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I loved "Off the Leash: A Year at the Dog Park" by Matthew Gilbert. As a former dog park person and now a neighborhood dog walker, I found myself relating to so much of what Gilbert describes in his book. Everyone knows all of the dogs' names and we refer to owners as Jack's mom or Nellie's mom. Eventually you get to know the other dog park peoples' names and then their stories. Gilbert's book is his story of his first year with Toby and how Toby helps him come out of his relatively introverted shell. Toby makes him make friendships with folks he would meet no where else but at the dog park. Gilbert, a television critic for The Boston Globe, wasn't even a dog person until he and his husband, Tom, decided to get an absolutely gorgeous yellow Labrador puppy. Gilbert worked at home and soon learned that a puppy needed exercise, a lot of exercise, so much exercise that walking on the sidewalks just wasn't enough for a very energetic puppy.
Gilbert, (actually Toby), finds Armory Park and then the dogs and their human companions at the park. At first he just lets Toby play and doesn't interact with the others. But as anyone who goes to a dog park knows that if you come come to a park with a puppy others will be drawn to you like a magnet and want to talk. And talk leads to learning everyone's names and eventually their stories. Gilbert aptly describes the dog park denizens, including an older gentleman, Saul, who doesn't have a dog anymore but loves dogs and tries so hard to connect with the dogs and their owners. One of the most poignant parts of "Off the Leash" is when Saul no longer comes to the park. Saul was in the early states of Alzheimer's and had a minor car accident and had to move in with his brother. The dog park people track down Saul's brother and find out that he needs more care than his brother can give and that he is moved to a retirement home. There are other stories that tug at the heart. Stories of when a dog dies. The dog park family rallies around the companion and brings food and tells stories and witnesses with the bereaved about the loss.
At other times "Off the Leash" is laugh out loud funny; dog people have stories to tell and if you are at a park, you have time to hear their stories. You also learn who follows the rules, and who doesn't, who joins in and who doesn't, and how the dog park people use their dogs to express feelings they would never normally share with anyone else. Gilbert calls this sharing dog ventriloquism.
If you have a dog or had a dog or want a dog, you will enjoy "Off the Leash". Your dog might too, Nellie did, I read numerous passages to her. She did not pass judgment, she is a dog, I did, I am am a dog park person.


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eurgh. I really want someone to beat Ozzy, he's so cocky and full of himself. -.-
How is Ozzy cocky? Is he anymore cocky than Cochran or Coach, Ozzy is confident his game and his confidence is helping him get through RI. I don't think he'll win the game but man he has been on RI and beat everyone who has came to challenge him.Ozzy fan forever.
This episode must be boring if this is the title quote. They say that every episode!
Personally, if I was a juror, I would vote for someone like Russell every time. I really enjoy watching smart, strategic players in this game, which has been really lacking this season, and quite frankly, it has been lacking ever since Heroes vs. Villains (unless you count Boston Rob's 'Buddy System' as a great strategic move ).I get quite irritated when someone like Sandra lies on the beach for 39 days and gets awarded a million dollars for it, but unfortunately that's how the game works! (Although I won't comment on Sandra's first season, as I haven't seen it.)That's just my personal thoughts!
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Patricia August Laquessa Ryfle, 1931-2009
My friend Steve Ryfle's mom died last weekend. Steve is the author of Japan's Favorite Mon-star (The Unauthorized Biography of Godzilla), one of the best books out there about Godzilla. I wanted to write about her because she was such an amazing woman. But I didn't really know her well enough. Stuart Galbraith IV, author of another amazing book on Japanese monster movies, Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo!: The Incredible World of Japanese Fantasy Films, wrote a much better piece than I ever could (Stuart's latest book is Japanese Cinema). He gave me permission to use it on this page. So here it is:
Steve Ryfle's mother, Pat, died over the weekend. It didn't come as a surprise; she had been in poor health for a long time, and spent the last few weeks at a hospice, gradually fading away.
If writing about somebody else's mother seems unusual - those who were lucky enough to have known Pat will understand. She was like everyone's favorite eccentric aunt, at times a mom-away-from-Mom.
To the envy of many, Pat loved and supported Steve like few moms did, which made his tender caring of her as Pat's health declined all the more touching. She often accompanied Steve to Godzilla movie marathons at the American Cinematheque and in Little Tokyo. She went with him to see Blaxploitation movies, to mainstream movies, to comic book conventions, and helped out with book signings when Steve's Japan's Favorite Mon-Star was published. The funny thing was, she had fun. She actually really, really liked the damndest movies, dating back to when Steve, then just a boy, took his mom to see Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster. When Steve took Pat to the world premiere of one of the recent Godzilla movies in Hollywood, my wife and I were shocked to discover Pat on one of the network news shows here in Japan, being interviewed about the film. Appropriately, her comments were dubbed into Japanese, but Yukiyo remembers her saying "Godzilla's roar is kinda sexy."
Pat was genuinely and justly proud of her writer-son. In her old apartment, Steve's writing was prominently on display. On one wall she kept a Mother's Day tribute column he wrote for her years ago when Steve was writing for a local newspaper. On another she had a framed picture of Steve - it might have been the portrait of him used by the same paper - under which Pat had written, proudly, "My Son, the Author."
Pat was such a constant yet welcome presence that, eventually, Steve's friends often invited Pat as well as Steve and his wife, Joal, to parties and other occasions. (She was there at a 2001 wedding party Yukiyo and I held at Sam Woo's, ahead of our actual wedding in Japan.) Pat was genuinely fun to have around - she was sweetly eccentric, rather like Stan Laurel's childlike screen persona. At one party at Steve and Joal's first house, somebody was making a toast, and Pat noticed the middle-aged man next to her wasn't drinking.
"What's the matter? Are you an alcoholic or something?" she asked, quite innocently.
"Er, uh....well, yes - as a matter of fact, I am," he replied.
"Aw, gee - that's too bad," Pat said, with genuine sadness. "Can't you have just one?"
Another time Pat sent Steve and I to the market down the street to fetch her some "free doughnuts" she had seen. As we walked down the block, we wondered what exactly had she meant by "free doughnuts?" We found the doughnuts, which were selling for whatever the going rate for doughnuts was back then.
When we returned, Steve asked Pat, "What did you mean, "free doughnuts?' They weren't free."
"Oh," she said, "I meant free-standing."
All Steve and I could do was look at one another, nonplussed. But to Pat, it made perfect sense.
Boy, how I miss her.


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|September 10, 1997
|Agency Addressed
|William O. Monroe, Director
Division of Accounting and Auditing
Office of Comptroller
|Draft Comptroller's Memorandum - Salary Overpayment Refund Processing
Attached is a draft Comptroller's Memorandum regarding proposed changes for processing salary refunds. Please review this draft memorandum and provide any comments by October 10, 1997, to:
|Allen Reams, Chief
|Bureau of State Payrolls
|Room 364 Fletcher Building
|Tallahassee, FL 32399-0350
|Fax No. 922-5181, Suncom 292-5181
If additional information is needed, please contact Jack Peterson at 850/414-1874, SUNCOM 994-1874 or Steve Isted at 850/414-7822, SUNCOM 994-7822, in the Bureau of State Payrolls.
By changing the way we have been processing salary refunds we feel we can provide a better service to each agency served by the Bureau of State Payrolls (BOSP). The proposed changes as discussed in the following paragraphs will allow for a more efficient utilization of staff at the BOSP as well as the agency, reduce significantly the amount of time spent on reconciliations both at BOSP and at the agency, eliminate any risk of loss of payment between the agency and BOSP (no inter-agency mailing of checks), reduce the time between processing transactions and posting transactions, allowing agencies to maintain control when overpayment is repaid on an installment basis. We feel the benefits discussed above far outweigh any transitional problems you might encounter when changing a business process as we are here.
The Office of Comptroller, Cashier's Office, will discontinue accepting deposits for salary refunds effective December 1, 1997. Salary refund checks or money orders received in the Cashier's Office after November 26 will be returned to the submitting agency unprocessed. To ensure proper implementation, agencies should cease mailing separate forms and checks as of November 21, 1997. Agency managers are responsible for establishing procedures to deposit cash, checks, and warrants for refunds of current and prior year(s) salary overpayments into an appropriate account. Agencies must submit journal transfer (JT) forms to the Bureau of State Payrolls' Salary Refund Clearing Trust Account 44-74-2-194001-44100000-00-001800-00. Attach the following items to each JT:
Mail all these materials to:
Salary Refund Processing
Bureau of State Payrolls
Department of Banking & Finance
Room B-23, Fletcher Building
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0350
Bureau of State Payrolls staff will verify that the submitted forms total the same amount as the JT and the agency proof tape. Forms containing incomplete or erroneous information will be returned to the submitting agency and the JT will be adjusted to reflect the returns. Please limit the number of refund forms attached to a single JT to twenty–five (25) to facilitate processing.
Appropriate revisions to Volume V, Section 2, of the Payroll Manual will be distributed separately. Agency managers and personnel should review the new procedures closely as agency requirements and responsibilities have changed considerably in the event of a returned check. There also are new requirements for the agency to maintain a running reconciliation of employee refunds deposited to the agency account and the amounts processed by BOSP.
Agencies are required to hold the salary refund form for an overpayment collected in installments until the full amount adjusting a single warrant is collected. As with other receipts, the individual checks or warrants making up the installments should be deposited as soon as possible. Timeliness is always of the utmost importance to ensure prompt posting to the agency account and employee records. Agencies should exercise particular care to expedite submission when approaching the end of the fiscal or calendar year.
Be aware that funds received by an agency in one calendar or fiscal year must be recorded as refunded in that same year. This requires submission of the refund form and JT (even if the installments are not complete) to the BOSP before the last scheduled cancellation run for the calendar year.
Thank you, in advance, for adhering to this new procedure. Should you encounter any problems or have questions during this transitional period, you may contact Jack Peterson at 850/414-1874, SUNCOM 994-1874 or Steve Isted at 850/414-7822, SUNCOM 994-7822, in the Bureau of State Payrolls.


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Current Population Survey: Annual Demographic File, 1997 (ICPSR 2154)
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This data collection supplies standard monthly labor force data as well as supplemental data on work experience, income, noncash benefits, and migration. Comprehensive information is given on the employment status, occupation, and industry of persons 15 years old and older. Additional data are available concerning weeks worked and hours per week worked, reason not working full-time, total income and income components, and residence on March 1, 1996. This file also contains data covering noncash income sources such as food stamps, school lunch programs, employer-provided group health insurance plans, employer-provided pension plans, personal health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, CHAMPUS or military health care, and energy assistance. Information on demographic characteristics, such as age, sex, race, household relationships, and Hispanic origin, is available for each person in the household enumerated.
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In this hierarchical dataset there are three record types. The first record type is Household, with 124 variables and 64,046 records. The second type is Family, with 72 variables and 56,763 records. The third type is Person, with 417 variables and 131,854 records. There is a total of 252,663 records.
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A national probability sample was used in selecting housing units. About 60,000 housing units were contacted, with an additional 3,000 Hispanic households added to the March survey sample. The sample was located in 792 sample areas comprising 2,007 counties and independent cities with coverage in every state and in the District of Columbia.
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Mortgage applications edged slightly higher last week, as rates fell to their lowest level since November.
Applications rose 3.6 percent on week. However, the move was entirely due to a 7 percent gain in refinances, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Meanwhile, applications to purchase a home fell less than one percent on week but dropped 12 percent on year.
Read MoreAll-cash deals hit 43% of total home sales in 1Q
The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($417,000 or less) decreased to 4.39 percent from 4.43 percent. Concerns over whether or not the European Central Bank (ECB) might undertake easing measures at its June policy meeting spooked equity markets last week. Lackluster retail sales this week didn't help matters. As investors flee to the relative security of the bond market, yields fall, and interest rates loosely follow those moves.


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Dmenu is a fast and lightweight dynamic menu launcher for X. It can be compared to 'Quicksilver' on OS X, or 'Launchy' on Windows. With a quick keystroke, the dmenu menu appears, enabling you to type the name of a program you wish to start.
Installing dmenu is simple:
pacman -S dmenu
Once it is installed, you will need to create a shell script to run it. The following script presents some common defaults:
#!/bin/sh $(dmenu_path | \ dmenu -fn '-*-terminus-*-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*' \ -nb '#000000' -nf '#FFFFFF' -sb '#0066ff')
Save the script somewhere (~/bin is a good choice) and make it executable.
Now, you will need to attach that shell script to a keystroke combination. This can be done either via your window manager or desktop environment configuration, or with a program like xbindkeys. See the Hotkeys article for more information.
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Last Member of Violent Take-Over Style Bank Robbery Crew Pleads Guilty
Defendants Responsible For String Of Robberies In Michigan, Ohio, And Washington
The final defendant of a violent bank robbery team pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. In all, seven defendants have entered guilty pleas to their roles in the string of bank robberies. JEANINE M. DANIELS, 32, of Los Angeles, California, pleaded guilty today. The other defendants are: CHARLES A. WILLIAMS, 40, KEVIN L. BROWN, 38; CURTIS W. SMITH, 22; and DOUGLAS L. SMITH, 22, all of Los Angeles, California; JANALISA ESTRADA, 33, Hollywood, California; and ANTHONY V. MOSLEY, 46, of Tacoma, Washington. All have entered guilty pleas and will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard A. Jones over the next few months.
According to records filed in the case, various members of the seven member ring participated in one or more of a string of takeover-style bank robberies in Washington, Ohio, Michigan and Colorado. During the robberies, subjects entered the banks in groups, covered head to toe in loose clothing and gloves, and demanded money while jumping over teller counters. The four robberies in Washington were: the May 25, 2012 robbery of a Wells Fargo branch on Pacific Avenue South in Tacoma; the September 6, 2012, robbery of a U.S. Bank Branch on Bridgeport Way in Lakewood; the October 22, 2012, robbery of a Wells Fargo Bank branch on Lake City Way in Seattle; and the December 20, 2012, robbery of a Wells Fargo Bank branch on 132nd Avenue NE in Kirkland. In their plea agreements, various members of the gang pleaded guilty to different robberies in Saline, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, Temperance, and Jackson, Michigan, and Toledo, Ohio. DANIELS was initially contacted by law enforcement following a bank robbery in Denver, Colorado.
"The FBI is pleased that Ms. Daniels and her partners are ultimately taking responsibility for their actions," said FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Laura M. Laughlin. "The harm they inflicted extends beyond the financial, to include the fear and trauma experienced by bank employees and customers, and the pain levied on their own families. While these seven subjects have accepted responsibility for robberies in Washington, Michigan, and Ohio, the South Sound Gang Task Force remains committed to investigating additional subjects and associated bank robberies. The task force combats gang violence in all its forms, and is dedicated to bringing criminals to face justice."
The South Sound Gang Task Force (SSGTF) in Washington arrested five of the subjects on December 22, 2012 on state bank robbery charges. The SSGTF arrested the subjects as they prepared to board a Greyhound bus to Los Angeles, California. Investigators were waiting at the bus station, based upon information that the group frequently traveled to Los Angeles by Greyhound bus within days of a bank robbery.
The Tacoma, Washington-based SSGTF investigated the robberies in Washington state in partnership with the Lakewood Police Department's Gang Unit and the FBI Seattle Safe Streets Task Force. The SSGTF is composed of members of the FBI Seattle Division, Lakewood and Tacoma Police Departments, the Washington State Patrol, the Washington State Department of Corrections, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). FBI entities nationwide collaborated in the investigation, including the Los Angeles Field Office and the Ann Arbor, Denver, and Toledo Resident Agencies.The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Mike Dion and Kate Crisham


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DJ Seven is well known for his amazing versatility and range, with an extreme depth of knowledge in many musical genres. He can be booked to play an alluring down tempo set to a reggae set to old school hip hop set to a deep funky house set to Sinatra and Tony Bennett. With sharp mixing skills and very innovative track selections and the ability to adapt to the audience, DJ Seven is the encyclopedia of all things musical, host and promoter extraordinaire.
DJ Seven DJed his first wedding at age 19 for a neighborhood friend. Since then he has built up his music collection to include almost every possible genre. With over 150 weddings under his belt, he has seen and done it all, from traditional and formal religious weddings, to more casual ones. In addition, he regularly plays all varieties of private parties, from birthdays, holiday parties, corporate events, store openings, fashion shows, graduation parties, and more. Often coined the "hardest working DJ in San Francisco", for the last ten years he's played almost every club in SF including top large billing venues like Ruby Skye, 1015 Folsom and Mezzanine. DJ Seven has been top 20 in Nitevibe's Top 10 DJ Dreamteam Contest competition three years running (2002-2005), voted lucky #7 for 2006.


text: A friend was recently in town for a visit. He'd just returned from 20 months with the Peace Corps on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. Before that he'd been a student at Middlebury College. And before that, he'd grown up in Kansas. Now the trees in St. Lucia don't have a season for shedding leaves. College students are not required to do lawn care. And Kansas doesn't have many trees — just prairies, yellow brick roads, and '70s rock bands.


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Even as individuals continue to struggle through the slow economy, investing professionals around the world report that there may be a light at the end of the tunnel -- or at least that the prospects for global economic growth in the coming year could be brighter. That is according to the Global Market Sentiment Survey 2013 released by the CFA Institute this week. CFA refers to the chartered financial analyst designation held by financial and investment professionals.
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40% of CFA members around the world expect the global economy to expand in 2013, up from 34% in 2012. 39% of CFAs in the United States expect worldwide economic expansion next year, up from 36% last year.
"There seems to be a higher level of comfort with global prospects and prospects primarily for equity markets," says John Rogers, CFA, president and CEO of the CFA Institute.
"Just seeing what's going on around us, we're one year further down the road in the European debt crisis, one year of healing from where we were at this time last year. We have the election out of the way in the U.S. The leadership transition in China and the new leadership appears to be market friendly. And we have very expansionary monetary policy on the part of central banks in all major economies," he says. Where will the best returns be?
CFAs are somewhat optimistic about equities for next year -- half of them are, at least. Globally, 50% of investment professionals surveyed say that out of available asset classes, equities are the best bet. That's up from 41% last year.
"The returns available from fixed income are obviously pretty limited based on absolute level of rates now. And the corporate sector's earnings prospects for next year appear to be fairly healthy, and the consensus forecast for earnings in the major economies are actually pretty good," Rogers says.
"Equity markets seem underpinned by reasonable earnings and, as our survey suggests, the basic underpinning of equity markets, which is economic growth, the prospects there appear to be decent," he says.
This year turned out to be pretty good for stocks despite everything going on. Do you believe next year will be better?
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Two Views of a Nebula
The top composite image is a view of the colorful Helix Nebula taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The object is so large that both telescopes were needed to capture a complete view. The Helix resembles a simple doughnut as seen from Earth. But looks can be deceiving. The bottom illustration shows how the Helix would appear if viewed from the side. In this illustration, the Helix consists of two gaseous disks nearly perpendicular to each other. The Helix is a planetary nebula, the glowing gaseous envelope expelled by a dying, sun-like star. The illustration was taken from a three-dimensional model of the Helix. A team of astronomers constructed the model, based on observations from several ground- and space-based observatories, including the Hubble telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys.
One possible scenario for the Helix's complex structure is that the dying star has a companion star. One disk may be perpendicular to the dying star's spin axis, while the other may lie in the orbital plane of the two stars. The Helix, located 690 light-years away, is one of the closest planetary nebulas to Earth.
The Hubble images were taken on November 19, 2002; the Cerro Tololo images on Sept. 17-18, 2003.
NASA, ESA, C.R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt University), and M. Meixner, P. McCullough, and G. Bacon (Space Telescope Science Institute)


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Shandong Novista Chemicals Co.,Ltd (Novista Group)
Chlorinated Polyethylene Hs Code,Chlorinated Polyethylene Applications,Chlorinated Polyethylene Adhesive
|Unit Price:
|USD 1000 - 1500 / Bag/Bags
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|Delivery Time:
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Model No.: CPE 135A
Classification: Chemical Additives
Appearance: Powder
Color: White
Packaging: 25KG/BAG
Brand: NOVISTA
Transportation: Ocean,Land,Air
Place of Origin: CHINA
Supply Ability: 30000mt
Certificate: ISO/REACH
Port: QINGDAO
Chlorinated Polyethylene (CPE135A) is white powder chloridized from high-density polyethylene. This product is a kind of elastomer with excellent resistance to oil, ozone and good fire resistance property. It has good mutual solubility with PVC and many kinds of plastic and rubber. It is main Impact Modifier of PVC and toughening agent of ABS, CPVC, PP, PS plastic
Equivalent Brand: Tyrin 7000 & 3615 produced By Dow Chemical
Molecular Formula: [ CH2-CHCl-CH2-CH2 ]n
EINECS No.: 208-407-7
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Kept in dry and ventilating place, avoid moisture, insolation and fire. No mix with other chemicals.
CPE-135A Packed in 25kg woven bag or 500kg bulk bag.
It is not dangerous cargo .You should handle the material according to the instruction described on MSDS.The MSDS is available from sales department once required.Our regular mark is printed on the surface of package in advance .You should inform our sales person in advance If you don`t need this or have any special demand for mark.
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2012-05-16 / Columnists
Pets Pets Pets
On May 9, "Ruby," a black cat and "Blueberry," a Chihuahua were honored guests at the fourth annual "Living Legends Luncheon" hosted by the Animal Medical Center (better known as "The AMC"). This event celebrates pets who have survived overwhelming odds, thanks to the cutting-edge technology and expert staff at the AMC, a world renowned veterinary hospital in Manhattan.
A foal named "11 Capricorn" was also an unofficial honoree, only present in pictures, for the young horse, now over one thousand pounds, has grown too large to fit in the elevator at the historic Harmonie Club. Besides, he would have had a "field day" noshing on everyone's delicious salad.
The AMC doesn't treat horses but last year when the sixweek old foal from a NJ racing farm had extreme difficulty breathing, his vets at an equine medical center were unable to pinpoint the cause of his airway obstruction and turned to the AMC for state-of-theart Interventional Radiology. Doctors there found a chest mass occluding a vein and two stents were successfully inserted to ease the blood flow in his heart. Then he was jammed into the AMC elevator to go to the third floor for a CAT scan to better identify the rare congenital mass. By the end of the day, the colt was back home with his distraught mom. He continues to recover well.
For over a century, the AMC on East 62nd Street has been a pioneering veterinary hospital with (equine) roots that go back to 1906 when Ellin Prince Speyer founded the Women's Auxiliary to the ASPCA. Their first major activity was a Work Horse Parade on Memorial Day 1907, encouraging peddlers and carriage drivers to treat their animals better. Thousands turned out, which inspired the group to establish their first AMC, a dispensary and low-cost clinic for poor and immigrant pet owners on the Lower East Side.
Weathering two World Wars plus the Depression, Speyer's compassionate concept continued to expand. The present high-rise facility was built in 1960. The AMC is now a 501(c) 3 non-profit veterinary center that remains a national leader in animal care. As an academic veterinary hospital, the AMC promotes the health and well-being of companion animals through advanced treatment, research and education with a staff of 80+ veterinarians who utilize an interdisciplinary team approach combining expertise in more than 25 key specialties and services 24/7. Discoveries and techniques perfected at innovative places like the AMC trickle down to all pets, and may even benefit homeless dogs and cats in the care of shelters and rescue groups.
Let's take a look at the 2012 AMC "Living Legends:"
•Ruby and her sister were kittens rescued off the streets of Seattle in 2005 by Katherine Scharhorn and Danielle Morgan. Two years later, Ruby developed seizures and was put on anti-convulsive drugs. The next year the seizures became a violent, daily occurrence, but luckily her owners were referred to the Neurology Service at the AMC.
Within moments Dr. Chad West noticed that Ruby had loss of vision in one eye and weakness on one side. He suspected a structural problem. An MRI revealed an old skull fracture and fluid build-up which suggested early head trauma, perhaps in utero. Dr. West prescribed a different regimen of three drugs that will continue indefinitely. Ruby has been completely seizure-free for four years.
Ruby is an exceptional cat. At home she snuggles with her sister, and is once again the gentle soul her family had always known. Her film-maker family has adjusted to her medical routine. Katherine feels their new schedule has allowed her time to write a screenplay; while Danielle whose own mom managed seizures believes she was meant to be Ruby's person.
On some level Ruby sensed the attention in the grand dining room was all on her behalf. She relaxed quietly on Danielle's lap while people pet her. It didn't bother Ruby one bit that she had 200 admirers. She merely continued to purr.
•Blueberry the Chihuahua puppy led a charmed life in Queens until one evening in November when he began screaming and shaking uncontrollably, and then his body suddenly went stiff. His owner Rosetta Bruni rushed him to the AMC unsure whether she would get there in time. An MRI showed that two of Blueberry's vertebrae had separated, twisting and compressing the spinal cord, causing a hemorrhage that could lead to permanent damage or death. He had a specific malformation found in Toy breeds but also in Dobies and Rotties.
Blueberry was wrapped in a stabilizing neck cast. Dr. Josh Gehrke explained that they could leave him in the rigid brace for a prolonged time and wait for scar tissue perhaps to form some sort of protection, or they could do a highly invasive surgery that had only been done a few times before and never on a dog as tiny as three pound Blueberry. The surgery required a small stainless steel implant that had to be custom made in Spain, but there were risks of paralysis or death. While they waited for the aparatus, Dr. Gehrke and Dr. John McCue consulted with the European surgeons who had performed the procedure called "Kishigami atlantoaxial tension band," and before attempting Blueberry's intricate five-hour operation, practiced with seven mock surgeries.
Blueberry spent a month hospitalized in his splint before the device arrived and another three weeks in recovery. Everyday his family would visit bringing his toys and a "seven-course meal." They were comforted seeing how bonded Blueberry had become to his medical team.
When Blueberry went home, he healed faster than anyone had anticipated. At the luncheon, he posed for photos in a tuxedo alongside his doctors. Sandra Bruni, Rosetta's daughter, spoke, closing with these remarks: "Dr. Gehrke (aka Dr. Josh), what can we ever say to you to express the gratitude and respect that we feel for you...you are truly our hero! That night in November, we prayed for a miracle and that miracle came in the form of you and the Animal Medical Center."
For Adoption at Babylon Town Shelter (631-643-9270) Lamar St. Babylon: "Shorty" # 94230 a Cattle Dog/Shepherd has grown up at the shelter. She was chained in a yard until her family faced eviction last July. She is very sociable but needs someone to teach her the basics and put her on a diet. "Snowbelle" #2-122 is a gorgeous Siamese mix who arrived at the shelter nursing five kittens. She and several of her kids are available in the lobby.
Dogs: "Blondie" yellow Lab/Pit captured in St. Charles Cemetery; wirehaired Dachshund mix pup.
Cats: "Mr. Man" #2-101 tuxedo found with his collar imbedded in his armpit; "Tabitha" #2-130 lovely Persian mix who is depressed in a cage.


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I just knew, just knew that when I mentioned Medicare approvingly in the last post that it would bring the trolls out of the woodwork, and I'd wind up getting sucked into a "Medicare sucks" argument without end.
OK, here goes. I'm going to say for the record that I'm feeling grumpy that I have to argue that the earth is not flat and I find the prospect of an eternal flame war in the comments unappetizing. So I'm going to make my case for the intuitively obvious and then I'm going to leave it there.
Good things about Medicare:
- I wasn't alive in 1965, so I don't know about then, but now, medical care is really expensive. Especially if you're sick. Especially especially if you're old and sick. Because old people always die (100% of the time!) and they often get sick shortly before they die. If you are old and sick and not named Warren Buffett, you might have trouble paying for your health care out of pocket. So you would probably have to go get medical insurance to pay for your health care. But the problem is, you're old, and that means you probably don't work any more, so you can't go to your employer for health insurance. And so you would have to go to that nice Mr McGuire at UnitedHealth to see if he would like to sell you some insurance. Now Mr McGuire doesn't want to give away his shareholders' money by taking on a lot of clients whose claims are likely to exceed their premiums ('cause you're old and sick), so he's either going to decline to sell you insurance, or he's going to charge you an actuarially-derived premium that will cover the expenses you are likely to generate. Since you're old (and sick), this is probably going to be a lot of money -- statistically the same as paying out of pocket, because that's what actuaries do. Since we already established (see above) that you are not Warren Buffett, you probably can't afford that. So, you see, it is going to be hard to find a for-profit private company that can create an affordable business model that includes paying for health care for the people who are statistically most likely to cost money. It turns out that this is something that government does well, because they can collect premiums and taxes and they don't need to make a profit.
- Medicare is really, really efficient. I run a $16 million, 50-physician corporation. Medicare is our best payer. No, they don't pay us the most, more's the pity. But they pay us the fastest, and with the least hassle. The average claim lag is like two weeks, and they never ever reject a claim. If all my patients were on Medicare, I would collect somewhat less money, but the administrative savings would almost-but-not-quite make up the difference.
- Medicare is really, really efficient operationally. Their administrative overhead is about 3%, which is to say that of every dollar in their budget, 97% goes out in claims paid. Private insurance firms simply cannot be this efficient. The typical overhead for commercial insurance, depending on which data you think is most accurate, is between 8 and 20%. (This is also consistent with my experience administering a medical insurance plan for our employees.) Medicare has some inherent advantages in this game -- it's not a fair fight. they don't have to pay stockholders a profit, nor executive salaries, nor do they need to market their services much. Since they have no profit motive, neither do they need to spend a lot of money figuring out the best way to deny claims, nor do they need to engage in pesky maintenance of a network of physicians. (Consider this fact the next time you rail against inefficient government bureaucracy.)
- Patients love it. When I said medicare was one of the most popular government programs, I was not referring to its popularity within the medical community, but among its 43 million beneficiaries. As I said, I am grumpy and too irritated to pull up real data, but here is one study showing Medicare as the third-most popular government service. (Strangely enough, behind the National Park Service. Go Smokey!) Or you can sift through the 250,000 hits on this Google search yourself and the many media reports which refer to medicare as a wildly popular service.
- Medicare distorts the market. They set the price for medical services in two ways. First, their conversion factor, updated annually, determines how much docs get paid en masse: Medicare is the biggest payer, and many private insurers pattern their reimbursement on Medicare rates. Second, their adoption of the RVRBS and the procedure-based bias of the RUC prevents physicians from setting prices for individual services at the level that the market could bear. This is directly responsible for the declining reimbursement that is so threatening the future of primary care in this nation. (This is partially remediable -- the RVRBS can be fixed, but Medicare will always be the 800-lb gorilla setting prices.)
- Medicare may be my best payer, but it's also the only one that can send me to jail. If Blue Cross doesn't like my coding, they can demand a refund. If Medicare audits me, or if the RAC contractors start paying attention to physicians, I have no recourse.
- Medicare is intrusive. When you get a letter from your local QIO suggesting that you have an EMTALA violation and they want to review all of your transfers for the last three years, that's a bad day for your practice. They set half-thought-out P4P measures, force you to accept the burden of the Joint Commission and EMTALA, and bring out half-baked Quality Measures of the week.
- Medicare is fickle. The reimbursement is subject to the whims of Congress in the budgetary cycle, and the SGR is the sword of Damocles hanging over our heads. The reimbursement level is always shrinking, which is not sustainable over thee long haul.
- Medicare is expensive, and has more severe sustainability issues. This is not the fault of the program. The growth of Medicare is almost entirely driven by two factors: the rate of inflation of medical services to all comers has drastically exceeded the general rate of inflation over the past two decades; and the demographic "graying of America." Simply, Congress is going to need to face up to this fact and increase the FICA tax to support medicare, or it will go broke. It is possible that this necessity can be staved off for a while with means-testing or benefit reductions, but it's coming and is inevitable.
(Fun link: Krugman, discussing and linking to the history of the right's efforts to block Medicare.)


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a19inc needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 150 designs submitted by 32 freelance designers.
Loft 204
Loft 204 is a new subsidiary of A19, which designs and manufactures ceramic lighting fixtures. http://www.a19.com
Loft 204 is currently open as an art gallery with its second opening reception scheduled for this coming Friday. We are working on the plans to expand Loft 204 into a gallery, showroom and retail store that will showcase art, accessories and unique home furnishings in addition to A19's handmade lighting…
The current exhibition is being promoted via http://www.facebook.com/Loft204
Locally, Claremont has some of the highest rates of college educated adults, has high median family income and residents are interested in green lifestyle choices as well as supporting local artists…
City of Claremont: http://www.ci.claremont.ca.us/
Business location: http://www.claremontpackinghouse.com/
In addition to the local retail business, we will continue to market to both residential and commercial interior designers, architects and specifiers.
As a current brand, A19's strongest aesthetic is bold, simple and natural. In addition to this, A19 is working to produce a new line of "green" (sustainable) fixtures. The brand of Loft 204 should therefore also be bold and simple and it should reference nature. There is a potentially convenient aesthetic intersection between A19's brand qualities and the history of the Claremont Packing House as a place for processing citrus.
Please design a logo and 2" x 3.5" business card for Loft 204.
I would like a tag line/description included on the business card. It can be anything to describe the business. (i.e. gallery, shop, store, boutique, showroom…)
Loft 204
Claremont Packing House
532 West First Street, #204
Claremont, CA 91711
The typeface(s) should be bold and easy to read.
No stock or clip art in the logo please.
The finished project should include:
-layered CMYK Photoshop document - *.psd
-Illustrator file *.ai.
-font(s) used.
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Page Oversees Hasbro Studios Production
Animation veteran Kathy Page has joined Hasbro Studios, where she will oversee production for the new production company's content.
Page previously was VP of animation at Sony Pictures Television, overseeing such series as The Spectacular Spider-Man and Sit Down, Shut Up. Her career also has seen stops at Warner Bros. Television Animation and Film Roman.
'Kathy's extensive production and management experience, overseeing many top-rated series throughout her career, will be invaluable to us as we re-imagine Hasbro's world class brands for television,' said Stephen J. Davis, studio president. 'Kathy has already been working closely with our studio development team and outside creative stewards on a consulting basis, so she hits the ground running as we continue to ramp up production of best in class content for the kids and family market.'
Hasbro Studios will air most of its content on The Hub, a new television network launching this fall as a co-operative venture with Discovery Communications.


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Communication Alumnus Supports SCMA with $30,000 Gift
As a principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers, or PwC, Mark Lobel '85 is responsible for providing consulting services to major entertainment media companies on cyber security issues. Since graduating from Oswego with a broadcasting and mass communication degree, he has witnessed major changes in the media, and says that this change is not over yet. "I think


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I've been using a 17m Ozone Zephyr for the last year or so for light wind cruising. It has been a very good light wind kite for me. I recently picked up a 19m Core Riot. I've only got a couple of hours on it, but here is a bit of info for others who enjoy light wind Cruising.
Span (flat): Riot - 30' Zephyr - 28'4"
Width or chord at mid kite (flat): Riot - 7'6" Zephyr - 7'
Weight: Riot - 11lb. Zephyr - 10lb.
Note: all measurements are approximate
I rigged and then launched the Riot19 in the water. Wind was 7 to 9 kt as measured by a Sailflow station about 500 yards away. The kite easily rolled up onto a tip and launched. After launch, it was stable overhead. I kited on a Sector 60 and and a Flydoor XL and enjoyed the session. The Riot19 was smooth and very controllable. Compared to the Zephyr, it seemed to launch off the water a bit easier, provide a bit more power, and it did seem to turn a bit quicker. This is strictly a subjective observation as I did not have my Zephyr rigged for side by side comparison.
After a couple of hours, the wind built to 17 kt. I switched to a CrazyFly LW board which was the smallest board I had with me. The kite was controllable and I was still having fun, but then I'd never rig the Riot19 for anything over 10-12kt.
I'm 170 lbs and have been kiting a little over a year. I'm not a finesse guy so I need a big kite and a big board to get going in light air. Not a dealer, rep, or promoter - just a guy who likes to kite in anything from 8 to 30.


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text: Hollywood actress Shiloh Rush as EnsignTara Guard from the sci-fi TV series Bulwark, but nobody knows Shiloh is leading a double life. Haunted by the mysterious disappearance of her favorite brother, a secret agent for the Zygan Federation, an intergalactic empire hidden from Earth, Shiloh follows in his footsteps to track him down. During this quest, Shiloh and her co-star and co-agent Spud, fly into space--for real--to stop terrorists and invaders who could destroy the Federation and kill millions throughout the universe. Sent back in time to Earth's Ancient Middle East to save the life of a young prophet and prevent Earth's destruction, Shiloh and Spud stumble on a diabolical conspiracy and barely escape with their lives. Their assignment sabotaged, Shiloh and Spud discover the villains' real mission, face powerful enemy fighters from warrior planets and traitors from their own ranks, and race against time to save Earth.


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When U.S. senators were picking apart the Obama administration's plan for a stand-alone consumer-protection bureau during negotiations on the financial-rules overhaul, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner agreed to put it under the Federal Reserve to ensure that Republican lawmakers wouldn't kill it.
Geithner calculated the bureau wouldn't be affected and backing down would help get the 2010 legislation passed. His compromise illustrates the pragmatic approach Geithner embraced in pressing for Dodd-Frank during his four years at the Treasury and will need to draw on in one final test as the administration's lead negotiator with Congress on the so-called fiscal cliff.
"There were some very ticklish issues that had to be dealt with," former Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, the bill's co-sponsor, said in an interview. "Tim was certainly reaching out. He made a big difference in making sure we could keep people together on what we ultimately came up with."
Geithner -- the longest-serving and most influential of President Barack Obama's economic advisers -- will leave the Treasury in mid-January after testifying before Congress 67 times, appearing 24 times on Sunday talk shows and making 98 trips within the U.S. and abroad. He's staying to deal with more than $600 billion in tax increases and spending cuts that take effect automatically in January unless Congress acts. If the cliff isn't averted, the U.S. could fall back into recession, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Higher Taxes
Geithner and the administration are insisting on higher taxes for the largest-income earners while pushing for an extension of middle-class tax cuts. Republicans have signaled a willingness to discuss those measures in exchange for reductions in entitlement spending.
Geithner goes into the talks shaped by crises. In September 2008, four months before he moved to the Treasury, he was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York when the government rescued insurer American International Group Inc. and allowed Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. to go into bankruptcy. By the end of 2009, Europe fell into a debt crisis and Geithner became the chief U.S. liaison with European officials.
"You learn a lot about someone in the midst of a crisis," Henry Paulson, Treasury secretary under President George W. Bush during the bailouts, said in an interview. "He was a terrific partner and had great energy and stamina, someone who was always very calm."
Deserve Credit
Paulson said Geithner deserves "great credit for skillfully navigating a very difficult transition and balancing the tendency of a new president to change direction while understanding the need to maintain stability and build on what had been put in place to restore the markets."
The U.S. lost more than 2 million jobs in the first quarter of 2009, and gross domestic product was shrinking at a 5.3 percent annual rate. For the quarter ending Sept. 30 of this year, 521,000 jobs were added, and the economy grew at a 2.7 percent rate. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index has more than doubled since reaching a 12-year low on March 9, 2009. Even so, the deficit has surpassed $1 trillion in each of the last four fiscal years, and public debt as a percentage of GDP is the highest since 1950.
Geithner will exit as one of the Obama administration's most divisive figures because of his leadership roles in Dodd- Frank and the bailouts of Wall Street banks.
Supporters, Critics
Supporter Lee Sachs, a Geithner aide in 2009 and early 2010, says the Treasury secretary "probably did as much as anybody in the country to help prevent a depression." He "is very good about making sure he understands the whole playing field and has done his homework," Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin said in an interview. "And then he plays his cards very adroitly."
Critics Sheila Bair, former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., and Neil Barofsky, former special inspector general of the bailout program, wrote books this year in which they accuse Geithner of being more interested in helping financial institutions than homeowners.
Geithner was "the bailouter in chief" who supported the "propping up of all the big banks," Bair wrote in "Bull by the Horns." She said Geithner advocated policies that accommodated weak institutions and didn't put a priority on protecting taxpayers or helping households struggling to avert foreclosure.
Republicans say Geithner has done little to address the housing slump or the $1.09 trillion budget deficit.
Mortgage-Finance 'Shambles'
"The fiscal situation is uncertain, and our mortgage- finance system is a shambles," said Mark Calabria, director of financial-regulation studies at the Cato Institute, a Washington-based research group that promotes limited government and free markets, and a former aide to Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee.
"It's hard to imagine a Treasury secretary who has left more undone or unfixed, though they weren't all things that he broke," he said.
Geithner declined to be interviewed about his legacy. In July, he told Charlie Rose there were no alternatives to the measures the administration took to "protect Main Street" and pull "the economy back from the abyss." He said "there are millions and millions of Americans in their homes today" because of the efforts to prevent foreclosures.
Election Victory
Obama's Nov. 6 election victory may boost Geithner's legacy because "if a year or two from now we have a strong economy, all of Tim Geithner's sins will be essentially forgiven," Calabria said.
The 51-year-old got off to a rough start. His failure to pay more than $34,000 in taxes was disclosed after Obama nominated him, and he won Senate confirmation in January 2009 by the slimmest margin for a Treasury secretary since World War II. His roll out of a bank-rescue plan on Feb. 10, 2009, triggered a 4.9 percent drop in the S&P 500 as investors dismissed his proposal as inadequate.
"Geithner is not the best communicator," said Stan Collender, a former aide to the House and Senate budget committees who is now a partner at Qorvis Communications in Washington. "As smart as he is, he's not an empathetic, inspire-confidence, charismatic kind of leader."
Public Outcry
The following month, Geithner was caught in a public outcry over $165 million in bonuses paid to employees of the AIG unit blamed for the insurer's near-collapse. Barofsky said the Treasury had paid "scant attention" to AIG's pay structure, and Obama called the bonuses an "outrage." Lawmakers including Representative Darrell Issa, a California Republican, said Geithner should quit.
"He went through a hell of a fire," former White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley said in an interview. "Everybody dumped all over him; everybody wanted him fired in '09. And he hung in there."
A turning point may have been the May 2009 stress tests for 19 of the biggest U.S. banks, including Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. Geithner was the administration's chief proponent of the examinations, which boosted investor confidence in the financial firms.
His lasting mark, though, may turn out to be his leadership of the drive for Dodd-Frank in the face of vigorous opposition from Republicans and Wall Street lobbyists.
Another Name
"If you want to put another name on the bill, Tim Geithner's name belongs on it," Dodd said. Geithner was valuable explaining to lawmakers complex issues such as derivatives and the Volcker rule, said Dodd, who is now head of the Motion Picture Association of America.
The bill created the consumer bureau, toughened rules on derivatives trading, set up a liquidation process for failing banks and put under Fed supervision bank-holding companies with more than $50 billion in assets -- a group that includes Citigroup Inc., Bank of America and Morgan Stanley.
Geithner's mantra was that banks need enough capital to ensure that one company's mistakes don't cause a broader panic.
"The critical thing was to make sure that banks and other meaningful financial institutions had huge amounts of capital available" so when they suffered losses, the financial system would be "properly insulated," Wolin said.
Some Dodd-Frank work may not be completed until after Geithner leaves the Treasury. Regulators still are working on writing provisions, including the proprietary-trading ban named for former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker that's intended to reduce the chance banks will risk depositors' money.
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The third preseason game is over, and Raiders coach Dennis Allen still doesn't know who his starting quarterback is.
Allen said after Friday night's loss to the Bears that he wasn't impressed by the performance Matt Flynn, who started the game and is considered the favorite in the quarterback competition. Allen added that he liked what he saw of Terrelle Pryor, who has been behind Flynn on the depth chart all offseason.
"I think obviously we have to look at it," Allen said when asked who his starting quarterback is. "I think when you look at it I don't think Matt played well in this game. Obviously, I thought Terrelle came in and gave us a spark. I thought he played well in the game. I think that's something that we have to go and look at it. I'm not going to make any decisions on anything, obviously, tonight. I want to get a chance to go back and look at the tape and see how things went. But it was obvious that Terrelle gave us a little bit of a spark tonight."
Flynn's outing was disastrous: He threw six passes, and two of them were intercepted. His longest completion was nine yards, and that came on a third-and-12. He also fumbled a snap, and he was sacked once.
Pryor, however, played very well. He completed seven of nine passes for 93 yards and a touchdown, and he also had a 25-yard touchdown run. The Raiders were losing 24-0 when Pryor came in for Flynn in the second quarter, but by the time Pryor left at the end of the third quarter, they had closed the gap to 27-20.
Asked if Pryor gave the team the best chance to win, Allen said, "I think Terrelle played better tonight." Now Allen has to decide who he thinks is going to play better when the Raiders open the season at Indianapolis in 15 days.


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Oilers 3, Flames 1 – Game 71 – 2012-03-16 @ 7:30 PM MST – SNETW
OK, so we finally lived up to our end of the Battle of Alberta for the last match up with Calgary, and Calgary no-showed. Leaves me curious as to which team will no-show tonight… or will we finally have a real Battle of Alberta?
Teemu Hartikainen will draw in tongiht, taking Linus Omark out of the lineup. Ben Eager skated today, but he isn't ready to go yet… maybe Sunday he will play.
Doobie gets the start, after a shutout in his last game. According to Oilers Nation, "Flames people" (I presume that means media and/or fans) are predicting a start by Leland Irving in net for the Flames. That probably doesn't bode well for us, as I always have thought that we stink it up against the "back ups". But hey, who knows.
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Sunday, April 21, 2013
Dekho Sessions at the Sea Lounge...
16 comments:
- Tsomo85 said...
Leaving Archie comic a side!!!! Shobhaa De a lot of my friends know you from their high school days in India. Their reaction always comes "ohhh I know her from this book and that book." And mind ya these people are not Indian. Also one of this former American dentist lady surprised me when she mention that she's a fan of you. She had read all these bollywood nite, socialite etc, etc masala books of yours and constantly chased me how would she get/purchase the magazine where you were on it's cover page!!! And I don't blame her after all I too were fantasizes and fascinated by your show back in early 90s. Although without any conscious of your existence! But the credit still counts no!!!
And guess what????? Before there was hi5, twitter, orkut, or facebook,,,,,,,, In the late 90s, there was this thing call ASIANAVENUE, XINGA BLOG SPOT, etc here in US. Where all the Asian American actively socialize. And nobody really gives damn of each other, there was no rage, nothing. We just go there, express our personal views and post tons of pictures, mostly from our social life! It's pretty much like your blogging style! There was no restriction to anything! Nobody gives a damn! And everybody had similar style of socializing! A lot of people really liked looking at strangers photos although it had no impact to our personal life. And there was no abuse or anything. And it lasted for decades, everybody did the same thing and was never bothered till we got introduced to all these new social networks. So I must say you sure were way ahead of your time. I've hardly see any other bloggers with your style of blogging just as us Americans. So keep it up ms.De! Proud to be American!!!
- April 21, 2013 at 9:58 PM
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- April 21, 2013 at 10:03 PM
- Tsomo85 said...
Ops sorry about the errors all over my comments.
And guess what? Do you follow the CBS chat show "the talk"?? Well, you listen to Julie Chen and you'll know what the true American Gal is all about!!!!! :)
- April 22, 2013 at 12:38 AM
Explains my predicament best!
- April 22, 2013 at 1:29 AM
- Abhirami Muthu said...
If only you had written this article prior to my 'dekho session' and knocked some sense into my well-meaning parents. 'Trust your daughters a little more. Credit them with good sense. Let them make their own mistakes.' - I wish I can mail this small but important paragraph to all hot-headed 'conservative' parents in India. Have faith that you have done a good job as parents and leave them to live life on their terms. Guide them and reassure them that you will be there to support them.
- April 22, 2013 at 3:37 AM
- Pooja Rathore said...
looking nice De - i like the fact that you take care of yourself and look gorgeous,lot of women your age dont care much about their looks(forget 60 by 40 they say i dont get time or for what?,i want to show your pic and tell them why not?whatever said and done fact is women who take intrest in themselves actually attract positive intrest from others -my logic.
Fantastic column on dating and all true i belong to rajput community (yet to be married...dekho sessions going on...)i was surprised and shocked the guys rarely turned up its the parents who do all the talking even though the guys are highly qualified,studied abroad etc...honestly iam sick and tired of meeting parents(at the age of 30 we know what we want and if we need help we will ask) hope the scene changes and i meet the kind of guy iam waiting to meet.
- April 22, 2013 at 4:43 PM
Well, Shobhaa, in this column, you are at your chatty best.
We in India can be such prods.
Thanks to television's invasion into living rooms bringing everything from Bhagwad Gita to bullshit, from Bible evangelists to those who egg uninformed Muslim into Jihad of the sword [a forgery into the Koran, say Islamic scholars as it contradicts the rules of war laid down elsewhere in the Book] from passionate kissing scenes [in some Hollywood movies] to hardcore pornography [let us openly admit that most cable-wallahs show them at nights with the connivance of local cops] rules have changed for the better or worse, depending from which side one looks.
I have a daughter who introduced my son-in-law to me. She is happily married.
I was married to a woman for 28 years and had to undergo a painful divorce ... and it still hurts.
The arranged marriage [after the girl dekho-fying ritual at our home in the presence of our parents and siblings] of a younger brother ended in a divorce, but he remarried ... a widow and they are happy now.
While I had worked for the BBC in London, I heard someone say in a radio chat show something to this effect: "Do not kiss in public in India, it is looked down upon."
Today the rules of the game have changed after kisses' galore have been featured on our big and small screens.
One can see the young and the middle-aged kissing in public not only in progressive cities like Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata but also in conservative Chennai.
Our censor boards had been prudish. In Mughal-e-Azam, there is a scene of Prince Salim played by Dilip Kumar a.k.a. Yusuf Khan leading Anarkali played by the immortal Madhubala behind the bushes in the palace. The censors wanted that scene snipped saying, "it looks as though the hero is trying to kiss the heroine."
Director Asif won the day by offering his comment thus: "Would you only kiss a beautiful female behind the bushes beyond everyone's view? In my mind's screenplay I imply that they are having sex!"
Not many would remember you Shobhaa with the second names Rajadhyaksha and Kilachand. I do, as I grew up in Mumbai. Today, as a liberated woman, I am sure, you are as happy as a lark after you married Dilip in 1984 after a 3-year courtship. The concept of "yours, mine and ours" in the form of your six children - all part of a large happy family - is working fine with you, in my opinion, primarily because you never had any blinkers on attitude.
Ultimately, the liberated woman is the thing to be and not the "Rasoi Behenji" types that idiot film producers like to portray as the ubiquitous Indian woman.
Here are two blogs I had written about emancipation of women:
- April 23, 2013 at 7:10 AM
- kevna manokanthi said...
Hai shobhaa,
Who are entertaining whom.with reference to IPL matches and the cheer girls,I strongly object the mindset of people getting entertained by cheer girls.Here again you are showing the society a biased feeling.If its a celebration,then allow all the dancers male and female to perform and entertain the crowd.While on streets and at many places its the guys who dance with theen-maar beats for every six or the opponents out.
I am making a point with a mind that you carry certain issues well
- April 23, 2013 at 11:42 PM
- Sharmila said...
hiiii, nice article.. though i never had to face the arranged marriage situation, since I am blessed with a truely progressive parents. They didnt even blink when I refused to go for an arranged match, that I will marry only when I truely fall in love!!! 20 years on, with a teenage daughter now, I admire the way they trusted and handled me!!!
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...When we stopped thinking in terms of physical and digital, what began to emerge were discussions that focused purely on learning, teaching, and space deisgn. Our roadmaps for individualized professional development emerged. http://www.ryanbretag.com/blog/?p=2263
Our discussions evolved to learning focused including the move away from "knowledge commons" to "learning commons". http://www.ryanbretag.com/blog/?p=845
A subtle but important shift. It elevated the importance of space design regardless of physical or digital. The result being the IDEA. http://www.ryanbretag.com/blog/?p=2024
We also started to focus on formal and informal learning, blended learning, and edges. This allowed for a three tiered PD program to emerge.
This has and continues to serve us well but there remains a critical piece missing. The digital piece to the learning commons. For me, it is a critical gap and we've not been able to fill it with a social networking tool of any value. Yes, we've discussed Facebook but the discussions with students, teachers, parents and administrators always left us with no solid answer.
So, this is where I've seen it needing to go…
By Ryan Bretag http://www.ryanbretag.com/blog/?p=2432
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Eddye Vanderkwaak's life story is really two tales.
Eddye Vanderkwaak's life story is really two tales.
There's the girl who grew up in a dysfunctional home in Iowa until she was 14, living primarily with her father. It was a week-to-week existence, with her father borrowing from friends and family members to cover the bills.
Then there's the girl who rebounded in the foster care system and now at age 21 is about to earn an associate's degree in liberal arts from a community college. That success has inspired her to apply to law school with the hope of becoming a judge overseeing child welfare cases.
It's been a dramatic transformation - one that Vanderkwaak admits might not have happened if not for Opportunity Passport, a financial education program developed by the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative.
In September, Vanderkwaak attended a conference in Washington for the release of a report, "Enduring Assets: Findings from a Study on the Financial Lives of Young People Transitioning from Foster Care." The study was prepared by researchers who focused on how personal financial education can play a key role in helping youngsters move from the foster care system into college and independent living.
That's part of the mission of the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, named in memory of the founder of United Parcel Service. Founded 11 years ago, the St. Louis-based organization provides financial support through Operation Passport's matched savings program of up to $1,000 a year to young people in foster care who are coming into adulthood.
The donor-supported program is organized in 15 states for young people ages 14 to 23 who were in foster care after their 14th birthday.
More than 6,000 teens and young adults have collectively saved $5 million to be used for education, an apartment, a car or other assets, according to the youth organization.
Vanderkwaak is one of them.
But before receiving any financial help, she had to participate in a training program to learn about budgeting, banking and other money matters. Gaining this knowledge opened her eyes to the possibility of attending college.
Given the difficulties many teens and young adults face in getting a grip on money issues, Vanderkwaak urges them to:
� Keep a budget and track spending. It's important to know how much money you make, when and how often you get paid, and what fixed expenses you have each month, she said.
� Plan ahead - especially for the unexpected.
� If you need to borrow, always repay your debts on time.
� Do your research, and never be afraid to ask questions.
As Vanderkwaak learned, it's OK if you don't know all the answers. It's also OK to reach out for help.
Contact Steve Rosen, a personal finance columnist at The Kansas City Star, at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Bruce Becker, a physician and research professor at Washington State University, recently remarked about warm-water immersion with an analogy. "You know when you come home from a long day at work and you're stressed out?" he asks. "You want to sink into a hot bathtub and go, 'Ahhh.' I'm trying to figure out what the hell that 'Ahhh' is all about."
Becker's efforts focus on the benefits to the autonomic nervous system of soaking in water with a temperature of 102 degrees Fahrenheit. An individual's autonomic nervous system helps him or her adapt to changes in environment and affects such vital functions as heart rate, digestion, respiration, salivation, circulation and even sexual arousal. While in a constant state of flux, its two subsystems — the sympathetic nervous system (which escalates under stress) and the parasympathetic nervous system (which promotes calm) — fall into balance when the body is immersed in warm water, according to Becker's findings.
Hot Tubs Bring a "Balanced State"
That balanced state has been associated with a reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease, improved memory, enhanced cognitive processes and increased concentration. "The autonomic nervous system responds to warm water immersion the same way it responds to meditation or a number of other relaxed states," Becker says.
While such claims seem logical on the surface, there has been little scientific evidence to support them before now. "Spas have a perception of being used for fun and socializing," says Chris Robinson, a division director for the Hot Tub Council. "That seems to be limiting their demographics and not promoting their full utility. We know, empirically, that spas make people feel better. They relax you, help you sleep better and provide benefits for sore muscles. But there has been no proof of that medically."
That's why Becker's research at WSU's National Aquatic & Sports Medicine Institute — funded with grants from the Hot Tub Council, the National Swimming Pool Foundation and AQUA's parent company Athletic Business — is considered so important. Most of the current literature on immersion focuses on subjects in a supine floating position, rather than in the seated position that is more common in a spa.
Becker presented the initial results of his research at the World Aquatic Health Conference last October and expects to conduct related studies throughout 2010. Specifically, he plans to explore how long the autonomic nervous system remains balanced after warm-water immersion, as well as the effects of immersion on moods, cognitive function and memory.
"The technology to look at this easily, non invasively and in an aquatic environment has not been around all that long," says Becker, NASMI's director, whose interest in aquatic therapy dates back to the 1980s, when he started working with elite athletes through Nike's Olympic Development Program.
"I'm a rehab doc by training, so I've used water as a rehab and recovery environment through much of my professional career and have been frustrated by the lack of supporting research to really document what's happening. Do I know that it works? Yeah. Do I know why it works? No."
The Hot Tub Experiment
In Becker's experiment, three tubs filled with water — each large enough to hold as many as four adults — were housed in one of the research laboratories at NASMI headquarters. One by one, 16 college-age students and 16 adults between the ages of 45 and 64 took turns sitting for 24 minutes in each of the tubs during evaluation sessions conducted by Becker and his team of researchers in 2008 and 2009. Resting measurements of heart rate and blood pressure were taken to establish a baseline, and participants' core body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, pulse, circulatory functions and respiratory status were monitored during their immersion time in each tub. In between his or her immersions, the test subject would sit for 12 minutes outside of the water in order to reestablish the baseline.
The first tub was filled with 87-degree water. Any cooler than that, and people would start shivering, Becker says, "so we settled on a temperature that most people certainly wouldn't define as cold. When you get into it, it doesn't feel cold, but you're sitting immobile. I participated in the study, and my teeth were chattering in about six minutes."
The second tub contained what researchers referred to as a "neutral" temperature of 94 degrees, and the "hot" tub registered at 102 degrees, "which isn't hot by the way some people set their hot tubs," Becker says. "If you set the hot tub at 104 degrees, which is what most commercial facilities do, people are not able to stay in long enough to get the therapeutic benefits out of it that they could if you set it to a cooler temperature. In our study, most people really were pretty anxious to get out after 24 minutes. We tried going warmer than 102, and they just couldn't stay in, or they got really lightheaded when they got out — if they managed to stay in for the entire time."
The two age groups analyzed were chosen because of their healthy youthfulness, in the case of college students, and because middle-age adults have sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems that typically remain in a greater state of flux.
At his research's most basic level, Becker and his colleagues found that immersion in warm water tends to reduce stress levels for all participants. The degree of stress reduced varied from subject to subject, but all of them responded in the same way.
Robinson, who also is the business manager for Lucite Acrylic Sheet, the division of Lucite International that makes surface material for residential spas, is simply pleased that Becker has gotten this far. "I'd like to think this is the beginning of a paradigm shift in the way people think about spas," he says. "This promotes hot tub use for general therapy, and I think we can use that to help people realize how they can benefit more from the experience. The more of these general studies we can do, the better off the industry will be."
Underwater Exploration
Bruce Becker's research at Washington State University may be the first of its kind to focus on how warm water affects the autonomic nervous system. But several other projects are seeking to help facility operators and users better understand water's healing power.
Among the most significant development is a new aquatic rehabilitation component of the U.S. Army's Wounded Warriors program. Mary Wykle, a Northern Virginia Community College professor who believes soldiers and athletes have similar rehab needs, is coordinating the program at Wounded Warrior Transition Units, which provide critical support to wounded soldiers and their families. Currently piloted at Fort Lewis, Wash., and Virginia-based Fort Eustis and Fort Belvoir, the aquatic element is expected to eventually involve as many as 10,000 soldiers and will include two phases. One will prepare the wounded for recovery from injuries, and the other will help them return to active duty or civilian life. Projected results include pain reduction, enhanced fitness, and improved range of motion, balance, and core and extremity strength.
While the program isn't formally a research project, data will be gathered on participants' progress by location, gender, age, rank and injury, and then compared to that of soldiers in traditional rehabilitation programs. "It'll be interesting to see, as the results of that program begin to come in, whether or not there is an enhanced level of potential funding," says Becker, a physician and WSU research professor who helped design the aquatics component for the Wounded Warriors program. "Obviously, the things that we've found with warm-water immersion may be profoundly helpful in post-traumatic stress disorder."
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Shall we?
Full disclosure – I want Newt Gingrich to be the GOP nominee like a Cubs fan wants her team to beat the White Sox.
He's a walking and talking content creating machine, y'all!
Example… Newt thinks child labor laws are stupid…and that poor people raise children incapable of working because they've never seen anyone work 'cause the only reason anyone isn't working right now is because they are too damned ignorant and lazy to figure out how to get one of the fabillion trillion jobs out there.
The thing is that Newt holds misconceptions that too many folks do – that poverty is an inner-city problem, that poor people are lazy, and that the current unemployment crisis is some special kind of thing 'cause it hit regular people, so folks who have been unemployed or under-employed for decades must have something wrong with them while folks who are newly unemployed are totally different.
Back on earth, poverty is an equal opportunity situation. The newly unemployed provide a damn good example of how the long-term unemployment happens…unemployment + bills + no new jobs = economic drama.
But Newt ain't trying to hear that shit.
He wants "inner-city" poor kids to learn how to work by providing janitorial services. In his defense, Newt doesn't cotillion with the masses much. He's also not half as clever as he thinks he is…which is why he proposed that janitorial solution without pondering the fact that if there isn't a janitor then that's a grown-person job that ain't being staffed not an unpaid learning opportunity for a 10 year old.
Keep talking, Newt…please…