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The first place Emmy Rossum had dinner while in Chicago this week to film exterior scenes for the upcoming season Showtime's "Shameless" was Sunda. Rossum dined at Sunda on Sunday and then plugged the Asian restaurant on Twitter, as she is known to do for restaurants she visits.
The Bulls' Carlos Boozer also dined at Sunda that night. The Blackhawks' Andrew Shaw and Nick Leddy were there Tuesday.
Elsewhere around Chicago, singer John Legend made a Hennessy V.S-sponsored appearance at Board Room Sunday following his concert at the Chicago Theatre. Dancehall artist Sean Paul performed Saturday at Paris Club's upstairs club, Studio Paris. Singer Jessie Ware had brunch Saturday at Nellcote.
John Cusack ("Hot Tub Time Machine") visited Three Dots and a Dash Saturday and Timothy Busfield ("Thirtysomething") dined Thursday at R.J. Grunts.
Chef Emeril Lagasse dined Monday at Chicago Cut Steakhouse while in Chicago for Chef Charlie Trotter's funeral. Mayor Rahm Emanuel had dinner Sunday at Homestead On The Roof, located above Roots Handmade Pizza.
Magic Johnson had lunch Tuesday at Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak and Stone Crab. Gene Cornish and Dino Danelli, members of "Good Lovin'" band The Rascals, had dinner Thursday at Joe's while here for their "Once Upon a Dream" Broadway show at Cadillac Palace Theatre. The Bulls' Taj Gibson and Cleveland Cavaliers' Jarrett Jack dined at Joe's, separately, Sunday.
The Blackhawks' Patrick Kane and the Detroit Lions' Ndamukong Suh hung out, separately, Sunday at the Underground. Suh dined Tuesday at Joe's Seafood. The Bears' Roberto Garza dined at Carmine's Sunday after his team's loss to the Lions. Fellow Bear Lance Briggs was spotted Thursday and Friday at Parliament and Tuesday at Siena Tavern.
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There are many possible reasons for habitual tardiness. The most common cause is usually one of two things. Either the person really doesn't want to be where he's supposed to be, therefore oft times showing up late...or sometimes not at all, OR it's a question of vanity. Sometimes those who arrive after the meeting has started simply wish, through some unconscious desire, to draw attention to themselves. It's as if he wants to jump up and down and dance about crying "look at me!!! look at me!!! In the case of The Anointed One, it's a tough call.
Would it be racist of me to suggest the possibility of laziness? After all he did vote "present" over a hundred times in the Illinois Legislature (except for the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act which he voted against FOUR TIMES, but then we all have our pet issues, don't we?). But then again, we may find the real reason he was late all those times was that Michelle Obama took too long dressing him in the morning. Maybe an obstinate Barack "couldn't" get his fists through his cuffs and whined about not remembering how to tie his shoes, saying "do it for me!" There is just no telling as to why he was always late. But shouldn't it bother us more simply that he was? And so often?
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Global equity markets rose, lifted by a surge on Wall Street, and gold prices eased on Wednesday as investors took in stride a potential limited American military strike against Syria and data from around the globe suggested an improving world economy.
The best monthly U.S. auto sales figures in almost six years, U.S. trade data that suggested a growing economy this quarter and data from Europe and China fueled the optimism.
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The dollar hovered near a six-week peak against a basket of currencies as encouraging U.S. manufacturing data on Tuesday reinforced expectations that the Federal Reserve would start to cut back its economic stimulus this month.
Markets showed little reaction to a Fed report that the U.S. economy expanded at a "modest to moderate" pace across most of the country between early July and late August. The Beige Book report was just strong enough to reinforce the prospect of a pullback in monetary stimulus.
Brent crude drifted lower as it appeared a strike against Syria would remain limited, quelling fears of supply disruptions in the Middle East, and gold prices fell below $1,400 an ounce.
A gain of almost 1 percent on Wall Street led share prices in Europe to rebound. MSCI's measure of global equity markets rose 0.6 percent and the pan-European Eurofirst 300 index of leading shares closed 0.2 percent higher.
"People hope there will just be a tactical strike and that's it," said Mark Grant, managing director at Southwest Securities in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. "But there are worries about retaliation and a wider conflict isn't priced into the market."
A second day of stock gains retraced most of last week's Syria-related losses on Wall Street, pushed by auto sales.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 96.91 points, or 0.65 percent, at 14,930.87. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 13.31 points, or 0.81 percent, at 1,653.08. The Nasdaq Composite Index gained 36.43 points, or 1.01 percent, at 3,649.04.
Auto sales pointed to the industry's strongest month since just before the start of the 2007-2009 recession. U.S. auto sales were on a pace to post a gain as high as 17 percent in August.
"If these sales numbers are the best in six years, that points to an improving economy and that's helping the market," said Stephen Massocca, managing director at Wedbush Equity Management LLC in San Francisco.
Stocks also were buoyed by U.S. trade data that suggested continued economic growth this quarter. Euro zone businesses had their best month in more than two years in August as orders increased for the first time since mid-2011, while growth in China's services sector hit a five-month high.
The euro pared losses to rise against the dollar, up 0.3 percent at $1.3209, while the dollar index was down 0.24 percent at 82.163.
Oil prices edged lower. While Syria is not a big oil producer, investors worry a U.S. strike against the country could spread unrest in the Middle East and disrupt supplies from the region, which pumps a third of the world's crude.
A potential Syria strike has driven U.S. oil prices to their highest this year and Brent oil to a six-month peak as traders have priced in a supply risk factor.
Brent crude fell 77 cents to settle at $114.91 a barrel. U.S. crude settled $1.31 lower at $107.23 a barrel.
"You're mainly seeing a pullback on the perception that we may not strike Syria and that if we do, Congress will rein in Obama's plans," said Michael Lynch, an oil analyst and president of consultancy Strategic Energy & Economic Research Inc. in Winchester, Massachusetts.
U.S. government debt prices traded near break-even as bargain-minded investors emerged to help stabilize a market that has been on edge over the possibility the Federal Reserve will reduce its bond-buying program.
The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note was down 9/32 in price to yield 2.8966 percent.
In Europe, underlying sentiment for top-rated Bunds remained firm as concern over Syria outweighed this week's forecast-beating European and U.S. manufacturing data, which reinforced bets the Fed would soon pare its bond purchases.
Bund futures closed 12 ticks higher at 139.73, off a session high of 139.96.
Spot gold dropped 1.5 percent to $1,390.61 an ounce.
U.S. Comex gold futures for December settled down $22 an ounce to $1,390.


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RjBeals wrote:i say bring back the ashtray, and have a look at the "66" reflection in a.sub's image - it looks good. What a fine piece of art you've created here oak - i could care less about gameplay. The map has evolved into something that is so unique and has so much style - that it could be my fav on cc. Well done.
Thanks Rj. I applied a bit of reflection to the pen - a.sub had the right idea but I don't think the reflection should creep up the side of the pen so much.
As for the ashtray, I liked it better as well since it went nicely with the steel pen and the table's side, but it's worth trying something new to see how folks react. Not that anybody seems to be paying attention to Foundry threads much these days!


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Chase Headley could become the first major test for the Padres' new ownership.
When the O'Malley-Seidler-Fowler group was formally introduced at Petco Park as the Padres
new owners on Aug. 29, spokesman Ron Fowler said:
"We need to build a strong product on the field that will build fan support. Fire sales will not be part of how we do business. If we have good players who want to be here, we'll try to keep them."
Meet Chase Headley ...
Drafted in the second round of 2005, Headley is as homegrown as they come. And he's always displayed loyalty to the Padres and expressed a desire to remain in San Diego.
Headley has never once mentioned what he might go elsewhere should he become a free agent after the 2014 season.
"I have always enjoyed playing for San Diego, I haven't really ever given a thought about what it would be like to play for another team," Headley said in July as rumors about his future in San Diego circulated as the trading deadline approached.
As we all know, Headley didn't get traded. He went All-Star.
Over the final 57 games of the season, the 28-year-old switch-hitter batted .313 with 10 doubles, 19 homers, 44 runs scored and 63 RBI.
In two months he went from being a third baseman who might be replaced by prospect Jedd Gyorko down the road to the most identifiable Padres player since Adrian Gonzalez.
Headley became the type of marquee player Fowler was talking about.
He finished the season with a .286 average. He set career highs in hits (173), runs (95), home runs (31), walks (86), RBI, total bases (301), on-base percentage (.376) and slugging percentage (.498) and equaled career highs in games played (161), doubles (31) and steals (17).
Headley reached base via a hit, walk or hit-by-pitch in a franchise record 146 games, breaking Tony Gwynn's record. Headley joined Dave Winfield (118 in 1979) as only the second Padres player to win the RBI title. He had more than 30 RBI in both August and September, becoming the first Padre to ever have more than one 30-RBI RBI month. The only other Padre ever to be named the National League Player of the Month consecutively was Ken Caminiti.
Plus, Headley is a solid defensive third baseman and a shrewd baserunner.
So, what is Chase Headley worth to the Padres?
And can they afford to keep him with a contract that extends beyond his free agent threshold?
The ball is in the Padres' court. What do they do with Chase Headley?
The immediate answer is they don't have to do anything. Although he is arbitration eligible, the Padres control Headley for two more seasons.
But while the Padres were extending the contracts of seven other players since spring training, Headley wasn't approached.
Cameron Maybin, Cory Luebke, Nick Hundley, Carlos Quentin, Huston Street, Chris Denorfia and Mark Kotsay were extended.
Headley was not. And he did think about it. Why wasn't he approached? Well, there was the Gyorko factor. Plus, given the fact that he is deep into arbitration, the Padres might have trouble coming up with a number that would suit both sides.
However, given the breakout season Headley just had, the Padres might have been pushed into a corner.
Headley made $3.475 million in 2012. Given his performance, his salary could double under arbitration.
But Quentin will make $9.5 million in 2013. Street will make $7 million. Looking back, Headley made less in 2013 than Jason Bartlett ($5.5 million plus a $1.5 million buyout on his 2013 contract) and Orlando Hudson ($5.25 million plus a $2 million buyout).
So, what is Headley's worth?
And do the Padres just ride with one-year, arbitration-inspired contracts for the next two seasons or do they strike early and tie him up — which seems to be the goal set by the new owners.
Plus, there are some in the Padres front office who believe that, given the ceiling of Gyorko, this might still be the time to trade Headley. The argument is his value will never be higher and he might bring the type of mother lode that Mat Latos produced last winter.
Given the stance of the new owners on promoting from within, this doesn't seem to be a likely option ... at the moment.
Padres notes
• Padres GM Josh Byrnes Thursday said the Padres are looking for a new bullpen coach. Jimmie Jones, who filled in for the late Darrel Akerfelds for the bulk of the 2012 season, will be returning to San Antonio as the Double-A pitching coach.
• The rest of the coaching staff will return.


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Hollywood celebrities have this image of being a bunch of effete, Prius-loving eco-weenies, but some of them are okay. Count Anchorman 2's Steve Carell in the Jalop crowd; he just went on TV saying how much he wants to be on Top Gear. Sweet!
In an interview with Top Gear, Carrell expressed how much he loves the show and how badly he wants to be the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car, which is a Vauxhall Astra these days. Can he handle himself, the interviewer asks? Carell says sure — he has a Porsche 911 997 Turbo and can drive stick.
"Although, I'm fearful that it I will come in — it will be badly accepted," he says, possibly still in character as Brick Tamland. "That didn't make sense."
And when asked if he wants a hybrid Porsche 918 so he can be accepted in Hollywood, Carell says "I don't care about saving the environment." Well, neither does Chris Harris, but he had plenty of fun when he had seat time in a 918.
As for Will Ferrell, well, not so much. He says he drives a Nissan Leaf and a Toyota RAV4 EV. Can't win 'em all, I guess. I'm surprised he's not daily-driving a Dodge Durango at this point.


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With a walkoff homer in ninth, Ram�rez picks perfect time to power Red Sox past Angels
They were sitting down to asagohan (breakfast) in Tokyo when this one began, and lining up for last call in the Back Bay when it ended.
But from sea (of Japan) to shining sea (Atlantic), the man who will be remembered most for this morning turned into night turned into morning again is Manny Ramírez.
At 12:44 a.m., 34 minutes after the last train was supposed to stop running in Kenmore Square, Ramírez stood transfixed at home plate, his arms raised overhead, watching as his ninth-inning home run, on a night as warm and clear as an Angel's teardrop, disappeared over the Green Monster and into the mists of Red Sox history.
"My train doesn't stop," said Ramírez, who at long last stole Big Papi's signature line - a walkoff home run, his first in a Boston uniform - to give the Sox a 6-3 win over the Los Angeles Angels and a commanding two games to none lead in their best-of-five Division Series.
"We got the Big Daddy, Curt Schilling, going tomorrow," said Jonathan Papelbon, who got the last four outs on a night when the Sox bullpen was almost as fabulous as Ramírez, holding the Angels hitless over the last 4 1/3 innings. "I think anybody on this team would love to have him going for us to seal the deal, and I know he'll be ready to go."
Daisuke Matsuzaka may have been an unsatisfying first course - he failed to make it through five innings, the familiar bugaboo (the gnats were in Cleveland) of nibbling instead of attacking hitters, which drove his pitch count to 96 by the time he was lifted for Javier Lopez with the Sox down, 3-2.
The nightcap, however, was epic: Ramírez driving a 1-and-0 pitch from closer Francisco Rodriguez over the wall after the Angels elected to walk David Ortiz in tentionally for the second time in the game and the fourth time in the series.
"Well, you really pick your poison," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said of the decision to walk Ortiz in an inning that began with Julio Lugo's first-pitch single off Justin Speier. "We've talked about this all week. Both those guys [Ortiz and Ramírez] are terrific. I just think in that situation and the situation before, we're going to take some chances with some matchups. It just made sense not to go after David, and it didn't work tonight."
Ramírez may have been so overcome with the magnitude of Manny in the moment that he forgot to maintain media silence, granting an on-field interview to Jose Mota on TBS, then making an unprecedented appearance in the postgame interview room.
"I remember when I came to the clubhouse today," Ramírez told Mota, "[Jason] Varitek told me, 'Hey, you can't leave Boston without a home run.' I said, 'You know it.' "
Lugo, leading off the ninth against Speier, was on the move when Dustin Pedroia, playing with a shoulder he'd jammed earlier in the game, grounded to short. Rodriguez entered and struck out Kevin Youkilis, then walked Ortiz, who ended the Angels' October three years earlier with a walkoff home run.
Ramírez took one pitch, then unloaded, as a crowd of 37,706 erupted in joy that evoked memories of the back-to-back walkoff wins in the 2004 ALCS against the Yankees. Both crafted, naturally, by Ortiz.
The Angels, who have lost eight straight games to the Sox in the postseason since Donnie Moore's meltdown in Game 5 of the '86 playoffs (All hail, Hendu), return home uncertain of whether they will have their one bona fide slugger, Vladimir Guerrero, who came out of last night's game in the eighth inning after being hit by a fastball from Manny Delcarmen an inning earlier.
"Vlad's a little sore," Scioscia said. "He got hit up near the shoulder blade, and it got to a point where it was impacting his swing. It was even hurting to lift his arm if he had to catch a fly ball."
Mike Lowell's second error since July 18, a span of 67 games, turned what could have been a one-pitch exercise for Papelbon into a grueling duel of wills. Red Sox manager Terry Francona, taking advantage of a fully rested bullpen, brought Papelbon into a tie game with two outs and nobody on in the eighth. Second baseman Howie Kendrick hit a routine grounder to Lowell, who took his time but threw low to first, Youkilis unable to scoop the ball out of the dirt.
With a 1-and-0 count to Jeff Mathis, the ninth hitter in the Angels' order, Kendrick easily stole second base. With the go-ahead run in scoring position, Scioscia went tactical, sending up Juan Rivera to hit. With a 1-and-2 count, Kendrick stole third, and Rivera worked his way to a full-count walk. That brought up Chone Figgins, the majors' leading hitter after May 31 (.381) but slowed by a sore wrist (0 for 22) the last couple of weeks of the season. Figgins fouled off two 1-and-2 pitches before Papelbon put him away with a splitter that plate umpire Dan Iassogna called strike three.
"From top to bottom, our bullpen was lights out," Papelbon said.
The conditions couldn't have been more favorable for Matsuzaka. A warm night (79 degrees at game time), just the way the dome-conditioned pitcher likes it. A team that had never set eyes upon him before, except on video. The opposition's most dangerous hitter, Guerrero, genetically wired to swing at any pitch he can reach, which with his long arms pretty much spans the compass. The security of knowing that regardless the outcome, the Sox would head to Anaheim with no worse than a split, thanks to the virtuosity of Josh Beckett, who with Schilling already had headed to the coast before Tiger Okoshi, the flamboyant trumpeter and Berklee College of music professor, had belted out the national anthem accompanied by the booming percussion of Japanese drums.
The echoes of those drums had barely subsided when Matsuzaka struck out Figgins, the Angels' leadoff man, with a wicked slider, no doubt leading to the happy lifting of cups of green tea in his native Yokohama. He walked the next batter, Orlando Cabrera, and gave up a two-out single to Garret Anderson, the left fielder whose bout of conjunctivitis led to questions of how well he could see. But another sharp-breaking slider, this one to Maicer Izturis, went by unchallenged for a called third strike to end the inning.
The Sox expanded Matsuzaka's comfort zone when they scored twice in the first. Youkilis worked a walk after falling into an 0-and-2 hole against starter Kelvim Escobar, Ortiz followed with an opposite-field single to left, and Lowell drew a two-out walk to load the bases. That brought up J.D. Drew, who statistically was Boston's worst hitter with the bases loaded this season (2 for 17, .118) but stroked a base hit up the middle, Youkilis and Ortiz scoring.
The Sox could not have known that for the next six innings, that would be their only hit with runners in scoring position.
Matsuzaka, meanwhile, could not carry the lead beyond the next inning. He lost Casey Kotchman to a leadoff walk after being ahead, 0-2. Kendry Morales then hit a smash to the right side that Pedroia knocked down with a dive, but the ball dribbled away into short right field for an infield hit while Kotchman sped to third and Pedroia writhed in pain.
Matsuzaka struck out Kendrick, but a ground ball by Mathis brought home Kotchman to make it 2-1. Figgins then sliced a hit to left that took a wacky bounce past Ramírez for a double, tying the score at 2, and Cabrera followed with a fly to left-center that fell on the track for another double.
After that, Matsuzaka seemed to settle into a rhythm, but with two outs and nobody on in the fifth, Izturis lined a single off the glove of Youkilis and stole second. When Kotchman walked, Francona had seen enough and summoned Lopez, who retired Morales on a force play.
The Sox loaded the bases in the fifth on a ground-ball double down the line by Pedroia, who took third on a checked-swing tapper by Youkilis. Escobar walked Ortiz intentionally, then lost Ramírez on a base on balls, his fifth. Lowell scorched a liner to center, but right at Figgins, though Pedroia scored on a sacrifice.
The Sox committed a base-running gaffe when Coco Crisp, who had drawn a one-out walk in the sixth, failed to tag second while returning to first on Lugo's fly to center (Crisp was running on the play) and was doubled up.
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FREE Video | How to Create Polymer Clay Halloween Mummy Face Millefiori Cane
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Purim (a similar jewish version for Halloween) was the holiday I loved the most as a child. I remember I used to wait for the day my mother asks me "who do you want to be" this year?
I was a ballerina, little red riding hood, a hippie, a rabbit, a traditional Japanese dressed lady, and even a kitty (it's me age 4 in the photo!).
All these special costumes were handmade by my mother and I can not thank her enough for being so cooperative with our childhood desires.
Purim is due in 6 months but Halloween is only 60 days away!
Have you planned your polymer clay projects? gifts? treats?
|Me as a kitty!
Skinner blend, stitched lips, black eyeballs and nose - and you have a super cool cane to add to your Halloween gift collection!
Lot's of useful tips are included in this video, including my way of creating a skinner blend, inserting details inside a round cane, accurate slicing of a plug, stripy finish wrap around the cane, and many more!
I am giving away 3 canes of this cutie!
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Sounds like fun! and this is the 3rd year??! Who knew?!
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Scot, hmm now I must start thinking!!
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I am looking forward to all of the talents people who send in their work! There were so many beautiful rooms the last two years!
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woohoo!! I've already started planning...
YAY! And I'm actually decorating this year - so!!
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Scot - this sounds so fun! Question, can we submit Christmas Decor that we may also use on our own sites or shall this be "First Run Photo" only material? :)...let me know. Have a few clients we are playing with! xo Ann McD.
Oh I cannot wait! It was so much fun last year! Thanks for the opportunity!
I remember last years.....throw down!!
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Ice cream is a complex, three-phase food system in which ice (solid), air (gas) and unfrozen water (liquid) coexist. Much that makes ice cream an indulgence derives from its relatively high fat content, which can range from 10 to 18 percent in premium varieties. In addition to its role in taste and flavor development, fat is crucial to ice cream's texture. No wonder, then, that most low-fat varieties fail to offer the same taste sensation.
Lately food scientists have found clever ways to experiment with unsaturated fats aiming to bring consumers the full satisfaction of ice cream with fewer of the health consequences associated with saturated fats. Solid fat builds structure in ice cream via partial coalescence, which occurs when two fat droplets collide and fuse only "at their hip," remaining distinguishable from each other. The fusion is mediated by crystals that protrude from the surface of the spherical droplets—imagine the thorns of a prickly pear—that pierce neighboring droplets as they collide. These droplets then aggregate and deposit onto the surface of air bubbles and stabilize the frozen foam. In this way, partial coalescence enables ice cream to taste creamier, hold its shape and melt more slowly.
Given that unsaturated fats are liquid, the original thought was that they would not be good candidates to make ice cream less of a sin. Recent research, however, has the skeptics thinking twice. New studies led by Douglas Goff of the University of Guelph in Ontario suggest that plateletlike or needlelike droplets (as opposed to spheres) that contain 40 to 60 percent unsaturated fats are very effective at building structure in ice cream. Such fats can be blends of any highly unsaturated oil (such as high-oleic sunflower or canola oil) and saturated fats such as coconut oil or cocoa butter. Platelets formed only when Goff's team added commonly used unsaturated emulsifiers, such as glycerol monooleate, which are thought to force the fat crystals to grow preferentially in one dimension, hence generating the needlelike profile. Because of their shape, the amount of fat needed to create a stable frozen foam (via partial coalescence) decreases. This opens up the possibility for low(er) fat, creamy, slow-melting ice cream.


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Modern Day Superhero University of New Hampshire's Cameron Lyle
Most college athletes eat, sleep and breath their sport. They have worked hard to be able to compete in their sport at a college level, and many have received scholarships for their hard work and talent. Endless hours of training and practice consume a college athlete's life. So, why would one such athlete give up his last chance to enjoy the sport he loves, and in his senior year no less? To save someone else's life.
I'm sure when Cameron Lyle joined the bone marrow registry two years ago he never imagined he would be giving up his senior athletic season to save someone's life, as there is only a one-in-five-million chance of a match to someone who isn't a family relation. He has agreed to donate his bone marrow to a 28-year-old suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, who would only have six months to live without the transplant.
Lyle is a University of New Hampshire college athlete whose sports consist of the shot put, discus and hammer throw. His generous donation to save another man's life means he will have to miss his final two meets of his career, including the America East Track and Field Championship which is a NCAA Division I conference meet.
I wonder how many other college athletes would be willing to give up their senior season in the sport that they love? He truly is a modern day hero. He is saving a man's life through an act of kindness. Most of us will go through our lives and never be able to have an impact like that one another human being.
Lyle seems to be humble about the whole situation, and act like it isn't a big deal, but to the on man whose life he is going to save, it is a big deal.
Lyle is the person who should be on a poster on our kids' walls. He is the kind of person we should want our kids to grow up to be. He is the kind of person we should all strive to be. He is selfless, giving, humble and puts others; needs before his own. Doesn't that describe every superhero you know?
Joy Larson is a mother of four boys, graduate of The University of Montana, animal lover and writer.


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AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that the newly launched Gizmo board, a low-cost board geared toward x86-based embedded system development available from GizmoSphere, is powered by an AMD Embedded G-Series Accelerated Processing Unit (APU). Gizmo is a 4-inch by 4-inch x86 development board that can run a variety of operating systems including Android, Linux®, RTOSes and Windows®. AMD is a founding member of GizmoSphere, a not-for-profit organization whose collective goal is to drive and enable technology projects of interest to independent developers, with a focus on stimulating and encouraging innovation around multicore heterogeneous computing using APUs.
The Gizmo board includes the G-T40E dual-core processor running at 1.0 GHz, combined on a single die with AMD Radeon™ HD 6250 discrete-class graphics. The board provides a performance capacity of 52 gigaFLOPS (GFLOPS) at less than 10 watts. Custom high- and low-speed edge connectors enable a full range of functions. This unprecedented level of integration between serial and parallel processing offers a power-efficient foundation for high-performance multimedia content delivery across a broad range of embedded designs such as digital signage, x86 set-top box (xSTB), IP-TV, thin client, information kiosk, point-of-sale, casino gaming, media servers and industrial control systems.
"Gizmo is an excellent board for the next generation of embedded systems development," said Kamal Khouri, director of Embedded Products, AMD. "The new board will serve the diverse and growing embedded development community and is especially useful for those wanting to incorporate the advanced capabilities possible by harnessing a heterogeneous architecture. Developers ready to take advantage of a high-performance, full I/O-featured x86 development board will find tremendous value in Gizmo."
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Maine families will have the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors with a little help from the State Bureau of Parks and Land, the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation and the state's Let's Go! program this summer.
In its third year, the goal of the passes is to introduce Maine families to the outdoor activities available through the state parks system, Dr. Victoria Rogers, Let's Go! director, said in a release.
A total of 10,000 passes will be available through the 124 medical practices that participate in the Let's Go! program. The passes are good for free admission at the 48 state parks and historic sites in Maine through December 2014. Baxter State Park is excluded though.
"We believe in being healthy and getting outdoors," said Caitlin Loveitt, Let's Go! marketing manager. "We realize we have fabulous, affordable places for families to be outside and be active."
Let's Move! is a nationally recognized childhood obesity prevention program. The program, which promotes physical activity and healthy eating, will be handing out the passes for the third year in a row.
The program was created to get children active and outdoors.
"It allows us to talk about a healthy message, and then it allows parents to use that message," said Dr. Jon Fanburg of Maine Medical Partners South Portland Pediatrics. He gave out 600 passes last year to his pediatric patients.
"It's one piece of a big picture of how you make people healthier," Fanburg said.
Fanburg said he emphasizes Let's Go!'s 5-2-1-0 teaching model: five or more fruits or vegetables, two hours or less of recreational screen time, one hour or more of physical activity and zero sugary drinks, more water and low-fat milk.
"We use it as a teaching point. It's an opportunity to talk about health as a tool and reinforce it at the same time," Fanburg said.
For the Maine State Bureau of Parks and Land, it also is an opportunity to introduce families to the outdoors, according to Gary Best, Maine State Bureau of Parks and Land resource manager.
"It gets them outside. It gets them active and connected to nature and hopefully they have fun along the way. That's what Maine State Parks is all about," Best said.
About 10 percent of the 10,000 passes distributed last year were used, Best said. But he's hopeful that number will grow this year.
"From Maine State Parks, we look at this as very much a win-win partnership. We think that this helps Maine kids and Maine families become more active in their state parks," Best said. "We take great pride in our parks, and we feel once we get a family there, they're going to come back time and time again."
For information about the Let's Go! initiative, visit www.letsgo.org.


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Long-Acting Drug in Development
November/December 2012
Chinese researchers presented proof-of-concept (in other words, "this can work") data on a long-acting HIV fusion inhibitor medication, which suppressed HIV for six to ten days after a single injection.
Currently, Fuzeon is the only fusion inhibitor on the market. Fuzeon is self-administered every 12 hours as a subcutaneous injection.
According to the study abstract, "Despite great progress made in combating HIV infection and saving lives with antiretroviral drugs, poor patient compliance and drug resistance remain major causes of treatment failure. Therefore, long-acting anti-HIV agents that are effective in treating drug-resistant HIV viruses while allowing simpler regimens are greatly needed."
Data were presented from a dose-escalating study and a four-week multipledose study in which people received albuvirtide daily via intravenous (IV) injection for the first three days followed by two once-weekly doses after the first week.
No injection site reactions were seen and albuvirtide was determined to be safe and well-tolerated by all the study participants who took it. Furthermore, no antibodies were developed against albuvirtide. Albuvirtide is made up of large molecues, and that raises concern about the potential for the body to react with antibodies, which could inactivate the drug or cause medical problems. Greater viral suppression was seen with higher doses. The researchers said a study combining albuvirtide with other HIV drugs should be conducted.
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Marianne Scotidas, 92, of Hawley, passed away Jan. 20, 2013, at Julia Ribaudo Nursing Home, Lake Ariel.
She was a member of the Hemlock Farms Fireman's Auxiliary, Lords Valley, 50 Plus Club of Hemlock Farms, Lords Valley, Woman's Circle, Church at Hemlock Farms, Lords Valley, Ladies Philoptochos Society of St. Ann's and a former member of St. Paul's Cathedral, Hempstead, N.Y.
The daughter of John and Theodora (Salvera) Mantos, she was born on March 5, 1920, in New York City. She was married to the late Harry Scotidas.
Survivors include her son, Thomas Steven Scotidas of Greer, S.C.; three grandchildren, Guy Scotidas, Victoria Scotidas, Katherine Colgary; and one great-grandchild, Lincoln Colgary.
Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, at Stroyan Funeral Home, 405 W. Harford St., Milford. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 28, at Stroyan Funeral Home with the Rev. Herbert Jacobsen officiating. Burial will take place at Milford Cemetery, Dingman Township.
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text: The collection consists of thirteen ledgers of a shoe manufacturing firm in Marlboro, Massachusetts, which began operations in 1863. The ledgers, which span the period 1867-1903, contain payment records of women shoe workers. Perhaps as much as one third of the Frye workforce was made up of women.In a local context of a rapidly but unevenly mechanizing industry, Frye seems to have remained relatively committed to manual production. The ledgers, which run consecutively, cover all aspects of the operation. They include a complete run of piecework accounts with individual workers, running balances of the company, accounts with suppliers, and accounts with shoe retailers. The ledgers of the 1860s and early 1870s separate accounts with cutters, lasters, and stitchers, some of which give evidence of exchange of goods for labor. One part of each ledger primarily contains accounts with single and married women, most likely home stitchers, who received needles as part of their pay. Later, when a larger proportion of the hands worked in the shop or factory, the exchanges became cash for labor. Men and women appear throughout the later ledgers, and the honorific "Mrs." largely disappears from the account headings.


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virtualsheetmusic necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 41 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
Virtual Sheet Music, Inc. - http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com
Virtual Sheet Music currently offers digital products for musicians such as digital sheet music, Mp3 and MIDI audio files for instant download. We plan to redesign our website in order to expand our product line to material products such as multimedia music packages, DVDs, music lessons, etc. as well to improve its users interaction by including social media elements and features such as instant chat, messaging, user contributions, etc. We need a new design, expandable, easily modifiable and looking into the future.
Musicians, mostly classical, music teachers and music lovers that play an instrument just for fun. People comes to our site looking for sheet music quickly downloadable and printable and also to find something they can't find elsewhere (see our requirements description below for more information about our service/site exclusive features). We have an audience spanning from 10 to 80 years old, so the design must be created according to that.
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Before starting a client application, obtain information from the application developer about how to set up the system. If you are starting Java client applications, you must set the CLASSPATH variable appropriately and make sure you have the correct .jar files installed. The Message Queue Developer's Guide for Java Clients contains information about generic steps for setting up the system, but your developer may have additional information to provide.
To start a Java client application, use the following command line format:
java clientAppName
To start a C client application, use the format supplied by the application developer (see Building and Running C Clients in Sun Java System Message Queue 4.3 Developer's Guide for C Clients).
The application's documentation should provide information on attribute values that the application sets; you may want to override some of these from the command line. You may also want to specify attributes on the command line for any Java client that uses a Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) lookup to find its connection factory. If the lookup returns a connection factory that is older than the application, the connection factory may lack support for more recent attributes. In such cases, Message Queue sets those attributes to default values; if necessary, you can use the command line to override these default values.
To specify attribute values from the command line for a Java application, use the following syntax:
java [ [-Dattribute=value] … ] clientAppName
The value for attribute must be a connection factory administered object attribute, as described in Chapter 18, Administered Object Attribute Reference. If there is a space in the value, put quotation marks around the
part of the command line.
The following example starts a client application named
MyMQClient, connecting to a broker on the host OtherHost at
port 7677:
java -DimqAddressList=mq://OtherHost:7677/jms MyMQClient
The host name and port specified on the command line override any others set by the application itself.
In some cases, you cannot use the command line to specify attribute values. An administrator can set an administered object to allow read access only, or an application developer can code the client application to do so. Communication with the application developer is necessary to understand the best way to start the client program.


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Federal investigators are nearing a decision on whether to allow the massive Partners HealthCare System to take over South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, a long-awaited verdict that could dramatically affect costs and competition in the Massachusetts health care industry.
The review coincides with a broader inquiry over the past four years into alleged anticompetitive behavior by Partners, the state's largest hospital and doctors organization. Dozens of lawyers and economists from the US Department of Justice, joined by state Attorney General Martha Coakley's office, have conducted scores of interviews in Boston and Washington, D.C., with senior executives from Partners, its competitors, and health insurers.
Their efforts, supported by tens of thousands of pages of legal documents, have attempted to answer a complicated question: How big is too big for a health care system?
As the decision on the Partners-South Shore merger looms, hospital and insurance executives are speculating about it in hallways, boardrooms, and restaurants. If regulators allow Partners to absorb 378-bed South Shore Hospital, many say, it will become more difficult for other hospitals to vie for patients and harder for health plans to hold down prices. If the deal is scuttled, or regulators place stringent conditions on the merger, it could create tough hurdles for hospital mergers and acquisitions in a sector where consolidation is rampant.
Such a scenario would signal "there is a tipping point [on the size of a hospital chain] and they are going to set limits," said health care consultant Marc Bard, codirector of the Tufts Health Care Institute, an educational group. "Their message would be, 'We are not going to simply stand back and watch this runaway train create an uncompetitive environment.' "
Partners executives have traveled to Washington repeatedly over the past two years to discuss their hospital and physician network with antitrust investigators at the Justice Department. The department has taken a more activist posture on mergers recently, filing a lawsuit last month to stop the proposed pairing of American Airlines and US Airways. This spring and summer, Justice Department investigators, along with their counterparts in Coakley's office, interviewed executives from systems that compete with Partners as well as health insurance executives.
Their conversations have gone beyond the market impact of a Partners and South Shore merger. There were also questions about the original intent of Partners and how it has grown over the years, as well as its plans for managing the cost and quality of care for larger groups of patients, according to industry executives with knowledge of the inquiry.
According to a recent state analysis, nearly one-third of the money Massachusetts insurers spent on acute hospital care last year went to Partners, a Boston-based system that includes 10 hospitals and 6,000 doctors.
But the upcoming decision by the Department of Justice and Coakley's office is expected to be confined to the South Shore deal and possibly another pact Partners is negotiating with Hallmark Health, parent of Wakefield Hospital and Lawrence Memorial in Medford. Partners and Hallmark last year signed a preliminary agreement to merge.
Government regulators do not have the power to block outright Partners' acquisition of South Shore. But if they determine the deal would let Partners drive up prices for medical care south of Boston, the government could file suit and seek an injunction to stop the merger. More likely, regulators could alert Partners executives that they are prepared to take legal action and allow the system to drop the deal rather than engage in a costly court battle.
If no action is taken, Partners would extend a formidable network of suburban hospitals ringing the city that includes North Shore Medical Center in Salem to the north and Newton-Wellesley Hospital to the west. Partners also owns Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women's, and Faulkner hospitals in Boston, and McLean Hospital in Belmont.
Regulators could also tell Partners they oppose the South Shore deal unless Partners makes concessions, such as divesting other hospitals or affiliated doctors practices. Or they might require South Shore to negotiate payments from insurers separately. In May, Partners was allowed to acquire 140-bed Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton — its first hospital takeover since Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Cottage hospitals in 2006 — on the condition it negotiate insurance contracts separate from the Partners system for five years.
Partners chief executive Gary L. Gottlieb said in an interview last year that the goal in acquiring South Shore is to improve care and save money. He wants to bring the hospital into the Partners network to make it easier to invest in electronic medical records and large registries that track patients.
Gina Talamona, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department's antitrust division — which has been deeply involved in both the Partners conduct and merger reviews — declined to comment on the investigation. Brad Puffer, a Coakley spokesman, said her office "is continuing to review the [proposed] transaction."
'There is a size that's too big, where the situation becomes noncompetitive.' - Ruselle W. Robinson
Partners vice president Rich Copp said its executives have been talking with state and federal officials for more than a year, but he would not disclose details. "These discussions occur frequently, and they're treated as confidential," he said.
South Shore spokeswoman Sarah Darcy said, "the process is still under review."
State regulators have scrutinized Partners for years, repeatedly finding it commands some of the highest prices in Massachusetts. In 2010, Coakley found insurers pay some hospitals, including those aligned with Partners, twice as much money as others for similar medical care, either because they have name-brand recognition or geographic dominance.
The following year, Governor Deval Patrick's administration confirmed providers are paid widely varying amounts for the same level of care — and that some, like Partners, receive substantially more even for common procedures such as appendectomies.
Partners has maintained its hospitals are paid more for legitimate reasons, including to support their extensive research and teaching enterprises. The organization has stressed it has been working to cut costs by, among other things, renegotiating contracts with health insurers. In 2011, it set aside $40 million to help reduce insurance premiums for small businesses.
But regulators were irritated when, despite the government scrutiny, Partners pressed forward with agreements to acquire South Shore, Hallmark, and Cooley Dickinson. Partners executives, while continuing to cooperate with investigators, concluded they could no longer remain on the sidelines at a time when competitors are expanding and promising to move care from Boston to community hospitals.
Some hospital leaders believe the US government has sent contradictory signals about hospital consolidation, said Ruselle W. Robinson, health care attorney for Boston law firm Posternak Blankstein & Lund. While the federal health care overhaul encourages hospitals and doctors to form larger networks to better coordinate care, he said, antitrust investigators have been focused on the higher prices that stem from market dominance.
"There is a size that's too big, where the situation becomes noncompetitive. That's what they're looking at" in the Partners case, Robinson said.
Soon after a 2008 Globe Spotlight series investigation found hospitals such as Mass. General and Brigham and Women's were routinely paid 15 to 60 percent more for essentially the same services as other hospitals in the Boston market, Coakley launched her investigation into alleged anticompetitive behavior by Partners. The state invited the Justice Department to join the inquiry.
In April, 2010, federal antitrust investigators sent letters to Partners and three large Massachusetts health insurers demanding documents related to Partners' "contracting and other practices in health care markets in Eastern Massachusetts." The letters indicated they were seeking to determine whether the practices violated the Sherman Antitrust Act, which bars companies from using market power to limit or artificially raise prices.
Partners took a conciliatory stance toward regulators under former chief executive James J. Mongan, largely refraining from pursuing new hospitals, people with knowledge of the inquiry said. But after Gottlieb took the Partners helm in 2010, they said, the organization became more aggressive in asserting its right to expand. In addition to its plans to take over Cooley Dickinson, Hallmark, and South Shore, it acquired Neighborhood Health Plan, a transaction that put Partners in the health insurance business for the first time.
After merger plans are disclosed, acquirers typically are required to send notifications to the Federal Trade Commission, which recently moved to block the merger of two Georgia hospital systems. But because the market-conduct investigation already was underway, the Justice Department took over the review of the Partners and South Shore alliance.
Investigators spoke with top-level executives at several hospital systems and health insurers in 2012, and conducted another round of interviews this year, according to the people with knowledge of the inquiry.Robert Weisman can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Liz Kowalczyk can be
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About The IGF
UBM TechWeb (producer of Game Developer magazine, Gamasutra.com, and the Game Developers Conference) established the Independent Games Festival in 1998 to encourage innovation in game development and to recognize the best independent game developers.
The competition, now in its 13th year, awarded a total of nearly $50,000 in prizes to deserving indie creators in Main Competition and Student Competition categories at the IGF Awards Ceremony, held in March 2010 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, as one of the highlights of the Game Developers Conference.
The Independent Games Festival will return in March 2011 at GDC in San Francisco - look for more information soon. [More information...]
About The IGS
Featuring lectures, postmortems and roundtables from some of the most notable independent game creators around, the Independent Games Summit is a yearly event, with iterations thus far taking place in March 2007, February 2008, March 2009 and March 2010 at Game Developers Conference.
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In a July 2013, ESPN newsmagazine Outside the Lines ran a piece titled "Carry On," featuring the story of Dartanyon Crockett and Leroy Sutton, former high school wrestling teammates who struck up an unlikely friendship while competing together at Cleveland's Lincoln West High School. Crockett, severely near-sighted from Leber's disease, often carried Sutton, whose legs were amputated after a boyhood accident. After high school, Crockett began to focus on judo, taking quickly to the sport, winning a national championship in 2012, en route to earning a bronze medal in the 90 kg weight class at the 2012 London Paralympics. The powerful ESPN piece cast Crockett as a ferocious competitor who personified American values of perseverance over adversity, with a strong work ethic, and a deeply loyal friend.
Coincidentally, in the weeks before "Carry On" aired, I received a proposal from the U.S. Embassy in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, to create a judo program for athletes with visual impairments. The proposed program would help "build confidence in youths with visual impairment by encouraging them to participate in judo, provide judo clinics, and bring together sports and Paralympic officials to discuss how to further augment local capacity." Judo is immensely popular in Turkmenistan, and a judo champion from the United States would be enthusiastically welcomed.
After I watched "Carry On," it was obvious that Crockett would be the ideal athlete to lead this program. I reached out to USA Judo and U.S. Paralympics, and thanks in large part to their terrific coordination, Crockett came on board as the State Department's first-ever blind Sports Envoy (and only the third Sports Envoy with a disability in State Department history).
Crockett traveled to Turkmenistan from March 24-29 in conjunction with ECA's Lives without Limits campaign, which uses international exchanges to promote inclusion, tolerance, and mutual respect. While in Turkmenistan, Crockett and fellow sports envoy Heidi Moore, a coach on the USA Judo Visually Impaired Women's National Team, offered world-class judo instruction to Turkmen youth and athletes with disabilities. Embassy Ashgabat also screened "Carry On" for Turkmen guests at the Embassy and the American Corners in Mary and Turkmenabat.
As a direct result of Crockett's and Moore's outreach, numerous high profile groups in Turkmenistan have already expressed tremendous enthusiasm to elevate judo as a sport for athletes with disabilities. We at the State Department want to do more of these kinds of exchanges in Central Asia and around the world, connecting athletes like Crockett with the ability to engage and inspire new audiences and partners. Once again, sports are tearing down barriers, empowering people, and paving the way for better tomorrows.
About the Author: Morgan O'Brien serves as a Cultural Affairs Officer in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs' (ECA) SportsUnited Office.


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Positive Empowerment: I Get Blessings, I Get Lesson
July/August 2003
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Just like anyone else, I have some bad days, but in general I'm like Tony the Tiger. I feel grrreat! That's no small feat considering that my last viral load was over 300,000 and my T-cell count was six. In fact, I haven't had more than 20 T-cells in the last 10 years.
So you know that I did not always feel like Tony the Tiger. I had to go through some very tough times to get to where I am today. I've had some very nasty battles with two deadly diseases: HIV and addiction.
In 1994, I had already lost several good jobs, all because of my alcohol and drug use. I had been a Chicago police officer, a CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) bus driver and an over-the-road truck driver. It was at that time that I got a cold I couldn't seem to shake. I began to have night sweats. After six weeks and much pleading by my family, I decided to go to the hospital.
After several days passed, my doctor came in my room looking like someone had just died. "I'm sorry, Mr. Braxton, but you have AIDS." Devastating words. I felt like the whole world kept moving, but I was standing still. Like I had just gotten thrown off the bus of life in the middle of a desert. I was given an AIDS diagnosis because at that time my T-cells were 60. They didn't do viral loads then.
After the initial shock, panic set in. I had two kids and a girlfriend I lived with. I was so relieved to find out that everyone close to me tested negative.
I was prescribed AZT [Retrovir] and Bactrim. I had a very severe reaction to the Bactrim. I assumed I was dying from AIDS. I was so sick I could barely walk. One day I managed to ride my bike around the block. The next day I went a little further. In a couple of months I was riding 25 miles a day. At the end of that summer I completed a 100-mile bike trip. The seed was planted. I associated exercise with feeling better.
However, there were many trials and tribulations that lay ahead. This was because I had not yet gotten my drug and alcohol addiction under control. Over the next several years I went through just about every HIV medication available. I was building resistance to all medications at an alarming rate. This was because sometimes I would take the medication and sometimes I would not. It generally depended on whether or not I had something more important to do, like smoke crack cocaine.
I was constantly in and out of the hospital. I've been close to death more times than I care to think about. You know you're in trouble when you see tears in the eyes of family and friends while you're in the hospital. I remember being angry because I could not do one push-up a couple of weeks out of the intensive care unit. I started doing bicep curls with the guest chair in my room at Cook County Hospital. I was transferred to a nursing home where I used the physical therapy room as my personal gym. A year later I was bench-pressing 240 pounds.
Then one day I just didn't feel right. Again, I almost died in the hospital. I knew that I could fight my way back to being relatively healthy. I just couldn't seem to stay that way for long.
It became crystal clear to me that I couldn't successfully manage my HIV unless I first learned to manage my alcohol and drug problem. While in Haymarket treatment facility I was linked up with TPAN's Positive Progress group. This is a support group for HIV-positive people based on the 12-step model of recovery for substance abuse.
After getting out of treatment I continued to attend the group. One day the facilitator said he had to attend another meeting and wanted me to run the group. I was scared to death. I continued to facilitate Positive Progress for the next nine months. During that time I experienced tremendous personal growth. I learned the value of giving without expecting anything in return. I met my 12-step sponsor in that group, who continues to work with me today.
Today I am involved with several HIV community-based groups: HPPG (HIV Prevention Planning Group), NHHC (Northside HIV Health Committee), ARAC (AIDS Research Alliance Chicago), EASE (Empowerment, Advocacy, Support and Education caucus) and Haymarket CAB (client advisory board). I'm learning a lot through those organizations, but I am still new at it. Sometimes I believe these groups give me more credit than I'm worth. Recently, ARAC sent me to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to represent them. Wow! Also, I showed up for a donut and to be nosy at my first EASE meeting, and they elected me co-chair. Boy, do they have a sense of humor.
Only recently have I begun to make any long-term plans. When I heard about the new drug for deep salvage therapy, T-20 (or Fuzeon), I began to have hope. I even enrolled in Harold Washington College to pursue a certification for drug and alcohol counselor (CADC).
It has been one year and eight months since I had a drink or drug. During that time I have taken my meds 99% of the time. I have no problem injecting myself twice a day with T-20. I have had some medical problems, but they are minor compared to before.
Today I'm making minor changes in my diet and yes, I exercise on a regular basis. I have my studio apartment loaded up with six different kinds of exercise equipment. None of them have become a coat rack yet. My weekly exercise routine involves cardio, strength training, and Pilates. I also take supplements and occasionally juice vegetables. I have reversed the effects of lipodystrophy (small arms and legs and huge stomach).
To work on myself spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically is very demanding and takes a lot of discipline. It is all well worth it. I'm sober now, so I get a kick out of life.
I never expected to see my kids grow up. Today not only are they young adults, but I have lived to see my first grandchild -- go figure! In my first two months on T-20, my viral load dropped from 500,000 to 300,000. In a couple of weeks I will check it again.
Yes, today I feel like Tony the Tiger, grrreat! However, it takes more than Frosted Flakes to get that way. I cannot take all the credit for my life today. I had help. A lot of help. I am extremely grateful for organizations like TPAN, AIDS Care, Alcoholics Anonymous and Chicago House. I get support from family and friends. Most of all, I receive help from Him whom I cannot see. Like they say in AA, "When I do His will I get blessings, when I do my will I get lessons."
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For administrative clients, you can establish a secure connection by including the -secure option when you invoke the imqcmd command: for example,
imqcmd list svc -b hostName:portNumber -u userName -secure
where userName is a valid ADMIN entry in the Message Queue user repository. The command will prompt you for the password.
Listing the connection services is a way to verify that the ssladmin service is running and that you can successfully make a secure administrative connection, as shown in Example 9–6.


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RANCHO CUCAMONGA — The Planning Commission on Wednesday night voted to reject a city report that found the near century-old China House on Klusman Avenue and San Bernardino Road had lost its historic significance.
Approval of the report, saying there was no environmental harm by demolishing the building, would have allowed the property owner Cucamonga Valley Water District to apply for permits to go ahead with the removal.
A city building official had earlier issued a demolition order after it had been deemed unsafe.
The commission's unanimous action on Wednesday delays the demolition until a full environmental impact report is conducted. The city also asked the district to stabilize the structure in the meantime.
Prior to the vote, assistant general manager Jo Lynne-Pereyra said the district was prepared to comply with the building official's earlier demolition order.
"We're going to have to first see what the building official actually provides us," she said. "I don't know what you can do to shore up that building because, what our structural engineer has told us is that as soon as you start touching that building, it's going to fall apart. So, I don't know what good that's going to do to the structure. "
Lynne-Pereyra said the shoring up of the structure would mean expense for the water district. It's also unclear which agency would conduct the environmental impact report, although discussion on the matter will take place soon between the district and the city.
Historic preservationists from the Rancho Cucamonga Historical Society and representatives from local Asian American heritage organizations were elated with the new opportunity to have more time to negotiate with the water district and raise funds to save the house.
The two-story building was built in 1919 and once housed Chinese laborers and a Chinese grocery store. The home is the last remaining structure in a Chinatown in the Inland Empire, they said.
Chinese heritage groups learned of the demolition late last year and convinced district officials to request a delay for the demolition, which was granted April 11.
Preservationists said saving the home and restoring it would be the best way to honor the contribution Chinese workers who years ago helped dig water tunnels that brought water from the mountains to the valley, and harvest grapes and produce on Inland Valley farms.
Some of the commissioners said they did not see a link between the historic significance of the building and its structural condition.
The house was designated as a city historic landmark in 1985, but the city's initial environmental report said it had deteriorated to the point it has "lost its historical significant and no longer qualifies as a historic landmark. "
Eugene Moy, vice president of the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California and a lead preservation proponent for the house, said the study is flawed because the deterioration of the building has nothing to do with the historical significance of the site.
The city report suggested that following a demolition the history of the site could be remembered in a monument by using salvaged bricks from the home. The proposed measure mirrors an earlier plan by the district.
Reach Neil via email, call him at 909-483-9356, or find him on Twitter @RanchoNow.


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Paul's life, so extraordinary in so many ways, should define the ordinary life of the Christian in one sense: radical obedience. Jesus calls us to count the cost before enlisting and, having made a decision for Him, never to ...Read More
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Los Angeles Clippers Coach Vinny Del Negro, who had the most successful tenure of any coach in Clipper history, was fired last week by owner Donald Sterling. How does unparalleled success lead to termination?
Was it the intervention of star players with the owner that led to Del Negro's downfall?
The Clippers have had a long and inglorious history filled with losing. Since the 1976-77 season, played in Buffalo, until Del Negro took the reins in 2010, they had two winning seasons and went to the playoffs four times.
The overall winning percentage of the franchise is .375. Their list of high first-round draft picks who were unproductive is large — from Benoit Benjamin (No. 3, 1985) to Michael Olowokandi (No. 1, 1998) to Darius Miles (No. 3, 2000) to Shaun Livingston (No. 4, 2004). They finally picked a true star in Blake Griffin.
Enter Del Negro. After a tough first season his last two years were the best in franchise history. The team steadily improved. They were ranked 19th in offense and 20th in defense per game in the NBA during the 2010-2011 season. In 2012-2013 they were ranked No. 8 in offense and No. 4 in defense in the NBA. Also, 2011 showed the largest winning percentage increase from one season to the next in team history.
And, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 were the first back-to-back winning seasons since 1992-1993. These seasons resulted in Del Negro having the highest winning percentage of any coach in their history. They improved to a team-record 56 wins this season after last year's strike shortened 40 wins.
They swept the archrival Lakers four games straight.
They won their first Pacific Division championship ever.
They out-drew the Lakers in attendance and sold out every home game. And this coach was not rehired.
In the 2011-12 season the team beat the Memphis Grizzlies in the first round of the playoffs before losing to San Antonio in the second round. This season the Clippers led the Grizzlies 2-0, building up great expectations. And then they were swept. This was the last image that Sterling held in his mind.
Losing dramatically to a team that they had beaten the year before in the playoffs could be viewed as a step back.
Did Del Negro fail to adjust to the different approach the Grizzlies took in the final four games?
Did the injury to Griffin, which deprived the team of a critical weapon and the underperformance of the players, play the larger role?
It became clear in Sterling's remarks about the decision that "the players" input was critical in the decision. There were inferences that Griffin and Chris Paul told the owner that they liked Del Negro personally, but had doubts whether he was the right person to take them to the next step.
Paul is a free agent, his presence has much to do with the performance the last two years, and the team desperately needs to resign him. So as political as Paul is, and as much as he resisted being perceived as "heavy" in the situation, Sterling was pretty clear that he made the call.
The situation evokes that of fired UCLA Coach Ben Howland, who led the Bruins to their best season in years and was fired after being blown out in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
The question rises: Does demonstrable season-long achievement get discounted in judging the performance of a coach whose team suffers postseason losses?
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