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JEYE-son. That's how they say it. JEYE-son…what the hale were you thankin'?
Love True Blood SO much.
It's so bad it's good. Deliciously campy.
And lines like these, from this week's episode:
It's the way ah was raised up.
And Nordic sex gods like Alexander Skarsgard.
And the dumbass hotness of Jason Stackhouse played by Ryan Kwanten who is featured in the new GQ styled up very un-Bon Temps.
Ryan is 32, Australian, and he tells the magazine his naked time has been significantly reduced to close the season.
Also, remember Amy from last year?
At Lara & Ryan's wedding on Saturday part of our True Blood discussion revolved around Janice Ian. Unf-ckingrecognisable. Right???
Dean had to prove it to me on his iPhone.
Janice Ian stopped eating. This is disappointing.
Anyway, let's play name our favourite TB characters. Mine are as follows:
1. Lafayette
2. Eric
3. Jason
4. Hoyt's Mother
5. Andy
See more Ryan Kwanten photos and read the article here.
Jason Stackhouse, you clean up NICE
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Preston, Forensics, and Ultra Dolphins
at Tokyo Rose
November 14
It was an eardrum ripping, scream-intensive, and all in all pretty fabulous evening last Friday at the Tokyo Rose. Billed as "Hardcore Night," Friday's show featured a number of local and out-of-town acts that have seemingly adopted the "faster is better" credo, and surprisingly, that was all right with me.
Although I'm not normally a huge fan of hardcore (music), the exceedingly well played and tight acts I heard gave me one of those slight buzzes that only good music can create.
I missed most of the first act scheduled for the evening– local band Preston– but I can say they were the most rock of the bands I witnessed, employing a strong sense of dynamics and a penchant for well-structured pop songs.
The Washington, DC-based band Forensics was on next, with a riff-heavy sound that reminded me of the early '90s Aberdeen, Washington, metal/grunge act the Melvins. Composed of ex-members of such hardcore acts Burning Airlines, Corn On Macabre, and Trial By Fire, Forensics has the traditional rock band setup- two guitars, a bass, and drums.
One thing that sticks out in my mind about the group– or should I say doesn't stick out?– is how little I remember about their performance. Though I noted a sound that "sometimes went into Iron Maiden territory," and I remember enjoying seeing the group perform, either the sonic waves they were producing weren't exactly timeless, or the next group's sounds were so great that they washed previous sonic memories from my mind.
Ultra Dolphins, composed of three guys from Philly, had a spastic time-changing sound that I think will play well in the majors. I'm kidding, of course, but the group has quite a local following in spite of their being based many states away. I saw the Dolphins perform at a house party about a month ago, and though that evening's performance did not especially endear them to me (it was in a garage, and the group's crank-it-up-to-11 sound had a habit of reverberating), this time I got the message they were throwing out, lock, stock, barrel– and the other lock that keeps lock #1 in the fully locked position.
Not only did the guitarist and the bassist both sing, but they had a penchant for alternating verse lines, a highly novel stereo effect, if I do say so. With his eyes wide open and his head whipping back and forth as he screamed out velocity rants in his chipmunk voice, the guitarist probably had the best stage presence of any performer I've seen at the Rose in a while– and the rest of the band were no slouches, either.
The mostly younger audience on Friday did speak of the generally non-hardcore stance of folks over 22– a situation I would venture to guess is because one can take only so much eardrum abuse before it's time to call it a day. The younger kids are smarter than I was a few years back- earplugs seemed to be the evenings fashion accessory, a piece of knowledge that I'm taking to heart for future shows.
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Mike Tyson is in the throes of a serious midlife crisis.
The former champion told Sports Illustrated he wants to live in a hut in Burma in order to do some good and win the respect of his children. The latest comments came after frighteningly frank conversations with a Las Vegas radio station and Details magazine in which he pummeled himself like he was Trevor Berbick.
"I want to count for something. Not in the name of God or any religion but in the name of self-dignity," Tyson told SI. "I feel I'm a clown, I'm a joke. I just want to do nice things so my kids can respect me. I want to live in a hut in Burma."
In the Details interview, Tyson branded himself "a f***ing piece of s***," and "a pig" and said his "life has been a waste."
Earlier this month, the 44-year-old former heavyweight champion spoke to ESPN Radio in Las Vegas Monday, touching on the tragedy, debauchery and redemption that have touched his life in recent years. The often-troubled legend lost his four-year-old daughter in May, 2009, in a freak accident involving a treadmill, and he said the horrific event sent him on yet another downward spiral.
"I felt like I was dying. I had an incident in life where I lost my four year old daughter in a tragic accident at home," he said. "I don't know. I didn't want to live anymore. So I said, that in order to go there, I had to change my life. I am going to change everything I dislike about myself. I changed everything that I was as a human being. I started that journey in October or November."
Selected Reading: Details, sportsradiointerviews.com, IMDB.


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Today more than 1 in every 3 baby boomers — that huge glut of people born between 1948 and 1964 — is unmarried. And those unmarried boomers are disproportionately women. As this vast generation rushes into retirement, there's a growing concern among experts on aging: Who will take care of all these people when they're too old to care for themselves?
It's a question many of the experts take personally. "That is what scares me," says Sara Rix, who works for the AARP Public Policy Institute, studying the economic prospects of women in the workforce. "Because I am one of those people," she says, "and I do think about it."
"Oh, I've got wonderful nieces and nephews," Rix says, noting that's what a lot of her boomer peers claim, too. "Well, in fact, they've got their families. They've got their in-laws. They've got their parents. And I don't think it's reasonable to expect much out of them."
Kathleen Kelly, who runs the Family Caregiver Alliance and the National Center on Caregiving in San Francisco, says she's seeing the same sort of concern in her social circle. "I'm in my 50s, and my friends are all talking about, 'Could we all move in together? Could we buy an apartment building and all live together?' There are all sorts of permutations of this conversation," Kelly says. "But it really is something that people are thinking about, particularly women."
And, because boomers are boomers, some are doing more than just thinking about it. Already, there's a small but apparently growing movement of boomer women forming group houses with their single peers.
One of those homes belongs to Bonnie Moore, a 60-something divorcee who lives in a well-kept, five-bedroom house in Bowie, Md., a cozy suburb of Washington, D.C.
To stay in her house after her divorce, Moore needed financial help. But she wanted to do more than just add boarders who would help pay the bills, she says. The home she's organized instead is "a little bit like family, a little bit like roommates, a little bit like a sorority house," she says from the sofa of her softly lit living room. "It just evolves."
Moore, an attorney, isn't actually childless. She has a grown son who lives in Utah and has been urging Moore to move there to be closer to him and his family. "He's just sort of saying, 'Well, Mom you're old now; we have to take care of you,' " Moore says. "And I'm saying, 'I'm not old. I've got 20 years out there in my yard, thank you very much,' " she says with a laugh.
Moore has been careful about selecting as housemates women who get along, but who also have a sense of independence. "All of us, we have our own separate lives," she says. "We do our own separate things, but we'll meet up in the kitchen and chitchat. And then we'll all go our different ways, which makes it nice. None of us are joined at the hip, and yet we all live together and do our own thing and live in the same house."
Lorene Solivan is one of Moore's three current roommates — "the youngest," Solivan says proudly, having just turned 60.
Solivan, an event manager for a food company, had been living in an apartment in Northern Virginia. But she was having financial troubles of her own and was looking to downsize.
"And then I saw the ad on Craigslist: GOLDEN GIRLS HOUSE. I said, 'Oh, that looks like fun,' " she says.
Solivan, who does much of the group's cooking, says it's been a nice transition for her. To live with a built-in social group of people your own age is "a big plus," she says, "whether you're 20, 40, or 60 — whatever the case may be."
That's why Moore is trying to take her concept and expand it. She already has a website and is working on a guide to help other single boomer women set up houses like hers. "I think it'll be fun," she says. "And I'd like to be part of various seminars and workshops for women [about] the whole idea of living communally and learning to get along in this kind of environment."
Still, there are a lot of obstacles. One big one is that most boomers don't realize they might need help getting or paying for long-term care if their health falters.
"I call it the 70-70-70 conundrum," says Bruce Chernof, president and CEO of The SCAN Foundation, which focuses on long-term health care issues. "Seventy percent of people over the age of 65 will need some form of long-term-care supports as they age," he says. But when you look at polling, "roughly 70 percent of Americans don't actually think they're likely to need it, and roughly 70 percent think Medicare will probably cover it when they get there."
The problem, of course, he adds, is that "those last two 70 percents are not true."
Then there's the numbers problem. "We know that ... about a third of baby boomers are single," says Kelly. "But we also know that there's a large percentage of those that are in their 50s and 60s [who] are getting divorced, and so we're going to have more single individuals in the future. We just haven't seen this before."
At the same time, most boomers have had fewer children than previous generations did, and many boomers have no children.
"So there's less adult children to take the place of the caregiving cohort that currently is providing ... caregiving to their parents," she says. And today, family caregiving provides an estimated $450 billion a year worth of unpaid care.
Rix of AARP says a big problem for single boomer women is that they're not financially prepared to hire the caregivers they might need if they don't have family members to volunteer the time. "[These single women] are still likely to be concentrated in what we've traditionally called the 'pink collar' jobs," she says, which are "the lower-wage, low-benefit occupations. So when they reach old age, they often reach old age without pension coverage."
Most of these women will have Social Security, Rix says — assuming that they are eligible, and that the rules don't change between now and when they retire. But for many older women, that will be all, or nearly all the money they have to live on, she says, "and it's not going to pay for a lot of care — formal care. So it's a frightening future for a lot of women."
There are things women can do to make that future a little less frightening, says Kelly. Some suggestions are pretty obvious, like maintaining a healthy, active lifestyle.
But another bit of advice may be less intuitive, Kelly says, "and that is to invest in social relationships and networks." She doesn't mean the sort of social networks people create on the Internet, but rather, "a community of individuals [living with or near you, so] that you may be able to share tasks and responsibilities as you grow older."
That brings us back to Bonnie Moore, who says that deciding to form a group house was about more than just financial necessity. "I think women naturally are more community oriented," Moore says. "It's just part of the woman's nature."
And besides, she adds, "to come home and have someone say, 'Hi, how was your day?' ... That's really nice sometimes."
So if you're a boomer and you liked that group house you shared in college or just after, good for you. The United States is one of the few developed nations that have no organized public policy for providing long-term care — so group living may be in your future as well as your past.
Americans are living longer than ever before, and as seniors approach their golden years, most are cared for primarily by an immediate family member, a spouse or their children. Having children, in some ways, is a sort-of long-term insurance policy.
But as life expectancy continues to rise, more and more women are living and aging without spouses or children, and are likely to face an interesting situation: Who will care for them when the time comes?
GREENE: As part of our series on the Changing Lives of Women, NPR's Julie Rovner looks at the long-term care conundrum.
BONNIE MOORE: Welcome to our house. I'm Bonnie. Come on in.
JULIE ROVNER, BYLINE: Bonnie Moore is a pert, 60-something lawyer and accountable who lives in well-kept, five-bedroom house in a cozy suburb about a half-hour outside Washington, D.C. You can tell she's used to giving the grand tour.
MOORE: I'll show you my pride and joy - my kitchen. We bought an old house, and we've been remodeling it.
ROVNER: Lorene Solivan is one of her three housemates.
LORENE SOLIVAN: And I'm the youngest.
MOORE: She's the youngest, yeah. How do you like that?
ROVNER: She just turned 60. Lorene had been living on her own in an apartment in Northern Virginia, but she wanted to downsize.
SOLIVAN: And I saw the ad on Craigslist: Golden Girls House. I said oh, that sounds like fun.
ROVNER: Which is just what Bonnie had in mind when she started her little enterprise.
MOORE: It's a little bit like family, a little bit like roommates, a little bit like a sorority house. It just evolves.
ROVNER: The four roommates share expenses, some cooking, and they even throw parties together sometimes. They also look out for each other's medical needs. Bonnie said it was a huge help when she was hospitalized recently for her diabetes.
MOORE: When I was in the hospital, they were bringing me the stuff that I needed, and this and that.
ROVNER: The whole idea started after her divorce. Bonnie needed financial help to stay in the house where she'd put down roots, including out in her beloved garden. She has a grown son in Utah. He offered to build her a house out there, but she was adamant about staying in Maryland.
MOORE: He's just sort of saying, well, Mom, you're old now. We have to take care of you. And I'm saying, I'm not old. I've got 20 more years out there in my yard, thank you very much.
ROVNER: Now, Bonnie's got big plans to grow things other than plants and flowers. She's working on a guide to help other single boomer women set up group houses like hers.
MOORE: I think it'll be fun. And I'd like to be part of various seminars and workshops for women - you know, the whole idea of living communally and learning to get along in this kind of environment.
ROVNER: Which would be a good thing because even experts in aging are scratching their heads about what's going to happen to the huge generation of increasingly single childless women as they age. Sara Rix, of the AARP Public Policy Institute, studies the economic prospects of women in the workforce. She's also a single boomer herself.
SARA RIX: I think that's one of the scariest questions because I fall into that category. And I say oh, I've got wonderful nieces and nephews. Well, in fact, they've got their families. They've got their in-laws. They've got their parents, and I don't think it's reasonable to expect much out of them.
ROVNER: Across the country, in San Francisco, Kathleen Kelly says she's seeing the same sort of concern in her social circle.
KATHLEEN KELLY: I'm in my 50s, and my friends are all talking about, could we all move in together? Could we buy an apartment building, and all live together? There's all sorts of permutations on this conversation.
ROVNER: Kelly's executive director of the National Center on Caregiving. The numbers are, in a word, daunting.
KELLY: About a third of baby boomers are single, but we also know that there is a large percentage of those that are in their 50s and 60s that are getting divorced. And so we're going to have more single individuals, in the future. We just haven't seen this before.
ROVNER: And many boomers have had fewer or no children, compared to previous generations. There were nearly twice as many American women without children in 2008 as there were in 1976, according to a White House report on women.
KELLY: So there's less adult children to take the place of the caregiving cohort that currently is providing caregiving to their parents.
ROVNER: Family caregiving that currently provides an estimated $450 billion a year worth of care - meaning that the mostly women boomers now caring for their parents may be unprepared for their own future. Sara Rix, of AARP, says a big problem for single boomer women is that they may lack the financial ability to hire the caregivers they might need if they don't have family members to provide it.
RIX: They are still likely to be concentrated in what we've traditionally called the pink-collar jobs: the lower-wage, low-benefit occupations. And so when they reach old age, they often reach old age without pension coverage.
ROVNER: They will, or at least should, have Social Security, she says. But for many older women, that will be all - or nearly all - they have to live on.
RIX: And it's not going to pay for a lot of care, formal care. So it's a frightening future.
ROVNER: But there are things women can do, says Kathleen Kelly of the National Center on Caregiving. Some of them are pretty obvious, like maintaining a healthy, active lifestyle. But another piece of her advice may not be so intuitive.
KELLY: And that is to invest in social relationships and networks - not the kind that are on the Internet, necessarily, but the kind that you build a community of individuals that may - you may be able to share tasks and responsibilities as you grow older.
ROVNER: Which brings us back to Bonnie Moore, of the Golden Girls house in Maryland. She says having people around was a financial necessity, but it's become a lot more than that.
MOORE: It's just the nature of women, you know. And to come home and have someone say, hi, how was your day? That's really nice sometimes.
ROVNER: Roommate Lorene Solivan agrees.
SOLIVAN: To have your own social group your own age, whether you're 20, 40, 60 - whatever the case may be - is a big plus, I think.
ROVNER: So if you're a boomer and you liked that group house you lived in, in college or just after? Good for you because the U.S. is one of the few developed nations that has no organized public policy for providing long-term care. So group living may be something in your future as well as your past.
Julie Rovner, NPR News, Washington.
WERTHEIMER: And there's more from our Changing Lives of Women series online, where we're asking NPR women about their careers and inviting you to join the conversation. Long-time congressional correspondent Cokie Roberts weighed in on how she found support in the workplace.
GREENE: She says her female friends always rallied behind her, and she had the advantage of having them right here with her at NPR.
COKIE ROBERTS, BYLINE: Let's start with the fact that Linda Wertheimer and Nina Totenberg lobbied -that's the polite term - the powers that were to get me hired in the first place. Later, when the three of us had desks together two NPR homes ago, one of our male colleagues dubbed our corner "The Fallopian Jungle." He is long gone. We are not.
GREENE: Linda, I'm speechless. The fallopian jungle - someone actually said that?
WERTHEIMER: A little bit of "Mad Men" at old-time NPR. But things have changed a lot since then, of course. You would never say anything like that, David.
GREENE: I would never say that, Linda. You can be assured. Well, you can read Cokie Roberts' full essay at our website, npr.org. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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When it comes to football coverage, fans are generally more concerned about the health and fitness of the quarterback and tight end (snicker) than the reporters.
But the truth is, for hosts like Jenn Brown, staying in shape for TV (especially in glaring HD) is a challenge, thanks to dinners out with the boys -- from announcers to fellow reporters -- and five days a week spent on the road and in airports.
Many women who travel for work -- or even watch a lot of beer and chip-accompanied football games with guys -- struggle with the same issues, even if our images aren't being broadcast across the country for all to see. As college football season begins, Brown shares her inside tips on how to stay fit during the season:
Jenn Brown grew up in an ultra-athletic household. Her parents were world class women's gymnastics coaches, she was a junior Olympic diver and later she played collegiate level softball, eventually becoming captain at The University of Florida. "From an early age, sports was my life," she explains. "When I was playing softball, we did weight training three days a week, plus conditioning and practice." And even she struggles to maintain a workout routine and healthy diet on the road, so what are us normal people supposed to do?
When Brown is home (during college football season, that's from Saturday through Monday) with her actor fiance Wes Chatham, she prefers to run outdoors and sometimes do P90X. But on the road, she falls into bad habits, skipping workouts and eating airport junk food. "I call it the football 5 to 7lbs," she laughs. "When I'm in really good shape and feeling good, I can really see it in my face on screen, as opposed to when I put on even a couple pounds."
With an upcoming wedding in April and nightly TV appearances, Jenn Brown had to come up with a solution. Here's how she now avoids putting on the pounds when she's on the road:
En Route: "I used to get caught up in eating at the airport, so now I pack my own lunch for the airplane, usually a grilled chicken breast and steamed broccoli or something like that."
Upon Arrival: "I don't want to be anti-social, but I can't eat out for every meal. As soon as I land, I try to head to a supermarket to get something healthy to prepare like ground turkey and taco seasoning."
At The Game: "There's always food at the game -- like last week they had an entire pizza room! -- and you get tired and hungry. You don't want to let that happen because that's when you eat whatever is convenient. So, I bring healthy snacks like trail mix."
At Dinners: "After the game, everyone goes out for dinners at these great restaurants with local flavor, serving fried green tomatoes and shrimp and grits and stuff like that. It's me and all these guys and they order tons of appetizers, which I ended up eating. In order to avoid that, I order a salad right away, so I have something healthy to eat and I'm not tempted to snack on fried foods."
At The Hotel: "At home, I just started working out with trainer Rob Natzel, who trains a lot of boxers and MMA fighters. But on the road, I can't always get to the gym. In my hotel room, I've been known to do push-ups and dips with an office chair, bicep curls with clothing on hangers and lunges to get my heart rate up."
Lunges: 1. Place foot on chair/couch/luggage.
2. Keep other foot flat on the floor.
3. Knee aligned over center of foot.
4. Maintain upright posture.
5. Arms raised in front or hands placed on hips.
6. Lower towards the floor, flexing the hip and knee to approximately 90 degrees.
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- Maintain up right posture.
- Keeping elbows back, lower towards the floor, flexing the elbows to approximately 90 degrees.
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With the state of our economy at this time it probably should not be surprising that food pantries are doing a land office business. However, when I heard about and later explored the Hillside Food Pantry, I was very surprised, amazed, really.
I was invited to explore the food pantry in action on one of its regular distribution days and to return the next day when a ribbon cutting ceremony took place, opening an extension to the ongoing operation. Visit here , watch the video and I promise you will be moved and inspired. And additionally, the story of the newest phase of the pantry is shared at: 5-9-13 2nd Addition Ribbon Cutting Ceremony.
Faith and Mike Albano started picking up food from a donor store in Barrington for a refugee family from Myanmar in the fall of 2007. They received so much food from the donor store that they identified other needy families and began distributing food out of their spare refrigerator. In late 2008, early 2009 Hillside Church adopted the ministry as a community outreach ministry of the church and Maiya Lueptow was appointed it's director. The Pantry was launched out of the church's renovated 2-car garage in May, 2009. By the end of 2009 we were serving an average of 783 families a month. Over the next year our monthly average exploded to 1760. For the past two years we have been serving about 2,000 families a month. During the most recent ribbon cutting that dedicated the second expansion, Maiya Lueptow stated that, "There are 807,690 food insecure people in Cook County" (according to the Greater Chicago Food Depository's web-site). From a start of zero four years ago, Hillside Food Pantry served 6,928 people during the month of April, 2013.
Patrons come from the surrounding area of the church at 2727 Crawford in Northwest Evanston (Skokie, Evanston, Wilmette, Chicago). They come from the ranks of the chronically poor, the working poor, and those who are finding themselves in need for the first time. There is no income or residency limitation. Anyone is welcome. Patrons are allowed to come once a week.
On my visit I observed families who registered waiting for their turns to receive their food. Families register stating their special needs that might include foods that are sugar free, gluten free, vegetarian and so on.
Top Box Foods is a non-profit organization founded by Chris Kennedy in May, 2012 with a mission to provide healthy food at low-cost to people living in "food deserts," areas where it is difficult to find affordable, fresh food. Top Box partners with host sites, such as churches and community centers, where volunteers provide information about and take orders for the boxes of prepared meals, frozen foods and fresh fruits and vegetables Top Box sells at 50% or less of retail prices. Orders are then delivered once a month to host-sites. Hillside Food Pantry is one of Top Box Foods' host-sites.
Signs around the building say, "It's more than just food". While Hillside Food Pantry doesn't offer classes on nutrition or food preparation, resource information is provided about free services offered by municipalities and community organizations and they also host other individuals and organizations that provide free services to our patrons on Pantry days. For example, the Greater Chicago Food Depository sends someone to us every other month to provide assistance to patrons in applying for SNAP benefits (food stamps); we have a volunteer nurse who does free monthly blood pressure checks; and in July we will have a nutritionist from the Greater Chicago Food Depository coming to give a free cooking demonstration to encourage healthy eating.
Patrons and volunteers say:
"The service is a cut above most places. It is a first class pantry which is done with dignity."
"Greeting my Brothers and Sister in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I thank God for the pantry and the people minister to us by serving us. The pantry has blessed my family and I so much. The food that is given is most of the time better then what at this time I can afford. Also the food is what people eat. Some pantrys give food you can't even make a meal out of. Your pantry blesses us with food for dinner and lunch for school. Most of the items are healthy and all natural. I enjoy the fresh fruits, potatoes and meats...God Bless!" (a note written by a patron)
"You have an efficient process. We appreciate the variety."
(from a volunteer) "We hear a lot of 'God bless yous' and 'thank you's and how much they appreciate what we give. We also hear a lot of how much better our food is than most other places. Very rarely do we hear grumbling."
"I appreciate the food pantry because I was without full-time work, undergoing physical restraints, helping a friend and relative out of my own pocket and just trying to make ends meet. I divorced and supported a family without adequate child support and tried to makes ends meetlike any American parent. I do appreciate the help of this pantry where people are kind and honorable helping others in need. Thank you."
"I started volunteering just over a month ago now, and I am amazed at the loving effort of the other volunteers and the desire to make this an outstanding ministry for those who need our pantry. The amount of fresh bakery and produce as well quality meats continues to come in weekly—food that would normally go to waste is now feeding people who need a chance. I am honored to work."
About 90 volunteers a month are needed to operate the Pantry, but there have been hundreds of volunteers throughout the four years we've been in operation. The Pantry enjoys extensive community support. The pantry has been pleasantly surprised by the people and groups that have heard about the Pantry and lent their support by volunteering, making in-kind and food donations, and offering financial support. It is amazing how the efforts of one couple grew into a church ministry and has been embraced by the community. New volunteers are always welcomed, food donations can always be used and financial support gratefully accepted. The website includes information on the non-perishable food that is needed, and prospective volunteers can contact Susan Gottlieb, Volunteer Coordinator, at [email protected] or by phone at 847/251-6717. Groups who would like to have Maiya Lueptow come speak or help coordinate their event to support the Pantry can contact her at [email protected] or call 224/628-5182.
My walking partner and I often talk about the impact an individual or individuals can make. Hillside Food Pantry is an impressive example of what two dedicated individuals created.
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Chefs, breeders pair up to produce tastier veggies
VERONA, Wis. (AP) — There's a good chance that many of the trendy vegetables foodies latch on to in the next decade will come from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Plant breeders at other public universities focus on improving field corn, soybeans and other crops used in food manufacturing.
Those in Madison are working on producing better-tasting vegetables.
Horticulture professor Julie Dawson is leading a project in which breeders work with local farmers and chefs to determine what makes vegetables taste great.
Participating chefs taste and evaluate boxes of produce every week for qualities like sweetness and texture.
One is Dan Bonanno, who estimates he's tasted 80 different tomatoes since mid-July and says he never knew there were so many varieties.


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An annual report, and other quarterly reports, a publicly-traded company publishes giving information over a given period of time. The report contains information on the company's financial state, most notably statements on revenue, expenses, and earnings (which is the difference between the two). It is in general less detailed that a stockholder's report but contains much of the same information. A profit and loss statement goes by a number of other names, including income statement, earnings statement, earnings report, and operating statement. See also: Balance Sheet.
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If there's a short list of pioneering film artists to be thanked for the moviemaking revolution that resulted in the special effects spectaculars audiences enjoying today, John Dykstra's name is right near the top.
Dykstra essentially rewrote the rules of how to film models for special effects sequences when he was recruited by George Lucas to head up the FX team for "Star Wars," and in the earliest days of what would become Industrial Light & Magic, Dykstra kick-started the use of computer controlled cameras that ultimately led to today's digital dominance. He'd go on to creating similarly eye-popping effects for memorable projects including the original "Battlestar Galactica," "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," "Caddyshack," "Firefox" and "Stuart Little," and digitally defined modern-day superhero action with his work on the first two "Spider-Man" films.
With the Blu-Ray debuts of one of Dykstra's earliest works – "Star Wars: The Complete Saga" – and his most recent – "X-Men: First Class" – Dykstra tells PopcornBiz how the job of making the fantastic seem realistic has evolved over the years.
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"The way that it's radically different is when we used to have put a subject in front of a camera and take a picture of it to create an element, you spent much more time with the hardware side of things," says Dykstra. "It was much more time on how you were going to do it, and although you spent plenty amount of time on what it was you were limited significantly by how."
"With advent of digital imaging the bar has been raised because we can do so much more," Dykstra continues, "but also you're free to spend much more time thinking about how the visual FX that you're creating integrates into the telling of the story, and how it influences the character in the story around the character. So that's a huge difference. The part that's the same is that they always want to see something unlike they've ever seen before, and that gets harder and harder to do as more and movies come out."
"The things that I don't like is that we're getting to a point where it's like using curse words too frequently and they lose their impact," he suggests. "I think the scope and grandeur has to a certain extent in some cases replaced story and character. I think that's what distinguished 'X-Men: First Class.' There was much more story, much more character development and depth than a lot of other films that are out there."
The FX guru says that even after all of his experience, he still faces seemingly impossible tasks with every new film, and "X-Men: First Class" was no exception. "The movie itself was a challenge, just because it was so many characters that had to have powers," he says, "and they had to be different from one another, they had to be the same or similar to ones that had appeared to in other films and they had to be unique enough that you felt like you were seeing a new event or a new interpretation of the same power."
"The fleet in the ocean off Cuba and how central a component the telling of the story that is in the third act was a real challenge," he recalls. "That was really a concern because it had to look real. It had to have the right water and smoke, and all that stuff is really hard to do in CG, especially when you're doing such a large quantity of it."
"Star Wars: The Complete Saga" arrives on Blu-ray today. "X-Men: First Class" is available on DVD and Blu-ray now.


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Whenever you're down and out, don't forget to cherish the little happy moments that happen every day:)
These little word or inspiration pieces have been a very welcome change of pace lately. I have been lucky enough to have several commissions and a gallery interested in them. I will put up some pictures soon of some of the new ones. My favorite so far has to be one that says "Have Fun Every Day." Weee


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August 24, 2012
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Rugby history was made last weekend when Argentina joined Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in The Rugby Championship. Their entry, into what was previously known as the Tri-Nations, came in Cape Town, South Africa. Sadly, the Pumas were unable to mark the historic moment with a victory, instead they were comprehensively outclassed in a 27-6 defeat at the hands of the Springboks.
For many years Argentina was the only Tier One nation in world rugby without regular competitive rugby and the Argentinean Rugby Union fought a long, hard political campaign to get the South Americans installed in a major tournament. Over the years negotiations were opened with both the Tri-Nations and the Six Nations tournaments, but initially with little success. The case became something of a cause célèbre amongst those in rugby who wished to expand the game from its traditional power base.
Despite not having any regular competition the Pumas repeatedly took big scalps in world rugby and had several excellent World Cup campaigns, most notably in the 2007 World Cup in France.
Outside of World Cup years Argentina had to content themselves with summer and autumn tours, often finding themselves facing squads shorn of their stars and, as a result, never getting to test themselves on a consistent basis.
To the outside world, then, last Saturday's clash should have been a celebrated moment in the country's proud rugby history. Nobody in the rugby world could have expected, then, that the heavy defeat in their opening game may not have been purely because of rugby circumstances, but rather from a realisation from the Argentineans that they didn't want to be there at all.
"I know we spent years and years banging on about joining a major annual world event," said Pumas' captain Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe. "But, honestly? We never thought anyone would actually listen and let us in. Most of us were happy kicking back and enjoying our summer a bit longer than other international players. Sure, we may have had the odd little tour, but that wasn't the same as being in a proper, straight-up tournament. There were always time for beers and fun."
The world class number eight, who has won 46 Test caps, opened up to the press just moments after emerging from the dressing room on Saturday.
"Sure, we complained to you guys all the time that we were being unfairly treated in not being included in the Tri or Six Nations. And we always used to ramp up our complaints around the World Cup, as we had a worldwide media audience to play with. But we were just doing it for show, we get enough rugby with our domestic season and usual summer tours without actually having to play and prepare properly and stuff.
"Seriously, who wants to go to Wellington or Auckland during the New Zealand winter? I certainly don't. A lot of us play in France or Europe and we'd rather be hanging out on some European beach to be honest, checking out French girls. Nice going, Argentinean Rugby Union! Way to ruin our holidays."
Juan Martin Hernandez, one of the greatest players to represent Argentina in the professional age also admitted in the aftermath of the Springbok loss that he felt for the younger generation of his nation's players.
"Those are the guys who face the worst of it," said the fly-half. "I'm past thirty; I'll only have a few years of it. But those poor young guys: hanging around in frozen New Zealand or being bored out of your brain in a secure South African hotel complex for half the winter. It just isn't right."
Puma coach Santiago Phelan has also heavily criticised the involvement of his team in The Rugby Championship: "It's such a long way to travel. I mean, really…who needs it? We're not flying first class either, I can tell you. Also, how am I to motivate the guys in the next World Cup? We won't be able to use our traditional 'poor little us, the victims of world rugby' speech anymore. We haven't got that chip on our shoulder now. Honestly, I don't know what we can do. In fact, I need a holiday, but instead I've got bloody rugby to prepare for."
However, it seems it isn't only the travel, weather and time commitment that has led to a collapse in morale within the Puma camp.
One player, who wished to remain anonymous, offered another reason for the decline in spirits: "It's the tournament name. I mean, really, The Rugby Championship? I'm ****** embarrassed to be associated with that kind of marketing, to be honest. Please, let's all get banned for violent conduct or performance enhancing drugs or something. Whatever happens, it's less embarrassing than being in a tournament called The Rugby Championship. What genius came up with that?"
As of press time the Argentinean Rugby Union were hiring lawyers in a frantic attempt to see if there was any get out clause to allow them to back out of the tournament from 2013.
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Year in review: Part IIDecember 29th, 2012
A mining and exploration retrospect for 2012
by Greg Klein
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Graphite boom, bust and echo
One of the commodities that excited the 2012 market, graphite began stirring interest in 2011 and really gained momentum early this year. But the precipitous fall, right around April Fool's Day, let cynics bask in schadenfreude. It was a bubble all along, they insisted.
Well, not quite. Despite reduced share values, work continued as the front-runners advanced their projects and earlier-stage companies competed for position in graphite's second wave of potential producers. By autumn some of the advanced-stage outfits, far from humbled by last spring's events, boldly indulged themselves in a blatant bragging contest.
Old king coal to regain its throne
If clean carbon doesn't excite investors like it used to, plain old dirty carbon might. By 2017 coal's share of the global energy market will rival that of oil. So says the International Energy Agency, which issued its Medium-Term Coal Market Report in December.
The forecast sees China consuming over half the world's production by 2017. "Even if Chinese GDP growth were to slow to a 4.6% average over the period, coal demand would still increase both globally and in China," the report stated. India, with the world's "largest pocket of energy poverty," will take second place for consumption.
Coal's growth in demand is slowing, however. But its share of the energy mix continues to increase even though Europe's "coal renaissance" (sic) appears to be temporary.
Bringing coal miners to new hassle
Chinese provide much of the market and often the investment. So why shouldn't they provide the workers too? That seems to be the rationale of Chinese interests behind four British Columbia coal projects.
The proponents plan to use Chinese underground workers exclusively at the most advanced project, HD Mining International's Murray River, for 30 months of construction and two additional years of mining. Only then would Canadians be initiated into the mysteries of Chinese longwall mining. But with only 10% of the workforce to be replaced by Canadians each year, Chinese "temporary" workers would staff the mine until about 2026. The B.C. government has known about these intentions since at least 2007.
The HD Mining saga has seen new developments almost every week since the United Steelworkers broke the story on October 9.
As Greenland's example suggests, the scheme might represent another facet of China's growing power.
Geopolitical geology
Resource imperialism aside, resource nationalism and other aspects of country risk continued throughout 2012. South American Silver TSX:SAC continues to seek compensation after spending over $16 million on a silver-polymetallic project that the Bolivian government then snatched as a freebie. Centerra Gold TSX:CG escaped nationalization in Kyrgyzstan but works its way through somewhat Byzantine political and regulatory intrigue, as does Stans Energy TSXV:HRE. In November the latter claimed a court victory over a hostile parliamentary committee.
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My Sunset Beach blood cleanup prices reflect my costs doing business and a reasonable profit. You should note that rarely do I charge more than $1000. For Sunset Beach residents and businesses, you can expect to pay anywhere from $350-$1000 depending on the type of cleaning required.
I have a $350 service charge. This $350 will cover the first hour of labor for small blood cleanup tasks. If the blood cleanup task involves furnishings and clothing, the price will go up. For example, removing an unattended death scene standard size mattress will cost about $550. A queen size mattress will cost 650 to $750, and a king size mattress may cost as much as $950, depending on circumstances. The amount charged will reflect a number of working conditions in and amount of blood and related debris that I must remove.
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I do not have employees. On occasions my wife will ride along. She may make suggestions. She does not expect to be paid and I do not charge for her presence. Because I do not have employees I do not need to pay employees for blood cleanup insurance which recall biohazard" insurance. Likewise, I do not need to pay employees to drive a vehicle or pay for such vehicles. Neither do I pay employees medical insurance nor do I need to pay them for vacation. Neither overtime pay nor Social Security insurance become part of your blood cleanup fee. This approach save you money.
I will ask questions while on the telephone with the responsible calling party. These questions will help me understand what tools, equipment, and chemicals I need for the blood cleanup work. These questions will also help me understand the nature of the blood cleanup.
Here Is a list of questions that I may ask:
What to Expect
Expect that I will guarantee my work. This means that I am obliged to return as soon as possible upon request. In 17 years I've been asked to return three times for additional blood cleanup work. The last request was roughly 4 years ago when I missed something on a shower wall that was out of the apparent line of sight. I returned the day after the request and clean debris that may or may not of been part of blood cleanup loss incidents. On the two other occasions a family mistook mold behind a curtain as part of the blood cleanup scene. The third blood cleanup request was canceled.
Expect that I will arrive on time. I make a point of arriving on time for blood cleanup work because it is so important to clients. I basically use the "secrets of driving." That is, I leave early. By leaving early I sure myself but I'm not going to become caught up in traffic. Yes, occasionally construction takes place along are Sunset Beach highway system. Even in the middle of night freeways are close down. Sometimes our accidents. In this is another reason to leave early for blood cleanup work. I try to anticipate those on for scenes that add to stress and confusion.
What I do. I arrive at the blood cleanup address several hours before work is to begin. I then leave and find a Home Depot, a Denny's for breakfast, or simply find a large parking lot; there I relax, nap or read. In this way I return to the Sunset Beach blood cleanup site with plenty of time and rested. I knock on the door, the responsible party opens the door, and I hand one of my blood cleanup business cards to the responsible party.
Expect that I will enter the blood cleanup scene, make a brief survey of the area, and leave to gather needed blood cleanup tools.. I may need to leave several more times before the job is done. When unattended death cleanup is needed, I will leave the room a number of times because of the amount of material to "reduce." Because unattended deaths often occur on a mattress, I must reduce the blood of the mattress before removing the mattress. This type of blood cleanup takes a lot of time and patience. I must dig into the mattress to remove soiled materials. Then once I have the mattress ready to removed from the bedroom onto my vehicle, I must begin working on the box springs below. Then, if the carpet is below, most often it has been soiled by blood and it to must be cut out and removed.
Expect that I will work quietly. I do not need loud tools or machines to do blood cleanup work. Although, sometimes I do use a fogger in this does cause some noise in the beginning of work and following work.
If you need blood cleanup information for death cleanup or other type of dramatic blood loss, feel free to call for information. I have no problem sharing blood cleanup information and I know for a fact that competitors across the country have called for blood cleanup information. Information I share I have learned from the Internet as well as practicing blood cleanup for over 17 years.
I advise callers to use extreme caution when doing blood cleanup. So if you must be blood cleanup think before you act. Take a break after the first 10 minutes and think about what you accomplished. Think about the blood cleanup work remaining. Contaminated human blood may be biohazardous because of HIV (human immunodeficiency syndrome), hepatitis C, or other blood-borne pathogens. So take your time.
Consider visiting a hardware store like Home Depot, Ace Hardware or Lowe's hardware store; you can find rubber gloves for less than $10. I recommend that you wear these during blood cleanup. You can also find a mask to cover your nose and mouth while doing blood cleanup. You can also find safety goggles in the tool apartment. For blood cleanup you need to dispose of blood soiled garments, towels, and more. You will need to construction quality bags because these are the thickest, most durable. If you care, poor bleach in these bags to begin the process of decontaminating and neutralizing the blood-borne pathogens. Be sure to double if not triple bags to ensure that they do not leak blood.
If you plan to take these materials to your local landfill you should call first. Generally, Orange County, California landfills will accept this material. Just let them know what have. They may make special arrangements to handle these blood soiled materials. This is a common courtesy to the landfill employees. Again, you can also pour bleach in these bags to help neutralize the blood-borne pathogens. In any case, HIV does not last long in the "wild." It is passed along human to human through blood; hence, "bloodborne pathogens."
From what I've written you can surmise that human blood carries biohazards and these are not airborne. If it were airborne, we would not call it "blood-borne pathogens." We would call it "airborne biohazards" or such. Keep this in mind when somebody tells you the order blood is dangerous.
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I guarantee my Sunset Beach blood cleanup work because it often involves death. Anytime death cleanup is involved in any type of blood cleanup work it must be done with a keen sense of moral rectitude. In my opinion, there's no point in being in the blood cleanup business if I cannot guarantee my work. Likewise, playing games with the price of work is morally corrupt. So I try to stick to my price. I have to guarantee my work. This is my business policy; it has always been the best policy.
it is usually best to begin blood cleanup without stepping into the center of the blood soiled room. This is not always practical, though.
Questions arise about removing blood soiled carpet before reducing blood in a mattress or other furnishing. Sometimes this is the best practice. Sometimes it is possible to work around the blood soiled carpet to first reduce a blood soiled mattress or other furnishing. In this case, a type of "multitasking" may take place. This type of blood cleanup practice helps to alternate muscle groups as work progresses. In this way, no one set of muscles become tired.
it is best to have tools and cleaning chemicals in the same room. It is the case that blood cleanup is not done when it first appears "done." There is always something else on the doorjamb, mirror, or elsewhere. So having the needed cleaning materials from beginning to end makes a lot of sense.
Disinfecting may continue at the beginning of blood cleanup, during blood cleanup, and following blood cleanup. Spray cans containing disinfectant materials as well as plastic bottles can be used to dispense disinfectants. A fogger can be used for wide areas. of course, paper towels and microfiber towels can be used to clean and disinfect with bleach and other cleaning materials.
Here's a list for blood cleanup supplies:
The value of using over-the-counter cleaning supplies for blood cleanup cannot be overstated. For example, Sunset Beach families and Sunset Beach businesses can find the same products on the Home Depot or supermarket cleaning supply shelves. The contents of these products can be read and understood easily enough. In this way there should be no doubt about the quality and potential hazards poised by these cleaning products. Unlike the more "exotic" disinfecting solutions, any remaining residue will soon return to nature. We cannot say this about the more specialized cleaning products used during blood cleanup.
For example, for MRSA I have a disinfectant product containing silver. I do not like to use it as a general disinfectant. It leaves a very fine film on surfaces. And I cannot speak to its overall safety for infants in a household.
Furnishings are usually soiled beyond recovery. When a responsible party desires to keep furnishings heavily soiled by blood, I remove the blood from the nonporous surfaces. Then I disinfect the blood soiled area. As for heavily blood soiled fabrics, these I must cut out. It is rare when a responsible party paying for Sunset Beach blood cleanup desires the keep blood soiled fabrics on furnishings. Overall, blood cleanup practice entails removing over 98% of blood soiled materials. Some folks just want to keep stuff.
There are times when blood and blood products can be disposed of in the toilet, the sanitary sewer. Of course, pretreat blood before flushing it so it goes down the toilet to rejoin. It is not likely blood-borne pathogens can survive a direct attack by household bleach. It is often enough that the blood has been exposed to the open air, which destroys biohazards. Of course, we must always assume that blood remains biohazardous no longer how long it has been exposed to open air. All in all, I can say that I disposed quite a bit of blood down the toilet. This is the same thing the hospitals, mortuaries, and coroners do with human blood. So when it comes to blood cleanup work, sending blood down the toilet is a very safe and sane blood cleanup practice.
Blood and death odors are not dangerous. With that said, some people will experience nausea. This is culture at work, not biology. Yes, blood odors can destroy your lunch just like death order standard. Neither create deadly odors The issue with any death cleanup involving blood cleanup is found in blood-borne pathogens.
To remove orders blood and blood soiled materials must be removed. The sooner removed, the better. Ventilation is very important. Thorough cleaning is very important; sometimes using a paint sealer over once blood soiled areas helps to control orders. Blood cleanup odors may continue depending on perception. For example, an elderly adult will be less likely to detect blood and death odors than a four-year-old. It is always best, though, to fully eliminate sudden death orders as soon as possible.
Expect blood and death odors to permeate wood and other cellular-like materials over time. Cotton fabrics, carpet padding, and wood tables, chairs, and even wood cabinets will absorb death and blood odors.
Over time and death odors will slowly disappear. I once cleaned a multiple homicide in Henderson, Nevada. The attacker had killed two adults and a dog. The homicide victims bled out and decomposed in the house for over a month. In the Henderson, Nevada heat, decomposition was completed.
Because the homicides perpetrator was a son of the two victims, the home went into probate. Blood cleanup was off for a year. So by chance, I was called to do the blood cleanup one year to the day following the homicide. A newspaper with that day's date rested on the kitchen table. The point, the dos completely disappeared. So blood and death orders do go their way sooner or later, no matter how long before blood cleanup begins.
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Over the years so my competitors, nationwide, either unknowingly misinform the public or purposely misled the public about blood cleanup hazards. Yes, there are some hazards to blood cleanup, but they're not so great that they should cause anybody to be overly concerned. it is important to take precautions before beginning blood cleanup and blood cleanup directions can be found Online by using one of the search engines like Google, Bing, or Yahoo. Also, blood and death odors do not cause disease.
In a third floor Hollywood condominium I was forced to increase my blood cleanup prices for a bathroom cleanup. The fluids from an unattended death leaked into the second floor bathroom. The caller called from Montana. He had not seen the damage.


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Saturday, December 06, 2008
It's Official!
We found out this morning that Ashland, Oregon and the Lithia Loop Trail Marathon has become the setting for the 2009 and 2010 USA Track and Field National Trail Marathon Championships!
Mark your calendars now! On November 7th, 2009 we'll all be running with the best in the sport for bragging rights, a gold medal and a chance for prize money. Stay tuned for more information on the entry process and race details.
Posted by Rogue Valley Runners at 11:07 AM
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- Unknown said...
- Saturday, December 06, 2008 1:25:00 PM
- Matt Hart said...
wow.. congrats guys!
- Saturday, December 06, 2008 1:36:00 PM
- Craig Thornley said...
Sweet. Two USATF trail championships in Oregon in 2009. Congratulations, RVR.
- Saturday, December 06, 2008 11:31:00 PM
- AJW said...
That is great news! One question, since RVR is putting on the race aren't all RVR employees ineligble?:)
I must admit, it would be a blast to run a race with Hal, Ian, Kyle, Erik and Anton waiting on me at all the aid stations.
Seriously, congrats guys! More Oregon dominance. Ugh!
- Sunday, December 07, 2008 7:45:00 PM
- Brad Mitchell said...
Another trip to Oregon - I've got my calendar marked. Fun times!
- Sunday, December 14, 2008 4:48:00 PM
- Scott Dunlap said...
Fantastic! Looking forward to signing up and seeing this park you guys rave about.
- Friday, January 16, 2009 4:19:00 PM
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"Eric Wilson masterfully weaves together mysteries from past and present in this gutsy thriller. Wilson is an extraordinary writer with one of the freshest voices in fiction today. The Best of Evil is first-rate suspense."
–Gina Holmes, Novel Journey/Novel Reviews
"A work of amazing maturity and skill."
–James Byron Huggins, author of Cain, The Scam, and Sorcerer
"The Best of Evil is riveting reading–Eric Wilson at the top of his game. He combines suspense, history, a reality-game show, full-blooded characters and yes, palpable evil, into one addictive read. You'll love his flawed but charismatic protagonist, Aramis Black, a man prepared to live by the sword and die by the sword. Quite simply, The Best of Evil is the best of fiction."
–Randy Singer, author of The Cross Examination of Oliver Finney
"In The Best of Evil, you get the best of Eric Wilson–the only novelist I know who can make you wish you'd paid more attention in your seventh grade history class. Wilson manages to make Meriwether Lewis into a figure of contemporary fascination in this intriguing tale, set in modern-day Tennessee. Aramis Black is serving up hot coffee and sarcasm when a customer gets shot dead, propelling us into a story with all the twists and turns of a Smokey Mountain road. A stolen hankie, a pretty girl, a lock of hair, simmering family tensions, and a complicated hero with a dark past–The Best of Evil has it all."
–Melanie Wells, author of When the Day of Evil Comes and The Soul Hunter


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Prosecutors to seek death penalty in beating death
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a man charged in the beating death and rape of a 93-year-old Omaha woman.
Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said Friday that he plans to seek the death penalty for 19-year-old Sergio Martinez-Perez.
Martinez-Perez is being held without bond on charges of first-degree murder, first-degree sexual assault and burglary in the attack last month on Louise Sollowin, who died from her injuries three days after the attack.
Police say officers found Martinez-Perez naked and passed out on top of the elderly woman. Authorities believe Martinez-Perez was drunk when he entered the home through an unlocked door.
Authorities say Martinez-Perez is in the country illegally and had been in Omaha working as a roofer at the time of the attack.


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Bangkok is the Capital city of Thailand and is ranked as one of the world's most popular holiday destinations. The city holds a magical spell over its visitors and is full of beautifully decorated Buddhist temples, Royal palaces, museums, restaurants, and nightlife. Recently, the city has become the gateway to a large number of medical tourists. According to a BBC report, more than 80% of all medical tourists travel to Thailand, aiming to get the best medical attention, of which Bangkok and Singapore remain as the most popular destinations for expats. The trend is increasing by 10% to 15% per year and has been a strong economic driver for the country, next to the tourism industry.
Medical tourism in Bangkok is highly rated within the industry for many reasons, including:
For starters, Bangkok is a well-developed city. There are plenty of places to stay; shop and explore and deciding where you want to stay can be a difficult decision.
One way to choose the place you will likely stay at is to prioritize your activities. For example, if you want to shop then Sukhumvit may be the right district. This 18-kilometer long road is the commercial center and some of the best shopping malls and retail markets are dotted along this road.
The Siam district would be a great place to stay as the more popular and trendy shopping centers can be found here with a great selection of restaurants. There are various other attractions too, the Siam Ocean World, Kidzania, Erawan Shrine, Madame Tussauds, and the BACC, Bangkok's biggest art gallery, and cultural center.
Other popular tourist locations are Sukhumvit, Pratunam, Silom, Chinatown, Khaosan and the famous Bangkok Riverside.
Bangkok endures a tropical monsoon climate, it is hot and humid for the vast majority of the year with temperatures reaching thirty degrees centigrade. The best weather for visiting tourists in Bangkok is experienced between December and February as the temperature is much cooler and
There are three seasons in Bangkok –
There are two airports that serve Bangkok. All the international flights land at Suvarnabhumi International Airport and almost all of the domestic carriers, operate from Don Mueang Airport.
It takes sixty minutes to travel between the two airports and you must check with the airlines which airport your carrier is operating out of. You must also remember to check in for your flight at least two hours in advance to avoid the last minute rush.
Within the city, sky-trains and the underground MRT trains are the best ways to avoid heavy traffic. Taxis and tuk-tuks can also be used for shorter journeys around the city. Most taxis have meters, and you should avoid any that don't to protect yourself from scams. Ask your hotel to help you call for a cab, as they often have relationships with trustworthy companies. For a scenic view of the city, try hopping on a riverboat down the Chao Phraya River.
If you wish to visit Bangkok, you will have to go to your nearest Thai embassy to get a visa. The Thai government has a bilateral trade agreement with various countries. It allows citizens of fifty-five countries to enter without any visa. They can stay for a maximum period of thirty days before having to leave the country.
If you entered Thailand and received a 30 day stamp in your passport (this is called a 30 day visa exemption) you can also extend a 60 day tourist visa by 30 days to a total of 90 days for the same fee you can extend this stamp a further 30 days at any Thailand immigration center for a fee of 1900 Baht.
When arriving in Bangkok, the immigration officials can insist to see your return ticket. You must also provide proof of having access to at least ten thousand Bahts to fund your stay in the country.
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|System: Xbox 360, PC
|Dev: Neocore Games
|Pub: Neocore Games
|Release: Q4 2012
|Players: 1
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
by Josh Wirtanen
It's hard to deny the popularity of the vampire in today's culture. I mean, just flipping through the channels on your television set, there's a pretty good chance you'll stumble over a Twilight or True Blood marathon. But Neocore Games' upcoming action RPG, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, is here to remind us that not all vampires sparkle or have the ladies swooning. We got our hands on a pre-alpha build of the game that was made especially for the crowds at E3, and what we found was a niche title that should satisfy PC RPG enthusiasts who thirst for something a little bit off the beaten path.
Set in a steampunk version of Victorian-era Europe, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing tells the story of one of the most famous vampire hunters of all time, Van Helsing. Well, actually, that's not entirely true. The game's Van Helsing isn't the one we know and love from the classic Dracula novel, but rather his son. Still, his last name is Van Helsing and he's (sort of) a vampire hunter himself.
Van Helsing Jr. narrates this story with a particular charm and a constant tongue-in-cheek style that will keep you chuckling to yourself. However, this lighthearted narration provides a stark contrast against the story's dark setting, a setting Neocore refers to as "a world of monsters, mystery, and the marvels of science."
You see, this is a version of 19th Century Europe where hordes of monsters have been created through scientific means, and these creatures are wreaking all sorts of chaos on the streets of Borgovia. Van Helsing Jr. is the guy who's trying to rein all this chaos in by slaughtering these creatures by whatever means necessary, even if he has to side with his family's long-time vampiric enemies to do so.
The gameplay should feel familiar to those who've played Diablo III or Torchlight recently. You'll run around the game's world with an arsenal of hotkeyed skills and potions at your disposal, taking on massive crowds of monsters that drop treasure and loot. (There's also an Xbox LIVE version in the works, but what I played was on PC, complete with mouse and keyboard controls.)
All the while, you'll want to keep a close eye on you blue mana bar and red health bar ("bar" being an admittedly unsuitable term, as these stats are shown as two halves of a circle). Additionally, you build a yellow Rage meter as you kill monsters, and this can be spent on more powerful Rage-enhanced moves.
Van Helsing carries a sword for melee attacks and a pistol for ranged attacks, on top of his skills in magic. Of course, it's not all mindless button/keyboard mashing here. Different enemy types have different strengths and resistances, and some take far more damage from behind or when stunned. You'll have to use all your skills in strategic ways in order to do well here.


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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- The Vince Lombardi Trophy will be awarded in just under three months' time, but the competition has already begun in earnest for a more lucrative prize.
A slice of the estimated half-billion dollars in economic activity expected to visit the greater New York area in and around the Super Bowl.
In addition to making history as the first Super Bowl to be held outdoors in a cold-weather locale, the game has revived some of the mostly-friendly rivalry between perennial underdog New Jersey, where the game actually will be played Feb. 2, and the large city to the east that usually manages to steal the spotlight.
New York will be the site of the most extravagant Super Bowl-related spectacle, a theme park -- along closed-off Broadway and Times Square -- that will feature a toboggan slide, merchandise shop and concert venue. Across the Hudson River, New Jersey towns within a short drive of MetLife Stadium recognize they'll have to work a little harder to get noticed, and some are getting creative in their approaches.
Hackensack is planning to build a snow-tubing hill in its downtown. Montclair and Secaucus are planning carnival-like experiences featuring food, live music and games. In Hoboken, hipsters will be able to try their skill at curling at a lane set up by the waterfront.
Underlying it all is a dose of New Jersey attitude.
"So many people perceive that all the activities are happening in New York," said Ron Simoncini, a marketing expert who is working with several New Jersey towns to procure sponsors for Super Bowl-related activities. "But we've seen from previous Super Bowls that people in far greater numbers than have tickets come to the area. I think East Rutherford and Secaucus will have more people than Times Square on the day of the game."
Competing with New York is only one of the hurdles facing New Jersey towns.
There's the weather, which could range from balmy to teeth-rattling cold. Temperatures last year were in the 20s on Feb. 2, though they reached 40 and 46 degrees in the previous two years.
In addition, some local officials were miffed when they discovered they couldn't use the words "Super Bowl" or any other phrase or logo that might imply they were officially sanctioned by the NFL. Others anticipated a degree of financial support or sponsorship connections through the league or the official host committee and were disappointed.
"We've come to realize that we're kind of on our own in this," Montclair councilman Rich McMahon said. "It's an ironic thing, they encourage us to throw, in essence, a huge Super Bowl party, and they don't allow us to use the words. We have had to make it essentially a 'Montclair-winter-festival-that-happens-to-coincide-with-that-big-game-whose-name-we-can't-tell-you' event."
The NFL has a policy of not allowing third parties to "draft" off the excitement and visibility of the Super Bowl, league spokesman Brian McCarthy said.
With money from sponsors uncertain, Montclair has scaled back its original concept but still plans to throw a party involving live music, food and other attractions, McMahon said.
Other towns are aggressively seeking sponsors to avoid using taxpayer dollars.
Secaucus, which sits practically in the shadows of MetLife Stadium and could host thousands of hotel guests, is planning to erect a large, heated tent for karaoke, live music, dining and other activities. And it plans to offer ice sculptures, laser tag and slides at a local park. Mayor Michael Gonnelli said the town also will host a "Super Ball" black-tie event that he hopes will include an auction for two Super Bowl tickets.
Scott Katz, head of Hoboken's events committee, tapped into his experience directing Olympic curling for NBC to come up with the idea of building a curling lane that will stay up through the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The city also is planning to construct a giant cauldron, in Katz's words, featuring the Roman numerals XLVIII that will have the Manhattan skyline as a backdrop. A football-shaped ice rink near the Hudson River also is in consideration.
All the hoopla often obscures the fact that economic impact estimates are inexact and often overly optimistic, many sports economists say. For example, Glendale, Ariz., spent about $2 million more than it reaped in sales taxes when it hosted the 2008 Super Bowl, according to a widely-reported study by the city.
"I could see some municipalities actually losing money trying to make money," Temple University sports economist Joel Maxcy said. "But it's likely that there's some promotional value there that may pay off in the long run, though it's often difficult to quantify that."
Some municipalities are taking a different approach. In Jersey City, across the Hudson from lower Manhattan, Mayor Steven Fulop has eschewed any grandiose plans and instead noted that with both teams staying in hotels in his city, there will be a built-in draw for many fans.
He is partial to a certain type of fan, however.
"If it can't be the Giants, I'm cheering for the teams that come from cold-weather environments," he said. "I want a team from the Midwest whose fans are used to the cold so they don't mind hanging out outside. Steeler fans would be terrific; the same with Green Bay."


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STURBRIDGE � A 22-year-old woman was killed early this morning when the car she was driving on Whittemore Road hit a drainage culvert and flipped over.
Christina M. Mageau, of 24 Ashland Ave., Southbridge, was taken to Harrington Hospital in Southbridge, where she was pronounced dead, according to authorities.
Her husband, Alex Mageau, 25, a passenger in the car, was taken to UMass Memorial Medical Center - University Campus in Worcester, where he was treated and released.
Ms. Mageau was driving a 2013 Hyundai Elantra east on Whittemore Road toward Fiske Hill Road around 1 this morning when the car somehow crossed over the roadway, hit a drainage culvert and flipped over.
When rescue crews arrived, both of the Mageaus were outside the car.
The road was closed until 4:30 this morning. Sturbridge police and the Central Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council reconstruction team are investigating.
The couple had been married just half a year, recalled Helen Lenti, a justice of the peace and former Southbridge town clerk who married the Mageaus at their home July 1. At the time, the couple was living at a different address in an apartment with Ms. Mageau's grandmother and a child.
"They were simple people who were trying to make their way," Ms. Lenti said.
Ms. Mageau was working in the personal care field and cared for her grandmother, who sung her praises, Ms. Lenti said. "She took really good care of her," she said, remembering how Ms. Mageau tended to her grandmother even while waiting for the wedding ceremony to start.
Telegram & Gazette reporter Jacqueline Reis contributed to this report.


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|Southeast Spotlight
Canoe Welcoming greets people arriving for Celebration
Published: 06/07/2012 12:45:00
Celebration is this week in Juneau and people have been arriving from all over Southeast to take part in this major cultural event. Most of them arrive by air or ferry, but some of them arrived, and were welcomed, in age old and deeply traditional ways, and well over a thousand people gathered along the beach at the Auke Bay Recreation Area to honor their arrival.
VIDEO: Celebration is this week in Juneau and people have been arriving from all over Southeast; some in more traditional ways. (Image: Rik Pruett)
We asked Paul Marks of the Goldbelt Heritage Foundation about the event.
"What we're having here this afternoon is a canoe welcoming; we have seven canoes that are coming in from the villages; from Angoon, from Kake, from Wrangell, from Ketchikan and Hydaburg and we're welcoming them in a traditional way; how our people would welcome them years ago, so we're basically trying to imitate our ancestral ways."
Leilani Knight-McQueen of the One People Canoe Society elaborated on how it works. "The greeting of the canoes, we've tried to keep as traditional as possible; We can't not recognize the clan system, the societal system of the Tlingit and Haida people and so we tried to bring that to fruition today by having the Auke Kwaan people welcome us on land and all of the people of the land of this area welcome us traditionally and so when the canoes come from the furthest distance, those were the first ones that you saw coming through, and then they would welcome and they would shout out 'Who are you, what is your business here?' and then we would holler from the canoe 'We've come to celebrate with you for Celebration.' And they would reply 'Welcome, Come Ashore."
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Beano Boy wrote:Fruit or fish piled up for sale was often referred to in the old days as a barrow!
That is food for thought. i guess only our friend Remco can verify what he meant. BB
Dad's Army wrote:lol barrells or barrows, sounds the same to me
My English isn't good, but I guess it's better than your Dutch, whahahaha
But you understood good Paul, really like those euh things


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Gamespot Score: 9.0 (Editor's Choice)
My Score: 7.7
(+)Pros: - Interesting story with few likable characters, - Atmosphere feels amazingly dreadful, - Breath taking surface world and abandoned Metro tunnels, - Innovative creature designs and its fun to fight against them, - Playing stealthily against human foes is pretty fun, - Good array of customization weapons.
(-)Cons: - Most of the main campaign is dreadfully shallow and linear, - Human enemy AI is bad, - Zero replay value.
Gameplay time: Less than 10 hours
You play as Artyom, returning protagonist from the first game. "Last Light"'s story follows up from the default ending in the first game, which is the ending where the nuclear missile was launched, wiping out the entire race known as The Dark Ones (which weren't exactly a bunch of bad dudes). Apparently, Artyom, now a ranger, has been called on by his old friend Khan, saying that there's a surviving Dark One left on the surface, which he pleads you to go rescue. Of course, the rangers have a different plan, and sends you on a mission to go and KILL the final remaining Dark One. Turns out that this surviving Dark One is but an infant, and Artyom has troubles putting a bullet to its brain. However, things don't turn out to be so easy, as Artyom is attacked by Nazis and captured. After waking up and listening on the Nazi's plan, he manages to escape with the help of a fellow prisoner. His new journey begins.
|Shoot with guns, kill guys, easy as f**k.
There are many factors that decide shooter games for me, the story is one of them. Most shooters have decent to good stories, while some are just plain bad. "Metro: Last Light" has a surprisingly good story, filled with good amounts of emotion and tension at the right times. As someone who missed out the first game, I could still manage to get hold about what the game was going on about, so its safe to say that newcomers won't feel left out, except for the first few portions of the game where they are reminiscing about the past.
Because of the nature of the game's world, "Metro: Last Light" goes to great ends to make the atmosphere as dreadful as it can be. The very sight of the world spells complete dread and despair, crumbled surface buildings, destroyed roads, caved in tunnels and the very feeling that you get that an unknown creature can just pounce at you at any time....the game nails it HARD. You'll be on your toes for the majority of the game, and as you explore new areas, you will never let your guard down. As for these areas, the surface world and abandoned metro tunnels are the best. These specific areas look beautiful to immerse yourself into, and these are the sections of the game that provide a good deal of exploration for you itchy players. Be careful though, these areas are always filled to the brim with mutant creatures.
|Immerse yourselves!
For those of you unfamiliar with how "Metro" works, you go from area to area, killing all enemies in your way until you get into "unsafe" areas, where the air is polluted. Here is where you put your gas masks on, which you have a timer for. Run out of oxygen and Artyom starts to f**king die of a lack of oxygen, though you can find these oxygen casks scattered around, so its kind of hard to die of a lack of oxygen unless you're really careless. That or getting your mask broken by enemies. There are 2 types of enemies that stand in your way, clumsy, "can't aim for f**ks" soldiers or mutant creatures....with the latter being the deadlier kind.
These mutant creatures have varied designs, and all of them threaten you in their own ways. Wolf type enemies travel in packs and swarm you with their massive numbers. Demons are flying foes that swoop at you from high above, attempting to pick you up and fling you for massive damage. There are scorpion like enemies that take no damage from gunshots due to their thick armor, and you have to shine light on them to make them cower away until they fall over, then you can shoot their undersides. There are bear type enemies, an underwater boss....these mutants come in many different shapes and sizes, its always fun to fight against them as they require that little bit more effort to take down.
|When I first saw this creature, my thoughts were "f**k me"
Human enemies are a lot easier to take down, as these are just long, drawn out shooting galleries. Human enemies usually swarm you like madmen, so much to the point that you'll die instantly if you're seen out of cover for a single second. Killing them in straight out gun fights is one way to deal with them, but stealthily approaching these people from the back and killing them or just outright avoiding them can make you feel badass in a way. To top things off, there's a huge array of weapons at your disposal, though you can only take 2 along. You can also customize them, though this is a feature mostly taken from the first game.
|Into the tunnel....
Considering that "Metro: Last Light" is a post apocalyptic game with some of the best atmospheres around, the game is surprisingly linear. Other than the surface world and some of the tunnel segments, the rest of the game is pretty straightforward, just follow the path, shoot dudes, and you're done. And this is commonly ranted on by reviewers, the stupid AI on human enemies. They just run around for no reason at times, with guns sticking into walls. Also, since there's no multiplayer or no new game plus AT ALL, there is pretty much zero replay value as you can just reload your save to get the other ending that you didn't get once you finish the game (there are only 2 endings based off your "karma").
Well, that's that. Won't be any shooter reviews for awhile, because I haven't played any in a long time (none really interest me ATM other than "Bioshock Infinite". "Metro: Last Light" is a pretty good shooter, though I figured that it could have been more. If not for the brilliant designs for the mutant monsters and the great atmosphere, the game would have fared much worse. You don't have to play the original to jump into the game, so there's that. After all is said and done, its a niche title for all you shooter maniacs.
Happy gaming.


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These are magical or legendary creatures appearing or mentioned in Game of Thrones.
Legendary creatures are things such as "Grumpkins and Snarks" or even Krakens, which have not been proven to actually exist but which exist in the folklore and mythology of Westeros (Krakens are somewhat on the fence, as some believe they exist but are rarely encountered; thus they are treated as a "legendary animal" unless the books ever confirm their existence).
Magical creatures are beings which may "exist" but which are created by magic, not as self-sustaining, living and breathing animals. For example, the "Shadow" creatures created by Melisandre are "magical".
Dragons do not count as "magic" creatures because they are well-known to exist and are living, breathing animals - albeit they apparently have some sort of tie to magic in the world. Basically, following RPG rules, a "magical creature" is a "summoned creature", while Dragons are actual animals.
For animals in general (Direwolves, Ravens, etc.), see Category: Animals.


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"[Her poems] have that exquisite, heart-breaking quality about them that has
made Sylvia Plath our acknowledged Queen of Sorrows, the spokeswoman for our most
private, most helpless nightmares. . . . Her poetry is as deathly as it is impeccable;
it enchants us almost as powerfully as it must have enchanted her." –Joyce Carol Oates,
The New York Times
"Sylvia Plath's eye is sharp . . . and her wits responsive to what she sees." –Richard Howard,Poetry
"…The Colossus, which appeared earlier in England to unusual acclaim [was] her first volume to be published in America. Certainly the praise bestowed on her by British critics is warranted; Sylvia Plath is indeed a rare talent and a consummate craftsman…her powerful poems crackle and smolder with energy."–Guy Owen, Books Abroad
"She steers clear of feminine charm, deliciousness, gentility, supersensitivity and the act of being a poet. She simply writes good poetry."–Al Alvarez, London Observer


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Safe call at first stands after Indians challenge
Tigers second baseman Kinsler beats throw after bunting in eighth inning
DETROIT -- With the Tigers trailing the Indians 3-1 in the bottom of the eighth on Wednesday night at Comerica Park, Detroit second baseman Ian Kinsler laid down a bunt and was called safe on a bang-bang play at first.
After Cleveland manager Terry Francona's challenge and a video review, the umpires ruled that the play stands, giving the Tigers two on with nobody out.
"There's no reason not to [challenge]," Francona said. "I don't know. I saw it on the scoreboard and I thought he was out. It's not going to hurt if we lose the challenge. He was safe anyway."
The next batter, Torii Hunter, grounded into a double play, sending the lead runner, Rajai Davis, to third. Miguel Cabrera singled in Davis on the following at-bat, cutting the Indians' lead to one.
The Indians won the game, 3-2.


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