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CONSIDER THE HUMMINGBIRD for a long moment. A hummingbird's heart beats ten times a second. A hummingbird's heart is the size of a pencil eraser. A hummingbird's heart is a lot of the hummingbird. Joyas Voladoras, flying jewels, the first white explorers in the Americas called them, and the white men had never seen such creatures, for hummingbirds came into the world only in the Americas, nowhere else in the universe, more than three hundred species of them whirring and zooming and nectaring in hummer time zones nine times removed from ours, their hearts hammering faster than we could clearly hear if we pressed our elephantine ears to their infinitesimal chests.
Each one visits a thousand flowers a day. They can dive at sixty miles an hour. They can fly backward. They can fly more than five hundred miles without pausing to rest. But when they rest they come close to death: on frigid nights, or when they are starving, they retreat into torpor, their metabolic rate slowing to a fifteenth of their normal sleep rate, their hearts sludging nearly to a halt, barely beating, and if they are not soon warmed, if they do not soon find that which is sweet, their hearts grow cold, and they cease to be. Consider for a moment those hummingbirds who did not open their eyes again today, this very day, in the Americas: bearded helmetcrests and booted racket-tails, violet-tailed sylphs and violet-capped woodnymphs, crimson topazes and purple-crowned fairies, red-tailed comets and amethyst woodstars, rainbow-bearded thornbills and glittering-bellied emeralds, velvet-purple coronets and golden-bellied star-frontlets, fiery-tailed awlbills and Andean hillstars, spatuletails and pufflegs, each the most amazing thing you have never seen, each thunderous wild heart the size of an infant's fingernail, each mad heart silent, a brilliant music stilled.
Hummingbirds, like all flying birds but more so, have incredible enormous immense ferocious metabolisms. To drive those metabolisms they have racecar hearts that eat oxygen at an eye-popping rate. Their hearts are built of thinner, leaner fibers than ours. their arteries are stiffer and more taut. They have more mitochondria in their heart muscles—anything to gulp more oxygen. Their hearts are stripped to the skin for the war against gravity and inertia, the mad search for food, the insane idea of flight. The price of their ambition is a life closer to death; they suffer more heart attacks and aneurysms and ruptures than any other living creature. It's expensive to fly. You burn out. You fry the machine. You melt the engine. Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, like a hummingbird, and live to be two years old.
The biggest heart in the world is inside the blue whale. It weighs more than seven tons. It's as big as a room. It IS a room, with four chambers. A child could walk around it, head high, bending only to step through the valves. The valves are as big as the swinging doors in a saloon. This house of a heart drives a creature a hundred feet long. When this creature is born it is twenty feet long and weighs four tons. It is waaaaay bigger than your car. It drinks a hundred gallons of milk from its mama every day and gains two hundred pounds a day, and when it is seven or eight years old it endures an unimaginable puberty and then it essentially disappears from human ken, for next to nothing is known of the the mating habits, travel patterns, diet, social life, language, social structure, diseases, spirituality, wars, stories, despairs and arts of the blue whale. There are perhaps ten thousand blue whales in the world, living in every ocean on earth, and of the largest animal who ever lived we know nearly nothing. But we know this: the animals with the largest hearts in the world generally travel in pairs, and their penetrating moaning cries, their piercing yearning tongue, can be heard underwater for miles and miles.
Mammals and birds have hearts with four chambers. Reptiles and turtles have hearts with three chambers. Fish have hearts with two chambers. Insects and mollusks have hearts with one chamber. Worms have hearts with one chamber, although they may have as many as eleven single-chambered hearts. Unicellular bacteria have no hearts at all; but even they have fluid eternally in motion, washing from one side of the cell to the other, swirling and whirling. No living being is without interior liquid motion. We all churn inside.
So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment. We are utterly open with no one in the end—not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not child, not friend. We open windows to each but we live alone in the house of the heart. Perhaps we must. Perhaps we could not bear to be so naked, for fear of a constantly harrowed heart. When young we think there will come one person who will savor and sustain us always; when we are older we know this is the dream of a child, that all hearts finally are bruised and scarred, scored and torn, repaired by time and will, patched by force of character, yet fragile and rickety forevermore, no matter how ferocious the defense and how many bricks you bring to the wall. You can brick up your heart as stout and tight and hard and cold and impregnable as you possibly can and down it comes in an instant, felled by a woman's second glance, a child's apple breath, the shatter of glass in the road, the words "I have something to tell you," a cat with a broken spine dragging itself into the forest to die, the brush of your mother's papery ancient hand in the thicket of your hair, the memory of your father's voice early in the morning echoing from the kitchen where he is making pancakes for his children.
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It will be the Black Caviar of a year ago which runs in the Lightning Stakes at Flemington on Saturday, not the crotchety old mare which last raced at Royal Ascot.
Trainer Peter Moody said he hadn't been totally convinced Black Caviar's comeback was on schedule - or that it would happen at all - until the world champion sprinter galloped at Caulfield last Saturday week.
But the way she strolled around the mounting yard and bounced on to the track and then put in a dazzling piece of work, convinced Moody he was doing the right thing.
''That was the Black Caviar of old,'' Moody said on Tuesday. ''That was going back to wins 17 and 18.''
Win 17 was her first-up victory in the Australia Stakes at Moonee Valley in January 2012 and No.18 was the Orr Stakes, her one and only run beyond 1200 metres.
Moody said the version of the otherwise perfect racehorse which stepped out at Ascot four months later was a far different one, even if it was still good enough to win.
''At the end of last preparation she was a bit cranky, swishing her tail and turning her head,'' he said.
At her latest public appearance at Caulfield, Black Caviar also looked vastly different from the horse which scrambled home in front of the Queen. Her coat was dappled and gleaming, her eye was bright and she looked more muscled.
''That's what I wanted to see to give me a positive to go back to the races,'' Moody said.
While Moody admitted Black Caviar had been a ''day-to-day proposition'' for the past two years, there was no question mark over her farewell campaign.
''She's in the best physical shape injury-wise that she's ever been in,'' he said. ''She's worked nicely since the gallop at Caulfield, she's handled everything well.''
Black Caviar did a soft 800 metres at Caulfield last Saturday and more serious work on Tuesday morning.
Acceptances for the Lightning are taken on Wednesday morning with a field of at least eight expected in the $500,000 race. AAP

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8 Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.
To this originally Jewish audience who were the first recipients of James' letter, it would be common knowledge that the Hebrew word for heart in verse 8 means conscience. Rather than talking about the blood-pumping organ in our chest, James refers to the inner person, the soul, the conscience.
- Moses recorded that Pharaoh "hardened his heart" (Exodus 8:15), which meant that Pharaoh had seared his conscience from heeding God's will.
- When Scripture speaks of a tender heart as in 2 Chronicles 2:27, it's talking about a sensitive conscience.
- Proverbs 4:23 says, "Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life."
We may mentally know the source of sin and possess a genuine fear for the effects of sin, but without an alert and tender heart to the presence of sin, we fall into sin.
6. Don't judge each other in sinful ways (v. 11)
11 Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it.
We wrongly think that we can hide our sins by highlighting the sins of others. We sinfully judge through subtle forms of gossip and slander, both of which grieve the Spirit and divide the family of God. It's important to have discernment. And that means Christians can, and should, use sound judgment about whose professions of faith are credible. Jesus Himself said that we evaluate not by a person's words but by what fruit is shown in his or her life (Matthew 7:20). But rather than judge in sinful ways, we follow Christ's way of restoration spelled out in Scriptures like Matthew 18 and Galatians 6:1.
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It's the endless debate, the internal struggle between tradition and innovation. Everything is meant to evolve, and things are constantly changing all around us. When we have the ability to mold these things, how do we balance the importance of keeping with traditional and creating things more suitable to our times? Short answer: I don't know.
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The 5th Annual International Film Festival Summit (IFFS) announces that the River Run, AFI Dallas and San Diego International Film Festivals as well as Ashland Independent Film Festival will take part in a panel discussion that will address considerations and metrics for success including: number of films, number of acquisitions, celebrities, size of audience, longevity, number of impressions and reach at this year's summit taking place December 7-9, 2008 in Las Vegas.
The session entitled "Success Metrics: Where to Set the Bar", will take place Monday, December 8th at 4:00 pm and be moderated by Andrew Rodgers, Executive Director, RiverRun International Film Festival.
There are so many different definitions of success and "bigness." There are film festivals that attract hundreds of thousands of people, and yet are not on the mainstream radar, and festivals which show only a few dozen films that are world famous. This session will address considerations and metrics for success including: number of films, number of acquisitions, celebrities, size of audience, longevity, number of impressions and reach? Most notably, these different metrics have differing relevance to the constituents served by festivals – audiences, filmmakers, sponsors, media, film industry etc. Hear from different festivals on how they approach benchmarking and defining success.
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Any work intended to elicit laughter or provide humour. Includes all forms of comedy such as sitcom, standup, black comedy etc.
Programs that include the portrayal of characters, settings, life situations and stories intended as entertainment for theatrical, television and/or home video release.
A filmmaker's expression using unconventional and innovative production practices and techniques.
A continuing non-fiction series about daily living with topics such as design, home decoration, food, makeovers, sex, travel, and recreational interests. etc. Programs may include elements shot in studio or in the field.
Programs that explore the social, political, or cultural aspects of Canada's visible minorities. This may be expressed in any program genre.
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Programs which use music and/or performance to entertain or showcase artistic achievement.
Youth Productions
Any single production or series, either drama or non-fiction, that is clearly intended for the entertainment and/or education of youth.(13-18)
Documentary Categories – programs with factual or non-fiction content, about real people, events, human issues, social and political concerns, and values realized in a thoughtful, entertaining and artistic manner:
Documentaries relating to the world of art & culture.
Documentaries which interpret and/or document the life of a person or persons.
Documentaries with predominantly historical themes.
Documentaries that explore nature or environmental issues.
POV (point of view)
Documentaries with a personal, first person or filmmaker narrative.
Documentaries that explore science or medicine.
Short Subject
Documentaries under 30 minutes on any subject.
Documentaries about politics, social issues and current events.
Documentary Series
A minimum of six documentaries would be considered a series. Two episodes must be submitted to represent the series.
The Golden Sheaf Award of Excellence, will be presented to the most outstanding production of the Festival. Awards will be presented to winners in those categories which receive nominations.
If you wish your submission to also be considered for any of the following three awards, please indicate this in the appropriate line on your submission form; an additional fee of $ 10 per category applies:
Presented to the director(s) of a dramatic production.
Best Director (Non Fiction)
Presented to the director(s) of a documentary or other factual production.
Research This award recognizes the contribution and role of the researcher in documentary production. It can be awarded for content/story research and/or archival stock shot research.
All entries are eligible for the following cash awards:
Best of Saskatchewan Sponsored by SASKFILM – All Saskatchewan produced entries will be eligible for a special Best of Saskatchewan Cash Award of $ 750. (Must meet Saskatchewan Point Structure).
Note: If this entry is eligible for the Best Of Saskatchewan Award, please mail two (2) copies of the tape or DVD with your submission package.
The Founder's Award (formerly the Antoinette (Nettie) Kryski Canadian Heritage Award) – A $ 500 cash award and plaque in memory of the founding members of the Yorkton Festival, will be presented to an outstanding production exemplifying historical Canadian people or events.
The National Film Board Kathleen Shannon Award of $ 1,000 will be presented to an independent filmmaker whose production provided an opportunity for people outside the dominant culture to speak for themselves.
SCN Award of $ 500 is sponsored by SASKATCHEWAN COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK for the most outstanding Documentary POV production.
Jury Awards will be presented at the adjudicator's discretion.
All entrants nominated for a Golden Sheaf Award will be notified immediately following the jury process and will receive a nomination certificate. Check Website for Nominations after April 14, 2008.
A qualified jury, selected by the Festival, will judge the entries. Awards may not be given in categories where, in the opinion of the jury, the entries do not merit distinction. No entrant will be allowed to attend any jury session.
- Productions 60 minutes or under will be accepted.
- Videos must be on 1/2″ VHS or DVD.
- Productions may be colour or black and white, sound or silent.
- A segment of a television program which has a title, credits and is a self-contained unit will be regarded as an eligible entry.
- To ensure the best possible presentation of entries, there should be no commercials, commercial blacks, or commercial countdowns in the production.
- Entries in languages other than English must provide an English script or English subtitles.
- The quality of the production copy entered (sound and visual) is the responsibility of the entrant.
- Any portions of the script, sound track and footage that are from previously published materials must be identified.
Entries must be shipped PREPAID. Entries will not be returned unless a $ 10.00 shipping & handling fee is included.
The Festival accepts the responsibility for the safekeeping of all productions submitted for competition which are in its care or control. The compensation for possible damage to a production will in no case be greater than the cost of making another copy in the format submitted. The Festival provides insurance for loss or damage to films or video tapes to a maximum value of $ 400 or the cost of replacement, whichever is less.
Festival officials reserve the right to use the electronic media portions of entries accepted for competition to promote the Festival. The Festival officials reserve the right to screen the entries on local cable television within the Yorkton area and within a closed-circuit system in hotel facilities at Festival time.
A program of Golden Sheaf Award winning productions may be taken on tour following the Festival to selected Canadian centres.
Entry fee is $ 75.00 per entry (GST included). Entry fee is non-refundable and must be submitted with entry form.
Special Awards: There will be a charge of $ 10.00 per category.
Submission of a signed entry form for each production shall signify that the entrant agrees to be bound by the rules and regulations of the Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival Inc. Once entry forms and fees are received, registration begins. Even though the production may not have been received, it is considered entered and NO REFUND WILL BE MADE.
Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival
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Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada S3N 0H4
Telephone: (306) 782-7077
Fax: (306) 782-1550
E-mail: email@example.com
Make Cheque payable to: Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival
At the discretion of the Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival Committee, where there is a demonstrated need, certain costs may be covered for nominees to attend the Festival.
The Festival provides an on demand screening centre called Mini-Cinema. Festival participants, Distributors, Specialty network representatives and buyers, as well as the general public, are invited to screen all Festival entries. Entrants are encouraged to attend the Festival to promote and sell their productions in person. Please send a ½" VHS or DVD copy of your production for use at the Mini-Cinema screening centre.
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PlayByPlayMen Official Selection 2008 San Francisco Frozen Film Festival
Boston, MA (PRWEB) June 20, 2008
PlayByPlayMen And The Art Of The Perfect Call, the award winning documentary feature film written and directed by Ziad Hamzeh, has been selected as an official entry in The 2008 San Francisco Frozen Film Festival. PlayByPlayMen screens on Saturday, July 12th, 2:45 PM at The Roxie Theatre: 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA.
PlayByPlayMen And The Art Of The Perfect Call is devoted to those radio broadcasters who dedicate their lives to making that perfect call. Peppered with audio clips of some of the most famous play-by-play calls ever heard in Major League baseball, the film is an insider's look at the art and craft of the play-by-play, and stars some of the most well-known baseball announcers of all time: voice of the Detroit Tigers and Radio and Baseball Hall of Fame's Ernie Harwell, six-time winner of Sportscaster of the Year, Chicago Cubs' Pat Hughes, two-time winner of Washington's Sportscaster of the Year, Seattle Mariners Hall of Famer Dave Neihaus, Red Sox play-by-play-man for a record twenty-five years Joe Castiglione, former MLB player, Detroit Tigers announcer Jim Price, and Baltimore Orioles own Joe Angel.
The San Francisco Frozen Film Festival is a collection of razor's edge independent films and bands. Included in the festival are nights of live music concerts, short films, animation, global features, long and short documentaries, skate films, music documentaries, and music videos.
PlayByPlayMen won the Best Documentary Feature at The 2007 New England Film and Video Festival, took Finalist honors in The 2007 Central Florida Film Festival, and was an official selection at The 2007 Iowa City International Film Festival, The 2007 New Hampshire Film Festival, and The 2007 Wildwood By The Sea Film Festival.
PlayByPlayMen is the latest feature film documentary from the award winning team at Hamzeh Mystique Films, and the company's first co-production with Rose Mountain Productions.
PlayByPlayMen And The Art Of The Perfect Call: Written and Directed by Ziad Hamzeh, Produced by Karen Hunter and Ziad Hamzeh, Associate Producers Bert Brown, Marc Sandler, Nina Cullen-Hamzeh. A Hamzeh Mystique Films and Rose Mountain Production.
PlayByPlayMen And The Art Of The Perfect Call Official Website: www.hamzehmystiquefilms.com/pbpm
The San Francisco Frozen Film Festival Official Website: www.frozenfilmfestival.com
Hamzeh Mystique Films Official Website: www.hamzehmystiquefilms.com
Rose Mountain Productions Official Website: www.rosemountainproducttions.com
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There is deep concern that the use of cyanide represents a new and devastating technique in the rapidly growing poaching trade. (AP Photo)
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Q: If there was such a machine that broke you down into singular atoms, beamed them somewhere, and put them all back together in perfect order, would you step into the machine?
One of my best friends asked me this question a few years back and what I have found is that it is a great way to determine whether or not people believe in souls or not, in particular theirs. Most of the time those who show concern or doubt about this process answer with the following: No, because I would be concerned about losing my memories and thoughts. They are concerned about being a useless vegetable when they pop out at the other end.
My stance on this is yes of course because I believe that all my memories are simply processes that can be exactly replicated if the things from which they are composed are put back the way they were before and change. To put that plainly I don't believe in the concept of souls or anything above the mechanical processes of nature. I am curious as to what you all think about this. Please e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com with responses to the question posted above. I would also like to promote my Facebook Page which you can get to via this address: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=363676213072&v=wall&ref=ts#!/group.php?gid=363676213072&ref=ts Have a good weekend everyone!
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I'd have no hesitation to step into such a machine, provided I wanted to go where it would send me. I believe that we rot when we die, and I want my body to rot somewhere useful, so I want to be buried at sea (cremation is filthy and wasteful and I'm not really up to being in a body farm and have known too many med students to want to go that route).ReplyDelete
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Is It Time To Invest in This Drugstore?
Leo is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
Shares of Walgreen (NYSE: WAG), the largest drugstore chain in the U.S., recently tumbled after the company missed analyst estimates on both the top and bottom lines for its third quarter. Walgreen earned $0.65 per share, or $624 million, up 16% from the prior year quarter. Revenue rose 3% to $18.31 million. Wall Street had been more optimistic, expecting the company to earn $0.91 per share on revenue of $18.4 million.
Despite its recent plunge, however, the stock is still up more than 50% over the past twelve months, and many analysts have recommended that investors buy shares on a post-earnings dip. Will Walgreen bounce back quickly, or is this slide a start of a bigger downtrend, especially considering the volatile state of the market?
I love you, I hate you, I need you
Walgreen spent most of last year tangled in a love-hate dispute with its long-time partner, Express Scripts (NASDAQ: ESRX). Express Scripts is a pharmacy-benefits manager, a middleman between drug makers and drug store pharmacies. Express Scripts pays Walgreen, CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) and Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD), the three largest drug stores in America, to fill its prescriptions.
However, in 2011, Express Scripts asked Walgreen to lower its required payments, which the company refused to do. In response, Walgreen terminated its partnership with Express Scripts at the beginning of 2012, a terribly rash move considering that Express Scripts prescriptions accounted for 7% of its top line in 2011.
Express Scripts filled an average of 80 million prescriptions annually for Walgreen. Those customers flocked to CVS and Rite Aid, causing Walgreen's prescription sales to plunge 8.1% by the fourth quarter of 2012. Walgreen realized that it had made a grievous error in letting Express Scripts go, and resumed their partnership by September. By that time, however, Walgreen had already permanently lost many customers to its rivals. Walgreen addressed these concerns, stating that it had regained some of its lost customer base during the third quarter, which CVS Caremark confirmed in its first quarter earnings report.
Generic drugs equal higher margins, lower sales
Walgreen, CVS and Rite Aid have all been aided by an influx of generic drugs, which cost far less than their brand-name counterparts to purchase and to sell. This produces higher margins and profits, but generates lower revenue per sale. This influx was caused by Big Pharma's loss of patent exclusivity over several major brands over the past two years, which has boosted sales for generic drug manufacturers. Increased sales of generic drugs at Walgreen contributed to a year-on-year rise in gross margin from 28.2% to 28.5%.
Walgreen's total prescription sales, which comprised 63% of its top line during the quarter, rose 3.4% from the prior year quarter. Meanwhile, same-store prescription sales rose 2%. By comparison, same-store prescription sales at CVS rose 4.7%.
Walgreen's total prescriptions filled rose 8.7% year-on-year (7.1% on a same-store basis) to 209 million. Its market share in U.S. retail pharmacy also rose from 18.4% to 19.2%. In other words, despite lower revenue growth, Walgreen's pharmacy business is humming along nicely, and it is steadily regaining lost market share from its rivals.
These boots were made for synergizing
To give its operations the shot of adrenaline it needed to bounce back from the Express Scripts debacle, Walgreen bought a 45% stake in Switzerland-based Alliance Boots for $6.7 billion, its largest acquisition ever, last year. The partnership with Alliance Boots, which owns 3,300 health and beauty stores across 11 countries, is Walgreen's first overseas expansion. In addition to its retail stores, Alliance Boots also delivers over 4.5 billion units of prescription drugs to health centers, pharmacies and hospitals annually.
During the third quarter, Alliance Boots contributed $0.10 to Walgreen's adjusted earnings per share. Walgreen now expects cost-saving synergies from this partnership to come in at $125 million to $150 million for the first year, up from a prior forecast of $100 million to $150 million.
Versus competitors
A weak spot for Walgreen was its front-end (non-pharmacy) same-store sales, which grew by an anemic 0.4%. However, this was a considerable improvement from the 2.6% decline it reported a year earlier. It was in line with Rite Aid, which reported 0.3% growth, but far behind CVS Caremark's 1.4% gain. From the following chart, we can see that CVS continues to outperform Walgreen in terms of top and bottom line growth as well.
Although Rite Aid is smaller than Walgreen and CVS, investors should also note that the company recently reported its third consecutive quarter of profitability, after spending several years deep in the red. A fundamental comparison of these three companies also shows that each one has its own merits.
Source: Yahoo! Finance, 6/26/2013
The Foolish Bottom Line
Looking forward, investors should keep an eye on the balance between top and bottom line growth in these three companies. While rising generic drug sales are a boon to margins and profits, they are heavily dependent on higher sales volume. Otherwise, sales growth will wane, as seen with Walgreen's third quarter earnings. Some analysts are concerned about the sustainability of this business model, and others worry that the prices of generics will fall, crimping margins as well as revenue growth.
However, the federal government is planning to expand healthcare coverage to nearly 30 million Americans next year, which will boost demand for generics and drive up sales volumes at Walgreen, CVS and Rite Aid. In addition, when the turmoil in Europe subsides, Walgreen's investment in Alliance Boots could yield substantial profits in the long run. If that's the case, then Walgreen could be a great long-term buy on post-earnings dips like these.
In 2011, a massive shift began. With the first of the baby-boomer generation reaching Medicare age, America's health care landscape was forever changed. Combine the aging population with the impact of Obamacare, and the need for innovative solutions for skyrocketing health care costs is as clear as ever. Express Scripts is part of that solution, and in this brand new premium report on the company, we clearly lay out the opportunity in front of this misunderstood stock. Claim your copy by clicking here now.
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Rutgers 69
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(9) Notre Dame 76
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Coverage: FULLCT/ESPN3
12:00 PM ET, February 6, 2011
Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center, South Bend, Indiana
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Rutgers: J. Mitchell 24 Pts, 7 Reb, 3 Ast, 1 Stl
Notre Dame: B. Hansbrough 25 Pts, 6 Reb, 5 Ast, 1 Stl
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Ben Hansbrough for Big East player of the pear? How about national player of the year, an award his brother won two seasons ago?Notre Dame coach Mike Brey started the drums beating for his team's emotional leader after Hansbrough scored 25 points despite a tough start to lead Notre Dame (No. 8 ESPN/USA Today, No. 9 AP) to a 76-69 win over Rutgers on Sunday."When you step back a bit, look at this, and get away from the preseason hype machine, certainly he is a Big East player of the pear candidate as well as national player of the year," Brey said. "Flat out. I mean, we are in the Top Ten and he has driven us into that position and we are in the hunt for the league title. It is starting to be really evaluated. Some people say 'Let's see what he does next game.' Well, he did it again."After a slow start, Hansbrough took the game over. At one point he was 2 of 8 from the field, including 1 of 7 from beyond the 3-point line, but he used his drive-the-paint style to draw fouls and ended up making 11 of 13 free throws in a game that saw Notre Dame score only twice from the field in the last 8 minutes.Hansbrough blamed part of his slow start on the early starting time."I think that was part of it, a Sunday game at noon," said the younger brother of Tyler Hansbrough who was chosen national player of the year for leading North Carolina to the national championship in 2009. "But you always have to be ready to play, and I don't think we were completely ready to play at the very beginning. We weren't ready to slide our feet and Coach Brey got on us a little bit."Rutgers coach Mike Rice didn't put up much of an argument with Hansbrough receiving some honors."Hansbrough?" he questioned. "He just took the ball and manhandled us."Jonathan Mitchell, who led Rutgers with 24 points, said Hansbrough "does a great job of using his body and using your weight against you to create fouls. Notre Dame did a great job of attacking us."The Irish (19-4, 8-3) reclaimed sole possession of second place in the Big East behind No. 4 Pittsburgh and will host Louisville (No. 13 ESPN/USA Today, No. 15 AP) on Wednesday.Scott Martin had 14 points for Notre Dame and Tim Abromaitis added 10.Jonathan Mitchell scored 24 points for Rutgers (12-11, 3-8) while Dane Miller added 11.Rice wasn't about to argue about a big discrepancy between teams at the free throw line. Notre Dame was 27 of 34 the Scarlet Knights were only 8 of 12."You don't do anything with the referees in the Big East," he said. "They have their own fraternity. You just leave them alone and make adjustments and for the last two weeks we have. Believe me, some of those were fouls."Brey said he knew Rutgers would be a tough opponent despite the records."It is just the ebb and flow of Big East play," he said. "I have not been happier about a win. You can kind of get into [a mindset] of what should happen because of the records, but Rutgers has tough kids and that's a group that beat us last year. They kept game pressure on and it was a hard game for us. We had to figure out how to get out of there. It was good for our group because we are going to be in a lot of these games the rest of the season."Brey has pretty much let his five seniors play the bulk of the minutes recently."Today was a day for our old guys to win the game," he said. "We would make a mistake but they did not panic, they just moved onto the next play. We got the ball to the right guys at the foul line."Notre Dame pulled away from a 7-7 tie with a 17-6 run that included five straight points and a nice assist by Hansbrough. The Irish stretched the lead to 25-15 before a 3-pointer by the Scarlet Knights' James Beatty started a 7-0 run and got Rutgers within 25-22.Notre Dame led 37-33 at halftime with Hansbrough scoring 10 points.The teams battled evenly in the second half before two free throws by Martin started an 8-2 run that made it 51-43 with 12:36 to play. Consecutive 3-pointers by Rutgers made it a two-point game before a layup by Hansbrough sparked an 11-2 run that gave the Irish a 62-51 lead.
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Team Stat Comparison
|FG Made-Attempted
|27-62 (.435)
|22-47 (.468)
|3P Made-Attempted
|7-20 (.350)
|5-15 (.333)
|FT Made-Attempted
|8-12 (.667)
|27-34 (.794)
|Fouls (Tech/Flagrant)
|26 (0/0)
|13 (0/0)
|Largest Lead
Game Leaders
|Team Stats: Rutgers | Notre Dame
2010-11 Season
|» Feb 6, 2011
Next 5 Games
|02/09 VILL 8:00pm
02/12 HALL 7:00pm
02/19 @SYR 4:00pm
02/22 LOU 9:00pm
02/27 WVU 12:00pm
|02/09 LOU 7:00pm
02/12 @USF 12:00pm
02/19 @WVU 1:00pm
02/23 @PROV 7:00pm
02/26 HALL 7:00pm
|Complete Schedule: Rutgers | Notre Dame


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mignonette and cocktail sauce
Simple mixed greens~ 7
goat cheese, roasted tomatoes, tarragon dressing
Caprese salad~ 9
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Thai glazed crispy pork belly~ 12
mango salad, spiced peanuts
Steamed mussels~ 12
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Grilled fish tacos~ 9
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Roasted yellow squash and zucchini risotto~ 18
lemon and shaved parmesan
Pan seared scallops~ 23
seared pork belly over lemon risotto, shaved corn and basil
Grilled flank steak~ 20
fries, maître d' butter, gravy
Pan seared pork schnitzel~ 17
apple bacon slaw, fried smashed potatoes
Roasted half chicken~ 18
red bliss smashed potatoes, summer vegetables, pan jus
Pan seared cod~ 22
summer succotash and basil pesto
Rigatoni~ 18
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Beer battered fish and chips~ 15
tartar sauce
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cheddar, red onion relish, fries
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Cheese plate~ 11
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Mexican style grilled street corn~ 3.50
cilantro queso
Seared cauliflower~ 9
raisins, almonds and basil, agro dolce sauce
Side succotash~ 8
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Louisville Opens Two New Healthy in a Hurry Stores
Monday December 12, 2011
Louisville is opening its sixth and seventh "Healthy in a Hurry" Corner Stores in the Chickasaw and Portland neighborhoods where fresh fruits and vegetables had not readily been available. The "Healthy in a Hurry" initiative is part of the Mayor's Healthy Hometown Movement which received a $7.9 million federal Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) in March 2010.
The new Healthy in a Hurry store in Chickasaw is the Happy Food Mart located at 1201 Cecil Ave., owned by Muhammad Akbar. Akbar is using approximately $17,000 in grant funds to add "Healthy in a Hurry" signage, for facade improvements, equipment (a refrigerator and dry goods table), marketing, community outreach, technical assistance and first order of produce.
"The Healthy in a Hurry Store initiative has helped me to offer fresh, healthy foods to my customers," said Akbar. "With the high cost of a new refrigeration unit and displays, I would not have been able to carry fresh fruits and vegetables without the help of the initiative."
The new Healthy in a Hurry store in Portland is the Curtis Market located at 2720 Duncan St., owned by James Mitchell and managed by his son, Jimmy Mitchell. James Mitchell is using approximately $8,000 in grant funds to expand his selection of fresh produce, for signage, technical assistance and to market the store throughout the surrounding area.
"Even though we've been offering fresh produce for some time, the Healthy in a Hurry initiative has made it possible to expand the selection we offer to our customers," said Jimmy Mitchell.
Staffing and improvements are coordinated by the Healthy in a Hurry initiative of the Healthy Hometown Movement and its partner, the YMCA of Greater Louisville. The Healthy in a Hurry initiative makes it possible for grocers in neighborhoods not served by a full-service supermarket, known as food deserts, to carry fresh produce and other healthy foods that might otherwise not be available.
Healthy in a Hurry stores are also located at Webb's Market at 944 E. Muhammad Ali Blvd., Old Farm Boy Market at 1200 Dixie Hwy., the Shawnee Market at 208 Amy Street in the French Plaza, at the Parkway Food Mart at 1201 W. Hill St. and at the Berrytown YMCA at 1300 Heafer Rd.
"It's gratifying to see that the federal Communities Putting Prevention to Work Grant is accomplishing so much in Louisville," said Congressman John Yarmuth. "Louisvillians who live in neighborhoods without supermarkets will have easier access to healthy fruits and vegetables. Kids in our public schools will have nutritious foods and more physical activity during the day. And we'll all benefit from an infrastructure that better supports bicycling, walking, and other physical activities."
"The Healthy in a Hurry Corner Store initiative has really taken off, and is a key tool in creating a healthier Louisville," said Mayor Greg Fischer. "It has been very successful in bringing fresh produce and better nutritional opportunities to citizens in many of our city's neighborhoods that don't have a supermarket."
"These two new Healthy in a Hurry stores will make it possible for Chickasaw and Portland residents who don't have a car to make better food choices," said Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt, director of the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness. "There are more than 9,500 households within a one mile radius of the Happy Food Mart and more than 7,400 within a mile of Curtis Market. Now healthy fresh fruits and vegetables will be within walking distance."
The Happy Food Market lies in Metro Council District 1. Councilwoman Attica Scott said," By creating this Healthy in a Hurry corner store in the Chickasaw neighborhood, our city is showing its commitment to food justice in West Louisville. I am ecstatic that we are investing resources in a way that encourages and promotes healthy living by ensuring that families, especially children, have access to fresh fruits and vegetables."
As part of the program, stores receive start-up produce and technical assistance. The Center for Health Equity and the Y also work with food distributors to negotiate delivery costs for businesses participating in the Healthy in a Hurry initiative.
"A healthy choice should be an easy choice," said Steve Tarver, president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Louisville. "Breaking down barriers and providing access for people who want to eat healthy, but may not always have the opportunity, is our goal and Healthy in a Hurry is helping to make that happen."
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The Dirt on Compost Made from Treated Sewage
Last weekend, tens of thousands of music-lovers descended on Austin, TX, to take part in the Austin City Limits Music Festival. The ACL Fest "went green" this year, and not just in an eco-wise way. The park where the festival is held underwent a grass makeover, nourished by Dillo Dirt: compost made with yard trimmings and treated sewage sludge. And guess what? Last weekend, it poured...
Dillo Dirt is made by the city of Austin. Concerned about the treated sewage part?
The heat generated in composting (130 to 170 degrees fahrenheit) is sufficient to virtually eliminate human and plant pathogens. After active composting for over a month, our compost is "cured" for several months, then screened to produce finished Dillo Dirt. Dillo Dirt easily meets all Texas and EPA requirements for "unrestricted" use, which even includes vegetable gardens, if you desire
Seeing as how folks were sliding around in the mud at ACL this year, they either knew that composting kills pathogens, or didn't know they were sliding around in human compost. Experts insist that the Dillo Dirt is totally safe.
The grass at Zilker Park is expected to grow back, and if anything, all those concert-goers now know that Dillo Dirt does in fact make lawns grow lush and beautiful.
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I have read several blogs where people are reporting rashes and illness from contact with the wet
Class A sewage sludge biosolids "Dillo Dirt" in Zilker Park. I would be interested in knowing if others suffered any adverse health effects, skin lesions, infections, etc. Please contact me. Many gardeners and other victims have been sickened by use of or contact with Class A sludge biosolids "fertilizer".
US EPA SAYS: Regrowth of Salmonella sp. in composted biosolids is a concern, although research shows that salmonellae reach a quick peak during regrowth, then die off. Composting is not a sterilization process and a properly composted product maintains an active population of beneficial
microorganisms that compete against the pathogenic members. Under some conditions,
explosive regrowth of pathogenic microorganisms is possible. http://www.epa.gov/owmitnet/mtb/combioman.pdf
Class A (Dillo Dirt) sewage sludge "biosolids" is a good source of drugs, pharmaceuticals, steroids, endocrine disrupters and toxic industrial chemicals. EPA's toxics release inventory and other documents reveal that each year billions of pounds of hazardous pollutants are released into public sewers, where the wastewater treatment process reconcentrates them in the sewage sludge "biosolids".
EPA and University of Wisconsin research has found that sewage sludge may also contain infectious human and animal prions which are NOT inactivated by sludge treatment processes.
Prions can cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies such as Alzheimer's, Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease, Mad Cow Disease, Chronic Wasting Disease, Scrapie, etc.
Sewage sludge fertilizer should not be used in dairy pastures, public parks, ballfields, playgrounds, and home flower and vegetable gardens. Peer reviewed scientific research has found that plants, including vegetables and fodder, can take up sludge pollutants. Pathways of risk include runoff to surface waters, bioaerosols from dried sludge dust, children eat dirt (and sludge), family pets can track the sludge into homes on their feet and fur and topdressed sludge on grazing lands is eaten by livestock and returned to the human food chain in their meat and milk.
Helane Shields, Alton, NH 03809 Sludge researcher since 1996 http://www.sludgevictims.com
A local high school removed their veggie garden's soil that had been treated with similar treated sewage because of high heavy metal levels that were discovered upon a soil test.
That's me! Just kidding. I was wearing rain boots on muddy Sunday, and I was careful to keep my hands out of the "splash zone" when walking around.
That makes me want to throw up.... and after reading the other comments, it sounds entirely unsafe. A farmer that lives across from my parents used some sewer sludge to "fertilize" his field a few years back and smelled so horrible they had to close up the windows and turn on the AC as to not feel sick from it.
Obviously, none of you read the linked article from the EPA. In the first paragraph: "Biosolids compost is safe to use
and generally has a high degree of acceptability by
the public."
Given that every one of the other links is to a site that obviously isn't a disinterested party, well...
Get a grip, folks. Human beings have been using their own waste and the waste of other animals as fertilizer for eons.
Tiamat, I think the difference between just animal waste, and sewage sludge, is that in the latter, additional stuff such as pharma/chemical residues and runoff from streets, roofs, etc., get washed down the drains. Sewage is more than just what you flush down your toilet.
It's also worth mentioning that humans put crap into their bodies that animals wouldn't even think of. Consider the many many many types of prescription drugs we see ads for on TV, that are no doubt going into people's bodies..and in turn, eventually partially into their toilets. Do we really want to grow stuff with leftover remnants of viagra and anti-depressants?
Wait...don't answer that. Haha.
The sludge compost might meet the requirement of less than 1,000 thermotolerant E. coli bacteria per gram, until it got wet at which point all viable but nonculturable bacteria tend to rejuvenate. Look at two studies
Repopulation in Composted Sludges
The repopulation potential and recovery of Salmonella sp. and their close relatives Arizona spp. and Citrobacter spp. in sewage sludge which had been composted was examined. Salmonellae growth in previously composted sludge was found to occur in the mesophilic temperature range (20 to 40 deg C), require a moisture content of -20%, and require a carbon/nitrogen ratio in excess of 15:1.
These results also indicated that some enteric bacteria, upon desiccation, became dormant and in this state were highly resistant to both heat and radiation.
Optimal recoveries in the low bacteria sample occurred at the 21% moisture level at 28 to 36 deg C after a 5-day incubation. The population increased more than four orders of magnitude under these conditions. The indigenous salmonellae initiating this growth had survived in a desiccated state for over 1 year prior to providing the proper moisture-temperature combination for the repopulation to occur. --- as long as a demonstrated potential exists for repopulation of salmonellae in a commercial soil amendment product produced from composted sludge, a potential health hazard exists for the user.
APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, Mar. 1981, p. 597-602
Evaluation of the Health Risks Associated with the Treatment and Disposal of Municipal Wastewater and Sludge (1981) Compost worker - ear infection - Despite treatment, there was erosion of 70% of the right tympanic membrane. One compost worker's x-ray exhibited an abnormality compatible with an occupationally-relate disorder.
Heat Dried Milorganite study 36. For both the annual and perennial fields the incidence of liver degeneration in the meadow vole did not differ between the fertilized and sludge treated plots but was lower in the control plots. 37. Meadow voles from the sludge-treated annual field showed a more severe liver degeneration than those from the sludge-treated perennial fields.


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5. Sleep in your exercise clothes (comfortable ones).
Do you always intend to get up and go for a jog or log an hour at the gym before work but…don't? Motivation may be your problem, and if so, Nicole Glor, an AFAA-certified personal trainer and group fitness instructor at Crunch in New York City, says that she gives her clients some unusual advice that works. "Sleep in your gym clothes and put your sneaks and sports bra by the bed," she says. "Many of us waste too much time saying we need to work out but dread the process. Trick yourself by just getting dressed for it and not really thinking about the next step."
6. Do your Kegels.
Experts say that as many as 1 in 4 women over the age of 18 experience episodes of involuntary leaking urine, called urinary incontinence. It's embarrassing and frightening, but there is something you can do about it, say experts: Keep your pelvic floor muscles strong. According to a review of studies by The Cochrane Library, the pelvic-floor strengthening exercises known as Kegels were found to be an effective way to minimize urinary incontinence issues. Proof: Women who did their Kegels were between 2.5 and 7 times more likely to experience improvement than those who did not do the exercises.
Need a quick refresher course on how to do Kegels? First, to figure out which muscles need flexing, some experts suggest women insert a tampon or a clean finger into their vagina and then try to close their vaginal muscles around it. Contract these pelvic muscles and hold for about 3 seconds; repeat 10 times. Do these as often as you like, and anywhere you like—no one will know!
7. Give yourself a compliment.
The key to feeling happy, confident and proud of your body—flaws and all? According to Stacey Rosenfeld, PhD, a New York-based psychologist who specializes in issues of anxiety, depression, eating disorders and body image, the best thing you can do for yourself is to learn how to marvel at your body's many abilities. "Focus on what your body can do, rather than on how it looks," she says. "Too often, we pay attention to how our bodies appear, rather than what they allow us to do. Can your body dance or swim? Can you build sand castles at the beach with your kids? Does your body allow you to enjoy a hot bath or intimacy with a partner? Does your body transport you down the block or up a mountain?" Try this exercise: "Identify what you like about your body," she says. "See if you can find 10 things you like about how you look, like the sparkle in your eyes, the strength of your calves or your hair."
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I'd been thinking about installing some blogging system on my lab machine for the last couple of days. This morning I finally got down to it. Installation was pretty much a breeze (hail Debian!) though it required a little bit of tweaking to get Apache, PHP and MySQL working together seamlessly. Lets see how it goes from here on :)


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The Canon EOS series started with the EOS 650 film camera in 1987 (that's mine above). Since then, Canon has produced 40 million EOS SLR cameras, 20 million of which have been digital. While it took 10 years for Canon to produce its first 10 million EOS cameras, it has take less than 3 years to produce the last 10 million units.
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LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., May 13, 2010 – Canon Inc. announced today the achievement of a new camera-manufacturing milestone as combined production of the company's EOS-series film and digital single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras passed the 40-million mark.


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Northborough – For nearly 50 years, Brown's TV and Appliance was an iconic business in Northborough. When the owners, father Frank Jr. and sons Frank III and David, made the decision to close at the end of January, they, as well as the community at large, felt great sadness. But now the store has re-opened, under new owners who are another father-and-sons team.
Chris Pelevan and his sons Denis and Eddy Pelevan, and John Crowley, come from diverse backgrounds. Chris is a former plant supervisor who now volunteers as a medical interpreter for the UMass Worcester Medical Center. Denis is a former San Diego deputy sheriff. Eddy has worked in delivery and installation for many years, including at Brown's. And John too has a great deal of experience in installation and repairs.
When the Browns suggested that Chris and his sons take over the business, Chris said his family thought it would be a great opportunity to merge their different skill sets.
"They said we could keep the 'Brown's name," he noted of the former owners. "They have a great reputation and were known for treating people well and always being honest. We plan on continuing that tradition of superb service."
Customers will be able to purchase not only televisions but other major home appliances, Chris said.
"We know that we will be facing a lot of competition from the big box stores," he said. "Our difference is that not only will we have the same items at the same price [as the box stores], we will also have free delivery and free takeaways. We will install everything from beginning to end. There will be no subcontractors. You will always be able to reach one of us. And you will always know who you are dealing with at all times."
"People think that just because you are small, your price won't be good, but that's not true," Denis added. "And not only will we have a lot of stock on hand, we can do special orders too."
Denis will be the store's "front man," while Chris will serve as the chief financial officer. Eddy and John will be involved with sales as well as installation.
The new owners are also planning an official grand opening sometime this spring.
"We'll be announcing details soon," Chris said. "And we hope that everyone will come down that day and visit us. We're excited to be part of this community!"
The store, located at 243 Main St., is open Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday 12 to 5 p.m. To contact them call 508- 393-8713, email firstname.lastname@example.com or visit http://www.brownstvandappliance.com.
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Evidently, the business of rehabilitating 'bad' dogs is booming.
Armed with a warm smile, Cesar Millan has spent the past seven years helping people and their problem pets on his National Geographic show, "The Dog Whisperer." Issues range from fear of appliances to aggression towards skateboards. Millan's mantra during each visit: Dogs need exercise, discipline and affection — in that order. People need to embrace their role as leader of the pack.
Since the show's 2004 debut, Millan has turned his brand of dog psychology into a multimillion-dollar empire that includes books, DVDs, magazines and pet gear such as collars and
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