is there someone who objectively admits that watching college football is bad for them? That it hurts them? That they're starting to lose sleep or jeopardizing their employment over it?
And how many WOW players say just that?
That's the very meaning of "addiction": that there's something that you'd judge objectively to be bad for you but that you do not want to stop or curtail even though you judge it as bad for you. All those smokers who say "yeah, it kills you" and in the same breath claim "I can stop any time I want"? Addicted. Because they do not want to stop an activity that they themselves judge as bad for them.
Addiction does NOT mean "someone/something somehow forces me to do this". It means "I, myself, am continuing to choose to do this even though I, myself, understand this to be harmful for myself". Every addict is always in the drivers seat. They can always choose to stop whatever it is they're doing. For every addict it is true that "they can stop any time they want". But they don't want to. Which is exactly what addiction is all about.
But, the thing is, I'm like that when I get hold of a good novel, too. I'll sometimes forget to eat for a day if I'm reading something great, and will even cancel social engagements if the book's really good. I don't think I'm alone in this.
So, do we also need a category of book addiction? Or do we just need to get a reality check, and accept that people in a relatively affluent society are lucky to have the luxury to give up on sleep or food for a little while in order to pursue an interest? After all, we know that we're not going to starve, so what does it matter if we miss a meal in order to iron out a persistent bug or follow a fascinating click-trail through Wikipedia? I think there are too many people out there who want us all to follow norms and have a vested interest in making us feel weird and wrong when we don't.
So, do we also need a category of book addiction? Or do we just need to get a reality check, and accept that people in a relatively affluent society are lucky to have the luxury to give up on sleep or food for a little while in order to pursue an interest?
Nope, we've got enough generalized "addiction" categories already. And we treat them the same. Drugs and counseling - same old saw.
But what you describe doesn't really fall into the "addiction" category if it's not materially interfering with the re
I guess it's the "new pink".
I'm sorry, but did you just say that in a multibillion dollar confidence scheme, you blame the hustled?
Compulsive e-mailing and text messaging could soon become classified as an official brain illness.
E. The avoidance, anxious anticipation, or distress in the feared social or performance situation(s) interferes significantly with the person's normal routine, occupational (academic) functioning, or social activities or relationships, or there is marked distress about having the phobia.
Not sure that you really chose the right DSM diagnosis to use as a "counter-example" to what I said.
Still, I don't pretend that the DSM IV-tr is flawless or perfect. I'd have to be CRAZY to think that(look for it in the DSM-V
The entire "personality disorder
You seem to be taking this out of context, and taking it personally. They aren't saying "You play WoW for like 3-5 hours a night, and 8+ saturdays and sundays, you are an addict and need help." In that case, you clearly have lots of free time, and perhaps not a lot of a "real" social life to take up that free time. (Although I somewhat disagree with the notion that it isn't a social life. I chat and play games with friends in Texas, the UK, California, and Bermuda, how is that fundamentally less socia
When you look through the DSM-IV, you see an awful lot of fancy "labeling"
That's exactly what the DSM is supposed to do - attach specific and generally agreed upon labels to the enormously wide variations in human behavior. Previous to the DSM, psychiatrists and psychologists labeled people with mental illnesses pretty much the way they wanted to. The DSM is an attempt (an imperfect one) to standardize the lingo.
Look at the various "types" of bi-p
I wish I had the chance to discover this for myself.
"Hey Ivan, check your six." -- Sidewinder missile jacket patch, showing a Sidewinder driving up the tail of a Russian Su-27


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ONE LAST SANDWICH - While Becky and her mom set out to build a new bookcase that will hold all of Becky's books, The Whammer convinces Chuck to commit one last crime with him before he retires. Will they be able to work as a team and pull off the ultimate sandwich heist? Vocabulary Words: Final, Pacify. CAPER OR PLASTIC - While Becky is busy thinking about what she wants to be when she grows up, Hal Hardbargain is busy trying to get WordGirl to help him get his bag blaster back from the infamous and mysterious Masked Bagger. Will WordGirl be able to figure out the Masked Bagger's true identity? Vocabulary Words: Muffled, Flashback.
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Littleton High School's football team lived up to its reputation as perhaps the top team in Division 6 this season, while handing the Division 5 Clinton Gaels a 38-6 loss on Friday night at the Clinton Veterans' Athletic Complex.
The loss dropped the Gaels to 0-2 on the season, while the Tigers improved to 2-0.
Littleton scored on its first two possessions to take a 16-0 lead after one quarter, and increased its advantage to 24-0 after an 80-yard run for a touchdown by senior Travis Bassett early in the second quarter.
Though the half ended with Littleton up, 32-0, it wasn't all Tigers all the time.
The Clinton defense forced Littleton to turn the ball over on downs on its third possession, thanks to good coverage in the secondary by senior Luke Elworthy and his teammates that resulted in three straight incompletions by senior quarterback Alex McLaughlin.
Senior defensive back Jeremy Casiano also intercepted McLaughlin in the second quarter.
On offense, Clinton halfbacks Daryl Jent, a junior, and Ben Lazare, a senior, along with sophomore fullback Tom Russell were able to move the ball, but the Gaels couldn't sustain a drive long enough to get into the end zone.
Clinton junior quarterback Andrew Grady was harassed throughout the game and was sacked several times. He finished 2 for 5 passing for 12 yards.
"We didn't have much time to throw the ball," Clinton coach Paul Constantino said. "We've got some young kids on the line, so we've just got to keep working.
"I thought all our backs ran hard in the first half, even when we were down," he said.
Clinton's efforts finally paid off early in the third quarter when Lazare swept around the left side for an 18-yard touchdown.
"I thought we hung tough," Constantino said. "The kids didn't quit."
Littleton completed the scoring with an 8-yard touchdown run by senior Peter Murphy late in the quarter, and each team played its substitutes throughout the fourth quarter.
Freshman Eian Gannon had a late fumble recovery for the Gaels.
"They're a veteran team," Constantino said of Littleton. "It's a senior-laden team, with some very good athletes.
"We always tell the kids there's a difference between losing a game and the other team winning a game," he said. "Tonight, Littleton won the game."


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The Namibian Port Authority (NAMPORT), in collaboration with UNCTAD and University College Cork, will train 20 of its middle managers on Module 7 of UNCTAD's TrainForTrade* Port Training Programme, "Administrative and Legal Management". The module will be delivered by University College Cork, along side with senior port and law specialists from the local port community, many of whom were successfully trained by UNCTAD/TrainForTrade Port Training Programme's the Training of Trainers in Cork, Ireland, in June 2012. At the end of this module, participants will be able to describe and understand the general organisation and rational of the administrative function, as well as legal aspects for the management of the port.
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Google Lat Long: Know the traffic to speed up your trips in new cities with Google Maps
We may not be able to eliminate the bottlenecks that plague rush hours worldwide, but since launching our live traffic feature in 2008 we've been working to make the traffic information in Google Maps even more comprehensive and accurate to help you speed up your trips. Today, we're expanding this coverage for the first time to more than 130 smaller cities across the United States as well as the capitals of Colombia, Costa Rica, and Panama.
Now the streets of Bogotá, San José, and Panama City and the arterial roads in Kalamazoo (Michigan), Portland (Maine), Tuscaloosa (Alabama) and many more cities will include real-time current traffic conditions as well as estimated travel times. Whether you're online on your home computer ensuring no unexpected snarls await your drive to the airport or you've been stuck behind a line of cars for a few minutes and can ask your friend in the passenger seat to check whether it'll clear up just around the bend, we hope these updates save you time and stress when getting to your destination.
San Jose, Panama City, Bogota traffic conditions on Google Maps for Android
In addition we've improved and expanded our coverage in parts of Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. For an overview of cities with traffic data you can go here.
See traffic conditions in your city and cities around the world
To check traffic conditions on either your Android device or through your web browser, here's a quick tutorial:
Remember, you can help your fellow drivers and improve traffic data by using Google Navigation or Google Maps for Mobile while traveling. Drive safely!
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BUNNELL — Stewart-Marchman-Act Behavioral Healthcare is redesigning services at Vince Carter Sanctuary to help drug-addicted mothers.
Through a $2 million state allotment secured by former state Sen. Evelyn Lynn of Ormond Beach, empty space at the inpatient drug rehab center in Bunnell will be renovated to accommodate 52 women and their children under the age of 6, expanding the program's capacity by 16 beds.
The renovation should reduce wait times and help deal with a surge in babies being born dependent on prescription painkillers, said Deborah Zeoli, president of the Stewart-Marchman-Act Foundation.
"Our goal is that the moment a woman is seeking treatment with us that we are able to directly place her into a program," she said.
Women are waiting as long as six weeks to access the program, which is known as Women Assisting Recovering Mothers, Zeoli said. Services are presently provided at facilities on Beach Street and off U.S. Highway 92 between DeLand and Daytona Beach.
The 6-month to yearlong residential treatment program focuses on the special needs of pregnant women in Volusia, Flagler, Putnam and St. Johns counties and women with newborns or children under 6. The program aims to ensure women deliver healthy babies, while providing counseling to create a lifelong recovery.
The expansion comes at a time when more babies are being born dependent on painkillers like oxycodone, a condition known as neonatal abstinence syndrome, said Dixie Morgese, executive director of the Healthy Start Coalition of Volusia and Flagler Counties.
"It's really a big relief, because there is typically a wait list and getting women into residential environments is critical to a healthy pregnancy," she said.
State statistics show that in 2005 about 1 out of every 1,000 births in Volusia County was diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome. That number reached nearly 7 out of every 1,000 births by 2009.
The estimated cost of treating each of these babies is $53,400 per child, which is most commonly paid for by Medicaid, according to an article that appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Stewart-Marchman-Act hopes to have the women's health center operational by April 1.
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BUNNELL — Stewart-Marchman-Act Behavioral Healthcare is redesigning services at Vince Carter Sanctuary to help drug-addicted mothers.


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When Ben Affleck accepted the best director Golden Globe Award Sunday night, he went out of his way to thank the employees of the CIA's Clandestine Service and the Foreign Service officers on whose exploits his film Argo was based. Now the American Foreign Service Association is returning the favor.
The group issued congratulations to Affleck, the cast, crew, and the producers of the mostly true tale of the daring evacuation of U.S. diplomats trapped in Iran in 1980. "The Iran hostage crisis is an unforgettable part of Foreign Service and U.S. diplomatic history, "the statement said, "so we are truly gratified that Argo has done so much to highlight not just the historical event, but also the mission of the men and women in our diplomatic service who represent the United States around the world and work to advance and protect our nation's interests."
In December, AFSA hosted a screening of the film with the central character in the movie, Tony Mendez, along with Kathy Stafford and Bob Anders—two of the hostages portrayed in the film—and former AFSA president and Iran hostage Ambassador John Limbert.


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The University of Massachusetts Amherst will again honor the exemplary achievement, initiative and leadership of its most talented and accomplished undergraduates during Undergraduate Commencement.
Thirteen graduating seniors have been named 21st Century Leaders and will be honored for far-ranging achievement, initiative and social awareness. Twelve of those being recognized are members of Commonwealth Honors College. This year's 21st Century Scholars are:
• Hannah "Rivka" Dolberg Barrett of Lexington, a psychology major with a research interest in the stereotyping and the social and personal consequence of hearing loss who will attend Australian National University in Canberra as a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar.
• Daniel K. Burke, a double major in accounting and psychology from Sandwich who, as a Big Brother/Big Sister volunteer, ensured that the family with whom he had worked was provided for after they lost their home and possessions in last October's snow emergency.
• Maheen Chaudhry, a double major in biology and psychology from Hadley, whose research projects included quality of life issues for people with Huntington's disease and early indicators of Alzheimer's disease.
• Caitlin R. Ellis, a double major in legal studies and political science from Billerica, who served as an intern and later as office manager for the Massachusetts Appeals Court and who will attend Suffolk University Law School under a Trustees Merit Scholarship.
• Andrew Erwin of Mansfield, a mechanical engineering major, runner and resident assistant who, as a first-year student, was part of a team that modified a Faraday flashlight so that it could charge a battery and be attached to a user's shoe to recharge an electronic device with energy generated by walking.
• Tara A. Mahendrarajah, a microbiology major from Framingham whose research focused on plant-degrading bacteria and applications in biofuels development. She also received a Goldwater Scholarship for Excellence in Education, the nation's most prestigious award for undergraduates in the sciences.
• John I. Mange, Jr. of North Andover, a music major with concentrations in trumpet performance, music education and music theory who was the founding president of the campus's chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity and who received 2010 Presser Award for outstanding achievement in music.
• Michael McDonough, a finance major from Woburn who received the Isenberg School of Management's 2012 Faculty Award for Excellence in Finance and is a co-founder of the Isenberg Advancement Program, created to foster community within the school.
• Yevin Roh of Dorchester, a public health sciences major, sociology minor and resident assistant who is the outgoing president of the Student Government Association and who was a major contributor to the Code of Student Conduct's hate crime and hate speech policy.
• Erica Rothschild of Riverdale, New York,, who pursued a degree in social justice education and conflict resolution through the Bachelor's Degree with Individual Concentration program. Her volunteer initiatives spanned political and cultural causes, and she will work with the Jewish Service Corps next year.
• Christopher M. Roy, a microbiology major from Berlin, New Hampshire, whose Marine Corps service included deployment in Iraq. He helped form Bacteriotix, a small biotech startup, whose goal is to identify and develop novel antimicrobials active against bacterial pathogens, which led to his team winning the $30,000 Isenberg School of Management's Innovation Challenge.
• Jose Enrique Torres-Cooban of Marietta, Georgia, who majored in civil and environmental engineering and minored in geology after receiving a bachelor's degree in music from New York University and completing the first year of a master's degree program at the New England Conservatory of Music, and who has been deeply involved in Engineers Without Borders.
• Chia-Ying Wu, a dual major in music and psychology from Taiwan and gifted violinist who combined her interests in music and psychology in the campus's developmental disability and human services program.
In addition, six graduating seniors will be recognized for their leadership and executive ability as Jack Welch Scholars. They are:
• Daniel K. Burke, also a 21st Century Leader Award winner, whose studies have taken him to Ireland, Italy, Brazil, Australia, Hong Kong and Cuba, and who has led the Isenberg School of Management Undergraduate Leadership Council and Commonwealth Honors College's Student Advisory Board.
• Kevin Cunningham, a chemical engineering major from Braintree who has conducted materials engineering research at UMass Amherst, MIT and Harvard and who, as a brother in Pi Kappa Phi, helped build wheelchair ramps in the Amherst area.
• Rebecca F. Guihan of Melrose, a civil and environmental engineering major whose independent research honors thesis evaluated the quality of the Climate Forecast System model and its usefulness in systems operational planning, and who, elected to the board of the Society of Women Engineers, created a mentoring program for first-year and transfer women students.
• Nicholas Jacek, a computer systems engineering major from Tyngsboro, whose senior thesis on vehicular networks and collision-warning systems helped to develop an adaptive algorithm for driver-reaction time.
• Laura Surdek of West Roxbury, an operations and information management major who served as fundraising co-chair for the Isenberg School of Management's Honors Council and as vice president of corporate liaisons for the campus chapter of the operations management association APICS.
• Patrick Witz, a double major in accounting and economics from East Longmeadow, who was a lead financial analyst for the Minutemen Equity Fund, helping to manage the student-run portion of the UMass endowment.
The student speaker at the Undergraduate Commencement will be graduating senior Isaac Himmelman of Santa Monica, California, a political science major with a minor in Judaic and Near Eastern studies. An enthusiastic boxer and pianist, Himmelman's passion for performance led to his involvement with the Daniel Pearl Foundation, where he helped coordinate the organization's second annual world-music festival.
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he is a very sweet lad..
he is a very sweet lad..
^ Might those two be REAL Bros??!
Keep smilin'!!
WISDOM is the Knowledge you've gained ... After you could have used it! _Me
This reminds me I haven't washed my car in a while
Paul Bunyan's son gives his support to Occupy Wall Street. WE ARE THE 99%!!1!!
New collection
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"Lars was pissed because he'd been waiting all night for someone to suck his dick."
"Thank you Lenscrafters."
^ Safety first you know!
Looking for inspiration
Naked hotties in the kitchen!!
Ralphie, you'll shoot your eye out!
Not me, I swear
^Another kicking English grammar post
Check out my very own Body Hair Lovers and Photography Groups!
I love skater boys!!
I didn't know payphones still existed
^ Ha hahaha!!!!
Looking for inspiration
Too funny!
Let's end the year with some decorating disasters (and disasters of other types) from Lurid Digs!
The Three Musketeers... Bashful, Chrisglass, and Ronboy!
Love the background ¬¬
ho ho ho
Photoshop master
Merry Christmas!!!
more yoga??????
Hand Dryer?????
Yes Lord!!
I'm your servant!!!
I'm the forbidden fruit
Ok some of the pics are just fucked in ways that i caint even descride however some of the men in some of these pics are hot and i would love to have a go with them. For example the first pic on the top of this page super man and the second guy in post #7369 he was sexy.
^ Sort of reminds me of Steve Howey, when he was younger/hotter a little.
Looking for inspiration
I'd say... "Milk...it does a body good"
oh that lucky TSA agent! Probably the only perk of that job
Chris seems to like it too ...he's such a cutie. Too bad he's straight/married.
"Some cause happiness wherever they go, and others, whenever they go..". - Oscar Wilde.
"Some cause happiness wherever they go, and others, whenever they go..". - Oscar Wilde.


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Researchers Explore Prevention for Positives at the XII International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa
August 2000
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"For HIV-negative populations, strategies must be adapted to the unique needs of each group affected. And for HIV-positive individuals, for whom safer behavior has become a lifetime proposition, prevention services must be expanded and sustained."
Until recently, prevention issues have focused on people who are not infected with HIV. Following the International Conference on AIDS in Durban, however, it is clear that prevention issues are increasingly relevant and critical for people with HIV/AIDS.
In order to effectively decrease the spread of HIV, taking a multifaceted approach to prevention is critical.
Health is the GoalThe goal of prevention for people with HIV/AIDS is not only to prevent the spread of HIV, but to prevent further individual disease progression and optimize health and quality of life.
Important prevention issues for people with HIV/AIDS, which surfaced at the conference included the role of pets, preventative vaccines (e.g., influenza, hepatitis B), HIV and hepatitis coinfections, tuberculosis, and mother-to-child transmission on the health outcomes of people with HIV/AIDS.
According to a presentation at the conference, pets can be a major source of emotional support for many people with HIV/AIDS. Although zoonotic infections pose a minor threat, the actual risk of a pet owner with HIV/AIDS acquiring an infection from a pet or animal is rare overall. In most cases, good hygiene, an avoidance of young pets, and common sense can prevent the risk of illness or infection. (Session TuOr51)
A great deal of controversy surrounds the issue of vaccination. One study found that although flu immunization of patients with HIV resulted in the development of antibody titers in fewer than 50 percent of those studied, vaccination appears to be protective. Immunization did not result in predictable adverse changes in viral load or CD4 counts and progression of AIDS in HIV-asymptomatic patients was not observed (Abstract MoPeB2163).
Another study found that antibody response to pneumococcal revaccination is satisfactory for most serotypes, even in children with severe immunodeficiency (ThPeB5135). Another research group found that while vaccination may be useful, adherence by practitioners to vaccination guidelines is poor (ThPeB5069).
As people with HIV live longer, the consequences of hepatitis coinfection are increasingly contributing to morbidity and mortality. One study in Italy found one-third of in-hospital deaths in the last two years among HIV-infected individuals to be related to end-stage liver disease, mostly due to hepatitis B or C (HBV/HCV) coinfection (TuPeB3184).
Another study found that coinfection with HIV and hepatitis C increased the risk of death by approximately 50 percent over a two-and-one-half-year period (ThOrB655). In addition, HIV progression may be accelerated by the presence of HCV coinfection. Another study also found an increased risk of HIV progression with HCV infection (MoPeB2139).
Since many antiretroviral agents may be metabolized in the liver, the pharmacokinetics and tolerability of these agents may be altered by HCV coinfection. Furthermore, hepatitis may be a risk factor for NRTI-related lactic acidosis, a drug toxicity that is commonly accompanied by liver function abnormalities.
In TB news, researchers found that complex antiretroviral therapy and rifabutin (a drug used to treat TB), used to treat people with TB and HIV, may adversely affect the treatment of both diseases. Patients taking complex antiretroviral therapy were more likely to have low levels of rifabutin in the bloodstream compared to those patients who were not on antiretroviral therapy. These findings display the complexity of providing optimal care for people with HIV/AIDS at risk of TB. (TuOrB8277)
While South Africa and other developing countries are only beginning to contemplate the implementation of programs for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission, developed nations, such as the U.S., are focusing their efforts on achieving complete eradication of pediatric HIV.
With HIV transmission rates reduced to less than 3 percent in most cohorts in the U.S., elective Cesarean deliveries are no longer recommended for treated women with a viral load less than 3,000 copies/ml at the time of delivery. In South Africa, no firm commitments have been made to the widespread implementation of mother-to-child HIV transmission programs.
HIV TrendsAccording to the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, fewer high school students are engaging in behaviors that place them at risk for HIV infection.
These decreases in sexual experience represent the first sustained reversal of the increasing trends in sexual intercourse among adolescents that occurred during the 1970s and 1980s and reflect broad efforts of families, schools, community-based organizations, and governments to reduce the impact of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. (MoPeC2442)
In the 25 states in which HIV trends can be examined, the number of women diagnosed with HIV overall decreased by 9 percent from 1994 to 1998, although the number of young women (those born between 1975 and 1979) diagnosed with HIV more than doubled during that period (MoPeC2446).
The first comprehensive analysis of HIV incidence studies since 1978 suggests gay men and injection drug users (IDUs) continue to face dangerously high rates of infection. Infection rates among gay men in several cities dropped significantly after the intense prevention efforts in 1980s. Yet over the last decade, studies suggest that infection rates among gay men have remained roughly stable.
Among IDUs, incidence appears to have peaked in the early 1990s and has since dropped dramatically. While prevention programs have helped to increase the number of IDUs using clean needles, approximately 20 percent continue to share needles. (Source: CDC, July 8)
A study examining the relationship between gay men's optimism about HIV treatment and sexual risk behavior showed that the relationship varied among the different cities surveyed (LpPpB105).
HIV-positive men in Vancouver were significantly more optimistic than HIV-negative men, although this was not associated with high-risk behavior. Optimism was associated with high-risk behavior among HIV-negative men in London and among all men surveyed in Australia regardless of their HIV status.
This study highlights the diversity of gay men's responses in different countries to new HIV treatments, and underscores the need to continue to deliver appropriate safer sex messages to all gay men regardless of their HIV infection status.
Another study, conducted by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also showed that optimistic attitudes about antiretroviral therapy may be contributing to increased risk behavior among young gay men (ThPeD6320).
The study found that men whose anxieties and concerns about HIV infection were reduced because of the availability of antiretroviral drugs. Those who also perceived that sex partners with low viral loads present less risk of HIV infection than those with high viral loads had more sex partners than men who did not.
According to the CDC, high-risk sexual behavior is increasing among HIV-infected men who have sex with men (MSM) in the U.S.
A CDC study found an increase in gonorrhea among HIV-infected gay men in nine cities. Considering that there is a decreasing trend in gonorrhea incidence among the general population in the U.S., the increasing trend in gonorrhea infection among HIV-infected persons is disturbing (WePeC4397).
A separate CDC study indicated that an increasing number of HIV-positive gay men are engaging in unprotected anal sex. A strong association was also found between unprotected anal sex and multiple sex partners (ThOrC714). These findings underscore a need to direct prevention research toward identifying those factors responsible for the recent increase in high-risk sexual behavior among HIV-infected MSM and to expand prevention efforts among these men.
Researchers found that men who have exclusively oral sex were split evenly between those who do not believe it poses a risk of infection and those who, despite increasing evidence of low risk, are willing to "take the chance." Men willing to take the chance are more likely to seek HIV testing (ThPeD5596).
A San Francisco study of people utilizing HIV counseling and testing sites found that people who test most frequently are at highest risk of seroconversion. They found that frequent testers are also those who practice the highest risk behavior and have the highest incidence of HIV. Contrary to previous reports, findings indicate that repeat testers are not simply the "worried well," but are indeed at high risk of seroconversion. These findings have important implications for prevention at HIV counseling and testing sites (ThPeC5424).
Nancy Wongvipat, M.P.H., manages AIDS Project Los Angeles' Prevention Program. She can be reached at email@example.com.
This article has been reprinted at The Body with the permission of AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA).
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My goal is to become a master web developer.
Back in college, I taught myself how to build static websites, and then Wordpress hit the scene. I eventually taught myself how to create Wordpress themes too.
Here's my conundrum: I've recently made a commitment to become a master web developer after being away for the Industry for 4 years. I learned how to develop from watching tutorials and what not, but I want not just know the HOW of web development, but the WHY as well.
I'm aware this industry is always changing as new innovations in technology hit the market.
I need a crash course to beef up my web development skills, specifically what do I need to focus on learning to bring myself up to speed on current web development standards and principles?


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Aug 2012 21:38 UTC
"Here's the official guidance, my sources say: Anything currently/formerly known as a 'Metro-Style application' (with or without a hyphen) will now be known officially as a 'Windows 8 application'. References to the 'Metro user interface' will now be replaced by "Windows 8 user interface." And instead of saying 'Metro design', the Softies and those adhering to their official guidelines will be using the words 'Windows 8 design'." Microsoft not being allowed to use the Metro name here is just as ridiculous as Apple trolling Samsung. All ridiculous exponents of the western world's IP fetish.
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by votre on Sat 11th Aug 2012 12:51 UTC
Well...Microsoft and all the other big players have been playing the IP (patent/copyright/trademark) 'cease & desist' game for years. Usually against small companies and start-ups that didn't have the financial resources to fight back. It was only a matter of time before one of them got hoisted on their own petard.
All I can say is: "How's it feel now?"


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Northerners love shopping online
Maybe it ain't so grim up north after all
Posted in Business, 9th May 2006 10:02 GMT
Northerners are the UK's biggest online spenders. So much so, they'd even be happy to buy a house or a car online rather than just run-of-the-mill books, CDs and other bibs and bobs.
That's according to research by ecommerce outfit SciVisum, which found that three quarters of UK punters shop online, spending on average £89 a month. But while people in most other regions of the UK barely spend more than £50 a month online, up north it's a different matter with average spending nearing £100 a month, the firm found.
While only half of people living in central London admit to shopping online, in the North of England they're all at it with the survey finding that the north has "the most extravagant online spenders and to be the most willing to buy cars and houses online".
Despite this optimism, the sale of cars and houses online has yet to make an impact. For in truth, there are no prizes for guessing that by far the most popular items in the "virtual shopping basket" are books and CDs, followed by holiday, electrical goods, clothes, groceries, and financial services.
Our findings challenge many previous stereotypes," SciVisum chief exec Deri Jones said. "The big spenders are now just as likely to live in the north as in London." ®


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Community News
Community Thanksgiving service Monday, November 24
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- Category: Community News
- Published on 23 November 2013
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
The annual Community Thanksgiving Church Service in Franklin County is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Sunday, November 24, at the Lake Chapel Church. Jack Wallace, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, will deliver the message for the event.
Everyone in the community is encouraged to attend the event to celebrate Thanksgiving. A love offering will be collected and given to the Ministerial Alliance to help those in need in the community.


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GameStop is offering a deal that may be intriguing to you the gamer.
Even at 50% extra, that is still 100% less than what they SHOULD give you! HA!
gamestop is a great store that i have always loved, i would have to buys like 4 brand new games to get twenty dollars worth
During these promos I've gotten as much as $40 for a single game. They typically only give small amounts for old games that have much less resale value.


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Archive for Friday, January 20, 2012
Food: Smooth operators
Smoothies blend nutrition and a simple package
January 20, 2012
Blend, baby, blend.
If you've set dietary goals for yourself in the new year, your best friend might just be your blender. Smoothies are an easy way to achieve, one frothy sip at a time. Whether you want to lose weight, gain weight, add veggies, add fruits, get more fiber, get more protein or break your kids (or yourself) of unhealthy soft drinks, there's a smoothie for you.
Karen Duggan, a certified nutrition consultant, says smoothies are one of the first weapons for better dietary health that she introduces to clients in and around Lawrence. One Saturday a month, she even serves up smoothies to college kids and community members at Baker University, where anyone can come and eat brunch on Saturdays. She's especially fond of adding dark, leafy greens such as kale, spinach and chard to smoothies with a fruit base.
"It's a great way to get some dark leafy greens into your diet. People sometimes have a difficult time eating them. But you never know they're in a smoothie," says Duggan, of Overbrook. "I just love how a smoothie enables you to get all the colors of the rainbow and eat your dark leafy greens. You get lots of good nutrition pretty economically without any preservatives and additives and chemicals and all that. And they don't need sugar either."
Duggan says this tactic is especially useful with children. Add some dark berries, or some cocoa and your kids won't even know there's spinach or kale in the smoothie.
But it works for adults, too.
Her basic smoothie for both young children and adults? Frozen banana, pure apple juice, dark leafy greens and an optional handful of blueberries if going green is a deterrent.
"I work with a lot of young moms and they'll go, 'My kids won't eat anything green.' Well, throw in blueberries, and then it turns it purple and then they won't know it's green," Duggan said. "That three-ingredient one is where I encourage people to start and that's what I use at the college campus. The frozen banana gives it that thickness that people like in smoothies."
Local Burger owner Hilary Brown said ingredients are everything when talking smoothies. Like Duggan, she likes them as pure as possible, avoiding adding anything too heavy. Unlike Duggan, she prefers a base of nondairy milk to juice. From there, the sky's the limit and the additions are unending. She allows customers at Local Burger, 714 Vt., Lawrence, to add in supplements, including coconut oil (which has medium-chain fatty acids), omega-3 heavy chia or flax seeds and even probiotics for gut health.
"We like coconut milk and rice milks — alternative milks — because of so many people who have issues with dairy," Brown says. "And then sweeteners like maple syrup and honey and agave and stevia. And then fresh fruits or real organic cocoa. ... You can add anything."
We've gathered a handful of smoothie recipes, so you can fire up your blender with an eye on health in 2012.
Spa Smoothies
2 cups plain or vanilla yogurt
1 bag (10 ounces) frozen strawberries
2 tablespoons orange juice
1 tablespoon honey
In blender, place ingredients. Cover; blend on medium speed until smooth. Add more honey to taste if desired.
Pour into 3 glasses. Serve immediately.
— Recipe from www.cascadianfarm.com
Basic Green Smoothie
1 frozen banana
1 to 1 1/2 cups apple juice (100 percent juice or apple cider – check labels for no preservatives or added sugars)
Kale or spinach (to taste, from a few leaves to a handful, de-stemmed)
Blueberries to taste (optional)
Blend all ingredients in a blender. Serves 1.
— Recipe by Karen Duggan, www.bodykarebykaren.info
Whey Protein Breakfast Blast
3/4 cup frozen blueberries
1/2 banana
3 tablespoons vanilla whey protein powder
1/2 cup skim milk (or non-dairy substitute)
2 teaspoons honey (optional)
3 ice cubes
1 tablespoon ground flaxseed
In a blender, thoroughly combine berries, banana, protein powder, milk and honey by pulsing a few times. Add ice cubes and blend until very smooth. Pour into a 16-ounce glass and sprinkle with ground flaxseed. Serves 1.
— Recipe from www.wholefoodsmarket.com
Savory Green Smoothie
1 cup water
4 stalks of celery with leaves, chopped
1 avocado
1 medium cucumber, with skin, chopped
1 lemon, peeled and seeded
1 handful of parsley
1 small clove of garlic
1/8-1/4 teaspoon Himalayan salt
Place all ingredients in a blender and blend on high until smooth. Drink immediately and enjoy! Serves 1-2.
— Recipe from www.nataliakw.com
Kick Start Smoothie
1 ripe banana, chunked
1 cup frozen fruit (berries, peaches, mango, pineapple or a mix)
1 cup plain low-fat yogurt
1/2 cup orange juice
1 - 2 tablespoons honey or agave syrup
Add the fruit first, then the yogurt, juice, and 1 tablespoon of sweetener.
Blitz on high until smooth. Taste for sweetness, adding additional sweetener if fruit is tart, then blitz again briefly to blend.
Pour and serve. Serves 2.
— Recipe from www.organicvalley.coop
Tart-N-Tangy Tropical Green Tea and Soy Smoothie
4 tea bags (organic green tea)
1/2 cup water
2 handfuls ice cubes
3 kiwi fruits, peeled and sliced
1 cup fresh pineapple, in chunks
1/2 cup banana, peeled and sliced (frozen too, if you like it creamy)
1/2 cup vanilla soy milk
1 cup no-pulp-added orange juice
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
1 tablespoon honey (or to taste)
Bring cold purified water to a boil and pour 1/2 cup over tea bags. Steep for 3-5 minutes; remove and squeeze tea bags. Add one handful of ice to the tea to bring down the temperature.
Pour the chilled green tea into a blender along with the remaining ice, kiwi slices, pineapple, banana, soy and juices. Blend until smooth. Add honey to taste and serve cold, preferably with an umbrella and fresh fruit garnish. Serves 2.
— Recipe from www.organicvalley.coop
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Hugh Moore's comedy journey began on the streets of NY where he was raised by his parents, a poor farrier and coppersmith team collectively known as the metallics.
While performing on the NY comedy scene Moore, affectionately known as "Catwoman" was an immediate stand out. His low key, deadpan, yet regal demeanor enabled him to perform regularly at the premiere comedy club The Comic Strip. Moore honed his skills at the club nightly and he wrote daily.
Working for Vibe led to him wearing normal clothing and writing on other shows such as MTV's The Lyricist Lounge Show, Fox's The Best Damn Sports Show Period and head writer on MTV's Nick Cannon Presents: Wildnout. The show that entered MooreÂ's name into the history books for being the lowest paid head writer in the history of television. Moore continues to perform standup all over the country.
His goals are to win an Emmy award and kick Tito Santana in the head.