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Damaries Cruz: Deciding to Start Treatment After Nearly 20 Years of Living With HIV
March 30, 2011
Damaries Cruz
When Damaries Cruz was first interviewed by TheBody.com, in the fall of 2008, she'd just participated in a groundbreaking HIV awareness campaign for Spanish-language television. She was a well-known speaker and HIV educator with a large Florida county health department. She seemed to be doing all right health-wise after 17 years of living with HIV, and had never taken HIV meds -- opting instead for herbs, vitamin supplements and meditation in order to maintain her health. It was just a few months after the interview posted that Damaries' health began to decline. Thus began what was, for her, a grueling process to decide whether to start HIV meds, and which meds she would start with. "I felt as if [my T cells] were my kids, waiting there, like, 'What are you doing? What are you doing? Come on, help me,'" she remembers. "And I felt so guilty ... that I just had to say, 'You know what? Help is on the way.'" In this update interview, Damaries opens up about all of the aspects of her decision-making, and shares tips for HIVers who are thinking about starting treatment -- including why she recommends against following in her footsteps with respect to delaying treatment.
Damaries Cruz, welcome back to TheBody.com. It's good to have you back here.
Thank you. It's great to be back.
Let's start with where you're at right now. Are you still living in Florida? Are you still doing the same work you were doing the last time you were interviewed, in 2008?
I'm still in Florida. I haven't been working. I've been on disability for roughly a year. I've been sick for almost the past two years.
I was working for the Miami-Dade County Health Department. I lived about an hour and a half away. I would have to drive over there, work 10-hour days, and then come back home. That took a toll on my body. I started getting sick. Plus, I had a lot of other stress.
I always used to say to people, "Watch out for stress. Be very careful, because it will kill your T cells, and it will kill your immune system." But I just didn't think about that then. Stress took over, and my health started going down.
These economic times are really hard. I was trying to fight for my house, go to work and not get sick. It's been really difficult for me.
I worked until my health couldn't take it anymore. I don't recommend that to anyone, but that is what I did. When I applied for disability I was already sick. I went to the Social Security office in person. I was petrified, because I hadn't heard too many good things about the whole process; but you know, I met two angels. They were so friendly and nice with me; I was so nervous that I was even crying. I was very honest about everything.
They send a form to your doctor and after the doctor fills it out, they make their decision based on that information. I went there knowing that it was going to take me up to a year to start receiving the benefits and that I might be denied three times prior to start (this is what people told me). To my surprise, I was approved in about 30 days! And I didn't even need an attorney. I even went back to the Social Security office to make sure it was right!
I'm not planning to stay on disability forever. My plan is to go back to college and eventually, when I have my degree in clinical social work, go back to work.
You were diagnosed with HIV in 1991, but by 2008 you'd never taken any HIV meds, even though at one point in 2006 your CD4 count had dropped enough that you were given an AIDS diagnosis. You were instead taking holistic treatments and vitamins, and you seemed to be doing OK. Had you started taking HIV meds by the time you started to get sick, almost two years ago? What happened?
I'm a hardheaded person -- a very strong-minded person, I should say. When I got sick, I still didn't want to take meds.
Now, I know a lot of people are going to read this. I don't want people to follow in my steps, because this is my story and this is what I did. I don't recommend that anyone do what I did, or what I do. I'm just sharing my story with people.
So what happened is: I had pneumonia. My now ex-boyfriend -- we were dating at that time, I think it was the second date -- he was here, and we had to call 911, because I couldn't breathe. I had been given an antibiotic for the pneumonia and I had a reaction to it. So he had to bring me to the hospital.
But I didn't go to the hospital for the pneumonia; I went to my holistic person, to my Chinese herb person. They did some treatment with acupuncture, and they put some cups on my back so they could open up my lungs. I still didn't go to the hospital. I didn't even think about medication, then. I still was saying, "You know what? This is going to be OK. I'm going to kick stress to the side. I'm going to be fine. I'm just going to be happy, ha-ha." But "happy ha-ha" never came. And it got complicated. The pneumonia went away, but then there were other things. I think, in two years, I've been my best maybe a whole month. Every other day, I've been sick. In the past six months, I've had maybe two days of complete health and energy.
After the pneumonia, I came out with chronic anemia, which is something that HIV-positive people can get. That really kicked my butt, because I couldn't move. I was tired. I didn't want to cook. I didn't want to do anything. That's why I had to apply for disability. I couldn't do it anymore.
My T cells were 46. Right now, they're 55, but they had been 46 for a few years. They got stuck there. And my viral load was 233,000, which is not bad for being positive for almost 20 years without medication. But then I have other complications. I have genital warts; they are out of control. I have the anemia. I hardly have hair, because it's starting to fall out, because of the anemia. So I started to get nervous. And every other month I was sick.
So I decided to go and visit my mother, as I always do. I went to visit my mother this past year in Puerto Rico. I stayed there for a whole month, and I meditated and I prayed. Now, this might sound silly to a lot of people, but I'm a person that visualizes a lot and I had a conversation with my soul. I saw my T cells standing there like soldiers, waiting for help. I saw 46 T cells standing there.
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Iranian Guy Blinds A Woman With Acid For Not Marrying Him & Now She Wants Payback!
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I got these fabrics from the quilt store; the red is Hoffman Winter Magic and the snowflake is Hoffman Wrap It Up (this is the only time I ever look at or care about what the fabric is or where it came from.)
Today at Joann, we found some fun remnants:
The middle fabric is the same fabric that I used for the back of my Stairsteps to Paradise quilt, that I am going to try to use to back the placemats.
I also found these brights on clearance:
...as well as these pretty silver blues:
Someday, I am going to make a wine and silver blue arrow quilt. I have been trying my hardest to design a simple arrow block, but I am having a heck of a time with it. Suggestions and directions would be helpful!
I also got my fabric wrapped canvas up on the wall.
So I'm also going to start posting one goal a week on my Sunday/Monday post to hold me accountable. So send me angry comments if it's Saturday and I haven't updated my goal progress.
This week I would like to cut the backs for the placemats as well as battings, get them layered and attempt some simple line machine quilting. My uber goal of the week would be to get all that done as well as to sew on the binding and finish the binding by hand. My uber uber goal of the week would be to do all that as well as to start on the second set of placemats.
What are your goals for the week?? Did you get anything exciting done this weekend???


text: Hmm, The European Union waited a bit long introducing its own equivalent and it should be online within a few years, it is called Galileo and it is 1 meter accurate for everyone. Also with the garantuee of it not getting switched off; which happens so easily with GPS, even the smallest threat of war is enough, and it is difficult to follow logics in Washington there. In one speech that's on his site Obama for example mentions he wants to get rid of Venezuelan oil, whereas in the convention he didn't mention Venezuela. Chavez now is gonna build a nuke, to garantuee his presidency. What's status of Venezuela? It exports massive amount of oil, can The Dutch Antilles, just close to Venezuela, be sure of the GPS signal? On GPS technical data i'm not sure what i'm allowed to quote, so let's not do it. Let's not even comment how far off or on Robert is. Vincent On Sep 30, 2008, at 5:37 PM, Robert G. Brown wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Lux, James P wrote: > > This is a very nice response, and I think you're on a very good track. > IIRC from discussion a few years ago, GPS can yield what, > microsecond or > better timing (if used to adjust drift and resync all clocks)? In > principle sub-microsecond, since a microsecond is order of 300 meters > and GPS can get you within 30. > >> The GPS synchronization problem is actually substantially easier. >> The >> propagation delay from satellite to receiver is varying in a very >> predictable manner (in fact, the nav solution solves for it); the >> signal is >> specifically designed for accurate timing (i.e. A PN code >> generated from a >> Cs clock is a darn good way to transmit timing and frequency >> information) > ... >> Keeping it beowulf'y, if you want fine grained synchronization so >> that you >> don't lose performance when doing barriers, you're probably going >> to need >> some sort of common clock. The typical microprocessor crystal >> just isn't >> good enough. Actually, though, when talking about this sort of >> sync, aren't >> we getting close to SIMD sort of processing? Is a "cluster of >> commodity >> computers" actually a "good" way to be doing this sort of thing? > > There is a natural synchronization driven by task advancement and > barriers already. The problem, I think, is in getting "everything > else" > to be at least moderately synchronous, as it is the noise of this that > degrades the otherwise synchronous task is it not? If one could > convince the kernel to "start" all of its housekeeping task timeslices > within (say) 1 usec worst case across all nodes, you would effectively > parallelize and synchronize this noise. I don't think it would be > necessary to shoot for true SIMD-like advancement, clock by clock -- > only to drive systems into a (nearly) identical state so that one > CPU is > only rarely waiting on another because of a random out-of-step > timeslice > being allocated to something outside of the task. Organization OF the > task is up to the parallel programmer, I would think, but it is > generally done under the assumption that the loss of occasional > timeslices doesn't much matter, only they do. > > However, I would think it would require a lot of work to get the > kernel(s) to respect a usec-synchronized clock, assuming that one > could > constrain the hardware so that it didn't generate too much random > (e.g. > interrupt) noise on its own. > > rgb > > -- > Robert G. Brown Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 > Duke University Physics Dept, Box 90305 > Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 > Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb > Book of Lilith Website: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Lilith/Lilith.php > Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977 >


text: At 02:21 PM 8/31/2007, Peter St. John wrote: >I'm imaging this system as a computer, and the headaches of it's >operator (the guy who scripted the worm, maybe) whose million nodes >are infested by a million hostile users (the refeverse of a users >desktop infested by a worm, is a worm's virutual supercomputer >infested by users). I'm sure that the architect sees the value of the Beowulf mailing list for such things. After all, we all like a challenge, right? Heterogenous hardware configurations, non-deterministic latency interconnects with an ever changing topology, configuration management issues galore. By the time we're done, rgb will have to add another chapter to his book on building Beowulfs. >>So besides preferring to call it a "Virtual Special-purpose (mail-bombing) Supercomputer" instead of a "(General purpose) Supercomputer" I'd also be skeptical of all performance metrics. If you can't measure the number of nodes within an order of magnitude then other metrics are perforce dubious. Well, there IS that, but then, it's more a matter of scale of dubiousness rather than whether any sort of single cluster metric is "truth". >And I'm pretty sure that Deep Blue could beat it at chess, if >someone managed to MPI a chess program on Storm Bot. But I"m sure I >can't prove it. Come on.. someone needs to throw down the guantlet. Challenge the botnet to a smackdown duel. race for pinks* or something. >*impromptu drag racing, winner takes possession of loser's vehicle >(i.e. the certificate of ownership, which used to be pink in >California (aka pink slip).. now they're a harder to forge rainbow color) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slip I like the linked interesting quote from Tony Blair, in re: his pink slip (the other kind). Apparently in the UK, there's actually an official form (P45) for such things. The wikipedia didn't say if the P45 is pink, though. Here in the U.S., we have forms for lots of other things, but not that. This list is so educational, in ways that one cannot even begin to describe. Now I have something to talk about with my wife's relatives in Surrey, stories about bureacracy having universal appeal, and much more cheery than death and taxes. James Lux, P.E. Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group Flight Communications Systems Section Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena CA 91109 tel: (818)354-2075 fax: (818)393-6875


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Quantum Mechanics: Harmonic Oscillator
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The quantum harmonic oscillator is the quantum mechanical analogue of the classical harmonic oscillator. It is one of the most important model systems in quantum mechanics because an arbitrary potential can be approximated as a harmonic potential at the vicinity of a stable equilibrium point. Furthermore, it is one of the few quantum mechanical systems for which a simple exact solution is known.
The energy spectrum of a harmonic oscillator is noteworthy for three reasons. Firstly, the energies are "quantized", and may only take the discrete values of Eo times 1/2, 3/2, 5/2, and so forth. This is a feature of many quantum mechanical systems. Secondly, the lowest achievable energy is not zero, but, which is called the "ground state energy" or zero-point energy. In the ground state, according to quantum mechanics, an oscillator performs null oscillations and its average kinetic energy is positive. It is not obvious that this is significant, because normally the zero of energy is not a physically meaningful quantity, only differences in energies. Nevertheless, the ground state energy has many implications, particularly in quantum gravity. The final reason is that the energy levels are equally spaced, unlike the Bohr model or the particle in a box.
As one can see from the simulations performed with the Bound State Calculation Lab, the ground state probability density is concentrated at the origin. This means the particle spends most of its time at the bottom of the potential well, as we would expect for a state with little energy. As the energy increases, the probability density becomes concentrated at the "classical turning points", where the state's energy coincides with the potential energy. This is consistent with the classical harmonic oscillator, in which the particle spends most of its time (and is therefore most likely to be found) at the turning points, where it is the slowest. The correspondence principle is thus satisfied.
The spectral method solution, though straightforward, is rather tedious. The "ladder operator" method, due to Paul Dirac, allows one to extract the energy eigenvalues without directly solving the differential equation. Furthermore, it is readily generalizable to more complicated problems, notably in quantum field theory.
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First silicon production on the Arabian Peninsula
BONN, Germany, and DOHA, Qatar, March 1, 2010 – SolarWorld is acquiring a 29 percent stake in the newly founded Joint Venture Qatar Solar Technologies headquartered in the Emirate of Qatar. The joint venture will establish the first production facility for polysilicon on the Arabian Peninsula. Partners are the Qatar Foundation (70 percent) and the Qatar Development Bank (1 percent).
Qatar Solar Technologies will invest a total of more than $500 millions in construction of the production facility with a planned annual capacity of around 3,600 tons of high-purity polysilicon in its first stage of expansion. Start of production is planned for the third quarter of 2012. At the Ras Laffan Industrial City location in the northeast of Qatar, the joint venture has access to an excellent chemicals infrastructure with favorable energy prices. Here, a forward integration along the entire solar value chain all the way to the finished solar power module could be implemented. A change of thinking is taking place on the Arabian Peninsula from which a larger and larger market for solar power systems is developing.
Qatar is one of the world's largest supplier countries for natural gas that has so far been securing its power supply on the basis of natural gas. "With the conversion of natural gas via electricity into solar-grade silicon, the reach of the gas virtually increases by a factor of more than 25 for as long as our solar power modules generate, as guaranteed, clean energy from the sun," says Frank H. Asbeck, chairman and CEO of SolarWorld AG upon signing a contract Monday in Doha in the presence of Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al- Missned.
With the project, SolarWorld further secures its supply of solar-grade silicon in addition to the company's own production, its own raw materials recycling activities and its long-term delivery contracts. The technology partner for the construction of the production line is the German company Centrotherm Photovoltaics AG with which SolarWorld AG has previously cooperated successfully in the development of its manufacturing facilities.
SolarWorld manufactures and sells solar power solutions and in doing so contributes to a cleaner energy supply worldwide. As the largest solar producer in the United States and Europe, SolarWorld employs about 3,200 people and carries out production in Hillsboro, Ore., and Freiberg and Arnstadt, Germany. From the raw material silicon to solar wafers, cells and panels, SolarWorld manages all stages of production ‒ including its own research and development. The company maintains high social standards at all locations across the globe and is committed to resource- and energy-efficient production. Headquartered in Bonn, Germany, SolarWorld was founded in 1998 and has been publicly traded on the stock market since 1999. For more information, visit www.solarworld-usa.com.
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Financial markets are becoming "cliff"-lashed.
With not much new, even the most bland comment from a key player in the "fiscal cliff" negotiations has the power to drive markets. The Dow traveled about 200 points, first down and then up on Wednesday, mainly on cliff talk. The market opened lower on worries about the fiscal cliff, as traders digested overnight news reports, showing no progress.


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March 16, 2007
HOUSTON, Texas - MIT's 400-yard medley relay team of senior Craig Edwards and freshmen Rastislav Racz, Jeff Zhou and Luke Cummings swam to a sixth-place finish at the NCAA Championships on Thursday night, helping the Engineers to 14th-place out of 37 scoring schools after one day of swimming and diving. The quartet raised its national-ranking considerably, as the group entered the competition as the 11th seed.
Kenyon College has jumped out to an early lead at the event, which is being hosted by the University of Houston. The Lords, who are attempting to win an unprecedented 28th consecutive national championship, secured 154 points during the first day of competition. They lead second-place Emory University (125) by 29 points, while Denison University sits in third with 110. MIT has earned 26 points thus far.
Edwards, Racz, Zhou and Cummings stepped up their efforts on the national stage, earning sixth-place in prelims of the 400 medley relay with a time of 3:25.05 - over a full second better than their seed time. They then matched that finish in the finals of the event, touching the wall at 3:25.23 to earn all of the team's 26 points on the evening.
Earlier in the day, the same group of swimmers took part in the 200-yard freestyle relay, finishing 19th with a time of 1:26.32 and missing the cut for finals. They entered that event with a national-ranking of 17th.
Head coach Dawn Gerken was pleased with the results of the first day of the championships, saying that Tech's competitors set the stage to accomplish the goals that they aim to achieve.
"Our goal entering this competition was to earn a spot in the top-15," she said. "With each of the guys giving us a great leg in the 400 medley relay, they really put the team in position to reach that goal."
The competition will resume this afternoon with preliminary events, while finals will once again take place in the evening. The relay team will return to the pool to compete in the 200-yard medley relay, while a number of individuals will also represent the Cardinal and Gray. Edwards will swim the 100-yard backstroke (national ranking of 8th), Racz the 100-yard breaststroke (10th) and Zhou the 100-yard butterfly (22nd). Live results can be found all day at http://uhcougars.cstv.com/livestats/w-swim/ .


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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Kobe Bryant isn't the only NBA superstar getting his work done on the anti-gravity treadmill this summer.
In a classic nod to his U.S. Men's National Team teammate and NBA rival, Miami Heat star LeBron James showed off his anti-gravity track speed via Instagram, same as Kobe did earlier this week:
If this is LeBron's way of showing Kobe some comedic love on his 35th birthday, I dig it.
I'm taking this as a sign of respect from LeBron to one of the few players in the game who is truly on his level and not a dig at Kobe's recovery from Achilles surgery. (And the argument could be made that LeBron is still trying to reach Kobe's level since the Los Angeles Lakers' star is a five-time champion, 11-time All-NBA First Teamer, nine-time All-Defensive First Teamer and 15-time All-Star.)
A true competitor wants Kobe back and healthy as soon as humanly possible. The best want to beat the best. And LeBron might be the four-time MVP, the reigning two-time regular season and Finals MVP and NBA champ, too. But he knows Kobe is still ahead of him on the career titles list by a hat trick.
So poking the Mamba is surely his way of acknowledging the fact that he knows Kobe is coming back with a vengeance.
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Candidate presented by: Dr. Margaret Faut Callahan, Dean, College of Nursing
Catherine Rick, the Chief Nursing Officer for the Veteran's Administration, serves as the voice of more than 75,000 nurses in the largest integrated health care system in the world. Her pioneering efforts over the past decade are cited as a national model for the private sector, setting the stage for health care improvements for American society.
Ms. Rick created and implemented a comprehensive governance model that transformed the Veterans Health System. This model has ensured that the care provided to our nation's veterans is thorough, compassionate, and of the highest quality. This visionary, unique model of care, with all of its component parts and complexity, has changed the way healthcare is delivered to our veterans worldwide. The innovative changes include pioneering one of the first nurse-sensitive information systems, implementing new nursing roles in the service sector, and elevating nursing education standards. Her work created the structures for systems improvement, data-driven inquiry, and the ability for nurses to act at the point of care, concurrently capturing and spreading innovation throughout the entire VA system.
During the recent health reform debate, many of Ms. Rick's innovations within the Veteran's Administration were credited with bending the cost curve and achieving quality across a full continuum of care.
Ms. Rick has demonstrated her passion for patient safety and quality of patient care delivery by finding ways to improve patient care outcomes, including, but not limited to, the work of nursing. Her innovative approach to leadership and collaboration has led to the development of one of the most admired and comprehensive integrated health care systems in the world.
She has more than 35 years of experience in clinical, leadership, and executive health care roles. Ms. Rick is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Nursing at the Uniformed Services University. She has published on a wide range of topics, and is a frequent speaker on topics relating to advancing nursing practice, patient care delivery models, and leadership principles for nursing roles.
Ms. Rick received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Alverno College and her Master of Science in Nursing Administration from Marquette University. She has been honored by many nursing and health care organizations, including the 2004 Presidential Meritorious Rank Award; the 2004 Distinguished Alumna Award from Marquette; the 2005 McGovern Award from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing; and the 2008 Outstanding Nurse Scholar by Sigma Theta Tau International, Delta Gamma Chapter. She is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and of the American Academy of Nursing.Because of her unwavering commitment to our nation's veterans, her compassion for all, and her visionary leadership in health care, Reverend President, I hereby recommend Catherine Rick for the Marquette University degree Doctor of Science, honoris causa.


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Oct. 27, 2007
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Senior Josh Campoverde's first goal of the season lifted MIT to a 1-0 victory over visiting WPI on Saturday afternoon in each side's New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) regular season finale. The win pushed the Cardinal and Gray's final regular season record to 9-4-2 - including a remarkable 6-1-1 mark at home - while Worcester's version of the Engineers concluded their regular season schedule with a record of 3-13-0.
With a conference record of 2-2-2, MIT secured the No. 5 seed in the NEWMAC Men's Soccer Championship, and will travel to No. 4 seed Clark University on Wednesday evening, Oct. 31, at 6:00 p.m. The two teams were unable to decide a winner when they met during the regular season, as each earned a point in a 0-0 tie. WPI will be the No. 7 seed after finishing 0-6-0 within conference-play and will face No. 2 seed Babson College on the road, on Wednesday afternoon at a time that is yet to be determined.
MIT will enter the postseason as one of the hottest teams in the conference, as its gone undefeated in its last five matches, posting four wins and a tie.
The first half of Saturday's tilt produced numerous early chances for both teams, though neither squad was able to find a route to the back of the net. MIT out-shot WPI, 11-3, in the opening stanza, but was unable to capitalize, as sophomore goalkeeper Steve Hoffer made six saves to keep the game scoreless.
The game's only breakthrough occurred in the 65th minute and was set up by an extraordinary sequence of events in front of the WPI goalmouth. After a long corner kick was sent back into the box from the left side, sophomore midfielder Adam Talsma found himself with the ball at his feet 12 yards from goal. His initial blast rebounded off the post, only to find its way right back to his feet in virtually the same spot. Talsma's next effort was on target, but straight at Hoffer, who made the save but couldn't hold onto the ball. The rebound was finally tucked into the roof of the net by Campoverde, who celebrated his first goal of the season on a day when he was honored as one of eight seniors playing in the final regular season home game of their careers. Along with Campoverde, Paul Hoffman, James Zorich, Danny Perry, Mike Allshouse, Chris Desrochers, Saahil Mehra and Chase Lochmiller were all recognized in a brief pre-game ceremony.
Though the visitors made a desperate attempt to find a late equalizer, bolstered by the efforts of junior Ben Gilde, who led the team with three shots, they couldn't find a way through the MIT defense.
Hoffer finished with eight saves despite taking the loss, while junior goalkeeper Tom Caldwell made two saves to earn his career-high fifth shutout of the campaign. The mark of five shutouts in a single season is tied for the second-highest total in program history, while Caldwell's 10 career shutouts place him second all-time, behind only Morgan Mills, who kept 14 clean sheets between 2001 and 2004.


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Perhaps for the first time ever, satirical web site \"The Onion\" apologized Monday for an offensive comment.
During Sunday\'s Oscar broadcast, The Onion\'s twitter account referred to 9-year-old Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis using a four-letter vulgarity.
The tweet caused a nearly instantaneous firestorm online and was taken down within an hour of being posted.
"It was crude and offensive—not to mention inconsistent with The Onion's commitment to parody and satire, however biting," Onion Chief Executive Steve Hannah said Monday in a post. "No person should be subjected to such a senseless, humorless comment masquerading as satire." Hannah also said The Onion is "taking immediate steps to discipline those individuals responsible."
To Wallis, who was nominated for her performance in "Beasts of the Southern Wild," Hannah also said: "Miss Wallis, you are young and talented and deserve better. All of us at The Onion are deeply sorry.\"
Hannah\'s apology appeared on a web page featuring links to The Onion\'s more typical fare, including \"Funeral Held For Door Shot 4 Times By Oscar Pistorius,\" and \"Snowstorm In Chicago Delays Hundreds Of Morning Murders.\"
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Oh I see my post is missing words, my phone gets buggy (will try to autocorrect word but just deletes it) and laggy when its cold (down clocks for battery compression), and i blindly typed that while taking 2am smoke. "Hypocritical liberals". If liberal hypocrisy doesn't ring any bells, i dont think we will agree on anything. A good example is posting polls to make some point about how Trump supporters are a sinking ship or a small minority, ironically the same polls said Trump had like 0-5% chance to win the election.
Cambridge-Analytica? Pretentious way to say Facebook leaks?
Do you not believe in a "deep state", who still call most of the shots, presidents and their house have been mostly puppets or celebrities (since at least JFK lol) for people to get mad or happy at. I do not know if Trump won the election organically, or he was chosen to win since the beginning by tptb.
Sure Trump lies, the media act like children with jabs they take. He says retarded stuff so they act twice as retarded. All presidents and politicians just say whatever sounds nice. I hate all politicians, any reasonable person should. People act like his disjointed contradictions are proof he's senile, or mindless compulsive liar or whatever. Its pretty clear to see his blabber have the news cycles under his thumb. CNN and friends will keep losing viewership because its so ridiculous to anyone who isnt completely operation paperclipped brainwashed.
Were you a big fan of obama or bill?
I don't see much there worth responding to, most of those statements don't really connect (trump lies, then people act dumb -- the point? The difference here is pathology, demonstrated in the article, k?) or don't make any sense at all. And operation paperclip took place in the 40s-50s, so again, where is the relevancy??
What are your thoughts on the documentary "The Clinton Chronicles" ? Does it make you view them any different? i feel this documentary really opened up my eyes and changed my view on the clintons and politics in general.
What i have come to notice is that all media is owned by one entity. Clear channel communications anyone? ANd i have never personally hung out with trump. All my information about him is received through some sort of media source.I often wonder What if its all altered to be against this one individual?
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I get several major personal advantages by not patenting free energy technologies:
I actually make more immediate money for my research, by having product for sale (books and devices).
I sleep well at night with no concern about anyone making my devices for resale, I encourage independent manufacture of my technology. People can't steal what I give away.
Of course, I concentrate my help and advise on those that help me in return.
I'm not concerned about the technology being lost if I 'disappear,' because it's already out there and being used. It's very sad how much valuable information has been lost by inventors taking it with them to their grave.
The technology gets put in place by people who make money. So I don't have to expend my time selling, I spend my time making better products.In any case, the main point is, the technology makes it to the market. This point is vital; my 'not patenting' philosophy actually gets the technology onto the market, whereas THOUSANDS of energy products registered in the patent office are NOT on the market.
This should be important to YOU, as YOU are the one who most benefits.
Myth: If it's patented, it's Government approved. Fact: The patent Office has nothing to do with government safety approvals. This is done by agencies like UL, CSA or EPA.
Myth: If it's not patented, maybe there's something wrong with it.
Fact: A patent has absolutely nothing to do with the practicality of the product. Marketability is decided using the actual products merits.
Myth: A patent protects my innovation.
Fact: A patent is (at best) only one step up from absolutely no protection
Fact: In some cases a patent is the worst thing you could possibly do if you want protection
Fact: A patent makes your idea public knowledge, allowing anyone access to your thoughts and helping them develop something better. Might as well write a book.
Fact: With a 10% change, someone else could acquire a similar patent or produce your idea with no liability to you
Fact: The only assistance you will get from the Patent Office to fight patent violations is verification of your patent date.
Myth: You can't get investors if you don't patent.
Fact: Investors come when they see money. Show them the potential and they'll invest. A patent is only one 'protection' tool.
Myth: I can make money once I have a patent.
Fact: A patent does not gaurentee income of any kind.
Fact: A patent often prevents income for years because you must maintain total secrecy.
Fact: A patent costs thousands of dollars, which is likely to be totally lost.
Most patent owners never make a dime.
Fact: If you want world-wide protection, you must file (and pay for) a separate patent in every single country.
Myth: Patenting is industry standard.
Fact: Knowledgeable industry makes minimal use of patents, preferring trade secrets, contracts and non-disclosures.
Sadly, many people, including inventors and investors, are trapped in 'greed' thinking. Greed thinking is based on 'limited resource' or 'scarcity' mentality. Thinking that we must protect our assets because there is only so much (of anything) to go around.
Greed makes vested interest suppression possible and practical. Preventing technology from getting into public use. 'Vested interest' knows the inventor didn't tell anyone because he was greedy, making the suppression easy. Vested interest is extremely good at finding a weak point (to push on) in any person's life that will cause that person to become unviable; so most inventors don't even realize the power they are up against.
To continue inventing practical energy solutions, I make money immediately by selling books and kits, instead of spending thousands of dollars and years of time getting a patent. Investing the time and money into getting a patent does not give any guarantee you'll make money. Selling books and product makes money immediately. Investing the time and money (that you would have spent acquiring a patent) into product development instead, will give you a much better chance of getting the product into the marketplace and give you money in your pocket. Not to say that patents aren't an applicable tool in some situations, they just aren't good for inventors in my situation. Nondisclosure agreements, trademarks and copyrights are inexpensive, fast, sufficient and reasonable protection.Several inventors have now seen what I've accomplished and are switching to my methods.
A patent is only as good as your ability to fight for it. The patent office does not help you, except to provide a service to prove that you patented your device on a particular date.
You fight your opponent in court at your own expense. Your chance of winning is not assured because there are many slippery ways around the patent laws.
So you may have paid lots of money getting a patent, set your marketing back several years because of secrecy and STILL not be able to prevent competition. In fact, you spend even more money (and time) trying to defend the undefendable.
Patents are an exceptionally bad idea for innovators with limited funds. Often Patents are 'stolen' and used without the innovators concent because the thief knows that the innovator does not have the money to take them to court.
Patents are only good for about 20 years from date of filing (not issue).
Patents need to be separately patented in every country or companies in another country can use your ideas freely, with no compensation to you.
Copyrights are good for 50 years after the author's death; are automatically valid in over 100 countries; and cost only $20 to register. It makes sense to write books!
By sharing our research publicly we are put in contact with like-minded people around the world, who also share their ideas. This takes years off the research time to develop the best answers in the world.
Then we share the results with everyone by writing a book. Everybody benefits because each person that contributed gets the benefits of everyone else's contribution too. This has turned into an awesome tool for developing technologies quickly.Patent Free sharing and open cooperation are vital to developing and implementing energy alternatives in today's suppressive environment. People who read our literature can build the technology themselves and participate in the free sharing of information. This brings the technology forward at a speed far faster than any previous method. Technology reaches the public in a practical form in months instead of decades. People who have our literature and do not build the technology become customers for those that do build the technology. Public education creates a market for the products of the innovation. Technology develops much faster when ideas are freely shared. Greed stunts the growth potential of a technology by using ideas from only one place. For example: we developed the Brown's Gas technology to a practical state, using ideas from all over the world. The technology continues to develop at an amazing rate because people are sharing their knowledge and experience. Now everyone gets the benefit of that cooperation.
It is this author's conclusion, having studied this effect extensively, that some technology is actively suppressed by the patent office. Example: 'over-unity machines' are not allowed to be patented by Patent Office policy (Note that I said 'policy' not Law).
This is ridiculous because the Patent Office has no function except to record and file patents in case someone needs them in a lawsuit and for public viewing. It's up to the market to determine if a device works or not. If it doesn't work, it won't sell. If someone commits fraud, they get punished.
The biggest irony is that most of the actual patents that I've seen DO NOT WORK as they are outlined in the patent; as anyone who has tried to build a device from a patent can tell you. So to make a policy against patenting anything is bad news, ... very bad news and contains a message ...
There is a man with a proven over-unity machine that has been trying to patent it for over twenty years. A court of law told the patent office to issue him a patent and they STILL wouldn't do it. He has tried to go directly to Congress for a patent, bypassing the patent office. You don't have the benefit of this man's work because he want's to patent it before he'll produce the device commercially. The concept does work, I've seen it myself and participated in the testing. I'm not saying that it's practical yet because the experimental machines are large for the power output, but they do put out more useable electricity than they consume. Sad... and only one example...
Everyone has heard about 'vested interest' buying out inventors, or the government seizing a patent in the interest of national security. These things DO happen to certain inventions (like free energy technologies) and it is made worse by patenting, because 'vested interest' knows that to qualify for a patent you haven't told anyone, so the idea stops right there.
You should be aware that the Patent Office has a program, that anyone can subscribe to, which notifies the subscriber when anyone is trying to get a patent on the technology category they are interested in. You can bet 'vested interest' subscribes to this service. So the inventor notifies the sharks, that he's ready to be eaten, by filing for a patent.
Note: It isn't that 'vested interest' can't make money with the new technology, it's just that it costs money to change and money that they've already invested in the old technology would be lost. They call it 'stranded investment'. So on the basis of finances you don't have free energy that's environmentally compatible and already exists. It's really as simple as that.
If someone can develop and sell inventions better than mine, they should do it. I sincerely believe in free market competition. Free market is what we used to have, it's what made America the greatest superpower on earth. It's what we've lost (due to suppression) and others have picked up, so America is losing ground FAST.I help people make money by providing products that help people save money, become more energy independent and save the earth's resources. This 'marketing strategy' helps me become successful in implementing eco-friendly technologies because the people who make money want to make more money. Those people watch me closely and when I make another product or an improvement, it gets applied worldwide immediately. If you want to make money, a patent is a minor issue. Money is made by marketing the product. Those who have the best product and marketing will make the money. It also helps to be first and biggest. It also helps to be flexible, so you can change constantly to give customers the best product and service. This keeps you as the leader, keeping the market share of the competition limited.
Ironically it has been my experience that making the information public domain actually protects me and those people who distribute my technology several ways:
Industry is loath to tool up when they think someone (anyone) else may compete with them. They are afraid of free market after having been protected so long.
Greedy thinking investors are loath to finance technology that is public domain. In spite of the fact that most patents are bypassed in one way or another anyway. This is OK for me, because I don't want the greedy thinking investors involved with technologies I'm working on. I want the abundance thinking investors.
It becomes redundant for 'vested interest' to try to suppress a technology that has been spread around the world. By making knowledge public domain I'm spared 'suppression grief'. I may make only crumbs, having given the cake away, but those crumbs are all I need and I have something more important, peace of mind :)))
Information that is public domain becomes forever unpatentable by anyone. Or rather, someone could get a patent because the patent office is inefficient that way, but it would be thrown out of court as a useless piece of paper as soon as it was proved that the information was public domain.
I've seen inventors patent ideas that were already patented (or ideas that are public domain) to encourage investors to participate in marketing their product. These patents are legal smoke and are no protection, because the industry either knows or can easily find out the truth. The one left without protection is the investor, and the inventor has actually committed fraud.
There is very little (of the technology that I work with) that has not already been patented and expired, making it public domain. Writing books is also an excellent way to make information public domain. No one can prevent use of this information by patenting.
My ace in the hole is that I am always making my products better. This innovation is assisted by a worldwide volunteer organization. If someone starts selling my 'current' innovation, I can sell a better one shortly. Best free market :))))
In fact, my innovations develop so fast that by the time a book is written it is obsolete. It is still the best printed information in the world, it is just not the best I've got. So anyone who markets (as competion) my technology, will ALWAYS be behind.
In fact, I encourage independent manufacture. Our time is best spent doing innovation, not manufacture and marketing. I also encourage manufacturers to join our information sharing cooperative. Those that share with us will be able to consult with us to get the latest and best information.
Those who cooperate with our sharing techniques will be on the leading edge. This is now a well proven technique and is based on the solid fact that no one person or organization can think of all things. An organized, focused, self-interested group of brainpower will always proceed fastest.
Greedy, secretive people who duplicate our technology without being part of our sharing cooperative are always going to be left behind. This has already happened several times. Greed has it's own way of thinking that automatically limits the potential of any greedy individual or organization.
Patents are useless when technology is developing so fast. Time and money are resources wasted as the patents become obsolete. If the time and money is spent on development and sharing of ideas, then the application develops past that stage and everyone benefits.
By the time we write a book or manufacture a product, the technology has already grown past that point. Why spend time and money patenting something that is obsolete? Why patent a particular technology when we already have something better?
If innovation is patented before we have a chance to make it public domain, then we just figure out a method that is better and make it public domain. This makes their patent obsolete.
This is another reason why it is so counterproductive to patent technologies that are just developing. Others can simply make a change and produce the product anyway. In this case, the money and time spent on a patent is worse than wasted, because it could have been spent on product development and marketing.
All new technology needs to educate the public before it will be universally accepted. Writing books automatically makes a market for the product because people learn what the technology is and how it can benefit them. It also establishes us as an authority because we literally "wrote the book".
The books start the free exchange of information that results in technology advancement and further books. Eventually books are written that allow people to build the projects themselves. This hands-on experimentation feedback quickly refines projects to make very practical applications. The books are again updated to give everyone the benefit of the best knowledge developed by free exchange of information.
In the end, we follow up the books with working devices. The market has been created and the technology made practical by patent free philosophy. Most people do not have time or skills to build the projects themselves, so huge market opportunities are opened up. We either manufacture the products ourselves or help others manufacture. We help those that are willing to help us in return.
Anyone who duplicates our technology without being part of our cooperative assists in promoting the legitimacy of the new technology. It is in their own self-interest to do so, because they have to educate to public the same way to sell the same technology.
Patent Free philosophy is based on abundance mentality. Abundance is all around us. We couldn't possibly take advantage of it all because it's like dipping a bucket of water out of the ocean, the hole fills with more water. Abundance takes many forms and presents many opportunities. The key is to learn to recognize and take advantage of the opportunities as they present themselves.
Looking at Brown's Gas technology as an example. There is enough business for everyone. The market is wide open with opportunities on every side. We recognise trillions of dollars of potential with the market research we've already done.
By not patenting, the technology grows freely, finding it's best applications without restriction. As the technology gets implemented, it increases productivity and creates employment. As ideas are shared, the technology develops and new applications are found. True abundance is shared by all people because the standard of living rises.Patent Free philosophy bypasses greed and suppression, allowing a huge increase in the growth of the technology. For example: Yull Brown spent nearly 30 years and over $25 million dollars trying to commercialize Brown's Gas using the 'patent' route. He spent a significant amount of the money (and his time) on patents and fighting patent infringements; he died penniless. The technology is now developing so fast because we are using the opposite philosophy that Yull Brown used. Why keep using a philosophy that obviously didn't work? If you want a different result, change something. Eagle-Research redeveloped the Brown's Gas technology from scratch in eight months time, with a total research budget of $6,000 per month. Yull Brown was so secretive that he was no help to us. Our machines were half the weight and size; took half the wattage to make the same volume of gas; operate quietly and have safety features not found on any previous designs. We were able to do this by openly cooperating with anyone who is interested in the technology. We finance the research by selling the information (as books) and by selling the world's best Brown's Gas watertorches.
Abundance mentality states, 'help others and you help yourself'. This occurs directly by feedback from those you helped and indirectly because your contribution helped all of mankind and comes back to you through multiple blessings. In the Universe, every positive thought and action, no matter how small, makes a significant difference.
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Sandpiper, the manufacturer of these great bags and packs, is the largest supplier of backpacks to the U.S. military. There are many backpack manufacturers out there and some are high quality, some are medium quality and some are low quality. The reason that these packs are such good sellers to our military personnel through us and through AAFES is they are one of the top quality manufacturers, but we offer the products at lower prices than the other top quality manufacturers. Just opening up one of these bags or packs and seeing the dividers and or pockets show the amount of time and thought that is put into these products. The zippers and materials are of the highest quality also. Millions of dollars worth of these packs and bags are sold every year to the US military, we have been selling them for years and have never had a customer complain about any one of these bags.
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I did work for Northern Management, a government contractor that performed contracts in Alaska and Hawaii for the Coast Guard, Military, USFS, AF&G, and various other state and federal contracts. Often in remote and difficult areas.
Weather was brutal to say the least and the terrain was unforgiving most of the time. If you want gear tested, take it to Alaska for a few months and see how it holds up.
Let's see. When Tom first sent me this bag for a trial run in the Alaskan bush country, I was looking for something considerably bigger in size. I agreed to give it a test run anyway and he sent the bag over for me to take into the outback and abuse it.
When I opened the bag up, I wasn't expecting what I got. This backpack has been well thought out and designed. The material is a heavy weight canvas type of material that looks and feels tough. All the seams are double and triple stitched. There are handles everywhere, and you can carry the bag as a tote, backpack, or shoulder bag.
The first thing I did when I received the bag was to saturate it in a heavy duty waterproofing compound. Where I work it rains an average of 100 inches a year. It is always wet, so good waterproof gear is a must.
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This bag has quite a few pockets and compartments; almost too many. It is easy to stuff this thing full of whatever you want. The only downside to all these compartments is that it gets hard to close the compartments when they are filled. Also, some compartments, when filled, interfere with other pockets. That is not a big deal though and only tells me that I should use smaller gear or take less with me. It is easy to get carried away with this bag.
I use this bag everyday to carry my gear and protective clothing. It is great for keeping everything together. I would recommend this bag to anyone."
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Katy Perry + John Mayer Celebrate His Birthday With NYC Lunch
On-again, off-again musical couple Katy Perry and John Mayer celebrated his 35th birthday by enjoying lunch in New York City. The couple that spends bdays together and chows down together should stay together, right? You never know with this fickle, makin' up and breakin' up couple.
Perry and Mayer noshed at ABC Kitchen in the West Village on Tuesday, Oct. 16, looking casual and dressed down like your average, yet fashionably inclined famous couple.
Perry was indie cute in a fall-friendly, layered ensemble, pairing black leggings and boots with a white tee, print top, denim vest, crossbody bag and floppy black hat.
Mayer cleaned up nice, sporting newly-shorn locks. His coif was looking unruly and unkempt for a bit, but he toned it down and had it styled and off his face. He looked the rocker part in jeans and brown leather jacket. Perhaps Perry has inspired him to put a little more effort into his ensemb.
The "Wide Awake' singer, who is coming up on a year since her split with ex-hubby Russell Brand, was spotted engaging in some retail therapy the day before. It was a busy couple of days, since she and Mayer went out to eat at Pearl over the weekend, enjoying a date night.
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When psychedelic all-girl quartet Honey Ltd. recorded these songs back in the Sixties, they weren't even aware that these tracks were intended to make up an LP, instead believing them to be a selection of singles. As such, The Complete Lhi Recordings has a bunch of tracks which are a touch underdeveloped, as well as suffering from an uneven sense of pacing to the record overall. But in spite of all this, there's a singularity to these songs which distinguishes them from their most obvious peers, and goes some way to explaining why hyper-rare original pressings of this LP now sell in excess of £1000.
Whether by design or by accident, a couple of moments in the opening passages of this collection set a tone which makes the remainder of the record incredibly commanding. Opening track 'Warrior' boasts a flower-power chorus of "it's good! Everybody knows it's good! Let me hear you say 'it's good'!" in full voiced, four part harmony. In both sound and mood, it's an obvious cousin to something like 'It's Getting Better' by the Mamas and Papas. That is, until the nonchalant delivery of the second-verse line "we must kill more people, strong men are what we need" jarringly subverts the tone with blackly-ironic commentary on the Vietnam War, betraying an uncompromising sharpness at the core of these songs. It's a tiny detonation, with a far-reaching effect.
The difference between these moments and something like 'He Hit Me' by The Crystals is the relish Honey Ltd. take in innocently drawing in the listener before pushing in the pin. Songs like 'I've Got Your Man' accelerate through their most strummed-up, loved-up hooks before suddenly peeling back to softly declare, "I've got your man. There's nothing you can do" with a disarming lack of remorse. After being blindsided by a couple of these payoffs, you're sucked in – immersed in every line, and waiting for blows which don't always come.
To be drawn so closely into these songs is wonderfully rewarding, with the four part arrangements of the girls about as dreamy, luxurious and assured as anything the era ever showcased. Songs like 'No, You Are' and 'I'm So Glad' demonstrate how each of their voices can meld as equal parts in an ethereal swirl of harmony, while cuts like 'Come Down' and 'Silk N Honey' show how the band can just as effectively separate into trio and lead; playing the Supremes to a Diana.
The problems kick in when you reflect on the tellingly mealy-mouthed title of The Complete Lhi Recordings – a name which makes the full admission that these songs never really hinged together as an honest-to-goodness LP. As a result, a lot of these songs play out as impressive but unfinished sketches designed primarily to showcase how brilliantly Honey Ltd. meld as a unit, while often failing to reach the material's full potential.
The original commercial failure of these tracks are all the more frustrating when you suspect that Honey Ltd. could have delivered a genuinely brilliant record, given time – a record which played to their three primary strengths of solid hooks, perfect harmonies, and sharp lyricism in a more joined up and consistent way. But nonetheless, taken as a relic which builds the unlikely bridge between Pentangle and the riot-grrl movement via Sixties-pop, there's a real richness to this thankfully excavated LP, even if it's as simple as the interaction between the four voices themselves.
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While Guillermo Del Toro's "Pacific Rim" wreaks havoc across Burbank's movie screens, a few blocks away his more subdued works are being reimagined in a macabre mash-up of pop and fine art.
At Hyaena Gallery this month an art show ventures "Into the Labyrinth & Mind of Guillermo Del Toro," a celebration of Del Toro's visual style and an homage to the filmmaker who is inspiring Latin American artists to inject their own flair into American pop art.
This journey is both subtle and assaulting — at times a soft dreamscape in the works of Anita Mejia and Pakoto, or an impulsively jarring surge of color from Carlos Lerma. While Del Toro's influence is felt throughout, it's curator Joseph Muñoz of Burbank who takes on the uneasy task of tour guide through a Pandora's box of art-from-art.
"It's our duty as Latin American artists to support another artist who is opening doors for us," said Muñoz, a native of Ecuador who goes by the name Chogrin in his art.
Muñoz is also opening doors for his contemporaries, organizing gallery shows throughout Burbank and L.A. that highlight up-and-comers.
Located at Hyaena Gallery on Olive Avenue, the "labyrinth" features 10 artists from around the world, though most are from Latin America. Each artist had eight weeks to create new pieces that reflected the three Spanish-language films directed by Del Toro: "Cronos," "The Devil's Backbone" and "Pan's Labyrinth."
The movies' iconic images of horned satyrs and ghosts are at home with the classic movie monsters and preternatural oddities of Hyaena Gallery.
"The idea that these (movies) were not as well-known fit in nicely with what I like," said Hyaena Gallery owner Bill Shafer. "I don't pick shows for how well they'll do, I just do what I like."
With Del Toro as a frequent patron of the gallery, Shafer said he didn't want the director to feel like his work was being exploited. The honesty in the work is what sold Shafer — this is fan art of the highest possible degree, done in the best possible way.
While in town for the opening of "Pacific Rim" recently, Del Toro was able to see the work of "Into the Labyrinth." Muñoz met him at a "Pacific Rim" screening after.
"Guillermo personally telling he was moved by the art show is a huge highlight as a fan of his, but as an artist that wants to work with him as well," Muñoz said. "They are two different levels of awesomeness."
More awesome than the time the Ghostbusters picked him up from work for a gallery premiere.
In 2009, Muñoz was laid off from his job in Philadelphia designing Barbie packaging and coloring books when the design firm he worked for went bankrupt. In his new free time, he and a few friends put a show together of art influenced by the Joker. Since then, he's curated 34 galleries around the world, all centered around pop-culture themes with a fine-arts focus.
For a "Ghostbusters, Goonies and Gremlins" show at L.A.'s Gallery 1988, a replica Ecto-1 arrived outside Muñoz's day job at Cartoon Network to take him to the premiere. They were fashionably late because this is L.A., and you don't show up to an art opening without picking up one of the Ghostbusters first. In this case, it was Ernie Hudson.
Next year will be that film's 30th anniversary — "It's the 30th anniversary of a lot of things," Muñoz notes, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters, myself...."
With his next decade, Muñoz hopes to create his own animated series, and push animation outside the realms of Japan and L.A.
"I'd like to start something the country (Ecuador) can be proud of," he said.
BRYAN MAHONEY is a recent transplant from the East Coast. When he's not watching giant robots fighting giant monsters, he can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com and on Twitter: @818NewGuy.


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Hinds-Bock Griddle depositors can be used for pancake and waffle batters depositing pure batter products or those with particulates such as blue berries, chocolate chips and flavored bits. The entire depositor moves with the cooking band to ensure proper shape and griddle coverage. Hopper agitation is used to maintain the proper ratio of liquids and solids. Special contact parts are used for continuous duty over hot griddles. Rapid sanitizing is accomplished through the use of tool free removable contact parts.


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- 1. Serve the pack faithfully for 1 full year.
- 2. Attend a den chief training (if available within year of service) OR be trained by the assistant Cubmaster and den leader.
- 3. Know the purposes of Cub Scouting.
- 4. Help Cub Scouts achieve the purposes of Cub Scouting.
- 5. Be the activities assistant in den meetings.
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- 8. Take part in weekly meetings.
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Weekend fundraiser garners money for Samaritan Counseling Services
Samaritan Counseling Services held its second annual "Shoot Benefiting the Children" clay shoot event at 1-in-100 Gun Club in Lumberton on Saturday, Feb. 9. According to Samaritan Counseling Center of Southeast Texas Executive Director Tracy Williams, 36 shooters participated in the event, which earned close to $7,000 for children services for the center. About 30 volunteers also showed up at the event from various local organizations.
"We just started last year, so we are really looking forward to growing in the future," Williams said. "Our goal is to eventually collect $25,000 from the shoot for children using the center."
Samaritan Counseling Services of Southeast Texas Board President Nathan Cross said the event is an important fundraiser to pay for services the facility provides to children who visit them for counseling. Cross said children often have emotional distress caused by anger issues, parental conflicts and divorce issues, and other events in their lives. If the children need counseling and cannot afford it, Cross said that is where Samaritan comes in. The fees for counseling are reduced and, in some cases, could cost nothing for children in need.
"Kids have a tough enough time just being kids," Cross said at the event.
He said Samaritan uses a variety of techniques when working with children at the facility. He said they use "play therapy" where the children act out or play pretend to demonstrate the problems they are having. He said the center utilizes licensed and certified staff members, and the funds from the clay shoot would help pay their salaries along with the facility's overhead expenses.
Although the fundraiser was Saturday, the nonprofit organization accepts donations throughout the year. For information on how to donate, contact their main office at (409) 727-6400.


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A new year has just begun. A year fraught with uncertainties brought on by a heady slide down which began in August 2011. A turn for the worse in the European debt crisis and the downgrade of the US sovereign rating sent financial markets around the globe in a tailspin.
In a matter of five months, stock markets around the world recorded $6.5 trillion (or. 9.5 percent of global GDP) in wealth losses, with developing-country stock markets losing 8.5 percent of their value, from July-end 2011 and early January 2012.
Investor fear also caused gross capital flows to developing countries to plunge to $170 billion in the second half of 2011, only 55 percent of the $309 billion received during the same period of 2010.
Yields on the sovereign debt of developing countries increased by an average of 117 basis points (between the end of July and early January), as did those of almost all Euro Area countries, including France (86 bps) and Germany (36 bps), as well as non-Euro Area countries such as the United Kingdom (18 bps).
And global economic conditions are much weaker. Europe appears to have already entered recession, while growth in several major developing countries (Brazil, India and, to a lesser extent, Russia, South Africa and Turkey) has slowed, mainly reflecting policy tightening initiated in late 2010 and early 2011 in order to combat rising inflationary pressures. As a result, and despite relatively strong of activity in the United States and Japan, global industrial production and trade have slowed sharply. Global trade volumes declined at an annualized pace of 8 percent during the three months ending October 2011, mainly reflecting a 17 percent annualized decline in European imports.
Reflecting this new world, the just released January 2012 edition of Global Economic Prospects (GEP) has significantly downgraded its forecasts.
- The global economy is now expected to expand 2.5 and 3.1 percent in 2012 and 2013 (3.4 and 4 percent when calculated using purchasing power parity weights), versus the 3.6 percent projected in June for both years.
- High-income country growth is now expected to come in at 1.4 percent in 2012 (-0.3 percent for Euro Area countries, and 2.1 percent for the remainder) and 2 percent in 2013, versus a June forecast of 2.7 and 2.6 percent for 2012 and 2013 respectively.
- Developing country growth has been revised down to 5.4 and 6.0 percent versus 6.2 and 6.3 percent in June.
- Reflecting the growth slowdown, world trade, which expanded by an estimated 6.6 percent in 2011, will grow only 4.7 percent in 2012, before strengthening to 6.8 percent in 2013.
However, even achieving these much weaker outturns is very uncertain. The downturn in Europe and the slow growth in developing countries could reinforce one another more than is anticipated in the baseline above, resulting in even weaker outturns.
While developing countries are in much better shape than many high-income countries, they remain vulnerable. If global conditions were to deteriorate sharply, then low- and middle-income countries, which powered the global economy out of the 2008/09 slump, would also likely be effected. Indeed, in contrast to 2008/09, they have much less fiscal space available to respond to a new crisis. In this highly uncertain environment, developing countries should evaluate their vulnerabilities and prepare contingencies, while there is still time. Pre-financing budget deficits, to avoid abrupt cuts in government and private-sector spending; prioritizing spending on social safety nets and infrastructure, to protect the poor and assure longer-term growth; and stress-testing domestic banks, to avoid domestic banking crises, would all be good places to start to mitigate the effects of a second wave of the crisis that began in 2008.


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There were massive balls bounced around in a courtyard crammed with too many smiles. Breakdance circles broke out, often. A tame reception for the day's earliest act, Glasser, was followed by an outright dance party for the sumptuous house of Barcelona DJ John Talabot. It was my first time at MoMA's WarmUp party, but quite apparently I was in the minority. I couldn't tell where these people had heard of this party from: they didn't dance hard enough to Janka Nabay's bubu (though, they did dance to Janka Nabay's bubu, because your body gives you no choice) to be on the True Panther mailing list (its founder Dean Bein was the day's curator); they had too many Only God Can Fudge Me tattoos to be card-carrying MoMA members. Early in the day, Swedish balearic duo Korallreven's DJ set featured The-Dream's "Love King" and the place revved up. (As it should.) It was telling. WarmUp is an annual dance party series first; that it's been curated by folks enlisting live music (including one Saturday and some Animal Collective-assists by our own Brandon Stosuy) is something new. It'll go well, as long as the acts give those putting down $15 at the door reason to move. And they did Saturday, most of the day, in the sun somewhat, when the shade hit much more. By the time Delorean took the stage with their beach-baked bliss beats — a gorgeous breeze rolling, hands in the air and people looking in every direction but the stage somehow not feeling like an insult to the band creating the moment's good vibes — a friend ensured me that this was the closest I'd get to an Ibiza party without going there. Bodes well for the rest of the summer.
Also worth noting: The first time I saw Glasser, at Stereogum's CMJ Late Night '09, she had a backing band (Eric and Jesse of Tanlines), though not on Saturday; my first night with Janka Nabay at Monster Island in Williamsburg he had only dancers, though on Saturday he brought a full band called the Bubu Gang. After the response both got at the WarmUp, it's clear both Glasser and Janka should be rocking backing bands, all the time.
Brandon's dedicated date (featuring DJ ?uestlove) is 8/14; full schedule is here. These photos tell you what to expect, shot lovingly by Ryan Muir.