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Categories > Celebrities > My Chemical Romance > There Goes My Hero
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"You're not famous yet but you will be."
Since he'd spent half the night awake he woke up in a worse mood than usual, much to everyone's disappointment.
However, Waiting For Tomorrow all woke up in great moods. It had been hard for them to fall asleep even though they'd all gone to bed really early but at least no one had fallen asleep using a popcorn bowl as a pillow. Maria was the first one awake and woke everyone up by banging her drumsticks against random pots and pans "Wake up! We're going on tour with MCR so I guess I should say look alive sunshine…"
"Oh haha how funny." Said Daniel sarcastically as he came out of his room but he was smiling to show that he wasn't mad.
"How does my hair look?" Penina yelled, running out of the bathroom.
"How long have you been in there?" Maria cried.
"Four hours. Doesn't matter. Do I look good? Does my hair look okay? How do I smell?" Penina grabbed Daniel and made him sniff her.
"You smell really nice actually." Daniel replied, nodding "And your hair looks great. Why are you fussing about your appearance so much all of a sudden?"
"Why do you think?" Raven asked, coming out of her bedroom that she shared with Samantha and ruffling her hair "She wants to impress Frank obviously."
"Yeah well I know that you want to impress Ray, you just didn't spend as much time as I did!" Penina cried, going into the kitchen "Who wants some toast?" Everyone said they wanted some "Then you'd better make it yourself."
"I hate you!" Alex yelled but everyone knew he was only joking.
"I'm looking forward to meeting Gerard." Samantha said, going into the bathroom and then called "I mean he saved my life after all!"
"I can't wait to meet all of them!" Maria grinned "Look, I'll make you all toast if you pack my drums up. I was too tired to pack them last night after my clothes. I'll put my sticks in my bag though."
"Oh god yeah we'll have to take our instruments!" Daniel yelled, running off to get his keyboard packed up.
"What did you think we were gonna do?" Raven laughed "Just mime everything on the stage?"
"Well it's okay for you Raven, your instrument is just your voice." Maria replied.
"Actually I'm bringing a microphone. That cool one that I got custom made." Raven shrugged her shoulders "Call me weird but I think it'll bring me good luck on stage."
"I know how you feel. I'll be wearing my MCR tee shirt under another tee shirt to bring me good luck on stage." Penina called from the kitchen.
"You do know that you're gonna sweat like a pig, right?" Daniel yelled back.
"Shit, I hadn't thought about that…"
Once they were all dressed, packed and ready they sat outside and waited to be picked up "Is the tour bus coming here or just like a car or something?" Penina asked.
"You wouldn't fit a tour bus down this street." Daniel told her "So I'm assuming they're gonna send a car."
"You should never assume." Raven said "Because when you do, you make an ass of you and me."
"I don't get it."
"Look at the word and- Oh never mind." Raven sighed.
"When are they gonna get here?" Samantha asked, shivering slightly even though she was wearing a jacket "It's fucking freezing."
"Oh my god look it's a limo!" Maria cried, pointing down the road.
Sure enough there was a limo coming towards them. It pulled up outside their house "Are you waiting for tomorrow?" The driver asked. They all nodded "Well then you've got a long wait." The driver laughed and the others pretended that it was funny. He got out of the limo and put all their instruments away safely and then their suitcases. They kept their hand luggage with them and got into the back of the car.
"Oh my god we're in a limo." Penina grinned.
"I've never been in a limo." Raven said "All my friends had one at the year six prom but they didn't invite me." She pouted then snarled "Bitches."
They all laughed "How long will it take us to get there?" Alex asked.
"I dunno but who cares?" Penina laughed "We're in a limo!"
It took them half-an-hour to get to the venue. When they got out they saw two girls and a boy wearing MCR tee-shirts "Oh my god look it's Waiting For Tomorrow!" One of the girls shrieked. She had black hair, down to her mid waist and it was a bit curly. She was obviously related to the boy that was slightly older than her with short black hair. The other girl had long, curly pitch black hair. All three of them were staring over at the band and practically peeing themselves with excitement.
"Oh my god they recognise us!" Penina whispered excitedly "This is so awesome!"
"Hey can we have a picture with you please?" The same girl who had recognised them asked "My name's Danielle, this is my brother Darren and this is my best friend Connie. We think you're awesome."
"Oh thank you." Raven grinned, going over to them while the others followed "You can have a picture with us if you want even though we're not exactly famous or anything."
"You're not famous yet but you will be." Connie grinned "Oh my god Daniel! I think you're so hot!"
Daniel laughed and gave her a hug. They posed for a picture for each of the fans before the driver told them that they had to go inside now. They waved goodbye and went inside "That was amazing." Penina giggled "Oh my god, we're famous!"
[A/N] – That was my last update for tonight :) I'm gonna write another one now though and update in the morning so that you'll still have an update tomorrow :3

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Stockton hardly looks like the most miserable city in the country.
But the statistics and stories over the last two years make a case that it is: Since the housing crisis began, this inland port city 80 miles east of San Francisco has had one of the worst foreclosure rates in the country — for most of the time, the worst.
At the height of it, about 1 in 10 houses fell to foreclosure. Houses that sold for more than $500,000 before the crash now go for $200,000. In some neighborhoods, fixer-uppers cost less than a new Honda Fit — under $20,000.
To spend time in Stockton, a plain-jane city of single-family home neighborhoods edged by freeways and lingering farms, is to begin to understand the calamitous effects of the nation's foreclosure crisis, which has devastated so many once-booming places.
Stockton is the San Joaquin County seat. And according to the Associated Press Economic Stress Index, a month-by-month scoring of U.S. counties' rates of unemployment, bankruptcy and foreclosures, San Joaquin had a score of 23.55 in November, making it the fourth-most stressed of counties with a population over 25,000. Its foreclosure rate of 6 percent was exceeded only by metro Las Vegas, metro Fort Myers, Fla., metro Orlando, Merced County, Calif., and Kendall County, Ill.
An outsider might not notice immediately how Stockton has suffered. It boasts a downtown mall, a mix of handsome, century-old and modern architecture, a new sports stadium, even a promenade overlooking the city's canal.
But two years into the housing crisis, Stockton is a changed place. Whole neighborhoods have been decimated by the mortgage disaster. The tax base has shrunken. City services and municipal jobs have been cut. Unemployment hovers at about 16 percent. Economists predict it will take years for Stockton to recover from the housing bust.
Locals say the same about the city's reputation.
Since the housing meltdown began, journalists from around the world have parachuted in to see the city felled by sub-prime mortgages, which enticed new homeowners priced out of the San Francisco Bay area with low interest rates that reset to levels they could not afford.
"Welcome to Foreclosureville, U.S.A." wrote the Los Angeles Times. "America's Most Miserable City," declared the London Independent. That headline was inspired by Forbes' "most miserable cities" index, which ranked Stockton No. 1.
City officials say they fully expect Stockton to shake the title in 2010 (it's recently dropped to No. 4 or 5). But how far away from the top can it go? The population of 290,400 is strapped. Up to two-thirds of homeowners owe more on their properties than the houses are now worth. Housing values have dropped more than 60 percent since the height of the boom four years ago, more than any other city.
Housing developments built for commuters have been hit the hardest, since they were the ones to attract newcomers fleeing the huge spike in prices closer to the Bay area. Those whose livelihoods depend on a healthy housing environment — real estate brokers, contractors, day laborers — are barely holding on here.
Probably the happiest people are the ones scooping up foreclosures. Speculators are back, of course, but the other bargain hunters include people who only dreamed of being able to afford a house. They're now living the dream in Stockton.
By the time the whole foreclosure phenomenon is done, Stockton may well look less like the bedroom community for commuters to the Bay Area that it was becoming and more like the working-class, immigrant community ringed by Central Valley farm country that it was before.
For now, residents just hope the worst is over.
The heart of Foreclosureville, U.S.A. — the Stockton subdivision that had more bank repossessions than any other place in the country for much of the last two years — is starting to look like its old self again.
The "For Sale" signs that overwhelmed Weston Ranch are mostly gone, and the lawns where weeds grew like corn stalks are shorn.
Foreclosure businesses that sprang up, including one that spray-painted brown lawns green and another that offered a foreclosure bus tour, have folded. Every time a foreclosure hits the market, bargain hunters snap it up.
But looks are deceiving. In Weston Ranch, financial devastation struck like a natural disaster and the ground has not yet settled. Speculators are buying houses to rent out. On streets where everyone knew everyone, no one knows anyone.
Orlando Mixon and his family — wife, son and daughter — are typical Weston Ranch settlers. They moved here eight years ago from Union City, east of San Francisco, after a search for an affordable house sent them farther and farther down the freeway.
In those boom times, the Mixons paid $175,000 for a new four-bedroom, three bath split-level, more than they would have paid just five days earlier. But they were excited. They didn't know Stockton, but the subdivision of 5,000 homes was like a town unto itself, built for easy access to and from a long commute. Beige and boxy, the houses made up in size what they lacked in style.
Now, the Mixons are hanging on by their fingers. Their house, they think, is worth just over $200,000, though some on the next street sold recently for $150,000. Still, with two mortgages, they owe more than that (they won't say how much). Until last month, Mixon spent four months out of work, pushing the family toward financial ruin.
"I try not to think about that," Mixon said. He spoke while washing his blackened work clothes in the driveway: He now works on an oil rig in Los Angeles when there is work, drives the 340 miles every other week to his job, seven days on, seven off. His wife Sharon's commute is 60 miles each way, five days a week in rush hour traffic, for her job as a manager in a hospital in Hayward.
Stockton residents on average commute 46 miles each way.
The biggest bargain in Stockton stands on a street most people would choose to avoid. Old men drinking from bottles in brown paper bags lean against an empty brick building. Younger ones loiter on the corners, wearing puffy parkas, selling … something.
Rudy Willey, a real estate broker who knows his turf, had had no great expectations for the house. But the property was worse than he had imagined: more like a package store than a single-family home. It had no land, no porch, no stoop.
Squatters had had their way with the place. Its small, low-ceilinged rooms looked lopsided. All the fixtures were gone. The bathroom, the kitchen — the whole place — needed a do-over.
"$15,000?" Willey said, locking the front door. "I think they're asking too much."
He smiled at the irony of it. Twenty-seven years of selling real estate in Stockton had not fully prepared him for what has happened to his city, his vocation and his livelihood.
At 58, nearing retirement, or so he thought, Willey is working twice as hard and making half as much as he did two years ago. In two months, he has taken just two days off.
Not three years ago, Willey couldn't keep up with the demand for half-million-dollar starter homes springing up within a 30-mile radius of Stockton. Commuters were buying in; locals were trading up.
Having seen his share of boom and bust cycles, Willey knew the times were too good to last. A wave of selling in Elk Grove, a town half an hour away that had been the fastest growing in the country in 2007, became a sign.
"When I saw the 'For Sale' signs, I thought: 'Something's happening,'" Willey said. "I thought we were due for a correction — maybe a 15 percent drop."
Now, Willey is selling houses for less than half of what they sold for then. Even so, it is harder to close a deal.
A few brokers have acquired most of the foreclosure listings. Most no longer take phone calls to hear offers. Half the time, they don't return e-mails. In some cases, Willey suspects the broker simply does not want to share a commission.
Time to work on a Plan B: Willey is taking a multimedia course at San Joaquin Delta College, a two-year school where he also teaches real estate classes. He hopes to start a Web site.
At night, he works on a book, a guide for would-be homebuyers.
And each day, he tries to look on the bright side. On an afternoon's outing to see houses below $35,000, he kept remarking on the "wonderful opportunities" working people have to own a home.
"Not bad, not bad," he said, going through an $18,000 house that had decent bones. It was in a homely neighborhood of aging bungalows. But there were no drug dealers on the corners. "Redone," Willey said, "this could be a nice little home."
Among all the bargains in Stockton, Jason Ramey had his heart set on one.
It was not on the market yet. But on its window and door was the sign of the times: an eviction notice.
This was early 2009, the height of Stockton's foreclosure boom. More than 90 percent of the houses for sale in the city were foreclosures or short sales — where the lender lets borrowers sell a property for less than they owe on it, forgiving the balance, to avoid foreclosure.
Ramey, a 31-year-old insurance agent, knew what he wanted. He had been looking at real estate listings for years. But when the market was high, he could not afford to buy. Even "shacks," as he likes to say, cost $300,000 — well above his price range.
Then came the housing disaster, and opportunity.
Ramey began scouting houses on the San Joaquin County foreclosure listings. As soon as he saw The One, a corner property in a coveted new development, he decided to wait for it.
The house had an arched entrance that reminded Ramey of a French chalet. Neighbors showed pride of place — planting rose gardens, flowering fruit trees, dooryard bougainvillea. It wasn't as big as other foreclosures in the mid-$200,000 range. But Ramey, a local boy, knows Stockton inside and out. This house had location, location, location, besides its four bedrooms, three baths. This was a place where he could see staking roots, growing a family.
Ramey waited four months for the house to come on the market. Meanwhile, he and his girlfriend took a real estate class for first-time homebuyers. Their instructor: Rudy Willey.
He taught them how to research properties, find the right mortgage, make a deal. The very morning the house showed up on the real estate listing site he'd been checking every day, Ramey called Willey.
"We put an offer in that night," Ramey said, smiling widely, then adding: "Sure enough, our offer was accepted."
They bought the house, which had sold for more than $500,000 three years earlier, for $233,000.
"Every day, we can't wait to get home," Ramey said, while giving a tour of the house. Everything in it, stainless steel appliances, tile floors, paint, looked brand spanking new. A koi pond and above-ground pool shared space in the backyard with magnolia trees and hibiscus plants.
The family that lost that house had put love and money into it. Ramey said the solar panels — which have cut their utility bills to $30 from $250 when they were renting — were appraised at over $100,000.
"You hear all these horrible stories," Ramey said. "There are so many other aspects to this. This market, the way it is, gave us the opportunity to live the American dream."
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I can't begin to describe to you my disgust with this new and improved government, so excuse my ranting.
Unfortunately there are more stories than the Internet is able to hold.
But to summarize, the government does not care.
It never did and won't, not under this administration, no matter how many empty promises the duly elected boob in chief makes.
Last year the new president-lite promised (again) to support legislation that would allow bankruptcy judges to rewrite mortgages for those in chapter 13 so-called protection. When the House passed this resolution HR 1106….
it was sent to the Senate where it failed, in part because BHO didn't support it.
I suppose it's because the banks don't like it.
It was a great plan what would allow those with only one home to enjoy the same benefits that those who have multiple properties enjoy, i.e., the rich.
The president-lite turned his back on the program then turned over the entire housing mess over to vp Biden. The same man who wrote all the current bankruptcy laws (while his son was a lobbiest for the banking industry and reportedly made millions) was now expected to over turn all the laws banks and his son benefited from.
In chapter so-called 13 protection myself I've written, emailed and phoned every member of the house and senate committee, sub-committee and non-elected person involved in this. This only reply I received was from my home senator and president-lite lap-dog Durbin, who sent me a form letter telling me how he was supporting the president's health care reform. Useless.
I say so-called protection because my mortgage went from 1100 a month to 1700 under 'protection' and now to 2600. You see the bank MUST protect themselves and their investors, or so the laws state. Loan sharks take note – your in the wrong business.
And all this is courtesy of vp Biden and president with no experiance.
HOPE indeed.
One more thing…
This past December the always generous Biden announced a 7.2 BILLION dollar grant to promote broad band usage – see link.
As for you Mr. and Mrs. America and your houseing issues – Suck It.
The finality of this debacle will be not be, have I lost my home?
But will our loved ones live only in our perpetuity of gain/war,
whilst ill chosen,
claim that which is obviously stolen?
Theirs will be a birthright of treason when I get to be dictator…Hack..
Hell of a day dawns whence Americans become squatters all over the land !!
Are you there Timmy?
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Aug 14 2013: How is that possible? The moment we think we are in a predictable situation - wham! and it's not as predictable as we expected. It can be a car accident, a spouse leaving, a job lost, or getting sick. Most people want security and predictability, but when they, finally get it (or think they get it), they feel bored or feel like they have sacrificed their freedom and privacy.
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LONDONDERRY - In the days after the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn., Londonderry police have maintained a visible presence at the district's six schools.
During Tuesday night's school board meeting, Superintendent Nathan Greenberg shared details of the precautions being taken in response to last Friday's tragedy. On Friday afternoon, local police officials immediately called Greenberg and sent officers to each school. The superintendent then immediately called an administrative meeting to discuss school security measures.
On Saturday, administrators participated in a telephone conference with Gov. John Lynch to further discuss which options were available, and over the weekend, emails were sent with lists of resources for administrators, faculty and staff members.
"We went through all the facets of our current protocols and identified the areas we felt it was important to address," Greenberg said. "Some of them are short-term quick fixes."
Administrators will meet again for further review on Thursday. Greenberg noted that all schools currently have emergency plans in place, and staff and students practice their responses to different threats on a regular basis. Security cameras have been inside the schools for nearly a decade, the superintendent said, and the elementary and middle schools are equipped with buzzer systems.
At the high school, which doesn't currently have a buzzer system, there are always two staff members posted at the front entrance to screen visitors, along with the school resource officer.
"We've slightly changed our protocols surrounding people buzzing into the schools and the questions we ask them," Greenberg added.
School board chairman John Laferriere urged parents to communicate freely with their children's teachers, noting that those with questions or concerns may contact the board at any time.
Middle School principal Richard Zacchilli said his school held its holiday concert last Saturday, immediately after the incident in Newtown. "There were about 600 kids there and 1,500 parents," said Zacchilli, noting that two Londonderry police officers remained on the premises throughout the event. "I think everyone felt safe and secure even though it was a difficult day," he said.
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It's been re-opened for about a month, and now Redmon and Lee Youth and Adult Community Association is asking the community for help.
The association has launched a new financial campaign, "Seed for the Need Fundraise Campaign."
The laughter and smiles of kids echoed all over the property - from the lunchroom, where hamburgers and french fries were served - to recess out on the playground - to in the homework center, where students worked on their school assignments and listened to stories. Officials say - this type of program is exactly what the community needs.
"without some kind of proactive, supportive, proactive, positive programming going on - we could have a lot of problems," says Executive Director Crystal Young.
Young says the response has been much higher than they expected. She says right now they see eighty kids through their door every day. And she says - they're looking to local organizations and community members for their new fundraiser - so these programs can continue to be here for area kids.
"the community has always been a great support of what we do here, and since we are re-opened now, we're just asking the community's help again," she says.
Dad Ron Mckenize has three kids that spend time at Redmon and Lee until he's done at work. He says, he has especially been impressed with the after school tutoring session.
"as long as they've been in the program, their grades are much better."
He says - knowing his kids are at redmon and lee instead of outside by themselves - is a relief.
"Where there's criminal activity on the streets, or even where there's crazy drivers that are driving around, I would prefer my kids to be tucked safe in one of these programs such as this."
Young says they are currently reaching out to area families, as well as churches and organizations. She says they had anticipated the need for fundraising because they were re-opening completely, and in the future will be looking at other fundraising and grant options.
However, she says they are doing fine right now and does not anticipate a closing.
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I know when my daughter is not feeling well because she actually takes naps....and that never happens!!!!
These are the times that I am glad I have my essential oils, especially since most of the time it is a viral infection. Antibiotics do not help viral infections, but essential oils can. They can penetrate the cell membrane and begin fighting the virus, which in turn, you will begin to feel better sooner.
Our favorite oils this week are:
Digestzen - A blend used for Abdominal Cramps, Bloating, Constipation, Diarrhea, Digestive Problems, Food Poisoning, Gastritis, Heartburn, IBS, Nausea
- One drop on stomach or feet as needed (for sensitive skin mix with fractionated coconut oil or another carrier oil).
Peppermint - Congestion, Diarrhea, Fever, Tension Headaches
- Mixed with FCO (fractionated coconut oil) on feet and back for fever reducer. I add about every 15 to 30 minutes.
OnGuard - Bacterial Infection, Chronic Fatigue, Common Cold, Flu, MRSA, Pneumonia, Sore Throat, Strep Throat, Viral Infection
- Diffuse often throughout the day to kill airborne pathogens
- One or two drops on feet with FCO two to three times a day
Past Tense - Headache, Tense Muscles, Tension Headaches
- Roll on back of neck as needed for headaches and muscle pain
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UPDATED WITH VIDEO: Governor Phil Bryant welcomes von Drehle to Natchez
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February 6, 2013 - ListenUpYall.com
NATCHEZ, Ms (February 5, 2013)- Governor Phil Bryant visited Natchez today to formally welcome the von Drehle Corporation. The company announced in January, the purchase of the former Mississippi River Pulp plant. Von Drehle, which provides paper products to commercial and industrial consumers nationwide, will create at least 100 new jobs, make investments in additional converting equipment and subsequently install a paper machine.
"We are proud to have von Drehle," said Governor Bryant." We want to create an environment where every Mississippian who wants a job has a job with the work force development we have. It is exciting to know the company whose motto is 'integrity is our company's most important asset' (is moving to this community)."
The Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) assisted von Drehle with this project providing guidance on available tax incentives. In addition, Adams County is providing support via Fee in Lieu tax abatements for this project.
"This is a great facility and we look for a long life here," said Steve von Drehle, "We are impressed with the community, the people we have spoken with have been superb. They (von Drehle) have grown from 5 employees to 340, we hope here we will make it 440, plus."
Established in 1974, von Drehle maintains manufacturing operations in North Carolina, Nevada and Tennessee. Through an international network of more than 400 distributor partners, the Hickory, N.C. based company sells towel, tissue and dispenser products to industrial, commercial and institutional distributors, contract cleaners and building-maintenance service providers. The von Drehle products are made of 100% recyclable and supply companies such as Wal-Mart, McDonalds, MSC and many more.
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I've had no computer for 11 weeks now.
South Road Superway, Adelaide.
This looks like a Shaun Tan illustration!
If you can't staff the employment services line, Centrelink, I have an elegant solution to offer.
Every time Jay Bauman smiles an angel gets its wings
(Fuente: theblogaquaticwithclaire)
William Stanley Haseltine (1835-1900), Porto Venere, Spezia, Italy - 1878
(vía the-paintrist)
I cannot wait for you for one year and one month. I cannot wait for you until you are 25. But I have waited for you my whole life.
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Sometimes nice people slow down alongside runners/cyclists to give helpful advice or make a proposition, but people on the oncoming far side of the road — whether queuing or speeding — sometimes shout, usually three incoherent syllables. What could it be? I expect it's unkind — but is it topical? Have you ever understood one?
"Do what you love" disguises the fact that being able to choose a career primarily for personal reward is a privilege, a sign of socioeconomic class. Even if a self-employed graphic designer had parents who could pay for art school and co-sign a lease for a slick Brooklyn apartment, she can bestow DWYL as career advice upon those covetous of her success.
If we believe that working as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur or a museum publicist or a think-tank acolyte is essential to being true to ourselves, what do we believe about the inner lives and hopes of those who clean hotel rooms and stock shelves at big-box stores? The answer is: nothing.
Do what you love, love what you do: An omnipresent mantra that's bad for work and workers. (via bakcwadrs)
a couple of other quotes from the article i really like:
According to this way of thinking, labor is not something one does for compensation but is an act of love. If profit doesn't happen to follow, presumably it is because the worker's passion and determination were insufficient. Its real achievement is making workers believe their labor serves the self and not the marketplace
Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life! Before succumbing to the intoxicating warmth of that promise, it's critical to ask, "Who, exactly, benefits from making work feel like nonwork?" "Why should workers feel as if they aren't working when they are?" In masking the very exploitative mechanisms of labor that it fuels, DWYL is, in fact, the most perfect ideological tool of capitalism. If we acknowledged all of our work as work, we could set appropriate limits for it, demanding fair compensation and humane schedules that allow for family and leisure time.
(via mercy-misrule)
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Pornographic Picture.
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This study of the structural history of the Salinas missions has generated a number of recommendations for further study and structural changes. The structural recommendations will be included in future architectural data studies. Most of the structural changes suggested will be intended to remove various elements of non-historical stonework that have been added in error and to reduce the amount of maintenance by getting rid of potential problems.
The recommendations presented in this report address areas needing further structural and historical study. Many of the suggestions concern the nineteenth century structures standing at the Abó and Quarai units of the National Monument that have not been included in any detailed planning.
Further Study
1. When they have been acquired by the National Park Service, Historic Structure Reports must be written on the two plazuelas, the Lucero House and the North House (the second surviving only as foundations at grade) on the Gonzales property. These structures are a previously unrecognized but important part of the story of Quarai's occupation and reoccupation. The Lucero House will require stabilization, and therefore must have a structural history to serve as a guide for the repair work. The North House should be cleared of brush and grass and its foundations traced in order to have a full plan of the building and its surrounding enclosure. It may need to be stabilized as a ruin.
2. Change the interpretation of the ruins, including signage and trail guides. The 1830 chapel foundations should be interpreted as part of the record of the reoccupation of the land east of the Manzanos and should be used as one illustration of the ties between Quarai and the Manzano settlement effort.
3. A moderately technical guide booklet should be available for purchase at the visitor center. It should be written for those visitors who want to get a little more deeply into the history and uses of the buildings (including the plazuelas and the terraced fields), and the history of the immediate area. These details are beyond those that a simple trail guide, signage, or the limited time of an interpreter can supply and are presently unavailable.
4. The management documents for Quarai should be changed to incorporate the changed significance of the site. The new significance statement should emphasize: 1) the role played by Quarai in the reoccupation of the land east of the Manzanos in the nineteenth century, and 2) Quarai as the record of a fortified ranching and farming complex built in the early nineteenth century. The second point is of national significance, because Quarai preserves in an almost unaltered condition (except for deterioration and some changes by the Gonzales family after 1900) a plazuela or fortified ranch complex of the nineteenth century reconquest of the frontiers of New Mexico, a critical part of the nineteenth-century settlement of the Southwestern United States. Such a fortified complex is very rare: few survive in the United States and no other examples are in the hands of the National Park Service.
Structural Changes
1. Stabilize the two plazuelas. This should include the removal of recent additions to the Lucero House, a cleanup of the grounds and the removal of brush and grass. These actions are necessary to prevent the collapse of the surviving walls of the Lucero House, and to help preserve the foundations of both houses. The metal roof should be removed from the Lucero house, and any surviving woodwork of the original roofing, doorways, windows and other details preserved or replaced in kind. Samples of any roofing vigas or other wood should be dated by tree-ring analysis.
2. If a drainage system is installed at Quarai similar to that installed at Abó, great care should be taken in excavation and recording of the trenches. No excavations have gone below the floor levels seen by Ely except in the areas discussed in the chapter on archeology at Quarai. It is likely that the church and convento were built on a pueblo ruin, and any excavations below floor level in the church and convento could encounter these ruins.
Further Study
1. Historic Structure Reports must be prepared on the nineteenth century buildings at Abó in order to plan an effective stabilization program for these buildings.
2. Change the interpretation of the ruins to include the first church, the Spanish compound west of the church, and the nineteenth century buildings.
3. A guide booklet should be prepared for the visitor who is interested in more detail on the history of the mission and the area.
4. Change the significance statement of the site to include the nineteenth century houses.
Structural Changes
1. After the preparation of a Historic Structure Report on the nineteenth-century buildings at Abó, remove recent additions and stabilize the buildings. They are an important part of the resources of Salinas National Monument.
2. Build up the outline of the apse of the first church within the nave of the second.
1. A guide booklet should be prepared for the visitor who is interested in more detail on the history of the mission and the area.
2. Excavation of the pueblo mounds north of San Buenaventura would be very informative. If for any reason there is to be disturbance of these mounds, any required excavations should include in its research design an examination of the possibility that they were built by the Spaniards or by Christian Indians.
3. Mound 21 has a plan strongly reminiscent of a Spanish structure with an enclosed patio. If any disturbance of this structure should take place, the research design for the archeology should investigate the possibility that the structure was built by Spaniards.
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| Darius
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|Cost: 6300 or 975
Ability Details
Hemorrhage is both an on-hit damage over time and a spell effect, as it will apply to both his attacks and damaging abilities.
- Does not apply spell effects.
- The triggering attack will apply other on-hit effects and can critically strike as normal.
- Magic damage will be mitigated by magic shields.
- Spell shields will block a single application of Hemorrhage if the triggering spell is blocked.
Ability Details
Decimate is a point blank area of effect ability.
- Applies spell effects as an area of effect ability.
- Spell vamp is reduced to one-third effectiveness.
- Rylai's Crystal Scepter will apply a 15% slow.
- Spell shields will block the ability.
Additional Information:
- The bonus damage at ranges greater than 270 units does not apply to minions or monsters.
Ability Details
Crippling Strike is an on-hit effect.
- The triggering attack will apply other on-hit effects and can critically strike as normal.
- As with most on-hit physical damage, the bonus damage from Crippling Strike will apply life steal.
- Critical strikes will not interact with Crippling Strike's damage.
- Crippling Strike's damage will affect structures.
- Riposte will block the damage and slows, aswell as applying bleed.
- PENDING FOR TEST Crippling Strike's relationship with dodge, block and blind has yet to be tested.
- Spell shields will block the on-hit effect.
Additional Information:
- Crippling Strike resets Darius' attack timer.
- The target of Crippling Strike will only gain 1 Hemorrhage stack for the attack.
Ability Details
Apprehend's passive is a statistic's buff.
Apprehend's active is a conic area of effect.
- Spell shields will block the ability.
Additional Information:
- Note that Apprehend does not deal damage and thus will not apply any stacks of Hemorrhage or any other spell effects.
Ability Details
Noxian Guillotine is a single target dash.
- Applies spell effects as a single target ability.
- Spell vamp is fully applied.
- Rylai's Crystal Scepter will apply a 35% slow.
- True damage ignores all forms of damage reduction, except invulnerability.
- Spell shields will block the ability.
Additional Information:
- Noxian Guillotine does not go on cooldown or consume mana until the he strikes the target (being blocked by a spell shield or invulnerability still counts as striking the target).
- If Darius' target dies before the axe hits or if he is interrupted, he can instantly reuse the ability.
- The cooldown of Noxian Guillotine will begin the instant Darius first casts the ability, not when the buff expires, and will continue to tick down even as Darius reuses the ability multiple times. Five consecutive executions with maximum delay between casts will remove 100 seconds of downtime from Noxian Guillotine, which leaves only 20 seconds of downtime at rank 1 and no downtime at ranks 2 and 3.
- During the leap, Darius is considered to be channeling and can be interrupted by hard-CC. It is worth noting that entangle and root are not considered forms form of hard-CC.
- Noxian Guillotine will apply one stack of Hemorrhage, although it will not be considered for the damage dealt.


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Gautam Saha: Five thousand years ago, in the holy grounds of Kurukshetra
The Pandavas were ready to take on the sons of Dhrtarashtra
The two great armies met for the final test
To see which would emerge their victorious best
In the midst of the assembled warriors
Between the rows of arrayed soldiers
Arjuna, the supreme archer, paused and reflected
Lord Krishna, his charioteer, smiled and waited
Arjuna, though dressed for battle, was not easy of mind
He was doubtful and unsettled, unready to face the grind
In such a state of mind, how could Arjuna be an asset to his side ?
If he was unready for battle, the evil Kauravas would triumph betide
Lord Krishna, the Lord and Master of every living entity
Proceeded to rectify this situation with full mastery
He spoke the holy words of the Bhagavad Gita which filled Arjuna's mind
And removed all traces of illusion which had rendered him blind
The Lord spoke with great scholarship and prowess
He removed Arjuna's doubts with depth and finesse\
Arjuna's misgivings were gone and he rediscovered his self assertion
He stood up and readied himself for combat and confrontation
Arjuna learnt that yoga is work without looking for gain or loss
Those who are on this path are resolute in purpose
Those who are in yoga do not look for sense gratification
To satisfy the Supreme Lord is their true determination
A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires
Only can attain peace, not the one who seeks to fulfill those desires
He who has given up all longing for proprietorship and sense gratification
And false ego, he alone can attain real tranquility and imperturbation
While empowering him with the divine knowledge of the Bhagavad Gita
The Lord also empowered the whole of humanity with the Bhagavad Gita
For one who has imbibed fully the lessons from this classroom
There is nothing further to be known from any other classroom
Lord Krishna thus spoke to the whole of humanity at a stroke
The setting on the battlefield was as dramatic as the wisdom He spoke
The Lord spoke this eternal lesson for all generations, past present and future
We are all very fortunate that the Lord Himself became our personal tutor !
Gautam Saha
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4 Creative Advent Calendars
We never would have come up with these advent calendar ideas on our own. They're so inventive and three-dimensional that they add a lot more to your seasonal decor than something flat on the wall:
We're a little behind on starting the countdown, but you might just love one of these so much that it'll make you play catchup and create something similar for this season.
- A card stock garland by Rachel of Rachel's Blog
- Martha Stewart's stocking advent calendar
- Sermon on the Mount of Laundry combines the special and the mundane with Chinese takeout boxes.
- Okay, this is simply nuts. It's an advent calendar by Porche Design, full of luxury items valued at $1m. However, we do like the idea of enlarging the scale of the calendar to a cabinet-sized piece of furniture. Via AutoBlog
Do you use an advent calendar in your home? If so, what's it like?
Images: as linked above
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That first one is so adorable!
I always like the stocking advent calendars, some day I will buy one. For now, I made a simple paper chain out of old scraps of wrapping paper and wrapped a tiny gift for each day of advent. Next year, I will coordinate the gift wrapping with the link in the chain that represents that gift. It's cheap & fun!
@EclecticDS - you could always put chocolate inside the take out boxes :)
The first one is adorable. The take out boxes idea seems like it would take up too much space.
My sister-in-law made one with cute little felt envelopes with christmas activities for the kids each day (e.g. drink hot cocoa with marshmallows). We made one that looks like a tree and on the back of the ornaments we have more grown-up activities (e.g. drink brandy alexanders) Its fun to have a little christmas activity each day.
heypielady--I love that idea. I'd like to make one that looks like the first photo, but has activities written on the back.


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- Ph. D., Boston University
- Office: 226 Life Sciences Building
- Phone: 1-419-372-8556
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Research:
- Chemical ecology and behavior of aquatic organisms
- Research and Personal Home Page
Research Interests:
The Laboratory for Sensory Ecology is a multi-disciplinary lab that is interested in any questions concerning sensory behavior, evolution, physiology, and ecology. Most of our current projects are centered on understanding the role that chemical signals play in an organism's ecological role. We have projects that range from understanding the physics behind antennae design, predator avoidance, selection of habitats and mates, dominance hierarchies and other social behaviors to analyzing the chemical composition of these signals. Many aquatic animals use chemical signals to make important ecological decisions and our ultimate goal is to understand the role that chemicals play in mediating behavior and ecological interactions. Our work is truly multi-disciplinary and combines techniques from Physics to Chemistry to Psychology to classic Ethology and uses equipment designed for laboratory, field work and oceanic work. The laboratory is collaborating with researchers in Woods Hole, Stony Brook, NY, Berkeley, Milwaukee, and the Bahamas.
Selected Publications:
Fero, K.C., and Moore, P.A. (2014) Resource distribution and social status influence habitat choice in crayfish, Orconectes virilis. Behaviour. 151:103-123.
Moore, P.A., and Kraus-Epley, K.E. (2013) The impact of odour and ambient flow speed on the kinematics of the crayfish antennular flick: implications for sampling turbulent odour plumes. Journal of Crustacean Biology 33(6): 772-783.
Belanger, R.M., and Moore, P.A. (2013). A comparative analysis of setae on the pereiopods of reproductive male and female Orconectes rusticus (Decapoda: Astacidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology. 33(3):309-316.
Martin, III, A.L and Moore, P.A. (2010) The influence of reproductive state on the agonistic interactions between male and female crayfish, Orconectes rusticus. Behaviour 147:1309-1325.
Percival, D.T., and Moore, P.A. (2010) Shelter size influences self-assessment of size in crayfish, Orconectes rusticus: Consequences for agonistic fights. Behaviour 147:103-119.
Adams, J.A., Pecor, K.W., and Moore, P.A. (2009) Dissolved organic matter from elevated-CO2 detritus and its impact on the orientation of crayfish (Orconectes virilis) to a fish food source. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 28(3):638-648.
Wolf, M.C., Martin III, A.L., Simon, J.L., Bergner, J.L., and Moore, P.A. (2009). Chemosensory signals in stream habitats: Implications for ecological interactions. JNABS 28(3):560-571.
Belanger, R.M. and Moore, P.A. (2009). The role of the major chelae in the localization and sampling of female odours by male crayfish, Orconectes rusticus (GIRARD, 1852). Journal of Crustaceana 82 (6): 653-668.


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Somethin' 4 for a happy marriage.
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6 Pence coin is.
At the end of the song "And to the left of the bride shoes 6 pence ' Yes descent said,
In the United Kingdom old has used "6 pence coin" at the wedding.
|How do I use the?
In "groom chest pocket" during the wedding bride left shoes in, use more.
Please welcome happiness coins a lovely wedding.
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King inspired the Showa Emperor.
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| In old coins of the United Kingdom in 1967, finished publishing. (Commemorative coins issued in 1970)
Now production and use is not.
As a lucky coin, as well as weddings,
Used golf ball marker Or,
Christmas visiting the happy people put in the Christmas pudding, I ate it.
Also, Follow as many people carry, birthday presents, including popular.
In the most popular coins
In the Mother Goose song sing a song of six pence.
Stickers have been put in the car when it closed 6 pence to opposition movement there will have.
Also, And Brian may, the Queen guitarist used to pick this coin ( Elizabeth II 6 pence ) It is also had the famous story.
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It is a very nice coin with many collectors around the world.
|6 Pence 1924
King George v in 1924, six pence.
Despite the who fought in World War 1
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King inspired the Showa Emperor.
The design of lion and Crown (Crown).
British six pence 1924
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Size: about 19. 2 mm
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24 Lego Party Games and Activities
|Planning a LEGO party and need some fun games to keep the kiddos entertained? Here are a some great lego party games we have gathered together from a few clever party planners and party moms!
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Lego Party Games and Activities: Number 1 to 4
- (1) Lego Memory Game – Attach duplicate pictures to the bottom of round green favor cans and spread out over a large table or board. Cover the board with green wrapping paper so the game looks like a large LEGO board. Have 4 kids play at a time and who ever find the most matching pairs, wins the game.
- (2) Pin the Number on the Lego Man – Pin the birthday child's age on the Lego man. Played like "Pin the Donkey". A simple oldie but lots of old fashioned fun that kids love! Trace a large LEGO shaped figurine onto colored or plain white posterboard. Outline the number on the LEGO man's chest and get large numbered stickers for kids to stick on. Another variation would be e.g. "Pin the smile", "Pin the head", etc.
- (3) Giant LEGO Coloring Wall – Create a large LEGO wall mural with a large sharpie and poster paper, or have one printed at a local office supplies store. Provide lots of crayons and markers for kids to color. This is a great activity for the beginning of the party when kids are waiting for the party to start.
- (4) Lego Tube Race – Use a large clear plastic tube from the hardware store for this race. Kids team up in twos to transfer lego from one person to the other, and back as fast as possible. Each team is given a cup full of LEGO and which ever team is able to transfer the pieces back to the originating member, wins.
Credits: Games 1 to 4 by the {super-talented team} Andersruff.com!
Lego Party Games and Activities: Number 5 to 8
- (5) I Spy The LEGO Guy! – Hide several paper cutouts of colored LEGO man all over the house and see who can find the most. Simple, yet fun! Let kids hunt individually or in teams. Party by this fabulous DIY mom - Delia Creates.
- (6) LEGO pinata – Make a LEGO pinata out of a cardboard box and cover with streamers. The Lego bumps can be created out of cans or empty Pringles potato chips tubes. Party By Delia Creates
- (7) Guess How Many LEGO Candies? – Fill a large jar with LEGO blocks or actual LEGOs candies. Let guests guess how many are in the jar. Whoever guesses the closest, gets to take the jar home as their prize! Created by talented mom from House of Sweets
- (8) Lego Toss – Make graduated sized rings out of paper and place them on the carpet. Have kids throw pieces of LEGOs into the rings. Smallest ring gets awarded more points than the larger ones. Whoever has the most points, wins. By creative mom over at Home Making Fun
Lego Party Games and Activities: Number 9 to 12
- (9) Lego Star Wars Cardboard Space Ship – Create a car, boat, space ship or any type of vehicle out of card board. Makes a great photo opp as well as a fun play item during a party. This space ship was created by a talented dad over at Pure Joy Events!
- (10) Highest Of Them All! – Give each a LEGO base and 1/2 pound of bricks. Whoever can build the highest standing tower in 20 minutes wins! Option: After the towers are built see which one can withstand a hurricane (blow dryer), rain storm ( mister or sprayer ) and earthquake ( tapping on the table with chopsticks ).
- (11) LEGO bracelet – Create a bracelet out of LEGOs. Great activity if girls are present as well. Via Andersruff also see (games 1-4 above).
- (12) Lego Bingo – Download and print over 30 Bingo Cards from
BestBirthdayIdeasto play Bingo ala LEGO style! Instead of calling out numbers or letters, the pieces of LEGO will be called out. Kids (and adults) will have to find the matching picture on their cards. Whoever gets a line of match, horizontally, vertically or diagonally, wins.
Lego Party Games and Activities: Number 13 to 16
- (13) Build Your Own Car – Give each guest a kit and let them assemble their own car. Idea by top party mom at Homemaking Fun
- (14) Race Car Ramp and Contest – With their new car in tow, let kids have a race against each other to see which car can go the fastest. Make a simple ramp with a piece of plywood and drawing race tracks with a sharpie. Great lego party by Sally Says.
- (15) LEGO Relay Race with a Spoon – Divide kids into 2 teams. Each team needs to transfer Legos from one bowl to an empty bowl a specific distance away with a spoon! Team that transfers all bricks first, wins! More creative party ideas from Living Locurto.
- (16) LEGO Relay Race with a Cup – Similar relay race as the one in (15) but using a cup to transfer the LEGOs instead. This one is catered toward younger kids. Lego picture via A Mom With A Lesson Plan.
Lego Party Games and Activities: Number 17 to 20
- (17) Pin The Spot On the Lego – Use a red, yellow, green or blue colored poster board as the brick and draw on 6 circles for the lego . Source
- (18) Fun Photo Booth – Have a backdrop made out of colored bricks by your local office supplies store. Set up a large LEGO toy sorter and storage head in the foreground as a prop.
- (19) Color Your Own Lego Master – Set up a coloring table with LEGO coloring pages for kids to color with markers or crayons. Via Crackersart.
- (20) Pin The Brick On The Wall – A game played similar to "Pin The Donkey" but this one you have to find the missing brick and pin it to the wall.
Lego Party Games and Activities: Number 21 to 24
- (21) Memory Game – Lay out 25 pieces with their labels on a board. Give kids a few minutes to memorize the items on the board. After, put the board away and have kids jot down as many items as they remember. The one with the most correct items, wins. Game by Big K Little G.
- (22) LEGO Board Game – Make your own game board by designing a path of bricks starting from one spot and ending a certain destination on the board. Path can be along the perimeter (like Monopoly), random (like Candyland), or more structured (like Shutes and Ladders). Designate certain points for certain bricks, e.g. Add +3 legos, Loose -2 legos, Loose a turn, etc. Each player starts out with the same amount of lego pieces, e.g. 10. Roll the dice to see how many steps you need to take. When you land on a brick follow the directions for each brick. Whoever finishes with the most pieces, wins the game. Source.
- (23) Light Saber – Divide swim noodles in two and wrap ends with silver duct tape or silver metal tape for the handle. Let kids battle it out and may the good jedi win! Tip: remove any breakables from the room or let the battle occur outside. Via Bubbachic.
- (24) Lego Mindstorm Challenge – For older kids, the more advanced, scouts or robotics teams. If you are having a party for a robotics team, let kids bring their own Mindstorm robots and have a challenge. Or if kids are not part of a team, you may consider getting just one robot and using team work assemble the robot together. It's all about learning while having fun! Photo Credit: Flickr.
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She sighed and Joe looked at her.
"Yes" she said
Joe looked at the book
"You'll read pretty much anything huh?" he asked
"Where you going with this Trohman?" she said
"Well down at the charity shop they do like a box of books for two bucks interested?"
Joe grabbed his car keys and they headed down to the charity shop once there they took one box.
"Hold on" she said to Joe as she stopped at a book. Alice in wonder land one of her favorites her mother got her, her first cope but lost on the move over she sigh as she reached up to it before a hand hit hers.
"Oh sorry" they both said at the same time she meet eyes with a young man. Brown hair shaggy on his head and brown eyes. His eyes make up was done to perfection.
"Hi" he said as she looked in to his innocent eyes. Her where covered by sunglasses
"Hi" she said
"I'm Ryan, Ryan Ross" he said out sticking his hand
"I'm Mona, Mona Wentz" she took his hand and shook it
Ryan handed her the worn out old cope of Alice in wonder land and gave her a boyish smile before leaving the shop
Ryan made sure no one was in eye shot before pulling out his phone and dialing the number quickly. He tapped his foot and soon a smooth velvet voice came on the phone
"Hello Ryan" he said
"Brendon I saw her"
Brendon sat up quickly "what" he said
"I. Saw. Her"
Brendon's lips curled in to a cruel smile "thank you Ryan I shall see you later"
"Brendon" Ryan's voice was small
"Yes" Brendon said the s rolling off his lips
"Do... do ...do you still… still love me?" Ryan said he voice a little shaky
"Yes of course I do" Brendon cooed
Ryan smiled and Brendon hung up the phone
Williams' smile grew at the news that Brendon came to his office with. William looked down at a beaten broken Pete Wentz at his feet
"Hear that Peter" William said "your going to have a little family reunion soon" he laughed
"Keep your hands off her you bastard" Pete raspy voice said
Brendon gave Pete a swift kick to the chest. And William made tis sound of disappointment as he walked out the room
"You might want to enjoy the silence Peter because when Mona get here I'm going to make her scream" Brendon laughed cruelly


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Technology: Opportunities, Challenges
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While much of the attention on healthcare technology of late has focused on the federal government's end-of-year announcement on meaningful use, the interest in technology goes far beyond that. The HealthLeaders Media online news team has covered tech stories related to cell phones and HIPAA security concerns, Twitter and emergency response implications, and smartphones and medical applications. Here are excerpts from articles by Dom Nicastro, Scott Wallask, and Cynthia Johnson.
Experts: Treat Cell Phones Like Any Other Device with Protected Health Information
The U.S. Supreme Court's involvement in 2010 in a privacy case regarding text-messaging on work cell phones in the public sector could have implications for private companies like hospitals, experts told HealthLeaders Media.
The case involves text messages sent by members of a California police department—some of which were sexual in nature, according to The Tennessean—and whether the employees should have had a "reasonable expectation of privacy" through work cell phone use.
HIPAA privacy and security officers juggle compliance headaches each day because of text messaging on work phones. Experts told HealthLeaders Media the California case serves as a good reminder for covered entities to treat cell phones and texting as they would any other device that includes protected health information (PHI):
- Use appropriate safeguards to avoid breaches
- Know HIPAA's privacy and security rule
- Consider a policy that prohibits personal text messages on work phones
- Be clear that work devices alone do not guarantee the user's privacy
"If text messaging is allowed, it will need to be encrypted and only be sent and received by people with a 'need to know' and within minimum necessary guidelines," says John C. Parmigiani, president of John C. Parmigiani & Associates, LLC, in Ellicott City, MD.
Organizations must have "comprehensive, feasible, and well-written information on security and privacy policies, along with regular training and ongoing awareness communications," says Rebecca Herold, CISM, CISSP, CISA, CIPP, FLMI, an information privacy, security, and compliance consultant in Des Moines, IA.
"Even though this case is specific to government agencies," Herold adds, "the ruling will likely still be used as an example for all types of organizations with regard to what personnel can reasonably expect with regard to privacy of electronic communications, not only on equipment and systems owned by the organization, but also for noncompany-owned equipment that is used for business purposes."
Herold says compliance boils down to a hospital's policy and training programs.
"Hospitals should ensure their policies cover the use of organization-owned computing equipment for nonwork purposes, along with using nonorganization-owned equipment for business purposes," Herold says, "and ensure their training and ongoing awareness communications effectively educate their personnel about the requirements and their responsibilities."
Texting is "fairly common" between physicians when communicating about a patient, says Chris Apgar, CISSP, president of Apgar & Associates, LLC, in Portland, OR.
Apgar says he likens text messages sent from company-owned phones to e-mail messages sent via the company's e-mail system.
"In both cases, the employer [covered entity or not] owns the device, and, as it has been determined in the past with e-mail, I believe the same legal principle will hold true with text messages: The employer 'owns' the text messages, whether they are work related or not," Apgar says. "The moral of the story is if an employee wishes to send a personal text, he or she should use his or her own mobile device and then, like Web messaging, the text message becomes 'personal property' of the employee or the sender."
Written by Dom Nicastro on December 29, 2009
Twitter Can Play Key Role in Disaster Management
While it might not qualify yet as a warm embrace, safety and facilities professionals in hospitals have shaken hands with Twitter and found new ways to get their messages across using the social media site.
Disaster management seems to be a natural extension of Twitter for hospital safety officers and emergency management coordinators.
Here are two examples of many seen over the past year:
- After the mass shootings at Ford Hood, TX, on November 5, Scott & White Hospital in Temple, TX, revved up its existing Twitter presence with useful updates (the hospital received 10 shooting victims). Among the information tweeted: the operating status of the hospital's ER and wait times for volunteers to give blood.
- Sts. Mary & Elizabeth Hospital in Louisville, KY, experienced terrible flooding in August, and the facility used Twitter to keep the public and employees up-to-date on evacuated patients and building conditions.
Tweeting has not been lost on The Joint Commission. In its August 2009 Environment of Care News, the accreditor noted that an emergency management standard requires hospitals to prepare for emergency communications with staff members, external authorities, patients, families, media, vendors, and other healthcare facilities. Social media sites are a good strategy for emergency communication, the commission said. Other hospitals use Twitter to promote safety initiatives to their staff members and the public.
The communications department at SSM Health Care in St. Louis created an animated safety champion named Super Carol, who appears in employee-focused print and online media, offering information on hot-button issues, such as handwashing protocols, patient lifting, and needlestick prevention. SSM uses its Twitter account in part to update people about the latest adventures of Super Carol.
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The Danger of Dating in Your Mind
- Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Here's a typical conversation between two single women:
"So how did it go with [insert guy's name here] the other night?"
"Oh, it was great! It was just the two of us. He picked me up, treated me like a queen. We really clicked. It felt like a date! We had a blast."
It felt like a date. That's a phrase that should set off all kinds of alarm bells among single women. If it "feels" like a date, then no one has said it's a date. It's just two friends hanging out, but one of them wants more. In this scenario, the problem is that while the man may be clear in his own mind about his intentions ("just friends"), the woman is not. She's hoping for more or "dating him in her mind."
This may seem like a harmless distraction, but it's really not.
I have a friend who once observed that our interactions with men should be like a peanut butter sandwich. No one likes to eat a sandwich where the peanut butter is all clumped up in one corner. We like our peanut butter to be evenly spread around. "So, honey, don't get all clumped up in one corner, distracted by one guy," she said. "Spread yourself around! Let him get clumped up around you!" We had a good laugh at that, but there's much truth in this homespun advice. Because our churches often provide the context to get to know single men as friends, we women can start investing more significance in these interactions than is wise. We get all "clumped up" around one guy -- until he says something or does something to make us realize he's not going to pursue. Then comes the disappointment.
In our defense, I have observed when men go through all the motions of dating without declaring their intentions. I've seen men "try on" certain women and then fade away if there wasn't enough spark to attract them to pursue. I've seen men hang out with women for years as extremely good friends, seemingly oblivious to the potential there, while the women struggle to guard their emotions and expectations. While I think we can become wiser about evaluating the men in these situations (which we'll look at next time), all things start with our own hearts. Because I've been "clumped up" far more often than I'd like to admit, I've learned to discern the symptoms of this tendency in my life. Here are some questions I ask myself whenever I think I'm starting to "date someone in my mind":
- Do I talk about him a lot to other people?
- If these other people don't share my enthusiasm, and even caution me to not cultivate expectations, do I feel deflated and resent their input?
- Am I going to this event or meeting primarily because he will be there?
- Am I distracted in church or small-group meetings because of his presence?
- Do I break other commitments because he's invited me to do something spontaneously?
- If he doesn't talk to me or single me out at events, do I go home disappointed?
- Am I jealous of the women he does talk to or serve?
- If he declines one of my invitations, am I tempted to feel rejected?
- When he does pay attention to me, am I so oriented to him in a group setting that I don't consider the needs of others around me?
When we get stuck in a man's orbit like this, typically we're laying claims and forming attachments that are deadly to our spiritual growth and witness. Because these attachments are one-sided, when the relationship doesn't occur in the way or time that we want we usually respond sinfully.
Paul Tripp, author and biblical counselor, explains the pitfalls of this continuum in this way – desire leads to demand, which re-labels itself as a "need" and leads to expectation of fulfillment, which, when unmet, leads to disappointment, and thus ends in punishment. As he writes, "The objects of most of our desires are not evil. The problem is the way they tend to grow, and the control they come to exercise over our hearts. Desires are a part of human existence, but they must be held with an open hand. … The problem with desire is that in sinners it very quickly morphs into demand ('I must'). Demand is the closing of my fists over a desire. Even though I may be unaware that I have done it, I have left my proper position of submission to God. I have decided that I must have what I have set my heart on and nothing can stand in the way. I am no longer comforted by God's desire for me; I am threatened by it, because God's will potentially stands in the way of my demand. … There is a direct relationship between expectation and disappointment, and much of our disappointment in relationships is not because people have actually wronged us, but because they have failed to meet our expectations."
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Jennifer Schnidman Medbery, Founder of Drop the Chalk
Jennifer Schnidman Medbery knew that teaching math at a New Orleans charter school would be tough, even though the school, Sci Academy, had attracted a "dream team" staff. What surprised her was that the most challenging aspect of the job wasn't connecting with the kids, so much as it was keeping track of their progress and behavior on a day-to-day basis.
So Schnidman Medbery, who studied computer science at Columbia University before spending two years with Teach for America in rural Arkansas, decided to create software to help teachers track and analyze student performance.
First, she built a prototype for a discipline-tracking tool because "that was a pain-point at Sci," and the school offered to pay for the software once it was built. "As soon as it was put into place, a number of other high-performing schools contacted me," says Schnidman.
In 2009, Tulane MBA students helped her write a business plan, which she submitted to the university's business plan competition, as well as to contests at the University of Pennsylvania and Idea Village, an incubator in New Orleans. Schnidman Medbery's business, Drop the Chalk, won all three.
That software, called Kickboard, allows teachers to make notes about their students throughout the day, noting, for example, discipline problems, difficulty in grasping key concepts, and positive behavior as well. They can also view their colleagues' observations about the same kids. The software then analyzes the data and searches for patterns that help teachers improve student performance. It also includes a points-based system to help teachers determine which students qualify for rewards, and which ones should, say, get detention. A student/parent portal is currently in development.
Kickboard is currently running in 15 New Orleans charter schools. It's serving as an incubator for Schnidman Medbery, who calls New Orleans "the epicenter of education reform." She is now in the midst of raising $750,000 from investors. "We've had 100 percent customer retention for the past year," she says. "Next year, we want to expand to work with both charters and traditional district schools in other urban regions." Is she concerned about possible pushback from teachers' unions? "It's our goal to prove that the system is not more work for teachers and to change the relationship with unions," she says. "We see our product as a tool that allows teachers to prove that they're effective long before test scores come back."
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Live Like a Celebrity on Vacation
Sure, we all want to look like, live like, and be like a celebrity. The glamour, the glitz, the pampering. Now you can! Travel + Leisure has compiled a list of fab celeb-owned pads that you and your family can rent -- for a price.
Live Like a Celebrity on Vacation
Mick Jagger
Mustique, West Indies
The Rolling Stones' front man owns this six-bedroom beachfront villa. It features a tennis court, pool, and hot tub, indoor and outdoor dining rooms, a game room with a pool table, and comes with your own personal maid, gardener, and chef (love that!).
Price: $15,000-$19,000 per week.
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Bruce Willis
The Residence
Parrot Cay, Turks and Caicos
Set on the property of the chic Parrot Cay resort, the actor's six-acre compound features five bedrooms and two three-bedroom guest villas. It also boasts a huge 70′ × 45′ heated infinity-edge pool.
Price: $20,873 per night.
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Christie Brinkley
Lucky House
Parrot Cay, Turks and Caicos
The supermodel's home is one of the 18 houses she owns. The estate sits on over an acre of private beachfront and comes with its own butler. Guests staying at Lucky House also have access to a 13,000-square-foot open-air yoga studio and ayurvedic spa.
Price: $8,107 per night.
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Keith Richards
Rocky Point Villa
Parrot Cay, Turks and Caicos
The rocker's estate is another of the multimillion dollar homes at Parrot Cay. The three-bedroom manse sits on close to two acres of beachfront land. It features a 60-inch rear projection television and DVD player set up in the living room, an infinity-edge pool, and a tiki hut where you can enjoy a massage. Aaahhhh.
Price: $8,107 per night.
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Merv Griffin
La Quinta
Palm Springs, CA
This 40-acre horse ranch hasn't changed much since the legendary TV man lived here. It showcases photos of Griffin with his many celeb friends, including actors, socialites, and presidents. The home features a 2,000-square-foot living room with a retractable dome skylight, and the master bedroom comes with a custom-made, pop-up, flat-screen TV, a Moroccan-tiled steam shower, and a Boesendorfer grand piano. Also on the property is a private lake stocked with black bass, a saltwater pool, and a racetrack.
Price: $6,000 per night.
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Sir Richard Branson
Necker Island
British Virgin Islands
The UK mogul's 74-acre private island estate is perfect for you and 27 of your nearest and dearest -- you have it all to yourself! The eight-room Great House is set high atop a hill overlooking the Caribbean. Six more villas are dotted across the island.
Price: $51,000 per night for up to 28 guests (includes all meals, drinks, and a staff of 60).
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Howard Hughes
Araby Estate
Palm Springs, CA
The eccentric aviator's three-bedroom, three-bath home is three levels and features original fixtures, floor-to-ceiling windows, and a pool and cabana. Hughes himself installed some of the property's quirky touches, including lights that are turned on with floor-mounted foot panels and a bathroom that has a built-in electric stove top.
Price: $400 per night.
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Aristotle Onassis
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Aristotle Onassis reportedly only paid a paltry $34,000 for the 325-foot mega-yacht in 1954, and then spent $4 million renovating the ship. It features 18 staterooms, a pool that morphs into a dance floor, and a grand spiral staircase with a silver and onyx handrail. Previous guests on the luxury vessel include Marilyn Monroe, Greta Garbo, Frank Sinatra, Sir Winston Churchill, and many other notables (including his mistress, opera singer Maria Callas, and wife Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis).
Price: $65,000 to $94,000 per night.
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Ted Turner
Casa Grande
Vermejo Park Ranch, Raton, NM
Whoa, Nelly! Check out the size of Ted Turner's massive 591,000-acre Vermejo Park Ranch (that is two-thirds the size of the state of Rhode Island). You can stay at either of the two main lodges (available April through November) or at Turner's private eight-bedroom Casa Grande (provided he's not there, of course). The expansive property features 21 trout-filled lakes and ample hunting for mule, deer, elk, and bison.
Price: $650 per night.
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Thanks for the post man, it's really nice to read this blog, in favorites now:P
We all can go and rest like a celebrity and for that we must not have a lot of money. I felt like a celebrity when I went on a vacation in Hawaii, where I had a great time. I liked the Hawaii hotels that offered discounts and impeccable services. Warm water, good weather, friendly people, can make you feel like a superstar.
We all can have a vacation like celebrities when we have a lot of money. I and my wife wanted to see Europe and we visited France, Spain, Greece and in the last days of our trip we decided to go to Italy and to enjoy one of the Carnival Cruises suggested by the travel agency. It was a perfect ending for a perfect trip.