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Many thanks for not locking this section yet - hopefully Tom will be kind enough to answer my question, even though it is the 22nd, I think.
I've looked at your acting history, Sir, and noticed that although you have partaken in several Shakespearean plays, you don't seem to have ever played in a tale by Charles Dickens. How odd! (Please forgive me if I am wrong with that assumption)
Anyway, as I also enjoy a good yarn by one of our most prollific Victorian authors, I wondered, given total freedom to choose, which Dickensian part would you most like to play? Appearance doesn't matter, as it could easily be animated or audio only. Also the size of the part is irrelevant as often a small part can be the one most remembered by viewers or listeners.
A few that came to mind for various reasons (some involving copious amounts of rum being consumed ) are the following:
Samuel Pickwick
Ralph Nickleby
Durdles, the drunken stonemason in The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Daniel Peggotty, the crotchetty old fisherman in David Copperfield
Pumblebrook or old Bill Barley in Great Expectations
or my favourite option: Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times.
Your voice has the ability to sound both evil and ominous or jolly, tipsy and kind, enabling you, in my humble opinion, to conqueor a vast array of character profiles.
So, pray tell, Sir, WHO the Dickens would you like to be?
Edit: Ah, the wonderful, kind and wise Dirk has just informed me that you have indeed played Thomas Gradgrind in an audio production. I can't believe that I chose the part that you have actually played!!! Anyway, so now I need to know who else you'd like to play (oh dear), plus I also now know that you have increased the question count to 30 due to the popularity of this section. Wonderful. Thank you, thank you, thank you. x


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Missing Daughters, Missing Brides?
AbstractEven in countries where there is a male-biased sex ratio, it is still possible for the marriage market to be balanced if men marry younger women and population is growing. We define a missing Brides Index to reflect the intensity of the possible imbalance at steady state, taking into account the endogeneity of population growth. Taking international data on ages at marriage, fertility rate, and sex ratio at birth, we rank countries according to the Missing Brides Index.
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Why Laser Stretch Mark Removal Wasn't Right for Me
My daughter asked about the marks on my breasts and tummy last week. In the spirit of full disclosure, they are also on my love handles, butt, and bat wings. She's seen me naked thousands of times, but for some reason they suddenly caught her eye.
Aside from my daughter pointing them out, my stretch marks aren't on my radar. On the other hand, my friend has bought hundreds of dollars of lotions and creams containing cocoa butter and vitamin E. She's now investigating laser stretch mark removal.
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Hello once again, lovelies! Happy New Year! I hope that your holidays were magical and that you are jumping into 2011 with exuberance and sparkling eyes.
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Hello once again, lovelies! Happy New Year! I hope that your holidays were magical and that you are jumping into 2011 with exuberance and sparkling eyes.
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Sometimes you just have to put it out there in order to be able to release it and start the process of letting go. I'm so sorry you experienced such a difficult time over the last couple of years, here's wishing that 2011 fills your days with light and laugher, sending a virtual hug your way because we could all use one once in a while. xReplyDelete
Sorry things haven't been going to well for you. You can come live with me in Missouri if you like. It's terribly boring, but there's no drama, heh! Here's to a better new year!ReplyDelete
I'm sorry to hear the past few months have been so difficult for you. Being stressed and overwhelmed really takes a toll on you, more than I think some people realize. I've been struggling a lot too lately and I'm trying to stay positive, but it's hard. Keep pushing forward -- take time for yourself, find the moments of pause, and give to yourself.ReplyDelete
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It sounds like we all do the same things, rather than let our blogging world see our bad days, we hide. And like hiding from the creepy noise you thought you heard at the other end of the house - it can only make it worse.
Good luck working through it, and positive or negative, we do listen. Keep writing.
I am so sorry to hear that you have been struggling, but you are also incredibly wise in your honesty and your perspective. Here's to better days -- for all of us!ReplyDelete
I'm sorry to hear that you are and having been going through a difficult time lately, Ingrid. Please make some time for yourself to do the things you love to do, even if it means playing hooky from your responsibilities for a day.ReplyDelete
I'm glad to see an update from you to know that overall you are okay, you are still alive, and you are still filled with hope.
Please continue to keep us updated on your life because we all care for you so much.
Writing is good, it is healing and it helps you think even when you can't really process or understand.ReplyDelete
I am selfishly happy that you are showing up here in blogland - a sign of life, even if it is to reveal that your life is difficult. It is okay that it is, and it will change to the better. 2011 is here and it will be a good year.
Hope you have support close by, and if not, you have it from afar! Ang find some time to be creative, you need it. your soul needs it.
It's nice to hear from you, love! I'm sorry you've had a hard time lately - I agree that it's so much easier to keep up with blogging when things are going well! Don't worry, we won't be mad if it's not all sunshiney and positive. You have created such a lovely space here and it's sad to see you missing from it!ReplyDelete
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Utility and emergency response officials prepared for the worst Friday as Hurricane Sandy churned northward, readying for nearly a foot of rain, hurricane- or tropical storm-force winds, and power outages that could number in the hundreds of thousands.
As Gov. Martin O'Malley declared a state of emergency Friday to ready relief supplies and mobilize the National Guard, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. officials hurried to muster 2,000 out-of-state utility workers. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and county government leaders urged residents to prepare. State energy regulators hastily called a meeting to prevent problems that arose in recent power outages, while portable electricity generators quickly disappeared from hardware store shelves throughout the region.
Forecast models continued to shift Sandy's projected track late Friday, with the storm's outer bands at least two days away, though the National Hurricane Center still predicted that the storm's center would strike the Delmarva Peninsula late Monday and head northwest through Baltimore. Regardless of where the storm's center arrives, meteorologists expect the massive cyclone to inflict hundreds of millions of dollars of damage over at least half a dozen states, including Maryland.
Emergency management officials warn that the impact of the storm could last for days, depending on where it makes landfall. The predicted path into the Eastern Shore would be devastating. Even if the storm passes to the north, as some models suggested Friday, heavy winds and rain are still expected.
"We're in a very serious situation," said Robert Maloney, director of the Baltimore mayor's Office of Emergency Management. "There's no good-case scenario, because you don't know what poison pill you want. If this storm goes on its projected path, we're going to be doing something until next Friday."
BGE officials aim to have the necessary crews ready before Sandy arrives. About 800 are committed to the utility and are en route from Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana and as far away as Texas and New Mexico, officials said. A much shorter window of warning from the July 29 derecho made it difficult for the utility to gather the 1,500 needed workers, and some outages lasted a week.
Crews will begin repairing outages when winds calm to below 25 mph, officials said.
"While our crews will be in place and our staging site equipped before the arrival of the storm, the projected high winds and heavy rain may result in extended power outages," Jeannette M. Mills, BGE's chief customer officer, said in a statement.
Some utility customers immediately took the warnings seriously — portable generators were in high demand and short supply at local hardware stores.
James Boyd of Essex was one of the lucky few to get his hands on one. After driving to six stores Thursday night and a few more Friday morning, he stopped by the Home Depot in Dundalk for one last try. The store sold about two dozen generators in about two minutes first thing Friday morning, according to plumbing department employee Fred Szyzewski, but another had materialized.
"There were four people on their phones talking about [whether to buy] it, and I said, 'Is this one sold?'" Boyd said. "He said, 'Not yet,' so I said, 'I'll buy it.' "
The Maryland Public Service Commission called a last-minute meeting Friday to address a problem that arose during the aftermath of the derecho, when county officials around the state said they were unable to obtain specific outage locations from utilities. Commissioners agreed that electric utilities could release customer information to emergency-management officials trying to follow up with residents who lost power — particularly those with serious illnesses.
The PSC said utilities may release customers' names, addresses, telephone numbers and special-needs information to government emergency-management agencies only if the data is kept confidential and destroyed soon after power is restored. If the utility has already asked customers whether they want their information shared, as Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative has, it can't pass on information about the people who said no.
The decision applies only to the incoming storm, though PSC Chairman Douglas R.M. Nazarian said he expects the regulatory agency will discuss later how utilities should handle government appeals for power outage information at a customer level. The commission held the hearing in response to a last-minute request from BGE, which asked whether it should release information.
"Hopefully this won't have to get used," Nazarian said of the plan. But whether Sandy hits Maryland or not, "we will continue to think about this for the next one."
Separately, the commission also issued an order forbidding utilities from levying a charge that drew ire from customers after the derecho. The billing mechanism allowed utilities to collect small amounts from customers during the first 24 hours after a major storm even if the customers lacked power. In the order, commissioners called the policy "demoralizing to customers, who perceive an intrinsic unfairness in paying for service they did not receive."
Hurricane Sandy was already causing transportation disruptions Friday as transit officials were working to prepare for the storm.
The 2,124-passenger cruise ship Carnival Pride is trying to fight its way back to the relative safety of Baltimore's harbor.
Passenger Chris Ann Szep, a vice president at Cecil College, described in an email the dash to stay beyond the grasp of the growing storm that has left passengers anxious to return home as soon as possible.
The ship, which left Baltimore last Saturday, spent just four hours at Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean on Wednesday before steaming north ahead of the storm. Instead of going to the Bahamas, the captain turned for Cape Canaveral, Fla., only to decide that it was too dangerous to stop there Thursday, Szep wrote.


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One of the year's most anticipated titles is finally here! Dishonored is a first-person action game about a supernatural assassin driven by revenge.
Players assume the role of the Empress's bodyguard and are quickly framed for her murder.
Determined to unveil the circumstances behind her death, players don the role of an assassin to clear their name and uncover the truth about the rise of a new oppressive government.
Dishonored is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC right now and will be available in Europe this Friday. If you haven't picked it up yet, you can order on Amazon and most other major retailers.
To get caught up on the story you should watch Tales From Dunwall Parts One, Two, and Three.
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Hello darlings! Momma is grateful to have 300 lovely followers. To celebrate such a number, she had her summoner craft a teeny version of Momma to give away!
That's right! I spent the past few days creating this little plush to give away to one lucky follower. She measures a little over 4 inches in width and about 7 inches in height! She is completely hand sewn, made totally from fleece and stuffed comfortably.
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- You can reblog and like only once a day.
- If you win, you must have your ask box open. You must also be comfortable giving me your mailing address or else there's really no point to this. Don't worry about shipping; I've got that covered. I ship internationally.
- Although not a rule, I have to say this. If you are allergic to animals such as dogs or cats, be warned. I live in a pet friendly home and even though I don't let my animals roll around in my materials, a stray hair or two can sometimes find its way in.
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Dawn Cooke: Tattoo Ethics
It's okay to take up a hobby or make various other works of art. It's also okay to dedicate your life solely to tattooing and polishing those skills of your craft. It's okay to just do flash tattoos for your whole career. It's also acceptable to actually learn how to draw things yourself. I mean putting forth extra effort never hurt anyone. Knock yourself out!
What I see going on besides pure laziness is that people get really wrapped up in a fad. They get super involved in the hype of someone in particular or some particular image or style. They want to emulate it so badly that it is no longer about doing a good clean tattoo or perfecting a skill. It becomes some fantasy about who you wish you were instead of who you actually are.
There's this notion that if you make friends with the artists' whose work you admire that somehow you will be next in line for his slot and you will automatically be as cool as he or she is. This is how shallow and ignorant people can be. No one is exempt from this (including me) because I know, from experience, that no matter how much you think you are friends with someone, if it's not genuine it doesn't matter.
If you seek friendship out for personal gain that is not true friendship and people will just as easily drop you like a bad habit. Also, anyone willing to be that friend is likely in it for his or her own ulterior motives.
I'm not trying to pass judgment on anyone, only trying to help someone out if I can. There is no finish-line and you never have made it. It's not like one day you're going to wake up and be great. You have to aspire to greatness with even the smallest daily tasks, even the dumbest little tattoo, should be your absolute best work.
Get up and go in a little early and whip the dust off something! If you are a leader, lead by example! Go the extra mile once in a while and every day those things add up to greatness.
Don't be some kiss-ass idiot, or some egotistical prick. Because when it boils down to it, everyone is just trying to make a buck. Just some people have more integrity than others while doing it. And for those people that walk around with some elitist attitude that is just a psychological manipulation and display of insecurity.
If you place others beneath you so that it satiates your ego, which is a terribly sad way to achieve personal satisfaction, it doesn't matter how good you are or what your name is or who you know. Even if you are talented, you're still hollow inside if putting someone down brings you up.
Last but not least, treating your clients as though you are above them is really embarrassing! It impresses no one. It makes you look ignorant. It's okay to be nice to people. It doesn't affect your skill level or make you less cool to anyone who matters. It will improve your clientele. Believe it or not it doesn't matter how famous a tattoo artist you are, the rest of the world could care less, unless you are featured on a reality television show.
Then maybe, if you are lucky you get to be some sort of B-list celebrity who gets featured in some tabloid. But that's a discussion for another day! Get off your ass and have a good day! It's time for me to do the same…(Dawn Cooke is a contributing blogger for Tattoo Artist Magazine can be found at Depot Town Tattoo, 33 East Cross St. Ypsilanti, MI 48197 www.dawncooke.net and www.dawncookeart.com)
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well said,thought you would like to hear it.
March 28, 2011 at 7:22 PM
Pretty good. Im proud, finally somebody give an advice to those people who feels "specials".
March 28, 2011 at 7:24 PM
That was so well written I read it three times.
It seems like stuff you should learn during an apprenticeship, but that doesn't seem to happen anymore.
We aren't curing cancer, just making tattoos
April 1, 2011 at 7:36 PM
Well said, well written and straight up. I recently myself came across a guy I knew and helped 10 years ago reply to me recently with a " I knew you how ? " . I'm happy he's successful now, and hope he's doing well. Cuz he's dead to me now. Well said Dawn.
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The undisputed best rock record of the year, …Like Clockwork is the sixth QOTSA album and the band's first U.S. #1 album. The record has also hit #1 in Australia, Ireland and Portugal, #2 in the UK, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Finland and New Zealand, #3 in Holland and Austria, #4 in Denmark and top 10 in Germany, France, and Spain.
As reports from the world at large continue to verify, Homme and cohorts Troy Van Leeuwen, Dean Fertita, Michael Shuman and Jon Theodore are delivering the world's premiere live rock show nightly. No surprise then that they have been continually expanding the world tour in support of …Like Clockwork.
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Bully behavior begins in childhood as children watch their parents and siblings and learn those behaviors. If they learn bullying behaviors, they will mimic them. Some of them learn the error of their ways and change.
Some bullies may ask forgiveness or become compassionate to those they hurt or offended, but some of them do not learn and they develop into adult bullies. These adult bullies have relationships and marry unsuspecting people. They can wear a mask and act normal, but when they are stressed or dissatisfied they show their bully mindset.
"Are you married to a bully?," asks psychotherapist Mary Jo Rapini. They are usually screamers, yellers, attackers, lovers of chaos and unpredictable. Women can be bullies as well as men.
Rapini has provided the following list of ways to identify if a spouse is a bully:
1. Unpredictability with what sets them off - The same behavior done one day with no response may set off an explosion the next day. It could be frequently like this in a home and there may not be a way to know what will make he or she overreact. 2. Accusations of falsifying information - The only way to prove this is to tape record it, although if it has gotten out of hand, it would be wise to seek guidance from a professional. 3. Ridicule or teasing with critical remarks - If a spouse is told that this hurts his or her loved one's feelings, they tend to respond by saying they were just kidding, and ask what is wrong with their loved one and chide him or her for not being able to take a joke. 4. Isolation or rejection - A spouse may complain that his or her loved one does not do or say exactly what her or she wanted. It is the spouse's way of showing his or her partner who has the most power in the relationship. 5. They make threats saying if you don't "come to your senses" or give in to their way they will threaten to leave, file for divorce, take away money, or take the children; there are few limits here. They are bullies, and they do what they have to in order to get their way.
For anyone trying to make his or her marriage work with a bully, Rapini shares a few suggestions that may make it easier to cope with them. When and if abuse is part of the relationship, the best choice is to separate. Keep this separation until a spouse can come to terms with his or her behavior and accept that he or she has problems that must be worked out for the marriage to survive.
1. The only person that a concerned partner can change in this relationship is himself or herself and the way he or she reacts to a spouse's behavior. 2. Being as direct as possible with bully spouses will help them to know how far they can push their partners. It will begin to make you feel more in control of what your choices are. 3. When a bully spouse treats his or her partner well, the partner should always tell the spouse how much he or she appreciates the way that they are communicating. 4. As much as possible, relationship should be nurtured with continued time alone and communicating with one another about the vision for the marriage. 5. Using "I feel" statements helps a spouse not become defensive and also helps the spouse's partner define and claim what the partner is feeling. 6. The concerned partner should be honest with himself or herself and stop covering for a spouse when he or she is demonstrating bully behavior. 7. Whenever possible, a partner should allow a bully spouse to receive the natural consequences they will from their bully behavior.
One of the worst things about being married to a bully is that they demonstrate and mentor their behavior for their children. An open, honest relationship where both spouses can discuss the behavior and work toward eliminating it together is the best treatment approach.
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Here's a great quote: "Last year was the time to get started." Nicholas Cole, director of marketing at The Catholic Company, made that remark in a discussion we had last week about the state of mobile commerce. Truer words were never spoken. If you don't have an m-commerce site, you'd better get one up and running fast because consumers are switching to smartphones by the millions and voraciously using the mobile web.
The place most retailers start in mobile commerce, and indeed the best place to start, is not with a mobile app but with an m-commerce site. A site gives you the greatest reach because anyone with a web-enabled mobile phone can access it. Apps are built for specific mobile operating systems and only give you a chunk of the mobile pie (though it may be an important chunk based on your traffic and demographics). An m-commerce site offers familiarity—it looks and functions like an e-commerce site. And more smartphone owners use the mobile web than mobile apps, research shows. So an m-commerce site is the must-have.
Just to show you that last year was the time to get started, The Catholic Company is doing something few retailers in m-commerce have done. While most retailers are still working on designing a site, The Catholic Company has redesigned its site. That really says a lot. And this coming from a small retailer, not one of the giants.
The merchant optimized its site for landscape mode. Not too long ago, smartphones only allowed web browsing in portrait mode. But that all changed last year. Obviously, landscape mode changes the orientation of the page, and in so doing changes what consumers can see on the screen. Text and images were rendering small in landscape mode, so Cole and company made the fonts and images bigger. They made some other changes, as well, but the landscape mode drove the redesign because a drop in mobile sales coincided with landscape browsing capabilities. It said the landscape mode offered a mobile web experience that was not as good as the experience in portrait mode. So the redesign began.
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Listen, brother, there are more ladies in Heaven than Earth, and these are the ones we dream of in our philogyny. If Maxim were around in Ancient Egypt, we'd flirtatiously interview Cleopatra. And then she would find a creative way to have us killed, but--look, that's not the point. The point is you need to know who the attractive women are in any time period, just in case you're too busy looking at your phone to watch where you're going and stumble into a black hole one day. Case in point: Hedy Lamarr.
Most actresses want to play Bond Girls, but Lamarr actually was one. Her first husband was a weapons manufacturer (Moonraker) who treated her horribly (Tomorrow Never Dies, Casino Royale, etc.), and threw parties attended by Hitler and Mussolini, where he presumably unveiled schemes for satellites that would wipe Buckingham Palace off the map. Less certain: whether anyone awkwardly told Hitler he was attending a party thrown by a Jewish couple.
Fed up with all the domestic torture and Hitler-coddling, Lamarr fled the arranged marriage disguised as a maid, and got a divorce in Paris. You may choose to believe the Deleted Scene version of her escape, in which she went to a lavish party wearing every piece of jewelry she owned, drugged her husband, and fled on rocket skis down the Alps, accompanied by a mysterious Englishman in a tuxedo. Okay, we only made up half of that sentence.
Speaking of deleted scenes, prior to her marriage, the 19-year-old had already filmed nude scenes in her acting debut Ecstasy, a Czech film about an older man who mistreats his insanely hot wife, because life imitates art. According to her, the sex scenes were real, but her orgasmic expression was caused by the director poking her rear with a pin, which...are we supposed to be turned on by that as well? We can't tell in this kooky set of 1930s sexual standards. All we know is that exposed knees are scandalous...and hot.
Over the next thirty years she made as many millions of dollars (and that's then-money, not now-money, which is worthless), and spent it all. On what? Nobody knows! So here's an unsubstantiated guess: moon bases. Because Hedy Lamarr took her big math brain (The World is Not Enough, Moonraker again) and applied everything she'd picked up as her husband's constant companion at military design and production meetings to file a patent titled "Secret Communication System." The frequency-hopping scheme was used to keep radio-controlled torpedoes out of enemy control, and became the basis for much of the nifty technology we enjoy today, such as Wi-Fi and the nudity we enjoy over Wi-Fi, such as Ecstasy. My god--it's all connected!
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In a report about the estate tax on America's Newsroom, Alisyn Camerota and Molly Henneberg repeatedly referred to the tax as the "death tax," a term popularized by supporters of the repeal of the tax.
On Anderson Cooper 360, John King alleged: "The president today said there were fundamentally sound aspects of the economy. He says we'll get through this because of the innovative entrepreneurs, companies that are making good products, workers, American workers who are so productive. Almost exactly the same message he criticized John McCain for during the election." In fact, Obama criticized McCain for broadly stating that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong." Indeed, it was only after Obama criticized McCain that McCain revised his comments to assert that by "fundamentals," he had been referring to "the American worker, and their innovation, their entrepreneurship, the small business."
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Without God's creation of this earth,
there would be no ground that I could stand.
I could walk each road upon this earth,
but only one would head unto God's land.
I'll walk thou's special road one day,
where I shall meet at thou's holy gates.
Since thou hath given me all holiness,
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Life insurance isn't for good,
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TUESDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) -- The extent of heart muscle
damage in heart attack patients isn't reduced by inserting a
balloon pump into the aorta -- the body's main artery from the
heart -- before performing a surgery to clear clogged blood vessels
known as angioplasty, a new study finds.
The balloon pump, or intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP), is
designed to increase blood supply to the heart in order to reduce
its workload. Animal studies have suggested this emergency measure
-- generally temporary -- might reduce the amount of heart muscle
damage caused by a heart attack, but Duke University Medical Center
researchers found that's not the case in humans.
Their study compared 161 heart attack patients with the most
serious kind of heart attack (known as a STEMI) who received a
balloon pump prior to angioplasty and 176 patients who had
angioplasty without such therapy.
There was no significant difference in the amount of heart
muscle damage between the two groups.
The group who received the balloon pump had more short-term
medical complications, including major bleeding and vascular
problems, than the control group receiving standard care.
However, at six months, only three patients (1.9 percent) who
underwent the balloon pump procedure had died, compared with nine
of the group (5.2 percent) who received standard care.
Although the study was not designed to examine clinical
outcomes, the researchers were pleased with the low mortality rate
(under 5 percent) in the group that received the intra-aortic
balloon pump therapy.
"While routine use of IABC is not recommended, physicians should be vigilant about identifying patients who are at risk for rapid deterioration and may benefit from [it]," said cardiologist and principal investigator Dr. Manesh Patel in a Duke University news release.
The study was published online August 30 in the
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Rawxies: Heart-shaped raw vegan deliciousness! »
Rawxies ("foxy raw treats," according to the company's website) are gloriously delicious heart-shaped raw food bars sweetened only with fruit and coconut palm sugar. Coconut palm sugar has recently gained favor in various raw food circles, and reportedly has less of an effect on blood sugar than agave or cane sugar. Either way, it's totally delicious, and so are these lovely raw cookie bars! Rawxies sent me some samples of each of their flavors.
Rawxies founder Callie England parlayed her raw food interest with her graphic design prowess to make healthful treats that are so effing adorable they will be guaranteed to impress your date/friend/gym partner with whom you share one of the two heart bars found in each colorful serving pack.
Combined with high-quality organic raw ingredients like poppyseed, almonds cacao powder, cacao nibs, vanilla rains, walnuts, and other delicious add-ins, and sweetened with dates and/or coconut palm sugar with tasty oat groats, these bars really are a cut above many other vegan snacks on the market.
Using coconut palm sugar essentially guarantees you'll have the low-glycemic-loving raw crowd on your side, and abbreviating "essential oil" to "E.O." on the package of the mint chocolate chip Rawxies made me feel I'm in a special raw vegan club that has shorthand only cool kids know—except now everyone who reads Vegansaurus knows (in case you didn't already suss that one out!), so I guess all of us are in a special club, and can eat Rawxies with the knowledge of all of its ingredients, together!
Callie created Rawxies to bring foxy raw food to the masses. Their shape reminds me of the vegan Heart Thrive energy bars that undoubtedly got me through my varsity collegiate cross-country seasons (they were sold through Vassar's meal plan!). I think that these treats are in keeping with Stephen James Organics' bars in that they emphasize the fun, flirty appeal of raw food, though I guess a lot of folks feel the need to fight the "raw foodists eat twigs" stereotype! I've never worried about being accused of consuming twigs, since I admit to my propensity to down twig tea with abandon, but regardless of whether it's essential to create raw food products that combat any crunchy public image, I think it's great that so many people are making raw food more accessible and delicious!
Get Rawxies online and at various health food stores.
This is Vegansaurus raw correspondent Sarah E. Brown's latest post! Read more by Sarah on Vegansaurus, and visit her personal blog, Queer Vegan Food.
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SIG Blaser Tactical 2
Now, don't get me wrong. Bolt-action rifles have strengths that can't be easily discounted. Let's take, for example, accuracy. We all know what accuracy is, right? All the shots through one hole at absurd distances. Well, partly right. How would you feel about a rifle that put all its shots not just through a ragged group, but through the same hole, time after time? Great, right? What if, each morning, when you pulled it out of the rack, that point of impact was several inches in some random direction? They'll all go through the same hole, but you don't know where the hole will be. That is an accurate rifle, but not a repeatable one.
Bolt-action rifles, especially ones with free-floated barrels, have not just accuracy, but repeatability. Given the same ammo lot, they will have the same point of impact, day or night, hot or cold, wet or dry.
One such rifle that I've had a chance to test is the SIG Blaser Tactical 2. It is a bolt-action rifle, plopped into a high-tech polymer stock that free-floats the barrel, and offers cheekpiece, buttplate length of pull and pitch adjustments. If you can't make this one fit you, you're harder to fit than an NBA player. And in case you need fast follow-up shots, while it has a bolt handle on the side, you don't turn and pull, you just pull. It is a straight-pull bolt action, where the bolt head is an expanding collet that locks securely to the barrel extension.
As if that weren't enough, you can have it in four different calibers; .223, .308, .300 Winchester Magnum, and .338 Lapua. Now, at the extreme, with the .338 Lapua and its 27-inch barrel, you have a rifle that starts out at just over 12-1/2 pounds. But, even with the muzzle brake, when you touch off a Lapua round, you'll be glad it is that heavy.
I had an afternoon with one at the SIG plant, and with it I was able (in the .308 version) to shoot a bragging-size target.
If you have the opportunity as a team leader (LEO or military) to have a school-trained sniper along with you, you have a very useful asset. However, you won't. The next-best thing is to get a really accurate rifle into the hands of the best shooter on your squad or platoon and have him do the medium-range sniping for you. In the military, that job description is Squad Designated Marksman.
A scope on an M16 or M4 is good, but the military has been building purpose-made rifles for the job. SIG makes their 556 Classic in a DMR configuration. It uses, instead of the 16-inch barrel, a 21-inch tube, and the stock is a Magpul PRS stock. The trigger is an enhanced single-stage trigger, which means it is built to be cleaner than the already nice SIG 556 trigger, and the forearm is instead of the polymer halves, a railed free-float setup. Well, as much as you can free-float a piston-driven barrel.
With it, I was able to commit wholesale slaughter among one-liter water bottles at 200 yards, and hitting a LaRue steel plate at 600 was so easy it almost became boring. I say "almost" because once I had figured the drop (a 5.56 round, depending on the load, drops 50 to 60 inches out there) I started doing head-shots only.
The rifle was so soft to shoot, and so accurate, that I almost gave in and asked what the special writer's price would be on one.
This article is an excerpt from the Gun Digest Book of the Tactical Rifle. Click here to order your copy.
Recommended Tactical Rifle Resources
Gun Digest Book of The Tactical Rifle
Gun Digest Buyer's Guide to Tactical Rifles
Own the Night: Selection and Use of Tactical Lights and Laser Sights


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Scanbuy released its EZcode reader for Google Android phone.
ScanLife allows for immediate connection to a Web page without having to remember its URL on the iPhone.
Samung to preload the ScanLife mobile 2D bar code reader application in all of its camera phones.
Microsoft says that it'll be shuttering the service on August 19, 2015, giving users two years to leave the scan-friendly platform.
Scanbuy expands its 2D bar code technology to Mexico.
The two companies will make it easier for businesses to launch "relevant and engaging" QR code campaigns.
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The Phils swept a double-header with the Fish yesterday, winning the afternoon game in an 8-1 blowout and getting a walkoff single from Ruiz in the bottom of the tenth to win 5-4 last night.
The Phils now won six games in a row for the first time this season. In the six games they have outscored their opponents 40-15. You need a lot of guys contributing the score 6.7 runs a game, but the most welcome sight in the offensive display has been the emergence of Chase Utley. Utley has gone 9-for-23 with seven extra-base hits in the last six games, posting a 391/489/913 line in 27 plate appearances.
The Phillies are 43-26 on the year after winning both games of a double-header with the Florida Marlins yesterday. They have won six in a row and are 17 games above .500 for the first time on the year. They have the best record in baseball and lead the second-place Braves by five games in the NL East.
Last night the Phils won the second game 5-4 on a walkoff single by Ruiz in the bottom of the tenth.
Halladay got the start for the Phils and went seven innings, allowing four runs on six hits. Four of the hits went for extra-bases, three doubles and a solo home run. He struck out eight and didn't walk a batter.
He had a rough first inning, allowing a pair of runs that gave Florida an early 2-0 lead. Hanley Ramirez led off the game with a double and came around to score on a pair of ground outs. Gaby Sanchez homered to right-center with the bases empty for the second run.
The Phils scored a run in the bottom of the first to cut the lead to 2-1. Halladay kept Florida off the board in the second and the third, hitting Greg Dobbs with a pitch in the third and allowing a one-out single to Chris Coghlan in the third.
Florida scored two more in the fourth. Dobbs and Jose Lopez doubled back-to-back with one out, putting men on second and third for John Buck. Buck went down to get a 2-2 pitch and dumped it into center, scoring both runners to extend the Fish lead to 4-1.
Halladay didn't allow a base-runner in the fifth, sixth or seventh. In the seventh he struck out the side, getting Buck and pitcher Anibal Sanchez looking and Ramirez swinging.
The Phils had added another run in the fifth, so Bastardo started the eighth with the Phillies down 4-2. He got the first two batters he faced and Stutes came in to get the righty Sanchez to ground to short for the third out.
Bastardo lowered his ERA on the year to 1.05 with the outing. In his last ten appearances he's thrown 7 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing one hit and four walks. Opponents are hitting .129 against him for the season.
Stutes pitched the ninth with the Phils still down 4-2. He walked Mike Stanton to start the inning, but got Dobbs on a fly ball to left behind him. He hit Lopez with a pitch, putting men on first and second for Buck. Stutes got Buck on a popup to Utley for the second out and pinch-hitter Omar Infante on a ground ball to short.
Stutes has thrown 4 1/3 scoreless innings in his last four appearances.
Madson pitched the ninth. He allowed a leadoff walk to Ramirez, who was bunted to second. Logan Morrison lined to second for the second out. Madson walked Sanchez intentionally and struck Stanton out to leave both runners stranded.
Three shutout innings from the bullpen in the game in which the relievers don't allow a hit but walk three. Stutes threw 24 pitches in the game, Madson 22 and Bastardo ten.
Nobody in the pen has thrown more than one day in a row.
The Phillies lineup against righty Anibal Sanchez went (1) Rollins (2) Victorino (3) Utley (4) Howard (5) Polanco (6) Ibanez (7) Brown (8) Ruiz. Ruiz catches the night game after Sardinha started the day game. Polance, an unusual choice to hit fifth, came into the game having hit 243/293/294 over his last 151 plate appearances.
The Phils trailed 2-0 when they hit in the first. Rollins led off with a walk and, with one out, Utley sliced a double into the left field corner. Rollins rounded third and slid in safe safe ahead of Buck's tag on a close play, cutting the lead to 2-1. Utley went to third on the play at the plate, but the Phils couldn't bring him home to tie the game. Howard grounded to first with Utley holding and Polanco grounded to second.
No RBI for Howard with one out and a man on third.
Ruiz walked with two outs in the second, but Halladay struck out swinging behind him.
The Phils went in order in the third.
They trailed 4-1 when they hit in the fourth. Howard led off with a single and Polanco walked behind him. Ibanez struck out swinging for the first out and Brown grounded to second for the second. It put men on first and third for Ruiz, who was walked intentionally to get to Halladay. Halladay again struck out, leaving the bases loaded.
They did score in the fifth. Victorino singled with one out and stole second before Utley hammered a triple to the gap in right-center. Victorino scored to make it 4-2. Again the Phillies couldn't bring the runner home from third with one out. Howard struck out swinging and Polanco flew to right.
Again no RBI for Howard with one out and a man on third.
The Phils didn't have a runner in the sixth or seventh.
Polanco doubled to center with two outs in the eighth, but Ibanez struck out behind him.
They started the ninth down 4-2 with righty Leo Nunez on the mound for the Marlins. Ruiz singled with one out and Gload hit for Stutes and singled as well, putting men on first and second with one out for Rollins. Martinez ran for Gload at first. Rollins hit a ball hard off of Nunez's foot, but Nunez took it and went to first for the second out with the runners moving up to second and third. Victorino hit a 2-1 pitch just out of the reach of a diving Lopez and into center field. Ruiz and Martinez both scored and the game was tied at 4-4. Victorino stole second and took third when Buck's throw to second wasn't handled, but Utley flew to left to leave him there.
Howard was hit by a pitch to start the tenth, but Polanco and Ibanez went down behind him. Brown drew a two-out walk, though, moving Howard up to second. Ruiz was next and he hit a 1-0 pitch into center for a single. Emilio Bonifacio charged and didn't field the ball cleanly. Howard scored to give the Phils a 5-4 win.
Rollins was 0-for-4 with a walk in the game. He's 4-for-14 in the series so far with two home runs and six RBI.
Victorino 2-for-5 with two RBI. 6-for-his-last-15 with two doubles.
Utley 2-for-5 with a double, a triple and two RBI. He's 8-for-his-last-19 with four doubles, a triple and two home runs. He was hitting 195/298/293 after going 1-for-5 against the Pirates on June 4. After last night's game he's hitting 275/383/500 for the year in 94 plate appearances.
Howard was 1-for-4 last night and 2-for-7 with a walk and a double in the double-header. Twice in last night's game he couldn't bring the runner in from third with less than two outs.
Polanco 1-for-4 with a double and a walk. He's 2-for-his-last-12.
Ibanez 0-for-5 and struck out three times. 1-for-his-last-13.
Brown was 0-for-4 with a walk. 0-for-7 with two walks in the double-header. 3-for-his-last-29 with three homers.
Ruiz 2-for-3 with two walks and a game-winning RBI. 3-for-7 with two walks in the series.
The Phils won the opener 8-1 behind a strong performance by Kendrick and a six-run third inning that featured a three-rule triple by Valdez and a three-run homer by Rollins.
Kendrick got the start for the Phils and went seven innings, allowing a run on five hits and a walk. One of the hits went for extra-bases, a solo home run. He struck out five and dropped his ERA to 3.12 for the year.
Kendrick allowed a solo home run to Morrison in the top of the first as well as a walk and a single, but held the Marlins to a single run.
He gave up a single in the second, but threw a 1-2-3 third and started the fourth up 8-1.
Dobbs reached on an error by Brown in the fourth, but that was the only base-runner for the Marlins in the fourth, fifth or sixth.
In the seventh, the allowed back-to-back single with one out. It put men on first and second with one out, but Kendrick struck out Brett Hayes for the second out and got Wes Helms to ground to Rollins to keep the Marlins off the board.
Romero threw a 1-2-3 eighth.
Baez pitched the ninth with a seven-run lead. He allowed a two-out single to Dobbs, but got Omar Infante on a ground ball to second to end the game.
The Phillies lineup against righty Elih Villanueva went (1) Rollins (2) Victorino (3) Utley (4) Howard (5) Brown (6) Francisco (7) Valdez (8) Sardinha. Francisco plays left with Ibanez on the bench. Sardinha catches with Ruiz on the bench. Valdez at third with Polanco on the bench.
Down 1-0 when they hit in the bottom of the first, the Phils tied the game at 1-1 on doubles by Victorino and Howard.
Francisco and Kendrick both walked in the second and Rollins delivered a two-out single, scoring Francisco to put the Phils up 2-1. Victorino struck out swinging to leave the runners stranded at first and second.
The Phillies scored six times in the third. Valdez hit a three-run triple after Utley was hit by a pitch, Howard walked and Francisco was walked. That put the Phils up 5-1 with Valdez on third and one out. Sardinha walked behind Valdez, putting men on first and third. Kendrick struck out trying to bunt Sardinha to second, but Rollins was next and hit a three-run homer. 8-1.
The Phils didn't score any more runs in the game. Brown walked in the fourth, Valdez had singles in the fifth and the seventh and Martinez singled in the seventh.
Rollins was 2-for-5 in the game with a home run and three RBI.
Victorino 1-for-5 with a double.
Utley 0-for-3 with a strikeout and was hit by a pitch.
Howard 1-for-3 with a double, a walk and an RBI.
Brown 0-for-3 with a walk.
Francisco 0-for-2 with two walks.
Valdez 3-for-4 with a triple and three RBI.
Sardinha 0-for-3 with a walk.
Cliff Lee (6-5, 3.41) faces righty Javier Vazquez (3-6, 7.09) this afternoon. Vazquez has allowed 13 runs in 7 2/3 innings over his last two starts. Lee has allowed one run in 15 innings over his last two starts.


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Lowjack Performs at Bar Bleu, 10pm Friday Night
Posted by Ryan Chase on 07/30 at 03:38 PM
Lowjack, a local rock & roll band with a touch of soul, walks into Bar Bleu tonight, with a solid reputation as a live act.
Forget staying at home, drinking chocolate milk, and reading a book, acting like model citizens as you usually do. Have some fun for once. Check out a great band and maybe grab a drink or two. Live.
Lowjack – Bar Bleu, 10PM Friday night
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Bio: Ryan Chase is a senior at Pennsylvania State University, majoring in English and Sociology. In his free time, he enjoys writing, reading, woodcarving, and playing the guitar. Outside of most rap and opera, he listens to every type of music, but he prefers classic rock and jazz. His favorite artists are Robert Johnson, Heatmiser, and Minor Davis & the Fuzzy Slippers.
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Last week, my husband and I watched the documentary, Somewhere Between, by filmmaker Linda Goldstein Knowlton. I highly recommend this film to you. It is about the lives of a group of teenage girls who were adopted from China and are now living in America with their adopted families. While we were watching it, I cried several times. I can feel their struggles as well as their happiness. It is very obvious that their feelings are complicated.
On the one hand, these girls are lucky. Their American families love them and take good care of them. There is a couple who are adopting a young girl with cerebral palsy. I was deeply touched by them. They had great love, extra patience, and much more! I really admire them!
Watching this film took me back to about 15 years ago, when I tutored two adopted Chinese sisters. Their adoptive parents provided the two girls the best education. In addition to regular school, they had after school classes, Chinese lessons two times a week, violin classes two times a week, and swimming lessons once a week. There is no doubt that they are having lives that the girls who stay in the orphanages in China can't have.
On the other hand, these two sisters, just like the girls in Somewhere Between, saw that they are different from their parents and the rest of their family. If the family of an adopted Chinese child lives in a place where there are few, or no, Asians, they can also see that they are different from the people all around them at school, in the shopping malls, and in the restaurants. Then they start to ask themselves, "Who am I?", "Where did I come from?", "Who are my birth parents?" They want to know their identity. After Haley, who is 13 years old in the documentary, united with her birth family in a village in China, she said she was very grateful about the opportunity to meet her family, to know that she has sisters in China. She could feel the strong connections with them, even though she couldn't communicate with them. She could only talk a little bit with her elder sister who speaks some English.
Here are some thoughts I have for the families of adopted Chinese children (they are almost always girls):
- When they are little, provide as many opportunities as you can for them to learn the Chinese language and culture. In your local Chinese community, there are always celebrations of important Chinese holidays/festivals. You can take your child to attend the celebration. I always see parents and their adopted girls in our local Chinatown.
- If you live in a city that has a university, check to see if they have a Chinese student association, and/or an organization that has volunteers who can help your child to learn Chinese. When my daughter was at college, she had a sister, an adopted girl. My daughter taught her Chinese, took her to Chinese restaurants, and helped her mom with groceries in Asian grocery stores.
- Check if there are more families in your area who also have adopted girls. If you can find some families, you can always get together with them, and let the girls play together. As parents, you can also share ideas of how to raise the girls.
- When possible, take your child back to China and visit the place where she was born. For the majority of them, they just want to know their identity. They are curious. Back in the summer of 2011, my husband and I were on a cruise through the Three Gorges on the Yangtze River in China. We met two couples from Denmark, and each had an adopted Chinese daughter. They took the girls to visit the town where they adopted them. In the girls' words, now they know what China looks like.
I hope my words will help adoptive families in some way. I would love to hear your thoughts as well, so please leave your comments below. I strongly recommend the documentary, Somewhere Between, to everyone. I know it will touch your heart.
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