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The disconnect.
One of my favorite things about being engaged to a healthcare provider is getting to hear front-line medical stories from Jacob and his other Physician Assistant friends. (As a side note, he has a lot of Physician Assistant friends. When we hang out with this crew, I always feel extremely safe because I'm surrounded by medical providers). I love hearing about wacky patient stories, heartwarming patient stories, and especially, diabetes patient stories. It's always fascinating to me to get the provider's side of the interaction.
A few days ago, a PA friend of Jacob's came to visit and related a troubling story. A woman was admitted to his hospital for a severe foot infection. She was middle-aged with uncontrolled Type 2 diabetes and severely overweight. Because of the severity of the infection, she unfortunately lost a foot that day. She was counseled about her diabetes, and told that the amputation was a direct result of the disease being uncontrolled. This story is already tragic enough right there.
And then this happens: Our friend came to check on her while making rounds and found out that she had been in an argument with a nurse because she tried to order cake from from the dining service and had been denied because it wasn't part of her hospital meal plan. She'd thrown a fit for being denied the sweet treat.
Let me now segue in to the part of this post where I explain why I'm telling this story. This is not a blame post. This is not about making fun of someone ordering "bad food" and being a "bad diabetic." This post is about wondering where on earth a disconnect so large can come from. The immediate question is how in the world could a person who has just had a foot removed due to diabetes try to order the worst food possible for her disease?
Is it because she truly does not understand the relationship between carbs and blood sugar?
Is it because she does not truly believe that her foot was amputated directly because of diabetes?
Is it because she lacked the mental capacity to make the connection?
Is it because she was so depressed about losing her foot that she wanted a comfort food to cheer her up?
Is it because just about everyone in her family has suffered a diabetic complication and she sees this is part of getting older?
Is it because everyone in her rural town is overweight, and many of them also have diabetes?
Is it because she just doesn't care anymore and figures it's all downhill from here and she should just give up?
Is it because she's been eating so poorly from the fast food restaurants that dominate her rural town for so long that she doesn't even know what healthy food is anymore?
Is it because she never received any diabetes education upon diagnosis and never understood how to improve her diet for her health?
It may be that one of these or several of these questions is the reason this particular woman had such a large disconnect. But the fact is that ALL of these questions are the reasons why America is slowly killing itself with with diabetes. Until everyone truly understands that having diabetes isn't just "a touch of the sugar," or something only your grandma had, we will continue paying the price in complications, hospital time, missed work, and missed years. Yes, it starts with education, but those who need the education the most are the least likely to receive it. And until that changes, the disconnect will continue.
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Well if it was me, I would say it was the so depressed that I would be looking for some food to take the pain away. Stupid yes but I know for me personally over years of habitual emotional eating, it is hard to change what you eat and how you eat, even though you know its the worst decision to make.
This is one of the things I personally find so frustrating about this disease. Just like you I'm not trying to blame or say anything bad but I can't tell you how many times I tell someone I'm type 1 and they say "you don't look like you need to go on a diet" – keep in mind I'm a size six. Our worse yet people say "you are why our health care is so expensive – you could be healthy and stop costing us all money if you exercised some and ate right" – again I run marathons and am a triathlete. It just makes me so mad!


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It's that time of year again… BookExpo America! Three days of bookish ballyhoo, featuring an assorted cast of publishers, buyers, and book nerds from across the country…
And so we put on our sensible shoes and headed off to the ginormous glass monstrosity that is the Javits Center for our annual dose of
destiny and power books. (If you missed BookExpo but fancy a trip to the Javits Center anyway, I'm sure there are still tickets available for future Javitsian expos of the non-literary variety… Plastics Today or Cannabis World Congress, anyone?)
Your tote bag game was strong this year, BEA! Well done. And we can't wait to take a look at all the intriguing catalogs we happily toted home; nothing gives us more pleasure than contemplating our upcoming orders from brilliant indie presses like Biblioasis, New York Review of Books, and Graywolf Press.
Of particular interest—three fantastic titles coming up from San Francisco's City Lights, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. Keep an eye out for I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career (correspondence between Allen Ginsberg and City Lights' founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti); Pictures of the Gone World (a limited edition reprint of City Lights' first book, a collection of poetry by Ferlinghetti); and Shock Treatment (a 25th anniversary edition of the first book by iconoclastic performance artist/poet Karen Finley).
If it's not already obvious, we love small, independent presses! Even really small presses.
Of course, the publishing giants were out in full force (is it just me, or was the Ellora's Cave booth surprisingly low on be-thonged spokespeople this year?) and they had some… interesting offerings lined up. No, we won't be stocking any of the three titles pictured above—but a taco cleanse does sound pretty fun.

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Chase City Health & Rehab Center is located on Highway 47 in Chase City, VA. Our facility provides a sanctuary of rehabilitation, long-term, and respite care to our neighbors in Chase City and the surrounding communities. At Chase City Health & Rehab Center, our goal is simple: to provide the most effective treatment for you in a compassionate, comfortable environment.
When you visit Chase City Health & Rehab Center, you will find technical innovation and a caring, expert staff. Everyone here will work hard to create a welcoming, healing atmosphere. Whether you come for short-term rehab or long-term nursing, your care will be our primary concern. We're doing more than just challenging the status quo. We're changing lives.
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It has been a pleasure looking through this gallery. Such great stuff everyone has made! My package from Miss_Evil_Penguin finally got here yesterday. Somehow I totally knew yesterday would be the day, and I was waiting for the mail truck.
I apologize for the dark pic. My picture taking skillz are nil, and the one other picture I took was lighter but way more blurry. I have it arranged to show my favorite stationary (peace*dreams) on top, and to hide the set I already started writing a letter on as soon as it came. Also, some sparkly animal stickers (Had to hide them from my 3 year old, she has enough, these are for ME!) and a surfboard postcard I just love.
This has been a really cool first swap for me, I've been inspired to write several friends that i haven't seen in forever, and I've been inspired in all kinds of paper ways. Thank you M_E_P, for the package and for being a really cool organizer.
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A 22-year-old man was robbed on a section of the redway between Beanhill and Netherfield last week.
At 12pm on Thursday the victim was walking along the redway when he felt a sharp pain in his back and felt someone grab for his mobile phone.
He turned round and saw a man who threatened him and demanded his Cubot mobile phone.
The victim handed over his phone and the offender ran off in the direction of Ashland or Netherfield.
He did not sustain any injuries.
The offender is between 6ft and 6ft 2ins, of a stocky but muscular build with a square jaw and dark stubble.
He was wearing a dark blue hooded top and light grey jogging bottoms. He carried a light green laptop bag over his shoulder.
Police are appealing for witnesses who may have seen the offender in the area or anyone acting suspiciously.
Anyone with information should contact Det Con Susan Russell on 101.
If you don't want to speak directly to the police, you can contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
No personal details are taken, information is not traced or recorded and you will not go to court.


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I spent the last week in South Georgia with my mother and enjoyed another book signing at Coastal Manor in Ludowici. Just as before, everyone welcomed me with smiles and kind words, and it made my mother very happy to be able to introduce me to her friends and coworkers. She is very blessed to have such a pleasant work environment.
I enjoyed meeting new readers and those that have already read Unexpected Metamorphosis.
So glad to have met Hazel Gilmore. I hear she loves the Alissia Roswell Series and was excited about the release of Unexpected Entrapment.
She loves the butterflies and font.
My mother took Unexpected Entrapment with her everywhere we went.


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By choosing to build green, you are making an effort to reduce the burden on the environment and also add value to your home.
C&A Contractor offers you the best in roofing services, supplies and materials to help protect one of your biggest investments you will ever make, your home.
Laminate, hardwood or ceramic we do it all.
Reputation built on offering superior quality and service.
We can help you make your house a home.
Samir is the very best contractor out there. Very polite, eager to please and goes above and beyond to repair or fix anything. I am very pleased to know him and will always recommend him to anyone.
C&A contractors has completed several projects for me. The workmanship is excellent . Job is always completed on time and clean. It is a pleasure to do business Samir.
Being in the construction business ourselves, we had very high expectations for quality and performance. We are pleased to say C&A Contractor far exceeded our expectations. The whole experience of our 2-month major remodel project was a great time in our lives. We both enjoyed the process very much.
The C&A Contractor Team was professional and skilled at what they do. Mr.Samir Velic is one of the finest people we've had the privilege to know. The man has the patience of Job – it's no wonder his team is first class!


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The latest news from academia, regulators
research labs and other things of interest
|Posted: October 8, 2009
EU wants to compare and score its nanotechnology research activities with third countries
|(Nanowerk News) The European Commission's Directorate-General for Research has published a call for tender for a comparative scoreboard and performance indicators in nanotechnology, materials, processes (NMP) research activities between the EU and third countries.
|The contractor is to compare, assess and monitor the implementation and progress of European strategic initiatives in the field of research funding (public and private) in industrial technologies through the use of indicators. Comparison and assessment must be done vis-à-vis third countries (associated states or other third countries).
|For further information, please contact:
European Commission
Directorate-General for Research
Directorate G - Industrial Technologies
Office CDMA 6/112
Attn: Jesús Alquézar
B-1049 Brussels
Tel. +32 2 2951 167
Fax +32 2 2967 023
|The deadline for requesting tender documents is 22 November 2009.
|The deadline for submitting tender documents is 27 November 2009.
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Here at The City Paper we come across, filter and digest a significant amount of information daily on the Internet. Here's a rundown of some of the recent stories City Paper staffers find interesting and worth sharing.
From Grantland: Losing for draft position in professional sports viewed as a classic moral hazard. Is it worth it? Is it fair? What's the solution?
From Forbes: An explanation of how the payout system for the NCAA tournament works — and why an appearance is so valuable
From The New York Times: In the big city, an upward race to build condominium towers and utilize what little space is left
From Rolling Stone: "The Case for Fossil-Fuel Divestment"
From Mother Jones: Gallup poll gauges public opinion on drone strikes on Americans both inside and outside of the country


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We're in warm and dry Sebastopol after a slow drive up 101 from SFO. Very slow and not intentionally so. We did stop for a lunch at 3:30 EDT for lunch near Union Square at Sears Fine Food (pictures to come).
Sebastopol is a small but very California town. Old drive in burger places but also Whole Foods and Bikram Yoga and Starbucks as well as a Crystal Shop that is not selling the kind of wedding presents you'd buy in Graham, NC. I will have pictures up later from the Camp which is growing even now.
I think the FOO Bar is getting ready to open and the afternoon is underway. So far the swag is lovely even if the campers are as lovely as you could expect.
One surprise is that Pamela Jones of Groklaw was scheduled to be here. Neither Fred nor I have even seen Pamela. But the new news is that she's still in NYC. Flash: she emailed Fred a couple of hours ago.
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Hilary Hayes has cornered the market on LED scarves with 'The Breathe Project.' The scarf featured in 'The Breathe Project' senses when you exhale and emits and emits an LED light pattern.
Hilary Hayes' 'The Breathe Project' isn't meant to light up your late night walk or double as a flashlight. Instead, it is meant to remind you to focus on the delicacy of life by lighting up each and every time you breathe. I'd value the delicacy of my life a lot more if I had Hilary Hayes' cool scarf around my neck.
LED Scarves
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Breath-Controlled Furniture
Breath Name Tags
Alcohol Breath and UV Warning Tester
Breath-Sensitive Lamps
Bad Breath Detectors
'The Breathe Project' from Hilary Hayes Turns Your Breath into a Light Show
- By: Michael HinesMay 7, 2010
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References: webspace.ocad & asylum


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Join us each Sunday morning as we strengthen our Biblical core with ABS (Adult Bible Study). The Bible Study will be centered on a book of God's Word and will be an in depth study of the principles to apply to our daily walk with Christ!


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A couple months ago, we gazed navelly at a woman who used to reside in Tustin turning up pregnant and presumably murdered on the Big Island of Hawaii, where a missing man some had referred to as her fiance was being sought for questioning.
A similar tragedy is playing out in Panama, where officials found the remains of a Laguna Niguel woman who went missing in 2011.
Brittany-Jane Royal of Tustin Found Pregnant and Presumably Murdered in Hawaii
Yvonne Lee Baldelli, 42, when missing in November 2011, which was two months after she arrived with her boyfriend to start a new life in Panama. A green military style backpack was found by a man cutting brush on the island province of Bocas del Toro on Aug. 20. Inside was a skull, some bones and women's clothing. DNA testing confirmed that the remains came from Baldelli, Panama City prosecutors announced Wednesday.
Brian Brimager, a retired Marine, left Panama for Costa Rica and the United States about 10 days after last being seen with Baldelli, according to Panama City police. Mere weeks after the Vista resident arrived in San Diego County, he married the mother of his younger daughter.
He has been indicted in federal court in San Diego for allegedly murdering Baldelli and then making it appear to her family and friends she was still alive through fake emails that indicated she had run off to Costa Rica with another man.
Brimager, who has denied any role in Baldelli's disappearance, is currently being held on charges of obstruction of justice and making a false statement to a federal agent in connection with her death.
Meanwhile, Baldelli's family is working with U.S. and Panamanian officials to bring Yvonne's remains back home.
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Fishing continues to be good in the Otter Tail Lake area. Walleyes are in 20 to 30 feet of water on mid-lake humps.
Crawlers and leeches with spinners are working best. Colors working best are yellow/orange, blue/white and chartreuse.
Panfish bit is going good in 15 feet of water. Wax worms or small minnows on a slip bobber are the ticket.
Crank bait bite is starting to pick up in the evenings in 7 to 12 feet of water. Purple, blue or bleeding pearl are color choices.
All you deer hunters - remember if you are in the lottery area, you can only shoot 1 deer for the year. Applications for a doe permits must be in by September 10th.
Call for more details on fishing or hunting rules for this year. Gary Peterson, Ken's Tackle 218-495-2895
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Both Google and Motorola has released the Android 5.0.1 update to handful of Nexus devices and the factory images are now available for download. If you don't see the Over the Air update on your device which is powered by Google maintaining stock UI, then you can download the Android 5.0.1 OTA zip files and flash it.
Download Android 5.0.1 OTA
Check your device and download the OTA build -
- Nexus 9 – [LRX22C from LRX21R, 25.9MB] – Download Link
- Nexus 7 (2013) WiFi – [LRX22C from LRX21P, 17.5MB] – Download Link
- Nexus 7 (2013) WiFi – [LRX22C from KTU84P, 389MB] – Download Link
- Nexus 10 – [LRX22C from LRX21P, 8.4MB] – Download Link
- Nexus 10 – [LRX22C from KTU84P, 325MB] – Download Link
- Nexus 4 – [LRX22C from LRX21T, 16.7MB] – Download Link (via)
- Nexus 6 – [LRX22C from LRX21O, 78.8MB] – Download Link
- Moto G GPE - [LRX21Z from KTU84P, 380 MB] - Download Link
How to Apply
You can sideload this latest software by flashing it using the ADB tool.
We will definitely update this list with latest zip files as more and more devices are made available.
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Once again, as happened to some (including me) last night,the blue bar at the top of the blog page is missing. Anyone else experiencing this?
Need help? Check out our Support site, then
Missing Blue Bar
Nope, mine's there ok. I used it not one minute ago to navigate through my dashboard (in another tab).
Have you tried clearing your cache and logging back in?
Mine vanished for a minute but I typed in the "/wp-admin" on to the end of the URL and it took me to the Dashboard and from there everything has been fine.
They might have been updating it. I see it fine currently. :)
Mine is still missing from yesterday. When I come to WordPress.com it appears and I can get to my dashboard, but the blue bar is missing from my blog and any others I visit. ?
As stated above, please try clearing your browser cache and doing a forced reload of the page that you're looking at. You may want to do this at the main site as well at http://wordpress.com
It's a javascript. It stays in your cache. It doesn't reload each time you click on a page.
No, I've cleared all the caches and done the forced reload thing... doesn't help. Actually, now I've got a message from support that there's a fault in the domain mapping code that needs to be fixed.
My blue bar is gone too! It was there 20 minutes ago now -- nothing! I'm still logged in, though.
Hi fencer,
I've tried everything also, to no avail...still no blue bar. Does the message from support mean that it's something that they will fix or are fixing??
Hopefully fixing. I dont really have access to the innerworks of staff.
Hi disembedded,
Support apologized for the problem and indicated they were working on it...
Hi fencer and Dr. Mike,
Thanks for your comments. The AWOL blue bar has returned, so it looks like everything is back to normal on my blog.
My blue bar is back, too.
(Thanks for the info, Mark!)
Are we supposed to have a Blue Bar while here in forum? If yes, I don't.
I do have the Blue Bar when I'm on my blog, though -- but not when I'm here.
Yes, we are. Strange. Try just typing in your blog URL and adding "/wp-admin" and hit that. I have found that sometimes when you do that not only do you get back to the dashboard but the problem does not recurr.
I see it in the forums here but I'm using Netscape 7.2 this morning.
The only place it shouldn't be is the Dashboard side of your blog.
No blue bar here. Only a White Empty Space. Truly strange. Blue Bar works great on my blog and other WP.com delights. Nothing I can think to try to do to fix it does anything.
Only thing I can think of is doing the cache clearing if you haven't this morning. if they changed something during the night, you may be clashing with the new code.
Good luck,
Thanks, drmike. I've tried all that. It's taking me 38 seconds to login so there's something going on in the depths, I guess. All my other non-WP.com logins and page loads are speedy. I hope it shakes out over the weekend.
i have cleared my cache... even tried logging from a private web cafe (different ISP) but nothing seem to work
Send a feedback or email to staff on Monday when they open. If nothing is working, it could be something else. I experience the same problem here in the forums and keep forgetting to contact them myself.
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Foxx at Fallsview: Casino books Oscar winner
Actor/singer Jamie Foxx performs at the Niagara Fallsview Casino March 5 and 6. PHOTO: WENN.com
Oscar winner Jamie Foxx is heading to the Niagara Fallsview Casino in March.
The star of Ray and Django Unchained will perform at the Avalon Ballroom March 5 and 6, performing music from his four albums, including the hits Gold Digger and Unpredictable. Tickets start at $60.
The movie vibe continues March 19 to 27 with the revue Hooray For Hollywood, rolling out tunes from the past 50 years such as Singing in the Rain and Mamma Mia.
Fallsview favourite Tony Bennett also returns in March for a two-night stand, March 28 and 29.
Another returning favourite will be ex-Eagles guitarist Don Felder, performing An Evening at the Hotel California March 14 and 15.
Rounding out the March line-up is Asian star Jenny Tseng March 9 and 10, and the Songwriters in the Grand Hall March 8.
Tickets for all shows go on sale noon Friday, Dec. 6, at the casino box office and Ticketmaster (1-877-833-3110).


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It's the label every golfer aspires to: shotmaker.
Ben Hogan was a shotmaker. Sam Snead too. Same for Seve Ballesteros and Lee Trevino.
What separates a shotmaker from mere golfers? Simply, the ability to shape shots left or right, hit them high or low and precisely control distance, all on command as the situation requires.
What does it take to become a shotmaker? The basic ingredients include:
- A fundamental knowledge of spin and loft and their effects on the ball's flight. For example, left-to-right sidespin causes the ball to curve in the same direction.
- An understanding of how to impart different types of spin on the ball. The ball flies left to-to-right, for instance, when the club's face is open relative to its path at impact. Also, positioning the ball farther right in the stance decreases the club's effective loft, producing a lower trajectory.
- A sound swing in which the clubhead approaches the ball from just inside or directly on the target line.
- Lots and lots of practice.
Shotmaking is primarily about angles. Learn the cause and effect of different alignments, clubhead aim and ball position and you'll own the knowledge to become a shotmaker.


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Since 1959 the venerable AR-7 has been the choice of U.S. Air Force pilots who need a small-caliber rifle they can count on should they have to punch out over a remote area. Through the years the AR-7's reputation for portability, ease of operation and reliability has carried over to the civilian world. Today it's a favorite of bush pilots, backpackers and backcountry adventurers who, like their Air Force counterparts, need a rifle that's easy to carry yet has the accuracy to reliably take down small game.
When disassembled the pieces fit inside the impact-resistant, water resistant stock. Assembly is as easy as attaching the receiver to the stock, inserting the barrel, and screwing on the nut. In a few seconds, without any tools, the Henry U.S. Survival AR-7 is ready for action. It comes standard with a sturdy steel barrel covered in tough ABS plastic with a protective coating for complete corrosion resistance. It's engineered for perfect balance and the ability to maintain its tack-driving accuracy, even after thousands of rounds.


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Below is the MTV news video from yesterday where The Rock discusses his role at WrestleMania 27, Snooki and more:
Drew McIntyre told SkySports.com earlier this week that Finlay, William Regal and The Undertaker have all been instrumental behind-the-scenes in his development since joining the WWE roster. While he isn't currently announced for a match at WrestleMania 27, Drew said the following regarding his role at the big event: "I'll make sure I'm involved. It's WrestleMania. I'm certainly not going to sit back and watch."


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Cranberry-Raspberry Sauce
Simmer raspberry jam and prunes with cranberries to make this sweet-tart favorite for turkey or ham.
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Level: Easy
Yield: 3 cups
- 1 bag cranberries
- 1 c. pitted prunes
- ½ c. seedless raspberry jam
- ¼ c. sugar
- 1 tbsp. cider vinegar
- ¼ tsp. salt
- 1 stick cinnamon
- In 3-quart saucepan, heat all ingredients and 2/3 cup water to boiling over high heat.
- Reduce heat to medium and cook, uncovered, until most cranberries pop and mixture thickens slightly, about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Spoon into serving bowl; cover and refrigerate until well chilled, about 3 hours or up to 4 days.
More recipes like this
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See more information about hypnosis, what it's all about and how it helps in therapy.
Have a look at some of the many symptoms that Helen can help you with.
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Most people dislike facing the true facts of life and prefer to lull themselves into a false sense of security by sweet dreaming and imagining. They mistake the shadow for the substance. They fail to realise that life is uncertain, but that death is certain. One way of understanding life is to face and understand death which is nothing more than a temporary end to a temporary existence. But many people do not like even to hear of the word ' death'. They forget that death will come, whether they like it or not. Recollections on death with the right mental attitude can give a person courage and calmness as well as an insight into the nature of existence.
Besides understanding death, we need a better understanding of our life. We are living a life that does not always proceed as smoothly as we would like it to. Very often, we face problems and difficulties. We should not be afraid of them because the penetration into the very nature of these problems and difficulties can provide us with a deeper insight into life. The worldly happiness in wealth, luxury, respectable positions in life which most people seek is an illusion. The fact that the sale of sleeping pills and tranquillizers, admissions to mental hospitals and suicide rates have increased in relation to modern material progress is enough testimony that we have to go beyond worldly, material pleasure to seek for real happiness. ~By Venerable K. Sri Dhammananda


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Top 5 Dual-SIM Android Smartphones in India
Bangalore: Dual-SIM mobile market in India is growing day-by-day as it is much better to carry an all in one smartphone than two phones at a time; today you will find a range of dual-SIM mobiles packed with latest features. If you are looking out for smartphones with dual-SIM feature then check out the best dual-SIM smartphones in the market.
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Samsung Galaxy Y Duos is Samsung's first full-touch Dual SIM device. The Galaxy Y Duos offers the users the opportunity to use the device for both data & call simultaneously, enabling them to maintain a work life balance.
The device is powered by 832 MHz processor, 512 MB RAM and runs on Android 2.3 operating system. It also has 3.14 inch QVGA touchscreen, expandable memory up to 32 GB through microSD card, 3.15 MP camera with Geo-Tagging feature. For connectivity it has GPRS, EDGE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0 and microUSB port. The Samsung Galaxy Y Duos is priced 10490.
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An after-dinner speech to the Values/Green gathering on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the formation of the Values Party
June 1st, 2012
»Beyond Tomorrow (introduction)
Two score and nought years ago you — our fore mothers and fathers — bought forth on these tiny islands in the South Pacific a new political party, conceived in ecology and fairness and dedicated to the proposition that the earth and it's people only had so much to give.
As Christine sang earlier, the times they are a' changin'. Before this talk Christine and I discussed the possibility of singing a song that summed up my generation, Gen Y.
I cast around for ideas. I racked my brain. None came. I asked Twitter. I asked Facebook — the oracles of my generation. But to no avail.
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From Claire Novak
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Trainer Mark Casse took a hit before the Saratoga meeting even started when his Grade I winner Pool Play came up with an injury that will likely end his career. The 6-year-old runner, who was pointing for a start here in the Aug. 6 Whitney Handicap, exhibited filling in the upper part of his left tendon Tuesday morning and was found to have a tear in the ligament when veterinarians conducted an ultrasound Wednesday morning. He is definitely out for the remainder of the season.
Pool Play, who spent the majority of his career on synthetic and turf surfaces, raced 28 times with six victories and earnings of $909,556 for owner Bill Farish Jr. He took the June 6 Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs at odds of 36-1 in his first start on the dirt, and last worked five furlongs in 1:01.00 at Churchill on July 10 before shipping to Saratoga. He was scheduled to have his first breeze in preparation for the Whitney on Wednesday, the same day the injury was confirmed.
"Tuesday we were having our morning inspection as we always do, and (I noticed) some filling in the upper part of his tendon," Casse said. "I wasn't happy about it so I didn't train him that day; we treated him, iced him, and walked him a bunch. It looked pretty good yesterday morning but I still wanted to go ahead and ultrasound it, and we found the tear. It wasn't terrible, in fact, if you went and looked at him right now you probably wouldn't even know that he had it, but we know him so well. He's too good a horse to take a shot at hurting. I talked to Bill just decided to call it a year."
The Canada-bred son of Silver Deputy will remain in Saratoga until plans for his future are finalized. While anticipating that the horse would not come back in 2012, Casse left the door open a very small crack.
"These kinds of injuries, we've seen horses come back from, but he has some value as a stallion and to bring him back next year at seven might be a challenge," he said. "The injury itself I think he can come back from, that's not the problem, but it's age and value as a stallion that would keep us from doing that. I would think with him being a Grade I winner, he'd have some value in the overseas market."


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Ed Cox's quest for the chairmanship of the state GOP Committee is gaining some momentum. He got letters of support from 25 county chairmen yesterday (which by population-based weighting of the counties amount to about 25 percent of the vote for party leader) and he just picked up some more: from Greene, Montgomery, St. Lawrence and Otsego counties as well.
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Two days after being scolded in print from staying out of the Con Ed lockout, Gov. Andrew Cuomo today sent a letter to Public Service Commission Chairman Garry Brown urging the Commission to facilitate stepped-up talks between the power giant and the locked-out Local 1-2 of the Utility Workers of America.
The letter is in response to a memo from Brown sent in response to the second floor's request for a sense of what the PSC could do in the matter. Brown's response can be summed up as "bupkis."
Cuomo finds that to be an insufficient response:
Dear Chairman Brown:
I am in receipt of your memorandum outlining your view of the legal authority of the Public Service Commission to respond to work stoppages or lockouts involving regulated utilities.
I understand that the Public Service Commission's view is that its authority to intervene directly in what is primarily a labor dispute is prevented by federal labor law. I understand further from your memorandum that the Commission has not previously inserted itself into a labor dispute. The Commission's position is that it can only respond when "a severe event compromising safety or disrupting the provision of reliable service" occurs.
I respectfully suggest an alternative perspective. My administration has focused on fundamentally changing the way state government operates in order to position the government to proactively address problems facing New Yorkers and, when possible, prevent them happening in the first place. When we can take steps to avert disaster before it strikes, it is a dereliction of our public duty not to act. In the case of the current Con Ed lockout, it would be a failure to serve the public to respond only after a blackout or serious safety incident that occurs due to the labor dispute. I believe there is a real possibility of a safety or reliability issue if this situation continues. This is especially true as our region faces an ongoing heat wave which places significant stress on the power grid and requires all parties to devote the highest level of attention to the energy system.
This lockout has gone on long enough. Elected state and city officials are rightfully concerned. I urge you to bring both parties together to strongly encourage an expeditious resolution, and to emphasize that both Con Ed and the union will be held accountable by the people of the state if their failure to settle the dispute contributes to service disruptions or impacts safety.
And here's the memo from Brown:
July 25, 2012
TO: Howard Glaser, Director of State Operations
Mylan Denerstein, Counsel to the Governor
FROM: Garry Brown, Chairman
This memorandum is prepared in response to the Governor's Office's request for the Department of Public Service to examine the maximum legal authority and fullest extent of jurisdiction over disputes between regulated utilities and their labor unions. Recognizing that a motion on this issue is pending before the Commission and additional legal arguments have been requested, this analysis is offered to address what the Commission can do to maintain safe and reliable service for the benefit of a regulated utility's customers.
1. Federal Preemption
Federal labor law precludes any state entity, including the Public Service Commission, from ordering a private sector employer (a public utility) to end a labor-management dispute such as a strike or a lockout. Federal labor law protects the parties (that is, a labor union and a regulated utility) from state interference with their exercise of federally protected rights under the National Labor Relations Act. These federally protected rights include the union's right to strike and the utility's right to lockout. The Commission therefore does not have legal authority to directly intervene to order an end to a work stoppage, and the attempt to exercise such authority would not withstand legal challenge. Golden State Transit Corp. v. City of Los Angeles, 475 U.S. 608 (1986); Machinist v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission, 427 US 132 (1976); San Diego Bldg. Trades Council v. Garmon, 359 US 236 (1959); National Labor Relations Board v. State of New York, 436 F. Supp. 335 (EDNY, 1977).
2. Authority Over Regulated Utilities in a Work Stoppage or Lockout
The Public Service Commission has the legal responsibility to ensure the safety and reliability of utility service. There are ways the Commission can exert authority over regulated utilities consistent with our powers under the Public Service Law, which are focused on matters involving safety, reliability and rates. Prior to the current Con Ed lockout, Con Ed was required to develop contingency plans for the provision of safe and reliable service, and the Department is monitoring the implementation of the contingency plans on-site on a daily basis. A failure of the contingency plan to prevent a severe event compromising safety or disrupting the provision of reliable service could expose the utility to a claim that it acted imprudently and trigger corrective action ordered by the Commission.
Past work stoppages or lockouts have not given rise to intervention by the Public Service Commission. For example, the last strikes affecting New York electric utilities were in 1984, involving LILCO, and in 1983, involving Con Ed. The Con Ed strike lasted 9 weeks and was settled without intervention by the Public Service Commission.
3. Authority Over Labor Unions
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On Friday 31 August I delivered the 2012 Human Rights and Social Justice Lecture at the University of Newcastle. I chose as my topic: Her Rights at Work. The political persecution of Australia's first female prime minister. Like many other Australians, I have been disturbed by the double standards that are seemingly applied to Julia Gillard by the Opposition, by the media and by many ordinary people.
But in the course of researching this topic I discovered that Gillard is subjected to far worse than mere double-standards. There is an entire industry of vilification, much of it sexually crude, all of it offensive and designed to undermine her authority and thus her legitimacy in the role as Australia's first female prime minister. I felt that I could not argue this case without displaying at least some of the material that I was referring to. I recognise that it is very confronting and that not everyone will want to look at it.
So I have published TWO VERSIONS of the speech. The VANILLA version contains some strong language, where I quote what ordinary people are saying about Julia Gillard but does not include the offensive images. The R-RATED VERSION version contains the images. Be prepared to be shocked. I have also included an APPENDIX which contains even more disgusting material. Look at this at your own risk. My purpose in making this material available is not to titillate, nor to reward the perpetrators but to alert decent Australians to what is being said and done to our Prime Minister. It is now up to us to stop this.
I strongly argue that we ordinary citizens, regardless of our political views or affiliations should say this is not acceptable. Let's all say: It Stops with me.


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Gus Van Sant has often name-checked Béla Tarr for the "Death Trilogy" of Gerry, Elephant and Last Days, but their voluptuous morbidity and achingly blank "models" show it's Bresson he's been after. If Last Days was his The Devil, Probably, Paranoid Park is his Four Nights of a Dreamer, which is another way of saying that Van Sant has gone from one of his most poetically bleak films to one of his most poetically hopeful films. It's also one of his freest works -- while the other three were locked in deterministic lines of death and decay, the director here moves from purposely awkward naturalism to aestheticized artifice, sure that he'll "get it all on paper eventually" yet relaxed enough to shuffle the order of his fragments or douse a sudden break-up scene with Nino Rota enchantment. No wonder several critics have used "floating" to describe its tone: This is a movie with neither floor nor roof, the walls of the titular skater-boyz hangout suggest anti-gravitational slopes, the pubescent protagonist, Alex (Gabe Nevins), is an ethereal, alienated Icarus in full freefall. A Portland high-schooler, he's stuck with divorcing parents who are glimpsed mostly as out-of-focus blurs, plus a cheerleader girlfriend (Taylor Momsen) whose demands for sex somehow make her rather bat-faced; skating is his only escape, particularly when photographed by Christopher Doyle and scored to French murmuring, until one night he hops a freight train of trauma.
Just when it looked like Van Sant had milked the cutie-strolling-down-high-school-halls-in-slow-mo bit dry, along comes Paranoid Park to provide, if not a culmination of the auteur's stylistic and thematic motifs, then a limpid greatest-hits album. The teenager's impressionistic headspace is his canvas, layered like a Keats poem and scored like an iPod (one with enough room for Elliott Smith and Beethoven). The rawness of the inexperienced cast (culled from MySpace) fuses with Van Sant's resolute sense of lighting and composition for a handful of stunning effects: A scene between Alex and a detective (Daniel Liu) that slowly shifts from mid-distance two-shot to frontal close-up, the subtly darkening tones of nature in the field where Alex writes his essay-confession, the cacophony of echoes and crashes inside his head in the shower as the dripping water turns his hair into a mass of Franz Kline lines. What raises it above a series of swooning movements, however, is the sanguine view of youth angst. Alex belongs to Van Sant's gallery of angelic zombies, yet his world is not so much a dying one as one rattled (and widened) by a death -- the character is a grave blank, and when he's face to face with the severed torso he is responsible for, he sees his own lack of wholeness. Whether a mock-Dostoyevsky event or a metaphorical bungled sex act, Alex's wrong move is one that will accompany him into adulthood even as he attempts to write it off or burn it away. Paranoid Park may seem like a sketch, yet it catches in luminous amber a moment when reality bloodily, necessarily pierces the myth of adolescent purity.
Gilded cages abound in Ira Sachs's still young but already remarkable filmography -- Married Life starts and ends with characters framed behind window grids, an acknowledgement of the picture's spiritual ancestors (Sirk and Ophuls, mainly) along with a literalization of the incisive feeling of entrapment in Sachs's previous film, Forty Shades of Blue. What's especially miraculous about both films is their lack of derision, a feat all the more notable in that Married Life is set in the years preceding Eisenhower's America, now a veritable board for ironist darts (see Pleasantville, Far From Heaven, Kinsey). The narrative, based on John Bingham's novel Five Roundabouts to Heaven, is founded on a couple of rich jokes: The uptight, middle-class mensch's (Chris Cooper) search for romance with a young war widow (Rachel McAdams) because his wife (Patricia Clarkson) can only express love through sex, and his deeply felt notion that poisoning the wife would be the most merciful way to spare her the pains of divorce. Pierce Brosnan, as Cooper's bachelor friend (for whom marriage is "a mild kind of illness"), enters the triangle and turns it into a parallelogram -- when a cigarette is passed from McAdams's lips to Brosnan's, it's a moment of pure sublimated sensuality reminiscent of Sachs fave Charulata, as well as a fond appreciation of Old Hollywood artifice ("Corny, but it works. And it's from the heart"). The roundelay structure and Hitchcockian nods could have easily given way to a sardonic puppet theater, but Sachs and screenwriter Oren Moverman care too much about their characters to turn them into pawns. Instead, Married Life sagely follows people from moment to moment as roles are investigated, unexpected sides are uncovered, and the strangeness of love is accepted with a scabrously human, implicative "funny, isn't it?"
And now, for something completely different: 10,000 B.C. Is that how far back this thing sets the medium? The title gets imprinted across the screen like a portentous timecard, and I hoped against all hope for another card, reading "Sunday" or maybe "Lunch Time," to follow. Only such a Pythonesque jibe could have cleared the air of epic asininity. Unhappily, the guy at the wheel here is Roland Emmerich, possibly the most humorless and visionless creator of blockbusters to ever step behind the camera, so the picture proceeds accordingly. Heavy on moronic mysticism (narrator Omar Sharif gasses on about "the last hunt" and "the promise of life") and light on imagination, excitement, and shot-to-shot coherence, the Stone Age plot -- caveboy (Steve Strait) rescues cavegirl (Camilla Belle) from some Darth Pharaoh -- is a craptacular mishmash of Apocalypto, Conan the Barbarian, and, uh... Ator the Fighting Eagle, I guess. You can't say you weren't warned after Stargate, Independence Day and Godzilla, but it's hard not to feel gypped by the sheer lack of care in the FX department. More than $100 million for a budget, and The Flintstones still has more convincing mammoths? Quoth Lubitsch's Trotskyite in Trouble in Paradise: "Phooey!"
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Animation &Animation Artifacts &Disney 28 Dec 2011 05:55 am
Mickey and the Brooms – part 5
- Here's the final bit of character animation as Mickey comes out of the room having hacked the broom to splinters. He combines with some of the shadows that were posted last week.
All that's left of the scene for me to post is the set of exposure sheets as well as some samples of the rendering for the airbrushing. Believe it or not, that's my favorite part of the whole thing. Next week.
The scene was animated by Riley Thompson with Harvey Toombs assisting. The sequence director was James Algar.
The following QT incorporates all the drawings from this post
and the two earlier shadow posts.
All posts will be combined in the final piece.
All drawings were exposed per the Exposure Sheets.
this scene comes in at 5'30″
2 Responses to "Mickey and the Brooms – part 5"
on 28 Dec 2011 at 6:29 am 1.Josh said …
Wow this was amazing artwork. its been awesome following this the past few weeks. Will you be posting any other drawings/sketches from The Sorcerer's Apprentice??
on 28 Dec 2011 at 7:24 am 2.Michael said …
I'm glad you enjoyed it, Josh. Look for the XSheets and other material, next week. It really is interesting.


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This may be Joe and Melissa Gorga's lucky day! Kai Patterson is planning to vacate their mansion and terminate the rental agreement and the purchase arrangement!
In case you've been asleep or visiting another planet over the past few months, you can catch up on the Gorga Mansion drama here, here, here and here. And here. Also here. For the rest of you, read on!


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The Vera Wang Fall 2013 collection was displayed at this year's New York Fashion Week. The upscale designer delivered a concise theme that characterized the bulk of her pieces as she unveiled her line of exclusive tiered apparel.
These tiers were delivered to the audience triumphantly as the models wore fur wrap around vests, shoulder-length leather gloves and strips of upscale fabric. While the color scheme was minimalist, taking from muted creams, greys, blacks and lilacs only, the ensembles remained domineering given layers of cloth. As the pieces were intricately placed on top of one another, they made the women come across as commanding and certainly in charge of the critical fashion scene that they stood before.
Triumphant Tiered Apparel
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The Vera Wang Fall 2013 Line Features an Assortment of Layers
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I've always been a fan of teriyaki chicken, that tasty staple of late-night delivery, but the sauce is usually way too sweet, leaving me feeling full of regret and MSG.
So I started making my own simple teriyaki chicken at home. It scratches the takeout itch and makes for awesome leftovers.
I add veggies and serve it over brown rice, so I can feel morally superior as I'm slurping down my salt and sugar sauce (it's homemade).
Teriyaki Chicken & Veggies
- Sauce:
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 1 T. rice vinegar
- 1 T. wine, vermouth or mirin
- 3 T. dark brown sugar
- 1-inch knob of ginger, peeled and minced
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/2 cup water or stock
- Sriracha (optional)
- Cornstarch
- Stir-fry:
- Vegetable or sesame oil
- 1 lb. chicken breast or thigh meat, trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 head chopped broccoli
- 2 cups chopped snap peas
- 1 chopped red pepper
- Steamed rice
- Make the sauce first. Sauté garlic and ginger in oil for 2 minutes.
- Add all the other sauce ingredients and bring to a boil; turn the heat to low and cook until the sauce has started to reduce and thicken.
- Adjust the flavor, adding a splash of sriracha if you're feeling sassy.
- Mix 2-4 T. cold water with an equal amount of cornstarch. Add to sauce and bring to a boil again. Let cook for a few minutes until it reaches the thickness you want. Turn heat off.
- Coat chicken in some of the sauce and marinate for 20 minutes.
- In a wok or large pan, heat a few T. of oil on medium-high heat.
- Add chicken pieces and stir-fry until browned on all sides and nearly cooked through. Remove chicken and set aside.
- Add veggies and stir-fry, adding a splash more oil. Stir-fry for 5 minutes, then add ¼ cup of water and steam (covered). Cook till tender, 15-20 minutes, adding more water if it starts to stick.
- When veggies are nearly done, add chicken back in. Mix in the sauce.
- Serve over steamed rice.


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Jered Weaver, two years removed from being named Baseball America's College Player of the Year at Long Beach State, became the first pitcher since Livan Hernandez in 1997 to win his first nine career decisions, posting a 1.95 ERA overall. (This while also going 6-1, 2.10 in two stints at Triple-A Salt Lake.) I sat down with Weaver in New York to talk about his corkscrew delivery, essentially replacing his brother Jeff on the Angels, and feeling like he's living a video game.
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Underwood a Hit at N.C. County FairMatt Richenthal at . Comments
The 15th annual Cumberland County, N.C., Fair kicked off last Thursday, with the sweet taste of cotton candy on the midway and the even weeter sounds of Carrie Underwood at the Crown Coliseum.
Fair fans flocked to tilt-a-whirls and bumper cars and tossed rings to win stuffed bears and live rabbits. They were rocked by "Pharaoh's Fury†and dropped by the "1001 Nights†ride. They ate cake, hot dogs and even exotic alligator tail.
Inside the Coliseum, the 23-year-old Carrie crooned to "We're Young and Beautiful†and a cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene.â€
With her hair in a loose ponytail and dressed in blue jeans and knee-high boots, the American Idol winner waited until later in her set to sing her hit, "Jesus, Take the Wheel.â€
According to the Fayetteville Observer, fans ate it up. Nicole Steele, Teresa McGuire and Leah Fantauzzo -- students from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro -- cheered as they showed off the sorority letters on their T-shirts -- Sigma Sigma Sigma.
Underwood, as many fans may know, was a member of the same sorority, at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma.
Before Carrie took the stage, 8-year-old Hannah Pritchard and her 6-year-old brother, Harrison, warmed up nearby concert goers with an all-Carrie serenade. Both hope to audition for American Idol when they are older. Hannah says she'd sing Underwood's music.
"She's a really big fan of me,†Hannah said.
"No, you're a really big fan of her,†parents Pam and Byron Pritchard corrected, laughing.Karen and Danny Crocker drove from Smithfield to hear Underwood.
"I got him tickets because he's a Carrie freak,†Karen Crocker said. "He's the reason she won American Idol. It was the speed dial.â€
The Crockers came to the concert with their 12-year-old nephew, Kyle Levin, who also called in votes for Underwood to win the singing competition.
The family is happy Underwood's stardom hasn't made her too big to perform in Fayetteville.
"I was kind of surprised. All the big cities she's going to, that she's coming to a county fair,†Karen Crocker said.
Best friends Alyssa Like and Brittany Anderson, both 11, rode bumper cars on the midway as they waited for the concert to begin.
"I'm very excited,†Alyssa said. "This is my very first concert.â€
Michelle Like, Alyssa's mom, is pleased the girls look up to Underwood.
"She's such an inspiration for children that age,†she said. "We need more role models like her.â€
Debra Wheeler agreed. The British-born Fayetteville resident said she is impressed that a girl-next-door such as Carrie Underwood can make it big.
"I just think it's wonderful that in this country, you can go from nowhere and be known nationwide,†she said.
Wheeler and her friend Mickey Demeo didn't go to Underwood's concert but spent their evening enjoying the rides and contests at the fair, which runs through Sept. 24.
"I absolutely loved the petting zoo,†Demeo said.
It was Wheeler's first time at the fair.
"I think it's wonderful,†she said. "It's a good mix of the rides and animals. It's very family-oriented. I like the fact that it's countrified but it's not too hokey.â€
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Edy Reja aimed a sideswipe at Napoli Coach Walter Mazzarri, as "he is not a gentleman," but tried to focus Lazio on their test with Parma.
The Biancocelesti are still smarting after their 4-3 defeat in Naples last week and Reja hasn't forgiven his opponents for post-match comments.
"I have a different way of dealing with victory. Mazzarri is a great Coach, which is obvious from his results, but in terms of his personality it's safe to say he is not a gentleman.
"We are still in the race for fourth and have no choice but to beat Parma if we want the Champions League.
"We're well aware there are no easy games, especially as Parma are making their debut under a new Coach and are desperate for points in the relegation battle, but the result depends exclusively on us.
"The objective is within reach and all we have to do now is grab it. I'm glad the fans are coming out in force, as it's time to set criticism aside and encourage these lads on the road to the Champions League."
Francelino Matuzalem, Stefano Mauri and Giuseppe Biava are all suspended, joining the injured Mobido Diakitè and Stefan Radu.
Giuseppe Sculli is the favourite to support Mauro Zarate with Hernanes and Alejandro Gonzalez, although Sergio Floccari could also feature in a 4-3-1-2 system.
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Fourteen acres of land in front of the Wal-Mart Super Center on Charlotte Pike, including a soccer field and a historic site, are slated to become a Metro park.
The land is being given to Metro by JDN Realty Corporation as part of a promise it made to the community to donate recreational facilities. It will become the first Metro park in District 23.


text: Maui Vacation Packages December 19, 2012 Save money in 2013 by booking Maui vacation packages By: Marty Wentzel Hawaii The Winter Escapes package from Aston Kaanapali Shores is one deal available to Maui visitors. // (c) 2012 Aston Hotels and Resorts Visitors spent more money on Maui in 2012 than they did in 2011, according to recent Hawaii Tourism Authority data, but that doesn't mean a Maui vacation has to cost more than it did one year ago. Value seekers can still find deals thanks to a variety of perk-packed Maui hotel packages. Check out the following offers for some great examples:Aston Kaanaapali ShoresWinter Escapes, from $209 per night.Perfect for families, this package from the deluxe oceanfront condominium resort comes with these freebies:* In-room high-speed Internet access* Wi-Fi service in public areas* Tennis* A toy for each child at check-in.The package is available for booking through March 31, 2013, with travel dates from Jan. 3- Mar 31, 2013.www.astonhotels.comFairmont Kea Lani, MauiA Reward for You package, from $519 per night.Good on a variety of room types, this initiative includes:* A reward of up to $400 each day for use at the spa, beach, shops, kids club, valet parking and restaurants.This offer is available through Dec. 31, 2013.www.fairmont.com/kea-lani-mauiHotel WaileaMaui Kiteboarding Vacation package, from $1,975 per person for five nights.Promoting the hotel's proximity to great beaches, the package provides:* A 50-minute massage* Three-day private kiteboard camp* 10 percent off the purchase of new kiteboarding equipment.A five-night minimum stay is required. With a booking deadline of June 30, 2013, the package is available for travel from Jan. 6 - Dec. 19, 2013.www.aquaresorts.comHonua KaiWhale Watch Experience, from $2,279 for five nights.Designed to help clients see the whales of winter, the package includes:* Compact rental car* Whale watching tour* Arrival amenity kit with binoculars, hats, sunscreen, lip balm, cooler bag and water.Requiring a five-night minimum stay, the package must be booked by April 1, 2013 for travel from Jan. 6 - April 15.www.honuakai.comKaanapali Beach HotelWhale Encounter package, priced at $1,339 for four nights.Offering a 25 percent savings, the package features:* Daily compact rental car* Daily buffet breakfast for two* Whale watching tour for two* Two bottles of water per day* Two beach towels* Picnic lunch in a keepsake picnic backpack.Booking dates run through April 1, 2013, with travel dates through April 7, 2013.www.kbhmaui.comNapili Kai Beach ResortSeventh Night Free promotion, from $610 per night.To show off the five million dollar renovation of its oceanfront Puna Point building, Napili Kai is offering:* The seventh night free in a Puna Point oceanfront one-bedroom suite.This deal is valid for stays from Jan. 5-25, April 20-June 14 and Aug. 17-Dec. 13, 2013.www.napilikai.comSheraton Maui50th Anniversary package, from $379 per night.Honoring the hotel's golden anniversary, the package includes:* $50 dining credit per stay* Daily breakfast buffet for two* Two vouchers for the hotel's signature 50th anniversary cocktail* Commemorative Sheraton Maui postcard book with historic photos through the decades.The package, which has a four-night minimum, may be booked through Nov. 30, 2013, for stays through Dec. 31, 2013.www.sheraton-maui.com Print Email


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Sunday, Gail Kerr brought attention to the unsolved murder of my daughter, Marcia Trimble. (''Police don't want a repeat of unsolved '70's case.'')
Our nine-year-old daughter, Marcia, disappeared Feb. 25, 1975 , and was found 33 days later in a neighbor's garage. She had been strangled to death and sexually assaulted.
Search dogs were flown in to pick up her scent. Many volunteers joined police and rescue units in the search. A command headquarters was set up in our home. Policemen were there day and night.
News media camped in our front yard with their strong lighting ready to broadcast live at any given moment. We discovered that having policemen and news people surrounding our house gave us much comfort.
What did we know about dealing with all this? We did the best we could, as I believe the Tuders are doing under great stress and horrible circumstances. Dogs and men searched for Marcia just as they have for Tabitha. My prayer is for Tabitha's safe return and much peace for her family.
I think about the Tuders' family, knowing the sleepless nights, the fear that floods their souls, fear of what could be happening to Tabitha, trying to be positive and calm in the middle of chaos. Not knowing whether your child is dead or alive is a terrible thing.
My words for Debra and Bo Tuders are, ''Don't give up hope in finding your precious daughter. Her sweet face has captured many hearts, and Nashville stands with you.''
Virginia Trimble
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State leaders will meet in Binghamton Saturday morning at 10:00 am to discuss disaster preparedness at SUNY Binghamton. State Senator Tom Libous explains:
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The doors will open at the Events Center at 9:00 AM; the training program begins at 10:00 AM.
The Chenango county sheriff's department arrested Keith Bassett of New Berlin for driving while intoxicated. Bassett was stopped for speeding, on State Highway 23 in the Town of New Berlin. Bassett is accused of operating his vehicle while being under the influence of alcohol. Bassett was arraigned in the Town of New Berlin Court and released on his own recognizance, he will appear in the Town of New Berlin Court at a later date.
The Chenango County Soil and Water Conservation District is holding their annual Tree and Shrub sale through April 3rd. The District offers a variety of trees and shrubs for individuals to plant for soil conservation, windbreaks, bird and mammal habitat, and timber improvement. More information is available at chenangoswcd.org.


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Dave Matthews Band -- Funny the Way it is
It is funny, isn't it? Here we are, with Egyptians taking to the streets to demand a more responsive and representative democracy and here we sit this Sunday, with the president that marked the end of representative democracy in this country still rehabbing his reputation. Funny the way it is, that we have activists and politicians fighting a death match over the rights of undocumented immigrants in Texas while the Texas legislature has taken the rights of American women to determine the fates of their bodies away from them. Funny the way it is, that Republicans' solution for everything is lower taxes, which has more than 40 years of documentation to not work, and yet, look at the preponderance of conservative voices on these shows. Funny the way it is.
ABC's "This Week" -- President George W. Bush and Laura Bush; Egypt's ambassador to the United States, Mohamed Tawfik. Foreign policy roundtable: ABC News' George Will, ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, and the American Enterprise Institute's Michael Rubin. Powerhouse political roundtable: Will, ABC News' Cokie Roberts, ABC News contributor and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, and ABC News Political Director Rick Klein.
NBC's "Meet the Press" -- Egyptian reform leader Mohammed ElBaradei; Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J.; Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho. Foreign policy roundtable: columnist for the New York Times, Tom Friedman; author and senior fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Robin Wright; Bloomberg View's Jeffrey Goldberg; and NBC's Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd. Political roundtable: Mitchell, Todd, columnists for the Washington Post EJ Dionne and Eugene Robinson, as well as New York Times columnist David Brooks.
NBC's "The Chris Matthews Show" -- Chuck Todd, NBC News Chief White House Correspondent; Katty Kay, BBC Washington Correspondent; Kelly O'Donnell, NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent; David Ignatius, The Washington Post.
CBS' "Face the Nation" -- Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; Reps. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and Xavier Becerra, D-Calif.; Janet Murguia, president and CEO, National Council of La Raza; Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Political panel: Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report, David Rohde of Reuters, Michael O'Hanlon of the Bookings Institution and CBS News' own John Dickerson.
MSNBC's "UP with Steve Kornacki" -- Dave Weigel, political reporter, Slate.com, Sean Trende, senior elections analyst, Real Clear Politics, Maria Teresa Kumar, president, Voto Latino, Donita Judge, project director, redistricting, The Advancement Project, Jim Morrill, political writer, The Charlotte Observer, Garance Franke-Ruta, senior editor, The Atlantic, NJ State Sen. Barbara Buono.
MSNBC's "Melissa Harris-Perry" -- Shirley Sherrod, Marc Morial, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Iyanla Vanzant, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu.
MSNBC's "Disrupt with Karen Finney" -- Guest list to be announced.
MSNBC's "The Ed Show" -- Guest list to be announced.
CNN's "State of the Union" -- Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich. Egypt panel: CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Fareed Zakaria. Former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Ned Walker, former National Intelligence Director John Negroponte and Middle East analyst Shibley Telhami.
"Fox News Sunday" -- Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Jack Reed, D-R.I.; Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas. Power panel: Brit Hume, Fox News Senior Political Analyst; Nina Easton, FORTUNE's Washington columnist & senior editor; Dennis Kucinich, Fmr Rep (D-OH), Fox News Contributor; Juan Williams, Fox News Political Analyst.
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I have never used marijuana. I hope my son or any future children I have never use it, either. I don't say that to myself, but rather to make it known from where I come on this issue, and that is that I think we could save a lot of law enforcement time, money, effort, and other resources (not to mention prison space) by legalizing the stuff and controlling it in the same way that alocohol is controlled. Wouldn't that free up law enforcement to catch (and prison cells to hold) more of the people who are out to do harm to other people?
Like I said, I'm no fan of marijuana, but I don't think that it's doing any more harm to society than alcohol (some would argue that it's doing less harm), and alcohol is legal.
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Drug czar calls pot a danger to kids
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WALNUT HILLS - President Bush's drug czar wants parents and kids to know: Marijuana is as serious a drug as any other.
John Walters, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, visited Cincinnati on Thursday as part of his push to convince Americans that marijuana isn't a "soft'' drug. Too many young people start smoking marijuana because they think it's harmless, he said.
"The single biggest enemy is cynicism,'' he said in a speech at First Step Home, a substance-abuse treatment shelter for women in Walnut Hills. "We have to pay attention. We have to correct misinformation. This is not a joke.''
Though marijuana is not as toxic as cocaine or heroin, and doesn't cause overdose or death, the drug is increasingly the primary cause nationwide of admissions to substance-abuse treatment facilities, he said. In 2002, about 130 people of every 100,000 who were 12 or older sought help for marijuana abuse. That was up by 162 percent from a decade earlier.
The White House thinks it's crucial to get its message to pre-teens because studies show people are much less likely to become dependent on drugs after 19, Walter said. He called marijuana abuse a "pediatric-onset disease.''
Walters said he supports confidential, non-punitive drug testing for teenagers as a way to get them help. About 140 schools across the country are doing that now, he said.
To parents, he advised: "You have to be concerned about this before you think you have to be concerned about this. Tell (your children) what you care about."
The First Step Home started in 1993. Executive Director Margo Spence said the facility is the only licensed treatment option in Hamilton County that allows children to live there with their mothers.


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Sniveling Obama supporting liberal loser Michael Smerconish says he's leaving broadcast radio and moving what's left of his "radio show" to a small channel called POTUS on the SiriusXM satellite service as of April 15.
Smerconish tried to get out in front of the story, painting the move as voluntary in an interview with the AP, but WPHT's ratings have been plummeting since they dropped popular conservative syndicated hosts in favor of bland locals in a "Live and Local" suicide mission. I can't imagine anyone with any sort of choice in the matter willingly giving up broadcasting over 80 normal radio stations in order to move to a satellite channel that is barely listened to even by SiriusXM standards.
Good riddance you MSNBC wannabe. Of course, he can't resist trashing his audience and coddling his president on the way out, because that's what douche bags do.
An excerpt from Smerconish's upcoming release tentatively titled "Why I Am A Big Fat Failure"
"It gives me the opportunity to move away from an environment that, quite frankly, is not conducive to the type of program I'm offering," he said. "I don't do ideologically-driven talk, I do content-driven talk. I'm not on the air to carry anybody's water on a day-to-day basis."
Most of the conservative talk show hosts bash President Barack Obama for four hours a day, whether the president deserves it or not, Smerconish said.
Talk radio is a place where incivility is the norm, and program directors haven't responded to his warning that their audiences are getting "too white, too male, too angry and too old" to promote future growth. He said he believes that talk radio contributes to gridlock in Washington.
WPHT's ratings have been in a free fall since FM talk outlet WWIQ picked up the syndicated powerhouses that WPHT dropped. WPHT had a 3 share in April 2012. Now, they have a 1.8 share. WWIQ, which didn't exist in April 2012, now has a 2.5 share.
Will WPHT attempt to rebuild with hosts their audience may actually enjoy, or will they continue their Kamikaze mission?


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At EarthFix, we recently reported on natural gas drilling in the Pacific Northwest. We found that wastewater from the coal-bed gas well operation in Coos Bay presented some water quality issues.
We know that what goes down, must come up when drilling a natural gas well. And what comes up—drilling mud, hydraulic fracturing fluids, water and sometimes toxic heavy metals—must go somewhere.
In Coos Bay, Oregon, wastewater was produced and taken off site during the 2005 through 2007 drilling, testing and hydraulic fracturing—fracking—of coal-bed gas wells. For a while the company, now-defunct Methane Energy, was trucking its wastewater to the local wastewater treatment plant. However, after fracking, the company was going to have to "de-water" the coal seam, producing far too much wastewater for the plant. So the company applied for a federal permit to discharge its wastewater into the Davis Slough.
There was a problem: Too much copper in the wastewater.
Copper, commonly found in coal beds, is highly toxic to fish, invertebrates and amphibians. The company began filtering its wastes and eventually, regulators gave the company a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Waste Water Discharge (NPDES) permit with numerous restrictions, including one on copper.
Ron Robinson, with the wells' current permit holder, Westport Energy, says he may have tracked the copper—or some of the copper—to the material used to fuse the underground well pipes. That's copper pipe goop to all the plumbers out there. Whatever the source, the company plans to use a filtration system to remove the copper if production begins.
The issue, however, could be moot unless the company finds new financial backing before its NPDES permit expires. The permit was issued in April 2007 and most NPDES permits expire in five years, giving the company about nine months to move forward.
If production does begin, water discharges and Davis Slough water quality will be something to watch.


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Earls describes his protagonist as ``a quietly heroic character. I really liked the guy and the voice was really clear. I thought I've got to see him right and deal with some of the issues''.
Making Laws for Clouds is the ninth book for this former doctor-turned-professional writer.
Growing up in Brisbane in the 1980s, Earls always turned his hand at writing - short stories at school, even jingles for advertising agencies. His other works cover a diverse range of subjects, from plastic surgery to 48 Shades of Brown, which won the 2000 Children's Book Council award for book of the year for older readers.
As for Making Laws for Clouds, getting inside the mind of Kane was ``more of a stretch'' than his previous adult fiction works, Earl says. ``In the past I have tended to look at the over-achievers, but Kane is something new to me.''
But why did Earls swap patients for readers? ``I still have the feeling that I can do something. The writing has created so many other opportunities. I am now co-editing an anthology for Canada and the UK,'' he says. The anthology, Big Night Out, is due to be released at the end of the year.
Nick Earls will be at the Hume Moonee Valley Library tomorrow at 7.30pm. For more information call 9370 0636.
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