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The irony: "I've been to Iraq and back without a scratch," where he performed stand-up for the troops.
It was shortly after 9/11 that Ross purchased his three-bedroom, two-bathroom home. "I just sort of wanted to dig into Manhattan a little more and put my roots down." He used the words "comedy commune" to describe the place. "Whenever there's an out-of-work actor or comedian in New York, they often are crashing with me. Not even out-of-work—if somebody has a gig here, I'm usually the first call they make after their agent to make sure they have a place to stay." Ross' cousin Kenny currently stays with him, as well.
Any pets? "I consider Kenny a pet—have to feed him twice a day and take him out for a walk in the afternoons."
We asked about his decorating choices. "I made a lot of mistakes with the decor—it's red, black, white and gold. It looks like a Chinese restaurant in 1975. Any minute I'm waiting for Serpico to bust in and shoot somebody. It looks sort of like an old-time brothel meets a Chinese restaurant."
Ross comes to Zanies Chicago on Thursday, and then plays the club's St. Charles location on Frirday and Vernon Hills on Saturday. "Anyone who knows me knows I love to make fun of people, and for whatever reason, the people in Chicago have a certain swagger that not every city has—they can take it, in other words. There's a lot of good sports in Chicago. Thick skin, if you will."
Most luxurious feature in your home: Now I have a nice big place and I can brag to you. But back when I was really struggling, I lived in a studio and my couch was my bed, my office and my dining room. I kept that couch and put in my office, so I am always humbled about how tough it is to start out in this business. So out of respect for that, I bought a very luxurious black leather sectional sofa for the living room that is an exact contrast to the old couch in the office.
One thing on a wall in your bedroom: My grandfather was a saxophone player, his name was Herb Larson—the Herb Larson Orchestra. He passed away about 10 years ago, but I managed to track down through various uncles and cousins his saxophone, and I had it mounted on a huge piece of black velvet. He's the only other person to be in show business in my family. It's really special to me. I think his ashes were in it for a while, but somebody emptied it out—I have a crazy family.
One thing you have in your house from your childhood: Oh my god, I never throw anything out so I have, oh, conservatively, about 2,000 record albums, 8-tracks going back to the "Grease" soundtrack and "Man of La Mancha." I got my old Fender Telecaster guitar hanging on the wall back from my rockabilly days in college. I got a houseful of stuff like that. It's definitely a Jeff Ross museum.
What item in your home most reflects your personality? Probably the coffeemaker, because without caffeine I have no personality. I'm addicted.
Three things we would find under your bed: My fake I.D. from 11th grade, probably a couple of comedians who were recently evicted from their apartments, and my grandfather's false teeth. I don't throw anything out.
Is "green living" important to you? It is. I'm slowly starting to understand it better. Yeah, I recycle and I try to turn the lights off and I try not to waste paper. I'm getting better, but I'm by no means an example.
Three food items you must have in the house at all times: My grandfather always said to me, take a banana for the ride. So there are always bananas in my house, and everybody who comes or leaves is offered a banana. Older comedians told me back in the day that if you eat a banana, it slows down your heart rate and makes you less nervous before you go on stage. Gotta have coffee, like I said. And turkey, Swiss cheese and mustard for the Jeff Ross toasted pita.
If we opened up your oven, what would we find? A black hole. You know what? I grew up in a kosher catering hall in New Jersey, and I had to cook my whole life. All through high school I made salads and prime rib for hundreds and hundreds of people every weekend. So for whatever reason, I stopped cooking as an adult. It's not that I don't love cooking, it's the cleaning up that kills me. I eat out four meals a day.
What kind of exercise equipment would we find in your house? I have an elliptical trainer in my bathroom, believe it or not. I have a huge bathroom. I hate going to the gym and talking to people and the music's too loud. So I can listen to music, I can work out naked, I can put on jungle music and feel like Tarzan.
What is the biggest surprise we would find in your closet? I have an Hermes cravat that was given to me by Buddy Hackett. I wear it a lot—it's red and gold and yellow, very sophisticated. I have my high school football jersey. I have a black silk suit that I wore for my new Comedy Central stand-up special. The thing about being a comedian is that if you wear something on TV, you kind of can't wear it again—so the closet fills up.


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By Roey Gilberg
LOS ANGELES -- Queen's School of Business (Toronto, Canada) earned the grand prize of $25,000 in the second annual Global Business Leadership Competition (GBLC) held earlier this month on the UCLA Anderson campus. This year's runner-up was the National University of Singapore Business School, which earned the $10,000 prize, while University of Chicago's Booth School of Business earned the $5,000 third prize. Queen's School of business was runner-up in 2008's inaugural competition.
The GBLC is a two-day event that pits five-member teams representing top business schools from around the world (including UCLA Anderson) against each other. The competition gives students the opportunity to demonstrate and develop their leadership abilities, and provides a venue for students, academics, and prominent business leaders to network and share ideas.
During the competition itself, students tackled real-life business cases, presenting their recommendations in a series of modules while fielding questions from panels of distinguished business leaders serving as judges. The judges selected four finalists from the twelve participating teams, naming the Recanati Graduate School of Business (Tel Aviv, Israel) along with the three prize-winners. The finalists then delivered their third case presentation for a second time, which asked them to propose a new organizational structure for BIG Entertainment, a diversified international media and entertainment company.
Living up to its name, the GBLC is truly global in scope, with nine countries represented among this year's twelve competing schools. In addition to the four finalists, participants included the Fudan University School of Management (Shanghai, China), HEC School of Management (Paris, France), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School (Hong Kong SAR), Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico), London Business School (London, England), Peking University Guanghua School of Management (Beijing, China), Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea), and the UCLA Anderson team.
Capping off the event on Saturday evening was keynote speaker Jeffrey Berg, Chairman and CEO of International Creative Management, Inc., a talent and literary agency. Berg is also a member of the UCLA Anderson Board of Visitors. Friday's lunchtime keynote address was delivered by Amit Tripathi, President and CEO of Pyxix Corporation, a global media company.
The event was organized and implemented by a crew of Anderson student volunteers, including Meera Damle ('09), the lead student coordinator. She was joined on the Student Planning Committee by Tulika Kundu ('09), Aimee Fox ('09), Chris Kachel ('09), Ardelle Potter ('09), Neha Kapedia ('09, Lan Ta ('09) and Nina Pelham ('10).


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Jan Clark Bragg's addiction to prescription pain killers got so bad that she cashed in her 401(k) to buy more and more pills.
She quit her job, left her husband and spent months "not doing anything," except feeding her drug habit. Then she reached rock bottom.
"It was awful," Bragg said.
Shortly afterward, one of Bragg's friends told her about the Learning Institute for Tomorrow, or LIFT.
The intent, though, was for Bragg to help out LIFT with marketing and advertising.
Years ago, the only supplemental materials a student had to worry about were pencils and notebooks.
But with the emergence of new technologies, their options have blossomed to include computers, Web sites and wireless technology, all of which have become an integral part of daily life for adults and students of all ages.
Lydia Quinn, executive director of planning and accountability for the Lancaster County School District, says technology is a useful tool, no matter the age of the student.
Sara Parker is still reflecting on a recent trip abroad that may prove to be her best learning experience yet.
Parker, a Lancaster native who attends the S.C. Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, spent eight days in Italy during her spring break in March.
She and about 50 other music students in the school went there to perform in Rome, the Italian capital.
INDIAN LAND – Jada Norman dives in the pool and performs just about every maneuver you'd expect to see from a seasoned swimmer.
Jada, 10, does the butterfly and breaststroke with ease, and can swim long distances using the backstroke.
Her ability to easily glide through the water may make you wonder just how good Jada will be in years to come. But if you ask her, swimming competitively or for acclaim is not even part of the plan.
She simply does it for fun.
INDIAN LAND – It only took a couple of words to spark Taylor Altier's imagination.
Altier, 16, was working as a restaurant hostess at Murphy's Tavern in south Charlotte when a word caught her attention.
From there, the Indian Land High School student created what would soon be her own self-published novel.
Field trips, computer time and drama lessons are some of the additions that have helped make this year's Hi Kee camp perhaps the best one yet.
Youngsters in kindergarten through 12th grade are in the midst of the annual summer enrichment program, which started June 8 and wraps up Saturday.
Fifty Lancaster County students were admitted to the camp, held at Steele Hill AME Zion Church and sponsored by Steele Hill Community Partners.
INDIAN LAND – Clair Thain held up a formidable-looking taloned foot that once belonged to a hawk and told her audience of children how a hawk uses those sharp claws to catch a rodent meal.
Thain, a Wild Wings educator for the Carolina Raptor Center in Huntersville, N.C., spoke to a group of children and their parents at the Del Webb Library at Indian Land on June 17. It was the first Wednesday event for the library's summer reading program.
Thain passed the foot around to the children, who could hardly contain their excitement.
A dead, pregnant rat laid on the table while cow eyes sat there waiting for students to explore.
Keenan Shropshire, one of the students in this year's local GEAR-UP summer camp, wasn't too fond of dissecting animals. But as time elapsed, he became more comfortable with the exercise.
"It's pretty fun – except for the rat," said Shropshire, a rising junior at Andrew Jackson High School. "I didn't touch the rat."
Hannah Powell emerged looking like she had just been dunked in a swimming pool.
The rising North Elementary School second-grader had just finished playing a game at Discovery School's Camp Invention.
In the game, she used a shield to fend off water that was being tossed in her direction. Students who played the game made their shields from construction paper.
A major disability hasn't kept New Jersey resident Malcolm Phillips from reaching out and sharing his story with the world.
Phillips, 20, was born with cerebral palsy. He was the guest speaker at Brooklyn Springs Elementary School's fifth-grade graduation June 3.
He is the godson of Principal Gwen Minor.
Phillips can't walk or use his hands, and isn't able to talk clearly. He gets around in a wheelchair and needs assistance with all tasks.
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Marion County Senior Citizens Inc. will recognize six local artists during the group's annual meeting Oct. 17 at Marion Senior Center. In addition to the artist recognition, there will be a musical performance by the Marion High School Singers, and Pat Wick will speak.
Twilla Baker
Twilla Baker of Lincolnville took up painting after retiring from nursing and recovering from surgery. She was looking for something to do while wheelchair-bound, and someone suggested she try painting.
She took three or four lessons and went from there. Her favorite subject to paint is scenery. She hasn't entered any contests, but her paintings are in several U.S. states as well as Canada and Australia.
Rubena Bartel
Rubena Bartel, formerly of Hillsboro and now living in Goessel, took art classes in 1939 and 1940 at Tabor Academy. She took an acrylic and oils class and fell in love with painting.
Throughout her travels, she would take pictures of different scenes. Once home, she would paint the pictures. She received third place in the "Art of the Ageless" contest.
Beverly Dillon
Beverly Dillon of Peabody saw an ad in the newspaper for art lessons, and a little more than a year ago she took a class from Jan Davis at Gallery 101 in Marion. She enjoys painting scenery and animals.
Letty Ens
Louetta "Letty" Ens of Hillsboro has been a painter for as long as she can remember. She could draw a word before she could spell it in grade school.
She took art classes and later taught art at Brudertal School. She has judged the 4-H art project at Marion County Fair, and she became a professional artist in 1994. For the past 19 years she has been teaching an art class at Trinity church from October through June.
She is a realistic painter and enjoys doing portraits of her children and grandchildren. She has twice been awarded "best in show" at the Kansas State Fair.
Mary Jean Rogers
Mary Jean Rogers of Marion has been painting all her life. She had three teachers who encouraged her and taught her the basics. She attended Washburn University on scholarship.
One of the reasons she chose to move to Marion from Wichita was because of the picturesque houses, public buildings, and landscapes in the county. She recently did birds in pastels and a colorful Kansas sunset.
While she lived in Wichita, she was a member of Riverside Watercolor Society. She is a member of the Bluestem Art Guild.
Ralph Sagerty
Ralph Sagerty of Marion took up whittling about 10 years ago after retiring as a master plumber. He progressed to woodcarving, including relief and three-dimensional characters.
About five years ago he added acrylic paint to enhance his projects. His primary subject are animals, fish, and individual characters.
He was awarded "best in show" for his Indian Bust at the Texas Woodcarvers Association regional show.


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LeTourneau University engineering professor Dr. Yoni Adonyi will be among 14 outstanding Ohio State University alumni honored at the 16th Annual Excellence in Engineering & Architecture Alumni Awards Oct. 18.
Each year, the Ohio State University College of Engineering honors distinguished alumni for extraordinary personal achievements, remarkable contributions to the field of engineering (or architecture) or outstanding service to the college.
Adonyi, who earned his master's and doctoral degrees in welding engineering in 1986 and 1989, respectively, from the Ohio State University, will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award in honor of his outstanding professional achievement in engineering. Adonyi is noted for increasing enrollment threefold in the past 15 years at the LETU materials joining engineering program and has brought in $6 million in outside research and development funding and equipment. Adonyi is the Omer Blodgett Endowed Chair of Welding and Materials Joining Engineering at LeTourneau University, where he not only transformed the undergraduate materials joining degree program, he was instrumental in introducing a master's in engineering degree program.
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Delaware Valley School District is prepared to use eminent domain this week to force a land owner to allow the district an easement to use his driveway in case of an emergency.
Delaware Valley School District is prepared to use eminent domain this week to force a land owner to allow the district an easement to use his driveway in case of an emergency.
The desired 11,500-square-foot easement is owned by Konstantinos Ferousis, who could not be reached for comment. It is an abandoned parking lot next to Milford Chrysler that abuts the school property.
The small strip of land is on Route 6/209 in Milford Township, next to the property where the district plans a $23 million elementary school.
The district has been negotiating with Ferousis for more than a year but has not been able to get a signed contract, district Business Manager William Hessling said.
The deal is stalling the school construction project.
The district needs a conditional use approval from Milford, and then it can break ground. If the approval comes soon, 2013-2014 will be the final year for the current elementary school, located at the high school campus.
In the process of seeking the approval, the township made a list of 45 questions and issues and asked the district to get back to them.
Since at least January, 44 of the listed items have been completed. The last item is to form a second egress from Route 6/209. It would be a second way off the property in case the main driveway is blocked.
The current school in Westfall does not have a second egress, but it is something supervisors are allowed to require.
The emergency driveway would have a gate and would only be used in case of an emergency, district solicitor Michael Weinstein said.
The district is willing to pay $40,000 for the easement and handle snowplowing of the driveway.
The school board voted on taking the easement through eminent domain during its regular meeting last week, but did not have enough votes. Some board members were not in attendance, and board member Pam Lutfy voted against taking the property.
"I am a real conservative when it comes to eminent domain. I believe it should be used for emergency only, and I don't consider this an emergency at this time," Lutfy said. "I would like one more effort made."
The board agreed to give Ferousis another opportunity to sign a contract early this week. If there is no contract by Wednesday, the board will hold a special meeting a 6 p.m. Thursday to authorize obtaining the property through eminent domain.


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World of Warcraft's next expansion has gone live in North America, and the first thing I did was transform my Worgen into a Panda. And give him a sex change, because tails.
So far things have been going rather smoothly on the Ysera server. I was disconnected once early on, but could log right back in. We'll see how long I can stay up and quest before my old manitis kicks in.


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[Uniquement en anglais] International Assistance for training provided by the World Heritage Fund: review, evaluation and strategy - Review and assessment of natural heritage training activities (1988-1992)
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The Bureau approved US$30,000 for a workshop to be held in 1994-1995 with a selected number of experts, specialists and key individuals, including agreement by the schools, to review the curricula of the courses, management objectives as well as the outcome of the courses.
The Bureau asked that the Centre submit the evaluation findings as well as recommendations by the experts for a future training strategy for natural heritage to the World Heritage Committee.
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Thèmes : Renforcement des capacités, Assistance internationale
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One of the things that's always a challenge in superhero games is giving the character new powers as they go. Infamous 2 got to bypass Cole McGrath's origin story, and as a result introduced new powers while presenting a faster-moving, more enjoyable story than the first game.
That said, it's always a good thing to get more powers, especially if they're vampire powers. The launch trailer for the new standalone add-on content Infamous: Festival of Blood shows a new sort of origin story, as Cole McGrath is bitten by a vampire and sets out to win back his free will from some apparent vampire dominatrix master person named "Bloody Mary." Geddit? Because blood.
I've only just gotten this downloaded to my PS3, so I haven't played yet. But really, they had me at "electrically charged vampire superdemon."


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WASHINGTON – A Herndon teenager faces felony charges in connection with animal slashings at Frying Pan Park in April and May.
Fairfax County police say the 17-year-old boy is charged with four felony counts of maiming animals, three misdemeanor counts of cruelty to animals and two counts of unlawful entry.
Police say they arrested the teen Saturday after getting a tip on Friday. They aren't describing the motive, but say they believe they have the weapon used in the attacks: a machete.
Police say two goats, a calf and a chicken were cut between 5 p.m. Saturday, May 26 and 7 a.m. Sunday, May 27.
On April 26, three horses, used as therapy animals at a riding center, were stabbed while in a barn adjacent to Frying Pan Park.
The Washington Post reports an informant told investigators the teen used a 22-inch machete to cut horses belonging to the Spirit Open Equestrian Program, after one horse reportedly threw the teen while he attempted to film himself riding it.
The attacks on the animals raised concerns in the community and prompted a $7,500 reward.
The Fairfax County Park Authority worried the attacks would keep visitors away. The park has more than 300,000 visitors a year.
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In June 1980, Berkeley residents passed the City's comprehensive rent stabilization law, known as the Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Good Cause Ordinance. (Berkeley Municipal Code Chapter 13.76.) The Ordinance regulates most residential rents in Berkeley, provides tenants with increased protection against unwarranted evictions and is intended to maintain affordable housing and preserve community diversity.
The Rent Stabilization Board, composed of nine elected commissioners, enacts regulations, hears petition appeals and administers a program to implement the Ordinance. Rent Board staff provide information and counseling to landlords and tenants, calculate and certify individual rent ceilings, conduct administrative hearings and issue decisions on landlord and tenant rent adjustment petitions, collect registration fees, and maintain a database of registered rental units. Owners of rental property covered by the Ordinance are required to register their units with the Board by filing registration statements and paying annual registration fees, which cover the program's cost.
In 1995, the California legislature enacted the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which suspends rent control following a qualifying vacancy and reinstates it for a new tenancy. (Civil Code section 1954.50, et seq.) For the transition period between January 1, 1996 and December 31, 1998, owners were allowed to set new rents within prescribed limits. Now, under full "vacancy decontrol," owners may set a market rent for most tenancies beginning on or after January 1, 1999. The rent charged a new tenant becomes the new rent ceiling. Owners must register new rents with the Rent Board and may increase these rents for a sitting tenant only by an annual general adjustment or an individual rent adjustment granted through the Board's petition process.
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MINNEAPOLIS – (March 26, 2013) – The third of four inmates who escaped from state custody in April 2012 was sentenced today to more than 11 additional years in prison for aggravated escape from custody, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said. The inmates were housed by the state at the Ottawa County jail at the time of their escape.
Alberto Barraza-Lujan, 24, was sentenced to 136 months in the Kansas Department of Corrections by Judge Patrick Thompson in Ottawa County District Court. Barraza-Lujan pleaded guilty to the escape charge in January. Thompson ordered the sentence to be served consecutive to the 136 months Barraza-Lujan is still serving for previous convictions, the sentence for which he was incarcerated at the time of his escape.
Two defendants were previously sentenced on related charges in connection with the April 2012 escapes. Eric James was sentenced in July 2012 to 18 years in federal prison for carjacking charges related to the escape. Drew Wade was sentenced last week to 136 additional months after pleading guilty to aggravated escape from custody. A fourth defendant, Santos M. Carrera-Morales, is charged by the attorney general with aggravated escape from custody and battery on a corrections officer. He is awaiting trial. The charges against Carrera-Morales are merely accusations; he is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
Assistant Attorney General Steve Karrer from Schmidt's office is prosecuting the cases.
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With a 31-billion dollar budget in 2010, the National Institutes of Health is the world's largest funder of basic medical research. In this segment, Ira talks with Francis Collins, incoming director of the National Institutes of Health, about NIH research priorities for the years ahead.
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Brick walls
There are some sections where you are dumped directly into first-person mode, and when you try to exit into third-person the view simply goes green. You need to find some specific thing to focus on before the game continues, and this becomes a frustrating pixel-hunt as you scour the scene.
It's possible that I'm losing my edge, but this game had me blocked multiple times, looking for the way to move forward. It seems very un-Nintendo in a way, as some of the puzzles felt unintuitive and more annoying than satisfying.
Another complaint: Samus has every power available to her through her suit for the entire game. The only issue is that she places herself under military command, and the game tells you early on that she'll only use weapons she's authorized to. So basically, there's some bastard somewhere who decides when you can use certain aspects of your suit, and then they get turned on. So if you find a pick-up you can't get to early in the game it's not because you haven't found the power-up for your suit—it's because some guy hasn't told you you're authorized to use that power yet. Who that man is will solve one of the larger mysteries in the lore of Metroid, but still...
Does this sound like Samus to anyone else? Our girl should tell him to stuff it and blow the crap out of a target with a Super Missile at the first opportunity. But no, you'll be passing stuff up because you're not authorized to go weapons-hot yet. Every time Samus was told she could use another power in the game I grew a little more bitter; that would have been really useful about an hour ago when I was eye-balling that energy power-up.
For the love of God, it takes this guy half the game before he authorizes the grapple beam. Was he afraid my swinging was going to jeopardize the mission? WTF, man?
Your different guns aren't selectable either—the effects just layer on top of each other. That means once you get the wave beam you'll be able to shoot through some objects while also freezing others. It takes a little bit away from the game now that you can't find the right gun for the job, and it makes the progression of powers feel more linear.
In conclusion
The story for Other M was actually a pleasant surprise. It fits very well with established Metroid canon, and it fleshes out a few details about who Samus is, as she learns and changes and adapts through the course of the story. The character is not the same at the end of the game as she is in the beginning, and there are some honestly touching and surprising moments to be had as things progress. The story twists and shifts, and by the time you get to the end you may not be sure who the good guys are, or if you did the right thing. There are a few details that are cringe-worthy, but the voice acting is above-average and gets things right more often than not.
This is a game that's going to split fans down the middle, but it shouldn't. Getting more insight into Samus is a good thing, and it's done in a way that doesn't diminish the character or the adventures that happen after the events of this game. There are a few angles taken with the character I wish weren't hit quite so hard, but overall it's a wonderful look into what made Samus into the woman we're familiar with. "Is she always alone?" my wife asked me after watching me play for an hour or so. Yes, she is almost always alone. Samus has always been different, isolated, and it's interesting to see how she moves in a situation where she comes in direct contact with other living things that aren't immediate threats.
You'll see some beautiful things in this game: you'll run over fields of fire where creatures prance and cavort, you'll be attacked on what looks like a huge plain filled with flowing grass, you'll play with gravity and be given glimpses of just how inhospitable the environment you're in can be. Taking the time to explore the ship, finding all the missile tanks and energy parts, is worth the effort. You can beat the game in around 12 hours if you want to run through it, but finding everything will take you much, much longer. The game also uses one of the niftier pieces of foreshadowing we've seen in quite a while.
Metroid: Other M has more than a few annoyances, but after playing it through to completion I find myself thinking about what it does well, not what it does poorly. This is how you grow a character.
Bonus: once the game is over, ask yourself about the titular Other M. What is it referring to? There's more than one answer here, and they're all valid.
The Good
- Interesting new take on the series
- Beautiful graphics, memorable scenes
- Combat is satisfying and varied
- Story that adds to the Metroid mythos
- We dive deeper into the character of Samus Aran
The Bad
- It's possible to get stuck with no clear path forward
- The way new weapons and abilities are unlocked is ridiculous
- Without being able to select weapons manually, things are a little simpler
- The voice acting and script have a few cringe-inducing moments
- The issue of Samus being a woman is hit a little harder than needed
The Ugly
- The fans squabbling over the change in direction. Hell, the series survived first-person and motion controls, didn't it?


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SAN JOSE, Calif. – The San Jose Earthquakes announced today that they will host UEFA Champions League Semifinalist Atletico Madrid on Sunday, July 27 at Candlestick Park with kickoff at 4 p.m. PT. Tickets for the match will go on sale to the general public starting on Tuesday, May 20 at www.sjearthquakes.com.
"This is a great opportunity for Bay Area soccer fans to watch their local team take on one of the premier clubs in the world," said Earthquakes president Dave Kaval. "Hosting a UEFA Champions League semifinalist is a special experience. Earthquakes fans have some great games to look forward to this summer and this match adds to the list."
Earthquakes season ticket holders will have a special pre-sale starting on May 12 and will receive a discount off regular ticket prices. Those fans should look for an email from the club's fan relations department.
Suites and group tickets are available through the Earthquakes front office in person or by calling 408-556-7700. The club will also have designated supporter areas in sections 42 and 44.
San Jose's 2014 Summer of Soccer includes a quartet of big games. It all starts with the United States Men's National Team hosting Azerbaijan at Candlestick Park on Tuesday, May 27 (7 p.m. PT / ESPN2, WatchESPN, Unimas). Next, the Earthquakes will host the LA Galaxy for the California Clasico at Stanford Stadium on Saturday, June 28 (7:30 p.m. PT / NBC Sports Network). One month later comes the Atletico Madrid match followed by a trip to Levi's® Stadium for the inaugural event at the state-of-the-art venue.
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South African Journal of Science
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S. Afr. j. sci. vol.104 no.7-8 Pretoria Set./Ago. 2008
Comparison of lipid and fatty acid profiles of commercially raised pigs with laboratory pigs and wild-ranging warthogs
L-B. Fine; B.C. Davidson*
School of Physiology, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, 7 York Road, Parktown 2193, South Africa
The perception that commercial livestock meat products have adverse nutritional effects, especially from the point of view of lipids and cardiovascular disease, is linked to assumptions concerning their inherent lipid profile. However, when commercially reared domestic pig meat samples were compared with those from laboratory pigs or wild-ranging warthogs, the warthog and laboratory pig samples shared similar lipid profiles, whereas the commercially reared pig samples were different. Pork is not inherently high in saturated fatty acids, unless this has been induced by the current intensive agricultural practices employed in raising the animal. We conclude that problems of high saturated fatty acid content in commercially raised pork could be ameliorated by appropriate changes to current intensive animal production methods.
A high red meat intake continues to be popular in South Africa, despite awareness of the high incidence of coronary artery disease, correlated with this dietary habit.1 Globally, most commercially available meat is the product of intensive agricultural, and highly selective breeding methods, and many have blamed meat, at least in part, for the increase in cardiac disease-associated morbidity and mortality.27 Studies in Australia limiting saturated fat intake, but supplementing with lean meat that is comparatively rich in polyunsaturates, have shown a reduction in circulating cholesterol, paralleling results when fish oils are consumed.810 Thus, meat in general may not be the problem, but specifically the high saturated fat content present in intensively-produced meats.1113
Before the emergence of agriculture, especially intensive agricultural practices, human dietary meats would have shown lipid profiles approximating those of wild meats, and thus would probably have displayed lower total lipid, but with higher proportions of polyunsaturates.12,14,15
Many reports in the literature document the lipid and fatty acid profiles of commercial meats arising from current agricultural practices, usually intensive in nature, aimed to fatten and bring livestock to market as quickly as possible.1619 In contrast, animals reared for use in animal-based research need to be as 'natural' as possible, while maintaining a degree of genetic and phenotypic uniformity. These two contrasting requirements determine the diet to be fed, in each case. For the former, it is a diet that addresses rapid attainment of slaughter weight (optimized body-mass and time-frame product conversion of input costs from feed). For the latter, it is a diet that addresses the animal's need for healthily balanced nutrition. In the wild, the diet is usually more restricted in nature, and at times may constrain an animal's growth, and the animal will undergo significant exercise in the process of foraging. It is thus possible that significant health-related differences exist between commercial, laboratory, and wild animals of the same or similar species.
Laboratory animals are fed a more balanced, and usually more varied, spectrum of foods, whereas animals under intensive stock-farming are given high carbohydrate and possibly high fat diets. This diet may pro vide more saturated fat, which is less inclined to go rancid and thus has a longer shelf life. Moreover, excess carbohydrate has a tendency for con version to saturated fat by the animal's liver. This surplus fat is stored around abdominal organs, subcutaneously and as adipose tissue that in filtrates muscle fibres (marbling).
Animals in the wild forage for their diet, and will take in a wide range of foodstuffs that have a correspondingly wide range of lipid profiles, including a significant proportion of polyunsaturates. The latter are not stored as future energy sources, but preferentially utilized for membrane structure and eicosanoid synthesis.
They also stimulate the uncoupling of chain, inducing an increased metabolic rate, and elevated substrate catabolism.20,21
Materials and methods
Samples of pork from shoulder, midback and abdomen were obtained from three different retailers, to avoid the possibility that all material came from the same animal. Similar samples were also obtained from three euthanased pigs provided by Badenhorst & Co., Bronkhorstspruit, Northern Province, South Africa, via the University of the Witwatersrand Central Animal Service. Data from analyses of samples obtained from culled wild warthogs, carried out in previous research, were used for comparison.
Pork sample lipids were extracted using chloroform:methanol (2:1).22 A 1-ml aliquot of each extract was then used to determine lipid dry weight. A further aliquot equivalent to 20 mg of lipid was transmethylated using 10% boron trifluoride in methanol to prepare methyl esters of the fatty acids.23 These were then extracted into hexane, and the methyl esters separated on a Varian 3400 gas chromatograph, with a 10% SP2330 6' × ⅛" packed column and FID detection. Quantification was with a Varian 4270 integrator. The peaks were identified by comparison of retention times with FAME standards. The warthog samples were subjected to the same analytical protocol during the course of the previous work.
Table 1 shows the results from analysis of the pig samples from the various retail outlets, and these have been treated as the reference data for all statistical comparisons. Table 2 shows comparable results from the pigs of laboratory origin, whereas Table 3 illustrates the comparative data from the wild-caught warthogs.
A large proportion of the commercial sample total fatty acids (Table 1) comprises saturates and monounsaturates (43.0% and 37.3% respectively), whereas only 15.4% are polyunsaturates. Within this fraction, 15.1% are n6 polyunsaturates, with only trace amounts of n3 polyunsaturates. The lipid dry mass is 26.5 mg/g wet mass. The mass ratio of saturates to polyunsaturates is 2.89:1. Whereas there was a moderate degree of variability between the samples from different anatomical sites, there are no significant differences between these sites for any of the fatty acids.
By comparison, the laboratory pig samples (Table 2) show somewhat lower total saturates (32.7%), similar monounsaturates (35.6%), and markedly higher polyunsaturates (29.1%). Within the polyunsaturates, amounts of n3 are significantly greater than those in Table 1 (7.4%). The n6 are also greater (21.7%). However, the total lipid dry mass is lower (15.5%) and the mass ratio of saturates to polyunsaturates is less at 1.06:1.
There are only slight or insignificant compositional differences between the wild warthog and laboratory pig samples. We conclude from this that domestic pigs (when not intensively reared) are not inherently high in saturates or low in polyunsaturates and share a similarity with the related wild species. There are also only minor differences between these two groups in respect of their total lipid dry masses and saturatedto-polyunsaturated mass ratios. Information on the precise anatomical sampling sites from the warthogs was not available, but there is little variation between the samples. This could indicate that the sample sites were similar, or that there is little variation between different sites. The different sites sampled in the laboratory pigs also show small variability, except for variation in fatty acid profile between the shoulder and midback samples, and the abdominal samples. Differences are deemed to be insignificant.
Examination of the data from the retail meat samples shows striking differences, with the total saturates being markedly higher, the total monounsaturates similar, and the total, n6 and n3 polyunsaturates considerably lower. There is insignificant variation between muscle sites sampled. The mass ratio of saturates to polyunsaturates is greater, more than twice found in the laboratory pig samples, whereas the total lipid dry mass is also almost double that of the laboratory pigs. The retail meat has much more fat, with a greater proportion as saturates.
Laboratory pigs and warthogs, in contrast, show significantly lower levels of saturates compared with the stock-reared pigs, together with significantly higher total, n6 and n3 polyunsaturates, and significantly lower saturate-to-polyunsaturate mass ratios and total lipid dry masses. This reflects a lower total fat, together with a greater proportion of fat comprising polyunsaturates.
The fatty acid profiles reported above indicate that domesticated pig meat is not naturally high in saturates. The high levels, found by us and others,19 are a consequence of the intensive stock-farming practices used to accelerate animal growth to slaughter-weight. The trend is paralleled by lower proportions of polyunsaturates.
Given the prevailing dogma that high dietary saturated fatty acid intake is deleterious to health, especially in terms of cardiac and circulatory health,16,2428 we judge current intensive pig-farming as prejudicial to consumer health. While we accept that commercial survival is predicated by optimized agro-economics, we believe that practices should not be to the detriment of the customer. Research is needed in the development of stock-farming methods that optimize agro-economic considerations without compromising the nutritional value of the product to the consumer.
We wish to thank the National Research Foundation of South Africa and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, for their financial support of this project.
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Received 6 July 2007. Accepted 15 August 2008.
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Ranger position filled for area parks
PWS has been without for more than a decade
State parks in the Valdez area are getting some much needed attention - thanks to the hiring of Travis Russell, the new state park ranger.
"It's a brand new position that was just created," Russell said, "The job for me actually began May 10."
Since that time, Russell toured Alaska training for the position that is based out of Valdez, but encompasses areas from Worthington Glacier in the north, portions of Mineral Creek and into the surrounding waters.
"I'm the ranger for Prince William Sound," he said, ticking off a list of areas under his jurisdiction, including Jack Bay, Ellamar and Shoup Bay and its trail.
Russell may be new to Valdez, but he is no stranger to Alaska.
Like many, Russell came to the state with the military. He was stationed at Ft. Wainwright in 1999, and stayed. He obtained a degree (history major with minors in criminal justice and outdoors) at UAF and worked there as a student officer. He became a rafting guide and later worked for the state park system for three years - including a stint on a northern edge island off of Kodiak - before taking on the roll of park ranger in Valdez.
Russell said he wanted to come here "because of the community support."
Indeed, many in Valdez, especially members of the State Parks Citizens Advisory Board, long petitioned the state and pushed brass and legislators to create a park ranger position to address problems with the area's state parks, which many claimed have been grossly neglected by the state.
"It's definitely met and exceeded my expectations," Russell said of his Valdez reception. "So far, everybody's been extremely helpful."
And the work has already begun. Russell says the dilapidated picnic benches at the Blueberry Lake campground have been replaced, and well was repaired. Work has also been done on one of its picnic shelter roofs and a rail fixed at Worthington Glacier.
Maintenance is one of his many responsibilities as park ranger.
"As a ranger, there are a lot of duties," he said. One of which is to make sure state parks are "clean, safe and well maintained."
But that is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak.
"We're considered peace officers of the State of Alaska," Russell said, and law enforcement is one of his duties.
"We address wildlife issues," and enforce laws – especially hunting and trapping regulations - within park boundaries, and more, he said.
A year-round position, Russell says he plans to spend the winter doing outreach and working with the local advisory board planning for the 2012 season. Next summer he plans to be out in the field extensively.
"I'd like to focus on Jack Bay," he said, noting numerous tent platforms need – well - reforming. But that isn't all.
"Shoup Bay trail needs a lot of work," he said, echoing one of the many concerns raised by Valdez stakeholders.


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Head of tax exempt division has asked not to appear before oversight committee.
Lois Lerner, the IRS official who headed the tax-exempt division when the targeting of tea-party groups took place, plans to invoke her Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions before Congress on Wednesday.
But Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House oversight committee where Lerner was to appear, has issued a subpoena to Lerner anyway.
The subpoena was delivered after the committee received the letter from Lerner's attorney, a committee aide said.
Her attorney, William Taylor, said in a letter obtained by National Journal, that Lerner had "not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation" but that she would decline to testify at a House hearing on Wednesday.
Taylor further asked for his client to be allowed not to show up at all. "Because Ms. Lerner is invoking her constitutional privilege, we respectfully request that you excuse her from appearing at the hearing," Taylor wrote to Issa.
Taylor had written that "requiring her to appear at the hearing merely to assert her Fifth Amendment privilege would have no purpose other than to embarrass or burden her."


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February 24, 2013 Length: 4:12
One time, our Lord Jesus Christ told a story to teach a lesson.
He told about a man with two sons. One day, the younger son asked his father for a lot of money. He took the money and left his home. He traveled far away and wasted all the money his father gave him.
Soon after that, there was not enough food in the land. So, the younger son got a job feeding pigs. He was so hungry that he wanted to eat the pigs' food. He worked hard, but was still hungry.
As he worked, he remembered that the servants at his father's house worked hard but had plenty of food. He thought to himself, "I will go and say I am sorry to my father for sinning and wasting his money. Then I will ask him to hire me as one of his servants." Right away, he started towards his home.
While he was still far away, his father saw him. He was so glad to see his son that he ran to him and hugged him and kissed him. The son told his father he was sorry for what he had done, and that he did not deserve to be called his father's son anymore.
But the father was so happy to see his son! He asked the servants to dress the young man in the best clothes. He told them to prepare a feast to celebrate the son's return. It was a very happy time in that house!
When the older son came in from the field and found out what was happening, he got angry. His father came out to talk with him, to ask him to join the party. But the older son said, "I have worked hard for you all these years and you didn't give me a party. It's not fair that my brother, who ran off and wasted your money gets a party, now, just for coming back!"
But the father said, "Son, you are always with me and everything that is mine is yours, too. It is right for us to celebrate now, though, because your lost brother has found his way back home, where he belongs!"
1. At the beginning of the story, what did the younger son ask his father for?
2. What did he do with all the money?
3. Why did he come back to the father? What did the father do?
4. How do you know when you've done something wrong?
5. Remember, when we do something wrong, God wants us to be sorry. To show we are sorry, we do two things. First we go to the person we have hurt and say, "Please forgive me." The person we have hurt says, "I forgive you." Second we ask forgiveness of God in the Mystery of Confession.


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Last year I was lucky enough to be interviewed by a young filmmaker named Hannah Jayanti for a documentary about the book The Phantom Tollbooth, in celebration of it being published fifty years ago. After the interview, Hannah asked if I'd write a song for the film and I was even happier to do that. The film's premier is October 6 at the New Yorker Festival. (Norton Juster, the author, and the illustrator, Jules Feiffer, will be there for the screening. I'll be there, too. ) For fans of the book (and even those unfamiliar with it) it's a delightful and insightful look at the creative process and the story behind Milo and his tollbooth.
Here's part of my interview:
And here's a link to the song. My pal, whistler extraordinaire Andy Offut Irwin does the whistling:
Some of you know that The Phantom Tollbooth is a classic piece of children's literature – and it's a classic and timeless because of its very singular and quirky nature. Milo is a boy thoroughly bored with life and not seeing the point in much of anything. Feiffer's initial illustrations of Milo show someone not dissimilar to the character in Munch's "The Scream". Passing through a tollbooth that mysteriously shows up in his apartment one afternoon, Milo embarks on a quest into a different world, and discovers a reason for being, or perhaps finds that just being is reason enough. The story is filled with language play, strange characters, and philosophical observations that most adults can't imagine children would enjoy.
Most adults.
Most adults think…
You could begin a lot of sentences with that phrase, and hardly any of them would be complimentary to people over twenty-one years of age. Somehow, adults forget how children think. Perhaps because children have no power, they have little responsibility, and adults equate consciousness and perception with responsibility, forgetting the years and years they themselves spent as children, observing and trying to make sense of things. By the time children get to nine or ten years of age, they have become philosophers of a feral sort. Children, at the mercy of their seniors, have a lot of time to muse and consider and try and understand, more than we do as adults.
Which is what The Phantom Toolbooth is about – trying to make sense of a world in which adults don't seem to be listening or paying attention.
Most adults doubted that children would like the book. But they have. My friend Carmen Deedy says it's easier to publish a good book than a great one, and time has proved detractors wrong. Rereading it last year, I was struck by the depth of what it had to say, and the playfulness with which it was said.
If you like the book, you can give it some support on the Facebook fan page here.
And if you're in New York, I'll see you there.


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2013 NBA draft selections.
First Round
1. Cleveland, Anthony Bennett, F, UNLV
2. Orlando, Victor Oladipo, g, Indiana
3. Washington, Otto Porter, Jr., f, Georgetown
4. Charlotte, Cody Zeller, c, Indiana
5. Phoenix, Alex Len, c, Maryland
6. New Orleans, Nerlens Noel, c, Kentucky
7. Sacramento, Ben McLemore, g, Kansas
8. Detroit, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, g, Georgia
9. b-Minnesota, Trey Burke, g, Michigan
10. Portland, C.J. McCollum, g, Lehigh
11. Philadelphia, Michael Carter-Williams, g, Syracuse
12. Oklahoma City (from Toronto via Houston), Steven Adams, c, Pittsburgh
13. c-Dallas, Kelly Olynyk, c, Gonzaga
14. b-Utah, Shabazz Muhammad, f, UCLA
15. Milwaukee, Giannis Antetokunbo, f, Filathlitikos (Greece)
16. c,d-Boston, Lucas Riva Nogueira, c, Estudiantes (Spain)
17. Atlanta, Dennis Schroeder, g, New Yorker Phantoms (Germany)
18. d-Atlanta (from Houston via Brooklyn), Shane Larkin, g, Miami
19. Cleveland (from L.A. Lakers), Sergey Karasev, f, Triumph (Russia)
20. Chicago, Tony Snell, g, New Mexico
21. b-Utah (from Golden State via Brooklyn), Gorgui Dieng, c, Louisville
22. Brooklyn, Mason Plumlee, c, New Jersey
23. Indiana, Solomon Hill, f, Arizona
24. New York, Tim Hardaway, Jr., g, Michigan
25. L.A. Clippers, Reggie Bullock, f, North Carolina
26. e-Minnesota (from Memphis via Houston), Andre Roberson, f, Colorado
27. f-Denver, Rudy Gobert, c, Cholet (France)
28. San Antonio, Livio Jean-Charles, f, ASVEL (France)
29. g-Oklahoma City, Archie Goodwin, g, Kentucky
30. h-Phoenix (from Miami via L.A. Lakers and Cleveland), Nemanja Nedovic, g, Lietuvos Rytas (Lithuania)
Second Round
31. i-Cleveland (from Orlando), Allen Crabbe, g, California
32. Oklahoma City (from Charlotte), Alejandro Abrines, g, Barcelona (Spain)
33. Cleveland, Carrick Felix, g, Arizona State
34. Houston (from Phoenix), Isaiah Canaan, g, Murray State
35. Philadelphia (from New Orleans), Glenn Rice Jr., r, Rio Grande (NBADL)
36. Sacramento, Ray McCallum, g, Detroit
37. Detroit, Tony Mitchell, g, North Texas
38. Washington, Nate Wolters, g, South Dakota State
39. Portland (from Minnesota via Boston and Cleveland), Jeff Withey, c, Kansas
40. Portland, Grant Jerrett, f, Arizona
41. Memphis (from Toronto), Jamaal Franklin, f, San Diego State
42. a-Philadelphia, Pierre Jackson, g, Baylor
43. Milwaukee, Ricky Ledo, g, Providence
44. d-Atlanta (from Dallas), Mike Muscala, c, Bucknell
45. Portland (from Boston), Marko Todorovic, c, Regal Barcelona (Spain)
46. f-Utah, Erick Green, g, Virginia Tech
47. Atlanta, Raul Neto, g, Lagun Aro GBC (Spain)
48. L.A. Lakers, Ryan Kelly, f, Duke
49. Chicago, Erik Murphy, f, Florida
50. Atlanta (from Houston), James Ennis, f, Long Beach State
51. Orlando (from Golden State via Denver and New York), Romero Osby, f, Oklahoma
52. Minnesota (from Brooklyn), Lorenzo Brown, g, N.C. State
53. Indiana, Colton Iverson, c, Colorado State
54. Washington (from New York), Arsalan Kazemi, f, Oregon State
55. Memphis, Joffrey Lauvergne, f, Partizan (Adraitic League)
56. Detroit (from L.A. Clippers), Peyton Siva, g, Louisville
57. Phoenix (from Denver via L.A. Lakers), Alex Oriakhi, f, Missouri
58. San Antonio, DeShaun Thomas, f, Ohio State
59. Minnesota (from Oklahoma City), Bojan Dubljevic, f, Valencia BC (Spain)
60. Memphis (from Miami), Janis Timma, f, Ventspils (Latvia)
Proposed Trades
a-New Orleans and Philadelphia traded the rights to selected players.
b-Minnesota and Utah traded the rights to selected players.
c-Dallas and Boston traded the rights to selected players.
d-Traded the rights to Dallas for the rights to Lucas Riva Nogueira, c, Estudiantes (Spain). Dallas traded the rights to Atlanta and the second-round (No. 44) selection for Shane Larkin, g, Miami.
e-Traded to Golden State for cash and a future second-round pick.
f-Traded the rights to to Utah for cash and the Jazz's second-round (No. 46) selection.
g-Traded the rights to Golden State for the rights to Andre Roberson, f, Colorado and a future second-round draft pick.
h-Traded the rights to first-round (No. 30) selection Nemanja Nedovic, g, Lietuvos Rytas (Lithuania) to Oklahoma City for the rights to first-round (No. 29) selection Archie Goodwin, g, Kentucky.
i-Traded the rights to second-round (No. 31) selection Allen Crabbe, g, California to Portland for two future second-round draft picks.


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On making time for health:
As I sit at my computer writing this, I have just put the finishing touches on a paper for school and am feeling relieved (I still have to leave early to print in though- no printer here L) The paper has pretty much been my main focus the last few days- though I have many roles and hobbies, I consider school a top priority. I am a full time nursing student and spend about 20 hours a week just at school and my clinical site, not to mention time spent on homework. I work between at least 16 and sometimes up to 26 hours a week as a nurse's aide. I also have a husband, apartment, and cat that need daily attention!
Most of us are juggling multiple roles in our lives: students, employees, homeowners, spouses, parents (how do you do it?!). With all these responsibilities, good intentions of making time for ourselves and our health can easily go by the wayside.
For me, healthy eating and an active lifestyle are important. They make my body and mind feel good and balance the effects of stress in other areas of my life. When I make healthy meals, I am exercising my creative side and aim for aesthetics along with flavor and nutrition. A healthy dinner is also a relieving break from a homework-a-thon and can be a motivating factor for getting something finished by a certain time.
Here are a few things I do to ensure I can stay healthy when working or going to school all day:
*Pack a lunch the night before. This also saves money! My usual method of doing this is to throw together a "leftover salad" as I'm putting dinner leftovers away. I simply mound some spinach or mixed greens into a container, top it with leftovers (roasted vegetable dishes and stirfrys lend themselves especially well to this- soups, not so much), and take a tiny container of dressing if needed. Throw in a piece of fruit and you have a nutritious and filling lunch! And it takes less than five minutes longer than just putting away leftovers would. When there are no leftovers or I wont have access to a refrigerator, PB&J with some carrot sticks is my go-to.
*Either work out in the morning or bring gym bag. I love morning workouts because they are an energizing start to the day and free up my evenings for relaxing or… homework. And yet… I tend to have a hard time fitting them in. I usually have to be somewhere in the morning between 7 and 9 am, and quite honestly don't like waking up any earlier than 6:30. I have trouble falling asleep at a decent hour, and tend to favor a full nights sleep over a morning workout. So for me, the key is usually throwing the gym bag in my car. If I go to the gym right after work/school it saves me the time of going home and hassle of going home and back out again and also prevents me from going home and getting occupied with something else.
*Slow cookers! I love my crockpot dearly… unfortunately it was recently left oo close to a burner on the stove and suffered third degree burns… not sure yet if it will be ok L. Slow cookers are great for busy people though, especially when you wont be getting home until late in the evening and know you will be hungry! Some of my favorite things to make in mine are lentil or split pea soups, chilis, and spaghetti sauce. I like to chop some extra vegetables while I prepare dinner the night before, then in the morning before I leave I can just literally throw everything in the pot and have dinner ready when I get back! I also like to make big batches of beans (black beans, pintos, garbanzos, and white beans most commonly). I soak them overnight, cook them in the slow cooker all day, then have them ready for use by dinner time. The ones that I don't forsee being used within a week get portioned into containers and stored in the freezer- another great time saver when I need it!
*Plan meals for the week before grocery shopping. I don't always stick to this plan exactly, but it saves me time wandering around the grocery store and ensures I will have ingredients on hand for a weeks worth of healthy meals. I don't really have a limit on buying seasonal produce, and tend to just buy what looks good and is a good price whether I have a definite plan for it or not. I figure it is good for me to be challenged to include more produce!
*Have a handful of quick meal ideas on hand for busy nights. These are usually things that come together really quickly like a frittata or that have some premade portion like the tortellini salad I made last night. I had dinner ready in less than 30 minutes last night with this simple recipe:
Lemony Artichoke Tortellini Salad:
One 10 oz package refrigerated tortellini (I used pesto filled)
15 oz can artichoke hearts, quartered
1 Tbsp. olive oil
1 small onion, thinly sliced into rings
1 small zucchini, thinly sliced into half moons
Handful of fresh spinach, torn (optional)
2-4 Tbsp. vegetable broth or cooking water from pasta
2 Tbsp. grated parmesan
2 Tbsp. crumbled chevre
1 small lemon, zested
Salt and pepper to taste
Slice onion first, and heat olive oil in a large pan over medium heat. Add the onion and a generous pinch of salt. Fill a large pot up with salted water and place on the stove top to begin boiling while you prep the rest of the ingredients. Slice the zucchini and add to the onions, then slice the artichokes and add them to the sauté. The pasta water should be boiling by now, so you can throw the tortellini in and cook according to package directions (should be around 4-6 minutes). During this time, you can zest the lemon and get the cheeses ready.
Once pasta is finished cooking, drain and toss into the pan with the veggies. Add the broth or cooking water if it seems a bit dry. You could add more olive oil if you wanted also. Add the cheeses and about 1 Tbsp. or juice from your zested lemon and toss everything to coat.
Serve topped with lemon zest and additional cheeses if desired. Enjoy!


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Biden 'intoxicated' by 2016 run
Joe Biden summoned more than 200 Democratic insiders to the vice presidential residence Sunday night to chat about the 2012 triumph — but many walked away convinced his rising 2016 ambitions were the real intent of the long, intimate night.
"I took a look at who was there," said longtime New Hampshire state Sen. Lou D'Allesandro, "and said to myself, 'There's no question he's thinking about the future.' "
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He's right. Biden, according to a number of advisers and Democrats who have spoken to him in recent months, wants to run, or at least be well positioned to run, if and when he decides to pull the trigger. Biden has expressed a clear sense of urgency, convinced the Democratic field will be defined quickly — and that it might very well come down to a private chat with Hillary Clinton about who should finish what Barack Obama started.
"He's intoxicated by the idea, and it's impossible not to be intoxicated by the idea," said a Democrat close to the White House. And the intoxication is hardly new. Officials working on the Obama-Biden campaign last year were struck by how the vice president always seemed to have one eye on a run, including aggressively courting the president's donors. Obama aides at times had to actively steer Biden to places where he was needed — like Pennsylvania — because he kept asking to be deployed to Iowa, New Hampshire and other early states.
( Also on POLITICO: Joe Biden discusses Obama relationship)
"He wasn't just doing fundraising the campaign assigned to him," said a campaign adviser. "He was inviting people to the mansion to hang out and have dinner." Biden was way more into the donors than Obama was. "He embraced it with a tirelessness and a gusto that even the president didn't," another campaign official said.
There are a number of reasons Biden might take a pass. To be blunt, he's old. Biden is 70 now and would be 74 if he ran and won. He's also old news in politics. The guy has been in Washington for almost two generations and hardly signals freshness or political vitality. He's also run for president twice before and didn't miss by inches either time; he bombed.
( PHOTOS: Joe Biden over the years)
More importantly, Joe Biden is not Hillary. She is a rock star with higher favorable ratings and the capacity to clear the field if she goes all-in. She is also a she — and Democrats are eager to elect the first women after electing the first African-American.


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An Army veteran recounts life with her husband and his struggles with PTSD and TBI.
"Signature wounds of war" has become one of those phrases so embedded in the national lexicon to have almost lost its meaning, as the United States winds down the 13 th year of its long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Former Army Sgt. Kayla Williams knows all too well the true meaning of those signature wounds – post–traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain Injury – as her husband, former Army Staff Sgt. Brian McGough, has struggled with the consequences of those mental wounds and a penetrating brain injury for the past decade.
Williams wrote a powerful, unbelievably frank and emotionally exhausting tale of life with PTSD and TBI in her memoir, Plenty of Time When We Get Home , published this month by W.W. Norton. The book illustrates in excruciating detail how homecoming can mark for many veterans the start of new battles.
McGough and Williams met in 2003 on a rock pile of an outpost in Iraq close to the Syrian border, a meeting recounted at the end of her first Iraq memoir, Love My Rifle More Than You, (Norton, 2005) and at the start of the current volume.
During a long, night-time conversation, McGough said they would have plenty of time when they returned home to get to get to know each other better – a process literally blown up when in October 2003 a bus McGough was on in Iraq hit an improvised mine. He ended up with a piece of metal driven through his skull.
He was medevaced, had brain surgery, spent some recovery time at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington and then returned to duty with his unit at Ft. Campbell, Ky., where he and Williams reunited, started living together in 2004 and then married in February 2005.
Alcohol Fueled PTSD Rage
On the surface, McGough looked all right, despite the severity of his physical wounds, Williams wrote. But closer up, the picture was skewed, as he increasingly went into what she describes as "Code Black" moments of rage, more often than not fueled by alcohol.
"Brian could be sweet, tender and loving. He sent me flowers. Made me CDs with compilations of music he thought I would like.
"And, when we hung out with friends, though he was reserved at first, after a couple of drinks, he was funny, outgoing, charismatic, charming. The life of the party, actually – sparks raucous laughter, drawing everyone into the conversation."
Broken Warriors is an ongoing series on mental health issues in the military.
But then, Williams recounted, "suddenly some nights a switch would flip – especially if he started doing shots, instead of sticking to beer. It was like a shadow would pass over his face, the smile would disappear, replaced by a sneer. He would turn vicious, cruel."
The Army had posted McGough back to his artillery battery, which Williams said had only a physician's assistant "who was supposed to manage all his medical care, [but] knew nothing about PTSD and TBI."
The Army loaded McGough up with a variety of anti-seizure medications along with tranquilizers and anti-depressants, none of which helped.
The Army then transferred McGough back to Walter Reed in Washington and medically discharged him on Nov. 29, 2005. "Just four days after he turned 30, Brian was out of a job – out of a career – with his marriage barely holding together, cognitive and mental health problems, an uncertain future, and no idea what to do next," Williams recounted.
McGough, she said, "appeared to be lost in his own head, spiraling deeper into depression. He knew his brain injury had reduced his functioning, and he feared he would never be able to succeed – and almost too afraid to try, worried his worst fears would be realized, and he would prove to be a broken failure."
The bottom came the next week, on Dec. 6, as Williams talked about going to grad school, when suddenly McGough clicked again into Code Black, and yelled, "You don't understand. You can never understand," with each word punctuated by a finger stab to her chest.
Williams replied, "You're right. I can't understand what it was like to get blown up, I don't truly know but I can try to support you and stand by you and love you."
'Kill Me. I Can't Live Like This.'
The rage continued. Williams locked herself in another room, as McGough tried to batter down the door. She jerked the door open and yelled.
"Kill me. I can't live like this. Just fucking kill me, put us both out of our misery."
McGough grabbed his pistol from a closet shelf, and asked "Is this what you want?" and put the gun to her head.
Williams answered, "Please, just let it end. Lift this burden."
McGough pulled the trigger. Click. There was no round in the chamber.
I asked Williams why she decided to include this raw scene in her book, and she answered, "Everyone wants to talk about PTSD. But no one wants to know what it is really like."
The remaining 115 pages of the 252 page book deal with McGough's gradual recovery, adoption of one child, the birth of another and the one-day-at-a-time healing process central to this love story of the long wars:
"We are living proof that for many struggling with physical and psychological wounds of war there is a path back from the brink of despair to a meaningful new existence," Williams wrote. "The wars we have fought, both overseas and here at home, may have shaped us, but they will not define us."
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Summer Food program begins this week
June 22, 2010
Citiparks Department has launched its Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) which serves healthy breakfasts, lunches and snacks to all children up to 18 years old, as well as mentally disabled individuals up to 21 years old.
The nine-week program continues weekdays until Friday, Aug. 20, at dozens of sites throughout the city. While larger sites such as the 10 Citiparks Community Recreation Centers will operate all summer long, many other smaller and part-time sites will operate on modified schedules.
Typical Summer Food Service Program menus feature: Breakfast: cereal, whole wheat muffin, breakfast bars, juice and low fat milk; Lunch: sandwich, fruit or vegetable, juice and low fat milk; and, Snack: low fat snack and juice.
South Pittsburgh locations include:
Arlington Community Center, 2201 Salisbury St., South Side
Arlington Heights, 3123 Cordell Place, Arlington.
Armstrong Park, S. 12th St., South Side.
Brookline Memorial Community Center, 1400 Oakridge St., Brookline.
Knoxville United Church, 148 Jucunda Street, Knoxville.
Lighthouse Memorial Church, 810 Fisher St., St. Clair/Knoxville.
Moore Pool, 1801 Pioneer Ave., Brookline.
Ormsby Community Center, 79 S. 22nd St., South Side.
Phillips Park, 201 Parkfield St., Carrick.
Ream Pool, 321 Merrimac St., Mt. Washington.
Warrington Community Center, 329 E. Warrington Ave., Beltzhoover.
For hours of operation, call Citiparks at 412-244-3911 or the individual sites.