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Can martin just get his own show where he is angry all the time
Can Benedict get one where he just reads things? I'd watch that shit.
Martin and Benedict's angry reading time. Coming soon to a tumblr near you.
And Andrew Scott will have his own segment where he reads fairy tales and ovaries explode.
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LOGANVILLE -- With the garden in bloom, volunteers with the Vines Garden Railroad will start the engine.
After a winter renovation, the model train set will open May 8 at Vines Gardens, located at 3500 Oak Grove Road in Loganville, officials said.
This year, the model features 1,000 feet of track, 25 feet of bridges, tunnels and viaducts, an airport, towns and villages in the beautiful garden setting.
The volunteers added that kids would love a visit to see Thomas the Tank Engine with Annie and Clarabel.
The exhibit will be open each Sunday this summer, excluding holidays and rainy days from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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Detectives investigating drowning at south end pool
Detectives are searching for answers to determine how a man and his daughter drowned in a south end pool.
At about 10:40 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, Beaumont Police Department patrol officers responded to a reported drowning in the wading pool of the Alice Keith Park in the 4000 block of Reed Street.
A City of Beaumont maintenance worker was checking the grounds when he saw a man floating face down in the wading pool, a BPD press release said. The worker approached and saw that the arm of a child was sticking out from underneath the man. The worker immediately called 911.
Beaumont EMS and Fire Department personnel attempted to resuscitate the man and child at the scene. They then rushed the two to the Baptist Hospital Emergency Room where ER personnel pronounced them dead.
Detectives identified the man as 31-year-old Traveth Quinn, and the child was his daughter, 3-year-old Legend Quinn. Both were residents of Beaumont.
Circumstances surrounding the drowning are suspicious and detectives are working to determine how Traveth and Legend entered the locked facility and how they spent their morning prior to going to the pool. Detectives are interviewing neighbors who live near the pool as well as family members of Traveth and Legend.
Judge Ransom Jones has ordered autopsies, which will be performed Friday.
" it Takes A Village To Raise A Child And To Bury A Child "
First My Thoughts & Prayers Go Out To The Mother Of The Child & The Quinn Family. The Question On Everyone's Mind Is How Could This Tragic Incident Happen ?
A Father & Daughter Found Dead In A Locked Fenced Enclosed Wading Pool With One (1) Foot Of Water. There Were No Witnesses Or Security Cameras. Judge Jones Has Ordered Autopsies To Be Performed. While Funeral Arrangements Are Pending. The Family Is Asking The Local Community Help, Since Their Was No Life Insurance To Pay For The Funerals. Their Is An Old Saying " It Takes A Village To Raise A Child And It Takes A Village To Bury A Child ". May They Rest In Peace


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On September 16 and 17, 2011, the Harvard Law School-Brookings Project on Law and Security, in partnership with the Harvard National Security Journal, held a conference titled "Law, Security, and Liberty after 9/11: Looking to the Future." The conference addressed questions of national and international security through an interdisciplinary lens, bringing together academics, government experts, civil society, media, and other interested actors.
In October 2010 prominent legal and political scholars explored the relationship between terrorism, diplomacy and law in a panel discussion of "Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists" (2010), a book written by Harvard Law School Professors Philip Heymann '60 and Gabriella Blum LL.M. '01 S.J.D. '03. The conversation took place shortly after the authors received the 2010 Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize.
Along with Heymann and Blum, the panel featured HLS Professors David Barron '94 and Robert Mnookin '68; Graham Allison, director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; and HLS Visiting Professor Sanford Levinson, who is on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. Read more »
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Miracles do happen. BlackBerry today announced that BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) will be available on iOS and Android this summer as a free download.
On the BlackBerry blog, BlackBerry employee Donny Halliwell stated that availability is dependent on approval by the Apple App Store and Google Play. BBM for iOS is huge, considering the number of people that use the system: over 51 million daily active users who use BBM an average of 1.5 hours per day, sending over 10 billion messages per day.
Rumors about an iOS version of BBM first started floating around in earnest in March 2011, but this is the first word from BlackBerry that the app will actually appear.
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Ahhhh. (Second) home, sweet home. That's right, I'm in my second home… Provincetown! I'm beginning a summer of going back and forth from New York to the "Broadway at the Art House" series I started two years ago with Mark Cortale. Right now, I'm on my veranda at the beautiful Anchor Inn, overlooking Commercial Street with the Pilgrim monument to my right and delicious Joe's coffee to my left.
We began this year's series two nights ago with a show that has the most different format from any other show this summer. It all began last year when Joanna Gleason was on her first visit to Provincetown. She was walking down the street and someone on a bike rode by and yelled "I love you!" She responded by yelling, "Come back!" He indeed rode back and they chatted in front of the Art House and she saw the poster for the Broadway series. She then contacted me and Mark and told us her idea; essentially, she's like Angela Lansbury, who once told me that she loves to sing as a character but is very uncomfortable singing as herself.
Joanna asked if she could do an evening where the first act is a short play written by Michael Patrick King (who wrote "Sex and the City" and "The Comeback") and the second act would be me interviewing her a little and her singing a few songs. Last Friday and Saturday were her shows, and they were great! The first act was a play called Bloom where Joanna plays a soul in heaven who's giving a lecture to a large group of souls who are about to be reincarnated.
The play has so many funny parts, and the ending is quite moving. At the start, you find out that every soul has been given a random body just so they can get a sense of what it feels like to work one. Seeing Joanna try to walk with her new body was hilarious, unlike anything I've seen since since Robert Reed danced on the "Brady Bunch Variety Hour." Also, the souls, including Joanna, are wearing bodies that were all sorts of races and professions. Joanna has a tag attached to her side that gives info on what body she's wearing. "Let's see… two eyes, one nose, one mouth and breasts are… real! (She feels them to be sure.) I'm just surprised because it says I'm wearing an actress."
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After the play, we took a little break and then act two began which was Joanna singing a song, backed up by her son Aaron, her husband Chris (Sarandon) and the singing string quartet known as "Well-Strung." After the opening, we chatted about her life and career. If you don't know, her father is Monty Hall, creator/host of "Let's Make a Deal," who is now 92 years old! Joanna said that the initial audiences for "Let's Make A Deal" used to arrive in suits and dresses with pearls until they realized that the crazier the dressed, the more likely they were to get picked. I asked her about her early days of TV ("Hello, Larry") and she told me that she did a lot of game shows during that period and she loved them because she's very competitive and always won. I found an episode of "Password" where she was on with McLean Stevenson, but they were playing the game as their characters from "Hello, Larry." Who were they playing against, you ask? Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence as Mama and Eunice! So fun...and bizarre!
Joanna spent her teenage years in California and went to Beverly Hills High School. I asked her if she had any classmates that became famous. She listed Michael Lembeck, Julie Kavner, Albert Brooks and Richard Dreyfus. I immediately said, "So many Jews"! I then asked if she went to Beverly Hills Yeshiva. Of course, we eventually got to Into the Woods and I asked if she influenced any of the writing. First, she said that when the show was out of town, she would finish singing "Moments in the Woods" and an apple would roll onstage. Later on, the audience would find out the apple was poisoned and she had died. She told the director that the audience was invested in her character and seemed to be disappointed that her death happened offstage. So, she soon got killed onstage and then came back as a ghost!
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Note: Since I recap both Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance and they're overlapping seasons this week and next, I'll be covering both nights in one recap for these first two weeks.
They open with past winners and notable contestants being interviewed about how their life changed by putting on a number and getting in the audition line. My favorite bit is Mary with a giant, tight, curly hairdo, like when we had perms in the '80s.
Tuesday Night – Los Angeles Auditions
We're in Los Angeles at the Orpheum Theatre. Tonight's judges are Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy and Jesse Tyler Ferguson. Remember that season Mary wasn't on the show? I'm glad they got her back and kept her. Even if I find the "hot tamale" and the screaming a bit annoying.. I like that she comes from the competitive ballroom world.
Our first auditioner is Du-Shaunt "Fik-Shun" Stegall from Las Vegas, Nevada. That's a whole lotta name, kid. He's a popper and his body control and isolation are terrific. But you almost always have to see these guys try the more traditional dance styles before you know if they're going to be a successful contestant on the show. He has booty pops, full splits and this crazy move rotating his arms, torso and head in seemingly different airports at the same time. He gets a laugh with the Michael Jackson pose and then does a move that makes my ankles hurt – performing for most of the last 30 seconds of his audition in the world's winningest limbo position. He gets a ticket to Las Vegas. So, you know, home.
Audition #2 is from 19-year-old Malece Miller, a contemporary dancer from Salt Lake City. (It sounds like she says her first name to kind of rhyme with Elise.) She has an emotional backstory and a devoted mom. There's no way she doesn't make it through based on 1. Contemporary, 2. Utah, and 3. Emotional back story. She has trouble hearing Nigel at one point and apologizes, saying she's deaf. When Nigel asks her sincerely if she's deaf, I think, "If she says 'yes,' we've got our Season 10 winner already." She answers, "I'm partially deaf in my left ear." Nigel says, "Are you really?" And she replies, "No, not really." It's a much drier sense of humor than I would've expected from her.
I'm a terrible judge of contemporary dance because it all seems so the same to me after having watched nine seasons. I will say, she threw herself around the stage with greater abandon than some. Mary likes her look, short blond-bleached hair, saying it's "fresh" and "different." Mary's got that right. Mary's worried about some of her transitions today, though. Jesse calls her "striking" to look at. Nygel likes her too and she's through to Las Vegas.
They show us quick glimpses of folks getting the ticket to Las Vegas.
Paul Karmiryan was a contestant on the Armenian version of "So You Think You Can Dance" and won the whole thing. Should he even be allowed to audition for this version? He's a Latin ballroom dancer. He's dancing with a partner who is not auditioning. They're out of sync at times and I can't tell if that's his fault or hers. Nigel says Paul reminds him of Season 2 winner Benji Schwimmer. The judges faff around with a lame joke before giving him his ticket to Las Vegas.
This guy is wearing a black tutu around his neck and his body moves in crazy ways. His name is Elijah Laurant and he auditions wearing only the tutu/ruff and black tight fitting shorts. He's clearly a gifted dancer, but I question his choreography choices. Nigel found it artistic, beautiful and androgynous. Elijah jumps up and down at "androgynous" because that's what he wanted for the piece. Mary says she won't forget the piece for a long time. Of course he's through to Las Vegas.
Quick montage of people getting held for the choreography session later. Jesse Tyler Ferguson is adorable when admitting he'll cave and send a contestant through to choreography.
Taylor Ward was a jock, with scholarships to college for softball. She gave it all up to pursue dance, especially with the support of her grandfather, who passed away a month before these auditions. Just as she's getting ready to dance, they go to a break. She's practicing in the rehearsal area and comes down from a leap in way that does not look good for her knee. If your wide receiver on your fantasy league team came down like that, with a knee twisting like that, you'd start drinking. The show cuts to commercial before we find out the extent of the injury, though.
Back from commercials, there's no mention of Taylor; instead we get a montage of women who've danced well enough to get sent to Las Vegas.
Taylor now has a bandage on her left knee. Apparently her left kneecap popped out of place because she has "naturally loose joints." She tells us it's happened before and that she just popped it back in. I'm glad we didn't see that. I would've fainted, thrown up, then fainted again. Yowza.
Taylor's on the stage to audition and says she'll be using more of her upper body during her audition piece. As she's describing the injury, Jesse is clearly as squeamish as I am. She's doing surprisingly well despite the knee injury, even putting her weight solely on that leg at points. But noticeably not doing the same leap that injured the knee in rehearsal.
Jesse said he watched the whole routine worried that her knee might pop out again and that he was going to throw up if that happened. See? I was right. He liked the "effortlessness" of her dancing. Mary calls her a "true professional" with "stunning technique." Nigel wants her to go to choreography, as do Mary and Jesse. I'm not sure about making her dance more on that knee.
Morris Isby is a b-boy who says he's one of the more well-known b-boys around the world. So far it looks like every other b-boy routine we've seen over the previous nine seasons. It's good, but it's what b-boys do. Until he twists himself into a painful looking pretzel. Nigel points out a move he calls an "elbow pirouette." Jesse compares him to last season's Cyrus and the judges send him to choreography.
Montage of b-boy auditions, ending with a guy who pulls a flat out contortionist move and I worry, like Mary, how he'll unfold himself from it.
Armen Way "raps" in Russian and had been doing so for 10 years. He even made a professional music video with models washing a car. So he's bona fide. It turns out "Armen Way" is a stage name and his actual name is Armen Avasitov. He's got his hair gelled in that way that guys do when they're prematurely thinning on top and trying to hide it. He's, unsurprisingly, a Latin ballroom dancer. As far as I can tell, he's good, but I always wait to hear what Mary says about the ballroom auditioners. Before Jesse can even start to give his critique, Mary interrupts him to give him his ticket to Las Vegas.
Now there're 3 b-boys, two of them brothers, who started dancing because their dad was a b-boy in the 80s. After his untimely death when they were young, they joined with another guy to start a program for kids involving dancing. It's only the two brothers, Eric & Lorenzo Chapman, auditioning, but all three guys are dancing. I don't care if they don't actually have a shot at getting on the show or not, I'm glad they got to plug their group. Nigel calls them "inspirational" and then tells them they're not "built like dancers." Which is his way of pointing out the one guy is on the heavy side. Pretty much the judges say, "Great charity work you're never making it on the show."


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In the NES game parody of ours, Simon is back in town after killing Dracula in Castlevania 2... but now he finds that the priest won't even restore his health! It's quite obvious that this shit-talkin' priest needs to be taught a lesson or two!
Controls are:
Z = Jump
X = Whip
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(if you have problems controlling the character, just click on the game and the problem will resolve itself
And don't forget to return to town after you beat the game, because there's a "Secret Button" on your keyboard that you'll DEFINITELY want to push while you're in town! >:) You WILL need to CLOSE THE WINDOW and re-open the game to return to town just so you know. And you DON'T have to beat the game to access the secret item, but isn't it more fun to save it for last? And it doesn't tell you what the secret button is, you gotta figure out that for yourself! ;)
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Rated 5 / 5 stars May 12, 2003
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, spicy with a hint of sacrilige
(this may be insulting to christians, i wouldn't know. i'm jewish)
Rated 5 / 5 stars February 25, 2002
I like it
Wow, I never knew that Jesus drops bombs on you when you kill a priest! Awesome!
Rated 5 / 5 stars January 31, 2009
and Enimorese, wtf? Are you retarded. It's retro nintendo graphics you fucktard.
this was kickass game.
Rated 5 / 5 stars November 23, 2001
Hehe, I bet down in hell Satan is cracking himself up playing this game :) Keep up da good work. Damn Christians.
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u save jessus and he killes u lol


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Breaking up with Gilead Sciences
It's a great company and stock, but expectations are high and outperformance in 2013 will be tough.
By Nathan Sadeghi-Nejad
After more than a decade of being consistently bullish on Gilead Sciences (GILD) and watching the company's stellar management team build one of the most impressive and profitable businesses in healthcare, I'm stepping to the sidelines for now.
My decision isn't an easy one. Gilead has a great business model and earnings per share will grow substantially over the next few years, due to leverage from sales of Stribild in HIV and the inevitable initial sales boost from sofosbuvir (GS-7977) and GS-5885, the company's lead hepatitis C drug candidates.
Here's the problem:
Everyone knows Gilead is firing on all cylinders -- I wrote as much on TheStreet in late July -- and the company's massive $56 billion market capitalization already reflects significant future earnings growth. That will make relative outperformance in 2013 a difficult challenge.
Eventually, even perpetually bullish Wall Street analysts are going to realize the hepatitis C market is far smaller than current estimates suggest. Sanford Bernstein analyst Geoffrey Porges recently published a thoughtful analysis suggesting, based on two large managed care databases, that the U.S. hepatitis C market might be only a third as large as the most frequently cited estimates. Further, last month's lukewarm recommendation for screening Baby Boomers from the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, which based its conclusion on the uncertain net benefit of widespread hepatitis C screening, supports my view that identifying patients will be a meaningful logistical obstacle.
Given these issues, it's hard to see how Gilead's $11 billion acquisition of Pharmasset will generate a positive return on invested capital. Even if sofosbuvir brings in $40 billion in cumulative sales, Gilead would only roughly break even on the deal. Not that most investors care about such metrics. Despite it's unarguably lofty price tag, the acquisition was clearly genius. (Few on Wall Street, myself included, thought so at first.)
In one move, management changed the conversation with investors from one focused almost exclusively on the still-distant HIV franchise generics "patent cliff" to one driven by excitement about a new hepatitis C franchise, which bulls perceive as one of the largest untapped potential markets in virology. As a result, Gilead shares are up an astonishing 81% year-to-date.
Gilead now trades at just under 17 times 2013 consensus estimates, a slight but reasonable premium to the expected earnings growth rate of 14%. The HIV franchise will continue to perform at or modestly above Wall Street expectations. Sofosbuvir and GS-5885 seem poised to be the dominant treatment regimen for hepatitis C, even with strong competition from Abbott Labs (ABT) and others.
To be clear, I'm not suggesting the company's valuation is outrageous, more that it's hard to see the upside surprise from here. (For the record, I think Gilead's $510 million acquisition of YM BioSciences (YMI) last week was a good, but incremental, deal.)
When I change my investment view, I always try to practice good discipline and think about taking the other side of the trade. Yet without a clear-cut negative catalyst, I don't think Gilead is a compelling short right now. Nonetheless, the stock could modestly underperform as we move into 2013.
I may be leaving the Gilead party a bit too early, but that's okay with me. It's the holiday season, and there's always another one.
Sadeghi has no position in Gilead.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) Paula Deen has apologized, but that came too late for The Food Network. The celebrity chef posted two videos begging forgiveness from fans and critics troubled by her admission in a legal deposition to having used racial slurs in the past.
The Food Network made Deen a star with ``Paula's Home Cooking'' in 2002, but today issued a short statement saying it's decided not to renew Deen's contract when it expires at the end of this month.
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text: content August 16, 2005 Printer Friendly In this issue Life Extension Update Exclusive Inflammation linked with cerebral small-vessel disease Protocol Cerebral vascular disease Featured Products Perilla Oil Super Ginkgo Extract Life Extension magazine August 2005 issue High fiber intake cuts C-reactive protein levels, by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw Life Extension Update Exclusive Inflammation linked with cerebral small-vessel disease A study published in the August 9 2005 issue of the journal Circulation (http://circ.ahajournals.org/) revealed yet another condition associated with inflammation. A team from the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands has found that an elevation of C-reactive protein (CRP, a marker of inflammation) is associated with an increased incidence of cerebral-small vessel disease, a condition characterized by white matter lesions and lacunar infarcts that is associated with an elevated risk of stroke and dementia. The team evaluated findings from the Rotterdam Scan Study, which enrolled 1033 participants aged 69 to 90 from 1995 to 1996. The subjects underwent blood testing and an MRI scan of the brain upon enrollment, and the majority were reexamined after approximately three years. It was found that individuals with higher levels of C-reactive protein showed a greater prevalence and progression of cerebral white matter lesions, particularly periventricular lesions. Subjects whose CRP level was in the highest 25 percent of participants experienced over 3 times the risk of marked periventricular white matter lesion progression than those whose CRP was in the lowest fourth. In their commentary on the findings the authors suggest that CRP levels may be a marker for small-vessel disease in the same manner as for atherosclerosis, although CRP could be reflecting large-vessel atherosclerosis which is related to the condition and shares the same cardiovascular risk factors. Additionally the inflammation indicated by elevated CRP could be a response to ischemic tissue damage in the brain. Furthermore, this inflammation could be involved in the development of Alzheimer's disease. The authors proposed that anti-inflammatory agents such as aspirin could slow the progression of these lesions and help prevent their related conditions. Protocol Cerebral vascular disease Two types of thrombosis can cause a stroke: large vessel thrombosis and small vessel disease. Thrombotic stroke occurs most often in the large arteries, magnifying the impact and devastation of disease. Most large vessel thrombosis is caused by a combination of long-term atherosclerosis followed by rapid blood clot formation. Many thrombotic stroke patients have coronary artery disease, and heart attacks are a frequent cause of death in patients who have suffered this type of brain attack. The second type of thrombotic stroke is small vessel disease which occurs when blood flow is blocked to a very small arterial vessel. Little is known about the specific causes of small vessel disease, but it is often closely linked to hypertension and is an indicator of atherosclerotic disease. Chronic inflammation is associated with a variety of systemic diseases, including increased fibrinogen levels. C-reactive protein (CRP) is an early marker for systemic inflammation that rises before the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), the marker of inflammation used in conventional medicine. C-reactive protein appears to bind with LDL cholesterol, increasing its stickiness and vascular adherence. C-reactive protein is considered to be a highly sensitive risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Several studies have examined the relationship between CRP levels and the risk of future strokes or myocardial infarction. One article related plasma CRP levels to incidence of first ischemic stroke or TIA in the Framingham Study original cohort. CRP levels were measured in the previously frozen plasma samples of 591 men and 871 women free of stroke/TIA during their 1980-1982 clinic examinations, when their mean age was 69.7 years. During 12-14 years of follow-up, 196 ischemic strokes and TIAs occurred. Independent of age, men in the highest CRP quartile had two times the risk of ischemic stroke/TIA, and women had almost 3 times the risk compared with those in the lowest quartile (Rost et al. 2001). Several herbs that have multiple beneficial effects are anti-inflammatory. These include aspirin (derived from the bark of the white willow tree), turmeric (the yellow spice which contains curcumin), and the essential fatty acids found in fish, flax, perilla, and borage oils. http://www.lef.org/protocols/prtcl-031.shtml Featured Products Perilla Oil As people age, chronic systemic inflammation can inflict degenerative effects throughout the body. A primary cause of this destructive cascade is the production of cell-signaling chemicals known as inflammatory cytokines. Along with these dangerous cytokines, imbalances of hormone-like messengers called prostaglandins also contribute to chronic inflammatory processes. The body needs fatty acids to survive and is able to make all but two of them: linoleic acid, in the omega-6 family and linolenic acid, in the omega-3 family. These two fatty acids must be supplied by the diet and are therefore considered essential fatty acids (EFAs). Gastrointestinal side effects have precluded some people from getting enough omega-3 fatty acids from fish. Both the EPA and DHA, which are commonly found in fish oils, can be made by the body from alpha-linolenic acid, plentiful in only a few plants, such as Perilla frutescens. Perilla oil comes from the seeds of the plant that is also called the beefsteak plant. Super Ginkgo Extract For nearly 2800 years the Chinese have used extracts from the ginkgo biloba tree to treat a variety of conditions maintain the healthy normal function of the brain, cardiovascular, blood and blood vessels, circulatory and metabolic processes. Ginkgo contains numerous antioxidants such as the proanthocyanidins and flavonoids that counteract free-radical activity. 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If you knew you were at risk for getting cancer, wouldn't you want to do something to lower that risk? As Nancy Naeve Brown reports a Sioux Falls woman did after discovering years of acid reflux made the lining of her esophagus grow abnormally.
Edie Pfaff (pronounced Paff) from Sioux Falls was diagnosed 9 years ago with Barrett's esophagus. A pre-cancerous condition caused from chronic acid reflux. Edie's Gastroenterologist Dr. Steven Condron showed us what Edie's esophagus lining looked like near the opening of the stomach. It should look creamy white. Until she had an endoscopy, she didn't have symptoms of Barrett's she only had symptoms from reflux.
Edie says, "It comes up in my throat at night. Were you miserable? Yes, miserable. I slept in my recliner many a nights."
In February, Edie decided to be proactive about her increased risk of esophageal cancer. She went in for an ablation.
Dr. Condron says, "She was treated originally with this halo procedure. We apply a probe down the esophagus and deploy heat through a computer generated mechanism and its radio frequency delivered so it's very carefully controlled. We only destroy surface of esophagus and what grows up in it after the treatment is very normal appearing tissue in a majority of patients that are treated. So it's like a chemical peel to the esophagus."
This is Edie's third ablation treatment. Dr. Condron waits about 4-6 weeks between sessions and then rechecks to make sure all tiny little dimples of Barrett's tissue are gone. He found 2 little spots, burned them off and declared victory. Dr. Condron strongly believes this is the last ablation she'll need.
Edie says, "I had been restricted with what I could eat, but I can eat more now than I have been able to for a long time and I can sleep lying down."
Edie says this course of treatment has been a great experience. She doesn't remember the procedure, she feels so much better than she did. She's emotionally healthier too knowing her scare for esophageal cancer has been safely burned into oblivion.
Edie was sent home after each treatment on an aggressive prescription antacid regiment and won't need another endoscopy for at least 5 years.
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Indiana residents and businesses are starting to feel the pinch of rising gas prices, prompting some companies and even non-profits to being weighing whether to raise their own prices or cut back on deliveries.
The Flower Shop general manager George Litherland says the Evansville company's gas bill went up by $200 last month. He's thinking about consolidating deliveries to save on gas but may raise delivery costs if gas prices continue to rise.
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Major League Baseball and MLB Advanced Media announced that Jonathan Lucroy was named the Brewers nominee for the 2014 Hank Aaron Award.
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Prior to tonight's contest against the Chicago Cubs, Jonathan Lucroy was named the 2014 "We Energies High-Energy Player of the Year."
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All the ballots have been counted and the Brewers and We Energies will announce the winner of the 2014 "We Energies High-Energy Player of the Year" in a pre-game ceremony prior to tonight's game against the Chicago Cubs
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The Milwaukee Brewers today announced that the Club will honor retiring Major League Baseball Commissioner and former Brewers Owner Allan H. (Bud) Selig by retiring uniform #1 in a ceremony that will take place at Miller Park next season.
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Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig will visit Miller Park today as part of his team tour, which includes stops at all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums.
Miller Park homestand highlights: Sept. 26-28
On Friday, the Milwaukee Brewers will return home for their final homestand of the 2014 regular season. The team will celebrate Fan Appreciation Weekend by giving away prizes to fans throughout the series against the Chicago Cubs.
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A 20-year-old man from Naugatuck died in a one-car accident in Seymour at 1 a.m. Wednesday, the Seymour Police Department has confirmed.
Korey Jordan, of 68 Anderson St., was killed after being involved in a motor vehicle accident on South Main Street, or Route 115, in the area of Pearl Street in Seymour, Lt. Paul Satkowski said in a news release.
Police said they found a single motor vehicle facing southbound in the northbound travel lane of South Main Street with heavy damage to the vehicle. Four male occupants were located inside of the vehicle, police said. Jordan was the right front seat passenger; he was found to be trapped in the front seat after the vehicle sustained heavy damage. He was unconscious and had to be extricated from the vehicle by Seymour Fire Department personnel.
Jordan was treated on scene by Seymour Ambulance personnel and was transported to Waterbury Hospital where he later died from injuries sustained from the accident, Satkowski said.
Two rear seat passengers, 20-year-old Joseph Staffier of Hawkins Street, Derby, and a 17-year-old male, whose name was not released because of his age, were also injured in the accident. They were taken local hospitals for treatment. Both were listed in fair condition with non-life-threatening injuries Wednesday, police said.
Satkowski said preliminary investigation revealed the accident occurred when a vehicle operated by 20-year-old Manuel Esteves, of 33 Meadfarm Road in Seymour, was traveling northbound on South Main Street.
"According to witnesses, Esteves passed another vehicle at a high rate of speed on South Main Street in the area prior to Balkos Service Station," Satkowski said in the release. "As the vehicle approached the intersection of Pearl Street, Esteves' vehicle failed to negotiate a curve in the roadway and struck a utility pole head on, primarily on the right side of the vehicle, just after the intersection of Pearl Street."
Esteves received serious but non-life threatening injuries and was taken to Yale New Haven Hospital for treatment.
Traffic was rerouted around the scene of the crash for several hours immediately following the accident. The accident remains under investigation by Seymour Police Department Accident Reconstruction personnel. Speed and possible alcohol have been determined to be contributing factors to the accident. As of this time there are no criminal charges.


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Artwork selected for Burlington arts centre
Peter Powning's Spiral Stela the winning design for a public art installation at the Burlington Performing Arts Centre.
Artist's rendering of Peter Powning's Spiral Stela.
The results are in and the winner is… Spiral Stela .
The artwork envisioned by New Brunswick artist Peter Powning has been selected as the winning design for a public art installation at the Burlington Performing Arts Centre.
Powning was selected from a group of 119 artists from around the world who submitted designs for the project.
A jury of local residents and cultural arts experts short-listed applicants to three finalists.
More than 500 residents gave feedback, online and in person, on the three designs. After reviewing public comments, the volunteer jury selected the winner.
The jury included Ian Ross, executive director of the Burlington Art Centre, Emma Quin, executive director of the Ontario Craft Council and Trevor Copp, artistic director of Tottering Biped Theatre.
"We were impressed by the number of high-quality designs we received from talented artists," said Chris Glenn, director of parks and recreation. "We want to thank the community for providing comments and the volunteer jury for reviewing each one to make this very tough decision."
To continue the theme of community involvement through to the final design and fabrication process, the artist is asking the community to participate in the creation of what he calls "cultural mulch".
Residents are invited to bring objects of significance to one of three sessions where the artist will make a mould of the object, which will then be cast in bronze and added to a large band that encircles the sculpture.
Casting sessions will be held on Thursday, Jan. 31 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Holland Room at Central Library, 2331 New St.; Thursday, Jan. 31 from 7-9 p.m. in the main lobby at Burlington Performing Arts Centre, 440 Locust St., and on Sunday, Feb. 3 from 2-4 p.m. in the Lakeshore Room at Burlington Art Centre, 1333 Lakeshore Road.
The Feb. 3 event will include an artist lecture and casting session.
Some of the suggested items for casting are musical instruments, keys, special clothing like hats and boots, medals, family heirlooms or any item that has personal or community significance.
The commission was made possible by Dan Lawrie, a downtown Burlington resident and businessman who donated $37,500 toward the project. The city's portion of the budget is $75,000.
"I'm pleased this unique piece of public art will be located outside of the Burlington Performing Arts Centre," said Lawrie. "Having it on street level will make it accessible for all to enjoy."
The work is scheduled for installation in late summer of 2013.
For more information, visit http://burlingtonpublicart.com/news .
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St. Paul, MN (Sports Network) - The Minnesota Wild named Mike Yeo their new head coach on Friday.
Yeo, who will be the youngest NHL head coach at age 37, spent the 2010-11 season as the head coach of Minnesota's American Hockey League affiliate in Houston. He led the Aeros to a record of 46-28-1-5 with an appearance in the Calder Cup Finals.
"Mike possesses a great passion for coaching and is a strong communicator," said Wild general manager Chuck Fletcher in a statement. "He has been a winner at every level throughout his extensive coaching career."
Yeo was an assistant coach for five seasons with the Pittsburgh Penguins before taking the job at Houston last year. He helped the Penguins to a pair of Stanley Cup Finals appearances with a title in the spring of 2009.
"It was almost a year ago today that I decided to leave Pittsburgh and join this organization," Yeo said at a Friday press conference. "Some people doubted my decision, but I knew it was the right one. I knew it was a place where I could succeed. I always believed in myself and believed this day would come, that I would be a head coach in the National Hockey League."
Yeo will become the third coach in the brief history of the Wild and will take over for Todd Richards, who was fired in April after compiling a record of 77-71-16 in two seasons without a playoff appearance. Jacques Lemaire helped build the franchise from expansion in 2000-01, guiding the club to four playoff appearances in his eight seasons at the helm.
"Mike is the right guy for this team," said Fletcher, who indicated the only apprehension he had with Yeo was his age. "He's a good coach and it's a good day for the Minnesota Wild."
As a player, Yeo was a prospect of the Penguins and started in the minors in 1990 with Sudbury. However, he suffered a career-ending knee injury after playing in just 19 games for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton during the 1999-2000 campaign and was an assistant for six years in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton before joining the Penguins' staff.


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The Montreal Canadiens have traded power forward Guillaume Latendresse to the Minnesota Wild for forward Benoit Pouliot.
Latendresse, 22, has scored two goals and recorded one assist so far this season.
The forward who was drafted in the second round, 45th overall, in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, has recorded 48 goals and 37 assists in 232 career NHL games.
Pouliot, 23, has two goals and two assists in 14 games with the Wild this season. In 65 career NHL games, the fourth selection in the 2005 draft has nine goals and nine assists.
Pouliot hasn't played since Nov. 13 with an upper-body injury, and is expected to need a few more days before he can play. He will arrive in Montreal on Tuesday afternoon.
"The forwards are two players at the same stage in their careers who were still looking to make a place for themselves with the teams that drafted them," Canadiens GM Bob Gainey said in a release. "Often times a different environment, new teammates and a new situation can be beneficial for a player."
The Canadiens also called up left winger Sergei Kostitsyn from the AHL Hamilton Bulldogs on Monday. He will join the Canadiens tonight in Montreal and will be at practice Tuesday.
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existence of god (why religion is the answer)
today i had a conversation with a friend about religion ,god,quantum physics and forbidden archaeology .
the real question was ,does god exist ,if yes then why he created the universe ,was he bored ? religion can not give us satisfactory answer !
also religion is some thing very new , comparing it with human existence (forbidden archaeology) .
who created the universe ? is it better to believe that god created it instead of no one .(if we say god created it then the question is ,with what ?)
sorry for my english :(
one more thing ,please do some research on forbidden archaeology before replaying .
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Oct 18 2012: Can you see the difference between me claiming I am am god and you not being to disprove that.
The burden of proof is surely on the person claiming some thing exists rather than having to disprove 3000 different invisible intangible virtually non existent unverifiable gods and goddesses.
Oct 19 2012: I beg to differ, in the scientific community a theory is accepted if it cannot be proved wrong after there is evidence it may be correct. If it cannot be proven wrong then it is accepted as a current theory. I'm not saying that we should therefore accept the existence of a God because nobody can disprove it however you cannot say that it is entirely one party's responsibility to provide evidence. We accept the current model of the atom not because we can see it and all its components, it just hasn't ever been proven to be incorrect. A quote by Einstein was "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong"
The point I'm trying to get across is that neither one side can say "you can't prove you're right therefore you're wrong". The day when one side can prove the other wrong I'll stop being agnostic.
Oct 22 2012: I'm not sure you are completely correct re science.
In science you both try and prove and disprove the hypothesis.
Its not enough to say angels are responsible for gravity, you can not disprove so that becomes a valid theory.
Atomic theory makes predictions and these are consistently correct.
Yes science is only our best approximation of reality.
I take your point that we know nothing absolutely.
However if you can not distinguish scientific knowledge and its practical application in technology that works with mutually exclusive conflicting and unverifiable religious claims by Buddhists, Mormons, Catholics, evangelicals, jainists, Muslims, and past and present believes of thousands of different gods with associated dogmas, creation stories, moral codes, and mythology, then you may be missing my point.
Believing something doesn't make it real and some beliefs are supported by more evidence than others, if the Jews are correct all the other religions are false and misleading. Maybe the Mayans had it right and everyone alive today is wrong.
Oct 22 2012: A scientific theory must firstly be falsifiable. That means that if the theory is false, an observation can be made that will show it to be false.
Atomic theory has been tested many times and proven false and the theory refined again and again. When I was in public school, it was a minature solar system. Now its a little more complicated.
If you are claiming god exists, then what is the experiment or observation that will prove it false. If you declare that none can exists because god exists on faith, then it is not a valid scientific theory.
The correct phrase is then "you can't prove your wrong, so you are wrong"
Isn't the universe wonderful. I wouldn't live anywhere else.
Oct 22 2012: You've picked a rather extreme example there, you've also missed the point of my comment. I'm not saying that if you can't disprove something then it must be true, I specifically said that there must be evidence that it may be true. (although you've picket gravity, nobody has any idea of why that force occurs)
Above you said it must be the responsibility of those who believe in whatever God(s) they have to prove that they exist, I'm saying this is not the case. I'm not saying either side is completely responsible for providing all the evidence, yes we have proven a great number of things to such a degree as they should be accepted as fact, many of which conflicts with a great many religious beliefs, creationist ones especially. However, this does not disprove the existence of a God does it? A great many people who believe in God also accept scientific theory such as evolution, the fact of the matter is that some things remain uncertain and they choose to believe in God to explain it. They also provide a reason behind that belief which is a close to evidence as you're going get when it comes to questions such as how the first life actually began or why the universe began in the first place. (assuming you accept the Big Bang as the current theory)
Oct 22 2012: Almost.
If you claim that god exists you must have some evidence to back it up. There is no getting around that.
You must also have additional ways, or there must be theoretical (and practical) ways to show that some observation (or experiment, whatever) requires this same god to exist.
Furthermore, if you design this experiment to show that your god exists and it fails (falsability) then you must adjust your theory to accomidate the new result.
Your choice of evolution as an example is interesting since it is a scientific theory that has held against the test of time and may challanges and was proposed long before any creationist ideas.
The creationist are the ones on the hook to say why their hypothesis should be taken seriously and they need to come up with an experiment or observation that evolution cannot explain that their ideas can and if that experiment goes against them, be prepared to modify their ideas to account for the result.
I assure you, they are not ready to do that and therefore are not welcome at the scientific theory table.
I`ve never like the phrase big bang. I prefer ``Horrendous Space Kablooie``
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It's Marti Noxon with James Marsters and Michelle Trachtenberg! If rumors be true, methinks she's keeping an eye on them… (>_>)
Haha. I want to point out to everyone that Michelle is now 25 and James' fiancee is 24. But anyway, I don't think it's that creepy.
also, I think Marti is holding James' hand here, i think I have seen this picture from a slightly different angle
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going to sleep now, I've got more pictures to post tomorrow though you lucky people :)
Why are you trying to touch him Marc?
Nicholas takes hugs very seriously
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Deepwater Wind is just five days away from another milestone in its plan to erect the nation's first offshore wind energy project 3 miles from the southeast shore of Block Island.
On Monday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will close its public comment period for the $300 million project and begin considering the pros and cons raised in the 80-plus letters received, said Michael Elliott, project manager for the corps.
Deepwater Wind officials, who declined to comment this week, will be given a chance to respond to any concerns raised, Elliott said.
In October, Deepwater Wind applied to the corps and other government agencies for key permits for the project. One of those other agencies, the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council, received about 75 comments by its Feb. 4 deadline, said Laura Dwyer, spokeswoman for the agency.
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Elliott said the corps will next decide, in cooperation with other agencies, about scheduling joint public meetings or public hearings on the project. A timeline for a decision on the permit has not been set. He added that the Army Corps would make its decision in consultation with the other state and federal agencies.
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Among the comments sent to both the CRMC and the Army Corps are letters from the New Shoreham Town Council, the local authority on Block Island. The Jan. 15 letters, sent after a 3-2 vote of the council, supports the project based on an analysis by the council-appointed Electrical Utility Task Group. In a report included with the letters, the task group concludes that the wind farm would "provide significant economic and environmental benefits to Block Island."
It would lower electricity rates on the island, now among the highest in the country, by 40 percent, the report said, and significantly reduce dependence on pollution-emitting diesel generators that now provide the island's power. It would also provide a utility cable connecting Block Island to the mainland, a $20 million to $40 million expense the island could not afford otherwise, the report said.
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Warfel, an engineer with ENTECH Engineering, said his own analysis leads him to seriously doubt the fundamental assertions being made by Deepwater about the financial and technical viability of the project.
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McGarry said the project has divided the small community of year-round Block Island residents and that the potential benefits have been exaggerated.
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Kahn Brothers owned 2.5 million shares of Pfizer (NYSE: PFE), making the pharmaceutical company its largest holding by market value. Pfizer was also billionaire Ken Fisher of Fisher Asset Management's top stock pick for 2013 (see more of Fisher's stock picks). The stock currently trades at 14 times trailing earnings, though revenue did decline last quarter compared to the fourth quarter of 2011. Analyst expectations imply a forward P/E of 12. Pfizer also pays a dividend yield of 3.6% at current divided levels, so it offers at least something of a combination of value and income.
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