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There isn't much fiction taking place in this illustrious period of Egyptian history, despite its well-known historical figures (Nefertiti, Akhenaten, Tutankhamun) and major religious controversies, not to mention the many archaeological discoveries from the era. The industry seems to believe that aside from Cleopatra's time, ancient Egypt is a hard sell: the customs are too strange, the polytheistic religion too unrelatable, the names too unromantic.
I don't know about everyone else, but when I pick up a new historical novel, I don't want to read about people just like me.
For readers who crave fiction in this most promising of settings, Lavender Ironside's The Sekhmet Bed will be a treat. Opening in 1506 BCE, upon the death of Amunhotep I, it depicts a colorful, exotic land filled with feminine power and competition and the interference of demanding gods. Ahmose, the future mother of Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt's most successful female pharaoh, is the heroine – which may be a first. Little is known about Queen Ahmose's life or family relationships, which gives Ironside ample room for her interpretation.
A highlight is the fluid, accessible writing style. The descriptions are striking and culture-appropriate – the mosaic floors, the shining Nile waters, a man's jackal-like laugh – yet don't get in the way of the swift-moving plot. Ahmose, a young woman of fourteen, grabbed my attention from the start. She is just beginning to discover herself as a person when she's thrust into an unimaginably difficult position. Ahmose, rather than her beautiful 16-year-old sister Mutnofret, is chosen by her mother and grandmother, Egypt's high priestess, to become Great Royal Wife to Thutmose, the soldier hand-picked to be the new pharaoh.
When Thutmose takes Mutnofret as his second wife, their sisterly rivalry is taken to extremes, a premise that has gotten to be familiar. There are obvious comparisons to The Other Boleyn Girl and, some six generations after this novel takes place, Nefertiti and Mutnodjmet in Michelle Moran's first book. The difference here is that while Ahmose and Mutnofret are both strong-willed women who want the same things, they wield different types of power.
Intelligent, sensitive Ahmose is a dream-reader, and the gods speak through her; she has the strength the land needs. Nofret is hot-tempered, sexy, and fertile, a dangerous combination for a sister-queen. She knows how to attract a man, and she plays into her younger sister's insecurities and fears, including the dangers of childbirth. Each treats the other cruelly, and their mistakes have serious consequences. Their ongoing rivalry to outshine the other sometimes leaves their husband in the dust. Nofret may be the designated evil sister, but she never expected to play second fiddle; she had my sympathy at times, too.
Ahmose eventually gives birth to a daughter, Hatshepsut, whom she knows will be an only child. From her visions, she also knows the baby's ka, or soul, is male, and that Hatshepsut was born to be pharaoh in turn. Thutmose loves his daughter but refuses to accept this. It's here the novel attains its emotional height, with triumph, shocking tragedy, and reconciliation all interwoven in heartrending ways.
The novel carried me smoothly through the characters' drama-filled lives, but I had one niggling observation. Ahmose and Nofret grew up in the House of Women, the pharaoh's harem; they barely see or know their parents or grandmother until after the story begins. There's mention of a childhood nurse, and some older friends and cousins, but the sisters rely primarily on one another. Perhaps their early closeness made it easier to set up their rivalry later on, but still, I wondered why they had no other mother figure to depend on. It felt like something was missing in their history.
Pauline Gedge is the most prolific novelist writing about the same timeframe, and fans of hers should welcome this novel, too. Gedge's ancient Egypt feels alien from the outset, but thanks to her likable heroine and informal dialogue, the world Ironside creates doesn't feel as distant… not at first. She writes in her historical note that she did her best to balance the comfort of the reader against historical accuracy, and I feel she succeeded in her aim. The names, including place names, are authentic, and subtly inserted scenes, such as when Ahmose has her scalp shaved as per custom, emphasize the fact that this isn't a place we know.
The Sekhmet Bed, first in a projected trilogy called The She-King, is published as an e-book in various formats at $5.99; see Smashwords, or Amazon for the Kindle version. (I read it as a trade paperback proof, and, per the author, a paperback edition is in the works.) This is a self-published novel, though don't let that put you off. Despite enthusiastic praise from mainstream publishers, the author's agent was unsuccessful in selling it to one of them; the unfamiliar setting made it too much of a risk. Fortunately, there are new options available to authors these days. For more information, visit Ironside's blog at http://lavenderironside.blogspot.com.


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After a short bus trip, we arrive at our next destination: a crater in the Golan. The guide has given us an explanation but I only sort of hear it. We all file out of the bus and walk to the crater. Look! A big cliff! With trees! Which, as it turns out, we are not going to visit because we have more important things to do.
Coaching. The type of activity best done one-on-one and over a long period of time. Now available in a generic, mass-produced, quickie version.
G-d, I admit it. I am going hiking on Shabbat. But still…your response…it is not a tad severe? The bit with the underwear was not enough?
Apparently not, because the Life Coach does not magically disappear in a puff of smoke. Instead, he starts to talk. The problem with us, he explains, is that we want stuff that is not good for us. We are attracted to one type of person, even though, if were to try to live with that person, it would probably end with both of us single, one of us six feet under and the other doing 40-to-life in a maximum security prison. THIS is the problem. THIS is why we are single! How does he know this? One—because he is the all-knowing life coach. Two—because that is HIS problem. And if that is his problem, well, obviously, that is mine as well.
Clearly, the next stage is to solve the problem. How to do this? We are to break up into groups of four—two men and two women. Each of us is supposed to share with the other members of the group 1) what type we are attacted to and 2) why this is bad. Umm….okay. Twenty sets of four nice, reasonably attractive people sit down. And each person manages to convince the others—in the space of a half hour—that he or she is completely fucked up, and not worth dating.
For the life of me, I cannot figure out why anyone would feel that incorporating this type of activity into a singles event is even remotely appropriate. Meeting someone in this type of environment seems to me to be akin to meeting someone at your shrink's office. Sure, everyone is fucked up, but do you really want to know just HOW fucked up before the first date? No! That is for date number four, at least.
Coaching has its place. Its place is not here.
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Hike: A
Life Coach: F
Value for money: C
Suggestion: Ditch the self-help drivel and replace it with something fun that will encourage us to get to know each other without being too painfully obvious that this is what you are trying to do. Think-another hike, a visit to a druze village with tea and coffee or a breaking us up to do arts and crafts with random items we find on the ground.


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Riverside Holiday Resort is located 20 minutes south of Coffs Harbour in the tranquil holiday village of Urunga which is one of the State's secret treasures. The complex is situated right on the river at the mouth of the Bellinger and Kalang rivers and next door to the Urunga Golf Club.
Urunga's main attraction is its quiet and relaxed atmosphere. In an area blessed with a superb year-round climate and marvellous beaches, it is one of the area's lesser known retreats. Despite its lack of celebrity status, the town is within easy reach of the multi-faceted attractions of the Coffs Harbour Holiday Coast.
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sightseeing venues in the Coffs Harbour and Bellingen Districts during your visit to Urunga.
Visit the Honey Place also on the Pacific Highway.
Spend the morning on the beach.
Excellent lunch and refreshments are available at the Urunga Golf and Sports Club. Award winning, family restaurant Anchors Wharf is a short distance walk.
â?¢This Self-contained Unit accommodates a maximum of six 6 people. Bedding configuration is Queen in main, 2 singles in second bedroom and a double sofa bed in the living room.
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â?¢All Linen is provided for your convenience other than beach towels.
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|Release: Dec. 18, 2007
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In quite a few regions, the arrival of bitter cold, snow, and ice signals the end of the sporting season for many athletes. For others, it means things are just getting revved up. Don't feel bad if you count yourself among the throng of sports enthusiasts who prefer to enjoy the show from the sidelines or behind the grip of a controller. There's nothing wrong with digging into the thrilling competition of cold weather sports from the warmth and safety of your living room, and Winter Sports: The Ultimate Challenge offers a fun and varied excursion into the realm of winter armchair athletics.
Once you get started there's an abundance of activities to keep busy with. The game presents players with plenty of challenges with 15 disciplines to compete in across nine popular winter sports, quite a few play modes to switch things up, split-screen and hot seat multiplayer options, and interesting controls schemes. The main sporting events include alpine skiing, ski jumping, cross country skiing, bobsleigh, speed skating, figure skating, luge, skeleton, and curling. A few events are pretty similar, and some are more elaborate than others. Before long, most players will likely find they gravitate towards their handful of favorite sports and hastily plow through or even bypass the rest altogether. Fortunately, several play modes offer a greater range of ways to enjoy the game. They also provide incentives to continually wade through all of the events rather than just a few.
Competition mode lets you play a 15 event competition, a seven event competition, and a virtual competition where you can hand-pick the specific events. Eventually, it's possible to unlock a classic competition which features some venues from RTL Winter Games 2007. For short-and-quick sessions, any single event can be selected and played in either single or multiplayer mode. On the other hand, career mode lets players engage in a protracted series of league matches. The four playable leagues are each made up of a seven event competition and a 15 event competition. Completing both will allow you to progress through the league and on to the next. By achieving a high slot in the rankings, you'll be awarded experience points which can be used over time to boost your skill level in each of the disciplines. Even once you've grown tired of replaying the main events over and over again, the campaign mode extends the game's play value by adding in skill-based goals. Players are presented with a honeycomb shaped grid where each comb represents a specific challenge. Completing challenges opens locked combs on the grid, which let you face off in a competition against boss opponents. The skill challenges are a welcome addition to the already robust gameplay options in Winter Sports.
From the crowded stands full of cheering fans to the hard-packed snowy slopes, the scenery in Winter Sports is impressive. The realistic alpine mountain ranges found in outdoor downhill courses are beautifully detailed, and even the inside of the ice rink arenas are grand. Minor final touches to the visuals such as the inclusion of track markings in the snow from other competitors, environmental effects, and humorous interactions between characters during lulls between events are appreciated. There are plenty of cinematic scenes which provide a panoramic overview of the course, crowds, and cold climate. It's a slightly different story, however, when you look more closely at the character models. Their body movements are reasonably realistic, but the same level of detail found in other areas of the game simply did not make it into the characters. Close-up, it's kind of like watching a bunch of badly skinned cyborgs engaging in wintry competitions.


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Dale Thomas Bennett needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 85 designs submitted by 36 freelance designers.
2 Color Logo comprised of text and logo or logotype.
Colors: Blue & Black (half tones excepted).
Vector Format: CS3 illustrator compatible.
Text: SOILBANK with a small "TM" for Trade Mark.
The logo must be able to be reproduced using spot colors.
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My 99Designs ExperienceThisis my fifth logo contest with 99designs of 6 that I have planned. Thefirst contest was for my new company logo "Cropping Solutions" http://99designs.com/contests/16709 . The second contest was for "Redphos" one of my fertilizer products http://99designs.com/contests/17063. As was my third logo contest http://99designs.com/contests/17292. And the fourth http://99designs.com/contests/17666 . And the fifth http://99designs.com/contests/17817 .
What does my company do?I manufacture broad acre liquid fertilizers predominantly for wheat but also for use on legumes and pasture.
What is the product?SOILBANK is a combination of fish (blue fin tuna), molassas (raw sugar cane extract), seaweed (australian bull kelp) and vermicast liquid (worm compost leachate). Soilbank is the organic componenet we use in our custom fertilizer blends. it helps to incease the crops resistance to drought, heat and insects as well as improve yield quality.
2 Color Logo comprised of text and logo or logotype.
Colors: Black & Blue (half tones excepted).
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Text: SOILBANK with a small "TM" for Trade Mark
The logo must be able to be reproduced using spot colors with minimal or no adjustment.
Additional InformationIam looking for a logo to compliment my existing logo's, somethingcomprised of strong text and or symbolism and strong use of color. Idont want a intricate or complicated logo/logotype.
Obviously images of fish or tuna, seaweed and or worms and sugar cane could be incorporated into the design. But do not have too. We have chosen to have no tag line for this product so it is not pigeon holed
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text: Chemistry major Katherine Schutt '14 named a 2013 Goldwater Scholar News Home 04.04.13 By: Buff Lindau Katherine Schutt '14 has been named a 2013 Goldwater Scholar. The Goldwater Scholarship, honoring Senator Barry Goldwater, is designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering. It is regarded as the premier undergraduate award of its type in these fields. There were 271 Goldwater Scholars recognized nationally for 2013; each will receive a $7,500 scholarship to cover the costs of tuition, fees, books, and room and board. Ms Schutt is the daughter of Brian and Kelly Schutt of Groveton, NH. She graduated from Groveton High School before coming to Saint Michael's, and is majoring in chemistry while minoring in math and biology. "Katie is a real superstar and is very deserving of this recognition," said Shane Lamos, associate professor of chemistry. "This is very exciting for Saint Michael's because most of the Goldwater recipients come from large universities; I think this recognition is a strong reflection of the support that Saint Michael's has made towards the sciences," he added. "Katie is the first Goldwater Scholar to be named at Saint Michael's - and we are very pleased with her accomplishment." Chemistry in understanding disease pathways Ms. Schutt said, "Saint Michael's College has given me many opportunities to do research and to develop a vision of how chemistry can provide tools for understanding complex disease pathways. Being recognized as a 2013 Goldwater Scholar, as well as the research skills I have developed at Saint Michael's, should be excellent preparation for graduate school and a career in chemistry." Ms. Schutt was designated a scholar based on her academic achievement and the strength of her research proposal, "Using chemical syntheses to understand and outline complex disease pathways." She has extensive experience in chemical research having spent a summer as a Gianni Research Fellow in the lab of Professor Lamos working on a project titled, "Proteomic hydrophobicity tag for enhanced electrospray mass spectrometry." Ms. Schutt also co-authored a 2012 Bioanalysis article with Professor Lamos on "Relative quantification of biomarkers using mixed-isotope labeling coupled with MS." In addition to this Goldwater Scholar recognition, Katherine Schutt has received a number of other awards including induction into Phi Beta Kappa 2013, the CRC Press Chemistry Award 2011, Saint Michael's Dean's List inclusion every semester of her college career, Saint Michael's College Book Award, Max York Educational Foundation Valedictorian Award 2010, National Honor Society Scholarship, Groveton High School 2010 Valedictorian.


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You may recall the fun and excitement on my flight from Athens to New York.
Today I received all the thanks and recognition I was due from a grateful airline, for saving a man's life and saving the good people of Delta Airlines a million dollars.
Words fail me.
27 June 2006
Rounding at 37,000 Feet - Update
You may recall the fun and excitement on my flight from Athens to New York.
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Did you send it back "postage due"?ReplyDelete
But really, it is the thought that counts right....?
I guess they figure with all that MONEY that ALL you doctors make, some Crickles were all you needed. What are Crickles anyway?
Watch this. For background you can check this.ReplyDelete
I didn't care about compensation. That first class upgrade would have been nice, but . . . oh well.ReplyDelete
At least they did something. For an airline in bankruptcy, I guess it really is the thought that counts.
- Reader6/27/2006 6:37 PM
...or a free international ticket for you and a companion to anywhere Delta flies would have been nice too. They do give those away on a regular basis, you know, but apparently not to you! ROFLReplyDelete
Seriously, this whatever-it-is-you-received is a little on the cheap side. Were those the leftovers from some flight?
That was pretty funny, Luke.ReplyDelete
That dude is messed up.
um. well, I guess they had to do something with all the leftover nuts that would kill other random passengers....ReplyDelete
Maybe that's all their "healthcare" budget would allow.ReplyDelete
I wonder what kind of insurance they offer their employees?
Oh, and I'll be flying to Ireland soon, and if they ask "is there a doctor on the plane" and someone stands up, I'll yell at them to negotiate first! LOL!ReplyDelete
And then I'll get up to help them...
Gee, I'm an ER nurse, should I offer to do something if there is NO doctor on board? I can assess, put in an IV, read a monitor, defib, and push ACLS meds. Oooo, now I'm nervous about flying for another reason.
"Messed up"? I think he is great and highly entertaining...and perhaps a bit messed up, I suppose. I enjoy my three minutes of The Show five days a week. Now if I can just figure out a power move so I can become a member of the League of Awesomeness.ReplyDelete
Hey Kim,ReplyDelete
When are you flying to Ireland? I am flying to London in September. However, I wouldn't even be as much use as you! Perhaps if someone went into labor and delivered a preemie.....now that I could probably kinda help with, but how often does that happen?
Crap...Did I just jinx myself?
Anywho...I flew Delta a few weeks ago, and they lost my suitcase in Atlanta for over 30 hours. I eventually got it back, but they told me they couldn't even provide a toiletry kit because of bankruptcy. They actually did serve peanuts, however! I was surprised...
Think I'm taking British Airways to England - I've heard they're one of the few good ones left that actually serve meals on the plane and everything! ;)
Take care,
Carrie :)
I've heard about nurses helping out, and an ER nurse might be better than some doctors -- you have that triage instinct. So even if you may not be able to *do* anything, you can assess the patient and tell the pilot:
a) Land Now
b) Keep Flying
Which is really the most important thing anyway.
- Flying Gramma6/29/2006 6:58 AM
"Thanks to your care,your patient's experience was better than mine. While flying on NWA, I suffered a totally debilitating attack of Vertigo. I could't walk, was vomiting, and relatively non-functional. The cabin attenants refused to get near me, and threw some plastic bags into my lap and said "use this to throw up." When the plane landed in La Guardia, they refused to help me off the plane. The attendants said, "We are not trained to do this." My husband made a fuss and the pilot called for a wheel chair. But no one would help me leave the plane. The LGA wheel chair attendant ( a high paying job requiring massive educational experiences) was wonderful. He came onto the plane and helped me stagger off (I am a senior citizen.) and stayed with us until an ambulance (which he called) arrived. NWA did not help with anything. Needless to say, I don't fly NWA any more. Even though Delta was obscenely cheap, please keep in mind that we, the patients, appreciate your efforts. Could you list your future flights, so that I can try to utilize the same flights? Oh, also list the seat assignment, so I can sit nearby.ReplyDelete
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loved the follow-up - i pointed my readers to you today, because this is just too funny. jenni - chronicbabe.comReplyDelete
When my brother (an internist)was on a British Airways flight on the way home from his honeymoon, he tended to a woman having a heart attack. As a result the plane was able to continue to its destination and the woman's life was saved.ReplyDelete
Unbelievable as this may sound, he was given a gift certificate he could use for duty free purchases on his next flight. Considering he only flew overseas that one time in his life it was pretty worthless.
Of course it would have been better if they sent him nothing.
I rationalized it at the time by telling my brother that docs must be low-status in the UK.


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Tony Award Productions has announced that White Cherry Entertainment will serve as the production team for the American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards® for three more years, through 2015. White Cherry Entertainment's founders Glenn Weiss (Executive Producer/Director) and Ricky Kirshner (Executive Producer) have served as the Tony Awards' production team since 2003. Tony Award Productions is a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.
"We are thrilled to renew Tony Awards Productions' contract with White Cherry Entertainment. They have been an essential member of the Tony Awards team for more than a decade, and we look forward to continuing collaboration on making the Tony Awards bigger and better each year," said Heather Hitchens, Executive Director of the American Theater Wing and Charlotte St. Martin, Executive Director of The Broadway League, in a statement.
"We are excited to be given the opportunity to continue to work with the some of the most talented people on the planet, and to continue to be able to create a wonderful showcase for Broadway that we can share with the world!" added Weiss and Kirshner.
During White Cherry's tenure, the Tony Awards have been recognized with an unprecedented 27 Emmy nominations and 17 Emmy wins, including the best show in its class for the last 4 consecutive years, and 7 of the last 8 outings. That recognition is far more than any time in Tony Awards history, and unparalleled by any other awards show today.
Most recently, Glenn Weiss and the directing team of the 67th Annual Tony Awards were nominated for a Directors Guild Award in the category of Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials. This is Weiss' 10th DGA Award nomination. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety in 2007, 2010, 2011 and 2012 for the 61st, 64th, 65th and 66th-Annual Tony Awards. He was previously nominated in this category in 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2008, all for the 55th, 56th, 59th, 60th, 62nd-Annual Tony Awards.
In addition to the 7 Emmy Awards they have won together, Kirshner and Weiss have also received an additional 3 Emmy Awards individually, 4 Directors Guild Awards, 1 Peabody Award, a cable ACE award and more than 25 Emmy nominations between them.
The Tony Awards most recently won four Primetime Emmy Awards at the 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards for the June 2012 broadcast of the 66th Annual Tony Awards. The four awards were: Outstanding Special Class Programs; Outstanding Music Direction; Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics; and Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special. To date, the Tony Awards has received 27 Primetime Emmy Awards and 70 nominations.
The 68th Annual Tony Awards, presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, will air live on CBS on Sunday, June 8, 2014.
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Addiction is a serious ailment for many people living in and around Wyoming, Grandville, Grand Rapids and Kentwood. Substance use disorder often begins on social occasions and doesn't seem like a big deal to start with. Every drug carries the potential for addiction, and once an individual is addicted, making a change is extremely difficult.
One of the best ways for an individual to take control of the situation is finding a Wyoming drug detox program. There are all kinds of treatment programs near Wyoming, both inpatient and outpatient, that give people options and allow them to choose the program that will provide the best fit for them.
Therapy and Medication in Wyoming Addiction Treatment Programs
Each addiction treatment program will work a bit differently and be tailored to the specific patient by trained professionals. Still, there are common treatments used in each program. Every program will include addiction therapy, which is one of the most popular methods for helping patients learn how to control themselves and avoid using drugs going forward. Cognitive behavioral therapy is one type of addiction therapy. In therapy sessions, patients will discuss their thoughts and feelings, pinpointing the underlying causes of their addiction and ways they can sustain a drug-free lifestyle.
Besides private addiction therapy, there is also group therapy. Groups tend to be small, with 10 or fewer people, and it gives patients the chance to share their stories, experiences and feelings if they wish. This format allows patients to help each other on the road to recovery. Non-addictive medication is often used in Wyoming inpatient drug detox centers to make the withdrawal process easier for patients to go through. It can also be used in intensive outpatient programs as a way to reduce a patient's cravings. Because various substances affect the body in different ways, there are different medications facilities can choose depending on if the patient used heroin, prescription drugs, marijuana, cocaine, or something else.
Staying at Wyoming Inpatient Drug Rehab
Inpatient rehabs have facilities with living quarters for patients, either in their own rooms or shared rooms. The length of stay can vary considerably, depending on the facility and the needs of the patient. There are Wyoming inpatient drug detox centers that only have patients live there while going through the detox process and other inpatient rehabs where patients stay for months as they go through further treatment.
Experienced staff members are available around the clock for patients at inpatient facilities. This can help quite a bit when individuals need support through the more difficult stages of the withdrawal process. Living at the facility also keeps the patient away from any potential triggers they would need to deal with in their usual environment.
How Wyoming Intensive Outpatient Addiction Treatment Works
Unlike inpatient treatment, outpatient treatment only requires the patient to come to the facility during scheduled times. After their treatment is complete for the day, the patient can head home instead of staying on-site. Intensive outpatient addiction treatment is an alternative to detoxing at an inpatient facility, although it's only an option if the patient doesn't need medical supervision while detoxing.
The intensive portion of outpatient treatment occurs at the beginning when the patient must visit frequently for treatments and possibly long durations. After the intensive portion ends, the patient doesn't need to come as often, provided he or she is doing well. Outpatient treatment is helpful if the person needs to return to their normal life between treatments and can't live at a facility.
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Today's rainout forced the New York Mets to alter their pitching rotation.
Fifth-starter candidate John Lannan was scheduled to start against Houston in Kissimmee, Fla. Instead, he will start Friday against St. Louis at Port St. Lucie.
Daisuke Matsuzaka will also pitch against the Cardinals. Rafael Montero and Steven Matz, also scheduled to pitch today, will go tomorrow.
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Akhet is a Pylons-like application template for the Pyramid web framework, along with a small library to make Pyramid a bit easier to use. It has extensive documentation that covers the differences between Pylons and Pyramid and can serve as a gentle introduction to the Pyramid manual.
Documentation is in the 'docs' directory.
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It's raining, it's pouring, but no one is snoring yet this harvest. While showers this past week across much of the United States have helped improve drought conditions slightly, they didn't slow down the 2012 corn harvest. The United States Department of Agriculture estimates only 21% of corn and 29% of soybeans remain to be harvested.
While combines are coming out of the fields early this year, there is still no rest for the weary. Due to this year's ominous drought, many producers are now faced with the challenge of how to feed the 2012 yield to their livestock.
"This year's climate created all the right ingredients for a cocktail of mycotoxin challenges," says Max Hawkins, Alltech Mycotoxin Management Team. "Besides the industry-expected aflatoxin outbreak, we are finding that some other molds and mycotoxins may be big players in this year's crops from our 37+ Program analysis."
Alltech's 37+ Program uses a mass spectrometry technique, LC-MS2, that can investigate 38 different mycotoxins quantitatively and more than 50 others qualitatively in less than 15 minutes per sample analyzed, with limits of detection in the parts per trillion range.
According to Hawkins, the 37+ Program feed analysis results should be released soon. In the meantime, he has been giving his clients these five tips for dealing with poor quality feedstuffs:
1. Dry corn to 15% moisture or less within 24-48 hours of harvest. Reducing the moisture will help to stabilize the mold level and prevent further growth.
2. Screen grain to remove fines, broken kernels and foreign material as these are precursors to increased mold growth.
3. Have all ingredients that are grain or are sourced from grain analyzed for mycotoxins. This should be a comprehensive analysis that looks at numerous mycotoxins, not just one or two. There are more than 500 known mycotoxins, and the greatest percentage of samples contain from two to five mycotoxins.
4. Mycotoxin analysis should be conducted regularly throughout the storage process, as temperature and moisture changes will affect mold growth.
5. When purchasing ingredients, it may be difficult to locate mycotoxin-free feedstuffs. Many producers may find ingredients from certain areas that are consistently higher and will need to search for another source. Know the levels of mycotoxins that are practical and can be fed and the guideline limit that should not be fed to livestock.
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WHEN I met my wife, I lived in an apartment where the entire wall décor consisted of a patch of Spackle shaped like Mr. Peanut — and which, once named, clearly could not be painted.
My minimalist approach was the result of poverty, laziness and deep ignorance of all things design-related. And although marriage changed none of these conditions, it did result in our walls being magically filled with pleasant-looking stuff.
So when my younger daughter recently asked to swap her bedroom for my office, I saw it as a chance to answer a nagging question: how can a lazy person with design ignorance and a tight budget fill blank walls tastefully? (Note to daughter: I'm referring to myself.)
To find the answer, I asked three people who know how to fill walls on an artist's budget: Fritz Horstman, an interdisciplinary artist based in Bethany, Conn.; Karin Tehve, a professor at Pratt Institute and owner of the design firm KT3D; and Stephen Horner, who owns MediumBase Design, a lighting-design firm in Brooklyn.
For others looking to fill a wall quickly and cheaply, my panelists suggested a few simple but creative touches. It also helps, they said, not to try to copy something out of a design magazine.Continue reading the main story
"Your house is an intimate expression of who you are," Ms. Tehve said. "So you want to make it into something that looks wonderful without applying an artificial idea of décor."
If you have only an hour before relatives arrive for a party, Ms. Tehve suggested gathering mismatched and unframed family photos. From there, she said: "You need an ordering device so they fit together in some way. It could be as dumb as a piece of colored gaffer's tape that aligns the tops or bottoms of the photos."
To find the right place, she said, pick a spot on the wall to center the photos two inches below the center of your vision. (Keep in mind that gaffer's tape might permanently stick after a week.) In design-school terms, this establishes a datum, or a linear element that controls other objects. The datum can be visible or not, and it applies to anything you might attach to a wall.
The tape approach is especially good if you lack the money, time or expertise to frame something. If you are leery of marring the photos, as I was, put a layer of magnetic tape on top of the gaffer's tape and affix small magnets to the backs.
Another option is a vinyl frame, like those produced by Butch & Harold. They cling to walls without harming surfaces, and are sold in packages of varied, mostly whimsical designs. They're a nice choice for family photos that might not deserve a $100 frame, among other things.
Of course, this is a challenge for people, like me, whose family photos are stuck in an iPhone. But Ms. Tehve said that even smartphone photos can be printed in larger formats for less money than you might expect.
The main consideration is whether a photo on a phone is dense enough to print in a large format. I tested three printing services and achieved good results, fairly quickly, for around $30 per image.
Staples offers trial prints at the store and while-you-wait service (20-inch-by-30-inch prints cost $29). Online services can be cheaper if you have the time. I tried Adoramapix.com and received sharper prints for $25 each.
Finally, I ordered two images from Aluminyze.com, which prints digital photos on scratch-resistant aluminum. This was by far the most expensive option, but the quality was excellent. (A 20-by-30 photo costs $189 with shipping.)
For a less-expensive nonphoto option, chalkboard paint (Benjamin Moore, $22 per quart) offers family members and visitors a way to personalize a wall section.
Meanwhile, if you have a much bigger space to fill, think fabric, and attach it to a piece of wood trim to create a clean line across the top.
Mr. Horstman also suggested building a rectangle frame from two-by-fours, but we opted for the simpler approach and attached an oversize batik to a stained piece of trim with Velcro tape. If we had calculated cost-per-square-foot-covered, this approach would have been the most efficient and easily the most striking.
That is, if it were properly placed on a wall.
When it comes to laying out artwork, Mr. Horstman said to focus on two elements: rhythm and lighting. For spatial rhythm, he suggested the photographer's "rule of thirds," whereby you align two subjects where the frame would divide into thirds.
If you have multiple photos, for instance, you might place a cluster at one of those two points, and a smaller cluster at the other. "That way, from a distance it does something," he said, "but up close you can see these things are together for some reason."
I had found cool designs online, where multiple photos were clipped to hanging cables you might find in a museum, and I figured such a system would be costly and hard to install. I was wrong.
Two basic wall-hanging systems, from STAS and Gallery System, were fairly inexpensive and required less than a half-hour to install. Of the two, the one from STAS was less expensive (about $100 to cover a roughly 13-foot span with track, cables and clips, versus about $175 for the GalleryOne).
The advantage of these systems is that you can change the space without tearing up the wall, but the "cables," which come in metal or clear plastic, may not appeal to everyone.
The Gallery System can be ordered with track lighting, and it's serious museum-quality, but considerably more expensive ($580 to cover the same 13-foot span of wall). More important, you need several hours to install it and electrical skills or an electrician to help.
It was a good choice for me, though, because my room lacked a ceiling-based electrical box for conventional track lighting, which Mr. Horstman strongly recommended for its versatility.
Mr. Horner, meanwhile, advocated dimmers and an approach that includes different types of light on the walls for a "layered" effect. You want people's eyes drawn to your décor, he said, not to a glaring light source.
If new fixtures are not feasible, Mr. Horner said "puck"-style lights (Ramsta light, $4, from Ikea) — which are battery-powered LED lamps — are useful, especially if they're hidden. I built a shelf in an hour with two narrow planks of wood and fixed lights beneath it with adhesive backing. The process was cheap, and the effect was interesting.
When the tracks and lights were in place and my photos were spray-glued to foam-core board, I sketched out some lines on a piece of paper and put everything up in a half-hour.
Beholding the clutter, I was immediately grateful for the clip-on system, and for Mr. Horstman's final bit of advice. "If you don't know what you're doing, you might end up doing too much, so practice restraint," he said. "Trust your instincts, but be minimal in it."Continue reading the main story


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Jeeps Unveiled at Beijing Motor ShowPosted in News on April 19, 2014
Jeep has just debuted four new design concepts at the 2014 Beijing International Motor Show for the Chinese market. These design concepts are specifically inspired by Chinese culture, style and fashion found in megacities such as Shanghai and Beijing and it is very apparent who the target audience is with these four concepts.
The four design concepts include two interpretations of the all-new Jeep Cherokee in the form of the Sageland and Urbane, a premium, luxury version of the iconic Jeep Wrangler called the Jeep Wrangler Sundancer and the Zi You Xia, a special design concept based on the all-new 2015 Jeep Renegade.
"Jeep is the fastest growing imported brand in China and this is our largest Jeep market outside the U.S.," said Mike Manley Chief Operating Officer for Asia Pacific and President and CEO – Jeep Brand, Chrysler Group LLC. "It makes sense for us to use this year's Beijing Motor Show as a platform to explore how consumers react to these new Chinese-inspired ideas that may find their way into future production vehicles."
We'll be the first to admit that we aren't as impressed by the looks of these four concepts especially considering we weren't exactly the biggest fans of the Jeep Wrangler Dragon Edition. While the overall theme and look of these Chinese specific concepts probably wouldn't garner the fanfare in the U.S. market as it has in China, we thought you might want to see what Jeeps look like on the other side of the world.
Jeep Zi You Xia Design Concept
The Jeep Zi You Xia Design Concept was designed exclusively with the Chinese market in mind so the name isn't surprising but what should catch your eye is the meaning behind the Zi You Xia name, which translates to "rebel". This new concept highlights a more sophisticated aspect of the Jeep Renegade's personality.
One of the Inspirations for the colors for the Jeep Zi You Xia was the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. The concept features a Warm Chocolate Gray finished in with a contrasting Dark Anodized Bronze color accentuating the grille throats, front fog lamp bezels, rear lower fascia, skidplate, tail lamp insert bezel and badging.
The Jeep Zi You Xia features matching accents as well as unique 20-inch Dark Anodized Bronze alloy wheels. Inside you'll find that the air vents, speaker bezel, gear shifter, steering wheel bezels, cup holder and door release handles feature an Anodized Copper finish. You'll also notice that the rich brown leather upholstery on the seats and door panels feature what Jeep is calling 'ombre' grey/black plaid fabric inserts, that were inspired by traditional menswear suiting and tailored patterns. The idea is that it gives it just the right touch of sophistication.
Jeep Cherokee Sageland Design Concept
The Jeep Cherokee Sageland was inspired by the historical landmarks and natural sceneries found throughout the mystical expanse of the Shangri-La Region. The exterior is painted in Ivory tri-coat Pearl with bronze grille collars and front and rear fascia appliques. The Daylight opening (DLO), roof rack, door mirror caps and exhaust tips are painted in Satin Bronze chrome to give it a unique look.
Inside the Jeep Cherokee Sageland you'll find the earth-tone color palette continues with a combination of light, neutral grey Nappa leather seats with red and water blue accent stitches. The seats also feature stitching inspired by traditional Chinese knot design, and the pattern on the door appliques derived from the color and finish of Chinese ornamental door knobs.
Jeep Cherokee Urbane Design Concept
This new Jeep Cherokee Urbane concept features a dark stealth-like appearance which makes sense since this design is meant to connect the night life of a modern megacity with glamour and elegance. The Urbane features a sleek, Maximum Steel metallic exterior with Hyper Black accents on the roof rack, door mirror caps, grille collars, front and rear fascia's, wheel finishing's, vehicle badging and antenna.
The interior of the Urbane embraces the Chinese spirit, colors and patterns which is pretty obvious from all the use of Chinese calligraphy referenced through the use of bold brush stroke patterns in the decorative door applique in the otherwise predominantly Piano Black interior. The seats are finished in dark red Nappa leather with bright red accent stitching to give it a bigger wow factor. The floor mats feature a unique decorative pattern inspired by traditional Chinese windows.
Jeep Wrangler Sundancer Design Concept
The Jeep Wrangler Sundancer Design Concpet is painted in a tri-coat Chocolate Brown metallic color with gold accents. The fender flares feature a unique Golden Bronze tone-on-tone ghosted pattern, and the windows have been treated to bronze tinted glass.
The unique front and rear bumpers are equipped with linear LED lighting and have been painted in the same tri-coat Chocolate Brown metallic color coupled with Golden Bronze accent inserts to match the exterior.
The Sundancer also features a set of 20-inch pale gold billet aluminum wheels with polished gold inserts.
Inside the Wrangler Sundancer, you'll find Axis II perforated seat inserts and exclusive Berry Baltique Semi-Aniline leather, the same leather found in the most luxurious labels in fashion. The door panels and upper instrument panel are wrapped in premium leather. Hand sewn provocateur lace stitching can be found on the outer deck seam, steering wheel and center lid console. The gold color scheme from the exterior continues into the interior, with new 'Gold Rush' interior paint on the door handles, steering wheel bezel, grab handle, gear shifter trim ring bezels and sill plates. Finishing touches to the interior include Romina premium leather trimmed/wrapped, floor mats.


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NEW ORLEANS — BP says it has capped and plugged an abandoned piece of equipment that is believed to be the source of a sheen spotted near the site of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The London-based oil giant said Thursday that it successfully placed a 750-pound cap over an 86-ton steel container that the company had deployed in a failed effort to contain the spill. BP also inserted plugs on the top and sides of the container.
BP and the Coast Guard both say no oil has been seen leaking out of the container since it was capped and plugged.
The sheen appeared on the surface of the Gulf in September. BP plans to monitor the sheen by satellite for several more days.


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(Harrisburg) — Advocates for Pennsylvania public schools are demanding more money and a fairer funding formula.
Leaders of statewide groups including school boards, administrators and business officials today released a survey they commissioned that shows a majority of voters believe public schools affect the economy and that school funding should be increased.
Jim Buckheit of the school administrators' group says Pennsylvania's public education funding lags the national average even though schools are critical to a strong economy.
Governor Corbett is proposing a 3 percent increase in school aid for the year that starts July 1, including a $340 million grant program that gives schools flexibility in improving student achievement.
Jay Himes of the school business officials' group says the present school funding formula results in an unpredictable distribution of state money.
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The Sunnyside Christian Reformed Church is dedicating its brand-new facility this Sunday, Sept. 22, at 10:30 a.m. The community is invited to help pledge this building to the Lord's worship and work in this place.
This is the fourth building of the Christian Reformed Church of Sunnyside.
Early Dutch pioneers built a small frame building on the corner of Beckner and Cemetery Roads and held their first service there in April of 1932. Built during the Depression and primitive by today's standards, there was a coal furnace and electric lights, but no indoor plumbing.
In just four years, the congregation outgrew their first church. It was sold for $500, remodeled and became a home.
The second home of the Christian Reformed Church was a large stone church at Eighth and Franklin streets, recently vacated by the Congregational Church. Both church and parsonage were available for $1,500 and it was purchased in the fall of 1936. Since the church interior was unsafe structurally, new beams had to be poured in the basement to hold up the sanctuary upstairs. The balcony also had to be propped up. As part of the remodeling, a kitchen and two bathrooms were added in the basement.
During many services in this building, the fire siren from the fire station next door would sound. All came to a standstill until the loud siren completed its call. Several members who were volunteer firemen would leave to put out the fire in their "Sunday clothes."
In 1962 this building was sold to a doctor who demolished it for a site for his clinic. That clinic has now been demolished for a new fire station.
For the past 50 years the congregation has been meeting at their Franklin Avenue and 16th Street building. Pasture land had been purchased in 1958 to prepare for a larger building. Members of the church were in the construction business and built a fine and beautiful place of worship. It was a happy Thanksgiving in 1962 when the church was dedicated.
On Dec. 12, 1999, the first service of Iglesia Evangelica Cristiana Reformada was held. Services were scheduled on Sunday afternoons so that both groups could meet in the same sanctuary. The non-air-conditioned building was often very hot by the evening service. The new owners of the church, Valley Hills Funeral Home, have already added air conditioning.
The new building on North 16th Street was planned so that both congregations can meet at the same time and fellowship together after the service in air-conditioned comfort. The kitchen can serve larger crowds and more classrooms are available for all youth and adult activities. There is adequate parking spaces for all who come and a special parking section for seniors.
Church members would be so happy to see many community members at this coming Sunday's dedication service. There will also be an open house, planned for Sunday afternoon, Oct. 20.
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RichZ needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 114 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
For my new to launch webshop for sustainable gadgets I need a logo. The products are gadgets on alternative sources of energy like solar, wind, water etc. Gadgets are gadgets: small useful innovative products.
I have extended the contest so it allows for me to give some final feedback and for the designers to include these in the designs. I feel that among the current designs there will be a winner.
" Duurzame" means " sustainable " and gadgets are gadgets. The focus is on shopping and not on blogging around the green theme. People should be able to buy the luxury of gadgets and feel they do not burden planet too much. The brand name should be at the heart of the design. The brand is duurzamegadgets.nl and I think the .nl should be featured in the design.
- Clean crisp logo, fun to watch, energetic, innovative
- I really like orange as the primary colour in the logo
- Preferably with two secundary colors, one being white
- As it is the logo for a gadget store the focus should be on gadget
- The logo should be editable vector based format e.g.Photoshop
- Two versions that work horizontally and vertically
- No treehugger type logo with plants, trees and other eco-friendly stuff
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Troopers consolidate emergency dispatchers
State police are in the final stages of a move to consolidate eastern Connecticut emergency dispatchers into a newly revamped facility at the Troop C police barracks in Tolland.
Before the end of the summer, dispatchers will be sitting side-by-side in Tolland, collectively fielding calls from an area encompassing 50 municipalities in New London, Windham and Tolland counties. Those towns are now served separately by Troop C, Troop E in Montville, Troop K in Colchester and Troop D in Danielson.
State Police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said he expects Troop C to start working out of the new facility by month's end. Two dispatch areas will be available while any problems in the new system are worked out.
Troop D in Danielson will move sometime in June, followed by Troop K and finally Troop E, the busiest of the group.
"We designed a consolidated dispatch area to accommodate consoles from each troop," Vance said.
The move is part of an overall plan that will eventually reduce 12 dispatch centers to five, with one dispatch center each for the eastern, western and central districts. There are no plans to change the busy dispatch centers in Bridgeport or Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks. Troop F in Westbrook will eventually be combined with H and I as part of a consolidated central area dispatch.
State Police Deputy Commissioner Danny Stebbins announced last year the move was designed to streamline the system, get more troopers who earn hazardous duty pay on the road and save money.
Each of the barracks uses one civilian and at least one trooper to handle calls. Troop E sometimes has three dispatchers on duty during heavy call times.
The move was completed last year in the western district, where Troop A in Southbury and Troop B in Canaan were shifted to Troop L in Litchfield.
"It's working out west. Yes, we've had some bumps in the road," Vance said. "If we didn't tell everyone what we were doing, no one would know the difference. The barracks are still functioning."
Stebbins initially estimated costs for the consolidation at Troop C at $250,000 though updated numbers were not yet available.
Union representatives for the state police remain critical of the move, saying barracks across eastern Connecticut will be closed to the public during evening and overnight shifts, amounting to what union President Sgt. Andrew Matthews called "substations."
"When the public goes there, especially on evenings, they're going to find a locked building. That's never happened in the 110-year history of our department," Matthews said.
Instead of an open door, the public will be met with what some troopers have dubbed "Trooper Smurf," a blue call box that connects the visitor to dispatch.
Matthews foresees a strain on what he said are already understaffed barracks as they attempt to cope with loss of extra help at the troops, especially when it comes time to handling prisoners. As has already been the case out west, Matthews said troopers will be spending time transporting prisoners to local prisons or other troops because they cannot be held without at least two troopers in the building.
State police said they had intended to enlist judicial marshals for prisoner transports but it is unclear if an agreement has worked out.
"The union wouldn't have an issue if they would add additional staff," Matthews said. "We shouldn't be doing things to increase the risk to troopers."
He said the union has been arguing for years that the eastern portion of the state sees higher rates of sexual assault, drunken driving and domestics. Matthews said in 2009, state police had 1,283 sworn officers and a $157 million budget. The budget has since shrunk by $40 million and now has 1,070 sworn officers.
"To us it's dangerous not only to our members but dangerous to our troopers. It should offend the constituents that this was not vetted through legislation - with no legislative hearing or debate."
Longtime emergency dispatcher Tim Walker, who works at Troop E In Montville, said he is part of a committee trying to work out the logistics of the move. Some of the major things to be worked out is the ratio of dispatchers based on call volume.
Larry Dorman, a spokesman for the union representing dispatchers (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 4), said that while he shares some concerns about public safety, the union is taking a wait-and-see approach.
"You always have to have concern for the public's safety," Dorman said. "We won't know for a while the impact this has on overall public safety. Yes, we're concerned, but we want to be able to gauge what kind of impact it will have. Time will tell if this works out or not. We are maintaining ongoing discussing to ensure things are done properly with the public's well-being in mind. "
Dorman said the union represents about 75 dispatchers statewide. There will be 12 dispatchers shifted in the eastern district consolidation.
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If I have a ToggleGroup and Editable Grid, I can get the Toggle group to where both are selected (see screenshot).To reproduce:1. Select one of the radio buttons in the group.2. Select an editable cell in an editable grid (with GridInlineEditor).3. Select the other radio button in the group.Both become selected, and cannot be unselected. If in step 2, I select combo box, spinner box, somewhere else on the screen, the group toggles just fine. I have only been able to reproduce by selecting an editable cell within a grid (with a GridInlineEditor).31046


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One True Eternal God
Christian monotheism is vastly different from the monotheism found in Islam and modern rabbinic Judaism. We are not unitarians who simply have a different name for the same God others worship. Those who deny the Trinity deny the deity of ...Read More
Why Theology is Necessary
The passage chosen as the basis for today's study calls the people of God to study His law diligently and, by extension, everything that He has revealed in the Bible. We are to examine Scripture systematically, looking at how ...Read More
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Like most people I'm feeling all full of resolutions at this time of year. The halls have been undecked, the house is pretty well organized, and the kids started back to school today. It's time for a fresh start, and at the top of my list is making dinnertime simpler and healthier.
I've resolved to do it before with great success ... for a while. Then all of the activities start up, and the homework hammers us, and the birthday party circuit heats up, and all of a sudden I find myself in a frantic flurry where takeout seems like the only option. But this year, I have a plan, and it involves my Crock-Pot.
Over the past couple of years, I've become quite a fan of mine, but it still doesn't help on those days when I truly can't find even 10 minutes to shower. You still have to take time to chop and dice UNLESS you just pull a bag straight out of your freezer, put it in the slow cooker, and turn the thing on.
Brilliant, right? And no, it doesn't involve some processed food you get in the freezer section.
I met Stephanie Brandt Cornais of Mama and Baby Love at Mom 2.0 last summer, and she sent me a copy of her book Slow Cooker Freezer Recipes right in the midst of my resolution-making process. And it's a perfect tool to help me keep my resolution this year.
It includes a whole host of fresh, healthy meal recipes that you can prepare ahead of time and freeze. Then on any given day, you just pop one in your Crock-Pot, and dinner is done. It does take a little preparation ahead of time, but if you set aside a couple of hours once or twice a month, you will save oodles of time, stress, and money spent on takeout meals later.
For example, here's her recipe for Orange Beef Stew. It's flavorful, delicious, and so much better than anything from a carton. She has everything in her book from soups and stews to fajitas and chicken dishes. She tells you how to prep and freeze everything, and with a little creativity, you can apply her method to your favorite slow cooker recipes too.
So I'm setting aside a least one night a month to stock my freezer like this. I'll crank up the music, maybe grab a glass of wine, and start chopping. I know I (and my family) will thank myself for it later.
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Journey to distant lands renowned for brave warriors and fearsome weaponry in FireFly Studios' Stronghold: Crusader. This highly anticipated successor to the bestselling Stronghold combines the finest aspects from a city builder and a real-time strategy game. Lead a determined group of crusaders, forged by centuries of barbaric conflicts, or wage war against a powerful foreign invader amidst the haze of the desert heat. Within impenetrable walls beats the heart of a thriving society full of fletchers, brewers, and armorers, while outside stalk enemy assassins, mighty war engines, and the constant threat of fire. As European nobles or Arabian warriors, conquer this unforgiving wasteland, defend desert fortresses, and lay siege to fearless enemies during the legendary crusades of the 11th and 12th centuries.
This is a Stronghold Crusader Skirmish which I made to play with my friends against AI. You start on a plateau with nearly no raw materials but with a height advantage and only three entries to defend.
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Pentagon Nominee Hagel Attempts to Ease Concerns
As his confirmation hearing opened to certain controversy, Chuck Hagel encouraged senators to examine his full record and offered assurances that he would take a tough line on Iran if he became the next defense secretary. Julian Barnes reports on Lunch Break. Photo: AP.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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2013-01-18 • Pre Inauguration
Start: 12:03:44
Daviss: hello Seventies heyyy alt!
alt: Howdy ladies, how goes it tiday? Hi Daviss & Seventies
Daviss: shivering a bit today alt but will be better in a couple hours when it warms up lol what about you, did you come back with your 500 plus more yesterday? lol
alt: let's hope so Daviss... what's the temp 80?
Daviss: brrrrrrrr about 50 I think
alt: Unfortunately, no I did not bring it all back with me. LOL
Daviss: awwww I was going to ask for a jog
alt: came back a little lighter in the pockets
Daviss: well I was already tuned in to the national news just in case you had appeared with a big check grinning by the machine
Seventies: Hello alt and Daviss
alt: no such luck ... next time maybe>
Seventies: I was just watching the news and what's this with 650 hostages in Algeria??
alt: Hello Seventies, go to 'see' ya.
Daviss: yep next time alt for sure..... Hello Seventies
Seventies: 50... and you're cold?? OMG its like 20s here! I'll take 50's for $500 thank you! lol
Daviss: alt did you and Seventies listen to Blog Radio last night?
Seventies: No... other stuff going on...
alt: I listened to most of it Daviss
Daviss: they had me in tears It was a very good show, glad I got to listen
Seventies: There are all sorts of children out there like that, worldwide..
Daviss: yes of course there are
alt: I missed her age, if she said.... is/was she a child from WW II or at a later period in time?
Daviss: Do you mean Henriette mother or the other ladies mom? Hello there Selma!
alt: remember the writer for Ebony & other magazine "Hans Massaquoi" (sp) he was and did many articles on WW II Brown Babies from Germany.. as he was one of them
Seventies: I remember that.. but his father was from a German African Colony. He was born before WWII
Daviss: Was that the one guy on that video I put up yesterday alt
Selma: Afternoon alt, daviss and seventies
alt: okay, thanks Seventies ... keep me straight
Seventies: lol
alt: Hello Selma
Selma: Ebony had a number of articles on this topic if I remember correctly
Seventies: yes they did.
alt: yes they did Selma
Selma: Daviss..I signed in to the talk last night..then after about 5 minutes no sound and couldn't get back
alt: Brown babies were a BIG issue following WW II that's why I was interested in Henriette's time period
Seventies: Also the same issue is with babies born during VietNam
Daviss: wow Selma, that happened to me the first time I listened to blog radio, I had to call Angela to see what to do
alt: yes, for sure Seventies
Selma: A couple of years ago Char Bah did some research for a guy in Germany..think his birth was after WW II...anyway turned out he was related to her. Think she wrote an article in AAHGS newsletter
Seventies: Anyone ever heard of Dr. Tony Martin of Trinidad and Tobago? A historian.
alt: is that right Selma ... Wow!!!! not me Seventies
Seventies: Nice..
Daviss: I think she was a war baby alt or right after not sure
Selma: Haven't heard of him seventies
Daviss: me either seventies
Seventies: Tony Martin was a history professor at Wellsey College. He just passed yesterday after surgery.
Daviss: sorry to hear that
Selma: Me too..what has he written?
Seventies: We gotta know more about our black historians... http://tinyurl.com/auk4lge
alt: I agree Seventies, altho' I'm leary of 'writers' that call themselves historians.
Seventies: alt, no these are people who are professionals... Like Van Sertima, Martin, etc who have extensive research and degrees etc.
alt: okay Seventies
Seventies: Apparently the 1980's was a boon for Africana history... and I missed it! lol Hi HistoryBuff
alt: hello HistroyBuff
Seventies: wb Selma
alt: wb Selma
HistoryBuff: Hey 70s Hey everyone
Selma: Can't click link..knocks me out Afternoon History Buff
HistoryBuff: How goes it?
Daviss: hello HistoryBuff, how are you today?
Seventies: Are you using Internet Explorer, Selma. If so, that's why.
Selma: I am
alt: Oops Selma... you got the email with the interview I was talking about last week?
HistoryBuff: Doing better. How about you?
Selma: Yes..alt..it was a wonderful article
alt: thank you I've been shamelessly plugging the interview on AfriGeneas & FaceBook but y'all asked me to let you know when it was published LOL
Selma: I noticed alt...but it is a great article
HistoryBuff: Which interview is that,Alt?
alt: for HistroyBuff & Seventies.... not you Selma & Daviss LOL http://tinyurl.com/ald2dox
HistoryBuff: Sorry got logged off my cell.
alt: wb HistoryBuff
Daviss: partner it is a very nice article and I am sure the "rebel" will enjoy it also
Seventies: Who in the world is that guy in the college sweater???
alt: Big alt
Seventies: See now, alt always comes on here and tells us that he's not doing much of anything..lol oohhh weeee!
HistoryBuff: Thnx on both courts, Alt.
Daviss: You really have a deep, rich history alt
Seventies: Indeed.
HistoryBuff: So do you Daviss.
Daviss: I am sure I do but just dont know it yet HistoryBuff like I would want to Are you all ready for Monday's Inauguration
HistoryBuff: I hear you.
alt: I'll be on a MLK Day program panel in Piqua, Ohio on Monday.
Daviss: I told Angela I will try and find her in the crowd lol
Selma: My sister and family are suppose to be going..they went to the first one
Daviss: Good for you alt.. have fun
Seventies: okay well I have to go... bye.
Daviss: I now hate large crowds but would love to be there for History sake
alt: I hear ya Daviss
Daviss: I know when The POTUS came here I could have gone but the long wait would have gotten to me
alt: but Daviss, could ya deal with the weather?
Daviss: and no place to sit either whew lol alt now that is another thing heheheheee
alt: in Washington DC... it's a little colder there than in AZ
Daviss: I have a winter coat but I guess it would seem like a sweater to you all
HistoryBuff: What 34 degrees, Alt?
alt: yeah HistoryBuff, not sure Daviss could outside in 34 degrees for several hours
Daviss: Brrrrrrrr
alt: could handle
HistoryBuff: I wear thermos for 40 degrees and below.
Selma: Love my cuddle duds..
Daviss: they should sell them here l cuddle duds?\ Is that the name Selma
HistoryBuff: Yes Selma!
alt: when it gets below freezing I limit my outside activity to as little as possible
Daviss: I need to get granddaughter something with feet in them to wear at her dorm
HistoryBuff: I can dig that, Alt.
alt: Well ya'll let me skedaddle for the day .. take care & I'll be seeing ya around the campus
Selma: Yes daviss..guess they don't sell Cuddle dudds in Arizona..
Daviss: ok alt later
Selma: Guess time for me to run too daviss.
Daviss: ok selma take care also
Selma: Bye


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Born 1940 in Wishek, ND. Received LL.B. degree from the University of North Dakota School of Law in 1964, and admitted to practice in North Dakota. General Law practice at Westhope, ND, from 1966-1987. County Judge 1987-94. Elected district judge in 1994, 1996, and 2002. Retired as district judge Dec. 31, 2005. Married: wife, Eunice. One son. He died March 6, 2010.
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The Promotion and Development of Traditional Medicine: Report of a WHO Meeting
(1978; 44 pages)
(1978; 44 pages)
A WHO Meeting on the Promotion and Development of Traditional medicine was held in Geneva from 28 November to 2 December 1977. The consultation was convened in response to the considerable interest evinced in traditional medicine at the Thirtieth World Health Assembly in 1977 and in the subsequent requests by Member States for technical collaboration in organizing educational and research activities in this field.
The aim of the Meeting was to assemble expert representatives of the major systems of traditional medicine to work together and suggest a plan of action to promote and develop various aspects of traditional medicine.
The specific objectives were to make practical suggestions on policy guidelines for the provision of materials and techniques, collaboration among different systems of health care, health education of the public, manpower development, organization of health services, the future development of traditional medicine and its utilization, particularly in the national health services, and relevant research.
A major problem for special consideration was the effective collaboration of different practitioners and their integration into an overall national health care delivery system.
The theme of the Meeting was "Promotion and development of traditional medicine". This report follows the discussion at the Meeting and includes sections on:
- Traditional medicine in health care
- Reasons for the promotion of traditional medicine
- Utilization of traditional medicine in national health care systems
- Integration of traditional medicine and modern medicine
- Manpower development for traditional medicine
- Research promotion and development in traditional medicine
- Recommendations


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SOURCE: CONMED Corporation
June 14, 2012 07:00 ET
UTICA, NY--(Marketwire - Jun 14, 2012) - CONMED Corporation (NASDAQ: CNMD), a medical technology company specializing in medical devices for surgical and patient monitoring markets, announced today that the Company will participate in the Wells Fargo Securities 2012 Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 12:40 PM Eastern time, at the InterContinental Hotel in Boston.
Mr. Joseph J. Corasanti, President and Chief Executive Officer of CONMED, will discuss the Company's business. The live webcast of CONMED's presentation will be available at www.conmed.com in the Investors' section of the website and will be available for replay through June 29, 2012.
CONMED Profile
CONMED is a medical technology company with an emphasis on surgical devices and equipment for minimally invasive procedures and patient monitoring. The Company's products serve the clinical areas of sports medicine-arthroscopy, powered surgical instruments, electrosurgery, cardiac monitoring disposables, endosurgery and endoscopic technologies. Surgeons and physicians in a variety of specialties including orthopedics, general surgery, gynecology, neurosurgery, and gastroenterology use the Company's medical devices. Headquartered in Utica, New York, the Company's 3,400 employees distribute its products worldwide from several manufacturing locations.
Forward-Looking Information
Certain statements made in the presentation may constitute forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and relate to the Company's performance on a going-forward basis. They will be based upon management's expectations and involve risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results, performance or trends, to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements therein or in previous disclosures. The Company believes that all forward-looking statements made by it have a reasonable basis, but there can be no assurance that management's expectations, beliefs or projections as expressed in the forward-looking statements will actually occur or prove to be correct. In addition to general industry and economic conditions, factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: (i) the failure of any one or more of management's assumptions to prove to be correct; (ii) the risks relating to forward-looking statements discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011 and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q; (iii) cyclical purchasing patterns from customers, end-users and dealers; (iv) timely release of new products, and acceptance of such new products by the market; (v) the introduction of new products by competitors and other competitive responses; (vi) the possibility that any new acquisition (and its integration) or other transaction may require the Company to reconsider its financial assumptions and goals/targets; (vii) increasing costs for raw material, transportation, or litigation; (viii) the risk of a lack of allograft tissues due to reduced donations of such tissues or due to tissues not meeting the appropriate high standards for screening and/or processing of such tissues; and/or (ix) the Company's ability to devise and execute strategies to respond to market conditions.
CONTACT:CONMED CorporationRobert Shallish
Chief Financial Officer315-624-3206FTI ConsultingInvestors:
Brian Ritchie 212-850-5600
CONTACT:CONMED CorporationRobert Shallish
Chief Financial Officer315-624-3206FTI ConsultingInvestors:
Brian Ritchie 212-850-5600
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Pictured: Aston Martin One-77
There is a wonderfully romantic narrative to the rise of Aston Martin, from inauspicious beginnings in a London depot where two friends decided to formalise the building of a small sportscar, to a company that now counts a £1.2 million 750bhp bespoke hypercar as the pinnacle of its achievements.
This year, as you've probably worked out by now, is the 100th anniversary of Aston; 100 years since cycling chums Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford turned the Hesse & Savory automobile and marine engineers depot into a pantheon of power.
Well, a space to build their little lightweight cars that they'd race at the Aston Hill climb. The company was formally created on 15 January 1913, and thus, throughout 2013 so far, Aston has been throwing one helluva party, yesterday culminating in a mass gathering in Kensington Park Gardens, just down the road from the spiritual home of Aston.
And this was no ordinary mass gathering. It was - fact alert - the largest gathering of Aston Martins… in the world. In history. In ever. This was to be the beginning then, of a very loud and very auspicious day, marking the high point of a year dedicated to all things AM.
150 models were on display in the splendiferous Kensington grounds, with hundreds more descending on London in a swarm of noise and carbon fibre and power, documenting a very vivid, intriguing story. Founders Martin and Bamford originally started out building 10hp hill climb specials; today, the company builds the 565bhp V12 Vanquish; a car that emits a banshee howl of unspecified shoutiness capable of sending my dog scurrying for cover under the kitchen table. It's bloody loud.
'Twas not always so, though. Legend has it Lionel owned a Rolls, but didn't like the fact it made the hill climb 'effortless'. He wanted to graft for his reward, so set to work on a lightweight sportscar that demanded a bit more skill with the gearbox to extract maximum performance. A Coventry-Climax engine was slotted onto an Isotta Fraschini chassis and tested in 1914, and it wasn't until 1915 that the very first Aston Martin, the 'Coal Scuttle', was revealed.
Of course, the story of Aston since inception is a spectacle worthy of the titular hero with which it has now become inextricably ingrained, full of drama, death-defying returns and heroic flourishes. For example, in 1922, as well as competing in the French GP for the first time, 'Bunny' - an Aston prototype - broke ten world records when it averaged 76mph at Brooklands. Just three years later the company was close to insolvency, then rescued, renamed Aston Martin Motors, and relocated to Feltham. Lionel Martin was to leave the business he co-founded just a year later.
Le Mans success followed, preceded by another rescue of the company in 1932, but it wasn't until 1947 that we get to the 'David Brown' era; the gentleman whose initials have adorned Astons since, all of which were on display in Kensington. Everything right up to the Bond DB5 (there was a special Bond section on show) and beyond, eliciting illuminating reactions from the crowd.
A young lady milling around noted how she "loved the early 1950s cars and the new ones", omitting a large chunk of Vantage, original DBS, Lagonda and Virage history. An elderly gentleman, out with his wife, told me how "they don't make them like the DB5 anymore", while Fred, a former Aston owner himself, now in his seventies, "loved the DB2 because of its aesthetic appeal. Nothing since has come close to it."
A DBS owner was admiring the Bertone Jet 2+2 - the very same £1.2m one-off that Top Gear drove a while back - and noted how it was "bloody lovely - why isn't Aston making that full time?" We posited the same question after driving it…
Elsewhere, a knowledgeable chap who brought down a classic V8 Volante to display couldn't be budged from the One-77. "Every Aston tells a unique story," he tells me, without removing his gaze from the 77. In fact, not many could, its presence far overshadowing everything else on display - including the roofless DBR1 tribute, the CC100. It almost felt like a cruel joke by Aston to sit a Cygnet next to it (though a chic young city couple waltzing by seemed very interested in the little iQ). And this was an exhibition that featured a special motorsport section dedicated to fallen Aston racer Allan Simonsen, a selection of James Bond cars, and a live band stringing out Bond anthems all afternoon, adding a touch of cinematic stardust to what was, overall, a thoroughly enjoyable, scorchingly hot and very Top Gear kind of garden party. There was much horsepower on display. And a lot of class.
Have a click through the pics above and tell us your favourite Aston from the display. We'll have more from Aston's big centenary event later this week - including an interview with design chief Marek Reichman (he penned the One-77 and CC100 Speedster) - so check back for more.
Words: Vijay Pattni
Photography: Aston Martin


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The Council on Aging and Heartland Dental Group have partnered to provide dental screenings for 22 people needing dental work.
The Council on Aging and Heartland Dental Group have partnered to provide dental screenings for 22 people needing dental work.
They will provide this screening to include X-rays at no cost to participants. Registration and completion of medical history must occur prior to the screening.
Participants must be over the age of 60, have no dental insurance, must need extensive (comprehensive dental treatment) and have no other means of obtaining needed dental care and complete the medical history form. Once the screening is complete Heartland Dental will be able to provide lists of resources for receiving reduced rates for dental care elsewhere. In this Q5, Patty Willmeth, program coordinator at Council on Aging, tells us why good oral hygiene is so vital to overall well being and can prevent many health issues later in life.
1. Patty, why did the Council on Aging and Heartland Dental Group decide to partner to provide dental screening for people needing dental work?
This idea grew out of a discussion I had with Mike Keohane. He is a Certified Diabetic Educator and one of our group of nurses that provide information each month through our Health Series. We were discussing the need for dental care for people as they age and the lack of available services for those without dental insurance and the means to pay for it.
Mike took this need and helped the idea come to fruition. He had already arranged for a dentist from Heartland Dental to be a speaker for us in our August Health Series and this dentist agreed to provide this screening along with one other dentist at Heartland Dental. Linda Hunter of Heartland Dental was instrumental in getting this idea off the ground and in the planning and scheduling phase for us.
3. What requirements are in place for those who are seeking dental work and who is eligible?
The requirements and eligibility are as follows: The individual must be over the age of 60, have no dental insurance, must need extensive (comprehensive dental treatment) and have no other means of obtaining needed dental care. They must also complete a medical history form and schedule an appointment through our agency prior to being seen.
3. Why is good oral hygiene so important for good health and why is this event particularly important for seniors whose teeth and gums may be in need of care but fixed incomes may be preventing them from seeking help?
Most all seniors are on a fixed income and with rising costs of utilities, medicines, food, etc. priorities have to be set in their budget. Many times dental care is the last thing on their list . If a person has lost weight, or their gums have shrunk, their dentures may no longer fit properly.
Some have issues with gum recession or gum disease along with teeth that need to be pulled which can cause great pain and infection. All of these dental problems affect their overall health and well being. Gum disease can cause heart problems, not being able to chew properly can affect the ability to eat and results in poor nutrition. A person's well being is affected by having no teeth or teeth that need to be pulled.
4. Is the Council planning any other health-related events?
Each month with the exception of November and December we have a Health Series. We meet on the fourth Thursday of each month from 1-2:30 p.m. with a different topic each month. We are so fortunate to have three nurses and a geriatric physician who bring very valuable information for anyone over the age of 50 who would like to participate.
In addition, monthly we have an "Ask a Nurse" program on the second Monday of each month at 10:15 a.m. This is on a walk-in basis and gives a time for one-on-one questions with an R.N. We also have a hearing screening on the second Monday of each month at 1 p.m. also on a walk–in basis. A hearing-aid specialist volunteers to screen for hearing issues and clean hearing aids. The third Thursday of the month from 2-3 p.m., we have a Diabetic Support Group. All services are offered free of charge.
5. How can people register for the screening and when is the deadline for completed paperwork?
If interested, a person can register by calling our office at 684-0777. They will need to ask for me and plan to come in and fill out the health summary provided by Heartland Dental. The deadline to register and complete paperwork is July 29. We are hoping this will be a huge success, reaching many needing dental screenings.
In the future it would be wonderful to have other dentists in the area also want to participate. Many thanks go out to Heartland Dental for their willingness to be the first to offer this screening.
— Rimsie McConiga


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SEMA Trucks: Big Truck Mafia's Project Super Duty Each year the SEMA Show is flooded with amazing automobiles, lifted trucks, lower street rods, resto-mod classics and late model monsters all in the name of automotive customization. There's something for everyone's taste from the insane over-the-top to capable daily drivers. BDS Suspension attends this annual show […]
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