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We learned early in life that all living things need water to survive. As a matter of fact, a person can only live for about 3 – 4 days without water, while surviving up to a month without food! In honor of World Water day, March 22, 2014, I thought I would take a moment to remind us all why good old H2O is so important to the human body.
I find myself constantly advising friends and family members to drink more filtered water. When we neglect to do so, we can experience unpleasant symptoms such as dizziness, headache, irritability, tiredness, constipation and a general sense of discomfort. It is amazing how our bodies respond when we take in the proper amount of water. The Institute of Medicine suggests 9 – 12 cups of total beverages each day. This can literally make you feel like a new person! In addition to relieving the above referenced disagreeable side effects of not drinking enough, water also helps the body with the following functions:
- Regulates body temperature
- Aids in digestion by ridding the body of waste
- Lubricates and acts as a cushion for joints, spinal cord and other sensitive tissues
These are just a few medical reasons why our body demands drinking water. There are other benefits as well, such as promoting weight loss, improves complexion, increases energy and can flush out harmful toxins to boost your immune system!
In an effort to make sure that you are consuming the highest quality water available, consider using a water testing kit to determine if contaminates are present in your tap water. If they are, don't work. FiltersFast.com offers a wide variety of water filtration applications from refrigerator filters to filtered pitchers and reusable bottles, as well as whole house filtration systems and faucet mount products.
So do the environment a favor: don't drink bottled water. By now we all know that trash from empty water bottles is filling up the landfills and producing tons of litter each year, not to mention the rising cost and simple inconvenience of lugging around heavy cases of water.
This year on World Water Day, take a moment to reflect on how something as pure and simple as can have such a dynamic impact on not only our bodies and lives, but that of the entire world. Clean water is a luxury and should not be taken for granted, as many people do not have the resources or capacity to produce it. If you do, count it a blessing and think about how you might get involved to help those who don't. To learn more, please visit http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday.


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December 05, 2013
Special to the NNPA from The St. Louis American
Fresh out of prison, Conrad Murray has been making his rounds on the interview circuit and tainting the memory of his former boss Michael Jackson in the process. He reveals graphic claims about treatment and fuels the fire regarding allegations that the late pop star committed sexual abuse.
Released three weeks ago, after serving only two years of his four-year sentence, the 60-year-old former cardiologist and personal physician to late pop star Michael Jackson is sharing appalling intimate details in interviews with UK's Daily Mail and "60 Minutes Australia."
"You know, for the rest of your life and my life our names will become inseparable," Murray claims Jackson said. "'I asked him, "Michael, what do you mean?" and he smiled and said, "I am clairvoyant." '
Murray talks about Jackson's perilous physical, mental and financial state and the singer's secret addiction to prescription drugs. And while he still contends he gave Jackson "nothing that would have killed him," and tells the Daily Mail that instead he believes the entertainer "woke up, got hold of his own stash of Propofol and injected himself." "You want to know how close Michael and I were," Murray said. "I had to put a condom catheter on him because Michael dripped urine. He had a loss of sensation and was incontinent.
"Michael didn't know how to put a condom on, so I had to do it for him."
While proclaiming his own innocence, Murray quietly throws Jackson under the bus by exposing alleged secrets and personal demons.
"I tried to protect him but instead I was brought down with him," he claims, as he continues to share about Michael's filthy bedroom; his ultimate desire to have "flawless, porcelain skin" how he really felt about his mother; and the admission that Jackson thinks he may have been sexually abused by one of his doctors.
In his interview with "60 Minutes Australia," Murray was asked if he feels Jackson was a pedophile. He takes a dramatic 15-second pause before refusing to give a straight answer.

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On the strength of its original comedies Cougar Town and Men at Work, as well as the competition series King of the Nerds and the hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory, TBS ranked as basic cable's #1 network in primetime delivery of adults 18-49 for the month of February.
TBS's hit original sitcom Cougar Town earned double-digit growth across key demos last week. The show garnered 2.0 million viewers in Live + 3 viewing (+18% vs. the prior week), with 1.3 million adults 18-49 (+15% vs. the prior week) and 620,000 adults 18-34 (+23% vs. the prior week).
TBS's Men at Work averaged 1.7 million viewers in Live + 3 delivery for Wednesday's episode, with 1.0 million adults 18-49 and 429,000 adults 18-34.
TBS's hit competition series King of the Nerds drew 1.2 million viewers in Live + 3 delivery for Thursday's episode, with 406,000 adults 18-34 and 876,000 adults 18-49.
TBS's telecasts of The Big Bang Theory ranked as the #1 off-net sitcom on basic cable for February among viewers (2.5 million) and adults 18-49 (1.2 million). TBS's telecasts of The Big Bang Theory last week accounted for all 19 of basic cable's Top 20 off-net sitcom telecasts for the week among total viewers and 17 of the Top 20 among adults 18-49.
Adult Swim
Across February 2014, Adult Swim's average Total Day Delivery ranked #1 among all basic cable networks for adults 18-24, 18-34 & 18-49 and men 18-24, 18-34, & 18-49. Adult Swim's average Primetime delivery grew vs. last year's time period among men 18-34 by 2% and men 18-49 by 3%.
Monday night presentations of The Cleveland Show (9:30 p.m.) grew average delivery of adults 18-24 & 18-34 and all targeted male demos vs. last year, ranging between 5% and 23%.
Saturday night's TOONAMI presentation of One Piece (1 a.m.) grew average delivery of adults and men 18-34, while Sword Art Online (2 a.m.) grew delivery of adults 18-34 & 18-49 and men 18-34 & 18-49 vs. the same time period last year.
Adult Swim programming in February 2014 accounted for 19 of the top 50 telecasts on basic cable among adults 18-34, and 17 of the top 50 with men 18-34, both more than any other network.
Cartoon Network
Across February 2014, Cartoon Network ranked as the #1 television network among boys 9-14 on Monday Night (7-9 p.m.).
Cartoon Network also scored as the #1 television network among boys 6-11 & 9-14 on Tuesday Night (7-9 p.m.). New episodes of original animated series Uncle Grandpa (8 p.m.) ranked #1 in the time period among boys 2-11 & 6-11, while growing average delivery by mostly double-digits vs. last year among kids 2-11 (+21%), kids 6-11 (+19%), boys 2-11 (+15%) and boys 6-11 (+7%). Animated series Johnny Test also claimed its 7:30 p.m. timeslot among boys 9-14.
Making it three nights in a row, Cartoon Network was the #1 television network among all targeted boys 2-11, 6-11 & 9-14 on Wednesday Night (7-9 p.m.), with the night increasing average delivery by double-digits among all kids and boy demos vs. last year, ranging between 18% and 26%. Animated series DreamWorks Dragons: Defenders of Berk (8 p.m.) ranked #1 in its time period among all boy demos, with new episode premieres of the series growing by double-digits among all targeted kids and boys, between 15% and 24%. The 7:30 p.m. new episode premieres of Teen Titans GO! also grew by double-digits with all kids and boy demos vs. the same time period last year.
Cartoon Network was the #1 television network among boys 6-11 on all TV on Friday Night (7-9 p.m.), with the night overall growing delivery of kids 2-11 (+3%) and boys 2-11 (+10%) & boys 6-11 (+3%).
TNT's exclusive coverage of the 2014 NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, Feb. 16, ranked as basic cable's #1 sporting event for the month among total viewers (7.5 million), adults 18-49 (4.2 million), adults 25-54 (3.4 million) and adults 18-34 (2.5 million).
TNT's exclusive NBA telecast last Thursday, featuring the Miami Heat vs. Oklahoma City Thunder averaged 3.8 million total viewers, a +57% increase compared with the network's comparable telecast last year. The game ranked as the second most-viewed regular-season NBA telecast across all of cable this season, trailing only TNT's opening-night game between the Heat and Chicago Bulls. Overall, the network's doubleheader – which also showcased the Houston Rockets vs. Golden State Warriors – averaged 2.8 million total viewers, a +31% boost over last year.
TNT's real-life crime series Cold Justice garnered 1.6 million viewers in Live + Same Day delivery Friday night, an increase of +18% over the prior week's episode. In key demos, the show scored 504,000 adults 18-49 (+15% vs. the prior week) and 509,000 adults 25-54. For the season-to-date, the show has grown +6% among adults 25-54 and +20% among adults 18-49 compared to season one.
TNT's APB with Troy Dunn closed out its first season with the show's biggest Live + Same Day deliveries to-date. Friday night's season finale averaged 1.1 million viewers, nearly doubling its delivery from the prior week. Among key demos, the season finale garnered 361,000 adults 18-49 (+35% vs. the prior week) and 340,000 adults 25-54 (+10%).
truTV's Lizard Lick Towing wrangled 1.9 million viewers in February, with 1.0 million adults 18-49. The hit series ranked one of ad-supported cable's Top 5 entertainment programs in its Monday 9:30 p.m. timeslot with key male demos, outdelivering shows on ESPN, AMC, A&E and FX with men 18-49.
truTV's unscripted comedy hit Impractical Jokers scored an average of 1.7 million viewers in February, with 1.0 million adults 18-49. The show ranked as one of ad-supported cable's Top 5 programs in its Thursday night timeslots with key adult and male demos. The show also garnered a remarkably young median of only 32.


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I felt nostalgic to find the word 'copy deck' in the latest EL& U question, "Is subcopy a word?"followed with the statement:
"A copywriter just sent me over a copy deck that had the word subcopy to describe the text immediately after the page title."
I remember that when I was working in an ad agency, expatriate staffs, particularly my senior who happened to be British liked to use the word "deck" for the package of presentation documents and a set of handouts at the meeting. I followed his suit.
Seeing the word, "Copy deck" again after long time, I checked online dictionaries to reconfirm whether I had rightly used the word, 'deck' around that time, and was embarrassed to find none of Cambridge, Oxford, Merriam-Webster, and OALED registers the definitions of "Deck" other than (1) a floor of ship, (2) a package of cards, and (3) a component or unit for playing records, or recording tapes, or compact discs.
Beside 'a floor of a ship,' Cambridge English Dictionary defines 'deck' as: (mainly US) a set of cards used for playing card games. Oxford Dictionary defines: (1) chiefly North American, a pack of cards. (2) a component or unit for playing or recording records, tapes, or compact discs: a cassette deck Merriam -Webster Dictionary simply defines: a pack of playing cards.
Is it far-stretched to use "deck" for a package of items (documents, exhibits, and writings) as we had used to and as used in the question other than cards? Were we using the word wrong way?


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Davis Bynum
The Davis Bynum Winery story begins in 1951 when Davis Bynum, then a y...
In 1971, Davis acquired vineyard land in the Napa Valley, near St. Helena. After unsuccess-fully attempting to build a winery on the property in 1973 (due to a moratorium on new winery construction by the Napa county planning commission), the Bynum Family -- Davis' wife Dorothy, son Hampton and daughter Susan -- purchased the 83-acre River Bend Ranch in the Russian River Valley in Sonoma County. On the property was a 1950's hop kiln which the Bynum Family converted into the winery and permanent home. "A friend convinced us to come over to the Russian River Valley. You can grow better grapes there anyway," Bynum chuckled.
In the first few years of operation at the new winery, grapes were hauled over from Napa and crushed along with local Russian River Valley fruit. This ended when the Napa property was sold off in 1976. During this period, the Bynum Family made their first pinot noir -- the 1973 Davis Bynum Pinot Noir from the Rochioli Vineyard was the first ever pinot to carry a Russian River designation.
Today, Davis Bynum Winery crushes about 250 to 275 ton of grapes annually (which makes about 15,000 cases of wine), bottling premium varietals under the Davis Bynum label. It is still family oriented: Davis oversees the vineyards and finances, though he now leaves winemaking decisions in the capable hands of Gary Farrell. His son, Hampton, oversees the daily operations at the winery as well as sales, and is responsible for product development. During harvest, Hampton helps with winemaking. Dorothy, Davis' wife, oversees the landscaping and a building improvement program.
Davis Bynum River West Vineyard Chardonnay 2016Chardonnay from Russian River, Sonoma County, California
Davis Bynum Pinot Noir 2017Pinot Noir from Russian River, Sonoma County, California


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Alpha Unit students have started their NFA experience with a bang. Students are participating in a character-building program led by school psychologist and special education teacher Deb Spera. The program focuses on producing an outlook on life to overcome obstacles and adversity with self-respect, ethics and positivity.
Students have already taken a team-building, science-based field trip to Bluff Point. Next week, the group will participate in a spirited day of challenge and community at Camp Hazen in Chester. They will have the opportunity to push themselves on high-rope courses and rock walls as they develop and enhance their relationships with their peers and their unit teachers Ellen Cavanaugh (English), Clarence Cooper (math) Jemal Davis (social studies) and Abigail Piacenza (science and unit leader).
The Alpha Unit recognizes four students each month for their character and perseverance. Honored in September for embodying the qualities of an NFA Wildcat are juniors Todd Bata, Destiny Jones, Edison Medina and Nakita Porto.
Class officers
Sept. 18 was class election day. The classes of 2014, 2015 and 2016 elected class officers. Candidates had campaigned for offices and addressed their classmates in class meetings. Chosen were the following leaders: senior class President Steven Craney, Vice President Peter Tramontozzi, Secretary Audrey Cheng and Treasurer Moria Lewerk; upper class President Peter Reilly, Vice President Logan Hansen, Secretary Steven Houk and Treasurer Dylan Crider; and lower class President White Parker, Vice President Priyan Shelat, Secretary Deborah Guerrier and Treasurer Monique Fletcher.
College workshops
During October, school counselors will be after school in the Latham computer lab on Thursdays to assist students with online college applications.
Students can begin applying to college by establishing an account at commonapp.org, filling it in and saving the application online. Students will also receive assistance using Naviance, web-based tools to research, store and submit information in the college application process. The common application and Naviance can work together to make the entire process electronic. Students also use Naviance to request letters of recommendation, and teachers and counselors use the system to submit those letters directly to the schools to which students apply.
Students may stop by any Thursday for help; no appointment is necessary. If needed, the after-school sessions will be extended through November.
Zombie transformation
As part of the Moondance International Film Festival (mysticmoondance.org), Sachem Campus art teacher Jason Rosen presented a demonstration and talk about prosthetic makeup Sept. 27 at the Velvet Mill Studios in Stonington. Workshop participants witnessed how professional special effects transformed a live model into a hideous zombie right before their eyes.
Friend and colleague Ben Chester, founder of SIDE-F/X Studio, an independent, New England-based effects studio, joined Rosen in the must-see workshop for walking dead and special effects makeup fans.
Rosen is a concept designer and lead sculptor at Skinwalker Studios (skinwalkerstudios.com), where he is responsible for supervising all sculpts from maquette fabrication to set-ready costumes, makeup and puppets. He has worked for Wes Craven, NBC /Universal, Synthetic Cinema, SIDE-F/X Studio, and others.
Rosen is also the creator of Monsterwood, a high-concept fantasy multimedia concept currently being developed for both graphic novel and film.
On the radio
Three members of the Ham Radio Club took the Amateur Radio Technician Class License Examination in August to receive their amateur radio call signs. A technician class license allows a user to operate amateur radio equipment independently.
The students, listed with their amateur radio call signs, are all uppers: Ham Radio Club President Hollis Barker (KC1AKP) and Co-Vice Presidents Josiah Babbitt (KC1AKQ) and Julia Breen (KC1AKR).
The club, which works with Director of Technology Anthony Girasoli, NFA class of 1989, will be building a new robot this year and launching a weather balloon with atmospheric sensors.
Under the lights
Join in the excitement this month as NFA hosts evening games under the lights on the turf field. Cool Cat October Night Events this week include: 4:30 p.m. Monday, NFA freshmen boys soccer vs. Bacon Academy; 6:30 p.m. Monday, NFA junior varsity boys soccer vs. Stonington; 6:30 p.m. Wedesnday, NFA varsity boys soccer vs. Ledyard; and 6:30 p.m. Friday, NFA varsity football vs. Ledyard.
Final thought: Henry J. Kaiser tells us, �When your work speaks for itself, don�t interrupt.�
Geoff Serra is director of communications and public affairs at NFA. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow NFA on Twitter at @nfaschool or on Facebook at facebook.com/nfaschool.


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Rental Facilities
Information about rental facilities.
Albuquerque Convention Center
Albuquerque Convention Center is near 900 hotel rooms and Downtown Albuquerque.
Facility Rentals
Community Centers are available to the general public for special events.
Museum Rentals
Albuquerque Museum is closed to the public until further notice.
Rent the Balloon Museum
Host your wedding, meeting, or special event at the Balloon Museum and enjoy unparalleled views of the Sandia Mountain and Balloon Fiesta Park.
Rental Rates
Reservation & Picnic Areas
Enjoy your next family reunion, office picnic, club meeting, or wedding reception in a mountain setting. Three outdoor reservation areas are available for your next function.


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Oxfam treats locals to night of live music for a charitable cause. Maria Loupa and Charlotte Krol report
Ben Watson, The 78s and Spanish Battery rocked the opening weekend of the Jesmond Community Festival with lively sets at a blues night in the British Legion Club. The acts entertained the audience with a variety of roots music, ranging from traditional and acoustic blues to blues-rock and Americana.
All proceeds from the event went towards Jesmond Oxfam Books and Music's Trailtrekker team, who are walking 100km in 30 hours around the Yorkshire Dales for charity on 26th May.
The Oxfam Blues Night is one of many music events taking place during the Jesmond Community Festival. Have a peek at some of Saturday evening's performances here:
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Day 4
Wednesday, December 5
What was reported here yesterday isn't much different from today: 8 a.m. meeting, followed by phone calls, conversations and then a 3:30 gathering in the Phillies' Suite.
More updates from other clubs on the trade front and discussions with agents for free agents. From the major league end, the meetings end with the Rule 5 draft tomorrow morning. The Phillies continued to pour over their options and placed them in a pecking order, first choice, second, third and fourth.
Releasing RHP Julio Mateo today opened up another roster spot. The Phillies go into the draft with 38 players on the winter roster, two shy of the limit. It is possible the Phillies will select one or two players. And, it is also possible their selections will be gobbled up before they get a chance to draft. Among the teams that don't have full rosters, the Phillies will select 15th. The potential also exists that they can trade up to get an earlier pick.
Charlie Manuel had a full day……a 30-mimute session with the media at 9:30 a.m. in the working media room, an interview with MLB.com, an interview with Scott Palmer for this website a managers luncheon with the media and an interview with Kevin Kennedy on XM Radio at 4 in the afternoon.
Comment Corner
Brandon Inge has been mentioned in comments. Once again, we can't comment on him because of the tampering rule.
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Hopfully Gillick can find a diamond in the Rule 5. Overall the winter Meetings have been real quiet, especially on the Phillies front.
Any word on outfield front? The only thing I've read is McLouth, but he's a lefty bat who can't hit right-handed pitching. With reports Rowand most likely will not be back, hopefully they're looking at someone. Mike Cameron could be a good option with a lower salary then most. Burrell, Victorino, and Werth as the starting outfield doesn't seem too promising, epsecially when we're trying to build on last year's division title.
Let Rowand and his agent know that the fans would like him to sign the four-year deal Pat is willing to possibly offer, please. The money that the team is willing to pay sounds like it is not the issue. We need his defensive play and his bat to continue the high scoring! We can't assume that we'll score enough runs without him, and it looks like we'll need to score an abundance of runs because the pool of pitchers isn't very deep. I just don't have enough faith in our pitching, mainly with Eaton. Can we sign Lohse if he's still available? He's a proven innings-eater.
You know its becoming rather obvious that the Phils won't pay for pitching (after Freddy&Adam signings mess) & they evidently can't trade because they do not have enough to offer so…….they could end up with a team less talented and weaker in both pitching and hitting then last year! That does not sound like playoffs in 2008! Come on guys get some help or we go backwards! Please!
A new rumor circulating is a trade of Victorino and Kendrick for the O's Bedard. What's up with that? A young pitcher for a young pitcher AND Victorino? Not a smart move! Let's not remove any more speed and offense for pitching! Pitching isn't the cure-all, at least in the idea of losing all our offensive productivity!


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Well, here we are at the one and only Sweet November sneak peek that I've got for ya this month. Yep, it's a small release but that's because there are big things coming. ;)
With only having one stamp this release there isn't a guest gal for May but as always our wonderful SN Gal, Traci has more inspiration that you won't want to miss so be sure to hop on over to her blog today too. :)
Ok, so you all have met Darby before and have even been introduced to a couple of her buggy buddies but today you finally get to meet her bestest most special friend of all... Penelope! Penelope is another Sprite who resides in Sweet November Land and she will be taking off on her own adventures soon but because these cuties are BFF I just had to capture the two together for all those occasions when you need a friend card. Penelope may be the girly-girl to Darby's tom-boy but these friends couldn't be closer... they laugh and play all day long and are always there for each other. We could all use a friend or two like that I think. ;)
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text: Pubdate: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 Source: Los Angeles Times (CA) Copyright: 2012 Los Angeles Times Contact: http://www.latimes.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/248 Author: Lee Romney A REMEDY IN LIMBO A Crackdown on Pot Dispensaries Threatens to Derail a Man's Quest to Control His Son's Seizures Topamax. Depakote. Phenobarbital. The list goes on. Before Jayden David turned 5, he had tried a dozen powerful medications to tame a rare form of epilepsy. The side effects were devastating. There were grand mal seizures that lasted more than an hour. Hundreds of times a day, muscle twitches contorted his impish face. "If he wasn't sleeping, he was seizing," said Jayden's father, Jason David. Feeling helpless, David said, he contemplated suicide. He prayed. Then one day he heard about a teenager who was expelled from school for using marijuana to help control seizures. So began the pair's journey into California's medical cannabis culture. In the14 months since, the little boy has been swallowing droppers full of a solution made mostly of cannabidiol, or CBD, the second-most prominent of marijuana's100 or so cannabinoids. Unlike the dominant THC, cannabidiol is not psychoactive, so the sweet-tasting infusion Jayden takes four times a day doesn't make him high. Down from 22 prescription pills per day to four, he now eats solid food, responds to his father's incessant requests for kisses and dances in his Modesto living room to the "YoGabbaGabba!" theme song. The frequency and intensity of his seizures have been greatly reduced. But this summer, federal prosecutors moved to close Oakland's Harborside Health Center-the nation's largest dispensary and the place David has relied on most for help. The public debate over medical marijuana-which violates federal lawbut is Ilegal in California, 17 other states and the District of Columbia-for the most part has pitted those who praise its health benefits against those who say it is merely an excuse to get high. Lost in the discussion has been the fact that marijuana has myriad components that affect the body in a number of ways. CBD, for instance, was virtually bred out ofU.S. plants decades ago by growers whose customers preferred the mind-altering properties of high-THC varietals. Yet it is experiencing a resurgence, having shown promise as an antiinflammatory, anticonvulsant, neuro-protectant and cancer fighting agent. "Nobody is going to a dispensary for this to get high," said Martin Lee, a Bay Area writer who has reported on cannabidiol for years. "With CBD, it's clear that it's just about medicine." n the kitchen, a photo shows a beaming David nuzzled up against his newborn son. But the family's joy soon clouded. Jayden had his first grand mal at 41 months. The muscle jerks followed, as did seizures that cause sudden collapse. At11 2, the blue-eyed boy was diagnosed with Dravet syndrome, a form of infant epilepsy described in medical literature as catastrophic- and potentially fatal. David and Jayden's mother, whose marriage failed under the stress, consulted top experts, resulting in "more drugs and more ambulance trips," David said. By late 2010, Jayden had tried 11 medications. The 12th was stiri-pentol, hailed as a potential Dravet breakthrough. But after six months, Jayden's seizures and side effects were worse. David said his son rarely responded to those around him, had difficulty chewing and often screamed in fear. "I was going crazy," David said. The onetime jewelry store manager recalled stepping out onto his front lawn in April 2011 to make a phone call: "Mom," he said. "I'm going to shoot myself in the head. I can't stand seeing him this way." That Sunday, David, a devout Assyrian Christian, and his girlfriend brought Jayden to their parish. "We were asking God for signs," David said. The TV news story David saw the next day about the epileptic teenager seemed to offer one. Scouring the Internet, he came across decades of research documenting the therapeutic effects of CBD. It has been shown to relieve, among other things, spasms from multiple sclerosis, anxiety and symptoms of schizophrenia. Animal studies related to the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, Alzheimer's and cancer have proved encouraging. In an application for a patent awarded in 2003, theU.S. Department of Health and Human Services deemed non-psychoactive cannabinoids "particularly advantageous to use" as antioxidants and neuroprotectants because they can be administered in high doses without risk of toxicity. As for epilepsy, tales of cannabis use date to ancient Chinese and Ayurvedic traditions. Studies have shown THC is "overwhelmingly anticonvulsant" in animals, said Dr. Ben Whalley, a researcher at Britain's University of Reading, but CBD and some other non-psychoactive cannabinoids have shown similar effects without the mind-altering downside. In a human trial during the 1970s, researchers found that four of the eight subjects who received large doses of CBD remained almost free of epileptic seizures, while three others improved. More recently, Whalley and his colleagues published results of an animal study that strongly supported CBD "as a therapeutic candidate for a diverse range of human epilepsies." The long-term effect on children is unknown, but studies show CBD is well tolerated by adults and animals, Whalley said. As for side effects, he said, "Iwould be very surprised to find it to be any worse than either Depakote or clobazam" - the anticonvulsants Jayden still takes. When David consulted his doctor about the possibility of treating Jayden with medical marijuana, he was told: "If I were you, I would try anything." Soon after Steve DeAngelo co-founded Harborside Health Center in 2004, he went in search of a lab to test his marijuana's potency, as well as screen it for pesticides, mold and other impurities. None would. So he invested in what would become Steep Hill Cannabis Analysis Laboratory. Although obtaining CBD wasn't the original mission, it became a Holy Grail. The British company GW Pharmaceuticals was marketing a drug for multiple sclerosis patients outside the U.S. that contained equal parts of THC and CBD, andwas exploring further uses for the compound. Clearly, in addition to the medical benefits, there was money to be made in CBD- for the growers, the dispensaries that sell sought-after strains and the independent testing labs. Lee, who has tracked the research, said efforts to breed it back to prominence have produced about two dozen CBD-rich strains in California. But those sold over Harborside's retail counters still contained too much THC for Jayden. Andrew De Angelo, Steve's brother and a patient liaison, helped direct David to a non-psychoactive, CBD infused solution that the dispensary had in stock. Jayden got his first dose June 4, 2011. Days turned into months that were largely seizure-free, David said. But the second batch didn't work. Testing showed the CBD content was too low. David took to the Internet again and found Al Coles, a former investment advisor turned cannabis consultant who works out of his Stinson Beach home. Coles had initially experimented with remedies for his own depression, then took up the cause for others. Since meeting Jayden, he has spent thousands of dollars of his own money formulating and testing various concoctions. His method involves using ethanol to extract the CBD from high-content leaves or flowers, then evaporating it and reinfusing the substance with glycerin and creamed honey. The optimal ratio of THC to CBD for Jayden, his father said, appears to be about 1 to 19. For legal reasons, Coles can't provide the mixture directly to Jayden, so he takes it to Steep Hill to ensure the CBD content is high enough before handing it over to Harborside to be dispensed. Coles and Harborside-which oversees customized treatments for about three dozen severely ill patients- are not charging for their services, citing the severity of Jayden's condition and his father's precarious finances. But locating the scarce raw material has fallen largely to David, who has visited as many as 50 dispensaries around the state. Most, he learned, don't even know what high-CBD strains are. Hehas paid $310 to $450 for an ounce of marijuana, which can make up to a month's worth of solution. David, who focuses on his son and is no longer working, depends on donations from friends and his parish in nearby Ceres. Since launching a crackdown last fall, federal prosecutors have closed hundreds of California dispensaries. Calling Harborside a "superstore" for its 108,000 members, they targeted the building's landlords with civil forfeiture actions- amove the dispensary is fighting. But medical marijuana advocates hold out hope for a favorable ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which will hear oral arguments next month in a lawsuit challenging the classification of marijuana as a Schedule I substance- a dangerous drug with no medicinal value. Although David and his son have become celebrities of sorts in the cannabis movement and among families of Dravet sufferers, who follow their journey on Facebook, some in the medical establishment balk at their choices. "The drugs that come to market have been well screened for safety," said Dr. Donald Olson, who directs the pediatric epilepsy program at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University. "With alternative medicines like this, you are on very shaky ground. If the patient gets better, God bless them. I'm happy for them. But it's not something I can ethically recommend." As for Jayden, he is now 6 years old and, in many ways, flourishing. Speech therapy sessions provided by the school district have tripled in length because of his progress, and he is being main streamed this fall for an hour a day. While on his heavy prescription cocktail, Jayden stumbled frequently and was unable to enter the church sanctuary; now he takes Communion and sits for long periods cradled under his father's arm. He hugs everyone who asks. "The difference is from Earth to heaven," said Serkes Rasho, a St. George parish security guard whom a boisterous Jayden greeted with an embrace. "Before, he couldn't walk. He didn't have eye contact. Now he smiles. He recognizes everyone." - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom


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Here's a quick peek at a random page--the glare is there to prevent spoilers. You can see the one color + grayscale coloring. (it's red and gray in ONE DEAD SPY) You can do a lot with just gray and blue (especially in a Civil War comic!)
I've had a lot of packages like this over the years; the first look at a final, printed book. Sometimes it's exciting, some times disappointing, sometimes confusing, but this one...this one is the best one EVER. First of all, it's the first time I've gotten TWO books at once, and second of all, the designers at Amulet blasted this one out of the park! These books look so great, you can't quite see it in the photos, but there's a nice glossy sheen to the text and banners, there's a subtle leathery texture print on the borders and spine, they have a nice chunky weight to them, the corners are razor sharp. I'm delighted. I'm very excited to see these come out--and I hope you are too.
They come out August 1st! On shelves everywhere! Pre-order here or here! Or better yet, pre-order at your local bookshop!


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Some comedy, some action, some teen angst, some melodrama, some gangsters, some guys in drag, sexy animated women on flying monsters, poker, dumb stunts... this week has it all!!!
Battle: Los Angeles
Aaron Eckhart is a marine who's all but retired when alien invaders strike the City of Angels, intent on global domination. Read out theatrical review and watch the trailer
Red Riding Hood
Amanda Seyfried stars in director Catherine Hardwicke's take of the classic fairy tale. Read out theatrical review and watch the trailer
Hall Pass
Owen Wilson and Jason Sudekis are a pair of wannabe studs whose wives, Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate, give them each a chance to strut their stuff outside the bounds of matrimony. Read out theatrical review and watch the trailer
Kill the Irishman
Ray Stevenson stars in this film about the true story of a the man who went to war with Cleveland's Italian mob in the '70s. Read out theatrical review and watch the trailer
Heavy Metal
The animated classic about an amazing object with limitless powers that floats through the universe forever changing the lives of all it touches. Awesome soudntrack features Devo, Golden Earring and much more. Watch the trailer
Big Momma's: Like Father Like Son
Martin Lawrence straps on the fat drag, and brings his son along for the ride. Watch the trailer
The Cincinnati Kid
It's "The Hustler" with Steve McQueen replacing Paul Newman, poker replacing pool, Edward G Robinson replacing Jackie Gleason and Ann Margaret replacing Piper Laurie--still, it's a great film. Watch the trailer
Jackass 3.5
If we have to explain to you what this is, it's probably not for you. Watch the trailer
Rashida Jones and Chris Messina star in this film about a photographer whose fidelity is tested when a mysterious woman hires him to take surveillance-style photos of her having trysts with men. Watch the trailer


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There was no jackpot winner in Saturday's Powerball drawing, lottery officials in Des Moines, Iowa, told the Associated Press.
The current estimated jackpot for the Wednesday, Feb. 19, drawing has jumped to $400 million, or $227.8 million in cash value.
Powerball officials told the AP that Saturday's estimated jackpot total was an annuitized $330.8 million, or $188.4 million as a cash option.
Powerball is played in 43 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The odds of matching all six numbers in the game are 1 in about 175 million, according to statistics of the nonprofit Multi-State Lottery Association whose members offer one or more of the association's games, the Associated Press reported.


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RICHMOND, Va. – Whatever Shaka Smart said or did at halftime of Thursday's game, he should remember it and then repeat it every day for the rest of the season. I don't care if he built his team up, tore it down, broke a whiteboard or played "Fire on the Mountain" on the banjo, he needs to bottle it, because if VCU can play better than the first 14 minutes of the second half of Thursday's 86-68 blitzing of UMass, I'd like to see it.
VCU, trailing 42-37 at intermission, embarked on a 21-1 run at the start of the second half and turned a tight game into a chance for fans to beat the traffic. At one point, VCU pushed its run to 44-12 and assumed an 81-54 advantage before calling off the dogs with six minutes remaining.
"I think we were able to break their spirit a little bit with that run, and that was the determining factor in the game," Smart said.
It was like watching the best possible version of the Rams for 14 unmatched minutes. The Rams (20-5, 8-2 A-10), who won a game by 51 earlier this season, actually found a sixth gear. UMass' first 11 possessions of the second half went as follows: turnover, missed 3-pointer, turnover, missed 3-pointer, free throw, turnover, turnover, missed 3-pointer, shot blocked, turnover, turnover. By the time that hellacious six-minute stretch was over, it was 58-43. Game, VCU.
Junior Rob Brandenberg personified VCU's second half turnaround. After missing all eight of his field goals in the first half, Brandenberg scored the Rams' first six points of the second on the way to 12 second-half points. His success is meaningful to VCU. The Rams are now 12-0 this year when Brandenberg scores at least 11 points in a game.
Not since VCU opened its CAA Tournament semifinal against George Mason last March on a 22-0 (and 32-4) run had the Rams looked so unbeatable against top-notch competition for any significant stretch of time. The Rams have flat blown some teams out this year, but none of those dominant performances came in an important league contest, one that looked so close for the first 20 minutes.
"That was a great step for us going forward because sometimes in the past we would come out flat in the second half," said Brandenberg. "So, for us to come out like that tonight that's what we're going to need moving forward the rest of the conference season."
The game was every bit the drag race it was built up to be, as UMass pocket-sized point guard Chaz Williams raced around the floor with VCU's Darius Theus and Briante Weber nipping at his heels to set the tone for some of the most unrestrained basketball of the college hoops season.
The first half featured seven lead changes and five ties, but UMass' willingness to play at VCU's preferred frenetic pace might have been its undoing. The Rams are used to track meets, and they're deeper. UMass' bench played a total of nine minutes in the first half, and in the second period, it seemed to work against the Minutemen (16-7, 6-4).
As the tempo quickened and legs weakened, VCU thrived. The Rams, who scored just eight points off turnovers in the opening half, converted 13 UMass second-half turnovers into 20. VCU turned the Minutemen over a season-high 24 times in all on this night. Williams, who came into the night averaging 16.1 points per game, finished with just six to go with seven assists and six turnovers.
Despite a five-point halftime deficit, VCU's second largest of the season, Smart didn't flinch. He kept the pedal to the floorboards and waited for the levee to break.
"I said, I like where we're at right now," Smart recalled. "The reality is, guys, there's some fixable things that occurred in the first half that if we address, we can really go on a run on these guys. And the style of play is to our liking, so, over the course of a 40-minute game, that's going to be to our advantage.
"I think our guys really bought into that and came out attacking in the second half."
They didn't stop until it was all over.
Freshman Melvin Johnson knocked down 8-of-13 field goals, including 2-of-4 three-pointers and finished with a season-high 18 points for the Rams. Johnson's dynamic performance, a buffet of playground-infused shimmies, floaters and bank shots, came over the course of just 18 minutes.
"He was great," Smart said. "I thought his approach was terrific. He was very confident, yet he respected the scouting report and respected what it was going to take to be successful."
It was Johnson's sixth double-digit performance of the year and his first since a 12-point effort at Richmond on Jan. 24.
With Thursday's win, Smart became the first VCU coach to win 20 games in four consecutive seasons. J.D. Barnett once won four in five years, but otherwise, no previous coach can match Smart's consistency. He's 104-33 in four seasons.
It's the Rams' seventh straight 20-win season and the 18th overall for the VCU program. Smart is now tied with Barnett for the most 20-win campaigns all-time.


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April 13, 2011- They're back. Actually, they never left, they just laid low while the heat of political anger blew over.
They are the schemers and scammers of Wall Street who devised the Phantasmagoric Money-From-Nothing Good Times Machine that was fueled by indecipherable derivatives and other financial fairy dust. If you're presently stuck in hard economic times, you have them to thank, for it was their hocus-pocus that -- poof! -- imploded our economy in 2008.
Responding to public outrage, President Obama and the Democratic Congress passed a reform bill last year that tightened the rules on these tricksters. But now -- with Wall-Street-hugging Republicans running the House and Obama himself turning into Wall Street's best buddy -- the schemers and scammers are demanding that Washington loosen those pesky rules so they can restart that Good Times Machine for their own fun and profit.
For example, the biggest banks are pressing hard for the Treasury Department to exempt a derivatives game called "foreign-exchange swaps" from any regulation. These gamble on the ups and downs of foreign currencies. Not only are they explosively risky, they're massive, with some $4 trillion being bet on them every day.
A hiccup in this speculative game can ruin the day of a whole country. But a handful of Wall Street giants rake in about $9 billion a year handling these high-rolling bets, and they don't want the public even seeing what they're doing.
"Don't regulate us," they insist, "trust us." After all, they say, this currency game is the one derivatives market that did not crash in 2008.
Not so fast, slick. The only reason the market for foreign-exchange swaps didn't crash is that the Federal Reserve poured more than $5 trillion into foreign central banks that year to prop it up.
Such runaway greed by Wall Street is why change is so desperately needed. The Powers That Be claim that it's unreasonable to regulate Wall Street. However, as George Bernard Shaw noted a century ago, "All change comes from the power of unreasonable people."
I think Shaw would agree to one small addendum to his sage observation, which is that such people are considered unreasonable only by the entrenched powers that always oppose change.
Let me offer two examples of people today who deserve our applause for rankling the establishment and, in turn, enduring its furious abuse: Sheila Bair and Elizabeth Warren. Both are daring to bring a stronger consumer and public-interest voice into the closed, cliquish and often self-serving world of banking.


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Beautiful Siteia town, birthplace of the great medieval poet Vitsentzos Kornaros [Vincenzo Cornaro] is located 70 km off Agios Nikolaos (the biggest town in Lasithi). It is built amphitheatrically with elegant buildings ending at a busy port; an ideal choice for relaxed vacations all year round.
Enjoy a stroll along the harbour's promenade area, lined with cafés, tavernas, trendy bars and traditional rakadika (local styled tavernas serving raki).
Pay a visit to:
The "Governor's House"; the 13th century Venetian Kazarma fortress; Analipsi tou Sotira chapel; the Archaeological Museum with finds from the wider Siteia area spanning all historical periods; and the Folk Art Museum with a rich collection of textiles, traditional tools and costumes.
At a short distance:
You will find the early Minoan settlement, in Petras village (2 km E) that includes a palatial complex (0.3 ha), ruins of houses, cyclopean walls etc. The house of V. Kornaros is nearby.
The winery of the Union of Agricultural Cooperatives of Siteia.
Agioi Pantes gorge.
Stavromenos village (7 km S) offering a beautiful view of Siteia Bay.
The unique, ellipse-shaped Minoan house close to Chamezi village (11 km W).
Siteia's Venetian ruins on Liopetro hill offering fine views.
Sandali village with the plane trees and spring waters; Katsidoni and Zou villages where there is a remarkable Minoan house in a gully amid lush vegetation and springs.
Peristeras Cave, another location of Minoan finds near Karydi village (18 km SE).
The ancient Praisos archaeological site, near Nea Praisos village.
Dionysiades, three islets providing a haven for the species Eleonora's falcon (Falco eleonorae).
Where to smim
If you're into swimming, start by the nearby beaches in Petras and Agia Fotia. Chiona and Erimoupoli, offering a view to Elasa isle, are also worth your visit. Windsurfing fans will prefer Kouremenos beach in Palaikastro, whereas scuba diving fans will find their paradise in Kavo Sidero.
Needless to say, a visit to the famous Vai (94 km NE of Agios Nikolaos), the palm-tree forest and the lovely beach is a must. Make sure your programme includes a visit to ancient Itanos – a major town when Dorians ruled Crete- and the historic Toplou Monastery dedicated to Panagia Akrotiriani.
If you have enough time, visit Kato Zakros and the well known Minoan Palace as well as Xirokampos where you will find a beach of exotic beauty.
If boating is to your liking, you can go on a trip to Gaidouronisi (Chrysi) – located at a short distance from cape Goudouras; you will find some amazing white sandy beaches, purple dye murex sea snails and cedar trees.
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Make instant JPEGs from raw files
Michael Tapes from RawWorkflow.com has teamed up with the guys from Imagenomic (known for Noiseware) to create the very cool–and free–Instant JPEG From Raw utility. It doesn't interpret or convert your raw image data; rather, it just pulls out the JPEG preview embedded by your camera*. It can optionally downsample these JPEGs to a lower resolution as well. Check out a quick video demo of the tool in action.
I think there are some especially interesting possibilities here with DNG. As you may know, when you edit the settings of a DNG file using Camera Raw or Lightroom, you can opt to update the embedded JPEG data as well as the settings themselves. This means, as photographer Peter Krogh likes to say, that a DNG file can serve as a "job jacket": a container that holds your negative, your development instructions, and your print. The IJFR utility provides an immediate way to extract not just the data your camera captured, but the data as processed per your instructions.
*Worth another mention: Bridge CS4 now offers the ability to browse just embedded JPEG data, bypassing the raw processing stage to enable quick initial passes through a shoot.
I recently grabbed a copy of RawWorkflow.com's Instant JPEG from Raw utility and it's saved me hours of work and frustration. I'm just not good enough or smart enough sometimes to pull the best image out of my raw files with either Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw… esp in difficult white balance conditions. This simple little app reproduces what showed on the LCD at the shoot flawlessly. From there it's short work to finish up with whatever else needs to be done.
Just for completeness, PhotoMechanic from CameraBits has had the ability to extract JPEG from RAW for ages and it is one of the primary reason I use it instead of bridge (hint ;-).
does not work for me on windows, just creates an empty folder :-(
Yes, and iView can do the same thing as well. That i am a user of Bridge and LR, yet i still have to resort to using iView for my editing and jpeg extraction is something that frustrates me every time i have to use it. But truth be told, it's just flat out faster to use iView for those functions. I'm really happy to hear that cs4 can now browse just the embedded, and with LR2, you can import just the sidecar/embedded too, but it does still attempt to render out all the previews even tho you asked it not to.
Can Bridge now extract the embedded jpegs? If not, why not?
[It can convert raw files to JPEG very quickly, and because it's just rendering what's in the Bridge cache, if you've told Bridge to prefer the embedded JPEGs, that's what you'll get out. –J.]
I just generate jpegs on the fly from Bridge (or Aperture or LIghtroom) as I need them. With the right settings, the resulting jpegs are better than the photos that camera itself generates, and I don't waste space with the RAW + JPEG workflow.
As John notes above, it's fast. And CS4 will be even faster! I can't imagine using iView or Portfolio any more when I'm just working with my own photos. I think Bridge CS4 is going to change a lot of minds.
With the new color profiling in Camera Raw, you should be starting with the manufacturer's color (or "what you saw on the LCD") and STILL be able to edit from there.
It's awesome … one (significantly) less reason to use the manufacturer's software, and so much more productivity (of further editing without having to start over on color) and predictability (of starting with a known color treatment)…!
YMMV of course, but I find it great.
Dave Story
Could you explain how bridge CS4 uses just the jpg preview?
[There's now an icon on the toolbar that lets you toggle whether you want Bridge to display image data as rendered by Camera Raw, or just the embedded JPEG data. The export-to-JPEG script relies on whatever Bridge has cached, so if you've told it not to use ACR to render the images, it will export the embedded JPEGs. –J.]
Dave Coffin's dcraw utility has also offered a very convenient way to extract the embedded jpeg from raw files for some time now.
It's a very handy command line tool to have around and supports almost every camera out there.
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I'm ready to move on from yesterday's game now – in fact I'm looking forward to it. But there are two links I think readers may find quite interesting. Jsonline also linked to these articles. They are written by the former VP of the Packers Andrew Brandt over at NationalFootballPost.com. Brandt writes from the unique perspective of having had relationships with both TT and Favre (though I believe his not-so-good relationship with TT may have resulted in his dismissal – so there is likely a bias). Like I said, I'm Favred out but I just thought this was as interesting a perspective I've read on this whole thing in a while.
Read here for last Friday's article and here for today's article.


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Love, love, love. NBA star Jason Collins has inspired so many people to share their own stories. One of the latest: Seventeen-year-old Leo Washington of Hollywood. Washington is the co-captain of the Hollywood Hills High School football team ... and openly gay.
The teen transferred to Hollywood Hills HS after being repeatedly bullied in Georgia, reports Miami's CBS 4. Now he is described as the"best defensive lineman" on the district champion's team.
Whether he's in shoulder pads and a helmet, or walking the field with a Michael Kors bag on his shoulder, Leo knows who he is and has the respect and friendship of his team and classmates. "This is who I am today, athletic, smart, intelligent, nice and comfortable in my own skin," said Leo. "They have taken me in as their own brother and I will protect them from any other school that tries to come at them and disrespect them."
If anyone were to pick on him," said teammate Eli Gottlieb. "We would all have his back. If anyone were to pick on us for anything about us, he would have our back."
"[Washington] had several opportunities for football scholarships, but he said in college he's following his other passion. He's getting a degree in fashion."
And that's what makes this story especially interesting: Leo Washington doesn't fit the "hyper masculine" stereotype of a football player ... but he is very good at what he does, walking in his truth and "comfortable in his own skin." Werk! More in my analysis for EBONY, "Jason Collins Has "Reframed the Conversation" Around Sports, Blacks and Homophobia."
Watch the report AFTER THE JUMP ...


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Should Students Wear Uniforms to School?
"MOM! What should I wear to school today," asked Junior as he woke up from bed.
"I don't know honey just pick anything that you feel is appropriate," responded his mother. The only problem was the Junior was very indecisive about what to wear. This is his problem each and every morning before going to school. However his cousin Charlie doesn't have this problem. Why, it's because he wears a uniform to school instead.
Charlie on the other hand has the problem that the uniform rules are too strict. Sweaters must be worn at all times and the pants are a problem in the summer. It gets too hot outside and the dark khaki pants and wearing the uncomfortable sweater doesn't make him feel cool, but as if he was in a microwave all the time. He envies his cousin Junior and Junior envies him.
Something most people don't often realize is that the uniform debate is two extremes of the same coin. On one side we have children who have problems picking out what to wear and on the other we have children who detest uniforms with a passion, because of what they look like or how they feel. This can be used for many of the arguments on either side pro or anti–uniforms.
Pro- uniform people tend to use some pretty excellent points. For example, it's great to know that you won't have Junior's problem on picking what to wear to school. School bullies will not pick on their peers for what they wear, and all because they have uniforms. Gangs wouldn't prosper in this environment either.
Anti- uniform people have quite some things to say themselves. Some people I know are anti-uniform and it's mostly common among children who go to school. The frequent point people make that are anti-uniform include things like expressing themselves, more freedom and so on and so forth. But something that caught my eye was something a student said, "With uniforms we can't have any sort of diversity. We should be proud of who we are and what we are. We should be able to wear what we want and how we please." I believe this is true to an extent, however there is a limit.
Of course, I have my own opinion on this but it's MY own point of view and that is why I have provided some points of both sides, pro and con. I am not here to persuade any of you but rather to inform which is my only objective. The decision must come from you, the reader, to look at the data given to you and study it, come to your own conclusion.
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
Music Monday - "Blue Moon of Kentucky" - Bill Monroe
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First of all... wow. What a welcome home! I saved reading all your messages until I was ready to step back into this blog. Thanks for the well wishes. I planned my courses and then we had a great vacation to... yes, you guessed it, Kentucky.
If I didn't say it clearly enough the first time, we had a GREAT time in Kentucky. ;-)
Our only other experience with Kentucky was driving through it on the way to Florida. And mostly, we just wanted to get through it, because the Smokies were coming up and we heard they were just gorgeous. And while we noticed that Kentucky was pretty nice, too, it was still at the beginning of our drive, so we mostly slept through it.
This time around, though, we'd planned on spending a few days around Lexington and a few days in Tennessee, near the northwestern edge of the Smokies.
But we spent the whole time in Lexington and had a blissful time. We found interesting things to do, (which I'll blog about in other posts), but what really blew us away were the amazingly friendly people, the beauty of the countryside, and way too much good food. We were all exhausted, and Kentucky rocked us gently like a babe in his mama's arms.
Kentucky, the H. family is ready to write love letters to you.
Now, it wasn't like everything went according to plan, because if it had, it wouldn't have been an H. family vacation. We just don't roll that way. And on one of the days when nothing went according to plan, we ended up at the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame Museum in Renfro Valley, KY. And this was an interesting stop for us, because really, we are not country music fans (well, I am, a bit, and D and I both love any kind of grassroots music, and we all love the Dixie Chicks forever, but this was still a weird stop for us). And that tiny, little, three-room museum was darned interesting.
We also picked up a dandy CD there: Ricky Skaggs and Friends Sing the Songs of Bill Monroe. The "friends" included such greats as Mary Chapin Carpenter, our beloved Chicks, Charlie Daniels, John Fogerty, Bruce Hornsby, Joan Osborne, and the wonderful Dolly Parton, among others, so how could we resist?
But there's nothing like old Bill himself, perhaps the founding father of Bluegrass. And for that matter, there's nothing like Bluegrass. And, as you can probably guess, I also feel there's no place quite like the Blue Grass region of Kentucky. So in honor of all of that, I give you: Bill Monroe singing "Blue Moon of Kentucky".
Enjoy, y'all.
30 comments:
- La delirante said...
Hi! Welcome back!! :) Nice to hear that you had a great time in Kentucky :)
- April 14, 2008 at 3:31 AM
- anno said...
Good to see you back! And it looks like you even saw sunshine and flowers! Not to mention maybe a horse or two. Looking forward to catching up with you soon.
- April 14, 2008 at 3:41 AM
- Jenn in Holland said...
Oh, what a blast! I can feel your enthusiasm for all things Kentucky oozing through your words here. Hooray for great family trips!
- April 14, 2008 at 5:27 AM
- Marianne Arkins said...
Missed you :-)
- April 14, 2008 at 6:42 AM
- Korie said...
Glad to hear you had a good time. I never really thought much about Kentucky (besides the fried chicken part...badumbum) but you make it sound worth visiting, definitely. Welcome back and glad to see you!
- April 14, 2008 at 7:39 AM
- Mae Travels said...
I have an old Bill Monroe LP -- he's ok but in small doses. My biggest immersion has been at a couple of visits to the Indiana Fiddlers Festival: quite an event.
Sounds like a nice trip.
- April 14, 2008 at 7:55 AM
- Jen said...
Hi Wendy! Thanks for the warm welcome back.
Yes, Anno, I actually did. And we saw lots of horses. Lexington definitely rocks as the horse capitol of the world, I think.
Jenn, it was just great! It kind of sounded like what your Ireland retreat was for you.
- April 14, 2008 at 8:01 AM
- Jen said...
Marianne, I know you've had some spring your way, too - I've been sneaking in, even if not commenting. And thanks for the WB!
Well, Lilac, we both know that Pittsburgh is more than Primanti Bros. and the Terrible Towel, right? That's one of the fun things - discovering a new place.
Mae, that's why I preferred the Ricky Skaggs album, actually. I respect old Bill, but his singing does grate on my ears a bit. And where in IN is that festival? It sounds wonderful!
- April 14, 2008 at 8:03 AM
- soccer mom in denial said...
Well now welcome back darling! You DO know that you made a pilgrimage to the place of my birth. Yup - the U of K Hospital in Lexington.
Funny thing, aside from our little side trip to Bowling Green, KY to visit the Monmouth Caves in February, I haven't been in the state since I was 1 years old.
Thanks for the music!!
- April 14, 2008 at 8:53 AM
- Mae Travels said...
To answer your question:
The Indiana Fiddlers Festival is in Battleground, near Lafayette. I posted a few photos last time I went: http://maetravels.blogspot.com/2006/06/indiana.html
- April 14, 2008 at 9:45 AM
- Núria said...
Hola Jen! Nice to see you back! And great to know you had a wonderful vacation.
I didn't know Bill Monroe but I do like Country music... it's so "American" for me! I like Dolly Parton and your dances.
Here in Spain it has gotten so in fashion to dance country!!!
- April 14, 2008 at 10:07 AM
- janey jay said...
First of all -- welcome home! Sounds like your getaway was a good one.
Second -- great MM selection. Bluegrass in its purest form. It put me in the mood for some Alison Krauss...
- April 14, 2008 at 10:54 AM
- Dru said...
Welcome back!
- April 14, 2008 at 2:04 PM
- Jen said...
I didn't know you were truly a Southern girl, SMID! We hit Mammoth Cave, too. I really think you and your family would love the area we were in. Lots to see and do.
Mae, thank you so much for the link!
Nuria, I had no idea that country was a hit in Spain. How interesting!
- April 14, 2008 at 2:10 PM
- Jen said...
Jane - Alison Krauss is my husband's all time favorite! She's certainly a wonder, in every way. Hope your trip went well!
Dru, thanks for the welcome!
- April 14, 2008 at 2:11 PM
- glamah16 said...
Kentucky! Cant wait to hear about it. Welcome home.
- April 14, 2008 at 2:38 PM
- thailandchani said...
Kentucky is a beautiful state! Just goes to show how out of it I can be at times. I didn't realize where you had gone.. only that I wasn't seeing posts from you. :)
Glad you're back....
- April 14, 2008 at 4:02 PM
- Jen said...
Coco - it was really lovely - AND there's many projects for sustainable agriculture, whole foods, etc. It was interesting that way.
Chani - I'm not sure whether or not I finally said where I was going - we kept changing our minds almost up to the last moment!
- April 14, 2008 at 4:20 PM
- Luisa Perkins said...
Oh, it sounds so great. I'd like to take a road trip like that.
That song has always been a favorite of mine; I'm partial to the Patsy Cline version.
- April 14, 2008 at 4:37 PM
- Jen said...
I'm partial to anything Patsy Cline, Luisa! I just love her in any way, shape or form.
- April 14, 2008 at 4:45 PM
- Liz Dwyer said...
Welcome back! Nice that you enjoyed your time in Kentucky! It's lovely there in the spring -- I've always wanted to go to the Derby! And how cool that you went to Mammoth Cave. I've always wanted to go there too!
- April 14, 2008 at 6:13 PM
Welcome home! I'm glad your trip went so well. My only experience with Kentucky was at a Christian school our church helped support. I traveled there for a weekend each year I was in high school for a "work weekend." It's true - the people there were some of the best I've met.
As for the song...all I can think of is Steve Martin and John Candy in that fried car in Planes, Trains and Automobiles singing that song. One of the best moments of the movie - interestingly abou a trip gone wrong.
- April 14, 2008 at 8:19 PM
- Jen said...
Angelista - We didn't even get to Louisville, but we did get to see morning workouts at Keeneland and that was very cool. Did you get down there when you lived in Chicago?
Leslie! Good to hear from you - I thought you'd be on your way. I absolutely couldn't get over how friendly everyone was. It was just wonderful in that sense.
- April 14, 2008 at 10:06 PM
- Unknown said...
That video is great! Guess I am a Country fan at heart after all. Just shows, age doesn't matter when it comes to music.
- April 15, 2008 at 8:20 AM
- Jen said...
You know, Anne, I can't even begin to classify my taste in music. I'm not a country fan, per se, but I know there are some "country" acts and stars that I dearly love. Bill Monroe's voice and style takes some getting used to, but it's so pure and that's what gets me about it!
- April 15, 2008 at 8:26 AM
- Momisodes said...
So great to see you back! Glad to hear the vacation was a success :) I've always wanted to see the Smokies. I've heard they are gorgeous as well. Thanks so much for the link for Bill Monroe's song :)
- April 15, 2008 at 9:58 PM
- Goofball said...
am I horribly ignorant and illiterate if the only association that comes up in my mind for Kentucky is "Kentucky Fried Chicken"?
- April 17, 2008 at 8:20 AM
- Wholly Burble said...
Oh I cannot wait to hear more of your time in Kentucky. Like you I think my only experience in Kentucky is driving THRU LOL. Some time I'll have to slow down and take the off ramp and see some of the sights.
A little blue grass goes a long way--although I have my favorites who can do it so that my toes are just a tappin'!
- April 17, 2008 at 10:42 PM
- Jen said...
Sandy - it's totally worth the trip. Especially if you're in the area. There are so many wonderful short trips from Boston, though! I'm envious.
Goofball - we talked about this offline ;-)
Wholly Burble - good to see you! It's just a wonderful place. Sooooo beautiful. But you know, the only place I've run into such friendly folks in the past was Iowa, so maybe you wouldn't be that impressed. ;-)
- April 18, 2008 at 6:23 AM
- Grimm said...
Welcome Back!
While I must admit I wasn't a big bluegrass fan growing up, the purity of the music has won me over after listening to Ricky Skaggs & Alison Krauss.
But nothing can top good old Bill Monroe. Nice pick.
- April 25, 2008 at 2:17 AM


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