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Last time it was for the Tesco Uniform Competition (See Movie Star For A Day and The Winners Story)
Today it was a two lovely people from ITV Wales and S4C who were filming us as part of the new series of the TV show Helimeds. Helimeds follows the work of the Wales Air Ambulance, a vital emergency service which can reach anywhere in the country within twenty minutes of an emergency call and in the most serious cases the helicopters can make the difference between life and death.
I knew they were interviewing in my in English as well as in Welsh and I must admit I was really nervous about speaking Welsh. My Welsh is very poor as I lack confidence and the more I don't use it the more I forget and the less confident I feel about using it. I moved to Wales from England when I was 6 and the primary school I attended was very Welsh and by the time I left primary aged 11 I was fluent in the language and could even pass as someone who used Welsh as a first language! Sadly in my Secondary school I got away with speaking English in all my classes, including my Welsh class, and slowly lost the ability to converse confidently. This was made worse when I left school as in the various jobs I did I didn't have to speak Welsh.
|Translation - I Speak Welsh
Now that my children attend my old primary school and are learning through the medium of Welsh I have started going to Welsh classes to try and relearn my Welsh and I keep hoping that one day my knowledge will come flooding back, but sadly my sink hole brain seems just as determined to keep it lost!
Hubby is a Welshman, but he rarely uses Welsh and the town we live in is very Anglicised. It is a tourist destination and even uses it's English name even though it has two perfectly good Welsh names! However I work in a more Welsh town at the checkouts of a supermarket and I do try and speak Welsh, something that the customers seem to appreciate although they can tell I'm a Welsh learner.
The original plan had been to interview on my own whilst the children were in school and the toddler in playschool, but since my 7 and 3yr olds have chickenpox my mum came over to watch them. I kept my son off school as well as I knew they wanted to interview him as he had been around when I had been airlifted so only my 6yr old was in school.
They arrived just after 9am and following a cuppa and a chat we were ready to begin filming. I did ask my son to take photos but he only managed one before claiming the camera didn't work! He did get a nice one of me ready to be interviewed though!
We sent my son upstairs to be with his sisters, when all of a sudden we heard this almighty crash! The girls were sitting on the stairs watching what I was doing and my son was in my bedroom playing on the wii. When I went in my bedroom I found my storage heater had fallen off the wall and that's what had caused the almighty bang! Relieved no one was hurt, I went back downstairs.
By now my mum had arrived to watch the children, but I did have to run upstairs a couple of times to ask them to be quiet as we could hear them bagging on the floor, each time the culprit was my 3yr old!
Finally we managed to do the English interview and we started the Welsh. Now as I've already explained, my Welsh is very poor and we had a lot of stops and starts and of course the more we had to stop the more stressed I became and the more I stuttered and forgot my Welsh. The interviewer was really helpful and would tell me ways of saying what I want to say in Welsh, but then I would try and I would immediately forget what she had just told me to say! Eventually we did manage to do it and I breathed a big sigh of relief!
Hubby popped home for lunch then and they managed to persuade him to take part. Just like me they interviewed him in English and then Welsh, but I don't know what he said as I wasn't in the room with him. I did hear a lot of laughing though and the interviewer told me afterwards he got a little bit emotional talking about what happened and how close he came to losing me. This was really nice to hear, as hubby is what I call a man's man and he doesn't like showing his emotions, something that drives me mad because I want him to show me!
Afterwards they wanted to film me doing something, so I spent about 10 minutes taking 4 clean glasses out of the dishwasher and putting them away, several times! Which was quite funny! Then they wanted to film me doing something with the boy, so we spread some books over the table and we started searching for The Stig in his "Where's Stig" book (based on Where's Wally or Waldo as he's called in America but with a Top Gear twist of finding their tame racing driver known as The Stig)
The plan originally had been to come back during the Easter holidays as the older two are having a joint birthday party, and film the 4 of them then. Because the girls hadn't been around when I was airlifted which means that the Air Ambulance saved their lives as well as mine, they didn't want to introduce the girls until the end of the piece and that their party would be the ideal time to do this. However they changed their mind and decided to film them all that day, which meant I had a quick dash to school to collect my 6yr old as I didn't want her to miss out.
They decided to take advantage of the fact we have the beach on our doorstep and filmed the boy putting on his shoes and my 6yr old putting on her coat as we got ready to get out. My 7yr old suddenly got shy and refused to go downstairs unless she was attached to my arm, which was quite tricky getting down the stairs without falling! We then had a short walk along the promenade which runs alongside the beach before going onto the beach and walking along looking for shells.
Finally it was over, we said goodbye and the boy and the 6yr old went back to school whilst I took the 3yr and 7yr olds home with me.
The show will be on ITV1 in June, but I'm not sure when it will be on S4C.
If you can't wait till then and want to know what my story was, you can read it here


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Cincinnati Bearcats transfer Jermaine Lawrence has committed to Manhattan, according to multiple reports.
Tweet from ESPN's Jeff Goodman:
Related: Lawrence granted release from Bearcats
Lawrence, the second-highest-rated recruit during Mick Cronin's coaching tenure, was granted his release from UC because of family reasons, Cronin confirmed last week.
Lawrence was expected to transfer to a school close to his home in Springfield Gardens, N.Y.
He will have to sit out next season unless granted a waiver by the NCAA because of the circumstances with his father.
"I'm leaving UC because my father is ill," Lawrence said in a UC release. "I want to be closer to him as well as be close enough where I can have him and my mom attend my games. We appreciate everyone's support."
Related: Cobb is skilled shooter Bearcats need
Also: 14 UC sports receive perfect APR score

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Good morning! It was quite a close finish last night in the Iowa Caucus for Mitt Romney, who won by just eight votes. That about equals the temperature here in Albany, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo will give his State of the State speech at 1:30 p.m. Here are this morning's headlines…
Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos acknowledged there's a "good chance" new political maps will include a 63rd Senate district. (Newsday/TU)
The State Education Department said applications for federal School Improvement Grants were inadequate, and are withholding the money from school districts including Albany and Schenectady.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo will call for the development of a 3.8-million square foot convention center at the Aqueduct Race Track in Queens. (DN)
The Times confirms the News' report that there will be a new education policy panel. (NYT)
The speech will "be about jobs and economic development and beating the curve nationally," said Heather Briccetti, president of the state Business Council. (GNS)
Cuomo's speech will also touch on the need to make state government and authorities work better. He'll also unveil several historic exhibits at the Capitol today. (TU)
Thomas Kaplan: In a marriage of Mr. Cuomo's passion for history and his penchant for micromanagement, the state's first-term governor has seized hold of a long-in-the-works Capitol restoration project, proclaiming that the effort should symbolically demonstrate that the state can actually get something done, and that, even in scandal-addled Albany, government could be a source of pride.//"It's a sign of progress," Mr. Cuomo said in an interview on Tuesday. "When you think about it, it is a convenient but accurate metaphor for the past year. This government did things that people didn't think it could do, and that it hadn't done in many, many years. The Capitol has a new energy about it, a new respect about it, a new credibility and competence about it, and the physical now mirrors that reality." (NYT)
Tom Precious notes these themes have come up before: Then-Gov. George E. Pataki delivered a similar message to lawmakers in 1996 in his own second State of the State address. In talking points similar to Cuomo's current theme, Pataki said New Yorkers had "lost confidence" in state government.//Like Cuomo last year, Pataki enjoyed a series of political victories in his first year in office. And like Cuomo will do wedtoday, Pataki that day thanked legislative leaders — including then- and current Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan — for helping him deliver "a more efficient and effective state government" in his first year in office.//"It has been a spectacular year. An historic year. A year full of accomplishments for the people," said Pataki, who in 1994 defeated then-Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, father of the current governor, in his bid for a fourth term.//Pataki then laid out a plan for the coming year to reform the state's education system — which he said "spends too much with poor results" — and called for a new private-sector job-creation effort and streamlining government. (BN)
Some labor unions and their affiliates held the "People's State of the State" on Tuesday. Some protesters concerned about hydrofracking will be at today's speech, but large counter demonstrations aren't expected. (TU)
Lobbyist Richard Lipsky is expected to plead guilty today for his role in funneling bribes to Carl Kruger. (NYT)
Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, reacting to Kruger's application for a pension, will push for tougher financial penalties against officials convicted of crimes like Kruger's. (TU)
Yancey Roy puts redistricting atop his list of issues for 2012. (Newsday)
Rep. Tom Reed gave some staffers year-end bonuses. (GNS)
The Arthur Kill Correctional Facility has closed. (AP)
An Occupy Albany supporter is co-hosting a fundraiser for Albany County DA David Soares. (TU)
Shenendehowa is re-evaluating a two-decade old arrangement that allowed Planned Parenthood educators to come to class. (TU)
A State Trooper is accused of drunkenly assaulting a homeowner. (AP)
Capital Region legislators want to know how a gambling expansion will impact racing at Saratoga. (Saratogian)
Harry Tutunjian and Lou Rosamilia have effectively switched jobs. (Troy Record)
And here are some national headlines…
By a record-thin margin of eight votes, Mitt Romney edged out Rick Santorum in the Iowa Caucuses. Ron Paul came in a solid third with 21 percent of the vote. (NYT)
While a win, the close tally offered Romney the support of less than a quarter of the electorate, meaning he leaves Iowa with many of the same worries about his ability to attract conservatives. (WP)
Maggie Haberman's seven takeaways. (Politico)
Jim Rutenberg: The down-to-the-wire result between Mr. Romney and Mr. Santorum, with Mr. Paul close behind, ensured that the primary contests would be fought aggressively for additional weeks or months. Iowa is an unpredictable starting gate of presidential politics, and Mr. Romney retains many strengths, including a formidable position in New Hampshire, where he has comfortably led in polls all year.//But more than anything else, the Iowa caucuses cast in electoral stone what has played out in the squishy world of polls and punditry for the last 12 months: The deep ideological divisions among Republicans continue to complicate their ability to focus wholly on defeating President Obama, and to impede Mr. Romney's efforts to overcome the internal strains and win the consent if not the heart of the party. (NYT)
"With the voters' decision tonight in Iowa, I decided to return to Texas, assess the results of tonight's caucus, determine whether there is a path forward for myself in this race," Rick Perry, who finished fifth, told a crowd at the Sheraton West Des Moines. (Chron)
Romney is heavily favored to win in New Hampshire, Reid Epstein reports. (Politico)


text: On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:41:02AM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote: > It's a side-effect of the way byte-fetching was implemented on the very > first ARM chips (a byte fetch needs to rotate the required byte into the > bottom bits, and the final result is then zero-extended -- an unaligned > word fetch just drops the zero-extension). Wow. They really did _rotate_ instead of just _shift_? hm... otoh, a rotating engine is available anyway, and they must have thought "better provide a useful sideeffect". Regards, -is


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Evo Class Index is an annotation processor that at compile-time generates an index of classes implementing a given interface, classes annotated by given annotation, or placed in a common package. Its small run-time performance impact makes it an interesting alternative to any annotation scanning library like Reflections or Scannotations. The generated indexes are compatible with the ServiceLoader framework, so you will never need to create the files in META-INF/services by hand.
URL: Evo Class Index


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What a deal! Enjoy terrific pizza (lunch or dinner, dine-in, carry-out, or drive-thru) at Rocky Rococo on Monday, February 8, and 15% of your purchase will be donated to Whisper Hill!
This is a terrific way to do something fun with your family or friends while contributing to Whisper Hill's mission to reach special needs individuals throughout the community with animal-assisted therapy.
Print this email and bring in the coupon to be sure your delicious meal also benefits Whisper Hill!
MAKE SURE YOU BRING THIS COUPON. And hey – why not share one with a friend?


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Feisty Mercury comes out fighting
Mercury Interactive marketing chief Christopher Lochhead was in London on Monday to reassure investors, customers and employees that the company remains on track despite a US fraud investigation that prompted the departure of three of its most senior executives.
The enterprise software vendor's chief executive, general counsel and chief finance officer resigned earlier this month following an investigation into irregular allocation of stock option grants between 1995 and 2002.
Former chief executive officer Amnon Landan has left the company he founded, with Anthony Zingale stepping up from chief operating officer to lead the business technology optimisation firm. Mercury has delayed its Q3 financial results and said it would have to re-state historical results as a consequence of the misdated stock grants.
Lochhead said the investigation is focused only on stock options, not on Mercury's historical revenues or cash position which remains strong. Mercury markets a suite of software and services that help corporations achieve good IT governance and comply with regulations such as Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX). The stock options under question date from before the time Mercury launched IT governance products, which in any case are nothing to do with stock option grants, Lochhead said.
Landan's replacement by Zingale was due to take place next year, according to Lochhead. "This doesn't change our strategy." he said. "The restatement of our financials will occupy our new CFO but the rest of the business will operate as normal. This won't be a distraction."
IT firms in the midst of financial investigations (something Lochhead claimed is no longer out of the ordinary) normally keep their head below the parapet but Mercury has come out fighting. One has to admire its bravura.
Mercury competes with CA, IBM, HP, BMC and CompuWare though not as head-on competitors. "Our financial reserves are strong. We will continue to invest in research and development and work on our acquisition roadmap... to expand our footprint in IT governance and application optimisation," Lochhead said. "The value of what we do and our financial operation remains just as strong as they were three weeks ago."
Rival sales teams out to exploit Mercury's forced management changes to swing sales ought to be beware. "My advice to them is pack a launch because we're going to crush them," Lochhead told El Reg. ®
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Community Service Helps to Keep Our Roadsides Clean
- May 14, 2007
Dorothy D. Ruppel, age 99, of Lewistown, MO, died Wednesday morning, October 30, 2013 at the Country Aire Retirement Estates at Lewistown, MO. Born February 1, 1914 on the family farm south of LaBelle, MO, she was the youngest of eight children; two brothers and five sisters of Harry and Violet Naysmith Dedrick. AfterREAD MORE
Mrs. Billie J. Hoffer, age 84, of Edina, MO formerly of Ewing, MO died Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at Hannibal Regional Hospital at Hannibal, MO. She was born October 6, 1929 in Quincy, IL a daughter of Robert Edward and Marjorie Edens Burks. She married Arlo Dean Hoffer on November 8, 1950 in Pocahontas, Ark.READ MORE
Elsie Marie Mayer, 86, of Hurdland, Missouri died Wednesday, October 30, 2013, at the Knox County Nursing Home in Edina, Missouri. Elsie was born on September 2, 1927 to Guy Addison and Minnie Belle Stephenson McCarty; the youngest of six children. She graduated from the LaBelle High School in LaBelle, Missouri in the ClassREAD MORE
On Friday afternoon, November 8, 2013, the official announcement was made by Edina Mayor Davy Strickler that the new Edina Police Department Chief of Police will be EPD Sgt. Kelly Hayes. Sgt. Hayes will take the reigns of the department officially on Friday, November 15, 2013, from the current EPD Chief Roger Waibel. The announcementREAD MORE
By Echo Menges According to Edina Police Chief Roger Waibel, on Tuesday morning, November 5, 2013, a 15-year-old juvenile from Edina was reported missing. Members of the Adair County Sheriff's Office and the Missouri State Highway Patrol found the juvenile in Adair County the same afternoon. The Knox County Sheriff's Office and the Kirksville PoliceREAD MORE
On Sunday morning, November 3, 2013, at approximately 10:30 a.m., the Edina Fire Department and Knox County Rescue Squad were called to a fire at the state barn off Highway 15 just north of town. According to a member of the Edina Fire Department the call was a false alarm. Smoke could be seen fromREAD MORE


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Wow. I gained insight today as I read about a man named Gadianton "who was exceedingly expert in many words." He used flattery, others bought into it, and it turned out to be more destructive through its ripple effect than could ever be imagined!
I concluded that it's important that we DO NOT CONFUSE FLATTERY, which is insincere praise, WITH EMPATHY, which is a sincere seeking to understand another's situation or feelings.
I realized that many good-hearted, empathetic people in our day may confuse flattery with empathy. Many stay in more-than-difficult situations because they see what seems to be good in another person and think it's empathy, when underneath, in the heart of the other, there is deceit and calculated choices. Destruction is brewing.
Developing the quality of discernment is important in our lives today. Discernment is keen perception or insight. To me, this must be coupled with the influence and insight that comes from God into our own hearts, so that we may see clearly and know clearly what to do next in our lives and in our relationships.
The influence of good-hearted people is needed in our ever-darkening world. We must continue to shine the light of our positive influence without fear of being used and abused. To do this, I can see that discernment is needed, so we do not become prey to those with deceitful desires and self-centered, destructive purposes in their hearts.
We must also check our own heart and the methods we use to interact with others. Do we simply use flattery (insincere praise) to get our own way, or are we truly connecting heart-to-heart through empathy. We all long to be loved, appreciated and cared about. Choosing empathy is choosing a path to healthy connections if both parties have empathy in their hearts. Choosing flattery leaves you feeling emotionally flat and alone–even in a crowd.
Reference to Gadianton: Helaman 2:4-14 in the Book of Mormon
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Freedom of Expression in a Pluralistic World Order
This book assesses the legal impact of cultural pluralism (which is often indicated by the terms 'multi-civilizationalism' and 'multi-culturalism') on the fundamental right to freedom of expression at the international, European, and national level. This assessment is ineluctable for this age of globalization, wherein the accommodation of cultural diversity poses a profound challenge to the fundamental values of human life. One of the foremost endangered values is thus the fundamental right to freedom of expression. The book determines the scope of the perilous rift that tends to undermine this fundamental right by scrutinizing the relevant political theories. Subsequently, it elucidates the importance of this right for our globalized age through different philosophies. Based on these findings, the de jure impact of pluralism on the fundamental right to freedom of expression is examined and explained. *** Librarians: ebook available on ProQuest and EBSCO [Subject: Human Rights Law, Public International Law, European Law]
Publication Date: 4/22/2015
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i have that crappy fake one that u get from Sally's for now lol
This is a discussion on The Real B.O.P Badge!!!! within the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act forums, part of the Information and Knowledge Base category; The As Real As Your Gonna Get B.O.P HR218 Badges.. Lol http://www.epolicesupply.com/images/products/ep104.jpg But Doesnt Matter Cause We Cant Get It ...
The As Real As Your Gonna Get B.O.P HR218 Badges.. Lol
But Doesnt Matter Cause We Cant Get It Anyway Agency Doesnt Want Us to Have It .. Oh Well These Cheap I.D's Are Gonna Have To Do Lol Lol
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i have that crappy fake one that u get from Sally's for now lol
Plus This Is The Only Badges That Accually Says DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE /BUREAU OF PRISONS HR 218.. Honestly looks betta than alot of the other ones ive seen without the doj/bop logo in da middle lol
I'm sorry to burst your bubble but this is NOT a real BOP Badge. It is one made up by the company for sale...PERIOD!
For a badge to be authentic it has to have the endorsement of the agency which this badge certainly doesn't. The official BOP badge is a circular star burst style...or at least it was when I was in the Bureau. We were only issued the badge when we received a weapon for an escort. It had to be turned in when we returned.
They were also part of an escape kit a staff member was issued (again along with a weapon) if you were on an escape post.
From the BOP site. Policy Statement 5538.005
Escorts who carry weapons will abide by the requirements of Chapter 7 of the Correctional
Services Procedures Manual, Firearms and Badges. Restraint requirements will be in accordance with the Correctional Services Manual.
Here is the link. http://www.bop.gov/policy/progstat/5500_012.pdf
Use Adobe to search for badges. Chapter 7 is located in this file.
Here is what you need to know...(bold emphasis mine)
705. IDENTIFICATION BADGES. Upon request, the Correctional Services Administrator, Central Office, will issue Bureau identification badges in leather carrying cases to each institution.
The Captain will maintain strict accountability of Bureau badges. Lost or stolen badges must be reported immediately in writing to the Correctional Services Branch, Central Office.
Except for tower and perimeter patrols and established stationary check points, staff assigned to duties which require the carrying of firearms will be issued a Bureau identification badge.
The badge must be displayed when necessary to establish the staff member's authorization to carry a firearm. Appropriate badge holders will be provided so as to allow the employee the ability to securely attach the badge to his or her outerwear.
Badges may not be used as methods of routine identification.
Employee procurement or possession of unauthorized badges, either official or duplicated, is prohibited (see the Program Statement on Standards of Employee Conduct).
BUY AND USE A 'BADGE' AT YOUR OWN RISK BECAUSE THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE DOING. Is it worth your job? You don't NEED a badge...all you need are your credentials.
I Was Being Sarcastic I Really Dont Care For A Badge Ive Just See People Post Alot Of Hr218 Badges With No doj/bop On It .. But In My Town In New Jersey Police Officers Respone Quicker Not To Shoot You If U Have A Badge, They Dont Wanna See That Fake Looking B.O.P ID!!! Even CCW Permit Holders Can Get Badges, Friendly Fire Is A Mother !!!!! But Hey I Only Carry My Weapon To The The Range An Back Not Realli In Public So Im Good >..
We dont need no stinky badges!


text: My friend Steve the Audiophiliac published this crazy video of a guy who recounts all the reasons his Nordost Valhalla reference power cable is better than a woman. I know it's supposed to be funny, but the horror-film lighting, the intensity of the delivery and the reasons themselves—snapping his scissors, he says, "She doesn't care if I cut her shorter"—make me fear for the women, however few, who may possibly be in this dude's life. [The Audiophiliac]


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Title: The Shoemaker's Wife
Author: Adriana Trigiani
Genre: Historical fiction
Publisher: Harper
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Source: Review copy from the publisher for a tour with TLC Book Tours
First line: The scalloped hem of Caterina Lazzari's blue velvet coat grazed the fresh-fallen snow, leaving a pale pink path on the bricks as she walked across the empty piazza.
The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. At the turn of the last century, when Ciro catches the local priest in a scandal, he is banished from his village and sent to hide in America as an apprentice to a shoemaker in Little Italy. Without explanation, he leaves a bereft Enza behind. Soon, Enza's family faces disaster and she, too, is forced to go to America with her father to secure their future.
Unbeknownst to one another, they both build fledgling lives in America, Ciro masters shoemaking and Enza takes a factory job in Hoboken until fate intervenes and reunites them. But it is too late: Ciro has volunteered to serve in World War I and Enza, determined to forge a life without him, begins her impressive career as a seamstress at the Metropolitan Opera House that will sweep her into the glamorous salons of Manhattan and into the life of the international singing sensation, Enrico Caruso.
From the stately mansions of Carnegie Hill, to the cobblestone streets of Little Italy, over the perilous cliffs of northern Italy, to the white-capped lakes of northern Minnesota, these star-crossed lovers meet and separate, until, finally, the power of their love changes both of their lives forever.
Lush and evocative, told in tantalizing detail and enriched with lovable, unforgettable characters, The Shoemaker's Wife is a portrait of the times, the places and the people who defined the immigrant experience, claiming their portion of the American dream with ambition and resolve, cutting it to fit their needs like the finest Italian silk.
The front cover flap – and several reviews – say that The Shoemaker's Wife is the book that Adriana Trigiani was born to write. When I see phrases like that in reviews, I always think, "Come on, isn't that a bit over the top?" Well, in this case, it is right on the nose. Last year, I experienced Trigiani's work for the first time, loving the Valentine series. Then I read Lucia, Lucia and it was amazing – I honestly thought there was no way she could top it. But the story of her grandparents and their immigration from Italy was the perfect inspiration for what I'm sure will be called her life's work.
I read a lot of historical fiction, but every once in a while a book comes along that plunges me right into the time period, immersing me in the lives of the people, the places they inhabit. I could smell the air of the Italian Alps, taste the pasta, hear Caruso singing, feel the supple leather of the shoes Ciro made. There was not a single section that dragged, nor a single time I wasn't eager to pick the book up and dive back in. When I finished the last page, it was with the kind of sadness I only experience when I know I am going to miss the world of a book terribly.
If you've read and loved Adriana Trigiani before, you will not want to miss her grandparents' story. And if you haven't, this is the book that will have you seeking out her entire backlist. I can say nothing more except that you must read this book.


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Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) is now investigating Martin Keller, chief of psychiatry and the subject of my book,Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial, according to Pharmalot.
I first wrote about Keller in a 1996 page-one article for The Boston Globe, revealing that his department at Brown had received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health for research that apparently wasn't being conducted. (Brown eventually returned more than $300,000 to Massachusetts state officials after they threatened to sue the university). In 1999, I published the news in The Boston Globe that Keller was earning hundreds of thousands of dollars from the very drug companies whose drugs he was studying and touting in medical journals.
My new book, Side Effects, chronicles the story of two women — a prosecutor and a whistleblower — who exposed the deception behind the making of the bestselling drug, Paxil. As it turns out, Keller was the principal investigator of a controversial study that was widely used to promote Paxil as safe and effective in adolescents. However, as Rose Firestein, a prosecutor for the New York State Attorney General's office, discovered, the actual data in this clinical trial showed that Paxil was no more effective than placebo in treating depression in adolescents and had far more severe side effects than the placebo did. Indeed, this particular study was one of three cited by the New York Attorney General in its landmark lawsuit accusing GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of Paxil, of "repeated and persistent fraud" in deceiving physicians and consumers about the safety and effectiveness of Paxil.
As Side Effects reveals, there is also evidence that Keller and his co-researchers misrepresented the data to make Paxil look safer than it really was. When I was researching the book, Brown said it was standing behind Keller and "the scientific integrity" of his research. Now that Congress is pointing its high beams at Brown's chief of psychiatry, I wonder if the university's tune will, finally, change.


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Retirement ages must rise globally if everyone's gonna keep living longer and we don't want to bankrupt national pension systems, a new international report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development says. According to OECD-an international organization with 34 member countries-the average woman and man could expect to live roughly 20 and 17 years beyond retirement age in 2010. If nothing changes, longevity gains could mean the retirees of 2050 see 20 to 24 post-work years.
See Also: 10 Options for Tuning-up Social Security >>
Bold action is required," said OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría. "Breaking down the barriers that stop older people from working beyond traditional retirement ages will be a necessity to ensure that our children and grand-children can enjoy an adequate pension at the end of their working life."
Retirement age in half of OECD countries is currently 65; in 14 countries it's between 67 and 69. Governments are aware there's a problem: In 28 out of the 34 OECD countries, increases in retirement ages are underway or planned. But they may not be aware of the magnitude: These increases are expected to keep pace with increased longevity in only six countries for men and 10 countries for women.
Governments should thus consider formally linking retirement ages to life expectancy, as in Denmark and Italy, and make greater efforts to promote private pensions," the report said.
Italy will begin doing so in 2013; Denmark in the mid-2020s.
See Also: 6 Reasons the European Debt Crisis Matters to You >>
Last week, the chairman of insurance giant American International Group (AIG) said "retirement ages will have to move to 70, 80 years old." Will people really have to work a decade or more longer than expected?, asks David Francis in U.S. News and World Report. It's quite possible, retirement experts answer.
Tuesday Quick Hits:
- Tommy Chong battling stage one prostate cancer. The 74-year-old Cheech and Chong comedian said he takes hemp oil to ward off disease-related wooziness. Now legalizing marijuana "means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested," he said.
- U.K. seniors can sue hospitals. A new measure allows older adults to sue hospitals for age discrimination, amidst "mounting evidence that the elderly are routinely being refused treatments for cancer, heart problems and strokes because of their age."
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"Crippled? Really? How?"
- OneNote could record video & audio (not with OfficeRT)
- OneNote supports handwriting recognition (not like Officex86; OfficeRT doesn't support handwriting directly on the page. You have to write via the ink input method and use your finger or capacitive stylus. Oh and yes it sucks.)
This can be summed up far easier: It's a Notro app, so of COURSE it's crippled! Or even more simpler: It's Windows 8!
The user in this thread thought that the all new start orb behavior is a bug:
Will Microsoft be fixing the issue with start button, where if one is using a mouse and moves to the bottom left side of screen to make the Start button appear
Nothing against the OP, but that post is further proof what a trainwreck Win8 is.
Reading the amazon.com comments on Windows 8 is equally good fun:
Apple is missing a golden opportunity if they do not bring back the PC guy and Mac guy commercials. I have used every version of Windows since Windows 2 and this is the worst. Most user unfriendly system I have ever used. I needed a new computer and bought computer with windows 8 because I had not choice. When you have to go out on the internet to find out how to shutdown your computer, that is a problem. I have to use Safari browser to download software. Common programs such as Adobe acrobat reader would not download and install using internet explorer. When I tried to download IE 9 my computer states it is installed, but I have not a clue as to how to search for it, since I cannot find a search box as in other versions of Windows. This may force me to buy a MAC. If you are using Windows 7 or Windows Vista or XP. DO NOT UPGRADE!!!
After going through some of these helpless pleas of Windows 8 victims I invented a game - "Designofail". It involves reconstructing Sinofksy's genius design decisions to find out which of them drove the user to tears.
In this case, the user tried to wrestle the beast known as Metro IE, but the beast withstood taming, almost like the beasts in the Bible. Metro IE has problems running the installers of software like Adobe Reader, which like only 99% of the computer using populace is using. Since Sinosky's motto was "no compromise", any double digit percentage number, no matter how high, was not enough to change course.
The user probably used the search function to find software in previous versions, and now that this function is gone, his/her navigation is utterly broken. Oh, I know what you want to say: "But WastingTimeWithForums! Windows 8 HAS a search function, I used it myself searching for the power off button!"
Ya, sure, and there's a chance that below your feet right now is a huge oil field.. if you only knew that! The Metro start screen offers absolutely no indication that it is searchable. It's full of little news items and ad-like graphics. It resembles something like cnn.com, only that CNN HAS a search box! Would you "just start typing" at cnn.com, if the site had no visible search box?
Let's move to Paul Thurrot:
I heard from first couple of people who bought cheap (as majority of people do) Widows 8 laptops and boy the hate them! They can't find Start menu which for them means there are no apps in desktop mode. They go to App Store where they still can't find their favourite programs, or if they find and install they don't work way they expect (i.e. Skype). They go to Internet (using Metro IE version) and it doesn't play videos on their favourite websites (flash). They open a file from desktop and it opens in full screen Metro app with no obvious way to close it...
Let's go designofail on this one.. Oh, I can already hear you! "They can't find Start Menu"? But WastingTimeWithForums, there IS a Start Screen! I use it to pin my favourite porn sites onto it!" Yea, but Grandmaster S. has forgotten to add an MRU list to it! DOH!
How do users find newly installed programs usually? The Start Menu highlights newly installed programs until you start them. The fullscreen successor does not and drowns them instead in a seizure inducing mass of jiggling squares.
Designofail on Skype: Notro Skype is a debacle: "Insanely unintuitive, The idea that one's parents were sitting in front of this piece of software is funny and sad at the same time, made the editorial shaking their heads in disbelief".
They open a file from desktop and it opens in full screen Metro app with no obvious way to close it... - They wanted to simplify Windows 8. That's why instead of clicking on an easy to spot bright red X, (that's faaar to power user for the common idiot to understand) you need to "grab" the application by its invisible head and drag it down the drain so that it can disappear. At least the approach is very apt for Windows 8.
Back to Amazon:
What a PAINFUL experience!!
NO SHUT DOWN/RESTART/SLEEP button on Start page or Desktop or anywhere except
buried in a Settings Menu!! - Why a con: This is just STUPID! Its stupid on
Android, and on other devices that don't have a soft SHUT DOWN button on the
home/default start page and its stupid here too!
NO START MENU!!! - Why a con: You have to switch back and forth to the Metro UI
START Pages, right click to turn on all aps and end up paging thru multiple
pages of icons or using search & hunting for what you want. I did install a
widget that gave me a Start menu, it was Ok.
Yes, I asked for HELP:
I called Microsoft .. Start Menu & Shut off: Tech response: Sorry you can't have a Start Menu or a shut off button, Windows 8 is for new technology and touch screens.
Oh, if Notrocula is for touch devices, WHY IS IT DEFAULT ON LAPTOPS AND DESKTOPS TOO, HMMM?!?
The phantom limb.. device OS. It needs devices, 90% of the existing customers don't have, nor desire.
Look it's very simple guys. "Green Megaman" goes with "Red Megaman" and "Yellow Megaman" to make the "Ultra Mega Megaman." You have to have all 3 or it doesn't work, see?
Welcome to the wonderful world of Windows 8! Were tasks get simplified by invisible controls, essential functions work best with phantom devices and computer newbies get help by removing any visual cues. I hope you tune in next week when Steven Sinofsky shows you on his new show on cable how fishing is far more easier using screwdrivers and toothbrushes instead of fishing rods. Stay tuned!


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Torts (rightfully) defends Richards in post game presserMay 24, 2013, by
After the Rangers overtime win last night, coach John Tortorella held his usual post-game press conference. This one was a lot different than his previous press conferences, as the coach was very candid and very passionate about his defense of Brad Richards. You can watch the video above for the full interview, but the Richards excerpt is below:
"I think it's important to spend a couple of minutes on that out of respect to Brad. By no means is this a situation where I take him out where I'm blaming him. I'm playing Brad on the fourth line, he's playing seven or eight minutes, it's not good for him, it doesn't work playing Brad Richards that way. I also feel some other guys have played better so that's where he is right now in our lineup. It just doesn't work, I'm not playing him the proper way but I can't put him on the other lines becausre I think the other lines have stepped up. I look at the fourth line, I'm looking to get some kind of life, some sort of identity on that fourth line and that's where Brad comes out. You get some fresh legs some enthusiasm.
"I'm sure people will pick it apart. I want to make sure you know, Brad Richards is a hell of a hockey player. He's had struggles here. It continues, me putting him in that role does not help him. So I'd rather have him out and identify how we're going to run our fourth line. So don't put words in my mouth, it's not blamng Brad Richards, I've already heard enough of that crap already as far as this is concerned. He's a hell of a hockey player that's having a hell of a time so I need to make decision for what I feel is right for this team to win tonight's game. This is a Conn Smythe winner, a guy I've grown up with, a guy as a love as a person and a player but I have to make that decision regarding this so kiss my [backside] if you want to write something different, it's not about blaming that guy. I don't want anbybody to pile on him. This is my decision and I make it for the hockey club."
Torts and Richards have a great history together, and Richards passed up more money to come to New York and play under John Tortorella. When it comes to winning, Torts will do anything to win, and we now know that includes benching his alternate captain. It came with the territory when Richards signed here, and now he's experiencing it.
Torts' logic in benching Richards was that he was being mis-used because of his struggles, and that part is absolutely true. He was getting dominated by the Bruins' fourth line because Richards is not the type of player to be on the fourth line. When the top-nine were outperforming him, it was only a matter of time before he was in the press box. The utter dominance of the Bs fourth line exascerbated the situation.
No matter what comes of this –expect him to continue sitting– it should be noted that this was purely a hockey move. Torts did what he needed to do, and he deserves credit for making a tough decision. What happens in the future with Richards (note: likely to be bought out) will also be hockey moves.
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Say what you will about Torts, his presser last night was perfection. He completely covered the game and allowed a thorough explanation for his justified benching of Richie. Whoever thinks he's lost the locker room is probably watching a different team than I am.
Right there with you, becky.
curious Kevin if you still think Richards contract buys him another year in blue? putting aside one game he is benched, and I don't have the numbers in front of me but I think it was 24mil over time this year vs 18 mil the next, do you think the organization would rather pay him the extra year to maybe play and maybe not, but eat the cap space, vs pay him to definitely not play and free some cap?
i think brad is owed another chance because what he did for us last season, what he's done in his career, and because of his relationship with torts.
if he does well, then that'd be great. if he struggles, he's obviously bought out.
Its a really tough call. If he gets injured they risk not being able to buy him out and it becoming a cap nightmare. Again, tough call because he really is a good guy who truly cares and wants to contribute badly. What an addition he would be if he was still on his game, sad.
While I doubt he gets the Wade Redden treatment where they shut him down until buyout, that is a really good point you make. I wouldn't be surprised if they buy him out during this off-season, it would be very off-putting and would hurt the organizations reputation.
I honestly think the Rangers should no longer go after big name free agents, it's a recipe for total and utter brutal finish to otherwise good careers.
Under the new agreement, the Rangers can't do to Richards what they did to Redden. If he is sent down to Hartford, he is still carried as a cap hit. I believe that was written in to punish teams like the Rangers, Leafs, Philly, teams with deep pockets.
I was talking more about not playing him at all.
Bet this writer feels dumb
Good Tortorella read, a perspective differing from most main stream media:
Open Letter to Shanahan and the NHL:
It is time to finally eliminate head injuries from the game. Simply and CONSISTENTLY match a headshot penalty offender with a league imposed penalty that lasts as long as the injured player is out. For example the guy that hit Ryane Clowe and was assessed a penalty in the game should be not playting again until Clowe hits the ice in a game. Players will stop headhunting immediately
I have said that to my friends in the past as well, your spot on. Just think, guys like Cooke, who ended Savard's career, playing on a potential cup team this year, while Savard may still have some health issues. The players themselves should make a major push in that direction.


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In the Middle East and North Africa, where the Arab Spring blossomed two years ago, the bloom is off the rose and many thorns remain. Anti-government riots in Egypt, terror slayings of Americans in Libya, a civil war in Mali that has provoked French military intervention, a deadly desert hostage crisis in Algeria, another civil war in Syria — these were not what the world hoped for when dictators began falling in the face of popular protests.
But this grim picture is not the whole story. There are also signs of progress in the region. And to suggest the Obama administration should have resisted the tide in 2011 is to misunderstand the practical reality that change was going to come regardless. Better to be on the side of democratic progress, however unpredictable its results, than to prop up autocratic, if U.S.-friendly, regimes.
It would be too much to expect that the disintegration of one despotic government after another would have nothing but welcome consequences. The repression imposed for so long in these countries has deprived their people of experience in compromise and tolerance. Building strong civil societies will take time.
At the moment, though, it looks as though stability has yielded to chaos, while the forces of democracy are losing out to the forces of extremism. Or does it? Consider:
Egypt: The removal of longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a U.S. ally, has complicated Egypt's relations with Israel. Egypt's first competitive election ever delivered power to the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood. Unfortunately the winner, Mohammed Morsi, has pushed to concentrate authority in his own hands.
But many of the same Egyptians who protested Mubarak's rule are resisting Morsi's adoption of the former dictator's old powers. Public protests suggest that these more liberal and secular groups retain a considerable following. Arch Puddington, director of research at the human rights group Freedom House, says the level of press freedom also is much greater than under the old regime.
No one can predict, though, what the violent anti-government unrest that erupted in recent days will provoke. On Tuesday, the top general warned that the crisis "could lead to a collapse of the state" — which implies that the military might seize power.
Libya: Americans who saw four of their countrymen slain in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi know that the forced departure of strongman Moammar Gadhafi has been a mixed blessing. That reprehensible terror attack is not, though, the totality of the story: Despite the armed opposition the new government has to contend with, Libya is a work in progress. "It isn't a basket case or hell-hole, and it has pulled off both municipal and national elections, in which fundamentalists did poorly," says Juan Cole, a Middle East expert at the University of Michigan. The full-scale civil war many feared hasn't come to pass.
Mali: The Obama administration has begun responding to pressure urging the U.S. to provide help to the French as they try to rescue the government of Mali from a strong jihadist insurgency. The causes behind the war in Mali predate the Arab Spring events of 2011, though some fighters who were loyal to Gadhafi fled Libya to assist the rebels here.
Algeria: Algeria has not improved noticeably on human rights measures, but that's partly because it wasn't really part of the Arab Spring: Despite some mass protests, the government remained in place. After the deadly Jan. 16 terror attack and hostage-taking at a desert gas plant, Algerian authorities pledged that their country would not become an al-Qaida outpost.
Syria: Bashar Assad resisted peaceful change in Syria, and as a result finds his regime under siege from armed opposition groups. If he falls, the danger exists that radical groups within the rebel forces could gain the upper hand. That said, we've argued that the U.S. can't hope to influence the next Syrian government if Washington tries to lead from behind in the final stages of this war. American military aid to the rebels now can translate into greater American influence later. The U.S. goal: a free, democratic Syria whose new leaders don't cozy up to Iran, as Assad does. The Syrian strongman is wobbling. Time to give him a hard shove.
Tunisia: Critics of the Arab Spring often forget the country where it began. Tunisia has held genuine elections and opened up debate. The elected president, Moncef Marzouki, is a former human rights activist who heads a secular party.
Across the Middle East and North Africa, then, the legacy of the Arab Spring could hardly be more mixed. There will be more detours and setbacks for countries that toppled dictators. Creating democratic society is not a simple, certain process. The worst case scenario: Islamist radicals gain power in some countries and destabilize neighboring lands. But the opening of societies that came with the Arab Spring has also given many people in the region a taste of freedom they don't want to surrender.
The wave of freedom and democracy that washed over much of the world in the 1980s and 1990s was bound to spread to the Arab world in time. In 2011, it finally did. The messy, sometimes dangerous results of the short term should give way to the long-term benefits that human liberty usually brings.
— The Chicago Tribune
Across the Middle East and North Africa, then, the legacy of the Arab Spring could hardly be more mixed. There will be more detours and setbacks for countries that toppled dictators. Creating democratic society is not a simple, certain process.


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Flag day is for… showing off tattoos?
A group of people will gather in Washington D.C.'s Dupont Circle to celebrate "Flag Day in the Flesh," otherwise known as a chance to show off their DC flag tattoos.
If you're not sure what I mean by that, imagine the stars and stripes of the flag posted to the right tattooed in black ink on whatever body part tickles your fancy. The design has long been a staple of the region's punk movement, though there's some debate about exactly how the tattoo trend started.…
Classmates said 'Weinergate' woman was headed for 'tabloid scandal'
MyNorthwest.com is reporting Gennette Cordova, the Seattle woman who received a Twitter photo of Rep. Anthony Weiner's crotch, was voted by high school classmates "most likely to be involved in a tabloid scandal."
Cordova attended Shorecrest High School in Shoreline and graduated in 2007.…
Seattle woman denies 'inappropriate interactions' with Anthony Weiner
She made the denial via Twitter just seconds after Weiner, a congressman from New York, admitted during a press conference that he sent Cordova a photo of his crotch. He also admitted to having relationships with several women online — but said he wouldn't resign from public office.
"He has had six inappropriate relationships with women online in the last three years," Cordova wrote on Twitter. "If it wasn't clear, I was not one of them.
Another Twitter user accused Cordova of lying Monday, saying the congressman said he interacted with her before. She responded: "Did I miss the part where he said we had inappropriate exchanges? Because that never happened."…
Jack Kevorkian dead — what do you think of 'Dr. Death?'
Kevorkian died at the age of 83 after being hospitalized for kidney ailment and pneumonia.
Kevorkian was best known as an advocate for doctor-assisted suicide, and said he assisted in the death of 130 patients. He maintained that terminally ill patients had a "right to die," and spent time in jail after footage of one of his patient's deaths was televised in the 1990s.…
Anthony Weiner won't say if photo features his crotch, Jon Stewart says 'no way'
Comedy Central comedian Jon Stewart recently came to the defense of Weiner, caught up in a scandal revolving around a picture sent via Twitter to a Seattle college student.
Weiner says his account was hacked, hence the crotch shot sent to 21-year-old Gennette Cordova.
Stewart, who knows Weiner personally, says there's no way the photo features the congressman. Then he made several cold-water-shrinkage jokes and added this about the photo: "The only thing that Anthony Weiner and this gentleman here appear to have in common is they both lean hard to extreme left."
Weiner isn't so sure. He said Wednesday he "can't say with certitude" the photo isn't of his crotch.…
End of the world May 21st? Some say Camping has his math wrong
The site is devoted to debunking the teachings of Harold Camping, the man predicting Jesus will return on May 21.
"There is a lack of solid, clearly laid out, scriptural refutation to doctrines that Harold Camping and Family Radio promotes and teaches," the site's authors write.…


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Goodbye to Gumbleton
By Diogenes (articles ) | Jan 26, 2006
Well, it happened 37 years late, but the Holy See finally appears to have pulled the plug on Bishop Thomas Gumbleton. This from an open letter released yesterday:
On Thursday of this past week, Pope Benedict XVI accepted my resignation from the office of auxiliary bishop to Cardinal Maida. In the revised Code of Canon Law, promulgated in 1983, there is a canon directing every bishop to request permission of the Pope to resign from the Episcopal office at the age of 75. For a variety of reasons when I turned 75 last year, I wrote a letter requesting that I not resign at that time.
During the past year I have carried on correspondence with Cardinal Giovanni Re, the head of the Congregation for Bishops, regarding this request. However, some time ago he indicated that my request to defer my resignation was not acceptable. Finally, I decided to end the discussion. On January 21, 2006, I wrote to Pope Benedict asking him to accept my resignation from my office as auxiliary bishop to Cardinal Maida.
To pinch a line from Tom Stoppard's Travesties, Gumbleton was a man "who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognised." His humility was spectacularly well-photographed, and journalists managed to make his private austerities as famous as his heterodox opinions. A minor league Archbishop Tutu, Gumbleton somewhat too obviously relished celebrity and celebrities, and was frequently pictured at Leftist rallies squeezed shoulder to shoulder with Martin Sheen and Eleanor Smeal and the other stars that get to hold the banner at the front of the march. The graf below from a decade-old radical newsblatt, concerning a Justice for Mumia Abu-Jamal demonstration, is typical:
A broad range of organizations and prominent individuals endorsed the demonstration, including former New Mexico governor Toney Anaya, actor Ed Asner, writer Alice Walker, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Jesse Jackson, and movie producer Oliver Stone.
Celebrated as a peace activist, Gumbleton has always been a strangely un-peaceful man himself. The homilies he posts at the NCR -- as a comparison with Mother Teresa's writings will show -- convey less love of the poor than bitterness at their oppressors: militarists, capitalists, ecclesiastics, etc. It's all about class warfare, in his view, and we shouldn't be surprised that his campaign for "peace" takes on that baleful truculence familiar from Marxist rhetoric. In latter years, Gumbleton added gay liberation to his roster of causes, and his recent announcement that, as a lad, he'd been sexually groped by a priest assured that he'd go out in a blaze of publicity.
Certainly the Vatican apparat Gumbleton so disparaged was lavish in its forbearance toward him. Were it half as intolerant as he claimed, he'd have been out selling vinyl siding by 1980. That makes me wonder whether this heartless institution realized that they had damaged goods on their hands, that his need for self-display was merely the surface symptom of a much deeper problem, and that, in charity, the best thing to do was to isolate his tantrums and leave him booting theological nerf balls in the basement of the NCR. The pastoral approach.
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Jan. 27, 2006 10:16 AM ET USA
I prefer the phrase "Mini-me" Tutu.
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Jan. 27, 2006 7:24 AM ET USA
I hate to through cold water on the celebration, but this news may not be as good as it seems at first glance. Gumbleton will now have more time and less supervision. At least, when he was "Auxiliary to Cardinal Maida," he knew that he would occasionally see the Cardinal and therefore might have been a little more cautious. I actually expect to see and hear more from him, unless someone in the Vatican has the foresight to order him "silent" or cloistered. All the same, the end can't come soon.
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Jan. 26, 2006 4:29 PM ET USA
Ah yes. Archbishop Desmond Tutu of blessed forgetting. Of him Bill Buckley once deftly remarked "...he gives the impression of meddling even when he's not." Let's hope that this "minor league Archbishop Tutu" (well done, Uncle Di!) will join his mentor in the shady groves of oblivion. Soon.
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Jan. 26, 2006 2:14 PM ET USA
Bishop Gumbleton should have been removed a long time ago. He came to my diocese contradicting the Church's teaching on homosexuality and nothing happened. He also was blind to communism and similar totalitarian threats espousing a mindless pacifism and visceral anti-Americanism.
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Jan. 26, 2006 1:04 PM ET USA
Sorry to complicate things, Uncle Di, but as of today the Vatican has not published any announcement about Bishop Gumbleton's resignation-- that is to say, it's not official. What the bishop is telling us, then, is that he has offered his resignation to the Pope-- 360 days after it was due. For that, he thinks a public announcement is necessary.


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[url=http://armorgames.com/play/14680/elf-story]Many other players are reporting error with this game. The game loads, AG logo shows up (twice), ESProductions logo shows up and the goes black.I tried with Firefox 18.0.2 and Chrome 24.0.1312.57 m. My flash version is 11.5.502.149. The OS is Windows XP SP2.Thanks for your attention.
Problem also exist with IE.Maybe a lil difference, AG logo shgows up twice, then the ESP-logo shows up, then black screen. But i can click in the black screen, then i was redcirected to the homepage of ESP, not sure if this happens on chrome/firefox too.
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Monday, November 12, 2012
Can I Turn Back Time?
That means I am NOT a Happy Goat.
I am an African goat as I keep telling you.
I like it warm.
I like it HOT.
20° is NOT hot.
Snow is NOT hot.
So I am dreaming of summer.
I am dreaming of turning back the clock and more than one lousy hour.
I am dreaming of green grass and carrot greens.
Join me!
If you cannot see my dream you can view it on YouTube HERE
Aaaaah, wasn't that a lovely dream?
If only it weren't a dream.
If only I could open my goat eyes and see all that green instead of the snow.
*goat sigh*
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I'm with you, Pricilla! The winter sun puddles are nowhere near as satisfying as those in the summer.ReplyDelete
What a happy dream, Pricilla!ReplyDelete
how much snow do you guys have? will we get to see pics of it? try to stay warm!!!ReplyDelete
Goodness,those carrot greens look terrific. So yummy and we thinks that you do like them Pricilla. Hope all have a great day.ReplyDelete
sorry about that...ReplyDelete
I'm glad she got a little respite from the cold, if only by daydream.ReplyDelete
You look very happy there Pricilla. You should come visit the Small Town. Our snow has melted.ReplyDelete
I have similar dreams Pricilla ...ReplyDelete
Oh, yummy yum yum. If you could fit in a tunnel you could teleport over here. It's hot and there's NO SNOW!ReplyDelete
Mommy is SO with you, she DETESTS snow and cold.ReplyDelete
May all your dreams come true Pricilla and hopefully before Spring!!ReplyDelete
Sigh. Such a happy, happy dream.ReplyDelete
If you dream it it will come. :)ReplyDelete


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By Jennifer A. Dlouhy
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz went further than before Wednesday in suggesting the Obama administration could redo the economic analysis that is underpinning its case-by-case decisions on exporting American natural gas.
Moniz also floated the idea of giving greater consideration to the proposed destination of natural gas exports as part of the government's review of those projects - suggesting a new dynamic to help steer the fuel to allies.
"We don't determine where the cargoes go," Moniz said at the IHS CERAWeek summit in Houston, which is taking place as turmoil in Ukraine is stoking calls to use U.S. oil and natural gas as strategic weapons. Making destinations a factor in assessing natural gas exports might be a topic for discussion with Congress and stakeholders, he suggested.
The Energy Department has ultimate responsibility for natural gas export licenses, but Moniz said he "would certainly welcome consultation."
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The department has authorized one proposal to export to countries that do not have free trade agreements with the U.S. and issued five other conditional approvals.
Cumulatively, the licenses would export up to 8.5 billion cubic feet of American natural gas a day, or about 13 percent of daily U.S. production.
That's close to the upper bounds of potential natural gas export levels analyzed in a 2012 study conducted for the Energy Department that forms the basis for deciding whether each pending application is "consistent with the public interest."
"It may be at some point we will need to refresh studies of economic benefit," Moniz said.
Some heavy industrial users of natural gas, worried that unfettered exports could send domestic gas prices higher, insist a new analysis is needed in light of projections about climbing demand for the fossil fuel from manufacturers and utilities.
The energy secretary's day in Houston also included a tour of the University of Houston's Energy Research Park.
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Perhaps the oldest frame residence on James River west of Richmond, Tuckahoe was begun about 1715 by Thomas Randolph. The little schoolhouse still stands here where Thomas Jefferson began his childhood studies. Famous guests here have included William Byrd of Westover, Lord Cornwallis and George Washington. Virginia's Governor Thomas Mann Randolph was born here.
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It's the last day of May, the last day of my extended Memorial Day time off from work and another "first" since Mom passed away from her diseases. With every first, comes another moment to remember things from the past, with one thing leading to another. I'm sure that feeling will ease up after a year passes and I suppose everyone goes through this experience in one way or another in the grieving process. With the spring and summer months upon us, I find this feeling happening more frequently than before.
Yesterday, I had a garage sale in hopes of getting rid of some of the old and in with the new, although you won't be able to buy much "new" with the money you might make from a garage sale! It's no matter though, one of my goals has been to start clearing out the basement and besides, it's good to be able to see a part of the basement that has nothing in it. Now for the other half of the basement and another garage sale in September. You can't move on and grow in life until you start to clear out all of the old skeletons and cob webs, which is another reason to get rid of stuff. It lightens your load and creates organization in your life. Once everything is out of the basement, after the sale, nothing goes back down, it gets thrown in the truck and brought right down to the local Goodwill or some other place that might help others in need.
That being said, it was about 4:30 pm. I was sitting outside just waiting until 5:00, at which time, I would start gathering everything that didn't sell and start loading the truck. Right then a car pulls up with 2 woman and a lively little girl. The driver gets out of the car seeming to have an urgency about her. She asked me, if I by chance had a small desk? I paused for a moment, thinking, should I say anything…am I ready? You see, I did have a very small desk that I had bought for my mother when she had first come to live with me, before her dementia became obvious. She had specifically asked for a desk for her room where she could sit and write letters. I found just the thing on Craigslist and upon seeing it, I knew it was just what we needed to fit into her room comfortably. Although she didn't use it much, that little desk meant something to me and reminded me of her. So, it sat in the basement taking up space until I felt ready to let it go.
Photos: above: (1) Mom a few weeks before Leukemia and dementia took her, Below: (2) Mom in California typing at her tiny home desk when she was still working.
So, after the long pause, I finally said to the woman, it's your lucky day. I do just happen to have a very small desk. Would you like me to have it brought up from the basement so that you could look at it? She replied yes. We brought up the desk and it was exactly what she was looking for. She said that she had been to every garage sale in the area looking for a small desk, even going to some stores but they were much too expensive for her budget. I had a good feeling about this lady and her daughter was a little delight. I ended up selling my mother's small desk to her for $20.00 which was much less than I had paid for it originally…like I said, I had a good feeling about her. They loaded it into her minivan, paid me and before she got into the car, she said to me, I'm starting a child care program at my house and I am trying to gather what I need on a limited budget. That was all she needed to say to make me know inside that I had made the right decision in letting the desk go. The desk had found a good home for a good cause…a match made in heaven. My mother would have approved. Sadly enough, I have no photos of the desk, which almost seems impossible but even so, it was a good day!


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James 3:2
For we all make many mistakes, and if any one makes no mistakes in what he says he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
Confession is a time for taking stock, bringing our schlumpiness, failure and deliberately chosen sin to the Lord, and discovering once again the incredible truth of his tender mercy for us. One of the main ways we mess up is with our tongue. As James says, if we can control that little rudder, we can manage the whole ship. And so, with the same tongue that we use to badmouth, berate, and belie ourselves and others, we are called to confess our sins, make supplication of God, and confess his goodness and mercy. We start the process of healing with the tongue because we usually start the process of sinning there. And we do that because the tongue has roots in the heart itself, which is the seat of our sin and ground zero for the working of the Holy Spirit. No wonder then that both Jesus and James pay so much attention to the tongue, it is the bridle in the horse's mouth. Control it and you control all. But the only way to control it is through the heart. And the only way to control the heart is by the power of the Holy Spirit. Today, seek the grace of the Holy Spirit in confession and walk (and talk) in freedom and grace once again!


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- adj. Pertaining to Cumberland, England, or to a system of rocks found there.
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- Of or pertaining to the early medieval British principality or kingdom of Cumbria or Strathclyde, or to Cumberland, a northern county of England, which constituted a part of it.
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Crime reporter SUZANNE MURPHY investigates what it will mean for South cumbrian drinkers
Our five cumbrian MPs claimed £750,000 in expenses last year.
"A cumbrian man has been awarded" NOT WON Iam sure Mr Riley does not fell like a winner with what has happened to him, and I can speak from experience as I had a slimilar thing happen to me although not so severe, he was lucky he could identify the food that nearly killed him, the problem is there is so much food served out in this country and abroad that you would not feed a dog with it and nobody gives a dam, so could you please alter your heading
n RIP to all those people who lost their lives today in cumbrian shooting and thoughts to their families
n west cumbrian resident 84 to 87, stay tight, stay strong, west cumbrians are mighty people kia kaha
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Gap Year
Dartmouth fully supports students taking a gap year, or a service year, before enrolling as a first year student. Many of our students have accomplished great things, expanded their experiences, and energized their hunger for learning during a gap or a service year.
Gap and service years are becoming more and more common
Thinking of taking a gap or service year between high school and college? If you've been accepted to Dartmouth, this step-by-step guide explains how to make it happen.
Curious about what you might do during a gap year? You can travel, work, take courses you weren't able to take in high school, engage in community service, and/or pursue other interests. The options are wide open.
Considering community service? A service year can be beneficial for the students that participate and can provide numerous benefits to the communities they serve. Dartmouth believes that getting more individuals involved in service programs will have a positive effect on the civic health of our society. Dartmouth is committed to helping students who plan to enroll at the College learn about their opportunities to get involved and has partnered with the Service Year Alliance, a group whose vision of a service year is "A paid opportunity to develop real-world skills through hands-on service." Lear more at serviceyear.org.
If you are interested in any of the organizations below, with which Dartmouth has service year relationships, please apply as directed.
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- Confirm your intent to enroll at Dartmouth by the deadline.
- Email the Assistant to the Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid by June 1. Your email should outline your reasons for postponing your enrollment and plans for your gap/service year.
- You will receive an email letting you know if we need any additional information. An official response from the Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid will grant your request. Allow 2 weeks for processing gap/service year requests.
- Go gap. Serve your world. Take a job or internship, pursue a dream, help the world be a better place, help your family or others in need. It's your gap year. Make the most of it.
- Re-apply for financial aid. The CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE® application and the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) are available on October 1st. Visit Dartmouth's financial aid website for application instructions, following the deadlines for "Regular Decision." If your family's financial circumstances are similar to when you originally applied, you can anticipate a similar parent contribution to that originally offered. Please be advised, though, that if there are any changes to Dartmouth's financial aid policies, it may impact your award and/or eligibility. Please note that your eligibility for financial aid—and level of demonstrated need—will be based on the new information you provide to us when you reapply for aid.
- While on your gap/service year, you'll need to update us as soon as possible after January 1 to reaffirm your commitment to join the newest matriculating Dartmouth class. We'll also want to know more about your experiences and undertakings during your gap/service year.
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- Admitted students who postpone their enrollment may not apply to any other colleges or universities during their gap/service year.
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- The Admissions Committee reserves the right to review the status of any admitted student, including those on a gap/service year, and to rescind its offer of admission if a student's academic and personal record does not remain satisfactory in all respects.
- The American Gap Association defines a gap year as: "A structured period of time when students take a break from formal education to increase self-awareness, learn from different cultures, and experiment with possible careers. Typically these are achieved by a combination of traveling, volunteering, interning, or working." Visit the American Gap Association website for inspiration and advice on how to spend your gap year.
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I mean I've had that thought for a long time but hadn't actually posted anything about it. My thought is that as time goes on it seems I'm actually getting more and more geeky. Why do I say that. Well I'm in my 30's, I play more video games, spend 20 or 30 dollars at least every 2 weeks on comic books now, and I have started collecting graphic novels. Now add this to being a sucker buying most of the collector editions of video games I buy, didn't start playing D&D until my 20's, and most of my joy is derived either from some sort of fantasy/scifi tv, books, video games, and aforementioned comic books/graphic novels. Of course the coup de gras is that my passion and career is being a computer geek.
I mean I've always had geeky tendencies but definitely more geeky now than I was when I was a kid. Sure there is definitely money factor that I'm able to buy more stuff than when I was younger but everyone knows if you really want or need stuff when you are young, you find a way.
Nothing too funny in this post, not that a lot of mine are anyway but it's more of an observation. I'm trying to get back in the habit of posting here on a more frequent basis and hopefully I can stick with it to actually build something out of this site. As I said letting my geek flag fly!
What say you, find yourself geeking out more as you get older or do you feel like all that stuff is for the kids and we should get our pasty asses out in the sun?


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UPDATE, 6:50 p.m.: The Giants just announced that Pablo Sandoval was scratched with back soreness. This is the first I've heard of any back troubles for the third baseman.
Joaquin Arias will replace him at third base and bat eighth. Brandon Crawford moves from eighth to six.
More info as we get it.
UPDATE, 5:15 p.m.: Nobody in the organization would say it, but I suspect the Giants kept Jeff Francoeur as long as they did because he brought a lot of life into the clubhouse, which has been lacking at times the more this team loses. Francoeur's laughter was contagious. Sometimes it helps to have a guy like that around.
But the Giants had to act, not because Francoeur wasn't hitting, but because the bullpen was in danger of being shredded by overuse amid a decline in the rotation (part of which was addressed by placing Chad Gaudin on the DL today).
"Right now we feel we need an extra arm," manager Bruce Bochy said. "The bullpen has worked quite a bit. We were getting concerned. That's what I told him. We were in a box a little bit. Angel (Pagan) is going to be up here pretty soon and we're probably going to take a look at younger players here."
Pagan is moving his rehab to Triple-A Fresno on Friday and should be activated on Sept. 1 if all goes well. The Giants also are likely to recall right-handed outfielders Francisco Peguero and Juan Perez. Gary Brown? Still up in the air.
Bochy said he also told Francoeur, "Don't forget about us in the future," when he considers free-agent options. At this stage, I can't imagine any options besides minor-league deals with spring-training invites.
As for Gaudin, he said he began feeling fatigue in his right hand when he pitched against the Reds on July 24. His performance started declining shortly thereafter. He informed the staff, and Bochy said Gaudin was "pitchable," but at this stage there was no sense in running him out there hurt.
Gaudin had a nerve test this morning and is expected to miss a couple of weeks.
Carpal-tunnel syndrome often afflicts people who do a lot of computer work. Gaudin is among them. He does a lot of writing after starts about the games, making notes and such. That, plus the pitching and extra work he did in the cage to improve his hitting might have conspired to inflame the area near his wrist. He will rest and take anti-inflammatory medication.
Gaudin got a little huffy when I asked if it was important for him to pitch again this season. In my mind, the alternative would be a good rest for next season.
"Of course. Why would it not be?" he said. "It goes without saying. I want to calm this down and get it fixed. At the same time I want to get out there. If I didn't want to get out there I wouldn't be doing my job."
The Giants could have started Mike Kickham in place of Gaudin on Wednesday but instead decided on Barry Zito, with Kickham going to the bullpen.
"More than anything it's giving Barry another chance," Bochy said. "He went to the 'pen. I think he's earned this. I'll start with that. This guy has done a lot for us. I know he's had an up-and-down year. His stuff coming out of the 'pen has gotten better. He's been waiting for his turn. That's why he goes first."
Bochy is rooting for Zito to pitch well enough to stay in the rotation.
Gregor Blanco returns to the leadoff spot. He's been swinging a little better after Bochy asked him to curtail his hitting in the cage. Bochy sensed that Blanco was getting fatigued, and Blanco ackowledged he's felt a lot more refreshed since he scaled back his hitting.
The lineup:
- Blanco CF
- Scutaro 2B
- Belt 1B
- Posey C
- Pence RF
Sandoval 3BCrawford SS
- Kieschnick LF
Crawford SSArias 3B
- Vogelsong P
ORIGINAL POST: The Giants just announced they have designated Jeff Francoeur for assignment and placed starter Chad Gaudin on the disabled list with carpal-tunnel syndrome. Pitchers Mike Kickham and Jean Machi have been recalled from Triple-A Fresno.
Barry Zito will start in place of Gaudin on Thursday.
The Giants signed Francouer in hopes he could boost their lineup against left-handed pitchers, but he couldn't hit lefties or righties. He batted .194 in 63 plate appearances.
I had a hunch something might have been wrong with Gaudin. He regressed in each of his past three starts and just didn't look right allowing eight runs in that crazy 14-10 game in Miami on Friday night.
Return here for much more information after we talk to all the parties, plus the lineup, which has not been posted yet. Fastest way to get the lineup is following me on Twitter @hankschulman.
No lineup yet to face Boston's Jake Peavy.
In Bruce Bochy's first spring training as Giants manager, I wrote this long profile about the man, his work and the size of his head. I interviewed a lot of people for the piece. One person's quotes stuck out, Peavy, who debuted with the Padres in 2002 and played for Bochy for five seasons before the manager left for San Francisco.
"Boch is awesome," Peavy said. "It definitely was a sad, sad day for us in the organization to see him go. Obviously, it was a jubilant day for the San Francisco Giants. I look forward to competing against him. He's a good man."
In seven starts against Bochy's Giants from 2007-09, Peavy went 5-4 with a 3.29 ERA. Then he was traded to the White Sox, and the Giants saw him no more.
Tonight, Peavy makes his fourth start for the other-colored Sox and his first against the Giants since April 21, 2009. Boston acquired him in a deadline deal to help win the American League East.
Peavy is no stranger to this ballpark. In 13 starts at AT&T he was 8-5 with a 4.06 ERA. But it would be wrong to say he's familiar with the Giants, because he hasn't faced Brandon Belt, Brandon Crawford, Buster Posey,
The only current Giant who saw Peavy more than 10 times was Francoeur (11-for-32), and, well, he's no longer an option.
Facing Peavy will be Ryan Vogelsong, who really struggled in the second of his two starts off the disabled list in Washington last week. The velocity is not there and he did not pitch with enough command to compensate.
One player to watch tonight is Brandon Belt. After hitting .432 with a 1.389 OPS over 10 games he has gone o-for-11 in his past three. Belt is striving for consistency. He cannot let little slumps turn into big ones.
Two Red Sox notes: 20-year-old Xander Bogaerts makes his big-league debut at short batting seventh. Also, Mike Carp is playing first base, so no David Ortiz in the lineup.


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