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Though their pockets may not be too deep and there are only a few zeroes in their bank accounts, the Occupy Wall Street protestors have raked in some serious dough in the past month.
Online payment site, WePay has release data on donations made through their platform. At time of publication, We Pay tallied about $400,000 in Occupy Wall Street donations.
The first Occupy Wall Street donation fund was created on WePay with just $75 on August 5, more than a month before protesters would take to the streets. WePay COO Rich Aberman said, "When we reached out to them [the fund creators] they said it would be for a large peaceful protest in New York, but at that time we had didn't have any idea what it would turn into."
By September 17, when protesters began their occupation, donations reached $3,221 and that number kept growing.
As for who is donating, the data shows that the majority of donors are male (68%), middle class (58%), and college educated (58%), while the funds are being used for food, shelter, water, medical supplies, and even legal fees.
It's no surprise that New Yorkers have been the largest backer of the movement, providing more than half on the donations, or that less than 1% of Occupy Wall Street's donations came from the 1%.
Also not surprising is that the increase in media coverage and the reaction of law enforcement appears to have bolstered the coffers. Aberman said "When all the arrests started happening in Boston, there was a huge spike in donations to Boston-based Occupy Wall Street campaigns." We Pay notes that on October 11, when Boston police arrested 141 demonstrators who entered a restricted section of Rose Kennedy Greenway there was a 408% spike in Massachusetts donations.


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Risk and protective factors refer to variables in youths' neighborhoods, families, school, and peer groups, as well as to factors within the individual, that increase or decrease the likelihood of problem behaviors (Catalano, Hawkins, Berglund, Pollard, & Arthur, 2002). Risk factors for substance use (e.g., high rates of substance use among peers) typically are associated with an increased likelihood of substance use, whereas protective factors for substance use (e.g., communication with parents about the dangers of substance use) are related to a decreased likelihood of substance use. Addressing both risk and protective factors in substance use prevention programs is believed to be an important determinant of program success (Center for Substance Abuse Prevention [CSAP], 2001).
This report presents data from the 1999 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) relating to several aspects of risk and protective factors for substance use among youths aged 12 to 17. These include the following:
The role of risk and protective factors has been a major focus in the research on youth substance use for more than 20 years. Perhaps the most influential review of risk and protective factors related to youth substance use was conducted by Hawkins, Catalano, and Miller (1992) of the Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle. This review article is widely cited and provides one of the most comprehensive and rigorous assessments of the research to date. Other major reviews of the risk and protectivefactor literature were conducted by Petraitis, Flay, Miller, Torpy, and Greiner (1998) and Botvin, Botvin, and Ruchlin (1998). Botvin and colleagues reviewed the effectiveness of selected substance use prevention programs, classifying the programs into four types of approaches: information dissemination, affective education, social influence, and comprehensive or expanded social influences. Information dissemination approaches provide information about the risks of substance use, and affective education approaches focus on personal and social development. Both information dissemination and affective education approaches have been shown to have little or no effect in reducing substance use due to their narrow focus. Social influence and integrated social influence approaches have, however, been shown to be effective. Social influence approaches involve persuasive messages from peers and the media, and integrated social influence/competence enhancement approaches teach self-management, social, cognitive, self-esteem enhancing, adaptive coping, and general assertiveness strategies and skills. Each of these latter two approaches has been linked to significant reductions in the use of cigarettes, alcohol, and illicit drugs.
A recent review of science-based substance abuse prevention programs (i.e., those that have been shown through rigorous scientific evaluation to reduce substance use), including a comprehensive review of risk and protective factors related to substance use, was published by CSAP (2001). In this review, as in most reviews of this literature, risk and protective factors were divided into a series of life areas or "domains" in order to reflect how these factors extend across multiple facets of youths' lives. The CSAP review indicated that successful substance abuse prevention programs have typically been programs that can decrease risk factors and increase protective factors across multiple domains.
The NHSDA provides estimates of the prevalence, incidence, demographic and geographic distribution, and correlates of use of illicit drugs, alcohol, and tobacco in the civilian, noninstitutionalized U.S. population 12 years of age or older. The survey gives particular emphasis to collecting information on youths by oversampling 12 to 17 year olds and by using questionnaire modules designed exclusively for youths. In 1997, a new module was added for 12 to 17 year olds to examine risk and protective factors related to substance use. In 1998, and again in 1999, the module on risk and protective factors was expanded and improved. The 1999 NHSDA included a comprehensive set of risk and protective factor items based on the extensive review of risk and protective factors for youth substance use by Hawkins et al. (1992).
A report based on the risk and protective factors measured in the 1997 NHSDA was published by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in February 2001 (Lane, Gerstein, Huang, &Wright, 2001). The present report updates, expands, and improves on the information in the 1997 report in a number of ways.
The classification approach used in this report categorizes the set of risk and protective factors into one of four domains based on the categories presented by Hawkins et al. (1992): community, family, peer/individual, and school. The 1999 NHSDA questionnaire included specific items drawn from the research literature on prevention related to each of these domains. The factors in each domain are discussed in Chapter 2, and a complete list of the questions and response categories included in the analyses is presented in Tables A.1 to A.4 (see Appendix A). The community domain includes such factors as community disorganization and crime and the availability of illicit drugs. The family domain includes such factors as parental attitudes toward youth substance use and parental communication with youths about the dangers of substance use. The peer/individual domain includes such factors as antisocial behavior and friends' use of licitand illicit drugs. The school domain includes such factors as sanctions against substance use at school and exposure to prevention messages in school. Most of the items addressing these factors were designed for and asked only of the 12 to 17 year olds in the sample. Most items focused on current or past year perceptions or on past year behavior.
Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to the NHSDA methodology and the organization of the risk and protective factors included in this report.
Chapter 2 looks at the prevalence of the various risk and protective factors in the population as a whole and by demographic variables, such as race/ethnicity, gender, and age.
Chapter 3 examines the associations between these factors and past year marijuana use.
Chapter 4 explores the relative predictive power of risk and protective factors, both individually and by domain, in a multiple logistic regression analysis. It also attempts to develop the best model to "predict" youth marijuana use, based on a reduced set of risk and protective factors from all four domains. Finally, it explores the extension of modeling to explain variation at higher levels of the hierarchical structure (i.e., families and communities), including a brief general introduction to hierarchical modeling. Models of cigarette use and alcohol use are also presented in selected tables.
Chapter 5 discusses some methods and issues associated with measuring the change in risk and protective factors over time, and it compares the distributions of risk and protective factors from 1997 to 1999 and the associations between these risk and protective factors and marijuana use for these 2 years.6 It also discusses how changes in the distribution of risk and protective factors and changes in the strength of association between the risk and protective factors and marijuana use between 1997 and 1999 may explain the decrease in youth marijuana prevalence rates during this period.
Chapter 6 discusses the final conclusions from this report.
Consistent with the 1997 report (Lane et al., 2001), the analyses in this report focus on past year marijuana use. Selected analyses are presented for alcohol and cigarette use in Chapter 4. Analyses were not conducted on the use of illicit drugs other than marijuana because few ofthe questions focused specifically on youths' attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors specific to those substances. Unless otherwise stated, all statements in the text regarding statistical associations between variables or differences between groups have been tested at the .05 level.
A directory of the prevention domains, constructs, and individual questions used to measure risk and protective factors is presented in Appendix A. A discussion of missing data for questions relating to the school domain is presented in Appendix B. A discussion of how risk and protective factors and substance use differ by age is presented in Appendix C. Further information about methodological changes between the 1997 and 1999 NHSDAs that impacted the comparison of youth prevalence rates for marijuana in those 2 years is presented in Appendix D. Comparisons of the wording, distributions, and associations with marijuana use of the risk and protective factors measured using similar, but not identical, questions in 1997 and 1999 are presented in Appendix E.
The NHSDA is a primary source of statistical information on the use of illicit drugs by the U.S. population. Conducted by the Federal Government since 1971, the survey collects data by administering questionnaires to a representative sample of the population through face-to-face interviews at their place of residence. The survey is sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and data collection is carried out by RTI in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, under a contract with SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies (OAS). This section briefly describes the 1999 NHSDA methodology. A more complete description is provided in another SAMHSA report (OAS, 2000).
The survey covers residents of households, noninstitutional group quarters (e.g., shelters, rooming houses, dormitories), and civilians living on military bases. Persons excluded from the survey include homeless people who do not use shelters, active military personnel, and residents of institutional group quarters, such as jails and hospitals.
Prior to 1999, the NHSDA was conducted using a paper-and-pencil interviewing (PAPI) methodology, and the interviews generally lasted about an hour. The 1999 NHSDA marked the first survey year in which the national sample was interviewed via computer-assisted interviewing (CAI; specifically, a combination of computer-assisted personal interviewing [CAPI] and audio computer-assisted self-interviewing [ACASI] techniques). For the most part, questions previously administered by the interviewer are now administered by the interviewer using CAPI. Questions previously administered using answer sheets are now administered using ACASI. Use of ACASI is designed to provide the respondent with a highly private and confidential means of responding so as to maximize honest reporting of illicit drug use and other sensitive behaviors. In 1999, the sample size was increased from approximately 25,500 persons in 1998 (6,778 youths aged 12 to 17) to 66,706 persons in 1999 (25,357 youths aged 12 to 17).
The 1999 NHSDA employed a 50-State design with an independent, multistage area probability sample for each of the 50 States and the District of Columbia. The eight States with the largest population (which together account for 48 percent of the total U.S. population aged 12 or older) were designated as large sample States (California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas). For these States, the design provided a sample large enough to support direct State estimates. For the remaining 42 States and the District of Columbia, smaller, but adequate, samples were selected to support State estimates using small area estimation (SAE) techniques. The design also oversampled youths and young adults, so that each State's sample was approximately equally distributed among three major age groups: 12 to 17 years, 18 to 25 years, and 26 years or older.
Due to differential sampling rates among the 50 States and the District of Columbia and across the age groups of interest, sampling weights are needed to produce the correct population estimates. In addition to reflecting the probability of selection, the sample weights also incorporate other adjustments for nonresponse, control of extreme weights, and poststratification to known population totals. For some key variables that still had missing values after the editing process, values were statistically imputed. The sampling weights have been used in all analyses in this report except for the hierarchical modeling. For more information on statistical procedures used in the NHSDA, see the reports on the results from the 1999, 2000, and 2001 NHSDAs (OAS, 2000, 2001, 2002a, 2002b).
To assess the impact of the change in data collection mode from PAPI to CAI and to measure trends in substance use, the 1999 survey utilized a dual-sample design. The main sample of 66,706 respondents was interviewed using the CAI methodology, while an additional 13,809 supplemental interviews were conducted via the PAPI methodology. The intent was to use the 1999 PAPI data to measure changes in use patterns because the methodology was the same as was used in prior years. The supplement was selected from a national subsample of 250 geographic strata. Both the main (CAI) and supplemental (PAPI) surveys were conducted from January through December 1999. With the exception of comparisons between the 1997 and 1999 surveys that are presented in Chapter 5, all analyses presented in this report utilized the 1999 computer-based interview. More information about the 1999 PAPI is presented in Chapter 5.
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|Irving Rapper
16 January 1898
London, England, UK
|20 December 1999
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Irving Rapper (16 January 1898 – 20 December 1999) was an England-born American film director. His most successful body of work is 10 films he made while under contract with Warner Brothers.
Born in London, England, Rapper emigrated to the United States and became an actor and stage director on Broadway while studying at New York University. In 1936, he went to Hollywood, where he was hired by Warner Bros. as an assistant director and dialogue coach. He proved invaluable in translating and mediating for non-native English-speaking directors. By the early 1940s, he had metamorphosed into one of the hottest directors on the Warner Bros. lot.
He made his directing debut with the 1941 film Shining Victory, in which his friend Bette Davis appeared as a show of support for him. He would go on to direct her in four more films, Now, Voyager (1942), The Corn Is Green (1945), Deception (1946), and Another Man's Poison (1952). In later years, Rapper admitted that he found Davis very difficult to work with and that she would, "...hold the whole set hostage, stopping production for a day, because of her mood."
Rapper's film One Foot in Heaven (1941) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film. Perhaps his best film in a studio other than Warner Bros. was The Brave One (1956), which earned the then-blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo an Academy Award for his original screenplay.
Additional credits include The Glass Menagerie (1950), Marjorie Morningstar (1958), and The Miracle, a 1959 remake of the 1912 hand-colored, black-and-white film The Miracle.
Biopics directed by Rapper include The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944), Pontius Pilate (co-director, 1962) and his last film, Born Again (1978), about convicted Watergate conspirator and former Richard Nixon aide Charles Colson.
Rapper died at the age of 101 on 20 December 1999 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, where he had been a resident since 1995.
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James Jeffries (1807-1898) was Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 1888–1892
Early life[edit]
Jeffries was from Alexandria, Louisiana in Rapides Parish.
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Jeffries was a supporter of the Nicholls faction of the Louisiana Democratic Party. In 1888 Jeffries ran and was elected Lieutenant Governor. He also served as a Member of the Democratic National Committee from Louisiana during that period.[1]
- ^ "Democrats Full of Hope" (PDF). New York Times. June 12, 1889. Retrieved 5-11-2009.
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Clay Knobloch (D)
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Kennedy says he's here to help them take the next steps to being leaders in the law enforcement field. He says law enforcement officials should be asking what they can do next, even if they had a good year.
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For most patients, nefazodone is sedating, but on occasion it can be activating. Patients for whom it is activating can be directed to take nefazodone in the morning rather than at bedtime. SSRIs can be similarly unpredictable with activating or sedating effects. Explaining how the patient can change the time of dosing based on how he feels several hours after taking a medication can make the difference between adherence and nonadherence.
The effects of food on the absorption of some medications (eg, ziprasidone, lurasidone, vilazodone) can be significant. Each of these drugs requires a minimal caloric intake at the time of dosing, or the absorption is decreased by up to 50%. If the patient takes the medication with food on some occasions and without food at other times, the blood level can vary 2-fold, which affects the drug's effectiveness and adverse effects.
Occasionally, there may be serious adverse effects with the continued use of a medication. Neuroleptic malignant syndrome can occur with any dopamine-2 receptor antagonist, and leukopenia can be a consequence of clozapine treatment. Serotonergic agents can cause serotonin syndrome, which is as serious and life-threatening as neuroleptic malignant syndrome. The risk of a benign rash with use of lamotrigine for bipolar disorder and other mood disorders is as high as 10%; the risk of Stevens-Johnson syndrome or toxic epidermal necrolysis in adults is 0.08% (higher in children).
Unplanned pregnancies present an especially difficult challenge, because the risk of relapse of the primary psychiatric disorder may cause greater harm to the developing fetus than continuing the medication. Mania, severe depression, severe anxiety, and psychosis can significantly affect fetal development. With some medications, such as lithium, divalproex, carbamazepine, and the benzodiazepines, the first trimester presents the greatest risk of teratogenesis. Exposure in the third trimester is of greater concern with other agents, including the serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
A 32-year-old woman with a long history of bipolar I disorder, who has been euthymic and functioning well for several years, presents to a routine visit matter of factly stating that she has decided to discontinue divalproex monotherapy. A lengthy discussion ensues, in which she acknowledges that she is worried about damage to her liver, especially since her father died of complications of a liver disease. Also, she has recently become engaged and is excited about starting a family. She has heard on the news that a child born to a mother who is taking divalproex can have a lower IQ, and she is scared.
Her concerns are validated, and alternatives to divalproex (eg, lithium, carbamazepine, many atypical antipsychotics) are discussed. She is offered a referral to the local university medical center, where there is an expert psychiatrist who specializes in psychiatric medication options/risks/benefits during pregnancy. In addition, a course of cognitive-behavioral therapy designed for individuals with bipolar disorder is suggested. She agrees to consider these options, and a follow-up visit is scheduled.
When an immediate medication discontinuation is not required and the patient is agreeable to a planned taper, there are many pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic factors to consider that will maximize a successful discontinuation (Table 2). In general, the longer the patient has been receiving the medication and the higher the maintenance dosage, the slower the taper. This is especially true for SSRIs, SNRIs, antipsychotics, lithium, and benzodiazepines.
Abrupt discontinuation of an SSRI or SNRI, with the exception of fluoxetine (because of its long half-life), can result in serotonin discontinuation syndrome. Although not dangerous, serotonin discontinuation syndrome can cause significant distress for a patient, not uncommonly resulting in a trip to the emergency department because of the patient's fear that some serious brain insult has occurred. Often, the acute distress from serotonin discontinuation syndrome is misinterpreted by the patient as relapse of symptoms, and the patient can become fearful of tapering and discontinuing the medication.
Many antipsychotics have complex receptor binding profiles, and abrupt discontinuation of these agents can produce a wide range of withdrawal symptoms (Table 3). For more potent dopamine-2 antagonists, withdrawal dyskinesia can be quite unsettling, although it is rapidly reversed by restarting the antipsychotic at its previous dosage and then proceeding with a much slower taper. Other abrupt withdrawal effects include psychosis, cholinergic rebound, histaminergic rebound, and α-adrenergic rebound.
It is generally accepted that rapid discontinuation of lithium increases relapse risk compared with gradual discontinuation for a patient with bipolar disorder. Although controversial, some findings suggest that after lithium discontinuation and subsequent symptom relapse, a person is less responsive to lithium when it is restarted.9 Acute benzodiazepine discontinuation can be life-threatening, putting the individual at risk for hypertension, cardiac complications, and seizures.
The decision to discontinue a psychiatric medication involves weighing the risks versus the benefits. Abrupt discontinuation, although occasionally necessary, results in a higher incidence of withdrawal symptoms, relapse, and other complications. Once the decision has been made by a competent patient to discontinue medication, even if you disagree with the patient's decision, a thoughtful and gradual tapering strategy should be designed based on the pharmacodynamic, pharmacokinetic, and disorder-specific factors that exist.
Brain Health, Medical Director, Staff Psychiatrist, Seacoast Mental Health Center, and Consulting Psychiatrist, Exeter Hospital, Exeter, NH
1. Viguera AC, Baldessarini RJ, Hegarty, et al. Clinical risk following abrupt and gradual withdrawal of maintenance neuroleptic treatment. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1997;54:49-55.
2. Gelenberg AJ, Freeman MP, Markowitz JC, et al. Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Major Depressive Disorder, Third Edition. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association; 2010.
3. Hirschfeld RMA. Guideline Watch: Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Bipolar Disorder, Second Edition. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association; 2005.
4. Hirschfeld RMA, Bowden CL, Gitlin MJ, et al. Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Bipolar Disorder, Second Edition. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association; 2002.
5. Dixon L, Perkins D, Calmes C. Guideline Watch: Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Schizophrenia. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association; 2009.
6. Lehman AF, Lieberman JA, Dixon LB, et al. Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Schizophrenia, Second Edition. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association; 2004.
7. Koran LM, Hanna GL, Hollander E, et al. Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association; 2007.
8. Stein MB, Goin MK, Pollack MH, et al. Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Panic Disorder, Second Edition. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association; 2009.
9. Coryell W, Solomon D, Leon AC, et al. Lithium discontinuation and subsequent effectiveness. Am J Psychiatry. 1998;155:895-898.
10. Ayd FJ Jr. Lexicon of Psychiatry, Neurology, and the Neurosciences. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins; 1995.
11. Raj A, Sheehan D. Benzodiazepines. In: Schatzberg AF, Nemeroff CB, eds. Textbook of Psychopharmacology. 3rd ed. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc; 2004:378.
12. Renoir T. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant treatment discontinuation syndrome: a review of the clinical evidence and the possible mechanisms involved. Front Pharmacol. 2013;4:45.


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So, on my list of posts I plan to make in the future, one of them is about why I don't use reversals when I read cards.
I haven't even made a list of points I want to cover with this (so if there's anything you might want to know in particular, it's not too late to ask!), but like…what's actually driving me crazy is that I can't decide if I want to do it as a text post or an audio post.
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As seen on page 124 of Canadian Scrapbooker magazine's Spring 2013 issue, available March 1st, 2013!
Welcome to digital bits! Here I will outline some simple ways to add digital elements to your projects using Adobe Photoshop. Enjoy!
1. Create a new document: 2″ square in size, 300ppi, RGB colour format.
2. Set your foreground colour to grey #BFBFBF, background colour to white.
3. Fill your document work area using your foreground colour.
4. Select Filter > Texture > Grain. Select "sprinkles" from the Grain Type menu. Change Intensity to 35 and Contrast to 50. Hit OK.
5. Duplicate Layer 1 by pressing Ctrl-J (Command-J on Mac).
6. Rotate your new layer by selecting Edit > Transform > Rotate 90 degrees CW. Change the blend mode to Multiply.
7. Repeat Step 6 to form a third layer. Combine the three layers into one by selecting Layer > Flatten Image.
8. Your glitter template is complete. Convert this image into a pattern for future use by selecting Edit > Define Pattern. Name your pattern 'glitter' and select OK. Close the document.
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1. In a new or existing Photoshop document, double-click the layer containing the shape to which you wish to apply your glitter. (Be aware of where you're clicking – make sure you're clicking on the empty space on the layer, just to the right of the name "Shape 1″.)
2. In the Layer Style dialog box, click on Pattern Overlay, and select your glitter pattern from the drop-down menu. You may alter the colour of your glitter in the next step, or select OK to complete the application as is.
3. To alter the colour of your glitter pattern, select Colour Overlay in the same Layer Style dialog box as in Step 2, and click the colour box to select your colour. Hit OK once you have selected the colour you wish to use. Change Blend Mode to Multiply, and hit OK to apply these new changes.
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Charlotte, N.C. • With a vigorous defense of the government's role in society and a vow to champion the middle class, President Barack Obama asked the American public for a second term in office Thursday.
And in doing so he presented an upbeat view of the future that includes a boom in manufacturing jobs, a cleaner planet and less debt.
What he didn't promise is that his vision would become a quick reality as he struck a more tempered tone than he did in the heady days of his 2008 victory.
"America, I never said this journey would be easy, and I won't promise that now. Yes, our path is harder — but it leads to a better place," he said. "Yes our road is longer — but we travel it together."
Framing the election as "the clearest choice in a generation," Obama addressed a convention center jammed with Democratic activists and a television audience of millions. With a confident and at times subdued delivery, Obama spent nearly 40 minutes drawing a stark distinction between himself and Republican rival Mitt Romney, whom he mentioned only once by name.
He argued Romney's prescription for the stubbornly weak economy centers on more tax cuts — and government reductions that would hurt a large swath of Americans.
"Over and over, we have been told by our opponents that bigger tax cuts and fewer regulations are the only way," he said, "that since government can't do everything, it should do almost nothing."
While lauding the private sector as the engine for economic growth and entrepreneurs as "dreamers," Obama also sought to rebut what he has seen as the demonizing of government and the people who are helped by public programs.
"We don't think government can solve all our problems," he said. "But we don't think that government is the source of all our problems — any more than are welfare recipients, or corporations, or unions, or immigrants, or gays, or any other group we're told to blame for our troubles."
For months, Obama has argued that this election is a fight between drastically different world views, while the Romney campaign has attempted to saddle the president with the responsibility for persistent unemployment that sits at 8.3 percent.
"Tonight President Obama laid out the choice in this election, making the case for more of the same policies that haven't worked for the past four years," said Romney's campaign manager Matt Rhoads. "Americans will hold President Obama accountable for his record — they know they're not better off and that it's time to change direction."
In accepting the Republican nomination in Tampa, Fla., last week, Romney claimed the president was a nice man, but a failure when it came to rescuing the economy and a person who could not live up to the expectations he set for himself.
"You know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him," Romney said.
The attention on Obama's convention address — and any boost in public support — could be short-lived if economic analysts have a good bead on the economy.
On Friday, the latest monthly job numbers come out and they are expected to show some modest job growth but not enough to have a significant impact on the unemployment rate.
The president tried to insulate himself from bad economic news by comparing the recession and its effects to the Great Depression.
"It will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades," he said. "It will require common effort, shared responsibility, and the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt pursued during the only crisis worse than this one."
While Obama focused primarily on the economy, he also contrasted his foreign policy victories — the end of the Iraq War and the death of Osama bin Laden — with Romney's lack of international experience, picking on Romney's comment that Russia, and not al Qaida, was the United States' No. 1 geopolitical foe and his criticism of the 2012 Olympics that outraged London's leaders.
It was a common refrain from speakers on the convention stage, but Obama's jab was one of the sharpest.
"My opponent and his running mate are new to foreign policy, but from all that we've seen and heard, they want to take us back to an era of blustering and blundering that cost America so dearly," he said. "You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally."
And after Democrats slammed Romney for failing to mention the ongoing war in Afghanistan and the troops in harm's way, Obama and a number of speakers paid tribute to service members. Vice President Joe Biden teared up when listing the number of troops killed or wounded in the recent wars — "6,473 fallen angels and the 49,746 wounded."
The address had few of the rhetorical flourishes that marked Obama's last two convention appearances, but he didn't abandon the call for "hope" and "change" that were at the center of his first presidential run.
Instead, he put a new twist on the slogan, saying that it is the Americans he meets that have given him hope, a word he used 15 times. And he said it is the people who supported his campaign that deserve the credit for health reform, changes to the federally subsidized student loan and a new policy allowing the children of some undocumented immigrants to gain temporary legal status.
"The election four years ago wasn't about me. It was about you," Obama said. "My fellow citizens — you were the change."
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On Saturday, February 28th, 73 volunteers showed up to work on the trail at Calavera. That's 292 more hours for SDMBA and San Diego area trails. This was a collaborative effort between SDMBA and the California department of Fish and Game. A rutted old access road that has become a primary artery in the area was rehabilitated to improve water runoff and reduce erosion. A big THANK YOU to all the volunteers who attended!
All tools were present including 3 brand new Spartaci. All were used. A good showing by the trail boss crew ensured that every group had a leader. Thanks to Tom Sommer for leading the group that busted the berm which will result in a majority of the water being directed away from the road. Tom wrangled the group like a pro and his leadership skills could only have been enhanced if he'd been on horseback with a jaw full of chew and a 12 gauge slung across his shoulder.
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Another "diamond in the rough," Calavera is a prime example of how great an area could be with some trail planning and follow through. Only with community participation will SDMBA be able to make the progress needed at the site. We are looking for a Carlsbad resident to take on the lead role as advocate and liaison for Calavera. Please contact Erik for more information.


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New Orleans -- It was another offensive shootout, but this time the LSU
defense made a few more plays, and the tenth-ranked Tigers beat Mississippi
State, 59-26 in Starkville.
With the win, LSU improves to 5-1 overall and 2-1 in SEC
play. It was LSU's 14th straight victory against the Bulldogs.
Running back Jeremy Hill ran for 157 yards and two
touchdowns on 16 carries, while Kenny Hilliard tallied 39 yards and three
Quarterback Zach Mettenberger threw for 340 yards and two
TD's, both of which going to Odell Beckham, Jr. OBJ finished the night with
nine receptions for a career-high 179 yards. Jarvis Landry also hauled in eight
catches for 96 yards.
It was a 31-26 game in the fourth quarter, but LSU pulled
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Just to confirm, you're AGINAST gay marriage correct? If so, why? Other than your belief of "marriage is solely between a man and a woman". Gay marriage doesn't affect you.
I am against gay marriage in the context of the original post where two male or female lovers would get the same benefits as a straight married couple.
That's textbook homophobia. Why is it uncomfortable? Because they're gay and might "try something" on you? I highly, HIGHLY doubt gays join the military to pick up guys.
It's not homophobia. That's a politically correct buzzword that you guys use to try and slander someone who disagrees with your point. No one here ever said gays join the military to pick up on guys. But if you've ever been in a desolate mountain area for months at a time in between your deployment leave, things get antsy and rough. You get urges. Gay guys will get urges just like straight ones and their choice is readily accessible.
They undergo the same stress everyone else does. It's about as much a dream to them as it is to you.
Exactly right. Read above.
Fact of the matter is if you've never served, you have no business dictating or expressing your opinion on what the military should or should not do. Most of you likely work your 9-5 office jobs and if you were in the military were likely quartermaster or administrative. It's different being on a large FOB with homosexuals and being at a COP with them.
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In 1981, there was no such thing as a DVR, sucking us in 24/7 and allowing us to watch every ... single ... episode ... of Kourtney & Kim Take New York ... in one sitting! We had green screen computers, Pong and Pac Man, but no Wiis, Kinects or PSPs -- definitely no Angry Birds that could be electronically flung on the subway or in your bed. And thirty years ago, Twitter was just a noise a sparrow or a horny construction worker on a New York sidewalk would make.
We're so proud of our iPads, our digital magazines, our ability to check President Obama's latest status update. We can get real-time tweets from @LadyGaga. But there's a price we pay, and it's written all over our asses! Our technology has come so far, but we've regressed physically. In fact, we're so sedentary, it's making us sick ...
Sure, some Wii games require us to move our bodies, but it doesn't make up for the fact that we're spending our days sitting on our butts watching other people work out for two hours (hello, Biggest Loser) and giving our thumbs the most workout of any part of our bodies, thanks to our smartphones. (But of course, if you're too lazy to pick up your thumb, you can get one of those phones where you just have to slide it from letter to letter to type.)
At least there's one upshot to our fat-making technology: America's not the only chunky kid in class anymore! The rest of the world is now almost just as obese, according to a new study in the Lancet. In fact, worldwide obesity rates have almost doubled in the last 30 years.
High-income American men (aka Wall Street Fat Cats?) are still the heftiest of all, ranking number one for being overweight (60 percent). This includes 30 percent who are considered obese, the heaviest group, which also ranks first worldwide.
Where do we as American women stand? We're fourth for obesity and second for overweight prevalence. That's rather grim, don't you think? But at least we're not as bad as women in southern Africa. They take the cake -- and are number one -- thanks to a 37 percent obesity rate. Eesh!
When asked what he thinks is the story across the globe, the Lancet researcher said:
At the most basic level, this is a result of more calories and less activity.
WOW! Is he a rocket scientist?! (Yes, that was a healthy dose of sarcasm.) What I mean is ... Why are we acting so ignorant about this problem? It's clear that thanks to our "Angry Birds"-filled and Twitter-rific world, we, as humans, are now sitting on our butts like, 500 percent more of the time, as compared to even ... well, 30 years ago!
Look, I wouldn't have a job if it wasn't for the Internet! But our 24/7 dependence on screens just terrifies me, because it makes me think we're headed right for a real-life version of Wall-E. If you never saw it, you really should, because it depicts humanity's imminent future: We'll be a bunch of blob-like beings who hang out in a mall-type spaceship all day, while flying around plunked in individual couches, drinking XL sodas and communicating with one another via text message.
If that image doesn't freak you the heck out, then, by all means ... I guess the best we can do is try to take those southern African women down for the #1 spot!
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I happen to agree 100%....I'm more sedintery now than I've ever been, even though I work out more often, and that sucks.
Technology is great but if overused, you kind of lose your humanity. o.O
You can't blame technology for obesity. People are responsible for themselves, even if they are on the internet or playing games for a long period of time they can still exercise and eat healthy. There are obese people that don't own that stuff just like there are skinny people that own it all and are on it every chance they get......even when spinning or walking.
I agree and need to work on this
My computer has definitely made me fatter.
I totally agree!
I really do agree with this.
it sure seems to be true!


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Rarely does an extended family get a free pass from Alzheimer's disease or diabetes mellitus. On the surface, these two afflictions appear totally unrelated —Alzheimer's (AD), Mother Nature's cruel version of identity theft; and diabetes, the glucose-metabolism disorder that affects both young and old alike. However, new research indicates that the two diseases behave in a similar manner.
In a study recently published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, researchers from Brown Medical School found that reduced glucose uptake and decreased metabolism in the hippocampus—the area of the brain associated with memory—cause neurodegeneration and cognitive impairment. This, they say, suggests that a form of diabetes, tentatively dubbed type 3, leads to AD.
Type 1 diabetes results from a severe or complete lack of insulin, a hormone made in the pancreas that controls blood sugar. Type 2, dubbed adult onset diabetes (although these days it occurs in teenagers and even younger kids), also stems from a dearth of insulin, or insulin resistance —the existing insulin molecules cannot deliver glucose through the cells' membranes. Surprisingly, the researchers found a new form of insulin, produced in the brain, and they believe that, over time, decreasing levels of this "brain insulin" and other insulin-related proteins ultimately precipitate AD. While levels of brain insulin have no known affect on a body's overall blood sugar, scientists have long recognized that diabetes patients are more likely to develop AD than those without the disease.
Skeptics of the Brown team's findings argue that our brains produce so little insulin in the first place, reduced levels of the hormone can't possibly play a significant role in AD. Regardless, the new data show that AD may be a neuroendocrine disorder, thus increasing the possibility for more effective treatments. And that gives hope to all of us who may one day be touched, directly or indirectly, by the merciless hand of AD.
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I will be baptized and confirmed.
*** BEFORE Primary begins, write out on the chalkboard (or on a posterboard) the lyrics to The Still Small Voice. By doing this in advance it won't take time away from your Sharing Time. Keep in mind that if you do a seperate sharing time for junior and senior, you'll need to write it out twice, whether on the chalkboard or posterboard. You'll also need to bring from home two highlighter markers.
Have you ever gone on a long trip? How did you know which direction to go in to reach your destination? Did you follow a road map? Did you follow the road signs? These things can help us find our way when we travel here on earth.
All of us are on a very important journey—a journey back to our heavenly home. Our destination is the Celestial kingdom, where we can live with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. Heavenly Father has provided a "map" to guide us as we travel back to Him. It is called the Plan of Salvation, or the Plan of Happiness. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the Lord's commandments are like road signs to help us reach our destination.
SONG: I will follow God's plan (pg. 164)
Heavenly Father trusts us to follow His plan on our journey through life. He planned that each of us would come to earth, gain a body, show that we would obey His commandments, and follow the example of His Son, Jesus Christ.
When we are baptized, we open the gate to the path back to Heavenly Father. We must be baptized to enter the celestial kingdom. And we must be baptized before we can receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost will help us choose the right and stay on the path. When we are baptized, we are following the example of Jesus Christ.
Heavenly Father is pleased when we are baptized, because we are on the path that leads back to Him. The Savior said that He did it to "fulfill all righteousness". He was baptized to show that He would obey Heavenly Father's commandments. As we travel here on earth, we must watch carefully all along the road for the signs that tell us where to turn, when to stop, and when to be extra cautious.
Once you make the commitment to follow Jesus Christ and be baptized, He blesses you with a special gift. Does anyone know what that gift is?? (Holy Ghost)
STORY - Share the following story called Warm Bath. Use the children and if possible, props. Ask questions about the story and how the Holy Ghost can help us. What is the role of the Holy Ghost and what is our role?
SONG - The Still Small Voice (pg. 106) - This song helps us understand what the Holy Ghost does. Have one child use a highlighter marker and highlight our responsibility. Have another child underline in another color the role of the Holy Ghost. Review with the children what a huge blessing the Holy Ghost can be when we remain worthy.
SUMMARY - When we obey the commandment to be baptized, we are making an agreement—a sacred promise called a covenant—with Heavenly Father. We promise to keep all of His commandments. Pray daily, study the scriptures, follow the teachings of the living prophet, remember the Savior, pay tithing, treat others kindly, obey our parents—these are some of the important "gospel road signs." If we obey them, they will help us stay on the path to the Celestial kingdom. The Holy Ghost will help us in our desires to be good. Share your testimony.
OBJECT LESSON - The word translated as "baptize" comes from a Greek word that originally meant 'to dip in dye.' Bring a small container of water that has been dyed with food coloring or fabric dye. Also bring a small piece of white fabric (or paper). Show the children how the character of the paper is changed when it is dipped/baptized in the colored water. Explain that through baptism, we can become as pure and clean as the water that we are baptized in. (Idea from Times and Seasons)
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+1 for uniqueness. Good job Siren.
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Possession might be reasonable cause for execution, but I can see it being coated on the treasure in a Chieftan's burial chamber, or what not. Does repeated contact make the poison work faster?
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I would have to disagree with Cheka on this, being that, of all the war god(esse)s that I've read, this is the one that I'd probably enjoy worshipping the most. Great job Scras.
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That night the PC's dreams are rife with turmoil, dreams of death and fire.
"Burn the witch!" The mob screams, pulsing from within with a hatred rarely seen in the world. No longer composed of individuals, but as one organism devoted entirely to hatred the bound her and beat her, tossing her back into the small boat she'd been trying to hide in. Filling it up to the gunnels with tinder and wood they kicked it out into the current, tossing torches onto it as they did.
Upon waking the PC notices that the locket, which was once in their pocket, is in their hand and seemingly coated in tears. The character, if motivated to try and part with it, will find themselves unable to, having become in the short time they've owned it, emotionally attached. They might have a few nights good honest sleep after this, but eventually the dreams will resume.
A faceless man, with a dark hood drawn over his head, is crying over a stream, though you can't see his face. The willows around him seem to be in mourning as well, even more than a willow is normally, the tree seems to slouch with a feeling of defeat. The man, still crying, rises out of the crouch he was in and hold out a necklace with some sort of silver pendant on the end, and then tosses it into the water whispering to something unseen, "For you, my darling, I'll never forget."
The PCs eventually make it to a town, to restock and the like, but as they're walking in they pass by a grisled old man, shackled to the wall. He seems to be within steps of Death's Gate, but as the PCs walk by he looks up, and locking his eyes upon the locket that the PC had unconciously put on, he started.
"Child, where did you get that? The trinket you wear round your neck, and the tears it carries in its heart?"
Seeing his sudden movement the guard starts, and suddenly his crossbow is pointed at the PCs, and the trigger is all but pulled.
"Calm yerself, Crombie. Just cause I killed you dear old man, and burnt his damn house to the ground for what he did to Ansonia when we was both kids, doesn't mean everything I do around you is out for your death."
As the PCs and the chained man, who eventually names himself as Abner, talk about the locket the story comes out about how it was his girl, his lovely Ansonia was burnt to death by the locals for fear that she was a murderer, demon-worshiper, and necromancer. Fueled by his hatred Abner proceeded on a campaign against the locals, killing and raiding, and was only recently caught by a group of adventurers. All he asks for from the PCs is that they give him the locket.
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The young man
part of a bandit clan, but after getting caught trying to steal from the clan's leader his punishment was brutal and quick, though his death lingered. If the PC's are chasing this clan for some McGuffin or another, the fact that the boy is a week dead should be enough, but if they summon his spirit for information, it will tell them of its death and urge them to avenge it.
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I've helped an not voted till now, shame on me.
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"As you make your way out of the forest, and the town on your map comes into view, you see the walls are painted in bright, sickly shades of red, green, and blue. The houses crouched outside the walls are clearly abandoned, and the city gate seems to have been battered down."
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"As you walk through the seedier part of town, trying your best to ignore the piles of refuse you step over, you see a man on the side of the street. He's leaning against the way watching you, and as you look closer, you see that he has a knife sticking part-way out of the side of his head."
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Hyrizian Toads
These Tribals and their stories, just today I heard one about a toad big enough to eat your leg. Preposterous I said, but they held that the story was the utmost truth.
-Journal Entry of Gima (Explorer and Naturalist)
These beasts look very much like your common garden toad, minus one very important fact, they're roughly the size of a large dog. Living in the bogs of the Hyrizi Jungle, they prey on anything that is both small enough to fit into their large mouths and stupid enough to come near them.
They're not fast creatures by any definition of the word and rely entirely upon their camouflage to get the jump on potential food. One part of this camouflage is their burrows, not much more than a hole in the ground that they can fit the entirety of their body in, which they wait in until something comes within striking range. They then bound out, using their powerful hind legs to propel themselves toward their food.
Now, while the meat of the toads and tadpoles is grisly and nearly tasteless, their eggs are viewed as a delicacy in many parts of the world. It is said that those eggs taste of heaven and will keep one going even to the gates of the Abyss. Of course, finding the fist-sized eggs isn't that easy, the toads will often hide them in thick rushes on the edge of fetid pools, but the reward is worth it, and the local villages will often fight over the most fetid and vile pools, for the chance to get as many of the eggs as possible
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So, digitalis is only toxic to mammals? So the local Lizardfolk tribe is fine then?
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mummy... I'm scared of the hyperborean regions now.
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Today's WI'DTOI Award
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Nifty's. Bonus point for the controlled burn section, just like C4.
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A daytime certified nursing assistant course will meet from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday to Thursday. Class will begin on Jan. 15 and run through March 19 and is held at the Gifford Medical Academy site. Cost is $894.
There will be a 75-hour, continuing education phlebotomy course for individuals who already working in the medical field in a hands-on position such as home health aide or certified nursing assistant. The course will be held Jan. 22 through April 11 and will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-9 p.m. Cost is $329.
The next medical coder/biller class will be offered in January. Class will be held Monday to Thursday from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. beginning Jan14 and running through June 1. This is a fast-paced class that will require much time and commitment. Cost is $1,779. All students who successfully pass the course and have a high school diploma are eligible to sit for AAPC's national coding exam and billing exam; the exams are not included in the cost of the course.
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