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Expression of neuroepithelial transforming gene 1 is enhanced in oesophageal cancer and mediates an invasive tumour cell phenotype.
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Introduction Neuroepithelial Transforming Gene 1 (NET1) is a well characterised oncoprotein and a proven marker of an aggressive phenotype in a number of cancers, including gastric adenocarcinoma. We aimed to investigate whether NET1 plays a functional role in oesophageal cancer (OAC) and its pre-malignant phenotype Barrett's oesophagus. Methods Baseline NET1 mRNA levels were determined by qPCR across a panel of six cell lines, including normal oesophageal, Barrett's and OAC derived cells. Quantification of NET1 protein in OAC cells was performed using Western blot and immunofluorescence. NET1 expression was modulated by treating with lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) and NET1-specific siRNA. The functional effects of NET1 knockdown were assessed in vitro using proliferation, migration and invasion assays. Results NET1 expression was increased in Barrett's and in OAC-derived cells in comparison to normal oesophageal cells. The highest expression was observed in OE33 a Barrett's-related OAC cell line. NET1 protein and mRNA expression was enhanced by LPA treatment in OAC and furthermore LPA treatment caused increased proliferation, migration and invasion in a NET1-dependent manner. NET1 knockdown resulted in reduced OAC cell proliferation and invasion. Conclusions As found in other malignancies, NET1 expression is elevated in OAC and its pre-malignant phenotype, Barrett's oesophagus. NET1 promotes OAC cell invasion and proliferation and it mediates LPA-induced OAC cell migration.
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If I can be honest, I never really understood the importance of engagement shoots. When I got married five years ago, some of my friends were sitting for traditionally beautiful portraits with their partners and since we live in NYC, most of these took place in the same exact locations -- under the Manhattan Bridge, on a beach in Coney Island, in the center of Times Square. The results were cool, but nearly identical to one another. I definitely felt I could take them or leave them. So I left them.
But viewing photos from this Canadian couple's horror film engagement shoot totally makes me change my mind about this tradition. It's amazing, awesome, personal -- and I officially have total engagement photo regret thanks to them.
Most of their photos are actually classically beautiful and show Vanessa Lawson and Josh Morden frolicking in a forest by Camp Crystal Lake, which -- if you recall -- is the site where hockey masked psycho killer Jason Voorhees terrorized his teen victims in all of the classic Friday the 13th films. Dressed in gingham and plaid, this couple is cute as a button -- even as they are running away from Jason, who suddenly appears in the distance with his famed machete and eventually manages to massacre both Vanessa and Josh, leaving their bloody (but still beautiful) corpses in the woods.
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The engagement shoot may be nontraditional, but it's complete perfection for one reason: it reflects this couple -- their personality and interests. Their first date was to see a Tim Burton film. They own a collection of horror movie posters. These two don't belong on a windy beach.
Dammit, had my husband and I thought about it, we could have had a bloody good time inventing engagement shoot scenes to play out. This California couple used the beach as a backdrop in most of their pictures, but also posed in front of Angelo's Burgers, where they walked through the drive-thru and shouted their order into the intercom. Ben and Angela use one of the least idyllic streets in Downtown Charlottesville in which to smooch and not pose, which just makes their photo look more authentic and romantic than most.
But my favorite of favorites is this one of a couple attempting to take a row boat out for a spin and laughing their asses off as it sinks to the bottom of the lake and they get completely drenched.
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Chapters I, II, III and a little bit of chapter IV of The Song Alone.
Musical Birthday. George Gershwin, born September 26, 1898, died far too young in 1937. Here is his pal Oscar Levant having a daydream with Concerto in F in the film An American in Paris.
What passes for modern art in Washington, D.C., or your tax dollars at work.
A missing Rubens, a portrait of the 1st Duke of Buckingham, has been discovered in a house in Glasgow. Bendor Grosvenor, known to viewers of Fake or Fortune, is the art historian who made the initial attribution.
Two Musical Birthdays. Fred Ahlert, born September 19, 1892 and Roy Turk, born a day later, September 20, 1892, both in New York City, wrote "I'll Get By" in 1928. Click below for the Ipana Troubadors, actually Sam Lanin's orchestra with Bing Crosby singing.
Musical Birthday. Hank Williams, born twenty years and two days after Roy Acuff on September 17, 1923, wrote many great songs in his short life. Here is an excerpt from a 1952 TV show with Acuff as M.C. and fellow performer. Williams comes in at 9:45. The second button goes to Freddy Fender, who grew up bi-lingual in El Paso, performing Jambalaya with a Spanish refrain thrown in.
Musical Birthday. Roy Acuff, born September 15, 1903 must have sung The Wabash Cannonball a few thousand times in his life. The song began life as a 19th century folk song, original author unknown, titled The Great Rock Island Route, and the lyrics were rewritten at least twice by the time Acuff and his groups sang it. There are a number of good train songs where the driving melody gives a sense of rolling down the tracks at sixty miles per hour behind a chugging steam locomotive, but this was the first and it is always fun to hear. This is the version from the 1940 film Grand Ole Opry.
True Crime. Retired LAPD detective with gambling problem turns to bank robbery.
This is an article by Mark Hulbert on the state of the stock market and the Dow Theory. To define the basis of the theory, a good that is manufactured is a good that has to be shipped when, and if, it is sold. If a stock price index of manufacturers is climbing, while the corresponding transportation index is not, or vice versa, business may not be as good as the market assumes, and a bear market for stocks may be coming. Needless to say, events always look clearer in retrospect than they did while we muddle through them, which is why the bear market may be half over before the investor can be certain that he is in one.
An article in the Telegraph about conductor Charles Dutoit.
Musical Birthday. Ogden Nash, born August 19, 1902, is known for his humorous rhymes, my favorite being turtle with fertile. But he did have a shot at Broadway a couple of times and in the show One Touch of Venus Nash and Kurt Weill wrote"Speak Low," a song that would be on my top ten list of Broadway melodies, if I ever made such a list. Mary Martin and Kenny Baker starred in the original production.
Musical Birthday. James Warburg, born August 18, 1896, member of the famous German-American banking family, son of Paul Warburg, the leading architect of the Federal Reserve system, nephew of art historian Aby Warburg, founder of the Warburg Library, now in London's Bloomsbury district a stone's throw from where Virginia Woolf and Maynard Keynes once lived, and the lyricist of the 1930's let's wear the jitterbuggers out number, "Fine and Dandy." He co-wrote that with his wife at the time, Kay Swift. Ms. Swift would shortly become George Gershwin's main squeeze. Young Warburg, presumably not wanting to embarass his banking forbears, used the pen name, Paul James. Here are the Dorsey Brothers giving it the full treatment.
Batteries, present and future, according to The Economist.
The Volcker Rule. An article about the SEC's study of the effects of the rule that was much in the news a few years ago. How high should be the wall between commercial and investment banking is an argument that will long continue.
Musical Birthday. Bernice Petkere, born August 11, 1901, called the Queen of Tin Pan Alley by Irving Berlin, according to Wikipedia. I have to admit that I always thought Ray Noble wrote Close Your Eyes, but not so, Ms. Petkere did, both music and lyrics. Here is Noble's 1933 hit with Al Bowlly singing.
The Sugar Barons. There is no reason that the sugar industry should have any government handouts or special protections. One could say that it is another white powder that gives its consumer a good feeling in the short run and endangers his health in the long run. Here is the article on the Barons.
Dr. Robert Lustig, professor at UCSF, has been talking about the dangers of sugar for years. He has written a book, Fat Chance, and has another book coming out next month. He has many videos of his lectures posted on YouTube. This one is about an hour long and gets to the heart of what the fructose molecule does to the liver.
Gary Taubes, science journalist, most recent book is The Case Against Sugar. He, too, has many videos on the web. Here is a lecture shortly after the publication of the latest book.
Belated Musical Birthday. Miguel Prado, born August 1, 1905 in Tinguindin, Michoacan, died in San Miguel de Allende in 1987, composed many songs. Here is Duerme, sung by Pedro Infante in the film Un Rincon cerca del Cielo.
This song becomes most interesting to those of us north of the border, because the lyrics have two translations into English. Dreaming, lyrics by Anthony Stephan, (could find nothing about him through Google), sung by Al Bowlly with the Ronnie Munroe band in London in March, 1940. A year later Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell singing, recorded Time Was, lyrics by Sidney (Bob) Russell who went on to some fame in the 1960's working with Quincy Jones. I have to say I am partial to Stephan's version: more romantic and more in keeping with the loving spirit of the original.
Tough times on Presidio Terrace, or We ain't gonna be bothered with these chickenfeed taxes.
How to make a smooth cheese nacho sauce from real cheddar. Better living through chemistry.
Musical Birthday! Alfredo Gil, born August 5, 1915 was one of the three original members of Los Panchos, the first musician to use the requinto guitar professionally, and the composer of over 300 songs. Here is Sin un Amor, cowritten with fellow Los Pancho, Chucho Navarro.
Mozart's final, and hard-working as always, months.
For certain matters there are no substitutes for pen and paper.
I had hoped to have this up and going by July 14th, but did not make it. In the spirit of good French-American relations, here is one of those 1920's Americans in Paris singing Cole Porter. (Less than two and half years until the twenties begin again.)
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The purpose of the conference is to provide a discussion of novel approaches and advances connected with optical correlation techniques for measurements of random optical fields, and object diagnostics in diverse applications. Optical correlation techniques (including regular and polarization interferometry, interference/diffraction microscopy, specklometry, holographic correlometry, fractal optics, and measurement of optical chaos and optical currents) constitute promising and avalanche-like developed area of optical information technology. Such techniques serve for solving diverse applied problems ranging from industrial quality control to modern telecommunications and life sciences. There are no any conferences at present focused just at the optical correlation approaches (theoretical, computing and experimental). That is why this conference will be the unique possibility to highlight novel concepts and developments related to the optical correlation data processing and to discuss recent progress in applications of them. This conference continues the chain of international conferences on Correlation Optics (1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015,2017; SPIE Proc. Vols. 2108, 2647, 3317, 3904, 4607, 5477, 6254, 7008, 7388, 8338, 9066 and 9809, respectively; see also the Applied Optics Feature Issues on Correlation Optics, Vol. 51, No 10 (2012), Vol. 53, No 10 (2014), Vol. 55, No 12 (2016) in Chernivtsi. Important novelty in comparison with previous conferences on Correlation Optics is merging it with the International Conference on Singular Optics (Optical Vortices) that early, since 1997, was traditionally held in Crimea. Therefore, singular optics is established as important separate topic of the conference, and the session on singular optics achieves special status of 'the conference into conference'.
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Last year Ian (Blog With No Name) painted up a late Imperial Roman army during the Challenge and said he was going to sell it off. I immediately jumped on that and bought it. The army arrived in time for my birthday.
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The Confession of Sultana Daku (Penguin, Rs 399) by Sujit Saraf is an engrossing novel about a notorious dacoit of the bhantu community who terrorized the United Provinces in the Twenties. As evident from the title, the novel is in the form of a confession made by Sultana Daku to Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Pearce on the night before his hanging in the Haldwani jail. Through Pearce, Sultana addresses his absent son when he recounts his swashbuckling life of arson, murder and robbery. Moral judgement is withheld as Saraf lets the criminal speak for himself. The reader gets to glimpse a man who, while being completely ruthless towards his victims, is yet human in his loyalty towards his gang and in his hopes for his only son.
Means of Awakening: Gender, Politics and Practice in Rural India (Stree, Rs 345) by Sirpa Tenhunen is "a study of women's political participation and everyday practices in Janta, a village in the Bankura district of West Bengal." Tenhunen challenges the widely-held notion that power and politics belong to the public domain, which has little or no relation to the domestic sphere. The corollary of this perceived division between the public and the private is that studies have tended to concentrate on men's participation in politics while ignoring women's political activities. Fifteen months of fieldwork in Janta shows Tenhunen that women in rural Bengal are increasingly coming to the forefront of political struggles, thus changing the way gender roles are constructed and imposed. The spread of technology, such as the building of mobile networks, has a considerable role to play in this process of empowerment. The empirical data collected by Tenhunen gives weight to her thesis and make this a valuable study of shifting gender roles.
Rani Padmini: The Heroine of Chittor (Rupa, Rs 95) by B.K. Karkra is an attempt at finding the truth which lies behind the various legends surrounding the queen of Chittor. In 1540, Malik Mohammed Jayasi wrote Padmavat, which celebrated, among other well-known historical figures, Padmini. The stories about Padmini's ethereal beauty and her unshakeable virtue owe largely to Jayasi's romanticized account of her life. But not everything that Jayasi said was false. Karkra has unearthed the details of the historical Padmini's life for his book. Although a tad repetitive, this is a well-researched study about the queen who was said to be so fair that one could see the blood circulating in her veins.


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BioLite is on a mission to bring energy everywhere. From clean cooking devices to solar-powered charging and lighting, their products are suitable not only for outdoor enthusiasts, but for the many people around the world living in energy poverty. Their 2016 Energy Ecosystem is a particularly useful portable toolkit comprised of a PowerLight Mini, a wood-burning CookStove, and the SolarPanel 5+ with a built-in sundial.
"Energy sits at the center of our lives, keeping us safe, productive, and comfortable," according to the BioLite team. "Energy improves health, combats climate change, enables communication and education, generates income, and empowers women. Creating access for a growing world population has become one of the biggest opportunities of our time."
The 2016 Energy Ecosystem comes with three cool gadgets – the solar panel, the cook stove, and a solar-powered light, the ultimate toolkit for outdoor enthusiasts or off-grid homes. The ultrathin 5-Watt panel comes with an integrated sundial that makes it possible to achieve optimum sun exposure and a 2200mAh onboard battery that stores energy for charging phones, tablets, and BioLite gear. It is also specifically designed for easy use regardless of the terrain.
Related: BioLite Basecamp Stove turns fire into electricity
The PowerLight Mini is a clippable lantern that's really easy to cart around when hiking, cycling, or just hanging around camp. Its 350mAh USB rechargeable battery provides up to 52 hours of light or a backup boost to your phone.
And the CookStove, arguably one of the company's coolest products, provides 30 hours of clean wood cooking on a single charge of the USB-rechargeable airflow system. Literally turning fire into electricity, it comes with four fan speeds that control flame size, so you can cook your food at a pace that suits you. And the best part? No more wasteful gas canisters.
"With every purchase of a BioLite product, you create lasting change for communities living in energy poverty," according to BioLite. "The same technology in your outdoor gear provides cleaner daily cooking conditions for thousands, curbing climate change and saving lives worldwide."


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drove out to harrisonburg, virginia for john and michelle's engagement photos! they met at james madison university so i got a private tour of the campus as we drove around taking photos!
michelle > engagement < john // harrisonburg, va
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Awesome as usual mate. Seriously good.
Gorgeous work, as always!
looks so peaceful. can't wait for our turn next month! 😉
As always, superb compositions. You have a knack for placing your subjects within the scene.


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In an embarrassing callout, two men were arrested on Sunday for attempting to steal copper telephone wire by impersonating mobile company employees.
The men, aged 21 and 22, lied their way into a person's house, but the homeowner suspected a scam and called the authorities.
As soon as the police arrived, the pair confessed to trying to steal the cable, which they planned on selling. Deum Ampil


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Located in Rolla, Hampton Inn Rolla is in a rural location, within a 5-minute drive of Cedar Street Playhouse and Missouri University of Science and Technology. This hotel is 28 mi (45.1 km) from Fort Leonard Wood and 1.5 mi (2.4 km) from Allgood-Bailey Stadium.
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Featured amenities include a business center, express check-out, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Event facilities at this hotel consist of conference space and a meeting room. Free self parking is available onsite.


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Volunteer Opportunities
Seattle IT regularly supports community-driven efforts to develop technologies that address civic problems, such as hackathons. Check this page for opportunities to get involved.
Upcoming opportunities
Smart. Data-driven. Government. Yes, those three words can go together!
For the last year, the City of Seattle has been working with Bloomberg Philanthropies and partners through the What Works Cities initiative to accelerate our use of data and evidence to improve people's lives.
On May 26th at 12:30 pm, Seattle's Bloomberg-funded Innovation Team as well as officials from the Mayor's Office and Seattle IT will share the work they are doing through this program.
Bring your questions and your lunch, or take advantage of the food for sale ($5 at the door) at Impact Hub. This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP!


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As you well know, learning things takes time. And if you're playing Sims 3, it seems like it takes FOREVER for your Sim to learn something as simple as how to fix a freakin' faucet.
But have no fear, those days are now no more.Super Speedy Skill Books is the answer to all of your Sim's learning issues.
How does it work?
Your Sims gain points for each page they read, Super Speedy Skill Books increase those default points so your Sims learn faster and read less.
That means much faster skill accumulation and less time where you're sitting there watching your Sim sitting there reading a freakin' book.
There are multiple levels of this download and make sure you read the "Overview" page since it explains the different levels of speedy skills you can download and there's a "lite" version if you just don't feel right about your Sims learning super fast.
If you have World Adventures installed, there's a download for that too – Version 5 or 6 is what you're looking for. Make sure you only install one of these since installing more than one could possibly cause the world to cease to exist.
Click here to download Super Speedy Skill Books for Sims 3 and get your Sims to learning super fast!


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S.389 - Caring for Children Act108th Congress (2003-2004)
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|Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS] (Introduced 02/13/2003)
|Senate - Finance; Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
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|Senate - 02/25/2003 Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (All Actions)
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Caring for Children Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to collect and disseminate directly or through competitive award of contracts: (1) information concerning health and safety in various child care settings; and (2) relevant findings in the field of early childhood learning and development.
Introduced in Senate (02/13/2003)
Directs the Secretary to award grants to eligible entities to develop: (1) distance learning child care training technology infrastructures; and (2) model technology-based training courses for child care providers and child care workers, to be provided through distance learning programs made available through the infrastructure. Requires, to the maximum extent possible, that such grants be awarded in those regions of the United States with the fewest training opportunities for child care providers.
Directs the Secretary to establish a demonstration program of competitive grants to States to help them provide funds to encourage the establishment and operation of small business employer-operated child care programs. Requires a State to give priority for such assistance to applicants that desire to form a consortium to provide child care in a geographic area within the State where such care is not generally available or accessible, and allows such consortia to include businesses, nonprofit agencies or organizations, local governments, or other appropriate entities.


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Magnesium Usually Low and these may be the meds!
Magnesium is absorbed in the small intestines, with the rest excreted by the kidneys. Magnesium has a direct relationship with Calcium and phosphorus. Meaning if they are calcium or phosphorus is low the magnesium is down as well. Magnesium deficiency is the most likely on inpatient admissions due to nutrition and diuretics.
Low Magnesium is more acute because it is more frequent in the hospital and more issues are related to in that the nurse must intervene before your patient decompensates. Primary causes are related to nutritional deficits or medications. Low Magnesium can cause seriously complication of your patient so having them on a cardiac monitor if available is important. Generally, the nurse should be concerned and more assessment is warranted if they are not.
High Magnesium is gerally uncommon though usually related to renal disease or administration of Magnesium IV. Though acute when it is identified the underlying cause is treated in the same manner as Hyperkalemia. (Glucose, Insulin, Diuretics)


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Via Third Man Records::
How did a Wisconsin chair company, producing records on the cheap and run by men with little knowledge of their audience or the music business, build one of the greatest musical rosters ever assembled under one roof? The answer lies in 'The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records 1917-1932,' an epic, two-volume omnibus of art, words and music housed in a limited-edition, hand-sculpted cabinet-of-wonder, to be jointly released by Jack White's Third Man Records and John Fahey's Revenant Records.
'Volume One,' which covers the label's improbable rise from 1917-1927, will be released exclusively through Third Man on October 29, and worldwide on November 19. The project is co-produced by leading Paramount authority Alex van der Tuuk, and 'Volume 2' will be released in November 2014.
Paramount Records was founded on a modest proposition: produce records as cheaply as possible, recording whatever talent was available. Over its lifetime, the label would become a "race records" powerhouse, its sound and fortunes directly linked to the Great Migration.
By the time Paramount ceased operations in 1932, it had compiled a dizzying array of performers still unrivaled to this day, spanning early jazz titans (Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller), blues masters (Charley Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House, Skip James), American divas (Ma Rainey, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters), gospel (Norfolk Jubilee Quartette), vaudeville (Papa Charlie Jackson), and the indefinable "other" (Geeshie Wiley, Elvie Thomas). Paramount would also directly influence the style of Robert Crumb and countless other 20th century artists and illustrators, through a series of hand-drawn ads promoting its releases in the pages of the Chicago Defender.
The 'Rise and Fall' wonder-cabinet gives equal status to page-turning narrative and new scholarship; original and newly created graphic art; industrial design; and compelling analog and digital music experiences. 'Volume One' contains the following:
* 800 newly-remastered digital tracks, representing 172 artists
* 200+ fully-restored original 1920s ads and images
* 6x 180g vinyl LPs pressed on burled chestnut colored vinyl w/ hand-engraved, blind-embossed gold-leaf labels, housed in a laser-etched white birch LP folio
* 250 page deluxe large-format clothbound hardcover art book
* 360 page encyclopedia-style softcover field guide containing artist portraits and full Paramount discography
* Handcrafted quarter-sawn oak cabinet with lush sage velvet upholstery and custom-forged metal hardware
* First-of-its-kind music and image player app, allowing user mgmt of all tracks and ads, housed on custom-designed USB drive
24 September 2013
Labels: Paramount Records, Third Man Records
2 comments:
- Resonator Guitar Guide said...
This is an amazing collection, thank you for posting. The cuts from Son House and Charley Patton are particularly tasty. Got to give it to Jake White
Kevin @ Resonator Guitar Guide
- September 26, 2013 at 9:21 PM
- bigrockcandymountain said...
Oh my...that sure is purty. Just added it to my Xmas list...
- September 27, 2013 at 12:26 PM
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Bamboozled, the latest cri de coeur from Spike Lee, is about a frustrated black television writer, Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans), who ends up creating a new program for his network -- a variety-act minstrel show set on a plantation and featuring black performers in blackface. Despite protests, the show -- featuring Manray (Savion Glover), a formerly homeless tap dancer who is dubbed Mantan after the pop-eyed black comic Mantan Moreland, and titled Mantan: The New Millennium Minstrel Show -- is a winner. Blackface, worn by all races, becomes the new national rage. Delacroix's boss, Dunwitty (Michael Rapaport), a vice-president of the lagging Continental Network System, is ecstatic. Even President Clinton is shown watching the show and chortling.
Lee loads up his movie with so many hot buttons that the film resembles a compendium of all his previous provocations. It's the Compleat Spike Lee. If dunning and baiting and chastising and lecturing were all it took to create a powerful experience in the movies, then Bamboozled would be a masterpiece. It's far from that, although clearly the intention here was to be more than a movie anyway. Lee wants Bamboozled to be a call to action: Stop the minstrelsy in our popular culture.
The new minstrelsy, as alluded to in the film, shows up most readily on television, which is where Delacroix, the sole black writer on his network's staff, has been toiling without success. Delacroix believes the black middle class has not been given a chance to sample anything more than race-demeaning monkeyshines. His own shot-down ideas, which include a show about a black headmaster in an eastern boarding school, don't sound so great, either, which may or may not be intentional. The implication here is that Delacroix, Harvard-educated and with a phony, pseudo-cultured accent, is a man out of touch with his blackness. And yet in the beginning, he remains angry enough to stick it to his white bosses. His pitch for the televised minstrel show describes it as satire; he talks about digging deep into his own pain, but what he really aims to prove is that the networks don't want to see blacks on TV unless they are buffoons.
This motive is blended in with another: Delacroix believes that by viewing something so offensive and racist, the country will wake up and move on to a better place. Of course, things don't work out that way, and he becomes an official advocate of the show's success and a self-hating sellout. His assistant, Sloan (Jada Pinkett Smith), goes along for the ride for a while but is aghast at what her boss has wrought; her brother Big Black Africa (Mos Def), who heads the rap group Mau Maus, is outraged enough to take up arms. (The group's final ambush by the police is meant to conjure the most notorious NYPD shootings of African-Americans.)
Lee shot Bamboozled in digital video using multiple cameras, and it has the hepped-up quality of an exposé. Some of its tactics are lifted directly from Network, which also slammed viewers with self-righteousness and berated us for the soullessness of our appetites. Lee is a great hater. His distaste for Delacroix is so pronounced that the man never comes across as a tragic figure or much of anything else except a puppet. Even his education is held against him. (Maybe while he was at Harvard he should have taken a class with Henry Louis Gates Jr., who has written admiringly of Lee's movies.)
The real hero of the film is Delacroix's father, June-bug (Paul Mooney), a racy comic reduced to playing ghetto dives because, as he explains it, he had too much integrity to allow himself to be neutered by Hollywood. No sellout he. Lee sees this neutering specifically in racial terms, but of course television is an equal-opportunity ball-buster. It is also, on occasion, a place for great comics, including black comics, to shine. Lee isn't terribly specific about what current shows, or movie stars, he believes are causing all the problems. He exhibits a more generalized anger, and in a climate where black movie stars and comics, despite ongoing injustices, have never been more popular with a wider range of audiences, that anger has its hollow side. The excitement and the craziness in pop culture right now have a lot to do with the ways in which racial categories in entertainment, which used to be pretty clear-cut, are now so jumbled. The racial divide is no longer Grand Canyonesque, but Lee wants us to know it's all a sham. At times, it appears that what's really riling him is not that black culture has, in his view, been minstrelized for public consumption but that so many whites are mixing it up with that culture.
A less punitive filmmaker might see something liberating or flattering or even comic in this state of affairs: Movies and TV and hip-hop have turned a vast swatch of white kids into a nation of White Negroes. Lee shows us white people in Bamboozled, most pointedly Dunwitty, who think they're real soul brothers or sisters, and we're supposed to regard most of them with utter scorn. And Lee makes it easy for us to do so, since more often than not their hypocrisies are right on the surface. The Amos 'n' Andy-loving Dunwitty, whose office is plastered with photos of black sports greats and who has a black wife, tells Delacroix, "I'm more of a nigger than you are." His media consultant, a Yale Ph.D. in African-American studies whose parents marched with Dr. King in Selma, proffers slick advice about how to buy the NAACP's complaisance regarding the minstrel show. The consultant's name is Myrna Goldfarb, and Dunwitty, who says mazel tov and jokes about the size of his nose, is clearly also meant to be a member of the tribe. What is this scapegoating doing in a movie that claims to promote healing?
The film never makes it believable to us that blackface could become a national craze, or that critics would champion the minstrel show as groundbreaking. Does the show's runaway success mean that it's being interpreted by audiences and commentators as subversive satire designed to wake America up? Or does it mean, as Delacroix's disapproving mother laments to her prodigal son, that "a coon is a coon"? The latter, I think. The pickets against the show are led by the Reverend Al Sharpton and Johnnie Cochran, and they are not deluded men. The notion of a craze for blackface serves the film's hysteria about populism run amok in the liberal atmosphere of the new millennium. The film's model is not only Network but A Face in the Crowd (1957), in which a guitar-picking corn-pone con man, Andy Griffith's Lonesome Rhodes, becomes a television celebrity and bamboozles the nation with his homespun charm. (Lee's movie is dedicated to Budd Schulberg, that film's screenwriter.) Savion Glover's Mantan is like a more innocent version of Lonesome -- innocent, that is, until Sloan and his minstrel partner, Womack (Tommy Davidson), wise him up about how demeaning his success is. Sloan offers up little mini-tutorials in the history of minstrelsy; she confronts Delacroix with a videotape compilation of atrocious racial stereotypes from the history of film and television and shouts, "Look at what you contributed to!"
As awful as many of these images are, there is another side to this tragedy that Bamboozled is unconcerned with: the ways in which black entertainers, even in the most cruelly stereotypical of roles, often managed to steal the show anyway with their wiles and timing and spirit and beauty. Who could not have eyes for Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, even if he was hoofing with Shirley Temple? Poor Mantan Moreland and Hattie McDaniel and all the rest are made to take the rap in this movie for contributing to a legacy of racist degradation. One would think, given what they were up against, that a bit more sympathy might be shown to these people. But sympathy doesn't have much truck in Bamboozled, where rancor takes the place of argument and outrage is palmed off as art.


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These flicks are perfect for vegging out in front of after a big Easter feast.
Easter signals the arrival of spring, but that doesn't mean it's going to be warm enough for an afternoon of outdoor activities in your neck of the woods. If the weather's still brisk in your town, curl up with any of these flicks for an afternoon of family fun indoors.
Though not specifically about Easter, Peter Rabbit features plenty of the holiday's springtime symbols. Get your fill of bunny mischief with this modern version of Beatrix Potter's 1902 Tale of Peter Rabbit, out Feb. 9.
In in this comical coming-of-age tale, the Easter bunny's progeny, voiced by Russell Brand, pursues his rock-star dreams.
This one's Easter-adjacent. In it, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Jack Frost, and, yes, the Easter Bunny join forces to save the world. The Golden Globe-nominated flick stars Hugh Jackman, Chris Pine, Isla Fischer, and Alec Baldwin.
Want the Easter story with an entertaining twist? This classic depicts the life and crucifixion of Christ through the eyes of Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston), a Jewish prince who's been wrongfully imprisoned and encounters Jesus at various points throughout his life.
Even storybook towns have their share of crime. In this playful flick, the residents of EggTown search for the thief responsible for a recent break-in. Teacher Harriet Hare, voiced by Brooke Shields, saves the day after accusations go to far.
Nominated for five Academy Awards and winner of three, The Robe stars Richard Burton stars as Marcellus Galilo, a Roman commander who wins Christ's robe in a dice game during the crucifixion. The artifact alters his life forever.
Judy Garland is in love with her dance partner (Fred Astaire) in this Technicolor musical, but he's still hung up on his ex. All of that tension and missed opportunity finally comes to a head at the Easter parade, hence the title.
A must-see for any musical fanatic, this rock opera is based on the Broadway play by the same name, which was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.
A more straightforward retelling of the life of Christ, this award-winning miniseries stars Robert Powell and Olivia Hussey, with a cameo by Laurence Olivier (Nicodemus). Note: It's rated PG for mild violence and may not be appropriate for young children.
Featuring the voicework of Miranda Cosgrove, Niecy Nash, and Christopher Lloyd, this delightful story follows a rabbit named Peter Cottontail as he and his friends race to stop the evil Irontail from creating permanent winter.


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This is copied from an identical post appearing at herogohome.com
Okay, here's the deal. I'm enjoying Hero Go Home myself. And I had hoped that the story and the site would find an audience, but I have about three weeks before I have to pay a little over $200 to renew the domain and the hosting. And to date, I haven't gotten a single donation.
So on the one hand, though I really like the idea of the site, and think I've been doing some interesting things with it, they're things that have been of interest to me only. And I'm wondering if $200+ is too much to pay to continue what is essentially a vanity site.
Then again, I've got plans for the future of the site if it continues. I'm going to be putting ads on the site very soon, and perhaps advertising on other sites as well. And then there's the crazy plan.
What's the crazy plan? Well, how does another novel sound? And not another Digger novel (although I have another story planned for after Hero Go Home), but a completely original story set in an unrelated continuity. The absolutely insane plan is, two days of Hero Go Home content (until the current storyline is finished--it's about halfway done now) a week, plus two days of columns (Out of the Vault and Super Movie Monday), plus another two days of the new novel, a Sam Spade meets Cthulhu/Godzilla story set in the 1930's. That's one chapter and one multimedia extra every week for two novels running concurrently, plus two weekly columns.
Now how much would you pay?
But wait, there's more! Because that's only six days a week, and there are seven. What would I do with the seventh?
That's a surprise.
Okay, actually, I don't have a plan for the seventh day, yet. But if herogohome.com turns into a money-making venue, you can bet I will. So, the terms:
If I get at least one donation before the end of the year, even if it's only $5, I'll renew the domain and continue the experiment. If I make enough to cover the $200+ renewal cost (a long shot, I know--that would take over 40 people at $5 a shot), I will launch the new novel on the first Wednesday of the year (January Fifth). And if I get enough to launch the second novel, the biggest donor will get the option to pick what feature will run on the seventh day.
This doesn't mean I absolutely won't renew the site if I don't get any donations--I'm still willing to reconcile with my wife after 2 1/2 years apart, after all, so I'm an easy mark--but a donation, no matter how small, would certainly take out the guesswork, wouldn't it?
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Easy Bake!
You all can thank my boyfriend once again for this recipe. The man absolutely loves elephant ears from Sugar and spice bakery. So I decided that since I was already subjecting myself to a month of baking I might as well make something he loves. These cinnamon sugar elephant ears are by far the easiest recipe for this month. The flaky pastry pairs lovely with the cinnamon and sugar, and it will take you less than 30 minutes to make including bake time.
This version is not as sweet as the store bought varieties because the puff pastry has no sugar in it. So I compensate by adding the cinnamon sugar layer in the center as well as to sprinkle sugar on top before baking. The whole time I was making these I was wondering how much dough bakeries have to use to get a big elephant ear. Mine were super small and cute. I guess the bigger the dough size the bigger your ears. If your using the Pillsbury puff pastry sheets you will get mini elephant ears not the giant ones you see in the bakeries.
None the less, this recipe is quick and easy. Good for brunches or midnight snacks; you decide!
Makes about 18 mini ears
Ingredients (Printable recipe)
1 sheet puff pastry
1/4 cup flour (for dusting)
2 teaspoon melted butter
2 teaspoon cinnamon
4 table spoon sugar
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees
- In a dish combine cinnamon and sugar
- Roll out the purr pastry sheet with a sprinkling of four so it does not stick
- Spread a layer of butter over the entire surface
- Sprinkle with the cinnamon sugar
- Roll the dough from two ends to meet the center
- Slice into quarter inch sections
- Then take a rolling pin and roll each slice flat
- Place on a baking sheet and sprinkle with sugar
- Bake for 12 to 15 minutes and serve
Greedy Tips:
- For some extra sweet sticky surface dilute 3 tablespoons of sugar into 2 tablespoons of water and brush the surface of the pastry instead of sprinkling the sugar. You will end up with a very sticky honey like coating on to outsides.
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Gaining weight is easy; it's taking the pounds off that's hard, as anyone who's tried knows. So what's the secret? You just might find it in a book, as there are thousands promising to help you slim down, get more energy, and optimize your health. But with so many to choose from it can be hard to know which titles are worth your time.
While there isn't a plan that's perfect for everyone, we found 10 weight-loss books that readers swear by. Download one (or more) today, and then let us know in the comments if your results are equally impressive! (Lose up to 15 pounds in just 30 days with this revolutionary superfood plan from the publisher of Prevention!)
"In 2004 I read an article in Prevention that was extracted from Jorge Cruise's book 8 Minutes in the Morning. Because the article emphasized having 'all-day energy' (which I desperately wanted) rather than weight loss (which was not my main concern), I started doing the very easy strength-training circuit described in the story. After losing 20 pounds in 2 months, I bought the book in order to expand the range of exercises I was doing.
My progress was interrupted by over a year of being homeless, but I continued to exercise even while living in a campground, and ultimately lost 90 pounds. Another round of housing insecurity and some serious aches and pains led to slowly gaining back about 15 pounds, but the vast majority has stayed off. I'm hoping to kick it back into gear this year and get even stronger before I hit age 50." —Heather, Mendocino County, CA
"At the start of 2014, I was feeling sluggish and foggy-headed, my stomach was almost constantly upset, and my skinny jeans didn't fit anymore. Having been told by my doctor that sugar is my enemy (and possessing a voracious sweet tooth), I knew I needed to kick my sugar habit. So I picked up The Sugar Smart Diet by Anne Alexander and followed it explicitly for a month, starting with zero sugar for a week, then gradually adding small amounts back in. Once the sugar cravings disappeared, I craved healthier foods like nuts, vegetables, and lean protein, and my metabolism sped up. I lost 10 pounds in about 3 months, got my energy back, enjoyed a flatter stomach, and felt better than ever.
Kicking my sugar addiction was the catalyst for reclaiming my health, and I eventually lost a total of 30 pounds. I recommend the book to everyone I know who wants to feel better, lose weight, and fit back in to their favorite jeans." —Tabitha, Chandler, AZ
"I'm 62 and a grandmother of four, and I've been on many, many diets before. What I liked about this plan by Keren Gilbert is I found it to be doable for my lifestyle.
The plan lasts 12 weeks and emphasizes eating lots of water-rich foods like oats and beans as well as nutrient-dense foods like chia seeds that help with digestion and weight loss. The plan was so well-organized that it wasn't hard to change my whole way of eating, and I started incorporating chia seeds into my everyday diet: I sprinkle them on my yogurt or put them in my oatmeal. I lost 25 pounds and I really feel great." —Debby, New Hyde Park, NY
"I started the program by Joel Fuhrman because I felt like it was something I could wrap my brain around; it wasn't daunting. It limited my choices a little bit, but it didn't limit volume. I discovered that I like to eat a good amount of food. I had been on so many diets prior to this, and everything is about weighing and measuring things...which on Eat to Live, you don't ever have to do. If I was hungry, I could eat rather than tough it out until my next meal.
The plan is big on vegetables, but that wasn't a terrible transition for me. Cutting out sugar was hard for the first week or so, but it's been 6 years now and there's no going back. I've lost 220 pounds, and I no longer have type 2 diabetes—it went away almost immediately after starting the plan.
I also used to have hypertension, but that's gone, too. Going to traditional doctors, it was never put on the table that you could get rid of these problems. It was always, 'You have this now, so here's a prescription for this.' There was no talking about reversing stuff—just treating it." —Susan, White House Station, NJ
"I like everything about it. The science made so much sense when I read David Ludwig's book; I was so eager to start. The first few days I was very tired, but when my body fully adjusted, I had so much energy I didn't know what to do with, and the weight started just falling off.
There are three phases. In the first one there's no grain whatsoever. No flour or anything. No starchy vegetables. It sounds difficult, but he has it set up so you'll still feel full and satisfied. You need to eat plenty of good fats, and you need to make sure you get your protein, and good carbs from fruit and beans. And plenty of good, nonstarchy vegetables for the first 2 weeks at a minimum. Most people end up staying in this phase because they're so happy with it. I stayed in it for 2 weeks, and then I bounced between that and phase 2. In phase 2 you eat a little bit less fat, and you can add back in some of the starchy vegetables, along with whole kernel grains.
I found my body wasn't ready for the reduction in fat, so I actually kept the higher fat content for a long time and I still managed to lose 37 pounds on this plan." —Jenny, Norman, OK
"I'm an active 61-year-old without major weight or health issues. But once I left my 40s I noticed the number on the scale going up. For years I would return to The Fat Flush, which I could count on for weight loss, but it was a pretty miserable experience being on it, and the weight would slowly return.
A friend of mine told me about Wheat Belly by William David, and I read the book, watched a video, and then emptied my kitchen of all those whole grains I had in glass jars. I didn't have much else to get rid of as I was already eating a pretty healthy diet.
I immediately felt better, had more mental clarity, and my appetite decreased. Now 5 months in, I'm holding steady at 16 pounds down." —Kathy, Santa Fe, NM
"Whole30 is an eating plan by Melissa and Dallas Hartwig that eliminates inflammatory foods like milk, legumes, alcohol, grains, and sugar/artificial sweeteners from your diet. You concentrate on eating preservative-free, whole foods such as animal protein, vegetables, and fruits. If you cheat, you have to start over at the beginning. After 30 days, you slowly reintroduce one food group at a time to see how your body responds to it and by doing so can figure out the best diet for your body.
I followed it strictly this spring with amazing results. Not only did I lose 6 pounds, I was able to completely go off anti-anxiety medicine, the intense pain I had in my knees is almost gone, and my relationship with food has been completely redefined. I now crave vegetables, notice immediately when something I eat affects me negatively, and no longer crave sugar like I did. Since then, I've done a second round and continue to follow the plan about 80% of the time." —Kimberly, Archbold, OH
"In 2011, I had ballooned up to 185 pounds. I weighed more than I did when I delivered my three children, only I wasn't pregnant. For 10 years, I gradually added 5 to 8 pounds a year, and there appeared to be no end in sight.
Like most people, I tried many diet plans and nothing seemed to work. I also tried a vigorous exercise program of 3 hours per day of cardio and weightlifting for a year but, without a proper diet plan, I didn't lose a single pound.
I finally stumbled upon Dr. McDougall's book, The Starch Solution, and decided to give it a try.
It is a simple plant-based eating program with an emphasis on starchy vegetables. It's so easy to follow, anybody can do it.
Before long, I was dropping weight, quickly at first, but as I got closer to an appropriate weight for my 5' 9" frame, the weight loss slowed. My weight finally settled at a healthy 140 pounds. I've kept 45 pounds off for 5 years now." —Shannon, Issaquah, WA
"I think that what distinguishes Lisa Lillien's Hungry Girl from most other diets is it's not all about portion control. It's about finding good food, and then finding ways to bulk it up so you get to eat a lot without adding a lot of extra calories.
I found that the extra vegetables and fiber in the Hungry Girl recipes kept me fuller longer. I didn't go hunting for sugar and caffeine at 3 o'clock every afternoon and after dinner. I snacked less, and when I did, I made much better choices
The plan was simple. The choices were limited, especially the first week, but I liked that. In weeks two through four there are more options, but the recipes were not complicated. After one month I lost 10 pounds and my husband lost 13. We both went to annual check-ups recently and both had downward movement of our A1C [which measures blood glucose levels]. Our respective doctors were thrilled." —Nancy, Memphis, TN
"I love this plan by Pearl P. Barrett and Serene C. Allison because there is no counting points or calories or measuring anything. It gives you freedom to eat how much you feel you need. You do have to completely cut out sugar and artificial sweeteners (stevia is OK), but otherwise there is not much you absolutely cannot have.
The plan is based on the way your body burns carbs and fats. The authors say that when you eat them together, your body will burn carbs and store the fats. When you separate them, your body only has one fuel to burn instead of two and therefore you start burning some of your stored fat.
You still eat fats and carbs on this plan—but you have to separate them. When you eat fats it's called an S meal. An S meal can include any kind of meat, eggs, cheese, even bacon. You pair the fatty items in your meal with nonstarchy vegetables, berries, and breads or desserts that are made from low-carb ingredients like coconut flour or almond flour. When you want carbs you eat an E meal. With this you can have lean meat, any kind of fruit, veggies (including sweet potatoes), and lower-carb breads like sprouted or sourdough.
There's no magic number of S or E meals to eat. You change it up however you feel as long as you are getting both.
This plan has been much easier for me than other ones because I'm not worried about limiting portions or missing entire food groups. I've already lost 10 pounds." —Alice, Smyrna, TN


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"Out of sight, out of their minds: It's a school-trip splatter fest and completely not cool when the other kids in her class go all braindead on new girl Bobby.
The day of the ski trip, when the bus comes to a stop at a roadside restaurant, everyone gets off and heads in for lunch. Everyone, that is, except Bobby, the new girl, who stays behind with rebel-without-a-clue Smitty.
Then hours pass. Snow piles up. Sun goes down. Bobby and Smitty start to flirt. Start to stress. Till finally they see the other kids stumbling back.
But they've changed. And not in a good way. Straight up, they're zombies. So the wheels on the bus better go round and round freakin' fast, because that's the only thing keeping Bobby and Smitty from becoming their classmates' next meal. It's kill or be killed in these hunger games, heads are gonna roll, and homework is most definitely gonna be late.
Combining the chill of THE SHINING, the thrill ride of SPEED, the humor of SHAUN OF THE DEAD, and the angst of THE BREAKFAST CLUB, Kirsty McKay's UNDEAD is a bloody mad mash-up, a school-trip splatter-fest, a funny, gory, frighteningly good debut!"
I absolutely LOVED Undead! I have to say right away that I was on a pretty bad reader's block, I just couldnt get into anything..until I started reading Undead. It pulled me right out of my funk! Undead had a bit of a R.L. Stine "Fear Street" feel to it but with a modern touch. The story was interesting and the characters were fantastic. ***POSSIBLE SPOILER**The only thing I thought it was missing was just a tad more romance, there was definitely some chemistry there.***END SPOILER***
This was a fun quirky zombie delight and an excellent debut!
5 out of 5 stars. Recommend to teens and older.
Special Thanks to Scholastic Inc, Chicken House, and NetGalley for providing an e-galley in exchange for an honest review.


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By Wendell Potter
iWatch News | News Analysis
From The Center for Public Integrity
Want to find out what Congress is about to vote on? Take a ride on the Washington subway.
If you've been on the Metro in recent days, you might have seen an ad designed to make you feel sorry for our poor health insurance companies. So sorry that you'll call your congressman and demand he support a bill would gut an important part of the health care reform law: the provision requiring that insurers spend at least 80 percent of the premiums they collect from us on our actual health care.
Back in the early 1990s, when most insurance firms were still nonprofits, they were spending on average 95 cents of every premium dollar paying medical claims. As they began to convert to for-profit status, though, that percentage dropped because of pressure from Wall Street. Now that the industry is dominated by a handful of investor-owned corporations, the average is around 80 percent. The members of Congress who drafted the Affordable Care Act felt that was as low as it should go. And so they inserted language in the bill requiring insurers to pay rebates to their policyholders if they go below that threshold.
Shareholders hate that provision because the less insurance companies spend on health care, the more is available for profits. And because job number one for any investor-owned company is to "enhance shareholder value," industry lobbyists have been at work ever since the bill's passage to get the provision repealed or weakened. One way of doing that is by getting Congress to exempt the commissions insurance firms pay agents who sell their policies from the equation used to determine that threshold. The House Energy and Commerce Committee is set to do that as early as today.
A key component of the industry's ongoing campaign to convince lawmakers to gut the law is to convince us that they're barely making ends meet. And for that they've enlisted the help of one of Washington's pre-eminent spin doctors, Rick Berman.
One of Berman's industry-funded front groups, the Employment Policies Institute, is behind the D.C. subway ads featuring a dollar bill divided into segments that, we are asked to believe, reveals how insurance companies really spend our premiums (35 cents to hospitals, 33 cents to doctors, 14 cents for drugs, etc.). The five words above the dollar: "Where Your Insurance Dollar Goes." The one word below it: "Surprised?"
We're told that the sponsor of the ad is rethinkreform.com, meaning that it is the work of a front group within a front group. Berman's "Institute" created the Committee to Rethink Reform in 2009 to stir up opposition to the health care law.
Because it is a 501(c)4 organization, the Employment Policies Institute does not have to disclose where it gets its funding—and it doesn't. But knowing just what lobbying and PR group paid a consulting firm to create that divided dollar bill several years ago should give us a pretty good hint.
It was none other than—you guessed it—the lobbying and PR group for the insurance industry, America's Health Insurance Plans.
AHIP has commissioned the consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers to develop a number of "studies" over the years to help advance whatever agenda AHIP felt needed advancing. With a tagline, "Your agenda is our agenda," PwC has a proven track record of being a reliable agenda advancer for AHIP.
So reliable, in fact, that it put out a widely discredited AHIP-commissioned study a few weeks before the Senate voted on reform in 2009 in an attempt to get people to believe that certain provisions of the reform bill would raise premiums. PwC was forced to disavow the study's conclusions when reporters figured out that AHIP had instructed it to ignore other important provisions of the bill that would help hold premium costs down.
I was still working for the industry when AHIP hired PwC to come up with that dollar bill that now graces Washington's subway cars. Berman's subway ad uses the exact numbers, down to the penny, that were featured on the AHIP/PwC dollar.
When we see that dollar and its cost breakdowns, what's really supposed to surprise us is that just 3 cents go to health insurer profits. What AHIP/PwC and Berman's groups don't tell you is that the big for-profit insurers make far more than 3 cents profit off of every premium dollar they collect from us, and that the only way they were able to get the average down to 3 cents was by including several nonprofit insurers—the ones that cannot by law make a profit—in the equation.
AHIP thought up the dollar bill illusion to obscure the reality of just how profitable insurers really are. Over just the past two years, the five biggest insurers have reported more than $20 billion in profits. That's money that could be used to provide millions of uninsured Americans access to needed care. Instead, a big chunk of our premium dollars are probably going into Rick Berman's pocket.
Even though the Employment Policies Institute doesn't have to disclose donors, it does have to tell the IRS how much money it takes in and how it spends it. In 2009, this "think tank" spent just $18,000 of the nearly $11 million it took in paying its staff to think, or do anything else for that matter, and $8.5 million for "advertising and promotion." Most of the rest went to Richard Berman and Associates.
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The Puzzle:
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But the entire fuse does not burn at a constant speed. For example, it might take five minutes to burn through half the fuse and fifty-five minutes to burn the other half.
With your lighter and using these fuses, how can you measure exactly three-quarters of an hour of time?
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I stamped and heat embossed the image then applied Distress Ink around the image to make it stand out as it sort of faded into the background:
For sketch inspiration, I joined along with the current Freshly Made Sketches:
and I'm also joining along with the current Card Concept challenge where the theme is Festive Glory. I was inspired by the gingham pattern and vintage vibe of the photo to create this Clean & Graphic Christmas card:
Thanks so much for visiting ~ I hope you have a great weekend!
Be Sweet ;)


text: Happy Mondays founder Shaun Ryder has long been into UFOs, ever since he (allegedly) saw one in Salford, England when he was 15. (He's also been a big fan of substance abuse, but that's another story.) That fascination with the extra-terrestrial has landed Ryder a new gig hosting Shaun Ryder On UFOs, a four-part miniseries that begins airing Nov. 10 on the British version of The History Channel. So far, only a teaser of the show exists, but if the show's anywhere near as good as this goofy little snippet, we're sold.


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Whoa! What a busy Sunday its been!
I have cleaned, ironed, cooked (first beef casserole of the season :) made cards and I'm fit for bed
I thought I'd pop in and share another card I made :)
Before that tho,
I'll tell you a little story about what happened here last night
"So last night we found a snake in our garden.. every hair of mine stood on end I was petrified! , mart put him in a box with a lid n gave him air holes... rspca arrived this morning to take our snake - which was actually a slow worm 😱😂 so if a worm is longer than a few centimetres it's a snake - I apologised for wasting his time"
I'm scared every time I step in the garden now lol
I have a couple of cards to share using the fab Prestige Christmas Word dies and the Reindeer Dance Edge'able, I think thats my fave one from the collection!
You will find the range in the Crafter's Companion Shop
I folded my card blank and used the edgeable along the fold, I covered it in some ink and glitter, I think the papers are my minds eye???? which I mounted on black card, the circle dies are from the accordion card Circle die, and I added some bling. The Merry and Bright sentiment is such fun! I cant wait to use this more :)
This one uses the "LOVE" Prestige die, I cut it twice and stuck one flat and one of the curved acetate, the poinsettia is from the Christmas Classique dies.
Hope you all had a lovely weekend
Until next time
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Mumbai, Dec 14: The BSE benchmark Sensex on Friday recovered by 88 points on rising investors confidence after wholesale inflation eased, raising hopes of an interest rate cut next week.
Snapping a five-day long decline, the 30-share index gained 87.99 points, or 0.46 per cent, to 19,317.25.
After a lower start, the gauge erased some of the 1.3 per cent losses in the last five days.
The broad-based National Stock Exchange index Nifty rose by 28.10 points, or 0.48 per cent, to 5,879.60.
Brokers said the easing inflation raised hopes that the Reserve Bank of India would cut interest rate in its quarterly policy meet next week.
They said the sentiment further bolstered as Finance Minister P Chidambaram said some more steps will be taken in next few weeks to turn around the economy.
Inflation declined to 7.24 per cent in November mainly on account of lower prices of some vegetables, giving a cue to RBI to consider interest rate cut next week to promote sagging growth.
In 30-BSE index components, 14 stocks gained led by Reliance Industries, Jindal Steel, ICICI Bank, Hindalco, State Bank of India and Sterlite Industries.
The metal sector gained the most by 2.31 per cent to 10,569.90 followed by banking index 1.27 per cent to 14,264.80 as investors felt any further boost to the economic reforms would push up these sectors.


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March 21st, 2013 – Boko Haram Suicide Bombers & Sponsors In Nigeria Are Foolish
1. All the sponsors of boko harams politically and religiously are in hiding
2. Their children are safe in oversea countries enjoying themselves
3. They are not losing any members of their own family at all because they plan and program the attacks together so, they in advance well inform their relatives and friends how to move safe daily
4. The Boko harams are fast killing themselves inclusive of their purported enemies – the Christians and excluding their sponsors and mentors
Therefore the question is this?
Do the boko harams reason at all that their mentors are very wise yet foolish and they the boko harams are the most ignorant and foolish beings ever in existence
How can someone gives me money to destroy myself, and he himself the sponsor has not done so for me to see as example
The sponsors if truly they live God and hate humanity should as well die together with their slaves and staff- the boko harams . They should not hide. Let them come out openly and display their strength.
The people they use in destroying and throw bombs are even better than this so called untouchable and unjudgable mentor senators that the Government of Jonathan has been protecting and shielding
One thing is sure anyway. And that is, that the judgement of God is inescapable by all. Both mentors, Government that is hopelessly confused and the killers
Nobody has right to take another man's life. For all creations are of God and from Fod and unto God
The hiding killers will die some day no matter how safe they play
Let the North separate from Nigeria and let them serve and do whatever we will. It is not by force please
We are fed up with all these shenanigans and the guns in Government.


text: Donovan Mochizuki resides in Honolulu, Hawaii and is a part-time web designer, part-time blogger, part-time chef and a full time father. I started this website with no intention of making it nothing more than a personal family website until I received many emails from all over the world asking about the website and how they could get more information about their genealogy. So, as I gradually add more content to this website, I hope to meet many more Mochizuki's from across the globe. Please feel free to contact me to include more information about your family to share with others. Aloha!


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Fargo school bus driver removed from field trip due to mental health issues
FARGO - The driver of a bus carrying children from two Fargo elementary schools to Buffalo River State Park this morning was taken to a local hospital due to mental health issues, law enforcement and Valley Bus Co. officials said.
After the man drove children from Fargo's Longfellow and Washington elementary schools on a science field trip to the Clay County park east of Moorhead, law enforcement officials were told he was suffering mental health issues, Fargo police Lt. Joel Vettel said.
Vettel said when authorities contacted him, he appeared fine.
"We talked to the driver. It doesn't appear anyone was in danger of any sort," Vettel said.
Still, the bus driver, who authorities didn't identify, was taken to a local hospital.
Roger Peterson, the route manager for Valley Bus, said his firm learned of the incident about 9 a.m.
He confirmed the driver was taken from the scene by ambulance but said little information was available.
"It could be a personal matter. I don't have any more information about that. ... It could be nothing, it could be very serious," Peterson said.
"Because of the nature of the call, the driver has been pulled off his route" until the incident is checked out, he said.
Peterson said another driver will take over the field trip and the removed driver's other duties until he's declared fit for work again.
"The welfare of everyone was first and foremost," Peterson said.
The Clay County Sheriff's Office also responded to the incident.


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I always find it inspiring to read about designers or stylists and love having a small glimpse into their lives and what inspires them. I love the way these images show Sibella's personal style and I would love to visit her store next time I am in Sydney!
Image 1 via Inside Outside all other images via Living etc.


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Planning your wedding can be the most exciting time but it's also more than a little bit daunting. Where do you start? The first step is simply to discover your style. Here is our guide to finding the wedding theme to best suit you.
Follow your heart
Every wedding is different, and there is plenty of opportunity to express your style, taste and personality. Think about what you would like your wedding to say about you as a couple.
Precious Memories
How did you meet? where did you go on your first date? Your pasts could be the key to a meaningful wedding style in the future. Look back even further to your parents and grandparents for retro-inspired romance.
Inspiration is everywhere
Bridal magazines, wedding fairs, family albums... be open-minded and save anything that catches your eye. Take photos on your iPhone, make moodboards and of course create Pinterest boards to keep track of ideas that inspire you. To help you on your way, here is a selection of our most-loved wedding themes.
For the bride who finds inspiration in the past. Lace, garden roses and cameos all make for a charming vintage wedding look. Drape rooms with faded prints and browse vintage stores for authentic pieces to bring the theme to life. For a perfectly placed table setting we love elegant macaroons on our Sweet Plum plates.
For the cosmopolitan bride. Weddings don't always have to be about adornment and decoration. Think stunning simplicity with a sleek white dress and minimal invitations. Layer different shapes and sizes of white dinnerware - such as Jasper Conran's Baroque collection - for a totally contemporary top table.
For the timeless bride. Wedding themes don't have to be complicated. Keep things simple with a refined, strapless gown. Designers like Temperley and Jenny Packham are your port of call for the best in bridal design. Classic weddings call for the perfect little church venue followed by an traditional reception. For the table, let the understated elegance of the Signet Platinum collection enhance your wedding breakfast.
For the bride who loves to travel. Whether you picture yourself in a castle in Italy or saying 'I do' on the sandy beaches of Mauritius, the secret to a beautiful destination wedding is all in matching your surroundings. Just imagine goddess-inspired floaty chiffon silhouettes and Wedgwood Wish silver accessories against the backdrop of an Aegean sunset.
For the bride who celebrates the finer things in life. This approach embraces luxury whole-heartedly. From sumptuous silks to exotic orchids, this palette is sophisticated and perfectly matched. Coordinate a stunning Vera Wang gown with her beautiful tableware collection for a unique blend of elegance and extravagance.
For the bride who knows how to have fun. This style is all about fantasy and creativity and embraces everything: from an ethereal princess dress to playful wedding favours. Think Alice in Wonderland and style our Queen of Hearts collection as part of a fabulous tea party for your reception.


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So Honda's made a Batmobile with detachable bike?
Not quite, but this is equally cool in its own tree-hugging, gun-shunning way. The Micro Commuter Concept EV from Honda is a fully electric car that seats three and is controlled by joysticks. It's body panels are customisable, charging can be monitored remotely from your mobile and the car even houses a two-wheeler called the Motor Compo.
Whoa, back up. It has a bike inside it? We're back to Batman...
Damn right. It's the new Park & Ride. The Motor Compo is a mini fold-up bike you can use to ride the last mile-odd of your journey after dumping the four-wheeler somewhere with space/free parking/no congestion charge. The tiny bike even has a removable battery to make indoor charging easy and so you can use it to charge your gadgets.
Start the engine, I'll be round to pick it up in a minute
Hold your electric horses – Honda's Micro Commuter Concept EV won't be officially announced until the Tokyo Motor Show in December. Even then, it has to make it past concept level and wait for the charge point infrastructure to improve before we all rush out and buy one. And you can bet when it does come out the pre-orders will be sold out to the likes of Bruce Wayne.
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"Good deeds know no limit and come in different ways."
In response to the constant demand for blood in our healthcare system, 60 personnel of D&L Group of Companies signed up and registered to participate in the recently held blood letting activity, a Sagip-Buhay Project of Lao Foundation last May 30. In partnership with The Medical City, 46 personnel successfully donated blood. Though willing, others were not allowed to donate blood due to low hemoglobin count, high blood pressure, recent ear piercing and one just came from a trip to Palawan, a malaria-prone area.
As a treat to the successful blood donors, The Medical City provided pastry, water, and a face towel embroidered with the logo of the The Medical City. Lao Foundation also provided them with warm arroz caldo with egg and water.
For making this 6th Blood Letting Activity a success, Lao Foundation would like to thank the following donors:
Emelita Abenir
Shynna Agbuya
Herbert Christian Agonia
Paul Anthony Alapag
Noel Albanio
Agnes Alipda
Jonathan Almajar
Agustin Almonte
Julius Ansing
Marjorie Banico
April Batin
Jomar Bergamo
Louie Bustamante
Michelle Caumeran
Sonny Comedia
Anne Cristy Cruz
Citadel Cruz
Ernie Daza
Rodrigo dela Cruz
Joy Domingo
Roy Egrubay
Hector Esguerra
Eric Felongco
Denis Gandoza
Ferdinand Genelago
Mary Jane Guardian
Enrico Habil
Manuel Labini
Nanette Lachica
Marlyn Limbang
Argel Lontoc
Heide Maceda
Marco Paolo Magay
Raymond Main
Ireneo Manibo
Erick Kristoffer Mataro
Manuel Mendez
Faith Hope Nim
Michelle Palatino
Jay-R Panganiban
Rene Pardico
Leidan Rose Patapat
Victor Pedroso Jr
Darwin Plantado
Siron Rabaca
Ramon Ramos Jr.
Rico Ramos
John Louie Reyes
Roy Rivera
Jerry Salonga
Joe Mari Santoalla
Rigor Santos
Allan Supan
Alejandro Tagaban
Evan Timbal
Ronel Ugalino
Albert Verdan
Elmer Villamor
Ronnel Zafe
To those who may need to avail of blood from The Medical City, hereunder is the process in availing blood. Should you have queries, you may call HRD-Clinic.


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The mechanism works as follows (I confess it took me a while to work out the subtleties):
- Do not allow clients online access to their accounts
- When challenged, respond with 'It's to ensure the safety of your account information'.
Ingenious - I can't share what I don't have.
I understand their hesitancy about enabling client access - who knows just whether or not this 'Whole Wide Web' thing is going to take off.