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This Is The �60s The show blends historic film footage, still images and animated graphic designs of the era with note-for-note live music renditions of the greatest rock hits of the decade, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14. $28, $38 and $48, with a VIP ticket for $75 that includes a pre-show to benefit First Night Worcester. The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St., Worcester. (877) 571-7469 or www.thehanovertheatre.org.
Film �Savages,� 3 and 8 p.m. Nov. 14. Free. College of the Holy Cross, Seelos Theater, 1 College St., Worcester. (508) 793-2455.
Music Citizen, State Champs, Candy Hearts, Northbound, Somos, Sleeping Patterns, 7 p.m. Nov. 14. $12. The Palladium, 261 Main St., Worcester. (800) 477-6849 or tickets.com.
Third Week Wonders Preschool Series: Fall Is Not Easy For children 3-5. Story, activity and naturalist-led walk, 10 a.m. Nov. 14. Massachusetts Audubon Society adult members, $5; adult nonmembers, $8; children, $2. Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, 414 Massasoit Road, Worcester. (508) 753-6087.
Kindergarten Information Session 8:30 a.m. Nov. 14. Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public School Library, 10 New Bond St., Worcester. (508) 854-8400.
Panel Discussion �Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Through Education: 10 Years of Lessons from Nativity Worcester.� Panelists include Tom Del Prete of Clark University, Mickey Fenzel of Loyola University, Ericka Fisher of College of the Holy Cross and the Rev. Jack Podsiadlo of New York Nativity Schools. 7 p.m. Nov. 14. College of the Holy Cross, Rehm Library, 1 College St., Worcester. (508) 799-0100.
Documentary and Panel Discussion �Children of Promise: The Legacy of Robert F. Kennedy,� 6 p.m. Nov. 14. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion focused on child welfare, education and juvenile justice issues. Worcester State University, Student Center Blue Lounge, 486 Chandler St., Worcester. (508) 929-8000.
Reverse Mortgage Program David Sutton of Continental Funding Corp. will speak about reverse mortgages, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Nov. 14. Registration required. Worcester Senior Center, 128 Providence St., Worcester. (508) 799-1232.
Brown Bag Concert Bryce Milano Quintet, noon Nov. 14. Free. Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St., Worcester.
Concert Siberian Virtuosi, 8 p.m. Nov. 14. $42; students, $15; children 18 and younger, $5. Tuckerman Hall, 10 Tuckerman St., Worcester. (508) 754-3231 or www.musicworcester.org.
Music Zircon and more, 9 p.m. Nov. 14. Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St., Worcester. (508) 363-1888.
Music AriBand, 9 p.m. Nov. 14. Nick�s Bar and Restaurant, 124 Millbury St., Worcester. (508) 753-4030.
Presentation �Witchcraft and Witch-Hunting in Early America,� by John Demos, 4 p.m. Nov. 14. Goddard Library, Clark University, 950 Main St., Worcester. (508) 793-7573.
Appearance Novelist Bill Roorbach will read from his newest book, �Life Among Giants,� 7 p.m. Nov. 14. Free. Alden Trust Auditorium, Assumption College, 500 Salisbury St., Worcester. (508) 767-7304.
Assumption College�s Italian Club�s first Pasta Olympics No more than three cooks each will enter their pasta dishes to be judged by their peers. Prize awarded. A maximum $20 budget is allowed for ingredients and preparation. 6 p.m. Nov. 14. Admission, $3. Assumption College, Taylor Dining Hall, 500 Salisbury St., Worcester. (508) 767-7173.
Adoptive Parent Group with Kristy Bouley and Deborah Henderlong. Share personal concerns and needs around adoptive parenting, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14. Faith Evangelical Free Church, 54 Hosmer St., Acton. www.mspcc.org.
Auburn Chamber Networking Breakfast 7:30-9 a.m. Nov. 14. Auburn/Webster Lodge of Elks, 754 Southbridge St., Auburn. (508) 753-2924, ext. 224. email@example.com
Senior Events Coffee, 9 a.m.; cards, 9:15 a.m.; Queen�s Knitting Group, 9:45 a.m. and lunch, 11:45 a.m. Wednesdays. Senior Center, 29 Forest St., North Brookfield. (508) 867-0220.
Trap Shoot 7 p.m. Wednesdays. North Brookfield Sportsmen�s Club, 20 Boynton Road, North Brookfield. Ammo is available.
Vocational Interest Program For middle-school students to explore a number of career and technical programs before deciding on what high school to attend, 3-5 p.m. Nov. 14. Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School, 1050 Westminster St., Fitchburg. To register, visit www.montytech.net.
Wachusett Chess Club meets 7-11 p.m. Wednesdays. Classroom C159, McKay Campus School, Fitchburg State University, 67 Rindge Road, Fitchburg. (978) 345-5011.
Play �August: Osage County,� 6 p.m. Nov. 14; 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15-17; 2 p.m. Nov. 18. Free. McKay Theater, Fitchburg State University, 160 Pearl St., Fitchburg. (978) 665-3347 or www.fitchburgstate.edu/cultural.
Exercise Classes Nia, 5:30 p.m. $12 drop-in; Tong Ren, 6:45 p.m. Free. Nov. 14. Simonds-Hurd Complementary Care Center, HealthAlliance Hospital � Burbank Campus, 275 Nichols Road, Fitchburg. (978) 665-5800.
Smoking Cessation Class 6 p.m. Nov.14. Free. Simonds-Hurd Complementary Care Center, HealthAlliance Hospital � Burbank Campus, 275 Nichols Road, Fitchburg. (978) 343-5048.
Financial Seminar �Straight Talk About Annuities� 6 p.m. Nov. 14. Workers� Credit Union, 815 Main St., Fitchburg. Reservations required. (978) 353-7175.
Taste of North Central Hosted by the Montachusett Opportunity Council, this event includes food, music and live and silent auctions. 5:30-8:30 p.m. Nov. 14. $30. CoCo Key Water Resort, 150 Royal Plaza Drive, Fitchburg. (978) 345-7040 or www.tasteofnorthcentral.org.
Third Annual All Staff Community Art Show featuring a wide range of medium and styles created by paras, librarians, office assistants, teachers and administrators, through Nov. 27. Opening reception, 3-5:30 p.m. Nov. 14. Fitchburg Art Museum, 25 Merriam Parkway, Fitchburg. (978) 345-4207.
Book Club �Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War,� by Tony Horwitz. 1-2 p.m. Nov. 14, Garden Room, Fitchburg Public Library, 610 Main St., Fitchburg. New members welcome. (978) 829-1780.
Film/ Discussion English studies professor Ben Raitlton will introduce the film �Thunderheart,� followed by discussion, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Nov. 14. Fitchburg State University, 610 Main St., Fitchburg. Sharon Bernard, (978) 829-1790.
Festival of Trees featuring trees, wreaths, themed baskets, quilted items, wood crafted items, dollhouses and more to be raffled to benefit the Gardner Museum, through Dec. 1. Holiday coffee social, 10 a.m.-noon Nov. 14. Hours for viewing: 1-4 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays; 1-7 p.m. Fridays; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Dec.1 with drawing at 2 p.m. $3; children 12 and younger with adult, free. The Gardner Museum, 28 Pearl St., Gardner. (978) 632-3277 or www.gardnermuseuminc.com.
Art Tea Chef Kathey St. John Richard, 4 p.m. Nov. 14. Free. The Cultural Center at Eagle Hill, 242 Old Petersham Road, Hardwick. (413) 477-6746 or www.centerateaglehill.org.
Knitting 7 p.m. Wednesdays. Thayer Memorial Library, 717 Main St., Lancaster. (978) 368-8928.
Literacy Fair with Dr. Martin T. Feldman Children�s Room, Leominster Public Library, Project Apples and local schools and day care centers to celebrate a night of crafts, fun and literacy, 6 p.m. Nov. 14. City Hall, 25 West St., Leominster. (978) 534-7522, ext. 4.
Financial Seminar �Straight Talk About Annuities� 6 p.m. Nov. 14. Workers� Credit Union, 603 Massachusetts Ave., Lunenburg. Reservations required. (978) 353-7175.
Story Time 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Millbury Public Library, 128 Elm St., Millbury. (508) 865-1181.
Book Talk �Toto the Tornado Kitten� by Jonathan Hall, 4:15 p.m. Nov. 14. Free hot dog, please donate pet food for area shelter. Millbury Public Library, 128 Elm St., Millbury. (508) 865-1181.
Open Mic Bill McCarthy and local musicians, 8 p.m. Wednesdays. Hotel Belfont, 11 South Main St., Millbury. www.myspace.com/OpenMicWorld.
Millbury Historical Society Museum Store Open 6-8 p.m. Nov. 14 and 9-11 a.m. Nov. 29. Asa Waters� Mansion, 123 Elm St., Millbury.
Bingo 1 and 6 p.m. Nov. 14. Council on Aging, 1 River St., Millbury. (508) 865-9247.
Flu Clinic 9-11 a.m. Nov. 14. Free by appointment. Council on Aging, 1 River St., Millbury. (508) 865-9247.
Toto the Tornado Kitten 4:15 p.m. Nov. 14. Millbury Public Library, 128 Elm St., Millbury. (508) 865-1181.
Mother Goose on the Loose for children birth to 2 with caregivers. 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays. Registration required. Northboro Free Library, 34 Main St., Northboro. (508) 393-5025.
Country Club Children in Grades 3-5 are invited to learn about Armenia. 4:30-5:30 p.m. Nov. 14. Free. Registration required. Northboro Free Library, 34 Main St., Northboro. (508) 393-5025.
Grade 5 and 6 Book Club For children in Grades 5 and 6, �Charlie Joe Jackson�s Guide to Not Reading,� by Tommy Greenwald. 6 p.m. Nov. 14. Registration required. Northboro Free Library, 34 Main St., Northboro. (508) 393-5025, ext. 4.
Reading Ambassador�s Book Club For children in Grades 7 and older, �Rival,� by Sara Bennett Wealer. 7 p.m. Nov. 14. Registration required. Northboro Free Library, 34 Main St., Northboro. (508) 393-5025, ext. 4.
Horn of Plenty Cupcakes for children in Grades 1-4. 4 p.m. Nov. 14. Putnam Public Library, 225 Kennedy Drive, Putnam. Registration is required. (860) 963-6826 or www.putnamlibrary.org.
Shrewsbury Historical Society Meeting �Outstanding American Quilts and Coverlets Since 1620,� by Henry Callan, 7 p.m. Nov. 14. Free. 1830 Brick Schoolhouse, Church Road, Shrewsbury. (774) 230-5826.
Friends of the Southboro Library Meeting 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14. Southboro Library, 25 Main St., Southboro. (508) 485-5031.
Woman in Business Luncheon Guest speaker is attorney Karen Davis, who will discuss the importance of having a will, when it�s time to consider a trust and how to avoid probate court, noon Nov. 14. $16; members, $14. T.J. O�Brien�s, 407 Main St., Sturbridge. (508) 764-1657 or www.wibsturbridge.org.
Office Hours State Rep. Matthew A. Beaton (R) Shrewsbury will be available to meet with constituents who have any questions or concerns. 9-10 a.m. Nov. 14. Westboro Senior Center, 4 Rogers Road, Westboro.
American Red Cross Blood Drive 2-8 p.m. Nov. 14. St . Luke�s Church, 70 West Main St., Westboro. All donors will be entered into a drawing to win a $50 Thanksgiving dinner gift card. www.redcrossblood.org


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Transform your workout experience with the STOTT PILATES® V2 Max Reformer Level 1 DVD. The level one DVD from STOTT PILATES® provides a flexible workout to maximize your athletic performance and is Led by Master Instructor Trainer Moira Merrithew. This pilates DVD promotes mental, physical and social health to turn you into a stronger, more flexible athlete.
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Peacock, R.E., Hosgood, G., Swindells, K.L. and Smart, L.ORCID: 0000-0003-4776-2849 (2015) A randomized, controlled clinical trial of intravenous lipid emulsion as an adjunctive treatment for permethrin toxicosis in cats. Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care, 25 (5). pp. 597-605.
Haworth, M.D., Hosgood, G., Swindells, K.L. and Mansfield, C.S. (2014) Diagnostic accuracy of the SNAP and Spec canine pancreatic lipase tests for pancreatitis in dogs presenting with clinical signs of acute abdominal disease. Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care, 24 (2). pp. 135-143.
Peacock, R.E., Hosgood, G., Swindells, K.L. and Smart, L.ORCID: 0000-0003-4776-2849 (2013) Aplysia giganteatoxicosis in 72 dogs in Western Australia. Australian Veterinary Journal, 91 (7). pp. 292-295.
Cullimore, A., Lester, G.D. and Swindells, K.L. (2013) Tiger snake (Notechis scutatus) envenomation in a horse. Australian Veterinary Journal, 91 (9). pp. 381-384.
Jacoby-Alner, T.E., Stephens, N., Davern, K.M., Balmer, L., Brown, S.G.A. and Swindells, K. (2011) Histopathological analysis and in situ localisation of Australian tiger snake venom in two clinically envenomed domestic animals. Toxicon, 58 (4). pp. 304-314.
Ong, R.K.C., Raisis, A.L. and Swindells, K.L. (2010) Candida albicans peritonitis in a dog. Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care, 20 (1). pp. 143-147.
Ong, R.K.C., Swindells, K. and Mansfield, C.S. (2010) Prospective determination of the specificity of a commercial snake venom detection kit in urine samples from dogs and cats. Australian Veterinary Journal, 88 (6). pp. 222-224.
See, A.M., Swindells, K., Sharman, M., Haack, K.L., Goodman, D., Delaporta, A., Robertson, I.ORCID: 0000-0002-4255-4752 and Foster, S.F. (2009) Activated coagulation times in normal cats and dogs using MAX-ACT tubes. Australian Veterinary Journal, 87 (7). pp. 292-295.
Ong, R.K.C., Lenard, Z.M., Swindells, K.L. and Raisis, A.L. (2009) Extradural haematoma secondary to brown snake (Pseudonajaspecies) envenomation. Australian Veterinary Journal, 87 (4). pp. 152-156.
See, A.M., McGill, S.E., Raisis, A.L. and Swindells, K.L. (2009) Toxicity in three dogs from accidental oral administration of a topical endectocide containing moxidectin and imidacloprid. Australian Veterinary Journal, 87 (8). pp. 334-337.
Corfield, G.S., Connor, L.M., Swindells, K.L., Johnson, V.S. and Raisis, A.L. (2008) Intussusception following methiocarb toxicity in three dogs. Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care, 18 (1). pp. 68-74.
See, A.M., James, F., Raisis, A.L. and Swindells, K. (2007) Management of acute renal failure in small animal practice (Review). Australian Veterinary Practitioner, 37 (4). pp. 140-157.
Swindells, K.L., Russell, N.J., Angles, J.M. and Foster, S.F. (2006) Four cases of snake envenomation responsive to death adder antivenom. Australian Veterinary Journal, 84 (1-2). pp. 22-29.


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See also: How to Add or Remove Contact from Reject List on Samsung Galaxy S3
In this phone, you can also block certain contact number from sending you text messages wit ease by adding the number into the spam message list. This of course will useful if you want to stop somebody sending a message to you.
How to block spam text messages?
To do so kindly follow the steps listed below:
- Go to Apps through Home screen.
- Tap Messaging.
- Tap the Menu key.
- On pop up menu select Settings.
- Enable Spam Settings under Spam message settings section. When the checkbox next to this option is ticked means the option is enabled.
- Tap Register number as spam.
- Tap Add (+) icon to add the number.
- Enter the required phone number or you can tap Contact icon.
- You can pick up the required contact you want by searching or from logs or contacts.
- Tap the required contact.
- Tap Save button to save the changes.
- Now you should see the selected number has been added to the register number as spam list.
- Tap Home button to return to the standby mode.
By knowing on how to block certain phone number or contact from sending you a message, now you don't need to worry receiving a message from the person you don't want. So, have you ever received unwanted message then block the number using this methods?


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Towards Truly White LED Lighting
Adding platinum atoms tunes the color of emitted light.
The Science
Discovered that the insertion of platinum atoms into the chain-like backbone of certain polymers can be used to tune the energy levels of the material and enables light emission from the polymer that appears 'white' to the human eye.
The Impact
The ability to tune a family of organic polymers to emit light of different colors is a key step toward a new kind of organic light-emitting diode, or OLED, that can emit truly white light while improving efficiency and lowering cost for the LED-based light bulbs and displays of the future.
Existing white OLEDs—like those used in current cell phones and smart phones—are not truly white. These displays use a combination of organic polymers that emit different colors arranged in pixels of red, green and blue, combined to make white light. Research led by the University of Utah has succeeded in synthesizing and characterizing light-emitting polymers containing platinum atoms within the polymer chain. These polymers show both intrinsic fluorescence and phosphorescence emission bands that naturally combine to appear 'white' to the human eye. Adding a heavy atom such as platinum into the chain structure of the polymer alters the energy levels of the material and enables light emission (yellow to orange) via a process called phosphorescence from a normally inaccessible "triplet" energetic state of the polymer. When combined with the normally observed fluorescence emission (violet to blue) from the "singlet" energetic state of the polymer, the platinum-containing polymer exhibits a combined luminescence which can be tuned by varying the amount of platinum atoms in the polymer chains. Platinum atoms, because of their higher atomic mass, facilitate the formation of "triplet" states via a process called spin-orbit coupling. The length of the polymer chain between the platinum atoms determines the rate of ultrafast conversion of "singlet" state to "triplet" state and hence the amounts of fluorescent and phosphorescent light emitted. Having demonstrated that multiple colors can be simultaneously emitted from one polymer with UV light stimulation, the next step in the development of simpler, more efficient white OLEDs is to demonstrate the polymer's light emission characteristics when stimulated by the injection of electrical charges.
Valy Vardeny
University of Utah
Basic Research: DOE, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, the National Science Foundation (electroabsorption (EA) studies) and the Laboratory Directed Research and Development program at Los Alamos National Laboratory (quantum chemical calculations); C.-X.S. was supported by NSFC grant program of China and Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities.
C. –X. Sheng, S. Singh, A Gambetta, T. Drori, M. Tong, S. Tretiak, and V. Vardeny; "Ultrafast Intersystem-crossing in Platinum-containing π-Conjugated Polymers with Tunable Spin-Orbit Coupling", Scientific Reports, 2013, 3, 2653. [DOI: 10.1038/srep02653]
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Litttle League Minors
08-27 Greater Pine Island Little League Minors games are played at 6 p.m. on Field #1 and Field #2. All are welcome to come and cheer on the players. more »»
Island Tai Chi Club
08-27 The Island Tai Chi Club meets at the Fishers of Men Luberan Church in St. James City from 3 to 5 p.m. and from 6 to 8 p.m. For more information, call Frank Tuma at 283-9155. more »»
SJCCA Exercise Group
08-27 Join the exercise group at the St. James City Civic Association building located at Fourth Avenue and Lemon Street from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Al are welcome. For more infnormation, call Jodee Nelson at 283-4790. more »»
Coffee Break - Women's Bible Study
08-27 The First Baptist Church of Pine Island located across the street from Pine Island Elementary School will host a women's bible study from 9 to 11 a.m. For more information, call the church office at 283-1737 or visit fbcopi. more »»
Friends of the Library meeting
08-27 The Friends of the Pine Island Public Library will meet in the library meeting room at 3:15 p.m. All are welcome to attend. more »»
Tai Chi classes
08-27 Tai Chi classes will be offered at the Fishers of Men Lutheran Church at from 3 to 5 p.m. and again at 6 to 8 p.m. For more information, call Frank Tuma at 283-9155. more »»
Exercise class
08-27 Free ladies exercise classes will be held at the First Baptist Church of Pine Island located across from Pine Island Elementary School from 11 a.m. to noon. All are welcome to attend. For more information, call the church at 283-1737 or Marilyn McManus at 282-9148. more »»
Guided Bridge bidding and play
08-27 Beginning at noon, beginner bridge players are invited to improve their skills during a guded bridge bidding and play at the St. James City Civic Center in St. James City. This instruction is free to members of the St. James City Civic Association, the cost for non-members is $2 per session. more »»
Family Storytime
08-27 The Pine Island Public Library will host Family Storytime at 10:30 a.m. This program is for the entire family and lasts about 30 minutes. To register, call 533-4350. more »»
Sunshine Synchro Splash
08-27 Practice for Sunshine Synchro Splash will take place at the Pine Island Public Pool from 5:45 to 8 p.m. more »»
AA Meetings
08-27 Sunday: 7:30 p.m., Methodist Church; Monday: 7 p.m., Methodist Church; Tuesday: 9:30 a.m., Fishers of Men Lutheran Church; Wednesday: 10 a.m., Fishers of Men Lutheran Church; Wednesday: 7:30 p.m., Matlacha Community Center; Thursday: 8 p.m., Fishers of Men Lutheran Church; Friday: 10 a.m. more »»
Alden Pines Ladies League
08-27 The Alden Pines Ladies League is seeking new members. The league plays on Thursday with a 7:45 a.m. shot-gun start. Players are expected to be ready to play at 7:30 a.m. A GHIN handicap is required to compete for prizes. The league competes for NET prizes only. more »»
Museum of the Islands
08-27 Located at 5728 Sesame Drive at the Center (next to library). Winter hours: Open Tuesday to Saturday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday 1 to 4 p.m. Summer hours are Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.. Tours are available, call 283-1525. more »»
Pine Island Community Church
08-27 The Thrift Store hours are from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. more »»
Pine Island Food Pantry
08-27 The food pantry is housed in the Life Center of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church on Stringfellow Road in Bokeelia. The pantry, an equal opportunity organization, serves residences of Pine Island and greater Matlacha. Open Mondays and Thursdays from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m., closed on holidays. more »»
Pine Island Pool
08-27 Sunday, 1 to 5:45 p.m.; Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 11 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m. to 8:45 p.m.; and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. The pool is located at 5675 Sesame Drive. Call 239-283-2220. more »»
Pine Island Public Library
08-27 The Pine Island Public library is located in the Pine Island Center at 10700 Russell Road. The phone number is 533-4350. Library hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Wednesday, noon to 8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Monday, closed. more »»
Tai Chi Club
08-27 The Tai Chi Club meets Tuesday and Thursday from 3-5 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. at the Fishers of Men Lutheran Church. For information contact Frank Tuma at 283-9155. more »»
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ALANA MITCHELL has been a highly sought after beauty expert in the skincare industry for over a decade. Having grown up in the midst of the beauty industry where her parents have owned beauty salons and day spas for over thirty years, Alana Mitchell opened her first signature day spa, Spa Alana, in Dana Point, CA in 2005. There, she not only created unique and highly effective treatment regimens in her own spa but she extended her care and personalized touch to her online boutique, called Skincare by Alana.
Since its launch in 2008, Skincare by Alana has specialized in offering customers around the world hard-to-find products that are typically only available in-spa, and which Alana has carefully vetted. An advocate of natural and organic products, Alana additionally creates hands-on instructional and educational videos for many of her products.
Skincare by Alana offers highly trained staff to guide customers via telephone, helping customers ongoing to achieve their skincare goals. With sales that have grown over 400% in the last four years, Skincare by Alana is continually expanding and now offers over 200 brands, including Rhonda Allison, Eminence Organic Skincare, Image Skincare and Epicuren.
Here are Alana's secrets that explain the growth in her business that can offer help to you:
"One of the ways I have managed to stay in a growth stage is through innovation and forward thinking. For example, I was the first in the beauty industry to offer customized video tutorials for most of the products and brands that are available on my site. Also, I was the first to launch an Iphone App," said Alana.
Furthermore said Alana, "with every purchase on skincarebyalana.com, customer's have the ability to fill out a survey which lets us know what our site is missing! Listening to customers with regards to site functionality and new ideas, and what brands we should carry has been a huge part of our growth!"
"Obtaining my Bachelors Degree in Marketing from Biola University in La Mirada, California had a significant impact in the shaping of my business strategies! A huge concept that has stuck with me throughout my business was taught to me by Professor Les Harman, who stressed a servant-based attitude when approaching customers. Ultimately it is always about serving my customers wants and needs, not mine" as Alana reveals.
After obtaining her Bachelors, she went on to complete her Esthetician hours at Career Academy of Beauty in Anaheim.
Alana also gives major credit to her Mom and Dad. They are both entrepreneurs: having achieved the title of successful business owners. Her Mother was also in Los Angeles real estate for years! The both of them poured their knowledge into Alana.
Alan stresses that "there are a number of things that set me apart from other spas in the area, my huge product selection has attracted customers both near and far. Also adding to the success is Spa Alana and my team of estheticians, which currently consists of about 15 people in house, all of whom not only have a lot of higher education, but have also been personally trained by myself!"
Alana also researches and tests every product she sells personally in a variety of ways, magazines, beauty trade shows, customer recommendations and by her own intuition.
When asked about how she provides a personal experience online Alana said, "It sounds like an oxymoron, offering a personalized experience over a website, but we believe we are starting to figure it out. Offering how to Videos has really been a key factor in making our customers feel like they are gaining personalized help. Also, we encourage phone calls over web orders! Yes, we would rather take an order over the phone than online! Most websites discourage phone calls. We have licensed beauty experts and estheticians standing by to help customers personally over the phone. Later this year, we will be offering personalized live video chat over the phone with customer service agents so that a person anywhere in the world can have their skin analyzed via live video chat."
This Biola University Graduate absolutely loves the small town feel and has found many of her favorite "small town" qualities in Southern Orange County. Alana recognizes that her community is the best place to start for building her business. Her husband, Jared, and her 3-year old boy, enjoy visiting a number of the local parks, and absolutely love getting together with friends to enjoy BBQing, the beautiful ocean, and the amazing weather this community has to offer!
For more information go to www.skincarebyalana.com
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Some users seem to have problems to upgrade madsonic (from subsonic or a previous madsonic version), especially if it is a .war package.
To help some of them, I made a bash script for updating to the latest madsonic version.
My script works in ubuntu, but it could work for other distros.
Features :
- backup of the /var/subsonic folder in /var/subsonicYYMMDDhhmm
- java 7 install (with package list update and upgrade)
- madsonic .deb install
- madsonic .war update
- each feature is optionnal
Here is the code :
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echo "######Madsonic update utility######"
echo "This script works for ubuntu"
echo "You should be in root mode for it to work"
echo "Yes or no questions are in capital : Y or N"
# Stop subsonic deamon
echo "First, we stop subsonic deamon"
service subsonic stop
# Prompt for backup
echo "Do you want to backup your subsonic folder before continuing ? IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!!!! (default=Y) (Y/N)"
read reply
if [ "$reply" = N ]
then echo "OK OK, but don't complain then..."
else echo "Your subsonic database (only the /var/subsonic folder) will be saved in /var/subsonicYYMMDDhhmm"
cp -R /var/subsonic /var/subsonic"$(date +%y%m%d%k%M)"
# This part makes sure java 7 is installed
echo "Your java version is :"
java -version
echo "Java 7 is needed for madsonic (your version number should be starting with 1.7). If you can't install it, make sure to install a madsonic compatible edition (SE), and answer yes to the next question."
echo "Do you hava java 7 installed ? (default=Y) (Y/N)"
read reply
if [ "$reply" = "N" ]
# Package list update
then apt-get update
# Prompt for package upgrades
echo "Before installing java, do you want to upgrade your packages ? (default=Y) (Y/N)"
read reply
if [ "$reply" = "N" ]
then echo "Ok, skipping package upgrade !"
else apt-get upgrade
# Java installation
apt-get install openjdk-7-jre
else echo "Ok, we skip the java install..."
# Prompt for debian madsonic
echo "Do you have the latest madsonic DEBIAN package ? (default=Y) (Y/N) "
read reply
if [ "$reply" = "N" ]
# This part installs the madsonic .deb package
echo "paste the link to the madsonic deb package"
read deblink
echo "which build number ?"
read debno
wget "$deblink" -O madsonic"$debno".deb
dpkg -i madsonic"$debno".deb
else echo "Ok, we skip the debian package install..."
# This part makes sure this is the latest version of madsonic
echo "Is your madsonic the latest version ? (default=Y) (Y/N)"
read reply
if [ "$reply" = "N" ]
echo "Make sure you installed a .deb package before, because the war packages doesn't contain everything !!!!!"
echo "Are you sure you want to install the latest .war package ? (default=N) (Y/N)"
read reply
if [ "$reply" = "Y" ]
# This part updates madsonic with the latest war package
echo "Paste the link to the madsonic war package"
read madlink
echo "Which build number is it?"
read buildno
wget "$madlink" -O madsonic"$buildno".zip
unzip -o madsonic"$buildno".zip -d /usr/share/subsonic
chmod +x /usr/share/subsonic/*
else echo "Ok, we skip the .war update..."
else echo "Ok, we skip the .war update..."
# Start subsonic deamon
echo "Madsonic starting again..."
service subsonic start
echo "Thank you for installing madsonic !"
Link to download : http://dl.free.fr/mru6yayUZ
- copy this file to any folder
- start the script with sudo :
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sudo sh madsonicupdate.sh
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Following the Grid RowActions plugin I turned out first version of CellActions.
To clarify:
RowActions should be used when we need to operate on a whole grid record.
CellActions should be used when we need to operate on a single grid cell.
You can use one, another or both of them in one grid.
Demo: http://cellactions.extjs.eu
Note: Code is really beta in this case, not fully documented and not for general production use. I'll give it some lifetime here and then I'll polish it.
Code is fully documented and well commented now.


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Wikipedia tells me that six-foot-five Trinidadian Kieron Pollard is "an aggressive all-rounder." I'll say. The above video comes from Wednesday's third game in a best-of-five between Australia and the West Indies.
Here Glenn Maxwell, the Aussie batsman, thumps one off Sunil Narine. The ball looks like it's headed over the boundary to concuss a helpless spectator. But then Pollard leaps, and—ye gods—that ball is somehow in his hand. That must have hurt. (Think of his poor metacarpals!) Not as much as the outcome of the game, though: Australia won by 39 runs to clinch the series in its third match.


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In a spray of confetti and a hoisting of mugs of butterbeer, Universal Studios executives said Tuesday that the company will spend several hundred million dollars to build a Harry Potter attraction inside its existing Hollywood theme park, mimicking the success of a similar park in Orlando, Fla.
The attraction will create more than 1,000 jobs at Universal and even more indirectly from an expected boost in tourism, officials said.
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At the same time, Orlando's Wizarding World of Harry Potter will get an expansion. Since the Harry Potter attraction opened in Florida in June of last year, attendance has jumped by about 50 percent.
"It was a game changer for us and frankly for Orlando," Universal Studios president Ron Meyer told reporters after the event. "The expansion in Orlando will make it that much more of a must-see, and we'll have the same experience here."
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Executives did not immediately detail their plans for the Hollywood park, but Meyer said there was enough room to expand.
"We're not landlocked," Meyer said. "We're (on) 400 acres on this lot and 200 of them are still not developed."
Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said he was told that a live concert venue, Gibson Amphitheatre, would be scrapped to make way for the attraction. He said it would open around 2014, but officials did not give a date.
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Comcast Corp. bought a majority stake in NBCUniversal in January in a $13.5 billion deal. It bought out its 50 percent partner in the Universal Orlando theme park, The Blackstone Group, for $1.03 billion in June.
In the nine months through September, its theme-park revenue rose 33 percent from a year ago to $1.49 billion, while operating cash flow jumped 61 percent to $644 million.
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147. The Artist-Troll War 4: GOOD ART TRIUMPHANT
Yay, the story is finished! Read PART ONE, TWO & THREE
This ended up taking longer than I had planned and was a lot more work than I envisaged. I'm glad I attempted a long-form story, but I don't see myself doing it again anytime soon. I'm too spoilt with the Zen Pencils format of being able to change styles and subject matter with each new shorter comic.
The theme of internet trolls has been on my mind for awhile now. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, comment boards … is it just me or is the internet being suffocated by negativity and hate? Not necessarily directed at my work but just in general. Maybe I'm visiting the wrong sites but everybody thinks they're an expert and can't wait to tell you you're wrong, or something sucks and why the hell did that person even bother trying?
It's time to choose a side. Are you on the side who takes the easy option? The troll. The armchair critic slinging snarky quips behind the safety of a keyboard. Firing sarcastic bullets at those in the trenches. Or are you a creator? Someone who makes something. Someone who lets themselves be vulnerable in front of an audience, who contributes something new and hopeful to an increasingly dark and depressing world. Choose. Which side are you on?
And listen, I know my work ain't the greatest thing since sliced bread. I'm relatively new at being a professional cartoonist and I'm sure Zen Pencils isn't for everyone. But I'm all in – 110%. I'm going to continue to learn and (hopefully) improve and I'm extremely lucky to have a loyal group of fans who have supported and encouraged me every step of the way.
I'll leave you with this wonderful letter from the incomparable Kurt Vonnegut which a reader (thanks Akshaya) recently posted on the ZP Facebook page (I got the transcript from Letters of Note and I adapted a similar quote from Vonnegut nearly two years ago). Students at Xavier High School had to write their favourite authors asking them to come visit their school. Vonnegut was the only author to reply:
"Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:
I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don't make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.
What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience BECOMING, to find out what's inside you, TO MAKE YOUR SOUL GROW.
Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you're Count Dracula.
Here's an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don't do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but RHYMED. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don't tell anybody what you're doing. Don't show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?
Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what's inside you, and you have made your soul grow.
God bless you all!
– Kurt Vonnegut"
Thanks for your patience while I tried something a bit different. Next comic, we'll get back to more cartoon quotes from inspirational folks!


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Chef Andrew Zimmern has been to the far corners of the globe. He's known for eating everything from weird animal parts to the oddest regional dishes. And yet, what he couldn't stomach, apparently, was a stay at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay.
Zimmern, host of the Travel Channel's"Bizarre Foods," unleashed about the hotel on Twitter Monday morning, making it quite plain how he felt about his stay there.
"Hyatt in Chesapeake, guys come into room without knocking, spills not cleaned for 24 hours in halls, food doesn't match menu... And on & on," he wrote.
He also said the following, his swear word bleeped: "Pet peeve: [Bleep]y hotels masquerading as good ones. All hat and no cowboy. Good service, clean room at any price level is what matters."
Zimmern, it seems, was staying at the Maryland resort, to do some of his signature adventurous eating for his show. Over the weekend he grilled eel on Hoopers Isle. He also might have met up with a muskrat skinner and cook. He checked out the regional crab scene.
He had high praise for Old Salty's in Fishing Creek, too, calling it "restaurant paradise."
And yet, the hotel, which is supposedly luxurious, with swimming pools, a golf course and all the trimmings, didn't pass muster.
Seeing Zimmern's Tweets, a Hyatt official soon messaged him back, asking if he wanted a duty manager from the hotel to give him a call. "Thank-you very much for your feedback," the online concierge wrote him. "and we apologize for this experience at our HR Chesapeake Bay."
Zimmern didn't want a call from the duty manager. "Thx, no need," he wrote back. "Bad days happen. Seemed overwhelmed by triathlon and some weddings ..."
By lunchtime, 14 people had re-tweeted Zimmern's main complaint about the hotel.
Zimmern was just in Baltimore in May, headlining the Foodie Experience at the Hippodrome.
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Aria is the only hotel casino within CityCenter. It is located in the rear of the complex. It's a decent walk from the strip.
I was under the impression Aria would open at 11:21pm on Dec 16. Fireworks got underway about that time. However, doors did not open until shortly before midnight. This was the first opening I've attended where the doors did not open immediately following the fireworks.
The display was short, but fun to see.
Next, we waited... and waited...
Then, we were allowed to enter in small groups just before midnight.
We headed straight for the casino once inside.


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Militants in Africa's top oil producer are marking President Umaru Yar'Adua's first full year in power with fresh pipeline bombings, underscoring the difficulties that civilian rulers have had calming strife linked to Nigeria's notoriously weak and corrupt democratic system.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta's (MEND) latest attack – a nighttime bombing on a Royal Dutch Shell PLC operated pipeline – helped push global oil prices to $133 per barrel.
That explosion, the latest of nearly half a dozen in recent weeks, has raised fears of widening attacks on other oil facilities in Nigeria, the 4th-largest supplier of oil to the United States.
"This attack has passed a strong message to the government," said MEND in an e-mail to the Christian Science Monitor, "since the attack was dedicated to their failure" to bring stability and equality to the oil-rich but dirt-poor Niger Delta region.
Since their formation just over two years ago, MEND has repeatedly attacked oil infrastructure and kidnapped foreign oil workers, cutting Nigeria's crude exports by as much as 25 percent and helping push global oil prices to new highs.
The media-savvy group says it is fighting on behalf of the people of the Niger Delta for greater local control of Nigeria's crude export earnings, but most observers now say such militant groups are more interested in criminal extortion, competing – and sometime colluding – with government officials at all levels for personal profit.
"What is really new here is the element of criminality that has come into the struggle of the Niger Delta," says human rights activist Anyakwee Nsirimovu, based in Nigeria's oil capital Port Harcourt. "You can hardly hear anybody talking about the core issues of the delta, like underdevelopment, bad governance, and all that."
One year later, scant progress
When he took office one year ago, Yar'Adua promised to urgently tackle the crisis in the delta.
In a statement released this week, he said that "the Administration has reached an advanced stage in the discussions with political and community leaders, as well as the militants, in the efforts to find a lasting solution," adding that "the issue of criminality and bunkering has to be separated from the genuine political agitation."
But analysts in the delta throw cold water on such claims. They say that no new high-level talks have materialized, as promised under Yar'Adua, and that discussions undertaken in the last year have not included the most prominent armed group, MEND.
"We have seen these things before. So it is really annoying when I hear people who want to call a big conference to discuss the crisis in the delta, because what do they want to discuss? Everybody knows what needs to be done," says analyst Dimieari Von Kemedi, who says the people of the delta need to see more development come from the region's vast oil wealth..
With a generous supply of AK-47s, many so-called militants of the Niger Delta are learning the lessons of their leaders and using arms and violence to enrich themselves. Guns that last year were used to help rig elections and terrorize expatriate workers are now being used to kidnap school children, raid wedding receptions, and rob banks.
Mr. Nsirimovu says his organization has monitored every election in the delta since the return to civilian rule in 1999 and every one of those polls has been rigged, with violence and the conscription of poor, armed youths.
Public office in Nigeria and in the Niger Delta in particular, which gets a greater share of the federal purse, is an opportunity for self-enrichment on a vast scale, he adds.
Former militant leader Dokubo Asari used to be aligned with MEND and would preach to rag-tag youths a similar message for a greater share of the oil wealth to go to the region that produces the oil. But Asari and other militant leaders have been "settled" during the Yar'Adua years, paid off with undisclosed sums of cash to retire quietly from their campaign, analysts say.
Lucky Akaruese, professor of philosophy at the University of Port Harcourt, says that the lessons youths are learning is that arms and violence are rewarded with cash and status.
Armed youths learn crime pays
"Those who are peaceful are pushed to the background," says Mr. Akaruese. "But those who acquire arms – they are the ones who get respect."
But the rag-tag youths furnished with arms, whether by militants or politicians, are not sharing in the riches of their leaders. Armed gangs now kidnap wives and children of rich Nigerian businessmen and stage armed raids on the homes of the elite, even raiding their fridges and cupboards.
"It has become so difficult to know who is fighting for the Niger Delta cause here and who is just fighting for their stomach," said Nsirimovu.
The solution, many say, is strengthening democracy, investing in development, and creating jobs.
"If there were more jobs then everything would calm down," says Purity Kemmer, a trader at a waterfront market in Port Harcourt, which is a regular flash point for violence. "You know this crisis is because people are angry. They have no jobs – if the jobs were there, there would be no crisis."


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"But let us not delude ourselves. Those who may read it—and I would advise everyone to read it—are not going to conclude that what is needed is more discussion. They are going to conclude that Israel's settlement policy is a disaster."-- Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie on the Israel advocacy 'David Project's' primer on Israeli settlements.
- Palestinians to ask that Obama personally kickstart peace process - Palestinian Authority representative says he will tell Washington that Palestinians have no preconditions to returning to the negotiating table, want U.S. recognition of Palestinian state. (Haaretz+)
- Palestinian Authority official: Israel continues to withhold tax revenue - Israel is still withholding Palestinian tax revenue breaching the 2004 Paris agreement, said PA Finance Ministry Spokesman Rami Mahdawi. "[This] confirms that Israel is going on with its piracy on Palestinian money." (Maan)
- Netanyahu: Like North Korean example, sanctions won't stop Iran - Speaking Monday at the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency meeting in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said that the first challenge for his government is dealing with the threat from Iran. "The historic desire to eradicate the Jewish people has come back with full force." (Israel Hayom)
- Hundreds of prisoners launch solidarity hunger strike - Around 800 prisoners in Israeli jails launched a one day hunger strike on Tuesday to show solidarity with long-term hunger strikers, a prisoner group said. (Maan)
- Outcry over Israeli soldier's photo of boy in crosshairs - "Every Palestinian mother is concerned for her child ... because of the picture that is now known and seen worldwide," said PA spokeswoman Nour Odeh on Tuesday. (Maan)
- Public security minister admits police follow activists on Facebook - Yizhak Aharonvitch defended the practice in response to questions by Labor MKs Stav Shaffir and Merav Michaeli about the tactics police use against social justice protestors. (Haaretz+)
- Police suspect 'modesty squad' terrorized Beitar Illit - Two ultra-Orthodox men harass city's female residents for what they claim is unchaste behavior. (Ynet)
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Muscular dystrophy is a group of inherited, progressive muscle disorders. All forms cause progressive weakness and degeneration of the muscles that control movement. Some also affect the heart or other organs. Age of onset is between infancy to adulthood. The different forms include:
- Duchenne dystrophy, which is the most common
- Becker dystrophy, which is a milder form of Duchenne dystrophy
- Myotonic muscular dystrophy, which can begin in late adulthood
- Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, which affects the muscles of the face, shoulder blades, and upper arms
- Congenital muscular dystrophy, which is diagnosed on or near birth and results in overall muscle weakness
- Distal muscular dystrophy, which affects the distal muscles of the lower arms, hands, lower legs, and feet
- Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, which affects the muscles of the shoulders, upper-arms, and calf muscles
- Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, which affects the muscles around the hips and shoulders
- Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy, which affects swallowing and the ability to keep the eyes open
This condition is caused by defects in genes that control muscle development and function. In some cases, the genes are passed from parent to child. In other cases, the genetic mutation occurs spontaneously.
Risk Factors
Males are at increased risk for Duchenne dystrophy and Becker dystrophy. Factors that increase your chance of developing muscular dystrophy. Tell your doctor if you have any of these risk factors:
The risk of muscular dystrophy is increased if you have a family member with muscular dystrophy.
Each type of muscular dystrophy has its own unique symptoms. For example, the muscles that are affected may differ depending upon the type.
Symptoms common to most forms of muscular dystrophy may include:
Initial symptoms:
- Progressive weakening of muscles
- Enlargement of muscles as they weaken
- Muscle cramping
- Clumsiness
- Frequent falling and difficulty getting up
Later symptoms:
- Muscle contraction and stiffening
- Muscle deterioration
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Symptoms specific to Duchenne and Becker dystrophy include:
Initial symptoms:
- Usually muscles closest to the trunk become weak first. Then, muscles further away weaken as the disease advances.
- Enlargement of calf muscles as they weaken
Later symptoms
- Abnormally curved spine
- Respiratory infections
- Severe muscle deterioration, usually leading to use of a wheelchair
- Difficulty breathing
- Muscle contraction and stiffening—often severe
- Distortion of the body
- Reduced intelligence
Symptoms specific to myotonic muscular dystrophy include:
- Difficulty letting go after a handshake
- Reduced intelligence
- Excessive sleeping
Symptoms usually become worse over time. In many forms, life expectancy is shortened.
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done.
Your blood may be tested for evidence of muscle damage
A muscle biopsy will identify the type of muscular dystrophy
Your muscles and nerves may be tested. This can be done with:
There is no cure for muscular dystrophy. However, treatment may help improve the symptoms.
Treatment may consist of:
Physical Therapy and Exercise
Physical therapy and exercise can help prevent the muscles from permanently contracting and stiffening.
In earlier stages, wearing braces may improve your ability to move around. A back brace may slow curvature of the spine.
Medications may include:
- Corticosteroids to relieve muscle weakness in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Creatine supplements to reduce fatigue and increase strength
- Medications for heart problems in some cases
In severe cases, surgery may be needed to release muscles that are painfully tight. If there are heart problems, a pacemaker may be needed.
Muscular dystrophy is an inherited disease. Get genetic counseling if you are concerned about having a child with muscular dystrophy, especially if you:
- Have muscular dystrophy or a family history of the disease
- May be a carrier of the gene for muscular dystrophy
- Have a partner with a family history of the disease
Muscular Dystrophy Association http://www.mdausa.org
Muscular Dystrophy Family Foundation http://www.mdff.org
Canadian Institutes of Health Research http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca
Muscle Dystrophy Canada http://www.muscle.ca
Aartsma-Rus A, den Dunnen JT, et al. New insights in gene-derived therapy: the example of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Ann NY Acad Sci. 2010;1214:199-212.
Amato AA, Griggs RC. Overview of the muscular dystrophies. Handb Clin Neurol. 2011;101:1-9.
Congenital muscular dystrophy. Muscular Dystrophy Association website. Available at: http://www.mda.org/disease/congenital-muscular-dystrophy. Accessed May 11, 2016.
Distal muscular dystrophy. Muscular Dystrophy Association website. Available at: http://mda.org/disease/distal-muscular-dystrophy. Accessed May 11, 2016.
Emery-dreifuss muscular dystrophy. Muscular Dystrophy Association website. Available at: http://mda.org/disease/emery-dreifuss-muscular-dystrophy. Accessed May 11, 2016.
Escolar DM, Hache LP, et al. Randomized, blinded trial of weekend vs daily prednisone in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Neurology. 2011;77(5):444-452.
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. Muscular Dystrophy Association website. Available at: http://mda.org/disease/fsh-muscular-dystrophy. Accessed May 11, 2016.
Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy. Muscular Dystrophy Association website. Available at: http://mda.org/disease/limb-girdle-muscular-dystrophy. Accessed May 11, 2016.
NINDS muscular dystrophy information page. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke website. Available at: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/md/md.htm. Updated March 4, 2016. Accessed May 11, 2016.
Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy. Muscular Dystrophy Association website. Available at: http://mda.org/disease/oculopharyngeal-muscular-dystrophy/overview. Accessed May 11, 2016.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: John C. Keel, MD
- Review Date: 05/2018
- Update Date: 10/14/2013


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Frank Joyce had to keep his funeral home in Waltham open a lot later than planned Wednesday night. Larry Reynolds's wake was supposed to last for six hours. But it took more than nine hours to get everybody through the line.
"At least a couple of thousand people," Joyce said. "They just kept coming."
It seemed like half of them returned to Waltham on Thursday morning, to St. Jude Church, where Larry Reynolds was dispatched from this world with the two things that embodied him: kind words and beautiful music.
A Waltham cop, perplexed by the size of the crowd that spilled out of the church onto Main Street, tugged at a photographer and asked, "Who was this guy?"
Larry Reynolds grew up in a village called Ahascragh, in County Galway, in the west of Ireland. When he was 10, his brother Harry bought him a fiddle and his sister Betty, who was working as a maid for a wealthy family, paid for lessons. He was schooled in the traditional style peculiar to East Galway, and he played for love, not money.
But money was scarce and so, like many Galwaymen of his generation, Reynolds immigrated to Boston. He was 20 years old when he got here in 1953. He fed his stomach by working as a carpenter. He fed his soul by playing his fiddle. He used his bow like a saw, to build something that would last.
If the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem led the renaissance of traditional Irish music worldwide, Larry Reynolds led it here in and around Boston. When he first got here, he played at Hibernian Hall in Dudley Square in Roxbury. He took the music to the suburbs, playing at the Village Coach House in Brookline, the Skellig in Waltham.
His hands were a contradiction. The skin that covered them was coarse, the skin of a working man who swung a hammer. But his fingers were the digits of an artist, as dexterous as a surgeon's. For all his talent, he was a humble man. He blushed at praise. He carried his union card, Carpenters Local 67, and his fiddle case wherever he went.
He was an easy man to find on Monday nights. For a quarter century, you could find him every Monday, sitting in the Green Briar, a pub in Brighton. He didn't go there to drink. He went there to play music, to teach music, to evangelize, really. He was a missionary, spreading the good news. Traditional music was a restorative force to Reynolds, a relaxing, mystic tonic for increasingly frenetic times.
His weekly trad sessions were low-key revival meetings. People — young and old, Irish and mostly not Irish — came to sit at Larry Reynolds' elbow, the fiddler's elbow. Reynolds played with some great musicians, but he liked nothing more than coaxing novices to put aside their nervousness and give it a go: a teenager shyly holding a tin whistle, an old woman trying to master the bodhran drum. A whispered word from Larry Reynolds was usually all it took for someone to lose their stage fright.
His wife, Phyllis, is an accomplished pianist, and she threw open their Waltham home to a never-ending stream of musicians and dancers and singers. Larry and Phyllis Reynolds were married for 58 years, had seven kids, and gave birth to countless musicians.
It is not an exaggeration to say that thousands of people, many of them without anything remotely Irish about them, became purveyors or lovers of traditional music because of Larry Reynolds.
And that is why, in this day and age of celebrity, thousands of people came to Waltham to say goodbye to someone who was neither rich nor famous.
Even at 80, Reynolds was in no rush to leave this world. But he would have enjoyed his funeral. He always found the liturgy of the Mass comforting. And there were even more musicians than priests in the church, and they sent him off with a slow air, "For Ireland I'd Not Tell Her Name," which he loved.
His impact will last as long as the music. And that's forever.
Kevin Cullen is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeCullen.


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In Part One of our interview with M. Ward, we got a sense of how he feels about his forthcoming new album, Hold Time. In this second installment he offers his thoughts on deeper readings and contrasting interpretations of his songs, why he includes cover versions on his records, and sheds some light on a rather exciting future collaboration...
DiS: Wasn't that how you learned to play the guitar – with Beatles songbooks?
Yeah – they combined other guitar styles with their chords; they borrowed from…just so many places and times. You hear The White Album and it's just so incredibly expansive – it's something to shoot for, I think.
DiS: In terms of other stuff informing the new album, there's a number of religious and philosophical allusions – and then poetry, mythology... Were any of these things more important or significant than the others in defining it?
Yeah, I think religion, time, and music – but more so the whole mystery of it, of inspiration – they're all equally important, really: all combined in some weird way, for me, in my head – and I can't really explain it in words, but music is…a way of finding those connections, and I like the mystery of how all those things are interconnected. 'Cause I know they are...but it's hard to say exactly how.
DiS: Another thing, for me – I've already said how 'Epistemology' is indicative of those things, and the title track too, very much – but they could also be seen simply, as big, old-fashioned, heart-on-sleeve love songs.
Yeah – that's another thing. I think all of those things I just mentioned, they all have a place in love songs. I like the simplicity – that after creating all these songs, and lyrics, then the production – that if a song is interpreted as simply just a love song, I think that's great. If someone wants to dig deeper and find different things, I think that's great too. I like that they receive different interpretations; it keeps the songs alive for me. I learn a lot from what people say.
DiS: You've done so many cover versions over the years – songs that have been popularised by all sorts of people, from Louis Armstrong to David Bowie – there's the version of 'Oh Lonesome Me' on the new record, too. Is that a means of incorporating the sounds of other eras?
That, and I've grown up with these songs. They've been in my head for so many years and for some reason they don't leave. So that tells me – experiment with the song, have fun with it in the studio...if it's something that gains steam during the production, then that's like a sign that maybe it should be on a record.
DiS: Some of them are fairly straight, whereas others are completely different – the Bowie cover, for example...
It's kind of weird, yeah. You never really know what's going to happen. I learned how to play guitar by playing cover songs; old songs, and nothing's changed, really – I'm still learning that way. I learn about lyrics; about chord progressions, and production.
David Bowie 'Let's Dance' (Let's Dance, 1983)
DiS: In terms of your guitar playing, was it completely self-taught from the beginning?
Yeah, from those Beatles songbooks – it's a good way to learn any instrument, going through those songs, 'cause you learn every chord that you need to learn, basically. It's good education.
DiS: Returning to the collaborative nature of the new album – there's a pretty wide cast on there, more so than Post-War even. Peter Broderick's doing all the strings, for example.
He's great. Very, very talented – very very young, which is a good sign of things to come. He was on the She & Him album too. He gets around! When he's in Portland and there's strings I need doing, I like to get him and Tom from DeVotchKa in together, 'cause I like the way they play off each other. They can do anything, really – I'm very lucky to have such great string players.
DiS: And Mike Mogis is all over the album – who, in a sense, you've been collaborating with for quite a while now...
Yep – I met Mike with Conor on a tour in America in…2002, 2003, something like that.
DiS: I wanted to ask about that actually, and about how you guys all met – did Conor really just turn up on your doorstep one day in need of a guitar player to take on tour?
Well, yeah – we have the same agent, and were mutual fans of each other's music anyway...they were on their way to San Francisco and...this is going back about seven years, let's see... Yeah, so, I think he invited me to play with him in San Francisco, and they just happened to be driving from Seattle, and they offered to drive me, so I took it, on a whim, and I'm really glad I did. It was great.
DiS: The 'Monsters of Folk' project, involving you, Conor, Mike and Jim James – I was curious as to whether there are any plans with that for the future?
There are, yeah – very slowly. I'd say we'll have a record in 2010 – we're doing some recording, I'm looking forward to it.
DiS: Me too. Is that the final name for you guys?
We don't have a name yet – it's such an unusual project, and we've got a lot of work to do. It's hard as we're all in different places in the world at different times – Jim's in Australia right now; I don't know where Conor is, I think he's in Omaha…but yeah, we just – we make plans to see each other, and then we do, then we do our own stuff for a while, then we come back. So it's definitely a slow process, but we love it – we all have a great time.
M. Ward 'Chinese Translation' (Post-War, 2006)
DiS: How was it working with Lucinda Williams?
Oh, amazing. She's an incredible…I've been a fan of hers since high school. I'm just so in awe of her, and I'm completely thrilled to have her on the record.
DiS: I've still not heard her latest album. I though 'Blue' off Car Wheels... was a brilliant song.
That's a great record. I think everything she does is great. My favourite album is one called Happy Woman Blues that she put out maybe 20 years ago or so – I'd recommend that one too.
DiS: This is a question that gets quite a contrasting reaction when I ask it generally but, is there a track off the new album that you'd say is a favourite of yours in particular – or particularly relevant, perhaps?
No...I see the record as a whole. I'm one of those guys that does that – it all fits in together for me, like puzzle pieces. I'm old fashioned that way.


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The book The 100-Mile Diet by Alisa Smith and J. B. MacKinnon opens with a glorious British Columbia meal made entirely from ingredients grown outside the door of an isolated cabin in the woods. Except the wine. The wine is from Australia.
Locavorism and the sustainable food culture has long since turned its gaze — and its mouth — to drinkables, with the Drink Local movement and a plethora of sustainable wine associations and alliances and the wine selection at Whole Foods attesting to its success. If you don't care about the earth-friendliness of your wine, you at least know that there are people who do care.
A lot of environmentalist action seems intuitive. It took more energy to convey a Sangiovese from Umbria to my table than this bottle of Washington Carménère that I picked up from the winery on my way home from grocery shopping last Saturday. And I'm better off buying this bunch of organic radishes from the lady who grew them at the community farmers' market than industrial radishes from a massive farm in Mexico. Duh. But decisions about wine are rarely so obvious, mostly because the vast majority of wine lovers are unsatisfied with the prospect of only drinking local wines. Like the 100- or 50- or 10- mile diet — a regimen of eating only foods produced within a limited radius of their kitchens — it can be done, but not without missing things like coffee and chocolate and pepper and olive oil and rice…and Australian Shiraz, evidently. It's telling that so many farm-to-table restaurants still serve primarily non-local wines.
What's a savvy, environmentally-conscious oenophile to do? Data to the rescue.
A number of studies — more than a number, really — have examined the environmental impact of pieces of the winemaking process or elements that contribute to shipping a final bottle, mostly in terms of carbon dioxide emissions. A few have looked at the entire winemaking process, but generalized for an imaginary average wine from a particular region. Fusi, Guidetti, and Benedetto aimed for a more specific and precise picture by performing a complete life cycle analysis — from "cradle" with planting the winery to "grave" with bottle disposal — of a single wine: a Sardinian Vermentino made by Sella and Mosca, the area's largest producer. A life cycle analysis (LCA), considered the gold standard for evaluating a product's impact, tracks a product from creation through to distribution (cradle to gate, a partial LCA) or disposal (cradle to grave, a complete LCA) and sums the impact of everything that goes into making that product. It also considers multiple forms of environmental impact beyond just CO2 emissions to potential acid rain production, eutrophication (dumping nutrients into water, causing algae blooms and disrupting the ecosystem), ozone depletion, water use, and so forth.
Smith and MacKinnon found that their simple-seeming 100-mile diet became a lot more complicated when they considered everything that went into food production. If the cow down the street in Illinois is being raised on grain grown in Washington, is the cow's milk still part of a 100-mile diet on the street in Illinois? The number of fiddly little inputs — the lubricating oil used on the tractor used to help plant the vines, for example — that contribute to Fusi and company's analysis is impressive. The list of different types of emissions they considered, to soil, to water, and to air, at every stage of vine planting and growing and winemaking, is impressive and moderately unpronouncable. The authors had to make some assumptions when precise data just wasn't available — how much of the electricity used by the entire winery could be attributed specifically to the production of the Vermentino, for example — but they do seem to have been thorough.
Results confirmed what we already know from other studies, but they serve as both a good confirmation and a good reminder.
First: glass bottles are the most significant source of a wine's environmental impact in every regard save ozone depletion. Machinery that goes into maintaining the vineyard wins in causing ozone depletion.
Second: What the authors call "the agricultural phase" — the work of planting and maintaining the vineyard before grapes are harvested and winemaking begins — is a major contributor to use of fossil fuels, water pollution, global warming potential, and ozone depletion. Maintaining the vines caused more harm in most categories than planting them, but vine planting still accounted for a third or more of the overall impact of the agricultural phase almost entirely because of diesel fuel used to prepare the land and lay down trellises. More ozone depletion was caused by the production of fertilizers used in the vineyard than by any other component of the winemaking process.
And this is at a winery that has won awards for its environmentally friendly practices. A similar LCA of a Portuguese vinho verde (made at a winery with presumably less scrupulous vineyard practices) and an imaginary average white from Ribeiro showed that agricultural inputs — essentially fertilizers, pesticides, and machinery — were the number one cause of environmental impact in every category.
Third: What about distribution? Shipping the wine from Sardinia to the US was a major source of potential acid rain production, and a smaller but still significant source of other types of pollution. Shipping the wine from Sardinia to anywhere else in Italy never accounted for more than 5% of any impact measure. Shipping to the rest of Europe landed somewhere in the middle.
The most important ways in which the average wine is hurting the environment? Making the glass bottle, diesel used to prep and maintain the vineyard, fertilizer production, and shipping the bottle overseas if it needs to go that far to get to you.
The ramifications in practical terms for that savvy, environmentally-conscious oenophile: favor wineries practicing low-input viticulture, especially those eschewing synthetic fertilizers and using horses instead of diesel. Take advantage of wine on tap when it's available. And yes, drink local.
In real terms, I can't imagine that oenophile — let's say she's living in San Francisco — not drinking the occasional Sardinian Vermentino, or any other interesting wine from Europe or South Africa or New Zealand. But maybe her standbys, if she has them, can come from closer to home. We have good data to say that Drink Local and low-input viticulture are more than just marketing schemes.
**For the record, in light of articles I've written on the environmental impact of wine closures (here and here), the wine in this study was closed with a cork which, in the grand scheme of things, wasn't important enough to warrant discussion.


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Hi guys,
I am having an issue with some Java that I have written.
I have a class called Journey and within this class I have some methods. In my code I have a boolean data member set as false by default. Then in a method I change the value of the data member to true if the criteria of an if statement is met.
When I test the code it seems as if the boolean value doesn't get changed to true if the if statement criteria is met which means the boolean value remains as false.
Any ideas regarding what I am doing wrong?
Data members
private int year = 0; private int month = 0; private int day = 0; private int lastDayOfMonth = 0; private boolean discount = false;
public void lastDay() { SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"); GregorianCalendar date = new GregorianCalendar( year, month, day ); lastDayOfMonth = date.getActualMaximum(GregorianCalendar.DAY_OF_MONTH); if (day == lastDayOfMonth) discount = true; }
public double getPrice() { if (discount == true) return journeyPrices[departing][destination] * 100; else return journeyPrices[departing][destination]; }


text: I'm Matt and my current project is making images for major events in the Bible. I prefer to paint, but I also draw, sculpt, and try my hand at a variety of things. If I have influences they are primarily film and comics. I hope you like the work and I plan to keep a steady flow of images, enjoy!


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Promotions and New Hires Announced at SUNY CantonWednesday, August 25th, 2010
SUNY Canton President Joseph L. Kennedy recently announced several administrative promotions for the Fall 2010 semester and welcomed all new employees to the College.
"One of the key reasons that we've been able to maintain our level of growth is by placing the right people in the right careers at the College," said Kennedy. "Through key promotions and new hires, we will be able to continue our trend and continue to move forward."
Among the employees to receive recent promotions at SUNY Canton:
- Linda D. Pellett will be starting her first full semester as provost and vice president for academic affairs. Pellett previously served as the dean of the School of Science, Health, and Criminal Justice.
- Molly A. Mott was promoted to vice president for student affairs to replace retiring Vice President Daniel J. Sweeney. Sweeney will continue working as the dean of students until his retirement. Mott was previously the dean of academic services and retention.
- Kenneth A. Erickson was promoted to dean of the school of Science, Health and Criminal Justice to fill the position left vacant when Pellett moved into the provost position. Erickson was previously a professor and chair of the science department, served as an interim dean of the School of Business and Liberal Arts, and is the former faculty assembly chair at the College.
- Randy B. Sieminski was promoted to assistant vice president for advancement/athletic director. He will assume the duties of athletic director and continue to oversee aspects of the advancement division, including the office of public relations.
- Diane Para, Ph.D. was promoted to professor and program director for the College's new sports management bachelor's degree. Para previously served as athletic director.
- David F. Norenberg was promoted to director of the office of admissions. Norenberg was previously the director of the career services office.
For a complete listing of all of the College's promotions, visit www.canton.edu/human_resources/recognition
New hires include:
- Bruce F. Alexander was hired as the associate facilities program coordinator. He was previously the director of operation at Millrock Technology Park in Holladay, Utah. Alexander is a certified director of facilities and has accreditations from several industry specific organizations. He received his bachelor's degree in facility management from Brigham Young University in 2007.
- Megan S. Bernier was hired as public relations coordinator. She was previously an assistant dean of undergraduate admissions at Clarkson University. Bernier received her master's degree in educational leadership at St. Lawrence University in 2009.
- Michelle Currier was hired as an assistant librarian at Southworth Library. She has been an adjunct faculty member at SUNY Canton for the past year and a librarian for Potsdam Central School District, and a teacher at several North Country school districts. She earned her Masters in Library Science from Florida State University in 2006 and is currently pursuing a second master's in Creative Writing from National University.
- Shani Y. Curry was hired as an assistant professor in the criminal justice department. She was previously a paralegal instructor from Atlanta Technical College. She earned her Juris Doctorate from the Florida State University College of Law in 1998.
- Pamela E. Enser was hired as the assistant registrar. She will take over when the College's current registrar, Barbara N. Porter retires later this fall. Enser was previously the coordinator of the office of student services in the College of Education at SUNY Fredonia. She is currently working on post-master's graduate studies through the University of Buffalo.
- Mark D. Howlett was hired as the Kangaroos men's soccer coach. He was previously the men's assistant soccer coach at Nazareth College in Rochester. Howlett received his bachelor's degree in marketing from Judson University in Elgin, Ill., in 2008.
- Troy D. Lassial was hired as a residence hall director in Rushton Hall and intramural and free recreation director. He was previously the running back coach for the St. Lawrence University men's football team. Lassial earned his master's degree in educational leadership from St. Lawrence University in May.
- Brandy L. Lawrence was hired as a residence director in Smith Hall. She worked the past three summers as an Upward Bound counselor coordinator, tutor, counselor, and residence staff member at SUNY Canton. Lawrence received her bachelor's degree in psychology from SUNY Cortland in May.
- Mathew C. Nichols was hired as an online Learning Technician for SUNY Canton OnLine. He was previously a Tier 2 Technical Support Representative at Fused Solutions in Potsdam and was formerly a combat engineer in the United States Army Reserve. Nichols earned his bachelor's degree in information systems and business processes from Clarkson University in 2008.


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Number FOUR people. Every time I think the wraps are over, you request a new one! I love that. I have a cute little shirt cover up I want to do, but it's waiting to debut until the wrap craze has subsided.
I really love how this one turned out. If you go with the basic version posted here, it shouldn't take more than 20 minutes, tops. If you want to add in hems, it will take a bit longer.
(2) Cut it. Cut in your halter. Fold the top 2 corners over as shown in the pictures. Remember how you used to fold a piece of paper in half (or still do if you're me...) to cut out a heart? Same idea, only you're going with more of an angle. You want the oval shape to "point" toward the corner. Also, I cut mine in at 10 by 6 inches. It ended up being way too deep. I didn't take in account for how much jersey stretches. Start around 7 inches and then add in more if you want a deeper "v".
(3) Treat it. (OPTIONAL!) If you want to sew, you can either hem all of the edges OR you can run a straight stitch through all of the cut edges. You can also treat with Fray Check. Jersey knit doesn't fray, though. If you don't care about perfect edges, leave as is! I get a lot of complaints about my lack of hemming jersey knit... but I blog 5x per week, so sometimes I just have to show you what CAN be done and leave it to you how far you take it.
FACEBOOK FANS (one per month). I may give extra chances to win (sharing on facebook, blog or pinterest) and will keep you posted when this month's giveaway post goes up.
We're off to a strong, but busy week. Hoping to get a lot of fun things done, but we'll see which projects make the cut! I hope your week has been good to you so far. All the best, and as always, thanks for reading!
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I'd prefer not to just convert the .doc to a Google Doc (the formatting gets royally screwed up). But I'd love to have that functionatlity. I was wondering if some of the other "shared Office Documents" services might do that.
Hopefully free, because I only need this feature this one time for a huge Spec I wrote.
What I've tried (Based on suggestions below)
- Copying the Word document and pasting into the Google Doc. (Wouldn't paste images and the formatting was as fouled up as when I had Google Docs import it.)
- Importing Word doc into Google Docs but not converting it. Just shows me a pdf then and comments can't be attached to a particular line (a huge problem with a 48 pg document).


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Roast chicken with couscous & pine nut stuffing
Nutrition and extra info
- Easily halved
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal348
- fat20g
- saturates7g
- carbs16g
- sugars9g
- fibre2g
- protein26.3g
- salt1.32g
- 100g couscous
Consisting of many tiny granules made from steamed and dried durum wheat, couscous has become a…
- 175ml boiling chicken stock
- 50g butter
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 1 onion, finely chopped
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 100g pine nut
- 140g dried apricot, roughly chopped
- large handful parsley, roughly chopped
One of the most ubiquitous herbs in British cookery, parsley is also popular in European and…
- 2 tbsp mint leaves, roughly chopped
There are several types of mint, each with its own subtle difference in flavour and appearance.…
- 1 lemon
Oval in shape with a pronouced bulge on one end, lemons are one of the most versatile…
- 1 egg, beaten
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition packed with protein and a…
- 6 skinless chicken breasts
- 16 rashers streaky bacon
Put couscous in a large heatproof bowl, pour over stock, then cover with cling film for 5 mins until liquid is absorbed. Melt half the butter in a pan, then gently cook onion and garlic for 5-8 mins until soft. Set aside. Dry-fry pine nuts for a few mins until golden. Combine onions, pine nuts, apricots and herbs with couscous. Add a good squeeze of lemon juice, season, then stir in egg. Leave to cool.
Using the back of a knife, stretch rashers to 1½ times their original length. Lay, slightly overlapping, on a large sheet of foil to form a rectangle. Make a few slashes in the thickest part of each chicken breast and lay between 2 sheets of cling film. Use the base of a heavy pan to bash the chicken until about 1cm thick. Arrange chicken over the bacon, fitting so there are no gaps, but leave a border on longer sides. (This helps to roll up the chicken.)
Spoon stuffing over chicken in a strip along one of the longest sides. Using tin foil to help, roll bacon and chicken around stuffing like a log. Wrap tightly in foil, twisting the ends to secure, then chill for 2 hrs or up to 1 day.
Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Place chicken, join-side down, in a roasting tray. Cook for 30 mins, then unwrap foil and brush roast with remaining butter. Cook, uncovered, for 20-30 mins more until cooked through, and the stuffing is hot (a metal skewer inserted into the chicken's centre should come out hot). Cool and wrap in fresh foil to transport.


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布拉格 1因其人气商店和知名的美术馆而远近闻名,这里有很多值得探索的景点。您可以参观一些顶级景点,如查理大桥和天文钟,您还可前往Staroměstská Stop或Karlovy Lázně Stop搭乘地铁,探索城市的更多精彩。
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旅客非常喜爱新城区的人气商店。您也可以前往Štěpánská Stop或Vodičkova Stop搭乘地铁探索布拉格的更多精彩。您也可以安排时间逛逛如温塞斯拉斯广场和跳舞的房子的顶级景点。
布拉格 2的丰盛的菜肴和有趣的博物馆远近闻名,这里有很多值得探索的景点。例如跳舞的房子和维谢赫拉德城堡这样的顶级景点就吸引了大量游客;您也可以前往I. P. 帕沃洛瓦站或Bruselská Stop搭乘地铁探索这片地区的更多精彩。
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趁您还在玛拉斯洽纳的时候,您可以考虑体验列侬墙并且挪出一些时间去体验丰盛的菜肴。如果您想探索这座城市的更多精彩,可以前往Hellichova Stop或Malostranské Náměstí Stop搭乘地铁。
Prague is one of Europe's most beautiful capitals. Once part of the Kingdom of Bohemia, the city still seems like a place out of a royal fairy tale. The city of a thousand spires with baroque domes on rooftops - 'mother Prague' has a story to tell, and the surroundings to illustrate.
The golden city
Prague survived the Second World War largely unscathed and emerged from the Cold War with its own Velvet Revolution to become an independent capital. Its history stretches much further back, however, with Celts and Germanic tribes, the Luxembourg dynasty, and the Hapsburgs all taking turns. It is an often forgotten fact that Prague was also the capital of the Holy Roman Empire starting in 1355.
Its assortment of well-preserved treasures from a range of different eras and in a host of different styles is one of the things that makes Prague so remarkable. Charles Bridge spans the Vltava River; the world's oldest ancient castle contains crown jewels; and cobblestone streets lead you through an Old Town maze reminiscent of Franz Kafka.
Kafka, in fact, was a native of Prague. No matter how many other cities he lived in, the famed surrealist writer could never shake the influence of this magical golden city. One visit to this Bohemian wonderland and you won't be able to, either.
Architectural heritage
You could visit Prague for the buildings alone. Styles ranging from Baroque to Gothic to Renaissance all find a home in this city. The Guinness Book of World Records lists Prague Castle as the world's oldest ancient castle and St Vitus Cathedral within it is the oldest gothic cathedral in Central Europe.
Visit the Old Town and the New Town, the Jewish Quarter and the Archbishop's Palace. Hang around Old Town Square to catch the Astronomical Clock strike the hour and wander the Belvedere's grounds. Prague's medieval center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and houses along the Vltava River give Kampa Island the feel of a 'little Venice.'
Cultural center
Prague offers not only buildings to gaze at, but also culture to experience. Home to the first established university in central Europe, Prague has always been a place for great minds. In addition to Kafka, composer Antonín Dvorák came from here. Mozart wrote 'Don Giovanni' while living in Prague and Einstein taught here for years. Significant chapters in the lives of Rainer Maria Rilke, Milan Kundera, and Miloš Forman were also set here, and the Prague Summer Programme has become one of the most important writers' residencies in the world.
Prague is compact enough for you to wander from museum to art exhibit to concert in a day. The illuminated Krizik Fountain hosts classical and contemporary musicals, creating a very special ambiance. There are numerous festivals and performances, and operas are performed at the National Theatre.
Prague is also said to be Europe's most haunted city. Follow winding alleyways hot on the heels of a ghost trail. One visit to Prague and you'll be haunted - in a good way - for a long time to come.


text: It seams to me that it suits the industry very well, especially for mmorpg's, my team are using java for the client-side stuff almost exclusively... but why don't you see it more often? On the web almost all games are flash and desktop based games all seam to be C or C++ based. It just got me thinking and I wondered if anyone had an answer (btw, I come crom a creative rather than a programming background).


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By CANDICE CHOI, AP Food Industry Writer
NEW YORK (AP) – KFC is stripping out the bones to make it easier for people to eat its chicken.
The fast-food chain is introducing deep-fried boneless chicken pieces on April 14 as an alternative to its traditional breast, thigh and drumstick pieces.
The new offering reflects the growing popularity of nuggets and strips that are easier to eat on the go, as well as Americans' seemingly endless desire for more convenient foods. KFC says nearly four out of five servings of fried chicken in the U.S. are now boneless.
Based on customer trends, the company says chicken with bones could eventually be pushed off its menu.
The new boneless, skinless pieces are about twice the size of KFC's crispy strips and come in white or dark meat. Customers can order them for the meal deals, which include two pieces, a side, a biscuit and a drink for $4.99. They also come in buckets, which include four pieces of boneless chicken and six pieces of chicken with bones for $14.99. The boneless chicken option costs the same as the regular fried chicken.
A piece of the boneless white meat has 200 calories and 8 grams of fat. A dark meat piece has 250 calories.
Spokesman Rick Maynard said it took two to three years to develop its version of boneless chicken, which he said performed strongly in test markets including Oklahoma City and Omaha last year. He said the new boneless pieces will also replace the chicken filets used in sandwiches.
KFC has more than 18,000 restaurants around the world, including more than 4,500 in the U.S. Its parent company Yum Brands Inc. also owns Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, which have also been introducing major new menu offerings in recent months.
Despite its choppy performance in the U.S. in recent years, Yum has enjoyed a streak of growth as a result of its presence in China. Yum is the largest Western fast-food operator in the country with about 5,300 locations, most of the KFC restaurants.
But since late last year, the company has been working to overcome a scare over its chicken supply in China that has hammered sales. Yum, based in Louisville, Ky., has warned that it expects its profit in 2013 to decline, snapping an 11-year streak of double-digit growth.
Shares of Yum Brands fell $2.13, or 3.1 percent, to $65.60 in morning trading as the broad market indicators sagged on weaker than expected U.S. job growth in March.
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Invidia, LLC v. DiFonzo, 2012 WL 5576406 (Mass.Super. October 22, 2012)
Defendant hairstylist signed an employment agreement with plaintiff that restricted her from soliciting any of plaintiff's clients or customers for 2 years. Four days after she quit plaintiff's salon, her new employer announced on Facebook that defendant had come on board as a stylist. One of defendant's former clients left a comment to that post about looking forward to an upcoming appointment.
Either before or after she left plaintiff's employ (the opinion is not clear about this), defendant had become Facebook friends with at least 8 of the customers she served while working for plaintiff.
Plaintiff sued for breach of contract and sought a preliminary injunction. The court denied the motion, in part because plaintiff failed to show evidence that defendant had violated the nonsolicitation provision.
The court found that it did not constitute solicitation of plaintiff's customers to post a notice on Facebook that defendant was beginning work at a new salon. The court said it would have viewed it differently had plaintiff contacted a client to tell her that she was moving to a new salon, but there was no evidence of any such contact.
As for having clients as Facebook friends, the court noted that:
[O]ne can be Facebook friends with others without soliciting those friends to change hair salons, and [plaintiff] has presented no evidence of any communications, through Facebook or otherwise, in which [defendant] has suggested to these Facebook friends that they should take their business to her chair at [her new employer].
See also, TEKsystems, Inc. v. Hammernick.
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The recent story about the 'beach buggies' that Jack Banda of Marshfield is making to help transport children with cerebral palsy inspired readers. This is one of the letters Banda's daughter, Nicole Puzzo, received from a family who received a free beach buggy for their son. Puzzo founded Stepping Stones for Stella to bring the buggies to other families besides her own.
The recent story about the 'beach buggies' that Jack Banda of Marshfield is making to help transport children with cerebral palsy inspired readers. This is one of the letters received from a family who received a free beach buggy, thanks to Jack Banda and his daughter, Nicole Puzzo.
The story began two years ago, with Jack Banda watching his daughter, Nicole Puzzo, struggle to carry her youngest daughter, Stella, onto the beach. Stella, now four, has cerebral palsy and it was a difficult transport. As a result, Banda designed and built a beach buggy transport for Stella, and then for other families. This is a letter from one of those families to Nicole Puzzo:
"Our boy Evan is a bright, energetic and very outgoing four-year-old boy. He was born 12 weeks premature and as a result has moderate spastic displegia cerebral palsy. Evan walks independently with a walker and is working hard to be able to graduate to canes but long distances continue to be a challenge.
"As he tires, he must defer to the use of his wheelchair. We are an adventurous family and enjoy all sorts of outdoor activities. We love to take walks to nearby parks, explore nature, spend time at the beach in Florida and play in the snow in the winter at home.
"As a parent, I have been struggling to find transportation options for out outdoor activities.
We have tried everything: strollers, wagons, carriers and nothing has been a great fit. Now that Evan is getting older and better, the options for travel assistance seem to be less and less. After being introduced to Stepping Stones for Stella, and learning of the Beach Buggies being offered to children like Evan, I was so excited.
"We spend several weeks in Florida and many days at the beach, and we wish that the buggy was here for Evan sooner! When I learned that the buggy could not only be used in the sand but in the snow as well, I began to think of all the other places that the buggy would make exploring so much easier.
"The buggy now makes us excited to continue to do all the activities we can do as a family.Thank you again and again Nicole! Your dedication and commitment are so inspirational!!
Megan Kalweit
On another note, there is also a report online about The TEK Robotic Mobilization Device, described as "a machine developed to replace the wheelchair." A demonstration video "shows a man with a severe injury to his spinal cord able to move about in ways that a wheelchair would make very difficult."