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Scotland's Consultation of the Protection of Wild Mammal Act 2002
In 2015, Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon announced her government would hold a review of the Protection of Wild Mammals Act 2002. In December, it was confirmed that the review would be led by Lord Bonomy with a consultation process starting in February and finishing by the end of March.
As part of the Team Fox coalition of wildlife groups, The Save Me Trust agreed to submit to the consultation, working closely in conjunction with the League Against Cruel Sports (Scotland) and a wide range of local groups based in Scotland who have detailed information on the antics of Scottish hunt packs.
Our submission suggested three main changes to the current act. They are:
1. Reduce the number of dogs allowed to 'flush to guns' to a maximum of two.
2. Introduce a "recklessness" clause to the Act. This would stop Scottish hunts adopting 'Trail Hunting' which is viewed by Hunts in England and Wales as a short term solution to keep the infrastructure of Hunts intact, whilst they seek repeal of the English & Welsh Hunting Act.
3. Introduce a vicarious liability clause to the Act. Scotland has taken the lead on the introduction of this, in respect of the protection of raptors and we believe that extending the clause to include wild mammals would reduce the possibilities of illegal hunting immediately. Landowners will seriously consider their responsibilities and the hunts previous conduct before granting access to their land. We further believe that many private estates do not benefit or support hunting but allow it to continue as it is the line of least resistance. Landowners should have the support of the law to stop any illegal hunting on their land whilst accepting their culpability should they allow a hunt do so illegally.
It is our strong belief that the introduction of the three clauses above would have an immediate and devastating impact for those who wish to hunt illegally with hounds. We further believe that Scotland led the UK with the introduction of the protection of Wild Mammal Act 2002 and the timely review of the operation of the act will provide the opportunity to again lead whilst demonstrating to England and Wales that the overwhelming majority of the British public (84% in a Poll of December 2015) want to see hunting of wild mammals with dogs banned completely throughout the UK.


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Immunogenicity and Safety of a Trivalent Inactivated Influenza Vaccine,Formulation 2011-2012, in Dialysis Patients
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Experimental: the immunogenicity profiles of the AdimFlu-S
Experimental group: to receive either only one dose of influenza vaccine at day 0 or one more booster vaccination 3 weeks later.
Negative control group: dialysis patients who refused to receive influenza vaccination.
Drug: AdimFlu-S
All enrolled participants will be divided into 3 groups: participants refused to receive vaccination, those receive either one (week 0) or one more booster vaccination (week 0 and week 3). Each dose of vaccine contains 15μg antigen of each virus strain suggested by WHO (A/California/7/2009 (H1N1);A/Perth/16/2009 (H3N2);B/Brisbane/60/2008).
No Intervention: The safety outcome of the vaccine
Any adverse effect, including systemic or local site, will be recorded during the study period.
- Change of antibody titer before and after influenza vaccination [ Time Frame: 18 weeks ]The primary endpoint will be the seroprotection rate which is defined as the proportion of subjects with HI titer ≥ 1:40. MicroNT-ELISA assay will also be used to evaluate the immune response post vaccination. The immune response based on microNT-ELISA antibody titers would be reported as antibody titer ≥1: 40 or ≥ 1:160 respectively because no threshold of protective NT antibody titer is clearly defined by the international guidelines.
- Seroresponse rate [ Time Frame: 0, 3 weeks, 6 weeks, 9 weeks and 18 weeks ]The seroconversion is defined as the HI titer of the post-vaccination serum is at least 1:40 for those who had a negative pre-vaccination HI serum titer or a four-fold or greater increase in HI titers in subjects who had a positive pre-vaccination HAI serum titer.
- Seroresponse rate [ Time Frame: 0, 3 weeks, 6 weeks, 9 weeks and 18 weeks ]
The seroresponse is defined as HI or micro-NT titer of the post-vaccination serum is at least 4-fold increase of the HI or micro-NT titer after vaccination.
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- Subjects received 2010-2011 seasonal influenza vaccine within the previous 6 months;
- History of hypersensitivity to eggs or egg protein or similar pharmacological effects to study medication;
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- An acute febrile illness within 1 week prior to vaccination;
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- Female subjects who are pregnant during the study.
- Patients who receive hemodialysis therapy less than 3 months.
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- Immunodeficiency, or under immunosuppressive treatment.
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Hammer toe occurs when there is a shortening of the tendon that controls toe movement. This causes the middle joint of the toe to be bent upward and the outer joint downwards. The misshapen toe resembles a hammer. A hammer toe correction is done to correct a toe deformity called a hammer toe.
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A hammer toe correction is considered when:
Complications are rare, but no procedure is completely free of risk. If you are planning to have the correction, your doctor will review a list of possible complications, which may include:
Factors that may increase the risk of complications include:
Your doctor will likely do the following:
Talk to your doctor about your medications. You may be asked to stop taking some medications up to 1 week before the procedure.
The day of the procedure:
Local anesthesia is often used. It will numb the area. Spinal anesthesia may also be used. This anesthesia will make your lower body numb.
Several surgical options are available for hammer toe correction. Some corrections can be made with changes to soft tissue. Others need to be made to the bone or joint.
This is usually best in patients under 30, with limited toe deformity. A cut is made in the skin and the tendon is released. Sometimes it is reattached to a different area of the bone. The changes in soft tissue will allow the toe to relax and eliminate the deformity.
2 common methods of hammer toe correction on the bones themselves are joint arthroplasty and joint fusion. The type of procedure used depends on the deformity. A combination of procedures may be needed. In both cases, a cut in the skin is made over the toe joint.
During an arthroplasty, part of the bones on both sides of the middle toe joint may be removed. This will allow the toe to uncurl.
During a fusion, the ends of the toe bones are removed. The bones are then repositioned. The repositioning is usually held together with a pin placed within the bone. The pin may be removed after 3-4 weeks. Other changes to the anatomy of the foot due to the hammer toe may also be corrected at this time.
The incision will be closed with stitches. Dressings will be applied to hold the toe in proper position.
This depends on the procedure and the number of toes corrected.
Anesthesia prevents pain during the surgery. You will be given medication to manage pain after the surgery.
Right after the procedure, you will be in a recovery room where your blood pressure, pulse, and breathing will be monitored. Recovery may also include pain medications.
During your stay, the hospital staff will take steps to reduce your chance of infection such as:
There are also steps you can take to reduce your chances of infection such as:
When you return home, take these steps:
The corrected toe may be slightly longer or shorter than before surgery. The toe will not move as much as a normal toe. Expect some swelling and redness, which may last for several months. Your dressing may need to be adjusted as swelling decreases. If it appears that the deformity may recur, your doctor may choose to continue with dressings for another 2-4 weeks.
Contact your doctor if your recovery is not progressing as expected or you develop complications such as:
In case of an emergency, call for emergency medical services right away.
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I have had Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) since March 2002. Both of my sons also got ME/CFS at ages 6 and 10. Our younger son fully recovered after 10 years of mild illness. Our older son still has ME/CFS and also has Lyme disease plus two other tick infections. This blog is about how our family lives with chronic illness, with a focus on improving our conditions and enjoying our lives in spite of these challenges.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Busy, busy!
My boys both finished school last week, with all of the last-minute activities associated with that (two picnics, two awards ceremonies, etc.) That's all behind us now for the next two months, along with homework, tests, and school functions - hurray!
Jamie and I both crashed last week. We both had nausea and knee pain, in addition to our usual symptoms, so we were probably exposed to a virus of some sort. he managed OK, but I was in really bad shape on Friday, so we had to cancel our annual start-of-summer excursion to a local creek with our best friends. Rough day, but I'm doing better now.
Now, we have a whole new flurry of activity going on! We're getting ready for our annual summer road trip to Oklahoma to visit family. We're all looking forward to it, but there's a lot to do to get ready. I probably won't have much time for writing for awhile, though I am taking my laptop along this time.
Hope everyone out there is feeling well enough to enjoy the start of summer!
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Hi, I actually came across your blog doing a google search for Valcyte. I am someone who has ho levels EBV/HHV6 and was just Dx with CFIDs last year after being ill most of my life(too long a story.) I have joined other online communities and altho they offer some emotional support, they seem to be a place where ppl mainly post about their symptoms and vent. I'm not getting any real helpful or encouraging info there. When I post about treatments or have questions, I get no response. Nobody is doing anything anti viral, just loading up on pain meds and psychotropics. I feel there must be a better way.ReplyDelete
I found a clinic that specialized in treating CFIDs up in Wa(Fibro and fatigue Center) but have currently relocated back to NorCalif. I was going to start on the anti viral Valcyte but now am encountering lots of red tape by using an out of state doctor. She is currently working on getting her Ca license. I have used amantadine with some success but Valcyte seems like the "big guns" and is being presented almost as a cure.
So, this is my longwinded way of saying thanks for this blog and I hope you don't mind if I bookmark it and check in and comment. I am not a member of bloggercom. I already have 4 blogs LOL, not sure I want another but if there is a good active community here for CFIDs I may consider jumping ship. I am currently at DailyStrength and LJ for CFIDs and have other websites for art/entertainment that I post to as well.Yeah, thi sillness leaves you lots of time for the internet. :-)
Best wishes to you and your family.
Thanks for taking the time to comment. I'm glad you found my blog! If you read through past entries, you know that I tried 2 months of Valcyte and am currently in the middle of 6 months on Valtrex. I do think it's starting to help, though I understand it's a long-term therapy, not a quick fix.ReplyDelete
It would be great if you checked back periodically. I intend to keep discussing daily coping (and just plain living!) of life with CFIDS in a positive way, as well as discusing my progress on anti-viral therapy. You might also want to try the message boards at immunesupport.com - there is a very active community of people on Valcyte and other anti-virals there.
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You're probably aware that a video which apparently shows a group of Marines urinating on enemy corpses in Afghanistan has been getting a good deal of attention lately.
Is there any possibility that we can connect this incident to some obscure bit of Revolutionary War trivia? I'm glad you asked. Supposedly, in the aftermath of the Battle of King's Mountain, some of the victorious Patriots did the very same thing to the body of Maj. Patrick Ferguson, the Scottish officer who commanded the Tories encamped on top of the ridge.
Assuming it happened—I'll get to that issue in a second—what could have prompted the militiamen to do such a thing? Backcountry militia weren't too scrupulous about observing the niceties of military convention, but relieving oneself on the corpse of the enemy commander still seems a little extreme. In the eighteenth century, the bodies of dead soldiers often received callous treatment, but that generally wasn't the case for officers, as Caroline Cox explains in her examination of life in the Continental Army.
In trying to account for the Whigs' behavior, some commentators cite a proclamation Ferguson issued to rally the backcountry Tories when he discovered that the militiamen were on his trail. It read in part as follows: "The Backwater men have crossed the mountains; McDowell, Hampton, Shelby, and Cleveland are at their head, so that you know what you have to depend upon. If you choose to be p—d upon forever and ever by a set of mongrels, say so at once and let your women turn their backs upon you, and look out for real men to protect them." According to this line of thinking, the Whigs who urinated on Ferguson's body were indulging in a bit of poetic justice. What insult could be more fitting than to urinate on the body of a man who warned Carolinians that they'd be "p—d upon forever and ever" if the Whigs prevailed?
Interestingly enough, this most inflammatory part of Ferguson's circular got watered down in later accounts. Many nineteenth-century historians who quoted it altered "p—d upon" to something more palatable to a genteel audience. J.G.M. Ramsey and Lyman Draper changed it to "degraded," while Washington Irving used "trodden upon."
If you ask me, the question of what might have prompted the victors of King's Mountain to urinate on Ferguson's corpse is probably moot, because I can't find any eyewitnesses who said it actually happened. As far as I can tell, the oldest source that mentions any desecration of Ferguson's body is a 1787 book by Banastre Tarleton, the controversial young officer who commanded the British Legion. He wrote, "The mountaineers, it is reported, used every insult and indignity, after the action, towards the dead body of Major Ferguson, and exercised horrid cruelties on the prisoners that fell into their possession." Tarleton wasn't there, but he could have gotten the details from some of the defeated Tories, since many of them escaped during the march northward and made their way back to British-held territory.
None of this is to say that it couldn't have happened; the aftermath of the Battle of King's Mountain was notably ugly, even by the standards of the nasty partisan war that erupted in the Carolina backcountry. Through some combination of rage, confusion, and ignorance, the Whigs continued to fire into the ranks of the surrendering Tories as the battle wound down, and during the march away from King's Mountain they continued to plunder, beat, and slaughter their vanquished enemies. Loyalist newspapers printed accounts of the horrors the prisoners endured, including letters from those members of Ferguson's outfit who were lucky enough to survive the ordeal. The controversy over treatment of the prisoners made it all the way up to the armies' commanders; Cornwallis complained about the Whigs' behavior in a letter to his American counterpart, who responded that if Patriots were committing outrages against British troops, they were simply giving as good as they got.
Whether or not those outrages included urinating on the body of a fallen officer, the whole episode demonstrates that debates over soldiers' conduct in wartime aren't new, and it probably won't stop when the seemingly endless War on Terror finally grinds to a halt.


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MIAMI – Toxicology test results have come back on a South Florida man fatally shot by a police officer after investigators say he chewed off another man's face, and the medical examiner says no evidence of bath salts was found, WPLG-TV in Miami reports.
The Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner Department released the results Wednesday after the May 26 death of Rudy Eugene, 31.
Police said Eugene, 31, ripped off part of the face of Ronald Poppo, 65, a homeless man, during a fight on the MacArthur Causeway. A police officer arrived and fatally shot Eugene, police said.
Eugene was naked when he beat and ripped the clothes off Poppo during the attack, police said.
It was widely speculated that Eugene may have been on bath salts, a type of drug.
The Medical Examiner Department said Wednesday that its toxicology laboratory identified the active components of marijuana in Eugene's system. However, despite testing for other drugs, such as cocaine, LSD, Ecstasy, methamphetamine, PCP, heroin, oxycodone, Xanax and synthetic marijuana, investigators did not find evidence of any other drugs in Eugene's system, officials said.
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Deep into Deptford's history, that is, looking for secrets in the streets. And possibly finding my great-great-great-great grandparents – how exciting!
Today, June 9th, is International Archives Day and I'm hugely grateful to all the archivists and the archives, small and local or huge and national, that have helped me in my hunt for my ancestors and the world they lived in. From the post office in Hartley, NSW, to libraries in Counties Wicklow and Wexford, up to national centres in Australia, Ireland and London, they have all given me and my mother huge amounts of information. Thank you to all.
This week I went back to the London Metropolitan Archives, where I recently learned so much about researching London ancestors. I wanted to get a History Card, which will let me access original material (as well as their digital database). I also had a tour of the research resources there – indexes, files, other records, maps, books. I was especially excited to see maps I wrote about last time – looking at them in real life will be so much easier and more satisfying than scrolling around small images on a screen.
If you can't get to London, do look at the LMA site and see what research you can do online.
I had some spare time so I decided to do some more searching for my Thames waterman convict ancestor, James Thomas Richards. I knew he had been baptised in the church of St Paul, Deptford (now in south-east London, then in Kent) in May 1815. So with LMA's parish records I was able to see his certificate of baptism, confirm his parents' names and find out that they were living in Grove Street, a cluster of houses running almost north to south near the docks, at the time.
Working backwards through his parents' marriage in 1807 I found his father's (another James Thomas) baptism in 1787, again from Grove Street, and the names of the first James's mother and father – Betty and William. Convict James's mother was Ann Wicking and she was born, as far as I can see, in 1786 to Anna and William.
Now of course I need to double-check everything, but this is hugely exciting for me – it's the first time I've traced an ancestor back six generations before mine. And being able to see where they lived is thrilling, too.
The secret history of a Deptford street
That evening, there was another wonderful surprise – a new BBC TV series, The Secret History of Our Streets, which started with an look at… yes, Deptford. It takes six streets which feature on the famous poverty maps compiled by Charles Booth and looks at the changes which have taken place since they were published in 1889 – 1891.
This episode focused on Deptford High Street and the families who lived and worked in the area, many of whom lost their homes in the slum clearances of the 1960s. Sometimes controversial, always fascinating, it combined social history with family history and I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.
This isn't a television review, so I'll leave it to other people (see below) to comment. But the biggest excitement for me was listening to people who lived only streets away from where James Thomas Richards came from – people whose families (the Prices and Ovenells, for instance) had lived in the same place, often in the same houses, for generations.
Perhaps some of my own distant cousins were in the crowded market scenes seen on old film – or on the 2012 footage!
Which are your favourite archives – or archivists?
Here are some comments on The Secret History of Our Streets: from the BBC blog, the Guardian, the Telegraph, Time Out (naughty words alert), British & Irish Genealogy and bloggers The Deptford Dame and Crosswhatfields?
Deptford Miscellany has a great blogroll for SE8.
The Naval Dockyards Society is campaigning to make sure that developers do not destroy the character of historic Deptford.
The Shipwright's Palace blogs about historic maritime Deptford.
Old Deptford History is exactly what it says.
Edward Walford's 1878 look at the history of Deptford
If you've got Kent ancestors, here's a useful genealogy resource.
Caroline's Miscellany has lively posts about Deptford then and now
And there's a guest post on this blog about the importance of archives for family and local historians.


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The major U.S. Olympic trials are under way through July 2 in preparation for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Live coverage of many events can be found on the NBC Sports Network, and selected videos will appear on NBCOlympics.com. Here's what you should watch Wednesday June 20:
The event: Diving semifinals, men's and women's 3m springboard and women's 10m platform
When: 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. ET, NBC Sports Network
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Where: Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Wash.
Ones to watch: Three-time Olympian Troy Dumais, 32, also a 35-time national champion, will attempt to become the first U.S. male diver to make four Olympic teams. He competes in the 3m and synchronized events. Named USA Diving's athlete of the year in 1997, 2006 and 2009, he came in sixth at the 2008 Olympics in the men's 3m individual.
On the women's side, Christina Loukas from Chicago, came in ninth in the 3m event in 2008, and will try to make the team again. This nine-time national champion's primary competition at the trials will be her 2008 Olympic teammate Kelci Bryant, her synchro partner Kassidy Cook, and Cassidy Krug according to Sports Illustrated. Fun fact: Loukas' family owns Cubby Bear Lounge outside Wrigley Field.
What happens: The top two finishers in each individual event will go to London. Finals are later this week.
Read more about the diving trials and about the Olympic diving events.
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Brazilian fighters line up for shot at Sonnen
- Chael Sonnen knocked out Brazilian Shogun Rua in the first round Saturday
- The outspoken Sonnen might find many takers for a fight after his win
- He says he wants Wanderlei Silva next
These days, Chael Sonnen has Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweights and light heavyweights alike lining up for the chance to fight him. That's not normally a good sign in mixed martial arts.
In most cases, unless you have the championship belt around your waist and the bull's-eye on your back that comes with it, an overabundance of challengers means you've been singled out as an easy mark. It's just a matter of who's going to get to you first and scoop up a nice paycheck for his trouble.
But with a first-round submission victory against former UFC light heavyweight champ Mauricio "Shogun" Rua (21-8 MMA, 5-6 UFC) at UFC Fight Night 26 in Boston over the weekend, Sonnen (28-13-1, 7-6) proved he's anything but an easy out. What he is, thanks in part to his way with words and nose for the spotlight, is a walking lottery ticket for UFC fighters in need of a little hype.
Right now, it's a Brazilian contingent that's most eager to cash in.
Sonnen left little doubt as to whom he'd like to face next, dedicating almost his entire postfight interview to calling out former Pride Fighting Championships champion Wanderlei Silva (35-12-1, 5-7).
Silva wasn't on hand to accept the offer right away, but fellow Brazilian fighters Lyoto Machida (19-4, 11-4) and Vitor Belfort (23-10, 12-6) were quick to jump on Twitter and offer their services as a replacement.
"I would beat up Vitor on the way to the ring to kick Wanderlei's (butt), and I'll take care of the third guy (Machida), whose name I've already forgotten, (in) the parking lot on the way to my after-party," Sonnen said at the postfight news conference, employing all the pro wrestling-style panache fans and media have come to expect.
To many, Sonnen's schtick is just good comedy. But ever since his rivalry with former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva took a nationalistic turn, the Brazilian fighters aren't laughing.
A victory against Sonnen now might make them heroes back home, and Sonnen's star status in the UFC all but guarantees the bout will be a big-money, main-event affair.
That's the upside. The downside, as Rua found out, is Sonnen's no slouch in the cage. He has demonstrated a willingness to bounce between the 185- and 205-pound divisions without losing much in speed or strength, and his wrestling-heavy attack has the potential to be a problem for most anybody.
For now, Sonnen says he's waiting for an answer to his initial offer before considering alternatives.
"Wanderlei Silva tells the media he wants to fight me," Sonnen said. "I would love to fight Wanderlei. (He) insists that fight has never been offered. That's been a big marquee fight for years. To believe he hasn't been offered that fight is ridiculous. All I need for him is to say he doesn't want to do it, then I'm out. ... But if he continues to say it, he's going to continue to get me to respond."
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Series: Lincoln Cents 1959 to Date
In 1982 the U.S. Mint struck 7 different varieties for the Lincoln Cent. Four of the varieties were struck out of mostly copper alloy and weigh 3.11 grams. The remaining 3 varieties struck out of mostly zinc alloy weighing 2.5 grams each.
Most examples of the 1982-D Zinc Small Date that came in rolls and bags come in really nice MS64 condition and higher. Examples in MS67 are scarce. In MS68 they are very scarce with less than a few dozen known and none being finer.


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The Atlantic and Pacific Climate Connection
Biggest of them all
The global ocean circulation system, often called the Ocean Conveyor, transports heat worldwide. White sections represent warm surface currents. Purple sections represent cold deep currents. Credit: Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Mention Arctic ice melt and the first image to come to mind is the northern Atlantic. Mostly Greenland. Sometimes the far reaches of Canada or Iceland.
Maybe it's because the northern Atlantic is the same ocean that researchers from major institutions dip their toes in in 100-plus degree heat waves.
But way out in the Pacific, researchers at the University of Hawaii are taking a different look at the climate. In a paper published this week in the journal Science, oceanographer Axel Timmermann and colleagues explained what they found out by looking at sediment cores from the northern Pacific.
As the last major ice age ended 17,500 years ago, massive north Atlantic ice sheets melted and all the added fresh water caused the collapse of the Atlantic Ocean conveyor belt. That should have plunged the northern Hemisphere into a deep freeze.
But it didn't quite do that. Timmermann et. al found that the northern Pacific may have been a moderating force on the climate, helping it warm a bit. It did this by creating its own conveyor belt.
The Bering Straight during the last glacial maximum. Credit: Ehlers and Gibbard, 2004
"Basically the Atlantic and the Pacific swapped their roles for about 2,000 years," said Timmermann.
The salinity that used to be in the Atlantic, shifted over to the north Pacific through new rain patterns and built up there to the point where dense, salty water sunk. The sinking water had to be resupplied by warmer water flowing poleward.
"This warm water cooled, releasing heat into the atmosphere and hence the warming effect on the climate in the Pacific realm," Timmermann said. "So in some sense when the Atlantic shut down … the Pacific Ocean served as a kind of backup generator for the climate."
Today's situation is a bit different because of new topography. Because the Bering Straight is now open (during the last glacier melt it wasn't), there's more mixing between the northern Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. So as Greenland melts, the decrease in salinity due to the added freshwater could easily spill over into the Pacific, preventing build up of salty water there.
Still, it's clear by this research that the Pacific is important to the climate system in ways we know little about. But of course it would be. It's the biggest ocean of them all.
Oceans away
Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island was once covered in ice.
As I reported earlier, new research is showing the intimate connections between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans during past major climate events. Just because an ocean is an ocean away, doesn't mean it doesn't feel the impact of, say, the collapse of the Atlantic conveyor belt, as happened as the last Ice Age ended some 17,000 years ago.
Now another study of around the same time period was published recently by researchers at Oregon State University in the journal Earth and Planetary Letters. This study examined the tallest mountain in the world. Not Mount Everest — that's the highest. Mount Mauna Kea, on the Big Island of Hawaii rises some 30,000 feet from the Pacific Ocean floor, making it the actual tallest, even though most of it's underwater.
Mauna Kea, if you can believe it, once had a large glacial ice cap of more than 40 miles some 21,000 years ago. Peter Clark, a geosciences professor at OSU looked at how that glacier disappeared as the Ice Age ended and the planet become warmer.
One surprising discovery, found in Helium isotope deposits within boulders, was that the glacier began readvancing back again some 15,400 years ago. Looking at the historical record, that change matched a major slowdown at the time in the Atlantic conveyor belt.
Normally you think of the Atlantic conveyor belt as controlling temperatures in Europe and the northern Atlantic. When it slows down it gets chillier. But the findings from OSC confirm suspicions that the rest of the planet changes, too. At Mauna Kea cooled down as well and precipitation jumped by quite a bit.
Maybe this was because of an uptick in storm events? When the Atlantic gets sluggish, the whole world catches a cold.


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The chicken thigh is a handy cut, with more flavour and moisture than the chicken breast. The excellent new Weight Watchers 50th Anniversary Cookbook (St. Martin's Press/Raincoast, $32.50) suggests using orange rind and pieces of orange to brighten up this chicken dinner, which has 189 calories per serving. Eileen Runyan, food editor of the diet organization, and a committee selected more than 280 favourite recipes from all those years and it's an appealing, international collection.
Trim all the visible fat from the chicken to be assured of that low calorie count.
Orange Chicken
Serves 6
1 medium orange
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon dried rosemary (leaves crumbled)
1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
6 skinless, boneless chicken thighs, about 4 ounces / 250 g each
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180C). Peel zest (outer skin) from orange and mince it. Trim off remaining rind and cut orange into eight wedges. In a small bowl, combine orange zest, oil, paprika, rosemary, garlic salt and pepper. Rub orange mixture all over chicken and arrange chicken in a roasting pan. Scatter orange wedges around chicken. Roast until juices run clear and an instant-read thermometer inserted in chicken reads 165 degrees F (75C).


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Dads are the best, mine has dementia , and i didnt notice it until he retired and was home, i noticed some sarcasm before he retired from his co employees.
I learned alot of things from my dad business wise, theres not many men like him today if few.
hes a scholar and a gentleman always.
educated and well rounded in everything, very balanced, not perfect but just dad.
Mom took him to live with her daughters on the east coast, and im alone , i lived with him all my life, and now all of a sudden all the fears creep in if they are taking good care of him.
i have my reasons to say that. but he will forget things he shouldnt and remember things as if hes ok. its just different not having him the way i always knew of him.
It takes alot of life out of all guys in this trade, hats off .


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As a plus size lady myself, I dread the idea of dressing up in fancy costume. My body would have given great delight to Rubens, and would have been thought about exquisitely gorgeous in 17th century Holland, but by modern day standards it has to be regarded as lumpy and ponderous. When I have to appear in costume, I feel that I owe it to myself to something that will make the most of my assets rather than make me look ridiculous.
When I pick a costume for myself, I try to find something that does not make me feel foolish. My legs are as bad as the rest of me, so I prefer a long skirted outfit. On the other hand my soulders and bustline are magnificent, so I look for something that will show it off. I look for glamour rather than freaky, funny or scary.
Halloween Costumes
When I look at other larger habitancy in costume, I genuinely wonder sometimes what they were thinking. Why pick to be Alice in Wonderland when you could be the Duchess? Why does a very large man want to appear in skin-tight Superman leotards that make it embarrassing to look at him, when he could be so impressive as Satan with a fiery red cloak?
Ultimately of procedure the choice is up to you, male or female. If you are a size Xxxl but you have been channelling Scarlett O'Hara or Erroll Flynn all your life, go for it!
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Remember to place your order in good time, so that if the size is wrong you have time to exchange it. It is ordinarily easier to take in a too-large costume than to squeeze into one that is too small, so err on the larger size if you are unsure. If you are short you might need to take a hem up, perhaps by several inches, so make sure you have time to do all this.
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I know this is a long shot!......but i am currently researching the former crossing house on the LD&ECR's Beighton Branch, which has now closed, not to be confused with the current crossing that is till there 100 yds along the road over the Robin Hood Line. The building seems to have been known as The Gatehouse and Norwood Cottage
I am trying to find out who was the very last crossing attendant to have worked in the house, now I know the line closed on 9th Jan 1967, and i know BR sold the house in October 1967 to an Edith Howarth, so i am assuming for the time being that she was the last crossing attendant and chose to stay on in the property after closure and bought it from BR.
I know nothing else about Edith Howarth, age, birthdate, etc. I am hoping someone may recognise the name and maybe know what became of her so i can get in touch !
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He has now graduated with a first class honours degree, and also received the Queen's award for excellence from the Royal Academy of Music, after studying under Mark David, Paul Beniston and John Hutchins. He will begin teaching there in September 2014, where he will be the James Watson Associate Professor of Trumpet.
Jason's emerging career has led to him perform with the Halle Orchestra, Onyx Brass and SuperBrass as well as playing Guest Principal Trumpet with the Gabrieli Consort, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Touring performances have taken him throughout Europe, the Americas, Australasia, and across Asia. Prior to joining the Philharmonia, Jason was on trial for the Principal Trumpet position in the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. He was offered the Principal Trumpet positions in the latter two before deciding to join the Philharmonia. Jason is also a founding member of an award winning London-based brass quintet, Inner City Brass. To find out more information, please visit www.innercitybrass.co.uk.
Being appointed to the position of principal trumpet of the Philharmonia Orchestra makes Jason one of the youngest principal trumpets in the UK, and possibly the world.
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VANCOUVER, BC – Vancouver Whitecaps FC striker Camilo Sanvezzo fired home a hat-trick on Sunday to leapfrog Chicago Fire striker Mike Magee and Montreal Impact striker Marco Di Vaio and win the 2013 Budweiser Golden Boot.
Entering Sunday's match with Colorado Rapids, the Brazilian had 19 goals to his name and knew he needed to score to have any chance at the Boot. After Magee scored his 21st goal of the season in the Fire's loss to New York Red Bulls earlier in the day, Camilo knew he needed to score twice.
He scored three.
The hat-trick came in different ways. In the 44th minute, he converted a penalty kick. In the 74th, he pulled off a dazzling dribbling display before passing the ball past the goalkeeper for his second. And finally, in the 85th minute, he ran onto a ball over the top and fired a volley into the lower corner for his third goal of the night and 22nd of the season.
This was Camilo's first MLS hat-trick. The Brazilian had six two-goal games in MLS and received a league leading three Player of the Week honors. With 38 career goals in league play, he is Vancouver's all-time leader in MLS regular season goals.
Counting his three goals in the Amway Canadian Championship, Camilo scored 25 goals in all competitions during the 2013 season.
While he scored some remarkable goals this year, his scissor-kick against Portland Timbers on October 6 makes him a strong contender for MLS Goal of the Year.
Top Goal Scorers in Each Season:
2013: 22 goals – Camilo Sanvezzo (Vancouver Whitecaps FC)
2012: 27 goals – Chris Wondolowski (San Jose Earthquakes)
2011: 16 goals – Dwayne De Rosario (D.C. United)
2010: 18 goals – Chris Wondolowski (San Jose Earthquakes)
2009: 17 goals – Jeff Cunningham (FC Dallas)
2008: 20 goals – Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy)
2007: 20 goals – Luciano Emilio (D.C. United)
2006: 16 goals – Jeff Cunningham (Real Salt Lake)
2005: 17 goals – Taylor Twellman (New England Revolution)
2004: 12 goals – Eddie Johnson (Dallas Burn); Brian Ching (San Jose Earthquakes)
2003: 15 goals – Carlos Ruiz (Los Angeles Galaxy); Taylor Twellman (New England Revolution)
2002: 24 goals – Carlos Ruiz (Los Angeles Galaxy)
2001: 19 goals – Alex Pineda Chacon (Miami Fusion)
2000: 26 goals – Mamadou Diallo (Tampa Bay Mutiny)
1999: 18 goals – Stern John (Columbus); Roy Lassiter (D.C. United); Jason Kreis (Dallas Burn)
1998: 26 goals – Stern John (Columbus Crew)
1997: 16 goals – Jaime Moreno (D.C. United)
1996: 27 goals – Roy Lassiter (Tampa Bay Mutiny)


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Sox designate Jimmy Gobble for assignment following game to make room for Tony Pena.
BTW, here's Ozzie's take on the Pena trade:
"I thought Tony Pena was a first base coach," Guillen joked. "There's three Tony Penas in baseball. We don't need a shortstop and our first base coach is pretty good .."


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These unusual snow formations are most often found high in the Andes Mountains and are named for their similarity to the tall white hats of the Procession of Penance. At high elevations, the air is so cold and dry that sublimation can occur (where the phase changes directly from ice to vapor). When dirt gets blown onto the snow, the dirty spots absorb more heat and melt, creating valleys. Solar radiation is trapped in the valleys, reflecting off the valley walls. This allows the valleys of snow to melt much faster than the clean white peaks where sublimation occurs.
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Students learn about the life of John Lennon through his lyrics in a breathtaking book, John's Secret Dreams: The Life of John Lennon by Dorren Rappaport. After studying the life of Lennon, students write a short story from their lives following the style of Rappaport by weaving lyrics from some of their favorite songs throughout. Finally, students create a classroom book including each student's story from their life.
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Evans, Jerome. "From Sheryl Crow to Homer Simpson: Literature and Composition through Pop Culture." English Journal 93.3 (January 2004): 34-38.


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Archive for Thursday, April 1, 2010
Five questions: Hunting safety
April 1, 2010
Q: What Easter egg hunting risks are there when using real eggs?
A: When shell eggs are hard-cooked, the protective coating is washed away, leaving open pores in the shell where harmful bacteria could enter. Salmonella is most often the concern when dealing with eggs.
Q: What are some ways people can avoid some of those risks?
A: To decrease the risk of salmonella, cook eggs properly and keep hands clean so as to not cross-contaminate other foods. Make sure the eggs aren't broken because cracked eggs could be contaminated. Properly cook the eggs and refrigerate promptly after eggs have cooled in ice-cold water.
Q: What types of areas should be avoided when hiding Easter eggs?
A: Choose your hiding places carefully. Avoid areas where the eggs might come into contact with dirt, pets, wild animal, birds, reptiles or lawn chemicals.
Q: Is it OK to eat the eggs that were found during an Easter egg hunt or eat eggs that have been dyed?
A: Yes, as long as the total time outside of refrigeration temperatures has not exceeded two hours, the eggs are intact (and there are no obvious cracks) in which bacteria could penetrate and as long as they were not hidden in the areas mentioned above.
Q: Are there any ways to color eggs naturally without using dyes?
A: This list of color sources is provided by the American Egg Board, which recommends adding one tablespoon of white vinegar for each cup of water:
Pink — fresh beets, cranberries, radishes or frozen raspberries
Orange — yellow onion skins
Light yellow — orange or lemon peels, carrot tops, celery seed or ground cumin
Yellow — ground tumeric
Green — spinach leaves
Green/gold — yellow delicious apple peels
Blue — canned blueberries or red cabbage leaves
Brown — strong brewed coffee
Brown/gold — dill seeds
Brown/orange — chili powder
Grey — purple or red grape juice or beet juice
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1812 One of the most powerful earthquakes to hit North American, struck New Madrid, Missouri temporarily reversing the flow of the mighty Mississippi according to a riverlorian.
1831 First show boat William Chapman
1863 President Lincoln, after two years of civil war declared the Emancipation Proclamation freeing American slaves.
1865-77 Reconstruction period: The period after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
1870 Fifteenth Amendment gave Black people the right to vote.
1880s and 1890s Fear of Black's political power led to lynchings…
1883 Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
1889 Chapter One of Ferber's novel Show Boat opens on an April morning in Natchez, Mississippi. Natchez is south of Cairo where Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri come together. It takes place over a 43 year period.
1893 Chicago World's Fair World's Columbian Exposition.
1896 Ziegfeld met actress, Anna Held in London. She encouraged him to develop a show similar to the Paris revue, the Folies-Bergére.
1907 First Ziegfeld revue, the Follies of 1907, opened at the New York Theatre. It was the first of a series of long-running musicals that transformed musical theatre. His musical revues combined beautiful, but scantily clad chorus girls and showgirls with good legs, comedians, innovative and extravagant staging. He spared no expense in hiring the best actors, singers, comedians, composers, lyricists, costumers and set designers.
1909 W.E.B. Du Bois, the first black man to earn a Phd from Harvard University called for the creation of a black encyclopedia.
1912, 1914 and 1919 Ziegfield Follies.
1918 Blacks who had served in WWI ideas and scholarship challenged theories of racial determinism and supremacy.
1918 Blacks who had served in WWI ideas and scholarship challenged theories of racial determinism and supremacy.
1920s Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, Arna Bobtemps, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer.
1920s Romantic cynicism replaces 19th century idealism?
1922 George Gershwin's wrote Blue Monday an opera about Harlem. Blue Monday was orchestrated by Will Vodery, "a prominent Negro musician of the time who worked as an orchestrator for Ziegfeld's follies and an accomplished conductor." (Crouch, Stanley (1999) "An Inspired Borrower of a Black Tradition" (NYTimes) January 1999.)
1926 Jerome Kern gets stage rights to Edna Ferber's Show Boat. He collaborates with Oscar Hammerstein II to write a musical comedy.
1926 Twenty six lynchings in the south.
1927 The original production of Show Boat produced by Ziegfeld opened in December, 1927 at the Ziegfeld Theatre. It was the first great modern musical. It ran for 572 performances. "It was the second longest running musical of the 1920s." The music was written by? Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II (uncredited?). Tess Gardella plays Queenie.
1928 – 1929 Show Boat opens May 3, 1928 at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, England and plays 572 performances. It was directed by Felix Edwardes. Paul Robeson as Joe becomes the star of the musical.
1929 Stock market crash. The Depression struck.
1929 May 5 Universal Studios film version of Show Boat is released.
1931 The Ziegfeld Girl: Alvina Casucci, danced on Broadway for ten years during the Depression with Ginger Rogers and Milton Birle. She danced nude as a mermaid 1931 Ziegfeld Follies. Ziegfeld lost his personal fortune through massive gambling debts and Wall Street losses. (Kreuger :99) Ziegfeld's last show had to be financed by mobsters.
1932 The Ziegfeld revival. It was his last production. Show Boat played in New York, 180 performances at the Casino Theatre. Edna Ferber was moved by Paul Robeson, who replaced Jules Bledsoe playing Joe. The original Casino Theatre was built in exotic Moorish design in 1882. (Kreuger:101)
1936 The Great Ziegfield, a film on the life of Broadway producer, Ziegfeld, produced by Henry Blanke and British director, James Whale, received the best picture award of 1936.
1936 Universel film directed by Englishman James Whale. Musical version of Show Boat with Paul Robeson, Irene Dunne and Hattie McDaniel. The Great Depression continues.
1930s Richard Wright: Black writers.
1940 Edna Ferber writes her biography A Peculiar Treasure.
1945 MGM film production ZIEGFELD FOLLIES (1945) directed by Vincente Minnelli. With a cast of top stars:William Powell, Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Gene Kelly, Fanny Brice, Edward Arnold. It was the first time Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly danced together. It made over $5 million.
1945 End of WWII. Returned Black servicemen demand integration and civil rights.
1947 Broadway production of Show Boat. check date 1946?
1951 MGM Film version of Show Boat. Directed by George Sidney. Ava Gardner plays Julie. William Warfield plays Joe. The film grossed over $8 million. Frank Sinatra sang Ol' Man River.?
1951 Till the Clouds Roll By Tony Martin as Ravenal; Julie is Lena Horne.
1954 On April 8 the New York City Opera presented Show Boat at the New York City Centre. The musical was elevated to the role of great art. (Kreuger:198)
1954 Brown vs the Board of Education ended segregation in education in the U.S.A.
1959 Film Version of Show Boat starring Ava Gardner as Julie?
1965 Assassination of Malcolm X.
1966 Stage production at the Lincoln Centre.
1960s Revivals of musicals. The era of nostalgia. (Marks 1999) NYT 99/01/24)
1960s Motown glory years.
1971 Thomas Carey in role of Joe is a sensation in London.
1987 Harold Prince revival of Cabaret.
1988 Show Boat recording with Frederica von Stade and Teresa Stratas.
1989 Livent opens The Phantom of the Opera in December. Receipts for The Phantom of the Opera were $1.5 million. Livent developed their first educational program.
1991 Livent begins to manage the Ford Centre for the Performing Arts for the North York Performing Arts Centre Corporation.
1992 The Stephen Lewis Report (anti-Black racism in Ontario).
1993 World premiere of Livent's $10 million production Show Boat opened in October 17, 1993 at the North York. Livent, Drabinsky's production company uses Show Boat as a teaching tool.
1995-99 Dr. Henry Louis Gates develops the CD-ROM Encarta Africana in Microsoft's Encarta series.
1994 – 1997 The Broadway production of Livent's Show Boat opened October 2, 1994 to 'unanimous critical acclaim' (www.livent.com) played 951 performances over a 27 week period. Its receipts were $100 million. It attracted 1.5 million people. It won five Tony awards including Best Revival of a Musical.
1998 Livent's Show Boat opens in Australia.
1998 U.S. businessmen Roy Furman and Michael Ovitz take control of Livent. They file for bankruptcy protection in November. Livent Inc. last annual financial balance sheet listed total revenue of $321,092,000; a loss of -44,131,000. It's operations were suspended in November, 1998. (Thomson Canada Ltd.)
1999 Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, co-founders of Livent, face criminal charges in the United States. They are accused of fraud.
1999 Broadway Musical Annie Get Your Gun, the 1946 hit musical with music by Irving Berlin, is revived in a "wholesale renovation". (Marks (1999) "Rewrite a Classic Musical?" NYT.
1999 The Mississippi: River of Song a PBS seven-part radio series on Mississippi River music. (Rogers, J.
(1999) www.ottawacitizen/990105/e010521.html)
2000 Livent's Show Boat's (www.livent.com) North American tour supposed to continue into 2000. It was sponsored by Canadian Airlines.


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Mike Adams
Natural News
June 11, 2013
"Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere… I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President…" – NSA spy grid whistleblower Edward Snowden.
And so it begins: the power to tap the private phone calls of a federal judge or even the President. All at the fingertips of young NSA analysts who sift through masses of private data collected through the government's back doors into the servers of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, Skype, AOL and others. (Here's the proof.)
But if a 29-year-old working for the NSA could wiretap a federal judge, he could also wiretap a U.S. Supreme Court justice. Anything he found that was embarrassing or even incriminating could be used in a simple blackmail threat to force that justice to change his or her decision on a key issue…
… like Obamacare.
What we've learned today forces us to re-examine events of 2012
Back in July of 2012, news headlines were ablaze with the revelation that Supreme Court Justice John Roberts suddenly and unexpectedly changed his decision on Obamacare, siding with big government instead of protecting individual liberties. Many facts surrounding this sudden change of decision raise huge red flags when viewed in the context of the NSA being able to wiretap anyone's emails, phone calls and private files — including a Supreme Court justice.
As CBS news reported in 2012, "Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the Supreme Court's four conservative justices to strike down the heart of President Obama's health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, but later changed his position and formed an alliance with liberals to uphold the bulk of the law, according to two sources with specific knowledge of the deliberations. Roberts then withstood a month-long, desperate campaign to bring him back to his original position, the sources said."
Regardless of the strength of the supporting evidence brought to Roberts during his time of consideration for the decision, nothing caused him to budge. Roberts was inexplicably immovable, even though he was now siding against nearly everything he had argued and decided in previous court cases.
No one could satisfactorily explain the decision… until the NSA PRISM scandal erupted. Now, we all of a sudden have a viable explanation for what really goes on behind the public headlines.
Consider this: If a group of men had the power to peek into the private conversations of ALL Americans — including the most powerful and influential decision makers in the nation — why would they waste their time looking for so-called "terrorists" in the first place? There's a far more valuable use for this "omniscient" technology: collecting huge payoffs to blackmail important members of Congress, the Obama administration or the Supreme Court.
How easy would it be to blackmail a Supreme Court Justice?
Blackmailing a U.S. Supreme Court justice is probably easier than you might think. These justices are, of course, human, which means they all have secrets they'd rather not be made public. With its highly intrusive surveillance technology, the NSA could easily gather the usernames, passwords, emails, voice calls, text chats, photos and files of every member of the Supreme Court (and Congress, for that matter), then threaten to leak certain details to the press if they don't do what they're told.
We don't know, of course, whether this actually happened with Roberts. His decision to flip on Obamacare could have been motivated by some other bizarre influence, but this NSA spy grid blackmail theory is the first realistic theory I've run across that would explain the sudden and inexplicable shift in his opinion.
Think about it: The health insurance companies — which are largely owned by globalist banks and investors — stand to make trillions of dollars from the forced buying of insurance via the "individual mandate" that was being decided by the Court. Because the Court was almost evenly divided on the issue, the changing of the opinion of just one justice could tilt the decision in favor of the insurance industry and lock in enormous profits for years to come. So if the NSA approached the insurance globalists and said something like, "Pay us $500 million and we'll hand you the Obamacare decision," the answer would obviously be, "to where do we transfer the money?" It's a cheap investment for a windfall of long-term profits. And health insurance companies — like any large corporations — don't "play fair." They play to win.
The NSA is now the most powerful organization in the world
I hope you're beginning to fully grasp the power that is now concentrated in the hands of the NSA. An organization that has the power to covertly pry into the private lives of everyone also has the power to control everyone. There is no greater currency in Washington, of course, than to have real dirt on the people you'd like to control.
The NSA spy grid "PRISM" program is like a Dirt Devil. It's the Dyson vortex vacuum of politics… on steroids. If there's dirt to be found on anyone, the NSA can find it. That dirt can then be used as "insurance" — mob-style — to make sure the people you're targeting behave in the way you want them to behave. This would include, of course, voting the correct way on key legislation or court decisions.
Right this very minute, the NSA almost certainly has a full dossier on every member of Congress, federal judge, State Dept. employee and high-powered corporate CEO in the country. And because the creepiest people tend to rise to the top in politics, there's no doubt these files contain all sorts of graphic details on prostitutes, under-age sex, secret homosexual relationships, cheating on husbands and wives, substance abuse problems, medical problems and much more. Do you know which members of Congress have smoked pot or snorted coke? The NSA probably does. How about which members of the Obama administration have ever engaged in "experimental" gay sex in college? The NSA knows all that too, no doubt.
This knowledge is far more valuable than any hunt for terrorists. There is no question in my mind that the NSA has already figured this out and has been using this spy grid behemoth for nefarious purposes to pull the strings of key decision makers across our society. This may be the explanation behind all sorts of inexplicable votes and bizarre decisions in Washington. The NSA might even be the puppet pulling Obama's strings, as they no doubt have all sorts of dirt on Obama's history which we already know to be largely fabricated. (Real birth certificates don't have a dozen layers stitched together in Photoshop.)
The power to spy is the power to control
You gotta hand it to whoever built this spy grid from the ground up. It's a brilliant covert tactic of dominant control. With all the slimebags rising to positions of power in Washington, can you imagine the absolute treasure chest of low-hanging blackmail fruit that would be easily uncovered by sifting through the private emails and phone calls of lawmakers and bureaucrats?
Take DHS as the tip of the iceberg. Last year, several male DHS employees sued the agency, claiming they were forced to perform deviant sex acts on their female bosses. There's no question that DHS is staffed up with total perverts and sexual predators, which is why we frequently hear stories of the TSA molesting little children (the TSA is part of DHS).
Can you imagine what the private emails and phone calls of Janet Napolitano look like? (Shield my eyes! I don't even wanna know!)
Or Anthony Weiner, the congressman who sexted a bunch of half-nude pictures of himself to young women?
Usually the more power hungry these people are, the more deviant and perverse they behave when they think no one is looking. That makes them all incredibly easy to be compromised by the NSA — the techno-mob with the ultimate power to control through intimidation.
And if the NSA can really control all these people — or at least some of them — it begs the question: What are the NSA's aims? Who are the people calling the shots and where do their loyalties lie?
Ever further down the rabbit hole is this question: Are these also the same people running global terrorist networks in order to justify their own existence? Or if that's too nefarious to believe, would you believe these people might willfully look the other way with certain terror groups in order to make sure they keep operating?
Perhaps the NSA is actually in the business of NOT catching terrorists in order to make sure its own power and financial budgets keep growing. And perhaps the NSA's real business is shaking down corporate interests that pay huge dollars to have key decisions in Washington hijacked via blackmail.
This is far more believable that the utter nonsense explanation we're told by the media which says the NSA is "catching terrorists." Really? Show me one! In reality, there's no evidence whatsoever that the NSA has stopped even a single act of genuine terrorism that targeted Americans.
Remember: Enormous power coupled with a complete abandonment of ethics can only lead in the direction of corruption and evil. Without checks and balances, the NSA will become a rogue criminal mafia that terrorizes everyone… and can be stopped by no one.
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Larry David is always pretty close-mouthed about his upcoming episodes, but heading into season 8 for "Curb Your Enthusiasm" we know at least one star he wants to bring on board -- comedian Ricky Gervais.
"I'd love to have him on," David said in a "Curb" conference call. "And I'm going to see if there's anything he's right for this year."
The two clearly have a strong mutual comedic respect for each other, and appeared as panelists on the "Marriage Ref" this year as well. For many "Curb" fans, this would be a good example of dream casting.
David's other big details for the upcoming "Curb" include a noteworthy a change of location. Half of the season will be in New York for the first time.
While he wouldn't reveal any other plot lines (despite letting on that "shirtless men" in Santa Monica are really bothering him these days), David knows that he has plenty big shoes to fill from last year's "Seinfeld" instantly iconic reunion.
"It's daunting, thinking, 'How do you top that season?'" said David. "I don't know if we're going to top it, but we're going to have some funny shows."
For those who simply cannot wait that long, the TV Guide network will feature each of the episodes starting June 2. These episodes will also include celebrity panels discussing issues brought up in the episode.
"It's just talking about some of the issues raised on the show with a panel," said David. "It wasn't my idea, but I think it's terrific."
While this is the first time swears will be bleeped out, David says he's pleased that there will be not cuts from the HBO show despite moving to basic cable. As for the lack of swears: "You'd be surprised," he said. " It still plays really well."


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Ok, so I thought I'd keep you guys informed of the progress. I've begun the main bulk of the site. What's done so far is a preliminary layout and the login/registration system. I've decided to keep the accounts db different than that of the one we use here at the ZUG. What I did though is add a field in the 'options' page for the accounts where you can enter your ZUG username. What I plan to do with that is if someone wants to message you from there, they can enter a message and you have the option of it being automatically inserted here in the ZUG messageboard messages or having it be emailed to you. As well, for the project subscriptions, if there's an update, it can do the same.
I'm going to start production on the main core of the ZSI2 now, which is the actual projects themselves. I'll explain the database structure and the features so if any of you can think of anything else, those will be added.
A project has the following fields: id, name, unixname, screenshot, currentVersion, resolution, rom, model, processor, description, dateAdded, views, license, homepage, owner, and updated.
name: Name of the project.
unixname: Name of the projects filename. This will have no spaces, commas, ~'s; things like that.
currentVersion: I plan to have the ability to put multiple versions on the site and to have multiple branches. Those of you familiar with Sourceforge understand how this works. You can have a development branch and a stable branch, and have multiple versions of the program in there. The currentVersion field is set to whatever you consider the latest version to be.
Resolution: Admin will be able to add/edit/remove different resolutions. If Sharp decides to make another Zaurus and it has a resolution of 800x600 or something, we'll be able to add it easily.
Rom,Processor,License: Same as resolution where admin has complete control.
Model: I put this in so that if we do decide to take this to more than just the Zaurus, we can simply add the other models using the Admin page. Initially though, this will be something like Zaurus c860, Zaurus 5500, et al.
owner: This will be linked to your account.
updated: The last time the project has been updated.
If this sounds at all complicated, give me a few days and you'll see how simple it really is. Some of the stuff can be dropdown boxes (For example licenses), and some can be checkboxes (Resolution for projects that can function on multiple resolutions for example).
That is what is going to be programmed next. After that, the main chunk of the programming is done and I can add the 'features'.
Ok well, time to go to work. Let me know if anyone thinks of any new ideas


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The death of a parent (or any family member) can be truly taxing on a Christian. Even when the one we have lost is a believer, it is never easy to say goodbye, especially if the bereavement was sudden. Grieving for our loved ones is appropriate and expected; Christ Himself wept at the gravesite of His friend Lazarus (John 11:35). The Bible provides consolation, and we as Christians can find comfort even in the loss of someone so dear to us.
In the loss of a Christian parent, the greatest comfort a believer has is the hope and confidence that our relationship with our parents does not end at death. A Christian who has lost a Christian parent can rest in the promise that there will be a reunion in heaven. At the time of the resurrection, all who have accepted Christ will be glorified and given incorruptible bodies (1 Corinthians 15:42–44; John 11:25). For the Christian, Christ has conquered death! As Paul gladly writes in 1 Corinthians 15:54–57, " 'Death has been swallowed up in victory!' 'Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?' The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
For many unbelievers, death brings nothing but despair. For those whose faith is weak or non-existent, the loss of a parent can mean a total end of the relationship. There is no hope of resurrection, no new heaven, and no new earth. But believers in Christ have the promises of God to cling to. While we miss our loved ones, we look happily forward to the time when all things shall be made new.
Even beyond this, the God of the Bible delights in comforting the afflicted and healing the heartbroken (Jeremiah 17:14; 2 Corinthians 1:3–4; 7:6). When we are grieved by the loss of our loved ones, God is quick to offer us His peace. In the midst of our mourning, we can feel the presence of God with us; even in our sorrow, we can draw near to Him in prayer and worship.
The loss of our parents can be deeply painful, particularly since they play such a key role in shaping our lives. Indeed, our parents are often the ones who comfort us when we are hurting, and to lose them can feel like we are losing our emotional support. But Christians can take heart in that we find comfort in more than our families; the very God of Creation, who knows us better than we know ourselves, understands our pain and is eager to grow us and heal us and give us His peace.[1]
[1] Got Questions Ministries. (2010). Got Questions? Bible Questions Answered. Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.


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Dean Transportation Raises $1,250 for Food Pantry
By: Ashley Sword, The News-Herald
TRENTON, MI - Dean Transportation raised $1,250 at its annual Bowl for Food event Friday night at the Belmar II Bowling Alley.
Director of Transportation Archie Denard said the donations will be given to the Trenton Food Pantry.
"We had a great turnout of bowlers," said Denard. "All funds are going right back into the community to help residents in need."


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After installing the Windows Phone 8 SDK I got an error stating that hardware virtualization was not supported on my machine therefore I could not use the emulator.
Apparently there are two requirements for your machine to meet to support the Windows Phone 8 emulator:
- Support for hardware virtualization in the form of either Intel-Virtualization Technology (Intel-VT) or AMD-V (also called SVM)
- Support for Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) – see How to Check if your CPU supports SLAT – on Intel CPUs this is also called Extended Pages Tables.
This is caused by the fact that the Windows Phone 8 Emulator is using the client version of Hyper-V (which ships with Windows 8 client OS) which requires SLAT. The Hyper-V server does not.
Because I don't have a Windows Phone 8 device on hand – I'm pretty much stuck building Windows Phone 7.1 apps.


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The Florida gym teacher who unwittingly named legendary southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd after giving detention to a pack of long-haired slackers, has died.
Leonard Skinner, the basketball coach and gym teacher who later became friends with the band, died Monday in Florida, his daughter said. He was 77.
Skinner died in his sleep at the St. Catherine Laboure Manor in Jacksonville, where he had been living for about a year, his daughter Susie Moore said. Skinner had Alzheimer's disease.
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"Coach Skinner had such a profound impact on our youth that ultimately led us to naming the band, which you know as Lynyrd Skynyrd, after him," said band member Gary Rossington. "Looking back, I cannot imagine it any other way. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this time."
Skinner was working at Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville in the late 1960s when he sent a group of students to the principal's office.
"It was against the school rules," Skinner told the Florida Times-Union in 2009. "I don't particularly like long hair on men, but again, it wasn't my rule."
The kids went on to form the band responsible for such hits as "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird." Three of the band members, including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, were killed in a 1977 plane crash, but the survivors still tour and record.
Skinner, whose son was a fan of the band, eventually made friends with the rockers, who even performed at a Jacksonville bar the former coach owned.
Skinner's children said their father was never completely comfortable with being linked to the band but did grow to embrace it.
Selected Reading: The Associated Press, Lynyrd Skynyrd.com, The New York Times.