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So, it's OK for chatter, where you can make corrections if the search takes you to the wrong place, but at the risk of repeating myself, it's nearly useless for people like me.
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Grandma's cookin' and childhood toys sure bring back lots of warm fuzzies! Here is a yummy Cabbage Patch Soup recipe that is a combination of both!...
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So simple. Just buy already cooked rotisere chicken!
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Easy buffalo chicken recipe made in the slow cooker, delicious buffalo flavor and easy chicken meal
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China has started issuing new, high-tech passports which contain an electronic chip that includes the holder's fingerprints, signature and photographs.
The new passports will help "maintain State security and facilitate citizens' traveling abroad," said the Ministry of Public Security in Beijing.
"It uses advanced anti-counterfeiting technologies, including special ink and holographic images. It's pretty much like the technologies used in biometric passports adopted in other countries," a police officer surnamed Tang with the accreditation section of the passport office in Beijing, told the Global Times.
The ministry said there are more than 90 countries that use biometric passports to fight fraud and protect border security.
Some people, however, worry that too much personal information is contained in the new passport.
"With extensive personal data stored in it, people could know everything about you, which is a problem everywhere in the world," said Jaap Kreeftenberg, who travels with an e-passport from the Netherlands, which adopted biometric passports in 2006.
"Overall, I think it's a positive move in the long run as it will make global traveling easier and faster," Kreeftenberg, who was doing business at the Beijing Exit-Entry Administration (BEEA) office, told the Global Times.
A local resident surnamed Li became the first to apply for an e-passport.
"I decided to get a new one because the e-passport is safer to travel with. It only takes an extra 30 seconds to take your fingerprints," said Li, adding that the e-passport is also more convenient as he will be able to use it at self-serve checkpoints instead of waiting in long queues.
Lin Song, media officer of BEEA, said there is no extra charge for an e-passport and the citizens will not need to apply until their current passport expires.
"The system is aiming to benefit e-passport holders by providing a simple way of going through customs checks," said Lin.


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During the first year of operation, the airport served more than one million passengers, through its five commercial airlines. The airport has been renovated and expanded throughout the years to improve services for its Sacramento area passengers.
The airport was the first to offer a consolidated rental car terminal, that has helped reduce congestion near the terminals. Passengers have a choice to travel to several major U.S. cities, as well as to Guadalajara, Mexico, aboard one from the eleven commercial airlines, from the airport's two terminals.
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I know it's only Wednesday and the week is not yet done, but it's been pretty packed thus far.
Thought I'd share some moments with you…
I thought I would try out a local bakery that I've walked and drove by many times. Kate's Town Talk Bakery had some serious desserts.
*wiping drool off face*
Recently my husband and I started this new tradition where every weekend we would take turns in finding and trying a new eatery. This Sunday it was my turn, and seeing as I'm a girl who LOVES hole-in-the-wall eateries with (probably unhealthy, but) oh-so-delicious food, I looked under the 'Bargain Gems' section on my urbanspoon app, and found this:


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JERUSALEM — Israeli troops shot to death two Palestinians, including a mother of eight children, during a clash Wednesday in a West Bank village, Palestinians said. The army also rolled back into a Palestinian town in the Gaza Strip a day after pulling out.
With Israel still recovering from five suicide bombings in recent days, the military said it had uncovered a major bombmaking operation in the West Bank city of Nablus and two large roadside bombs in Gaza that were intended to destroy armored vehicles.


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Winnipeg's Largest Stone and Ceramic Showroom
A family-owned business serving the Winnipeg area for over 25 years, Carrara Tile & Marble Ltd. carries a large selection of stone and ceramic products to help our customers beautifully renovate their homes or businesses. Offering sales and installations, our business is based primarily on prompt, personalized service, and affordable prices. We take the time to speak with each client. Whether they are completing the renovation themselves or we are doing the installation for them, we ensure all products and renovations are paired accordingly for the best-possible results. See our list of exclusive name-brand suppliers.
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Whether you have a design idea already in mind or require some recommendations on what would best suit your project, we can accommodate you. We help our clients make decisions on everything from colour and style to the type of building material they want to use to get their projects started off in the right direction. No matter what your set budget is, we're dedicated to ensuring our clients leave here feeling comfortable, armed with all of the right products and necessary information to get the job done according to their unique specifications.
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Gallery: Kevin's Raleigh Gran Sport
[Kevin sent us this photo of his Raleigh Gran Sport. —ed.]
This picture shows my 1982 Raleigh Gran Sport acquired on eBay 2 years ago. I wanted a bike that echoed the ones I admired in the 60's and 70's; a Reynolds 531 steel framed, English classic. This 'top end' frame was built in the Special Products division alongside the race team bikes.
This Raleigh has been with me for a year and a half and I decided to rebuild it, not as a faithful restoration but as a base for a modern, reliable and effective day tourer. Here you see it in it's penultimate form. I made some mistakes in choosing the cassette and crankset rendering the beautiful Nuovo Record rear derailleur obsolete. While it would reach across the 10 speed cassette it fouled the 29 cog with the sprocket cage. The bike now has a Daytona derailleur and works perfectly.
The frame was resprayed by our local metal sprayer, powder coated in a deep burgundy, the cream detailing I did with a spray can and Replica decals were obtained from H Lloyd in the UK.
The Campagnolo seat post, Cinelli Bars and Stem are original, as are the Gran Sport levers. The leather bar tape, bar end plugs and saddle came from Gilles Berthoud.
The original Weinman concave rimmed wheels were still in decent shape but are heavy and have old style cotter bearings which I did not want to keep servicing and so I fitted Mavic Aksium wheels, a Campag Centaur 10 speed cassette, bottom bracket and cranks. Token pedals and toeclips keep my feet comfy and a Velo Orange bottle cage finishes the bike nicely.
The picture was taken early one summer morning in the Surrey Hills at the top of Boxhill (only 600 feet in elevation, nothing too exigent). There is a cafe and National Trust exhibition centre there, much loved by the cycling community from all over the South east as a destination. Boxhill will be included in the 120 mile London Surrey cycle race that forms part of the preparations for the 2012 Olympics to be held in London.


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Indiecade East
Growing out of IndieCade, IndieCade East is a celebration of what makes independent games so important. While IndieCade has always focused on giving the Independent Game community both a home and a voice from its headquarters in Los Angeles, IndieCade East is about inviting the general public into that home and making indies heard throughout the world.
The game making scene in New York is one of the most vibrant, producing 16 IndieCade Official Selections in 2012 alone. What's more, the east coast boasts some of the most successful indies, inspiring academics, and best game journalist. With IndieCade East, we wanted to introduce these brilliant minds to a whole new audience.


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Variation in plants and animals gives us a rich and robust assemblage
of foods, medicines, industrial materials and recreation activities.
But human activities are eliminating biological diversity at an
unprecedented rate.
A new UC Davis study offers clues to how these losses relate to one
another -- information that is essential as scientists and land
managers strive to protect the remaining natural variation.
Sharon Strauss, a professor of evolution and ecology, and former
doctoral student Richard Lankau (now a post-doctoral researcher at the
University of Missouri-St. Louis and the University of Illinois),
studied competition among genetically varied plants of one species
(black mustard, Brassica nigra), and among black mustard and plants of
other species.
"This is one of the first studies to show that genetic diversity and
species diversity depend on each other," Lankau said. "Diversity within
a species is necessary to maintain diversity among species, and at the
same time, diversity among species is necessary to maintain diversity
within a species.
"And if any one type is removed from the system, the cycle can break
down, and the community becomes dominated by a single species."
The research was funded by the National Science Foundation. The
paper, titled "Mutual feedbacks maintain both genetic and species
diversity in a plant community," was published in the Sept. 14 issue of
the journal Science.
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After retiring from the faculty of architecture at the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University, I have continued to pursue life-long professional interests in the way that architectural environments contribute to our quality of life—a subject that led me to the particular role of the college and university campus as a setting for an academic community—and personal interests in the vernacular architecture of small towns and villages that rarely receive historical attention. Included on this website are selected thoughts on these subjects. Comments are appreciated.
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Wouldn't Adam Sandler movie trailers be so much better if the studios took a page from the foreign film marketing book and replaced all the lame sight gags and expository narration with a ambient Euro dance music? I for one would contribute to the opening weekend box office take.
Which brings us to Pedro Almodóvar's latest movie, The Skin I Live In. It doesn't open in theaters until October 14 but you can jam along to the trailer and its thumpin' soundtrack starting now. The movie, which will have it's North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend, is a loose adaptation of author Thierry Jonquet's potboiler Tarantula and stars Antonio Banderas as a sexy-yet-psychotic plastic surgeon attempting to create a new kind of skin resistant to injury. See you in line!


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WinAVI Video Converter is a nice little video conversion utility that creates VCDs, SVCDs, and DVDs.
We converted a number of files to WMV, AVI, RM (Realmedia) and MPEG-1/2 using the program and created a single DVD with nary a problem. However, it doesn't convert to iPod or any other MPEG-4/h.264 format.
As well as in effect counting out the world's number one media player, this aspect if WinAVI Video Converter is an issue in terms of disk space - h.264 can save you a lot of it compared to AVI, WMV and MPEG-1/2.
Visit PC Advisor's Digital World for more news on home entertainment technology
The other thing lacking in WinAVI Video Converter is FLV import (the favoured format of YouTube and may other video sites), for which you'll need to buy a different product from the company - WinAVI FLV Converter.
The WinAVI Video Converter interface is elegant and simple. Choose the destination format using the buttons on the main screen, choose a file to convert and its destination, then click ok and wait.
Unfortunately, though we had the latest version of Quicktime Lite installed, WinAVI Video Converter didn't recognise it. We went to the full version of Quicktime and WinAVI Converter still balked. This seemed odd, as it did seem to recognise other DirectShow filters such as Xvid.
WinAVI Video Converter: Specs
- Pentium II 233 PC or higher
- 32MB RAM or more
- DVDRW/CDRW burner (Optional)
- Windows NT/2000/9.x/Me/XP/Server 2003
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- Pentium II 233 PC or higher
- 32MB RAM or more
- DVDRW/CDRW burner (Optional)
- Windows NT/2000/9.x/Me/XP/Server 2003
- 800x600 pixel screen
WinAVI Video Converter works as advertised, although to get rid of the free demo version's watermarks you'll need to shell out $30 (the price is in dollars, even on the UK site). Our only caveat is that if you work with video often, you might be happier in the long run with something more full-featured (if more expensive). Cyberlink's PowerDirector, for instance, supports more formats (including FLV and h.264), and offers video editing to boot.


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Palestinian Queers for BDS (PQBDS) exists to promote Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against race-based, racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel (see: http://queersagainstapartheid.org/ ).
Palestinian Queers for BDS (PQBDS) statement on their important victory in convincing the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Youth and Student Organization (IGLYO) to reverse its decision to hold its general assembly in Israel (2011): "Palestinian queer groups welcome the decision by the board of IGLYO to withdraw their annual General Assembly conference from Tel Aviv, Israel. Since June 1st, a campaign to get 'IGLYO Out of Israel' was launched byPalestinian Queer Groups to protest the organization's decision to hold its General Assembly in Tel Aviv, and accept funding from the Israeli government, followed by a call to boycott the conference after IGLYO declined to change its location. We take this opportunity to salute IGLYO Member and Associate Organizations who took a principled and moral stance in support of our rights and headed our calls, including NUS-LGBTQ, Kaos-GL and Pembe Hayat fromTurkey; BelonG To, the Ireland LGBT youth organization; and Helem – Lebanese Protection for LQBTIQ, and IGLCN – The International Gay and Lesbian Cultural Network. This can only be seen as a continuation of the beautiful spirit of global solidarity, dominant during the South African anti-apartheid struggle and ongoing in solidarity with the rights of the Palestinian people, and oppressed people everywhere. We also call on other member organizations, and IGLYO to fully respect the Palestinian civil society call for BDS until Israel ends its oppression of the Palestinian people.
Palestinian Queer groups have launched this campaign in protest of the location's conference, and acceptance of funding from the Israeli government, which directly implicates IGLYO in Israel's occupation, colonization and apartheid, and Israeli efforts to 're-brand' Israel. Israeli policies and occupation do not distinguish between queer and straight. All Palestinians—queer and straight— must deal with the effects of Israel's apartheid system, illegal wall and colonial settlements, and military occupation. Furthermore, Palestinians in Gaza live under medieval and illegal siege, and the largest open-air prison in the world. Like all Palestinian citizens of Israel, queers are subject to institutionalized discrimination in all walks of life, and Palestinian refugees are denied their basic, UN-sanctioned right of return.
In light of this effective and commendable solidarity with our call for boycott of IGLYO's GA in Israel, this decision by the IGLYO board can only be seen as a direct result of effective pressure from the IGLYO Out of Israel campaign and the strong moral stand taken by several IGLYO member and associate organizations, and other international groups. We urge other believe that Member Organizations and the IGLYO Board of Directors to heed our call, and respect our picket line by boycotting all complicit Israeli institutions, and any events that are in violation of the BDS call.
We, however, were disappointed by the vague reasoning and language used in IGLYO's statement announcing the cancellation, and the complete ignorance of the calls and reasoning provided by Palestinian queer groups in opposition of the conference's location. IGLYO cited 'recent legal changes in Israel' as a reason for their decision, they did not specify the nature of these changes, or why they are problematic, and thus did not address the underlying issues at the heart of the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and thus Israel's violations of Palestinian rights. This kind of wishy-washy reasoning allows IGLYO to back down from an unpopular decision, under pressure, while avoiding taking a stance on Israeli violations. A number of repressive laws have recently been passed in the Israeli parliament, including the anti-BDS law, and the Nakba law, and are part of an ongoing pattern of repressive laws that aim to further narrow the already dismal margin of freedoms available to those protesting Israel's occupation, colonialism and system of racial discrimination and to effectively criminalize Palestinian non-violent resistance and solidarity with it. These laws, however, are but a part of a 63-year old policy of systematic discrimination against the Palestinian people. It isn't just recent laws that should raise 'concerns,' but all the patently racist laws that have been passed by the Israeli Knesset throughout the last 63 years aiming to maintain a system of domination of one racial group over another…" [1].
[1]. QuAIA congratulates Palestinian Queers for BDS on victory in moving IGLYO meeting from Tel Aviv", QuAIA, 29 July 2011: http://queersagainstapartheid.org/ .


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The scene could open a teen action movie: Police surround Miley Cyrus' mansion, weapons drawn, watching for an armed kidnapper to slip out the back door.
Any second now.
Shocking twist! The house is empty (and the unsuspecting singer is probably at some swanky West Hollywood restaurant, feeding sushi to fiance Liam Hemsworth in a corner booth.)
On Wednesday night, Cyrus was the target of "swatting" -- a prank in which an anonymous caller reports a heinous crime to authorities so a SWAT team will swarm an innocent person's home -- TMZ reported.
The caller, whom Los Angeles police are said to be tracking, told a 911 operator that Cyrus' property had been invaded by a kidnapper and there had been a shooting.


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I'll roughly translate it. I'm using this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwxSAJG8EIU but it starts half way. If you have another video, please share. The one with some foreign language commentary makes it hard to catch Hanyu's words.
Hanyu: I was a little tired in the 2nd half.
Interviewer: What was your condition in the 2nd half?
Hanyu: I was able to perform quite well in the first half, but I got tired in the 2nd half.
Interviewer: Were you affected by the jump?
Hanyu: The jump did greatly affect me, but falling on the spin was not good, so I have to practice much much more.
Interviewer: Your reaction after the free looked totally different from that in SA.
Hanyu: I went into the free with a different mood and I practiced a lot this time so I had confidence going into the free.
Interviewer: Your senior Takahashi Daisuke almost made a comeback, how do you feel about that?
Hanyu: I could hear the cheering before my turn, and I thought he must have done well, so I relaxed a little and I think I was able to concentrate better thereafter.
Interviewer: How do you feel about winning Takahashi?
Hanyu: I don't feel like I have won him, but I did well in both sp and fs, so perhaps that's why I won.
Interviewer: This time's competition is in Miyagi, how do you feel about it?
Hanyu: On the bus, what I saw made me feel like ah this is where I lived, so I was quite calm.
Interviewer: Next is the GP final, a big meet, how do you want to perform?
Hanyu: I am very happy that 4 Japanese men are going to GPF, so I won't feel nervous and I won't feel foreign, so I want to perform better and to a higher level.
Interviewer: I look forward to it. Thank you.
Hanyu: Thank you.
ETA I found another interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuNQoUyxdZw not sure which is the one you want.
Interviewer: Congratulations.
Hanyu: Thank you.
Interviewer: This loud cheer, and your first NHK win, how do you feel?
Hanyu: Frankly, I feel that I could have done better in my SP (!!!), but my movements are smoother than in SA, which I think is owed to everyone's support.
Interviewer: Was there a big plus that this competition was held in your hometown?
Hanyu: Yeah, I feel thankful to be in my hometown and I can feel calm in this environment so I could relax. Even though I didn't do very well, I think I did good.
Interviewer: Takahashi caught up quite a bit, how do you feel?
Hanyu: Well this is my hometown, and a lot of people came to watch, so I thought that if I harnessed the crowd's cheer and support and skate till the end, everything should go smoothly.
Interviewer: Your 1st half was very good.
Hanyu: Yeah, but I tripped in the salchow, but I stood up most jumps, but I got a little tired in the 2nd half, so I think I need to practice more.
Interviewer: So GPF is decided, and a lot of fans are looking forward to it, may I have your thoughts?
Hanyu: Getting first and going to GPF is a very good feeling and I'm very happy that I could win NHK in my hometown.
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It's Good To Be Lea MicheleMatt Richenthal at . Comments
Lea Michele is having a very good week.
The singer will be part of the pregame festivities at Super Bowl XLV, singing "America the Beautiful." She joins other artists that have enjoyed this honor, such as Faith Hill, Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige, Marc Anthony, Ray Charles and Vicki Carr.
The Glee star, who will be seen on "Thriller" immediately following the game, also covers the latest issue of Cosmopolitan - and looks sizzling while doing so!
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New release from the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Paul Moravec (b. 1957) Emily Pulley, soprano Deborah Selig, soprano Erica Brookhyser, mezzo-soprano Matthew DiBattista, tenor David Kravitz, baritone David Cushing, bass-baritone NEC Concert Choir Boston Modern Orchestra Project Gil Rose, conductor To order… Read more »
New CD: Paul Moravec – Violin Concerto
Paul Moravec on Naxos featuring Violin Concerto, Shakuhachi Quintet, Equilibrium, and Evermore featuring Maria Bachmann, violin; James Nyoraku Schefler, shakuhachi; Stephen Gosling, piano, Voxare String Quartet, Symphony in C conducted by Rossen Milanov. Read more »
Nashville NPR: All's Well That Ends Well For Nashville Ensembles' Delayed Release Based On Shakespeare
Nashville NPR's review of Amorisms highlighted by Paul Moravec saying that William Shakespeare has "been very good to me over the years" and noting that Shakespeare "makes us smarter as an audience." Access the full article… Read more »
Nashville Scene: Another "Amorisms" Review
Nashville Scene has a lengthy and thoughtful review of Paul Moravec's Amorisms: "Alias Chamber Ensemble and Portara Ensemble's new album gives composer Paul Moravec and Shakespeare their due" The article describes the origin of the project: "The inspiration for Amorisms came to Moravec after a visit to the Bard's birthplace in Stratford-Upon-Avon. The work, which […] Read more »
The Tennessean: More on "Amorisms"
The Tennessean reports on the newly released album, Amorisms, by Paul Moravec performed by ALIAS Chamber Ensemble and Portara Ensemble. The article points out, "The project actually started out in 2014 with three prominent Nashville arts organizations — the Grammy-nominated ALIAS, Portara Ensemble and Nashville Ballet — teaming up to commission a new work by […] Read more »
Amorisms: Music of Paul Moravec CD Release Party January 10, 2016
Please join Portara Ensemble and ALIAS as we celebrate the long-awaited release of our latest CD recording, Amorisms, composed by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Paul Moravec. Come and enjoy food and drinks, visit with the composer (who will be in attendance), and view the video recording of the world premiere dance performance of Amorisms, as […] Read more »
Moravec Piano Quintet on Bridge Records
New on Bridge Records (scheduled to be released February 5, 2014): Lark Quartet: Composing America Paul Moravec: Piano Quintet Jeremy Denk, piano, Lark Quartet John Adams: 5 Pages from John's Book of Alleged Dances Lark Quartet, Yousif Sheronick, percussion William Bolcom: Billy in the Darbies Stephen Salters, baritone, Lark Quartet Aaron Copland: Two Pieces for […] Read more »
Moravec: "Blue Fiddle" on "In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores"
Hilary Hahn and Deutsche Grammophon Announce the Release of Her Newest Album, "In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores" on November 11, 2013 The idea for "In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores" began to take shape when Hahn noticed that new encore pieces were not being showcased as much as other types of contemporary works. Shorter […] Read more »
The Arts Fuse Reviews Northern Lights Electric
The Arts Fuse reviews Paul Moravec's new CD (as well as a new CD with works by Thomas Oboe Lee) in a piece entitled: Fuse Classical CD Review: Two New Releases from BMOP/sound — An Indispensable Label for American Composers On Northern Lights Electric, Mr. Moravec gets a strong showing with two major pieces for […] Read more »
Moravec on NPR-Music
deceptive cadence from NPR Classical has a review of Paul Moravec's new album Northern Lights Electric in an article entitled Musical Google Earth: Composer Paul Moravec's Sense Of Place. Featuring the music from the first movement for Clarinet Concerto, the article concludes "Northern Lights Electric is another terrific album from BMOP Sound, the five-year-old indie […] Read more »


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Bed connector brackets frame brackets bed connecting bracket hardware
Bed connector brackets are mostly made of metal sheet and stamping or bending finished. Stamping (also known as pressing) is the process of placing flat sheet metal in either blank or coil form into a stamping press where a tool and die surface forms the metal into a net shape. Stamping includes a variety of sheet-metal forming manufacturing processes, such as punching using a machine press or stamping press, blanking, embossing, bending, flanging, and coining. This could be a single stage operation where every stroke of the press produces the desired form on the sheet metal part or could occur through a series of stages. The process is usually carried out on sheet metal, but can also be used on other materials, such as polystyrene. Stamping is usually done on a cold metal sheet. See Forging for hot metal forming operations. Bending is a manufacturing process that produces a V-shape, U-shape, or channel shape along a straight axis in ductile materials, most commonly sheet metal. Ever Hardware provides custom made bed connector brackets and customizable packaging.
Galvanization, or galvanisation, (or galvanizing as it is most commonly called in that industry), is the process of applying a protective zinc coating to steel or iron, to prevent bed connector brackets rusting. The most common method is hot-dip galvanizing, in which parts are submerged in a bath of molten zinc. Galvanizing protects in three ways:
It forms a coating of zinc which, when intact, prevents corrosive substances from reaching the underlying steel or iron.
The zinc serves as a sacrificial anode so that even if the coating is scratched, the exposed steel will still be protected by the remaining zinc.
The zinc protects its base metal by corroding before iron. For better results, application of chromates over zinc is also seen as an industrial trend.
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Chris Brown had a meltdown on Twitter recently when he blew up on a woman who made a comment about him. He has since deleted his Twitter account and left his millions of "Team Breezy" followers in the dust. He's still very present on Instagram however, and recently posted a picture of Tupac throwing up the middle finger with the caption that read:
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Angus councillors have been asked to consider charging people who want to complain about their neighbours hedge being too high.
In a report which went before Angus Council's Communities Committee as the Brechin Advertiser went to print, the council's head of planning Vivien Smith recommended that a fee of £275 be charged for an application for a high hedge notice.
Mrs Smith said that currently, under the High Hedges (Scotland) Act 2013 a home owner or occupier could apply to the council if they felt their enjoyment of their property was adversely affected by the height of an adjacent hedge. She said that a complainer should try to resolve the matter themselves before they went to the council but that the act provided detailed information of the procedures to be followed by the local authority if a complaint was made.
She added that the act stated that an application must be accompanied by a relevant fee which could be in the region of £325 to £500 based on the time taken to consider the application but this did not allow for any possible enforcement thereafter. She said that councils across Scotland were not applying a standard fee.
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Blackburn Rovers chairman John Williams has spoken of his excitement at the appointment of Paul Ince.
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04/22/13: D-FW sports chat with columnist Rick Gosselin
I know you have been saying draft OL, OL, OL in the first three rounds. I remember in 2000 they took a similar approach but with cornerback, because they were desperate and they ended up with garbage. Wouldn't they still be better off going for best player available, with strong lean towards OL (or DL, which they need as well)? Like if the best OL available when they come to pick in the first has a 2nd round grade, but there is a DL available with a first round grade, shouldn't they go DL? I always thought drafting for a position got you in trouble and they proved that in 2000.
I still believe the top priority is to upgrade the offensive line. It's a very deep draft for offensive line. But with the first overall pick, I wouldn't force it. There will be options in the second, third and fourth rounds. If my choice at 18 is the sixth best offensive lineman or the best safety, I'll take the best safety. You can never go wrong selecting the best player on your board. The strength of the NY Giants was their defensive line in 2010. That didn't prevent the Giants from taking Jason Pierre-Paul. Brett Favre still had plenty left in the tank in 2005 but that didn't prevent the Packers from using their first pick on Aaron Rodgers. Both franchises are better off now because of those selections. A strength today may be a weakness tomorrow. It's imperative that the Cowboys address their offensive line. But I wouldn't force it in the first round. There were starters along the offensive line drafted in the second, third and fourth rounds last April.
No mocks this year. In my new capacity as a columnist, I don't have the time to research the top 500 players like I had in years past. So I don't have the depth and feel of drafts any more to post a credible mock. I've been busy covering baseball, soccer, NASCAR, the Mavericks and Stars this spring.
I miss the draft. During my 20 years as an NFL columnist, I had more fun on the beat in March and April than in September and October. Championship teams are built in April. The fun for me was talking to all 32 teams and knowing the top 500 players. When a team took a player in the fifth or sixth round, I knew that player and what that team saw in him. But it was time to turn the page on that chapter in my life. I still miss it, but new professional challenges were awaiting me.
I wouldn't jump the gun on a trade. The Rangers have developed some quality young arms. Pitchers like Robbie Ross and Tanner Scheppers have become dependable arms out of the bullpen at a very young age. Let's see what the Rangers have in Tepesch and Grimm, and hopefully they can hold the fort until Colby Lewis and Matt Harrison can return. I don't think the Rangers will fall out of the race in April or May. This team heats up when the weather heats up. If the Rangers are struggling in June, I'd study my trade options. But not until then. The Rangers have made a strong investment in young pitching in the Jon Daniels era. Let's see what they've got.
The only thing holding Josh Hamilton back is Josh Hamilton. He needs to develop some patience. He needs to start taking some pitches and letting some of those lazy hooks float out of the strike zone for balls. He's never seen a slow curve he didn't like. He really misses Clint Hurdle. If Josh Hamilton can develop some discipline at the plate and make pitchers throw strikes, he can again be a threat in the middle of a batting order. But if he's going to keep swinging at bad pitches, he's going to continue to struggle.
Defensive linemen from Georgia can play, regardless what round they arrive. I'm a big fan of SEC players in general. That's one level below the NFL. SEC corners, SEC defensive tackles, SEC running backs -- can't go wrong if your draft board is stocked with those players.
If he's the best player, yes. Safety also is a glaring need, unless your OK with one starter who specializes in special teams and another starter coming off an Achilles injury. DBs in particular have an issue with Achilles' injuries because of all the backpedaling they do in coverage. Kevin Smith never really made it back from his Achilles as a dynamic player. OL, DT and safety all would address a glaring need in the first round.
Of course I'm on board with drafting OL early and often but one position think is being overlooked is FB. Thought Murray was better when has a good lead man. Too many times 47 got blown up and besides bad OLine play he was to blame in the ineffective run game. The 2nd Skins game comes to mind lot of plays were over before they started. If he's there I would look hard at Harvard FB Kyle Juszczyk. He decleated some LBs at senior bowl week plus has unbelievable hands and can play TE in a pinch. Think his versatility would help run game and add another weapon for Romo, either lined up in the backfield or in the slot or 2nd/3rd TE. Think would be a perfect fit in Dallas for their 5th or 6th round pick depending where he is on their board. Thoughts?
Fullbacks are becoming dinosaurs with all the passing in today's NFL. Some teams don't even have true fullbacks on the roster. They use their second or third TE in situations where they need a lead blocker. I doubt fullback is on the short list of draft needs. The Cowboys have only six picks and need a couple offensive linemen, a DT, a safety, another CB, another WR, another RB.
The draft is so deep in OL and DL, there should be a good option for a pass rusher in each of the first three rounds. The same with OL and safety. Those are the three areas of strength in this draft and they just happen to dovetail with the needs of the Cowboys. I'd be disappointed if the Cowboys use their first three picks on players who did not compete for starting positions as rookies. The deeper you go into a draft, the better options you'll have. The choice may be OL or safety in the first round. In the second round, there will likely be quality players available at OL, S, pass rusher and RB. You can incorporate WR and TEs into the mix in the third.
Jason Garrett doesn't have time to develop offensive linemen. The Cowboys need to show marked improvement for Garrett to stay on the job in 2014. He needs impact players in this draft. The Cowboys have only six picks and most of them need to be game-ready. If I had an abundance picks like San Francisco, I'd feel better about taking a developmental player or two at the back end of the draft. But if Garrett drafts developmental players this week, he'll be developing them for the next coaching staff.
Very strong possibility. The surprising this is that the top two guards could clear the board by then. Historically, the first guard general goes in the 20s. There have only been a combined four guards taken in the first round in the last two years. There could be three in the first round this year. The top guard in last year's draft went at 24 (DeCastro). The top guard in 2011 went at 23 (Watkins). So for the Cowboys to miss out on both Cooper and Warmack at 18 would be monumental.
Stars. I like teams that play their youth. They provide you a future. The Stars are playing and finding themselves quite competitive with their youth. Alex Chiasson, Reilly Smith and Matt Frasor are giving themselves futures with this franchise in addition to a present.
Very likely. I think the only way he moves back, though, is if the top five OL and top 2 safeties are gone. I wouldn't be adverse to adding extra picks. Right now the needs of this team are many and the picks are few. But only if those seven players have cleared the board. I've never been a fan of trading down for the sake of trading down. The Cowboys have done that too often in the past and the strategy has continued to backfire on them.
I like Bell. I like his inside ability and I think that's an element the Cowboys can use more of. He's not a speed back, which is why he'll be available in the middle rounds. You can find quality running backs in every round. Alfred Morris was a sixth rounder last season and he wound up in the Pro Bowl with a 1,600-yard season. The Eagles found Bryce Brown in the seventh round and he had a 100-yard game as a rookie coming off the bench for LeSean McCoy.
The Rangers know Wilson and his pitching strategy probably better than any pitcher in the American League. The Rangers developed Wilson into an All-Star pitcher. They know what he can and can't do, what he likes and dislikes in situations. That probably has as much to do with Wilson's struggles as the Rangers as any pressing he may do on his part.
Who knows if he can play or not? In 32 career games he's been deactivated 27 times and never played a snap in the five games he suited up. The idea when you draft a player is to find out if he can play, You do that by putting him on the field. Until Arkin steps onto the field, I have no idea whether he can play nor not. The Cowboys drafted Stephen Peterman in the third round in 2004 and suited him up for only three games in his first two seasons. They cut him and he went on to start 86 games over the next seven seasons for the Detroit Lions. If you don't put them on the field, you never find out about them.
I keep thinking that now is the time to trade Demarcus Ware. I love him, but the fact is, he only has a few more productive years left, most likely. Better to trade him before he has no value than wait to long. The Patriots do this all the time and it one of the reasons they just reload and not rebuild. You just know the Raiders (or some other bad organization) would fork over a first and a third him. Plus would help tremendously on the future salary cap. But I know what you are going to say. Jerry will want him to be a Cowboy for life, no matter if it is not the best thing for the team.
DeMarcus Ware is the best defensive player on this team. Why would you ask your best defensive player to learn a new position and a new scheme at 31 years of age? I'd have continued using the 3-4 until Ware was no longer in his prime. The trend in the NFL is to get rid of players in their 30s. But the Cowboys embrace them. Ware, Witten, Ratliff and Romo were given contract extensions this offseason that will squeeze the Cowboys against the salary cap in future seasons. This is the same path the Cowboys took in the 1990s. They played their old guys until they all ran out of gas. If you never learn from your mistakes, you're doomed to repeat them.
With all these positions, I think the run will dictate value. If a safety goes in the top 10 or 12, that will drive up the stock of the other one. If a guard goes in the Top 10, that will drive up the value of the second one. If three pass rushers go in the Top 5 or 6, that will drive the other pass rushers up the board. We saw that at QB in 2011. When Jake Locker went at 8, the draft stock Blaine Gabbert and Christian Ponder shot through the roof. Rule of thumb, though -- defensive tackles have more value than safeties. Baltimore & San Francisco proved big people win games.
Time to go. I've got to go shoot a draft special for SportsDay on Air this afternoon. Stephen Jones and David Moore will join me and the show will be broadcast on FoxSports Southwest tonight. Hope you can all watch. I look forward to chatting next Monday after the draft...


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ATTO is a disk benchmark which allows testing of drives with a range of file transfer sizes from 4K up to 8192K. We ran tests with a 1GB span and a default queue depth of 4, which would simulate a fairly intense work environment. The data read and written from ATTO is able to be compressed, which is something that the venerable Sandforce controllers thrive on, and asynchronous NAND doesn't have much trouble keeping up with synchronous in compressible transfers. With our newcomer Everest 2 controller we expect the results to be interesting.
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Since the presentation, I have paid more attention to the men around me and whether or not they were thoughtful. Fortunately, many of them have been; which makes me feel a little safer in my environment. In return, I have made a conscious effort to be more thoughtful to those around me as well."
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Christina and Mike made it evident that equality should not be the flip of inequality. Equality should not be reversing the roles between the sexes… By seeing how men feel and why they do or do not show certain feelings helped me understand different aspects about men. The main thing I got out of this
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Taking a break for a few days so next month I will have 2 new shows up! I know I said that I will a special episode for all of you this month but, things happen and I need to take are of my junk first! In the meantime I'm having a sale, cut down on the prices so everything music go! See you next month!
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
High End Envy Erin S - W Club Exclusive
So if you been reading my blog, follower me on facebook or twitter than you know I love Erin! I will say this again; I EBONY (WHATEVER MY LAST NIGHT IS BUT I WILL NOT POST ON HERE) LOVE ERIN WITH ALL MY HEART! Back in 2008 when I went to my first doll show (which is not happening this year) Erin,Nadja,Ayumi and Adele where the first dolls I feel in love with!
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Picnik Is Close, Photobucket Changes,PicMonkey Is Fun and Photovisi Is My New Best Friend
If you don't know by now Picnik last day was on April 19 and they are now with Google know as Google Creative Kit! If you have Google+ which everyone has because if you blog and use gmail, you automatically have all of Google products! It should be easy for you to go into your photos and start using! However Picnik was a fun site to edited your photo and all!
|Good_Bye Picnik
Notes by Ebony Nicole at Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
The Duranger Sisters
First off many of my dolls are upset with me because I didn't pick them to go to Danielle and Roderick Taylor Wedding! (Erin) I told them that being Addie knew Danielle already she was invite without a doubt, Dani don't know ya like that! They didn't care (Erin) because they need something to write about (Oh I making Erin a reporter and she is trying to find out everything about Takeo and Addie and their up and coming marriage; I need to keep an eye on her!) However they will get over it and move on (Erin).
Back to the topic because I just want to share some old photos of the The Duranger Sister; you know Colette, Chanel and Claire (Dai's girlfriend). They mad at me as well because I didn't make a show about them and their glam lifestyle; as much as I do for them ummm pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee! Well Claire is not that kind of girl she very low key, Chanel is a sports kind of chick and the QUEEN BEE Colette wants to be a Kim Kardashian without the sex-tape!
Notes by Ebony Nicole at Thursday, April 19, 2012
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Labels: Colette, Erin, Fashion Dolls at Van's Doll Treasures, Fashion Royalty, Grand Arrival, Integrity, Jason Wu, kim kardashian, Painted Black, Perk, Rod and Danielle Wedding, Young Rich and Beautiful
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Takeo & Addie: Going To Rob & Danielle's Wedding: Short Story
Here Is Some History
Not too long ago Addie and Danielle met on a website called GettingMarried.com, they both share their personal stories about love finding them! Danielle loved the way Addie talk about her and Takeo's relationship that Danielle just had to contact her by email! Soon after the Ladies became online buddies and Addie fell in love with Rob and Danielle love story and Danielle personality!
It will only make sense for Danielle to invite Addie and her soon-to-be Husband Takeo to her and Rob's wedding at Van's Doll Treasures!
I'm going to let all of you know right now, don't nobody want to see Addie get dress, almost on every blog you saw all the ladies getting ready! Not this one, we are going to see Takeo fix himself up so don't die on me because I need you here!
Notes by Ebony Nicole at Sunday, April 15, 2012
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Labels: A True Love Story, Addie, Afro-Asian love, alvin ailey, Blasian, Fashion Dolls at Van's Doll Treasures, Fashion Royalty, Jason Wu, Mattel, Morristown, Rod and Danielle Wedding, Takeo
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
A Takeo & Addie Special Is Coming........
Last season I hope you enjoyed, it has some ups and downs, a little bit of mystery and a kissing sense! Last year I change 2 characters; Addie's aunt Annik and Takeo's sister Sooki. You meet Annik, you can see she a really cool person with a past but overall further down the line you will grow to love her! I notice last season I bought the whole family in such as Kyori, Chandra,Donjae,Dai and Annik but Sooki was missing!
Notes by Ebony Nicole at Wednesday, April 11, 2012
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Labels: A True Love Story, Addie, Afro-Asian love, Annik, Blasian, Dai Oono, Kyori, Love Child, Lucy McLean, Lukas Maverick, Sooki, Special Episode, Takeo, Youtube
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Had A Root Canal
|I don't look this bad!
For those of you who bought stuff from me, I will ship out your orders tomorrow! Yesterday I was in the dentist office from 10:45am to 3:20pm and they was trying to get me to come back this Thursday! HELL TO THE N AND THE O, I need a break from seeing that office!
Last week I was sitting on my bed and I heard something pop in my head follow by some pain, the weird thing is I was going to see my dentist the same day that my tooth cracked!
On April 9 (which was yesterday) the dentist was working in my mouth but had to stop because the cavity was so deep that I needed a root canal ASAP!
Today I'm just trying to recover and rethink and re-live what has happened up to this point and how to change it now!
I will shipped all the stuff tomorrow and let you know by email! Again thank you for buying my junk!
Saturday, April 07, 2012
My Final Review: And Then There Were 3!
Friday, April 06, 2012
So Yesterday while I was writing my Black Girls Rock and Forgetting Nadja post, I was thinking about Ms. Bus Stop the whole week. Lord knows I said to myself no dolls this year because I need to save my money and I allow the devil to win! This is my whole doll fund and I need to sell more stuff to come up with the rest of the money! I am telling you the dolls are winning the war!
My Final review on FR2 will be up sometime this weekend so stay tune!
OH and Ms. Anika I have a few ladies for you!
Thursday, April 05, 2012
Black Girls Rock And Forgetting Nadja
I love all the African American female dolls from the new 2012 collection, they all stand out which means no doll is prettier than the other one. Each lady is special in their own way and will fit in to our special taste in collecting!
Adele has always been and always will be one of my favorite dolls, I think Main Attitude is great in every way I just don't like the face change. I hate when the face is change of a certain doll and companies (Mattel and Integrity) use the same old name to it! To me Main Attitude should have been a new character because the Adele looked before I will remember her that way! However this sexy lady is no-where to be found now!
|Adele-Main Attitude
|Jordan-Trust Your Instincts
Notes by Ebony Nicole at Thursday, April 05, 2012
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Labels: 2012 line, Adele, African American, Annik, Bus Stop, Colour My World, Darla Daley, illusionist, Jordan, Main Attitude, Nadja, Nu.Face, Pop of Color, Poppy Parker, The Style Directive Collection, Trust Your Instincts
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Dynamite Girls: The Back to Brooklyn Collection
I have always been a fan of the Dynamite Girls and since 2008 I never went a year without collecting a new doll or an old version! However, this year I think I'm going to pass on all of them!
I think they all looked like rich kids with their nose up in the air because they can't stand the poor kids walking around on campus!
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
Perry Marino and his UGLY ASS!
Yes, you read that title right, I'm going to jump right in and say what I don't like because it will make life so much better and I know others feel the way I do! But first, let me drop some information about Perry Marino
Item #91294
Strings Attached
Perry Marino™ Dressed Fashion Figure
Strings Attached
Perry Marino™ Dressed Fashion Figure
FR:Homme™ Collection
Suggested Retail Price: $110.00 US
Limited Edition Size: 400 Dolls Worldwide
Estimated Delivery Date: Early August 2012
Limited Edition Size: 400 Dolls Worldwide
Estimated Delivery Date: Early August 2012
When industrialist Perry Marino got the proverbial rug pulled from under his feet by his ex-wife Natalia Fatalé and lost his company, Missima Cosmetics, in the process, never in a million years did he think that he would ever hear back from her. Fast-forward eight years and all the sudden, things have changed. Believe it or not, the ex-wife wants him back. Maybe she's just after his wealth and innumerable contacts in the business or maybe she just can't do without him after all? Will she bury the hatchet and play nice or will this reunion unearth some dark forgotten drama? At long last, meet one of the most requested characters of the FR world as he finally makes his first appearance in vinyl form! The story of Fashion Royalty just took a new interesting direction, as Perry Marino finally shows up to spice up the mix!
Notes by Ebony Nicole at Tuesday, April 03, 2012
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Labels: 2012 line, Eugenia, Fashion Royalty, Francisco, Homme Collection, Natalia Fatalé, Nu.Face, Perry Marino, Pierre, Takeo, The Style Directive Collection
Sunday, April 01, 2012
Takeo & Addie: A True Love Story: Episode 11 Winter Finale
Here you go the Winter Finale is here but don't worry, as soon as I take care of my life I will be fixing up a lot of things and before you know it May will be around the corner! I'm going to be very business this April and I'm going to try to set a time to do everything that needs to be done for this show! Spring is going to have a lot of madness! Please stay tune for spoilers at the end of the show!
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This is the top layer. This is the episode "Rookies." The dio' features a custom Commando Droid killing one of the clones stationed there.
Another angle of the top layer with a better view of the door.
The middle layer is of the episode "Cloak of Darkness." This is the part in the corridor where Nute Gunray is being guarded. On the left is my custom Commander gree. At the back is a Senate Commando and at the bottom is a custom Luminara Unduli.
Another view, showing the control panel that releases Gunray when pressed and also the shield that acts as a door.
Another view showing the shield and Luminara.
Then the bottom tier is of "Hostage Crisis" with my custom Cad Bane. It just shows him walking along amongst some junk on Coruscant.
Just a slightly different angle.
The tower splits into three parts.
"Rookies." with no figures.
"Cloak of Darkness." with no figures.
"Hostage Crisis." with no figures.
Here are all the custom figures used.
The Commandodroid.
Master Luminara Unduli.
Cad Bane.
The back of Cad Bane. Please ignore the sticky tape, I just took the picture to show that I actually made his coak have tails like it does in the episode.
My favourite custom ever!... Commander Gree.
The Back of Commander Gree.
Without his helmet. I even painted his hair on!
OPPONENT: Commander Ryan
CATAGORY: Clone Wars.
Good luck to my opponent!
Good luck to my opponent!


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I was recently asked my opinion on a discussion about organic baby formula taking place on a neonatal news group for clinical professionals.
First a little background about the discussion. Abbott, maker of the baby formula Similac, has started to market Similac Organic Baby formula. Just like with Abbott's original Similac formula, one of the ways the company markets their products is by making free samples available to parents and hospital neonatal units. Apparently Abbott's research has told them that there is such a demand for organic formula that new parents will want to bring an organic formula product into the hospital nursery on their own if organic formula is not available to them directly from the hospital. Hospitals feel better in terms of safety and consistency if they provide the formula in-house rather than letting parents bring in their own. Abbott obviously feels that it is cost effective marketing to provide free formula to hospitals.
The discussion on the news group was originated by a question about whether the organic formula had any real, proved benefits. One of the responses was from a MD who, while fully supporting healthy food availability, questioned the "health benefit claims made by the rapidly flourishing organic food industry". This MD also expressed uncertainty over whether the organic food industry is "well regulated." Another response, by a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, thought the organic baby formula is "yet another marketing ploy by the formula companies". This person also said that "If a patient is going to buy organic formula, perhaps they should consider breastfeeding".
Responding to the NNP first… Yes, for many reasons, including the health of the baby, new mothers should be strongly encouraged to breast feed. For those mothers who won't or can't breast feed and for those babies that can't nurse, formula is the other option. And, to the NNP's other comment, yes, it is marketing. The real question is whether or not the marketing of the Similac organic formula is misleading. In Abbott's case, I don't think it is. There do not seem to be any health or medical claims on Abbott's site. The MD who questioned the claims of the organic food producers really addresses a different issue that I will take up in another post, but again, Abbott's site seems free of questionable claims.
The MD's other concern is about the organic food industry not being well regulated. Right now, to me, the industry seems well regulated. My concern is that as huge companies like Wal-Mart start to sell organic products, there will be pressure on organizations such as the USDA, Oregon Tilth, and CCOF to adjust their certification programs to more easily accommodate large scale industrial farming practices that want to produce organically certified food without the sustainable, earth friendly practices that smaller organic food producers are known for. Doing a search to see if my concerns about this are shared, turned up lots of information, including a supportive New York Times Editorial. I also found this article that disagrees. I plan another post specifically on that issue. As it is said, "the jury is still out" on how the wide scale embrace of organic food will change, or not change, the way food in America is produced, and then transported from producers to consumers.
Many parents, who are comfortable feeding their newborns formula, want a product made from milk free of antibiotics, hormones and other chemicals. These parents believe that consuming organic food is healthier for themselves and their families. If the demand is there, Abbot is to be applauded for providing an organic formula product. Despite the efforts of big box companies to sell organic food, organic usually still means healthy and sustainable farming practices and that is a good thing!
I believe Similac Organic Formula is a great move by Abbott, both for their bottom line, and for parents who want the choice available to them.


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Good Enemas
I have written a lot about enemas, I believe more than any other writer, more than 10,000 pages published in books, articles, and on the internet. I would post one of my stories, but they are all copywrited and all over the web and places like Barnes & Noble and Amazon as well as international book sellers in Europe and India.
What is important about my work on this is the perspective. Enemas were a common treatment 50 years ago when I was young. Not now. I believe the primary reason is enemas are safe, effective treatments for many diseases that generate no profit for corporate medicine. They take maybe a pennies worth of water, some time, and are potentially messy---but they are loving, gentle, caring treatments, something that helps in a few moments, and last a life time as a loving memory. Sharing an enema with a compassionate nurse, mother, husband, or wife is something that touches the soul while healing the body.
I advocate them as a human being and teach them as a health care provider. I am going to include the introduction to one of my books "The Good Enema." It's not a story, the rest of the short book, 60 pages is a story, the shortest one I have ever published commercially. The next shortest book is 191 pages. This one is the story of a teenager and 30ish woman in a hospital room together just after WWII, the details of their enemas, how they effect their lives and their families, etc. The following is a position paper: a researched intro to what is happening to enemas in the world of corporate, profit based medicine. This is copywrited, but I don't mind it being transmited to others and read around the world as the goal of my writing is not to get rich, but to help others, and others aren't helped if they don't know what is going on. I do request that the text not be changed if you are going to quote it as written by me.The introduction to The Good Enema:
"And now abideth faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity." In the Bible, charity is love. The thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians, the central passage defining Christianity, ends with this verse. Yet in modern corporate culture, money matters: hope, faith, and love don't. The Bible goes to the essence of this, not forgetting profit, but properly placing it in relationship to love. It says: "The love of money is the root of all evil." I Timothy 6:10. Not money itself, but the love of it.
Money is a tool. Love is the purpose, not a tool. When the accumulation of money is the purpose of every act, and of every service, then the purpose of life is missed. It isn't just Christianity that makes love the key test of life: it's all the major religions. All deplore the making of money a supreme goal. All equate love with God.
When doctors made house calls, knew their patients, when they based their lives on serving patients, and were paid in the cries of babies born, in heart-felt thanks, and in bushel baskets of beans, corn, and vegetables; enemas were common.
The use of the enema grew to an art and science in a different time. A time when the skills and practice of every knowledgeable nurse and doctor was based on human, not corporate, values: on doing what was best for patients, not best for corporations.
Good doctors, of that era, knew that the taking and holding of a large warm enema warmed the core of the body, stimulated the immune system, and helped the patient's own body fight off colds, flu, and other systemic infections. They knew that the taking and expelling of a good enema helped a woman in labor to relax and get into the rhythm of bearing down to have her baby, with a shorter labor and less pain. They knew that the giving of a good enema was the first thing to be done in the treatment and cure of many conditions. They also knew that the giving of good enemas was not profitable. No doctor or nurse ever got rich giving enemas. Enemas are a way to help people, not make money. It was a different time.
Human motivation doesn't change. Doctors and nurses go into health care to serve others. The essence of good medicine, of any system of healing, is helping the patient. If that love of others is not the center of motivation, the system fails. Health care isn't about money. Money is no more an agent of healing than the use of any other tool. It shouldn't be about the love of money, but is.
The enema, one of the most common treatments in all branches of health care, began to be systematically purged from hospitals, doctor's offices, and home health care when corporations took over: when profit became the only criteria of success in American health care. Corporations never understand hope, faith, and love; but they understand money. They recognize and practice one principle: making profit!
Neither enemas, nor love, can compete in a system where the only motivation allowed to be judged is making profit. Enemas are time consuming, potentially messy, and don't generate money back to corporate headquarters.
The elimination of enemas, and any other form of care, which does nothing to support the supreme goal of corporations, making money, has permeated modern American health care, and is sinking it. America has the most profitable health-care system in the world. Americans pay more for health care than any other country. According to the Organization for Economic Co-ordination and Development (OECD), in America we paid $7,290 per person for health care in 2007. The second highest, Norway, paid $4,763. Other countries trailing far behind in cost provided better health care to their citizens. In the 2000 assessment of the World Health Organization, America was thirty-seventh among nations in the over-all quality of health care delivered to its people, just behind Costa Rica. American health quality is now ranked lower than it was in 2000, but does lead the world in pharmaceutical development and many areas of medical research. And we are a health-care destination for the wealthy of the world, who are willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, out of pocket, for health-care procedures that average Americans cannot afford.
It's not the doctors, nurses, or workers, nor science, that is the driving force behind this decline. The design and function of corporations is to make money, and their power has grown to such a level than no person, or group of people within the corporate system, can inject human values. We are all swept up in this. The values of hope, faith, and love are lost: the value of serving patients is lost.
Serving the people is not even being mentioned in the current battle over health care reform in America. The prime topic of discussion is how to pay for it, how to keep the insurance companies in control, and how to keep profit as the main motivator driving American health care. The reality is---unless human values regain control, unless love again becomes part of the motivation of providing health care, our future is dark, unhealthful, and corporate profits will evaporate as our nation implodes.
The enema, a most unprofitable treatment, is gone from our system of corporate health care, yet does not go away. People discover its usefulness, its benefits to health. But, if knowledge of how to use enemas, how they feel, and their benefits in health care can be suppressed, patients may forget, doctors and nurses may forget, and corporate profit alone may continue to rule our health care system.
But can a system driven by profit only continue to make money when the needs of patients are ignored? Our system is failing not because profit is wrong. It's not. What's wrong is loving it, making it the purpose, not just a tool. Love is something between patients and health-care providers, parents and children, between people. Love is the supreme value. Without it, life is meaningless.
All financial tools, including corporations, are tools. They are not people, and must never have the rights of people. Used as tools, relegated to their proper position in the rule of law and personal action, all tools have their place and use. When paper creations become gods, when they become regarded as living entities, when they destroy life to enhance paper profits, when humans submit to the rule of lifeless corporations, death rules. Health care is not about death; it's about life.
The Bible, I Corinthians 13:3, says: "And though I bestow all my goods and feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." Without love, without life, profit cannot long exist. Short-term profits can be recorded on dead paper ledgers, feeding off the dead corpses of civilizations, but without life, profit cannot continue.
This book, and the others I write, are not dedicated to profit, but to love. The enema is a good treatment. For many thousands of years, enemas have been given as described in this book. The feelings, the love, and the uses of enemas are what The Good Enema is about, what this part of health care was like before the rule of corporate medicine. It is our goal to share love, to share knowledge, and to share the art of caring for others and ourselves. Our motivation is to bring health to patients, and to do this in ways that are proven, and work.
We have a web site, to look it up look up lifeknox on the internet, giving some conditions treated by enemas: candida, irritable bowel syndrome, constipation, colds & flu, preparation for childbirth, etc., and an article on how to give an enema, which will be part of a new publication on how and why to give enemas.
Good enemas will return to health care. Helping our children, friends, wives and husbands, mothers and fathers, patients, people who trust us with their care, will be based on love again. "And now abideth faith, hope, and love, these three: but the greatest of these is love," I Corinthians 13:13. All other things will pass away.
Read, The Good Enema with love.
J. G. Knox, September 2009
I also have a website with enema stories and novels including enemas as part of the stories to look it up look up e-lovestories on the internet
Thank you for sharing your writings with this site. Hopefully you will have been of some much needed eye opening help to more than a few of the readers here. I have for 50 years been aware of the wonderful benefits of "caring, patient administration" of the ever pure and simple, life saving enema. I have read, I do believe, most if not all of your writing on this subject and possess most of your fine books on the subject. You were a very important catalyst to my (curiosity) on the subject, turning into a lifelong pursuit of knowledge and practice that is still, only in it's infancy. Thank you, dear friend.
This is one of the seminal books in the literature on this subject, and Leo's take on it is an extremely beautiful one, as is his spirit!