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Cindy Has a Ball
Once Upon a Time ...
She lived with her wicked stepmother and stepsisters - who, I have to say, were a couple of dogs:
Cindy spent her days cleaning up after her step family, but she always hoped for a better life.
One day, excitement gripped the land: Prince Dream was looking for a wife!
The parties at his pad were always hopping, but he wanted to settle down with someone before he croaked.
So the Prince invited all the girls of the kingdom to play ball:
Although his froggy dyslexia led to a minor scandal in the papers.
When Cindy told her step family she planned to go, they sneered,
"What do YOU know about playing ball?"
Disheartened, Cindy was about to give up, when suddenly:
Her Fairly Odd Mother appeared!
The Fairly Odd Mother arranged for Cindy to have a coach:
He had experience with all kinds of balls.
On the day of the game, Cindy snuck out to play. Her coaching paid off, and she dazzled the prince!
Sadly, before she could meet him, Cindy's stepmother dragged her home. All the heartbroken prince could find was one of her hideous flip-flops:
He vowed then and there to find the foot that fit the flip-flop, and then buy it more appropriate footwear for sports.
Fortunately the Prince remembered Cindy's distinctive toenail fungus, and found her that same afternoon in the foot-care aisle at Target!
Their love bloomed in front of the bunion cream, and they were married that very day.
As the prince struggled to carry her off to his castle, everyone agreed that Cindy had never looked happier:
Enchanted thanks to Olyvia S., Becca M; Sarah C., Shaina H., Iny, Kathleen C., Megan J., Leslie S., and Anony M., who helped make all our wrecks come true.
Note from Jen: For instant lolz, repeat after me: "Find the foot that fit the flip-flop. Find the foot that fit the flip-flop. FIND THE FOOT THAT FIT THE FLIP-FLOP."


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Welcome to Darling Downs Zoo
Be Amazed!
...at our vast array of beautiful and ugly, dangerous and gentle, big and small, but always fascinating, wildlife... and all just a short drive from Toowoomba or Warwick.
Take a walk and get up close and personal with a number of our animals - Photo opportunities abound!
Meet some Movie Stars
Pose with a Python
Learn about Lions
Marvel at our Marmosets
and Shiver at our Snake and Reptile Show!
and that's just for starters!

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Last night, Windows Phone Central reported that Microsoft Stores were poised to reduce the cost of the Touch Cover from the current $119.99 to a more favorable $79.99. That reduction includes all five colors and is set to occur on August 30th online and in Microsoft Stores. The price drop is permanent and not a sale.
We can also now confirm that the Surface RT bundle, which includes both the Surface RT device and a black Touch Cover, will also reflect that price decrease. Currently, customers can buy the Surface RT with either 32GB or 64GB and a bundled black Touch Cover for $449 and $549, respectively.
Starting on August 30th, those same packages will be $399 and $499 reflecting a permanent $50 price reduction. While customers don't get a color choice with the Surface RT bundle, they do save $30 were they to buy the Surface RT and Touch Cover separately ($349.99 + $79.99).
Microsoft has recently caught some flak over the very concept of Windows RT, specifically the reported low-sales of the Surface RT and manufacturers abandoning the nascent platform. In response, Microsoft reduced the price of the Surface RT by $150 in an effort to help move inventory.


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End-of-life notice: American Legal Ethics Library
As of March 1, 2013, the Legal Information Institute is no longer maintaining the information in the American Legal Ethics Library. It is no longer possible for us to maintain it at a level of completeness and accuracy given its staffing needs. It is very possible that we will revive it at a future time. At this point, it is in need of a complete technological renovation and reworking of the "correspondent firm" model which successfully sustained it for many years.
Many people have contributed time and effort to the project over the years, and we would like to thank them. In particular, Roger Cramton and Peter Martin not only conceived ALEL but gave much of their own labor to it. We are also grateful to Brad Wendel for his editorial contributions, to Brian Toohey and all at Jones Day for their efforts, and to all of our correspondents and contributors. Thank you.
We regret any inconvenience.
Some portions of the collection may already be severely out of date, so please be cautious in your use of this material.
Connecticut Rules of Professional Conduct
Commentary - Rule 1.12
[1] This Rule generally parallels Rule 1.11. The term "personally and substantially" signifies that a judge who was a member of a multi-member court, and thereafter left judicial office to practice law, is not prohibited from representing a client in a matter pending in the court, but in which the former judge did not participate. So also the fact that a former judge exercised administrative responsibility in a court does not prevent the former judge from acting as a lawyer in a matter where the judge had previously exercised remote or incidental administrative responsibility that did not affect the merits. Compare the Commentary to Rule 1.11. The term "adjudicative officer" includes such officials as judges pro tempore, referees, special masters, hearing officers and other parajudicial officers, and also lawyers who serve as part-time judges. Compliance Canons A(2), B(2) and C of the Model Code of Judicial Conduct provide that a part-time judge, judge pro tempore or retired judge recalled to active service, may not "act as a lawyer in any proceeding in which he served as a judge or in any other proceeding related thereto." Although phrased differently from this Rule, those rules correspond in meaning.


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Study to Investigate the Effect of Heart Rate Reduction With Ivabradine on Vascular Elastic Properties and Endothelial Function in Patients With Stable Coronary Heart Disease
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01768585
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified January 2013 by University Hospital, Saarland.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : January 15, 2013
Last Update Posted : January 15, 2013
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|Condition or disease
|Coronary Artery Disease Coronary Arteriosclerosis
|Drug: Ivabradine Drug: Placebo
|Phase 4
Experimental and clinical data suggest that sustained elevation of heart rate contributes to the pathogenesis of vascular disease (1, 2). In animal studies accelerated heart rate is associated with signalling events leading to vascular oxidative stress, endothelial dysfunction and acceleration of atherogenesis (3). The underlying mechanisms are only partially understood and appear to correlate with mechanic properties such as reduction of vascular compliance. Heart rate reduction by I(f)-channel inhibition with ivabradine (Procoralan®, Servier, France) attenuates oxidative stress, improves endothelial function and reduces the formation of atherosclerotic plaques in mice models of lipid-induced atherosclerosis (1, 4).
Aortic stiffness is a consequence of arterial aging and vascular risk factors and determinates cardiovascular mortality (5). Heart rate depending repetitive pulsations appear to induce fatigue and fracture of elastin lamellae of central arteries. As a result the vessel stiffens and pulse wave reflections return earlier to the heart. In consequence aortic pressure rises and pulsations of flow extend further into smaller vessels of organs (notably the brain and kidney). Stiffening leads to increased left ventricular (LV) load with hypertrophy, decreased capacity for myocardial perfusion, and increased hemodynamic stresses on small arterial vessels.
Several experimental investigations revealed an interaction between heart rate and vascular compliance demonstrating a positive association between increased heart rate and arterial stiffness (6). Recent experimental data suggest that heart rate reduction by ivabradine (Procoralan®, Servier, France) significantly improves aortic distensibility in cholesterol fed ApoE -/- mice measured by MRI technique (7). While a benefit of pharmacological heart rate reduction on vascular outcomes was observed in animal studies, prospective clinical data are limited and evidence determining whether chronic modulation of heart rate can improve vascular function and compliance in patients with chronic stable coronary artery disease is needed.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|50 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Crossover Assignment
|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Randomised, Placebo Controlled, Double Blind, Cross-over, Single Center Clinical Study to Investigate the Effect of Heart Rate Reduction With Ivabradine on Vascular Elastic Properties and Endothelial Function in Patients With Stable Coronary Heart Disease
|Study Start Date :
|December 2012
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|December 2014
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|December 2014
Active Comparator: Ivabradine
Drug: Ivabradine bid administration of 7.5mg ivabradine Other Name: Procoralan, I(f)-inhibitor
Drug: Ivabradine
Please see description of Intervention Arm
Other Name: Procoralan
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Drug: Placebo bid placebo Other Name: Placebo control
Drug: Placebo
- Aortic distensibility (MRI), pulse wave velocity (SphygmoCor®), flow-mediated dilatation (A. brachialis) [ Time Frame: Decembre 2014 ]
- Biomarkers (inflammation, oxidative stress) [ Time Frame: Decembre 2014 ]
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Age > 18 years old
- Resting heart rate ≥ 70 bpm
- Sinus rhythm
- Chronic stable coronary artery disease (CAD)
- Coronary artery disease proven by coronary angiography
- Written informed consent to participate in the study
Exclusion Criteria:
- Acute coronary syndrome
- CAD treated best by surgical coronary bypass
- Stroke/TIA
- Resting heart rate < 70 bpm
- Indwelling pacemaker or AICD
- Severe valvular heart disease
- Any other rhythm than sinus
- Sick-Sinus-Syndrome, SA nodal block, >2nd degree atrio-ventricular block
- Untreated arterial hypertension
- Arterial hypotension (<90/50mmHg)
- Severe hepatic failure
- Heart failure (NYHA class III - IV)
- Patient already treated with study drug
- Symptomatic PAD
- Known diabetes mellitus
- Pre-menopausal women
- Hypersensitivity against ivabradine or adjuvants
- Coexisting drug treatment with Cytochrom P450 3A4-inhibitors
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01768585
|Contact: Florian Custodis, MD
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|University Hospital, Saarland
|Homburg, Saarland, Germany, 66421
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|Sub-Investigator: Florian Custodis, MD
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|Saarland University Hospital
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Myocardial Ischemia
Coronary Disease
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Inspired by Fresh Cuts from designer Marti Michell
Quilt tester: Laura Boehnke
1/4 yard green print No. 1 (blocks)
5/8 yards white print (blocks)
3/4 yards total assorted prints in gold, blue, and red (blocks)
1/2 yard brown print (blocks)
3 gold wreath printed panels for setting and corner triangles (If not using featured print, you'll need 1 yard of desired print.)
1/4 yard green print No. 2 (inner border)
1-1/2 yards brick red print (outer border, binding)
3-1/4 yards backing fabric
58" square batting
Finished quilt: 49-1/2" square
Finished block: 12" square
Quantities are for 44/45"-wide, 100% cotton fabrics. Measurements include 1/4" seam allowances. Sew with right sides together unless otherwise stated.


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Spring is just around the corner! To most of us, spring represents a time for freshness, growth and re-birth. Flowers start to bloom, animals emerge from hibernation, and birds return to the north from their winter homes to nest, procreate, and chirp away from morning 'til dusk.
In most parts of the country, days become longer, weather becomes milder, and many people emerge from their own winter hibernations and spend less time indoors. The warmer weather…Continue
Welcome to Mom Blogger's Club! I hope you enjoy your time here and find it helpful! I know it can be overwhelming at first but I promise, you'll be a pro on here in no time! I write a blog called The Adventures of J-Man and MillerBug. It's a blog about my life with my two boys and I do some pretty cool giveaways (OK, I think they're cool! Do you?)
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To serve as a Sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery is considered one of the greatest honors in the military. The tomb itself has been under continuous guard, every second of every day, since 1948.
Tomb Sentinel is a volunteer position that accepts fewer than 20 percent of all applicants, and of those only a small percentage go on to become actual Tomb Guards. The high attrition rate makes it the second least awarded US military decoration after the Army Astronaut Badge.
This is not the first time guards have experienced a hurricane. In 2003, for the first time in American history, the sentinels, as the post marchers are called, were given the choice to seek shelter away from Hurricane Isabel. They did not. The choice was given them again in 2011, when Irene stormed ashore. And again, they did not leave their post.
Today, the sentinels face Hurricane Sandy. The winds may reach 120 mph, and the sentinels have the option to take refuge in a safe house, the "trophy room," which overlooks the tombs.
Our guess is that they'll remain on post throughout.
This photo was posted to the First Army's Division East Facebook page today, with a graph stating that the guards are still on post in weather conditions surrounding Hurricane Sandy.
The picture has gone viral, and while the photographer points out it was taken in September, the guards are standing there right now.
The Sentinels Creed:
My dedication to this sacred duty is total and wholehearted. In the responsibility bestowed on me never will I falter. And with dignity and perseverance my standard will remain perfection. Through the years of diligence and praise and the discomfort of the elements, I will walk my tour in humble reverence to the best of my ability. It is he who commands the respect I protect. His bravery that made us so proud. Surrounded by well meaning crowds by day alone in the thoughtful peace of night, this soldier will in honored glory rest under my eternal vigilance.


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Name That Wreck!
I grew up with friends named Shannyn, Jesica, Jaison, and Aiyrunn, so I'm used to spelling names all "modern" and "stupid-like." Still, this is getting ridiculous.
(And does anyone else have the munchies?)
UPDATE: From the desk of Ms. G. Selph:
Dear Reader,
Please note that the authors and employees of Cake Wrecks™ and all of its subsidiaries, including but not limited to Cake Wrecks Footwear™ and Cake Wrecks Plumbing and Air Conditioning™, in no way mean to imply or construe that any or all names used in today's post are in any way, shape, or form "stupid-like." (Even those that are.) We apologize for any confusion.
Gaffudga Selph


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F.U.D.G.E. Opens AS BEES IN HONEY DROWN Tonight
The F.U.D.G.E. (FRIENDS UNITED DEVELOPING GENUINE ENTERTAINMENT) Theatre Company will present their 12th Anniversary Season's production of "AS BEES IN HONEY DROWN," "Douglas Carter Beane's Award-winning comedy about deception, fraud, embezzlement, sexual politics, elusive fame, amoral women, sitting-duck men and revenge, which will open tonight, January 25 at The Factory Theatre (791 Tremont Street, Boston, MA - between Camden Street and Northampton Street) where it will play through Sunday, January 27.
Joey DeMita (F.U.D.G.E.'s Founding Artistic Director) will direct this now infamous comedy about a con-woman named Alexa Vere de Vere who preys on the almost-famous, promising to fulfill their wildest dreams of success to be played out on the world's media-lit stage.
She leaves her victims in the dust, holding their maxed-out credit cards in disbelief as they stand in line at their local banks trying desperately to convince the branch managers that their accounts couldn't possibly be empty.
Alexa is beautiful, exotic, enchanting and seductive. Her vocabulary is intoxicating. She seems to speak a language only the celebrity-starved can hear. She used to be called Brenda Gelb. But that was a long time and at fifty victims ago. Her latest "mark" is first-time author Evan Wyler who used to be called Eric Wollenstein. She hunts him down, dazzles him, strips him financially bare and pretty much leaves him for dead. But he's not dead. He's very much alive and fuelled by an unquenchable desire for REVENGE. In Act II, he gets it !
"AS BEES IN HONEY DROWN" originally opened in early June of 1997, Off-Off Broadway at The Greenwich House to rave reviews which propelled it to a glittering Off-Broadway Premiere seven weeks later on July 24th at the Lucille Lortel Theatre where it ran for 366 performances through July 7, 1998. For his efforts, author Douglas Carter Beane was awarded the Outer Critics Circle's prestigious John Gassner Playwriting Award. The play's star, J. Smith-Cameron, won the OBIE Award for Best Actress in a Play.
Linda Goetz - ALEXA VERE DE VERE
Ryan MacPherson - EVAN WYLER
Anthony DiBartolomeo - PHOTOGRAPHER, SWEN, ROYALTON CLERK, KADEN -
Frank Consolo - RONALD, SKUNK, MIKE
Milourdes Augustin - AMBER, BACKUP SINGER, SECRETARY, BETHANY, GINNY, A SECOND MUSE
Julia Bailey - WAITER, BACKUP SINGER, CARLA, NEWSSTAND WOMAN, DENISE, ILLYA, A MUSE
Directed by Joey DeMita, "AS BEES IN HONEY DROWN" is being designed by Michael Clark Wonson (Lighting), Mr. DeMita (Scenery) and Emily Monroe (Props). Miss Monroe and Julia Murray are the production's Stage Managers.
Friday, January 25 at 8:00pm (PRESS OPENING)
Saturday, January 26 at 3:00pm and 8:00pm
Sunday, January 27 at 2:00pm
The Box Office opens 45 minutes prior to each show. Tickets are $26 for Adults and $21 for Students/Seniors. For reservations, call 617-945-0773 or visit www.fudgetheatre.com.
The Factory Theatre is located at 791 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass. (between Camden Street and Northampton Street).
LINDA GOETZ returns to The F.U.D.G.E. Theatre Company after appearing in three previous productions including the critically acclaimed and IRNE Award nominated Spring Awakening. Miss Goetz' other credits include Karen in Dinner with Friends (Concord Players), for which she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination, Chelsea in On Golden Pond (Marblehead Little Theatre), Gertrude in The Underpants (Arlington Friends of the Drama), Pat in Breaking the Code (Quannapowitt Players), Maggie in Dancing at Lughnasa, Miss Fischer in A Piccaso, Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible, Magenta in The Rocky Horror Show, Polonius in Ganymede Arts' all-female production of Hamlet and Dolly Levi in The Footlight Club's Hello Dolly for which she won The DASH Award for Best Actress. Miss Goetz has also received critical acclaim for her appearances in A Comedy of Errors (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), The Rimers of Eldritch (Stoneham Theatre) and It's A Wonderful Life (Stoneham Theatre). She has toured nationally in A Christmas Carol (Nebraska Theatre Caravan) and Rip Van Winkle (New England Theatre Guild) and has been featured in the summer stock productions of Noises Off and On Golden Pond at Leatherstocking Theatre Company as well as several staged readings at the Glimmerglass Opera Company in Cooperstown, NY. Her upcoming appearances will include the Salem Theatre Company's production of A Delicate Balance and the PBS Docudrama "Our Founding Fathers" in which she portrays AbiGail Adams. She will also be in Williamsburg, Virginia this summer to portray Martha Jefferson in Thomas and Martha. Linda has just completed writing, directing and filming the Web Series "Brillig" which is based on Alice in Wonderland and is described as "Doctor Who" meets "Downton Abby." (www.brilligwebseries.weebly.com) One of her favorite roles is, of course, being mom to her ten-year-old son who continues to inspire her in the arts and in every other endeavor. Linda is also a volunteer at Lucky Horse Equine Rescue, which rescues and rehabilitates horses in need of new homes or rescue. (www.luckyhorse.org)
Joey DeMita (Director/Choreographer) is one of the founders of The F.U.D.G.E Theatre Company, Inc. Directing credits include Jake's Women (Stonehill Theatre Company), Company (Winthrop Playmakers), and the over twenty F.U.D.G.E. productions, including the premieres of I Sing!, I Love You Because, Half-Married (World Premiere), bare, Nevermore, Glory Days (IRNE Nomination: Best Director, Best Musical) and The Glorious Ones. Other notable directing credits with F.U.D.G.E. include Carousel (IRNE Nomination: Best Chorography) and Spring Awakening (IRNE Nomination: Best Director, Best Musical). Joey has also served as the directing intern to Rob Ruggiero at TheatreWorks Hartford on productions of The Exonerated (featuring TV/Film star Kim Fields) and the world premiere musical Ella: Off the Record (starring Broadway's Tina Fabrique). In the Boston area, Joey served as the assistant director to Adam Zahler on the Lyric Stage's production of Talley's Folly. It is Joey's belief that any show can fit in any space, and he always looks forward to bringing un-expected shows to the intimate Black Box space at the Arsenal Center. Joey spent his summer teaching theatre to children through the Community Music Center of Boston and the Reagle Theatre Summer camp. During the year, Joey teaches elementary school music/drama and works with the 5th and 6th grade Extended Day program at the Runkle School in Brookline. Mr. DeMita most recently received across-the-board critical acclaim for his production of PARADE at The Arsenal Center for the Arts.


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SACRAMENTO — State Sen. Ron Calderon who is facing federal corruption charges alleging he took kickbacks while in office will take an indefinite leave of absence from the Legislature while he awaits trial, a Senate spokesman said Sunday evening.
Mark Hedlund, spokesman for Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, told The Associated Press that Sen. Ron Calderon, D-Montebello, sent Steinberg the request for leave.
Calderon has been arraigned on charges that he accepted bribes totaling $100,000 in cash and trips, funneling some of the money to his children.
He pleaded not guilty, but his fellow Democrats had given him until Monday to resign, take leave or face being suspended.
By taking leave, Calderon will continue receiving his $95,291 annual salary but not the $163 daily expense payment he would get if he were traveling to Sacramento.
Calderon is the second Senate Democrat in the last week to take leave while he fights criminal charges.
Sen. Roderick Wright, a Democrat who represents another Los Angeles-area district, requested the leave after he was convicted of perjury and voter fraud for lying about his legal residence. Wright is seeking to have his conviction overturned before he faces sentencing in May.
The departure of Wright and Calderon deprives Senate Democrats of the two-thirds margin they need in the 40-member chamber to raise taxes, pass emergency legislation, override gubernatorial vetoes and put constitutional amendments before voters without Republican cooperation.
Steinberg, D-Sacramento, had said senators would suspend, but not expel, Calderon because he has not been convicted of a crime. But he and other Democrats called for Calderon to step down because he is charged with activities that Steinberg said "strike at the very heart of what it means to be a public official."
Calderon, 56, is charged with accepting bribes from an undercover FBI agent who pretended to own a Los Angeles movie studio and wanted to expand tax credits for the film industry. He also is charged with accepting bribes from the former owner of Pacific Hospital of Long Beach to back legislation involving state workers' compensation laws.
Calderon was elected to the state Senate in 2006 and represents Montebello, Bell Gardens and other southeastern Los Angeles suburbs. Wright, 61, served in the Assembly from 1996 to 2002, and has been in the Senate since 2008. He currently represents areas including Carson, Compton, Gardena, Lawndale, Hawthorne and Inglewood, though redistricting has changed the boundaries since he was accused of misrepresenting his legal residence.
The Calderon indictments threaten a powerful Democratic political family. His brother, former Assemblyman Tom Calderon, pleaded not guilty last week to eight counts of money laundering and conspiracy resulting from the same federal investigation.
With both senators gone, a spokesman for Steinberg said their staffs will remain to help deal with issues raised by their constituents, while other senators will carry on with any pending legislation they had introduced.
Calderon is termed out of office after this year, but Wright is in the middle of a term that expires in 2016. Steinberg said he expects Wright would leave the Senate if a formal conviction is entered at his sentencing May 16, meaning a special election would then be held to replace him.
Republicans have not been satisfied with Wright's decision to take leave instead of resigning. Democrats blocked their effort to expel him on Thursday, but three GOP senators said they planned to try again Monday by calling for both men to be suspended instead of being allowed to take leave. Suspensions, like the leaves, would not affect the senators' pay.


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So this is another of Dogfish's big bottles, Hellhound. It's basically one of their IPAs with some Lemon Peel added to "the whirlpool" in their parlance.
It's their second collaboration with Sony Music, the first was the Bitches Brew, an OK beer. This one is supposed to be celebrating the legacy of Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson.
And as much as I like some Dogfish Head Beers, Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson, unfortunately "Robert Johnson's Hellhound on my Ale" is not really very good.
It basically tastes like you poured their 90 minute IPA over a couple crushed Lemonhead candies.
Sometimes it gets too late, and you don't even feel like having dinner. What is the solution? Popcorn!
Ms Sweetpea agrees and would like to bat some popcorn kernels around the kitchen.
Monty just wants to eat them, even though they aren't very good for him.


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The sitcom "Friends With Better Lives," which CBS will plop into the space vacated by the departing "How I Met Your Mother," is the very definition of place-holder television, a show that simply and amiably attempts to be halfway entertaining until something better comes along.
At first glance, it's spooky that the show employs the now sacrosanct sitcom noun "Friends" in its title ("Yeah — no," as Phoebe Buffay would have said) and unfortunate that the word "Better" is in there, too, because, when it comes to placating the admittedly-older-now audience of "How I Met Your Mother," "Friends With Better Lives" isn't better than that show or any other half-hour comedy that's come along in the past five years or so.
But it's also not much worse, wrapped as it is in the 100 percent market-proven cardboard humor seen in many of CBS's sitcoms, where jokes about testicles or breast-pumping or oral sex have been specially calibrated to walk right up to someone's line of decency but not over it. "How do you sleep with somebody by mistake?" a character wonders aloud.
"I accidentally sat on a carrot once," another character replies.
It's those sort of jokes, one right after the other. You don't know if you're watching "Two and a Half Men" or "2 Broke Girls" or "Mom" or whatever. You aren't even really sure if you're awake or if the TV's still on.
Kevin Connolly ("Entourage") and James Van Der Beek ("Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23") star as Bobby and Will, two 30-something doctors who have their own OB-GYN practice. Bobby is married to Andi (Majandra Delfino), and they just had a baby; as such, they are relegated to lame quips about being overwhelmed and under-rested, more apt to binge-watch "Homeland" than stoke the marital flame.
Van Der Beek's character is living in Bobby and Andi's house, having been dumped by his wife. The circle of friends extends to Jules (Brooklyn Decker), a free spirit who's just fallen in love with an overly earnest, surfing Australian vegan restaurant owner named Lowell (Rick Donald).
That leaves Kate (Zoe Lister-Jones, last seen in "Whitney"), a walking cliche version of the single career woman whose financial success and sneering attitude repel the men she's so desperate to attract. She's written to be pathetic and envious, therefore the Van Der Beek character can't resist yanking her chain. Perhaps they are fated for each other. In the meantime, he sets her up with a shorter-than-average blind date just to prove that she's picky. While Will and Kate argue about this in the doctors' shared office space, Connolly's character announces: "Happily, I have a Pap smear to get to."
Aha! That's the title this show needs! "Pap Smear." (Why not?)
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We're getting a little hacky in this round of Android A to Z, and we're going to have a look at ClockworkMod recovery -- the de facto standard of custom recoveries for Android. It's open source, based on the stock Android recovery, and brings a ton of options to the table that aren't possible otherwise.
First, let's look at why anyone would use a custom recovery. The standard Android recovery can do two things for the user -- flash system files that have been signed and verified as coming from the correct source (either Google or an OEM), and wipe away user data and cached information. Both these operations are pretty important, but there's more many users want and need from the recovery mode of their phone. Things like backing up all user data into image files that can be restored easily, or flashing software that doesn't come from Google or the OEM -- like custom ROMs -- and wiping some residual data to troubleshoot things like file permission errors. It's pretty advanced stuff, but it's very handy to have it for many of us.
ClockworkMod recovery (we'll call it CWM from here on out) does all this, and does it very well. It's provided free, and has a pretty handy wrapper around it so it can be used while the phone or tablet is up and running. We're talking about Rom Manager, of course. With CWM you can erase the user data from your system completely -- including that extra data that may cause an issue, selectively erase portions of it (a godsend for troubleshooting), create a restore image of the running system, and flash custom firmware at will. If you're running a custom version of Android on any newer phone or tablet, you're probably using it right now. If you're thinking about trying your luck with a custom ROM or tweak, CWM is where you'll get started.
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Hundreds of top brands from around the worldaffix RECCO® reflectors to their products.The reflector is permanently attached, requiresno training and no batteries to function.It is always "on" and ready.
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RECCO® reflectors are a simple way to improve your safety. This wearable technology weighs less than four grams but is virtually indestructible, and more importantly, it can't be forgotten. Hundreds of top brands of outerwear, boots, helmets, and protection gear from around the world affix RECCO® reflectors to their products.
The reflector is permanently attached and requires no training or batteries to function. It is always "on" and ready. Whether you are a skier, snowboarder, alpinist, snowmobiler, or snowshoer, you can find RECCO® reflectors in your favorite gear. Some brands highlight the reflector on the outside of the gear while other brands conceal the reflector inside the gear.
While you may or may not see the reflector, all RECCO® reflector-equipped gear comes with a RECCO® tag. When considering your next piece of gear, look for the RECCO® label. As a supplier of components and knowledge, RECCO® works with brands that also support avalanche and mountain safety for sportspeople. After all, the purpose for going into the mountains is to have fun and come back to do it again!
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Reports about the activities of the NCSF Media Committee
NCSF has an active media committee which provides interviews for print, radio, and television. We creates press releases, action alerts, and entertainment media updates. The Media committee also provides media training and coaching to coalition partners, advocacy groups and responds to hundreds of media related queries. With the action around the CDA lawsuit as well as other media events, this has been a busy year. This report details NCSF media activities over the last twelve months.
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Adjustable Walker Ski Glides. Fit tubing from 1 to 1.125 inches. Pack of 2.
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Easily attaches to most walkers for use as a flat surface or carrying items.
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For better maneuverability, walkers can be outfitted with wheels on the front pair of legs and glides designed for use on the rear legs of a wheeled walker. These are especially helpful to people with limited strength in their arms since the task of lifting the walker is eliminated. There are many choices within both these categories.
Rear leg glides. Walker glides help increase the maneuverability of the walker by allowing rear legs to glide along while pushing. They're designed to prevent the walker from getting stuck on uneven surfaces, such as carpet edges, door thresholds, grass and even the imperfections and cracks on paved surfaces. Many are called ski glides because they're shaped like little skis. They are typically sold by the pair and easily attach to the rear legs of the walker. Know the size of the tubing on your walker to select the right diameter of glide.
The Adjustable Universal Walker Glides will fit either 1" or 1-1/8" tubing with easy installation using a stainless steel tightening bolt. Carex Walker Glides come in a rounded style and are available for 1" tubing and 1-1/8" tubing.
Many people like the feel of tennis balls used as the glides. Court Side Glides are durable, safe and easy to install on fixed wheel walkers with tennis balls that pop in and out of housings for easy replacement. The specially designed housing allows the ball to be manually rotated to unworn areas to last longer. Spring-loaded brakes allow for intermittent stopping while walking for additional security and includes clips to lock out the brakes for pure gliding.
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These are very convenient walker accessories that turn your mobility device into a small work desk or table, handy when you're at home. They're usually molded plastic trays, some with recesses to hold a cup, pen or eyeglasses. The Walker Tray With Cup Holders by Drive enables you to carry personal items from room to room and easily folds down when not in use.
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Following Facebook's positive earnings surprise and strong conference call, CNBC's Jim Cramer said the company's stock is on a strong trajectory to trade back up to its IPO price.
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Bath School Massacre
The worst school massacre in U.S. history took place in 1927 in the little town of Bath, Michigan where 38 students, two teachers and two rescuers were murdered and 53 others seriously injured.
by David Robb
The worst school massacre in U.S. history was not Virginia Tech, where in 2007 a gunman killed 32 people and wounded 18 others; it was not Columbine High School, where in 1999 two teenagers shot and killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 21 others; and sadly, it was not Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012, where another mass murderer killed 20 children and six adults.
The worst school massacre in U.S. history took place in 1927 in the little town of Bath, Michigan, when Andrew Kehoe blew up part of a school and his own car, killing 37 students, two teachers and two rescuers – and seriously injuring 58 others, including two students who would die later from their injuries. If the 400 pounds of dynamite Kehoe had placed at the other end of the school's basement had detonated as planned, the bombing could have killed far more of the 275 students and 12 teachers in the school that day.
Today, Kehoe's heinous crime is all but forgotten.
Born on February 1, 1872, Kehoe and his 12 brothers and sisters were raised on a small family farm in the tiny town of Tecumseh on the banks of the River Raisin in southeastern Michigan.
It was a quiet town surrounded by blueberry fields and apple orchards. About the most exciting thing that ever happened in Tecumseh was the day General George Armstrong Custer's famous civil war horse, Don Juan, was buried there when Andrew was 4 years old. Andrew's father took the kids to see the horse's grave.
Andrew's mother died the same year as Custer's horse, and his father remarried a local widow named Frances Wilder. She was a sweet woman who loved children, but she and Andrew didn't get along from the very beginning. He was sullen, withdrawn and pathologically stubborn, and the way he looked at her when he was angry gave her the creeps. They fought all the time when he wasn't in school or tinkering with the farm equipment. Andrew was a born tinkerer.
One day when he was 14, his stepmother was alone in the kitchen trying to light the family stove when it exploded, dousing her with flaming fuel oil. Andrew had been outside tinkering, and when he heard the explosion, raced into the kitchen to see his stepmother rolling around on the floor, screaming in agony as flames engulfed her entire body. Andrew went back outside to the well and pumped a bucket full of water. By the time he got back to the kitchen, she wasn't screaming anymore. He poured the water on her and put out the flames before the kitchen could burn down, but she died anyway.
It was his first experience with fiery death, but it would not be his last.
|Andrew Kehoe
Years later, many of the town folk would come to believe that Andrew had had something to do with the stove exploding.
He graduated from Tecumseh High School, where he was not well liked, and then enrolled at Michigan State College in East Lansing, where he wasn't liked much, either. Majoring in electrical engineering, which was the big new thing in those days, he started courting a shy, plain girl there named Nellie Price, whose family had money and land.
By the time he left college in the mid-1890s, big cities all across the country were being lit by electric light. Horse-drawn trolleys were giving way to electric streetcars, and the future looked bright for young Andrew. He moved to St. Louis and left his family – and his new girlfriend – behind. No one knows much about the years he spent there, other than that he got a job as an electrician in a park, and that somewhere along the line, he fell off a ladder and suffered a serious head injury, slipping in and out of a coma for two months.
It wasn't known in those days, but brain injuries are very common among sociopaths.
Andrew survived and moved back to Michigan and bought his father's 185-acre farm in Tecumseh. He married Nellie in 1912, and together they worked the farm for seven years. But he wasn't much of a farmer. He spent more time tinkering with the farm equipment than planting and harvesting. And it didn't help that he was cruel to his animals, which he abused mercilessly.
Andrew, meanwhile, was growing more resentful and suspicious by the day.
He and Nellie were both Catholics, but when the local priest stopped by the house one day to ask him to contribute to the building of a new church, Andrew threatened to shoot him if he didn't get off his land. After that, he forbade Nellie from ever going to church again.
In the spring of 1919, he sold the family farm for what he paid for it – $8,000 – and bought a 185-acre spread from Nellie's aunt just up the road in the little town of Bath, Michigan. He paid $12,000 for the farm – paying half up front and owing the rest to Nellie's aunt on a mortgage.
An Enraging School Tax
Andrew and Nellie had no children, but in 1922, when a new school was built in Bath, they had to help pay for it all the same. He was assessed $137 – a fair amount of money in those days – and complained bitterly about having to pay to send other people's kids to school. The next year, when his school tax was increased to $225, he was outraged, saying the tax was going to put him out of business. He told everyone who would listen that if he were on the school board, he would cut expenses and taxes.
He got his wish on July 14, 1924, when he was elected to the school board, and because of his reputation for thriftiness, was appointed treasurer.
It didn't make him any happier, though. He fought constantly with the school superintendent, Emory Huyck. He accused Huyck of financial mismanagement, and tried to have him barred from school board meetings. But the other board members stood by Huyck.
Huyck had been superintendent of the school since it opened in 1922, and was still one of the youngest school superintendents in the state – only 30 years old – when Kehoe joined the board in 1924.
Andrew Kehoe was not an imposing figure – 5'9" and 150 pounds with gray hair and mean eyes – but he was able to dominate most of the men on the board with his arrogance and obstinacy. But not Huyck; he stood his ground and fought Kehoe on everything.
Huyck, a distant cousin of Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, was a graduate of Michigan State College, where Kehoe had studied electrical engineering. But that's about all they had in common – that and their mutual hatred of one another.
Kehoe was always furious about something, and he made everyone on the school board miserable. But he was good with his hands, so they paid him a small stipend to work as the school's handyman, figuring that if they threw a little money his way, maybe he'd stop crying poor all the time. Instead, he used the money to buy nearly a ton of dynamite and Pyrotol, an explosive farmers used to clear their land of boulders and tree stumps.
A Plan of Revenge
But Kehoe wasn't planning to blow up tree stumps; he was planning to blow up the school. His plan began to take shape in 1924, the same year he was elected to the school board. That year, records show, he bought two large boxes of Giant Hercules dynamite sticks from a store in Lansing, and 500 pounds of Pyrotol from the Jackson Farm Bureau. Over the next three years, he bought small amounts of explosives here and there, something that was easy for farmers to do in those days. A neighbor recalled driving Kehoe into town one day to buy a box of dynamite sticks and blasting caps.
On New Year's Eve, 1926, the little town of Bath was rocked by the sound of a giant explosion coming from the direction of the Kehoe farm. No one thought much of it at the time; farmers were always blowing up tree stumps and boulders around those parts. Even so, neighbors would later recall that the New Year's Eve blast had been a particularly loud one.
But Kehoe wasn't blowing up tree stumps on that last day of 1926. He'd pretty much quit farming altogether by that time. His wife Nellie had been in and out of the hospital with an undiagnosed case of tuberculosis, and Kehoe spent nearly all his time tending to her needs – and tinkering with wires and alarm clocks. Every day he was sinking deeper into debt.
In hindsight, neighbors would later say, there's been plenty of warning signs that something wasn't quite right out at the Kehoe place. They recalled that he beat one of his old horses to death, and killed one of his dogs out of spite. He'd stopped paying his homeowner's insurance and he'd stopped paying his mortgage, and Nellie's aunt finally had to serve him with a foreclosure notice.
And he would say the most peculiar things.
The school bus driver recalled that in the second week of May, after he'd received his paycheck, Kehoe told him grandly, "My boy, you want to take good care of that check as it is probably the last check you will ever get." The bus driver thought it was an odd comment, but didn't think any more of it – until later.
On May 16, Nellie Kehoe was discharged from Lawrence Hospital in Lansing. That same day, first grade teacher Bernice Sterling telephoned Kehoe to ask his permission to use his apple orchard for a school picnic.
"Okay," he told her, "but if you want a picnic, you better have it at once."
Later that night, he drove out to the school in his car, loaded with dynamite and Pyrotol, and entered the school's basement through a side door he'd left unlocked. If anyone had been watching that night and the next, they would have seen him making several trips from his beat up car to the basement, his arms loaded with bundles of dynamite, wires and alarm clocks. But no one was watching.
The next day, he loaded the back seat of his car with nuts and bolts and saws and shovels and every rusted piece of farm equipment he could find, and placed his rifle in the front seat. Then he drove out to the school. It was May 18, a Wednesday, and a beautiful spring day in southern Michigan.
9: 45 a.m. May 18, 1927
The school bell rang at 9 o'clock sharp, just as it did every school day. Some 275 children – grades 1st through 12th – noisily took their seats as a dozen teachers in as many classrooms began taking attendance.
After everyone was accounted for, the children stood to say the Pledge of Allegiance, and then sat down to begin the day's lessons.
Thirty minutes later, the school janitor, Frank Smith, was heading down into the basement when Kehoe emerged out of the darkness and passed him going up the stairs. "I'm in an awful hurry," Kehoe murmured, not slowing down to talk.
Fifteen minutes later, Arthur Woodman, a senior, was playing catch with a friend in the schoolyard. Their first classes wouldn't start for another few minutes. His friend threw the baseball, and as Arthur reached out his glove to catch it, the northeast wing of the schoolhouse exploded, knocking him to the ground and stopping every clock in the large two-story building at 9:45. Classrooms heaved into the air and came crashing down in a thunderous avalanche of bricks, splintered wood and dead children. Through a thick white haze of powered plaster dust, Arthur Woodman could see smoke and flames rising from the debris.
The explosion was heard for miles. One of the first rescuers on the scene noticed a little girl's bloodstained coat and hat hanging limply from the branch of a nearby tree, and bits and pieces of children lying on the ground everywhere.
School Superintendent Huyck was in his office at the far end of the building and was thrown to the floor by the explosion. Nearly deafened by the blast, he ran from his office to see children jumping from windows and crawling through the yawning chasm where a brick wall had once stood. Just then he saw Kehoe, standing next to his car. As Huyck approached, he saw that Kehoe was holding a rifle.
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Kehoe turned, pointed the rifle at the backseat of his car and pulled the trigger. The shot detonated a pile of dynamite in the back seat, exploding the car and sending jagged pieces of metal flying in all directions. Kehoe was blown to bits; Huyck was killed instantly. Cleo Claton, an 8-year-old second grader who had just then staggered out of the collapsed schoolhouse, was struck by a flying piece of shrapnel and was killed instantly – twice a victim of Kehoe's mad cruelty.
Thirty-seven children and two teachers were killed that day. Two rescuers – including Huyck and the town's postmaster – were also killed when Kehoe detonated his car. Fourth-grader Beatrice Gibbs, who celebrated her 10th birthday the day before the explosion, died in the hospital on August 22 after three months of intense suffering. She had been pulled from the debris with two broken legs, a broken arm and numerous other serious injuries. Student Richard Fritz subcumbed to his lingering injuries just shy of a year after the bombing, bringing the total fatality count to 46 persons.
Among those seriously wounded by the twin blasts that horrible day in May were 53 students, three teachers, several rescuers and a bystander, Mrs. Joseph Perrone. She was standing nearly a block away watching the unfolding horror with her baby in her arms and holding another child by the hand, when Kehoe blew up his car. A jagged piece of flying metal struck her in the face, fracturing her skull and gouging out an eye – but she survived.
But there was one other death in Bath that day.
When authorities went to Kehoe's place, they found the farmhouse and barn totally destroyed, burned to the ground, and all the livestock dead. Kehoe had rigged his farm with dynamite, too, and set the timing devices to go off at the same time the school exploded.
In all the confusion, they didn't find Kehoe's wife Nellie until the next morning. Before he'd left for the school that day, he bashed her head in, loaded her dead body onto a hog cart, and pushed her over by the chicken coop, which he also blew up.
Investigators later found a five-word suicide note – a suicide sign, really – that Kehoe had attached to a fence. Carefully stenciled on a flat 12-inch plank were the words: "CRIMINALS ARE MADE. NOT BORN."
And that was his explanation. He wasn't born this way; it was somebody else's fault. It was somebody else's fault that he bashed his wife's brains in; it was somebody else's fault that he killed all those teachers and kids. It was somebody else's fault that he was a coward and a failure.