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(WMC-TV) - Sold out! That is the word on tickets to hear one of the stars of Duck Dynasty speak in Memphis this spring.
The bearded brotherhood is the most popular family in reality TV right now but one member of the family has been left out, until now.
Who could have predicted that excess facial hair would become a phenomenon with nearly 4 million viewers?
"Used to, we would just have the beards during hunting season. That was the tradition where that got started. Then we would shave after hunting season. Now we're filming, so you just have it year round," said Jase Robertson, Duck Dynasty.
The Robertsons say beards are good for business. It makes the family more recognizable for all of the Robertson boys, except one.
"Can't you tell I look like a Robertson? Just imagine, you wonder what they look like underneath the beard. This is it," said Alan Robertson, Duck Commander Company.
Alan is the oldest of the four Robertson kids. He likes to call himself the original.
He spent the past 22 years as a pastor until just recently, when he decided to join the family business, where he helps schedule appearances.
Alan never really got into this whole beard thing.
"It's like a sasquatch in reverse, cause you know, instead of the hairy sighting, I'm like the clean sighting," he said.
The show's network, A&E, is reportedly leery about adding a brother who doesn't have a beard, saying it could take away from some of the mystery.
It has been that way for most of the company's projects in the past.
"We went to Wal-Mart to sell them Duckmen 9 and Alan didn't have a beard and they said the buyers said, 'Y'all are gonna have to put one on him.' I was like, 'What?' So that's photoshopped," said Missy Robertson, Alan's sister-in-law.
"It's hard 'cause my thing has kinda been the different one, to not have to do that," said Alan. "The feeling is that once you go the long hair and the beard there's no going back from that."
Do not be surprised if you see a little more skin in the coming seasons with the introduction of the abnormal brother of the Robertson clan.
Alan's dad, Phil Robertson, will be a guest speaker at the RE:FUEL Memphis Men's Conference in mid-April.
The Duck Dynasty event is sold out but tickets are still available for the rest of the conference.
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St. Patrick's Day seems to get bigger every year and is definitely growing in popularity as a holiday for kids. I'm not Irish, but any excuse for having fun with my family seems like a reason to celebrate. You certainly don't have to be Irish to have fun with the color green, shamrock shapes, hunts for gold, or tricky Leprechauns.
Just like the Christmas Holiday Elf on the Shelf tradition, you can be really creative with the idea that leprechauns play tricks on kids. After all, they are tiny, green, greedy, and grumpy. Back when my daughter was in day care, her very clever teacher decided to have the kids decorate the room for St. Patrick's Day. When they came back the next morning, the "Leprechaun" had played a trick on them and shrunken all of the decorations to a tiny size. A year later, on St. Patrick's Day, the kids found the Leprechaun's pants, coat and underwear in the sandbox. In first grade, my daughter's class made "traps" or little houses to catch the Leprechaun. However, "he" was too clever and replaced all of their traps with green hats.
Here are 5 more ideas to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with the kids.
1. Bake Treats – I saw this recipe a few years ago for Lucky Green Velvet Cupcakes from the Picky Palate so my daughter and I had to try them. Honestly, these are some of the best tasting cupcakes I've ever had. So moist! We made them again this year for a party this weekend.
2. Search for Gold – FamilyFun.com has a St. Patrick's Day Scavenger Hunt Game that looks like fun to play at home or in a classroom.
3. Dinner Talk - For some silly entertainment at St. Patrick's Day dinner, download this Super-cute, Super-Fun FREE family conversation cards from the HappyHomeFairy.com.
4. Be Sneaky Good - Here is a St. Patrick's Day family tradition idea I saw over at TipJunkie.com. What I love about it is that the kids get to be sneaky and tricky like a leprechaun, but all in the name of doing something nice for another person. Kids will love doing something nice for their siblings or classmates and seeing if they can guess who did it.
5. Footprints of Fun – Here's a fun idea from Gourmet Mom on the Go where she took a bite out of her kids' lunch and then left green footprints walking away from the scene of the crime.
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EIA conducts numerous energy-related surveys and other information programs. In general, the surveys can be divided into two broad groups: supply surveys, directed to the suppliers and marketers of specific energy sources, that measure the quantities of specific fuels produced for and/or supplied to the market; and consumption surveys, which gather information on the types of energy used by consumer groups along with the consumer characteristics that are associated with energy use.
In the transportation sector, EIA's core consumption survey was the Residential Transportation Energy Consumption Survey. RTECS belongs to the consumption group because it collects information directly from the consumer, the household. For roughly a decade, EIA fielded the RTECS--data were first collected in 1983. This survey, fielded for the last time in 1994, was a triennial survey of energy use and expenditures, vehicle miles-traveled (VMT), and vehicle characteristics for household vehicles. For the 1994 survey, a national sample of more than 3,000 households that own or use some 5,500 vehicles provided data.
With the discontinuation of the RTECS after 1994, EIA no longer had a survey of energy consumption for any part of the transportation sector. To fill the gap in household vehicle energy data, EIA partnered with the U.S. Department of Transportation to fill this gap in energy-related transportation statistics, using the latest National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), conducted in 2001/2002. The National Household Travel Survey [formerly known as the Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS) and the American Travel Survey (ATS)] are household-based travel surveys conducted every five years by the U.S. Department of Transportation (US DOT). Survey data are collected from a sample of U.S. households and expanded to provide national estimates of trips and miles by travel mode, purpose, and a host of other characteristics. The survey collects information on daily, local trips and on long-distance travel in the United States. Because the survey included direct collection of odometer-based vehicle miles traveled, EIA was able to derive energy consumption and expenditures information for the vehicles in the sample households. In that way, EIA was able to create a data set essentially comparable to the data available from RTECS.
EIA has also been involved with other consumer-based data initiatives for transportation. During the first half of the 1990's, in response to requirements in the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to investigate the potential markets for alternative-fuel vehicles, EIA conducted surveys of electric utility, natural gas supplier, and propane provider vehicle fleets; surveys of commercial fleets in the cities of Atlanta and Denver; a survey of private consumer preferences for alternative-fuel vehicles, and an internal assessment of the composition of the nonresidential highway vehicle fleet. In addition, EIA has developed a calculator of regional driving costs based on up-to-date fuel prices and user-supplied vehicle miles per gallon and miles traveled.
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- Kevin Brian Carroll
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Would you keep it to yourself or give it away to someone who had already achieved the fame required to promote it to the world?
If you had uncovered the truth about reality (and humanity's unique role within it) and it was very much capable - as a initiating notion - of launching subsequent metaphysics and physics breakthroughs, but you had never prepared your life to be viewed as a credible messenger/educator within that specific cultural sphere, would you persist in trying to break this revolutionary notion as its author, or would you quietly hand it over to a much more notable individual whose claims of authorship would be much more successful in gaining widespread interest in the notion itself?
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Feb 9 2012: You know, your question reminds me of what Muddy Waters said about the Rolling Stones:
"They stole my music but they gave me my name."
I've always thought it is one of the saddest sentences ever uttered in the history of mankind; just imagine all the invisible things in between those words. Although there are discoveries in this world that are simply too great to keep them to yourself, try keeping your name with yours.
Feb 10 2012: Sadly, the world of big ideas is just as competitive as the world of great music. Fame is the motivator for most who achieve it, and those who've always had that fire in their belly are the ones who we all know and look to for our cues on how to live, love and interpret reality.
Let's assume that this specific premise has the power to lift this public mahatma's profile into the realm of people like Einstein, Tesla, Buddha and Newton. And let's assume that this person is fully aware of what awaits him/her in fame and public accolades, and that this is what has motivated that person to make this deal.
In other words, they'll be taking your music and your name, leaving you with only the knowledge that you could not have ever seized the headlines for your breakthrough that this person can seize, due to the career that he/she has already established in the given field of study. You'd be required to simply walk away and try to stay away from that field of study forever.
Feb 10 2012: I am no scientist or engineer, so I do not know what it takes to be Einstein, Tesla or Newton. If it was that fire in their bellies that had made Muddy Waters and the Buddha who they were, no amount of teaching could have been given to anyone else to fully live out their talents and ideas except themselves. It would have been utterly "immoral" of them to walk away with such a fire that is bright enough to illuminate part of the world, if not all of mankind. What other way would they have chosen otherwise?
Feb 13 2012: I honestly have no idea what allowed those men to be associated with their notions, but I do know that in our modern world, if you haven't been raised within or working within a specific "industry" (like music, film, academia, elite business) then you simply cannot barge in and set up shop. In the world of esoteric sciences (most call this field Metaphysics) you need to claim a divine guidance or supernormal capacity, and be able to convince the established hierarchy within the field of your capacity, if you want to be taken seriously. You certainly can't offer proof that there is a non-mystical, intellectually accessible foundation from which all of it rises. There are careers at stake for these folks, and since a non-mystical, intellectually accessible foundation would naturally cross contaminate the fields of theology, philosophy, religion, quantum physics and every siloed segment of physical science, you'd be dealing with thousands of careers on the line. In this modern world, the impact of breakthroughs leave a much more profound crater, and this would be why a Buddha or a Newton would probably be less likely to spring from nowhere - then again, Buddha was an Indian Prince (there's your pedigree in his case) and Newton was a well know academic as an adult, and had already focused his entire life in that regard. His initial breakthroughs were within the very tight confines of math, and later theories were generally associated with that discipline. Certainly not his heretical dabblings with biblical prophesy interpretation, and therein lies what I'm suggesting - that unless you've already become established in a filed of inquiry, your breakthroughs in that field will never be acknowledged or even given a fair airing.
Those men didn't have to walk away from their bright fires. And yet, how many others have had to? We'll never know, because we never learned about their bright fires. We only know about the ones who were allowed to present those fires.
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Kevin & Dop's Playful Uptown Loft
House Tour
Name: Kevin Byrne and Dop Troutman
Location: Chicago (Uptown)
Size: 884 square feet (1 bedroom loft in former department store; built in 1915 converted in 2003)
Years lived in: 1
Kevin shared his first place with us way back in May '06; it was a condo renovation with a major bathroom overhaul, tons of DIY with bright, simple design choices. Since then he has moved with his partner, Dop, into a loft conversion in Uptown. And while he brought some ideas from his Lakeview home, this space indicates a fresh start loaded with creativity, color, and of course more doing-it-themselves:
With a wall of windows letting in tons of light and an Uptown view, Kevin and Dop have made their loft both clean/streamlined as well as playful/visual; not always an easy overlap. With both mental and physical room for a trapeze (Kevin has trained in circus arts) and large-scale paintings, this loft feels nothing like "too much." One of our favorite elements is the bicycle pulley system above the front door, more proof that this loft's ceiling height is used in the most perfect ways to suit Kevin and Dop's needs.
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Our style: D: Low, clean lines. Uncluttered. Simple with accents of bold colors. K: All that, plus personal and playful.
Inspiration: K: I like the industrial loft feeling of some repurposed spaces but wanted to soften the look for the design of the building and our personal style.
Favorite Element: K: My last place had zero view; I looked right into the wall of the adjacent building. I love the light, airiness, and view provided by the large East-facing windows.
Biggest Challenge: D: The biggest challenge was creating separate rooms that still complimented each other without looking thematic.
What Friends Say: D: They love it; words we most often hear when friends walk in are "fun", "creative" and "clever".
Biggest Embarrassment: D: Originally our bed was a five foot lofted bed that we thought was ideal for the place. Then we realized it overwhelmed the space and ended up sawing three and a half feet of leg off of it. K: We were trying for extra storage but it didn't turn out quite as we planned. Oops!
Proudest DIY: K: I think I'm most proud of designing and installing the bathroom vanity. Oh- and building the headboard. It really helped to solve the layout issue of the bedroom.
Biggest Indulgence: K: We tend to be pretty frugal; hanging the trapeze was definitely a splurge. I've trained in circus arts and wanted a place to practice a bit. It's definitely a conversation piece.
Best advice: K: I have to remind myself that it's okay for our place to be a work in progress. My advice would be to tackle projects one at a time… from paint and furniture to accessories and fixtures. Case in point: the Poang chair in the living room and the bathroom light fixture; they're next on my list.
Dream source: K: Modernica. D: Design Within Reach.
Resources: Ikea (couch, dining table/chairs, bedding, living room chair, dressers, and entryway locker); Custom Wood Products (bathroom vanity and mirror frame), Family Dollar (rugs), moving sales (television stand, lamps, mirror, shelves, and kitchen table/stools), Home Depot (plants/pots); thrift store (kitchen sign and fork), Chicago Flyhouse (trapeze installation), collegebedlofts.com (bed), mattshallenberger.com (bedroom photos), testtubesonline.com (test tubes), Amazon (bike hoist), orkposters.com (Chicago poster), made by Kevin, the homeowner (headboard, coffee table, metal sculptures, pillows, paintings, and marquee photos).
(Thanks, Kevin and Dop!)
Images: Evan Thomas
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FANTASTIC! we have a similar loft in Pilsen. Very clean, very creative yet still feels like a home.
love the birds
great place
Colorful, fun...love it!
what are in those test tubes on the wall that refract light like that? That is really cool... and I am so jealous of your trapeze bar!
I'm a fan of any place with "Planet of the Apes" artwork -- great job :-)
WOW!!! This place is amazing and the view is incredible. I love the wall colors that were chosen, very bold yet not overpowering. Nice contrast! Anyone have any ideas of similar paint colors (The light gray on the sofa wall and the blue w/ the Chicago picture on the bedroom wall)...
I don't think I'll ever get sick of birds and chartreuse chairs. :)
I love that a lot of the wall art is done by the two of you. Not 'purchase and stick' items. And I LOVE the test tubes! The way the light shines through and the lovely colored pattern it makes on the wall . . . so fabulous. And its SO CLEAN. I heart the two of you. I wish I still lived in Chicago so I could come over and be your friend! :)
Great job.
I really like your photo art. It's nice how you brought a little piece of the outside neighborhood inside in a very creative way.
very nice place
Love the artwork. Also? Dop Troutman = best name ever.
what a fun, bright, colorful place! Love the graphic quality!
fellow uptowner here. well done and inspirational! thanks for sharing.
It is well done and I love the bright colors. And of course, the test tubes are genius!
I didnt see the bed side stand mentioned, if I missed it, could you share from where?
ohhh opening my browser to that first picture was like a little burst of sunshine! i love it!
i love it! this is exactly what i want to achieve in my house. playful and silly but not over the top or too childish. its awesome!
I'm jealous of how simple, clean, and open you've managed to keep it without it feeling cold or boring. It's wonderful!
Those test tubes are so cool!
I need those birds. Where'd you'd git 'em?
Did you stencil a bird on the coffee table or is that a reflection?
Lovely happy space!
I really like your place! I love how you used the IKEA dressers. And the IKEA chairs, i love those, I have the powder blue ones. and everything else :)
I mean i like everything else, not that I have everything else, lol.
wow, how did you do the lincoln box painting? i love it!
I love those birds. Well, it all looks great but I love how those birds are so simple yet have an awesome impact on the room. I love all the colours too. I don't think I could be in a bad mood living in a place like this.
VERY masculine but terribly cool and clever nevertheless ... Love the wire art iron.
Thanks for sharing!
i really love those birds with the spotlight washing the wall they're on...it's like the birds are coming from the light.
i know you can get those birds on Etsy.com...lots of people sell them there! they are vinyl and removable (at least some of them are) but you could easily paint them on the wall, too!
Those birds are to die for! Makes me think of other things I could do like, butterflies, stars, fairies, whatever, for my daughter's bedroom. Thank you!
"VERY masculine but terribly cool and clever nevertheless"
This didn't seem masculine to me at all. Or feminine. Just right. My first thought was "friendly minimalism".
I, too, am enraptured by the Lincoln painting. What a cool effect. Where can we see more of your work, Kevin?
Imagine my surprise to open this and find my son's name - Kevin Dopp (a NYC fashion designer) as post title. I do like it so clean and minimal.
wow- thank you all for the kind compliments. dop and i are really flattered. thanks also to heather for the invite and evan for the wonderful photos.
in answer to the questions...
the test tubes are filled with water and a few drops of condensed watercolors. they're actually the same watercolors i used to paint the marquee photos in the kitchen.
the paint colors are: living room gray = behr "anonymous", hallway gray = behr "dark granite", kitchen blue = ralph lauren "montego bay"
the bedside stand is by... you guessed it... ikea.
as for the birds, we found a photo online, projected it on the wall with an LCD projector, traced it, and painted it with leftover wall paint.
the lincoln portrait was done by pixelating a photo and boiling it down to 9 shades of gray (both done in photoshop). i built the canvas, gridded it off in 2 inch squares, and mixed the different shades of paint. at that point it basically became a paint by number.
hmm... i think that's everything. let me know if i missed anything.
thanks again for the feedback!
teena- thanks! feel free to check out some of my (random) work here: http://kevinbyrne.blogspot.com/
michelle- the sofa (too!) is from ikea.
So how are these birds "projected?" The lamp on right of wall looks to be a lamp, not a projector. I like the idea of projection rather than wall painting. Thanks for photo captions; makes for a nicer "view" :)
hi kate- the birds are actually painted on the wall. we just used a projector to help us out in creating the mural. hope that helps!
Love it!
Very creative and interesting!
I love it - very bright and modern. Thanks for sharing!
Wow your place is amazing!! Each room has a different color of walls, but they look so coordinated. Love the bright yellow chairs in the blue area. Great taste you got!
you guys have outdone yourselves!
it's so gorgeous!
Incredible test tube installation!
Groovy baby ~!
Simple ideas with maximum impact. Love it!
love love love the kitchen!
What a couple of good looking dudes. I love the test tubes. Everything is nice. Pixel art looks like a lot of work.
thanks so much, everyone. we really appreciate all of the positive feedback.
@house voyeur: hilarious. thanks for the compliment. :-)
Dop? What a fun name! Is that his real name? oh, and nice place.
@sesteadman88 - dop is the name on his business cards so... i'd say it's *mostly* real. oh, and glad you like the place.
My brother works right next to the Aragon. I wonder if you've trained in the same circus program as my BFF. Oh and you're probably right -that Lincoln painting looks like a real cinch! Yeah, right -don't be so modest! Kevin, you are an AMAZING artist, & your & Dop's place is great!
PS: We have that same Umbra picture frame (last photo) -It's called the trapeze frame, which you probably know, but how apropos!
Outstanding idea with the bike hanging near the door. Great blue color and accents the HVAC piping. The long hallway look and wood floors ... but, please do something with those colored test tubes!


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Now this was when auto industry was on the bottom and sales were real slow on new stuff so i was able to get a killer deal. But the deal is always going to be slightly used over new for saving money and getting that uses less gas is good as well.
An with free over the air TV the picture is better that most HD cable, plus for now its still free.. Having hulu and other streaming service or even redbox can save money each month.
all good things but if you use the extra money to pay off debit first and live like no-other then you can live like no-other.. Dave Ramsey saying..
Now Ryanair are on their 3rd attempt to buy Aer Lingus the Irish flag carrier. This has been turned down twice by the EU on competition grounds but they appear to have a really good case this time.
This is important for one reason only !! Ryanair want Aer lingus for their Transatlantic routes these include Orlando etc... Ryanair are promising €99/$99 dollar fares one way including taxes.
With the ryanair model their are usually some catches and add-ons but this will drive the price up to the $300 dollar return fair price.
Now picture a family of four going on a two week holiday to orlando who are currenly paying an average of $600 per person to fly now being able to do so for $1200 for the family v $2400.In short if Ryanair win their case in January the number of tourists travelling from Europe and multiple times rather then once a year could seriously increase and have a serious impact on tourism. I know Im keeping my fingers crossed
Cars: Missing in the advice is the amount of money spent for a car. Don't buy more car than you need.
Car loans can range from 4 to 6 years. Try to pay off early. If you want to retain ANY resale value of your car, sell before 10 years and 120,000 miles. Otherwise, drive the car as long as possible without consideration of a replacement car especially if you don't have a deposit for new car.
Thus, there are tradeoffs to consider for the 2 paths to take. That deposit money can go to a nice new car, or you can take that precious trip to Europe.
Pay TV: Get a bundle package with TV, phone, and Internet. Avoid Pay Per View. Use Redbox. No premium movie channels like HBO and Showtime. I got DirecTV for the Sport channels and I avoid going to live games (saves on tickets and parking).
Lunch: I usually pack my lunch. I usually cook during the week and eat out on the weekends. The dinners I cook might have leftovers that I save for lunch.
Rewards Cards: Don't have too many. Too many rewards cards means you never accumlate enough rewards in any one card to take advantage. I prefer DiscoverCard since the rewards are actual dollar rewards that I can exchange for merchandise, cash, or gift cards.
I think the trick to managing money isn't just controlling the numbers. It's also about controlling the urge for immediate satisfaction. It's so prevalent in today's culture to want things now. It's what drives people to pay $12.00 to see a movie that will be available on DVD or Netflix in a month, or what makes them decide to agree to a high price or a bad loan so they can take it home, or what makes people stand in line for hours and pay full retail price for the new Iphone with bugs that still need worked out. It's the worship of goods...handing over our mind and self control to stuff. It's really easy to do in the age of endless and easy credit, and it's also the surest way to spend our working lives getting nowhere financially and running on a hamster wheel.
It's amazing how much money you will find in your pocket when you truly ask yourself the question with every purchase... "Do I really need this right now?"
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-- Mary Elizabeth Dallas
MONDAY, May 23 (HealthDay News) -- Cancer patients who are given
full access to their medical records feel a greater sense of
satisfaction about their treatment, a new study finds.
The French researchers also found that providing comprehensive
and accurate medical information built trust between patient and
Published online May 23 in the journal
Cancer, the study analyzed 295 patients recently diagnosed with lymphoma, breast or colon cancer. All were being treated with chemotherapy.
The patients received either "on request information" or an
organized medical record (OMR) -- a briefcase full of detailed
information about their condition and treatment. That information
included reports on everything from surgery to radiology and
pathology results, along with nurse narratives and treatment
observations. Along with the OMR, they were given guides on medical
terms and how to understand the material, as well as help from
medical staff to decipher the various documents.
Ninety-eight percent of the patients who were offered an OMR
chose to take it.
Patients who received on-request information were only provided
with information and medical records if they asked for them or
their doctor offered them.
Similar anxiety levels and quality-of-life scores were reported
in the two groups.
But, patients with OMRs were 1.68 times more likely to be
satisfied with their medical information and were 1.86 times more
likely to feel fully informed, the study authors noted.
And 70.4 percent of the patients who received an OMR said they
would choose again to receive it, with 74.8 percent saying they did
not regret their choice. Moreover, the majority of those patients
reported that the OMR had not been the source of any anxiety.
"Information is crucial to make decisions regarding treatment options and, for the patient and his family, to better cope with the disease and its implications," study author Dr. Gwenaelle Gravis, of the Paoli-Calmettes Institute in Marseille, said in a news release from the journal's publisher. "Having full access to his own medical record with the possibility to consult it only if desired increases the patient's trust in the physician and medical team."
More information
The American Cancer Society provides insight on how to
cope with cancer in everyday life.
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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It's Frank Summers job on the Cobb County Fire Department's technical rescue team, to be ready for tough moments no one is really ready for. Summers says, "it's a fantastic job because you've got a great group of guys who want to do something, and you sit around and give each other a hard time, and laugh a lot, and goof off. And then something happens and you go take care of it."
That "do-something" approach may have saved Summers, back in 2011, when he felt a lump in his neck while shaving. He says, "Unfortunately, I was 45, and a man, and didn't have a doctor."
But he saw one quickly. In fact, he saw 3 doctors in 4 days. The diagnosis was stunning. He says, "I didn't smoke, I ate well, I was very healthy, I've always exercised…"
But Summers was diagnosed with a tumor in one of his tonsils, and the cancer had spread to nearby lymph nodes. The cause: HPV, the human papillomavirus, a family of viruses that cause warts.
The CDC says HPV is the most common sexually-transmitted disease in the U.S.
Most women know strains of HPV can cause cervical cancer.
But Dr. Trad Wadsworth, one of Emory's top Ear Nose and Throat cancer surgeons says doctors are seeing a big jump in men in their 40s and 50s like Frank, with HPV-related cancers in the back of their throat and tonsils.
The reason? Dr. Wadsworth says, "Difficult to explain. I think if you've ever had a wart in your life, you've been exposed to HPV of some sort, but there are over 120 types of HPV that exist. And only one accounts for the majority of head and neck cancers."
Summers went through surgery, and then months of grueling chemotherapy and radiation at Emory's Winship Cancer Institute. And since his diagnoses, he says, he's heard of four other Cobb firefighters - all in their forties - diagnosed with head and neck cancers tied to H-P-V. So, he feels men need to know they're at-risk, and they need to know the symptoms.
So what should you look for? Dr. Wadsworth says, "The 5 things we always ask patients are (1) do they have a sore throat. (2) Do they have difficulty swallowing? (3) Do they have ear pain? (4) Hoarseness? Or (5) are they losing weight unexpectedly? And if any of those symptoms go on about two weeks without improvement? They need to be seen."
Frank Summers is now three years out, with no evidence of cancer. And he says his experience - has taught him - it's life's small moments – the here and the now – that really matter. He says, "It's the normalcy, and the decency of my everyday life. I'm very aware of how important that is, and I cherish that without the dramatics."
The Emory University Department of Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose and Throat) will hold a FREE head and neck cancer screening clinic on Friday, April 25th. It will be on the 9th floor of the Emory University Hospital Midtown office tower, in suite 550. The screening will be held from 8am to 12pm, and walk-ins are welcome.
ENTs will be screening people, and volunteers and head and neck cancer survivors will also be there.
For information, contact Meryl Kaufman at
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Harrison County Arrest of Brenda Kay Brown
Date of News Release: 11/14/2012
(Cynthiana, KY) On November 13, 2012, indictment warrants obtained by the Kentucky State Police were served on Brenda Kay Brown.
Brenda Kay Brown, 62, of Paintsville, was arrested and charged with one count of Adult Exploitation over $300, Criminal Possession of Forged Instrument-2nd Degree, Perjury 1st Degree, Complicity to Theft By Unlawful Taking over $10,000 and Complicity to Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument 2nd Degree after being indicted by the Harrison County and Lawrence County Grand Juries, respectively. Mrs. Brown is alleged to have stolen and obtained several millions of dollars by various means including the obtainment of CD's, monetary gifts, property transfers, and unauthorized purchases utilizing the assets of her husband, Mr. James Brown, for her personal financial gain.
Adult Exploitation over $300 is a class C Felony punishable by 5 to 10 years in prison. Complicity to Theft By Unlawful Taking, when the value of the property is over $10,000; Perjury-1st Degree; and Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument-2nd Degree are all Class D felonies, punishable by 1 to 5 years in prison.


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Walk down any shopping centre and busy mobile phones stores are everywhere. Yet the first hand-held mobile phone reportedly only appeared in 1973, a 'brick' weighing about 1 kg. Now it is calculated that six out of 10 people worldwide have a mobile phone subscription. By the end of next year 6 billion people could own one. Soon there will be more phones than people.
The benefits of mobile growth are huge, not only for our social or business life in the UK, but in developing countries who often lack a landline service, it enables remote businesses to buy and sell or farmers to check on the best prices for their produce. It also often is the basis for many a roadside 'mobile phone booth' business and the infrastructure also contributes to growing computer connectivity.
There are however, ethical concerns about mobile phones, particularly in the sourcing of some their components. A new documentary film Blood in the Mobile from Danish director Frank Poulsen recently shown in the Bath Film Festival raises concerns about the mining of minerals sourced in the Congo, a region where conflict has claimed at least 5.4 million lives. The US based Enough project and Global Witness also highlight these issues.
The 'Conflict minerals' involved are gold and the 3Ts – tungsten, tin and tantalum. Tungsten makes your phone vibrate; tantalum enables it to be made smaller.
Right now there aren't any guaranteed conflict-free phones. Consumers need to ask their providers about the sourcing of their materials. It is important that companies do not just abandon such sources as the Congo, sourcing minerals from elsewhere. Boycotting could just puts artisanal miners out of work – we need their conditions to be rectified and some kind of consumer label to indicate that particular phones are derived from ethical sources.
There is a Greenpeace guide to greener electronics, which ranks the 18 top manufacturers of personal computers, mobile phones, TVs and games consoles according to their policies on toxic chemicals, recycling and climate change. Greener IT choices. You can also check out What's the greenest mobile phone on the market?
The other area I would raise is the issue of recycling. Mobile phones contain many potentially toxic materials, which can leak out into the environment through landfill or incineration. According to EMC, specialists in mobile phone recovery, users on average replace mobiles every 11 months. They state it is estimated that up to 90 million mobile phones are discarded in drawers and cupboards across the UK – these weigh 11,250 tonnes, the equivalent to more than 30 Boeing 747s!
They are a hazard if discarded and if they are recycled they are worth cash or can be put to very good use. Some cell phones and their accessories contain substances that are amongst the 10 most dangerous known to mankind including Cadmium, Rhodium, Palladium, Beryllium and Lead Solder, others include Brominated Flame Retardants (BFRs) which, according to Greenpeace, traces of BFRs have been found in polar bears, whales, and human breast milk.
Long-term exposure may damage the nervous, reproductive, and endocrine systems.
The situation is improving since the EU directives on the restriction of Hazardous Substances and the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) which sets rules for the use and recycling of electronic products. To comply with the WEEE directive, all companies should ensure that all mobile phones were recycled. The detailed terms are more complicated than this, however, and interested parties (producers and suppliers especially) should look to the ICER site. Consumers do also have a vital role to play in this, many phones out there are toxic and many are just thrown away.
There are now hundreds of recycling specialists in this country, who collect or receive obsolete and waste electrical and electronic equipment – including mobile phones. Please ensure that all SIM cards are removed. Charities including Oxfam and Wateraid raise big sums for their work via donated mobile phones and are pleased to accept them. Recycled with Oxfam, two working mobile phones could provide eight schoolbooks.
The shops on your street may have a story to tell – your questions and buying choices could help it be an ethical one.


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Developments in personal taxation and social security - 23/05/2013
Luxembourg tax regime for highly skilled workers: attractive changes!
The Luxembourg tax authorities introduced at the end of 2010 a special tax regime for highly skilled workers applicable from 1 January 2011 (circular LIR n°95/2 of 31 December 2010).
This circular has now been amended (circular LIR n°95/2 of 21 May 2013). The changes mainly focus on relaxing the conditions to benefit from the favorable tax treatment. Here is an overview of the main changes:
- The criteria of significant contribution of the employee's activity to the Luxembourg economy is removed;
- The threshold of annual base remuneration has come down from EUR 112.000 (social security ceiling) to EUR 50.000;
- The criteria of having a diploma of higher education is removed;
- For entities established in Luxembourg for at least 10 years, the maximum percentage of employees who can use the regime has increased from 10% to 30%.
These changes are very attractive as they significantly expand the scope of the regime.
No changes were brought to the benefits of this special tax regime. However, the procedure to obtain it underwent a radical change since the regime now applies without prior agreement of the Luxembourg tax authorities.
The new regime applies to employees arrived in Luxembourg as from to January 1, 2013.
We have summarised below the conditions and benefits of the scheme.
A summary of the conditions
General conditions for all employees:
- Qualify as "impatriate"; impatriates mean employees who are part of an international group and who are seconded to a Luxembourg company of the group, and employees directly recruited abroad by a Luxembourg company
- Become tax resident in Luxembourg
- Not have been Luxembourg tax resident, not have lived at a distance lower than 150 km from the Luxembourg border and not have been subject to Luxembourg income tax on professional income for the 5 years before start of the activity in Luxembourg
- Undertake the local employment as primary employment and pass on knowledge to local personnel
- Earn a base salary of minimum EUR 50.000 and must not replace another non-impatriate employee.
Additional conditions in case of an intra-group secondment:
- Have at least 5 years of seniority in the international group or 5 years of experience in the economic sector
- An employment relationship exists between the sending company and the employee
- The secondee must be granted a right to return to the home company
- A contractual arrangement exists between the home and host companies with respect to the secondment.
Additional conditions in case of a recruitment abroad:
- Have acquired a depth specialisation in a sector or profession characterized by difficulties of recruitment in Luxembourg.
Conditions relating to the employer:
- The Luxembourg entity must employ or commit to employ at least 20 full time employees in Luxembourg in the mid-term
- If the entity has been established In Luxembourg for at least 10 years, they can have a maximum of 30% impatriate employees who benefit from the regime.
At the latest by January 31 of each year, the employer is required to provide a report of the employees benefiting from the special regime.
Benefits of the regime
If the conditions are met, it is possible to obtain a tax relief for certain expenses which fall under the following categories:
- Relocation - Tax exempt amounts include costs of moving to Luxembourg and similar repatriation costs at the end of the secondment. Costs to make the Luxembourg home suitable to live in (defined in the circular) and costs for emergency travel can also be exempt from taxation.
- School fees - A deduction is available for school fees associated with primary and secondary education.
- Lump sum for recurring expenses - To cover cost of living allowances and miscellaneous expenses associated with the expatriation, a capped lump sum deduction is available.
The following combined costs are also eligible to a tax relief, subject to an overall cap:
- Rent/Utilities - Qualifying costs depends on whether a home is maintained in the home country or not.
- Home Leave - One trip per year per family member can be exempt from taxation.
- Tax Equalisation - Costs associated with the difference in taxes between Luxembourg and the home country can be exempt from tax.
The impatriate can benefit from the regime for up to five calendar years following the year of arrival, provided the conditions continue to be met.
Deloitte view
These changes in the Circular are great news since they significantly expand the scope of the favourable tax regime.
The removal of the prior agreement of the tax authorities however requires that employers ensure that all the conditions laid down by the circular are met before applying the regime.
Indeed, employers now retain the full responsibility as to the correct application of the tax circular. It is therefore recommended that they keep necessary information and documents to sustain their position, in order to prevent any question further to the annual reporting or a wage tax audit. At this stage, the consequences of the annual audit performed by the tax authorities are however not known.
As a reminder, please note that this special regime can significantly reduce the costs of what is widely known to be an expensive way to bring a necessary workforce to Luxembourg. To illustrate the level of savings involved, an expatriate who is married with 2 children, earns a base salary of EUR 200.000 with a typical expatriate package can save taxes in the region of EUR 50.000 per annum.
By moving swiftly to implement the benefits from the changes, companies will maximise tax savings for impatriates. Deloitte has developed a range of services to assist companies:
- Assessment of eligibility - An initial assessment to establish whether or not the regime will be applicable for a particular expatriate.
- Package design - Design/Review of expatriate packages and contractual arrangements to maximise tax savings available through the regime.
- Assistance with payroll and annual reporting - Assistance with the payroll to ensure a correct reporting of the impatriate's package and applicable tax reliefs, and preparation of the annual reporting including confirmation that conditions continue to be met.
- Tax return services - To ensure correct reporting of income of impatriates.


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It's a Wonderful Life @ IFC Center
Sneak out of work early. Take a break from shopping. Or skip your next holiday party to catch a screening of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life currently playing at the IFC Center now through December 26th. It's one of the most popular and heartwarming films ever made, starring James Stewart and Donna Reed.
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The Foundation was established by friends and students of the Dalai Lama who have known and worked with him for many years. It was created with the Dalai Lama's knowledge, endorsement and advice. We warmly welcome all who wish to support his vision for a better world to join with us in this endeavor.
Dean Alper practices business and insurance litigation with Alper & McCulloch in San Francisco. Mr. Alper and his firm are a-v rated (highest rating) and are honored by the Martindale-Hubbell Register of Preeminent Lawyers. He has served on the Board of Directors of The Tibet Justice Center, Wisdom in Action, and Spirit Rock Meditation Center. A member of The Explorer's Club, Mr. Alper formerly worked as a guide and studied Buddhist philosophy in India and Nepal.
Erkin Alptekin is one of the foremost human rights advocates for the Uighur people of Eastern Turkestan, also known as the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Mr. Alptekin was employed by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty from 1971 to 1994. He is one of the founders of the Unrepresented Nations and People's Organization (UNPO), and currently serves as its General Secretary
Jan Anderson co-founded the Swedish Tibet Committee in 1967, and has founded magazines on Tibetan issues in both Sweden and Germany. He currently serves on the boards of the Orient Foundation of Great Britain and the International Campaign for Tibet, Europe. Dr. Anderson received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Lund, Sweden, and is a professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Muenster, Germany.
John Avedon is the author of In Exile from the Land of Snows, the definitive book on the Dalai Lama and Tibet since the Chinese conquest. He has edited various titles including Buddha's Art of Healing, The Joy of Living and Dying in Peace, and The Way to Freedom, and served as the editor of The Library of Tibet, a translation series of classic Tibetan texts. Mr. Avedon's articles on Tibet have appeared in GEO, Rolling Stone, the New York Times Magazine, Parade, and MacLean's.
Sharon Bacon has long experience with the Tibetan exile community, including many years of service on the Board of the American Himalayan Foundation, as Vice President of Bay Area Friends of Tibet, and with the Tibetan Resettlement Project. She lives in Carmel, California.
Dana Baldwin and has worked in a number of fields over the years, including medical and psychological anthropology, culture and psychopathology, substance abuse, homelessness, women's issues, qualitative research methods and cross-cultural research. Her current projects include a book with Lama Khemsar Rinpoche, a Tibetan Bon lama, and a book on the discovery of Tahiti. Ms. Baldwin received her PhD in Anthropology from UCLA in 1990.
Annie Bien is a writer and educator living in New York City. In the months after September 11, 2001 she created a project for peace and healing at Public School 140, incorporating Tibetan prayer flags, poetry and art. The installation was subsequently exhibited and published in ARTifacts: Kids Respond to a World in Crisis, a project by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and Scholastic Books. Ms. Bien is a student of Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhist text translation, and classical Chinese.
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Tendzin Choegyal is the younger brother of the Dalai Lama. He was named a reincarnate lama at the age of three, and underwent intensive training as a child before fleeing Tibet at the time of the Chinese invasion. Later he left the monastic life and has worked actively for the freedom of Tibet by serving in a variety of capacities, including as a resistance fighter, a Member of Parliament and secretary to H.H. the Dalai Lama. He currently resides in Dharmsala.
Marsha Clark has over 30 years experience as a Speech Pathologist, Program Specialist, Quality Improvement Trainer and Educational Consultant serving children, parents and community agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the recipient of the 1996 Valley of Hearts Education Award from Parents Helping Parents. Marsha has served as a volunteer, working with the dying and those in grief, in various hospice facilities. She received her M.A. in Education from San Jose State University.
Kim Cranston founded and manages the Institute for Organizational Evolution, serves as Chair of the Global Security Institute, and advises the Nuclear Threat Reduction Campaign, a joint project of Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation and The Justice Project. From 1996-1999, he was President of the Social Venture Network, and continues to serve on its Board. Mr. Cranston is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Los Altos Community Foundation.
Howard C. Cutler is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, having received his M.D. from the University of Arizona College of Medicine and completed specialty training in Psychiatry at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Cutler first met the Dalai Lama in 1982 while visiting India on a research grant to study Tibetan Medicine, and is co-author with the Dalai Lama of The Art of Happiness.
Leslie S. DeWitt is a long-time community development leader in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has founded and developed a number of educational partnerships between the public and private sectors and nonprofit organizations, including the Peninsula Bridge Program, the Menlo Atherton Fire Technology Program, and the Compass Program. In 2002 Mr. DeWitt founded the Fund for Peace Initiatives, whose first project was Architects of Peace, a photojournalism exhibit now on permanent display at Santa Clara University. Mr. DeWitt currently serves as Director of Development for the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula.
Adam Engle is a lawyer, businessman, and entrepreneur who has divided his professional life between the for-profit and public benefit sectors. Organizations founded or co-founded by Mr. Engle include the Mind and Life Institute, the Colorado Friends of Tibet, and the Social Venture Network. He currently runs the Engle Capital Group in Boulder, Colorado. Mr. Engle received his J.D. from the Harvard Law School and his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Joe Firmage has played a leading role in a number of Silicon Valley companies, including USWeb, which he co-founded in 1995 and which became under his leadership the world's largest Internet consulting firm. Mr. Firmage received Silicon Valley's Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Ernst & Young in 1998. His latest entrepreneurial venture is ManyOne, a non-profit Internet hosting service. Mr. Firmage is a founding sponsor of the Carl Sagan Foundation and the Integral Institute, and serves on the Board of Cosmos Studios.
Mary Fischer has been deeply involved with organizations that foster intercultural and interreligious understanding all of her life. The preservation of the Tibetan Culture is particularly dear to her. She is one of the founding donors of The Tibetan Studies Program at Stanford University. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and her well-cared-for Tibetan Mastiffs.
Richard Gere, actor and activist, has worked for over two decades to draw attention to the ongoing struggle of the Tibetan people for self-determination. He is the founder of the Gere Foundation, which contributes to numerous health, education, and human rights projects. Gere's book Pilgrim, with a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, is a collection of images representing his twenty-five-year journey into Buddhism.
Susan Griffin's many works include Woman and Nature, Pornography and Silence, A Chorus of Stones, which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and won the Bay Area Book Critics Award, Unremembered Country, which won the California Commonwealth Prize for poetry, and the Emmy-winning play Voices. Her most recent book is The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues. Ms. Griffin has been the recipient of a MacArthur grant for Peace and International Cooperation. She lives in Berkeley, California.
Pema Gyalpo is a former Representative of H.H. the Dalai Lama in Japan, from 1975 to 1990, and founder of the Tibet Culture Center International, which recently commemorated its 30th anniversary. He is well known in Japan for his many books on Tibet, his columns in major newspapers, and his regular appearances on Japanese television as a news commentator on international affairs. Mr. Gyalpo holds faculty positions at Gifu women's University, Takushoko University, Asia University and the National University of Mongolia.
Lodi Gyari has been active in the Tibetan struggle for over 30 years. In the mid 1960s he started Voice of Tibet, a seminal newsmagazine for the Tibetan exile community and one of the first vehicles to relate Tibet's story to the English-speaking world. Mr. Gyari is past President of the International Campaign for Tibet, and currently serves as Special Envoy to His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Washington, D.C.
Janet Gyatso holds the Hershey Chair in Buddhist Studies at Harvard University. Prior to that, she taught in the religion department at Amherst College for the last 11 years. Professor Gyatso's most current research includes a historical and theoretical study of sex, gender, and women in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. Her Ph.D. dissertation was entitled The Literary Traditions of Thang-stong rGyal-po: A Study of Visionary Buddhism in Tibet. She received her Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.
Losang Gyatso is a designer and artist who has worked as an Art Director in New York for many years. He is an active board member of a number of organizations, including the U.S. Tibet Committee and The Tibet Fund.
May E. Gu is Chair of GMS Investment Consulting Co., in Taiwan, R.O.C. She received her M.A. in Economics from Brown University. She is a student of Chinese calligraphy and painting.
Michael Halfhill is a world travel photographer who produces audiovisual educational programs through his business Journey to Awaken—presentations that take a deeper and clearer look into the human condition while incorporating concepts that empower us with alternative ways of living thru non-violence, compassion and wisdom. He is also co-founder of Friends of the Dharma, a group that supports the plight of Tibetan refugees and the Healing Arts of Tibet.
Diane Hatz is a nonprofit marketing and special projects executive, developing creative ways to educate individuals about the ill effects of industrial agriculture while promoting the increasingly popular sustainable food movement. Ms. Hatz is also a student of Tibetan Buddhism.
James N. Heuerman is a former partner at Booz Allen & Hamilton, and a former Senior Partner of Korn Ferry International. He received his Master of Hospital Administration from the University of Minnesota.
Tony Hoeber has held senior positions at Sun Microsystems, GO Corporation, and Software Publishing Corporation in the course of his 20-year career in Silicon Valley. Mr. Hoeber has co-founded a number of companies, including Digital Paper and IQ Commerce, and holds a number of software patents.
Tony was the founding Executive Director of the Foundation, serving in that role until December 2006. In that role he built the current organization and initiated or supported most of the projects that are currently in place.
DK. Holland is a communications consultant, creative director, strategist and writer. Her nonprofit clients have included The Priorities Campaign, the Bowery Residents Committee, Pratt Institute, the Childrens Museum of Manhattan, and The Literacy Assistance Center. In 1999 she was awarded the Walter Hortens Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional Practice from the Graphic Artists Guild. Ms. Holland is an alum of Parsons School of Design and the New School for Social Research.
Andrew and Devon Holmes are co-founders of the Sera Jey Support Committee, which provides financial assistance to monks at the Sera Jey monastery in India. Andrew is an architect, graphic designer, and photographer. Devon was a software developer and graphic designer until she passed away. Andrew currently lives in upstate New York.
Jeffrey Hopkins is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and former Director of the Center for South Asian Studies. From 1979 to 1989 he served as the English interpreter for the Dalai Lama on lecture tours. Professor Hopkins has written over 25 books on Tibetan Buddhism, ranging from the groundbreaking Meditation on Emptiness (1983) to Cultivating Compassion (2001). He has collaborated with the Dalai Lama as co-author, editor and translator on numerous works.
Thupten Jinpa received the highest academic degree of Geshe Lharam from Ganden Monastic University in India, and also holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from the University of Cambridge, U.K. Since 1985 he has been a principal English translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama, and has translated and edited many books by the Dalai Lama, most recently Ethics for the New Millennium. Dr. Jinpa's most recent work is Self, Reality and Reason in Tibetan Thought.
Nawang Khechog was a monk for eleven years. He has studied Buddhist philosophy under H.H. the Dalai Lama and many other Tibetan Masters. He also spent some years as a Hermit meditator in Dharamsala. He now lives in United States. He is a teacher, activist, film maker and a Grammy nominated Tibetan composer and musician.
Margarita Kozhevnikova is a writer and translator. She is the executive editor of the journal Buddhism of Russia, and President of the Friends of Tibet society in Russia. She works at the Memorial museum of Kozloff and the history of Central Asia explorations in St. Petersberg.
Mickey Lemle is an award-winning filmmaker and television producer whose works have been shown theatrically, on television and at film festivals around the world. His films include Hasten Slowly: The Journey of Sir Laurens Van Der Post, Compassion in Exile: The Story of the 14th Dalai Lama, Our Planet Earth, and most recently Ram Dass: Fierce Grace. He holds a B.A. from Brandeis University. Mr. Lemle served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Nepal and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the Tibet Fund.
Donald S. Lopez, Jr. is Carl W. Belser Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies and chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. He is the author or editor of some twenty books, including Buddhism in Practice, Curators of the Buddha: The Study of Buddhism Under Colonialism, Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West, and The Story of Buddhism. In 2000 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Sandra Magnussen has a clinical psychotherapy practice in Atherton, California. She received her PhD from the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology in 2003. Her dissertation, The Effects of the Spiritual Practice of Tibetan Buddhist Guru Yoga on the Clinical Practice of Psychotherapy, was published in 2004.
Mitchell Markus is President and co-founder of Triloka Records, which has had a series of number one releases on the Billboard and New Age Voice charts over the past decade, ranging from Eastern and Indian (Tahitian Choir, Ali Akbar Khan), to East/West Fusion (Krishna Das, Jai Uttal), African (Hugh Masekela, Tarika) and Native American (Walela, Spirit Nation). Mr. Marcus's executive producer credits include Door of Faith, Wanderer, Hookah Café, Trance Planet, Women's World Voices, Earth N Bass, and Meeting Rivers.
Darlene Markovich has held senior positions during her 28-year career at ALZA Corporation in marketing, human resources management, learning and development, communications and community relations. She has collaborated on numerous film projects, curated art exhibitions, and coordinated public events. In 1997, Darlene was awarded the Founder's Award, the highest achievement within ALZA. Ms. Markovich currently serves as President of the Committee of 100 for Tibet.
Kristine McCann serves as an executive and consultant for a number of volunteer organizations. She is President of the board of the Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County, co-founder of the Georgia Travis Center, and was involved in the start-up of Santa Clara County's Volunteer Exchange and the Nonprofit Development Center. She has also served on the board of directors of the Community Hospital of Los Gatos and as vice chairwoman of the Kids Voting Silicon Valley. She lives in Los Gatos, California.
Rajiv Mehrotra is a journalist and filmmaker who has produced numerous award-winning films, including The Great Swan, a ten-part docudrama on the life and times of Ramakrishna Paramhansa, The Awakening of Intelligence, on the work of J. Krishnamurti, and In Conversation, a series of interviews with international political and cultural leaders. Dr. Mehrotra serves as Executive Director of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Managing Trustee of the Public Service Broadcasting Foundation.
George Meyer has been writing for The Simpsons since 1989.
Judy and Richard Nall are principals in Computer Business International (CBI), a training and consulting business focusing on Web, database and security issues. Judy chaired the International DB2 Users Group conference in 1998, and both Judy and Richard speak frequently to groups around the country on information security.
Sidney Piburn is managing editor and art director of Snow Lion Publications, the largest publisher and distributor of books on Tibet and Tibetan culture. Since co-founding Snow Lion over two decades ago, Mr. Piburn has played an important role in fostering the growing Western interest in the culture and religion of Tibet. He is the author of The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness and The Peace Laureates Prize and the Dalai Lama.
Rosemary Rawcliffe, Founder of Frame of Mind Films, is a social entrepreneur and EMMY® award winning media consultant and executive producer. As a humanitarian, she has a lifelong commitment to producing and directing films that focus on human rights, peace, and non-violence from women's point of view. When Rosemary moved to the United States from her native England, she founded Frame of Mind Films to continue her work in America and her passion for producing stories that bear witness to spirit, hope, and courage.
Rik Roberts has held positions at a number of Silicon Valley firms. From 2003 thru early 2005, Rik served as Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of the Dalai Lama Foundation.
Galen Rowell has been called by the Washington Post "the foremost practitioner of that hybrid art, photojournalism." In 1984 he received the Ansel Adams Award for his contributions to the art of wilderness photography. He has published numerous books of photography, including Mountain Light (1986), and in collaboration with the Dalai Lama, My Tibet (1990). Galen Rowell and his wife Barbara were killed in a small plane crash on August 11, 2002 as they returned to their home in Bishop, California from a circumnavigation of the Bering Sea.
Stephen Rowley is Executive Director of Schools for Highline School District (Seattle). He started his career in education in 1975 as a teacher in Seattle, Washington. From 1985 to 1990 he served as a principal in the Redwood City School District. From 1992 to 2000 Dr. Rowley worked in Washington as an assistant superintendent for the Bellingham School District and superintendent for the Bainbridge Island School District. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1984.
Jack Schaub has been in the business of graphic design for 25 years. He is the principle of Schaub & Company in Los Gatos, California, which provides a range of marketing and advertising services to many Silicon Valley companies, including corporate and product identity, branding, advertising, web site design, and media planning. In the early 1980s Mr. Shaub was founding partner and creative director of video game manufacturer Data Age.
Jonathan Schell is the author of numerous books, including The Time of Illusion, The Village of Ben Suc, The Gift of Time and The Fate of the Earth which in 1982 received the Melcher book award and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Mr. Schell is a regular contributor to Harper's, The Atlantic, the New Yorker, Foreign Affairs, and The Nation. He has taught at Yale, Princeton, and Wesleyan and is a fellow at the Nation Institute and Harvard's Kennedy School.
Orville Schell is dean of the University of California at Berkeley School of Journalism. A respected Sinologist with more than thirty five years of experience writing about China in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, he has won numerous awards for his China reporting, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Freedom Forum Senior Fellowship at Columbia University. Among his recent works are Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform, Mandate of Heaven – The Legacy of Tienanmen Square and the Next Generation of China's Leaders, and Virtual Tibet – Searching for Shangri-la from the Himalayas to Hollywood.
Jim Schuyler is CEO of Red7 Communications, which provides technology strategy, business systems and knowledge management services to startup companies. He was recently the VP Internet Technology for LeapFrog Enterprises, and VP Distance Learning Systems for Knowledge Universe Interactive Studio. He has founded or helped to start a number of companies, including DesignWare, Britannica Software, T/Maker's Electronic Direct division and WICAT Inc. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Northwestern University.
Randy Taran founded Spring Communications in 1993 to develop and produce youth-oriented television and film programming. Her most recent ventures include, Project Happiness, an educational program that transforms lives by developing soical and emotional skills which are the foundation for a happy and productive life, The Peace Wall, the film Focused on Peace, and SpringBoard to Peace. These programs were developed in collaboration with other groups, including The Dalai Lama Foundation and Roots & Shoots. Randy received her MBA from New York University in Marketing & International Business.
Andrey Tarentyev has devoted himself to the study of Buddhism for over 30 years in Russia. In 1975 his Ph.D. dissertation was rejected by Leningrad State University for its "lack of atheism." In 1978, while working at the Leningrad State Museum of History of Religions and Atheism, he secretly became a Buddhist in the Tibetan tradition, which had survived in Siberia. Beginning in 1990, conditions changed, permitting him to work openly for the first time. Since then Mr. Tarentyev has founded the first Russian publishing house and journal devoted to Buddhism, published more than 50 scholarly papers, translated and edited numerous works on Buddhism, and served as the personal interpreter for H.H. the Dalai Lama in Russia.
Tenzin N. Tethong is the founder of key Tibet initiatives in the U.S. including the Tibet Fund, Tibet House-New York, and the International Campaign for Tibet. He is a former Representative of H.H. the Dalai Lama in New York and Washington, D.C., and former Chairman of the Kashag, the Tibetan Cabinet. Mr. Tethong currently serves as Chairman of the Committee of 100 for Tibet, visiting scholar at Stanford University and the President of The Dalai Lama Foundation.
Thomas Thorning has over 25 years of experience in management, business development, and community activism. He was the co-founder of R&T Marketing, a successful coin-operated toy business. Mr. Thorning holds a bachelor's degree from Wabash College, and has completed graduate classes in Buddhist studies at the Naropa Institute and the University of Wisconsin. He serves on the board of Vajrapani Institute, a Tibetan Buddhist center in Boulder Creek, California.
Robert Thurman is a prolific translator and writer of both scholarly and popular works, including Tsong Khapa's Speech of Gold: Reason and Enlightenment in the Central Philosophy of Tibet, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Essential Tibetan Buddhism, and most recently, Inner Revolution: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Real Happiness. In 1987, he co-founded New York City's Tibet House. Dr. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University.
Robert Tolmach has worked as an architect, real estate developer and entrepreneur. He has now turned his full-time attention to the social sector, and is preparing to launch Glasses for Humanity, which will collect many of the nearly 300 million pair of eyeglasses, reading glasses and sunglasses that are retired in the United States each year, for distribution in the developing world.
Tom Trabin is an executive and consultant who works at federal level on national standards for mental health measures. He has organized and chaired over 20 national conferences and tradeshows, and serves as a Board member for several volunteer organizations. He received his M.M.A. in Philosophy from Delhi University, India, his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Minnesota, and his M.S.M. in Management from Stanford Business School.
Julio Cesar Torres works as an English teacher in Maracay, Venezuela. He volunteers in his community working on Tibet self-determination and peace issues.
Phillip Trimble was Professor of Law at UCLA from 1982 through 2001, and served as the UCLA Vice Provost for International Studies from 1999-2001. Prior to his academic career, he held a variety of posts in the Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations, including Ambassador to Nepal at the end of the Carter Administration. He served as Deputy Mayor of New York City under Ed Koch in 1979-80. He has served as a Board member and advisor to many organizations, including the American Journal of International Law, the American Alpine Club, the Asia Society, the America-Nepal Friendship Society, and Human Rights Watch. In 1976 he led the successful American Expedition to Mt. Everest.
Michael Van Walt currently serves as Executive President of Kreddha; International Peace Council for States, Peoples and Minorities, and Legal Advisor to the Office of H.H. The Dalai Lama. From 1991 to 1998 Dr. Van Walt was General Secretary of UNPO, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization. Dr. Van Walt holds law degrees from Europe and America, and is currently Adjunct Professor of International Law, Golden Gate University School of Law, San Francisco.
Alan Wallace has edited, translated, authored, or contributed to more than thirty books on Tibetan Buddhism, medicine, language, and culture. His works on the interface between science and religion include Choosing Reality: A Buddhist View of Physics and the Mind and The Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward a New Science of Consciousness. Dr. Wallace studied physics and the philosophy of science at Amherst College, and received his Ph.D. in religious studies from Stanford University.
Vesna Wallace is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of numerous books and articles on various aspects of Buddhist religion, philosphy and culture, including The Inner Kalachakra Tantra: A Buddhist Tantric View of the Individual. Professor Wallace received her Ph.D. in South Asian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.
Lori Warmington is a partner in a multi-generational family real estate development company in Southern California, and a life-long community volunteer, organizer, and activist in the area of peace. The Warmington family has established an academic chair in Global Peace and Cooperation at the University of California, Irvine. Ms. Warmington is a founder of the Program in Citizen Peacebuilding at the U.C. Irvine Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, as well as the Aspen Grove Project/PeaceMakers' Network affiliated with the Rudolph Steiner Foundation. She also serves as an Ambassador with the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Phyllis Watts has been a friend of Buddhism for over 30 years. As a psychologist and owner of the consultancy Wild Swan Resources she assists leaders and their organizations in cultivating wise business practices. In 1980 she received her Ph.D., with a dual emphasis in social and clinical psychology, from Michigan State University and has since worked as a consultant, lecturer and author to bring sound psychological knowledge out of the consulting room and into the world. Currently she is at work on a book The Deeper River of Life.
Jan Willis is Professor of Religion and the Social Sciences at Wesleyan University. Recently named by Time as one of its six "Top Religious Innovators for the new millennium," she has published numerous books and essays on Buddhist meditation, women and Buddhism, and Buddhism and race. Her most recent works include the memoir Dreaming Me: An African American Woman's Spiritual Journey (2001) and Ending Hate: Practical Exercises and Meditations for Transforming Prejudice (with Marlies Bosh, in progress). Professor Willis received her Ph.D. in Indic and Buddhist Studies from Columbia University.


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Beachfront Paradise in Humacao, Puerto Rico
This stunning home is located in Villa Palmira, Humacao, Puerto Rico. Right from the large porch in the front, you can view the beach! It's extremely spacious with 2800 sq ft of living area. It has 3 rooms and 3 full bathrooms that can sleep up to 12! Comes complete with all the luxuries from home and plenty more. It is totally remodeled, fully furnished, a/c throughout, washer & dryer, and your own private pool. DirecTV in the Living Room and DVD players in the bedrooms. Local beaches and sights from as little as 30 second walk, shopping center with supermarket, walgreens, fast food places, restuarants, Video Ave, Sam's Club, and much more is 5 minutes away. Once, you experience the crystal clear waters that all these beaches have, you'll always keep coming back. This experience is nothing short from relaxing, soothing, and rejuvenating.
Paradise in the Sky in Luquillo, Puerto Rico
Located in the cleared water of the Atlantic Ocean, 45 minutes from San Juan Airport. This elegant beach front condo located in the Luquillo Beach & La Pared Surfer area, close to El Yunque Rain Forest, and 15 to 20 minutes away from the ferry terminal to the Vieques and Culebra Islands (Flamenco Beach). Luxurious, fully-furnished, fully A/C throughout, baby high chair, pack-n-play crib, DirecTV in the Living Room and the 2 bedrooms with DVD players, and wireless internet. Can sleep up to 7! Totally remodeled and washer & dryer inside the apt. It is accommodated with 2 pools, one for kids, game room with pool table and arcade games, mini-library, patio & barbecue area, covered parking all inside a gated community with 24 hrs security guard. You will find that is without a doubt, a paradise. Also, 5 minutes away from malls, shopping centers, movie theaters, fancy restaurants, fast foods places and (Guavas) sports-bar is in walking distance with big screen T.V'S.
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"Pearl of the Orient"
Humacao is known as "Pearl of the Orient" and "Gray City". Humacao was founded on April, 1722 and became autonomous (town) in 1793. Humacao derives its name from a local Indian chief Jumacao.
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The set looked beautiful but it was lighter weight and lower quality than what I had hoped for. The color really wasn't the blue I wanted, it was more on the light teal side instead of a true light blue. In short it was not worth the price and I sent it back.
Had to send this purchase back only because the color was wrong. To me, it appeared more blue in the photo than it actually was. Had lots of pale blue in the room, and the comforter appeared much more green against the other blues in the room. Quality seemed okay and the comforter set looked nice, just wasn't quite the color I was expecting.
I am pleased with my Madison Park Abigail comforter set. It is so warm and comfy! The set is polyester with a sateen feel but the inside is so soft. The only downfall is the random stitching on the front of the comforter, however it's not that noticeable.
This comfort set is so beautiful. The material is fabulous. It looks so nice. I just love it!!
looks great but wrinkles very easily. Cannot sit on it without needing pressing to get the wrinkles out. Otherwise, the color is as advertised. Has a generous fit and does look great.
This bedding is so classy looking ! The comforter is exactly as appears as well as the pillows and cases! Wonderful purchase..really makes my bedroom come alive!
Looked just like the picture and appears to be made with good quality. I don't love it as much as my past comforter but we changed beds to a King and I could not find my old one in that size so went for the same color scheme. For the price it is really good and I didn't pay too much that if I found something I loved more that I could not afford to change it out so for now it will do but I am still on the look out for something with a little more style.
Love the colors in this set love how it is made not to fond of the material but beautiful anyway. Would buy from seller again.
I bought this set for my master bedroom as a summer comforter. I found the color to be exactly as I viewed it on my computer. I was not impressed with the quality. While I was looking for a light weight comforter, I was disappointed with how thin the fabric felt and also how poor the quality felt. The pillow sham was tattered upon opening it. I should have returned it but I just didn't want the hassle. I don't recommend this product despite loving the colors in my room.
This comforter has a very rich look and feel to it. I definitely recommend this comforter. However, I have just put it on and it has not gone through the laundry. I hope it is as durable as it is attractive.
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