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Smart Travel: Pros & Cons of Guided Tours
Did you read too many Jack London books while growing up, and now dream of making your way through the world alone, living on your wits and daring? Or, do you prefer to leave the tough stuff to the pros when you travel, and enjoy the guidance and company of others? Whether you think tours and guides are inherently evil, or the cat's meow, there are pro and cons to each means of travel. The key is knowing who you are, and what's important to you.
Today, I'm breaking it down, and thinking through the benefits and drawbacks of both methods. First up is the downside of joining tours or hiring a guide:
- Unknown Experts: You don't know who your guide will be, and there's nothing worse than tapping your toes while listening to someone annoying drone on and on about endless facts. Hopefully you are lucky and get an informed and entertaining guide who enhances your experience instead of dooming it to boredom.
- Endless Masses of People: We've all seen those long lines of people, following their fearless leader with a tall flag and a megaphone. If the idea of being in that large group fills you with dread, consider independent travel instead.
- Group Interests: Tour groups in general resort to common denominators, so trips will revolve mostly around well-known, famous sites and sights. This might be frustrating if you learn midway through your trip that the Gutenberg Museum (filled with delicious books, typography and bookplates) is just around the corner from your hotel in Mainz, Germany, yet you can't just slip away to take advantage of your proximity. Unless the tour is designed for you, or has some flexibility built in, you're out of luck.
- Tight Schedules: There's nothing worse than having to get up and out the door at 6am, when all you want to do is sleep late and then take advantage of your full European breakfast of cured meats, cheese, and Prosecco. It's a vacation, after all.
- Difficult Travel Conditions: I went to Vietnam in 2004 and had heard beforehand that — due to lack of infrastructure — it can be a tough country to navigate as an independent traveler. Given the time we had, it was infinitely more convenient to join a merry band of others and head off to Ha Long Bay together as a small pack. It was a great experience, and I didn't feel like cattle. I would happily do that again.
- Adventures: There was no way I was going to self-drive while on safari in East Africa. I had images of us changing flat tires in the middle of the Serengeti, surrounded by lions and drooling hyenas. Instead, we hired one of the many, many companies around to take us in a jeep. (That's our jeep above acting as a buffer between our group and a very large elephant hanging out by our campground bathrooms one fine morning.) Not only were we safe and sound, but were also free to take our thousands of photos and enjoy the scenery.
- Insider Info: Safari tour guides also constantly keep each other in the loop, via cell phone, about animals in the vicinity, and where all the action is. That type of info ensured we saw more animals that we would have on our own.
- Short Term, Individual Needs: Don't forget, you can also hire a guide for just the day, or even a few hours. I've hired local residents (like the lovely Amy, pictured in the lead photo, who cycled around Guilin, China with us one beautiful day) to take me around a particular area or sight, to get the most information and details I wouldn't pick up from a written guide, or to get around poor museum translations and my lack of language skills.
- Comfort from Others: You might be traveling alone, and want the emotional comfort of having other people nearby to help you, or just keep you company. Some tours also deal with luggage, so there's no need to haul your own damn suitcase around, packed to the gills with souvenirs and purchases.
- Less Red Tape: Everyone wishes they could stare off mindlessly into space while someone else takes care of airline tickets, government forms, and ticket lines. Or, to have someone that knows such-and-such museum is closed on Tuesday from 2-4pm. Some people have travel partners that excel in the details. With a tour guide, the rest of you get a reprieve from your own disorganization.
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I'd argue that you don't need a whole tour for English speaking countries and western Europe. The alphabet's the same and you can get by easily on your own. Save your guide money for site specific things you're super interested in like the ruins of Pompeii or the like. My in-laws went to France this spring and have not stopped talking about the guide they had for the Normandy beaches. My SIL is now something of a WWII buff at his inspiration.
Further afield (like Africa and South East Asia as you said) it can be easier to find a small tour group to go with. It's much harder to navigate public transportation when the alphabet is unfamiliar and the customs so different than your own. Depending on how you feel about things, it can really spoil a trip.
Downside to tour companies: the guide and driver will, at least once an excursion, drop you off at their buddy's souvenir tourist trap and you'll be a captive audience for someone who's an expert at making you part with your money. The guide and driver get kickbacks. No matter where you are, chances are good that things were made in China anyway.
Going by yourself means you can avoid the big tourist trap souvenir shops if you don't like hauling around useless crap.
Upside to tour companies: when you want to go shopping at a place where there's no affiliation between the guide and the vendor, the guide can advise you on smart pricing, tipping, and negotiation practices. Better yet, they can play defense when a vendor tries to screw you and viciously berate the unsavory vendor in the local language :-P
- used tour companies in Vietnam and India. Went guideless for France, Italy, Austria, Singapore, and Hong Kong
I think you nailed it, because it mostly depends on your own personality and the destination. We just got back from East Africa on a small group (16 people) tour, the pace is hectic, but the advantages of knowledgeable guides and being with a tight group of friends made it worthwhile. We did Costa Rica for a month on our own and neither one of us speaks Spanish. Overall, the tours let you explore places that you would not be comfortable going to alone.
I find the best guides are usually locals, so we try to make friends whenever we travel. The one time I did find having a knowledgeable guide invaluable was during a visit to Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.
I've done a fair amount of travelling over the last few decades. When I did my first trip (6 weeks to Britain and Greece) back in 1976, I did take a tour for 5 days through the Peloponnesus - I was on my own and I was glad I did. With my husband, I also did a 4 day tour of the area around Darwin, Australia - we didn't want to rent a car and it just made sense to do it that way at that time. Since then, we've done the odd day tour or 1/2 day tour. But we generally like to travel on our own. I love planning trips and I would really miss out on that if we did tours. Plus we're 'lazy' travellers - we don't like to be on the go all the time. I might consider a tour if I was going to some parts where I might have problems communicating, but maybe not.
Tours have their purposes. I find them most useful when we want to see quite a few things in one area that we'd have trouble navigating alone. If we don't want to rent a car, want a guide, want to get a lot done in a short amount of time, and don't speak the language, it sure is helpful. When in Turkey last year, we took a 3-day tour to Pamukkale, Ephesus, and Pergamum. We saw more and accomplished it at a better price than we would've been able to do alone.
i did a trip with Pacific Discovery in 2008 and LOVED every second of it. It was a perfect mix of group activities (that would otherwise be a hassle and expensive to do alone) and personal time (helllooooo $5 hour-long massages in Thailand!) SE Asia is a must to do with a group, but I suggest doing it with a travel company that uses the most local resources as possible.... when you're hopping on a huge tour bus for every stop you REALLY feel like a tourist and don't immerse yourself in the culture.
My rule of thumb is - if enough solo travelers complain about all the guided groups being in the way of their experience, I join a guided group.
I think it does depend on where you are going, what your goal is, and the company you use. And of course, you can mix and match on a trip too!
I'm a single female traveller, and swore off organised travel in my 20's. Then found grass roots companies that focus on small groups, outsource their services to local companies, and offer a lot more freedom in how you spend your time, and an ethical approach to travel (I've used Geckos and Intrepid). Some trips used local buses and trains to get around, others used private drivers - at times as a matter of safety. There are between 4 and 15 of us, ages ranged from 25-65, and all have the focus on the country and lifestyle ahead of the big night out. I then tend to add on an extra week after the tour - by then, the culture isn't as intimidating, other travellers I've met also might be doing the same and willing to travel on together, and I feel as though I've had my adventure this way too.
The local guide is great - ethical companies won't take you to sales places for kickbacks (if they did, the parent company outsourcing the tour would take a stand), they can explain things that books can't, they can adapt itineraries when natural disasters strike (I've faced floods and mudslides blocking roads with no idea how to move forward), they guide you through tougher aspects (when bribing border guards $1 is routine on border checks - I'd still be arguing today!), and in small groups they support your interests (making sure we saw as many sporting grounds in Sri Lanka for a cricket fan, for example!).
Doing it on your own is exhilarating too, lonely at times, but the two aren't mutually exclusive. And again, I've found my tour guides really helpful at offering ideas and advice for my onwards plans.
I think I've travelled every which way possible and while I prefer to research and plan my own trip and do it alone, sometimes it is nice to join a tour or hire a guide.
Often times guides are really knowledgeable and you can learn a lot of historical/architectural details from them. Some guides are adapt at steering you away from crowds to find quieter areas, or pointing out excellent angles for a photo. Plus, if you're travelling alone, you can ask them to take a picture or two of you.
As workergirl also mentioned, the guides I've had have always been great at helping overcome unforeseen problems, tough cultural realities and suggesting local things not in the guidebooks.
I think the key is to look for smaller tours that have a focus you are interested in. "Seven countries in seven days!"-type tours are a far cry from hiring a guide to give you a university level lecture on the finer points of architecture and how it intersects with history and culture at one famous temple.
Another advantage of a tour that I don't think has been mentioned: they can work well for traveling with teenagers/young adults. I've done quite a lot of traveling, both as a teen and now as an adult, and only ever done 1 tour. But I had a great time! My dad and I went on a walking tour of Wales together. Traveled with a group of 15 or so other people, walked through Welsh countryside all day, coming back to a hotel at night--and then every night or two changing hotels. There were 3 other young people in the group, which gave us some respite when we got tired of making conversation with our parents! The fact that it was a WALKING tour, as opposed to a bus tour, also worked well for me as a 18 year old. Biking tour would probably be just as fun (although less conducive to long conversations with your dad, which was part of the point).
When traveling overseas, one of the biggest considerations to make is "Do I want to isolate myself and view the country from inside a forcefield, walking in a horde of other people like me? Do I want to try and do it on my own? Can I straddle that middle ground of sometimes alone, sometimes with a guide?
Of course, if you have a certain interest in say architecture or art history and you can have a knowledgeable guide to teach you things that you could not get on your own, then of course, go with a guide.
In Southeast Asia, however, I can think of nothing worse than traveling in a big, guided group. SEA is chaotic and dense with people, walking in a big group is nothing but a hassle, being in a crowd that must stick together while weaving your way through throngs of locals would be nothing less than frustrating and boring. Furthermore, it is not necessary in the bigger cities or the beach towns. SEA has adapted itself incredibly well to its western visitors. (My experience is slightly limited, as I have not yet been to Cambodia or Vietnam, but I had no troubles in Sumatra, Malaysia, Singapore, Laos, Thailand or the Philippines-- Myanmar is a slightly different story, as it has only recently opened up to foreigners and they are still trying to figure themselves out, but they are nice and patient, so any troubles are eased by their kindness).
There is a reason to go with guides sometimes in SEA, and that is for trekking. All the travel books will tell you the towns and cities and areas that have trekking. In Sumatra, you can trek for 3 days and see wild orangutans--you need a guide for this. In Laos, you can trek through different tribal villages. You can have a guide that speaks the language of all the tribes, they welcome you in, teach you to cook their food, and let you wander their village and just watch how they live, how they spend their time, what the children do, how they interact with animals, etc. On island trips, you have to hire a boat/guide for island hopping and snorkeling--the guides will cook freshly caught fish for you and teach you about the animals you see. These are the times you must have a guide, but you certainly do not need a guide for the down time between treks.
The last suggestion I have is to not plan too much before you get to your destination. Don't expect to find everything online ahead of time.There will be many things available for you to do, and many guide outfits to decide from. Take it easy, take it slow and trust people, they are generally good.
From the time my daughter was 6 & my son 11, we lived in Europe, very cheaply, every other summer stopping in London to visit family, but otherwise, improvising on our own on the Continent. These were the best trips I've ever made though we had many glitches, money problems, no reservations, whatever.My husband, a disgruntled, cranky traveler, would join us briefly at the end, but nowadays we don't refer to that part of our trips.
Later, on my own, considered "older", in my fifties I traveled with a university group, found coping with personalities difficult, though I found one person who is still a close friend (for more than 30 years!). On other trips, I alternated; if manageable and in a European country where I could cope with the language, I'd arrive, take a local bus tour, then walk and explore on my own. I've made a few short trips with friends, but I wouldn't recommend it, because when lifestyles, attitudes, discomforts arise, there is trouble.
In my sixties, seventies, I traveled alone, but for those places I felt would be too challenging I joined small tours. I'm a hardy traveler, have little fear of other cultures, languages, food, or behavior, but traveling with my fellow Americans, especially couples glued at the hip, for they were not polite or inclusive, I was uncomfortable; and, if I chose to sit alone at the breakfast table, someone would come over to criticize: "Are you anti-social?" Since I've always been self-reliant, and have lived alone for many years, I found such attitudes repulsive and rude.
One year I traveled to India under the guidance of an Indian who's lived in the US a long time, Julie Sahni, and I recommend her trips. There, too, I found friends, but also avoided those Americans who were rude, clannish, and super critical of the country they were visiting.Also, using local guides is crucial, because otherwise, it's a form of colonialism to have an American guide preaching the gospel.
On one of my last trips to Mittel Europe, visiting the concentration camps, destroyed communities, reconstructed cities, I felt it was necessary to surround myself with others, but, there again, I faced the inevitable unease couples have with older independent women. I vowed NEVER TO JOIN A GROUP AGAIN.
When my oldest grandchild was 15, we traveled for one month to European cities; it was arduous, in a heat wave, but we covered much, and she and I remember the good times, as well as the challenges. And, I'm not a high maintenance grandmother, so we stayed in low priced places, ate local, good food, and did lots of walking.
And, of course, for the independent traveler, there is the single supplement, a method for hotels to enrich their coffers though they have single accommodations; I pay but know that it is unjust, and I definitely won't share a room with a stranger; sharing a room with a friend in Paris for a week, educated me: NEVER AGAIN!
I speak for my generation, I'm 84, and my contemporaries don't travel alone, and have strong loud opinions about older independent women, so I'm not advising or discouraging others, especially younger people from joining groups or traveling alone. It's a generation thing, and I also know I won't take cruises because I always say that I'm not a good swimmer and can't escape from boring travelers, but I really mean that I'm not "into the couples" or clone-driven companionship style. I've made many long lasting friends on my trips, email sustains our friendships, but coping with the ugly Americans, the compulsive shoppers, the jokers, and those who visit another culture and complain about everything makes me wary. But, of course, in some places, I miss speaking my own language, especially at dinner. I dined alone is many cities, as well as in my hometown, but it does get lonely.
One thing I do have to mention:If you have children, do travel with them, forget about groups. When we did it, few Americans included children, and of course, there was the issue of manners, especially in public, but I assume that by now young Americans have learned how to manage that challenge. Because my children traveled when they were young, they are intrepid travelers now, with their children as well. In one of my speeches given at my 80th birthday celebration, I mentioned that I had taught my children 3 things: "Always have an up-to-date passport, be ready to pack efficiently at a moment's notice, and choose a career you love!"
I find I have the best experiences when I choose a specific tour (like a guided food tour, or other specialty tours.) It helps to get like minded people on the same group. We also travel with our kids and in many countries where I get a guide, it is very affordable to do a private guide rather than a group. We've had great experiences in Morocco, Thailand, Costa Rica. We've also had some duds. The hardest part is walking away from a tour group when you realize that it isn't going to work out. But we've done that, too!
I developed a motto for travelling, which is "Expect anything, everything and nothing". It came about after someone said to me that service can be non existent in a place I was going to. It reminds me that I need flexibility and patience, but then adventures will follow.
Out of interest, saying you don't need a guide through South East Asia is a bit broad - cities are certainly westernised, but my guide in Cambodia took us through small villages outside of Battambang to show us how local foods (noodles, fish sauce) were made and how villagers lived. I don't look like a local in many places in the world - I'm 5'9", female, overweight (especially by Asian standards) and a redhead with freckles. Having a guide allowed me to see things I never would have found by myself, nor been accepted into on my own.
Shirley, you sound like an awesome travel partner! So many of your experiences and opinions resonate with my own.
Wish I could find like-minded people to travel with. My biggest fear with tours is that they will have too many loud-mouthed, "ugly Americans"!
I travel a lot and I have to agree with secret agent girl - seeing big groups of loud American tourists is positively cringeworthy and I feel like you lose alot of the authenticity of the travel experience with a big flag-bearing group. When you travel independently, you deal so much more with the locals, and sometimes, the struggle to communicate and/or find your way can lead to some amazingly memorable moments. I have travelled extensively through Europe and Asia and part of the fun for me is doing all the research myself beforehand. These days there are so many great resources/blogs with people's personal experiences to help customize your trip to suit your interests. I did several bike trips in Italy, France and Spain with my mom in my 20's, and although the tour company was excellent and biking through Europe amazing, I still felt like a clod walking through medieval villages with a crew of like-dressed bikers toting their bike bags and helmets through the streets.
Shirley - I will teach my 2 & 4 yr old sons those same great pieces of advice. We cannot wait to show them the world!
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Good players don't even get a contract offer when it's about to end… Can't hold onto to that 4th place all the time if your goal is not the trophy. No one, even a magician like Wenger, succeeds every single time. Eventually, you run out of bad lasagna.
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Yes, and not trying Arshavin when the other strikers don't work, or using Walcott more now that he's matured. I wonder if he does that because of forced rotations due to lack of quality players. Why does Giroud keep getting more chances when Walcott seems far more effective? If you're going to sell him anyway, let him shine.
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I am scheduled to have surgery in may but am really starting to doubt my choice of doctor. I live in northern California, bay area, and was wondering if anybody out there had any suggestions. This is s lot to do with my health issues actually. I have a Cronic illness that you can't do much but stay positive. Sometimes a little external help can do wonders for me, new shoes, good hair, but this could be life changing. I have felt this way for years. My nose is the perfect size in with and perfectly balanced with a great shape but it just sticks too far out. Idvlike to take a centimeter off the whole length from almost the top to the bottom. Im proud of my ancestry, i think I get most of my nose from my Russian Jewish side, but I'd just like to turnbit down a notch. Also, one issue that comes along with my illness is insomnia. I recently switched doctor ( and hospital where they have a sleep clinic) and the sleep specialist told me I have a narrow nasal passage. So the doctor has to be experienced in both these issues equally. If this is right for me and I find a great surgeon who can help me, I believe this could change my life and improve the state of my health tremendously. Thanks for any info!!
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That is a dilemma! Make sure your doctor is a rhinoplasty specialist! I can't stress this enough. Rhinoplasty is very intricate and you want someone who has lots and lots of experience.
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Glenn Greenwald's Sick Brew of NSA Leaks and Anti-Israel Hysteria
Blogger's bizarre ideology sees America and Israel in active cahoots to destroy the freedoms of the entire world
Edward Snowden's recent revelations were a godsend to these segments of the left, because they carried with them a whiff of incipient American totalitarianism—the NSA is spying on us!—while also suggesting that America and Israel were doing sneaky and underhanded things to undermine freedom around the world. That the NSA's alleged spying extends no further than the reams of data each of us voluntarily provides to major corporations every hour of every day for the explicit purpose of use in advertising—The Onion, as is sadly often the case, was the only news source to actually understand this point—mattered little. Nor did it matter that the government acted with the explicit approval of a bipartisan committee of men and women elected by the people.
From their critique of Israel to their thundering condemnations of American policies, Greenwald and Bamford and others who share their view offer almost nothing by way of concrete policy suggestions, reasoned political stances, or anything else resembling a solution that might be applied to alleviate the suffering of real people. Instead, they trade in spooky-seeming revelations and aspersions. This is even more starkly true of the leakers themselves, Snowden and Bradley Manning, who decided that they had privileged insights that allow them to determine America's national security—based on the fact that they could log onto government computers. When confronted with information they found troubling, they sought the first partner willing to make it public. They didn't stop—like Daniel Ellsberg, whose name they often evoke and whose own support for Manning and Snowden is lamentable—to consider the implications of their actions; that is largely because Snowden and Manning share neither Ellsberg's extensive education nor his actual combat experience and have no real grasp of how systems work or why they're necessary. What they have is a slogan—information wants to be free!—and the hubris to put it above all else. And so, rather than following Ellsberg's example and exhausting every conceivable avenue before taking the drastic step or breaking the law and leaking classified documents, they went for the nuclear option right off the bat.
To what end? That, too, is maddeningly unclear. Like Greenwald and Bamford, Manning and Snowden seem to support no concrete ideology applicable to guiding the course of human events. Listening to Snowden's insipid interviews in particular, with their revelations that the United States spied on foreign nations, one wonders just how he believes governments ought to work. If the United States is not at liberty to clandestinely acquire information pertaining to competing nations—a practice whose ascent closely correlates with the notion of government itself—what might its foreign policy look like? And how might it defend itself against very real threats? Snowden hardly cares. That he would seek refuge in a nation like China—where one still isn't free to search the Web or voice political opinions online, let alone vote for anyone who isn't approved by the Communist Party—is a particularly poignant reminder of how sophomoric and senseless this new form of belief has become.
Snowden, Manning, Greenwald, Bamford, et al., do not seek to stir up a public conversation about programs and policies, as is the duty of journalists and whistleblowers alike. Their goal is very different. As Josh Marshall noted in a poignant essay last week:
Snowden is doing more than triggering a debate. I think it's clear he's trying to upend, damage—choose your verb—the U.S. intelligence apparatus and policies he opposes. The fact that what he's doing is against the law speaks for itself. I don't think anyone doubts that narrow point. But he's not just opening the thing up for debate. He's taking it upon himself to make certain things no longer possible, or much harder to do. To me that's a betrayal.
The betrayal, however, is directed against something much larger than the U.S. government's policies. It is directed against the concept of government itself. Elsewhere in his essay, Marshall commented that the strangest thing, perhaps, about Greenwald's recent revelations and the mayhem that followed is how sharply they redrew the lines of political allegiances. It makes little sense to speak of liberals and conservatives when the kooks of both camps—two ever-growing factions—are both giddily prone to conspiracy theories and only too happy to fault the government with the worst intentions.
The new politics of the information age are now being shaped by two emerging camps. One believes in its inherent right to know everything but does not believe in personal responsibility; distrusts states, America in particular, but fashions the freedoms they grant into a banner; and speaks of human rights while caring very little about the lives of actual humans, as Julian Assange did when he recklessly leaked unredacted documents that put the lives of thousands of men and women who collaborated with the U.S. government in jeopardy and then shrugged the whole thing off by saying that anyone who cooperated with the Americans deserved to die. The other camp believes in the common good, and understands that the common good is best preserved not by individuals making personal and erratic decisions but by nation states, which are sometimes corrupt and often in need of shaking up but still, fundamentally, our worst form of government save for all the others. One camp burns with messianic zeal; the other is guided by the flickering light of democracy that requires the active commitment of responsible adults to keep it alight. This is as stark an ideological choice as any of the ones delineated by the great wars of the 20th century; now, as then, there ought to be little doubt which side deserves our allegiance.
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More and more people are trying to do something about their aging skin. Fine lines and wrinkles cause undue stress to men and women all over the world.. To make it even worse, cosmetics companies dilute their products down to almost nothing to save money. On top of that, false label claims and biased studies make it almost impossible to decide what works and what doesn't. I don't know about you, but if I am going to buy a deep wrinkle cream, I want it to actually reduce my wrinkles, not just say it will.
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Gallenod writes "In an op-ed for the New York Times, Vint Cerf writes that civil protests around the world, sparked by Internet communications, 'have raised questions about whether Internet access is or should be a civil or human right.' Cerf argues that 'technology is an enabler of rights, not a right itself,' and contends that for something to be considered a human right, it 'must be among the things we as humans need in order to lead healthy, meaningful lives, like freedom from torture or freedom of conscience. It is a mistake to place any particular technology in this exalted category, since over time we will end up valuing the wrong things.'"


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Whenever there are lists circulated about the worst draft picks of all time, Tony Mandarich, the first round pick of the Green Bay Packers – picked just ahead of Barry Sanders – is among the top five of all time across the league and probably number one for the Packers.
One can't argue with that. However, the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame reminds us in their "Today in Packers History" that there was another pick that turned just as sour. In my opinion, the pick of kicker Brett Conway in 1997 has got to rate right up there.
To make room for Conway, the Packers let longtime kicker Chris Jacke leave. He was the player who was just a field goal or so from becoming the team's leading scorer. That didn't matter. The team wanted Conway and his "fresh" leg. They picked him in the third round – teams never pick kickers that high.
As it turned out, Conway was a huge bust.
In fact, do you really remember him? Unfortunately, I do. He missed in preseason games and was a huge miss for the Packers.
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July 8, 1997 – The Packers sign rookie kicker Brett Conway on the same day the Pittsburgh Steelers sign Chris Jacke, the player Conway will succeed in Green Bay. Conway, Green Bay's third-round draft choice, signs a three-year pact worth a reported $875,000. Jacke also signs a three-year deal and could, according to his agent, Steve Weinberg, make $3 million if he reaches every incentive during the length of the contract. Unfortunately for Conway, he suffers a quadriceps injury during training camp, is replaced by Ryan Longwell and never kicks in a regular-season game for the Packers.
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the Red Wine Sauce was outstanding. My first time making it. Potatoes and carrots came out perfect. I also added diced eggplant and asperagus spears. I would definitely make this again; the next time for company.
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I haven't made this - just reading through it, but I don't understand how it can take one hour, 28 minutes? I must be missing something?
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Based on the reviews, I had to try the roasted veggie fries. I was not disappointed...I will definitely be making these for company!
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This was so incredibly delicious!! The sauce was scrumptious and the veggie fries were a great accompanyment. This recipe is becoming a regular.
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The steak was all right, but the veggies were delicious! I will definitely make them again.
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Honestly, I have not made the steak and sauce. But the veggies!!!!! OMG! They are AMAZING. You seriously must try. I make them at least every other week now. The olive oil with the corn meal and cheese form this crispy crust on the veggies that makes them crunchy and delicious. They almost taste fried!
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Clint Carlson's Carlson Capital is a multi-strategy hedge fund located in Texas which takes pride in a contrarian approach to investing. It also likes to emphasize a company's philosophy of doing business as well as more measurable characteristics. Carlson recently filed its 13F with the SEC, which discloses many of the stocks that the fund owns and the sizes of those positions. Read on for our quick take on the fund's top picks and compare them to previous filings.
Carlson's top pick was Sunrise Senior Living (UNKNOWN: SRZ.DL), which provides both independent and assisted living communities and services to seniors. The current market cap is about $830 million (with well over $1 million in average daily dollar volume) after having received an acquisition offer in August. Hedge funds such as Carlson like to invest in merger arbitrage strategies because the return on investing in an acquisition target has a very low correlation with the returns of the overall market (read more about hedge fund investments in merger arbitrage).
The fund kept its stake in PNC Financial Services (NYSE: PNC) roughly constant at 1.7 million shares between the beginning of July and the end of September. As with many large banks (though PNC, at a market cap of about $30 billion, is considerably smaller than the megabanks), it trades at a discount to the book value of its equity with a P/B ratio of 0.9. PNC is one of the more stable banks, with its earnings up 10% last quarter compared to the third quarter of 2011, and it pays a dividend yield close to 3%. We're currently thinking of it and JPMorgan Chase as "Goldilocks" picks between the cheaper, riskier Citigroup (NYSE: C) and Bank of America and the safer, premium-priced Wells Fargo.
NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG), a $4.5 billion market cap electric utility, was another of Carlson's favorite stocks as the fund reported a position of 5.1 million shares (a little more than double what it had owned three months earlier). NRG is actually unprofitable on a trailing basis due to poor performance in late 2011 and early 2012, and trades at 55 times consensus earnings for 2013. With a fairly low dividend yield for a utility, and that much of an earnings premium relative to other utilities, we don't think that it's a good value.
Carlson and his team cut their stake in Citigroup to 3.2 million shares, but it still joined PNC as a large bank among the fund's top holdings. Citigroup is up 28% year to date, but still trades at a P/B ratio of 0.6 as the book value of its equity remains well above the market capitalization. In terms of earnings Citigroup is priced more even with other banks, at a forward P/E of 8, and its revenue and net income were down sharply in the third quarter versus a year earlier. The valuation statistics are attractive, but as we mentioned above we'd rather pay a small premium to get a considerably safer investment. See more analysis of Citigroup compared to its peers.
$3.2 billion market cap Hillshire Brands (NYSE:HSH), which sells meat and other food products, rounded out Carlson's top five holdings. The hedge fund had initiated a position in the stock during the second quarter, and then bought more shares to close September with a total of 3.9 million shares in its portfolio. Hillshire beat expectations in its report for the third quarter, and current consensus among analysts has the stock trading at 15 times earnings for the fiscal year ending in June 2014. Hillshire manages the American operations of the former Sara Lee Corporation, and the recent breakup means that investors will have to be careful when doing financial analysis. At that multiple it doesn't look particularly appealing in any case.
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Interview: Director Griffin Dunne on the no-holds-barred comedy 'Movie 43'
Emma Stone and Kieran Culkin display a deliciously raunchy version of teen angst
What do you get when you take some of best comedy writers around, a bunch of talented directors, and an A-list cast that would make any filmmaker drool, and let them loose on a series of short films that stretch the bounds of good taste to the breaking point? How about the twisted "Movie 43," featuring the likes of Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Naomi Watts, and a bunch of other brave souls who get to say things light years away from their usual dialogue. This brainchild of Peter Farrelly and Charles Wessler is not for the easily-offended and contains some of the most disturbing storylines you will have ever seen in one film.
I talked to actor/director Griffin Dunne about his segment, "Veronica," which stars a trash-talking Emma Stone ("Crazy, Stupid, Love," "The Help," "The Amazing Spider-Man") and Kieran Culkin ("Igby Goes Down," "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World") who somehow managed to convince their agents and publicists to let them participate in this crazy project.
MSN Movies: This seems like a big departure from the kinds of films you've worked on in the past. Did it take much convincing to get you involved?
Griffin Dunne: Charlie Wessler, one of the producers, is literally my best friend from the time I was nine years old. He's produced all the Farrelly Brothers movies and he's a very funny guy. He's got his finger on the pulse of some of the best comedy writers in town and I've been watching him work like a dog on this project for years and pull together this unbelievable cast. I was very happy to be part of it!
When I talked to Peter Farrelly he said he was worried at first about the actors' willingness to, shall we say, go where they've never gone before, but, if anything, they urged him to go even further. Was that your experience as well?
Yes, everybody was so down for it, it was really heartening! You'll see that my segment has some absolutely crazy "What did she just say? What did he just say?" dialogue, like it was written by a lunatic, but it's played very, very straight, like a serious story of teenage love and heartbreak. I swear, if you didn't speak English, or you turned down the volume and just watched the actors perform, you'd think you were watching "Splendor in the Grass!"
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Did you have a hand in getting Emma Stone and Kieran Culkin to star in your short?
We made a list but Emma was at the very top and I was thrilled that she was totally up for it. And it was Emma who brought Kieran on board—she's known him for a long time. So the two of them were able to bring their own personal intimacy to the story which was great.
Using so many in-demand actors, was it hard to find a time when everyone was available? Did you have to be very flexible—"Okay, we're shooting next Thursday at 3?"
Thank God that wasn't my problem but that's exactly the kind of thing that ruled Charlie's life on this film! Personally I find it overwhelming to get six friends to show up at a restaurant on the same day so how the hell he managed that with this cast, I can't even imagine.
Have you thought about how the critics will respond to something that's this out there? Peter said that he's sure the film will get about a "4" on Rotten Tomatoes!
It's hard to tell how critics will go down, I have a feeling they're all going to laugh when they watch the film but whether they're going to like that about themselves, I can't say! But I do think that audiences will flip out over it. Charlie and I grew up watching movies like "The Groove Tube" and "Kentucky Fried Movie" and I'm always amazed there are not more of this kind of thing, it's sort of a genre unto itself. I think it's really fun to see shorts on a big screen in the company of other people. You get to pick which one is your favorite, you always find some of them more hilarious than others, and then you get to talk about all of them with your friends.
What was it about the "Veronica" segment that attracted you?
I loved how emotional it was. My short has real from-the-gut teenaged broken-hearted emotions but what they are feeling and what they are saying are so completely different.
As is often the case with teenagers!
Absolutely. Because of that, there's this unexpected poignancy that comes out which I think makes this segment a little different from the other ones. We sort of used the end of "Casablanca" as our template, when Bogey is saying goodbye to Ingrid Bergman. If you take away the outrageous dialogue, you'll find a story of people who are deeply in love but who aren't going to see each other again. Emma cried real tears in the film, even as she was talking about blowing hobos! I don't know how she did it, but she did!
How do you think your father (the late writer and investigative journalist Dominick Dunne) would have responded to this film?
Oh, my dad had a wicked sense of humor—he would have LOVED this kind of thing!
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There you have it. It isn't that NoSQL isn't an important advance in information technology…it just isn't the revolution that the past buzz would have indicated.
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Petit Courrier des Dames, 1832.
As much as I find 1830s clothing to be vile and repulsive, I have to admit that I find the embroidery (print?) on this gown to be so lovely. Also that bonnet. DAT BONNET.
Royal Ladies' Magazine, December 1832.
The lushness of that red gown is magnificent (and she has a tiara!)
Lady's Museum, Morning and Walking Dresses, February 1832.
As much as I hate these styles, I do love the pattern on her skirt!
Royal Lady's Magazine, December 1832.
I actually really like both of these, which is pretty impressive for 1832!
Lady's Museum, Dinner and Evening Dress, March 1832.
I am really digging the hem treatment on the peachy dress. It looks like a stained glass window or something! Very unexpected!


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To brag. Gloating usually involves bringing up someone else's failures, not just the gloater's successes.
He was gloating about his third-place finish compared to my twenty-seventh.
by Diggity Monkeez May 27, 2005
An extremely wide, teethy smile. Often childish, and pretty much obnoxious and rude.
"That retard kept gloating everytime he laid eyes on me. I shoulda told him 'you're about two seconds away from wearing that smile around your ass'. But no, I'm a nice guy. Being a nice guy is actually a VERY difficult life, perhaps much harder than being a mean guy. Although it pays off, you have to be VERY patient too."
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Such a great day.
Cleaned the apartment today. Such a great feeling!
And applied for two jobs so far…haven't even scratched the surface of my list though.
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Here's a link to articles I've written:
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They're mostly about parkour and Japanese.
Finals are almost over! ahhhh!
Still pretty stressed about my grades.
But I'm so excited! So close to being able to do what I'd like (study Japanese, do parkour, get a job, and prepare for going to Japan).
By the way, started trying to fill out my application for Ehime University last night. It asks me to fill in the courses I want to take. But I don't even know what's available to me. And what if there's a time conflict with class and my job?
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Is it only me that remembers that spirit based regen was already nerfed once at the start of WOTLK. So this is a second nerf...ok we got some recovery from the endless COH debate with the raid wide POH, but all in all I don't know many happy priests....or druids...or pallies with divine plea nerf.
In fact, I just don't see the logic of pissing off, on mass, the one community that bliz needs more of - healers. I'm sure some fan boy is going to tell me I'm out of touch, but around this server, I can tell you, not many happy healer faces. I just wish I understood the great logic of it all, is it worth losing a bunch of healers to satisfy your need for encounter design? Is there a buff solution to the same problem instead of a wide nerf?


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Beach House (film)
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"Casotto" redirects here. For the Italian municipality, see Monasterolo Casotto.
|Beach House
Film poster
|Directed by
|Sergio Citti
|Produced by
|Mauro Berardi
Gianfranco Piccioli
|Written by
|Vincenzo Cerami
Sergio Citti
|Jodie Foster
|Tonino Delli Colli
|Edited by
|Nino Baragli
|Release dates
|Running time
|106 minutes
Beach House (Italian: Casotto) is a 1977 Italian comedy film directed by Sergio Citti. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.[1]
- Jodie Foster as Teresina Fedeli
- Mariangela Melato as Giulia
- Michele Placido as Vincenzino
- Gigi Proietti as Gigi
- Paolo Stoppa as the grandfather
- Flora Carabella as the grandmother
- Ugo Tognazzi as Alfredo Cerquetti
- Franco Citti as Nando
- Catherine Deneuve as the woman in the dream
- Ninetto Davoli as the voyeur
- Carlo Croccolo as Carlo
- Anna Melato as Bice
- Kathy Marchand as Ketty
- Massimo Bonetti as the soldier
- ^ "Italian Comedy - The State of Things". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 1 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-01.
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Graves disease and flu
Common Questions and Answers about Graves disease and flu
This is autoimmune thyroid disease, more likely hashimoto's-type
less likely
. Would folow TSH
FT4 to see if hypo or hyperthyroid develops. Many patients with positive antibodies can be monitored without medications.
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Hi Dr Lupo, I was dx with
seven years ago. I was put on tapazole
gradually decreased dosis until achieved total remission about year and a half ago. This past week, i started feeling some symptoms and my endo did some blood work. My results are: TSH <0.004 T4 total 18.6 T4 free 4.54 I was put back on 10 mg of tapazole. My questions are: 1) Is there any chance that this relapse is due to something else but graves?
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I have had
for 8 years
had RAI a yr later after being on PTU. I had no problems except for changing my Synthroid a few times. Have been on the same amount for about a yr. now. Weight has been steady but the worse thing for me is that I am so cold. It has to be about 80 degrees before I am comfortable. Is any one else as cold as I am. My temp is always low, but read that is normal in women.
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I have
, but was in remission. Then I had cancer
chemotherapy. My TSH level is hyper again
my other tests normal. The doctors won't say if chemo can activate your graves disease. They do say that a physical or emotional change to my body can trigger it. My thoughts, Cancer and chemotherapy are big time physical and emotional changes.
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Persoanlly I think its like the 'bird flu' we had and there will be another flu next year called most probably the 'Rat
' (hehehe). The
is the
the secret is plenty of fluids
bedrest. My 4 year old grandson was tested for swine flu and found to be positive and was given Tamisol and has been fine...although he is known to suffer with bronchitis. He was chesty with it but after a week was ok.
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Elaine Moore tends to believe that immunotherapy (allergy shots) makes
can possibly bring on the
. She recommends that allergies be treated with the cortisone-type nose sprays and antihistimines instead, because of the nature of an autoimmune disease. I was about to start shots, but now I am reconsidering. Does anyone have information on this subject? Thanks!
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Everybody's been reading about people who are at high risk for swine
due to preexisting medical conditions. Do people with
belong to this category? This has really gotten me worried. I asked my endo about this and she was quite vague with her answer. I am considering getting a flu shot, would you recommend this? Lastly, I had a thyroid nodule biopsy and the result was benign. My endo is now asking me to undergo a thyroid scan.
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Constant fight with sinus infections, candida, bladder infections,
of course the colds,
yearly case of pneumonia. Also most of us end up with more than one AI. The average is said to be 3 once you have the first. But most of us just seem to get sicker all the time. Will be interesting to keep an eye on this and see if anything comes to it. Think they need to do more research into this. Of course, everyone knows that stem cells can cure all of these AI's, don't you.
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However if Lactose intolerance/malabsorption to one, probably Lactose intolerance/malabsorption to another, like food
other drugs. Many other conditions, including stomach
irritable bowel syndrome can have similar symptoms, as well as some foods and drugs. So switching from Synthroid to Levoxyl may not solve a 100% of the problems, but it should help ease some, that is, if it is from Synthroid. Hey worth a try! Hope this helps. Thank you for your faith and confidence.
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Without the antibodies tests done, you cannot be 100% sure you have Graves
. Somne people have hyperthyroidism
dont have
. A viral infection such as the
can also cause hyperthyroidism. Get yr antibodies checked for Graves and also an ultrasound. Dont have an uptake scan until you know for sure that you have Graves as there is no need for it if you dont have Graves...the ultrasound will show up any nodules, goiter etc if you have any.
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I have Graves
was told that Lyme
/ or it's coinfections can wreck havoc on the thyroid. ( HMMM ??) During the years of treatment for my thyroid, RAI, Radiation to both eyes due to thyroid eye disease, 5 eye surgeries, I began to have a lot of neurological things happen. First was the optic neuropathy. I was told that it was from the eye disease. Second was the slurred speech, that lasted for two weeks. I was told that I had a TIA, at 36yrs old at the time.
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My family
I NEVER get the
shot of any type
we never get the
! Lots of exposure to these viruses and germs in school for my 3 kids. I am a former first grade teacher, so I was sneezed on, coughed on etc.. more than my share! LOL! Lots of vitamins (especially vitamin D) good diet, proper rest and handwashing is a must and has worked great for us.
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yes - I get back spasm occasionally and pull muscles too when I'm in hyper phase - when hypo my joints ache as if I had the
especially my hips - I run every morning
lift weights once a week so I find the closer I stay to a not so drastic imbalance the less joint, back problems I have - I think it's thyroid as I've never had a bad back etc - hope you're feeling better - you gals are all so fabulous - wish you all good days:)
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My husband was diagnosed with
last December after a horrible 6 months of raging and violence. He has since been on anti-thyroid medication and he was back to normal for awhile. He also has a history of mood swings and his mother is bipolar. He usually is depressed for a few weeks once or twice a year. Needless to say he would never go for a diagnosis or treatment. Last month he started acting strange again, up and down, superman one day and then sluggish the next.
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Hashi's weakens our immune system,
shingles comes on if the immune system is weak. I know a few people that have had shingles, but never a problem with their thyroid. So just having a weak immune system might be a reason for getting shingles.
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So I know I have an Autiummune
but its never been confirmed whether its
or hashimotos. Im am soooo scared
isolated at moment. I have lovely friends and family but they too are at wits end as they dont know how to help. SO there it all is my sad tale. I must say though I do realsie after reading these posts that there are those of you out there who are far worse off that me and my heart and love goes out to you all.
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Is this a natural progression of
if i become hypothyroid will i ever have to worry again about my hyperthyroidism returning? Even though i would prefer my thyroid to stay normal, it would be quite the celebration if i never had to worry about the hyperthyroidism coming back. Thank you in advance for your answer.
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I have
dxd Dec 2007,
have been on PTU since then
until about 2 weeks ago was feeling great. My last blood test was in Feb & all levels were normal. Then, about 2 weeks ago, I got the flu & took some over the counter cold & flu medicine. After taking it, I actually read the box & it said not to take if you have thyroid disease. Ever since then, I feel as if some of my symptoms are coming back (rapid heartbeat, anxiety, insomnia).
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I have been diagnosed with
multi-cold nodules that after a FNA came back as suspicious for papillary cancer. I am scheduled for a total thryoidectomy on 13 Dec. I agree with Rozier, the book "The Thyroid Solution" is a fantastic book. I like how it talks about the mental difficulties associated with thyroid disorders. About the same time I was told something was wrong with my thyroid, my boyfriend dumped me.
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How do you have Hashi
at the same time? I plan on getting my swine
shot. I have Hashi. Take care...
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Usually I don't get sick, but in the past 2 weeks I've gotten a bad cold with a touch of bronchial infection
today am just getting over a nasty bout of stomach
. It's barely 2007
I'm almost out of sick days. I know, I'm whining.
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Hi, I am a new/old person female-54. I am in the pits of dispare and I have no where else to turn. This is my last stop. I have several Doctors that I see regularly, a headDoc for Bipolar and and ENDO for Graves and my GYN who never looks UP far enough to see if I am "crazy" or not but ultimately he has been the one to DX me over the years with serious Thyroid issues. I guess because he doesn't see me ALL THE TIME and he noticed right away that I had lost 45 lbs <grin>.
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I have been having extreme heart palpitations,trembling hands,anxiety issues(I have past history of hyperthyroidism
)! So how it disappear with all these symptoms according to blood test??????!!!!!!..
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To breathe each day knowing I am not goigf to regret each day I wake up, to wake up and tell myself that I am a human being who is worth something even if I do have
. I live
work around people with Aquired Brain Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Spina Bifida. EVERY single person has a DISABILITY....although it doesnt show with a lot of people. Yes I have a disability, I have Graves...it stuffed my life up for so long but always remember that the next time you look at someone...
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,,,, Once the thyroid is gone or killed the antibodies remain, but they have nothing to attack, so I guess they sit around being bored, and after a while they may go dormat or disapear (a long while from what I've studied) This is not saying that folks with Graves or Hashi's don't have other antibodies that can cause other immune system problems they can
may be more susceptible but it would be other antibodies not hashi's
that cause this...ie...
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Elaine Moore has a book on
, A Practical Guide,
she's also on www.thyroid.about.com under the hyperT/Graves board. Also, TSH lags behind 6-8 weeks but a lot of dr's have no knowlege of this. Doodaa Formerly HyperT/Graves, now in remission and on thyroid replacement. Oink!
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I am posting not to brag or gloat but to show many that there IS light at the end of the tunnel
that anyone suffering from
Hyperthyroidism can get back on the right road. The pic of me in pink was 2 weeks before RAI. The pic of me in yellow was taken Easter Sunday. Yes I have more weight on me but I sure as he// look and feel 100% better. This is to give hope to all those who feel there is none. Believe me, there is.
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London - The racism crisis surrounding Britain's Scotland Yard has deepened as an officer was exposed for racially abusing a Pakistani shop manager.
In an appalling drunken outburst, Philip Juhasz, 31, told takeaway manager Umer Nazir to 'go back to your f****** country'.
The disgraced officer is likely to be sacked for gross misconduct after being convicted of a racially aggravated public order offence.
Nazir, 23, is the victim of one of ten cases referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) by the Met over the last week, The Daily Mail reports.
He suffered abuse from Juhasz while working late at the Delice de France snack kiosk at King's Cross railway station last September. Nazir said Juhasz, who was off-duty and drunk, demanded food that was about to be thrown away be sold to him for half the price. When he refused, the officer racially abused him.
"He said, 'Oh, I'll tell you where you're from - you're from Pakistan, and your ******g family are dying from lack of food over there. You are wasting our food in this country, you f****** w*****r. Go back to
your f****** country'," the paper quoted Nazir, as saying.
The case is the latest to emerge during a week in which Britain's biggest force has been rocked by accusations of racism.
Last week, a Met official was suspended after he was accused of racially abusing a man arrested during the London riots.


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Georgia coach Mark Richt granted ex-UGA LB recruit Dexter Moody an "unconditional" release, meaning he could play for any school. Moody told the AJC he could end up playing for Lane Kiffin at Tennessee.
The 6-foot-2, 210-pound Moody said he was invited to Tennessee's Orange and White game on Saturday by the Volunteers. "Me and my dad are planning on going up there," Moody said. "They talked liked they were going to offer me a scholarship. I don't know. I guess we'll see. They just want to meet me in person and everything."
Moody, who earned All-America honors last year at Emanuel County Institute, said he has had contact with several schools, including Florida, Memphis, Central Michigan and Troy, since breaking ties with Georgia last month. Moody said he has been offered by Marshall, and that he is very encouraged by Tennessee's Lance Thompson, who coaches linebackers for the Volunteers.
"Coach Thompson said they need some linebackers really bad," Moody said. "I'm definitely very interested in Tennessee. It wouldn't be bad to go there and be able to play against Georgia every year. That would be something, taking out some of my feelings against the team that released me. I think it would be fun."
Moody claims he has no hard feelings against Georgia. He said he hasn't had any contact with the Bulldogs since being informed of his release by UGA assistant Jon Fabris. "We thought Coach Richt might call to talk about everything, but I haven't heard from anybody else from Georgia. It's no big deal. I wasn't worried too much about it. I'm pretty cool with everything. I can sign with any other school that offers me. I guess it will just work out somewhere else for me."
NCAA rules prohibit college coaches from commenting on prospective student-athletes. Moody spurned offers from Florida and South Carolina, among others, to sign with his homegrown favorite, UGA. He was released by Richt after an incident at school, according to Georgia officials.
Moody is ranked as the nation's No. 8 outside linebacker by Scout, and No. 17 by Rivals. "I'm excited for [Moody]," said his ECI teammate, Washaun Ealey. "He's a great player, and hopefully Tennessee or another school will give him a chance."
April 15th, 2009
1:50 pm
I think it is hilarious that the Vawls made so many mortal enemies so quickly. Not bad for a bunch of half-fast mountain boys. I await your weekly cremation (and I mean you're gonna get BURNED) this fall.
April 15th, 2009
1:47 pm
That comment is quite humorous coming from the program that went 7-5 after being a preseason title contender in 2005 and then going 5-7 in 2008. Man, if I was a Vol I think I'd at least shut up until the Vols break their over a decade long drought of any real championships, especially to teams that have one or more this decade. WYOMING????? LMAO
April 15th, 2009
1:46 pm
and btw, the last time y'all played in the SEC championship, you actually split the east with UGA and UGA wound up #2 in the final polls. just fyi
April 15th, 2009
1:44 pm
less than whom exactly? UGA has won 10 or more games in 6 of the last 8 seasons and finished in the top 10 5 of the last 7 yrs.
April 15th, 2009
1:40 pm
Ummm….KNelson, are you that much of an idiot to ask that question?
How about…When is the last time UT WON an SEC Championship? Only been 3 years for UGA…Oops, only about TEN YEARS!!!! for UT. Nobody remembers the runner up idiot, but if that makes you feel a little. LOL
April 15th, 2009
1:36 pm
Tennessee- we pay more for less!
April 15th, 2009
1:34 pm
Kiffin deserves this thug …top shelf trash
April 15th, 2009
1:34 pm
UGA- We do less with more!
April 15th, 2009
1:34 pm
Well why don't we continue this conversation after his 2nd year then… but at that time, will you have changed your handle to DawgFan or BamaNelson?
April 15th, 2009
1:27 pm
Voice of Ignorance , I think after Kiffins 2nd year we will be very proud! Oh , the Truth, who last won a National Championship?


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Suite for Viola and Orchestra : Work information
- Composers
- Ernest Bloch ( Music, Images,)
- Performed by
- Yuri Gandelsman (Viola), Atlas Camerata, Dalia Atlas (Conductor)
This work
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- Suite for Viola and Orchestra
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- Genre
- Composed
- 1919-01-01 02:00:00
This recording
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- Producer
- Yuval Karin
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The Composers
Ernest Bloch
Born in Geneva, Ernest Bloch studied violin under Eugène Ysaÿe and composition under Rasse in Belgium. He first travelled to America in 1916 and spent several years there establishing a reputation as a composer proud of his Jewish heritage. He was naturalised as an American citizen in 1924 and won accolades as a composer, teacher and conductor.
Originally something of a romantic, Bloch's music later embraced neo-classicism, microtonality and serialism, but never relinquished his devotion to melody. Nor was he afraid to admit that his musical inspiration stemmed from external sources such as poetry or philosophy. Roger Sessions was a famous pupil.
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I've seen a lot of posts with people warning individuals about certain usernames that redirect to phishing sites.
While the sentiment is probably pure, this is not the most effective strategy.
These accounts were real accounts, not fake ones makes by the phisher. These are the accounts of people who fell for the phishing scam.
We've seen that when people know how to fix their account it is actually very very easy to recover their page. So your warning may be warning about someone whose account will be fine shortly. Furthermore, the number of hijacked accounts is massive and constantly fluctuating. Creating a list of all hijacked accounts is not an efficient use of time.
Instead here is my suggestion for how to help. This method is something anyone can do even if you are not tech savy.
Whenever you are followed by a phishing account: Reach out to the original owner of the account.
Many people use the same username in multiple places. See if you can find them on another social media platform.
Also using the google cache you can try to access their ask box in the cache and send a message. The cache will show the account as it appeared before the takeover. Also their cached version of their page may give clues for how to contact them.
For every person you help get their page restored you also help cut back on the chances of others falling for the phishing scam.