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FITNESS 2009 Sneaker Guide: The Best Running Shoes
Brian Maranan Pineda
Winner: Best Neutral-Cushioned Running Shoes
Brooks Ghost 2
These shoes have extra cushioning where it counts — the forefoot — thanks to tiny fluid packs in the padding for a bouncy push off and a safe landing, plus they're contoured to cradle your midfoot.
"Heaven for women with high arches!" says one tester who wore her pair pounding the pavement in Central Park. "They have the ideal amount of support without being too cushioned or clunky."
($100, brooksrunning.com)
Brian Maranan Pineda
Runner-Up: Best Neutral-Cushioned Running Shoes
Nike Zoom Vomero+ 4
This uber-cushiony shoe melds perfectly to your foot with a snug, supportive heel, an adjustable arch strap, and a stretchy mesh panel that leaves extra room for your toes — even those with bunions.
"So pillowlike and durable — I'm obsessed! They made me look forward to my runs," says a tester whose Vomeros inspired her to add extra miles and uphill sprints to her workouts.
($130, nike.com)
Brian Maranan Pineda
Winner: Best Mild Stability Running Shoes
New Balance 749
Its lacing design locks your arch in place, a stiff midsole keeps your foot secure, and heel-to-toe cushioning buffers joints on impact. We also love the shoe's airy mesh material.
"These fit beautifully," raved one tester, who ran off workday stress wearing her kicks. "They were never uncomfortable."
($80, newbalance.com for stores)
Brian Maranan Pineda
Runner-Up: Best Mild Stability Running Shoes
Asics GT-2140
Don't let its superlight weight fool you: This breathable sneaker packs in just-right arch support plus a durable midsole, which reduces jolts to your joints.
"Fits my foot like a glove," says one weekend warrior who clocked in many miles around the Hamptons. "These are easy to run in, comfortable and stable."
($100, asics.com for stores)
Brian Maranan Pineda
Winner: Best Maximum Stability Running Shoes
Adidas Supernova Sequence 2
This shoe corrects overpronation with support that runs from heel to forefoot. Its nonslip insole and heel cup hold your foot in place to prevent blisters, and an antimicrobial sock liner helps them stay odor-free.
"I'm a convert," says one tester who was loyal to her previous brand for three years. "It has everything: a snug upper, a stable heel, and a smooth run."
($100, shopadidas.com)
Brian Maranan Pineda
Runner-Up: Best Maximum Stability Running Shoes
Brooks Trance 9
The stiffer material in this shoe's midsole helps curb overpronation and creates a smoother transition from heel to toe. Plus, its plush sock liner wicks away sweat.
"They matched the contours of my feet — I'm using them to train for my next race," says one tester who's running the Nike Women's Marathon in San Francisco this month.
($140, brooksrunning.com)
Brian Maranan Pineda
Winner: Best Trail Running Shoes
Salomon XT Wings GTX W
These stable shoes protect your feet from it all; they've got a waterproof exterior, a mudguard, and a gusseted tongue to keep out pebbles and dirt. The tie-free lacing design means no loose ends.
"Each stride felt comfortable despite the bumpy terrain," says one tester who took her pair through nine miles of post-rain mush. "Plus, I had no mud to scrape off afterward."
($160, salomonsports.com for stores)
Brian Maranan Pineda
Runner-Up: Best Trail Running Shoes
Saucony ProGrid Razor
These are not your mom's trail runners: Zip up the water-resistant yet surprisingly breathable top layer for extra coverage on rainy days and to keep out rocks and dirt.
"I've never worn shoes like this before," says one tester who tried them on dusty Arizona desert paths. "They've got great shock absorption and grip — I never came close to wiping out on treacherous canyon surfaces."
($135, saucony.com for stores)
Originally published in FITNESS magazine, October 2009.


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Robertson McQuilkin Surprised on his 83rd Birthday
Columbia International University President Emeritus Robertson McQuilkin was presented with a big surprise on his 83rd birthday. The student body, faculty and staff sang "Happy Birthday" to him at the beginning of the chapel service Sept. 7 - his birthday, a day he was the scheduled chapel speaker. But the birthday song wasn't the BIG surprise.
After McQuilkin's message, CIU President Dr. Bill Jones took the stage with McQuilkin to make a special presentation. He explained that at the beginning of August, CIU Development Director Frank Bedell had an idea. It was to ask CIU alumni, friends, faculty and staff to donate $83 toward CIU scholarships, in honor of McQuilkin's birthday, with a goal of $83,000 by Sept. 7.
"Sorry I'm not 110," McQuilkin deadpanned as an oversized CIU check for $83,000 was presented to him. The chapel assembly roared with laughter at his dry humor.
But Jones continued: "We were not able to raise $83,000. We raised much more than that. As of this morning we raised $98,000," Jones said as the students shouted and applauded.
"And I'm sure $100,000 will be coming in," Jones concluded.
And he was right. By the next day, over $109,000 had come in.
McQuilkin was also presented with a proclamation that included the names of 300 people who donated toward the scholarships, some of whom were on hand and shared a huge birthday cake with him and the student body in the dining hall after chapel.
To view photos of the celebration visit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ciuimpact/sets/72157624838979755/

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Hit Or Miss Rain Next Few Days
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Hit or miss showers today and periods of rain and storms off and on through Saturday night. It's been awhile since we have had much rain and this will be welcome as we head into Autumn.
A warm front will lift through the state today and set up stationary in central Wisconsin through Friday. We'll be in the warm sector of this system and our highs will hold mid 70s today and upper 70s Friday.
We will see periods of steadier rain, scattered showers and a few storms through Saturday. Showers are splashy today and rain becomes more widespread after 7pm tonight. A few dry hours are likely tomorrow morning and temperatures will climb fast. Showers and a few storms are possible tomorrow later day and into the evening.
The best chances for rain and storms will approach late Friday night and for Saturday as a cool front passes through. Saturday highs are still in the 70s before the cooler air rushes in later Saturday evening. Cloudy and windy for Sunday with highs in the upper 50s.
We're always happy to see your fun photos. Send them to us at Ulocal on wisn.com, my Twitter @seversonsally or our Wisconsin Weather Updates Facebook page.


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Overland Park, KS — Phil Lawler honored the recipients of the Carol M. White Physical Education Program (PEP) grants and the woman for whom the grants are named last month during the second annual PE4life PEP Grant Resource Conference at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City.
Lawler, the director of education and outreach for PE4life who also serves as the director of the PE4life Academy in Naperville, IL, spoke highly of Carol M. White, a former top aide to Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens. White was in charge of writing the language of the PEP grant. The grant was re-named for White in 2002.
White is battling brain cancer and was not able to attend the conference. Lawler, who has survived cancer three times, has developed a close bond with White.
"Carol wanted to be here in the worst way," Lawler told the attendees. Before the conference, Lawler said that White left a message for him, saying, "Tell that group today, congratulations."
Lawler told the attendees that most physical education programs have failed to keep children healthy and that some school administrators are holding P.E. teachers accountable.
"I'm glad we failed," Lawler said, "because failure is the first step to success. If the school administrators wouldn't have started to hold us accountable, we'd be doing the same things we've always done."
Lawler challenged the PEP grant recipients to "change the script" of their physical education programs and to improve the quality of children's lives through physical education.
The federal government provides PEP grants to initiate, expand and improve physical education programs for K-12 students in order to help them make progress toward meeting state standards for physical education.


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FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas lost a key cog to its South Florida recruiting efforts when Charlie Partridge was named Florida Atlantic's coach in December.
FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas lost a key cog to its South Florida recruiting efforts when Charlie Partridge was named Florida Atlantic's coach in December.
But the past two days show the Razorbacks have no intention of letting it slow their progress in the region.
Arkansas added three more prospects from South Florida when Gulliver Prep cornerback Cornelius Floyd, Miami Norland High wide receiver Kendrick Edwards and Miami Killian High defensive end Anthony Brown made verbal commitments Monday. The three join Ft. Lauderdale Dillard High linebacker Randy Ramsey as South Florida high school players who have made verbal commitments this week.
"Great day in Razorback family," Arkansas coach Bret Bielema posted on his Twitter page Monday afternoon after Floyd and Edwards had announced their verbal commitments. "Getting stronger one day at a time! #woopig."
Scout.com and Rivals.com rate Floyd, who also had scholarship offers from Oklahoma, West Virginia and others, as three-star prospect on a five-star scale.
Norland is rated as a three-star prospect by Scout.com and is a two-star athlete according to Rivals.com. He chose Arkansas over Louisville.
Brown isn't rated by Scout.com, but also is a two-star prospect according to Rivals.com. He selected Arkansas after also considering Mississippi State.
Floyd, Norland, Brown and Ramsey give Arkansas four verbal commitments from South Florida high school players for 2014. Another, tight end Ravian Pierce, announced last week he was no longer committed to the Razorbacks.
If the four sign with Arkansas next month, they'll join a 2013 class that included four players from South Florida (running back Alex Collins, offensive lineman Denver Kirkland, safety De'Andre Coley and defensive tackle Ke'Tyrus Marks).
Arkansas made South Florida recruiting an emphasis when Bielema arrived in December 2012. Partridge played a big role in those efforts, but the Hogs continue to work the state because of Bielema and linebackers coach Randy Shannon.
Shannon, the former Miami player, assistant and head coach, is from South Florida and has played a big role in Arkansas' recruiting in the state. Bielema also has long-standing ties as a recruiter from his days as an assistant coach.
"I've signed over 60 kids from those three counties and really don't expect it to be much more than a blip on the radar," Bielema said about Arkansas' recruiting in South Florida after Partridge's departure in December. "I think our tradition speaks for itself in the way we handle kids. Hopefully that will persevere over everything."
Arkansas now has 23 players who have signed or made verbal commitments for its 2014 class. Verbal commitments are non-binding. National signing day is Feb. 5.


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by Tom Utescher
Last week's rains made softball fields soggy for the official start of the PIAA season on Friday, so instead of launching their 2011 campaign against league rival Villa Maria, the Mount St. Joseph Academy Magic bundled up for a practice session under the guidance of their new team coaches, Bill Thompson and Jen Carlo.
Thompson has been involved in the sport for decades, and was responsible for bringing a pro softball team, the Philadelphia Force, to play in the Allentown area. A Northeast Philly guy who attended Archbishop Ryan High School, he has held a number of coaching positions not far outside the city. He coached another Catholic Academies team, Gwynedd Mercy, for seven years, then headed the programs at Wissahickon High School and, most recently, Montgomery County Community College.
Carlo is a New Jersey native who was a member of the Division I program at Rutgers University, and who played some pro ball, as well. Her most recent coaching job was at Friends Select in center city Philadelphia, and before that she coached both varsity softball and soccer at the Wooster School in Danbury, CT.
Elizabeth Lyon, who was a pitcher at the collegiate level, will help out with the MSJ hurlers.
The new Mount mentors are taking over a program going through a number of personnel changes, since six players, including number one pitcher Alyssa Drummy, graduated from the 2010 squad, which finished 6-9.
Maeve Elliott, the junior captain for the 2011 team, had been pegged for first base, but due to a preseason injury she will play shortstop. The primary pitcher is sophomore Kathryn Cnudde, and to make up the other half of the battery the Magic are currently splitting time between junior Mary Ricchezza and Lauren Stabler, a sophomore from Norwood Fontbonne Academy.
Freshman Samantha Burns is the second pitching option for Mount St. Joe, but normally she'll be positioned at second base. The rest of the starting line-up that had been penciled in for the scheduled game with Villa consisted of junior first baseman Melissa Williams, sophomore third baseman Margaret Buckley, junior left fielder Breonna Barton, sophomore centerfielder Rachel Dapper, and senior right fielder Heather McFarlane.
Providing depth for the Mounties are senior outfielder Julianne Looby, junior infielder Charlotte Banzhof, and another 11th grader, Lauren McMenamin, who could play second base or right field. Freshman Rebecca Barton is a utility player who also provides the club with a third choice at catcher.
In addition to their Catholic Academies rivals, the Magic's 2011 schedule includes non-league opponents such as Archbishop Ryan, Wissahickon High School, Archbishop Wood, and Allentown Central Catholic.


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Qualcomm & LGE enter into a new global patent license deal
Qualcomm Incorporated says that LGE has entered into a new direct worldwide patent license agreement with Qualcomm.
Under the terms of the five-year, royalty-bearing agreement, Qualcomm has granted LGE a patent license to develop, manufacture and sell 3G, 4G and 5G single-mode and multimode complete devices. The agreement is consistent with Qualcomm's established global licensing terms. "Qualcomm is pleased to enter into a new global patent license agreement with LGE," said John Han, senior vice president and general manager, Qualcomm Technology Licensing. "This agreement builds on our long-standing technology relationship and reaffirms the value of Qualcomm's world-class patent portfolio. Qualcomm is the developer and enabler of foundational technologies for the wireless industry and is the leader in the transition to 5G. We are proud to make our breakthrough technologies available to leading OEMs like LGE and to support them in delivering compelling products around the world."
ACM Research starts construction of new facility in Shanghai ACM Research, a supplier of wafer cleaning technologies for semiconductor devices, says that its operating subsidiary ACM Research (Shanghai), has begun construction of its new development and production facility in the Lingang Special Area of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone.
ALLOS Semiconductors has sold its high power electronics and RF business AZUR SPACE has acquired the electronics business of GaN-on-Si epiwafer expert ALLOS Semiconductors.
STMicroelectronics team up with Fingerprint Cards Swedish Fingerprint Cards has teamed with global semiconductor powerhouse, STMicroelectronics, to develop an advanced Biometric System-on-Card (BSoC) solution based on fingerprint-recognition technology.
U.S.: Cancellation of Preferential Treatment for Hong Kong to impact chip industry The U.S. Department of Commerce announced on June 29 that the newly instituted Hong Kong national security law by the Chinese government will increase "the risk that sensitive U.S. technology will be diverted to [the Chinese government]"; the Department therefore put a temporary stop to the preferential treatment the U.S. had afforded to Hong Kong.
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Arm to strengthen focus on core semiconductor IP business growth Arm is looking to strengthen its focus on growth and profitability. To achieve this the company has proposed strategic organisational changes – which involves the transferring of businesses.
ROHM and Leadrive establish a joint laboratory ROHM and Leadrive Technology, a Chinese manufacturer of automotive powertrain for new energy vehicles, have already held the opening ceremony for their joint laboratory on SiC technology in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (Lingang New Area).
Imagination announces latest licensing deal with NXP Imagination Technologies says that NXP has extended its license for Imagination's Ethernet Packet Processor (EPP) IP for use in S32 vehicle network processors.
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Mini LED supply chain to benefit from Apple's new 12.9-inch iPad Pro As Apple's upcoming release of products featuring Mini LED backlight generates a growth in Mini LED demand, the company has also stimulated actors in the Mini LED supply chain to increase their production capacities.
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Federal law requires the National Taxpayer Advocate to submit an Annual Report to Congress that identifies at least 20 of the most serious problems encountered by taxpayers and makes administrative and legislative recommendations to mitigate those problems. Overall, this year's report identifies 21 problems, provides updates on four previously identified issues, makes dozens of recommendations for administrative change, proposes 11 recommendations for legislative change, and analyzes the 10 tax issues most frequently litigated in the federal courts
Nina adds her voice to that of many others lately, myself included, by stating –
"The most serious problem facing taxpayers – and the IRS – is the complexity of the Internal Revenue Code."
She goes on to explain –
"Perhaps most troubling, tax law complexity leads to perverse results. On the one hand, taxpayers who honestly seek to comply with the law often make inadvertent errors, causing them to either overpay their tax or become subject to IRS enforcement action for mistaken underpayments. On the other hand, sophisticated taxpayers often find loopholes that enable them to reduce or eliminate their tax liabilities. Taxpayers have developed a sense of cynicism about the tax system, and compliance takes a hit."
Nina suggests –
"The most prominent approach would involve reducing tax preferences (often referred to as "broadening the tax base") in exchange for lower rates."
And warns –
"If tax preferences are to be eliminated in order to reduce tax rates, we cannot pretend that broadening the tax base means eliminating someone else's tax break while preserving our own. Everything must be put on the table, and we must understand that, in exchange for lower rates, some tax breaks will be eliminated immediately and others will be phased out. If tax reform proceeds on a revenue neutral basis, however, the average taxpayer's liability will not change, and we will end up with a tax system that is simpler, more transparent, and easier and cheaper for taxpayers to navigate."
The bottom line –
"The National Taxpayer Advocate recommends that Congress substantially reform and simply the Internal Revenue Code."
The #2 problem presented by Nina concerns the Service's "Increasing Responsibilities for Administering Social Benefit Programs" like the Earned Income Credit.
In discussing this situation Nina says -
"Running social programs through the tax system is beneficial in several respects {FYI, I do not at all agree – rdf}. These benefits include the potential ability to reduce the burden of the application process (via return filing), direct access by the administrator to eligibility data relating to income, and the relative efficiency of the IRS as a payment processor. The benefits also come with a cost to both the IRS and taxpayers. As discussed in detail below, Code-based social programs can undermine the IRS's ability to perform its core function of collecting taxes. Further, the current enforcement culture of the the IRS may not be optimal for the administration of social benefits."
She does make the observation –
"The administration of social programs diverts IRS resources away from the agency's core revenue collection function and can diminish taxpayer service."
Some of Nina's legislative recommendations (in addition to simplifying the Tax Code) that "promote taxpayers' rights" include –
• Repeal or index the dreaded Alternative Minimum Tax (read my lips – repeal, repeal, repeal),
• allow self-employed taxpayers to deduct health insurance premiums for purposes of self-employment tax (as was permitted for 2010 only), and
• improve the accessibility of the Offer in Compromise program.
How will the idiots in Congress respond to the report? Let us hope they listen carefully to Nina and take some of the actions she is recommending.


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This shot by reddit user anthonymccue reminds you that if you gaze long enough at a hearse, the hearse gazes back. And then it tells you — "UR NEXT."
Remember when young people used to buy old hearses all the time back when gas was cheap and new hearses were plentiful for funeral homes.
There's no better way to get into some spacious Cadillac luxury than with a hearse. Who cares if it's creepy, right?


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Who Won the Week? MCW, Chicago State, Not Jerry Jones…Posted by rtmsf on December 7th, 2012
Who Won the Week? is a regular column that will outline and discuss three winners and losers from the previous week. The author of this column is Kenny Ocker (@KennyOcker), an Oregon-based sportswriter best known for his willingness to drive (or bike!) anywhere to watch a basketball game.
WINNER: Chicago State
The Cougars found themselves a home. Amid the constant turmoil found during this extended period of conference realignment, Chicago State has managed to go from the schedule conglomerate of the Great West to an actual conference in the WAC. (Let's ignore the fact that the WAC would lose its automatic bid if the historically black university didn't join its ranks.) Granted, the Cougars are 0-8 in Division I play this season, but their campus lies atop a recruiting hotbed, and they could easily snag many a player who falls through others' cracks, especially now that they offer the same chance at an automatic NCAA Tournament bid that about 250 other schools promise every season. This move makes sense for both parties, but it should help save Chicago State from the fate of Winston-Salem State, another HBCU that tried to make the move to Division I but failed before retreating back to Division II.
(Related winners: The WAC. Related losers: None.)
LOSER: Florida State
The Seminoles have had an extended run of success in the Atlantic Coast Conference, one unseen for that program since the Hugh Durham era in Tallahassee, but that's threatening to fall apart in Leonard Hamilton's 11th season roaming the Florida State sidelines. FSU is currently riding a three-game losing streak, and last week's losses to Mercer and Florida were both ugly in their own ways. Falling 61-56 to a team from the Atlantic Sun is ignominious in its own right, but especially so for a team riding a school-record four-year NCAA Tournament streak. Having only one player score more than seven points in the process is even worse. But the Seminoles actually managed to one-up that loss with an embarrassing 72-47 loss to rival Florida, this time where no Florida State player scored more than 10 points. Michael Snaer, the scoring guard who helped lead the team to three wins in the last two years in the NCAA Tournament, scored 17 points between the two games on 5-of-17 shooting while having five assists and seven turnovers. This is foreboding for a team many picked to finish in the top half of an ACC that has often looked lackluster during the start of the season.
(Related winners: Florida; Mercer, but more so had the Bears not gotten shelled by Denver later in the week. Related losers: The ACC, Snaer.)
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Ron White Still Loves His Scotch, But Now He's Talking Tequila, Too
Earlier this month, I had a chance to chat with comedian Ron White – you probably know him best from his work on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour – in conjunction with his latest round of tour dates featuring a night in my home town of Norfolk, Virginia. We chatted for quite some time…enough time, in fact, for me to pull together a piece for the Pilot ("Interview: Comedian Ron White Prefers His Shows Live"), an altogether different piece for AntennaFree.TV ("Pilot Error: Comedian Ron White Reflects on 'Señor White' and Takes Us Through '12 Miles of Bad Road'"), and still have a bit more material left over.
It's not really "left over," though, as I made a point of keeping this portion of the conversation for Bullz-Eye. I mean, come on: if Ron White talking about the tequila company he co-owns with his brother-in-law, fellow comedian Alex Reymundo, isn't something that's got "Bullz-Eye" written all over it, I don't know what does.
Once upon a time, White was quoted as saying, "There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong." Apparently, he's changed his tune a bit on tequila now that he's selling the stuff. Then again, from the sound of it, this tequila probably tastes a hell of a lot better than the stuff he was swigging back then.
The topic of tequila came up somewhat offhandedly, when I asked White about his writing regimen. In the process of explaining that he writes most of his material on the road, getting input from the team of folks who travels with him, he began listing off the travelers by saying, "I'll have an opening act, usually my brother-in-law, who's also my partner in my tequila company. He and I own a company called Number Juan Tequila. Best tequila in the world." He didn't mention it again after that, but having thrown that tidbit into play, I decided to pick it up and run with it a few minutes later.
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Fall Cranberry Harvest: Nantucket's Most Delicious Season
As the days get shorter and the night gets nippier, there is one berry we still can't get enough of: the cranberry. On Nantucket, a tiny island off the coast of Cape Cod, millions of cranberries are harvested every fall. While Nantucket might be known best for its busy summer beach season, the fall is our favorite time of year on Nantucket.
That's when the tourists disperse, and the bushes (or "moors," to the locals) that blanket the island turn shades of autumnal brown and red.
And, that's when the local cranberries are ready for harvesting.


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Sixth annual Spanish Mini-Medical School set for Sept. 7
Opportunity for Spanish-speakers to learn about aging in their native language
UC Davis Health System will hold its sixth annual Spanish Mini-Medical School on Saturday, Sept. 7, at the UC Davis MIND Institute from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The event is sponsored by the health system's Alzheimer's Disease Center, Center for Healthy Aging, Center for Reducing Health Disparities and Clinical and Translational Science Center.
Unique in the nation, the one-day school provides Spanish-speaking middle-aged and older adults, along with caregivers, the opportunity to learn about critical health issues in their native language and to discuss these topics with Spanish-speaking health-care professionals from UC Davis and the community.
"With the projected growth in the number of Latino seniors in California, it is vital that we develop innovative outreach programs that help to address health disparities," said Ladson Hinton, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and interim director of the Latino Aging Research Resource Center (LARRC). "The Spanish Mini-Medical School provides vital health information in an innovative format to middle-aged and older adults so that they are better able to get the health care that they need."
This year, presenters will include:
- David Copenhaver, assistant professor and director, UC Davis Cancer Pain Program. Copenhaver will address the topic "What is Pain? A Quick Check In."
- Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, clinical professor of internal medicine and director, UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities will address "Opportunities for Latinos to Obtain Health Insurance under the Affordable Care Act."
- Lorena Garcia, assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences and a researcher affiliated with the LARRC, will discuss "Obesity and Diabetes: Latinos in the United States."
Attendance at the Spanish Mini-Medical School is free and open to the public, although space is limited. For reservations, please call 916-734-5243. Registration also is available on the UC Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center Facebook page. The event is co-sponsored Sunrise Senior Living, Primrose and Norwood Pines Alzheimer's Care Center.
The UC Davis MIND Institute is located on the Sacramento campus of UC Davis, at 2825 50th St., Sacramento. Parking is available in the lot adjacent to the MIND Institute and on the street.
The UC Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center is one of only 27 research centers designated by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging. The center's goal is to translate research advances into improved diagnosis and treatment for patients while focusing on the long-term goal of finding a way to prevent or cure Alzheimer's disease. Also funded by the state of California, the center allows researchers to study the effects of the disease on a uniquely diverse population. For more information, visit alzheimer.ucdavis.edu.


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Wednesday got off to an unusual start for me. Unusual in the fact that I started the day with a walk, and it cost me big-time.
Let me explain. On Monday morning, with the Club Industry show looming, I decided I was going to start walking every day. And so I did that on Monday and Tuesday on our treadmill in our basement. With a mid-afternoon flight on Wednesday and no reason to go into the office, I decided to take the time and walk on the trail behind our house.
But in doing my part to join the fitness world, I lost out on a running back I really wanted to get for my fantasy football team. Right before my walk, I checked to see if the first-come, first-serve free agent period had started for my fantasy football league. When it hadn't, I went for my walk. In hindsight, I should have waited just three more minutes before my walk. In double hindsight, I should have just picked up the player in the silent auction period the day before.
I told Pam and Jenn this story, and Jenn made a good point that I may have lost in fantasy football but I got a win in the game of life. I weeped openly after she said that.
I touched down in Chicago a little after 2 p.m. at Midway Airport, where we flew right over the houses in the neighborhood and landed on the runway. I wonder what the value is of those houses right next to the airport runway. It can't be more than $79.49. Sure, you'll get a nice-sized house at an unbelievable rate, but you might get hit by an airplane every once in a while.
It took me a good 1 � hours to get from Midway Airport to McCormick Place. I still had my luggage with me, and at one point Wednesday, I had both my luggage and my work bag in a not-so-secure area of the convention center. Thankfully, all my white T-shirts were accounted for when I picked up my bags.
I attended a 4 p.m. seminar on corporate fitness, which I'll delve into more in another post here on the blog. Our November issue will include a Trend Watch on corporate fitness, so stay tuned.
After the seminar, it was time for our welcome reception. We grabbed one of the few standing tables, and wouldn't you know it, everybody we knew or worked with came by to say hi, as well as every server with a tray of hors d'oeuvres (had to look up the spelling). Mmm, mmm, those corn dogs were tasty.
The real drama of the night came when the Club Industry group decided to go "crash" the IHRSA party at a nearby hotel. You needed a badge and perhaps a reservation, but a lot of the folks who had been at our party were going there, so we followed suit. Surprisingly, no one stopped us from going in, which was a little disappointing in a way. A few minutes after we got in there, Pam, Jenn and I decided to head out. The fun was in crashing the party, not the party itself. And we didn't even drink anything there, either. (OK, so I had a little hors d'oeuvres. Again, tasty.)
We headed back to our hotel and later out to a nearby establishment, Miller's Pub, where I could see how everybody would know your name. If I can work it out, I'd like to go there for every meal. When I saw that they serve eggs and omelets there, that includes breakfast, too.
That about sums up our first day in Chicago. The show floor looks great, our booth looks great, and we can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.


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Self proclaimed diabolical genius Matt Hoffman found himself the latest house guest to be eliminated from the Big Brother house last Thursday.
Matt, a 32 year-old web designer from Elgin, IL, was simply deemed untrustworthy and too much of a threat by his Brigade alliance members, who plotted his elimination.
In a new interview with PEOPLE magazine, the diabolical genius opens up about throwing his BFF Ragan under the bus and why he regrets it. What Matt doesn't regret? Lying about his wife's fake illness. It also seems Matt is still loyal to his Brigade alliance, as he seems completely unaware they plotted to get him out. Excerpts from Matt's interview below –
Do you regret throwing Ragan under the bus? Do you think it ultimately led to your eviction?
I do regret [it] and that is why I tried to do it in as subtle a manner as possible. It doesn't make me feel less bad, but I don't think it had any bearing in my eviction.
You seemed to have it all: a power alliance, two HOHs, a diamond POV and your purported powers that come with being a "diabolical super genius." Yet you still couldn't make it to the final four. How do you explain that?
I got over confident and I abandoned my strategy of always competing and I threw a competition that I could have won. That is what sent me packing.
Why do you think the Brigade ultimately turned on you? Were you surprised?
The Brigade turned on me out of necessity. They had to vote out some Brigade member and I was the strongest one out of the four with three weak competitors.
You said that the move that caused you the most guilt was throwing Ragan under the bus. What about the fact that you lied about your wife being seriously ill? What would you say to the people who actually have a serious bone disease?
To the people who truly have this disease I say that I hope you were rooting for me to win because I was going to give you a large chunk of cash from my winning for research on the disease. To me, a lie is a lie. You can lie about your age, weight, whatever. It is still a lie.
On tonight's episode of BB12, Ragan or Hayden will be getting the axe. More than likely Ragan, as he is not a part of any alliance in the house. Things should get interesting this coming week, depending on who gets HOH. Will the Brigade members still want to keep Lane who seems more devoted to his Britney alliance? Only time will tell.


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VICTORIA — There were sighs of relief from various quarters in the provincial capital this week at the news that Auditor General John Doyle will be quitting B.C. when his term runs out later this year to take up a similar post in his native Australia.
When politicians and public servants complained about running afoul of "Australian rules," in recent years, they weren't talking football. Rather it was their perception that Doyle was once again imposing his own arbitrary way of doing things.
B.C. Liberal MLA Kevin Krueger spoke for a lot of his colleagues and more than a few public servants in his recent comment to the Kamloops Daily News: "The guy is rude and arrogant and wrong sometimes, but he won't admit it. I don't think he carries on the respectful way an auditor general should."
Nor will the Opposition be entirely crushed that Doyle is returning to home base in a huff, apparently a favourite mode of transportation.
The New Democrats get to reap the political reward from the Liberals having driven out the independent financial watchdog. They can also take comfort that if they form the next government, Doyle won't be around to make their lives miserable.
Granted, Doyle was not always as deferential as he could have been. His prickliness made it hard for even well-intentioned public servants to accept his recommendations. "John is his own worst enemy," as one who knows him remarked recently, "but only just that."
But there were also times, when in the pursuit of the larger public interest, he treated the politicians with as much respect as they deserved, meaning little or none.
John Doyle reporting last summer on the way the legislature keeps its own accounts: "If the legislative assembly were a public company, it would be delisted."
I'd also cite his bold decision, taken just days after the notorious $6-million waiver of legal fees in the BC Rail case, to audit the government practice of providing publicly funded counsel to politicians, public servants and staffers in a variety of legal proceedings.
Though he was stymied in obtaining some material controlled by the defence lawyers, Doyle did get considerable documentation from the government. One can only hope he reports on what he knows before the election.
His most far-reaching contribution was when he waded into the BC Hydro accounts and blew the whistle on the growing practice of deferring current spending for repayment in future years.
Doyle chronicled how deferrals have grown from a single account when the Liberals took office to almost 30 currently, and from a balance of tens of millions en route to a projected $5 billion.
He also accused the Liberals of using the deferrals to tart up the balance sheet at Hydro, thereby justifying the government's successive cash grabs: "It seems to me that the sole purpose of this whole exercise is so that a dividend can be paid to the province."
Moreover, Doyle reported, there was no discernible plan to retire all the deferrals and square up the accounts.
That accusation provoked a memorable exchange at the legislature public accounts committee in November 2011, when the Hydro brass were summoned to respond to Doyle's accusations with the auditor general himself in the room.
"We could provide a plan about all our deferral accounts to the auditor general," huffed Charles Reid, then Hydro's chief financial officer and today its CEO. "Whether he would accept the logic and rationale is entirely up to him."
Doyle fired back that his staff had repeatedly asked for such a plan, yet none had been produced: "I would have thought that if there was a plan, I would have it in my hand."
Rising to the moment, Doyle went on to advise that the target of his complaint was not Hydro in any event, but rather the government and its continued reliance on deferral accounts to justify its cash grabs from Hydro.
Eventually the full $5 billion would somehow have to be paid back. "This rat-in-the-snake type of situation," he called it, summoning a memorable image. "It's a big bump that's going to be there for a long time as it gets digested."
By way of accomplishing the digestion process, Doyle offered three possibilities.
Hydro could try to make up the difference by rationalizing operations, though as Doyle noted, "$5 billion is a lot of money to recover from an operation that doesn't turn over more than $4 billion a year,"
Or the government could reverse the siphon and begin returning cash to Hydro from its own accounts, an unlikely scenario.
Or the government could direct Hydro to make "rate adjustments." Meaning rate increases, and mighty big ones, given the need to offset $5 billion worth of deferrals.
"I can't think of another option that you would use," Doyle observed. "So what's the choice?"
Major cuts in operations. Cash from the province. Or rate increases. What's the choice?
The question is still hanging there, no less than when Doyle asked it, no less for the current government than the next one.
John Doyle is heading back to Australia. But the problem he identified as the rat-in-the-snake will likely be with us for a long time.


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RAMP Findings and Making Sense of the 'God Within Each Person, Rather than Out There'
mardi 20 janvier 2009 par Paul Heelas ; Dick Houtman
This research note provides selected 'belief' data from the RAMP (Religious and Moral Pluralism) survey—data of an apparently arresting nature. The present discussion is primarily directed at offering several hypotheses to do with interpretations and explanations of the data. The overarching aim is to contribute to a research agenda which is of considerable significance for the sociological study of spirituality and religion, with profound implications for policy makers.
Published in Journal of Contemporary Religion, Volume 24, Issue 1 January 2009 , pages 83 - 98.
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Sticky ginger pear pudding
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- Freezable
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal457
- fat13g
- saturates8g
- carbs79g
- sugars62g
- fibre0g
- protein4g
- salt0.99g
- 85g golden syrup
Golden syrupgoal-dun sir-rup
Golden syrup is a translucent, golden-amber coloured, sweet syrup, which can only be produced…
- 175g dark muscovado sugar, plus 1 tsp extra
- 150ml milk
One of the most widely used ingredients, milk is often referred to as a 'complete' food…
- 100g butter, plus lots extra for greasing
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 175g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Bicarbonate of soda
Bicarbonate of soda, or baking soda, is an alkali which is used to raise soda breads and full-…
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp cinnamon
A fragrant spice which comes from the inner bark of a tropical tree. When dried, it curls into…
- 6 balls stem ginger from a jar
- 2 ripe pears, peeled
Like apples, to which they are related, pears come in thousands of varieties, of which only a…
- 1 egg
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- custard, to serve
For the ginger brandy syrup
Put the syrup, sugar and milk into a saucepan, then bring to a simmer to dissolve. Leave to cool almost completely while you get on with everything else. Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4.
Put the butter, flour, bicarb, ground ginger and cinnamon into a food processor, then pulse until it forms fine crumbs. Generously butter a 1.4-litre pudding basin and sprinkle 1 tsp sugar into the bottom. Cut 3 of the ginger balls in half and put 5 halves, rounded-side down, into the bottom, like the points of a star. Cut one cheek from a pear, then slice through about 10 times, without cutting through the stalk end. Put this into the bottom of the bowl amongst the ginger, then press gently so that the pear fans out. Core, then thinly slice the remaining pear. Finely chop the rest of the ginger.
Tip the cooled syrup mix and egg into a food processor, then quickly whizz with the dry ingredients to a batter. Take out the blade, then stir in the chopped ginger and sliced pear. Scrape the mix into the basin, then bake for 1 hr 20 mins until risen and dark golden, and a skewer comes out clean. Whatever you do, don't open the oven before 45 mins is up.
To finish, gently melt the syrup ingredients in a pan together until the sugar dissolves, then boil briefly. Turn the pudding out of its basin just before serving, spoon over the syrup and serve with custard.
Recipe Tip
Transporting the puddingOnce the pudding has baked, cool in the basin and cover. Make the syrup, cool and pour into a microwaveable container. At the party, reheat the pudding in the microwave for 5 mins on High, then turn out onto a serving plate. Warm the syrup for 1 min on Medium or until hot, then spoon over.


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Major changes are coming on the Steelers' offensive line.
New offensive line coach Jack Bicknell Jr. is believed to favor younger and more athletic linemen, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that Max Starks, Ramon Foster and Willie Colon are all likely to leave this offseason. Starks and Foster both become unrestricted free agents next month, while Colon's base salary jumps from $700,000 in 2012 to $5.5 million in 2013, so he's likely to be cut.
Those three players combined for 43 starts last season: Starks and Foster both started all 16 games, while Colon started 11. For most teams, losing the majority of your starting offensive line would be a significant concern.
But for the Steelers, it might just be the natural progression of the roster after they used a 2010 first-round pick on Maurkice Pouncey, a 2011 second-round pick on Marcus Gilbert, a 2012 first-round pick on David DeCastro and a 2012 second-round pick on Mike Adams. When you've devoted those kinds of draft picks to offensive linemen, you're making plans to part ways with your veterans.
Now it's Bicknell's job to take what will be among the youngest offensive lines in the league next season and mold them into a unit that can get the Steelers' running game going and keep Ben Roethlisberger upright.


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Is it possible we see a status-quo election?... Final jobs report before election is mostly good news for Obama: Economy added 171,000 jobs in October and unemployment rate ticks up to 7.9%... How to view Romney's move into Pennsylvania… Don't compare this election's data with 2008; compare it with 2004… Trying to predict the turnout, as well as Sandy's impact… Obama campaigns in Ohio, while Romney will be in Wisconsin and the Buckeye State… Public poll suggests Mourdock is headed for defeat… And "Meet" has David Plouffe and Eric Cantor.
With Election Day looming, the state of Ohio has become the game-changer with President Obama and Mitt Romney planning six visits in the last four days of the presidential race. NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
*** A status-quo election? Despite the billions of dollars spent, the endless campaigning, and the breathless reporting, it is POSSIBLE we could end up with a status-quo result on Election Day -- with President Obama winning re-election, Democrats keeping control of the Senate, and Republicans staying in power in the House. Now we're not saying these things will happen, but with four days to go, you'd probably rather be Obama than Mitt Romney, Senate Democrats instead of Senate Republicans, and House Republicans rather than House Democrats. But if that's the result on Tuesday, we'd have a status-quo result after three previous change elections (in 2006, 2008, and 2010). And it would be an ironic outcome, given the majorities who believe the country is headed on the wrong track and given Congress' very low approval rating. Then the challenge would be to govern – with better results than we saw in 2011 and 2012. Of course, it's possible we see a fourth-straight change election. But it's also very possible things stay the same.
According to an early estimate from Moody's Analytics, economic losses from the storm will approach $50 billion, including property damage and lost economic activity.
*** Economy adds 171,000 jobs in October, unemployment rate at 7.9%: When it comes to the last jobs report before the election, it's good news for Team Obama. In October, the U.S. economy added 171,000 jobs and the unemployment ticked up to 7.9% -- but remains below 8%. The AP: "The Labor Department's last look at hiring before Tuesday's election sketched a picture of a job market that is gradually gaining momentum after nearly stalling in the spring. Since July, the economy has created an average of 173,000 jobs a month, up from 67,000 a month from April through June. Still, President Barack Obama will face voters with the highest unemployment rate of any incumbent since Franklin Roosevelt. The rate ticked up because more people without jobs started looking for work. The government only counts people as unemployed if they are actively searching."
*** How to view Romney's move into Pennsylvania: There are two ways to interpret Mitt Romney's decision to campaign in Pennsylvania on Sunday. Either it's a move to run up the score (trying to get to 300 electoral votes) and project more momentum, or it's an effort to search for another path to 270 electoral votes. Ask yourself what is the more likely option, and it's hard to ignore the latter. Consider: Most public polls continue to show Obama leading slightly in Ohio, and Romney hasn't made a serious campaign effort in Keystone State since the primaries. Indeed, it's difficult not to compare this move to an on-side kick in football -- when you're behind by a touchdown with a few ticks on the clock left.
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In the final push in the 2012 presidential election, candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make their last appeals to voters.
*** Don't compare this election's data with 2008; compare it with 2004: Bracing for a very close election on Tuesday night, we're sure that everyone is studying past exit polls, county vote totals in the swing states, the early vote, and previous victory margins. But perhaps the best way to compare Tuesday's contest isn't with the figures from 2008, when Barack Obama decisively beat John McCain in 2008, 53%-46%. Instead, it's comparing this election with 2004, when George W. Bush narrowly beat John Kerry, 51%-48%. How Obama is performing vs. Kerry and how Romney is performing vs. Bush might be the best way to understand how Election Night is breaking, especially when it comes to Ohio.
*** Patchwork Nation: One way additional way to compare this election with 2004 and 2008 is through Patchwork Nation, the work by journalist Dante Chinni putting all the nation's counties -- including those in battleground states -- into 12 different county categories. Some examples: Industrial Metropolis (think Philadelphia), College and Careers (Johnson County, IA), Monied Burbs (Fairfax County, VA), Empty Nests (Lake, FL), Immigration Nation (Maricopa, AZ), Boom Towns (Clark, NV), and Evangelical Epicenters (Christian, MO). What is interesting here: When you take the merged likely-voter respondents from our national NBC/WSJ poll from these different county types, you see that Obama is underperforming from 2008 but overperforming from 2004. For instance, in the Monied Burbs -- which makes up 23% of the country's population -- Obama is leading Romney by seven points among likely-voter respondents in the NBC/WSJ poll, 51%-44%. That's lower than Obama's 12-point lead over McCain in '08. But it's greater than Kerry's two-point edge in '04, 50%-48%. Bottom line: If Obama is overperforming Kerry from '04, he's likely to win. Ditto if Romney is overperforming Bush.
*** Trying to predict the turnout: What will the turnout be on Election Day? The Republican half of our NBC/WSJ polling team has researched the topic, predicting that the number of votes will EXCEED those cast in 2008 -- which was just more than 130 million. But they also believe that the percent of citizens of voting age who will participate will DROP from 2008 (62.9%) and 2004 (63.1%) due in large part to less voter enthusiasm than in those past elections. So how could the number of votes increase but the participation percentage drop? The answer is simple: The U.S. population has grown from 2008 (when there were 210 million Americans of voting age) to 2012 (when there are almost 220 million).
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President Barack Obama addresses the crowd at a campaign event at the University of Colorado Boulder, Nov. 1, 2012.
*** And Sandy's impact on turnout: Here's another question: What will Sandy's impact on turnout be? The AP has this quote from turnout expert Michael McDonald: "It's unlikely disruptions from Sandy would affect the outcome of the election within those states. But if those voters, who are mostly Democrats, end up being subtracted from the national popular vote, you'll get a lower vote share for Obama than he would have received if those people had voted." And crunching the numbers – if you assume 2008 totals and a 15% reduction in turnout in the coastal counties in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, Obama might end up losing a net 340,000 votes. Our math:
New York: GRAND TOTAL: Obama -247,000
New York – Obama -86,000, Romney -14,000, Net: Obama -72,000
Queens – Obama -72,000, Romney -23,000, Net: Obama -49,000
Kings – Obama -91,000, Romney -23,000, Net: Obama -68,000
Bronx – Obama -51,000, Romney -6,000, Net: Obama -45,000
Richmond – Obama -12,000, Romney -13,000, Net: Romney -1,000
Nassau – Obama -51,000, Romney -43,000, Net: Obama -8,000
Suffolk – Obama -52,000, Romney -46,000, Net: Obama -6,000
New Jersey: GRAND TOTAL: Obama -60,000
Bergen – Obama -34,000, Romney -28,000, Net: Obama -6,000
Hudson – Obama -23,000, Romney -8,000, Net: Obama -15,000
Union – Obama -21,000, Romney -12,000, Net: Obama -9,000
Essex – Obama -36,000, Romney -11,000, Net: Obama -25,000
Middlesex – Obama -29,000, Romney -19,000, Net: Obama -10,000
Monmouth –Obama -22,000, Romney -24,000, Net: Romney -2,000
Ocean – Obama -16,500, Romney, -24,000, Net: Romney -7,500
Atlantic – Obama -10,200, Romney -7,500, Net: Obama -2,700
Cape May – Obama -3,500, Romney -4,000, Net: Romney -500
Connecticut: GRAND TOTAL: Obama -29,000
Fairfield – Obama -36,000, Romney -25,000, Net: Obama -9,000
New Haven – Obama -35,000, Romney -22,000, Net: Obama -13,000
Middlesex – Obama -8,000, Romney -5,000, Net: Obama -3,000
New London – Obama -11,000, Romney -7,000, Net: Obama -4,000
Rhode Island: GRAND TOTAL: Obama -3,600
Washington – Obama -6,000, Romney -4,000, Net: Obama -2,000
Newport – Obama -4,000, Romney -2,400, Net: Obama -1,600
*** On the trail: Obama spends his day in Ohio, hitting Hilliard at 10:20 am ET, Springfield at 12:55 pm ET, and Lima at 3:20 pm ET… Romney campaigns in West Allis, WI at 10:55 am ET and in West Chester, OH (with Ann Romney and Paul Ryan) at 7:30 pm ET… Biden stumps in Wisconsin, while Ryan is in Iowa… Bill Clinton visits Florida, and Michelle Obama hits Virginia.
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I'm working on interfacing with a payment portal and at some point I have to submit hashed XML to a servlet (my own). I post and get a successful response, however I do not wish to "capture" the response and output it back, but rather redirect the response (without involving the calling servlet) and put everything in an iFrame.
My Servlet:
try{ PostMethod post = new PostMethod("https://www.url.com/checkout.aspx"); post.addParameter("params", XMLData); HttpClient client = new HttpClient(); int status = client.executeMethod(post); String reply = post.getResponseBodyAsString(); out.print(reply); } catch (Exception e){ out.print("ERROR "); e.printStackTrace(out); }
My HTML:
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Test</title>
Your browser does not support iframes.

To give you an idea, the response is an html form, that doesn't submit because the service "checkout.asp" is not available on this server, but on the originating server.
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Skipping breakfast may increase risk for heart attack in men
You've heard it before: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. A new study suggests it can be a life-saving one as well, especially for men.
Men who regularly skip breakfast were found in a new study to be at higher risk of a heart attack or death caused by heart disease than their counterparts who eat the meal daily.
"Don't skip breakfast," warned study author Dr. Leah E. Cahill, a postdoctoral research fellow in the nutrition department at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Mass., in a statement.
A healthy breakfast is linked to benefits like alower risk for diabetes and obesity, and has also been shown to give eaters a daily boost of energy.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture adds that kids who eat a healthy breakfast are more likely to behave better in school, earn higher test scores for math and reading, pay attention, problem solve and be less likely to become overweight than kids who skip the meal.
To find out whether skipping a morning meal messed with the heart, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health enlisted nearly 27,000 men between the ages of 45 and 82, who were enrolled in a study of male health professionals. They were tracked for 16 years.
During the study, nearly 1,600 men suffered heart attacks.
They found men who skipped breakfast were 27 percent more likely to have a heart attack or die from heart disease than men who ate breakfast regularly.
A closer look revealed younger men were more likely to skip breakfast than older ones, as were smokers, the unmarried, alcohol drinkers, people who were less physically active and those who had full-time jobs. They also found men who reported waking up to eat at night after they went to bed had a 55 percent higher risk of heart disease than men who didn't, but they warned the overall risk was small since few men reported this night-owl behavior.
"Skipping breakfast may lead to one or more risk factors, including obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes, which may in turn lead to a heart attack over time," said Cahill.
The study was published July 22 in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association.
- Earlier lunch might lead to more weight loss
- Eat cake or cookies with breakfast to lose weight, study suggests
The study did not look at what specifically these men ate for breakfast or whether it was healthy.
"We don't know whether it's the timing or content of breakfast that's important. It's probably both," Andrew Odegaard, a public health researcher at the University of Minnesota researcher who has studied links between skipping breakfast and obesity, high blood pressure, said to USA Today. "Generally, people who eat breakfast tend to eat a healthier diet." Odegaard was not involved in the research.
If their findings are replicated in women and across different races and ethnic groups, it could lead doctors to start recommending breakfast for their patients to improve public health, the researchers wrote.
A New England Journal of Medicine study this year called the notion that eating breakfast reduces obesity risk a "presumption," in a recent study looking at myths surrounding weight gain. The researchers cited two studies that found no evidence of a reduction in obesity risk among breakfast eaters.


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|Slender Man
Until recently I had never heard of "Slender Man". This mythical being was brought to my attention by my 14 year old after seeing my attempts at making a sock monkey. Given the similar elongated body types, we thought we'd have a go at modifying our sock monkey technique to come up with a creepy stuffed toy for a fourteen year old friend who's birthday just happens to fall around Halloween.
After looking at some google images of "Slender Man", we decided a suit wearing, faceless monkey-ish being could work quite well.
2 pairs of childs socks - one black and one white (knee high school socks work well.)
Black and white cotton
Polyester fill
Tailors chalk
Sewing Machine
Cotton Tape
Our previous Sock Monkey instructions are available here and for the Slender Man we followed the instructions for making the body and the arms and legs, but left off the tail and facial features and added a different coloured face.
Using the black pair of socks, mark and cut arms, legs and body as per our original sock monkey blog post. As we want the slender man to have a white face, cut and remove approx 10 cm (approx 4 inches) from the toe section of the black sock and sew approx 10 cm from the toe section of the white sock in its place.
Once the leg seams have been sewn and the head attached, it's then onto stuffing the Slender Man. I found it best to under fill the body, in keeping with his slim nature.
I was very glad to get to the end of this project - it turns out creepy characters are fun for fourteen year olds, but not so much for their mothers!
Happy Crafting - Deb
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Having something physically and mentally take a hold of your life to where you are no longer in control can become very scary. Having a substance contolling your thoughts and actions can make the right decisions become foggy. When the haze begins to fade, that is the best time to reach out for help.
Seeking Help
Knowing help is needed is the biggest thing someone with addiction can admit. This can be overwhelming too because it means they know they have no way of getting better on their own. Addicts have a window of clarity but it usually doesn't last very long. This window of clarity is the best time to reach out for help so that treatment can begin.
If a rehab center says they can help a person become sober over a five day detox, they are not being truthful. Breaking free from addiction is a lengthy process and requires time and commitment. A personalized plan is the only way to have proven success as there are no two situations exactly the same. Once a personalized plan can be put into action, the individual will able to choose to stay for one week up to 12 weeks.
An assessment will be done by the rehab facility to determine if the center is going to be a good fit and if now is the right time to start the treatment process. If detox is needed, there will be a 24 hour waiting period so that can be arranged. If detox is not required, admittance is able to begin immediately. Most are encouraged to stay for four weeks. If treatment is still needed after the four week period, the person is able to extend their time.
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Learning about the science of addiction is powerful in understanding how the brain works. Those in rehab will learn powerful coping skills and will be encouraged to focus on the life they want to live. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is important in learning how to view life in a way that won't lead to using. Exercise is also important to the program as this releases positive chemicals and also increases confidence. For more info about proven treatments used, click here to view the different methods.


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"I am excited to come to St. John's and New York City. I really like the coaching staff and the way St. John's plays. They are a running team and that's what I like, fast paced basketball," said Achiuwa. "I also like the winning tradition of the new coaching staff. They came into the St. John's program and turned things around in less than a year. I think that's a good indication that the program is on its way back. I like the city and have been to New York a number of times, it is a great place to play and live. Madison Square Garden is the biggest stage in the world and it is a great opportunity to have The Garden as my home court."
The 6-9 Achiuwa transfers to Queens from Erie Community College in upstate New York after choosing St. John's over Washington and Cincinnati; and will have two years of eligibility left starting with the upcoming season, giving the Red Storm experience it so desperately needs after losing its ten seniors off last year's NCAA Tournament team to graduation. Achiuwa joins junior guard Malik Stith, sophomore guard Nurideen Lindsey, and forward Dwayne Polee as the lone upperclassmen in Lavin's second season as the successor to former coach Norm Roberts; who is now an assistant under Billy Donovan at the University of Florida.
"Gift is a talented frontline player who possesses tremendous size, strength, speed and skill. He is an ideal fit for our baseline-to-baseline attacking style of play," said Lavin. "The maturity Gift gained from two years of junior college basketball with a combined 55-6 record will make him a nice complement to what will be the youngest team in the country next season. He is fundamentally sound, and comes from a program with a tradition of winning, where a strong work ethic, playing hard and discipline is demanded on a daily basis."
Alex Nwora, who coached God's Gift at Erie Community College, a Division II school, echoed Lavin's feeling of his star big man. "He's a good leader who leads by example, the first one in (the gym) and (the) last one out," said the coach. "He's a good kid, always makes eye contact, and he's very coachable." In addition to all of that, God's Gift, a native of Nigeria, is also more than just an inside presence; as noted by his averages of just over 22 points and under 12 rebounds per game, albeit at the Division II level.
Achiuwa will likely split time with the aforementioned Norvel Pelle at the center position, as well as with fellow newcomer JaKarr Sampson at power forward; which could enable Dwayne Polee to slide down to the small forward position at various points during games to give St. John's a somewhat bigger lineup than most fans are accustomed to when the Johnnies open their 104th season this November.


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Although Sesame Street is meant to represent a child-friendly, and somewhat idyllic, New York City street, the neighborhood has a network of seedy underground criminal organizations. These groups are run by an assortment of suspicious characters, most commonly for the purpose of shady and illegal activities such as alphabet trafficking, black marketeering and robbery. Comprised mainly of Anything Muppets, these gangs are typically composed of a crime boss and his lackeys (often named Lefty).
The most commonly seen criminal on Sesame Street is Lefty, a shady-looking salesman in a trench coat, who appeared in several recurring Sesame Street sketches discreetly selling hot items to passersby (usually Ernie). Lefty spoke in a whispery voice as he attempted to unload such boosted items as the letters U and O, an invisible ice cream cone, and even exotic elephant artwork. These sketches can be found on Lefty's own page. Lefty's boss (a Fat Blue Anything Muppet performed by Jerry Nelson) appeared in a few sketches with his lackey, often in a dark alley or abandoned warehouse after dark.
There were also a gang of criminals who secreted their own secret knock. The group was comprised of Benny (a Green AM performed by Richard Hunt), Lefty (a Fat Blue AM performed by Jim Henson) and their boss (a Lavender AM performed by Jerry Nelson). To date, the characters have only appeared in one sketch.
|Earliest Known Appearance
|Lefty recites the Alphabet
|Episode 0261
| Lefty is told the alphabet by his boss, who wants him to repeat it back to him. When he repeats it, he gets a lollipop in return.
|Carrot Delivery
|Episode 0433
| Part 1: Lefty delivers some carrots to his boss, but the boss orders him to get more carrots (in 13 seconds).
Part 2: Lefty delivers more carrots to his boss, but the boss orders him to get the most carrots he can find (in 15 seconds).
Part 3: Lefty delivers the rest of the carrots to his boss. The boss reveals that the carrots are for his pet rabbit (a real rabbit), which he shows to Lefty.
|Number 20
|Episode 0434
|Lefty's boss sends Lefty to get a number 20.
|The Golden AN
|Episode 0668
| Lefty's boss tells Lefty the plan for what to do with the Golden AN, which they have just stolen. Lefty is to put it in the tan van and give it to Dan, who will take it to Fran. However, Lefty can't remember the plan very well and has to repeat it, which results in a police officer named Stan hearing the plan and giving him "ten days in the can for stealing the Golden AN." The skit ends with Lefty being taken away, saying, "I should have ran."
SesameStreet's YouTube Channel (YouTube)
Online releases of this sketch have the beginning edited.
|3 knocks
|Episode 0722
| Benny and his boss have been waiting for Lefty for a long time. Benny wonders how they will know when it's Lefty at the door, so he informs him that Lefty will knock three times - their secret knock to enter their hideout. Lefty forgets, so they won't let him in until he finally gets three knocks. When they let him in, the boss informs him that if he forgets the number of knocks again, he's in big trouble. So, to test his memory, the boss and Benny lock themselves out and knock the door to see if Lefty knows which is the correct number. He forgets once again, which gets him very worked up and runs out of the hideout, leaving the other two locked outside.


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ICE Starts Raiding Mobile Phone Repair Shops To Stop Repairs With Aftermarket Parts
from the is-this-really-the-best-use-of-taxpayer-money deptApparently Homeland Security's Immigration & Custom's Enforcement (ICE) team has found a new tech issue to overreact to and overhype. shutslar points us to a story of ICE agents raiding 25 smartphone repair shops in South Florida for daring to repair phones with aftermarket parts, rather than original products from Apple. As seems standard for ICE these days, rather than actually understanding the details at hand, they're taking orders from a corporate entity, in this case, Apple:
Apple is working with the government to shut down those who mislead consumers.This seems like a massive overreaction to a mere case of "misleading" consumers. They paint this as if it's some massive danger to make use of an aftermarket/non-Apple parts in doing the repair, but it's not. In many cases, such aftermarket parts are a good way to fix a phone at a more reasonable price. If Apple feels some of the shops are misleading customers, then it can sue for trademark infringement and deal with it that way.
Having over-aggressive, amped up ICE agents pretending this is a drug raid and that they need to "shut down" these shops is a massive overreaction which only serves to help prop up Apple's bottom line by taking aftermarket competitive parts out of the market, so that Apple can keep the margins on its parts extra high. Either way, there's simply no reason for treating the whole thing like a drug raid:
"When they came in it almost looked like a drug raid," Said Abella.They came after you because you weren't paying the toll to Apple, and Apple doesn't like competition. Why our taxpayer money is being used to support such a massive overreaction, shutting down small businesses who provide a useful service repairing phones, is beyond me. Honestly, ICE's propensity to act as private cops (with guns) doing favors for giant businesses is really sickening. ICE has been out of control for a long time, and shutting down small businesses because Apple doesn't want to compete? That's just crazy.
Abella claims there were 20 ICE agents and two people from Apple in his small Bird Road store.
Abella says he began fixing Apple Products because everyone else was.
"We got the parts from a company in California. To this day that vendor is still selling parts," Said Abella.
"Why did the come after me?" he added.


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Looks like Francis Bacon is getting singed by the art press. The recently-opened Francis Bacon retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has critics seriously reconsidering this painter's legacy. Some excerpts, and links:
Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine: "…the Metropolitan's retrospective, like most Bacon shows, makes it clear that he kept working his theme until it became a gimmick. The calculated pictorial repetitiousness and lack of formal development wear thin. Except for a number of fabulous portrait heads and the astounding Jet of Water-made in 1988, just four years before his death, featuring an enormous streak of blue paint across an interior-Bacon's formula had grown stagnant by 1965."
Roberta Smith, New York Times: "The stately if cursory survey of Bacon's paintings that opened Wednesday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art suggests a more lasting pertinence: Bacon's depiction of the love that until a few decades ago dared not say its name, much less demand the right to marry. Bacon convincingly painted men having sex and sometimes making love. Whether this makes him a great painter, it certainly secures him a place in the history of both painting and art. He emphatically turned the male gaze toward males."
Peter Schjeldahl, New Yorker, (online access to the June 1st issue is paid only); here's an excerpt from the summary they make available: "Vamped with an eclectic mix of Expressionist tactics and decorative longueurs, Bacon now looks more prophetic than the Abstract Expressionists do about subsequent developments in art, starting with Pop and continuing through the so-called Pictures Generation. The key is his pioneering use of photographs and printed sources for his subject matter. While Bacon's work is routinely celebrated as an authentic reactive to the horrors and the dislocations of the Second World War, it can come off as a pageant of hangovers and refractory lovers. Bacon's striking formal innovations, in handlings of pictorial space, include swiftly limned cubical enclosures and evocations of proscenium stages, in which painted figures leap to the eye. His paintings, despite their extraordinary visual drama, thus lack a de Kooningesque sense of scale, which knits marks to the shape of the canvas and relates that shape to the viewer's body."
Sebastian Smee, Boston Globe: "…a lot of his work, with its teasing arrows and ashtrays, its syringes and swastikas, seems coyly involved in games of storytelling, and his drawing frequently feels flatly descriptive – exactly like illustration. Despite all that, I remember well the effect Bacon's work first had on me, as well as its impact on several friends who have gone on to become artists. His paintings combined abject violence with a kind of immaculate beauty in ways that teenage boys are probably predestined to find alluring. I may be fussier in my mind about what succeeds and what doesn't now, but I remain in awe of that early union of Bacon's imagery and my own teenage hunger for maximum impact."
And Jed Perl really hated it: "Bacon, who died in 1992 at the age of eighty-two, may well be the greatest exemplar of a wrongheaded tradition that we have ever seen. He had a knack for adapting all the wrong elements from all the right artists. He zeroed in on those moments when Van Gogh and Picasso were pushing their glorious anarchic energy to the brink of incoherence. This would have been fine, except that Bacon willfully ignored their ordering intelligence, preferring to sacrifice pictorial sensibility to literary sensationalism. What Bacon produced are not paintings, at least not satisfying ones. They are little more than rectangles of canvas inscribed with noirish graffiti: angst for dummies."
If you're in Chicago and want to see work by Francis Bacon, the Art Institute has one painting by Bacon on view in the Modern Wing: Figure with Meat, from 1964.
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At around 9:45 a.m, while I was crossing the road to my car at Taman Desa (near to Faber Tower), a snatch thief wearing a red T-shirt riding a motorbike came from behind and took my camera along with him. It happened too quickly and I was caught by surprise. A chase on foot was in vain as he rode off quickly, but not before I took a glance at his black visor helmet. My full camera accessories went along with him which costs me RM 7,000.
Details of my camera and accessories are as follow:-
Body: Nikon D300 (Very new condition) S/N: 6065764
16-85mm lens F3.5 – 5.6 S/N: 22086480
50mm F1.8 S/N: 0937773
Filters (CPL) with adapter ring
Camera Battery
Memory Card:
1 pc 8GB Sandisk Ultra II CF card
2 pcs Kingston 4GB CF card
Giotto Air Blower
I don't think I will be updating this blog often since I do not have a camera to take pictures.
Purchasing a new one is out of the question since I am still paying for the previous one via credit card.
To the bloody snatch thief who took my camera, I hope you end up in hell and die! You clearly do not have any conscience by taking other people belonging. Hope the bad karma will eventually come back to you in ten fold.


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Re: Commander Cody: dead?
Um, wouldnt that make him like 60 years old? A little old for a Stormtrooper I think...
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Um, wouldnt that make him like 60 years old? A little old for a Stormtrooper I think...
Even though not all gungans are like Jar-Jar they would have had to sneak up on Cody and put a grenade in his helmet to kill him.
I read he retired after the clone wars and became a mercenary.
But of course he IS dead. In bloodlines a squad of ARC troopers are the only living clones, second to seventy year old Boba Fett, who is slowly dying.
So commander cody is dead, but it is unsure by whom.
By the way, Boba Fett's survival is Canon. Play Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. He is one of the bosses in the game. The game is considered canon. (Boba Fett is invincible in the game )
Jedi academy is ten years after episode 6.
By the time of episode IV Cody would be really old due to the accelerated cloning process. It wouldn't be a surprise if a gungan could beat up a an 80 year old clone.
Unless wookieepedia says so no.
Unless Wookiepedia says so !? I thought wokiepedia could not be accepted as canon. While it may be possible for a gungan to bet up an 80 year-old clone, why would a gungan do that?
Hate? DISRESPECT!
Not all Gungan's are like Jar Jar. In fact, very few are like Jar Jar.
Thank GOD
Please do me a favor, don't use God's name in vane,anyway I can not see many Gungans like Jar Jar. He was banished got good things out of it.
he was a worthless gungan.....no wonder he got banished, lol
This worthless Gungan was a senator with the Naboo, along side Padame
i thought they all die young ,like replicants
er, how does a gungan as annoying and stupid as Jar-Jar get to be a senator?????????????????
and yes, comander cody is dead, i think. but he may not be, i saw a comic where there was a clone who had survived a crash on some planet, he was still alive, that may have been before they figured out that clones have the whole accelerated life span thing though.
commander cody can't die(except maybe of old age)
i highly doubt a gungan could beat Cody even accepting that most gunguns are better than Jar Jar Binks. i am pretty sure Cody would have died of old age
BTW did some one in a previous post say something about Boba Fett unleashed, please tell me
I'm still mad at C.C. he's the first clone you accually see trying to kill any jedi. Still a bummer he's dead. I'll have to put him on the dead list now.
OMG GUYS! JAR_JAR? NO WAY! Cody's my favorite!
Jar Jar killed Commander Cody. What a waste! I'll prefer one of the clones over that darn gungan any day.
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